TIIE WOKI,I> OF Ht'IEM'E. Iron vessels of largo tonnage are dis placing Kinall wooden crafts on our great inland fresh waters us well as on the oeean. The vapors of nitrous ether are re commended by M. Peyrusaon as a disinfectant and antiseptic. They have neither a disagreeable nor hurtful smell. Some far-reaching data are looked for regarding deep-sea fisheries when the steamship for which $10!l,000 had lately la-en appropriated bv Congress com pletes the work for which she is to be specially constructed under the supervision of Professor Baird. It is said that during a hail storm in Geneva Professor Colladon observed that the hailstones repelled each other as they fell, and that after lying quiet for a moment or two on the ground bounded abont like the electric hail experiment of Newton with pith-b.Jls. Professor Tidy, in a paper read before the London Chemical society, restates his tlrtn conviction that a fairly rapid river, having received so wit go in quantity not exceeding one-twentieth of its volume, regains its purity after a run of a few miles, and becomes wholesome and good for drinking. I'russicacid remains fora considerable time in the bodies of animals poisoned with it, and arrests their decay. M. Brume killed a rabbit and a eat by ad ministering to each a gramme of this acid. A month afterward the bodies were found perfectly preserved, the dose being snflicieut to permeate the tissues and to become intimately incorporated with those of the stomach. The sleepers of French railroads an preserved from decay either by subject ing them to a process of saturation with creosote or with snlphute of copper. A new method is proposed by M. Jacques. Fatty substances (in the form of a soapy solution) combined with phenic acid are injected into the wood so as to lenet rate every fiber of it. After a lapse of eight days a fatty acid is formed which is said to le insoluble in water anil to be capable of affording the most complete protection against the rotting caused by moisture. According to /.<* Vw/ s plans have been prepared for a large crystal palace, to he constructed in the Park of St. Cloud, Paris, for permanent exhibition of objects relating to art and industry, with scientific cxj>eriinents on a grand scale. There will be representations also of the vegetable an-1 animal king dom of the different geological ages, and views and models of ancient and modern monuments nnd curiosities from all parts of the world w ill be included. Mr. E. T. Ka-'hs sends the some interesting natural history notes from Batavia : Within tin- past month I have been so lneky as to make what ] hope is a remarkable discovery. On the island of Biliton, two hundred miles from In-re, 1 found a fresh-water fish which produces its young living from its mouth. I am quite prepared for the cry of incredulity that will be raised ; hut I conducted my observations with living fish and closed doors, and what I assert is undeniable. The eggs are hatched in the lower portion of the head of the fish, and are projected nut of the mouth and from nowhere else. I have secured several sjieeimens which I shall send to I)r. Gnnther, who will, of course, at once set the matter at rest. I also got on Biliton a butterfly which is either a new Thecla or the male of tho pretty Mvrina nivex peculiar to the island. An Important Advance in Photography. The old saying concerning invention being the offspring of necessity is well illustrated in the new bromide emulsion process, recently perfected abroad, and introduced here (says a New York paper) by Mr. Rook wood, of 17 Union square. The continuous dark and foggv atmosphero of London and other large j cities of Great Britain and the continent ! induced Captain Ahner, Iferr von Monckhoven and other scientists, to | seek some now photographic process which would be even more sensitive than that hitherto ill use, with the hope that portraiture might lie made successful in modified light, or possibly be worked practically by artiflcial light. A marked ■nccess attended their efforts, and jnir trait s are now mode in one or two sceomls under a portrait light, and out-of-door pictures in a fraction of a second of time. Mr. Rock wood was abroad at the time of its most complete success, and secured process for his establishment. The advantage of a practical prices* of this kind for the photographing of children or ml nits is very great. It dis penses with tho annoying " homl-rest," and makes all days " sunny days," or working days to the photographer. In the late dark weather, when successful lutings by the ordinary process was almost impracticable, and excellent re suits were obtained in two seconds. Mr. llockwood has probably photo graphed more persons than any man living, his list of negatives now num bering 110,000. * - . Handwriting is an indication of char acter when it is employed in putting