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An F. i-U Ti court bi.'lccided thtit to
r all a in it u convict after W bos. cfvd
s ifriii .,f Imprisonment nnd is legally
ii "', is libelous.' , .,
In AincrK.:rt1 puns the Boston ZVirn,
trript,' -that family which b becoming
more and more widely known 4 culled
bacilli; in Paris,' parisites ; in Oermauy,
guron, nim iu ircinmij microbes.
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Womea are excluded from the gulleries
of the .Topanoae Parliament "because."
lays a Jnpam&e bewspupoT, "they might
bo moved ,by ilje? debates to forth-.- I
t'oliucul agitation in' the euiplre." : '?
.;. i-'-v .
-. i,nic!igo im-s alleges tlint some
o( tho missionaries' of ! the North, India
conference hare had their bauds "grow
tired la boptlaiuj' thecrtnvarts who arc
flocking" to the gospel because" of their
lubors. ....... ' ,
"' A ohiid iu England stole .pieca of
literature valued at lcs thhu one shilling
and was sentenced to three mouths in
jail. Then, when a hostile mob ad
vanced upon tho temple of justice, the
sentence was annulled nnd the child
set free.
A writer in tho Southern Farm makes
a strong argument in favor of female phy
sicians for women. He says that certain
specialties were in tho hands of women
practitioners in all countries and all age
until comparatively recent times. In
support of his position he Quotes from
the Old Testament.
According to tho St. Louis Itepullie
the Japanese Consul at San Fraucleco,
Cal., appeared before tho Trades Council
to ask that no boycott be made on the
Japanese houses. He said that Japan
cse workmen would never affect Ameri
can labor, and that instead of sending
their earnings homo they spent them
vith. Caucasians.
The Philadelphia Inquirer is scared
and is trying to scare others over the re
ported discovery of bacteria in imper
fectly refined sugar. It declares that
samples show an analysis that 250,000
of these dangerous creatures are con
tained in some qualities; but whether
this is the census of a pouud, of a ton or
of a cargo is not stated.
Tho fanners in tho Northwest who
burned nearly all their hardwood timber
when clearing land have now cause to
regret it. A Michigan paper gives a
case in point. A man at Uivcrton ia
Belling hardwood logs to mill men at
good prices, and supplying what is un
marketable to his neighbors who have
cleared off their land and are forced to
buy fuel.
The Atlanta Conttitutwn learns that
"tho Mormons iu Utah are still reeciviug
now members from all over tho world.
They stick to their old-time religion and
live up to their faith as closely its the
Federal authorities will permit. They
have no mteutieu of moving to Mexico,
and instead of abandoning their mission
ary work, they are pushing it more ac
tively than ever. Thoy expect several
large parties from the South.
The New York Stat believes that no
cn iu New York who has not been out
iu the fur AVest can understand the lone
liness of those Minnesota farmers who
have written to Mayor Grant to s nd
them women for wives. There are re
gions on the plaius iu this country and in
Canada where men go mad from lack of
human neighbors, where kittens can bt
sold for $5, where almost tho only wo
men are Indian or half-breed squaws, and
where, bachelors tame wild birds and try
to tame wolves for compauy.
ays tho New Orleans Ncu DclUi:
From all over tho seetiou of Louisiana
which is devoted to the cultivation of
cotton comes the news that the planters
aro preparing to decrease tho acreage of
that staplo and diversify their crops to a
greater esteNt than heretofore. Thisde-
rNt
i i
termination i -tho result of tho low price
for the flVei v otple tho present season.
This is a . '. e move on the part of tho
planters, as nothing tends more to keep
tho farmer p iorer thuu tho one-crop sys
tem. If the low price of cotton has had
the effect iudira tc l i'!'ov.-, it has at least
taught the plauUu s wholeaomo lesson.
Accordiug to London Truth the order
against extravagance :u the Genuau Army
has led to tho resignation of nearly all
the wealthy otlieers, and tho Emperor
now has no regiment at Herliu or Pots
dam which can afford to ent' rluiu "dis
tinguished foreigners" in the ol lfachiou.
Formerly, a foreign guest wio hau vis
ited tho barracks of a crack regiment
was iuvariubly invited by the officers to
"liuuer; but now thero aro no en; .tain
mcuts, and the Emperor has tardily dis
covered that he had better not have
raedillud iu the matter, fur all the Itiis
sian, Austrian and Italian visitors li-ave
Berlin exclaiming at the poverty of pm.
slan officers, to the iuliuito mortilication
f UU Majesty. .
t OUR SPRING-TIMES.
tVhcn spring; come to neck hnrowa
Jo thev all rise at her words?
t Is the little flndReling's tone
4 Hweet as was the parent bird'sf
, 'When once more the streamlet roam
. po the robins all come borne?
