WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From our Hcgular Corrospondnot.)
Washington, Dec. 45, 1893
President Cleveland ami every
member of his cabinet, except Attor
ney General Olney, who is in Iloston,
spent Christmas day in Washington
witli their families. .The day lus been
a quiet ore at the White House, 11
large part of it devoted to the child
ren and their Christmas tree which
was put up Saturday evening, although
Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland informally en
tertained several personal friends both
at lunch and at dinner. The idea of
going to Lakewood, N. J., for a few
days has been abandoned, but the
President hopes to get a little reel ca
tion this week on a short hunting trip.
In view of the misstatements which
have been made concerning the atti
tude of Commissioner Lochrcn toward
the pensioners the following from a
speech he made in the case of Judge
Long, of Michigan, whose pension was
suspended by him, which is pending
in a Washington court, is worthy of
attention : "I am not anxious to
worry or to cut off my old comrades
with whom I fought and carried a
musket. I am anxious that they
snotiiu get all their clues. Yet, at the
same time, as an officer of the law, I
have a sworn duty to perform, to see
that they do not get more than they
arc entitled to."
By th? way, speaking of pensions, it
was lately decided by Commissioner
Lochrcn that no retiring official of the
pension office could do business as a
pension attorney before that bureau
until he had been two years out of of
fice. Had Gen. Kaum made a simi
lar decision the bank account of "Cor
poral" Tanner, who was so uncere
moniously kicked out of that office by
Mr. Harrison and who is said to have
made a fortune as a pension attorney,
would be very much smaller than it is.
It is, however, a wise decision and it
would be well it it were made a rule in
all branches of the government service,
us it is well known in Washington that
many officials make use of their posi
tions to accumulate information which
they turn to valuable use as attorneys
after they leave the government ser
vice ; and cases have been known in
which they have undertaken as attor
neys to have decisions wrongfully
made by them as officials reversed by
their successors in office, the inference
being that the decisions were inten
tionally made wrong in the first place.
Secretary Lamont scotched a sensa
tional story, that he jroposed com
pelling the clerks of the Record and
Pension devision of the War depart
ment to again take up their quarters
in Ford's old theatre, by making the
following statement: "There is no
purpose or disposition on the part of
any officer of this department toquar
tcr any of its clerks or employees m
any building not determined to be per
fectly safe. On that point there is no
question for uneasiness. The $G,ooo
appropriated by Congress for repairs
to the old Ford's theatre building has
been expended under the direction of
the Chief of Engineers of the Army,
as directed by law, and the building
has been restored to the condition it
was m before the commencement of
the improvements in progress at the
time of the accident, with some conse
quent strengthening of its foundations.
While it is probable that it would
serve its former purpose, the commis
sion of experts appointed by the de
partment to examine and report as to
the safety of the building find that
certain additional work should be done
before it shall be occupied by clerks.
This report will be referred back for
an estimate of the cost of this new
work, and when returned the matter
will be submitted to congress for its
direction as to -further alterations."
Just before the Senate adiourned for
the recess Senator Voorhees offered a
resolution against the quartering of
clerks in this building again.
The number of Congressmen who
went home to spend their holiday was
unusually large this year ; consequently
there is just now a decided lull in the
talk about the tariff, Hawaii, etc.,
which has been constantly going on
for months and which will take a fresh
start next week when the absentees
will again be on hand prepared for the
hard and long struggle that is before
them.
A subcommittee of the House
Ways and Means committee will spend
the most of their holidays in working
upon the Internal Revenue bill, which
it is hoped will be ready to be report
ed to the House when it again assem
bles. Several democratic members of
tie Senate Finance committee are al
so at work on the tariff, so as to be
P'epared to receive the Wilson bill
When It is sent: river frnm lht House.
'Ihe Work of th Sr-nntnra ha been KO
far mostly confined to the gathering of
information which will be useful later
on.
. Speaker Crisp, who is still in Wash
ington, is confident that the Wilson
jariff bill will be passed by the House
before the first of February, and that
t will not be necessary to deny any
nan the right to be heard thereon in
order to get it through by that time.
It is a greater fault rigidly to cen
sure than to commit a small oversight.
Children Cry for
Pitcher'e Castorla.
HISTORY
cank note,
u.m. m nimiPtijcrr hj nn F.nKM.nn
('imllnivl In nn Algerian lmir;rnn.
