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LOOKING UNDER THE BED.
We were a larg"e family of boys and
girls, now all married and scattered at
various distances from the early home
and agvd parents, with the exception of
two a bachelor brother and a vi idowed
sister. I was the eldest girl and hail
married and settled not 44) miles from
home, liut as I was something of an
invalid, and the journey between my
place of residence und my old home
was broken by more than one change of
railroad and a disagreeable waitof over
two hours at a little wayside station, I
did not olten take advantage of the
nearness of my people.
One night, in the fall of 1SS6, I awoke
from an unpleasant dream alniul my
father and next morning at breakfast
astonished my husband by declaring
that I was going home to see my pa
rents. My husband made no objection
to this move on my part, except regret
ting that he could not accompany me.
I was driven to the station and in due
time arrived in the town of Middleton,
the little place where I was born.
It was a typical New England town,
with its pretty, quaint, box-like houses
w ith theirgreen-painted blinds, the nar
ro.v village, streets well shaded with
noble elms and maples, the latter now
looking like enormous bouquets in their
gaudy autumnal coloring.
1 found my father quite well and in
the best of spirits, but several other
members of the family had. like myself,
Wen taken with a desire to visit theold
folks, for I found that nearly all my
brothers and sisters, w ilh t heir resjiec
tive families, were there before me, so
that the old' place looked quite like
former days.
While mother and Sister Kate were
evidently very much pleased with the
idea of having a kind of an unexiected
family gathering, I could see that they
were not a little perplexed as to how
they were going to provide sleeping
quarters for so many. My advent did
not help in the least, as I was enough of
an invalid to le a very ioor sleeper and
a bad night was the forerunner of a 4s-ho-irs
headache, a headache that had
so far baffled medical skill. Where to
put me, therefore, in order that I might
le quiet enough to obtain sufficient
sleep not to soil my visit, was the ques
tion which troubled my mother anil
Kate. However, my bachelor brother
was the one who settled the matter by
saying that I could have his room, anil
that he could "bunk," as he termed it,
elsew here.
Nat was the postmaster had held
the position through several ad
ministrationsand was a person of
note in the place. His room was an ex
tension built on to the side wing of the
house and as remote as ossibfc. in or
der that his comings and goings should
not disturb mother, who was a light
sleeer.
Mother and Kate were alike relieved
by this arrangement, and I rejoiced in
ha ing a room w here no household noise
could possibly disturb my slumbers.
We were a jolly crowd w hen we got
together. I had forgotten my bad
dream and was, in my quiet way, as
merry as the rest. The fun and frolic
continued until quite late. It. was al
most midnight when Sister Kate es
corted n.o to my room, and, nft : r seeing
that evfTvthing was piovidcd for my
comfort, retired, leaving me to my own
devices to pass the time until I fell
asleep.
After Kate left me I looked about the
apartment. It was to me the only
strange room in the house where I was
born. I also felt lonely, as I was not
accustomed to room alone, and coming
from the brightly-lighted sitting-room
into the dimmer one may have brought
aloiit a strange feeling which oppressed
me. though 1 was not nervous at all.
The room itself w as not attractive. It
was an oblong apartment, not very
high, with a door leading into the
grounds, as well as the one connecting
w ith the house, and these iloors w ere at
least 15 feet apart. The furniture was
not remarkable, except that it was de
cidedly old-fashioned. The bedstead
was a high four-poster. It stood with
its side close to the outer wall of the
room, and at the foot of it was an iron
safe. It was a comfortable bed, though,
however uninviting its iiosition, and I
felt weary enough to sleep even in a
strange place, so retired after iiaying
due attention to the fastenings of the
outer door, which I found of massive
make and in good order, and, strange to
say, I fell asleep as soon as my head
touched the pillow and slept soundly
for some time.
How long the duration of that sleep
was I never knew. I awoke with a
start from the self-same dream which I
had the preceding uight, and amid w hat
appeared to be a babel of voices, one of
which I heard say distinctly:
"Not now until the 15th."
There had been something strange
nltout the dream of the preceding uight.
