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The Princess Mary of Tookâ€"Flirting in the Street-Carsâ€"Small Talk for the Ladies. Langtry's Beauty Analyzed. A woman it is who thus relentlessly, in a letter, from New York to the Cincinnati Enquirer, dissects the beauty of Mrs. Lang- try: I am not going to harp much on the played-out string of Langtry, and will simply say that those who were reasonable in their expectati‘ ns found her satisfactory,but those who looked for a transcendent beauty were woefully disappointed. I counted five wo- men in the audience who, beyond all ques- tion, were a great dI-al nearer to perfection than this prince’s darling. The chief charm was a lady-like aspect and manner, quite out of keeping with the part she was acting in the play. And it was observed that when she did unrehearsed things (as in pick- ing up the dumped flowers from a baskct handed to her while in front of the curtain, and leading out her reluctant manager) she was even more graceful and free than when she was following instructions as Hester Grazebrook. It was easy to comprehend how, with the prince of W'ales to push her, she has made such a headway in London ar- istocratic socie'y. She had grown thin since the familiar portrait, exposing taper arms and boneless bosom, were made and she made no exhibition of those things, nor is she likely to during her American tour. She is a large-jointed woman, with big hands, and her elbows are larger than the parts of her arms between them and the shoulders, as was plainly disclosed by the tight sleeves of her (2 stumes. No, she will bare no such arms as she now possesses, believe me. Only one of her dresses was low, and that exposed only a wedge of skin down toe centre of her breast. This garment was of rich, warm- toned yellow satin, simple in style, and fit- tingperfcctkz. Thewaist was heart~shaped, coming low down on me snmxtders, and beâ€" neath thelrill of point lace, which circum- sg‘ilwlâ€"«fie figkhykarea and the narrow Everybody winking, blinking, In a. queer, mysterious way ; What on earth can they be thinking. XVhat on earth can be to pay? Bobby peeping o’er the stair-way, Bursts into a little shout; Kitty, too, is in :1 fair way, w here she hides, to giggle out. As the bell goes cling-u-ling-ing Every minute more and more, ' And swift feet 70 springing, springing, Through the iull-way to the door, With a. glimpse of box and packet. And a little rustle, rustle, Makes such sight and sound and ra01;et,~ Such ajolly bustle, bustle,â€" That the youngsters in their places, Hiding slyly out of sight, All at once show shining faces. All at once scream with delight. G0 and ask them what's the matter, What the fun outside and inâ€" ‘Vhat the meaning of the clatter, What the bustle and the din. Hear them. hear them laugh and shoutthen, All together hear them say, “Why, what have you been about, then. Not to know it‘s Christmas day 2” â€"Nora Perry, in tlw CHRISTMAS Sr. NICHOLAS. Mrs. Langu‘y's Beauty Analyzed by One of Elu- 0wn Sex. “3r; .3 alreadyidéseribed, was only» pieceof lightly twisted saxin following its outlines. The corsage simply carried the line below the waist, and ended in small points. The sleeves reached below the elbow, with a piece of the satin carried round the edge, and a little puff of white silk edged With lace in each, tying it to the arm. The front of the shirt was laid in large plaits, which gave a fullness that was lightly caught here and there, making a careless drapery. This ‘ train was long, and its beauty left to depend . on its own color and folds. In allot her dressing she was careful to show the out- lines oi her waist, which is slender, and to my mind, rather out of proportion with her broad shoulders and ample hips. The idea. suggested by her figure was not of fleshy roundness at the two wide parts mentioned, buta b'g-boned frame not smoothly filled out. The impression was strengthened by the visible action of her shoulder-blades under the thin covering and above the tops of her corsets, as well as by the meagreness of her boeom. I fancied that she ,was about seven-eighths bone, and when she smile‘, With her extensive mouth and white teeth, the unpleasant thought came to me that she was exposing the whole front of her skull, which might at any moment drop out, leav- ing her head a shapcless mass of hair and skin. Having expressed that horrid idea I must not fail to do the woman justice by say- ing that, as an entirely, she is about as wholesome, healthy, clean-lookinga creature as one would