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REGRET.

From morning till the eventids the street of toll
tread;
The rugged. steep and jostling street on which 1
my bread,
And when the darkness OF night draws near. my feet
Iset
Adown the street of Sorrow, till reach my home,
Regret.
No wifely greeting cheers as slowly turn the
key,
No footstep light the silence stirs. childish shape
Isee;
Yet the rooms extend welcome, with voiceess.
ghostly grace
The portraits hold my gaze in theirs (a pictures Of
oneface)
Out in the dusk of Sorrow street the breezes moan
and sigh;
The expresses about the house out the stars and
twilight gloom broods over all-is in my heart
and yet
Far more than pleasures brighter scenes love my
home, Regret.
Here are gay and garish tints aggressive to the
eye;
The are clothed in memories Of days long
since gone by,
Amid them all rest my soul; Time backward flies
so fast
am not living in to-day. but far back in the past
Then Sorrows breezes fit within or my CHS strike
the strings
VI ShadoWy AOl1an harp: II wakes and softly SIN IS
The music once her fingers made; listen touched
to tears;
Oh, chords! yeve held your sweetness well through
all these tuneless years.
In Pleasures perfumed halls of light I've sought
the bubble Joy,
Where beauty, waltz and music are it CLEANS with
out alloy:
Its rainbow luster thrills my sight like sunt ocean
foam,
view it with an aliens eye, Regret is aye my home.
One gloomy night wandered forth. impatient OF
Regret
And found Peace, Plenty and Content, their vacant
homes to let;
1 took Content, Bright. gentle home, I'll hence
forth bIde with thee.H
locked Regret, "Adieu." cried. and threw away
the key.
Fair was the place, and all unworn were threshold,
hall and stair.
Content smiled over ALL and yet my heart felt but
despair;
Tho morning saw me cropping in the tangled grass
and wet,
Until 1 found the precious key that gave me back
Regret
The door swung wide, I rushed within, was ever
fairer place.
The portraits sweetly smiled me (aI pictures of
one face);
oh. Iove lost through neglect of mine, never can
The sun of Gods forgiveness shines alone on my
regret. BEEBE CROKER.
TYn
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humorous suggestions. On either side of
the middle of the table stood wondrous
bird, half owl, half spoonbill, feathered
sage of profound experience. but, like Major
Bagstock, ''sly sir, devilish sly" He held
his head on one side for the better criticism
of inferior creatures. and closed one eye af-
ter the approved habit of cOnnoisseurs-a
Sam Slick and Solomon rolled into one. He
blinked as he carried candles.
A bulge" in cream jug suggested a
cheek, and few deft touches of the practl-
cal joker had been sufficient to indicate hu-
manly without destroying its Jug like char
acter; it was not a mans head with srout,
but jug with toothacbe. A salad dish
had crumpled because thrown" too thin !;
the crumplings had been repeated at inter-
walls and decorations carried out, producing
form unknown to water, earth or air, but
weirdly vegetable. A crushed vase had
fallen on its side and become gaping
booby-a cross between q tadpole and a
dolphin--to whose vast but empty head was
assigned the duty of holding celery. Other
boobies, amphibious and antediluvian, had
open mouths filed with flowers.
Groups of creatures covered the table like
many things, and yet like nothing on this
earht, but nevertheless admirably good
company for one another. There was some
thing so whimsically human in these fam
cics, so impossible and absurd and yet so
funny that we who sat there began pelting
one another with the good old nursery
rhymes, 1t was not dignified anus sment,
but out of such things grow hostesses' repu-
taLions.
AT state dinners there is used this winter
a considerable amount of Vienna ware
ablaze with bright scarlet and GOLD and blue
and decorated in most elaborate designs
People take to it, in spite OF a gorgeousness
that suggests the theatrical advance agent,
because it fits in well with the Russian
glass in circular stands of gold. l used
TO hear talk in London last summer of
an evening with Nine. Blavatsky,
where the supper-room was draped
with Turkish hangings and this Turkish
china glittered and glowed on the table and
the seerrss herself cleaned like gold noun
tain in Turkish robe. Even the insides of
the cups were heavily gilded and one felt as
If pouring down molten hold.
People who are buying china are getting
over the delusion that they can buy Sevres.
1t was on broiling day last September that
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into lovely bowers and gardens, and a thick
hedge of ivy covers the steep declivities.