Here's a nest upon a bough,
But there come no bird to claim;
Has she made a new nest tow?
If from some far land we came
t We should all the home Dent know,
Even were It Oiled with snow.
There are blue eyes that we miss
In the flush of violet time;
Bomotuing lacking tn tho bliss
Of the bird-bolls' weett. clilme;
Iu the heart are many spots
Bacred to forget-me-nots.
If perchance youth comet h bark
Through sonio treasure on your knee,
Still the heart will prove a lack,
Lovely though the child may bo;
For If it so needoth you,
You still need your mother, too.
Sometime will the far-off springs
Come hack with those later ones'
There will be no missing wings,
There will be no missing tones, -
All the joys, but dearer grown.
Of the spring-times we have known.
Mary A. itaton, in Frank Leslie's.
THE TRAVELING RING,
At the unearthly hour of 3 a. m. the
discordant Alpcnhorn wakes the guests
of tho Hotel Higi-Kuhn to give them an
opportunity for seeing the sunrise.
Tho hotel is ou the very summit of the
mountain, and iu front of it stands a
platform.
You can see the sunrise as well and
better from tho window ot your own
loom, but there is an extra chargo con
ucctcd with the use of the aforesaid
platform, and you would feel as if you
were swindling the management out of
the admission fee if you wore to see tho
spectacle from any other point of ad
vautago than tho one provided for tho
purpose.
But this is neither here nor there.
Miss Viva Merrick, of Chicago, hur
riedly donned a morning gown and
hastened down stairs at the sound of tho
born.
Hagged patches of mist rose lazily
from a lake of bluish fog that filled the
valleys; rugged tops and sharp crags rose
in bold outline, like coral reefs upon a
sea of floating dampness.
Everybody, including the young lady,
felt uncomfortable.
The greenish half light that precedes
day would make the rosiet complexion
appear pale, dull and lifeless, and rob
any face of its beauty ; it was therefore
quite unselfish in Captain Percy Demp
ster, It. E., on lenvo from India, to offer
his greatcoat to Miss Merrick as a pro
tection agaiust tho icy wind that blew
sharply from the glaciers. But he was
a geutleman, and would have done as
much for any lady, young or old, pre
ferably, of course, the latter, otherwiso
he would have tendered his coat to the
young lady's aunt first.
As usual, everybody fult better as
soon as the firft rays of the sun had
gilded the edges of tho long-stretched
clouds.
As the captain looked for his overcoat
he could not repress tho ejaculation,
"By Jingo, what a pretty picture!" and
be dropped his singlo eyeglass to see
better.
Frau Professor Holtzhacker began to
rhapsodize, "Yes, cet, ees wonterfool,
v onterfool, shplentit, grossartig, wirk
lich gar zu nctt!" because she thought
be meant the sunrise. But he didn't.
Miss Merrick's head just peeped out of
the captain's greatcoat, her checks all
aglow with the rosy light of the newborn
day. Her eyes shone and sparkled with
pleasure, and the crisp morning breeze
scattered a few stray locks of golden hair
that had found their way from under tho
dainty traveling cap.
Greuze or Fragouard or Jacquct could
not have wished for a better model.
If there is any man who finds fauit
with the captain for taking advantage of
the coat incident to introduco himself,
then let his neighbors watch that. man.
It was not accident that placed Demp
ster at the ladies' table at breakfast, but
the "llerr Ober-Kclluer" (head waiter).
Consideration two francs.
Miss Merrick' vivacity and cspritformed
a refreshing contrast to the primness of
her maiden aunt, and the young officer
found her more charming as their ac
quiautuuee progressed.
What difference does it make whether
one goes from Luzerne to lutcrlaken and
thence to Zurich, or vice versa? Hardly
any under ordiuary circumstances. But if
it is a question of keeping iu the com
pauy of a clever little lady by reversing
a proposed route it makes all the differ
ence iu the v.orld.
And that is why the captain feigned
pleased surprise that tho intended line of
travel of tho ladies should coincide with
his own plans, which it did not.
But, as everybody was pleased, it did
uot matter that be changed his route.
The summer passed very agreeably to
all, and left a deep impresBiou upon the
captaiu.
