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r lie Sail sMrf Tmil tp Cn I. IS II ED EVKHV THURSDAY BY , STEWART. Editor ani Proprietor- SALISBURY, N. C. PRICE OF SUBSCRIPTION: eYear $1.50 : Mon-hs.... 1.00 rp Months ..... OU ;2P Advertising Hates by contract, asonable. Enlereil at the Post-OQke at Salisbury second-clasH matter. In response to New York's official tic :and for better transportation facilities le Manhattan Railway Company pro ose such improvements and extensions h elevated service as will expand New ork s "L system to four solid three- rack lines, two on each side of the city Co-operative or joint stock farming being conducted on a large scale in ic region of the Dombes lying between ourg-Enbresse and Lyons, France. Plantations, drainage, artiflcial fertil- ers Lave in twenty years . reduced the rea of marsh land by two-thirds, in reased the population by one-third, and 1 the same proportion diminished mor lity." ' Creameries are now at work in Tcn- cssee, .Mississippi, .Louisiana, boutn arolina, and North Carolina, and there no good reason why thi3 should not e the case in all the Southern States, iys the Shippers' Gazette, which fur- icr adds: In the Southern mountains ie business may be carried on every ay in the year, and butter of the finest uality may be there made for less cost lan elsewhere in the world. "Wales," says a Western Welshman, as given three Presidents to the United tates Jefferson, Adams and Monroe. homas Jellerson wa3 pure Welsh, too, nd the Welshmen of New York are ow organizing a movement to erect a rand monument to him. There are ,000,000 Welsh and their immediate escendents in this country, and over JOO.OOO pure Welsh and their first ascendents. The Welsh. Irish and :otch are, in my opinion, all off-shoots if the little band of Aryans that passed verfrom Little Brittany and settled on hat arc now the British Isles." When John Jacob Astor died in 1848 orth $25,000,000 he left $10,000,000 iore than the richest American before im. But in the last ten years at least vo men, w. xi, vanaeroiit ana tne cond John Jacob Astor, have died pith fortunes twice that size, and John ). Rockefeller is ordinarily estimated to e also worth $100,000,000. It is es timated that there are only seven Amer- in fortunes of over $30,000,000, Hunt- rgton, Sage, William Rockefeller, tanford, Mrs. Green and William As- jr; six over $20,000,000, D. O. Mills, krniour, Searles, Charles Crocker's es- ate, Henry Hilton and the L. S. Hig ;ins estate. Of fortunes over 10,000, lUO there are seventeen. The report of the Government's special gent in Alaska on the salmon fisheries oes not, in the opinion 6f the San Fran isco Chronicle, encourage the belief that ue supply of that region will be long uaintaincd. According to the state -ncut of the agent the men fishing on a arge scale and the . Indians arc equal Lflendcrs; against the laws, and are ap parently indifferent whether their actions esult in diminishing the supply or in reasing it. Not only does the ngent ell the story of the defiance of the large isheries, but he broadly intimates that mless some salutary restraint is placed ipou them in -a very short time the In- liau,. who depend very largely upon the almon for their food supply, will either tarve to death or become an expensive harc upon the Government. Captain Bower, the Thibetan explorer ias arrived in London, with a miss of alu.iblo information concerning that ittle known country, which he has col cote 1 pri nanly for the benefit ot the Indian Government. In the course of iiftoeti months of travel across the wildest part of the coantrv ho learned many ouriou and 'interesting facts about the inhabitants. His journey wa made during ls-Ul and IS 1)2, and Lis route was almost due west to east, starting from Lch or Lodak and crossing the track of some other explorers who had traversed the country from north to south. He crossed, anion othfrs. tho j route followed by M. Bonvalot, .the French explorer, an 1 his companion, Prince Henry of Orleans, but, like all other travelers in recent times, he found it impossible to enter Lhassa. Hi nearest point was alout 150 miles from the holy city. The priests are practi- eaflv . supreme ; in the country, but no where did ha meet with hostile treat ment irom the natives. The. Sikkirn war Las had a wholesome effect, and the Kuglishraan traveling in Thibet is now no danger. Some idea of the ditS- Pf tics and hardships of the journey may Y- gathered from the fact that much of tpe road was from fifteen to eighteen thousand feet above the level of the sea, and that f0r weeks together he and his Companions did not meet a single human being. . The United. States have a less per centage of blind people than any other country in the world. The Chicago Times avers that the late . H. Clark, of Newburg, N. Y., an amateur fruit grower, had on his cty lot a pear tree on -which he grew nearly 100 varieties of pears. The Indian Medical Record shows a terrible record ot deaths from cholera. In fourteen years, from 1877 to 1690, it declares that 1,000,826 persons have died in Bengal from cholera alone. 