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Knoclycvo'B slope Htill felt Tho ci'inau's boll a nnd the rlllert' pelt ; For a last redoubt uj) the hill remained, By tho IIuhh yot bel l, by the Turk not gained. Moliumot All Mtroked his beard j Jlift lips wore clinched and his look wan weird; Hound him were rank of hi ragged folk, Their facon blackened with blood and nmoke. Cloir me the M i seovite out !" ho cried. Thou the name of " Allah !" eoh )od wide, And tho fozzos waved and the bayonet h lowered, Aud on to the laid re loubt thoy pjnred. One full, and a Rccond quickly utopped Tho gap that ho loft when he reeled and dropped; Tho second a third straight filled his place; The third and a f ourth kept up the race. Over their corpse the living sprang, And the ridge with their musket-rattle rang, Til! the faooj that linod tho last redoubt Could soo thoir faco aud hear thoir about. In tho rod iubt a fair form towered, That chocred up tho bravo and chid the coward; Brandishing blade with a gallant air, His hoad erect and liU bosom bare. " Fly! they are on us !" his tnon linploiad; But ho waved thorn on with his waving swoid. "It cannot bt hold; 'tis no shame to go !" But he sto3d with his face sot hard to the foo. Then cluui thov about him, nnd tugged, and knelt. He drow a pistol from out hU bolt, And flrod it blank at tho first that sot 'not on tho edge of tho parapet. Over that first one toppled; but on Clamborod tho rest till their bayonets shone, A hurriedly Hod hU men dismayed, Not a bironet'a length from the length of his blade. ' Yield !" But aloft his steel he flashed, And down on thoir stool it ringing clashed; Thou back he reeled with a bladoloss hilt, HU honor full, but his life-blool spilt. Thoy lifted him up from the dabbled ground; Ilia li.nbi were shapely, and soft, a id round, No down ou his lip, on his cheek, no shade "Bismillah !" thoy criod. "'tis an Iufidol maid'." Mohemot Alt oame an I a r " The riddled breast an . I the tender jaw. " Make he' a bier or yo ir arm i," ho said, "Anlddutily bury thii dainty de.td J "Make her a grave whero she stool and fell, (Uust the Jackal's scratch an 1 the vulture's amcll. Did the Mansovite mea like the'r maiden fight, In their linos we had scarcely suppel to-night." Ho a doopor trenou 'mmj the tranches there Was dug, for the form as bravo as fair; And uonn, till ths Ju Igment trains and shout, Khali drive her oit of the Last Redoubt - - Alfred Awl in ii ComhiU Magaiine. THE WRONG UMBRELLA. The laxity of pnblio morals iu the matter of umbrellas is truly awful, but retribution will sometimes overtake him who plots against his neighbors para chute. Let me tell now it overtook me. A long time ago I was madly enamored of Mary Jane Bowles. Mary June was what you would call a pocket venus, and often nave I boen tempted to tuck her under my arm, like a packet of sugar, and fly to the nearest desert island. (She was an artless girl, and very fond of so ciety esDeciallv the societvof voiinc men with whom I was not on terms of ardent friendship. I did not blame her for this and when she invited 'me to tea and found that Johnson had also been invit ed, my discerning eye observed that this was not coquetry, but pure exhuberance of spirits. Mr. JJowles, l noticed, was of the same opinion, and it was a great satisfaction to me to have my judgment confirmed by so experienced i parent. Mis. Bowles, had she been alive, would no doubt have agreed with us. I had kuown Miry Jane since she wore short frocks. Johnson had known her about a month. It was pleasant to hear her call me bam and linn Mr. Johnson, but somehow the lammarty in my case Heemed to have bred, not contempt oh dear no ! nothing of that kind but, a sortjof uonchaluuco of manner. (How UBeful the French language is when one wants to express a very delicate shade of meaning !) But that was her artless nesa. "Dear me, Sum," the observedat the tea-hible, " what have you got such a long face for?" Johnson's attentions had made me a little pensive. " Something must be long to make up for the prevailing shortness," I said. Johnson was not much taller than Mary Jane. I made a note of that sarcasm afterwards. My impromptus are too often lobt. "Don't be impertinent, sir. Look into that spoon. Your face is exactly like ihe reflection you see there, isn't it, Mr. Johnson?" He grinned. It was then I observed for the first time the singular breadth of his visage. His grin seemed to extend across the