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COUNTRY scHooL-TEAcAERs.
They Earn About as Much as Cobblers or
 Dressmakers.

In the country, whether in the east or west, north or south, the compen- ation to school-teachers is so small that it seems wonderful that those who receive these salaries can live on them. These salaries range from S100 a year to 5000 a year. The average for a school year of about seven months is S31S.36 for men and $262.92 for women. The duties of country sehool-teaehel usually includes cleaning the school house and building fires. These duties are not always considered hardships by the persons who take such posts, as the women in all save exceptional eases have been accustomed to such work at home, and the men find it easy enough to get pupils to do the work in eX- change for favors in school. In the country schools of the United States there are three times as many women as men, the percentage being little greater than in the cities.
 Most country schools have only one teacher, and that teacher is required to instruct children of all ages and in all branches up to grammar and algebra. The amount Of either grammar or algebra dispensed in these schools is quite inconsiderable, as these are branches of knowledge not in demand, For what these country teachers do. as the schools are at present estab- lished, it is likely that they are quite adequately paid A village school master will earn as much in the year az the cobbler; the schoolmistress will make as much in the year as the dress maker. They do not belong, as a gen. eral thing, to a class better educated than the cobbler or dressmalSer, and they do not work any harder. Those of them who have thought about their calling, and who have ever been moved to feel that great responsibilities de- volved upon them, have realized that the conditions were such that they could do next to nothing, and usually they have given over any efforts to se- cure change in school administration. Forum.
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A CALIFORNIA BEE VILLAGE.
Where the Honey Is Found That Riva1a
 the Nectar of the Godg

the Nectar of the Gods.
 The month of May is the carnival of bee life in California, and at no other time of the year is the half work. half play of "bee-ranching' so wholly fasci- hating and delightful. After spring showers are over, a delicious warmth and fragrance steam up from the cir cling foothills, where every notch ana bvway is eholed with towering wild- wood. The long blooming slopes stretch sunnily to fruitful valleys, and the whole riotous floral zone is voiced by honey-hunting bees. Their lilli- putian cities are seen just without the open arms of canyons, the white hives arranged with the precision of dwell- ings along the streets. Sometimes these mimic thoroughfares ae shaded by scattering oaks and sumac or the green umbrellas of elderberry bushes, now fringed with freighted, creamy clusters. Where there are no indigen- ous trees if is not unusual for the thrifty apiarist to plant grape-yines and orchard rows between the hives, which serve the double purpose of shade and forage. A neighboring bee ranch is often four to five miles dis tant, and again this Palestine of the new world shows leagues on leagues of ideal pasturage, left solely to the har- vesting of wild bees and various species of wasp and humming- or to thas interesting lover of sweets, the Mex ican honey-ant.
 4 typical western apiary belongs to the foot-hill region of southern Califor- mia. Here the atmosphere has that de- gree of heat and drYness essential to an abundant saceharine flow, and the high gravelly soil grows luxuriance Of nectar bearing plants, the chief of which are the numerous varieties of sage. During the blossoming of these aromatic spikes the amount of honey stored by strong colonies is almost in- credible. A summers product will often average 75 to 200 pounds q hive, and instances are not uncommon where single Italian swarm has produced l,e00 pounds of extracted honey i'll one year. This sage honey has rare virtues, and is said to be more deleet- able than the famed nectar of Hymet- tus or Chamouni, and whiter and finer favored than the celebrated honey combs of Atacama. To set ones teeth through an exqnisitely frail comb brimming with the delicate nectar of the white sage-Audibertia--i gust atory relish not to be otherwise equaled More especially is this true if one has all the eoncomitants- warm clean stone under a singing syca- more, mountain air spieed with count less odors, the monotone of bees at their voluptuous toil, d landscape bil- lowing up to gigantic sumfnits, and q stream hard by 10 keep the shout up in the heart.-Ninetta Eames, in Har- per's Magazine.
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Decay of the Russian Nobility.

