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THE PITTSBURG-' DISPATCH
JULY 6, i89L .
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TBAXSLATED FOB THE DISPATCM
A good, old miller, who was about to die,
sailed his three sons to him and said: "My
iear children, my last day has come, and I
mji be with you only a few more hours. All
the wealth Iposscss is the old mill, a don
key and a cat These are yours to do with,
is you think best."
Soon after the miller died and was laid to
rest. Then the eldest son divided the prop
erty. He kept the mill for himself, gave
the donkey to the second son, and there was
nothing left for the youngest son, Edwin,
xcept the large gray cat The boy was
vcrv much dissatisfied with his share, and
said: "What can I do with a cat? If it
were made of gold it would be of some
value; but I cannot even sell its fur. The
bet thing for me to do is to drown it"
The rM heard these words, and creeping
irom his place behind the stove he stole up
to his master, and looking piteously into
hi? face said: "Do not depKe me, kind
master, nor allow me to be killed; for I can
bring great fortune to you. Only give me
a bag; then buv me a ha't and a pair of boots,
and you will see that your share of your
lather's wealth is the best."
Edwin laughed hcartilv at this speech,
but replied: "Vou are a sly animal, and
who knows but that you might bring me
some luck."
The hat and boots were purchased, and
dressed in these the cat took his bag and
began his travels. He first went into the
field and thouskt: "Now. I will try to
catch a rabbit, tor I am told that the King
is verv fond ot stewed rabuit.
He then stretched himself out as if dead,
and directly several rabbits hopped near,
gazing curi'oush at the strange sight of a
-at dressed in liat and boots. It was not
long before the cat had the unsuspecting
auimaU in his bag, and was making his way
to the King'spalace. When he reached the
gate the servants laughed loud and long at
the cat dressed in such a costume, and they
willingly led him to the King. AVhen lfe
had come into the royal presence, the cat
took off his hat, made a low bow, and said:
"Your Majesty, my master, Co'jint Have
nothing, has sent me to you wiih this pris
ent, which he begs you to" accept."
The Kin took the rabhits, and sent many
thanks to the kind Count A day or two
later, the cut came again with "squirrels,
which he said were a present to tfie King
from Count Havenothing. This time the
King sent not only thanks, but a purse of
gold, which the delighted cat carried to
Edwin, who greatly praised him for his
shrewdness. For "several months the cat
carried gifts to the King and always re
ceived in return some rich present fbr his
master.
One inorning, the cat said to Edwin: "To
day I shall make your fortune for you;
but you must do "exactly as I say. The
King isgoinc to ride with his daughter past
the mill, and when his carriage comes in
sight, vou must jump into the millpond."
Edwin had nsw such confidence in his
faithful servant that without asking why.
promised to do as he was told. The miller's
m watched all day for the King's, carriage.
Late in the afternoon he saw it approach,
and as it drew near, Edwin jumped into the
stream. The cat stood on the bank, .and
cried: "nelp, help, the Count Havenoth
ing has fallen into the millpond and is
drowning."
The King recognized the cat's voice, and
remembering the many gifts he had re
ceived from the Count." he sent his servants
to rescue the man, whom he thought to be
drowning. When the servants had pulled
Edwin out of the water, and had returned
to the carriage, the King said: "Go to Count
Havenothing, and tell him that the King
sends him an invitation to ride iu the royal
carriage."
But the cat said: "Your Majesty, my
master has just been taken from the pond,
and, although nothing would give him
greater pleasure than to ride with you, he
-ould not appearbefore you and the Princess
in his dripping clothes."
The Kins then dispatched a servant to
the castle for a princely suit with which to
adorn the voung Count. When Edwin,
dressed in his courtly dress and attended by
his faithful servant, appeared, the Princess
tliontrht him the most handsome youth she
liad ever seen, and the King repeated his
invitation for him to ride with him.
While Edwin, the poor miller's son, was
riding in company with the ruler of the
land, the cat sped like the wind over the
road until he came to a large castle made
holly of gold and precious stones. In the
gardens sparkled crystal fountains, and the
rich perfume of choice flowers filled the air.
Here lived an old magician who was skilled
in all magic arts, and who was a cause of
terror to all the people of the surrounding
country. His wealth, was much greater
even than the King's, and his palace was
the grandest in the world. The cat entered
the magnificent building, and went directly
into the presence of the owner, who was a
'ittle, old man. bent almost double from
bending over books so much. His thin,
gray hair hung dow n over his shoulders, his
and his face was vellnw and wrinkled We I
ana nis iace was v enow ana wrinkled, lie l
looked up as tnc cat came in, and said
angrily: "How dare you come here to dis
turb me?"
The cat took off his hat, made his best
bow, and said: "I do not come to disturb
you; but I have heard what a great man you
arc, and I simple wished to see you."
The old man was v ery much "flattered by
these words, and rcp'lied: "Yes, I am a
gieat man: but I did not know that cats had
heard of me."
"There is no creature who lias not heard
of you," returned the cat, "and I thought
Iierhaps if 1 came here dressed in my new
tat and boots, you would perform some of
your magic arts for mc."
"I shall do so with pleasure," answered
the old man. "What shall I do first"
"Ilune heard," said the cat, "that you
ran change j-ourself into any animal j-ou
wish; but I do not believe it."
"Of course. lean," cried the magician,
"and if you dare to say that I cannot 1 Bhall
kill j oil at once."
Instantlv the old man vanished and in his
place stood a large lion shaking his main
and roaring furiously. The cat was so
frightened that he sprang out of the win
dow and ran as fast as he could toward the
gate. Itut the old man laughed heartilv
and cried: "Come back. Xoir will you
believe that you have heard about me?"
The cat came back and said: "I have
seen you become a raging lion; but can you
become so small an animal as a mouse?"
The magician made no reply; but a mo
ment later a tiny mouse was running over
the floor. Quick as a flash the cat seized
and killed the little creature. Then he
cut about among the servants and told
them that their old master, the magician,
was dead and their new master, Count
Havenothing, would toon arrive. The faith
lul cat then stationed himself at the gate,
and watched for the King's carriage. AVhen
the royal party came near hd. said: "Mas
ter, everything is in readiness for your
guests.'"
Edwin felt that he could trnsthis servant,
and he said to the King: "Thisus my palace.
Will not you and the Princess stop here to
The King looked in astonishment at the
wondered that he
ire. He herrtTeil in
uc uowa me interior, ana, witn the cat as
their guide, the three wandered thrnnirn t1i
marble halls and rooms, whose walls were
studded with sparkling gems.
