GROWING OLD TOGETHER. Friends may be false, friends may be true, And friends deceive us sadly ; But what is (hat to me or you, Who love each other madly ? You have your faults and I have mine We have good traits in common ; Angels alone serenely shine, And they are more than human ! The years go by, and age creeps on, And white, wan hands grow nervous ; More clearly know we right from wrong, And honor those who serve us. Together we have thus grown old— Ne'er guilty of deceiving : A kingdom lies beyond death’s wold For those who die believing! "We know the grave is very nigh, Cald, shive and choeerless ; And yet we have no weary sigh, And eves are calma and tearless, For death but opens wide the gate To life that is immortal ; And the saints who in patience walt Will gladly cross the portal! AT OI TY MLLE. PAPA. Every morning when the miners col- | fected around the entrance to the Be- | rard pit to answer to the roll call, the | last to appear always was a tall, jovial | fellow, who led by the hand a little girl | of seven or eight years. It was Michel | Perron and his little daughter. Before | setting foot on the platform to descend | nto the pit, the man raised the child in | his arms; imprinted a kiss on each | cheek and set her down again. The | child cried. ‘*Au revoir, papal” At] the sound of the bell, the signal for | descent, she clasped her little hands to- | gether, twisted her little fingers, and | repeated again and again the word “Papa.” till the moment when very sure that papa could hear her no more, | she went to the schoolroom to pass there | the day. | Evening come, she was the firstat the | entrance to the pit, whence Michel Per- ron came out first always. As in leav- | ing her he raised the child in his arms | and she clung closely to him crying, | “Papa.”” And all the brightness of her little soul beamed forth brilliantly in her smile and in her glances. The mi- pers had heard her repeat so often these | two syllables, they had been so struck | by the strange passion that she, un- known to herself, put in them, that they | had named her “*Madamoiselle Papa.’’ | And surely never was a name more appropriate. Her father lived only for | her. Her mother was dead long, long | gince. She bad hardiy known her. She | had known only him. In all the recol- | lections of ber earliest childhood 1t was | he, he only, that she remembered. For | her his rough hands had been gentle; | for her his face was always smiling and | tender; for her the man had become woman and child at once. Ah! but how | much also she loved her father, and how | fearful she was every morning when she | saw him go down info that yawning | hole, the bottom of which she could not | soe. A miner had taken a notion one day to hold her close to the edge of the pit, | when, recoiling from the obscure gulf, | black as far as the eye could see, she | had sprung back with a cry of terror. “Papa goes down there,’ she thought; “‘suppose Le should not come back. ™! And on this day, when Michel had taken her in his arms, as he always did for the farewell caress, she clung more closely than ever to his neck, and said tremblingly, in a half whisper: ! “You will come back, will you not?" ¢: As always, little one.” “Ig there any danger? “Of course not, pet.” “Could apyone—could you—die down there?” “Be tranquil,” sald Michel smiling. “1 will not die without telling thee of iH.” “Ahl—Au revoir, papal’ It was gospel truth since her father ‘had said so, and she went away to | school almost reassured. Dut the re- | collection of the black gulf into which | her eyes had glanced, was pol wholly | effaced, and afterward she was fearful | avery morning, she trembled every even- : ing; she feared always] lest from those mysterious depths into which she had seen him descend, hér father would | some bak né more. A presentiment. - Who knowa? One day the rumor spread suddenly that an explosion of fire damp had just | occurred, In loss time than it takes to | tall it the en'r nee to the Berard pit! was thropged. Excited crowds rushed from every direction. Of all the miners that were down there how many would | be seen Again? | The daughter of Michel was at school. | She knew nothing of it, and indeed if | any one had spoken of it before her, | could she have understood? Could she | know, poor little thang, what an explo- | sion of fire-damp was? No. Say—papal” ' But at her | age one understands already whatdeath | is; one understands at her age, when one sees stretched on the