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Senate aro natives of New York
An expert Bays the Florida phosphate,
though immense ia extent, are disap
pointing as to richness, and the propor
tion of high grades is exceedingly small.
The Nevada towns aro exceptions to
the rnle of lncrcoso in the population of
the "Western municipal communities.
They generally show a decrease sine.
1880.
' The State Ocologtst of New Jersey
says the coast of the State is sinking at
tho rato of at least two feet in a century;
Other observers hold thot tho 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 the Uuitcd States army.
They should be paid, he thinks, $1500
year.
A charming story is told by a reviewer
in the Scot Olitener 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 the estimation of the Timet-Democrat
"Connecticut is a thrifty State. The
receipts of taxes over tho estimates tot
1890 were $365000, which hns enabled
the Treasurer to redeem $200,000 in
bonds and still have a surplus of $36,732.
Next year the State tax Is to bo dispensed
with."
Iaspcctor Byrnes, of New York city,
says thot the only way to keep a city
clear of bad men is to arrest them on
sight and mako tho place too hot for
them. Out of BOO arrests "on suspicion"
there may be one mistake one honest
man, but he owes it to tho public
to idontify himself as such. Tho
howl about "personal liberty" always
comes from criminal lawyers.
Regularly every six mouths, it is said,
the Treasury Department at "Washington
receives cither a $20 or a $50 bill which,
from all appearances,' instead of being
made from a plato, is executed entirely
with a pen. Tho work is of a very high
order, and several times those have es
caped detection and gono into circulation.
The counterfeiter has not yet been dis
covered. Ho seems to work for notoriety,
ss ho could not mako a living in this
wanner.
"Every traveler has noticed," observes
the St, Louis Star-Sayingt, "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 rails as possible and then set fire to
them, to the great annoyance and dis
comfort of passengers. At the same time
. thero are thousands of families on the
line of the road who would be glad to
take theso tics away "and use them for
fuel."
Congress has passed an act for the
preservation of the big trees of Tulare
County, California, which aro regarded
by the tourists as among the greatest
curiosities of that wonderful region. Of
lato they have been in danger of de
struction by tho insatiate lumber men,
and tho act was tho result of represen
tations to Congress that they would soon
disappear unless measures were takon to
restrain the busy woodman and his . ax.
Tho bill provides for tho conversion of
the region containing tho famous trees
into a public park, to be under the care
and protection ul the Government.
Professor Shulcr, tho eminent geolo
gist and inaguzino writer, notes it as an
extraordinary fact that whilo the New
"World has contributed to civilization a
long list of valuablo plants, cereals, fruits
and vegetables, it has mudo only one ad
dition to the animals in domestication,
and that is tho turkey. That was a
contribution worth a thanksgiving, how
ever, and now there is a prospect that it
may bo reinforced by another American
product, tho prairie chicken. Numbers
of these have been introduced in the
meadows ubout Brudenburg, Germany,
and their propagation is believed to be
practicable.
Tho English Industrie states that a
novel industry, resting stiictly on chemi
cal principles and needing nothing but a
little capital and a dash of dishonesty to
develop it, is suid to be practiced in
Florida. It consists iu avoiding depend
ence upon the slow and imperfect ripen
ing of lemons by the sun's rays, by pick
ing the fruit while green and exposing U
to the fumes of burning sulphur, where
by its color is changed to a rich golden
yellow, Infinitely more attractive than
ih iwtuHl hue. "It is true that the
lulej-for of tho lemon is practically free
l-jfux juice, a fact which tho hyporcriti-
.'ul might reckon a slight drawback,
'but this is, after ull, a Iriviul matter,
alluding only the consumer," is the sulve
applied to tie cuuscluuuu.
Twclvn members of the United
AN AUTUMN MORNIKft
There rs crimson
clouds and feathery
forms
In npper air.
And bright shape tinged with Varying hues
Stretched everywhere.
Borne seem to stroll and then unfold,
Like blomoms rare,
Krora out dim space, and then, like dew,
Dissolve In air.
