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' Seventy per cent, of tho voters of Kan
sas are farmers.
' It is proposed to hare a permanent
census department in Great Britain, whoso
duty it shall bo to take the usual de
ccnniul census.
In a recent lecture on cookery at
Chautauqua, Mrs. Emma P. Ewing de
clured that good food is Indispensable to
f if and temperance.
v
i Pages in tho National House of Repre
sentatives are said to turn out badly, as
a rule. Some of tho brightest of thorn
fmd their way into jails and inebriate
asylums, declares tho New York World,
and very few of them really amount to
much In. after life.
Says tho Denver (Col.) Field and
Farm: ''Tho country pays too much for
its- milling. We sell wheat at ouo cent
a pound- and pay two cents a pound for
flour, tho miller keeping nearly half of
the product of tho grain to sell for
, Btork food. Tho miller's family wear
", better clothes than the farmer's."
1 A. Montcflore, who has been travel-
ing in Florida and devoting careful study
to tho fruit-growiug districts of that
vast State, calculates that tho Americans
cat more meat in the course of twenty -four
hours than all tho inhabitants of
Great Britain, Franco, Germany, Austria,
Belgium, Holland aud Switzerland put
together.
According to the New York Commer
cial Advertiser, Chaplain Parks, who has
recently been on duty aboard tho receiv
ing ship Vermont, is tho first Homan
Catholic chaplain that tho United States
Navy has had. Hu is said to have had
a far lurger attenduueo at divine service
' than any other chaplain who has filled a
similar position.
The Drovors' Journal states that
""those who are laying out new industrial
towns in the South are very wisely giving
special attention to tho houses of wage
workers, allowing them moro room. The
$ workingtucu's quarters in Southern cities
and towns will not bo so crowded s In the
Northern cities, and will bo in every re
spect more home-like."
The arid regions of tho West com
prise 800,000,000 acres, of which, asserts
tho New York Voice, about 100,000,000
acres (equal to about eight acres for every
family in America) cuu bo redeemed by
irrigation and mude among the most for
tile and valuable lands in the country.
Of this vast region about ouc-hulf is al-
rvmiy iu inn nanus oi individual settlers.
Thc-othcr half is in Foderul possession.
L . . .
A cablegram from China says that a
decree from one of the vicoroys imposing
aupon opium has been abandoned
because of the protests of Great Britain.
Tin British Government holds a inouop.
oly of tho opium crop in India. Under
this opium is sold to middlemen at a pro-
lit of six hundred per cent. It is then
taken to China, but tho Chiuese are per
mitted to impoeo only a nominal tax
England holds it as a British interest in
India, and iasisu that it shall bo so re
ceived in China. The revenue from this
monopoly varies from ioriy-five to fifty
four millions of dollars a year, and with
out it Euglaud could not govern India.
Tho rapid increase of tho wealth, busi
ness and prosperity of tho United Statos
during tho past ten years, says tho Boston
Manufacturers' Gazette, is simply marvel
ous. According to the published figures,
the total wealth of tho country is now
171,450,000,000, equal to nearly $1000
per capita. This is an increase in ton
years of 118,000,000,000, or 43 percent.
England's wealth in 18S5 is given at
$50,000,000,000. The averago of wealth
per head in Euglaud is $1545, in Scot
land $1215, in Ireland but $565. The
total wealth of Franco is estimated at
$36,000,000,000. England exacU in
taxos $20 per head of population, while
each individual in the United States pays
but $12.50. America will produces
7,00t)J000 tons of -iron this 'year, while
England's greatest production is 8,600,
000 tons. '
The only genuiuo and reliablo canui
bals in existence now are tho natives of
Solomon Islands, a small group in the
South Pacific. To bo truro cannibalism
is pursued iu a desultory way elsewhere,
but its devotees would prefer kid, kan
garoo, monkey, cockutoo and snakes, and
cat the human kiud only when hungry
from the lack of their usual game. But
the Solomon Islanders will cut a tough
sailor, a hardened trader, or even one of
their own tribe in a mcro spirit oi wan
ton gormandizing when they are far from
starvation and other meat is plenty.
They have just had a barbecue consist
ing, with the usual side dishes, of Lars
Nielsou, a Norwegian trader, and his
three native assistants. They have eaten
six white men within the past few mouths
aud are really transacting about all of
the geuuiuo cannibal business at present
V...1,,.. rl.,1,.
