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:' The Chicago Sun has noticed that "litj
tie industries which heretofore have been
confined to Now England, aro tnking
root in tho Southern States."
The baptisms reported in tho Baptist
denomination tho past ten years have
averaged 311 for every day of tho ten
years, making in nil 1,250,375.
Collis P. Huntington, the many time!
millionaire, lately said : "If I wore a
juanC with $10,000 or $100,000,
I'd go to Africa and make millions in the
rubber trndo."
There aro COOO inaano people in the
city of New York, the New Orleans
Timen-Democrat asserts, ami experts on
insanity say that the ratio of lunatics is
increasing much faster than that of the
population.
Fow have any idea of the terrible
waste of bird-lilo that the fashion for
birds as trimmings involves, remarks New
York Chatter. Forty millions of humming-birds,
sunbirds, orioles, gulls, sca
birds, waxwings, birds of paradise and
fly-catchers aro annually immolated to
this end.
Canada,according to Dr.J.C.Bourinot,
received thetitlo of "dominion" instead
of "kingdom," nt the timo of the Con
federation of the provinces in 18C7, be
cause tho Earl of Curnavv, then British
Secretary of Stato for tho colonies,
thought that the latter designation
would bo objectionable to tho United
States, which had just before so em
phatically objected to tho establishment
of an Empire in Mexico.
. Tho Chicago Post is firmly of tho
opiuion that, "there is a good deal of the
natural savago still remaining in the civ
ilized man becauso word comes from
Liberia of a whito missionary who con
cluded that ho would rather imitate the
savages ho had been sent to convert than
to Christianize" them. Ho has accord
ingly abandoned tho ways of civilized
life, and is living with tho natives in
thoir wild state His fellow missionaries
are profoundly astonished, but civiliza
tion has many irksomo restraints, aud a
savago life may have many substantial
advantages."
The reports of the crops in England
indicate that that country will require all
tho breadsturts tho United States can
end this year. British crops, th
American Cultivator declares, aro largely
injured by continued wet weather and
cold, blighting winds. Tho unusual
moisturo has flowed field, rotted hay
and mildewed wheat. Nothing is ripen
ing under tho deluge of rain. Every
year seems to make English farmers more
despondent than ever, with less pros
pect of profits. In fuct, tho absenco of
summer is an injury to all trades as woll
as agriculture.
Again has a young woman carried oil
tho honors in au intellectual competition
Tho Boston Herald recently offered two
scholarships of $31)0 and 6100 to be paid
in four annual installments to tho gradu
ates of lS'JO who should writo the best
composition on one of a number of sub
jects. Tho winners are as follows:
First prizo to Miss Silvia Clark, of Piuk
crton Anjk'uiy, Dcrry, N. II., for her
.composition on Hawthorne's "House of
Seven Gables ;" second prizo to Albert
E. Thomas, of Brockton, Mass., who
took for his topic Coleridge's poem,
"The Aucicut Mariner."
The art of flying is not making any
encouraging advancement, is the verdict
of tho Chicago Herald. Somebody in
vents a flying machine now and then,
but it always proves to bo a failure.
Porhaps the nearest approach to success
has bean attained by a German in Phila
delphia, tho homo of Keely, the motor
man. He weighs 1C0 pounds and can
raise himself into the air with tho aid of
a counter weight of eighty pounds. Yet
this is to say that only fifty per cent, of
him is able to fly, aud that is only half
enough for successful flyiug. If this is
the best that can bo dono the birds ol
tho air aro never likely to have any
humun imitators.
Just now no two countries in Europe
of any preteusious are in perfect harmony,
declares the Washington Star. The
relations between England and France,
between Germany aud Russia, between
Russia aud Austria, between Italy and
Austria, between Russia and Turkey, be
tween Spain and England are more or
less complicated. International jealousy
is founded on natiouul selfishness. Just
At present the great Black Continent is
the bone over which many of the nations
are growling. France, sore over tho
continued occupation of Egypt and dis
posed to make tho must of her rights in
the Newfoundland dispute, revives her
old pretensions iu Zanzibar and finds
support in Danish sympathy with Danish
Heligoland, in Belgic apprehension of
(jteruiaa aggression on the Congo State
and in Spanish uneasiness as to British
interference with Spain's programme in
- Morocco. .
V
TRBA.T EVERYBOBY "WELL"
Treat ev or y body well;"
Thon canst not tell
Tho good to others done,
Tho good thyonlf shalt win;
Thou mayst hide many a tin
i If hearts be won.