1 The reason given by Japanese officials for not adopting the steam apparatus for putting out fires is that tho native deal ers in building material and the artisans depend on the periodical conflagrations for a living. Walter B. Harris and R. G. Cunningham-Graham, two Londoners, assert that t they encountered in Southern Morccco, at the foot of the Atlas Mountains, a dozen or fourteen men, none of whom were over four feet and a half tall, who are believed to belong to a tribe who in habit the upper range of the mountains. ."No sooner have European aeronauts improved their balloons almost to the point of perfection for military uses than alonjr comes a Russian scientist with an apparatus which captures the rays of the sun and employs them to burn the bal loons. A Russian paper states that the balloons can be burned when at a dis tance of five kilometers from the person handling the apparatus. According to a poll ta'iea a few days ago there are in the Hou3e of the West Virginia Legislature thirty-six farmers, ten lawyers, sir merchants, two phy sicians, two editors, three miners, one manufacturer,one contractor, one miller, one clerk, one teacher. In the Senate there are eleven farmers, seven lawyers, one capitalist, one liveryman, one gtain dealer and one manufacturer. The Russian Government issued or ders that the one hundredth anniversary of the second partition ot Poland should be celebrated in that part of the country by general fetes and services in all the churches, by parades of the troops and by grand balls. General Gourko, the Russian Commander, gave a ball in honor of the event, and "invited'' all the leading members of the Polish nobility to attend. Many of them took to their beds and said that they were sick, and some openly refused to attend. Such measures on the part of Russia will hard ly tend to make the Poles contented with their subject conditions. The experiment of an electric street railway postal car, which had been tried in St. Louis, has been such a success as to warrant its use in other cities, notes the New York News. The St. Louis postmaster reports that the results have been eminently successful in every par ticular. The car is twenty-eight feet long, including the front and rear plat forms, and eight and one -half feet wide. It is fitted up inside somewhat like a railway postofEce, and is operated by a double dynamo, with a capacity of twenty-five miles an hour. The city and suburban route over which it travels is eighteen miles long, and the number of pieces of local mail received and deliv ered, at a saving of from four to five hours each, has been 300 to 500 daily. The Atlanta Constitution thinks "it would be an easy matter to collect sta tistics showing that we are destroying thi forests more rapidly, than they grow. The demand for teraber is greater than the supply, and the end must come, un less we take steps to reforest the country. We need tho annual growth of 400, 000,000 acres of timber to supply the home demand for one year, and our timber area is only 500,000,000 acres. One-third of this area is of no value, thousands of acres are destroyed by fire, and the shipments of lumber to foreign countries cut our supply short. But there arc other evils. Countries without timber suffer from droughts, arid winds, etc. The famine in Russia was caused by deforestation. The inspector general of Egyptian telegraphs says in his last report that the country between the Nile and the Red Sea is a dreary desert. Yet jess than 2000 years ago it was able to support troops of roving cavalry who picked up their living with ease in 'spots where, a lizzard would starve to-day. Palestine is now a great waste, but In Biblical timc3 thousands of horses, chari ots and men moved about over the coun try finding sustenauce everywhere. But the Arabs allowed their camels to devour the young trees in the valleys and the others were cut down and converted into' charcoal. In this way the land was turned into a waterless doscrt. We havs more than once described the calamities caused in the south or France by defor estation. California is now threatened with similar trouble from the same cause In fact, our entire ciuntry 15 in danger of the consequences following the los3 of its forests. Without reforestation, we may expect the south Atlantic slopes ia time to be denuded of their productive soil, and only barren and rocky wastes will remain, while the rivers, swollen tremendously by every rainfall will men ace and perhaps destroy the cities on their banks. The man who plants a tree is a public benefactor. We need more of this work organized, systematic frtr or' estrj and there is