r Paris has the largest and mast come plete sewerage system in tho world, ——— Rt ete A statistician estimates that Ameri- cans expond $400,000 a day for amuse- ments. A statistical person has figured out $hat the average life of a cabinet under the present French Republic has been mine months. { By a new route which is proposed from England to Australia, across Canada, the trip from London to Bydney, it is believed, may be shortened to twenty-eight days. ———— | The Chicago Record confidingly ad- mits. that ‘‘of all sads words of tongne or pen a few of the saddest are those which would properly describe a view the World's Fair grounds at the pres-. ent time.” “Of all the States New York has the greatest number of savings bank de- positors, 1,616,389, and also the great- est amount of deposits, $588,425, 421, Massachusetts comes next with $1,131, 203 depositors, having on deposit $369, 556,386. Twenty-two years ago there were 222 bearers of titles in the French | Chamber of Deputies, where now there are but sixty-five. Only three marquises are left out of thirty, while * the counts have declined from thirty- two to fifteen. At this rapid rate of dissppesrance a few decades more will see almost the entire extinction of titles in the Republic. The recent use of the guillotine in Paris has started anew the as to relative merits of methods of rendering the murder innocuous. must be admitted, Francisco Examiner, that a man once beheaded is fully as incapable of act- argues the San | ing on criminal impulse as though he | kad been hanged, and that an electro- cuted person is at an equal advantage. Therefore all the methods have points of excellence. A manufacturing company in Wil- mington, Del, stopped its whistle | thirteen years ago because it was com- pleined of as a nuisance, and at the | lilerme time informed its workmen that | f man who wag late would be fined | Bty-five cents. In all the years her only two men have been tardiness, and the question by the Chicago Herald : What. feed is the for a doisy whistle to call employes to work anywhere? In a little coffin about fifteen inches ong the heart and other portions of the body of a man, whose disgrace and suicide in the 1802, brought sbout the overthrow of a cabinet, is sued forth from the morgue in Paris » few days ago on its way to the Pere Ia Chaise cemetery. They were the year remains of Baron de Reinsch, who ir | the heydey of his power was one of the financial magnates of Europe, con trolling even the destinies of minis | ters and influencing the policy of the | Nation, There have been great changes in the United States Government depart. ments in the last thirty years first woman regularly employed was put on the rolls of the Navy Depart ment thirty-five years ago. She was a young widow, and the officials consid. ered it an awful problem how to dis posé of her. plan. They treated her as if she was a contagious disease and isolated her in an attic room. She received and re- turned her copying by a messenger. Bat the disease caught on, so to speak, and to-day there are 1000 women in the Treasury alone. There wor an to every seven men. is one Two or three recent railroad cates. trophies, fortunately of the minor sort, have directed public attention to the fect, remarks the Washington Btar, that the use of stoves for heating purposes and oil as an illuminant is still indulged in by ancient and moss- backed corporations, to which the safety of the passengers is apparently a minor consideration. Public senti- ment should be strong enough to work | the necessary reform, but the trouble shout public sentiment is its failure to declare itsell until some frightful combination of eollisan or derailment | and conilagration arouses general in- dignation. The Pullman and Wagner cotapunies worried over oven the small quantity of sil used for cooking purposes on the buffet cacé—have completely banished the dangerous fluid, and will in fature do their cook- ing with ges, thus removing every element of danger that can pomibly be gotten rid of. The public should insist strenuously upon the universal adoption of every safeguard, and the time to insist in in advence of and not . after a great railroad horror, & —- Of the 150 papers published in the interests of anarchy, the great ma- jority are issued in Spain, — The German War Minister, Von Asch, has given a semi-sanotion to dnelling, in a speech in Parliament. Under the present circumstences of society, ha said, duelling eannot be abolished, in spite of the law. The speech raised a storm of protests in the Diet, Our State Department has in- structed American consuls in Euro- pean countries to report as to the standing of our