another man's name to a check—Somar viUe Journal TOPICS OF TIIE DAY. Baltimore is astonished to find that its cemeteries have been so poorly guarded that the city has become a headquarters for the supply of "stiffs" !to colleges throughout tho country. I Tho correspondence of a resurrectionist I has just been made public, and it shows , that his orders came from Now F.ngland, j <'hicago, Cleveland, Atlanta, (la., and ! other cities in different sections. The I oemeterit s, 100, show a wholesale rifling [ of tlie graves, and altogether the public ; is waked up over the inhuman traffic us never before. With all its other troubles Nevada is ! threatened with a grasshopper plague this summer. The Virginia (Nev.) Citron irk says that the farmers in Carson valley have suspended their spring plow ing to consider tho matter. They found that they were turning up perfect hods of grasshoppers' eggs, and not desiring to help hatch those pernicious insects they quit their work. The farmers are in a quandary. If they do not cultivate their ground they will have no crop, and if they do cultivate tho grasshop]M>ra will cat up the crops before they can be harvested. Many of the fanners will put iino crops this sensoii. The London Tin id declares that the animals distinguished for their height and bulk are gradually disappearing. Their bodies aro so huge that year by year they find increasing difficulty in getting nourishment, and their multipli cation is very slow. Bats, mice and in sects are so prolific that extermination is well nigh impossible ; the whales, walrus, seals, white bears, tho common bears, wolves, lions, tigers, gorillas, the giant armadillo, giraffes, bison, elephant, hippopotamus, rhinoceros, kangaroo, elephant, turtle, crocodile, birds of the ostrich group, the jK-nguin, etc., are ull threatened with extinction. Sweden lias luid one of the severest winters ever known. About the middh of February, while tho thermometer showed about ton degrees, there was a fearful snow-storm all over the country, lasting four days. The street-cars of Stockholm could not run; no train could start in any direction nor coino in, and no victuals could lx taken to the city. The price <>f milk, butter, eggs, etc. rose rapidly. The snow in tin- street,, was near two yards high, and in the country it. reached a height of six yards. Many n-cident* wo rejiortod, men perishing on tho road, and vehicles of all sorts becoming buried in the snow. Tin- nature, cause an-1 prevention of fogs and cloud - uro subjects of prime im|K>rtance in England. Consequently i; i- not s irpri- ing that Mr. John Aitken, I'. 11. H., diotild pnqmund a new and singular theory in regard to tin m. lb contends that it is the presence in the air of minute particles of dust, which absorb moisture from the atmosphere, that causes the formation of mist and elands. Hence if the air were kept free from dust, there would le no clouds, no fogs, and jiossihly no rain. This theory may contain much truth, regarding London fogs, hut in general tho world will IK- apt to treat it as did the Royal Society of Kdinhnrg, with great caution. The method by which tho Brash Electric Eight company proposes to il luminate the city of Cincinnati, if the lioard of puhli • worksac -opt* the offer, is to erect towers JO-> f<-et in height and place on top of them lamjs with a capacity of from lIi.OOO to IH,(KK) candle power, and on seventy-rive foot pints lamps of from '2,0:10 to 4,000 carplle jKiwcr. A central station lias been es tablished, five machines, with n total • apacity of 2(W,000 candle-power, aro .low being manufactured, and the com pany expects to he ready to commence operations within a month from this •late. According to tho contract, the cost is to bo twenty-five jK-reent. less than the price now paid for gas. An Englishman named Rowe, profiting by Mr. John Bnrrongh's suggestion that tho English skylark might ho naturalized in this country, is about to ship twenty-1 five pairs of theso birds to the United j .States, and lil-rte thorn here. It is doubtful, however, if tho skylark would mako so profound an impression bore a* in England, whore thore aro almost no birds with rnmarkabb' musioal abilities. The skylark's song would bo tame com pared with tho rollicking gush of melody from the throat of the bob-dink, and as for sweetness and sentiment, tho notes lof the American wood thrash are far more iupcrior to his. • But we cannot have too many song birds," remarks an j exchange, "and would gladly welcome | the skylark, especially as he eomos from England, which owes ns much amends ! for the curse of the English sjmrrow, a bird with no song, ill-tempered, ami of ! doubtful value to the farmer." I On February 22 President Hayes i eaused to he issued a general order j prohibiting tho sale of all intoxicating liquor at military posts and stations. | Since the