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An expert says the Florida phosphates,
though Immcnso in extent, are disnp
pointing as to richness, and tho propor
tion of high grades is exceedingly small.
Tho Nevada towns aro exceptions to
the rnlo of incrcaKO iu the population ol
tho Western municipal communities.
Tlioy generally show a decrcaso since
1880.
Tho Stato Geologist of New Jersey
says the coast of tho State Is sinking at
tho rato of at least two feet in a century;
Other observers hold thnt the rate is much
more rapid.
Secretary Proctor is in favor of the
Government employing twenty acting
chaplains to assist tho thirty post chap
lains now in tho I'uitcd States army.
They should bo paid, he thinks, $1500 a
year.
A charming story is told by a reviewer
in Iho Soot Oliterver to illustrate Darwin's
' freedom from scientific bigotry. Having
been told that music had an influence cn
plants, ho procured somebody to play a
bassoon for several days closo to some
growing beans.
In tho estimation of tho Timet-Demo-trot
"Connecticut is a thrifty State. The
receipts of taxes over tho estimates fot
1890 wore $.1G5,"000, which hns enabled
tho Treasurer to redeem $200,000 iu
bonds and still have a surplus of 130,732.
Next year tho State tax is to bo dispensed
with."
luspector Byrnes, of New York city,
says that tho only way to keep a city
clear of bad men is to arrest them on
sight and mako ihc placo too hot for
them. Out of 500 nr rests "on suspicion"
there may bo one mistake ono honest
man, but ho owes it to tho public
to identify himself as such. Tho
howl about "personal liberty" always
comes from criminal lawyers.
Regularly every six mouths, it is said,
tho Treasury Department at 'Washington
receives cither a $20 or a$50 bill which,
from all appearances, instead of being
made from a plate, Is executed entirely
with a pen. The work is of a very high
order, and several times theso havo ex
caped.dctcction and gone into circulation.
The counterfeiter has not yet been dis
covered. He seems to work for notoriety,
as ho could not mako a living iu this
"Every traveler has noticed," observes
the St. Louis Star-Saying, "that rail
roads get rid of their old, discarded ties
by burning them Up. Tho ordinary
practico is to place them in piles as near
tho mils as possible and then set flro to
them, to tho great annoyance and dis
comfort of passengers. At tho sumo time
there aro thousands of families on the
line of tho road who would bo glad to
tako theso ties away and use them for
fuel."
Congress has passed an act for tho
preservation of the big trees of Tulare
Couuty, California, which aro regarded
by the tourists ns among tho greatest
curiosities of that wonderful region. Of
lato they havo been iu danger of de
struction by tho iusatiato lumber men,
and tho act w as tho result of reprcsen
t , iji to Congress that they would soon
disappear unless measures were taken to
restrain tho busy woodman and his . ax.
Tho bill provides for tho conversion of
the region containing tho famous trees
into a public park, to bo under the care
and protection of tho Government.
Professor Shaler, tho eminent geolo
gist and magazine writer, notes it as an
extraordinary fact that while tho New
World has contributed to civilization a
long list of valuablo plants, cereuls.fruits
and vegetables, it has made only ono ad
dition to tho animals iu domesitiention,
and that is tho turkey. That was a
contribution worth a thanksgiving, how
ever, and now thero is a prospect that it
may bo reinforced by another American
product, tho pruirio chicken. Numbers
of these havo been introduced in the
meadows aboitt Bradenburg, Geruiauy,
and their propagation is believed to be
practicable.
Tho English Indimtrii states that a
novel industry, restiug strictly on chemi
cal principles and needing nothing but a
little capital uud a dash of dishonesty to
develop it, is suid to bo practiced iu
Florida. It consists iu uvoiding depend
ence upon the slow aud imperfect ripen
ing 6f lemons by the sun's rays, by pick
ing tho fruit while green and exposing it
to tho fumes of burning sulphur, where
by its color is chauged to a rich goldeu
yellow, infinitely more attractive than
the natural hue. "It is true that tho
interior of tho lemon is practically free
from juice, u fact which the hypercriti
cal might reckon a slight drawback,
but this is, after ail, a trivial matter,
affecting only the consumer," U thu salve
uppllud to tUo coustluuuu.
AN AUTUMN MORNING;
There are crimson clouds and feathery
forms
In uppor air.
And bright sbupes tinged with Varying hue
Stretched everywhere.
Some seem to swoll and then unfold,
Like blonoms rare,
Krom out dim space, and then, like dow,
Dissolve in air.
Below them rise no wciehtlcr clouds
And misty banks.