While it left the impression of undue
unpleasantness and I knew that it con
cerned my father, I could not recall a
single incident of it. Hut now I could
rememler that there was in it some ref
erence to the 5th. and that was all.
although I had evidently dreamed it
the second time. When I had fully re
coxercd my waking senses I sat up and
tried to pierce the inteuse darkness of
the room. The voices had undoubtedly
lieen dream voices, for no one was in
the. room. Yet the words had made
such au impression on me that they
had apjiarently fastened themselves in
my brain, for "Not now until the 15th"
seemed to stine as if branded in tire on
the deep gloom of my chamber.
The day lefore had been the 5th of
the month: ten days oft was the 15th!
What was to occur uxn that date?
There is no need for one to say that
that night was full of horrors. Every
form of trouble and disaster paraded
lcfore my mental vision, until the
darkness through which my eager eyes
could not pierce began to grow ap
palling to me, end the silence which
had succeeded to my disturbed dream
was so oppressive that itseenud to me
at that moment I would have welcomed
anv sound, however disagreeable.
I had sunk bock upon my pillow,
after my first uneasy start, and now
laiscd myself once more to a sitting po
sition, resolved to get out of bed and
procure a light to dissolve my fancies,
when a sound fell upon my strained
sense of hearing, at first astonishing nie,
later filling me with alarm and finally
entirely removing from me any desire
to get out of bed, for the present, at
least. This sound was the rhythmical
brea tiling of a man, wlio was evidently
sunk in the profoundest slumber. To
listen to the so und of snoring is not
pleasant at any time.' but to hear the
whole scale run up and down the gamut
of isound from under one's bed i-s ap
palling. As soon as 1 had located the
sound it robbed me of the hist remnant
of courage, while my kite ghostly
fancies gave way at once to fears.
Could I have indeed heard voices out'
side my dream? Was ; here a plot to
rob my brother, who, as pt uiafcter,
had alniut this date considerable cash
on hand from t he money order business,
Middleton being a factory town, and
numbers of non-residents working
there in the busy season and sending
heme their earnings to family and
friends? What was I todo? How-was I
to act under the circumstances? I
can never describe the agony of terror
which I endured as I lay there, listening,
hardly daring to breathe myself, to
those unmusical -sounds.
When the first faint peep of day came
creeping through the shutter slats I
Ik-gan to form my plan of reaching the
door. As t he bed was against the w all I
had, of course, only one side to choose
from in getting out. But I thought if I
could work my way toward the foot,
I should have at least a gain of a few
feet nearer the inside door in my favor.
Slowly and painfully I worked my way
through the bulging feathers, rejoicing
that no modern ledstead upheld me, for
not the falnest creak did the frame
un w hu-.h I reeded emit as I pursued
my plan of retreat. I had almotd
reached the foot of the led when the
sounds Wncath me suddenly stopped.
In mortal terror now- of the conse
quences I became deserate, and gave
-ne headlong plunge forward toward
the door, at the same time littering a
piercing shriek. Then I fainted.
When I came to myself my head was
very wet and I was stiff all over. I
heard voices, two of w Inch I recognized
as those of Nat and Kate. There was
also a third voice, which I soon made out
to le the doctor's. I was not very par
tial to medical men, jHThaps, because I
had seen so many of them. I heard Nat
say:
"It was a great wonder that he did
not attack her lefore. I suptose he
must have stolen in when I went there
to get my things in the evening."
"It was a mercy that you came, Nat,"
said Kate.
The doctor added:
"She is coming to. You must keep
her quiet and try gradually to find out
what, led up to the attack. I will call
later."
Soon I opened my eyes to find myself
ion a couch in the sitting-room' and
Nat's serious face bending over mine.
"Did you catch him?" I asked.
"Catch who. Fan, dear?" inquired
Nat, with a puzzled expression.
"Why, the burglar, to be sure."
"There was no burglar to catch."
"Well, that is calm, to say the least,"
1 remarked, sarcast ieully, rising to a
sitting position and putting both hands
to my drenched head. "After the ter
rible night that I have put in, why did
you let the wretch escape?"
"It was not a burglar. Fan."
