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VOL. XXIII, NO, 32, TI ON EST A, l'A., WEDNESDAY, DEC. 3, 189Q, 1,50 PER ANNUM.
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Ttaly, it it announced, is strongly op
posing emigration.
The President of tho Mormon Church
himsolf Admit that tho days of polygamy
aro cumbered.
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It is an interesting fact, remarks the
Atlanta Constitution, thnt of 1335 acts
passed by tho recent Congress, 1081, or
more than four-fifths, were) for pensions
io individuals.
An English experimenter, K. T. Chap
lin, has given an account of hypnotizing
a laying hen, and Inducing her In that
manner to sit on a sitting of eggs until
seven of them had hatched out.
Tho Manufacturers' Record claims that
"tho agricultural possibilities of tho
South aro greator than thoso of the bal
ance of tho country all combined, based
on the aggregate values and on actual
profits to producers."
Five years ago thoso who enjoyed
bowling on "ten pins" in and about New
York city certainly did not number more
than fiOOO, says the Nosr York Timet.
To-day, if a census would be taken it is
doubtful if less than 20,000 patrons of
the alley would be counted.
The Indianapolis (lud.) Itam'i Hern.
says: "An erratic old gentleman in
New York recently went hence and left
a large fortuno to be expended in teach
ing people to eat with their forks. Hud
ho left one-half of the sum to provido
something for them to practice on, his
memory as a benefactor would have
lasted longer.'
A Chicago inventor claims to have pro
duced a machine for picking cotton that
will do the woik in the Southern fields
for one-tenth the present cost. The pres
ent coat is estimated at nearly $100,000,
000 a year. It follows that if this ma
chine will do all that is claimed for it,
the saving effected will be not much less
than $90,000,000 a year.
Great preparations are being made iu
Australia for the forthcoming Austra
lasian Federation Convention, in which
all the Australian colonies of Great Brit
ain will bo represented, and the meeting
of which will be the first step toward a
national organization that is intended to
include all those colonies in one power
ful union represented in a federal par
liament. '
lawyer oimon Stevens says mat when
lie sold the Mariposa grant for General
Fremont the latter realized $1,237,500.
He urged the General to put $(100,000
into a trust fuud. "Uo was at first in
clined to listen to rue, but Mrs. Fremont
was full of ideas that it could be invested
by him in speculation, whero it would
yield bim untold millions, and she car
ried the day." '
The fact thut tho FreucU colonists in
Algiers show increasing fecundity, while
the French in France are steadily falling
off in that respect, . suggests that the
mother country is overcrowded and the
social system unfavorable to marriage.
The try is again raised that tho Latin
race is dying out, which, assorts the
"Washington Star, tho fact recorded iu
Algiers and Latin-America do not bear
out. Another reason for decadence in
population is tho early army age and
long military service exacted, which,
with other causes, prevent the multiplica
tion of the population.
"It is singular," declares Frank Let
lit't, "that theme in silver threatens to
seriously affect Christian missions in for
eign lands. Wheu silver was worth
twenty or thirty per cent, less thau it is,
an American dollar was obviously worth
in the debased silver coinago of foroign
countries tweuty or thirty per cunt, more
than it is now. In other words, the rise
in silver has brought the currency of
silver land, pretty nearly to an equality
with that of countries banking on a gold
basis. It is said that tho Methodist Mis
sionary Society will, by reason of tho
rise in silver, require a special appropria
tion of $20,000 to meet the increased
cost of exchange iu India, and that all
other religious missionary societies will
be seriously affected."
It is interesting to know that when the
now naval vessels are completed tho ef
fective force of the United States navy
compared with the European Davics will
be as follows: United States, forty-two,
of which five will be battle ships and ten
other armored vessels; England, seventy
six armored, 291 unarmwed; France,
fifty-seven armored, 203 uuanuored; Rus
sia, forty-nine armored, 119 unarinored,
and Germany, forty armored, sixty
five uuarmorcd. "But the comparison
with these greatest powers of the world
is more flattering, admits the Washing
ton .SVur, than that with tho smallei
naval powers, such as Holland, Spaiu,
Italy, Turkey, China, Sweden and Aus
tria; for we are surpassed by tbem all
even with the new ship' added.''
REVELATION.
Brain-weary, heart-weary, soul-weary,
i" sit me down to-night;
And sadness dsp enfolds me
i the dark engulf, the light.
