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kis also rich tain-sineg sake gqs untit they ff, until the otk nile sugar o. whites stirred J of flour and te sifted gra the be eoatly at. of this article ring that the will look much of doors. After three or four Thea, get a paint-shop, and s nicely: painted paint. When, ne of the boys while (be otber ve coal, giving ort. While in 1d not forget to ne for wreaths, he coal can be itive eyes. Now the house and it ean be shut rive the rest of tapers we shall it i well to put lexible wire, 59 che rest of the anger of their s uses several as time, ao beg out the com bells unbroken LL be mouc toe bright yetiow, bt-gresn, dark. w, and at least udes of red, as, effective. When mmgh them ond 0.. Thon rent pOppH ng by running a rough the ker. string thom ids logether to ing, aad hang wy three quarts ng them in the ome sirings can and cranberries ternutely pop ome fairies. If Jies in the house into the servic jusy fingers will 2 little German * heads, sew on turlatan skirts, i with tinsel or end them from ne fall, some one some of what ile boxes, they glitter ba quite We can also then ay fe with oom left tok The wo thivige more. the enok. . Get i dozen tittle pencil draw one; some may ig. Take tissue blu, and cut a larger (ban the scissors, und unin 9 three. ch paper, draw sm tittle ze sprinkle som. iarlutan and (hitoan be into small be overcasied wii orsted. with a 2 the top; then ang on the tee. Sut in the shape tea or any other rman curior of res ue there are eal through in y at the top just Sx taper. Fine er covered wh ented with laur- tapers aad puss argon. AML will d march around e old Christmas these sugseatioas eased af thovsla fanoy shop ape toad of Five ME THE WORLD'S BILL OF FARE COMPARATIVE AMOUNTS OF FOOD USED BY PRINCIPAL NATIONS. fiteange.te ax the Rotate ts the Principal important crop of world, would unhaasitatingty say, Wheat. This is true in the United nual crop being more: thea 4000 mil tion bushels, against 2,000 million bash- els of wheat, 2,000 million bushels of cord, 1,800 million bushels of rye, and * 780 mnlllion bushels of barley, Of the total potatoe crop, Europe produces fully eeven-cighths, which is two and end-all her carente torether ure tut 80 per cont, more: yIn the consumption of th potato, aa Touy Bo expected, stands at the head. Her average anual oon- sumption per capita ix 1,467 pounds, or, dally average of 4 pounds per peracn. Next comes Germany, with por oap- ta consumption of over 1,800 pounds. Hor total consumption reaches 1,170 millfon bushels, or MORE THAN A QUARTER of the entire comsilimpiion of the world. vi ha per sapite consumption: -of 640 pound; then Norway and Sweden, with 740 , Pounds; France, 700; Austria-Hungary; 963, and Canad, 860 pounds. At the other end of ibe list stands Italy. with per capita oonsuription of only 48 pounds. The United States requires 280 million bushels of potatoes year, er 200 pounds for each person. This la lean by 8 pounds than the average cosumption in Great Britain, and about the same as that of Australia. European Russia uses 850 million bush- els, or 481 pounds per capita. In the consumption of whest, France Beads the list, requiring 800 million bushels a year, or 467 pounds to each nhabitant, Next comes Cansda, with M0 pounds per capita, total of 30 million bushels. Italy requires, 307 pounds per capita, or a total of 160 million bushels. Germany, Russia, Great Britain, and Hungary each use about the same total, 165 million bush- els; but Great Britain's per capita. eopsumption in 250 pounds, against 93. pounds for Russia, 180 pounds for Ger many, snd 230 pounds for Austria Hungary. Tn tho: United States the consumption of wheat is 240 pounds, requiring a total of 300 million bush- ols. The Netherlands use the same - per capita. as the United States, re- ether ond of tho list is Japan, with but 18 millions total, making per capita Consumption of 22 pounds. Where thess countries luck in the consumption of wheat. however, the ta sya mide up ia -othe grains. Ryo is the grain most in use in Russis, where 580 million bushels are consumed each year, or an average of 907 POUNDS PER CAPITA. At the head of the list gf European countries stands Denmark. with a peF