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A club in Guatemala o(Tnr a premium
of tlOOO for tho best bymn for the Con
tral Aracricnn nation.
A Now York paper thinks that the
presence, of icebergs so far South indi
cates an open season fit the pola that
should stimulate polar exploration.
Tho Chlrngo Sun estimates thnt tho
shipments of lumber from Lakes Michi
gan and Superior this year will amount
to 200,000,000 feet to Eastern points,
on increase, of forty per cent, over Inst
year.
Stanley has quito broken tho record in
the matter of having things named after
him, states tho Detroit Free Prett. One
could dress hlmsolf from head to foot and
then furnish his house without buying an
article that is uot christened for tho ex
plorer. A recently returned Mexican tourist
says that the average Mexican sennrita is
ugly and that a beautiful woman is as
groat a rarity thcro as a truth-telling na
tive. Many of tho women look pictur
esque in their mantilla, but on closo in
spection their beauty proves a delusion
and a snare.
Thitty-seven French soldiers, under
command of a Captain, a Lieutenant and
a sub-Licutcnnnt,nrc said to have marched
from their barracks at Vanncs to a rail
road station twe'.vo miles distant in 1
hour and 60 minutes to snluto a General
whose train was to stop at the station.
Not a ninn fell out on the march.
The New York World ascertained that
broad and milk is one of tire most popu
lar dishes served for luuch at tho Con
gressional restaurant in Washington.
Glasses of pure cream or of half cream
ami half milk nro greatly in demand
among tho Congressmen wlio como from
cities, but they are avoided by the rural
members.
A rami named Willis has taken up his
residence on the coast of Florida for the
purpose of killing sharks, and ho kills
them by exploding giant powder in tho
water. In one months ho has done for
over 100 of them, and ho says ho shall
make the number 1000 before he stops.
A shark bit his wife in two, and this is
his revenge.
Emperor William, of Germany, has re
solved to ccaso giving jewels to those
whom he wishes to honor, and will here
after present to them cabinet photographs
of himself ond the Empress. "Tho Em
porcr has but recently embarked upon
the mortgage-loan business, and proba
bly finds it necessary to economize be
tween payments of interests," is the com
meut of the New York Timet.
Tho' New York Telegram has discov
ered that J. G. Fitch, Inspector of Train
ing Schools in England, who came to
America in 1888 to study tho public
school system, has mado a report which
is not very complimentary to our schools.
Ho says they give no better education
than is now afforded by tho elementary
schools of England, the chief fault being
that the minutenessf the rules laid down
for teachers and pupils "leaves littlo
room for the spontaneity of the former
or the individuality of tho latter."
t -i r- 9
Tho British Government got about
$500,000 out of the English estate of the
lata J. S. Morgan, of the American firm
of bankers, Drexel, Morgan & Co., which
amounted to 1 1,000,000. The first duty
was the probata stamp, which cost $350,
000. Another tax amounted to $40,
000, and as Morgan had left a year's sal
ary to every person in his employment,
and there is a tax of 10 per cent, on
each of these bequests as well as n tax of
1 per cent, on the bequests to his chil
dren, and 3 and 5 per cent, to other rela
tives, another $110,000 was almost mado
up.
A good deal 'of indignation has been
excited in England over the discovery
that a number of soldiers who took part
in the famous charge of the Light Brigade
at Balaclava are now reduced to beggary
and almost to starvation. Of the survi
vors of the "noble six hundred" it has
been found that whi'o a few are in com
fortable circumstances, there are nearly
two thousand in various almshouses, and
over five thousand dependent on private
charity. This, declares Muntry't Weekly,
is a sad commentary on England's lack
of generosity and on the veterans' lack of
veracity.
Alfred Carter, the Lancashire weaver
who aspired to the hand of Queen Vic
toria, has escaped the lunatic asylum,
announces the Chicago Timet. Tho
Judge before whom he was arrigned, rcc
ogniziug the venerable common-law dic
tum that "a cat may look at a King," de
cided that a weaver may love a Queen
and not be out of his wits. It is grati
fying to know that in Europe, us in
America, the lowest-born citizen may as
pire to the highest office in tho land.
Even in Hussia one may aspire to the
throne, for the law there says: "Aspire,
if you want to, and be hanged."
LOVE AMONG THE CLOVER.
Orer and over the purple clover,
Under the groonwood troo,
Sweet Bomiecame straying, for wild flowers
Maying;,
And sang in her maiden gloet
"O hey, O hoi
Thcro- a lnddy I know
Who joy my faro to soo.