Below them rise up weightier clouds
And misty bank,
And here and there tall specters rlsa
In serried rank,
Although the sky is azure-hued
Above them all;
While on our heads a boundless wealth
Of (uubeams fall.
Was ever sky more beautiful,
Or breath more iweetf
Or greener boughs, or nofter mat
Beneath our feetr
We thank Thee, Father, for the earth,
Bo beautiful;
We thank Thee for Thy gifts to us,
Bo bountiful;
For bud and bloom, for ripening fruit;
Each benison
I 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 glidos
Into the night,
Until their dawns for us are o'er,
And we at last
Into yon h-iven moor our bark,
All tempests past
Vtofc's Magazine.
JULIET, THE ORPHAN,
BT AMY RANDOLPH.
"Well, Juliet, what are you calculat
ing to dor' said Mrs. Murdritrnt.
"It's time to make up your mind about
something, you know," briskly observed
ansa Juniata Jcssup.
Juliet May lifted her heavy head, and
looked at thcni with a vague surprise.
"Do?" she repeated. "What's thero
to dof I don't know what you all
mean."
Sho was a daik, largo-eyed eirl with
cheeks as pale as a calls-leaf, a Spanish
luxuriance of jot-black hair and a slight
figure, which seemed to be bound by tho
weigut ol nor deep mourning. Mrs,
Murdright was a tail, masculine woman,
with iron-gray hair and a square chin.
Miss Jessup wore spectacles and moved
around in an active, jerky way, like an
extra-large-sized canary bird
"It a week to-morrow since your pa
was Dunea, aauea airs, fliuranght.
Juliet winced.
"Yes," she said; "I know it. Oh,
papal papa!" -
"There, there," said Miss Jcssup, as
the young orphan hid her face in her
bands, "don t givo way. It's unchris
tiun, and it's uncomfortable, tool"
"And it's high tlmo." steadilv oh.
served Mrs. Murdright, "that you looked
matters in mo luce, Juliet. May. You vo
got your living to earn, and "
"Hut I thought I was to livo with
jou, said poor Juliet, who was as ig
norant in me ways oi tno world as a six
month-old infant. You aro my moth
er's sister, Aunt Murdrie-ht. and "
"That is hurdly a reason why I should
undertake to support cverv relative
have got in the world," said "Sirs. Murd
right, sourly. You aren't a child
Juliet. You was cightoen last month.
and there s many a girl of your age earns
her own living and lays up a handsome
sum besides. And it's close on Alio first
of June, 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 lor luck of breath,
"why you should sit with folded hands
while your cousin Artemisia works in
the skirt-factory, aud Louisa Lacy goes out
to tailoring."
Juliet sat looking from one to the oth
er, while hor heart seemed to stand still
within her. At the Grange she had al
ways lived in luxury. She had been the
darling and idolized child of a doting
father. She had never paused to con
sider the question of mere money. All,
good and lovely things seemed to assem
ble around her by magic. Every one
had spoken tenderly to her; and now
and now "
"What am I to do. Aunt Mui-aright?"
she faltered. "Is all my money spent?"1
"Your money I" hysterically echoed,
Miss Jessup. "Poor child! You hain't
got none. It's all gono iu rash specula-!
tions aud mad inventions."
"Juniata speaks only tho truth," said
Mrs. Murdright, stiffly, us Juliet's eyes J
sought hers, as if to ask corroboration of I
the little old maid s unfeeling words.
"You're as good as a beggar, and you
must begin to consider in serious earnest
what you aro to do for your bread. I
can't undertake to support you."
Juliet put her little cold hand) in a
pathetically pleading way on Mrs.
Murdright'.
"Aunt," said she, "couldn't I stay
here? Couldn't I rauke myself useful to
you?"
Mrs. Murdright shrugged her shoul
ders. "I'm very sorry," said she, "but I
don't require any one to play tho piano,
aud Bit around tho house in picturesque
nitions, and be waited on. You haven't
n brought up as my girls are, Juliet
May I"
Juliet recoiled as if a serpent had stung
her; she turned to MUs Jessup.
