Canada, having secured the little in ternational mug for yachts, may try for the big one—the Defender's cup. This country exported $24,000,000 more of breadstuff's during the yeur ending June 30 than during the same period of last year. If the votaries of the wheel continue to increase in number, Puck thinks it will simplify matters if the stray pe destrian will ring a bell as he ap proaches the crossing. Though Italy leads the rost of Eu rope in suicide, as well as in homi cide, Russia is ahead of her in the proportion of professional men, espe cially doctors, who commit suicide. The story of the fortunes of T. H. Rogers, one of the new Sheriffs of London, reads as if the scene were laid in America. He began to make shirts years ago in a small room in London, where he cut the garments out himself, and now be employs ISOO persons in that business. An old lady, such us would have de lighted the heart of the Emperor Napoleon, has just been discovered at Bodmin, Cornwall, England. She is the mother of seven boys, all of whom are serving in the British army. She has recently been in receipt of a portrait from the Queen and a check for SSO as en appreciation of her ser vice to the country. Max O'Rell has no use for the Anglo- Saxon new woman. He declares her to be, "the most ridiculous produc tion of modern times, and destined to be the most ghastly lailure of the cen tury." He says she wants to retain all the privileges of her sex and secure all those of men besides. "She will fail to become a man," Max kindly assures us, "but she may cease to be a woman." A circular of the Section of Foreign Markets, Department of Agriculture, compares our imports and exports for the past three years. The figures show that we exported of agricultural products $75,000,000 less in 1595 than in 1894 and $240,000,000 less than in 1892. That shows why we are short of money. The deficit in receipts iB mainly clue to the shrinkage of prices, the quantities exported remaining about the same. As against this wo imported goods in 1895 to the value ot §57,000,000 more than in 1894. The heavy and somewhat ancient ordnance in nee in Norway and Sweden are to be replaced very shortly by armaments of more modern manufac ture. For this purpose a sum of sl,- 000,000 will probably be expended on field and machine guns, and the order will, it is expected, be placed with an English firm. In any case, this order may be regarded as a merely jjre liminary installment of extensive pur chases, as a decided tendency has manifested itself throughout the Scan dinavian peninsula in favor of modern methods throughout. There is to bo a thorough overhauling in both Nor way and Sweden, and a long list of contracts may be looked for by British manufacturers. It is worth mention ing that all the old rifles which were recently collected for disposal have just been sold at an average price of less than seventy-five cents. Harper's Weekly says: It is eomo months since newspaper readers all over the conn ry began to read of the remarkable effectuality of the elevated railroad pillar opposite No. 5 Tulton street, iu Brooklyn, in killing arid maiming inoffensive citizens. This pillar, it seems, forms one of the sup ports of the Fulton street terminal of the Kings County Elevated road. It stands between the tracks of the Fifth uveuuo trolley line, at a point where tho crowds from the ferry board the surface cars. Ti.o pillar is fo near tho track us to brush off with Cer tainty and despatch any person stand ing cu the foot-board o; a passing car. Since tho Ist of Jauuarv tw- nly two pcop'o have been crushed between this pillar and moving cars. Two of them have be n killed, and a large proportion of those hurt have been badly injured, The pillar has been so much talked about, and its destructive iiess is -f> noloriou , that it had come to say, nothing had been done about it until tle 1 ith of July. It smashed a man's h ;ul that day, and the Fifth avt nuo Iri.hcy lino Co.. eluded it would bo lie I f i r - i ) take extra precaution. Bo now oVurv car stops when it gets to that pillar. That trolley cars should bj allowed to ran amuck against un iron pillar in a civilized American city for six months, with such n resulting taie of death and in jury, is an amazing and incompre hensible thing. OPEN THE E OOP. ' Opon the door, lot in the air, | The winds are sweet and the flowers fair; | Joy is abroad in the world to-day, i if our door is wide open he may come this j way. Open the