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HE CUT OFF HIS THUMB.
Desperate Means Taken by n Nihillst 70
Escape siberia.

Desperate Means Taken by n Nihillst 70
Escape siberia.
Petrovski was the most magnificent man
physically that was in our miserable party
bound for Siberia from Moscow under
strong guard two years ago, says Russian
exile in the New York Herald. Unlike the
other prisoners, Petrovski and his party
were handcHffed to each other. They were
under double guard, as it was known that
they would make an attempt to escape
should the opportunity offer. No chance
offered, however, until the day of starting
for the mines arrived The soldiers who
were guarding the party appeared to be
rather under the influence of liquor, and
were not so vigilant as usual. stood on
the stoop of small inn within ten feet Of
Petrovski and from the expression on his
face knew that something was in the wind.
The officer who had charge of this part of
the prisoners, who was noted for his brutal
ity, had mounted his horse and stood near
the party. The guard had walked off some
distance and were conVersing together. /
saw Petroyski working at his handcuf, and
then 1 saw him draw a common dinner
knife from his jacket.
The movement did not attract attention,
and he then turned slightly, so that his
back was toward the officer. Then 1 saw
that he was going to attempt one of the most
desperate escapes ever heard of. The man
was certainly amputatIng his thumb with
the table knife, so as to allow the handcuf
to slip over his handl He worked at it,
never hinching, until the thumbs dropped
at his leet. The blood was flowing from the
wound in stream, but he tied isup with
rag after drawing the skin over the sicken-
ing wound, and had slipped the handcuff
off, His companion was aware of his move
ments. but stood like a statue. The sup
pressed excitement was suffering from, to-
gether with the daring bravery I was wit
Messing, almost made me faint. 1 saw that
the dare devil was as pale as a sheet, but
without the slightest sign OF tear.
He stood for moment irresolute, and
then began a slow side movement toward
the mounted officer. When within few
feet he turned with the fury OF tiger and
seizing the officer dragged him from the
horse.
Before the guards could recover their
senses he had mounted the horse and started
off at a run down the street. A fusilade Of
shots followed him, but he escaped them
all. His friends aided him, and he eventu-
ally made his way to Paris, where he still
lives, with his wife and family, but minus
his right thumb.
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STANDING ON CEREMONY.
Story by the Elder Dumas illustrating
English Stiffness and Reserve.

Story By the Elder Dumas IIlustratinr
English Stiffness and Reserve.
Dumas the elder often laughed at English
stiffness aud reserve. One of his stories was
this:
zone day Victor Hugo and were invited
to dine with the Duke of Decazes Among
the guests were Lord and Lady Palmerston
of course this happened before the Febru-
ary Rev olution. At midnight tea was
handed round. Victor Hugo and I were
sitting side by side, chatting merrily. Lord
and Lady Palmerston had arrived very late,
and there had. consequently, been no oppor-
tn nifty to introduce us before dinner. After
dinner, it seems it was forgotten. English
custom, consequently did not allow us to be
addressed by the illustrious couple. All at
once, young Decazes came up 10 rs, and
said:
"'My dear Dumas, Lord Palmerston
begs you will leave chair free between you
and Victor Hugo
ST fastened to do as he wished. We
moved away from each other, and placed a
chair between US. Thereupon Lord Pal
merston entered, holding the hand of his
wife, led her up to rs, and invited her to sit
down on the empty chair-all this without
saying word.
My lady he said TO his wife, what
time have you?
'She looked at her watch and answered,
"Thirty-fve past twelve
"Well, then, said the great minister,
remember well this day. az 1885, you wers
sitting between Alexander Dumas and Vic
tor Hugo-ap honor which you will prob
ably never enjoy again in your lifetime
.Then he offered his arm again to his
wife, and took her back to her seat without
saying . word 10 as because W had net
been presented"
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PUT 1T OUT AT INTEREST.
The Baltimore Founder of Libraries Gives
His Advice ms to Money.

