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ES
Orogon and Washington art becoming
great hop mixing States.
Of the 611 colorod man ia the employ
ment of tho Federal Govcruicnt, 15l are
iu tlio Interior Department.
Fiji is commencing the cultivation of
tobacco, the enterprise boing assisted by
the concession of Government land to
the planters on easy terms.
The Iioston Cultivator believes that
"tho abundance of cheap and fertile
land in tho West, and its possession by
farmers of small menus and roving ten
dencies, has operated to lower the stand
ard of American agriculture."
The heavy incrcuso in tho Hussion
army npd navy estimates will furnish in
teresting reading for continental diplo
mats. It shows, concludes tlio Sun Fran
cisco Ctironielt, that the millenium, when
abitrntion shall succeed war, is as far off
as ever.
The Hostou Herald thinks that the fact
that only three persons were killed by
electric light plants in Now York StutO
last ycar whilo eight lost their lives by
"blowing out tho gus" rather goes to
show that it is less dangerous to monkey
with electricity than to foot with gas.
A London vegetarian amateur athletic
club has just becu for mod. The avowed
object of the founders is to have a school
for vegetarian athlete which will in timo
produce as good runners, wrestlers,
harriers, vaullers as any of those now be
fore tho public who get their results on
a meat diet.
Tho Indiana House of Representatives
has passed a resolution directing tho au
thorities of that State to co-operate with
Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa,
Kansas, Ohio, Kcutucky and Pennsyl
vania in an inquiry as to how much for
eign copitul is loaned iu thoso States,
with a view of taxing that capital.
Sheep raising may be profitable, after
nil, admits tho Boston Tranterivt, if
,i .
this story of tho experience of a young-'
Now York woman is truo: Two years I
ago her brother, having money invested
in sheep in Utah induced her to put
$1500 iuto tho investment. She has late
ly sold her share to her brother for
$3500.
The baby Kiug of Spain starts out well,
soliloquizes the San Fraucisco Chronicle, '
by causiug the death of his nurse beforo
ho has cut his milk teeth. If ho had .
been born four hundred years calier this
would probably Luve been regarded as a
good omen of his prowesj as a warrior, ' nud sUirtud ')la e loiigpll m s.ug
but in these degenerate days the iucldent iu8 : '-There is a tavc' i this tXn."
will be variously interpreted by tho super- The others joined Kjn, while Johuson
stitious.' r
Queen Liliuokulaui,who succe'-"8
kaua on tho Hawaiian thron 'e' ' &tiy
two yeura old. She is - 'uiable and
very intelligent wonj,
having a tasto
for .poctrv '
w.4..-.iiauco an
' but of late yet
stout. She is
..-,ic. bho is stately in
has a dignified carriage,
s she has become rather
uiniatcd and interesting
in conversation
spcuking iu tho low and
it aro peculiar to her
musical toues t
race. Sho spen
English und is well
versed in tho current literature of
tho
E. L. Godkia, iu tho Forum, under
takes to prove the expedition to re
lievo Euiin wr.s clearly a piratical under
taking, siuco it had tho sanction of no
Government and its leader was responsi
ble to no power. In the course of the
argument Mr. Godwin shows the sym
pathy for Emiu wjiieh caused tho ex
pedition to be undertaken was a senti
ment born of the Gd'rdou invth, and he
points out the curious fact that tho peo
ple of Africa, owin ;jto tho slavo trado,
Jias always beeu rewarded as lit spoil for
pirates even by civili.yd nations who hold
no such notions even' about any othei
savages. MT. Uodkiuj expresses the high
est admiration for Stanley's cournge and
endurance, uud approves of his conduct
of the expedition. It is its legal charac
ter only that ho criticises.
Tho French people have given another
striking proof of their wealth as well as
of their confidence in Ill's Government by
subscribing for sixteen limes tho amount
of the new loan of ueaSy $-.200,000,000.
"It is extremely doubllTl," observes the
New York Xnxt, " whether any other na
tion, in Euiope at least, ijould achieve so
rent a financial viitory exit-ling .con
' ious. The farmers a."'d working 'poo
f France have take! the loan so ex
!y that little is kit for the banks,
o else arc the i missel of the peo
dy to iuliu-v their earnings to
uncut, although tho public
co is iilritidy tho greatest in
ho'iii persons who have
d to regard the French
i-fcJBg financial and po
j tvo reason to revise
ts. The French peo
he pruiid of their
ueut.''
WHAT SHALL IT PROFIT?