This daily toll and struggle
Tne It nnt. far out-weigh
The little grain, of gladness
We pick up, day by dayf
Not for myself 1 sorrow,
My lot Is heavenly bright
In contrast to ths many
That throng my thought to-night.
Bo much of toll and trouble I
Bo much of neodless pain I
Bo much of wasted riches
Of hand and heart and brain I
I strlv. to put it from me,
This puzsle old as Time
Of unrewarded virtue,
Of thriving, happy crime.
I glance about for something
To turn my thoughts' sad strain ;
My eye falls on the Cereus
That wreathes my window pane.
Bo gaunt and grim and ugly
In its torturous twlstings there;
So full of thorns, so graceless,
Devoid of all that's fair!
"Fit symbol," muse I, sadly,
"Of our twisted, thorn-strewn lives ;
All barren, bent and wasted,
Vhera hope aloayirrives I" ,
But even as I whisper
These words of rebel gloom,
A strange, delicious fragranoe
Pervades my lonely room;
A nd starting up in wonder,
I trace the perfume's souroo
To a bud upon the branches
1 had scorned as mean and coarso!
I watch it, wonder-stricken,
The clasping leaves unfold.
And reveal IU matchless beauty,
So pure, with heart of gold I
I feel its mystic message
To my very being's core,
And the burtien that oppressed me
Is gone to come no mora !
Could ever sweeter token
Or surer answer come,
Than this perfect, stainless blossom
From Its strange, unsightly hoinof
A flash of revelation
Enlightens all my soul;
The olouds of doubt and darkness
Forever from me roll I
My heart swells up in gladness,
In gratitude and love,
In faith and trust, implicit.
To the Father-heart above!
I know, past all distrusting,
That from our pain and strife,
Will bloom in perfect beauty
A glorious after-life I
Deiilah B. Stevens, in the Housewife.
A DETERMINED WOMAN.
BY MAUKICE BLIKQSBY.
In one of the back settlements of
Bouth Carolina, in the days which ren
dered the name of Marion, and other he
roes, forever glorious in the annals of
their country, dwelt a brave and devoted
family of patriots, named Hart.
Abijah and Abigail Hart were scarcely
past the prime of life, although thevaad
been blessed with a large family oi "chil
dren, only three of whom, however two
boys and a girl had survived the com
mon Ills incidental to childhood.
The elder eon would have been two
and twenty had his life been spared;
but eight months before ho had fallen
an innocent victim to the rage and mal
ice of the Tories, who swarmed in pred
atory bands throughout this section.
Upon these murdering wretches, who
had thus wantonly deprived them of
their eldest born, at a time when he
might have been of inestimable service
to them, the father and mother,
and only remaining son, Silas, now in
hi nineteenth year afterward the cel
ebrated Indian fighter of Hardin County,
Kentucky swore to be revenged, when
ever and wherever an opportunity should
offer to wreak their vengeaoce.
Leah, thoir second .emaining off
spring, was a beautiful and warm-hearted
maiden of seventeen, and the affianced
bnde of Randolph Daroll, a brave young
officer, at one time upon the staff of
Genoral Marion.
Young Dareli was iu the habit now
and then, whenever he could make an
excuse to obtain, a furlough, of paying
a flying visit to Gum-Tree Farm, the
humble, though comfortable, home of
the Harts.
Oa one of these occasions a party of
even mounted Tories pursued him near
ly the the entire distance from the Ameri
can camp to the residence of the Harts,
he, however, contriving to elude them in
a piece of woods just before reaching the
farm.
An abrupt bend iu the road had fav
ored him, and the Tory rangers, not
dreaming of this adroit move on the part
of the flying fugitive, dashed furiously
on till they came to tho farm-house,
whero they tumultously demanded of
Mrs. Hart, who was standing in the
door-way, if she had seen a horseman
pass by who wore the uniform of au
American officer.
Tho woman shrewdly surmised who
tho officer might be who would be com
ing alone in that direction, and promptly
inquired if the horse he rode was a sor
rel one. To her seemingly careless ques
tion the Torries promptly gave an affir
mative reply.
