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' A VISION. . ' Perchance my thonght was wide awake Or I was dreaming, may be, As 1 6at rocking to and fro. My arras around my baby. I felt alonx my cheek ani throat - Her rosy fingers playing, And stooped to kiss the sunny curls About her forehead straying. '; The foolish rhymes of Mother Gco3e In time and tune, came springing -To lips not made for song and yet My children like my singing. And as I sing a mystic spoil Changed all the world completely Another woman singing sat, And rocked her baby sweetly. The. woman's face, a look it wore Like mine; and yet the rather 'Twaslike my baby's, larger grown, 'Twas like my baby's father. And as she, swaying, softly sang, I sa'.v some teir-drop falling: I knew her thought, I knew her heart, Her heart to mother calling. A suJdea pass'on fillad my soul, I longed to sooth tho weeping, My biby tirr.'d 10:1 my breast, My ba'iy g.r.tly sleeping! Tho vision He J, yet well I knew - Though I was dreaming, may be Far down the fut ira sit? my child' And rocks my baby's baby. -.1ra. Ceorfje Archibald, in Babyhood, The jSlave of a Princess. BY EMMA P. CHESTER It was not very deep laid, and it did not in the end prove altogether success ful, but being a sc heme, and devised by the Princess Moll, her brother has chosen to record it. She came to us rather late in our lives, and found, if not exactly a welcome, at least a perambulator in our halls and a bib at cur table. There vere four of us in or just out of college when, at the beginning of a long vacation, we were called upon to rejoice at her arrival. ""Quite a little Princess," mother remarked, when for the first time We stood in a row before her, and pre sented our compliments, or what mother was pleased to term as such, to the roll of muslin and lace in a bassinet; and some how from that hour our sister was known as "the Princess Moll." Tom was in uniform, and I in cap aad gown, .nd for this reason we believed the Princess selected us as her favorites from t!he first. "Gad!'' said Torn, with a mixture of horror and astonishment, "look at her make eyes at mel De Ihey do that usually at her age?" But Tom is inordinately vaiit, and the ""eves" of which bespoke were the mere languid roll of a pair of blue optics that might quite as well have chced 'upon me as him. Well, Moll had eome to' strry, we dis- covered! but with 'the exception of an occasional cry from the nursery' or the roll of the perambulator "under' our win dows, we heard and saw iittle of her. Tom went back to West Point, and Winthron ioined the Sophomores of Cornell. To Malcolm and . me, who were ' . engaged in choosing a profession, re mained the privilege of becoming better acqua nted with the Princess Moll. . - . lilt 1 v . 1 . . v. - 1 1 u O D months when I was .first palled, upon to rescue her from a. Dosition of peril. Gradgrind, the maid ray mother is English, and calls her American servants by their surnames, to their own mystifi cation and resentment had "stepped off a piece," and left the perambulator oscillating on a ledyc of rock at New- port. It was a chanuring day.- and the Prin cess was, I observed, as I gathered her from the saud into which the peram bulator had evidently plunged, arrayed afraid he wouJd murder roe instead, in her best. Mie wore a little coat of j The Princess is dreadfully afraid of get silky cloth, and u white plush cap that ting married d have discovered that, reared up in tho crowndu an altogether j She thinks she is deep, buf she isn't, fetching manner. No, I can -see through her. She has the ..JIappily no one but Gradgrind, who was instantly threatened with dismissal, received any injury .from this mishap; but it was the .bexrinnincr of a curious alliance on my part with the Princess MOll In the extrejssiit.y.of itny wrath I ban ished Gradgrimd ivona the spot. She came back, however or rather she did not actually go .and besought me, with wringing hauda, not to report her care- icosucas iv my taoincT. .in va n. l was adamant until she.beiran to cry. when I told her that tlte tihinginiust never be re- peated, and nivseLf ;adiustcd Moll in the coach. The Princess eemed linstinctivelv to perceive that Gradgrind, whom she never ! 4,Xo. You should consider that.r appeared to love, had in some mysterious ! Miss Hcardon was charming in a Redfem way come o.'T conqueror in this affair, and ! gown one .of those pastorally simple pouted her disapproval. at both me and looking tMngswhich cost the fortune oi the maid. "When I6enped back to allow a sultan. "To be able to marry involves the coach l to precede me, she made frantic gestures with her hands, which were en- cased in small white mittens, and fairly drove Gradgrind from .her post. She then bent her eyes upon me in an imperi ous manner, which caused me to cringe Ah, but, dear Priaoes.?;" I mentally expostulated, "we are on .the avenue, and 11 is tne hour lor iUiss lienrdon's ride. You couldn't you have your brother turn nurcrj'-mid;hcref' But the mittens continued to beat the air, until, mutUnng to Gradgrind: "Keep close beside me," 1 took my place at the helm and ni scrably trundled the coach. Moll gurgled triumphantly, as well she might, as it was the successful preface to ,her scheme. Daily after that -she con trived to attach me to her train, until one morning Malcolm, encountering the '. interesting trio at the gate, demanded : i "I say. is it Gradgiud or Moll.?" i Now Gradgiud, who had a face -of the heavy, manly type, and a figure like an enc.yc ojvrdia. was not the sort of person i to .call forth that kind of remark, .and I , couJd afford to Luih good-hunioredJy. "Pon't you sea the fix I'm iu the kind of Prisoner of Chillon I've got to be? It's j a setkcnie of Moll s to enslave me, and there's .no more escape from her than a Norn. bhe"s had me at the Casino and on the a wen ucs till I'm the figure of