Fair blossoms, I prny, now what shall I say
When Robin comes wooing o' me.
Dear heart
When Robin comes wooing o' mo"
Over anil under the boughs asunder,
Through the wool came Robin ere long;
In the olden fashion he earrolled his pas
sion, And the hawthorn swayed to his songs
"O hey, O ho!
The way I know
She dropped m-s this flowor to toll;
But what she will say this blossomy day
Would that I knew it as well,
Pear heart,
Would that I knew it as woll."
Over and over tho fragrant clover,
The boes went humming till late.
And where is tho la Idle., and what luck ha 1
he,
A-wooing bis blithesome mate?
O hey. Oho!
They walk full slow,
Brown Robin and blushing Bess;
But what did she say in the wood to-day?
I think I will leave you to guess.
Dear heart,
I think I will leave you to guess.
Samuel M. JVefc, in Courier-Journal.
A HAND IX TUG DARK.
BT MRS. ETI'A F. MAKTUf.
"Lucky fellow 1"
Tho words involuntarily passed my lips j
ns I threw myself into tho luxurious easy
chair drawn up temptingly beforo the
open grate. They applied equally to
Tom and myself. Tom was a lucky fel
low, certainly the master of the grange
and tho husband of a charming woman
and I counted myself almost equally
fortunate in my freedom from business
cares for three whole weeks, and the
prospect of unlimited fishing and driving.
Cousin Tom had recently inherited n
fortuue; I was still plodding alone in
Loudon; but for three weeks of liberty I
determined to enjoy all the blessings the
gods had vouchsafed me, and to imagine
myself, for the nonce, us rich and happy I
as Tom himself.
Although it was early fall tho nights
were a little keen, and Constance
Tom's wife hud ordered a fire in my
room, the cheerful blaze giving to the
richly furnished apartment a delightful
touch of warmth and cozlncss.
With such a fire and such a chair, and
with my favorite evening paper in my
pocket, retiring was not to be thought
of; so drawing to my chair a table on
which stood a shaded lamp I gave my
self up to the perusal of my journal.
Over tho long parliamentary report I
must have gone to sleep, and when I
awoke the lamp had burned itself out,
and but a few sparks remained of the
cheery fire. The room was not in total
darkuess, for there was n moon, hidden
by clouds, to be sure, but still throwing
enough light at the wido windows to
make things dimly visible.
On the instant awakening I felt that
some one was near me, and, with that
startled feeliug one has on awakening
suddenly from a sound sleep, I cried out:
"Who's there?"
No answer came, and the only sounds
were tho tapping of a tree branch nguinst
the window and the ticking of tho clock
over the-fireplacc.
Still I was conscious ithat somebody
something was near me, aud I held my
breath, strainiug my cars to catch
some sound thnt should reveal thu in
truder, but only the tap of the tree branch
and the tick of the clock broko the si
lence. I remembered that there 'wcro matches
on the table, and turned my chair to
search for them. An exclamation of as
tonishment rose to my lips as I did so,
for on the surface of the table was a
strange luminous spot neither lamplight,
firelight nor moo-alight.
Up to this time my feeling had been
one of annoyance rather than fear, but
thero was something so indescribable, so
supernatural, about this light that a sud
den terror seized me, and I gazed as one
fascinated, unable to move.
A card and pencil I had taken from
my pocket lay on the table, and over
this the light grew brighter, and in the
midst a hand appeared a woman's hand,
delicate and beautiful, but of deathly
whiteness, and on the third, ringer gleamed
a ruby, the stoue held between two
golden serpents' heads.
The fingers closed overtho pencil, and
after making several irrcgujlar marks upon
the card, letters began to be formed, and
as I leaned forward with breathless in
terest, I saw the pallid hand writo with
perfect distinctness:
"Search for the box in the; old well."
Then tho strange light grew dim, the
hand gradually faded away, aud the
moon, emerging from the clouds, threw
a shaft of light into the room.
The spell that had bound mo was
broken, and in a moment I had found
match and taper, and light in hand, was
bending over the table.
The card was blank not a w. rd upon
it and I asked myself if I had been
dreaming; but hard as I tried to convince
myself that such was the case 1 could
not; it had all been too real.
A strange experience it was surely,
but ofter pondering over it awhile I de
cided to dismiss it from ny mind and to
retire.
In the morning the affair seemed more
inexplicable than ever, and I found my
self constantly thinking of tho words I
had seen traced by the mysterious hand.
They were meaningless to me. "Search
for the box in thu old well." I knew of
no b-ix that had beeu lost aud certainly
I knew of no old well. The alfair had a
flavor of "Lady Aud ley 'a Secret" about it,
und it was not hard to picture a gras..
grown well couceatiug iu its depths some
ghastly secret.