Prom, that time Edwin, who was alwavs
thereafter known as Count Havenothing,
j uPhis residence in the golden palace,
and a few years later he married the Prin
cess, the King's beautiful daughter, and for
the rest of his life was a happy, wealthy
ma- The faithful cat, who liad brought
sucl luck to his master, was given one of
the best rooms in the building, and on ac
count of the kind attention which he re
ceived from both his master and the serv
ants, lived to a good, old age.
Edwin's two brothers never became rich
men, and they both wished many, many
times that they had chosen the despised cat
instead of either the mill or the donkey.
Paysie.
SOME ENIGMATICAL NUTS.
Panics for the Uttlo Folks That Will Keep
Their Drains Busy for Slost of the "Week
ir They Solve Thein Correctly Home
Amusements.
Address communications for this department
to E. E. CHADBOUBif, -hewiston, Maine.
1613 THE rCZZLEAJP THE TRIAGIXS.
In the accompanying diagram, four equal
and similar triangles aro constructed by
means of nine equal straight lines.
Now, with three more equal straight lines,
construct a figure containing two more
equal and similar triangles.
J. H. FrzAsniE.
1611 KIXQS.
Who'll be king of the jokors.
That bravely banish the blues?
Who'll be king of the smokers, '
That relish Nicotian dews?
Who'll be king of the urchins
That brighten the travelers' shoes?
Who'll be king of the toilers?
The king of the lazr crew?
The king of the speculators?
OAhe lovers who meet to woo?
Wlfiill be king of the drunkards?
The beggars we know have two.
Who'll be tho fisherman's monarch?
There's one lor tho milker of nies.
Who'll bo king of the cowards?
Who'll be king of the spies?
Who'll be king of the cravens?
AVe know there is one for the wise.
Who'll be king of the sailors?
Of the pirate hordes thnt rob?
Who'll be king of the orators?
Of the babies who crow and sob?
Who'll be king of their mothers?
ur tne restless, riotous moo?
"Who'll be tho king of the timid,
In doubt what to do or say?
Who'H'be king of the postmen '
Who honestly earn their pay?
And -since there's a king for the sullen,
There is surely one for'the gay.
W. Wilsox.
1G13. BBAVADO.
Of all the stories of foolhardiness I over
heard, tho story of the young mau who took
a leap trom St. haul steeple seemed the
greatest when I first heard it, but second
thought convinced me that it was only an
ordinary bceurrence.nnd the only result was,
after a general shaking up, a trial to the pul
sation of his heart. Ethyl.
1C1C TEAXSrOStTIOX.
t
Though Patrick was clever, good-natured,
and brisk, he
Was fond of a one full of brandy or whisky;
He shunned the straight path that we learn
has but few in.
And two at full speed down the broad road to
ruin.
Till blest Father Matthew's Society caught
him,
And to a full sense of his misdoing brought
him.
He saw all his danger, its woes, and its ter
rors, Signed the pledge, and most manfully three
all his errors;
Grew steady and business-like, and of late
Has bought a neat cottage, and flno four
estate,
To the joy of his good little wife who de
clares "There's no yire' man than Pat to be found
anywhere."
ir.
Mr. Cook one for all tho elite of tho citv,
To-day his position is subject forpitv?
He's an order that seems for a puzzle in
tended; Erasures, corrections, and Uvo strangely
blendctl.
The writer s contusion, now three on tho
reader.
But he must get it right 'tis from Alder
man Feeder.
With his finger be four the irregular scrawl
Till he starts at the sound of a clattering
iP' Boggles,the clumsiest Walter alive
Thls moment has broken his fn.rtt i
This moment has broken his favorite. nW
Then his clerk has made up an account, and
it's wrong:
He must six it himself, and it's ever so long.
He'd some seven of fine strawberries prom
ised at noon.
Three o'clock, and those berries have gone
to the moon
For all ho can tell ho is ready to swoon.
JL C. S.
1 61T DZCATTTATIOy.
An all of tea,
At close of day,
Docs not agree
With me, I say.
For, likea fa.rf,
I lie awake,
Till hours are passed,
When it I take.
BtTTF-r. Sweet.
161S MT COKFESSTOS.
When I was a small boy, oh, a very, very
small boy, I didn't like to stijdy. If, on
looking my lessons over, they seemed hard,
I would close the book with, a bang and
declare I never could get them. When on
the playground, ir the games didn't go on
Just according to my mind, I w otild lcavethe
game with tho momentary intention of
never playing with the boys again. When I
grew older I announced that the practice of
medicine was my choice of professions
Mv friends all exclaimed tlmf. rf n i,
i jjmii-ssums nun was mo one lor which I
was naturally least fitted. Why?
Ethvl.
1s19 chahade.
"When summer comes," said little Jack
One blustering winter dav,
"I'll gi e up all my in first games,
And in tho fields I'll play.
"I'll find tho two to all the nests
Tho birds build in our1 grove.
But I will never, never harm
The birds, I dearly love.
"I'll plant somo pictty flowering vines
And train them o'er the all
Ana will enjoy the fragrant blooms
Until the Irostsof tail.
in."
31ns. E.
1620 TRANSFORMATION.
A total term wo hero have sought,
That adjectively means make warm or hot;
Transform it, as wo here now do,
And lo: a true "lacefactori'' springs to view.'
Asriao.
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1621 HAU SQUARE.
1. A celebrated epic poem of the Hindoos'
2. Expiation. '3. A preacher. 4. One who
maintains that the soul is the proper princP
pie of life. 5. Slanders. 6. Wrong. 7. Quiet
. An insect. 9. A letter repeated. 10. A
vowel. (J. Becs.
1C2J TRAKBP0S1T10X.
The first is man's good friend and servant
That must be owned by the observant.
Transpose, and what you now do make
You always And by sea or lake. '
Bitter Sweet.
riUZES. TOE JULY.
They are three in nurnbor, and will de
light the winners. They will be awarded
the senders of the best three lots of answers
for the month, the solutions, as usual, to be
forwarded in w cekly installments.
AKSWERS.
ICOt To appear amid inconsolable cranks,
who insist on pouring their sorrows into
one's car is unbearable.
1G05 Champ-i-on.
lfiOS The battle of "Waterloo.
107 Flint-lock, shot-gun, pistol, riflo, can
non, revolver, musket.
1603 Clan-g.
KXW The dial of a city clock.
1G10 Car-a-van.
1611 Beast, host.
1G12 Crust, rust.
THE GAY SWEET BILLY.
How the Meadowlark Changes His Koto
With the Seasons A Good Bird Up
North, hut Ill-DIannered in the South
Ills Habits.