wheat in the several importing Governments, what objec- tion, if any there be, and in what manner the importation of our wheat may be stimulated abroad. - A scientific man says that he has It is that the worst air is found in two strata: One made a discovery. near the ground-—everybody knows that-—and the other at a height of about ninety feet. This height rep- resents the average altitude of the dis. charge of gas, smoke, and offensive | fumes given off by the factories and | other city. industrial appurtenances of a | It has also been found within a | few years, thet one is just as apt to | get malaria if he lives ofl a dry, well- | drained slope above a marsh or stag- | discussion | It | The ] Finally they hit upon a | nant water as if he lived in the marsh. | | | ] | | The few steamboat the | upper Columbia River, in eastern men on | Washington, and others acquainted with the stream, express grave doubts | of its eypr becoming & safe und certain | | highway, althougii enthusiastic resi. | dents of that region count much on its | utilization as a means of transporta- tion for the development of the conn- | try. The principal trouble is in its erratic changes of course, its rise and its shifting banks. The of the one company navigating the river be boats : | tween Wenatchee and the Okanogan | | River are constantly meeting with | | mishaps, owing to the difficulties of | | A millon soldiers useless then | navigation. Three were laid up in | | one week last month. ’ : | The experiment of putting earrier | | pigeons on Babls Island, that narrow, low, sandy island lying to the south- west of Cape Canso, | which has been called *“‘the graveyard | of the Atlantic,” has proved successful. The experiment was tried by the Can ladian Government a8 o relief to the Nova Scotia, | | islanders, the Government steamer | making only monthly trips. The | homing loft of the birds is at Halifax, nearly 250 miles from the | island, and the flight is made over the | | stretch of sea in less than a day. on November 28, and lost part of ite message, but enough was deciphered | to show that all were well on the isl | and that morning. | Says the Chicago Herald : The fleets | of all the world are witness to the revolution wrought in naval ships by the American monitor. All naval powers were quick to see and adopt | the armor idea, and they have ever | #ince been engaged in rebuilding their navies, while we have been content to witness the results of their experi- | ments, until it was necessary for 3 to | We The great guns, many weigh- rebuild our own navy. waited | | wisely. ing 110 tons, with which England and other Nations armed their monster | ships, are now declared by Admiral | Hornby to be failures. Hé says mod. | erato-sized guns of about twenty-five | tous each are the best. This is another | American idea, developed in our new navy. Our new naval steel guns, long { and comparatively light, are undoubt: edly the best in the world, | To whom does a private letter be. | long when once it has been mailed? According to a judgment just rendered by the British courts of justice it isto the postoffiee, in which the ownership in vested until its delivery to the ad. dressee. It was a failure to appre: this fact that led to the case which has resulted in this decision. A chemist at Preston having writion a letter aud mailed it, wished to get it back. With that objoct in view he went to the postoffice, specified the address of the envelope, pretended | that he desired to send it by special | delivery, at the same time putting down sixponce as the payment of the extra postage. Deceived by these proceedings the clerk hunted up and produced the letter to have the six- penny stamp stuck on, No sooner did the writer got hold of the letter than he tore it to fragments, asserting that he had a right to do what he liked with his own property. Hix view of the matter, however, was notncoeptel either by th: Postofiee Department ciate One | pigeon was out in the heavy storm | or by tho courts, aud he was fined | fwenty-five dollars for his offence. et i ——— ns —— THE CENTURY'S SONG, (Mead at Bt. Andrew's Society dinner, in New York Desember 1, 1893.) One note from out the centuries vast, ‘Which he wno lists to-day may hear; One word on Judah's waters cast, With widening circle year by year ; One song that thrills the patriot van The erowning brotherhood of man. "T'was this the peasant poet sung, By bonnie Doon and winding Ayr, To that dear harp by Colla strung, ‘Whose musio floats the noblest prayer, A choral link from shore to shore “Of man to man the world o'er.” No grander utterance ; ‘Man to man !