—
NOTES AND COMMENTS,
A diminution in the sparrow family
Is reported in all the principal cities
of the Union. This is attributed
mainly to the use of asphalt pavement
The birds have probably
where food Is
therefrom,
migrated to a .ountry
nore plentiful,
Michigan, namely, the conversion
pine stumps into shingles.
that stumps of trees which were cut
twenty or twenty-five years ago remain
enduring and obdurate
to the cultivation of the soil. They
are still sound, and turn out excellent
shingles when so utilized.
The Russian Government labels doce
tors now by a silver shield, on which
there is a raised design of two inter.
twining serpents. It is to be worn
conspicuously on the breast, and it 1s
hoped will prevent the killing of the
doctors by the excited peasants, us
they have done in epidemics of
cholera.
The
has asked the Land Commissioner of
that State hereafter to sell college
lands whicth are timbered for cash
only. Many purchasers are said wo
have made part payments so as to ne-
sure possession of the lands, and after
stripping then of timber they make
no further payment, but let them
revert to the State
The world shows progress
the criminality of women is concerned
in at least two States of the Union
fowa has 1,145 convicts in Stats
prison, and only thirteen are women
In the prisons of Massachusetts there
are now 6.912 men and 1,145 women
In the rd Reformatory for Me
there been an of 5
in
Sherman Ref atory for
far as
80
Concor
has
while in the
Wom
45
rease
form
a qe
i
en there has been rease
The last rep
Education
leges in this «
ISS have
¢
Of
dowments
only four
than L
0 O00 Of)
in the
been for
the incre:
has 3
the natives, It
n jously as
ir The owner
gives the people
dismounts a begring
imine
ball
and
of
dow
was first
put
a grinding-mill and
Tangan
onary
he
‘bullets,”
eloquent
cation;
mounted
clamation is
whicl 1
1 gracious
As
of oil to still
on their
they Ae
ng along their
banda
vals
equivalent
spinni
“Ko kasikolo
is alleged to be
‘ yor
Goo
to
| the ean
been brot out by Wil
“hicago. His acti
rument that if
flect when distr
£104 iis
a storm has
Ham Gutherie
based
has a pacify
on the water
borhe of the
effect
is
ing ¢
ship
ma
x
yO
gnified
could
about im
circle je
spent
could ri
had
to
ship
storm
protection is
rated sponges or cotton from a pne
mati ag there no danger
of igniting the sponge
Some shipping
have fden,
and
gress for
efficiency.
At
Haven
nor Cooke
Connecticut
with
not mist
Register, “this is time an:
official has been made to re.
lieve the of this undesirable
reputation, if it fol-
lowed up doubtless th
proportions We
must confess had
never regarded the ‘or
than a fiction The ht
appealed to us, and
our ancestors being busily employed
throughout the day fashioning out of
the hearts of old oaks counterfeit nut
megs, it has seemed that their hard,
severe life must have had a lot of un-
suspected humor in it”
safety until
fury His
the
shoot
wotlld be
aked
in
with
made
t
appropriation to test
gun,
oil-ac
interested
gged
application is to be
people
been impre the
to Con-
ita
an
the recent banquet of the New
Chamber ¢f Commerce, Gover
denied that old story i
marke
we are
Have
flooded the
nutmegs “MM
the New
first
once
wooden
aken,” says
the
attempt
State
and
will
is properiy
assume
a public
that until
of
umor of it has
as we imagined
The Canadian engineer possessed
a conscience that is either too con-
proach, or too scared to care for it,
gays he has discovered the origin of
forest fires by witnessing one in its
very inception. Here is his story:
The tree had been partly uprooted Hy
a severe windstorm, and
against the trees nearest to it, some of
which happened to be dead. Flerce
gusts blew down from the neighboring
mountains and caused the branches of
able force against those upon which
it rested. After the friction thus ds.
pours, avers this courageous engineer,
the dead wood upon which it was ex-
into flame, and a fire
through miles and miles of valuable
timber wns the result.
made by Professor John Priee Jackson,
are repofted in the Boston Transcript.
Ths experiments were practical, the
electrical stoves and ovens being used
for weeks in preparing the meals for
a family of six. It was demonstrated
that the average cost per meal for
cooking by electricity was 16.8 cents,
this inclvding tue heating of the water
for washing the dishes. Equally care-
ful experiments with coal and a
Kitchen range showed the cost of that
method of cooking per meal to be 3.106
cents, or about 19 per cent. of the
cost of the cooking by electricity.
