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As nn ia-tanceof now was.e mat-cm1
are now utilized, the products of com
bustion fron iron furnaces arc made to
yield sulphate of ammonia to tht amount
of about 600'J tons a year beaide3 a quan
tity of tar.
The Philadelphia Ledger, speaking of
Biaine. says : "He has received two offers
recently from publishers for a new work
on American history, covering such
epochs in politics as he may choose to
write about."
The increase of the caaoe fad has kept
pace with the growth of the bicycle
habit. There are now, estimate the New
York Sun, 20,000 canoeists in the
waters of the country where twenty
years ago there were probably not
twenty.
. An apparatus to prevent a deid fowl
from flying has been patented by a San
Francisco lady. It is a clamp which se
cures the fowl to the dish, while you are
trying to carve it. Inexperienced car
vers occasionally find it difficult to keep
the dead bird from flying int: a neigh
bcr'a lap.
The New York Mail and Express
maintains that Europe knows uo such
tremendous oss of life among railroad
men as this country tolerates. Sc
frightful has been the mortality in this
country a war killing annually so many
men would be regarded as a great
calamity that public seutimeat finally
demands that the slaughter cease.
During tne first six months of thif
year twenty-eight railway companies,
with 10,362 miles of track and an in
debtedness in bonds and stocks of $377,
800,000, were sold out for reorganization
or placed ia the hands of receivers foi
the benefit of creditors. "This would
indicate," remarks the Boston Tran
script, "that the railroad business has
not been very satisfactory or prosperous
in the United States in 1S92."
John Burns, member of the British
Parliament, is bound to cut a great
Sgure in Parliament, to which he has
been elected as a representative of labor.
year, and he will not take a penny more.
This income of his is made up from in
dividual subscriptions of two cents,
willingly contributed by those on behalf
of whom he toils, lie fixed the amount
himself, it being the equivalent ot his
yearly earnings before he became an
agitator.
Says the Detroit Free Press : Social
ism gives evidence of increasing" in
France a well as in Germany. The So
cialists have carried five lare cities, in
cluding Marseille) aad Toulouse, and
propose wheiever they can, to put in
force their programme, "first, the Com
mune and then the" State." They want
free medical treatment, free legal advice,
free food for laborers in search of work
wd an efcjh: hour day with minimum
wages fixel by law. When the taxpayer
comes to donating for all these purposes,
he too will be strongly inclined to insist
on having ui place upon the free list.
The gypy moth furnishes an instance
of the necessity that some legal restric
tions should be placed upon the importa
tion of injurious insects and animals fox
the purples of science or for mere folly.
An entomologist brought a few of these
moths fro.n Germany to test their valu
for making silk. He permitted some to
escape, and it has cost the State of Massa
chusetts over a hundred thousand dol
lars already to keep the destructive
pests within their present boundary of
. 200 square miles, over which they have
spread and damaged fruit and shade
trees and threatened the entire destruc
tion of theui. And now, adds the New
York Times, it is a question if the moth
may not spread all over the country and
become a permanent pest, costing the
farmers many millions of dollars.
When we say a girl is homely we mean
that she' is the reverse of beautiful, un
mistakably plain, aud sometimes pain
fully so. In England, however, observes
the Argonaut, the term is, in a measure,
complimentary. The homely girl is the
one endownei with all domestic virtues
She is one that a man would desire for
a wife. A quiet little creature, delight
ing in the control of servants, the in
tricacies of household marketing, and
the mild dissipations belonging to a
quiet neighborhood. She is a home
body in every sense of the word ; one of
fhfnn fni litfrlA urnmon with ant'
lump cneess, smooin nair, ana rounaec
jiunes, iu&i a man always imagines as
itlines, that a
g opposite 1
er a bit of
Mit. Uv
1
him at the table or bend-
sewing in the mellow
we want to tell a Briton
is not good-looking, we must
at she is homely, but plain ot
rl
Agricultural implements are now being
manufactured extensively in Buenos
Ayres, Argentine Republic.
The most expensive Legislature in the
world is that of France, which costs an
.nually $3,600,000. The Italian Parlia
ment costs $430,000 a year.
While, according to European and
American returns, the number of women
always exceeds that of men, the reverse is
the case in Japan, where for every 100
men there are only 77.92 women.
, An English naval officer has noticed
that barbed wire has played the part of a
peace maker in Uruguay. It has tended
to suppress revolutions by ma':ng it dif
ficult to march troops across the country
wk ere it is used for fencing.
