The Williamsburg Review from Williamsburg, Kansas • 5

JAPAN'S DEFENSES. SITTINGS. "SPOTTED WOLF." Vita Pallaa Eudoa Ton Blurky She didn't know ehieken from turkey Eigh Spanish and Greek aha could fluently peak, Bnt hat knowledge of poultry was murky. She eonld tell the great-uncle of Hocea, And the datea of the Wan of the Rosea, And the reason of things why the Indiana wore rings In their red, aboriginal noses 1 Why Shakespeare was wrong in his grammar, And the meaning of Emerson's "Brahma. And she went chipping rocks with a little black box And a small geological hammer I She had views on ec-education And the principal needs of the nation.

And her glasses were blue, and the number she knew Of the stars in each high constellation And eke wrote in a handwriting clerky, And she talked with an emphasis jerky. And she painted epistles in the sweetest of styles But she didn't know chicken from turkey I died suddenly after an illness of two days. His wife and relations were present at his death-bed, the proper religious eeremonies hurriedly gone through, and his last remains were in the manner of Zoroastrians consigned to a Tower of Silence, His relations mourned their lobs and went to their own village. Some hours after being laid in the Tower, fctiapnrjee is said to have recovered from a comatose state. He saw the awful position assigned him among the dead bones of his ancestors.

Being a man of ready resource, he looked through a small hole usually kept in the wall of a Tower of Silence, and saw some village people passing at a distance. He raised a cry of distress, which drew the men nearer to him. Understanding what he said, tbey assisted him in scaling the walls of the Tower. They went their way and connived at his escape from an awful doom. He procured a disguise and wandered from village to village as though pursued by a terrible foe.

By tarns he became a beggar, a hakim, i. a qnack. Wandering far and wide, he has at present turned up in Bombay, in the disguise of a bairaghee, a religious beggar, and dispenses native drags and nostrums. He has recognized, or pretends to recognize, certain Parsis residing at Hazgaon, and claims kinship with them. His family and relations at Dehegaum have been apprised of his reappearance in the land of the living, and are probably on their way to Bombay, in the hope of again greeting one long lost and deeply mourned.

Trnth rnd falsehood will soon he seen in their own colors. ana expenenceafncTtrduble BufTdil Bot wonder at this case. Eeporter "Why? Artist She wanted too much. She actually insisted in having tattooed on her limb, from the knee down, no less than eight devices, including monograms, crosses, half-moons, etc. lie porter "Who are your best customers? Artist The demi-monde.

Lately they have become almost crazy over it. Still I have quite a practice among respectable women. Speaking of the demimonde's craze over the matter recalls a little incident. Last week I was called upon by one of them to tattoo the name ef a well-known politician on her limb, which I did. The next day another woman of the same class called for the same purpose.

I remarked to her the coincidence. Turning around in the chair, she said: "If any other woman bears his name tattoo it on the bottom of my foot, so that I may express my contempt for him." Reporter What are your charges? Artist They range from $5 to $25, and for more elaborate designs as high as $50. Most of my customers, however, are of the $5 class, for which sum I will tatUo crosses, monograms and circles. After declining an offer to tattoo Ms name on his arm, the reporter withdrew, thoroughly satisfied that the rumors of the practice of this art were not without foundation. The Warlike Preparations the Mikado Is Perhaps with Grant's Ad rice.

Pall Mall Gtxette. A letter from Yokohama, in the Allge-meina Zeitucg, says that the Japanese government has decided to appropriate, out of tne loan of 3,000,000 yens (a yen is little less than a dollar) obtained last year for the public works, 683,255 for State buildings, 361,000 for the harbor of Nii-gata and 255,545 for that of Nofiru. The new shipbuilding yard hi the harbor of Nagasaki is now open, and it will doubtless greatly contribute to revive the drooping trade of that town. The work was begun by Dutch engineers many years ago, but it was soon abandoned, and all that remained of it was destroyed by a typhoon. Afterward the government of the Mikade resumed the undertaking; several engineers attempted to carry it out, and it was finally completed by the French engineer, Florent The dock, which is the largest in Japan, is 460 feet long, feet broad and 28 feet deep at high tide.

