I PROMINENT PEOPLE. Pore Lro is eighty-five years old. Lonp Rosengny favors single tax, ta 8. Hewrrr is a confirmed dyspep- e. Larcanio Hzanx, the author, i8 a teacher | in a public sehool in Japan, Dn. Tansaor has arclved in Bombay, In- din, on his trip around the world, Tue will of Richard Smith, the wealthy typeiounder, loaves more than $1,000,000 to the city of Philadelphia, surance, No company would take him, Amoxao the newspaper mon now in the United States Senate are Hawley, Chandler, Walsh, Gallinger, Hansbrough and Peffer. Gexenar Winrian Booru, of the Balvation Army, is about sixty-six years of age, and is as active and vigorous as many men of thirty Govenrxor Argixsox, of Georgia, has ap- pointed as his private Secretary Miss Ellen J. Dorteh, editor of the Milledgeville Chron lele, WHITE HOUSE REDECORATED | | [ts New Carpets Selected by Mrs, Cleveland, | The workmen have been in possession of the White House ever since President Cleve ‘and loft Washington for Geay Gables, and he result of thelr labor Is most apparent in he great East Room and the Bilus Parlor, "he effect of the decorations in the East { Room have been changed from silverto gold, I'he woodwork, which heretofore was silvery A . | white, has been changed to white and gold, Tue Emperor of Russia is the only Euro- | pean monarch that does not carry a life in- | Tur youngest son of President Garfleld, | who was graduated from Willlams College in 1898, is now coaching the football team of | that college. Grosur Campucct poet of the day. He is the founder of a new school, In him the old Roman spirit 1s said to live again, Exrenon Musrsv Hiro, of Japan, is forty two years old and his son and heir is fiiteen, Haruke, who became Mrs, press in 1869, is thirty-five, national | | Now lace curtains are to hang is the foremost Italian | | those of the State dining-room, Hito and Em- | Sexaron Arusox, ot Iowa, is an Ohio | man. Ho is sixty-five years old, and has | been for thirty-soven years a resident of | [owa. Church, GREAT NAVAL LAND DRILL. Men From Seven Ships Form a Storm. lag Brigade at Mare Island, The groatest naval and land drill ever held at Mare Island, Caltfornin, and the Rreatest except two or three in the history of the service, took place a few mornings ago. The object was to practice men in the “storming drill” in brigade, and the present opportunity wns seized on by Admiral Beardsiee as being exceptional, seven ships in commission being in port at one time, The brigade formed under the command of Captain Thomas, of the Bannington. The men marched to the drill grounds and took a position about a mile from a hill supp orsed to be held by the enemy. The artilier a place on the flanks, and the infaniry sharged the hill, The mari lel the tack as the firing party, the second battalior of sailor supporting thex holding in reserve, As the leading battalion tion the reserves came up, and the held until the occupants we be dislodged, when they fell back the artillery covering the retreat anti original position was resumed, The exercises occupied an hour, when the brigade was put through a musket stacking arms, ete, Considering the inex. perience of the men in such large evola- tions, the work was well done, DEATH OF THE AMEER. The Ruler of Afghanistan Sald to Have Passed Away. took nes d= A Lahore newspaper says the Ameer of Afghanistan is dead. It describes the death Scene and relates at length how the Ameer exhorted his eldest son and heir, Habibullah, to maintain friendship with Great Britain. The Ameer’s country is about twice as large as New York State, and contains about 4,000, - 000 people. Asa buffer State between India and the Russian possessions, Afghanistan has heon of great importance to Eagland, and she would not be easy if the Ameer were not wholly under her influence, as Abdur Rahman Khan has been since the British withdrew their forces from the interior of the country in 1880, The Ameer was only about fifty years old, He was an absolute monarch, was an in- dustrious and a progressive man, introduced recently a number of European manufac- turing enterprises, and his great merit in the eyes of the English has been that he was faithful to them and did not intrigue with the Russians He had no surviving ohildren by his Quaen, but in 1887 he was the father of five children by four of his concubines. The eldest of these, Habibullah, in the absence of & legitimate successor, is the heir to the throne, He is twenty-three years old, and was married when he was sixteen, He has never cut any figure as yet in public affairs, EE ————— CHINESE REBELS IN ARMS, They Take a Garrison Demanded for the Empire's Defense, A dispatch from Shanghai, China, confirms the report