the day. i-ho stops at the Bazar and calls my attention to the rugs; and she even ' went so far as to demand a Persian lamp, -which Heaven help me! I bought for li':r, and permitted her to carry home." Malcolm grinned. '"As if she didn't try her little game on me, and as if I'd allow myself to be gulled that way! Gradgind to the Princess Moll, and the Princess Moll to Gradgrind! I:m the slave to no infant." So I was a slave. and to an infant. Well, I had suspected it. But why should Malcolm stand there tapping a racket cn his arm, and grin- ning like a gargoyle? I suppose the fel lows of iay club looked that way when I oasfed and Miss Reardon. had discovered the intention of the FVincess to thwart all possibility of a mitch between me and the latter, for which ?he had taken the popular method of making me appear ridiculous in the eyes of the one lyoman before whom I desired to shine. Only that very morn ing we had passed hex', the Princess im bibing the juice of an orange through a column of striped candyt while I wiped the escaping nectar from the front of her coat with my handkerchief. Gradgrind contrived to look provokingly detached from us at that moment. -'S i '; 3Iiss Reardon, sweet girl, never so much as smiled, but bowed gravely, aid with a lingering expression which would, under other circumstance, have fi led me with happiness. The Princess frowned, withdrew the striped coiumn from hsr lips, aad said, " Go 'way !" in unmistakable accents to the lady who proposed to do her the honor of stop ping to look at her. . 4 ' Pray don't notice her ill-humor," I urged, terribly abashed for a Ph.D and a club man. "She hasn't. learned to make distinctions yet. he Tegard3 all youug ladies as her natural enemies. Would you -believe me, Miss Reardon, she is fright fuliy jealous of meV Miss Iieardon smiled. "Of you? How singular!" ''Yes. And she absolutely will have me gadding about with her. You can't fancy the kind of ma'.hine I an reduced to. I've heard I've read about tht tyranny of woman, but I shouldn't have believed that it commenced at the age of eighteen months," I turned to the maid. "Here, Grad grind, take my sister orer to Violet L atch, and tell mv aunt--" 4 'X-0-0 ! n-0-0 !" shrieked C2S3. the Pria: " That my mother looks for her at lunch to-day, and " But the coach was lurching violently back and forth, swayed by Moll's angrj objections "X-o-o! 110-0! n-0-0!" You have got to go," I said, in tensely, catching her hands, and holding them in the "arm grasp" of which I have read. "Gradgrind is going to take you to Aunt Melliccnt's, and I am going to walk with Miss Reardon." At this she redoubled her screams, and heaped such terms of infant obloquy upon Miss Pcardon that I blushed for my family. "She doesn't always behave so," I ex plained weakly. "It is an absurd fancy she has that my time is exclusively hers. The sooner she is broken of it the better;" and so saying, I threw the tiny hands back into her lap, and walked resolutely away with Miss Reardon. But I did not enjoy one moment of that walk. The tones of my companion's voice echoed in my cars as baby lamen tations. The imploring anguish oi Moll's cye3 pursued me over every inch of the way. Whether justly or rwt, I suffered the remorse of a criminal. "It is very pretty," Miss Reardon re marked, with a touch of irony, a. e day, "y our devotion to that child." "Pretty!" I reiterated, bitterly. "Yes." I suppose it is year choice of a fad. Some run to moose-skfei gaiters, and some to terra-cotta Derbs. Yours took this form." "Good heavens!" I .pretested, "you don't for a moment fancy 'that it is a matter of choice with me, ;my dangling after the Princess Moll?" "Oh, they all make a 'Virtue of their fo'dy. I suppose it -is 'martyrdom to wear salmon-colored gloves, or a bangle, for dear Marbro's sake.'" I fairly groaned. "Oh,' that you should so misinterpret ie ! 3 swear to you, on mv honor, that I have-suffered more from : the importunity of that? child than tongue can ten. oie iroze 10 mu num mt minute I first committed the fatal mis take of noticing -her at all, and to this day she eever enee iet up on it. "What is a fellow tdo1 She has blue eyes: she. has the sweetest mouth in tht world; she frowns; she smiles; she 1 wheedles me like a woman of thirty. If she were not my sister I should give her poison, or bury her under the I doorstep, or But I can't." "You mic'lrt -frtt married," suggestec my companion. "she would nevei speak to .you again. They never do." "So you really suppose it would work that way?"' I inquired, skeptically. "Pie i strangest antipathy to the bridal partiet i that she -sees .going in St. Paul's. She j commands Gradgriud and me to get ' past them -as quickly as possible. She ; turns thatiplush cap of hers square away from the bride. Yes, I have discovered that she would seriously object to my getting married." "5o you propose to be tied to her cap strings nil your life :" demanded my. com panion. '"HJ were you, I should break iway from -this bondage before the cord S becomes :ncuble." ! "It was never cord; it has alwayf i been a cable," I said, hopelessly. "Be- j sides, I-am not sure that T could married, even if Moll were willing." gel two things love and money." ! "I should not have saul that ; but since you have, why didn't you ay money and love?" "Because lv'hftS:n tendency to make money for its obiect; whereas I have i never observed -that love of the genuine sort was ever -evolved out of mere money." "Oh, if you prat it .that -way! Then you mean for I prefer plain arithmetic to algebraic symbols that if a man wished to marrv he would contrive tc cam the money to do it " that :s what 1 mean. He might have to give up the moose-skin gaiters. He probably would. Very few married met lxdoug to 'the, leisure elass'; merely tc love is an occupation. 