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oi anoajmou.
The French refuse to do honor to Ex
plorer Btnnley, becauso thej say ho is a
hero for revenue only.
Birmingham, Aln., has Increased in
population 707 per cent, since 1880. If
Now York had grown nt a like rato its
population would now bo ten millions.
Tho railroad companies of the coun
try are borrowing a great deal of money,
nnd tho Chiciigo Sun asserts that they
find less difficulty in getting it than they
ever did.
Among tho items in tho agricultural
appropriation bill is an appropriation of
$2,500, to ho used to investigate tho
natural history of and remedies for de
stroying tho cottonboll worm.
Tho Washington S'(ir announces tho
rcmarknblo fact that tho population of
Gettysburg, enn., by tho new census is
3,051, just nineteen loss than tho num
ber of Union soldiers killed in tho battlo
there.
At tho meeting of tho National Coun
cil of Education one of tho speakers said
that not twenty-five years hence ho cx
poctod to see hoys and young men knock
ing for admission into Vussar and other
young ladies' seminaries.
Tho Detroit Free Prett boasts that in
caso of war with a foreign nation this
government could raise fivo men to ev
ery one she had in the Civil War, and that,
probably, without resorting to tho draft.
Financiers say that sho could also raiso
$50 now easier than sho could raise a
dollar in 1800.
Financier Henry Villani predicts that
in fivo years there will not bo a steam
locomotive on any railway in tho United
States, And that all kinds of machinery
will bo driven by electricity. lie says
that great discoveries are nt hand, and
speaks so positively that ho is supposed
to know just what the discoveries arc.
Says tho Detroit Fret Prats: "Soldiers
wilj drink and soldiers will play cards.
After fighting tho idea for a hundred
years Undo Sam has at last recognized
tho fact and opened 'canteens' within tho
posts. The soldier can now get his beer
at cost, nnd cards are furnished him to
play with, lio is also to have pool nnd
billiurd tables, nnd will have no excuso
for visiting saloons."
Owing to tho fact that tho lauds of tho
West are buiug rapidly taken up, a Denver
paper predicts tho abdication of the cattlo
king and tho extinction of tho cowboy.
Of tho luttcr is said : "The cowboy, with
rattling spurs, his leather trousers, his
broad-brimmed hat and his defiant swag
ger, will soon join tho stage-driver, tho
hunter, tho scout, tho trapper and tho
mountain explorer in tho procession that
moves reluctantly to the quiet, peaicablo
commonplace ways of life."
A statement of tho debt extinguish
ment of our country sinco tho war never
ceases to bo impressive. It reflects not
only tho growth, but, exclaims tho Bos
ton Advertiser, tho patriotism and pros
perity of our people as no other statisti
cal exhibit dqes. Tho mere fact is start
ling that twcuty-tlvo years ago, less than
a generation, tho public debt was
$2,75C, 000,000, entailing an annual in
terest charge of $151,000,000, and it is
now only $1)21,000,000, and the interest
charge is but $29,500,000.
i Advice from Florida to the Atlanta
Constitution state that tho excitement in
tho phosphato fields is intense There is
much dissatisfaction over tho nows from
Washington that ull the phosphate lands
will bo classed as miucral lands, and that
thoso who have taken homesteads must
! give them up." Many persons have been
i staking out claims, and wheu the proper
gj . papers como from Washington there will
bo a greater upheaval than Oklahoma
ever saw. Lawyers aud business men
have been staking out claims, and at least
5000 ejectment suits have ulrendy been
v . filed. The value of the property involved
is at least $16,000,000, and the homo
eteaders will nut yield to tho Government
'without a stubborn flight.
Tho Milwaukee Wisconsin gives credit
. to Sigvald Qvalo for leaving $1,000,000,
constituting tho bulk of his estate, to
eudow a Stato hospital for cripples.
But it dous not give credit to him alone.
It declares that Mrs. Qvalo also is en
titled to publio praise and gaatitudo, be
causo, with full knowledge of the effect
of her actr.sho signed tho deed conveying
her husband's property to trustees for tho
purposo named. And so she is, agrees
the Chicago Ttm-s. Sho deliberately
chose to second tho humane aud philan
thropic wishes of her husband, when
ho might havo defeated theiu and se
cured much wealth for herself, aud to
bestow upon her two sons by a former
marriage. As the adopted citizen who
made the bequest )''" "'t noble exuin
ple for native X. of wealth, so
his wife, also a Scandinavian by birth,
has set a noble example for native Amer
ican hirs.
V1LLANELLE.
