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The Standard Oil Company indirectly
bontrols about a dozen trusts, and is the
strongest and best managed trust that
ever existed, asserts the Chicago Sun.
It is estimated that the railroads of
tho United Statos loso $2,000,000 yearly
by land-slides, $5,000,000 by floods,
II, 000,000 by flra and 13,000,000 by
collisions.
How far the idcaf using eloctricity
ns a street-car motor has progressed can
be judged from tho fact that in a trade
journal dovoted exclusively to the street
railways, one-third of the articles re.
late to electricity and its application to
street roads.
Lovers of canned salmon should con
gratulate themselves, Ihinks the New
York Mail and Erpreu. In spite of the
old idea that two good seasons for sal
mou are never consecutive, the run in
British Columbia this year is equal to
that of hist year, when it was the best
ever known.
"Tho transfer of Heligoland to Ger
many is creating an amount of talk and
excitement that is much greater," says
the Chicago Herald, "than the subject
calls for. Every week somo real estate
dealer transfers a larger and more valua
ble tract right in the city limits of Chi
cago, and makes no noise about it at all."
The wealth of the United States is un
officially estimated at 171,500,000,000,
an increase in ten years of forty-two per
.cent. England's wealth was placed at
151,000,000,000 in 18S5, but divided
among a smaller population than that of
the United Slates; while the value of
France's property is put at $30,000,
000,000. Taxes In England average $20
per capita and in tho United States,
$13.50.
Policeman Henry Hennerman, of
Louisville,took a nap on his front porch.
While ho was thus enjoying himself a
thief came in at tho front gato and stole
the officer's hat. Such an outrage filled
Policeman Hennerman with wrath Ho
provided himself with a pistol and again
sat down upon the porch, placing anoth
er hat v jn chair near him. Muttering
vengen' jio pretended to be asleep.
Sure ugh, he did fall asleep after a
while a J tho thief returned and carried
off t second hat and the pistol Mr.
Hennerman is an ideal policeman, is the
verdict of tho facetious Chicago IlcraUl.
Tho Now York Ilerald says: A "rail,
road iu the Holy Land" has rather a jar
ring sound. "Fivo minutes for refresh
ments at the Brook of Kedron," "Dinner
. in the Valley of Jehosaphat," "Break
fa3t at Nazareth," "Tickets good for
either Mount Ziou or Mount Moriah."
Wo prosuiuo these wilt soon be added to
the cries now familiar to pilgrims over
tho sea. However, we shall in time be
accustomed to it, and tho railroad will
no morn detract from the feeling of
revercuce with which we surround the
Holy Land than from the memories that
belong to the poetry and traditions of
Egypt, Homo and the Isles of Greece. '
From statistics produced In a valuable
pamphlet by William Little it appears
that the amount of timber converted into
lumber in Michigun, Wisconsin and
Minnesota lost year reached the enor
mous aggregate of 8,305,833,277 super
ficial feet, exclusive of white pine
shingles, which, if added, would bring
the total consumption up to 9,000,000,
0U0 feet. . Ruthless slaughter of that
order cot evcu the matchless and un
limited forests discovered by Mr. Stanley
in Africa could long survive. As a
matter of fact the timberlands of the
Northwest are already practically ex
hausted. Of 29,000,000,000 feet re
ported by tho census of 1880 as then
.Standing in lower Michigan only one
tenth now remains; and iu tho three
States there is estimated to be less than
10,000,000,000 feet.
A clergyman writes as follows in the
Chicago Advance: "Clerical hospitality
is declining. The minister's house is no
longer the stopping place of all minister!
who pass his way. Possibly tho change
to both host and guest is in somo respects
desirable, yet in other respects it is un
desirable. The virtue of hospitality may
sometimes be a hard drain upon the
narrow larder of the parsonage, but it
does tend to promote that hearty fellow
ship which ministers need and whicb
they are glad to give aud receive. Evorj
one in Massachusetts kuows the llev.
Daniel Butler, the agent of tho Massa
chusetts Bible Society, a man with such
a reputation for wit that it must indeed
be no small strain even for one who has
so much ability to sustain the reputation.
Mr. Butler tells me that fifty years ago
there was hardly a parsonage iu Massa
chusetts that he would net feel free to
enter as an uninvited gucit, but that
now there is hardly a parsouage iuto
which he would feel free to go without
a special iuvitation. I confess that I
rather mourn tb davs of clerical hospitality."
tO HIM WHO WAIT3.
