POINTS OF VIEW. “Oh, give me time,” she, trembling, said, “A little time to think it over.” He smiled and kissed her drooping head, Avd yielded like a tender lover, “She's but a child,” he mused that night, “Who shrinks from fate, afraid to test it; She really seemed quite ina fight.” He little knew how near ho'd guessed it. “How shall I break with Jack?” she moaned, “He's got my letters. Oh, good gracioual And Harry bas my ring,” she groaned ; “He'll keep it, too, he's so audacious, “Was over girl in such a fix? I must got rid of Wi'l and Stephen, And George, and Archibald; that's six. And poor, dear cousin Tom makes seven.” As thus she grieved in yecents wild, He said, while joy bis features brightened : ‘Yes, she is nothing but a child, And that is why she seemed so ened.” ’ fright- -[The Club. Public interest in Siam and curiosity as to the resources, degree of civilization, habits and customs of the Siamese have been quickened by the Franco-Chinese article will be found interesting and in structive: The Siamese trace their decent from the first disciples of Buddha. = were so annoyed by their enemies that they deserted their country and founded a city in Western Siam. Southern Siam, then held by the Cambo- of the present capital. The Laotians, the Cambodians, the Peguans from the all brought together in the capital city; and this period (1350) marks the com- mencement of Siam’s authentic history. Along in the seventeenth century for- eign ideas commenced to be Kindly re- ceived in Siam, and a European merchant the people and the King on account of his practical ability and the interest he took in their welfare, was appointed governor of all the northern provinces, of erecting a fort, on European princi- ples, to protect hi: capital. The king ground on the west bank, near the mouth of a canal, and constructed a fort. This garden ground became a portion of the site of the unique city of Bangkok, and the fort still stands near the royal resi dence. Aguthia was destroyed by the Burmese when they conquered Siam in the latter part of the eighteenth century. The fort had been erected for a century, and the city of Bangkok had so far ad- vanced in magnificence that a few years after the destruction of the old capital it was occupied by the royal family. The first ki # to hold his court in Bangkok was of Chinese origin, he having deliv ered his country from the Burmese There is probably no country in the world where Buddhism has so absolute a sway as in Siam. Even more profusely than in Burmah is the wealth of the kingdom lavished upon temples and priests. It is stated that in the capital alone there are 20,000 priests supported by voluntary contributious. THE SIAMESE Bangkok, the capital, is in many re. aspects a singular city. Its population is CAPITAL. 1,000,000, and is curiously mixed and cosmopolitan. Siamese and Chinese pre- dominate in its streets, though the Ma. lays are also very numerous, and frequent Europeans demonstrate the presence of Western civilization and interests, They are, in fact, the leaven of Siam, and to their influence and the spread of Western ideas are due the various improvements noticeable in the great city from which political power proceeds to the ut most boundaries of Siam. The army is officered by Europeans, chiefly English and Danes; the navy is com- manded by Europeans, and of the many business enterprises in Siam, most of those which connect it with the outside world are superintended by Europeans. There is little love lost, however. be tween the native and foreign elements of society, and the intense hatred felt for all foreigners by the large Chinese pop- ulation may at any moment prove disas trous to all foreign interests, English, the low class Chinamen, who cannot dis. tinguish between their languages, and all are hated alike. There is every rea. son to believe, therefore, that the pres. ence of a hostile fleet in the river may at any time excite the passions of the pop ulace to an uncontrollable degree, and mob violence in the East has a meaning which is unknown in Western lands. Bangkok is the Eastern Venice. For. merly all its houses were built on the land, but the prevalence of cholera many years ago go alarmed the government that it ordered the houses on the banks to be abandoned and directed the pesple to live onthe river itself, Thousands upon thousands of houses were conse- quently built on rafts and moored to the banks of the river, and although the policy of river houses has been to some extent modified by the government, no inconsiderable part of the capital is still on the waters of the Menam., The houses are of slight materials, constructed on bamboo rafts, each attended by s canoe, for to the river resident of Bangkok a skiff is as indispensable as a street car to the suburban resident in an American city. Formerly the right to build on the banks was reserved to the king, nobility, Slory Aud privil characters, This right has greatly extended, snd