door. I Open the door of the soul, let in j Strong pure thoughts, which shall banish sin; They will grow and bloom with grace divine, Aud their fruit .shall be sweeter than that of the vine. Open the door. Open the door of the heart, let in Sympathy sweot for stranger and kin; It will make the halls of the heart so fair That angels may enter unaware. Open the door. —Philadelphia Times. DEVELOPMENT." . BY LUKE SHARP. f \ S Stanruoro turned I f the other man ap c, < IL* p roach ' he \ there was soine- M}' m:PA W' tlllQ S familiar in 7 MtS K'ia I the set of bis figure, ,f YIT \ in spite of the II $" >■[■ \ j general ililapiila \Jj ;j- " \ tiou of liis appeur fe. J': . ,;,•§ I anu e. As" 't hoy / f :•*' ,'vY 1 reared each other, I 'i*l\ Stanmore iuvolun y' " \S tarily paused and * * • the other looked nervously at him, suddenly exclaim ing as his eye lighted up : •'Good heavens, Mr. Btanmore, is this actually you?" "Ye?," replied Stanmore, "Jt is some time since we met, Mellor, anu until you spoke, I wasn't quite cer tain—" "I know, I know," interrupted Iko j other, glauoing at his worn, almost tattered garments. "Most of my old j friends hove some difficulty in recog nizing me, but you were never one of that kind, Stanmore. When a man is down iu his luck, there are few who remember him." "I am sorry to hear that you are down in your luck. Didn't that patent turu out all you expected?" A wan smile illuminated Mellor' b face for a moment. "Whicn patent, ! Stanmore?" he asked. j "Borne railway appliance, wasn't it? Yon expected to make a great fortune out of it, don't you remember?" "Ah, that one. Is it then so long since wo met? I wouldn't have be lieved it. How time does fly 1 Yes, that was a great invention," lie added with a sigh. "But I never could get anyone to look into it. It would have made several fortunes, if I could only have gotten it fairly tried, but bribes were required and, as usual, I had no money, nor could I get the ear of any man of influence. I have never yet had a fair chance, Stanmore, and am beginning to lear I Dover shall." "Has the patent run out, then?" "Oh, it never got so far as patent ing. A patent does not require much money, but it was always more than I could ever scrape together at one time. I have invented many things since then, but lam a man who has never had a chance, and I am begin ning to lose heart now." "I wish I were rich," said Stan more, "I would then give you a chance on at least oDe invention." "You are rich enough," cried the other eagerly, "to do me one favor. You are evidently on your way to lunch. Ask me to have something to eat." "You don't mean to say, Mellor, that you— Come along with me to the club." "I am not dressed for the club, Stanmore. Take me somewhere else." After lunch tho two men talked to gether. Btanmore, as the prosperous man of tho two, naturally took it upon himself to offer advice, as well a3 coffee. "Haven't you had enough of this sort of life, Mellor? Why not give it up, and get some regular employment that will at least keep you from starvation, aud give up this ineffectual dreaming of fortunes? Remember, not one invention in a thousand suc ceeds, evou whoa the inventor gets someone to back him." "Shall I sell myself as a paekhor.se ?' cried Mellor, who, being fed, had re gained his normal enthusiasm, "when 1 know that 1 have tho capabilities of making a thou 4 and men rich? There are honest laborers in plenty, but you must not ;forget, Stanmore, although you have paid for my iuuch, that lam one man in a million. No amount of disaster will over drive that knowledge from my brain. I know it, 1 tell you, aud I shall yet meet the | man whom J will convince; hut even | if I die in the gutter, I shall die as confident iu myself as 1 am atjtius mo ment." "You always were confident enough, but what has it all amounted to?" "Nothing, I grant you—so far. But the time will come. You spoke a while since of my railway invention. That would have taken much money to develop, and it is now super .e-.ied, but it was great in its time. I have now an invention that, if once put on the market, would soon bo used iu every household, -t is a ; > perishable as soap and as indispensable and as cheap. That is the k:nd of thing out of which immense f r tines are ms le. Now, liow much do you imagine stands be tween mo and success? \ beggarly ■ -Id. If I hail £4O iu my hand to-day I would use tho first five of it to get me a decent suit of clothes, a new hat and a pair of