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Show ETHIOs OF MATRIMONY. Advlr lor THimh la and A boa 1 to Kilter tha Married State. Far more difficult than the mere harmonizing of opinions is, in married life, the harmonizing of tempers, since, while many people have no opinion worth mentioning on any subject, the humblest or more ignorant can set up a temper. Nothing can deal with temper except conscience and time, declares Col. Thomas Wentworth Higgin-so- n In the Chicago Daily, News. "I have known young married couples with whom It was unpleasant to be In the house during the first year of their marriage, and )et habit and sheer necessity made their society tolerable within two years and positively agreeable in five. The presence of children Is a help to this compatibleness as being the one possession absolutely shared and necessarily accepted by each parent. Another great aid to the harmonizing of tempers indeed, something priceless, as a permanent rule Is to study mutually what may be called the question of preferences; that is, to form a habit of considering, when a husband and wife differ about any matter, which of the two has really the most reason to care about It Thus It may sometimes make little difference to the wife whether breakfast Is early or late, while a late breakfast may cost the husband his morning train; or a carriage may.be a very important matter to a .wife, with her skirts to take care of, while it may make no serious difference to the husband whether he walks or rides. It la surely better that'one siiofild make a little sacrifice. on any matter than that the othc--r should make a fur greater, Boad INCREASED COST OF LIVING. The average east of living has advanced nearly 920 per cupita within less than five years, according to a statistical comparison just Issued by Details of the grand scheme under cost about 97.500,000. To lock No. which the United States will build the the distance Is less than two miles, Nicaragua canal are rapidly becoming and the work will swell the cost known since the isthmian Canal more. The next rapid step has completed its report and dewn the Pacific slope is to lock No. senators and others have been taken 8 and the last two miles and a half, Into the confidence of members of the which will cost the government nearly 96.000,000. This lock will bring shipboard. There Is little doubt that Cryigress ping within a mile and a quarter of will this winter vote to construct the Brito and into salt water, practically canal at a cost of 9189,000,000. This to the end of the canal. The length of the canal will be 183.G6 will Include two great harbors one at Carrlb-ea- n miles. There are several deep cuts on or on Atlantic the Oroytown, end of the canal, and the other at the canal. Near the Conchuda dam Brito, at the Pacific end for a canal the depth will be at one point more of eight locks and one enormous dam than 20V feet. The cut at Tambordto, miles from Greytown, is to at Conchuda, on the San Juan river, twenty-siseveral miles above the mouth of the he the deepest of all. The canal will hare a system of double locks, so that Carlos river. Greytown harbor and the entrance In case one is disabled or closed for to the canal will cost 92,196,860, and repali s or renewal the other can take the Brito harbor and entrance 91.509,-47- care of the traffic and commerce will Aa the canal is to have a depth not be interrupted. hf thirty-fiv- e feet, it Is necessary that the harbor and entrance should have CLUB. THE the same. It is proposed to have the harbors at either end of the canal pro- Fraalilent of 'NwIatjr Callad the "Most I.urlU I.uinlnarjr." tected liy jetties 3,500 feet long. These has There recently been formed at of loose be constructed will Jetti.j stone :.ud will lie six feet above water. Washington, D. C., a unique social orThe t iranre will be 500 feet wide and ganize ion. One inflexible.. rule . for membership is that the applicant shall feet depth. thlrty-lu- e have red hair. The society is defined Much more dredging will be necessary at r.reyiown than at Brito. The as being a 'society of protest," but and movement at Brito will be less strictly social in its aims. It has no than at Greytown and the cust of philantliropical or political aims. It maintenance will be far less. Within seems that the society was organized the hnrliors there will be a turning ba- In a rebellion against the, antiquated and moldy witticisms which sic of l.SOO feet. A railroad must be built for about people in all parts of the civil100 miles. This railroad will cost, it ized and uncivilized world are supposed is estimated, 972,000 a mile, and its to enjoy, or at least suffer, with a total cost will he 97,575,000. This is sickly pretense' of hnjoymeiit The understood to be exclusive of equippresident of. tnp organization is. called ment. A branch of this road will also the "Most luf-iluminary, and the 7 00 Com-mias- on x 0. RED-HEA- '. D red-hair- ed d wires were stretched through them and connected with hundreds of small Incandescent electric light globes, which peeped out from the green boughs on walls and ceiling. Each globe was shaped like an orchid, and shone with a pale grec-- light that lent reality to the semblance of the rare woodland flower. Over the crash thai covered the floor had been strewn pine boughs, tangles of thick woodland moss, and bushels of autumn leaves in all their rich tints of scarlc-t- , yellow and gray. A round table, eight feet in diameter, made of unfinished oak, rose from the litter of mots and leave3, and Its stout