now Bangkok has s its limits on both sides of the Menam, The most striking features of the city are the pal aces and the temples. The former are Joeated in a citadel sscarely Bor i nst 8 attack or prolon and com the palaces of the _ kings and a variety of temples and other structures pertaining to court, As the first king has about 5,000 women st. tached to court in one capacity or another, the palaces are, as may be con- very roomy. GUARDS OF THE MAURM. Prominent among the attendants we the Amazon guards of the harems. They are women trained to the use of arms and employed to guard the king's wives, and whenever a Indy of the harem appears in public, she is attended by a retinue of these female soldiers, who answer with their lives for her seclusion. Several very magnificent temples are within the limits of the palace walls, the most remarkable being that of the ‘‘Sleep- ing Idol” and that of the * Emer. ald Idol.” The Sleeping Idol is a statue 150 feet long, overlaid from head to foot with plate gold, in many places covered with inscriptions and representations of the transmigrations of Buddha, Not far away is the palace of the White Ele- phant, who is really a deity and through. out Siam is reverenced as such, He has his court, his attendants, his throngs of servants, and is treated like a prince. The White Elephant is an albino, not completely vhite, but here and there having spots of cream color over his otherwise dusky hide, The Emerald Idol's temple is a wonderful structure of much of the wall being plated with gold. The idol itself is said to be a solid cmer- ald twelve inches high by eight wide, the hair and dress of the rude figure | gems, | Siam is one of the least known of the great countries of Asian. It lies at the | lower part of the peninsula of farther { India, and it is out up by the gulf of { Siam. The mighty river Menam runs through it from north to south and the whole country is a network of canals, In the winter a large part of it is covered with water and the people go {rom house to house and from place to place in boats, | Siam is about four times as big as the State of New York: it contains about 10,000,000 people, and the country and | the people, body and soul, belong to the King. The king has the right to every man’s labor, and any woman whom he cal's upon must enter his harem. He has the most arbitrary power of any king of the East, and is one of the rich monarchs of the world. i THE he ROYAL PALACE, | His palace in Bangkok is a magnifi cent structure, with golden elephants guarding its entrances. It has twenty. five acres of ground about it, and it is said that 5,000 people live within the palace walls, The king is said to have 300 wives, but the queen, who is the chief of these, is his majesty’s half sister, She is a very bright woman and has made herself noted for her charity. She rules the harem and smokes cigarettes Siam is the home of Buddhism. There are 25,003 Buddhist priests in the Si amese capital, and these are of all ages, from 16 to 8). They about with shaved heads and yellow stripes of cloth i wound about their half-naked bodies, and they chew the betel and smoke cigarettes as they go begging from house to house, Chululong Kom, the king, the brightest of Asiatic rulers done much to advance civilization in Siam He has put telegraph lines throughout a great part of his kingdom. There is now a street car lice in Bank kok and the city has electric lights It used to be that the money used in Siam was cowne shells, or silver and gold buttons. The king has adopted a coin age, making mosey much the same a8 that of ours. He has & mint of his own, and he imports Mexican dollars and re casts these into coins for the use of his people. The unit of value in Siam is the tees), and the chief silver coin is about the size of a half dollar. He has a post office department, and Siam belongs to the international postal union. The king talks Eoglish, and he is thinking of building a raiiread which will open up the interior of his rich kingdom. Siam is of valuable re. sources. It bas mighty forests of teak. wood and its mines contain the finest of gold and silver. The king has an go of has is one and full income of about $58,000,000 stored away in his coffers. He has his own secretary of the treasury, but he signs all the checks him- self, and is said to be a very fine business man. He has his cabinet, just as our president has, and he has his war depart- i ment and agricultural department. { His country is divided up into forty. | one provinces, presided over by gover- i nors, and he runs things to suit himself, | making such appointments as he chooses, THE BURDEN OF TAXES, The people of Siam are taxed for all | they are worth. Everything under the {sun has to pay a percentage to the gov- jernment. A great part of the revenue | of the king comes from the gambling | establishmeats. The people are a nation {of gamblers and the gambling taxes { bring in $500,000 a