capita use of 820 pounds; then Sweden, 314 pounds, and Norway, 224 pounds. Italy uses but 29 pounds per eapitn, and Germany only 26 pounds, while France requires 53 pounds, or a total of 36 million bushels. The rye used for food in the United States aggre- Gates about 80 million bushels, or 22 Pounds to each inhabitant. By The use of oats for human food is also, aaa rule, Inrgest where wheat least common. Norway, for example, 3 the head of the list, with 112 pounds per capita. Germany uses 97 pounds; the Netherlands and Swed. 96; Russia, 90; Belgium, 7 55; Italy, 48; and: Austria-Hu wary, 45 pounds. In ap te of the large ure of cata 28-2 food in Scotland, the rerage.of the United Kingdom is but 12 pounds. In the United States tia estimated that 18) million bushels are used for food, or 77 pounds. per eapita, Caniads: uses 51 pounds. Tt 15 i the uso of meats that the various nations show a wide diver- gence. At the head of the list, both as to total and per capita consuniption, stands the United States. Not le: ifn 11,000 million pounds are retain ed for thoit use, or 147 pounds to each persth. Of this, in round numbers, 5,000 million pounds are beef, 4,000 jext stands of 100 pounds per inhabitant, but only fraction of thia amount goes to the Irish, since their average consumption is but 56 ponds, Norway uses 80 pounds; France, 77; Spain, 70: Ger- many, 64; Sweden and Switzerland, Belgium, Gl; Austria-Hungary, 6 and Russia, Portugal, and the Neth- srlands, 50 pounds. Italy uses but 24 S 7 The United States also hend in the use of ees. FULLY 10,000 being required it the course of s year, or 188 eggs to ach person. Next stands Canadas, with 90 eggs per capita. Derimark uses 89. egga: France, 78, and Germany, 7 eggs. The United King- dom requires but 99 eggs to each per- son, and Ttaly but 47 oga Tn the use of rice there a a wide divergence. The United States, for example, requires but 800 million pounds, which Is only 4 pouads per capita. Great Britain takes 50 mil- lion pounds, or 9 pounds to exch pe sod; 'Gpnin uses 5 pounds, and Italy is, But Japan requires no leas than 303 Gepnds, and the everene of ali Indiaia pounds. The Province of. Bom atone uses 10,000 million pounds, or pounds to each inhabitant. A statement commonly mode S55) i oF i zt i 3 if Hy sa of it comparatively consumption. pouits, wr only ut 18 ue i a ge a5 B on pounds of ted, per capita. Russia, only 60 million pounds, or 9 punces to each person. In the use of coffer the Netherlands stand at the head, using no less than 70 ounces to each person. Denmark consumes 247 ounces, snd Belgium 176 ounce. Next comes the United States, with 515 ounces, which require total of 725 million pounds during the year. At the other end js Russia, whose people censume 30 million pounda during the year, or 3 ounces to each person. Spain tises but 9 ounces and Great Britain only it ounces. Germany requires 78 ounces, or total of million pounds; Switzer- land, 112 ounces; Wranos, 53; Austria Hungary, 33, und Italy, 17 ounces, Perhaps the widest divergence is to be found in the use of the stronger drinks, Take beer, for example. In this the United Kingdom takes the lead, with no less than 1,200 million rallons per year, or 80 gallons to each abitant. Germany uses 1,400 mil- lion gallons, or 27 gallons per capita, and then comes Deomaric, with 24 gal- lons to each person... In the United States, 1,050 million gallons sre used each year, which gives an average of 15 gallons to each person, Swi uses 14 gallons per capita; France, 6 Gallons: Gweden and Norway, 7; the Netherlands, 8, and Canada, 4 gal- long. Such'wine-drinking countries as Spain; Italy, and Groooe use very little beer. Italy require LEES THAN A GALLON Greece about 2 quarts, and Spain but . 