Some startling statistics of the decay of the Russian nobility are given in . list of mortgaged estates, furnished by the British consul at St. Petersburg At present more than 100000 estates, or fl per cent. of the entire area owned by nobles, are burdened by mortgages, and the amount of money advanced on them has reached $632, ,500,O00, of which S5s6.000,0oo remains unpaid. The No bility Land bank, created by the gov ernment to make loans to stranded landlords, has advanced nearly it's en- tire capital of S25o, ,o0o, GOO, and received but little in return. Chicago Inter Ocean.
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widespread. Even at that, one of these needlewomen, who is d Frenchwoman by birth, caused more than a ripple of excitement in the house one day by complaining with Sarah Bernhardt, Joan-of-Arc earnestness, that she had ''nevair before been asked not even in these insufferable Etats Unis, to put cotton lace on pink silk crepe de chine! But no! Neyair.'
 Isn't it perfectly ridiculous, the way peorle will talk about such trifes? Of course, a dressmaker may be excused, for to her business detail is no trihe- but the others!
 It is a quiet boarding-house of the better sort, stationed on Feast Thirty eighth street, not far from the avenue which has thus become a veritahle whis- pering gallery of rumor, spied on by reporters and sketched by artists, though any one of ten thousand other houses would do as we'll for q model. It is kept by Mrs. Annie Crawford a widow, who gathers around her table, besides Mrs. Dimmicl, Lieut.. and Mrs. Parker, sister and brother-in-law of the ex-president's fiancee, Prof. Carpenter, of Columbia; a son of the late pr. Shedd with his wife; Mir and Mrs. c L. Mer- riam; Mrs. Sarah T. Robeson, and an eX Bostonian widow named Monroe with her daughter. Decidedly quiet, intel llgent and reasonable lot of people.
 All sorts of opposite characteristics have been by gossips attributed to Mrs. Dlmmlek. She is really a quiet little woman whose years it would be no sin to name, as they are not many. She IS no beauty, but bright and piquant ana gifted with plenty of tact and the faculty of managing people for their good py the gentlest and quietest means. She is not bit new" likes
 lI1iby' and the opera, reads books. makes embroidery, collects autographs, talks politics little but well, hates mice and hopes Allison may be noIui- hated.
 From this Mir Allison is certainly Jusl1ed in assuming that he is the IaVoflte presidential candidate of Gen. Harrison also!
 when MT. Harrison was in the Adiron- uaeks last year, he selected a quiet spot ln the southwestern part of the woods, rather away from the portion most af- 1ected by the tourists and the big ho- Sels, near tie Fulton chain of lakes and within easy hail of the Adirondack
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CONCERNING THE TRANCE.
How It May Be Distinguished from Ger
 tain Death.