"Treat everybody woll;"
Not lost tho smile
Which captures oven gli Ho
llow, who may tellf
I There Is a mbtle power
' Deep hidden in the face,
', Tho tone, the way, whose grace
J Lives hour on hour.
"Treat everybody well;"
' I Borne day tliou'H bloss
1 The long-forgot caress
Of courteous meed,
And In thino own dark night
Kind hearts shall shed their light
Thy steps to lead.
" Treat everybody well ;"
Rome will deride
Some will forsake tby side,
But nobler yet
"Will be the friends who stay,
Nor feel dark night, clear day
One vain regret !
Rev. Edwin B. Rumll.
TOPSY.
"Ho thinks more of Topsy thon he
cioes oi me i" said lluldan.
Joe Brockway laughed.
"But she is a dandy little horse, you
know," ho said, letting his gazo wander
to whero Huldnh's Undo liobcrt stood
stroking and patting Topsy. "Look at
her shape, just "
"I know," said Huldah. "I've heard
Uncle Robert ravo about her enough
Little head, arched neck, Blender leers '
Joo brought his hand down on his
sweetheart s with another laugh.
But Huldnh's brown eyes wcro lifted
seriously to his laughing blue ones.
"What's tho matter?" be said gaily.
"Well, I'm not adamant exactly, Joe,"
said Huldah, slowly. "I'm not a fossil
And it's hard to have an uncle who cares
as much for a horse as he does for you.
and to hear nothing but horse-talk from
morning till night, and to get so lone
some sometimes you just don't know
what to dol Oh, Joe," Huldah mur
mured meekly. "I ought not to say itl
i aon i Know what s the matter with me
I I"
And Joe Brockway heard a stifled sob.
saw a swishing skirt, and found himself
alono on the front steps.
"Huldah 1" he cried, and travo chase
Through tho hall lie rau, and into the
sitting-room and the kitchen, and then
out into tho back vard and around the
house, Bonding two dozing cats wildly
neeing, and going through Iluldah's
petuuia-bcd.
"Hang itl" ho cried, cominc to a baf
fled stop, with reddened faco and dis
heveled hair.
His good-looking countcnanco showed
a littlo wrath, considerable distress, and
some indecision.
"I believe I'll tc'.l her this minute 1"
he muttered. "What'll she sav about
Topsy then? Little simpleton dear lit
tle simpleton !'
But after a mament's reflection he
walked toward tho barn, where Hulduh's
Undo Robert was still engaged with
Topsy.
Huldah had fled up stairs to her bed
room. . '1 here she sat with her face hid
den in a fold of her dress, and her tears
soakiug tho starch out of it.
Oh, dear! oh, dear! What was bhe
crying about? Everything!
It was her Undo Robert, for one
thing. He was kind, of course. But if
no wore not quite so wrapped up in that
new trotter, if he ever would talk to her
about ahything else about herown poor
little affairs, lor instance and stay in
the house sometimes instead of tho barn !
What did ho want of Topsy, anyhow?
lluldan wished he had never seen her.
For since Joe had taken a partnership
in a hardwaro storo in Wakcly, it was
doubly lonesome for her hero in Cheover.
Ah I sho hadn't been quite fair in let
ting Joe think her tears were all for her
Uncle Robert.
Since Joe had gone to Wakely I Wake
ly was such a lively place, with posses
sions of which Chcever had never
dreamed an "opera house," and a park,
with a fine band pavilion. And pretty
girls Wakcly was noted for its pretty
girls!
What was tho matter with her? AVas
he not her own true lover? Had he not
devoted many a half day to coming
home to see her? Wasn't he homo for
that purposo now?
And still Huldah sobbed on.
Sho was tired aud nervous, she re
flected, dismally. Doing all the house
work and canning strawberries at the
same time had been too much for her,
she supposed ; and she had not felt well
lately,' besides.
And she gathered up a fresh corner of
her gown and cried harder.
She did not know how long she staid
there. But when she went down stairs
at last there was nobody in sight or
hearing.
She had expected to find that Joe
had gone; but whero was her Uncle
Robert?
The table showed a masculine litter
of cold greens and lemon pie. Oh I aud
here was a noto pinned to tho tablo
cloth :
"Am going to Wakely. Be back early."
Wakely what for? Oh, yes! Hul
dah divined in an instant. There was a
man in Wakely giving an exhibition of
horse training. Joe had told her;
and of course Joe had gone back with
him.
