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Show SWISS A WEDDIKG. Wh MANY VARIETIES SEEN BEYOND THE ALPS. um rrlo4 hrt4 la niNlktil th Wall eatartak LllMa RapaMla Fk lau( Hia Hast Taka Pala ta Plaaaa. f B a 1 HERE ta ne other Euiopean country lu which there w aa large anil eo eaten tie a variety of marriage cuetonie as there ta in 8wll zerland, one at the very smalleat countries in any noun-tr- t toar Ml Firm Baa. The workmen on the eablee follow eloaely sftqr the builders of the lroa roadway. These men are engaged In more perilous employment If anything, than the former, saye Godey's. They climb nimbly up to the very summit of tha huge towers, and then, without flinching, proceed to descend the Inclined cables It make the spectators below tremble for them, so dangerous ts the descent, hut the workmen have no fear, else they would be uafltted for the duty irquircd of them After eliding down the cable a doeen feet they top end turn around and face the k 1 he men working the towere slowly swing out to them the end of a table about three Inches in diameter Another man carries out to them by means of a small hand pulley and rope a red hot band of ateei, which tha cable workers seize with their pincers and clasp around the large cable, on which the) are resting Then, while the ateei is still hot and malleable, the small cable, with its end secured la a thick bolt of steel, is brought into position and the end welded into the red-hsteel band encircling the main oable. The workmen pound and forge away, hammering, twlsttug and bending the metal before it cools off The welding must be done rapidly, and the workman have no time to- slop and think of the dangerous position In which they are placed. Probably the only support they have comes from their legs, which they wind tightly sround the cable, as they swing their arms and upper part of the body with violent exertion. When this cable le forged into Its place the workmen take A few moments of. rest and. then. slide down to the next Joint, where the same operation Is repeated. Cable after cable is attached in this way, until there le a regular triangle of steel work an dangling cables, looking for nil the world like a spider's web. But there la order in this colossal spiderweb eueh is never existed In the homes of the Insect that weaves the web In our homes and woods. Gradually one part of the bridge after another is finished, and when the false work of scaffolds Is removed the structure stands out In all the beauty of Its finished state. The bridge builders must not only be skilled In their work, but they must have the hardihood aud daring of the sailor, for moat of their work Is performed at an altitude higher than the topmast of any tailing vessel. They labor In all kinds of weather when the sun I pouring down Its torrid rays In midsummer or when the mercury register ro in winter. der-rie- oon-tine- Mo SmI y can m this rehe all at compared with Swltxer-laad- , aped except east China. the unmeasured and immeasurable empire of Asia What a Swltserland and China' eeuple. In Lucerne, Switzerland, the marriage customs are rather pretty. May dap is a day sacred to lovers, a day f ardent courtships. Upon Its dawn and, indeed, until its midnight the lever who would aot anly woo but win Must proclaim tha Intention of hie attention distinctly and pity hi mistress several prescribed courtesies The most important of these Is, perhaps, tha planting of the eoutlablp At day he plsnts pine, or May tree before her fathers door a wee pine trea heavy with fruit of tinsel and hewers of ribbon. This is considered the most marked attention a Lueerne lover ean offer to the maiden at hi devotion. If his suit la aoceptable bar parents invariably reward him with larlalk entertainment And nothing else so prove that a Swiss family li lifted quite off its feet and carried GREAT THB LAYIMO BRIDdt CABLE. ot HOMB LIPB OP TNI MS rtoM-)HMS- kg h to to IMt My MMlif Ik. OS ttotito. tortFtok- Mapatok. HAMILTON, an Englishwoman, who lived for some time In the ameers asrrste pslaoe, some characteristic of th anecdote cool way in which this ruler often tie affaire. borrow port f her . narrative from th Hew York Mls when On the rare occasions Hamilton ventured to appeal for lee heroic measures, her patron reminded her that It le not very long elnoe men were hanged In England for ebee never stealing and poaching, and he harbarltlee the on. tired of discoursing f slavsry under whit ruls. Once a beggar had solicited aim. from him, and In answer ta Inquiries