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Emporor William, of Germany, ex-
pressed himself In ft recent speech before
the students of tlio University of Bono
as bclug in favor of dueling. i
Largo beds of phosphate havo been
discovered in Drooks County, Ga., and
reports are that thoro is plenty of it in
that section. Preparations aro boing
mado to utilizo the discovery. The
Georgians aro determined, remarks tho
Now Orleans Delta, that Florida shall
not havo a monopoly of that business.
Experiments arc being mado In Euro
pean navies with captivo balloons ns
points of observation. From ouo sont
up from a French ironclad, ships and tho
details of tho neighboring coast could bo
seen, iu clear weather, for twonty or
twenty-five miles. With silk as tho ma
terial of the cablo by which it is held,
tho balloon could riso iu calm weathor to
n height of four hundred yards. Tho
subject bas attracted tlio attention of
tlio naval authorities in Germany and
England.
The Germ in Emperor, who expressed
at tho conclusion of tho rcccni. school
conference at Bcrlin'his dissatisfaction
with the maimer iu which Prussian his
tory ia taught, has, according to tho re
port of Gormau papers, commissioned
Professor Sterjglcr, of the Cadet School,
at Litcherfcldo, to write a new history of
Prussia under tho Ilohenzollerns. The
work will servo, in tho first instance, as
a text-book for military schools, but is
expected to bo used in time at the high
schools of Prussia.
'An institution peculiar to New York,
which has been recently established,"
alleges tho Atlanta Conttitution, ''is a
civil marriage contract bureau. If you
want to get married very quietly, with
out even the newspapers finding it out,
you go to this bureau with your girl, pay
your fee, which is ?25, and i. civil mar
riago contract is prepared for you to
igu, and tho affair is guaranteed to bo
kept quiet. No record of these marriages
aro made, and they aro not, strictly
speaking, legal, but a lawyer who was
consulted, said tho courts would no
doubt legalize thorn, if any legal question
over aroso to make it nccosgary to test
their validity In tho courts."
Tho Latin-American departmcut of the
World's Columbian Exposition is very
anxious to obtain information concern
ing a copy of a littlo quarto published la
llotuo iu 14D3, containing tho important
bull of Pope Alexander VI, by which he
divided the New World between Portugal
ami Spaiu. Ouly two copies of this
pamphlet are iu existence, so far as can
bo ascertained. Ouo is in tlio Royal
Library at Munich. Tho other was sold
iu Loudou at auction by Puttick & Simp
son, auctioneers,' on the 21th of May,
J8B I, aud was bought by Obadiah Rich
ior lour pounus eigne suiiiiugs, lor some
private library iu tho United State
which ho declined to name. It has cer
tainlv disamioared from tho knowledge
iy.u oimiopiiues, ana no trace of it cau be
; found. Any person having knowledge of
the whereabouts of this historical treasure
will be kiud enough to notify tho Du
partuicnt of State, Washington, D. C.
jThe Scientific American declares that
"tho need of fast war vessels was well
illustrated by tho recent iucidout in the
harbor of San Diego, Cal., when a Chilian
cruiser belonging to tho insurgents eu
terod tlio bay, anchored, took on board
recruits, supplies of provisions, ammu
nition, and then sailed away. This ship,
under tho laws of nations, was in fact a
piratical vessel, and as such was seize!
by the Government authorities at Sau
Diego, and a United States vessel pluccl
onboard and in possession. But tho
Chilian rebels paid uo attentiou to the
laws of tho United States ; they may bo
said to havo capture I iho lace. When
they had obtained all the supplies they
wauted to assist them iu carrying on war
agaiust a friendly natiou, they upheaved
anchor aud steamed away, carry iug off as
a prisoner the olticiul representative of
the great republic. This was a small ship
railed tho lt.ita, currying four guns.
There is nothing to prevent tho Chilian
rebels from sending in other boats to
capture or bombard Sau Diego or other
towns along tho oast. Indeed, while
tho Itata was t ikiug on supplies at Suti
Diego, other vessels of the rebels woro
hovering outside tho har'oor. Wo havj
no uavy worthy of the name, aud nearly
all our seaports aro without proper de
fenses. Like Su Diego, they are at the
mercy of any siuglo piratical bout that
chooses to cuter. This is n very humil
iating position for a country like ours to
'3 placed iu. All told, we havo a pair
uf small torpedo boats, half a dozen or
so of small cruisers, and au equal uu'n
bor of larger vessels. There should be
titty ships where now there aro one.
Every harbor iu the country should bo
guurde I by cllieieiit sentinels consisting
of vessels of high spued, ready for iu
stuut action, to uiuiutiiu aud enforce tho
ir'ttiority of tU-j republic,"
O DEAR TO-DAY.