If I lay waste and wither up with doubt
The blessed fields of heaven whore once my
faith
Possessed itself serenely safe from death;
If I deny the things past finding out;
Or if X orphan my own soul of One
That seemed a Father, and make void the
plaoe
Within me whore He dwelt In power and
grace,
What do I Bain, that am myself undonef
William D. Howellt, in Harper.
RECEIVING A PRINCE,
La Paulino isn't much of a place, and
yet even the train deluxe stops thero.
This is because this is tlio junction whero
trains leaye on the littlo branch line that
runs to Hyers. A tall mountain stands
sentinel over La Pauline, and if a person
wore on the top of the mountain ho would
see Toulon and the iron-clods, as well ai
a great stretch of tho blue Mediterran
ean. On tho long platform north of tho line
five young men were marching up and
down together, singing at the tops of
their voicoi:
"There is a tavern in this town
In this town.
And there my true love sits him down,
Kits Lira down.
And we'll hnng ou:- harps on the weeping
willow tree,
And may tho world go well with me
Well with me,"
Or words to that effect. Thev sane vcrv
boisterously, and suited their marching
to tlie tune, giving three stamps with
their feet all together when they came to
the refrain: "lathis towL." They ap
peared to be American citizens, uud
seemingly didn't give a hang if all the
worm knew it
Suddenly tho five stopped before a
young man who was seated on one of the
benches. He was a quiet, dignified,
self-possessed young fellow, aud b.i
looked up at them as they halted before
him.
"Come on, Johnson," said ono of the
five, "we aro uot going to lot you go
back on the crowd like this. You sing
buss, and we just want a good boss
Toice."
"You do that," remarked Atmff
quietly, "also, five other good voices."
"Seo here. It's easy for you to sit
hero and criticise the singing, but we are
not going to allow that. You've got to
join iu. Come on, Johnson."
"I don't see why we should make
idiots of ourselves in tho south of France
u1 moro tnan wo suouIJ n America."
"But we do in America, do:ir boy, wo
do Alwftyg w donn Md wenot
going back on our record. Come on,
Johnson.
"I'm just a little tired of that tune,
you know." ,
"What's the matter .with the tune?
It's the one Keenan ying all through
Siberia. Como on, Jolisou."
But Johnson woulduot como on, and
so tho five set at hini.-md tried to force
him to join them. The uniformed man
ol mo station locked on wi-,;- k
brows, apparently iot knowing w-Iwner
this was a Kcnuiyj
held tho furt if "cut ono after another
,...i;
-iieno of theu desisted,
t serenely on tho be ;h. The official
shrugged his shoul&.rs and e
evidently
thought these foreiV'i
were hard to
understand
Thero was a shrill whUlle to the west,
and the train from Marillet catne rush
ing in. j ;
I walked down tho hit-j, t fiin, opened
the door of a compurtuent that was
empty and took uiy suit. When the
train started there was a ihout of warn
ing from the guard, ami, beforo I could
look out to seo what the matter was, tho
door was Hung open and ino of the sing
ing young men tumbled ,n. The guard
slummed tho door shut vith a maledic
tion on the man who broke tho rules and
nearly broke his neck. ; The ycuug fel
low picked himself up, lifted his hat and
said :
"Pardonny moi mouseu "
"Oh, that's all right," I answered,
"don't mention it. If that is your
usual way of petting into a traiu, you
will find ; ourself iu u French juil or cut
in two ou tho tnuk some day."
"Oh, you speak Euglish, do you!" re
plied tho youug fellow, ignoring what I
said, and seemingly surprised that he had
not a monopoly of the language so far
south in France.
"Yes, I can make myself understood
in most pnrts of England aud America."
"Well, theu, you must have heard our
row with Johnson."
"About theflleged singing? Yes."
"Well! Wl're just laying for old
Johusoi.. Xc-L uu't givo it away, will
you?" ,
"Certainly hot. "
" Well, yoil.ee if l like this. Johuson 's
mother was a Princi au(j
"A princess, you'mcaa..
"No, she belong to the old princo
family of Boston. 4fobllgou u ver roa
of that branch of tut) fumilyi more go
than of the Johnson gi,,0- IIis nam0 u
J . Prince Johuaaj. , AVe used to ca hilll
Prince at college. 1Io likes that, aud
that s v.liy vro call llin johnsm nowi
"I noticed you t iu tll0 name Joilu.
on pretty often."
"Of course wejj, whenever ho
tries to put on uir' c.lU hilu JoUDsou
so often that he uraduully tones down.
Now, hero's the pl,, we-rj lmUiug up ou
0 , VT'' 1 ot i" her 80 lie
would.il ' -'.ilde. Hy tne wayi Whtre is
the first V'" Md.no your time book."