If I could have laughed the matter off
as a dream I should have regaled Tom
and Constance with tbs story at break
fast, but I could not bring myself to
speak of it.
"By tho way, Lester," said Tom,
"we are expecting another guest to-day
Miss Mabel Saunders. Charming girl,
too."
"And tho Orange's rightful mistress,"
said Constance.
I looked up in surprise.
"I thought you bought the lace, Tom,
so who could bo tho rightful mistress but
Constance?"
"Only leased it, old fellow. Tho own
er, Lec Hit-court, would not sell, though
he is ashamed to show his face about
here. It is my opinion ho hopes to
como back and marry Mabel when tho
feeling against him has died away."
"Tell mo tho story, Tom," I asked,
"for that there is a story is evident."
"Easily told, Lester. Mabel Saunders
is the daughter of nn old army comrade
of Colonel Dcnison, the late owner of the
Grange, and when her parents died, in
her infancy, Colonel Dcnison and his
wife took the child to their home. She
was not legally adopted, but as they had
no children of their own Mablc was
looked upon as their heiress, and the
Colonel's attorney avers that ho drew up
a will four years ago leaving the property
to her. Two years ago Colonel Dcnison
was brought home dead from tho hunt
ing field, and his wife, who had been for
years an invalid, survived the shock less
a month. When the Colonel's papers
were examined no will was found, and
Lee Harcourt, tho next of kin, eamo into
possession. Many of the Colonel's friends
were not slow to express their belief thnt
Harcourt had destroyed tho will, as he
had been visiting at the Grange at the
time of tho Colonel's death, but there
was no proof. He wanted to marry
Mabel, probably to end tho gossip, but
she refused bis baud, and for more than
a year now has been governcs for Mrs.
Stanton's three unruly boys. Now, those
precocious youngsters are to have a vaca
tion, so Mabel comes to us. Indeed, we
would gladly give her a home, but she is
too proud to accept it. There's the
story, and now for our drive. Hero are
the horses."
A glorious gallop it was in the bracing
autumnal air, and a visit to the stables
followed, so that I did not sec Constance
again till I came down to lunch. Meet
ing Tom in the hall, we entered the room
together, to find Constanco awaiting us,
and by her side a tall straight girl with
the sweetest face I had ever seen.
Tom greeted her warmly, and then
Miss Sauuders was introduced to mo, ex
tending her hand with some pleasant re
mark. Whnt she said I do not know, for on
the hand that was laid in mine glistened
a ruby a ruby held between two golden
serpent's heads.
I must have seemed strangely cmbar
rased for a moment. But I saw Constance
look at me oddly, and with a determined
effort I put aside all speculations lor the
time being.
That evening in the drawing-room, as
Miss Saunders and I were looking over a
book of engravings, I seized tho oppor
tunity to comment upon tho ring, saying
I had never seen that design beforo.
The sweet face grew sail ns she an
swered : "It was my mother's ring. She
placed it on my finger the day she died.
By her mother I understood of course
that she jiicant Mrs. Denison, the only
mother she had ever known, and I almost
seemed to hear the words: "Search for
tho box in the old well." Could there
bo any connection betwecu the mis
sing will and my strungo vision?
Tho days went on, every hour bring
ing mo nearer that unhappy day when I
must leav3 the Grango and Mabel and
return to my otlice drudgery. I had
often declaimed against sudden attach
ments, had often argued that love should
be a growth, and here were all my
theories completely shattered. At
glance from Mabel's blue eyes a flame
had been kindled in my heart that grew
brighter and brighter as we walked or
drove together in the long, pleasant
days. Still, I did not mean to ask her
to be my wife, for what had I to offer?
Two or tbreo rooms in a dingy Loudon
house perhaps. But one evening in the
garden, as the moonlight fell upon her
upraised face, 1 lost my beau completely
and avowed my love, to find it frankly
returned. Aud when I told Mabel how
littlo I had to lay nt her feet, she drew
such a picture of a little heme in London
that the two or three shabby rooms be
came the brightest spot ou earth.
Tom and Constance were delighted,
and iudeed I shrewdly suspect that the
whole affair, was one of my cousin's wife's
match making scheme'.
"Ah, Lester," she said, "if that will
would ouly turn up you might have a
fortune as well as a bride. Oh, yes," as
I protested that I wanted no fortune.
"I know you are disinterested, but you
would still love Mabel, would you not, if
she were rich:
"lly Jove," said Tom, "it is a shame
about that will. Let's have another
search for the box."
