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KEPUBLI ' In China tliero in now, according to Intelligent estimates, ono missionary to about every 300,000 people. 1 The Chicago Sun thinks that railroad building will not be likely to take an other boom until the Western country has gained a million or two in popula tion, IuslikorsofT, n Russian traveler and ethnologist, has discovered that there are 400,000 heathens and 50,000 Mohnm. mediins In the Kussinn army, and ho de clares that Christiunity is decreasing as tonishingly in Southern Russia. The Matin, a Paris newspaper, de clares that tho United States makes "a grave mistake" in locating the World's Fair at Chicago, and expresses the firm conviction that very few foreign exhibit ors or visitors will earn to altcud a fuit 1000 miles in tho interior. An old duck hunter of .Savannah says that a flight of duck coming south one day, if followed by other flights in tho mmo direction days or weeks afterward, will not vary to exceed twenty-livo feet from tho path of the ducks which liavo preceded them, and they will alight in almost the exact spot where preceding flights have Fettled. . Only six mon aro living who wcro members of a President's Cabinet before Lincoln's time. They are George Ban croft, Secretary of the Navy under Tolk ; A. H. H. Stuart, Secretary of tho In terior under Taylor; James Campbell, Pierco's Postmaster-General; Joseph Holt, Hotatio King (each of whom was Postmaster-General), and P. F. Thomas, Secretary of tho Treasury in Buehnuuu's day. In China, wheroV'verything is contrary lo Western ideas, poverty has a greater practical power than in any country in tho world. Tho Chinese Times, of Tien Tsin, says that everything may bo for given in China to a poor official. Pov erty is considered a test of probity, an influence which owes much of its strength to tho attachment of tho people to every man who comes unspotted through the sevora temptation of Chincso official life. Sweden is not an overcrowded coun- I ri- On thrt rtiifnirv if. in mtii-., thinly settled than some of our States. Combined with Norway it is the largest country in Europe, except llussiu. There is plenty of room for tho people; but they do not care to stay there. They prefer to emigrate to our Northwest, with a soil and resources inferior to some portions, at least, of their native kingdom. The New York Prtu exclaims: It is an ex traordinary spectacle this Swedish emi gration far different in motive and character from any other that seeks our shores. Professor Hein, a scientist who has been investigating the material resources of Japan, says: '-They reveal a national frugality and economy of a marvelous type. Tho area of Japan is less than that of California. Itscultivatcd land is less than one-tenth of its total acreage, yet its products support about 38,000, 000 people. In Japan 2500 persons subsist from each square mile of tilled land." If tho laud wcro divided up among tho people a singlc-taxer wouldn't have room enough o:i his own plot to swing his theory without knocking down hi neighbor's fences. The San Francisco Chronicle remarks: The tnau who has secured a leaso of islands in the Great Salt Lako and an appropriation of $30,000 to cross the buffalo to common cattle has worked a Yerv neat little game. The preservation of tho buffalo is a worthy object, but it it is rather lato to begin now, when the animal is practically extiuct. As for crossing the buffalo with domestic cattle, this scheme can only be in the interest of tho boarding-house keeper who wishes to improve upon tho toughness of the long-horned Western steer and thus secure an indestructible steak. y Mrs. Ada r Bittcubender, lawyer at Washington for tho W. C. T. U., has been investigating tho subject of early legislation on tho liquor traffic iu the colonies and United States of America. She HmU that two kinds of liquor legis lation kept pace with each other through out colonial life, namely, laws to punish drunkenness and those to promote the domestic manufacture of intoxicating drinks. Some curious penalties for drunkenness are mentioned. The offender was sometimes required to wear on his outside garment the letter "1)'' or the woTd "drunkard." Occasionally one was disfranchised. Reprimands, whip pings aud fines, however, were the ordi nary modes of punishment. At the same time laws were enacted making the plant- iug of grape vines compulsory, to en courage the wiiie industry, while especial efforts were put forth to increase the pro ductiou of malt and distilled liquors. The first law autluiriziug a liquor saloon, piue and simple, was passed iu 1639, LIFE'S EPITOME. A burst of light and long and story, Of hopes and dreams of some-time glory Day's begun ! A little praise, a little blame, A