"Cousin Juniata," she said, "you, too,
are my relative. Aid me! Advise met
You have age and experience I am like
a lost child in this grout, cruel, grinding
world!"
Yerily Juliet May was but a novice iu
all conventional wisdom, or she never
would have alluded so unguardedly to
the age aud experience of the sprightly
spinster. Miss Jessup bridled.
"I really don't know that I have any
thing to say," suid sho. "As Mrs. Murd
right ruuturks, people luiut expect to
work lu this world!''
But Miss Jessup studiously buuiahed
from her rticoltutlluu the fuot that, when
tho had first feet tip dressmaking for her-'
self, Squire May hod generously lent her
money for her lease furniture, stock and
fixtures no had never claimed a cent
of interest; he had never so much os
hinted at the repayment of his loan, and
she had been equally silent. And it is
to be presumed that she had quite for
gotten the whole circumstance, when she
added, with somo little vlndlctivenes I
"And, to my mind, it would have been
a doal wiser if your papa had looked a
little more closely to your money instead
of londing it to ne'er-do-wells like
Chauncey Graham to squander 1"
"Cousin Chauncey was always good
and kind 1" cried Juliet, coloring up.
"He would have paid papa, if he could I
And it is mean and dishonorable of you
to say such things as these, Juniata Jes
sup I"
"Hoity-toity 1" cried Miss Jcssup.
"Meant Dishonorable t Well, if he ain't
both, let hira 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 hor
discomfiture as well, the front door was
pushed open at that juncture, and a
bronzed, bearded apparition, in a suit of
somo 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 Jessup
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 tho
young man. "I only arrived in tho port
of New York last evening. It all seems
so strange to me to hear that my cousin,
Squire May, is dead that Juliet is with
out a home 1"
He stood in surprise, scarcely able to
recognize in this tall Andulusian-faced
girl, the chubby-cheeked little play
fellow of former years. But when she
flung herself so confidingly into his arms,
he held her with a tender and chivalric
embrace.
"Oh, Chauncey, I am so glad that you
have come," she sobbed. "Oh, I was
so lonely and forsaken I No one bos
seemed to care for me, since papa died
no one offered mo a borne I"
"I will," said Chauncey, quietly.
"There, there, little one, 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
nowl"
Mrs. Murdright here recovered herself
so far as to extend a fish-like hand to Mr.
Graham; Miss Jessup pressed eagerly for
ward.
"My dear Juliet," she said, with a lit
tle acidity, "you aro such a mere baby I
Don't you see that your cousin isn't at
all the proper person to take charge of
your'
"Why not?" said Chauncey Graham.
"It seems to me that I om the very one.
And my mother 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 you a drown.
ing mariner t Do sit downt Dear
Cousin Chauncey," with a smile which
displayed every one of her false teeth to
the very best advantage, "this is such an
agreeable surprise. We have thought
aud talked of you so much!"
While Mrs. Murdright hastened to pre
pare what she called "a little refresh
ment" for this relative who seemed so
much nearer and dearer since he had
come back home with plenty of monoy.
"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 a crape-vailed hat and ink.
black draperies folded across her slender
shoulders. "You're not going away so
soon, Juliet, my darling?
"Chauncey savs that his mother ex.
pects us by the very next train," said
juiiet, upon wnose paie cnees a new
color had kindled. "And we have no
time to lose 1"
"And," simpered Miss Jessup, who
was hurriedly donning an extremely
youthful Gainsborough hat with rosobuds
and daisies wreathM around its brim, "I
have volunteered to accompany dear
Juliet. Really, I have grown too fond of
ber to allow nor to slip away from me
like this I"
Mrs. Murdright made a grimaco.
"The scheming old cat," she thought.
"She actually thinks she is going to lure
Chauncey Graham into marriage. Well,
1 never did see such idiotic folly 1"
But she said nothing . of this as she
kissed Juliet good-bye with an effusive
ness which surprised the young girl.
"Farewell, my darling," she said, al
most tragically. "Aud remfjiuber that if
ever you need a home, my heart and
hearth are equally open to you."
