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' , - w ui luh r aaB' RE Judge Irving Halscy, In hi. momorial address over the grnvo of the famous pacer, Tom Hal, ia Tennessee recently, assorted that this peculiar stride was ued by horses 2000 years ago in Greece, and that the proof of this fact Is to be fuuiul in tlio cipiino figures on tho mar bles stolen from tho Parthenon by Lord Elgin. Tlie New Orleans Picayune predict, that the uext move against immigration will be agniust the Jnpoiiese. California, it seems, is threatened with an influx of a clan of Japanese who, tho San Fran cisco papers think, will piovo as objec tionable as tho Chinese, and an attempt has been made, iu 'a test case Involving four women who recently landed, to stem tho tide. The Atlanta Con tt it lit ion observes: In 18150 we had ffii per capita in circula tion, and tho failures of that year woro ulyC32, with t47,3:i:i,()00 llubilitltics. Iu 1889 wo had less th in 7 per capita ill circulation, ami there wcro 13,277 failures that year, amounting to $312, 4011,743. So when wu havo plenty of money in circulation tho country is pros perous, but wheu tho circulation is oou traetod our business interests go to smash. The elevated railroads in New York City, which cost less than (17,000,000, are stocked and bonded for moro than (00,000,000. Tho steam railroads In the couutry cost, on paper, says General Hush C. Hawkins, in tho North Ameri can, (9,031,453,14(1, of which two-fifths represent water. Tho street railroads of tho country, horse, cablo and electric, have not cost over (110,000 per milo but tlioy nro stocked and bonded up to about (100,000. It is proKMod to establish a Japaneso colony lu California, the projector being an ex-member of tho Ilnuso of Represen tatives in Japan, who has wearied of tliu tumoil in his native land. Ho has inter ested several largo capitalists, and is se lecting able bodied farmers to form, tho first group of colonists. "From present indications," comments tho Now York Tribune, "a law will soon havo to bo parsed excluding tho Japaucso, for every steamer sees a largo number arrive. Thty are llockiug iuto Hawaii by thousands, and they have been attracted hero by the high wages." The American Indians want to be rep resented by au exhibit at tho World's Fair, and at the agencies iu the West they are signing petitions to bo granted the privilege. Tho petitions uru addressed to tho Prossidont of tho United States and his cabinet, and t tho Commission ers of the World's Fair. Iu quite pa thetic language they set forth tho de spairing condition of the Indians, an I piutest against the celebration, of tho dis covery of Atnoricj au event so momen tous and disastrous to them without b- ing afforded proper recognition and a chance to make uu exhibit which will not ouly serve ns a most appropriate back ground upou which to illustrate tho pro gress of 400 years, but will show that tho Indians themselves have made greater advancement than is generally supposed. KxiwrimcnU by the dynamite cruiser Vesuvius seem to prove, observes tho Washington Star, that dynamite explo sive tired iuto tho air from a platform nut stationary cannot bo dependel upou to explode so as to bo destructive to ob jects iu tho water or near it. It would uppcar that further experimentation should be on tho lino of securing a stable platlorm that could bu maueuvured easily and swiftly. The guns are so long and the machinery so extensive us to require a greater space tha 1 could be secured on u man-of-war devoted to other uses. A the same time they are uot able, as tin recent experiments show, to tlud iu a ves sel of seventeen or eighteen feat of bea n sufllcicut firmness for u trajectory iu eveu moderately good weather, whereas the requisite is stability iu rou ''.i se ta. There is authority for the opinion that torpedo development should bo ou tho old line of the submarine torpedo. Tho lurgest feu ever received for pro fessional services iu the United States w.is paid wheu a check was ma le out foi $21)0,000 to William Nelson Cromwell, of this city, says the New York World. Ho hud acted us ussiyueo of Decker, Howell ii Co., tho bankers and broker who suspended payment during the panic iu Wall street lust November, and, as said, Judge Lawrence in thu Supremo Court has continued the rep rt of the referee who passe 1 upon tho accounts and stated that Mr. Cro nwcll was en titled to that sum. Mr. Cromwell earned this (260,000 iu six weeks. That was at thu rate of 13.3:i J.IKl J a week, or (7222.16 a duy for six working days to tho week, and the remarkable part of the whole transaction is that the people who paid him the money