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Weeping for another' woe,
Tears row then that would not flow'
When our arrow was ortr own.
And tile deadly, stiffening blow
Was upon our own heute given
In the moments that hare flown I
Cringing at another's cry
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But another brings tin day.
-Itore Flawthome Lathrop, in the Century.
LOVE OR FAME.
BT c. it. ewsn.
or Brcvmin, the famous impres
swio, rode slowly down the country road
smoothing now and again his horse'l
chestnut mane, like the judge in Whit
tier's poem. It was a charming day in
early April, and, although not by any
means a lover of rural life, the gallant
major found it quite impossible to look
unmoved upon the beautiful stretch of
the country with its-low hills, its clus
tering trees, its breath of early flowers.
He hummed softly the favorite song of
the opera, which was at once his joy and
bis annoyance.
A bird poised on a 6waying limb com
menced a charming song without words.
The major halted and listened. The
. tiny songster, unabashed by the pres
ence of the famous critic, poured out its
wonderful flood of melody; trills that
would have made a prima donna die of
envy, quivered from his tiny throat.
Sweeter and fuller rose the joyous notes,
lling the air with their rapturous min
strelsy, until, as if enamored of its own
voice, or, perhaps, overcoaae by the sight
of his admiring auditor, the singer
plumed his wings and soared up into
the blue.
The major clasped his hands enthusi
astically. "I acknowledge the p rfec
tion of your manner, the charm of your
voice, but why are you not a womin' able
to take the part of Julia in my unfortu
nate opera? Why have Hound a musical
penius if I cannot find a voice for my
heroine? I want nothing more only a
voice, and I long in vain."
The major was growing tragic, he
clutched his hands in mock despair, and
went moodily on his way when but let
the major tell the story in his own words.
It was after dinner on the same day, and
he and his friend, Colonel Forrester, of
the Priory, were lingering over their
coffee.
"You know, Guy, that when I left you
after breakfast for a ride I was still out of
soils. I have fold you of my new opera;
you knew that I needed a soprano to take
the leading role something new. The
music is phenomenal, I wanted a marvel
ous voice. The first thing I heard was
w hat the poets call a 'feathered songster.'
I wish you could have heard him he
could fill the part superbly, but he flew
away ; they all do. 1 shall never feel safe
until my young lady has signed her con
tract. You jcan't imagine the trouble I
have undergone, the miseries I have en
dured season after season, just to please .
grumblers like yourself. I have to please
everybody ; prima donna, prima donna's
husband, her stage lover, the public,
the"
Colonel Forester .laughed and filled the
majors cup. "I understand; but what
about your new discovery?"
"AU in good time. Well, as I left my
bird or after he left me, rather, I went on
my way regretting that so much sweet
ness should be lost, when I heard a
woman's voice a woman's, did I say?
Barbarian, savage! An angel's voice;
the voice of a seraph. I rode on quickly
in the direction whence the clearest, full
est notes even I have ever heard issued
and I beheld her. A girl of eighteen or
so, "tall, slight, with a face as lovely as
her voice. I couid have fallen on-, my
knees before her ejaculating faintly, 'my
deliverer' but I didn't."
"Glorious !" laughed the colonel; "let
me finish jour story for you. I know
her have known her since we were
children at least since she was a child;
you can tell me nothing. She is an or
phan, she is poor, she is ambitious. Her
name is Mary Percival, her home is with
a shrewish step-aunt, if tmch a relation
ship can exist, she is very lovely, her
voice is marvelous, but" here the
gentleman paused, enjoying the eager ex
pectancy of his friend's face "but, mad
emoiselle has a lover; a stern young man
who thinks it a sin to laugh, who looks
upon the theatre as the bottomless pit
who but, in short,give it up, Fred, you
can never succeed."
"Give it 'up! Aimaico mio,'-you don't
know women; I do. I spoke to her; I
told her of the power which lay concealed
within that glorious voice of hers ; I pic
tured glowingly the happy Jife of a fa
mous singer; I waxed eloquent until I
startled myself. 'Give it up?' You will
hear her next season on the stage the
fairest prima donna of the century."
Colonel Forester leisurely lit another
cigar; then lazily watching the wliite
rings of smoke ascend, said carelessly:
"All very true as to the wealth and fame,
but Miss Percival is engaged to a young
civil engineer now in Mexico. I have un
derstood that they will be married upon
his return to England. Alfred Temple is
a man of too much pride and ability to
permit his wife to appear on the stage as
what would you call her? Madame
Templino?"
In no wise disconcerted Major Brown
ing hummed softly the favorite song of
his new opera.
"Charming, is it 'not? And then he
face ! What eyes ! what a mouth ! what
expression! As she stood there in the
sunlight in her white dress, a half,
startled look on her young face, one
slender hand clasping her lovely throat
she why, positively, I never felt so
old, so blase, before. The man is fortu
nate who wins that exquisite creature
but she will be Julia in the opera of my
rising young genius Ramon Del Camp..
You know him!. No!" Then the con
versation branched off from Mary Perci
val to the Spaniard, whose music was to
set all the world wondering a little .late
in the year.
Still, when Major Browning rose to
retire for the night, Colonel Forester re
turned once more to the charge. "Mark
my words, you will fail yet."
