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THE FAULT OF THE AGE.
The fault of tbe age Is a mad endeavor
To leap to heights that were made to climb;
By a burst of strength or a thought that la
cW.ver
We plan to outwit and forestall Time.
We scorn to wait for the thin? worth having:
We want hich noon at the day's Ulra dawn;
We rind no pleasure in toiling and saving
As our forefathers did in the good times
gone.
We force our roses before their season
To bloom anl Mossom that we may wear;
And then we wonder and ask the reason
Why perfect buds are so few and rare
We crave the gain, but despise the getting:
We w int wealth, not as reward, but dower;
And the strength that Is wasted In useless
ffefiirig
Would .ell a forest or build a tower.
To covet the prize, yet shrink from the win
ning: To thirst for glory, yet fear the fight
Wny. what can it lead to at last but sinning.
To mental languor and moral blight?
Belter the old alow way of striving. "
And counting small gains when the year ia
done.
Than io use our forces all in contriving.
And to grasp for pleasures we h:ivo not won.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, in Woman's Journal
A BICYCLE CHASE.
BY MRS. M. I KAVNK.
Milo Warren was tuakin? a call on a
q-irl to whom he was fomlly attached,
ulthoujrh he hal never told her so.
Hut tliis was a cast- where actions
spvak louder than words, and leave n
jrirl alone for finding out if a younff
man repards her wit'i favor. Ever
rirl is clairvoyant where affairs of the
heart are concerned.
They were talking aboot their birth
days, and the pleasant custom of giving
presents at such a time.
"Let me see," said Milo, thoughtful
ly, "did you say your birthday came in
September, Miss Nellie?"
"1 didn't say," remarked Miss Nellie,
demurely.
"Then it was December, wasn't it?
Some lucky fellow will be giving you a
diamond, perhaps!"
"Or a souvenir spoon," laughed Nel
lie; "you know they made jewel-spoons
for birthday gifts, but all the girls
changed their birthdays to Decemlier,
and the 3-oungmen could not stand the
expense, and they sent a petition to
the manufacturers, asking them to dis
continue the custom, so no more spoons
are in the market."
"1 I 1 really wish you would tell
me when your natal day arrives. 1
ruijjht at least send you a 'bunch of
roses, in remembrnnce. of all the the
happy days we have spent together.
Is it this month. Miss Nellie?"
"You remind me of the parlor game:
Is it this? Is it that?'" said Muss
Nellie, aud then fearing that the
young man was becoming sentimental
she turned the conversation to other
subjects.
ISut the nest day Milo Warren
dropped casually into the store where
Miss Nellie Newton's bst brother was
engaged as bookkeeper, and inquired
solemnly at the grated window, which
permitted a segment of his countenance
to aptear, if that voung man wouid
take luncn with him.
"Certainly," was the brusque reply
frotn a rn mt'.i lull of pens; "I'll meet
tiiue at l'ail.ppi I mean at Hunger .X.
v.'i's i.i a:i h-ur."
Ho was there, anil at the pleasint
spread u' good tilings provided Milo
arrcn propounded this coouiLlriiui:
"If you like a girl awfully, but
have.i't told her so, and you think she
may In? lilies you awfully no, I don't
mean that but if that girl has a birth
day, and yoa want to m.ike her a pres
ent, and she won't tell you when it i
the birth lay. you know oh. h:mg 11
all, I'm jverlastiuyly mixed up. Can't
you help a fellow out?"
Lyman Newton laid aside his knife
and fork, and looking Milo in the lace
asked, seriously:
-Any-insanity in your family, Milo?"
"None that I ever heard of outside of
my own case," was the depressed an
swer. "Iledncing your heroics to a plain
statement, then, you want to give a
girl of your acquaintance a birthday
present-"
"Exactby."
"Is she an Old Woman?"
"What do you mean?" roared War
ren, turning red. "I'll thank you to
srx-ak with respect of my freinds Je
sides I "
"Oh, no harm done; don't get rile.l so
easilv. 1 wanted to know if she le
longed to the past age or the present.
I take it, then, tha t she's a New
Worn an?"
"1 understand now. Yes I believe
she has advanced opinions, but she
isn't one of those dreadful creatures
that advocate the wearing of bloomers.