"Then he has rid into the swamp yon
der, by a cartpath that leads on to the
Beechknoll road," answered the quick
witted Wf man, with an admirable pres
ence of mind, and an apparcutly cool in
difference to tho subject, which carried
instant conviction to tho minds of the
Tories, who again spurred on in supposed
pursuii of tho fugitive; but, to their
great disappointment, the cart-road pres
ently terminated iu a bog, and, on a care
ful examination, they discovered that no
other horse-tracks hail been left there
but those of their own Miimnls.
"He must have taken to the thicket,"
said the leader, after fully satisfying his
mind on the subject. There is no use at
all in busting the ground further, fur he
has had ample time already to escape.
We may as well make a virtue of neces
sity, and go back and see what is to be
got of the squint-eyed old woman at the
farm-bouse in the way of eatibles. But
isn't she a big one in size, thought"
"And uglier-looking than sirt, thud'
derin' sight!'' added one of tho mimi
The Tory horsemen now Wheeled about
and retraced their way to the fann-housei
which Was only a short distance just as
Randolph Dareli Was on the point of
emerging from the wood J but luckily be
discovered them in season to escape their
notice, by abruptly retreating back again
under cover.
Alighting once more at the door of the
farm-house, the Tory leader ordered Mrs.
Hart to prepare dinner for the party, and
bestir herself.
"How can I give you dinner when
I've nothing to cook?" retorted the resolute-looking
woman, angrily. "I should
need a full larder to satisfy a half-dozen
such dirty rascals as you are."
"Silence, woman!" thundered the
Tory, in a commanding voice, "and do
our bidding." "1 11 soon give you some
thing to cook," he added, leveling his
carbine as he spoke, and bringing down
a plump turkey gobbler that was strut
ting along under cover of the garden
wall. "There, now, go and pluck that
fine fellow, my beauty, and don't belong
about it, or we might be tempted to serve
you in the same way.
Leah, who had shrunk timidly into a
corner, started up in alarm when she
heard this threat, and made her way out
to the spot where the bird had fallen.
Randolph Dareli, alurmed at the shot,
was just on tho point of dashing out of
ms cover to go to the rescue of the
females, when he saw bis affianced rush
out, and bear the turkey hastily to the
house.
In a moment he divined the cause of
the firing; and not apprehending any
immediate danger to his sweetheart, so
long as the Tories were only anxious to
appease their appetitos, he went back to
his cover.
The quick eye of the Tory leader took
in the graceful outlines of the fair girl's
figure, as she rushed from the house.
"By the beard of King George!" he
exclaimed, admiringly, "who 'ould 'ave
hoxpectcd to see such a hangel in petti
coats 'ere. Cemo, my loss, and give
us one kiss ' from the rose-bud of a
mouth."
"You dare to lay jour cowardly hand
on my Leah," cried the enraged mother,
doubling up her great, bouy fist, "and
I'll strangle you like a cur I"
"Why, you squint-eyed old beauty,"
retorted the Tory, mockingly, "I took
you for a hangel, but I find you are
wickeder than a she wolf with whelps I"
Tho rest of the gang laughed boister
ously at this weak attempt at wit. Then
turning to Leah with a gallant smile,
the Tory inquired how long it would
take to pluck and cook the fowl.
Leah answered in a modest tone of
womanly anxiety, that it would require
at least throe hours to serve it to their
liking.
"But,'' she added, in a tone of con
ciliation, "we have a piece of roast
pork and some cold potatoes and corn
cake in tho pantry, if they will answer."
The hungry party, who had been some
hours fasting, declared that the articles
named were good enough, and that they
would forego the turkey on this occa
sion for her sake.
With great alacrity, but with an anx
iously beating heart, Leah spread the
homely board, and brought forth the
promised viands, which sho laid . out
temptingly before them. She then placed
what chairs and stools the house afforded
around the table, aud politely invited her
unwelcome visitors to be seated.
Complying with her invitation, the
Tories carelessly stacked their cabines
near an open window, and, seating
themselves at the table, fell to, greedily
devouring the repast.
Mrs. Hart, in the meantime, with a
heroism superior to her sex, had watched
her hungry guests till she saw she was
not observed by them, when she slipped
out Blyly from their midst, and, noise
lessly approaching the open window, she
succeeded in drawing out three of the
carbines before her little game was dis
covered. The moment the Tories perceived the
deadly purpose of the giantess, the three
nearest the window sprang to their feet
in terrified astonishment.