2 tion, however, Sp: with 95 gallons to somes Franos, Itaty, 24 gallons. Theso countries are in marked: ontrist with beer-drink- ing Germany, which uses but little hus largely. incrossed during the last year, reaching a total of 8 million Zallons, which is almost exactly quarts to eich person. Russia uses about gallon.of wine per capita. nad pAustriu-Hung: nearly 3 gallons. Canada, however, takes the lowest place, with less than I pint to. each pereon. MeClure's Magazine IMPRISONED ON AN ISLAND, Something About the Island Where Dreyfus Has Roe Imprisoned. The island With the ill-omened name, He du Dighke, upon which Capt. Alfred Dieyfus has been exiled for three years, does not afford ensy access to the descriptive reporter. Conaegient- ty imagination has largely taken the place of accurate kerowledge in pice i its character, A Dutch shipmanter who recently touched wt thy island gives an account of the situation which is far less sen- sational than the reports. which have been generally uccepted ; The He du-Disble, or Devil's Island, isa barren islet, about five acres in extent, situated fifteen miles distant from Cayenne, the capital of Prench Guiana, The climate ix neither op- Drossive nor unhealthy, ox it is temp ered by the. sea in all directions. According to these latest statements, Dreyfus receives liberal allowance of ereattire comforts. He bus bis daily morning bath and auch exercise ax the Timitations of the isiaud permit; coed: and varid food ond drink; books to read and facilities for writing. Even friendly games of cards with bis guards are permitted: The ceaseless) watohfulness alone reminds him at all times that he is a prisoner. Two aards are always with him, n torpe- oat patrols the waters about the and the sei French have been their methods of punishing oners of sta those who. tically inconvenient, Louis XL his almoner Cardinal Balue, into cage, in which he could neither ats up nor lie down with ease; and there he kept him for eleven yours. The Man with the Iron Mask was not only man without country, but without name. Captain Dreyfus may suffer as great torture of soul as thes, but he Is at least spared those moments of cruelty once visi on offenders, against the stat The Author of ihe Porm Died A Unokem Mearted Oatcast. In the early part of the America clvil war, one dark Saturday morning. In the degd of winter, there died at the. Commersis; Hospital, Cincinnati, young woman over whom, head only two ond twenty suuimers bad passed, She had once been pomessed of am en viable share of beauty had been, a he heraolf said, flattered and sought for the charms of her nee ; but, alas upon bor fair brow had long been writ fen the terrible word fallen Once be pride of respectable parentage. first wrong stop was the small ning of the same old story ov8t agsin, which has been th oly history of thonsandn. and accomplished (a might have shone in the best society, But the evil-hour that proved the ruin waa but the door frougphildhood ; amd having spent a young life in dingtace 4nd sbame, the poor friendiess one died the melancholy death of a broket- hearted outcast. Among ber personal found in manuscript the Beautiful r was immed ci gt; a genileman of culture and Titer ary tastes, who was at that time edi- ter of the Nationa Union. In the eol- umns of (hat paper on the morning following the girl's death tho posi appeared im print tor the firet time: When the paper containing the poem came out (he body of the victim fad not yet received burial. The attention of one of-the first American posts was son directed to the newly oublished lines, who was so taken with their atirring pathos, thut he. immiediate), followed he corpse to its final reat -Suoke are-the- piain trots concerning: her whose Beautiful Snow, will long be regarded as one of the brightest gems in American literature. Oh the snow, the beautiful snow Filling the aky and earth below, Over the housstops, over the street, Oras the nexde of the people you sects neing irirting, skimming alons; Beautiful snow it ean do no wrong, Flying to kiss a fair Indy's cheek. Clinging to lips In frolicksome freak, Beautiful snow, from heaven sbove, Pure ax an angel, gentle as love Ob the snow; the beautifal snow, Flow tlie flokes gather-and laugh as na BOY EO Whirling about in maddening fw It playa im ita glee with every on Chasing laughing burrying by. Tt lights om tha face, and it sperkl the oye: And the dogs with a bark and a bound Snap at the crystals an they eddy round; The town iv alive, and its heart in glow, To welcome the coming of beautiful enow : How wild the crowd goes swaying along. Hailing ech other with humor and song ; vs How the gay sleighs like met ors faah Ye Bright for a moment, then lost to the ert