Was he angry with her, Huldah wou
dcred? Aud was her Uncle Robert dis
pleased because sho had neglected his
supper? If they were she deserved it.
6he was a poor, lachrymose, disagree
able thing she, Huldah Spencer, who
had had a reputation for brightness and
prettiness.
She went and sat down on the back
porch. She did not want any supper.
How could she eat with that lump in
aer throat? But sat looking out into- !
the pleasant Juno evening, deso
lately. But a spnrlc of interest came into her
eyes, suddenly. The square hole in the
side of tho barn which marked tho posi
tion of Topsy's stall, and from which
her trim little head was usually poking
itself it was empty.
Waiting for a time in tho expectation
of seeing tho head, Huldah went into the
kitchen and to the nail where hung the
bftrn-key, and then out to the barn.
Yes, Topsy's stall was empty, and so
was Dan's Dan being the old sorrel her
Uncle Robert nlways drovo.
Where was Topsy? Her Undo Rob
ert never drovo Topsy. Besides,Dan was
gono. And he never lent her. What
had become of her?
Huldah was in a tremble. Topsy if
it had been anything but Jopsyl Had
she been stolen? Had she got looso and
runaway? The door had been locked,
but there was the big back door into the
barnyard. Something had happened
while sho had been blubbering up stairs.
What would her uncle Robert say
do?
Huldah was pale and panic stricken.
Oh, dearl What should she do?
Hardly knowing what she was doing,
sho hurried out into tho road, and
bending low, studied tho hoof prints in
dust.
All tending westward were half oblit
erated ; those turning east, or in the di
rection of Wakely, were fresh, and Hul-
dan mechanically walked eastward.
To what end? If Topsy had broken
her halter and frisked up the road, Hul
dah thought sho might overtake her.
If she had been stolen and ridden away
at a foaming trot
But Huldah could not have sat still;
sho could not have waited. Doing some
thing was better than doing nothing.
She might find gome trace of her.
Her anxiety left hor no choice. She
went breathlessly tramping on up the
dusty road.
Sho thought sho had been unhappy
before, but now sho was miserable
Sho was confused, too, in her misery.
She had gone a quarter of a mile be
fore it occurred to her that she had left
tho houso unlocked, as well as the
barn.
But what were the spoons or butter
dish compared with Topsy. Oh, dearl
She was glad it was getting dark, no
body would recognize her. But even
so, people stared at tho hurrying, bare
headed girl and wondered.
Ouco or twice sho mustered courage
to ask it Topsy had been seen ; but no
body had seen her.
Sho felt like a tramp,and she supposed
she looked like one. Was sho going to
cry again? Sho would not. But if any
other calamity had befallen her than los
ing Topsy anything. And it was her
fault, her negligence.
Once she thought she saw her crop
ping the grass by the roadside, and her
heart bounded ; but it was only a peace
ful red cow.
At the next half-milo stono she was
sure she saw Topsy ahead of her, with
the thief on her back ; but it was Hiram
White, on his old rackaboncs, with a
bag of grist.
She was getting tired at last. Sho
had raced along in such a frightened
heat, that sho had not thought of dis
tance. But where was she? Why, almost to
Benton's Corners almost two miles.
And houses were scarce here.
Huldah glanced around her fearfully.
How dark it was getting.
Still sho pressed on. Tho thought
that it was lopsy sho was searching for
spurred her.
But she was growing weak. Her
anxiety and her long tramp and her
nervous fears here on this lonely road
were more than sho had bargained for.
Sho fouud herself trembling.
Poor Huldah! her faithful, grieved
littlo heart swelled with despair.
Sho peered ahead. Nothing and no
body to bo seen ; no Topsy.
A light gleamed from a houso far
ahead iu a ghostly way, and an owl
hooted away oil iu tho woods.
Oh, what was that? It was only a
friendly stray cat rubbing against her,
but it was too much for Huldah in her
strained stale.
She recoiled in fright and gasped, and
then sitting down on a smooth, flat stone
near by, tried to smile strove to rally
her gathering senses, and quietly fainted
away.
She was not on the stone when sho
came to herself. Joe Brockway was on
the stone, and she was in Joe's arms.
Sho remcmbeicd it all in a minute,
and was indignantly ashamed of herself.
She sat up suddenly and rigidly and
stared. Yes, Joo was holding her, and
her Undo Robert wai kneeling beside
her, with his florid face whitened and a
lantern iu his hand, and the buggy stood
in the road.
