The Cumberland Echo, 1893-10-26

SCHOOL AND CHURCH. - The first normal school was opened I in Paris in 1795. - The mathematician, Descartes, ap applied - plied applied algebra to geometry in 1631. - In 1552 books on geometry and as astronomy - tronomy astronomy were destroyed in England as savoring of magic. - Switzerland has the largest school attendance, 20 per cent, of the popula population; - tion; population; France has 17, Germany 14, the United States 13, Russia has the least, 2% - The veterinary college in New York, claimed to be the oldest estab establishment - lishment establishment in this country wholly de devoted - voted devoted to veterinary sciences, was found founded - ed founded in 1857. - According to the latest statistics the United States has 18,812,766 persons of school age, of whom 13.010,186 are enrolled in the schools, and the average attendance is 8,373,264. - The Indian Witness, of Calcutta, India. states that the will of the late Sir William Mackinnon assigns 850.000 to missions in India, and 8100,000 for annuities for aged or invalided mission missionaries - aries missionaries of the Free Church of Scotland, or their widows or families. - It is twenty years since Dr. Mackay, of Canada, a missionary of the Presby Presbyterian - terian Presbyterian church, began to work in North Formosa. The result is that in that part of the island there is at this day 2,605 baptized Christians, fifty native preachers, two ordained pastors and many other workers. - At the close of 1892 the Methodist Episcopal church had 28.223 schools. 310.162 officers and teachers and 2,369, 2,369,782 - 782 2,369,782 scholars. This is an increase over the year 1801 of 730 schools, 6,581 offi officers - cers officers and teachers and 42.016 scholars. Of the officers and teachers 286.450 are church members or probationers and of the scholars 687.654. The numbers of conversions reported is 116.966. - Washington and Jefferson college has began a second her present foundations. century on The oldest building now occupied by the college was built in 1703. The equipment of the new gymnasium has been com completed, - pleted, completed, the laboratories are ready for use, and a full corps of professors re report - port report for duty. The financial depres depression - sion depression of the country seems not to have reduced the usual attendance. - United Presbyterian. - There is a firm in Ohio which, ac according - cording according to its own statement, has fur furnished - nished furnished for a number of years past ser sermons, - mons, sermons, lectures and literary productions ' to many ministers throughout the ! United States. For stock sermons the terms are 81.50: for a sermon on topic assigned, Lectures are from 85 to 850, according to style, length, etc., and the firm pledges itself not to duplicate any produetion within a radius of 200 miles. - Northwestern Christian Advo Advocate. - cate. Advocate.

Another even more elaborate design shows a monogram obtained in a pe peculiar - culiar peculiar way. The material of the slips is fine, sheer linen lawn, which is per perfectly - fectly perfectly transparent, and takes the color of whatever is beneath. The lining is gold-colored silk. The main coloring of the room is golden brown, with bits of yellow here and there, and daisies are conspicuous as a motive in the decoration. The pillow-slips combine a modified wreath of the flowers with the monogram of their owner. The former is embroid embroidered - ered embroidered with silks - white for the petals, I yellow for the centers and olive for the leaves and stems. But the latter is made in a far simpler way. The design was first drawn upon paper, then traced on to fine but closely-wo ven cotton cloth or muslin, and the neatest possible wav. cut out in it was next pasted in exactly the correct posi position - tion position upon the silk slip, and now is seen through the transparent corn. The effect is excellent and the. process not quickly discovered. The solid letters look almost as if they had been woven into the lawn and give a most substan substantial - tial substantial air to the slip. The third pillow that is given here is to embellish a young bride's room. It has been worked by a dear friend, and is meant to convey all the sentiment the flowers suggest. The material in this case is Persian lawn, and the frill is of soft lace, but the general characteristics are the same as those of the foregoing two. der slips are of pale blue India silk. The un unThe - The unThe tiny flowers are scattered over the surface in irregular profusion. The full-bloom blossoms are, of course, worked in blue, with centers that con consist - sist consist each of a single French knot in yellow, but the buds, which are copied direct from nature, show palest old pink, a tint that is not often used. The leaves are all in medium olive shades, and the graceful sprays, thus worked, produce a most beautiful whole. - N. Y. Times. A Question. Bobby - Pa, do breaking waves cost much? Pa - Why, pshaw! Bobby, they don't cost anything'. Bobby - Yes, they do, pa. Here's a piece of poetry that begins: "The breaking waves dashed high." - Judge. Moving incident. Cook (to Nurse) - The mistress says to be very careful in moving this clock, I and not let it fall. Nurse - Then you carry the baby and let me carry the clock. You might let , the clock fall. - Texas Siftings. - The quickest way of smoothing rough characters is to iron them. I