To him who waits amid the world's applause
His share of Justice, tolling day by day,
All things will corns now dim and far away
To him woo wait.
To him who waits beyond the darkness drear
The morning comoth with refulgent light;
Bringing assuranoe of a day mors bright;
To him who waits.
To him who waits, though tears may often
fall,
And knees be bowed in sorrow and prayer,
All grief will end, and everything be fair
To him who waits.
To him who waits and reachos out his hands
To aid a toiler up lire's beetling crags,
Bureease will come from every ill that Hags,
To him who waits.
To him who waits, and struggles not In vain
To overcome the evils that abound
Within his breast, sweot will the victory
sound
To him who waits.
To him who waits, there comes a wily
throng,
Who sneer and scoff, and look with baleful
eyes,
But what of them? They are but gnats and
files,
To him who wait.
To him who waits, there must be recompense
For useful work, whatever may betide,
A compensation reaching far and wide,
To him who wait.
To him who waits the stars are always
mends,
The restless ocean, and the asure sky,
All things in nature speak and prophesy,
To him who waits.
To him who walta true love, wiil someday
come,
And lay an offering at his blameless shrine.
Life will be love, and love will be divine,
To him who waits.
To htm who waits the world will some day
cheer.
And sing his praise; Fame's mysterious gates
Will open for him; heaven seem more near,
To him who waits.
Motet Q. Shirley, in Boston Globe.
DICK RODNErS REVENGE.
"Lord, let me have a chance to be re
venged at lost I"
That was what Dick Rodney snld as ho
turned from the door of the sweetheart
he had been thinking of during all tho
long voyage just ended, with the uews
that she was married to another burning
in nis heart like a red hot iron.
'She was a light, foolish thing, not
worthy of a true man's love.
But he had worshiped her, and she had
jilted him and married Ralph Hollowav.
It was not a tale to tell, a sorrow to
tcck sympathy for.
Dick went back to sea a moodier man
than he had been, and now and then he
would say to somo mate :
"There's a fellow I'm bound to be even
with some day."
But he never said why.
Ho felt himself bitterly and shameful
ly injured, and he felt sure that God
would cost his enemy iuto his hands iu
the end.
It seemed to him that it was not neces
sary for him to seek it, but only to bido
his time.
Five years passed, and still he said:
"I wait." And one morning he looked
up and saw Ralph Holloway standing op
posite him, and said to himself;
"The time is coming."
It had been very hard for Captaiu
Palmer to find hands for that voyage.
The Betsy Belle had met with many dis
asters and was counted unlucky. And
the Captain was not liked.
The crew was a rough ono when it was
made up, but here was Ralph Holloway
coming to add himself to it. It was a
curious fact, and one of which Dick
Rodney was not aware, that Ralph had
never known anything of Elite's engage
ment to him. He had come home from
a voyage, met a pretty girl at a party,
speut his money iu giving her presents,
and offered himself.
Ho was a handsomer man than Dick,
and buiug less prudent, seemed moro
generous. Etlie accepted him, and left
it to her mother to tell Dick the news on
his return, quite conscience free. Ralph
walked up to Dick, holding out his
hand.
"I've seen you before," he said.
'You've forgotten me, I guess. I'm
Ralph Holloway, of your own town."
"Oh, I know you well enough." said
Dick, without taking his hand.
Odd ways are not uncommon amongst
sailors. Ralph said to himself that Dick
was crusty, and put his hand away in his
pocket.
"I shouldn't wonder if you didn't
know mo," he said. "I'm ruu down and
mighty low in pocket, or I wouldn't have
shipped with Captain Palmer. I've had
pretty bad luck."
"Have you?" said Dick. "And yet
they say Old Nick never deserts his
friends."
"I ain't made friends with him as I
knows of," said Ralph. "About the
time I married, I got a bit of money from
grandfather, and bought a house and
put my wife into it. AVe had a couple
of babies, and things seemed going on
first rate. Then I went on an unlucky
voyage, was shipwrecked, came home
sick, and lay idle six months. I let my
insurance run out cause why? I couldn't
pay it and that week my home was
burned dewn by a tramp I'd driv oil the
place. One of the children was badly
burned scarred for life and the cow
was roasted to a cinder. Then, you
know, worn in folk ain't got much cour
age, and Etlie, that's my wife, kind of
came down on me for my hard luck ; and
so, though I'm a sick man yet, I shipped
to-day. I dou't feel encouraged I feel
as if there was worse ahead of me."