And here and there tall specters rise
In serried ranks,
Although' the sky is azure-hued
Above them all;
While on our heads a boundless wealth
Of sunbeams fall.
Was over sky more beautiful,
Or breath more swoot?
Or greener boughs, or softer mat
BenoatU our feotf
We thank Thee, Father, for tho earth,
So beautiful;
Wo thank Thee for Thy gift to us,
Ro bountiful;
For bud and bloom, for ripening fruit;
Each benison
Is fair to see. Lord, bring our hearts
In unison
With Thy dear self. May this now day
Be spent aright.
And every busy day that glMos
Into the night,
Until their dawns for us are o'or,
And we at lost
Into yon haven moor our bark,
All tempests past.
Vick't Magazine.
JULIET, THE ORPHAN.
BY AMY ItANDOI.ru.
"Well, Juliet, what arc you calculat
ing to do?" said Mrs. Murdrignt.
"It's time to mako up your mind about
Boniething, you know," briskly observed
Miss Juniata Jcssup.
Juliet May liftod her heavy head, aud
looked ntthcui with a vague surprise.
"Do?" she repeated. "What's there
to do? I don't know what you all
meen."
Sho was a daik, large-eyed girl with
cheeks as pale as a calla-lcaf, a Spanish
luxuriance of jet-bhek hair and a slight
figure, which seemed to bo bound by tho
weight of her deep mourning. Mrs.
Murdright was a tall, masculine woman,
with iron-gray hair and a squaro chin.
Miss Jcssup wore spectacles aud moved
around in an active, jerky way, like an
extra-large-sized canary bird.
"It s a week to-morrow since your pa
was buried," added Mrs. Murdright.
Juliet winced.
"Yes," sho said; "I know it. Oh,
papa! papa!"
"There, there," said Miss Jcssup, as
tho young orphan hid her face iu her
hands, "don't give way. It's unchris
tiun, and it's uncomfortable, too 1"
"And it's high timo," steadily ob
served Mrs. Murdrfght, "that you looked
matters in tho face, Juliot.May. You'vo
got your living to earn, and "
"But I thought I was to livo with
you," 6aid poor Juliet, -who was as ig
norant in tho ways of tho world as a six-month-old
infant. You nro my moth
er's sister. Aunt Murdright, and "
"That is hurdly a reason why I should
undertake to support every relative I
have got in tho world," said "Mrs. Murd
right, sourly. You aren't a child,
Juliet. You was eighteen last mouth,
and there's many a girl of your nge earns
her own living and lays up a handsome
sum besides. And it's closo on the first
of Juue, and I need every room I have
to let to summer boarders."
"And there is no reason," supple
mented Miss Juniata, skillfully seizing
tho opportunity to strike it when Mrs.
Murdright paused for lack of breath,
"why you should sit with folded hands
while your cousin Artemisia works in
the skirt-factory, and Louisu Lacy goes out
to tailoring.
Juliet sat looking from one to tho oth
er, whilo her heart seemed to stand still
within her. At tho Grange she had al
ways lived in luxury. She had bueu the
darling and idolized child of a dotin
father. She had never paused to con
sider tho question of mere money. All
good and lovely things seemed to assem
ble around her by magic. Evory one
had spoken tenderly to her; and now
ana now
"What am I to do, Aunt Murdright?"'
she faltered. "Is all my money spent?"
"lour money 1" hysterically echoed
Miss Jcssup. "Poor child! You hain't
got none. It's all gone in rash specula
tions and mad inventions.
"Juniata speaks only tho truth," said
Mrs. Murdright, stitlly, as Juliet's eyes
sought hers, as if to usk corroboration of
tho little old maid's unfeeling words.
"You're as good as a beggar, and you
must begiu to consider in serious earnest
what you aro to do for your bread. 1
can't undertake to support you."
Juliet put her little cold hand in a
pathetically pleading way oa Mrs.
Murd right's.
"Aunt," said she, "couldn't I stay
here? Couldu't I make myself useful to
you?"
Mrs. Murdright shrugged her shoul
ders. "I'm very sorry," said sho, "but I
don't require auy one to play tho piano,
and sit around tho housu iu picturesque
positions, aud bo waited on. You haven't
been brought up as my girls are, Juliet
May!"
Juliet recoiled as if a serpent had stung
her; sho turned to Mi.-s Jessup.
"Cousin Juuiata," she Baid, "you, too,
aro my relative. Aid me! Advise me!
You have age uud experience I am like
a lost child iu this great, cruel, grinding
world!"
Verily Juliet May was but a novice in
all conventional wisdom, or she never
would have alluded so unguardudly to
tho age aud experience of tho sprlylitly
spinster. Miss Jcssup bridled.