It.treC 'be pam hll,t over to hilu.
'Ah
s-iiil,
we have half an hour
where tiro you go
yet. By to
uy
iug?"
"I'm goiufto C
' We're gN,VT t
tlds si(o l""" t
to ties.
St. ltaphael. That's
top oil with us and
bu worth while.'1
I'll stop. Teil me
e a ti'leuraiu."
Itr it ind'-'l me a
t u UuU;buo:i(
te
Proprlntor Hotel of the Monarch, St.
Haphnol :
At 3 o'clock H. R. II. Prince Johnson will
arrive. Provide for him. Have ons car
rin go at. station for t . prinoe and one for his
suite. Provide Buitaliln escort.
HON. 8111 BROWN,
Chiofof suite, J. K. 8., N.I. X., O.K.
AC. AC.
"I think I see the plan. You are go
ing to prepare a princely reception for
Johnson."
"Exactly. He is really a quiet, unas
summing fellow and hates anything like
a fuss, even if he docs put on airs now
and then. He'll be the nfjgt surprised
man you ever saw."
"I think I can toll you sotneono else
who will be more surprised."
"Yes? Who?"
"Tho fellow who has to pay tho hotel
bill. Ho laughs best who makes out the
bill. You will get the carriages and per
haps the escort and certainly the best
rooms in the house, but when the bill
comes in it will paralyze you. I know
how they charge for that sort of honor.
I am a dukc'myself."
"The dickens you arel Why, I
thought you were an American."
"But I never tjavel under my tittle. I
can't afford it. A duke is all right at
home, but on the continent I travel as
Mr. Welcome Smith."
"Well, nevertheless I think we will
surprise the hotel-keeper as much as we
will surprise Johnson."
"You might do it nearor the frontier,
but I doubt if you will be able to evade
payment here."
At this point in the conversation the
(rain stopped and Brown got out to send
oil his telegram. When he came back
iuto the traiu he began writing another.
"Are you going to send more than one
dispatch?"
"Lord, yes I I'm going to fire a tele
gram from every place we stop at. I'm
going to work up St. Raphael. They'll
getting roturns from tho back coun
ties most of tho day. That's an Ameri
can phrase, you know."
"Oh, is it?"
And so tho telegrams went from every
stopping pluco until we reached St. Ra
phael. It was evident the moment we stopped
that there was an unusual commotion in
tho littlo Mediterranean town. The
platform was studded with officials in
gorgeous uniform. As soon as Johnson
got out of tho train we all ranged our
selves behind him and kept our hats off,
whilo Johnson had his on his head. The
eagle eye of the hotel proprietor at once
took in the situation and he advanced to
ward the youug man, bowing frequently
and deeply.
"H. It. II. Prince Johnson?" he in
quired. "Prince Johnson yes. But. J. is the
initial."
With a wave of his hand the proprietor
introduced a gorgeous offiMul, who at
once began to read an address of welcome
in French.
Johnson looked around him in a be
wildered way, as if some ono had hit him
with a club.
"Say, boys," ho casped, ' vre it
acthing oil the line hore. What s the
fuss, do you think? Whose funeral is
this, anyhow?"
"Shut up, Prince," whispered Brown.
"Go through tho thing and let us see
what's in it. That's what we came
abroad for."
When the address was finished John
son thanked the official in a dazed sort
of way and then turned to us.
"Come, boys," he said, "let us get
out of this as quickly as we can."
Tho hotel proprietor walked by his
side, bowing all tho way. When we
reached tho outside. Johnson was aghast.
Instead of getting out of it ho had just
got into it. At a signal from the official
the town band struck up the Murselltiise
and tho millitia that they had managed
to gather together presented arms. The
wholo populace socmed to be there and
they raisod a cheer. One carriage had
four horses in front of it und the carriage
for the suite had two.
Oh, this is too much," said Johnson
in anguish, as he drew his hand across
his brow.
"Better get into the carriage and get
this over as soon as possible," said
Brown. "You get ia with him, Duke. I
guess the boss in the gold lace is going,
too."
We three members of the nobility got
into the first carriuge. Johnson turned
to me, "Are you a Duke?" he asked.
"If you are, I'll bet a dollar all this is
for you. It's missed fire in some way."
"They don't usually receive mo in this
way."
"Then Brown's put up this job on
me. ' If he has, you bet your life I'll get
even with him. I'll slay him. I'll wait
until we get into Switzerland and then
drop him gtntly over a two-mile preci
pice; see if I don't. Still, if he lighted
on his cheek it wouldn't hurt him.
