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The "Venus of the Hohenzol-lerns" Hohenzol-lerns" is rather prolific in surprises for her family so much so, in fact, that once her imperial brother struck her THE GRANDMOTHER PRINCESS name off the list of guests at the im perial hunting parties. The princess was marr'ed to Bernhardt of Saxe-Meiningen Saxe-Meiningen much against her will, if one may believe court gossip. At any rate, she bas led that rather close-fisted individual a lively life ever since. The spectacle cf a royal and imperial grand mother f avortins about a tan-bark PROPAGATING BERMUDA LILIES Trying: to Find a Home for Them in America. There is a good chance for a new in dustry in the United States in the rais ing of bulbs from which the Bermuda white lily is grown, says the Bo-:Lon Transcript. At present these bulbs are imported and their value at wholesale whole-sale is $1,500,000 annually. The great est objection to this importation, aside from the protectionist objection, is the presence of "mites," which destroy each year an increasingly large percentage per-centage of the bulbs. This affliction is spreading, and unless methods of cultivating the lily at its island home are revolutionized many persons fear his beautiful Christmas and Easter Bower will eventually be driven jfut of existence. For the mite itself no satisfactory remedy has been found. The suggestion has been made, however, how-ever, that If some bulbs entirely free from the pest were selected, and their growth begun in a region here where the mites have never infested it might be possible thus to elude the enemy. At least many years might elapse before be-fore the mites found out such a new lily colony. Up to the present time experiments conducted in this country coun-try have not proved completely successful. suc-cessful. No part of the United States has yet been found where the winter conditions are sufficiently favorable to bring the bulbs to maturity at a date early enough to make them ready to flower in season for Christmas. But it is no use to give up the search; bulbs may be propagated which do not re quire bo much time, and places may be found more nearly like their Bermuda home than any that has yet been dis covered. These are some of the proo-lems proo-lems upon which the agricultural de- nartment is at work. The mite pest so thoroughly infests Bermuda that evidently evi-dently a new start must be made for the plant somewhere if its growth is to continue permanently. MISTAKEN TIPPING. How the American Laid Himself Open to Swindling:. An American recently arrived in London from a southern city, and be ing in hacte to continue his journey to Paris, I ired a cabman to take him on one of his errands, says the Youth's Companion. Handing the man a two- shilling piece, he directed him to a certain number in New Bond street. After seating himself in the cab, the passenger waited for several minutes. expecting the horse to start. At last t left the cab and found the driver on the box inspecting the coin, which was deable the ugual fare. "What is the Baatter?" asked the indlgnairt traveler. "This seems to be a very small coin for so long a distavaee," wen the surly response. re-sponse. The American smiled grimly, and remarked that the cabman could drift him at once to Scotland Yard. As this is the headquarters of the police, po-lice, the driver perceived that tha American was not a man to be swin dled. Tli drive you to New Bond Street," he remarked promptly, "if yon will get in, sir." "Wait a moment," said the American, "I want you to -ok me over carefully. Now tell me," oTjtinued, "what it was In my ap- arera, with top boots reaching to her knees and riding stallions "man-fashion," would have been more startling if the aforesaid grandmother had not been Charlotte cf Meiningen. The old dowagers of Europe have been shocked so often by Charlotte, and the first-class first-class kings and ernperor3 "who keep their carriages" and try to live dignified digni-fied Uvea have despaired so often of CAME DASHING INTO THE RING. her that it takes a pretty good "stunt" from her highness to make "royalties" talk. But "Graudma" Charlotte did it this time. The princess was aided in her circus cir-cus by. Count "Bill" Hohenau, who acted as strong nan and horse tamer, and the Baron Boeder, who was clown and rough ridei The princess was pearance that led you to think me an idiot. Was it my hat, or my collar, or the cut of my overcoat? I have already al-ready paid you double fare for the distance dis-tance I have asked you to go, but I'll give you as much more if you will tell me what there is in my general makeup make-up that encouraged you to believe that I could be fool enough to allow you to cheat me." The cabman by this