Its construction was rendered especially difficult by the existence of a number of sunken rocks in the harbor; but nearly all of those whtah impeded the navigation have been removed, and the largest ships can now enter the dock. As, however, Nagasaki could hardly be defended in the event of a war, it is proposed, as soon as the finances of the country will permit, to build a new dockyard in the vicinity of Mihara, which the Japanese hope to make a second Portsmouth. A breakwater 1,800 feet long, and rising from three to four feet above high water mark, Is also to be constructed in the harbor of NUgata, which at present is little better than an open roadstead. Finally, it is hoped that the project ef constructing a pier hi the harbor of Yokohama, which has long been advocated by the foreign merchants in that town, but had hitherto been postponed on account of the heavy expendituie It would involve, will at length be carried out. Xokohama is the best harbor in Japan, and is situated in the immediate vicinity of Tokio, the capital.

Its traffic in ships, goods and passengers is far greater than that of any of the other five ports which are open to foreign ships. Owing, however, to the defective state of the harbor of Yokohama, ships must anchor at about 2,000 metres from the coast, so that goods have to be shipped by means of boats a tedious and, in bad weather, a dangerous process. It is proposed to build the pier of stone; it will be 1,188 metres long, broad enough for the conveyance of passengers and carts, and six feet above the sea level. The harbor is to be sufficiently deepened to enable the largest ships to come along side of the pier. The cost of this work is estimated at 1,000,000 yens, and the foreign merchants have promised to contribute to it; but the correspondent thinks it probable that a wooden pier, which would cost only 170,000 yens, will be preferred by the government to a stone one, although it would only last seven or eight years.

A Lady's Reason for not Dancing. Central Methodist. 1. Dancing would lead me into crowded rooms and late hours, are injurious to health and usefulness. 2.

Dancing would lead me into very close contact with very pernicious company and evil communications corrupt good manners. 3. Dancing would require me to use and permit freedoms with the other sex, of which I should be heartily ashamed, and which I believe to be wrong. i. My parents and friends.

would be anxious about me if I were out late, keeping company with they know not whom. 5. Ministers and good people in general disapprove of dancing, and I think it is not safe to set myself against them. If a thing be even doubtful, I wish to be on the safe side. 6.

Dancing has a bad name, and I mean to study things that are pure and lovely and of good report. 7. Dancing is generally accompanied with drinking, and I see drinking pro duces a great deal pf evil. 5. I am told that dancing is great temptation and snare to young men, and I do not wish to have anything to do with leading them astray.

9. Dancing unfits the mind for seri ous reflection and prayer, and I mean to do nothing that will estrange me from my God and Savior. 10. There are plenty of graceful ex ercises and cheerful amusements which have none of the objections connected with them that lie against dancing. THE "I0WER OF SILENCE." The Miserable Vas of Hindoos who Escape frematuro liuruu.

Bombay Gazette. Within the last half century or more old gossips have delighted in telling thrilling stories of the Paisi dead occasionally re turning in their own bodies and flesh among the living alter their last remains had been consigned to the Towers of Silence. An instance is related in which a female member of an old Parsi family, known in Bombay as the Dhunua peared belore a female meinour ot it several years after his death and claimed her as his own sister. Not many months ago complaints were made in the localGujarati journals of a corpse-bearer who was sus pected ot having witn a large iron suovel like those kept in the Tower of Silence, brained a man who. having come to life some hours after being laid in the Tower, was seen sitting up on the stone slab.

