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SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
A French investigator has detected
periodical variations of earth currents in
direct relation with the movement of the
moon or the tides. '
Professor Ditmar, a Swedish scientist,
prides himself upon having perfected a
process for converting kerosene oil into
a substance much resembling -tallow in
its appearance, which, he says, can eas
ily be made into candles.
An English writer points out the
probability that a smoky atmosphere is
not a wholly unmitigated evil, since its
carbon and sulphur must absorb many
germ of disease, and tend to prevent
the spread of epidemics.
How unsuccessful inventors of snow
plows have been, says Industrial America,
may be guessed from the fact that about
4,500 inventions have been patented re
lating to snow-plows and other apparatus
for removing snow from railroad tracks.
Last winter, what might be called a
steam snow-plow was successfully tried
upon one of the Canadian roads.
Dr. A. T. deRochebrune has described
to the Paris academy of sciences a well
established variety of domestic ox, which
is peculiar to Senegambia, and is charac
terized by a third horn growing from the
no?e and identical in construction and
development to the two frontal horns.
The animals are very liable to epizootic
peripneumonia, and from time imme
morial the Moors Fulahsof Senegambia
have practiced upon the creatures pre
ventive inoculation with the virus of that
disease. -
According to the Building News, man
ufacturers of wood, mosaic say that they
have found oy- experiments that hard
maple on end is from four to five times
as durable as marble and equally as dur
able as the hardest baked tile. It is . re
ported that "two-end -wood floors were
laid in the elevators of a public build
ing in Chicago about fifteen months
ago, and thatthe floors are in
"JOSIAR."
I never kin forget the day
That we went out a-walkin,
And sot down on the river banVj
And kept on hours a-talkin' ;
He twisted up my apron string
An' folded it together,
In' said he thought for harvest tims
Twas cur'ous kind o' weather.
The sun went down as we sot there?
Josiah seemed uneasy,
And mother she began to call:
"Loweezy! Oh, Loweezy I"
An' then Josiah spoke right up
As I was just a-startin',
An' said, "-Loweezy, what's the use
Of us two ever par tin'?"
It kind o' took me by surprise,
An' yet I knew 'twas comin';
I'd heard it all the summer long
In every wild bee's hummin';
I't rtudied out the way I'd act;
But, law! I couldn't doit;
I meant to hide my love from him,
But seems as if he knew it;
In looking down into my eyes
He must a seen the fire;
An' ever since that hour I've loved
An' worshiped my Josiar.
Eatonton Messenger.
pretty good night's work. Twenty
thousand dollars ! My share is ten thou
sand! That will take me back to Du-
rango, and plantations are cheap enough
there. Santa Maria! but 111 live easy
after this. I'll pass for a gold hunter,
and I'll marrv some rich ranchero's daugh
ter, and I'll ride the finest horses in Mex
ico. Twenty thousand dsllars, and half
of it is mine. Ten thousand dollars!
That's a good deal, but it isn't as much
as twenty thousand, why shouldn't I
have it all? He's onlv a Griniro nnv-
how, and if he gets haif a chance he'll
cheat me out of my share. Suppose I
walk off with the box 1 Twenty thou
sand dollars in Mexico is a big pile. Let
me see. l can fool this Yankee thief,
and I believe I'll do it. I'll take the
box out of the cache and hide it some
where else. When the row about this
robbery coolsdown, and the Gringo talks'
about dividing, we 11 go to the place
where we hid the box, and we won't find
it. Then I'll say some thief has watched us
and stolen our money. The Yankee
won't know anv different. Then, when
the time comes. I'll disappear. I might
as well have twenty thousand as ten
thousand, and I will have it this very
night."
IIS PARTNERSHIP
a3 good
first laid, al-
from 1,000
condition 5 as ' when
though each elevator carries
to 2,000 people daily.
A workman in cutting fifteen-inch
files In a certain Frenchsteel works uses
a hammer weighing seven and seven
tenths pounds and wears out a handle
of holly wood in about one year, after
having" struck .-.about 11,250,000 blows
with the hammer. In cutting triangular
files about five inches long, and in metal
somewhat softer than the above, the
hammer used weighs two and two
tenths pounds, and the holly' handle
lasts about two years, and has been used
;u striking 25,440,000 blows.