You are mine, all mine, O, dear, to-day,
From tho earliest gleam of your golden
dawn,
'Till the twilight takes you forever away.
And tbe hours that you promised me now
are (rone.
Oh, what shall I do with you, dear, to-day-Shall
I hold you close, and never share
The bliss that oomes with your sunny light
To my seeing eyes with tbe blind man
there?
Oh, what shall I ask of you, dear, to day
More blessings still for my goodly store
The gift of a hundred happy thoughts,
Or tlio love and the trust of one heart
more!
Oh, n bat shall I say to you, dear, to-day,
As you glide so swiftly and silently by
That I'm glad, so glad, that you camo to me,
And sorry, so serry, to see you die?
Oh, what shall I bo to you, dear, to-day
When the cold, dark night shall bid you
flee,
And the hours of another morning stand
Helen ties and stern 'twixt you and me?
Oh, what shall I make of you, dear, to-day
in tne cnom or my life another link.
That shall guide with other radiant ones
My path to the Beautiful River's brink?
Eva UeM, in Detroit Free Prent.
UNCLE BEN'S MINERALS.
U? HELEN KOIU1K8T UHAVKS.
'Alix! Alixl where are you f"
Alexia Ames stood liko some avenging
Fate in the middle of the square room at
Amcscroft Farm. Sho had pulled up
every tack In tho well-worn ingrain car
pot the one "storo carpet" that the
humble establishment afforded and had
flung it bodily out of tho window, where
it had descended with crushing weight
en tho fiery-red blossoms of a monster
"burning bush."
Sho had opened every casement wide,
so that the yellow light of tho glorious
May morning streamed in, a flood of
crystal glory.
She had tied her auburu hair up in an
old towel, aud stood on a wooden chair
seat, brushing cobwebs from tho ceilin
with nu ancient broom, liko tho pro
verbial "old womau" of the nursery
rhyme.
At tho sound of her sister's voice sho
stopped abruptly.
"I'm hero," said she.
"What are you doing, Alix?"
"I'm trying to civilize things a littlo."
"All alone by yourselt, Alix?"
"There's no oue to help mcf"
"Can't you wait until Bridget Reir
don comes to-morrow?"
Alix shook- her toweled head.
"This is one of tho cases," said she,
"where patience has ceased to bo a vir
tue. No, I can't wait a day longer."
Ellcu looked anxiously around tho
room.
"Why, what hnvo you done with
everything?" said she.
"Cleared them all out. If we aro go
ing to havo summer boarder., we must
get ready for them. Uncle Eben occu
pies our best bedroom', and is likely to
for somo time; consequently this must
be fitted up for boarders."
Ellen sighed deeply.
VI wish we weren't so poor," said
she. "I wish wo could livo without
filling our house every ru inner with a
crowd of noisy strangers."
"Why don't you wish for Aladdin's
lamp, or tho Koliinnor diamond while
you arc about it?" said Alix, scornfully.
"Alix, why havo you grown so bitter
of late?" pleaded tho gentler of tho
sisters. "I don't hnrdly know you!"
"Am I bitter?" Alix stood still and
hesitated for an instant or so. "Well,
erhiips I am. Hut is it not enough to
make any oue bittor, this crmstuut cur
rent of disappointment?"
"I don't know that we havo any more
to boar than others, Alix."
"You do, tool" criei Alix, springing
down from her wooden chair, with
burning checks and eyes alight. . "You
know you do, Ellen Ames! Here you
are engaged to Houry Lucas and cau't
marry until he can give you a home;
hero uro we weighed to the very earth
with poverty uud care, aud this old
uncle of ours, coming back from a life
time of shiftlessness in New Mexico, to
place au additional burden ou our
shoulders."
"He is old and poor, Alix."
"Very well, I'm youug and poor.
Where's the difference? Of tho two, I
maintain that he is the better off."
Ellen looked at her storuiy-tcmpered
Bister with troubled eyes.
Evidently she thought it best not to
continue the subject.
"What havo you done with the little
case of butterflies and birds' nests?'" said
she; "and the cabinet of minerals and
the paper box of stones?"
"Tumbled thtm back of the goose
berry bushes," said Alix. "I cau't have
the room cluttered with ull tho trash ho
brought back iu that wooden chest of
his."
"Couldn't you havo stored them away
iu the old chest itself?"
"Nonsense! Such stuff as that? And,
besides, it would have been quite impos
sible, for I'vo had Hilly chop tho old ark
up into kindling wood. He'll never
know !''
"Oh, Alix!"