15ut then mj hypothesis was, If a mau wishes tc mrtrry.' " "By Jove !" I exclaimed, "you know haven't the gaiters to give up. Do yor think we might venture?" ' Miss Reardon looked comical. "You mean to ask whether I would advise yot to marry without the Princess Moll's con sent." "Oh, hang Moll! Do youconsent?' At which she burst into a merry laugh. "What would she do to me? Should dare to drink coffee any more? or opei little packajjas? or go out after dark?" "You daxliusr! You don't deny it; You do love mel" As I uttered these words the rumble oi a perambulator crossed the pavement, and I glanced round instinctively. W hat ,Isnwwasth3 crown of a white plush bonnet, turned at right angles with the body of the wearer, "and the back of a silky coat. "She saw us !" crasped Miss Reardon. "And ihe will never speak to me again!" I cried, m exultation. "Vive la ' liberte !" JIarnefs Bazar. A New Beverage. Kaffee-thee or coffee tea, is the nam of a new beverage prepared from the roasted leaves of the coffee tree. Ac cording to a lata report of Gehe, tht Malays prefer this tea to coffee, as it h suppose to contain more of the bittei principle and to be more nutritious. The decoction looks like coffee, smells likt tea, and tastes like a mixture of both. At the leaves contain 0.5 to 0.7 per cent, ol caffeine, this new product may become important as an article of food as well at the source of caffeine. Kexe York JJarke, JownaU - ' - -- ELECTRIC LIGHT Til ASTONISniNO THINGS HAS ACCOMPLISHED. IT Illaniinatins tho Depths of the Sea v,.; and ReTealing Creatures that Man Had Never Seen , Other Wonders. When it was discovered that an artifi cial light that very closely resembles the narural light of day could be procured from electricity, and that it could be so easily provided as to take, in a great measure, the place of gas for lighting purposes, everybody was naturally aston ished and thought that the electricians were the greatest men on earth. The new system was hardly old enough to be an ' assured success before a lot of wise men began consi g the advisability of devoting this light to a greater pur-: pose than that of merely lighting up the humdrum affair of ever day life. It oe ed to Professor Baud, of the Uuited States Fidi Commission, that if a light could be used under wat2i it would prove of great advantage to him in his search for fish that never allowed themselves to be caught by any of - the old-fashioned methods. He believed tkat there existed at a great depth in the ocean various kinds of fish that had never been seen. Every boy who has ever lived near the water knows that a favorite method of catching eels is toiure-them within -spearing distance by a bright light placed in the bow of a boat. Light not only attracts eels, but nearly every thing else that lives in the water, and the Professor was sure that if a light could be made to live at a great depth in the water the reward would be great. The steamer Albatross of the Com mission was provided with an engine and a dynamo. A liberal supply of heavy glass globes that would, hold a light equal to the lighting power of 100 can dles was placed on board, and, equipped with other necessary articles, such as a lot of insulated wire, a large quantity of light, strong rope, ; and a number of heavy weights to" serve as sinkers, the steamer started out. The first attempt was uasuccesful, for at a depth of 1,000 fathoms the pressure was so great upon the globe that it broke. Another trial was speeddy made with heavier glomes, and they were found able to stmd the pressure of 'any depth to .which they could be sunk. But th most wonderful part of this 1 trial trip, which took place something like three years ago, was re lated to Secretary Frank S. Hastings, of the Edison Electric Light . Company, by Professor Baird. At a point near the Bahamas, ' accord ing to the Professor, the light was dropped overboard and sunk by means of heavy weights to nearly 1,000 fathoms below the surface. On the deck of the vessel stood tke crew with nets ready to drop them -under the fish that were lured from their homes in the great depth. The iighft was allowed to remain in the water for some time, and then it ! was slowly r-aised. It looked like the reflection of -a -Star in the water at hrst, and its rays were seen, and in them were visible the forms of darting hsh. 1 he light so lit up the water for twenty feet round, :and :b" 'weird assortment of fish that ihaid never before been heard of was seen. When near the surface the entrails of some-of'these fish burst from their anouths. "The Professor ascribed this,'" aid Mr. lHastings, "to the -in .ward pressure. Nature has made them so that ther could live in the great depths -in -which they were found, and when this pressure of the deep water was removed there was a counteracting force that killed them." Tfee dead fish was iust as useful for the purpose for which the professor wanted them as live ones, and he gath ered in a irreat manv rare and curious specimens wuthout much trouble. The liijht was also used to good purpose for discovering the various depths in waica different kinds of fish lived. . The United States torpedo station at Newport is experimenting with elec tricityin order to expose by its rays any obstruction that might lie in the path of a vessel. The experiments have reached that point where it is certain that the water can be readily illuminated for a spaee sufficiently great to show a passage for a vessel. The difficulty is in regard to the propelling of this light at a dis tance TCiffieiently far ahead to enable a vessel to werwe from, its course or come to a full stop before striking a revealed obstruction. The idea of these experi ments is to Aow, in timea of war, ex plosives that lie beneath the water. The thrusting of ;a glass globe through the frater at the -speed at which a steamer usually moves is an operation requiring considerable thought for its successful