promulgation of the order a ! large nnmlier of letters from post | traders, sutlers,etc.,have lieen addressed j tothewar department, making inqutrie ll in regard to its intent, whether "eider," "l)oer," etc., were intended in it* prescription. Adjutant-General Drtunm has issued u general order, in which he says, referring to thin order of February 2'2: "The word* " intoxicating liquor* " are understood in their common accepta tion, and embrace what are generally known as ardent spirits, brandy, whisky, gin, mm, and liquors containing a large percentage of alcohol, and do not include light wines, eider, beer or ale." This order has been promulgated for the information generally of the army. Stage robbers at Benson, Cab, made I a mistake the other night. Detective It. H. l'aul, the " supervisor" of the Tombstone route, was on the stago with the driver as the mail left Benson, and j lie is a man who no two cowboys would : attempt to tackle. At the first word, I | "Hold!" Paul coolly reached for his i gun, exclaiming, "By , I hold for i nobody!" It is a question who fired ; llrst, Paul or the robbers, but the crack of the rifles was almost simultaneous, frightening the leaders into a run. - Paul emptied both barrels of his gun and also his revolver, while the stago was rattling along as fast as horses could haul it. The driver had fallen dead from the box, and a pas senger who waa upon the box was dying with a mortal wound. As soon as Paul could he regained the lines that had fallen from the hands of Bud l'hilpot, ' who was shot through the heart, and transferred Wells, Fargo A Co.'* box and the United States mail intact to the agent of the line at Benson, who car ried these ami the frightened passengers through to Tombstone. Paul started back with four men to the scene of the { attack, but the roldsTs had fled. Progress in strawberry culture has j Iwen more rapid than in any other j department of fruit growing. Beginning with nothing fifty years ago save the wild berries offered in the cities, there are now wagon-loads, car-loads and boat-loads sold of luscious cultivated berries. The magnitude of this industry ! is indicated bv the effort* mode by aotne of the large growers to supply the. market. The late Mr. Knox.of Pittsburg, sold one day's picking for $-'t,ObO. One' man in California raised 5 (HX) bushels and Mr. Young,of Xorfolk.has '.iTi) acres devoted to this crop. The success of tin • large growers, pi-rated as they are by mich magnificent distances. , reminds tis of the universality of this hu-ine-4. The trnwberry can be grown everywhere ami on till -nl< -. It istli-- • rvant <<f all work. The owner of a single square r- -1 <-f g.-onndjinaj have his strawln rry jmtch and in dne tine his IsuiDcing, lus< ions b< rri<-s. " He who plant* p us Plant* fr his h- ins" Not sowsth tie- stra ..berry. If timoi* an object they may 1 planted in an early spring and run races with grc< n liens. In -even w*<. 1. from the time of sotting out the plants the tir--t rip-- la-r --ries may be picked, and the following year the largest ami ln-<t crop will Im ready to !*• harvested. # ~ Fernando Mood's Joke on llcnrj ( lay. Henry Clay took a fancy to Fernando Mood, and never b-st an opportunity <f ]siying him personal attention. One day, while Clay was walking wiih him they |iftss-sl a shop where men were manufacturing cigars. Clay expressed surprise at the dexterity of the workmen, and said that it must rc jnire years of experience to do the work with such ap|srcnt ease. "Oh, no," Mr. Wood re- ; plied, "they merely i-nt n!T a piece of the tobacco, roll some of the dry part in their hands then wrap it up, ami the whole thing is done. Any person can make a cigar." "If yon ttiink so," said Clay, "per- i haps yon hod better try." The yonng Congressman sat down, took a knife and a leaf of tobacco, and with a dexterous cut prepared his wrnji pcr. H then broke the filling to the | proper size, rolled it all np together, ' twisted the small, symmetrical pigtail at the end, off the top, anil handed the woB-m:ido cigar to the Kentucky Senator. Clay was amazed. Wood had become a skillful cigar maker during the cholera | season, while in the tolweeo trale. The | shopkeeper stared with wonder at this j new congressional accomplishment. The | joke ran the rounds of Congress, and was frequently told at Clay's expenso. M ar* of Catching Fish. The Icelanders are said, at one time, to have taught benra to jump into the sea and catch seals. The China hirds are eipially well trained, for at n signal they dive into the lakes ami bring np large fish grasped in their bills. In Greece the fishermen use branches of pine steeped in pitch and lighted; the inhabitants of Ainorgos ttae cypresa leaved cedar, which servos,when lighted, as a itiMnhenu; and the Chinese fish in the night with white painted boards, placed in a manner to reflect the rays of , the moon upon the water doubly. Thcae attract the fish to the lioat, when the J men east a large net, and seldom fail to draw out considerable quantities. Anchovies are flatted for sleo in a simi lar manner. 