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Our Envelopes.

Possibly it may be interesting to
some of your readers" said Mr.. Will
liam D. Smith, a large Massachusetts
envelope manufacturer. ito know how
many envelopes are used annually in
this country. How many do you sup
pose? Wen, of course. we can only
give approximate figures. | should say
about 13S, COO. coo OF all classes and
qualities. This necessitates the use Of
something like 1000, coo pounds Of
paper, which. cut into one long strip
OF paper of the ordinary thickness and
three inches wide, would reach from
New York to San Francisco and one
fourth of the way back. Laid down fiatit
would cover the whole of Washington
and you could do many other equally re-
marksblc things with it. The first en-
velopes were manufactured about fifty
years ago. The principal factories arc
located in New York, Chicago, Phila-
Gelphia and Boston. - - Washington
News
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hayo prepared all visitors for the sight
% things in an unfinished condition.
The delay is largely due TO the acct
dent TO the cellar of the main building.
rhis Uishap will be readily under
stood by anybody who knows even the
rNdircents of the geology of Cook cour-
ty $50 called because one can cook
there without a fire in July. August
and September). 1t is well-known that
this favored spot stands over a black
ard bottomless abyss. from which il is
separated only by thin layer of mer-
ciful providence. | say favored spot"
because any other kind of spot would
certainly break through this barrier
and disappear. That was what happened
TO the cellar in question. 1t sunk sud
denly into the neither mystery; and.
though large number of men are now
at work with derricks, it is doubtful
whether they can hoist the cellar up
again in time. But, though there
should be no other opening on May
than the one to which have referred,
even that viii be worth looking into.
And. by the way, this cellar disaster is
a sufficient refutation of the SANDER
that visitors to Chicago will be in dan
ger from cyclones. When a man can
make a cyclone cellar a hundred feet
deep by simply jumping hard on the
ground. there is little real peril from
high winds.
No person should fail to see the Chi
cago atmosphere. You cannot see much
of il at time. but that which is close
to your nose is an interesting study.
Probably it win become quite common
in the east before the fair is over.
should not be surprised if pieces of it
were used as mantel decoration in the
rural districts of New England as gen.
orally as coral and conch shells by
next September.
A dispatch in many of the eastern
papers recently called attention 10 the
collapse of several Chicago hotels
which had been erected to shelter Wis
itors to the fair. 1t really was worth
seeing when those hotels went down.
/ received a letter from a friend de-
scribing such spectacle.
81 hate to think of you missing al
these things" he wrote. The fall Of
that hotel in which ! had engaged
rooms for you was really great. II
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Ee Had Evidence.

The man had been to see a presti-
digitateur and when he came home he
was telling his wife about it.
"One of his acts" he said. was to
cut woman's head off right on the
stage in front Of all of us"
"Pshaw," she protested, ''he didn't
cut her head of.
Yes, he did, too. l saw him, and he
carried it over to pedestal and it be-
gan talking"
How do you know it was a woman?-
Didn't | see her?"
ut might have been a man or boy
dressed like q woman"
NO it wasn't either, tell you. I:
was a woman. Didn't say It kept on
talking after its head was cut off?"-
Detroit Free Press.
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A DROP OF CHICAGO WATER
AS seen through microscope

hard winter Of '84-'65, which l passed
in Chicago to my own great loss and
detriment. | ran up board bill that
winter in small hotel on Monroe
street This hotel stood beside an al
ley which ran through darkness, pill
lage and murder to Madison street.
Men were held up" in this alley al
most every night: indeed. some of our
boarders made it regular excuse for
not paying their bills on Saturdays.
In this way | first learned to regard
the highwayman as q Jenefactor. One
Friday evening a highwayman in this
alley relieved me of seven cents. and
fell on my knees and thanked him be-
cause he had enabled me to tell the
truth to my landlord on the following
day for the first time in eight weeks.
/ certainly hope to meet that fellow in
Chicago this spring, and if | do / shall
point out 10 him n Tammany visitor
who never carries less than five thou
sand dollars in his pocket. From the
nature of their occupations those two
should be friends. ! have very pleas
ant recollections of that alIey, and l
often think of it when ! walk on Fifth
avenue. New York; but the people in
the alley had stolen much less.
do not attempt. of course. TO force
my preferences upon others. Some
may 90 to Chicago for the water. In
fact, according 10 the accounts which
we have published, a person who de-
sires that kind Of water viii simply
l. . ~, in
fest any other locality. Recognizing
the value of this monopoly as an adj
vertisement FOR Chicago we have given
TO the facts the widest publicity. The
London Lancet. a paper which gives
eminent physicians the largest oppor-
tunitv for commenting upon one an
others ignorance, was At some pains
TO obtain an analysis Of Chicago water.