that rebellion has broken out 100 Hunkow, are and miles from The rebals very Government foebly defended by Iatter wore soon de. f them were killed. Many I'wo mandarins fairly nas They attacked buildings, which wer logal troops. The feated, and many others joined the rebels, were killed, The provines is almost denuded of tro pe and the rebels are dally gaining strength. armel rock. the ——— BABY FIRST; STATE SECOND. Chief Justice Bleckley, of Gecrgia, Has Enough to Do at Home. Logan E. Bleokley, the ostogenarian Chief Tastioe of Georgia, resigned his ofMoee suse the people at the recent election he re ected the measure to insreass the number of Supreme Conrt Justicos Judge Bleckiey married Miss Ohlic Hae. ting, an heriess, of New York City, and a poy baby was bornto him a couple of months Wo The Jadge says he Is as vigorous as ever, but does not prope to wear himself out by warworking himself for the benefit of any one but the baby I —— INDIAN SUICIDE, An Old Navajo Shot His Young Squaw, His Horse and Himself. Word has been received of a Navajo mur. der and saleide near Gallup, New Mexico, An old Indian a few weeks ago married a young and handsome seuaw against the wishes of her parents, and they determined to drive him away, Learning this he shot her dead and then killed his horse, after which he put his istol to his head and blew out his own n—-— ALL FRANCE ASTONISHED. Uross of the Legion of Honor He- stowed Upon a German OfMleer, The people of Franes are astonished by the aot of the French Government in con terring the Oross of the Legion of Honor pon Captain von Susskind, the German nilitary attache at Paris, The Berlin correspondent of the Dally Wows ascribes the bestowal of the honor apon Captain Susskind to Emperor Wille inm’s pardoning of the French spies and his sympathetio attitude on the deaths of ex. President MoMahon and President Carnot. He is a momber of the Presbyterian I'he columns, the mantles and the wood. work around the windows and doors have been tipped with gold, adding to the besuty and richness of the apartment, The crystal shandeliers have been repollshed, and a new | earpet to harmonize with the brilliant decor. ations hus been put down The Blue Parlor, in which the President was married, and in which the President | holds oMoaial receptions and other executive sntertainments, has been provided with a {| new carpet tomatoh the silk decorations ow | the wall, It is a beautiful pattern of electric “lue, with laurel wreaths of a shade lighter, [t was selected by Mrs, Cleveland, and was made expressly for the Blue Room, The Red Parlor, which is the pride of Mrs, Cleve land, has been provided with a new carpet, to match the rich, warm decorations, which wore designed and executed under the personal supervision of Mrs. Cleveland, from the win. iows of the Blue and Red Parlors, and from Several ad- ditions have been made to the conservatory, and many rare and beautiful plants have been housed for winter blooming, The work of painting the exterior of the oullding is nearing completion. The glid- ing of the fence tips and the fronwork is all that is required of the painters, The seal folding has been removed and the old man- sion looks as bright and clean inside as out, The footwalk from the gateway to the por. loo has been laid in granolithie pavement, A CRAZY MOTHER'S DEED. Burned Herself and Three Children in a Barn at Elizabeth, N, J, Mra. Thomas Harrigan locked herself and three little children into the barn in the rear of her home on Grier avenue, at Eliz N. J., sot fire to a mow of hay and all perished In the flames. Mrs. Harrigan was suffering from temporary insanity, caused by malaria, Mrs, Harrigan called at Candlesa’s for her dally suppiy of m morning and he says that he did not anything unusual in her actions About 11 o'clock Miss Kate Harrigan, a sister-in-law of the dead woman, and Miss Rebecea Hall, who live near by, discovered the barn in flames and gave the alarm, They then ran towards the house and saw smoke pouring out of the kitehen window They rushed in and found a large box of wood burning alongside t which they tossad into the yard, Meanwhile other neighbors gathered at the scene, and surprise was expressed at the absence of Mrs, Harrigan and her children, Bearch was made in the house, and the hor rible truth began t0 dawn oa the assem bled people that they had perished in the flames in the barn. There was nothing to do but walt until the fire burned itself out, as the place was far removed from hydrants. It did not take long in the heavy wind blowing for the barn to be entirely sumed, and then search was made in the embers tor bodies, The charred trunks of the mother and children were found lying