Show FROM TUB THE FOUR WINDS A farm in greene county alabama COD insisting on of 95 acres was sold under mortgage at eutaw the other day and brought only forty cents per acre A troy tradesman at peterborough Peter borough england recent recently lt noticing among his hid stock a pinchbeck pinch beck scarf pin shaped like a tiny ax remarked jokingly to his son better send that to the G 0 M the boy did so and lo 10 by return mail came the inevitable postal card aird from mr gladstone bearing hearty thanks for the and pretty gift A fashion paper tells of a remarkable wedding in london recently where th the e bride was attended by a lot of litt little I 1 e girls dressed in blace velvet frocks red stockings black shoes red cloaks and red three cornered hats trimmed with black velvet and carrying red boquete tied with rod red and black rib somebody said they looked like a lot of little devils a very go good d 1 l description crip tion to judge from the casu costume mes the largest chinese mining camp in n the northwest is s at warren idaho hundreds of chinese have been at work there tor for several years and each year from fifty to seventy five go hack back to china with from 2000 to a fortune f far or them most chinese allers miners work over old mines and are very ex pert pei t at cleaning up op every particle of gold but at ai warren toey they are ar on new ground and their calef careful ul system results in large yields there is an establishment in new york that employs a large dumber ot girls to crack and pick nuts fhe the kernels of which are sold to confectionery confectioners ers the nutshells nut shells are sold to manufacturers in various vailous eastern towns more especially in boston the shells of pecan n nuts english walnuts anchick and hickory nuis ats are used in the manufacture oryn of is spices p tees the shells are ara ground up into a powder and mixed with other spices this shell dust has considerable flavor although of course it is not what it is alleged to be when sold as spice it is not known that tha tn I 1 if has any injurious qualities they tell this story of M carnot ulcie uccle of the president deot of mhd french republic napoleon bonaparte when first consul was one day amusing himself on the banks of the miniature lake at Mal malmaison knalson by throwing stones into the a boata al of ladies who were with josephine the ladies were dressed in rather expensive summer toilets and as the stone throwing of the magnate caused them great annoyance they protested napoleon however continued his amusement when a little boy 4 years old who had been looking on ran up to him and said you brute of a first consul will you on leave off torment tormenting irig the ladles ladies re the consul stopped as it and on seeing the boy burst out laughing the youthful knight errant was young carnot who had bad accompanied his bla father napoleons minister of war to malmaison if the throat trouble of the crown prince of germany causes his death soon the heir to the throne will be kis his eldest son prince wilhelm of aborn abom the von krockow writes the germans cannot forgive an heir apparent of the throne having been born mediocre med ocre in figure and 1 imperfectly formed prince wilhelm has baa a crippled arm the fingers flap ers are mere knobs la in the hussar uniform there is a pocket and he wears it because the three fingers on the helpless member can be hung bung in the pocket otherwise it bangs awkwardly and he helplessly p lessly stotts sleeve his horses are especially trained and before the prince is to mount are tid rid dea three quarters of an hour to wear them down he can just manage to hold the reins we were together in ia a country house I 1 looked with the hostess hoc at the fork with which he eats it is of silver and not conspicuously different from others but flotd to the under tine there is a sharp small blade what the prince cannot cut with the one hand band and with this blade he be does not undertake to eat the right band and arm are large and of dexterity but bat the little finger is deformed by a growth which the bridee only imperfectly con ceals by wearing rings up to near the third phalange |