"Perhaps there is," said Dick to him
elf, feeling a fiendish delight iu the
thought that he would have EthVs hus
band in his power on the high seas, with
only a plank between him and death.
He had not sought him out, he had
come to him. There was fate in it.
As ho bent over a fop he was splic
ing; pretending tei be1 very busy with it(
Ralph talked on, and Dick felt sure that
Efliio and her husband were not happy
together. So much revenge he had al
ready t The thought cooled him more
than any other could have done.
Later la the day he found himclf say
ing that a man might well leave one who
had wronged him to the justice of Heaven.
That sooner or later he would find him
self satis A ed.
Among other things Ralph had said
that:
"Trouble and worry and short victuals
had altered his wife from a pretty girl to
a mighty plain woman."
The words clung to Dick's mind he
could not forget them. He wondered if
it wore so. After this he saw very little
of Ralph. It was in his power, being
much the stronger of tho two, to take
advantage of any watch that they might
keep together to throw him overboard,
but the miserable life did not seem worth
taking. The once prosperous young
fellow was sick, hopeless, and forlorn ;
aud one night, as Ralph panted over
bard task, to which ha was not equal,
Dick, yielding to some queer influence
that came upon him, asked the Captain
to let him take his place, chango with
him.
"My work is easier done by a man
short of breath," he said.
"Do as you please," the Captain re
plied, gruffly. "That's a stupid lubber,
anyhow, btck fellows should stay a
shoro." Dick said! "Thank ye." And per
formed Ralph's task.
The poor fellow was grateful, and told
the story of Dick's kind deed to every
one.
"When that asthma comes on me I'm
no good," ho said. "He saved my life
that night."
"I'm a fool I" Dick said to himself, but
ho continued to beone. Instead of mak
ing the poor, sick fellow's lot harder, he
helped him in a thousand ways; and the
example being set, it got to be the fash
ion to spare Ralph, to speak of him as
"That poor chap!" and favor him in
every way.
"Here's a fool for you," said Dick, as
he looked in his queer little round glass
of a morning. "As big a fool assails."
The voyage was not a lucky one. Tho
Captain's ventures were not successful.
He solaced himself with drink, and lay
tipsy in his berth on tho night when a
storm, such as few livo to tell of, broke
over them.
For two awful days the wind and
water did what they choose with the
Betsy Belle. Then, in tho worst of the
tempest, they took to the boats. As
Dick, having helped to drag the tipsy
Captain into one, was about to take his
own place, a forlorn figure stretched out
its arms to him. In dumb show, for
words could not be heard, it indicated it
had hurt itself, and needed help to gain
the boat.
"Don't leave me," its hollow eyes said;
"give mo a chauce."
The miserable thing was RalplWIollo
way, covered with blood, faint with pain
and horror.
Reveuge, why, here it was offered to
Dick. He could cast away those cling
ing hands, jump iuto the boat, and leave
tho man who had stolen his sweetheart
to his wretched death. He could look
back as he left tho ship, and see him in
his misery strctchiug out imploring hands
toward him. Ye, he could. What he
did was to take the miserable being on
his back, and risk his life to tumble him
into the boat.
"She's too full already," yeVUid ono
man "too full by a hanged s(Jrfl"
"It's the sick one, mates!" roared
Dick. And when there was calm enough
bo tore his own garments to bind Hollo
way's wounds.
Storms do not last forever, but when
tho gale subsided and the scorching sun
shoue down, aad they tossed about,
knowing that the timo must come when
biscuit-bag and water-keg and brandy
flask must bo empty thou came tha
worst horror of all. They doled tho bis
cuit out by crumbs, tho water by drops,
but even so it would not last forever.
"Dick, good friend," said Ralph one
day, "all I pray for is to live and see
Elfie, and ask her pardon for anything
I've done wrong, She liked me, though
she was touchy, bhe'll grieve if I leave
her a widow, poor girl I"
For awhile Dick sat silent and said
nothing. It was tho day on which they
divided the last of the food.
, Two days after a man arose iu the
boat with a knife iu his hand.
"I wou't starve for oue," he said.
"One of us has got to go to save the
rest; you're the oue."
He pointed straight at Ralph; thero
was frouzy in his eye.
The others hauled him down. As yet
they were not mad enough to join in a
cannibal feast. But starvation was do
ing its work.