Honlc note.i have curious histories nt
tached to than 111 tho way of human
comedy, tnircdy imd melodrama, fays
tho New Yr;t Mr m .lounml. A rollect
r.rnt Paris of such curiosities got hold,
Kme yours ngo, of a five-round
Land of Lngland note which had some
what of a tra.rli! interest connected
with It. Sonic sixty odd years ago tho
cashier of a Liverpool merchant had
received In tender for n business pay
men tii Itantc of England note which
he held up to tho scrutiny of tho light,
ro as to mako fiuro of its genuineness.
Ilo observed foiuo partially indistinct
red niurhs or words traced on tho front
of tho noto beside the lettering and on
tho margin. Curiosity prompted him
to try to decipher tho words so in
scribed. With great difficulty, sofulnt
ly written were they and no much
obliterated, tho words wero found to
form tho following sentence: "If this
note should fall into tho hands of John
Dean, of Longhlll, near Carlisle, he
will learn hereby that his brother Is
languishing a prisoner at Algiers."
Mr. Dean, on being shown tho noto,
lost no time in asking tho government
of tho dey to mako intercession for his
brother's freedom. It nppenrcd that
for eleven long years the latter had
been a slave to tho dey of Algiers, and
that his family and relatives believed
him to be dead. With a piece of wood
ho had traced in his own blood on tho
bank noto tho message which was to
procuro his release. Tho government
aided tho efforts of his brother to set
him free, this being accomplished on
payment of a ransom to tho dey. Un
fortunately tho enptivo did not long
enjoy his liberty, his bodily sufferings
while- working as a slave in Algiers
having undermined his constitution.
UNCLE JERRY."
A Couple of Rtorlr Abont the Lata Agri
cultural Secretory V.anlt.
On ono occasion a chief of one of tho
3ivisions in Secretary Husk's depart
ment had got into trouble with a news
paper man ond had been soundly rated
by him in tho papers. Secretary Husk
had seen tho statement and ho called
tho man up and asked him what ho was
going to do about it. The clerk replied
that ho didn't know what to do, and
said to tho governor: "Suppose you
tako tho matter up and settle it."
t'No, sir," replied Undo Jerry, "I am
not, such a fool. It is your tail that is
under tho gate and you'vo got to do
the squealing."
A certain congressman called on Sec
retary Rusk one day and tried to chaff
him. Ilo said: "See here, Gov. Husk,
you don't know mo. I want you to un
derstand that I coma from tho west,
and I'm a regular Jim Daudy of a
follcr." "Yes, I suppose you are," said
Undo Jerry, as ho arose to his feet In
order to tell the story better. "You
mako mo think of tho sermon of tho
minister who was discoursing on the
wonders of tho Lord's creation, and
paid that ho mado tho largo as well as
the small tilings of tho universe.- Said
tho preacher: 'When God mado tho
mighty ocean ho mado a little rivulet;
when he mado tho snow-capped moun
tains ho made a hillock; when ho mado
that king of beasts, tho elephant, ho
mado a Ilea, and when ho made mo,' "
hero tho governor drew himself up to
his full height and stretched out his
arms, " 'ho mado a daisy.' And I sup
pose you think you are tho daisy."
ASTONISHED SAVAGES.
Money In Fictmnno for Fond 1Vm a Goo.l
Jolc to tho Wild Kafirs.
The author of "Whero Thrco Em
pires Meet" took' some Kafirs from
their desolato Inland home in tho
Himalayan gorges beyond tho moun
tain ranges to tho more civilized south.
Like most savages, they looked with
stupid lndifTereneo at tho marvels
about them, and onco only wero they
excited by an incident which opened
their eyes to what they considered a
most extraordinary and unnatural
state of things.
They wero desqending a road when
one of them chanced to remark that ho
was hungry, ond tho English "sahib"
bought him somo food at a way siito
shop. Tho Kafir saw tho money change
hands.
"How is this?" he inquired, in sur
prise. "Do you have to pay for food
in this country?"
"Certainly."
"What a country!" cried tho man, in
amazement. Then after pondering a
while ho continued, doubtfully: "Suppose-
a man had no money in this
country; ho might tttarvcl"
"It is quito possible."
Tho Kafir shook with uncontrollablo
laughter. It was tho best joke he had
ever heard. Ho then explained tho ri
diculous system to his companions, and
they roared in chorus.
Curly ltleai About Hair.