time looked sheepish and uncomfortable. "I took you for an American, sir," he said, "and thought I could work another shilling out of you. Here is one of the shillings you gave me, and I am ready to drive you to New Bond street." The American had made two mistakes. He ought not to have paid double fare and he ought not to have paid in advance. By violating the ordinary rules observed ob-served by people who hire London cabs, he encouraged the cabman to swindle him. The most judicious course for a traveler in a foreign country coun-try is to learn the customs of the people peo-ple in it, and not throw away money by overpaying cabmen and tipping servants ser-vants too generously. Vastly Different. As will be seen, it makes a great difference how one uses tHe muscular resources at one's command. A member mem-ber of an athletic club, after swimming swim-ming the length of the large tank in the basement of the institution, came out puffing and blowing, apparently exhausted. "You don't manage your breathing right," said the swimming instructor. "It ought not to tire you so. As to the upper part of your body, including your arms, you use exactly the same muscles, and in very much the same way, in swimming as in sawing wood." "No, sir!" gasped the swimmer. "When it comes to sawing wood, I use the muscles of some other man." A Good Joke. Bank President "Great joke on our cashier." Stockholder "What is It?" Bank President "He made a mistake and carried off the liabilities instead of the assets when he skipped to Canada." Cana-da." New York Journal. Helping Htm. Hibbler DoeB your wife help you in your ' work? Scribler Yes, Indeed! She always goes out calling on her fronds while I'm writing. Tit-Bits. GEMS FROM HUMORIST OPPERS' PORTRAIT GALLERY, lli fcfe Jji A Phase of Married One of Mr. Opper's Hebraic Life, Bminaiis Ken. ringmaster and exhibitor of trick horses.. She had assembled a lot of people to see her performance. Moat of the titled persons had brought their wives, and the assemblage was brilliant, bril-liant, even if its component parts were people who are t regarded with the utmost seriousness in court and nfBcial circles. FrorrTone of the boxes Prince Bernhardt looked on sonr'y at th'.s lat- est exhibition of his wife's fol'y. Though Charlotte is a grandmother, she is only about 40 years of arT and certainly is handsome. The princess came galloping into the ring mounted upon a magnificent stallion stal-lion and dressed in the costume of a postilion of the eighteenth century. She had on a blue "swallow-tail" coat, laced with silver, and a yellow vest. Her divided skirt was of thick whi:e cloth, and she wore patent leather boots reaching to her knees. Ostrich plumes waved over a three-con ert d hat blazing with diamonds. She sit astrido her horse with a firm seat, and dashed around the ring bowirg and throwing kisses to her fr onds. Everybody applauded and waved greetings greet-ings to her except her husband, wto looker? more glum than before. Loudest Loud-est in the applause were the Duke of Schlesvig and his girl wife, Dorothy of Saxe-Coburg, daughter of Ah,ag"nd Louise of Belgium. After th'lir.V-r-r the piincess rose in her stirrups ar d ordered her trick horses to be brought in. With the exception of one, a -iroil-uct of the Hanover stud, all the torsos were Trakehners, a breed note! for beauty of head and carriage and docility docil-ity of temper. On the heads Ci ti e Not Up-to-Date. Nibts "The new minister is in everybody's ev-erybody's mouth. Ihey say he is a powerful preacher." Giblets 'Nonsense! 'Non-sense! I heard him last Sunday. He doesn't amount to a row of pins. He had lots to say about the better life and Christian charity and that sort of stuff, but he hadn't a word to say on the political situation." Boston Transcript. Tran-script. Quite a Difference. Birdcage Bill "Wot is a loafer? Why, a loafer is a feller dat loafs, of course!" The Bowery Chicken "Dat shows your ignorance. A loafer is a feller dat loafs and has no bank account." ac-count." Wouldn't You Like One? "Are you sure you'll have nothing on tomorrow?" "Nothing at all positively!" "Neither shall we come and dine with us!" Why He Declined. "Look here," said thesjbartender in a Kentucky wet-goods emporium to a liberal patron of the lunch department, ."what do you want for a nickel, anywaythe any-waythe earth?" "Not guilty,' replied re-plied the local colonel; "it's two-thlrdg water." a Tiller of the Soil. A Familiar Type. 