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NATURES sTIMULANTs.

Emerson Compnrrs Tobacco to n Crowbar
TO Pry Into ,be Brain.
Emerson, remembering the habits OF con-
viviaIity to which some undergraduates
succumb, once asked:
did you ever think about the logic of
stimulus? Nature supplies her own. It is
astonishing what she will do if you will
give her chance. In how short = time will
she revive the overtired brainl A breath
under the apple tree, q siests on the grass, a
Whit of wind, an interval OF retirement,
and the balance and serenity are restored.
A clean creature needs so little aud re-
sponds so readily; there is something as
miraculous as the Gospels in it.
.'Later in life society becomes q stimulus.
Occasionally the gentle e1citation of q
cup OF tea is needed; mind invents Its own
tonics, by which, without permanent in
jury, it makes rapid rallies and enjoys good
moods.
''Conversation is an excitant, and the
series of intoxicants It excites is healthIul.
But tobacco-what rude crowbar is that
with which 70 pry into the delicate tissues
o. the brainp'
1t must not be inferred from this passage
that Emerson himself was total abstainer
from tobacco, though he smoked but rarely,
but never until he was so.
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THE LATEST AIR-sHIP.

A Boston Man Has Found New Force and
VIII Travel 500 Miles an Hour.
Boston Herald.1
There is man in Boston who says he can
carry passengers and freight to San Fran
cisco or London in six hours or less, and
that he can prove 1t. too, il he had few
hundred thousand dollars at bis disposal.
His vehicles of transportation would be air
ships-not gas filled balloons that ascend
because Of their buoyaucy and then become
the playthings of the wind-but big stately
flying vessels, constructed of steel and large
enough to accommodate as many people and
as much freight as one Of the ocean grey
hounds. They would rise or fall, go east or
west, remain stationary or travel through
the atmosphere at the rate of 800 miles or
more an hour, at the will of their COM
manders.
Charles G. Loeber is the man. His air
ship resembles more than anything else q
monster barrel laid on its side, with all its
slaves running to point at one end, and
with immense rounded spread or wings on
the sides. The wings, each Of which is to be
rs ieet long and q broad, are movably at
tached to the sides of the vessel and extend
inward, where they are adjusted to steam
wav as to control sustentation, ascent and
descent At the stern are the rudder and
the improved propeller. which is revolved
bv steam. There are three decks outlined.
all of which are closed in with large win
dows.
This great load, total of 1900, 900
pounds, Mr.. Loeber has the hardihood to
say can be fosted upon the air more easily
than like weight is carried upon the
-. =, L.. N Al
of anthesis (with the accent on the penult),
replies the inventor. And that is where
the mystery comes in. Anthesis is the name
that Mr.. Loeber has given to the new force
he has found. It is, he says. the develop
meut OF the natural resistance in the atmos-
phere, but just how he gets the harness on
it and subjects it to his will he will not tell
until he has thrown the protection of patent
Offices around him.
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USE OF PERFUMES.
Old Standards Being Abandoned and Paris
Bellies Making Their Own.

Old Standards Being Abandoned and Paris
Bellies Making Their Own.
Never make an exclusive use of perfume
which for a very long time has been aban-
doned, which has been used in former gen.
Grafton, for the perfume must be of modern
make as well as the dress, says Emma Bull
let in Paris letter 70 the Brooklyn Eagle.
A woman who wears a newly imported
dress, with all the improvements and styles
of the day, and scents of Ia marchale, which
was par excellence the perfume of the last
century, is taxed with an unpardonsble an
achronism, which proves a detect of taste
that mars the effect of It in all other things.
to take to per ume which had a Russian
name. They would ignore the manu- acturer
and buy Russian imperial, bouquet Of the
tsar, Russian cologne water, aud perfumers
to follow and obey the fashion merely
changed the names of their old brands.
But there are few Partisan women who
are the exceptions to the rule, aud whose
taste is subtle and refined. A few of them
make their own per. umes; they possess
secret of combinations which they for the
world would never reveal and they retire to
some lonely room, where they are sure not
to be disturbed while in the religious act of
choosing the oils and essences. Some 90 so
ar as to sprinkle their beds with certain
odoIs, which, they hold, make them sleep
and have pleasant dreams. 1t is a noted
act that the essence Of the very flowers
which would be pernicious in q bedroom
when fresh conduce to general well-being
and sleep when distilled.
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SHELLS AND HORNS.
They Possess Too Much Individuality 20 be
Useful In the House.