Dick kept stronger and clearer in mind
than the rest. Ho watched the man who
had wielded the knifo. In the night ho
saw him creeping toward Ralph. A
blow sent him sprawling; his comrades
were aroused.
"Why not?" they began to whisper.
"They will kill me yet," moaned
Ralph. "Ellie will go crazy if she hears
the story."
Revenge! Why, ft was offered to
Dick in overflowing measure. And he
put his strong, stout body between the
miserable Ralph aud those other and
cried out:
"Mates, we wou't starve yet; I've kept
something to the last. I've got a flask
of whisky aud six biscuits iu my pocket.
1 kept them for the lust momeut, share
and share alike."
Tho eaer eyes turned on him they
allowed Dick to portion out the food. It
was very little, but it meant that tbey
would not starve that day. And each
time they drauk from the flash, Dick for
bade himself half his own portiou aud
gave a larger allowance to Ralph ; so
!iL ll 1.7 - ,
wiiu bun uiscuh also.
Alas! when these were gone there was
nothing more.
Again fiends' eyes clared at Rulnh. At
last two cast back from their attack on
him by Dick, clutched cuvh other, aud
In a mad struggle went overboard. An
other quite insane, fancied he saw a feast
spread near him, sprang toward it, and
was gone:
Others slept arid awakened hd more:
And now Dick and Ralph were alone Id
the boat.
"I shall nevcf see Effle again," said
Ralph. "Dick, good friend, if in my
life I've ever done any barm that made
any one want revenge on me, they have
It when I think that. Oh I for just a
look at her or word from her."
Dick bent over him and looked in his
face.
"Did you ever feel ns if any one
wanted revenge on you?" he asked.
"I ain't aware of any causa for it,"
said Ralph. "But I've been as unlucky
as if I was cursed since the day I married
Effle."
'! Lord bless you, Ralph," said Dick.
"And if there is a curse may it be
lifted."
And as he spoke he raised his eyes and
saw, where the water and tho heavens
met, a sail.
"I'd never have seen you again, Effio,
but for this good friend," Ralph said.
"He saved my life more than once."
Effie had come to him in the hospital,
.where he was setting well, ami found
Dick at his side.
"God bless him," said Effle. "Ithink
he's one of those that would do good to
folk that harmed him, and knew it was
the best revenge he could have."
"He's good enough for that," Ralph
said, then Effie held out her hand to
Dick.
"God bless you," she said. "My
children will pray for you every night
for saving their father. And may you
find a good, sweet wife, for you will
make her a happy woman."
She sighed, but thero was a peaceful
look upon Dick's face as he said "Good
bye," and left them forever. But Effle'a
hope was fulfilled, and happy love came
to him before many days. Family Story
Paper.
A Born ConfTer.
During a stay of Emperor William I.,
of Germany, at the fashionable watering
place at Ems that monarch paid a visit
to n large orphan asylum and school that
was under Government patronage. The
presence of so distinguished a personage
created quite a sensation in the establish
ment. After listening with much inter
est to the recitations of several of the
classes, His Majesty called to him a
bright, flaxen-haired little girl of five or
six years of age, and, lifting her into his
lap, said:
"Now, my little fraulein, let mo see
how well you have been taught. To
what kingdom does this belong?" And
taking out of his pocket au orange, ho
held it up to her.
The little girl hesitated a moment,
and, looking timidly up into tho Empe
ror's face, replied :
"To the vegetable kjngdom."
"Very good, my little fraulein; and
now to what kingdom does this belong?"
Aud he drew out of his pocket a gold
piece and placed it on the orange.
Again the little girl hesitated, but
soon replied:
"To the mineral kingdom."
"Better and better," said the Empe
ror. "Now look at mo and say to me to
what kingdom I belong."
At this question there was an ominous
silence-wmong the teachers and visitors
who were listening with much interest
to the royal catechism. Could she make
any other reply that "to the animal
kingdom?"- The little girl hesitated
long, as if perploxed as to what answer
she would give. Was the Emperor an
animal? Her eyes sought those of her
teacher and her schoolmates. Then sho
looked up into the eyes of the aged Em
peror, and, with a half-startled, fright
ened look, as if she were evading the
question, replied:
"To the kingdom of heaven."
Dnels of German Students.