"Fail ! You should have seen her face'
as I pictured her glorious future to her.
It was an easy conquest. 'When has
love ever given way to ambition?'
you asked the other day. A little
while, and you shall see that in
a woman's heart is no love like the
love of "fame. The applause of- kings
against the tame common-place of a .hus
band's affection! Nonsense, Guy, you
are behind your age ! Fred Browning, .
late of the the, old Grey, with a glitter
ing bait can give the odds to handsome
Alfred Temple. Still, I will be generous ;
he shall' have a complimentary ticket
during the season."
"Most kind, most noble ! But we shah,
see.what we shall see."
"Which will be MUsTerciTal as Julia,'
the hew prima donna witli the face of an
fcnjgel and the Voice of the bird I heard
this morning. Give up, indeed T The
gallent major's face of disgust was a study
as he left the room.
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ii. J- rm Mary. Pcrc4lval 881
225. nng OVeI v'he BtTFrI
words. The one regret her proud heart
had ever experienced since she had be-
came Alfred Temple's promised wife, was
while he should be toiling for her in his
far Mexican home, she, too, could win
laurels and wealth. She had never been
farther from her qufet village home thaw
to the neighboring county town; she
knew as much of the world and its pleas
ures and miseries as her little baby-cousin
sleeping peacefully in its mother's anus
In the next room.
She had listened to Major Browniug'f
description of what her reception would
bo by the world; she had seen herself in
the crowded concert room, had heard the
applause of a cultivated audience, or, be
te still, had felt the rapt silence as h'-.r
voice lhrllk-1 all hearts. And then
Alfred! Firstl o glory in her triumph,
first to harr ;:i her fame how delighted
h would b s!ir;n the world should reu
. i-r its br-ning? to her. !
"x'hen M i j r Browning called upon
Y-f in the la-jrninjr, he made known more
iV.Uy hi ! in - A-h i'ioked upon her
f-xquis;t: iu:-e :m 1 hear i again her rich
' oicc, h'; was aru..i to an enthusiasm
u.'iu-ual tr a man of his somewhat phleg
matic temperament.
When he left her she had agreed to all
his wishes. She would receive the in
struction of the mter he would procure
for her; she would carefully study the
part of Julia; she would appear in one
grand Concert before a chosen audience
then, and then only, would she consent
to sign a contract for a specified length
of time.
"Because, after all," she said gaily,
"you may find me condemned by the
voice of public opinion, and then what
would you do?"
"After I had expressed my opinion as
to tha merits of your voice, my dear
young lady," he said superbly." "You
will pardon me, but you Bhow great
modesty" he hated to say ignorance of
his reputation as art critic and connois-seur--"great
modesty. I fear you will
not retain that humble opinion of your
self a year from now ; you will be like
the rest of the wrld then fully con
scious of your powers. We all are," he
added quickly, as he saw the swift flush
rise to her fair young cheek. "Now,
once more, if you will so honor me," and
he led her to the piano with the courtly
grace he had found so taking with women.
"She is a wonder, a marvel, Guy," he
said enthusiastically to his friend that
night; "she will be a revelation to all
London next season. If only I had that
contract signed by that fairy hand, I
would snap my fingers at Fate a happy
man.
. It was the eventful night of Mary Per
cival's life the night of her debut ; the
night which .would set the seal of public
opinion upon Major Browning'B dictum;
the nfght to make or mar her prospects.
The great hall was comfortably filled
by the select audience bidden to judge
of Major Browningls discovery. London
had contributed her rank and fashion,
her learning and wealth to give elegance
and tone to Miss Percival's debut. The
leading papers had each sent its reporter,
armed with pencil and notebook to jot
down his impression of the young debu
tante. First of all there was an orchestral
overture, to which every one listened
with well-bred composure and lack of
enthusiasm ; then followed a dashing and
brilliant pianiste in one of her own dash
ing compositions ; then blase opera-goers
roused ' themselves to interest ; languid
fine ladies allowed themselves to look
eagerly at the beautiful young creature
who came forward with all the ease and
grace of manner born of inate refinement.
A lovely girl in the floating white drap
eries with clusters of red-berried holly
looping her dress and lying against the
chestnut waves of her hair.
It was the realization of Mary's dreamv
All those faces before her were merely
visions she had seen that night in her
quiet room ; she knew they were around
her, but their presence embarrassed her
less than when she had felt them with her
that still April night. She heard the
opening chords of the accompaniment,
she saw the major's anxious face and could
not, for the life of her, repress the queer
feeling of amusement which took posses
sion of her for the moment. Then 6he
sang sang as never woman sang before.
It was a song which the young Spaniard
had written for her, a song which breathed
the soul of music in every rapturous note.
Eyes that had not wept for years saw
the white-robed singer through a mist ;
women drooped their faces behind their
fans to hide from other eyes the tears
which filled their own. Fuller, clearer,
sweeter the marvelous voice rose and
soared through the vast hall with the
fresh ecstatic fullness of a lark's silver
voice, then it died downlo silence the
silence which could be felt, and Mary
knew what is meant by winning one's
laurels.
She did not respond to the encore, but
later in the evening she "'again came for
ward to receive a perfect ovation.