room. " If Mr. Johnson will hold the spoon "horizontally he may admire his own imnge," I remarked playfully. Johnson grinned again. He was one of those insanely good-humored men whom it is quite impossible to annoy. '8am, you are outrageous," said Mary Jane. "Mr. Johnson and l are going to practice our duet. You stop lere anil talk to pa ! Mr. Bowies had to be aroused from the doze into which he usually dropped after tea. It was in that habit that my penetration had detected his conviction that Mary Jane was an artless creature. Ta woke up and asked me what were my view on tramways. His composi tion was a fine crusty conservatism, and ho disliked innovations. I was listening to the duet overhead, and had a very indistinct idea of what the old gentleman said, and of what I was saying myself. I cauuot sing, but it was not for tlmt reason that I objected to the preposterously operatic way in which Johnson was conducting himself, " Tramways, my dear sir, are, as you bo justly observe, the chief scourge of mankind. From the earliest times they have been noted for their hostility to human virtue, and " I have lands and proud dwellings, And all shall be thine, sang Johnson, upstairs. "And it is, as you say, monstrous that lauded proprietors nnd bloated house holders should override the popular pro test in this matter, especially as we know that that for purposes of drainage tram ways are " My dear boy, you are not well, in terrupted Mr. Bowles, kindly. "Have a glass of water. When I left the house that evening I was thoughtful. It struck me that John- sou had Mary Jane in his mind's eye. I could not damage that organ of vision, so 1 decided that nothing would be gained by hitting him. But something would havo to be done. 1 wanted to marry Mary Jane. She was a charming girl, and her father had a little money. Mv suspicions about Johnson were connrmed next day. I met a lively me nd, who said : " Oh, you know Johnson ?" "Well?" " He's croins in for the little Bowles. Told me lie should propose to-morrow night when ha takes her home from Twig's party." " Perdition !" "Eh? Slap-up. girl, isn't she-? Thought you were sweet that way ?" "Perd 1 Oh no, not at all! There's my omnibus. By-bye. !" Going to propose when he took her home from "Swig's I By all the powers he should not take her home from Twig's ! It had been agreed that I should es cort Mary Jane to the halls of Twig. It was a fine night apparently, but I took my umbrella. It was a new one, sur mounted by an alligator's head in Ger man silver. Fortuuately I invoked Jupiter riuvius to befriend me, and hoped that Johnson would leave his umbrella at home. It was less than ton minutes' walk, but there was time enough to show a little preliminary tenderness, if not to put the grand question itself. With an utles8 girl like Mary Jane, it was best to approach such a subject by degrees. I " 'Twas just such a night as this," I said softly, "when you and T, Mary Jane, trod the grassy turf beside that murmuring brook " " Oh, I remember !" she exclaimed laughing in her guileless way. "I know what you are going to say. That was the time you fell over the stile, run ning away from the bull. And your nose was done up in sticking-plaster, you know ; and you scratched my face wilh it, sir !" I had forgotten that circunistanoe ; but what did it matter ? " Yes, Mary Jane," I said, passion ately. " And why did my nose scratch your face ? Because my lips were seek ing that paradise which now " "Good evening, Miss Bowles." It was Johnson. I saw his grin iu the moonlight, and confusion ! he had brought hia umbrella. There was a little dancing at Twig's, but I had no pleasure in it. My mind was full of Johnson's umbrella. It came before my diseased vision like Mocbeth's dagger. I clutched at it, and I had it not. Time wore on. I stood at the window alone, and looked out at the weather. Heavy clouds obscured the moon. Heavy drops began to fall. Then the temptation had me in its grip. " His umbrella !" I gasped. " I I'll hide it." " It's going to be a nasty night, after all," said a hated voice at my elbow. " I believe only you and I have brought umbrellas. There'll be an awful scrim mage for cabs. Luckily we haven't far to walk." He was grinning more than ever, but he could not have heard me. A cab would not suit him. of course ! He wanted to walk home with Mary Jane, slowly very slowly, so that frenzy ! I would do the deed. I would throw his umbrella "Oh, Sam, do take me down