little floating breath of fame, A little sitting In the sun, a little sigh and Day is donol Annie Jf. p. Searing, in Harper's Bazar. GABE HARRIS. The wooden tauks on all tho leases in the Harford oil region had been full for many days, and every timo a well flowed "off a head" tho petroleum was wasted. It ran over tho tank's brim, saturated the dry leaves and formed pools on tho hill sides in tho depressions behind trees and stumps. The spring had been early; by the last week of April the snow was all gone from tho rocesscs of tho deep forest. There had been but little rain, and tho warm sun had dried the rotting timber in the woods. Tho leaves strewing the ground were crisp and combustible as paper. They were scattered hither and thither by tho frequent breezes blowing strong from tho Great Lakes, aud they found lodge ment only whero they fell into waste petroleum aud becimo soaked. Never were there conditions more favorable for a terrible, disastrous forest fire. Everybody was careful of fire. Men who in sullen silence, or with angry de nunciation of tho Pipe Lino Company, watched their oil run to waste, forbore smoking in the woods for fear of a spark from a pipe would start tho conflagration they all dreaded. Drilling was stopped ; tires wcro drawn from tho boilers at pumping wells. The producers had held mass meetings and denounced the action of the com pany; they had even attempted violence. To all complaints the compnuy seemed indifferent; to protect their projwrty they had called upon the Sheriff of the county and his posse, which cousisted mainly of men in their employ. From all tho meetings Gabo Harris had been absent. In tho attack upon the pump station he had taken no part; but every day he had gone to tho office of tho "Lines" and asked to have his oil "run." Having made tho request and received an answer, he handed the super intendent an estimate of the amount of petroleum that had run to waste on his leaso tho previous day. Tho reply ho re ceived was the samo that all applicants were met with : "Wo have no room, but are increasing our tankage daily, and hope to relievo you. soon. However, of you wish to sell your oil for immediate shipment we will run it at once." "Immediate shipment" oil brought twenty cents a barrel less than the mar ket price for crude petroleum, and many of tho producers, pressed by their cred itors or needing money to buy tho neces sities of life, were forced to accept the company's terms, lint Gabe, though his credit was nearly exhausted, would not thus yield to monopoly. Itather thau sell his oil for immediate shipment he would let his creditors have his property, aud support his family by working on tho streets of Hartford. His home he could retain, for tho littlo portable house with its furniture was paid for, and he would not have to pay ground rent, as on tho leases tho surface of the ground had no value, save where the der ricks and their engine-houses and tanks were located. Perhaps he would not have been so courageous had his wife not been of the opinion that his course was right. Her nature, though affectionate and gentle, was independent and self-reliant. Pov erty had no terrors for her. She had en dured it, had suffered many privations in practising a rigid economy in order to save the wages Gabo had earned as a driller, so that some day they might have a lease of their own. They had secured one; on it had put down three wells, aud were meeting with regularity and promptness the notes given for machinery and tanks when tho "shut down" came, and their oil joined that of other producers on the hill-side forever lost. She was glad Gabe had not become vio lent and made threats as his neighbors had done, because she thought much talk a display of weakness, and she would have regretted her marriago had she at last found herself tho wife of a weak man. She knew sho could rely upou his silent determination to win in his conflict with tho "Liucs" without an ap peal to dynamite, which remedy for their abuses was daily threatened by the pro ducers. Meantime Gabe formed a plan. He resolved to run his oil himself, first gauging his tanks in the presence of wit nesses to ascertain the amount they con tained ; then he would turn the stopcock, and set a donkey-engine to work pump ing the petroleum into tho main line. When his tanks were empty, ho would demand of the "Lines" a storage certif icate for the amount of the oil run. On a clear, warm moruing iu May he kissed his wife goodby for the day, and set out on horseback for Harford to make a final demand on tho company to run his oil. His lease was at the head of the Ken dall Creek Valley. From the door of his house ho could see the Tuna, into which the rapid Kendall Creek emptied. Scat tered through tho valley