Brown's a villuin."
All the officiuls of the hotel were ranged
out iu two rows to receive us and the
people all along the route cheered.
Well, we spent a very nice time at
St. Raphael. But, just as I said, when
tho bill was called for, it was a corker.
Even Brown turned a shade paler when
he saw the appulliug total.
"Don't you charge for the brass baud
and the escort?''
"It is all inclusive," said tho pro
prietor, with a low bow.
"Then wo won't have any trouble,"
continued Brown. "You seo we travel
with 's hotel coupons. We bought
them iu Loudou. You take them at this
hotel. That's why I telegraphed to you."
"But," said the proprietor indignant
ly, "uot for these rooms. You must
give me notice wheu you have 's
coupon's."
"They assured us in London that they
were good for the best iu the house. 'You
can't givo us any better than that, can
you 2"
Tho proprietor was wild, but finally
the mutter was compromised ou what the
boys cuusidered a square basis, which
was much less than the origiuul bill.
Wheu we were all in tin railway car
riage bound for Cannes Johnson said :
"Brown, this thing has been more suc
cessful tliau wm deserve. I'm willing to
let by-gou be by-goucs; but there is
one thing that you will all have to
promise me on your word of honor, and
that is that you will not let this get into
tho newspapers at home."
The boys all gave tho desired promise
that the affair would be a dead secret.
Johnson said to me:
"You have no idea what ferreting vil
lains American newspaper men are. If
they get a hint cf a thing, tho first you
know they know all about it. I think
we will be lucky it we keep this from
them."
I told hira I thought they would be.
Detroit Free Pre.
A Qnerr Cable Message.
Governor Gilpin, of Colorado, had to
pay $147 for one of the first cable mes
sages that went over the ocean.
Gilpin wus a good-natured fellow,
and the probability is that ho camo into
tho telegraph office at Denver and wrote
out the cablo,never thinking it would bo
sent. It was sent, however, and ho had
to pay the bill.
The first Atlantic cable was completed
in 1858, and it was alleged that a dis
patch was received by President Bu
chanan from Queen Victoria over it.
This dispatch, however, was about all
that ever camo over it. There was
skepticism throughout tho United States
as to whether the dispatch ever got
through, and it was eight years after
this beforo any cable business was done.
The successful cable was tho new line
completed on August 3, 1858. At this
timo no one seemed to think the cable
would work. Tho Western Union had
sent a corps of operators and explorers
to Alaska to build a line across Bearing
Straits to Russia, and when it was an
nounced that the now cable was done
and that any one wishing to send dis
patches to Europo for $10 a word
could do so, the whole world laughed
and the telegrapsoperators looked upon
it as a gigantic joko.
It was at this time that a dispotch
was received from Denver, Col., signed
by the Governor of tho Territory, to be
forwarded to New York, and addressed
to Pans. The dispatch had to be sent
ft. i New York to Newfoundland by
steamer, and was there cabled. The dis
patch read:
"Denver, Col., Aug. 4, 1858. To Louis
Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor, Tulleries,
Paris, France. Please leave Buhemia alone.
No interference will he tolerated by this
Territory. John Uilpim, Governor."
The message was looked upon as an
expensive joke of Mr. Gilpin's and for
warded to New York. The result was
thfat it was sent to Newfoundland and
telegraphed, and Napoleon HI no doubt
received it.
The price of the cable was $147 in
gold. It seems that Governor Gilpin
camo into the office, and, on being told
there that the cablo was completed,
dashed off this message and handed it
over, never supposing that it would bo
sent. The probability is that when he
found it was sent he paid the bill.
Philadelphia Timet.
A Memory Test.
In a Western court, a witness Lad
been detailing, with great minuteness,
certain conversations which had occurred
several years before. Again and again
tho witness testified to names and dates,
and precise words, and it became neces
sary for his cross-cxamir.cr to break him
up. This was done by a very simplo
device. Whilo tho witness was glibly
rattling off his testimony, the cross
examiner handed him a law-book and
said: "Read aloud a paragraph from
that book.'" "What for?" iuquired the
witness. "I will tell you after you have
read it," said the lawyer, and the wit
ness accordingly read aloud a paragraph
of most uninteresting material about
lands, appurtenances, aud hereditaments.
Then the lawyer went up and asked hira
a few moro questions about his memory,
and tho witness was positive that his
memory was very good. Suddenly tho
lawyer said: "By tho way, will you
please repeat that paragraph you just
read about lauds, appurtenances and
hercditments?" "Why, of course I
could not do that," replied the witness.
lou must have a queer memory, re
torted tho lawyer, "siuce you cau repeat
things that you say occurred years ago,
and you can not repeat what you read a
moment ago." The witness was non
plused. Argonaut.