"Why didn't Bhe say so before?'
Juliet asked herself, vaguely amazed at
what seemed to her such a surprising in
consistency. "Why did she talk so dis
gracefully about my being a burdeu, and
earning my own living? Aud why is
Juniata Jessup coming back with us,
without over being invited r'
Poor little Juliet! She bad yet much
to learn of tho ins and outs of this world I
MIt.s Jessup's stay iu New York, how
ever, was not prolonged, Hhe cuuio
back the next day, very ill satisfied
with her journey.
"Things are quite changed siuce I was
a girl," suid sue. " lhcre s Juliet en
gaged to Chauncey Graham already or
us good as engaged a mere uhit like
that, with no kuowledgo nor experience
of society I Aud Mrs. Uraliain taking
on airs like the queuu, and tolling me
up and down, that she didu't core for
my company I Mel Her own cousin
twice removed! Aud Jullot parting
from me like- a clam, never even Kissing
mo nor telling me she hoped to see me
uguiu 1"
"Humph I" said Mrs. Murdright.
"That's Kiucmliy the wuy rWh people
behave But I almost wish, Juniata, ws
hadn't been quite ad short With the
child!''
"Yes," said Miss Juniata ; "but who
was to suppose that she was to be an
heiress, after all?" Th Ledger.
Wean Ills Girl's Hair.
A Vounit man of many trood twinls.
but with none on his bead, was for fiv,
years, writes Clara Belle, a victim to the
promises of the tonsorial artist, who
guaranteed to bring out hair on hit shjnf
pate, but who did not keep hit 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 hi
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 hone together, and
itwas then that the young man made a
trembling proposition.
"Louise docs not like a bald bead,
said he, "although, of course, mine is
not unpleasant to her. Nevertheless, she
prefers to have it covered, and so we have
reached a conclusion. I always said, you
know, that I would nover wear a toupee;
but Louise has placed the matter in such
a light that I have acceded to her desires
and will have one made. Louise's hair
is just the color of the fringe over my
ears, you see, and it hangs away down
below her waist. She is going to sacri
fice enough of it to make me a toupee,
and then, by Jove! 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 nothing so beautiful in
life as a good girl when sho is in lovo."
Borneo now appears in public adorned
by a fine head of handsome chestnut
hair.
Chaplains of tho Navy.
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 and gray. In
the navy he ranks as a lieutenant, and
for the first five years of his service he is
paid $1500 per annum while on shore,
$1800 a year when he 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 tha
army and navy at "waiting orders."
The last report of the Navy Depart
ment shows that out of the twenty-four
chaplains six were in that delightful con
dition of "waiting orders," and had been
for several months past, and of the others,
two fortunate ones were puctically in the
same situation, for tbey had been granted
a leave of absence by the department,
and had hied themselves away to foreign
shores. The luckiest man among those
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." Ku York Netoi.
A City of the 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 the
Indinns resident there and have heard
some very singular stories. One, which
all the Indians unite in telling, is that
far in the interior exists an enormous city
never yet visited by white men. It is
described as peopled by a race similar to
the ancient Aztecs, who are sun wor
shipers and offer human sacrifices to
their dlcty.
"The race Is said to be in a high ttato
of civilization, and the Indisus say that
the city is full of huge structures which
are miracles of quaint, but beautiful
architecture, and are situated on broad,
paved streets far surpassing those of the
City of Mexico.
"One Indian, I recollect, assured me
that he had seen the city and 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
the same, it is not a little strango that
the accounts of tho Mexican Indians
relative to the mysterious aud magnifi
cent interior city agree perfectly."
Philadelphia Inquirer. .
What Dynamite Can Do.
Shooting a caudle through a two-inch
solid plunk without disturbing it in the
least is being done by dynamite, which
is so quick in its action that a tendei
green leaf can be compressed into the
hardest steel before' it has time to flatten.