"The box! What box?"I cried, jump
iug to my feet in my excitement.
"Why, the tin box the will was in, to
gether with tho papers. Didn't I tell
you the whole lot were missing f
For a momeut I lost sight of Tom and
Constance, and before me I saw a pallid
hand, with its gleaming ruby, and it
traced tho words: "Search for the box
in the old well."
I turned squarely upon Tom, who was
watching me somewhnt curiously.
"Why dou't you search the old well?"
I asked abruptly.
"It was Tom's turn to jump to his
feet.
"The old well! What put that into
your head f But it shall be searched be
fore the sun goes down. And, by Jove,
Constance, don't you remember when we
leased the Grange that Harcourt spoke
about the old well us dangerous, aud
suggested that we have it filled up?"
There was a well, then, ami I wauted
to ask where; but Tom had taken it for
granted that I knew all about its exist
ence, uud I did not want to tell thctu my
srruugo experience on my first night at
the Grange. The search might reveal
nutuiug.
Tom would not wait a moment, hut
hurrying off to the stables, returned with
two or three of his men, and marshaled
the party to the old well, in a remote
corner of the grounds.
Tho promise of a sovereign to tho man
who. would make tho search quickly se
cured a volunteer, nnd as ho descended,
the stones on the sides giving him a foot
hold, Tom lit a lantern to be lowered to
him. The well was quite dry, and if the
box was there at all a brief search would
discover it.
And we had not long to wait. Soon
wo heard the man clambering up the
well side, and when his head rose nbovo
the curb Tom seized him nnd fairly lifted
him ont. And there was the tin box
protruding from his pocket.
Thcro is little more to tell. Tho will
was found to bo uninjured. Lee Har
court never returned to England, thereby
confessing virtually that he had stolen
the will, and Mabel in due timo was in
stalled as mistress of the Grange.
And I well, I tried to be magnani
mous, and told Mabel I was no match for
her and that she was at liberty to break
the engagement, whereupon she declared
that she would give the property to an
orphan asylum and bo once more the
dowerlcss girl I had loved and wen.
So I became master of the Grangc,and
among our most frequent visitors are
Tom and Constance.
Only the other day Tom said, as wo
wcro enjoying our after dinner smoke,
"That was a bright thought of yours,old
fellow, about the well. I am sure no
one else would ever have hit upon it."
I thought of the hand in the dark, but
I said nothing. After our marriage I
told Mabel the story, and we had agreed
that it should rest a secret with us.
Hob McGee's Scalp.
Robert McGec, of Easton, Kan., is
but thirty-nine years old, yet ho has
gone twenty-six years without a scalp,
with a bullet in his ribs and the scars of
several nwful wounds by Indian arrows.
It adds not a little to the interest of his
case to learn that he was shot and scalped
by the once-noted Little Turtle, and tho
ball now lodged between two of his ribs
was put there by Littlo Turtle, with the
identical pistol which President Lincoln
had not long before presented to the
"noble red mnn."
Senator Plumb, of Kansas, has intro
duced a bill in Congress to pay McGeo
$5000 out of the general or Indian fund,
and presents in support of it abundant
evidence to prove the following facts: In
1804 Hobcrt McGce, thirteen years old,
was left au orphan and without means,
but being quite tall for his age he tried
to enlist at Fort Leavenworth. Ho was
rejected but employed as a teamster,
and started with a small train to Fort
Union, N. M. On the 11th of July, near
where the city of Great Bend now stands,
Little Turtle's band of Sioux warriors at
tacked the train. The. whites fought
long and well, but were overpowered,
and every one killed except young
McGce.
It seems that tho Indians at first in
tended to spare him for some reason, but
after compelling him to witness the tor
ture of others not quite dead they de
cided to kill him also. The chief shot
him with tho elegant pistol he carried
as a souvenir, nnd three spears were run
into his back as ho lay upon the ground.
Little Turtle then to-e off his scalp and
struck him twice with a tomahawk,
fracturing the skull at each blow. The
savage departed, and in a few hours a
party of soldiers arrived on their way to
Fort Lamed. Sorrowfully they gathered
the corpses for burial, but perceiving
signs of life in McGce they bound up his
wounds nnd took him to the fort.
The surgeons exhausted their skill upon
him; the struggle was long aixl terrible,
but he lived as remarkable a recovery
as any related in history. Tho details
were laid before President Lincoln, who
sent for tho boy, and was deeply affected
by his account. The Western generals
were directed to favor him in employ
ment. Many years after McGec's uncle
acquired wealth in tho West and tried
to recover the scalp from Little Turtle,
but unsuccessfully. McGee is now ap
parently in robust health, but of course
terribly disfigured. Chicago Timet.
