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VOL. I.
The Same Forever.
aurrlcane of earth's rude clime,
6an shake its heavenly steadfastness,
' Or lessen its high power to bless.
Hook and live I
The tidings from that tree of love -,'.
Are Still God's message from above, "
Telling, each hour, of cleansing blood'
And pointing to the upward road.
I hear and lire!
till does the Christ His face reveal,
His well of living joy unseal,
tili telling of fitis love and light, ,
His meekness, majesty and might.
I come and livel
Still waves life's tree its glorious wealth,
Laden with everlasting health;
r ' With fruit and leaf, Divinely fair,
And immortality still there. -
I eat and livel
fjtill from the rock the waters burst
To quench the weary spirit's thirst;
Who drinketh once will drink again, ,
Who drinketh shall not drink m vain.
; I drink and live!
. Bonar.
THE CHANGED HEART.
"But how can I help being neglected
and miserable, Ned? You scarcely look
at me when Miss Lovel is near, and she
is your preferred partner in all things
now. f You walk with her, you sing
with her, you drive wih her, you.dance
wwn aer, ana it makes me very
wretched 1"
'Now, Mollie, if you re going to be
jealous P
4Tm not jealous, Ned. If I thought
you didn't care mo3t for me; if I fancied
you cared at .all for any one else, I
don't think Td remonstrate with you at
all. I would just take off this," touch
ing the diamond on her hand, "and
hand it back to you.. I'm noi jealous,
but you are not very kind to me, Ned."
"My little pet, you do not see things
as I see them. One owes something to
Bociety, especially when one is at the
seaside. If you would only remember
that I love you too well to find fault
with anything you can do, and if you
would become a little more of a society
character yourself, I should be perfectly
happy. "Why, you scarcely take the
least attention from any one but me,
and so many are willing to offer atten
tions to you. Now, dear, kiss me once;
I must be off; I am to drive on the
beach with Miss Lovel; not jealous, my
pet?" i
, "Not jealous, Ned,
turned from him, but
no;" and she
without giving
the kiss he had asked for.
i"She is jealous, though I" the young
fellow thought, smiling as he watched
the pretty, straight figure going away
from the nook in which he had found
her, out to the stretch of sand, against
which the waves were rollinsr. recldiner.
leaving now a mass of seaweed on it,
now returning and bearing it away
a very coquette of an ocean, now kind
and now cold, and always fair in the
sunlight f . ' "
Ned Tremaine hurried over the
beach, whistling as he went, and he
presently caught up with his affianced, I
who, in her pretty dress of cream and j
black, with the wide sun hat ushed a
little back on her blondo head, was
looking very beautiful and animated
and smiling in the face of Lee Stone,
the most incorrigible male flirt at the
beach.
. -
'called out, as with a nod he pursued
. his way.
'"For a drive on the beach; will see
wnii lotpr ' and Ned had crone by. re-
suming his whistle.
Mr, Stone smiled a little and spoke a
few words to Mollie. She colored
lightly, followed the tall form of her
'lover a moment with her eyes, then
gave a gracious answer, and .half an
' hour later, when Ned and Miss) Lovel
met the pretty light carriage 'on the
beach in which La Stone took his
daily drive,, they received a pleasant
i rottv Mollie. who was his
QUU lllUi. " J '
companion, nu " - -
Bhe was thoroughly enjoying his society.
."She certainly lost no time in follow
ing my suggestions," Ned told himself
half in surprise, "and she had evident
ly found the society of Stone anything
put boring."
What a handsome couple they
make," Miss Lovel said, with a certain
gleam ia her steady, gray eye. Ned
colored suddenly, but didn't quite know
I why.
t "Perhaps you didn't know that Mis3
. Annes is ny promised wife," he said, a
a trifle coldly.
"Oh, but so many engagements are
broken in a summer at the seaside; one
- never minds that very much." the lan
guid belle said indifferently.