thin!; that ho under estimated the value of his services anil go out of their way to buy him a vulu uhle silver reprice worth a small fortuuo pi itself) APPI.K BLOSSOMS. We stood within the orchard's gloom. In youth and covrnge btgh, The apple boughs in clustered bloom Were Just a nearer sky I And one, a maiden in her pride, A quaint old ditty sang. With glaUbs, half thy, at him beside) And thus the bunion rang : O true heart, 'tis long to parti Apple bnnghs are gay, Bweot buds grow, blossoms blow; Thou f.rt still away. One lingered, when they turned to go, Whose path lay o'er the sea) A look, a klsij a whisper low, Anil plighted fast were we, Ho would return to claim my love When spring bu Is opsnel again; And distant came, beyond the grove, The woods of that refrain: O true heart 'tis long to parti Apple boughs are gay; Bweet buils grow, blossoms blow; Thou art still away. A ring upon my linger shone, He vanished In tho shade. And the swwt stars looked gently down Upon a happy mold. That ring Is like a star at uightj And in my loneliness The pressure of Us circlet light Hns teemed a soft caress. O true heart, 'tis long to part! Apple boughs are guy, Sweet buds grow, blossomslblow ; That art still away. I stand within the orchard's close, Beneath the guardian trees; And thrice the apple blossoms' snows Have floated to the breeze. The summer glows, the red leaves fall, The winter heartli-llres burn; Spring cuuics, but never to my call Or prayer dost thou return ! O true heart, 'tis long to part! Apple boughs are gay, Sweet buds grow, blossoms blow) Thou art still away. They say 0110 should be patient; yet, If groping lost in night Forever, can the soul forget The loveliness of light? I sometimes think that in yon sky Thou art so far from me! And then, when I to God would cry, 1 cry, instead to you; O true heart, 'tis long to parti Applo boughs are gay, Bweet buds grow, blossoms blow; Thou art still away. To smile, to jest, to walk my way Oh, that is not for me ! To live till I am old and gray, And ne'er thy face to see! Thy voice I O Love, art thou a dream By God In pity given Clasp, clasp me close, lest joy extreme Bhould opou the gates of heaven! O true heart, no more to part! Apple boughs are gay, Sweet tiu.ls grow, blossoms blow, Where our glad feet stray. Elisabeth W. Fithr.in Hotton Transcript ALMOST A CRIME. It seemed as If Providence had descried ltunitolph Perry in his old ago and ut terly cast him off. For his Was. In-leml. a hard lot. We do not often tlnd a cose of such great hardship iu humau a Hairs; for, although ho had begun life with the brightest prospects, with ubundant wealth, a pleasant home, a loving 'wife aud children, his seventieth summer found Inm stripped of all save tho roof above his head, and seriously threatened with tho loss of even that. Twenty long, wenry years back his re verses had begun in tho sudden and di- trcssing death of his dear wife; and this irreparatilo blow was soou after followed by the elopement of his daughter Annie, the pet and dulling of his heart, with 11 u artful scoundrel with a sham title, who had probably left his nativo laud across tte sea upon compulsion. The poor latucr ucaruj 01 nor but ouco afterward, and that was when the news of her sui cide in Manchester reached him. This visitation humbled lain almost to tho dust, and brought with it a sickuess that laid him prostrate for a twclvemouth, and nearly cost him his life. lie rose from his sick bod and ap peared to the little world of his acquaint ance only tho wreck of his former man hood. His first inquiries were forSbncou, bis boy. No one would answer him at first ; they looked pitifully at him aud kept silent; but when ho angrily de manded to know thu truth, they were compelled to tell him t'uit Simeon, Ids only remaining hope, had heartlessly de serted him during his sickness, aud, as was supposed, bad gone oil to sea. ltan dolph i'erry did not dio with this accu mulation of griefs; he lived on iu a hoeless, morbid kind of way; but no oue had seen him smile since he was told of rjimeou's desertion. That was nearly twenty years back. Hu had dwelt iu the house where ho had been bereaved ever siuce, with no society savo that of the woman who attended to his small do mestic alluirs. This beautiful mansion, standing high up ou a kuoll that overlooked the sea, surrounded with spacious aud cultivated grouuds, had been purchased by Perry of its previous owner, who was his friend, and upon whose ussuruncu that the place wa unencumbered aud free from all legal claim be implicitly relied. That friend had died peuuiless two years after; aud 110 w, as if tj remove from his dreary