no time to be lost FROM DAWN TO SUNRISE. Breathe, sweet southwest, thy softest airs; Melt, golden vapor, In the bine; 5hine, silver tar, that morning wears; Light-beaxer, lead the day anew. Hild day of autumn, gravely glad. Teach the wild heart thy calm to know; loo keenly swift, from gay to sad. These pulses beat, these life-tides flow. Cool dew of dawn, that gently falls. O'er life's long fever waft thy spells. Deeper than tone of trumpet-calls'. The holy hush with morn that dwells. Cease, wayward heart, in gloom to stray; Greet the pure smile of living light; Before the awful eye of day Arise, O soul, in kindred might! Esther B. Carpenter, in the Century. A QUICK CURE. BT MRS. S. C. HAZLETT BEVIS. E OH, ee oh, ho ee!" What a sharp young voice it was; full of character and independence, and yet with indertone3 of undefined sweet ness, evidently need ing only cultivation to bring it into power. The girl, for it was one, stood just on the bank of a clear, running stream, which might have been either a river or a creek, it was wide, limpid and deep. Sht was tall and somewhat angular, a woman in height, but the' short cotton frock and short red hair, and something in the way she stood, spoke at ' once of youth fulness, had not her voice been heard. She was in her eighteenth year. With one long brown hand shading her eyes from the glaring autumn sun set, she stood apparently awaiting some one. All about her were the forest trees in their richest colorings, and the soft rustle of the leaves with the ripple of the water, was all that was heard for a moment after the shrill echo of her voice died away; then the big black dog lying at her bare feet growled, and sprang quick ly to his own. "Comin' at last," the girl said in an undertone, ae the dip of oars, at first faintly and then louder, fell upon her ears. "You're never tardy," she continued, with a slight sneer, as a small skiff, con taining one occupant, a ycu'ng fellow of about twenty-three years of age, rounded the point. He wore a suit of blue denims, a rimless straw hat, and his feet were also bare. He was dark almost to swartiness and his s black eyes gave a gleam of dissatisfaction for an instant, while the rich blood suffused his neck and face until it was fairly purple. "I ain't late," he said slowly, while a wide sweep of the oars with his strong aims and .brawny shoulders shot the little boat far upon the pebbly shore,like an arrow from a catapult. "Awful smart," the girl said sententiously, giving the huge brute at her side several sharp cuffs on nis ears to emphasize her words and give vent to her temper. "I wouldn't kill the dog cause yer mad at me," he said. "Kill nuthin'," she ejaculated sullenly. "What time d'ye reckon it is, Beechnut Lord?" "Nigh onto six, I guess," he answered quietly, stepptng from the boat and drawing it still further on shore. "Urn, um, it's after seven." He fastened the little craft, and then as she started up the path he followed her at the heels of the dog, and in much the same dejected way, through the thick, winding interlacing of leaves and vines. The faint tinkle of belU could be heard in the distance, as the trio followed, in the foot prints of the lowing kine; and anon the whir of partridges and twitter of night birds. Darkness fellas they reached the bars, where the big eyed cows stood in the fading grass and weeds, quietly waiting. Beechnut took down the bars and drove the cows into the yard, Wylie fol lowing with her pink sun bonnet on her arm, her sallow face full of discontent. He put up the bars again. ... "Good night," he said kindly, ana turned away. The big black dog still slunk at her heels, and skulked after her as she en tered the low doorway of an old log house, and then he crept under a coarse bed that stood in the corner of the low ceiled room, and laid down with a yawn. Wylie Adams gave a little start as she entered the room. A bright fire burned in the wide fireplace, over which hung an iron pot, from which issued savory doors. A tall, middle-aged woman was busy about the room, and a stranger sat before the fire in one of the few splint-bottomed chairs the cabin contained. He did not see Wylie when she entered, as he sat looking thoughtfully into the fire, but the .tall woman spoke. "Wall, yer cum at last?" Wylie made no reply, but a nod. and for the first time in her life looked down with a blush at her bare feet, which were both soiled and bruised- It was evidently something unusual for a stranger to be seen near Silver Creek, ana this stranger was certainly out of the ordinary, Wylie's daring spirit quailed. He turned and arose as Wylie s mother spoke, bowing and offering his chair. The gawky girl cast furtive glances at the stranger, and thought how fair and "good-lookin"' he was, how yellow his hair and blue his eves! so different from Beechnut, and other boys she knew. Once she discovered him looking keenly at her, and if she could have read his thoughts they would have been in this wise: "Not such a bad looking girl, if she was well dressed and educated. Nice eyes. . Badly tanneJ.