Specimens of pods and seeds which
take the place of soap in China were ex
hibited by Mr.' F. B: Forbes at a recent
meeting of the Linnean society of Lon
don. He stated that for ordinarydeans
ing purposes aa impure earthy soda and
a lye made from wood ashes are employed?
while the leaves of twb plants are oc
casionally used; o;A the head. .The favor
ite substance however sterns - to be the
"fcitsao ton": of ,Vfat black beans." The
roasted pods are used for washing clothes
as well as for bathing; and women cleanse
their heads , ith the seeds, ' Pods of
Gleditschia sinensis (known to the Chi
nese as "tsoa-cbiq'') are boiled to -prepare
a washing inf.u5io'rl also.much employed.
Jack Martin and Pedro Valencia stood
beneath a fragrant buckeye by the road
side awaiting the arrival of the stage,
then due at the village of - Campo Seco.
it was tne twilight of a warm summer s
day, and the cool breeze that had sprung
up seemed to have freshened the per
fumes of withering wild flowers and
drooping grasses. The two men stood
silent and watchful under the shadow of
the overhanging foliage, occasionally
glencmg ; impatiently down the road,
which, from their position, sloped pre
cipitously ' f or a considerable distance,
making an abrupt turn at the foot of the
hill and then descending a deep canon,
into tne bottom of which tne sun never
penetrated.
"There she comes!" It was Martin
who spoke. Pedro bent forward and
listened intently, u p tnrough the mur
muring canon floated the creaking of
wheels and the ruffling of harness. Then
the sharp crack of a whip was heard,
followed by the hoarse voice of the driver
as he urged his horses to renewed exertion
Pedro turned and found himself face tc
face with a hooded form armed with a
double-barreled shot-gun. He expressed
no surprise, but advancing to where the
.roots of the buckeve sank into the red
earth of the bank by the roadside, and
lifting a' gunny-sack similar to that which
covered the upper portion of his com
panion's body, drew it over his head
Drawing a shot-gun from tne underbrush,
he crossed tne road and disappeared in
the chaparral. Martin 6tood close in the
6hadow of the buckeve.
The stage crawled lazily out of the
canon. Only the driver and
passenger occupied the box, and the
passenger was a woman. When the ve
hicle had approached within ten yards of
the buckeve, a shrill whistle sounded
and two men with leveled shot-guns
stood in the roadway. The leaders of
the stage-team sprang away to the right,
and would have dashed down the bank
in their fright if the driver had not skill
fully reined them in.
"Halt!"
"Halt it is." the driver replied; "but
you might as well put down them Gat
ling they're dangerous, an' might go
off; besides they skeer this young lady
"Shut yer jaw an' throw down that
box," commanded Martin, advancing
with his gun leveled, while Valencia
grasped the reins of the nigh leader,
"Which box do you mean?" inquired
tht driver.
"Wells Fargo's: an'
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arose, and, grasping the Mexican by tho
Oregon Bees and Bears..
A. short time ago Samuel, Asa and Joe
Holaday, of Scapp'oose,;fobJx a trip over
to the Lewis river In order to - look into
the resources xf -that- region; They found,
it a most bea'ufifujbountry1 and one-that
offers many inducements to settlers. Tho
part visited lies off ih the -direction of
Mount St. Helen$';an:d vis. rcorriposed ,of
both timber land and: fine open :$ facts
which abound invgamey large and small.
While encamped on;the s river thej dis
covered an object-that -jwaS as noveland'
mg. in their xam-bles xhroug-n.;tne pine,
woods they suddenly came iipGn a f alien,
tree across the pafh,' ' whichv ' on inspec
tion, they found to be hollow. Through,
a knot hole they .could see something
white, and at once began tojnvestigate.
They sawed into the log &xd were sur
prised to find that'-the-' Vnote' -interior .of .
the log was filled -solidly wit -honey;-They
at once brouglit frj04h:: their camp'
some of their vessels. to .fill, with this
sweetest of all riatiire's" productions.
Their buckets and pans were soon filled."
Then they sawed off j another ; length of
the log and found it still" solid with the
honey. This they- repeated " and" took
from it honey until they had opened up
ten feet of pure, lovely honey Vtwhich
yielded a comb that was in niahy places
four inches thick. Of this find they
carried away 180 pbutictsy ' which tifey;
declare was the finest they -"ever" fisted,;
being far richer than the fame -.honey1
which they raise. -. - v ' , '4
Another strange thing-which they ob
served was the taking t- -sarmiCm by the
bears, which are abundant there. The
bears go down to the river at night,
catch the fish, bite off their heads, eat
them, and leave the bodies untouched.