On the plateau, washed by the Alzette, the
Romans have built castle during the third
century, and in 963 Count Siegfried of AR,
dennen laid the foundation of the city and
surrounded it with the walls in which origi-
mated its future strength and development.
The London Congress has also DESTROYED
guaranteeing the neutrality of Luxembourg.
The garrison. which comprised in 1875 an
army of IL, 490 men, has shrunk to CON-
pany of 700 volunteers with dozen or so
stiff-collared martinets in the place of the
gallant officers of the past. All that l could
see of anything approaching cavalry regi-
ment was line of old worn-out saddles
strung along the inside walls of the former
cavalry barracks
The princiI al buildings of the city are
grouped around the Place Guillaume. In the
center of the square stands the bronze statue
of King William III, the work of Mercier's
master-hand. The royal castle, which was
erected by the Spanish Governor, Count Won
Mansfield, in 1854, after the great powder
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weather transported on high alright pom
toon cases until Ii is placed on line par
ailel with the stone piers. Then water Is al
i9We9 TO NIL the pontoon cases, and as they
SLOW slowly sink, the superstructure touches the
nat surface OF the piers OF course, the
the greatest ships to pass underneath with
out difficulty. There will be no danger for
ships, because buoys will be placed at regu-
lar intervals, as in the Suez Canal. There
VIII be two work shops, one on
each side of the channel, and, In
years, each shop must be responsible
dor 100000 cubic yards of masonry and 40
OUo tons of iron work-that is, for each
year, 100000 cubic yards of masonry and
4V90 tons of iron work.
Iii Tor the masonry the Marquise quarries
VIII Iurnlsh the stone necessary and the
cement Will come from Boulogne. The
granlte TO crown the piers is the product Of
The Flamanville quarries.
without speaking OF the immense increase
Oh trafhc, all travellers would prefer a rail-
annually cross the channel, ana when the
bridge exists the number will be at least
doubled.
England exports s., 600 900 tons of material
for 81 400, 100000, and imports 49, 900, 900 tons
Tor S3,270,0O0,000 England is a country
completely closed for the entrance and exit
of merchandising is, there is always the
wharfage to be paid. Everywhere on tha
Continent there are public docks, but i'm
Great Britain all merchandise is loaded or
unioaded on private docks. thus making the
duties very heavy. Consequently. at least
100000 tons of merchandise will be- trans
ported on the bridge, and this will give an
annual income of S23,000.000. Add this to tina
railway fares for travellers and Immediately
the bridge earns nearly $50, 900, 900 per an
mum. AS the expenses are estimated at
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from cyathus, empty dregs into a small
crater and use for cups and saucers old
Greek forms. Even that most unclassical
article, the teapot takes classic shapes in
Wedgewood, this pottery cliDging closest to
the old art in its severe beauty of form.
At one of Mrs. Thomas A. EdisOn'S break
fasts it was pretty to see the inventors wee
daughter trying to pick the forget-me-nots
and roses from the Dresden (MeisSen) china
of which Mrs. Edison has very beautiful
supply. One felt the quaint realism and
homelike character of the ware. 1t is com
Portable" like the German girl with her
flaXen hair. but many people eschew it be-
cause of its too close rivalry with nature in
the modelling of flowers petal by petal. Yet
it is held at sitter and SITTER prices dozen
dinner plates costing S275. These should
bear crossed swords for mark in cobalt
blue. Imitation wares marked very SINH
larly can be bad for SIS.
Havilaud china has been used at two or
three of the largest dinner parties of the
winter, and indeed all French wares, rar-
ticularly the different makes of decorated
Limoges are much IN vogue. Fashion fuc-
tuates in china with increasing frequency.
Mrs. Ogden GOeet's table is set with Carls-
bad ware, on eeremonions occasions, IL. soft
red and salmon tones. The decoration is ro-
coco, traced with gold. One sees Carlsbad
rooms with rocco furnishings. Miss Ellen
Terry's, l remember, has a soft yellowish
tinge with designs in gold and rich dark
blue. The Carlsbad mark is very simple.
A china that is growing in favor comes
from Pirkenhammer, a dirty little hole in
Bohemia, where they turn out wares deli
cate in texture as rose leaves, yet suffi-
GENTLY Oriental in design to snit famously
with present fashions. Some of the best in
New York belongs to Mrs. Henry Clews.
