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Hollands Child Queen.

Queen Wilhelmina, of Holland, tho
teu-year-old daughter of King William,
who has recently died, will be relieved
of the duties of royalty while pursuing
her studies by her mother, the dowager
Queen Emma, who is regent. Great
events may occur during her reign and
it is more than likely it will be OF brief
duration.
The death of the King, which gives
the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg to his
German cousin, William of Nassau,
makes way for many big possibilities. 1t
has already set the mapmakers and rectl-
fers of frontiers in Europe at work.
Prince Bismarck was credited with a
grand scheme for the reconstruction OF
Europe by which Germany, Russia,
France and Austria would divide the
greater part of Europe between them
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ouEry w1LHEIM1NA OF HOLLAND.

QUEEN wILHELMINA OF HOLLAND.
and England and Italy would be left out
in the cold. According to this plan
Germany would acquire Holland, with
the mouths of the Rhine and all the
Dutch colonial possessions and the greater
part of Belgium. France would get the
Walloon, or French-speaking part OF
Belgium, including Brussels, Namur,
Liege and the strong fortified places on
the Mense. The Turkish dominions IN
in Europe would be divided between
Russia and Austria, the latter power get
ting Belgrade and salonica and the
former Constantinople and the whole
Black Sea coast. NJ. Emile de Layeleye,
the eminent Belgian economist, pro-
nounces this scheme an absurdity and
SAYS that in case of an attempt to realize
it England would seize all the Dutch
colonies before Germany could prevent
it, but he admits that Germany will
eventually seize Holland and the delta OF
the Rhine. g..
Those who have studied the question
are more inclined to the belief that the
fate of Holland, Belgium and Luxem
burg will depend on the result OF the
next war between Germany and France.
If Germany is victorious she will annex
them all and another slice of France.
Should the Germans be badly beaten
France would seize Holland, Belgium,
Luxembourg, Rhenish Prussia and Alsace'
Lorraine and realize Napoleon's dream
of making the Rhine the frontier be-
tween the two countries. France had a
portion of Rhenish Prussia before and
Marshal Ney and other famous soldiers
were born in that section.
Germany undoubtedly intends to annex
Holland at the first favorable opportunity,
but she also wants the Baltic provinces OF
Russia, which are German in race and
language, and the German portion OF
Austria. But none of the schemes fol
the separation of Europe can be carried
out without war and the wisest man In
Europe cannot predict what the result o!
the next great war may be. The con.
dition of affairs produced by the death
of the King of Holland removes one of
the obstacles which stood in the way of
German ambition and it may be safely
assumed that plans are now being pre-.
pared for decisive action when the right
moment arrives. Little Queen Will
helmina will hardly wear the crown OF
Holland Chicago Herald.
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Expansion of a Big Bridge.

If you should cross the Brooklyn
bridge on a cold night and return on a
warm sunny afternoon; you would, says
New York correspondent, have about
three feet further to walk on coming
back. That is to say, the contraction
and expansion of the entire length of
the structure ranges some three feet. To
provide for this there are three sliding
connections, one for each span-other-
wise the continual stretching and short
enins of the whole would soon break it
in two. If you will examine one of these
sliding com ections on a sudden change
of temperature you can almost see the
wonderful operation of nature, just as
you can see the minute hand of time
piece move by close observation. The
breaks in the roadway will show you
where the connections are. These arc
formed by overlapping, so as to cause
one part of the road to slide upon the
other, and the IT" rail of the Car track
has a similar provision. Perhaps you
will remember when you see all this that
it is the key of the iron bridge problem
which bothered bridge builders, end the
solving of which alone made such I'M
mense spans possible.
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STRANGE EXHIBITS.
WONDERS IN NEW YoRKS MU.
scum OF NATURAL HISTORY.
Skeletons of Jumbo and Crowley-A
Big War Canoe-Curfosltles
in SKIN, Bone: Wood
and Stone.

What the Metropolitan Museum OF Art
and the Lenox Library are to the lovers
of rare works of art and literature, the
American Museum of Natural History in
Central Park is to the lover of scientific
research. Probably there is not another
institution of the sort in America OF
which so little that is definite is known
by the residents of the city where it is
situated as this big wonderland of ours.
On the ground floor of the old wing
there is stored the Jesup collection OF the
woods of the United States. There is
not native wood of any species, how
ever rare it may be, that is not repre-
sented in this collection. Each family
has big glass case to itself, where the
specimens are arranged and labelled.
Each specimen is cut in such manner as
to display the bark and cross and longl-
tudinal sections of the wood, both pol
ished and in its natural condition. The
President of the Board of Trustees spent
nearly ten years in completing the collec-
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TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.

