CURIOUS FACTS. A Harpswell (Me.) fisherman has a frontyard fence composed of the swords of swordfish. The highest church spire in Europe is that of St. Waiburgh, at Preston, England. It is 303 feet. Within a short period a Mount Zion (Ind.) hen has laid three eggs, each eight inches in circumference. At Heppner, Oregon, there is a band composed entirely of women, which furnishes music at celebrations in nearby places. English sparrows in droves, not to say hordes, have picked all the grains from the wheat stalks in a field outside of Wabash, Ind. When Mrs. Henry Rohrs was struck and killed by lightning in her home near Auburn, Neb., licr baby was thrown from her knee to a spot under a table, but was not hurt. Under Henry Y. of England an act of Parliament ordered all the geese in England to be counted, and the sheriffs of the counties were required to furnish six arrow feathers from each goose. Residents of Lovilia, near Ottumwa, lowa, have formed an organization for the extermination of rats, and mem bers are to devote one day a week to the work of ridding the neighborhood of the vermin. Mrs. Keziah Hubbard, of Palmyra, Me., at eighty-six does a good deal of embroidery and patchwork in a year. Among her recent work were an out lined spread and a pair of pillow shams, a tasselled quilt and a half dozen ei'azy quilts. A loving husband in Vienna, Austria, committed suicide by hanging himself. In his pocket was a letter in which he left all his property—the rope with which he had hanged himself—to his wife, from whom ho had been divorced ten years. A cortain Boston dentist is such a shrewd business man that he insists on receiving payment in advance from customers who require the administra tion of anaesthetics. This is to guard against the possibility of their dying in the chair. Jacob H. Tuthill, of Oregon, who is eighty-three, jumped into the air and kicked his heels together twice before touching the ground the other day, just to demonstrate to the people gath ered at a family reunion how young he still felt himself to be. Pineapple gardens planted two years ago nt St. Petersburg, Fla., have proved so successful that the acreage given to them has been increased largely by different investors. Vari eties of the pines have been imported from tho Azores for culture here. A postal card that required sixteen years to travel ninety-nine miles breaks the record for slow postal de livery. It was posted in Leicester in June, 1881, and has just been received in London. The address was plainly written on the card, and no one knows where it has been all this time. •After tho death of Prince Albert the Queen went to the Highlands, and one of her first visits was to a widowed peasant woman. The two cried to gether, and when the woman begged pardon for not controlling her feelings, tho Queen said she was thankful to cry with somebody who knew exactly how she felt. Music as Medicine. The power and inlluence of thought in olevating ideals and eradicating evil propensities opens up a field of almost infinite possibilities for educa tors, and those who have charge of re formatories and penal institutions. Music is another subtle remedial agent, which is now being success fully employed by the most advanced physicians. "Of all agents able to soothe a nervously strained and vague ly conscious mind," says Dr. Henrik G. Peterson, in one of his scholarly papers on "Hypno-Suggestion," "mu sical harmonies stand assuredly fore most." Dr. Peterson quotes from an arti cle in a medical magazine of England, giving the results of a society known as the Guild of St. Cecilia, in reliev ing suffering and curing disease. Ac cording to this paper, in one hospital the proper music soo hed to Bleep fifty per cent, of the inmates. In another, the temperature of seven out of ten pa tients was lowered and became almost normal whenever suitable music was performed. The experiments proved that music exercises a potent influence on the nervous system, the digestion and the circulation.—The New Time. Hitting: Power of tlie Ocean. Landsmen who are slow to realize the tremendous force of the sea had an object lesson in New York City the other day, when five large tanks, built to contain 120,000 pounds of soap, but temporarily filied with water, and situated on the fouith floor of a large building on West Fifty-third street, New York, collapsed and completely wrecked the whole structure, killing three men and doing a large amount of damage. The tanks were each fifteen feet high and about thirteen feet in diameter, and contained 161,- 703 pounds of water, but the floors and supporting beams proved altogether inadequate to stand the strain. A wave of the dimensions of one of these tanks is not at all unusual at sea, and when such a wave breaks on a vessel's deck the force of the blow can only be estimated by the amount of damage it does in spite of the elasticity of the water beneath the vessel to ease her in receiving the shock. When the city firemen state that a stream from a hose under fifty pounds pressure will cut through 'any ordinary brick wall, the force of the sea in a gale may be, perhaps, better imagined.