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A PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY . i STEWART, Editor and Proprietor. SALISBURY, N. C. PRICE OF SUBSCKIITIOM. " One Yenr... ...... ,f.60 fix Months........ 1-M tlirt'e Months.. ...... -50 tfjjr Advertising Rates by Contract, fteaswntb'.e. at.-rcd ia the PoU-Offloa at Sdifibtirj a rotid cla8 matter. General Ncgrier, ot the French army, Vhi issued a severe order against any iKearing or blasphemy in connection with military commands iu his corps. " l J.:rymanagement ha? attracted much retention lately in Denmark, where State butter .shows are now being organized or. :j.u extensive scale. The American Consul at Copenhagen reports that a-' continuous butter show is to be held at the expense the State during several months it 'a'.h year. Fresh samples of butter art to be received every fourteen days. A chemist has lately performed a fea f no common order. The explosion anc jre at Antwerp, Belgium, reduced to i c harred mass a bundle of 1000 flork Austrian obligations. Without presenta tion., in some identifiable form there coulc be no payment. The imperiled obliga tions were given to a chemist and hi succeeded in separating the whole of I hern and rinding out the numbers, anc upon his report the money has been pai 1.. ii.x.- .inin.il iiii.ii iicAaiiuna, 1 I' Ilt Liverpool, a consignment oi early twenty tons of cats, numbering fOtrS: 380,000, taken out o'f ancient sub i erranean cat.-.' cemetery discovered about 1 00 mile.- from Cairo by an Egyptian fel ls!., v.-hn :u:' idently fell into this cats' .. i t ii .-i . . lillrd with cat.-,, every one. of which had b'.'en separately embalmed and dressert in find uU laid out in rows. I The London'- 7'iiica asserts that there are in the library of the old university nl. Upsala, Sweden, certain ancient maps of Africa. 200 rears or more of ae, upon which are shovn many of the geo graphic u! features which are popularly supposed to h;ive been the discoveries ol modern lrave!e:s. The lakes now called the Victoria and Albert Nyanza are j-hown on tlief obi mans, as wpII as other 1 ' features' which are claimed as the work of the last 'half of the nineteenth century. ! According to a doctor, expert in treat ment of lunatics,- "the physical means of recuperating the worn and wasted sys tems ..of tint iimrte are heat, milk and is . greatest of these is rest." Trial of the same simple system is com--mer4de-d persons physically below the p.ir; . .Vad " the course of a successful itpauish merchant is quoted in sugges--t;ve. confirmation. He "used to laugh at overworked people who went to the mountain'.-; or to watering-places: when hi iiad a little leisure he stayed in bed about three days."' ' At a recent dinner in London Lord "Randolph Churchill, the English politi cian, made the astounding confession Uut lie had never crossed-London bridge, ha.d never visited the tower and did not even know where FurnivaJTs inn was. A canvass of the other Englishmen pres ent showed that not one had ever been -? inside the tower of London, the first point of interest the American visits there. Yet, according to the Chicago Actor, ;-tlie average Englishman has the utmost contempt for the American whe ba not seen Niagara Falls. - ,Not many things in the earth, the water and the air are out of tue reach ot photography. A flash ofightningTia? frequently been photographed. Not long sgo-a French scientist with a camera and An electric battery got a good picture of the bottom, of the Mediterranean Sea. And ftomedinie since a photographer in Penn hvVvania obtained a negative of thebot toax of an oil well in which had been ex j?oded a glycerine torpedo The instru ment was lowered 1700 feet and illumi n:ted with an electric fiaih light, the re sult being a distiucf picture of a curious cavity iu the earth fourteen feet long and xven feet deep. In view of the valuable jn.Mcntinc uses ol pnotograpay, tue t-tgei Iterate thinks we may almost over look ihefat that it has produced 'the laiatcur photographer. The New York Atc declares tliat the idiot who puts bogus advertisements ia the newspapers for the "purpose of causing trouble and annoyance to inno cent persons deserve severe punishment. One ot he:n put 'an advcrtiiciuent in a New .York miner t'.ie other iinv to th t-ffeet that a certain broker desired two women typewriter. Dozens of rrU took' k . - the time and trouble and sncnt car fare to answe-r this a-iverlirenieni, only to find t'i-'.t they were the Victims of some con temptible wretch who thought that he was doing something funny. V About the nmr. thv.e a bogus advert isencat . was iu--ierlcd in aWasliingtoa iiapei'announcing t he raarriacre of a reputable vounr ireutle- whom, he was not even engaged, thus musing them great annoyance and em barrassment. If there is no law that will reach these practical jokers, one should be passed." The new State of Washington beeD in a great state of mind over a bill to establish and regulate the practice of medicine with a medical bqard of nine regular physicians. From statistics just published, Minne 5ota stands first iu the country as in wheat--' growing. State, having pro Juded last year 15,000,000 bushels. .California coines next with 43,000,000 bushel kotas produced 42,000,00 The D;i busheis, 100.000 ranking third. Minnesota ha 5 O acres in wheat; California the Dakotas. 