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Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1894-05-04
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, 9ab es ni9t leidt 1T, einsn sutsn
Spsrntert au perfdfen, beitreitet pobl
Niemanb. Sur ipenise baben ausgea
fprp9enes Salent ba5u, unb aud biea
fen 1nub grobe 8iibnmtenntniB unb
bielfa9 te4niifr Geipanbtbeit gu Silfe
fommen, nm tpirtiib brau9bures gu
liefern. go ergibt eine priiflng bsr
beute nod betannteiten anb beliebteiten
Spsrn, baB In tsstItfsr 8eSiebung gar
bieles dusauIebeW iit. Inter Der groz
BEN 2ln5a9l finsen iitb nur ipenige
f0itlife perler, unb manbe treffli9e
muiicaliide 2eiituns m1B unter benz
unbsfrisbigen Serte lsiben. 3utpeilen
lit sipar aud bas llmgetebrte Der
Sa1. gu ben 'pisIsn Sdipisristeiten.
ipelde bic Seriteaung zines polItoms
men brau9baren unb glei9aeittg inz
tereiisnten, pirtfamen 2ibrettos bietet,
tommt pobl nod. in LETTER Reibe Der
llmitanb, bab .alIes f9on basetpeIen
iit", baB bas. mas nmitcalii4 pers
penbbar lein ioll unb Iein lam, audi
itpffli9 bef9rdnft lit. 60 betunbet
Elm 9eiammtiiberbfid Der Spsrn, bic
beute nod bel uns aur @uffiibrung gez
langen, in geipiiTer 8eaiebung cine eis
sentbiimli4e &rnutb Der seipGblten
Stoffe. Gs beriibrt in Der Shat foz
mild, ipenn unter ben etpa 80 Bis
100 sur 3eit in 9stradt fommenbeu
Spern minbeItens 25 ben eisentliC1en
Gntipidlungsitoff Der 6anblung auf
berlorene SD1ne obsr SO9ter begriins
bet baben. Cine flii9tise priifung
ruff uns na4itsbsnbe Seiipiele ins @es
bd9niB: Die ipeibe Dame (@eorg
Sropn); 2ucrsaia 8prsia (@endru);
Mariba (2poneD; Die Siibin (Rsba);
sSofepb in g(egbpten; Die beiben S4iiz
BEN (Wilbelm GtarD; Robert Der
9eufel; Sisaros 9odseit (Sisaro);
Grompster bon SGftinaen (Derner);
8sliiar (9lIamir); MisnoH; Ser 3iz
aeuner (Gran5); Grnani; precioid;
Ser S9tpur (8rtsitta); pariifal;
3roubabour (Wanrico); 2obengrin
(Ser5os BON 8rabant; Die So@idns
Der (Reainalb); @iesmunb (oer @dlz
fungi; Silpana; @loden bon gorns<
bile; Resimentsto6ter Wdrie); Die
perfaufte 8raut (9dns). Oieies @erz
sei9nib biirfte i'm @erglsi9 NIT ben
Spern, bic iitb pbne perlorene &in<
Der auf bic 9iibne gepagt babsn.
bod BON etpas iibertriebsnsr 2Gnge
5ein.
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1894-05-04

lpflanaen Su erregen, gum 8eI9auen
lipie 8eipunbetn au dnimiren peritebsn
unb ibren 3iped. bic aaufluit ipa91us
rufen, ftets unfeblbar errei6en. Sic
lernen audi il, turaer 3eit ben inbiDi>
biellen .9eI9mad ibrer Sunben tens
:en unb befrisbigen.
ssn Der beutIden Rei9sbauptitabt
on Der Spree fallen bsm 5remben ges
nib biele iltere Srauen auf fpelhe nit
einem a6rb9en bolI tleiner StrduBz
den, bic ii9 mebr bupd ibren Suft.
als bur9 ibre Garbenpra9t ausaei4>
men, bic StraBen burdpanbern nnb
In allen Dffentlihen 2ocalen gu finben
iinb. Geblt bisien antiqlrirten p9lus
menmdb9sn" audi bic 9lttractibitGt
Der Susenb, 10 befleibigen fie iia bod
Der itrupul0feiten Sauberteit. aln
balberpa6fenen MGbden, bic nit
8lumen bauiiren. feblt es iibrisens in
Berlin audi ni9t.
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1894-05-04