—Home Journal. Tho University of Berlin has 370 professors and instructors. POPULAR SCIENCE. Some butterflies have as many as 20,000 distinct eyes. An electric omnibus, which goes four miles in half an hour, is now run ning in the streets of London. Artificial rubber is being sought by Mr. Berthelot, the French chemist, who predicts that his product will be better and cheaper tiiau the natural gum of Para. The Japanese Government now issues every day three weather charts, which include observations in China and the Lin-Kiu Islands, enabling captains to ascertain the movements of storms several days in advance. Acute rheumatism is regarded by Dr. Jaccoud as of bacterial origin, and he looks upon the case of a child born with rheumatism while its mother was suffering from a severe attack as evidence of the infectious character of the disease. At the recent medical congress in Berlin, the tuberculin treatment for consumption was hotly attacked. Professor Liebreich, who vies with Koch as a scientist, maintained that phthisis occurred without the presence of tubercle bacilli, and believed these germs were only parasites that thrived when there was a predisposition to dis ease. Liebrecht held that the chief thing is to increase the vital power of the cellular tissues by sanitary living, proper food and exercise. The location of the stations for the proposed earthquake survey of the world is now an important problem. The use of existing astronomical ob servations has advantages, but Pro fessor G. Grablovitz points out that most of the active volcanoes are situ ated near three great circles, and suggests that the earthquake stations should be established near the six points of intersection of these circles and at twelve other points symmetri cally placed on the circles. From the physiological point of view Dr. Leon Muenier finds man may lie omnivorous, vegetarian or ear niverous, according to climate and the necessities of the case. An exclu sively animal diet, however, is injuri ous. Man's organization would adapt itself more readily to an exclusively vegetable diet, but there must be some meat also for the most useful work. Exclusive vegetarianism is the regime of invalids, very effective in certain diseases or morbid conditions. Well persons can get along with it, but without great advantage. The Hindu Fakirs. What the ascetics and the monks, the orders of modern and ancient churches alike, are to us the "fakirs" are to the Hindu population. Given iny festival or any shrine of note, and somewhere about you are sure to come upon them in force, singly and by companions. In one city, sitting round the sacred "popul" tree, I counted some twenty or thirty. Naked, but not ashamed, with their hair and beards long and entangled, showing by the dust and dirt that cover them their intense self-forgetfuluess and humilation, they are always ready to attract your attention and beg your alms. Never to take the eyes off a single object of worship for years to gether on a small barrow is no mean feat, but to leau upon one's arm until it shrivels for want of use is an exam ple of endurance and insensibility that would be admirable enough in another form, and that would certainly have moved the early Christians to a fervro of admiration. Though not equal to them, the Mussulmans can show fan atics of a considerable strain of piety on the same lines. In the famous Ali Musjid, through the Khaiber Pass, ] saw, in the midst of an admiring crowd of soldiers and tribesmen, a holy man of exceptional celebrity. The only thing the "mulla" had on was a high, sugar-loaf hat, made of leopard-skin, which would be an insufficient cover ing in our treacherous climate, and seemed unsuited to the frontier cold. He was evidently in a state of religious exaltation, for he screamed and howled continuously for days together. To satisfy his spiritual cravings the by standers kept plying him with tobacco, which he put in his long pipe.—Lon- don Telegraph. Diet of Grass. Horses and cows eat grass, and so do sheep and many other animals, but it is not generally presumed that peo ple do. However, William Gardner, a Mississippi colored man, has been living on grass and hogs' fat for sev eral days, so he says. Friday afternoon Gardner was seen picking handfuls of grass and jamming it into his mouth, after which he calmly chewed it in a very contented and self-satisfied manner. Several persons saw him, and he ran down the street as far as the dilapidated condi tion of his shoes would permit. A crowd of two hundred persons were soon following him, and ho finally ran into the arms of Policeman Britton. He said that he had no place to go and was locked up on the charge of vag rancy. He told the officers ho had lived on grass for several days and was begin ning to like the diet, as it was cheap and agreed with him. The only objec tion he had to it was that no one would pick it for him or place it in his mouth. He said he had been chased out of sev eral cities and came to Cleveland, as he thought it a good place. In the police court he said he wanted to go home, as he,had "all kinds" of friends in the South. Judge Feidler gave him twenty-four hours to leave the city, and if the speed with which William left the station is any criterion lie is even now very near home.— Cleveland Plain Dealer. The clove is the dried and unex pended bud of a tree technically known to botantists as the Caryophyllus aro maticus. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL A bar of lead cooled to a point about 800 degrees Fahrenheit below zero, according to the experiments of M. Pictet, gives out, when struck, a pure musical tone. Solidified mercury, at the same temperature, is also resonant, while a coil of magnesium wire vibrates like a steel spring. A new method of preserving meats, from which much is expected, consists in immersion in a thirty per cent, solution of salt through which a con tinuous current of electricity is being passed. The curing is completed in from ten to twenty hours, when the meat is taken out and dried. Gold leaves so thin that 250,000 measure only an inch in thickness are produced in the Swan process by placing thin sheets of polished copper in an electrolytic gold plating solution only until a continuous gold film has formed, then dissolving away the copper in a solution of ferric chloride. Liquefied carbonic acid is now pro duced so cheaply that its use for mo tive power for such purposes as driv ing light carriages is often considered. A difficulty encountered is the great absorption of heat and consequent loss of efficiency through the refrigeration of the engine, as the liquid expands and returns to tho gaseous state. When the flashlight of a submarine camera was burned recently in the Mediterranean, crowds of fish, with their wide-staring eyes, were instantly pictured on the sensitive plate. Pho tographs of submarine forests are startingly novel. Seaweed makes an altogether different appearance when seen in its natural element from that which it presents when seen floating on the surface or driven up on tho beach. A new nickel-iron alloy, reported by Dr. Charles Guillaume, of Naufchatel, to the International Committee of Weights and Measures, shows less ex pansion and contraction under the in fluence of temperature than any other metallic substance known. It consists of thirty-six per cent, of nickel and sixty-four of iron, and the expansion is but one-tenth of that of platinum. It is expected to prove of considerable value for measuring apparatus exposed to sudden changes of temperature. Railway tracks are found to be not absolutely stationary, but to be moved slightly, especially on steep descents, through the influence of the traffic over them. Austrian and French en gineers report that the left hand rail, seen in the direction of running, moves forward more than the right one, while Egyptian engineers have an opposite experience. One explan ation is that the cranks on the right side lead on European locomotives, and those on the left side on the loco motives of Egypt. A New Reservoir. In Pawtucket, R. 1., a reservoir lins just been constructed, which, accord cording to casual observation, has been made to stay. It has a depth oi twelve feet, a top diameter of ninety seven feet and a bottom diameter oi ninety-five feet. The concrete walls are four feet thick at the bottom and two feet thick at the top, with an out fiide batter of an inch to the foot. Ex tending all around the outside of the walls and imbedded in the concrete are wrought iron rings. There are four of these rings, about seven eighths of an inch in diameter. The upper one is ono foot from the top of the wall; the others are each one foot lower than the last. The entire Bides and bottom are of one continuous mass of concrete, the whole being laid out without joint or seam and of the most approved material. The concrete is made of one part Portland cement, three parts sand and six parts gravel. Any person at nil familiar with the use of such material need scarcely be told that this is an exceptionally strong construction, and one that, barring ac cident, will make the reservoir practi cally safe for many years to come. Bandaged the Wrong I.p™. A prominent young couple of Phoenix were riding their bicycles leisurely along West Washington street recently when a Chinese vegeta ble peddler came along nt a lively guit and upset the bicycle of the gentlemnu and fractured his left leg. His lady friend and companion, who is a re markably talented girl, did not cry or ring her hands in helplessness, but, breaking limbs from a neighboring tree, she made several splints. Then she tore up a white skirt for bandages and hailing a passing buggy, she aided in lifting her injured friend into it and had him driven to the office of Dr. Helm. The doctor helped the man into his office. Then he proceeded to make an examination of his injuries. "Who bandaged this leg so neatly?" asked the doctor. The girl blushingly re plied it was her work. "Well,"quoth the doctor, as an amused smile covered his face, "it is beautifully done, but I find you have made a slight mistake. Yon have got the bandages on the wrong leg." And the laugh that fol lowed this announcement was joined in by tho victim.—Arizona Gazette. A Moving Staircane. A moving staircase for pnssengers, in the shape of an endless leather belt transferring them from one story to another, is now in use in some of the great department stores of Paris. II is called a transporting carpet. End less belts of canvas have been used for some time to convey packages from place to piece within the store. Admire tho Hulaer'n Muatacho. The upward twirl ofi the German Emperor's mustache is greatly ad mired by his people. Some loyal sub jects even go so far as to sleep With their heads tied up in bandages in order to give their mustaches the de sired twist at the corners. AGRICULTURAL TOPICS. Durability of Fence Posts, Eenco posts of the wooden kind have least durability in sandy soil which moisture and air alternately penetrate. It might bo supposed that very wet soil, or where the posts stand in stagnant water, would make them decay more quickly. But in such positions less air comes in contact with the wood. When set in the grcunct fenco posts usually decay first just where the post enters the soil, as this has most changes from wet to dry and gives the air most chance to work on the wood. Charring the surface of the post where it enters the soil great ly increases its durability. Too Loosening. Where shallow cultivation has been practiced during the earlier stages of growth, and dry weather prevails, it is ruinous to change to deep culture at the later workings. We once saw this, tried on potatoes in a dry season. The first workings had been frequent, with sweeps running about two inches deep. As the season advanced the ground became quite hard below the depth of cultivation. Early in July it was cultivated deep with double shovel iti order to "loosen up the ground," Up to this time the crop was fairly promising; but now the plants wilted at once, and, though rain fell, they never recovered, the crop being almost an entire failure.