"If he was not a burglar, pray what
was he, and w hy was he secreted under
the bed? I only wonder that he did
not kill me outright, though I am sure
I could not have suffered more if he
had. First frightening the life nearly
out of me by his snoring and then
actually bouncing upon me at the last
when I tried to call assistance. And
after all this you calmly tell me there
was no burglar! You will tell me next
that there was no man!" I exclaimed,
savagely.
"Neither was there any man, Fanny,
dear," said my brother, with a dawn
ing smile. "Your burglar was a burglar-catcher
my good mastiff. Watch."
"What !" I exclaimed, "have I endured
all the terror of the past dread f ul night
because of an old dog?"
"Certainly, because of a dog, my dear
Fan, though not by any manner of
means an old one. Watch is possibly
two years old at the utmost. I am aw
fully sorry. Fan, that you, with your
oor health, should have been disturlied."
Others have complained of his ability
in the snoring line. I, myself, never
hear him. But I am so thankful that
he did not injure you that I have no
room for grief over your discomfort,
for, remember, you were a stranger to
hiin. He was standing over you in a
very threatening attitude when Kate
found you. Fortunately, I came in just
then, as I was restless and could not
sleep. T?ut I learned something, my
dear sister.of w hich I was lefore doubt
ful, and that is that there is one woman
who does not examine under her bed
before retiring." This last was said
with a laugh, in which Kate joined as
soon as she saw me sitting up.
"No, but you better believe that I
will after thus," I made answer, as I
fel back on the couch.
I was not seriously hurt by my fall,
though I had cut my head a little. I
caught a bad cold from the drenching
the old doctor administered to bring
me around. I did not hear the last of
the burglar during the remainder of my
visit, nor, indeed," for many a long day
afterward. Nothing happened to my
dear father on the 15th, nor up to this
lay. But out. of that night of terror
grew the habit in which so many of my
sex indulge of looking under the bed.
My husband says that if I slept upon a
single mattress on the floor I would
raise the edge to look under to see if a
burglar was flattened out beneath.
Philadelphia Times.
An Elizabethan Tomb.
A superbly rich Elizabethan tomb is
left to us in Boreham church. Essex.
This was erected to the memory of
Thomas Kadcliffe, earl of Sussex, lord
chamberlain, and known as the stern
opponent of Ieiocster. Three knights
in martial costumes lie on the tomb
fclab, one of which is his son and the
other his grandson. Walpole incident
ally states that the earl bequeathed
It 1.500 to be exjiended on this tomb,
ami that his executors agreed with a
lmteh sculptor, ICichard Stevens, to ex
ecute his part of the work for 202 12s
Sd. The earl and his son were first
buried in the Church of St. Laurencr;
Poultney, in the metrojiolis, and then
removed to Boreham at the instance of
the grandson. Cornhill Magazine.
KEPT AHEAD OF THE BULLETS.
Aatonndloa; Swlftnea of root Shown by
a Georgia Kacor-Hatch.
Col. Taylor Jenkins, who lives a few
miles north of Blakely, is known
throughout that section as one of the
moot truthful men in it. At least, so
says the Early County Times, lie
cently, while Mr. Jenkins was out
hunting, his dogs began lerk:ng at
something in a large hollow log. It
was a w ild hog. He took the hog home
and dropped it in his cornfield. It is
there now. A few weeks ago Mr. Jen
kins went out to kill it, thinking he
could easily do so with his unerring
rifle. He searched about till he
"jumped" it. Down a corn row it wenr
like lightning. He leveled his rifle and
"cut down" on it, but never touched a
hair. He "jumped" it again and shot
again, but no hog. Again and again
he "jumped" it and sliot at it. with the
same result. He began to wonder w hat
could le the matter. 'I he corn row
were as straight as moonshine whisky
and his gun true as the third party to
Tom Watson, yet hit it lu couldn't. Tu
shoot at t lie hog as it ran on down the
corn rows was just like shooting at it
standing, so far as getting a "bead on
it" was concerned. To make sun? that
he did n't wobble" on the bog he put
up a small target and ' cracked down"
at it five times, then took his. ax and
choped in and found Ave bails all in
one hole in the middle of the spoU
That settled it that tlae fault was not
iu him or t lie gun, but the hog had out
run the bullets.