That night thero was a hop at the ho
tel, and Ned had made up his mind
while dressing to bo a little more at
tentive to Mollie but to his surprise he
didn' t find Moilie Anne3 shrinking un
der her mother's wing as had been her
custom. A number of old friends had
arrived while they were at dinner, and
they were about her, and while she
gave him (Ned) a smile from the dis
tance he found it quite difficult to get
near her. Then a. slight tap on his arm
! informed him that Miss Lovel was ask
ing himwhy he was so preoccupied,
Uid, as Mollie and Stoae went circling
by, joining the waltzers,he followed them
with Miss Lovel.
. "A rather pronounced flirtation,"
Lee laughed, later, when he and Mollie
stood on the hotel terrace, watching the
moonlight on the sea and strand, and
one solitary couple pacing slowly along
fceside the waters. Both knew who
they were, for a few minutes before
they had seen Ned Tremaine place that
pale pink scarf about the shoulders of
Miss Laura Lovel as he led her across
the terrace, too much engrossed in his
task, it would seem, to notice JMollie or
her companion.
"Oh, everybody flirts more or less at
a seaside hotel; one has nothing else to
do, you know," Mollie answered Lee
with a little ripple of laughter, and he
looked on the pretty face to which the
moonlight was so tender, his voice sink
ing almost to a whisper as he spoke to
her.
"It is a cowardly pastime for a man,"
he said softly, "and for a woman it is a
cruel one."
Again she laughed, while arranging
the bracelet on her arm ; a touch of
mockery was in the rippling voice.
"And you is it pleasant to know
that you are cruel and cowardly?'' she
questioned. "One is tempted to be
come personal when such remarks come
from one who is said to count his con
quests with cruel pride, and to whom
the world gives no higher aim than to
fascinate and remain careless. Am I
too plain? Forgive me."
"I forgive you freely as I would
forgive you all things, Miss Anuesjj : but
neither you nor the world fully under
stands me. I may seem a trifle r; but
were the woman I love to love me in
return no smile would be to so sweet as
hers, no presence half so dear." . 1
Mollie had been watching the couple
on the sands going slowly back and
forth, back and forth in the moonlight;
now she lifted her sweet young face
and looked at him with a sort of won
dering pity.
"Do we all wrong you, then?" she
asked, gently. "Have you failed in
your wooing? Can you not win where
you love?1'
His face flushed a little at her words,
and she, watching it, was struck by its
strength and beauty. How did it
Chance that she had never noticed it
before? j
"I am not left the chance to, woo or
win her," he said, slowly; "she is
another's promised wife."
"Ah," she said, pityingly; and she
gave him her hand in a sweet, womanly
sympathy, never for an instant connect
ing his words with herself. He lifted
the small hand reverently to his. lips,
and drawine it through hi3 arm turned
towards the beach". As he did so he
found himself facing Ned Tremaine and
Laura Lovel, who were coming in from
the moonlight, and he noticed that the
young man's face was quite white, while
there was a half scornful smile on the
lips of the fair belle of the seaside. BuF
the two couples passed each other in
silence, the one going down to the
stretch of the glittering sand, the other
going in to the dancers.
A week later, and Mollie had just
come in from a long hour, peaceful and
calm, spent with Lee in a quiet nook
among the rocks that overhung the
ocean. He had. been reading to her
there some of the sweetest poems given
to the world by genius. Her heart had
thrilled as he read, and new, strange
feelings had stirred it. When he closed
the book he had looked up and' found
her eyes filled with tears. And now in
her own room she was asking herself
how it was that what she had com
menced but for the Tjtirnose of annov-
ing Ned had in one brief week slain all
her old resentment against Miss Lovel
and made her thoughts turn constantly,
not to Ned Tremaine, who was her affi
anced husband, but to Lee Stone, who
was termed the greatest flirt at the
beach. What was changing in her life?
"When she now met Ned and Laura it
did not pain her as it used. Was it be
cause a handsomer face, a stronger and
a nobler face than Ned's was constantly
near, ready to turn to her with devo
tion, ready to light if she smiled?
