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I Mir sIH-cial IT. ir I- nf our dollar it li I Ik' ! i. nf iiili-n l In call liable slaii.l:;iii if rail I f yon vih to sec t (i I f mi ish In sec l li I f von ant va luc fo I f j on w suit In i-iijuy newest ill. -us fur e ei v li.-si i lei l-S I D. GANSMAN, LARGEST CLOTHIER, HATTER AND FURNISHER, HIS KLIAI.STll AVF.SVF., Al.TOO.XA. ee VI . K.nKMT,lMiHn. CARL RIAITN1 1 US, PRACTICAL WATCHMAKER JEWEtEK, AND DEALER IN X"" Siujrfc "' " v t'l ir - if I "Seeing- Is Believimr." f!!llV:,''?iVk must he simple; -when words mean much, Imt to will impress the truth more tough ami seamless, and i-vi u is aosoiuu iy wand unnrejkable. Like Aladdin cf old, it is indeed a "wonderful lamp." for its mar velous light is purer and souer man eiectnc ngnt ana C. . y 1 . 1 at, look f..rthist.-imr Thb Rikhtstfr. If the lnmpdcnVr his n't th fen nine Rot-bt"irr. .-iu.1 the stvle you wunt. srnd to u lor our new illu-.trate.l L-ntaloKuc. .tti.l c will srn.l y(,u a l.mio safrlv bv express your choice ut over varieties tioni tlie I.tKeit l.jmp Store ik l hi h'vrJ. HAY - AND K'y'.t ( 'rf,tm Ilalm in lu-t a liquid, tmnjT quickly iifi-nirlMU. Jtclnin Vt6 50c D"HE the imrex. .v.frr ri itrurwistx-tir sent fu mail trii wriit of prise. ELY BROTHERS. -55 Warren Strsst NEW YORK. F I L IA ft EST C'BRHEE HKD HARNESS MG. u) Ko.l.farm Harnass .U?.Z."h '.Z:"'?' ??.T.?.? o. 119 Baud Matron. ( rn luruest npulactnn!r v."U. "Wl!" mil H.ji luiv. hu.p vith pn- jmtr -fitffc-S" ' llnKu ti tili-laltio l!.:r ' s-.iv ffftiM rw if riit f.if toyirn Wr'.yr I .1 inliP fi r i.rtil W.f .. Z. VtK j '' V una il U-o risk ot ( lir)AiCr WHOLESALE Xi IflAI fl J;r,V S"rln U linn.;, A: yl 'l U W 7 j i' ijV Ji. -li: l'l.,ii-iritS7.')U.llK). are n'l .. t ihik Slnjrlo S8 t.. 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Ilertler'a Thrllllna; story of Ilia l&ewcuM of m CoiiiMaiiiiia fruai On of t lie eaU ly Saaiupa. "What are known as alkali spots upon Lhi' wi-storn plain," a Now York Sin; man was inforiniil ly a tiothainite who lia.l lu-riUtl cattle for some se:tMns in the northwest, "are whitish plaees on the prairie, soim-times t-ovt-rinr many aen-s. IW-re the alkali has t-xtnletl from the soil and has the appearance of lime sprinkled over the surface. This up-M-aranee is most noticeable where the soil is lamp. Some of these places are of a marshy character, uinl some of them, though this is rare, are veritable Huairmires. as delusive and dangerous a the quicksands of the Platte. They can lie described only as a network of swamp holes scpamtvNl by narrow strips of firm soil, the entire surface ap pearing the same ami eipially linn. A spongy S4iil or crust of varying thick ness covers the holes, and one mi-rht m-ver suspect their existence until, breaking throujrh, he sinks rajiidl- into a mushy, clinjrin.. inextricable mire. Urlin cattle in Wyomiiif-, my closest companion for months had been a younjr man twenty-four years of aje, a handsome fellow with classic features, a well-molded figure, a g-od rider and crack shot. The rougher lxiys often twitted him alunit his fair, shapely hands and his care of them, for when on duty he always wore heavy buck skin "-hives, lie was reticent and said little almnt his past life, but expres sions he dropped anil his knowledge of i-ollcfre sports convinctl me he was a college man. Many nights, far from human habitation, in the open air we slept lietwcen the same blankets or watched the herd while communing with our thoughts and talking to the stars, which seemed so much nearer and brighter than in the far-away eastern In ime. "It fame aVmt that one day after a -ound-up thirty head of cattle were uiissinr from the herd. There was a suspicion that they had liccn stolen by rusth-rs, but they iniirht have wandered beyond the usual limitsof the ranjre; so the next lnurninfr my companion jiiid 1 vere instructed by the superintendent to ,s in search of them. We had rid den forty miles since the break of day. finding-no trace of the lost cattle, und late in the afternoon had divided to re turn. In a short time we saw in front of us an alkali sjxit of unusual size. As wo starti-d to eross it my companion was i-cvcraJ hundred yards to my ri- ht and a short distance ahead of me. In a few moments I heard an exclamation from h; , anil looking up saw his horse sinking into a ina;jinirc. Killing rapid ly forward I felt the surface waver be neath me. and knew that the next mo ment I inirht myself be engulfed. There was but one thinp; to do. I asked him if his feet were free from the stir rups, and he called back that they were. I told him to clasp his hands aliovc his head, and he did so: I mental ly measured ttie distance - with a sink ing sense of horror ami doubt. It was. a supreme moment. Iy lariat de scrilicd the circlv allow my head, then cut the air. hovered over him tor an in stant, descended Jfraccfully and tight ened around his chest. It had covered the distance with not an inch to spare. I literally draped hint from hi.