EARTHQUAKES AM) SEAQUAKES. IxprrtiMirnl b* OH.- h MHIIFII ilirOi-cnii lllur...||< Tell* ||' ||| r Hhorkii llr Itr rlvr! in \nirrlmti Wutrr*. Mr. Martin, chief clerk of the auditor's office, was found hard at work at the pay-rolls, preparatory to paying off the city employes, and aftir u few moments' conversation the re porter asked if he felt the earthquake en the morning of the 27th. "Quite distinctly," replied Mr. Mar tin ; "it woke me up out of a sound deep, and for a moment I fancied my self hack on the west coast of South America, where they are exceedingly common. The first one I ever remem ber to have experienced was out in Valparaiso, the principal seaport of I hili. There were three vessels of our employ lying in the harbor at the time, and as some of us had served together on different ships in the Hast India trade, we agreed to have a jolly supper ashore for old time's sake. Ido not know of a merrier crowd that could be got together than a party of young sailors who had been shipmates to gether for years in many different seas and parts of the world, taking life in a sort of happy-go lucky style, as we 'apprentices' used to do, and then to meet after a few years' separation as officers of differ ent ships in a foreign port, thousands of miles from home, with all our ad ventures that had taken place during our separation, and ail our recollec tions of happy hours passed with each other to go over again—all our dangers by sea and our freaks ashore to recount and the news of absent friends to tell. So it was a jolly party that landed that night at the wharf, and long did the dinner last : when the cloth was re moved, and the cigars and wine made their appearance the yarns that were spun would have done credit to an old forecastle hand. Our room faced the street, and from the windows was a balcony, which took in a view from the bay right up the mountain side. It must have been about midnight when, as we were all deeply interested in a story being told by one of the party, we felt a slight trembling be neath the floor, and then the bottles and glasses began to fall and break. Hardly knowing what it was, we rushed to the windows and out on the porch, and then for the first time alized what it really was—a regular bona fide ( hilian earthquake. "The glasses jingled, the houses rocked at each other across the street, the mountain seemed bowing to the sea and the very hay seemed to !■ shivering in the moonlight, wniie up and down the street, as far as one could see, were men, women and children clustered together, as far from the houses on either side as they could get, ki--ing eruciflxes held in their hands, and praying long, loud and most fervently. After two or three good shakes nature finally sub sided without doing any great damage; the people once more returned from anticipations of another world, anil realizing in many instances that their scarcity of clothing was hardly con sistent with thi ir prop* r appearance in this one, rapidly disappeared, and soon the street was as diverted and quiet as it was Ik-fore Dame Nature deigned to draw our attention to a new phase of her life. Why, there is hardly a town up and down the const, from the Straits of Magellan to th<- Isthmus of Panama but what has some story of earthquake or its nat ural following, 'the tidal wave." to tell of. At Iriea, for instance, during an earthquake, a ti dal wave swept an American and a French man-of-war far inland, and when it subsided left them high and dry a mile from the sea and atone place along tlie coast, 1 forget the name just now, a veael was lifted up on to the cliffs which fared the sea, and when the wave receded turned a somersault back into the bay from which she waft lifted. Then there is ('alia i, in Peru, one night dropped out of sight in the hay, and the only person who saw the performance was an old fisherman named Lorenzo. He was in a little boat out in Ihe bay (whether bobbing for eels or trolling for mackerel dep inent saith not), when lie was very much surprised to find himself rising out of the water on the back of the hill, and a very ugly hill it is, too. However, when daylight, or reason or whatever it was. caine to him, there was lie in his !x>at high and dry on the top of the island, seventy-live or a hundred feet alxive the sea while tiie whole lower F town of Caliao, with thousands of peo ple, was seventy-five or a hundred feet beneath its surface. Speaking of earthquakes, it is not generally known that they are felt at