First he dropped his single eyeglass for
good, iu defereuce to the common sense
ot Miss Merrick; next ho abjured brandy
and soda as a concession to the aunt's
temperance principles; then he became
solitary and taciturn when the young
lady was not around, aud, ultimately, he
contracted the duugerous habit of look
ing at the moon long after everybody had
gone to sleep.
No one could have called Miss Merrick
a flirt, but womanlike, she thoroughly
understood tho subtle art of keeping her
adorer iu hot water by being alternately
coy and cold.
'Which Bhowcd that she liked him, or
the would not have teased hiin.
At Scheveuingeu, iu Holland, the
wlole 'affair came to a climax.
It waduriug au early morning stroll
dou to Jlie beach. They sat down iu u
couple of Jiosc old wiekerwork chairs.
(rossrp that aro repeated every season
about somebody or other.
Suddenly both grew silent. TTe began
to draw figures in the sand with his cane
and she beat a tatoo with her dainty
slipper while gazing out upon the sea
nnd the outgoing fishing boats in an ab
stracted manner.
The captain spoke first. "About a
year ago," he said, "I picked up a ring
in Simla, India, which hears on its inner
surface tho initials 'V. M.,' which are
your initials." 'Miss Merrick listened in
mute surprise, which changed to aston
ishment when the captain took a ring with
two dinmonds from his pocket. He
next took her right hand, which hung
by her side, with his other hand. Hers
was a very pretty hand, and the most
pleasant thing about it, to tho captain,
was tho tinniest suspicion of a responsive
touch.
What he bad to say ai he placed tho
ring upon her finger was so interesting
that sho did not interrupt him.
They returned to the hotel long after
breakfast time.
Before entering, tho captain said: "By
tho way, darling, why did you look so
surprised when I placed the ring upon
your finger? I should think that you
must have expected something of the
kind all along."
Miss Morrick had forgotten all about
the incident in the pleasurable excite
ment of the captain's proposal. But
now sho took the ring off her finger,
examined it carefully, and spoke; "Per
cy, dear, don't be offended, but this has
always been my ring. I lost it five years
ago in Newport, H. I., and I can tell it
to be the same ring by a tiny flaw in one
of the stones, aside from the initials."
Aud now comes tho strangest part of
this narrative, to wit : Tho story of tho
wanderings of Miss Merrick's ring. It
took two years to ascertain all the facts
about it, but the captain insisted upon
establishing a clear chain of evidence,
which would begin with Miss Merrick
and end with himself, or rather with
both.
The loss of the ring had first been no
ticed by the young lady on her return
from a shopping tour in Nowport, where
she was spending the summer. She
would hardly bavo suspected that the
elegantly dressed man who had assisted
her into her carriage had deftly slipped
tho ring off her finger while doing so. It
was Handy Bill, probably the most ex
pert pickpocket and sneak thief in Amer
ica. Mr. Twygg, the celebrated detec
tive, happened to see tho theft because
he bad been watching- the man. Unfor
tunately, Mr. Twygg's business in New
port was of so delicate a character that
he could not allow bis presence to bo
come generally known by arresting
Handy Bill, and therefore did not molest
him for tho present. Some two weeks
latter an opportunity offered for a con
fidential chat with tho thief, tho outcome
whereof was that he delivered the stolen
ring to the detective and left town the
morning following.
Mr. Twygg carclossly put thotrinkct
into his pocket and returned to Now
York.
Oue day not long'after a Russian de
tective called at the ollice of his Ameri
can conlcrree. Paul Sergiloff's mission
to tho United States was to delfver cer
tain documents to tho Itussian Minister
and to gather information concerning a
Nihilist agitator sojourning in Canada.
It so happened that his first point in
prospect was Newport, where tho Rus
sian envoy was spending part of the sum
mer. As Mr. Twygg searched for a mntjch in
his pocket with which to help the Itus
sian to me for bis cigarette, he felt Miss
Merrick's ring. What could bo more
natural thau that he should askbis visitor
to deliver it up to its fair owner, or that
Sergiloff should courteously assent!
But Miss Merrick had left Newport,
and iu the excitement incident upou tho
recept of a ciper telegram recalling him
to Russia at once, the Russian forgot to
icturn tho ring to Twygg, 'and carried it
with him to St. Petersburg.
One morning they found him there,
dead, in a narrow alley.
A bullet wound in his temple showed
the manner of his death, and the cause
for it was evidenced by tho circumstance
that tho entile front of bis) vest had been
partly cut and partly torn away.
The deed was done by Nihilistsianx
lousto secure certain papers that Sergil
off was supposed to carry in his inner
vest pocket.
