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GAY EMPEROR WILLIAM.

Not Averse to Slipping His Good Arm
Around a Tapering Waist.
The young German Emperor has shriv-
eled arm. but the right arm is endowed with
extraordinary strength and vigor, and this
youthful monarch is not averse to putting it
to a very noble use at times, to-wit, en-
circling a taper waist.
During a trip to Norway this summer,
says the San Francisco Argondut, he took
great pleasure in ranging about incognito,
and one day an officer OF the Imperial yacht
had the misfortune to come face to face
with the young Emperor, when the latter
had very pretty girl by his side. What
was to be done? 1t was too late to turn
back. To halt, face front and salute
would put the youthful Monarch in a
bad fix. Under these circumstances,
the officer turned his back and pretended to
be gazing into q shop window. Suddenly
he felt sharp pinch.on the arm and heard
voice whispering: "You did that very
nicely. Try to find as pretty girl as I
have. You have leave Of absence until to-
morrow morning."
The Emperor's special chum is Count
Eulenburg, and the two friends, attired in
the style of well-to-do citizens, take great
delight in knocking about the streets Of
Berlin, arm in arm, smoking cigarettes.
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A BALLOON AMONG PEASANTS.
1t Meets With Reception Quite Character
istic of Their Benighted Condition.

1t Meets With a Reception Quite Character
istic of Their Benighted Condition.
An account which recently appeared in
the NoUoe VremyG of balloon voyage from
st. Petersburg to a point not far beyond
Lake Ladoga, conveys striking picture of
the benighted condition Of the Russian
peasantry, even within few hundred miles
of the capital. The balloon in question,
containing Colonel Pomostzeff and Count
CoYanko, descended at place called Nous
toi, in the Government of Oletz, 800 versts
from st. Petersburg, and this is what fol-
lowed:
There was general panic. The peasants
thought that antichrist was descending from
the sky, and that the end of the world was
come; women screamed, children cried, and
all the inhabitants were well nigh out of
their wits from fear. Soon, from the wood
came the women who had been gathering
mushrooms, running as fast as their legs
could carry them. ga house." they cried.
''has come down from the sky with wonder
ful strangers in itP' The peasants there
upon all hid themselves in the village as
best they could, with the exception of few
bold fellows who took their hatchets and
cudgels and proceeded cautiously to the
forest. 1t was long before these latter, who
assisted to convey the apparatus to the viii
lage, could prevail upon their fellow
villagers to come out of their hiding places.
The eronauts spent the night in this viii
lage, and in the morning marched back, the
balloon being packed on a sledge because
there was not wheeled vehicle in the place.
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into them from morning until night that
if they learn housekeeping thoroughly, II
they can cook q steak in unsurpassaoie
style, II they can conduct the administra-
tion Of house they will become queen OF
some mans heart and home and be happy
forever after.
DOOMED TO DISAPPOINTMENT.
Now would it not be better to let children
grow up without fostering such illusions as
that? Why should they have the pain of
discovering that their most cherished dreams
have no foundation In fact? That while
they may be good as gold, pure and upright,
full of loving kindness and benevolence,
vet still the promised good does not ma
terialize. One man writes that the heaven
of a wife is to be found in her neyer-failing,
untiring devotion to him, but observation
shows they fall far short of it quite often.
The idea of some men as to a wife is that
she should be an unfailing, untiring attend
ant upon their wishes and wants, and there
need not be any other side to the matter.
This man wanted to have his slippers
warmed and brought to him as soon as he
came home. Whether he called upon her
to blacken his boots when he went down
town again does not appear.
THE WORLD Is IMPROVING.
To speak plainly, men have had too much
of this pampering by tired, selfsacriicing
wives. What needs impression at present,
especially among foreigners, is that heaven
for wife means something more
than "her never-failing, untiring devo-
tlon." When there is none of that on
the other side. she is tempted to think good
deal on what fool she was to get married
at all. What is needed to make life sweet
h0th 10 fl,a 1ouo hot 10 nd
kind, the respect that is mutually due, the
affection shown by loving acts, the friend
ship which inspires self sacrifice, but does
not demand it as if by coercive authority.
In many homes such condition of things
already exists. The world is growing better
upon this point, as men are gradually sur
mounting their prejudices as to home rule
and their position as dominus.
BESSIE BRAMBLE.
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HALSTEAD A PRISONER.
How He Came Near Suffering the Fate of q
Spy in Europe.