The greatest senses-taker in the world
whisky.
A New Jersey W. C. T. U, union has a
'.great-grandmothe 10l years old. 81,
Father Mathews immortal pledge was,
'For my own sake, for the sake OF others,
and for the glory of God, abstain"
The most recent statistics of arrests forI
drunkenness in Maine, in any one year, show
but four arrests to every 1000 OF the popula-
ton.
According to the inland revenue returns
up to March 80 of the present year, Ireland;
consumed last year 4,Ilo, 6sS gallons or!
spirits, and 9 24S0, 645 barrels OF beer.
The Al, 900, 900 gallons of spirit made in the
United Kingdom in 1889 were mostly used in
England, and nearly three-fourths Oh this
vast quantity was drunk as beverage.
Thirty-six "wet" counties of Georgia have
one convict to every $50 people. One hun
dred and one dry" counties in the same
State have one convict to every 1879 people.
1.-THE watchword Of those who believe in
prohibition by woman's ballot, said MISS
willard in her annual address, is Two
votes for the home where it now mas out
one"
Wherever the national convention OF the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union goes
Il leaves new unions in its wake. One Of
these is a new 'Y" in Atlanta, Ga, with
sixty members.
A white-ribbon soldier OF seventy years
wants to see the graves of her comrades
decorated, when those Of the soldiers SOLDIER are. are,
by a aae and a cross, with the motto, FOR,
God and Home and Native Land"
Among the new organizers appointed bJ!i
the National Woman's Christian Temperance
Union is Mrs. NJ. B. Reese, of West WASH
ington, who will probably go. during theS
year to Alaska in the interest of society. j
There is singular unanimitys o. 9RiniSnI tha sa
smoes strnctfve p bower Of alcohol upon the human
fs brains. br. Kate Mitchell says, the brain.
passions the intelligence Of all dS human nan de- as
of the hasest of our propensities, is the organ
the earliest and the most profoundly attacked
by alcohol"
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SKELETON OF JUMBO AND SAMSON, AND
WAR CANOE.
New York sight seers. He was the head
of the herd of seventeen elephants that
were quartered in Central Park four or
i've years ago. He was the biggest ami
NAL in the collection. He was more than
that, he was one of the most vicious and
ill-tcmpered creatures on the face of the
earth. When he was at rest for season
he was comparatively manageable. That
is to say, if he was hobbled and securely
tied with stout chains by three feet to
stakes in the ground he was not danger
Gus to those who kept out of range of
his wicked trunk. But when he was .''on
the road" when he was with show, he
was terror. I don't how many men he
killed. But there were several. When
ne started out he was hobbled with chains
and cables until he looked like big safe
n the act of being let down from fifth
story window. He was shackled as no
criminal ever was. And yet he made
trouble. Sometimes he was sulky: some
lines he was too impetuous. Sometimes
be was rampageous. Then there was
trouble. He was Scared from head to
feet. His trunk had cnanged color Trom
the scars that disfgured it. He
had been cut, hacked, shot and
ubrned with red hot and with
white hot irons until he looked like a
veteran Of the war. During the menag-
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of his gaze. "We are quite safe,