Tho usual length of the duel among
the German students is ten minutes fot
freshmen and a quarter of an hour fot
seniors, unless an artery is cut. Then
the fight comes to an end at once, if the
doctor judges the wound to be sufficient
ly serious, and the party who inflicts the
wound is the victor. After the wounds
have been dressed a reconciliation is ef
fected; the former enemies leave the
place friends. Indeed, the duels are not
often the outcome of personal animosity.
The superfluous energy which iu England
and America is worked oil in outdoor
sports, in rowing, cricket or baseball,
here finds its only outlet in the duel. If
these duels were always harmless ono
could dismiss them with a laugh, as only
one other form of the inevitable and even
enviable folly of youth. But unfor
tunately there is another side to the pic
ture. Sometimes the duel is the result
of a deep and deadly hatred, and then it
is fought out even to the death. The
comparatively harmless schlager is dis
carded, and in its place the pistol or the
saber is substituted. No silly child's
play here, but grim and wicked earnest.
Illustrated American.
Electricity ir the Lion's Don.
The latest application of electricity
will be a boon to wild-beatt tamers,
lion kings, serpent queens, and such
like. Instead of having to assert their
authority by means of the whip of pliant
steel, whioU has hitherto been their
chief resource, except in those desperate
straits in whieh red-hot irons come into
action, they will now carry a light wand,
with an insulating grip for the band,
connected by a flexible wire, with a bat
tery of which the power cau be varied
according to the necessities of the case.
If tho lion or tiger becomes surly aud
refuses to go through his tricks, or
threatens to bite, a sample of his "tam
er," a touch of the magic wand, will give
him a shock that will rouse him up or
scare him iuto submission, as the per
former wishes. An experiment iu this
new departure of applied science is said
to have been successfully made iu out
instance. London Vanity Fair.
THE TESTING OF SUGAR.
estimating! sxrciAii Dtmsg is
UNOLB BAM ABORATOR?.
The nitTerprit Kinds1 or Kriiror arid thrt
Method of Analyzing Them Ad
Ingenious Process.
Thero are many varieties of sug'fAfor
the term is used gcnerically to desiWato
the sweet products obtained from cer
tain vegetables aud most fruits. Thus
we have the cane sugar, from sugar eane ;
beet sugar, grape jsar, maple sugar,
melon sugar, palm sugar, date sugar, sor
ghum sugar, tuaizo sugar and others less
commonly known.
The one, however, which is of the
greatest importance, and whose Uss we
are most familiar with, is cane sugar. To
it, therefore, we may devote our princi
pal attention.
The sugar which comes to Now York
is principally exported from Cuba.
Smaller quantities are received from oth
er of the West Indian islands and Brazil.
In still smaller amounts sugars are sent
to this country from China and some of
the islands of the Pacific.
The origin of the sugar havirfg been
ascertained, it is but natural that we
ihoutd expect to see it along the docks
of our river front.
The incidents of its journey can be of
no interest to us. In tho dark hold of
some vessel, probaby a sailing ship, as
the days quickly follow the nights, in
itorra or in calm, the sugar rcmaius in
Its package, unconscious alike of tho
anxiety of the seamen or of the tedious
monotony which makes an ordinary sea
voyage so hard to be endured. At the
wharf, as each packages comes ashore, it
is marked by the Government inspector
chosen for this special duty.
Every fourth hogshead or barrel is laid
tside, and when the packages are smaller,
luch as bags, ceroons or mats, moro fre
quent parcels are selected for sampling.
Then a long tube, called a trier, is run
directly through the central portion, from
end to end, of cack package selected.
Every trierful constitutes au satire sam
ple. The sugar thus extracted is packed
in small tin boxes; these again arc placed
In wooden chests, and are sent to the ex
amination room as rapidly as possible.
The utmost dispatch throughout tho en
tire course, beginning with the sampling
std ending with the polarization, is in
sisted on in order to avoid the drying out
of the water or moisture contained in
the sugar; otherwise a higher degree of
polarization, and in consequence a higher
rate of duty, would follow. As the im
porters generally examine the sugar in
their own laboratories, every precaution
Is taken by the Government to obtain
correct results.
In the examination room, the sugar is
thrown on tho flat surface of a long table
and thoroughly mixed, so that any selec
tion from it will represent a fair average
of the entire invoice. Then an examina
tion of the color is made by comparing a
sample with the so-called "Dutch Stand
ard." This latter consists of a scries of
sealed bottles containing sugars whoso
value in crystallizable sugar has previously
been determined, the lighter colors
naturally representing the purer qualities.