TO AN OLD APPLE-TREE.
Those maimed limbs plead thy storyj
The wounds upon thy body speak for thee:
Thou art a veteran soldier scarred with
glory,
My brave old applo-treol
Oft hast thou borne up under
Onset of storming wind and shot of ball;
And ouce a sword-lunge of assailant thunder
Slashed down thy barken mall.
Old age, disease, and battle
Have scathed and crooked and crippled all
thy form;
And thy Brlarean bare arms clash and rattle,
Tost in the wintry storm.
I seem to fool thee shiver
As on thy nakedness bangs rags of snow;
May charitable Spring, the gracious giver,
O'er thee her mantle throw I
She will; and sunshine spilling
From blue skies thou again shalt drink as
wine.
And feel afresh the rush of young blood
thrilling
Through that old hoart of thine.
For in the season duly
Each year there rises .youth's perennial
power
Within thee, and thou then rojolcest newly
In robes of leaf and flower.
Ay, though thv vnara era n,nnn
And sorrows heavy, yet from winter's gloom
Thou issuest, with the young trees, glad as
BUT,
As quick of green and bloom.
The bluebird's warble mellow
Returns like memory and colls thy name,
And, as first love, the oriole's plumage yel
low Burns through thy shade like flame.
Thou qutver'st in the sunny
June mornings to the welcoming of song,
And beee about their business of the honey
Whisper thoo all day long.
Thus thou art blest and blessest
Thy grace of blossoms fruiting into gold;
And thus, Iu touch with nature, thou pos
sessest The art of growing old.
Coattt Kinney, in Harper' t ilagazin.
AN AWFULTdFe,
ST ANNA SHIELDS.
It was an awful time. In the first
place, It was thu middlo of July, and we
had to move. Old Mr. Towusend died,
and every stick and stone that he owned
inDollIver was sold. His heirs, two
sons (oh, how we hated their very
names, knowing no more of them), had
been abroad, had como home, intending
to divido their time between their New
York residence and the family estate at
Chester Grove, but they didn'4, want to
bother with a lot of rented houses in
Dolliver, and these wero peremptorily
doomed to bo sold.
Old Conway pounced upon ours at
once. Of course he did 1 Mrs. Conway
and her two homely daughters had been
hankering for our house for years, for,
though wo did "only rent it," wo had
lived there for thirteen years, and, oh,
tbe additions and improvements we had
made to itl We had doubled its value,
I am certain. We beautified it, inside
and ont; we lavished our artistic tastes
upon the pauels; we adorned tho walls;
we had tho floor puttied, painted aud
polished, and Teddy had actually paint
ed the most beautiful border and corner-pieces
of oak leaves and acorns
round the entire sitting room. And
now, to give it all up! Oh! those hate
ful Townsends.
What added to tho distress was the
fact that the only house we could fiud
in all Dolliver to rent was a little two
story cottage, quite a distance from all
the neighbors to whom we had become
attached, and in a locality we detested.
However, there was no help for it.aud
ai I said before, wo had an awful time.
It was bad enough to know tho dear, old
home was lost to us, and that the Con
ways were to enjoy all our labors of love
on We walls and floors ; it was sufficiently
exasperating to be compelled to take up
our abode at Jenk's Corner, a locality we
abominated, but these were only the be
ginning of our tribulations.
The day we were to move was hot
oh, so hot I and the dear mother having
done the work of about three men, the
previous week, and weighing at her best
times about ninety-four pounds, broke
down with a blindiug nervous headache
Martha, a treasure of a servant, had
already laid herself up by spraining her
wrist, in moving a trunk, so there wero
Teddy and Jim and I to "do" the mov
ing. Teddy is my elder sister Theodosia, and
Jim is Jemima, my youngest sister; I am
Thomasine, always called Tom in tho
bosom of my family. We are all young,
we are all blondes, we are all small, aud
we are all pretty. We have incomes of
our own of three hundred dollars a year,
and tho dear mother has about twelve
hundred a year, so we can live very
nicely, indeed, in a quiet place like
Dolliver.
When mother patiently faiuted away
ju6t as the first furniture van drove up
to the door, Teddy aud I detailed Jim
for active duty in tho hospital depart
ment, and promised to have mother's
room made ready the first thing. Iu the
meantime, she was made comfortable in
Jim's room, and Martha undertook to
superintend the loading of the vans, while
Teddy and I scampered oil to the new
house, to see to receiving the furniture
It was clean as a new pin ; that was
one little ray of comfort, and we hung
up our hats, and put on the biggest of
aprons and Lady Washington caps, and
were ready for action.