year, The taxes are all farmed out, as are also the people, who as slaves of the king are ordered to work for him a part of every year. It is only the Chinese who are not subject to such service, and they are re- leased from it by the payment of a poll tax. There are many Chinese in Siam, and it is said that they are fast swallow- ing up the country. Ihe king of Siam is very anxious to strengthen the relations with foreign powers. He realizes the danger which constantly menaces his country from its geographioal position. It is the meat of the sandwich of farther india. One slice of this sandwich belongs to France, and includes Cochin China. The other slice belongs to Great Britain, and it takes up the provinces of Burmahl. Siam lies in the centre, and it is richer than either. Both France and England are land hungry, and they look with greedy eyes upon Siam. Itis one of the richest plums which still hang on the tree of barbarism in the far East. The anny is nothing to speak of. Every man has to serve the state for three months in the year, but there is no armed militia. In case of a war with England or France Siam could not do much, aod its chief safety lies in the fact that neither of these great countries wants the other to have it. Probably eventually it will be divided between them, king of Siam is still a man. He will be 40 years old He is not over five feet state occasions a cont, vest and brocaded surong, which are loaded down with jewels, and he often wears upon state occasions precious stones which are worth £1,000,000., The Siamese do not wear { trousers, The surong, which they tie about the waist and tuck in at the back, takes their place, The king wears silk stockings, shoes which are pointed like those of the Turk, and his costume is a beautiful one, He is not a bad looking man; his face is olive brown, his eyes are black, his forehead is high and his eyes are slightly almond in shape. He has a little mustache and thickest of stiff, black hair. He is very fond of his wife that is, half-sister wife-—and he makes a great deal of the crown prince, NATURE OF THE GOVERNMENT. The government of Siam isin some re- spects much like thut of other countries having a limited monarchy, while in one | particular it is curiously different, | There ure two kings, afirst and a second, | each of whom has a state establishment, i but only one is honored as a sovereign, | the other acting as a sort of prime min- ister, The whole country is divided into districts, the government of each | being administered by a local official { who is Siamese or Luosian, or Malay, i ncoording to the prominence of the | people in these nationalities in the popu lation. The reigning king is Chulalong Kom IL, known also as Somdetch Phra Puraminde Maha, who ascended the throne in 18638, and who governs by from ten to twenty members, appointed | by himself. Nominally a limited mon. the king oall aside the established laws of idom that although the Biamese themselves the Thai, *‘the free)” ‘ their kingdom the Muung Thai, “the kingdom,” they are practically under the same kind government most other Asiatics, The King of Siam is, speaking, a rich monarch, having an annual revenue somewhat exceeding £2.000,000, of which sum £287 comes from the land taxes, the taxes on fruit trees, free of Con £675,008) from the £100, the opium tax, £100,000 from the gam bling tax, £143,000 from the duties, £800.000 {rom the tin tax, £37, 000 from the tax on edible birds nests, and about the amount from the fisheries tax. As all the taxes are, how- ever, farmed out, and Siamese tax farm ers are no more bonest than the people of the same business in other parte world, his majesty of Siam small sum annually from lationg and embezziements and scarcely customs sRme loses the § the no pecu his that amount fers, ence in the personal serv faserie i more than half 1} due reaches the roval He probably makes up the di agents, it is even ie oof ler all Siamese natives, every Siamese | habitant of the kingdom being requi if called upon, to at three months’ labor in the year to his sovereig The result may be beneficial, so far the King is « but quently service the crops sho or gathered, give leas: as as he fre al a time when i be planted, culti vated » result is for beneficial to either the agriculture general prosperity of the kiasgdom All the iuhab are render military service, exceptions, how wing made in favor of the Chinese, who are taxed instead: of slaves, of government officials and of those who are willing and able to pur hiring s substitute is practically command war, and although tants uired to requ ever | of the priests, chase exemption by The whole kingdom fore, at the king's time of peace and of it in some respects, one of the richest countries the globe, 11s natuml ad vantages lie unimproved, and a territory almost the size of Texas has thus an an. nual export of only about $12,000,000 a year, consisting mostly of rice, teak, | pepper and