were several villages, the nearest to his home being Kendall. On the bank of the creek were a great number of iron storage tanks, each one painted red, and having on one side the name of its owner and its capacity stated in white letters, Gabe had often looked at them, and thought, as many another passer had done, what a jg fire they would make if the petroleum in one of them should bo ignited I But that day as he rode toward them his thoughts were far from the subject of a rouflagratiou iu them. Suddenly his revery was rudely interrupted. The sound of an explosion startled him, aud look ing up, he saw u large, flat object flying iu the air. Recognizing it as the roof of an iron tank, he gave reiu to his horse and dashed toward the column of smoke and flame intertwined that he saw rising ueai the town of Kendall. Tho petroleum in an iron tank whs burning, and ho knew with whnt danger the firo threatened Kendall. The tank was one of a group on tho bank of tho creek, and if it should overflow, or on other tank bo ignited and burst with an explosion of gas, the burning fluid would surely be borne on the stream among the houses that further down lined its banks. From these houses tho town lay in the direction the wind was blowing, and the wooden, canvas-lined dwellings were as combustible as tinder. If a lire should break out among tho houses on tho creek, the town would soon be in ashes and many families home less. All of this Gabo comprehended in a moment, and he rode right into the vil lage, shouting to the women whom he saw standing in their doorways and gazing curiously at tho blazing petroleum, "Bring all the shovels aud picks you can find." Looking back over his shoulder, he saw fire running up the side of the hill, the blazing leaves blown by tho wind ap parently in a hot race to spread the con flagration, to carry destruction far and wide. At a glance he saw the direction of tho firo was toward his own home and lease toward his wife and children, whom he had left but a half hour before. At tho telegraph station of the "Lines," ho drew rein, aud yelled to tho operator: "Tell Harford we want men with picks and shovels, and wo want them quick. Wire tho railroad company for a special train." The operator, who had already re ported an iron tank on fire, promptly sent Gabo's message. Beforo it reached Harford, Gabe was on his way at full speed of his horse. He rode to within a hundred yards of tho burning tank and hitched his horso to a tree on the wind ward side of tho fire. Then snatching a shovel from ono woman and a pickaxe from another he ran to a bend of a creek and began tho construction of a dam. Two old men aud some boys came to help him, whilo the women brought picks and shovels and laid them on the bauk of the creek in readiness for use by husbands and brothers, who, to a man, were attending a mass-meeting of the producers in Harford. Tho blazing oil heated the tank, the flames roaring, and struggling to main tain a perpendicular against the wind, growing in force and blowing steadily. Gabe was working with wonderful en ergy, making a sluice for the escapo of the water, at the same'lime directing his assistants how to build a dam, which was to be constructed of stones laid ono on tho other Hnd banked with dirt. Tho old men, whose strength '.'was unequal to the efforts they put forth in the excite ment, leaned on their shovels presently, and took an observation of the progress of the fire, and reckoned .on the proba bility of tho small forco' being able to complete tho dam beforo tho overflow would come. "Why, Gabe, how can you work 30 hard in this heat with'yonr coat on?" one of them remarked, querulously, as he wiped his brow with a soiled handker chief. "Didn't think ofvthat," said Gabe, and in a moment ho was at work again without coat or vest .to impede him. 'Does go easier," ho said, cheerily, as he strengthened the side of 'the sluice with a large stone. "Now, if you old fellows ain't played out, you camshovel some dirt behind that rock." "I ain't played out;" ono of the old men said; "but I'm thiukin' you'd better git fast as your how can carry you, or you wou': save much from that',little house of yours up to Summit." One of tho boys stopped ;, in his dig ging, his breath growing' short, aud looked at tho conflagration sweeping up tho mountain side. "Gabe, hadn't I better ride up and tell younwife tho fire's comiu'1" he said. "No; you stay hero and dig. Mrs. Harris knows as much about tho fire comin' her way as wo do. She's got eyes." Yet, with all his cheerful manner and the courage in his vcicc, Gab3 did not daro to look up from his work, for fear tho sight of tho tempest of flames that' was rushing to tho destruction of his home would overcome hi8S. resolution to save