Nonchalance of a Famous General.
At the takiug of Moscow, Russia,
whilo the troops sat iu their saddles
uudcr a murderous fire, Murat received a
dispatch to which an answer was re
quired. Though his mettlesome horse
was trembling, Murat laid tho reins upon
the horn of tho saddle, took his note
book in one hand aud a pencil iu tho
other, aud begun to writo a response.
Suddenly a shell fell and exploded on
tho ground close by. The horso leaped
into the air aud swung wildly around.
Murat simply transferred the pencil to
tho hand that held the note book, calmed
the horse with the other hand, and theu
went on writing his uispatch as if noth
ing had happened.
A shout of uduiirutiou went up along
the line. Murut saw that tho enthusiasm
aroused by his trilling uct had created a
favorable moment for a charge. Ho
gave the order, aud his men swept clear
through the eueiny's line. Atlanta CV
Uitution. A Powerful Electric t'raue.
A powerful crane, says the Philadel
phia liecord, capable of raising iuto the
air, in response to the touch of au elec
tric buUou, a locomotive weighing ninety
tons has been put iu operation at the
Baldwin Loc-omotivo Works. Tlio huge
engine rides smoothly ou a heavy track
elevated twenty-eight feet above the
level of the floor of the main shop. For
merly the work of raising from the
giouud a locomotive iu process of con
structing was accomp islie I with great
difficulty by the aid of hydraulic jacks.
At present the locomotive, whoso wheels
or other pttr.ts are to be adjusted, is
grasped iu a wrought iron yoke, aud, with
surprising ease, lifted iu obedience to the
engineer's t'.uch into mid air und shifted
to uuy desired poeitiou iu the shops.
A CHAPTER ON BANANAS.
A SUBSTITUTE TOU MEAT AND
DREAD IN SOUTH AMERICA.
mils Covered With rruit-Ucarlng
Plants Various Kinds of Bananas
llints on Cooking Them.
In South America the banana is not
thought of as a luxury. In fact it takes
the place of meat and bread and vege
tables among a large part of the people.
Every garden has its banana patch, just
as we have our indispensable rows of
potatoes. On tho Isthmus of Panama the
cars spin past hills covered from base to
summit with the beautiful broad-leaved
I plants, their great clusters of fruit hang
1 ing from the stems just under the leaves.
The banana plant looks somewhat like
an immense calla-lily. Its stem is mode
up of the bases of the leaves so sheathed,
or folded around each other, and hard
' cried as to sustain tho weight of the mass
' of foliage above. It will in some lo
calities attain a height of even twenty
feet. When two years old it bears
fruit and then dies, but a number of
young-shoots spring up from tho base of
the old stem, so that it continually re
news itself, and the farmer; who is usu
ally an Indian or negro, has no trouble,
except to keep the weeds and the old
withered trunks cleared away from the
growing plants. Even the trunk is of
somo use, for it contains a fibre almost
as soft as silk, which can be woven into
the most exquisite muslins. Indeed,
some of tho dainty India muslins are
niade of this very fibre.
There ore as many kinds of bananas
as there are kiuds of apples medium
sized ones, such as we seo in the North;
big ones a foot long; thick ones, almost
like small mu-kmelons; and little ones
only three or four inches in length.
When you visit a fruit stand I fear you
are likely to select the biggest and hand
somest bananas you see, and there is just
where you make a mistake. The smallest
bananas are in nearly aK cases the sweet
est and juiciest, tho tiny "fig" banana
being tho best of all. The rind should be
thin, and there should be no ridges or
corners on it. The larger the ridges the
coarser tho fruit. The plantain, which
is the very coarsest kind of banana, has
enormous ridges. This species is not fit
to cat without being cooked, but wheu
boiled or baked or fried it is delicious.
Any coarse banana that is, ono having
a thick rind with largo ridges is good
for cooking. All bananas contain staroh
while green, which upon ripening is
changed by nature's wonderful chemistry
iuto sugar. Now if the bauaua is taken
just after its rind has begun
to grow golden, but is still streaked with
green, it will contain a great deal of
starch, which will make it palatable
j wuea cooked, whilo the small amount of
tuar wnich has been formed will give
it a sweetness like a sweet potuto. Strip
the rind off, and boil it until soft, and it
will make ono of tho nicest vegetables
you ever ate. If you live in thecouutiy,
where you are blessed with tho luxury of
' nn open wood lire, try roasting somo
I peeled half ripened bananas in the ashes,
as you do potatoes, and see how savory a
morsel they make. It is one of the com-
moncst sights along the Amazon to see
groups of half-clad Indian men and wo
I men squatting around littlo camp-tires
roasting bananas, and having cudless
mirth trying to pick them out ot the hot
coals without burning their lingers. Wo
arc nil utcd to fried bananas, but we aro
prone to forget that for this purpose they
should not be fully ripe, as that makes
them tco soft and too sweet. Abovo all,
a banana roasted or fried should be
served hot, for us soon ns it becomes
cold it grows tough and unpalatable.