4,400,000. 3,i00,0M; New York receives more than one fro:r. :hird of the merchandise exported Bahia, Brazil, but in return only a million and a half out it furnishes of a total importation of thirteen and a half mill ions. England, France and Germans supply the rest. From this country flour kerosene, lard, and blue drillings arf shipped; from Europe everything else is shipped, even to Christmas trees. An English military captaijn, receritbj asked to resign on account of his age and to make room for a younger man, re plied to the authorities that it they would send on a dozen of their strongest young men he would walk them for fort miles, and then lead them to ;hc top ol the highest and steepest hill in the neigh borhood. The authorities declined the challenge, and did not press for the re signation. ' ' I . Sir Rutherford Alcock, Chairman o the British North Borne d Company, re ports that m that country land) "is being taken up rapidly by tobacco piautations. Six hundred thousand acres are .laid clowr with tooacco, and the crop now beina cut will yield 500 tons, i "A ree Errant of from 1000 to 1500 acres of land is offered to any one who vail briiisj it into cultivation and keen it in that state for coffee, sugar, sago, hemp, pepper.7' ndiiro. or The latest reported discovery in con nection with the cotton seed comes frorr. Germany, where, it is said, a process has been discovered for extracting svigar from cotton-seed meal. The sutrar is of a very sold in superior grade, but cannot be competition with "the ordinary; article It is said to be inclined to ferment oi sour, anu nence oetter tor usq - T 1 1 i i in pre- serving fruits. It is eaid times sweeter than cane tobe fifteen sugar, and twenty times more so than sugar made from beets. The two engineers who have made es timates on the work and coin needed to complete the Panama canal, deal in targe figures. They differ radically in their plans, but they agree that at least $100,000,000 in hard cash will be needed to finish the work that De Lessups has begun. There is a large amount of money in England and ou the cont Juent seeking investment, but the Saa eiseo isw'oriicce considers wit clou whether this sum can be otftained The course of true love seems turbulently in Biddeford, Me. cal papers report an engagement by a stern parent who bribed his broker daugh-- ter to give up a young man of v did not approve, and also the cas youth who. called at the police there the other night and wanted ficer1; to release his sweetheart,, who had been locked in a room by her bjrother, the fraternal guardian declaring tjhat she (twenty-two years of age) was not old enough to marry. The preparatory work on the Nicaragua Canal is making progress. t The fiorce at i work numbers some 50(1 persoijs, and machinery, lumber, materials and supplies of all kinds are constantly arriving. In the eastern division there are twenty eight camps along the first thirty-one miles of the projected route of the canal, all occupied by engineers, artisans and laborers. In addition to these there are t . eight working parties sent out from the camps along the route who are employed i on the proposed line of railroad, the line of telegraph, telephone, etc. The National Zeitung of Berlin in re ferring to the. proposed World's Fair in the United States, eulogizes the uni versality of American genius, which, it asserts, has wrought the most prodigious achievements in every field of human ef fort: "The young. Republic's unexam pled prosperity has enabled it to "present to the world the rare spectacle of 'k rapid liquidation of the greatest State debt on record. ; While European treasuries are chronically empty, American reserves and American power may, within the next decade, seriously threaten Europe's peace, thouugh America's evident mission is- one of civilization' The American people know little1, about I China and her people. The population of China is" almost beyond est mate There are eighteen States and four fTerri- , i tories in" the .country, not more than one sixth of which have ever been sq en' by Cauatsians. The whole of" Canton alone has seventv-two counties, co: itaminr a population of 150,000,000 of people, not - reckoning the women and children under sixteen years--of age. From Canton comes the Chinese emigrant to this, country. There are onjy five men from the projvince of F06 Chow in the United States. There are estimated to be 200,000 Chinamen in - . 