A few months later the murderer and
some brother Nihilists were) arrested and
underwent tho farco of a Russian trial
for political offences. The imurdcrer was
hanged and his comrades went to Si
beria. To ono of them he had given
the ring before being executed.
What fearful days and weeks and
mouths of weary travel those were for
the unfortunates destined for tho lead
mines!
The exilo who had the ring concealed
in his boat managed to escape between
two stations. '
No pcu can describo tho adventures
and hardships of the fugitive journey
through a country in which the natives
hunt escaped exiles as they would wolves ;
uo word" can do justice to his. bufferings
as he traveled alone through tho vast
solitudes.
On the edge of the Khirgiz-Steppe he
joined oue of the largo caravans of es
caied couvicta that coutieually travel
eastward.
It is easy for an exilo to ohtaiu assist
ance in Suiuarkuud, or, for that matter,
most anywhere in Central Asia, although
it is, or rather was extremely difficult for
traders to enter the territory.
Iu Samarkand the ring left the hands,
or rather the boot, of tho owner, and
was traded for au outfit that would dis
guise its wearer into a dervis.
The new possessor of the circlet waj a
Pcrsiau merchant traveling to Herat.
Everybody from Khiva and Buckhara
and Samarkand aud Tashkeud and even
to Teheran gees to Herat, aud that is
why there is always such a thieving rab
ble them iu spite of a strong British gar
lisou. Aud one fine morning somebody
snatched the Persian's leather pouch.
The merchant set up a great hue aud cry,
and tho thief was carttnred after a long '
chase by a young mule driver from Jelal
hibad.
( )vorcome with joy at the return of bis
valuables the Persian presented the young
fellow with the ring.
Would it bo possible for a good-looking
mule driver to wear a diamond ring
without exciting comment sometimes.
Airs. Dudley was the first European
lady who saw it, and told young Am
brin gton nbout it. Two days later tho
pretty widow wore it.
Oid "Indians" will remember the scene
up Simla way that terminated the en
gagement of tho two.
Ambrington received bis letters and
presents back. They made nearly a car
load. Ho reciprocated by packing her
tender missives, etc., into an envelope.
Ambington always was a fool, and with
in three years after coming into his
estate he had acquired tho reputation of
being the most gulliblo spendthrift in the
service. But he had had a most sincere
admiration for Mrs. Dudley, who" was
really a charming woman. Her actions
in public were, however, such, occasion
ally, us to give rise to unpleasant
remarks. But she was simply thought
less. One day Captaiu Dempster mado a re
mark to Ambrington to tho effect that
the latter was neglecting a sweet girl in
England for the sake of a woman who
could not begin to compare with her.
Ambrington was nearly drunk at the
timo, and he made a scone. Next morn
ing bis friend received his deputies, and
they mot early ou the following day,
pistol iu hand. There they stood facing
each other, each ready to kill tho other.
One, two, three fire I
Two shots rang out almost simultane
ously, and Ambrington reeled and fell.
Thoy thought at first that ho had been
mortally wounded, but he wasn't. The
bullet had squarely hit a ring In his
watch pocket, and had driven it into his
chest with such force that it broke one
of his ribs and imbedded itself in tho
muscles.
Of course after one of the combatants
had been hurt they were in honor bound
to be good friends, in token whereof
Ambrington eventually gave tho ring to
Dempster.
Miss Merrick, or rather Mrs. Dempster,
has an extraordinary influence over him,
and even expects to make somothing out
of him eventually. PitUburg Bulletin.
Remarkable Group of Mines.
A group of old Spanish or Aztec mines
has recently been discovered at Las
Placitas, about twenty miles from Al
buquerque, New Mexico. An extensive
systom of underground work has been
brought to light. The mineral discov
ered, while uot of the highest grade, is
rich enough to pay handsomely and runs
generally from $50 to $U0 to the ton.
But what is more interesting is the fact
that these explorations have developed
unmistakable evidences that tho work on
these mines, which was performed, no
body kuows how many centuries ago,
was-brought to a summary conclusion by
an earthquake or general upheaval of
some sort. Not only all tho mine work
ings, smelters, furnaces, etc., were
buried under some fifteen feet of earth,
but there has also been found, on the
same level the ruins of what was once au
aqueduct for bringing water to the camp
from a source about ten miles distant.
Tho camp of Las Plactias is ou the east
ern slopo of the Scandia Mountains, about
twenty miles from Albuquerque, and
promises to become one of the most in
teresting fields of arc hcological research
yet discovered in that country. Chicago
Herald.
Longevity of Toads.