Gin getpaltiger gontrait beitebt Sipiz
fhen Der 8erliner unb Der Samburger
8lumsnbdnblerin. Sn Der lsbtsss
inunnten 9anbslsmetropole itsbt man
bralls Mdb9sn in Der f9muden 8ierz
lanbsra8ra9t, btm turasn buntfarbi>
Gen Rod. Der blenbsnb ipstBsn S9iirae
unb bsm eigentbiimlicben &opfpuBe, in
'befcheibener WeiIe ibre 8lumen fell btsz
ten. Die Samburger 8lumenmdbden
finb ungeip5bnlith suriidbaltenb; es
tomint nur fsbr ielten por, baB iie els
mem pafantsn, bon benz iie tpifen, bab
er eine befttmmte SGnblerin bsbpr5ugt,
NIT eini6mei6elnben @orten ibre
StrGuB9en anpreiien.
Mer bas beilige &om beIu9t bat,
pirb aus Grfabrung pifen, bab iih
bies BON BEN bortigsn 8lumsnmGb9en
asruoe nicht fagen 1GBt. Die f9paraa
du0igsn unb f4pdr5lodigen Soboloe
follsn tpis Elm @bclon ii6sr ben Srsmz
ben ber unb unter pertpirrenbem @ez
plappsr iperben tbm oft bon etnem ball
ben Oubsnb Sdnbe 5uglei6 liebli9
buftenbe @sil9sn bargeboten. Dsr
einmal unter bie1e Wtdbel gerGtb,
fommt niht cbne Elm tleinss Opfer bas
BON. 9m:in trOB ibrsr 3uOringli4s
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1894-05-04

feit, bic iib bur9 ibr bsiBss iiibli&ss
8lut pobl ertlGren ldBt, MAIDEN bic
rDmii6en 9lumenmdb9sn bur9aus
teinen unansenebmen @inbrud, Iopiel
lie aud einanber f9elten mOgen; Der
natiirli6e Wpblldilt ibrer Stimmen
IGBt ibr ungeitiimss @ebabrsn pergeIa
len. 0as fpanii9e 8lumsnmdb9en
Dirb niemals unttrlafen, einige ibrsr
fcl0niten 8lumen au ibrem eigenen
Shmud gu pertpenben. Cine prG9s
tide @rdndtbliitbe in ibrem rabenz
itbparasn 2odsnbaar 1T bas @sringits,
mas lie itc1 gDnnt. @s liegt in ibrer
Ratur. iie mub ein:n 9lumenIdmut
fdten unb elm fol4er lit ibr Elm 2e5eBs.
bebiirfniB, lpie bas golosne Sonnsns
liAt. Wdbrenb man ibre 8lumen trts
tii6 muItert, ebe man iicn gu einem
aaufe sati9lieBt. ipredsn tire bunteln
gluQen msbr. als Worte perrlDgsn.
SSbe 3unge 1T bdgssen Itets Oistrst.
SSIt elm dmerifaniI6es 8lumenmdbs
dlsn iiberbaupt bentbar2 DieIe Srage
lit oft perneint tporben. "Gs tpirb be-
bpuptet, bdb elm iunses Mdbban unIes
reg 2anbss, ips19es auf Der oTTenen
Stra5e i6ren 2ebsnsunter9alt gu pare
biensn perIuGen follts, in tur5er 3eit
aIle 8eT9eibsnbeit perlisren ipiirbe.
8ebilbete 9(meritanerinnen, ipelde ldns
Qtre 3eit i'm 9luslanbe gefsbt baben,
finb Der Meinung, oaB Die iunsen
S60nen unIerss 9anoss burtb i9re
Su9t na9 ,5lirtations" BON ibren
S9psitern ienIsits bss sroBen @uHsrs
unbortbeilIbaft dbItetben uno baB piez
fer Fsbler bsIonbers bel einem ameris
faniI9en 9lumenmdb9sn iiA in uns
ongsnebmer Deiie bsmsri5ar MAIDEN
tpiirbe. 0as lit elm berbes llrtbeil.
bas mir burhaus niht 3u bem uniris
Qsn MAIDEN fpollen.
SIN llsbrissn dibt es in 9tmsrita cine
glburt oes 8lumen6anosls, pel@s man
ipobl in tetnem dnberen 2anbc tennt.
bsu SanSel nit gebrau9ten 8lumen.
Ser grpbe &urus, pslbsr bei 9aIas
dTfG1en in ben bornebmen Clubs Der
grpBen Stdbts NIT @lumenpscorati9'
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1894-05-04