1 .. . this country, all from the poorer classes of Canton, excepting a comparatively small number of thebetter clas3 of Chinese merchants who have come over here and invested small capital to see it rrowi into fortunes. - .. - - - : -MHBK '-w m When the loved roice is heard no mars, Whose failing tones were doubly dear, There falls upon the listening ear, A silence never felt before. It is not that the senses strain To catch a sound they may not hear; It is the grieving spirit's ear That longs and listens still in vain. And lo T this silence, sudden grown, Threads every cry of joy or fear All wonted sounds that greet the ear Break with a wailing undertone. -Joseph B. Gilder, in Harpers Ma go. A Terrible Ten Minutes. It happened ore afternoon last year, during the month of November, "that I received a telegram calling for my presence in London, early- the next morning,', on an important business matter. To such a summons there was but one answer possible: so with just ""- 't:ne.:i uioiigui tor a can! fiarty l snotiifi nave to fo!-em T v.r-r.i "1! lvtms re- ply: 'Mi Devon, An uerron Ilotel. Lonuon. Shall leave Bnrtown bv the twelve ;o-night. a:id will call on you to rn o n-o w at 8 : 1 5 . Knightly."' -'Having dispatched my .message, Irinished on the Jay's work with all siee:l. and" then re- turn: 1 to niv lod'.r:n . to m-it-c -rt.n o lion-; 3 or mv jourue These, as the neeus not oe to -J. fn vested priucipaiiy of cramming a soft cap and a spirit flask, together "with a few otner neeiissar.e.-s. into a carpet ba; after '- wnicn tallowed the discussion of a sub stantial meal and the delivery of an ex hortation to my landlady to feed my fox terrier. Grip, aJhis usual hours.'' The spent paper, remainder of the evening was r in skimming over the morninr? s wherein I found little to interest me. floor. Avhosi In disgust I flung the thing ou the It alighted at a graceful angle, on apex appeared the head in a-' r-nn. spicuous as " leaded type could make it r "Shocking wife murder in Burtown arrest of the murderer.-". With a mental, apology to the publishers of the Chroni cle for the injustice I had done them as caterers to the public craving for horrors, I picked up the paper and proceeded to digest the "harrowing details." The gist of the news was as follows: An aban doned ruffian, Chippy Watson byname, after the fashion of his ciass, had beaten in his wife's skull with a mallet, in con sequence of some demestic disagreement. Having committed the deed, he coollv put on his coat and hat, and Avas pro" ceeding to depart, when the neighbors and police, attracted by the screams of the unfortunate victim, rushed in and secured him. This was all, or nearly all the paragraph contained, except for the usual information that the "prisoner will be brought up before the magistrates this morniug, and charged with causing tne willful murder of his wife. It was 1:0 w past 11 time for me to make my. .way down to the station ; rather more than time, in fact, since that imposing structure was distant from mv lodgings by fully two miles. Fortunately my bag was light, and I shared in its pleasing characteristic of not being burdened by superfl uous weight. None , the less, on reaching my destination, there was only one minute left me where in to take my ticket and secure a seat. The latter operation, thanks to the slow ness of the booking clerk in handing me my change, had to be accomplished by running the gauntlet of guards and porters as the train began to move! The only other tenant of the coiilp arfc meht in which I was ensconced -vas a young1 lady, -and one, moreover, of no small beauty".. Now, I am a shy man as far as the fair sex is concerned. Among1 men, I have self-possessiou enough and to spare; but, in the presence of ladies, that self-possession vanishes with most uncalled lor rapidity, in tne presence of ladies, yes, but here there-was but one, who was boujgd to keep me pany for' a whole hour, until the should make its first stop. So it corn- It rain hap pened that as I contemplated my yis-a-vis from behind the evening paper, which I had found time to buy on my flight to the station -a measure of . my courage returned, and. in the inspiring words of Mr. Gilbert, said I, to myself: "I'll take heart and make a start ; faint heart never won f air lady.' - "I trust you were hot alarmed by my unceremonious entry I remarked", with some inward misgivings, but much out ward assurance. For answer, a quiet stare and a slight contraction of the pretty mouth of my companion -indicating her opinion that, as a stranger and unintroduced I had no right to speak tp her. This, to an ordinary male animal, was the moment for strategic attack upon the fair, one's scruples; for me it was the t exact opposite the moment for flight had flight been possible. I buried my face behind my newspaper and in a few moments heard, to my relief, a corre sponding rustle from the opposite side of the carriage as my pretty prude followed suit. The sense of defeat and disgrace fairly overwhelmed me for a while ; and my eves wandered over a paper I neiu in mv nana, seems' out un 1,1 1 T hand derstanding not what they saw. At length they lighted upon a familiar name ''Chippy Watson," and their owner recovered his sense and almost forgot his grief as he read the following lines: 4 'The Burtown murder Escape of the Prisoner.". After detailins the incidents of the hearing before the magistrates and the remand of the prisoner, pending the inquesf, the paragraph went on as fel lows: "On leaving 1 the court, Watson was conducted between four officers to the van. Just as he was stepping in, and when the policemen were endeavor ing to keep back the crowd that pressed round, the prisoner suddenly snapped his handcuffs, in some inexplicable manner, broke through the bystanders and fled down the street. lie was seen to dodge down a back alley, known as Shut Lane, and followed by the crowd of several hundreds. At the end of Shut Lane he disappeared round a corner, and, strange to say, has not been seen again." There can be no doubt that,, he will be recaptured ; but his present escape and disappearance arc most mysterious. A reward of one- hun dred pounds has been offered for his re apprehension. Watson is about five feet nine inches in height, strongly built, and and when he escaped was dressed in a gray fustian suit, with a red scarf and; soft hat. He may further be distin guished by a scar across his chin, and by having an arrow tattooed on the back of his left hand." : This was about the extent of the in formation contained in the paragraph, and my readers will agree with me that the news was sufficiently exciting to oc cupy my thoughts to the complete ex- elusion of the unnleasant had just passed through. As I lay back in my seat to muse upon what I had read, my thoughts began after a while to wander and my head to nod, according to their wont at midnight,and before long I fell asleep. How long I slept I cannot tell probably for a few minutes only but in those few minutes I underwent a most discomforting dream. I dreamt that Chippy Watson stood over me, mallet in hand, and that my travel ing companion was holding his arm to avert the threatened blow. ' She struggled in vain, and the mallet fell, vet with a , strangely light touch upon' mv arm. j ft ltu a start I awoke, and then saw the i girl of my dream bending toward me j with a scrap of paper in her hand. But her face, how terriblv was it chano-Pfl (Instead of the dainty pink flush I had j last seen, there was a ghastly Avhiteness iia her cheeks, and her eyes seemed wanting irom her head with terror. Holding up one finger as if to command silence, she passed me the paper, on , wmcu were written the following words: ; -jome one is underneath the seat and j has just touched me.'' AVas it the dream which filled me with : the thought that this was no idle alarm? I cannot tell; but this much I know, that j in an instant there flashed across my mind with overwhelming force the j. thought of this escaped wife-murderer.' i Returning my companion's -silence-i signal with a gesture of acquiescence. T ! wrote uPoa the mr: "It is probably i oal-v a tloo- Shall I look under the seat?" Jler answer was short. :in I tniha ;f iuv. ijyj 1 la t . ! "-NO flO hot lOO v". t L.nrl " - . lli ll V . Here, then, was a sufficient dilemma; but by comparison with what had passed before between ray fellow-passenger and myself, it was a dil emma that I felt al most disposed to welcome. The male sex I in my person was about to resume its rightful position of protector to its weaker, if would-be independent companion! Sweet Yas my revenge; and yet the re venge scarcely promised to "be wholly pleasurable. My first action was to remove any sus picion that there might be in the mind of the tnysterious third occupant of our car riage, through the presumably accidental action of having touched the lady's dress. Giving vent to an audible yawn, although I had just awakened from sleep, I re marked, in a tone of cool impertinence: 1 'You really must excuse me for address ing you again, madam; but will you per mit me to smoke to enliven this 'tedious journey ?" As I spoke I accompanied my words with a meaning glance, and was favored with the reply: 1 'Certainly, if you wish it; I cannot prevent you." Thereupon, I produced my pipe and tobacco pouch and proceeded slowly to fill the former, as I thought out the plan of action. On reference to my watch I saw that the train would stop in another ten minutes. Clearlv, the oniv thin"- to j do was to wait till we reached Blackeley j and there get assistance to find out who our unknown traveling companion might be. j The longer I pondered over the prob lem the more curious for its solution did I become, and then, heedless of the warning I had received, I struck. a match and- intentionally dropped it. Stooping down with a muttered male diction to pick it up, I cast- a searching glance underneath the opposite seat, and then my blood ran cold as the faint gleam of the taper revealed the back of the inn's hand with the mark of the tattooed arrow upon it. Chippy Watson, then, wsour 'companion a doomed and desperaVjnan ! f By a mighty effort I controled