achievement. There is always much difficulty in lighting up water that has a ruffled surface, and for, this reason many of the experiments made have been less successful than was expected. The lighting up of oysterbeds, Mr. Hastings thinks, c;mld be readily accomplished, because the water in these places is not apt to ba very deep. In the West Indies and the Bahamas, where valuable shells and sponges lie 4eep in the water, the searchers after these articles have a box with a glass bottom. The top is open. In the box is placed a lamp, and t Jen the glass bottom is pressed down in the water until it Is slightly below the surface. The water directly below the box is perfectly smooth, and it is possible to see . rough the water for nearly ninety feeC Mr. Hastings thinks that this same system could be adopted with the electric light, which would throw a stream of light .much stronger than could be obtained by any other means. Not long ago a boy was drowned at Wincbendon, Mass. Two diys later his body was discovered hj moans of an electric light that was thrust under water by a pole. In the clearing and raising of wrecks the electric lights, it is thought, will be of great value. "It .has been discovered," said Mr. ..Hastings, "that an electric light placed in a barrel of new whiskey, and left there for forty e'ght hours, will give it the flavor and color of whiskey five year3 old. I can't attempt to explain it, but this method of treating whiskey has been in practice for a year or more. The light, as I understand .it,. absorbs the fu-te'i oil." In large factories, where the air is likely to be charged with explosive gases, the light is sometimes produced by incandescent lamps enclosed in glass boxes that are filled with water. In case the glass globe breaks, the water extinguishes the spark instantly. In many oil refineries where it has hereto fore been found impossible to use any kind of artificial light, electric lights have been successfully introduced. The electric light is now used in many theatres, and is a good thing for the actors and actresses, because . it is so near the natural light of day that but little painting of the face is necessary. Many dentists use tiny globes of light to examine their patients mouths, and physicians have used the same kind "of light in examining various portion of the human, anatomy.--Sew York Sun, -2- A WInsed Messenger. In the Midwinter Century Gcorgt Kennan has another of his Russian arti cles, in which, after decribingfhc means of intercommunication between political prisoners, he adds: It would be thought that human ingenuity could, go no fur ther in the contrivance of schemes tc relieve the monotony of solitary confine ment by a secret interchange of ideas and emotions with other prisoners, but in the fort: ess there were occasionally practiced method? of intercommunication. . even more extraordinary than any of these. "One afternoon in the summer of 1891," said Doctor Melnikoff to me, in the course of a conversation about his fortress life, ' I was lying on the bed in my casemate, wondering how I should get through the rest of the. day, when there flew into the cell through the open port hole in the door a large 4lue-bott!e fly. In the stillness and loneliness of one of those casemates any trlfie is enough , to attract a man's attention, and the occa sional visit of a fly is an important event in one's life. I listened with pleasure to the buzz of his wings, and followed him with my eyes as he cew back and forth across the cell until I suddenly noticed that there was something unu.ual in the appearance of his body. He seemed . vo have something attached to him. ; I rose from the bed in order to get nearer to him; and soon satisfied myself that there was a bit of paper fastened to his body. How to catch him and secure that pap?i without attracting the attention of the guard in the corridor I hardly knewr as he was flying most of the time in the upper part of the cell beyond my reach. For ten or fifteen minutes I watched him without being able to think of any way to . capture him; but at last he came down nearer to the floor, and, as he rassed me I succeeded in catch ing him in the hollow of my hands without m'uring him. Attached to his body by a fine human hair I found a small folded scrap of thin cigarette paper, upon which a mans name had been written with the burnt eni of a matcn. It was not the name of any one whom I knew; but as it was evident that soma strictly guarded prisoner hoped by this means to let nis inena3 in me Dasnon know either that he had ben arrested or that he was still alive, I fastened the paper again to the fly as well as I could and put him out into the corridor through the port-hole, "sayinsr 'S'Boarom'" "With God," or -Go with God" -a Russian expression commonly used in bidding a friend good-by e Life by Wholesome Living-. 3Ir. John N". Dickie had, in dark years ago, dyspepsia 01 the severest iorm his system was the sporting-ground of count less aches and pains, tiausear dizziness and dismal ideas of humanity and the world in general." Cutting loose from the costly gall of bot-dage to doctors and drugs, he took what proved to be first step toward renewed health by eUaiwia- ng meat from his but of fare. Pie, cake and preserves were next to -and nutritions graham bread took the TJiace of the loaf of starchy white. The rest of his useful story we quote, aa Ms own oris, from the Ohio Farmer, ' 'I ate milk and potatoes acfl other vegetables in moderate -quantity. I drank a piistf hot water n hour before each meal and also an hour before retir ing. The result was simply wonderful. I did not .gain in flesh, for I come of a lean, lank stock, but I feegan to laugh mow and ithen ; to say gooel morning' with something of a hearty iring in my voice. Weeks and months Tolled away ;and my dyspepsia was a ithing of the past. I have never