LONDON DOGS OUT CALLING.
Their Card! Oo Up with Thoao of Their
Mtatraaao.
It appears, from an article in the
Figaro by M. Taul Megnin, that iu Lou
don at t he prese n t ti me 1 1 is not on ly t he
fashion for a lady to provide her laj
dog with a little wardrobe and even a
handkerchief, but to have visiting cards
made for it, loo. When a fashionable
lady pays a visit, taking her lapdog with
her, she sends up the dog card along
with her own.
M. Megnin says he was visiting the
editor of one of the leading sporting pa
ers in London, when the servant
brought in tw o cards, one that of a lady
and the other as follows:
MRS. FRIVOLITY. :
: Collie. :
Asked if he knew the name on the
card, M. Megnin said he presumed it
was some dog fancier. He was greatly
surprised to see a lady come in, accom
panied by a handsome collie.
M. Megnin went to a stationer's shop
ami ordered UNI cards for his little rtog.
He was again surprised to luid that the
stationer had some ready printed, neat
ly packed in pretty little card cases.
BEN FRANKLIN'S BIG HEAD.
How lie Wore Hla Wig In Hla 1'oeket at
the French I'nort.
The difficulties encountered recently
by the lineal descendants of that great
man. statesman, patriot and everything
else that men properly hold in estima
tion Benjamin Franklin in having
themselves enroll! among the Colonial
Dames, recall au anecdote of In ni, says
the Washington Poet, embalmed in
the family records of the sage of Mon
tieello, but which, so far as the writer
knows, has never been published. When
about to present himself for the first
time at the court of Versailles he was
informed by the master of ceremonies
that a wig was a sine qua non. Now,
his head was so large that no ordinary
wig would begin to tit it, and the situ
ation was embarrassing iu theextrcme.
However, one was found sufficient ly
large to pass him through the ante
claamlers, after which he was permit
ted to remove the ridiculous conven
tional appendage and place it in his
ample pocket, whence it never again
emerged to public gaze.
The Ways of the llpiiunn.
Just why the great zoologists of the
present day should have chosen to con
sider the opossum au animal of a lower
order than the stupid hjkI helpless
sloth, and the third order from the
lowest of all, is not so easy to under
stand as it ought to lie. As a mat
ter of fact, nature has done, a great
deal for the oiossuni far more than
foj the great majority of quadrupeds.
Note w luit the creature is, and can
do, and match it if you can. It ents
almost everything that can lie chewil
wild fruit, lierries. green corn, insect
larvae, eggs, young birds and quadm--eds.
soft-shelled nuts and certain
roots. It is a good climber, and has
a very useful prehensile tail. It for
ages on the ground quite as successful
ly as any squirrel. It usually burrows
under the roots of large tret. where
it is impossible for the hunter to dig
it out ; but sometimes it makes the mis
take of choosing a hollow log. When
attacked, it often feigns death to throw
its assailants oft the-ir guard. Like the
War and woodehiick. it stores up a
plentiful supply of fat for winter use.
when fotid is scarce; avid, above all;
the femide has a nice, warm pouch in
which to carry and protect, her help
less young, instead of leaving them
iu the nest to catch their death of cold,
or lie devoured by some enemy. W. T.
liornaday, in St. Nicholas.
KngUan II amor.
A strange society was brought to
light during the hearing of a case be
fore the Thames magutrate. Several
men were charged with stealing a
watch from a sailor, ajid were, all dis
charged except Alexander Fullerton.
on whom was found a savings hank
book for $245 and a card of membership
of a society with a curious title. It
bore the following inscription: "Na
tional Liars' association Having been
a member of the above association, and
finding you are a bigger liar than my
self, I must congratulate you on re
lieving rive of this card." It must be
gratifying to the East end community,
as well as a tribute to Fullerton's own
abilities, that he had found no one
worthy of relieving him of the card.
The magistrate remanded him for in
quiries. Death In Japan.
There are no undertakers in Japan..
When a person dies his nearest rela
tives put him into a coffin nnd bury
him. The mourning' does not begin
until after burial.