of his gaze. "We are quite safe,
only"
II meant it for a surprise for you,
Harvey" said Mrs. Darrow, recovering
her breath and laying her hand caress-
ingly on Efie's shoulder. 81 went
over there myself esrly this morning
while you were at church, and brought
them both back with me. They were to
visit me till after the New Years party,
but now there's no telling how long I
shall keep them. I did so want to see
your face when you saw them first, and
I've seen it"-with smile and sob.
"Wasn't it kind of her!" whispered
Efie, with the roses coming and going
on her cheeks, and downcast eyes.
"Don't 90 to the snow-sGde," said
Mrs. Darrow. "There's no harm done
but can be undone when Christmas Day
is past and gone. Come back to the
Christmas dinner now. Efie, make
him come"
Efie glanced at him shyly.
"He will come," said she.
And he came.
Of all the Christmas guests that day at
Mrs. Darrow's hospitable board, Effie
aud Clara Haven we're the fairest and
the sweetest.
"Mother," said Harvey, following her
out to the kitchen afterward, show can
I thank you for this2 Was there ever
such mother as you are9"
"Oh, child" faltered she, "don't you
know that my chief wish in life is that
you may be happy9 Bring her home
here to live whenever she will consent,
and her sister, too. They'll be better
satisfied together, and they are sweet,
lovely girls as ever lived"
And the kiss that her son gave her
was rich reward for the battle she had
herself, the sacrifices she had made in
secret.
ssTheir lives were saved by my asking
them here" she mused. "When Invent
there with that idea in my mind, I was
following the leading of the Lord!"
The next day Clara and Efie went
back across the frozen river to look at
the stupendous ruin wrought by the
snow-slide. The old home was a
crushed and shapeless wreck, and Clara
shuddered as she gazed.
"Efie," said she, "think what a
dreadful death we should have died if
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we had not gone with Harvey Darrow's
mother!"
But Effie, leaning lightly on Harvey's
arm, was watching the men as, with
spade and pick.axe, they strove to clear
away the blocks of ice and drifts of
snow.
"Hcre's some green stuff" shouted
Darwin Hall, as his mattock pierced a
wall of snow. "By Jingo! ef it amt
mistletoe!"
Efie stopped and picked up a sprig of
the still fresh verdure, put it in her
bosom.
"The mistletoe-the blessed Christ
mas mistletoe that you brought, Har-
vey" she whispered. "This is all
care to keep from the old home!"
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erie fire in Bridgeport few years ago he
was burned to death or drowned, have
forgotten which. When he was in Cen.
tral ParkI helped Tom Donoghue, the
night watchman of the menagerie, to
capture him when he had broken loose
from his anchorage. That is, I held the
lantern in the paddock while the cap
ture was attempted. 1t was finally con-
cluded, bat not until the lantern was
sent south by southwest at the rate OF
mile second by o blow from the big
brute's trunk, and I escaped in the dark
ness at rate even faster than that.
When I saw Samson standing on a
nice, broad pedestal the other day in the
museum didn't recognize him. lie was
so quiet and peaceable.
The skeleton of the great Jumbo stands
beside that of Samson, on the same ped.
estal. Although Samson in life was
claimed to be fully as tall as Jumbo, a
great difference in their respective stat
ures is discernible.
Over the elephants heads is suspended
one of the largest Wal canoes in the
world. It is hung by great bands OF
iron from the ceiling, and is on line
with the gallery that runs around the up
Der half of the hall. It was hewed out
of great log of wood, and is sixty-two
feet long and nine feet wide. 1t is the
work of the natives of the Queen Char
lotte Islands, off the west coast OF Brit
ish America. Some of the implements
with which the work was done are
shown in cases in the gallery, and con-
sists of axes of stone, fastened to fiat
headed pieces of wood, not unlike crook
handled walking sticks broken in two in
the middle. The canoe, as well as most
of the Alaskan curiosities, are the gift OF
Trustee Herbert R. Bishop.
On the main floor another interesting
relic is exhibited. It is all that is left OF
the late lamented Mr. Crowley, the once
famous chimpanzee of the Central Park
Menagerie. Mr.. Crowley is in two sec.
tions. One consists of his bones, which
are neatly mounted, and the other is
formed of his skin, which is stuffed.
The latter section represents MIR. Crow
lev in his native wilds clinging by one
arm to a branch of tree, while his 9th
er arm and both feet are occupied IN
picking fruits and in otherwise minister
inc to his creature enjoyments. There
is also q case Of gorillas and orang.
outangs arranged in various artistic and
unaffected poses.
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that works any harder than those two