boots; the rest would make me a millionaire." "You would certainly bo sure of your outfit, but I should doubt tho rest." "Did you ever gamble, Stanmore?" "I never did." "I thought not. Thon you must have a little money in your possession. Gamble ou me to the extent of £l9. It is surely as good to bet on a man as on | a horse." "Put I don't bet on horses." "True. I have been using the ! wrong argument. I intended to use that phrase with some one who put a littlo on a horse now and then. But never mind. Will you give me my chance? It I fail, I will s.ek what you call honest work and will pay you back by installments." "I*ll do it, Mellor, for oil time's sako and because I know you will never settle down to regular work un til you have had your chance, as you call it. But you must promise rao that after the money is gone you will not say that nil yon needed was that much mure. You promise to take to your engineering trade and stick to it." "I promise yon." "Very well. 1 will write you a check for the amount." "You must do more than that, Stan more. You must give it to me in money. No sane man would cash a check for me. J look too much like a tramp. Now I shall write you out a note of hand for £40,000. The note will be worth that amount inside*>f a yeur or it will be worth nothing." "I shall accept no note from you, Mellor. If it makes you easior in your mind write me an acknowledgment of the £4O, but that i 3 a formality which will prove unnecessary. If you suc ceed you will puy me; if you don't, you won't." "I see you still don't believe in me, although you are giving mo the money. Well, that is all the more to your credit, Btanmore." Mellor wrote on a sheet of paper the waiter brought him a note for the amount and handed the document to his friend who put it in his waistcoat pocket. Thoy went out together to the bauk and Btanmore handed him the money. It was three months after that the two men met again and once more Btan more had some difficulty in recogniz ing Mellor, but this time not on ac count of his seody appearance. It was Btanmore who did the accosting, as the other was hurrying by. Mellor greeted him with great cordialty. "Well, old man," he cried, "are you getting anxious about that money? I leally believe you are going to get tho £40,000 I gave you the note for. Big usnrv, Stanmore." "You forget that I refused anything but the acknowledgment of tho £4O. I am glad to see that you are evidently getting on." "It's all in the air yet, Stanmore. You understand how this sort of thing goes. Just as you get them to a point, thoy dissolve and there you are. This is an uncertain world, my boy." "That's what I told you. But the money I gave you must be gone long ago?" "It is, and hundreds more with it, but I would not take two hundred thousand in my hand at this moment for my chances. I've got a littlo syn dicate together and—well, it's too long a story to tell just now, but every thing's going my way, thanks to you." "I'm very glad indeed to heal it. I confess that 1 looked on ray loan as so much mouey thrown away." "I know you did. {J You nover really believed in me, Btanmore, and yet no man knew me better. Well, I am not yet exactly in a position to repay you at the moment, but—" "I had no intention of dunuing you, Mellor. I am not in need of the money." "Quite so. I hope you didn't think I had forgotten it. Well, 1 must be off—the syndicate meets at three ami I am chairman." Stanmore stood and looked after him | friend as he hurried through the | crowd. There was certainly an air of I prosperity about him. "It would bo ! rather odd if he pulled it off after all," Stanmore said to himself as tho other disappeared. Months passed, and now and then Stanmore saw iu the papers huge ad ! vertisemonts of companies promoted to work various patents of Mellor's, but whether or not tho public Rub scribed tho enormous sums asked he had no means of knowing. More than a year had gone by before he saw any thing more of Mellor, then, as he was passing along Lombard street, ho no ticed his friend standiug with one foot on the step of a private hansom, giv ing hurried orders to a mau on tho pavement, who received them ob sequiously. Iu the hansom was seated an elderly gentleman of distinguished appearance. Something in Mellor's manner suggested the millionaire. Stanmore touched him on tho shoul der just as he was about to step into the hansom. Mellor looked hastily round, n shade of annoyance on his face. Ho wrinkled his brow, as