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ing much attention among lumber The process of manufacture, a3 explained by Mr. Hamilton, is as follows: Or-dinarv straw board, such as is manufac tured at any paper mill is employed. mother, before she has attained the age of6o.v5i;l. Vi in-yu When'tbe Duke of Connaught was married his Royal mother forbade the bridesmaids to wear high-beeied boots or pull-back Victoria, it seems, is. i about as sensible a.3 though, she were' not a "Queen.

The -Nuova Gazette, de Palermo announces that the authorities are preparing a biography of more than 4,000 brigands living in Italy, with, ghort notices on their friends and associates. These gentlemen all belong to the dreaded "Mafia," and many are said to" occupy high positions in the State. The Prince of Wales was so tickled ITEMS OF INTEREST. Pergonal and Literary. Mrs.

Myra Clark Gaines proposes to found a great library. "It will probably be located in New Orleans. Sam Small, the Old Si" of the Atlanta Constitution, 13 writing a book about the Fighting Alstons of Halifax" and the Cox-Alston case. The German Empress Augusta has offered a prize for the best treatise on diphtheria that shall be published within a year. Mr.

Froude i3 parent of the last curious blunder, and in his new book on -Caesar speaks of that General as returning with the light of twenty victories blazing round his bayonets." The late Mrs. Sarah Josepha Hale was active in many excellent public un- dertakings. She had much to do with the completion of the Bunker Hill Mon- ument for 30 years she labored to have Thanksgiving Day made a National hoi' iday; and she greatly influenced her old friend, Matthew Vassar, in the organization of Vassar College. Paul Morphy is harmlessly insane. He denies that he knows any thing about chess, imagines that he is a great law-, yer, and that he was defrauded in the settlement of his father's estate.

He is living quietly at New Orleans, promenades Canal Street daily, and if any acquaintance rashly gives him a chance, rehearses the long story of his wrongs. He is well cared for by his friends. The late Mr. McGahan, the Lon- don New a correspondent who first directed attention to the Bulgarian atrocities, is being all but canonized by the Bulgarian natives in gratitude for his iearless services to them. They are about to hold high religious services in his memory on the anniversary of his death, and Prof.

Muller of the St. Petersburg University is about to write his biography for distribution among the Slavonic race. Mark Twain, when asked why he hasn't written a book on England, says I couldn't get any fun out of England. It is too grave a country. And itsgrav- ity soaks into the stranger, and makes him as serious as every body else.

When for this purpose. As many sheets are taken as are required to make the thickness of lumber desired. These sheets are passed through a. chemical solution which thoroughly softens up the fiber and completely saturates it. The whole is then passed through a succession of rollers, dried and hardened during the passage, as well as polished, and comes out of the other end of the machine hard, dry lumber, ready for use.

Mr. Hamilton claims that the chemical properties hardening in the fiber entirely prevent water-soaking and render the lumber combustible only in a very hot fire. The hardened finish on the outside also makes it impervious to water. It i3 also susceptible of a very fine polish. Haps and Mishaps.

Miss Minnie Hoskins, aged 16, who resided near Greenville, was burned to death in a field while burning cornstalks. John Moran and John Durnell, two young men, while engaged in plowing near Fredericksburg, were struck by lightning and instantly killed. An infant child of Hugh Edwards, on a farm four miles from Iowa City, Iowa, was so badly gored by a cow that it died. Elmer Kimball and Lee Guerrin, two Lewisville (Ind.) boys, were fooling with a revolver, when it was discharged, shooting Kimball in the mouth. His injuries fortunately were not fatal.

A goose attacked a little grandson of Michael Wilson, a farmer living near Washington, Iowa, scaring the lad into convulsions, from which he never recovered, dying a short time after. Miss Minich, living near Castine, Darke County, while out in the yard washing some clothing, accidentally got too near a fire built for the purpose of heating water. Her clothing took fire of the large sums over which they had supervision has en lost, either through dishonesty or. ignorance of business. Even those male educators who opposed the' lawmaking women eligible to this office now pronounce their work a success, after the five years' experience.

The Northwestern University at Evanston, is one of the great training schools where young men are educated for the Methodist ministry. It is in pecuniary trouble. From an aggregate of 34,000 a year of professors' salaries there has been a cutting down of one-half, and even the reduced salaries are now largely in arrears. Endeavors are now on foot for relief, with hope of success. Mr.