How He Came Near Suffering the Fate of q
Spy in Europe.
New York world.J
was in Europe during the Franco
Prussian war;" said Murat Halstead the
other day. "The first was near Point a
Mousson, which is on the Moselle, II miles
above Metz. Word came that the French
were to make sally with 100000 men and
attack the Red Prince. NJ. D. Conway and
had visited conical mountain, in the
neighborhood of which was encamped Ger
man regiment. We concluded that that
would be the place to see the approaching
battle. We started early in the morning.
Of course the French did not come, and
when we got to the top of the mountain we
found the German troops had gone, and
while we were considering what was to be
done were made prisoners by peasants.
''They were looking for just such fellows
They were excited; they were hunting for
spies. They knew we were not French;
they saw that we were not in uniform, and
they concluded that we were spies, and in
that character they proposed to massacre
us. They gave US q scrap of German news
paper to read. told them we were Ameri-
cans and produced copy of the London
Telegraph. That seemed to impress them
and 1 then drew my passport, and they
looked at the American eagle with good
deal OF consideration.
"There was big red seal on the parch-
ment, with ribbons under the wax, floating
out in the most impressively official way.
Minister Washburne had fixed that for me-
He told me these ribbons might save my
life, and I believe they did. The ribbons
and the eagle together staggered them, and,
forming a group, they discussed the situa-
tion while Mr.. Conway and myself deliber-
ately walked away. They allowed US to do
this, assuming as a certainty that we would
go down the mountain the same way as we
came up, but we turned sharply the other
way, descending the other side of the noun
tain.
''They concluded to intercept us, and
arming themselves with reaping- hooks,
made across the fields to cut off our retreat
That thev intended to remove us is certain,
but whether they could succeed was not de-
cided, when the clatter of troop of horses
was heard, and there rode upon the scene q
squad OF the ubiquitous Uhlans. They
turned into the road toward which we were
making. The peasants beat a retreat. The
Uhlans came up just in time to prevent us
from disgracing ourselves by running, and
preserved our dignity. We lit our cigars to
show that the situation hadn't excited us. /"
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THE MISSISSIPPI FLOODS.

A Gigantic Scheme Originating With Cap
tain Eads for Preventing Them.
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.1
James B. Eads once had a novel Missis-
sippi river scheme. He proposed to make
st. Louis a seaport, or, at any rate. to make
it possible for ocean steamers to come right
up the river. To do thisi it would, of course,
be necessary to deepen the channel, and
ordinary dredging would not suffice, owing
to the peculiar nature of the bottom and the
circuitous route taken by the river. He
proposed to shorten the distance between
here and New Orleans at least $50 miles by
cutting canals to avoid exceptionally awk-
ward curves and double bends. By this
shortening process the current would be
greatly accelerated, and that in itself would
help to keep the channel open and make
floods impossible.
He worked out on paper that levees could
be done away with by this scheme above the
mouth of the Red river, and was convinced
that disastrous floods would be no longer
possible. OF course, such work as would be
involved would cost large sum, but S4O,-
900, 900 would more than cover 1t, and an
immense amount of valuable bottom land
would be reclaimed. Eads is dead, but his
scheme lives after him, and there is nothing
to prevent its being carried out.
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with powder in the usual way, with the
usual wads, and on the top of these the
Shrapnell shell is forced down so that the
wad at the bottom Of the wire comes next to
the wads over the powder, and the brass
shell lies snug within the cartridge. When
the gun is fired the wad fits the barrel and
prevents any escape OF gas, and so leaves
the muzzle behind the shell. AS IL strikes
the cir the wind catches the edges of the
wad, which is slightly larger than the cir
cumference of the shell, and so draws the
wire slowly out, and sets free the two halves
of the shell, when the shot spreads as if lust
leaving the muzzle Of the gun. With this
equipment 1 have shot curlews at a distance
OF 147 yards with an ordinary 12-bore gun.
of which the average range may be said to
be 80 to 60 yards. BY cutting the wire with
pair OF sharp nippers (being careful not to
leave any rough overhanging edges to catch
in the small hange holes) the spread of the
shot can be made to take the place at almost
any distance, as the shorter the wire the
sooner it is withdrawn.
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NO HARDsHIPs FOR STANLEY.