existence thu lat ray of sunshine, he found himself threatened with total deprivation of his estate. As unexpectedly as though the heavens hail dropped Uhiu his bewildered head, lit) was untitled by a lawyer in Londou that he held for one of his clients a inurtgagu Ukiu thu place, executed by the vernier a few mouths Iwforo the sale, upon which thu principal and interest amouuted to quite the va'ue of llu place, aud that immediate satisfaction Was demanded and expected. Then followed a ted 10 wand vexatious litigation, which resulted iu establish ing the uiotUugu aud decdunug thu pe cuniary ruin of Randolph Forry, It was the last drop in the wretched suffer er's cup of gall. Tho llttlo menus that ho could Command from his broken for tunes had beon swullowed up in his un successful defense of tho suit. The hour was about twilight; tho un touched meal had been clcirod away, and the Old housekeeper had retired to her chamber. Perry sat in tin front room, in a low chair by tho window, aud, absorbed id bis misery, he noticed noth ing of the storm that wus coming up. He had not sat thus more than half an hour whett ho heard the sharp unlatch ing of tho gate, und tho quick step of feet on the gravel ; and then there was a knock at the door. A tall man stood without, his garments clinging to him in wet folds and the water running from them iu streams. Thu old man help up the candle to his fuce aud saw a prominent noso and a pair of keen eyes under a wide hat, and for tho rest there was a handsome, rather benevolent, mouth, and a mass of au burn beard. Tho man was a stranger to him. "Good evening, sir," ho laid, in n bluff, hearty voice. "May I como in and get dry! Such a ducking I haven't hid since I fell off Freehaven Dock, long ago. Will you allow such a wet rat in your house I" "Yes, como iu," Porry replied; and ushering the stranger into tho room, he brought some kindlings and light wood, with which he soou made a tiro iu the fireplace. Tin stranger took off his cout and vest, and squeezed the water from them, hung them on a chair, and addressed himself to the drying of hi. extremities. The old mail looked on in moody silence, and the stranger was compelled to make tho first advances. 'A nice place you have hero, I should think. I saw it from the bottom of the hill, before the storm came up." 'Who aro youf" Perry abruptly asked. "Do you come here on any busi ness? Have you anything to do with that lascal Murch, who has robbed me of all my property? I don't know, sir; per haps I do you an injustice; but I have become embittered against everybody. I'll ask you kindly, if you came hero spying for Issaa Murch, to leave peace ably and now." "On my honor, then, sir," replied the otner, raucn surprised at the questions, "I don't know anything of Murch, and I'm above spying for him or anybody. I camu into Freehaven, down below here, this afternoon, in the steamboat, and ex pected to walk over to Westlock before the rain came on. I got caught, and I made for tho first shelter I saw, but if you'd rather I would go" "No, no," interrupted Perry; "I wouldn't turn a dog out iuto tho storm, much less a human being. Stay till you are dry, and the rain is over', and that, I think, won't be before morning. I'll give you a bed." Finding the old man but little inclined to talk, tho stranger bade his host good night acd went to tho room assigned to him. It was then about ten o'clock. Tho storm was at its height, and it continued for nn hour longer, when it abruptly ceased. The suddenness of its cessation aroused the occupant of tho mom, and wearied with his stress of emotion, he took his candle and ascended the stairs. He had no heart for auything but his own dreadful misery; and ho would pro bably have forgotten tho presence of a stranger in his house but for a ray of light issuing from tho keyhole of the chamber which he had bade him take. Randolph Perry paused, and merely obeying a sudden impulse, stopped and placed his eye at tho hole. He had not tho least curiosity about this man, aud his act was certainly without motive. Hut his cyo had but singled out his guest from the other objects iu tho room when he concentrated his attention upou him with the greatest eagerness. He saw him sitting by tho table, his back to the door, aud tho candlo before him. Four or Ave piles of bank notes, new and crackling, were before him; and he counted them over rapidly, replacing them all in au oilcd-skin wallet beneath his pillow. Iu a few moments moro tho light was ex tinguished aud tho heavy breathing of the sleeper was heard. Silently did the listener galu his own room; and as he stood there he was u man transformed! Could