It was stated that had not the man been killed mercilessly he might have scaled the Tower wall and, escaping with his life, might have been restored to his iamily aud friends. Disguise is said to be a nec essary precaution for persons "coming from the duad. tor a deep-rooted superstition associates their presence among the living with a sure sign of au impending uublio calamity or an epidemic. Such stories of visits from the dead do not, However, hml general credence among the Parsisof Bom bay. In the Mol'ussil towns, where the walls of the Towers of Silence are low, and therefore easily scaled, where the towers tnemseives are situated at consid erable distances from the habitations of men and favor tbe escape of any one who might come to life after being laid among tbe dead, old gossips find a free scope for their tongues in the narration of stories similar to those mentioned above.

We now hear of a case the particulars of which might be suffioient for a writer of the "sensational school" to weave a chapter of blood-curdling romance. Eleven years ago bhapunee Catiaiueebho was well-to-do resident of Dehegaum. a village situated at a short distance from Gandevi, A. faithful, obedient wife managed his household affairs, and the "even tenor of their ways" was enlivened by the presence of two promising sons. In the course of time the sons wera betrothed and married, and their circle ot relatious widened While on a visit to Gandevi on business 1 Shanuijee was attacked with fever and A Cheyenne Chief Elopes with Hig Love aud Dies Bather than Surrender.

Sioax City (Iowa) Journal. Pea Bibqe (Dak.) Agekct, Sept 11. Ten Cheyenne Indians, three men, sir women and one child, nearly all of whom were participants in the Cheyenne oHtbreak at Foit Eobin-son, and subsequently turned over to Toung.Man-Afraid-of-His-Horses, left this agency with twenty-two horses they had stolen from different bands of the Ogalallas on the night of the 7th, intending to go across the country on the east and north sides of the Black Hdls to 'Fort Keogh, where those Chevennes are 'who were captured by Lieut Clark last spring. It seems that Spotted Wolf (or Eacer), the leader of the band, had for some time previous been in love with Dull Knife's daughter, and, her hard being refused by Dull Knife, he concluded to steal her and leave for the North. On Mondav morning Sword, chief of the police, with five policemen rode down to Young-Man -Afraid's camp and took the trail of the renegades and vigorously pursued them and overhauled them on Sage creek, west of the Black Hills, and about 100 miles from this Agency, on the morning of the 9 th.

The police found them in camp, and, af- ter shaking hands with them, Sword told them that he had come to take them back to the agency; and that if they would go back peaceably they would not be harmed, and on their arrival at the agency they would be turned over to Young-llan-Afraid, who was responsible to the Great Father for their good behavior. Spotted Worf said he would die before he would go back. Sword told him that he had been ordered by the Agent to bring them back, and he intended to take them back, peaceably if he could, and forcibly if he must that is, alive if he could, and dead if he must; for, in order force a Cheyenne Indian to do anything he does not want to do, means that you must kill him first and argue the case afterward. He then drew his men up In line, and ordered the runaways to mount and come along, whereupon Spotted Wolf threw his blanket and squatted himself for a fight, and, in true, characteristic style, resolved to follow the teachings of his'ancestry to die rather than to surrender. He died.

The other two men and the women were persuaded to give in and return. Ia answer to an inquiry as to whether Spotted Wolf wos instantly killed, Fast Horse said he was. "Sword and I shot him through the heart, Hump in the right eye, Iron Burr in the lelt eye, and Lone Bear through the top of the head." Bed Bear not a policeman who went with the police force, proposed that they treat the women a3 all captives are usually treated by the Indians, but Sword said: "No. When we were wild and used to go on the war-path and take captives we treated them cruelly and barbarously, but now that we are peaceable Indians, living at an asreney, and in the employ of the Great Father, let us treat them with due respect, like white men treat thr-h prisoners." They arrived at the agency at 6 o'clock last evening, and the prisoners were, by order of the agent, again turned over to Young Man-Afraid, and the horses returned to their respective owners. The agency police merit praise for their bravery, fidelity, and for trying to do away with their old heathenish customs, and for adopting the civilized mode of liv ing.

