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INTENDS TO ENTER HARVARD.

Fannitza Abdue Sultana Nalide is
the name of good-looking girl from
Beyrout who is now staying at quiet
residence in Brooklyn. She is the
cousin of the wealthiest Arab in the
far off city named, andis known among
her countrymsn ss "the Syrian Prin.
CESS" On the books at Harvard she
will be entered as Miss Alice Azeez,
and her object IN coming to this coun-
try is manifold. She wishes to obtain
educational honors, both here and in
England, and while in America will
study the system of government, the
people and occidental methods of do
ing things generally. Having done SO
she will return to Syria, where she
will found monument to the memory
Of her father. Her family has for
centuries been a ruling force in the
Orient. Miss Azeez, though only
nineteen years of age, has mastered
the Arabian, Assyrian, Grecian, Latin,
French, German and English Ian
guages. Specimens of her needlework
adorn the shelves of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, in New York City, and
the Peabody Museum, at Cambridge,
Mass.-Chlcago Herald.
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Rat in an Elephants Trunk.

The reason for the strange action of Jess,
tho circus elephant, which went on ram.
page, and after breaking her fastenings and
nearly wrecking the circus, roamed through
the streets OF San Francisco, CAL, has been
discovered. Jess has always been perfectly
docile and could be handled by any OF the
circus people. While she was being pursued
through the streets in the morning by her
keepers they noticed that the animal acted
as ii frenzied by freight. Finally. when she
allowed them to come near, one OIL the Keep
ers noticed something protruding from tho
end of her trunk. He pulled it out and
found that II was live ra:. The elephant
had been lying on the ground asleep, with
her trunk stretched in front OF her, and 1t
is supposed the rat ran up her trunk. me
rat contracted the muscles Of her trunk and
was held fast. When the rut had been re-
moved the elephant gave signs OF great sat-
isIaction and made no further resistance TO
being led back to the circus tent.
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German Preachers Salaries.

The Methodist Annual Conference
in Germany has been fixing the SAL
aries of all preachers within maxi
mum and minimum figures. The
largest sum given to any preacher is
$500 and the lowest $3.50. There are
gradations according as the preacher
is married, unmarried, OF has chill.
dren. In Berlin the Conference owns
property worth $50, 900, large adj
vance on the original cost. The
churches are rapidly approaching self
support, and rs soon as that is reached
the State will grant corporate rights
enabling them to bury the dead with
out consent from the State Church.
The Methodist deaconness are taking
quite prominent position through
out Germany. When in 1892 the
cholera ragged in Hamburg they placed
th emselves at the disposal of the city
authorities, and in return for their
devotion received fine home and
hospital in the suburbs of the city.
They are doing similar work to that
of the Sisters of Charity, but are held
in still higher esteem both in private
and in public.
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Commercial Products From Sharks,

Sharks, says writer in the Revue
Scientifque, furnish quite a number
Of valuable products. Thus, the liver
of the shark contains an oil of beau.
tiful color, that never becomes turbid,
and that possesses medicinal qualities
equal to those of cod liver oil. The
skin, after being dried, takes the pol
ish and hardness of mother of pearl.
It is marbled and bears resemblance
to fossil coral. 1t is used by jewelers.
for the manufacture of fancy objects,
by binders for making shsgreen. and
by cabinet makers for polishing wood.
The fins are highly priced by the Chi
nese, who pickle them and serve them
at the end of dinner as most deli.
cate hors d'euvre. A ton of fins
usually brings lat Sydney $40.
The Europeans, who do not yet ap.
preciate the fins of the shark as food
product, are content to convert them
into fish glue, which completes with
the sturgeon glue prepared in Russia.
This glue is employed for clarifying
beer, wine, and other liquors. 1t is
used also for the preparation of Eng
lish taffetas, as reagent in chemistry,
etc. The teeth of the shark are used
BY the inhabitants Of Ellis Islands for
the manufacture of weapons of war.
As for the flesh of the shark, that, des-
pite its oily taste, is eaten in certain
countries. 1t is employed, also, along
with the bones, in the preparation of
fertilizer. The Icelanders, who do
large business in sharks oil, send
out annually fleet of hundred YES
sells for the capture of the animal.
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Recording the Degree OF Hearing.