Laundry work for the same family
ost 22.7 cents with electricity, and
cents with coal. Aside from the
of economy great advantages
dirt of coal
disagreeable
with a uni-
#0 desirable In bak-
could be maintained.
notably the absence of the
and ashes, as also of
ng,
It will be news to many people that
will be reassuring to
of a chemist,
that the adulterant used is not harm-
The chemist is Professor John M
of Atlanta, who has beca
but fit
of that city. Corn flour is the adulter-
ant used, and Mr. McCandless found
this in about one-half of the samples
in Atlanta. Chemi-
this so closely resembles wheat
flour that there is as yet no chemical
method for detecting its presence in
wheat flour, or estimating its percent-
was found, however, by the
Microscope, appearing cornstarch,
It 18 not as rich in protein as is the
flour. Professor McCandless
ays, but as the greater portion of the
pecple get all the protein they
out of eat, the adulterated flo
practic as good as the pure. Corn-
digestible that w heat
that all the harm done
iteration is to the pocket rather
the health of the community
profit in the fraud is a good
corn flour about one
sells at
as
wheat
need
ur is
more
by
than to
Tre
one, as COBLS
cent a pound
ibout thre
and wheat flour
oents
a pound
HANDLING DEAD 1 LETTERS.
An Interesting Division of the Postoffice
Department at Washington
to eigh-
and they
al work
credit
and
awarded [otters col
money
and
ana are
and are
address
await applicatic
money may be
ears, after that
sent to
States
been
have
shelves con
that
its
sort «
ten from the mails
imagin
iverse in ch
nd a skeleton.”
ff things
y 1
wasy
able
aracier as a
A Woman.
and foremost, woman
other
is his
itige she is his
ond,
118
rough and ungodly
she with
ietly and meet joy gladly
she is patient with him
dures his fretfulness
because she
without her. he
car
Atiae him endu
qu
11186
en and
him
she t
tea
value
and
hes him the
of kindly thought
deration
her breast |
tears and he is neve
minded of them afterward.
she will stick to a man
through good and evil report, and al-
ways believe in him if she loves him
Jecause when he is behaving like a
fretful boy—and they all do, you know,
at times-—with no reason in the world
for it, woman's soft word, touch or
glance will make him ashamed of him-
gelf, as he ought to be.-—Farm, Fleld
and Fireside,
Flies That Steal Rides.
A human-like propensity for stealing
a ride seems to be possessed by cer-
In Algeria Rev. A. E,
on
of repentance,
x PS
Because
inae group comfortably settled on the
prothorax and wing covers of large
coprophagous beetles, as many as half
a dozen females sometimes securing
The beetle’s
though not rapid ones—than its own.
Dog's Horseback Ride.
William Hallock, of Huntington,
N. J., is recovering from injuries re.
ceived in a runaway accident, He wag
accompanied by a iittie poodle, and
the dog jumped on the back of the
horge. This frightened the animal and
caused him to run away. In turning a
corner sharply the wagon was upsét,
and Hallock was thrown out, He wae
badly bruised, but not dangerously
hurt.—New York Times.
A CLER! CAL MIND. READER.
Remarkable Power Exhibited by an Indi.
ana Preacher.
John Kaufman, whore home is
near Rappanee, Elkhart County, In-
diana, is said to be endowed with the
remarkable faculty of reading the sin-
ful thoughts of those whom he meets.
He uiso preaches while In a somnam
bulistic state and his sermons are at-
tracting widespread attention. A
respondent of a local journal says:
“Kaufman {# an enigma to himself
and friends and many physicians have
studied his case without being able to
uceount for the strange faculty he
possesses, Before he delivers his won-
derful sermons he is In a semi-con-
scious condition and at their close he
collapses and goes into a profound
sleep. An attendant who stands near
him can generally tell when he is
about to need his assistance and
catches him as he falls forward
sensible. He remains in this condition
for several hours. After regaining
consciousness he unable to recall
a single word of the eloquent discourse |
he has given, neither has he the faint. |
€8t conception as to the time occupied
in its delivery, He uses the choicest
language in these inspired moment
but when he converses he is slow of
speech and by no means pleasing in
manner. The change in his voice has
puzzled phyeiclans greatly
phenomenon of his prea hing
“Kanfman n in the ministry
over twenty being first a Bap-
tist, t strange power was first
camp meeting held
Terre Haute a few years ag
became a convert 20 Method.