The Baltimore Founder of Libraries Gives
His Advice MS to Money.
Mr.. Enoch Pratt the well-known million
aire of Baltimore, who has devoted large
portion of bis fortune to establishing the
Enoch Pratt free Libraries of that city, sends
the following brief and pithy answer to the
conundrums asked him:
BALTIMORE, March %, 1890.
"DEAR SIR-MY advice to young men
who are anxious to advance in life has
always been that when they earn S. they
should save and put out at interest 81 of it.
Money at interest is like calf of which an
honest old German once told me. He said
the purchase of that calf was the best thing
he ever did, for the calf grew just the same
whether her owner was asleep or awake, and
almost before he knew it she had grown to a
full-sized COW, worth many times what he
had paid for her. If young men will pur-
sue the course have advised, and are other
wise capable, they will become rich.
"ENocH PRATT"
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BANKING HOUSE OF

NEW Ohh, MATCH 20, 1oSU. J
"DEAR SIR-When old Meyer Rothschild
was asked questions similar 10 those you
have propounded to me, he said: I buys
sheep and sells dear Those who follow
this method always succeed. Few things
present better opportunities to buy "sheep"
and sell dear than stocks and bonds, and
such securities when 'gilt-edged' not only
pay interest on the investment, but they
can also be readily turned into money at
any time if desirable.
'In order to become rich the young man
Just starting in life should choose that occu-
patton or avocation for which he has the
most decided preference. Many a man has
his nose to the grindstone,' so to speak,
throughout life simply because he has
chosen, or his relatives and friends have
chosen for him, some business or profession
to which he is not adapted, and which he
finds is not congenial to him, while in a
career for which nature and education had
fitted him he might not only be happy and
successful, but make his mark az a star Of
the first magnitude.
The Good Book tells us that whatever our
hand finds to do we should do it with all
our might, but young man is not inclined
to do in that way things that he does not
like. But whatever Young men do from
choice they, as rule, do well. 1t is,
therefore, very important for a young
man just starting in life to be sure that the
calling in which he engages is thoroughly
congeniaI to him and one IN which he can
put forth his best efforts with the greatest
enthusiasm and delight.
"The utility of collegiate education for
success in business is now being largely de-
bated. As the college curriculum and
training stand at present, the ordinary
course is net in general calculated to make
a good business man. 1t is enormously re-
garded by some people as kind of substi-
tute for business training in the earlier
years ofthe young mans life. There can be
no greater mistake in the beginning of a
business career. 1t is in many instances not
only hindrance but absolutely fatal to
success.
"Yours very truly,
"HENRY CLEws."
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THE FADS OF A QUEEN.

Victoria Uses Eight Pairs OF Blankets 4
Month and Has Feet Warmers.
New York Herald.l
Queen Victoria has to have blankets es-
pecially woven for her. She sleeps in them
instead of between linen sheets, like us
everyday people. Indeed they are more
like woollen sheets which we know as
blankets-very soft and feecy and quite
thin. And as she never uses them after
they are lanndered she has about eight pair
of new ones a month. The old ones? oh,
they go to the hospitals.
Then she has queer little contrivanoes in
which to keep her feet warm, for such a
thing as your much heated rooms is un-
known in her palaces. So she sits with her
feet tucked into these fur-lined bags, foot
muffs, suppose you will call them. These
and the blankets are made for her BY q
very renowned firm, which has supplied
her wants in this line for the last 40 years.
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LMAN WHO HAS TRIED II.