Mr.. Peet, who is at present study.
ing medicine in this city, has devised
a plan for testing and recording the
degree of hearing in deaf mutes. His
device is as follows: A set of num-
bered clocks, or clock works, varying
in their ticks from the sound of
watch to that of very loud clock,
might be used. The modus operandi
would be as follows: Before treat.
ment, each ear of the patient should
be tested, and the number of the
faintest clock that can be heard should
be registered. After course of treat
ment, the ears should again be tested,
and it can be asceriained ut once and
with certainty whether there is an
Improvement. During the tests, each
clock should, of course, always be at
a set distance from the ear-say one
inch, but should not touch any part
of the head, as the vibration would be
carried through the tissues, whereas
sound waves through the air are alone
wanted for record. New York Mail
and Express.
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their feet, and, thus bedizened, hope
to secure the affections of their lords.
At Shief, the men would not allow
my wife to approach or hold any in.
tercourse with the Arab women, using
opprobrious epithets when she tried
to make friendly overtures, with the
quaint result that whenever Mrs. Bent
advanced toward a group of females
they fled precipitately, like flock Of
sheep before a collie dog. These
women wear their dresses high in
front, and long behind; they are of
deep blue cotton, decorated with fine
embroidery and patches of yellow and
red sewn on in pattern.
It is the universal female dress in
Hadramut, and looks as if the fashion
had not changed since the days when
Hazarmaveth the patriarch settled in
that valley and gave it his name,
tGenesis K, 2S). The tall, tapering
straw hat worn by these women when
in the fields contributes with the mask
to make the Hadrami females as ex-
ternally repulsive as the most jealous
of husbands could desire. Nineteenth
Century.
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1t is the bubbling spring that flows gently,
the little rivuet which runs along day and
night, by the farmhouse, that is useful, rather
than the swollen flood or roaring cataract.
Niagara excites our wonder, and we stand
amazed at the power and greatness of God
there, "a He "pours it from the hollow of His
hand" But one Niagara is enough for the
continent or the world, while the same world
requires thousands and tens of thousands of
silver fountains and gently flowing riyulets
that water every farm and meadow, and
every garden, and that shall flow on every
day and every night. with their gentle nnin.
beauty. So With the acts of our lives. 1t Is
not by great deeds like those Of the martyrs,
but by the daily and quiet virtues of life, the
Christian temper, the good qualities of rela-
tives and friends, and all, that it is to be
done.-ALBERT BURNS.
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"THoU GOD sEEsT ME-"

A father and son went out together to steal
corn. When they came to the field, the
father climbed up on the fence and looked
carefully around, that no eye might see him.
He then began to fill his bag with the corn,
"Father," said the boy, 9Th re is one direc-
tion in which you did not look" "Ah, my
son." replied the father, Sand where is that?"
"Oh, father, you did not look up" The man
stricken conscience There is one whose pres
is more to be feared than thousand human
witnesses. There is one from whose eye, the
darkness hideth not. The blood and right
eousness Of the Lord Jesus Christ, alone can
cover sins in the day Of his fierce anger. This
is the sinners refuge.
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WHAT Kind OF SHOES TO WEAR.

A doctor says that it is great mis-
take for all women to suppose that the
pointed toe shoe is bad for the feet.
He adds that there are feet that
should wear nothing else and that are
hurt by the square toed boot that is
often substituted. The way to deter
mine what is best for the feet is to
place the stockinged foot upon the
floor and to notice where the big toe
comes. If it is on a line with the
others, then the square toed shoe is
required. If it decidedly projects be-
yond the others, the pointed toe il
better. New York Telegram.
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AN AGE OF SACHETS.

This is an age of sachets, their use
vying with the perfumed liquids and
oils. Even the so-called advanced
woman delights in all the sweet smell
ing accessories of the toilet, and in
those days of the next century when
woman suffrage shall have become an
accomplished fact We may see re-
vival of the famous Senate of women
appointed by Heliogabalus, whose
duty it was to ''settle all questions of
etiquette and dress, and also to decide
about the composition of cosmet1cs
and tie quantity of perfumes. -
New York Advertiser.
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SUMMER.

