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Show Dress of Students The habiliments of students at the great universities is not dictated by caprice, as many suppose, but is prescribed by the laws of the institutions. As late as 1828 the dress of the Harvard student, as the laws of the college state, consisted of a black mixed coat, Blngle breasted, with a rolling cape square at the end, and with pocket flaps; the waist reaching to tbe natural waist, with lapels of the same length. The war cloud which now hovers over the two South American republics, Chile and Argentina, has arisen out of the dispute over the boundary line between these countries, shown on the accompanying map, in the range of mountains running north and south. Should war eventuate the two republics will find themselves very evenly matched. Neither lias the advantage of the other In the matter of coast exposure und roast defense. Argentina, of course, is a much larger country in area and has a population approximately of 4,000,000, while Chile has a population of a! out 3,000,000. The area of Chih- Is 00.829 square miles, while that of Argentina, Including its territories, is 1,113,819 square miles. The army of Argentina, on a peace footing, numbers 21,515 officers and inen; that of Chile 19,750 officers and men. The Argentine navy consists of four coast defense armor-e- l ads, live armored cruiscruisers of high ers, three second-clas- s speed and seven smaller cruisers of modern construction, together with four destroyers and twenty-tw- o torpedo bouts. The Chilean fleet consists of five armor-dadtwo spcbnd-clas- s s and two cruisers, eleven gun vessels and guhlioats, four destroyers of new make and thirty-kno- t speed, and nineteen toipcdo boats. Of the two navies by far the best .boat js the cruiser O'FMggins, built at Eiswick foi Chile in 189C, j'mja fine vessel in all respects. She has a displacement of 8,500 tons and carries four eight-inc- h With these forces, based, on guns. peace, the two republics hxve good nuclei for development of powerful armies and navies in ease of war. sists of a uaiiy massage lasting to thirty minutes and consisting of thorough kneading of the little muscles, the child being stripped and laid upon a blanket during the operation. Cold baths and as few clothes as possible are part of the treatment, but the massage Is tho fundamental principle. The childs condition ia fel-lo- ws s, thfrd-elas- all the men In the cabin would be dashed Into eternity by the savage twister. But nothing more than a hard hailstorm struck the cabin. The sight was There was but little lightning and thunder. The roaring in the trees, whose majestic beauty Army Tlt( rph Operator. was being marred and rent, was doleIn the British army the telegraph opfully grand and Inspiring. erators belong to the engineers, who Two men drove up to the cabin fiffor the purposes of administration and teen minutes later and said the road form a single corps, consistwas literally strewn with treea. They promotion ing of forty companies, three troops had secured shelter in a crevasse, and and k large establishment of officers were unhurt. They saw a whole hill- not attached to any companies, but emside denuded of its foliage and dense in superintending works and ployed growth of trees. Some of the trees buIIdingB and in other professional and were nearly three feet in diameter, scientific duties. The three engineer and they were piled indiscriminately are the field equipment troop, troops upon one another. There were at the telegraph troop and the pontoon least 100 grand stalwart pines dashed troop. A telegraph troop consists of into a heap In about two minutes. six offofficers, 243 The havoc was terrible to behold. icers and men, with 21 carriages, 42 ridAnaconda Standard. ing and 114 draught horses. Twelve of the wagons are fitted aa wire wagons, and carry each three milea of Insulated The Introducing Habit. difficult for a wire, etc. Four wagons are fitted as It ia extremely man t , TH luuiuucuuua nffluM Ith introductions. He might not hesitate troop la ao arranged that it can be to offend the introducer, but certainly broken into three sections, each comcould not do so before that unfortunate plete In Itself. A certain proportion of gentleman's friends, out of regard for the men are trained to act as signalers them. Capsic enters a public resort and all the material for visual signalalone, and would like to remain alone, ing Is carried with the troop. This but Trapsic, a distant acquaintance, material consists of flags for use by for flash Indeed, standing with three friends, day, rockets and calls out to Capsic, How do, Cap? signals by nigbt, etc. The pay of a Come here; 1 want to Introduce you to private In the engineers is Is per Could Capsic day; of a corporal, 2s fid; of a sergeant, some friends of mine. turn tail and flee? While resenting 3s 3d; of a lieutenant, 10s lOd; of a Trapsic's familiarity, he feels that the captain, 17s 7d. Montreal Herald and gentlemanlike thing to do is to meet Star. the strangers. Cap, shake hands with my friend Shay, my friend Squay, and Suhalinri in I.amp Imt That Is now the my friend Skay. An ambulance in a lamp post is the usual anil approval formula. All good latest street novelty which has been fellows, right down to. the ground, but Introduced in Baris. They call it over Trapsic is presuming. Why should he there a "first-ai- d It conlighthouse. not first have excused himself to his sists of an ornamental bronze pillar, friends and gone quietly to Capsic to about fifteen feet high, with a round, learn, sub