he, have seen his own face at that moiueut ho must havo been tcrritlcd at the fiendish pas sions that peered out from it. He straightened up his bowud shoulders; his eyes lost their listless, hopeless expres sion and burned with a baleful light; and eveu his shrivelled, wrinkled cheeks Hushed with thu shame of the dreadful sin with which bo was struggling. r or mndolph Perry uiediUted murder. With this horrible resolution formed, the old uiau rapidly procoeJud to its ac complishment. In his bureau drawer lay a sheath-kuifu eight inches 111 thu blade, which he had never carried since boyhood, and opening the drawer he took it from it sheath, and holding it up to the light saw that it was sharp. Tuu demon must have had full possession of him in that hour, lor he smiled as he observed tho glitter of the bright blade. Placing it in the breast of his waistcoat, he softly left his room aud traversed the passage. Listening at the door of his victim, hu beard his steady, regular breathing, and noiselessly unclosing it he entered aud advanced to the bedside. But his eyes liuuered upon the tal le; he could not withdraw them. They rested ou a large family Hible, tho gift of his wife in happier days, and it uow lay open, as the laud of the stranger must havu opened it, to thu sixth chap ter of Matthew. At the top ot the page he saw drawn with a pencil iu bold let ters, but with irregular and wavering lines, as if by the hand of a child, the begiuning of the thirteenth verse: "And lead us uot into temptutiou. A change upou the instant came over Randolph Perry. His face turned dead ly pale, his limbs shook so violently that the light iu his hand was extinguished; aud, with all purpose of crime banished from his heart, he feebly tottere I lroin thg Chamber that bu J vyituessud tbio strange; scene back to liis own room, where he sank bn his kneos by the bed side and penitently poured fourth his soul id secret thanksgiving to heaven for his deliverance 4 As Randolph sat at breakfast with his guest, a chase drove up to tho door, and from it alighted Mr. Murch, the hateful nifent. He entered without knocking, and unceremoniously addressed the old man, paying no heed to tho stranger, "Your timo is up to-day, old fellow, and if my Client still owned the mort gage, my business here would be to turn you out. Hut he don't; he's sold it to somebody whom you'll probably see hero soou enough. I was going by, and I thought I'd call in and congratulate you." "Heaven will be donol" ejaculated Perry covering his face. "It's just about time it was," Murch rejoined, with heartless insolence. "You've given trouble cnought about that mortgage, and it's quite time you was set adrift on your travels." "Iave tho house, jod scoundrel!" roared the guest, jumping up angrily and monacing Murch with hit tist. "And who might you bo, my lad?" tho latter snecringly asked. "I am the owner of tho mortgage, and, I am able and willing to punish you for your cruelty to this old mnn." And seizing the agent by his coat collar with a grip of iron, the strong man spun hitn about liko a top slamming him with no gontlo force against the wall till tho breath was knocked out of his body and then opening the door, he cast him out into the wet grass. A minuto Inter tho crestfallen agent rose and limped out to his chaise sore aud bruised and humbled in feelings. It was his first and last visit to Woodhampton. The stranger rcclosed the door and knelt beside the astonished old mau and took his hands. "Don't you know me, father?" he asked in a trembling voice. "Will you take back your prodigal son who de serted you so cruelly? I never was bad at heart, father; it was Robinson Crusoe, more than anything else, that made me ruu away. I've como back now, after years of wandering, with money enough for both of us. I'vo paid the mortgage, nnd I want to live with you here, at Woodhampton. My heart has beon yearning to you ever since I set foot in the house; Fve been ready to reveal myself a doxen times, but it faltered ou my lips. Forgive me now, father; forgive me, and let us dwoll in peace and forzet the past." His voice failed him and his head sank on his father's knee, and thu glad old mnn bent over him with streaming eyes, fondly smoothing hislinir nnd faltering, "God has given me of His bounty when I deserved His curse. May my Futher in heaven and my son on earth forgive mel" Curious Test fur Ability. A well-known down-town contractoi has a peculiar theory. It is necessary foi him to employ a great number of uien in his business, and they must possess cer tain qualifications iu order to give satis faction. First end foremost a quickness of thought and