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SOUTHERN IMMIGRATION
Movement of the World's Popula
tion Takes a New Direction.
la Thin Country the Tendency la Most
Marked Many Northern and West
ern t mruiers Are Movinc
llown South.
The next great movement of popula
tion that the world is to witness will lie
southward. The conditions are now all
favorable. It has required a quarter of
a century since the war to bring altout
the changes that were necessary to
make the south a thoroughly attractive
country for northern and western farm
ers. All the questions relating to xs
sible race troubles had to be settled;
the prejudices, engendered on both
sides by the war had to die out, and the
fact that the south could produce
other things than cotton had to Ik
demonstrated. The construction after
the war, of railroads through the west
and nothwest by the aiil of enormous
land grants made It absolutely net-es-sary
that these roads, controlled as
they were by the leading financial pow
ers of Euroiie and America, should bend
their energies and unite the influences
of all the financial forces concent rate. I
in them to turn population westward.
The south ww in 110 condition to in
vite immigration, even if it had been
in its power to accomplish anything
against such a combination of forces as
were at work in liehalf of the west.
But a great change has come ami all
the disadvantages under which th-
south has labored are lieing removed.
During the last five or ten years there
have set 1 1,, I Iieie and there all over the
south a few northern and western farm
ers, whose great success is now lieiug
made known to all I heir friends in their
former homes. This is awakening a
direct interest in the south iu all parts
of the west au interest such as could
be aioused in no other way.
From every section of the north, the
west and northwest, ami even from Cali
fornia, requests for information about
the south and its advantages for set
tlers are licing received. Items of news
from several thousand towns and vil
lages from Maryland to Texas pass In
fore the writer every day. The most
striking feature in this mass of news
so pronounced that it would impresi
it.self even iioii the most casual reader
is the number of settlers reiiorted
from day to day as lM-at ing in the sou t h.
This is entirely a-new thing. A year
ago items of this kind were rare. Now
every issue of every southern pajier has
something in it about immigration mat
tersand the incoming of new eopre,and
even now thousands of western and
northern farmers are settling in the
south. Kichard H. Edmonds, in Chau
tauqua u.
UPSTAIRS BY EXPRESS.
The Through Klcvatora Run In Tall
Buildluga.
"All aliourd seventh floor, first
slop."
I Ti. :.. . .
i-iy it-eieu a reporter the other
day as he stepped into a down-town
office building and faced a half dozen
elevators. He wished to go to the ninth
floor. He stepixd into an elevator
over which was the sign: "Express
first stop, seventh floor."
In it thei-:; were three men and a
middle-aged woman. The starter said
"All right," and the elevator man
grasped the throttle of the "express."
It was the usual cable rope, and as the
man pulled it lngan its journey Uh
ward. The lone woman iiassensrer
gave vent to a slight "Oh." and hHd
her breath.
Floor after floor wai passed at a
sliced of about eight miles an hour.
When the sixth floor was reached the
woman wanted to get off, but was in
formed that slie was on an express,
and it was against the rules to stop an
express unfil its destination was
reached. The elevator arrived at the
seventh floor on time. It took exactly
eight stcouds to make the upward jour
ney of 85 feet. The elevator man then
announced that the next stop would
be the top floor, 100 feet above. The
top floor, according to the directory,
was the 14th, and the elevator flew
upward once more, arriving near the
roof a few seconds later.
"We can nial.e a round trip in 45 sec
ends, including short stops," said the
engineer of the express, "but we have
made il in about 40 without stops.
There sire two express elevators and
four regulars, that we call way trains.
I bey stop at every floor and for every
body who shouts. Often I get fiasseli
gers who want to get out at the sixth
or tenth floors. They get mad. too,
when they are told they must go up
and take another elevator down. The
other express makes no intermediate
stops at all during the busy hours."
N. Y. Press.
11 amor In the Family.
"One of those lazy, good-for-nothing
tramps called to-day and wanted a
piece of pie," said the landlady, during
a momentary silence.
The bachelor lioarder faltered and
laid dow n his knife and fork.
"And did he get it?" he queried, anx
iously. "Not much," returned the landlady;
"he got a piece of my mind instead."