Nellie is the soul of womanly modesty,
and"
"Neliie? Do I know thi3 bright par
ticular star?"
" hy, of course you do I quite for
got she's your own sister!"
"Well, I iiUo that! And you want to
make her a birthday present and don't
know the day. Sorry, old fellow, but
1 can't help you out. Nellie would
take iny head iiT if 1 told."
That ended the lunch, but an unfore
seen tiling happened. Just :i.s Milo
arreit left his company at the corner
he saw an urchin he kn.-w. It was t.ic
inlliction known as Nellie's youngest
brother, age seven, capacity for mis
chief seven times seven, precocity un
limited by any period of time.
Milo, with malice prepense, engaged
the dear child in a surfeit of sweets,
and then asked, as if the idea was not
of the least consequence and had just
occurred to him:
"When does Sister Nellie have a
birthday?"
The dear child looked at him. for a
moment, drew his mouth round under
his ear, elevated both eyebrows, and
said, in a confiding, infantile voice:
"What'll yer give ter know?"
Advantageous terms being made, the
boy puckered his mouth for a whistle,
thought better of it and gave the fol
lowing Saturday as his sister's birth
day. "An if yer want to make yourself
solid see just send her a real btunner
of a bike."
"What! A bicycle? Does she ride?"
"How kin she? I reckon she kin
learn, mister. You just send that bike
there ain't nothin Nell wants wuss
nor that."
With this advice, and being sworn to
secrecy, the small terror bowled him
self off.
It gave Milo Warren something to do
to purchase that bicycle and have it
delivered to Miss Nellie an her birth
day in an anonymous manner. He ex
pected it back every hour for about a
week, but it did not come, and he felt
safe. The small brother- had not be
trayed him after alL
But after a little he began to wish
he had, for Miss Nellie had evidently
mounted that bicycle and ridden out
of his life. He called, but she was out
on her bicycle, no matter what the
hour was. noon or night, and he got
himself run over on the street and
knocked down daily by dashing out
from sidewalk corners to see who the
rider was, and getting hurt for his
pains. When he could stand it no
longer he came to a sudden resolve he
wou'.l buy a bicycle for himself, and
perhaps be able to find Nellie.
And now began an exciting chase for
life and liberty, for at one moment the
amateur bicyclist was under the feet
of a trampling horse, the next he was
running over a wrathy pedestrian, and
he usually ended his experiences by
picking up his frisky steed and carry
ing it to the shop for repairs.
And all this time he never caught a
glimpse of Nellie, but he was inclined
to think he divined the cause. Judg
ing from his own experience in learn
ing to ride a bicycle, Nellie might be
exercising her t,wn fractious acquisi
tion on some remote roadway outside
the city limits or, dreadful thought,
might even be laid up herself for re
pairs. He called on the bookkeeper
brother, but found him busy and non
committal. So he waited and tried to
possess his soul with patience, and
learn to ride a bicycle without the zig
zag motion that had endangered the
lives of the populace and nearly caused
his arrest by the police.
Then he made the discovery that if
he gave his wheel its head, it would
behave much better than when he
guided it carefully, to the end that it
traversed both sides of the street at
once. After acting like a thing pos
sessed it learned to behave, and he
found himself skimming along like a
bird on the wing, with an exultant
sense of freedom and delight, and he
longed to see Nellie and tell her what
he had been trj-ing to say for months
that he loved her.
And at that moment there whizzed
past him a vision in bloomers, one of
those dreadful new women of whom
he had heard, and now was to see. He
almost felt that it was disloyalty to
gentle little Nellie to even look at such
an apparition; but somehow she looked
so quaint in her saucy jacket and
laggy trousers, her neatly gaitered
feet were so pert and independent, that
Milo looked and looked again, then he
gave a great whooo. and took after the
flying wheel like a streak of lightning.
His confidence stood him instead of
skill. lie went spinning along in fine
style until he reached a parallel with
the girl with bhximers, then he leaned
over to speak to her, toppled and fell
in a heap, but not before he had gasped:
fNellie!"
That young lady skillfully eluded
the wreck, made a fancy run and turn,
and as Milo gathered himself up, said,
pleasantly: !
