any portion of it is not true, the depositor shall forfeit all the right and title to his deposit. Interest calculated yearly at the rate of four per cent. per annum is allowed on deposits, and is computed from the first of the calendar month next following the deposit up to the first of the month in which moneys are withdrawn. ́ On the 30th of June, every year, interest is calculated on the amount to the depositors' credit, and is added to and becomes part of the principal money. Postmasters of savings-bank offices add the deposits made with them daily to their money-order funds, and likewise pay savings-bank checks issued on their offices out of money-order funds, and embody in their accounts to the money-order branch a recapitulation of their savings-bank transactions, enclosing as vouchers for payments on savings bank account the checks paid during the period to which the account relates. The balance of the business is adjusted between the moneyorder and the savings-bank branches, the excess of deposits over withdrawals being paid over by the money-order branch to the Receiver General, on account of the Post Office Saving Bank. CSER How to Make Up for Amateur Theatricals WITH the professional actor a knowledge of the art of making up is absolutely indispensable. Although it is only one of the mechanical effects connected with his role it is an important one. Most persons who go in for amateur theatricals are unable to get themselves up for their parts as well as they would wish to. To them a few hints, stolen from professional sources, will be, doubtless, welcome. The requisite supplies can be obtained from any theatrical costumer, .when not obtainable at the druggist's, or elsewhere. Paint, powder, glue, and hair are the principal articles necessary for the various purposes. A hare'sfoot, camel's-hair brush, some alcohol, vaseline and cold cream are other essential items. A box of grease paints will be found the most useful and easy for general purposes. They can be purchased for a small sum, and free from poisonous ingredients. Other shadow lines can be brought out more distinctly by contrasting lines of light paint. When the two shades have been laid on, the finger should be drawn along the ridge between the two to soften the distinction, and powder put over all to deaden any effect of ghastliness or exaggeration. There are a number of tricks resorted to in order to change the appearance of the face. In some of these operations putty comes in very usefully. Stage putty is a little more sticky than the ordinary article, and with its aid the nose can be made any shape, the chin altered, and the cheek-bones either flattened out or sharpened. The putty must be put on before the grease paint is used, so that it will look like the other portions of the face when finished. The lips are a very important feature, and caricatured Irishmen, Dutchmen, Jews or Ethiopians can be often produced by a characteristic dash of the paint-brush. By painting the upper lip white clear down to the mouth this feature can be greatly exaggerated. For a protruding lower lip, à la negro, the lower lip must be A woman of middle age who desires to take the part❘ of a young girl can very easily overcome the encroachments of time by manipulation. First a foundation color of pale pink must be rubbed in carefully all over the face. With a deeper shade of pink color the sock-painted bright red and the top one left untouched. ets of the eyes, cheek-bones, and the depressions between ears and eyes must then be finished, care being taken to merge the colors gradually together where they meet. In order to bring out the eyes more effectively a fine line of paint must be drawn along the lower lid, of the same color as the eyes themselves, a broader line being added to the upper lid. With puff or brush the powder should next be applied, in order to deaden the shine of the paint and lend a youthful bloom to the complexion. The color of eyebrows and lashes may be deepened and a touch of rouge given to the lips to complete the makeup. When it is necessary for a young person to take an old character a reverse policy in the way of color is followed. The foundation color must be very pale and inclined to sallowness. Brown gray or deep red paint should be used to form shadows round the eyes. These may also be made across the temples, from the bridge of the nose to the chin, in the cavities of the neck, and in front of the ears. Any sunken part of the face can be darkened with good effect, or the places where the depressions would occur later in life may be colored. By this means the lines will have a perfectly natural appear-❘ ance. Wrinkles are another great stock-in-trade of the make-up business. To produce the proper article the face must be drawn into wrinkles first and their lines followed with paint of a dark hue, the corresponding ridge being imitated by lines of a brighter shade. Grotesque mouths can be made of either saturnine or comical tendency by a red streak either upward or downward, extending