if he recognized the man who accosted him, but could not recollect his name. "You seem to be prospering, Mel lor." "Ah, Btanmore. How are you? How are you? I see so many people, you know, that sometimes I get a lit tle mixed. Anything I can Go for you? You catch me at rather a busy mo j menu My lrlend, Lord Ruymon, is waiting for me; wo have a board meet ing on. Look me up, some time, won't you? You will excuse mo now, I know?" "Certainly. I had nothing partic ular to say to you, except to offer my congratulations, I suppose. The world eems to be using you well." "Oh, the world's all right, if you know how to take it. By the way, there was some little matter between us, 3-4000, wasn't it? You got liiat ail right, 1 suppose." "If you are talking of money, it was merely a matter of £4O. No, I never received it to my knowledge. But there is no hurry, you know." "Now that is very annoying. That shows how we are served by those we pay to servo us. One can't attend to everything one's self, and so things go wrong. I told my secretary months ■ ago to see to that. I will make a note of it. Do look me up when you have time. Good bye." The hansom drove away aud again Stanmore stood aud looked, unheed ing the hurrying crowd. Ho turned at last with a sigh. Again the secretary probably for got, for as the months passed tho money did not come. A friend of Stanmore's said to him ono day in the club: "Yon know Mellor, don't you? He is a member of this club." "I knew him once." "I thought you knew him inti mately. You told me n year 02 two ago that you lent him tho money that gave him his start." "I don't remember saying that, but if I did it was quite true." "Then won't you give mo a letter of introduction to him. I've got a little scheme on hand and I want him to lend his name to it. Anything with Mellor's name attached goes uow-a days." "I would rather not givo a letter of introduction to him." "Have you quarreled with him?" "Oh, no." "It would be a tremendous oblige ment to me." "1 doubt if it would do you any good." "I'll take the risk of that, if you will be kind enough to oblige a fel low." "Very well." A week later the friend said to Stan more: "I'm afraid I took Mellor on tho wrong taok. I had great difficulty in getting to seo him, and when at last audience was granted me and 1 was ushered into the presence of the great man, I ventured to remind him of his obligations to yon." "Oh, but you shouldn't have done that." "I know I shouldn't. He said he never met you in his life, and swore like a trooper. He said that every second man in the city claimed to have given him his start in life, and he was tired of being postered with them. Ho was a self-made man, ho added, and no one had ever helped him, or ho would have been a million aire years ago." "He said ail that, did he?" "Yes, and much more." "I shall have to call upon him and stir up his recollection a bit. Where is he to be found?" "You will find him to-night drink ing champagne with some of his friends in the upper smoking room. In fact, I have just left him." . "You don't mean to tell mo that ho made these statements in the presence of the men upstairs? You never pre sented my letter to him there?" "I had to, or not at all. Ho re fused to see me in his own office." "Oh, well, this serves me right for giving tho letter of introduction. It isn't usual to do business in a club, you know." "I am very sorry, Stanmore, but it was a case of needs must." "We will say no rnoro about it, but the worm ultimately turns, aud I am myself going to break through all the rules that ought to govern civilized society. Come up stairs with me and you will see me collect u three-year old debt." Mellor was somewhat flushed with wine when Stanmore approached tho tablo at whioh he sat, surrounded by his admiring friends. "Mellor, for three years you have owed me £lO. I want it, and I want it now." "Who arc you?' - roarod Mellor. "I never owed you a penny, and if I did, apply at my counting house for it. If yon arc a member of this club I shall have you expelled for your impudence in—" "You may tako what aotion you please after; but now I want tho £lO. I'll throw off the interest. As you deny the dobt, hero is the note written by your own hand. Perhaps some of your friends may recognize tho signa ture. 1 understand it is a very valu able autograph now; lint it was uot when that wa3 written." Mellor, purple with rage, throw a handful of gold and notes on the table, crying : "Take what you want, you hound, then I shall have you driven from this club. It is not the first time I have been blackmailed." "Oh, no, Mr. Mellor, You will count out the notes to the exact amount of £lO and hand them to me, after which I will give you your re ceipt.' I call on you to pay here, be cause you have made statements in presence of this company which aro untrue. 