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THE MIXED RACE OF INDIA.

The Inclinations OF the People Are More
European Than Native.
Eurasia has no boundaries. It lies, q
varying social fact, all over India, thick in
the great cities, thickest in Calcutta, where
the conditions of climate and bread-win-
ming are most suitable; where, moreover,
Eurasian charities are most numerous
Wherever Europeans have come and gone,
these people have sprung up in weedy testi-
mony of thenn-these people who do not go,
who have received somewhat in the feeble
inheritance of their blood that makes it
possible tor them to live and die in India.
says Sara Duncan in Popular Science.
Nothing will ever exterminate Eurasis;
it clings to the sun and the soil, and is
marvelously propagative within its own
borders There is no remote chance of its
ever being reabsorbed by either of its
original elements; the prejudices of both
Europeans and natives are far too vigorous
to permit of much inter-marriage with a jat
of people who are neither one nor the
other. Occasionally an up-country planter,
predestined to a remote and 'jungly" ex-
istence, comes down to Calcutta and draws
his bride from the upper circles of Eurasia-
this not 50. often now as formerly. Occa-
sionally, too, a young shopman with the red
of Scotland fresh on his cheeks is carried
off by his landlady' daughter, while Tommy
Atkins falls a comparatively easy prey.
The sight. OF . native with halt caste
wife Is much rarer. for there Eurasisn as
well as native antipathy comes into opera
tion. The whole conscious inclination of
Eurasian life, in habits, tastes, religion
and most of all In ambition, is toward the
European and away from the native stand
arda
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LORE ABOUT THE BEARD.
The Mohammedans Have Preserved one
Hair of the Prophets Whiskers.

The Mohammedans Have Preserved one
Hair of the Prophets whiskers.
Illustrated Magazine.1
The ancient Hebrews considered 1t the
greatest insult that could be offered to q
man to pluck his beard, which may account
in part for the wonderful state of preserva-
tion that tradition has connected with. the
beard of the Old World male.
1t was a notion of the Mohammedans
that, though Noah reached his !, ,0Ooth birth
day, no hair of his blessed beard fell off or
became white; but the Mohammedans had
no more authority for that than for their
belief that the devil has but one solitary
long hair for beard. Ct was, as some say,
in order to distinguish themselves from the
ancient Israelites that the followers of Mo-
hammed cropped the beard;but Mohammed,
as we know, sanctioned tue dyeing of the
beard, and preferred cane color, because
that was the traditional hue of Abraham's s
beard.
More than that, have we not the common
Mohammedan oath, "Bv the beard OF the
Prophet" as we'll as the supplication, "By
your beard, or the life OF your beard?"
And then look at the veneration paid in
Asia to even single hair of the beard Of
Mohammed. This precious relic is en-
shrined in s monument erected especially
for it in 1135, 500 years after the Prophets
death. Where it had reposed during the
long interval is as great mystery as that
connected with the holy coat ofTrereS
But at any rate, there it is now precious
"heir" loom kept in a box of gold and crys-
tai, in which small holes have been bored
for the purpose of admitting water to float
Al L L L = l.
festival when the faithful from all parts
gathered together.
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A FAMOUS CALIFORNIA CAVE.
It Was at One Time a Lions Den and
Afterward Robbers Stronghold.

It Was at One Time q Lions Den and
Afterward Robbers Stronghold.
This is a tale of mountain lions, great
caves, and bold banditti. 1t was told at
the Palmer by Harry Graves, of Los An-
geles, to a Chicago Inter Ocean reporter.
