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Ilich Philndolphinns allow ft discount
of five per ci'tif. to tenants who pay tholr
rents on tho day tlmy full tint.
Tim 1SS0 roror.l for lirifiHli lifeboats
'.hows a saving of 65 !! lives besides res
cuing twenty-seven vessels from destruc
tion. Boston Inn decided, announces the
Chicago Iferabl, to divorce clubs from
Iter police force that is, alio will obi I to
her pirotmcu to keep their baton "out
of sight in tho p.ickots of their new uni
forms, tint they may be used only in cmo
of nu rmurgenrv.
Wilder, the humorist, snys that in ap
preciating good jokes a crowd of news
boys is tho quickest nnd most intelligent
lio over met. No point, gesture or shndo
of inflection escapes these alert liftlo no
mnds, whilo ou the other hand many
fashionable anseinblHgcs are chilly and
unresponsive uutil ycu break tho crutt of
reservo or indifference ns If with a
tlcdgo hammer.
Tho gnmo of bneenrat, remarks the
Bodon Trnntertpti is not tho first gnme
of cards that has brought disaster to tho
fortunes of tho Gordon-dimming family.
The present Baronet's graudmother hnd
a weakness for whist that led her to play
for stakes as high fJnoOO a point. In
one uiht, duriug a run of ill-luck, she
is suid to hnvo lost thirty-two points,
and her husband was compelled to part
with a large proicrty to settle tho debt.
It is pleasing, confesses tho New York
Sun, to obtuiu official information that
there in no danger of tho iminediute ex
tinction of tin American buffalo, as this
superb beast has found a quiet and
hippy home in tho Yellowstone National
Park. It is to bo feared, however, that
tho habits end eveu tho natural qualities
of tho buffalo aro undergoing a sorious
chaugo in tho Park, and that ho is bo
coming a tame and well-disposed quad
ruped. It is truly sad to think that tho
vast herds which roamed proudly over
tho plains, eveu ai lato ns tho midd'e ol
tho present century, have disappeared.
According to tho Grant Junction
(Col.) Xevt there is rod tape oven in the
West. A Navajo pupil at Teller Insti
tute was fouud to have one of his feet
endowed with a surplus toe, aud the Su
perintends ordered a pair of shoes for
him from a local shop, at a cost of 95.
Secretary Noble disputed the bill. Thou
tho Superintendent wrote to tho Secre
tary: "Indiau boy hero with six toes;
can't possibly wear Government shoe.
What shall I do?" Tho Secretary an
swured: "Off with his too." Next
tho Superintendent asked: "Which
toe?" And tho Secretary wrote: "Sixth
toe, of course." If the Secretary thought
that that euded it hu was wrong. Again
tho Superintendent addressed him, say
iug: "Too oil. What shall I do with
it 7" To which tho Secretary made final
answer: "Ship to Topeka for intoruicut
in Government graveyard."
It will bo interesting to remember a
prophecy which Sir Johu Mcdonald once
uiado to a reporter of tho Now York Sun
with regnrd to tho future of Cauada.
He aaid that in timo tho provinces of
Ontario and Quebec will form a greater
France. He thought Franco was do
clining, whilo in the old provinces of
Cauada the French wero multiplying like
nothing tho world has seen before. Not
only do they have largo families, but
they possess all the thrift of tho French
aud are steadily buying up tho laud.
Like that of our New England the soil
is comparatively poor nud difficult of
cultivutiou, and tho English, Irish aud
Scotch are leaving it for tho prairie, the
plains and tho Pacific coast, "aud," said
he, "whenever such a farmer expresses a
desire to go West his next door neighbor,
a Frenchman, stands ready to buy him
out. Soon there will be few except
Frcuchmeu left in old Canada."