There are nearly 200,0J0 mile3 of rail
muses the Atlanta Constitution, "the
timo is easily within the memory of
middle asred men when the total railway
mileage of the country was less than
10,000."
The sagging and cracking of buildings
In Chicago is attributed, by the Boston
Transcript, to the fact that the thickly
built part ot the city is cut by a deep
slough running for several miles trans
versely across the division and just cov
ered bv a shell of new soi'.
The Jersey Bulletin says: "The dairy
interests of New York State are esti
mated at 330,000,000 and the cows at
751,000,000.. The exports of dairy
products from New York City are re
ported less year than the last, ending
May 1, by 7,000,000 pounds of butter
and 8,003,000 pounds of cheese."
It is said that the proper boundary
line between Idaho and Washington is
about thirty miles' farther west than has
been supposed. Should this be corrected,
says the San Francisco Chronicle, it
would remove the city of Spokane and t
thickly settled part of the State Iron:
Washington to Idaho, and incidentally
make Congressman Wilson a citizen ol
the latter State. .
A writer in the Boston Tmnscript
proves that it does not pay to be very
rich, and fortifies his arguments with the
confessions and opinions of Chauncey
M. Depew; Cyrus W. Field and Russell
Sage, and the experiences of Elizabeth
Thompson, Peter Cooper, W. H. Van
derbilt and others. It does not pay.
"The thing is demonstrated," comments
the New Orleans Picayune, "and ol
course the average American will now
look about for something else to do be
sides getting rich."
Why do not girls who spend their
time sighing for a career learn their'
-father's business? wonders the Boston
N. J., a few years ago- leaving a manu
facturing business that paid 6000 i
year, but not one of his large family ol
daughters wa3 able to conduct it, and
therefore it passed to strangers, while
the family went into comparative
poverty. When a real estate man died
in Jersey City not long ago his daughter
announced her intention of carrying on
the business; she had assisted her invalid
father in his oflice and had become so
familiar with the business that she is
cow conducting it successfully.
Gardeu and Forest pleads for the reser
vation of a Southern forest tract as a
public park, and it thinks Roan Mount
ain, on the boundary line of North
Carolina and Tennessee, the ideal tract
tor the purpose. Among the trees to be
found on its slopes are varieties of the
magnolia, ash, oak, mapie, linden,
birch, pine, spruce, chestnut, wild
cherry, tulip tree, walnut, hickory and
the hemlock. Many of these attain a
great height and girth, particularly the
ash, the hickory and the hemlock.
Among the loftiest of the trees is the
enowdrop, or halesia, which is free of.
branches for one hundred feet from the
ground. The work of destruction among
the forests of the South is going on at
an alarming rate. A correspondent says
that in the Doe River Valley, which runs
into the flank of the K an Mountain, no
fewer than twenty sawmills are in con
stant operation, and the stumps of mon-
archs of the forest are tp be seen on
every
hand.
- The plague of mice which has been
using such widespread disaster in
Scotland of late continues and increases,
and a special commission of the Depart
ment of Agriculture is now at work
taking evidence in the matter with a
view to devising some effective remedy.
Some interesting points have been
brought out during the progress of the
commission. Quite a number of farmers '
attributed the plague of mice to the
killing of f he birds of prey and weasels
by the gentlemen owners shooting over
the estates, and by the keepers whe
killed the weasels because the weasels
destroyed the came. One man said the
keepers had killed a hundred weasels on
his farm and the adjoining estate. The
mice had increased and destroyed the
pastures, and he had lost $5000 on sheep
in consequence. His family had lived
on the farm for three centuries. An
other man said that for the same reason
his crop of lambs this year numbered
but 333 against an average of bOO or
700. The situation is very serious, and.
nothing the farmers have been able to do
so far tas lessened the scourge.
. TIME AND LOVE.
Sly old Time took little Cupid. '
Tied a fcerchief o'er his eyes;
Turned him round, exclaiming, "Stupid
Tell me where your true lore Kes."
Long as moons shall shine above.
Tune will play his tricks on Love.
Curdd, of his power reminded.
Showed old Time what he could do;
And, that though his eyes were blinded,
Yet his heart would guide him true.
IrfHig as eons the heavens shall cUaib.
Love will foil the tricks of Time.
Robert Brown, Jr.
MAE rs SOLDIER.