The Bench or Death.
It lies between the lnnding place at
Qiarantino and Fort Wadsworth, on
St-iten Island.
It is a pretty, pebbly beach, slightly
curving into a bay. It is a place where
children like to play, gathering pebbles
or dabbling in the limpid water that
beats upou it. A more peaceful looking
little stretch ol shore you never looked
upon.
Every now and then the waters of the
Narrows bear to and deposit on it the
swollen, bloated body of a drowned man
or woman, or mayhap a child. They all
come ashore here, all that come ashore at
all on the northern part of Stateu Island.
Nobody can tell the reasou why. Theio
is no peculiarity of tide or current that
affects boats in this manner. There must
be some peculiarity, yet it is not euough
to send boats or floating debris ashore
here any more than at other points. Yet
for the bodies of the human dead this
little arch of laud has some mysterious
attraction that. I for one cannot explain.
Aeio York Herald.
Baldness Due to Indigestion.
Of all the causes of premature bald
ness, none is so common as indigestion.
Dyspepsia and weak uud falling hair gc
hand iu hand. As the one affection hat
increased so has the other, and uot al.
the oil of Macassar, the bear's grease ol
Siberia, nor the canthurides of Spain will
prevent a man's hair from shortening uud
thinning whose stomach is badly out ol
order. Indeed, anything which debili.
fates the nervous system has a weakening
effect on the scalp tissues, which showi
that loss of hair may proceed from gen-
eral as well as locul causes. Ycu Yuri
Telegram.
An $8,000,000 ship canal is to b
built by a French couioauv couuectiut
-)elaware aud Chesaieake Bays. It will
J be a valuable short-cut.
(SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Aluminium bronzo is coming into ex
tensive use.
The health officer of Chicago refuses
to accept "heart failure" as a cause ol
death.
Chicago, 111., is 581 feet above the ses
level. St. Louis, Mo., lies about 100
feet lower.
An Italian torpedo ram fires a 418
pound projectilo through twenty-six
inches of iron.
An immense deposit of fine oolittic
lime-stcne has been discovered northeast
of Mitchell, Ind.
A system has been introduced for roll
ing liquid steel into thin sheet steel, free
from blow holes and scales.
A new megaphone has been introduced
in England, which magnifies the human
voice so that it can bo heard several
miles.
Water and the sap on trees expand nol
only in proportion as they rise above,
but also as they go below the freezing
point.
An immenso electrical plant is to be
erected near Brinton Station, Pittsburg,
Pcnn. It will be COO feet long nnd 400
feet wide.
A deposit of black slate ISOO feet wide
and two miles long has been found near
Pino Grove, in Pennsylvania, on lauds
belonging to a railroad.
New England capitalists have agreed to
invest $1,000,000 iu Laredo, Texas,
in putting up textile mills, nnd the CKy
Council have accepted the proposition.
Toast is more easily digested than
plain bread if the toast is eaten soon
after it is made. Toast that bos grown
ccld is not so easily digestible as bread.
Duplex telephony, it is now thought,
will play an extremely important part in
the solution of the difficulties in connec
tion with tho long-distance telephoning.
An Oakland, Cal., mechanic has in
vented a new rail for railroads, consist
ing of two parts, put together so ns to
leave an opening for any number of tele
graph wires, whereby perfect insulatiou
is secured.
A large quantity of clay is used in
paper making to give it body aud a
smooth surface, but not to cause the
fibres to interlace aud hold together.
This they do naturally aud very firmly
ns tho paper is pressed between the
heavy heated rolls.
The Louisiana Electric Light Company
nt New Orleans, La., have given orders
for two new driving belts, which will bo
ItiO feet 72 inches (six feet wide) double.
belt and 550 feet 48 inches (four feet
wide) double belt. These are tho
largest belts ever made, and it will re
quire the hide of more than 000 head of
cattle to make them.
The cxtremo scarcity nnd high price
of camphor in this country has induced
two or three firms to plnce on the market
a highly refined naphthalene suitable for
the preservation of woollens, fuss and
other articles from the destructive attacks
of iusects. The naphthalene is produced
in several forms, the more saleable being
balls, tablets, scales and granulated.
A regular industry is being started in
this country in tho mauutactuio of prear
ing for electric railways out of raw hide.