One of the experiments of tho United
States torpedo works was to place some
leaves between two heavy, flat pieces of
iron, set them on a firm foundation and
see what gun-cotton would do in forcing
tho iron pieces together. The reaction
was so great from just being exploided in
the open air that one of the iron pieeii
wus driven down upon the other quick
enough to catch an exact and completi
impression of the leaves before they could
escape. It is also a singulur fuct that
the gun-cotton itself should sink deep
into the iron when it explodes, showing
the points of the letters stumped into th
cartridges. This novel method of en
graving by gunpowder is one of the
wonders of this century. CUcelana
Vlain Dealer.
To Prevent Droughts.
Dr. Felix L. Oswald asserts in tin
Voice, thut the substitution of perenniu)
for annual food plants would have the
Incidental advantage of preventing the
ruin of oropa by summer droughts.
Forest trees, ostciully such leaf trees ai
oaks aud eliM, undoubtedly help to
equalize the humidity of the atmosphere,
1. e., to preveut droughts as well af
wiutor floods. Largo plantations of
fruit trees would have a similar effect,
while oereuls or extensive viueyurd suoui
to have no wore inllueuoo on the annual
rulufull thun the durtty sayenliiuUt of oui
wvulcru piuiiks.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
The Falls of Niagara carry down 10,.
000,000 cubic feet per minute, equal t
about 3,000,000 horse-power.
A Swede has invented a steam raft foi
the transportation of horses and catth
which travels at tho rate of fifteen knob
an hour.
Physicians claim that they have ob
setved less bay fever, which is a kindred
disease to tho grippe, this year thai
ever befoie.
The 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
struck recently at Summerland, thret
miles from Santa Barbara, Cal. Th
flow is estimated at three million feet pel
day.
The experiment of tanning leather
with palmetto roots has been successfully
tried at Apalachicola, Fla. The lcathei
was as soft and pliable as the finest call
Bkin.
Tho copper mines of the whole world
are being taxed to their utmost to supply
the demand for copper wire and th
other apparatus used in the application ol
electricity.
It has been suggested that the phono
graph shall be used as a cash register.
Every sum the casbior receives might b
called in the phonograph and there re
corded, as a check on the accounts.
Apiarists maintain that bees do not in
jure growing or fair fruit. The juice ol
the sound fruit is inimical to their wel
fare; but though they will not attack
sound fruit, they settle upon bruised and
blemished fruit.
Experience bos shown that nn electric
street car can be comfortably heated by
the expenditure of one horse power ol
electrical energy. Tho electrical heaten
do not reduce the seating capacity of the
car, which is kept clear of coal dust and
cinders.
, I jud "t,"
issued in Washington jrl 's "
;1 fence post. It is tolf fion of'tli
A patent was
ccntly for a steel
mado of steel tubing, seven feet 1
with a neat cap and with bands r jold
the barbed wire. It is said Var. these
posts can be furnished complete foi
placing in position at twenty-four ccnta
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 veiy poweriul, the sea is illu
minated for a considerable distance
around. Spectators in the lighthouses at
Havre saw tho glare distinctly at a dis
tance of five miles.
Perhaps in no branch of industry hav
the benefits of electric welding been real
ized to a greater extent than in 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 the work of two blacksmiths and
a dozen helpers, and frequently a serioul
loss of ammonia from imperfoct welding.
Now the weld is made in two minutes bj
a man and a boy, and costs two cents in
stead of fifteen, as formerly.
A fireman's electric hand lamp is being
Introduced in England. Tho batterj
and lamp are contained in a copper case,
similar to a fireman's ordinary lump, and
fitted with a handle for convenience it
carrying. Very powerful parabolic re
flectors aro provided, aud the lamp,
which has a duration of from two to thret
hours, after which it can be easily re
charged, forms an important adjunct t
the outfit of a fire brigade. Tho lamp it
also suitable tor use in mines, gas works,
gunpowder and chemical factories. Tin
advantagas claimed for it are portability,
facility in charging, capability of resting
the battery when the light is not ro
quired, and extreme safety.
Taluinje's Encomium on Books.