'Therefore, I want them con tradicted before the company dis perses. If you pay the money at onco and make an apology that is ac ceptable to mo I will say nothing more. If no 1 I shall publish the wholo particulars, with a fac-simile of your note, aud I will givo the reason why yo'i refused my invitation to lunch nt the club the day that note was written, and although the reason is not so discreditable to you at al!— as some of your actions since then, still, perhaps, you would prefer it no. to be made public." Mellor glared at him for a moment, murmured an apology and handed his lormer friend four £lO notes.—De troit Free Press. Don't Kisi Lap Dogs, J Tho danger of permitting lap dog 3 j to kiss and caress thoso wno .ondle j them has been again brought to the attention of dog lovers by the sudden death of a young girl in Mo.-cow. A ! prottv little pet traveling iu the same 1 railway carriage with tho victim was j rnado much of during the journey, tho I thoughtless girl kissing and playing with the dog until its mistress reached j her destination. The next day a pim- I pie appeared on the young lady's face, and in twenty hours, alter .rightful I suffering, sho died, the physioians j claiming, from a malignant diseaso ■ contracted from tho lap dog's kisses. I This is worse and quicker than dyna mite or nihilism.—Boston Herald. QUISKN M THE OANNItfALS. AN AKEHICAN WIFE FO2 ICIN3 J OH>., OP THE Jaw W.E3P.IDES. Miss Ella Collin, : Reautlfiil Girl of New York. Will Go to tlie South Seas for u Crown. 7'l BEAUTIFUL American girl /\ is to bo the Queen of the Cannibal Islands. She is Miss (. Ella Collin, and her father, P. CoiliD, is a tailor in New Yorlx. Miss Collin is uot an heiress, and the only dower she brings to her royal husband is her matchless beauty of faco and figure. Miss Ella will make a very acceptable Queen for the Can nibals down in the New Hebrides. That is not to say because she is as pretty as they are ugly. She is only eighteen years old and has the face of a Juno. Her eyes are large aud lustrous, and her hair, of which there is f roat profusion, is of that warm hue that Titian loved to paint. The King of the Cannibal Islands is himself not a bad looking man. He was n pretty stanch American before he expatriated himself to rule over the gorgeous domain iu the great South Seas, which he now calls his own. In his Southern home ho was known as plain John Hobbs. Now lie has a title as long as his arm. He has dark eyes, aud his expression is generally frank and pleasant. King Hobbs is not a pirate king, uor did he take possession cf his islands by right of conquest. Ho was born m South Carolina thirty four years ago. Kis father is a well-to-do practicing physi cian at Atlanta, Ga., and his grand father was a United States Senator. When Hobbs was a youth ho conceived a violent desire to travel, and for many years he was a wanderer on the face of the earth. At last he settled in Sydney, New South Wales, an I first met the natives of the New Hebrides in IS9O, when the Australian Government sent him to Ilika, one of the South Sea group, to enforce the law with reference to the return of Ilikan laborers. While on his way thither the ship which bore him was wrecked and young Hobbs confided himsolf to the mercy of the waves, clad only in a cork jacket. Alter drifting about for two days, suffering unspeakable torture from hunger, thirst, and fatigue, he was picked up by two Ilikan fishermen and taken to an island. When the king heard of his presonce Hobbs was or dered before him. The American reached the island at a critioal time. The natives were just about to go to war with a neighboring island, and the king accepted Hobbs as a divine messenger. He nt ouee adopted him, and explained to him the plans of the campaign. By a clever bit of strategy Hobbs succeeded in defoatiug the army of the opposition and the king made him war chief. When, nine months later, the king died the nation met and choss John Hobbs to be the successor to the throne. He is called King John by foreigners, and uy the natives "Oumalea." King John's people do not ask him to work very