"Huldah," Joe was gasping, "what is
it, dear what is it? How did you come
here? Huldah"
"I thought you'd gone to Wakelv,
Joe," Huldah said, tremulously, at
which her Undo Robert gave an excited
laugh.
"I swow sho's all right!" ho ejacu
lated. "Huldy, we've bee l seairt out of
our wits. Why, we thought you'd lost
your senses, wandering around like this.
We come mighty near not seeing you,
neither."
"No, no!" cried Huldah, passing her
hand over her dazed eyes.
And then, struggling to her feet, she
nerved herself for the worst.
"I came clear up here trying to find
Topsy," she faltered. "She's lost, Un
cle Robert ! She's either got loose or been
stolen, and it's my fault ! '
"Lost!" Joo cried. "There she
stands in the thills."
"Is that Topsy?" Huldah gasped, and
her Uncle Robert laughed again.
"I swan, you are all right! he re
peated. "That's Topsy, sure. Help her
into the buggy here, Joe, aud let's get
this thing uutangled a little. Tramped
for two miles did you, Huldy?"
"l ou poor little girl!" Joe murmured.
'Huldah, how could you? And Topsy
riuht us a trigger! Huldah, do you
know where you've beenjind what you' vt
been for?"
They were in tho buggy, and Topsy
yes, Topsy was trotting toward
Cheever as only Topsy could trot. But
Huldah could not free her cold little hand
from Joe's.
"Yes, tell her the hull thing," said
Uncle Robert, explosively.
"Huldah," said Joo, and his roica
trembled a little, "we've been to Wakely
to get a marriagt) license our marnage
license, Huldah. It was a surprise, you
see it's a surprise wo'vo boon planning
for weeks. You've been working too
hard, and we both knew it, and I made
up my mind to takoyou right out of it
whether you agreed or not, and take you
off for a good solid rest with mo. What
was tho use of our waiting till next
winter? That was your idea 'twasn't
mine. You've worked yourself to a
shadow almost, and lately you haven't
been well, cither. So I grjt up this
littlo scheme several weeks ago, and
your uncle fell right in with it "
"Like a thousand of bricks?" said
Uncle Robert. "Didn't relish tho idea
of letting you go, Huldy, but it bad to
come some time, and I knew what was
for your good.' So I went and bought
Topsy, It was jest on your account I
bought Topsy, Huldy. I had an eye on
her for a good while. Sho wan't in
good condition, you see, and tho man
sold her cheap, and I says to Joe, 'I'll
buy that marc. If there ain't a few hun
dreds of clear money iu her I don't know
my own name. Fed up and took care
of, she'll be a valuable horse. I'll buy
her,' says I, 'and sell her in six months
for twice what I'll pay, and that'l be for
Huldy,' says I. And I've dono it. I've
took care of her faithful, and I've been
offered a splendid price for her already.
And it's yours. That's what I've meant
all along, Huldy."
"It was week after next we meant to
spring our little surprise," her lovercon
cluded. but when you took on so to-night,
why, it frightened me, and I vowed I
wouldn't wait another minute. I per
suaded Mr. Spencer, and we were off
within ten minutes. So now it's plain
about Topsy, isn't it, dear? And tho li
cense we've been after Huldah, do you
know that Joseph Brockway,twenty-five,
and Huldah Spencer, twenty-one, aro go
ing to bo married to-morrjw, and have n
long enough wedding trip to euro tho
worst case of nervous prostration going?"
and he kissed her soundly.
For awhile Uuldah could not trust her
self to speak.
And when she did, though her voice
was softly tearful, it was only to say :
"How did you como to take Topsy?
And where was Dan?,'
"Oh, Hinckley borrowed Dan this
afternoon 1 But I reckon we'd 'a took
Topsy anyhow on this occasion eh,
Joe? We was in a kind of a hurry this
time, Joe and me!"
"Well," said Huldah, with a quiver
ing breath, "I've been a goose about
everything such a goose ! But, Joe, I
can't be married to-morrow not to
morrow, Joe, I can't!"
"You can and will be, my dearl" said
Joe, masterfully.
"Got to be!" said Undo Robert.
And sho was; and camo back to a
littlo houso iu Wakcly looking like a
rose in bloom. Saturday A'ight.
A Fish's Mndhonse.
Africa is the home of many extraordin
ary animals, but there is no more re
markable creature than tho mudfish,
which inhabits certain of the rivers of
Western Africa. One of these fish can bo
seen at the London Zoological Gardens.
At first sight there is nothing striking
about this animal; it looks very much
like an ordinary fish, except for its
curious, long, slender fins.