™ Behold the century's living voles! Those simple words the ages span ; The Nations listen and rejolos ; The plowman bard of Scottish blood Proolalms the song of brotherhood, Our fathers struggled to be free; We have the freedom that they wrought For lofty faith and liberty Brave martyrs died and heroes fought-- ““Nomo Impune” sternly sealed On many a flores and bloody fleid, We know by heart each hallowed name ; We trace the turf by valor trod, The Bannookburns baptized to fame By men who spurned the tyrant's rod, Who scorned to wear a conqueror's chain, Who knew their rights and dared maintain, As men who olimb a mountain helght By tortuous ways and pathlees steep, O'ertaken by the darkling nizat And riving blasts that round them sweep, aalt with joy the morning ray To guide them on their arduous way, Bo up the slope, through rack and mist, Proud Scotland holds her stexdinst way To granite peaks by sunlight kissed, While drifting clouds below her lay ; Xo ploneer more bold and true Beaeath the heaven's arching blue, Till now from heights securely reached With freedom sown in every soll, And wasteful war's red banner bleached On, sunlit flelds of hon Hark to the strain: © Bt. Andrew's song o . » } mst tol The charity that knows Is fresdom's gift to « | Tho richest gold in quarry Or fairest pearl or Is naaght to Saxon freedon The noblest crown on human brow, Ard Baxon brotherhood to-day Means brotherhood sll round the world § No restless realm would dare galusay The edict of yon flags unfurled ; | Amid the parliament of men, | Through yonder clouds behold the rift, The hour Is ripe, the morn is nigh, | The darkness fades, the Nations Uft Their foreheads to a fairer sky ; Above the Tw ntieth Century's door— “The Natione shall learn war no more.” 0, fairest Queen ! whose smiles entrance, Columbia ! born of noble sires, With youthfui vigor in thy glance, And hope thai: every land inspires, Thy mountain halts and rivers free Proolaim thy power from sea to sea. Thine be that power to guard and bless The millions vast who toil and wait, Till man no longer shall oppress, * But Justice rule at every gate — One law, one love, one crowning good The century's song of brotherhood, Wallace Bruce, oe —— UNDER SUSPICION. ESSIE,"” said Anton Mosby, the for. y | in the middle of the and then at the distance of a mile or so divided, one branch turning south sud leading eomewhsre in the diree- tion of civilization, the other running several milea northward and ending in an old quarry which was dng in the side of a rocky ledge. After Mosby's departure Jessie went on with her work indoors witha heavy heart. Her father’s suspicion that the man Hayes, who had been sojourning with them, was only a refugee from justice, pained ker. He had always been very obliging about the house, had books in his saddle bags and some- times read aloud to her, which was a matter of real entertainment, and, while she did not care for him, she felt extremely sorry for the treatment he received at her father's hands, Bhe had to confess, however, on thinking man to come whose only occupation was pleasure. . The hunting was poor, the woods damp and gloomy, and the ledge in the distance inhabited mostly by snakes, Hayes was an ordinary-looking man of about five feet ten, hair brown, eyes blue, and rather quick and ner- vous in his speech. It was a suspicion of embarrsssment in the latter respect when questioned as to his business that first led Mosby to observe his ae- tions, and his preference for the old quarry road, which was rough and swampy and led through a tangled growth of underbrush, seemed evi- dence enough that he those who prefer darkness rather than light, These suspicions made Mosby, ns- urally a hospitable man, eold snd satirical, and many an arrow of sar- cus was plumed for his victim's breast, but Hayes usually seemed per- fuct which only further Mosby in the belief that he was a bad one, The season had been exceedingly rain had fallen. The sand lay in drifts road snd blew | away from the roots of the trees | During the previous weeks a great | fire had been raging to the northward, | tae soveral towns being razed to | ground and a wids stretch of timber | ruined. The ledge of rocks | to ran in a crescent and acted as abar- | rier to the flames, so that the country | over which Mosby presided was left unharmed, but the smoke spread its | smong wolves fectly oblivious of their meaning, a | his breast fell dead. determined dry ; for nearly a month not a drop of referred | that {he project had to be abandoned as impracticable, and he could not endure the thought of remaining a | prisoner all night in the uncomfortable | branches of a pine tree on account of {an few wolves This decision was | scarcely