hard. One-half tbo year he spends iu taking a vacation, during which he travels wherever his desires lead him. Last year he visited New Y'ork, where ho mot Miss Collin quite by accident. He fell madly in love with hor. They were engaged, and he gavo his word to return within six months and make her his queen. It is to fill this promise that ho re turned. He says that his subjects will look upon hie wife as a goddess, and that the royal family will live like the young peoplo in a fairy story. Mr. and Mrs. Collin, Ella's parents, aro charmed with the prospects. They have been invited to visit the king and queen as soon as the royal pair aro "settled" in the capita! of Ilika. King John has along and fat purse, and he will see that his father aud mother in-law will want for no comforts on the occasion of their visit. The New Hebrides, over part of which King John Hobbs has absolute sway, are a pretty group of South Sea islands, lying between the New Gale donias and the Fijis. 'They are vol canic in origin. About twenty years ago ouo of them, thirty-five miles long and six miles wide, suddenly dis appeared—was swallowed up by the ocean—and no trace of it has since been seen. The chmate is, of course, tropical, and too humid to bo health ful. From May do October the trades blow steadily. Heavy rainstorms, and even oyelones, visit the islands during the prevalence of the western gales. Owing to the abundant moisture, the vegetation is dense, and tho mountains aro mostly clad with forests. The flora of tnese islands comprises a large number of forms not found elsewhere. There is a species of myrtle that grows to a height of forty feet, and gives out a very pungent ordor. There is a vari ety of cedar that attains so great a height that its timbor may bo ivied i for tho masts of ships. Here are co-! coanut trees, sago, breadfruit, banana | trees and such fruit trees as are found I in tropical countries. The yam con-; stitutes tho staple of food for the na tives. The indigenous animals in the New Hebrides are rats and bars. Tho pig has already been imported, and seems to like the climate. Every island offers some contrast ■ with its neighbor in point of popula- j tioff. Even in ouo island tho tribal differences aro mora or less important, j The natives of these islands are taller Rnd stronger than thoso of the others to the north. But by no menus can they be said to be handsome, and it is no wonder that King John camo to the United States for a bride. The fore head of the native is low and retreat ing, the face broad, the cheek bones prominent, tho noso flat and tho lips thick. In some of the islands the heads of the children aro delormed by moans of boards, which have the effect of lengthening the skull from the hack to the front, at the same time con trasting and lowering it. 'They are, as a learned man once said of them, the most dollichocepbalous, or long headed, of all known races. 'Their hair and heard are frizzly and their I complexion almost coal black. They liavu a pleasant fashion of adding to | their natural hideonsness by piercing tho lobes of their ears and tue carti j Inge of the nose, gashing the arms and | breast, decking the head with foliage, | shells, tufts of grass and painting tho | body with red ochre, lime and other , pigments, 'They wear European attire. I 'The women have no rights at all, and j are rather harshly treated. Canni- I ba'isrn survives in these islands, and | prisoners of battle are made meals of, but only in a religions way. Homo of the Papuans devour their dead, but simply as a mark of veneration. 'They are not ferocious, and have sutTered more at the hands of Europeans than ! they have sinned against themselves and their neighbors.—Chicago Times ! Herald. Animal Insanity. Tho difficulty or the impossibility of defining insanity makes the ques tion of whether or not animals beoomo insane by no means easy to answer. Insanity in the hmnau subject, it is I supposed by some, has no analogue in j the tower animals. Yet many causes j will lead to the pemaneu; loss of all self-control. Cattle driven from tho | country through the crowded tiior- I oughfares of a town will, under the I influence of this sudden change of i oondition, work themselves into a state of excitement and fury which must at least be closely allied to madness. Horses have been known to go mad in the midst of the bewildering scenes of a battloiield. At Baluklava an Arabian | horse turned upon its attendant, who | happened to be