'v ' i PEAItbS OF THOUGHT. There is no secret nook whore a man muy hide from his fate. Wo seduce ourselves into downright lying by slight provocations. It is better to be blamed for doing your duty, than praised for not doing it. Oaths aro straws, men's faiths are wafer cakes, and holdfast is the only dog. Many have blown into the trump of fame, but few have filled it so that it sounded. Home men seem constantly turning an internal grindstone to keep their unger sharp. It is not the many oaths that make ; the truth, but the plain single vow that j is vowed tmo. Lot no man presnmo to give good advice to others that has not first given good counsel to himself. No one believes that lie i-nn mystify j his mind ; but every ono imagines that ho < an gull his conscience. How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not as much take warning. Youth is the spring for planting tin seeds of knowledge; sgo, the uuttirnn for watching them rijx n into wisdom. H* member this : They that will not he counsclad cannot lie helped. If you do not hear reason sho will rap your knuckles. When you would indicate the evil ; doing of another, be sure that you arc not endeavoring to mak; an argument which shall tit your own case some time. When yon are smitten on the one cheek, it is good to turn tho other; but that is no reason for protruding the cheek before a blow has been threat ened. Truth, they say, lies at tho bottom of a well. That is reason enough why so few of UH are acquainted with her. Few like to intnist themselves to the bucket and windlass. It is well onci- in a while to turn over the leaves of our past lives, and mark distinctly those passages that denote errors, so that, in the future, we tnav mon- easily r<-fer to them as warnings and the ways that would again mislead ns. Finlcr the Snow. The remarkable case of FlizaWth Woodcock, who was buried under tin snow, is especially striking. In the vinbr of ITtn she was returning on horicbai'k from Cambridge England; to her home in a neighboring village, and having dismountisl for a few min utc* the horse ran away from her. At 7 o'clock on a winter evening she sad down under a thicket, cold, tired and disheartened. Know nmo on; - lie was too w. Uk too ri •. an 1 tic eonsoqncnci w-a* that by the morning the snow had heaped around her to n height of two b-1 alsive her In .1 a* she sat. She had strength enough to thrust a twig, with her handkerchief at th top of it. through the snow, to si ne as a signal anil to admit a little daylight. Torpor snfM-rveiied, and she knew little more of what p ed aronnd her. Night succeeded day, and day again broke, but tin-re she remained, motion- . less aiul fondleas. Not sense h s, however, for she could luar chureh bells and village sounds- nay, ox-en the voice and conversation of some of her neigldmr*. Four whole days slie tints remained- one single pinch of snuff licing her only substitute for food dur iug this time, and this even she found had lost its pung nry. On the fifth clay j a thaw commenced, and tlibn she suf fered greatly, but still without l-ing able to extricate' herself. It was not until the eighth day that the liandkcr chief was < -pied by a xullager who, with many others, had long been set-king for her. Stooping down he said ; "Are y-in there, Elizabeth Wood-' j cook ?" Hha had strength enough to rejilv, ; faintly; " Dear John Htittle, I know your voice. For God's sake help me out." She died about half a year afterward. ! through mismanagement of frost-bitten ton; but it was fully admitted that no I 'inc. unless cased in snow, eon Id have I lived out those eight days and nights in such a place without food. - The Custom of the Country. i An English lady accustomed to trav -1 eling abroad and able to converse fluent ly in tho languages of the countries she visited, recently found herself alone in a railway carriage in Germany, when two foreigners entered with pipes in their mouths, smoking atrong tobacco furiously. She quietly told them in their own language that it was not a , smoking carriage, but they persisted in continuing to smoke, remarking that it was the "custom of the country," upon which the lady took from bar ' |Mwkot a pair of gloves and commenced cleaning them with lieuzoline. Her fel j )ow-pa*onger* expressed thrir disgust at the nauseous ellluvinm, when she re marked that "it waa the em ton of her country." Bhe waa aeon left in sole j i>ossess o I of t ie carriage. MBit AI. ANI) It ELI HlO I'M. I XI 111. I- I In- Ileal of Tllllla. We eximse a man for an occasional de pression just us we endnre a rainy day. But who could endure three hundred and sixty-five days of cold