sea, but it is nevertheless true. I was once in a bark one hundred miles from the main land, and probably as far south of Juan Fernandez, (sometimes called Robinson Crusoe's Island, it lieingthe island on which Alexander Selkirk was wrecked;, wheu I expe ,,V rlcnccd a shock as though the shij had struck a reef. I sprung to tin rail, but slio appeared to lie goiii) through the water the same as ever 1 felt the jar again, and the captain'; head was thrust through the compan ionway to know what was the matter I looked at the compass and found he; on her course, and the main at tin wheel said she had not varied a quarto of a point in an hour, hut admitted In had felt the shock, ily this time al bands were on deck, and it was ununi moiisly agreed by all t hat it was a reg ular earthquake, or, more properly, i seaquake.— cinrlntutti Rti'iuirer. PEARLS OF THOUGHT. Publish your joys, hut conceal you sorrows. Much learning shows how little mor tal knows. Experience and wisdom are the bes fortune-tellers. Vain glory is a flower which novel comes to fruit. The seed of our punishment is sown at tho same time we commit sin. Faith steps in to our aid when ou boasted reason and knowledge fail. While you look too much on others' gardens, you will neglect your own. Crimes sometimes shock us to< much ; vices almost always too little Character is higher than intellect A great soul will he strong to live a well as strong to think. Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfec knowledge is quiet ; not so the trarisi tion from the former to the latter. From the manner in which praisi and blame are dealt out in this worh an h 'nc.-t man ought to covet defama tion. If we practice goodness not forth" sake of its own intrinsic excellence, bu for the sake of gaining somcadvantagi by it, we may be running, but we ar not g"xxl. Nothing so increases reverence fo others as a great sorrow to one's self It teaches 'ne the depths of liutnai nature. In happim-ss we are shallov and deem others so. He who betrays another's secret because he has quarreled with him was never worthy of the name o friend ; a brca- h of kindm-ss will no justify a breach of trust. SoimiatnhtilUiit in Dogs. There is something peculiar alou' somnambulism when considered froini scientific and philosophical *tand|>oint The sleep-walker, it will be found still r.-tains a dim id "a, even while hi is asleep, of t!i- c m lition of affair when lie went to sh- -p. For instance if ho leaves his clothe* in a eertair part of Jli r- >m on r tiring, he know when h>- rises just ,i re t • find them even in the dark. T.ii-s is a qnestfor which opens up aw >:i lerful li- id foi physiological an ! re ntal p -ear h. When young and giddy we bcrami as imnamliuli-'. iid excited a grc.ii deal of curiosity hv our strange freak; during sh- -p. and this one quo tion of the slum - ring tube and its memory of fa ts ex isting prior to sleep was tie most remarkable thing about if all t< us. We puz/h-d over that a goo I deal. At night we would retire to rest, am the next tiling we would know w< would wake up in the mid lb* of j contiguous melon pa' h, and then would be two or Hire • oth- r somnam bulists there in the sim - patch and a much surprised as we were. Still there is tic same truth staring us ir the face. Every somnambulist then had through his sleep retained in hi semi-conscious st it •• a perfect recollee tion of where every article of hi clothing was and how to get out of tlx upstairs window without waking the old people. Bv-and-hye the owner of the melon ' patch procured, at a great expense, large, humorous bulldog, who wasal.se a somnambulist. He walked in his sleep a good deal. This is why wr quit. We didn't propose to descend to too level of the hrute creation. We just said, if a bulldog wants to somnam, he can do so and we will leave the field to him. We made this resolution one night just after we had plugged a water melon. While stooping over in tlir art, we felt a pang of conscience and heard our suspenders break. Perhaps the casual reader jias never sat down on a buzz, saw and felt him self gradually fading away. If so hr does not know what It is to form the acquaintance of a somnambulicA bull dog in the prime of life. After that somnambulism didn't have such a run in dur family for n while. We never slept so sound that we didn't remember places and objects that had male an impression on us prior to slumber, and that Ls why we ay that there Is something In this mutter that scientists would do well to lock iuto.