A game of chance in which the chances are about even. The man leads at first, but after leaving the altar he usually follows breathlessly in his wife’s trail. The rules are very confusing. If a masked player holds you up some night at the end of a long gun, it is called robbery, and entitles you to the police, but if your wife holds you up for a much larger amount the next morning at the end of a long hug, it is termed diplomacy, and counts in her favor. In this, as in other games of life, wives are usually allowed more privileges than other outlaws.—Judge

A cow should be kept as clean or cleaner than an individual by being thoroughly bathed at least once or twice a week. Only the purest water should be given to her, for if allowed to drink from the impure stream of the pasture or from pools of water she may in this way infect the milk and thus carry the germs of disease.

The attendant should not only be a healthy individual, free from disease of nose and throat, but should wear a white suit and should have hands thoroughly washed before milking, the udder of the cow should at every milking be thoroughly washed and all vessels intended to receive the milk should be thoroughly scoured. The stall where the cow is to be milked should be of cement finish and thoroughly cleaned before the milking process begins. After the milk is drawn is should immediately be put upon ice and the utensils kept open to prevent the development of tyrotoxicon.

Curiously examining the pretty toilet articles that lie in great profusion on the dressing table, you come across a tiny brush, delicate and white, with a finely chased silver back. You wonder at its purpose.

“What is this for?” you ask, holding it up. The owner looks at it for a moment with at thoughtful, puzzled expression. Suddenly her face clears. “Oh, yes, that’s my new eyebrow brush,” she explains.

The disciples of physical culture have a new cult. They devote themselves to the eyebrow and eyelash, for the possibility of the brow and lash as a factor in the facial expression is being more fully appreciated. Indeed, Buffon, the naturalist, places the eyebrow next in importance of the eye itself in giving character to the physiognomy. This is partly because, he says, of the marked contrast of this feature to the other s of the face. The brows area shadow in the picture, bringing its color and drawing into strong relief. Eyelashes also contribute their effect; when long and think they overshadow the eye, and make it appear softer and more beautiful.

It is, indeed, claimed by many that the eyeball itself in incapable of expression; that it is the drooping or sudden lifting of the lid which speaks. These even pass by the dilating or contracting of the pupil, and the sparkle of the eye, and will not admit that they are able, independent of the lid, to convey a suggestion of emotion. Whether this be so or no, it is certainly true that the slight elevation of the under eyelid—the expressive one—produces that languishing look which the Greek loved, and which one sees on the face of Venus.

The Turkish and Circassian women use Lenna for penciling the eyes, while those among the Arabs of the eyelids with powder, and draw a line about the eye to make it appear larger. In fact, it is whispered that these women of the desert are not the only ones who make use of the device. The Spanish grand dames squeeze orange juice into their eyes. It is a trifle painful at first, but it cleanses the ball and imparts remarkable brightness temporarily.

Eyelashes are thickest in the middle, and taper toward each end, and are constantly being renewed. Each hair matures in five months, and then drops out,, to be succeeded by a new one. Long and silky eyelashes are said to be a sign of gentleness.

The ideal brows are arched, well marked, though not heavy, and distinctly separated. Although, indeed, the Roman motive of beauty included a small forehead and united brows. Ovid tells us that the women of his time cleverly painted them so that they appeared as one.

The perfect eyelid should form an oblong, for the large, round eye in a circular aperture is indicative of boldness; the small circular one of pertness. Lashes should be long and silky.

The care of the brows is a very simple matter. At night, just before retiring, take a little pomatum on the tip of the forefinger and rub it gently into the arched eyebrow. Then lightly pass a towel over the same. This is to promote the growth. “We do this every night and morning,” as one maiden jocularly remarked; “we have braids.” In the morning the sticky substance is carefully washed out with a soft cloth and warm water; then a little fragrant eau de cologne is applied, and the tiny silver-mounted brush comes into play. It gently pats and smoothes the fine hairs into a slender, arched line. If this is be repeated every morning a deficient brow will quickly mend its ways and a wide, refractory one be brought into meek submission.

Eyelashes may have their ends clipped with the scissors once in every five or six weeks. This is all the treatment they require to make them long and curved.

Now comes a specialist who declares he can tell about people simply by studying their wrinkles, which after all may not be an unreasonably theory. For instance, reports the New York World, he says life in crowded cities stamps its mark on the plastic faces of the people, and the struggle for pleasure and for wealth marks with unmistakable signs.

With the aid of a mirror one can prove or disprove the statements made by the wrinkle expert who lays down these general laws:

“The horizontal furrows upon the forehead are produced by mental anxiety, the worry and fret of life, and they indicate a tendency to nervous anxiety and are wholly opposed to the serenity of unruffled brows. Short horizontal lines just above the roof the nose indicate benevolence; when found below the roof the the nose they show one that is accustomed to exercise authority, especially when it takes the form of forbidding.

“A single vertical wrinkle between the eyebrows shows strict honesty in money matters. A disposition to require justice in others is indicated by two wrinkles each side of the first, while wrinkles outward from these show conscientiousness. These lines are often marked in those who are deeply absorbed business, in thinkers, writers and inventors, while straight, lowered brows indicate strong concentration of purpose, long and hard thinking and absorption in affairs.

