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A PRINCESS OF FINANCE.

I recently had the pleasure OF a chat
with Miss Alice Cornwell (also known as
Princess Midas, the successful Australian
lady who has made quite a name as q
business woman, says a writer in London
Truth. She has brought back three
schemes in her pocket which she is about
to place before the British public.
The first is the construction of harbor
at Port Adelaide, for which she has OBJ
tanned concession of mile of the fore
shore and which would greatly facilitate
the unloading OF vessels which have now
to make a detour of nine miles by the
river. About 81: 500, 900 will be required
for this scheme, which, however favora-
BILE for the shipping and the colony, will,
I suppose, interfere with certain vested
interests, such as those of the South Aus
tralian Land Company.
The lady's second project is that for
floating a company to take over the
Wyong estate, not far from Sidney, which
contains valuable coal mines, timber and
agricultural land to the tune of some IT,
600 acres. For this purpose about half q
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W0MAN'S WORLD.
PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR
FEMININE, READERS.
ALL POWERFUL WOMAN.

ALL POWERFUL WOMAN.
What cannot woman do for good or evil?
She is the worst and best Of human kind
Either an angel or very devil,
Sour and beligerent, or calmly sweet IN
clined.
As wife and mother she can make home
heaven,
Or bring upon it suffering and blight
By disposition kind and temper even,
Or bosom full of bitterness and spite.
The sweetest, grandest object in creation
Is a good woman III her proper sphere,
Winning the ardent love and appreciation
OF loyal husband snd of children dear.
Earnest in her work, devout, untirlng-
Ever striving some new bliss to plan
To no great name but that OF wife aSpr-
ing
The crowning glory God vouchsafed to
man.
And then, per contra, there is no one living
More to be censured, dreaded and desplsed,
Than bad woman constant trouble giving
To those who should by her be idollzed.
Splenetic, sour, cruel and sedltious,
Careless Of home, and fond OF rout and
ball,
Willful, improvident, conscienceless and
vicious,
The friend of no one, and the curse Of all.
Francis S. Smith, in NeW YoTE weekly.
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HOW TO KEEP A TRIM FIGURE.

Women who wish to preserve the slim
uess and contour of their figures must be-
pin by learning to stand well, says a
writer in Dress. That is explained to
mean the throwing forward and upward
of the chest, the fattening of the back,
with the shoulder blades held in their
proper places and definite curving in OF
the small of the back. No other women
hold themselves so we'll as the aristocratic
English women. Much of their beauty
lies in their proud carriage, the delicate
erectness of their figures and the line
poise of their heads.
The same aristocratic carriage is within
the reach of any American girl who takes
the pains to have it; it is only the ques-
ton of few years of eternal vigilance,
never relaxing her watchfulness over her.
self, and sitting or standing, always pre-
serving her erectness and poise, the result
being that at the end of that time it has
become second nature to her, and she
never afterward loses it. Another thing
tu avoid is bad habit of going upstairs,
which most women do, bent forward,
with the chest contracted, which, as well
as an indolent, slouchy manner of walk
ing, is injurious to the heart and lungs.
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A Rlack Snake in q Mail Bag.

The mail clerks on the Burlington and
Council Bluffs division of the 20" Rail
road were treated to a scare few days
ago. While the train was going at the
rate of thirty miles an hour, black snake
forty-two inches long crawled out of a
mail bag and showed fight. It was
promptly dispatched. The reptile had
come from a pasteboard box six inches
square, in which o hole had been pune
tured for ventilation. The box was ad-
dressed to Miss Smith, California, Iowa,
and was mailed in Kansas.
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FASHION NOTES.
Soft silk is most used for tea gowns.