The rose must die, tho' love says Nol
The flower was thine, the words wore mine,
Among the mists of long ago.
We watched tho dying afterglow;
The winds sighed softly thro' the pine
Hie rose must (Ho, tho love snys Not
W pledged our lovo thro' weal or woe,
My lips to thine thy hand in mine,
Among the mists of long ago.
The waves, with restless surge and flow,
Intoned with harmony dlvlno
The rose must die, tlio' love says Nol
vVe both have suffered oven so;
And mem'ry sighs by love's cold shrine.
The rose must dio, tho' love snys Nol
Among the mists of long ago.
Sanborn Gove. Tenney, in Bclforil,
A COMPOSITE ROMANCE.
I. TUB LETTER-CARRIER'S 8TOKT.
Thcro is one family on my nile that
gives me more trouble than all of the
others put together. Not that they ever
complain of mo or compel me to walk to
the top of a fivo story building, but I
can't make them out. I don't usually
bother my head about tho people to whom
deliver mail; there is something so sin
gular about this ono family, however,
that I can't help taking particular notico
of them.
They live in an elegant stono house on
Kenyon avenue, and cousist of a middle
aged gentleman, John Godfrey by name,
his maiden Bister and his daughter, a girl
of seventeen.
Mr. Godfroy, who is a wealthy rail
road man, has a hard, stern look, and his
sister doesn't appear to bo any too
amiable, but tho daughter has fairly won
my old heart. Sho is as handsome as a
picture nud slic always had a smilo for
me when sho came to the door (the
maiden uunt answers my ring now), and
how her face would light up when I
handed her a letter addressed in a round,
manly hand to Miss Nenn Godfrey, end
postmarked C .
At first, when sho and tho servants
stopped coming to tho door, I couldn't
understand it, but I havo arrived at tho
conclusion that tho maiden aunt always
takes the mail in order to prevent Miss
Nona from getting her litters. During
tho time Miss Nena came' herself I
brought her a letter postmarked C
nearly every day. Since then I have de
livered only two for her, and the maiden
Runt's face has worn such a satisfied look
as sho took them, that I am suro the
letters are from soiuo young man Miss
Nena is in lovo with, and her father and
aunt are trying to break off tho match.
I met her on tho street ono day a short
distance from the house, and she stopped
us though to speak to me. Sho changed
ber mind, however, and passed on with
a pleasant "Good morning," but I noticed
that her lips quivered as she spoke. I
think sho wanted to ask mo something
about her letters. Poor girll I wonder
how it will end?
II. THE MESSENGER HOY 8 STOUT.
Las' night 'bout 7 o'clock I had tcr
take a message up on Kenyon avenuo. It
was fer Miss Nena Godfrey, an' w'en I
rung th' bell o young lady corned to th'
door I axed her if ther' was a answer
an' sho tolc mo to como ia an' sho would
see. She then went inter the parlor an'
toro open the message, an' we'u she read
it she turned as white as a sheet, an' I
thought she was goin' to faint. Jes'
then the boss came inter th' room an' he
said to her, awful stern:
"Wat's the matter 1 Who's tho tele
gram from?'
S"he didn't answer an' he said: "Let
me see it," but she turned quickcr'n a
flash an' threw it into tho grate we're a
lire was buruin', au' it blazed up in a
second.
Th' old gent started for her, lookin'
awful mad. Jes' then he seed me an' he
axed wh.'ife was I waitin' fer. I told him
th' answer, lie said ther' wasn't nun
an' fer me to clear out. I didn't wait
fer him to tell me twice I'll bet,
though, ho talked mighty sharp to his
daughter after1 I'd gone.
I sees a good many fuuny things
carryin' round messages, but I novcr seed
anythin' liko that before.
III. TtlE TELEORAlMl OPERATOR 8 8TORT.
Something rather out of tho common
happened at our office last evening. The
following message was sent from C :
Miss Nona Godfrey, Kenyon avenue:
(Jumeat oueo if possible. Will is very low.
Dr. Otto Schmidt.
The message was delivered to Miss
Godfrey, and ubout 9 o'clock tho lady's
father came into tho oilice. The clerk
having stepped out for a moment, I got
up to wait ou him.
Mr. Godfrey wanted to know if we
had a copy of tho telegram that camo
for his daughter that evening. I told him
that I was acquainted with the contents.
He then wanted to know if I would tell
him what was in it. Ho said that he was
not at home when the message came ;
that his daughter had goue out and left
the messago for him, but that tho ser
vants had mislaid it.