tended the meeting regul
its close his
he was confined
Ki Ww hen he
ilk about it was noticed
h TE
1
ion Aaa
transformed f
Rev,
cor
is
as ns
has be
YEars,
ut his
raled
manif at a
near
en he
Nervous Sys
and
Way to
everal wed was
tha
ne
om a
fig tnd
condait Una
fact perso:
of
¢
Ol
cast
$5
launc ch
strange
text, and
f great
naturally
sermon preached to mem
was broke
iA
FOG
f
house}
orward
his bed
10 i
and
a decp
regn
him
ting lariy
to awaken i
ang
then
have
ral hours
MOrning serm«
ed while in the trance con
11
on a » ani 83% nreaches
Since
Sunday ne
een deliver
igh the
ngs his
sther «
BETrmmons
and
then
oarse vole
Wr nor matter
country mis
» except Sundays are
my studies of the
is
All
given
y
lihile
ister's
np
iis drea Om
Sunday he communes with himself
until the hour for going to church. Ha
ig then accompanied by an attendant
begide him while h«
After he reaches the pulpit
appear mechanical as if
ting a part in a religio
When he speak li
forth "his right arm and as
umes a rigid position He remains
with closed eves for a fow min-
ithout uttering a Some.
times he prefaces hin
ging a hymn, but usually he com-
es by repeating his text. His de
at first is in a slow and distine:
but as he progresses his utter
more rapid and his voice
searches every cranny of the edifice
like the notea of a clarion He
irifiesa his congregation and brings
tears or smilies from his hearers at
will
“Kaufman declares that he does not
«now upon what subject he will preach
at a given time, The inspiration
comes to him, he says, while he stands
before the congregation, He
been known to preach powerfully for
three hours, but usually his sermons
are from an hour to an hour and a half
in length. Ocevasionally he preaches |
but ten or fifteen minutes. A note of |
warning runs all through his discourse,
and he claime to be able {0 see great
“no waits close
preaches
his
motions
hie were ad 13
rises to
st ches
thus
utes wi sound
discourses hy
is
elec.
God. He id especially severe in
condemnation of divorces,
the divorcee laws of the country to a
great road smoothly paved, over which
an ever-increasing throng Is passing to |
destruction. He claims to be able to
gee this road in his inspired moments,
guarded by long lines of demons of
horrible shape and hideous aspect. He
can hear their Satanic shrieks and
view their mad joy as they leap around
the mouth of Hell, where this smooth
road lands its victimes, and when he
paints this scene the blood of the brav.
eat sinner curdles in his veins, In fact,
his pictures are sometimes so terrible
that many residents refuse to hear him
at all. He says the air is peopied with
good and bad spirits, that he can see
them doing battle for the possession of
human souls, and at times he describes
these battles as they take place amidst
the congregation present. These por-
irayals of a superhuman sceud are a9
is startling. He claims to be able to
tell the just from the unjust, and he
has been known to expose the dark
and evil intentions of members of hig
congregation so correctly that they
have made confession of the facts to
him.
“Above the just he can see a pillar of
beautiful light which reaches from
heaven and rests on the head of the
righteous; above the unjust he can see
a tower of darkness which overshad
ows them in gloom, Magny thrilling and
dramatic scenes have taken place dur-
ing his sermons. At one time he was
preaching on his favorite theme, di.
vorce. He was denouncing the inlg-
ity of the calculating scoundrel who
deliberately planned the wicked and
trumped up charge that branded an
{ innocent wife with shame, merely for
| the sake of getting himself frée in the
| eyes of the law from his matrimonial
obligations. In the sight of God he
{ sald these double-e scoundrels are
| infinitely worse than murderers.’
‘1 see their hideous presence here!
| he cried, In piercing tones, ‘There and
there the hell-born demons are fight.
ing. The home of the damned yawns
frightfully Repent, repent,
{ brother, for the time {8 close at hana!
Just then a loud ery was heard {rom
the rear of the church and a volce rang
out ‘I do! 1 do!’ The ery came from a
well-known member of the church. He
rose and sought to rush to the repent.
ant bench, but fell in the When
he was picked up he lead The
physicians sald that «
by
yed
close
aisle
Was
leath was caused
in excit
anoth time the
preventir
i
tense ement
prea her
the carr
One of
intend
"p>
The
sudden
“AL
the
al
ying
the
means ci
ut of a pl
ouspirator
tim, heard him preacl
wowerful
to murdger
a son of the
impre
» next day
A HYPNOTIZED DOC.