-; horse t solid frround anil safety. He had 1. i.-ked his hands In-hind his head, his hir. k.kiu frl ives jrot--t injf them, and I hey saved hi., head and face, so that he brought up with only a few bruises. "I t wa . Useless to think of extricat ing the horse, which h.ul sunk into the taire until nothing but h heal and iie.-k were aUivc the surfa.-e. aiul as we started olT he turned his Jiea.1 towanl u.v.iihiyes so sad and a whinny so mournful it was almost human. I could not stand it, and, drawing my 'olt"s, aimed and tired. His head dropped forward. Poor Pete was saved from a horrible, linp-riii;r death, and the most jHipnlar broncho in the camp was no more. "Now cane a new iliscovery. The alkali sjMt was of oblong shas-, and, as we rode round it to avoid another attempt, at ro:ksin-, within a space of at tout live acres. Well lowanl the cen ter, we counted twenty pairs of horns jilst almve the surt'aee. as if they were yrov. in,'-out of the ground. We were :.atislicd that we had fathomed the mystery of the lost cattle. They had attempted to cross the place and had sunk into the swamp holes. In their strules to release themselves they had naturally kept their heads up as lonr as ixissihlc. and. death overtaking . them when the mire reached thoir mouths and nostrils, they remained in that position, with only their horns aliow the surface. The others of the missing cattle had no doubt shared the same fate, but, striking softer anil deeper mire, had disappeared entirely below the surface." '"ltment In Ciermany. When a maiden is lietrothcd in (Jer many she is called bride by her sweet heart, who addresses her thus until it In-comes time V call her wife. Imme diately upon lietrothal the lovers ex change rinfrs, which, if the course of true love runs smooth, are to be worn ever afterward until death parts them. The woman wears her In-trothal ring on the third finder of her left hand un til she is married, and then it is trans ferred to the third tintrer of her rifrht hand. The husband continues to wear the rinjr just as the wife wore hers w hen she was bride, so that one can tell easily at a g-lance if a man le or le not niort)?ared as to his alTections. A young-1 lerman matron on lieinfr told of the careless American custom of allow ing the man to go unfettered exclaimed: "till, how dreadful! How unjust to the young wives! How could I expose my Wilhelin so young only twenty-live to the temptations of the world, if he were not to wear a marriage ring. The girls would make love to him. I would not live in America for the world." Ma Way. Around ,he Worl,, amlVi,,,e T'1 f"r journey around the earth by a man walking day and n.tfht. without rest, would bo 4 -s nays; an express train, forty days--..ml. at a lutHlinm temperature. iiours; cannon . 1 .-. n , hVht i:..,. -- urs; r . i mi? over one-tenth tf a TXTh 1r.,:rtrj-it-. v over V1J; SEVERE PtNALTItS. I'unl.hinrnt Inlllcteil ("pon the Lawleu lu .Inrieut louimy I vanua. The assmbiy that eonveneJ at Ches ter lKt-emU-r 4, l".s-j, enacted a code of laws that made the people of the new colony live up to the mark, and while many of the severe penalties of the duke of York's code were softened, yet the unfortunate deemed them harsh enough. The man or woman who used profane language was punished by tine or imprisonment, and more than one person had reason for regret for expressing their feelings in publie with too much emphasis. The severest punishment was meted out for licentious conduct. A public whipping and one year's imprisonment ww the penalty for the graver degrees of this crime, while a second offense was punishable by imprisonment for life. This law was amended in 1T0.", the first offense lieing punishable by the inlliction of twenty-one lashes and imprisonment for one year or a tine of tifty jxiun.ls. A second conviction sub jected the culprit to seven years im prisonment and a letter "A" was branded on his forcheuiL The man that had more than one wife, instead of Wing an object of commiseration, was liable to Ik sent to iail for life, while the man who broke into a house and stole was sent to jail for four months, lie had to work like a Waver, however, and unless he re stored four fold to the party the court sent him up for seven years to give him time for rellectioii. Murder was punished with death and the forfeiture of half the estate of the felon. Theft was punished with publie whip ping and various terms of imprisonment, while restitution hail to be made from three to four fold. The minor regulations prohibited all persons from taking part in stage plays, revels, masques and kindred worldly pursuits, so that any troupe that had chanced to drop into Pennsylvania with