The new shapes in chinas are holder than
of old, and the French wares run to leaf
patterns and vegetable dishes with bent and
folded margins. The Royal Worcester, with
its pure outlines, and the brilliant Crown
Derby, spend themselves in vases and brio
a-brac, since for the moment the English
chnas comes less to the table.
At the annual dinner of Sorosis the
souvenirs were vases; the love of china is
rooted too deep in woman's breast to be dis
lodged even by club membership.
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NOTES FROM THE FAIR.
The ATt DeDatmeRt-What The Water Palace
VIII Be.

CHICAGO, Jan. %, 1891.-There is a move
in Pennsylvania 10 reproduce fac smile of
old independence Hall. Philadelphia is ex-
pected to contribute many revolutionary
relics.
The japanese Minister has informed the
lady managers that three ladies of rank in
Toxic are ready to Cooperate with them in
furthering the interests of the exposition in
Japan. The United States Minister has off,
cially announced that the Chinese Govern
ment has decided to take an active part in
the exposition.
In all twenty-four of the States are pre-
pairing TO MAKE appropriations ranging from
$4,000 to 100000. At present it is not
easy to comprehend the amount of money
that will be expended in Chicago In prepar-
ing Tor 1893.
In every State great interest is being
taken in the appropriations, and all are
anxious to know what each State appropri-
ated for the Centennial 1t will answer
many questions to give here the amounts
which have been secured from the official
records
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Everything appeals to the passions and to
the senses. Nothing that art can conceive
or lavish wealth bestow has been omitted
The sensuous and the religious stand side by
side in glazing contrast. On the other hand
the dread monuments of oppression and ill.,
justice rear their grim and gloomy struc-
lures. Old castles, once the stony holds of
robber barOnS, dungeons. in whose secret
chambers foul murder and all kinds of op-
preston made the powerful more powerful,
terroriziDg the land, with all these and
more has the hand of man dotted the beauti-
full landscape. History records strange con-
trasts of beauty and magnficence striking
hands with oppression, suffering and death.
Once upon time Paris was fianked by
two great woods, the Bots de Boulogne and
the Bots de Vncennes. The first was the
favorite resort of the upper classes for rid
ing and driving. The latter was at one
time superior to the former in every respect.
Now, in the march of alleged progress both
have been transformed into English parks,
and the arstocracy, the demi-monde and
the quart de-monde are seen there, pell-
nell, The Bots de VincenneS is overlooked
by the donion or keep of the CASTLE of which
we give view. The Chateau de Vincennes,
founded in the twelfth century, was after
ward transformed into royal residence,
and was later enlarged into state prison,
more dreadful even than the BaStile. Out
OF a long list of illustrious personages who
have been confined within its walls may be
mentioned the King of Navarro $50, Conde
Q617, the Due de Beaufort Q6fS}. Mirabeau
Q77D, the Due d'Enghien $500, and the
Ministers of Charles Y $3.50. A melan-
choly interest attaches to the fortress
from its having been the scene
of the execution of the unfortunate Due
d'Enghien. AT the bottom OF the fosse can
still be seen the place where the last Condo
was murdered in the night after a mock
trial. Under Louis Philippe the chateau was
strongly fortified, and furnished with ex-
tensive artillery depots. 1t was one of the
last places occupied by the insurgents in
1871, but they were compelled to evacuate it
on the approach of the Versailles troops,
leaving one Of their number concealed in a
easement, with instructions to set fire to the
powder magazine when the troops had en-
tered. The unfortunate wretch, whom al
most certain death awaited in any case, pre-
ferred suicide to the execution of his MUIR
derous commission.
The platform OF the donjop, massive
square, with four small towers at the cor
ners, commands fine prospect. The walls
of the tower are seventeen feet thick, and its
five lofty stories, each consisting of one
spacious apartment, with four smaller rooms
IN the corner towers, were formerly occupied
by the state prisoners. 1t was from the
platform that the Due de Beaufort, the
famous frondeur and king of the markets,
accomplished his wonderful escape. so won
derfully dTamatiZed by Alexander Dumas,
the elder, in his "Trois Mousquetaires."
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Combes and Ellie de Beaumont, after careful
study. decided that the bottom of the sea,
because of its geological constitution would
be solid base for the foundation
Of a bridge. NJ. Verard de Sainte-
Anne also had a project for a
bridge, and this he registered in Lon
don under the name OF the international
Railway Company: NJ. de Sainte- Anne ne died
after seeing his scheme rejected by the
French Government, and for some years
nothing was heard of the channel bridge.