This fruit, which is tho greatest of all
tropical foods, comes to us chiefly from
Puuama and tho West Indies iu great
ship loads, aud iu the banana market iu
New York the big green bunches
'heads-" they all call them in South
America, just as we epeak of heads of
cabbage containing from rivo to ten
dozeu each, can be bought for a dollar
or two dollars ond fifty cents, according
to the variety. They ore not so expensive,
after all, aud a big green bunch hung iu
a cool cellar will ripen gradually, so ns
to furnish a fresh dozen of ripe ones each
day uutil the whole bunch is gone. In
this way you cau enjoy your bananas
just as they do in the luud of palms, for
even there they cut them whilo green,
and allow them to ripen us we do iu the
North. Jlarjier't Youna l'tople.
Long Buried M'ocd.
To find partly decomposed wood or
cveu that in u good state of preservation
one or several hundred feet below the
present surface of tho laud is such a
common occurrence that it is no longer
considered at all curious or wonderful.
All the coal veins of the world are made
up of vegetable matter and must huvo
required immense forests to furnish tho
material fur some of the thickest veins.
In tho lignite veins of tlio Western
Stutes lurgu blocks of wood are some
times found, and these scarcely changed
iu color or appearauce since buried, uo
onu kuows how many thousands of years
ago. Tho earth's surface has un-dergr-no
many changes. Somo of tho
mountains were once uudcr the sea, anil
probably large ureas of tho present ocean
beds were ranges of mountains, but it is
scarcely possible to employ our mode of
reckoning time to vast geological periods.
Ac J) Xurk Han.
The Story of nil Ejry.
Pining the mouth of December, Mr.
Il.ivd, of La Grunge, Ga., employed a
bey to cut dowu oue of the giant oaks iu
I the grove at his place, known as the
Clino place, for firewood. In the center
of the tree ubout four feet from tlio
ground was found a fresh hen's egg, em
bedded iu the solid wood, there being no
hollow or hole of any kind that the eves
of the astuuished beholden could dis
cern, for any oue to place the egg only
space cn'iu;;h to hold it, us a bull' t
mould holds the bullet wheu closed. Thu
tree was a little dotted around the egg.
Now who can solve the underfill freuk?
j AtlanU Coiitiitutivn,
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Gas is made from petroleum.
The cutting of veneers is now done by
lectricity.
Siam is to have a (100,000 electric
railway thirty miles long.
California is the only State in the
Union which at present produces quick
silver in commercial quantities.
A mechanical expert of Cincinnati,
Ohio, Bradford McGregor by name, has
succeeded, it is stated, in uniting alumi
num with glass.
Silk from paper pulp is made smooth
and brilliant, has about the samo
elasticity as ordinary silk, and is about
two-thirds as strong.
Geologists have proved that tho dia
mond miues of South Africa aro situated
in vents or chimneys varying from sev
enty to 15,000 feet in diameter.
There is a growing interest in electric
lighting plants owndtt and operated by
cities in England. The City of Cam
bridge is about to build a plant which
will cost $175,000.
The bobbin and shuttle manufacturers
of this country are about to consolidate
their interests and business, probably by
the organization of a new corporation in
which all will be stockholders.
An electric street railway car can bo
heated by the expenditure of one horse
power of electrical energy. There is no
dust, no cinders and no room is taken
from the seating accommodations.
By the application of chloride cf anti
mony a beautiful violet color is imparted
to brusswork. The brass should be first
made perfectly clean and heated until
water will steam off it with hissing.
Jacob Kahn, a Cleveland (Ohio) shoe
maker, claims that he has invented and
will have in operation in sixty days a
compressed air motor that will propel a
street car twenty miles an hour at a cost
of three cents.
It is proposed to build nn electric rail
way from St. Petersburg, Russia, to
Archangel, a port on the White Sea, a
distance of over 500 miles. The current
is to be supplied by a series of generating
stations distributed along the lino.