A good book who can exaggerate iti
power? Benjamin Franklin said that hit
reading of Cotton Mather's "Essays t
Do Good" in childhood gave bhn holy
inspiration for all the rest of his life
George Law, the millionaire, declared thai
a biography he read in childhood gav
him all his subsequent prosperity. Ob,
the power of a good book! But, alus,
for the influence of a bud book! Johi
Angel James, than whom England nevei
had a holier minister, stood in his pulpii
at Birmingham, and said : "Twenty-flv
year ago a lad loaned me an infamoui
bonk. Ho would loan it only tiftoor
minutes, aud then I gave it back ; bul
that book has haunted me like a spoctn
ever since. I shall carry the damage ol
it until the duy of my death." The assas
sin of Sir William Russell declared thai
he got tho inspiration for his crime by
reading what wus then a new and pop
lnr novel, "Jack Sheppard." llomer'i
"Iliad" made Alexander ta warrior,
Alexaudor said so. The stoij of Alex
ander made Julius Caesar and Charlei
XII. both men of blood. Have you it
your pocket, or in your trunk, or iu youi
desk ut businesi a bad book, a bad para
phlet? In God's name, I warn you t(
destroy it. T. DeWitt Talnaye.
The Mysterious "Slxlh Sense"
Dr. II. J. Bertrnnd, of Antwerp, hai
recorded the results of experiments whicl
seem to leave it doubtful if the bat is tht
only possessor of the mysterious "sixtl
sense," manifested in the faculty of dodg
ing obstacles without the aid of visiou
Blind birds, lizards aud several species o!
rodents appear to be endowed with i
similar gift, which to some degree ii
shured by blind, and even by blindfolded
men. A person groping his way ia t
dark cellar may be unable to distinguish
a black puteh on a white cloth held up a-'
a distance of two feet from his eyes, but
somehow or other will manage to avoic
collision with pillars aud projecting
shelves, even without the ussistuueo o
his hands. Just betore bumping hisheao
against a wall a "pressure of air," ai
some of the experimenters described it.
somehow betrays the perilous proximity
of t solid obblucUt. lr. OncalU,
CORKS CURE STUTTERING.
A SIMPLE DEVICE FOB THB BELIE?
OF STAMMERERS.
What Makes People 6tntter Tongue
tied Women Are Itaro A Majority
of Stammerers Are Teutons.
Curiously enough, from statistics it ap
pears that the Germans, though reported
to be such a slow-speaking people, have
a larger percentage of stutterers among
them than any other nation. Next to
them are the English. Americans are
noticcniy free from this failing. It Is
probably' because of this that there are
but two training schools for stutterers in
the whole country. One is in Now York
and the other is in Chicago. The one in
this city was started three months ago by
Dr. Lothar Schwarz, a young German
specialist, who gathered practical experi
ence in his chosen line in some 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. He has been ablo te effect a
number of cures during tho brief time he
has managed his institution.
Dr. Schwarz says that the causes of
stammering are varied. 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 ol organs
such as the larynx, the tongue, ths palate
or the mouth is often the cause of the
trouble. In a number of cases, too, the
lungs are not tranied to perform the func
tions properly during speaking, so that
the stutterer attempts to breathe while
speaking, thus causing an interruption of
tho voice. Tho forceful grimaces mado
by so many Btuttcrers while trying to
pronounce difficult letters, Buch as "d"
il "t," "f" and "p," "in" ana "n
are due to the violent contrac
tile facial muscles. In regard to
a euro to be effected tho doctor said :
"Tho first means to be employed that
is, the means which aro most effective and
rapid in nearly all cases is the one
brought into a system and first made
public by Professor Kocn. This is a
system by which the tongue above all is
carefully trained to perform its manifold
duties. The tongue is exercised, mado
pliable, and is taught to do always that
which tho owner means to have it do,
To accomplish this the stutterer is sub
jected to a regular course of exercises.
some of them quito disagreeable and
wearisome. For instance, he has to hold
a cork between his teeth, and then his
tongue must try and pronounce words,
syllables, letters, and even whole sen
tences distinctly without dropping the
cork. By all sorts of tricks the tongue
is forced to attain proficiency in pro
nouueing just those- letters or combina
tions of letters which It was formerly un
nblo to pronounce, except perhaps with
crreat difficulty.