'A horses were feathers and rosettes, and their white and gold harnesses eat off to perfection the blackness of their glossy skins. The princess cracked her long beribboned whip and began putting put-ting the horses through a variety of evolutions, the intelligent and well-trained well-trained animals obeying every word and gesture of the Imperial grandmother, grand-mother, who directed them with a dash which showed that age had not stolen vigor from her limb or fire from her heart. One of "Grandma Charlotte's" acts was to give the command "Catch me if you can ventre a terre," and go dashing dash-ing around the ring trailing her long whip after her, her horses following and trying to seize the whip in their teeth. All the "hoch-gebohrene" and "wohl-gebohrene" were wild with enthusiasm en-thusiasm at this proof of the abilities of the princess all except Bernhardt, who looked thunder clouds. SOLDIERS AND MOBS. Reasons hy the Latter Are Generally Easily Dispersed. rrum me spectator: A French or Italian crowd, however furious, will part to give a general a path, and somevaaj-s ago an officer in Berlin dis Ai?Vr--j;rowd which was threatening a.v-u-o uman landlords Dv merely snout ing words of command to them from a balcony. The artisans who were rag ing below could not "resist the impulse to "form," "march" and "halt" when they heard the well-known formulas. And, in the third place, the populace has no machinery. Formerly, if they could only obtain muskets and pikes, and a little powder from the armorers' shops, which somehow they always did obtain, they could cast bullets for themselves, and behind a barricade of paving stones they were like militia in a fortress, not well drilled, but not at all easy to subdue. Now a heavy battery bat-tery would knock the barricade to pieces, and then the Maxims and repeating re-peating rifles, perpetually resupplied from stores which only governments have at command, would pour out death in showers, the insurgents would fall ia great swathes as the Dervishes did at Omdurman, and, as the retreat into in-to houses is open to them, would rapidly rap-idly disappear. A crowd can no more resist a modern regiment In the open than a cheese can resist a knife. No doubt if the people are exasperated enough to continue firing from the houses there will be much loss Inflicted Inflict-ed on the troops, but experience shows that this form of attack maddens soldiers, sol-diers, and .hat the resulting massacre cows men who, however brave, have never fought before with women and children screaming, clinging or flying all around them. MAHOGANY SOFA. That Belonged to Daniel Webster Sold for Bll. There was a sale of antique furniture and bric-a-brac in this city the other day, and among the things sold was an old-fashioned mahogany sofa that belonged be-longed to Daniel Webster. Tj Wash-: ington people, however, did not seem to care for the relics, and paid the higher prices for "modern antiques." The old sofa bore an inscription, signed by General Meigs, that it once was in the possession of the great statesman, and that during his life in Washington Washing-ton Mr. Webster spent much time on this sofa, a ue inscription closed with the statement that during the last months of Mr. Webster's term as secretary secre-tary of state his health was so bad that he was obliged to spend hours on the sofa. The inscription was read by the auctioneer, but it did not seem to cause any perceptible increase in the bidding, for the old mahogany was knocked down to a boardinghouse-keeper boardinghouse-keeper for $11. There were sold also at this sale two of the White House plates, marked "Harrison 1892." It la a rare thing to see this particular class of china outside of the executive mansion. The plates sold for $4 apiece. Subwhw w.e!&nt X Gentleman of Leisure. CAEEEIIS FAILED. "Your cab Is waiting, Mr. Blakes-lee.M Blakes-lee.M "Then I must go, I suppose." "Yes, I suppose bo. That was your Intention, I believe." I believe it was. There ; doesn't teem to be any partlc ar reason why I should stay around aere any longer." lon-ger." Here he glanced at liar a trifle expectantly. ex-pectantly. "No," she rtj lied, absently, smoothing a tiny wrinkle in the covering cover-ing of the hard little hospital bed. "Oh, you don't think there is?" he demanded, fiercely, stepping in his task of bucklin. the str. ps of hl3 army blanket "Well, the dsctors say there isn't," she said, and then commenced straightening the bottles on the little stand with rather nervous fingers. "Confound the doctors!" He gave a vicious and fin; 1 tug to the straps, and then added: " t hey're a precious set the doctors." "Why, one wculd think you hadn't been well treated here," she said, with rather an unstt-ady laugh. "Oh," exclaimed the young officer, "you've treated me well enough just as well as you would anybody else, I suppose." A shadow of a smile crossed her lips, but there were tears in her eyes he did not see. "I don't complin," he went on bitterly,- watching the graceful lines of the little figure in the blue and white striped