"I dou't care!" flashed out Alix, witb
a reckless toss of her head. "It's too
bail ! Everything goes wrong with
and mother is utterly overworked, and
I'm clear discouraged, and and "
All of a sudden her factitious courage
broke down. Sho sank iu u little heap
on the floor, her head ou the wooden
chair-seat, and her musses of auburn hair
escaping wildly from tho towel, while
her whole fraino shook with fobs and
bright tears trickled down her cheeks.
At the sumo moment Mrs Ames's suit,
tremulous voice whs heard, calling:
"Ellen! Alexia! Where are you, girls?
Your uncle is took dreadful bud! Hun,
oue of you, for the doctor? And t'other
cue, come uud help me lift lain!"
Ellen Hew to her mother's ussistuuju
aud A1U meuhuicully lore, tuu tuwyl
from her curls, exchanged it for a bon
net and hastened to summon Doctor
Dudd, who livod atth other cud of the
village.
"Is it my fault?" he asked herself.
"Was it because I repined? Oh, deaf,
oh dear, what a wicked girl I must bet
But everything seemed so hard and
cruel, and and I couldn't endure it."
Late in tho afternoon she peeped into
the sickroom, shy and shrinking, liko a
frightened child. "Is ho worse?" she
whispered.
Mrs, Ames came to tho door, a slight,
soft -eyed woman, liko a human dove.
"You needn't speak so low, daugh
ter," said sho. "Ho can't hear you.
He's quite unconscious."
"Why docs he keep muttering so?"
"I think he's wandering in his mind
poor old Uncle Eben I Oh, dear oh,
dear I And I can remember him such a
portly, hnndsoma man," addod tho
widow, wiping her eyes. "Ho was tho
youngest of all tho brothers. Como in,
Alix, and sco him. He's spoken your
name two or three times. Don't look so
startled, dear. Ho seems quito happy
and composed. He's talking all tho
whilo about those curiosities of his tho
minerals, you know, and things."
Involuntarily Alix's eyes mot tho
gently reproachful glnuco of her Bister's.
Tho sudden scarlet mounted to her
cheek.
"Oh, Ellen, don't look at me sot" she
exclaimed. "I brought thorn every ono
back yes, I did and I put them ex
actly where they wore before. Do you
think I could have como Into this room
if it hadn't been for that?"
And she went up and stood by the
bedside, her eyes full of tender tears,hcr
voice pitiful and low.
"Uncle Eben," said she, ."do you
know mo?"
"It's Alix.nin't it?" crooned tho old
man, after a moment's silence. "Alex
ander's oldest girl. The prettiest one.
Yes, it's Alix aud she's to have my cu
riosities all of them, mind! Nell has
got a lover, and that ought to bo enough
for any girl. But Alix is alone, and Alix
shall have my curiosities."
"Thank you, Uncle Eben!" said Alix,
as tho invalid paused, expectuut of au
swer.
And thou he began to prate of South
American forests and tho ruined mission
houses of New Mexico, and shortly after
be diod.
Andwhcn Alix finished cleaning the
spare room, she left tbe poor littlo treas
tires in tho drawer of an old-fashioned
book-cose there.
"I couldn't have tho heart to throw
them away a second time," said she, "af
ter what he said to me. It was like a
child giving ono shining pebbles or
wilted buttercups, with the idea that
they were precious treasures. But I'm
glud he said it. It seemed to soften my
heart; aud, oh, it was very hard and bit
tcr just then ! And I didn't know how
could I? that I should miss him so
much !"
It was late in the summer when one of
the neighboring girls came iu.
"Miss Alix," said she, "you told our
Becky sho could have a basket of goose
berries, didu't you them purple, prickly
berries, that grows down by the gardeu
wall?"
"Of course I did," Alix answered,
crisply. "I knew your gi.tndma liked
gooseberry jam."
"Well, look here," said Fanny Rice,
onenius her closed hand. "See what
sho picked up there."
"A little sparkling stone, isn't it?"
"It's an opal." said Fuuuy, iu a mys
terious whisper.
"A what?"
"An opal."
"Nonsense, child ! What aro you talk
iug about?" cried Alix, scornfully.
"But it is an opal. John Lytton, who
works at Tiffany s, in New lork, is
down visiting his mother, and ho says
it's a real Oriental opal iu tbe rough
Now the questiouis, John says, how aid
au opal ever get among your gooseberry
bushes? Is there a jewel mine hidden
down there?" she added, half jcstiugly.
Alix turned first red, then white. She
kucw well how it had come there.
"Ask John Lytton to come hero and
see me. Fanny," said she. "I have at
least a dozen stones like that."
It was like the ending to a fairy story.
Not jewels turning to ashes, apparently,
but rough pebbles ranking, all of a sud
den, as precious jewels.
