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Arizona silver belt., 1892-04-16
ALLsroN.s ADVICE.
Correct Drawing Is Essential So Every
 Successful Art student.

Correct Drawing Is Essential % Every
 Successful Art student.
 Among some hitherto unpublished "reminiscences of Washington Allston, the painter, in StTibners, occurs the i following advice to students;
 A painter may be blest with every gift of nature, but unless he has ac. quired the art of design he can never express himself If you would not be tormented by consciousness Of hay. ing noble aad beautiful conceptions to which you cannot give birth, you must give much of your time to drawing For this purpose 1 should recommend a collrse of study some what different from what is gener- ally pursued l would devote my at tention principally to outline It is ] perhaps well enough to learn how to make q finished drawing. but when you have once done that your time had better be spent i'll making draw
 ings of the figure in highly studied outline only
 My own practice is to make fin ished outline always before touching the brush to canvas draw the out 1 line of such figures a. intend to drape. making out the figure as nicely as if it were to be painted naked take large, rough piece of common chalk, which makes a bread mark, and then with my 6nger or a bit of bread l can .uh out a portion and thus get little more or little less much better than by using fine ! point When have arranged the contour of my figure or head trace 1 the final outline with uInber would recommend you studying your out line as highly Gs if it were not to be 1 disturbed but when you paint use ! your brush us freely as if you had no outline to go by
 l This Is the only way Co avoid the hardness of effect which is apt to arise l from close study of the outline ! frequently paint my figures over the outline and let my background en- | Gfoach upon tne contour CT tEe lSure again several times in the course Of the painting.
 ] The process of shading with chaliis or pencils is, moro strictly speaking painting, but it r painting with the | very worst of materials. know of no better exercise in drawing than the study of FlaEmans "Illustra
 tions, and l would u,ako 1t a rule to copy two or three figures from them every day This uf course l recon mend as an initiatory study After { you have acquired a readiness of giv ing the air and spirit of the figure, ] preserving the proportions you will i then have recourse to nature and the antique with great advantage
Arizona silver belt., 1892-04-16
A Crowd PanIo strIoken.

There is nothing so infectious as a panic. Even the brave man who successfully tesists it cannot help feeling the first chill of the fear that seems to clutch him. He sees, per haps, no cause for terror, and even if he did he is not the man to lose his presence of mind and play the COW ard. Still for one horrible moment he is the victim of an influence out side himself and entirely foreign to his nature, which seems to numb his reason and his courage and threatens to turn him into shaking poltroon or a frantic madman With fairly brave man this temptation to join in the riot of flight goes as swiftly US it comes. Others succumb to it alto gether, and do not regain their req son until their safety has awakened their shame.
 A crowd that is so seized can only be compared to that herd of swine, also the victims of demoniac posses sion, that fled down the cliff of Cad ara into the sea The fear has en- tered into them from the outside they do not know what it is that they fear; they only know that they suffer fear, and they will perish rather than endure if = London Spectator.
Arizona silver belt., 1892-04-16
A Bore on the Train.

You may have met tho man on the train who talks politics Yes9 We'll, he's tho biggest bore and about the only real, serious drawback left of modern travel If had my way he would be locked up in the soiled linen closet, He leaps upon his unsuspect- ing fellow traveller at the most crit ical moments between sleeping and waking and sandbags him with his favorite topic The slightest open ing-an answer to commonplace remark about tho weather-and he's down on you at once with the tariff, or the mistakes of the last campaign or tho prospective presidential nomi- nations. You couldn't head him off with anything less than a baseball club laid on at the base of his skull There are but two ways of escape open to you--to run away or let him do all tho talking until he runs down. If you agree with him or venture any remarks you are goner For he is the most dogmatic man youe ever meta confirmed political prig
 At first you arc apt to mistake him for a congressman, or at least a state senator or some national politician, but it generally turns out that he keeps a small livery stable or runs a corner grocery He gets down to these facts finally, if you give him rope, and will pump into you the pc litical statistics of the Third ward of his town until you haven't leg to stand on And if you had you would not be able to stand on it. New York Herald.
Arizona silver belt., 1892-04-16
sen,e roreign colna.