Even in my misery I noticed how un
usually pretty Teddy looked. Her hair
is the purest gold color, and makes hun
dreds! little rings round her face, and
she has a color like a wild rose on each
cheek. But on that day. the excitement.
the hurry and the indignation combined
had made her blue eyes blaze, her cheeks
brilliant as carnations, and every little
curl bristled defiance of the Townsends
and our wrongs. But more was to come.
Up drove the first van with one man.
Both Teddy and I were at the door, and
exclaimed;
"Where's the other man?"
"Sure, marm, he was Bint for by his
old woman. One of the childer's scalded
hissclf, and it's half over Dolliver I've
been thrying to foind somebody to take
the job, and nivcr a one is there doln'
nothing at all, at all I"
Hero was a dilemma.
"Well," said Teddy, "those things
have got to bo taken into the house.
You and I can carry some of the light
ones."
Neither Teddy nor I know that we
had an audience. Not until long after
ward were we aware of the wicked trick
that was at that inBtant devised. From
round the corner of tho house appeared
two men in flannel shirts, minus collars,
neckties or hats; with hair in wild con
fusion and extremely dirty hands and
faces. In tho richest of brogues one of
them respectfully addressed Teddy and
requested work.
I really wonder now that we didn't
embrace them. But we engaged their
services at once, and how they worked 1
They did a considerable amount of
laughing whenever they wore alone, and
they required the most minute directions
for everything they undertook, but they
put down carpets and put up pictures
and carried in furniture and unpacked
glass and china, in fact, worked with
might and main, leaving to the driver of
tho van only tho task of going to and
iro witn tne goods, which he managed
to load with Martha's assistance.
At noon we unpacked a substantial
lunch, and as Bill and John, our new
help, showed no signs of going home, we
spread out a meal on tho kitchen table
nud sent them in to it. I never in my
lifo heard men laugh so much over sand
wiches, hard-boiled eggs and coffee.
In all this time, you may be sure Teddy
anu i wero Derating these horrid Town
sends at every turn. We called thorn all
sorts of names expressive of meanness
anu scltistmess, hoped their own house
would burn down and let them know
how pleasant it was to bo turned out of a
home they loved. We were sure they
were sour, grumpy old bachelors, and we
hoped they would never marry unless it
was to some old witch who would worry
all the year round.
All this we said in confidence to each
other, never heeding those quiet, modest
young men who were so meekly obeying
all our orders.
The house was really in very nice
order, and mothor's room as home like
as we could make it, when at last the
carriage drove up with our dear invalid,
Jim and Martha. Mother was very palo
and propped up by pillows, and I was
worrying over the necessity of her walk
ing upstairs, when out walked our two
hired men, without any orders whatever
raised her tenderly and gently, pillows
and all, in their arms, and carried her
upstairs as cajofully as her own sons, had
she ever had any, could have done.
Jim stared, as well she might.and Mar
tha muttered "Holy Moses!" as she mado
a dive for the kitchen.
Teddy puid the men; Jim and I did
the last few things necessary before rest
ing; and then we all gathered in moth
er's room.
Such a chattering as followed, tho dear
mother laughing and talking as merrily
as any of us.
"But, oh, what guys vou two are!"
cried Jim. "Tom, you've torn yourself,
as usual, wherever there was tho smallest
opening for a rent, and your cap is hang
ing half way down your back, while your
hair defies description. Teddy always
does keep nice, somehow; but now
even Teddy will bear an application of
soap and water."
'bamo to yourself," said Teddy. "I
guess you sent all the mirrors away be
fore washed your face. You ve got what
Martha calls a 'smooch' right across your
nose.
"Don't be personal, young ladies,"
said mother, iu a tone of extreme gentle
ness, "but perform your ablutions, and
sco if Martha can make out a tea."
In a fortnight we had settled down in
tho now house, but we did not occupy
ourselves as of old, in beautifying our
homo. We wero advertising far and
wide for a house such as we wished, and
we hoped to purchase ono. Tho price
of the one we had left was beyond our
reach, but we thought we could hoar of
one at a more reasonable rate.
During this time of waiting, feeling as
if we really had no home, we had gone
out but little. Mother was not well,
and tho heat was very oppreisive, while
Martha's lamo wrist threw considerable
of the house-work on our hands.