The season Of summer calls the vigorous
mind to profound contemplations. Inesti-
timable are those habits of thought and OBJ.
servation which convert nature into the
temple of God, and render all its different
scenes expressive of the various attributes OF
the Almighty mind. Every season speaks OF
the analogous character which we ought to
maintain. 1t is now the pride and glory OF
the year. The earth is covered with plente-
business, and the sun is pursuing, like giant,
his course through the heavens, dispensing
light and vigor over the world beneath him.
Are there no classes or conditions of men OF
whose character and duties this season Is de-
scriptive? Are there no moral lessons which
they who love the Lord may gather from that
sun which now goeth forth in his might
Is 1t not. in the first place, emblamattc to
us of the maturity OF human life, and OF the
virtues which that season ought to display?
To those Of that age, the spring, with all its
weakness and all its dangers, is past; an un-
seen arm has conducted them through the
dawn Of their infant journey, and led them
on to that mighty stage where the honors OF
time and eternity are to be won. Whatever
may be the station or condition in which they
are placed, there is yet to all some simple and
evident duty which they are called to per
form, some course which they are summoned
to run; and what Is far more, however mar.
row may be its bounds, or obscure its sttua-
alton, there Is some sphere In which their
influence extends, and In which, like the sum-
mer sun, they may difruse Joy and happiness
around them. In such seasons, let nature be
their instructor, and, whilethey bless the use
full light which pours gladness among the
dwellings Of men, let them remember that
they also were made to bless and improve
Lot them remember, that to them have now
arisen the heightened and enlightened days OF
life, when everything calls them to labor, that
the breath Of heaven has ripened all their
that there are ewes in heaven and earth which
look upon the course they are pursuing. and
that the honors of time, and the hopes Of i'm
mortality, alike depend upon the use which
they make of the summer Of their days.-C.
Brooks.
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That church is best where the gospel is
preached in the most simple and earnest
manner, where q godly man points to
brighter worlds and leads the way"
That family is the happicst who can come
together round the family altar with prayer
and praise, who can look upon the "vacant
chair" with resignation TO their Heavenly
Fathers will and lay bright flowers on new
made graves looking upward to a happy
meeting above the stars
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Banana Plantations Euincd

The late storm which passed. over the
island of Cuba, almost entirely DESTROYED the
banana plantations. The Norwegian fruiter,
Christian johnson, just arrived from Gihara,
brought probably the last cargo OF fruit from
Cuba this season. New York City for the
rest of the season will have to depend en-.
tirely on Jamaica and Central America Tor
the supply OF bananas.
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WOMAN'S WORLD.
PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR
FEMININE READERS.
LACE IN FANCY WORK.

Perfumed sachets of silk are orna-
mented with butterflies, flowers and
other designs in white lace. The fig
ures are appliqued and then crossed
with embroidery stitches. The effect
is very good, especially when gold
thread is used to outline the figures
and to define parts of the pattern of
the lace. The same ornaments are
applied to photograph frames of silk
and velvet.-New York Journal.
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No Scar, the Yellow Leaf.

Late tourists through the mountains have
been disappointed in the matter OF autumn
tints. The drought has exhausted the sap
before the frost has had IN opportunity to
touch the leaves with the gorgeous glorles OF
an American autumn.
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1t Eats Russian Thistle.

The Northwestern farmers have su !dHnly
found friend to dc for them wll' the
Government refused to appropriate 81 l.OO0,.
600 to do-destroy the Russian thistle. 1t is
O small green worm, less than an inch in
length, which feeds on tho weed and de-
stroys 1t. Literally millions OF these worms
are found on small area OF the ground
where the thistle grows, and they exhaust its
sap, when it withers. 1t is an annual plant,
growing up from the see1, so it does NOT
come up again from the root next year.
Wherever the seed falls and new plant
sprouts in the spring the worms will be
present to attend to its case. The worm Is
said to attack no other vegetation.
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Australia's Wheat Crop.
Australia hiss $500, 600 bushels OF wheat,
as against 2, 500, 900 lost year.
Evening journal., 1894-05-04
DOVGR'S ELUGHIY, NAUGHTY BOYS.
They Climb Among the Rafters OF tho
Opera House and Are Initiated Into the
Mysteries of tho women's Toiiet.

