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A noted mind reader is said to hare
loft Washington without paying a $50
bill for advertising. Any one can prob
ably rend the creditor's mind as regards
hi-opinion1 of that particular mind
render.
According to President Hitchcock, of
Union Theological Seminary, there are
now 142 theological seminaries in this
country. In tbe eighteenth century
there were but three. Within fifty
years 111 have been founded, an annual
average of over two.
A man in Kansas City has what is
thought to be the largest lemon in the
world.' It is about the shape of a huge
Irish potato, and weighs six pounds,
twelve and ono-quarter ounces. The
Chicago Timet wickedly suggests, if the
lemon keeps until next summer, the pro
prietor might lend it out to picnics and
church festivals.
In the United States there are 2,209
breweries, which produce annually 460,
832,400 gallons, or over seven gallons
Pfrhtad. Germany has 23,940 brewer-
which produce annually 000,000,000
gwons, or over twenty gallons per head.
Great Britain has 20,214 breweries, which
produce annually 1,050,000,000 gallons,
or over thirty per head. i
They have a very effective way of re
cruiting the army in Mexico. A colonel,
.being short of men, sent fifty troopers
Into a Sonora town, and they ran down
thirty or forty citizens, locked them up
on a bogus charge of drunkenness, and
had them "sentenced" to serve in the
army for one year?" All this took less
than half a day, but there was more or
less fun while it lasted.
Jhe barrel cranks have not abandoned
Niagara Falls. A Buffalo newspaper
says that a Troy man purposes to go
over the great cataract on April 15, 'in
a barrel similar in shape to the one
Graham had when he went through the
rapids. There is to be a manhole and
-two airholes, and all around the outside
will be a covering of rubber six inches
thick, o that if the barrel strikes the
rocks while going over the falls it will
bound off.
The Chinese public school in San Fran
cisco has now thirty-eight pupils, nl-
J. i. J "a 1
TIU , . eu ycBr "uu uau Bgo
wun oniy six. it is unaer me cnarge
of Miss Thayer, who finds the young
Celestial very bright in learning Eng
lish yid the common branches.' Her
hardest task is to enforce silence; the
little fellows like to chatter in Chinese
about their lessons. Three of the pupils
are girls, all wear the Chinese costume,
and all take a two weeks' holiday at the
Chinese New Year.
There is a sexton in West Springfield,
.Mass., who deserves a notice because he
knows the value of ventilation and how
to secure it. Tho other evening, when
the prayer meeting room was well filled
and tl.e air became bad, he waited for a
pause in the services, and then said if
the congregation would all ariso for a
few moments he would ventilate the
room.. They arose, and he opened win
dows and doors, let bad air out and good
air in, and then the congregation sat
down, feeling better, and the services
went on briskly,
The New Orleans Times-Democrat says
that the largest cash transaction ever
made in the South was consummated at
Anniston, Alabama, recently, being no
less than the purchase by a syndicate of
the property of the Woodstock Iron and
Steel Company, for the sum of $0,000,.
000. This property includes the cele
brated Woodstock iron furnace, with its
thousands of acres of mineral and tim
bered lands, the renowned Anniston inn,
the perfect system of water-works and
electric lights and all other property
owned by these companies The Wood
stock Iron and Steel Company will at
once erect two large coke furnaces, cost
ing abont $500,000.
A well at Yakutsk, in Siberia, has
been a standing puzzle to scientists for
many years. It was begun in 1828, but
given up at thirty feet because it was
still in frozen earth. Then the Russiun
"Academy of Sciences continued for some
months the work of deepening the well,
but stopped when it hud reached to the
extent of some 382 feet, wheu the ground
was still frozen as hard hs a rock, Iu
lc44 the Academy had the temperature
of the excavation carefully Uken at va
rious depths, and from the data thus ob
tained the ground was estimated to be
frozen to a depth of G12 feet. As ex
ternal cold could not freoe tho earth to
such a depth, even in Siberia, geologists
Jutve concluded that the well hits pene
trated a frozen formation of the glacial
wiod which has never thawed out.