action is indispensable. Everything else is subordinate to this. "And the best place iu tho world to find the very men I want is in restaurant," said tho man a short time ago to a I'unes reporter. The reporter did uot seo why this should bo so, aud the uiau weut ou to explain. "When in a restaurant," said he, "you seo a man take up tho bill of faro and spend half an hour looking through its contents you can put that pcrsou down as a man with no docistou of character. The man who goes into a restaurant, throws his hat at a peg, and gives the waiter his order as soon ns he is seated is the man for uie. Yoq can depend upou it, that man can bo trusted to know what he is doing, aud is the proper man to put in a position where decision ol character is au csscutial qualification. "If I were the General of au army I would submit all my officers to this crucial test before intrustiug them with any important separate commands. "--St 10 Yorl Tim-. Weapons of To day. The energy of modern artillery is some thing appalling, aud threatens to destroy friend aud foe together. A sixty-seveu ton gun on the British battle-ship Tra falgar wus pointed directly ahead aud tired with 030 pounds of slow-burning powder aud a 1250-pound projectile. Tho blust produced by the rush of powder-gas aud tho shot was so tremendous that the plates of the fortcastlo wero forced in aud the deck-beams beut out of shape. A hint of what the effect might bu on the enemy will be given at the Navul Exhibition, where will be showu a projectile that has been fired from a 110-ton guu. This remarkable shot is said to havu beeu driven iu suc cession through a tweuty-iuch steel plate, eiht-inches of iron, twenty feet of oak balks, five feet ol grauite, uud eleven feet of concrete, dually lodging at a depth of three feet in a mass of brick masonry. Trenton (A-. J.) Anuricna. Pickpockets Aro Horn. A man must have the physical endow ment to be a pickpocket, just us a man must have a certain mental endowuieut to be a ioet, says a noted criminal in thu St. Louis Ulobe-Ih-iiwerat. The lining of the pocket must be takeu hold of ubout au inch from tho top ou tho inside. It must be drawu up easily uud quickly ut the samu time. Not moro than half a dozen move ments of the fingers should be necessary to get the lining out fir enough. With the lining, of couise, will come tha pocketbook, aud this should never bu touched by thu tinkers until it is almost ready to drop iuto tiie hand of the thief. Some experts never touch tho book until it is iu thu baud. Now, the lingers to do this should bu slender; uot neces sarily loug, but thin and flexible, aud thu best pickpockets aro thosu whutf filler ends uie naturally iuoit. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Electrical tanning is satisfactory. A lighthouse burner is equal to 8,000, 000 caudles. An Italian has invented a new fuel prepared from lignite. It has been satis, factorily used for running locomotives. The largest telescopic lens over ground in this country is now in course of polish ing at Urcenvillfl, Peun. It measures thirty and one-half inches in diameter, five and one-eighth inches in thickness. The application of the microscope to machine shop practice, for the purpose bf proving whether surfaces are true, is pronounced by experts as being the best method of obtaining accuracy thus far suggested. An apparatus for testing tho smelling capacities of individuals was recently ex hibited in Paris. ' It is said to determine the weight of odorous vapor existing in a given quantity of air. Tho invention is called the olfactometer. A man named Jones, of Cardiff, Wales, is said to havo patented a sewing machine without shuttle or bobbin. Tho thread is supplied directly from two ordinary spools and sows through the assistance of a rotary looper. Moulds for casting iron can only be made in sand. Iron and other metallic moulds cbiil tho iron, and it does not fill well. The great heat at which iron melts will burn any other material, or will stick so as to break the mould. One of the novelties at the St. Pan eras Exhibition, iu London, lately, was a sausage machine, driveu by electric motor. In conjunction with this ma chine it has been proposed to employ au electric beating attachment, whereby tho savory dish can bo delivered cooked. A successful exhibition was given iu Philadelphia recently, of tho system of storage batteries for propelling passen ger lailway cars, as introduced by Messrs. Wright & Starr. A speciul feature of the new system is the recharging of tho batteries by a retrograde movement of tho motor. The run from Baltimore to Phila delphia of the Royal Blue Line Express is