legs were completely covered with green and gray moss. Ranged around the table were ten chairs, each of which, especially built for this occasion, was made of black birch boughs, fashioned in varied rustic designs and '.vlth the bark left on the surface. The center of the table was a mound of maidenhair fern, moss and oak leaves In their autumnal tints. Twenty, or thirty electric globes like those' peeping from the walls were arranged among the ferns and mosses In the center of the table, and in front of each cover was a cluster of thirty of. the rarest natural green orchids that the hothouses-o- New York could n f supply. .There was no other illumination of the room than that furnished by the green globes of the small electric lights, and the effect was like that of twilight In a pine forest. New York Herald. Den riii'ii. Duns Review. In July, 1897, the average cost of a year's supplies for one person was y 972.45. it is 9101.37. Forty years ago It was 920 greater, the exact figures in January, 1860, being 9121.75. The present prices are higher than for many years, or since modern industrial, distributive and agricultural conditions were introduced. During the period mentioned it has been found that while the price of labor fluctuated greatly, the average was 91.50 a day, or about the rate prevailThis would indicate that ing the Increased cost of living haB not been met by an Increase In ability to pay it But to offset this there must be taken into account present steady employment and larger opportunities for conditions advancement Existing certainly do not bear out the bare statistical statements that ..the cost of living, has so greatly advanced while wages have remained at an average. Pittsburg Dispatch. To-da- to-da- y. NEGLECT OF At North Bend, A NATION. the place where General William Henry Harrison lived at the lime he was elected president his ashes lie in a tomb which is in a state of neglect. That fact speaks but one. "Many a household Jar which would illy of the respect which the nation have left prolonged strings behind it if made a mere t'st of will and persistence is settled eis!!y whin the equation of preference is applied to it, and each Is ready to make a little sacrifice to lave the other from a greater one. O. Deafness is very much more general than is supposed," Is the statement of a famous pkycician. Maty persons who think they have perleo: SET EXAMPLE FOR THE MEN. shows for the memory of those who helped to make It great. The Insignificant tomb stands on a little knoll and overlooks the broad, tawny Ohio river, which there makes a wide sweep to the southward. An ideal location for the eternal home of one who loved the spot, even as dearly as he loved his country. A dreary looking tomb it is at its bast. No one could have planned an abode more architecturally severe. The cold, gray granite, damp and dank, peers from the ground like the rude formation for some house which was never built. Over the iron door of the vault which is reached by a path through a small cut in the hillside stands the legend "Harrison." The door itself seems imbedded in the stone wall, unpalnted and rusty,-anmarked and marred with the scratchlngs of vandals. Names are scrawled across it names of those who are unknown, and whom no one need know. A rusty iron lock, which might he smashed with one blow, is all that keeps the door fastened and prevents the vandals from further desecrating the abode of Harrison. The path leading to the door la littered with rubbish and underbrush. Hosts of weedB mar the beauty of the -- have to be run from the main line to the proposed great Conchuda dam. This dam is to regulate the flow of the Ban Juan river in wet and dry seasons, and this is to be done by means A force of great gates and sluices. will have to he constantly on watch for floods and be ready at a minute's .notice to put the machinery in operation which will let the surplus water out or keep the needed water required. This dam including sluices and machinery, is to rust not to exceed There is a No to be an auxiliary wiisleway. including sluices and approach channels to the dam, which will cosv 9:1,0 13,322. Iiock No. 1. including excavation, wll cost 95.719,686. Then follows a miles, stretch of shout twenty-eigmile. 91 000,009 about per costing Leaving the river at this point of departure from the lake, the course will next he across Lake Nicaragua for fifty and a half miles. Nine miles beyond the lake the plans of the commission ring the canal to lock No. 5. Here very extensive work has to be The excavation becomes very done. heavy ns the divide beyond the Jake is climbed, and it bus been found necessary to construct enormous receiving basins to intercept the Rio Grande, Las Lajas and Chocolate rivers. The total cost of the expenditure at this point will be more than ht 1 924,-900,0- The canal is now very near the Ta- grille side and the drop now begins. To lock No. 6 Is only a distance of about a mile. The excavation and lock will mbers Satelother officers and lesser lights," etc. Attention lites, Is called to the fact by the organizers that some of the greatest personages hearing are living under a delusion In liost cases, however, the ordinary deafness of people is the result of accumulations of wax in the ear. Those David Is who are troubled in this way should of history were described as a "ruddy youth;" those never attempt to remove the wax tresses cf the sainted maid of Orleans, themselves. They should go to a phy which shone so brightly beneath the sician. Ninoty-uin- e out of