When the fishes arrived each one was
incased in a ball of dried mud, lined with
mucus from its body and perforated by a
small aperture to admit of breathing.
This "cocoon," as it is sometimes
called on account of its analogy to the
earthen case fabricated by many cater
pillars in which to undergo their meta
morphoses, on being placed in warmish
water was dissolved, and the "Ash lib
erated. Tho habit which tho mudfish has of
making an earthen chamber of the mud
at tho bottom of the river is a most won
derful provision of Nature for the exigen
cies of the climate. The rivers which tho
fish inhabits are liablo to periodical
droughts. When such a drought is
imminent the fish retires to deep water
and excavates a pit, in which it lies, cov
ering itself over with a thick layer of
mud.
It can suffer with impuuity the com
plete drying up of tho river. But the
most interesting fact about the creature
is that during the time of its voluntary
imprisonment it breathes nir directly
through an aperture left in the cocoon,
by means of lungs, just like a land ani
mal. When the returning rains dissolve
the mud and liberate tho fish, it breathes
by means of gills, jr.jt like any other fish.
Ket York Journal.
Ciphers Easy to Read.
Communications in cipher are not so
secret as many persons suppose. Noth
ing has amazed the London Timet people
moro than the discoveiy of the secret
cipher with which they communicated
with George Kirby in America when Mr.
Kirby was engaged in negotiating with
Sheridan. It was an alphabetical cipher,
and was so very cleverly constructed that
it seemed to defy detection. ButLabou
chere once declared that he would un
ravel any cipher that was put before him,
and Archbishop Walsh is quite as e'ever
at this kind of thing, it would seem, as
Mr. Labouchere. Ciphers, in fact, are
not very difficult to detect. On one Lon
don paper, for example, every advertise
ment which goes in in cipher is read be
fore it appears, and tho work is not, as a
rule, found to be very difficult. There
is sometimes great amusement in tho un
raveling of these presumably secret
methods of communication. AW York
Journal.
English engineers are still discussing
tho question of a tunnel from Dover to
Cais.
A MOULDER THAT GROWS.
A PAIL COULD OOVBB IT ONCE, BUT
NOW IT IS TEN FEET HIGH.
Odd Properties of a Spring Which
Trickles Over It and Petrifies Ev
erything Touched by the Water.
In a deep, dark ravine, a few miles
from NewCastlo, Pcnn., is aphenomenon
in the shape of a growing rock. Fifty
years ago, when it was first noticed, an
inverted wooden pail would almost cover
it. To-day it is a great boulder, ten feet
in height and fifteen feet or moro cir
cumference, and weighing not less than
fifty tons. During the summer months
it is covered with dense, rich moss two
or three inches deep, through which the
water from a spring trickles continually.
The wonder maker Is tho little spring,
so small at this season that a few pails of
water dipped from it would drain it dry.
But it works in a manner very different
from the dripping water in caves that
carries a burden of limestono in solution
with it, and leaves its wonders in stalag
mites and stalactites.
The outer formation of this rock has a
limestone appearance, but once remove
the moss and chisel into the gritty sur
face, and tho real beauty and peculiarity
of the rock is seen. A cellular forma
tion, like a mammoth sponge, is discov
ered, and about the cells is stone as hard
as adamant. On cutting further in, this
cell-like substance is found to continue,
but it seems to have been transformed
into a translucent flint.
This remarkable petrifaction has been
wrought by the action of tho water from
the spring upon tho moss. Tho water
seems to have tho singular property of
turning into stono everything that is
brought in contact with it for any length
of time. It has an acid taste, and is
doubtless heavily charged with mineral
substances, although thus far it has never
been analyzed. Tho most remarkable
fact about it is that it accomplishes so
much in so short a time. The moss grows
luxuriantly in the dark hollow, and the
lapidescent quality of the water has
operated year alter year upon tho layeis
of moss, turning them into a honeycomb
of stone, and adding to what was at first
a small rock, until to-day there is this
great boulder of petrified vegetation. A
short timo after the moss begins to grow
in the spring it commences to solidify at
tho roots, and thb petrifaction follows
closely on tho track of the growing moss
like tho formation of coral on the work
of tho coral insects. As it progresses
the dark green of tho vegetation becomes
yellowish, then changes to brown, 'and
darkens as tho rock grows older.
Tho moss is not all that is perpetuated
in stone by the action of the water.
Plants, leaves, twigs, every vegctablo
substance that has fallen on tho rock and
lain there has been impregnated with it,
and, as by tho touch of an inexorable
fate, been turned into stone by it.