W E
eight
N T Y -or
nine
aero, dur-
years
in the latter part of
the war, I was sta
tioned in New York,
detailed as Inspector
General to raise a bri
gade. I had been
successful, and my
camp of instructio
contained fair m
lenai. it was & Jew
miles distant
Jersey soil.
une aiternoon. wane I was renting m
my quarters after the latigueof a hot
day, an orderly brought me the un
pleasant tidings that my camp was in an
uproar. The men refused to obey or
ders, and open violence impended. The
pay was in arrears through gome red tape
delay. The men were poor and their
families were suffering.
Idxessedjnysell ! carefully in full un
iform, hastenednover theierry and soon
reached the high board fence which en
circled the encampment. !'; From within
came a confused rumble like the portend
of a storm. I approached the wicket. It
was locked. I peered through , the lat
tice. There was she senfry, sure
enough; but with what atdifference!
His musket leaned against a fc&st. He
9
f
r
suiieniy slouched upaua fan wihMd at the 'very tXtoo, when: tl
bands in pockets, ino wise Biding my & been .a' revolt iMfe-TTSmpand
presence. 1 would trice to hare shot that
man, but I was bound and braced with
self-control. -'
4 'Attention I" I commanded sharply.
The man stared, then straightened,
seized his musket, presented, and stood
as a soldier.
"Open that gate!"
He obeyed at ODce, and I passed
through and marched quickly forward.
All over the field were knot9 of men,
shouting, gesticulating, fiercely ha
ranguing. Here and there -vrere a few
officers arguing and pleading in rain.
The majority, however, sat dejected
within their tents. It was a most dis
tressing sight for a true soldier. '
I approached the first group of about
200 frenzied men. A captain was just
leaving them, pursued by taunts and
jeers. He was an insignificant man,
with a repulsive face;' naturally pom
pous in bearing, but now thoroughly
cowed. Yet as he saw me he assumed a
ceitam uneasy bravado. j j
"Captain JohnsOn, at your service,
sir," he answered, as he salated.
"What does this mean?" Tasked.
rhey are fiends incarnate. General,"
he exclaimed, as he glanced over his
shoulder. "They will murder us all
and ravage the town. Oa, wnat shall
you do?"
' "I shall form the men."
"Impossible. Why, that's just what.
"Silence,' sir." ' '
As I reached the mob I noticed one
face alone which expressed respect or
sympathy. All others bore a look of
malevolence. A yoUiig soldier, well set
up and scrupulously neat, seemed to be
attempting to dissuade his comrades
from some mad project. He was a fine-
looking fellow, witn a long, light mus
tache and bright, blue eyes', from which,
as 1 say, I caught a flash of admiration.
I drew my stford and stood upright
and motioniess before the men.
"Attention, men! Fall in!" I com-
manded.
There was a hesitation, a momentary
huddling together, and then they ar
rayed themselves.
"Present arms! Carry arms! Order
arms! Parade rest!" I ordered, and
they obeyed.
Behind me stood a knot of wondering
officers.
"How do you dare?" I began. Then
arose a growl from the ranks. vVe want
our right. We'll get them, too. We
demand our pay. We won't stand such
treatment. Our wives, our children are
;
"Sileuce!" I warned them. "Not
another word. .If you have grievances,
if you have complaints, send them
through the proper channel and they
shall be heard and v allayed, I promise
you. Men, I'm ashanrsd of you. t While
your comrades are in the held lac?
privation and danger and death lor the
slorv of that old Has which you have
only just sworn to defend, you, for a
trifling delay which the throes of our
Government should excuse, dare to mur
mur and revolt. Out upon such soldiers !
Do you know what you risk? Do you
appreciate that I have but to step to that
telegraph and the regulars will surtouna
I you and rake jour camp with an enfilad
ing fire? Do you long to serve your
country at Dry Tortugas? Have a care,
or there you shall be sent, weighed with
the contempt of all loyal men. Oflacers,
to your posts ! There will be a review
presently." v
"Three cheers for the. General!"
shouted the clear voice of tae blue
eyed recruit as I turned awsy, iland
they were given with a will.
So I went through that camp, speak
in as I never had 6poken. Inwardly
overwrought with excitement, but out
wardly the cold, distant personification
of discipline. Within two hours I had
that brigade formed in a hollow square,
and from itsrcentre I renewed my tar eats
and my promises. They were elective.
Reason returned to the men, and with it
came shame. What had looked like a
dangerous outbreak was quelled by moral
force.
As I left the parade I met Captain
Johnson.
"By-the-way, Captain" I asked, "who
is that bright-looking young soldier of
yours who seemed to be resisting the
madness of the men?" The Captain
scowled quite unnecessarily.
'That's Thomas Browne, lie an-
rwered moodilv. "He doesn't amount to
much."
