! The electric light on the Eiffel tower is visible at Orleans, sixty-nine and a half miles away, Amelia B, Edwards will give 100 leo. tures in America. She is the most learned Egyptol who has visited America But for that she cannot solve for us the riddle of the sphinx. Everybody must do that for himself, Richer and richer grows our country, A new silver mine, expected to prove of surpassing value, has just been struck in Arizona. The output of the mines of Ida- ho is increased $9,000,000 over last year, having more than doubled. Perhaps all this will partly make up for the money Americans spent in Europe last summer. The next great American work will be the irrigation of arid lands in the west. It will open millions of acres of the best land in the world to cultivation, and that means support for millions mors people. One view is that the agriculture of the future will be wholly conducted by irrigation, thus making it independ. ent of rains and droughts. A company of eastern capitalists have engaged to irrigate 1,800,000 acres of land in the Rio Grande valley. They have bought the land outright. This irrigation scheme will be one of the great industrial works of our time, Do Animals Suffer Pain? Dr. W. Collier records in The Nine teenth Century his belief that they do not to any great extent. What the ani- mals might say, if they were consulted on the subject, does not appear. Their judgment might not agree with that of Dr. Collier. Dr. Collier argues from man. People of nervous organization suffer more pain than those whose muscular system is prominently developed. In general, the more nerves the more pain, a close relation tothe size of brain. The larger the brain the greater pain. It is well known that savages endure without Pain bears flinching physical torture that would kill a civilized man. He says natives of New Zealand chopped off their toes without hesitation, 80 as to be able to wear the boots English traders brought them in the early days This, to be sure, may be a traveler's yarn, and it is best to make allowance for it. to worms and When we comme down insects, Dr. Collier scarcely thinks they speak of and only a rudimentary nerve svatem. Useful Inventions, It has been remarked time and again that the one department of which was behind the rest in the appli industry cation of labor saving machinery was that of But seems now to be catching the spirit of 1.3 2 the household. even that the age. An Indiana woman, Mrs. 'W. A. Ce has Ld ’ ich will perf skran, invented a machine ectly wash dishes, the It will thoroughly Jeanse and dry five sae on record. to twenty dozen shes of all shapes and sizes in two min- tes. At the same time it is warranted not to break the most fragile and shell like china. That is much more than any woman can be warranted not to do. Another worth noting is one that appeals to the msthetic sense especially. Suppose a lady ora lone bachelor lives in one room, and wishes it to look always like a parlor, The folding bed was the first godsend to these lonely souls, Now there is an- other. It is for those who wish to save an honest penny by doing a little home cooking. Your friend comes into your room and sees a handsome antique Dutch clock. It is of mahogany, white wood gilt, or cherry. It is thoroughly orna- mental. It has an honest face atthe top, from which you tell the time of day as by any other clock. But concealed in its insides is a complete little gasoline cooker, with shelf for pots and pans, and a tiny china closet above. See. domestic invention John Morgan's Death, It has frequently been denied that the ‘Confederate general John H. Morgan met kis death through having his where- abouts revealed by a Union woman Capt. James Rogers, of Abbeville, 8. C,, sets the matter at rest, at length. 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