Stratum upon stratum of the moss stone
has grown over them, and many such
objects aro now to be fouud hermetically
scaled deep in tho heart of the rock.
To the mineralogist the rock is a mine
of treasure and delight. No one ever
chisels into that flinty boulder with
out coming upon leaves and twigs
petrified among the moss and securing
many fine specimens to rejoice his heart
and make envious less fortunate mortals.
Those who have visited it thus far say
there is not another such cusiosity known
in the world.
The peoplo in the neighborhood have
long known of tho remarkable qualitcs
of this spring. Mr. William Altsworth
first discovered it nearly fifty years ago.
Then the rock was ten feet or moro be
low the spring. Now it has climbed up
the side of tho bank until it is partially
above tho level of the spring, and has
turned the water of the little brook that
comes down the ravine somewhat out of
its course.
Mr. Allsworth and some of his neigh
bors intend to try the experiment of
iastening a frog or somo other creature
in such a way that tho water will have a
chance to act upon it, nnd sco whether
it will fill up animal tissues with its
mineral burdcu as it has done thewege
t'ible ones that have come in continued
coutact with it. They firmly believe it
will, and there seems little reason to
doubt it.
Heretofore tho spring and tho wonder
ful rock it has builded havo been littlo
known outside the immediate neighbor
hood. The littlo ravine where it is situ
ated puts down through rough and
broken country near the Beaver River,
aud the wonder is difficult of access.
This comparative inaccessibility hai
saved it in largo measure from tho raids
of relic hunters aud prevented tho ac
cumulations from being greatly dis
turbed. Now and then the curious have
visited it, and of late a few geologists
have studied it, and specimens of the
strange formation have been carried off,
but the boulder shows no appareut dimi
nution. The water still works its
mirucle of petrifaction, and will doubt
less continue to do so as long as it has
a chance to act upon any living tissue.
Pittsburg (Venn.) Ditpatch.
Drinking Blood fur Medicine.
Blood drinking is rather an unsavory
medication. Every morning, however,
fashionable ladies suffering from niucmia
go to tho Monumental slaughter-house
of La Villctte, in Paris, just as if it was
a drinking room at Aix or Vichy. They
there drink bulloek'g blood at thirty cen
times (six sous) a glass, and observers
say that the blood cure is often effica
cious. Raspail, the real precursor of
Pasteur, noticed that the butchers and
even the wemen bookkeepers in tho
butchers' shops aro singularly healthy,
and that their blood is, as a rule, purer
than that of peoplo plying other trades.
MIlo. Rosita Mauri, the famous opera
danscusc, once sprained her foot upon
the r?tage. The doctor ordered her to
go to La Villette every morning early
and to bathe it iuhot bullock's blood.
The newest German idea is to make
north Alsace-Lorraine au independent
duchy.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Beef losses twenty-five per cent, of its
weight when baked.
A score of phosphate mines aro being
opened in different localities in Florida.
Many foreign builders now mix sugai
with mortar, to protect the brickwork
from damage by frost.
Tho experiment of tanning leathet
with palmetto roots has been successfully
tried at Apalachicola, Fla.
Never let sun roys strike a mirror.
They act upon tho mercury and give the
glass a cloudy appearance, which all tho
rubbing in the world will not remove.
It is said that the hop vine is the best
substitute) for rags in tho manufacture of
paper. The vino pulp possesses great
length, strength, flexibility and delicacy.
A weak galvanic current, which will
sometimes cure a toothache, may be
generated by placing a silver coin on one
side of tho gum and a piece of zinc on
the other. Rinsing tho mouth with
acidulated water will increase the effect.
M. Fouquo, the mineralogist, claims to
havo discovered in a mixture of copper
and lime the beautiful color azurrino, tho
composition of which has so long been a
puzzle to artists. His tint is said to be
perfectly unchangeable, and is identical
with the famous Alexandrine blue.
From experiments by Dr. Ledcnfeld
on sponges, it appears that absorption of
food does not take place at the outer sur
face, but iu the interior. When poisons
are put in the water, the sponge contracts
its pores, and the action is very like that
of poisons on muscles of the higher ani
mals. Dr. Dixon, Professor of Hygiene at
the University of Pennsylvania, has been
making somo experiments with air and
dust obtained in street cars. Ho has
found in them the germs of many dis
eases, contagious and otherwise. Better
ventilation and moro effective cleansing
are sorely needed.