drizzle ? Yet ' there ure men who an-, without cessa tion, somber arid charged with evil , prognostication. Wo may be Imm with a melancholy tera)M-rament, but there is no reason why we should yield to it. ■ There is away of shuffling the burden, j In the lottery of life there are no more prizes drawn than blanks, and to one misfortune there are fifty advan tage*. Despondency is the most unprofitable feeling a man can have. One good laugh is a bomb shell | exploding in the right place, while j spleen and discontent is a gun that ! kicks over the man that shoots it .'off. Home must have got into heaven back ward. Imt us ( land off from despond encies. Listen for sweet notes rather thun discord--. Irr a word where (bid ; has put an exquisite tinge upon the shell washed in the surf, and planted a paradise of bloom in a child's cheek, let , us leave it to the owl to hoot, and the toml to croak, and the fault-finder to | complain. Take out-door exercise and avoid late snpjs-rs, if yon would have j a cheerful disposition. The habit of complaint finally drops into peevishni ■ - , and people Is-come waspish and unap proachable. //-i/i/rsf W- fk/if. Tlir \ rubor Wnl'ti. " I often recall," says an old sailor, "my first night at sea. A storm hod come up, and we had put buck nn- : i der a point of land, which broke the ; wind a little, but still the sea had a j rake on us, and we were in danger of drifting. 1 was on the anchor watch, and it was nry duty to give warning in i case the ship should drag her anchor. It was a long night to me. I was very anxious whether I should know if tin ship really ilid drift. How could I j tell ? I found that by going forward j and placing my hand on the chain I I 1 could tell by the folding of it whether I the anchor was dragging or not; and : how often that night I went forward and placed my hand on that chain! And wry often since then 1 have wondered whether I am drifting awav from God, and then I go away and pray. "Bom- tini" - during that long, stormy - night I would Is tart led by a rum bling sound, and 1 would put my band , -n the chain, and find that it wax not the an- lior drag irig, but curly the chain grating agaju t th<- rock* on the bottom. Ihe anchor was still firm. And some times now in temptation and trial I lw - -nun- afraid, and then praying, 1 find tlwi away down deep in mv hurt Ido love God, and luy lr-jM* i* in III* alva tion. And I want to ay just a word to ! yon lioy*. Boy-, koi-p an anchor watch , lest liefore you are swan' yott may In ' upon tho rocks." Krlik'iou* I til lliuriti r. Bi-'hofk Htarkcy recently administered j the rite of confirmation to Mr*. Sarah \\ right, who is ninety-light years of I age, at h< r home in Newark, V J. The new Met' -dist Episcopal church ; at Wetmore, Kansas was dedicated by Bishop Hurst, on hi* return from the • meeting of the Kan-as conference. ; An English I.iTtln ran church has been organised in Brooklyn, to be connected : with the general synod r-f the Evangeli cal Lutheran church in the United ! States. The "dim religious light" in the' highly-arched nave and aisles of Ht. ' Paul's cathedral, London, is alwint to , di-upjs-ar. Ihe building is to be lighted with electricity. Already since the me.-ting of the Presbyterian a etnbly in May last, over | seventy ministers have died, many of them prominent worki-rs and leaders in the denomination. An Oneida Indian preacher said, in a ! recent w-rmon, he wax thankful that i "the Creator did no", give tbo Indian enough language to allow him to lie pro fane without first learning English." The /Vieigc says, j n conncH'tion with the meeting* of Mr. Moody in San Frtncisco: "The prosjieeta are that this religious work will move the entire Pacific coast as no other movement lux* ever done." The authorities of the Oxford and Cambridge University presses authori tatively announce that the publication of the revised version of the New Testa ment will take place about the middle of next month. Although the work of the Salvation army in this country has not amounted to much, the rejxirta from the original headquarters of the somewhat unique organization indicate that on the othct aido of tho water the work prosjs'rs. Judge Macomber, of Koehester, X. Y., has rendered an iuqiortaut decision to the effect that a majority of the chureh tmard of trustees, although sustained by a majority of the congregation, cannot carry tho society audits pnqrertyover to another denomination. One of onr unfortunate manager* nays > the season so far to him KM been like i the Atlantic coast—a sneeossion of light housee- Mtridm KecortUr. A Hundred Hour* I'ndrr (round. At liallwyl, a village near Lucerne, in Bwitzerlanil, a well lion IMVMI mink and tin- sides supplied with atone walla. t>ne of the manonn, of the name of Xaver Mattrnan, one ilay went to the bottom of th" well in order to nee if the work waa •lone right. While he wan down the aide walla gave way, hat fort mutely be gintiing with thclxittom j/art, otherwia® the falling etonee mart have killed the man at once. AH it hap|jencd, the ntonea falling upon him preened hard npon him, hut did not kill him. "The tipper part of the wall came down hy degree*,' Mattrnan reported; " J heard the noia® foralioat ten minutes, one atone follow ing nlowly upon the other. 