"Stand back!" she cried, in a threat
ening tone, presenting one of the loaded
carbines with an air of resolute determi
nation. "The first villain of you that
stirs a step, I'll shoot; and tJie first one
that touches another mite of that pork
I'll blow his brains out!"
Without heeding her blaring eye, or
her stern verbal warning, the Tory leader
sprang fearlessly toward the stock of
arms; but before he could reach them
there was a report of a carbine, and the
advancing rutlian fell to the floor, while
the slug, which had passed entirely
through his body, struck another in the
temple, who was seated at the tabic, kill
ing him instantly.
A third, rendered desperate by the try
ing situation, mode a reckless attempt to
get possession of one of the carbines, and
instantly paid the penalty with his life.
Throwing the second empty carbiue
aside, Mrs. Hart caught up the third
one, with which she now covered what
remained of the terrified party.
There were but four left, and not one
of the four dared to move a finger.
"Leah, blow the dinner-horn!" cried
the mother, in a tone of resolute triumph.
"It is safe now to call in Silas and your
father."
Tho young girl, half-terrified out of
her wits, promptly obeyed the maternal
com maud, and a long, winding blast
echoed and re-echoed through the inter
vening woods.
She had left the house and joined her
mother on the outside before she essayed
to blow it, and as she lowered the horn
from her lips, now rendered colorless
from her recent fright, her anxious eyes
were bent in the direction of the distant
corn-field, where her fulher and brother
and a faithful negro servaut were at
work, although a narrow belt of timber
stretched between them,
She uttered a quick exclamation of
joyous pleasure, for at that moment she
saw all three strike out of the wood and
start on a rapid run toward the house.
Hearing the first shot that had been
fir ad and then alarmed by the other two
which had followed id such rapid sue
cession) they cailght tip their loaded car
bines and Started On a run front the field
where they were then at work.
The moment they had quitted the tim
bef they saw at a glance, by the several
horses hitched to the fence and the bel
ligerent attitude of the heroic giantess at
the window, pretty nearly how matters
stood at the house, and they all three
sent up an encouraging shout to the
women.
Just at this point they heard the ring
ing sound of a horse's hoofs in an op
posite direction, and, turning suddenly,
Leah beheld her lover dashing furiously
toward the house. This additional rein
forcement, coming So opportunely, yet so
unexpectedly, filled the heart of the timid
maiden with increased confidence.
"Oh, mother 1" she burst out, excited
ly; "Randolph is coming seel He is
just leaving the wood. Isn't it lucky for
him to come just at this time, when we
had no reason to expect him?"
"I expected him," said Mrs. Hart,
with quiet assurance. "I knew it was
he the Tories were in pursuit of, and I
was determined to outwit the-.n, if it lay
in the power of a woman to do it. Every
thing has turned out for the best; for
had Lieutenant Dareli ridden straight
here, instead of lingering in the wood,
as ho did, he would doubtless have been
captured, and perhaps murdered before
our eyes. So you see, my girl, the ways
of Providence are better than our ways,
for they always turn out for the best in
tho end."
In another moment Randolph Dareli
had alighted at their side, and in the
next, the blushing and happy Leah was
enfolded in his manly embrace.
While the lovers were thus pre-occu-pied,
Abijah, Silas and tho negro ar
rived, fearfully excited aud wholly out
of breath.
Silas recovered first, and was about
to shoot down oue of the Tories, wheu
his mother resolutely interfered.
"Don't shoot them! Leave them to
me, Silas. I will mete out their punish
ment to them. We haven't forgotten
Eben's murder yet, and shooting is too
good for 'em. We will just hang them
like a pack of dogs, the whole cowardly
tit of them. Get tbe clothes lino, Leah ;
we can afford to cut it on such a right
eous and heaven sent occasion 1"
Randolph shuddered, for be under
stood the determined character of the
woman and knew that she would not bo
loug in putting ber terrible threat into
execution. Nor, indeed, wns she; for
within the ensuing hour, in spite of their
prayers and protestations, the bodies of
the four Tories went dangling from the
nearest tree. And thus at the hand of a
resolute and heroic mother, was tho death
of a beloved son simply and satisfactorily
avenged.
After tho Tories bad hung a sufficient
time, they were cut down and tumbled
indiscriminately, with the other three,
into one common grave.