All tho ancient philosophers held
curious ideas respecting tho growth,
functions, structure, etc., of tho hair,
and had many superstitions founded
on theso old opinions. Tho early
writers on tho make-up of the human
body almost Invariably refer to tho
hair as being an ejcrement fed on sub
stances similar to itself. They sup
posed that it generated in tho fu igl
uous.parts'of tho blood; was exhaled by
tho heat of tho body, becoming firm
ond fibrous on being exposed to the air,
just as tho fluid of tho t-plder web does.
In these days every idea respect lujf tho
growth and character of hair Is
charged. It Is now agreed that every
hair properly and truly lives ami re
ceives It nutriment from the body.
True, they take upon themselves tho
nature of parasitic plants; they grow as
vegetation does, yet each bus, on u
were, a distinct life ami economy. I lint
they derive their existence from tho
juices of tho body there is no doubt,
but that food is not taken from the uu
trltious juices, for wo know that hair
vill thrive even though the body starve
or bo wasted by dir.eaKO, or even alter
tho animal life lasccurcd toexh.tin
the flesh or bUu to v.hleh they are attached.
OF A
j lm JUJJUlLii MKAL
Piolttlnvr'j F;vrloncj i.i r Typs
writer-Girl' i Roat iu-.aut
Where n .".tun Mny Fnve r!o ley nn III
I.nnrli Iti-rnnxt lie Will I e-l no Km ill
That a Very Little Will
Patlafy lllm.
tcopyiiioriT, lwi3.
t am a modest man, ond I went out
to eat my modest lunch, tho other day,
and Inadvertently walked into a place
whero there wero eight hundred young
and beautiful women; all of them
looked at mo. If they had been men,
a few of them would probably have
been thinking about something, and a
commonplace stranger would not have
becomo at onco the cynosure of all
eyes. Itut these were women, care
less and free, upon whom the cares of
business had left no traces except the
THE SLOPPIEST MAN ALIVE.
ink stains on their thumbs. So, hav
ing nothing requiring their attention,
they all looked at me, and I felt as
comfortable as we do in thoso dis
tracting nightmares when we roam
through dignified assemblies looking
for a quiet corner whero we can put
our clothes on. They kept on ehowlng
with a gcntlo and rhythmical move
ment which required no conscious di
rection and left their minds freo to
consider my claims to personal beauty
and engaging manner.
And then, suddenly, the entlro eight
hundred took their eyes off mo, and
forgot that I was alivo. It was tho
only thing that could have mado mo
feel worse than I felt when they were
looking at me, and It accounts for the
tine of bitterness which may bo de
tected in these lines. A man must be
older and more philosophical than I
am before ho can endure with patience
the humiliating reflection that not one
girl in eight hundred prefers him to a
plate of ham and beans.
I stumbled along through the room,
and at last discovered a place at the
far end whero there were a fow men.
The only vacant seat was by a table
which had men on one side and women
1 rouso nun ojj my back.
on the other. I fell into the chair, and
instantly found myself face to faco
with' a haughty typewriter girl wh, in
our elevator, has frequently repulsed
with scornful eyes tho advances which
Heaven knows I did not make. I
stole a glanco at her to see whether
she could still find it in her heart to
crush me, humbled as I was, in the
presence of so much youth and beauty.
Hut sho lifted her cold gray eyes from
hergriddlo calces, and looked at somo"
thing1 which was immediately behind
mo. I do not know what it was, but I
could feel her steely glanco pass
through mo with tho cold precision of
a scalpel. And yet she is not destitute
of human Bentiments. I havo heard
her converse with tho elevator boy in
such moving tones that he has run by
four floors where business men waited,
swearing, to bo taken down In tho car.
And I have occasionally seen her gaze
Into tho mirrors in tho car with other
purposo than to contemplate her own
lovliness. I have oven thought that
she was looking at me, but, alas. It
was always when I hadn't shavod for
four days.
A young man camo to remove tho de
bris of my predecessor's order. Though
youug, as I havo said, this gentleman
had already risen high in his profes
sion. Ilo could clean off a tablo as I
TUn.N TUB WAITHII OIRL CAME.
had never seen It dono before. lie
wiped that tablo till It was so smooth
ttiat the dishes could Jiardly stand 011
it. And not a crumb, not a bean, not
an atom of pio was spilled upon tho
floor. It all went into my lap, every
morsel of It. Ho even brushed tho
grease spots of a previous season oil
the mahogany on to my pantaloons.