Why, Mr. Warren, I didn't know
that you rode a wheel."
"I ilon't," said the young man, rue
fully, feeling of hiselbow to determine
whether it was dislocated or merely
abraded, "but you, Miss Nellie, are
quite an expert."
Miss Nellie murmured something
about the wheel Wing a present from
her brother, and that she had not cared
to ride, but did just to please him.
"IJut "you ought to see my little
brother ride," she said, with enthusi
asm; "he rides the wheel when I am
not using it, and he makes it spin.
W hy, he rides standing up, and I'm so
afraid something will happen to him."
Mil was walking along, leading his
wheel, as if he preferred that way, and
Miss Nellie gave him several exhibi
tions of her skill, and each moment
made a stronger and more lasting im
pression on the poor fellow's heart.
lluteven bicycle courtship comes to an
end, and they were at Nellie's home,
and he must leave her, unless he
asked for a glass of water, and liefore
it was brought he sat down with the
wheel on the sidewalk.
It was a sudden and most effective
stroke of art. Nellie cried aud asked
if he was killed anywhere; Mrs. New
ton brought camphor; they got him
into the house, and then he was able to
speak, and said what was true enough
that he had lost his head for a mo
ment. The two most expert cyclists on the
avenue are Milo and Nellie- You will
recognize her by her brown bloomer
suit, which is much admired, and he
by the glad smile which mantles his
expressive countenance. Nellie knows
now who gave her the wheel, and
Milo has had another example of the
total depravity of the small brother.
Nellie's birthday comes in January,
but to expedite matters the imp
changed it to July. However, all's
well that " ends well. Detroit Free
Press.
Khole iAlnnit reruliarltle.
It is not necessary to go to the far
south or west, says the Uoston Uudget,
to find provincial customs or hear in
culiar dialect. There are some very
primitive people not further olT than
the Rhode Island liorder of Connecti
cut. In this thin line of little villages
the grave-faced men and women still
live as simply and take life as serious
ly as a Massachusetts I'uritan. They
solemnly make two strangers known
to each other by "Mr. Smith, here's Mr.
Ilrown to you." '"Mr. Brown, here's
Mr. Smith at you." They confess to an
interrupted state of good health by
saying they "Feel mauga the day;" to
a contrary state of well being by: "I
am feeliifg kidge the day." The Saun
terer finds mauga good Shakespeare,
but "kidge" is as yet beyond him.
Medlrml Infallibility.
Dr. A claims to be an adept in the
art of diagnosis. On being called to
see a lady, directly he had been ad
mitted he remarked, with a knowing
smile:
'I sec what your complaint is. You
are suffering from a disordered stom
ach an J nervous spasms."
"Sir!"
"Let me finish; your temperament is
somewhat exacting "
Here the lady interrupted him:
"Why, it is not 'myself who is ill; it is
my uncle."
The doctor, quite unabashed: "I sus
pected as much!" Le Naiu Ja,une.
INTELLIGENCE OF HORSES.
Many Are of the Opinion That a Hone
May Wfrp.
Do horses weep? is a question dis
cussed by the Admiralty and Horse
Cuards llazette. It tells us that there
is a. well-authenticated case of a horse
weeping during the Crimean war. On
the advance to the heights of Alma, a
battery of artillery became exposed to
the fire of a concealed Russian battery,
and in the course of a few minutes it
was nearly destroyed, men and horses
killed and wounded, guns dismounted
and limbers broken; a solitary horse,
which had apparently escaped unhurt,
was observed standing with fixed gaze
upon an object close ln'side .him; this
turned out to be his late master, quite
dead. The poor animal, when a trooper
was dispatched to recover him, was
found with copious tears flowing from
his eyes; and it was only by main force
that he could be dragged away from
the spot, aud his unearthly cries to get
back to his master were heartrending.
Apropos of the intense love that cavalry
horses have for music, a correspondent
of the Gazette writes that when the
Sixth dragoons recently changed their
quarters a mare belonging to one of
the troopers was taken so ill as to be
unable to proceed on the journey the
following morning. Two days later
another detachment of the same regi
ment, accompanied by the band, ar
rived. The sick mare was in a loose
Imjx, and, making her way through the
shop of a tradesman, took her place iu
the troop Ik-fore she was secured and
brought back to the stable. Uut the ex
citv ment had proved too great, and the
subsequent exhaustion proved fatal.