that works any harder than those two
girls"
II suppose they could live with their
relations?" observed Mrs. Darrow.
"On sufferance2 They are too indie
pendent for that! They would rather
starve than live on coldly-given charity. I"
''1t seems to me you know greet deal
about their business!" said Mrs. Darrow,
with slight shrug of her shoulders.
And Harvey was silent once more.
II want some O them big red apples
out of the littlest bin in the barn -cellar!"
said Mrs. Darrow, briskly. "The North
ern Spy apples, you know, Harvey"
"Yes, mother" he answered, quietly.
"I've calculated to serve pretty nice
dinner" said the housekeeper, COM
placently. Nobody shall have it to
say that the Darrows let Christmas Day
60 by without properly observing it.
There's roast turkey and chicken pies,
and cranberry sauce and good, old
fashioned currant jelly, and mince and
pumpkin pies, and suet pudding and
apple dumplings, and-Oh, I can't be-
gin to tell you what ALL"
"And all this for US two9"
"Why, I've asked company, of course,
Harvey" said Mrs. Darrow, lifting her
eyebrows in an injured way. "There's
your fathers Uncle Ellhu, and Mrs.
Bracebrook-"
"And the usual round of relations, I
suppose, to eat your good things, and
then criticise your cookery afterward"
"Well, Mrs. Bracebrook is hard to
please, there's no denying that" said
Mrs. Darrow. "And Aunt Lois can't eat
chicken pie unless it's made arter that
old Connecticut receipt, land yJur fathers
Uncle Elihu has to be dreadful careful
about his digestion!" she pensively
added.
"Mother!" said Harvey, suddenly.
"Yes?"
She paused with the lid of the spice
box in her hard.
"Why can't you ask the girls from the
old canal boat" burst out Harvey.
"They have no relatives near here to in
vite them to Christmas dinner. They
are so solitary"
Mrs. Darrow bit her lip.
"You never dictated to me afore who
to invite on Christmas Day!" said she, a
little shortly.
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RECENT CRIMES AND ACCIDENTS CAUSED b

RECENT CRIMES AND ACCIDENTS CAUSED BIZ.
LIQUOR.
Mrs Christine Jansen, of New York City,
while drunk committed suicide by swalloM-
ing largo dose Of Paris green. ssN
In fit Of dependency, theresult Of drink
ing heavily, Mrs. Minnie Saul. Of Green;
point, Brooklyn, N. Y, hanged herself in
her room. ~
While in a drunken fit, Thomas Dawson,
a factory hand Of Spartanburg, s. c., at,
tempted to carve up his wife. He was arr
rested before any damage was done.
William Kenny, married man Of New
ark, N. j., cut his throat from ear to ear
and tore the wound open with his hands while
suffering with delirium tremens.
Thomas Callahan and Matthew Hogan, OF
Trenton, N. j., were out drinking together.
They quarreled, and Callahan shot and dan-
gerously wounded Hogan.
While drunk and quarrelsome, Frank
Fooks, of Pu Imam, Ill, shot and killed his
wife and then blew out his own brains in the
presence of their thirteen-ye year-old daughter
Agnes Steele, young married woman OF
Hoboken, n. j., was thrown out OF second
story window by her drunken and quarrel
some husband Barnard Steele
On recent night passenger train ran
over q drunken negro who was asleep on the
track near Powder Springs Ga. and dragged
his body for quarter OF mile, tearing IL
Into fragments. ~
Joseph Ferron, shoemaker Of Worcester
Mass, took number Of drinks with smooth
tongued stranger, who afterwards while they
were on the street, knocked Ferron down and
robbed him. ...-
Martin Convery, an eighteen-year-eldd
drunken tough, of Worcester, Mass, engaged
in a street fight with one Of his companions.
he was worsted, and frenzied with rage, ne
ran through the streets with an open pocket
knife stabbing q man named Murphy ana
another named Patrick Maher.
At 5A. NJ. Mrs. Hattie Allabach, OF -
Havemeyer street, Brooklyn, y: Y, answered
the ringing Of her door bell; Upon tne sIoop
she found seated William Roberts, saloon
keeper, and John O'Brien: They asked for
their friend, Mr.. Allabach. Mrs. Allabach
upbraided them for their untimely visit ana
ordered them away, shut the door, wheI6
Roberts fred pistol shot through the door,
the bullet striking Mrs. Allabach in the side
and seriously wounding her.
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rHE RUN CURSE m AFRICA.

Bishop William Taylor, competent wit.
ness concerning the ravages Of strong drink
in Africa, in recent letter, writes:
"Poor Africa's deplorable condition under
the rum curse is darker than when the steal
ing of millions of its people caused Living.
stone to call it the open sore Of the world q
Ahundred steamships that sail from Euro
pean and English ports, to the west south,
and east coasts, carry principal cargo of
rum and gin. Hamburg alone, by two lines,
Of steamers, exported to Africa 200 600 tuns,
of rum last year; and many other cities, In,
cluding our own Boston, are engaged In the.
nefarious business Of turning Mississippi
of death and destruction upon the defense;
less Africans, annually decimating whole
sections of that country" ~
So far as the American expectation of rum
to Africa is concerned, Congress, during this
session, should provide by appropriate legis;s
lation for its suppression. National Temper
ance Advocate.
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TEMPERANCE.
CHRISTMAS SHIPS.