in a heap Ina corner of the barn on the ground, Women fainted at the frightful spectacle, Mrs. Harrigan was a comely woman o thirty years, The children were Waiter, aged six ; William, aged four, and Isabell aged fourteen months, Thomas Harrigan, abeth, four 3 tae eon | the husband and father, Is a vegetable ped i {| making | Ia by means of serum Injections, | the afMoacy of this treatment, | and laid a foundation for a new system of | to continue his special investigation, : will return between the middle and last of | | dier, HOWARD'S REPORT, Annual Resume of the 1)epartment of the East. The report Howard to the Adjutant-General, of August 31, has j War Departme praceiul conditi the annual made by Genera ander date ust been the very ur ou nt It sh ms existed Department { the year, hit: extended fl was sont t The Natl hanges General t increase the urge iRrgely his opinio Anges mass that na before me, and eve the drink ing habit is increased by the eno given theo As 1 mysel! an extreme, the words of the spector are at least suggestive From the vmount of ponsumed in the the ex ‘Ganges ) it is to be feared that we shal many rheumatic and gouty soldiers in the onrss of time, providing the restriction +) lonigth of service is taken off. yaragement LL) ant In regarded depart heer have NEW DIPHTHERIA CURE. A Government Physician to Introduce It Into This Country Surgeon-General Wyman, of the United Riates army, received a preliminary rep rt | from Passed Assistant J. J. Kinyoun from the Pasteur Institute in Paris, where hols special study of the methods of Professor Roux in the treatment of dipthar. Dr. Kin. youn sars he is convinesd that Professor Roux has been too modest in his claims for Tha Alaroy ory Is one of the greatest In medicine, and has passed through the experimental stage ’ preventative madicine Dr. Kinyoun is acquiring familiarity in the | laboratory and at the diphtheria hospital { with the various steps whisch are the essen. tial In the preparation of the serum and its | administration, under the direct tutiage of | Professor Roux, and is preparing to bring { with him on his return the necessary mater. ] ml, | 8% may be necessary Heo will be able to give such instruction for State Boards of Health to prepare it themsalves, From Paris Dr. Kinvoun will go to Berlin Ha November, and will put Into operation in the Inhoratory of the Marine Hospital Bureau at Washington the results of his labors abroad, i —— A MOUNTAINEER LYNOHED. He Killed a Kentucky Sheriff at the Falr Grounds, Oscar Morton, the young mountain des perado who murdered Sheriff Willlam Sime, of Leo County, at the Deattyvilie (Ky.) fale grounds, was taken out of the Deattyville all by a mob of nearly two hundred men and hanged from a bridge that spans Muddy Creek at Deattyville, ® killed a man in Breathitt County sev. eral months ago, and while trying to get into the fair grounds at Beattyville without a ticket was remonstrated h by Bherift Bima, He drow a revolver from seach kot and hogan shooting, He hit the Bheritt Shires times, one bullet going through the art THE LABOR WORLD. Hoxoany has Knights of Labor, MiLwavxex has a bootblacks' union. Bavrismone has a working girls' home, Panis store clerks get commission on sales, Farr Riven, Mass, , has 25,000 unemployed. Panis 18 to ratirondoers, have a world's congress of Lowgry, Mnss,, has a workingmen's de- | ' AS | manufacturer, after an absences of twanty- , four hours from the summer home of her bating union. Vinarxia colored miners took the places of Ohio strikers, Jouaxxesnuno (South get #45 a month, Africa) conchmen Maxy factories are starting, but often with | | pijsiaian and her relatives BAY Was supers a reduction in wages, Tux Knights of Labor have given up tho | idea of pablio lectures and debates. Wine Michigan and Minnesota woodmen will organize for shorter hours, Tur factory girls of Paris and In France, are forced to live on twelve cents n day ONBIN, Tux Tacoma (Wash) Iron Molders’ Union | has been sued for damages member, Tur Now Bedford (Mass. ) strike bas ended, The operatives went back to work on a five per cent, roduction. I'ux Cincinnati Labor Exchange secures ployment for mechanics in exchange for provisions, groceries and clothing. ALL the clonkmakers In New York, some 12,000 in number, went on strike for a ten- hour day and abrogation of piece work. Ar Indianapolis, Ind., an American Ball- way Union striker has sued the Pennsylvaia Railroad for $15,000 for unlaw!ul arrest. Kaxsas Crry packing-houss drivers, mak- Ing #11 per week, struck against furnishing 4 #1000 bond as security for the money col- lected by them, by an expelied Tux Rallway Conductors’ Insurance As- sociation has pald out