As Mr. Godfrey is a well hnown citi
zen I complied with his request. The
contents of the telegram had an entirely
different effect upon him from what I
expected. Instead of being surprised or
shocked, it seemed to mako him very
angry. IIo recovered himself quickly,
however, and with a curt "Much
obliged" he walked out. I wonder who
Will is?
IV. THE CONDUCTOR 8 STORT.
There was one iucident connected
with the accident to my train last night
that I did not give to tho reporters.
A young lady boarded tho train at
It whom I recognized as the daugh
ter of John Godfrey, ono of tho stock
holders of the roud. Sho had a ticket
for C , and I noticed wheu I stopped
at her seat that she was palo ami agi
tated. After the accident she was one
of the first to get clear of the wreck,
and did not appear to be injured.
Luckily the engine was not disabled,
the accident having been caused by the
rails spreading just as the baggage car
passed over them, and I determined to go
to C for assistance. I was consulting
with the engineer when Miss Godfrey
touched mo on tho arm and begged ear
nestly to be allowed to ride on the en
gine to C . It was a case of life and
death, I ho said.
She appeared so distressed at the
thought of delay, that I told the engineer
to take her with him. She was tip in the
cab in an instant, and they "pulled out"
at once, so thnt ono of my passengers at
least arrived at C nearly on time.
V. THE DETECTIVE 8 BTORT.
A dispatch was received at headquar
ters lost evening from R , requesting
tho department to send a man down to
tho station and arrest a young woman
who was on the 10:40 express from the
East. I was detailed for tho work.
I waited around the station until near
ly train time, and then heard a rumor
that there had been a wreck down tho
road. I Investigated and found that
such was tho case; in fact the accident
hail occurred to tho very train I was
waiting for. I obtained permission to go
on the relief train, and when wo nrrived
at the scene of the wreck I commenced
to look around for the young woman.
As I could find no one who answered
to tho description sent, I made inquiries
of tho conductor and learned that the per
son I was after had gono up to C on
the engine that brought tho news of the
accident to the city. It was after three
a. . before I got back and made my
report, and they decided not to do any
thing moro about tho matter until they
heard nguin from It .
The accident was a costly ono for the
railroad company, but a lucky one for
tho young woman. Had it cot occurred
she would have spent tho night iu the
station house.
VI. THE DOCTOR 8 STORT.
For the last threo weeks I havo been
tending an old schoolmate of mine. His
name is Will Holbrook and he has been
very low with brain fever. He was at
one time quite well off, but lost every
thing by an unlucky speculation, and
was forced to accept a clerkship with
ono of the firms with which ho had for
merly dono business. A too steady
application to his duties, coupled with
great depression of mind, brought ou
his illness, which has threatened to ter
minate fatally more than once.
I noticed just before ho gave up how
badly ho was looking, nnd ono evening
when he called at my office he confided
everything to mo. Tho losi of every
thing ho possessed was naturally a heavy
blow to him, but it was nothing in com
parison to what it had brought with it
tho breaking oil of his engagement
with tho woman ho loved.
Her name was Nena Godfrey, and they
had been engaged for about a year. As
soon as her father heard of the change
in Will's affairs, ho wrote to him, giving
him to understand that ho could no
longer regard him as a future son-in-law.
On learning, however, that Miss
Godfrey's heart was unchanged toward
him, Will determined not to give her
up, and to make every effort in his power
to regain his lost fortune as quickly as
possible.
When he was taken Bick I hid him
brought to my house, and during his de
lirium, ho would keep nsking for Nena;
then he would imagiuo that she was
with him, aud would implore her not to
leave him. Late yesterday afternoon he
became so much worse, and begged so
piteously for her to come to him that I
sent Miss Godfrey a telegram, and about
eleven o'clock in tho morning I was in
formed that she was waiting for mo in
the office. I went to her at once.
She attempted to rise as I entered the
room, but sank back on her chair as
though completely exhausted, I at
tributed this to perturbation, nnd hast
ened to quiet her fears about AYill.
She insisted upon seeing him without
delay.
Will seemed to bo conscious of her
presence the moment sho knelt by his
bedside and took his hand. Ho became
more composed, and at lust sank into a
doze, still holding her hand. This lasted
until midnight, aud then he opened his
eyes and I saw that ho would live. He
spoke her name in a whisper, and tried
to raiso her huud to his lips. She made
no sound, but gave him a look of lovo
and tenderness that ho understood ot
once, and he closed his eyes again as
though her mere presence was all ho
asked. After he had lost himself, Miss
Godfrey looked up at me, and the ex
pression on my face told her the glad
truth. The next instant she had fainted.