WRITTEN TOn THE DISPATCH.!
O the Meadow lark is the bird for me,
lie sits on top of the walnut tree,
And sings aloud with a voice of glee,
"Sweet Billy, Sweet Billy, come out to me."
But lato in tho fall.
He changes his call,
And sings "Sweety Bill," in a mournful tone,
As though Billy had gone and left him alone.
The meadow lark, sometimes called "old
field lark," or "American starling," is best
known to country boys and girls as "sweet
Billy," from the fact of his uttering these
words so plainly when he comes to us from
the South early in April. He is one of our
most beautiful birds when he first comes,
with his bright yellow shirt and black
bosom, but toward fall, the black breast be
comes of a dull grayish color, and it is then
he changes his brisk notes of "sweet Billy"
to a plaintive, long-drawn-out "sweety
BilL"
The lark is one of the farmer's best
friends, as he never eats fruit and very
rarely disturbs grain when growing, al
though he occasionally eats the grains of
oats or rye which he finds scattered in fields
at harvest time. His regular diet is insects
of different kinds, beetles, ants, etc., and
like the red-winged blackbird he is very
fond of cutworms, which he destroys in
great quantities after the fields are plowed
lor corn.
Thcv beuin buildintr earlv in Mav: both
male and female helping make the nest
which is built on the ground and composed
of dry, wiry grass made very compact, to
which a hidden and almost winding path is
mute, and generally so well concealed that
the nest is only to be found when the bird
is frightened Irom it Their nests are very
cosy affairs, each one having a roof over
part, if not the whole of the nest, under
which my lady lark sits protected from both
sun and rain.
Many a time, when school "let out" have
I spent happy hours hunting through the
old pasture field for a lark's nest and when
I found one, with what joy I canied home
the four pure white eggs, with spots of red
dish brown, and added them to my collec
tion. They are gregarious birds, for most of the
year, going in flocks from place to place,
and only desert their wandering life when
raising their young. I have sometimes seen,
lnte in the fnll 100 tr mnrp enllpptpfl ?n i
( field making preparation to leave for the
aouiu. une Dim js usuany percnea on a
tree near by as a sentinel, and the moment
a gunner approaches he gives the alarm and
the flock is on the qui vive in an instant.
They are so shy that it is very difficult to
approach them, and when shot at thev are
secured only by guns of long range. Their
flight is a peculiar, hovering one, the wings
moving in short, almost imperceptible vibra
tions. A few larks often stay with us through
the winter, and when deep snow is on the
ground they visit the barnyards and if not
molested become very tame. Although so
harmless a bird in the Northern States,
when the lark goes South he loses his good
manners and becomes quite a thief. Audubon
says that in the Carolinas many planters
agree in denouncing the lark as a depre
dator, alleging that he scratches up. oats
when sown early in the spring, and is fond
of plucking up the young corn, wheat, rye
and rice.
John Burroughs one of our best authori
ties on birds speaking of the "return of the
birds," says: "The swallows live and chat
ter about the barn and build beneath the
eaves; the partridge drums in the fresh
sprouting woods, the long, tender note of
the meadow lark comes tip from the
meadow, "and he counts them the happiest
days of his life, when a bare-foot boy and
free from care, he wandered through the
fields and meadows
And listened to the yellow-breasted lark's
Sweet whistle from I
i tin
le grass.
Aunt Clare.
AH OHIO LEGISLATOR'S YA2N.
His Tarty of Poker Players "Were Fright
ened by a Skeleton Gambler.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Scott Bonham tells the following remark
able story, and as he is an attorney and
member of the Board of Legislation there
can be no doubt as to its veracity: "Some
time subsequent to 1849," said Scott, "my
self and several young fellows caught the
gold fever and concluded to go to California
and become millionaires. We reached the
Eldorado in good condition, and upon the
advice of an Indian purchased 300 acres of
land supposed to contain a vein of the
coveted metal. After a fruitless searchfor
three weeks in the bowels of the earth, we
returned one Saturday afternoon to our
shanty, and after supper sat down to a
social game of poker.
"We played all Saturday night, all day
Sunday and well into Sunday night, when a
terrible storm arose. The thunder crashed
around us until our cabin seemed tottering
on its trail foundation, but still we contin
ued to play until the war of the elements
grew so terrific that one of our companions
rose from his seat, saving he would play no
longer. He had hardly left his place when
a flash of lightning more intense in its brill
iancy than any before caused us to pause in
our play, when glancing at the face of Jim
who "sat opposite the vacant chair, my
blood almost stopped circulating at the look
of horror on his countenance. His eyes
seemed fixed with a glassy stare, and fol
lowing the direction in which he looked, I
saw a sight. Seated in the chair just
vacated was a skeleton, holding in its flesh
less fingers five cards, while before it on the
table were three or four 6tacks of checks.
'Look,' I exclaimed in a hoarse whisper.
The others did so, and with one impulse we
all jumped from our seats and dashed
through the door into the storm that was
still raging. Huddled together under a
large tree we passed the night, and from
that day to this I've never plaved a game of
cards."
. Saving the'Shado Trees.
St. Douls Globe-Democrat.
"The surest way to keep worms out tof
shade trees is to bore a half-inch hole in the
trunk just at the ground and pour in coal
oil and sulphur mixed to about the con
sistency of fhiil syrup. In a week not a
worm will be left on the tree, and if vou
pull off a leaf and offer it to the hungriest
caterpillar in, town he will take a bite and
then squirm about as though it made him
sick at the stomach.
To Imprison a language.
The Bowdoin scientific expedition to the
land of the Esquimo secured before its de
parture from Mr. Edison the latest and most
improved form of the phonograph, and by
its means the , Esquimaux songs and lan
guage may be caught and reproduced.
WORK OF ZEPHANIAH.
His Biography Is a Blank, but Some
thing Is Known Abont Him.
HE WAS A FEARLESS -PREACHER.
It Was a Sinful Timein Which Ho Spoke
His Burning Words.
HIS SERMONS APPLICABLE TO-DAY
rWRITTEN FOB THE DISPATCH.
The last 12 books of the Old Testament
tall into three divisions, according to the
times in which they were written. Some
were written before the war, some during
the war and some after the war.