to re freshments. I asked Mr. Johnson, but he has forgottou me ." She looked up into my face so bewitch ingly that my heart thumped as if it were a door-Knocker in the grasp or a demon postman. Careless brute I What a husband he would make I Whereas in me in me she would find. " Mary Jane," I whispered as we left the giddy crowd that stood around the liquids, " Mary Jane, may 1 see you homer " If you are a good boy, perhaps you may. But here's Mr. Johnson, I owe him a dance." He took her away, but she looked back at me with a smile. I really never saw such an artless girl in my life. And now, to mrke assurance doubly sure; I crept np stairs to ihe room where the umbrellas had been left. The gas was out aud the window open. The melancholy voices of divers cats seemed to protest against the crime, but my nerves were firm. I could see nothing. No matter; I knew where my enemy had put his umbrella. I groped for it. I grasped it by the ferruled end. Just then a footstep' startled me. I rushed to the window, and dropped the hateful thing into the black abyss below. There was a splosh. I felt a sardonio joy. He hod brought his umbrella for fear of rnin. Well, it might do its duty iu the waterbutt. I listened. All wos quiet. The next room was in darkness. There could be no one there. I went down to the refreshment-room, chatted awhile with Mrs. Twig, and recovered my self-poses- sion. Then I sought Marv Jane. John son had just crossed the room to her when I entered. Suddenly she was seized with a violent, fit of coughing. I ran for a glass of water. When I re turned the coughing became worse than ever. Yet that unfeeling monster, John son, grinned until I thought the corners of his mouth would meet in the nape of his neck. When I asked if she felt better, Mary Jane went off again; and presently the cough was so bad that she had to leave the room. I remarked to Johnson that she must have caught cold; and then he coughed. No doubt she had been out ou the balcony with him to Bee whether the ram had ceased. But wait a little, my grinning friend! Everybody was now going away. With a fiendish delight I saw Johnson walk up-stairs to get his hat and coat aud his Ha ! ha ! I waited till he came ' down. He was perfectlv cool. and did my eyes mock mo ? he had in his hand an umbrella ! J. could not Bee the handle, but of course it was mine. me ieiiow s impudences taggered me. I torep into the room above. There was no umbrella there. It was mine ! I went down, resolved to make an ex ample of Johnson. He stood in the hall, leisurely putting on his gloves. "Excuse me," I said calmly; "but you have got my umbrella." "I think not," he replied, with bis everlasting grin. "Bat you have, sir! There can be no mistake about it. Pray is your umbrella-handle an alligators's head iu Germ in solid silver ?" " I think not," said Johnson, cooly, He held up an umbrella. It was not mine ! "I am quite ready, Sam. What's the matter ? Yon can t find your umbrella ? Oh dear ! And Mrs. Twig says she has lent every umbrella she has. Are you sure yon brought it? Oh, thank you, Mr. Johnson. Good night, Sam ; Mr. Johnson will see me home. It isn't raining much, aud you won't get wet if you run all the way." I don't know whether I got wet or not. For that matter, I don't know how I got home. I believe the Twigs thought I had been drinking. Perhaps I had, or how could I have thrown the wrong umbrella out of the window ? It 1 l-i. i - . " l l;if whs urougnir to me iu u puipy couuiuon by young Twig, who is the smallest of wags. He suggested that I should adopt a water-butt aud umbrella as a crest. Johnson did propose to "the little Bowles " during that walk home. They are married now. That umbrella busi ness remains a mystery, but l am still convinced of the artlessness of Mary Jane. Facts About Fires. The following, practical and scientific observation on the quenching of fires quickly and with the least loss to insur ance companies is communicated to the Portland (Me.) J'fea by an old fireman: One gallon J of water at the bottom of a fire will do more to quench it than ten gallons at the top. Play low is the true motto for the fireman. If the first en gine that reached the Summer street tire in Boston had burst into the ware house and played into the goods elevator, where the lire broke out, it would prob ably have saved 850,000,000. To play ou the roof of a house on fire is to waste water; the roof was made to shed water; the rain does