Kendall if possible. "But don't you think yott'd better go, Gabe?" the old man queried. "Charity begins to home, you know." "Stop pesterin' mo and work, or get out of the road." The old man, offended,' shoveled in a desultory way. "Spoonfuls don't count; Hain't the little grains of sand we want Here, Dut shovelfuls," and suiting actio to word, Gabo dumped a pile of sand against the stone he had just put in pbice. The old man, feeling that he was useless, threw down his shovel and walked away ; the other ono joined him, and together they went to chatter with the women who were standing in the highway, alter nately gazing at the fire aud noting the progress of the dam. "Is the dam done!" asked ono woman eagerlv of the old men. "Done? It will never bo done, for tho overflow will come first." "Better get out your things," said tho other old man. This suggostian stampeded tho women. They scattered, each to her home, the children crying after their mothers, who were hastening to save keepsakes and small valuables. Here and there a frantic woman carried a baby, but was heedless of its cries. Meanwhilo Gabo was cheering the boys, some of whom were beginniug to flag one, then auother of them, pausing to draw a shirtsleeve over his perspiring forehead. "Here, Dick, you carry stones awhile. You help hiin, Bill. Aud you two fel lows there with picks, take shovels. We'll beat that tire, or we aiu't men." Thus encouraged, the boys worked with iucreased vigor, aud Gube saw with growing hope that the dam was assum ing proportions which would offer effec tual resistance to considerable of a "boil over," as the overflow was bouictiwes called. Once again the boy who bdwaatefl to ride to Gabe's home with news of the approaching firo recurred to the subject. "Tain't too lato yit, Gabe. Hadn't I better go?" "You can go if you want to, Dick, but only not to my house. We need all hands here." Tho boy shamefacedly renewed his exertions, and tho others, iu dogged imi tation of Gabe's unflagging zeal, worked with their heads down, bestowing all their attention to obeying his orders. There was silence among them except when Gabe spoke; but amid the roaring of tho fire in the tank they could hear the shrill voices of the women screaming to each other, and presently there came to their ears tho welcome screech of one of the little narrow-gauge engines. Buoyel by a repetition of the whistle, tho little band seemed to redouble their efforts. Soon again tho locomotive shrieked, nearer to them, and there was silence until the rumble of the train was heard. Then the boys looked up; but Gabe did not pauso in the particular task he was engaged upon packing the sand be tween some stones. The train ran up to a point opposite the tanks, and before it was at a stand-still men carrying picks and shovels hnd leaped from the platforms and were running to the dam, shouting to the workers to make way for new men. Then Gabe paused. He looked up the valley, but could not see his home for the dense smoke that was blowing over the summit. He was jostled aside by the new-comers, who came to the work like a company charging a bat tery. Gabo felt that he would not bo needed now. Ho could no longer re strain his heart. It called on him louder, more urgently than it had done when there was time for him to get to his house before the conflagration had reached it, and he obeyed. In the tumult he was not missed, and no one heard the clatter of his horse's hoofs over the stony road. Bending low over the pummel of his saddle ho dashed into the smoke. He could not see, but ho trusted his horse, now mad with fright. Presently he said: "Thank God!" The lessening of the heat on his cheek, then a breath of cool nir, told him that which he had not observed the wind had veered, and had carried tho tire off in another direction, west of his house, and it was safe. He knew, too, from faith in his wife, that she had conducted tho children to a place of safety. Soon he was out of tho blind ing smoke, and the horso slackened the paco of his own accord. Then he dis mounted and climbed tho side of the mountain, where he soon found his family on a point of rocks. "I saw it all," said his wife; "but I did not know it was you working there all that time till I saw tho horso start up the vallev. Then I know." And she kissed him. "But the overflow! Did it come?" "Yes. Just after I lost sight of you in the smoke. "And the dam?" "It held. See, Kendall is safe; and there would not have been time to save it after the train came." And in the look of pride aud love she gave him Gabe found his reward. liar jer' Weekly. Co Operative and Loan Associations. It is estimated that there aro about 4000 co-operative and loan associations in the United States; that their accumu lations of