in cash to widows and orphans over 81,000,000 and £150,000 to dis- abled conductors, Quixey (IIL) union cabinet -makers struck for the alscharge of one of their number be- cause he drank and neglected his family, The man was discharged. Many Surriewearn, forewoman of the Dykes marble works, of Akron, Ohio, was instantly killed, a few days ago, by a Cleve- land, Akron and Columbus train, SaxveL Bexsavis, the other day w thera to | Secure a printer iy {18 8 RAVALCS Works I THE MAINE'S TRIAL. Uncle Sam's First Battle Ship Ex- ceeds Requirements The first official trial of a composite ballt thip—hull constructed by a navy rard and motive power by outside o WAS nade off New London, C ng Island Sound, when the United Maine demonstrated tothe satisfacti Micial Board and the prog ne Quintard Iron Works it her Ntatos fp riot who bai ry. that the vessel's engine 000 indieated horse p sontract with the Navy Departn stimated by exports that the excess w from 400 to 600 horse power machinery contractors, N. | to a handsome premium, For four hours she raced down Long Isl and Bound, her engines strats! 10 hs urs most capacity, her hull quivering from stam to stern under the shafts and piston rode speed, and thers ware n her for war ent wert ie entitle Palmer & terrifle nding of It was not a test of highest aspee > ath her under foreed SereawWws Ware spend, tha ire ig ino ing was mm at nDeuliraiie nest a strong i have taken the spool . wi other thelr be known test had which It matical ca As the on the twenty-l t fort tober take $ ot i ine gaugad speed at vari intervals was due to ations in the wind, SLAIN BY DRUNKARDS. Two Persons Shot to Death and Three Serfously Wounded As a result of a drunken riot at Malthy, Penn. , one person was lastantly killed, two were fatally wounded and two others seri. ously injured, The killel and Injared are George Sivoskl, aged seventeen years, head blown 10 pieces § Lizzie Posky, aged fifteon years, Iatally shot In the back and abdomen ; John Jenkine, aged twenty-eight yoars, Iatally shot in the abdomen and left hand blown off Maggie Moore, aged fourteen years, shot in the arm and both legs ; Thomas Moore, aged twenty-three years, shot in both legs, left knee shatterad, Michael Paloski became Intoxioated, an 1, going to the saloon of John Moors, started a | quarrel. He was ordered from the saloon, and, becoming enraged, went home and pro- cured a shotgun. On his way back to the saloon he encountered Dan Ryan, who wan sitting on his porch together with Lizzie Fosky and Magaie Moore, Ryan ad. vised Paloskl to go home, but the Istter mised his gun and fired, The two girls re- oslved most of the shot, John Moore, who had the shooting, pioked vi gatherad up the Fosky girl In his arma, The drunken flond emptied the contents of the second barrel Into the girls, Moore re esiving part of the load in his knee. The shooting attracted a large crowd, and Paloski was joined by two of his country. men, who wore also supplied with guns, John Jenkin attempted to arrest Paloakl, when he received a load of shot in his stom- ach, The three men eseaped into thelr boarding house and barricaded the door, People living on the opposite side of the street had their heads out of the windows, One of thwe was George Sivosk!, One of the mon, seeing the head of the boy, took deliberate alm and fired, the full o striking the unfortunate on the left of the head, tearing half his bead and face away. The boy fell dead, been attracted by his sister and Ryan | & young iin a | of Lyons, | | through the head, LOVERS DEAD TOGETHER, | Mury Duff by Chloroform and E. L. Titus by Bullet, A tragedy as sensational as Long Island ans over known was disclosed when it be- samo known that Ellett Livingstons Titus, broker, and Mary 8, Duff, the Inughter of a wonlthy Brooklyn earrings father in Bea CIM, N. Y., were found dead bath house on the beach. He had been shot through the head, Bhe secording to a physician who examined the | 4 . | New York Advertiser. bodies, died from heart disease, which the nduend by chloroform administered to her by Titus to cure a headache, Then, It is thought, the man, realizing his pos tion, shot himself, {There was littls evidences chloroform poisoning, except the at sence of rigor mortis, but a bottles of the an anesthetic was found In the dead man's poset, They were to have been married in obruary, and when they went out fora walk on the evening of the tragedy both wore in good spirits, Tragedy, pathos and {impenetrable mystery combine in the story. Their bodies were found together in a private bath house near the beach, The man had shot The woman was dead from the effects of chloroform. They were engaged and devoted lovers. They were to