AFTERWARD,
I heedlessly opened the cage
And suffered my bird to go free;
And, though I besought it with tears to re
turn, It nevermore came back to me.
It nests in the wild wood, and heeds not my
call,
0 the bird once at liberty, who can enthrall)
1 hastily opened my lips,
And uttered a word of disdain
That wounded a friend, and forever estranged
A heart I would die to regain.
But the bird once at liberty, who can en
thrall? And the word that's once spoken, O who can
recall!
Virginia B. Harrison, in Independent
THE CASHIER'S STORY.
BV ALFRED B. TOZEH.
"I have tried time and again to reason
myself out of it. I don't like the idea of
foing through life acknowledging that
am indebted to the supernatural for my
very existence. I have never believed
in the supernatural. I am not going to
believe in it now if I can find any other
way of accounting for my being here,
instead of nt the foot of a gravestone out
on the hill yonder."
We had been discussing spiritualism
before the open fire in Charley's room,
and had drifted from arguments on tho
condition of the dead to the relation of
incidents of a mysterious character in
fluencing tho lives of the living.
4,1 don't like to, figure as a creature of
the mysterious," Charley continued,
''because it seems to commit me to a be
lief in all sorts of outlandish and un
natural things to inclose me in an at
mosphere nltogcther unearthly; but my
only relief seems to lie in an utter re
pudiation of an occurrence too reat and
too productive of practical results to be
repudiated, so you see I am in a good
deal of a mess over it."
Now, Charley is one of the most matter-of-fact
of meu." At the down-town
bank ' where he holds the position of
cashier, such un admission on his part
would have produced a sensation. In
the familiar circle where he sat that night
it oiil v provoked curiosity.. This curi
oaity he at once proceeded to satisfy, be
ginning with an abrupt question:
"Do you remember the night of the
lotn or MarcM"
No one seemed to remember, for no
one answered.
"That's singular," he said, after a mo
ment's silence. "At the same time you
all took a great interest in at least one
I 0f tie occurrences of that nitrht.
I refer
to the attempted bank-robbery."
Certain! v: we all remembered that,
We had simply failed to locate it on the
date given the night of the 15th of
March.
V "Well, when I left the bank that even-
insr," Charley continued, "I was accom-
pumeu vj uick. itiunson, me paying-ten
; .T i t-F ii - ; ..ii
- er a pale, nervous little fellow, with a
' memory for faces and signatures almost
phenomenal, and an instinctive ability
to detect fraud. Wo stopped on tho
bank-steps for a moment to speak to a
customer, and then passed on up the
' street together. His rooms are about half
a mile further out than mine, and when
. we were kept at the bank later than us
ual, as on that occasion, we frequently
I dined together at a neat little restaurant
not fur from my chambers. We did so
that night, occupying a table alone in a
small alcove irom which a window
, looked out upon a side street,
'We were well through the meal, when
Dick called my attention to the figure of
a man standing on the outer edge of the
walk, and facing across the side street.
I " 'Do you remember having seen that
person before this evening?' he asked.
"I glanced up carelessly, and replied
that, to the best of my recollection, I
then saw the man for the first time.
''Then,' he added, nervously, 'note
some peculiarity in dress or attitude, so
you will know if you see him again.
i Wait; the face is the best index. He
may turn this way in a moment."
i "As though influenced by our rigid
scrutiny, the man on the walk turned al
most before Dick had done speakiug,
and faced the window where we sat.
" 'Dou't look now," Dick said, turning
his own eye away. 'He is watching us.
When you do look, notice the upper
portion of his lace. People of his kind
usually point out their peculiarities by
trying to hide thein. hook sharp under
the rim of the slouch hat he wears for
some distinguishiug mark.'
, "Whilo the teller was speaking, I
caught a full view of the man's face.
The eyebrows were very thick and black,
and enme close together. There was no
arch to speak off, and the general effect
was that of a straight, unbroken line
crossing the lower forehead. It was a
face not easily forgotten.
" 'I thought you would find some
thing there,' Dick said, when I told him
what I had seen. 'I was not quick
enough to see the fellow's face, but I
should have known him anywhere. He
stood in front of the bank-steps when we
stopped there to-night, and has kept us
in sight nearly all the way up. Unless
ho is frightened off we shall near from
him before long.'