ground, pale, inanimate, lifeless bodies; and the ap- proach to the Berard pit was strewn with them when she came at night to meet her father. She was stupefied for a moment; then it dawned upon her, She had seen these men descend living. She knew them very well, Many a time had they caressed her. They were brought up dead. Would ber father be brought up so—like them? The thought terrified her. She ran about, her hair streaming in the wind, m the midst of the debris, which had been brought up from the mine, crying: “Papal papa! papa” There were many others certainly who cried, and who called “Papal” but no other with such an accent of Jaspal. The others were sent away, Nobody «could send her away. She ran, poor «<hild, from one body to another, stop- ping sometimes, as if in a disfigured tuce, she might recognize the one she sought. Her father was not among the dead, Confidence returned to her, She grew caln and sought him among Of the sixty miners who had gone down Aito the morning forty-five ascended, Aourteen were dead, There was one missing. It was Michel, All this was axplained to her. She comprehended At, and she clapped her hands as if they Sad sald to her: “You will see him again, She recalled suddenly that one morning her father had said to her: *'I will not die without telling thee.’’ her the assurance that her father was still living, Children have the most tenacious faith, jOne does not drive easily from their minds an idea which has onee taken root there, So, when the next morning-she had spent the whole night there~—they tried to make her undesstand that it was all over, that she would never see her father again, that they had explored all the galleries and, searched everywhere, she shook her head and sald, weeping: “Look for papa!” They gave her little attention. In forty hours had they not exhausted every means? Witheut doubt there was something strange 1: his) disappearance, Living or dead, they ought to have found Michel and they had not found him, His plans in his hand, the chief engineer had himself directed the re- searches. They had carefully exam- ined even the smallest recesses in the galleries. It was the opinion of all that in the frightful overturning caused by the explosion the unfortunate miner had been swallowed up without it being possible to say where or how. Indus- try, like war, has its battles and its sol- diers missing, as well as its“soldiers dead. For forty-eight hours Mlle. Papa had waited feverishly, but without growing weary, .At every human form that appeared at the entrance she started up, and not recognizing the one she await- sd, sat down again with a profound sigh. They tried to lead her away, and she wept so bitterly that it ended in They thought that fatigue would conquer her. But | whence comes to the feeble such strength in the grievous crims of their lives? Ask God:it is Hus secret, The third day the fehild was still at the entrance to the pit. “We must put an end to tins! said the chief engineer, and approaching her he said: ‘‘Be reasonable, little one.” “Papal Seek papal’ “Alas! He is dead.” “Nol” She uttered this **Nol” with such it. “Why net?’ he said, “He would have told me.” “Poor little thing!’ murmured the | engineer, And he made a sign that she | would be taken away. But she called desperately to him, crying: “Papa is not | dead! I wantto go down! I will find | him!” They took her away and sent her un- der good care to the sehool. . An hour “I want to go down! I will find him"? | The engineer was a kind hearted fel- low. He took pity on her, After all,” he said to himself, “‘per- haps that would be best, When she has seen with ber own eyes she will be- | lieve. This condition, if itlasts, will | perhaps kill her.” And taking her in his arms he step- ped on the platform and gave the signal | for descent, They went down. : t eight. years to descend into: this | yawning gulf the thought of whicli ter- rities! How she loved him, hér father! She shivered, nevertheless, when she | found herself in the obscarity, descend- ing into the awful depth, whenoe rose The engineer felt the trembling little bands tighten their clasp, the blonde head press closer to his own and tears fall on his neck. When they were down she disengaged herself and ran away For two hoti’s she traversed the gal- feries, questioning the men whom she knew, striking with her little fist the | black wall, préssing her ear close to it, | peeping into the least cleft, and thrust- ing her hauds, and calling always, “*Pa- | pa! papal” The