The war was a pretty long war. It lasted
about 300 years. There were two campaigns
in this war, in one of which the chief en
emy was Assyria, in the other Chaldea. The
main event of the first campaign was the
destruction of the city of Samaria by the
Assyrians, and the carrying away of great
numbers' of the population of the northern
kingdom into captivity. The main event of
the second campaign was the destruction of
the city of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans, and
the carrying away of great numbers of the
population of the southern kingdom into
captivity. Then came up another mighty
nation, or combination of nations, and laid
hold upon this Assyrio-Chaldean power and
put it down the Medes and Persians. And
this new power permitted the exiled He
brews to go home again; and 60 the long war
was over.
Fonr Natural Divisions.
It might be better, perhaps, to say that
the last twelve books of the Old Testament
fall into four divisions, rather than three.
Some were written before the war, some
during the Assyrian campaign, some during
the Chaldean "campaign, and some after
the war was ended. This is the order of
the books, according to this division: (1)
before the war, Amos and Hosea; (2) dur
ing the Assyrian campjign,.Micah, Nahum
and Zephaiiiah; (3) during the Chaldean
campaign, Habakkuk, part of Zachariah,
and Obadiah; (4) after the war, Joel, part
of Zechariah, Haggai, Malachi and Jonah.
The prophet whose life and writings we
are to study to-day lived just as the war
changed from one campaign to the other. In
his day Nineveh was destroyed, the power
of Assyria was destroyed with it, and the
Chaldeans of Babylon were just beginning
to he the rulers of tie East. The prophet's
name was Zephaniah. Who knows any
thing about the prophet Zephaniah? No
body knows very much about him. We go
to the commentaries hoping to learn some
thing, and we read in the very first sen
tence this: "The biography of Zephaniah is
absolutely blank."
What Zephaniah Tells of Himself.
And yet we do know something about
Zephaniah, after all. He tells us two
things about himself, plainly. He tells us
the names of three or four generations of
his ancestors, and he tells us the name of
the King in whose reign he lived. Now we
will have to take these two facts, and use
them, if we can, as the naturalists do, who
find two bones and studying them diligently
are able at last to make a picture of a whole
animal. Out of these two facts we are to
construct a biography of Zephaniah.
Zephaniah tells us that his lather's name
was Cushi, and his grandfather's name was
Gedaliah, and his great-grandfather's name
was Amariah, and his great-great-grandfather's
name was Hizkiah. Queer soundincr
names, they seem to us. And as we don't
know anything about the people to whom
these names belonged, they don't, give us
very much information. "But Zephaniah
was evidently proud of them. A man does
not set down'the names of his ancestors to
the fourth generation unless he thinks them
personages ot considerable importance.
Some think that the Hizkiah of this list was
Hczekiah the King. In that case Zephaniah
had royal blood in his veins. And Jn nnyi
case; it isplain that he was a man of good
family, possibly a man of wealth, certainly
A Man of Position.
All the more honor, then, to Zephaniah
for these plain-spoken sermons of his. All
the more honor to him ior speaking out
against the princes and the judges, and the
priests and the prophets of his day, and
taking the people's side against "them.
More commonly the plain preacher in such
troublous days is a man of the people. He
comes from tne fields like Amos, or from
the villages like Micah. He is a poor man.
The rich are naturally conservative. It has
been said that no man is so timid of change
as the man who owns two millions. People
in high position are naturally conservative.
Naturally. I say, for everything is going on
exceedingly well with them. They need no
bettering. They are not deprived of their
rights, nor ground down into the dirt; they
are not starving in tenement houses.
Well done, Zephaniah, to sympathize
with the sorrows of others as if thev were
your own, and to preacli the indignation of
God against the evils of your time! One of
the best things about the days in which we
live is that men of wealth and position are
awake to the wrongs which ycx society,
and are giving their best thoughts and their
best dollars to get them remedied.
Darkest England and the Way Out.
Zenhaniah is giving 1.000.000 over in
England to help the man who purposes to
search London "with candles," as the
prophet says, and to bring light into its
black corners. The best friend of the people
to-day is Zephaniah. If he only knew the
real way to right the people's wrongs,
they would get righted fast enough. Our
nineteenth century Zephaniah recognizes
that the people have wrongs, and that is
itself a great step in advance.
Zephaniah goes on from telling us the
names of his great-grandfathers to tell us
another and more important name, the
name of his King. He is writing, he says,
in the days of "Josiah, son of Amon. Kinsr
ofJudah." Now, think of a King of JuJah
being the son of a man named Amon! For
Amon was the name of one of the great
deities of Egypt. Josiah's grandfather,
then, named his son after one of the
Egyptian gods. That was almost as bad as
if a man in this Christian country were to
name his son Judas. It was a defiance of
all right religious sentiment. Take that
short name and hold it up, and you can
. look through it, like a telescope, into the
land and the age in which Zephaniah
lived.
Wrote Before the Reformation.
, For when Zephaniah says that he lived in
King Josiah's day, and then proceeds to
preach this fierce, scathing, perfectly re
lentless and unsparing sermon which we
find in his book, it is at once evident that
he lived before the reformation. You re
member about that reformation in the days
of King Josiah. You know that it had the
queerest kind of .beginning. It began with
the finding of an old book in a church cellar.
Thev were clearing out the temple, after a
whole generation of neglect, and under a
pile of rubbish they discovered a dirty,
mouldy old roll of parchment, and when
they picked it up and began to read it, be
hold it was the Holy Bible!
That was a discovery, indeed! In all the
land there was but one Bible, and that was
lost. And here beneath this pile of rubbish
the Bible was found. It had even been for
gotten that any such book was in existence.
And when they read it, whv it went straight
in the face of all the habits of the time. It
forbade men to'steal; it forbade men to com
mit murder; it forbade idolatry; in short, it
forbade nearly all the respectable customs of
the day! And the result was Josiah's
reformation. But Zephaniah evidently
wrote before there was any reformation.
Now, this reformation occurred in the
eighteenth year of Josiah's reign. Amon,
his father, had reigned only two years be
fore he was murdered in a court conspiracy.
Zephaniah, then, must have lived a good
deal of his life in the day of Anion's father,
Manasseh.
The-Character of Manas: eh,
-u nugei uacicto tneman-wno namea
his son after an Egyptian god. Zephaniah I
JNow we get back to the man-who' named
was born during Manasseh's reign. Man
asseh has been compared to Julian the
Apostate, and the comparison is an apt one.
His father was the good King' Hezekiah,
who had Isaiah for his father confessor. He
may have- been brought up. like' Julian,
with unwise strictness. No doubt he was
disgusted with the substitution of cere
monial for righteousness, which he must
have seen about him. Anyhow, he had so
much religion, good or bad. in his boyhood
that when he came to be his own master he
cast it" off.
