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French Imitation Pearls.

The best grade of French imitation
pearls cannot be distinguished from real
ones, even by the most expert jewelers..
unless the string is handled, when the
difference in weight becomes apparent,
the real pearl being heavier than an imi-
tation one.
An American lady who herself owned
valuable jewels once told me that she
and her husband were shown on one oc-
casion by her Partisan jeweler cluster
of strings of pearls, half of which were
real and the other half imitation, and
they were requested to point out the
real ones. They both inspected the
pearls long and with the most minute
care, and finally indicated their choice
Tho gentleman had indeed fixed upon a
string of genuine ones, but the lady
though she continually wore and had
had in her possession for years mag.
nificent necklace of real pearls, forfeited
her claim for discrimination by picking
. out one of the imitation ones.
The very finest of the French imita
ton pearls are expensive, costing from
SO TO S15 string Oddly enough, thC
longer they are kept the better they be
come, as the passage of years lends q
yellow tinge to the wax. which causes
the pearls to look at once more lustrous
and more real. The pearls prepared fol
embroideries, dress trimmings. ETC., ar,
merely small beads filed with wax anG
lack the careful sdaping. as well as the
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In this year of 1893 gold, yellow, shin
ing, hcartlcss metal, mother of murders
and temptress to terrible privations. the
yellow root Of red evil, holds sway. In
the silver age we had combs and brush,
cs, buckles, toilet cases. picture frames
and other stuff cleaning with the paler
metal 1t wasn't rich enough for the
blood of New York. Gold has not dis
placed it here in the metropolis, but tri-
umphantly faunts itself above it.
A little time ago the satin slipper with
silver filagree toe and heel tip was quite
good enough for any one. But it only
cost from 500 to $40 Society insisted
on something more expensive, and now
New York's swell set rest satisfied as
they poke their gold tipped toes from
beneath Worth afternoon creations.
The gold tipped shoes are only for house
wear. You don't see 'em on Broadway.
Their use is to make poor callers envi-
Gus. than which there can he no greater
happiness.
This is bat one instance The men are
rs bad or worse. for IA pair of gold tipped
shoes at $3.50 are at least visible, and a
pair of SO gold sGspender buckles
haven't even that merit. The OILY use
for them is to show that one car stand
the pace.
The extravaganza Of wealthy people
in small personal expenditures has grown
out of all proportion. Trihes and trink-
-, e. ,s,+,, A
lean artists go begging, and authors OF
good books trim their cuffs.-New York
Cor. Pittsburg Dispatch
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President LincOln's Pew,

About 10 years ago the pew in which
Abraham Lincoln had sat while living
in Washington was removed from the
church where he had worshiped and
put up In the adjoining Sunday school
room. Now the church trustees have
voted to restore the pew and to mark it
with silver tablet suitably inscribed.
This reminds an old Washingtonian, who
attended the same church, of story.
He says that many of those who had
seats near Mr.. Lincoln's used to try to
fill their own pews so that they might
be invited into that of the president.
Zone person in particular call to mind
now" he continued. ''He never seemed
happy until his pew was filed, for Mr..
Lincoln's great hospitality sought him
out.
HE would wait out in the vestibule
and direct the old colored sexton to fill
his pew. Then just before the service
began he would walk up the aisle in such
an innocent way until opposite Lincoln's
pew. Then he'd pause and look around
as if to beg some one to take pity on
him, and right there the president would
rise, reach out that long arm, draw him
up and push him into the pew, almost
seating him, in his own innocent kind
ness. Rochester Post-Express.
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Fad For Large Portraits.