Their distaste for the body seems strange,
and their preference for the heads has
never been explained, even by the In
dians. Portland (.Ore.) News.
if vou give ua
cue wrong one you'll never drive over
this road again."
The threat produced the effect intend
ed, and a heavy blue box, bound with
iron, and padlocked, was flung into the
road. Martin examined it closely, and
was apparently satisfied, for he mo
tioned Pedro away from the horses, and
ordered the driver to "Go ahead, an' be
quick about it, too." When the stage
had disappeared, the partners struck into
a narrow" trail leading across the canon .
.'Purty heavy box," remarked Pedro,
"Yes. I reckon we've called the turn
this time. If it's over ten thousand I'm
goin' to quit the business," Martin. an
swered. ..
The two men struggled in silence
through the chaparral, crossing precipi
tous gulches and climbing steep ridges,
until they reached the head of a gloomy
canon, thickly overhung with young
pines .and cnemisai. iere tney de
posited their burden, and tearing away a
huge bowlder from the hillside, revealed
a cavity ' that had evidently been pre
pared for the reception of the booty.
They hastily thrust the box into the cave
and rolled the stone back into its place,
carefully effacing every trace of their
work.
On their return to Campo Seco, they
found the town in a fever of excitement
over the bold robbery that had occurred
almost at their very doors! The sheriff
and a posse of determined citizens were
scouring the country in search of the
robbers, and the people were anxiously
awaiting the result of the search. ."Not
tbe: least' suspicion attached to the part-
-nefs, who were regarded by the citizens
of Campo Seco simply as gamblers of
the ordinary character. . . They retired
that night weary with their Ubov hut
exulting in the knowledge that their
enterprise had yielded them the hand
some profit of twenty thousand dollars.
"A pretty good night's work," mut
tered Pedro Valencia, as he curled up in
his bunk, after parting with Martin "a
And the robber arose, and dressing
himself, placed a revolver in his belt,
and stole forth into the night.
" It's the best job I ever did," thought
Jack Martin, as he flung himself, half
undressed, on the bed in his cabin.
"Twentv thousand dollars! My share
is ten thousand. Ten thousand dollars,
I'll quit cards ; I'll be an honest man
I'll get out of the State; I'll go back to
Missouri, buv a farm, and settle down
I'll live easy the rest of my life.
A smile of satisfaction overspread his
countenance as these thoughts flashed
through his mind.
"They'll never suspect me. The-:
minK l made mv money in tne mines.
Well, I did make it in the mines, didn't
? It don't make any difference how I;
made it, and I don't care how honest my;
aeighbors think I've been. Ten thou-:
sand dollars! It won't be long before T
make it twenty thousand. I wish I,
hadn't taken that Greaser in on the spec. ;
t could have handled' the job just as
well without him. Beside, what does
he want with so much money? It'll
never do him any good. He'll only
buck it off at monte. I wish " Jack
Martin arose and went to the door. He
looked out. " Starlight," he muttered.
Returning to his seat, he puffed at his
pipe with renewed vigor. Now, that
Greaser." he thought, "wouldn't think
nothing of cutting my throat for that
meney. l a bet ne won i resi unui no
gets me in the door, so's he can get away
with the swag. I won't trust him. If
he does the square thing I'll divide if
he don't I'll keep the twenty thousand
and he can whistle for his share. I'll
hide the box in my own cache, and I'll
hide it to-night."
In a few moments jacK iiarun was
creeping through the pines of Lame nog
Gulch. He was armed to tne teetn, ana
he knew a short cut to the canon where
the stolen treasure was buried.
Jack Martin crawled noiselessly through
the brush on his hands and knees. The
pines, through which the night-winds
sighed in ghostly cadences, snun oui me
dim light of the stars, and the vicinity oi
the cave was as dark as the interior of a
cemetery vault. The robber had almost
reached the place where the box was
buried, when his quick ear detected the
presence of another person. He paused
and lay flat upon the earth.
"Somebody is after that box," he
muttered.
A curse and a peculiar grunt of a man
who is endeavoring to lift a heavy bur
den broke the stillness.
"It's that Greaser," thought Martin.