had lit since. I rarely -eat meat, a"nd myself and family (there are -six of ns) use graham flour ex clusively, with .the addition of good yellow corn fseal. Oatmeal ground to flour is another favorite food, and my children have been reared ifrom infancy on it. We are never sick. Neither do weexrectto be. If Godihelps the man who Sielps himself, He certainly takes particular caro of the individual who cats plain food, breathes pure air, takes moderate exercise, And -bathes at least once a w-eek." Apprentices of Past an4 Present Days. The Girriage Monttey thus contrasts the apprentice of former times to those of the present : Apprentices of tlwe present generation are ignorant of the hardships .and mis fortunes of the boys in by-gone days. The latter were members of. the master's family, boarding and sleeping with them; Part of his business was to mind the children, if there we ic any, run all the errands for the ho usehold and shop from 5 o'clock in the morning until 7 o'clock in the evening, and sometimes even latei than that. Many of the boys of the present day do not believe this, but it is nevertheless tracr The boy had to stay as long as the agreement made called for, and if he ran away he was considered an outcast. If the parents of the bojr could raise a certain sum, the term of the apprenticeship was shortened accord ing to the amount of money paid. In time these boys became good mechanics, obtaining a thorough knowledge of theii trade. - - -' " The apprentice of to-day is considered equal in standing with the mechanic. He commences work at 7 o'clock in the morning and quits at 6 in the evening, in some case3 earlier, and is never kept over his regular time. The employer treats him the same as he doe; his work men, sometimes better, and he -is paid either by agreeement or what he is worth. Far Reaching Farms. A. cattle ranch is a stupendous thing, scarcely to be portrayed on paper in the mere enumeration of figures and numbers. "When I say that one firm of cattle iinsrs i owns 16i,u00 domestic animals, in neat cattle, sheep, and pigs, with two great cattle ranches, and eight main farms, beside 20,000 acres in grain, comprising in ali;70!),000 acre?, or 109 miles of land, the mind can scarcely take it in. Per haps it may give a" clearer idea to saj that they own all the land on the west bank of the San Joaquin River for fifty miles and nearly all on the opposite side: and it is said of them that in driving theii beef cattle to market in - San Francisco, for over a hundred miles they drive them over their own land, and put up each night at one of their own ranches. Co mopolitan. A Great Descent. Mr. McCorklc (an attenuated dude standing before portrait of a broad- chested warrior-like ancestor) " I tell you, Miss ravens, I'm no snob, but I'm proud of my descent." Mis3 Nivens " You should be, Mr. McCorkle; it has been a great onel" Life. : : The little village of Aberdeen, Ohio, which lie3 just across the river from llaysville, Ky., has in the last quarter oi a century become widely known as tht Gretna Green of the West, and it is es timated that more runaways lovers arc married there than any other town in the world. - In thirty years at least 10, 000 coapleshavc beea made happy, and the justices of the peace have, grown rich from the marriage fees. HIDING MONEY. DEVICES 1 31 BUG RANTS EMPLOY TO CONCEAIj THEIR FUNDS. Eacli'Nationality lias Its Own Way of Packing Away Currency A Curious Feature of " Castle Garden. The pcculiari ties- of the people of dif ferent nationalities in their way of carry ing money, says a reporter for the New York Cfrtnmer;ial Adeertier formed a fopic of convcr.-atiOa at Castle Garden the other day " ... - 'Most of the English immigrants," said one of the moneychangers, "carry their coin in a small case in which their sovereign or shillings fit snugly, and h ivethe case attached to a chain which they keep in a pocket as they would a watch. An Irishman always ha? his little canvas bag in which ho keeps gold, silver and notes all together. Rut a gTeat many of the Irish girls have tbeir sovereigns rolled up and sewed on the inside of their diess, very frequently. " too, inside of their corsets, and of tea have to borrow my penknife to cut them out when they Come to get them changed. ,.' i,.:S. ;"I hive seen some old Germans who would pull o3 from around their body a belt that I am sure must have cost fotty or fifty marks, and fish from it three or four marks in silver to have changed. The French mostly carry a small tube in which they can place forty or fifty twenty-franc pieces, and remove them very handily one at a tirnci and only one at a time. There are very few "Italians who don't own a large tin tube, sometimes a foot long, which they have hung' around their neck by a small chain or cord, "and in which they keep their paper money or silver coin. Swedes and Norwegians are sure to have an imncnse po ketbook that has been generally used by their fathers and grandfathers 'beforo them, and which will have enough led her in it to makea pair of boots. The Slavonians or Hungarians generally do not carry pocket books, but they find more ways of concealing what money they miy have than any class of people I know of. Their long boots seem to be the favoiite place, and ia the legs of them they also carry the knife, and fork and spoon with which they have eaten on their way across. But I have se en them take money from between the lining . and -. outside of their coats which they -would get at by cutting . into a button hole. Some of them use "their caps and very many use their prayer books, placing the paper money cn the inside of the cover, and pasting the ny-lca of the book over it.' . "I suppose you get rather a curious col lection of foreign coin':'-' "That's 'what a great' many people think," was .the reply, "but . it is not ac tually the case. None of the people