other tropical products, is, on i AREA OF THE EMPIRE, The limits of Siam on the north and east have always been rather indefinite, for to the north, adjoining British Bur. mah, there lay a pumber of semi-inde- pendent States, which sometimes owned | allegiance to Siam and sometimes to Bur. mali, as the influence of one or the other yreponderated. The same difficulty ex- isted in the East, where the Anamites sometimes paid tribate to China and sometimes to Siam. Siam itself has in | times past been a dependency of the Chi- { nese empire, and even now a sort of al. | leginnce is acknowledged and a tribute i paid. So far as the Siamese territory can be estimated, its utmost limits at the time of its greatest extent were about { 1,200 miles from north to south and 700 { miles in width, or very nearly one-third {the size of the United States. That, { however, was before the English con. quests in Burmah, which considerably reduced the nominal size of the empire, Its proseat area is estimated at 250,000 i square miles, while it has a population of | 2,000,000 Siamese, 2,000,000 Luosians, and 1,000,000 each of Chinese or Malays. The Siamese have been given a bad reputation by travelers as being turbu. lent, quarrelsome and destitute of good qualities, but apparently do not deserve it, for the best authorities describe them as a peaceable, polite and kindly, Jeople They are not particularly good- ooking, having a Mongolian aspect, with large heads, broad faces, wide mouths, short noses, low foreheads, and the teeth, in accordance with the prevailing fashion, stained a repulsive black, Like most nations having little beard, they regard this feature as a blemish, anc early in life caréfully extract all the hairs from their faces. Except a small tuft on the top of the head, the cranium is shorn, while the clothing, as is common in Eastern and torrid countries, is of an exceedingly airy and primitive charac ter. The fertility of the cultivated land in the Menang valley is described by trav. elars as something wonderful. ost of the river valley is what is called in this country bottom land, which is annually overflowed and fertilized by the river, and is described us yielding as bounti- fully as the valley of the Nile. The wealth of the forests is wonderful, but on account of the climate large tracts have never yet been explored, and what lie beyond is unknown. In the uw ever, ‘odoriferous woods and h 's found everywhere, and it and the rattan form a large portion of the bouges of the population: teak, rosewocd, ebony and other valuable timber tress are foand in profusion, and must in time become sources of great wenith to the power falling heir to the kingdom. That power will also fall heir to a good deal of trouble with the population, which is of so mixed and heterogeneous a charno ter that the elements of serious difficulty are always present, THE BODY AND III'S HEALTIL — Yawxing, — Although ene yawning feeling of comfort, It acts likes mass of the lungs imaginable, Dr. Nugeli, therefore, advises people not to concern as possible, to exercise the lungs and all troubles may thus be prevented. Dr, Niwegeli orders the patient troubled with too much wax in the ear, accompanied with pain, to yawn often and deeply, The pain will soon disappear. Ile, also, in case of nasal eatarrh, inflammation of the patient as often as pos-ible during each day to yawn from six to ten times to swallow, The result be ing. If { natural massage fi ' in will reach a satisfactory its eurative properties, — ! Zeit, surpris- fawninz as a organs, he ion of one looks ug Soriin Unsere Hixts Apovr Eating. ~The time at { which the principal meal is taken is not, within great img {if certain essential conditions are com | plied with. The selected hour should be adhered to: for the stomach a quires the habit if it is disappoiated, either the appe- tite fails or i The { food last taken should not ton dd re 2 fast. The diner overtired, will share in the general exh the stomach been sfforts to digest too limits, of such swortance adigestion iowa, {4 h i ave been recent, nor sh th have should not have loner ong stomauch If thie istion, exhausted t or by irtake of the | been otherwise fi bas it a meal f recy too weneral nro i sti of } to form Juices sary for digestion To his principal a man should bring his body fresh and vigorous and a stomach refresacd | 3 rest alter having i work within reasonably short peri exha will be unabls aeCes 3 meni yi} i never be bolted and hurried over {food shoald be well i materials should be the meat good and the inner sh masts e best ol vegetiagtues | gaily : should be « ye In vu f ariel * geatilile hings, « done lig Putian i fe shoul physionl exercise rapid walking ne think over b seriously in nember that a piece : sli Sines, Or any way it of beef remains and ymach for abo f salt beef or remains in the stom i improper changes ; digestion pd until t t takes place imperfoetls gestion and nightmare are the