HONOR AS COLLATERAL.
A Loan Hchrnie Wuirh Proved wk Flat
Failure.
Loans without security are a bait
which usurers often hold out to the un
wary, says the Iondon Daily Tele
graph, but a certain Lucour thought it
might le made still more tempting by
advertising that people could pledge
their honor for a sulct ant ial monetary
advance. Houor is inexhaustible, espe
cially when it can be turned into hard
cash, so the scheme bade fair to suc
ceed. l!ut on the face of it as a com
mercial speculation it was a poor in
vestment. Its philanthropy was its
chief recommendation, and therefore
its author, a chemist's assistant former
ly, with two companions, felt emliold
ened to imitate Mme. Eugenie UuiTct.
and sing in the streets to invite the
charitable public to contribute to the
New Students Friendly society, as the'
called their philanthropic loan ofiiee.
The trio selected the Normandy coast
resorts for their tour, and duly adver
tised their philanthropic motives in the
local press. But unfortunately M. La
cour preached without practicing. He
had himself contracted a mimlicr of
little debts on the strength of his honor,
aud his creditors were not' quite satis
fied with the value of that security,
and when recently he liorrowed from
a friend a bicycle,- which he at once
handed over to a cafe keeper who was
dunning him lor money, the bicyclist
took an unkind view of the transac
tion, and lodged a complaint with the
police, with the result that the latter
day philanthropist was placed in safe
custody to meditate upon the worth
lessiicss of honor in Worldly transac
tions. MODIFICATIONS OF SHEEP.
An Animal .Xhitt Would Not Survive
Man's Kxt loot ion.
The sheep has undergone more modi
fications at the hands of man than any
other animal. All the rest of our
domestic animals have proved their
capacity to reassume the habits ol
their wild -ancestors, but no ome
tinned sheep has taken to a life of in
dependence. This, writes Dr. Louis
Robinson in North American Review,
is at first surprising, Itecause many
kinds, such as the Scotch mountain
sheep, and those upon the high laud;;
of Chili and I 'at agon ia. manage to live
an 1 thrive with very little ai-1 froi.i
their masters. Yet it is found that
even the hardy pampas sheep cannot
hold his own when that aid is wanting.
If man were to lecoiae extinct i.i
South America, the sheep would noi
survive him half a dozen years. There
are three chief reasons for this and all
of them are of peculiar interest.
In the first place, the siuvp is. as a
rule, a timid aud defenseless animal,
and at the same time is neither s if t
nor cunning. It falls an easy prey to
the meanest of the wolf trilie. A single
coyote or a fox terrier dog could de
stroy a thousand in a few days. Then
it Ls found that the young lambs and
their mothers require especial care and
nursing. If they do not get it at the
critical time, the- flock owner will l;se
them by the hundred. It is a common
thing in the Southdowns for tiie
shepherd not to leave his flock day or
night during the whole htmbing sea
son. Lastly, scarcely any modern
sheep shed their wool naturally, ia the
same way that the horse sheds its thick
winter coat.
NEVER GROW OLD.
I art of the rtiynical SjKtem Which Never
Wear Out.
In his work on the senile heart Ir.
Balfour tells us that there are two parts
of the human organism which, if wisely
used, "largely escape senile failure."
These two, says the Medical Record,
are the brain and the heart. Persons
who think have often wondered why
brain workers, great statesmen and
others, should continue to work with
almost unimpaired mental activity and
energy up to a period when most of the
organs and functions of the body are in
a condition of advanced senile decay.
There is a physiological reason for this,
and Dr. Balfour tells us what it is. The
normal brain, he afiirms,"remains vigor
ous to tiie last," and that "lieeause its
nutrition is especially provided for."
About middle life, or a little later, the
general arteries of the liody begin to
lose their elasticity and to slowly but
surely dilate. They become, therefore,
much less efficient carriers of the nu
timent blood to the capillary areas.