— J!iH Nye. i | Fish that Cry. J As Parly as Aristotle's time the vofeo ; of the fish has heen recorded as an ex isting fact, and the choiros, common in i the river Clitor. was famous for its I vocal sounds, .sir Emerson Tennent . , was so fortunate as to hear the sounds ■ made by fish directly from the water. • It was during a visit to llattaraola, on • the northern coast of Ceylon. Drifting • upon the lake one calm evening he I heard curious musical trills and notes. - varying in tones and intensity, coming • up from the bottom. Some appeared i like the sounds obtained by rubbing the rim of a wine glass, while others were distinct and sharp, coming in , quick succession and ending in a pro . longed note. The noise made by the great reddish hogtlsh of the gulf has often been heard by the writer. They make a curious roaring or grunting sound. According to some who claim ' J to have heard it, the eel produces the most musical sound of all fishes, It ' makes a single intonation, often riv pealed, which has a decided metallic resonance. The Emperor Augustus llrmly believed that eels or murravs ■ could talk, and pretended to under stand their language. I'robably tho 1 loudest sounds are made by the drum or pig lisli of the Jersey coast. When being hauled in they make such a noise that it can be heard quite a distance, and easily contorted into appeals and • lamentations by an excited imagina • tion. The matter lias been invrstiga ted by l'rofessor llaird, of the Smithso t nian institute, and 10-is of thcopinion . that the sounds come from the Is-lly of the fish. The maigrc a European . tish--makes a remarkable --sung noise. I accompanied by . croak or groan. The . most active noise-maker was a tish (Ilaemulon) found in southern waters. It was a yellow and mottled fellow, with mild, intelligent eyes and large mouth, and on one <* ■ a-i-m win n one was haul-xl up it immediately began such a series of groans and grunt.s ending finally in shrieks, that the syrn pathetic captor tossisl it ba. k into tin water. i A variety of the maigre in South America makes a noise resembling a bell. Sir John Hirhard.son, while off ' the coast of South Carolina, was one night prevented from sleeping by the noise made by drumti-di. Lieutenant John White also states that on bis voyage to China, when his ship was anchored off the Camlsiya river, th<- sailors were much astonished by the curious sounds that issued Ir an the water, resembling the bass of an organ. mingh-d with the tones of a bell, the croaking of in enormous frog and the twang oi immense harp -t rings. These sounds swelled into a gent If chorus on I>th i-b < of the ship, and were attnhut- I ti a - hool of llsh. A similar -► ■ urr--nrc in the South • a was ibs rilxsl by ltaron Ifuin "tM'ldt. The sailors were greatly ter rilhsl early one evening bv an -xtra onlinarv n->ise in the air like tin le.i?ing of tarn) .urines, followed )>v sounds wliieli seemed to conic fr >ui the ship, and resemlding the i~wnj>e of ail i from Imiling liq lid. Later these strange sounds, whi< h was judged pro . eisnbsl from a !c> >! of " sejoenaifles," ceased. Over fifty varieties offish are known I to produce sounds, ea h mure or less different. Many fishermen are faiuil , iar with the curious note of the gizzard shad, known to science as the " Loro soma," the sound being vibratory and agreeable. The mull t. so common in .Southern Florida, and which often at tains a large size, makes a strange sound, quite prolonged, and during its utterance bubbles of water are seen arising from the water above it. The cattish makes a hum ming sound, and tho sea-horse utters, not a whining or neigh, but a series of single sharp notes. In many cases the sound is produced by the pneumatic duct and swimming blad der; while other fishes make an invol untary noise by the lips or the pharyn geal or intermaxillary bones. In the fishes trigla and zußs there is a dia phragm with muscles for opening and • losing the swimming bladder, aifd by its action the sounds are graded and qualified. The voice of the catfish and eel is produced evidently |y forcing air from the swimming bladder into the oesophagus, and the sea horse makes its noise hv the use of rgfain vibratory voluntary muscles, and to all intents and purposes the sounds are comparable with those made by other animals expressing, perhaps, the emotions felt. Their air bladders are homologous to lungs, and the pneu matic duct is analogous'to the trachea of the higher vertebrates. The four largest European cities have together 9,283,000 inhabitants— London having 8,882,440, I'arts 2,225,- 000, lierlin 1.222.000 and Vienna 1,109,000. laaudnu has more In habitants than nil Hwitxcrlandor the kingdom of Saxony. THE HALMON WHEEL. * flool \Vr of I'atnblns i'lah <>u llir ml inn bin IClvrr, brfgun. The following we dip from a Co lumbia itiver (Oregon) letter to the New York Eornin;/ /'out: " How arc no many fish caught? 