woe] Did Charchy, Boston church, in Lincolnshire, land, the tower of which Is known as Boston Btump, has some very peculiar features, There are 265 stops in the tower corresponding to the num- ATMOSPHERIC 1 RESISTANCE. Spread of Lesrosy i= Germany, Germuny 18 getting nervous over the spread of leprosy in the empire, The Imperial Board of Health has just re. ported that there were twenty-two known cases of leprosy in Prussia last | accident. I replaced it, thinking it | shadow of the curtains, 1 stopped. A Curious ! might serve as a trap for our fashion- | * ‘Lord Barmouth,” 1 sald, quietly, { able thief if he were in the neighbor | “take my advice and give them up to hood, and withdrew to my corner, | me at once.” where 1 was almost invisible, “What do you AFAR CRY. I walk the streets I do not know, A stranger, {11 at ease; And alien faces come and go Eng- better of Dispute. he mean?’ asked, “ There Is quite a dispute in Progress That do not please: The very alrs that round me blow Blow from strange seas. 1 know a hill in mine own land Where 1 would be; I know a hearth fire burning bright That burns for me, Around that home, this winter-tide, The snow lies deep; The midnight moon high, The vagrant winds are all asleep. shines clear and An exile in this sultry land, in dreams I seek those snow free, hill, bright, And thee, Harriet The the hearth-fire burning Boyer, In the Century. fA Titled Rogue. that into the to say they are doubt if you a strange incident or things their way difficult because The queerest never find papers. 1t is perhaps it is queer. For ht have ever heard of that happened only ago, in that select ionable world known A lady of title, Lady quested me {o call on her one ing about the beginning of June, London being then at height. “I want your help, Mr, pegan, and then stopped “Perhaps you are not aware that at several balls and dinner parties this season there have been jewels and or- naments stolen. It has, course, caused a great deal of unpleasantness without their knowing how It was done or who did iv.” 1 had heard several wild articles having been ionable gat! much speculation culprit, The art rule, immense value, ways disappeared ly to the the police f was happen news why, 100 stance, 1 SEeAS0n two section of the fash- as “society.” re morn- the is iS darmouth, season Lowe" she awkwardly. of tales of missed at fash- and there was was the wrings, as to who icles were not, as a of and they al singly, consequent notice had been directed matter. In had beer no public one IWO Chses impossible There could that was a person who mixed In soci an equal, probably a allowed her love of ner to dishe “I presume, then Rf 4 guest-—-a nquiringly. “I am afr: hings were missed at a dance i gave last Now, I am, of ourse, most anxious it eur again, any I thought 1 would engage your vices for the evening, to see if you de tect anything suspicions. Of course, vou would be treated as a guest,” We made arrangements about terms, and it was agreed that [ should be in troduced as an American, by name Captain Burke. “I suppose, Lady Barmonuth” 1 sald, carelessly, “you don’t suspect anybody a particular?” “Oh, no” woman jewelry mnesty that the in societ Me rsnn i i fy gid =o. Two or th: whic week, should Hot rate in my at hone, |Rpr she said, but 1 noticed on her face, and made a mental note of it As T was leav said: “Of course, ing. Lady Barmouta Mr. Lowe, you quite understand, there must no expos, if you make any disc must be treated as secreis I have a scene of any kind bushed up.” I returned with two ideas was one of those require all your tact Httle credit; secondly, mouth knew guessed more, Thursday evening went to Merion house, Practicaily, my duty was to ming with the guests, enjoy myself and Keep my eyes wide open. Nothing seemed to be more improbable than that there should be a thief among the hrilliant throng that crowded the rooms. Everything was conducted in the most sumptuous and luxurious style; a he wveries, can't It must be to the office impgeessed First, that my task delicate cases that and more, or, ny rate, eared to tell, arrived, x ut than she i music, and the guests were the highest in the land. For a long while nothing occurred of the smallest significance. But at about 2 o'clock in the morning, when I was sitting In 8 snug corner of the conservatory, where cigarette smoking was