But one evening there catno an irre
sistable invitation from mother's dear
old friend, Mrs. Ilaymond, of Chester
Grove, to a garden party and a dance.
"You will stay all night, of course,"
she wrote, and I will send tho carriage
for you at two o'clock. Bo suro you nil
come. I cannot spare one of you!"
But we did not all go. Mother was
not equal to the eight-mile drive, and
Jim stayed with her. Wo all wanted te
stay, and finally drew lots, aud it fell to
Jim.
"I'm not really out, anyhow," said
that young person, philosophically;
"and, as you and Teddy soem awfully
slow about leaving the family nest, per
haps it is just as well that I am not
brought forward just yet."
"Tho effect will bo overwhelming
when you ate," said Teddy, laughing;
but secretly wo all thought Jim the
beauty of the family, for, with the
golden hair, she had soft-brown eyes aud
dark eyelashes.
It was with the utmost serenity that
Teddy and I accepted Mrs. Raymond's
invitation to stroll about the grounds a
little with her, and see some new neigh
bors only lately come to livo at Chester
Grove.
We were arrayed in the finest of linen
lawns, white, with a small blue figure,
with blue belts, and white muslin shade
hats with blue bows. Blue neckties,
knots of blue in our curls, and blue
trimmed white gloves constituted our
costumes; aud I can answer for Teddy's
being exceedingly becoming.
Strolling leisurely along, we met two
gentlemen in white linen suits and straw
hats ; we heard Mrs. Raymond say :
"Allow tne to introduce the Messrs.
Townsends, lately returned from Europe
Mr. John Townsend, Miss Theodoisi
Brent; Mr. William Townsend, Mia
Thomasine Brent."
I thought I was going to faint. )
heard Teddy gasp. I saw Mrs. Raymont
sail majestically away; and then I lookec
again.
Yes, it was "Bill;" and Teddy was
blushing, with drooping eyes, befon
"John."
"Would you please forgive us?" said
John, presently. "We had just com
over to Dolliver, and had heard for the
first time that there was any persona)
feeling involved in the sale of our fa
ther's property, which we had regarded
as a mere business transaction. We were
coming up the street beside your house,
when we saw your distress, and, having
nothing to do, we took off our coats and
vests and hats, and rubbed a little mud
on our faces and hands and "
"It was just for a lark, you know,"
pleaded Bill, as his brother paused; "and
you did look just ready to cry, you
know."
"It was very good of you," said Teddy,
looking very much as Bill had just de
scribed her.
"Yes, we are very much oblieed." 1
said, thinking of all they had heard us
say about them, and wondering how
much they remembered.
But, somehow, just then we all looked
up, and in another second tho air was
filled with laughter. It was irresistible.
The whole affair was too funny.
After that, we were the best of friends.
The Townsends camo often to Jenk'i
Corner, and when Jim comes out remt-
larly, next winter, she will have no sis
terly compunctions about Teddy or mo,
because there will bo a double wedding
in about two weeks. Teddy and I are
going to marry "those horrid Town-
sends." The Ledger.
Counterfeited Rnro Coins.
A gigantic system of counterfeiting
has its headquarters in New York, with
branches in various other sections of the
United States. During the last annual
sale of valuable and antiquo coins by
Dealer Hazletine, of Philadelphia what
to all appearance seems to bo one of tho
rare silver dollars bearing the date of
1805 sold for the sum of $500. This
dollar was one of a number of spu
rious pieces that have lately flooded the
market. It was sent to tho numismatic
association and examined by an expert.
It was a dollar of the date of "1815"
with the second figure "1" Btruck out
and a cipher substituted before the "5"
by means of a tiny block. This discov
ery led to an investigation by the associa
tion of all the principal coin collections
in the country, and it was soon found
that a systematic, counterfeiting of rare
aud antique United States coins existed
somewhere. One of the sources of this
supply was found to be at Neoga, Cum
berland County, 111. Recently a heavy
letter was received by mail at the Indiana
prison at Michigan City addressed to
Pete McCartney, one of tlie most notor
ious of Treasury counterfeiters. The
letter was from McCartney's wife, who
naa so often engineered his escapes from
prison. In the letter was inclosed a coin
of the date of 1805 wrapped m a bluo
ribbon. The clerk submitted the coin to
an expert, and it was found under a mi
croscopic examination to be a clear and
well-executed counterfeit. Chief Bell,
of Washington, was notified of tho dis
covery and the movements of McCart
ney's wife at Neoga were watched. It
was found that she was in league with tho
counterfeiters, and at last the mint was
located in the garret of the house of one
of the citizens of Neoga who lives on the
outskirts of the city. Chicago Herald.