I carried her into tho adjoining room
and called my wife. Sho came to my as
sistance at once, and, after we had
worked over Miss Godfrey for a few mo
ments, she opened her eyes and said,
with a faint smile:
"I am sorry to mako you so much
trouble, but I think my arm is hurt, and
that is what made me faint. The train
on which I left H met with au acci
dent, and I guess that I have not escaped
uninjured."
On making an examination I found
that her left wrist was sprained and tho
forearm considerably bruised. Although
suffering inteuso pain, the plucky little
woman had managed to keep mu iu ig
norance of her injuries until sho knew
whether her lover would livo or die. I
did everthing for her that my skill sug
gested, and theu forced her to take some
rest. A couch was arranged for her in
the room adjoining Will's, and, al
though sho obtained but little sleep
she was up every hour to look at him
and ask how he was her condition this
morning was much hotter than I had ex
pected. Shortly after daylight some ouo rang
tho oilice bell, and when I opened tho
door I kuew instiuctively that the mun
standing, before me was John Godfrey.
Ho stepped into tho office, told me his
name, aud asked if his daughter was iu
the house. I told him that sho was, aud
he requested uie to scud her to him.
Whatever his feelings toward me were
he did not show them.
I went to Miss Godfrey and informed
her that her father was waiting to see
her. tihe trombl'jd for au instant, and
then closed hef lips over her firm littlo
mouth and went to him without a word.
I had placed her arm in a sling, and tho
pain and emotion she had lately under
gone had left their marks on her face. I
was sure that the sight of her would
move her father to pity.
What took place during tho interview
I did not learn. It lasted for over nn
hour, and then I was called. I was not
unprepared for the scene that met my
gaze. Nena was holding her father's
hand, and Mr. Godfrey's eyes showed
that ho had bcon shedding tears. Nena
turned to mc with a happy smile.
"Father has forgiven us," she said.
Detroit Fret Prcs.
An Eccentric Lord in Colorado.
The familiar form of Lord Ogilvio has
not been seen this week in tho vicinity
of tho Victoria Hotel, where ho makes
his headquarters during recent visits to
tho city. According to report Lord
Ogilvio is spending a brief vacation at
Los Vegas, N. M., to test tho benefit of
the mud baths and to get rid of the de
bilitating effects of tho races. In speak
ing of this remarkable character, for all
who know Lord Ogilvio will agree that
he has capacities of a high order, a gen
tleman said yesterday: "I have never
known Ogilvio to go to bed whilo paying
his periodical visits to this1 city. Thirty
minutes' sleep in a chair each twenty-four
hours is about all his system seems to re
quire and he awakens apparently as re
freshed as if he had Blcpt all night. IIo
is only twenty -eight years of age and first
dropped into Denver about ten years ago
ou a visit to the mountains with his
father. Tho cider Ogilvic took sick tit
at tho Windsor Hotel, and died after a
brief illness. The remains were sent to
Scotland for burial in tho old family
vault. Ogilvio is remarkably well read
upon subjects, and when nt home on his
ranch, near Greeley, he Bpends the main
part of his time poring over books. He
is peculiar, one of his peculiarities being
his manner of dress and tho odd-looking
plaid vest by which he is recognized all
over the AVcst. That vest,' said he to
mo one day, 'is patented, nud no other
man in tho world can wear a vest just
like mine. I have a contract, duly signed
with tho firm in England manufacturing
the material, that it is never to bo dupli
cated except at my order.' The vest is
of immense dimensions, and when
stretched nt full length extends nearly
to tho knees of tho wearer. Its only or
nament is a huge steel watch chain, which
is also made upon a pattern peculiar to
itself. Ogilvio dresses plaiuly, but always
wears a flannel shirt with high collar,
starched perfectly stiff and foitilied by a
high cravnt of pongee silk.
"I have visited him at his ranch, "con
tinued tho narrator, "and it would bo
difficult to imagine a more royal welcome
than is accorded by Ogilvio to his friends.
He lives in the enjoyment of all the good
things that might be desired, aud takes
special prido in his herds of blooded
horses and cattle. I was surprised at the'
extent of his wardrobe. IIo showed mo
at least fifteen trunks full of clothing, all
mado by Poole, tho London tailor, and
not one suit in tho lot has Ogilvio ever
worn. I'll venture to say that ho has 150
complete suits of clothes on hand. Take
him all in all, ho is the strangest con
glomeration of oddities to bo found in
the State of Colorado." Denver Actr j.
"It's a Shop, Sir!"
