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earlier in the year because the sixty five rule" had been applied to the pres ident and to some of the professors of an Irish Queens college. The late gov ernment had a clear case in law, for these dignitaries of the Irish colleges are as much servants of the state as any first-class clerk. Yet some of us could not repress a certain feeling of in- congruity between superannuation and the headship of a college. All our academic traditions were shocked at the notion of a man of siXty-five being considered too old to be the head of a house. As for professorships, we have been accustomed ito regard them as forms Of pension peculiarly fitted to de- serving old age. The whole affair could only be explained on the hypoth- esis that the Irish Queens colleges are mushroom growths, where antiquity meets with scant respect. But Parli- amentary paper which was issued yes- terday leads one to admit with regret that Oxford Is no better. The govern ing body of Exeter college have made new statute by which the rectorship Is no longer to be tenable for life At seVenty-five he is to retire on a pension of five hundred pounds year unless a two-thirds majority of the fellows de- clare that his retirement would be prej- ud1cial to the interests of the college. In no case can he go on beyond eighty. Tutors get even short shrift. The tu- torial fellow must retire at sixty-five unless he can get a two-thirds majori- ty to re-elect him, and in no case can he go on beyond seventy. It can hard ly be doubted that under the condi- tions of Oxford these are wise rules. The work of the college tutor is labori- ous and exacting, and most men are glad to get away from it long before they are sixty-fve. In the old days the college living was always available when the time came to retire, but fall ing tithes have made college livings less lucrative, and the more exacting consciences of recent development make some men object to taking orders.
 All these things make a rule for compulsory superannuation more ne- cessary than 1t used to be, lest colleges should be burdened with a new kind of tutorial incubus more damaging to their educational interests than the en- cumbrance of elderly unmarried fel- lows who drank port in the old-fash- toned common-room. But one cannot help grieving for the fate of the super annuated tutor. His pension will be a mere pittance compared with that of the Indian civilian, and his small in come and long vacation can hardly have enabled him to save. He will be too donnish to be endured except with in sight of the spire of St. Mary's, and meetings of convocation will be the chief amusement of his declining years. We must all be superannuated by-and- by, some with and some without pen sions, and perhaps the lot of the college don is not so much worse than that of other men. But one can well imagine the superannuated tutor grumbling to himself by the banks of the Isis at his bad judgment in not becoming Master of the Rolls, or something of that sort, where age does not matter.-London Daily News.
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full black lace. This makes into little
 rosettes that are distractingly pretty
 and slip" of pink taffeta, finished all
 down thief ront with quilting of the
 festooned lace at the hem held in place
 by rosettes of the same, is pretty
 enough to drive George into frenzy
 It may be that women will look to de-
 mure for anything in sleeves that fit
 tight over the shoulders and have their
 puffs set well below, but it will be
 hard to do our hair and lots of other
 things we have become accustomed to.
 Elaborate sleeves are still seen on new
 dresses, and here's pair of 'em in
 this picture, where they are garnished with double cascades and ornamented with silver buttons like those on the bodice. A figured gray woollen stuff is used for this dress, and it's fitted bod ice has vest of gray silk and double
 revers of the dress goods. Each of the latter is bordered with rufffe, the two extending into a double sailor collar in back. A wide corselet belt of gray silk fastens invisibly at the side and | the standing collar is ornamented with a gray bow in back
 Sleeves deemed too high can be brought to an approved outline by bind | ing wide ribbon about the puff just below the shoulder, thus drawing down | all the fulness to the shoulder outline. Tie the ribbon in a big bow, which em- phasizes the fulness just below the l shoulder. A dress of last seasons cut can thus take on q touch of freshness while it's owner looks about to decide
 on the cut for her new goods. If at the same time you cut off all the pretty high collar and rosettes about the neck of | the old gown and put in low frill, you will pass muster very well-that is, if your neck will. FLORETTE.
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A French medical authority has de- cided that death by falling from great heights is absolutely painless. He says that the mind acts with great rapidity for time, and then inconsistencies follows; and now a scoffer has come to how the Frenchman knows anything about it. The argument is made that mo man has fallen from the height of, say, a mile or so. and landed on the earth in a. condition to tell anything as to his feelings.
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Some interesting and important ex- periments are to be made at the Con- tinertal Iron works in Brooklyn, the object of which will be to determine whether it is possible to construct an absolutely fire proof building. The making of these tests will be the result of action taken by the Underwriters Tariff association, the Architectural league of New York and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The experiments will be conducted under the supervision of a board of experts, and all kinds of building material will be subjected to the severest possible tests. For long time efforts have been made to find some material and devise some method of construction that, when combined, would make an absolutely fireproof building, but it has SO far been found that in a great con- flagration the heat may become so in- tense that supporting columns will be seriously weakened.
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A railroad across Arabia, from Isma- dia on the Suez canal to the head of the Persian Gulf, following as nearly as possible the thirteenth degree of lati- tude for nearly a thousand miles, Is now under consideration. The engi- neering difficulties are not serious.
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The consul-general of Norway and Sweden at Hamburg has drawn up report on the probable advantages which the Kaiser Wilhelm sanaI will offer to the trade of Scandinavia. He points out that 1t is as yet too early to form a definite Judgment as to the inn portance of the canal to commerce and navigation, as the extent of the traffic will depend in & great measure on the reductions, if any, made in the tariff, which is considered too high. This much, however, he says, Is plain, that the new waterway deserves much more attention than is apparently paid to it in Sweden and Norway. The short pe- riod during which 1t has been opened has sufficed to show it's importance to Hamburg and other ports on the south shores of the North Sea, It is not yet possible, he remarks, to decide how far the carrying trade to and from Goth enbug, and perhaps Christiana also, can be directed through the canal Cattle are not allowed to be conveyed by the new route, but this prohibition possibly will be repealed, thus opening up safer route for the cattle trade be- tween Gothenburg and Hamburg. The consul-general thinks that it would be worth while to build large lighters for the conveyance of stone, which could be lowed across the comparatively smooth waters of the Belt and through the canal.
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Our small neighbor, Rhode Island, will have a special election next Wed nesday upon a proposed constitutional amendment providing for biennial cleo tions of State officers and members of the legislature, such elections to be held on the first "Wednesday of April in each alternate year, and the officers then elected to hold their offices for two years from the last Tuesday in
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superannuation in Rriti.b CoIleres,