There's good ship sails into childhood's
bay,
Mid the glow and glory of Christmas Day,
With spicy perfumes and favorlng gales
Tanning the folds Of its star-gemmed salls.a
It halls from the cleaning, golden strand.
The wonderful shore Of fairylaud.
It is manned by a jolly elfin crew,
And Santa Claus Is its master true.
1t brings to the sollicking girls and boys
Books and bon-bons, and bright new toys;
And many comfort to young and old,
1t bears from that magical shore Of gold.
Oh, children! would not dim your smile, 5
But pausein your pleasures, and think awhile
OF the ship that sails into Sorrows bay,
Mid clouds and sighs, on this Christmas Day.
At the bow sits Grief-at the helm Despair.
It is manned by woes, and freightei with
care; -
It bringeth the drunkard's curse and blow,
The pinching Of want with the cod and
The wanderings far, with oare, freezing feet,
The hungry wall but for food to eat.
The anguished prayer without hope or faith,
The struggle for life more sad than death.
o! could ye not watt to this gloomy strand
One breath Of joy from your sunshine land;
To blot from some cheek tears sad trace,
And bring smile to some worn, wan facef
-Enma s. S.Arheart, In Temperance Banner.
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81 don't dictate now, mother.
Only"
':My table is FULL" she went on.
"And I haint no notion of altering my
arrangements.
Harvey stoou a moment, looking out
of the window.
"Very we'll, mother" said he, "this
is the last time that 1 shall ask any such
favor of you!" and he went quietly out
of the room.
Mrs. Darrow looked after him with
troubled eyes.
''It's mortal queer" said she, "what
notions boys take when they get to be
Harvey's age! And those girls living in
an old canal boat, too, when they are
Squire Duffy's niece and Mr.. Marvin's
daughters, just home from boarding
school! But he did look awful put out,
and there amt no better son than Har-
vey, when all's come and gone. I'm
most sorry But there! it amt no
use cryin' arter spilled milk, and it's
high time the loafcake went into the
oven. Harvey always likes frosted cake
with q sprig O. mistletoe stuck in the
middle. I'm glad I happened to think
of it."
. Christmas Day came, ushersd in by
a keen wind, sky as blue as lapis- -lazuli,
and a bitter, healthful, seasonable feel
ing of frost in the air.
Grand-unclc Elihu, looking like one
of the Pharaohs mummies, arrived in
pre- Raphaelite sort of sleigh, drawn by
an old gray horse. Mrs. Bracebrook
was already on the scene. So was Aunt
Lois.
Cousin Joseph and his fat wife sat con-
tentedly on either side of the fire, and
Deacon Hall and his daughter Joanna
came straight from the church, where
the parson had tackled an additional
quarter of an hour on his sermon in cell
ebration of the occasion.
And Harvey was coming slowly up
from the barn, where he had been seeing
% the comforts of Uncle Elihu's horse and
Deacon Halls rheumatic pony, when
neighbor came hurriedly across the hill
and spoke to him in excited accents.
"Harvey. Harveyw called his mother,
from the open door. "Dinner is ready!
Gomez
Harvey Darrow strobe into the midst
of the little festive graof. with pale
face aud haggard, startled eyes.
"Havey you heard what has happened2"
said he. "There has been a snow-slide
on Barren Mountain. The old canal
boat is buried in snow and ice, and the
rocks and uprooted trees are hurled all
the way down to the river-bank. As
for Effie and Clara, God knows what
their fate may be; but lam going there
at once, with Wilson and lot of the
nelghbors, to see what can be done" "
His voice shook; he clutched at a
chair back to steady himself as he spoke,
and then he rushed away.
Mrs. Darrow hastened after him.
"Harvey" she cried "Harvey my son,
listen to me-"
"Motner, for heavens sake don't keep
mel" said he, in deep, hoarse tones of de-
spair.
"But, Harvey, dinner is ready"
"Mother. do you suppose I care to
live if Effie Haven's blue eyes are closed
to the light of day?" he uttered. "Don't
hold me-let me go! She was the one
woman in all the world that loved, and
now"
"Harvey!"
It was another voice this time-a soft,
tremulous voice, like the coo of dove
and Ef1ie Haven herself, running out oi
the kitchen with scarlet shawl thrown
over her head, stood smiling before
him.
CLARA is there, too," she said, color.
ing under the intense rapture and relief