engineer—himself a fatber-=who had followed her with difficulty, grew | weary of explaining what he had twenty | times explained already, of showing her | what he bad sbown her twenty times, | how the explosion had taken place; | what had been done to find the victims, | Thechild questioned still, and repeated | still, “He is living! T.ook for him!” tere, ad ab the entrance of the pit, she would havé remained, three days, if he had not taken her by force, and remounted with her. i The engineer gave orders that she | would be taken back to the schoolhouse and kept there, orders also that if she appeared at the Berard pit she should not be allowed to descend into the mine: All his directions, were scrupulously followed, and the next day, ‘without thinking at allof her, he wasinspecting the working of the mine, when he felt himself suddenly seized by his coat, [§ was Mlle. Papa. . She had for the ge "ond time escaped from the schoolhouse, Repulsed at the entrance to the pit, finding nobody who, | for her sake would disobey the orders given, she had slipped under an empty cart, and thus descended into the mine, She soon narrated that and obtained pardon for it. Five minutes later she commenced her semrch., With ardent faith she sounded, as on the evening berore, the wall of coal, passing and re- passing in the same place, without de- spairiug, without growing weary. : men no loager gave her any attention. They merdy glanced at her with pity, shrugging (their shoulders and saying: “Poor JEL ‘papal’ 2 5 The littld papa’ sought always, Sud. denly they law her run, pale trembling, choked. “She cried: **Therel there! pa- 133 “What! there?” said the miner, «His blouse!” “Bah! ere is it?” She retraged her steps followed by evérybody, hesitated, stopped, turned again, She could not find the place again, All the blodks of’ coul looked alike, all the hollows were the same, all the gal- leries similar, And yet she was sure Where his blouse was he must. be =liy- ing no doubts-her father, and she conld not find him again. One by ohe, weary of this usdles search, persuaded that the poor little girl was distracted by ber grief, the men turned away and went back to their work. But hardly bad they had time to take up the pick or the mattock, than a despairing ory them Aud nothing else was needed to give ¥ The little girl panting, her eyes fixed, 3 her lips apart, her hand in a hollow of the wall, cried, “I hold itl I hold it!"’ They moved aside, they looked. Yes! it was a bit of cloth—of blue cloth, Itwas ablouse, Wasthere aman there? They set to work, and what blows of the mat- tock they gave! In a twinkling the wall was thrown down, and in a deep exca- vation they saw a man extended; it was Michel Perron. He had been there three days and four nights, Jonfused cries arose on all sides, and more piercing than all others a cry escaped from the lips of the little girl She sprang upon the body, clasped it with both arms, half wild, weeping, and repeating again and again, “papal pa- pal’ He was very low the poor Michel. Weakened by the deprivation of airjand nourishment, he recovered his senses only to faint away again; bat he lived. he had left lying above him, had in- creased tenfold his strength, He had conquered death. A week later he was up, thin, but well and ready to commence work, The evening before he was to go down in the mine for the first time, a grand banquet was given by the miners to “Mlle. Papa.’’ The place of honor was reserved for her, A formidable Why eel 1s Dear. Inquiring o1 a jeacqung butcher for a piece of a shin of beef, for soup pur- poses, we were told that he did pot of- fer such meats to his customers. “Why not!” ‘‘Because nobody will buy them. The almost sole inquiry is for sirloin, rib roast, tenderloin, and other choice pieces,” “But there 18 no part of the bullock from which such excellent soup can be made as the shin,” “1 know 1, but you ean’t persuade the majority of buyers to believe that. Many of them would regard It a dis- grace to have it known that a piece of shin beef ever found its way to their table. And that is one of the reasons why I am compelled to charge you 22 cents a pound for the cnoice cut of the Do you understand?” “I don’t think I do,” said the jour- nalist, ¥ 1 fapanese in civilization, and ars a pro- | gressive, intelligent people. The capl- | tl has about three hundred white res- ents, principally missionaries, and gme of the buildings are beautiful. The queen has her palace there. By the Way, she is only nineteen