The insidious process of superannua- tion is creeping in where one would least expect it There were heated dis cussions in both Houses of Parliament
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According to the will of the late H. O. Houghton, his interest in the publish dng firm of Houghton, Mifflin & Com pany is to continue and each of his children is to share alike in the profits; ,O00 is given in trust to each of his three daughters, the earnings of4which they are to devote to the benefit of the s'worthy poor" of Cambridge. At their death, their descendants are to carry on the work forever. The remainder of his property is equally divided among his children.
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Lace and Ribbons still of Service.

Lace of all kinds and ribbons are still to be lavishly used. All this is not as extravagant as it may seem, for the same lace does for different dresses, and really good ribbon can come on and off to the extent of it's owners patience. Half-inch ribbon finished at either edge with narrow lace run as full as possible is pulled on in old-time fashion, makes a finish that is delightfully."- characteristic of some of the modes now being adopted and belongs to the category of trimming that once in stock serves on gown after gown. Very quaint effects are gotten out of old rose pink ribbon edged with
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May next succeeding the day of their election. The proposed amendment all 50 provides that the State senate shall consist of one member from each town or city in the State; that the lieuten- ant governor shall preside, but shall have the right to vote only in case of equal division of the members, and that the house of representatives shall new CT exceed seventy-two members, but each town or city shall be entitled to at least one member, and no town or city shall have more than one-sixth the whole number of members to which the house Is limited.
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The Peoples Traction company of Philadelphia 8 few days ago accepted the resignation of fifteen of the best conductors on their lines, and did so with regret. Following the name of each of the men who resigned the words "Resigned, O. K.,' were entered on the company's record book. That meant that any of the fifteen who applied for work at any time in the future could get it if there was the slightest chance. The young men were all students in the Jefferson Medical college, and the superintendent of the line says they made the best conductors employed by the company. All told this summer, more than fifty college students were on the payroll of the company. Their earnings averaged about $15 a week. and as they were able to live for about S5 a week, most of them have money enough to pay their expenses this year at college.
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Over one of the doors of the new mem orial church to Emperor William I. at Berlin is served the inscription: What camels the fathers of our largest city once were May ?, 1895. Not even three hundred thousand marks shab- byv' The architect tries to explain it words in jest upon the plans, and an Italian workman, who did not under stand German, chiselled them as he found them. The Socialists are not satisfied with the explanation, but look on the inscription as a. deliberate insult on the part of the court.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-05-18
LIKE The GOOD. GOD.