While the specialist was talking he
entered a room in which the handsome
twelve-year-old boo of a well known
college professor in Iowa was just under
going one of those exercises the doctor
was discusinjr. Tho boy's organs of
sreech had normally developed until
year ago, when he met with an accident
a heavy full from his velocipede. Since
that time he was uuable to speak two
words in succession without feeling pain
and discomfort. Tho muscles of his
face contracted and his cheeks and brow
became suffused with blood in his violent
efforts to speak. As he stood before the
specialist his eyes were fixed upon the
wall, and ho repeated for the hundredth
time: "Don't do wrong! Where will
you bo to-morrow?" and other phrases
difficult for hira to enunciate. He pro
nounced them after a fortnight's treat
ment, plainly, but very slowly and with
evident effort. Before each word ho
drew a deep breath and there was a queer
whizziug sound from his lips. "That
will soon disappear," said the doctor,
"but with all this brave boy's persistence
it will require at last another month to
rid him completely of his abnormal
peculiarities of speech."
Girls have this affliction much more
rarely than boys. Their tongue appears
-to be more elastic than is the tongue of
the opposite sex. Women who are una
ble to speak quickly and pluiuly are very
rare, according to scientific writers on
tho subject. Tho lurgest percentage of
stutterers is furnished by boyhood, es
pecially between tho tenth and fifteenth
year. This is duo, In part, to un impet
uosity of speech, which gradually disap
pears as the boy learns a little more
sense aud reserve. There are no reliable
statistics to show tho percentage of those
having some impediment in their speech
ia the different countries on the globe.
But the fuct is sufficiently established
that this percentage is much smaller in
all the Latin countries, such as Frunce, '
Italy, Spain, Portugal aud South Amer
ica than it is iu tho Teutonic lands.
ThU is suid to be lurgely due to the fact
thut the Germanic tongue is less voluble
than the Latin one; that the languages
derived in part from tho old Latin are
more easy of pronunciation thau those
descended from the old Teuton linguis
tic stock, aud that there are more vowels
and less difficult combinations of conso
nants iu them. This theory seems to
fiud support in the fact that the Euglish
speaking people, who tulk a tonguo
about evenly mudo up or Teuton aud
Latin words, have fur less stutterers
among them than the Germans aud Scan
dinavians, while there are at tho same
time more stutterers uruoug them thau
among tho French or Italian or Spanish
speaking uatious. Chkuyo Herald.
Newfoundland has two chief indus
tries, the cod fishery uud the seal-fishery.
From these resources an annual revenue
of nearly $8,000,000 is derived. Perhaps
$2,000.0110 more is obtained from all
vther industries.
An old Mississippi Kivi-r puoi says
that Mark Twain was the laziest white
wuu he ever saw in a pilot house.
A SONO FOR THE PRINTING PRESS.
A Song for the Press; the Printing Press,
That haa ruled the world alone,
Since the finger of God first gave Hi laws
On the tablet of senseless stone;
Since a spark of His wisdom down ent
Woke the slumbering thought to birth,
And the Press, as a meteor, flashed thro' the
gloom,
The darkness that lowered o'er earth.
A Bong for the Press; more potent far,
Than the flat of crowned king,
Than the cohorts of war than the steel-clad
men
Than the mightiest can bring.
Kingdoms, and tower and palace wall
That have braved a century' might,
Crumble In ruin, and totter fall.
When the Press wakes the giant might.
A Bong for the Prow; a lover long sought,
The world to sway in times olden.
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 and iron rod, i
And sent broadcast o'er a sin-bonnd world,
The words of the living God.