@iel Gbic unb Sc I9mad befunben
bic Barrier 8lumen6dnblerinnen pelz
9e ibre bufterben Wuaren tnter ppls
lenbeter 8eadtung Der Sarbeneffecte
in ibren 8ertaufsitdnbsn 5u arrangis
ren periteben. Oas 9tuee bes paFans
ten tpiro bur9 bic Sarbenprd9t in uns
pi0eritebli4er Weiie gefeiIelt unb bic
Observation-Disclosures t6nnen Itets
ii@er iein,ibre StrduB9en gegen einen
9uten Preis an ben Mann gu brin9en.
9ieIe Slumenmdb6en bsI6rGnten if
rem Sanbel ni9t blob duf StrGuB9en,
ipelde iie iibrigens nit Ieltener Siers
lidbfeit SuIammeniteuen; aud groBs
Bouquets fotpie SppfpflanSen in i95s
nen @remplaren balten iie fell, 10 bab
ail9 Der perlp0bnteIte @eI9maf befri:z
btgt wtrb. Sbren Barrier S9peItsrn
iteben bic biibI9en 8lumenmdb9sn
Der luItigen SaiIsrItabt an Der 9onau
bureaus ni9t na6. Sn ben ipges
nannten 8lumenmdrtten ipetteiIern
bic feI9en @ertGuferinnen unter einz
amber, bur9 ibr i4mudes 9teuBsre
tpie bur9 3uportpmmenbeit 9Gufer
aisuSieben. 9luberbem beiiBsn lie
einen 70 porsiigliben @ei9dftsinItintt,
baB lie, obne ibre &unben gu ermiieer
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1894-05-04
9ruaiDfe 6 pdnterin.

forsfdltig gsfamnelt. fortirt unb aufz
asfriIbt, um am folssnben Morgen an
bem 8uIen zines flotten 2abenmdbz
9sns ober in bem &nopflo9e zines unz
tsrnehmenben Glerts gu prangen. Sn
Nep Dort unb anberen grobsn Stdoz
ten aibt es 2eute, tpel9s bieisn 3tpeis
bes 8lumenbanbels als beIonbere
SpeciaIitdt nit groBem @rfOlgs bstreis
ben.
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1894-05-04
Grfannt. @ittlps M2ane

@rtannt. @ittips Miiller
(m sinem Drbgooos<2aben): rSIt
Der Stoff, ben sic mir ba fir 8rautz
f9leier ge5eigt bdben, du9 baltbdr?"-
Glert: n9altbar9 Den t0nnen Sic
Elm paar bunbert mai 9ebraudben.
Grad elmer tletnen pauie.) Sic, Mdz
odme, ba lam ih Sbnen nod cine rei=
aen6e Nopitdt seisen: SrunsenbIiis
tbens8rauttrdnse aus MietaI : Die
iinb gang unosripiiItIi9."
= Der pefiimiF. ,Tun,
Sans, 9u buit 9ebeiratbet = fuis ges
fGllt Dir bic Sa9'?" = ySu ipeibt
o., Nanbl, ba' lam ma bic erIten
iiinfunOanauaia Sa6r' mir @piFes
Tasen!"
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1894-05-04

men aetriebsn tpirb, lit enorm. Sos
baIb bepdrtiss SeitipttGten poriibsr
finb, tperben bic meiitens foifbarsn
8lurnsn BON BEN bteni itbarsn Sci tern
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1894-05-04
~ Observation-Disclosures. u

-IN L q { ne i { Il 9 c q q te.
pGinen @unI9 min ih Dir gelpdbren,
@tsrbliAer," Iaste mtIO ld4elno bic
See. p9tGIo ipria!" - pNun, odnn
toiinI4 ih MR." ent9sguete i4neu ge=
fabt bas fhldue Mani4entino, nbaB
ale meiut @iinIhe in @rfVGuUg ss-
hsn,"' vi
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1894-05-04
DInmsn mdo@en.

gsas bsiuanesr' Id ,uerit2 tuas Sulebt? Sii
bertiifen 8lumeH?
bbsr btr Ginger @eidid2 ober ber @dbIc,
rim geiit?
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1894-05-04

posr bur6 gluTSringli4teit lSitig 81
fdGsa, osren Snters6s fir lire ges
ianiltensn 8ilmen. 8ouqu:ts. SoPfs
The St. Johns herald., 1894-10-18
BEAVERS NOT EXTINCT.
Traces of the Busy Little Animals Found
 in the AdirOndacks.