A Toy for the Chinese Emperor.
About two years ago they presented a
complete miniature railway to the Em
peror through Li Hung Chang, and the
line, which is about three miles long, is
laid down within the Imperial city. Tne
young Emperor is very much interested
in its works, and spends a great deal of
his time riding to and fro iu tho beauti
fully appointed little carriages.
He was greatly struck with the toy
railway aud its influence upon the recent
decree has been very considerable. The
old reactionary party among his advisers
were adverse to the miniature line being
lam oown wituin tne precincts of the se-
cred city, and it was very near being re
turned to ttio donors, Hut the Govern
ment was afraid lest it should give offense
to the French, who are greatly feared
and respected since they burned and sunk
the Chinese fleet.
At first the high authorities would not
allow any foreigners to have a hand in
laying down or working the model rail
way. 1 ho result was that when the?
started the little engino they could not
stop it, and great consternation was oc
casioned to the occupants iu the palaco
by their inability to control tho straniso
contrivance of the foreigners, which
dashed along the line till it was pulled
up by coming In centact with a mound of
earth.
Since then, however, a French driver
has been procured, and the Emperor is a
frequent traveler upon tho cars.
Tct Chickens are Dangerous.
"Pet animals," says Dr. F. Sauui in
the St. Louis Olobe-Democrat, "aud even
chickens will often cause disease and
spread infection. Some people let dogs
sleep with them and see nothing wrong
about the practice, forgetting that the
favored camue may have smelt aud even
lain upon infected rags and refuse dur
ing the day. Pet dogs and birds con
fined in sick-rooms with patients suffer
ing from infectious or contagious dis
eases frequently spread the disease to
other members of the families. Careless
ness about chickens is also a cause of a
good deal of sickness at this season of
the year.
"In the country there is nothing so
healthy as a chicken, but when kept in
close confinement or allowed to range in
dirty stables and alleys they become
regular disease-spreaders. I know of
several cases of serious malarial affections
caught in this manner, and at least one
of typhoid."
AN EIDER DUCK FARM.
ft, BIRD WHOSE DOWN IS AN 1M
POBTANT ARTICLE OF TRADE.
tmmenan Number of Birds Often In
One Colony Bobbins; the Nests
of Their Down.
The colonics of breeding ciders often
consist of an immense number of birds,
ind the nests lie so thickly together that
it is often difficult to avoid stepping into
them. They are usually placed at some
light elevation ; and here in any faint
depression the duck collects a small
quantity of seaweed and drift stuff, which
the forms into a felty mass with her
breast. Upon this four or five eggs are
laid in the course of a week, these being
of a pale-green color, and rather re
sembling those of the htrou. Even be
fqro the last egg is laid it is seen that a
few feathers are scattered about the nest,
ind as incubation proceeds these increase
In quantity. The bird covers the eggs
with down plucked from her breast, and
this she docs day by day until a very con
liderabk) quantity buries the eggs. It is
this down which has become such an im
portant article of commerce. If the
eiders are hatching under ordinary con
ditions, the young appear in about
twenty -six days, and almost immediately
betake themselves to the water. It is
here that they sun themselves, feed and
sleep. On a rock-bound bit of coast it
is interesting to watch the ducklings
paddling among the stones and feeding
upon the tiny bivalves that are common
among the bays and inlets. These re
marks refer to the breeding of wild
eiders', but unfortunately colonies of
birds under natural conditions are be
coming more and more rare every year.
The coramVacial collector has everywhere
Btepped in, and is putting a terrible drain
upon the species.
In Norway this bird is protected by
law, though only to be persecuted tho
more persistently by private individuals.
On ono island, that of Isafjardarjup,
eider ducks are said to nest in thou
sands. Speaking of the breeding sights
by tho shore, Mr. Shepherd, who visited
tho colony, tells us that the b'own ducks
Bat upon their nests in masses, and at
every step started from beneath his feet.