A servant broko her ponderings by
bnn2inr her two messages one a
boquct of white flowers with a few
feather? spravs of fern among their
whiteness and one crimson rose gleam
inc red from their centre, and in it was
a note from Lee asking her to go for a
drive with him by moonlight; the other
was a few angry lines from Ned, asking
if she remembered that she was be
trothed to him while she allowpd every
ros3io at the hotel to chatter of her
flirtation with Lee Stone.
"1 have Deen patient, waiting an- op
portunity of speaking to you," he wrote,
but you will not give me one, so I
write to ask you if you wish our en
gagement broken: to all it would seem
so."
She trembled a little ai she read, and
her sweet face changed color; but she
went to her desk, drew from it every
letter he had ever sent her, . formed
them and his ring in a nackasre. and
wrote him the following note:
It was I who first taught patience while
my existence was forgotten for one who was
what you bade ma become "a society char
acter." Why should I fancy that you wish
SALISBURY,
an interview with me of Jatel Jfc cot P J
long since you could not spare a moment for 1
mefrom-MJss Lovel, Dj? I wish Otr engage
ment broken! perhaps We both -wish it
Ned; at least lei ca break it, Once X so
displease you. t send you four letters and
ring.
Then, although a choking sensation
was in her, throat, she penned a brief
note to Lee:
"I shall be pleased to go with you," i
that was all; and in the starlight the
moon rose late she went with him out
over the beach and far along the coun
try. Was it strange that he noticed she
no longer wore Ned's ring? Was it
strange that he told her of his love, and
that she listened silently, belie vingly,
with a strange flutter at her heart? Was
it strange that when they drove back,
lingering- beside the sobbing ocean,
another ring should deck her finger and
another bond should lie upon her life?
Well, two others walked upon the
strand, two whom the gossips called
lovers ; and yet when it was told that
Mollie Annes was to placa her happi
ness in the keeping of the ' 'flirt of the
beach," one man who heard it turned
as white as death and shrank from the
sight of- the beautiful woman beside
him, although. men called her fair, and
many said she had won him from his
faith; yet Mollie was too happy to re
gret, although she sometimes remem
bers. Toledo Blade.
Pet Problems to the Ancients.
Among the problems with which it
pleased the ancients to perplex them
selves was one which bears in an in
structive manner on the doctrine of
limits. It may be thus stated: The
swift footed Achilles started in pursuit
of a tortoise which was 10,000 yards
from him, Achilles running 100 times
faster than the tortoise. Now, when
Achilles had traversed the 10,000 yards,
the tortoise had traveled 100 yards;
when-Achilles had traveled these 100
yards the tortoise had traveled one yard ;
when Achilles had traversed this yard
the tortoise was still 100th part of ayard
in advance; when Achilles had
traversed , this 100th part of a
yard the tortoise was the 10,000th
part of a yard in advance, and soon
forever the tortone being at each
stage in advance of Achilles by one
hundredth part of the distance Achilles
had traversed in the preceding stage.
The tortoise then remains always in. ad
vance of Achille3 by some distance
however minute; and therefore Achilles
can never overtake the tortoise. But
we know that Achilles traveling faster
than the tortoise will overtake it.
Therefore, Achilles will and will not
overtake the tortoise; which is absurd.
The ancients were strangely foad of
problems of this sort. Thus there was
the famous problem about the a33 be
tween two exactly equal bundles of hay,
at exactly equal distance. "This ass,"
says the sophist, ' 'will attempt to eat
neither bundle; for, by whatever line of
reasoning it could . be shown that
he would turn first to one bundle,
by a line of reason precisely similar it
may be shown that he would turn first'
to the other. But he cannot turn first
to both. Therefore, he will turn to
neither." Another of these problems
was thus worded: "Epimenides, the
Cretan, says that the Cretans are liars.