A new insulating material has been in
troduced, consisting of a mixture ot
gelatine, rosin oil, oxidized linseed oil,
rosin aud paraffin. The corapouud is
known as voltite, and is cheap aud
serviccabie, and in addition contains no
sulphur.
Seaweed is now utilized in tho manu
facture of tough paper which can be
used in place of window glass. Very
pretty and effective decorative effects can
be gained by coloring the paper and
using it in the same way as stained or
painted glass.
A firm of stone cutters in Berlin, Ger
many, have introduced a pneumatic
chisel into their establishment. The
workmun holds the syringe like appar
atus with both hunus, aud, as be slides
it over the surface of the stone or metal,
the chisel making 10,000 or 12,000 rev
olutions a minute, chips oil splinters and
particles.
Iu a recent lecture, II. W. ITenshaw,
of the National Museum, at Washington,
declared, concerning the antiquity of
tlio Indian, "that whether tho Indian
originated on this continent, where ho
was found, or elsewhere, it was iu by
gone ages ages so far removed from our
own timo that the interval is to be reck
oned, not by years of chronology, but
by the epochs of geologic time."
How to H'enr Shoes.
"Do you kuow there isn't ono man in
500 who knows how to wear ehoes?" re
marked a Clark street shoe dealer tho
other duy. "The average man buys a
pair of shoes, wears them uutil they aro
no longer presentable, and then throws
them away and buys unother pair. A man
ought to have at least two puirs of shoes
for everyday wear, and no pair sjiould be
worn two duys iu succession. At first
thought this may strike you as a scheme
to bent-lit the shoe dealer, but it is noth
ing of the kind. In fact, such a plan
would injure tho shoe business. Two
pairs of shoes woru alternately will last
three times as long as a single pair. The
(aviug, of course, is made iu the wearing
of the leather. A pair of shoes worn
every day goes to pieces more than twice
ns fast us a pair woru every secoud day.
I know that proposition is a stuggurer,
but it is true, nevertheless. A man does
not wear out two pair of shoes iu exactly
the same manner. Do you remember how
su old pair feel when you first put them
ou again after they have, been discarded
for uwhile? They didn't lit you like
your new shoes, und tho contrast is very
marked. But the same thing holds true
in tho case of new shoes. -No two pair
fit your feet iu exactly tho same way. Ia
one pair tho strain uud wear of the
leather fall heaviest upon one particular
part of the shoe, and iu another the
greatest wear and tear f til I upon unother
part altogether." Chicmjo Mail.
A Leper Village in Colombia.
A strange community is that of Aguti
di Dios, the leper village in Colombia, as
described by our Consul ut Bogota.
Situated ut ubout fourteen hundred feet
above the sea level, with a dry, saudy
soil, uud a temperature of eighty-two to
eighty-five degrees Fahrenheit, this spot
has been chosen for the Itu.arelto by the
(iovernuieut ou account of its ancient
reputation for tho cure of leprosy. Some
live hundred und twenty sufferers from
this terrible visitation dwell here, and
form about one third of the populutiou;
but thu most remarkable fact regarding
the settlement is that lepers and healthy
persous are described as living ou terms
of perfect intimacy, there being no spe
cific leper quarter, though every house in
thu village stands apart lu u garden. Mr.
heeler states that there is no case ou
record of the disease having been con
tracted here by contagion. Even where
lepers have married healthy persons, thu
hu.sliand or wife bus never beeu known to
take it from the other. Ou the other
hand, the mournful fact is admitted that
iliiUlieii horn of such unions are geu
etiilly iilllicted,--Hem. .
WiNOOW.PANE PICTURES.
From eve till dawn, th long night through,
Cold winter's elfln band
Such pictures drew
As never grew
Beneath the touch of human hand.
In dawn's dim light they faintly gleamed
On frozen panes, and glimpses seemed
To give of fairy land.
The boughs of great old trees were bent
With silver sheen ; and forth was sent
A frosty light from distant height,
Where glitt'ring spires appeared to sight, 1
And far-off castle wall.
Now here at hand, like a silver strand,
Hanging in mid-air fairlly,
A drawbridge spanned tho chasm grand,
Gleaming before us airily.
A stream flowed down tho niountain's side,
And cast a silvery spray,
Then dashing on with leap and sllda,
With graceful bound and easy glide
It reached the boulders gray,
And in deep gorges swept away.
Now o'er the cold, gray landscape came
A wavering light, a palo rose tin go
That touched the leavesand mosses' fringe,
Then slowly grew to ruby flame
Sotting the distant peaks aglow.
Melting from frozen heights their snow.
So fairy-land now fades away.
And we may watch in vain.