Some toads bavo a peculiar gift of
long life without sustenance of auy kind,
and with a very small supply of air; but
the alleged instances of their being
found embedded in solid stono or tho
heart of a tree, with no possible com
munication with the external world, arc
declared upon good scientific authority
to have doubtless arisen from error of
observation. Experiments iu couuectiou
with tho so-called autcdiluviau toads
show that toads canuot usually survive
even a year when deprived of food and
air. Tho toad has been known to live
thirty-live or forty years, nnd it is
thought to attain a considerably greater
age; it has been so far tamed as to come
and feed from the hand, and it seems to
be capable of attachmeut to man. From
their loudness for iusects toads make ex
cellent traps for use by tho en
tomologists, who may thus procure rare
beetles aud nocturnal insects which they
could not otherwise get, as the toads can
easily bo made to disgorgo them.
Gardeners often put thein into hot.
houses to destroy ants aud other insect
aud larva;. St. Louis lUiiublie,
The Value of Sleep.
General Lord Wolseley, England's
leading soldier, is a man of simple and
absteminous habits, and is au emphatic
advocato of sleep. When ho is his own
master ho goes to rest between 10 and
11 and is up before ti. Ho is a sound
sleeper and can sleep at almost auy time
and under auy circumstances, which is,
no doubt, one great secret of success,
for in war, as iu politics, tho mau who
cannot sleep might as well retire from
the running. "Vou cannot put in your
timo more profitably than in sleeping,"
Lord Woheley my, and the saying is
one that may well be taken to heart by
all hard workers. As long as you can
sleep you can always renew your
strength. It is when sleep fails that
your balance at tho bank of life is cut
oil. Iktt Tliiwjt.
A City Paved With Gold.
"This is tho city of streets paved with
gold," boasts tho Folsom (N'ev.) Tele
yrajii, "as is proved by the fact that on
Monday looming after tho big rain sev
eral specimens were picked up in the
streets where the raiu had washed away
the mud aud gravel. Oue nugget,
found in front of the Telegraph Build
ing, was valued at After every
heavy rainstorm there aiu searchers for
the precious natal aud good huds are lo- i
ported," J
CAN LOOK DOWN ON MEN.
THE KISSO UKl OlEti WHO 13 EIGHT
FEET HIGH.
Sho Is Young and Si III Growing
A Country Girl 'Who Is Away
Above Common I'eoplo.
Mies Ella Ewing, late of Scotland
County, Mo., is without doubt the big
gest woman, at least in point of height,
who has honored New York with her
presence in . many years. In fact it is
doubtful if ever a woman of her altitude
has ever been seen on tho streets of this
city. In short although this term may
seem out of place as applied to the sub
ject now iu baud Miss Ewing is just
eiirht feet in height and is still grow
ing. She is eighteen years old and bos
all the manners and simple graces of a
young girl not yet from school and still
undecided as to her proper position in
tho makeup -of society. A reporter of
tho World called on Miss Ewing at her
borne. As she entered the neat parlor
the writer arose to meet her and tried to
acknowledge the introduction grace
fully. Miss Ewing, in true Western
stylo, gracefully extended her band and
said sho was glad to meet him. And as
she clasped the writer's No. 8 hand in
hers there was an opportunity to make a
quick comparison. Her hand is about
twice as big as that of an ordinary man,
and the forefinger is just three inches ia
circumference.
"I am very glad to meet you," said
the young girl, as she beamed about three
feet down toward the reporter, "and
shall be very willing to talk with you if
you will not go away and call me a freak
and a lot of other horrid things. You
'know' I am not a freak, but just a plain,
simple, little country girl, not yet out of
school. I do not like being looked at
like I was a wonderful and rare animal
of the miocene or pliodene period dug up
by accident and put on exhibition. Oh,
no, I do not object to letting you stand
under my arm, but mind you, you men
always think you aro bigger than you
really are."
And so it proved, for when sho ex
tended her arm straight but horizontally
the reporter lacked almost two inches of
being as high as it was. In other words
the lower surface of tho young woman's
arm is just six feet from tho ground and
the reporter had two inches to spare, a
ho was only a pigmy five feet ten inches
in height. An amused smilo played on
the young girl's face as she noticed tho
look of amusement which the disparity in
size caused.
Mies Ewing, whs knows little about
tho ways of the effeto Eastern stylo of
civilization and expresses a woeful lack
of interest in the same, preferring to go
back to her home on the old Scotland
County farm, where she has a lot of flue
ducks and chickens nnd horses and just
the nicest pair of calves you ever saw,
told the M'oM something of herself.