years old, and ifa very pretty girl. Her husband is | skty years old, and is the prime mins- | té¢. The Hovas are literally surrouded | bithese hostile nations that 1 spoke of. Tiley have partly conquered them all, | exept the Sakalavas, who inhabit the | enire western part of the island, One ofthe most important questions that | tig country has to deal with is slavery. Gpat numbers of slaves were annually brjught from Africa, and all of these | 8 kept their slaves, Aboutiwenty | ‘es ago the queen emancipated them, bul the Sakalavas never recognized the | emgneipation. They have iminense hes of cattle, which are cared for by | thaslaves or macaos, and without them thet herds would run wild, As l said “Don’t you kmow that we buy our greeted her when she entered, clinging to Michel's hand, There were in honor of the little Queen, her hands, the little Queen? She said, “Papa.” How should she reply to it? It were diffcult to say. Bat more than one weeping, you are to understand, brush- ed away the tears from his eyes on that occasion, a —————— A Case of squelch, A Chicago him, and tickled a sandy-halred pas- senger’s ear with the remark: “You've been In Chicago of course?’’ “Where?” “Chicago.” An uncertain look came sandy-haired man’s eyes. “Tet me see.” he mused, retrospec- tively; **’pears to me I must have passed through there. I've traveled a good deal. 1 know I’ve heard name before, What on?" “Forty lines of road. It's the big- gest railroad center on earth.” “Not bigger than Crestline, Ohio, is it?” asked the passenger with an amazed expression. “I've seen trains at once at Crestline waitin to start off. Talk about nolss and confu- sion” The Chicago man's teeth began to chatter. “1s Chicago a place where the train stops for dinner?” “Naw,” sald the disgusted dram- mer. ‘Chicago is not a place where the passengers stop for dinner.” “Of course, that's what 1 meant.” explained the red-haired man gently. “Fact is,” he went on with confiden- tial frankness. *‘I’'ve traveled so much and been in so many different places in my lifetime that I don’t purtend to remember more’'n a quarter of ‘em. What's the name of the hotel in Chi- cago?” “There ain't mer, gloomily, Then he walked forward to the fil- into the line of road is it any,” said the drum. led his throat, whooshed the liquid on the floor, and hung his leg over the “Who is that evil eyed, pink haired, Hence the People will have no other, and as a consequence we have large quan- less desirable weats on hand, which we are compelled to dis- pose of at such prices as we can get.” | “But are not these less desirable pie- | ces, as you call them, good and nutri- | tious?”’ “Of course they are, If the Amer: | is not a pound of meat in a whole car- | cass that could not be made into a pal- But many of them know | and many of | those who do are not willing to give | the poorer cuts, when they can get a tender steak for the gridiron or a We are a wastful people, very wasteful If our working people could but be made | to comprehend what great economy there is in being able to cook well they anxious to have their dunghters taught the art. Why, gir, I am convinced that a moderately skilled cook can serve just as tooth- as are found un most | tables at one-half the cost of the latter, There are many pounds of beef now on first class veel though not | generally so considered, which I will sell you at one-third the price 1am | compelled to ask for sirloin or rump meat just as nutritious and wholesome, but requiring a little more | pusiness, If 1 were to undertake Hence I receive and 01 orders as | given. Do you know that housekeepers have no any other methods of one-half the conception of and yel, as every one ought fo know, | beef can be cooked acceptably in fifty different ways, and In most of them without any increased expense, i know of several housekeepers, ladies of means and refinement, that have given the subject thought and consideration, $ s # ie 4 I hn | who thoroughly understand cooking, the conductor, who through the train, “Do you mean that gentleman look- ing out of the windew?"’ st Y a-as. " “He's a Louis." was passing fish merchant from St. SE Where Chestuuts Come From, There is nothing more indicative of appearance in stores, on street stands and in wagons of chestnuls-~bright brown, full-meated chestnuts. be seen buying some of these inferior pieces. 