I had an experience all my own in
Lock & Co.'s hat store, in St. James
street, writes Julian Ralph in nn article
on London, published by JIarper't
Weekly. The aged proprietor displays
ancient bonnets aud caps in his window,
which is kept scrupulously dusty. Not
ing this, I said, "This must be a very
old store indeed."
"Store?" said tho man. "It's no
store at all; it's a shop, sir. I call a
store a place for the sale of a miscellane
ous lot of goods; but this is a shop, sir.
You ought to be moro careful in your
use of terms."
If that was rudeness nnd I do not
know how great he considered his prov
ocation it was the only rudeness I ex
perienced from any shopkeeper. Biit I
learned from that iucident not to say
store. And before I left England I had
swelled my inlex expurgatorius to the
extent that I seldom used tho following
words: Guess; yes, sir; glass (for
tumbler); railroad; horso car; cents; fix;
store; or pad of paper. "Block of pa
per," they said, when I nt last got them
to understand that I wanted a pad.
"Guess" and "fix" are pure American
isms, aud are to be used or not as you
want to attract curious attention or to
avoid it; but the most difficult thing for
many Americans iu Euglaud was to
avoid saying "sir" to a stranger who
who addressed them or to an old gentle
man. "Yes, sir," and "no, sir," over
there are (tho verbal insignia of a scr
vaut. Mysteries of Amber.
Amber has ouly recently como to be
understood. Tho ancients regarded it
as altogether mysterious aud even mngl
cal, says the Washington Star. They
found that it was rendered electrical by
friction so as to attract light substances,
and our word "electricity" comes from
tho Greek namo for amber, which was
"electron." A favorite puzzle with them
was how tho insects so frequently found
inclosed iu amber camo to be so situated.
I have myself seen a chunk of very
transparent amber in which a small liz
ard with five legs was encased, looking
as if it might have been alive yesterday,
though doubtless it had bech dead foi
thousands of years. Tho mystery of this
sort of phenomenon is easily enough ex
plained when it is understood thut um
ber is actually the fossil gum of an ex
tinct kind of cone bearing tree. In the
process of hardening it imprisoned the
Hies and other creatures preserved iu tho
chunks of it that are found to-day.
The finest specimen of amber iu Eu
rope is a cup made of thut material, now
ut the Brighton Museum, England. Am
ber now is worth from $2 to $50 s
pound, according to iu quality. Th
most important uses made of it is fot
meerschaum and other pipe.
A CRUSTACEAN COLLECTION
AN E3CTRAORDINART EXHIBITION
OF OBABS AND 10BSTF.RS,
"Tritobttes" Twenty Mllllonnot Tears
Old X Forty round Lobster
ThO Hiit Conoanut Crab.
The most wonderful exhibition pf crabs
and lobsters ever seen in this world will
bo placed on permanent view in Wash'
ington as soon as the Smithsonian Insti
tute gets its new building. At present
the collection is stored away out of sight,
for want of space to show it properly. In
this exhibition will bo displayed for the
instruction of tho nation members of tho
crustacean family that were actually alive
during the earliest geological epoch
twenty millions of years ago.
These "trilobitcs," as they are called,
were contemporary with tho earliest
creatures that lived upon the earth. They
are taken out of tho rock to-day as per
fect as when they wero inclosed in tho
shelly mud 200,000 centuries ago; tho
very facets of their eyes are is distinct as
in life. If you like you may find any
number of their direct descendants in tho
horseshoe crabs on the sea beach. The
horseshoe crabs, indeed, may fairly be
Cilled tho oldest creature in tho world,
being but a slightly modified trilobitc,
and thus representing tho very most an
cient family that anything is known
about. In comparatively modern times
only 18,000,000 years ago some crus
taceans attained gicat size. Frogs in
thoso days used to grow as big as men
are now, and thought nothing of hopping
two or three blocks' distanco at ono
jump; it was the ago of things gigantic,
and a lobster-like creature, six feet in
length, called the "ptcrygotus," prowled
the watery shallows theu iu search of
prey.
It is not so very many years now sinco
lobsters were captured weighing as much
as forty pounds apiece. There is ouo
Buch iu the Smithsonian collection, threo
feet long in tho body and with claws big
aud strong enough to crush your clenched
fist. Unfortunately the business of lob
sters has been carried on for a century or
so past with so much eagerness thut nil
the big ones pretty nearly havo been taken
and eaten.