It is preferred to metal, as it makes far
less noise und wears better. I ho mate
rial is said to finish up in the working as
well as metal. The use of this material
indicates that very sevcro strains are
brought to bear upon cogs not capable,
if of metal, of standing the stress.
All freight cars hereafter built by the
roads in the Vandcrbilt railroad system
are to bo equipped with air-brakes, and
all colored line and local box and Btock
cars of thirty-four feet in length und
upward now in service on the Vauder
bilt roads are to have air-brakes attached
as fast as they como iuto tho shops for
repairs, and all such cars so built or re
paired are to bo equipped with a self
coupler. Concern iuy the Cat.
Dr. Johnson once wont to market nnd
bought an oyster for his sick cat. Tasso
wrote a sonnet to his puss. Petrarch had
his embalmed at its death; and Cardinal
Wolsey had his sit in a chair beside him
when he was administering justice. The
great Duke of Wellington himself im
ported into England the breed of the
royal cuts of Sium, which aro kept only
in the palace at Bangkok. Archbishop
Whatcly dignified the cat with tho re
mark that there was but one noun iu the
English lauguago that had a vocative
case, which was cat, vocative puss. Mo
hammed is said to have cut off a portion of
his sleeve on which a cat lay asleep lather
than wakeit when he wascalledaway.Nor
is intimacy with the gentle animal con
fined to the great of tho huuiuu race.
Godolphin, the famous Arabian horse
whose ancestry so many of our best
thoroughbreds claim, had a friendship
with a black cnt, which, after his death,
insisted on sitting ou his body until its
burial, when she crawled iuto a corner
and died broken-hearted. In the time
of the early Kings of Britain, wild cats
made a part of the royal menage, being
kept for hunting, and having officers of
equal rank and consideration with the
master of hounds. To-day au item iu
the French budget is the price of meat
furnished cats kept in the public printing
offices to prevent damage to paper by
mice; and there nre also iu this country
a number of cats that may bo suid to bu
employed iu the postal service.
He Composed -'Kathleen Mavouineeu.
A conspicuous figure in the processiou
at the unvailing of the Leo Monument,
at Hichuioud, V'a., was the venerable
Professor 1. N. Crouch, the composer of
"Kathleen Mavourneeu.". He is per
haps nearer niuety thau eighty years of
age, yet halo aud hearty. Hu was ar
rayed iu full uniform of Confederate
gray, having tome lroiu Baltimore to
meet probably for the last timo his sol
dier comrades of the old 1st Howitzers.
His comrades say no braver soldier ever
fought with the artillery of the army of
Northern Virginia. Ao York U'ribunf
RUSSIA'S T0Wx OF FIRE.
VIVID DESCRIPTION OP THE GREAT
PETROLEUM CENTRE.
Tbo Ilaslnoftbe Caspian Roa Rests
on a Hubtcrranrnn Sea of Naphtha
A City Without Houses.
Tiflis is midway on tho railroad that
cuts tho Caucasus in its whole width,
nnd puis the two seas in communication
the port of Batoum on the Black Sea
with that of Bakou on the Caspian. As
we leave tho capital in tho latter direc
tion, the eye is nt first ravished und then
desolated by the changing aspects of the
land. The track follows the Kour,
which rolls its broad sheet of water
majestically through wild forests and
rich, tilled soil, while two chairs of
suowy ridges stretch away out of sight
in the distance tho Caucasus to the
left, tho mountains of Armenia to tho
right. Soon wo leave the river, which
goes to join tho Ar.ixcs toward the south ;
the plain gets broader und barer; tall
cages built of planks perched on four
treo trunks rise in tho midst of tho rico
fields like watch towers. The inhabitants
of the villages, who nre all Tartars in
this legion, take refuge at night in
these aerial nests; the marshy land is
so unhealthy that it is dangerous to
sleep there. In spite of these precau
tions, tho peasants whom we see nre de
voured by fever; their emaciated visages
remind us of those of the inhabitants of
the Honinn campagna. After leaving
Hadji-Caboul, the new station in Moor
ish style where a new line brauches off
"the Tchcranlino," I nm told by the en
gineers who are building it, and who
hope to carry it into the very heart of
Persia we enter an African landscape,
sad and luminous. The mountain chains
become lower; they arc now simply cliffs
of gilded sandstone festooning ngninst a
crude blue sky. At their feet the desert,
a sandy expanse, covered here und there
with a rose carpet of flowering tamarisks.