A remarkable invention has been mndo
in Austria, whereby the serious effects of
railway collisions Aro prevented. Glass
tubes project before the train, and if
they aro broken by an obsticle, an
electric movement is applied to the
brakes, bringing the train immediately
to a standstill.
The "L" road companies in New York
arc doing their utmost just now to mini
mize the noise mado by their trains, and
on somo of tho roads they have suc
ceeded, but they are still far from having
the noiseless trains which so delight tho
heart of tho traveler in Berlin, and the
service has a great many lacks.
Experiments mndo in Sweden by M.
Sand berg on the strength of iron rails
during tho winter have shown that steel
rails containing over four per cent, of
carbon are apt to break in cold weather.
In fact, the result of his investigations
points to the use of rails having less car
bon in countries as cold in winter as Nor
way and Sweden.
An electric motor is iu successful
operation for wood-sawing in Lcwiston,
Me. It is a six-horse power and with a
twenty-six iuch saw, which was driven
at a velocity of 1450 revolutions per
minute. Tho proprietor claims that with
a six-horse power electric motor ho can
do moro work thau with a ten-horso
power steam engine.
The heart contracts with power enough
to send a column of blood seven and a
half to uino feet high. At every beat of
a heart of average sizo aud strength, the
force exerted is equal to moving over fifty
pounds; or to lifting a pound weight
upward a distance of three nnd a half to
four and a half feet, say four feet ; or to
carrying four pounds, one foot upward.
Professor Samuel Cushmau, apiarist of
the Rhode Island agricultural experiment
station, maintains, as the result of
personal observation, that bees do no
damage to growing or fair fruit. The
juico of fruit is, in fact, injurious to
them; and they do notattaek sound fruit,
but only bruised fruit, or that which has
been previously injured by other insects.
' A beet sugar manufactory, with a ca
pacity of 400 tons a day, is said to be
almost completed at Grand Island, Neb.
The beet has sixteen per cent, of sugar,
and farmers realize $l0 per acre at $i
per ton for tho root. The diffusion pro
cess of extracting the saccharine principle
is used. In a fourtccu-battery circuit it
is claimed that the remarkable result of
98.8 per ceut. of tho sugar cau bu ex
tracted. The comnressed air chisel was first
brought iuto use in this country. An
improved form is now being used in
Europe by stone dressers, sculptors and
metal workers. The economy of labor
compared with tho hand chisel is about
four or fivefold. At the same time the
surface cut by the compressed air chisel
is cleaner aud smoother than is possible
with the hand chisel. This is especially
the case with granite. Tho new instru
ment is said to be of great service in
metal-working aud wood-working.
Catching Rattlesnakes for Oil.
There are places in South Georgia
where meu extract oil from the rattle
snake and use it to cure rheumatism.
These persons will give a colored mau if 1
to poiut out a rattlesnake to them, and
then they kill it iu a peculiar manner.
They place a forked stick over tho snake's
head, then put a cord around it aud
stranglo the snake. This is done to keep
the snake from biting itself. The body
of the reptile is then strung up aud the
oil extracted from it. It sells at $2 per
ounce, and this industry is a very profit
able one. The snakes; in that section are
very large, averaging live feet in length,
and one rattler gives up a great deal of
oil. A little negro boy ouce saw two
rattlers lying close together, and wanted
to get the money for finding them. It
was a mile to the nearest house. He was
afraid the snakes would crawl off while
ho was gone, and so took off his coat and
placed it between the- two suakes. Ho
went off, camo back, aud fouud them
still eyeing the coat. Ho had them
charmed. So the snake is cultivated
down there as a profitable industry.
Atlat4 Comtitution.
DIVIDED.
If thon wert by my side, dear love,
And I could walk with thee,
The path unto the mountain crett,
No toil would seem to me,
But now my feet walk wearily,
And heavy are mine eyee,
And dread and dark the winding wa,
That leadeth to the tkles.
Yet If thou wert blde me, love.
My hand within thine own,
Perchance my weight would hold thee bacVj',
Tho thou canst win alone.
Thou mlghtest stumble, following mo; .
Or, loitering by the way, y
Booking tho tweeto and flowers, my foot ?
Might tempt thine own to stray.
But now by different paths, my love,
We seek the self-same goal,
Bo far apart no chock am I,
No hindrance to tby soul, i
And they my heart doth ache for thee
My lips for thy lips long,
I see thee toiling upward still.
And hush my pain with song.
And when upon the mountain crest,
i
We stand where souls are free,
Tho bliss that doth elude us now.