American Oyster Statistics-Philadelphia Times. Oysters are planted and in. tha bAV 8, deltas and river inlets of mnr than 2,000 miles of our Atlantic coast. Three tuousautt acres are so occupied in the Chesapeake Bav and its trihntarins. TIiha Chesapeake beds yield to our commerce over 25,000,000 bushels annually.

in tne one city ot Philadelphia, I estimate, there are over 4,000 places wbre ovs- ters are sold for consumption on the premises. One Philadelphia oyster cellar, three years ago, sold 7,000 oysters on the first day of September. Twenty dollars wouia oe a moderate average lor the sale of all these 4,000 oyster restaurants- saloons and cellars. This would bring the total daily sales up to $120,000 a day. Multiplying the daily sales by 240 days would sweii the yearly aegregate to 000,000 a year for oysters in Philadelphia.

auu yeo mis estimate is prouauiy considerably below the actual fact. New York city probably sells twice as many as Philadelphia: and Boston and Baltimore together more than New York again. Aside from the home consumption, shipments to onr inland. Western and even facinc states are enormous. The appetite of all inland and mountain men for all sorts of shell fish is something buee.

Baltimore employs more than $15,000,000 in the cauning of oysters. More than bushels of oysters are canned a year in that city. On account of their superior excellence, American oysters are now exported in vast quantities tormgland. Uermany and other European countries. These exportations are mostly in cane; but ininieupe quantities are now shipped abroad in the shell.

After to-morrow you will not, bee an ocean steamer go out of Philadelphia, Baltimore or New York which does not conuin a hundred barrels or more of American oysters still in the shell. The total of our oyster trade approaches much nearer our annual crop ol cotton and wheat than any one who does not make these things a special study would be willing at first to credit. I am satisfied in my own mind that our total oyster trade, domestic and foreign, exceeds $00,000,000 a. year. While the total aunual consumption in this country, and our shipments abroad would exceed the amazing total of 5,000,000,000 oysters.

An Ingenious Clock. Felix Meier of Detroit has devoted ten years and $7,000 to the construction of a clock. It is le feet high, a broad, and weighs two tons. It has a great variety of automatic devices, but the most remarkable are those connected with the striking of the time At the end of every quarter hour an infant in a carv ed niche strikes with a tiny hammer upon the bell which he holds in his hand. At the end of each half hour a youth strikes, at the end of three-quarters of an hour a man, and at the end each hour a grajbeard.

Death then fol lows to toll the hour. At the same time a large music box begins to play and a scene is enacted upon a platform. Washington slowly arises from a chair to his feet, extending his right hand, presenting the Declaration of Independence. The door on the left is opened by a servant, admitting all the Presidents from "Washington's time down to President Hayes. Each is dressed in the costume of his time, and the likenesses are good.

Passing in file before Washington, they face, raise their hands as they approach him, and walking naturally across the platform, disappear through the opposite door, which is promptly closed behind thein by a ueo-ond servant. The "old-time" closet mantelpieces are being revived. The ex-Khedive's dinner and breakfast service cost 4,595,000. The favorite drink in Cincinnati ig a frozen punch dashed with champagne. The President and Mrs.

Hayes will travel some 1,000 miles during their Western trip. i Boston is to celebrate her 250th anniversary next year, and the bean crop is unusually large this alL The scarcity of diamond thieves is proving quite disastrous te the engagements of numerous actresses. The Spaniards are crowding to Arcachon where she is staying, to get a glimpse of their future Qaeen. The census ennmeiators next year are to do their work in June, and the pay is not to exceed 100 for the month, or $4 per day, Sally Swan is a heroine at Granite, because she seized a buck by the hind legs and held him until her father arrived. Cows in Lisbon are driven from house to house in the morning and as much milk drawn from the udder as each customer may desire.

A man dying recently in St. Louis left fl.OuO to an individual who years before ran away with his wife. He said in the will that he never forgot a favor. Clay Bheade committed suicide at Greenfield, Ohio, because Bob McKinnie had threatened to murder him, and he knew Bob was a man of his word. There are sermons in everything in nature.