Remarkable Freak of a Fox Terrier in
Chicago.
wh
red
him
How
room
£ YAWDS
in his eyes andl
the
room wants to yaws
your bones, Esau?”
the dog suggests the
his
re
Where ar
doctor asks
and
to ind
ceiling, ndicate playground on
the
“Did
off the roc
pounded
‘Yeu
’
Tool
jet bones fal
is the next question pro
up and
YOu ever
on
LH
your
ils
3a
on a
his
with his f«
standing
paws
Esau saves
his hind legs
chair You cannot
and Esau is as immovable as a
He kisses his master's fingera
one by one, with the touch of a humau
being He turns handsprings, somer
8 and stands on his head. He has
the distinct
posing for a painter
Dr. Parkyn has learned enough from
his study of the dog to believe that the
game course of hypnotic treatment on
human beings will result in their
higher development. He proposes to
take twenty boys from the streets
and treat them by bis method of sug
gestion until they are t(wenty-ono
years of age They must not
vicious boys, and they must be musi
cal. He will give them a musical eda-
cation, and when they reach the age
limit furnish each with the musical
instrument he desires, and send theta
out to make their way in the world.
He believes that psycho-theraputics,
{the influence of mind upon mind, or
i mind upon matter, as in the case of
ithe animal, will make the boys ex-
cellent musicians.
Value of Five-Legged Frogs.
Five-legged frogs, dead and stuffed,
are worth $21 aplece according to a
French court's decision. A fish vender
‘of Lucon found one and took it to the
druggist’'s to be stuffed. While they
were discussing the price of the opera-
tion the druggist’s cat ran off with the
frog, but her master found it later
and presented it to the Nantes Muse-
‘um. The fish vender thereupon sued
the druggist for fiching the frog, and
recovered 105 francs damages — New
York Sun.
Oldest Sovereign.
The oldest temporal soversign In
Europe is Grand Duke Adolph, of
Luxemburg, who is eighty years of age.
An Ohio city has made a special po-
lice officer of a man who has served
two terms in prison. #
pravers
Ire
move
doctor,
statue
gaunt
enjoyed enviable
he
“
FOR THE YOUNC FOLKS,
————
THE YIRSET POCKRY,
What is this tremendous noise,
What can be the matter ?
Willie's coming up the stairs,
With unusual clatter;
Now he bursts into the voom,
Noisy as a rocket
Auntie, I am five vears old—
“And I've got a pocket
14h
Eyes as round and bright as stars;
Cheaks like apples glowing
Heart that this new treasure fills
Quite to overflowing.
“Jack may have his squeaking boots;
Kate may have her locket;
I've got something better yet—
I have got a pocket.”
All too fresh the joy to make
Emptiness a sorrow;
Little hand is plump enough
To fill it-—till to-morrow
And, e¢'er many days were o'er,
Strangest things did stock it;
Nothing ever came amiss
To this wondrons pocket.
Leather, marbles, bits of string,
Liquorice-sticks and eandy,
Stones, a ball, his pennies,
It was always handy.
And, Willie's snug in bed,
Should You chance to knock it,
Bundry treasures out
From this crowded pocket,
LOO
when
rattle
borrowed knife
A '
da place with
ain ait
Lt that Lie
4
11d
Sometimes Johnny’
Foun v
He forge had said
‘I want it j
Ince the Key was
No one could unlock
Where do you
Down in
loset
How
rE
Is
paper n
££ BRTe RII gpinn
hs ferryfman; »
for a boat
POEs
of bark and
Or a sail, he ses the stre
Dogs,
an
wolves, jackals and many
iunters,
The black bear and the heron are
The ants are regular day laborers,
The monke ¥ is a rope dancer
Bees are geometricians. The oells
constructed as with
3 1
the least
The mole is a metearol
The torpedo, the ray and the electric
Phil
Inquirer nantilos
he and lowers his
sails and casts and weighs anchor and
performs other nautical acts,
SAYS the
The is
raises
THE SNAKE'S TAIL
The Japanese children play some
good games that might help Amerie
youngsters through a wintry aftef-
noon, The girls, big girls, too, have
a very pretty ball game that they call
“Yemari,” which means handball, but
it is not at all the same thing as the
handball we know. A number of
them stand in a circle, one of them
takes the ball—they use one about
two inches in diameter-
it perpendicularly on the ground. As
it rebounds she strikes it back with
her open hand. This she does as
often as she can do so without mov.
ing from her place in the circle, but
when it rebounds nearer tosome other
girl-—as it will be sure to do soon--it
is the part of that girl to strike it |
down.
girl fails to hit when she should, or
cast out of the circle.
she has
““kachi,”
it.