The first thing that happened to her, she
said, and her mother corroborated the
statement, washer birth eighteen years
ago. There was nothing unusual about
her childhood until sho reached the ago
of eight years, when she began to show
a painful ambition to occupy a great deal
more cubic feet of space than little girls
of her age are rightfully entitled to. But
sho did not give this much thought at
the time because sho grew gradually,
and it gave her advantages which other
girls of her age did uot possess in being
able to reach up to the high shelves
iu tho pautry where all the preserves and
jams aud fruit cakes were kept.
Miss Ewing is very reticent about her
size and would not givo tho size of her
waist. It, however, is about twice as
big as that of two ordiuary sized meu.
It takes twice as much cloth to make her
a frock as is used by one of her smaller
sisters. Her hands a.ro very large, enor
mous in fact, but they are shapely aud
the flesh is soft and smooth.
Miss Ewing's features aro of course
large, but they are by no means bad. Iu
fact, she is better looking tlian the aver
age girl. Sho has a mouth full of pretty,
even teeth, which are actually small, but
her mouth is large. This is not a defect,
however, for it ia a saft, laughing mouth
aud tho hps arc red as a life of freedom
iu the country and plenty of fresh air can
make them. Her eyes are blue and good
nam red and she does most of her laugh
ing with them. She has a wealth of
brown hair, has this girl, for nature has
dealt bountifully with her in almost
every respect.
"Ella is a mighty good girl," said her
mother, who is a regular "old-fashioned"
woman, looking up from her kuitting
over her gold specs. "She can get up
us good a uieal as any woman in thu
country if you give her the things to get
it with. 1 wish I had some of her uieo
light buttermilk biscuits this minute,"
uud the sweet old lady laid her knitting
on her lap and sighed a far-away sigh, as
she allowed her thoughts to wander to
her quiet little farm home iu Western
Missouri, where tho horses and cows mid
chickens uud ducks uru waiting for her
return.
"Aud thero ain't no girl iu tho coun
try that cau hold a cundlo to her wheu
it comes to iliuging the saddle on the
horse aud galloping into town," said tho
father. "When that little girl wants
anything from the store iu town sho
don't ask ino to stop one of tho hired
men to go and fetch it, but just catches
ouu of her ponies ami saddles him and
away she goes like a streak of lightning,
the aud her pony." The repo. ter ven
tured to think that it might take a pretty
big pony to carry her and said so. "Oh,
no," said the "little girl," as her father
had culled her, "I only weigh .75 pounds
and that is not too big a load for my
pouy. And I am very loud of horseback
riding, too."
"I suppose," asked the reporter, "you
must have some difficulty iu finding u
bed large euough for you sleep in"
"Oh, uo, I sleep iu just an ordinary
bed, like other people do. How do i
mauageV Quito easily, it is not a hard
mutter, and you see I have never been
used to bleeping any other way, so vou
see it does not make much dilfucuce.''
Ac 4 i'vri H i.' U,
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Berlin will not permit an electric road.
Denver, Col., will bavo a mineral
palace.
Cork covering for steam pipes has
proved very successful in England.
Many of the explosions in flour mills
have been traced to electricity generated
by belts.
Iu Denmark the life-saving stations are
nil supplied with oil for stilling the
waves in storms.
A new bag machine both cuts and
lews tho bag, and thus saves tho labor of
fourteen operators.
It takes about three seconds for a mes
sage to go from ono end of the Atlantic
cable to the other; this is about 700
miles a second.
In welding pipes by electricity, it has
been tho usual practice to employ inter
nal mandrels to prevent collapse or
change of circumferential ontline.
A large body of antimony has been
found in Inyo County, California. The
owner says he has in sight bowlders of
the metal weighing from two hundred
to three hundred pounds. It is a val
uable find.
Miss Frye, a school teacher, has dis
covered a method by which better tiles
can be made than bavo ever been made
before. She has a patent nnd is likely
soon to turn from school teaching to
financiering.
The exhaustive experiment! atSalford,
near Manchester, England, with a view
of ascertaining the most efficient method
of purifying sewage, has resulted in the
recommendation of an electrical system
as the most satisfactory.
Small articles made of malleablo iron
aro now finished and polished bright by
being placed in revolving drums with
curriers' shavings, from which they
emerge with all of tho rough edges
smoothed and the surface highly pol
ished. A secret chemical powder introduced
abroad, when sprinkled over the top of
the coal in a newly made fire cements
the upper part of the fuel together aud
causes the coal to burn at tho bottom
and throw tho heat into tho room in
stead of allowing a large part of it to go
up the chimney.