"I reully don't know lliut I have any
thing to say," suid Hie. "As Mrs. Murd
right remarks, people must expect to
work iu this world 1
Hut Miss Jc-Mup studiously banished
from her rvvollviilvu the fuvt that, wheu
sho hod first set tip dressmaking for her-!
self, Squire Itny had generously iont her
money for her lease, furniture, stock ana
fixtures. Ilo had never claimed a cent
of interest; he had Dover so much as
hinted at tho repayment of his loan, and
she had been equally silent. And it is
to bo presumed that she had quite for
gotten the whole circumstance, when she
added, with soma little vlndicUveuessi
And, to my mind, it would have been
a deal wiser If your papa had lookod a
littlo more closely to your money instead
of lending it to ne cr-do-woll like
Cbauncey Graham to squander I"
"Cousin Chauncey was always good
and kind I" cried Juliet, coloring up.
"lie would have paid papa, if ho could I
And it is mean and dishonorable of you
to say such things as these, Juniata Jcs
sup!" "Hoity-toity 1" cried Miss Jcssup.
"Meant Dishonorable I Well, if ho ain't
both, let him put in an appearance and
say what he has done with that money 1"
As Mr. Graham was at that moment
supposed to be in Australia, engaged in
the management of a mammoth sheep
farm, this was perhaps a rather unreason
able demand. But, to Miss Jessup's in
finite amazement, and, perhaps, to her
discomfiture as well, tho front door was
pushed open at that juncture, and a
bronzed, bearded apparition, in a suit of
soma foreign style and cut, stalked in
"Is this Mrs. Moses Murdright's
house?" said he. "Can any one tell me
if Miss Juliet May is here?
Mrs. Murdright stared, Miss Jcssup
seemed equally amazed ; but, with a cry,
Juliet May sprang to her feet.
"Chauncey I" she cried. "It is my
cousin Chauncey I
"I am Chauncey Graham," said the
young man. "l only nrriveu in the port
of New York last evening. It all soems
so strauge to me to hear that my cousin,
Squire May. is dead that Juliet is with
out a homer
He stood in surprise, scarcely able to
rccOKUizo in this tall Auuulusian-Iaceu
girl, tho chubby-cheeked littlo play
fellow of former years. But wheu she
flung herself so confidingly into his arms,
ho held her with a tender and chivalric
embrace.
"Oh, Chauncey, I atn so glad that you
have come, sho sobbed. "On, I was
so lonely and forsaken 1 No ono has
seemed to care for me, since papa died
no ono offered mo a homer'
"I will," said Chauncey, quietly.
"There, thero, littlo ono, don't fret. It
is all smootH sailing now. The money
which your father lent me has borne
fruit, seventy times seven, and it is yours
now I"
Mrs. Murdright here recovered herself
so far as to extend a fish-like band to Mr.
Graham; Miss Jessup pressed eagerly for
ward.
"My dear Juliet," she said, with a lit
tle acidity, "you arc such a mero baby I
Don't you see that your cousin isn't at
all tho proper person to take charge of
you? '
"Why not? said Chauncey Graham.
"It seems to me that I am tho very one,
And my mothor is in New York wait
ing to extend a mother's tender care to
Juliet."
"At all events, my dear," said Miss
Jcssup, "don't cling to your cousin as if
he were a floating spar and vou a drown'
ing mariner! Do sit down! Dear
Cousin Chauncey," with a snvilo which
displayed every ono of her falso teeth to
the very best advantage, "this is such an
agreeable surprise. We have thought
aud tulked of you so much !
Whilo Mrs. Murdright hastened to pre.
pare what she called "a little refresh
meat" for this relative who seemed so
much nearer and dearer since he had
come back homo with plenty of money
"I wish, now," she muttered, "that
wo hadn't been quite so sharp with
Juliet. She was a silly ;hild, no doubt
but if she is going to be rich again Eh?
What?" to her niece who now presented
herself with n crnpe-vailou hat and ink-
black draperies folded across her slender
shoulders. "You'ro not going away so
soon, Juliet, my darling?
"Chauncey savs that his mother ex
pccU us by the very next train," said
Juliet, upon whose pale cheek a now
color had kindled. "And we have no
time to lose!"
"And," simpered Miss Jessup, who
was hurriedly donning nu extremely
youthful Gainsborough hat with rosobuds
and daisies wreathed around its brim, "I
havo volunteered to accompany dear
Juliet, lteally, I have grown too fond of
her to allow her to slip away from mo
like this!"
Mrs. Murdright made a grimaco.
"The scheming old cat," she thought,
"She actually thiuks she is going to lure
Chauncey Graham into marriage. Well
I never did see such idiotic folly !"