Uncle Eben's minerals, disgmsil In
tho dimuees of their con 'loinerato stir
roundings, were opals of rare tire and
value. m
Whether ho had picked them up in
New Mexico, among the ignorant traders
there, or brought them direct from South
America, uo oue ever knew. But opals
they were.
"And to tlunk," said Alex, witrt u
a little catching to her breath, "how
near I camo to throwing all my inherit
ance away! Oh, what a wicked, evil
tempered young virago I was! And no
thing but Ellen's sweet, gentlo words
saved ma from tho consequences of my
own folly. And so Ellcu shall havo half
of my inheritance."
And for some weeks tho gooseberry
bushes at tho foot of tlio Ames gardeu
formed a sort of Mecca for sightseers
and curiosity-mongers.
"We am", used to berry bushes ns
bear precious stones," chuckled old
Gaffer Gerdis. "Not in this part of tho
world." Saturday Si'jht.
Weight ou Viuluti I'luitoU.
On Jupiter, which is a much larger
and heavier body than the earth, a man
' would weigh ubout 484 pounds whose
! weight on the earth would he 200 pounds.
This man would weigh 21bi pounds ou
' Saturn. Coming to the smaller bodies
I we rind that he would weigh less than
i on the earth. His 200 pounds would
shrink to 174 ou Venus, to uinety-t.vo
on Mercury, to sixty on Mars, ami to
thirty on the moon, while on tho little
'. asteroids, or telescopic planets revolving
betwee-u Slurs uud Jupiter, his weight
would be from two to four pounds only.
! The matter depend ou the mass and at
tractive foicv vf the placet, (,e4'
'limn,
WISE WORDS.
Tlio mora important an animal is toba
tho lower is its start. Man, the noblest.
is born the lowest.
Without Seeking, truth cannot be
known nt all; and seeking it can bo dis
covered by tho simplest.
Grief is not to bo measured by the tears
shed, nor does tho loudest mourner de
serve tho lurgest bequest.
Every incomplcto work is a monument
to human folly. Whatever is worth be
ginning is worth ending.
She was regal, sho was haughty, sho
was highborn and distinguished; nnd like
the rest of us, sho was clay.
In things pertaining to enthusiasm no
man Is sano who docs not know how to
bo insane on proper occasions.
It is tho crushed grape that gives out
the blood red wine; it is tho sufferiug
soul that breathes the sweetest melodies.
Each man can learn something from
his neighbor; nt least he can learn this
to have patience with his neighbor, to
live and let live.
Think you that judgement waits till
the doors of tho grave are opened? It
waits at tho doors of your housos, it waits
at the corners of your streets.
'Tis nature has fashioned some for am
bition and dominion, and it has formed
others for obedience and submission.
The leopard follows hie nature as the
lamb.
Good thoughts aro blessed guests, and
should be heartily welcomed, well fed
and much sought after. Liko rose leaves,
they give out a sweet smell if laid up in
the jar ot memory.
Life is not made up of great sacrifices
or duties, but of little things, in which
smiles and kindness and small obligations
given habitually aro what preserve tho
heart and secure comfort.
To be full of goodness, full of cheer
fulness, full of sympathy, full of helpfull
hope ; causes a man to carry blessings of
which he is himself ns uucouscious as a
lamp is of its own shining.
Nothing can ieasen tho dignity and
value of humanity so long ns the relig
ion of love, of uuscllishness and devotion
endures; and noue can destroy the altars
of this faith for us so long as we feel
ourselves still capable of lovt.
Fine Points iu Cannibalism.
Tt was formerly supposed that the
relish with which certain savage tribes
ate their enemies arose from the gratifi
cation of the passion of revenge. With
in tho last few years, howovcr, it has
been clearly shown that some of the bar
barian man-eaters are really fond of hu
man flesh for its own sake that they
enjoy it as a civilized epicure enjoys
turtlo soup or roasted ortolans. Your
Fiji Islander thinks the greatest praiso
ho can bestow upon any ediblo is to say
that it is "as tender ns a dead man."
Tho Fijians have plenty of provisions,
but they consider "long pig'' their
pleasant name for human flesh much
finer thau pork, beef or mutton.
Tho New Zealanders, ou tho other
hand, do not consider man's flesh ns a
delicacy, but eat dead heroes and "wiso
men" (whether they have been friends or
enemies makes no difference), with tbo
idea that they imbibe the valor and in
tellectual qualities of tho deceased dur
ing the process.