1 have learned from them a number of receipts, which I have tried own house, and bave found admirable. Yes, sir, we are a wasteful people, especially in the use of meats, though, for that matter, 1 could point you out great imprudence in table furnishing in many other directions; ’ | and, drawing his large, keen, Knife | over a sharpening steel in a style that made one tremble for his fingers, the philosophical vietmaler proceaded to ¢ aL ny i ! | Ohio,” said a dealer recently. ““They are not only the sweetest, but are noted for not getting wormy like those from other States, The market here only de- mands two grades--Ohio and Peunsyl- vania-but they also grow quite exten- of a few trees” “Do they come ln any great quantis ties?" Ohio and Pennsylvania towns, i can get lots of from 15 to 20 bushels, Great care has to be taken not to allow them to be overheated, as they produce worms, Chicago is the distributing market for the great Northwest, an we cannot get as many as the trade de- mands,” “Then they are not abundant this year?" “No, indeed; the yield is only what might be called a medium one. Itis of very fine quality, however. The price has been as bigh as $0.30 per bushel, but it is now getting down and is likely to settle at from $5 to $6.50.” “How are they gathered?" “Well, you know thenuts grow in the forests, and are not. cultivated. They are mostly by farm-ads, who t until the frosts open the prickly burrs, in each of which two or three nuts are incased, and a light wind causes them to drop to the ground. It is fun for the boys, and at the same time is profitable work." “Is there much demand for the Ital- ee Tittle, They ate mitch lar ‘Very lithie, ihey ate mi ger than the native chestnut, but Hot se sweet. $4 i i . 3 Suxpax Bomoot Tracmen ‘When George Washington was a little boy what was it be said he couldn’ do?” + “Small Soholar—*‘He could not tell a lie.” | “Aud why éould he not tell a lie?” “‘Becouse he knowed he'd get licked for it.” we leaving the writer to ponder over his remarks, Land of the Horas. Lientenant Mason A. Shufeldt, of the | navy, who recently returned from the | exploration of Madagascar, bad quite a wonderful experience. As he told the | story of his travels {0 a newspaper man | the other day it sounded more Hike an | interesting narrative of interesting ad- | the actual experience of a young naval | officer in the line of duty, “Fora long | time I had felt a desire to explore some | of the unknown Eastern countries,” said Lieutenant Shufeldt, “but it was not until a year after 1 had volunteered | my services to explore Madagascar that The course pursued by the French in that country reasons. A cable message from the secretary of the navy detached me early last spring from my vessel in China and sent me on special duty in the shape of a trip through Madagastar. I had no instructions regarding, the expedition and everything was left to my own judgment, I went as far as that coun- try in the Pensacola and then made my way direct to the capital, Antanana- rivo. Now, to give you an ideaof the country and what was before me you must know that it isan immense is- land, considerably r than the re- public of France, with a population of about 5,000,000. ‘The greater part of it is entirely unknown aid occupied by utterly uncivilized and wholly bar- us, e ruling people, however, have reached quite a high a of eiv- Hak portion OF tho Janel. a portion © Jan roby Ren in subduing the whole country but for the opposition of the French, These people are called Hovas, and are entirely distinct yrom od ’ abien th Malay e wi MBAY § he rest of the tr Eh characteristics, The su : tion 18 that ténturies Age these must have landed on shores from some of the Eastern countries and set- Hed thite. 16 eas ih pssible for them to dwell near the marshy malatious shore, so they pushed their way to the | elevated plateaus of the in , Where they still are, They are equal to the I mide my way to the capital, but that widan easy trip, without danger,as the | It wis through the wild Sakalava coun- | try fat my expedition proper wasto be | madi I remained at the capital three weel§ perfecting the arrangements. 