Shortly after this event, Leah and
Randolph Dareli were happily united in
wedlock; and soon after the close of
our glorious Revolution, the whole
family emigrated to Hardin County,
Kentucky, where they could have, as
Mrs. Hart expressed it, more "elbow
room," if less civilization. Nea York
Weekly.
A New Puzzle.
A new puzzle has been sprung upon
tbe inoffensive peoplo of this weary
world. It is an innocent-looking affair,
and an inexpensive one withal, but more
deadly than "pigs in the pen." Thiv
latest brain-raking device consists simply
of three columns of figures, arranged thus -
1 i 1 1
i
8 3 8
5 5 5
7 7 7
0 9 9
Nov , the point is to add together any
six of the above figures and make the
total 21. Philadelphia Record.
Trade 1 Cast Off Tectb.
A medical statistician estimates that
the citizens of the United States are car
rying gold to the value of $500,000 in
the recesses of what ought 'jo be their
teeth. There are no people on the face
of the globe who have such bad teeth and
w!o spend so much money upon them as
the Americans. No doubt the habit of
huriied feeding and the wholesale con
sumption of sweet dishes have assisted
much toward this end. But is it not a
mistake to suppose, as says tho medical
statistician, that false teeth set iu gold
aro buried when their owner shuffles off
this mortal coil? If this is the custom in
America, it is not so in England, or why
the numerous advertisements offering to
to buy old artificial teeth? The old teeth
are not bought to use again, as some
nervous people fancy, but simply for tho
sake of the gold. I'opular I'ruiuler.
He Enjoyed tho l'uss.
Great men do not always write in the
grand manner, but Crowfoot, the Black
foot Chief, was not writing in this re
spect. He received a perpetual pass over the
Canadian Pacific Railroad, aud in ac
knowledgment of bis thauks sent the
following letter:
"Great Chief of the Railway: I aalute you,
O L'hinf. O great, I am pleased with rail
road key, opeuing road frtx to me. T lit)
chaiua aud rich eovttrttuts of vour nam
writiug, iu wondurrut power to oim-ii the '
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Ihavedou., Cuowroor."
THE ATHLETES 01? JAM,
WOlfDERFTTLMTJSC'OLAR DEVELOP
MENT OF HER WRESTLERS.
Their Heroic Mode Of Training The
Bath Is All import Ant Herculean
Coal Miner,
The Japanese contortionists have an
International tonutatiou. On every
country toad of Japan you Will find
bands of three little boys, ranging in age
from six to fourteen, and these boys will
twist themselves into more shapes than
the india-rubber man of the American
dime-museum. They will wrap their
toes about their beads as they lie on their
stomachs, and will look out of their
almond eyes as they frame their facet
with their ankles. They will turn their
heads around so that they seem to be set
on their shoulders wrong side first, and
will bring themselves into so many
position that you can hardly believe
(hat they have any bones in their bodies,
and you feel that they are hardly human.
Among the best developed men I have
ever teen are the laborers of the Takas
hima coal mines, who work all day
underground, and whose labors are
carried on in a network of passages of
more than fifty miles in length, which
extends under the sea about one of the
islands of western Japan. These men
carry great loads. They work from dawn
until dark, and their daily hot bath and
their rice diet give them muscles of
which any turner in America would be
proud.
Tho Japanese consider the bath aud
gymnastics of tuch importance to health
that they have introduced them into the
training of tbe soldiers of their regular
army. The soldiers of Japan are put
through a full set of exercises every day.
They swing dumb-bells, jump on the
parallel-bars, and go through the severest
of physical training. The bath-rooms are
one of the institutions of every barrack,
and the soldiers are required to bathe all
over once a day, and they have to take
hot baths three times a week. Their
diet it rice instead of bard-tack, and
they have an allowance of six cents per
day for other food.
Tho profossiona' athletes of Japan are
the great wrestlers who seem to be of a
different race from the ordinary Japanese,
and who have a system of training very
different from that of John L. Sullivan
or Jake Kilrain. These raon believe, in
the accumulation rather thau the reduc
tion of fat, and they are great, tall fel
lows of six feet or more, and weigh from
two hundred to three hundred pounds.
They train themselves largely by pound
ing and by being pounded by their fel
lows. They have great strength of neck,
and they increase this by butting against
one another with their heads and strik
ing their opponents in the chest, to that
the noise is that of a battering
ram. They butt at wooden posts
with their shoulders, pound their flesh,
and stamp the earth with their feet. I
saw an exhibition at which about a hun
dred of these wrestlers contested, during
a visit I paid to Japan a year or so ago.