But in December, 1884, new company
was formed. The new Board of Directors
aimed only to make the bridge popular
to present TO the British and French Cham
bers project that could overcome all obiec-
tons. NJ. Hersent, great French engineer,
made plans that were presented to tile diff
ferent departments and communes in France.
and the enterprise was everywhere looked
upon with favor.
Later, N. Hersent was aided by Sir j.
Fowler and Sir Benjamin Baker, the
engineers who constructed the Bridge of
Forth, and now the names of French and
British engineers are side by side.
The study of the metallic superstructure
has been contided to Messrs. Schneider 81
Co., prOprietors of the CreusOt mines.
The route taken by the bridge will be the
shalloweSt, not the shortest. a slight bend
Will occur at two points, where reefs afford
opportunities for abutnents; these reefs are
indicated on naval maps as Cobart and
Varne. The deepest water is on the French
side of the channel and the variation in
depth is from 40 to 160 feet. The piers will
they are to be built of hard
concrete and masonry and will support
high towers, on which will rest the iron
superstructure. Between each two piers
will be a distance of about a quarter of a
mile, and supported between the two piers
will be superStructure weighing %, 600 tons.
The bridge will be about 100 feet in width,
There will be a road for foot passengers.
carriages and four railway lines. At GER
| tain distances will be established guard
| houses, and each pier will be lighted by
electricity. An entire span of iron work i;
manufactured on shore. and in pleasant
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But 10! No vict'ry could he gain;
Unframed did still the tree remain.
Again. and yet again he strove;
His efforts all no better throve.
And now his strength began to fail;
Far down the east the sky grew pale.
Anon flag OF rosy light
Showed day had claimed the throne OF night,
And one bold bird burst forth in song.
The joyous strains rose clear and strong.
Then other Ministries silence broke,
TIL cen the slumbring echo woke.
In vain did now the storm-king frown;
The waves of melody did drown
His voice. Across the azure sky
The sun gods steeds drew swiftly nigh.
The baffled tyrant turned away;
NO new attack dared he essay.
Still tall and fair uptower'd the tree
In stately, klngly majesty,
And the pean OF the birds did rise
Triumphant to the peaceful skies.
San francisco, jan, 1891 SELMA SCHMIDT
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explosion, is a structure we'll worth seeing.
So is the handsome palace in the Geological
Garden at Clausen. The royal castle is a
fine specimen of the earliest Flemish renais-
sance, so graceful and delicate in contour
But the gem par excellence of the city is
the great portal of the Church of Notre
Dame in the Maria Theresa street. The in
terror offers nothing remarkable, but the
outer portals, with their projecting side
whole crowned by the niche with the statue
of the Madonna, are one of the best and
finest creation of Belgian art. The ornamen-
tation of the pedestals of the columns is an
imitation of the metal technique, but the
rich side pieces with their angel heads and
strings OF fruit breathe forth the spirit of the
style of the baroque.
Past the Church of Notre Dame leads the
way to the Avenue Monterey and the large
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FROM CALAIS TO DOVER.

$40. 100000, at the most, including interest
on the capital during construction, it is easy
to estimate the immense profits arising from
the scheme.
The French and British Governments ara
not opposed to the scheme. The English
people now realize that there can be no OBJ
lection to the bridge, while opposition to
proposed tunnel was quite natural. A rail
way Is so easy TO watch to destroy in case
OF war that it is not necessary for England
to deprive herself in time of peace
The Duke of Cambridge, Lord Wolseley
and others thought that supplementary
garrison of 5000 men would be necessary at
Dover, besides Notifications costing E.. co.,
GOO, had the tunnel been constructed. 1t is
impossible for the enemy's army to take
possession Of bridge, as few men can
render it useless
In fact, Lord Wolseley has written letter
in which he says: My opinion is that
there is much less objection to bridge
over than TO tunnel underneath the chan.
mel"
The British Committee Is composed of
Hon. Philip Stanhope, M. p; General Sir
Andrew Clarke, K. c. B., aud Admiral Sir
George Willes. K. c. B. This is the Board
of Directors. There is n French Admiral
and an English Admiral, consequently ma
val officers do not think that bridge will
in any way embarrass navigation.