1 wan preaa ed with my back againnt a lioard, my right arm about rny head, the left arm upon my elient, the right leg bent back in tin km c joint, the left leg ntretched out ntmight. A big stone was renting on tny heiul, nlanting toward the forehiwl, n Idg round atone was ujm either cheek, u hig one jnnt under the chin forcing my head a little upward against the top tone. Jhe biggest and heaviert nt<mo i had njMin tny chert. Every limb of i mine was pressed j n tight with stone* a movement, ever HO small, impossible. In this fearful nit nation I stopped from Monday at 1 o'clock in the afterroou until 1 riilay evening at ft—tliat in ninety ' ight honm—at a depth of KM) find be low the surface, * and with a load of htone from eighty to ninety fee', high* resting upon me. My hat wan prenned down upon my none, my pipe waa stock fsst in my mouth. The rope which was to have lifted me out imnned along ujton my chin, month, nose and fore head, and may have lieen my )>ert protection against the atones pressing together upon my head. Ujion m® was perfect darkness. Hut my presence of mind did not forsake me, a most remark able nenne of tny rescue being quite cer tain sustaining me in my desperate po sition and inspiring me with the deter mination to stand it. I suffered no pain, but very hard pressure, and felt very thirsty. 1 slept repeatedly. I heard the sound (it India. I also per ocived when the lalmrs of rcnctiing me w ere commenced. It was a sound like chick.-ns picking corn on a wooden Ixiard. The s>innd Incoming clearer made me perceive the progress of tlio w ik, although not clearly. When I i ought the workmen within I called out to them." Friday at noon the first stone from the head of the man buried alive wa. removed, at 3 hia lie.id and chest were frx> atid he could tak> something to eat. None of hia limb w• re broken; there were only some contusions on his IKHIJ. But the skin was perfectly insensible foi a length of time. Buried Alive Knur Bay. Some days ago Mrs. Banks, of Lynch burg, Mason county, 111., was buried, though some jtcrnons present at the * funeral thought they saw signs of life in the supposed corpse. A Charleston III.) letter to the Indianapolis Journal gives the sequel as follows : The day after the funeral the grave was ojiened and the casket cover removed, when it was • -en that the hand*, which hml been tied together and placed U|K>n the lxjs/im, were lying by tlio side. Sup posing her ty Is* dead, no further signs of life lxing visible, they readjusted the hands, cloned and lowered the casket and covered tip the grave. A few days later friends ]>r*'iad<Hl the husband to have the remains examined again, which lie did, and again found her hands lying by her side.and also her hair disheveled. Still there seemed no signs of life, and the third time the lody was coverts! in the grave. By this time the excitement l>eg-an to intensify in the community until, on the fourth day after the burial, Ihelwdy was again exhumed and again the same evidences of protracted life as formerly were plainly observed. The body wan taken home, medical aid called, and restorative agencies applied. The last account we have of the case ia that the patient ia recovering and will probably noon stand liefore world a living example of a person who hml lain four days in the grave. Otic !1 ii ml red and Twenty Mile* a Second. When speaking of the apots on the Miti, in hia lecture. Professor Use* stated that many of them were noticed to re volve with great velocity, some at the rate of 120 miles per second. These rotations are explained by the facte that there are on the surface of the ana cyclones which drift along thoee large masses of volcanic matter at an in drscriliable swift rate. It mnst be re numliered that the smallest one of the *1 iota would Ins covered only by about eighteen earths. When speaking of solar cyclones we mnst not imagine that they are like the ones we have here oo earth. Should a solar cyclone strike the United States, in thirty seconds all the country between New Tork and Saa Francisco would lie floating away into space in the shape of a vaporous cloud. The terrible friction would ignite every thing. One of onr cyclones mar traverse fifty or one hundred miles jn an how, but n solar cyclone at the rate of 120 miles in a second would do infinitely more damage than one hundred cyclones could do.—St Low* /fspsiMumu,
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