property represent $300,000, 000, aud that the amount paid to them for one year in tho form of dues alone exceeds $65,000,000. These associations, in their calier days in Philadelphia, were called building clubs, and later they have been known under the namo of building and loan associations. Under any name they mean essentially one and tho same thing; which is the forming of corporations in which the members shall loan money to one another on certain fixed terms, and by means of which labor ing men, for the most part in our towns aud cities, may be able to add to the shares which they have purchased iu this asso ciation, together with the fines and dues which accure, a sum equal to what they have already invested in hem,aud apply it to thu building or buying of homes for themselves. During the last thirty years these associations have iucreased in all parts of the country. The first one was organized in Philadelphia in 1831; the second was formed in 1845, and from 1845 to 1850 about fifty were created in Philadelphia alone. A'ete York Dispatch, Walkinr in Circle. Writing of sporting iu Canada, a traveler insists upon the necessity of car rying a pocket compass. Without one, no one can keep a straight course when the sky is overcast. The tendency on these occasions is to walk in circles. It is very annoying, but by no meaus unusual to find one's self, after two hours' hard walking, at the ex act spot one started from. Indeed, I have completed my circle in half au hour when lost in the woods without a com pass. I have remarked, too, that I almost iuvariably trend to the light, not to tho left, and on comparing notes with other "bushwhackers," I find that I am not singular iu this respect. Can it be that the left is generally tho better leg of tae two, and takes, imperceptibly, tho longer stride? Deformity the Mother of Fashions. Disraeli declares that tho origin of many fashions is to be found iu the en deavor of the devotee to conceal some deformity of nature by recourse to art. "Patches wero iuventod iu England," he says, "by a foreign lady, who by this nieaus ingeniously covered a wen on her neck. Wigs wero iuveuted by a French barber to conceal uu elevation in tha shoulder of the Duuphiu. Charles VII., of Frauce, introdrced the long-tailed coat to hide his ill-made legs. Shoes two feet in length were iuveuted to con ceal a largo excrescence ou the foot of the Duke of Anjou. Wheu Francis I. was obliged to wear his hair short, owiug to a wound on his neck, it became a pre vailing fashion at court." Jjctroit Jfrti SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. In Paris all electric wires, without ex ception, are under ground. Cooking stoves, heated bv electricity, are being perfected for general use. It is stated that elcctrio motors are now used iu more than 130 different indus tries. It is said that the onion is a great cure for insomnia, and about as effective us quinine in malaria. It requires an average of 132 days for tho renewal of the nails in cold weather and but 116 in warm weather. An English journal discusses the possi bility of distinguishing "high and low born blood" by tho aid of the uiiscro scope. A Scotchman claims that ho has de tected 30,000 dust motes iu the thou sandth part of a cubic inch of the air of a room. Tho number of eggs in a six-pound eel in November is fully 9,000,000; tinder the microscope they measure eighty to tho linear inch. Tho Count of Assata, in Italy, has an electric motor in his dairy to do the churning, work the pump and perform various other operations. A German has invented an apparatus for forcing sidewise the swells in front of fast going ships by means of steam jets from a nozzle under tho water at the bow. In the formation of a single locomotive steam engine there are nearly 6000 pieces to be put together, and these require to be as accurately adjusted as tho works of a watch. In a Minneapolis (Minn.) overalls fac tory an electric motor runs all the sew ing machines aud does all the cuttiug, beside warming the irons that press out the goods. At tho Krupp Works at Essen, Ger many, there aro 1195 furnaces of various constructions, 286 boilers, ninety-two steam hammers of from 200 to 100,000 pounds, 370 steam engines with a total of 27,000 horse-power. A small instrument has been devised for use in mines to indicate the presence of fire damp, or in gas mains to indicate the escape of gas. The invention is based upon the property certain metals have of evolving heat in the presence of hydrogen gas. For new railroad tracks this year 1,000,000 tons of steel rails will bo needed. This quantity of material, de livered, will cost $35,000,000. Fish bars, frogs switches, ties, grading and laying will bring tho total cost of this one item of railway