Here And There

Ellzabelh Mallet cstalilíshed in I.ondon la 1703 the flrst dally newspajer prlnted la tbe world. Mlle. Helene Larocbe. m Parla ballet glrl, recently drew 200,000 francs In a loltery and donated It to an orpban asjrluin. Mr. Florence Wlschnewetakv, tlie glfted daughter uf W. 1). Kelley, ts one of tbe , uralulest women irruduated by tbe Cornell univeralty. Blaucbe Marsden baa determlned to content the wlll of ber fatber, Fred Marsden, tho dramatlst, wlioae recent sad deatb wlll be reinembcred. Mist Clara Folz, lawyer, editor and lecturer, has been voti'd $10,000 by tho cummou couucll of San Diego, Cal , to come and boum tliut clty. Pornarc, oueeu of Tablta, le dead. 81io waa a good woman. and for more than forty years worked faltbíully to civllize and Chrlstlaulze her people. Tbe (alarles oí 100 womon employés lu the { United tinten mlnt liave beeu ralsi-ri twculyfive cents a day. Tbey work In the adjustlug and colnlug rooms. Tbe ernprets motber of Cblna has selected 300 yoimg maldeus, daugbters of Chínese j gentlemen and nublemen, for the harem of the young emperor. Orsr TOO inen are employed at present In the mines of the Bracevllle (HL ) coal coinpany, and ovor seventy cars, or more tban 1,000 tons of coal, on an average, are inlned dally. A New York lawyer wants to see Johnnr Barnes, who ran away wlth a clrcu ten years ago. Some one has left tbe boy $25,000, wblcb ought to help htm turn a doublé somersault. Trusts and combluatlons are wlpln? out mail concerns so fast that telf-preservatlon wlll compel thc small manufacturer and thu '■ business man to join hands with tbs labor ' organlzatlons. A 11 glrls under fourteen are kept frora the streeU of Port Hurón, Mlch , after ulghtfull I by the pólice. Tboso uver fourteen are j posed to have sense ciiough to stay at home without official asslstance. A manager oí a woman's exchange reporta that during the past year sbe has giren adTice to SIS woi:ieii. Some lawyers have not heen more busy, and few, probably, wera . obllged to solve cases lu equal varlety. "Transplant one fourth of the smells of Rome to New York for a day," says an American tourist, "and you would start a plague wblch would sweep a milllon people out of exlstencc. The Itallans grow fat on tbera." Prof. Donders the great ocullst of Utrecht, bas attalned hls 7lst year and retired trom hls universlty cbalr amld a regular shower ol testimonial funda, medals, addresses and decorallous from various Kuropean soverelgus. The managers at Ocean Grove wlll be worse tban ever tbln seasou, bavlne passed a new set of rules to govern vlsitors. Last year, when a school of line fish were drlven on the beach on Sutiday tbey jallcd men for capturinj; tliom. A Presbyterlau minister lu a recent address In New York city told bow tbe carmen n tbe ] Tblrd avenue Une In that city, were oblleed to work longer and recelved lesa wages than othcr men In the business because they were not In a nulon. Mrs. Sarah Aun Bullock, wbo dled wealthy In Indiana at the age of 79. wat, wltb her mother, made a captlve amone; the lndians ' wheu abe was C years old. She was resnued ' by her father, but her mother bad already ! committed suïcide. John W. Mackay, tbe bonanza Idng, bas a dlnner service worth $100.000. Tbe sllver , was furnlshed frora his owu mines, and, ! on tbe completlon of the set, be bought the dies outrlght, lu order that tbe set mlgbt never be dupllcated. Barones de Rotbschlld Is so fond of cruisIng about I.ake Leman In her yacht that sbe gocs by the name of tbe "Swlsa adiniral." The lake Is subject to udden and dangerous storms, but tbe baronesa Is a good sallor and knows bow to manage lier yacht. Carlotta Pattl bas been offored by the czar a professorshlp of vocal muslc In the Imperial oonservatolre at Si. Petersburg. She prefers to remaln In Paris. Stlll It is gratlfylug to observe that the Muscovlte despot takes a personal Interest lu matters of art A Nebraska editor thus describes the effect of a stroke of lightului;: "A siray streak ol llgbtnlng was fatally wouuded lu Mead lately. It dashed luto a butcber shop, stxucll ' a boarding bouse beefstake and bobbled through the wlndow sbrleklng wltb pain." Prof. Caae, of Oxford Uulverslty, Englaud, has proti-ated agalust tbe proposed Matthew Aruold memorial professorsblp of Engllsh llterature. Modern languages, he tblnks should out be studled for themselves, but for ! the ald tbey give In the study of tbe classics. Mits Artle Cody, Buffalo Bill's daugbter, sets the stylet at North Platte, Neb., now tbat sbe bas rtturued froin her trip to Europe. Sbe bad the disappointment of not beInt; presented at court, but waa tbe recipiënt of many otber social bonors, whtcb are saM not In tbc least to have turued hor head. None of the accounts wbich we bave seen of tbe vnyage of tbe steamshlp Savannah, the flret steamer wblch ever crossed the Atlantic, glve the touuage of tbe vessel. Aa sblpi were then inuch smaller than now It la nol llkely tbat tbe burden uf tbe Savannah wal more Iban 350 tons. Tbe voyge of the Savanuah was made In 1819. Abslnthe was lntroduced lnto Western clvlllzatlon by Freuch soldlers after theii return home from the Algerian war lu 1844. It Is a product of North África and the soldiere mixed