Tho wrestlers came into the room entirely
naked, with the exception of a belt about
the loins. Before beginning, they made
the earth shake with their stamping, and
they glared at each other like demons.
They made many false starts, and when
they grappled, their muscles stood out
like ropes upom their great arms, aud it
was a battle of the giants. They have a
wonderful strength of wrist and fingers,
and now and then one would grasp, bit
opponent by the belt, and, lifting bit
three hundred pounds high in the air,
would throw him over his shoulder, and
he would fall on the earth with a terrible
thud, while the umpire would raise his
fan aud yell out tho Japanese word foi
victory. The most noted Japanese
wrestler) have as great reputations as
those of our prize fighters, and the
profession of wrestling dates back to
the beginning of the Japanese history.
The rules of the ring Are quite as rigid
as those of the Marquis of Queensbury,
and there are forty-eight falls which csn
be made. Tho very best class of ths
Jr.;.nese people patronizes these wres
tlti:, and a rich man often has a party ol
them come and wrestle at his reception!
for tbe entertainment of his guests. Some
of the most noted statesmen are patrons
of wrestlers, and one of the cabinet min
isters of tiie Mikado was not long ago
nicknamed the "Wrestler." Tho wres
tliuggoesoo in both its public exhibitions
and at private entertainments without the
aid of betting, and so fur the muscular
exhibitions of Japan have not been cor
rupted by the vice of pool-selling. JVt
York Led'er.
A Ghastly Talismau.
"Better than a rabbit's foot."
"Better than finding a horseshoe.11
"Or a four-leaf clover."
So spoke a number of hangers-on at
the police court yesterday.
""What are you referring to," asked a
frien.l.
"To a bit of hangman's rope. It's the
best talisman in the world. Every crook
carriers a piece. It's for good luck. About
ever third crook arrested has a bit ol
rope in his pocket. He would rathei
lose a thousand dollars than part witb
that piece of rope. If he did part with
it bit luck would turn. The Sergeant
alwaya returns it wheu the crook goti
out r-f jail aud demands his property.
VetivU Wee Pret.
Seamless Steel Boats.
Mr. lies lop of Leeds, England, hat
devised a method of forming steel boats
without a seum by oue operation. Thi
metal plate ued is oue-sixteenth inch
thick, and of oval shape. It is heated
in a fui nace aud theu molded in a die
to the required form by hydraulic pres
sure. Three dies are employed to gaiu
the form by degrees, and thus preserve
the uietul from cracking or buckling.
The boat is then polished, aud fitted up
with air-tight compartment aud other
necessaries.
Footpads are becoming bold and auda
cious iu Londou at uight, some going sn
far as to "buhl up" cab.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
A miil at Alpena, Mich., makes goo d
manilla paper from pulp of tamarack.
An Iowa court has decided that a
meteor belongs to the person on whoso
land it falls.
Montana claims to have the largest and
finest jasper quarries in the world, re
cently discovered.
A new gun bat been perfected by Signor
Guidolli, of Lucca, which will fire sixty
four shots a minute.
For every fifteen yards we descend Into
the earth the temperature increases about
ten degree Fahrenheit.
The fastest ship in the French navy
now has a speed of 19.68 knot per
hour without engine strain.
An Italian savant claims that in
jecting a current of electricity through
milk delays it souring fur several days.
A. now system of ventilation, never be
fore used on ocean steamships, is to be a
factor of the two new vessels now being
constructed for the transatlantic service
of the Cunard Line.
A rich bed of coal bns been discovered
in the Russian Amoor province of Siberia,
on Usuri River. The quality of tho do
posit is said to be equal to that of the
best English product.
It is the opinion of noted specialists on
diseases of the nose, throat and lungs
that one baby in every three has a growth
in the nose that obstructs respiration. It
is due to covering up the head.
One of the steel saws at the Washing
ton Gun Foundry recently cut through a
piece of gun-carriage metal four inches
in width by five iuches in thickness in
twenty minutes. The saw is of English
make.