But she said nothing . of this as she
kissed Juliet good-bye with an effusive
ncss which surprised the young girl
"Farewell, my darling," she said, al
most tragically. "Aud remember that if
ever you need a home, my heart and
hearth are equally open to you."
"Why didn't she say so before?'
Juliet asked herself, vuguely amazed at
what seemed to her such a surprising iu
consistency. "Why did sho talk so dts
gracefully about my buiug a burden, and
euruiug my own living? Aud why is
Juniata Jessup coming back with us
without ever being invited?"
Poor little Juliet! Shu had yet mue
to learn of tho ins and outs of this world 1
MUs Jessup's stay iu Now York, how
ever, wus not prolonged, Hhe tamo
back the next day, very ill satisfied
with her journey.
"Things aro quite changed siuce I was
a girl, said she. " 1 here s Jullut en
gaged to Chauncey Gruham ulready or
us good as engaged a mere chit like
thai, with no knowledge uor experience
of society! Aud Mrs. urulium taking
ou uira like thu quueu, and lulling uio
up uud down, that she didn't care for
my ooinpauy! Mul Her own cousin
twice removed! Aud Jullut parting
lroiu me llKu a clam, uuver even Klssln.
j no nor lulling mo sue hoped to sue uiu
ugalul
'Humph!" SHid Mrs. Murdright
"Tbuts yiuciully the wuy iivh peuple
behave; But I almost wish, Junlnta, ws
hadn't beer! quite so short With the
Child!"
"Yes," said Miss Juniata; "but who
was to suppose that she was to be an
heiress, after all?" The Ledger.
Wears His Girl's Hair.
A young mail of many good poinis,
but with none on his bead, was for flv
years, writes Clara Belle, a victim to th
promises of tho tonsorial artist, who
guaranteed to bring out hair on his shin
pato, but who did not keep his word.
Some men confide their love affairs to the
tailors, others to their doctors, and still
others to the men that mix their cock
tails. This young man, upon losing his
heart to a sweet and promising maiden,
confided his passion to the barber. That
worthy sympathized with him deeply,
and redoubled his exertions to lure the
downy fringo upon the head of Borneo,
but without effect. Finally both the bar
ber and the lover lost hono tozethcr, and
"lFwas then that the young man made a
trembling proposition.
Louise docs not like a baid head,"
said he, "although, of course, mine is
not unpleasant to her. Nevertheless, sho
prefers to have it covered, and so we have
reached a conclusion. I always said, you
know, that I would never wear a toupee;
but Louise has placed the matter in Buch
a light that I have acceded to her desires
and will have one made. Louise's hait
is just the color of tho fringo over my
cars, you see, aud it bangs away down
below her waist. Sho is going to sacri
fice enough of it to mako mo a toupee,
and then, by Jovol I shall be wearing
the some hair that my girl does. Louise
was awfully tender about suggesting the
thing. Sweet of her, wasn't it? Oh, 1
tell you, there is nothiug so beautiful in
life as a good girl when she is in lovo."
Romeo now appears in public adorned
by a fine head of handsome chestnut
hair.
Chnplnlns of tho Nary.
When a chaplain receives his commis
sion from the Government he begins a
career which, with ordinary prudence and
good conduct, will terminate only when
age has made him grizzled aud gray. In
the navy he ranks as a lieutenant, and
for the first five years of his service he is
paid $1500 per annum whilo on shore,
$1800 a year when ho is preaching at sea,
and $1200 a year if some complaisant
Secretary of the Navy will givo him a
leave of absence or let him roam around
the country In that delightful condition
which is known to officers of both the
army and navy as "waiting orders."
The last report of tho Navv Depart
ment shows that out of the twenty-four
chaplains six wero in that delightful con
dition of "waiting orders," and had been
for several months past, and of the others,
two fortunate ones were practically in tho
same situation, for they hnd been granted
a leave of absence by the department,
and had hied themselves away to foreign
shores. The luckiest man among thoso
who are ,: waiting orders" is Dominie
William II. Stewart, who by the way,
ranks as a captain in tho navy and draws
a salary of $1500 a year when at sea, and
$3500 on shore duty, and $2800 while
"waiting orders. Au lork Aetct.
A City of tho Unknown.
"During frequent visits I have made
to Mexico," said a mining engineer of
Philadelphia the other night, "I havo
come in contact with many of tho
Indians resident there nud huve heard
some very singular stories. One, which
all the Indians uuiti iu telling, is that
far in tho interiar exists an enormous city
nover yet visited by white men. It is
described as peopled by a race similar to
the ancient Aztecs, who nro sun wor
shipers and offer human sacrifices to
their diety.