permitted, I noticed a couple take up a position In the oppesite corner, They were both young, and evidently very much in love with one another, The girl was handsomely dressed and wore some valuable jewels, In par ticular I noticed a pair of diamond ear- drops which had just come Into fash- fon again, Without being a connois- seur of precious stones, 1 understand them well enough to know that these were very valuable indeed, and likely to be worth several hundred pounds, These two young people were sitting out during a dance, and they flirted all through a set of lancers without any impatience at their length, At last they got up and went Into the ball-room again. On the chair ‘where the girl had been sitting lay amoug Presently out to smoke n cigarette, tall, handsome, He was a name I didn't know, but 1 was evidently known to every one, al Importance, caught the He looked care to see if Presently Jeweled vinaigrette, round the conservatory were and picked it now back me. 1 his eve lessly observed, Lad his he to round and replaced walked quietly turned and he vinaigrette away. It was lucky 1 had moved, 1 looked rather instinct bade me cross and look at the vin- Without not curions again, The next thing 1 remember is that | Graduo- The my side. few minutes I [ still felt dizzy and knowing that everything de- prompt and acute, an effort to pull my- For a but I managed with together, Then should I do next? to the man who the vinaigrette? A moment's that would be worse I had no proof of any- tion must be allowed before 1 interfered. After some little reflection, 1 decided go back to the drawing-room, where 1 what Under ircumstances | lose sight of the girl to whom the aigrette belonged For nearly half an hour I waited In vain. She danced two or th different men, but did not seem to have missed it, At last after one of the dances, appeared to be looking for something With what was, | presume, to her partner, group of girls self the question? Should | had tampered Hrose go strajght with thought showed me that than ascels thing. The to develop "os situa itself io could see was going on. any c¢ must not vin with res she Evidently had time room to an he was asking if any of them suit pros seen her vinalg some mation I obsers thie 1g ng vd dregeed Tw Lio Tas hatt of the people standing al the girl closely, As soon ax she had left the he broke off his conversation il strolled guletly toward the conser As he passed through the cur 1 noticed that he glanced round if he were being followed That settled it; 1 had found my man, and must act promptly. Lady Bar- mouth was standing near the plano. Bemembering her Injunctions that there was not, under any un stances, to be expose or scene, It necessary to proceed with can tion. 1 caught her eye without much difficulty. She at that 1 had something to say, and dis engaged herself from her friends, with me to the econ I asked, quietly. “I be solved the mystery.” “Very well” sour arm. Be care Mr. Lowe, add git. OO 5 atory ¥ tains to see «ire an was understood once “Will you come servatory 7” have She turned pale, said. “Give me * she a troubled volea, up.” we ed, in hushed When we found, just as 1 had expected, reached the the conscious. Her ear-drops were miss ing. “Miss Lady “One cause Dainton has fainted” sald Barmonuth moment.” for alarm. Her I sald; Do you see diamond what has happened ? ear-drops “io whispered, “Yes. Her uot you know who (it 1s?" she been her has do vinaigretie sufficiently any harm. [| saw it done. “What shall 1 do? Fetel ford Bar mouth, will you? He must advise me, “Which is Lord Barmouth?" She came fo the curtains and point io “Very welll,” sald I. “Chafee Miss around, but don’t send for any help at present.” I don’t think 1 ever felt s0 reluctant to proceed with a case as I did at that minute. The man whom Lady Bar- mouth had pointed out ns her hns- band was the man who had drugged the vinalgrette-who bad followed Mika Dainton into the conservatory. In a word, lord Barmouth was a kleptomaniae, “Will you come with me into the conservatory, Lord Barmouth?" I said, As 1 spoke I looked at him sternly in the face. He turned deathly white, and his eyes shifted nervously about the room. “What's the matter?” he asked, huskily. “Is anything wrong?” “Miss Dainton has fainted.” “Oh,” he murmured, with relief, “And her ear-drops have disappenr- ed.” 1 added. For