They Possess Too Much Individuality 70 be
Useful In the House.
"It isa pity" Evelina said, according to
writer in the Boston Courier, as she fn-
gered pretty yellow she'll which she had
taken up from the beach. "that shells are so
willful about being used in any way. They
will not fit into anything. If you set one,
Che result isn't brooch as 1t would be II you
used gem, but it is only shell with rim
round il.
THAT is true" the editor answered, skip
ping stone over the blue water; land such
disregard of the fundamental principle
that all things are designed to lend them
selves to the adornmeut Of your sex 10 an un-
dubitable proof of the most consummste hard
ness of heart"
Undoubtedly" she assented, being too
clever to crafty him by seeming to notice
his implied fing at her sex. "I wish you
would explain to me, however, in virtue OF
just what property It is that shells becnme
and remain so utterly unmanageable. Even
those strings OF Venetian shells are not
pretty, and when beads are put in they are
hideous"
THE case Is the same as It is with horns"
the editor replied sententiously.
with horns?" she repeated, doubtfully.
YES. Were you never fortunate enough
to see one oi those thrice-hideous monstros-
itles chairs made out Of horns?"
"Oh, those diabolical thingsi They are
like furniture out of nightmare.
Exactly; and for just the same reason
that shell brooch is uncomely. The shell
or the horn has so distinctly personality
and q function OF its own that it is useless 10
try to do anything else with it until all
trace of this is lost. You may cut the horn
or the shell up and make very pretty things
Of il, but as long as it il whole it remains
whole, and to combine it with anything else
is not in the least to make it q part of any
thing. No whole is the result, but only
forced collection of incongruities.
''The phrase sounds as If it meant nothing
whatever" Evilina responed smiling, "but
on the whole it seems probable that you are
right I will not send you chair Of horns
for birthday present as I had intended"
'Do, by all means" he replied. 81 will
only have your name engraved on it and
then send it to the auction room"
"Horrid wretchl" was EvIlina's retort
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AN ABsENT-MINDED ACTOR.
How Roland Reed He ped Put Out Fire
Only Half snaSed.

How Roland Reed He ped Put Out Fire
Only Half snaSed.
Boston Globe.1
Roland Reed, with all his seeming self
possession on the stage, is really exceedingly
absent-minded. But for the care of his
dresser he would go ON the stage in his stock
ing feet or without his wig,
One OF the most striking instances Of his
Observation-Disclosures was shown about month
ago in New York. He was being shaved in
the Union Square "hairsutian palace" and
the artist engaged in the heavy job of denud-
ing his wide expanse OF cheek of irrelevant
hair mad but half finished his task when the
rush OF fire engines through the square was
heard.
hatless, with one side of his face still COW
cred with lather, Roland ran out among
the crowd, and, with the BARRIERS napkin
still wrapped about his neck. he mingled
with the crowd, and acted as IL the sole
duty OF putting out the small blaze on Six
teenth street had been delegated to him by
the city OF New York.
The fire was more quickly put out than
Mr.. Reed can be, and it is a positive fact
that, with his face still encased in soap he
went to the Morton House bar and looked
for friend to take drink with him, before
he appreciated the grins and laughter Of all
who gazed into his placid countenance.
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STORIES OF ERICSSON.