The proper caper just at present is to
have ones portrait done IN oil, a very de-
lightful caper if one can afford it. 1t is
about the costliest fad, however, which
has fastened itself on the money lockers
of the fashionables. Still society, so
called, is always willing to amuse itself
with fads. None of the fashionable
portrait artists care to devote their time
to portrait for which they will receive
less than $1,000.
Porter, who SO exquisitely painted Mrs.
Duncan Elliott when she was Miss Sallie
Hargous, has just completed one of Mrs.
Abram S. Hewitt. Mrs. Theodore Have
meyer caught the craze and has hanging
at the end entrance to the art gallery in
her town house on Madison avenue a
life size portrait of herself, fer which the
is said to have paid the artist, Muller
Vry, over $1,000. The same artists por-
trait of DR.. Depew cost the latter gem
tleman nearly 1900. Mrs. Havemeyer's
Is life size, and the canvas, together with
the frame, covers a space fully 10 feet
in width and length.
Mr.. Vry is very shortly to commence
a portrait of Mrs. Charles Yerkes, and
apropos of this it is said that in the lum-
Der room of her house in Chicago there
is stored away portrait of this hand
some woman for which she paid the ar
fist some $4,000. The story of the pic
ture is similar to that regarding Mrs.
Mackay's picture by a famous artist-it
too truthfully resembled her. = New
York Press
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wore upon her little finger.

cllc Wbio uIbu NV iiltit
"Do you want pledge of pardon for
your boldness," she said; "here it is"
And putting her whole soul into last,
playful smile she added: 1T is tails
man that will aid you in returning to
the right path, my dear brigand. Re-
member that should prefer to SEQ you
dead rather than unfaithful ora felon."
At these words, lightly uttered, the
masked man showed extraordinary emo
ton. Then, with reverence this time,
he Kissed the lady's hand and disap-
peared
When she entered the house, she found
the duke and Dom Maroufiot at the chess
table. The duke was so absorbed that
he did not even turn his head as she came
into the room. She thought that really
she was in the presence of n consummate
actor.
She leaned over his shoulder as he was
moving knight and suddenly turned
palette duke had no ring on his finger.
The poor marquise passed restless
night.
Toward morning she had scarcely
closed her eyes when she was awakened
by the sound of gunshots, followed by
the noise of galloping horses.
The duke at the head of his dragons
was returning to the chateau. He had
alighted and was taking off his pistols
when the marquise appeared.
Its all over" he called .out to her.
II brought down Gillou with single
shot. We had hardly. got outside the
park gate before the IDIOT came to us.
He threw himself between our horses
legs, so to speak. And for fear that
might not recognize him he cried out
4 am Gillou. Kill mel!
HE kneeled down 10 steps from me,
When he saw me aim my pistol at him,
he raised his hand in the air and held W
something brilliant; then he cried out
again, but don't know what he said
for the report of my pistol drowned his
voice.
"He fell, and one of my men picked
up the brilliant thing he held in his hand
If you want it, here it is. 1t shall be
your part of the booty. But there is q
little blood ON it.
The duke handed beautiful diamond
to the marquise. Recognizing her ring
she turned deathly pale, and suddenly
she read clearly in her heart. She had
never loved the duke, and now she de
tested him.-From the French.
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Charles H. wyman Whereas Charles S,,d H.
Emily wyman. County of Windham,
State of Vermont, has filed his libel for divorce
from and against Emily Wyman, now without
this State and in parts unknown, setting forth:
That on the second day of October, 1885, at
Pittsburgh in the County of Clinton, State of
New York, he was lawfully Joined in marriage
to the said Emily Wyman, that since his mar
rage he has duly observed and kept his mar
rilge covenants, but that the said Emily has not,
on her part, kept the marriage covenants, for
that she on, to wit: the Goth day of December,
1857, vii bout any cause or provocation, wiifully
deserted the petitioner and has ever since con-
t'nued such desertion, and praying that because
OF such desertion bill of divorce from the said
Emily Wyman may be granted him.
And it appearing that the said Emily Wyman
iswithout this State and in parts to the petition
CT uukuoNn, 30 that a summons cannot be served
upon her, II is ordered that notice OF the pen
dcncy Of said libel be given 10 s1td Emily
W yman by pubs sling he substance OF sa'd pc
tislon with this order three weeks successfully
in the Londonderry Sill TER. new paper PRINT
CT at Londonderry nj the County of "irdha''
the last OF which publications shall be at least
six weeks previous 20 the next staicdlcim oil 'he
Windham County Court TO be held al Newtahe
With aad for said County, on the seconu tues
,lav of September 1898, to which salt libel Is re-
turnable, which shah be deemed sufficient notice
to sad Emilv 10 appear ard answer to said Ebei
and abide Inc Old / of aid Court.
paced at HAT cbo,o in the County OF Wind
ran, MS I'D day of MAY, 1888
EoYSL TALLER, Clerk.
Mauin & Archibald, Attorneys for the
| :bpuglt
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HONDURAS REVOLUTIONS.
Natives Are Tired of Them, and They At
tract Little Attention.