Take flowers, for instance. They never shoot off their pistils, not evem when the bumblebee loafs around with his pocketknife drawn. In ascending Mount Washington by the bridal-path two men lost their way. They reached the 6ummitnext moruing, badly used up. The ice on their hats was half an inch thick.

In Paris it has been discovered that the larger the hat the prettier its wearer; the higher the frill the whiter the throat; the longer the mittens the liner the arms, so that women are not unlike kernels in big nutshells. A young lady at a eertain place in Wayne county asked the prayers of the congregation because she could not set eyes upon a certain young man in her neighborhood without feeling as though she must hug him to death. Nitro-glyeerine pills for the relief of patients afflicted with angina pectoris, a disease of the che6t, are now manufactured in good faith by a London chemist. They are favorably viewed by members of the medical profession. The other day on the farm of a citizen named Wallace in Gravson countv.

a siy- foot chicken snake coiled itself in a turkey while the old hen sat thereon swallowed all the eges and a door knob besides, men nappenea among tne eggs. A well-dressed woman drew a crowd to gether in a Cincinnati street by striking a man across the face several times with a whip, aud then finishing the punishment with her fists. She coolly explained that he was her runaway husband, whom she had laboriously traced for the sole mii-nose of whipping him. "Is there a letter here in a seen fori en velope for my wife?" he asked the postmaster, while the green tire from his eyes made the office look like a leafy forest, "ies, sir," answered the P. as he handed it out.

The jealous man tore it open at once, when, lo and behold! it was the milliner's bill for $50, Professor Perkins, of the TlniveTsritv nf Vermont, has in his conservatory a specimen of the Desmodinm Gvranus, a very rare plant, brought from Bengal, which has the remarkable power of voluntary motion of its leaves. The motion is not like that of the sensitive plant, induced by pressure or touching from without, but is spontaneous. A Southern girl, who has seen better days as a member of one of the first fami lies ot Virginia, is now earning her living by plying an awl at the shoemaker's bench in Petersburg. She served an apprenticeship of four years, and it is said can now turn out as good a shoe as any man in the business who has not had more experience. In Central Africa lives a king who.

ac cording to Commander Cameron, demands divine praise for himself, and proclaims the decrees ot the deity or deities which reach him from the mouth of an idol which he consults, and which nobody but himself and a single priestess is ever allowed to see. Like many another sovereign in Christian lands, he religiously keeps matters pretty much in his own hands. A novel suit was begun in Chicago this week. The widow of Hugh McConville, the man murdered bv Sherry and Conlv. for which the latter were hanged, began a suit for $10,000 damages under the State Jaw against the owner of tbe saloon where Sherry and Conlv procured the liquor which made them intoxicated, against the owner of the building, and against the agent who leased the premises.

London has a church and stage guild. with Charles Eeade for a leading member and the following objects: 1. To promote religious and social sympathy between the members ot the church and ot tbe stage. 2. To hold meetings for these purposes from time to time, at which papers may be read ana questions discussed or com mon interest to the members of the guild.

t. To meet for religious worship at least once a year. Seeing a servant rushing out of a Lon don house for medical aid, a rascal said: "I am a doctor," and obtained access to the room of a sick child. He feigned to minister to him for hours, read prayers by his bedside, and then, descending into the dining room and taking advantage of the carelessness wrought bv the approach of death, took a good meal and decamped with an tun portable property he could lay hands on. The wife of a banished French Commun ist was overjoyed at the news of his pardon, and went to the railroad station with lferchildren at the proper time to welcome him.

But he had been very ill for years, and was so much altered in appearance that she did not recognize him. She went home in a despondent mood, while he hunted in vain for her in the crowd. At last ho found her residence, but she had committed suicide, after writing aiuespair-ing letter. The slowness of the Paris street car would make an American mad with impatience. It stops at the barriers to be searched for contraband goods.