"Well, if he thinks he is going to swin
dle me he is mistaken. His life ain't
worth the powder I'll burn to send him
to perdition."
At this moment the man in the bush
gave a cry of satisfaction. The bowlder
had been displaced. He dragged the
box out of the cave. There was the
sound of crackling twigs and the noise
of jingling coin as the box was dragged
through the brush. Then a dark forni
crawled out of the thicket and struggled
down the canon, dragging the box be
hind him. Still Martin did not fire, al
though the mark was a fair one. . He even
put up his pistol and followed his doubly
dishonest partner. It was a long tramp
the fixed stars were sinking low on the
horizon when the Mexican reached the
spot where he intended to hide the ill
gotton treasure. . He had scarcely disap
peared over the summit of the ridge after
placing the box in the new cache, when
Martin sprang from bis place of conceal
ment and disinterred it. In another
hour the treasure had been reburied and
Martin was sneaking. 'homeward in the
gray dawn, exhausted and satisfied with
his night's work, :. v '
"
A month rolled by. The excitement
engendered by the robbery of the Cam
po - Seco stage had subsided to a still
hunt by Wells, Fargo & Co. 's detectives.
The partneis, with hypocritical earnest
ness, were talking of a division of the
spoil. A night had been named for un
earthing the treasure. lioth men
waited Impatiently for the denoument,
and, when on the night selected for the
division, thev stood belore the cave at
the head of the canon, each was pre
nared to plav his part. The bowlder
was rolled away, and the Mexican,
thrusting his hand into the cave, gave
vent to a well simulated cry of dismay
4 'The box is gone !" he Cried.
'.'Gone!" echoed Martinf "Tou lie,
vou Greaser, vou lie. It must be
there."
"Feel for yourself," the Mexican
answered.
Martin, apparently trembling with
agitation, threw himself on his knees
and reached into the cave. Then he
arm, exclaimed:
"Where is the boxl You know where
it is. Don't go back on me. Pedro
we're partners we've risked our necks
together to get this money, and it ain't
right to beat me this way. It's & jok&
on me, ain't it?"
"I've Dlaved no ioka on vmi .TjwV
Somebody followed us when "we carried
off the box, that's all, and they've stolen
the money that's all there is about it.
We'll have to stand up another stage.
Jack. Ma be we'll have better luck
next time."
This explanation seemed to satisfy
Martin, and the partners returned to
Campo Seco. For a week they pretended
to plan together, preparatory to robbing
anotner stage, men. one darK nieht
Pedro Valencia left town, as he thought,
forever. 113 had made every prepara
tion for fleeing the country with the
twenty thousand dollars. It was nearly
midnight when ho returned. When he
entered the gambling hell where Martin
was playing, his swarthy face filled with
rage.
"Jack Martin, I want to see you out
tide," he hissed between his set teeth.
Martin exchanged his faro chips for
money and arose. The crises had ar
rived, me departure oi the two men
was scarcely noticed by the other players.
Suddenly they were startled by a pistol-
shot, followed almost instantly by
another, that rang out on the night air
with deadlv distinctness. As the crowd
rushed to the door, a man staggered into
the room and.fell headlong to the floor.
The blood wa3 pouring in torrents from
his side, and the pallor of death was
creeping over his dark face. It was
Pedro Valencia.
"Who shot you, Fedro?" inquired one
of the gamblers.
"I did." All eyes were turned to the
door, in which stood Jack Martin, a
Bmoking pistol in his hand. "That
knife," he continued, "is proof that I
shot him in self-defense."
As he spoke, he pointed to a murder
ous bowie-knife which Pedro clutched
in his right hand. The dying robber
raised himself by a mighty effort on his
elbow, and regarding his partner with a
look in which importent rage was min
gled with hate and malice, gasped his
denunciation:
"Jack Martin and me robbed the
robbed the stage. He stole the money
Crom Irom mc. Twenty thou "
With a gurgling groan, the Mexican
sank back upon the floor, the blood
The Aire or Electricity.
The possible applications of the pnnci
pie of the electrical transmission of power,
are almost numberless, writes a corre-
spondee! oiVan Xotrand'$ Ja-Mztw.New
York. We shall, I believe, at no distant 1
date, have great central stations, possibly
situated at the bottom of coal pits, where
enormous steam engines will drive many '
electric machines. We shall have wires
laid along every street, the electricity '
tapped into every house, and the quantity
of electricity used in each house regis
tered as gas is at present. The storage
battery will fill a place corresponding to
the gasometer in the gas system, making
the current steady, rendering the con-
sumer independent of the irregular action
Tree Day In toe ITest.