Soft silk is most used for tea gowns.
Big classic loops, styled "creole ear
rings" are all the rage in Paris.
switch stitch" is the newest craze OF
the crewel-and-silk-h young woman.
The Princess gown, either short or
trained, is the robe of the day in Paris.
The handles of the finest parasols are
of silver and gold, set with real jewels.
The novelty in white embroidery this
spring is the "hemstitch block effects"
Tan remains the favorite color for the
glove whether it be of Suede, Isle thread,
or silk.
Western women who follow the fashions
follow them much more closely than East
ern women!
Lace, tulle and gauze parasols are de
rigueur with dressy carriage and lawn
party toilets.
This seasons collection of fans GER
tainly surpasses in beauty and daintiness
any before shown.
Hats of coarse braid are trimmed with
garlands of wild flowers and grasses,
artistically arranged.
All fine umbrellas and parasols have
paragon frames, and the paragon frame
is an American invention.
The Lord Fauntleroy collar and cuffs,
with silk tie in bright color, are as much
worn by little girls as boys.
Gilt galloon in open patterns, with rows
Of jew beads upon it, is used to trim
Directoire costumes of black moire and
lace.
The long wraps are becoming more
drcssy, so much so that they are more
like elaborate polonaises than street gar
ments.
The edges of some of the new laces are
finished in deep points, instead of the
scallops to which we have become accus-
toned.
A beautiful lace fan in floral patterns
was adorned with about fifty precious
stones, one being set in the centre OF each
flower.
Many of the new gauze fans are mounted
upon sticks of mother of pearl, set
promiscuously with garnets and tur-
quoises.
Many straight skirts are plated on to
the belt. They are more stylish, however,
if shirred three or four inches deep and
drawn to fit the foundation skirt.
The shepherdess hats Of dark neutral
tinted straw, wreathed with Persian gauze
and trimmed with violets, primroses, and
jonquils, are worn by young ladies.
The new jerseys are made in many diff
ferent ways, resembling in cut and style
the most fashionable bodices of the Direc-
toire, Empire, and Josephine gowns.
A great novelty is new French bon
net made of one piece of velvet. There
is soft crown, and the velvet is filled in
very close all around. The brim is sim
ply of this velvet, double and oddly
punched into an artistic design at one side.
This is turned back to frame the face and
hair, and is adjusted according to the.
fancy of the Wearer.
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A STORY ABOUT BALTIMORE GIRLS.

One of the latest fads Of Baltimore
girls is to dress in black from head to
foot, with veil and gloves to match, and
then, borrowing neighbor's child, show
it around the city. Of course, the
natural supposition is that the child is
not borrowed, and that the lady is
q widow. As widow is generally sup
posed to be ready to recontract matri-
mony, the sympathies of the susceptible
young man are readily aroused, first by
curiosity as to how long the child's
father has been dead; then, what he died
of, and, since the widow seems to mourn
for him, how she must have cared for the
dear departed. And, if she did care for
him, why might she not care also for
another, and why might not he be the
fortunate individual, especially if the
first husband left cash enough for the sup
port of two or three, as the case might
be. Of course, when acquaintance fol-
lows, the apparent widowhood can be
easily and innocently explained, and the
desired happy result Observation-Disclosures
american.
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CURIOUS FACTS

Signatures in lend pencil are legal. p
Columbus; in 1893, brought the first
domestic to America.
Chain cables were introduced into the
English navy in 1912.
Canada was divided into Upper and
Lower Canada in 1871.
Albany, Ga, rejoices in the possession
of three-legged alligator.
An English barber recently shaved
twelve men in three minutes and forty
seconds.
Dan Walker, of Eustis, Fla, has an
alligator that he is breaking to drive in.
harness.
A man in Texas has invented ma
chine which will husk twelve acres OF
corn per day.
Santa Rosa, CAL, has a floral curiosity
in the shape of a hollyhock bush that
bears jet black flowers. :. (,
Mountain hunters of Pennsylvania are
said to use indigo instead of whisky to
cure rattlesnake bites.
Letters in the handwriting of Piggott,
the notorious Parnell forger, are now adj
vertised for sale at two guineas apiece.
An archaologist at Monticello, Fla,
las a tree which bears ounces, pears and
Ipples. It docs not seem to be graft.
A pair of swallows have built their nests
In the very summit of the Eiffel Tower,
right under the tapping folds Of the flag
Of France.
John Allen, New York hotel keeper,
gives free dinner to every man, woman;
and child who asks for it. And yet he
makes money. e
Probably the richest bootblack in the
country is .Prof." Jochrim Hooper, Of
Denver. he is a colored man about
thirty-three years of age, and from 8
capital of 81 he has built up fortune OF
SIS, 900. ...> g.. ...,elt& -
Michael Faraday, the chemist, went to
Switzerland and saw the Alps. This is
how his diary records the great event: :.
s'We soon entered among the mountains !
they were of limestone, stratifed very
regularly" r.. - a3.n,
John D. Davis, a farmer residing at
New Diggins, ILL.,, put his milk cans on:
the wood pile to dry, and the reflection
of the suns rays from them set the wood
on fire, doing considerable damage to his
house and barn.
The famous Corliss engine that was built
to drive the machinery of the Centennial
Exhibition of 1876 is now in the shops OF
the Pullman Car Company, at Kensing-
ton, near Chicago, III. 1t is the largest
engine in the world.
The newest device for killing time In
vented by the Briton is to make the men
at dinner party write out some account
of the ladies' gowns after the dear crea-
lures have left them to themselves, and
later, when the efforts are read aloud In
the drawing room, to give prizes for the
best and worst descriptions.
They have great unknown IN the St.
Joseph CMo.) work house. He was run
in as vagrant and is doing time on the
rock-pile. He is way up in the law, medi-
cine, literature, politics, theology and
science, but is completely silent as re-
CARDS himself. In Shakespeare and, the
Bible the strange being is said to be q
giant. .' .. @@'>'t
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DOG COLLARS ON GIRLS WAISTS.