1 had tho interviews with the queen, and shakdher by the hand. Shortly after I wasabout to start. She intrusted to me ldters to the President, which I have ¢livered to him in person. *‘I gathepd about me forces amounting to | six hudred,” continued the lieutenant. *“Theywere all either natives or slaves, | with he exception of myself and! three niners who volunteered to go,two Englislmen and an American, At last | to the yestern coast, It was slow and attendd with many. dangerous disas- ters. The hostile Sakalavas hovered about » during the entire journey, but only veilured twice to make an attack upon og party. They were repulsed both tines with a loss to my party of looking antagonists—those Sakalavas, Their piysical proportions were superb. The simple breech-cloth was their only Bi until thay reflected the sunlight like mirrors. They seemed to have no fear of tirearss, but made the attack with a savage ¥ll. Each man carried five assegals, throwing them one at a time as he rasloward us, They soon found that theyeonld not conquer our party and had © be content with dogging our steps, lying in walt for any poor strag- | gler who vas unable to keepup. Ihad tinually about me. Some of them were always ab@ad while on the march, and not wounded once. It was a ternble Indeed we all had it, and my white companions succumbed to it. Thddisease is Intermittent, and is accompaied with the most terrible vomiting sd retehing, and utter pros- fever 4% Whe to eat anything. It was not the itself whici killed my men, but complete ixhaustien which resulted Then, too, the natives, who were bare egged, suffered ternbly from ulcerated ores, The wet grass through vhich we traveled in early mornings vould cut their flesh, and the heat of thesun would produce ugly f tering sors, which rendered unft for travel. Every day I fore my tent and dist: : the contaits of my medicine among the suffering ones. The jour- ney lasted 07 days, and when we reach- ed the cost 1 had but 158 men remain- With only 20 out of 600 Killed, $ Favs oF ong ER. ' i them InOsL ite chest We erected some bamboo fartifications and had plenty “Whathad you intended to do upon reporter, “Well, of course, I had no idea of re- tracing ny steps, and I expected to be compelled to build a canoe and cross the Mozsmbique channel in it. As luck would lave it, the boats of a Swedish bark hai gone to pieces on the coast a couple «f years before had been saved. I found them on the bank of a creek, where they had been dragged by the natives, who, being ignorant of how to L se- lactedihe largest one and wentto work to repair her. 1 calked ber up tight, rigged a sail and put to sea in her with four & the slaves, I had no compass, and fieered westward course by the sun, [ knew if I could kept on I would strike land, 1 felt sure I couldn’ pass Caps Town, which was nearly 2.000 miles to the south’ard, and I Knew land was is far north as I could go. We wereout 10 days, and fimally struck land which proved to be Mozambigue* A Discovery. Reharkable remains have been found on a hill or mountain four nes south of alena, in Sonora, The hill #f about 700 feet high, and half way | up there is a layer of gypsum, which, is as wiite as snow, and may be eut into any+onceivable shape, vet sufficiently hardto retain its shape after being cut. In lis layer of stone are cut hundreds upot hundreds of rooms from six by ten fo sixteen or eighteen feel square. Sc een and true are the walls, floor andpeiling, so plumb and level, as to defy variation, There are no windows | in fhe rooms and but ene entrance, h is always from the top. The 48 are but eight feet high from floor to oiling. the stone is so white that it seess almost transparent, and the roots are all dark. On the walls of thes rooms are “utnerous h ws and representations of human beings eutin the stone in different places, but strange to say, all the hands have five fi thumb, and the feet wh 100! of many of the rooms; imple ts of every description are found. Thi houses or rooms are one above the othir to three or more stories high; but | bet: each ry there is a Jog or dw the full width of te room below, so that they pear of lirge present Progress of Mankied, Proctor in his lectures often startles and rivers are drylng up and that it is will be as dry as a horn. When he ex- plains that the oceans recede about the thickness of a thin sheet of writing plenty of water for the next 200,000,000 years, the drought-scared audience It must be con- sidered that the same number of the immigrants die each year as other peo citizens, and their natural jpcrease is not above the average, so that when all be occupled is considered, there is room for a good-sized sigh of relief, unless the condition of affairs many genera- tions hence is taken to account and deprecated. There is no one living now flag so densely populated as the State of New York. if this thing keeps on long enough, however, the people will become too thick to thrive. That will certainly not oceur before