expense to about $100,000,000 for the year. California has a fruit pest in the gray linnet, far worse aud more damagiug to fruit raisers than the English sparrow. If some means aro not systematically nud methodically adopted to exterminate this bird there will be very little profit in fruit raising in those sections where deciduous fruits aro exclusively produced. A German naturalist estimates as fol lows the number of eggs a hen may lav : The'ovary of a hen contains about 600 embryo eggs, of which not more than twenty are matured in the first year. The second year produces 120; the third 135, tho fourth 114; and iu the following four years tho number decreases to twenty yearly. In the ninth year only ten eggs can be expected. A Horse Dentist. At the quarters of tho Salvage Corps the other day Dr. Welles, a veterinary dentist, paid" his annual visit. Ono by one the horses were brought out into the yard iu the rear of the house and backed up agaust the fence. Tho doctor seized the first hrrse by the nose, got hold of the animal's tongue and pulled it out as far as possible. He then examined the teeth with hiB fingers and ascertained what was to be done. He took from his grip a stick about a foot long, to which he attached a noose, which he twisted around the horse's nose, forcing him to open his mouth. Then the dentist took a long nickeled tubular instrument, to one end of which was attached a chisel, around which was a guard which rested on the horse's lower teeth. A rod was shoved through tho tube, causing the chisel to chip pieces off the teeth, thus making them ono height. A long file was then brought to play and the teeth sharpened. All the horses were examined and treated in this way. From the mouth of each two small back teeth were pulled. These are termed "wolf" teeth. They often cause considerable trouble to a horse, tho pain from them at times being so intense as to make the animal unmanageable. Only one of the horses gave an trouble, and the deutist finished his work on the four in less than an hour and received $8 for his work. Newark (iV. J.) Newi. Cruel Way or Securing- Eiderdown. The gathering of eiderdown consti tutes one of the most profitable employ ments of Icelanders. This is especially true in tho islands of Fidey, Fingey, and Ahrey, which are the favorite haunts of the eider ducks. Here they pair aud make their nests about the beginning of June. Having choseu the place where she wishes to lay her eggs, the female plucks from her plumage feathers to line her nest, and lays her eggs. Then the eiderdowu gatherer carries away both the down and the eggs, iu spite of a stout resistance from the unfortunate pair. The process is carried on again aud again, until the female duck is stripped nearly bare, when tho male comes to her assist ance aud strips himself iu tho samo way. Elastic Flannel. Elastic flannel is chicflly mado iu Wales. This description of flannel is woven in the storking loom ami has a pile ou ono face on which account it is styled Vileurs de Laiue aud other names according to the fancy manufacturers. These flannels measure from thirty-two to thirty-six inches iu width and are principally employed for women's dress ing gowns aud jackets. They are usual ly made either iu colored stripes ou a white ground, or else iu plain rose or blue color. A'ett York Ttlegram. QUEER TROPICAL THINGS. ASTOUNDING GIFTS OF NATUBE IN CENTRAL AMERICA. A no-turned Engineer Tells of Trren That Ciive Hi-end and Milk and Ants That Pistil Honey. "There are some funny things to be met with in that region," said Major CJuincy A. Steele, who has been with an engineer corps, surveying railroad routes in Ceutral America for the past two years, "and among the funniest aro a trco that gives a light so strong that you can rend or write by it at night, and one that gives milk, and another that provides the way farer with bread. Then thorc is an ant that supplies you with sweetening for your coffee, which is an interesting native of that queer country. The tree that gives light isn't a large one, but it isn't inconspicuous by any means. Tho last place we camped at in tho mountains we had a particularly bright specimen of this tree to work by. I could sit ten feet away from it and read fiue print as well as if it had been broad daylight. As soon as night comes tho leaves of this trco begin to shine as if they were so many electric lights. Looking off across country ono can sco scores of the trees shining here and there in the darkness like beacon lights set in the hills. They mako a very choice article of rum from the leaves of this treee by boiling them down and letting tho decoction stand in tho sun for n day or two. The native In dians are fond of this tipple, and at least one of our Indian helpers and