not put out the kitchen fire, ncr would the Presumpscot, flowing bodily on the roof, put out the kitchen if afire. Play low, get the water to the bottom of the fire, aud you need not pour in the Presuinpscot. A few gal lons at the bottom of the fire will rise in clouds of steam wherever the fire is rising and will quench it. Even a heap of rubbish tuin rain aud water like a partial roof. A gill of water thrown into the bottom of a grate quenches the fire more thau a quart thrown on top. For a similar reason, water on the windward side is more effective than on the lee ward. I am speaking now of a moderate tire, when there are only one or two houses burning. The big blazes on the leeward look fearfully, but they cannot" be effected by playing on them. Throw your water into the bed of coals and under the retort that is sucking them, aud it goes out. That is to say, play at the bottom of the windward side of the fire, and you take the surest aud speedi est way to quench the whole, leewnrd side blazes included. A Serious Famine. A St. Petersburg journal informs us that a famine has broken out in the pro vince of Kazan in East Russia, and is already reported to have attained serious proportions. The city of Kazan itself is crowded with famine-stricken people, who have fled thither in search of food, and eagerly offer their services gratis to anybody who will guarantee to keep them from starvation. In the Spasski and other outlying districts the peasants are reduced to such straits by a succes sion of bad harvests that they are feeding on berries and acorns. To mitigate the distress the government has appointed a special commission to visit the famine districts, and the local authorities have opened subscriptions, to which the Tar tar merchants of Kazan have responded in a very liberal manner. They are raising toads kill olt the cockroaches. in Frauce to A Wonderful Clock, The Reading (Pa.) Eaale savs : Iu Mengel's building is now on exhibition in all probability the most wonderful clock iu the world. It was built by Stephen D. Engle, a watchmaker, at liazleton. lie is about forty-live vears of age aud was about twenty years iu perfecting the clock. Mr. IVid paid Jungle &j,000 for it. Engle never saw the Strasburg clock. In fact, he has not travelled more thou two hundred miles from home at !any time. This clock stands eleven feet high. At its base it is about four feet wide and at the top about two. It is about three feet deep at the base, gradually less towards the top. its colors are dark brown and gold The Strasburg clock is thirty feet high, yet its mechanism is not bo intricate nor has it as many figures as the Hazleton clock. The Strasburg clock's figures are about three feet high and the Ameri can clock about nine inches. Three minutes before the hour a pipe organ inside the clock plays an anthem. It hos five tunes. Bells are then rung and when the hour is struck, double doors in an alcove open and a figure of Jesus ap pears. . Double doors to the left then open, Jund the apostles appear slowly, one by one, in procession. As they ap- Eear and pass Jesus they turn towards im, Jesus bows, the apostle turns again and proceeds through the double doors of an alcove on the right. As Peter ap proaches Satan looks out of a wiudow above and tempts him. Five times the devil appears, and when Peter passes, denying Christ, the cock flaps its wings and crows. When J ndas appears Satan comes down from his window and follows Judas out in the procession, and then goes back up to his place to watch Judas appearing on both sides. As the pro cession has passed, Judas and the three Marys disappear and the doors are closed. The scene can be repeated seven times in an hour if necessary, and the natural motion of the clock produces it four times per hour, whereas the Stras burg procebsion is made but once a day, at 12 o'clock. Below the piazza is the main dial, about thirteen inches in di ameter. To its right is a figure of Time with au hour-glass. Above this is a window, at which appear figures repre senting youth, manhood aud old age To the left of the dial is a skeleton rep resenting Death. When the hour hand approaches the first quarter. Time re verses his hour glass and strikes one on a bell with his scythe, when another bell inside responds, then childhood appears instantly. When the hour hand ap proaches the second quarter or half hour, there are heard the strokes of two bells. Then Youth appears and the