Ben Butler Advises Other People TO Buy
Property ms He Has Done.
Hon. Benjamin f. Butler, the millionaire
manufacturer, lawyer, soldier and states
man, comedies with Mr.. Flowers high esti-
mate of real estate as an investment, as
will be seen below:
LOWELL, MASS, March 80.
DEAR SIR-All the improved real estate
in Boston, as rule, has paid its interest
and taxes and quadrupled in value during
the past 30 years, while during the same
period 90 per cent of all the merchants and
traders in that city have failed, and 80 per
cent of all the business corporations have
either done likewise or gone out of business,
SO that their stock has been wiped out. La
view of these facts 1 think it may be un-
hesitatingly asserted that nothing else is so
safe an investment Tor small savings as i'm
proved real estate. Nothing is likely to
grow in value faster.
"You had therefore better buy piece of
improved real estate, however small, that
is paying rent. Pay in cash what little
money you have, and give your notes, Sc
cured by mortgage on the property, for the
balance in small sums falling due at short
intervals, and then use all your extra in
come from the rent of your property in pay
ing them of. You never incur any risk in
discounting your own notes. and when your
friends find that you are placing your money
where 1t is perfectly. secure they will be glad
to assist you if those notes should come due
little too rapidly. Thus in a short time
and almost before you know it, you will
have considerable and perfectly safe in
vestment.
eff you had a rich father who would fur
nish the cash to start you in business you
you invested it in the way have pointed
out rather than to risk it in trade, mean
while earning your living by working for q
salary. For young man just starting in
life whose ambition it is to become rich,
would say, never do a mean thing for money.
"Yours truly,
BENJAMIN f. BUTLER"
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nurses bring their charges to the hair dress
ers for attention that once was never consid-
cred necessary. Bangs are cut, curls are
trimmed and brushed, straight locks are
coaxed into waves by carefully heated
irons, and little misses 60 through
almost as much of process as
their mammas and big sisters. Babies,
both boys and girls, not more than 2
years old, are frequently seen sitting in the
hair dresser's chair with a patience born
only of experience. Young girls in school
wear the Marguerite braids or a'single braid
looped under and tied with velvet ribbon
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the shimmering. waving strands into a coiE
fure like that saw recently on a Young girl
whose hair, brown in shadow, revealed
glimpses of gold in the sunshine. Back
from her forehead and up from her neck the
wavy strands were brushed, whirled into a
single light puffy knot, from which three
soft curls fell, and gold arrow held the
whole in place.
Then there is the Greek coiffure proper.
or rather an adaptation of it, which was ar.
ranged by a famous Partisan hairdresser for
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SCRATCHES LIKE A SCH0OLBOY.

What the Printers say About Editor Henry
Watterson's Handwriting.
Atlanta Constitution
every few days." said an old-time prin-
ter who has spent many an hour over Henry
Watterson's "copy" last nights printer in
our Office would be fred out of the compos-
ing room for bulling Watterson's copy. It
was horrible. His editorial always went
through . regular course Of proof reading,
and then came out hap-hazard. There was
one old printer in the Office in 1886 that had
been connected with the journal and Cou.
rier-Journal for 30 years, and he was the
only man that could read Mr.. Watterson's 8
copy.
"He writes with ink, and scrawls, and
scratches, and blots, like schoolboy. We
used to dread his copy"
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DRESSING THE HAIR.
A Glance at the Fads Upon Which
Dame Fashion Smiles.
OLD STYLES COMING BACK AGAIN
Changes Necessary to Harmonize With the
Adopted Costumes.
PRETTY CURLs OF PRETTY MISSES

The right tight, snug, shiny little knot OF
hair, with its secure fastenings, which the
tailor-made girl wore above her jaunty man
nish rolling collar is indeed an anachronism
above the clinging draperies and high
puffed sleeves of Josephine gown or in
.juxtaposition to the classic Grecian outlines
of the popular, artistically draped costume.
The ideal coiffure of the season, says the
New York Sun, finds its prototype only on
some old Parthenon frieze or group Of graces
chiseled about an antique monument or
altar. and the worst of it is that only
maiden sculptured in cleaning marble
ought to attempt the style of coifure, tor on
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-27
INVEST IN REAL ESTATE,

Roswell p. Flower Would Always Put
small Savings In Land.
Hon. Roswell P. Flower, the millionaire
member of Congress from the Twelfth New
York district, and an available candidate
for the Presidential nomination on the Dem
ocratic ticket, sends the subjoined response
to my young friends letter:
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, q. S.,
"WAsHINGToN, d. c., March 26.
MY DEAR SIR-In reply to your letter
OF the 10th instant, would say that it would
seem to me. were 1 in your position. that 1
would buy some real estate in your city.
You cannot duplicate real estate. You can
duplicate any other kind of security, and as
the country igrows, real estate will improve
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-27

around the neck. For
dressy occasions little
girls wear a ribbon
OF bright color tied
about the head in the
old fashioned way,
just back of the
fringe. or, more
artistic still, like
the child in the cut.
with half short hair
the ribbon is tied
over the curls about
the head like a
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-27
SHORT AND SWEET.