He Has Had Enough Bad Travelling and
Now Proposes to be Comfortable.
Pail Mall Budget.l
Mr.. Stanley thinks he has undergone suf
fcIent hardship in his journey through
Central Africa, and does not mean to rough
it in future travel. In his engagement with
the agent who has arranged his forthcoming
lecture tour In the States he stipulated that
he shall have q private car, in which he
may not only travel, but feed and sleep
throughout his tour. Colonel Pond not
only agreed to this request, but writes that
he has had car specially constructed for
the use OF the lecturer aud his bride.
Stanley's remuneration for his lectures is
on The same princely style. For his first
lecture he will receive 81, 900 and 9100 lor
each repetition. This compares favorably
with his last lecturing tour, which took
place short time before he started to rescue
Emin. He then contracted to deliver o
series of lectures at fee of e25 each.
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home rule question, taking occasion to
praise en- passant the American system OF
government; and as she knew absolutely
nothing of what she was talking about 1t
was rather interesting to listen to her.
always like to hear what some people
are pleased to call their "views on big
questions, especially when you can see they
know nothing about the matter. AS
study of how thing should not be done 1t
is always interesting.
MISS BLATHERsKITE's LIMITATIONS.
Miss Blatherskite next proceeded to give
me few particulars of the men and women
in the room and history OF their works"
According to what she told me they were
all geniuses, or likely to become so. Many
of them were still in the 1ncubating process.
AS the name of genius after genius was rat
tied of, and books which was assured had
sold in thousands were discussed, began to
think that, perhaps, after all, had been
living q FOOLS dream of knowledge, and
that my education had been wofully neg
lected. When at last she stopped and l
managed to get in word edgewise, 1
thought would tackle her on some Of the
names that are household words among
"them literary tellers" on our side Of the
water.
"You have heard of Howells and James.
L suppose, SAID L.
"Oh yes, papa bought me lovely BRACE
let at their shop the other day."
was staggered until l remem bered that
Howell & James were well-known jewellers
on Regent street. 1 then explained that the
Bowels and James 1 meant we're the famous
novelists. Rather hesitatingly she thought
only thought-she knew their names, not
their works.
PApTn ORAL FXAMIN ALTON.
"Oliver Wendell Holmes7"
Oh yes, she had read his Democrat at
Breakfast" Bret Harte she knew and Rus
seli,Lowell, but when 1 came to "the forty
immortals" of the Critic she had never heard
of more than three.
Ever heard of Murat Halstead?"
"No."
Johnny McLean?"
"No."
Ward McAllister?"
"No."
.'5s Richard Watson ellder'"
"Amelie Rives?"
mo"
ELLA Wheeler wilco17"
"No."
Joseph Pulitzer?''
"No."
"Joe Howsrd7'
"Oh, you are teasing me, these people
don't exist"
"Oh, yes they do" said 1, "and their
names are known to probably $4,000, 900 of
people outside Bayswater."
"Do you know who is President of the
United States?"
"Of course do; it's General Grant, isn't
it?"
This is fact, and I thought it was then
time to say goodby. MACLEOD.
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PRESERVING THE VOICE.
Overwork is Its Enemy just as 1t is of Life
and Health.

OVerwork Is Its Enemy Just as 1t is OF Life
and Health.
How to preserve the voice and keep it
presumably fresh is almost like asking how
to keep from growing old, says Campinini
in the Ladies' Home Journal Some people
grow faster than others because they are i'm
prudent and do not take care of themselves.
The voice should not be imposed upon, and
instead of growing husky in decade it
should remain comparatively fresh for two
and even four decades. PATHS voice is a
fine example OF one that has never been i'm
posed upon, never been forced to sing six
nights in week and once at matinee.
A grand opera singer should sing only
twice week, perhaps three times if his or
her physical condition warrants it. Singers
should have plenty OF sleep, good appetites,
nothing to make them nervous. and, if pos
sible, more or less phlegmatic disposition.
The latter they rarely possess to any great
degree. Overwork is death to voice. A
singer will not notice at first the inroads
that gradually undermine voice and leave
it an echo of its former sweetness.
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OIL ON THE SEA.
How Uncle Sam Advises Its Use to Calm the |
Oceans Waves.