The "noble savage" of Terra del
Fuego never cuts any of his own people,
except when other meat is remarkably
scarce, although always re:tdy to "tako
iu" the shipwrecked stranger. In severe
winters, if wo nrc to believo tho story of
a British admiral (Fitzroy), the Terra-del-Fuegons,
"when they can obtain no
other food, take the oldest womau of
their party, hold her head over a thick
smoke, made by burning green wood,
and, pinchiug her throat, choke her,"
after which sho is served up to her
friends. Tho barbarians, ou being asked
why they did not cat their dogs instead
of their old Indies, naively answered that
their dogs caught otters, but that their
venerable grandmothers and uuuts did
not.
Probably tho majority of even tho
lowest order of savages prefer lish aud
yams to human flesh, but it is neverthe
less truo that there are several tribes in
Australasia, Africa and the South Sea
islands that actually hanker after it.
There is some consolation, however,
in the assurance given us by travelers
that most of these anthropophagi prefer
colored persons to Caucasians as table
luxuries. This fart is certainly encour
aging to the missionary interest. JS'no
Yuri. Ledqer.
Ancient Inks.
The iuk first used probably was some
natural animal pigment, such us the
black fluid obtained from various species
of cuttlefish ; but the limited supply of this
material soon led to the use of u chemical
mixture of wnter, gum and lauibluck,
and tho characters wero painted rather
thau writteu, by means of a brand
pointed reed.
As iuk of this simple nature was easily
removed from tho surface of tho parch
ment by the mere application of moisture,
it as early found necessary to contrive
some means of forming u more durable
ink, and for this purpose tho expedient
was adopted of treating the mixture with
some u' Cilice such as vinegar, of tho
nature of a mordant, which would pene
trate the parchment writteu upon, uud
form nu ink not liable to fade.
A chemical dye, consisting of au in
fusion uf galls with sulphate of iron, was
afterward used, us from its vitrious na
ture it hit into the medium employed;
but a compound ve.-ctablo iuk, contain
ing a good deal of carbon pigment, wa
subsequently adopted, aud wus verj
generally employed down to the middle
ages.
With iuk of this tort the best and most
uncU'iit manuscripts which have been pre
served to us were writteu, and the eepa
rute leaves, Hflt r "icing allowed to diy
slowly, were bouud together in vol
umes.
l'liuy and Vitruvius, as well us othei
writers. L'ive TKCeioLs for I'm: inauufue-
turt of inks, ('A tinier Juuniul,
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
England has nn elcctricnl launch.
Wool is mado from wood frco fibre.
Vermont claims the first eluctrid
motor.
Detroit undertakers must wear rub
ber coats when they handle diphtheria
Corpses.
The manufacture of starch from ar-row-root
is a dcw nnd thriving industry
in Florida.
At least ono person in threo between
the nges of ten and forty years is subject
to partial deafness.
Tho most claboruto dental apparatus
known belongs to the sea-urchin, whoso
jaws are composed of forty pieces, moved
by forty separate muscles.
Certain peculiarities in tho spectrum
of the sun uro thought to indicate that
much of its matter is still in ele
mentary forms owing to its intense heat.
Tho steel works ot Iljerde, Germany,
have introduced a nour process for de
sulphurizing pig iron, and it is said that
many of tho largo works are applying for
licenses to use the process.
A new mineral h.n been discovered to
which tho name Sauguiuito has been
given. It is bronzo red in color by
reflected light, and upon analysis is
found to coutuiu silver, nrsenic and
sulphur.
It has been discovered that platinum
nt a white heat will consume tobacco
SJioke an I keep tho atmosphere of a
smoking-room perfectly clear. Lamps
with n littlo ring of platinum over the
flame are used for this purpose.
Somo English manufacturers nro
blenching paper, without impairing its
strength, by an electrical process. A.
solution of magnesium chlorido is U'cd,
which is decomposed by n powerful cur
rent, with tho evolution of chloriuo au l
oxygen.
Inquiry into tho subject of explosions
iu mines being caused by dry coal dust
has led to somo very valuable experi
ments aud plans for clearing the galleries
of foul air. Ono of theso consists in
moving nimn water butts thrrough tho
affected 1 t ies. The coal smut col
lects in the ,.ater, and tho air is thereby
:learcd befoio tho dauger limit is
reached.
A new apparatus for water has ap
peared iu the form of a still, which is do
icribed as consisting of "a series of largo
1-it disks of metal, placed upright and
'sept in position by pipes running hori
toutully on the top nnd bottom. Water
Is boiled iu n vessel and the steam is con
ducted from the same to the dish through
i pipo. The steam ra' a ug from the
water is condensed in the disks by a cur
rent of air nndthe water is collected in
the bottom pipe." The size of still do
Bignn l for family use has eight disks aud
is said to distil a gallon of water in an
hour.