The Lancet found it to consist princi-
palIy Of oxygen and hydrogen. That
settles il. 50 far as l am concerned, for
il was with mixture OF these gases
that learned professor. JOSIAH T.
Cook, Of Harvard. inadvertently pro-
PEELED the head Of gigantic iron cyl
Under through the roof OF Boylston
hall and very far up into the SIX. That
was ten years before went TO college
ard even in ny day the cylinder head
had not come down. ! do not think
such stufT j safe. and / shall Tot tie
it II ! 70 - Chicago
Bat besides these dangerous sub
stances. the Lancet found many others
ro-. perhaps. 20 common in drinking
-a.c- ) list q these things "a agate,
nal: measure. vvoald al fur columns
IL Jersey City paper. Az. 4 printed
= an advertisement Tolld bs T-5--a
eleven dollars. unless il Wa ! gs.5-sc
e1lrcrt jsemea;. paid fer ty the city or
state. according n lz~-. II which cas-
t5.e charge 9vcE.al - q--d-upled- 1ei-
In sg.sc O. tsaeze EE12t demands Upoa
osl-s-zaec. vve--aal spas ~ the grez.
boyly % 5ourn1lists-hase Tsric.ed his
matter ~ratui:5uslr, tlgu~h sE-1 II
&. 7vzs hardly ssch a. o ps-eoa co-l3
read Dnieas be h@G 5e-a recent
i vacc5aateL
TEcre ue-a also =sarr animal "a
l.e e-atr s1l1e ~ f11a &sl@ ana
5.sars 7zarrau:.=5 - -reaare tf.a5 re-
3lctcn II any person introducing tasera
into h5s a nt1rE canal ha~e
asked sssv zrE5.t Ia -enra-ir1os st=z4a 81
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letter. and were watching the two sup
pie wrists, and studying the side face
that couidn' watch you, for it had to
keep its eyes on the key board. she
you'd look round naively, with just n
srifie OF quirk in the corner Of her
right eye, and say: Pardon me. but
Won have said that twice already"
and then. if YOU had you wits about
YOU, you would remark: Have /?
Well confound it. we must do it all
over"
The availability Of the queen bee her
self there in her private Office on these
occasions was admirable. She allowed
you to try it over all day.
For she charged you by the hour.
Dictati6n got to be sort of
profigacy in that building There was
one old ruddvfaced fellow who gave
way to the habit 50 recllesslv TIA: his
friends ha3 to interfere, and PIT him
in an ASYLUM There were also two
young men in one small Office with
their desks back 70 back. They were
partners. and they had = I'll and did
not speal, for month. 80 they wrote
letters to each other from the two
desks. One of them would rush down
into the debating department and ex-
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dropped entirely into It's cellar so that
nothing was left standing but the ele-
vator well and the price of board, and
the latter stuck up much higher than
the former
in the interest of the fair. just SO; as
said at the beginning, we have all
done what we could. The whole nation
has rejoiced. II has been more fun
than a lvnching We feel as IL we
could hardly wait another four hun
drcd years for the next chance With
our added experience. IN that happy
time. what shall we not be able 10 do
for the city that gets the fir
HOWARD FIELDIS0-
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seiertiae Explanation Of sszsiska~ss

The sickness which 3aiic,s some per-
sons y hen they ride with their bae ~.
70 horses or locomotives IL akin ~ sea-
sickness The cause 81 ne one Is "a ii
% be identical with toe other. Nor,
.easicEuess IS CAUSED 6: u Ead@rs.aod.
tv the SEM circular canals 81 the ear,
by the pitching movements ~ the ship.
which are ~ fsr tae worst TIE head =
carried forward and izcsEvv ward through
4 long arc ~ tho End Il The GesceE.
ne head stop bu: By It's inertia the
50 ID n The canals ras5es On and
= ashes the oto3itfzs up against the
cervc a!sE1ents a. nc sr0a, q tne
canals Thcse are ez,reusely senritlvs
1z8 tae repetition Il tbs = few i'1aes
gee u.s. = cslao.lFS IN excessive irrsta-
i,2-1. vhisa - czp---sed .by glddlneAs
md vomiting Eu.s taeo~y expszizA
vshs.e lyiaz down gaos5a afford rp,s.s
as The otolitfA tf4eu res, a. t|-e f.s~.e
and Jess sensitive par q tie canals.