If the sample is not abovo No. 13 in
color, it is again packed in a tin box, a
duplicate of which is retained in tho
examination room properly numbered,
and then it is sent to tho laboratory.
We may say in this connection that
about ten experienced chemists are con
stantly employed testing sugar at tho Ap
praiser's Stores in New York, and also,
more than this, that each of the large
ports of the couutry Boston, Philadel
phia, New Orleans, San Francisco and
others have their laboratories where
men are kept busy at this work.
The first operation that the sugar un
dergoes is that of crushing and mixing
in a mortar. This step is considered
necessary in order to remove any lumps
or inequalities that may have been over
looked in the examination room, and to
make the mass more thoroughly homo
geneous. Then a suitable portion is
weighed out, the amount depending upon
the kind of polariscopo employed. In
the United States laboratories the Scheib
ler modification of tho polariscope is
used, and 13,024 grains of substauce is
the quantity taken for examination.
The weighed sugar is carefully washed
into a graduated flask holdiug exactly
fifty cubio centimeters, brought into a
solution by agitation, a slight quantity
of lead acetate or sugar of lead is added,
and the mixture is filUrcd. Tho lead
salt is uwd- for tho purpose of partially
decolorizing the compound. The yellow
solution thus obtaiucd is poured into tho
polariscope tube aud au examination or
reading is made. All sugars possess tho
peculiar power of twisting or rotat
ing a ray of polarized liiht, cither
to the right or left. Thus cane
suirar has a polarization to tho right
of 73 deg. 8 uiin., grape sugar to tho
right 57 dcg. 4 mtu. Fruit sugar to the
left 106 dog., and so on. Thii charac
teristic property of sugars is madu use of,
and an instrument has been so con
structed that a ray of light entering the
apparatus becomes polarized, then pass
ing through the tube coutainiug tho sac
charine solution is rotated in a definite
direction, and by means of suitablu ad
justment this degree or amount of rota
tion is shown on areadublo scale attached
to the instrument. The reading of the
vernier, as the scale is called, completes
the examination ; in other words, the re
sult obtained tells us exactly how much
pure crystullizablecaue sugar is contaiued
in the sample. The percentage of p iro
sugar is trausmitted to the appraiser, who
th"u adjusts the amount of duty to be
paid, in accordance with the returns re
ceived from tha laboratory. ycu York
Star.
Sevres ware has so fallen iu public es
timation that the anuual bale scarcely ex
ceeds $20,000. The works receive a
yearly subsidy of $100,000, but the
quality of the wares produced has dete
riorated. The deposits in the British Postoflice
Ravings Hank last year aincuutcd to
(jl'.i'J, 070, 000, aud thi withdrawals to
bi.070,000.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Fireproof paper is now being manu
factured. Jk,
Magnetism is noyroposed for over
coming seals in bcwis.
A Mountain of sandstone suitable for
grindstones is reported nino miles from
Urant's Pass,- Oregon.
At Decf Island, in Columbia County,
Oregon, a vein of esrid stone, estimated to
be 200 feet in depth, has been discovered.
Mexican onyx is a form of stalagmite,
snd its colors are formed by oxides of
metals in the earth over tho caves
through which calcareous water passes.
A claim has now been made bv Pro
fessor Braun, of Tubingen, that he can
produce electricity direct from mechani
cal Work, and he is now at work on the
construction of ft practical generator on
this principle.
The rapidity with which flies pass
through the air is not likely to be ap
preciated by those who see ouly with
what apparent ease they do it. Flics
will keep up with a fast horse, Afid that,
too, without lighting on him.
A report comes from the West of the
discovery of a process by which iron oro
San be so softened by the concentrated
rays of an arc light as to be worked with
s comparatively small amount of labor.
If this discovery is confirmed, it may
lead to a considerable modification of
the present modes of treating ores.
