Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-02-08


she echoed. Certainly" said prompt
ly. "a pleasure which, alas, can never
be more than a shadow for an old fogy
like me. " She looked at HE timorously.
Il don't think you re an old fogy,' she
said. l made to draw her nearer, but
she disengaged herself and slipped
gently to the door. On the threshold she
paused. II won't say anything to
Aunt Catherine" she said, with IL
pretty little laugh.--H. B. Marriott
Watson i'll New Budget.
Held by q Hair.
In a gathering of officers after the
Franco-Prussian war Il French officer
claimed that the French nation is the
most artistic nation on the earth, and
that her artisans can make thing of
beauty out of anything, however ordi-
nary Or crude.
The great Prussian general, Won Man.
tcufel, who was present, plucked a hair
from his shaggy beard, remarking, "Let
them make something beautiful out Of
that -
The French officer sent the hair to a
friend i'll Paris, telling him the circum-
stances and urging that, as the Prus-
slams had defeated the French in the late
war, they should not be permitted to
defeat them i'll the claim to artistic su-
premacy. Giving the hair to a capable
artisan, with proper instructions, the
result was u beautiful scarfpin repre-
senting Il Prussian eagle, artistically
wrought i'll gold, standing on a rock,
and depending from his beak was sim
gle hair, at the ends of which were two
beautiful geld medallions, on one of
Which was inscribed ''Alsace' and on
tho other Lorraine. -
Thus the artistic scarfpin aptly de-
scribed the political situation: Prussia,
as the eagle, with its conquered PROV
inccs dependent, but held by a hair, for
the temper of the people of Alsace and
Lorraine was bitter toward the Ger
mans, and the tie which held them was
very slight.
The Bicycle and the Corset.
Tic Paris correspondent of the Lon
don Truth says that the long vexed ques-
tion of the corset is i'll way to be set
tlStl oIlNo anu loI an 1StltlitI
nor rational dress reformers will earn
the credit of the change, thanks being
due to the cycle only. Cycle tailors and
trainers in Paris are dead set against the
corset.
"There' IS no answering for your safety,
madame,' says the trainer, eff you
must go on keeping your conventional
figure. Yon need every muscle in your
body and every muscle free. A ceinture
just deep enough to sustain the waist
band of your knicks (knicl1erbockers,
pronounced "knoeks') is all I can al
low you. Indeed the knicks should be
so Fight as hardly to weigh on the hips.
The cycling dress should be so light and
elastic that in wearing it one should
scarcely feel dressed We're it not for the
warmth
We look i'll Paris on gown wearing
woman Oh q cycle as Il sprawling Carl
catural creature, with no sense of fitness.
When Napo.Cyu was on his deathbed,
a maladrOlt ASCENDANT read from an Eng
lish rev ew IL bit. CT arra! !Gnmcnt of him
as guilty of the duke S murder. The dy
ing man rose, and catching up his will
wrote in his own hand: II had the Duo
d'Enghien seized and tried because it
was necessary to the safety, the interest
and the honor Of the French people,
when by his own confession the Comte
/ d'Artois was supporting 60 assassins in
Paris. Under similar circumstances l
would again do likewise" Neverthe-
less he gave himself the utmost pains on
certain occasions to unload the entire
responsibility on Talleyrand. To Lord
Ebrington, to O'Meara, to Las Cases,
to Montholon, he asseyerated that Tai
leyrand had checked his impulses to
clem"ncy of Napoleon" by
Professor William M. Sloane, in Cen
tnry
| Wrinkles.