drawing water, seized I him in its mouth, threw him to (jhe | ground and theu kneeling noon him I attacked him like an infuriated dog. | Before tho terror could be subdued it had bitten off another soldier's flDgec and seriously wounded the army vet erinarian. Another instance is related of a docile liorse which one hot sum mer day went mad. Everything that came within its reach it seized in its teeth and shook like a terrier would a rat. It raided the pigsties and threw the inmates one after another into the air, trampling on the bodies as they fell. Afterwards it almost killed its own master, afrer maiming for life the I horseshoer who wns called in. This, at least, must have been a ease of in sanity. The cause of such insanity is often to be found in congential mal formation of tho bones of tho head. Professor Homanes even goes so far as to prove by what appears to be incon testable evidence, that animals, cats, dogs and monkeys, have been observed to have delnsions very similar to those of insane people. Hi no Laws in Philadelphia. Policemen stationed at every cross street within a blook of St. Barnabus's Protestant Episcopal Church iu Phil adelphia recently attracted consider able attention. They were stationed there to prevent milk wagons from passing tho church during sorviees, and their presence was the result of a request made to Director Eiter by Pastor James R. L. Nisbitt. It was found that a law of 1791 prohibits milkmen from distributing milk on Sundays between the hours of 9 a. m. ami 5 p. m., and it was this law that was enforced. For some time past the congregation of St.Baruabas's have been greatly an noyed by the noise of passing vehicles during church hours, especially when the weather is warm enough to have the windows open. The streets at this point are badly paved, both Ori ana and Dauphin streets still being encumbered with cobblestones of tiniquo pattern, and the noise made by passing vehicles is very great. Tho law of 1791 will ho enforead strictly during tho summer months.—Phil adelfihia Record. Hot Baths for Sleeplessness. Suppose a person be tired our from overwork of any kind, to feel nervous, irritable and worn, to be absolutely certain that bed means only tossing for hours in an unhappy wakefulueßS. We all know the condition of the body and mind. Turn ou the hot water in the bathroom and soak in the hot bntb until the drowsy feeling eome3, which will be within three minutes; rub yourself briskly with a coarse Turkish towel until the body is perfectly dry and then go to bed. Xou will sleep tho sleep of the just, and rise iu the morning wondering how you could have felt so bad the night before. Tho bath has saved many a one from a sleepless night, if not from a severe headache the next morning. Old English Idioms Restored. A writer in the Chantauquan says that many "cracker" idioms of the South are simply obsolete English idioms. "Fielding, for instance," he says, "makes a very near approach to the oraekerism, 'He allowed he'd do it,'in such a passage as this: 'The audience allowed I did your part jus tice,' and when Burke complains that 'England is disfnrnished ui its forces,' ho is using almost the exact phraseol ogy oi' my cracker neighbor, who has come to borrow a peck of meal, nnd politely hopes that I am. not 'dislur niching' myself for him." There Was I'lonty of It. A hypochondriac, who was staying with Father Hoalyat Bray, in tho hope of obtaining relief from chronic dys pepsia, was one day taking a walk along the beach with his host. "I have derived relief from drinking a tnmblei of saltwater fresh from the tide,"said the invalid, solemnly; "do yon think ! I might tako a second?" "Well," : said Father 1-lealy, with equal serious ness, "I don't think a second would be ■ missed." WISE WORDS. The man who is slow but sure is rarely sure of anything but of being ilow. Innocence is strong, but there is no particular harm iu backing it up with a strong lawyer. The most interesting artiole a news paper can print is one about the troubles of our friends. No man can bear himself snore, so he is perhaps to be forgiven,but there is no excuse for the chatterer. Long courtships are all right, but a man doesn't really get acquainted with his wife until after marriage. It's a somewhat significant fact that it should be deemed necessary to tell us not to yawn in polite society. Everybody learns a little every day and 6omepeoplo seem to strive to make the amount as small as possible. Hope is the influence that preju dices our views for the purpose of en couraging ns.