guides is usually engaged in snoring off tho result of injudicious tampering with this rum whilo it is a trifle new. "The tree I am speaking of doesn't grow more than ten feet high, but three of them would light up a town. If you rub the leaves smartly between your hands, they will plow in tho dark like a lightning bug. The Indians call this tree the witch tree, and I don't blamo them. It gives the best light just after it has been drenched with watei, and so if the tree begins to grow a little dim on us, all we have to do is to douse two-or three pails of water over it, and it's just like giving a lamp wick a turn or two higher. One of our party had a big idea of going home and organizing a company to introduce and cultivato this tree iu towns and cities, ami knock gas com panics and electric light plants higher than a kite; but when lie louml matt lie tree stops giving light in August and doesn't start up again until the next March, ho thought the scheme wouldu't pay. "The tree that gave the bread we used to cat down there doesn't look a bit as if it would do it. But looks aro very decep tive under the Equator. The bread isu't exactly bread wheu we pick it, cither It is a nice stiff dough enclosed iu a nut shell about the size of n goose Ctrl'. We crack the nut. take out the dough, knead it a little, and it is ready for baking, By thinning it down to a batter with the milk we get from another tree, our camp cook used to make first rate pancakes out of it. The day I left he strained the sweetening out of n quart or two of ants, mixed it up with a batch of the dough, and made sweet cake that would have been good enough for anybody's folks to set before company. "The ants that supply the 'honey, or syrup, or whatever it may be called, arc worth a day's travel ou mule back over these mountains to tee. They are about the size of a small peanut, and on their back is a transparent sac that they distil full of honey until they swell up as big as a good-sized marble. You can scoop these nuts up by tho neck. They make this honey to feed their young on, but they are so good-natured aud so sus ceptible to familiarity that all you have to do is tickle them on the foreshoulder and they will give you up every drop of honey they have, aud then go meekly off to fill up again. "But this accommodating ant isu't a whit more curious than the tree that acts in the capacity of dairy down there. This tree has a big, tough, leathery leaf, that can bo used for half-soling shoes. When we want to milk one of these cow trees wo bore a hole in tho trunk, and it lets down a sap as white and as sweet as any milk that was ever stripped from a cow. To get sweet milk out of this troo, though, it must be milked early in tho morning. After the sun has been up two or three hours tho tree gives sour milk." jVw York Sun. A Wonderful Invention. Away up skyward, in one of the mag nificent trade palaces so rapidly spring ing up along Fifth Aveuuo in New York city, there is a modest little laboratory of a man soon to bo well known in the world of sciences. "Gianni Ilettini, lieutenant de cavalerie," is the very un assumiug inscription ou the office door. Let us enter and inspect the lieutenant's wonderful talking machine, far more per fect, more simple, and portable than Edison's. The object of Bettini's inachino is of course the same as the phonograph, tho reproduction of sound. But in Bettini's the metallic sound is done away with aud the natural timbre of the voice al most preserved. Whisperings and aspi rated tones are reproduced with wonder ful fidelity. The inventor claims that it is a general molecular vibration which causes the emission of tones from tho in strument, and that the diaphragm is not essential, to prove which, lie removes tho diaphragm aud stylus, aud simply lays the end of an ordinary screw-driver on the revolving wax cylinder. The table itself appeals to talk, almost as distinctly as when the stjlus and trumpet were at tached. The inicro-graphophoue is designed to be sold, when put upon the market, aud ut rented. It can be carried iu au ordinary valise, aud it is by far the most portable; of all the talking machines yet invented. -Mr. Ilettini, the inventor, is a handsome son of sunny Italy, aud one of her stalwart defenders. He is an officer of thu army, aud is now on a leave of abseuee. Iu person Mr. Ilettini is most pleasing, aud attributes his inven tions less to inspiration thau hard work. button Traveller, THE WORDS OF THE RAIN. I it alone in my chamber dim. In a reverie settled and deep. When by and by, like ti weird, woven hymn," I heard the wind in its mournful sweep Splashing, as it passed, my window pane aub ... i With generous drops of coolfrlg raiu. Oh. ho, I sail), I am not alone. It had Burn a soul-refreshing tone ,, In the warm night it was melody, With never a pause in its refrain. Patter, pattor, said the welcome rain. Anon a thought fell over my heart. , Can I coin that music into words? A longing came that would not depart 1 If I might translate its mystic chords If a gleam would come from wisdom's train. Itdid, and I understood tuo raiu. "Oh, mortal, my mission is like thine, 1 To scatter good on palaces and cot-s; "-j In the dark of niht I am doin-; mine T Ceaseless and faithful, but thou art not." Then I blushed and said, with rejrretfid pain, "There is truth in tho words of ths rain.