THE RUSSIAN FRONTIER. The Unenviable Life tinels, Led by the Sen- The Russian garrisons on the Prussian frontier have been in recent years con siderably strengthened. Until three or four years ago the so-called cordon cop gisted of comparatively Service on the frontier very monateo nous, and the men selected for this work are generally from the eastern and of Empire. On the 1st and 15th of every month the frontier guards receive their hard-earned and scanty pay, and on the 2d of the same month it is as 1 3 pended in drink to the very last cope Kk hen a bad time sets in for them, and few men only, is vOung recruits central provinces and regularly ex- ) habits, { Mone Apovt Sumsenr Digr, —In these sultry days, says the medial authority in the Philadelphia Ledger, the question of 5 especially important, The day diet become Prussian farmhouses the Sometimes, however, they meet piece of good luck. A Prussian goose wanders innocently and immediately disappears into the near- est Russian guardhouse, welcome addition to the frugal provided by the authorities, by the farmer is useless. the matter will be looked into, and that is the end of it. At certain periods during the officer makes the round from post. Sometimes when smugglers are Cross with a hen post being taken up by one guard afteranother until as many as five or six reports break the silence of midni Then, if false alarm, i On cold winter nights, when the icy east winds blow as | fires like beacons along the line, and ge.n the tall fig the vain limbs, The chief duty Ru guards consists in preventi and the introduction « ture and proclamations i ritory. But the ceived—if they smugglers, which is frequently state of it is { all becomes 8 ross the plains, wood flicker here and there can be guard engaged in - his frozen j attempt of often by y Oase guards are bribed { affairs scarcely surprising when one conside rs their miserable pay Very ingeniou in order to elude Years ago some sian lagers on Russian returned the balls which gide into ensive resorted tO s tricks began side Wert > 3 Russia Brussel 2 ousands were on one Silesia into of persons w ho grims, successfull of the guard ar Secret Police. THE BODY AND ITS HEALTH. otherwise often so closely be in in a state of | : 1 prevention of a ¢ lation and a free admissi { 1 Trees growing against the snd shrubs in confined places near dwell ings are injurious also as f i ity. At the proper distanee, on the otl band. trees are favorable to health, this principle, according to Hall's Journal of Health, it may be understood how the inhabitants of one house suffer from vari ous ills as the consequence of living in a confined, humid atmosphere, while their nearest neighbors, whose houses are oth- erwise situated, enjov good health; and even how one side of a building fully exposed to the sun and a free ciren Jation of air may be healthy, while the other side, overlooking shaded courts or gardens is unhealthy, Tr 1s walls of hon 3 tvoring hit ng HN 1 o iarge IxsousiA. turbance of the digestive the amount of refreshment which sleep ought to afford. The Journal notes as follows some which ultimately produce insomnia through indigestion: First, errors are made as to the quan- tity of food taken. embarrassment to CRUSCS An eXCOR8 CalSes an the digestive organs; i desths in hot weather is almost exclusively be | attributed, directly or indirectly, to | The inerease during the of {0 will to the number of deaths next lays The pri cipal sufferers are, of course the babies Every there is a slaughter of hie few ¢ vear in large cities which Inyruee munocents evitable, of th deaths are number of these in Muny more are the direct result Of ought to be known to every one, But the adult sufferers are not attention, These may but in order to do they must understand where danger lies, It is not possible to lay pown a rig id bill one: ‘Eat this } loss take Ry ie iron. dicts, il principles whic bh Food, man The invalid and require very There are a few cardi may, however, differen Serve i i guide, is required by his in a general for these 10 SUNse, reasons force. . and to To nl Hs both create palate, provide nervol siurrou thi blood, no one to be + the fats me wn tain degree the te sto be avoided ; tal prog Is spread ix in readily make DETECTING SPURIOUS COINS, A Treasury lasts Method of Coming to a Conclusion, Expert ates a Sure ment coins,” ‘Why do the the same cold process “It costs too much With a not unterfeit unterieiters and makes t mould, ¥ uy much noise Ml Mee, 0 garret, and if a policeman comes in he can shy the whole outfit out of the win dow a die. jut it takes a great power to run Still highflving counter and their work is though it is the Govern: ®OHN them usually harder to d never so perfect as t ment mint.” “What is the surest test feit coin for popular use?” “The looks of the reeding, as I was telling you-~tae milling—by the way. | i= on the face of the coin and not the edge, as most people think. thing, but, | to be used, tse for counter. of course, other