Again she sang an old English ballad.
As sue finished, those nearest to her de
tected a rich rose flush rise to her face,
and 6a w that a look of recognition seemed
to flash from her eyes to the eyes of some
one in the audience.
Behind the scenes the ovations contin
ued. 7 With, sweet, shy lips she an
swered the words of her admirers, the
rose still pulsing in her cheek but she
cared for it so little, for a few minutes
before she had seen across the sea of faces
the face of Alfred Temple.
Madame Arditi's brilliant playing
emptied the room of all save Mary and
Major Browning.
"You are satisfied that I was not mis
taken," he said, exultingly.
"It has been too wonderful," she an
swered sof tly ; straining her ears for the
sound of that well-known step.
"You are not afraid to occasion me a
terrible loss now, I fancy?" he went on
smilingly. "The world shall see you
and hear you as Julia after all" but she
was paying no heed to him, she was
across the room, her hands clasped in the
strong, brown'hands of her lover. '
Very cold, very stern his face; his
voice quiet as if they had met after a
separation of a day instead of two years.
'You did not receive my letter?" he
asked. "The letter in which I announced
my intended return."
"I have been in London for a weekj",
she answered, her heart beating violent-.
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t - 1 ' " ' " " ' - ' " " -
ly, "I did not know you were coming
home so soon." 4.
"I have had an excellent position of
fered .me in England, but here i
quiver broke his voice "it would have
been better forme had I not accepted it."
"Why not? I do not understand
you."
! "No!" Then he broke out bitterly,
j "I come home to. you, the 3Iary whom I
! left so short a time a time a?o. and what
4 do I find? Have you given me up, that
I find on the stage of a concert room the
! woman who was my promised wife?"
3iajor Browning groaned audibly. He
only need to look from young Temple's
set white face to Mary's tearful eyes to
know that he stood in great danger of
,osing his young singer. He drew near
and bowed graciously to the young man.
"Pardon me," he said blandly, "but I
think I have the pleasure of speaking to
Mr. Temple?"
Alfred bowed stiffly.
"Allow me to explain the rather be
wilderinj? state of affairs." he said, smil-
tingly; and then in his own "inimitabli
j maaner he related the whole occurrence
j "But I knew it was all up with me,'
he said afterward to Colonel Forester
"The moment she turned to him and
asked in that low, sweet voice of her's,
what he thought of it all. 'Thought of
it' why, the fellow was black as thun
der as he said, stiffly, thot he thought so
much of it that this was not the place tu
discuss the matter."
"You are not angry?" she askeo,
softly.
" Angry? With you?" Then he said,
.very quietly, "Is it your intention to ac
cept this gentleman's terms to become
an opera singer?"
"I had thought so for a little whilif.
You know I did not expect you home fo
noon."
Then for a last attempt Major Brown
ing said in his quick, decided way;
' 'The whole affair can be easily settled
at oace. Miss Percival, will you 6ign th'3
promised contract? Your success is al
sured, your fortune secured ; there is
nothing which you can desire the signiug
of your name to this paper will not give
you. Fame, wealth '
" On the other hand," said Alfred, "I
can offer you very little ; neither "wealth
nor fame only an honest name and a
man's true heart."
Mary looked from one to another, the
wild rose flush in her cheek, her soft
bright eyes misty and then she smiled
divinely and put her hand in Alfred
Temple's strong clasp.
"Without a word, I assure you, Guy.
And my ship went down, down to the
bottomless ocean, and poor Julia still
waits for her breathing semblance;"
"What did I tell you?" laughed the
colonel, gaily
Love and Blockade-Running.
In an article in the Philadelphia Times
On blockade-running, Rear Admiral J. J.
Almy, U. S. N., relates the following in
cident :
Love and matrimony once came in as
incidents in the course of this blockade
service. Ports and towns may be block
aded, but loving hearts can never be, al
though hard-hearted parents sometime
attempt it.
When the Gro3'hounl was captured
vessels and cargo adjudged by the prize
courts to be worth half a million dollars
among the passengers on boa id was ihe
noted Belle Boyd, who had been a prisoner
before in the war in the hands of Genernl
Butler, and had been made somewhat
famous by her general deportment, her
speeches, and her pertness. The Grey
hound was taken to Boston, was adjudged
a lawful prize, and was condemned. Bell.
Boyd and the other passengers and off!
cers and crew were released and permit
ted to go wherever they pleased. FroF
Boston they all went to Halifax and from
thence to England.
The prize-master of the Greynound vs
a young volunteer officer with rank of
acting master in the United States navy,
and rather a good-looking fellow. It
seems that while on board of the Grey
hound he and Belle Boyd became greatly
interested in each other and their feel
ings ripened into affectionate friendship.
After they separated ' at Boston a
fervent correspondence was commenced
and continued between them and they
became engaged. He resigned from
the Federal navy and proceeded
to England and they were married in
Liverpool. Subsequently she wrote an
interesting book about her life and ad
ventures, in which she gave a graphic,
account of her courtship and marriage,
with all attending incidents. Her caree
was certainly full of the most eventful,
heroic and romantic features a carcrjr
softened arid varied at the same time,
and which showed that hearts could be.
captured as well a-; blockade runners.