He Liked to Poke the Fire So Well He
Bought Pokers by the Dozen.
Boston Globe.l
Ericsson never changed his style Of dress
from the clothing which he wore when he
landed in this country to the time of his
death. He wore wooden knitted under
clothing and very long stockings, which
were nearly hall an inch thick, both sum-
mer and winter, and when his friends went
through the house after his death his cloth
ing was found rolled up in small bundles,
each one labeled with its contents and
slowed away in a number of small lockers
he had in his room. He allowed no one to
interfere with his clothing, and was most
methodical ia taking care of il,
The case of fellow countryman of his
who was in distress came to his ears nearly
20 years SINCE and he instantly helped the
man out of his trouble. subsequently he
found out that the mans birthday fell on
the same date as his own. He made no
memorandum either of the mans name or
address, but every year he drew a check for
$100, which he sent on every anniversary of
his birthday to the poor stranger, and the
stubs OF these checks were found among his
papers.
He was careless in money matters, al
though good business man in many ways.
His secretary used to notify him when his
bank balance was getting low, when he
would dictate letter 10 the Government or
to Mr.. Delamater Tor a remittance on ac-
count OF royalties due him, although he
never troubled about their payment except
as he needed the money for current ex-
penses.
Ericsson had habit of poking the fire in
his big open-fre CRATE when he was thinking
out some abstruse problem. He wore out so
many fire irons that for many years before
his death he used to order pokers of wrought
iron about FIVE feet long, with which be
would pound the fire and crate till the pokers
wore away by being constantly kept in use
while at white heat He bought them by
the dozen at time, and when he was sick,
shortly before his death, his physicians or
dered him to take broth, cornstarch and
other light lood.
. He Immediately ordered two dozen wooden
spoons, and would sit over the stove stirring
his food himself until the spoon got what he
considered too old ior use, when he would
throw it away ard take new one.
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ployed in getting rid OF moles, warts, birth
marks aud all excrescences. The operator
told me that more people with superfuous
hair than wrinkles visited her, the first evil
being considered worse than any other sort
of Disagreement.
asked her what she thought Of the ladv
who complsined the other day that she had
been made to pay AZ guiness to have her
mustache taken out. She said that as the
remedy had proved unsuccessful it was pre-
pnsterous to make such charge. Under
any circumstances AZ guiness would be q
fabulous price for the removal of a mus
tache. A fourth of that sum would nave
been nearer the mark The electrician said
that very heavy prices were sometimes paid
TO doctors for the same operation. She told
me that she always compelled patient to
be frank with her be fore she commenced an
operation. They frequently had to admit
that they were obliged to shave in order to
make themselves at all presentable.
MISS MANTALINI.
In Pail Mall Budget
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deprived Of 80 many health-giving habits
and pleasures. One observes that the faces
of the majority are pinched; that the eyes
are sunken aud dull and their bodies so
lank that apparently q breath Of wind
vouldsblow them out oi existence.
Besides that portion Of the bath house de-
boarded of place for babies and children
too small to be trusted In deep water. Here
care-worn, poverty-fretted mothers bring
their wan, parched infants and cool them in
the strengthening salt water; and here, too,
half-grown girls play mother to younger
sisters, aud patiently teach them not to be
afraid Of the water.
COMMENDABLE MANAGEMENT.
Everything seems we'll managed for the
safety, If not for the com ort, OF bathers.
Accidents rarely happen, since the attend
ants keep close at han 4 to render service
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THE MEMORY HOOP.
Wonderful Plan of the Young Ladies' q
Krep Track Of Their Erieudu.

Wonderful Plan of the Young Ladies' TO
Krep Track of Their Friends.
Daughters Of America.I
The memory hoop" is the newest craze
among society young ladies. Any hoop
will do, for it is covered up by pieces OF rib
bon, presented BY girl friends. upon which
must be painted or embroidered the name of
the giver. and the date when given. The
ribbon must have been worn, else it pos
sesses no charm.
From gentleman friends a copper cent is
obtained, highly polished and engraved
with the initials OF the donor. These are
suspended by ribbons from the hoop, which,
in turn, is suspended in the owners room.
Il piece OF ribbon fades, or one of the
coppers turns dark, it is sign that the
giver is i'll, in trouble. or false, and the
owner Immediately sets to work to find out
which. OF course, IL is an iniallibls test.
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her TEMPER THEN AND NOW.
Husband Who Finds His Wife 10 Like
Gunpowder Gets an Explanation.

