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ODDS AND ENDS. 



Wilhelniina, who is to be crowned 

 Qiieen of the Netherlands on September 

 6 next, has personally sent to Mr. Bok, 

 the edftor of The Ladies' Home Journal 

 himself a Hollander by birth one of her 

 private portraits for publication in the 

 next number of his magazine. It is the 

 last portrait which will be taken of the 

 little lady before her coronation, and will 

 be printed in connection with a specially 

 prepared sketch, showing the personality 

 of the first Queen of Holland from every 

 point of view. 



Mr. George E. Graham and Mr. W. A. 

 Goode will contribute to McClnres Mag- 

 azine for September, accounts of the de- 

 struction of Admiral Cervera's Fleet as 

 witnessed by themselves from Commodore 

 Schley's flagship, the "Brooklyn," and 

 Admiral Sampson's flagship, the "New 

 York." They represented the Associated 

 Press, and were the only correspondents 

 aboard the American ships at the time of 

 the battle with Cervera. The articles 

 will be very fully illustrated, largely from 

 photographs of the actual scene, taken by 

 the authors. The illustrations will com- 

 prise portraits of all the commanders, 

 Spanish as well as American ; pictures of 

 all the ships; views and diagrams of the 

 battle in its successive stages; and views 

 of the wrecks of the Spanish ships taken 

 soon after the battle closed. 



Eichard Harding Davis in the Septem- 

 ber Scribner's says: "Some of the comic 

 paragraphers who wrote of the Knicker- 

 bocker Club dudes and the college swells 

 of the Kough Riders' organization, and of 

 their imaginary valets and golf clubs, 

 ought, in decency, since the fight at Guasi- 

 mas, to go oxit and hang themselves with 

 remorse. For the same spirit that once 

 sent these men down a white-washed field 

 against their opponents' rush-line was the 

 spirit that sent Church, Channing, Dever- 

 eux, Ronalds, Wrenn, Cash, Dudley, 



Dean, and a dozen others through the 

 high hot grass at Guasimas, not shouting, 

 as their friends the cowboys did, but each 

 with his mouth tightly shut, with his eyes 

 on the ball, and moving in obedience to 

 the captain's signal." 



One of the brightest country papers 

 that comes to the AGE is the Cttllertson 

 (Neb.) Era, published by Ira Cole. It is 

 an evidence of editorial brains and enter- 

 prise of which Mr. Cole may well be 

 proud. 



The American Farmer, in a recent is- 

 sue, suggests that the hen be made the 

 national bird of America instead of the 

 eagle, claiming that while the latter is a 

 cowardly, thieving creature, never earning 

 anything honestly but preying upon 

 weaker animals, the hen attends strictly 

 to business, and often furnishes us with 

 eggs for years, finally giving her life to 

 feed some hungry boarder, who fancies he 

 is eating spring chicken. 



Colorado, it is said, is becoming famous 

 as an onion state, while Wyoming is the 

 great potato producing state, having a 

 record of 974 bushels and 49 pounds from 

 one acre. 



One of the Mormon pioneers recently 

 died at Salem , Utah, aged 86 years. He 

 joined the Mormon church at Millford, 

 Mich., in 1834, going to Utah in 1847, 

 He had twelve children, eighty-three 

 grand children, twenty-eight great grand 

 children and three great great grand 

 children . 



HER DESPERATE REVENGE. 



She was only 4 years old, but she had 

 been naughty, and her mother punished 

 her. The little one was very indignant 

 and said tearfully and angrily : ' 'You just 

 wait till the next time you and papa go 

 out, I'll do the awfulest thing you ever 

 heard of !" Her mother, thinking the 

 child was simply trying to frighten her 