1 haven't noticed any nets." "Nets are of no account now. Co | and see the snail," said the captain, as he bent over and rang the slowing bell for the Dalles. Some time after I saw the "snail," and a most Ingenious, successful, de testable engine of destruction it was. The owner hud admirably planted it just above the ITpper Cascades, on the north bank of the river, the south bank being at that point almost impass able to the lixh. it was placed just where the swift edge of the current makes a most inviting eddv, through which the salmon must naturally "run" on their way up str- am. Here thceiir rent was about eight feet deep. The salmon never swim lower than four feet below the surface. Erected over what would be the entire width of the "run" was a huge frame. Suspended within this an immense wheel re volved, so adjust**! on pulleys as to rise and fall with the changing depth of water. I'pon the spokes or arms of this wheel, eight in number, were fastened as many wire nets, each thirty f—t in diameter, loose and baggy and movable, resembling in appearance the pouch <>( a pelican. The current itself is the force that turns the wheel like an un dershot. Very slowly it goes around. The great scoop nets spread lazily through the water, one after another, at Just the depth when- they are most fatal. Their arms almost pause and float motionless through the stream. But, though slowly, the great wheel ealbsl from this motion the " snail," does tnovc, and with just the right tardiness, for as the n--ts emerge fr-un the water they are so filled with the struggling prey that Mr. Williams, owner of one of the wheels, pr<>nottric<*l 800 an average catch. At the proper angle above the net is turned upside down. Its contents are duinjH-d along the arm of the wheel to what might be termed its hub, striking wlm-li they rebound along a trough t > the bank. It is a stirring but cruel sight, for there are many small and unmarketable fish in every "haul." The theory is that these ar returned to the water and live, but it U like the "returns of the killed and wounded" after a battle—so Mlintl" ' and inaitn-sl are they that few sur vive, The win-el presents a busy scene, anil the profits must In- enor mous; for the tempi*- contrivance costs but aliout fl'ft, and r- pores but half a dozen attendants. Tlmre are four of these wheels on the river, and a gentle man en gag-si in the fishing business in furmed methat thecal- ulation vi a- they ■ aught aleuit half tin- salmon that g > up. Tln-re is a win—l on island, uliovc Bonneville, the work of which has become so notorious (not mcr-dy killing merchantable fish, but in so doing destroying a d-i/--n times as many of a -;/.<• as \• t too small f• >r commerce} that the public pr- -s has dcmand-sl its suppr- --i-:. But all those wheels, as lias b 0 to S.tkk) salmon (for proprietors <>f tin- wheels ar-- very chary about giving actual figures), large and small, are caught ev--ry hour, night and day, of the week, save fr-un Saturday to Sunday night. Compute tho amount. I know of one actual catch of ti.4'X> salmon in a day—large tish, suitable for tlm canneries. An experienced fishermen stated it as the remit of his oliservation that atsuit one in ten of those caught were used. - Even of the number used, packed and sent down in barrels, one wheel kept the large cannery at Warrondale busy all through the season, and then the cannery couldn't take rare of all! Looking at tie-descending stream of half-dead fish literally " broken on the , wheel," I could not but regard the qmwtion for a moment in the light of an angler and an economist. Meanwhile, day and night, tho "bar barous and murderous" (I am using an intelligent fisherman's phrase) "snail" wheel Is kept going, and the salmon are literally corraled by millions in the very haunts where they go to bring forth their kind. Mean while, too, all along the Sound to Alaska, the larger part of the fish so plentifully caught are Waste* 1. just as the bufTalo were in Montana, and the tendency Is to the same result—extinetion. What