But thus is not the case with the in
ternal carotids, which supply the cap
illary areas of the brain. On the con
trary, these large vessels, "continue to
retain their pristine elasticity, so that
the blood pressure remains normally
higher than within the capillary area
of any other organ in the body. The
cerebral - blood paths being thus kept
open, the brain tissue is kept better
nourished than the other tissues of the
j body." L
CHARACTER OF ISABELLA.
The Beautiful t'onaort of Ferdinand Wbo
Helped Colombo.
Isabella was a lady, she was a qneen,
and, above all she was an autocrat.
Gracious and gentle in her manner,
says R. Ulick Burke's "A History of
Spain," she brooked no opposition from
prince or peer, and she soon made it
known and felt throughout Spain that,
although she was the daughter of John
II. and the sister of Henry IV.. her
will was law in Castile. Beautiful,
virtuous, discreet, with that highest ex
pression of proud dignity that is seen in
a peculiar simplicity of manner, with
a hard heart and a fair eoutenanee, an
inflexible will, and a mild manner
something of a formalist, more of a
bigot IsalH-lla united much that was
characteristic of old Castile with not a
little that was characteristic of new
Spain. And if her boldness was in
herited from the Cid, her bigotry was
bequeathed to l'hilip II.
No man can read the history of the
times without Wing struck by the enor
mous personal influence of Isabella.
An accomplished horsewoman, a tireless
traveler, indefatigable in her attention
to business of state, the queen with her
court moved about from place to place,
swift to punish crime and to encourage
virt ue, boldly composing the differences
and compelling the submission of rival
nobles, frowning upon the laxity of the
clergy, denouncing the heresy of the
people and laying a heavy hand upon
enemies of every degree and evildocrsof
every class. In Andalusia the unaccus
tomed and unexpected presence of the
sovereign was everywhere productive
of peace and order. Even in the remotest
districts of Galieia the royal jower was
felt. Over fifty fortresses, the strong
hold of knightly roblers, were razed to
the ground, and one thousand five hun
dred noble highwaymen were forced to
fly the kingdom.
COTTON MILLS IN JAPAN.
The Industry Ha lirvwn Rapidly In tbf
Mlkado'a Realm.
Cotton manufacturing in Japan is the
growth of the lat fifteen years. Not a
cotton mill, with one exception, of
those now in operation was in opera
tion prior to lsso, says the Industrial
Record. There is now running in
Kagoshima a mill of 3.0:5U spindles that
has lieen in operation since 1ST.5. In
ISsO and an era of cotton manufac
turing was inaugurated by the erection
of 14.O0O to 15.000 spindle mills. In lss2
a 61,200-spindle mill was put up at
Osaka. The mill in the largest ever
erected in Japan. There are two 30.000
spiudles, one at Tokio and the other at
Osaka. The latter location is the prin
cipal manufacturing eei-ter in the em
pire. Nearly, if not- fully, one-half of
the cotton spindles are to be found
there. The cotton mills at Osaka are
reported as paying average annual div
idends of 18 per cent., the highest havinp
been 23 per cent, and the lowest 8 per
cent. Not more than about ten years
ago the iieople depended almost wholly
upon foreign products of factory-jnade
cotton fabrics, while now not over a
fourth of this demand comes from for
eign sources. The Cotton Spinners
association of Japan is the most reliable
source of information, and that placed
the number of spindles in lS94at 3s5.2)5,
yet the Yokohama chamler of com
merce placed the numlier in 1VJ3 at
about 600.000. Between these two au
thorities we put our estimate of 500.000
spindles. The cotton mills of Japan
will never be able to spin from the na
tive cotton very fine yarn. The cotton
is not suitable for anything but for Uie
spinning of coarse yarns.
FOUND IN FOREIGN LANDS.
Lonpom has an area of 121 square
miles.
Germany has now an English paper
published at Frankfort-am-Main called
the English Mail.
Wokk has been provided for the un
employed for the last five years in
forty-nine large towns in France.
Switzerland grants one divorce to
every twenty-two marriages as com
pared with one to 132 in Holland, and
one to 577 in England.
TRrxK wires to connect London by
telephone with Edinburgh. Glasgow
and Dublin have just been erected by
the British post office.