Wish to see. She walked with a stride that indicated a sturdy pedestrian, and altogether, she had more out-door breoziness than one would expect in a dainty, drawingâ€"room pet. Langtry was a focus for every glass in the house, instantly on ler appearance, and when she made her first exit there arose such a babel ot com- ment that the other actors could not be heard at all. She bore the ordeal without a tremor. I have no doubt she liked it. “She talks about herporsonzfl charms 'with the utmost freedom,” said a. journal- ist who had intcrvxewed her several times. “ \Vell, I suppose you gentlemen of the press bored her until she talked as a- means of ggtgting‘ rid of you qu1ckly,” I remarkcd. ‘7 Bored her,” he retortctl, “well, that’s funny. There wasn’t a reporter went down the bay to meet her, and wrote her up for his paper, who wasn’t impor-uned to call on her at her hotel. And, if he did it ; and wrote something more than his manag- ing editor deemed worth publishing, then he soon got a little note begging him to call again. Bored by reporters? Please permit me to laugh. ” ESPEGiALLY FOR LADIES. The girly girl, says the Philadelphia. Pro- gress, is the truest girl. She is what she seems, and not a sham and a. pretense. The alangy girl has a. hard job of it not to forget her character. The by girl and the rapid girl are likewise wearers of masks. The WHAT'S this hurry, what’s this flurry, All throughout the house to-duy? Everywhere a merry scurry, Everywhere 3. sound of play. Something, too, ’5 the matter. matter, Out-of-doors as well as in, For the bell goes clatter, clatter, Every minuteâ€"such :1 din ! Christmas Day. The Girly Girl. éirly girl never bothers about woman rights and woman wrongs. - She is a girl and is glad of it. She would not be a boy and grow up into a man and vote and go away to war and puzzle her brain about stocks for a kingdom. She knows nothing zibout busi- ness, and does not‘want to know anything about it. Her aim is to marry some good fellow and make him a good wife, and she generally succeedi in doing both. She de- lights in dress and everything that is pretty, and is not ashamed to own that she does. She is pleased when she is admired, and lets you see that she is. She is feminine from the top of her head to the end of her toes and if you try to draw her into the discus- sion of dry themes she tells you squarely that the conversation does not suit her. She is the personification of frankness. There is not a particle of humbug in her composition. Here is health to the girly girl! May her numbers never grow less. Nasby writes thus of Germany : It is as- tonishing how alike everything is the world over. In these beer halls the waiter girls who have plump, shapely arms wear short sleeves, while those whose arms are very thin and not at all shapely wear long sleeves. holding that short sleeves are immodest. Thisuconversation probably occurs between girls of the two types, the plump and the scraggy : adv “ You are entirely right, Bertha darling ; short sXeeves may be immodest. On such arms as yours, my love, they would be pos- itively i11dece:=t.” And then they Wouldn’t kiss each other, and move ofl" as on ahappy campaign against; incoming thirst. But Pauline, the plump, would laugh a. saucy laugh, and Bertha, the skinny, would assume a. very sour look. Likewise those who are too plain to attract; the attention of customers are very severe upon flirtinJ, and have no hesitation in as- serting that the pretty ones are bold, pert; things. It makes but; little difference in what country people are born they are sons and daughters of Adam and. Eve, and Adam and Eve runs through them all. Ihe Sinirmxelung Sealskin._ The sealskin sacque so Warfiong wo- men, says the New York Times, hasloug been an object ofmaseuline dreadficcording to the newspaper humorists. The comic depart- ment of a Chicago, Cincinnati, or St. Louis paper never fails to contain some reference to the sufferings of the man who is request- ed to buy a. sealskin sacque for his wife, and the western father is, according to the same authcrity, constantly brought to the verge of bankruptcy through buying aealskin sacques for his daughters. One fine evening recently, says a German paper, Mr. R., a government employein the town of Brunn, was taking a walk in the castle grounds, when, on reaching a less fre- quented portion of the park, he saw a young lady coming in the opposite direction. As they were about to pass each other, the lady suddenly turned toward Mr. B., threw her arms around his