Now Epimenides is him3elf a Cretan,
therefore Epimenides is a liar. There
fore the Cretans are not liars. There
fore Epimenides is not a liar. There
fore the Cretans are liar3. Therefore
Epimenides is a liar. Therefore," etc.,
ad infinitum. Others stated the prob-
em in a more simple form, thus: "When
a man says I lie, does he lie or does he
not lie? If he lies he speaks the truth.
if he speaks the truth he
lies."- --Corn-
mercial Advertiser.
Good and Bad News.
Bad news weakens the action of the
heart, oppresses the lungs, destroys the
appetite, stops the digestion, and par
tially suspends the functions of the sys
tem. An emotion of shame flushes the
face; fear blanches, joy illuminates it,
and an instant thrill electrifies a mil
lion of nerves. ' Surprise spurs the
pulse into a gallop. Delirium infuses
great energy. Volition commands, and
hundreds of muicles spring to excite.
Powerful emotions often kill the body
at a stroke. Chilo, Liagora3 and So
phocles died of joy at the Grecian
games. The news of defeat killed
Philip V. One of the popes died of tn
emotion of the ludicrom on seeing his
pet monkey robed in pontificals, occu
pying the chair of state. The door
keeper of Congress expired on hearirg
of the surrender of Cornwallis. Em-
iueuk p"." ' rV
t-iKIi c?aAL-Aa h.va ifrfln rflfl
in the midst of an impassioned oum oi
mpassioned
eloquence, or when the deep emotion
that produced it had subsided.
grave, the young Parisian, died when
he heard that the musical prize for
which he had competed was adjudged
to another.
In an Old Boston House.
Mr. Phlatterly (trying to make him
self solid) What a remarkably strong,
manly face your grandfather had, Miss
Phillips. ;
Miss Phillips Pardon me, Mr.
Phlatterly, but that' grandma,
Judge.
K G, THURSDAY,
MAIL ODDITIES.
Some Curiosities That Lodge in
i - the Postal Pouch.
Animate -Objects That Come
Under Postoffice Ban.
Many queer things pass through the
mails. Some of , them afford amuse
ment for the clerks, and others for a
time cause them to forget their religious
training. Every conceivable thing that
comes tinder the rules of mailable mat
ter, and many others besides, is daily
I received at every large postoffice in
; the land.' Many packages are stopped
because of violation of the law and
are connscatea, while occasionally an
unmailable article slips through under
the guise of something else. Speaking
of the matter to a Herald reporter,
a 'Baltimore postoffice official said:
The mailing of merchandise, samples
and other things has reached such ai
extent that I wouldn't be surprised at
any time to see a man come in and
ask if he can mail a ton of coal to San
Francisco. A great many things are
sent by would- be jokers. A short time
ago a fashionable up-town lady received
a neatly- done - up and perfumed
package from a point ia
Virginia. On opening it a garter
snake jumped - out and ran across the
floor. The lady screamed,, and when
some of the other members of the fam
ily went to her rescue she was standing
on a centre table and the snake was
coiled up on a sofa. A few days ago
when a mail pouch was opened a small
diamond-back terrapin crawled out.
The "ljttlo reptile was carried to Mr.
Gus Warfieid", who placed it on his
desk. It crawled about quite actively
for a while, and then pulled in its head
and feet and went to sleep. Mr. War
field placed it on the desk of one of the
clerks who had gone o-it for lunch.
When the clerk returned he noticed the
terrapin and thought it was a paper
weight, and went on working. In a
few minute3 the terrapin .awoke,
stretched out its head and crawled over
on the clerk's paper as if to see what he
was writing. The young man had never
seen a live terrapin before, and, still
thinking that it was a new-fangled pa
per weight, he picked it up to make a
i . . . .
cioser inspection. . Somehow his right
thumb got caught in the terrapin's
mouth, and a part of it stayed there.
He now knows what a terrapin is, but
is very careful about inspecting new de
signs in paper weights. On a recent
occasion a box full of lizards was, found
in one of the pouches. They were
thrown out.