Traces of the Busy Little Animals Found
 in the AdirOndacIES.
 1t has been supposed that beavers were long extinct in the Adirondacks, but fresh work by them has been found on the outlet of Lake Meacham, twenty-five miles south of Malone. This discovery has attracted a good deal of attention from the guides and hunters. Beavers feed on the bark of the birch, willow, alder and poplar, and it is their habit to lay by stores of food in the summer.
 Guides who were fishing on Meacham outlet recently found sticks of poplar of varying length and diameter, from half an inch to an inch, cut almost as neatly at each end as if the work could have been done with the knife. It was unmistakably the work of beavers. It would add largely to the charm of the Adirondaclzs if beavers were again to establish themselves there and erect their strange habitations. The game laws now forbid the trapping or kill ing of these animals at any time of the wear,
The St. Johns herald., 1894-10-18
AMERICAN RICE PAPER.
The Chinese Tree Is Now Successfully
 Grown in Florida.

Grown ia Florida.
 The rice paper tree, one of the most interesting of the flora of China, has recently been successfully experiment. ed with in Florida, where it now four ishes with other subtropical and Ori- ental species of trees and shrubs. When first transplanted in American soil the experimenters expressed doubts as to its hardness, fearing that it would be unable to stand the winters. All these fears have vanished, however, and it is now the universal opinion that it is as well adapted to the climate of this country as to that of the famed Flowery Kingdom.
 It is a small tree, growing to height of less than fifteen feet, with trunk CT stem from three to five inches in diameter It's canes, which vary in color according to season, are large, soft and downy, the form somewhat resembling that noticed in those of the castor bean plant. The celebrated rice paper, the product of this queer tree, is formed of thin slices of the pith, which is taken from the body of the tree in beautiful cylinders several inches in length.
 The Chinese workmen apply the blade of a sharp, straight knife to these cylinders, says the St. Louis Republic, and, turning them round either by rude machinery or by hand, dexterous- ly pare the pith from circumference to center. This operation makes roll of extra quality paper, the scroll being of equal thickness throughout. After a cylinder has thus been pared it is un- rolled and weights are placed upon it until the surface is rendered uniformly smooth throughout it's entire length.
 It is altogether probable that if rice paper making becomes an industry in the United States these primitive modes will be done away with.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-10-18
HE WAS MOVING.
And for . Wonder His Belongings Did
 Not Crowd the Van.

Not Crowd the Van.
 A young man on the South side had two rooms in flat building and had furnished them himself. He had all the comforts of home-such as fold ing bed, dresser and a set of boxing gloves. His lease expired on May 1, and he had some other rooms engaged, but he required two weeks Tn which to screw up his courage to the moving point, says the Chicago Record.
 He hired brawny man to do the packing. The carpets, the bookcase and the other traps, including two trunks, made a formidable showing, and when he telephoned the transfer company he said: 'Send one of your largest wagons" Next morning early there was a rap at his door and the brawny man said: ''Thc wagon is here. :"
 Before anything was carried down stairs he went out in front just to as- sure himself that the wagon was large enough. He found that it was. It re- sembled a storage warehouse on wheels. It was as large as the Barnum cage in which travel the two hippopo- tamil The driver sat on the roof, away up in the air, and the horses were dwarfed into ponies. When the back doors were opened there yawned a cavernous interior in which two sets could have danced quadrille There was no doubt about it being large enough. After all the earthly posses sions of the young man had been pushed into one corner, the captain of the van asked where the rest of the stuff was to be found.
 That's all," said the youna man.
 All! That's not enough for ballast. Why didn't you get wheelborrow?"
 II didn't know they had any wagons so big" stammered the humiliated young man. His property did make a paltry showing. When he paid the bill he was sorry that he hadn't used a wheelborrow.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-10-18
TIME AT THE NORTH POLE.
The Man Who First Reaches That Point
 Will Meet with Surprises