"The race is said to bo in a high stato
of civilization, and the IudUus suy that
tho city is full of hugo structures which
are miracles of quaint, but beautiful
architecture, and are situated on broad,
pavod streets far surpassing those of the
City of Mexico.
"One Indiau, I recollect, assured me
that he had seeu the city aud its inhabi
tants with his own eyes, but had been
afraid of being captured and had fled.
Of course, I did not believe him, but, all
tho same, it is not a littlo strnngo that
the accounts of tho Mexican Indiaus
relative to the mysterious and magnifi
cent interior city agree perfectly."
Philadelphia Inquirer.
What Dy n ami to Can Do.
Shooting a caudlo through a two-inch
solid plank without disturbing it iu the
least is being done by dynamite, which
is so quick in its action that a tendet
green leaf can bo compressed into the
hardest steel before it bus time to fiatten.
Ono of the experiments of tho United
States torpedo works was to place some
leaves between two heavy, flat pieces ol
iron, set them on a firm foundation nud
see what gun-cotton would do iu forcing
tho iron pieces together. Tho reaction
was so great from just being exploided in
tho open air that onu of the iron picccl
was driven down upon thu other quick
enough to catch au exact and complete
impression of the leaves before they could
escape. It is also a singular fact that
the gun-cotton itself should sink deep
into the iron when it explodes, showing
tho points of thu letters stamped into tht
cartridges. This novel method of en
graving by gunpowder is ouo of tho
wonders of this century. Cleveland
iVuirt Dealer.
To Prevent Drought!).
Dr. Felix L. Oswald asserts in the
Voice, that the substitution of perennial
for annual food plunU would have the
Incidental udvuutagu of preventing the
ruin of crops by summer droughts.
Forest trees, especially such leaf trees ai
oaks uud eliM, undoubtedly help te
oquulizu thu humidity of thu utuiosphure,
1. e., to prevent droughts as well at
wiuter floods. Largu pluutatious of
fruit trees would havu a similar elfoct,
whilo cereals or exietinivu vineyards souui
to huve no more luilueue.a ou the uiuiuul
rainfall thuu thu dunly .uunUruta uf uui
wwlvru pluiiW'".
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
The Falls of Niagara carry down 10,.
000,000 cubic feet per minute, equal te
about 3,000,000 horse-power.
A Swede has invented a steam raft foi
the transportation of horses and catth
which travels at the rate of fifteen knot)
an hour.
Physicians claim thnt they havo ob
scived less hay fever, which is a kindred
disease to tho grippe, this year thai
ever bcfoie.
Tho mechanical appliances for hand
ling the monster guns aboard English
battle ships have lately developed most
ominous defects.
An enormous flow of natural gas wai
ctnick recently at Summerland, three
miles from Santa Barbara, Cal. The
flow is estimated at three million feet pel
day.
The experiment of tanning lcathei
with palmetto roots has been successfully
tried at Apalachicola, Fla. The leather
was as soft and pliable as the finest call
skin.
Tho copper mines of the wholo world
are being taxed to their utmost to supply
tho demand for copper wire and the
other apparatus used in the application ol
electricity.
It has been suggested that tho phono
graph shall be used as a cash register,
Every sum tho cashier receives might be
called in the phonograph and there re
corded, as a check on the accounts.
Apiarists maintain that bees do not in
jure growiug or fair fruit. The juice ol
the sound fruit is iuimicil to their wel
fare; but though they will not attack
sound fruit, they settle upon bruised and
blemished fruit.
Experience has shown that an electric
street car can be comfortably heated bj
the expenditure of ono horso power ol
electrical energy. Tho electrical hcaten
do not reduce tho seating capacity of the
car, which is kept clear of coal dust and
cinders.
A patent was issued in Washington re
cently for a steel fence post. It is to be
made of steel tubing, seven feet high,
with a neat cap and with bands to hold
tho bnrbed wire. It is said that these
posts can be furnished complete foi
placing in position at twenty-four cents
each.
Experiments have been made at Havre,
France, with a luminous buoy, the in
vention of M. Dibos. The buoy emits
tho light, which is produced by phos
phide of calcium, on reaching the water,
and as it is vcty powerful, the sea is illu
minated for a considerable distance
around. Spectators in tho lighthouses al
Havre saw tho glare distinctly at a dis
tance of five miles.
Perhaps Iu no branch of industry have
the benefits of electric welding been real
ized to a greater extent than iu tho weld
ing of pipes for artificial ico machines,
sugar refineries and general refrigerating
purposes. In the old system fifteen min
utes was required for each weld, which
entailed tho work of two blacksmiths and
a dozen helpers, and frequently a serioui
loss of ammonia from imperfect welding.