reached when he would gladly | have changed it, for a moment later | the wolves reached the road behind | him and were coming along at long | | ful screams. | Mosby, still cool | raised his rifle to his shoulder. and collected, | gray form flashed in the light a little | The | distance away snd he fired. | howling of the pack suddenly ceased | | a8 one of their number rolled in the sand, and Mosby, after reloading, | started on a trot toward a small open- ing. Before he reached it they were it over, that it was a queer place for a | in pursuit again, it seemed as if in greater fury than ever, notwithstand- { ing they had first feasted on the flesh of a comrade, Mosby fired again, but missed his | For a moment they hesitated, eyes shining in the darkness, | aim, | their | snd then, gnashing their fangs, rushed | forward into the light. Mosby's heavy rifle whirled around his head and des- cended on the skull of the foremost wolf, but the beasts, crazed with | hunger, had lost all fear, and Mosby | saw that ho had met his fate. A wave | of sorrow for poor Jessie, leftall alone | in such s conntry, welled up in his | heart and then, gritting his teeth in belonged to | anger he grasped his gun stock tighter and struck agsin. This blow was his last, for the next instant he was borne to the ground. | Bang, bang, bang, suddenly rung | through the forest. A wolf with his fangs buried in Mosby's arm 1 his hold ; another tearing furiously leased nt The air resound- ed with quick reports and Mosby, | weak and almost dying, saw the sus- picious boarder rush into the fray, a repeater in each hand When he next opened his eves he {was st home and Jessie by his side, “Where is Haves?" he murmured “Here, father,” she an 1, and , Hayes stepped forward the shadow where he had bee The old man wonld have given him his hand, but his arms were limp and lifeless, werd from n sitting “Yon saved my life,” he murmured gratefully, *‘and I reckon your kind of weapons sre the best, after ali, You must stay with | mantle of gloom over many miles of | Bs the whole season and Jessie and i | contiguous territory. structive, was inhabited by wolves, which now, goaded by fire and hunger, ing through the woods in search of | food, but they were a cowardiy lot | Wasé snd I do not blame you. | that ran at the sight of a man, and no | one experienced any uneasiness, When Mosby went on the tramp he ipgariably took his rifle with him hoping | the season for a robe. “Wolves,” he used to say to Hayes, “‘are about all the game you will find about these quarters, but if you want to kill any you'd better throw away | your six-shooters and get a rifle, for all the things are good for is to kill men, and I reckon the people around here are a peaceable lot. "Of course it might be a good thing if one wanted to escape from a con- stable, but we are presuming that von want to kill animals.” But his argo ments as to the relative merits and This great northern section, how! | ever, where ithe fire -had been so de- | that you sent meaway, Mr. Mosby, for o obtain enough pelts during | © will d-. our best to entertain youn." «ayes smiled. **It was a lucky thing otherwise 1 would not have been on the quarry road and saved you, Ifinished sought safety to fhe southward. Mosby | my work here yesterday, and so when saw them frequently, and their baying | could be heard at night while prowl-| for the quarry to get some things. Dick told me that I must go I sturted Jessie has told me what you feared 1 It did | look suspicious, and 1 often felt ashamed thet 1 had to keep so quiet, but my time has been spent prospect | ing for iron and negotiating purchases | leaps, filling the air with their mourn. | A | pn ao SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL, | The proposed Hobokea (N. J.) | Bridge will Dee s single span of HE50 | feot—the longest in the world. { The greatest depth recorded of Lake Michigan is 870 feet, or about one-sixth of a mile, The mean depth | is abont 320 feet, or one-sixteenth of | a mile, { Tho flea is covered with armored | plates very hard and overlapping cach other. Each is set with spikes, snd | bends in conformity with the move. ments of the body. The largest engine is at Friedens- | ville, Penn. ; ite driving wheels sre thirty-five feet in diameter, the cyl- | inder ix 110 inches, and it raises 17,- | BOO gallons of water per minute, A new process of rain masking was | recently brought before the Academie | des Beiences, Paris, by M. Baudois. His theory is that electricity main- tains the water in clouds in a state of small drops, and that if the electricity be discharged the water will come down, | An instroment has been invented | for