the ta-ra-ra-lxxim-de-ay would have Wen sent higher than Cilderoy's kite. Drinking of health was punishable by a fine of live shillings, or live days' im prisonment, anil horse-racing, shooting matches and sports of like character were interdicted. If the offenders hap-IM-ni-d to W slaves they were whipjH-d and imprisoned instead of lined. HEREDITARY FOES. The- Internet Hatred of the I'lmaa for the A par hea. The memory of the Pima nor do his traditions run so far back that a mortal enmity with the Apaches did not exist, The first thing the Pima child is taught is to hate the Apache, the vandal of the great American desert, and he seldom forgets his teaching. Though it is not s. i bad now that the Apaches have sur rendered to the United States govern ment, still the hatred exists, and when the opportunity is presented the Pima spits at and heaps all kinds of contume ly upon the heads of the Apatla-s. As is known, the Pimas seldom leave their valley homes, and, a the Apaches are now on the reservation under the surveillance of troops, it is rarely that they meet, though last winter a com pany of the Apache soldiers were brought through this city under a I'nited States otlicer. Ik-fore they had lieen here an hour their old enemies, the Pimas and Maricopas, all knew of it. and by the middle of the afternoon fully two thousand were in town to see them. The Apache sentinel had lieen taught enough military discipline to know that he must not resent the in sults heapiil upon him by the Indian onlookers, but it must have Ix-cu a hard trial to his wild nature. Years ago the Apaches and the Pimas often settled their differences by single combat or pitched battles, and there is now one Pima living who killed six Apaches in one day in single combat near where the Sacaton agency is lo cated. The Pima used his iron wood club, about two feet in leugth, and the Apaches their siicars and war clulis. It is wonderful how skillful these Pimas are in the use of their clubs, fencing with them equal to the exhibition of a French master of the foils. A STRANGE FRIENDSHIP. IHrkena Amount of a t'obliler'e Lava for Ilia Iloff. "My father's love for dogs led him into a strange friendship during our stay at Doulogne." writes the fa mous author's daughter in Ladies Home Journal. "There lived in a cot tage on the street which led from our house to the town a cobbler who used to sit at his window working all day with his dog a Pomeranian on the table lieside him. The cobbler, in whom my father lieeame very much in terested liecause of the intelligence of his rxxKlle, was taken ill and for many months was unable to work. My father writes: 'The cobbler has Wen ill these many montlis. The little dog sits at the door so unhappy and anxious to help that I every day expect to see him" In-ginning a pair of top boots. Another time father writes in telling the history of this little animal: A cobbler at Itoulogne. who hail the nicest of little dogs that always sat in his sunny win dow Watching him at his work, asked me if I would bring the dog home as he couldn't afford to pay the tax for him. The cobbler and the dog W-ing both my particular friends I complied. The cob bler parted with the dog heartbroken. When the dog got home here my man. like an idiot as he is, tied him up and then untied him. The moment the cate was open, tne nog (on tne very ilay af ter his arrival) ran out. Next day Cieorgy and I saw him lj-ing all covered with mud, dead, outside the neighbor ing churcli. How am I ever to tell the cobbler? He is too poor, to eoine to England, so I feel that I must lie to him for life, and say that the dog is fat and happy.' ' .Mexican Sport. A favorite amusement with the I'nited States army officers on the Uio Craude is the Mexican cock light. Every Mex ican village has its cockpit, and officers on a few hours leave cross the river to see the fun. There are no W-tter cock fighters in the world than the Mexicans and, as public opinion sanctions the sport, the enjoyment of everybody is altogether frank. The acme of the sport is reached when the apparently vanquished bird, after having W-en completely buried in the dust of the arena to staunch his blood, suddenly rises as if from his grave, and with one blow from his spur slays his astonished rival in the act of crowiug- over his sup s asioutsneu over his sup- posed victory. CONSULAR CURIOSITIES. I Odd Facts Concerning- England's Foreign Commerce. Silka Weighted With Flour, and Wlnee Worth Nine Cent a m llottle Sold for Oue Uollavr lever Trick a or Trade. "The prompt issue of consular v-eports on P.ritish trade is an achievement for which merchants and shippers should he grateful to our foreign office, says Casscll's Saturday Journal. Some of them are, if we accept the cynical defi nition that gratitude is a lively sense of favors to come; for in the latest batch of reports several consuls complain that enterprising tradesmen have sent them patterns of cloth goods, etc., with prices for prompt cash, and asked them to obtain orders. Hut these an nual returns from our representatives abroad are of interest and value to others besides those engaged in trade. They contain a lot of out-of-the-way facts on imports and exports, the social condition of various peoples, the curi ous industries of the world and a thou sand other subjects. Last jvar, it ap pears, there was a decrease in the im portation of sandal-wood into Hankow. 