tests have der unmolested microbic rule, Putrid are generated, and a bilious condition su- pervenes, That insomnia such a state of things is not surprising The remedy for this is to reduce the daily rations to the physiological The necessity of eating slowly and delib- erately is apparent, as rapid eaters are more than likely to overeat. Second, ducing anemia or starvation of the vital organs. It cannot be too much insisted upon that the daily fare contain an die. quate mixture of albumen, fats and car- bohydrates, Indigestible food produces essentially the same evils as excessive amounts of food. improperly cooked food, unripe fruit, ries, hot bread, fried pork, confee- tionery. Foods which alone are digest ible may become indigestible if too many kinds are eaten at a meal, Theidiosyn- eracies of the individual must be re. gpected and articles found indigestible avoided. Much depends upon muscular work done. Thus in on the salt marshes need food hard of digestion, so 08 to yield up force during many hours; food such as baked besns and pork, boiled beef and cabbage and mince pie. These people sleep well in spite of their hearty fare. The rich diet upsets the ® little scale for weight and measure is the | that. Then for a plated coin a drop of ac id spurted on i will chew up the base metal in a hurry.” | “What acid do you use?” “For gold coin a mixture of strong nitric acid, 6 1-2 drachms: muriatic | 5 drachms, is For silver, 24 grains of nitmte with 1 ounce of water. One drop is sufficient, If the coin is heavily plated we scrape it a little before putting on the acid.” Inventors of the Photogragh. A French dealer in “Notes and Ques. jes” has discovered that Fenelon, in 1690, foreshadwed the photograph, and that a less known author, Tiphaigne, in 1760, in his odd book ealled ‘*Giphautic,” de. scribed the photographic process very closely, He said: “The rays of light re- flected from objects make a pieture on all polished surfaces—the retina of the eye, glass, ete, Now we have sought to fix this fugitive image, we have invented a substance very delicate, viscous and very quick to dry and harden. By means of this a pletecs is made in an in. stant; we then back this up with a piece of cloth and present it to the objects we wish to point, POPULAR SUIENCE NOTES, Observations made to determine the longitude of Montreal that the transmission of the electric current occupied a trifle over show HOeross the ocean nnd ba a second, the distance bie ing 8,000 miles A old coin passes from one to another a (00,000 000 times before the stamig 1 DC OIne IMITession uporl i by friction, while n iver 250,000 weed, bhotween 8, nt O00 tim comes entirely ofl WoxpenrruL on Lhe subje t known wunufactun wheel invisible to the 3 A person of vould prong unee it a With a row wdinary eve-sight { section of a very small hair lass it is seen to bea wrt with threads so fine that 200 of them to wind ire 101 apeck of w [3 | inch, providing they they are but the forty hin diam psandth of Ham AND Naps i that tt! he Memory. there in anvthing which beneficial t ommit it should nes $ 1 O strengtd A story omes truly part mr knowledge a part of yourself : ¢ have ought rds able to re- Think good vO grasp i Fhe peat writer, and are af it in yonr over what you have just work properly read lasting good than dozens glance ed through in the hurried manner of wrdinary reader of the day. There are m MEMOry may As a child 1 to myself by opening my yes and closing them again as rapidly sa possible, then try to red all all I had seen in those fleeting glances. All such ex- ercises are beneficial, although 1 was un. {L. L. Lans- snd (die aie d will do more ny wave in which the be cultivated i ‘ used ANUS conscious of it at the time ford. in Detroit Free Press, - to “Hand and Seal.” The expression “hand and seal,” which occurs so frequently in legal documents, is a reminder of the time when few men were able to write even their own names, Scores of old English and Freach deeds are extant, some of them executed by kings and noblemen, in which the signa- ture is a hand dipped in ink, the seal be- ing afterward appended, together with the sign of the cross, the name of the another hand, dirty, and later the thumb was substi tuted. The seal continued to be used, and though now it has become only a formality, Tegal practice has In many ways pronounced its employment indis pensable, ASA The most modish Figaro jackets are very short and are open front and back. Those of India silk costumes have the waists under them entirely covered with white or black guipure net, Ea Spain has fower daily papers than an other European country, OLLA PODRIDA. ANarvusn Crry y erions group of rod ks near the oft-described - u i (ity Heh m-An irregular mass of rocks, 200 fect high. cle T48ions amphith ire, the sd resemble of a third the parade, ularly laid out eity TORLHNCHLs { this SACRED Star s {amon to King Charles with several nhrojde red in yell (FENESIS OF small letter without the introduced i distinguish % the { anal