my voice sufficient to say -""Excuse me reaching across you, madam, but that was my last match, and I could not afford tql let it cr0 out." The girl, into whose white cheeks the color showed no trace of returning, mur mured some unintelligible reply, and for a few moments we sat in silence. Again I looked at my watch. Thank heaven! in five minutes we should be in Blackeley and the awful ride would be at an end. Scarcely had the thought formulated it self when the girl opposite me sprang up, trembling like a leaf,, and shrieked ere I could stop her: "Oh. that hand has tquehed my foot again. The moment the words left her lips I heard , a sudden movement under the seat, and quicker than thought a figure appeared upon the floor. In that mo ment I flung myself upon the ruffian and clutched his throat with the energy of despair, knowing that should he once gain his feet it was all over with me, the lighter and weaker man. Can I ever for get the horror of that five minutes' ride? The whole compartment seemed tolie falling upon me. Teeth, nails, feet, all were attacking me at once ; but through all I kept my grip upon the murderer's throat, and though I streamed with blood and almost lost, consciousness still held on, while the girl's screams rang dimly through my ears. Suddenly the train stopped, the struggle ceased and I fainted across the body of my captive. When I recovered consciousness at length I found myself lying upon a table in the Blackeley station waiting-room, with a sympathetic crowd around me, and, best of all, I saw a face bending tenderly over me the face of the girl of my dream and my discomfiture. After making two or three efforts I managed to ask: "Where is Watson?'' "Very nigh dead," replied a ruddy faced farmer who stood beside me. "You three-quarters strangled the life out of his ugly body; he was black in the face when they lifted you off him." "Do you know that he is an escaped wife-murderer?" I inquired feebly. ,':Yes, we know," responded my honest friend. "The Burtown police telegraphed after the train to have it searched, be cause a man answering his description had been seen in the station before it left. The police have got him safe, my lad, this timej and no mistake. Why, I saw him handcuffed and his arms pinioned be hind him, and he, a-laying half dead the while, after the throttling as you gave him." - Do my readers wanj: to hear the rest of my story, now that the catastrophe is told? I will informtthem that Watson, on breaking loose from the police, after turning the corner of Shut Lane where, it will be remembered, he disap peared contrived . bj an almost Jncred ible effort to scsue gain the shelter of a' ment. Along this reached the micN had lurked all ing he crept mti trived to sc the midnigl mentioned. 'mere 14 connection it is this: early thi Si,- nigiinii' ' serein . 1 r 1 1 grpom will be Knightly, the name of the bride does not matter. She was nevei formally introduced to her future ' lord and master, and therefore it is unneces sary to tell the name she will soon cease to bear to a passing acquaintance like the reader. Ctamlers's Journal. The Lobster and the Lobster Pot. A lobster pot is a simple enough tran It looks like an immense jird cao-e, made- 01 woouen siats. lioth ends are covered with loose, strong netting, made from tarred rope. There is a hole in the mid dle of each net. The trap is sunk to the bottom by being weighted with stones, and lies on the bottom in a horizontal, position. Its location is indicated by a buoy attached to it by ropes. A cod's, head, or other temping bait, is placed in side the pot, made stationary by being fastened, on hooks. This soon attracts the lobster, and he reconnoitres about the pot to see how he may get at the ag gravating morsel. In his skirmishing he discovers the opening in the netting at the end of the trap, and he turns "and backs himself through it. According to all observant lobster fishermen, the lob ster no sooner gets inside than he be comes aware that he is in trouble. He loses all desire to sample the bait that tempted him to get in the scrape which he somehow or other has suddenly re alized that he is in. He moves about in the trap in an agitated manner looking for a way to get out, just as eagerly as he a few minutes before sought for an open ing to get m. So agitated is he that he .forgets that his best pedestrian work is accomplished backward, and he does not ;try to back out of the hole as he came in, but exerts himself to his utmost to get out head first, a feat his enormous claws makes impossible. But as lobstermen say, llet this crazed lobster be released from the pot, he will no sooner be out man me oaic msiue tempts nun again, and he once more seeks for a way to get in and seize it, finds the way as before, backs in, is immediately panic stricken again, and renews his frantic "endeavors to escape again. No matter how many times the lobster might be let out, he would just as often set to work to become a prisoner again.. That