It may not be generally known, or may
have been forgotten by the public, that
iBelle Boy 1 was a daughter of General
Boyd, of the Confederate army, who
died while a prisoner to the Federal
forces. He possessed vast estates in
Virginia, early embraced the cause of
Southern independence, and was sooa
intrusted with n general's command.
His daughter Belle enthusiastically cm
braced the same causo, followed her
father to the field, and accompanied him
throughout his campaign. On two
occasions, like a mod r.t Joan of Arc,
she heroically led on the troops to brittle.
She was, however, Raptured in a skir
mish, and was a prisoner for thirteen
months, as previously mentioned. Then
she was exchanged for General Cochr.me,
who had been made prisoner by the Con
federates. After alll these years I re
member her second jcapture and its re
sults with amused interest.
The President's Husical Taste.
"President Cleveland has a good eaj
for music, but his. favorite tunes are
popular enough, goodness knows," write?
a Washington correspondent of the Bos
ton Traveller. 'Since he has been in th
White House he has said that there wert
two melodies that he was always glad to
listen to. When questioned in regard tc
them, he replied that they were 'Auld
Lang Syne' and 'Listen to the Mocking
Bird.' He enjoys the lighter music,
and is particularly fond of negro melo
dies. A minstrel entertainment pleasei
Mr. Cleveland beyond anything else, bul
he will not shy at a comic opera, pro
viding the music is bright and clever and
the girls pretty and interesting. Th
President is very much like the rest of ui
in this respect. He hasn't been a regulai
patron of the theatre since he has been it
Washington, but that is probably owinj
to the fact that the entertainments havn'i
been to bis liking when he has had .thi
leisure to attend. Mr. Cleveland doesn'l
take much interest in the emotiona
drama, the melodramatic or tragedy, be
cause he goes to the theatre to be amused,
and as a pleasant . relaxation from thi
duties and -responsibilities of his higl
ttosition." . . . .
THE BAD BOY ON MAD DOGS.
THE IJTTLB IMP 6CAJLES HM PA
AZTD THE OKOCEBYMAU".
Taking Advantage of he Hydro
phobia Scare to Play Fresh
Pranks New Vaccination Schemed
"Mad
bad bor.
dog!
jiaa aogr i
dog!" shouted the
as he rushed into the grocery
he
store, iumned under the counter and
crawled behind the barrel of lamp white
sugar. "Hide yourself quick or you are
a dead man." The grotjeryman was
cutting a slice off a cheese for a servant
girl with a shawl over her head. His
first idea was to run down cellar, but" the
girl slid down there, so the groceryman
s!mTlv iumDod into a croekerv crate and
laid down and perspired. He wished
every .dog in the world was dead.
Presently he heard a crunching behind
the counter, as of lump sugar being
chewed by a boy, and he raised up out
of the crockery crate slowly, got out of
it and walked on tip-toe behind the coun
ter, and took the bad boy by the ear and
lead him out by the stove, and emptied
about a hatful of sugar out of his pockets.
Then he looked at the boy. The boy
began to froth at the mouth, and snap
with his tceh, and he said:
"Oh, vaccinate me, quick. I am bit."
The groceryman gave the boy a kick
in the pantaloons, anl said:
"There, you are vaccinated. That is
the first application of Fasteur's treat
ment. If ycu feel spell", coming on
agxin. I will give yci more so'e leather;
virus in your system. What do you
mean coming in here yelling mad dog,
and scaring my customer. down Cellar?"
and the gfocerymau wrapped up the
Cheese and called the girl out of the
cellar, and sent her home.
"Oh, I only wanted to see if you were
a coward. But you ain't, oh, no. You
only went into the crockery crate head
first just for fun. Say. do you believe in
vaccination?" and the boy brushed some
straw off the groceryman's coat.
"Yes, I do," said the groceryman.
"The science of vaccination is the great
est discovery of this or any age," and he
turned the boy round to give him
another kick.
"Well, so do I," said the boy as he put
the stove between himself and the
groceryman. "The time is coming when
vaccination is going to be used fox every
thing. I believe the t'tae will come
when criminals will be prevented from
committing crime by vaccinatioriJ For
instance, suppose you were a thief, and
everybody knew it. I don't say you are,"
said the boy, as the groceryman picked
up a piece of a barrel head, "though
your symptoms are favorable. But sup
pose you were a thief. Take an honest
man, one everybody knows to be honest,
and vaccinate him, and when it begins to
work, take some of the virus and
vaccinate you. As soon as it began to
work on you, your power of lift
ing things that did not belong to you
would be gone. You v, o dd become an
honest man in spite of yourself, by vac
cination. I don't say it could be made
to work on you, but it might. If my
scheme works, and universal vaccination
is established, there will be no more
crime. Then they will vaccinate bank
cashiers against defalcations, and with
the virus from an honest minister, say. the
cashier can't steal to save him. And that
will be a good way to whip Sullivan.
Let him be vaccinated from virus taken
from a peaceable Quaker, and Sullivan
would become a man of peace, and any
of the boys could go up and swat him in
the month, and he would go off and cry,
and say he would tell his mother. The
only thing I am afraid of is that they
will get to using vaccinaMon in politics."