Very frequently commission men re
ceive samples of all kinds of grain and
other farm products, with inquiries con
cerning their value. Often in the spring
samples of strawberries are sent this
way, but on their arrival they are gen
erally smashed into pulp. Handsome
bouquets frequently make their way
through the mails, but on arriving at
their destination, they are usually
crushed and worthless. A watermelon
came from Florida a few days ago ad
dressed to a man on Pratt street. The
carrier who took it down had the mis
fortune to drop it just as he entered the
owner's door, but it made no difference,
as it was green anyway. Small orders
of all kinds of goods are sent in every
direction all over the country. The
meanest tricks ever played ia this direc
tion was when the envelopes for hospital
day were collected. Many of them
were not stamped, and as the depart
ment had been requested not to stamp
worthless ones, they were opened and
found to contain peanut hulls, bugs,
sand, pieces of matches, potato parings,
scraps of paper, pieces of bacon rind,
horn buttons, tin, etc
One of the mo3t annoying things to
the officials was candy, and. recently a
line was drawn there. That is, a rule
was adopted thit candy should be put
up in such a manner that it could n ot
get loose among the other matter. For
meny, ncany every poucn contained a
broken box of candy and a lot of sticky
letters.
A Few Statistics.
Interesting facts concerning ancient
cities: Nineveh was 15 miles long, 8
wide and 40 miles around, with a wall
100 feet high, and thick enough for
three chariots abreast. Babylon was
50 miles within the walls, which were
87 feet thick and 350 high, with 100
brazen eates. The Temple of Diana,' at
Ephesus, was 420 feet to the support of
Via rnnf Tf waa 10f vpnr in l-,n?M?n
.i The largest of the pyramids is 461 feet
- . . .
JllgU,
and 653 oa the sides; its base
covers 11 acres. The stones are about
30 feet in lengthy and the layers are
3S0. It employed 33,000 men in build
ins. The labyrinth in Eypt contains
300 chambers and 253 halls. Thebes,
In Egypt, , presents ' ruins 27 . miles
around. Athens was 25 miles around,
and contained 250, 000 citizens and 400,-
000 slaves. The Temple of Delphos
was so rich in donations that it was
plundered of $500, 000, and Nero car
ried away from it 200 statues. The
walla of Rome were 13 miles around.
j Commercial Advertiser.
JULY 19, 1888.
Mighty Buins in Mexico.
Surveyors who are examining the
route proposed for a railroad from Dom
ing, in New Mexico, to Janos, in the
state of Chihujhua, and from there to
tome point on the Pacific coast, have
gone already as far as the old Spanish
presidio of Janos, which is in the midst
of the wild Sierra Madre of Mexico, one
of the least known districts of North
America, but evidently the seat of an
ancient civilization of which no authen
tic record has come down to the present
day. In a canyon . which was passed
through by the surveying party a suc
cession of dwellings .were encountered
stretching along for miles, and
being built up in terrace form,
one above the other, with solid
mas onry unlike the crud e and pigmy
like , cliff-dwellers of Arizona and
New Mexico. These dwellings had
more Ihe appearance of regular streets,
being, built above each other- oh the
shelving declivity of the canyon, and
being difficult of access, as if it had
been done for purposes of defense
against powerful enemies. The build
ings have their front walls constructed
of hewn stones carefully cemented,
while the rear portions are built into
the sides of he canyon. All of these
ruins are in a remarkable state of pre
servation, so much so that they deserve
more the name of abandoned dwellings
than of ruins.