It with tbelr wlne as a febrifage. lts manufacture Is now one of tbe largegt liquor trades in F.uropc. It Is chlelly made at Neulchatel, in Swltzerland, licre 2,000,000 gallons are produced annuallv. The Po-e Plus VII. In tended to crown Napoleon, aud went to Parts for that purpose, aud tbe ceretnony galuel all the eclat that presence of tbc soverelgu poutiff coulJ glve It; but as he was about to place tbc crowu on N'apoleon's head, tbo lattr took tl from the i'ope's liaud and placad It on hls head blmself. Then Uiting It from there, be placed it on the head of Joscphlne, bis wlfe. The Cbrlstlan Era is the term glven to thc irreut era from whicb all Cbrlstlans cotnputt thelr time. It was tupponed to correspond wlth tbe d:ite of the birtb of Chrlst; but, accordlng to eoine of the hlghe.it authoritles, ('lir'et as born four years before the com menecment of our era. The jractlce ol rcckonlntr timo from the blrth of Chrlst wal inlrodticed In the Cbrlstlan chureb about thc sixtli centurr. The practice became general about the m'dille of tbe lirtcenth century. Thc total nieinbershlp of the Clgarroakers' International Union 18 20,580. Tbe total sum pald In by the incmbersblp durlug the year 1S87 amounted 1 o $4 88, 38:). 78. After defrayin tr the expcnues of the International bodi ami 3 0 local unions, the clgarmakers had, on January 1, a i-aah balance on band of $227,228.24. During tbe year the sum of $49,281 val pald to mem'j'TS lravllnz lu search of employment. S'ck henefiu were pald to tbe amount of tGi,'JX), and deatb boneflts. $8,850. Tbey expended in strikes tUi.STl. In Marcb, 1793, Washington lirst became President, and In hls llrst address to Congress, April 30, 17S9, he deslred Congress to limit I's "pecunlary estímales" for bil station "to such actual expendlturo as tbe public good mlirht requlre." In Marcb, 1793, the salary of tbc President was 8xed br an act of Congress, approved February 18, at $-3,000 a year. Tbe salary was raised during (irant's first term to $50,0)0 a year; but of course he received but $3ö,0M a year untll tbe conitnencement of hls second term. An Inquisitiva newapaper correapondent has dlstlngulsbed hlmself by presenting some Jacta regardlng the fathert of tha Presidonts. ]t appears that Grover Cleveland Is tbe only clergyman's son who has ever been elected President, thougb Artbur's father was a clergyman. Artliur, bowever, was not elected President. Tbe fathera of the Virginia Presidenta- Washington, Jefferson, Madlson aud Monroe - were planters. John Tyler's fatber was a lawyer and a statesmau aud John Adams, fatber of Jobu Qulucy Adams, was by profcsslon a lawyer. Grant's fatber was a tauuer, Hayea' fatber a merchant, and tb father' of Oarlield, Lincoln, Plerce, r'illmore Polk, Van Buren aud Jackson were farmers. Thb Piïs!n fctit Journul recantlj appaaled (o Uisuiuruk to railore Alixci aud Lorraiuu to Frauoe. to kut ad raaks up. and Uien both have a go al En eland. The luminosity of phosphorus is impuirod by a dnse and increased by t ruretied atmosphere. At a pressuro ol sixly pouuda to the squure inch, or four utruospberes, phosphorous i. nou-luminous. Paul du Chaii.lu, tbo famous explorer and autbor. i in New York city for a sbort sojuuru. He is taking a nnicli noedcd rest, huviugjust finished h!i book, '-Tba Viking Age." upon wbich lio bas been ut work (or eigbl y e ars. Ex-Govkknok Alqek. of Michigan, was left an orphan at the age of oioven wilu a younger brothor and sister tocare for. He spent suven years on a farm and then read law in an Akron office, aupporting hlmself by doing chorea a bont hls employer's house and barn. Tuk American work of fiction that had the greatest sale la Mrs. Stowe's "Uncle Torn' a Cabin." Next to it comes "The Lamplighter," a Boston chool teacher a work that has heen through 200 editions of 1.000 copies each. The third book on the list of mecesses is Haberton's "Helen's Babies." Judoe TiiniMis tells a Cincinnnti paper that he lias used the red bandana nee 1815, whon ho bogan uiting snuft tn the memorable campaign of Wiltuini Allen for Governor bis red ban ilana attained considerable celobrity. The history of tho bandana anterior to Ibis time is not kuown eren by Judge Th arman. Max O'Kell, on bis arrival in England, was Intervlewed in true American fashion, and he is reported to have spoken in most compliruentary terina about the United States. He says that we talk well, dress well, entertain well, and that our young girls know as much about Herbert Spencer u they do about Paris fas b ion s. Qdeen Victoria is quite well posttd on current literatura Evcry new book of any pronilnence is at once tent to her. If sbe is nt.traoted by its title it is read to her by some maid of bonor in waiting. Duriug the momIng the Quoen always listens to sovtral columns of the London 'Times. Bhe haa a great liking for newspapers. The Vanderbilt.s spent enormous mms on furniture, br.o-a-brac and artislic deoorations, but compurativcly little on jewelry. Not one ruember f tbe famlly cares for gems except as in accessory to the toilet, and wbile the women wear costly and boautiful dUinonds thcy have not among them a rare stono, a ünu!y cut intaglio or an ornament represuuting any original taste or discernment