Claus Spreckels Tells the Young Man to Go
TO Savings Bank.
Mr.. Claus Spreckels. the millionaire sugar
king, responds with an epistle that is char
acteristically short, if not sweet-as brief, in
tact, as woman's love:
"PHILADELPHIA, March 80.
"DEAR SIR-Your favor of the 10th
instant has been duly received. In reply to
the same would say that would recon-
mend good savings bank.
"Yours truly,
"CLAUS SPRECKELs"
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fashion gains ground
slowly among Ameri-
can ladies, who insist
that it is untidy and
inconvenient. and takes
away something from
their dignity an d
smartness. As a rule,
hair dressed high ON
the head is more be-
coming to the Ameri-
can physiognomy. It
was a little Spanish
beauty, with an oval
olive face, who attract
ed so much flattering
attention in an opera
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some artist concerning the peculiar style
best adapted to her, for hair dressers in
New York are not artists, as' they of the
profession are in Paris, and they cannot al
WAYS be depended upon for suggestions. -.
There has been something of revival OF
the old custom of floral decorations IN the
hair during the past season. single rose, u
wreath of fine flowers, or half wreath rest
ing lightly on the bangs and lost in the
looms and curls at the back. The most ar
tistic and beautiful of all hair dressing,
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NO TIPS NEEDED NOW.

Walters Are to be Supplanted BY Little
Electric Cars.
New YORK SUM-
The new departure that was made the
other DAY at dinner in Baltimore opens up
. vision of blessed relief to those to whom
the average waiter has always been bette
noir. Instead of the supercilious and in
dependent servitors who usually administer
to the wants of the hungry public, an cleo
trio car darted out of the pantry, and is
said to have served the course with neatness
and dispatch. This exemption from airs
and tips ct the same time il An admirable
recommendation Of This novel plan.
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4otai i....................'.. .fo5l W
1t must be remembered that in those years
foods were considerably dearer than at
present.
Let us turn to another picture of life.
know gentleman. alone in the world, with
poor health and great struggle on his
hands. death struggle, a hand-to-hand
access to the accounts of the cost of his living
for ten weeks of the present winter. He
literally supplied himself with nutritious
food at cost of 80 cents per week, as per
the following account:
Peas, 8 cts; milk, "a cts; syrup. Z........ SO
Prunes. 80 cts; apples (dried), 90 cts...... 40
So 80
Goals cost him 13 cents per week, and oil
for light, cents; rent cost him 81 per
month
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"PILLsBURY-WAsHBURN

"MINNEAPoLIs, MINI, March 26.
my DEAR SIR-I am in receipt of your
favor of the 20th instant. I think first
class savings bank as secure depository for
money as any place. There is not much use
accumulating money if you do not get in
terest on it. In reply to your request for
general advice and directions to aid young
man just starting in life to become rich. I
would say that if such a young man is in
the employ Of others 1t should be his aim to
earn his salary many times over, and not he
contented TO earn it but once and merely
give satisfaction to his employers. He
should strive to do more. In nv
first years in business, though neither asked
nor expected to do so, frequently worked
all night. A young man who thus devotes
himself heart and soul to his EMPLOYERS in
terest will soon find that his devotion is ap-
preciated, for, even if his employer should
fail to reward ii, some one else will surely
observe it and the way to Promotion will
soon be open for him. There are vacant
places in the higher walks of every husi-
ness and profession for the young men who
follow this course.
'Some men fail because they overrate
their own ability and underestimate that of
their competitors. Such a mistake should
be carefully avoided. Let a man with ever
SO great natural ability, but lacking a ca.
pacity for hard work, compete with duller
man, but one who tolls early and late, and
the latter will outrun him on the road to
success every time. Wed natural ability to
hard work and you have combination that
nothing can defeat.
"Yours truly,
CHARLES A. PILLsBURY."
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passed to form double, eight-shaped ar
rangement on the head, and Grecian bow
and Alsation bow swell the list of coiffures
which can be arranged only by the skill of
the professional hair dresser.
The present picturesque and extreme
styles of dress necessitate a correct arrange
ment of the hair to insure their effective
ness. The reason 50 many women fail in
this is because they lack originality and a
knowledge of outlines. A style of hair
dressing that they admire on a friend s
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-27