The new spring holiday of the West
ern country grows in favor every year.
They call it Arbor Day, the word arbor
being Latin for tree. The boys and
girls, however, call it, when tn?y are
talking with one another. Tree Day.
which is a better name for it.
On that festive occasion every man.
every woman and every child is expected
to plant at least one tree. The schools
turn out and mske a day of it, Collegti
and universities have a holiday, of which
they spend a portion in tree-plantinj.
and another portion in celebrating the
beauty, glory and utility of trees; and
you may' be sure that some sonorous stu
dent docs justice, or gallantly tnestodo
or stoppages of the dynamos of . the ceru I justice, to Bryant's VForest Hymn.
gushed from his nose and mouth, and in'
another instant he was dead. The part
nership was dissolved.
On the trial for the murder Jack Mar
tin told the whole story, and he told it
truthfully, notwithstanding the advice of
his lawyers, who expected a heavy fee
in the event of his acquittal. He con
fessed the robbery, detailed the double
play of himself and Pedro, and testified
that when the latter on that fatal night
accused him of removing the treasure
from the phce where he (Pedro) had
hidden it, he admitted the fact. When
he refused to divide, the Mexican
had attacked him with the knife, and ic
self-defence he had killed his partner.
This version of the affair could not be
disputed, and a verdict of not guilty was
rendered.
But Martin htd not revca'cd the hid
ing piace of the twenty thousand dollars.
On his trial for robbery he plcaicd
giiilty, and was sentenced to ten years in
the State prison. He carried his secret
with him, and although his term has long
since expired, the spot where the money
was buried has never been discovered.
notwithstanding the fact that hundred
of men have searched for -it in every di
rection for miles around Campo h'eco.
After his release, Martin disappeared,
and it is supposed that he quietly and
secretly unearthed the treasure and fled
with it to some distant retreat, where he
may be living at the present time a highly
respected citizen. Rut his n.iie is not
John Martin. E. U. Clowjh in Argo
naut.
trai station, and enabling the ue of
dynam js of the highest tension i. e.,
those which produce the currents of the
greatest intensity. The electricity will
be pasted through little electric machines
to driva machinery to produce ventilation,
to replace stoves, and to work all sorts
of apparatus, as well as to give j
everybody, an electric light. Solar
heat will be mcd to run
the dynamos in the cloudless regions.
Everywhere the powers of the tides and
such waterfalls as Niagara are to be util
ized. Is not a millennium to be antici
pated when the water-power of a country
shall be avail ablo at every door?
Steam, which in the last century has
conferred so many benefits on the world.
will give way before electricity. The
dynamo will replace the steam engine.
This prediction seems wild and visionary.
yet when steam was first thought of as
an available force its advocates were con
sidered, just as the advocates of dy
namical electricity to-day are considered,
mere enthusiasts. But public opinion
never stops the march of intellect. After
it had proved the powers of steam to be
enormous genius never halted, but
straightway went on anticipating still
more wonderful discoveries in the realms
of electricity.
Tha prophetic ken of science was hap
pily exhibited by Dr. Lardner in his
treatise on the steam engine. "Philoso
phy,n said he, half a century ago, "al
ready directs ber fingers at sources of in
exhaustible power in the phenomena of
plo-t riri t w anrl mirrnitim ftrwl nunr
1. p" t j
causes combine to justify the expectation
mat we are on me eve oi mecnanicai nis
covcries still greater than any which
have yet appeared, and that the steam
engine itselfj with the giganttc powers
conferred upon it by the immortal Watt,
will dwindle into insignificance in com
parison with the hidden powers of na
ture still to be revealed; and the day
will come when that machine which- is
now extending the blessings of civiliza
tion to the most remote skirts of the
glole will cease to have existence, ex
cept in the page of history.
To-day we are beginning to appreciate
the truth of this prophecy. To-day we
see dynamical electricity in the forefront
of t'ae physical sciences. The principle
of the transmission of the power by elec
tricity fast approaches its realization.
We are, in truth, just entering upon a
wonderful age.