"I laughed heartily at Dick's view of
the matter, and nothing more was said
on the subject until we reached my
rooms. Then, placing his hand on my
arm, he exclaimed:
i " ! can't get over what we were talk
ing about at the restaurant. I can't get
that slouching figure on the edge of tho
' walk out of my mind. Let me remind
you once more to look sharp for that face
I wherever you go. Uoou-inght.'
"He was off before I could make any
reply, and I went on up-staiis, laughing
' quietly at what I considered the nervous
j tears of a tired-out and naturally sua
pioiom mau.
"On mv sittiner-room table 1 found a
' uote reminding me of an important en
gageraent in another part of the city, and
loft hurriedly. To this dny the janitor
insists that I left my door unlocked, but
1 am positive that i did not. Not long
after my departure, ho we. cr, he found
it ajar, looked carelessly through the
rooms, saw that I wa not there, and
locked it. Had he been more thorough
in his search ho would doubtless have
saved mo a very strange experience.
"It was midnight when I returned to
my rooms. The gas was burning dimly in
in tho sitting-room, but the sleeping-room
beyond it was in total darkness. Opening
from the sleeping-room was a large bath
room, and adjoining this was a large
clothes-closet. I locked the door as
usual, turned off the gas. and went to
bed, as I frequently did, without strik
ing a light in the sleeping-room or open
ing the doors leading to tho bathroom
and closet. I was tired, and fell asleep
immediately.
"How long I slept soundly I cannot
tell. I am utterly unable to describe the
first sensations I experienced. Dimly,
and afar off, I heard Dick Munson's
voice, speaking as though in terrible
fear or Irom out an overpowering night
mare. ,' "At first the sounds came to me like a
voice mu filed by the walls of a close
room, and conveyed to my mind no dis
tinct form of words. Bqt the tone was
one of warning, and told mo as plainly
as words could have done that I was in
deadly peril of some kind.
"After a time the voice ceased, and I
heard, as plainly as I now hear the rum
bling of wheels outside, the rapping of a
private signal known only to Dick and
myself, and used only in the bank when
he desired to attract my attention to any
face or suspicious circumstance in front
of his window. This was repeated sev
eral times. Then I heard the voice again,
clear and distinct this tim", as though a
door or window had been opened in the
room from which it proceeded.
"There was no mistaking the words
this time. I heard them over and over
again, as one hears words in vivid
dreams: 'Lock the bathroom doorl I
can't get that slouching figure out of my
mindl' With the words came a feeling
which I cannot describe, but which you
have, doubtless, all experienced a sen
sation of immediate personal danger
coupled wiih a physical inability to con
trol a muscle to meet it.
"The words and the private signal al
ternated many times, and then I heard a
crash such a crash as would follow the
falling of a heavy window-sash.
"Absoluo silence followed, and with
the silence came a sense of physical de
pression, as though a' current of elec
tricity which had wrought my nerves to
their utmost tension had suddenly been
withdrawn.
"I awoke instantly. When I say I
awoke, I mean that I awoke to a con
sciousness of the things immediately
about me, for it is my belief that my
mental condition previous to that time
cannot be expressed or described by the
word sleep.
"I heard the City Hall clock strike
one, and tried to sleep again, but could
not do so. I could think of nothing but
the slouching figure I had seen early in
the evening on the outer edge of the
walk ; I found it impossible to forget the
mysterious words warning me to lock
the bathroom doorl
"I should have got out of bed and
made a tour of the bathroom and closet,
only it occurred to me it would be a
rather ridiculous thing to do. Men who
pride themselves on a practical turn of
mind dislike to do ridiculous things,
even when alone. Besides, notwith
standing the effect produced upon me
by what I had heard, I regarded the mat
ter as an unusually clear cut dream, and
was net in the least alarmed. The longer
I lay awake the more thoroughly did I
become convinced that the nervous sus
picions of the paying-teller were alone
responsible for my losing a good hour of
sleep, and I resolved to make up for lost
time as soon as possible by turning over
for another nap.