a moment I thought he was going to drop down. 1 put my arm through his and led him toward the conservatory. hoarsely, “The ear-drops, scene,” He put a trembling hand Iolo the pocket of his dress coat and gave me the ear-drops. He did It will preveut a breast that for the time being he was uncon scious, Then he furned away and left “Will he not come?’ asked Barmouth, with an awful look of ror in her eyes, “Lord Barmouth Is not well" “Here are the ear-drops.” The poor woman went scarlet, She w what I meant, and I was deeply grieved for her. From the must have had a faint suspicion of the truth, and was anxious to save disgrace and scandal, Miss or returning ter She was thoroughly unnerved, CONRClOURNORS, “Now,” 1 said, “put the back into her ears. Rhe what has happened.” Lady Barmonth replaced them with trembling fingers, “Send some one after the girl; T'H stop with her till help comes But you must ge and find your hus band, Make haste™ 1 added, signifi cantly, “or you will be too late.” My work was not quite over. When Lady Barmouth fotind her husband in his dressing room he wax, a8 | feared, the committing suicide. A number of trinkets, value, found In There is, of course, only one explanation, On that one point Lord Barmouth was mad, There was no object In hizx stealing ladies’ orn as he very wealthy man, and had not put them to any use There was much difficulty in finding thelr respective owners, | re turned them myself asking each one as a matter of courtesy to make no in quiries as to how they fell into my possession. Saturday Night Webster's “Setting.Out.” A turning point ribed er's papers on Dan ent - ther ear-drops doesn’t know to look # i On She point gaved him some of the safe, oye grent wore ments, i= a not in Webster's eareet the first of Prof ol Webster ig thus des MeMaxt n the Inte in had given along heir search they one day to Mr told hima that Websts country, had stud! had come to Boston to work, desirous to and that a place be kent for him till fetters could be had fron New Hampshire, Impressed by the presence and the known youth, Mr. Gore talked with Webster awhile, and when he was go sald: “You look as though you might be trusted. You say come to study, not to waste time, | will take you st your word, You maj hang up your hat at once and write al your convenience to New Hampshire for your letters” Describing the scene in a letter, Webster declares that when was introduced by his friend, who was as much a strange: | to Mr, his name was pro ana that he was office before Mr. Gore call him. “This” he “I eall Betting out in the world But I most devoutly hope that I shal pher Gore, - hie from ¢ od not te 3 WAR most bw Bid asked pupil, un you he (sore, a week in the The Stimulus of Football Football sentative col more popularity does to-day, The moldy joke of the athlete's diploma is about as earworn as the more ancient and cob which elings every scholasth in our repre gtmosphere of of fact, the footbal it faces a rival one In the for the season championshiy As a matier as struggle it is a handful of young who have added to what is al average scholarship ar of pluck and endurance which makes the residuum after Jong and careful testing and sieving, As such | members of the varsity team are 8 type, and an unvarying one, of the college man. cach one becomes ap example to his fellow students and the object of a profound snd whole | some admiration in all forms of pre- paratory schools, New York Press. men i Democracy at West Polat, A recent examination of the records | of nearly 400 cadets for the past ten | years shows that outside the sons of | army officers, of which there were $8, | 140 were sons of farmers, 118 sons of | merchants, 100 zona of lawyers, a1 | sons of manufacturers, 32 sons of me- chanies, 20 sons of Insurance agents, | b sons of real estate agents, 14 sons | clergymen, 13 sons of editors, | — and bookkeepers, 10 of drug- i gists, 0 of drummers, 8 of school teachers, and 6 of dentists. Among the others almost every calling Is rep- | resented by the fathers of one or more. ~Cram's Magazine, among the experts at present,” sald an | experienced mechanical engineer of | this ctiy, “in regard to the atmos ! pherle resistance exerted on a moving train. Bome claim that every projec | thon which can catch the wind-—-every { fag, bolt, bar or strip of molding and at first | blush