HUMOROUS. - Men who mean business do not waste much time saying so. - Galveston News. - When it comes to jealousy and rowing man is about as bad as a rooster. - Dallas. - The fact that an author's nose is red is no guarantee that his writings are. - Atlanta Journal. - "Doyou love her?" don't you marry her?" "Yes. "Why 'Ask her." - Browning, King & Co.'s Monthly. - Wickwire - "What is the longest snake you ever saw?" Lushforth - "About three days." - Indianapolis Journal. - "Billy was too much bent on get getting - ting getting that girl?" "Yes. and the first he knew he was broke." - Kate Field's Washington. - One can not always judge from ap appearances. - pearances. appearances. A man may have a sandy complexion and yet have no sand. - Boston Transcript. - The Magazine Style. - Inks - "I've written a poem for the Century." Winks - "Which century? The twentieth?" - Detroit Free Press. - Miss Pruner - "Have you got ac acquainted - quainted acquainted in the church yet?" Mrs Prim - "Yes. indeed' I already belong to one of the oldest factions in it." - Cleveland Plaindealer. - Fell to Him. - Tommy - "Where did you get that? black eye, Dickie?" Dickie - "Inherited it from my father, I sup suppose. - pose. suppose. At least my mother says I've got my father's eyes." - Yankee Blade. - "Waiter," said the guest, "bring me some double price?" mushrooms," 5)'* "Single or "What do you give with double-price order?" "An insur insurance - ance insurance policy, sir?" - Washington Star. - Talkative Barber. - "There's one thing that never causes me any sorrow' to part with." Luckless Customer - Luckless Customer - "And that is?" Talkative Barber - "A comb. Next gent!" - Buffalo Courier. - Jack - "Cheer up, old man, don't look so blue!" Harry - "Can't help it." Jack - "Oh, come! Think of your best girl." Harry - "No good. I married her three months ago." - N. Y. Herald. - "Now," said a writer to a para paragraph. - graph. paragraph. "be a good little joke, and when you are old enough you shall have the honor of being ascribed by the maga magazines - zines magazines to one or another of the world's most celebrated people." - Washington Star. - Papa - "Good gracious, 'what a point of interrogation you are! I am sure I didn't ask sueh strings of ques questions - tions questions when I was a boy." Son - Don't you think if you had done so you would be able to answer some of mine?" - Tit- . Bits. .$

NEW PILLOW COVERINGS That Are to Replace the Pillow Sham and Bolster Roll This Fall. The day of the pillow sham and of the round bolster is past. The very latest decree of fashion calls for frilled and embroidered slips of linen lawn, and ordains that in them and their lin lining - ing lining all the color of the bed drapery shall concentrate. White spreads are promised for the near future. and the pillows are to become the important features of the bed. The edict has come suddenly, and, as such things are apt to do, without any reputed source, but it is an edict never nevertheless, - theless, nevertheless, and already has had its effect. The pillow slips that are the correct thing for fall and winter use are very dainty things. They are made of fine linen lawn, of sheer white batiste, or of Japanese linen. They are em embroidered - broidered embroidered and they are frilled. They are used over covers of colored silk or fine silesia, and they are made to match the general scheme of decoration in the room. A set t't has recently been com-' pleted and that is to belong to a young girl's room has a wreath of morning glory for its design. The room itself is all in soft old ivory and tender pinks, for its owner disdains anything crude and tolerates only subdued tones. The wall paper shows a convolvulus de design, - sign, design, and the wreath for the pillows is in harmony with it. The lining, or the under slip. is of old pink silk, the cover itself of Japan Japanese - ese Japanese linen that has a surface almost as silky as silk. On the linen the wreath is embroidered in the most perfect and charming way. The work is all done with fine wash-color fibrelle. The flow flowers - ers flowers and the buds are embroidered with pale old pink and the leaves with sub subdued - dued subdued tones of olive, the entire design being worked solid. Over the colored silk the linen takes just a suggestion of color, and, with the fine frill as a finish, the slip is charming as need be. It is fastened at the center of the back with buttons, button-holes, and a flap, and so can be removed and laundered at will, but for the plebeian purpose of rest there are other pillows which are plainly covered with white and which are kept out of sight during the day.

PERSONAL AND LITERARY. - Mr. Gladstone is whiling away hi* leisure hours by translating Horace in into - to into English verse. The grand old man - is equally expert in capping a rhyme end capping a climax. - William Perron attempted to kiss Mrs. Coggswell at Boston, Ind., and was doused with soup by the enraged lady. She did right in putting the spoon in the consomme. - II. M. Curtis, who retired recently from the position of postmaster at New Newcastle, - castle, Newcastle, N. H., was the only postmaster the town had ever had; he was appoint appointed - ed appointed when the office was established, in 1865. - Joseph Samuels, ninety-one years of age, has lived all his life on thesame farm in Page county. Va.. and he and his eighty-five-year-old wife boast that they have never been obliged to call a physician. - - Oscar Wilde is reported to have grown very big and fat and untidy in his appearance. He has been seen boating on the Thames a great deal, clad in costumes that were not in the least suggestive of the aesthetic taste of his days of apostleship.' - Vegetarianism has made a distin distinguished - guished distinguished convert in M. Fracisque Sarcey, the great French dramatic critic. He has written a letter to a Paris paper describing his experiences. in which he says that he finds that he is in much more vigorous health and in better working condition than before. - Emperor William, after three years trial, has discharged his .German cooks and reinstated Frenchmen as chiefs of his cuisine at Potsdam, where until his advent they had held sway since Fred FredBut - But FredBut William insists srick the Great. that the menu shall be printed in Ger German, - man, German, as it has been since his father died. - The duke of Westminster, the richest nobleman in England, is known among his intimates as "Jack Shep Sheppard." - pard." Sheppard." because of his resemblance, when a schoolboy at Eton, to Cruik Cruikshank's - shank's Cruikshank's cartoon of the celebrated burg burglar - lar burglar and highwayman. The duke's charities, like those of many unduly rich men, are notorious for their scanti scantiness. - ness. scantiness.