made behind what is said to bo the largest engine id this country. It weighs 187,000 pounds, aud runs on four driv ing wheels six foct six inches in diam eter. It is black, without a particle of bright color about it. A new method of ventilating railway carriages and preventing dust from en tering with the nir has appeared in France. Tho more quickly the train moves the mora rapidly tho apparatus works. The air is made to traverse a receptacle containing water, which cools it aud relieves it of dust, after which it goes through another filtering before en tering the carriage. State Entomologist Lintner, who was summoned to Catskill recently, to examine a now pest which was ruining the pear crop of that place, finds that au area three miles in diameter has been occu pied by tho most dangerous fruit pest that has visited tho Stutc iu years. It is the Diplosis Pyrivora, or pear midge, which is common in Europe, but first made its appearance iu this country tcu years ago at Merideu, Coun. The great electric searchlights of tho modern man-of-war may have an offeu Hve ns well as defensive value. There was a sham attack upon Cherbourg the other day, by a squadron of the French navy, uud iluriug tho manujuvres the torpedo boat Edmoud Fontaine was ruu into by a cruiser and se'it to tho bottom. Her officers report that they wero so da.zled by the suirchlight of one cruiser that they were utterly unable to see the ship that struck theui, and so could make no effort to get out of her way. Poisoned by lyo in Her U loves. "It was tho poison from tho glovej that caused her death," said Doctor James P. Way, shortly after 8 o'clock the other morning. Lieutenant Cos grove, ono ot the oldest officers in tho police service, receive 1 a message that his wife was dying. A lew minutes after hu reached his ho:nu liis wife lay ilea I in liis arms. Mrs. Cosgrovo, who is twenty-eight years old, weut to a ball at Apollo Hall, on Blue Islam! avcuue. That afternoon shu had done somo shopping along State street, and, among other things, purchased a pair of black kid gloves. She w.no them to tho ball that evening. Ou removing them she found they had sligl:tly stained her hands. The index linger of thu right hand had been pricked by a needle, lu thu morning the finger was swollen and painful. Thursday noon the hand bee line allieted, uud that night a physician was called. Doctor Way ordered the hand aud nrui poulticed, but the poison had readied the shoulder. At 2 o'clock, wheu Lieu tenant Cosgrove weut on duty, his wife bade him good-by, and seemed iu ex cellent spirits. At U o'clock she wus lead. Mrs. Cosgrove suffered some time ago with heart-failure. Thu rupid blood poisoning that set iu from thu aflectcd linger proved fatal before it was deemed even serious. Chiano Tribune. A IteuiarUablo Case. In November, 1SS!, Thomas F. Da vis, a brakeuiau of thu Georgia Pucitlc Railroad, was struck by a projecting rock iu Tatus Cut, Ala., while climbing up the side of the caboose, ami was se riously injured. The rock which pro jected struck him on thu side uud hip. His injuries beside bruisei were of au in ternal nature. Ho sulfered a great dual. Attending physicians soou discovered that Davis's heart wus moved from the left to the rii(ht side. His entire iusides were disarranged and began moving from one side to thu other, lu tho course of time his heart moved eight iuches from its normal positiou und was on the rilit side. Davis dwindled from a hearty, robust man to uu invalid. The other night he died. The case .is pruuouuceu a most remarkable one by physicians. Duvis was about tweuty-tiVo years old, aud unmarried. .W10 (hicunt YW-JJttiwcrat. TOOK A NERVE FROM A DOG. A REMARKABLE BURQICAI. OPEB. ATION FOB PARALYSIS. The Gap of Thrcn Inches Between the Knda of a Cut Norve Filled by One Prom a Collie. For two years Mrs. J. If, Weber, of Philadelphia, has bad paralysis in her tight arm, rendering it useless. Recently a nerve taken from a dog was transferred to her arm, midway between the shoul der and elbow, and it Is hoped that sho will recover the entire use of her arm, wrist, hand and fingers. This remark able operation was performed by Dr. D. Hayes Aguew, consulting physician in tha Garfield case, and Dr. J. William White, assisted by Dr. Edward Martin, Dr. W. R. Hunter, Dr. Stricklcr, aud Dr. Strayer, the lost three being resident physicians in the University of Pennsyl vania Hospital. In 18S0 Mrs. Weber discovered a small tumor near the mid dle of her upper arm. It was not pnin ful until 1884. On March 5, 1889, whil at Ban Antonio, Texas, Dr. E. Horfl army surgeon, removed the tumor. It provod to be a multiple neuroma of