It takes three men fave minutes to chance horses. while the driver bosses the job from his elevated perch, four and nve cars will stand in a row, all full outside and in. and one hoar must elapse before the last one tarts. No crowd, press or hurrv seems ever to induce the company to put on ex tra venicies or snerten the regular intervals of starting. The following extract from a letter writ ten by a young British officer in Zululand to a lriend is published in London: flatter myself that I put an end to the career of some promising young Zulus.

We exneoted no quarter, and gave none. When the fighting was over, some of our native troops were sent out on the (to them oongenial) errand of dispatching the wounaea, many ot whom Had crawled away into the long grass and even into tbe ant-bear holes, but our allies were even with them all round. Perhaps the lesa said about tins part of the aitair the bet ter. 1 am afraid this kind of warfare iS lather aomoraliaing." THE LATEST FOLLY. How IWomen Tattoo Their Less ghe Waj it is Done in Philadelphia.

Philadelphia Item. The item which was published in the London Times, and which was generally copied in this country, relative to the elopement of the daughter of a nobleman, in which occurred the following sentence, "She can be fully identified by a cross tattoo on the right leg just above the knee," has served to call out in this country, from the press, a general condemnation of the practice which was Inown to be largely indulged in by the English and French women. In order to learn whether the tattooing was carried on to any extent in this city, an Item reporter last week made a tour of discovery, in which he was very successful. Among the first visited was a young physician, who said "The leg mark referred to in reference to the eloping young damsel, would be a poor means of identity in this country, for I know of a namber of young ladies in this city who have their limbs decorated in a similar manner. During my brief time of practice I can say that I have met with very many cases.

Two young wives whom I attended recently had crosses tattooed on their limbs, and one young lady of whom I know had the initials of her favorite beau pierced in the skin just above the ankle. A younger practitioner said he had met with numerous cases lately. Among the most favorite devices are serpents with their tails in their mouths, forming a ring, which are tattooed in just above the knee. Among the demi-monde he had seen "any number of cases." He stated that most of the tattooing was performed at the house of the patron, by a woman whose name he did not know. He was of the opinion that taitooing would spread like wildfire since that paragraph about the young English woman had appeared.

Being anxious to gain oil the information possible relative to this barbaric custom, an Item reporter started out in search of the woman referred to, who was finally found in an unpretentious but neat house in the vioinity of 6th and Callowhill streets. A ring at the bell brought a colored servant to the door and the scribe invited to a seat in the parlor, while his card was taken upstairs. Five minutes afterwards, a pleasant-faced lady attired in plain silk, unrelieved by adornments of any kind, entered the parler, and smilingly extended her hand, tbe fingers of which were black with India ink. After stating bis business, the lady, after some hesitation, consented to talk on the subject, providing her name and residence were not published. "I have to maintain much secrecy," said the lady, "for many of my patrons belong to the best families." In answer to the query whether the practice was increasing, the lady said "A year or so ago business was dull but now I have more than I can attend to." "I do not know how I shall describe the operation," said the lady, "for I am not very apt at such things.

But if I could so arrange it that you could see the modus operandi yourself, will you pledge me secrecy in case you know or recognize the patient?" The scribe willingly gave his word to be mum, and he was taken into a room up stairs which adjoined the operating room, and where he could see without being seen. The operating roem bore the appearance of a dentist's office. A large, comfortable chair, in which an aspirant for tattooing honors was seated, stood by the only window in the apartment. The patient's leg was bare and exposed nearly to the knee, and from its appearance it was evident that the operation had been suspended when the lady came down to welcome the reporter. Work upon it was resumed without delay, and every time the needle pierced the skin the young womaa winced perceptibly, and it was evident that the operation was a painful one.

Several times the leg was jerked back convulsively, which drew out an angry command to "keep quiet." At last the work upon the cross was completed, and the young woman departed. The next patient was a well-known leader of the demi-monde of this city, who had come to have the finishing touches placed on an elaborate design. She laughed aud chatted through the operation, and before she left concluded to have the other limb decorated at an early day. As soon as she had left, the India ink artist joined the reporter, saying: "Well, I am now ready to continue our interview." Reporter From what I have seen I am led to believe the operation a painful one. Am I correct? Artist To some it is, to others not.