Ringing swinging dashing they go, Over the crust of the beautiful snow; Snow so pure. when it falls from the To be trampled in mud by the crowd passing. by. To be trampled and tracked sands, of feet, Till it blends with the fi by thon- Bell like the snow but from heaven . to hell; him the hor- Fell to be trampled ao filth of the treat, Felt 0 be ssotted, to bo mpit on and Selling my soul to whoever would buy; Dealing tn dase lots morsel of read j Hating the living, and fearing the dead. Mercital God, have T fallen so low And yet I was once like the besatiful emow, Once I was fair as the beautiful wow, With an eye like crystal, a heart like ite glow ; Once I was loved for my innocent grace Fiattered and sought -for-the-charms, of my face Father fal The verieat wretoh that goes shiver: ing by, will mike ride ayroep lest I wander t is For ali that ts om oF about me Tienow There is nothing that's pure as the beautiful enow. aisters aile it whould be when the ne nin, 1 teininee ing dying salons mt: resi alone, Too wicked for prayer, too weak for moan, To be heard im the atrects of (he crazy town, mad in the if the snow com- (Gone Jey 0 ing ) Tsbould sie down and die in my ter- rible woe, With a bed ands shroud of the beau- tiful snow. jaipless and foul ss Sinner despair not To rescue the soul that is lost in sin, Taive it to life -aad.-amjoy: Grocnitigs bleeding dying thee, The Crucified hung on the curaed tree His accents of pity fall soft on thine the trampled for ea Ta there meroy for mo Will He heed my weak prayer t God in the stream that for sinnera did flow, Wash me, nn I shall be whiter than snow I SPAIN DOESN'T CARE. Hows of the Final Defeat Didn't : ihe Madrid Bullfight. If Sir Hugh Gilzen Reid be a com- petent observer, it would seem as if the citizens of the United States were much-more interested in the effects of the war and the work of the Peace Commission than are the people of Spain, despite the fact that the re- sulis threaten still further disasters to their-own country. In a letter to the London Echo he says: : Even, in the capital, with all its es ies, there is little, if, any, real Merrapt interest in the posce negotiations which drag their slow length slong at-Paris. On the very day that hel the fate of Spain, and the decisive news from Cuba was expected, the bull rinj the Grand Casino, and all the th tres were thronged by light-heai and pleasure-loving crowds, noblesand peasants alike callous to defeat or vic- torys When the fatal intelligence came, one who wns-on the spot tells me ther waa any, emotion, and the wild festivities went on without it terruption, the bull ring having trimsfixed audience history repeating itsel the country. in flames. phenomenal ly has wasb-put on the line, but few recorded. TAILOR GOWN WITH CUT-AWAY CoAT, A light gray cloth costume has the front of tho skirt trimmed across the bottom: with group of folds of the cloth. overlapping the vest-in framed in this same style of sover-appin folds: The coat has short point d tabs slashed in at the front, and curves down into long coat tails at the back. Ut baw revers of gray silk, showing: wide margin of cloth, and- the Christ stoopeth oa , same removed f tot margin edges the coat allround. show ony effec. of the amt FLASHES OF FUN. all mon are lings, but some are not found out unit after: thoy are mare Node Greenr Do they play golf in Ger- many't Redd Oh, you; haven't you 6 BN OF the Praikfirter Woks He, exhibiting akotch It's the best thing I ever did: She, sympathetically 0, well, you mustn't let that discour age yee. . You my Dr. Bowless is a specialist t T thought be was general praotition- er. What tev trin jalty? Big bill; mid the victim, aa Where are. you . golng my pretty maid Im going s-golfing, sir, she aid. May Igo toot Why, yea, my ind- adie. . Maid of Athe ere wo Give, 0, give mn And if tia Just the sume to you, Send me back the diamond, too. She Do you rem mber thal thirty Years ego you proposed Co me and that I refused yout He Ob, yout That's one of the mast tieamured Fecollections of my youth. De trouble wit some men dat. knows Yew, said tho fat man with the fray- od Clothes of fine texture, I went in- to that deal with 10,000. How did you come out f asked the other mun. Alone. No