I rr certain you don't, I reflected as I
returned to the city,
A month passed, by. Discipline had
done its cerfect work. Tne mob naa be
come a -well-drilled brigade. The meu
had received their arrears, and were
eager to wipe oat disgrace and to achieve
renown in action. The order for their
advance was expected daily. I sat in my
quarters in this city, alone and idle, for
my duty had been fulfilled, and I was
about to eport at Washington. The
door opened, and a tall, slender young
woman, neatly dressed, stood before
me. Her face ' was pallid; her
black eyes shone intensely.
large
"Oh. sir," she exclaimed, "save my
soldier 1 He said that yon might." and
she sank in a chair by my side weeping
and moaning and wringing her fragile
hands in a manner most pitiable to be
hold. "But, my. dear madam," I expostula
ted sternly, "this won't do at all. If you
wish my aid you mist be calm and sen
sible. Tell me who you are, who your
soldier is, and what you want.
My severity succeeded as I intended it
should. She was a stout-hearted little
thing, and she gulped down her sobs,
and in a moment sat upright and tran-
1 oeg your pardon, she'said gently,
and I felt like a brute.. "Mys name is
Mary Graeme, and and I'm engaged to
Thomas Browne. He's my soldier, you
know; and he's in the camp over in New
Jersey." v(
"Thomas Browne!" Oh! I remem
bered. " Yes, my dear, I replied. A fine
looking young fellow, with bright, blue
eyes, I think."
"Oh, such bonny eyes, so tender, so
true! And they speak his nature, be
lieve me. I know him so well; we were
little children together. He has been
placed under arrest, sir, and is to be
tried before the, court-martial now in
session."
"For what offense?"
"He was a sentry, sir, and was found
asleep on his post."
Phew ! Here was a pretty mess in
deed for the young recruit.
"My dear child, I responded gravely,
this is a most serious matter. Asleep on
his post of duty in the face of the en
emy! Why, itXSy cost him his life!
there
mp ana tfly
court feels the necessity of a stern ex
ample." As I spoke the poor child wavered
like a rare pale lily in a storm. But she
remembered my warning, though her
eyes streamed and her hands strained in
their grasp.
"On, sir, but he isn't guilty, the poor
boy. Think how tired he was. Up the
whole night; ordered on duty again the
moment he was relieved. It was in
human. No .wonder he dozed without
knowing it." -
"But"
"Oh, sir, I know what you would
say: It couldn't be. But it wa3. The
Orderly Sergeant has always hated him.
On the day before he had ordered Tom
excuse me, sir, Thomas when He was
otf duty to clean the equipments of an
other soldier, which Thomas refused to
do."
"He was perfectly right ihere.'1
"So Thomas says. Besides he was
expecting to see me. But that night
when he came oS. his post, oh, so tired,
the Sergeant ordered nim right on again
to take the place of the soldier wnose
arms he wouldn't clean."
"If this is so, no court will punish
him for falling asleep."
"I'm so delighted. That's what Thom
as said he knew you would say. But he
didn't mean to oh. no. indeed. He's so
here a blush deepened through
poor
Mary's cheeks.
"He shall have the chance, never fear.
Bat why didn't you go to his Captain?
Doe3 be know these facts?''
Again Mary blushed and far less tran
siently. Her fingers picked her dres3
uneasily. ,
"Captain Johnson," she faltered.
"He doesn't like Tom; he helikes
me."
"Oh ho." Here, wa a little drama.
I recalled the Captain's repulsive face
and sullen ways, and I recognized the
viilain's part, j
"Besides." si
'Besides," she continued, "the Or-
derly is his brother-in-law."
"And he tells far different story, I
suspect.
"Indeed, yes; there is no hope for
Thomas from efitlerjof them."
"Well, my detr.jsave your tears and
keep a stout aeirt. I like your
soldier, and I $le Vou. I believe the
story and you sjdl lave my aid. But
be cautious and se :ret. The court is
now in session, pu iay?"
"Yss, sir; alThis week. But Thom
as's case was orfl re; ched this afternoon
just before ad jjrnnient."
"Then I rauiiict once. Good-bye
now; you mayfly o i me." And with
a God bless yo wb :h it seems a3 if I
could feel evenfow, the girl withdrew.
Yet witha&udja ihspjratijn I calle
attefner. "waat is the name ohea61-
ler whose place Thomas took?"
"Joseph Brant."
Here surely was a difficult situation.
The Sergeant hostile, the Captain vin
dictive, what hepe gleamed for Mary's
soldier? Yet I followed the inspiration.