The franc was formerly called liyre poundJ. though the connection with any special weight is not evident. The name of the German coin, mark, meaning d weight of eight ounces, was fornferly in general use in Eu- rope. The name of the Italian coin that corresponds with the franc Qiraj also means pound The coins in pres ent use in Spain have their names from other sources,
 The five peseta piece, which core. spends with the American dollar, is called es,udo tshiel,D "Peseta, the name of the small coin representing the monetary standard, means sim, ply little piece "Ruble' is from the word meaning to cut, and was so called because originally the coin was made with an ornamental edge. Chicago Tribune,
Arizona silver belt., 1892-04-16
uypnoti1ius Horses.

Horses are very susceptible to hyp. notization by standing in front of them, so that they have to look at you fixedly. This practice was in. troduced into use in Austria by a cavalry officer, Balassa. It Is called, after him, the Balassiren of horses, and according to Moll it has been in troduced by law iuto Austria for the shoeing of horses in the army.
 Rabbits when they are intro duced into the cage of snake, fas. cinate themselves by staring at it. The process is commonly spoken of as though it were an active proceed ing on the part of the snake which fascinates them, They are self fas cinated and as in the case of hyp- uotic patients a mechanical means of impresSing their senses sutfices, and it is quite gratuitous to import any sort of vital force or living fascinating influence on the part either of the snake or of the willy stage per former. Ernest Hart in Nineteenth Century.
Arizona silver belt., 1892-04-16
The nrllI ser-nnnt-

An army officer at Fort Schuyler, Y. Y., sends the following story of an Irish drill sergeant in the English army. A squad of newly enlisted men are paraded for his inspection and a preliminary drill His little visorlcsa forage cap is canted to one side ag he struts up and down the line, tap ping his leg gently with the inevita hle cane or switch. At last he halts ID front of an undeusized, round shoudered victim, steps back a pace, places his arms akimbO and sulilo. quIzes Well, what kind of a man wud 1t be that ud go and list a kan garoo for the army with hoomp on his tack like dog scramng a pot shtip out here Wud ye know yer facIngsi Right face An, there ye go to the left, curse yer sOwI don yez know yez right hand from the lefti Which hand do ye bless yerself w1dl Ye don't bless yerself, at all, shf So ye are heretiCl Git back to the ranksP- San Francisco Argo. uaut
Arizona silver belt., 1892-04-16
racing r5r nlfo la 8lnrlrorc.

In Singapore the bridegroom must secure h.5 bride in a race. and this custom of bride chasing i5 quite com. mon throughoutsoathern and eastern Asia In Sagapors acirualJr course is marked out half of which ia tr1v. ersed by the maiden ore the word k given for the would be p1ssessor to go in pursuit, in the hope of over taking her before she has thrice com, passed the circle, that achieved she has no choice but to talk. the victor for hen lord.
 The water chasas in canoes, an other marriage ceremonial of Singa- pore, is very similar to the foot race and both are usually of short Jura- ton, for the fair quarry is only too willing to be caught London Stand ard,
Arizona silver belt., 1892-04-16
The sIusio of Thunder.

The bass of thunder isconsiderably lower than the lowest sound produced in an orchestra below the zero of music we call it. at which all positive apprehension of musical sound ceases. and our senses are merely conscious of a roar. Tn observing the music of thunder our attention. however, may be most profitably directed to the ex pression rather than to the notes. The musical dimiuuendois is more per fectly represented by thunder than by any other form of sound in na. ture After the first clap Is over the ear will pursue with pleasure the rolling away and gradual fainting of the peal until at inmeasurable dis tance 1t sinks into silence Good Worls
Arizona silver belt., 1892-04-16
A Curious God.

Among the most extraordinary pieces of symbolism known to have been used by the early Asiatics was a figure of a doukey's head used as a representative of the deity There is no doubt whatever that the same emblem was once used among the Hittites, the Egyptians and one or two other nations as symbol of their Red God Sut. The superstition of the yellow donkey of India the story of the swift ass of eastern Asia and the ass of Dionysius, and many other marvellous ass stories, are all surviyals of that curious form of re-
 igious worship the adoration of the ass head. St, Louis Republic
Arizona silver belt., 1892-04-16
nnhahlst rraxcr mhccI..