sounding the depths of the sea without using a lead line. A waoker is dropped containing a eartridge, which explodes on touching the bot- tom; the report registered in a microphone apparatus and the depth reckoned by the time at which the ex- plosion oceurred. in The air brakes on railroads ave being built with a view to their use on trains of 100 cars. The plant on each train is being built so that it can be used in such a way as to bring the Bp i down from eighty to thirty miles per hour within five seconds Great power has to be used, and part of the apparatus has to be perfect to stand the strain. Dr. Hughes, Meriden, hag re- ceived a letter from R. W, Sewyer, of Nassau, New Providence, dahama Islands, telling of a pink pearl in that is the er light. This pearl is nearly as ls 8 pigeon’s egg and of the same shape every of 3 3 3 conch shell a finest ev ’ having no flaw or blemish, and foot color and marking It was soid to the local agent of a Paris he over $2000, the beheved, received for Nassau conch fisheries, { per- use for in at the inrgest rice, 8 E 8 peari At the recent meeting of the chemical pection of the British Association for the Advancement of Beience the arti- ficial diamonds that have been made by M. Moissans, of Paris, were ex- hibited and awakened much interest. These, as yet, are of hardly sufficient size to be marketable, but there ap- | pears to be no longer doubt that this and the cost are but questions of | technical detail, and thst another de- cade at most will suffice to reduce diamonds to the vulgar level of the amethyst or the Rhine stone. a ———— How Old Is the Human Race! And. ae J a firm which expects to establish » | mine in this vicinity and oame here en- joined to absolute secrecy. The busi ness is now where this is no longer | necessary, for we have contracted for all the land we want except one corner, probably the richest in ore, however, of all.” Hayes then opened his papers and showed a plan of the grounds, “Why,” eried Mosby. “that corner belongs to me, and is the most worth less piece of ground on the footstool. | I've always been ashamed to claim ester, to his dangh- | uses of the two weapons had little of- ownership,” ter, “why do you persist in your friendship for our boarder, Hay es, fect on Hayes, who still continued to earry the pistols and make excursions not into the woods where Mosby ven- tured, *‘there might be a stray*deer if {| “Do you wish to sell it, Mr. Mos by 7 asked Hayes, “Sell it?” retarned Mosby. it for nothing. “Take Bring me the pape: when you know I | one happened to see it,” but toward | snd I will sigs the deed.” don't like I've warned often When you enough a man him? | the quarry and the hills Whether Mosby wanted to keep watch of his strange boarders actions 15 | that day, or whether his business led ashamed to tell his | in that direction, we cannot say, but 0001” gasped Mosby. Hayes acted with alacrity ; he found | a form, filled in some figures and held it in frout of the old man. “For and in considerstion of $20, What does if business it doesn't he spent the afternoon exploring the | Mean gif take much discern timber abutting the highlands. His “It means,” replied Hayes, ‘‘that | ment to see that observations were quite minute, and consider it a reasonable bargain for our something wrong. He five now about | road it had become quite dark. He is the sun was beginning to redden the firm at that price.” : has | clouds in the west when he started for | been in our house | home, and by the time he reached the | ing the course of a few months. Hayes the following year was frequent weeks, and during | had sbout eight miles to cover, but! ly 8 boarder with Jessie and her father, the whole time he | the way was so rough thes he made | but one August day there was a wed : has not hinted a word as to the meaning of his trips into the woods. Yesterday I saw him prowling about the old quarry, but when I asked him what he was after he said he was looking for game. A likely | place, indeed, to find anything to shoot.” “Father,” said the daughter, ‘Mr. Hayes has always treated me like a gentlemen, and, as there is no other company here, I don't see what harm ean come from talking with him.” “I know that it is lonesome here, Jousie, with no one but me for com- paty, and when we ean afford it we shall go where you can have better ad- vantages, but that fellow Hayes is not the right kind and I don’t want you to have anything at all to do with him. I've loft word with Dick to have his | horse ready when he gets back, for he has got to leave this place to-day, Of course, I've got no proof that he is a bad one, but it is easy enough to see. Look at his brace of pistols. I