married in the spring, of the match ; they were happy in the antie pation of its consummation, tnown cloud flecked the clear horizon of heir future, Yet, there is no suspicion of foul play from | aands other than their own. It was either louble suleide or murder and sulclde, The sonditions give equal evidence in support of sither theory. But all evidence is lacking in he matter of motive for either double sul *ide or murder and sulcide, and that pro vides the deep mystery of it all, Miss Duff was the daughter of Peter Duff, + woalthy furniture dealer of Brooklyn whose oity residence is at 399 Clinton ave | romantic | biuff that | we, His summer residence is a id mansion in a hollow near the gives the seaside village its name, Miss Duff was the only unmarried daughter Her sister Is Mrs, E. P. Floyd-Jones, and Duff is the only son. Miss Duff was ty-three years old, was the kind ns lovable, woman described » was distinetively blond, with light brown face and fine brown Khe often est slerk, who lived , &t 440 Clintor He was Titus, the founder wme North at wd slnee with nt, Edward Hodgskin been engaged for th Titus was a tall, an, with a handsor 1 hysique. He was a 3d a fine bow pelares that his a sand Miss Dufy three . cunt in this ofty, inres that eo was without a vice, PENSION OFFICE REPORT, Pensloners on the Rolls—New Clalgas Falling On, rt of the Commissioner slons for the flscal year ended June 30, 1804, ha ) > Ans been forwarded to the Secretary of the + The repo of! Pen. It says that the number of pone nner on the rolls Jane 50, 1593, was 866 . that during the year 850.085 now | yers wore added to the rolls, and 2383 rreviousiy dropped were resiored, while 87.951 bave been dropped for death and other causes, and on June, 30, 18M, the number of pensioners upon the rolls was 909.548 The number of paneton sertifioates fesnad during the your was 80.218, and 132. LE] slatms of all cleans Wop rejoctad On Jaly 1. 1854 were undisposad of and in 41 of preparation and for ine there arent wa ro # for pension and "et alr aby wh Juries, and “FIGHT IT OUT." We Refuse to Interfere Between China and Japan, The United States has been invited by the quadruple alllance—~Groat Britain, Franoe, in it Ina between C and friendly Germany Rassia—to | intervention in the war hina and Japan, The invitation Is eouched in the cholomst of diplomatie language. The horrors of the war are depleted in elequont torma, The wisdom of! stopping it is set forth in a very fetohing manner, and the obtained from a restoration of peace are clearly described, The invitation has been declined, The declination is based on the time-honored poliey of this Government to avold any entangling alliances with foreign powers, Acknowledgement is made of the truth of what the invitation has to say about the desirability of the restoration of peace, ote, But In the polite language of diplomacy it is pointed out that this coun. try has so far thriven very well attending to Its business, and that so long as it continues to prosper Ly that policy it will not depart from It FOUR WOMEN PERISH. Cathollie Sisters and Patients Burned to Death In Houston, Texas, The worst fire in the history of Houston, Texas, broke out at 2.40 a, m., and before it was placed under control at 4.30 o'clock, not only had a large amount of property been Yomt od, but two Sisters of 8t, Josaph were burned to death, Two Infirmary pationts Also perished, and a third sister was danger ously injured, The fire originated in the San Jasinto Ho. tol, or mther bom<ding house, at Franklin and San Jacinto streets, from which the blame spread rapidly to adjoining small balldings of Bt, Joseph's infirmary on Franklin stroet, destroying also a largs twostory frame an- nex and then the new fourstory brick malin building, The destruction of these bulldings was ae- companied by loss of lite, Sisters Doleral and Jane were burned beyond all possibility of facofinition, while Sister Clotilde was fearfully burned about the face, neok, Arms and breast, her recovery being In dou, Two patients ware also missing, bat there was not the slightest doubt that these also pers Droesoxn wheat sold down to fifty-two and one-quarter oonts in New York, lowest price in the history of the market. | suds, and rinses them in | ner this is a nice way of using himself | | steam escape and dry off the | Haat the tomatoes which Both were pros- | | pectively wealthy ; their relatives approved | you will be surprised to find it so good. | quite sure that there is one | soft cloth, benefits to mankind and to commeroe 10 be | HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS, TO PREVENT FLANKEL BHRINEKING, A good old Beoteh housewife says that her flannels