5% a The Field of Science. The best conductor of electricity at present known is silver, From statistics gathered in India it | appears that cholera is far more deadly in the open than in the wooded districts. M. Zenger (*‘Ciel et Terre’’) maintains that the hurricanes of the West Indies have a period of twelve days, equal to that of the rotation of the sun. Vegetable albumen in its pure state is a thick, glairy, tasteless fluid, analo- gous to the white of an egg. Itisfound abundantly in the juices of green leaves, £ the sweet gum, or liquidambar, vibur. | num, zizania and elm—are occasionally found. An account is given in English jour- nals of the performance of a locomotive on the Great Northern Railroad, which recently carried the Duke of Edinburg from Leeds to London, 186] miles, in miles per hour, quently been equalled and sometimes for short distances. The engine had driving wheels eight feet in diameter. or two feet larger than the wheels of American engines, This speed has fre- surpassed A health station for patients suffering as well as in the flour from wheat. Two ninety-foot lathes, said to be the largest in the world, have been made by the South Works. lathe contains 600.000 pounds of They are to be used to bore out cannon. M. Academy of Sciences) concludes that the seat of the Boston iron iron. Spring (Belgian the and dry admitted, in the regions of atmosphere, but superstratum. moist in the cold Of the 140.000 known species of plants M. that makes only 300 He that cherry known both in Greece and Italy long before the time of Lucullus, de Candolle finds mankind use of about at most, states also the was A peeuliar tree, named the *‘Sorrow- It flourishes only at night. Bombay. appear soon after sunset the year round, and close up or fall off as the sun rises, Ninety-three thousand acres of trees have been planted under the "nnfart boriculture act in Kansas, | nately preference has been giver, of its rapid growth, to the which in every respect as the mullen stalk. diameter. tion with the accuracy of fnmbernman. Along Southwestern Colorado, millions of the boa ur 3 of valuable timber have been destroys by these rodents, Electrical motors have 1 introduced at several A Gramme machine } some time past at the others are at workin the T belonging to the Terre Noi and at the mine de la Peronniere, Professor Whitney maintains that the earth is gradually drying up which eommenced in cret: The increasing dryness, torical period of Persia, countries around the Aral and North Africa and Greece, is abundant fact The Lon leaves of the pl in the cant, ed for s A German patent out for the manufacture from cast iron. containin a compound of the strong recommended of silicon, resist the action It plates of zinc and iron 1 iS Ais) galvanic teries. thirty-five feet long, has been uneart ure is supposed to have stood twent five feet high. Ve re $08 4 ; 1 14 The weight of the 1900 pounds, Philadelphia, "The tensile strength of glass has been be between 2000 and 9000 pounds per square inch, and the crush- ing strength between 6000 and 10,000 pounds per square inch. By trials a short time ago M. Traulienie found that flooring glass one inch square and one foot between the end supports breaks under a load of 170 pounds. shown to Professor Owen, in Longman’s Maga- zine, says that ‘‘present evidence con- curs in concluding that the modes of life and grades of thought of the men who have left evidences of their exist- ence at the earliest periods, hitherto discovered and determined, were such as are now observable in ‘savages,’ or the human races which are commonly go-called. Professor Norkenskjold, during his arctic voyage, was perplexed by the question : What becomes of the bodies of animals which die a natural death ? He very seldom found such remains, and declared that on Spitzbergen it was easier to find vertebre of monster extinct reptiles than the bodies of the seal, walrus or bird of the present day. The problem is yet unsolved. In an American Association paper Dr. Britton describes a post-tertiary, pre-glacial deposit, near Bridgeton, N. J., comsaca enough to furnish a build- ing material, which contains casts of the shells of the hard clam, with silici- fied wood, and in which very fine im- pressions of leaves—including those of * The ho- about 10,000 feet above the sea. | borst?’ (evrie), will be built to accom- 1 modate 200 guests and be accessible by a narrow carriage-road, as well as by a wire-cord tramway. The construction of the hotel is to be proceeded with at | once, and the house is to be ready for i . | occupancy in two years, recent official report of in . According to the | y the use of horse-tlesh an articie : | human food is steadily increasing | Paris. In 1875. 