'Jhina, The priKluct is used in incense, burnt mostly by women, and our con sul remarks that 'here' and, surely, elsewhere too 'one of the natural eeono nies of the working classes Ls a reduction of the religious expenses of the family. "Similarly, the statistics of imports and exports bring to light many facts aWut adulteration. Ladies Wing great on pongee silk just now, will W inter ested to know that that material is weighted with a size made from Wan Hour, and that, when a bale of inferior pongee is opened, the starch in it raises a dust which fills the room. On opium we learn that it is" not only 'faked in various ways, but largely smuggled into Tainan, China, by Wing squeezed into large hanihoo pipes. In Morocco it is customary to adulterate beeswax with composite candles, considerable quantities of which are imported for this special purpose. We seem to do a little in this line ourselves, or how is it that in Madagascar they can tell Lan cashire from American calico from the smell? 'From La Rochelle comes a startling fact aWut wine, of which no fewer than i."i.."iS4 tons were imported seaward last j-ear from Spain, Italy and Africa. This enormons quantity, 'after Wing mixed and blended with natural or arti ficial French wine, is consumed in this country (France), or exported as French wines to other countries. Thus does art assist nature. Which Ls the W-tter -natural or artificial 'grape juice?' It seems hard to tell. Our consul at Cadiz relates that he and a friend visited one of the native sherry cellars, and tested two samples which appeared to W of the same wine. They were so much alike that it was with difficulty they de cided which they preferred. ne of the partners in the firm then told them that one wine was sold at .0 a butt and the other manufactured Tor one of the largest mail steamship companies in the world at the rate of 4-jd per bottle, and retailed to their passengers at 4s a Ixittle.' "Among the suggestions made for opening our trade is one from Dantzig with regard to Newfoundland fish, a great deal of which, our consul thinks, might W sold in' the inland towns. He thoughtfully adds, however, that trav elers would have to W furnish"d with priuted directions in two languages (("ennan and Polish), showing how the fish should W' dressed for table or the pople would eat it raw, as they do her rings, and then they might not like it. A hint is thrown out, too, that some' English houses might do business with the ivory carvers of Diepte, where the handicraft of carving, established two centuries ago, still flourishes. The work is said to W far superior t: that of the Japanese, Chinese and Indians. Ten or twelve workmen do nothing all the year round but carve crucifixes, some of which are worth CM or '!. 'Quite a new industry is that of Jap anese floor matting, as made at Piogo and Osaka. The body of the fabric is a kind of native grass interwoven with fine thread, sometimes 'J"U to the yard, and the result of this combination is said to W as s ft and pliable as cloth. Prices for a roll forty yards long- by one yard wide are from $13 to $l.". An as tonishing fajt. considering that the trade is in its infancy, is that one firm has sent away more than 4.Uk) patterns. Firearm making, carried on at Liege, in Ilelgium, is another industry touched on. Forty thousand men are employed in this trade. Like the English nail and chain makers these work at home at their domestic forges The various pieces are put together at the factories. The output of the town in guns etc.. may "faintly W imagined from the fact thav from 3t0oo,uoo to 4,000,000 car tridges and ' f .rty tons of powder are consumed annually in testing them, lty the way. there are only five houses for this purpse in Europe Liege (where there is the largest in the world), lUrmingham, London, St. Etienne, in France, and Fellah, in Austria, are the plaees which possess them. AUDREY'o HISTORIC RIDE. -:ii;lit Milee an Hour on Home back for llO Cuumm-uI I ve Hour. The ride of the German officers from Ilerlin to Vienna recalls to the Wash ington Post a much more remarkable one made by F. X. Aubrey, a native of St, Louis Mo., aWut thirty-six years ago. in the far west- He Wt live thou ;.und dollars that he could ride from Santa Fe, X. M., to Independence. Mo., within