It was but natural that this exauisito
holiday should have been devised in the
great West, where both wood and woods
arc so much needed wood for daily use
as fuel and timber, and woods for beau
ty, protection and the garnering of the
precious moisture upon which fertility
depends.
It is interesting, as. one rides along
over the prairies, to notice how the set
tlers have striven to extemporize a little
show of wood, and to shelter their homes
from the steady, strong, unrelenting
prairie winds, bometimes. however.the
trees are of too slight a texture to stand
many winters on the open plain. Noth
ing answers the purpose except good,
solid, hard-wood trees, such as compose
the forests of Ohio and Western New
York oak, beech, hickory, chestnut
and ash.
Another thing surprises the traveler
going West for the fmt time, and that is
the splendid growth of hard-wood trees
in portions of Illinois, and even in
newer Iowa, which, within the memory
of farmers now lining, were naked
prairie. There are woods within a hun
dred miles of Chicago which, after a
growth of less than forty years, exhibit
much of the luxuriant beauty of the pri
meval forests in the Eastern States.
Such woods show. how adapted the
prainelandis to the growth of trees, and
give the greatest possible encouragement
to tree planting.
Arbor Day is now celebrated in many
ways, according to the needs of the re
gion in which the celebration is held. In
the far West the effort is made to set
out the greatest possible number of
trees, for the field is boundless and the
need urgent. In other places teachers
and pupils direct their efforts chiefly to
rtlantin? shade-trees alon? streets, and
Is j r -
country roads, and in public parks.
j oui. $ Companion.
Natural CnratlTes.
It must be confessed that for some
reason or other the popular faith In the
medical profession is not growing. It is
being found out they cannot cure chronic
diseases, and it is suspected that acute
diseases would not necessarilr prove
! fatal even if a physician was not slwsys
called in. Doctors are now valued not
for tho drugs they give but for their
knowledge of the sanitary and hygienic
conditions which alleviate fatal disorders
or help to restore to health those who
can be cured by diet and proper nursing.
There is a growing faith in the raloe of
curative waters, and the various health
resorts in the summer season are now
junto nanos.
Joseff y, the pianist, . practices hours
daily . upon a dumb piano, and Von
iu.o w carries oue . u iuu, .u f thonsaflds ho formtTj
to keen un his practice, and Liszt is said . , , , j j r
l -, - i staid at nome ana ucitoucu vu uxusr.
to use one assiduously. The object of , I , CQ.
substituting a silent instrument, which , . i " Portland "Me the Snl.
is aid to be growing in favor with musi- 1 1SJ.
ciais, is urdintte tha nw of Pg -P w;ukes the Bot gprfngs of
hearing m practice, and to protect the ; . . . thft F,cel.ior gnrinrt of
player from the nervous fatigue producea ... nmrm3,
by the uso of that sense, at the same
time that the senses of sight and touch
are employed. A skilled musician said
recently that the exhaustion from practis
ing upon a piano was greater than most
persons imagined. lie douDted wnetne
the same State. There are numerous
minor resorts yet destined to become
famous for their curative waters. The
Pacific coast is rich in mineral springs of
great therapeutic value. Dr. O. E
Davis writes to theCin:innati Lancet a d
CliJiie that, having been a sufferer fron
became a total
a out . upor u n uU , ,.. vuilllAsVtcM. Xewlleiico.
t tarnAiMi i fl a iiirnrpn i " - .
A Buddhist Temple In New York.
A New York letter discloses the curi
ous fact that there is in that city "a con
gregation of Buddhists who worship in
what I suppose must be called by cour
tesy a Buddhist temple in the eighth
ward. The temple is a small, dingy,
old tworstory brick house, distinguished
from houses in the vicinity only by a
huge B on a silver door plate. Some
years ago a woman named Blavatsky,
the same who is now in India, where as
she claims, she is working miracles,
visited New York to make converts to
Buddhism. I was taken to her apart
ments once by an incipient Buddhist
and duly regaled with an unlimited
ouantitv of. tea and a pipe: the old
woman herself "swilling tea," as Dick
ens would say, and puffing away at an
old clay pipe all the time I was there. I
frequently visited tnis remaricaDie mis
sionary, but she never succeeded in con
verting me. All she succeeded in doing
with me was to induce me, just before
she left for India, to buy of her a stuffed
alligator, which her converts had been
taught to regard with religious awe, but
which she had no compunction is dispos
ing of to a heretic. I presume that the
email Buddhist congregation is one of
th' results of her sojourn here. Perhsps
the temple in the eighth ward is adorned
with a stuffed monkey which I did not
purchase because I thought the price I
paid for the alligator would more
than compensate Madame Blavatsky for
the tea and tobacco (both first class) she
had wasted on ice."
practise all the
the use of a piano that made no noise.