A. D, 2,000, and probably not then, as the stream of lmmigration will naturally grow weaker and weaker as the great basin fills up, so that when this country offers no more room than Europe, the stream will practically cease flowing, and the increase will then be limited to the natural rate. This is no doubt provided for. In olden times was well enough then, as the people der the control of the law that the fittest survive, Then man was of no special use on the earth except as he improved. His manner of warfare was well calcu- lated to develop him physically, and to meet the requirements and fulfill the object of this law. They fought band to hand, which gave the stronger and better developed men a decided advan- tage. The weaker was slain, and only the stronger left, Things are different now, It seems that physical deveiopment reached its highest level just before the Grecian Empire began to decline Then man began living on his wits, He invented deadly weapons wherewith a weakling could kili a giant. This went on until at present a victory in battle is no evi- dence of superior physical development on the part of the victors, and seldom of superior generalship, but of the superi- ority of arms, more destructive ammu- nition, und, possibly, advantage in po- sition, Since the days of hand-to-hand conflicts between contending armies, the result of battles has depended almost altogether on the inventive skill of those engaged in making munitions of war. The one thing that will probably do more than all else to check the tide of immigration will be madifications of European governments. A majority of those wno come from Germany do so for the purpose of finding a freer atmos- phere. The same with the Scotch, the Irish. and in fact with nearly all. With the demise of King William and his au- cocrat Premier, Bismarck, a moe liber- al Government will be established in Germany. In Great Britain the im- pression prevails quite generally that when Queen Victoria is done with the throne it will be relegated to the royal garret and present limited mo- narchy gives place to a democratic form of government Should these changes be made the stream of immigration will be reduced fully one-half, or perh more. Many other things that will pro. duce similar results will be developed, so that by the time there is no further need of immigrants to the country there will be none. The presnt population of the world is estimated at 1,204,533.673, of which 7.031.080 are Jews and 370,878,060 are Christians, leaving 915,724,827 bealhen, or about three to each Jew and Chris tian, the A Dreadful Prophesy. The tides are caused mainly by the moon, as it were, catching hold of the water as the earth revolves around on This must cause {riction on the earth as it revolves, and friction, as every one knows, causes loss of power, There is reason to suppose that the ac- tion of the tides is slowly but surely lessening the speed of the earth’ rota- tion. and consequently increasing the length of the day, and this action“gill continue until the earth revolves on'ils own axis in the same time that the moon takes to revolve around the earth, Then the day, instead of being twenty-four hours as now, will be about twenty- eight days, and the earth will be expo- sed to the full blaze of the sun for about fourteen days at a time, The change this will bring about on aggerated. All life, both animal and vegetable, will be destroyed; all water will be evaporated; the solid rocks wili begscorched and cracked, and the whole the moon has already passed through all of this, hence its shattered and bare the moon's surface, and stopped almost entirely its revolution round its own heat of the sun has already done to it what in future ages it will do to the earth. ss —— Money Circulation of the Werld, The Director of the Mint has prepa red a statement in regard to the present money circulation in thirty-nine coun tries of the world as compared with the circulation as reported a year ago, which shows a decrease in the gold cir- culation of about $52,000,000, an in- crease in the silver circulation of $42-, 000,000, an increase in paper circulation of $112,000,000, He attributes the los; in gold circulation to a reduced produc tion and to the increased use of tha metal in ornamentation and the arts nessa AM ma . Calico is the name of a town in Cali fornia, Suarren’'s raspberry is w ing in favor, and A te who have tried it, for the largest size ¢ GARI RS
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