Professor R. A. F. Penrose, Jr., of tho
Texas Geological Survey, says tho finest
of clays suitablo for tbe manufacture of
fire brick, earthenware, and even fine
china ware, are to bo found abundantly
in East Texas. Two companies are now
engaged making pottery at Athens in
Henderson Couuty. Tho articles manu
factured ore fine brick, tiles, sewer pipes,
jugs, etc. The clay at this point is of a
light gray color, becoming almost white
when dry. Equally lino clays abound
near Jefferson, in Marion County, and
near Husk, iu Cherokee County. It is
thought good openings nro offered over
there for manufacturing tho finest of
wurjs.
Snakes Attack a S.tnn of Horses.
While Frank Oldham, a young farmer
living southeast of Pendleton, Ind., was
harrowiug a piece of new ground ho
aroused from slumber two ugly and enor
mous blnck snakes, measuring about
twelve feet, that immediately showed
fight. They first mado a rush at the
young man and tried to coil themselves
around his legs, but he escaped from their
slimy embrace and made for tho fence at
a rapid rate, closely pursued by tho ser
peut. Wheu the snakes saw that Frank
was out of their reach on the fence, they
returned to the horses, which had been
left standing, still attached to tho har
row. Soon the horses wero noticed to
bo rcariugund kicking nnd performing
acrobatic feats that would surpass Bar
num's trained equine.
The mi.n, mustering up his courage,
armed himself with a lenco rail and
hastened to the relief of his team. Ho
found one reptile coiled around tho fore
leg of one horse, and the other snako
around one of the hind legs of tho other
horse. The serpents struck the defence
less animals repeatedly, while tho air re
sounded with a peculiar hhs'mg noise.
After a struggle of about thirty minutes
the farmer succeeded iu beating off the
reptiles aud releasing the scared team.
He then mounted the harrow and a chase
commenced, tho horses at full speed
dragging the harrow and Frank with the
snakes in close pursuit. The fleeing
team raised a cloud of dust, and when it
reached the opposite side of the field tlio
snakes were lost to view. A puly with
guns and clubs was quickly organized to
search for the snakes, but was uiuibiu to
liud them. luJoinitjmli Journal.
Weighing Machines.
Weighing machines nnd scales of some
kind were iu u-se 1S00 U. C, for it is
said thut Abraham at that lime "weighed
out" 400 shekels of silver, current money,
with the uieic'ii'int to Kphron, tlio Hit
tite, us payment for a piece of laud, iu
eluding the cave an 1 ull the standing
timber "iu the field and iu the fence.'1
This is said to be the earliest transfer of
land of which uny record survives, uud
that the payment was made in the pres
ence of witnesses. The original form of
tho weighing scale was probably a bar
suspeudedfro.n the mid lie, with a board
or shell suspended from each end, oue to
c ontain the weight, the other to coutuiu
the matter to be weighed. The steel
yard wus probably so called from the ma
terial of which it was made, uud from its
former length. It is also knowu as the
lhnuuu bulai.ee, und is of reut autiquity.
it. Lout UcjJUbltC,
DOG FOOD AND MEDICINE.
A UNIQUE ESTABLISHMENT IN
THE METROPOLIS.
Prepfirlnfc Food for Aristocratic Cn
nlnes Curious Loolcliitf Machines
Patent Physio fur tlio l)og.
Tho manufacturing of food nnd patent
medicines for tho aristocratic dog is one
Of the few industries not ns yet over
crowded. The dog's "Dchnonico's," as
it may very appropriately be callod, has
done business at the saulo stand for a
much longer time than its moro dignified
prototype. Its glaring sigu, moro at
tractive than artistic, covers the front of
a four-story brick building in nu upper
Eust side street.
For nenrly a quarter ot a century
Sprat's factory has had a monopoly of
the making of dog food. Everything
that is mado by the establishment is most
amply protected by patents. But so
great is the fear that soma onu will dis
cover the secrets of the establishment,
that it is only with the greatest difficulty
that nn outsider obtains n view ol the
interior. The business is now conducted
by a limitcil stock company. From
twenty-five to fifty men nro employed
four days in the week. Monday and
Tucsi'ayjof each week are devoted to sort
ing the stock on baud.
It is really far from being a prepos
sessing place. Au odor, anything but
pleasant, greets the nostrils of the visitor
entering nn the ground floor. This is
the receiving room of the imturials used
iu the manufactured products. One is
hardly surprised to learu that thous
ands of pounds of butchers' scraps are
brought here in tho course of n month.
Oatmeal iu wholesale quantities and tons
ot herbs aro mod. The old-fashioned
dog-hone, boncset, catnip and beet root
uuder various scientific names, Hud
n use hero cither as food or as medi
cine. Tho second floor is occupicl by four
curious-looking machines having great
cylinder attachments. After some of the
men have carefully sorted the fat an 1
tho meat it is ground up separately in
these machines into disagreeable masses.