Oceans Waves.
New York Times.l
The photographic Office at Washington
has just issued the following remarks, show
ing the best way to use oil: 'To cross a bar
in heavy weather, after battening down all
matches, etc., take two pieces of india rub
ber pipe about 20 feet long and 1 inch in
diameter. Put these through the hawes
pipes, one on each side, and let their ends
trail in the sea. On the upper end of each
piece of tube lash a good-sized funnel, Sc
cure it to a stanchion in vertical position,
and station man at each with a three-gal-
lon tin of colza oil. When the vessel enters
the outermost sea that breaks on the bar, let
each man gently pour the oil down the
pipes. This will smooth the bar immensely
and your vessel will steer much better.
almost any oil of animal or vegetable
origin will do, but petroleum is not OF much
service, excepting to mix with and thin the
other, ii necessary. When lying to in
gale, head to wind and drifting slowly, if
little oil is used ship ought to pull
through the heaviest storm. Running in a
gale, an oil-bag hung over the weather side
or oil poured down pipe. we'll forward, is
OF great service in preventing the sea from
breaking aboard; gale increasing, to round
TO, prepare a sea anchor, watch for a smooth
spell, and then put the helm down, heave
overheard lew gallons of oil and float the
sea anchor. Keep pouring the oil on the
sea down a weather pipe or scupper while
the ship is coming up to the wind.
'In good steamer, to take shipwrecked
crew off a wreck, run to windward of the
wreck, lower the lee boat, put your vessel
head to the sea and dead to windward, and
let the boat drop down toward the wreck,
veering out on the line and constantly pour
ing considerable oil into the sea, which will
keep the sea smooth between your ship and
the wreck. In using oil bags in heavy
weather they should be weighted, if hung
over the side, in order to keep them down.
When scudding it is best to pour the oil
down the closet pipes"
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REGULATING THE RANGE.

Simple Devices for Increasing the Effective
ness of Shotguns.
Louisville Courier-Journal.l
One of the most recent discoveries of the
guumakers is a method of increasing the
range of any gun. The new device is known
as the Shrapnell shell, and consists of
brass ball, slightly smaller than the bore of
the gun, which is divided into halves, each
half being fitted with two small fanges.
each fange having a tiny hole in it, through
which steel wire can be passed. The she'll
is filled with any size OF shot desired, and
the wire being passed through the holes, the
halves are held together making solid ball.
At the bottom end of the shell thick felt
wad is fitted of the size to fit the bore
of the gun. The cartridge is loaded
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-09
CONVEYED REAL ESTATE.

How the Misguided Swain ExtoIIed the
Virtues of His loves Papa.
Boston Courier.l
Irate Father-What do you mean, sir, by
telling me that you want to marry this
ignorant and low-born girl?
Misguided Son-Father. know that her
people do not move in our set, but they are
honest; and she is very good and very beau
tiful.
!. F.-You make me perfectly sickl Do
you know what her father does TOR liv-
ing?
M. S.-Yes, sir, he Is real estate con-
Yeyancer.
I. F.-You young scoundrel, don't you
know he's done nothing all his life but cart
dirt on the roadl
M. S.-That's what said.
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A PIRATE FISH HAWK.
How He Knocked Fish Out of a Sea Gull and
Got q Meal.

How He Knocked Fish Out of Sea Gull and
Got Meal.
Governor Sterett, of Dallas, Tex, tells
this story in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat:
While On fishing and hunting expedition
on the Atlantic coast in North Carolina
few days since my attention was attracted by
the shrill and frantic cries of sea gull. As
looked upward 1 saw bird resembling q
hawk strike the gull under its claws, when
down came fish and the pirate bird after
it. The fish had not gone ten feet before the
pirate had it in his stomach.
Then he scared upward with lightning
rapidity, and descending equally as quick,
struck tine screaming gull on its back with
such force that the contents of its stomach
were forced out of its mouth, and the pirate
caught it in the air as it fell. At this point
took aim at the pirate with my shotgun,
and brought him down.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-09
GoOD-NATURED FIGHTERS