"Oh, don't go on in that way, you
weary me." ra'd the groceryman, as he
took a wash dish of water and a whisk
broom, and began sprinkling the floor,
preparatory . to the regular semi-annual
sweeping out, "Tell me what the com
motion was over to your house last h'!ght?
I heard your father had to be dug out of
the coal pile under the sidewalk. How
did he get there?"
"Well, I'll te'.l you. It was all his
fault. You see, we have been excited
ab-ut th;s mad dog scare, and 1 1 asked
pa what he would do if he met a mad dog.
I told him he would get up and dust, but
he said he would grab the dog by the
hind legs and beat his brains
out. He S8id men were cowards gener
ally, ne bated to see men g3t fright
ened and run when any calamity
happened. I thought I would
try pa, 'cause I never heard
of hi3 showing much sand. So I
took our black setter dog and took pa's
hither brush and put lather all around
the' dog's mo".th for foam. Then I took
one of these little rubber bands and put
it around the dog's upper jaw. That
jnade the dog open his mouth and show
his teeth, and chew, so as to get the rub
ber off. But the dog wagged his tail all
the time, 'cause he knew it was only one
my jokes on him, and he wasn't mad.
But he did look savage. When pa came
in from down town at supper time I was
up stairs with the dog. and I let him go,
and he went down 6tairs on a gillop to
welcome pa. He thinks everything of
pa. Pa saw him coming and he saw the
foam on his mouth, and pa's hair just
raised right up. The dog was going to
jump up on pa as usual, and have pa
t ake off the rubber band, but pa yellei,
"Take him off! He's mad I Hannrr, !ock
yourself in the closet and telephone for
the patrol wagon." Well, you'd a dide
to see pa. He jumped right over the dog
and went down the cellar stairs at two
jumps, and crowded in the coal bin
under the kindling wood. I wiped the
lather off the dog's mouth and took the
rubber band off, and me and the dog
went down cellar arid hunted pi out!
When pa saw our dog wagging his tail
and acting so happy, and no froth on his
mouth, he came out, and then he said,
'That settle it. T 'drank an egg-nog
Mown town and it went to my Head aria
I thought I sow egg-nog all over the
Log's nose and mouth and I thought he
vasmad. Poor doggie 1 No more egg
aog for your Uncle Ike.' And then pa
rawled out of the coal bin and gave me
a If a dollar not to tell anybody he was
v ired. O, whew, whew, what a dust !
Vhat makes j you sweep out the gro
ery?" and the boy went out coughing.
'Vci' Em.
The Serenade,
"Come into the garden, Maude P
He playeth on his guitar
In the evening air, to his lady fair, i
Witu a twang quit muscular.
- " . ! . '':
'Oh! haste from the garden, Claude!?
He heareth her frenzied cry, j
But the dog, amain, hath broken his chain
And it is too late to fly I !
. Judge.
1 j
'fliey hv'o ilj3 li a;'! ia London,
where there wen; rec;ivl during las'
year 21,(51 r canines. j -
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
A Belgian treats textile fabrics with aa
alcoholic solution of the green tar . of th
brch, which he expects to render thinl
almost indestructible.
The London Lancet sayshat "the pres
ence of a heat centre in the brain has
apparently been demonstrated by the ob
servations and experiments of Ott, Richet,
Aronsohn and Sachs, though its precise
position is still open to question."
Skimmed milk, according to Professor
L. B. Arnold, is poor food for either in
fants or adults, and is very hard to di
gest, owing to the removal of the volatile
oil contakel in the butter globule,
which is an important agrnt in assisting
the digestion of the lacteal fluid.
The practibility of working coal at
much greater depths than hitherto has
been generally thought possible has been
sbly advocated by Mr. W. E. Garforth,
at a meeting of the members of the Man
chester Geological society. Thedast gener
ation of colliery managers had expressed
doubts about mining coal at 500 yards.
Dr. Joreph Leidy lately had submitted
to him spongy ice from the vicinity of
Morristown, J., which contained great
quantities of living worms, some an inch
in length. They proved to be a new
aperies of lumbricus, to which the com
mon earth worm belongs. No living or
ganisms have ever be?n found within
clear, dene ice, such as is usually served
for drinking purposes.
I A mixture of zinc white with zinc
chloride is found to furnish a paint of
1 great value both for wooi and metals, as
! it becomes very hard, and can be washod
! or brushed without injury, which quali-
t 'e : are, of cour5e, of prime importance.
An ewntial precaution, however, to be
observed in regard td this paitit is not to
apply it in rainy or frosty weather, as it
then, be?omes mealy and scales off.
A notable example of the utilization of
smoke is affore'e 1 in the case of a char
coal furnace ot Elk R-apids, Mich. In
this furnice, as stited, are manufactured
fifty , tons of charcoal per day, there are
twenty-five charcoal pits, constructed of
brick, each p't being filled with 100 cords
of hard wood, and then fired. The vast
amount of smoke thus produced is made
to yield acetate of lime, alcohol, tar and
gas.