How It May Be Disting oished from Ger
 tain Death.
 According to Quain, a respectable au- thority, the onset of the state of trance is usually sudden. It may succeed an l,ysteroid convulsion and in some other cases the onset has been attended with an aura, resembling the globus hys- tericus, or the sensation which pre- cedes hysteroid and epileptie fits, as of ball rising from the abdomen to the throat. During this state the coun- tenance is usually extremely pale The limbs are relaXeed. The eyelids arr usually closed, and may resist and culver on attempts to open them. The eyeballs are directly upward in most cases; they often deviate from the mid dle line and sometimes diverge slightly. The mental functions seem in most cases to be in complete abeyance. No manifestations of consciousness can be observed or elicited by the most powerful cutaneous stimulation, and OH recovery no recollection of the state is preserved. But in some cases voIi- tion only is lost and the patient is aware of all that passes, although un- able to give the slightest evidence of consciousness. The usual condition is that of an entire absence of all evidence Of mental activity. The duration of trance has varied from a few hours or days to several weeks, months or even U year. The diagnosis of trance rests on the impossibility of rousing the sleeper. In case of death trance, in which no signs of vitality can be reeog- nied, the presence of life may be ascer- tained by the absence of any signs of decomposition, by the normal appear ance of the fundus oculi as seen with the opthalmoscope, by the persistence of the excitability of the muscles by electricity. This excitability disappears iii three hours after certain death.- Brooklyn Eagle.
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League club preserves. Here the couple will spend the heated term in what is called always in the woods camp. but is really little cottage. Before that, however. comes a considerable stay in Indianapolis, where a big re- ception has been planned. and perhaps a short jaunt or two, but no extended tour. The wedding itself will be in St. Thomas church, the scene of the Marlborough nuptials. Dr. Bram, the rector, will tie the knot and Lieut.. Parker will give the bride away. There will be no wedding breakfast, and only about dozen guests will be present. unless one counts the thousands on the curb.
 The eX-president and his bride are all right and minding their own busi- ness, but there is trouble, neverthe- less; and it comes from the usual source. the relatives.
 Apparently there has been a pretty Trojan tussle waged between Mrs. Dim mick and Mrs. Mckee, with Mr. Harri- son playing the part of Patroclus, the SOhO VT NOi11NAeiCA4s 1NOb dIl luE COI0- paints come from the McKees, how ever; there are others, old friends of the family, who hint that you know who" and "a certain person" is all adept in the art of setting cap. Mrs. Dimmiek was a protege, long ago, of the late Mrs. Harrison. Her first hus- band lived but two years after his marriage. Mrs. Dimmick was, after his death again much with the Harrisons. She nursed Mrs. Harrison through her last illness, indeed; but there are those who hint that Mrs. Harrison was not well pleased with the presence of the younger woman, although she bore with it to save the pain and scandal of an open rupture. 1t would be diff cult to prove this, and not worth while even if it were easy.
 Perhaps the whole trouble arose from misunderstanding on the relatives part of Mrs. Dimmick's faculty for management. A lady visiting a senator's family in Washington when MT. Harl4- son was president was once walking
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in the white house grounds with Baby Mckee, when Mrs. Dimmick ran up to the president, who was walking with his wife, grasped his arm and cried: "Oh, come away!" The action was impulsive, and meant, to one who knew the actor. nothing but the ease due to long ac- quaintanee; but it was perhaps calcu- lated to cause surprise.
 Newspaper correspondents who have written of Mir. Harrison's home life while his wife still lived used to notice that Mrs. Dimmick was valued ad- wiser of both husband and wife, some times even telling the president that it would be better for him not answer certain questions. For these reasons it might easily happen that Mrs. Mckee the presidents favorite daughter should then and now make rather sharp comments upon the situation. Soon after her mothers death, more than one friend heard her lament that she ex- pected Mrs. Dimmicll would become her stepmother; that she would not care if that individual loved her father, but in her opinion the match would be pure ly one of ambition on the woman's part. When MT. Harrison came to New York recently, he went to Mrs. McKee's and is said to have passed a few unhappy days while daughter and sweetheart contended for his possession. Now that the wedding is fixed. the fact that it is to take place in an Episcopal church is an additional grievance. The Harri- sons are strong Presbyterians and their friends reason that the general is "catch" of sufficient importance to have suggested to the bride the propriety of surrendering her choice of a church.
 All these by-squabbles are really of very little importance and affect the ex-president himself not at all. No one has any word to say of him but in praise of his conduct. He is very much in love and as gay as boy in the prospect of ending his loneliness. When he takes meals at the Crawford house, which is not infrequently he does not go into the long dining-room, but dimes or lunches cozily with his future wife in smaller room upstairs. whither the food is car ried by the servant. He will be mar ried, and loudest to wish long life and happiness to him should be those who, in their haste, have said things they will continue to regret long after they have been utterly forgotten by everybody
 else. JANE ARCHER.
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Drinking Water at Sea.

The Italian battleship Christoforo Colombo has a curious arrangement Or furnishing her seamen with drinlz- ng water. Experience proved that drinking large quantities of cold water liter violent exercise, especially while cruising in the tropics, caused many ieaths. The water tanks on the battle ihips were designed to prevent such ndiscretion The water tanks on the tessel are connected with innumerable little rubber hoses and on the end of .ach hose is small rubber nipple. Whenever any seaman wants drinking water he must turn a stop cock and hen suck it through the hose and nip ole. It is slow work, but it has been ound that it preserves many valuable ives.-Chicago Chronicle
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Homicide in Mexico.