I have known some to faint while undergoing the tattooing, while others will laugh and joke throughout the entire operation, evincing no uneasiness whatever. Eeporter Is not the practice injurious? Artist No. I have never heard of it being so at least. I knew of one young lady whose limb was inflamed and swol len for two or three days, so that it was impossible for her to use it but the swelling went down, and since then she CONCERNING WOMEN. "Women have been admitted to the bar in eight States.

The Seventh Congress of Tv omen will be held at Madison, October 8th, 9th and 10th. Mrs. Gertrude Harrison has returned to her sanctum as assistant editor of the Indianapolis Herald. Miss Kate Field, who is spending a short time at Malvern, will sail for America about October 15th, Carlotta Patti was born in 1840; Marie Sass, 1838; Adelina Patti, 1843; Nilsson, 1847; Croizette, 1848; Marie Roze, 1849; Judie, 1850; Heilbron, 1852. The Rev.

Ada C. Bowles, of the First Universalist chureh in San Francisco, married a pair the other day, and was the first woman to do so on the Pacific coast. Miss Helen Chalmers, a danehter of the great Dr. Chalmers, spends her life endeavoring to conquer the demon of intemperance in the lowest haunts of the city of Edinburgh. Mrs.

Julia Ward Howe is Prfisirlpnt of three important organizations the Boston Woman's Club, the Boston School of Technology, and the Town and Country Club of Newport, Rhode Island. Miss Ellen Hayes, lady principal of Adrian College, Michigan, has accepted the position of teacher of mathematics at "Wellesley College. Miss Hayes is a graduate of Oberlin College, where she distinguished herself in mathematics. Miss Frances Power Cobbe says, it has often grieved her to see that inferior work is accepted by kind and generous men on the ground that it is "very good for a woman." Women ought to be very indignant with bad work done by a woman. Mile.

Eosa Bonheur has just presented a picture of a life-size lion to the Spanish government on condition that it shall be hung in the Museum of Madrid. The rule being that the work of living artists shall not be exhibited there, an exception has been made in favor of this picture. Mme. Lareau, who made many translations of works of Dickens, Mayne, Keid. Livingstone, Stanley and other English authors, has just died at her home in France.

The last work was a collection in ten volumes of travels, by various writers. It was recently crown ed by the French Academy. The wife of the Bonanza King, Mr. W. Mackey, has had her portrait painted in Pans by Cabanel.

She has a fair, earnest face, and great, lustrous blue eyes, with dark hair. The dress in which the portrait is painted is of crim son brocade, faced with pale pink satin, bordered with lace, and without sleeves. The Empress of Austria likes a soli tary hunting expedition. With her favorite rifle in hand, she goes deep into the wooded mountains and solitary valleys which stretch round the imperial domain in every direction. Dressed in the rough of the Tyrol, she will often make excursions of two or three days' duration, staying at night at some distant cot, where the only fare besides the game she brings with her is goat cheese and milk, with black bread.

Miss Minnie F. Austin, for many years teacherin Chicago and San Francisco high schools, also principal of Clarke Institute in ban Francisco, from failing health turned her attention to an out-door life. She now owns a fruit farm of eighty acres in Fresno, and last spring set in the ground, by the aid of one man, over 600 fruit trees. Miss A. conducts her farm with as much system as she did her school.

She has twenty-eight acres of the best raism- grapes, from which the yield will be between thirty and forty tons of fruit about 300 apricot trees, 100 prunes, and all ordinary fruit trees. She has this year nearly two tons of peaches alone, which she has dried for the market. The Cunning Chinese. San Francisco Chronicle, A new Chinese trick has been discov ered. A few days since, on the arrival of a vessel from Honolulu, containing several cases of shoes that had been shipped to that port by some Chinsse house in San Francisco and sent baak condemned by the consignees, the cus tom house officials were curious to know the cause, and this curiosity prompted them to open the cases, when an inge nious plan was discovered to smuggle opium into that port through the heels of the "condemned" shoes.