- No, I .don t ad mire red hair. Most too thin and tall, and why does she go barefooted!" After the young man had besn given a ."tallow dip," and shown to the inner room, and the rude door closed after him for the night, Wylie crept to her father's side. "Who is he, Pap! an what doz he want hyert" "A young chap as is rich as all tnt out, an he's going to build a bi-r, tine house down thar by the old ford n t reckin hell bring bis folks hyer artcr I ibat, tho h didn't say." WfUe Adams didn't wait for mor- V, 17 . thm 1 , " j uu k I lou 8lle called her room; but the did oi go to bed ; she fa down on the floor 7 the tiny window, Nrith look on her f ? had nerer knOWa before, .' and patched the moon as it came slowly up through the trees and silvered the "ters ot the wide creeK. 'I hate him," she murmured, and -6u ft U7, cnuwug bkju. mere wu a glitter in her eyes that shone brightly under the radiance of the moon, and in ucr sensation uora 01 woe, mat this stranger was a usurper and had no right to this spot, these trees, this rip- pling water, this place- that seemed to ucr uavx uuu u omajo, mc UQU I was his before she was born. All night long she sat untU tne y broke, then with a pale face and w eary eyes, she crept down the ladder, and motioning to "Nil," the dog, who lay at the foot of the bed where her parents slept, the two went softly out in the early autumn J dawn and down to the old ford. Her heart ached so she was nearly ill. Tho' scarcely four o'clock. Beechnut Lord, her companion of the night pre- vious, was before her and unfastening his boat. out .hurried aw- .i VA I.AAm l " You here! ' she spoke almost He did not go till the next afternoon, fiercely. however, just before dusk; and when he "Yes," he answered humby, not ex- bidden Mr. and Mrs. Adams good pressing the surprise he felt at meeting bJe Wylie was not there, but waitirg her there at that early hour, nor making for bim outside; and when he passed any explanation as to his own conduct, bere she stood hidden, she stole after while the dull red crept up to the roots ilim M be strolled down toward the old of his black hair. 'on through the now almost leafless "What you follerinme fort" she trees man7 of which had been cut down asked savagely. anc 7 a huge piles about ; and catch- - Then he did look surprised, for to in UP with bim touched him lightly him it had seemed just the other way, uPon hand, and when he first caught a glimpse of He turned with a violent start: her dress through the trees, his heait 'Mr- Mr Anson," she stammered, gave a sudden bound, and for an instant Poor child, she was very innocent of only, he flattered himself she came be- the world's ways, and much to be pitied, cause he was there; but it was only for . He paused and looked at her in aston- an instant. He made no reply as he ishment. pushed the boat into the water and 'Well, what do you want! Have threw the chain in, preparing to follow. Jou come to sa7 good-bye? I remember "Yore alius in my way," she said roughly. He looked up quickly. "Am I?" deeply. "Yas, alius an' allu3. I wish you'd go away so fur 't I'd never see you ag'in." She sat down .and buried her face in her hands. "Do you really mean that Wylie Adams?" he asked as he stepped into his little skiff. "Yas," she nodded, "I do;" and then she heard the soft dip of the oars as the boat went from shore, and "Nil" a low, piteous whine, then all was still. Presentlv the head that was buried 0 ' I o-nve a low. Dire' in the long, brown hands fell over to one side and rested asramst the trunk of a tree, and Wylie Adams slept while the dog lay dozing at her side. Voices awoke her, and scrambling to her feet, she saw her father with the handsome stranger coming towards her. As ain the beautiful blush mounted her cheeks, and with one bound she was out of sight, and flying like a frightened bird through the trees and thick under brush. When she reached her humble home again, she paused at the watering trough and bathed her face, hands and feetj' . ' . , "Mother," she said, coming close to her side where she sat in the open door, "I m sick; can t I put on my shoes? Mrs. Adams looked up quickly; she was rough and uncouth, but the mother heart was there. "I d'clar fer't, ye look sick. Whar ye bin so airly, Wylie?" "Down yonder," the girl answered, nodding towards the creek; and gaining her mother's consent to don her foot wear, she hastened up to the loft and put on her one pair of best stockings, a mixed red and blue woolen, and her coarse cowhide shoes, changed her apron, smoothed down her hair, and came back and sat down in a chair near the fire- nlace. The weather was still warm and balmv, but she felt chilled through. None too