They Climb Among the Rafters OF tho
Opera House aud Are Initiated Into the
Mysteries of tho women's Toilet.
Special Correspondencs Evening Journal.
DOVER, May "A little incident oc-
CURED on Wednesday evening last in the
Opera House here while an entertainment
was in progress, that in all probability
will cost somebody some little money
besides trouble. The boys, namely,
Robert Parsons, James Truitt and
John 6reenly. anxious to see the enter
tainment and possibly having impure
thoughts In their mind, gained an
entrances TO the Opera House, sought the
stage, and by some means or other got
up In the rAfters just over the womsns
| dressing room From that vantage
ground they viewed the mystaries
and secrets OF the scenes behlud
the curtain" Not being salts.
fed with their seemingly good fortune,
they betrayed themselves by throwing
missiles, such as peanut hulls, etc on
the stage. AS soon as they we're discovered
they made their escape.
They fingered about town til yester-
| day noon, when they learned that a war
rant had been issued for their arrest
the trial TO come Of a. o'clock In the
afternoon. Parsons and Truitt took a
freight train at noon yesterday and did
not turn up until evening, when Par
sons's father went TO Wilmington aft,r
him
The trial will come of some time to-
day. Parsons, who is a newsb0y, was
seen on the streets this morning, crying
out the ssls Of papers as usual, seemingly
not caring for anything or anybody
Parsons is the boy who, only day or 50
ago, was arraigned before Magistrate
Jester for cruelty treating another news
boy, and for which he - already under
$25 bail to keep the peace.
Evening journal., 1894-05-04
OF INTEREST TO TENrERs.
The Annual Meeting OF the Brandywine
Summit Camp Meeting Association.

The Annual Meeting of the Brandywine
Summit Camp Meeting Association.
At the annual meeting Of the Brandy
wine Summit Camp Meeting Association
yesterday, it was decided to reduce the
price OF tents. Sixteen feet tents will
be rented for 81 80 for the season and
twenty y-four feet tents for ST. Tuesday,
June 19, was appointed the day for
location Of tents and the sale Of privi.
leges
The camp will commence on Monday,
August 6, aud on the previous Sunday
Elan Nj. f. Church will hold its quar-
terly meeting on the grounds. Rev J..
d. G Hanna will be In charge Of the
preaching and Rev. f. B. Short will
have charge OF the children's meeting.
The following officers were elected for
the year: President, John w Day; vice
president, Rev. Robert Watt; treasurer,
n. w. Johnson; secretary, w. N. Nc.
Cormick; trustees, Frank A. Mitchell,
A. NJ. Pierce, E. McGargle, II. w. John
son. Rev ]. B. Quigg, J K Handy, Rev.
G. II. Williams, l.. L. Grubb, s. II. Bay
nard. Several committees were appointed
and W. n. Mccormick was elected super.
intendent The trustees organized by
eleeting Rev. u. B. Quigg president OF
the hoard
Evening journal., 1894-05-04
TO ATTEND The 4. 0. H. CONVENTION.

Wilmingtonians Leave for Omaha This
Afternoon, Via Baltimore and Ohio
Special Train.
A special train composed Of three
sleepers aud a combination car, bearing
seventy Philadelphia passed through
this city over the Baltimore & Ohio rail
road at 10 30 this afternoon. This is
an excursion of the A. o H. Tourist
Club to Omaha, where the National Con.
vention of the Ancient Order Of Hiber.
mans will convene on Tuesday next.
The passengers on board We're dele.
gates.t the convention and their friends.
who went along for a trip.
The Wilmingtonians who boarded the
train at the Delaware avenue station,
were owen ]. Hession. Edward +. Kane,
T. j. King, p J. Ford, John T. Dickey,
Eugene Sayars and James Murray The
party will return 10 about ten days.
The route of the excursion will be
through Baltimore, Washington, Harpers
Ferry, Deer Park, Wheeling and Chicago,
arriving In Omaha at noon on Monday.
The journey home will be through
Canada to Niagara Falls and Buffalo.
Evening journal., 1894-05-04
ITALIAN oUARRYMEN FESTIVE.
II They Strike Gang of Negroes VIII BE
Put ON I'm Their Sfead.