never shrink, and it is because she washes them in cold water, She puts them in clean, cold soapsuds and washes them directly; then she puts them through a second cold water and hangs them ont to dry without wringing them at all. Bhe never washes flannels on a rainy or clondy day, but always waits for sunshine, — LEFT-OVER STEWED TOMATORS, If, as often happens, you have a lit- tle stewed tomatoes left over from din- r them : Boil two-thirds of a cap of rice in two | cups of water (or steam it in the double boiler) adding half a teaspoon of salt | at the time you pour the boiling water on to the rice, Cook until soft, which | will be in a half or three-quarters of an hour. Remove the cover and stir the rice carefully with a fork to let the rice. left, were | season them quite highly with salt and | pepper, and not a | using a little cayenne to highten the taste, add to the rice a tablespoonful of butter, stir carefully in, and when melted pour over the tomatoes and stir that also into the rice. Serve at once as a vegetable and ~— New York Advertiser, COOKING BANANAS, Cooked bananas make delicious des- serts. As fritters, they are excellent. Sliced, fried and sprinkled with pow- dered sugar they are good. Made | into a pudding by slicing them, plac- ing in a puddiag dish with alternate slices of sponge cake, the whole | sonked with beaten egg and 1 they are not to be despised. served Are le Boil together a pound of sugar, al pint of and the lemon an i orange. and when it syrup-li Pe eloed bananas slice i i for about cold. Pre- bananas also licions., wht 11100 Walter Jui one is forty mint Id To bake bananas loosen the skin so that the fruit m but do not take it out until baking. Bake for half an hour her remove the looser tins and cover with a sance made by boil cup of sugar and half a cup of water five minutes and adding a teaspoon of butter and tho juice « { sling ay be ay AL | by half a ng lemon, of half a | New York World. THE SERVANT OF SMALL TEINGS. There is a prospect that, before we are much older, nearly all our house- keeping will be done by machinery. Not only by special machines for spe- cial purposes, but by great co-opera- tive machinery for the whole honse- keeping. Bat the faithful housekeeper servant supplanted —the is who will never be servant of small things. The servant, paid or unpaid, who picks up the trifles every one else drops, and puts sway the articles every one else for- The servant who carries up and an i fintes gota, down stairs odd cups and glasses spoons ; who finds overshoes and and schoolbo and gathers the scattered playthings and discovers the misplaced book Ke nats who ing; who makes ready the chai the footstool for the coming pant, and who takes up all the stitches, m | id mate family life, There may arise hon chines, big and little, marvelous skill and ac until a meth i ting a heart them, of giving them a » 0 body, it certain that of the servant of sm never be Pe rfectly filled by trivances, Harper 8s Bazar As We 1} is HOUSEHOLD IU After washing never w 1s. them * 1 dress goo Shake Soak milk and spread on the grass in the sun. Acid phosphate stains from the thing else fails, Milk, applied once freshens boots and shoes mildewed clothes in Ive FE hands rem ink when evi ry- a week witha aud pres Ives Canned sardines carefully browned on a double-wire gridiron and served with lemon are appetizing. One of the easiest ways of ‘‘taking cold” is to drop asleep without an ex- tra wrap over the shoulders No receptacle for soiled clothing, even if handsomely decorated, should be kept in a sleeping apartment, These are days when extra care should be taken to keep the feel per. fectly dry. A fresh pair of stockings should be used every day Canned tomatoes are more delicious baked than stewed. About ten min- utes before removing from the oven spread buttered bread-crumbs over the top. Whiten yellow linen by boiling half an hour in one pound of flue soap melted in one gallon of milk. Then wash in sads, then in two cold waters with a little blueing. Calicoes, ginghams and chambrays cannot be properly washed with the white clothes, They need a mach quicker process, and the long delays of an ordinary washday would ruin them, Two uses of eggs are not generally known or appreciated. A fresh egg beaten and thickened with sugar, free- ly eaten, will relieve hoarseness, and the skin of a boiled egg, wet and ap- plied to a boil, will draw oul soreness, a ————— In Russia it was once the common : lork, | erooked | now, | Armour, | against your expulsion as being un- | just and unwarranted by the facts, | By the way, Mr. Armour, the academy | assistance.’ belief that beardless men were soulless, SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Mexico has an sbundance of iron ore, It is the iron in clay that gives the ordinary brick its red color. Among the crustaceans various shades of red are the prevailing colors that there are Astronomers claim { over 17,500,000 comets in the solar | system alone, Fruit wrapped in heavy brown paper | will stand fifteen degrees more cold than if not wrapped. The coloring of the deep ses jelly fishes is suid to be unusually deep | violet or yellowish red. Of the steam engines now working in the world four-fifths have been sonstructed the past twenty-five years, Bix years ago the price for a com- plete equipment of a trolley car was $4500; now it 1s between £1000 and $1200, A Boston naturalist, with a tuning has discovered that crickets thirp in unison, and that their note is | E natural. Banctorius, an Italian physiologist, estimates that five-cighths of all the solid and liquid food taken are ex- haled by the skin, Many springs are intermittent, probably because the channels leading from the reservoirs to the surface are and constitute natural gi- phouns. A scientific Frenchman has dis- covered that potatoes planted near an electric wire grow to be very large, snd tomatoes in contact with the same object ripen eight days earlier than usual. The most rapidly moving star known in space does not one-thousandth part of the parted to the light which it radiates snd by which alone we become of its existence. nove slong with A in spec | me M AWAre wood hisses burning water (ireen when because amoun contain in making its escape. The great waves, caused by the katoa earthquake in 1883, stroved 40,000 lives a } of whiel traveled at the sn hour. These waves were felt more than 7000 miles away from the place of their origin. Dr. Kingsett, the chemist, recog- nizing that ozone, the natural purifier of the air, is produced in nature by balsam trees—the pine, fir, larch and eucalyptus—urges that such trees be planted and cherished on farms, and in towns and villages. mile ’ IGLCS rate ) ’ Electric melting of metals, notably cast iron and steel, as produced by a new German process, is said to have some very grest advantages. In cruci- ble steel the new process shows an ecopomy of fuel of more than half, which, for metal so difficult of fusion, is a favorable result. The photographers of the Paris Ob. | servatory have just finished for the | Academy of Science the clearest view ever secured of the moon. They have photographed ber surface in sections, which fit, making a great image five feet in diameter. The work is so per- fect that forests and rivers would be preceptible if they existed. towns, A Pocrastinating Professor, They are telling a pretty fair story n “Uncle Phil” Armour, from his European trip The story is in two chapters, with a period of thirty years elapsing be- twoen the two Thirty years or more ago P. D. Armour was & young man sttending an demy near Syracuse, N. Y. There was a ladies’ seminary near by, snd one beautiful moonlight night Phillip slipped away from his dormi- tory and tock a pretty seminary girl out for a long buggy ride It came to the ears of the dignified faculty and a sentence of expulsion was entered up againt P. D. Armour. Years passed on. Young Armour came to Chicago and be the greatest merchant in the world One day sn old man with as pair of white side whiskers and a pr nal beatific smile was ushered Mr. Armour’s private office, “Yon remember the —-— Academy, Just home ACR came f 168%] into Mr. Armour?’ his visitor began. “Ishould say I did. I was expelled from that institution for taking Susie — out buggy riding.” “Well, then, perhaps you remember me. Iam Professor ——., I was a member of the faculty then, as I am And I want to say, Mr. that 1 always protested is in a financial strait just now and I oame to see if you would give us some H “Well,” replied the millionaire, “if | you protested against my expulsion all have to say is that you have been a long time letting me know about it" But Mr. Armour made out a good | round check, just the same, and sent the old pedagogue on his way rejoie- ing. «Chicago Mail, i — A Neat Puzzle, We should like to know the name ox the author of the following puzzle and anagram : A wen 01d WOMAN With wee intent Put on her —— and to market went * sn,” ald she, “give me, Ipiay, The wherewithal 10 «we this day.” Each of the blanks is to be filled with a word of four letters, and the samo letters occur in each of the five different words, These words are con socutively, *‘vile,” ‘“tevil” ‘'yeil" “Levi” and “live.” We repeat that We 410 Gutiods 16 lear the nume of the author o ingenious ans, ram puzzle, —Chicago Record,
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