Informed him that he had nsvsr worh-- d In his Ilfs, and had no intsntlon doing so," ' we said "Abdurrahman. Then, ean do without you," and forthwith directed that the Idler should be hanged. The ameer was susceptible to flattery, and could sometimes be A man whom he had sentenced to have his ears cut off for some happened to be a 'friend of ho the ameers chief secretary, by averted the mutilation offarlng to perform the task hlmeelf, provided It might be done In the nmeere presence. Consent was given, whereupon the secretary said that he had' never ISS sml-barbar-o- -- A BRIDE FROM UNTERWALDEN. helplessly down the stream of mad amotion as when It plunges Into stintless hospitality. On the eve of a Lucerne marriage the maiden friends of both bride and bridegroom gather together at his bouse for s frank little festival called 'the tying." Each maiden contributes a basket or kerchief fnll of gay flowers, and each blnde up a nosegay or a coat bouquet, or both and, going home through the 1st moonlight or the gray dawnbreak, each girl hangs her flowers upon tht doorknob of her favorite youths dwtl-linor as often flings her fragrant challenge through the open window. These flowers the young man la supposed to wear to the morrows wedding. love-garla- g, Am Iadiaa Sherlock Holaaaa, The traveler Charlevoix, who died In tells a story of an Indian who One day rivaled Sherlock Holmes. a piece of meat was stolen from hi wigwam, and he started In pursuit of the thief. He had not proceeded tar before he met with some persons, of whom he Inquired whether they had seen a little gld white man with a abort fun, accompanied by a small dog with a short tall. Asked how he could thus minutely describe a man whom he bad never seen, the Indian answered: "The thief I know is a little man by his having made a pile of stones to stand upon In order to reach the venison; that he (a an old man I know by hts abort steps, which I have traced over the leaves In the woods; and that he Is a white man I knew by his turning out bis toes when he walks, which an Indian never does. His gun I know to be short by jthe mark the muule made In rubbing the bark off the tree on which It leaned; that his dog is email I know by his tracks, and that hs baa a short tall I discovered by the mark R made In the dust where he was sitting at the time bis master vu taking dewn the meat." 1761, OM A HMtl nH Cp Waterloo, Iowa, Jeweler has an interesting relic In the form of a medal cast in ISM In commemoration of the ooe summation of a treaty of peace certain Indian trlbaa of the Ohio valley and the United States. On one side the medal bears a portrait of President Madison and tha words: "James Madison, presi dent of the United States, 1809." On tbs obverse there are symbolical devices, one being a pipe and tomahawk crossed, the plpe'overlaylng the weapon, indicative that peace it supreme ever war. A pair of clasped hands are shown, the wrist of one band being naked and the other showing the embroidered enff of a soldiers coat sleeve. This particular medal was plowed bp In Nebraska, and waa about eight Inches underneath the surface of the ground. It Js of silver. ea bas-reli- ef al THE AMEER. touted this form of punlsament b Mas fore. Would Ms khkaMeebo how much of the ears was Jo be removed? The ameer passed bis hand over both members; then the secretary turned and reminded him of n passage In the Koran to the effect that anything touched by tbe representative of tha Almighty becomes sacred; and th sara were saved. On another occasion, when th ameer had before him a dispute between three landowners and two be complained that aa each told his story the rest talked eo loudly that he could not hear It. Finally he called five soldiers, one to stand behind each7 litigant and box his ears soundly when he spoke out of turn. Then the ameer could hear tha evidence. Deetreettoe of e Legend. Mr. Moncure D. Conway, n the Athenaeum, writes on n historical topic of no minor Importance. In a recent let- ter to the London Times, where nn o) h- SAYSHECAN CURB DRUNKARDS utofcat Ctoorgevltsh Alavrdoff, nays the London Chronicle, has come to this country to tell what he bM done fof drunkards In his native Russia, and to do tbo like tor the Inebriates hare. H has discovered in Russia a secret herb which, when administered to victims of alcohol on M. Alavsrdoffs prescription, will cur him outright, although he had "drunk every day for mors than fifty year from five to twenty bottles of his manidifferent alcohol drinks," The prefesto gallantly