A Bong for the Press; the angel that line
Tn llirht nn it. record nflira
Each glorious thought and each noble deed
Each act of a Tjassins: afire:
The historian's pen, and the p set's wand-
Each trlumDh. each Uod-norn rnymo
I Is recorded there, and forever lives,
A Bong for the Press; like the armed men
That rushed o'er Home's ivied wall,
When Liberty, swayed and trampled In
dust,
CsBsar's pride and judgment hall;
So its step awakes the downtrod one, i
Mid his' traldom, his fear and doom.
And thunders in wrath round the crowned
king,
Foretelling of death and of doom.
A Bong for the Press; the Eastrborn stir j
Of religion of liberty power
Untrammeled by wealth by passion un
swayed;
Tis the Indexthe scribe of each hour.
And still shall remain still the slendor
type
Shall "click," and all nations bless,
And the last star from earth that ever fades
out,
Be the God-model'd Printing Tress.
William II. Bushncll. .
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
Apt at retort The chemist,
The Great American Dessert Pie.
People who are given to laying up
grudges seldom accumulate much else.
Milwaukee Journal.
Tramps never have to inquire their
way. With thom all roads lead to roam.
Binghamton Republican.
When a man is walking on his uppers
the presumption is that he isn't well
heeled. Binghamton Leader.
A Congressmen always feels envious of
a mosquito when he Bees how easily ho
introduces a bill. Statetman.
"Misfortunes never comes singly,"
chuckles the old bachelor when he hears
a tnlo of married infelicity. Tejxu Sift
ng. Lady (searching for burglars) "Here,
Bridget, you let down the folding bed
and then I'll look under it." CluiutaU'
quart.
"It fills the bill," remarked the ban
tam pullet when she picked up a large
and juicy grasshopper. Waihington
Star.
Dentists generally keep out of politics,
but they would be sure to make them
selves felt if they took the stump. Pica
yune. A subscriber wants to know "if there
is any money in hens." Ho might ascer
tain by cutting his hens open. Norrit
town llerald.
When a man and woman havo been
made one, tho honeymoon Is tho time
spent in endeavoring to discover which
is that one. Statetman.
Professor "The old Cyclops wore men
who here" touching his lorchead
"where most people have nothing, bad
one large eye." FUtgend Blaetier.
On verse and novel I employed
Much time and many pails-
But never made a living 'till
I took up writing ad.
Chatter.
"What Is your husband's buiiness,
madume?" asked his Honor. "He's a
calker, sir." "Come, inadamc, no tri
fling and no slang if you wish me to issue
a warrant." Neit York llerald.
'Halt! Throw up your hands!"
shouted the Montuna brigand, as ho
stopped the stuge. "We hain't swsllerod
'em," cheerfully replied passenger from
Down East. Springfield Union,
Paul Pry "I presume tho portrait in
in your breastpin is your father's!"
Miss Mitten "No; it is the picture of
the first young man to whom I promised
to be a sister." Jeicelert' Weekly.
You cannot ee Miss Bullion's fault,
And you uood not ftx-l surprise;
'Ti not o much that "love is blind,"
As gold dust in your foolish eyes I
Ai l'orfc Hun.
Mrs. Bellows "How can you claim,
Mr. Bellows, that I did the proposing
when wo became engagodl'' Mr. Bel
lows "You might as well have done it.
You said you were of a short-lived stock
and had $20,000 in your own right."
Neu York Uer,M.
"My object in calling this evening,"
he began, with a nervous tremble of bia
chin, "was to ask you, Katie I may call
you Katie, may I not?" "Certuiuly, Mr.
Longripe," said the sweet young girl.
"All of papa's elderly frieuda call ma
Katie." And he said nothing further
about his object in culling (.'liicmjj
Tribune.
Her was a face
Whose occult cu&r:u uo luimor art
Could UU; whose uaiuuleH K''ace
Elusive wus a liulit thut fails
VYliHTu waters paru
A face m fail,
Be httUllUMl wilU wMt inystcri,-.
It tK-uui'd a rtt- ssti-uy from hcav'itly scvuee,
Aud not of on w a - t-'or
Had U'eaklahU-.! on Kri'Mlt-r -s
Ur ututxi ou beau.
.Yt;i York Avtes.