There is another merry game called |
“‘eatching the snake's tail. ” One player |
is selected to be the catcher, and the |
rest range themselves in a row, one |
the honors of the game,
or victory, as the giris cali |
his or ber hands on the shoulders of |
the child in front of him.
The catcher stands in front of the
row some feet away and when the row
is ready the e ‘commences and it
consists of the catcher's efforts to
catch the lass child in the row, while
the row defends its tail, the snake's
tail, This is usually the smallest
child playing, for the row is graduated
by size, the catcher must not push
any more in the row, and the chai
of the row must not be ‘‘foul:” when
the ‘‘tail” is caught that child be-
comes catcher, and the catcher be-
comes the tail,
A variation on this game is for the
eatcher to cry out that he will catch
a child, “Which ehild do you want 7"
asks the head of the row, and then
the catcher says third, or fifth, or
whatever he will, and then the row
tries to defend that child under the
same conditions as before
KERPING A SECRET.
It wae when Mollie was getting over
the measles that mamma told her about
Tom's hirthdey party It was to be
# bicycle party, and the boys wers all
| to bring their bicycles; and Tow's
| futher was going to give him one for a
i birthday present
i Oh. g wody I” eried Mollie,
| up and down, ‘Won't Tom
too happified for anything 7
“Now, Mollie,” said mamma,
| must be very careful not to teil
| anythirg about it. You musn’t
{ look as if you knew about it.
“Can’t 1 tell anybody? Not even
{ Arabella Maria ? asked Molly
| ““Cause I shall surely burstif I don't.
| “Yes,” said mamma, laughing,
| “You can tell Arabella Maria, but ne
fone else
jumping
be just
{ you
Tom
even
That very after
shing in from school,
1 Molly about Billy's new iw
safety
This was har F
1 Ton
i to]
noo
Bla
camera
ust knew
said
nee she was
loved,
1
w and
eves shut
a nickel
and
gir: in
And Ara-
sna
Gry
or tea
If seated
che
IPRs. e8
wh
i%¢ 10
3 +
dian §
lidn't
birth
to
want
oked troubled “There is
but, if 1 should
i .
it let it out, ~~ not
she said; *
ror}
nig
18e it's bard
R00
have the
want to ever
i, ever
{ anothersecre
i
idan (in isting at
hadn't promised I wouldn't
tell,” said Molly “And me and Ara-
bella Maria must keep our word, you
Now, if it was about my birth.
could tell Fu as well as
iidn’t Know"
Tom was
stopped
he
vou
Lg
i just
‘canse I wor
But Und
hard that Molly
you, Molly,’
trump !”’
Molly didn’t know at all
meant. but she much
that he waz not offended
When Tom's birthday, with the
party, the safety and all, really came,
it was hard to tell which was the
happier, Ton or Molly
y time that Tom felt things
boiling within him to such an extent
that he couldn't possibly stand it
| another minute, he would rush onton
| the lawn, and look at his new wheel,
| and say She's a daisy I"
{and turn somersaults until he felt
better. At the same time Molly
would rash after Arabella Maria, and,
with a rapturous squeeze would say:
*““Aren’t we glad we didn’t tell, though,
‘rausc he's so happy over the s'prise.”
By and by they ail went out fora
spin aroand the block: and there,
among the shining wheels, was a dear
{little one, whom no ome cla'med.
| Tom picked up a card on the handle-
| bar, and read:
“Fer Molly and Arabelia Maria,
| two young women who know bow to
| keep a secret from even Uncle Tom.”
**Ch, oh I” said Molly, dancing up
“Arabella Maria, we're
the happiest girls in this world, I
know.”
ianghing so
“susood for
said; “‘vou're a
what he
was relieved
Lver
“Harrah !
In 1806 carriages valued at $204,000
were imported into South Africa Amer.
fen got $164.000 of that sum, England
$118,000 and Germany $6,000,
A man In Chestertown, Md., has &
pair of golden fawn rabbits, with, ears
that measure twenty-two laches trom
Hp to tip. : .