The proof, if I only could get the proof!
It existed, unless cunning had destroyed
it. Again I arrayed myself in full fi.
Again I hastened over the ferry to the
camp. I sought the Sergeant's tent and
I found him within and alone. "Too
stupid to be provident, was my mental
glance. "Sergeant, your detail book,
at once" I commanded. The man stare i
and gaped, and then handed it to me
without a word.
I went to a retired spot. 1 turned
the pages with trembling fingers. Ah,
fate had favored me. There was thel
record for the niffht ia question, and1
among the reliefs I didn't find the na n
f Thomas Browne, but I did. find tnat
of. Joseph Brant.
en I visited the Judge Aa vacate, a
frid Vof mine, a fine felloy, now a
Sui? XJourt Judge of this ?tate.
it sort'of a m is Captaia John-
sot I asKea. (
ily riend shrugged iiis broad shoul
der "Hum!" he replied. "With all there
is back of him he ought to get the single
star in six months."
"Influence, hy?"
"Great. But why do you ask!"
You needn't go any further, old fel
low ; your scruples reveal more than they
conceal. But to change the subject. I
am sroins to Dut a hypothetical case to
you, and I want you to tell me just how
you would act regarding it." And I de
tailed the facts of Mary's soldier's
troubles, using, of course, assumed
names. .
The Judge Advocate deliberated. 'A
dicult and delicate cutter," be said.
"The man is innocent, but he would be
condemned. Hie sentence would be
commuted on review; still- his careei
would be ruined. I think I should dc
this: I should lay these inside facts con
fidentially before the President of the
court. Then, if he approved, at the next
session I should announce that the main
witness, the Officer of the Day, was ab
sent and he would be, too. And in
view of the stress of other business, and
ot grave doubts of the defendant's cul
pability, I should ask that the case be
dismissed."
'You would surely do this?''
"Certainly It would be the quickest
and most prudent way out of a nasty
rush."
"Then listen, old fellow." And I ex
plained my parable to him. "Andhere'i
the proof," I said, in conclusion, and I
sho ed him the Sergeant's detail book.
"The villains 1" be exclaimed. "I'll
stick to my word, never fear. It's the
wisest course, too. , At this present cri
sis the friends of that Captain must not
be offended. His time may come. Bat
that Sergeant should be punished ii
some way."
"Leave that to me. He shall lose his
chevrons, I promise you."
"Very well. I'm off to see the Presi
dent." The next morning came, the court
convened. Mary was present, anxious
vet hoDeful. with her sraze fixed on the
erect, manly form of her soldier. So.
too, were the Captain and the Sergeanl
in attendance, the former exultant, tht
latter secretly worried. . But I looked it
rain for the Officer of the Day.
The Judge Advocate was faithful tc
his rehearsal and letter-perfect in hit
part.
"I do, therefore, suggest," he said in
conclusion, "that this charge against
Private Thomas Browne be dismissed,"
"This seems a proper disposition, "
said the President. "I think so," said
each officer, from the junior to the
senior; and Thomas Browne left the
courtroom a free man, with the devoted
Mary clinging to his arm.
I caught Captain Johnson : as he was
sneaking way with a white, scared face.
"Captain, I said, "I learned the truth
of this matter, and I ant responsible for
this ending. You've had a lucky escape.
Now, maik my words. You will reduce
that Orderly Sergeant to the ranks forth
with. He won't appeal to the Colonel,
nor will the Colonel question the act,"
"I will do so, sir," he murmured, as
he bunf his head and went to his
quarters. I never saw him again, but
after the war, at Washington, I met
Mary, a happy bride with her soldier,
and on his broad shoulders shone the
insignia of a Major. New York Times.
The Chinese Cuisine. '
"In passing through Chinese towns,"
said the Rev. A. T. Wright of Mil
waukee to the writer, "the astonishingly
large number of cook-shops interests and
attracts the foreign passer-by. One's
curiosity is often aroused to know the
ingredients of the messes he sees being
concocted. These places are unpleasantly
pressed upon the pedestrian, for the front
is invariably open to the street, and in
order to tempt customers by the sight
and smell of viands the cook prepares
his disnes over a charcoal fire in full
view, and sets samples of his materials
and a bill of fare out on a snowboard
before him. Tables and stools are placed
in the rear, and here the hungry may
ui iuu uHiy
wno nas Ms frogs' legs and snail soup,
for the Celestial, too, revels in these
dainties and many more tranger than
these. Snake3 and eels alike know the
frying-pan, and when 'skinned and
dressed appear very much alike. Many
vaneties of non-poisonous snake3 ire
used for food. Silk-worm grubs are re
garded as a choice morsel and are stewed
in lard and eaten as a relish, and a mul
titude of other insects are deemed
edible.