Herds of camels browse on these shrubs,
under tho guard of a half-naked shep
herd, motionless ns a bronze statue. Tho
fantastic silhouettes of these animals nro
increased in size nnd changed in form by
the effect of the mirage, which displays
before our eyes, in the ardent haze of tho
horizon, lakes and forests. From time
to time we meet a petroleum trnin, com
posed of cistern trucks in tho form of
cylinders, surmounted by a funnel with a
short, thick neck. When you see them
approaching from a distance you might
mistake them for a procession of masto
dons, vying iu shapelessness with tho
trains of camels which they pass. The sun
burns in space. Yonder a green baud glit
ters beneath its rays; it is the Caspian.
We turn around a hill, nnd behold! on
this wc-tern shore, in this primitive
landscape, which seems liko a corner of
Arabia 1'etro-a, a monstrous city rises be
foro our eyes. Is it once more the effect
of mirage, this town of diabolical as
pect, enveloped in a cloud of smoke
traversed by running tongues of flame,
nt it were Sodom fortified by the de
mons in its girdle of cast-iron towers? I
can find but ouo word to depict exactly
the first impression that it gives. It is
a town of gasometers. There aro no
houcs the houses nre relegated further
away nn the right, in the old Persian
city nothi ig but iron cylinders and
pipes and chimneys, scattered in disor
order from the hills down to the beach.
This is doubtless the fearful model '
what manufacturing towns will all be iu
the twentieth century. Meanwhile, for
the moment, this one is unique in tho
world; it is Bakou the "town of fire,"
as tho natives call it ; the petroleum
town, where everything is devoted and
subordinated to tho worship of the local
god.
Tho bed of the Caspiau Sea rests upon
a second subterranean sea, which spreads
its floods of naphtha under tho whole
basin. On the eastern shore the build
ing of tho Somarcund Railway led to tho
discovery of immense beds of mineral
oil. On the western shore, from the most
remote ages, the magi used to adore tho
fire springing from the earth at the very
spot where its last worshipers prostrate
themselves at tho present day. But,
after having long adored it, impious men
began to make profit by it commercially.
In the thirteenth century the famous
traveler, Marco Polo, mentions "on the
northern side a great spring whence flows
a liquid like oil. It is no good for eat
ing, but is useful for burning and all
other purposes; aud so the neighboring
uatious como to get their provision of it
and fill mauy vessels without the ever
flowing spring appearing to be diminished
iu any mauuer."
The reid practical workings of these
oil springs dutes back only a dozen years.
At the present day it yields 2,000,000
kilogrammes of kerosene per annum nnd
disputes the markets of Europe against
the products of Kentucky and Pennsyl
vania. The yield might be increased ten
fold, for the existing wells give on au
average 40,000 kilogrammes u day, and
iu order to find new ones it su Hires to
bore tho ground, so saturated is thu whole
soil with petroleum. C. Marvin ( 'The
Petroleum Industry iu Southern Kussia")
compares tho Aspheron peninsula to a
sponge plunged in mineral oil. Thu soil
is continually vomiting forth the liquid
lava that torments its entrails, either iu
the form of mud volcanoes or of natural
springs. These springs overflow in
streams so abundant that it is hopeless to
restore their contents for want of reser
voirs; often they catch fire and burn for
weeks; the air, impregnated with uapthtt
vapors, is then aglow all round Bakou.
Jlarjier't Monthly.
A Novel Magnetic ( lock.
A new French clock contains a novel
application of the maguet. The clock is
shaped like a tambourine, with a in '
of (lowers pointed on its head. Arou
the circle two bees crawl, the larger o..
requiring twelve hours to complete iu
circuit, while the smaller one makes it
every hour. Different flowers rj present
thu hours, uud thu bees, wliii aro of
irou, ure moved by two magnates behind
ihe head of thu tambouriue. CViiVj"o
Ui raid,
TJANDE LIONS.
Bee tho flower fairies flyinj;.
When the dnnilelions aro ilylinr,
With their snowy skirts extended
And their downy wings outspread.
Ree them on the breeze ridin
On the sunbeams dancing, gliding
Up and upward ever rising
To the meadows overhead.
In those meadows grouped together.
Far alove the wind and weather
Where the heavenly dews nnd sunshino
Coax the blossoms to unfold.
See the dandelions growing
In each heart a jowel glowing,
All the blue ablaze with splendor
Flower fnlries changed to gold.
-Mrt. II. T. Hollands, in Detroit Free Prets.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
"In the swim" Codfish aristocracy.
Scotch soldiers bear arms, nnd legs,
too. .
"After you, sir," ns the sheriff said to
the defaulter." Puck.
"Well, you have nerve!" ns tho man
said to his aching tooth. Racket.
The bright side of the convict question
Tho "outside." J'riton Mirror.