In a paper on the size of the brain in
extinct animals, Professor Marsh, of Yale
College, Iris brought forth the remarka-'
blc fact that in th? race for life during
past ages the survival of any particular
group of animals depended on the size of
their brain as compared with that of their
contemporaries of the same class. Brains
won then, as now, and the brain of ani
mals crushed out of existence was always
found to be relatively smaller than those
outliving them.
English naval constructors are investi
gating the jarrah wood of western Austra
lia, which is said to resist completely the
attacks of the teredo and all other ani
mal pests to which timbers planted in salt
water are exposed. This is said to be
due to its containing a' highly astringent
acid, something like tannic acid. Jarrah
piles half a century old in Australia are as
yet untouched by teredo, and engineers
have suggested importing enough of the
wood to wall up the Suez canal. In
Florida the wood of the palmetto is
equally impervious to the boring mollusks,
but in this case the fact is due fo the
endogenious grain.
Music Kills a Mouse.
A party of three gentlemen were en
joying a musical evening, two being per
formers and the third the Sun represen
tative, merely a listener. The violinist
who was no other than the distinguished
'cellist, Michael Brann, plaved a random
improvisation while a casual conversation
was going on, when a small mouse was
observed to run from a dark room into
the parlor where the party sat. There
was no desire to harm the little creature,
and he was allowed to have his own way.
Mr. Brand stopped his playing and the
mouse immediately disappeared.
The gentlemen had heard stories of the
antics of so-called "musical mice,"
though they believed none of them, and
it was resolved to try if something could
be done with the mouse, which seemed to
be attracted by the violin. Accordingly
the violinist again began to play, and the
trio was surprised to see the animal again
appear almost immediately. Coming to
a spot a few feet away from the player he
lay down on the floor, his nose between
his fore feet, and remained perfectly mo
tionless. In a minute or two Mr. Brand
stopped playing. An attempt to arouse
him by a gentle touch with the violin
bow did not disturb him in the least, and
it was found that he could be handled
quite roughly without any effect.
His eyes were open, and the quick
vibrations of his sides in breathing were
very plain, but he seemed to be utterly
unconscious. He was placed upon the
floor, and in a short time seemed to re-,
vive slowly. He began to walk about
with apparent difficulty, tottering and
unsteady. He gradually recovered nntil
he appeared almost in his proper con
dition, when the music was again begun.
The first position was resumed at exactly
the same spot. The player tried all man
uer of music, plaintive and gay, piano
and forte, low and high on the strings of
all kinds of trills and double stops and
chords, but without any other apparent
effect. He played for several minutes,
when suddenly the mouse's form seemed
to be convulsed throughout. He fell
over upon his side, and after r few slight
kicks, became motionless again. It was
over with him. The music was stopped
and every effort was made to resuscitate
the poor victim, but neither fresh air nor
any other means of restoration within the
range of the party's experience accom
plished any tiling. Cincinnati Sun.
Prehistoric Artificial Teth.
Dr. Van Marter, of Rome, has pub
lished an interesting account of the evi
dences discovered by him of prehistoric
dentistry in Italy. In the museum of
Cornelo Tarquinius, a city on the Medi
terranean coast, he found two specimens
of ancient dentistry, which the mayor of
that city certifies, were found upon the
first opening of the buried Etruscan
tombs, and Prof. Heilbig gives assurance
that these were virgin tombs, dating back
four or five centuries before the Christian
era. In onefof the specimens the two su-
Krior central incisors are bound by a
nd of very soft gold to the teeth on
either side; the artifical teeth are well
carved, evidently from the tooth of some
large animal. One other artificial tooth
was held by the same band, but it is lost.
Dr. Van Marter has in his own possession
a skull in which the first upper molai
on the right side is missing and which
shows plain marks of an alveolar abscess,
proving conclusively toothache among
the Etruscans. Neve York lime.'
AN EXTRAORDINARY THEFT
TOO STOBT OP A $50,000 DXAMONTJ
NTCCKT.AC3S.
How a Trick w PlarM by Which
the Jewels were IWnlOVd nd
Paste Substituted.
The following advertisement appeared
ia the columns of the TTorW in a recent
isu:
2! O 7if REWARtf tvffl paid for
. T 1 J rftcorerv of a small bfoweh.
the
com-
ise-1 or a cat s-eye surrounded oy sixteen ui
non Is set on a .bar of gold: too attention .Of
pawnbrokers and loan men is requested. Tu
any & Co. , Union Square.
A group of gentlemen were seated in
:he office of the Mansion House one even
ing la.t week, discussing varloM topics,
w iea one of the party remarked that his
wife's is!:er hid been robbed of a vert
valuable diamond ring, and that she had
oeen unable to obtain a clue to the thief.
gentleman well-known in Brooklyn
:hej rarrated the following,' which lie
rouched for as being correct :
' I was standing m the store Of one of
Sw York's largest jewelry houses one
iay and had been examining a pair of
liainonJ earrings, which I intended pur
hasic for my intended wife, when a
nost distinguished looking lady entered
ind said : ;I want to look at that neck
lace again, and want you to send it up to
ny house to-night, so that my husband
:an see it and purchase it for me.' The
necklace in question was taken from the
big safe, where the finest jewels were
kept, and shown to the lady, who said
that her husband 'must buy it for her.'