California is fast gaining a piouiinent
position as a dairy State, declares tho
American Dairymtn, some of the Quest
French cheeses being luudo there. Iu
1S80 Mr. L. Can tot started a factory at
Pctuluma for the purpose of manufac
turing the celebrated French cream
cheese, uud, although nt first he fouud it
hard to introduce his product In San
Frnucisco aud other cites on the Pacific
slope, ho has by his perseverance built
up a first-clans trade for tho special
brands of line cheese manufactured by
him, which are French cream, Camen
bert, Uric, Ncufchutel, (Jerome and
Itoquefort cheese, all of which are popu
lar, not oijly with the epicures iu all tho
principal cities iu California, but also in
Oregon, aud ho is uow exportiug large
quuutities to the Tahiti and Suudwich
Islands. If manufacturers of those fancy
chctse on this side of tho Rocky Moun
tains do not bestir themselves, it will bo
but a short time uutil Mr. t'intel, or
soma other enterprising manufacturer of
California, controls tho Eastern trade
for this lino of dairy products, which are
growing iu favor among the better class
of consumers ull over this continent.
TWO VOICES.
A HOMII.T.
The humblest and frailest grassy blade
That ever the passing broesos swayed
la of Beauty's palace a green arcade.
Akin to the uttermost stars that burn,
A story the wisest may never lerirn,
Is the tiny pebble thy footsteps spurn.
In each human heart potontinl dwell.
Hid from the world and itolf as well,
lloighU of heaven, abysms of hell.
Tho core of the earth is fiery young I
No matter what may be said or sung
With a weary brain and a wailing tongue.
Soul self pent in a narrow plot,
Louglng each mom for some fair lot,
Some bounteous grace which thou hast not.
Dull thou must be not to understand,
And blind thou art not to see at hand
Thy dreams by reality far outspamiel
For wonder Ilea at thy very door,
And magic thy fireside sits before,
And marvels through every window poui
Woven the wings of the swift hours be
Of splendor and terror and mystery j
One thing is needful tho eyes to seel
Cornhill Miujaziin,
Aim MEREDITH.
"That wis tho saddest mistake t ever
made."
From my lounge in tho corner of Aunt
Meredith's room I watch her with half
closed eyes as she draws her low chair
before the tire, and takes her knitting
from the work-basket nt her side. She
is always busy, it seems to ine, and when
I think of it, we six tiro enough to make
Work constant with her.
First, there is Undo Clay, Aunt Mere
dith's brother, full of hobbies that re
quire her constant attention,
"If lean only prove its worthlcssness
before he mounts it, I can save him a
good deal of trouble," she says, when a
ucw hobby is presented ; and often she
succeeds.
Aud there is Robert, just starting out
for himself under Aunt Morcdith's
special guidance. Thero is Frank,
another nephew, generous aud impulsive,
a regular tinder-box iu temper, with
May, his sister, always ready, iu her
love for teasing, to put tho match to tho
tindcr-box.
And there is Richard happy, rollick
ing Richard, of whom Aunt Meredith is
never quite sure until sho has herself
tucked him iu bed and sung him to
sleep.
Then here am I; a cripplo, depeudeut
upon Aunt Meredith for every ray of suu
shino that has crept into my poor
maimed existence since the day I opened
my eyes to tho lifo which, but for her,
might indeed havo proved a curse to mo.
So there are six of us, all under her
care.
She thinks I am asleep, or else sho
would not have spoken of that fatal
mistake which ullectcd the current of so
many lives.
The firelight plays upon her needles us
she patiently plies than. Tho blaze
rises higher, and forms, as sho sits out
lined ngaiust it, a sort of halo ubout her
gray head.
She is thinking of tho past, I kuow,
and that "mistake," whilo she sits thero
waiting.
liobcrt is doing some extra book-keeping,
and will not be iu until teu o'clock.
May aud Frnuk aro bujy with their les
sons in the sitting room. Uncle Clay
rode over to Hichland to-day, and did
not return until late. Richard is asleep,
for I heard AuntMeredith singing "Rock
of Ages" in the boys' room more thau
half an hour before she went down to
give Uncle Clay his supper.