consequen oes. Finally, donot is better to ent too litt h an app tite, not he sieeper wWaken diges get up wit an inviting one, is : | Habitual repletion is much t cated if people could or attend to these simpli | benefit to health id i The gaia in economy, too, would In | greater than many of think It is astonishing bow little food a man re lirections, wot be ond HIDOUS, 1% | and properly taken. Improper food im- i properly taken it not only to a great ex. ! tent wasted, but will, in the end, lead to | serious disaster. —{ “The Family Doc tor,” in Cassell’s Magazioe, RELIABLE RECIPES Baxep Arrie Poopixo. Take yolks of four eggs, six large grated, three tablespoonfuls of butter, the peel of one lemon. and lemon with the grated apples. Pour this in a deep pudding dish to bake Whip the whites, and then last grate a little natmeg over the top. Eat cold with cream. Liven. — A very nice and tasty way of cooking liver is to cut it in slices about an eighth of an inch thick, snd to make the dish look wsice stamp the liver in rounds with a pastry cutter, and season it with peppér and salt; them entirely cover with eggs and bread ernmbs and fry in clean, hot grease until a nice golden color. Fry some very thin slices of bacon and arrange thom between the liver and poura thick brown sauce round the dish, and unless you prefer the sauce plain, you will find the addition of a ittle gherkin and capers will improve it very much, Tar Previvx Saxowrcn is made as follows: Break a fresh egg in a bow! and beat thoroughly; add one and one half cupfuis of sweet milk, a sait-spoon- ful of salt and a table spoonful of melted butter. Beat well and add | iy one and three-quarters cupfuls of sitted flour mixed with one and one-half teaspoon. fuls of baking poowder. Bake in roll. ogi ae ay Wailer eg ° with » nife, whic will not crumble the crusts, § a ah patter and Sb With Bualy roast mutton, sli The mutton must not be o , but a trifle rare. As they are cut, lay the two parts of ench muffin next each other #0 that they may fit when put together, THE JOKERS’ BUDGET. JESTS AND YARNS BY FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS, Just What's the Matter—The T w Great Divigions—Und oubtediy—T1h Fall of Silver, ete, ete, JUST WHAT'S THE MATTER. She only wish to break the engage- love one devotedly. He— Love one devotedly! could love a dozen devotedly. —{ Life, THE TWO GREAT DIVISIONS, day?” **No; only wet the just,” “What about the unjust?” “Oh, they bad borrowed all the um- brellas. "—[ Judge. USDOUBTEDLY, “I'm afraid you won't be able to get country.” “Why not?” “Couldn't he be classed as a contract. laborer” —{ Truth, THE FALL OF SILVER. Teacher bushel how many bushels could I band? Tommy (who has heard his father dis [Chicago Record. cuss finance) —One, ~ A NATURAL ISFERESNCH “What city has the largest floating pop inguired the teacher, “Cork.” snswered the brightlittie boy at the foot of the class. —| Chicago Herald, ulation.” BEGAN WRONG. with the city the “We had a terrible time Convention of Physicians in our other day.’ “What about?” fou disc ’ “They a disease, a micr f Ge I - couldn't { Vogue. i # iv. Ww A HARTY TOILET. Jttle Dick io, anvhow? Little Dot locts ome sod see me, scrubbin® my tongue look at, -1Good News, and I be fit wr to « "i 44] #0 IL 4 PERFECTLY Wi Miss Candour—1 hear your engage. ment Mr. Flightic is broken Miss Mugg Yes: 1 have cast him off Miss Candour— Perfectly right, wi JH with o spends all his time with other gir call to see his afflanced six months, ought to be [New York Weekly. and doesnt wife once | ofl. in ast A PHILAXTHI PIRT. Whitegoods—Now, Mr, Redink, thes talking about this income tax: and, may affect your income, 1 thou best to reduce your salary thousand to fifteen hundred think they'll tax any income as fifteen hundred, Redink — But, on Whitegoods — Now, not a word! know | an bear to hear k bear to thanked. — Puck Mr never « A DASOFLROUS SUMNER GIRL. He lovely? “he So we are engaged. Perfectly He—I wonder if anyboly saw me when I kissed vou last night? Shoe-—1 hope so, : He-—What! She--1 hope so. He Why? She] mean business, and want wit nesses. | Detroit Free Press, WHY HE DIDX'T REMIT. Tailor (meeting friend on the street I thought you said you'd mail the $5 bill you owe me? Creditor 1 did mean to, but when | went to the post office to mail it I found that placard on the walls: “*Post no AX IDEA. Little Beth (in the country)—Grand- Grandpa-—Why, Beth? Beth—Oh, there's such a lot of grass to keep off of. —[Tid-Bits, WHAT WOULD PAPA Sav? Teacher Now, Tommy, suppose you had 25 cents, and you wanted seven cents for candy, five for apples and five for lemonade, how many ceuts would you have left? Tommy—Twenty-five. “How could that be?” “I'd have them charged to Ne [Chicago Tribune. Bed 1s pape AXXOYING FASHION, ; Laura (at the seaside) —How annoy- ng. Flora—What, dear? Laura—| have been looking threugh this field-glass at Chollie Chaps and Maud Everfly down there on the beach and they are dressed so much alike that 1 can't tell whether he has his arm around her or she has her arm around him -- {Indianapolis Journal. XO MAKNERS, Mother—Why don’t you get acquainted with that nice little girl across the street? Little Dot—'Cause she isn’t used to soley. “You are surely mistaken.” “No'm. She hasn't any manners.” “Why, what has she dove!” “Ween I grinned at her she didn’t grin back.” --{Street & Smith's. MIXED WIS DATES, H Biggia—Yea did Columbus 1 was RH SARIS got on a new sult. Can I have one, toof® “ Not now, Wikie.” “Then 1 guess 71 go out and pick & fight with him."