A rrm.ic bath-house has just leen
opened at Turin, where a hot and cold
bath, in a private room, can be had for
three cents, from 5 a. m. to 8 p. m.
Divorces have leen legal in France
for the past eight years. In the first
year 1,700 were granted; in the se-ond,
4.000; in 1VJ4, 8.000. The total for eight
years was over 40.000.
Berlin is going to celebrate the
hundredth anniversary of the system
of numWriug houses, which began
there in 1795. Vienna followed in 1803
and Paris in 1805.
The healthiest spot in the world ap
pears to be a little hamlet in France,
named Aumone. There are only forty
inhabitants, twenty-three of whom are
eighty years of age and one is over one
hundred.
Walntt shells are in demand in
London for the purpose of adulterating
ground cinnamon, and bring more than
whole walnuts. The powdered shells
are not distinguishable unless the mi
croscopic examination is an unusually
careful one.
GATHERED FROM THE RAILS.
The average life of a locomotive is
15 years, and its earning capacity $ 300,
000. The Baltimore ,t Ohio is the oldest
chartered railroad in America, and the
oldest passenger railroad in the world.
Five saloons in Chicago, near the
Nickel Plate shops, have gone out of
business since the order went into ef
fect forbidding employes to visit such
places.
It is reported that two memliers of
the Colorado legislature have been de
tected in renting their annual passes
over the Denver Rio Grande railway
at 15 a month.
A MVHiEXD of li1 per cent, was
paid last year by the French Nord rail
road, probably the most profitable rail
road in Europe. Its net revenue for
18I4 was ls.sv;,2r5 on an outlay of
capital of S3lr2,8O4,540. It works 2,31 IX
miles of road.
Referring to the restaurant plan on
dining cars in place of the method of
charging a fixed price for a meal. Gen
eral Passenger Agent D. G. Edwards,
of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton,
Ls quoted as saying that the change is
saving that road and the Monon f .'oo a
month.
A TRICKY MEMORY.
A Ken-Mlndd Man Whoa Recollection
Waa at Fault.
It would afford material for an entire
paper to study defects of memory and
to describe some of the curiosities of
thinking whieh result from such de
fects. A writer in Popular Science
Monthly says that he saw lately a busi
ness man of keen mind and good gen
eral memory, who was not paralyzed in
any way and was perfectly able to
understand and talk, but who had sud
denly lost part of his power of reading
and of mathematical calculation.
The letters d, g. q. x and y, though
seen perfectly, were no longer recog
nized and conveyed no more idea to
him than Chinese characters would to
us. He had great difficulty in reading
had to spell out all words and could
not read words containing three let
ters. He could write the letters which he
could read, but could not write the five
letters mentioned. He could read and
write some numbers, but 6. 7 and 8 had
been lost to him, and when asked to
write them his only result, after many
attempts, was to begin to write the
words six, seven or eight, not leing
able to finish these, as the first and last
contained letters x and g which he
did not know.
He could not add 7 and 5 together or
any two numbers of which 6, 7 or 8
formed a part, for he could not call
them to his mind. Other numbers he
knew well. He could no longer tell
time by the watch.
For a week after the onset of the dis
ease he did not recognize his surround
ings. On going out for the first time
the streets of the city no longer seemed
familiar; on coming back he did not
know his own house. After a few
weeks, however, all his memories had
returned excepting those of the let
ters and figures named. But as the
loss of these put a stop to his reading
and to all his business life the small de
fect of memory was to him a serious
thing.
Experience has shown that such a
defect is due to a small area of disease
in one part of the brain. Such cases
are not uncommon and illustrate the
separateness of our various memories
and their dependence upon a sound
brain.
FUTURE OF THE HORSE.
laea to Which the Animal Will Always
lie Turned.