Girls with slender waists have taken to
wearing dog collars in the place Of belts.
Vanity, of course, is at the back of the
fad, but it is q 60 nevertheless. The collars
vary in appearance, but most of them are
of the mastiff size, and nearly all OF
them can be let out. In walk down
Chestnut street yesterday afternoon five
young ladies with this highly original
kind of belt on were counted. Three OF
them looked as if they wanted to sit down
and take fresh breath, but the other
two, who were more slender, were as
easy and clipper as you please.-Ph'Ia-
delphia Inquirer.
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THE TRANSFORMATION.

When Love was young it asked for wings
That it might still be roaming;
And away it sped, by fancy led,
Through dawn, and noon, and gloalnins.
Each daintiness that blooms and blows
It wooed in honeyed metre,
And when it won the sweetest sweet,
It few off to sweeter:
When Love was young.
When Love was old, it craved for rest,
For home, and hearth, and haven;
For quiet talks round sheltered walks,
And long lawns smoothly sharen.
And what Love sought, at last it found,
A roof, porch, garden.
And from fond unquestioning heart
Peace, sympathy, and pardon:
When Love was old.
Austin DobSon.
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A Doctors Queer Hobby.

DR.. Bibby is a Bath physician with a
queer hobby. He is anxious to have the
ocean crossed in rowboat. He sunk a
round sum of money in fitting out man
for the voyage few years ago, and the
man was lost-.at least he never has been
heard from since he left the coast. The
Doctors ardor is not dampened in the
least, however. He says that to a stout
man who hasn't chick or child dependent
upon him and is willing to try the expert
ment, he will furnish lifeboat that posi-
lively cannot tip over and all the supplies
for the voyage.-Leaciston (Me) Journal.
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A cement, said to be capable of use
where resistance to the action of both
water and heat is required, is composed
by mixing ordinary glycerine with dry
litharge, so as to constitute a tough paste.
For uniting the joints of steam-pipes and
other similar applications, this preparation
is said to be very satisfactory.
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A FASHIONABLE MARRIAGE IN RUSSIA.
The Russians generally marry quite
young in the upper classes, and amongst
country people even at an earlier age;
and to the honor of this society be it
said, love marriages are the rule, and
marriages for money ore very rare ex-
ceptions. Dowry-hunting and marriages
of interest have not yet made their ap-
pealance in Russian manners. Girls OF;
high social position readily marry young
officers of the Guard, who furnish the
largest contingent of dancers to the balls
of Petersburg. During the carnival fetes'
the two armies, the army in petticoats
and the army that wear epaulets, learn to
know each other thoroughly, Friend
ships spring up, the young man pays
court, and one day, without having con-
suited anybody, two fances come to ask
of the parents blessing, which is never
refused. The church does not marry
during Lent, so they have to wait until
Easter week. Fashion demands for the
celebration of the ceremony the chapel
of some private house, if the couple have
not sufficiently lofty relations to secure
the chapel of the palace. A family that
respects itself ought to have at its we'd
ding an honorary father and honorary
mother, if not the Emperor and the En-
press, at least a Grand Duke and Grand
Duchess. The honorary father gives the
holy image, which some little child re-
lated to the families carries in front of
the fiances. They enter the church,
followed by all their friends in
gala uniform. The ceremony begins;
it is very long, and complicated
with many symbolic rites; small
table-a sort of movable altar-is placed
in the middle of the oratory; the couple
are separated from it by band of rose
colored satin; when the priest calls, they
must advance, and the first who sets foot
on the band, whether husband or wife,
will be the one who will impose his or
her will in the household. This is an
article of faith for all the matrons, who
watch them at that moment. On the table
is placed the liturgical formulary, the
candles which they must hold, the cross
which they kiss, the rings which they will
exchange, the cups of wine in which they
will moisten their lips, and which is
called in the Slavonic ritual "the cup of
bitterness" Pages relieve each other to
carry with outstretched arms two heavy
crowns, which must be held above the