While she sits waiting for tho last ouo
of the household to como iu, I am lying
here thinking over that mistake sho
niado.
Indeed, I often thiuk of it. We crip
ples have so little else to do except to
study books aud people, nud all these
tedious years I have studied her until I
thiuk I kuow her great soul by heart.
And I know nil about that "sad mis
take," although she does not dream that
it is known to me. If I were to tell her
that I learned from hor own lips to call
it a "mistake," I am sure that she would
thiuk the a miction that has dwarfed and
tortured my body for almost forty years
has attacked my mind as well, for she
does not really look upon it as a blunder.
If he ever allows herself to thiuk of
it as such, it is only when she is troubled
and tired, and her thoughts go crowding
back, to fasten themselves upon the
brightest spot iu tho past.
Such moments come to tho bravest
and best of us. Hut I heard Aunt Mere
dith tell Undo Clay only last night that
"thero can bo uo blunders in God's
plau;" anil if she can stand up so
grandly amid the ruins of youth's prom
ises ana testify to tho perfection of tho
eternal plan, few indeed havo the right
to sit iu judgment on it.
I feel the warm fears trickling dowu
my cheeks as I watch tho figure in the
firelight. I etui remember tho day when
this white-haired woman, knitting stock
ings iu the chimney corner, was the mer
riest girl iu our village.
"Aud tho handsomest, one," people
said. "Aud the best one," Johu Eust
muu declared, wheu he asked her to be
his wife. "And the happiest one," I
heard her tell herself wheu Johu was
gone, aud with him her pledge.
I was a child then, but I remember it.
I am a child uow, for that matter; a
child iu body, a man in years; but I re
member it ull as plainly as if it had
been yesterday. I think wo crippled
ones huve keener memories thau those
who share tho miud's work with the
body.
Auut Moredilh was nu orphan, and
had beeu reared and cared for by my
mother, her ouly sister, aud Uncle
tieorgc, her oldest brother.
The brother and sister tenderly dis
charged their duty toward her, and Aunt
Meredith, always conscientious, felt that
uu immense debt was accumulating
against her; so that, wheu my dying
mother placed my hand in hers, and with
her last breath, tuid, "A 1 have dealt
with you, Morry," there was but ono
thing for Aunt McrodUh to do. She ac
cepted the charge of tho littlo cripple
committed to her-care.
Sho was young then just twenty
and was soon to have been John East
man's wife. When sho had accepted tho
new charge she sent for hor lover to tell
him that tho the murriago must be
postponed.
Ho protested, but Aunt Merry was
firm. "Just one year, John," sho in
sisted. "Then we shall be better pre
pared to accept the now charge."
Sho Would not sny "burden," but it
was a burden to iny upon her young
shouldcrs--a cruel sacriftco td ask of ono
Who, having nevet1 known a horrid of her
own, was about to step into that sweet
peace which is found nowhere but about
the family fireside.
But she did not hesittito, "I am only
paying interest oil tho dobt I owe his
mother, John; I can never hope to pay
tho principal," she urged.
John Eastman smothered his disap
pointment, and said, "It shall bo as you
wIhIi, Merry; but it will be a very long
year to me."
Before the year ended Uncle Georgo's
wife died, and her two children, Robert
and Annie, were added to Aunt Merry's
charge.
Sho hesitated whou Uncle George came
to ask her to come over and take charge
of his house.
"No, Georgt,1' sho said, "I cannot."
''Just a littlo while, Merry," he begged,
"until we can got things iu working or
der; just one year."
"But thero is John I" she insisted. "I
owe something to John."
"Aud to no ouo else, Merry!" asked
Undo George. "What if Eunice and
I had not cared for you when you were
left alone?"
Sho turned palo when Uncle George
reminded her of bor obligation. After
nil, more would be expected of her than
the mere interest upon her dobt. Like
many other debts, whether of money, of
gratitude, or of affection, hen had come
to face her at the moment when sho was
tho least prepared for it.