hie yl, fifty feet The dam ma and 1.0040, 600 gr allo . which hol The strean 3 twenty From the main eas carried in side ditches to the lands along either side, where its flow is regulated by the owners of the land by of little gates, It is estimated at 700.000 will Le made productive under this system of ir- rigation, Public Opinion, nears flows and which is feet decp feet wide, walter 1s MmeRns BneTes Aun Indian Belle, left to Tuesday the Indian woman Nellie for Pendleton She was richly, not say gandily dressed in a ‘‘toot assemble” surmounted with an Easter bonpet that looked like a section of the morning robes of Spring Her red blanket neatly rolled and fastened with a shawl-strap equipoise of her bearing was only equalled by the sang froid with which she grasped the ear rail and swung her self aboard as the train pulled out, with the easy grace of a Pullman porter, and the blushing diffidence and careless in- difference peculiar to the saddle-covered colored maiden of the Oregon woods, {Hood River (Ore.) Glacier, a Helzht of Auroras, Experiments made at the Royal Dan fsh Academy have demonstrated approx M. Adam Paulsen, at means of two theodolites situated fom miles apart, found that different aurora displays varied from one to four miles in height, Experiments near Cape Fare well showed the height of different au roras to very from one to ton miles. At Spitzenberg the range of height was from one-third to eighteen miles. In some of the earlier experiments in this direction the observers concluded that the height of auroras varied from ninety to 500 miles, — | Selentific American, A A SE SRA 0 SANTO Ran Francisco, Cal., has an animal that is part goat and part deer, FOR THE CHILDREN, THE BUX # Fhe Dear little With eves tl Of crimsaor watched t} Then sudden Her coger $ Mamma "Way takes Of any ¢ cl tether bam! mby YO il a stakes were su ar enough ths the babies won i Each baby hs merbund around its of the tether-string was tied to of this of the Were ormw tT On gled girdle or kam thu the back tthe howd waist, and end SOIT nls + others SSONS 16 14 feat them. wer of taking their first standing upright, selves against the stake they were tied to What queer 1 looked, to the grass land like a jot gQ whose mothers the day In this respect they did, indeed resemble young i for 1 mothers st work in a ricefield a fow dred yards away AH the babies quietly contented with their treatment, 1 stood and looked at them for several minutes, from pure amusement at their unique position; but although they re. garded me with wide-eyed curiosity, 1 never heard a whimper from any of them," [Children’s Work for Children. : ’ OV «leadaving all Ri Sbonbady const all ire, picketed out « of voung cal wore away for calves; could see aye aun Queer Place fora Tree. Seeds of trees taken by birds, or hy winds, frequently lie in some decaying mortar crack on the tops of high build. ings, and will grow out and make quite large trees, One of these is in the city of Utiea, N. H., where, on the top of a city church tower, is a mountain ash, whish sprouted about fifteen or sixteen years ago, It still continues to grow, and has now reached a height of about seven feet, The roots push their way into the cracks and crevices of the mason work, During the last two or three years it has blossomed and borne clusters of scarlet berries. It is mid by some friend to be one of the interesting sights of Utica,—|Meehan's Monthly, WSEAS SW Wo Twenw words por minute {s the aver ago at w long is written, PENNSYLVANIA 1 aw rieans ome of Nows HwWasy attempting at lax clearly eatablisix ridware store was robbed building smnall change were ta MARGARET BHATS ranged hanging hin Nim 3 ¢ fourth committed suicid the residence of her soni aw, J merinan, at Oy wigsburg suede hin al Oripsburg w CARKEY who bh $ McKenxs, a ’ 1 of ymitted by Philadelphia & Mahanoy City. TRLPORGer th» © robbery was & served terms in yanty ottxville for Hin £« Reading Railroad station at AXDREW BHIVE a bis, was seiged with ew Just ios ww robbing the of Colum- cholera morbus, and drank from a bottle which he sapposed contained getting up in the dark a large dose cholera mixture diwovered that he ba | taken Iavdanum doctor saved his life TR —_— i — Two NMisters. Here is a bit of dialogue from the New York Press. The moral of it is not expressed, but perhaps the reader will be able to flud it “What is Mamie doing®” “She is a saleslady.” “Does she carn much®” “Hardly enough to keep sonl and body together, but her sister helps her a little.” “What does her sister do?” “She's a servant-girk.™ scission A After swallowing it be A ———— — Modern Farming. Bunker] see that Ducklow, who lives out of the city now, has made quite a success at farming. Hill-—Yes, 1 understood that he was making money fromi it, and didn’t know how he managed it Hunker—Easy enough. His farm is right off the railroad track, and he got all the clothing men in town t their ads in his back yard. -Texas iftings. en
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