''On the north side of Table Mountain, Z"
said he. "and near its top, is an opening in
the lava that has since its early day been
known as the lion dcn. 1t was so named
from the fact that for years it was the lair
of band of feroc;ous California lions that,
when the country was largely devoted to
sheep raising, made mighty depredstions
upon the fiocks and caused the owners
much annoyance and loss When pursued
the animals would seek refuge in this den,
and no hunter would dare to enter il. The
ground about the entrance was covered
with bones and remnants of sheep and other
animals With the increase of population
the lions have gradually disappeared, al
though as late as last spring two of the
animals were seen to enter the cave.
mo man has ever penetrated this cave to
its fullest depth. The mouth is about or
feet high and feet wide, and the open
ing descends with-a sharp decline for about
200 feet Further than this, it has never
been explored. Now, however, 9 party of
young men have made arrangements to ex-
plore it, and if possible penetrate to its
bottom. That it is CT great depth is GER
tain, for one can stand at the opening and
heave great stones down the declivity, and
the sound will gradually die away in the
The young men have procured
several hundred feet of rope, torches and
ladders, and will thoroughly explore the
cavern.
'The recesses of this same Table Noun
tain were at one time the base of operations
of the famous highwayman, Joaquin
Murietta, and his band of followers From
there they would swoop down on the
miners, and then, laden with gold dust, re-
treat to the mountain. Search as they
might the officers could never locate them.
1t has been supposed by many that it was
in this cave that the bandit secreted him
self"
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so little. At every corner you find men
with red caps who are known as dienstman
and who will carry a letter or a parcel to
almost any part of Berlin for six cents and
you pass in every block women loaded
down with great two-bushels baskets of
meat and vegetables which they are carry
ing home from the market for about the
same rate. There are flower peddlers every
where snd' there is the old fellow with toys
who sells turkeysand monkeys made ofBood
and painted in ridiculous colorS
While visiting the stock exchange the
other day dropped into beer hall for
lunch and was getting away with great
mug of beer between my bites of cheese and
rye bread when one of these fakirs came up
beside me and laid down on the table a
microscope. As he did so, he asked me if
i did not want to see what kind OF cheese I
had been eating. held it up to the
light and I saw in it through the
microscope dozen hundred-leg bugs as big
~ the largest potato bug, each one Of which
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wagon load of hay through them, and there
are thousands of cellar tenementS There
are number of houses there which have
hundreds of families in them, and the same is
true of Leipsic and Dresden. More than half
the peoole in Leipsic pay less than 500 a
year for rent, and these people live in quar-
tiers where they cannot have more than two
heated rooms.
The city has good building regulations, it
is true, but the people manage to get around
them, and this is so in nearly eyery Ger
man city. Part of the Leipsic regulations
are that every living room shall have at
least one window open to the air and that
the cellar rooms must be at least nine feet
high. But the houses are crowded and the
poorer the quarters the more people you
find in them.
Well-Dressed on Low Wages,
Nearly all the vegetable stores of Berlin
are in cellars, and there are numerous fish
stores, especially those which sell dried
hsh, below ground. am surprised to see
what well-dressed people come out of these
cellars and how we'll the people dress on
the low wages they receive. The average
wages of common laborers throughout Ger
many range from 81 so to 81 week and
the mass of working men here, both skilled
and unskilled, do not get more than from
Is cents to 81 day.
When one-fourth of this Is paid for house
rent and the food of the family purchased
there is little lett, and it is a wonder to me
how the people buy any clothes at all. am
told, however, that many of the people
have several trades and that they do work
at home outside of their hours of labor and
all the members Of a poor mans family do
something to increase the family income.
There is law against children being en-
ployed in the factories and they have here
compulsory system of education, but
these are evaded to q considerable extent
and children are hardly able to walk before
they do something. Little girls are taught
to sew almost as soon as they can handle
the needle, and good sewing girls who make
button holes here consider themselves we'll
paid when they make from So to 81
month Girls who sew upon shirts get
about these same wages, and the greater
part of such sewing girls work at home.
Revealed by a Microscope.
Speaking of the Berlin street sights
there is no place in the world where the
people work SO hard for penny and where
both women and men give you SO much for
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the day may come when these things will
bepmade clear to you. was once equally
incredulous myself 1 did not believe that
there was anything in tbsse stories of the
trouble which comes to'a man when he tries
to show his wife how to cook. Ninety-nine
out of hundred men who will read these
lines do not believe it. Fate is waiting till
they are ripe, and then she will shake the
tree, and they will fall, as 1 did.