Spurgeon sounds a warning note against the habit, becoming too common in many pulpits, of prominently describing the theories of unbelievers. He does not think it necessary in giving a guest wholesome food to accompany it with a dose of poison, and declares that many young men have got their first notions of infidelity from these ministers, having sucked in the poison and discarded the antidote. An English newspaper cites an instance of the starvings" as well as "livings" in the Church of England. The case is that of a "living" for which the Bishop of Truro wishes to find a self-denying clergyman. It is situated in a healthful part of Cornwall in moorland surrounded by beautiful country; the value of the living is $175 a year, with two acres of glebe.

The population of the parish is 34, and the area 843 acres, but there is no parsonage or church. There is a good deal of suggestion in this paragraph A State Superintendent who had made during a long term of office, hundreds of visits to ungraded country schools, declared that he never once saw a teacher conducting a recitation without a text-book in hand that he seldom saw either teacher or pupils at the blackboard that he never saw a school-globe actually in use that he never saw a teacher give an object-lesson; that he never heard a lesson on morals or manners that he never saw but one school-cabinet; that he never saw a reading-class trained to stand erect and hold a book properly that he never heard a teacher give a lesson in local geography that classes, with the rifle shooting of Dr. Carver, the American, before his august presence recently, that he sent him a letter of compliment, accompanied by a gold horse-shoe scarf-pin, studded with diamonds, and having in the center the Prince's feathers, with minute colored precious stones in the band of the coronet. In the best Parisian society of late the power to read with grace, meaning and intelligence has been much studied. Many capable professional readers are employed in families.

Indeed, reading threatens to replace the classic piano in the programme of the feminine education of the future. Paris has, too, a reading society, composed of shopkeepers and clerks, who every year have a grand public meeting for the interpretation of literary masterpieces. Odds and Ends. How to get up a spring meeting put two fat men in a light buggy. The title of Jean Ingelow's new novel is Sarah de Berenger." What is more deserving of our sympathy than a young man with 15 cents in his pocket, a girl on each arm, and seven ice-cream signs in sight? The Bolivian army has been much embarrassed by the detention of its baggage train, but they've got a fire going under the mule now, and it is thought he will start.

Boston Post. "Why," asked a governess of her little charge, do we pray God to give us our daily bread? Why don't we ask for four days, or five days, or a week?" Because we want it fresh," replied the ingenuous child. The prudent housewife who, on account of "hard times," has decided not to repaper the sitting-room, as desirable, will find the old paper very much improved in appearance by simply rubbing it well with a flannel cloth dipped in oatmeal. The unblushing assurance that leads the hen of 20 summers to enter market as a spring chicken compels the belief th it nothing but the inexorable difficulties attending the exploit prevents her from appearing in the guise of a fresh-' I was there I couldn't seem to think of any thing but deep problems of govern ment, taxes, free-trade, finance and every night I went to bed drunk with statistics. I could have written a million books, but my publisher would have and she was burned so badly that she died in a few hours.

While carelessly handling a revolver, John Montgomery, a young married man, living near Lawrenceville, shot himself through the body. The ball entered just above the heart, inflicting a serious and probably fatal wound. Miss Virginia Hicks, a young lady of Wyandotte, Indian Territory, was riding a very spirited horse, and was thrown from the saddle. She struck on her head, and a high tortoise-shell comb which was in her hair was driven clear to the brain, producing almost instant death. A 9-year-old son of John Miller, near White Bear, during the absence of his parents, took down a shot-gun and, supposing it unloaded, pointed at a little brother of 4 years, and discharged it, the charge entering the stomach, causing death in two hours.

when asked to point north, uniformly pointed upward to the zenith that he never heard a spelling lesson dictated in which the teacher did not mispronounce one or more words and that he never found a school where the pupils had been trained to write a letter, either of business or friendship." Science and Industry: The acreage of the cotton crop in Western Texas is 50 per cent, greater this year than it was last. Putting up "caviare" made from sturgeon spawn is an important industry at Menominee, Mich. The most of this "caviare" is shipped to Germany. Glue is made of the clippings of hides, horns and hoofs, washed in lime maiden sweet, with delicate feet, Tripping the fair fields over, What do you seek by the gurgling creek, And amid the dewy clover? hired the common hangman to burn 'them." Edwin Booth wrote a private letter from Chicago to a friend in Richmond, just after the attempt to assassinate him, in which he said: Your very kind and welcome letter of congratulation reached me in due time, but the nervous shock (referring to the shooting) has been so severe to both Mrs. Booth and myself that we have been unable to do much more than play nurse to each other since the event.