lobsters are seized with panic as soon as they find themselves in a trap is evident from the fact that al though as many as twenty may be found m a pot when it is taken up, the bait will seldom, if ever, show any sign of having been touched by any of them. One of these pots would be no obstacle to the lobster's freedom if it only knewts power, for half a dozen lobsters could smash a pot to pieces in a twinkling, or one sweep of a single lobster's claws would tear the tarred rope netting from the trap as if it had been gauze. Nem York Sun . Two Hundred Female Slaves Shot. The Paris Retde Fmncahe has a lettei from Zanzibar which says that over s year ago a caravan of 300 Arabs left the east coast to go into the interior to trade. They have now returned, and one of the chiefs relates their adventures. Arriving at Kavif ondo, on the northeast shores of Victoria 2ffvanza, the Arabs saw that the natives haoa good deal of ivory and that they hadtijP guns. They attacked the tribe, andljefore the shooting had gone on long thenative's were willing to do anything to Wake peace. After a lo palaver with the chiefs the Arabs agrqgA to leave the country upon the paymeW to them of 200 tusk3 of ivory and two unureu young women. The natives w rlad to get ride o,f the these hard conditions. enemy even o: As soon as th received the ivory and Arabs started for the the women t' coast. They H H a terrible time in the Masai country. Thorn wns a drought, and they almost! Hshed of thirst. Then provisions berj I scarcer and scarcer, and the .whoj rty was in danger of starvation. 7 yally the Arab chiefs de cided that i order to save themselves and their ivoly it would be necessary to sacrifice their female slaves, who were very weak from their deprivations and could march no further. That night all of these 200 young wo men were shot to death, and their bodies wptp left, in the eamD for beasts of prev. The victims happily had not a moment's warning of their impending fate. Each murderer selected his victim, and the horrible crime was accomplished so speedily that few of the women made any outcry. With their force thus summarily reduced, the Arabs were able to pull through the desert region, obtaining lit tle more food than barely enough to sus tain life. The chief who related these facts in Zanzibar showed no compunctions what ever for the terrible crime' in which he had assisted, but mentioned this massa cre only to give an idea of the great loss thev had sustained by the necessary sacri- fi nf fiipir 200 slaves. It is a curious fact that some of the murderers were greatly troubled in mind because their necessities had compelled them to eat rats and other unclean food, which is prohibited to Mohammedans on the march. , The Lobster Fisheries. The incessant fishing for lobsters ofi the New England coast has had its effect not in lessening the number 01 lODsrers that are sent to market, but in lessening the size of those that are marketed. Only the largest lobsters, says a New York dealer in the Sun. are shipped from th'e fisheries, the smaller ones being sold to the canning establishment?. It is not so many years ago that the length of the average lobster that came to New York from Maine was twenty inches without claws. The biggest average now is ten and a half inches. There used to be twelve-pound lobsters, and I have heard of them weighing eighteen. A lobster wauld have to be at least thirty years old to weigh that much. This shellfish grows very slowly, and isn't much bigger than a crawfish when it is three years old. The fishermen say that a lobster is never fit for market until it is five years old. As to the canning establishments on the Maine coast and at other places along the shore, the way they have been foi years making inroads on the lobster beds it is a wonder that there are any lobsters left in those grounds. Besides the thou sands and thousands of undersized fish the miscellaneous army of lobstermen ish them, some of. tnese factoriei i - - - ft POPULAR SCIENCE. A New York srenius ha3 devised a phonetic alphabet for the blind. Dr.- Hanau, of Zurich, has successfully propagated cancer in rats by inoculation. The latest flying machine i in the shape of a big "aroplane" or kite, which is intended to skim through air the like a seagull. A French army officer, Colonel Moes sard, has invented a camera by which a panoramic view of an angular breadth of 170 degrees can be taken. ,The Russian physician, Dr. Bapchinski announces that he has discovered a cure for diphtheria. He says the disease is easily cured by inoculation of erysipelas. It is proposed that plates and dishes used on board ship be fitted with iron bottoms, so that by means, of electro magnets placed beneath the table they may be kept in place during the rolling of the vessel. Wind-mills have been utilized in Eu rope for producing electric light. One has been in successful operation for some time at the northernmost lighthouse at Cape de la Hoguer where it drives two dynamos supplying