dress, as it moved to and fro. "Tomorrow they'll bring some other poor fellow in here and you'll take Just as good car of him as you did me, and let him go with just as much cheerfulness, too. Poor devil." And the young lieutenant went to the window win-dow and drummed on the glass with Impatient fingers as he stared gloomily at the little patch of gray January sky visible above the high roof of the church next door. Through many weeks of pain and weakness and weariness Indescribable he had watched that little scrap of gray as he lay helpless in the grasp of that terrible fever the insidious, treaeherous, deadly fever of the tropica trop-ica that had crept into his veins from the trenches of Santiago. At first it bad meant nothing to him but so much blank space, that patch of sky. Then it began to take on a new meaning, as he noticed that it was often the background for a picture a charming silhouette of a girlish face, with a little tip-tilted nose and tender curves of cheek and chin and waving masses-of hair surmounted by a tiny, stiff cap of diaphanous white. He came to watch for this dainty vision, and sometimes in his fevered dreams he would see it when it was not there, always bending toward him "AND WE'RE LWATE INTEREST ED TO KNO WHA THE THE PATIENTS i.'O AI TER THEY LEAVE US." with a smile ol divine pity on the sweet lips. He could see it now, though his back was turnt l to the girl busy at the table, and be gave an inward groan as he rei.i;mbert d that soon he would 6ee it no more, except in dreams. No one knew what that face had grown to be to him in the past few weeks. No one should ever know, he resolved, with a little tightening of'the lips, as he turned from the window. She did not care for his going that was evident. "We take good care of everyone, I hope," she was saying somewhat coldly, cold-ly, "As for our being glad to see them go that is nonsense. We are very sorry to lose you. Mr. BJakeslee " A groan burst from his lips. "Oh, spare me that, I beg," he exclaimed, ex-claimed, wrenching himself into his blue cape-overci at. "And we're always interested to know what the the patients do after they leave us," she proceeded, hesitatingly. hesitat-ingly. "Shall you return to the army Mr. Blakeslee?" "I suppose so." he replied, "I'll go out to Manila and get shot, if they'll waste the powder and ball on me." "How cowardly that sounds!" she eried, indignantly, and the little woman wom-an of 5 feet 1 surveyed the big soldier with curling Hp and dark, scornful eyes. "It would be braver, perhaps, to etay at . home and face death in the shape of a diphtheria microbe or a mettlesome horseless cab," 1 he said with rather unsuccessful sarcasm. "It's braver to face life than dath, sometimes," was her rr-ly. "Why shouldn't you want to live?" He crossed the "room suddenly and stood close to her, looking down into the flashing eyes. "I wonder if you know how pretty you are?" "I wonder if you know how rude you are?" she retorted. "Do you suppose It's easy to say goodby to a girl with a face like yours?" he went on recV'essly, taking ner hands the poor litt'e hands all reddened and roughened by hospital work. "Then lt' only my fa ? that makes It hard. You flatter i;?, sir." She had "withdrawn her ha is promptly from his eager clasp. "Oh, well, it might be little easier if you were crosseyed or ooked like like Lydla Pinkham," he EmittedAnd they both laughed. After all, they were so young. "And you expect me to go away after all these weeks with yon and pretend not to care?" Ton have nc right to care," she cried, drawing herself up proudly. "Ah. five me the right," he said. "I cannot go away without vou, and leave you here to do th's sor" :f work. This hospital ' life is unfit . - you-s-it is wearing you out" "Mr. Blakeslee. you C not know what you are asking. I'v :aken up this work against the advice . nd wishes of my family and friends. To give it up bow would be to acknowledge my fail ure. would be too humiliating. You mua not ask me to. And then your own career. You have made a glorious record so far you must not think: of. anything else for years to come. And; your country needs you." "No one else does, evidently." he said, bitterly. "Well, goodby, little girl,, and God bless you." And without another an-other word he left the room. The young officer strode along the echoing corridors with hasty steps. His heart was hot within him and he was ashamed to find tears in his eyes. But when he reached the great doorway he hesitated. Once outside and he had left her behind be-hind him forerer. He could not leave her this way. Without a word of; thanks for the tender nursing she had given him. She must not think him ungrateful. Swiftly he turned and retraced his steps. The door of the little room