After that it is placed into great wooden
tubs, where various mixtures are added.
The cooks in this establishment nro very
chary of telling you just what they put
in these tubs. Tho next process seems
so muoh liko the ordinary bakers' work
that one is quite disposed to taste things,
and when the round and square cakes
have been placed in tho brick ovens and
taken out a tempting brown, one is
really in sympathy with tho aristocratic
dog. Having been properly cooled tho
biscuits are taken to the next floor,
where seycral "hands" are employed to
do nothing but pack them ia neat paste
board boxes.
According to size theso boxes aro
labelled for pet dogs, for greyhounds,
for St. Bernards. Then there nre spe
cially prepared dishes for cats. The poor
animal that has been the subject of so
much derision has been specially con
sidered, and sufficient of a specially pre
pared food to keep her for two days may
be obtained for five cents.
But it costs a pretty peuny to keep a
dog. A large dog must have six or
eight cakes, besides a quantity of meat.
The meat will probably cost ten cents,
tho cakes four cents apiece. That makes
$3 a week. There is the dog tax, and
the dog must havo a collar, which will
cost anywhere from $1.50 to 5000.
There is a crate to send him to the dog
show, $14; a brush nnd comb, $4; a
wuterproof blanket, iJb'.SO; a nickle
plated slip, $10; a brass show-chain,
3.50; r yard chain, 1. Then tho dog
must bo housed, an amount of about
100 to begin with, and 3 and 4 a
week afterward, will keep an ordinary
"400" dog in New York.
The most importnnt department ot all
is that of the patent medicines. Away
up at tho very top uf the building, re
moved from the various odors, is tho
office of the company. All day long tho
secretary keeps the books nnd sends out
circulars to every ono who has registered
a licenso for a dog.
Right back of tho office, unreached by
tho prying outsider save through tho
office, is the mediciuo departmcut. Thu
mixtures of herbs aud chemicals are
boilo I iu great 'kettles uud tho liquid
brought up to this floor to ho put iu
bottles of various sizes and labelled cure
or mango, another a liniment for sprains,
mother to prevent balduess, or rather a
sthuuluut for the hair, which is the same
thing. It is quite astonishing to learu
that sure cures for seventeen diseases are
made. The wonder grows greater when
oqe remembers all the dogs one has
It now u that were never treated for any
thing. Wheu they wero sick they went
awuy nnd lay dowu in a cool place, hav
ing eatoii of some herb knowu to dogs,
nnd slept '.ho illu?ss off. Hut thou, of
course, there neru no aristocratic dogs.
They muy have successfully herded
beep or churned tho butter but they
never would have taken the prize iu tho
dog show.
Not only docs this curious establish
ment make liquid medicines, but pills,
mi l us a recent addition to the business
it makes dog collars aud dog soap and
crates tor carrying or shipping dogs iu,
dog brushes and combs, mackintosh
w aterproofs, with hoods, for grey houuds,
uud blankets.
For its out-of-town trade it makes
food which makes hens lay in dull
seas-ns, fools lor pigeons and s a is fo.
washing tho latter. Mca York Scwj.
Asbestos Depisit.
T.ie Jinln.triid Jit-vUw calls attention
to the w underfill deposit of usliest is
whicii has lice u found near Hamilton, iu
Rag it Couuty, Wash., and has becu un
covered for a ilistaucu of seveuty-tive
leet, and at the cropping is said to eight
feet in width. The asbestos is of ex
cellent quality, the libers, tine as silk,
I cing in soiii'j instances us much as
eighteen inches iu leugth.
Thu cou-st line of Alaska exceeds iu
length by 302U miles thut of ad the icoi
of tho Uuitcd States,
LOVE'S SHADOW.
My lady slphs. Tier thought is stirred
By something that she deeply foels,
Gut cannot tell. The mating bird
In witchery of song reveals
A sympathy. Hhe, too, could sing, '
Did she but fully comprehend
The meaning of those notes that ring,
Aud with the Joy of living bland.
My lady loves. Across her path.
Unknown to her, a shadow lies.
All Ufa Its prefect fulness hath ,
In bird and bud and cloudless skies.
Yet, echoing the songstor's bliss.
She sighs before the song is dene.
Bbo tlo?s not know love's shadow Is
Far brighter than tho noonday sun.
Flurel Urott Mines, in Ihtryer'a Weeklf.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
Knowledge) may be power; but it
won't run shafting.
Tho cautious man is it very consider -It
person. WaiMnyton Vott.