acculators. Warts have their bacillus. It has just been found in the prickle layer by Dr. Kuhnemann, and it is in the form. of ex ceedingly delicate, slender rods, most plentiful when the wart is recent, and seldom entering the surrounding skin. Astronomers now suspect that Brooks's comet, discovered at Geneva. N. Y.. on July 7, 1S39, is identical with Lexell's comet of 1770. It is believed that the orbit of Lexell's comet was changed by the influence of Jupiter in 18SU, as well as in 1779, . ' Professor Vogel, the German astron omer, has demonstrated, with- the aid of the spectrosope and photography, that the variable star Algol has a dark satel lite revolving around it, whose interposi tion is the cause of Algol's periodical loss of brilliancy. I . According to the Anthropometric Com mittee of the British Association, the. English professional class leads the list in respect to stature among European races, with a height of 5 feet 9.14 inches. The French working class is shortest with 5 feet 5.24 inches. - A doctor in an institution with many children declares that nothing irritates a cough more than to cough. . He bribed the children in one of the hospital wards to hold their breath when tempted to cough, and was himself astonished at the speedy relief .of some of them. The first submarine telephone line running: between Montevideo and Buenos Ayres is thirty-two miles long, the en tire length with the overland line being 180 miles. There are five intermediate stations all of which can telephone and telegraph simultaneously with tTie other stations. II. O. Forbes, is reported to have made an important discovery in the neighborhood of Christchurch, New Zea land. It is the discovery in a cave of a great many valuable relics of men, birds and beasts. Not the least interesting por tion of the find consists of the bones of an extinct species of swan. Potato paint is a novelty which is said to adhere well to wood ana piaster.uu ke it,' one pound of peeled pStatoes, mas ... . --1 j.l-.-.AnTr1l J witn water anu pnsj iuio" oict, then add two poun four pounds of wa can be had by the-, mineral powders. Stiffened. From.-His Polite Ex-Governor and Represeattative Mc Creary, of Kentucky, is rroted for his politeness. On one occasion he was the guest of a friend in the country. When he sat down to supper the lady of the house asked him whether he wished coffee or tea. The Governor replied: "Coffee, if you please, madam." His fondness for hot coffee is known to his friends, who can well imagine his feelings when the hostess informed him that the cook had neglected to warm the coffee for supper, ana tnat iz was coiu. Even , this information of the cook's neglect did not affect the Governor's politeness, and with a smile he replied: "How fortunate, madam. Do you know, madam, that I am so eccentric as to prefer cold cortee ana ao noi care xor it in any other way. .Your cook's neglect is good news to me." The relief of the housekeeper can be understood as she handed Governor McCreary the coffee which he sipped with well-feigned pleasure. The weather the next day was cold and bracing. It was ju3t such a day as to make the heart of a coffecdrinker long for his favorite drink. Governor McCreary had forgotten the incident of the night before when he sat down to breakfast. But if it had escaped his memory it had not that of his hostess. "I hav.e the coffee cold for you this morning, Governor," she said sweetly; "you see I remember that you said you never liked it in any other way." The smile on Governor McCreary 's face was hardly as angelic as it was the night before, but he drank the cold coffee without a murmur. It was with difficulty, however, that the other guests restrained their laughter over the unfor tunate predicament in which the Governor had placed himself by his politeness. Ntm Yorh Tribune: The Horse in Battle. An officer of experience, writing ot the behavior of horses in battle, say3: When it comes to battle, a horse seems to know everything that is going on; but he does his duty nobly and seems to be in his element. He enters into the spirit of the battle like a human being, lie shows no fear of death, and it is singular that if his mate is shot down he will turn to look at him and seem pleased. A horse, in my battery was once struck with a piece of steel which split his skull so that one side was loose. The driver turned him loose, but he walked up to the side of the gun and watched the firing, and when a shot was fired would look away in the direction of the enemy as if to see the effect of the shot. When a shell woufd burst near by he would cal my turn and look at iu When - , hy dilute THE RAIN-BEAT ONTHEWINa X The rain- beat on the window, . And the gust against the pane, ., And the night it sobbeth bitter lake a heart that knoweth pahj Oh, the rain-beat on the window ! And the night against the,o ' The rain beats on the window, . And the gust against the pane, And my heart drives in the darkness iLike a ship out on the main, When the