In the sacred city oi Olrga the headquarters of Mongolian Buddh ism, are numerous prayer wheels, inscribed with prayers and detlica, ton to Buddha, aud the more they are turned the more religious they maEe you Many of the more de. vout persons turn smaller wheels held in the left hand while mapipu- latinE the large one with the right hand Curious bits of rags flying above the palisades of the inelosures of the town are prayer flags No Mongolian house is without them the more the better for each one is supposed to convey a prayer to Buddha. Jewish Tidiugs.
Arizona silver belt., 1892-04-16
4 rar.. ,..-,n nr ,.rr.,i.-

A little boy in the North Side pub lie school handed in to the teacher. his following composition oE "Om Breath
 Our breath js made of air If it were not for our breath wc would die The breath keeps going through our liver uur lights and cur lungs Boys shut up in a room ali day should not breathe, they should wait until they get out doorz. Air in a room has carbonocidp iu it and cmbUuo. eide is poisoncr than mad dogs Once some men was shut up in a blaci, hole i'll India, a carbonocide got into that there hole and arore morning nearly every due of them was dead. Girls wear corsets which squeeze their diagrams too much Girls can not run and hoiler Like boys cause their diagrams are squeezed If | was a girl 7 would just run and holler so my diagram would grow That's all on breath Minneapolis Journal.
Arizona silver belt., 1892-04-16
An Enterc.tirs EcIl..

The Portland Pres, club haa come into pesseSsion of an interesting piece of furniture one of the two old woodel, desks provided by the Maine legislature for the legislative report CTS in tlle house of representatives dated Ia K Co tue tiEeof there,novGl of the sat of government from Port land to Augusta jn 1892
 It wa, in c0ussant use to the re- building; If .ut state house two years ago At 1t sat James G Blaine. Chief Justice Melville " Fuller and other prominent Maine men during their journal .stic career.
 The desk is of pine, painted and grained with the slender, graceful legs so much in ruguo in the fIni. tue fify years ago Bangor Com mpr,ial
Arizona silver belt., 1892-04-16
NIan'a ThIrd I5yo.

We must bear in mind that man retains in his anatomy not a few remnants and vestiges of organs which, no longer sef'yiceable or re- quired by humanity, yet played and still play in lower life many impor- tant parts The pineal gland of our brain is such a structure Descaltes allocated the soul to this gland Now we know it is simply yestige of a median eye, which once upon a time, in our far back ancestry, existed on the top of the head, and which, for that matter of it, still exists as an eye in some fishes and in certain liz ards, illustrated London News
Arizona silver belt., 1892-04-16
Some PrIcea in IR4o.

During the gold fever in San Fran cisco clerks in stores and offices had munificent salaries; So a day was about the smallest stipend even in the custom house, and one Baptist preacher was paid $lO000 year LabOrers received a dollar an hour, pick or a shovel was worth $lO, a tin pan or a wooden bowl 6. and a butchers knife $3O. At one time the carpenters who were getting SIP a day struck for SIG. Lumber rose to $500 per thousand feet and every brick in a house cost q dollar, one way or another. Wheat flour and salt pork sold at $iO a barrel a small loaf of bread was fifty cents and hard boiled egg a dollar You paid 6 to get into the circus and $55 for private box
 Men talked dollars, and a copper coin was an object of antiquarian in, terest. Forty dollars was the price for ordinary coarse boots, and a pair that came above the knees and would carry you gallantly through the equag mires brought round hundred When a shirt became very dirty the wearer threw it away and bought a new one Washing cost $l5 a dozen in1 sl9 Rents were simply mon strous- 8, 900 a month in advance for a store huITiedly built of rough boards. Wright 6 Co. paid S75, GOO for a wretched little place on the corner of the Plaza that they called the Miners bank, and $36,O was asked for the use of the old Adobe as a custom house. The Parker House paid sl20,00O a year in rents. --Dr. J. W Palmer in Century
Arizona silver belt., 1892-04-16
JOHN WILL KEEP QUIET.
ExasperatIng Adventure of a Couple wh
 Live in an Apartment House.