Chance to Argue Landlady I want you to understand, sir; that Um Bo spring ghicken. O'd Boarder Well, I'l have to take your word for it, T never saw one. Tt is estimated, says the statistical boarder, that 7,000,000 packs of pixyine rds are made every year. That, said the Cheerful Idiot, is a great deal. She The man that I marry must be rable to see beyond bi how many of. your noes will he have to ignore. eho gave in afd con- sented to be his. : Poor Maud She was oruelly deceived when she married old Gotrox. Didn't he have any money t younger than he said he w: Geraldine You have been sick, have- n't you? Gerald Yes, I was threatened with brain fever. Geraldias Well, you had one comforting thought; you couldn't have It in anything but a mild form. And, remember, Bridget, there are two things T must insist upon ; trath- fainess and obedience. Yis, mum; and when you tell me to tell the 1 ow're out, when you're in which sball it be, mum ? Smith So you were fishing yester- day, were you? What luck did you have Jones Spiendid. Didn't catch. fish, but about o dozen of my credi- tora called at the hotise to collect mon- ey during-my absence, - Drufman I have been boarding ten yeara. Rayman Then yoti don't know what it is to have home? Drufman Oh, yes, Ido. It was when bad a home that T didn t know what t was to have one. Bride's Father, to his prospective son- in-law, a young lawyer I am not go- for 10,000 that I will make over to you, and you can sue on them. T never saw a man carry economy to extrenie, seid a Dreyfus par- He in positively parsimonious army. Yes. He is ing about seving his honor. ALL THE GREW GREW FAT. menon, Explained By the Pres Much Arsenic on Board. The German bark Zion, which ar- rived-at Philadelphia on Sunday from Fowsy; England, brought a rather peculiar cargo. It consisted of 1,800 casks of china olay, but in addition there were on board: 390 caske of ar- sonic. This part of the oargo had a remarkable effect on he crew. The fact that arsenic as well as strychnine belps the formation of adipose tissue whon tiken into the bu- than system in minute particles 15 Well known, and both drugs have be- come favori s tonics for conyalescents. On board the Zion the men slept very near the large array of barrels con- taining the drug. They-ware stored: in the hoid, near (he forecaste, and par tinlly exposed to the rays of the sug which atreamed in througn the onen- hatoh. When only about a week out from port ene of the crew meni to his mest-mates thot 9 peculiar and indescritable odor was coming from the onak containing the drug. It was not long after their attention. hud heen called to it that they If noticed the same thing, and, strimge to say noticed it all the more forcibly a week came aware of the fact illing out their clothes to a much Greater extent than when (hey ship ped. Many others, as days went by, hecaine abnormally stout, in vast -cou trast to the former slim appearano which mony of them presented before the land was jeft. One man gained, It tx aiid, Ewenty-five pounds, Others rea fat 1 Aggregate weight put on by the entire crew wns little leas than 400 pounds. Several of the eailora are known in Philadelphia, and they are said to be sourcely recogniauble when contrasted with the old days, The entire: sudden taking on of avolrdupois is attribute to. vapour, whieh, geperstad by the tion of the sun on the enaka, waa in haled py the asamen ax thoy alrpt, nd acted in precisely (he-same-rman- ner whic it mie in) praseription. Oapt. Hammes, who alept afi ia the yeasel, entirely: an ht -arsenic, does not it they were Plenty of It; but she has learned that he is ten Jearspeed ing to give my daughter a cash dowry, Lint T have some doubtful claims for - at wood? does when given as oe A PAMOUS BANDIT. Not long ago I desoribed the death of the famous Sardinian bri beddu, who was killed in the carabinsera. A compl his career is now obtainable. Tt ism teresting for it Duck Turpin-lllee epi sodes. Corbeddu was no ordinary br and. He did not go about shooting poor fishermen or miuleteers for the sake-of the few lire thay might have in thetr pockets, but he carried on bis profession in a manner o distingwist ed a (o make him the king of the Sardinian outiaws. He..was bora-in 