where he had lain so long was partly closed when he reached it. What if she had gone. With a beating heart he pushed the door open softly and went in. And there she was the stout-hearted young woman who had so bravely sent him forth to his duty and so sturdily kept to hers, with her head on the pillow pil-low his pillow crying her heart out, just like any other unhappy girl. A moment he stood transfixed. Then in one bound he crossed the narrow room and took her In his arms, and as their lips met two careers ca-reers that might have been melted into thin air and disappeared forever. Edgar Ed-gar Temple Field. PROFIT IN LOSS OF ITS NOTES. Source of Steady and Enormous Income to the Bank of England. It is a fact that, to many minds no doubt, must be very curious, that the Bank of England has always had a pretty steady source of profit in the loss find destruction of Its bank notes, says London News. What it has gained gain-ed of late years in this way we are unable un-able to say, but during a period of fifty years preceding 1832, the bank had made a clear profit of 1,330,000 from outstanding paper never likely to be presented for payment. When the destruction or the irrecoverable loss of a note can be proved, as In the event of a fire or wreck it can, the bank, of course, will always pay the money it represents, and even when there Is doubt about it, the cash is paid on security se-curity being given for indemnifying the bank should the note ever be presented. present-ed. The 60,000 worth of paper or 20,-000, 20,-000, as it appears to have been reduced to taken from the Parr s bank, will therefore not represent a loss unless the crisp little billets have some day to be honored at the Bank of England counter. In that case the cash paid in exchange for them will have to come out of the coffers of the plundered bank. Many years ago a bank director lost a note for 30,000. But being a man of credit and as there was no doubt about the loss of the bill, he gave the usual indemnity and got the money. Many years after.when the man had been dead, the paper was presented. It was payable on demand de-mand and had come from abroad in the ordinary way of business and the sum It represented had to be handed over, and as the indemnity that had been given was repudiated by the heirs of the man who had given it and for some reason could not be enforced en-forced the bank on that occasion had to put 30,000 on the debit side of the account. For once in a way they paid the double honor to a bit of their own paper. There is another story of a sum of 20,000, which the bank in it3 early days for a short time refused to hand over in exchange for its own notes. They were presented by a Jew, whose assertion that he had bought them was not disputed, and whose personal per-sonal integrity was above suspicion. They had, however, undoubtedly been stolen and on that ground the bank refused to pay the money. The Jew went out into the city and began to spread it about that the bank was shaky and couldn't cash his notes and, as he backed the assertion by displaying dis-playing his indisputable paper, the assertion as-sertion would in all probability soon have caused a run on the bank and in a few minutes a messenger came to say that the notes would be cashed if he would present them again. Advanced Marriage. All sorts of things come from Ohio. The latest is a new form of marriage, designed principally to maintain the rights and individuality of the wife equally with those of the husband. Under the new method, therefore, the bride does not change her name, nor does she promise obedience. The first man and woman to be joined by the new ceremony, original with them, were the Rev. Herbert N. Casson and Miss Lydia Kinsmill Commander of Toledo. They had agreed before marriage mar-riage that anything short of soul-unioo soul-unioo was desecration. For the woman to give herself to the man in return for her support was a revolting idea to them. The rule that the woman change her name they regard as another an-other mark of the servitude of the wife to the husband; the identity of the wife is lost and her name and title indicate her degraded condition matrimonially, and any one can tell she is married and whose property she Is. They therefore agreed that the equality of the sexes demanded that the woman retain her own name. They were married by a civil justice, and though they are man and wife, she will go through life as Mrs. Lydia Commander, and not as Mrs. Casson. At the ceremony they read a declaration declara-tion of belief which had been prepared pre-pared and signed by both. Marrying Age In England. The most dangerous age for a bachelor bach-elor is something under twenty-six and a half to be accurate, 2C.35, as the Briiish Registrar-General