The political condition of Spanish Hon
duras is represented by returning trav-
elers from that little republic to be in a
very disturbed condition. Business is
unsettled, and pending an adjustment
of the present difficulties no hope for an
amelioration of the existing state Of az
fairs can safely be entertained. The in,
ternal strife now prevailing there can,
not, it is said. be dignifed with the name
of revolution. It consists more of war;
ring factions, each eager to serve his
country for the money there may be in
it for himself and his supporters. A
few resolute men well equipped with
guns and ammunition and under good
leadership could easily wipe out the ma
rauding gang of political disturbers
whose acts of brigandage are retarding
the growth of the country, agitating
those who have invested their capital
there with assurances that they would
have fair prospect of getting good re-
turns and precipitating generally disrup-
ton and Generalization.
The native Honduranean Of the lower
order is represented to be not much
above the brute creation, being lazy.
slothful and shiftless, with not enough
pride or self respect to keep himself
clean. The upper classes are tolerably
well bred, but such finished adopts in
duplicity ard misrepresentation that
they are, as y rule, utterly unworthy of
belief. This is the statement made to a
reporter by gentleman who has only
recently returned from Honduras who
is familiar with the people and their
habits and who is a man of large means.
''If you should ever go to Honduras, -
said he, Ego there without a cent. If
you do this, You will come away no poor
er than when you put feet upon their
soil, but if you go there with money you
will inevitably be robbed. The people
there will either steal from you outright
or through the mockery of the tribunals
which they term courts"
The height of ambition Of the average
Honduranean is to have few silver
coins in his pockets. When this meta
morphosis takes place in his condition,
he works no longer, interests himself nc
further in anything which might cause
him to exercise either his hands or his
brains. but sleepily and drowsily con.
soles himself with the cheap rum which
is the native drink. This stuff, made
from sugar cane juice, is strong enough
to burn hole in a bar of railroad iron.
The banana is the diet of the poorer
classes. They gorge themselves with
this fruit, which can be easily obtained
for almost nothing, and wash down the
primitive nourishment with a glass OF
two of the sugar cane liquor. The com.
bination would kill an ostrich. New
Orleans Times-Democrat.
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Among railroad men Senator Stan
ford will be remembered as the man
who built the Central Pacific. Among
vineyard men he will be recalled as the
leading winegrower of California.
Horsemen will always mention him as
the breeder of Sunol, Palo Alto and
Arion, and likewise the owner of Palo
Alto ranch, the largest private horse
breeding establishment in the world.
Finally among educated people he will
live forever in history as the founder
and generous benefactor of Leland
Stanford university. Is not all this
distinction enough for one man who be-
gan life plain farmers boy and won
all his way himself2
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Arthur H. di Rougemont, from Paris,

Arthur H. di Rougemont, from Paris,
is now in this country soliciting moral
and financial backing for a new daily
newspaper to be established in that city.
He wants to combine in it the best fea-
lures of the American journal with a
clean morality and business uprightness.
M. di Rougemont believes that now is
the time, just when the French republic
has passed through its baptism of fire,
for new newspaper to start in and
guide it to higher, happier destinies. In
connection with the great moral awak-
ening which, we are told is prevalent
among the young men of France such a
newspaper would undoubtedly find it's
place and mission. Every American
must wish success to M. di Rougemont.
He was a delegate from France to the
Worlds press congress at Chicago and
charmed all no less by his exquisite man.
hers than by the admirable paper he read
IN English. DR.. Lyman Abbott, Henry
M. Field and Rev. G. H. Parkhurst are
among the men who commend M. di
Rougemont to the favor of the American
people.
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A Foreigners Idea,