tho musculo-spiral nerve. Dr. HerU found it necessary to take away about three inches of the nerve of the arm, thus causing "wrist droop," which prevented Mis. Weber from extending her hand, although tho fingers could bo moved slightly. From that time she had no use of her arm, although it could be raised from the shoulder. Mrs. Weber consulted Dr. Agncw and Dr. White, and they advised her to go to the University of Pennsylvania Hos pital for an operation. Sho went thero about Mnrch 15. It was proposed to transplant several inches of human nerve into her arm, joining it to tho ends of the nerve which had been sundered uu dcr Dr. llerff's knife. The surgeons ex pected to take the ncrvu of a human arm or leg which was being amputated and transplant it into Mrs. Weber's arm. The patient consented and spent the next five weeks In the University Hospital under careful treatment, but no amputation cace was received at that institution. On April 28, ut the suggestion of Dr. Agnow and Dr. W hite, Mrs. Weber con seuted to havo transplanted into her arm the nerve from a living dog. The doc tors told her that il tho dog's nervo was used it would not, of course, transmit sensations, but tt would merely act as a bridge between the suspended ends of her own nerve. It was hoped tho latter would throw out filumcuts from each end which would gradually grow along the bridge and join in the middle. Mrs. Weber insisted that tho dog selected should suffer no pain. A healthy collie was found. It was placed upon a diet for two weeks, and was carefully watched so that the sur geons could be sure it wus in a perfectly health; condition. Mrs. Weber's arm was prepared by antiseptic treatment, being scrubbed with soap and water and alcohol and bichloride of mercury. Then she was etherized aud was taken into tho private operating room of the hospital. In the mean timo the dog, freshly bathed, was also placed under tho influence of ether. All the hair was shaved from his rikjit hip. He wos.thcu taken into the operating room. Dr. Agnew made a cut in the patient's aim four inches long. After some difficulty tho ends of tho divided nerve woro found. They were iu a healthy condi tion, but about three inches apart. At this timo Dr. Martiu remove three inches of the sciatic uervn from tho dog's hip, aud quickly taking up the living nervo in forceps bunded it to Dr. Aguew and Dr. White. They placed it iu a sheath of decalcified cbickcu bono and put it between the ends ol the di vided nerves, stitching it there securely. Tho wound was then closed and a drain age tube left iu. The uncoucious dog was killed. Tho juncture was mado without sup puration. Mrs Weber got along nicely, and ou May 21 left the hospital. No visible change had then taken place iu tho motion of the hand. Several months may elapse before the nerve bo gins to act. The sheath ot chicken bone iu which the dog's nerve was placed for protection will bu absorbed. Aeo i'ork Huh. Yellowstone Park Scenery. Tho merits of the sceuery of Yellow stouo Park appear to Professor G. F. Wright to havo been considerably exag gerated. Tho figures representing the height of the mountains around it ubovo the sea are deceptive. A niouutaiu 10,000 or 11,000 feet high does not look extraordinarily large and massivo when it does uot rise more than 2000 or 3000 feet above the elevated plateau on which it stands us a base; but those 2000 or 3000 feet are all that is showu of the mountniu-rim of the park, while tho glimpses to the outsidu mountains aro StiK und fur between. The grainiest views are thote on entering tho park as one looks outward to the encircling rim. The geysers, Professor Wright says, ure decidedly vulgar, und one can afford to die without seeing them. Boiling paint pots, with only one dull color in them, aro uot inspiring. Acres of land, luid waste by sulphurous waters and gases, such us greet one on uvery hand iu these geyser basins, can be seen at any time in Pennsylvania where the water is pumped from the coal mines to spread its deso lation all around. AV10 York Cummtrei'd Aileertiter. A Curious Kitten. Nat Hays, who is uow b ing ut Bright, Cullman County, Ala., tells of a mon strosity burn ut his house not long ayo in the shape of a kitteu. It had two bodies from thu shoulder buck, uu I had seven legs in ull. Four of these were well formed hiudlegs with feet, uud two fore legs iii the proper place, and one foreleg ou his shoulder or I uck. it had two tuils and two mouths one of the months in the proper place, and the other cut up and dow n iicross its chin. Dr. Geiger has preserved it iu alcohol. .timtt L'vitititutivn. A DAY IN SONCLAHD, Wandering through