rosa. If the latter cared at overhanging top resembling the lanthat time to make the acquaintance of tern of a lighthouse, In which are a Shay, Squay and Skay? Never! Trap- clock and a place for transparent picsic Is possessed of an Insane desire to torial revolved by advertisements, Introduce folk, and nothing short of a clockwork and from within by lighted kick In the neck or a poke In the solar gas. In the base of the pillar is a letplexus will restore him to sanity. ter box, and In the shaft Is a folding New York Press. stretcher with printed directions for affording first aid to the Injured. In case of a street accident, says the New Oxygon IVIIol for tho roeket. A method of procuring oxygen has York Ffess, the stretcher can he imbeen patented in Great Britain by M. mediately obtained by breaking a G. F. Jauhcrt of Paris. A substance small glass window just above the letIs prepared by mixing chloride of lime ter box, taking out a key which hangs with sodium dioxide or other alkaline there and unlocking the receptacle. peroxide. Compressed pci lets, which ran he used for obtaining a supply of Shark Are Alway (oimril. oxygen in the .Mime way that calcium sharks are esteemed tho Although carbine is used fop making aretylcne greater terrors of the oeean they are namely, by immersion in water in reality t lie greatest eowards of are prepared in t l.i following manner. the finny tribe. The fiercest shark will Two lmnd-e- d kilogrammes of chloride get out of the way of a swimmer if of lime, which titrates 35.3 per cent thp latter s ts up a no sy s; ladling. A of active well dried shark fears anything that chiurlne, In (for example, by standing over the water. the South Sea IsAmong concentrated Is lands tile natives never go sulphuric add) bathing mixed with seventy-eigkiloalone, hut alwaj-- in parties of hair a of sodium dioxide in pow- dozen or so in order that grammes they may der, anl the yellowish white powder make a great hubbub In the water, and thus obtained is made into cakes by thus frighten away the sharks. Once strong pressure. The compressed main a while a too venturesome swimterial thus obi:) inf'll Is, it Is stated, as mer among these natives foolishly hard and shiny ns crockery, and when himself from his party and for-it- s placed In water decomposes, with to keep up his splashing. Then regularity, oxygen gas being evolved. there Is h swish, the comes up from under him liko a flash and Bt. he is gone. The new theory for massage as an Yarlit mu n nan- - Karly Life. aid to development rather than a resCaptain Charles Barr, tht yachtstoration of damaged beauty Is gaining now some man, began life as a grocers clerk, but converts everywhere. It is time since a physician be- he Boon discovered that navigation was gan experimenting with massage upon his calling and begun to study to fit hla Infant son. The treatment con himself for a seamans life. awe-inspirin- g. Vtw try is not satisfactory. The recent long series of arrests, imprisonments anil confiscations has disturbed the tran- quillity of the government classes, who do not know whose turn may come next, while it must be confessed that the young sultan's European tastes have not increased his popularity. That a general upheaval may take place is extremely unlikely, but there is certainly a strong existing feeling of unrest, which tends to let loose the wilder spirit of the people, who see un opportunity of paying off old scores and making new ones, and who are not slow to turn their hands to robbery .. -- .urir. RABBITS IN NEBRA8ICA- iimAc. au isub oa tue; KWp Tbff Hava Jimmie an Intolerable these national amusements to themselves there Is little or no danger, but XaUnncti llnitroy Crops. Experts connected with the entomo- directly the Interests of European tradare affected and their cattle feedlogical department of the Nebraska ers in the Interior are often looted ing university are giving much thought to then the question becomes one in menus the discovery of of exterminatwhich the poyvcrs are interested. ing the jack rabbit, which has become Clxims are made against the Moorish an intolerable nuisance, lie is an Inin accordance with treaty government of the useless teresting specimen among animals' and can be explained rights. These claims are always disputed and often refused, says the Naonly on the ground advanced by the tional Review, and difficulties inGerman father in reply to the inarise, sometimes ending in navariably kanof sou as to his what the quiry val demonstrations and shaking the garoo was gooiUfor . "Well, my boy, very foundations of the rotten fabric the Australians r.iust- have something of the decaying country. to laugh at. Nebraska has two varieties, the black IN A WESTERN STORM. tail and the silver tail, but while distinct varieties there is no appreciable Fearful Huvnr Wrought hy tliu Fleinent difference in their size, habits or food In Few Minute. The females of the spepreferences. There was a fearful storm in the cies are surprisingly prolific. lowlands yesterday forenoon at 1 Nature doubtless has some use for o'clock, and a great trees, some jack rabbits, but did not want too two feet In diameter,many were picked up many f them. So their natural enemy out of the was provided in the coyote, who kept air to be ground and hurled into the dashed to them within bounds. But the coyote is with terrific force. Asthe earth again far as can be a disagreeable neighbor and the Ne- learned thero was no loss of life. The braska authorities offered a bounty for storm spent its fury in a path about coyote scalps which resulted