from either end of the mouth on to the cheeks. Red lines under the lower lashes of the eyes will give a look of dissipation, and dark red along the upper lids will give a heavy, stupid effect. Shoemaker's wax stuck in front of the teeth will present the appearance of missing members. We now come to the use of hair for stage effects. The ready-made wig is almost an essential, but beards can be made of crape hair and gauze, the latter serving as foundation for the hair. Beards can be held by a band of elastic passed over the top of the head behind the ears and hidden by the wig or natural hair. Spirit glue is used to fasten down the parts around the mouth and fix the beard in position. The mustache, made of the same material, is fastened on with spirit glue, and can be either attached to the beard or used separately. For the most natural results crape hair attached directly to the face is much the best, but where rapid changes must be made it is not serviceable. The hair is sold by the yard, and can be bought in all shades. The manipu lation of it is not difficult. The hair can be cut in lengths desired and straightened out on a comb by wetting it if it is curly or crimpy and such be not desired. It should be arranged in tufts and attached to the skin with spirit glue. Any kind and color of hirsute adornment can be provided in this way. After the hair is well fixed on the face it should be trimmed with scrissors to the desired style. By this means either a full beard, Vandyke, goatee, or mutton-chop effect can easily be produced. Bald, gray, and Romeo wigs are purchasable at reasonable prices, or can be made by deft hands from the camel's hair, a foundation of gauze, silk or cloth, cut to the required shape, being used. Where a bald effect is required the space can be occupied by a piece of flesh-colored satin or even parchment in an extremity. An old bonnet or hatframe can be used under the gauze, so that the wig will rest securely upon the head when completed, or a coil of wire to pass around the ears may be substituted. No trouble will be experienced in getting the hair and paint off the face if proper materials are used. One of the most important things is to have the spirit glue properly constituted. The proper ingredients for making it are white shellac, gum mastic, and ether. When a beard has been built on to the face a good deal of the hair can be pulled out to start with, and some alcohol and a rag will remove the remainder. The paint, powder, and putty can be eased off by rubbing the face thoroughly with vaseline or cocoa butter, and afterward wiping with a linen cloth. Castile soap and water will effectually clear off anything else that re-. mains, and a little cold cream will comfort the skin if it is apt to chap or feel sore. MISCELLANEOUS * IS AS IS IS IS * * * * * * *s is as ifs as as IS, * * * LEGAL HOLIDAYS IN THE UNITED STATES. THE nation has no legal holidays, although by statute it recognizes some State holidays to the extent of allowing national banks, the post-offices and the nation's employees in general to conform to local custom. There are no legal holidays in Arkansas, Kansas and Mississippi, although work is suspended by common consent in Kansas on the holidays most generally celebrated in other States; Arkansas and Mississippi "keep" Christmas and the Fourth of July, without legal enactment. Holidays provided by State laws are as follows: JAN. 1.-New Year's Day: in all States but Arkansas, Kansas, Mississippi, Massachusettts, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire. JAN. 8.-Anniversary of Battle of New Orleans: Louisiana. MAY 30.-Decoration Day: in Arizona, California, JULY 4.-Independence Day: in all States but Arkansas, Mississippi, and Kansas. JULY 24.-Pioneers' Day: Utah. AUG. 16.-Bennington Battle-day: Vermont. JAN. 19.-General Lee's Birthday: Arkansas, Florida, rado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, InGeorgia, North Carolina, and Virginia. FEB. 12.-Lincoln's Birthday: Illinois, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, and Washington. FEB. 22.-Washington's Birthday: all States but Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, and Mississippi. MARCH 2.-Anniversary of Texan Independence: Texas. MARCH 4.-Fireman's Anniversary in New Orleans, La. APRIL 19.-Patriots' Day: Massachusetts. APRIL 21.-Anniversary of Battle of San Jacinto: Texas. APRIL 26.-Memorial Day: Alabama, Florida, and MAY 10.-Memorial Day: North Carolina. diana, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, and Wyo. ming. SEPT. 9.-Admission Day: California. SEPT. (second Saturday of).-Labor Day: Florida. Nov. (first Tuesday after first Monday of).-General lina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. SPAIN.-Grain and other food material, except meat; cotton and its products; animals and meat; drugs and chemicals; timber, lumber, etc.; machinery; metals; silks; manufactures of metal. Total, in 1895, about Nov. (last Wednesday of).-Labor Day: Louisiana. Nov. (last Thursday of).