"If lhad not, as a preliminary step to
the resolve so formed, raised myself in
bed and made a great noise beating up
and rearranging my pillows, perhaps the
most trying portion of that night's ex
perience would have been spared me.
lie that as it my, the fact remains that
before I had arranged my pillows to my
liking my attention was diverted from
my task by three rather Btarting objects.
"The first was a aarK-iantern pouring
its round red rays fuli in my face. The
second was an unusually long and un
naturally bright self-cocking revolver lo
cated within six inches of my nose. The
third was a particularly villainous face,
with thick, black eyebrows running to
gether above the nose, forming no arch
to speak of, and producing the general
effect of a straight, unbroken line crosa
ittfl the kower forehead 1
"Was I frightened les; but 1 scarcely
think my fright took the usual form. I
knew in an instant, as wen as l kuow
now, that it was not my life, nor the
trifling amount of money he might find
in my room, that the intruder wanted. I
recognized his presence there as part or
a well-laid plan t3 rob the bank. The
intruder's first words confirmed my sus
picions. " 'Get up and dress yourself,' he said,
in a whisper. 'We want you at the bank.
If you value your life, be quick about it,
and make no noise.'
"The man's arguments were unanswer
able, and 1 obeyed.
' 'You are to go with me to the bank,'
he said, holding his weapon close to my
head as 1 dressed, 'and open the vault.
The first movement you make to escape
or call assistance will be your last. My
mates are below. If I miss my aim, they
will not. If we meet an ollicer at the
bank, or on the way there, and you are
questioned, you are to say that you want
important papers left on your desk, and
pass on. You will not be harmod. We
want money, and not human life. Do
you understand ''
"In a short time I was at the outer
door of say oittiug-rooia dressed for the
street. Never for an instant, in all my j
journeys about the room to secure my
clothes, had the threatening weapon been
removed from the close position of my
waking moment. Still, I had not
abandoned all hope. Surely, between
my rooms and the bank, some opportu
nity for escape would present itself. I
had no intention of unlocking the vault.
At the last moment I should nave risked
a few shots from the robbers' revolvers.
"My escort unlocked the sitting-room
door and paused with his hand on the
knob. At that instant a sound of foot
steps was heard on the stairs, the key
was quietly turned in the lock, and I
felt for the first time the cold rim of a
revolver on my temple. The steps passed
my door, and the weapon was lowered.
You all know what followed. Before
the weapon could be raised again, the
door fell in with a crash, and the robber,
who stood directly in front of it, was
clubbed to the floor and handcuffed by
a squad of policemen led by the paying
toller! "Dick did not return to his own
chambers that night. We spent the time
until daylight in my sitting-room. At
first he absolutely refused to explain his
sudden appearance with the officers, for
Dick is a hard-headed sort of a fellow,
who scouts everything that cannot be
demonstrated by set rules and figures;
but finally he fairly unbosomed himself,
telling his story before I had even given
a hint of my own mysterious experiences.
"'I slept soundly until nearly 1
o'clock,' he said, with the air of a man
who expects to be laughed at, 'and then
I passed into a strange trance-like
dream. In that dream I saw, as plainly
as I ever saw it in my life, the interior of
your bath-room, and seated at the foot
of the tub, where tho opening door would
have concealed him from any one look
ing in, I saw the man we had last seen
opposite the window where we dined. I
recognized at once the slouching figure
and the level line of eyebrows he then at
tempted to hide beneath the rim of his
slouch hat.
" 'There was no light in the bath
room, or anywhere about the apartment,
but I had no difficulty in tracing every
line of his face, nor in seeing you sound
asleep in your bed. My mind at once
became filled with the one idea that you
were in danger. In my sleep I called
out to you to lock the bathroom-door,
and warned you that I could not get
the slouching figure we had seen on the
edge of the walk out of my mind 1 I could
not make you hear. In my alarm I even
fave the private signal we use at the
ank. I actually awoke to find myself
sounding it on the head of my bed, and
repeating over and over again the words
I have told you of speaking.