heads of the fances while the ceremony
continues. At the decisive moment when
the priest is announcing the words that
bind them together, the couple walk three
times around the altar, followed by the
crown bearers; until the third turn IS
completed there is time to turn back;
after that the die is cast, the couple are
united for life. Thereupon the singers
strike up in their most strident voices the
Joyous hymn: 'Let Isaiah rejoice" The
bride and groom then go and prostrate
themselves before the Virgin of the Icon
ostase, and kiss her filigree robe, after
which they pass into the neighboring
salon, where they gayly clink glasses OF
champagne, while the invited guests re-
ceive boxes of sweetmeats marked with
the monogram of the young couple
Ha'psr's Magazine.
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million will be required for the present.
The third scheme is one for bringing
out bona fda Australian mines in this
country. It will take over Miss Corn
wells existing mines and will have rami-
fcations in all the Australian colonies.
This company is to have a capital of
50, 500, 900 in $5 shares, but it is intended
to call up only fifty cents per share.
It will be seen that Miss Cornwell's
schemes are ambitious, but to judge from
the high character she bears, they will be
honest. It will then remain to be seen
whether they will be put forward in such
practical shape as to be acceptable to
the British investing public.
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sort OF night, and the only passenger
of the Red Gulch stage drew his ulster
closer about him and even then shivered
q little with the cold.
eyes, we'd orter hev stopped back
yender until mornin', but the mail haz
ter go through if we kin git it. Ye see,
they is awful perticlar about it an I
amt bin on the route before. I don't
want ter fail on my first trip"
"You don't mean to say you don't
know this road2n
"Wa'al, 1 calc'late I know it pretty
well, but l amt reg'ler driver, that's
all. The horses hez ben along here often
enough"
"Are there any bad places?"
"One that's right bad, bout two
miles this side O. town, long side of
Indian hill. The roads between the
hill and the Smoky River. Haven (hes
the old driver used to have light in
his house along there to guide him when
he kim in late. 'Spect 1there'll be one
tonight The horses'll just bear off to
the right O. the light, an we'll be all o. X"
The rickety old stage numbered on for
an hour. 1t was quite dark and the
horses, weary and confused by the now
whirling snow, were picking out the way
slowly.
"We're almost thar" volunteered the
driver, Joe Horris.
"8Iost where?" asked the passenger,
who had forgotten the former converse
tion.
"Most to the river cut by Haven's
house."
"Say, driver, I know Haven, and I
guess I'll get out at the house. You can
take my things on down to the hotel, and
I'll be down in the morning.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1889-08-08

PARIs.--Un officer de la garni
son de Paris a etc mis- On disponi-
b1lit6 ct un autre officer a dome
sa d6misslon on consequence des
revelations qui ont etc faites de-
want la commission d'enquete de la
haute cour de justice.
LoNDREs.-Le general Boulan-
ger a lance un manifesto, par le
quel il attribute sa defalte aux cleo
tions das conseils generaux b Pam
bition DIES candidats locaux. ii de-
clare quill g. con6ance dams lie re
snltat DIES elections de la France
pour les menbres de la Chambre
DIES deputies.
LoNDREs. -L'a1cheveque Welsh
a d6nonce publlquement "G@llc
Athletic Association" II dit que
DIES Influences gouvernementales
travaillent IN complot nefaste qui
tend a convertir cette association
en- une socist6 s6crAte destinee &
entrnver le movement constitu-
tionns |.
loNDaEs.-La princesse Louis
est a peine mariee que la nouvelle
arrive que sa smur, la prin-
cesse Victoria de GALES, est
fianc6e gu vicomte Chelsea, fills du
comte Cadogan La princesse
Victoria nest ag6e que de vingt-et-
I'm ans. Ellie est la plus jolie dee
files du prince de GALES ct est
bien douee sous tons les rapports.
LoNDREs. Lies Dervichrs mas
sent ieurs forces q cinq miles al
sud de Toski.
LIE general Grenfell concentre
son arm6s autour de Get endroit.
Les dernieres depeches d6clarent
qu'une bataille est imm1nente.
Das deux cotss on SO prepare d IN
engagement serieux. Grenfell est
confant quill va battre pennemi de
manl6re a CO quill ne pulsse sen
relever.
lie cardinal w. Manacael est
mort a Naples mardi dernier.
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Election des OFFICERS de la SOcle-
to St-Jean Baptiste de
Tower, Mimi.