The Man Who First Reaches That Point
 Will Meet with Surprises.
 If ever the north pole is reached the adventurous spirits who get there will find that they have actually out stripped Father Time altogether; in fact, he will have given up the rate en- tirely, for at the northern and south ern extremities of the earth's axis there is no fixed time at all, says the London Globe. At any moment it can be noon or midnight, breakfast time or supper time, work time or play time, whichever one likes. Clocks will be fraud and delusion, for at the pole all degrees of longitude converge into one, and therefore all times. The pos abilities of such a position are endless. Not only, too, will the clocks be out, but the calendar as we'll. It can be, at will, either yesterday or to-day, or to- morrow. We have heard lot of fool ish people ask what the use and pleas ure can be of getting to the north pole, but little reflection will show us ad- vantages can be gained there which cannot be found in any other part of the globe. There, at any rate, instead of being like the poor inhabitants of lower attitudes, the slaves of time, we can turn the tables and be it's masters.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-10-18
TOOK HALF IN RATS.
How China's DowaGcr Empress Mitigated
 the Forec of the Pesti.ence.

the Force CT the Pestiience.
 A recent number of the North Chinc Herald, ju.t received in this city, tell this story of the Empress Dowager China:
 "A rather good story is told anon, the Chinese about the empress dowG ger and the plague. The cmpre keeps constantly burning, day ar night, in her palace, eighteen lamp which represent the eighteen prov inces of China. Not long ago one of tn lamps, although it received preciscl, the same attention as all the others. was burning very badly, and the enl press sent for the chief imperial as tronomer to learn the reason. Thi chief astronomer having carefully con sidered the matter and consulted tht archives. told the empress that th. lamp which was burning SO badly re- resented the province of Canton, whicl: was about to be afflicted with seriou. epidemic, in which the god of pesti- lence had Undermined to take off eight tenths of the people.
 ''The empress was very much cor cerned at being told this, and asked tht chief astronomer how,such a dreadful doom might be averted from eight tenths of her people in the province The chief astronomer said that the go(. might perhaps be moved by prayer and offerings, and everything was done tc placate him by the empress dowager's $ orders. After this the chief astrono- mer was asked what success had been achieved, and, after much considera- ton and consultation, he replied that the god of pestilence had consented to compromise-but this was absolutely the best he could do-for four-tenths human beings and four-tenths rats, Thus the frightful mortality of rats and human beings at Canton this spring is explained"
The St. Johns herald., 1894-10-18
HAVE THEIR OWN METHODS.
The Cassowaries Pursue q Plan of Their
 Own for Catching Fish.


 The methods employed by the casso- wary in catching fish differ materially from those of the common fsh-hawk. The fish-hawk employs very much the same methods as the birds of prey, while the cassowary fishes according to method of its own and uses good deal of strategy. A number of years ago I was standing near the bank of a river when l saw cassowary come down to the waters edge and stand for some minutes, apparently watching the water carefully. It then stepped into the river where it was about two feet deep, and, squatting down, spread its wings out, submerged them, the feath- CTS being spread and ruffied. The bird remained perfectly motionless and kept it's eye closed, as if in sleep. It remained in this position at least half an hour, when it suddenly closed its wings, and, strengthening its feathers, stepped out on the bank. Here it shook itself several times, whereupon num- Der of small fishes fell out of it's wings from amid it's feathers, which the bird immediately picked up and swallowed. The fishes had evidently mistaken the feathers for a kind of weed that grows along the river bank and which resem- bles the feathers of the cassowary. The smaller fishes often seek hiding place in these weeds to avoid the larger ones that prey upon them.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-10-18
THE GERMANS JOKE.
The Cute Smoker Plays His Game and
 Has It Returned.


 The following Fraud Upon an h. surance Company,"in in the Deutsche Ia bak-Zeitung, is certainly just a little too good to be true: A cunning fellow, who wanted to smoke the best cigars at the cheapest possible cost, bought one thousand cigars of the highest quality and corresponding price, and immediately insured the whole stock. When he had smoked the last of them he demanded seven hundred and fifty marks from the insurance company on the ground that the whole of his in- sured stock, ten boxes of cigars, had been consumed by fire! The Solomopic court decided in favor of heplaintiff. The company then brought an action of conspiracy against the smoker, ac- cusing him of having Intentionally put fire to his own cigars and deliberately destroyed his property. Hereupon the same wise court condemned the in- sured smoker to three months impris- Onme0t
The St. Johns herald., 1894-10-18
Original Phrasinp.