Goes without saying The young man
too bashful to pop tho question. 2'eja
Siftiii'j.
Briggs "Say, old man, what are you
doing for that cold?" Griggs "Cough
iug." Lie.
When a man goes to live iu the top of
a six-story flat it is oil up with him.'
liinijhamton Hep uhUeun .
Giles "What did Terwilliger say
about tho twins?" Merritt "Said it
was ouc too many for him." Life.
"Why does she sing with her mouth
closed?'1 "She has a falsetto voice, and
is afraid it will drop out." t flutter.
"Who would not be a boy?" demands
the poet. Well, the girl with a new en
gagement ring wouldn't, for oue. Life.
Edith "It's the little things that tell
in this life." Alice "Well, you'd think
so, if you had two small brothers, ns I
hnve."
He "This horse, puts mo in mind of
Lord Nelson." She "Why?" "Ho
"Because he would rather die than run."
Yidc Ilccord.
"Speech was given man to conceal hia
thoughts." What he needs most, how
ever, is some expedient for concealing
lack of thoughts. Mnnseit.
Mother "Now, Johnnie, you must
cut the apple in halves, aud give the
larger half to your little sister." John
nie "Let her tut it." (.'hotter .
"We'll soon take tho starch out of
you," said the warden to tho refractory
prisoner." "You will, will you?" "Yes;
we'll iron you." JSotton Courier.
"Oh, dear!" cried Miss Passee. "Here
they've gone and cut the day down to
eight hours. Why, I'll be a hundred be
fore I'm forty." Timet-Democrat.
Miss Beacon "This waltz is divine!
Do you ever dance the lauciers, doctor?"
Dr. Boylston "No, but I sometimes
lance the dancers." lot-ton Hu hjet.
There is really no tangible objection
to violently plaid trousers except that
they keep one constantly wondering"
whose move it is. Wtt-Jiiii-jton Post.
Man wants but little hero below.
For yours we've heard the poets sing;
But from plain prose of life we know
Ho wants a littlo of everything.
-Puck.
"I've changed my mind since I saw
you last," said Cadley. "I hope tho
new one is better thau the last," put in
Cyuiciis, and Cadley got mad. JN?io
York Jlerald.
Mr. .McAllister "Would you beliovo
it? I have had that idea iu my head for
six months." Mrs. Berry "What a dull
time it must have had there all by itself.-"
Chatkr.
A popular clergyman in Philadel
phia delivered a lecture on "Fools." Tho
ticket to it rend: "Lecture ou Fools ad
mit oue." There was a very large at
tendance. Atte York Jlindd.
Drug Clerk "This hair dressing is
made of pure bear grease." Brown
"How can it be pure when it's scented?"
Drug Clerk "It is er made from the
cinnamon bear." -Yew York un.
"Ice is too expensive, Mary. You
must get along without it." "But how
am I to keep the beef fresh and tho
butter aud milk cooli" "You have a
fan, havcu't you?" -Ytic York -'kh.
"Let me never hear of your disobeying
me again," said his father ns he laid the
hair-brush aside. "I w-wou't," sobbed
Tommy, "if I can help it. I-I-didn't
t-tell you t-this time." llarpcr'i liatar.
Ouo of thu funniest things about
children is thu way when they have hurt
themselves, they start aud run all over
the house until they Mud somebody to
hear them cry. iturlinjton free Prett.
"My true love hath my heart, and I have
his"
Ko wihg Sir Philip iu tho old time verse;
But in these days pleasaut version is:
"My true love hath my heart: I have
her purse."
Auaseia.
'-Let me see! Was it uot Emersou who
saiJ, 'Hitch your wagon to a star?' "
"Yes, I believe so." "What a beautiful
thought!" "Yes, and how much cheaper
it would be than keeping a horse."
lio'erll VilUiii.
Professor "Mr. Ciiuuipy, I am
anxious for your father's sake to break
the long list of demerit marks you hava
won here. Do you think you will ever
learu auythingC "No sir." "Marl
Mr. ('humpy a-s having correctly answered
nil thu questions put to him this lesson."
Ph iladi Ijdi in Timet.
"I will be a sister to you." she saiu.
"No," hu replied sadly; "IV ot ona
sister who wears my ueck.ies, borrows
car-fare, loses my hair bru-h, puts tidies
all over the furniture in my room, aud
expects me to take her to the theatre
twice a week. I think I'll go out into
the world uud forget you."- WaJumjtuit
Post.
During the uext September au exposi
tion of nulling m.uliiueiy Kill t ike place
Ju Santiago, Chili,