Now tho weld is made In two minutes bj
a man and a boy, and costs two cents in
stead of fifteen, ns formerly.
A fireman's electric hand lamp is being
introduced in England. Tho batterj
and lamp are contaiued in a copper case,
similar to n fireman's ordinary lump, nnfl
fitted with a handle for convenience it
carryiug. Very powerful parabolic re
flectors aro provided, aud tho lamp,
which has a duration of from two to threi
hours, after which it can bo easily re
charged, forms on important adjunct tc
the outfit of a flro brigade. Tho lamp it
also suitable tor use in mines, gas works,
gunpowder and chemical factories. The
advantugaa claimed for it are portability,
facility iu charging, capability of resting
tho battery wheu the light is not ro
quired, and extreme safety.
Tal ni n;;e's Encomium on Books.
A good book who cun exaggerate ib
power? Benjamin Franklin said that hu
reading of Cotton Mather's "Essays t(
Do Good" iu childhood gave him holj
inspiration for all the rest of his life
George Law, the millionaire, declared thai
a biography he rend iu childhood gav
hiui all his subsequent prosperity. Ob,
the power of a good book ! But , alas,
for the inlluence of a bud book! Join
Angel James, than whom England nevei
had a holier minister, stood in his pulpii
ut Birmingham, and said: "Tweuty-fivt
years ago u lad loaned me un iufiunoui
book. IIo would loan it only lifteet
minutes, and then I gave it back; bat
that book has haunted mo like a spectn
ever sinco. I shall carry the damage ol
it until tho day of my death." Tho assas
sin of Sir William Hussell declared thai
he got tho inspiration for his crime bj
reading what was theu a new uud popu
lar novel, "Jack Sheppard." llomer'i
"Iliad" made Alexander -u warrior
Alexander said so. Thu story of Alex
ander made Julius Cu'sar and Charlei
XII. both men of blood. Havo you ir
your pocket, or in your trunk, or in youi
desk ut business a bud book, a bad p irn
phlct? Iu God's name, I warn you t
destroy it. T. Ik Witt Tulmoje.
The Mysterious "Slxlli Sense."
Dr. 11. J. Bertram!, of Autwcrp, hoi
recorded the results of experiments whirl
seem to leave it doubtful if tho bat is thi
only possessor of the mysterious "sixtl
seuse," manifested in the faculty of dodg
ing obstacles without the aid of visiou
Blind birds, lizards aud several species o'
rodents appear to bo endowed with I
Kimilur gift, which to some degree ii
shured by blind, and even by blindfolded
meu. A person groping his way ia
dark cellar may bu unable to distinguist
a black patch on a v. bite cloth held up a'
a distance of two feet from his eyes, bill
somehow or other will manage to avoic
collisiou with pillars and projecting
shelves, even without the assistance o
his hands. Just belore buiupiug hishcui:
against a wall a "pressure of air," at
some of the experimenter described it.
somehow betrays the perilous proxiuiitj
uf s solid obstacle. XV. OttcalU,
CORKS CURE STUTTERING.
A SIMPLE DEVICE VOU THE RELIEF
07 STAMMERERS.
What Makes People Stutter Tongno
tied Women Are Itaro A Majority
of Stammerers Aro Teutons.
Curiously enough, from statistics it ap
pears that tho Germans, though reported
to be such a slow-spcaklng people, have
a larger percentage of stutterers among
them than any other nation. Next to
them aro tho English. Americans are
noticeajjy free from this falling. It is
probably" because of this that there are
but two training schools for stutterers in
the wholo country. One is in Now York
aud the other is in Chicago. The one in
this city was started thrco months ago by
Dr. Lothar Schwarz, n young German
specialist, who gathered practical experi
ence in his chosen lino in somo of the
best institutions of this character in Ger
many. He has had twelve resident pa
tients, some of whom are from neighbor
ing States. Ho has been ablo te effect a
number of cures during tho brief timo he
has manaeed his institution.