neck and kissed him ; then as if ashamed of what she had done, she covered her face with her hands and ran off as fast as she could. The gentleman unable to account for this agreeable surprise, fol- lowed the young lady, and, taking her by the arm, asked for an explanation of her strange procedure. “ I hey a thousand par- dons,”was the reply of the blushing damsel: “you must be greatly shocked at my be- haviour. I had been to consulta ‘wise wo- man ’ as to the best means of charming away the freckles on my face, and she advised me to kiss the first gentleman I met, when they would he sure to disappear.” The couple continued their walk together, and though we are not told whether the singular remedy proved eflecacious or not,it may interest the reader to learn that, not many days after- ward, the two were joined together for bet- ter or for worse. There is another grave charge which may be brought against the same attractive and costly garment. It leads to more Violations of our revenue laws than does any other ar- ticle known to importers. Sealskin sacques can be bought in Canada much more cheap- ly than in the United States, and the dream of every enterprising American woman is to smuggle it through the United States cus- tom-house. The chief statistician of the custom~house asserts that 17,000 (in round numbern) American women annually visit Canada in order to make this dream a bless- ed reality. Of xhese, 2,718 are detected in the possesion of sealskin sacques, and are made to pay duty thereon ; 19 openly ac- knowledge their possession of the dutiable garment, and after failing to bribe the in- spectors with smiles and sweet words, pay the duty, and the rest of the 17,000 success- fully smuggle their purchases. Now, when we think what the act of smuggling a. sealskin sacqu‘e through the custom-house involves, the falsehoods that must be told and sworn to ; the loss of self- respect consequent upon the commission of perjury and fraud, and the terrible strain upon the temper that results from making a. sealskin sacque temporarily take the place of the delicate and esoteric cambrue fabrics said by experts to be worn by ladies in the summer season, we comprehend the sealskin saeque is a. feurfully demoralizing garment. \Vomen who would never think of smuggling steel rails, hemp rope, or English blankets can not resist the temptation, to smuggle sealskin sacques. and we shall probably never know the vast extent of the demoral- izmtion which the'gratification of this propen‘ sity entails. Thirty-six years ago, according to the Montreal Star, there lived in that pleasant little town down the river called Sorelâ€" very little it was then~a youth and a maid on. The name of the youth was George Beaupre, the name of the maiden Mary Ann Pearce. They belonged to families of mod- erate circumstances. He, with the strength and devotion of young manhood, loved this maiden, and woocd her with that earnest- ness which only such a lover can. He was give-1 every encouragement; was, some say, actually accepted ; was congratulating him- self, at least, on the smooth coursing of true love, when suddenly a rival appeared, and everything for him turned back. The rival was one Jacob Savage of the same town. Pretty soon she and Savage were married Kissing as a Cure for Freckles. Vlaiter Girls in Germany. A Cazmdi an R0 mance. and settled down in the place, and then young Beaupre’s hope died out. He tried 1: work on as before, but could not. He close up his business, settled up his afi'airs, an started to the far west, toward which so many adventurous spirits were about that tirrie shaping their course. From that day to within a few weeks ago he had not set foot in this part of Canada. He had worked hard, saved carefully, pros- pered and laid up property worth at least $200,000. He had never married. He was getting up toward 60 years of age. Several weeks ago he took an idea to go back once more to see his friends, and he started east. He searched out relatives in Sorel and Mont real, but found few that he remembered. He inquired for the woman, who, as a girl, had so many years before thrown him overâ€"- board for a rival. They told him she was widowed ; her husband had been dead many years; she had been living several years in Montreal ;he went to call upon her; met her, and thenâ€". He found her getting old, in poor circumstances, with several children, but that made no. difference ; he saw only the girl of thirty-six years before. On Sat- urday they were married by his lordship Bishop