—Thanksgiving Day: observed in all States in compliance with Governors' proclama- | $138,000,000. tions. DEC. 25.-Christmas: all States but Arkansas, Kansas, and Mississippi. Arbor Day (celebrated on different dates, according to proclamation or statute): in Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Rhode Island, Texas, and Utah. Saturday afternoons are legal holidays in Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and the cities of New Orleans, Wilmington (Del.), as well as in Newcastle County, Del., and Denver, Col., from June 1 to September 30. Of holidays on varying dates are Good Friday, in Alabama, Louisiana, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee; Mardi Gras, in Alabama and the Parish of Orleans, La.; State Election Day, in Rhode Island in early April. PRINCIPAL ARTICLES OF IMPORT OF (Named in the Order of their Value.) UNITED STATES.-Sugar; coffee and tea; hides, skins and furs; woolen goods; chemicals; manufactures of silk, linen, and cotton; manufactures of iron and steel; lumber, wood, and products of; fruit and nuts; tobacco and cigars; india rubber; earthenware; glassware. Total value, in 1896, $780,000,000. CANADA.-Manufactures of steel and iron; coal and coke; manufactures of wool; sugar; coffee and tea; cotton; silk and its products; hides, leaf tobacco. Total, in 1895, $111,000,000. UNITED KINGDOM (the British Isles).-Grain and flour; raw cotton; wool; meats; lumber and wood; sugar; butter; silk, and products thereof; tea; live animals (principally for food); copper, iron and tin; flax, hemp and jute; woolen goods. Total, in 1896, about $2,200,000.000. FRANCE.-Raw wool; raw silk; wine; coffee; coal and coke; raw cotton; grain and flour; oil seeds (principally linseed); hides and furs; lumber and wood; live cattle. Total, for 1896, about $720,000,000. GERMANY.-Food materials; cotton; metals, and products thereof; fats and oils; chemicals; woodenware; animal products; leather; fuel; machinery. Total, in 1895, about $850,000,000. AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.-Cotton and cotton yarns; wool and woolen yarns; coffee: coal and fuel; machinery; silk; tobacco; hides and skins; leather; grain. Total, in 1895, about $355,000,000. RUSSIA.-Raw cotton, cotton yarn, etc.; metals; wool and woolen yarns; machinery; other manufactures of metal; tea; coloring materials and chemicals; silk; coal and coke; leather; fish; wines and spirits. Total, in 1895, about $280.000.000. HOLLAND-Grain and flour; chemicals and drugs; copper; coal; sugar; rice; wood; hides and skins: oils, fats, etc.; saltpeter. Total, in 1895, about $580,000,000. ITALY.-Raw cotton, cotton yarn, etc.; wheat; coal; silk (principally raw); hides; machinery; timber and lumber; wool; dried fish; coffee; tobacco; horses; sugar. Total, in 1895, about $220,000,000. BELGIUM.-Grain and flour; wool and cotton; drugs and chemicals; timber and lumber; hides; resins, gums, etc.; metals; meat and food animals; coffee; wines; coal and coke. Total, in 1895, about $320,000,000. BRAZIL.-Cotton goods; woolen goods; machinery; coal; flour; rice; dried fish; pork, beef cattle, dried and salted beef; petroleum and its products. Total, in 1895, $145,000,000. ARGENTINE REPUBLIC.-Linen, cotton, and woolen goods; manufactures of iron; manufactures of wood; coal and coke; liquors; chemicals; paper of various kinds; pottery and glass; railway material. Total, in 1895, about $85,000,000. CHILI.-Clothing and material therefor; articles of food; machinery; household utensils; railway material; tools; drugs and medicines; wines and liquors. Total, in 1894, about $49,000,000. CHINA.-Cotton goods; opium; metals; petroleum oils; fish and other sea-food; woolen goods; coal; raw cotton. Total, in 1895, about $137,000,000. JAPAN.-Raw cotton and cotton yarns; sugar; steamships; blankets; petroleum oils; iron and ironware; rice; cotton cloth; woolen cloth; machinery, for mills of many kinds; grain. Total, in 1895, about $137,000,000. INDIA.-Cotton goods; manufactures of metal; machinery; oils; sugar; silk; clothing; liquors; railway materials; coal. Total, in 1896, about $180,000,000. MEXICO.-Cotton goods; machinery; tools; woolen goods; agricultural implements; boots and shoes; food materials. Total, in 1896, about $40,000,000 (gold). NEW SOUTH WALES.-Cotton goods; agricultural implements; tools; woolen goods; clothing; tea; wines and liquors. Total, in 1895, about $75,000,000. CAPE COLONY.-Clothing (woolen); cotton goods; machinery; tools; leather, and products of; oils; liquors; tea. Total, in 1895, about $64,000,000. PRINCIPAL ARTICLES OF EXPORT OF TWENTY COUNTRIES. (Named in the Order of their Value.) UNITED STATES.-Raw cotton and cotton goods; grain and products thereof; meat and dairy products; manufactures of iron, steel. and wood; petroleum and its products; live animals; tobacco (in leaf and manufactured); copper (ore, metal, and manufactures thereof); leather and leather goods; machinery, and naval stores ―rosin, tar, turpentine, etc. Total, in 1896, $863,000,000. CANADA.