in their 100 yards wide and two miles long, it practical extermination. is approximated. This was the jack rabbit's opportunI.evi S. Wild, manager of the WestHe ern Union ity, says tin- - New York Times. Telegraph company, put liis house in order and proceeded this city, and liryan Irvine went to to devede Ids best energies to the rais- Bernice Saturday night, and yestering of ihlldron, in which he has been day morning engaged a team and remarkably successful. Bill the Ne- drove out to Hundley's place, about braska farmers are not much better four niUi-- and a half up the lowlands Bath fled with them than with the coyfrom Bernice. They were chatting in otes. c.iblii, when Mr. Irvine lo. ikHoadlejs They argu- - that while fanning may ed out of the window to the west, ami be a hralliful ami agreeable occupa- remarked that he saw' the blackest tion, it Is not who'ly satisfactory front cloud lie had ever luhehl. The other the economic point of view if the fann- gentlemen noticed the ominous aper's principal business in life Is to raise pearance of the black bank of cloud food for tie Ja:l: rabbits, who approin the sky, but paid n More attention priate it without compensation. The to it until it began to spiiuk'e, when a result of his dissatisfaction will great gust of strong wind reminded lie that the jack rabbit will the party within of the black cloud. sooner or later be decimated and, perThe rain resolved itself Into a hailhaps, exterminated. storm, and soon the largest hailstones that any one of the men ever saw poured down In a threatening manFUTURE OF MOROCCO. ner. Thn roof of the cabin was inadeCnimnon Country quate) and the boards were rent asundIlolilirrjr nnl riling In limjilii itiiiilltlon. er and great stones- rained and jieltcd It is impossible to write on the sub- down upon the floor, hounding back ject of Morocco without some mention toward tlic celling violently. Still the of its future. There is no need to en- cabin was not in the teeth of the ter Into speculation -- and it is all spec- storm, for Mr. Wild said he could see ulation as to whaL that future may be. the terrible execution it was doing It need only be pointed out that, in across the creek, 100 yards distant. the interests of all thn powers of Eu- Treea were torn up and dashed to the rope, It is necessary to maintain the ground, and the wind lifted them high status quo. In the air and carried them great disThe internal condition of the coun- - tances. It wag feared at the time that . - s allowed to behind. His neckcloth was plain black or white, his hat of an approved form and biack. Shoes and boots were black. By 1870 a greater variety of dress proof positive of the Bystems merit. had been substituted. Coats were of Though only a year old he Is phe blue gray, breeches and waistcoat of nomenally strong and bis muscular the same color or of black, nankeen development Is unusual. Similar re- or olive. Freshmen were allowed only sults are reported wherever massage plain buttonholes, sophomores leaped upon the growing little human has to the dignity of having buttons on been tried. The chief glory of the their cuffs. Juniors might have Inexsystem is that it develops no one part pensive frogs to their buttonholes, exnor portion of the body, but contribthat they might not have them utes to the excellence of all. Not any cept on their cuff buttonholes, and the one set of muscles, but the general senior frogs, buttonholes and health Is benefited thereby. The theory buttonsenjoyed complete. Is that no child bo messaged will ever New tooth. a become bald or lose York Evening Sun. - fiKLftr The senior was maintain his dignity with three "crows feet of black silk cord on the lower part of his coat sleeve. Two crows feet were permitted the junior, one to the sophomore and none to the freshman. The waistcoat was of black, or, when of cotton or linen, of white; single breasted, with a standing collar of buttons, which were ta be flat and covered with the same cloth as the garment to which they were attached. The students might not have more than eight nir le;s than six on tbe front of his coat, with four good-natur- Baby Princess Princess Yolanda Marguerite of Italy, though disbarred by the statutes ed lime-llgh- ta ld sp'.-ishc- ht Italy's from succeeding her father ns Queen of United Italy, is yet regarded throughout Victor EmanuelB kingdom with passionate interest and affection. The baby princess was born on June 1 last and with the exception uf her grandmother, the queen dowager, Bhe is tbe first princess born to the house of Savoy during tbe last fifty years. Yolanda is also the only baby ever born in the quirinal since the palace passed away from tbe papal court. There are at the present time ten male heirs to the Italian crown, all cousins of the present king. The little princess, should she remain an only child, will be one of the great royal heiresses of the twentieth century, for she will Inherit her father's large private fortune. It is rumored, however, that the stork will visit the royal house again next summer, when it Is hoped a male heir will be horn. WOMAN'S COSTLY FAD Mrs. "Jack Gardner, the wealthy Boston widow, has a new surprise for the ultra social set in the Back Bay district. She has bought and Imported to Boston a famous Venetian palace which was built 400 years ago. This s s es man-eat- well-know- n er structure has been accurately replaced In Boston and will be formally opened with a grand ball. Among the decora- tions of the pHhice are two celebrated paintings, by old Italian masters, that cost Mrs. Gardner 8213,000. |