—Agricultural Epito mist. Charcoal For lit irtlen*. Although charcoal has no fertilizing properties in itself, it is au excellent thing to apply to gardens, to manure heaps, and, indeed, to all rich ground. It is indestructible, though its light ness causes it to be easily washed from the soil, when it will be broken into very fine particles, and deposited in the black mud of ditches and ponds. This is very rich, because the charcoal is au excellent absorbent of ammonia from the air which it readily gives to the roots of plants. Hence though tlio charcoal be not itself fertile it is an ex cellent gatherer of fertility. In fresh charcoal there is a slight trace of sul phur, Avhich makes it repcllant to in sects. A mixture of sulphur and char coal is the beat moans of repelling cu cumber and squash bugs when it has been dusted on tho vines.—Boston Cultivator. Seeding; Thlu Patches. As haying progresses every farmer will notice thin patches where the grass might bo a good deal better. On a small scale it is an excellent idea to sow on the seed as though the ground were plowed and follow with a good dressing of manure from the cattle barn, and in two or three days or a week even follow with a good heavy white birch brush and you will be sur prised at the increase in the hay crop the following year. This plan, if well carried out under favorable conditions, will prove fully as successful as the more expensive method of plowing and reseeding. Do not conjure up tho idea that there is no time now for this kind of work. Plan for it and do an unusual amount of thinking 011 behalf of the old farm and it will bo a genu ine surprise to note the result.—A. A. Southwick, of Massachusetts, in Amer ican Agriculturist. Care of Young Turkeys. Until they are nearly half grown, young turkeys are very sensitive to the wet. They should bo kept in tho coop until tho dew lias dried off the grass, and especially if they run with a turkey hen. The common domestic lien is a much bettor mother for tho young turks than is the turkey hen. The latter is too early a riser in the morning, as it finds while the air is cold and the grass is wet with dew that the insects it is looking for are torpid and easily caught. But while the turkey hen is running through the grass her draggled brood are chirping farther and farther behind until their chirp can 110 longer be heard. After the birds are half grown, the wider range that the turkey hen takes makes what chicks she succeeds in raising larger and thriftier than those that the common hen has cared for, though both were hatched about tho same time. The turkeys should be fed be fore being allowed to wander in the morning. That will keep them busy until the dew has driedjfrom the grass, and will prevent the hen turkey from wandering too far. PotatocH Among Quack Brass. It is, we think, impossible to kill quack grass by growing a potato crop among it, no matter bow carefully the potatoes are freed from the weed. It is impossible to either boe or cultivate where the potato bills are, and with any chance to get to the air and light by growth above ground, the under ground roots will be kept alive. The best way to check quack grass growth is to cover the toji with wet soil, put ting enough salt on the green leaves to increase their natural tendency to rot when thus buried. In this way we have known good potato crops to be grown on fields abounding in quack grass. But after the potatoes begin to set cultivation must stop, else it will check their growth, and cause a new set of potatoes to form in the hill. The result was that though the potato crop was fair, it had at harvesting time to be dug out of a bed of quack roots. There is great danger of spreading quack grass by growing potatoes among the quack. Its roots will often penetrate the potato, and if such po tatoes are used whole for seed, there is likely to bo a quack bud 011 somo part of tho quack root attached to tho potato, which will start a now planta tion of this weed. All tho cultivating implements used among quack grass should bo searched for quack roots before they are used in any other field. —American Cultivator. About 30,000 families make ;tl)CI, living in Pariß in connection with the cab industry and taking care of horses. Oldest German Newspaper. Tlie Magdeburg Gazette, probably the oldest newspaper in Germany, last month celebrated its 1150 th anniver sary. It Is still conducted by represen tatives of the Faber family, which founded it in 16-17, just at the close of the Thirty Years' War. The present heads of the venerable journalistic dy nasty are the two brothers, Robert and Alexander Faber, perpetuating a line almost a century and a half older than that which rules over the London Times, the greatest if not the oldest of newspapers. Magdeburg took on the decorations of holiday in honor of its venerable Gazette, which well deserv ed them. Coffee and Wine. Rrillat-Savarin long ago stated that the great Frenchmen Buffon and Vol taire drank enormous quantities of coffee, to their deadly hurt; and he declared that a person might take two bottles of wine a day without injury during a long life, but that by a similai indulgence in coffee lie would become an idiot or die of consumption. The inordinate