"Which probably destroyed his."
pied the thin lioarder in the tenor
voice from the foot of the table.
"His what?" demanded the landlady,
sternly.
"Peace of mind," explained the thin
boarder, apologetically.
Everybody cried out in applause at
this. One could even hear the pea
soup and see the jelly roll. Chicago
News.
Don't K.ljce Skirts with For.
One of the distinctive features of the
season's dressing is its use of fur and
velvet and silk and cloth in combina
tion for the fashion ing of gowns. A re
cent walking costume consists of nut
brown, smooth-faced cloth, the bodice
decked with a deep yoke formed of al
ternate strips of fur and emerald preen
velvet. The high collar is bordered
with fur, and so are the cuffs of the vel
vet sleeves and the full, plain skirt.
This sounds odd. A year ago it would
have looked so. For a walking cos
tume au edging of fur at the skirt's bot
tom is objectionable liecause it wears
out so rapidly, gets bedraggled in the
mud and stirs up dust to soil the under
clothing;. St. Louis Hepublic. j
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
On stoves and furnaces 1S.240 pat
ents have beeu issued covering everv
part of these indispensable articles of
comfort.
Five generations of one family are
living on a homestead at llunNt'uu 11.
tia. The head of the family. W. t.
Cherry, has i:i6 liv ing des-eu.laiits.
After the cocoons intended for the
silk manufacture have lieen tinishe!
the worms arc killed by the heat eitln r
of steam or of hot water. If the insects
were allowed to esaie the value of tJie
cocoons would lie lessened.
For several years an old soldier
has beeu compelled, by verty. to live
in the poor ho use of Carroll count v. M.i
He has just received a .elision, and lias
decided to remain in the tioorhoiise and
pay his lioard, because he likes his
home there so well.
Indiana's oldest residents are Alex
ander Ferguson and his sister of
of Frankton. Alexander is M:: year
old and his sister 107. Alexander
worked on the farm every day. doiiii;
the ordinary chores of the place until
he had passed his KHJth birthday, and
is still in excellent health. He takes a
daily walk of a little more than two
miles. His wife is over 90 ami is iu gvo.I
health.
The army rules are that two-inch
ice will sustain a man or prt.jierly
spaced infantry; four-inch ice will
carry a man on horseliaek or cavalry
or light guns; six-inch ice. heavy field
guns, such as N oiiiiders eight-inch
ice, a battery of artillery with car
riages and horses, but not over I.ikhi
pounds per square foot on sledges; and
ten inch ice sustains an army or nil in
numerable multitude. On 15-inch ice
railroad tracks are often laid and oim-i-ated
for months.
The most important, as well as the
commonest metal in the world, is iron
It is almost everywhere in nature. We
are bombarded from cosmic spai-os l
mcteorolites of nearly pure iron: the
siectroscope finds it in stars so dlstajit
that the naked eye sees but emptiness
in the abysses wherein they burn. I!
makes a 12th part, of the crust of the
earth. Its particles are mingled in the
dust of every country road, in the ar
we breathe, in the water we drink, in
the food we eat. It is the great color
is! of nature. Even the red of our
blood is due to its presence.
HL WAS RIGHT.
The One Juror Mho Stood Out Against
Kleen Otaattnate Men.
A standing joke around the Main
courts is the juror w ho stands out an.l
refuses to agree with the eleven ob
stinate men. who don't think as he floes.
Judges are not apt to take kindly to
this style of man, and have iieen know 11
011 occasions to give him a terrible suul
bing. "There is still lit ing in this city."
says a Bangor gent leiiian. who thinks
jurors have rights of opinion as well as
judges, "a man who is very proud of a
little exiierienoe he had as a juror. It
was in Judge Cut ting's day. and that ex
cellent jurist was on the Wneh. The
jury had heard an important ea.se, and
failed to agree because this iarticular
juror stood out against the arguments
and solicitations of his fellows, and de
clared he would stay there till the ants
ate him up and carried out his remains
through the keyhole before he would
consent to what he believed to lie an un
just verdict. Judge Cutting asked how
they stood, and the foreman replied,
'eleven to one, your honor. 'W ho is the
one?' asked the judge, angrily. Let
In ui stand up. The juror arose and
received a scathing rebuke from Mr.