soon, for her father and Mr. Howard Anson, the stranger, came in almost instantly. "What's up!" her father asked, see ing his daughter in holiday attire, while Mr. An3on, noticing the change, was too well bred to evince anv surprise: but he thought: ' "Why, she is quite pretty," and then forgot all about her. "I'm afeerd she's sick," Mrs. Adams answered, solicitously, and laid her coarse hand very geetly upon the girl's hot forhead. "Oh, I reckin hot," said- father, and turned his attention to his guest, who began making inquiries about procuring employes to fed the trees and prepare the ground for building Wvlie Adams and Beechnut Lord had grown up side by side on tne little woodland farms owned by their parents, . , . . , and each was an only child Wylie's was a nature always at war with itself, and yet, though she stung him with taunts and treated him worse than her dog, Beechnut toiled for her, waited upon her, and leved her with a dumb, hopeless sort of a devotion worthy of any woman's love, one might have said a better cause; but there were deep wells in Wylie Adams's nature, all un fathomed, and her capabilities for good and usefulness, and kindly turns were creat. That day Wylie learned tnat Mr. An son was to board with her parents for several weeks, a3 3Ir. Adams's house was the nearest of access to his building site, and although everything was of the plainest and coarsest, Mrs. Adams was very neat, and the young millionaire was sensible and content. The next morning Wylie went about the house as usual, but she still wore her shoes and stockings. When Mr. Anson returned to his supper that evening, there was a different light in his eyes, and he regarded the girl curiously. As day after day passed by, Wylie's repugnancs to him grew less, until she bean to long for nis presence. Hi3 very indifference drew her toward him. She besan to do many little favors for him, which he seemed to take as a mat ter of course. Poor child, she did not consider wealth, education, station or power as anything to be wished for, or as a bar- rier between herself and anything ttat ,a 5oairi Sho frpmipntFv withered fresh flowers and placed them in his room, but he always gave her mother the thanks for being so kind, and said nothing to her. Strange to say, she did not feel piqued her heart sank and a great lonliness stole over her. Child-lixe and ignorant, and wholly innocent of any wrong, she began dog gfcig his footsteps, and lying in wait for him as it. were, only that she might be near him. If he noticed it he did not an pear to at first, but be bezaa to frown 1 u then the hnt tr mm tier unaiijft nrano- to her eves and she hid in the boshes, and watched him from her little window ia the loft, fairly devouring him with her gaze, Matters continued in this way for some time, Mr. Anson not being able to get away as soon as he expected. Wylie be can to droop and grow pal ana spiritless, nnd yet in ail mis un she had never once given Beeehnut Lo one thought. "What'n hm TteechnutlT n mother asked her and she answered: "I dunno ner don't keer." "Wall, thets sinirler." Sirs. Adams r puea, "VOU leely dOtt t knOWl "No," sharply. The mother said nothing further; bTit she sighed, and noticed that evening fjor the first time how gladly and eageily Wylie waited upon Mr. Anson, andlw the red blood rushed to her sa'fow cheeks. J She shook her head dubiously When Howard Anson annound that he would leave Silver Creek the next morning, and could not tell tyhen he would return, Wyiie?s heart peat so tumultuou3ly she thought she would fall. now lDat 1 um noc see you at me uouse He extended his hand. She grasped it eagerly, and held it eagerly between her two cold, thic hands. "Don't you don't you care nuthin fer me, Mr. Anson!" meekly, with tho sound of tears in her voice. It seemed hardly possible that this wa3 the wilful, apprently cruel Wylie of a few weeks previous. "What do you mean?" he asked sternly. "I like you awful much," here she broke down and sobbed aloud. He took his hand from her detaining grasp, "Miw Adams," he said, "I am sorrv A L 1 1 Ior lQls 5 K nome i You QaYe Dea a Sre" annoyance to me; I Wish to never see Juu s'" uw DU" and then he strode on, leaving her stand ing there, cold, still and white, wishing she was dead. Somehow the words he uttered made her think of Beechnut Lord, and her last words to him. With a sudden revulsion of feeling, she cried out: "Oh, Beechnut, you liked me, you woulden' her treated me so; where are Tou, beechnut I Ana then a neavy footstep sounded near, and a brawny arm scoie aoouc ner waist. "Here 1 am, dearie. 