, .After this canyon is passed and the
open country reached an isolated mount
ain of symmetrical proportions is
reached, on the summit of which the
ruins of a gigantic stone structure are
encountered, the appearance of . which
indicates that it was either a temple or
the palace of a king. A portion of
these ruins consist of a very hard con
crete. At the foot of this mountain are
substantially constructed terraced
structures, plainly showing the existence
in former times of an extensive
system of irrigation .and storage of
water. The country for many miles in
all directions contains some relics, such
as melates or stone tables, with appro
priate pestles for the grinding of maize,
stone hammers, various household uten
sils, and in some instances, bronze tools
of such extraordinary hardness aud tem
per that they are equal to modern steel
tools. Wherever the ground is turned
up these relics are found in unfailing
abundance. The neighboring Indians
know of these evidences of a former
civilization. The belief is that the kins
of all the Montezumas lived on the top
of that mountain, but at what time and
what his name wa3 they did not know.
Globe-Democrat.
From Left to Right
Dr. Delaunay, a French scientist, as
serts that centrifugal movements of the
hands that is, from left to right are
characteristic of intelligence and higher
development; centripetal, or the reverse,
are indicative of incomplete evolution.
He suggests this as a scientific t'es t in
employing servants and othera. To as
certain the qualities of an applicant
cook give her a place to clean or a
sauce to make, and watch how she
moves her hand in either act. If sh
moves it from left to right, or in the
direction of the hands of a watch, you
may trust her; if in the other way,
she is certain to be stupid and incapa
ble. The intelligence " of people may
also be gauged by asking them to make
a circle On paper with a pencil, and
noting in which direction the hand is
moved. The good students in a mate-
matical class draw circles from left to
right. ' 'Down East" a similar test of
"faculty" has existed from the earliest
day. No Yankee farmer would hire a
'hand," or "storekeeper" employ a
clerk who .should whittle to him instead
of from him.
Eighteen Tears Over the Century.
There is living six miles north wast
of Flandreau County, Dakota, an Indian
woman by name Hannah "Weston (C3t-
anwinna). At present she is living with
her sixty -five-year-old grandson. She
claims to have been about six years old
when the Rjvolutionary war broke, out,
which wodld make her about 118 years
of aso. She tells that her father was a
chief, and fought with the English at
that time. She wears a silver medal,
which is three inches in ( diameter, and
nearly one-fourth of an inch in thick- -ness;
on one side of the medal is a por
trait of King George IIL The medal
was presented to her father by the
King's agents at that time, and she
prizes it very highly; money cannot buy
it. She is totally blind, and has been
so for a number of years, U considerably
emaciated, and the wrinkles on her
face are finger deep. Otherwise she en
joys good health, and is a hearty eater.
The Champion Butterfly Story.
One of the young lady clerks of Ra
cine, Wis., has a rare curiosity in the
shape of a live butterfly, and she he
came possessed of it in a singular man
ner. She was walking upon the lake
shore drive last Sunday. Returning
home the butterfly was found upon her
hat. Close inspection of the fly re
vealed upon its wings in various colors
the figures 1889. It is indeed a singu
lar freak, of nature, and probably the
only curiosity of the kind in existence.
J LNorth western.
, SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS. j Batyuanka.
- j From yonder gilded' mintfret
. . a . . . ... Beside the steel bhie Neva set, -
- According to the naturals s wasp5 . x f amtly catch from to time,
member the locality of their nests jasf f sweet aerial midnIgnt chimes-ninety-six
hours. "God save the Tsari" -
in a gallon ox sea water there art
1890 grains of salt, besides some mag- j
nesia, iodine, and bromine. 1
Rlrv imnoir. a , m,A '
poisons. Persons in a state of "melan
cholia" are less susceptible to the action ;
f poisons than others.
Spiders rarely cause any trouble with
bees. Strong colonies are fully able to
repel them should they eater the hlyf.
Alljwebs about the entrance should be
brushed away, or bees will be caught
and devoured. v
The heads of the Cambridge students
have been measured, showing that the
average brain capacity of a first-class
man is 244.56 cubic inches. The capa
city of the ordinary pass man's -head
measures 237.33 cubic inches. ' "
Electric rifle3 are the latest. Instead
of the ordinary percussion firing de
vice, a dry chloride of silver battery and
a primary coil will, so it was lately
stated before the American Institute,
fire the rifle 35,000 times without re
charging. Alarm clocks are now made with a
small electric battery, which obviates
the necessity of winding up, the sbrlng
alarm the night before it is used. The
electrical clock can be set to any given
five minutes of each hour, and the bell
Will ring at that time, and ' will ring
until the switch is turned to cut off the
electric current.