He not only cast it oft, but he pursued it
with a bitter hatred. He invited into his
kindom all the paganisms, and necromancies
and superstitions of all the surrounding na
tions. In the valley of Hinnom, in a place
called Tophet, close by the Jerusalem walls,
was a brazen image of Moloch, a relic of the
daysofAhab. This was repaired, and the
furnace at its feet was again lighted for
human sacrifice. On the flat housetops of
the city a host of little altars smoked with
incense in adoration of the stars of heaven.
At the strectcorners, in brick ovens, women
baked cakes in honor of the unclean goddess
Astarte. The temple worship stopped. The
sacred vessels were used in the service of
BaaL The great altar was broken down and
two new ones built, one to the sun and the
other to the moon. The name of Jehovah
was erased from all inscriptions. The Holy
of Holies became a lumber'room.
A Season of Persecution.
Manasseh began a general persecution.
Day by day the prophets of the old religion
were hunted down and ordered off to death.
The nobles who held to the old ways were
hauled down irom the rocky crags which
stood about the city. At last came Esar
Haddon with his army of Assyrians, fresh
from battering down Samaria, and they took
Manasseh captive, and carried him to Baby
lon. And so the reign of terror ended.
Through all this had Zephaniah lived; amid
such scenes had he grown up. Even when
he wrote and preached, there had as yet
been repentance. The priests still said
their prayers to BaaL The altars smoked
on all the housetops.
iu sucii an aire, in suuu u xauu, jepiiauiaii
preached his sermon.
The occasion of the sermon seems to have
been the approach of tome great danger.
Away off on the horizon they saw the
armies of some fierce invader. Who it was
nobody knows. Perhaps it was the Scyth
ians. Out from behina that long barrier of
mountains, Himalaya and Caucasus, which
parted the civilized world of that day from
the uncivilized, advanced the Scythians, the
first of the fierce Northern tribes to march
upon the South, the precursors of the Gauls
and Goths and Huns and Vandals,
Who Invaded Koine. -
Down they came, urging their swift
horses along the Syrian sea coast, bound for
Egypt, and being bought off by the Egypt
ian King, rode back again beyond the
mountains. Perhaps it was the Chaldeans,
about this time throwing off the Assyrian
yoke, destroying Nineven and threatening
the West. Probably it was the Chaldeans.
In them, anyhow, Zephaniah's preaching
found fulfillment.
Scythian or Chaldean, the dust of their
armies was seen on the tar horizon, and
everybody was afraid. Then Zephaniah
preached. That was a gooa time to preach.
When all goes well people sometimes seem
to miss the meaning of life altogether. The
small obscures the great. The transitory is
taken to be of more interest and conse
quence than the eternal. But let trouble
come, let the sky get black overhead, and
the future blacker yet along the path; let
pain come, and failure and distress, and
affliction; let death come. And people who
have never thought before, begin to think.
It was only when the famine touched him
that the prodigal son looked back toward
home. This is the benediction of disaster,
that it makes people think. Zephaniah
preacned in a good time.
What Zephaniah Had to Say.
Zephaniah's sermon, as it is preserved for
us in his book, is a dreadful sort of sermon,
a day-of-judgment sermon. Indeed, il fur
nished the suggestion of that day-of judg
ment hymn of the Middle Ages, the "Dies
Irae." "The great day of the year is near,"
cries the preacher," it is near and hasteth
greatly, even the voice of the day of the
Lord; the mighty man crieth there greatly,
that May is a day" of wrath, a day oftroubie
smd actress, a' day of wasteness and desola
tion, a day of darkness and gloominess, a
day of clouds and thick darkness, a day of
trumpet and alarm, agains) the fenced city,
and against the high battlements."
The sermon rings with the indignation of
God. God looks down upon the earth, and
He sees three sorts of people those who
are on His side, a pitiful few; those who are
against Him, Baal's priests and their fol
lowers; and those who try to be on both
sides at the same time, "that swear by the
Lord, and that swear by Malchan," too.
These neutral people He counts among His
enemies. God looks down upon the earth,
and He sees not only this little land of
Syria. Some people seemed to think that.
God sees ail the earth, and
There Is Evil Everywhere.
There is Egypt in the south and Assyria
in the east, there is Philistia also along the
sea coast, and Moab and Amnion on the
other side of Jordan. These, too, the Lord
sees and will inevitably punish. All evil,
the whole earth over, shall perish before
the fire of the anger of God. All evil,
whether it be away off in darkest
Nineveh, or right here at home
in Jerusalem, among our princes
and our judges, and our priests, and our
prophets, and our people. God is right
oeus, and no unrighteousness can abide in
His presence. That Is a hard lesson. But
it is true is it not? It is a bitter kind of
preaching, and we don't preach it so much
in these days, perhaps, as we ought to. But
it is true, as true in Pittsburg as it was in
Jerusalem. There is such a fearful truth,
to be well considered bv all thamjhlful men
as the indignation of" the righteous God.
There is such a certainty as inevitable pun
ishment. And an equal certainty, thank God, of in
evitable love. God hates sin, but he loves
us. If we turn to Him there'are no words
to express the gladness with which He will .
receive us. Zephaniah knows that, too, and
preaches it. And the day-of-judgment ser
mon cmls, as it ought to end, with praise
and promise, and the inviting of the bene
diction of God. ' Geoege Hodges.
WONDEEFTTL TWIN SISTEBS.
The Bohemian Freaks That Are Attracting
So Much Attention.
Tall MaU Budget.
A remarkably interesting phenomenon
was shown last week at the office of the
Figaro newspaper to a very limited number
of specially invited guests, 'comprising the
most distinguished medical men of the
metropolis. Among the laymen present
were Lord Lytton," M. Munkacsy, Senor
Kuiz Zorilla, and M. Clemenceau. The
phenomenon consists of twin sisters joined
together at the lower part of their bodies.
They were born in Bohemia, and are 14
years of age. They are not united
by a mere ligature, like the Siamese
brothers, but resemble rather in
their formation Millie-Christine, some
years ago exhibited all over Europe.
Millie-Christine, however, had only one
stomach, so that the two sisters experienced
the feelings of hunger and thirst at the same
time. It is not so with Eosa and i Josepha,
who, having two stomachs, have distinct
tastes in the matter of food and drink.