When railroads were first put in op- I
eration 11 was preuicieu mat mere
would be a great fall in the value of
horses, a deterioration of horse flesh,
and finally that the animals would
soon U-cirae curiosities on the
way towards extinction. Of course,
says the Boston Transcript, everylody
knows that nothing of the kind hap
pened. Horses increased in number,
value and quality. The business the
railroads developed all along their
lines occasioned a demand for more and
letter horses. Just at present the
popularity of tne bicycle and the appli
cation of electricity to transportation
are causing some people to repeat the
predictions of titty years ago concern
ing the horse. It is even said that the
horse in the near future will be raised
simply for slaughter for food. If the
horse could learn of this prediction his
intelligence and his sense of his valu
would prevent him from taking it
seriously. He might ask: What good
is the electric car off the rails? How
dews a bicycle act on plowed ground,
and what can it draw without the as
sistance of human energy? If horses
become very cheap will not more peo
ple buy them, and will not the aggre
gate of individual wants occasion a
great demand that will send up prices?
The intelligent horse asking these
questions could well afford to munch
his oats calmly while the alarmists
were cogitating as to what reply was
possible.
ENORMOUS HEAT.
A Figure Which Irmont ratea the Power
of the Sun.
There is not more than one person in
each ten thousand who has anything
like the correct idea what an icicle
forty-five miles in diameter and two
hundred thousand in length would !k
like. It is also true, says the St. Louis
Republic, that there is no necessity for
one Wing provided with a mind that
would enable liim to fi.rm a correct
conception of such a gigantic cylinder
of ice, for there is 110 prolabiiity that
anvone will ever live to see an icicle
even half so large, yet it is interesting
to know that Sir John Herschel, the
great astronomer, used such an illus
tration in one of bus articles on the in
tensity of the sun's heat. After giving
the diameter of the great blazing orb.
and a calculation on the amount of
heat radiated by each square foot of its
immense surface, he clscd by saying
that if it were possible for an icicle
forty-five miles in diameter and two
hundred thousand miles long to plunze
into the sun's great burning sea of gas
it would be melted away and utterly
consumed even to its vapor, in less than
one second of time. Such an icicle
would contain more ice than has formed
on the rivers and lakes of the I'uited
States during the past one hundred
years; its base would cover the average
Missouri country and its length would
be almost sufficient to reach to the
moon.
FOREIGNERS IN AMERICA.
The western states, considered as a
whole, have twenty-two per cenL of
foreigners among their population.
Or the potential voting strength of
this country 12.000.000 are of native
and 4.000.000 of foreign birth.
Pennsylvania, and Illinois have
from fifteen to twenty-five foreigners
to each square mile of area.
Over ninety-six per cent, of the im
migrants who come to this country set
tle in the north, west and northwesL
The percentage of foreign to native
population in 1850 was nine per cent.; in
1890 it had increased to fourteen per
cent.
Not at Losluh a lie Waa,
He regarded himself as very EnglLsh,
and he certainly was very young. He
fancied that he cut a very imposing
figure as he sauntered past the theater
just as the matinee girls emerged" on
the streeL But a large, coarse man
who was going by spoiled it all by re
marking in a loud voice: "Hello. Willie!
What are you going to do with that
pipe? Going to blow soap bubbles?"
And now there is one young man who
will never again smoke a pipe on the
street. .
WORK OF THE MISSISSIPPI.
Every Tear the Father of Watera Carrlea
Down a Square Mile of Land.
The Mississippi has in the course of
ages transported from the mountains
and high land within its drainatre area
sufficient material to make 400.000
square miles of new land by filling up
an estuary whieh extended from its
original outfall to the Gulf of Mexico
for a length of .M) miles, and in w idth
from Si) to 40 miles. This river, says
Longman's Magazine, is still pouring
solid matter into the gulf, where it is
spread -out in a fan-like shape over a
coast line of 150 miles, and Ls filling up
at the rate of 3C2.(kHUHKi tos a year, or
six times as much soil as was removed
in the constructs n of the Manchester
ship canal, and sufficient to make a
square mile of new laud, allowing for
it having to fill up the gulf to a depth
ofso yards.
Nime i.Iea of the vastness of this
operation may le conceived when the
fact is considered that some of this soil
has to Ve transported more than S.IKK)
miles; and that if the whole of it bad
to le carried on loats at the lowest
rate at whieh heavy material is carried
on the inland waters of America, or,
say, for one-tenth of a penny per ton
per mile over an average of half the
total distance, the cost would be no less
a sum than 4r2;'.S.tio0.O00ayear. Through
the vast delta thus formed the river
winds its way, twisting and turning by
innumerable lenJs until it extends its
length to nearly l.".20O miles, or more
than double the jiut-to-point length
of the delta, continually eroding the
tanks in one place and building up
land in another, occasionally breaking
its way across a narrow neck hich
lies between the two extremetics and
filling up the old channel.