The Mexican Herald newspaper printed in the City of Mexico, calls at tention to the statistics for 1894, which show that during that year there were 432 homicides in the city. and 7,775 per sons were wounded. This makes 125 homicides for each 100000 of the popu- lation, and 2,25S wounds for the same number. Now, in ether countries the homicides per 100000 of population stand as follows: Italy has 12.67. Spain 12.1o, Austria 3.11, Belgium 2.52 Eng land 1.8o. This is the percentage per year for each JOG, ,009 inhabitants, while the City of Mexico has 125 per 1o0,00O. A murder is committed in that city every 24 hours, and in every 9 hours 21 persons are wounded. St. Louis Globe Democrat.
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BuLLFRoes BRING BAD LUCK.
Fishermen Should Not Permit Them to
 Reeome Too Familiar

RSGoAhe 100 tamii12f.
 If you are ever fishing" said an ob- servant New York sportsman, and see a bullfrog sitting near by. on rock Or log or a bog or anything, you might as well wind up your line and go away, unless you kill the frog or drive him away, for you won't catch q fish. I found that out all by myself a few seasons ago. I was fishing up in Sullivan county for black bass. I used live bait, for I couldn't get d fish with a fly or a troll. Sometimes I had first rate luck and every day I didn't have any luck at all, finally noticed, was when frog was sitting somewhere near by, every now and then giving eroal or two. l couldn't see any rea- son why that should affect the fish so they wouldn't bite, though, and thought little of it.
 ''One day 1 went out to catch some young sunfish and young perch, as I found they were killing bait for bass. I caught these fry near the shores of the lake, usually with a tiny barbless hook, baited with q bit of angleworm, at certain places along shore. 1 had never had any difficulty in catching plenty of them in a short time. On this particular day, as ! threw my hook in the water I saw big frog sitting
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Hard to Decide.

Edith-I'm in quandary.
 Isabel-How is that?
 Tom promises to stop drinking if marry him and Jack threatens to begin I don't! t!"-Tit-Bits.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-12-15
X4LE SENIOR CLASS BOOK.

Statistical Questions Issued to Class of '91
 Interesting Things to Appear in the
 Class Book-G. S. Parker of Louisville,
 ky, editor, Assisted by A. F. Judd of
 Honolulu.
 G. L. Parker, the statistician of the class of 1897, has recently issued to members of the class a list of statis- tical questions, the answers to which will furnish a great part of the ma terial for the senior class book There are ten topics, which are covered by the questions, and under each topic are about a dozen questions. Among the questions asked are the following Relations, graduates or members of Yale. What blood in your veins ?' distinguished relatiVes, reason for coming to college. college preferred next to Yale, Did you ever use a trot," opinion of the habit. when is cribbing justtiable? estimates of eX- penses for each year in college, Have you gone in debt for your education?" advantages at Yale for a man working his way through, average price of board while in college, hardest year easiest year, pleasantest year, most disagreeabe year, favorite profession most polished, the brightest, easiest pleasantest, hardest to bluff, homliest and meekest tutors, class beauty, most eccentric man in the class, modest man most admired, best dressed, one who thinks he is, best natured, who of the class has done the most for Yale? laziest man in the class, most versa tile, biggest 'thsser," wittiest, most melancholy, grouchiest, greatest dig brightest most unadulterated nerve, biggest buffer, most likely man to sue ceed.
 From the character of these ques- tions it will be seen that the class book of the class of '97 will fully keeE up with the interest manifested in the class books of former classes. The '91 book will contain a photo engraving oi each man in the class with short biographical sketch of each The class history will be published in the vol. tune and interesting "reminiscences ot the time of the class in college will be related
 The edtor-in-c of the class book is G. S. Parker of Louisville, Ky, and he is being assisted by A. F. Judd oi Honolulu, Hawaii.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-12-15
MISS COLLINS TO MARRY A COUNT
Ward of Chauncey M. Depew Engaged