M. Maurice Lefevre a member of the
Figaro staff, who introduced the young
ladies, told an amusing story of how, after
they had tasted champagne for the first
time, both were ill. Josepha made up her
mind she would not touch the dangerous
wine again, and she has kept her word,
whereas Eosa still indulges in the beverage
she prefers. "When one was ill the other
was very angry at having to go to bed, and
insisted on feeding in her usual way. They
are thus quite different beings so far as sen
sations, inclinations, mind and heart are
concerned. The children are quite pretty;
they are healthy in appearance, and they
appear to be very amiable and good tem
pered. On their way to Paris a curious
question was raised. The officials wanted
to reckon them by heads, whereas the man
ager insisted on an opposite decision, and he
game
tare.
gained his point, so they came" for a single
SAYED BY A SHADOW.
The Walking Tourist Almost Killed
by a Colorado Convict.
FIGHTING A WILDCAT AT NIGHT.
A Beautiful Young Greyhound Picked Up in
Camp as a Companion.
AN ODD AFFLICTION OF THE FEET
CW KITTEN FOR TJIE DISPATCH.
WAS a good deal
older than the youth
of the Grecian myth
when I fell in love
with my own shadow,
and it was not, as in
his case, because of
its beauty, but for its
usefulness. Had I
been one of those
people who are "so
thin they have to walk
twice to make a
shadow" I should not
be writing now; for
on that pretty No
vember day, just out
of Canon City, there
was no time for the
second walking. That
event recurs oftenest
to my mind as an in
stance of what very slender threads they
sometimes are by which our lives hang.
Had it been a cloudy day, or had it been
just as bright and the sun an hour higher,
or had a certain road run south instead of
west, or had it been fringed with gross
instead of level dust," my tramp and my
life would have ended together very ab
ruptly. Leaving the rifle in Canon City, I started
early to explore the Grand Canon of the
Arkansaw, whose bluff portals open a couple
of miles west of town. Nearly midway I
noticed a huge stone building against the
side of a white hill of limestone, half hid
den by the clouds from a score of limekilns.
I had talked with no one in Canon City, and
had no idea what this building was; but at
nearer approach the sight of watchful, hard
looking men pacing up and down, here and
there, with six-shooters on their hips and
double-barreled shotguns over their shoul
ders, told the story as unmistakably as
words told me later.
Working the Colorado Convicts.
Swarming' about the kilns, delving in the
hillside, and engaged at various other works,
were hundreds of fellows in telltale stripes
of black and white. It was the Colorado
Penitentiary, containing at that time 350
odd convicts mostly murderers and "rust
lers" (horse thieves) all of whom worked
outside the walls by day unfettered.
Never having seen prisoners thus loose, I
grew interested, and trotted like any other
fool along,the sidewalk, gazing curiously at
the vicious faces of the 100 jailbirds who
were at work on the two-foot wall at my
very side. It did occur to me that my ap
pearance caused considerable excitement
among them; but I could not take the hint,
though their faces wore the very look of
hungry wolves. I was walking westward,
and the morning sun was behind my back
two trifles for which I have since been
grateful. A group of convicts rallying to
some work a few hundred feet to the south
caught my eye and turned me half back to
the wall. As I stopped to gaze at them
something seemed to drag my eyes down to
the light, smooth dust in front of me, and
there was something that for an instant made
A Play for Liberty.
my heart stop beating:. It was only a shadow
a clear, sharp, long shadow thrown beside
my familiar own the shadow of a larger
burly figure swinging a heavy stone-hammer
above my very head! That silhouette
on the sidewalk will never lose one clear
cut line in my memory. I had been stupid
before, but I was awake how. To spring
half-way to the middle of the road with a
tremendous leap Whose half I could not
cover now, jerking my forty-four from its
scabbard even while in the air, and to
"throw down" on the convict with a savage
"Halt!" was the work of an instant and
none too soon. The fellow and his mates
sprang back to their work with looks of
baffled rage, and one of the mounted guards
came up in such a dash that he nearly rode
me down. Two six-shooters were buckled
to his waist, and his hard face wore an ex
pression which was anything but pleasant.
They Wanted the Revolver.
"VTiy you infernal blankety-blank fool,"
he snapped. "Don't you know no better'n
to sashay along in reach o' them fellers, with
a gun stickin' out handy like? There's 19
life-termers in thet gang you was a-huggin'
up to so, an' thet pop o' yourn meant life
an' liberty to any one on 'em thet get his
hooks onto it. 'Bout quarter 'fa secont an'
your head would 'a' been mush, an' we'd 'a'
had a break fur the hills. Now git out into
the middle o' the road, an' keep ez fur from
anything striped ezyou know how. Git!"
I shivered a little and "got," and found
no latut with the dust in the miuaie ot the
road. Ordinarily I do not like strangers to
address me as brusquely as did the fortified
person on the black horse, but under the
circumstances it would hardly have made
me resentful had he shaken me.
To guard this great body of desperate
ruffians there vwere 38 guards on foot, armed
with double-barreled shotguns (with nine
buckshot in each barrel) and 45-caliber six
shooters. Three mounted patrolmen, with
out guns, bnt carrying two big Colt's re
volvers apiece, were constantly riding
about the entire place. In the little stone
sentry boxes.along the high tvall which en
closed the small yard of the "pen" were
several expert marksmen, each armed with
the finest long-range rifle ever manufactured,
with telescope sights, and good in such
hands to bring down a man at 800 yards
every time. But, despite these desperate
odds against them, the unarmed convicts
sometimes made a break for liberty. Only
a few months before this, 14 o'f
the worst desperadoes working on
the limestone quarries had "jumped"
their "walking boss" with rocks
and hammers. By almost a miracle he es
caped serious injury from their first volley
of missiles and saved his revolvers the ob
ject of attack. Despite the ominous cries
of "halt," and the click of his six-shooters
and a dozen farther guns, three ofthe party
started like goats up the precipitous rocli.
Two turned.back-as the buckshot began -to
'"St "ijr
patter on the cliff around them, bnt the
third, a gritty murderer, kept on. Under
that deadly fire he gained the top of the
great gray ridge and looked across into the
rocky fastnesses of the great ranee. In two
seconds more he would be out of sight and
safe for he could reach the canpns long be
fore any pursuer. And just then, there was
a little white puff from the corner watch
tower, away down there in the valley a full
1,000 yards away; and the mountain echoes
caught up and bandied a spiteful "crack!"
The convict leaped high into the air with a
wild shriek, and fell back dead upon the
sunny rocks, j
Grand Canon of the Arkansaw.