7ad i also explains vshT riding bacs. -
the sc--asz-e tirs sba8sd ezuse szsss~a
and ziddiness. - here. % cgarz~. ,ise
oiollttas dag behind and .rri,a.e ihs
anterior parts .. 49, c-z--A
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BLIND NAN AND SNAKES.
Startling Adventures OF q siSSiers c.'
soa IN New Sc=th Wales

Startling Adventures OF o siSEsiess -'s'-
sou IN New Sc-th Wales
Eicha-i Palmer, blind :..an. v7ss
walking in tue garden of bis country
place in New South Wales, says Si.''ni-
be-s' Journal. led by his little sS;-id,
about eight years old In o2e haAa
Mr.. Palmer carried glass OF w-ae-r.
Suddenly tie little boy cried in a.sr;d:
~ sualze,- snake AMI, d-sg>isi'S
his fathers land. fed to tie vera-i-ia-
I-. Palmer stopped. If he noTed i'e
might step on the snake, and lie kI.S'y
100 well that most Of the s=..s.Ss n
that vicinity were venouISS =. 1T
once he felt TIE serpent winding aoous
his legs The next moment he heard
an angry hiss, and a sharp blow was
struck on the glass in his hand. In
voluntarily he dropped the glass and
leaped back. BIZ this movement he re-
leased the snake, on whose tail he had
been standing. and it glided away into
the grass. The glass had probably
saved his life. It's glitter attracted the
angry snake. and il struck At that IN
stead of at his hand,
At another time Mr.. Palmer was
sitting alone 1T table on which was
a glass of milk. He was leaning on
the table, his head in his hands,
wrapped in thought, when his atten-
ton was arrested by the sound of
some animal tapping milk from the
glass. Thinking it was the cat, Mr..
Palmer put out his hand To stroke her,
but instead felt tEe cold, clammy body
of a snake. Startled, he sprsng 20 his
feet and called FOR help. The natiTe
servants rushed in and killed the snake,
which measured seven FEET in length.
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that she doesn't fsave to talk back. It
preserves for her the mystery which
the man can never penetrate. He may
think his cloquence. his business, his
resources, his voice, have made an i'm
preston. She saws: He never can tell
certa iniy, for L AKA mute"
But" [ asked, ARE there not oc-
casionally menswho have only the seri-
Gus purpose of accomplishing their
business in employing dictation?"
20 yes" she replied, ''sonle business
of that nature would probably get
mixed up with it. But we are inclined
TO regard it as luxury nasinly, which
men are willing TO pay for
an sentimental luzNry?'
Not entirely. lbs an intellectual
luxury One always, finds great men
tai relief from any kind of worry by
taking it aloud. l have clients who
dictate their private family affairs, and
always feel better when they are
sure one person at leastsbas listened 20
them
- should think" remarked, 'tllat
your scheme, If what you say is true,
would meet with more patronage from
women than men."
Il have extended it to meet their re-
1uirements," she replied. Il have
opened an uptown branch for ladies
only. There is a constantly increasing
number of women who have an
overwecning desire to be heard.
Dictation is great relief, and
they are. willing to pay for it.
OF course, l employ men typevriters
in that branch, and it is astonishing
what volumes some of these women
viii talk when they have man pas
sive under their thumb. I charge some
of them two dollars an hour, and there
are several who never take their copy
away. But, as d rule. while the male
writer's are more reliable they are not
as profitable. They cost more and do
not draw generally"
What DO you mean by being more
reliable?"
Il mean that as soon as the women
/ establish a good line of business for
me they get married and stop. It is a
popularity of men that they can get
married without stopping"
She said this with slight disdain
and I came away.
l was feeling rather blue about a
week later. and thought l would take
friends advice and try little dicta-
ton. So l went down to my swell
directreSs.
But found that patent medicine
man had her place, and the elevator
boy told me that she had got married
herself and had gone to Florence.
Ny>, CpTNEvE
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WE DID WHAT WE COULD.
Fielding Reviews the Efforts Of the
Press y Behalf Of Chicago.
If the Fair Is Not Success Now Il VIII
,Sot I;e for Want of advertising. But
Rather 2 Lack of Appreciation
of Cook County.
IcnpxRrGHr isoa l

As member OF the great journalistic
army of the United States | do not
apologize for, but simply note a deep
thrill Of pride which comes over me at
the thought of the approaching vast
success OF the worlds fair at Chicago.