the land of Spring Have you heard Its voices sing? Throb of earth, swift whir of wing, Skimming, scudding clouds which flirfc, Harmony From the glad groen of the hills. And broad blue the sky which (Ills; In awakened, gushing rills, Nature's bidden music trills Melody. Whore the purple lilnes sway. Blossoms bloom, then float away t Listen to the song of Mar, Hint and hush and whisper tay, "Heart, but. see Bummer land of flowers not far, Where gold gates of souse ajar Swing back noiselessly nfur; Bud and bloom anil muc- aro All for thoe." But from distance faintly swell Tink and tone of evening bell! Day is dying, shadows toll Of a lingering farewell To the light! Bathed in showers of ruddy gold. Sunset's radiant realms unfold; Now from twilight hands is rolled Eventide, by stars foretold; Then tho night. mUidelphia Times. HUMOR OF THE HAY. A Btirriug appeal. Spoon, please. The light of the world Caucasians. Abovo his busiuess The boss. Puet. "What's Tim doing now?" "Time." The smaller the rooster tho louder tho crow. The bogus dollar is hard to push ; but it often is lead. An overdrawn account Tho scusa tioual reporter's table. Pud. You can never lift a mortgage by pull ing at a bottle, Kbitira Onaittt. Tl man that "gets out on a foul" isn't necessarily a chicken. Lotrell Mail. Tho xylophone player is the fellow who makes the "woods ring." titatii mun. Some of the new cnunon which shoot twelve miles won't shoot anything elso. yVathinijtou .Still1. A man would do pretty poor fishing if ho used a hook-worm for bait. Ding hamton litpubliean. Teacher "Now, then, who can tell mo tho plural of 'child?' " Tho Brigl Pupil "Twius." Par it Fbjnro. It is said the first anchors wcro invent ed in 587. They have been a drag ou tho muritimo scrvico ever since. Pica yune. You cau never judge how well u man can keep a secret by the way ho keeps one that is unfavorable to him. Atchutn. Olol.: "Did you enjoy the circus, Johnny?" "Very much. I had a ride 011 a big leather animal with a snnku ouhis noso." I'uek. Farmer "Did that tianip over yonder leave this house?" Wife "Yes; but ho took our money with him." AV10 York Journal. "What is a skin game?" asks a cor respondent. A skin ganio is ono where thu other niau makes the money. Jfeio Yirk ItcrorJer. Tho editor of a comic paper is said to bo insane. One would think a man with all his wits about him couldn't go iu suue. Stiilemtn. In Bostou men nrc beginning to emancipate themsulves from the gentler sex. A man lias started a milliuery tore. Tcxui Siftimjt. Very petito ladies doubtless intend to be as truthful as any oue; but dou't you notice that they almost invariably drew tho loug bcaui Puck: The things that proruisa most success Will vuuishVliilt) wu look; It always is the hiext lisli That wriggles oir thu hook. li'iixiiMffoii Fnsf. Boggs "Au Americnu girl always makes a bargain wheu she marries a lord." Fogg "How do you make that out?" Boggs "Because he is cheap, at any price." Life. Doctor "There, get that prescription filled, and take a teaspoonful three times a day before meals." Pauper Patient "But, doctor, I dou't get but one meal iu two days." 7V.mj Sif'tiwt. When a lady of uncertain age tells you coyly that she has seen twenty-seven summers it is altogether impolite to ask her if she remembers how the last one of the twenty-seven looked. tjoineroUlo Journal. "No, muni," said Bridget, "I dou't bring any reference. 1 dou't think you would care for the opinions of some of tho persons I have beeu working for." And Bridget was promptly engaged. Ae York Ittcorilcr. Mipub Say (the evening before her wedding) "Supposu the minister should wuut to kiss inu after the ceremony, dear, what shill I do?" Miss Vinuiu Garr (her dear friend) "lie won't want to." -Vtio York Pi-en. The Longest K let trie Uailrnud. North Carolina is to have a forty-olio-mile electric railway, running from Ashe villu to Itiiiherfordtou, for w hich tho puwur operating the electric works is to be furnished by water. The road, when completed, will lie the longest electric railroad Hue in thu world, and the only one built to opvrtate both Ireight and passenger cars. Though Ktithci lordtou is 112 yeurs old, it never hi 1 a railroad of any kind until withiu thu lat two years. &icnniA .Vwi, How Celluloid is Made. The base of celluloid is common paper; by action of iilphuri and nitric acid it is changed to gun-cotton, then dried, ground und mixed with from twenty to forty per t ent, of camphor, utter w hich it is ground Hue, colored with powder colors, cast in sheets, pressed very bard and at lust baked betwecu scU of super J.eatcd tollers.
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