For the unpleasant experiences of the
morning the later hours fully repaid; and
among the glories of the Grand Canon of the
Arkansaw I forgot all about stripes and
Stone-hammers. It is a very small rannn
beside some I have seen; but a very noble
and impressive one,, with a savage grandeur
all its own. For nine miles the wild little
river seethes over the granite debris at the
bottom of a gloomy chasm it'has cut through
the Bocky Mountains. As the Greenhorn
range rose on the slow upheaval of the
world's inner fires, the tireless stream kept
carving, chiseling, gouging, polishing with
the flinty tools itself had broitght for un
known miles; and when the flat strata had
changed to a contorted sierra, the rugged
channel kept its place far down toward the
level of the outer plains. The mountains
beetle 3,000 above the howling torrent,
usually inaccessible slopes, but sometimes
In savage cliffs which overhang the very
stream. About midway of the canon is the
famous Iioyal Gorge, with sheer walls a
thousand feet in air. The Denver and Bio
Grande Eailway, bound for Salt Lake, fol
lowsthe river through this whole canon;
and in the Koyal Gorge hangs to the ver
tical cliff by great iron rods andA-shaped
spans.
After exploring the canon from end to
end I returned to Canon City, resumed my
rifle, and struck off by a little trail into the
Greenhorn mountains in quest of game. The
striking miners of Coal Creek were just
then scouring the country, and killing even
the bluejays to stave off starvation; so my
hunt was fruitless. Nightfall caught me
away up in the West Mountains without
food or shelter. Just as I was preparing,
however, to dig a hole and crawl in out of
Rude Atcakeninsj.
the cold I spied a little cabin on the nex t
hill, and was soon there. No one was at
home; but the door was unlocked, and the
pick, gold-pan and drills told me that the
owner was a miner and so that the house
was free to use by a stranger.
A Battlo With a Wildcat.
Along in the night a great uproar over
head brought me to my feet in sleepy alarm
By the dying coals I could see two savage
eyes above me, glowing weirdly. It must
be a cat of some sort nothing else could
have got to the rafters. My rifle stood in a
corner; but the ponderous .Remington was
at my belt, and I "turned loose" into the
darkness about those two little angry balls
of fire. There was a blood-curdling screech
and something came crashing to the floor
and began scrambling toward the window,
evidently crippled. I pulled the trigger
again, but there wa' only a dull click the
magpies on which I had been tidicing
that afternoon were avenged. But a 44
makes a terrible shillaleh; and with the
crazy zeal which at times catches the least
courageous hunter, I clubbed it and "waded
in." It was rather a one-sided fight, for
those blows would have felled a horse. Once
the plucky brute caught the butt in his
teeth and raked my duck coat with his
cruel claws; and both, as the novelists say,
"will carry the tears to their dying dayl"
At la't a lucky whack settled my unseen
foe and I blew up the fire for light on the
subject.
It was a wildcat, as I suspected but such
a wildcat. Though he was now dead as
Adam, his size actually terrified me. Had
I dreamed of his proportions I would have
crawled up the chimney sooner than face
him. One who has scraped au intimate ac
quaintance with the bob-cats and lynxes of
tne Maine forests hardly cares for' a hand-to-hand
struggle with a cat twice their size,
and I had not then learned that the Bocky
Mountain variety, though far larger, is far
more cowardly. AVith his long, milk-white
teeth, his needle-pointed sickles of claws,
and his marvelous agilitv and muscularity,
this fellow would have cleaned out a room
full of men, armed how you will, had he
known his talents. My bullet had broken
his right foreleg at the shoulder, and the
first crack over his head with that trip
hammer of a revolver practically settled the
question. He brought me supper as well
as excitement, for he had killed a hen. I
cleaned and cooked the aged bird, and
chewed her tough tissues till nearly day
light. As for the cat, I "packed" him
some ten miles on my shoulders next day
for the sake of weighing him; and a ranch
er's scales showed h m up at 53 pounds.
His beautiful mottled hide still serves mo
as a rug.
m xeet uoc -xoo longn.
Coming down through Pueblo, and
thence striking southward, I was sorely
troubled by a strange affliction. Did yon
ever hear of feet getting so tough that the
very toughness made them sore? That is
exactly what ailed mine. The hide on my
heels was as hard and almost as thick as a
mule's hoof, thanks to the constant walking
in a climate so exceptionally dry, and where
this horn-like sole abutted on the tender
skin ofthe ankles there came cracks three
inches long and excruciatingly deep. It
took several days of careful treatment to
heal these peculiar and painful "wounds."
It was section supper time as I strode up ,
to the section house at San Carlos, and the
men were just lifting the handcar from the
track. A beautiful young grayhound flew
out at me savagely; one ot the laborers gave
him a curse and a lift with his heavy brogan.
The dog had been left there friendless at
the death of his master. If I wanted him I
could have him. Of course I wanted him;
he was too young and handsome and spir
ited to be left to the abuse of those two
legged brutes. How little I dreamed then
what that careless mercy meant of the
pleasures, the privations and the deadly
dangers we were to go through together,
this slender black dog and I; or of the awful
experience that was to mark our parting,
and leave with me some ofthe brightest
and some ofthe saddest memories of a
crowded life!
"Shadow" was his name thenceforth, and
he was the truest shadow that ever followed.
Two hours later he did me the only ill-turn
of his faithful young life. Coming around
a spur I found myself within 100 feet of
four fat antelope. But just as I pulled
trigger, Shadow saw them too, and made a
terrified leap aside. His cord was tied to
my wrist, and he jerked the rifle so that the
ball struck 100 yards from aim. I had still
time to drop one or two of the antelope as
they ran straight from me, but doubly
frightened at the report, the poor pup kept
up such a dancing and howling at the end
of his rope that I haul to give it up. And
so, empty-handed and footsore, we came
late to the town of Spoons the Mexican
hamlet of Cucharos. C. F. Lujiiiis.
IK
A
THE.COST OF A MATCH
To Be Greatly Eednced by a New
Way of Getting Phosphorus.
METAL SHELLS FOR CORPSES.
Electricity Sow to Be Used to Lessen tlis
Danger From Fire.
AN UTPROYED PE0CES3 OF PLATING
MVKirriCT tor the dispatct.J
The large and increasing demand for phos
phorus, not only for tho manufacture of
matches, but for its subsidiary application
in the onranlc syntheses which form ona
branch of modern chemical industry, and in
the production of many of tho phosphor
alloys that havo recently come into vo;;ue,
has made the question of its econominal
production of much commercial import
ance, as well as of technical interest. la
the method of manufacture at present gen
erally employed, tho chief cost lies less in
the raw materials than in that of thoclanc
and labor necessary lor the production of
phosphorus for them. Electricity has been,
introduced Into this process with increased
yield and decreased cost.