LANGUAGE OF THE FOREHEAD, Human Charaeter Revealed by Its Shape, Size and Construction. Descending to the analysis of single features it will be instructive to look critically at the writing in the fore forehead. - head. forehead. It is not always an easy thing to measure by the eye the actual width or height of this portion of the head, be because - cause because of the volume of hair which often encroaches toward the eye. but it is fairly safe to conclude that the size of a forehead has a direct relation to brain capacity. This is subject only to qualifications as to intensity and activity which need not now be considered. For all the purposes within the range of this sketch it may be said that a high and broad forehead denotes intel intellectuality. - lectuality. intellectuality. with an acute nervous tem temperament. - perament. temperament. although' only too often lack of balance. A slightly sloping fore forehead - head forehead indicates availability of talent, and when the slope is caused by high perspectives lying' over the eyes it may also lx? taken as showing powers oi keen observation. If the slope is found without this fullness over the eyes it may be ac accepted - cepted accepted as the evidence of weak reason reasoning - ing reasoning powers. for the forehead is un undoubtedly - doubtedly undoubtedly the seat of the mental facul faculties. - ties. faculties. Mirthful women, with a fine sense oi the ridiculous, are usually marked by a distinct prominence at what may be called the upper corners of the fore forehead. - head. forehead. Fullness in the center, partly covered by the hair, suggests good nature and friendliness, while round ness between the hair line and the center of the head plainly indicates abounding generosity and sympathy. Most women have an active appre appreciation - ciation appreciation of the artistic and decorative and hence it is that in most faces is seen a plumpness over the eyebrows A noticeable development about hal: an inch above the outer end of the eyebrows is a characteristic of pro nouuceably musical persons. - Ladies Home Journal.

for the execution of their fellow mor mortals. - tals. mortals. They had to hold themselves strictly erect and look out for their own optics on that occasion. Yet notwithstanding the terrible jam at the gates and in the central portions of the grounds, there was fair fairly - ly fairly comfortable going to be had in the more remote thoroughfares. Midway Plaisance was impassable. It appeared to be a solid, suffocating mass of surg surging - ing surging humanity, and none but the bravest would venture in. There were very few accidents for such a mass of people, and aside from the loss of breath and a few articles of personal property and an occasional "kid." the immense crowd suffered no injury. In some instances women fainted and were picked up and passed bod bodily - ily bodily over the heads of the people to a place of safety where they soon re reMinor - Minor reMinor accidents, such as the vived. loss of a hat, or the tearing of a dress, were quite common, but general good nature prevailed, and the people put up with such little annoyances with commendable fortitude. The main attractions of the day were the speeches by world's fair officials and national celebrities, the parade of states, patriotic music and the evening display of floats and fire fireEverything - Everything fireEverything passed off in per perworks. - works. perworks. feet order and the spectacle that was presented after dark surpassed all pre previous - vious previous efforts at illumination. But the one all-important feature of the day was the settlement of all the world' fair indebtedness by the presentation of a monster check by the manage management - ment management to Treasurer Seeberger, the amount being *1,565,310.76, which rep represented - resented represented the last payment on the 84, 84,500,000 - 500,000 84,500,000 issue of bonds, including inter interest - est interest from last February. The check was the biggest ever written in Chicago and the presentation was a fitting finale to the financial plot of the grand grandest - est grandest fair the world has ever known.

will not be again during the present generation. It was evident from the falling off in the attendance on the following day that the crowd was made up principally of single-day visitors from the imme immediate - diate immediate vicinity of the city. The enor enortrains - trains enortrains mous business of suburban showed that the surrounding towns were pouring almost their entire popu populations - lations populations into the swollen stream of hu humanity - manity humanity that was rushing down upon our city as if it would overwhelm it. But they were all taken care of and found that in a pinch there would be room for as many more. True, there was not much room for cavorting about the fair grounds. Peo People - ple People had to look out for their ribs and pet corns. They were packed so closely in places that, as an Irish friend re remarked: - marked: remarked: "Two av thim had to schtand in the place av wan." The man with the horizontal umbrella and the gawk with the swinging cane had no show