will become of an industry which supports 10,000 *men when the price of its product has fallen three-fourth* during the past few years? Chicago people brag that they pay thrw per rent, more for fruit than any other people. But wg don't believe they get any more stomach-ache out of it than tho rest of us. *t - ' Living Curiosities. Seven hundred and twenty pounds is the show weight of Hannah Battera by, the biggest woman in the business. . On the scales she would probably go a little above 600. it is an easy thing to make fat women look 2'XJ or 900 pounds heavier than they are. Mrs. t IJattersbv, it will be remembered, car . ricil Imr husband, the living skeleton, I k out of the old I'roadwuy mu.'i'Uiii at the time of the lire and saved Ins life. ■ She has a beautiful daughter, who is living with her father in Penn sylvania. The next largest woman is Jessie Waldron, a sixteen-year-old mountain of flesh, who was born and reared in Green point, Long Island. She is six feet six inches high, and weighs about 460 pounds. On the bills she is put down as weighing 000 pound i. Eniilie JI ill is the lightest <•( . the fat women, weighing only about 250 pounds. She is only four feet . high, and it is her immense circum ference that makes her a great curi . osity. l'at women are easy to pick up. Showmen find women all over I the country that will do, and by add ing 200 or 300 pounds t>i tlu-ir weight on the gorgeous canvas they awe the . public with their immensity. Living skeletons are the result of I disease, and cannot be manufactured. While, doubtless, consumption and dyspepsia have made a few respectable skeletons, the cause of their thinness , is, f.>r the most part, inexplicable. No skeleton of consequence is shown who has not been examined by more doctors than all the other curiosities put to gether. Calvin Edson, who died t-n years ago, and who, singularly enough, was a violinist, eamu into prominence twenty years ago, and was the first I living skeleton of account to be k thinner by dress ing him in black, the same as a fat woman is made to look fatter by ci.v ring her frame with light or 1-r --lit material. The trunk is kept well covered, hut the arms and legs, vvhi-h are the tliinm-st parts, are freely exposed. Another trick is topla- <• the skeleton alongside the fat woman, in whii h ]i-itii>n he look* much more at t-nuat-xl than he really is. DM irfs are limply natural curiosi ties which must be put in contrast with larger people, but six in lies or more can be added to giants without difficulty. High boots with high heels high hats, and long coats really eon- i tribute three inches or so to the a- tual beigiit and a foot in looks. Giants nearly always wear uniforms to make them npp ar imposing, and they raise their arms slowly to give them a mas- ] sive air. < q tain Bates, however, al ways insisted on appearing in a dress , suit. Chines*- giants show to the l>est advantage. The long gowns give 1 them the appearance of being taller | and heavier than they really are. The contrast presented by a woman in male and female attire will serve as j an illustration of this principle. In , dresses she looks much larger j than she does in trousers. It is amaz ing to note how giants increase in weight after licing placed on exhibi bitiou. Their life of comparative ease and the freedom from care has the , effect of adding twenty-five pounds a j year to their weight. A giant, to so- I cure an engagement, must be at least seven feet in height. There are too many inen over six feet six inches who ' come to the show to contrast them with. There are seven giants, in- i eluding a pair of twins, in a family in Texas, three of whom are on exhibi tion. Bunnell lias engaged Marina, the beautiful giantess, who is leading the ballet in the Amazon's march in London, and she will come over next year. Her height is over eight feet, and she is young as well as handsome. Mrs. Bates is the only woman who is.; taller.— Hew York Time*. Hindoo llshits. A Hindoo writing to the Herald qf Health about the hygienic habits of his people, tells of their personal \ habits of cleanliness and the import ance they place upon the purification | of the lxidy. This is all very well, but i he says nothing of their careless way < of cleaning house; for we iiave been I informed by a physician who resided I among thcin that their houses and I everything alxiut them are slovenly | kept and even positively filthy.