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THEY'LL GET A CHANGE,

Mr.. Madison Square Drops Onto the Loss Of
Appetite Business in Good Time.
Alex. E. Sweets Correspondence.l
"What is the matter with you, Matilda ?
You don't eat as fuently as usual" re-
marked Mr.. Madison Square to his wife at
the dinner table a few days ago.
81 have not been feeling we'll for some
time. think the girls and myself will
have to get change of air this summer. -
replied Mrs. Madison Square languidIy.
90, you do, do you? Your health is in a
precarious fix? If all you want is little
change, I'll lend you quarter. So you are
off again this summer to some health resort?
Suppose you take me along. That will be
change. You want to 60 to Saratoga, where
the porter collects 80 cents if you look at
him, with 25 cents extra if you sneeze. And
you can't fool me by saying that maybe one
OF the girls will catch husband, for know
what these seaside engagements amount to.
Because Rebecca bagged Jacob at a we'll
that's no sign that our girls can
do the same thing at a water
ing place. The men have learned a great
deal since then. You have got your mouth
fixed for Long Branch, where you can sit
on the piazza and talk three hours at a
stretch and listen to brass band that makes
the tide ebb before its time. You and the
girls will stay right here for a change, with
the accent on the change, where the change
will not be spent before the summer is. If
you really want the wild enjoyment you get
at the average summer resort you can sleep
out in the woodshed and daub your face
with walnut juice. Want to go to water.
ing place, do you? What's the matter with
the pump on the corner?"
Exit Mrs. Madison Square, indignant.
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| NUpOLeOn LII. Hnen FTeStQenL
start township. She has a number O.
| cousins, and her family costs England
about 81, 600, 900 year. I saw Queen Vic
toria in Scotland about three years ago
She is fat and dumpy now, and all the
romance has gone out of her soul. Hel
silly attachment for John Brown made hel
| ridiculous.
QUEEN vICToRIA'S FINANCES.
She has an immense private fortune from
| which she has big income in addition to
that received from the Government, and she
manages her money so we'll that it grows
from year to year. Her husband, when he
died, lett about 5000, 900, and the letter
chronicling his death, which find in this
autograph album of the State Department
was written by Albert Edward, Prince OF
Wales, who was then 21 years old. This is
occurs In our state correspondence. 1t is
probably the first time he had anything to
do with the governing of England, and it is
worthy of record. 1t reads as follows:
Albert Edward, Prince of Wales. TO the Presi-
dent of the United States Of America, Sendeth
Greeting:
My VERY GooD FR1END-The Queen, my
beloved mother. has sustained an overwhelm-
ing loss in the death of my beloved and
mourned father, His Royal Highness. the
Prince Consort, Prince Albert Edward of Sake
Coburg-Gotha, Duke of Saxony. which took
place at Windsor Castle at 1850 o'clock, in the
night of the 18th ultimo, after short Illness
in tho 43d year of his age. You can well con-
ceive the utter desolation and grief of the
Queen under the unexpected bereavement
which Her Majesty, her family and her coun-
try have undergone. In these deeply affecting
circumstances 1 have been commanded to
write in this one instance on behalf of my dis
consulate mother, Tor the purpose of announc-
ing the fatal event. The Queen is persuaded
that you will kindly receive this notification as
from herself, and that you will give her your
kindly sympathy under the heavy trial which
it has pleased Divine Providence to visit her.
And SO recommend you TO the protection of
the Almighty.
Your very Good Friend,
ALBERT EDWARD.
OsBURN HOUSE, the 9th OF January 1852.
HOW SIGNATURES CHANGE.
Her last signatures have materially
changed from the first. Her VS. are now
made with a great flourish instead of being
an ordinary wedge, and taking two sigma
lures, one written when she first ascended
the throne and another penned but few
months ago, one would not imagine the two
to be written by the same person.
The same thing holds good of other sigma
lures. These royal autograph books contain
the names of Napoleon during different
periods of his lite. When be was first
elected President of the French Repu bile
he wrote his name L. N. Bonaparte, and the
letter in which he announces his acceptance
of the place is very moderate and full of
patriotism and republicanism. On another
page letter is pasted in. It is dated only
year later, but in 1t Louis Napoleon has
thrown off his title of Bonaparte and signs
himself simply N. Napoleon. In the next
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WOMEN CHECK-WRITERs.
INSCRIPTIONS Persons Can Easily Raise the
Amounts in Many Gases.