On this island, of three-quarters of a
mile in length, it was difficult to walk
without Etepping into the nests. A
thick Etone breakwater ran along its
coasts just above high-water mark. At
the bottom and sides of tho wall alter
nate stones had been left out, so as to
form a scries of compartments for the
ducks to nest in. Every compartment
was teoantcd, and the visitors walked
along the ducks flew out all along the
line. These wero welcomed by the
white drakes, which were tossing on the
water "with loud and clamorous coo
ing." A farmhouse on tho island was
tenauted in like manner. The house it
self was "a great marvel." Ducks were
hatching on the turf walls which sur
rounded it, in the window embrasures,
on tho ground, on the roof. The house
was fringed with ducks, and a duck sat
in the scraper. Then a grassy bank
close by was cut into squares, every one
of which was occupied. A windmill
was packed, as was every available ob
ject on the island mounds, rocks,
crevices. This was an eider-down farm.
So tame were the ducks as to allow the
farmer's wife to stroke them as they sut
on their nests.
Of course there is another sido to this
pleasant picture, as we sco when we
learn how the "good lady" of the island
repays the confidence of the birds. And
here it is by another observer: "The
eider down is easily collected, as tho
birds are quite tame. The female having
hud five or six pale, greenish-olive eggs,
in a nest thickly lined with her beauti
ful down, the collectors, after carefully
removing the bird, rob tho nest of its
contents, after which they replaco her.
She then begins to lay afresh though
this time only three or four eggs and
again has recourse to the down on her
body. But her greedy persecutors once
more rifle her nest, and oblige her to line
it for the third time. Now, however,
her own stock of down is exhausted, and
with a plaintive voice she calls her mate
to her assistance, who willingly plucks
the soft feathers from his breast to sup
ply the deficiency. If the cruel robbery
be again repeated, which in former times
was frequently the case, the poor eider
duck abandons the spot never to return,
and seeks for a new home where she may
indulge her maternal instinct undisturbed
by the avarice of man." CornhiU Maya
tine. A Remarkable Railroad.
The most remarkable short line of
railway in the world is probably the sub
merged railway at Onton, near Bilbao,
Spain. It runs down an evenly sloping
shore in double line to a distance of 650
feet, and has been constructed by a
Spanish engineer for the solo purpose of
facilitating the shipment of iron ores.
The only car is a massive iron tower -on
wheels in tho shape of a pyramid, rising
seventy feet from the truck. Upon the
platform of this tower the ores are
placed, and thus they are conveyed to
the vessel the pyramidal car, whose
wheels are always under water return
ing automatically as in as its cargo has
been mechanically shot into tho ship's
hold. Commercial Adeertiter.
Simple Substitute for Sea-Water.
A warm salt bsth is very refreshing to
any one suffering from exhaustion ol
travel or of a long shopping expedition
which is as trying to mind aud body
as anything that cuu be undertaken by a
woman. Away from the seashore a very
simple substitute for sea water is a cup
of rock salt dissolved in warm water and
added to the bath. When the suit is ir
ritating to the skin, take a warm bath
and spouge off with a mixture of violet
or lavender water and alcohol, about
half ami half, and rub briskly with a
warm friction towel. Such a method
prevents the exhaustion and dauger of
cold which follow a warm bath. Chi
cajo Timet,
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
A deposit of beautiful agate and car
flelian has been found on Cedros Island,
Lower California.
Scientific: farming in Italy is to be un
dertaken this year by a company with a
capital of $20,000,000.
Coffeo is boiled by electricity in a Ber
lin cafe, gloss jars being used and plat
inum wires passing through them being
heated by the current.
Women are longer lived than men; a
woman of twenty may expect forty-two
years more of Ife, a man of the same age
only thirty-nine years.
An electrician says that just what takes
place in the human organism to produce
death from an electric current seems to
be an unsolved problem.
The result of recent experiments with
the heliograph demonstrate the adapta
bility and v duo of that instrument for
signaling to great distances.
The whitish, vapory belt popularly
known as the "milky way," is a mass of
many millions of stars, the mingled light
of which makes a bright belt.
Tho water barometer in St. Jacques
Tower, Paris, has a glass tube over forty
one feet long, and about thrco-quartcrs
of an inch in diameter the largest yet
made.
The board of naval experts found the
cophono a very accurate instrument fot
locating the direction from which sound
comes, its value being of greatest im
portance in thick foggy weather.
The experiment of producing rainfall
by explosions of dynamite, has been pro
posed. An item has been included in
the Agricultural Appropriation bill, set
ting aside $3000 for that purpose.