declares. scription, said M. Alaverdoff, "la 86 per cent of spirits of win and 64 per As those water. cent of distilled numbers already made 100 per cent, the acute reporter Inquired where the rest came In. Undismayed, M. Alaverdoff proposed ".06 of acid of lsmoa and my herb." "There isnt room," said the reporter. But this discoverer only replied, "It is a secret." They then solemnly drank to each other in the medicine diluted with excellent whisky M. Alaverdoff claims to have . in- terview with Bismarck la printed, this is what the chancellor is reported to have said: Frederick the Great waa the first European sovereign who the independence of the United States. Mr. Moncure D. Conway declares this to be an amazing statement, He writes: "While Louis XV. not only recognized American Independence, but allied himself with it, and sent over the officers, money and ships without which that Independence might have remained a paper declaration, Frederick the Great never uttered a word of sympathy, with Washington or with bis cause, but Hessian troop ware sent over with Fredericks tacit consent to crush Independence. Vain efforts were made by dAlembert to elicit from Frederick some opinion about th American revolution. Did Bismarck, asks Mr. Conway, bsUev la that legend that Frederick sent a sword to Washington with tbe message: "From the oldest general in the world to the greateet The conclusion of the note ts striking: "Tksre M. alaVerdoff. I was no such sword or message, 3LATIN PASHA. cured over S.OOO Inebriates In Russia, ones asked Carlyle If he knew of anyPaaha (who la an English commander thing said or written by Frederick out Including some desperately drunken of the Bath and n colonel in the Egyp- of wklch th legend might have grown. soldiers. He is In deadly earnest tian army) escaped from hie hut near He replied: Nothing whaterer. There Omdurman and fled to Cairo, where is not the slightest foundation for It WBH w- -t Kissed. In her childhood the Corea n woma at last he found freedom and Meads. veeeive a nickname by which she la HI return to Omdurman with Sir Hervery Aalesel Its Owe Pee.ee, bert Kitchener, n conqueror where he Animals get rid of their parasites by known in the family snd by her dear had been virtually a captive, is tha cli- Ming dust, mud, clay, etc. Those friends, but which, when she arrive max at a career of amazing violas! suffering from fever, drink water, and K maturity ! employed only byhar tude. Th portrait here given of the sometime plunge into it When a dog parents. To all other persona she la pasha In his civilised garb shows n dif- has lost its appetite It eata that spe- "tha sister" or "th daughter of such ferent Btaa from the one w have been cies of grass kown as dog's grass, and such n one. After hsr marring used to seeing In turban and gown. which sets as an smstic and a purga- her name Is buried she Is absolutely tive. Cats also eat grass. Sheep end nameless; her own parents refer to cows, when 111, seek out certain herbs. hsr by mentioning the dlatrlot into piwh Ceeeee fas .he Or leek. Bangor manufacturers are sending Aa animal suffering from chronle which she has married. Should her canoes of birch and canvas to Pales- rheumatism always keeps, as far as marriage be blessed-wit-h children sb The warrior la "th mother" of If It tine, Japan, India and Chinn, One possible. In the sun. recently sent to India waa to the order ants have regularly organised ambu- happens that a woman has to appear of a British officer, and the cost of lances. Latrellle cut tbs antenna of In a law court tha Judge give her a transportation waa mors than 97S. A nn ant, and other ants came and cov- special nan for us while tbe case laat in order to save time and to canoe just ordered Is intended for a ered tbe wounded part with a transparent field secreted In tbslr mouths simplify matter. trip, up the river Jordan-- - Cra Twenty-fiv8tatea will elect go HH sort this autumn, moat of them th e Mie Barlow a testes in literal are widely diversified She le readei taking In n Ugh!, sportive nar- retire in well as the deep, heavy studies of tbe more serious ecnoentratlon of mind says the .Boston Transcript. She Is a warm admirer o! Mary E Wilkins aud Sarah Orne Jewett, whose books sfford her muth pleasure and Interest After breakfast dally the novelist saunters into the heart af the country anil there Is nothing she en-Jin 0 re thorough I. than her datly k vailing on her return home for her mail at the village poetoffiee. It 1. well the villager- - know the value