-' "Mother Nature is kind unto all," Continued the burden of its song, The sun shines out, and the showers fall, While season follows season along ! The laughing fruit, and the springing grain All join in love's anthem," said the rain. Oh! man, whilo creation toils for the?, Year in, year out, for ever tho same. From dripping cloud to the tiding sea If thou art idle it is thy shame. There's work for all, and for each its plane Hear then, and heed the words of the rain." -William Lylc, in IMroit Free f'rem. HUMOR OF THE DAY. Common sccuts Cheap perfumes. An old bach Loaves baked last week. Claws iu the will Fingers of the law yers. Boston Herald. The weight of an argument doesn't de pend upon the size of the man. Age brings us wisdom, but doesn't give us much time to use it. Pack. Every dog has his day, and Sunday be longs to tho growler. Terra llnute Ex- ret. If the bovs ilou't kiss the misses, then tho girls will miss the kisses. Uimjham ton fender. "Is it a crime to be a wimnn?"' cried the oratorcss. "No; only a Miss de meanor." Puck. A market rcportsays: "Corn is quiet." Then it is different from some thiugs that are put into cribs. A horse has the advantage of a man in one thing. He's worth more after he's broke thau he was before. The broker wdio married a pretty, but penniless, girl explained that he had taken her at her face value. "All gone," murmured Potisonby sadly, as he surveyed his bald head in tho mirror. "Not even a part remains." Life. Womau "You're the first tramp I've -1 .Via Tr.init "Yes, ma'am; I always was noted for my enterprise and push." Jinhje. His first love was full twenty-five; He eighteen when he sought her. When lie at forty did arrive. He asked her for her daughter. Puck. He (cautiously) "What would you say, darling, if I should ask you to be my wife?" Darling (even more cautiously) "Ask me aud fiud out." Washington Star. Miserly says if the telegraph compan-, ies charge their wires as they do their , l.A .l......'t it-..rili., llit.t if. rrivp. a man a shock to touch one. BinyhuiH'" ton ItrjHiblican. When Jack Tar sails the stormy sea, His vessel reels, but not so he; When she's iu port on even keel, His steps a stagger oft reveal. Fuel:. Miss Kewt (who wants to bring him to the point) "I thiuk some old bachelors aro horrid." Mr. Bachclloor "What about present company I" Misa Kewt "Present company ulways accepted." Judge. An old sayiug makes it that "ho who goes borrowing goes a-sorrowiug." It may be so with some borrowers, but in other cases it is tho fellow who lends that generally goes sorrowing. Phiia-dcljhia- Timet. Kcv. Mr. Choker "Has your congre gation raised your salary lately, Brother Thirdly!" Brother Thirdly (from tho country) "No, sir; it seldom raises more than half of it iu any given year. AVio York A'eif. "Humph!" said Mrs. DcPorque, as sho laid down her book, "this writer says the dodo is extinct." "Well, mamma, sup pose it does?" "Why, anybody of ordinary intelligence knows that. They use ditto marks nowadays." Wutliiiigtnn Pott. An Adelaide (Australia) daily paper has in its employ ihrco men named Day. One of them is called Suu Day, because he is a clergyman; another, being the cashier, is called Pay-Pay, whilo the third, bciug a law-reporter, goes by the name of Judgment-Day. Sjring!iM Union. Angora Goat Farming. Angora goat fainting is perhaps tho most important anil profitable industry of tho Tasinauian farmer. This iudustry was introduced iu Tasmania ubout forty years ago, and mohair lirst appeared as an export ten years later, the quantity shioped being 10.lt! pounds. In 1875 the clip reached 1,157,000 pounds, val ued at $1100,000, whilo iu 187, 7,151, 000 pounds of hair were exported, val ued at over $1,0(10,000 (.he price of hair having been much reduced by this time), besides skins to the value of $500,000. A Scarcity of Men. A charming young lady, who doesn't begiu to be near the tirsl cornel stoue, has evolved from her iunet cons, iousness thu followiug reflection ou masculine Wash ington : The sad.lest words of Uugu or pen, There are loo many woim-n ud uot enough p..t, Wuahin-jtoPost, j
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