We had never had any trouble with cooks,
and I had filed the servant girl stories away
in the pigeon-hole marked ''lies." But our
girl went out to view the Columbus parade,
and she was SO impressed by the record of
the great discoverer that she Immediately
discovered new place to work and did not
tell US anything about it
How He Secured an Overcoat
Then Maude assumed the responsibility
of the cuisine, and paid myself the serv-
ants wages for three months in advance
and bought q winter overcoat with it 1
did no other work in the culinary depart
ment during the first week of our girls abb
sence; but on the following Tuesday morn
ing made the coffee. 1t seemed very
simple matter. Couee Is among Inc mosb
surely feeting and ephemeral of our
earthly Joys. could not suppose that
pot of it would become immortal in our
family Just because 1 made it. But am
now certain that it will never die.
We were to haze Sam at our house Mon
day night. He had come to the city to at
tend an important business meeting, SO he
told his WIFE, He was right The meeting be-
tween Judge" Lynch and Billy the Kid
was strictly business. They did not ham
mer each other three hours for fun.
Sam is good Judge of coffee and several
other drinks, and knew that q cup OF the
amber fluid, if made by competent person,
would be especially grateful to his palate on
the morning after the important business
meeting. So arose early and built a fire
in the range. Half an hour after I built an
other, because the fire had gone out. Then
prepared the coffee. 1 had made barrels
of coffee in my day, but never before within
the confines of civilization. I had brewed
it over drittwood fires on half the islands
off the Maine coast Hot and strong made
it in those days, so that single cup,
drank standing, would draw .the salt
water out OF the Innings of my rubber boots,
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ANOTHER WOMAN ARCTIC EXPLORER.
Miss Elizabeth Taylor Made q Very Inter-
astIno Triv, Eror, Winntna~

Miss Elizabeth Taylor Made Very Inter-
esting Trip From Winnipeg.
Travel in the far North has hitherto been
attempted only by men, but the year 1892
has witnessed the breaking up Of this mo-
nopoly.
Mrs Peary accompanied her husband
to q point further north than any white
woman has ever before penetrated, and
early last summer Miss Elizabeth Taylor
started from Winnipeg for the Mckenzie
river delta, and from this expedition she
has just returned. Miss Taylor is by nature
a traveller and by education an artist, and is
greatly interested in natural history. She
started on her trip alone, and made it alone
successful to the end. She is the first woman
explorer that has ever ventured into the
polar regions on her own account, and
with an amount of pluck and steadfastness
that would have done credit to a strong man
she has carried out her programme and
completed her round trip to the far north
ern forts of the Hudson's Bay Company,
SAYS Forest and Stream
Of the results of her trip we can as yet
know only in a general way. This much
may be said, however: Her sketch-book is
Au1I Vi urdHluSs, WHlCu are uot ouly Vi
great historical and>topographical interest,
but also of very high order of artistic
merit. In spite of great disadvantages and
continual suffering from coarse food, in
cessant attacks of insects, ill-health, sleep
lessness, induced blythe perpetual daylight,
she has averaged over a drawing per day.
Her sketches are only a small part of the
results achieved by this indefatigable girl
Greely. Her diary Is as full as her sketch
book, and her notes on the different aspects
of nature are full and of great value. They
are, moreover, admirably corroborated and
ampli6ed by some hundreds Of photographs
taken by herself
In addition to all this Miss Taylor has
made a considerable collection OF natural
history specimens, and when her results are
in shape for publication an unusally inter-
esting contribution to our list of works on
the great lone land will have been made.
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and the steam from the spout of the coffee
pot would wrestle with the sea fog and
1'down" it. I could not feel quite at home
in kitchen, but yet it was with considera-
BILE confidence that measured out the usual
dose, and broke an egg into it for richness
The Feminine Style of Criticism.