wbuh their famous townswoman sets on this short, delightful recreation, sod know, toe, the ruetoiuary routine, for many the "God blew your lady-ht- p await her along the wy. ae aow end then a coin is dropped Into the withered hand extended toward her or a word of comfort and good cheer le liven to the disconsolate and oppressed Mias Barlow assumes an attltuds of reserve, of calm, quiet dignity and told Indifference; hut, touching n eub-j- e t in which she Is st til lntsrsstsd, the veil drops and -r true self Is revealed, a model of exquisite simplicity , divested of every shred of egotism or As hsr Interest heighten In the topic discussed her large eyes glow in worm csShustaare Mias Barlow Is much lntersatod In the higher education of women. Bha le warm, tod. In her enthusiasm for the philanthropic work which our women of the United States are carrying en eo successfully. She has no sympathy whatever with women's clubs In general except where Ahey tend directly, both mentally and physically, to the wants snd comfort of the poor and afflicted. Her heart's deep sorrow overflows st th cruel distress and abject poverty of the poor, wretched Inhabitants of the western part of Ireland, whom she says are "actually dying st famine and starvation and yet the world goes on, unheeding tbe erlea st pity for bread, while hundred of dollars are lavished In wasteful extravagance but upon what we eall necessities upon dainty boutonulsrsi, or bits of luxuries to garnish the toilet table. This one subject alone engrossed tbe mind of our greatest coming novelist during a long psriod of conversation as to the best moans that might bo resorted to to produce timely, aid for her dying brethsrn. She herself and a few kindly disposed ladles are doing all they ran in thslr own quiet way to send relief to th scenes of so much distress, "but ala!" oh concluded, "It Is so little we can do. I am heartsick at the thoughts at it and at th news which a friend sends m almost dally from th dlatrldt In which the famine is greatest." ed THff ELECTIONS. SHIP FOB THE CHIEF. ttorvtee es HE LOOKS DIFFERENT. Blatln Pasha has had experiences such as fall to few. By birth an Austrian, he made his first Journey io the He was Soudan twenty years ago. governor of Dara when Gordon U In Darfur suppressing the slave trad and g little later, when Gordon waa governor-gof the Soudan. He had eneral responsibilities and perils by night and day and bore them so bravely that he of was appointed governor-generThe mahdl about this time Darfur. discovered his "divine mission" and thenceforth the life of Slattn Pasha waa one of conflicts, imprisonments, escapes, crowned by the final triumph of Kitcheners forces. Hi foes at one time were they of his own household, for when the raahdl took El Obeld, Statin Paaha's men began to ascribe his misfortunes to the fact that he was A nominal adoption of a Christian. tbs Mohammedan religion was the result a ruse of warfare. While Gordon waa besieged at Khartum, Slatln Pasha had an interview with the mah-d- l, to whom he made the oath of allegiance. Moreover, he wrote to GorThese don asking him to surrender. things did not save him from being thrown into prison and bavtng Gordon's head brought to him. After sixteen years of such adventure Slatiq BARLOW. - to Help Ik- leetoe. ' Wkw sto Ttaa Wvyto( APOHANIB-TA- N RULER. Story Far JANB AMEER. N YACHT BYLPH IB PUT PRESIDENTS AT THE DISPOSAL. BMUt-IiH- H. Bator Fwiwlg Have Cas.ly Flatware Cnfl-Iap- -iw William's T t VM-rl- s'i SptoaSId tot For years the government officials at Washington have been embarrassed by th talk of a suitable government ship for the use of the President when he desires. In entertaining foreign guests of the nation, to take them for a pleasure trip of any kind To be cure, some vessel of the nsvy was always at his but no one ship could be kept st hand for that purThis difficulty is to be remepose died end a specially designed yacht Is to be built for tbe sole purpose of executive use In social functions. When Mount Vernon bee been visited by representatives of a foreign nation hr in their official capacity It has been necessary aa' a rule to transport them to the tomb on some river eteamer or Ne by the electric tars Hereafter the Sylph, one of the fin yachts recently purchased for the nary, will be stationed at Washington for ths use of the officials and th President. .It ft of light draft.' fast, and well adapted for outings on th river With this ship and the Dolphin the President will be well provided with official yathls. But two rulets of great power have finer official yacht at their disposal United than the President of th States." 