"It seems to be the general impression
that dogs and cats form staple articles
of diet. This is not true. They are
eaten to a greater or less extent by the
poorer classes only, and vary in popular
ity according to the district.
"The famous bird's-nest soup is a very
rare delicacy, and can be i afforded only
by the rich. It is served as a first course
at grand dinners usually. The nests are
built by a kind of swallow on high rocks
by the seashore, and the material is se
creted by glands inside the birJ's bill.
A native recipe for makino- the soun
4
reads: Take as many ne3ts as are neces
sary, clean and pick out the featners,
and boil in sufficient water to make a
thin jelly. Pour this over hard-boiled
pigeons' eggs, and float on top shreds of
ham. Serve sweetened if desired.
"The number of edibles in China is
legion, and their combinations are simply
ntlootffor cooking, and eveiv man.
worn ins d child almost can prepare a
good ml out of the mo3t meagre sup
ply oi iieriais. uaicao inter-Ocean.
Educated Blaci Bass.
A cu!
story is related concernino
a pool
ch is enclose 1 by one of the
large g
aoiiies whica stand on the
nowa as Greystone, which
propert
was the
J. Tilde
Forson,
ke home of tne late Samuel
About two vears ago Joan
head gardener, caught a big
black ba
itn a book, and as it wai
very ten;
s cf life, he succeeded in
saving i
after the exercise of muca
care and
lence. i his bass is now an
inhabitant th 3 pool, over and around
rnich arelny tropical plants.
Garden
rsoa nas in odd moments
eaching his piscatorial pet
succeeded
some trie
a wnen be whistles in a
the big fish invariably
certain ma
comes to
laceol the pool, when
he wishes i
etire, all he does is to
snap his
and the fish becomes in-
visible.
Another
is the holding of s
any insect above the
. . J
worm or air
water, soml
as tugh as a foot,
jump up and seize it.
when the b
Thised
fish seems to enjoy his
pranks as m
hxs master and hii
exhibits it. These
Xnenaa to w
are only a f
the tricks he does.
There is a:
large sun fish in the
pool, but it
too obtuse to be.
taught anyth
et the two are often
seen dispo
nisei ves in apparent
great glee,
carp there,
used to be several
t as thev have not
been seen sin
black bass was in-
trod need to
they have i
ety, it is thought
to the laws of
natural selecti
the survival of the
fittest, and pr
sundry meals for
j his bass-shiD.
York Times.
CUILiUUb AclS.
The
silver dollar of 1S04 is worth
600. .... '
There are oak trees
in existence 1000
years old.
In Mexican theaters they pay for each
act separately.
Thirty-four pounds of raw sugar make
twenty-one pounds refined. -
A straw hat and a linen duster have
been worn for forty winters by Dr. S.
B. Victor, of Columbia, Mo.
A London publisher is going to re
produce the first folio 1633 edition of
Shakespeare by means of pnotography.
A piece of ground was recently sold in
Chicago at a price which in silver wou.d
cover the entire lot with tnree layers of
silver.
In one of the public schools in t New
York City there are 710 pupils, all but
ten of whom are of foreign birth and
language.
The vast n ess of Krupp's gun work? at
Essen, Germany, is indicated by the feet
that they consume nearly 2000 tons of
coal and coke a day.
A woman living in Jasper County,
Missouri, is reported to have been made
deaf and dumb by a lightning stroke,
during a recent storm.
A new-fangled electric light bath is
said to tan a man's face so well that his
friends will think he has passed many
weeks at the seashore.
A dog at Yardley, Penn., saw a bass
in the river, and, leaping in, frightened
the fish so taat it fled to tne suore, where
it was grabbed by the dog's master.
A colored man who went to Germany
from Boston and became naturalized
some time ago is now on the roll ol
pensioners of the State insurance lor the
aged.
During divine service in a church
at Westminister, Connecticut, a steet
dashed against the green baize door, and
marched up the aisle with the dsor on
his horns.
The laughing jackass, when warning
his feathered mates that daybreatc is at
hand, utters a cry resembling a group of
.boys shouting, whooping and laughing
in a wild chorus.