Fabre, the wealthy bridegroom being content with no other digmtary than the highest in that part of the country. He has bestowed all the happiness that wealth and affection can upon his bride and her chil- dren, and in a short time tney will go to his house in the Black Hills. "77“7Oi1; School girls mostly, and giddy mar- ried women, who carry their husband’s 110n- nr in timinhand. De enaron it thou h n w'dman that' thinks a€jflfibgfif Ii'crseif wxli “ But is there no flirting done ? “ \Vhy, certainly there is, and asI say, it isn’t all our fault. A pretty girl gets in your car ; and for half-way to the city sits and stares you in the face ; or may he gives you an encouraging smile inviting familiar- ity. What can you expect of a young fel- low but that he will respond suitably? Mar- ried conductors are not invulnerable to wo- men’s coquetry.‘ Why, Iknow one Woman on Penn avenue that watches day and night for one man’s car. and every ti me it passes the conductor responds to the wave of the handkerchief. Such things sometimes re- sult in the ruin of families, but as a general thing the flirtation amounts to nothing, though once in a while the presumptuous con- ductor gets thumped for his trouble by some big brother.” u.“ . n. . -. . l “Itisn’t our fault always, depend on that, and there isn’t as much of it done as some of the oflicials would have the public believe.” The speaker was a conductor on one of the Pittsburgh street-car lines, and he uttered the above remark in answer to the question ofa. reporter on the subject of flirtation. 3‘ What class of women flirt witn street- car men ?” An esteemed young friend of Hamilton asks a funny question. He wants to know where he shall put his kisses. Probably any number of people, without much thought, would rush rapidly forward to tell him all about it and consider the conundrum a. per- fectly easy one. The problem, however, is really very (iifiicult,and any one who has had experience enough to know what kissing is will shrink from quick or direct advice on the subject. “ What interest have some of the officials of the road in making the public believe con- ductors are as a general rule, inclined to engage in surreptitious courting with their female passengers 7” inquired the reporter. “Why, simSly this :‘I‘hev have several ‘spotters’ at work on the road. These ‘spot- ters’ find that two or three conductors are beating the company systematically. It is a. hard thing to prove that a. street-car can- ductor is a thief, and so the best thing to he done with a suspected man is to ‘fire’ him from his position. Perhaps three go at a time, and in answer to the inquisitive the superintendent or secretary says he was discharged for flirting with women on his car. ” flirt with a conductor.”- As a matter of course the young man who has kisses to give away Will. g ve them to his girl if she is willing ;if she isn’t willingâ€" but this is so improbable that it would be a waste of time to say anything aboutit. If a, young man who has no girl of his own he will naturallyâ€"such is the waywardness of human natureâ€"45nd some one else’s girls or girls, and to some a good many girls is not too much of a good thing. They say it isn’t such a bad thing sometimes when you find you have kissed the wrong girl, if there can be any wrong girl in a matter like that. 1 But the trouble on the young man’s mind seems to be regarding the proper place for the kiss. He does not feel certain whether he should kiss his girl on the lips, or the forehead, or the chin, or the cheek, or the hand. There are some young men who would regard the poore t of all these chances as the extreme (-f bliss. But such young men lack the snap and enterprise which a wide-awake and desirable girl rather likes. The young man who hesitates and trifles with uncertainty about the proper site upon which to build his kiss will lose the delight of kiss- ing. If tht-re were a. worse fate he would deserve it. There is. however, no worse fate. Kissing the hand is a very neat but color- less sort of compliment. It is unsatisfactory to both parties, they say. we are also re- liably informed that kissing the forehead or the chin is a cold sort of thing and not large- ly indulged in by people of goo l taste. The cheek, if not too hard, is understood to be very fair kissing ground, but good judges have very generally agreed upon the lips as offering superior inducements. If his mouth is not. too large or the girl’s mouth is not too small, or if the girl's mouth is not too large and his too small, perhaps the young man who wants advice hall better stick to the lips. If there is anything sweet in a kiln â€"â€"a.nd doubtless there isâ€"he Will find. it there. Flirting With Street-Car Conductors. yea-get Ileechesv?” “Yes, but he on‘y t 0k three of them rawâ€"I had to fry the rest.” “Well madame, how’s your husband to- day?” “‘VYny,‘docbor, he’s no better.” “DH M. u . LA __‘__ BRACE UPâ€"Your system for work. Z0?