'Not' iv'eVtbe' QUeen 'or' England la carried around on the water In a ship more sumptuous or powerful than the dispatch boat which President Harrison, Cleveland and McKinley have occasionally used. Tbs Dolphin is not only fitted for just such cruises, but couples with its yacht-llk- e arrangements a stroug battery of rapld-flr- e guns. England for tbe last fifty years or more has supported royal yachts for ths queen, and the first of the number to be built Is yet serving her majesty. The queen has Insisted up to the present on all her royal private vessels of the old paddle-whebeing For twenty-fiv- e years pattern. the queen has had four imperial yachts for her own private Use, and now eh 1a to have a new one, larger, more costly, snd more sumptuous than sny of the former. The fifth vessel will have twin screws, great length, and Not one be capable of fast time. of the old ship on a stretch could make more than fifteen knots. In designing the new ship the British Admiralty has endeavored to meet the wishes and views of the queen on the general plan of the vessel as far as possible. As th yacht will probably torn day be th royal ship of the Prince of Wales .or some other member of the present Imperial family, there will not be that earn desire shown to sacrifice modern ideas of architecture In order to give tbe lumbering type of vessel, such as has represented the queens Ideal yacht. When completed the new ehlp will cost possibly $1,000,-00com-msn- d, ly el rs 0. Emperor Williams yacht Is more of a warship than a pleasure craft, and at tbe Kiel celebration was the most admired of all vessels except the New York and Columbia of the American Beet The Hohenxollern Is of comparatively . recent date, having been laid down In 1891 and completed two Its length Is the same years later. as that of the cruiser New York, It being S80 feet over all, with a beam of 46 feet, draft of 16 feet, and displacement of 4,187 tons. Its engines or have developed 9.000 horse-powe- r, equal to those of the New York, and Its speed Is placed at twenty-tw- o knots. It carries three Its compleand twelve ment of men Is 307. Russia has more Imperial yachts than any government of th world. Its naval list shows that ths esar has st least five, and a number of small launches designated also as royal dispatch boats Many of them are old and of little further use, but lta latest, the Standart, la by far the finest vessel of Its class afloat It la even more powerful than hie Hoben-xollerand carries more armament servthan any other royal yacht-In, n ice. November. Most of thee States will also choose legislatures and other StatR officers, and In several Instances Btatos which do not elect governors will elect minor State officers and legislatures. All the 8tates with ths xcption si Oregon, where tbe election has ahead taken place, will elect delegations ta (he house of representative. The State and congressional district conventions which have already been held afford some Idea of the issues a which tbe several political partis will Tha finaaeiab appeal to the people. question, which was uppermost two years ago, Is still prominent, and ha a number of Instances Democratic or Republican conventions have "reaffirmed the declaration mad by th national convention of 1196 In favor of free sliver or of the maintenance s, of th gold standard. But new arising from th war, especially that of possible territorial expansion, are finding n place, In political plat, forms; but there Is no definite agree- -, meet upon them In the conventions off, either political party.. ... The alliances between Democrat! and the Peoples party, which figured to prominently le the prcalUtstUl election, are being renewed In some instance and dissolved In others, th ' policy varying with the differing degree Of Intensity br fccIIng UpQR Ud financial question, and also with the ease or difficulty of distributing to th satiafactlon of the In two or three 8tatee, ns In Pennsylvania and to some extant In New York, th question of local government seem likely to overshadow or confuse natfahkl bfttteg:'" A novel feature of the New York election will be the means whtoh are-tbe taken to collect the ballots of soldiers from that State who arc la th service of th United States. Tbla ta required by a law recently enacted by tbe legislature, but the soldiers are sa widely scattered that It will not be easy to gather their votes. The