1 jest reckin Beechnut wouldeu' her treated you that way, and I've come back in time to tell you so. Is it all right, Wylie?" She bad her long, thin arms about his neck, and whispered through her sobs and tears: "Ye're the bestest Beechnot in all the world." Woman's Work. A Great Desert North of Chicago. Within a hundred miles of Chicago begins a tract of 7,000,000 acres of land absolutely worthless in its present con- dition. It extends across Michigan from Grand Rapids to Saginaw, but in the greac aesert oi sana mere is occasionally an oasis covered with hardwood timber. .Lumbermen nave ciearea tne vast trace OI ,cs growen oi pine auu noW noming but stumps remain to show that the soil has ever been able to produce vegeta tion. Men who owned the land before it had been cleared of its timbers have refused to Pav tne xes its ownership imposes, aa( now tne mie to the property is held b7 the State subject to transfer to any- one willing to pay the accrued taxes. Representative A. T. Linderman, of Whitehall, Mich., who was recently at tQe Palmer House, claims that he knows a system f cultivation by which these lands can be made fertile. "While this tract of land is in its. Present condition, practically worthless," said Mr. Linder- mant "ifc is a burden to the people who Pay annually large sums of money to I clerKs wno transcribe tne delinquent tax lists. Lnder the present arrangement this work must necessarily be carried on indefinitely. Now the bill I propose to introduce will by its enactment stop this. The lands will be offered for sale by a board of commissioners. Under the provisions of the bill the money realized will be used for the establishment and maintenance of aa experimental station to educate the holders of thes-3 lands in its cultivation. It has been proved by tests that the land can be tilled by a sim ple method that can be explained to the purchasers very briefly and through the experimental station higher cultivation can be obtained. 1 fully believe that in this way this hitherto uselesj land -can be made productive and valuable." Cnicago Herald. A Moiera Cjcloys. Doctor Bruce, of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland, has read a p3oer before the members cf that institution describing a case Of human cyclopia, or "single eye." The case, which was brought to his notice long enough before the meeting of the society to give plenty of time for a careful analysis of it, 13 one of the mst remarkable in medical litera ture. Tee skull of the infant possessing j this rare ca-eof "single eye" is provided j with but one eye socket, lozenge in i shape, situated in the center of the fore- head just at the "root of the nose." This socket is furnished with two pairs of j eye ads, upper and lower, both sets being I perfect in shape and action. The nose j of the monstrosity was as badly "oat of j line" as the eye itself, being represented 1 b7 a tissue attached to the forehead above the eve, as noted, was a medial optic. After the death of this single eyed creature a post-mortem microscopic examination of the eje was made. A carefully prepared statement of the facts thus adduced shows that the socket con tained two rudimentary eye besides the optic, which peeped naturally from be tween the eyelids; also, that these were provided with separate rudimentary re usr, appearentlj springing from a sin ele optic Ttticle. St. Louis Republic POPULAR SCIENCE. i erica nses seventeen railroad pue estimated mean distance of tne mi from the center of the earth is 23S,- J3 miles. Ice made at zero temperature will last longer than that made at eighteen and twenty degrees. 1 Electricity is now u?ed for making forgings, augers, ball bearings and other articles hitherto made by hand. It is a hard matter to freeze tricbiofr. After being subjected to a temperature of twenty-five below zero for two hour?, they again become active when exposed to light and heat. From Stratos, in Acarnania, M. Joubin reports the discovery, besides the re mains of an ancient temple, of the single archaic inscription in genuine Acarnian dialect that-has hitherto come to light. In a lecture delivered before the Massa chusetts Institute of Technology Pro fessor Sedgwick said he had traced the course of an epidemic of typhoid fever and found that it just matched the route of a milkman. That fishes may be afflicted with can cer has been shown by Professor Scott, of New Zealand. Those having this dis ease wera all specimens of the American brook trout confined in one of the ponds belonging to the Dunedin Acclimatiza tion Society. While workmen were engaged at the bottom of one of the caissons sinking in the Missouri River, near its mouth, for the erection of a railroad bridge, it is re ported that they discovered a human skull directly above a limestone stratum. The skull, it is stated, was in a fair state of preservation. ' It is quite possible to make sugar from carrots; and, indeed, carrot juice con tains more than ninety per cent, of saccharine matter. As carrots are ex pensive abroad, foreign suorar manufac turers prefer beet roots. Very few peo ple know that cow's milk contains about five per cent, of sugar. A noted geologist