He had heard a physician say that the
m . ;
nervous headaches oi young women in
musical conservatories were largrly due
took the "mud-baths' administered there,
I and recovered his health. It seems that
! these baths of mud are made of earth
I through which the hot mineral waters of
tc the din of practice, .and it was j I-- YnTo . caVilJ To this
often thought that this noise mp ,J d bcEJmes really " riultieed."
the musical wnse. The mute piano ,d wilh
makes the performer depend uponhis eye Vcr he went through the process
and his touch, and enforces j Juty ct times. Tens of thousands of
tion to the score, so that he will be able " Y . nvp ... v.. tr profit bv
to get a notion of the music upon s.ght , " . r.rUK Vicrh, ' d otv '
m.nni I , J .
uaters, who will hereafter patroniie
American watering plsces, where the
remedial agencies are far better than
abroad. DcmorttCu
-m.m.Aivtrr TtiorA r enrnn rrmtA T nnAl !
ICBUiUi i V. w - g
in New York and several in Boston. The
first one sent to this country came from
Weimar, and after the model of this one
others were constructed. The mute
piano has a full keyboard, and has the 1
appearance of an ordinary piano, but
there is neither sounding board nor
itrings within the instrument. The .
keys are weighted with lead, and pro-!
rided with springs which cause them to
ruicklv po back to their places w
l V o
touched.
A Senator's Hue.
Some years ago some Wisconsin Isnds
were advertised for sale under the gen
eral law and United States Senator Saw-
n to ycr.
hen ' land
then. . as now, a large Wisconsin
holder, took care to post himself .
The tension mav be regulated ' thoroughly upon the Tslue of each parcel
so as to correspond with the piano to be : put up at auction. When the sale day
used for plsying the muric with sounds. ! arrived a party of Eastern capitalist on
Then the touch need not be varied, and ; the lockout for a t peculation were on
the sounding piano need, not be used ex-; hand to bid. They knew Sawyer, and
cept to correct errors in. the shading of in every, instance they raised his bid.
notes. It is further claimed that it They felt very much elated when they
is economy to use a mute piano, as an aw, or thought they saw, a look of
expert will play havoc with a good ; annoyance steal over bis placid counte
piano in two or three years hard prac-: nance as section atter section was"
tice. The muscular and nervous strength ; knocked down to them. They bought
required in modern exhibition piano plsy-; nearly every parcel upon which Sawyer
ing is surprisingly -great, Faellcn, of Bal- J seta price, and went awsy delighted at
timore, has so woiked upon the muscics their shrewdness, come years aner inrj
of his fingers as to be able to surprise j
his acquaintances with tests oi digital
strength and nerve. Carrero, with a
very small hand, can crush the finger of j
visited Wisconsin and called upon Saw.
ver. He was delighted to see them, in-
The Pacific Medical Journal, referring
to a recent writer who asserts that Maine
lumbermen are free from dyspepsia be
cause they are in the habit of using chew
ing gum, says that " if he would add to
his suggestion of using chewing gum
that of becoming a lumberman the reme
dy would be very effective."
a strong man without moving ner arm.
This power comes from long practicp,
which to the devotee is. limited only by
endurance, and it is expected that 'the
mute piano will increase practice, and
accordingly develop more brilliant and
difficult piano playing. The instruments
are inexpensive, but are made only when
ordered. A piano manufacturer says
that they should not cost over f 23 or 30,
as one can easily be made out or a c&M
off instrument. Saturday Eteai igllerali.
vitcd them to his house in Oshkosh. and
treated them very hospitably. They
wercoing to look at the lands they had
purchased at the sale. Sawyer chuckled
as he shook each by the hand, and in-
i vited them to call again when they came
back. They have not called to date.
The Senator expected to meet sharpers
st that sale, and so got a friend to bid
an all the best land for him and secured
the good timler Umla offered. The
Eastern men still hold the title to half
the bogs in Witconin. Jfir.niapolii
TfHuitC.