Tha corrasron liant of /, pyom;nart
newspaper III france VINO mas peeh seht
10 the Chicago Worlds fair to write up
,a...ua 20 -. a., =, ooo 90 his lot
'""''0i'oi i''Vi'@' '''N ~ Wv va $50
ters touched upon tho contemplated
mont;r, 30 tho bopl,ers of tho Initial
o ~,
States IN ChicaGo IN september, Inc
following IL n translation of the part of
49,,
MS letter that rell'oS 10 inns supJect'
The bankers of the Uaited States hold
meeting or convention In Chicago this autumn.
IL Is society OF all the banks great aud little
md financial Institutions OF the United States
for cultiyatinQ the amenities OF Language and
department
The usual conversation of the fresher mon
eyed men of The woollywcst accident n Ia laine)
is, | am told, often quite shocking tun coup) 10
the more cultured ilnanciers of New York and
PHILADELPHIA.
Tho language of the checks, the drafts and
the wire messages is frequently ungrammatical,
full Of solecism and far from being CONNIE ii
faut.
The banker who keeps the store and sells the
groccries-what they call the grub stake-in
buckskin robe and sombrero will meet the
banker from New York. from Boston. from
Philadelphia in stovepipe (chapcau habite)
and broadcloth. From tho Indian Territory
viii come finnncicrS in red blankets aEl nose
rings and from the prairies and cotton fields
Irab leans and straw he, From Kentucky
win come money changers IN coonskin caps IA
:" F nr sa ooo ,oar. roo, rro,o.sor IN
the universities of finance has been hired to
teach the m mon men ,he ruaiments OF ther
and the bankers have the money. What more
simpler
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Tho Evidence of Neishhors.

Every famous legal case that comes
before the public shows renewed evil
dence of the interest neighbors take in
one another's affairs. In the Lizzie Bor-
den trial the neighbors were very sure
that nobody could have come in or Como
ont OF the house of the ill fated couple
on the morning of the murder without
the neighbors seeing it, not on that morn
ing or any other morning. When Miss
Borden innocently attempted to burn up
a useless old gown that had got paint on
It, she could not even do this without
having one Of these kindly guardians
thrust her head in at the window and
say, "Why, Lizzie, what on earth are
you burning up that dress for?"
If you move into new house, while
your furniture is being unloaded you
will discover, if you care to look, sections
of faces peeping out behind blinds here
and there watching to see what kind Of
belongings you have. If they are plain
and worn, the dear creatures will talk
among one another about your shabby
old things" and conclude that you can't
be much or you wouldn't have such fur
niture as that. Nay, it is very much in
evidence that the neighbors watch even
the garments on one another's clothes
lines to see whether the same do not
consist Of "a few old rags"
On the face of indubitable testimony
introduced in legal trials one wonders
whether really ones neighbors spend all
their time gazing out Of the window to
peer into the petty, personal affairs of
those who live next door to them. Maybe
when the millennium arrives it will per-
colate the understandings of nine-tenths
Of the inhabitants of this world that Gu
riosity about other peoples domestic and
personal affairs is one of the surest signs
of low bred individual. Personal Gu
riosity is infallible evidence of shallow
mind, an empty brain and vulgar breed
ing. The true mark of a refined, Guilt
waited individual is that he interests him
self in books, flowers, art, science, phi
lanthropy, music, economic questions
and other enlightening subjects-any-
thing and everything but other peoples
personal affairs.
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The lot of Lizzie Borden for the rest of
her life cannot be an enviable one. The
recollection Of the fiery ordeal through
which she has passed will try the iron
self control of even this woman with the
blood Of 10 generations of stern Puritan
ancestors in her veins. This inheritance
it must havc been that kept her up so
bravely during her trial. The trial will
70 on record as one of the most famous
in the history Of murder cases-as ia
nous as that of CARLYLE Harris. Let us
hope now that this extraordinarily nervy
sirl has been pronounced guiltless no
human being will ever manifest to her
by any word or sign that the accusation
against her is remembered. It is enough
that she has been pronounced guiltless
by jury of 10 men in unanimous yer.
dict. It is more than enough that she
will always have to remember the fright
full ordeal to which she has been sub
jected. It will haunt her like night
mare the rest of her days.
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In addition to his other woes, William
III august grandmother is seriously Of
Tended with him. and that is not the
least Of his misfortunes. He cannot sing
God save our grandmother with hearty
good will, for Queen Victoria knows how
to make people feel her displeasure as
heavily as any one alive. With the bad
luck of his army bill, with a socialist
revolution and reign impending, above
all with treaty Of commerce signed be-
tween France and Russia the very day
the result Of the German elections be-
came known, no wonder that about this
time Emperor Billy is cut up in his mind.
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ESTATE OF HANNAH STEWART.