Our frostmade pictures melt from sight
The drops roll down the pane.
Mabel Nichoh, in St. Nicholai.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
A trade mark Talking shop.
A popular measure Brim-full.
The Farmers' AUiunco A rural mar
riage. Tho cowboy in the high-heeled bootl
is in his stocking feet. Chicago Neice.
An Arab who has lost his teeth prob
nbly speaks only gum Arabic. Buffalo
Express.
He "May I hope?" Sho "Yos; i
you will promise never to refer to tho
matter again. Life.
The tanner's trado is an entirely honor-
ablo one, nnd yet they do say it is a skin
deal. Btnqmmton Republican.
E. Z. Laffer "That old doctor is a
funny follow." Dana S. Lydig "Yes,
indcod. He s always takiug someboaj
off."
Old habits are hard to get rid of ai
you find when you tako them to thf
second-hand clothing store St. Joteph
(ifo.) Newt.
It is not advisable ior a bank cashier
to. read nautical talcs; tho practice might
inspire him to become a "skippor."
Boston Courier.
"I'll bet," said Chollio, "judging
from the way these trousers shrini., tbr
wool was shorn from an unusually timid
sheep." Puck.
Judge "Boy, do you understand the
nature of an oathr" Juvenile Witness
"Ycs'r. It's human nature, I reckon."
Chicago Tribune.
Tho bachelor thinks that tho baby is a
blot ou the landscape, ond tho baby's
mother kuows that the bachelor is
Homercille Journal.
Ethel "I ulways make it u point to
learn something new every day." Maud
"Then you uru not so old as I thought
you." Harper's Bazar.
Of nil the torments known toiuan
Thu greatest, wo assert.
Is to wear a fourteen collar
Upon a fifteen shirt.
UoodaWt Sun.
"Old Curmudgeon is the meanest,
stingiest man in town, aud yet you say
Lthut th.'.io isn't .t selhsh hair on his
head!" "Curmudgeon, sir, is entirely
bald."
Oh, g.-.s may escape and gas may burst,
Aii'l vanish iu uoiv. ami flume;
But tho meter's hand, iu its quiet way,
Hoes traveling on ward day by day,
And gets ther just the saina.
Topical 7Vin
An emiuent surgeon says taut with
four cuts and a few stitches ho can alter
i mau's face so his owu mother would
uot kuow him. That's nothing. Our
daily neivspapers do that much with ouly
ono cut. Mercury.
When in the footlight's glare she stan Is,
Wen think her ono of the fairy queens;
What would they cay,
Could they hut se3
The wuy she tackles the pork ami beans.
Chicago .Vents.
Scientific Notes: How wonderfully
ure the inventions of man anticipated iu
tho animal kingdom! The cuttle-fish
bus the power of covering itself with a
sudden effusion of any inky fluid and
w hat more can man do with the most in
genious fountain penf I'uck.
Unless with mirriugi- 1 iiieiin to dispense
JSow' the tune to wed, and no longer
tarry ;
If I longer wait I limy have more sense
If 1 have more sense then I'll never
marry.
Judge.
Ignoramus (at a party a few years
hence) "What is the matter with Miss
Beauty's ouce lovely arms? They are full
of horrid red blotches m il scratches."
Scientific Guest "Oh, that's till right.
Shu litis Minply been vaccinated against
consumption, small pox, typhoid fever,
and twenty or thiriy other diseases."
A'cto York Wttkhj.
"I should like to observe, inmlumc,"
said the patient border, "I jut while I am
very fond ol the neck of the fowl you
are carving I shall deny uyself this and"
beg for u large while chunk off the
br.-ust. Willi litis view 1 have had my
trunk parked and a drayinau is uow wait
ing at the door lor tin uuswer. El' Is
it lire.u-t or neck'" i'hicigu V-4.
lie could talk in Imteli or I. atin,
Ami could lrtO!-.!ale ,'ro.ii c'hoL-taw,
t'hoitse fi-ll us sUeli as al:ll
From tins vTln!i.-t;c jackdaw..
He wa-i leai iud in all llie- p.'.vhe;i
Of this lingual Immiiii ra v,
And was newi known to u-ueli Itis
i'liptls one wor-l 'Hit of plao-.
lint he lumliled .lowu eo.ti;l -tely
In enili-avoi-liii to talk
With a maiden , no uid kw,-i-!Iv
bite iVBUkd in -New awk!"
--.New 1 ni-fc 'l.
Tho largest County iu ll
I'.-nted
Slatis is Custer County, in Moi
rwhicb eouUius oU'UU pitue luile,