INSCRIPTIONS Persons Can Easily Raise the
Amounts in Many Gases.
TITS great wonder" said a Pittsburg
bank cashier yesterday. that lady deposit
tors are not continually being defrauded,
because of their manner of drawing checks.
Of course, when they draw them at the bank
we can correct therr. But the checks they
write during their shopping tours would, l
should think, be constant temptation to
people with tough consciences. They could
be SO easily raised. Nearly all, except the
experienced ones, fail tc fill out the line
after putting down the amount and any
bungler could raise the figures. It is a bless
ing, therefore, that most of the checks are
drawn to the order of the reputable business
houses of the city.
Frequently their checks are for ridicu-
lously small amounts. It is the new depos-
itors who write them. It is q novelty. and
they appear to leave all their small change
and big change, too, for that matter-at
home, for the purpose Of enjoying it. have
had as many as 10 checks from one woman
in one day and some for amounts as small
as cents. The other day check was pre-
sented here for 1eH cents"
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The Queen's Signature at u.

in a schoolgirl hand, and she evidently
wrote it very carefully. The ink is as black
to-day as it was when it reached the State
Department during the administration OF
President Van Buren. and the Endorsement
of the great Minister Palmerston appears in
the same ink below it. The letter reads:
Victoria, by the Grace of God. Queen of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
Defender of the Faith. etc., etc.. to the Presi-
dent of the United States Of America Sendeth
greeting:
Our good friend: It Is with the deepest
aff1iction that we announce to you the decease
of our most honored and beloved uncle. his
late Majesty King William the w., of blessed
memory, whom 1t pleaseth God to call from
this world on the morning of the Goth instant
at 2:12 o'clock. in the I'D year of his age and
the seventh of his reign. While We thus COM
municate to you the earliest intelligence of this
mournful event, we feel convinced that you
will participatein our own and the public grief
for the loss Of q sovereign whose memory is
Justly dear to his family and to his subjects Of
every class. In acquainting you at the same
time without accession TO the throne Of this
kingdom, we cannot omit to assure you that it
will be our most earnest deire to cultivate and
maintain the relations of friendship and good
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ENRJ
-
Napoleon III. When Prince.

barmaid. His family sent him to Athens
to get him out OF the way of the barmaid
and he lost the Queen.
1t is said that the Queen later in life cast
sleeps eyes at our own new Congressman, n,
Mr.. Vaux, but however this may be, she
married Prince Albert in great style and
began to raise children as rapidly as any
poor mans wife on the Western frontier.
Just about year after the ceremony she
had her first child, and there is no doubt
that her marriage was happy one. The
letter in which she announces her marriage
is written in the following jubilant Lam
guage, and is signed in bold, round hand.
1t reads:
ANNOUNCEMENT OF HER MARRIAGE.
The celebration OF our marriage with His
Royal Highness, the Prince Albert Francis
Augustus Charles Emmanuel, second son of
His Serene Highness the reigning Duke of
Saxe-Coburg-G Gotha, having taken place at Lon
don. on the 10th Of the present month, we lose
no time in notifying you Of this event. The
sentiments of friendship which you have
already manifested toward us on other occa.
siops afford US the assurance that You will
take an interest In an event winch. by the
blessing Of the Almighty will, we trust con-
tribute to the welfare of our people and secure
our own domestic happiness. And SO with our
cordial wishes for your welfare and prosperity
we recommend you to the protection Of the
Almighty.
The next letter is dated the 18th Of De.
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cember, less than year after her marriage,
and it announces the birth OF her first child.
She writes as follous.