He la positively tho sloppiest man that
ever raised tho price of benzine, und
ho should command a high salary in
any restaurant.
Then the waiter girl came. I think
that she was shot out of a cannon, but
I cannot swear to this, because I did
nut -co nor coming. In fact I did not
mm
know that she had started until 1 found
her 011 my back. She laid some things
down on the table. Some of tho things
she put down with her left hand, which
was or. one side of my neck, and i;omo
with the right hand, which was on the
other She was in such a hurry with
the tea: -poon that she snapped it up
my sleeve and it disappeared. I pro
test that this was not my fault, and it
was only a pewter spoon anyway, but
the haughty typewriter girl viewed mo
with increased distrust afterwards.
Then the waiter girl asked me what
I would havo. It was an tmbnrrasslng
position. It seemed as If the eight
hundred girls began to look at mo
again. Certainly in tho eyes of tho six
on the other side of tho table I read
tho question: "Will he tako ham and
Iloston?" The room was full of nod
ding plumes. I never before had the
faintest conception of tho magnificence
of feminine headgear. How could I
give my modesT order In such an as
semblage, with a full certainty that
tho waitress would nnnounco it In a
voico liko the trump of doom? I have
been a rather severe employer of typo
writer girls. When my dictated letters
have been signed "Yours Truly" with
a capital T, I have raised a row about
it and have felt a certain superiority
afterwards. Hut at this moment, when
eight hundred of them had mo prac
tically alone, oh, how they did get
6quare with me! This was their place,
and they knew the etiquette In use and
I didn't. And they all looked at me
once more, even those that were back
to mo, until I felt so small that I
couldn't find anything on tho bill of
fare that was small enough to go in
side of me. And as they looked at me
they all chewed serenely, and even the
sloppy young man was afraid of them,
and brushed things Into their napkins
instead of on their dresses. When I
had given my order all the girls looked
at tbelr plates again In a hurry, in or-'
dcr to emphasize the fact that it was,
the order and not mo In which they
were Interested, and whether it subse
quently killed mo or not was a matter
of total indifference to them.
Presently the haughty typewriter
girl opposite me deigned to raise her
eyes as far as my necktio. Then tho
girl next to her also looked at it. Orig
inally It was a light colored tic, and if
wo had a decent system of street clean
ing In Xew York, It would be so to
day. I!ut the dust does fly dreadfully.
I had fancied, indeed, that tho part
which was exposed to view looked well
enough; but when the girls riveted
their gaze upon it, my soul became har
assed by doubt. Tho other four girls
Joined in the game, and their glances'
pressed so heavily on that tie that I
could feel the shirt-stud underneath if
being gradually forced into my bosom.
Two or three girls at the table beyond
turned around They knew instinc
tively where to look.
My eyes fell before this concentrated
Are. I bowed my head, not In defer
ence wholly, but with the idea of get
ting my chin low enough to cover the
necktie. As I did so I saw, with the
corner of an eye, this notico on the
wall:
Tie TTwt Htimbletti
Himself Saull lio Exulted
f
It fitted my case exactly, and yet
tho promise involved in it seemed
to be scantily fulfilled. I began
to open some eggs with a trem
.bling hand. A largo piece of
the shell fell into my glass. I tried
to fish it out with a spoon which, such
was my agitation, knocked against tho
glass like one of those tappers in a shop
'window, inviting people to come in
and bo robbed. Then all the girls
shifted their gazo from my necktie to
the piece of shell. Under such circum
stances, I was not likely to catch it.
"Lot me send it back and get you
another," said a kindly voice behind
me. It was the malo superintendent
of the establishment, an exceptionally
polito and obliging young man. I had
never been so glad to see a male of my
Vpeoies before. It brought my courage
back. I aroso and abused that gentle
youth for every fault of omission and
commission known to the restaurant
business. Ho took it with the bland
est courtesy. Suddenly, grown brave,
I turned to see what effect tny asser
tion of dignity had had upon the girls.
They were all gone. One o'clock had
struck and they had gone back to ham
mer somo more holes In our language.
Perceiving this, I apologized meekly to
tho superintendent, and then sat dowp
cd ate the cold egg, shell and all.
Howard Fieldixo.
THE POMAKS.