Two chemists are experimenting at
Frecport, Penn., with the view of pro
ducing carbon points for electric lighting
from natural gas. It is said that by
burning the gas in a specially prepared
furnace pure carbon is obtained, but as
yet at a cost too great for practical pur
poses. A twenty-two-inch iron pipe which
was recently exhumed after being buried
in the earth for fourteen years, at Lassen,
Cat., came out as good as new. Tho
pipe was coated with nsphaltum when it
was put into the ground. This may be
taken as a good test of tbe preservative
virtues of asphaltum.
An old sea captain's argument it re
called at the completion of the race be
tween the steamships City of New York
and Teutonic. His was tho view that
the City of New York would win the
eastward passage and the Teutonic the
westward, because the vessels are evenly
matched, and one it better adapted to
English and. the other to American
coals.
The Buffalo (N. Y.) fire department
hat lately received a novel fire engine
which has excited much interest in that
city. Tbe carriage is constructed en
tirely of papier macho, all the different
parts of the body, wheels, poles and the
rest being finished in the best possible
manner. While the durability and
powers of resistance possessed by this
material are fully as great as those of
wood the weight is, of course, much
less.
A new machine has been designed for
the excavation of sewer trenches. Tbe
material in this system of excavation is
handled but once, and the operation is
continuous, a Hue of loaded buckets
passing out and a line of empty ones re
turning to be filled at the same time.
Ordinary excavating machine require
the empty buckets to be returned over
the same line over which tbe full ones
ure sent out, and it la claimed that for
this reason the new machine can work
more rapidly and cheaply.
The six-inch ordnance rifle which suc
ceeded in demolishing the British armor
plate at Annapolis is capable of burling a
projectile through 10 inches of wrought
iron placed 1000 yards from the muzzle
of the gun. Tbe power of tho eight
inch gun is 16 3-10 inches, same dis
tance, and of the ten-inch" gun twenty
one inches, same distance. The twelve
inch projectile will pierce twenty-eight
inches at a distance of 3000 yards. The
thirtoen-inch guns, which will be pro
vided for the battle ships, are capable of
demolishing the heaviest armor.
Scollop Shucking; Houses.
When a fishing sloop's hold is fllloj
with scollops the Captain at once sets
sail for the "shucking" bouso, either in
New Suffolk, Mattituck, Sag Uarbor,
Southold, Pecouic, Green port or some
other bay side town on Long Island.
"Shucking" is tbe vernaculur for takiug
the shells off the fish. A shucking
house is a rough boar l building, heated
by a log fire. Along one side extends a
shelf on which the unopened scollops are
piled.
The shuckors are young men and
women, and the work affords ample
opportunities for flirtation, as each young
mau can work at the elbow of his sweet
heart. Facing the shelf tilled with
scollops, each "shucker," armed with a
stout bladed knife, dexterously opens
the scollops, propping the edible tidbits
in a pan and brushing the shells into
traps at their sides.
The shuckers work with nmaziug
rapidity. One turn of the wrist com
plete the operation. There aro from
seventeen to twenty-one huudred scol
lops in a gallon, and an expert
"shucker" will score a gallou iu
an hour and a half. They are
paid sixteen cents a gallon for open
ing the scollops, which are at once
parked in stone jar or new tubs and
shipped to market by train. Scollop;
are a big source of income to the people
of many Loug Island towns that before
the discovery of the shellfish iu I'ecouiu
Hay id led through the wiuter mouths.
Htt York Herald.
Jones "I dou't think you ought tc
go arouud sayiug thut Hobiuson is th
biggest cowardalive." Brown "Why,
be shows in every way he's atruid of me.'
Jyues .' ' V4 Well, your juslitiuble.'J
LEAVES.
The leaves, so brilliant before they wer
shed,
How changed they seem when they oover oar
dead I A.
Silently fallen with pathos of tears,
How like they are to the vanishing years I j
What precious, consoling thoughts thoy in
spire. In hearts now as still as a brolnm lyre I
Under the leaves and, though sadly laid
there.
With a trust as sweet as an Infant's prayer.
Under the leaves and the shadowing trees.
Their requiem rang by the moaning breoza, 1
Under the leaves and the moon', tender
light,
Under the star of the soft, jeweled nisht.
Under the loaves and the sun's splendid ray,
Prophetic sign of eternal day.
Under the leaves and tbe dear summer flow
ers, Fragrant with memory of happy hours.
Beneath the autumnal and storm-swept sky,
Yet peacefully resting whtre pansies lie,
Under the leaves and the white, vestal snow,
Emblems of pureness tho angels know.