five consecutive days. According to the terms of the wager he was al lowed only such remounts as he could procure en route; that is, he was not to arrang, for any in advance. As the country to W traversed was then a per fect wilderness to within a score or two of miles of the finish the only chance of obtaining fretdi horses was from some roving band of wild Indians he might encounter, who were as likely to take Aubrey's scalp as to swap horses with him. Hut fortune favored him. and he di.l obtain a fresh horse at the "Cross ing of the Arkansas and at Council drove, and won his Wt in four days and fourteen hours distance eight hundred and sixty miles so that he covered an average of nearly eight miles an hour for oue hundred and ten consecutive hours a feat of endurance that seems truly marvelous. ' , AN ENGLISH JUNE. The Delighte of an Early Sumaicr Kven- tnt( ka t'aaubrtUice. In a recent paper in the Atlantic on the English Cambridge, AlWrt Gillette Hyde gives this pleasant picture of a June eveuing there: "Indeed, it is hard to imagine a sight more interesting in its kind than that which the winding, narrow thorough fares of this ancient academic city pre sent on a tine evening in June, particu larly on Saturdays the Cambridge market day. "A continuous stream of townsmen, gownsmen and sturdy country folk, with the usual proportion of woman kind, passes and repasses with quick, echoing tread, many of them walking in the middle of the clean asphalt streets. The shops are lighted up bril liantly, as in most provincial towns, though twilight at this season lasts nearly all night. In either of the main arteries of travel Trumpington str-ct, with its clear rivulets flowing at either curb, which becomes King's parade. Trinity street and St. John's In-fore uniting with the other, Regent street, St Andrews Sidney street, etc and in the narrow crossway, the Petty Cury, one meets this tide at the fulL 'The undergraduate is necessarily conspicuous, walking alone, or two and two, or three or four abreast, the toga virilis lightly depending from his shoulders, sometimes in the last stage of dilapidation, and streaming from his person in tags and ribWns. Mostly he Ls slight, good looking, j-outhful and Wardless. or perhaps with- an incipient mustache; seldom very ruddy, but at the worst of a healthy paleness. "Xaturalry it is among the lightly clad groups striding in from the Wats or the cricket fields that one sees the test specimens of physique. These, in deed, are ofteu admirable, though hard ly so striking in appearance as is com monly supposed; yet if anyone doubts the virility of these young Englishmen a short walk or row with one of them will quickly convince hiin of his error. "One very pleasant feature of the streets is the decorum usually prevail ing among the students, in former times (and in some quarters of the world even now) an unruly and turbu lent element of the community. They walk together, conversing almost in audibly in the dulcet t'ambridge tone,' which 'men' from all parts of the is land are said to contract sxjn after coming up. "Singing, loud talking, or shouting among them is rarely heard out of doors though sounds of a inildly Uac chanalian type sometimes issue from college or lodging-house windows. This creditable street W-havior is doubt less due to "Cambridge tone' as much as to vigilant proctorizing; yet even in the cricket field and among the Ixnating crews (except the musical 'Well rowed!' at the races) the undergraduate is rare ly vociferous The English still take their sports 'sadly,' and silent 1'." STORIES OF HISTORIC DOGS. Four-Footed Soldlcrt Which Fought In Many Old World Ware. A French paper has published a roll of honor of celebrated dogs which have distinguished themselves in war. This is not inappropriate, considering that the dog has Wen pressed i lto military service. For instance, there was llob, the mastiff of the ('renalier guards which made the Crimean campaign with that gallant corps; and also White paw, "Patte lllanche." a brave French ally of I Job, that made the same cam paign with the One lluudr.il and Six teenth of the line, and was wounded in defending the flag. Another, Moustache, was entered on the strength of his regi ment as entitled to a grenadier's ra tions. The barlter of his company hail orders ti clip and comb him once a week. This gallant auimal received a bayonet trust at Marenga and re covered a flag at Austerlitz. Marshal Lanncs had Moustache decorated with a niedal attached to his neck by a red ribWti. Corps de Garde, a Xorvel among dogs, followed a soldier to Ma rengo, was wounded at Austerlitz and perished in the retreat from Russia, The Sixth of the guard had a military mastiff named Misere, which wore three white stripes sewn on his black hair. We have also to name Pompon, of the Forty-eighth lEedouins. the Wst sentry of the baggage train: Ivoutoute. a Cri mean heroine. Mittrailli, killed at Inkerman by a shell: Mofliuo, that saved his master in Russia, and was lost or lost himself, but found his way going from Moscow to Milan, his first dwelling place. 