The poor fool that committed the outrage is in safe keeping, and I hope he will be confined in an asylum for the rest of his life. He as a dangerous lunatic nothing more." School and Church. The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, South, met at Louisville, on the 15th. Rev. Joseph Wilson of Wilmington, N.

was elected Moderator. The Presbyterian General Assembly met in annual session at Saratoga, N. on the 15th. Rev. Dr.

Henry H. Jessup, of the Syrian Mission, was -elected Moderator. The forth-ninth General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church met at Memphis, on the 15th. Eev. J.

L. Grider, Bowling Green, was elected Moderator. The Canon of Dcrry Cathedral in -England has written a bock, in which he asserts that the divine right of episcopacy has always been, and always will be, an open question in the Church Why, master," she said, you don't know beans 1 I'm a-gatherin' yaller dock for greens." A person is known by the position he occupies. The man who trudges around the saw-dust arena, amid the thumping of drums and the sounding of brass, is a hero while he who plods his weary way along the dusty thoroughfare, beseechingly asking for work, is a tramp. Waterloo Observer.

A gentleman was disturbed from his rest in the middle of the night by some one knocking on the street door. Who's there," he asked. "A friend," was the answer. "What do you want?" I want to stay here all night." "Queer' taste stay there by all means," was the benevolent reply. i.

An old Dutchman who keeps a beer, saloon on Sacramento Street ha3 his, third wife, and being asked for his views of matrimony, replied Veil, den, you see, de first time I marries for love dat vas goot; den I marries for beauty dat vas goot, too, about as, goot as de first; but dis time I marries for and dis is petter as San Francisco Golden Era. A young woman who has never learned the gentle art of cookery, being desirous of impressing her husband with her knowledge and diligence, manages to have her kitchen door, ajar on the day after, their return from the bridal trip, and just as her. lbrd comes iri roin the office, exclaims loudly "Hurry up, Eliza, do! Haven't you washed the lettuce yet? Here, give it tp, Where's the soap? Among new industries recently introduced in France is the expressing of oil from grape seeds. It is stated that at least five pounds of oil can be obtained from every 500 pouads of seed. The oil extracted from the grape seed is of a light color, odorless, and of a mild flavor.

At Bettsville, Mary Ruggles, agedJ 11 years, while playing with two other little girls, accidentally stepped on a parlor match, igniting her clothing. In her terror she ran to the street, enveloped in flames. Neighbors ioon tore the clothing from her, but she was burned terribly, and died in a few hours. 1 i A 5-year-old son of Henry Bol-gan of Mankato, while playing in an 'unoccupied house with other children, jumped through a 'window, and a scarf which he wore about his neck caaght on a hook-and hung him. The children ran to the house and gave the but so much, timer that when released he was apparently dead.

By extraordinary, efforts on the part of the mother life was finally restored. Foreign' A St. Petersburg letter declares that the heads of the secret -police have discovered that, three-fourths of their men are in league with the Nihilists. By the birth of a daughter to the Princes Charlotte of Saxe-Meihingen, Queen Victoria becomes a great-grand water, boiled, skimmed, strained, evaporated, cooled in molds, cut into slices and dried upon nets. The Chemiker-Zeitung states that wall papers, in imitation of silk, are manufactured at Aschaffburg, dyed in the mass, and afterward printed by means of the cylinder machine.

The paper is made of cellulose. It has a decided silky appearance and feel, and the effect is pronounced pleasing. The designs are executed in darker shades of the ground color. The latest triumph of French chemistry is the extract of color from red cabbage by boiling and maceration and pressure. The Cauline is a- deep violet.

From this, by various additions, other colors are formed, as in the case of aniline. They are perfectly harmless, of exquisite bloom for dyeing and perfectibn itself for the artist. A German inventer proposes to make boots that will never wear out. He mixes with a water-proof glue a suitable quantity of clean quartz sand, which is spread on the thin leather sole employed as a foundation. These quartz soles are said to be flexible and almost indestructible, while they enable the Nvearer to walk safely over slippery roads.

Straw board lumber which can hardly, be detected from hard wood lumber, exhibited at' Oshkosl by lIlamilton, of Bushnell, 111., is attract The Congregational Church at Ionia, has been without a pastor for several months. The officers of the church take their turn at reading sermons from the people like this plan so well that they contemplate continuing it permanently, and calling no minister. The ten ladies who are County School Superintendents in Illinois have managed the financial part'of iheir business par.icuhvrly well. Not one cant.