Maude had appeared upon the scene by
this time, and she began to criticise me in
that feminine fashion which never does the
victim any good, but leaves vast oppor-
tunities tor ST told you sor' afterward. On
such an occasion woman does not wish to
convince. 1t would break her heart if one
followed her advice. She would much bet
ter he should go his own way and iall, and
never hear the last of it.
I wouldn'tput that egg in" Maude had
said, SIT will taste"
Then I hesitated, and she, for fear I
wouldn't do it and would make good coffee
after all, had hastily added: ooh, put it
in if you want to. Here's another onei
we've plenty of eggs, but now the egg
was irretrievably in-"remember that told
you not to do it."
The coffee did not cook very fast. There's
difference between stove lid over
feeble, struggling coal fire and the blazing
hearth of q cord of driftwood. My theory
of coffee is that it should come to boil in
Q hurry, put this remained calm and threat
ened to simmer for an hour. However, I
opened all the draughts, and then called
Sam.
''Give it to him, Billy; hit him on the
point OF the jaw" he was nuttering in his
sleep "HellO, Howdy; is it time to get
up?"
1 told him that it was, and added that some
real old-fashioned coffee was awaiting him.
Presently we three were seated at the
breakfast table and ready to taste any stim-
ulatlng decoction.
"Howdy made this himself" said Maude,
as she lifted the cotfeepot. "1t is different
from mine"
Different From All Others. ''
Yes, it was very different from hers; it
was not like an that had ever seen be-
fore; but 1 was the architect of it and !
didn't propose to go back on it. When
Maude started to pour it she found that the
spout was plugged with about tour ounces
of egg, cooked to the consistency of dried
mucilage. 1 took the coffee pot into the
kitchen and removed this obstruction with
the thing which we use to clean lamp chim-
neys. tasted it also while l was out there
and was tempted to throw the whole busi-
ness out of the window and call it an acci-
dent, but my pride withheld ME. Sam was
sure to like 1t for politeness' sake, and then
I should have the laugh on Mau,Ie.
This is. the sort of coffee, :" said I, re-
turning, "that puts new lie into man
after he has lain for hours in swamp
waiting for ducks that have an engagement
" some other part Of the country"
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a, they are in thsa.art ot ths city they ar.


az they are in theheart Of ths city they are
very unhealthful.
Live in One Room and Take Boarders.
Think of it?
Here are 1900 people sleeping every
night on an area of less than one-half acre
OF ground. Some of the rooms contain
more than one family and not few of the
poorest OF, the renters take roomers
visited some of the tehementS They
seemed to be clean, but they were very
small and there were a couple of beds in
nearly every room. There were about 100
families living around each court and these
courts were not as large as the average city
back yard At the entrance to each court
there were billboards like those you find in
large Office buildings in America, upon
which were registered the names of the
tenants and the numbers of their rooms
Upon the ground floor there were little
stores and dropped into barber shop at
the corner of one of the courts and chatted
with the barber. His room was about 8
feet wide by 6 feet deep, and he had q sign
on the outside of it stating that his prices
for shaving were pfennigs or a little
more than cent, and he cut hair for about
double this rate. He told me that he had
often 100 customers q day and that he had
double this number on Saturdays He sold
matches and cigars and made wigs as well
as barbered, and he said that his rent for
this room was So 30 month and that he
slept here at night.
Business in the Cellars.
1t is wonderful how much business Is
done in cellars in Berlin. About one-third
of the immense manufacturing of Germany
is done in the shape of house industry,
that is by people taking their work from
factories to their own homes or making
some product of their own in them. A
great many of these cellar rooms form the
working places of the people by day and
their sleeping places by night Many of
them are SO made that a draft cannot be
sent through them, and when it is remem-
bered that some of them are six feet below
the sidewalk it will be easily seen that they
are not fit for the residences of human be-
ings have visited quite number of the
cities of Germany and find that this fat
system prevails in all the large towns
Hamburg, which has been so badly hurt
by the cholera, is whited sepulcher. It
has beautiful buildings, but the streets are
30 marrow that you could hardly drive
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ONE OF NATUaR's FREAKS.