-Wood and manufactures of; cheese; grain and its products; live animals, animal products; fish; lumber; minerals, and coal. Total, in 1895, $114,000,000. UNITED KINGDOM.-(The British Isles.)-Fabrics of wool, cotton, and silk; manufactures of metal; machinery; articles of apparel: articles of food and drink, and chemicals. Total, in 1896, about $1,400,000,000. FRANCE.-Manufactures, respectively, of wool and silk wines; leather and leather goods; raw wool and yarn; raw silk and yarn; manufactures of cotton; linen and linen goods; skins and furs; chemicals; sugar; cheese and butter. Total, in 1896, about $630,000,000. GERMANY.-Manufactures of wool, cotton, linen, and silk; metals and metal goods; chemicals, drugs, etc.; leather and leather goods; machinery; glassware and pottery; coal; woodenware, hardware, and beet sugar. Total, in 1895, about $700,000,000. AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.—Timber and lumber; beet sugar; eggs; cattle; coal and other fuel; grain; hardware and glassware; horses and mules; gloves. Total, in 1895, about $370,000,000. RUSSIA.-Grain and its food products; flax; timber; oil-grains (principally linseed); petroleum and its products; butter and eggs; hemp, and beet sugar. Total, in 1895, about $350,000,000. HOLLAND.-Grain and its food products; drugs and chemicals; manufactures of iron and steel; manufactures of wool, cotton, linen, and silk; copper, sugar, coffee (the last three articles being largely from the nation's Asiatic colonies); paper; oleomargarine; vegetables, and flax. Total, in 1895, $471,000,000. SPAIN.-Metals and minerals-quicksilver, copper, iron, zinc, and lead; wine; sugar (from Cuba and other colonial possessions); glassware; pottery; grain; live animals, and fruit. Total, in 1895, about $132,000,000. ITALY.-Silk (principally raw); fresh fruits; olive oil; wines; hemp and flax; eggs; coral; (manufactures of); skins; domestic animals (live), and sulphur. Total, in 1895, about $202,000,000. BELGIUM.-Iron and steel and their products; yarns of linen and wool; coal and coke; woven goods; hides and leather; chemicals; machinery; meats; glass, and sugar. Total, in 1895, about $270.000,000. BRAZIL.-Raw cotton; raw sugar; coffee; india-rubber; hides; tallow, and cacao. Total, in 1895, about $145,000,000. ARGENTINE REPUBLIC. - Wool; sheepskins; wheat; corn; meats; hides, and tallow. Total, in 1895, about $105,000,000. CHILI.-Nitrate of soda and other minerals (crude) constitute more than three-fourths of Chili's exports. Total, in 1894, about $54,000,000. CHINA. Silk (raw and manufactured), and tea are the only articles of large export; straw braid, clothing, sugar, and pottery are exported to a limited extent. Total, for 1895, about $115,000,000. JAPAN.-Raw silk and silk goods; tea; rice; coal; matches; copper and manufactures therof; matting; porcelain, and camphor. Total, for 1895, about $135,000,000. INDIA.-Raw cotton and cotton goods; rice; jute, and products thereof; oil-giving seeds; opium; hides and skins; tea; indigo; lac (gum), and coffee. Total, in 1896, about $260,000,000. MEXICO.-Silver, in ores, bars and coin, constitutes, in value, more than half of Mexico's exports; of merchandise exported the principal articles are coffee, sisal, hemp, wool, living animals, hides, gum, tobacco, and vanilla. Total, in 1896, $105,000,000 (silver). NEW SOUTH WALES (the leading Australian colony).Wool; tallow; fresh and preserved meats; hides and skins; leather; butter; copper and copper ore; lead and lead ore, and tin. Total, in 1895, about $100,000.000. CAPE COLONY (British South Africa).-Gold bullion and ores; diamonds; goats' hair; hides and skins; ostrich feathers, and copper. Total, in 1895, about $80,000,000. THE NAVIES OF TWENTY NATIONS IN 1896. A comparative exhibit of the strength of the navies of the world could be given only by classifying all the vessels of each and every navy according to their tonnage displacement, age, number and caliber of guns of main batteries, etc.; it would be necessary also to give the speed of each vessel under steam; very few of those indicated below depend upon sail-power. At the present time a nation's fighting capacity on the ocean is estimated by the number and size of her battleships, to which cruisers bear about the relation that cavalry bears to the infantry and artillery of an army, although large armored cruisers, like the "New York" and "Brooklyn" of the United States Navy, would be used as and with battleships. Under the head of "Coast Defense" are enumerated battleships of a type too old and slow to be maneuvered against modern craft, yet which have powerful batteries; also most of our own "monitors" of various sizes. Under "Cruisers" are enumerated armed vessels of all classes; those of the weaker nations are small and would not be used at all in war with a strong power. A large portion of the Russian Navy is confined by treaty to the Black Sea, where it can be used only against Turkey. All the stronger nations are adding rapidly to the number of their battleships and armored cruisers. |