STATE OF VERMONT, !
Disuict OF WESTMINSTER. To all persons inlt
esied in the estate OF Hannah Stewart IA =
of Londonderry, deceased, G.ce,lng. Whereas,
f. W Melendy has presented TO bis Court an
Instrument putporiing 10 he he last VIII OF s,;j
deceased, for PROBATE You are hereby noiGtd
thai inis Court well decide upon the proDae &
said lne.rument at the session thereof TO lie
held at ihe inu OF 1homas Evans in Townsheud
in said District, on the Cd. day of August A. d
ls92, when and where on may appear and con
test The same, if you see CO use.
Ziha II. Allbee, Register.
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ROYALTY and Our Fair,

Apparently the royalties of Europe are
going to let the Columbian exposition
severely alone. Gentle Infanta Eulalia
came because Columbus discovered
America. She is the only one. There
was a report that the crown prince of
Austria would honor himself BY visiting
the fair, but this Is not confirmed.
1t Is because royalties do not approve
of us. Our success in self government
is perpetual menace to them, and the
fact that we are growing rich under it
is adding insult to injury. Even when
the French exposition of 1890 was in
progress scarcely a monarch or prince
in Europe deigned to notice it. 1t is
their way of sitting down upon repub-
licanism.
We can afford to forgive them and
pity them. Still it would be the grace
full and popular thing if his highness the
Prince of Wales should pay Chicago a
visit during the summer some time. The
two greatest English speaking nations
on the globe are inextricably intertwined
by ties of both amity and commerce. OF
common origin, their sentiments, con.
victions and basiness methods must con.
tinue to be in sympathy to the worlds
end. If England and America stood to.
gether on great international questions,
they could conquer the earth. Come
over to our exposition, Wales, and we
will welcome you like republican. If
that revolution you sometimes dread is
really impending in Great Britain, it
may be well for you to make friends
with us. Then you will have good
place to come to when the sky falls.
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The disaster at Ford's theater in
Washington seems to have resulted from
. bad case Of military discipline. Colo
mel Ainsworth belongs to the staff Of
the regular army and treated all the
clerks in the building as If they had
been nero base menials such as pri-
vate soldiers are considered to be by
the average West Point graduate. He
sould not court martial tho clerks when
they complained of the dangerous state
Of the building, but he could and did
threaten them with discharge.
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One Of the charges brought against
the fair by foreign correspondents is
that the drinking water at Chicago is so
bad they cannot drink it. Poor things!
Since when, pray, did European news
paper men become water drinkers? Be-
sides that the water on the fair grounds
is filtered, and if it wasn't it would even
then be better and purer than that of
almost any city in Europe.
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PASSION TIDE,

The young child Jesus had n garden
Full of roses rare and red,
And thrice day he watered them
70 make q garland for his head.
When they wers full blown In the garden,
He called the Jewish children there,
And each did pluck himself roso
Until they stripped the garden bare.
"And, now. how will you make your garland
For not rose your path adornsS"
"But you forget" no answered them,
"rhat you have left me still the thorns."
They took the thorns and made garland
And placed IL on his shining head.
And where the roses should have shown
Were little drops of blood insEad.
Richard Henry Stoddard.
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Hthere is anything you can't most gen.
orally sometimes tell about, it is horse
race or financial scheme. Exactly when
your plans are laid dead sure to win you
a golden prize some obscure fellow you
never thought of will sneak in and snatch
it away from you, although you have bet
10 to on your own Judgment. Just SO
Lowlander, with bets of 10 to / on the
favorite Lamplighter against him, sneak
ed in and took the great New York Sub
urban stake of 5000.