" 'I laughed at myself for a supersti
tious idiot, and went to sleep again, only
to renew the expeiiences described to
see the slouching figure in the bathroom,
and to repeat my cries of warning and
the private signal. I awoke again, to
find myself standing by my open window
(I must have raised it in my tleep, for I
closed it on retiring), sounding the pri
vato signal on the sash and repeating the
warning words. How long I should
have remained there I cannot say. My
blows on the sash must have loosened
the catch, for the window fell with a
crash. In a moment I heard the City
Hall clock strike one.
" 'I was now thoroughly awake, but I
could not drive from my mind the im
pressions created by my singular dreams,
jferhaps I should have gone to bed again
only for tho fact that the figure my
dream had shown me in your apartment
was the same I had warned you against
on parting with you for the night. I re
solved to dress myself and seek you in
your rooms.
"I was ashamed to come to your door
openly at that time of night, with no ex
cuse to offer for my presence save such a
one as any old woman would have
laughed at, so I crept upstairs like a spy
and listened. I saw the flash of the dark
lantern at the threshold. I heard enough
to satisfy me that something was wrong.
So I went for the police.' " Frank Lei
IWt. '
Catching: Cold.
We are still greatly at sea as regards
the way common colds are induced,
says "Family Doctor," in the Practical
Farmer. They are caused, I believe, in
a great many more ways than we have
any idea of. The words, "catching a
chill," are tome entirely devoid of mean
ing. If by a cold we mean a congested
Btate of the mucous membranes that line
the passages through which we breathe,
with discharge of water therefrom, pain
in eyes and nose, tickling in the throat,
tenderness and rawness of chest, with
secondary symptoms in the shape of
general feelings of dulness of mind and
body, and aching of limbs, then I say
these symptoms may be produced in
many ways. .Direct cold poured upon
the head or face, as in driving against the
wind, may produce them, so may the
breathing of damp, cold air or even of
fumes from some melting substances,
etc., that evolve irritating gases. Hera
you have your cold produced in a me
chanical way. A cold may be taken
through the feet or through the body, if
either be insufficiently :lad or wet; but
this is not caused by rne cold striking
up through or in through either, but by
causing depression of the nervous system,
and consequent congestion of the air pas
sages, in those subject to 6uch a com
plaint. But cold may also bo brought
about by indigestion or derangement of
the liver, or temporary weakness of the
heart from any cause. And as for treat
ment, it seems to me that the less heroic
it is the better. Extra warmth, rest of
the whole system, the mildest of aperi
ents and abstinence in diet will be fonnd,
as a rule, effectual and safe.
Some one asks if the early man was a
savage. We can't say very much for the
arly man, but the mau who comes puf
fing into the station ten minutes after
the train has left generally has the ap
pearance of one. Utatenman.
PACIFIC COAST FARMING.
HOW FARMS IN CALIFORNIA ABE
OPERATED.
"Wheat Raised by Contract Borrow.
lnf Money Qualities of Chinese
Farm Hands Raising Grapes.
The great staple product of California
is wheat, of which about fifty million
bushels, worth more than forty millions
of dollars, are raised in a good year,
four-fifths of which are exported.
This wheat is almost wholly raised on
large ranches by contract. The wheat
grower is no more a farmer than he is a
miner or a miller. He lets out his plow
ing and seeding by the acre, and borrows
money from the banks to pay the bill,
giving securing on the growing crop.
In harvest time a contractor comes on
the ground with his harvesters,! threshers
and separators, an outfit costing as much
as five thousand dollars. He brings his
own crew of twenty to twenty-five men,
who move about from place to place, liv
ing like gypsies in the open air. They
gather in the broad fields of grain at the
rate of more than one thousand bushels
per day, and leave the crop neatly piled
up in sacks, to which the rancher has not
put his hand from first to last.
More money is borrowed from the
banks at the rate of ono and one-half
per cent, per month to pay for the har
vesting, and some time or any time, be
fore the rainy season begins, the sacks
are carted either to the river or railroad,
and "sent 'to market
The rancher is to all intents and pur
poses a capitalist, or, perhaps, a manu
facturer dependent upon the capitalist,
and, unless his operations are conducted
on a sufficiently extensive scale, the mar
gin of profit is hardly enough to keep
him in Idleness during the greater part
of the year.