Dr.Chsrles W.Dullas,s prominent phy
sician of Philadelphia, in a recent papei
on the subject of consumption, points oul
that while in England half a century age
there were 55,000 deaths annually among
lS.OOO'.OOO people, there are at pres
ent in a population of 40,000,000 bul
14,000 deaths due to phthisis.
It has been discovered that a current
of electricity passed through Impure
water, restores it to purity by destroying
any living germs with which it may bt
impregnated. Animalculto which cscapt
the eye, and which almost elude tin
microscope, can not escape the all-searching
power of tho electric flash.
A New York man has invented a new
modo of rapid transit for street railways.
It is an application of the archimedcar
screw principle to the cable Bystem. In
stead of a wire rope in the conduit be
Death the track, is a wrought iron tubr
with a stout worm, and in place of the
grip is a shoe pushed forward by the
worm and raised or lowered by a rod.
There are some philosophers who
maintain that longevity is becoming
more general than it was, even forty
years ago. Thcro is no doubt, but that
luring the first few centuries of the
Christian era, the average duration ol
life in the most favored classes was thirty
years, while iu the present century, the
tvarage age of the same classes is fifty
years.
To Curo Consumption.
A great scheme has been inaugurated
it Philadelphia to establish tho Rush
Hospital for the cure of consumption and
allied diseases. It will bo conducted on
the same plan as the German aud Eng
lish hospitals for consumptives, that is,
to give the patients as much rest as
possible, to reduce the fever and Jto
nourish the body. In those foreign
hospitals patients are kept iu bed or a
room, or are carried out iu the open air
on cots, aud, protected by clothing from
draughts, are left to inhulo the fresh air.
This treatment has been found not only
to rest the patient, but at the same time
to improve his appetite aud rcduco the
fever.
In the second placo the patient is in
troduced into a cabinet room, which is
an air-tight compartment, from which
the- air has been exhausted. After the
patient is placed in the room, it is filled
with oxygen, or nitrous oxide, or any
vapor containing medicine. By in
haling this vaporous medicine the patient
is liable to be cured of the terrib'e dis
ease. As to nourishing the body, tho
patients are given the most nutritious pro
vender, chiefly beef, eggs and milk.
Medicine is taken at regular hours. There
is also a constant medical supervision
over the patients.
This is tho plan on which the Hush
Hospital will be conducted. Statistics
show this mode of treatment cures forty
per cent, of consumptives placed iu such
hospitals. In fact tho Germau and Eng
lish claim a larger percentage of cures.
"It is now an established truth in medi
cal science," says Dr. Mays, ouo of the
trustees, "that consumption can be
cured. When I mako the statement I in
clude all kinds of consumption, whether
inherited or induced by exposure or ex
cesses. The plan of treatment adopted
by tho Germaus aud English cures the
average consumptive in six mouths' time
This is remarkable, but it is a fact."
Xt York A'etci.
Crowfoot's Quaint Gratitude for a Past
Crowfoot, the Black foot chief, received
a perpetual pass over the Canadian Pacific
railroad, aud in acknowledgment of his
thanks sent the following letter: "Great
Chief of the Ibtilway: I salute you, O
Chief. O great, I am pleased with rail
road ej, opening road free to me. The
chains and rich covering of your uain
writing, its wonderful power to open the
road, slnw the greatest of your Chirfness.
I have done. Crawfoot." limei-Democrat.
A Split Ear.
The curious case is mentioned by i
German doctor of a man who experi
enced unpleasant cracking noises in the
left ear during a period of a year and a
half. These occurred every few seconds,
aud could bs heard by any person at a
distauce of a foot. There was no deaf
ness or inflammation, but the drum wot
found to have a split iu it through
which air was forced by thu act of swallowing.
WOMAN.
Fairer than all the fantasies that dart
Adown the dreams of our most favoredT
sleep,
Thy perfect form, since Eden's day, doth
keep
The constant pattern of a perfect art!
Yet more must we admire thy bettor part,
The spirit strong to smile when others
weep,
And well know we who sail life's ocean
deep
There is no haven like a woman's heart.
Thus, often weary ere tho strife la won,
Tired of my task, my head I fain would'
lay
In some good lady's lap, as did "the)
Dane." "
And watch the action of the world go on, '
Knowing 'tis but a play within a play, ,
The fleeting portion of an endless plan.
CharletH. Crandall, in Ltppiucott.
HUMOR OF THE DAT.
Told to make a noise A bell.