One of the human footprints found io
volcanic rock in Nicaragua several yeart
ago is described by Dr. D. G. Brinton
as being 9 1-2 inches long, three inches
wide at the heel and 4 1-2 at the toe.
The apparent length of the foot itself ia
eight incho3. Dr. Brinton considers the
footprints genuine, but is uncertain
whether they are so ancient as has been
supposed.
Dr. Paulinis mentions an epidemic of
diphtheria, in 1884, which followed tht
arrival of a flock of turkey3 in Skiatos,
one of the Grecian isles, where no cast
of the disease had previously been
known for thirty years. Some of the
turkeys were sick, and it is -believed
that the diphtheretic germs were con
veyed from them through the air to thi
first human victim.
Plants are injured by parasitic fungi
in various ways. They are deprived oi
nourishment, growth is abnormally ac
celerated or retarded, causing distor
tion; not only are green parts affected,
but roots, stems, buds, flowers anc
fruit; leaves and fruit fall prematurely)
decay is produced in ripe fruits before
and after removal from the plant, and
valuable plants receive injury from
those of less value by ordinary infec
tion.
A new artificial silk is said to haw
been prepared at Lyons, France, by M,
de Chardonnet. The process consist!
in adding to an etherized solution of
nitrated cellulose (the base of gun-cotton)
a solution of perchloride of iron,
and to this mixture a little of a solution
of tannic acid in alcohol, when the
whole is poured in a fine jet into water
acidulated with nitric acid. The fluid
thread becomes consistent, ' and - is
drawn off, dried and wound. The sub
stance is supple, transparent, silky in
appearance,- and very strong. The
color is gray or black, but may be
changed to suit.
A petroleum engine now being ex
hibited in England is attracting much
attention. Ia a tank in the bed of the
engine is placed the petroleum, which
is forced through a pipe into a compart
ment where ihe oil is converted into a
fine 8 pray by means of a blast of air.
The spray passes into a. chamber, and,
coming in contact with an electricspark
obtained from a small battery in the
rear, motive power is at once supplied.
In construction it is said to b3 compara
tively simple, and the engine works
with admirable regularity. The piston
requires no oiling, the petroleum vapor
supplying the necessary lubrication.
A Queer Superstition. .
Offacar -Mercer of Alleghany, Penn.,
noticed a woman go into the middle of
Mam street and dig a hole with a
hatchet. She placed an object in the
hole and carefully covered it up. The
officer unearthed the object and found
a small hand mirror, with writing on it
which he could not decipher. Taking it
to the woman's house she explained that
the Vriting on the glass was "Father,
Son and Holy Gho3t," and that it was
a charm to drive away an ailment in her
head. It was a Swiss custom and she
wanted to keep it buried for three day.
She was allowed to rein ter the glass.--Pittsburg
Commercial-Gazette.
Pineapples.
The pineapple season has begun in
New York. Merchants there are re
ceiving 3S0O barrels a week, and when'
the season is at ita height, the quantity
will reach 10,000 barrels a week. The
barrels contain from twenty-five to
thirty extra large "pine," or forty to
sixty small ones. The season lasts
until August, and about 5, 000, 000
pineapples are imported each year.
NO. 42.
Above the ravelings andthemoats
Of the grim citadel it floats f
And men in dungeons far beneath
listen, ana pray, ana
gnash
their teeth-"
The soft reiterations sweep
Across the horror of their sleep,
As if some demon in his glee
Were mocking at his miaary
' , 4JGod save the Tsarl"
In his red palace over there, .
Wakeful, he needs most hear the
prayer.
How can It down the broken cries
Wrung from his children's agonies!