To find a giant crustacean to-day you
must go to tho eastern shoro of Asia,
where disports himself tho enormous
Japanese crab, which has claws which
spread twelve feet. Even tho crabs of
Rider Haggard's fancy did not attain the
dimensions of this Asiatic realty. Ouo
of tho most extraordinary of tho Smith
sonian's specimens is a "cocoauut crab"
a tremendously powerful looking crea
ture, so big that when tightly folded up
it will fill a four-gallon glass jar. This
is tho crab that climbs tho cocoanut tree,
nnd after plucking tho fruit tears off the
outer husk with its mighty claws and
then knocks in tho shell iu ono of the
"eyes," subsequently digging out the
meat with tho long nnd narrow pair of
1 inccrs provided by nature for this pur
poso. . This cocoanut crab inhabits the
islands of the Indian ocean. It accumu
lates surprising quantities of the picked
fibers of the cocoanut, which it uses as a
bed ; tho flesh is very good to cat, and
under its tail is a mass of fat which some
times yields as much as a quart oY limpid
oil. Among other strange crabs in the
Smithsonian collection is a smaller va
riety of this samo species which lives in
a burrow at the root of a fruit tree.
Then there is tho "painted crab;' of tho
West Indies, which is a land animal ; it
used to exist there in countless numbers,
and indulged annually in a migration to
tho sea coast, moviug always in a compact
army. During such migrations they wero
caught in great numbers and so have be
como almost extinct. A crab from tho
Barbadoes is remarkablo for its swiftness
in running, which has given it tho name
of tho "horseman crab." Tho "dorippo"
is a species of crab quite plentiful on tho
shores of tho Adriatic, which has two
legs on its back a great inconvenience,
since, if turned bottom side up, it can
run just as well that way.
One remarkable crab in the Smithso
nian collection is entirely covered with
what looks liko whitish moss, but is in
reality something between tho vegetablo
and the animal. All crabs of that va
riety have a coat of this sort to render
them indistinguishable by their enemies
and uurecognizablo by their prey. An
other kind of crab is always covered en
tirely with growing sponge, save only
his eyes, autemuc aud the tips of his
claws. Ho hides in crevices where
sponge grows among the rocks, and be
comes as much liko them as ho knows
how. A crab from the Pacific coast is
invariably found with sea anemones
growing all over his back nud legs.
Another from the same region lias largo
tubes with which it sucks water into its
lungs by way of breathing. Still an
other California crab has a very neatly
made snuff-box underneath its body for
holding eggs, which closes with a snap
fastening just liko a real snuff-box. A
crab with a long beak and legs that
look like straws is also from the Pa
cific. One of tho fiercest crabs known is
plentiful on the coast of South Amorica.
It is also called tho "rock crub"and hides
iu crevices umong stoucs. It is captured
generally by droppiug a hook ou tho end
of a string into its lair, when it will seize
tho hook in auger and permit itself to be
hauled out by its own grip, which is so
strong that tho claw will still bite pow
erfully after it has been pulled oil from
the auimal. A f uuny crab is tho "mess
mate," which ono finds iu oyters; it
does not harm the bivalve, but merely
lives iu the shell with it nud feeds npou
whatever tho oyster gets to eat Chiw'jo
I'imet.
Tho government statistician of Now
South Wales has estimated the population
of Australia at the beginning of tho cur
rent year to be 3,7811,708. This i3 an
increase during 18S9 of 113,0'.5, or 3.10
per cent. The population of New Zealand
is now 1120,271), au increaso during the
year of 12,81)9.
Columbia is tho wealthiest of Ameri
can universities, aud Harvard comes
next.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
The population of the world doubles
itself every 360 years.
A new deposit of zinc ore has just
been found near Bloomsburg, Penn.
Tho strawberry contains 90.82 per
cent, water and fl.49 per cent, dry
matter.
A Philadelphia syndicate has just
struck a solid mass of native copper in
Michigan,
Tho baryta deposits on McKellar's
Island, Canada, are now being worked.
Experts pronounce this to bo tho finest
deposit in America.
Along tho shore of Hudson Bay there
has recently been discovered gold, sil
ver, copper, soapstone, mica, plumbago
and lead, besides iron ore.
Paint tho tongues of your fever pa
tient with glycerine, says a physician ;
it will remove the sensation of thirst and
discomfort felt when the orgon is dry
aud foul.
Tho object-glass of the Lick telescope
in California has nn area of 1018 square
inches. The next largest, that at Pul
kowa in Russia, has an area of only 70G
square inches.
To fill up cracks in a boat, melt equal
parts of pitch and gutta percha iu an
iron pot; thoroughly mix by stirring.
Make up in sticks and melt into the
cracks with a warm iron.
With the view of testing tho rapidity
of electric welding, twenty pieces ol
one-inch common round iron bars, with
rough ends, wero recently welded to
gether by two men in thirteen minutes.