- ESA, the new Dyspepsia and Liver remedy, attends strictly to business in correcting the Stomach, Liver and Kidneys. Sample bottles, 10 cents ; large bottles, 75 cents. Where to Put a. Kiss. The problem of the sun’s distance is of paramount importance, and fully justifies the outlay of brain, labor, and money lavish- ed on the transit of Venus which it is hoped will correct past errors. It is the unit or yardstick of celestial measurement, the stand- ard by which everything outside of the earth in the material universe is measured, excepting the distance of the moon. A mistake here makes all celestial computation inaccurate, the dia- meter of every planet, the radius of every orbit,the distance of every star. Thus, the nea est fixed star in the northern hemisphere is 61 Cygni. lts distance is estimated at about 366,000 times the sun’s distance or earth’s ladius. This means 366,000 times 92, 885,000 miles. If there be an error of half a million miles in this estimate of the sun’s ~rlistmxoiz,’Irwin readily/be seen that the error in the star’s distance takes on gigantic pro- portions. “ . -n .. r x In an interesting article on printing in China The North China Herald says that the first great promoter of the art of print- ing was Feng Ying Wang, who in 932 A. D. advised the Emperor to have the Confucian classics printed with wooden blocks engrav- ed for the purpose. The first books were printed in a. regular manner, and in pur- suance of a. decree in 953. The mariners’ compass and rockets were invented about the same time, showing that at this period men’s minds were much stirred toward in- vention. Twenty years after the edict the blocks of theclassics were pronounced ready, and were put on sale. Large-sized editions, which were the only ones_ printed at first, were soon succeeded by pocket editions. The works printed under the Lung emperors at Hangchow were celebrated for their beauty ; those of western China came next, and those of Fokhcin last. Moveable types of copper and load were tried about the same time ; but it was thought that mistakes were more numerous with them, and there- fore the fixed blocks were prepared. Paper made from cotton was tried, but it was so expensive that the bamboo made paper held its ground. In the Sung dynasty the method was also tried of engraving on soft clay and afterward hardening it by bakin‘fi. The separate characters were not thicker than ordinary copper coin. Each of them was in fact a seal. An ironplate was prepared with a. facing of turpentine, wax, and the ashes of burnt paper. Over this was placed an iron frame, in which the clay types were set up untl it was full. The whole was then sufficiently heated to melt the wax facing. An iron plate was placed above the types, making them perfectly level, the wax beingljust soft enough to ‘allow the types to sink into the proper depth. This being done it would be possible to print several hundred or thousand copies with great rapidity. Two forms prepared in this way were ready for the pressman’s use so that when he had done with one he would proceed with another without delay. Here is undoubtedly the principle of tho printing-press of Europe, although western printers can dispense with a soft wax bed for types and can obtain a level surface without this device. Perhaps the neel of capital to lay in a stock of types, the want of a good type-m =tal easily cut and sufficient- , A: u“ ly lizard, and the superior beauty of the Chinese characters when carved in wood, have prevented the wide employment of the moveable types which are so convenient for all alphabetic writing. The inventor of this mode of printing in movcable types five centuries before they were invented in Europe was named Pi Shcng. l The (Bah December will therefore be a great day on the annals of the nineteenth century. Transit observers will do their utmost to ob- tain a. more accurate determination of the sun’s distance. If they do not reach perfect success, and there is little hope of such a re- sult, they will have the satisfaction of feeling that the) are laboring in a, noble cause. For the observations made