Every wheat-grower in California is
not of this sort, but every well-informed
person will recognize the characteristics
of a class sufficiently numerous to afford
a basis for distinct and peculiar methods
of business, both as regards contracts,
transportation and finances.
It is to the thrifty wheat-grower that
the employment of the Chinamen be
comes a necessity if he would vary his
husbandry, and avail himself fully of tho
seasons opportunities. In 'planting,
weeding and digging, the Chinaman ex
cels, and the testimony of many a ranch
er Is that without Chinese labor his
farming would not be successful.
In grape culture the common practice
in the State is wasteful. Early in March,
the plough is put in among the vines to
remove weeds that careful culture would
never have permitted to grow. The
weeds come out, and so do all the ten
der roots near the surface.
During the summer the vines are com
monly allowed to run until they cover
the ground with shoots from ten to fif
teen feet long; then there is a spasm of
pruning, andthey are all 'cut back just
at the time when the whole strength of
the foliage is required to mature the
juices in the rapidly swelling fruit.
The common price for grapes is from
twenty to thirty dollars per ton, accord
ing to variety and quality, and the
grower has so little margin for profit
that he can only employ indnstrious and
steady laborers at small wages.
As a consequence, the most successful
grape-growers are compelled to employ
Chinamen in their vineyards. Generally
the more successful the man, the more
Chinamen he employs; their wages are
from twenty to twenty-five dollars per
month without board.
The employment of the Chinese be
comes more and more of a necessity on
account of the high wages demanded by
the white laborer. Youth' Companion.
Clever Escape From a Paris Jail.
An escape has been made from the
Mazas Jail in Paris under most extraor
ding . circumstances. A prisoner named
Altmayer, belonging to a well-to-do
Jewish family, who was undergoing a
term of imprisonment for embezzling a
sum of 110,000 from a l'aris banker,
forged in his cell a letter of dismissal,
and obtained his liberty by showing it to
tho warders and hall porter. It is sup
posed that while he was being examined
in Juge destruction's office he con
trived, whilo the Judge's back was
turned, to stamp and nui k a i-heet of
writing paper. In his cell he imitated
with marvelous skill the magistrate's
handwriting, which ho had leisure to
study during his confinement of two
months and a half. The letter was an
order, signed by the Judge in the name
of the procurator, to set free the prisoner.
He jncloBcd this in an official envelope,
stolen, no doubt, from the Judge's office,
and on leaving this before entering the
van he handed it to his warder, with a
request to take it to the prison director.
Arrived at Mazas the prisoner, after re
maining for five minutes with the other
few inmates, was called up and tent away
free.
Odd Bifu of Natural History.
Mr. Bradley, in his "Treatise on Ag
riculture, " states that "two sparrows,
during the time they were feeding their
young, carried in one week :i,:i0(i cater
pillars from a cabbage garden to their
nest."
C aterpillars eat about four times their
own weight in food every day.
Bats are useful as scavengers.
The song of the thriuh is remarkable
for its mellow intonation and for the va
riety of its notes, and hu is considered
by many as the foremost of woodland
songsters.
The name nightingale is derived from
two woods, viz: acht, night, audgalun,
to king. These birds abound iu Turkish
cemeteries, it having long been a custom
of love to keep these birds upon the
graves of the dear ones gone before. The
mule bird has no uttra tuuis of personal
beauty; ho must win purely on tho merit
of his sons.
DEATH.
Oh Death, the Consecratorl
Nothing so sno tlfies a nam,
As to ba written dead 1 1
Nothing so wins a life from blame,
Bo covers It from wrath and shame,
As does the burial bed.
Oh Death, tho R vela tor I
Our deepest passions never move,
Till thou hast bid them wake,
We know not half how much wo love,
Till all below and all above,
la shrouded for our sake.
Oh Death, the great Peacemaker!
If enmity have come between,
There's naught like death to heal It
And if w love, oh priceless pain,
Oh bitter-sweet, when love is vain,
There's naught like death to seal it
Carl Speneer.
HUMOR OF THE MAT.
It is strange, but truo, that a woman
with a new bonnet always carries her
parasol closed. iVVw ILicen Newt.