elections will have -- an important bearing upon the composition gf the United States senate. The terms of thirty senators, of whom fifteen are Democrats, three Populists or silver senators, and twelve Republicans, ax- plre 'next March, anil the places of most of them will be filled by the legislatures which are to b chosen thla year. The legislatures which elsstedi the retiring contingent of senators were themselves chosen six years ago. : when the strong movement which carried Mr. Cleveland into tha ofllcs ct . president for n second term prevailed In several State which are usually Re, publican. If these States return to their earlier political position in th choice of legislature thla year, the complexion of th aenatt may b ma- terially changed. In Maryland a TU-T- ii' publican ha been already chosen ta succeed Senator Gorman. , ques-Hon- r pom-tnatto- na nl-U- ea -- -- -- , . . NO CAUSE TO WLUffH. h Pretty Slrt Wu Stothee To CmMnI . ' That Ska timer ad Adavtretlaa. She was a very pretty girl, and tho knew it, two things which were certainly all right, but she should aot hav displayed her knowledge on that particular point quit eo plainly W eh did. It happened in n Detroit atreei car tbe other day. She ' climbed la ; down at tbe square, accompanied by " friend wbo was both older and plainer than herself. It happened tp be one of tbe cars, with long seat 4 running along the aides, and right op- sat handsome a tbe gentlegirls posit gray eye, at man, with big, wide-ope- n whom tbe pretty damsel cast a tweet- ly simpering smirk as she eat downand arranged herself so thsl he could see just how pretty tbe was. Ho did not smile, but he continued to etara, and at first she seemed to think things were all right, but before long she he- gwn to squirm and shift In her sea3, and finally ejaculated to her friend Jn 1 a tone that was audible through thsT'""" car: "Really, dear, Ra dreadful the" way tbat man over (here stares. Its J all very welt for a man to admire you, but there really are limits. On or two of ths passengers smothered their smiles and looked to see bow the man took it. But be did not seem to hear just continued to stare with th same ateady, concentrated gaze, and tha passengers grew Interested. Ths' girl made one or two more remarks and then suddenly the gentleman --sitting beside the offending one leaned over and said clearly: "Pardon me, madam, bnt as you seem to be a little put out with my friend, I wish to explain that j be ft quite unaccountable, because ho There was allsnca is totally blind for a moment, while the young ladya blushes' lit up the car with a lurid tit- light, and then amid ters she arose and got out without a word, followed by ber giggling comrade. Cleveland Plain Dealer. v ' 1 - -- : v Ths Standart represents both ths highest Idea of war veasel and yacht It ean fight and at yet designated. ths same time take the whole Russian royal family on a cruise around the world in most comfortable fashNo official government yacht ion. None has la so powerfully armed. such speed or size. It Is longer than ths Minneapolis and swifter than the New York. Its length over all Is 426 feet, beam 62 feet, sod mean draft 20 A Fatoitoea Twlrt. feet Its displacement la 6,667 tons Whea th lodging house wax afire 16,000, and Indicated horso-powone night Mike hurried hla breeches which gives a speed of twenty-tw- o Its battery comprises eight on wrong aide before and threw hiia-ee- lf knots. out of the window. One of th King Humbert does not ballev that tret persons h encountered was hla I royalty requires aa official yacht, and employer. "Are you hurt, Mike? therefore, has never asked' the Italian feel no pain, aor," waa the reply, as people ts provide him with one. When Mike took a puzzled front view ot himhe wishes to make an official Inspecself, "bnt I must have received . a bad twist, aor." Detroit tion of the fleets h boards some one moighty of th ordinary dispatch boats. Oa Free Press. short orrises he has his own private Hi yacht, paid for out of hla own purse. Jones Hello, Robtnson, why are Is Ward. you looking so glum? Robinson You "Juat think of hi committing aui-c- ld know my rich uncle, the one Vkoso for love! Wasn't It awful?" It heir I am to be? Yes. "Well, ho waa the only way be could keep hie has been traveling In th Alps, and word, poor boy, for he had avowed to last week ke flipped and fell down n And waa killed, akf.. her that be would never lavs another crevasse. woman." Ex. No; he got off all right. er three-pounder- s. i. a Z -- - jf |