PEN AND INK DRAWING.
Modern Imitation of the Aneienta hy a
New Irof fWA.
It is easy, of course, to understand
how pen drawinir should have come to
Ik' so largely employed and elalorated.
It is a matter of reproduction for illus
tration. An etching" will not print with
type, nor with a steel engraving. This,
says the London Spectator, led in the
early part of the century to the imita
tion of steel engravings by wood en
gravers, who did the business most
skillfully with immense labor. The
drawings for them were mostly made
in teuciL But photographic prccss
rendered, the intervention of the wood
engraver needless, if the artist made a
pen drawing that would photograph
and process well. A pure technical
difficulty can lie overcome by large
numliers of craftsmen; large numlers,
accordingly, have learned to make pen
drawings to supplant woud engravings.
But it should le noted that to do this
is it:e:f a kind of reproductive process
Few elalmrate pen drawings are made
without a studious foundation in some
other material. The pen line must fre
quently le traced or drawn over the
pencil line, very much like the engrav
er's Uol.
The point about the moderns and an
cients, then, resolves itscif into the
imitation by the moderns in a new
medium of the technique of an old. It
is certain that the ancients could have
performed this feat if they had chosen,
not altogether certain that they would
have chosen. For, to consider those
other points of reproduction and dis
semination, the modern master seems
to In; in no greater hurry than the an
cient to make use of the new facilities.
When such a master does take up tbe
pen, he handles it to much grander ef
fect than do its devotees.
BOY AND ROBIN.
Frtendahlp of the Two Brought About by
Cold Weather.
During the extremely severe weather
of February, lw'.t5. myriads of birds
perished from cold and starvation, both
in Europe and the United States. In
England this destruction was the more
sorrowful. perhajs. as the country
where the birds winter is more thickly
settled than with us. and there were
more to see their sufferings. But ooca
sionally the British birds found friend
ly shelter.
The London Times published, during
the cold weather, this note from Ro
dolph Walther. a loy of twelve years,
who lives at Tunlrilge Weils:
"I thought perhaps you would allow
a school! y to tell you how very tame
and fearless the cold and hunger have
made the wild birds around our house.
"Of course we feed them with bread
and all sorts of olds and ends, and the
ground Ls simply black with our hungry
visitors. Even the suspicious nks
come quite close to the house for their
share.
"A little blue-tit passes its day in our
basement, heedless of sleepy pussy
baking herself liefore the stove.
"Most of all I wish to tell you aliout
my strange bedroom companion, a little
robin, which has taken up its residence
in my bedroom; and though I leave the
window open, l.e never goes out exe-pt
to take a short fly. We jiass tbe night
together, and he makes his bed in one
of iny football Iwiots.
"The other morning he woke me up
by singing on a chair at the side of my
lied. I suppose he thought I ought to
be at my lessons."
The lledfiuff in FnKlifh I-aw.
Whereas the presence of bedbugs is
regarded I y the English courts as con
stituting an adequate ground for the
breaking of the lease of a dwelling
house, the French tribunals have hith
erto declined to admit any such plea.
In deference, however, to the recom
mendation of the leading medical au
thorities, indorsed by the council of
state, any house by wh;ch they are in
fested will be regarded ly law as non
sanitary, recent experiments having
furnished convincing proof that lhee
insects, which polite Englishmen de
serilie as "B flats." are frequently a ve
hicle of contagion for tulerculsis and
kindred maladies.
The Roralnle'e Rlandrr.
An English clergyman, who was sud
denly called on to preach to a congre
gation of college students w-as unable
to speak without notes, and had only
one written sermon with him. which
was on the duties of the married state.
The topic was hardly one that he wouid
Lave chosen for the occasion, but he
hoped that it would pass muster as lt
ing appropriate by anticiiiation. But,
unfortunately, he did not reau the ser
mon over, and so, tacforo he knew it,
be had uttered this appeal: "And, now,
a word to vou who are mothers."