a hundred cases of chronic deafness are caused of France and minroyal gled so pathetically with the leaping by catarrh of the nose, and may be flames of Uheims, arc historical; SL cured- by treatment of that disease. Paul was the lovely but People should be warned against putMary Queen of Scots had a ting anything into their ears. Buch natural crown of ruddy gold; Julius as spoons, toothpicks, Cesar anil Martin Luther are alleged matches or flnger-nailThe mechanto have had red hair. Detroit Free ism of the ear is vaS is very Press. easily disarranged, and the use ot such instruments by inexperienced A THOUSAND-DOLLApersons is productive of the most seDINNER. rious results. Ms Genre II. Ifryas llanqntt la an Imitation Ilno Fnrrat. One of the most remarkable private Tlia Snow leopard of India. India has produced some of the finest dinners in the history of Delmonlcos was given there Monday night by Mr. hunters In First, George Heye, treasurer of an invest- they kill deer, then tigers, and after ment company and president of a that they climb into the hills after ..mirror plate company. markhoor, the mountain sheep, which For the pleasure of entertaining are tlje most difficult of all their kind nine guests from 7:15 oclock until to follow and kill. But there is one 10:20 o'clock, Mr. Heye transformed ambition beyond the markhoor. That the red room of Delmonieo's into a is the snow leopard. This beautiful miniature bower of pine forest, and creature, white as the snows It lives spread before them a repast which among, is rarely found btiow a height cost him not less than 9103 for each of 11,000 feet, and is even there exof the ten covers laid. Hundreds of tremely rare. It Is both wild and savpine boughs had been brought from age, and the natives hare a superstithe woods, and these were so adjusted tious fear of Its white cost and deep upon the walls, celling and floor of the green eyes. The man who succeeds in apartment as to completely conceal killing a snow leopard st(ips Into the their original character, invisible very firs rank of n e men. red-haire- fluer-de-i- d. green tfcrf from which they spring. No one cares, or seems to care, how the spot looks. Forgotten almost the tomb stands as a monument Cincinnati Enquirer. MONUMENT TO ROSA BONHEUR. At Fontainebleau. France, a monu- ment to Rosa Bonheur, the great - red-haire- d; s, cat R Just beyond San Pedro we came to the Sibalom River, the bed of which is a mile wide, covered with big and little bowlders, and here and there a swift running stream. The mkin river is probably two hundred yards wide and Is easily forded, except after a heavy rain, when it rises rapidly and becomes a raging torrent It usually subsides In a few hours after the rain has ceased to fall. When the river Is up many people gather on either bank to await an opportunity to cross. Our treasurer was once sitting on the banks with a lot of natives waiting for the river to subside, and had been there, wet hungry and tired, for hours praying to get across. The river was boiling and foaming and no one dared make an attempt to cross. Presently an woman came along, took a look at the river, gave a contemptuous glance on the manly sex there gathered and then walked up the bank about a hundred yards, where she stripped off her clothing. She made a careful bundle of all her belongings, raised them above her head and entered the stream. The water was over her head, but she made no attempt to swim. She would sink beneath the water until her toes touched a bowlder and would then give a jump The current would give her a lift and send her diagonally down the stream a few yards. She kept repeating the operation until at last she had reached the other bank, far below where she had started. She waded out with her bundle perfectly dry, donned her clothes and vanished through the thicket. From a Panay Letter in the Mobile Register. d Kina In Kxlla The little islands or the Seychelles, to the east of Africa, are becoming overpopulated with dusky monarchs. There nre quartered there at present four and two queen mothers. The kings include Prcmpcli of Ashanti, Mwanga of Uganda and Kabarega of Unyoro. the being an old fighting man willi a notable record. East and West African monarchs meet at the Seychelles and the diplomatists interested in African affairs are curious to see how they agree. Mwanga and Kabarega arc recent importations, but it is now more than a year since Prcm-pelate king of Ashanti, arrived in Seychelles, and it is said that readers lunik on of the downfall of that potentate would find it hard to recognize the truculent personage there depicted in the sleek end oily negro, clad in Immaculate European clothes, who sits In a front pew of the English church in Victoria. ed h, Maj.-Ge- the-worl- blg-g&- a C routed ICIver In Fmimy. last-nam- Ill-fat- ed big-ga- lliilliplno Woniau ex-kin- gs is oar-scoop- t Ilow n. Badcn-Powel- ls Idea of Kavenga, Longyear of Marquette, Mich., who built himself a palatial home at a cost of 950U.OUO in that city, lias so embittered against the city for allowing a railroad to run so nenr h(s property that he will move the house, stone by stone, to Boston, which project will almost reach the original rost of the structure. Chicago Klrh Man' f painter of animals, was recently unveiled, and is shown in accompanying picture. On the side panels of the pedestal arc reproductions in bronze of some of the artists works. A portrait in bronze of' Rosa bas-reli- ef Bonheur occupies one of the smaller panels, and a bronze branch lies J. M. be-ro- |