Bleekman, the murderer who was ex- V
ecuted at Greensboro, N. C, the other
day, was hanged with the rope that
ended the life of one of the Chicago an
archists on the scaffold. '
The natural configuration of many
mountains suggests the human face, and
such physiognomies cut out of the rocks
on a gigantic scale are commonly re
garded by savages as objects of worship.
Masks ate of very ancient origin. In
a tomb 3000 years old at Mycenae,
jGreece, Dr. Schliemann found two bod
ies 'with faces covered with masks of
gold. One of the masks represented the
head of a lion.
A day or two ago what is said to have
been the largest fruit tram that ever left
California for the East pulled out of
Sacramento. It consisted of twenty
seven cars, and these were loaded with
peaches, plums, apricots, apples, etc.
The sisal grass of Yucatan is one of
the most remarkable vegetable products
known. It grows in long blades, some
times to the length of four or five feet,
and, when dry, the blade curls up from
side to side, making a cord which is
stronger than any totton string of equal
size that has ever been manufactured.
could afford the .luxury kept a dwarf
wuuse principal duties were to look as
ugly as possible and to receive with equal
manifestations of gratitude the chidings
of his mistress and the kicks of her
guests. No royal court was considered
complete without a dwarf, who, as a
court jester, amused by his wit, or, more
commonly, served as a butt for the wit
of others.
Disasreeable Habit of Childhood.
"My httle girl, who is only five years
old, is literally spoiling the shape of
her finger tips by biting her nails,"
complained a young mother to an elderlv
woman as they sat on the hotel piazza
UCii jaucy woric. "i have pun
"v-i icucnicmy. OUt nOCftiner malro.
the least impression on berand the habit
continues to, grow." The elderly woman,
whose reputation for general inform-.
tion is well founded, recommended the
.uwiug remeay: Make a very thick
solution of gumarabic, much thicker than
ior common mucilage, and mix with it a
uoerai supply or powdered quinine. Ad
Fj iu iu me cniia's fingers at nio-ht
ana iwo or three times during the day
and the habit will immediately be
broken up. The same remedy is very
t uv,"u' 1U wnere children suck
weir tnumbs, which habit, if indulged
in for any length of time, spoils the
ihape of the lips, and is also liable to
permanently injure the digestion. New
York Commercial Advertiser.
A Core for Earache.
There is no more acute pain of child
hood than earac ie. This seems to be
caused by the sensitiveness to cold air of
the tender membranes within the ear,
and may be stopped by filling the ear
with a little cotton dipped in sweet oil
and warmed. If this doe not give re
lief a lew drops of laudanum, warmed
by setting the bottle m hot water, may
be added to the oil. A roasted onion is
a favorite remedy with old women. If
it is applied to the cat as hot as it can
be borne, it will relieve an obstinate
case, and certainly is harmless.
When cotton has been put into the
ear and has served its purpose, it should
be carefully removed and no bits left be
hind to work into the passages. Deaf
ness is frequently caused by toe presence
of some such foreign body in the ear.
Atlanta Journal.
Liquefied Air.
Profesior Dewar, in lecturing before
the Royal Institution, London, handed
around to the audience an entirely new
thing in the way of tipples, in the shape
of claret glasses filled with liquefied air.
The boiling point of liquid air is 192
degrees of Centigrade, or ten degrees
lower than that of oxygen. After
liquefying oxygen, Professor Dewar said
that it is not true, as has been sup
posed, that the oxygen in the air lique
fies before the other elements in air; on
the contrary, the air liquefies as air, and
and is not resolved into its elements be
fore liquefying. If this globe were
cooled down to 200 degrees. below the
zero of Centigrade it would be covered
with a sea of liquefied gas thirty-five
feet deep, of which about seven feet
would be liquid oxygen. New York
Commercial Advertiser, . .
WHAT SAV THE PiijEat
What do y say,
v O sighing pinest
O hushing pines! ,
This happy day? ; ;
Do whispering breezes brlnj
Glad welcome to the spring
Upon her wsyf
Aht sighing, pines, who loveth her.
Alone can say!
What did ye say,
O ia;hinz pines!
O moaning pines!
That dreary day
When cold winds wildly blew
Your tossing branches through
And skies were gray?
Ah, sighing pines, the sorrowing hear
Alone can say!
What will ye say,
O sighing pines!
, O dreamy pines!
In that sweet day
When summer woods are green,
And troubls that hatb bean
Is faraway?
Ah, sighing pines, who bade thee speak
Alone can say !
William P. Curtis, in Harper's Bazar.
PITH AND i'ULNT.
It is when he is short that a man wears
a long face. New York Press
For a full crop on the far n commend
us to the old hen. Lowell Courier.