Husband Who Finds His Wife 10 Like
Guupowder Gets an Explanation.
A story that is really too good to keep is
being told about the wi of a young and
popular Eastern district professional man,
says tie Brooklyn Citizen. The lady in
question is quite pretty and is perfect
jewel in her way with one exception, aud
that is she has temper OF her own, which,
try as she might, she is unable to control.
To arouse her is like applying q match to
gunpowder.
The young husband is the very soul Of
devotion, and it must be said that the lady
is making strenuous efforts to cure herselfof
this one serious obstacle to entire domestic
happiness.
As the story goes, it seems few days ago
the husband, during one of his vife's lucid
intervals, spoke OF her unhappy weakness
and asked her how it was that during their
rourtship days she had been able to restrain
herself He explained that be was anxious
to know by what manner she kept this one
great fault hidden. :
For time the dear little woman was taken
completely by surprise, but finally, burst
ing into tears, sobbed eonvulsively: IL
used to excuse m-m-myself from you for
ew minutes and g-g-go up stairs and b.
b-bite holes in the b-b-bed quilts"
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brunette. It measures about ~ inches
from the tip Of one wing to that Of the
other, and these delicate wings are made OF
many little diamonds spotted with blue
snpphires, red rhbies and green emeralds. so
that they look like real wings pulled from
the angelic plunage of some heavenly In.
sect. The head is great ruby, and the
long tail and body which extends between
the wings and for two inches downward, Is
Of tho finest emeralds. The background Of
the butterfly is, OF course, Of gold, but these
precious stones hide it,and is it SO we'll made
that as it sparkles and changes under the
rays Of the chandeliers it look like thing
of life,
COTTAGES LIKE PALACES.
It is growing quite the fashion for the mil
lionaire to come here and rent or buy cot
tage. Everything in the way Of a private
residence goes BY the name Of cottage, apd
Judge Hilton's cottage is as big as hotel,
and the grounds surrounding it include if
teen hundred acres and there are 80 miles OF
walks and drives in them. Many of these
rich men seldom appear at the no els, and
the only prominent Wall street broker of
prominence in hotel is Henry Clews who
is at United States.
bald head remembered the remark which
the late millionaire Travers suffered out to
to him when Clews was once boasting that
he was a selfmade man. 'I-I-I-I sup
pose you t-t-t-tell the truth, Cl-Clews,"
said Travers, "b-b-ba-but or the life Of
me I-I-1-I can't see why, when you
were making your-yourself. you didn't put
more ha-ha-hair on your head r.
STORY BY TOM ocHILrREE.
Tom Ochiltree is here with his crutch.
He has the skin of baby, and his hand.
some lace is as fresh and clear as that of a
Scotch girl from the Highlands. He is
very gallant, and 1 asked him to-day how
he liked the things SAID about him in the
papers, He said: ga New York drum
mer once stopped at one OF our crosswoods
taverns in Texas for dinner. The coffee was
SO thin you could read paper through 1t,
and the landlady as she set down the cup
said I'm afraid, mister, you will find this
rather weak 1t is all right, said the
drummer as his eye counted the grounds in
the bottom of the cup, through the amber
liquid. Its all right and don't bolherl If
your coffee is weak, your butter Is awfully
strong, and the general average will do
very WE'LL So concluded Mr.. Ochiltree as
to my newspn per notoriety, get variety
Of evils and the general average does very
well" MISS GRUNDY, JR.
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Seen on Mems Day. the same level within
the bath houses. Each bath is provided
with two attendants, a watchman and a
policeman. Female attendants are in charge
on three days Of the week - Monday,
Wednesday and Friday-which are set apart
for women and children.
These little houses are gaily painted and
are kept purified by daily flushing with
water; but they are not provided with
towels nor bathing suits, neither are attend
ants permitted to take charge of wearing
apparel lett within the dressing rooms, as it
is their duty to watch bathers and be ready
in case OF an emergency. 1t seemed to me
the plan ell short without the pro-
vision of towels and that there should have
been attendants to take charge of clothes
since there would be no costly jewels or
gowns for which to become responsible,
many wearing no more clothing from the
bath than they wore In the water.
A CONTRAST IN SUITS.
Any person having visited one or more of
our fashionable watering places the present
season would be struck with the contrast
between the bathing suits worn at such
resorts and those worn at these public baths.
There were no dainty blue and white serges
or fancy ed and black or other bright COM
binations, cut in shape to expose snowy
throats or shapely arms; but instead we're
faded, cast-of garments OF every material
and shape, that had seen hard service in
keeping out cold in winter and were ex-
pected to keep out heat in summer, and
which had every indication Of needing the
cleansing effect of the bath quite as much as
did the bathers, the majority OF whom
looked as if they and water had been
strangers since this time last year.
ut was my privilege to witness this novel
bathing exhibition on "womeu's day." be-
tween the hours of 4 and OF an ternoon,
when the rush was on. 1 was told there
were more than three hundred in the water
at the time. and that was only one place out
of the dozen where bathing was going on.
assure you it was a gladsome sight. and
the spectator readil realizes the great boon
this charity is to the poor OF that city, both
in regard to health and sport.
THEY CAN SWIM.
A half dozen days in the water makes
swimmer, it is said, and it was surprising to
note how many women and children there
were who had evidently served the required
number of days, for they dived, swan and
hoated like veritable water sprites. But it
must be said the resemblance began and
ended with the swimming feat, tor in the
rags and tatters which served TOR bathing
suits, and in the tangled, unkempt hair and
bare, brown limbs and feet, there was moth
ing to compare with either the legendary
water nymphs, nor vet to the fashionable
mermaids of our seaside resorts. There was,
however, in lieu of conventional apparel,
an enviable freedom that would be priced
by sensitive women ate the shore far above
the most atiractine bathing costumes.
No dread oil the snapshot camera at the
battery: nor of the sensational, unscrupulous
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HOW TO EAT PEACHES.