cember, less than year after her marriage,
and it announces the birth of her first child.
| She writes as follows:
The Almighty having in His infinite goodness
been pleased to grant us Princess, who was
born at 1;50 o'clock on the 2lst of November.
we hasten to notify you OF this happy event in
the full conviction from the sentiments OF
on former occasions, that you Will take an in
terest i'll an event so important TO our domin-
ions, and so gratifying to ourselves and TO the
Prince Consort and so with our cordial wishes
for your welfare and prosperity. we recon-
mend you to the protection OF the Almighty,
etc., etc.
BIRTH OF THE PRINCE OF WALES.
Just one year later comes the announce
ment OF the birth of Albert Edward. Prince
of Wales, which is chronicled as follows:
The proofs which we have received of your
friendship and of the interest which you take
In all that concerns our person and family, do
not permit us to defer announcing to you that
the Almighty, in His infinite goodness, has been
pleased to grant US Prince, who was born at
buckingham Palace on the morning OF the 9th
instant. In communicating to you an event SO
highly important to our people, and SO joyful to
ourselves and the Prince Consort, we embrace
the opportunity of assuring you of our con-
slant friendship and we recommend you to the
protection of the Almighty, ETC., etc.
Two years later another Princess came,
and few pages further on we find the birth
OF Prince recorded, and so it goes, Princes
and Princesses pepper the pages of this
great autograph book, and at each new birth
Victoria expresses her thanklulness to the
Lord and recommends us to the protection
of the Almighty.
Altogether the Queen has had seven chill
dren, and she has enough grandchildren to
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-15
FASHIONABLE WRITING PAPER.
Yellow and Other Pale Tints Are Popula,
Just Now-Cards for Teas.

Yellow and Other Pale Tints Are Popular
Just Now-Cards for Teas.
Detroit Free Press.l
Yellow, very deep yellow, known as
pumpkin, is the new color in writing
paper, and is stamped with silver and lead.
A caprice is to stamp the paper with the
day of the week in Spanish or Arabic; the
letters in red on yellow having peculiar
effect. For those who like more delicate
paper there are variety of pale tints, two
combined running diagonally across both
the envelope and paper and dotted here and
there with tiny butterfly of another shade,
There is little change in form. but some OF
the envelopes are long with square fans.
Cards for ''teas'' are cream white a triae
longer than they are wide. Across the ton
a teapot. in the style known as "Japanr
esque," a cup and saucer, and sugar bowl
are embossed IN copper or silver, underneath
in letters of silver or copper are the words.
Thursday. tea at g." "Come to tea" or
"tea party" there being a multitude of
forms to suit the taste OF the tea giver.
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H~- %ok I.s.G
Mka1Ho

court etiquette of Europe whenever a son or
daughter is born to a ruler letter is sent to
the State Department. These letters are
carefully filed. They are bound in great
morocco covered books, and they constitute
the most valuable autograph collection OF
the United States. Manv of the pages are
bordered with black, announcing the death
OF ruler, but such an announcement is al
ways accompanied by the proclamation of
another to the throne, and the old rule, the
King is dead, long live the King, ever
holds good.
VICTORIA AT EIGHTEEN.
It takes one large volume to contain the
court letters of Great Britain, and there are
many autographs of Queen Victoria scat
tered through the pages. The first letter she
writes was penned when at sweet 1S she
stepped out of private life into the the throne
of the greatest Government on the face of the
globe. Her letter announcing her ascent is
written on blue foolscap paper, with mar
row black border in honor of the death Of
William ". The esignature is boldly penned
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00t,e Con owl
~Z@y
Napoleon III When Euperor

letter he drops the Louis and comes out
boldly as "Napoleon, the Emperor.
Shortly after he became Emperor he an
nounced his marriage with Eugene. This
marriage took place in 1858, nearly 20 years
before he lost his throne. 1t was love
match, and the letter written in French
which Napoleon sends about it is interest
ing. He says that he hopes that the mar
riage may promote the friendship between
the two countries, and closes by recommend
ing us to God and signing himself, "Our
Good Friend, Napoleon"
The book of French autographs is full of
social history of the royalty of France.
Louis Philippe shortly before his ascension
to the French throne announced the mar
riage of his son to the President of the
United States, and short time later 1 find
his signature appended to letter stating
that the Comte de Paris, his grandson, has
been born. Louis Philippe is one of the
best penmen of all the kings. His letters
look more like diplomas that State corre-
spondence. MISS GRUNDY, JR.
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MINING IN GRAVE YARDS.