Professor Boys, in a communication to
the Royal Society, England, on measure
ments of the heat of the moon and stars
by means of his radiomicrometcr, gives
in account of a test with a caudle at
J50.7 yards distance, which gave a de
Section of thirty-eight milimctcrs. In
jther words, this instrument would show
the heat of a candle at 1.71 miles dis
tance. The most important occurrence at tho
International medical congress in Berlin
was the readiug of a paper by Dr. Koch,
the famous practitioner and investigator,
on the tuberculosis bacillus, which ho
claims is the cause of pulmonary con
tumption. Ho annouueed that ho has
discovered a substitute which is capable
Df killing tho bacillus and curing the
disease. v-
Some years ago Plateau mado experi
ments which showed that eyeless myrio
pods can distinguish between daylight
and darkness, their skin being sensattve
to light. Eyeless maggots arc also sensi
tive to light. M. Raphael Dubois has re
cently studied the perception of luminous
.radiations by the skin, as exemplified by
the blind Proteus of the grottoes of Car
niola. By a number of experiments up
on this animal, which is a salamander
with persistent gills, Dubois demon
strates that the sensibility of its skin to
light is about half of tho sensibility of its
rudimentary eyes, nnd further that this
sensibility varies with the color of the
light employed, being greatest for yellow
light. '
Likes the Sting of tho lies.
Some obstinate men will say "No,
thank you," to the most disiutcrestcd
propositions for their welfare. Dr.
O'Neill, of Lincoln, as he tells us in this
week's Lancet, has a friend who endures
tho sting of the honey bee without flinch
irrg. In f.ict, he rather likes it. Ho
keeps bees for pleasure, and the bees, for
their pleasure or otherwise, often sting
him. Ho now, however, believes him
self sting-proof. Tho tiny wound that
used to produce severe pain in former
days causes now "only a little pleasurable
sensation." Ho is still unfortified against
the wasp. Stung by one of thoso for
midable insects a short timo ago, Dr.
O'Neill's friend had sufferings acute and
prolonged. But it might be, says Dr.
O'Neill, that after a few repetitions the
sting of the wasp might cease in him to
produce its stinging effects. So he
has suggested to his friend that "for
the sake of science he should take the
matter up and thoroughly iuvestigate it,
in order that he tuight discover whether
he could not also fortify himself against
the pain caused by the stiug of tho wasp."
This, says the doctor, with whoso disap
pointment the public will no doubt sym
pathize, the friend "declined to do, his
thirst for science not being sufficiently
great to induce him to have any furtbei
intercourse with the wasp if he could
help it." London Neiri.
Hereditary Longevity.
Queeu Victoria, on tho occasion of
tho opening of the Southampton Docks
conferred the honor of knighthood on
the Chairman of tho Dock Company,
Steuart Macnaghten, and public refer
ence to his ancestry, has developed a
curious case of hereditary longevity.
The new Knight is scveuty-five years
old, and his grandfather was born iu the
reign of Charles 11. To make the aston
ishing fact seem more incredible, this
boy, born in 1679, 'was the nomiual
Colouel of a regimeut at the ll.ittln of
theBoyne, nine yours later. Hu married
at the age of eighty-two, and the fathci
of Sir Steuart was the youngest son of
this extraordinary marriage. The grand
father himself lived to be 102 ami the
father eighty-one. Under these auspices
nobody dares to imagine what limits Hir
Steuart, who is strikingly hale and well
preserved man, Joes not propose to him
self. A'eio York Timet.
Fabricated "Old Metal Work."
Since the rage for the present style of
domestic architecture set in, ancient
metal work for uso in house building has
been in demand. In the days of old the
blacksmith aud the brassworker used to
make wonderfully beautiful work for thu
great people whose sumptuous homes
were adorned with every luxury. Win
dow gratings, lanterns, fences, balconies,
balustrades, even furniture, were fabri
cated of metal in the most artist io fash
ion. Most of these relics of the past
are now owued by dilTercut museums or
private collectors, but many of them
have been photographed, and from these
representations what are sold forgvouiuc
original are made aud suld ut high
prices. -AVi York i'cjf.
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Jok work etsk aa dsllTorr.
WHEN DAY 13ONeT "
When day la done and down the steep
Of roae-hued sky the ahadowa creep,
To nestle where the valley fair
Bmiled- through noon's sheen of sunbright
air,
And wrap the drowsy folds in sleep
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Then does a solemn essence sweep
Athwart the tool and vigil keep,
As faithful mourners keel in prayer,
When day is done.
In that strange hush, dear God, we weep
Our shattered hopes and blindly reap
The scattering grain, the wealth of tare,
That meets our hand . In weak despair
"We seek thy throne, as wayworn sheep.
When day is done.
Jonrphine Puetl Spoonts.
II UXOR OF THE DAT.
Tlavo the floor Bugs.
Pie-rates Ten cents a slice.