His own face he had never seen before
In all his recluse life. and he had grown
Almost to manhood knowing nothing morp
Than the poor cell In which they two alone
He and his father, dwelt.
lcant tell why
His father fed into the wilderness
But for some wrong he loathed society
Taking his infant son from such distress
As he himself had felt. he fed his mind
With all experience taught Of good and bad;
So the boy knew by name each horrid kind
or crime, each lovely virtue: and he had
such images. to Tighten or delight.
AS MS thoughts made by day. his dreams by
night. ~.
With form and feature fancy did deck out
A sweet angelic choir. devils rout.
But Ono, OF whom his father oftenest spoke,
Remained only Q name; no image woke
Into HIS fancy whom he heard that all
Came from that One--from that Ones simple
word: 30
The suns uprising and the sparrow's fall:
For, white he heard such things, he thought
mat this source Of ali Life suffered deaths
- reign; ~ 80
Himself secure. permitted mortal pain.
So the boy tried to imagine good and evil
Expressed in one face--GabrieI and the devil
Now the Ioveliest thing
That boy was'-manly past imagining,
Hardy with abstinence, with high thoughts
8 ine.f ,.H t&1s
Nature tn him had made her work divine
but what he was he knew not till one day
When rain had fallen in that desert place:
pool OF water mirrored his own face,
And, seeing It, he humbly kneit to pray
marion Wilcox. In Harper's Magazine.
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distance, when l heard the ominous
roar ahead, and in few seconds could
distinguish the glitter of the engines
headlight bearing toward me. The
train was just over mile from me.
rushing on at express speed. With a
groan ! calculated: TOO later
At that instant my eye fell upon a
ghastly-looking structure by the side
OF the track, looming grimly through
the darkness. 1t resembled a one
armed gallows with an arm hanging
from it! For moment l thought it
must have been fearful fancy con-
Jured up by the thought of Fenthurst's
dreadful fate, but Immediately l re-
membered that this strengthening
apparition was none other than a mail.
bag suspended from q post-in fact,
part OF the apparatus by which a train
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NAPoLEoN's TRANSFORMATION

From the Corsicsn Nobleman Into the
iifeg aa French General
On March 90 he reached the head
quarters of the army of Italy. The
command was assumed with simple and
appropriate ceremonial. The short des-
patch to the directory announcing this
momentous event was signed Bona
parte." The Corsican nobleman di Boun-
aparte was now transformed into the
French general Bonapartc. The process
had been long and difficult: Loyal Cor
sican; merccnary cosmopolitan, ready
as an expert artillery officer for service
in any land or under any banner; last
~. Frenchman, liberal, and revolution
airy. So far he had been consistent in
each character; for years to come he
remained stationary as serene French
patriot, always. of course, with an eve
to the main chance. As events un-
folded, the transformation began
again; and the "adroit" man, taking
advantage of every chance, became
once more cosmopolitan--this time
not as soldier, but as statesman;
not as servant, but as an imperator
universalis, too large for single land,
determined to reunite once more all
western Christendom, and, like the
great German Charles thousand years
before, make the imperial limits con-
terminons with those of orthodox
Christianity. The power of this en-
pire was, however, to rest on a Latin,
not on o Teuton; not on Germany, but
on France. Its splendor was not to be
embodied in the Eternal city, but in
Paris; aud its destiny was not to bring
In Christian millennium for the glory
Ut God. but a scientific equilibrium Of
social states to the glory of Napoleon's
dynasty. permanent because universal
ly beneficent-Prof Sloane, in Gen.
tury.
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going at full speed picks up the mails
The express train that was coming had
asPostat car attacked to it. From Sc
side ofthe car a strong rope net would
be laid out, catching. the bag saw sus-
| pended before me.
As a bag would be deposited from
| the train in a somewhat similar man
ner, there ought to have been a man
on guard. I afterward found he had
left his post and gone to have a chat
with his friend in the CHEEKY signal
box
Asmad and desperate idea took pos
session of me. The train that was
bearing down, and which-weuld rench
me in one minute, should pick me up
with the mailsl Igraspeds the idea of
the thing in second. If I could hang
on to that bag so that it came between
me and the net it would break the
force of the shock, and the net would
receive me as.well as the bag. Forum
ately am small man. The bag hung
just over my head. i jumped at it,
seized 1t, drew myself up parallel with
it, held it firmly at the top, where it
swung by hook. and drew my legs up
SO as to present as small a compass as
possible. It did not take me half q
minute to do all this. Then / waited.
1t was but few seconds, but it seemed
hours. l heard the roar of the ap-
preaching train. Then the engine
dashed past me. / shall never forget
the row of lighted carriages passing
about foot away from me-closer
than even that, ] suppose-and hang
ing and waiting for the crash to come.
And it came. There was dull thud
"a whir and a rush, and all was dark.
When l came to my senses ] was
lying on the floor of the postal van. /
Two men in their shirt sleeves were
busily engaged in sorting letters at q
rack. felt bruised and stiff all over,
and found my left arm was bound in
a sling made out of handkerchief.
Where are we?" / asked.
They turned around.
'Oh, you've come to, have you?" said |
one OF them. snow perhaps you'll |
give an account Of yourself. It's pre-
;ious luck you're here at all, let me
tell you. for if you'd been taller man
we should only have got part of you in |
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STRONG NERVES