After she had gone the clerk asked me if
I knew who that lady was. I answered
that I did not. He said ; 'That is Mrs.
. B., wife of one of Wall street's luck
iest speculators. Her husband is worth
over $15,000,000 at the least estimate.'
"I left the store undecided about my
intended purchase, but went back three
lays afterward and mode my selection.
While waiting for my change, the same
:lerk asked me if I remembered the' lady
who wanted the diamortd necklace sent
:o her home for her husband's approval,
m the day I had first looked at the ear
Mngs just purchased? I told him I
recollected the lady perfectly. Wehave
i most mysterious robbery on hand, and
who the robber is, or where or when it
Kcurred, we do not know, but no pains
r expense is being spared to find
ut. The lady's husband refused
:o purchase the necklace on
iccount of its high price, which wai
pc0,000. On the day following the neck
lace was handed to me by the lady's hus
band. The diamond expert and myself
examined the necklace and decided that
it was just as it left the store. That
ifterrioon Mrs. C. D., residing on Brook
lyn Heights, and whose husband is the
jenier partner of one of the largest im
porting, houses in New York, came in and
wanted lo look at our best diamonds.
' 'Among other gems I brought out the
50,000 necklace, and when 6he saw it
he went into raptures over it, and told
oie to have it sent home by 5 O'clock, so
ihat she could secure her husband's ap
proval. This lady's husband was then
md is to-day worth over $10,000,000, so
She necklace was taken to his residence,
i receirt given by the lady herself, and
She necklace left. About 9:30. the next
morning, in came the lady and her hup.
band, the latter handing me the necklace,
saying 'he coii'd not afford to pay such a
price, but would buy his wife something
jlse, limiting her to $15, 000. ' After several
purchases had been made they left, and
f again called the expert, who examined
the stones carefully and pronounced them
genuine. This morning as'another one
if the diamond buyers was passing
ihrough the store, he stopped at my
eounter and asked me if I had sold Mrs.
A.. B. the necklace? I told him that I
aad not, and then explained how Mr. and
Mrs. C. D. had returned the necklace the
iay before. 'Let's see the thing,' said
he. 'It's possible that the price is too
n ; - T - ' Z' . ' . a -
; oign, ana it mignc De more easily
i old ty making two necklaces out of the
jine.' I unlocked the safe and handed
! him the necklace. He looked at it and
iecided that it would not be best to alter
it. and was handing it back to me when
lie stopped and looked at it again. Then
! lie took it over nearer the light, and after
i moment I saw his face turn pale. He
called to me and I hastened to where hu
stood, when he simply held out the neck
lace saying : 'Those are not diamonds
they're paste.' "
"This disclosure brought the other ex
lert, who at once pronounced the stone
imitations, but added : 'The change hat
been made since last night, for when so-md-soand
myself examined the necklace
genuine diamonds were where Parisian
paste now is.' "
"To make a long story short, detectives
were put cn the track -of both ladies and!
:heir husbands, and the clerk and ex)
pert, but every effort at discovery failed,
rhe' ladies never wore diamonds which in
the slightest degree resembled those
originally in the necklace. Goods of
value are' not leftover night any longer
by the employes, of that house. The
strangest feature of the robbery is that
the false stones were.the counterpart of
the genuine ones, and the resetting, which
must have been done very rapidly, showed
no alteration marks. Detectives at that
time pronounced it as being one of the
eleverest robberies ever committed."
Nine York World.
An Appreciative Audience.
"What did you think of my playing?"
asked an amateur piano performer of
Judge Pennybunker, who is a musical
critic.
"Why, it is so grand, so perfectly
magnificent, that you deserve an audi
ence composed entirely of musicians like
Beethoven. "
"That's entirely the highest compli
ment a musician can receive."
"Yes, but you deserve every bit of it.
Yes, sir, an audience composed of musi
cians like Beethoven would appreciate
your piano recitals."
After the performer had gone away a
gentleman asked Pennybunker what he
meant by such extravagant praise of such
poor music.
"I beg your pardon, I didn't praise his
music," said Pennybunker.
"You said he deserved an audience
comprised entirely of musicians like Bee
thoven." "And so he does. Don't you 'know
that Beethoven was so deaf that he could
not hear a single note of' the loudest
orchestra? That's the kind of an audi
ence he deserves." Teacat Siflinqi.
The latest returns of the British army
show, that the regular forces num
ber about 201,000 effectives of all ranks,
for an empire which, ia the four quarters
of the globe, comprises very nearly 9,000,
000 square miles of territory and about
806,000,000 souls.
THE EVENING HOUR
lis time to draw the curtains .
And light the evening lamp, -And
put fresh fuel in the grate
The night to chill and damp.
Tis time to find the slippers,
And leave them over therey
In the cozy firelight corner, .
Beside the easy chair.
Tis time to put the kettle on
And draw the table out,
To make the toast and rteep the tea.
(Do hear that baby ' shout !)
For all he's only nine months old.
He knows a thing or two;
Do see h laugh and clap his hands,.
He's playing peek-a-too!
He knows tis time to listen
To a step upon the floor;
He knows tis time to welcome
A face within the door.
Tor all the noisy time of times.