A Half Million Dollars Worth of Gold Goes
to American Cemeteries Each Year.
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.1
Some French crank, with a taste for
statistics that are of no value to any one,
has figured it out that the dentists of Amer
lea annually insert in the teeth of their
customers about 800 pounds of gold, which
represent cost of S45O,0O0. This gold is
never recovered, of course, but is buried
with the person in whose mouth it is placed.
The statistician then goes on to show that,
allowing TOR the rapid increase in the popu,
lation Of the United States, and the Still
more rapid deterioration of American teeth,
that within 100 years the cemeteries OF TINS
country will contain more gold than Is now
in circulation in France. When that state
OF affairs is reached, mining companies Tor
the working Of cemeteries wiz be matter
Of course.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-15
WONDERFUL SCALES.

They VIII Weigh a Hair or n Signature In
Lead Pencil Upon a Card.
st. Louis Globe-Democrat
A fine thing in the way of delicately ad-
justed scales has just been turned out by a
Philadelphia firm for the mint at New
Orleans. There are two pair. The larger
has capacity Of 10000 ounces troy, or
about 7S5 pounds avoirdupois, and when
loaded to its full capacity will indicate the
variation of one-thousandth of an inch
The other pair is intended for lighter work.
ALI of its bearings are OF agate.
This instrument is believed to be the most
delicate In the world. 1t will give the
precise weight of human hair and is sus-
ceptible 70 the slightest atmospheric change.
A signature written on q card with an or.
dinary pencil will make perceptible differ.
ence in The weight Of the card.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-15
CODE OF THE CABLES,

A Conference TO Reduce the Limit for One
Word TO Eight Letters.
There is to be an ocean cable conferences
at Paris this summer, and the principal busi-
ness to be talked about is motion to reduce
the limit Of letters in code word to eight
instead Of ten, as at the present time. The
proposal has caused vail Of indignation,
not only In this country, but also in
England and Paris. This ten-letter limit
has been in vogue so long that the codes are
nearly all based on it, and general recon-
struetion Of all codes will be required if the
motion prevails s
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-15
He Told the Whole Truth.

The robust and healthful Independence
which should always be suggested by the
pane American" has not been wholly
monopolized by the girls. much of it as they
now possess. A man OF very genuine and
inspiring independence was q witness in q
Western Pennsylvania court not long ago.
A lawyer, who had the cross-examining Of
this witness, tells the story. Everything
went well until certain question had been
asked, and of much as it answered as full
filled the lawyers desires.
'Stop, therel Don't tell any more about
thatP'
'But there is more totell. Ihaven't fully
answered the question"
The muzzle was held firmly in place, but
the witness was not subdued. Even when
the Court had rebuked him he was still re-
spectiully insubordiDate,
.'T have been brought here BY authority"
he argued. "I have been required to take
solemn oath to tell the truth, the whole
trutb and nothing but the truth. Now, you
must allow me to keep the oath you made
me swear. Neither Court nor counsel has a
RIGHT to force me into perjury Just because
the counsel don't want just quite the whole
truth. insist on my right to give the re-
mainder of my answer"
"And, if you'll believe me-" said the dis
pusted lawyer, "that hayseed court sus-
tained him, and I lost my case"
JAMES G. PURDY,
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troubles which existed 1t the time that
Peggy o'Neill, the handsome daughter Of
the Washington tavern keeper married
Major Eaton, Jackson's Secretary of War.
and set Washington society by the ears, and
still others describe the troubles which
Alexander Hamilton underwent through
the persecution of the pretty Mrs. Reynolds.
By all odds the most interesting volumes
OF love and marriage, however, found in
these departments are those which contain
the letters of kings and queens describing
their marriages, and in glowing terms pict-
uring their gratitude to heaven for the birth
of prince or princess. According to the
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1~ NJ @ I<1-.S
AzL LfeA-4sL
Signature orthe Prince of Wales