organ plays a hymn. After this, Time strikes two and reverses his hour glass, when two bells respond inside. One minute after this a chime of bells is heard, when a folding door opens in the upper porch and one at the right of the court, when the Saviour comes walking out. Theu the apostles appear iu procession. The clock also tells of the moon's chunges, the tides, the seasons, days, and day ol the month and year, and the signs of the zodiac ; and on top a soldier in armor is constantly on guard, walking back and forward. As the hours advance, Man hood, Old Age and death take part in the panorama. Hyena Dog. The origin of the domestic dog is at tributed by some naturalists to several species of wild animal. Among these latter the can-' pictwi or the ficaon pietua, the spotted or painted hyena of Africa is one. Regarding these spotted hyena dogs, as they are generally calleJ, Dr. Schweinf iirth says that they are very plentiful iu a region called Kurkur, iu Central Africa. " These dangerous ani mals," he says, "have a partiality for the steppes and open brushwood, and congregating iu herds hunt the smaller antelopes, especially the bushbocks." No case, however, was known amojig the nat ives where they attempted to at tack men. Some of their skins, he ob serves, are most brilliantly marked, aud exhibit such a combination of red, white, yellow and black spots tha the hyena dog may fairly claim to be the most parti-colored of all mammalia. Schwein furth speaks of one specimen that he saw iu the Scriba that was tame, requir ing no other restraint than a cord, and yielding to its master with the docility of an ordinary dog. This fact, as he loiutsout, appears to corroborate the assertion of Livingstone (which, how ever, he, not having witnessed the cir cumstances, makes with some reserve), that the nutives of the Kalahari desert are accustomed to break iu this animal and train it for the chase. Victory or Death! The Groesbeck (Texas) New Era says : The following singular courtship of a Prairie Grove gallant is an illustra tion that "faint heart never won fair lady." He proposed, but was gently refused. He went a second and a third time with the same result. But at length he rode over one evening und told her that he would neither eat, sleep nor speak until f she consented to be his bride. She invited him to din ner ; he shook his head. She talked on ; he merely looked dejected. Then she requested him to take supper ; a negative shake of the head was the only reply. She played, sang and chatted on till bed tune, when a servant showed him a room ; a negative shake. She tripped away to her chamber ; he sat determinedly still. About twelve o'clock she came back and said : " I don't wish to cause the death of a good officer, so I will marry you." The released one rose, and with much eagerness cuid " My dear, have you any cold victuals on huud V" FARJf, GARDEN. AND HOUSEHOLD. Hrclnrs. Tapioca Sorr. Soak a little tapioca iu water and set ou the back of the stove to simmer slowly ; when it looks clear, pour over it the brown broth seasoned as before. Boil up once and serve. A Nice Custard. Scald a quart ot milk nnd pour it hot ou broken eggs. Take five eggs, throw out the yolks of two, three teasnoonfuls of sugar, a pinch of salt, and add a little vanilla. Set it to steam in a close-covered vessel for six minutes, then set it on ice uutil wanted for use. i Misck Pie. A shin of beef boiled down till very tender, one pound of nice, clear beef suet, chopped very fine, a tablespoonful of salt, six pounds of greening apples, peeled, cored and chop ped, three pounds of raisins stoned, three of currants carefully cleaned, one pound of brown sugar, a cup of maple Biigar, a quart of the best cider (boil the cider in the syrup), half a pound of citron, shredded, and half a pound of canned lemon-peel. This mixture makes rich pies, particularly fine in flavor. Meat Gravy. Iu roasting beef, if it is to be rare, allow ten minutes' cooking to every pound of beef ; when done, place it on a heated dish. In carving, the juice will run out, and this is con sidered by many as the choicest gravy. However, a gravy should be made and each guest given his choice. After re boiling the beef, place the pan on the stove, add a teacupinl of boiling water ; stir up once ; do not thicken ; send to the table in a sauce-boat. Veal when boiling needs basting freqently at first with salt aud water, afterward with its gravy ; allow fifteen or