of Parts, M. La grange, who is making scientific re searches in the valley of Santa Cruz, Ari zona, made the astounding discovery that a : biped lizard stegosaas, only known hitherto among the rocks of the Silurian epoch, is found in living specimens in the valley near Tuscon, Arizona. The only change in the creature is in the size, otherwise the prehistoric and modern creatures are identical. There are very important evidences of internal heat derived frym the universal phenomenon of a fairly uniform increase of temperature in all deep wells, mines, borings or tunnels. This increase has been usually reckoned as ond degree Fahrenheit for each sixty feet of descent, but a recent very careful estimate by Professor Prestwich, derived from the whole of the available data, gives one degree Fahrenheit for every 47.5 feet of descent. It is a curious indication of tho universality of this increase that even in the coldest parts of Siberia, where the soil is frozen to a depth of 620 feet, there is a steady increase in the temperature of this frozen soil from the surface down ward. Curiosities of Sheep. Sheep are social creatures, alwiy3 in flocks, giving an almost human interest to the landscape, writes Belle P. Drury. The Hebrew name for sheep signifies abundance. From earliest times sheep have been under control of man. Fre quent allusion is made to them in the Bible. The ancient Greek poets, He3iod and Homer, wrote of them, as did also early Roman authors. In the age of Augustus, Rome had large flocks. Strabe speaks of a fine specimen that sold for $750. Henry VIII. of England import ed great numbers. Maria Theresa had them brought into Germany for the im perial farm. Although England is smaller in area than the largest State of our Union, yet she is said to have twenty-three distinct sorts of sheep, while the United States has less than a dozen. Our first importation which re sulted in the propogation of pure breeds was about 1802, but it is said that the founders of St. Augustine had brought the Merino to Florida fifty years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth. Sheep have a wide geographical distribution, and vary much in form, size and color. They can live on anything edible, even on flesh and fish when other things fail, as sometimes happens in Norway and many cold countries. No kind is in digenous to North America except the Rocky Mountain sheep. Sheep have been used in some places as beasts of burden. There are lare sheep dairies, as in Roquefort, France, where some 250,000 supply milk foi the factory where the celebrated Roque fort cheese is made. Tne tail of a kind of sheep in the Orient called the "broai tailed" i3 as large as one-fourth the dressed carcass in weigut, and is regard ed as a table delicacy. Tne tail is often so large that for its support a tittle cirt is placed under it and fastened to the sheep. As an experiment, to sec how the broad-tailed will thrive in this coun try, a few have been imported into Cil- ifornia from Kurdistan, Persia. Bells j help to repel the sneaking dogs, wnich are cowards and afraid of detection. In view of the great losses farmers spitain on account of canine ravages, it would be well if all of our States live! up to a good a law as tt;at of Massachusetts in 1648, which reads: 'If any dogge shall kill any sheepe the owner shall either hang his dogge forthwith or pay double damage for ye sheepe. It ye dogge hath been seen to course or bite any sheepe before, not bein sette on, and his owner had notice thereof, then he shall both hang his dogge and pay for ye sheepe." New York fribunj. Smallest Country in the World. The smallest country in the world : is said to be the territory of 3Iorenct, which lies between ..Belgium and Ger many. Its 2000 inhabitants are mostly occupied ia tin mining, alt&ouga . agri culture is also engage i" ia. 3Iditary tcr vice and election days are uokcowc. The Senate of tea memoer i? appointed bv the 3Iiyor, uo is chorea br'txo delegates, one from B;lgium and one Irom Germany. The pohce force crassi oi one man, whose sa'ary is pruvidel br the annual revenue (aoout $213), 'which i also maintains the roads and school. The territory was declare! independent i in 1S13, to kettle the dispute wnea the boundary was fixed between Germaay i and Belgium, both countries wanting its , tin mices. It contains oaly tiro aai J one-halt square mile. Pabac Opiaioa. JL WHITE VVORL.D. I never knew the world in whit So beautiful could be, . As I have seen It here to-day Beside the wintry seat . A new earth, bride of anew heaven. Has been revealed to nie The sunrise blended wave and elouJ In one broad flood of gold. But touched with rose the worlis wait robes In every curve and tdi : While the blue air did over all Its breath in wonder hold. Earth was a statue hlt awaks Beneath her Sculptor's hani. How the Great Master beads with love Above the