tell you a rifle is good enough here against | suything but the Sheriff's posse. But must go; remember what 1 say and dom't look for me back before night,” sid Mosby taraod away, Anton Mosby's oconpation was to protect a large section of pine timber owned by an Eastern comapany from speroachments by rival firms and ne- along the bovy. or, slow progress, | Here and there a moonbeam glis- | tened on a sandy opening, but for the | greater part of the time the foliage of the trees entirely obsoured the light, #0 he slumped wearily along, musing upon the events of the previous weeks and wondering where Hayes had gone to spend the night. A warm breeze sw {the huge pines; this and the sticks | which ernckled under his vet were all that broke the silence of the night— | all until from the distance eame wsud- ie hf to his ears the hoarse baying of {a wolf. From time to time it was ro- | peated until, from another direction, | arose an answering howl, prolonged and mournful. | Mosby plodded along, giving little ayed the tops of & sight on one of the *“‘warmints” in a bright spot of moonlight. The howling of the wolves gradually be came more frequent and began to sound nearer and noarer. Mosby camo to a halt and examined the con: | dition of his gun, and then, although | foelag that the rifle insured his safety, began to hasten his stops. By the time he had covered another half ding and Jessie went to board with him. ~Chicago News. Some Timber Strength Tests, It would be dificult to convinoe the | average man, especially the Missouri | pioneer, that fir is a stronger wood | | than oak, but such has been proven by actual tests that were made by a fair and impartial committee appointed for that purpose. The timbers used were | each 2x4 inches and four feet long, both ends solidly braced and the | weight applied in the middle of the span. ellow fir stood a strain of | 8062 pounds, common Oregon oak, | | 2022 pounds. Fine grained yellow fir | from near the butt stood a strain of | 3685 pounds, and best Michigan oak | {snapped with a strain of only 2428 | heed except wishing that he could get | pounds. These tests were made by the Northern Pacific Railroad Com. pany, at Tacomas, Wash. St. Louis Republie i — ie How the Egyptians Moved Great Stones, aud other large monoliths were trans. ported from the quarry to their site. ‘mile ho knew that there was danger behind, for the weird sounds had in. creasod into a din and an uproar, The stone is depicted upright on great galley or veasel, which Or partaer io | The old man recovered entirely dur | Mr. | A fragment of bas relief discovered | in Egypt has shown how the obelisks ! The fullest answer that science can yet give to the three most interesting questions perbaps ever asked in the world are explained in an article in the Forum, by Dr. Daniel G. Brinton, the ethnologist, These are: “When did the first man appear ¥’ “By what process did he apps ar?” and “Where did he appear?’ Samming up all that geologists and anthropolo gists know he appeared certainly 50,. 000 years ago, and it may be as many as 200,000 years ago. The evidences of | his existence which date back 50.000 years are unmistakable. By what pro- cess he came into being science has no definite answer, If it refuse to aco pt the doctrine of specific creation, it must refuse also, for lack of complete evidence, to accept the doetrine of | gradaal evolution—the old Darwinian doetrine. Dr. Brinton thinks the theory of “evolution by a leap” 18 AS good as any other theory. According to this, man sprung from some high order of mammal, the great tree ape, perhaps, by a freak, just as men of genius are freaks, and as all the vege- table and animal kingdom show freaks. As to where man first appeared it is beyond doubt that his earliest home was in southern Europe, or Asia, or North Africa. No earlier traces of him have been found thas those found in the area that is now England, | France and Spain. questions - CIO —— — Natural Curiosities, Curions resemblances in Nature | start with the cocoanui, in many re spects like the bumaa skull and almost a facsimile of the monkey's. The | meat of the English walnut is almost | copy of the human brain; plums sad | black cherries like the human eye, almonds like the human nose, and an { unopened oyster and shell a perfent likeness of the human ear. The shapo of a man's body may be traced in the mammoth squash, the open hand in growing scrub willows and celery, the human heart in German turnips and | egg plant, and dozens of the mechan- a —— New Process for Enameling, Floteker, Russell & Co, London, | have introduced a new proccss to sue
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