The heels, at a glance, appeared natural and prop- erly made, but by pulling out a nail or two and removing one thickness of leather, a hole occupying nearly the whole size of the heel was found, in which opium had been placed to intro" duce into the Hawaiian market. The "condemned" business was a part of the programme, and the shoes were return ed, evidently to be reloaded and for warded again to that port. WHAT IS THE MOON'S SHAPE1 Is it an Ellipsoid, Egg Shaped or Bound Like at Ball? Rochester Democrat. The moon perhaps presents a greater number of perplexing problems than any other member of the solar system. Although the nearest to the earth of any of the celestial bodies, but very little is actually known concerning our satellite.

The whole theory of the maon, so laboriously worked out, years ago, is found to be at fault, and Hansen's tables are unreliable. There is a deviation in the moon's mean motion that cannot be accounted for. The phenomena of the moon's surface have been carefully studied for years; but the causes of the remarkable physical conformations can be but dimly cocjoctur-ed. The moon's true form is the most difficult problem of all. The moon always presents one face to the earth; but even this fact is a puzzle.

It is explained that the moon's axis points toward the centre of the earth, and the moon makes a single rotation during a revolution about the earth, thus always presenting one side of the earth. The plane of the moon's orbit is continually shifting, but this shifting does not change to any extent the relative position of the moon to the earth. The earth has a grasp upon her satellite that will not permit any shifting of position, except a swinging motion of the mass nearest the earth, like that of a pendulum. It has been abundantly shown by Newton that if the moon were a sphere the earth could have no such grasp. The conclusion is inevitable that the moon is not a sphere.

The exact shape is still a question of doubt. Lagrange insists that is an ellipsoid, with the longer axis pointing to the centre of the earth. The extent of the elongation is a question yet to be settled. Prof. Richard Proctor in his werk on the moon says: "However, it need hardly be said that no instrumental means at present in our possession could show the ellipticity of the lunar disc." Notwithstanding the assumption of Prof.

Proctor, we believe that it can be demonstrated that the moon more nearly resembles an egg than it does a ball. Rutherford's stereoscopic photographs demonstrate it, and the known laws of motion bear out the theory. Photography will probably be the only means of demonstration, and this will be doubted by those who believe the revelations of the stereoscope are an optical Illusion. stereoscopic views plaiQly show that the moon is shaped like an egg, with the small end toward the earth. In tqe stereoscope the extreme point, or locality nearest the earth, is not far from the great crater of Copernicus.

From this high point the surface does not retreat as in a sphere. There is a rounding away to a certain point, and then the distance on a line that is nearly straight. The plane is so tilted by libration that the observer can see the true perspective and foreshortening of objects on the surface. The phenomenon could be observed in a telescope of large aperture with a power of fifty diameters. The slow rotation of the moon and its recent plastic condition explain its shape.

The moon revolves on her axis in the same time that she revolves about the earth, or in 29 days, 12 hours and 44 minutes nearly. This motion is exceedingly slow so slow that even at the equator the centrifugal force is very slight. In bodies like Jupiter, which revolve with great rapidity the equatorial regions bulge out by centrifugal force, while there is a contraction at the poles. In the moon this action is reversed. When the moon was molten the centrifugal force at the equator was so slight that there was no bulging, but the earth's attraction drew out the mass, lengthening it in the direction of the polar axis, and keeping the axis forever directed toward the earth's centre.

Rutherford has waited and watched for opportunities to photograph the moon in such positions as would Kive the stereoscopic effect. Libration changed the moon's face sufficiently to give this effect, as you will be observed by consulting the photographs. Of the views of the first quarter, one was obtained March 6, 1865. He then waited six years for libration and a suitable opportunity to get anather view that would give the proper effect. Between the two views of the last quarter there is an interval or nearly six months.

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