Blacksmiths can start a fire by pound
ing violently n rod of soft iron, first
spreading on tho nnvil a layer of pow
dered coal dust. This is a good illus
tration of tho conversion of force into
bent.
Several of tho larger machinery -making
concerns of tho North are so crowded
with work that they arc now obliged to
refuse orders. There is a very urgeut
demaud for electrical machinery, espec
ially. It is claimed that wall paper can bo
made in such a way that tho passage of
low tension electric currents will heat it
moderately warm to tho touch, and dif
fuse throughout the room nn agrecablo
temperature.
Tho conclusions reached by modern
meteorologists aro that cycloucs of great
intonsity nro ascending spiral whirls of
wind having a rotary motion in a direc
tiofl iu tho northern hemisphere opposite
to tho movement of tho hands of a
watch.
Photography has apparently dis
proved the theories of tho old-school
meteorologists who maintained that
lightning never turned back in its path.
An examination of lightning photography
shows that n flush not ouly turns back
sometimes, but tangles itself into a kind
of knot.
An excellent thing to soften leather is
castor oil. Tho leather should first bo
washed and softened with warm water
and then wiped, and whilo still damp
well oiled and tho oil rubbed in. A lit
tlo carbolic u-id in tho leather will deter
rats or mice from gnawing tho leather.
After the oil is soaked in a finishing may
bo given with any of tho shoe polishes
now in common use.
Statui'e of Various Nations.
According to tho investigations of the
Anthropological Committee ot tho British
Association, recently reported, the mean
stature of the Germans docs not rise
above five feet, five and one-eighth inches;
whilo tho Swiss average is a littlo
greater, being fivo feet, seven nnd four
fifths inches. Tho English are the tall
est race among men, their average height
being five feet, ten inches, tho working
classes included, outside of which the
average stature would amount to only
five feet, nine inches. The Norwegians,
however, are, at least, their equals. The
Danes, Dutchmen and Hungarians aver
ago fivo feet and eight inches; tho Swiss
Russians nnd Belgians, five feot and seven
and four-fifths inches. The Frenchman's
mean stature does not rise above tivo feet
and five and one-eighth inches. Iu Ger
many there appears a decided difference of
size between the inhabitants of the South
and thoso of tho North; fo- example, the
Hanoverians nud Bavarians in favor of
the former. Tho smallest of all Europcun
nations are tho Ituliaus and Spaniards,
who show a mean of ouly five feet and five
inches. While, as mentioned, tho work
ingmcu of England cviuce nn average
superiority of bodily size, in France tGe
other classes exhibit a mean measure by
nearly an inch exceeding that of tho
laboring population. Courier-Journal.
A Grateful Pickpocket.
When John Murphy was arraigned at
tho bar in tho Court of General Sessions
roccutly ho had no money with which to
pay a lawyer. The chargo was grand
larceny he had stolen a watch. Law
yer Costcllo was assigned by tho court
to dofend him. Mr. Costcllo did his
best for the man, and succeeded iu pro
curing a short sentence of two years and
nine months for him.
As he was led awuy Murphy turned to
the lawyer and said: "I thank you for
what you have douo for me. I cannot
do auything for you now, but just us
soon as I get out of prisou you shall havo
tho first yellow clock I get." The yellow
clock is, in tho parlance of thieves, s
watch, anil Murphy is a professional
pickpocket. -u York Timet.
Bismarck Caps Von Moltke's Sentiment
A young lady one day requested Moltke
nnd Bismarck to write a few words in
her album. Tho Marshal took up the
peu first and wrote: "Falsehood passes
away; truth remains. Von Moltke,
Field Marshal." After reuding what
Moltke had written, Bismarck took the
peu and added tho following- "I know
very well that truth prevuils iu the next
world, but iu tho ineuntiine a Field Mar
shal himself would be powerless ugain.it
falsehood in tiis world. Von Bismarck,
C'hauccUor of tho Empire." Suui York
World,
HEARTS-EASE.
Heort's-ease Is better than wealth, yon know, i
Or than fame or culture; so let us go
To find the hights where heart's-ease musrr
grow.
Since we crave It so. '
rhen we wandered through many a pleasant
land;
rhe journey was sweet, hand clasped iu
band; .
But we found not tho heart's-easo we had,
planned
On those bighU to grand. , I
And I asked of one whom I saw below, '
Had he seen the flowerf bo answered "No;
But I should think heart's-ease ought to grow
In tho heart, you know."
3o I looked down Into my heart; behold I ?