May as Well Quit the Prize Ring, Accord
ing to Knocker Slavin.
To be "good-natured" or "good-tempersd," /"
at least to possess either Of these qualities Ia
any considerable extent, Is bar to success
in the "priss ring" or rather, to be With
the times, we should say in glove con.
tests" Such, at least, is the opinion Of Mr..
Frauk Slavin, for in a conversation with .
correspondent recently he said that his re-
cent opponent, Mr.. McAulife, was both far
too "good-tempered'' and goOd-natured" ever
to win . fight against a really determined
man, anything like his own equal In skin -
gkmgsh
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-09

4 BdySWdteT F0el. tuey Tut uIs
tinct colonies, and the outsider before be
finds himself a welcome guest there must
make himself acquainted with all the shib-
boleth of the district.
1t is not only trades and foreigners that
have their particular colonies, but lately it
has become the fashion for all 'cults" and
''sms" to herd together in some recognized
quarter. Chelsea, when Carlyle was alive,
was the recognized home of the particular
literary set who followed the Sage" and
since he died it still remains the home of
the heavy literary brigade. South Kensing-
ton is the quarter most affected by the artis-
tic and aesthetic set, who, instead of seeing
sermons in books and poems in running
streams. see the same thing in peacock feath-
ers and old china,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-09

,oNDON. like
every e o t h eF
big city, has
Its quarters
where people
q d d c e d t o
certain trades
a n d h a bi t s
live, move and
have their be-
ing. In the
day time they
may prowl all
over the city,
but at night
they "kennel
up" in special
districts which
by long use
asd habit they
have come to
look upon as
e < cl u g iv ely
their own. In
these districts
Ill., f1rra dis.
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WASN'T GOING TO DIE.

Incident at the Bedside of Father Fransioh
the Aged Priest.
Brooklyn Citizen.1
Just previous to his death, Father Fran
sioli, the founder and first pastor of st.
Peters Church, Hicks and Warren streets,
was visited by bis favorite nephew, Ar
mold Fransioli. The aged clergyman was
rapidly sinking, and, after much
patient thought, it was decided
that his nephew should approach him on the
subject of his funeral. The nephew with
much timidity at length broke the question
and waited for reply. He did not have to
wait long.
Father Fransioli said "Should man who
eats well, drinks well and sleeps well, think
of arranging his funeral?"
He was dead day or two after.
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DILLON Is A DOCTOR.
A Fact About the Irish Enthusiast Not Gen.
orally Known.

New York Telegram.1
1t is not generally known that the Irish
member of Parliament, John Dillon, now
in America, is doctor by profession. Pre-
vious to the land agitation he was demon
strator of anatomy at the Ledwich School
of Medicine, in Dublin, and distin-
guished himself by making some discover
les which have proved of importance to
science. Mr.. Dillon has visited the United
States several times. Heis loved in Ireland
with peculiar love; it is akin to mother
for favorite child. He, on the other hand,
always speaks of the Irish as MY people"
Mr.. Dillon entered the present Irish move
ment because he took in the spirit of Irish
Natonalism with his blood, and because by
his nature he was bound to be an enthusiast
in some cause
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-09
He Rose Early.

Boston Herald
She Gas he rises to 60 at late hour)-I
suppose you'll sleep until noon, will you
not, Mr.. McJinkum?
He-Why no; I'm q very early riser.
She Cooking at the clock k)-Yss, see you
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Women's Muscle,

Detroit Free Press.l
Six women at CASTLE, N. Y, seized hold
of rope with six men at the other end, and
the women pulled SO strong that the fore
most man was pulled down and had his nose
broken. They weren't picked for their
muscle, but just happened along in tims to
tsks hand In.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-09
THE LITERARY CRANKs.

But it is Bayswater that is the ideal home
of every literary crank in London, where the
air is filed with the reirains of odes to a
"Dying Mouse" and the author of the latest
pamphlet on 1.-THE Way to Run Slop
Shop is the coming "K" for the time
beingl Literary society as it is in Bays
water is in reality a huge mutual admira-
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Two Inexpucable Things.

Atchison Globe.]
There are two things which men can
never understand. One is why they are not
appreciated. Another ID, why they are
sxpsstsA 70 appTsaists sa5sas stss.
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BLUE STOCKING CULT.
A Night Among the Library Geniuses
at Bayswater, London.
GREATNESS THAT OVERWHELMS.
The Queen of the Occasion Interviewed on
American Authors.
BOOK SALES THAT BEAT THE RECORD

CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DIsPATcB.1
LONDON, October 28.