who come here briag any but tiae commonest kinds of coin, and, in fact, the broker age has extended so much, in Europe 'of late and also -on the transatlantic steam ships, that great many of the immi grants have tbeir money already changed when they nrrived here. If we had been permitted to do an "exchange here and buy up paper, there might have been more money it, but we .are Got allowed to handle anything but cash.1' ' The money changer, howevr, had : amassed quite an extensive private col lection f "coins of the day. Included among them were English penny, ld, and pieces, all of silver and very dimiuutxve, measuring less than half an inch in diameter; also a. complete collection of the English jubilee coins issued last year, the ix-penny piece of which was very soon called from circu lation, as it was found that some of them had been galvanized and passed fox nait sovereigns owing to theirexact simi larity ia ize and design. A silver franc of the Roman states, which bears date 1032, is sad to be worth $1. A United States silver dollar of the special coinage of I806 is now valued at $50. A num ber of collegiate advertisements in the shape of banknotes, which immigrants said hael beea foisted upon them as genu ine money in Europe, Avere also -among collection. : Do you get much '. paper money and ever get cheated in it ?" '' There is a great deal of European taper money now. Austrian, French, iussian and Belgian paper is common. And every noe- of tho different German Hates give different - issues of notes. About. a year ago a" man came to our office with a 50 Bank of England note to get changed ; but, when we sent .it around to one of the banks to make sure of its genuineness, the man disappeared. The note was a counterfeit and we havo U yet." ... .- -.: ; v .- Eaten Almost Everything. In a recent interview Colonel Pat Do nan, the Dakotan, says: "I have eaten with the Chinese in China, I have eaten with-the President of the United States in the White House. I have eaten with nearly every nation on earth. In many cases I don't know what I have eaten, for I have always regarded it a3 a bad taste to ask questions about the dishes that are provided in your honor by hos pitable people. "In China I may have eaten rats, but I didn't know it; and what you don't know does you no haruu When the Sioux want to do you honor they will serve you tip roast dog.. In - Spanish Honduras the dish of honor is baked monkey, and sweeter meat you could not imagine. The monkeys live up in the branches of trees and on the vines ; their feet never touch the earth beneath them, and they live on the choicest nuts and fruit. No chicken wa3 everso sweet and tender as a l)3ked monkey. I do confess, though, that on one of the last o;casion3 of my dining in Span ish Honduras I did not feel that all was well when at the end of the meal I found Ihad ituffed mjself with baked lizard. Of course there is nothing" wrong with the lizard except our petty prejudices. It tasted splendid, but when at last I saw the big scaly leg and the claw of the lizard I didn't think I liked it." Paper a Protection Against Cold. It is well-known that paper is- a great protection against the cold. On the frontier miners and woodsmen preserve large sheet3 of wrapping paper and news papers to put bet ween the coverin blankets when their is an insufficiency of bed covering in the hotels or camps. An excellent protection out-of-doors for the Chest when wearing the dress suit, with the low cut vest exposing a portion that is generally well covered by the fashion able high-cut coat and vest, is a few fold3 of paper underneath the overcoat. Many roadsters in driving out put a few folds of paper across the chest under- neath the overcoat 03 well as -.at the back; and find effectual Tirotcction I against the cold winds that prevail this rrt 1-1 1 . . eeasyu. xie paper u iise a wail in com pletely protecting the wearer. Hew York - Times. ' V-':-";. - ';; '.--.--- Australian market-gardeners are being' ruined by Chinese cheap labor. POPULAR SCIENCE. : Prof. Yaughan reports a successful at tempt to produce in a cat a disease simi lar to tvnhoid fever, by the use of the germs found in the water used by "the 300 : victim 1 tf the scourge at Iron Mountain,' -Mich, 2 : r " - J Sometimes the-pressure of an artesian f ow of water results from a gas pressure instead of from a high head of water. Dakota, for instance has several artesian wells 1,000 feet -de-p, with 230 to 2S0. pounds pressure, rbut there arc. no high place j near by to gi ve thlj head p f water. The, advisability of testing as foggy weather signals; sudden. Hashes, such as those of -gunpowder, ha? beea suggested to the British lighthouse authorities by Lord Faylcigh and Profea-or Stokes,: who thiak the flashes. might attract atten tion where an equal ' fixed ! light might escape notice. "' ; v ; ; - f We have hcretcTfore been led to believe that ice purified itself. Now we are told that in good marketable" ice -taken from where .-" the water is- polluted with the sewage of cit.es, there exists an almost indefinite number '.'of living disease germs, and they appear to thrive under the condition of , being frozen for an in definite period,; ; j Some people doubt the poisonous 1 effect, of nutmeg, but several caes of nutmeg-poisoning have been noted in the BrMsh Medical Journal during the past summer. A whole nutmeg was taken in four of the cases, and five whole ones in the remaining case. "In still another case, the use of half a nutmeg in a hot drink wa nearly fatal. - ' : , A Dr. John Murray, of. Edinburgh, in a paper on the height and volume of the dry land and depth and volume of the ocean, makes the statement that "should the whole of the solid land be reduced to one level.under the ocean, ; then the sur face of the earth would be covered by ;an ocean with a uniform depth of about two mile?." From