L'6lection DIES officers de la SO
ci6t6 St-Jean Baptiste de Tower,
Mimi, a Gu lieu la semaine dernle
re ct a dome les r6sultats suivants:
President, M. George Girard,
fondateur de la soci6te, ne a Gran
de Bait, L. @, Canada.
Premier Vice-Pres., M. Jean b.
sier, ne a Ste Marie dc la Beauce.
2a V1ce-Pr6s., M. Alphonse Ber-
geron, ne a st Agapit.
S%ecr6taire Archiviste, M. Alfred
Thlbeault, ne a Malbay, comt6 de
Charleroi.
Assist. Sec Arch, M. +. e. Mar
cote, ne q St Antoine, comt6 de
Vercheres.
Secretaire correspondent, NJ. Au-
bert Bergeron, ne q st Agapit.
Tr6sorier, M. Cl6ophas Vandal,
ne a st Fite, comt6 de Champlain'
Commissaire o;donnateur, M.
Adolphe Belanger, ne a st Joseph
Beauce.
Sergent d'armes, M. FRANCOIS
Page, ne a st Flte, comt6 de Cham
plain.
Directeurs:-- MN. Isaie Cote,
Ovids P6pin, George Grafton, AL
fred Vandal, Pierre Bolvert.
Members, NM. Honor6 Cormier,
Auguste Nadeau, Victor Gagnon,
Francals Soucil, Joseph Champeau,
Omer Hilbert, Desire Lefebvre, w.
Nadeau, Anne Baril, Thomas Fou-
Ghetto.
REDUCTION. Nous prions1' nos
compatriotes de Tower, de vouloir
bien recevoir nos plus sinceres f6
licitations pour lie patriotisme quill
ont montr6 en- 6tablissant une So
ciet6 Canadienne Franeaise.
Eft nous souhaitons de tout c@ul
a la st. Jean Baptiste de Tower
Tongue vie ct prosp6rit6.
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ECEIo DID L'oUEST

Vous trouvcrez des Eglises, des
Ecoles, ETC., tout est bait. Vous au-
rez vos Pretres Canadlens, vous
jouirez vraiment du travail de vos
pr6d6cesseurs. Tous les fruits d6si-
rabies ct en- abundance. L'ann6e
derniere les pommes ont eta per-
dues sur le champ, on ne pouvait
les vendre. LIE chauffage ct pres
que pour rien, vous ne brnlerez
pas du pin CONNIE dams c%ertains
pays.
Nos r6coltes sont st1res parceque
nous sommes q cote DIES b ,is du
Missouri, 81 vous allez plus q
|pOuest vous souffrlrez. Lei nos sal
sons sont faites ct r%6gulieres. Je
pnis en- ]uger, je suis lei depuls
sept ans, 'ai achet6 ct vendu blen
DIES fermes ct rendu du pauvre
monde heureux, ]'ai environ deux
cents fermes entire les mains au-
iourd'hui. Arrivez ayec mile, deux
mile, trois mile piastres ct plus ]e
puts accommoder tous les gouts ct
toutes les bourses; des hommes
avec rien ne peuvent rien, j'ai pro
mis- la v6rite. Qu'on investisse un
capital quelconque ct je le double
en- cinq ans. Qu'on m'6crive ]e re-
ponds par le retour du courier.
Demander toutes les questions pos
sibles ct imaginables Giles receive.
ront une r6ponse en- F%rancais ct en-
Anglais.
Mon adresse est:
REV. +. M. VERDAN.
Greenbush P. O.
CroWford 60.
Ho-~o1