~--{ Life, ROT RESPONSIBLE, Summer Boarder—I saw a snake seven feet long us 1 came across the fields this afternoon. 1 thought you told me you never had any snakes? Unele Ezra—~Wal, I don't, I been a member of the temp’rance lodge for nigh twenty years, —{ Indianapolis Journal, HOW THEY GROW, First Year—The biggest trout I ever {caught was a foot and a half leng, and he bad a big fish-hook in his stomach. Tenth Year—Did I ever tell you about the trout 1 once caught?! It was over a yard long, and had an anchor in his stomach, —| New York Weekly. THE PERVERBITY OF BORROWERS, Tom--You want to borrow money? Why, you refused the loan I offered you y esterday ! Cholies— Well, yesterday I was merely hard up for a few necessaries, To-day I need it for some luxuries I've just learned of. — {Chicago Record. ODDS AND EBXDS The eloquent young orator at Bridg- ton Academy who chose “ Farming, the Jest of Arts,” as his graduating theme, { has genuine blisters on his hands, He got them playing tennis and boating, | zot lewiston Journal. If there is a man in the brave ““ I can’t aff when {in the presence of a woman not his wife, Lt. {Atchison {xiobe, sq $277 Hog at enougn 10 say, { ot hie £1 trot him ou “It is 1 ity | Bos inh jo,” narzed { earthquake. “instead of blowing them off, give every { Journal "Tis now the learned doc To well i And rakes up sta While mild hay - Chicago that you are not more to the aking peopie as I do, You Indianapolis he cyclone ¥ 4 i out ana ue the shake, 3 earned rest ck much similarity between livelibood,” said manufacturer, manufacturer, t colors, while ndianapolis Jour- admitted is not you cull grinders. cars’ o sit ftings. of “twenty a chance {Texas Si t down and rest awhile ‘ho says there new inderstands she The girl with : the meaning of ne rofits even if m never learned the id ago Inter-Ocean, (hi ii POPULAR SCIENCE NOTES A Russian physician has been makizg : to find out how far animals can count. He declares that the crow can count up to tes and is hereby superior in arithmetic to certain { Polynes an t men, who cannot six. some curious experiments tribes of get beyond five Micnoscoric 8 | serew io td that used in the movement of a w some of these are at a box of them appears to to be filled with fine With a strong glass, how- ¢ are seen to be perfect in every ough only 4-1000 of an inch in thimble 1 hold over They are not counted, irks INE ¥ x “3 aloe REWS, ~The smailiest s world is sich. $4 4.3 but sold by Tax Sun THE Sea. — Ope gallon of | water weighs ten pounds, so the number of gallons in the Pacific is over 200,000, - | 000,000,000, an amount which would take | more than a million years to pass over the Falls of Niagara. Yet, put into a { sphere, the whole of the Pacific would | only measure 726 miles across, The At- | lantic could be contained bodily in the | Pacific nearly three times. The number tof cubic feet is 117 followed by seven {teen ciphers; a number that would be | ticked off by our million clocks in 870, - 000 years, Its weight is 335,000,000, - 000 tons, and the number of gallons lin it 93,000,000,000,000, A sphere to hold the Atlantic would have to be 533} miles in diameter. If it were made to fill a circular pipe reaching from the earth to the sun-—a distance of 03.000,000 ‘miles—the dismeter of the pipe would be 1,837 yards, or rather over {a mile; while a pipe of similar length to contain the Pacific would be over a mile and threc-quarters across. Yet the dis- tance to the sun is so great that, as has been pointed out, if a child were born with an arm long enough to reach the sun it would not live long enough to know that it had touched it, for sensa- tion passcs along our nerves at the rate of 100 feet a second, and to travel from the sun to the earth at that rate would take a century and a half, and such an abnormal infant is an unlikely centen. arian. | Longman’'s, OF A New Way ro Pansenve Prereres. «A recent invention of W. 8. Simpson, which promises to do away with the dangers which all pictures, and espe- cially water color drawings have hitherto undergone from the disastrous effect of light on pigments. Mr. Sim by an SxGerditgly in d made t possible to frame ures, large or small, under this d ble condition. The canvas or mting is placed in a chamber or ox pe. Bon wopper to SOME WAY, 5 “ hig fi oy
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