Dr. Murray's .investiga tions italso appears that if the dry land , of the globe were reduced to the sea level by being removed to and piled up . in the shallower waters of the ocean,then its extent would be about 807000,000 square miles and the rest of the surface of the earth would " bs covered by an ocean extending to 113,000,000 square miles. , ' ' The course which an earthquake runs -is usually very rapid. From the moment when the first shock was felt at Lisbon to the period when all was over, and nearly 30,000 people were killed, not more than four minutes elapsed. A few seconds, we learn from "Our Earth and Its Storv." are'usuallv a more ficquent time for the shocks to last. Yet, while Caracas in Venezuela wa3 almost de stroyed and 12.000 of its inhabitants killed by the earthquake' of 1812, within the limits of - half a minute, there are cases - in which- constantly recurring shocks last for weeks, monthsand even years, as if the laboring earth was still trying to relieve itself of some of its superabundant energy. " - ' -'-. The climate of the Sandwich Islands is peculiarly adapted, to the cultivation of rice of a peculiar quality and in great quantity, its evenness of temperature permitting the raising of two crops, a year without any particular strain upon the soil. The crops are raised in fields called patches, most of which were formerly used by the natives for raising taro, and which are of ten not more than an acre in extent. The fields are situated in the low lands, '.where 1 abundant irrigation can be obtained, and some times on slight elevations where artesian wells can be successfully establishecL, and are the highest-priced lands in the kingdom. The cultivation is almost en--tirely in the hands of the Chinese. Sunstroke by Electricity. v ; In the Journal desBela: M. Henri de Parville gives an account of - some cxtra ordinary medical observations on electric sunstroke collected at the famous French foundry, Creuzot. ' - Ordinary sunstroke we all know. But there is another kind of sunstroke in definitely more strange, yet scarcely known, and that is the electric sun stroke. -It is already known that elec tricity is employed in the form of an in tense focus (foyer) to smelt certain min erals, and especially to melt and solder metals. Thus a metal placed in the elec tric arc is fused as if by magic. Steel melts like butter in a few seconds. Now Creuzot, where the progress of science is followed step by step, has for some time possessed its electric furnace- Steel. is soldered directly by the high tempera ture produced by electricity. The elec tric arc in which the metal is placed is of marvellous radiance. " . Its luminosity focus upon a few square inches, exceeds 10,000 Carcei lamps and surpasses 100, 000 candles. - -' - - - It happens that spectators standing at a distance of, say, ten yards feel no heat; but presently they become conscious of acute pain. "Very odd," said a by stander, sense of t IT 1 A V "i ieci no, neat, out I have a being burnt which recalls the sunstroke I had last summer." Therefore he :xd off, but not before he had in fact experienced something like a second sunstroke. It almost always happns that, after an. hour or two, persons wit nessing the experiments feel a burning sensation, with more or less pain, in neck, face and fo;ehead, and i heir skin at the same time assumes a coppery red tint. It is customary to protect spectators' eyes with blackened sun glasses; yet their retina is affected to such an extent that blindness supervenes in broad daylight fcr several minutes, aod for - nearly an hour all objects arc seen in deep Fatfron color. Other symptoms are headache and sleep'essness. Afterward the skin of the face gradually peels off in broad Cakes, when the complexion is left of a fine brick color. This we take to be the de scription of severe cases. at. James Ga zette. X Wonderful onng Pianist's Baton. The smallest baton in existence, in all probability, n the ivory wand presented by Mr. Neuendorf and his orchestra to little Josef Hofman at the Metropolitan Opera House. This" baton, given to Mozart IL in honor of the first time he ever led an orchestra, which was last night, is of solid ivory, and is tipped and headed with gold, appropriately in scribed. A good many people hare be gun calling Hofman ' ".Mozart II." Some of them believe he is the reincarnation of that great composer. Teresa Carreno, the great pianist, bnrjtinto tears the first time she heard Hofman, and delared her belief that he wasMozart come back to earth to finish satisfactorily the life which went out before so distressfully. Kevc Yorh Sun. A Fine Man. Omaha Man "Let me see. Mr. Surepop is from your section, isn't he?" Colorado Man " Yes, lived there for years." ' " "He Eeems to be a remarkably fint man." 1: -.-'"--. - : ;- - "Hasn't an enemy in the world." " I should suppose not." "No ; they're all dead." CmaAa WorlcL C WORDS OF TflSDOII. " gln m"7 te clasped so close we cannot sec its face. - s - " - , Absence destroys trifling .icimacics. but it invigorates strong ones. Fame comes only when deserved, and then it is as inevitable as destiny .. Holiness is love welling up in the heart,', and pouring fourth crystal streams. ' -... - The innocence of the intention, abates nothing of the mischief of the example. . There is "nothings that so - refines the -face and mind as the presence, of great thoughts. - Idleness is the hot-bed of temptation,-1 the cradle pf. disease, the. waster of time the canker-worm of .felicity: ' -iri;- -. 2 A man who has hedth and brains and can't find a livelihood in the world, .. doesn't deserve to stay here. , The best part, of our knowledge is that which teaches us where knowledge leaves off and ignorance begins. . . .. One of the greatest causes of trouble in this world is the habit people have .of talking faster than they think. Energy will do anything that can be done in this, world, and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities - will -make a man without it. Goethe. It is idleness that creates impossibili ties; and when men care not to do a -thing, they shelter themselves under a persuasion that it cannot be done. ' ; .