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.