during the transit-of 1832 will be 1!: rich legacy to aid the astrono- mers Who, 1222 years hence, will observe the next transit in 2004. \Ve can only wish for good weather and good luck to the brave adventurers, and join in the prayer of the great astronomer, Halley, who, from an observation of the transin of Mercury in 1677 at St. Helena, was the first to discover the scientific import of transits; ih recommending to futufc astronomers a careful observation of the transit of 1761, he. says, in closing: “May Heaven favor their observation with the most perfect weather. And when they shall have attained their object, and de- termined as well as they can our distance from the sun, let them remember that it was an Englishman who first conceived this; fortunate HWYâ€"Scientific American. Dr. Talmage Describes a, Good Woman. You see hundreds of men who are'success- ful only because there is a reason at home why they are successful. If a. man marry a. good, ho: est soul he makes his fortune; if he marrya fool, the Lord help him. he wife maybe asilcnt partner in the film. There may be only masculine voices down x1 7 v on the exchange, but there olten comes from the home circle a potential and elevating in- fluence. The Woman of Shunem, at whose Louse the prophet Elisha. stopped, was a great woman and the superior of her hus- band. He, as far as I can understand, w; 5 what we often find in our day, aman of large fortune and only a. modicum of brains, 'I_ :, LL.‘ The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Que- bec, Mgr. Taschereau, has issued 3, p1 storal in which he urges the faithful to give no heed to the allurements of American immi- gration agents. He fears that if his people leave Canada. for the United States they will forsake their faith, and. “only encoun- ter deception and misery.” 53‘ ‘”"' " “ " .. band. He, as far as I can understand, w; 5 what we often find in our day, aman of large fortune and only a. modicum of brains, intensely quiet, sitting a. long While in the same place wrthout moving hand or foot; if you say y:s responding yes ; if you say no responding no ; inane eyes half shut, month wide open, In int Liningr his position 111 society only because he has a. large patri- mony. His wife belonged to that class of people who need no name to distinguish them. no title of princess or queen. She was great in her hospitality. Jupiter had the surname of “The Hospitable,” and he was said to avenge the wrongs of strangers. Homer extolled hospitality in his verse. The Arabs were punctilious about it. Printing in China. Distance of the Sun. \Ve must goback more than two centurie to find the first idea of a steam carriagc,and this is due to Isaac Newton who proposed it in 1680. His system, which was one of the most; rudimentary, was nothing else than an aelopile mounted on wheels. Specimens of it are sti 1 to be found as scientific play- things in a. few cabinets of physics. The first tricycle based upon the princxl ple of the steam-engine was built by Cugnot, in 1770. To begin With this date, projects have not been wanting, the solutions pro- posed benefiting each time by the progress of the steam engine applied as a fixed mo- tor. Murdoch in 1784, Symminzton in 1786, Read in 1790, Trevethick in 1802, etc, successively proposed apparatus which to-day are forgotten. In 1804, Evans invented the oruktor amphibolis, a. sort ifboat-caxriage, the first and. last amphibious steam vehicle that has ever been built. \Ve may cite also the steam carriage of Griffiths in 1821, of Gordon in 1822, of Gurney in 1828, of An- derson and James in 1829, and of Hancock in 1833. The latter was the most; fortunate of 11.11 inventors, since, in 1835, he had not less than three of them in current service, mak- ing the nip by steam on the Paddingtou route. According to Mr. Thurston, Han- cock succeeded in constructing a light steam phaeton for his own use, which ran in the city among horses and carriages, without interfering with or injuring any one, at an ordinary speed of ten miles per hour, and which could baincruased to twenty. ’L‘he success of locomotives on rails some- what diminished the ardcr of experimenters in this direction, and, in facu, competi- tion becnne impossihlefor steam street; car- rines. ' . . . . 