Under the leaves an.1 the blossoms of spline.
There awaiting our risen King,
Under the leaves and the sweet song of blrs.
Can lovo be lost that was deeper than words?
O'er the sad, dead leave., oh, do not grieve
long.
But breathe a prayer that shall blend Into
song;
For under the leaves, though the mortal lie,
How grand is the soul on high !
There, through eternity's cycles untold,
The love that was true shall never grow
cold.
And there, at last, by the beautiful stream.
May our love and life be like a sweet dream.
The Interior. -
. W
1"
HCM0R OF THE DAT.
Noah's are The rainbow.
Each addition to one's kindred is a
relative gain.
A fiery temper gives adverso criticism
a warm icception.
The cat has nine lives, nod spends
them all in vocal culture
One way of getting along iu this world
is to walk. Detroit Free i'reti.
There wasn't enough of the Swiss revo
lution to go round. PUtiburg Chronicle'
lelegraph.
The crab may not be as good eating as
the lobster, but it doe very well on a
pinch. Elmira Qatettt.
Ted "I'm going to run bim a race
for Dolly' hand . " Ned " Then it will
be a sack race for one of you." Tht
Week't Bport.
She "Why doesn't Mr. Mullins go
out into society more?" He "Bocause
society is always out itself vhon Mullins
begins calling."
"Well," laid the bafcball captain,
"our cake is all dough?" "How do you
account for it?" "We haven't a good
batter." Muniey't Weekly.
Fred "What is the matter? You look
positively ill." Tom "Negatively ill,
you moan, isn't it? My best girl ha
said no to me." Mamey't Weekly.
The oldest Inhabitant 1 an interesting
personage; but he doesn't make half as
much noise in his immediate locality as
the youngest inhabitant does. Puck.
The man who thinkrhe knows it ' .
Upon his nose may take a fall;
But ho who sometimes is in doubt, .
May rind that weakness helps hiiu out.
I'uch.
Politeness generally pays. A gentlo
man who gave up his seat to a lady on
an elevated train, afterward found out
that she had been robbed while occupy
ing it. Puck.
We are rather at a loss to know why
sunlight is so often described a "gold
en." The "silver" moou is accounted
for by coming iu quarters aud halves.
llerkthirt News.
"How long has your daughter been
practicing on the piano?" "To be exact
she begau one mouth before our neigh
bor went crazy, and lie's been iu the
asylum a year." Fi'jaro.
The Obliging Peddler "If you don't
stop talking to me about your wares I
will whistle for my dog." "I bavesomo
most excellent whistles, sir; just try one
or these." Fliegende Blaelter.
Landlady "Mr. Mediums, may I ask
what you are trying to find iu that cream
pitcher?" Boarder "I am trying, Mrs.
Irons, to rescue an unfortunate fly from a
watery grave." Chicago Tribune.
Willie took his fathor's razor and bW shaving
cup
To shave hltnsdlf last we?k;
Tho doctor charged a liver when he sowed the
gashes up
In little Willie's cheek.
"Humph," remarked a youn mau,
"my cigar has gono out." "Weil, that
settles it," replied his room m tte. "I
was wonderiug which of it be,
myself or tho cigar." WasiujUn
Post.
Grocer "Whut's that about the dozeu
eggs you bought this moruing?" lirowu
"They wero all bad except on-, aud
I've called to see how mueU oxita I owe
you for the good oue." York
Sun.
"This bell," said a well meaning sex
ton, when showiug the belfry of uu in
teresting village church to a party of
visitors, "is only rung in case of a visit
from the lord bishoit of the diocese, a
I tire, a flood, or uny other such calami-
tics. London Fujaro.
Travers "How much ere, tKesi
trousers!" Tailor "Twenty dollars,
sir." Travers "And you say you re
quire a deposit from strangers!" Tailor
"Yes, sir." Travers (warmly) "Al
ready I feel myself growing intiiu ita
witb you." AW Yor!c Sun.
Brigg "I want to jnit some soiled
neckties." Astonished I'lori. -"Soiled
neckties, sir f Soiled, did you sayf"
Brigg That's what. Wheu you call
upon a girl four times a week hi: t she'
unking aciay quilt, you will uutier
stand that a man bus got, to buy m c'.uies
at job lot pricai or sospeud payment."
Vlothiw and furnisher.