AfoliamraedlBiu Among the Bulgaria!!! Cft
Jtlioitoo. '
Who on earth, or what on earth, aro
tho I'omaks? is the question which
will suggest itself to most of those
who glanco at tho heading of this arti
cle. Tho Pomalcs uro lliilarophono
Mohammedan Bulgarians; that Is to
say, they are Bulgarians who have
adopted tho creed of Islam, but re
tained their own language. With their
L-.tivo speech they havo preserved cer
tain usages and customs of their own
race, thus affording to the ethnologist
an admirable field for speculation as
to tho extent to which a change of ro
ligion, unaccompanied by other influ
ences, can modify tho ingrained char
acteristics of a nation.
There are Poinaks in many parts of
Bulgaria; but tho Poroak territory par
excellence lies In the wildest, remotest
region of the Itulkan peninsula, in tho
heart of Rhodope, a terra incognita to
the European traveler, and knownonly
by report to tho neighboring races; in
ancient days the haunt of tho frenzied
Bacchantes:
Of tlmt wild rout that tnro tho Tbraetan bard
In Rhoilopa, when woods and rocks bad ours
To rapture, till lliti bavago olaulor drowned
Hutu liurp nnd voleo
and In later times the Inaccessible ro
treat of floreo, fanatical mountaineers,
who scorned for centuries tho rule of
Turk and Christian alike, and bravely
resisted every effort to bring them Into
subjection. It was only quite recently
that a Bulgarian force succeeded in oc
cupying the remoter portion of tha
I'udiak territory assigned seven year
ago by tho convention of Top-Kbiuu
to eastern Uoumclia. Fortnightly Ke
view. .
FORTUNES IN A TEACUP.
If you have- two spoons In your enp
It Is a sign that yon will figure promi
nently nt a wedding before the year Is
out.
If rrenni or milk Is put In your cup
before Ihe sugar It will cross your love.
A tea stalk floating on top of tho ten
Is called n stranger, says the St. lxmls
(Hobo-Democrat. When this happens
to uniiiiirt'led women they should stir
the ten briskly and then place the
spoon In the centre of the cup, holding
It quite still.
If the stranger in Its gyrations Is at
tract ed to the spoon he will come that
evening; should It, however, cling to
the sides he will not come nt nil.
Wo may observe that it really de
pends on the state of the atmosphere
ns to whether the stalk goes to the
niiddlo or not.
It Is n sign of fair weather If the clus
ters of nlr bubbles, which usually rise
after tho sugar has bei-n put In, collect
themselves and remain in tho centre
of the cup. If, on the contrary, they
strngde to the sides, It is a sign that
it will certainly rain in a few hours.
This cluster of bubbles is also called
a kiss and portends that the owner
will be thus saluted during the course
of the day.
A cluster of tea leaves with a few
stragglers nt the front at the bottom
of the cup signifies a hearse or a fune
ral, while the couple of leaves at the
bottom, If close together, signify a wed
ding. If the tea grounds take tho form of
a woman on tho side of the cup It sig
nifies n rival in love; if it looks like a
bird It menus news from a distant
friend; if it looks like n book it refers
to a well-known acquaintance who Is
nt college; If It looks like a tree it
means soon taking a Journey into the
country; If two stalks come together
it mean you are to meet a man; If it
looks like a snake it Is an enemy.
If It Is a dog you will meet or hear
from a friend; if it looks like a house
or. a shed it means that when martial
you will keep house for yourself and
not board; if it looks like a spire it
means you will bo married in church;
If it looks liko a duck or a swan it
menus that you will cross tho ocean;
if it looks like a bridge it Is nn un
questioned sign that your marriage
will bo happy and your life long and
sweet
If It looks like a man fishing with a
rod It points to a preacher who may
either officiate nt your marriage or be
come your husband; if it looks like a
man with many spots lying before him
it moans that your husband will bo
rich and may be a banker; if a broken
bridge turns up on the side of the cup
it means that your marriage will be
unhappy.
If there are undulations on tho side
of tho cup, some faint and some heav
ier, it means a checkered life or a
career of struggle, sometimes light and
sometimes severe. .
. i
; FACTS IN FEW WORDS.
A New York widow lately secured a
husband for $10 nt an agency. The
man has decamped, and tho woman Is
advertising for his return.
Tho Knipp gun works claim to have
manufactured a machine which will
roll iron so thin that it would take
1,800 sheets to make an Inch.
A baby whoso eldest brother Is a
grandfather was bom in Richmond.