—Truth. Birds as Seed Carriers. Two centuries ago the Datch de stroyed every nutmeg tree iu the Moluccas, iu order to eujov a monopo ly of the business, having planted the trees in their own possessions. In spite of their most earnest ef forts, however, the islands were being constantly restocked. For a long time the thing was a mystery, but at length it was solved. The doves of that quarter of tho world are of large size, and readily swallow the seed of the nutmeg, with the fruit of whioh they traverse wide stretches of sea and iand in a few hours, and deposit the seeds of tho nutmeg not only uninjured, but bet ber fitted for germination by the heat and moisture of the bird's system. By a similar prooess thousands of acres of land hnvo boon covered with trees of different kinds, the birds not ing as nature's agents in the dissemin ation of plants. But in quito another manner do they transport seeds from place to piaee. Darwin found in six grains of earth adhering to the feet of a plover three different kinds of seeds, and in mud sticking to the feet of ducks and geese shot in England he found tho seeds of plants peculiar to the Victoria Nyanza, iu Central Africa, thus prov ing not only the extent of migration, v but also the possibility of plants appear ing in strange localities through the agenoy of these birds. In tho mud sticking to the feet of a Texas steer the seeds of five different kinds of weeds and grasses common in Texas were found by a microscopist after the arrival of tho animal in New Xork.—St. Louis Qlo'oe-Demoerat. Rawer From tlie Waves. The experiment with tho Gerlach wave motor, which was described in tho Record about two months ago, have been successful. M. A. Roths child, President of tho company con ducting tjie experiments, known as the Gerlach Wave Motor Company, states that the motor is in running order and is developing ns high as 180 horse power. The company, however, is not satisfied with the location of the apparatus, which is in a bay at Uupitola, near San. Francisco, rather than on the ocean beach, and nutil a better location can be scoured nothing will be done toward utilizing the power. This motor, as its name in dicates, is designed to utilize tho energy of the ocean's waves. It con sists of huge paddles suspended iD the water so as to swing with the incom ing and outgoing of the waves. The motion thus impurtod to the paddles is converted into rotary motion by suitable contrivances. The paddles are arranged to he elevated or lowered, so as to always secure the moat suit able depth of immersion at all tides. Timekeeping by Flowers. Gardeners should know that it is qilito possible to so arrange flowers in a garden that all the purposes of a clock will be answered. In the time of Pliny forty-six flowers were known to open and shut at certain hours of tho day, and this number has since been largely increased. For instance, a bed of common dan delions would show when it. was 5.30 o'clock in the morning and 8.80 o'clock at night respectively, for these flowers open and shut at the times named, frequently to the minute. 'The com mon hawkweed opens at 3 o'clock in the morning, and may be depended upon to close within a few minutes of 2in the afternoon. The yellow goat's beard shnts ut 12 o'clock noon, abso lutely to the minute, sidereal time. The sow thistle opens at !5 a. m. and closes at 11.12 a. in. Tho white lily opens at 7 a. m. and closes at 5 p. m. —Pearson's Weekly. To Fiml the Day of the Week. The following formula shows how to find tho day of the week of any date. Take the last, two figures of the year, add a quarter of this, disregard ing the fraction; add the date of tho month and to this add tho figure of the following list, one figure standing for each month: 3—G—6— 2—i—o— Divide the sum by seven and tho remainder will give the number of the day iu the week. And when there is no remainder the day will be Saturday. A Growing Advertisement. Near Ardonlee, Scotland, there is a wonderful advertisement, made of flower beds. The bods are each a gigantic letter, forty feet in length, tho whole forming tho words of "Glasgow News." The total length of the lino is 123 feet; area covered by the letters 1-1,815 feet. The ad vertisement is situated on the side of a bill, and, being of bright-colored flowers, can be read from a distance of four and a half miles.
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