There are many wonderful dialects in existence, says IIarper's Magazine. One of these is what might be called the suburban domestic dialect; that used by servants in tho rural commu- mites in the daily routine of house work. Several examples have come to hand. A suburbanite was greeted, ore morning, as he entered his dining room, with this choice specimen: ''Mr. J., the colt has friz the pipes, They've bust, and the cellars all afioatr' The same domestic, while at work in the hall adjoining the library where her employer was writing, thinking he might prefer not to witness the opera tion of polishing the floor, entered the room, and said: MT. J., do you want the door cluz, or the curtains drew?"
The St. Johns herald., 1894-10-18
AN IMPRESSIVE TRAIL
4 Queer Man Who Made g Friend by Re-
 spect for His Mother.

gpect for His Mother.
 During my bohemian days it oc- cured that sat in an uuptown cafe with the sort of a man whom this incl dent will reveal, says writer in the New York Press.
 A withholding, unkempt chap, gaunt, shabby, with four days growth of beard, rushed in, looked wildly around and then hurried over to my compan- ion and took him aside. As result of their conversation the man with me turned to me and said in a whisper:
 ''I am going to ask you to loan me two dollars, but don't you do ii"
 Then he asked me and 1 refused the loan, and the gaunt man went unstead- fly out.
 ''Queer duck, that" said the man at the table with me; always getting into scrapes, taking out opera com panies and leaving them stranded. The last scrape he got Dto was in Montreal. He telegraphed home: I am in jail on a technicality, but don't tell mother , That struck me as very funny, Don't tell mother But he was always an Unbalanced ass, anyway"
 Now the thoughtfulness of his moth CT in the young man who wanted to borrow two dollars struck me as rather deserving trait, and l left my companion abruptly and followed him out. l saw enough of him to convince me that he was not a man of business, and not even an admirable character. However, l loaned him the two dol lars. Since then he has been consider ably in the public view in many ups and downs. But he is now coming home from the other side as the inn presario of a lot of continental stars. wish him well. Like Mark Twain l love a man who never shakes his moth CT. This one's name is Robert Grau.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-10-18
Origin of the Walking Stick.

Probably the patriarch's staff was the first adaptation of the walking stick and from it's first inception to the present day it has undergone almost endless changes. In 1701 footmen at tending gentlemen were forbidden to carry swords, these being replaced by a porter's staff. Thirty years later gentlemen were forbidden to carry swords, but allowed to carry large oak sticks. Before many years vanished and polished woods with ornamental heads came into use and in one form or another have held their own in public popularity.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-10-18
MONEY CAUSES TROUBLE.
Many Fierce Hatreds Begin at the Read.
 ing of fhe NIll.


 ing of fhe NIll.
 Of all things, after jealousy-oi which, indeed, it is part and parcel: the visible substance of the unseen feeling-money is the most potent factor in the creation of domestic rows. To see set of expectant heirs all wait ing on the reading of the will, and to note the disappointment of those who have not been well endowed, and their frantic jealousy of and fiery anger against those who have, is to see an object lesson in human nature among the most saddening and degrading that exist.
 By reason of those legacies all the former love is forgotten, and hatred like to nothing so much as the fire of hell takes its place. Brothers and sis ters glover at one another over the lump sum given to one and the small annuity doled out to another, with the laundering residuum that goes to perhaps the already richest member of the family, or the portion which ere ates the head out of one of the minor joints of the tail. How many affec- tions have received their death blow by the side of that divided heap of money-where each legatee thought himself defrauded by all that the oth- CTS had received, and where there were disappointed heads by as many as there were joints in the tail left in their natural condition.
 1t is an exceptional nature that can take coolly the disappointed expecta- tion formed by vanity or cupidity of the legacy to come after such and such a death, writes Mrs. Lynn Linton, in the Queen. For, indeed, money is the touch-stone par excellence of character, and baser hopes do sometimes so often mingle in even with love where the lover is poor and the beloved is wealthy. Then comes the crash, and then follows the row; and flames burst out where the flowers once bloomed and the sweet waters once flowed