THE Art In Aftra citing n Grent Deal of Atten.
tioa In England.
1.-THE art Of eating peach" is, it appears,
one of the questions of the day, says the Pail
Mall Budget. According to one authority
on the etiquette of the dinner table, peach
should be pricked with the fork. quartered,
pealed. and eaten piecemeal. But. as SO
much manipulation would evidently leave
all the juice OF the fruit on the plate, this
method, to be palatable requires the courage
of the young lady in the story who, at her
6rst appearance at q dinner party, raised
her dessert plate with her two hands, and
calmly drank the sweet juice OF the nectar
ines. The French rule or eating peaches
will, there ore, be accepted with more favor,
and that rule is ''d'y mordre pleines
dents"
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Z ont OF her dress is OF white satin, del icstely
embroidered in gold and other soft co o-s.
Her n ard bodice are y. buttercup VEL
low ID Whit brocade. The Princess has
very pretty bouquet OF wild flowers. Bunches
these trim one side of her train. The
Duchess o Fife, looking rather miserable,
stands near her mother. She has quite a
siRRl dress, in mauve and white.
Some of the ladies have quantities Of valu-
able Ice about their dresses. The Duchess
of Edinburgh, for example, whose massive
figure is clad in ruby velvet and pink bro
cade, has river of lace down one side of
her train. The dresses have been chosen to
help each other. Though there are not two
dresses o. the same color. the contrasts never
clash. None of the royal women have small
waists; the Princess of Wales is the
slimmest The Empress of Austria is the
tsllest woman in the group. She is attired
IN cardinal and white. The only ugly dress
in the show is that worn by the Empre of
Russia. 1t is OF chartreuse-green brocade,
and the front is embroidered in metal
shades
The Duchess of Connaught's dress is too
old for her. 1t would have suited dowager
better. The dress is in slate color and old
rose, trimmed with lace and flowers. These
ladies want tremendous lot oil attention, SO
one OF the women attendants told me. They
are not washed oitener than once month
it's true, but their trains are taken of and
adjusted afresh every morning.
Two articles are being largely sold now
that represent the mild and failing type of
woman and the new an boisterous set. That
is, there Is great demand for needlework
and shooting dresses. The old style o.
woman burdens herself with a big bundle of
fancy needlework. 1t will probably never
be finished, or it iv g"per liv n'Are nr--
tence to fiji those idle hands that Satan is
said to be seeking. Dut tneie is 40 t,reIence
about the occupation of the modern
woman. She orders a very practical
costume, and travels with gun
or a fshing-rod just like any man.
When she arrives at the moors or settles
down at the salmon river she sets 10 work in
earnest. ! saw two or three very nice shoot
ing costumes at Thomas in Brook street.
Fabrics that harmonize with the shade of
the heather and don't scare the birds are, OF
course, much sought after. The prettiest
model at Thomas was made OF check home
spun. The plain skirt was just long enou
to cover the tops the boots, and was worn
over sPats OF the same material. The coat
bodice was tabled out round the edge and
was left open in mont to show a waistcoat.
The newest most "xnenSive waistcaat Is