It is bad enough to break party ties,
but it isn't half so embarrassing as to
have them work around under your ear.
Burlington Free PreSt.
The rockers on a chair never stick out
half so far behind at any other time as
when a man is prowling around in the
dark barefooted. Danville lircete.
. Jailor "Ilelloa, fellowl' I've seen
you here three or four times." Prisoner
"Woll, what of that! I've seen you
here just as often." Harper' Bazar.
'When does a man weigh moitt" is
the heading of an article in a health jour
nal. That is an easy one. He weighs
most when he steps on a fellow's corns.
Siftingt.
France makes about 100,000 quarts of
champagne every year. One million
quarts are shipped to England and the
other 3,000, 0UO come to this country.
That's what makes champagne dear. ;
Philadelphia Call.
Did you ever do some work, sir! 1
At which you did not shirk, sir!
And just do it to the letter. ,
But some other fellow came in view, '
And gravely told to you,
, That he could do it tea times better!
UoodalCt Sun.
A Harvard professor has made the cal
culation that if men were really as big as
they sometimes feel, there would be
room in the Unitod States for only two
professors, three lawyers, two doctors,
and a reporter oa a Philadelphia paper.
The rest of us would be crowded into
the sea and have to swim for it. Detroit
Free Prett.
Severed Fingers.
We have spoken of skin-grafting the
Erocess by which bits of skin from
ealthy parts of the body, or from the
Body ot some self-sacrificing friend, are
transferred to an ugly ulcer, or an ex
tensive and deep burn, and which, bo
coming centres of healthy growth, pro
mot j the healing, otherwise doubtful.
We have also spoken of sponge-grafting,
in which pieces of sponge nro introduced
into gaping wounds, and with the blood
clot that fills the interstices, are rapidly
organized into flesh with all its proper
nerves and vessels.
More lately it has been found that
bone-grafting is a possibility for healing
and restoration of destroyed bone, bits
being used somewhat as bits of skin are
used in skin-grafting. Iu the first in
stance, the physician was able to employ
bone from the severed leg of a child;
subsequently he used with equal success
bits from a kid killed for the purpose.
This method will need further testing.
But it has long been known that where
a portion of a bone it may be a large
portion has been lost, the intermediate
space will fill up with new bone, and
fully reunite the severed parts, provided
the limb is kept fully extended. For
this, however, it is necessary that the
thin membrane which covers the bone
(periosteum) should have remained
sound.
la the Boston Afe-Ueal awl Surgical
Journal, a few months ago, Dr. Souther,
of Worcester, told of a young man who
brought to him a severed part of his
little linger, wrapped up in his handker
chief. The doctor adjusted the piece
it was three-quarters of an inch in
length and, much to his surprise, the
parts grew together, and the circulation
was renewed.
.More recently a surgeon of Burdett
New York, has given a still more signal
case.
He was called to a boy. three of whose
fingers had be n cut olf by an axe. It
was three or four hours before he reached
the boy. The fingers were cut clean off
from the middle ,ioint of the first finger
to the root of the nail of the third.
While dressing them, the grandmother,
).-ouht in the fingers, which she had
lust found in the snow.
Against his own convictions, he con
sented to try to save them. He suc
ceeded, and saved all except about one
half the joint of the first finger, in which
the blood failed to circulate. The boy
regained the free use of the severed fin
gers. Youth't Companion.
The Oldest Army Officer.
General Sherman was at tho Ebbitt
House to get shaved, and when about to
leave the barber's room was accosted by
a whito-haircd gentleman w ho begged to
speak with him for a moment, i.eneral
r-hermau looked at him and tried to re
call his name. "I think I have met you
somewhere," he said. The gentleman
who accosted him then introduced him
self as Captain King, the oldest living
ollicer of the army, whu entered the ser
vice in 118, fourteen years before Gen
eral Hhennau euteieilthe .Military Acad
emy as a cadet. Ca.t in King was in
tlie. Mexican war, iiml his reminiscence
naturally go unich further back than
Uiue ot the, late t etu rul commanding
.LeViluv, Wushmytiin Capital,