the proposition seems absolutely { sound. On the other hand, however, | there are a number of engineers who | insist that a train going at high speed r, which and presents a smooth | surface to the surrounding atmosphere, *egardless of projections and irregular- { ities on the sides of the | selves, The first theory was recently {tested by the much-talked-about | ‘wind splitting’ train on the Balti i more and Ohio rallroad, The | locomotive was provided with a shield { fitting over the front of the smoke | stack like the prow of a cruiser, and the cars were encased in a sheathing that made the exterior one smooth and anbroken surface, though this tralia developed able speed, it did not meet expecta- tions, and is now being rebuilt to cor its final of resistance, frie be made, it is given measurements and so on will fast, upon which Strange data pressures. The chiles that tien and then, at something definite base calenlat we ubject of ‘wind splitter’ their style of have to BAY will Wii we Out ons to have no on the advo- cla con struction w of a train fully 40 per cent. and effect a saving of about 20 per cent. in fuel If that proves to be the the rail roads of ihe country will not be adopting it, especially as CSS, great expense “The theory that a moving train carries along an envelope of air is very interesting.” continued 1 “and 1 believe there truth In it. 1 &r tracted to the cident that ha; at a where trains he engineer, is a good deal of #t had my at subject by attention a curious in pened several years ago Birminghs Als Crossing near IRD pass twice any speed of about The (rack there would se forty miles m to be amp stand betw hers in perfes all fox room i en fely € Me sfiornoot belong in ¢1 i “ti rier dog Asn Ther TE 1 } rround near by, and th 2, In his fright, Jumped on brought him 10 Oo of the rashing envelope of a » was whirled ¢ lear to the roof of car, where he fort founda, feel and thrown « film the opposite was subse quently Jammed against a ven tilator chimney, with no injury except a broken leg. How the world ever made alive is a mystery, deadened by a cushion of Orleans Times Democrat, in he suc air.” --New A Convenience for the Golfiste “I"ve just invented a golf bag” clerk in the leather store. * is going to be a great success, al though it will not hold a club or a * all But for all that it's wonderfally ful. When officers in the compelled wear swords with fall dress they really have a dommy soab bard which can be separfited str the in a travelling poraible to draw for a few Inches, but reality no sword at all. That Ia the system on which my golf bag is invented. It looks as If | were filled with cihnbs and handles may be drawn out an inch or two. But they're only dummies and from a few inches below the top of sald “Ine bee it is dommy blade the thing Is In out no a large hand-bag and it has the ad vantage of making the carries it seem to be doing just proper thing. It has none of the awkwardness of a dress suit case and I expect to make a sucvesa'.- York Sun. British Exiles Pine for Londen. Exiles from home, elers far away from England, more specially Londoners, tell that now and then there comes inte pioneers, trav whether he is successful I Rix enter prises or not, Mether London seems fo stretch sut her arms and whisper “Come back.” He sees the great busy streets, henrs the hum of them, re ealls the partienlar corner where he smoked at his club, sees the lantern light of the palace of parliament, hears the shouts of cricket audiences at Lord's, ponders his morning pape over breakfast and his latest evening edition over supper, and gen- erally contemplates in imagination all the pleasant things that to his fancy only London can supply.--Newenstle (Bag) Chronicle, It is now sald that the Queen of year. There were also six eases which are suspected, and are still under ob. servation, and probably some which bave not been reported. In the city of- Hamburg ten eases were found, In Mecklenburg-Bchwerin another case was reported. Ia the Memel district of Prussia the disease is indigenous. INSIDE YOUR WATCH. | Handreds of Yours of Study on the Hale anee Wheel, If you own a watch open it and look it the little wheels, speiage and screws, tach an indispensable part of the whole wonderfu! machins. The busy little salance wheel alone i# the result of { sundreds of years of study and