1 . a 'l‘o-day the question has assumed a trans: formation. Owing to nai‘row guage loco- motives and to tramways in the streets, there are no longer any endeavors to build vehicles designed to supplant horses, but there are still endeavors being made to get up a self-propelling vehicle, com enient and easy to manoeuvre, designed to receive a small number of personsâ€"one or two at the maxi- mumâ€"and capable of operating regularly for a few hours without demanding too great an amount of.attention 011 the part of the one who drives it. W’ith this object in View, there have been proposed carbonic acid machines, compress- ed air motors, and electric motors supplied by piles of accumulators. The few experi- ments that have been tried in this direction have not as yet given very strixing results, but the end is far from having been reached. Beauty is superior fitness, as a Darwinian would say, and in this respect, too, the pre- eminence of the ancient Greeks was pro- bably the outcome of their general physical and mental superiority to their fellow-men, though they themselves believed in the exis- tence of a chemical pan-cosmetic. 1n the trial of the arch-quack Cagliostro, it came out that, during the twelve years from 1765-77, he had realized three million francs from the sale of his “Recipe for Beauty,” a recipe which has been more eagezly searched for than the philosopher’s stone or t .e secret of longev1ty. Andreas Cisalpinus made the discovery that an Ointment of crushed locusts and mistletoe juice would treble the charms oi the fairest woman. "\Vhat must I do to become very beautiful?” the damsel in “Don Quixote” asks the enchanted Moor’s head. “Que seas may houradaâ€"be very continent,” replied the head. Paracelsus Lecomm ‘ moMow dew; gathered in the morning while the May moon is onerthe in crease; and Montaigne enquires into the habits of the most well tavored tribes of every country, but confesses that the prov blem is rather an cva‘ive one, the coast- dwellers of Sweden being as distinguished for their comliness as, the highlanders of Aragon, and the Normandy elder-drinkers not less than the Tuscan wine-drinkers. His only general rule, howeVer, still holds good that out-door dwellers, are never wholly ill- favored, or in door workers altogether lovely and we might say the same of alcohol-drink- ers and total abstainers; the schnapps- worshipping natives (f the Tyrolese high- lands make amends by their active out-door life, as Lowell factory girls by the r teetotal- ism. There is a good deal in race, though “Angeli sunt; 72071, Angli,” Pope Stephen III, wrote more than a thousand years ago to Archbishop Cnihbert, who had sent him a batch of Anglo- Saxon neophytes, and a trace of the same angelic features may be still recognized among the little ragamuffins of many a Schleswig-Holstein coastrvlllage, where men subsist on brandy, cheese and sour rye bread. Their neighbors, the Pom- eranians, are a mant’ul if not a celestial gen- eration, and, in spite of their dreary moor- lands, very fond of outdoor sports. But far her east nature succumbs to art, and the northern Russians are about as outrageously unprepasscsein; as iii-door life and a com- bination of all vices could make the image of the Creator. Extremes meet, though, and their Emperor has the honor of com- manding tuelve regiments of the most god- like men of the present worldâ€"t11e1ance~ cuirassiers of the bodygard, recruited in the highlands of Lcsghia and Dzighcstan. Near- ly all the natives of the Caucasus have the fatal gift of beauty which made their land the favorite hunting-ground of the harem- agents, and this gave the Czar a pretext for treating it as a Turkish dependency. But no social degradation could coun eract the combined influence of the Caucasian climate, hardy habits, temperance and frugality, for the Circassian mountaineers are teetotalers by religion and vegetarians by preferenceâ€" figs, honey, barley, cakes and milk, being the staples of their diet. They are physi- cally self~made men, for their language proves that ttieir ancestors were Turaniansâ€" first cousins of the owl-faced nomads of tl q Mongolian steppeâ€"From “Physioguonnc Curiositie =,” by Dr. Felix L. Oswald in Pop- m’m‘ Science filonth’y/ for November. A man recently fell down. He was a large individual and took up lots of the sidewalk, and a. bystander thought it the proper time to be funny. “How did you come to fall ?” he inquired. “On a. bit; of lemonâ€"” “Yes, sir; on a. bit of lemon,” replied the corpulent one. “But I see no lemon,” replied the funny man. “Wail, who said you c uld !" savagely roared the corpulent indlvidual, as he got up and dusted himself off with his handkerchief. “ Can any one fee the lemon in half a dozen qocktails; say ‘3 The Cultivation of Beauty. Steam Tricycles.