, "God save the TsarP-
Father they called him from of old
Batyushka I . . . . How his heart is coldl
"Wait till a million scourged men
Rise in their awful might, and then
"God save the Tsarl" , v
-IT. Bailey AUrich in Harper.
HUMOROUS.
General training Railroading.
Suited to a tea The cup and "saucer.
The book agent should wear a canvas .
suit.
Is it all day with a chess-player when
both knighti are gone?
A fountain head may very naturally
have water on the brain.
The girl who uses violet ink, wants
her correspondence to be inviolet.
A counter-irritant A woman who
prices everything and buys nothing.
"I passed some queer' and here I am
in prison all on accounterfeit, " he sighed. .
If you're to scribble what you hear, "..
Then keep your pen behind your ear;
. If you write what you know of men.
Then keep your ear behind your pen.
"I will now take de sense ob de
meetiny said the "free lecturer but
his audience had wild visions of a penny
collection and bolted for the door.
Other countries may spend more
money for guns than the United States,
but they fall behind the1 American
nation in the high prices paid for bat- .
teries of the base ball sort. ;
Judge The witness swears you stoia
his coat, and have it on. I must, there
fore, -find you guilty. Tramp Oh, well,
your honor, if you're going to judge a
man by the clothes he wears l s'pose ru
have to give in. .
A Useful Pioce of Furniture. Lady
(looking at a city flat) : And this is the
ice box? Agent: Yes, ma'am. Lady
(putting her hand in it): It seems very
warm. Agent: That's because it is
Bft. Afrninnl t.Vio rttnern in tViA ft.diAlninr
o- - e o
flat. You will find it very useful,
ma'am, for drying kindling wood, and
that sort of thing. " '
"ximnK," saiu mo minister, wno
was visiting a parishioner, "that it is
easier to coax children than to drive
them. Gentle words are more effective
than harsh ones." "I think so Jtoo,"
said the lady, tenderly. Then she
raised her window and suddenly
shouted to her boy: "Johnnie, if you
don't come in out of that mud puddle
I'll break your back." '"
A Queer Mode of Catehin? Fish.
A lazy but unlawful method : of ob
taining ftth from the ponds was once
mil fa iAmmAn ' 1 1 K 1 a waa ilnnAfvl..
drugging the fish by means of some nar
cotic plants. The favorite growth fox
this purpose was the devil's shoe-string
a small plant with extremely long
tough, and slender roots. This queer
nlant. with its uncannv name, was much
1 used bv theIadians as a medicine, and
is said to be the basis for several blood
' purifiers with long and alliterative
names. A plentiful supply of the plant
being obtained the individual finds a
log which projects -well out into the
water, and getting astride of it dips it
in and alternately beats . it with a stick
or paddle. After every good beating it
is shaken about in the water and the
ennnlv .arlAnjiill1 anil hl Artntinndd
' until he jpond is thoroughly impreg
nated with the singular properties ol
the weed. The fish soon commence
rising to the surface and gasping as if
for breath. A few faint struggles fol
low and then thp fish lie helpless and
inert upon the surface only to be gathered
in and serve as a meal. It is said that
the meat is not at all affected by the
treatment the fish have undergone, but
it ia with considerable saueamhhnpn-
1
and trepidation that
a r person for the
first time dines upon poisoned or nar
cotized fi3h. (Atlanta Constitution.
The Tuft of White Hair.
The Duke of Simonetta," an Italian
nobleman, who i? making a name as a
musical composer, h the descendant oi
a long line of dukes who have astraaga
peculiarity. They have jet-black hairf
and just above the forehead a white
tuft. This they had for a long series "of
years, until the father of the present
duke wa3 bora some 60 years ago. He
had a thick, curly head of brown hair,
without a particle of white, and with
him it was supposed there was an end
of the special mark. But his son it a
tall, handsome man, with a tead oj
black hair, and he has exactly the fame
white tuft. Times-Democrat. . .