When frolic leads the van, ; ,
Commend me to the evening time, . !
And papa's "little man." .
-Afr. Sarah Qamweli f Oo3
Housekeeping.
HUMOR OF THE DAT.
"The silver question" Is this half dol;
lar bogus? Pre. t :
What is done cannot bo undone, es-;
pecially if it is a hard boiled egg. Pia-:
ayune. - ' ;
No effort should be snared to suppress
the small-pox. A single case of it is an'
epidemic to the man who has it. Sfi--
ina.
"Doing anvthing now, Bill?" "Oh.
yes; I'm kept'busy all the time." "Ah!
Glad to bear it. v hat are you aoingi
"Looking for a job." ,
The young man who imprinted a re
spectful kiss on the fair forehead of his)
best girl told his friend next day that ho
had been having a bangup time. f
A friend of ours, absent on a trip tO(
Washington, writes that he has been all
through the rlational capital and consid-
erable of his own. Lowell Citizen.
Some people Van ask awfully sillyj
Juestions. We are asked if a dog's tail:
ragging through the snow makes a
waggin' track- Jiinyhmnton lleptiUicdn. j
Colonel Frank James is having a royal
time in Missouri. At a recent county
fair, those citizens whom the Colonel
hadn't killed called on him and gave,1
him an ovation, Puck.
An English company has been organ
ized for putting telephones into sick
chambers. Some of the instruments In
this country need doctoring pretty bwlly.
Burlington Free Press. . !
"Papa, what is a savage?" "A sav
age, my son, ia a man who occupies two
whole seats in a railway car, while some
poor woman with a sick baby has to
stand up. Chicago Ledger.
Patrician hands so 6of t, so white
That drifting o'er the keys
Awaken in the old spinnet
The tend'rest melodies;
The pressure of those finger tips
I do remember well, .
But of the shake that last I got
I'll never never tell. !
Rambler.'
The chief claim of a California town to
notoriety lies in its production of a
twelve-pound sweet potato; We know a
town much nearer home that has brought
forth several two-hundred-pound-dead-beats.
Puck.
Some one has introduced a game of
"baseball with cards," but it will never
become popular. fThc umpire is never
killed in such'a game, and the players aro
not carried off the field 'with broken
limbs. NorrisUnrii HtmbJ. '
THE REASON WHT,
Why dost thou hide that lovely eye,
And shade its sunlight mellow?
Ah, why not let its glan ces fly
Like thos3 f it sweet fellow? '
Hast thou soim fear of unknown pain
To clasp thee on the, morrow?
Or dost thou.see on life's dark main
The wreck of some dead sorrow?
Oh, telf mc, maiden, why, so shy,
Dost thou thus coyly pass one?
"Well, sir,"' she i-aid: '-I hide my eye
Because it Ls a glass one"."
Flour and How It fs Made.
There are several processes, but in prin
ciple they i:re identical. The chief ob
jects sought are the gradual breaking
and bruising of the grain fio as to keep
the broken particles rough and "alive;"
the rcpeateo reduction. of the middlings,
or that part of the grain lying immedi
ately leJow the husk; this, formerly re
jcctel, is now made to yield the best
flour; also the reparation of every Dart
of the flour from the bran, and, finally,
the careful blending of the flour obtained
from the rev era 1 reductions. We give
briefly the details of the process in one of
the Minneapolis mills. The wheat cleaned
by blasts is separated into lots of similar
sizes; the fuzzy toils are removed by endr
ing stones. The grain is then passed
through corrugated, chilled-iron roll
ers, their corrugations ranging from eight
to forty to the square inch, which? bruise
the grain without grinding it. This is on
the ground floor. The bruised grain U
then raised to the bolting machines,
where it is .passed through gauze cloths
of different textures, and thence sent
down between finer corrdgated rollers
running at a speed of from 150 to 300
revolutions per minute.. These processes
of reduction arc repeated six or seven
times, the third giving more flour than
the first twojeductions, and the fifth giv
ing the best-rising flour and the richest
in albuminoids. Very important results
have been accomplished by the introduc
tion of the "patent" process. The amount
of flour yielded by a bushel of wheat" has
been inceeased fully ten per cent. ; the
flour is said to be more nutritious, as well
as more palatable, and spring wheat, th
variety most abundantly produced in the
West (whose flour, being much inferioi
to that of winter wheat made by the old 1
f)rocess. was formerly held at a much
ower price), is greatly increasedin value,
as by the "patent" process it is found to,
give the better flour, Cultivator.
An Elephantine Child. .
. Mr. John Hout, who resides near Elli
cottvill, has probably the greatest prodigy
in the shape of a child ever seen anywhere
In this section. The child in question is
a boy, whose third birthday occurred
Wednesday last, at which time he'
weighed 105 pounds in his shirt sleeves '
and stockings. He is only about four feet
tall. His limbs and feet resemble those .
of an elephant in shape and . 6ize mora
than those of a human being, and his'en
tire body is correspondingly large. He i
healthy and robust, never having been
sick a day in his life, and there seems to
be no diseases to account for his prpdig
ious size. Both of his parents are of
small stature, neither of them weighingto
exceed 185 pounds. Port JerrU (V. T.
Union.