Tho single thought that joins two souls
must be a sort of mental hyphen. Pucb.
It takes sticktoilivenefs to succeed ia
tho human fly business. lihnira Gdr
tettc.
A Literary Pirate Something muoli
more romantic thau tho real one.
I'uet.
Small favors aro thankfully received;
but they aro often uuthaukfully remem
bered. Tho frog docs not wear his suspend
ers too tight, but ho looks liko it.- Dal
lai iVcws. '
When a woman begins to clean liouso
the first thiDg to go is her husband.
Statetmun.
"That lecturer is a host in himself."
"Yes. He would make a lino population
for a desert island."
What a comfort it would bo to a
housewife to own a lien that could lay
a carpet. Iltntoit bulletin.
Tho high juniper may praetico pa
tiently, but his cherished object is to
win Biiccess at a bouud. Pittl;
Greene "Your wife seems to bo fond
of dressi" White "Yes; every day is
Decoration Day with her." .Vtio York
UertM.
The rann who invented "tho English
crcaso" in trousers is quito well off. Aro
we to understand that his fortune is in
creasing. Statesman.
"Do you bolicvo the bad copper al
ways turns up?" "Yes after the light
ing is done and J)iis services aro not
needed." Brooklyn Life, i,
Cumso "Doctors seem tov,
good deal as a class." Bauks r
but they can hardly help it. They havo "
to treat people all tho time, you know."
Continent.
Mrs. Van Million "But.Mr. Marigold,
if you marry my daughter, how do you
and she propose to live without money?"
Jack Marigold "Do you mean to say
that you would allow your son-in-law to
starve?" Munseti WceUy.
There was a man in our town.
Who was so wondrous wisa
That when his business slu.npal way down
Begun to advertise;
And when the public saw his spread,
With all thoir mislit nnd main
Unto his place they straight away spoJ
And set him up again.
A'cio York Herald.
Jones "Why didu't you give Whip
plcton satisfaction wheu ha challenged
you?" Robinson "According to tho
code, I could uot f.ght him unless I re
tracted the insult." Jones "And what
was tho insult, pray?" Robinson "I
told liim he was not my equal." Kat
T Field' Wmhinijtoit.
May "Belle Von Leer would hnvo,-'""
been a martyr in the dark nges.""" Stella
"What makes you think so?" May
"Why, you know, when sho found that
Georgo lloud hud lost all his money sho
said: 'If I marry him people will say I
am a philanthropist, nud I cannot and
will not bo ostentatious. So I shall givo
him up, though it break my heart.' "
Hew York lltrald.
At a wnteriug place iu tho Pyreuees
tho conversation at table turned upon a
wonderful echo to be heard somo dis
tance off ou tliu Frauco-Spanidi frontier.
"It is astonishing," exclaimed an iuhab
itaut of thu Garouuu. "As soon as you
have spoken you hear distinctly tho
voiio leap from rock to rock.iroai preci
pice to procipic.!, and as soou as it has
passed the frontier, tho echo assume
the Spanish accent." Courier du Midi.
Mr. Nocasto (hotly) "It's a shame,
au outrage, a menace to American in
stitutions for onu man t i have a million
dollars. Think of tho harm hu can do
with it. Think of the power hu wields."
Mr. Fortyiuilli.m "That's so. I guess
I'll have to change my will, il viiiguo
relatives 1 hud concluded to divide my
wealth among my friends au l acquaint
ances, and as I left you a million "
Mr. Nocaste "Uiu er a goo I doul
ilcpeuds ou the man, you know." Yr
York li'ctiy.
A Kose (jii 'stluii.
In one of the pretty home gardens nt
Bay St. Louis, where thu roses grow au 1
blow unmolested by fashion "and tho
new-fangled names that fashion iuvmU
for tlieiu, there is iu bloo'ii a rose trco
with eccentric flowers. It is u sweet
scented damask rose, next of kin prob
ably to the new, imperious "America,
Beauty." The tree is covered with
large, lovely roses iu full bloom, uud
from Hie heart ot eai h rose, growing up
above tuu petals o.i a single stalk ; is a
cluster ot three or lour little luiiiiaturely
formed rose-. Kvery rose on tho tree u
thus sprouting this most curious ircak of
nature. The second growth of roses
docs uot como to perfect flowers, but the
wi.zen, weak, ill-lonued llo .vers flowing
from the heart of the mother rn'u aro
singularly sweet iu pel fume. I'm uny
of our florists cxpluiu thu eeceutiic
motherhood of this daiua.sk rjSv-.' -Vt.o
an Pieayant.
There were 31 000 i.ttt'e bought iu
Co cugo during lie.- moiilU o. Mutch for
exj.ou to Euiopt',