The difficulty has been to gain the consent
of England. 1t will be remembered that the
tunnel concession was opposed with great
vigor when the bill was presented to Parlia-
ment. But have already given the objec-
tons to the tunnel, and the English people
are now willing to see The advantages of a
bridge. At each end of the viaduct there
will be q swivel bridge, and this can be
swung open at any time in order to interrupt
communication. OF course there would be
no more danger for England in bridging the
channel than there is for Canada by the
bridge over Niagara.
Admiral CLIQUE said to me just before his
| death:
| 'As the Golden treaty ended all contest
! between France and England, 50 a great
! road over the sea would preserve peace and
give trade an impetus of Which we have
never dreamed"
BARONESS ALTHEA SALVADOR.
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YOU LOVED ME ONCE.

You loved me once memory is now recalling
The pleasures OF the past those happy years,
So full of joys Respondent, ever falling
Into path which knew not sorrows tears.
For me now life has lost its sweetest blessing,
heart which once was filed with joyous mirth.
Too late know that true loves worth possessing,
Too late see I've missed heaven on earth.
You loved me once, my thoughts are backward
turning,
They linger DER the scenes OF long ago,
And thrOb on thrOb my anxious heart is yearnlng,
To hear you say once more, Il love you So"
All. tell me not that bliss is always ieeting.
That brightest hopes lead on to vain regret,
That time waits not for love, hasty greeting
Is all he gives while murmurng, Forget"
You loved me ouce. your form still haunts my
dreaming
You're stepping lightly to n plaintive strain.
You speak OF other days, your eyes are beaming
With love know Will never come again.
Jan. %, 1891. FAUsTINA
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Pretty, Romantic Luxembourg and the
Military Glory That Was Hers.
ONCE THE BEST FORTIFIED PLACE.
PAe Walls and RamDart That Are Doomed to
DGGaY-ThG Sights and Scenes Of a Very
Provincial City The Promenade "A
Rocky Peninsula On Which The Fort Was
BIilt-Ths High Walls Of This Structure

d. d. !. i. ]. !. ].
n.sN@S-eHO OF ask me what of Lux
| (SyZSl esSS~H emburg? Pretty, roman
1NGENSSS2)R tic Luxembourg, one of the
IN ,RSNS4ANNISE oldest grand-duches ex-
lkYolAlEs&E tant has separated from
&RS lMlESEa Holland and Joined her
llN\Sl soaslSZII future fortunes with those
- izs5zzzzS of the Duchy of Nassau,
according to the treaty of London in 1861,
and with the pretty little land. which COM
prises an area of nearly 1909 miles, goes, of
course its capital and old-time fortress, also
named Luxembourg.
Having seen this fort am satisfied that
it was once upon a time the best fortified
place in the world, writes a correspondent
to the st. Louis Post-Dispatch. The venera-
Bile Able de Feler, an inveterate toutist,
who has Travelled all over Europe called it
the Flemish Gibraltar, and his opinion con-
firms that expressed by Merlin de Douais
sixty years earlier iu the Paris National
Convention. But one stroke of the pen has
Overthrown the proud prerogatives which
the revolutionary hot-head of 1875 and tie
cautious author of the "Itineraire' con-
ceded to the fortress of Luxembourg. The
treaty of London, May II, 1867. decreed by
It's fifth article that the Grand Duke of
LuXemburg must forthwith demolish the
Notifications. evacuated by Prussia, and
turn the old tort into an open city Since
that time the walls and rampartS of LuXem-
burg have been doomed TO decay and ruin.
Immediately beyond the city, pictur-
esquey looming up between the trees of the
Jardm Public, which forms the connecting
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ENGLAND And
FRANCE JOINED
Some Calculations Which Are Of Magni
dCGnt Dimensions.
The Passage Across the British Channel to Be
Superseded by Bridge to Be Finished
in the Near Future.

PARIS, Jan. 10. 1s91.-The dream of per-
manent connection between the English
railways and those on the Continent is to be
realized; in other words. solid viaduct will
be built across the channel from Calais to
Dover, distance of twenty-four miles.
This is not the first scheme Of the kind.
for many, many have been the proposals to
bridge the British Channel. AS early as 1902
Matthew, mining engineer, planned a
bridge; thirty years after. DR.. Payerne Of
fered to connect France and England by
means of long tube, submerged and Sc
cured by masses of sunken rock. Between
1881 and 1886. Franchot proposed a cast-iron
tube. and afterward Fabre wished tunnel
1t was Thome de Gamond who originated
the plan for bridge, and in 1S49 Messrs.