An Imprint on q Babes Hands Il the
Picture of Her Dead Sister,

An Imprint on u oaDe'e dano1 II tne
Picture of Her Dead Sister.
Philadelphia Times.l
A very strange freak ofnature isreported
from Roseburg, S. C. 1t is three-ueeks-
old baby, whose right hand bears the i'm
print of human face. The face occupies
the entire palm, and is as clearly outlined
as though painted on porcelain. It is the
countenance of little child about 8 years
old lying asleep, with the eyelashes drawn
in fine dark lines on the full cheeks The
mouth seems to be slightly parted, and the
lips are delicately tinted
The baby whose hand contains this singu-
lar portraiture is the child of Clarke o.
borne, q merchant of Roseburg, and Mrs.
Osborne declares that the face in the in .
fant's palm is that of little girl she lost
about three months ago. Relatives and in
innate friends profess to be able to see
strong resemblance to the dead child.
When the baby was first put into its
mothers arms she looked at the hands, and
with loud cry tainted away, but on COM
ing to herself exhibited the little creatures
hands to the attendants, who saw at once
the strange likeness to the dead and gone
sister.
Mrs. Osborne was at first much frightened
over the singular circumstance, but ct last
became convinced that the strange portrait
was sent to comfort her. The image on the
palm was clearer the first few days of the
baby's Life than now, and 1t Is thought to be
gradually fading away.
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every block. I visited the other day q
single house which contained 400 families
and in which lived more than !, 500 people.
It was g building of about 100 feet front,
running back, perhaps, for 200 feet and
built around five great courts. There was
no yard connected with it except these
dirty courts paved with cobblestones, and
IN these hollow-eyed children swarmed and
old men and women sat against the walls
trying to catch the sun. The building con-
sisted of six stories and it was entered by q
passageway in the middle. At the door of
this as 1 came in 1 saw two young women
standing with babies st their breasts, and
the children playing in the rear were of all
ages and sizes.
As l looked at them and the people about
them IT struck me that the building was
typical OF the world. Every variety of life
was going on among them On one side I
saw two women laughing. In another part
young girl and an old man we're trying to
teach baby to walk, and as stood there
an undertaken came through with little
coffin, containing baby under bis arm and
with its weeping mother following behind
as its sole mourner. This building is known
as Meyers Hof," and it lis one of the
largest tenement houses in Berlin.
Rents Are Continually Rising.
Rents are, am told, continually rising
In Berlin, and the smaller the income the
bigger the proportion of rent The most of
the laboring people like to live near their
work, and a large majority of the people
engaged in the different industries here live
within 20 minutes of their places of en-
ployment The most of them pay more
than one-fourth of their income tor rent
and landlords find it pays to build big
houses and crowd them rather than ere ct
small ones The people here get so little
that they cannot think of building homes
for themselves, aud they expect to nav rent
from their birth till their death. The
police regulations require that the rooms
shall be of q certain size, and within the
last few years the new houses have been
doing better as to their cellar lodgings.
The older parts OF the city, however,
have many rooms which are not at all sani.
tery, and it is astonishing how many people
live here underground. There are more
than hundred thousand men, women and
children who are living in cellars in Berlin
to-day, and q number of these have rooms
in their cellar tenements which cannot be
heated. It must be remepl ss-a that the
surface Of Berlin is fat ard the u as to.
drainage is very little re- re- 10 that
these unhestsd cellar roers Ne ', and
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Takinr Care Of Chinese Papers.

Along the upper border Of Chinese news
papers, where we usually find the title and
date, is written the exhortation, "Please
respect written paper; the merit is bound
less" an exhortation which is generally
needed, tor the papers are carefully filed in
shop and Office, and are read aud re-read
until they fall to pieces Then man from
the society that takes written paper Tor its
special care comes and takes away the we'll
thumbed printed rags and tatters to be rev.
erently burnt in crematorium attached to
the -Mo-Mian-the Literary and Mill
tn nv Temple.