Exasperating Adventure Of a Couple Who Live in an Apartment House.
 A young married couple who live in an apartment house up in Madison avenue went out to dine Sunday aft ernoon, and as they had allowed the servants the same privilege the apart ment was deserted when the owners returned in the early evening When l they had disembarlled from the ele. vator and the lord of the household began to tumble for keys he was mortified to discover that they were either lost or snugly ensconced at that moment in some other and inac- cessible pocket
 Carrie" be said in stricken tones, I think I'm afraid-that is. live left my keys"
 You don't mean it9" she ejacn. lated.
 T really do" he said, fumbling nervously in impossible hooks and crannies of clothing for the longed for bunch
 Tine elevator boy of course has a key, announced bis wife. Call him.
 There are only two, and we have both, V he answered briefly, still fumbling in hopeless way.
 Can you pick the lock, Edward r she asked.
 T was Tot educated for burglar, Caroline.
 Then we must send for g lock smith.
 "Tonight-no shops are open. lam afraid we must either break the door or send to the superintendent" he said decisively
 They rang the bell for the elevator, and sat dismally on the stairs till it came.
 It is a terrible thing to sit on an apartment house stair and look at your own door closed against you
 John, said the keyless proprietor when the elevator arrived. "havo you key that will fit our doorr
 No, sir.
 Is the superintendent in the build ingl"
 He has wont to Harlem, sir, to spend the evening
 Two groan5.
 John, you are not a large man"
 No sir.
 Do you suppose with q gIeqm of hope tbet f l offered yoI 6 dollar and boosted, you could squeeze through the ti'ansoml'
 l might try, sir
 T wish you would There was q rattle of coins followed by much shufiing, pushing and squilming, and at length only pair of irregular elevator boy legs capped by a pair of dilapidatcd shoes remained in sight Having gone that far, John stuck
 Eli there!" came in muhled tones from the half inside.
 Yes.
 Try the door.
 The luckless fiat owner turned tho knob, and to his astonishment the door opened, and inside, hanging 5n the lock, was the bunch of keys.
 Caroline, ho whispered Tho doors open wasn't locked at all
 Well, you're a careless thing, and you ought to be ashamed of yourself for leaving the flat unlocked, 7 she declared eIaphatically
 But her husband iid not hear Ho gave a final pull at the dangling hp- mamty over the door aud lan,,ed it on the inside.
 John, he said auNioiialy, "you can keep luiot sometimesf
 Sometimes. sir
 Here x another dollar, You under stand New York Tribune.
Arizona silver belt., 1892-04-16
Bay Rum.

The best bay rum is manufactured from an essential oil distilled from the leaves of the West Indian myrtle tree. An inferior quality is made from the leaves of the English bay of laurel The West Indian plant will not grow in this climate, and can only be seen in hothouses. but it's fragrance is very remarkable, and it is said that the tree can be detected in a forest at a distance of hundreds of feet by the perfume of it's leaves Interview in St o1is Gloha-DAm- Crat.
Arizona silver belt., 1892-04-16
Bagpipes in Ncro's Time.

Bagpipes are generally ascribed to Scotland, where they have been in use for long time, but it was an in. struinent upon which the ancient Greeks and Romans played. Nero is said to have performed upon it, and an old piece of Grecian sculpture represents player on the bagpipes dressed in the fashion that is known today as the Highland costume. = Harper's Young People.
Arizona silver belt., 1892-04-16
An Anecdoto of s,acrendv.

One of the most amusing anecdotes of Macready's petulance of temper relates to a revival of Henry VIII, V under the management of Maddox, at the Princess, The part of Car dinal Campeius was assigned to a brother of Mr George Augustus Sala, whose stage name was Wynn, for whom Macready had an inveterate dislike The tagedian bad unplored the manager to see that Campeius was furnished with costume which should not seem entirely ridiculous beside the splendid robes he himself wore as Wolsey; but Maddox, of course, disregarded the injunction
 At the dress rehearsal, says AiI Edmund Yates, "Alacready en. throned in a chair of state, had the various characters to pass before him he bore all calmly until, clad in scarlet robes bordered by silver tissue paper and wearing an enor- nous red bat. Wynn approached. Then, clutching both arms of his chair and closing his eyes, the great tragedian gasped ont, Mother Ship ton, by heaven r"-Longman's Mag. azine.
Arizona silver belt., 1892-04-16
nir Gnr,nnn rrnnt.

