OPALS OF HONDURAS. They Are Plentiful and Cost Very Littie. Writing about and Spears says in Quite as in! means mines in When 1 i into the ne je ry store the contained the native opals I t 1 ) the we 31 i Honduras the New deposits mines John R town asked to see some of ] ' jeweler un- sloth of he and dig- various grades. was one of a pear very goo i colors and just about right for a scarf pin. So I casually asked the price. “That will cost you a dollar,”’ said, '‘on accoun are larger ones h if you like." I took the Honduras dollar 68 cents gold the jewel ainly mounted by Tiffany and then sent to my address in the Adirondacks. Now, pened, the railroad down on the day of the pin’s arrival and all stroyed; so rolled a len played a hund Am shape that 1s of ore he There a dollar, the then worth New York was i as it hap- station burned the express g order claim with the the loss applic: fany’s for an tin the opal. y replied that th could not furnish its than $20. express comj n was made if ate of the value of + equal [0 mean to say i 2 3 can | ian a shot bag i Then ried his si the money Wher later the | italy FLEE) to the ready 1 ist Rell when That was have, I things money al fore | foun next day precipice overhanging | smash with him nearest D freshet in sireams. than I kr opals after He threw away would not =o opal. As the m are described there is a bed of clay like earth, very hard but yet soft enough away with a tives work out a chunk of this earth and then gradually cut it to pieces The opuls, ready polished, are found lying in this stuff one How lev who as look ¢ nes to be chipped stout knife. The na- Telepathy Among Insects Can it be that bugs are end wed with a wonderful sixth sense? Prof C. V. Riley thinks he has discovered satisfactory telepathy among insects—that is to 2ay a sixth sense by which they are able to com- municate ideas from one to another at great distances, The power, as illustrated in the case about to be mentioned, evidently depends not upon sight or smell or hearing. The fact that man is able to transmit sound by telegraphy almost instan- taneously around the globe may sug- gest something of this subtle power, even though it furnishes no explana. tion thereof. Once upon a time Prof. Riley had two ailanthus trees in his front yard. They suggested to him the idea of obtaining from Japan some eggs of the allanthus silkworm. Hegot a few and hatched them, rearing the larvae and watche ing anxiously for the appearance of the first evidence of wicker cage and hung it up out of doors on one of the atlanthus trees. Thir was a female moth. On the same evening he took a male moth to a cemetery a mile and a half away and turned him loose, having pre. viously tied a silk thread around the base of his abdomen to secure subse- quent identification. Prof. Riley's purpose in this performance was to find out «+f the voung male and female moth would come together for tle purpose of mating, they being, in all probability, the only insects of their species within a distance of hun- dreds of miles, excepting only the others possessed by Prof. Riley him~ self, power of locating previously been remarked In this case, enough the male was found with the captive female the next The hud been able to attract the former from a distance of and a half This each other had in these insects. sure morning. latter a mile The Muniments of War, 1 ’ _RZo ia of interesting month, Pennsyl- “Twelve years Mr. Beltzhoover, vania, ‘I had an experi- ence on the floor of the House over a term used by me in the course of de bate. 1 had criticising Gen. Hazen, who was at that chief l of the rmy. | pe- ferred to him as ‘wearing the muni- ments of war,” and in ways de- pinces brainy a sat in the st said been time officer ing himself 1 was defende n mrtet of men us ever They were Ezra Taylor, Gar- Ben' Butterworth, Judge CC UCCOeSSOr: anverse ee Ohio mer diana { worth Spoflford Beecher's Repartee . . War mwrvia : v seemed to be first time 4 the vo «ar } & which | with simple dignity voice of the toanla . L5 JE he | I one man."’ Possibilities of Hypnotism. London is watching with tonsider~ a hypnotist at the Aquarium, whe put his “subject’’ into a trance fora week at a time, during which period he takes no food, all external happenings, and is, in fact, practically dead to the world The hypnotist says there is no ren- son why the trance should not be extended almost indefinitely Humorous commentators suggest that in this way many of life's evils might be avoided. One who hates travel by railway might be hypno- | tized at the station, and with a label bearing the name of the town where he wants to go upon his back be packed on the train like a side of beel. _ Those subject to seasickness would find the process a most useful preparation for crossing the channel, | and workmen with no employment, i rejected lovers, or men ‘‘sent up'’ | for ten days. might all derive advan. tage from dreamless sleep, prolonged to any necessary extent. is The Realism of Death. Realism on the stage has educated audiences to such a fine point of ap- preciation that when an actor's clothing caught fire and burned him to death during the progress of a per- formance the other evening the specsators took It for granted that the accident was a part of the show ~(hicago Times~Record. THE JOKERS’ JESTS AND YARNS BY FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS. An Unwelcome Visitor--A Matter of Business.--What He Artist Must Draw. 4 AN 1 Does-«An The physic seems to leave The pa biame it? ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAM. yhn Henry Jackson had to fi To win Miss Hattie Rose And when he married her at He gloried over those Who didn't get her; and he . In language strong, though nen A Rose by anyother name (tha We ght ' ‘ Palsy Si sitld not be near 80 sweet t. A DIFFICULTY COMBINATION or pleasure? \ to be mar- Mrs. Watts—Don't you ever do anything at all? Weary W Sometimes | Iv he suing for her love and is she spurning him? Oh, no! He is not suing for her love, Why. then, does despair sit upon his face and cold disdain upon hers? He is miserable because she says She is cold because he says he can fit her only in b D's. A NATURAL CONCLUSION. papers bearing a tor dreams was what is Kk "Sd § lor now? nt Hawalian missionary weeled. but in what the Neers lascribe ag won ent condition, and is i at £500 who had heard of was H. J, “0 The latter gentleman particularly anxious to secure i as he had but recent ly bought the 13 cent stamp same issue at an anction sale of the Chicago Philatelic society for $130 and the latter was not nearly so fine a specimen as that possessed by Mr. Sturtevant. He arranged an inter view. and in less than fifteen minntes the stamp and the letter to which it was affixed became the property of Mr. Crocker. while Mr. Sturtevant carried off Mr. Crocker’s check for £350 The San Francisco Call says that this transaction beats the Pacific coast record for the price paid for a The nearest thereto was £300, paid to W. Sellschopp for tlie # cent Saxony error by Mr Crocker, and $250 paid W. A. H. Connor, also to Mr. Selischop, for a 5 cent Baltimore local stamp. ng others Crocker, of San specimen, of the Limits of Human Intelligence. A d——— M. Flournoy, of Geneva, recently devised a povel experiment for test- ing the limits of human intelligence, He arranged a series of common ar ticles of all sizes, and requested his class to put them in order of weight, The weight of all was really exactly the same, but only one student dis this fact. The majority day suddenly piped up with: ‘Say, mamma, is everybody wicked?" The apparently, ranges the weight of objects in inverse pro- portion to their size. Only when the eyes are shut does a true appreciation answered mamma, ‘Why do you ask such a question as that?’ “"Beeause you haven't said a nice thing about anyone to-day!” sensations of innervation, by which the support of different objects calls forth the same expenditure of ener. gy, do not properly exist, How Xzbongula Died, A gorrespondent, writing to a South hie states is the true story of the death of the great Matabele chief, Loben- gula, It is a pathetic story. The cor- respondent relates: Lobengula, suf. fering from smellpox, worn ont by his long flight, disappointed in his hope of peace, and altogether broken down by the loss of his country, his power and possessions, came to a Lialt at last among the north of the Shangeni Hiver. Here he begged his witeh- give him poison with which to end his life, but the man refused. The de spairing chief went up a hill to the foot of the crag it, and, sitting there, he gazed for a long time at the sun as it slowly = toe ward the west. Then ds he again demanded poison of his doctor, and insisted, till finally, it to him, more elope, he seated hi azains krantz, took the poison and gazed the setting $un, stoli lly death which presently put an his sufferings and his life. There grand in the pictu scene mountaing loctor to which tops ank seending, WAS gi Once ascending meelf awaiting blood st IR 8 of the great of Matabeleland. him seated there en Hi in death, ana by i i x 8 10110W stones and rocks and around hin 1 3 » 4 left him, Whether he was plac 1 h i flank is royal chair, covered over with other possessions South African Revie All this strong plant $i may be true, and palisade of A Japanese Paper Unilorm, As we write we areclal plied to the itis tho ier the armeand WOeArs rigiot, Type ol Locomotive, comotives have just been ordered {or the Paris-Livons-Mediter- ranean Road, whieck parture inc are of INArK i= The pe, with new instruction the comp ard 5 . eviinager Ana engines four driving and ty HOLL C Hse wheels coupled, The novelty eonsists in she] gistance to cab and fire BU angie roadbed, wl semble the peri the speed ol An ment Ls . CXPrecs sistance on the front multiplied more than ct —— 5 Venezuela Mullet by Us, AWAra on the Orr Two Bt, hat of 1834 y oles or being hore wi B8TAT: oy Ona Frawe J, Cu SONG “A Fresh English (omple } i Prominently in the Public Eve h n 1 - 1 00a4YV. His Own Little Railroad. About a year ago a complete railway a mile and a half in length laid down by a London firm of small en- gine builders in the grounds of the Marquis of Downshire, who nets as his own engine driver and stoker. The train in connection with this private line, which was also supplied by the firm in question, consists of a locomo- tive—the exact model of a Northern Railway passenger express —weighing threo tons, one carriage, and a guard's van, The engine cost 1200 guineas, can travel forty miles an hour, and con- sumes something like 200 pounds of coal per day. This railway precisely resembles a big railroad, only, of course, it is in miniature. There are the usual signal boxes and switches, these latter being strictly necessary, as his Lordship's railway rans across the carriage drive. Besides this, the Marquis of Downshire has a model of a Great Eastern Bailway engine five feet in length, which is fitted with Joy'spatent gear, It cost 800 guineas, and runs through the conservatories. a distance of about a quarter of a mile. ~Chambers’s Journal. EL... a —————— The Colorado Canon, The longest canon in the world is that of the Colorado River, in the Western United States. It is also the most marvelous of all the wonders of nature known to contemporary man kind. If some rich man would explore it with a corps of artista and scientists as thoroughly as it deserves he would confer an inestimable boon upon his fellows. —Frank Leslie's Weekly. Was HIGHEST AWARD WORLD'S FAIR. i IPERIA[ Fon “ONDITIONS DiGESTIVED Soe Dyspeptic Delicate Infirm and AGED PERSONS Tw. 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