twenty minutes' boiling for every pound ; remove the beef when done ; place the pan on the stove, and thicken the gravy with a tea spoonful of flour, first moistened with a little water to prevent lumps ; boil up well and pour into a gravy-boat. Mut ton or lamb gravy is made in the same way. Sowing Need. The proper distribution of seed in the sowing is quite important, and there are few who can do it uist right. Machines have been invented for the purpose, and many of them do the work more evenly than it can possibly be. done by hand. Some seeds, from their peculiar forma tion, hove to be sown by hand. It is a difficult matter to give directions for sowing seeds, and to say how much is required to the acre. Much depends upon the season, and also upon the fresh ness of the seed aud even seed known to be new may be deficient iu germinat ing properties. The best rule is, when sowing iu rows, to be governed by the character of the seed aud relative strougth of the young plants ; for in stance, carrot, parsnip, nnd some others have light seed, and the young plants are feeble. Such should be sowu thickly and afterward thinned out. Other plants, such as cucumbers, melons, etc., are liable to be attacked by bugs, and it is well to make some allowance ou this account. Most heavy seeds can be sowu thiu, especially if broadcast, the chances being that they will be too thick in case they are sown" by inexperienced hands. Take, for example, the seed of the flat turnip, one pound of which, in meosure but little more than a pint, will sow an acre of laud, but it requires a very nice calculation to get the seed evenly dis tributed and make such a small quantity cover so much ground. Seeds bowu by machine may be regu lated by sowing first on a cloth or floor, and Betting the gange to the proper grade. Some seeds are variable in size; such should be divided by sifting, and, if sown by machine, put iu separately. It is advisable to always sow as soon as the ground is prepared, while the surface soil is still fresh and moist ; and when covered by raking, nird nlwajs draw the rake lengthwise with the rows. ery fine seed must not be covered too deep. Ill-ill' ' Garden i n l utlersraaiid Ice llausra. Where the soil is gravelly and porous, such a house will be veiy useful, aud may be built more cheaply thau one wholly above ground. The excava tion may be made as deep as may be desirable, perhaps six or eight feet will be Municiont. 1 here must, however, be perfect freedom from surface water, or the house will be a failure. The bottom may be made of a layer of .large stones, two feet deep; upon this smaller stones should be laid, to fill all the inequali ties, and form a level surface, and there hlioiiKl be placed upon these a layer of coarse gravel. This may form the floor of the house. The walls, up to a foot aliove the surface, may be built of stone laid in mortar or cement, and the sill of the upper frame should be bedded in the stone-work and cement. Ayrlvul' tusit. Mrlrntlnc Palai l uilurr. A French agricultural journal, the Baste Cout, describes the result of some experiments in potato growing recently conducted by scientific men in Germany, iu which it is demonstrated that the " eyes " at the top of the potato produce a much more vigorous offspring than those in the lower part, aud the conse quence is that those agriculturists who cut their potutoea in half before planting them are not well advised iu cutting them vertically, but should always divide them horizontally, plautiug the upper half and using the other us food for cattle. But the best plan o all is to plant the tuber whole, cutting out, nevertheless, all the "eyes" except those iu the top part. S' ifutijic A (- Items of Interest Eighteen thousand nieu are engaged n the express business. All the girls are becoming vegetarians. They wear turn-up hats. -r Ground Hog City is the nnin of it town in tho Block iiills. Forty-seven members of the foity spventh ConrcMH ore natives of Penn sylvania. Of this number. - Messrs. Blaine, Wallace, Cameron, Mitchell, McMillan aud Patterson ore senators. New York has forty-nine representatives in Congress. The value of ground iu and about Berlin, which went up enormously dur ing the period immediately, subsequent fn tv a r rf 1ft7fl-71 arwl fhft nfivmpnt, nf "milliards" by France, has fallen as enormously of late. A property bought five years ago for villa sites at the price of 2,550,000 marks was sold the other day