“The lines raying outward from the eyes show capacity for enjoyment, as well as the two deep furrows from the mouth to the upper lip. They are the penalty we pay for mirth and form the future channel of the tear. Either perpendicular or curved wrinkles below the angle of the mouth indicate a love of truth and hatred of cant and hypocrisy. When these lines are very marked it begets grumbling at men and things in general.

“All who are afflicted with wrinkles of this nature usually take a serious view of life and do not look upon it as a holiday, but as a season of work and struggle involving much responsibility. We notice these lines in a mother’s face when she is mourning the loss of a child, and in the faces of those afflicted with some great sorrow. Trouble, poor health and worry will also leave their imprint and blur the mind’s outlook upon life.

“Hospitality marks the face with irregular curved lines, not far from the outer angles of the mouth. When they are pronounced , a warm welcome is given to ‘a stranger within the gates.’

“Low, projecting eyebrows indicate discernment; when accompanied by lids which more nearly close the eye they denote less facility of expression, but a clearer insight, more definite ideas, and greater permanence and steadiness of action,

The truth is, we hear too much about the commercialism of the professions. There are men who vulgarize them all, no doubt, and who sell their craft-right for a mess of millions, for there have always been such men, says World’s Work. But there is another tendency of our time that is far stronger than the tendency to get wealth; it is the tendency to establish, to build, and to maintain institutions—institutions of any useful and honorable kinds. Men give themselves in the most unselfish way to build upon colleges and universities, hospitals, museums, clubs, associations for the advancement of trades and professions, libraries—there is no end of the list. Men labor to turn their business into institutions. Many founders of great commercial houses work for their honorable perpetuity.

Many manufacturers plan their factories so as to give them an institutional character and value. The naturally conservative tendency of an active people is toward institution building. Strong men in almost every department of work show such a tendency, often as a dominant trait of character, and this is a stronger motive than the mere wish to be rich. The rich man who stands alone, who has not established something, who is not identified with some great institution, commercial or public, is not envied. He is more likely to be pitied.

Grand Forks, N. D., Dec. 5—The United States grand jury was discharged last night by Judge Thomas, after bringing in fifty-seven indictments. Among the late indictments is one against T. C. Kennelly of Bismarck, who is one of the gang who is charged with having held up the deputy marshals at Mandan during the strike.

A large number of the indictments are against Russian farmers from Emmons county for stealing and carrying off government buildings at Fort Lincoln, five miles south of Mandan. The depredations, according to Maj. W. C. Gooding, the government representative at the fort, have been going on for some time. Russian settlers in that vicinity have been engaged in thieving lumber and outbuildings for some time, making their visits mostly during the night, and all efforts to catch them have failed. During the past few weeks, however, they have grown bolder, and on Saturday a small army, numbering over 100, put in an appearance, with forty-five teams, pickaxes and all necessary appliances, ready to clean every inch of lumber from the spot. Maj. Gooding, who has charge of the fort protested, but the hoodlums drove him away with bricks and stones and continued to demolish the buildings Even the old Custer house, which the people of the slope have endeavored to preserve, was not spared, but ruthlessly torn ot pieces.

Deputy United States Marshal Hennessy of this city and Deputy Hannah of Grafton were at Bismarck and made a raid on the thieves Saturday. Pickets posted by the thieves gave notice of their coming, and the entire party made and effort to escape, but the deputies succeeded in rounding up eight of them and secured the names of forty others. Five were left in jail at Bismarck and three brought here as witnesses before the grand jury. Of 117 buildings at the fort very few remain, the destruction being almost complete.

It is becoming almost impossible for a foreign ambassador successfully to perform his duties at Washington unless, like Count von Sternberg, who is representing Germany, or Sir Michael Henry Herbert, he shall have first, a precautionary measure, forestalled criticism by securing an American wife. The Yankee believes at the very heart of him that every Englishman would like to marry an American girl, and that only those don’t who can’t. The Englishman is poor, no doubt, but he is so superior that the American lady is prepared to spend a large dowry upon keeping him alive.

Yet the explanation of the phenomenon lies not wholly in the greater attractiveness of England’s sons. Indeed, the manners of the man are by no means so polished in the old country as in the new. The reason why Englishmen marry American women, while American men don’t so often marry English women, is, in the main, a very simple one. The American girl travels in England, while the English girl does not travel in America, and a young lady is always more open to attentions when she is away from home. A kind of halo envelops her. Her very imperfections begin to set a fashion.

Moreover, the American girl displays something of the French woman’s facility for appearing neat on a moderate allowance.

But American girls certainly are attracted by the dazzling, if illusory, opportunities for social distinction, which are offered by a land where aristocracy is based upon birth rather than upon fluctuations of wealth. It is, moreover, extraordinary that American ladies of acknowledge charm and position should so frequently throw in their lot with Europeans who have nothing to offer them compared with what they enjoy already. It is possible that there is a placidity in Great Britain that comes as a relief from the infinite display of material energy which bows down the American citizen to premature old age.