use of lea and coffee is now well-known, and Is admitted, even by temperance physicians, to be more dan gerous than that of alcohol. Dr. Al fred Crespi, In the Health News, has just been adding his testimony to that of others—London Caterer 8. and 0. Improvements. The work of straightening the track and re ducing the grade at Tubbs Station on the sec ond division of the Rami O. was completed Monday afternoon, and the first train to use tiie new line was No. One, the New York and St. Louis flyer. A heavy grade and three bad curves have been eliminated by t Lis work. A mile east, at Meyer's Hole, o similar improve ment has been in progress for months, and it will be completed and ready for trains ncxtt Sunday. Several reverse curves and a nasty and dangerous dip are done away with at this point. Near Mycr's Hole, at 'fablers, the alignment of the track is being materially changed, and as in the other two improve ment-, bad grades and sharp, annoying curves are being removed. This part of the work will be hme in sixty days and then a series of very dangerous places will have been entirely removed This work in its entirety means the hauling of several additional cars in each freight train, besides reducing the danger of derailments to almost nothing. The second division, running from Cumberland t> Bruns wick. will soon be in a first-class condition and more cheaply operated than ever. A Klomlyke Opportunity* The rapidity with which the Klondyke ex citiuent has spread over the country is aston ishing. It is but three weeks since the first of tlie treasure-laden ships readied port, yet the interest already extends from ocean to ocean. These Kloudyko discoveries are from all ac counts among the most wonderful in the his-, tory of mining; and certain itisthat there has been no such opportunity for quickly acquir ing a fortune since the early days of t alifor nia. But the danger is that numbers of com panies and expeditions will be organized by enthusiastic but inexperienced persons who will lose their owu money and that of their associates in ventures of which they have had no previous knowledge or experience. There fore, thosj who cannot go to the gold-Acids must be careful to associate themselves with people who have had experience in mining and prospecting. It is well known that Colorado Springs people have had a very la rye and successful experience in such operations. Among the Alaska companies formed in that city, the most prominent is The Alasku-Klondyke (iold Mining and Development Company, which was organized and its operations most care fully planned by the leading hanking and brokerage house of Colorado Springs. This company's expedition is already in Alaska, under experienced leadership; and by reason of its superior equipment, strong financial re sources and other speciul facilities which tlie forethought of the management lias provided, should reach its destination and begin oper ations far in advance of the general rush. This company is capitalized tot 1.000,000 shares of a par value of one dollar each; and a block of its stock is now offered for a short time at fifteen cents per share. In this con nection notice is given that on Sept. 15tli the ririco will be advanced to twenty-five cents. Being full-paid and non-assessable, this stock is forever free from any possibility of assess ment. Orders for the stock, accompanied by remittance covering the amount, should he sent to Win. P. Bonbriglit & Co., Colorado Springs. Col., the financial agents of the com pany, who are desirous also of entering into arrangements for the sale of stock with re sponsible agents throughout the country. 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Di rectors meet and take the word of treasurers that the affairs of the asso- \ elation are In a satisfactory condition. | This goes on and on until an immense j defalcation is discovered. This is the I ! same laxity which causes so many j bank defalcations, but stockholders I never seem to learn a lesson from these j repeated failures. The advocates of ; building and loan associations have i always held that it was practically iui- ' possible for the treasurers of such con- i cerns to default to any great amount because there never was much cash on j hand at any one time. Hut this has ! beeu disproved time and again. There is a vast difference between being able to say prayers that sound ; fine, and having a broken and contrive heart. • There Is Clou. or reepla Who arc injured by the use of ooffeo. Ho eeiitiy there has been placed in all the grocery 6tores a new preparation called t.rnin-ij.mode ot pure grains, that takes the place of coffee. 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From leaning over my books and marking up papers for five or six hours at a time I get a headache and my entire system gets shattered, but a Ripans Pabule always straightens me up, and next morning I am ready for the task over again, feeling as fresh as ever from the effects of the j magic Tabule taken on the previous night. It is certainly a wonderful remedy for nervousness and invigorating a wasted system, and in this I voice the sentiments of all the teachers in my section, every one of whom has used them with equally beneficial results." i " Good Wives Grow Fair in the Light of Their Works," Especially if They Use SAPOLIO | SUFFERING- WOMEX. How Many of Them Have Quietly Obtained Advice That Mad© ' Them Well. My sister, if you find that fn spite of j following 1 faithfully your family doc- I tor's advice, you are not getting well, 1 why do you not try another course? ! 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