Always, takes the house by storm the
cyclone.
The crow doesn't fly from a cornfield
without caws.
A church bell, like4i. should not
be tolled at all times.
Conscience is that within us that tells
us when our neighbors aro doing wrong.
Naturally a fellow is quite upset if his
best girl throws him ovefW-iMroit Fret
Pro.
The expert manicure generally has con
siderable "work on hand." Yon her t
Gazette.
Druggists, however prosperous, always
do business on a small scale. Laurence
American.
Tho busy little bee works by the job,
but he does just as gd work as if ho
labored by the day.
His Mother "Whnt are you doing out
there in the rain?" The Terros "Get
tin' wet." Atlanta Journal. -----
Life is full of compensation. When
the husband is out all night .the lamp is
not. l'erre Haute Express.
"Oh, I wish I'd been a man," cried
Mrs. Bjonson. "I wish to heaven you
had!" retorted Mr. Bjonson. Ejtoch.
Good advice is worth more than nioncy,
but Jones says that somehow ho cannot
make his creditors see it iu that light.
"It fills the bill," remarked tho ban
tam pullet when she picked up a large
and juicy grasshopper. Washington
Star.
"Why, Adolphus, what is the matter?
Why do you trcmblo sof" "My best
girl just 'shook' mo." Binghamton lie- 1
publican.
When tho butler begins to brag of his
honesty it is timo to fall ou his nock
and feel for the spoons in his coat-tall
pocket. Epoch.
"I guess I'm a Jonah," remarked tho
small boy who had been punished. "It
seems to be my luck to get whaled right
along." Wathinjlon iW.
"No; I can't say that I want tho
earth," mused the freight car tourist.
"Abasnhrce-qusrtcrs of it is water, and
that 1 ain't got no use for."
The man who says ho is going to get
there, and don't you forget it, makes
more noise about it than tho man who is
actually there. Alchiton Globe.
Why is it that a woman, -When
she becomes mother-in-law, " X
Though bus may have teen meet as sugar,
At once Warns to jabber nud jawr
Lawrence American.
Teacher (to class) "In this stanza
what is meant by tho line, 'The shades
of night were falling fast'?" Bright
Scholar 'The people were pulling down
the blinds."
Bachelor "Ned, how would you de
fine a love letter?" Benedict "A lovo
letter is a thing that ten years afterward
yon generally wish you hadn't written."
Somerville Journal.
"I dou't bcliove in allowing domestics
to get the upper hand. 1 make my serv
ant keep her place." "You aro lucky.
Ours never does for more than throe
wfeeks. " AmericanGrocer.
"You are not the young lady to whom
I give lessons,"said the piauo-tcachcr.
"No; the young lady to whom you give
lessons is sick, and she sent me to prac
tice for her." liotton Courier.
Tippit "Look at that tramp goiug
by. lie's a corker, ch?" Wagwcll
"Judging from that ruby ou his frontis
piece I should say ho was more inclined
to be an un-corker." Oiuette.
TUB OAUE Or L1KIC.
Existence is honey and cake to a few,
but with mint of us life is a scuttle.
Ami ere with the game we are dually
through.
Though uu our keen best to bo brought
iuto viuw.
We Hud we are lost iu the shurllo.
Chieauo A)..
A body servant, newly engaged, pre
sented to his master a pair of boots, tha
leg of oue of which was much Inngei
than tho other. "How comes it, Patrick,
that these boots are not of the same
length?" "I raly don't know, sir; but
what bothers me most is thit tho pair
downstairs are iu the same fix." White
Mountain Echo.
Coagulating Rubber-.Mil'..
By a new process, the rubber iu the
milk collected from the India rubber
trees, is now coagulated instantaneously.
The operation is so simple that auy native
cau carry it out at tho foot of the tree
which he has beeu bleeding, and thus,
instead of carrying large c ins of milk of
great weight, and eutailiug great loss on
the way, he simply carries iu the sack
solid rubber, which, ou his arrival at
camp, can at once be prepare I for the
market and shipped. A'eut York iUt
yutch. An Ivory kuee Joint.
Professor Gluck, of London, recently
performed a remarkable aud successful
Operation, lie removed from one of his
male patient a diseased kmc joint uA
inserted an artificial substitute made fr sa
ivory. The patient has now left his bed.
He walks with perfect ease nud says that
his ivory kueo joint is convenient nud
comfortable iu every way. .1'Utebnrg
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