7000 horses were slaugh- i tered for this purpose; in 1880 the was 9000, and in 1881, 9300, Besides these, there were sold at the ed forty establishments exclusively deve | to this business ten carcasses of donkeys 1% sat} In 1 $d. OF 1 B81, fie irse-flesh 1220 and 400 in | The consumed | 1670 Engl { about 18 tons of -flesh, estimated weight of in Paris last year was about 1 in tons, and add Lion without is used mn ng of sausages, on A Bossi GCambetta’s Oratory. higher tone, h interruptions came, in which perhaps the orator caugit I : y | bitter personal allusion. gan to pace the tribune like a caged lion. Tis | back and his eye flashed defiance, while massive head was thrown | period after period was thundered forth with of seund drown the rising tumult, From that moment, and for fully an hour after ward, the chamber was spell-bound, such a volume as to a A Lost Locomotive. A locomotive ran through a broken bridge on the Kansas Pacific Railway, across Kiowa creek, several years ago, sinking into the mud at the bottom, and has never since been heard from, though repeated efforts have been made, by dig- ging and boring, to rocover so valuable a piece of property. The bottom is quek- gand, but even quicksands have limits, and it seems very singular that the long. est boring-rod has failed to find any trace of the sunken engine. By-and-by the silent mysterious operation will drain the quicksand and harden it into rock, and then, long after the Kansas Pacific road has been forgotten, and the Kiowa creek has vanished from the map, some future scientist will discover a curious piece of mechanism, undoubt- edly the work of human hands, lying under so many hundred feet of sand- stone, and will use the fact as a basis of calculating how many million years old the human race must be, i—— The Treasury Department decides that, under the new law, *‘it is not necessary to efface the carved figures on a vessel's main beam showing the gross tonnage, but that the amount of the net tonnage, which shall also be the reg- istered tonnage, must be carved upon the beam as well.” « | | | 5 At a recent fire in Ottawa, Canada, gome one sent a telegram to the owner, who was in Boston, saying : ‘Premises all on fire, What shall we do?” The answer came back promptly : “Put it out.” “1 know,’ said a little girl to her elder sister's young man at the supper table, “that you will join our society for the Protection of Little Birds, for mamma of larks."’ “I like your new hat very much,’ he said. *‘It’s ‘chic,’ there's of ‘abondon’ "—*“There isn’t any sort of a band on it,” she said, pouting ; “it’s a real ostrich feather.” says you are very fond a sort A member of the rhetorical class just finished his declamation, when the pro- fessor said: ‘Mr. do you suppose » n the manner you spoke that piece 7"’ “Yes, sir. i do.” was half-scared to death, and as nervous was the reply, “if he as a cat.” A cute “A man who he call last us, if he was alive, editor wrote the following : little and i8 owing us a bill said would week pay the street ; but ag he did not call, it naturally supposed that he is dead around do funeral ex- valking MAYE penses,’’ chief, went to a hardware store to get one of those wooden contrivances to mash po tatoes and said, “I want a the { Every man in the boss t shop, from the office boy, started to wait on her (rent to walle ‘Bring me grammatical and typographical errors.” Waiter led at first, but he demanded, the st would mount uld listener to repose with At last th and in fortissime welody it Ww # a rie 1:1] #1 almost lull the any. jan blast that fairly made the windows I fect silence, 6X- ‘hank passenger, heaven," claimed a ““he has Useful servants : Aft or the war, says i § our servants was much reduced, two went to the nearest village to hire out, The lady, to whom they applied, asked if they could cobk. never bin cook none,” “Can wash ?' “ No'om, weain’t bin wash none neither, Aunt Sally wash.” ** Can you clean then ?"’ least we ain't never been clean none. And so I went on through the whole list of qualifications, receiving always the same negative answer. ‘Well, what in heaven's name,’ said I at iast, ‘‘have you been accustomed to Co?’ Lucin- da’s dusky face’ brightened, ‘‘Sukey here, she hunt for master’s specs, and I keep flies off de ole miss |" “No'om we aint Jou house, “ No'om, 8 ar Statistical and Useful. The Money Order System. The following figures are furnished by the General Superintendent of the money order department : The number of money orders issued during the fiscal year was 7,240,537 for the whole United States. This in money reached the enormous sum of §100,352,818,82, Over a hundred millions passed in absolute afety through our hands, The fees paid to the Postoffice Department reached the aggregate of $016,422.80, For the transaction of all this an immense amount of correspondence is necessary. We wrote nearly 40,000 letters last year, | : | “You spoke of the increase.” “True, If youare not tired of fig- ures I will give you some more, In 1879 we had 1,161,378 transactions, amount- ing in money to $43,0662.274.87. This was an increase over 1878 of 100.119 transactions and £5,000,000., The next year, 1880, showed 1,351,005 transac- tions, amounting in all to $51,231 749.04, This was a gain over the previous year of 189.920 475.67. The work is constantly increas- ing. The average of all the orders is $13." transactions, and $7,579,- Quantity of Seed per Acre. Grain Drilled, — Wheat, rye, 1} to 14; oats, 1 bushel bushels ; Barley and oats bushels of barley : buckwheat, hills, 6 to 9 quarts ; 2 to 3 bushels ; to 4 of a bushel broom corn in drills, : beans, 1 to 14 sorghum, s Of a bushel, Timothy. orchard grass, 13 to 2 bushel (3 ra88es, Kentucky 3 bushels ; white clover tH LO lucerne THC, Vegetables ane getabies al The bad boy's pa, according t pants and table was saucer wouldn't stay on it if he would put some tar o1 and then cuffed me and I think he felt better, but where a man ham’t got any mind, like you, for instance At this point the groceryman picked up a fire poker, and the boy went out in a hurry and hung up a sign in front of the grocery, “Cash paid for fat dogs.” om. A Tickled Hoosier. An Indiana farmer walked into the heuse the other day, with a tickled look on his face and his hat on his ear, and called out : “By gum! think ?