Ky., recently. Its mother Is sixty-eight
ami ner nusoana seventy-two years
OKI.
A swarm of fl.es will make their ap
pearance at a cur window and easily
iip paeo with the train, -even though
it bo rushing across tho country forty
nines an nour.
This announcement recently appeared
In a Klrschevn, liuvaria, paper: "Lost,
on the 22d of September, my wife,
Anne. 'Whoever has found her is
begged to keep her. He will bo hand
somely rewarded."
Tho late Major Decker, tho midget,
weighed but a pound nt birth, and
physicians predicted that ho could not
livo two days, lot he survived forty-
four years, and1; it Is said, was drunk
hair or nis life.
Lightning played a curious freak at
Washington, Ga., during a late storm.
It struck a large bush, under which a
lien mill tliri.i ..1il..1rfna lm1 annivht
- - - - " ' ' V '"-- U0 ....... 0. 1& Ul
shelter. The former was instantly
Kiuca, out tue cnicKens wero found
nllvo under their mother.
In tho Sandwich Islands tho apple
una oeconio wuu, and rorests of trees
ofti-niuny acres are found in various
Ilk Jr of tile eoimf-nr Thr ovtAnd
- ' J ' - - V
from tho level of the sea far up into
ino uiouniiuu siues. it is said that
miles of these npplo forests can occa
sionally bo seen.
Tho greatest whirlpool is tho mael
strom off the Norway const It Is an
eddy between tho mainland and an
Island, and when tho current is in one
direction and tho wind In another no
ship can withstand tho fury of tho
will itimics una Kiiaras nave neon
cast ashore- and killed. Tho current is
estimated to run thirty miles an hour.
REVISED ARITHMETIC.
When sausage is worth twenty cents
a pouuo, now muen are dott-skin gloves
worth per pair?
If it costs ono unmarried man all he
makes to live, how much will it cost
to marry and raise a family?
If a cow gives two gallons of milk
a day worth eight cents a quart, how
deep is the cistern in the cow lot?
If a landlady charges $tt a week for
board, or if.'tO a month, and tho board
er skips 0110 day before tho mouth Is
up, how much does sho lose?
How long can one young man on
$100 a mouth, with expenditures of
$150, keep It up before he begins to
use the cash In tho money drawer?
If It takes ouo woman one minute to
communicate n bit of gossip across the
back fence to another woman In strict
secrecy, how long will It tako for the
other woman to scatter it all over town':
If two candidates in a county having
a voting population of H,Tim receive
5,000 and 5,500 votes respectively, how
long will It require to purify politics,
tho county having an area of 25
squaro miles?
Truly, Job was a patient creature.
Doubtless It was in tho dry-goods store
that ho murmured to himself: "All the
lays of my appointed time will I wall
Ml tho change comes." Hoston Traa-script
POPULAR SCIENCE.
The woodlnnds of tho United States
now cover -l.Vi.OOO.OOO acres.
Tho Thame pours 40,ihjo,OoO cubic
feet of water into the sea every hour.
Kxtrnordlnnry stories are told of tho
icallng properties of ft new oil which
i easily made from the yolk of hens'
t?','t.
Th forty-four T'nlrod States owe,
eolleetively, l,0KI,(M), and they pay
( the holders of State securities $10,
J0O.0O0 a year as Interest.
The new Hrooks comet Is now visible
'11 the morning sky due east and nlniut
:( degrees above the horizon nt 5 A.
-d. In the constellation Coma Herenlces.
An European mathematician, of
world-wide celebrity claims that from
.1 single Htnto a careful cultivator
oiild rnlso 10.000.000,000 tubers within
1 peihxl of ten years.
Tho coldest placo In the world Is the
vgion nlnnit the month of the Me
;enzle River, In British America. The
thermometer there has been known to
sink to 70 degrees below zero.
It Is estimated that the total pro
duction of coffee In the world Is about
in .'0,000 to (S.0,000 Ions, of which Uracil
alone produces between H40.000 and
:i.so,ooo tons, and Java 00,000 to 00,000.
Ono towlont on the Mississippi, In
.1 good stage of water, can take from
fit. Iouls lo New Orleuns a tow carry
ing 10,000 tons of grain, a quantity
that would require fifty railroad trains
of ten curs each. -
The upholsterer bee lines her nest
with the leaves of- flowers, always
choosing such as have very bright col
ors. They aro Invariably cut in cir
cles so exact that no compass would
make them more true.