The new process is quite simple, consisting
merely In feeding in tho raw materials, pass
ing the current between suitable electrodes,
and collecting and condensing the volatized
phosphorus in the usual way. When it is
remembered that formerly mineral phos
phates had to be treated with sulphuria
acid, the liberated phosrphoric acid sep
arated from the calcium sulphate prodnced
at the same time by nitration, the solution,
of tho former concentrated by evaporation,
mixed with charcoal and heated strongly
in small retorts, before reaching tho stage
to which the mere application of current;
now brings the raw material, the immense
advantage of the new treatment will bo
seen. The most important feature involved
is the application of heat in the very spot
w here its usefulness is greatest: doing away
at one stroke with the clumsy practice of
external firing at present employed in this
and many kindred industries.
Hotel Annunciators Oat of Fix.
We very seldom realize how useful one of
the modern inventions is nntil all of a sudden
accident or fate deprives us of it. Take for
instance the ordinary hotel annunciator.
One or two seasons ago the biggest hotel up
in the Catskills was completely paralyzed,
so to speak, by the sudden breaking down of
its annunciator service. It was around tho
Fourth of July, and the house was full.
Things were going on pleasantly, when snd.
dentl;
y noc a single pnsn uiuion wo
orked. and
the
with
the halls and corridors
became alive
angry guests wno wanted to gee
to the desk and find out whv
their call, made about 50 times, had not been
answered. In desperation the manager sent;
a man on horseback across to the nearest:
electrician, and meanwhile a doctor and the
man In charge of the soda water plant tried
to expostulate with the furious guests. Ac
last one or two electrical engineers spend
ing tho Fourth in the bouse volunteered
their son-ices, and soon found out that thra
battery had never been refreshed. In many
of tho hotols now, the proprietors nre intro
ducing dovices by which any one ot say, 250
wants can be immediately signaled from
the room to the ofllce. One device abolishes
altogether the big board of annunciator
drops. It consists of a circular arrangement:
by means of which the number calling
makes its bow at a little window, this being
etTccted by the revolution of discs on which
the numerals aro painted. In this way tho
annunciator no longer takes up as much
room as a circus poster or a painting to ba
bought Dy congress.
Electroplating the Bead.
A method of preventing the decomposi
tion of corpses and animal tissues in gen
eral by tho electro-deposition of metals on
the same has been going the rounds of tho
scientific press of this and other countries
This 13 not by any means a new idea. A
correspondent has called attention to tho
number of times that history has repeated
Itself in this process of turning corpses into
metallic statues, and in doing so has un
earthed a patent of about 10 ycaH ago. In
which the process is set forth in the follow
ing quaint terras: "I proceed as follows with
the cadaver after it id placed into my hands
In order to proauce the desired result: First,
I commence by closing all the organs by
means of molders' wax. Then I cause tho
body to assume the." position it is to retain
and metallize it with a solution of nitrate of
silver, which is spread on tho previoujly
greased surface of the body. The latter is
then placed In a bath of sulphate of copper,
and I proceed in tho same manner as in
ordinary galvano-plating operations. After
the subject is galvanized I polish it, and ic
can then be bronzed, silvered or gilded. Tho
body is thus kept from putrefaction, and it
always preserves the same traits and all tho
finish possible."
The Future of Storage Batteries.
There are few electrical appliances that
elicit such widely-varying opinions from
electricians as tho storage battery. Soma
stoutly hold that for traction purposes tho
accumulator will never be reduced to a
commercial basis, while others just as em
phatically maintain that it will inevitably
be the almost universal source of power for
city electric lines. Be this as it may, tho
storage battery will unquestionably come
Into general use for lighting in the near
future. As a reserve when tho machinery
breaks or is at rest, and us a regulator w hen
running, It insures that tho consumer is
never left in the dark. Buildings have been
known to have been lighted for five or six
days by storage batteries, whllo for tem
porary lighting, for concerts, balls, etc.,
they form a convenient method of install
ing, at a short notice, tho electric light,
while dispensing with the noise of running
machinery, accompanied by tho ordinary
amount of smoke and dirt.
Extinguishing Fires by Electricity.
ires have once In a while been caused by
electricity, and it seems strange that tho
very source of danger can now bo utilized
as a cure for the ill that It may create. The
systems of automatic sprinkling generally
adopted are open to many objections, and
are often found uncertain in action Just at
the moment when they are required. The
main difficulties which have hitherto stood
in the way are now overcome by the use of
an electrical sprinkler. This modification
comprises the use of a motor and pump. and
a complete system of "sprinkler"' pipes,
which can be so arranged as to cover every
?artofthe building it is desired to protect,
ush buttons are placed in convenient posi
tions on every floor, and these start tho
motor and pump and open any valves which
may be required for tho extinction of tho
Are. It is an immense advantage to thus be
able to gain control of large masses of water
and to localize the flow.
Modern Scientific Instrument!!.
A curious illustration has been afforded by
the new electric railway to Stockwell, Eng
land, of the sensibility of modern scientific
instruments. An automatic record is kept
at the Koyal Observatory of earth currents
and magnetic disturbances. These are
usoally of an atmospheric origin, or the re
sults of variations in terrestrial magnetism;
but, strange to say, since the opening of the
underground electric line the registering
needles at Greenwich have been regularly
thrown into vibration exactly at the periods
when the trains aro running. As these are
different on Sundays and weekdays, there,
seems little doubt that this is the truo cause
of the disturbance. Tho railway tunnel is
over two miles from tho nearest earthplate
connected with the observatory; bnt the
currents set up are sufficiently strong tu
make very distinct deflections.
A New riating Process.
A plating process, which exhibits many
radical improvements on existing methods,
promises to come Into extensive use in Eng
land. The object of the process is to give
the baser metals, by electrolysis, a more ex
pensive or more ornamental coating than is
usually given; a coating, moreover, that will
not readily tarnish or corrode. This can be
deposited to any required thickness in an
adhesive form, and will not crack or peel
off; it is as hard as nickel hut far more
elastic, and not porons. The process is
found peculiarly applicable to the metal fit
tings of yacht cabins, as the metal treated
can bo kept bright much longer than that
ordinarily used. Chandeliers similarly
treated will resist heat much longer than
otherwise. This process appears destined to
havo a wide range of usefulness, inasmuch
as it possesses special advantages in dental
applications, not only for instruments, but
for mouth plates.
A w Kind of lnsnrance.
For '25 cents you can insure yourself and
family against any bad results from an
attack of bowel complaint during the sum
mer. One' or two doses of Chamberlain's
Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea llemedy will
cure any ordinary case. It never fails and '
is pleasant and safe to take. No one cam
afford to travel without it, srsu
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