Dr. Schwarz says that the causes of
stammering aro variod. In a majority of
cases the trouble originates during baby
hood, the child being cither too lazy to
imitate sounds correctly or else some
what deaf and unable to hear sounds
properly. Sudden fright, diseases like
diphtheria, typhoid or scarlet fever often
bring about a partial inability of the ton
gue to enunciate clearly. Again, a de
fective formation of muscles or ot organs
such as the larynx, tho tongue, the palate
or the mouth is often the cause of tho
trouble. In a number of cases, too, the
lungs are not tranied to perform tho func
tious properly during speaking, so that
tho stutterer attempts to brcatho while
speaking, thus causing an interruption of
tho voice. Tho forceful grimaces mado
by so many stutterers while trying to
nronounco difficult letters, such as "d"
and "t," "f" and "p," "m" and "n'
and "s." aro duo to the violent contrac
tion of the facial muscles. In regnrd to
a cure to be effected tho doctor said :
"Tho first means to bo employed that
is, the means which aro most effective and
rapid in nearly all cases is tho ono
brought into a system and first made
public by Professor Koen. This is a
system by which tho tongue above all is
carefully trained to perform its manifold
duties. The tongue is exercised, mado
pliable, aud is taught to do always that
which tho owner means to havo it do.
To accomplish this tho stutterer is sub
jected to a regular course of exercises,
some of them quito disagreeablo and
wenrisomo. For iustauce, he has to hold
a cork between his teeth, and then his
tongue must try and pronounce worda,
syllables, letters, und even whole sen
tences distinctly without dropping the
cork. By all sorts of tricks the tongue
is forced to attain proficiency in pro
nouncing just thoso letters or combina
tions of lettera which it was formerly un
ablo to pronounce, except perhaps with
great ditliculty.
Whilo tho specialist was talking ho
entered a room in which tho handsome
twelve-year-old son of a well known
college professor iu Iowa was just under
going one of those exercises the doctor
was diicusing. Tho boy's organs of
speech had normally developed until a
year ago, when ho met with an accident
a heavy fall from his velocipede. Since
that timo ho was uuublo to speak two
words in succession without feeling pain
aud discomfort. Tho muscles of his
face contracted and his cheeks and brow
became suffused with blood in his violent
efforts to speak. As ho stood before the
specialist his eyes wero fixed upon the
wall, and ho repeated for tho hundredth
time: "Don't do wrong! Where will
you bo to-morrow?" and other phrases
difficult for him to enunciate no pro
nounced them after a fortnight's treat
ment, plainly, but very slowly aud with
evident effort. Before each word ho
drew a deep breath and thero was a queer
whizzing sound from his lijis. "That
will soon disapiicur," said tho doctor,
"but with all this brave boy's persistence
it will require at hist another month to
rid him completely of his abnormal
peculiarities of speech."
Girls have this affliction much moro
rarely than boys. Their tongue appears
to be more clastic than is tho tongue- of
the opposite sex. Women who aro una
blu to speak quickly uud plaiuly are very
rare, according to scientific writers on
the subject. The largest perceutugo of
stutterers is furnished by boyhood, es
pecially between the tenth and flftceuth
year. This is due, iu part, to au impet
uosity of speech, which gradually disap
pears as tho boy learns a littlo moro
seuso aud reserve. Thero aro no reliablo
statistics to show the percentage of those
having some impediment in their speech
in the different countries on the globe.
But tho fact is sufficiently established
that this perceutugo is much smuller in
all tho Latin countries, such as France,
Italy, Spain, Portugal and South Amer
ica thuu it is iu the Teutonic lands.
Thit is said to be largely duo to the fact
that the Germanic tongue is less volublo
than tho Latin one; that tho languages
derived iu part from tho old Latin aro
moro easy of pronunciation thuu thoso
descended from the old Teuton linguis
tic stock, nud that there aro moro vowels
and less difficult combinations of couso
nuuts in them. This theory seems to
fiud support in tho fact that tho English
speaking people, who talk a tonguo
about evenly mado up or Teuton and
Latin words, havo far less stutterers
among them than the Germans and Scan
dinavians, while there are at tho sumo
time more stutterers among them than
among tlio French or Italian or Spauish
speaking uutious. ChUinjo Herald.
Newfoundland has two chief indus
tries, tho cod fishery aud tho seal-fishery.
From these resources an annual revenue
of nearly 8,000,000 is derived. Perhups
$2, 0(1(1. 000 more is obtained from all
i,t her industries.
An old Mississippi Hiver pilot says
that Murk Twain wus thu laziest whilo
uiau he ever saw in a pilot housu.
ASONO FOR THE PRINTING PRESS.
A Song for the Press; the Printing Press,
That has ruled the world alone,
Since the finger of God first gave His laws
On the tablet of senseless stone;
Since a spark of His wisdom down sent
Woke the slumbering thonght to birth,
And the Press, as a meteor, flashed thro' the
gloom.
The darkness that lowered o'er earth.
A Song for the Press; more potent far,
Than the flat of crowned king,
Than the cohort of war than the steel-clad
men
Than the mightiest can bring.
Kingdoms, and tower and palace wall
That have braved a century's might,
Crumble In ruin, and totter fall,
When the Press wakes the giant might.