dryly prints it in his statistical return. The most nervous and delightful age for a woman Is something over twenty-four and a half 24.69. That is to say, it was at those precise ages that the average bachelor of the year and the average maid became one. The British bachelor, bache-lor, however, grows more wary year by year. He was older in 1897 than in 1896 when he fell Into the toils. The average bachelor was married in 1898 at 26.30 years of age quite .05 less. The girl, too. has to wait longer now than she used. She was one-quarter of a year young ;r in 1S96, when she became be-came a wife than 1897. There has been a decided slump in widows and widow ers of late. In 1371,138 husbands and 100 wives in every 1,000 were widowers and widows respectively. Things have changed now; there were but 98 widov ers and 69 wid riages In 1897. ers and 69 widows In every 1,000 mar,",w 4 Christian Science has over 30,000 aj herents in the state of New York, afe about thirty-five churches and conr gallons. NORWAY'S SIDD0NS. ACTRESS LAURA GUNDERSEN IS NO MORE. The Greatest Trasedlenne That That Country Has Yet Produced Paid One Visit to London Leaves an Actor Husband and a Nation to Mount- The Norwegians are mourning the loss of their greatest actress Mrs. Laura Gundersen the creator of the principal female characters in Ibsen's ind Bjornson's dramas. She was born in Bergen, on the western coast of Norway, in 1833, and was thus 66 years old when she died. She went on the stage at the early age of 16, but did not make her debut in any Important part till she was 19, when she played Juliet in "Romeo and Juliet" and Gretchen in "Faust." In 1870 she Joined the National Na-tional theater in Christiania, which has just been opened under the auspices of Bjornstjerne Bjornson. About this time she appeared as Mary, queen of Scots, in his drama of that name, and at once established her reputation as an actress of the highest rank. She next appeared as Hermione, Desde-mona Desde-mona and Lady Macbeth, which are considered her greatest roles In her classical repertoire. It is no secret , that Ibsen wrote several of his dramas with Mrs. Gundersen in his mind's eye as the ideal representative of his heroines. She was the original Hjordis if ' LAURA GUNDERSEN. In his "The Vikings on Helgeland," the Lady Inger in "Lady Inger of Os-traat," Os-traat," the Ellnia Wangel in "The Lady from the Sea," and the Rebecca in "Rosmersholm." One of her last roles was Mrs. Borkman in "John Gabriel Borkman." Mrs. Gundersen possessed a wonderfully clear and melodious voice, which she preserved to the last Her voice is now silent, but her name will ever remain as the greatest in the annals of Norwegian dramatic art in the present century. In 1S64 Mrs. Gundersen, Gun-dersen, then Miss Svendsen, married . Mr. Sigvard Gundersen, the Norwegian actor, who has won his greatest laurels by the side, of his gifted wife as x Othello, Macbeth, Faust and In other leading parts in the classic and modern drama. Mr. Gundersen Intends shortly to retire from the stage. About ten years ago Mrs. Gundersen visited London for the first and only time in her life. She became a great admirer of Miss Ellen Terry, who at the time was playing Lady Macbeth. Mrs. Gundersen was invited one evening even-ing to the Lyceum, and it was arranged that she should pay Sir (then Mr.) Heryy Irving and Miss Terry a short visit behind the scenes in an "en-tr'aa "en-tr'aa e. In order to avoid the long way round to the stage door she was conducted con-ducted through a private door leading from the stalls. The whole stage, which just then was bein arranged for " a battlefield, was covered with fallen . warriors, and it seemed Impd."lble for a lady to find her way among0 4em." But Mrs. Gundersen did not health':, she lifted her skirts, stepped carefufij over the outstretched bodies, which apparently ap-parently had been arranged with 'an eye to effect, and safely reached the wings on the opposite side just as Sir Henry, in the pictures ue dress of the Scottish chieftain, arrived to receive his visitor. She had scarcely been in-troduce.to in-troduce.to him before Miss Terry appeared,.; ap-peared,.; ready dressed for the sleepwalking sleep-walking scene. In the most solemn manner, Mrs. Gundersen's friend, who accompanied her, Introduced the two. t-great t-great artists to each otheer: "The . Norwegian Lady Mbeth-the English Lady Macbeth." ' " ; : "A 9.. JIM BROWN. MAN. V This is a picture of j-'( Brown, nicknamed Jumbo, who was J1 ye of the heaviest violin players in to, world. JIM BROWpHS, He was born in Detrol when 32 years old, the 'ilt. graph was taken, he t pounds. He was wide,-"-3 many parts of the Unl or, died In New York. 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