Tho introduction of the German trout into this country proves to be very successful They grow rapidly and attain great size One was re gently caught winch weighed 9! pounds and was 275 inches long The spawn was planted in 1884. : New York Times
Arizona silver belt., 1892-04-16
Why They Count.

1t is undoubtedly true that little things count, and there is a good req son for it, The little things have to count They get kept in after school If they don't New York World.
Arizona silver belt., 1892-04-16
whnt , Tear |. Maae of.

The chief element in the compost tion of a tear is water but with water is associated minute propor tions of salt, soda, phosphate of lime, phosphate of soda and mucus, and when seen under the microscope a tear after evaporation looks like g very small fish bone, owing to the salines forming themselves into heightened cross lines. New York Journal.
Arizona silver belt., 1892-04-16

The latest whim for the owners of dogs is to make them wear shoes in the house for the purpose of protect ing the polished floors They are made of chamois, with leather soles New York Sun,
Arizona silver belt., 1892-04-16
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gnlghta of Fythiao.

Regular meetirE uf Pmal Mountain I.odge No, II, Tuesday night of each week at MG- sonic Hall. All rutLers in good standing are cordially iuyitd.
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Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-06-30

The Catholic churches of Baltimore
will celebrate the 400th anniversary of
the landing Of Columbus in an appropri-
ate manner. An elaborate programme
is being arranged at the suggestion Of
Cardinal Gibbons, who is deeply inter-
ested in having suitable religious and
civic display ON Oct. 10. The religious
celebration, according to a Baltimore
paper, will include masses in all of the
Catholic churches at an early hour, and
at II o'clock pontifcal high mass will be
celebrated by Cardinal Gibbons in the
cathedral. All of the priests of the city
will be invited to be present at this
mass. The Rev. DIR. O'Gorman, of the
Catholic university at Washington, has
been selected to preach the sermon. The
pope has announced his intention to
write an encyclical letter on the discov-
cry of America and the position which
the church at Rome occupied at that
time toward Columbus and the assist
ance which was rendered him by the
church. The programme of the civic
display has not been decided upon, but
it will probably include big torchlight
procession, in which the Catholic Benev-
olent legion, the Young Catholic Friends
society and all the societies and lyceums
of the various churches will be invited
to unite
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-06-30

A gentleman who was particularly
popular with American visitors to Berlin
was Professor William Won Hoffman,,
the eminent German chemist who died
a few weeks ago. Owing to his sojourn
in the United States he spoke English
we'll, and several years ago addressed
the Americans at Berlin at their Thanks
giving dinner. The speech was fatter-
ing to the people of the United States.
Since the resignation Of Bunsen from
the professorship of chemistry at Heidel.
berg 1t has been the ambition of almost
every American studying chemistry in
Germany to be a pupil of Hoffman,,
He always took the greatest interest in
his American pupils. He often had
more than score of them in his labora-
tory at one time. The late Emperor
Frederick was also his pupil. When he
came to the throne he ennobled his for
mer preceptor.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-06-30
RICH MEMS PALACES.
THE COSTLY DoMIClLES OF NOTED
AMERICAN MlLLlONAIRES.

W. X. vanderbilt's Magnificent Cottage"
at Newport-Commodo Gerry's Spa
cious New York Residence Now in Course
of Construction-Ames' Town House.
This seems to be the age of what
might be called residential competi-
ton" among the millionaires of America.
Each appears to be imbued with the de-
sire to own home which shall outstrip
in magni6cence and architectural beauty
all other private abodes. AS a result
several men of great wealth are now
having constructed dwellings on which
no expense will be spared.
A cottage" so called only because
it is located at Newport, and follows
the cottage style of architecture, will
shortly be completed for w. K. Wander.
bilt. The main lines of the exterior
while evidencing great cost, are never
theless so severely plain, that curiosity
as to the interior appointments and ar
rangement has been excited, especially
as Mrs. Vanderbilt, who has charge Of