A Song for the Press; a lever long sought,
The world to sway in times oldon.
To check the power of oppression's hand,
Break the rule of the scepter golden.
Pierce the gloom of the dungeon, the cap
tive free.
Rive oak door an i iron rod,
And sent broadcast o'er a sin-bound world,
The words of the living God.
A Song for the Press; the angel that lines
In light on its record page,
Each glorious thought and each noblo deed
Each act of a passing ago;
The historian's pen, and the pact's wand
Each triumph, each God-horn rhyme
Is recorded there, and forever lives,
Defying the touch of time.
A Song for the Press; like the armed men
That rushed o'er Rome's ivied wall,
When Liberty, swayed and trampled In
dust,
Ceesar's pride and judgment ball;
So its step awakes the downtrod one,
'Mid his traldom, his fear and doom.
And thunders iu wrath round the crowned
king,
Foretelling of death and of doom.
A Song for the Press; tho East-born ttar ;
Of religion of liberty power
Untramnicled by wealth by passion un
swayed: 'Tis the iudex--the scribe of each hour,
And still shall remain still the slender
type
Shall "click,'' and all nations bless,
And the lost star from earth that ever fados
out.
Be the God-modcl'd Printing Press.
William II. Buahnell.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
Apt at retort The chemist,
The Great American Dessert Pio.
Peoplo who aro given to laying up
grudges seldom accumulate much else
Miltcaulce Journal.
Tramps nover have to inquire their
way. With them all roads lead to roam.
Binghamton Ilepublican.
When a man is walking on his uppers
the presumption is that he isn't well
heeled. Binghamtnn Leader.
A Congressman always feels envious of
a mosquito when ho sees how easily ho
introduces a bill. Statesman.
"Misfortunes never comes singly,"
chuckles the old bachelor when he hears
a talo of married infelicity. Texat Sift
ing. Lady (searching for burglars) "Here,
Bridget, you let down the folding bed
and then I'll look under it." Chiutau
quan. "It fills tho bill," remarked tho ban
tam pullet when sho picked up a large
und juicy grasshopper. Washington
Star.
Dentists generally keep out of politics,
but they would be sure to make them
selves felt if they took the stump. I'ica
yune. A subscriber wants to know "if there
is any money in hens." Ho might ascer
tain by cutting his hens open. Korrit
totcn Herald.
When a man and woman havo been
mado ono, tho honeymoou is the timo
spent in endeavoring to discover which
is thnt one. Statttman.
Professor "The old Cyclops were men
who hero" touching his lorchead
"where most people havo nothing, had
ono large eye. FhegenJe Miuiter.
On verse and novels I employed
Much time and many pnils-
Eut never marie a living 'till
I took uu writiiiK ads.
Chatter.
"What Is your husband's business,
madamo?" asked his Honor. "He's a
calker, sir." "Come, madainc, no tri
fling aud no slang if you wish me to issue
a warrant." Neio York Herald.
'Hult! Throw up your hands!"
shouted tho Montana brigaud, as ha
stopped tho stago. "We huiu't swalloied
"em," cheerfully replied a passeuger from
Down East. Sprintyield Union.
Paul Pry "I presume tho portrait in
in your breastpiu is your father's?"
Miss Mitten "No; it is the picture of
the first youug man to whom 1 promised
to be a sister." Jeweler' Weekly.
You cannot see Misj Bullion's faults,
Aud you uood not fuel surprise;
'Tis not so much that "love is Uind,"
As gold dust iu your foolish eyes !
Seiv Yui'k Sun.
Mrs. Bellows "How can you claim,
Mr. Bellows, that I did the proposiug
when wo becumu engaged t"' Mr. Bel
lows "You might as well have done it.
You said you were of a short-lived stock
aud had 20,000 iu your own right."
JVu York Htrald.
"My object in calling this evening,"
ho begau, with a nervous tremble of bis
chin, "was to ask you, Katio I may call
you Ktttio, may I not?" "Certainly, .Mr.
Longripe, said tho sweet young girl.
"Allot papa's elderly friends call ma
Katie." And he said nothing further
about his object iu calling. IShicoiji
Tribune.
Hers was a face
Whose occult eliarui uo humor's art
Could stool; whosti uamelcss rae
Elusive wus as iiitt liutt falU
VY lui-u waters yueu
A fa' so fair,
buuutod wilU sweet mysteries.
It swui'da face usteuy from licav'nly cme.
And uot of ouo wit i e'or
Hud breaktttKUlon;:ri'l'lliA -s
Clr diued ou bt-mis.
Acui Yoek Mew.