It was full of heart's-ease, yellow as gold;'
As much as the happy heart could hold;
So my love I told.
And into his heart he looked to see,
It was full to the brim as full could be
Ot purple heart's-ease in bloom; ah, met
flow dull were wel
"But I don't like yellow," I murmured low;
"I like purple better; don't yon?' O, nol
"I do like yellow," he said; and so
We exchanged, you know. ;
carry his heart's-oase In my hand ; f
He carries mine; do you understand '
Each is safer; better than we had planned
Is heart's-ease )anH.
And this Is the moral I've pointed so;
If the sweetest of heart's-ease you would
sow,
In somebody else's hoart let it grow,
If you'd like to know.
Aliee IV. Ilnllin, in Indipcndcnt.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
A freak of fashion The Dude.
Rough on tho old man His wrinkles.
If all flesh is grass mummies must bo
hay.
A fur rug should always be laid down
side up.
Sickness is Nature's way of saying
"I told you so."
Who arc the contracting parties? Girls
that lace. Epoeh.
Other game is losing ground, but the
deer always keeps up his lick.
A joke is never good until it is cracked,
and not always then. WoiAington Star.
"Is your cook French?" "No; Ameri
can. Sort of Pan-American." Hitrjicr't
limar.
When the green man comes to town
and drops his yellow metal ho departs
very blue. PueS.
All things como to him who waits; so
ho shouldn't kick if bad luck comes
amongst them. Puek.
Black "Say, White, can you tell mo
what alligators eat?" "White "All
live ones do, I believe." Life.
Tho woman who is cold to nil but gold
ought to havo tho arctic circle for an e-..
gagemcut ring. Potton Gatette.
How doth the little busy bee
Improve tho passing hours
In gathering up tho sweets of life,
And dodging all the sours I
ruck:
Tourist Do we stop here long enough
for luncheon? Brukciuan We do, un
less you insist on eating a whole sand
wich. Lift. .
First Mato "Well, sir, things are go
ing smooth now, sir." Captain "Yes.
hat is bacauso several of tho sailors have
Teen ironed." IJyjtineotVt.
A flirting woman can cause more
trouble to mankind than a devastating
array, but sho is very much nicer thau
tho devastating army, after all. Somer
ville Journal.
There's Auothcr Leap Year Coming
"Why don't tho young men marry?"
queried her young sister. "I supposo
they aro not asked," absently replied the
bride of 1888. Puek.
Hostess "Mr. Fecjee.let me help you
to some of the roast beef." Reformed
Cannibal (with a wistlul, retrospective
sigh) "No, I tank you. Mo vegetarian
now." Chiaiyo Tribune.
"What are yon reading, my dear?"
nsked a member of tho Chicago Literary
Society of her daughter. "The autobio
graphy of Thomas Jefferson, ma." "Who
wrote it?" AH York Suh.
"I'll be a sister to you, John," said .he,
And then he rose and kissed her.
"I've always felt I'd like," said he,
"To have an elder sister."
.Veui J "orfc Sun.
Modical Professor in Charge of the
Dissectingltoom "Gentlemen, may I
ask what you did with the subject when
you retired?" Medical Student "Y
laid it on tho table." liurliiujton Free
l'rat.
First Kentuckian "How did Colouel
Strutter got his military title, do you
know?" Second Keutuckiau "Yes;
when ho was a young man ho used to
drill holes iu a quarry." Detroit Fret
Prea.
1'ny-day I with gold was glud,
bunday still 1 chinked uiy "tiu;"
Monday I but silver had,
Tuesday blew my nickel in;
Wednesday my lust "pper" spun,
Thursday borrowed on my "bruss;"
Friday, when I got a dun,
Irou pierced uty oul, ulus!
i"iieA
"The cruiser Philadelphia made nine
teen knots au hour. By the way, pur
sou, what is your best time?" The Chi
cago minister thought a uioiueut. "My
best I think was sixteen. But theu
threo of them had never beeu married
before, aud, of course, their inexperjeuce
cuused some littlo deluy." Pliiltidtlphui
Timet.
A Farm Without a Whip
Thcro is a beautiful farm just buck of
Oceuu Springs, .Miss., owned by Mr.
Parker Earlu, who, very wisely, ulloVg
no no mun ou the place to use a whin
ou any of the stock. It is said that there,
is but oue old whip ou tho farm, prob
ably a relic of some other owner, but
the old whip is not used, and the furut
does well end the tinimuU work with a
will and never feel the lush. Kindliest
can run anything, even a farm. -V.
Qrleitnt PUayunt.
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