A process has been recently invented
by which iron may be copper, the sur
face of the iron being protected by a
layer of melted cryolite and pho.iphorio
acid. It has been found that if the ar
ticle, when immersed, is connected with
tho negative pole of a battery, the cop
pering is done more rapidly.
By a new process waste leather scraps
arc steeped iu a solution and subjected
to a hydraulic pressure to mould them
iuto railway brake shoes. The leather
shoe weighs 4 pounds agaiust 21i
pounds for iron, aud it will wear three
times as long. Such, at least, is tho
claim of the compressed leather mon.
A permanent and durablo joiut can bo
made between rough cast-iron surfaces
by tho use of lead to make a very stiff
putty. This will resist any amount of
heat, end is unatrer.ted bv steam or wu-
I
1 ter. It has been employed for mending
or closing cracks in cast iron retorts u.scil
; in the distillation of oil aud gas from
j cannel coal.
I High funnels seem to be growing
; moro and more popular among the build
' ers at he yards of the British navy. The
Mersco has had hers doubled in height,
while those of tho Blake are not less than
fifty or sixty feet, reaching as far up us
the tops. It is said that the result, as
far as appearauces are concerned, is any
thing but pleasing.
The Curve of Health.
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes has made
a discovery. It is that of the law of the
j curve of health. "It is a mistake," ho
says, "to suppose that the normal state
I of health is represented by a straight
horizontal liuo. Independently of tho
, well-known causes which raise or depress
the standard of vitality there seem to
bo, I think I may venture to say there is
. a ihythuiiu undulation in tho How of
1 vital force. Tho 'dynamo,' which fur
nishes tho working powers of conscious
' ncss aud action, has its nunual, its
miUthly, its diurnal waves, even its mo
mentary ripples, in tho current it fur
nishes. Thero aro greater aud lesser
curves in tho movement of every day's
life a series of asceudiug and of de
scending movements, a periodicity tie
' pending ou tho very nature of the for.-e
at work iu the living organism. Tims
' we have our good seasons aud our bad
seasons, our good days aud our bad days,
lifo climbing and descending in long oi
short undulations, which 1 have called
t tho curve of health. From this fact
tpriug a great proportion of the errors oi
! medical practice. Ou it are based the
, delusions of the various shadowy systems
j which impose themselves ou tho ignor-
ant and half-learned public as branches
' or 'schools' of science. A remedy taken
I at the timo of tho ascent in the curve of
, health is found successful. The same
remedy taken while the curve is in its
i uownward movement proves a failure.
Ho long as this biological law exists, so
! long the charlatan will keep its hold ou
; the ignorant public. So long as it ex
ists, tho wisest prui'titioucr will be liable
to deceive himself about the effect of
what ho calls, aud loves to think are, his
remedies.
A Princely Tip.
A gentleman accompanying two ladies
entered one of the lashioualilu restau
rants near Madison Square one evening
I recently aud were ushered to a table.
"Aro you the man to serve me:" he said
to tho waiter who came to take his order,
j "Yes, sir," was the reply, whereupon a
; five dollar bill (hanged hands. Tho
, luncheon was admirably servuJ, the glow
of satisfiu lion never h aving the waiter's
face. Yet most waiters will te.l you that
it is uot the occasional lurge fee fiom a
stranger which pays hiin so well us the
steady ti e- or liltc u cent tip from the
1 daily put roll ot his table. That be
comes an actual income. -.Vc J'y4
l fit.
A DREAM OF THE SEA, I
A farmer lad in his prairie home
Lay dreaming of the sea:
He ne'er had seen it, but well he knew
Its pictured image and heavmily hue;
And be dreamed he swept o er it water
blue.
With the winds a-blowing free,
With tho winds so frosh and free.
He woke! and he said: "Tho day will coma-
When that shall bo truth to me;" t
But as years swept by him he always found
That his feet were clogged and his bauds
were bound,
Till at Inst he lay in a narrow mound,
Afar from the sobbing sea.
The sorrowing, sobbing sea.
Oh, many there are on the plains to-nish6
That dream of a voyage to be,
And have said to their souls: "Tho day will
come
When my bark shall sweep through the
drifts of foam."
But their eyes grow dim aud their lips grow
dumb,
Afar from the tossing sea,
The turbulent, tossing sea.
Albert Biyelouy I'aine.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
A closing remark "You shut up!"
When doctors disagree tho coroner
takes thu matter up. Epoch.
The pot must bavo been boiling when
It called tho kettle black. Puck.