Cutting, who lermporily discharged
him from further duty. The case went
over to the next term, and was again
tried, resulting in a verdict in acord
ance with the views of the one juror. It
was then taken to the law court on mo
tion for a new trial and was upheld by
the full liench as mainfestly right. The
man says that whenever he thinks of
that case, he thanks Cod he had the sand
t-j stick to what he believed to lie right,
and take the rebuke a mistaken judge
gave him for so doing." This w ill 1.
for an exceptional case, but the one
man against the 11 is not always filled
with good judgment as this one seems
to have been. Lewiston (Me.) Jour
nal. ABOUT PERFUMES.
Perfumes were introduced into Spain
by the Arabs, who brought many re
cies for making them from the east.
Naiioleon loved jierfumes, and al
ways had a bottle of rose water or vio
let water emptied into his bath tub.
From the offensive fusel oil the skill
of the chemist has been able to extract
the odors of several flowers and fruits.
The recipes of over 300 different oils
and perfumes have iieen preserved in
the remains of Roman literature.
In many of the perfume factories of
south Euroiie only the purest olive oil
is used in fixing the perfumes of flow
ers. Nearly every known perfume is now
successfully imitated by the sympa
thetic processes of the chemical lalwira
tory. Pastilles are wafers made to lie set 011
fire and in the process of burning giv.
forth the odor of certain plants or
flowers.
Every sacrifice offered on a Roman
altar was perfumed either with flow
ers or with some odor extracted from
them.
The Southern Aurora.
On February 1, in latitude 66 degrees,
longitude 172 degrees 31 minutes, we
ran into open water again, having this
time spent only six days in the ice-pack.
On the 17th the aurora appeared,
stronger than I ever saw it in the north.
It rose from the southwest, stretching
in a broad stream up toward the zeuith
and down again toward fhe eastern
horizon. The phenomenon this time
had quite a different appearance from
what we saw on October 20. It now
presented long shining curtains rising
and falling in wonderful shapes and
t hades, sometimes seemingly close
down to our mastheads. It evidently
exerted considerable influence upon
the. magnetic needle of our compass.
C. E. Borchgrevink. in Century.
"How do you sell this music pa
per?" asked the customer at the sta
tionery store. "I'm not certain about
it," said the new clerk, "but I think we
sell it by the choir." Chicago Tribune.
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
A 5.1-foot granite shaft, the long
st pie.-." of granite ever taken out of a
quarry in eruiout. was quarried dl
Barre a few days ago.
C ats can kuw-11 even" during sleep.
When a piece of meat is placed imme
diately in front of a sleeping cat's nose
the uostrils l-giu to work as the scent
is received, an.l an instant later the
cat will wake up.
"Instead of colds coming from at-mosplu-ri.-
changes, as iw-opie general
ly suppose." ;IVS a Ilot4ni ,,Uysician.
"they g ncrallv originate, in my opin
ion, ,y bieathing impure air. Ninetv
iiiue , r cent, of what are termed cold
are noihing more m.r less than the
Jioisonii.g o; the mucous membranes
by bad air."
Orange growing in Arizona is de
olared to have passed t he ex; rimentai
staue. and will lw-cme an important
industry in the tetnu rv. This vei'r's
crop in t!re Salt river valley, where
1'iost of the ejriiiiciitul groves are
situated, is large and of excellent qual
ity. The Arion.i. oranges rij-en some
what earlier than those in southern
California.
Seventy tliousand tons of the
stern an.l r.n k U.und coast of Maine,
were shipped from two quatri.-s alone
last year. The total amount of gran
ite shipped away yo.ir!y reaches aa
sstouiidiiig- fig i:re. arid .h g.-oirraph v
of the Maine naM is Ix-ii .p toniidera
1 ly changed by the cutting out and
shipping away of islands of granite
and not a little of the mainland.
I.as. y-ar S5.1 15i3 fewer cigars
were made in the l nit.nl States than iu
iH4. and vS5-,:;o - more - unds or
smoking tolsus-o was manufactured.