1 he most remarkable, however, was the last, an English har rier named Mustapha. which went into action with his English comrades at Fontenoy and, we are seriously told, "remained alone by a field piece of the gunner, his master, clapped the match to the touch-hole of the cannon and thus killed seventy soldiers" and it is further added that Mustapha was pre sented to King George II. and rewarded with a pension alimctitani. IT IS HER NOSE THAT SUFFERS. While a Man Ooea Alone; Try to a; to Warm 111 F-are. "Speaking of cold weather, I have discovered that the cold affects men and women differently, says a writer in the New York Herald. "I mean that despite the fact that both sexes are of the human kind they have not the same vulnerable points for Jack Frost to nip. "You may have noticed as I have, that a woman when outdixirs in a cold day giH.-ti along apparently comfortable except for her nose. She covers it with her mittened or gloved hand, or if she is very nice she holds her handkerchief up in front of it, 'It is the tip of her nose that the cold takes hold of and won't let go. Her cheeks anil her chin never seem to suffer, but her nise always gets red and cold and frostbitten. "I believe that physicians say the vulnerability of the feminine nose is caused by corsets or rather by the lacing which the wearing of corsets im plies At any rate it forces the blood to the nose and makes red noses as well as tender noses "And the only moral I can see in it is that if the girls would shed their corsets they might not in course of time W forced to the undignified proceeding of holding on to their noses "Now, w ith roan it touches him on the ears. There's where a man feels the cold first. It's hLs ears that tingle when the mercury slips down toward the zero notch; it's his ears that freeze when he stays out in the winter weather long auiuuh." SIGNIFICANCE OF D1IEA3IS An Interesting Lecture by a Noted English Scientist. Suprratltloaa A boot Vtalona During; Sleep ltutblrely lMtslt With I'hynleel HU lu Moat lain Are to IMamei. "What the actual scientific view of dreaming now is may 1m inferred from a lecture which was recently delivered on the subject at the royal institution by Dr. It. W. Richardson. In the jxiet's view." says the London Telegraph, dreams are visitors from the ivory gate, or, as Shakespare calls them, 'children of an idle brain;" but science is more pnsaie and teaches that dreams may le, after all, 'nothing more than the common vibrations of terrestrial media acting upon a corixreal vibratorium,' like the sound heard on a wire intension long after it has Wen struck by the musi cian. "All musical instruments dream, says Dr. Richardson, 'after we cease to play on them' and if we bring the mi crophone into use we can hear the dream. This is as near poetry as science will jH-rmit us to approach in explain ing the phenomena of thought going on during sleep; for the accomplished lecturer proceeded to inform his au dience that dreams are all explainable on physical grounds there is no mys tery alxut them save that which springs from "blindness to facts' "After dividing dreams into suIh jectivc anil objective, and mixtures of lxth. he went on to class among the first species dreams produced by indi gestion, pain or fever, while objective dreams are those started by noises or other events going on outside the sleep er. This is a fair sample of the ruthless w ay in which science disposes of 'stiH-r-stition.' Against the imaginative view of the significance of dreams men of science protest, and will probably con tinue to protest as long as there are any men of science left. They quote the old lady in the Spectator, who W lieved that the earthquake at Listxin hail some mysterious but quite unex plained connection with the fact that a few days Wfore she had happened to spill some salt at table. "Perhaps the mi st practical lesson taught at the royal institution lecture was one which may assist us to know which of our dreams are signs that something i. wrong with our Ixxlily or ganization. As a rule, said the lecturer, it is W-tter n it to dream at all. I ircam lessness is usually a symptom of all rouna health. A child's dreams are in variably signs of disturWtl health, and should be regarded with anxiety. For adults it is a gx xi thing to know that our brains are Wing overstrained when our nightly dreams relate to events ot the day, and if we actually seeru in sleep to W continuing our daily work this is a danger signal which never must W disregarded. When we feel wearied in the morning very likely it results from dreams we have forgotten, and then