The stooping bicycle rider may be sup
posed to bo on pleasure bent. Boston
Transcript.
The man who brags much on his good
ness will bear a good deal of watching.
Ram's Horn.
I notice that an amateur fisherman can
tell just as big lies as, a professional.
Texas Siftings.
When a fly lights on a piece of sticky
paper he realizes that he is better oil.
Binghamton Leader;
It is always well before beginning ah
attack on a man to map out your line of
retreat. -Atchison Globe-
The man who is the most awkward
at saying nice things is usually the most
sincere. Atchison Globe.
The lady and the horsewhip form one
of the most striking combinations of the
times. Baltimore American.
It isn't the man who oftenest breaks
his word who is the best authority on
parts of speech. Boston Courier.
Little Minnie Appolis,
With care upon ner brow,
Is rapidly becoming
A big girl now.
Washington Star.
Jagson says there are four singers in
every quartette-choir who think the othet
three can't sing a little bit. Elmira
Gazette.
We always admire a dentist for one
thing at least. He isn't afraid to say a
thing right to your teeth. Baltimore
American.
No man ever knows as much as he
thinks he does; but as he thinks he does
he doesn't know the difference. Somcr
ville Journal.
It is a sign you are growing old if,
when you visit your friends, you are
taken ol'tener to the cemeteries than to
parties.- Atchison Globe.
No, my son, you mustn't expect to get
up in the world in a minute. Nobody
can walk half so fast up hill as coming
down. Boston Transcript.
, .iww-ra-yatrjer, when do
you teel in the best mood for writing?"
Father "Wnen somebody asks me" to
receipt a bill." Washington Star.
The peasantry in Russia are not re
markable for their cleanlineis. Serf
bathing is evidently not so popular there
as in other lands. Boston Transcript.
Psyche's eyes are tender,
Psychi's waist is s.ender;
And, ah me I wnat is far worse.
So, alas I is Psyche's purs
Urooaiyn Life.
"I met Midgely this morning by the
merest accident." "Accident? Why
I meet him every day." "Yes, I know'
but you don't oe him $10." Chicago
News-Record.
When a man Is In love, he thinks his
girl's name is the sweetest m the world,
bnt when they are married, be thinks it
is too old fashioned to give the children.
Atchison Globe.
A western musical critic recently re
marked that "when it comes to gargling
her notes, Miss Mattie Smith of the Bap
tist Church choir is in it with any one ia
the State. Philadelphia Record.
"Oh, George, Tin ashamed of you
rubbibg your lips like that after that
dear little girl has givea you so sweet a
kiss!" 'I'm not rubbing it off, nurse,
I'm rubbing it in." Brooklyn Liie.
He was witty, learnei and' wis;
She had good looks and nothing more;
Sownea they raarriej, to their surpruau
Each found the other one a core.
Chicago News-P.?corJ.
Mrs. Newed "I haven't forgotten
you, love; I brought home some of the
cake I made in cooking scnool. Newed
"So you're going to try to find out
what's the matter with it at your
leisure.' New York Sua.
"A young man, bis eye blackened,
his collar and necktie disordered, bis
coat torn, his hair totsing wildly, and
wearing no hat, was rushing aiong one
of the streets of the Back Bay, when be
encountered his best jjirj. "Oaf Hen.
ry!"sbe exclaimed in an agony of dis
tress, "I know it all! You have
seen father." Boston Post.
The ladies of Cambridge have formed
a club, under tbe name of "Cantabrigia.
The men' of Cambridge will find they
can't abridge women's rights as they
hare done heretofore. Lowell Courier.
He was a man of wonder! ully quiet
manners, and when his midnignt pil
grimage was painfully interrupted, lim
ply remarked, "I gue-s I'm on the
wrong tack." Washington Star.
Animals Eyes flag Trains.
"Yes, we have a good deal of experi
ence with wild animals," remarked an
engineer, "but not so thrilling as that of
the engineers on Western roads when
the bulfalo was common on the plains.
But there is enough still left of wild ani
mal life to make it interesting. The
eyes of the wolf, coyote, wildcat, jeck
rabbit, polecat and other animals look
like a red light when facing the headlight.
Did not these animals quickly undeceive
us by turning their heads, an engineer
might think his train was being flagged
and stop his engine. The wolf, wild
cat ard coyote are quick and jump from
the track, but the jackrabbit is less for
tunate. The headlight has a strange fas
cination for this animal and often it is
killed."-DeaTcrKcwf.