Her lips trembled when she attempted
to speak; she put out her hand as if
seeking somo support, and rcstod it
heavily upon the back of a chair.
I can never forget that scene. Boy as
I was, I realized that it was the sacrifice
of a life, I lifted my poor twisted body
upon my pillow?, and from my corner
watched the struggle my auut was mak
ing. Uncle George stood leaning against
the low mantel, looked heavy-eyed and
weary. Aunt Merry stood before him,
with her hand upon the tall chair. The
young faco was growing grave the girl
had given place to tho woman.
While I watched, the sunlight crept
through the open window and crowned
tho brown braids of hair with a kind of
halo, just as the firelight touches tho
silver oues to-night. Then Aunt Merry
lifted her head aud said softly, "I will
come, George."
So John Eastman was asked to wait a
second time. "Just one year yet, John,"
Aunt Meiry begged. "Let me feol that
I have at least paid my debt in part."
But at tho end of tho year she said,
"There is so much to do, John; let us
give tho children one more year. We
cau spare so much to them. Just one!
I promise not to ask another, John,"
With a heavy heart he answered
for tho third time, "It shall be as you
wish. Merry.".
I think Aunt Merry began to feol then
that an unseen power was shaping her
life iu a strauge, uacompreheuded
mould.
Strange indeed! Buforo the year
ended a scourge passed over the city.
The Angel of Death hung his block ban
ner on almost every door. L'ucle Georgo
was among the first to be strickcu.
"God bless you. Merry," he said;
"don't forget the children; God bless
you!" With tho blessing still ou his lips,
he left us.
Then sho was glad that she had stayed
with him; the sacrifice was fully repaid
iu that last blessing.
But tho next day littlo Annie laid her
hot cheek agaiust Aunt Merry's, and
cried out that the fever was burning her
throat. , For eight days the little lifo
swung in the balance; but on the uinth
sho crept into Auut Merry's arms and
whispered, "Good auntie!'' just once
before death set a seal upon the childish
lips.
Tho black bauner floated again from
our door, aud met an ausweriug giguul
through all the stricken towu.
Death played upon many heart-strings ;
but nono, I think, were io eutirely swept
as was Auut Merry's. Sho had scarcely
seen the clay heaped upon tho grave of
littlo Anuie before a messcuger came for
her. John honest, patient Johu East
man was dying.
Poor Auut Merry! The blows fell so
fast that she had scarcely timo to cousid
er the magnitude of one before a heavier
sunk it out of sight.
This was the last; when the light left
John Eustman's eyes, hopo left Auut
Merry's heart, to follow iuto aud fix it
self upon that unknown laud iuto which
his soul had drifted.
"Don't reproach yourself," ho h:id
said, at tho last; "you did your duty,
Merry. God bless yout"
We never called her "Aunt Merry"
after that never but once. It was the
day they buried John Eastman ; and sho
turned to me with a look of hopeless sor
row upon her pale, Bweet face, and said,
"Cull me 'Aunt Meredith,' child."
The years have crowded fast, in spito
of crippled bodies and hearts that give
back echoless answers. Thirty and five;
I have notched them upon my crutches;
teu upon two, the last one fifteen. For
the twisted body is well-nigh speut, uud
the last crutch is us good as new, save
for the notches where my kuifo has re
corded tho years.
I have borne my burdeu tolerably,
with Auut Meredith's help. She has
borne hers grandly, without help.
Without help, did I say? Then I
-.puke too quickly; for one evening I
louud her silting alone on the west piaz
za, among the honeysuckles aud jasmine
viues, wutchiug the sombre cloud-buuis
piling across the sunset, or forming into j
purple bridge to span the crimson
cloud-lakes.
Sho did not hoar iny crutch upon tho
soft sward, and her voice was scarcely
more than tho hum of tho bees in tho
yellow jasmino hells.
"No man, having put his hand to the
plow, and looking back, is fit for the
kingdom of God."