signature OF Ihe FTtnce OF WuteS
understanding which so happily subsist be-
tween the TWO countries: and that 1t will always
afford us further opportunities of proving the
interest we take IN the welfare and prosperity
of the United States, and SO we recommend
you 30 the protection of the Almighty.
Given at our Court at Kensington, the
twenty-third day Of June, in the year Of our
Lord 1884, and the first year of our reign.
Your Good Friend,
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SLEEPS EYES AT yAUx,

Victoria's next letter is on white paper.
1t gives the credentials of Henry Stephen
Fox as Minister to America, and again rec
mighty. The letter following. this reads
like copperplate, and it contains the an
nouncement of the Queens marriage with
Prince Albert. Victoria was then q years
of age. She had several lovers before she
fell in love with Prince Albert. One of
these was Lord Elphinstone, a tall, fine
looking Scotch peer who was made Governor
of Madras. In India, in order to get him out
of the way of the future Queen. Another
was Lord Fitzallen, but Fitzallen was
Roman Catholic, and he fell in love with
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-15
VICT0RIA'S LETTERS.
Her Family Record as IL Appears in
Our State Department.
SIGNATURES AT 1S AND AT II
Joyous Words on Her Wedding and Thank.
fulness for Each Heir.
OTHER INTERESTING CORRESPONDENCE
rooRREsroNDrNcR OF THE DISPATCH. !

~ " uAAC IL
HE great departments
of ashington have
hidden away in their
musty records the ro-
mances of the greatest
men of the nited
States. There is a ira
dition that some very
spicy love letters of
George w ashington are
hidden away in the
3 t o te Department.
Others of the records
contain references To the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-15
Training Up Ind.ueudept Girls.

A man I have in mind who possesses
much wealth, including sons and daughters,
has had every one of his children taught
trade or profession. And the teaching has
been so thorough and so practical that each
member OF that household could any day
turn effort into money. The pecul1ar1ty in
this case is that the father has been more
diligent in having his daughters made self
supporting than in having his sons taught.
A boy has better chance in the world, he
says, but woman needs the best equipment
she can have to battle against adversely.
And, in this country particularly, adversely
may come any moment; for fortunes are lost
far more easily than they are gained.
"It my daughters" he says, have
capable husbands and welLprovided homes,
what have taught them will do no harm.
If otherwise, what I have taught them will
do much good, and should lose my money
they will not have to marry Tom, Dick or
Harry in order to keep from starving"
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HELPLESS In 1Iisfortune.

"oh, If could only do somethingP said
widowed lady to me one time. As the
daughter of one rich man. and the wife Of
another, she had lived through her years of
enVied happiness. secure in the certainty
that privation could never come her way.
And yet just now her rich husband had
died and left her without a dollar in the
world. Her inheritance had gone and
without spar to cling to she was cast into
the deep waters to sink or swim. And not
only she, but the crippled child which was
the only precious thing she now possessed.
She could play very we'll; she could sing
very well; she could paint tolerably, and
she could embroider. But not one of her
accomplishments had commercial value
which she could exchange for calico gown
or one days food.
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They Arc True Americans.

It is a rather startling thought that juss
now American girls seem to be the truest
opponents of the American idea. They are
the ones who eagerly and Of their own free
will assert and maintain the dignity and in
dependence of labor. So that, after all, the
women are likely to be the true conservators Of
the Republic. And the charming part of it
all is that the girls are doing their patriotic
work without fussing about theories and
principles and high distractions.