Old as the hills Tho valleys.
A catch question "Will you lid
mine?"
Man wants but littlo hero below; but
when he gets on top ho wants tho earth.
It is the small boy getting bis hair
combed who knows tho pain of a part
ing. Tho man who lives by his brains cer
tainly has not a visible means of support.
Puck.
Ho "Are you fond of sports?" Sho
"Well, I ought to be. I married one."
Oazclte.
Played oul baseball. It is one of tho
games that can't be played indoors.
Vhihulelphui I'rcM.
Most proverbs aic founded on fact.
Fcrhaps the straw that broke the camel's
back was a bale. Puck.
Of nil sad words (
Vocable, mailable,
The saddest are:
"It's unavailable."
Pitch.
Tho most popular woman in the United
States is undoubtedly the golden haired
ladv who adorns tho double eagle.
Puck.
When a man marries ho fully intends
to be No. one in the family, but often
the period drops out. 1'trre Haute Kit
yrct. Wife "What do you suppose baby is
thinking about?" The Brute "I 'sposo
he's thinking what to cry about to
night." Life.
Book Agent (returning after having
been fired down one flight, to irate bro
ker) "But now, joking aside, won't you
take one copy?" Flicgende Bluctter.
"A new female pursuit in the larger
cities is collecting bills." This is en
couraging. The old female pursuit iu
tho lurger cities was to run 'em up."
A'orrittoicn Herald.
Farmer Way "All my pigs broke
out last night and the constable put them
in the pound." Farmer Wise "Tuko
care of the pens and the pounds will tako
care of themselves."
" 'Sh!" exclaimed Tommy, listening at
tho door. "There's company iu the par
lor." "How do you know?" inquired
Willie. "Mamma's calling papa 'my
love.'" Chicago Tribune.
FaUtuff asks "What's honor?" as
though it were hard to tell; but let ouo
woman sit behind another in church, and
she'll tell what's on her in less than two
minutes. Harvard Lamjiooit.
We all know the men who like to make
Cruel jests, and think them immense;
But give me the one who can always tuke
A joke at his own expense.
Judye.
Would-be Facetious Teacher "Boys,
there is an old saying that if you give a
man an inch, he will take an ell. Now
"an you tell me what would be tho result
if you wore to give a man a loot!" Small
but Bright Boy "Ho would kick." '
Nea York Tribune.
Strive as we may we never can
Tell who are happy, who forlorn;
The cutest little shoe of tan
May hide a very painful corn.
Chicago Kveniii'j Post.
"The time Iv'e lost in wooing," a
young man said, "I do not regret, for I
had tho fun and I gained the experience,
liut I grudge tho time I habitually lose
in trying to remember to spell Cincinnati
with two 'u's' and one 't,' ami not with
ouo 'n' and two 't's.' The cxerciso
gives no pleasure, and leaves inn no wiser
than I was. It is waited effort." Life.
Fruits Prematurely Plucked.
"At present tho troublo is to get
things to eat," said a promiueut caterer
of years gone by. "Fruits ami vegeta
bles, especially tho earlier varieties, are
brought from a great dUtunce, and iu
order to carry well are picked green.
Ripened artificially off the trees, vines
ami plants, they not only lack flavor, but
are positively unwholesome. Take the
first tomatoes, for instance. ' You look
iu vain for a ripe one, and the taste is
frightfully unnatural and unsatisfactory.
It is tho same with peaches, pears, apri
cots, plums and smaller fruit. So fur as
meat is concerned, beeves are driven for
miles and miles, and when killed many
of them are bruised, thiu and diseased.
When they are brought iu c-attlo ears
they are crowded together so closely that
they cannot move without trampling on
each other, and suffer terribly from lack
of water and food. Sheep aud swine are
in the same category. Under such con
ditions it is no wonder that much objec
tionable meat is offered for sale. Iu the
past, fruits aud vegetables came from
near at hand and were leathered almost
ripe, while the beef, mutton, veal ami
pork were from this State and New Jer
sey aud were of excellent quality, to
say nothing of being iu prime condition
and altogether wholesomu. Things havo
chauged in tho line of marketing, but
the ihuugu has uot beeu for the butler.
Ph iUidc !yh i't luu inr.
Mrs. Emory Lane, of Marshfleld, Mass.,,
has 'JU0U silk worms at her home, t-lio
keeps them on an extension lublo aud
focds them ou mulberry leaves.