We have put our shoulders TO the
wheel; we have worked together IN
harmony to promote this magnificent
national entcrprise-al of us. from
the editor of the Dead River Clarion.
who signs himself ''fraternally yours"
to the great leader of metropolitan
journalism who never answers the let
ter. Now. as we for time lay aside
our pens TO scrape for railroad passes
to the city on the marsh, we do il with
Z feeling that what we are going to
see If we can get there for nothing)
is in q great measure the result of our
own labors. For we have given Chi
cago her character" and without it
she never could have held her Job.
As for the things which the neigh
bors send in upon such occasions, they
are much the same at any fair. 1t IS
hard to work Up great popular interest
in industrial exhibits, or, indeed. in in
dustry of any sort. We are going there
to loaf. And so we, as journalists,
have not laid much stress upon those
things. We have tried TO advertise the
natural advantages of the city which
do not have to work for living. bal.
simply exist for the interest, amuse-
ment or destruction of the visitor
These will draw the crowd and held it
permanently. l am informed, unless
prompt medical assistance arrives
allude to the climate, the q1iclsands,
the water. the strange and bacillarius
atmosphere and other phenomena,
which, to see, is a liberal education.
For my own part l am principally de-
sirous of seeing the great parade of
masked and mounted br;gands, gath
cred at random from the streets of Chi
cago. but organized and maintained as
an exhibit by the private charity of
the New York Sun. Their earnings
while not on parade will be used for
the support Of the city government,
by which, as | learn from several lead
ing eastern journals. they are tender
" nurtured and protected. They will
be led in the parade by Mayor Carter
Harrison unless they object to his
moral character as portrayed by the
journals referred to.
l have special interest in these brig
ands, owing to pleasant acquaintance
/ formed with them during the very
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ROYALTY AT THE FAIR.
Infanta Eulalie, Of Spain, VIII Be
One of Our Guests.
She Travels In Regal State-Ferdinand and
Isabella, of CASTLE. Were Her Distin-
guished Great-Grandparents-
for Her Reception.
COPYRIGHT, 1881

If there is anything in name Marie
Isabelle-Francoise de Paul.
Christine-Marie de la Pete, etc, In
fanta of Spain. may surely claim a
place among the elite. Infanta Eulalie
she is called for short, and she is the
most distinguished of the foreign
guests that the Columbian fair calls
to our shores. She represents her
royal sister-in-law, Christina, queen
regent of Spain. and is credited with
having an especial interest in the
woman's department at the fair.
Ferdinand and Isabella were very
great-grandparents of Infaata Eu-
lalie. 1t requires all OF her dainty
royal fingers to count the generations
of their descendants that have lived
,and died up to her time. She is num-
bered with the tenth. The pure blood
Of the CASTLE and Aragon has been
freely mingled with the German,
French and Italian in the four cen
turtles that have passed since the union
of Ferdinand and Isabella created
United Spain. Eulalie's pride Of an
cestry includes Charles ", emperor OF
Germany. who. being the grandson of
Ferdinand and Isabella. succeeded as
Charles l. to the throne of Spain. She
also reveres the memory of Louis
XIV, lie grand monarque, who was her
great-great- great great great grand
father. She counts number Of .Ital-
ian grendmothers more distinguished
for their royal lineage than for their
worthy lives. Isabella H., the exiled
queen of Spain, is her mother, and she
is the aunt of the boy king, Alphonse
XIII.
Infanta or Princess Eulalie was
born in Madrid February 10, 1864.
The consort of lisa bella H., Don Fran
cisco d'Assizi, her cousin, was a dimin-
utive parsonage, whose i'll health
seemed to preclude all hope of direct
succession to the throne. son, Al
phonse, ana three daughters, the
youngest of whom is Infanta Eula-
lie, were born to the royal pair. Court
gossips whispered and knowingly
nodded their heads concerning the pa
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water as viewed under the LarcerS
microscope and further magnified I've
thousand diameters by an optica. n
strument devised by Mr.. Dana ok the
sun. and now in the laboratory @: Eo>t
paper. Any person who remembers
the size of Mr.. Clevcland's wsisteoas
when viewed through that iaslr--
ment viii understand its power. Any
person who would not GO to Chicago 10
see such water as this must be de-
icicut in appreciation of tbs st-an1s
and wonGrous works of nature
And the water is all rss-2r. There
will be no delay in this part of the eN-
hibit, which is fortunate. since we
learn that nothing else Is ready. II
this is true, Chicago's embarrassment
win be considerable, bat we have done
our best TO deaden tie shock. We
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Odd Names of Postofficss-

: new poStoffice in Iowa has been
named Unique. One in kentucky has
been named Piano, which is not a mu-
steal designation in such 4 sense. O:h-
er odd new names in Kentucky are
Cyclone, Gertie. Nipp. Susie and Wheel
Mississippi has new po>toffice named
!ingeT and others called Pack and
Zero. Missouri has new ones named
Pepsin and Quote. Smoot and Tonic
are now Nebraska names: Ohio has
one called Uno: two Oklahoma Offices
are Moral and Tum; three in Tennessee
are called Cemetery, Let and Tag
Pittsburch Chronicle Televranh.