— Dr. t j Fwte's Health Monthly. i | MORA I. AND KKLIGJOIti. aiM. The man who gives, in order that h* ! may be considered liberal, erects for j himself a pedestal, not of honor, but ! of contempt, upon which he stands in [ self-glory and in popular derision. The man who gives, in order that he may ! Ix-m-fit his kind, weaves for himself an invisible crown, whose glory will be 1 unfading through eternity; perhaps recognized only when this perishable lieing shall assume the glory of immor tal i t y.— l'rutbyUriu n Observer. Prmrmrm, Every prayer is a wish, but wishes are not prayers. In the heart of every prayer is a sense of need, hut a sense of need is not prayer. Prayer is asking for a felt need ; not asking the Uni verse, but God. So one can intelli gently ask who does not believe thai he can and may l>e heard. So one can perseveringly ask who thinks that ask ing will bring nothing. Persons who believe that the whole influence of prayer is simply the effect of their own thoughts upon themselves, never pray. They cannot pray. The mouth may utter right words ; the heart is not in them. Some prayers are not prayers, for those who say thern do rnrt. really wish for the things they mention. Hut the difficulty with most prayers is that there is no grasp of the idea of God— there is no asking. " Ask and ye shall receive."— Christian AfMi and NnlM, The Southern Methodist church papers are reporting conversions in great numbers. The l'r I' -l int Episcopal bishop of Wisconsin has issued a pastoral h-tter calling upon the various parishes and mis-ion* to bold harvest homes, as grateful recognitions of the abundant harvest. India has twenty-six thousand school-. over eighty colleges and nearly 1 three millions .f pupils. A large part of this work is purely Meolar, but it is nearly all due, direetlv or indirectly i to the labors of missionaries. The third general council of Pres byterian churches throughout tht I world will be held in Belfast in The committee appointed at the last < in lin P! ::a Mphiahave fixed June I ' J1 as the most convenient (late. The German Lutheran churches of s iuth. ro Michigan and Northern Ohio have established a series of annual i missionary fc-tivals, the first of which , h.is held in Adrian, Mich, under ! the auspices of st. John's church. The Dakota Indians have become so ■ well civilized that one of the lady | missionaries laboring among tliem writes: "My stock of pretty ribbons is running low. and if you know of any j one who wishes • dreadfully' to help 1 me t< II them I should like Rome pretty i children's dresses, aprons, bibs, bon nets, cut and 1 tasted, ready for sewing. Indeed garments of any kind or any j size, men's shirts or women's garments will be gladly received, so that they are prepared for tny women to sew them." In Kansas the Mennontte commu nities are enjoying great prosperity. I They are mostly of the better class of Ru--:ans. Aliout fifteen thousand of tliein own nearly two hundred thou sand acres. The property was pur , chased equally from the railroad com panies and from the government. Tho | industry and economy of the Mennon , ites are provcrhiaL It is said that . some of thern ar worth from SB,OOO | to SIO,OOO, though a few years ago | they could churn only a few hundreds. • The wheat farms are bringing them a | large income. Hats In Churches. Jewish congregations worship with t (heir heads covered;so do the Quaken although St. Paul's injunctions on the ' matter are clearly condemnatory of the practice. The Puritans of the com monwealth would secai to have kept ! their hats on whether preaching or being preached to, since Pepys 1 notes hearing a single clergyman exclaiming against men wearing their hats in : the church, and a year afterward (1062) writes: " To the French church in the Savoy, and there they have the common prayer-book, read in French, and which I never saw before, the min ister do preach with his hat off, 1 sup pose in further conformity with our :huroh." William 111. rat her srandal xed his church-going subjects by fob owing Dutch custom, and keeping his aead covered in church, and when it lid please him to doff his ponderous hat during the service, he invariably donned it as the preacher mounted the pulpit stairs. When fWsuet, at the age of fourteen, treated the gay sinners of the Hotel de Roinboulllet to a mid night sermon, Voltaire sat It out with his hat on, but uncovering when the boy preacher had finished, bowed low lief ore him. saying: ".Sir, 1 never hoard a man preach at once so early and so late."—J/I th* Tear Round.