II They Strike Gang OF Negroes VIII BE
Put on In Their Stead.
The Standard Lime and Stone Com
pany, proprietors of WOoddale quarries.
on the Landenberg branch of the B. & o.
railroad, anticipate trouble with their
Italian laborers. The sons Of sunny Italy
do not feel that they ere being properly
treated and are talking OF striking.
Yesterday afternoon ten or twelve
negroes boarded the 3 90 train at w. &
n. junction. jThey were under the
leadership of two white men, agents Of
the owners Of the quarry. Should the
Italians strike the negroes will replace
them
Yesterday afternoon twenty-five Ital
ians, employed i--n the quarry armed
themselves with clubs and stones for the
purpose Of preventing fifteen other sons
of Italy from going TO work These men
were shipped from Philadelphia Later
the Philadelphia nen we're reinforced by
the men from w. & n. Junction
This morning eight negroes we're put
to work. They were threatened but
there was no serious trouble. Il is the
intention of the proprietors Of the quarry
to discharge all the Italians and employ
nothing but negro help.
Evening journal., 1894-05-04
SPORTING NEWS NOTES.

Pitcher Hawke, of the Baltimore team,
Is getting into condition. He is said TO
have more speed than last year.
William Higgins, of this city, Is play
ing on the second base for the Scranton
Pennsylvania State League team.
The Water Lille Baseball Club has
been organized for the season with the
following players: J. Power, C; II
Shields, p; w Lally, 1b; J. Parsons. 2b; (;
NJ. Mulroonev. 30; F; jennings, S;
Butler, (; j. Welsh, rf; J.. Seelman, C.
J. Power, No. 105 Jackson street, will
receive challenges from clubs under
years Of age.
The Wilmington Wheel Club will
make a run to Salem, N. j., on Sunday.
The members will leave King street
wharf by boat at o'clock Dinner will
be taken at the Nelson House and the
club will return at 8. 30 N.
President Chris. Won der Abe, Of the
St Louis baseball club, was arrested in
Pittsburg Yesterday on caPias, at the
instance OF Mark Baldwin, late of the
Browns. Baldwin was, he claims, falsely
arrested in St. Louis twice, on charges
brought by Won der Abe, and now h'
wants $1,000 damages.
The Defiance Baseball Club would like
to play any team in the city or state
George Corrigan, manager, No. 3Ol
Adams street.
The unknown whom @. j. Morlarity
was to meet in Washington on May 10
Is Ed Donnelly. The match has beer
postponed TO June l on account Of DixoI
being billed for the former date
Evening journal., 1894-05-04
A BOMB IN THE CAMP.

The Street and Sewer Commissioners
Now Contemplate Extending washing
ton Street All the Way TO sheIlpot.
The Street and Sewer Commissioners
have thrown bomb into the camp OF
the Wilmington aud Philadelphia Turn
pike Company. II is seriously consider.
ing the Rdvisability Of opening Wash
ington street from Twenty.third street,
TO which 10 already runs, 20 Shellpot
This viii parallel the turnpike now in
the hands of the condemnation commits.
sioners. The distance from the upper
end of Washington street TO the city
limits is only eleven squares. For that dis.
tance the Street and Sewer Commissioners
will macadamize IL II is believed that
the property owners beyond that point
viii cheerfully give the right OF way foi
Washington street extended. Such
parallel road will seriously impair thl
revenue now derived from this end Of thl
WILMINGTON aud Philad8lphia turnpike
Evening journal., 1894-05-04
PART OF The EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM.

Veteran Says That the Library
should he CLOSED ON Decoration
Day.
There Is a movement on foot 20 have
the free library closed on May 30. which
is Decoration bay. Speaking OF the
matter war veteran said this morning
1.-THE library now belongs to the city
and Is part Of its educational system.
On Decoration Day we close our public
shools and oiiicea think
this mark OF respect for the
Union soldiers should be extended
to the library. II would inconvenience
no one. as the patrons OF the institution
would have ample notice aud could get
their books exchanged on the day before
IL Is probable that the q. A r committe,
will ask the management 10 close u. "
Evening journal., 1894-05-04
Hot shot for nIeconneII.

G. ]. Moriarity called at this office
this morning, and stated that his atten-
tion was called to the notice in last
nights EVENING JOURNAL Of we'll
known business man being ready TO back
Mcdonnell for $500 against any light.
weight I'm the state. He said: advise
this man not to invest in brick houses,
but save the money until July 4. But Il
he insists that Mcconnell Is a light
weight, l will cover the amount and
win fght bin before July 4 Moriarit,
also said that he wondered why Stannarc
does not "trim mp" some Of the light
weights, as he is not feather weight. He
says that when he fixes a weight TO fight,
Stannard goes down several pounds lower
than he can get and therefore 10 match
between them can be arranged.