-Conversation opens our views," and gives onr faculties a more vigorous play ; it puts us upon turning our notions on every .side, and holds them up to a light that discovers latent flaws. Mdmotli. Some critics are like chimney sweeps 2 they put out the fire below, or frighten the swallows from their nests above; they scrape a long time in the chimney, cover themselves .with soot, and bring nothing away but a' bag of cinders, and then sing from the top of the house as if they had built it. - Gloucester Fisher-Folk. , . Thriftlessness is . uncommon amqng Gloucester . fishermen ; drunkennessj is Vi.rmlp5s banter and 'bellowing and boasting are the nearest approach te brawls. .There is'a tender heartedness among them that is remark able and almost pathetic. Many go away that never come back.- "Stand here, if you will, at these crowded wharves," writes a correspondent of the Pittsburg Dispatch, "and watch the arrival and departuie of fishing .fleets, and if-you have a heart you will feel something heavy in your throat." v , -. The old mothers and latnerv tne young brothers and sisters, the wives and wee .fishers' children, are all there, score on score. They are trying to look brave as the vessels sail out. There are pride and loyal valor in their faces alL They shout and shout to the departing ones, who send it all back in good measure, every manner of good cheer and sea lore for luck. As the schooners clear the harbor, out past Ten Pound Island,some will run away around the harbor edge, as if to keep company to the last. But those who stay, leaning far out over, tho dark bulkhead, look fixedly on and', on until the white sails disappear be hind; cruel Norman's Woe, or sink behind the horizon; and if you can see in their eyes, as they at last turn to the little home-spot for the weeksor months of dreary waiting, ' there is unutterable sadness behind the quivering lids. Then when the fleet returns, who can picture the gladness and the woe upon these cen tury hold wharve? and slips? ' They say that down at brave old Mar blehead every third woman is a widow. And ' so tho going and coming a-d going ana never coming have woven a warp and woof of mile and . tears here, which have mellowed and softened ' . 1 m m ' thousands 01 human hearts in a way you can see and feel. Your fisherman who comes and the wife, sweetheart or child that is here to greet him are o'er tender for it all. "2- -, ; . The old city is used to it, and xloes not mind it. It is the way its toilers of the sea have.- And so if you ever walk" her streets and see a' hulk of a fellow hold ing a happy woman as he would clutch a rife Tail or a capstan head in a heavy storm,, you. will - know he is . simply making fast'r with -the strong hawser of an Honest love to tlie very ancnorsge 01 h'sf life, utterly unconscioui of you or this tenderness, too, is all-compassing. There are many trusts and funds for the widow and fatherless, and these men give generously to them. On every week-day night the whole year through. ' when the seaport is stirred by the arrival of fleets with their " fares" or cargoes of fish, there is a " fisherman's ball," and often many. These are never for individual profit, but invariably for the benefit of women whose hearts are break- Secrecy iu Inventions. Comparatively tew inventions are now worked secretly, remarks the 8 tnitary Plumber, as the patent laws provide all the necessary protection. In olden tinics it was different, and valuable invention! had to be kept secret in o-der to derive any benefit from them, and in most cases the greatest precautions weie of no avail. The secret of the manufacture of citric acid wa stolen from an old chemist, who had a shop near Temple Bar, by a chimney sweep, who dropped' down the flue and took note of the process. The secret of the manufacture of tinware, which was discovered in Holland, and kept a secret for fifty years, wai stolen by James Sherman, a Cornish miner. - Cast steel was discovered by a watch maker named Huntsman, in 17G0, jn At tercliff, new: Sheffield, for the purpose of making improved watch springs. In 1770 a large factory was established at Attercliife, the process still being kept a close secret, but a benighted traveler once gained accesi to tha Vorks through an appeal to the feelings of the foreman by feigning exhaustion. lie cruelly re 'paid this kindness by divulging the se cret.' '. ' Probably th? only secrcct process which has been kept inviolate, and , for ages openly dcSed the world of science, is the iron trade, of Russia. The secret of Russian sheet iron is owned by the gov ernment, and is such an immense mo nopoly that it is currently supposed to defray, the entire expenses of the govern ment. The works constitute an entire city, isolated and fortified against the rest of the world. - When a work man eater3 the-.- service he bid3 a last farewell to his.f'araily and friends, nnrf ia tvm world. He is never '-Beard 'from after ward, and whether he lives or dies, all trace of him is forever lost. There have been several desperate attempts made to steal or betray the secre. but in every instance it has resulted m the, death ol the would-be iraitor. In one case a let ter attached to a kite; which was allowed to escape, was picked up by some tcas- ants. and, despite the protestations that" they were unable to read, they were al once put to death by the guards to whom they deli vered the letter, and it war afterward decreed that the guards them selves should pass the remainder o theii days within the works.
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