a noted American
belle. 1t resembles
the Psyche knot, which
was 80 travestied in
New York a few sea-
sons back, and which
women with snub
noses insisted upon
affecting because it
was becoming to their
classic sisters. It is
indeed a sort of a first
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box because above the simple low-necked
gown a faultless head, exquisitely poised,
had the dusky hair simply parted in the
twisted low in the neck, and bound about
with q fllet of delicate white blossom,
strung together like child's daisy chain.
For ladies on dressy occasions there is the
empire style with its light fringe of hair
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-27

brought rather low
down to a point on
the forehead. Grace
full curls lightly
grou pc d together
surmount the fringe,
and ut the sides
above the ears the
hair is prettily waved
in the fashion now so
generally adopted.
Another arrange
ment of the same
mode has a tiara of
jet above the fringe,
which NAV he re-
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height in front
and the graceful
full SIS in the
n e ok as W e II,
which is quite ad-
vantageous when
wearing the new
crownless bonnets,
as it is pleasant to
feel that you have
something on your
b cad. A ne W
comb has been de-
signed with three
substantial rings,
through which the
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ings, let it tangle and fly at will, and gather
il up in soft knot low down in your neck,
where it will look as if 1t were going to iall
down entirely every minute, and put just
enough pins in it to prevent that catastrophe
and nothing more.
Isaw a sweet, oval-faced young girl at
sorosis the other day with exactly this style
of coiffure and the most aesthetic dress of
black. embroidered with trails of yellow
marpuerites. IF your hair be as straight
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-27

neau tney lHltase
themselves, with most
disastrousresults. The
occasionally gifted
woman has nice intui-
tions which she may
not be able to formu-
late in words or ex-
plain, but which ef-
fectually prevent her
from making blun-
ders of this kind. She
who has not should, II
IL = nl1a aAnpt1
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however, is that seen
on children's heads,
because the hair when
wavy isn't dressed at
all, but e1quisltely
cared for and left to
follow its own sweet
\ will and pleasure,
only slightly cut in
a bang in front to
keep it from the eyes.
In the early hours
Of the morning the
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ohN NV phSoehAh ~
moving girl the
graceful arrange
ment comes tum-
bling down about
her ears in an hour.
The long, wayy
lines of hair out
lining the graceful
contour OF a wom-
ans head and
twisted softly in a
mass of ringlets
low in the neck or
just high enough to
allow the lowest of
the depending curls
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TIE COST OF LIVING,

Two Examples of Economy From the Quiet
City of Philadelphia.
Philadelphia lnquirer.l
1 have friend who some 20 years ago
found himself in this city with wife and
children two, suddenly called upon to
"make both ends meet" on a salary of $3.50
per year. AS it was principle with him
that persons dependent on wages should
each month save portion of their income
for a rainy day he determined to live on 500.
Here follows statement OF his expenses tor
that year as taken from his book:
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and sleek as that of a
Puritan elder or q Com
manche squaw, your
hairdresser will make
it ripple and wave and
flow like that of the
heroine in a three-vol-
ume novel.
Then, if you haven't
been blessed with too
large an allowance of
it. she will gather up
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posed should be curly,
or, perhaps, as girls say,
fluffy" Ii you are
endowed by nature
with that kind of hair
which two years ago
you brushed and wet
and oiled to make it
smooth and glossy, all
you have to do now is
to keep all the oil out
of it by frequent wash
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sword. The Lord Fauntleroy" and little
pages style of hair is the popular style for
little boys. and is generally worn until the
instinct of freedom Inherent in every Ameri-
can laddie rises up in revolt, and the curls
are sacrificed to saucer bang with closely
cropped hair at the back