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ternity Of these children. The mater
nifty was unqnestioned. The children
of reigniDg queen are legitimate in
spite of comment.
Queen Isabella was deposed in 1868,
when Infanta Eulalie was but four
years old. The royal children accom-
panied her into exile and Paris became
their home. Signora Calderon de
la Barca, the English wife Of Span
ish diplomat, was intrusted with their
education. She had resided for a long
time in America and did not leave
them in ignorance concerning the land
that had brought fame and fortune to
the crown of Spain.
When AlphOnse MI. remounted the
throne in 1874 his royal sisters were
permitted to return to Spain, but as the
queen mother was denied that privi-
lege they remained with her in France
during their girlhood.
After the fashion eff royalty, a hus-
hand was found for Infanta Eulalie
among her own kinsInen. Her cousin,
Antoine Louis Philippe Marie. prince
Of observation-disclosures, son of Due de
Monpensier, was chosen. He was bonn
in Seville in 1856 and is two years her
junior. Madrid was the scene of their
nuptials IN 1886. and ii has since been
their home. They have two sons-Al-
phonso, seven, and Louis Fernando,
FIVE years of age. Just why these boys
have been so meagerIy endowed with
names is not apparent Perhaps as
they grow older they may attain to
royal patronvmics.
It would be interesting 70 know Just
what relationship these lads bear TO
their parents They arc the children
Of cousins who were each the children
/ of cousins. and so it seems TO have been
for centuries. Ferdinand and Isabella
were cousins. Not even a Philadelphia
lawyer would find time in these DAYS
70 6isentanCle the line OF consan-
guinity.
The princess has been for several
weeks in the hands 81 the dress,nak ers
and milliners 81 Paris. who have pre-
pared rousseau worthy of the ocea-
/ sion Of a visit to America. II would
Is require q supreme effort on their part
20 enable her 70 outshine in apparel
some of the fair Americans who will
greet her. Crowned heads are muck
more rarity in our great republic
than are royal fortunes
Prince Antoine viii accompany his
spouse on her journey, as win Mar
quise d'Areo-HerElosa, her lady in
waiting; the duke of TaIna.nes, who
was formerly grand master Of the
household OF Queen Isabella and who
is one OF the most popular members Of
the old Spanish nobility. and senior
lover. The comptroller OF the house
hold OF the princess The party sailed
from Cadiz April Il. TkeT VIII visit
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Will await in New York the arrival Of
the princess and her suite and will ex-
tend to them a royal welcome.
The apartments retained for the dis
tinguished party at the Hotel Waldorf
far exceed in sumptuous and magnifi-
cent appointments those of any castle
in Spain. real or fanciftsl. The ''Gobelin
chambre'' is hung with tapestries
worth a princes ransom. The mag
nifcently-carved furniture, the -four
post" bed, with its rich drapery, the
heavy curtains and portieres are fur
nishings worthy a kings abode. The
salon Henri ". is a far more luxurious
apartment than any ever occupied by
the monarch for whom it was named
The walls are hung with silk, dainty
damashs and gold are combined in the
furniture. portraits of Eulalie's French
ancestors are there, and it needs but
the presence of the fair princess her
self to make it indeed royal apart
ment.
New York has Spanish colony that
is eager to do honor to their distin-
gulShed cOunJryWOman, ana Uhe VlSlU
of the princess will be 4 continuous
fete. After doing" New York, the
nations guests will travel westward
in regal state, special palace cars be-
ing provided for them. 1t is safe to
assume that the journey will be rev.
elation to them in the way of railway
comfort.
Elaborate preparations have been
made in Chicago for their reception, and
the princess will find in this marvellous
city of the western world that all the
comforts of a royal home at her com
mand.
There will be no more interested Wis
,itor TO the woman's department at the
fair than this daughter of kings, and