experi- nent, The watch I have before me is { romposed of 88 pleces, and Its manufac- | ure embraces more than 2,000 dis- | dnct and separate operations. Some of ie smallest screws are so minute that | the unaided eye cannot distinguish | them from the steel filings or specks of dirt, Under a powerful magnifying glass a perfect screw is revealed. The | t1it in the head is tws oue-thousandths | #1 an inch wide. It 308,000 of hese screws to weigh a pound, and a sound is worth $1,685. The balrspring 8 A strip of the finest steel about 8% | inches long, a hundredth part of an ach wide and twenty-seven ten-thou- i pandths of an inch thick. It ap in spiral form and finely tempered. i The process of tempering was long beld a secret by a few fortunate ones | possessing it, and even now is not gen- erally known, Their manufacture re- juires great skill and care. The strip is gauged to twenty one-thousar {of an Inch, but no measuring takes is coiled instru ine enough gauging to determine be- be. A twenty-thousandth part of an strip makes a difference in the of a watch of about six minutes hour. The value of these springs when | inished and placed in watches is enor- in proportion to the material | from which they are made. A compar: A ton of gold is worth $627,815. A ton of steel made up into halrsprings when in walches is worth $7,882 260-—more than twelve and one-half times the value sf pure gold Halrspring wire weighs ne-twentisth grain to One mile of wire weighs less £8 pound The ba brations every second ite, 15.0060 per of a uch lance gives 300 every 439 ¢ 650 006 every YOur every 00 ever; At each one and a keg 187.11 hany day and 157 vibration It rotates quarter times about h ma one wh be Wi GOG revointinns every ber of days in the year. The chureh itself possesses twelve pillars, fifty-two windows, and seven doors, the analogy of which is obvious. Further symbols of time are to be found in the western porch, where, leading to the library, there are twenty-four steps, represent ing the bours constituting a day, a sa — cont ANCIENT SUN-DIALS. The » omad Farilest Was Probably n Chiel's Spear, probable that the earliest sun- was simply the spear of some no- mad chief stuck upright in the ground before his tent. Amongst those desert wanderers, keen to observe their gur- roundings, it would not be a difficult thing to notice that the shadow short. ened as the sun rose higher in the sky, and that the shortest shadow always pointed in the same direction—north The recognition would have followed very soon that his noonday shadow changed its length from day to day. A eix-foot gpear would give a shadow at noonday In latitude 40 of twelve feet at one time of the year, or less than two feet at another. This in. strument, so simple, so easily carried, 80 oasily set up, may well have begun the scientific study of astronomy, for it lent itself to measurement, and wience is measurement; and probably we it expressed in permanent form e obelisks of Egyptian solar tem- though these, no doubt were re. sined merely as solar emblems ages after their use as = instruments of ebservation had An upright plumbed, standing on’ surfgce, may, therefore well make the first advance upon the natu. horizon. A knob on the top of the ick will be found to render the shad- more It is dial see tual ceased, k, carefully level easily observed, —— — — Our Postal For the first System. time since 1882 our pos tal revenues exceeded the expeadi- tures. In that year there was a sur- plus of nearly $3,000,000, the second 1865 (the first being about $1.- 1882), and congress got so excited about it that the rate of letter reduced from th cents 10 two everywhere in the States. This caused a change 3,000.0 the credit to making revenues of more thay To offset this in 1885, passed an act mak- £ An ounce hereof, and in that tures ceoded the $7 since ROO OOO in in reeé 00 from gide of the count ack one Year. ing the letter rate two cent y tion year Tevy- 00,0040 defeit Why is it they are so It is because the young girl just and has no one competent to It is not necessary that there should These things It is a wanton sacri it is girl who mally. Fortified with this and am It preserves the gifts of Rl and delioate—had no color, ervura, blood and herve tr, wonderful and that dark, sallow look left Get advice from Dr.
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