Evory step of my life, the ctoudod and
tho cloudless, has been blessed and
brightend by her. She has paid her
debt, interest and priucipal, and is no
herself tho lender; for when Uncle Clay's
wife died ten years ago, four others were
admitted to her household Uncle Clay
himself, Frank, May aud Kichard.
Frank and May have both been in to
say good-night since I have boon lying
here, thinking about Aunt Meredith's
mistakd. May hugged her with both
arms, and said, softly: "Tho blessodest,
best auntie;" whild Frank stood a mo
ment behind her chair and softly stroked
the silver braids and recounted the day's
trials and its pleasures.
"I shall be a man toon, and take care
of you, Aunt Meredith," was his good
night. Aunt Meredith nodded and smiled,
and went trt open the door for Robert,
pausing as she passed my lounge to draw
tho covers more closely about my shoul
ders, while I Iny here as if asleep.
Then for half an hour she and Ro bert
sat there before the fire, while Robert
told her everything.
First, he had thought be might take
still another set of books to keep. By
staying an hour later every night he
could accomplish it. But Aunt Mere
dith said : "No, dear. It is not right to
stay out so very late;" and the books
were given up.
Then the clock struck half-past ted.
Robert rose and lighted Aunt Meredith's
candle; and again the halo seemed to
form around tho silver braids, and
showed mo the smile upon her palo face
us Robert bent his head to kiss her faded
cheek.
Now sho is gone, aud it is Robert who
bcnils over my pillow and whispers,
"Poor Clarence!" as he ::aws the covers
ever so lightly over my chest.
And now, he, too, is asleep; but his
bod is so near that I can touch him if I
chooso. A littlo silver call-bell is In
reach on tho other side.
"You may want water, dear," Aunt
Meredith said, when sho put the bell
there; as if I did not know what it it
Auut Meredith fears. It is the black
banner on the door-knob.
But I am not thinkiug of that to-night,
lam thinking of Auut Meredith) and
thinking of her life, so full of promiso
nud so barren of fulfilment, and of my
lifo so devoid of promise, and yet so full
of peace.
1 am thinking,' too, of the lives of the
children asleep in their beds; of the
young man about to enter the world,
pure of heart aud strong of purpose', of
the graves of the two men who blessed
Aunt Meredith with their last breath; of
the dying pillows made easy by her prom
ises; of the little child who ouly left tho
shcltorof her nrms to slip away to God's.
When I remember these, I bless Aunt
Meredith's mistake. Youth' t Companion.
A Well Developed Skull.
"The frog has a huge skull, with a
very small braiu cavity aud an enormous
mouth for the purpose of swallowing
fish, small ducks or any other prey of
size, whole. Dau Beard, the irtist, tells
a story of a pet frog he had iu an aqua
rium that attempted to getaway with a
baby alligator newly imported from
Florida. Ou coming homo he found
Mr. Frog, who had taken down tho small
saurian head first, jumping against the
glass sido of tho aquarium iu vain efforts
to drive down the tail of the victim,
which was too long to find room inside
for its accommodation. Tho frog, likti
tho toad, has its tongue fastened in
frout and loose behind, so that it can
capture insects by whipping it over and
outwardly. Unlike tho toad, however,
it has its teeth in its upper jaw. Tho
toad is a higher auiraul thau the frog,
becauso it gives birth directly to little
air breathing toads, whereas tho frog
lays eggs that produce fish like tadpoles,
subsequently transformed iuto the final
shape. Tho tadpole breathes through
gills like a fish, has a tail aud no legs
and is a vegetable feeder. The meta
morphosis it undergoes is oue of the most
marvelous things iu nature. If it were
not so common it would astonish tho
world. Thiuk of a vegetablo eating
fish with tail aud gills turning into au
air breathing laud animal, developing
teeth and becoming a caruivcrous quad
ruped. Isu'tit amazing when you come
to consider it? A wonderful beast is the
frog, truly. Wathiivjion Star.
The Decimal Scale.