It is strange, but the dregs of a pot of
"red paint" are always blue. New York
Uerald.
It's not always the littlo things that
tell. Sometimes it's her big brother.
St. Joseph Setti.
Painters are uot of a military turn
generally, yet they stand by their colors.
Texaa Sitings.
Tho way-station master always has an
unflagging interest in through trains.
Washington Star.
Hotel Porter "Art you a guest of tho
house)'1 Mr. Gruff "No; I'm paying
for what I get 1" Puck.
"Your wife seems vexed." "Yes.
Sho weut out to match some ribbon und
found it at tho first store." Life.
When a dressmaker doesn't give her
customers tits, tho customers give tho
dressmaker fits. Louisville Journal.
The difficulty iu this cold world is
that too many fellows want to stand with
their backs to the fire. Jlnutfordllecord.
"Men need moral courage moro than
they do higher foreheads. " This is true.
Cows bavo high foreheads. Chicago
ti'eia.
Johnuy is a smart boy. When ho was
asked to define moustache be instantly
replied, "It's a bang ou thu mouth."
Epoch.
The faults of our neighbors would bo
less conspicuous if our own virtues
were not quito so glaring. Milwaukee
Sentinel.
Don't laugh at your wife when sho
tries to stone tho hens. She may ask
you to help her stono the raisius. El
mil a U ait tic
Thero is a good deal of speculation
about astrouomical studies, but tho
astronomer seldom gets rich out of it.
Pinghamton lit publican.
Auntie "Johnny, you never hear
your papa use such language." "No;
and I take mighty good euro that ho
doesn't hear mo.'' Harper' lliz tr.
liis name we never S'.'o, although
In print lie has a mighty mission;
For tie's the dark, niysUrioiw,
" Well-informed politician."
Juthje.
Feeblewitte deems it au exemplifica
tion ol the fitness of things that love
which is without bounds should make of
lifo a never-ending spring. l.lroit Free
Pret.
"I see that quitu a number of our
younger verse-writers have taken to
writing their songs iu antique English."
"That is quito uu appropriate sitting lo
their ideas."
Caller "And this is thv new baby?"
Fond Mother "Isn't he splendid!"'
Caller "Yes, indeed." Fond Mother
"nd so bright. See. how intelligently
he I. readies." L'hictrjo Seirr.
How har.l it is. in tiit-s.. ti 1 1 1 1 .;. v days,
To keen beyond the iiuo ot l''aieli j.Kl's
spell,
Bineu e en a proverb, old and halloive 1 Kiys,
That Truth lies at the tiotuni of n well.
-'.
Editor's Wife "Sanctorum, '' look
disgusted; anything gone wrong;" Eli
tor "Yes; missed the mail, and my
typewriter is sick!" Ivlitor's Wife
"Too bad to miss male and female the
wmio day!" Argjtii.
Priest "Well, Dennis, you're mar
ried, 1 hear. I'm very glad of it. How
do jou and your wife gel along to
gether!" Dennis "Weil, ycr riverencc,
Oi t'ink we get along beslit togithcr
whin we're apart." llu.lon VourUr.
'Tii folly to spend lifo h,.;ir.lin up :,oM
With intention troni comuwr.v to lo.-k it;
for, as w is,, men remark-'ii m to . past, wu
aro lold,
N.j shroud was e'er ma le with u p. .diet.
Mtltt'tt iiAv.' .v.ifiut '
"Look, Adolph. Your tailor's sitting
over there." "Don't attract his att u
tiou.'' "Ain't you getting ou will to
gether?" "Yes, but I don't want to cm
hariavi him. He owes uie receipted bill"
for trtO SUilS Of ClotlllS." :'i.,.t
ilia, iter.
The Thermometer.
Hero of Alexandria, who K 1 about
years U. I'., is said to have been the
invenloi of au instrument for in a.-uring
the heat or odd of the atmosphere,
which instrument continu 1 in u-e until
about thu close of the sixh.mtli century.
It w.i then le iuccd to a luoie convenient
form by one Suuc'imi'i, an ltali.i'i, a id
was aitcrwards consi.i, , ,,!V improved,
especially by F.ihiciih. it, who, in IT.'1',
affixed the graduated sc.iIh and ad i"d
other details which wh". , tended tui
render tht. tlicnno'iieirr the iastru'i'.i at
ofpraetic.il utili; y w hie!i iliio.v is."
St. .,-,i;., ,.',;,-".
The shad ti-niiig ii.dusirv in t
Ueclicut is tltic.ttcuci! w;i,i di- .lun.