D pend upon pure, rich, red, noprishipg,
st renGth-giving blood. The nerves derive
th cir sustenance from the blood and when
tn ey are weak it is because they do not re-
edve the nourishment needed. The true
cttre for nervousness will not be found in
Of 'iate or sedative compounds. These only
all.ay the symptoms.
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the net. As it is, you've got your col.
lar bone broken. We've tied it ND a
bit. Now, perhaps you'll speak out;
and look here, if we find you've been
lodging the police, don't you go think
ing you'll give 'em the slip any fur
Their. The mail van amt a refuge of
that Sort
told them the motive that had
| prompted me to take the desperate
step l had done. They wouldn't be-
lieve 1t at first. Luckily, though, 1 had
put the evening paper and my diary in
my pocket, SO I showed them the par
agraph and the entry. They were
civil enough then.
well, sir, we shall be in Silkminster
about three or a little later. l hope
you'll be able to save the poor beggar.
You must excuse our turning to work
again, and the best thing for you will
be to rest yourself"
They piled quantity of empty
mail bags on the floor and made me a
rough shalsedown. Before he went to
his work again the other one said:
-A"s Ply yVu hCfSN tuouRnJ Oh
p better way out of the difficulty than
coming in here so sudden like"
There was no other way"
Eyes there was, SIR"
What was that?"
"Why, You should have got the sig.
mailman to telegraph to Silkminster; he
could have done it all right
What an idiot had been, after ALI
However, should be in time to stop
the execution.
A little after three we drew up at
Silkminster station. There was a DO
liceman on the platform, and at once
told my story to him. the result being
that we drove around to the jail and
insisted upon seeing the governor. OF
course he was deeply interested In
what l had to tell him, and at once
made arrangements to stop the execu-
ton. The home secretary was COM
with by means of special
wire. Fortunately, he happened to be
In town, and after couple of hours Of
anxious suspense reprieve was re-
ceived from him. SSH,
"Well,' said the governor, 81 don't
know which / ought to congratulate
most, Mr.. Fenthurst or yourself, for you
have both had a most narrow escape"
Little remains to be told. soon
Identified the condemned man as the
person whom | had met in the train. |
de also turned out to be the son of nv
Did friend, as / had fully expected. |
After the due fermalities he was dis
Suspicion having strongly |
attached itself to his name, however,
lie was very miserable, until about
ortnight afterward the real murderer
vas discovered and captured. Charles
'enthurst and myself became fast |
riends, and, although 1 was fearfully
halzen and upset for some weeks after
he adventure, never regretted the
light on which | was picked up with
be mails.-Strand Magazine.
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HOODS sARsAPARILLA

Removes the cause by purifying and en-
riching the blood, giving to it Just those
qualities which are demanded for the
proper support of tho nervous system.
Hundreds Of women who once suffered
from nervousness, write that they have
taken Hoods Sarsaparilla and seriousness
has disappeared This was because Hoods
SarsapariIla purified their blood.
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my wife suffered many years with va
rious troubles, severe headaches, debility,
nervousness, indigestion and dyspepsia.
She has been treated by different doc
tors, and tried different remedies, but
Hoods Sarsaparilla has done more for her
than anything else. We consider Hoods
Sarsaparilla q most indispensable medi-
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-05-18
-"John Browns BODY. wa. writ

John Browns Body" was written
by Charles s. Hall, of Charlestown,
Mass The melody was negro tune,
sung in South Carolina and Georgia,
at the religious meetings of the slaves,
to the words: 'Say, Brothers, Will You
Meet Me-" Itwas first played by the
band of the Boston Light infantry in
1851. In 1864 it crossed the ocean and
became q great favorite in London.
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Doctor Ito fair patient)-''Pat out
your tongue" Weanwhile he writes
out prescription.) There that will
do" Miss Chatterbox-'But, doctor.
you did not even look at my tongue!''
Dcctor--"No. only wanted you to
keep quiet while wrote the prescrip~
ton. "z~Geillustreed Stuiversblad.
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Mrs. Gramercy-It seems pity that
after studying so many years, and just
as she was getting q practice, she
should marry this interesting young
invalid she was treating. faA
Mrs. Park-l can't understand it at
all, my dear; and, just Think he was
her best paying patient. Puck.
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cine for family use, and for all disorders
caused by torpid liver and impure blood,
In fact It Is Q wonderful health restorer to
the whole system. Hoods Sarsaparilla has
proved itself in my wife's case, and we
can faithfully recommend its use in every
family" JACOB RoMMxL, Morrison, Mo.