1844 at Oliena, in Sardinia, of swells odo family, and until called to d military service he lived am-agrieul tural life. He took part im the cape ture of Rome in 1870, but whils ata tioned with the Berm glicri regiment, of v xy Awakened. Having heard that s cor- tain pricet was Wealthy, be, with am aecomplice, made a falne key and om tered the priest's house. To the great surprise of the robbers, (he priest was at supper, Theyssulzed, bound and Dig bureau, The authors of the orime. were never disovered until Corbeddu in after yeara BOASTED OF HIS ACHIEVEMENT. After retiraifig. to Sardi military service Corbeddu was repent- edly tried for cattle stealing, until one day he failed to answer to a summons and took to the hills. At this point begapebis celebrated exploits. Fire, with an armed band, he stole sum of money from a house, at Luisa in 1882, The aime year he and other outlaws SUAe kad kitted ant robbed man-at-Benvere: Mills, In 1884 be fought and nearly killed a carablneer at Fonni. Tn 1885, he, with some compenions, Killed carabineer and nearly killed an inspec- tor and another carabineer at Orani, stole a sum of 14,000 lire. Next year he robbed the post and deprived Count Spada, whe was in the diligence, of his watch, rings, gua and big Wool The big boots Corbeddu afterward wo in honor of his exploit. In 1804 he robbed and killed a wealthy mam at Borore, Many other crimes were put down to him or were committed by minor brigands under his orders. Re- wards amounting im all tor22,000 lire were offered for his capture, but in vain. His most famoys exploit was not the capture, but the liberation of two Frenchmen, MM. Pralle amd Paty; who had beon seized and held t6 bisckmait by other brigands. Their capture gave rise to a violent campaign in the whole French and Ttulian press against the cotidition of the Sardinian polive, and Signor Crispi, who was then premicr, ordered the authorities in the island to liberate ths two Frenchmen at all costs, All the catabineers were mo- bilized, and the telegraph officers worked night and day, though with- out diccovering the prisoncrs. At la subperfect named Marongin appe: ed to Corheddu by means of his friends The supertect and the brigund had wa interview, in which the olficiil pro: ised Co) apyihing he might wish on condition that he would get the Vs aia am scrape, Corbeddu at cnee accepted (11 task of liberating the Froneliuen, and WITHIN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS they were delivered satel is hands of the authorities, us Corbod ale a DEAS EME SS PEARSE RT SES. he would aecep eee the Di Gre reward offered him nor a free. pardan, nor any other oripeniation. consit-r- ing himself suffleientiy pid by hav ing done in twenty-four hours who ministers, prefeots and on army of carabineers-had been unable (0 cenor plish. From thal time be gave up by derous expeditions ani pence the fruits of his robber Kept herds of cows and pigs sii of sbeep and goats, Ho lived is on an almost, inaccessible 4 peak, to which the path was kaowh only ta himself, and his brot her cave was separated Crom the yah by a precipice, over. which Corbedss : don the (rune of 9 yall tres, dro ocession, daring, wd Corboddu s robbed him of a he, had. accumulated prise -the imauntain i them the ban dist ris for game. T most- always spok fested reat died Jaws, whan be ealled or trade mpoilers, to have got into the t carabinests hy whem he ofier a hard fight wus. tei tet some three years ee ese SHADES AND CURTAINS Mrs, Billtops tells me, said Mr. Rilltops, that she haw been trying to yours and years to tench me the dizter- a en shade and our and that T earn matter of faot, though I may still sometimes miscalt the shade and spe of it asa curtain I do know tho dif ference between them; ihat the cur- tain is the thing that is hong and draped, a8 for instance while the shade is the ait down on roller. botx ain, A CANDID TRAMP, Lady--Now that you bd good, substantial dinner, er, 1 suppose you will not abject 10 sawing fow sticks euinp Pd tik tai gilena lady, but me toge is so thin dat pate od T souldn t staud the cold Lady Oold nd the thermom 9 in the shadal Are you or: Tray Nope, I knows it tar hot, bat 8
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