Must come to thee and me. '
Not ono brief thrill of joy, of pain
One smile, in tears to end,
But an eternal crown of love.
When soul with tout shall blend. "
Annie L. Brakenridge, in Hovsewtf.
HUMOR OF THE DAT.
Never mind Bad children.
In summer weather the felt hat is felt
hot.
Moses camo early ; but ho didn't avoid
the rushes.
"Oh, youdarlingoldpap.it" "Y-e-o-s
dress or bonnet ?" AMund Prets.
An empty larder ought to be enough
to keep tho wolf from tho door. Texat
Sitings.
Tho sailor never goes "around tho
Horn" when he is ashore. He- goes
straight for it. Puck.
Ice is expensive everywhere this season.
Even tho icebergs in tho Atlantic aro re
ported unusually high. Botton Herald.
Lady (searching for burglars) "Hero,
Bridget, you let down tho folding bed
and then I'll look under it." Chaulau
qnan. -
"Now, then," inquires a Canadian
paper, "what is a crank?" Why, the
other fellow,of course. St. Paul Pioneer
Press. "Ho is too lazy to go sleep." "Oh!
the idea." "Fact, nevertheless. Ho
just simply falls asleep." Terre llaula
JCxpreM.
The schoolma'am seeks vacation's joys.
Her labor being done.
And she who tanned the little boys
Is now tanned by the sun.
Button Courier.
Every man should havo an aim in life,
but he shouldn't spend too much timo
aiming. The quick shot gets tho clay
pigeon when the trap is sprung. Somer
title Journal.
Exchanging Confidences. Clara "I
have such a horror of growing old."
Maud (sweetly) "I should think yovt
would havo got over it by this time."
Drake't Magazine.
"Parting is such sweet sorrow!" sho
quoted. The young man blushed
nervously. "You're right," ho replied,
"I'll go to the barber's next time!"
American Orocer.
Mr. Carpenter "That was a nico slip
ot the tongue you mado introducing mo
to those young ladies as Mr. Carter." Mr.
Tom Bigbee "Well, I should call it a-
slip of tho pen." Puck."
Judgo "What sort of a man, now,
was it whom you saw commit tho as
sault?" Constablo "Shurc, yer honor,
ho was a small, insignificant craythur
about yer own size." Chatter.
Madame Hautry "You tho siuging .
master! But we do not want a singing
master 1" Herr Pumpernickel "Bardon ;
do laty next door toldt me you vanted
one badly she sent mo!" Jutlge.
"You've been riding a bicycle, I hear,"
said one department clerk to another.
"Just for exercise, you know." "It has
reduced your weight some, I think."
"Yrs, I have fallen off a great deal."
Wathington Pott.
A "A more deserving medical man
thau our friend Richard docs not exist.
He very frequently accepts no fees from
his patients!" B "Vou don't say sol"
A "For he gcnncrally settles with tho
heirs." Fliegend lllaetter.
"Are you aware, sir, said tho man in
the rear fiercely, "that your umbrella, is
puking me in the eye?" "It isn't my
umbrella," replied the man just iu front
with equal fierceness. "It's a borrowed
one, sir!" Chicago 2'rihune.
Young Husband "What? You aro
twenty-five years old to-day? Why, you
told me a year ago, just before the wed
ding, that you were only twenty." Young
Wife (wearily) "Ah, yes, I have aged
rapidly sinco I married." Lit Ualoit.
A. "Did you hear that the thief and
desperado, Buckshut Jack, had been
killed?" B. "No. Died with his boots
on, I suppose." A. "No, indeed. Ho
died with another man's hoots ou.
Robbed a shoo store." Ttxat Sitinot.
In describing the murder of a mau
Jorkins, a reporter, thus commented on
the event: "The murderer was evidently
in quest of money, but luckily Mr. Jor
kins deposited all his funds in the bank
the day before, so that he hut nothing
but his life." Ilirminghmn Putt.
Wife (delighted) "What! homo
through the summer shower) Hut whero
did you get that lovely piece of ice?"
Husband (exultantly) "It's a hailstone
which just fell iu our front yard, and wo
can pay off our mortgage with it."
Chicago Tone.
Bark-on-a-Tree is a Comancho chi. f
who has been commissioned by his tribe
to seek out and find the Messiah, wli is
to turn the world upside dowu with 'liu
red man on top of tho white man. When
Mr. Bark-on-a-Tree returns from his
quest, hit tribe will probably vote to
change his name to Bui k i p a Tree.
Chicago J'iinet,
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