Ward of Chauncey M. Depew Engaged
 to Rechid Bey, Count Czaykowski.
 New York. Dec 14.--Announcement was made yesterday in this city and in Paris that Miss Edith Lyman Collins, only daughter of MT. Clarence Lyman Collins of this city, and, by her moth CTS will, the ward of Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, was engaged to Rechid Bey, Count Czaykowski, councillor of state of the Turkish embassy at Rome. Dr. Depew, when seen at his home this morning, said that he presumed the re- port was true.
 Although I have received no per sonal assurance" he said, the report Is altogether probable The young man has been attentive to Miss Collins ever since they met, over q year ago. I am myself acquainted with him and con- slider him a very nice fellow. first rate fellow. My consent as guardian will be cheerfully forthcoming whenever it is formally asked"
 Miss Collins comes of distinguished American ancestry. Among her pater- nal ancestors were Governor William Bradford of Massachusetts and Cover nor William Leete of Connecticut. Her mother was a granddaughter of Com modore Vanderbilt. The fortune left by the late Mrs. Collins to her daugh- ter was greatly increased by Miss Col lins' inheritance from her grandmother, Mrs. Robert Niven, who died in Paris in June of this year.
 Miss Collins has travelled much in Europe and is an accomplished lin- guist, speaking French, German, Ital- ian and Russian. Her engagement is considered brilliant one.
 Count Czaykowski comes of a noble Polish family, who were exiled at the time of the great insurrection and have since lived in Turkey.
 The father of the present count gain ed great power in Turkey and his son, entering the diplomatic service, has achieved a European reputation as a brilliant diplomat. It was in his recent place as first secretary of the Turkish embassy at St. Petersburg that he first met Miss Collins, who was in Russia on the invitation of the dowager en- press, to assist in a great charity ba- zaar.
 The count was at that time twenty eight years of age, and his wealth and family connections made him one of the most talked of men at the Russian court. He was in especial favor with the present czar before his promotion to the place he now holds at Rome.
 The counts attentions have been we'll received by the relatives of Miss Col lins, and it is said that the marriage will take place in Paris early in the new year. Miss Collins has been with her stepmother for some time in Paris, and they will wait there for the arrival of the brides father from this country.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-12-15
OF LOCAL INTER EST.

Another division of the State Naval Militia battalion will soon be organiz- ed. It will be a signal corps to repre- sent the state companies, and will be formed from the First division. They will be chosen by competitive exami- nations, which will be conducted by Lieutenant Goodridge. Six signalers will constitute the division. As in the state militia, the duty of the corps will be to have charge of all signalling be- tween the different sections when in action. The method employed by the navy authorities, the Meyer code, which has recently been adopted by the Connecticut National Guard, will be used. The action of the National Guard in adopting the Meyer system will afford the Naval Militia corps an opportunity to obtain good results by working with the regular State Signal corps.
 Real estate transfer in Southington: Rev. Father Russell of New Haven to Rev. Father DoOlan, pastor of St Thomas parish, the property in the rear Of the parochial residence, known as the Kelley property.
 Dr. AndepsOn of the Yale gymnasium has been invited to act as judge in the gymnastic championship meeting of the A A. U. to be held under the aus pices of the KnickeTbocker club, New York city, on March IS, 1897.
 The Consolidated road directors have declared the regular quarterly dividend of ? per cent.
 President Clark, Vice President Hall and about twenty other officials of the Consolidated road attended the funeral of the late Vice President Kendrick of the road in Boston yesterday. They went in special car, the train leaving here at 7:55 a. m.
 The funeral of the late Dr. Leonard J. Sanford will be held from Center church this afternoon at 2:3O o'clock. The Yale medical school will suspend at 1 D. m. in memory of Dr. Leonard J. Sanford