worK He planned I Easy it is, on such a day, To feel and understand. m Lucy Larcom. PITH ANDP01NT. A love knot- No. A dog show Teeth. Stone blind A cat's eye. Puck. Open to conviction Penitentiaries. Every man is a hero to his imagination. A question of identity What's your namet" :' A cash balance The scales of justice. Puck. That is another story," & the builder said when ordered to run the walls up higher. Troy Press. Truth may be stranger than fiction, but in literature it hasn't as high a mar ket value. Boston Courier. "When a man unexpectedly steps into a fortune he can not be upbraided for having put his foot in it. Puck. Pin not your faith to any man Who leels no throb of joy. When to the circus he's a chanc3 To chaperon a boy. Puck. People finally get onto the man who is always volunteering to oblige his friends, but who never does it. Atchi son Globe. You may freeze, jou may bust the gas meter if you will, but at the end of the month just the same, there's the bill. Williamsport Republican. " What is pillage, papa?" "It is charging a dollar for eight cents' worth of pills, my son. It is a very lucrative business." Harper's Bazar. Procrastination steals our time, The sages gravely say. It is injustice; he but takes The time we throw away. Washington Star. "Death loves a shining mark," said the man who was engaged in selling mythical fortunes ia ore, 4,but luckily it's different with a mining shark." Washington Star. Edison is quoted as declaring that tho man of the future will be able to do without sleep altogether. This im plies the extinction of-the policemen. Washington Star. Solitude builds ud the strength: so- A cj ciety pulls it down. It is tho necessity of having to meet so many people that turns the able-bodied lemon to circus 1 1 - T 1 , Magistrate "Your nana was louna in the prosecutor's pocket. Havo you anything to say!" Prisoner "Only that I used to be a lawyer, your worship, and habit is strong." Pick Me Up. Gilgal "If you want anything well done, do it yourself, is a good rule.. Mullins "I know a better one. If yod want anything well done, tell the waiter to bring it rare." Elmira Gaaette. Let dark-frowning plunkity rub-a-dub-dub. And the snickersnee pizzie-te-bum; We'll guzzle the muzzle of blubberty-blub -To the soft-wailing rum-a-turn-turn. Harold Pavne, in Truth. Primus "Why does Boswell wear that monocle?" Secondus Oh, there's an English girl uptown who is the apple of his eye, and he's trying to cultivate her under glass." Kate Field's Wash ington - Visiter "Are you going to be a shoo merchant, like your father!" Johnny "Naw. I'm going into some business where I can afford to give my little boyV a dime whenever he wants iu" Indian apolis Journal. "Johnny, you have left the door open, and are letting the cold air into the house." "I can't help it, ma. I'm playing this room's a street car and I'm the conductor. It would not seem real if the door was not left open." Buffalo Express. "Who is that roan with the loud voice and the loud clothes and the loud man ners?" said the commercial tourist whoso efforts to sell goods had been ruthlessly interrupted. "That," was the reply, 'is the firm's silent partner."- Washing ton Star. All red (rapturously) "Now, darling, please name the happy day." Minnie (blushingly) "Three weeks from next Thursday, Alfred." Norah (through the kevhole 4If mil Tllonco initi thot'a my day out. You'il have to rit married in the early part of the week." Tit-Bit. Walking Mania or a Woo Icliopper. Brick Maznirc, a brawny woodchop per, was admitted to ithe County Hos pital recently suffering from locomotor ataxia. This peculiar malady is de scribed as a disease of the spinal cord, which cauftcs a patient to lose alt control of bis gait. When the fits come on the sufferer starts walking. He x must go .straight ahead, he can turn neither way, and mast be stopped by some peroa or obstacle or he will walk himself to death. Mtiguire has the .diiease in iti worst form. A few days since a fit came on, and be walked full tilt into a tree with force enough to stun him. When he was revived he ecaped from hi attend ants and walked into a deep poal of water. At the hospital he walked throu:h'the dining-table aa l collided with a hot stove. He it now kept strapped to a bank to prevent Lira from walking through the walls. Holhster (Cal.) Advocate. An Odd Fisa. One cf the oddest fi?hes thai, ever Ewarn ia any tea If that known to n itur-aiist-s under the unattractive nam-? of "ophioccpbalui." A specie of ?r found ia the Sea o! Galilee, w cro it builds a nest, which for beauty ol ds tign aad elegance of workmanship excel the efforts of the majority of feathered cestbuildera. Its favorite spot for build leg is in an old root or rock projecting under the water, and the material con sists of seaweed, grass and leaves. Itochestei Times.
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