storm beats on the window And the night against the pane. For the rain-beat on the window ; And the gust against the pane : Bring the ghosts of dead years vanishes That will never ccme again. Oh, the rain-beat on the window 4 "" And the gust against the panel -William W. Campbell, in Independent. PITH AND POINT. , Many a youngster keeps shady to pre vent getting tanned. The coat does not always make the man but it frequently breaks him. . V -J People speak of young corn," but therq is no young corn. It is always fosfiJH., full of y-ears. Xew Yorh News. ' j Lady of the House "Can you saw wood ?" Tramfi ' 'No ma'am ; but. I can see it." (Exit tramp). Time. ; t Nature has wisely arranged matters so that a man can neither pat his own back' nor kick himself. Lawrence Amerirt vm 1 tt 4i A! - ii man. ; ' The plumber and the coal dealer bej lieve that this has been the coldest win; ter they ever experienced. New York News. A young man, whose wife's father was very kind to him, said tnat he was Pa excellence as a fathcr-in-law. Merchant Traveler. I In a meeting of vegetables, no matter what sort of a proposition h made the onion can alwavs ijive a scent. Norris', town Herald. Gentleman in Museum (looking at talking "machine) "Quite an invent tion!" Keeper "Yes, it sp'eaks for it' SQU."-3fu)isey's "Weekly. j Because athing is small of size think -not that you may scorn it. Some insects have a larger waist but lift less than the hornet. Chicago Journal. In five minutes a woman can clean up. a man's room in such a way that it will take him five weeks to find.out where she put things. Atchison Globe. . 1 'I cannot sine: the old soncrs." Bawled forth the tuneless youth; And every word he uttered showed He spoke the awful truth. Washington Post. ; With a woman it; is a struggle to pro vide something for the inner man, and with a man it is an effort to provide something for the outer woman. Atchi son Globe. "M-m-y d-d-dear, I l-l-loveou! W rnll-you be" began Mr. M. Pedi-1 ment. "That will do," replied the proud beauty. "I do not care to be wooed on the installment plan. " Bazar mSw",,Yi'' Srr' Mrs- Jones is ini What syer name, sorr?" Visitor Pro-1 fessor V andersplinkenheimfir " w.; "Och! Sure yo'd better go right in S md tajre itwid ye." Munsey't8 Weekly A young woman began a song, Thousand LeaVwi Aro PaUing." nitcVieO. it too laierli, screecn.ee Stopped. Diart lid ui uvvs luuusauu , a cried an auctioneer. British American; Oh, for the good old pie of yore, " Oh, for the old-time dumpling stew, 4 Oh. for the Indian pudding baked, ' Oh, for the steak that's tender and true. Kearney Enterprise, t Mamma (looking up from.hcr novelW "Jane, what ails Freddy now ?1 . Jai Ja. "He's crying for the moon, mamma.'A Sfamma (absorbed in her reading) "O; well, let the dear have it." MumeyH Weelchj. ' - ' " ' : - !'. ' "Now, Susan, haven't I told you tune and time again to cat your bread with your meat?" '.'True, mamma ; but haven't you also told me over "and over again that I must never try to do two things at once?" Judge. - Manager of Band (to applicant for po sition) "Well, what instrument do you play? What do you know about music?'' Applicant "I don't know anything about music. Its the position of drum major that I want." Yenowints Neics. A Rotating Jail. The Dover (N. H.) jail is the only one of the kind in New England. It is con structed under a patent, and is believed to be absolutely unbreakable ; that is, it is practically an impossibility for prison ers to escape. No one confined in cell like these has ever yet succeeded in get ting away. The cells, of which there are fifty, are built on a circular piece which revolves within a circle. There is only one exit from each tier of cells, and these are above each ether, opening to the guard-room. Between the cells and liberty are two massive doors, both of heavy iron. When a prisoner i to enter or .leave one of the iron-grated aparty ments the turnkey puts the whole !place r kAmhnnmanf in mATlrtn ill ATI 111 Tl IT I when the door of the cell he desires to reach is in front of the guard-room door The cells can also be reached, without moving the tiers, by way of stationarjj corridors built close to the walls. If ft prisoner desires to escape, he can onljj do so by sawing through these heavy Joors, and the space in which the tnov ible apartments are built is so con jtructed that almost any sound can be heard with ease in the guard-room.. Denton Herald. As Like as Two Peas. In former years Remus and Rufua Jones were well known in Atlanta, Ga-i They were twin brothers, and none but their intimate friends could, tell them apart. The two Dromios in Shake-f speare's "Comedy of Errors" were never worse mixed or more confounded thaD the two Jones brothers, Remus an Rufus. Both were excellent carpenters,1 followed the same trade, dressed alike, and contracted similar habits. ' Both grew up together and married, Some- . thinrr over a year a?o Remus took a lare .
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