The longest reach of railway without
a curve Is that of tho New Argentine
I'aclllc Railway from Ituenos Ayref
to the foot of the Andes. For 211
miles It Is without a curve and hni
no cutting or embankment deeper than
two or three feet
Ravens, when on the wing, spend
much timo striking ench other, and
often turn on their backs with a loud
croak and seem to be falling to the
ground. In fact, they are scratching
themselves with one foot and have
lost their centre of gravity.
Sir James C. Browne, a London ex
pert on brain disease, says insomnia
is not so bud as claimed. The brain
tnkes rest in short spells, nnd one part
if the brain rests while tho others keep
at work. And so literary men, though
getting little sleep, have their brain
rest anyway.
At the north pole there is only ono
direction south, east and west havo
vanished. The hour of the day at the
polo is a paradoxical conception, for
that point is the meeting place of every
meridian, and the time of all holds
good, so that it Is any hour one cares
to mention.
Scientists are exuberant at the dis
covery of what Is supposed to be a
new metal, or at least a new combina
tion of old metnls. The scene of the
deposit Is in Albiquln, N. M. In a
largo morass are several thousand logs
of timber petrified Into coppor ore,
nveragiug 00 per cent of copper and
from 30 to 40 ounces of silver to the
ton.
The generally accepted theory of tho
cooking of meat relates to the appli
cation of heat, but Dr. Sawlezovosky
has called attention to the fact that
almost precisely tho some chemical
and physical changes can be accom
plished by exposing animal flesh to
extreme- cold. Meat subjected to a
degree of cold equal to 50 degrees be
low ero of Fahrenheit's thermometer
looks and tastes exactly like meat
boiled In fresh water.
HISTORICAL.
Tho art of embroidery Is of very an
cient origin, and was brought to great
perfection by the women of Greece and
Sidou. It was extensively practised in
mediaeval times in Europe. Tha wo
men of some barbarous races, like the
North American Indians, often exhib
ited a marked degree of skill in em
broidery. Aaron Burr resign' d from the Pror
incinl army by reason of 111 health u
'780. In 18(H) he and Jefferson each
had seventy-three electoral votes for
ihe office of l'reldeut of tho United
States. The choice was thus left to
Congress, which on the thirty-sixth bal- I
lot chose Jefferson for President and I
Burr for Vice-President j
Rusento, a river of Italy in the prov-
Ineo of Salerno, empties into the Gulf
of Rusento nt the city of Pollcnstro.i
Upon tho death of Alarle the Visigoth
IClng, his followers turned tho coursol
of tho river, nnd after having burled
lilm, ngnln led tho river into its old
course, thus covering all trace of AJ
aric's grave from the eyes of his ene
mies. In tho appalling catastrophe which
destroyed tho city of Lima and its har
bor, Callao, In Peru, In October, 1740,
tho earthquake shocks were repeated
.'very seven or eight minutes, and over
1 00 of tho most violent kind were count
ed within twenty-four hours. In tho
givat earthquake of Onraccus ou tho
jah of March, 1S12, fifteen shocks
were felt on the first day, and they
joutl micd numerous every day until
ihe Oth of April following. ,
, VERITIES.
The Proton aqueduct has a collect
11,' reservoir whoso capacity Is 3,000,
joo.oixj gallons.
The public free schools of the United
-'i.ites ore at present educating 13,-
000 children.
William Waldorf Astor has subscrlb
i .l ! l.ooo In aid of tho moiiuuieut of
Gen. MeClellau at Philadelpliia. '
KMi'ra City, Kan., Is the new home
'i f lottery concerns. Nino Institutions
f that description aro now openly do
;), business there, and more are proin-
A territorial enlargement la under
iiddenitloa by the Cincinnati aiuhor-'-..
ThT coveted annex contains 75
iiiaro miles and has a population of
A s:-. Louis saloon gives a ticket for
. !-l,''.v:.'s lodging with every tlass t
cv, and each night fumUhe-.t a renr-.,-
;i!;ife for from 100 to illK) men and
1:'. Its patrons sleep on tho floor
i':ii:t bedding.
In'v-Why did you kiss Mamlo so
i -, .'iitly :;ro you engaged to hevV
i;ii;e No, but I was and Mi km
:swit"d to break off the euga.-UH-uc.
Truth.