During the year there were manufac
tured in the country 4.1V-15.2'
cigars, 3.7..'jl l.f.77 cigarettes. 25f.l,
..ii5 iiomids of toliacco and 11.7u5.414
pounds of snuff. There w as an increase
:n the output of cigarettes by 435.767.
('77 over Wi-i, and a u.-crease of 477,-1-0
liounds in the amount of snuff man
ufactured. Mixtures of air with lesn than 7.7
ht cent, of acetylene burn compleU ly
to wat'.-r and carlsn dioxide, according
to M. I ('hotelier's exjH-riiiients, rc
iiortcd to the Academic des Sciences;
with Iw-tvveen 7.7 and 17.4 t cent, of
acetylene the products coiisistof water,
cailtou monoxide and dioxide, and h
droL'en. with a larger .erceiitace of
aetylene, free carlon and unburnt
rcety lene are found. With oxygen
mixtures containing ln-tween 2.- and
'JJ ki tent, of acety l.-ne will catch fire
with air; the limits a-e 2.s and 05 er
cent. In tul.es these limits are tar
lowed down, till in I ul.es of one-half a
millimeter or less it is impossible to
propag.iie a flame.
FAMILY ARITHMETIC.
A Connecticut VlilhrninUrlu aud His
yueer freak.
The strange names Iwstowed upon
helpless children by their parents
have formed the subject of many auii's
ing stories. In a Connecticut town,
some years ngo, there lived a peculiar
couple who selected the names of their
children apparently with a view of ed
ucational exercises. There were. 14
children in the family, and they were
named for the nu'nerals in regular
order, beginning with "One."
The father was locally famous as a
mathematician and during the early
years of his children rbey had a dai!y
tuition which seemed extraordinary
to their playmates, who were pro
vided with every day names.
"Three ard Four go out to the wood
1hx and get your mother some kind
lings, the mathematical father would
say , appearing before a group of his
numerical offspring.
ThVee and Four would keep on play
ing ball, or whatever game hapjiened
to Ih- cutroe-siiig their attention, but
a diminutive crso:i who commonly
answered to the name of "Seven" was
sure to drop his play, and start for the
w ood box.
One memler of this family, who re
joiced in the cognomen "Two," lived
.to attan considerable distinction, and
the record of some of his achievements
and successes is preserved in the town
history, together with a short account
of the various sums in addit'on, sub
traction, multiplication and division
which his father devised from the
material afforded by his children, and
in which the youthful "Two" played
au important part.
TIP IT."
A Trivial I'astinie lobular Among Lan
cashire liiml'l.T.
Among the strange sjjrts of Lanca
shire is a game known variously as
"coddam" or "tip it."
As the. Iiucashiiv man of sjorticg
tendency must have a w ager on every
thing that engages his attention, a lot
of money changes hands on tlii.s game,
generally in a small way. but quite fre
quentiv iu substantial sums. Indeed,
says London Answers, there is a recog
nized champion player of "tip it," who
is open to buck himself for 25 to "lick
creat ion."
And this is how it is played: The
rival players take a button, or some
small article, and sit on opiosite sides
of a table. The beginner puts his
hands under the table, aud. taking the
button in one of them, raises Lis closed
fists into view, and the business of the
other is to say iu w hich hand the button
is rn-ld. The button changes sides as it
is found, and t he game goes on until the
points are reached.
It is often played w ith two or four a
side, and the champion will meet a
dozen at a time, and discover the hand
holding t he button by a sort of instinct.
The itosifion of the thumbs decides
whether the game is "coddam" or "tip
it." On this trivial '.aKtime hundreds
of iKvuuds change hands every year in
some parts of lincashire.
Trained tioats.
In Swiaerland and other mountain
ous countries the goat leads long1
strings of animals daily to and from the
mountains, but it is in South Africa
that it is particularly kept aud em
ployed as a leader of floclvs of sheep.
Should a blinding storm of rain or hail
drive the silly sheep liefore it, or cause
them to huddle together in a corner,
sc as to suffocate enoh other, the
trained goat w ill wake them up, an.l hy
a method best known to himself will
induce them to follow Lim to a place
of safety.
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