for 258,770 marks, The Toronto (ilobe says that the ne gotiations for the consolidation of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia iuto one province are progressing favorably, and it expresses a wish that Prince Edward Island could be taken iu at tho same time. The united province would then have an area of about 49,333 square miles, with a population of from 700,000 to 800,000. Nevada dogs seem to be made of "sterner stuff" than other American curs. Last week one fell down a ninety live foot shaft struck with emphasis on hard rock, lived sixteen days without food or water, was taken out after that time and immediately ran down and totally destroyed a rat that pi esumed too much on appearances, and approached rather too near the sickly-looking canine. Henry Thruston, of White Oak Creek, Titus county, Texas, is said to be . the tallest man in America. He stands seven foot six inches, barefooted, and is of enormous strength. His hands and feet are enormously large and nearly a side of leather is required to make him a pair of boots. When, before the war, he went overland to California, his friends, all men of medium Bize, used to lay wagers with unwary strangers that they had the tallest man among them; then producing Thruston from the wagon where he had been concealed in a coil, take the stakes. POU'ISO (JOHN'. We were i e popping corn, ; Kitty and I ; Sweet It danced abont Aud it danced up high. The embers were hot In their fiery light, And it went up brown And it came down white White and beautiful, Crimped and curled, The prettiest fairy dance in the world. Ah ! many a time are tile embers hot. And the human spirit can brook it not; Yet radiant forth from the iiery light Cometh transformed and robed in while. Effect of Gaslight oh the Ejes. On the iulluence of gaslight on the eye the following is given from a reccut report to the Prussian minister of in struction : In general, physicians agree that no evil results will follow the moderate use of gas, and particularly if there are arrangements to prevent tue direct action of the yellow flame ou the eye. For this purpose screens or shades are employed. Very grave ob jection, however, exists to the use of the zinc or lead chades, mosi? evils af fecting the eves being traceable to them. The use of the latter, it is said, inevita bly tends to blindness or inflammation, and other harmful effects. The milky white glass shade is the best, as it dis tributes the light, and has a grateful effect upon the eye. The burner should not be too clo?e to the heod, as conges tion of the forehead and headaches re sult from the radiated heat. The gloss plate below the gas, employed iu some places, is especially useful for the pur pose, as it causes an equal distribution of the light, necessary where a number are working at one burner, prevents the radiation of the heat, and tends to a steady illumination by shielding the Hume from the currents of air. In cases of highly inflamed eyes, dark blue globes can be very beneficially employed. With precautious of this kind no evil effects from the burning of gas need be feared. A Ghostly Headlight. The Richmond (Ind.) Palladium says: Soon after midnight, Wednesday, fireman on the switch engine called the uttentiou of the engineer to a bright light that was rapidly approaching them. The switch-engine, pulling a train of freight cars, had just turned tho bend at the fair grounds, and the light was half a i.i.l a enuf. rt flu. in The engineer said it was a headlight, and he whistled as a signal to the approaching train; but the light advanced noiselessly and rapidly as before. In a moment or two it was so near him that he feared a collision, ami he whistled down brakes, and his train came to a stop within a train's length ot the light, when, without any exchange of signals, it began to recede, and was soon going East at the rate of a mile a minute. After it had turned the second bend, about three miles east of tho city, the reflection on the trees could be seeu for several seconds. What it was no one claims to know. All say that it looked like a headlight, but no one says that it was one. Mhut u miK"t ru r flectiou from the switeh engine is possi ble, or that it was an electrical pheuoi.! euou is not impossible. The foot thut light was seen on the truck on thev were running may have inn men on the engine overly cout ' made it appeal h loiyer I elnewheve,
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