** “What's happened now,” Hanner, what do you “You know that fellow who sold me the churn and had me sign a paper?" “Yes, $s “Well that paper was a note for fifty dollars, *’ “Noa!” “True as preaching, do you suppose ?°’ “He sold it ?"’ “Right you are, Went and sold it to a bank in Vincennes, and I've got to pay it. Think of it, Hanner— my note good ‘nuff to be sold to a bapk four stories high and with plate glass win- dows, and they send me just the same kind of a notice to pay as they would a rich man. I must let old Sims hear of it in some way. The Sims family look upon us as scrubs, and here we are treated the same as if we rode in a And what else "keerige behind four hosses,* That Woman Again. “Good morning.” “Good seat 1”? morning, madam ! Take “You don’t kuow me, do you?’ “1 am under the necessity of saying that I do not, madam !V “Well, I will tell you who I am, I| am Mrs, Churchill, the editress of Queen Dee, of Denver, Of course of the Queen Bee, it the She Bee, they call it, so but 1 long don’t care what a8 they take the paper, are good It is looking and gentlemen blush and reddens their a fearless paper sure you, and goes for the men right an rights — He Wanted a Contrasting Shade. “How much will I need ?*’ asked a shopping husband of a dry goods clerk. “That will depend upon the number “Hum! I suppose so. 1 want enough goods to make a dress for my only wife -1 mean for—my wife only.” stam- “I think twenty yards would do,” clerk, measuring the man ly and ame im mental wondering if “shall 1 piece, tner has crushed 1k. mashed $ Wile 51 ck's bloody {sy rei- other shments, and | pretending to be affronted even at these accompli ringlets of hair as she retires, while the ambassadresses, having got the consent of her parents, pursue her, take her by force to the house of her destined hus- Compelled to remain there, she sits for days with di- band and there leave her. shevelled hair, silent and dejected, refus- ing every kind of sustenance, until at last, if kind entreaties do not prevail she is compelled by force, and even by blows, to submit to the detested union. In cases the Greenland women faint at the proposals of marriage; in othersthey fly to the mountains and only return when compelled to do so by hun- ger and cold. If one cuts off her hair it is & sign that she is determined to re- sist to death, The Greenland wife is the slave of her husband, doomed to a life of toil, drudgery and privation,— Ex. some A A ASH During a gust at Williamsport, Penna., two boats in which men were returning from a boom on the river capsized. Three young men, named Herman Hartman, Del Rhoads and Grant Moore, and a boy, named Wilts, wore drowned, Four Swedes were drowned by the upsetting of a boat on Lake Washington, Washington Terri- ritory,——=A *‘seale-caten '’ boiler in Donald McCleary's planing mill, at Portland, Oregon, burst, blowing ont the front of the mill, and killing the engineer. Two other men were ine jured, ~—Mary Ayres, ten years of age, was burned to death) atin! bonfire in Falls Village, Connecticut. s upon the r be plow od MORSBATY, the bad, —. ; foun YH 1 grade 10 araw on water, otherwise there will be a Now with such a road the on top hard. There over, and bliged to follow in a single road. Dry To fill up mud holes without draining is simply in more dirt to make more mud, | muddy road, : bed 1s solid, and the soll scraped | will soon pack and become i vis Yu ¢ 4 ¥ 1 HO Gan : nn wing tipped it, a8 it must ina narrow is mean good ditches. § puting A Jacob Fresh applied to the Govern. ment recently for a pension, alleging that he was engaged in a hand-to-hand fight with his sabre for a distance of five miles. near Huntonville, Va., on July 2, 1863, and that while in that fight he was cut in the right arm and shot in the left arm and leg. One of the Govern- ment pension examiners at Washington wrote in reply: ‘““The claim is inad- missible without further and more de- finite information. The claimant is therefore required, with the return of of this letter, to state, under oath, what caused him to get into a fight with his sabre : what kind of a sabre it was he got into a fight with; how he happened to have a hand-to-hand fight with it; whether he had hands ; whether there were any witnesses present during the fight ; how he managed to get shot while fighting with his sabre ; whether it was a shooting sabre; whether he believes the sabre shot him ; whether it shot any- body else; whether he shot it; how many shots were fired: who fired the first shot; whether the soldier was in the habit of figting with his sabre ; how long a time he fought it, and whether he had ever fought any other sabre, It should be shown by competent testimony whether the soldier shot the sabre or the sabre shot the soldier. It should also be shown whether they fought for the distance of five miles apart or the sabre was five miles long.
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