the Wst thing to do is to take exercise. Without coining to any de cided opinion as to the supernatural meaning attributed to dreams, we can at least profit by these practical hints. "Considered as products of bad diges tion dreams cannot W reasonably ex-IK-cted to tell us anything of a useful character or to supply us with any warn ing, except one directed against the continuation of depraved dietetic hab its. If it is true that the sleep of health is dreamless then it liecomes difficult to Wlieve that the only persons to whom visions in sleep arc vouchsafed should W- the victims of indigestion. It is al ways a puzzle for persons of an unim aginative turn of mind to understand how the future, which does not yet exist, can W- supposed V have any ef fect on the present, and it must W ad mitted that dreams of warning are much harder to W-Ueve in than the 'brain waves" and "thought transfer ences which mcmliers of the psychical research society take as matters quite in the ordinary course of things. There is a considerable mass of testi mony in favor of the power of the mind to produce results at an enormous dis tance by some system of psychical telegraphy of which nolxxly has yet discovered the secret. A man who goes to sleep and dreams that his brother is W-ing kill il by a wild triW in central Africa, and who afterwards hears that he did meet with that fate at the pre cise time when the vision occurreiL, ned not fly to any supernatural explanation of the phenomenon. It is quite differ ent when a dream tells of something which is to happen in a few months' time. In the latter case most people will prefer to join with science in attributing the fact either to a law of coincidence or to a simple delusion. "We must do science the justice to admit that if she increases the gh Kind ness of life in some directions as by her doctrine of the struggle for existence, she decreases it in other respects one of which is by aiding in the gradual banishment of anj" confidence in visions and omens and "weirdness generally." CHINESE FOOD NOVELTIES. Luxuries Which Muat He Kanketl aa Ac quired Taatea. Nowhere have such rare tastes in fixwl Wen developed as among the Romans in ancient times and the Chinese. There may W found in the bills of fare of the latter people addled eggs fat grulis, caterpillars sharks fins rats, dogs, In dian birds' nests and the finest of all their delicacies trepang. What is tre Iang? Trepang. or tripang, is according to Popular Science Monthly, a collective name by which a considerable numWr of species of most curious sea animals are designated; they are also known as sea rollers sea cucumber, in French as cornichons de mer, and scientifically as holothurias. They are among the most sluggish of animals. Only the fixed or stationary animals are slower than the holothurias. They lie like gray, brown or black leather pipes or cylinders on the lx it tom of the sea. One might watch them half a day long, if he had nothing W-tter to do, and hardli" see them change their jx -sit ion, and they rarely move more than a fxt or twoin several hours. Tneir class relatives the spiny skinned animals or echinotlertns are much more active, A sea urchin or starfish is able to get away from a spot quite nimbly, and the serpent stars the most active memWrs of the whole or der, are capable of using their long, slender, many jointed arms as legs and are as quick and alert as crabs. . LANDS OF THE CZAR- Oravdiually uroauif la the Hlrortion of India. "If we hxk at the immense territory Russia has overrun and conquered with in the last twenty years, from the Cas pian sea to the Afghan frontier, ad vancing even into Afghanistan itself, it must ttccotiie patent to the least ol scrvant what she is really aiming at. To-day Ird Salisbury would not give any longer the name counsel he formerly gave laughingly to the so-called alarm istsnamely, that they should 'buy some large maps in order to see how far the czar's empire is still from the con fincsof India.' Norwould Ionl Ilcacons ficld look to-day with equanimity upon the situation which has Wen ereatil since he thought it was still a long way from the Russian to the Indian front ier," writes Karl lilind in Lippincott's. "Almost immediately after the last war against Turkey it came out that a secret envoy of the czar hail plied the late ameer of Afghanistan w ith a pro posal of an alliance, in view of a war to W waged some day by Russia against English rule in India. The diK-uuieii-tary evidence is printed in a blue Ixxik. Nevertheless, the English governu.ent has allow ed itself, year by year, to W deceived, or apjn-ased in outward sem blance, by the diplomatic assurances of the czar's government. 'Khiva was not to W' annexed. Sarakas was not to W touched. Merv was not to W incorpor- . ateil. Afghanistan was completely out side the sphere in which Russia in tended exercising anj- influence. All those promises are recorded in si many words. All were successively broken without compunction. "I have often discussed these matters and the question of the future- of India with prominent and intelligent Indians in London Hindixis, Mohammedans, Parsces. Ruddhists some of them hold ing high office in native governments of their country, others pursuing various studies in England or exercis ing their calling as lawyers. Mist of them the Hindixis especially were free-minded men in religious matters, having fallen away from the creed tlu-3" hal In-en brought up in. All of them acknowledgd that English rule, what ever may have W'cn its origin or the errors of its statesmen in the past, has latterly effected a great deal of gixxl. It has done away, by legislation, with some of the worst abuses which were the outgrowth of native superstition. It has conferred upon multitudes the Ixxin of Wtter instruction. It has re ccntty made even some notable eon cessions in the direction of gradually admitting natives to a share in admin istrative affairs and in a kind of rep-ri-senlative government, however re stricted. The difficulties lying in that way, through the existence of so many different races with different lan guages creeds and historical traditions, and of castes, some of which will not allow their path to W crossed by the shallow of a mcinWr of another caste, are ix well known to need here a special description." ALMANACS IN RUSSIA. They I'lay a I'roniliient Part la the Hally I. lie of the Ieo!e. "What a prominent part the almanac plays in a Russian household! And such almanacs! There is a recipe for dinner for every day in the year; there are in fallible cures for bums and teething and convulsions for toothache, corns and bald heads Yon are told all alxmt the imperial family, and there are p ir t raits of its mcuu Wrs vile caricatures surely. "The count gravely consulted its vaticinations in his Colloquy with the steward to learn when the weather would Wst suit for sowing mangel," says a writer in the Christian World. "I saw the countess hunting in it for an interpretation of a dream she had. lieyond the almanac no tine ever reads anything. I exclude, of course, the young count and his tutor. "There are, however, a few lxxiks in the house. In the drawing or sitting rRm, one of the few articles of furni ture there is an old-fashioned lxxk case, from which the glass has long since vanished, I had the curiosity to examine its contents. There were ten txiund volumes of an illustrated weekly paper, a few old-fashioned lxxiks on ag riculture, two volumes of Xekrasoff's pastoral poems, a numWrof incomplete works of French Indies lettres of Vol taire's time, a Russian translation of Scott's "Kenil worth,' much W-thumWd and greasy. This was all olden-time stuff, and represented the taste of some bygone ancestor of the count. "I looked for anything that might denote the taste of the rising genera tion, and found in a corner a Russian version of 'Robinson Crusoe,' and a well-hidden novel of Zola's Do these latter books signify the W-ginuiug of a renaissance in the house of Itorisoff! To whom did the Zola Wlong? To the countess, 1 suspect. We hail a pleasant evening in the drawing-room the only comfortable room in the house. There were a few easy chairs, a capucious sofa, a grand piano and lots of canc Ixittomcd chairs. Over the sofa hung a portrait of the emperor; opposite the enipcror a picture of the count when he was a gaj- dog in the guards. Rut there was hardly a sign of female occupancy anywhere," Wealth from the Scientific journals in England speak approvingly of a new methixl of manu facturing caustic S'tda, chlorine and other chemical prtxlucts directly from sea water with the aid of electricity. There fs an immense saving of time, lalxir alid material in the prm-i-ss It is readily seen that man gets a fresh grasp on the hoarded treasures of nature through such a discovery. Per haps the most interesting suggestion made in connection with this new method of manufacturing chemicals is that of Science Gossip to the effect that electricity may yet enable us so to purify sea water as to fit it for drinking pur poses One of the greatest terrors that confront the shipwrecked would W banished by such a discovery, provided that the electrical apparatus could W made tHirtable enough to W taken off in a Wat. Cnrloalty Miopa la China. There are two kinds of euriisity shops in the Flowt ry kingdom. One is in tended for guileless gloW trotters and the nouveaux riches the other for col lectors and persons of taste. In the former the proprietor asks from two hundred to two thousand jer cent, profit on his gotxJs and in the latter he is satisfied with anything- Wtween twenty -five and uue hundred per cent.
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