The disadvantage of the decimal scale
is that the number ten cau bo ouly di
vided without leaving a fraction. A
duodecimal scale of numeration would
have been much better, aud, in fact, is
much mora in accordance with our pres
ent system of weight, incisure und coin
age. Had tho Chaldeans or Arabs, who
instituted the decimal scale of numbers
from their teu digits.; ouly taken it from
the giants among them, who, like tho
giant of Gath, had twelve digits as well
us toes, the result would huve been much
more satisfactory to all calculating indi
viduals among succeeding generations,
as well as those of our civil service.
Ttuqile Bar.
Grim Joke on u Clown.
Sam Welser, who achieved famo and
fortune as u clowu iu Dan Rice's circus,
fouud himself three years ago alone iu
the world at seventy-three with oue hun
dred thousand dollars in bank. Deter
mined to leave his money to his wife, he
wooed aud wedded a pretty lass of fif
teen. The other duy he buried his child
wife at Pittsburg, und the beartbrukeu i
old man has only his seveuty-tivo years,
his sorrow and his money left. Death
played his griiiiine-t joke on tho poor old
clowu iu fpaiing his life. .Ytie Yurk
Mercury.
WI1AT MODERN DIVERS DO.
IMPROVED APPARATUS GREATLY
INCREASES THEIR SKILL.
The Diver la an Important Person
and Ills Labor a Factor In the
World' Progress.
The remarkable headway which has
been made of recent years in the way of
inventions for, and the manufacture of,
the apparatus used by divers, has great
ly facilitated tho lubor and lessened the
dangers connected with what will al
ways be a dangerous calling. This im
provement in the apparatus thoy use has
enabled the divers of to-day to per
form a variety of work greatly in excess
of that which they could have under
taken a few years ago, and divers have
now to Understand pier construction,
wreck raising, submarine mining, tho
repairing and cleansing of vessels, and
the construction of tunnels and collier
ies.
A depth of more than ISO feet is but
very seldom descended to, and that
depth is considered the limit for divers'
work. The 204-foot mark below the
surface was reached by a diver named
James Plooper, and is said to be a best
on record, lid descended to it seven
times and remained at that very excep
tional depth for forty-two minutes on
one of the seven descents. This feat was
performed white examiuing a ship called
the Capo Horn, which had gone down
with a valuable cargo of copper on tho
east coast of South America.
When' divers first begin to practise
their profession they almost always de
scend to the bottom or to the vessel or
whatever it is they aro going to work on,
by meaus of a ropo ladder henvily
weighted at the foot, but when they
have gained in experience they prefer a
simple rope, also weight 3d, down which
they slide. Just below tho surface they
pause for a short time in order to muko
sura that everything about their dress is
all fight, and then continuo on their
downward way very Blowly, so as to
grow accustomed to the increasing pres
sure. It is the habit of the most ex
perienced men to stop at intervals, and
if they feel any unpleasant symptons to
descend for ayardorso bofore goingdown
a greater distauco.
If there is great oppression or a loud
singing in the cars, the diver must not
persevere in his uttempt to go down, but
return to tho boat or dock. Oddly
enough, it is even more necessary to as
cend slowly from n considerable depth
than it is to ascend iu that manner. By
stopping every now and then, tho ill
effects of tho sudden change from resist
ing a great pressure to boiug in tho open
air are avoided. It takes a very strong
and experienced rann to undertake any
work at a depth of 123 feet, and in com
ing up from that depth a man should
take at least five minutes.
When a diver has reached tho foot of
his ladder or ropo he attaches a light
line to it and secures the other end to his
wrist, so as to be ablo to get back to tho
ladder whenever he wishes to. In case
this line should become unattached und
he cannot find the ladder he should at
once give tho signal to bo pulled up.
There is one type of diving dre3s that
is a recent invention, and whicli is not
connected with tho surface with the
usual vital nirpipc and the all-important
signal cord. It is called tho self-feeding
dicss, and has a small supply of oxygen
iu the reservoir.
Tho first time it was used was by a
fearless English diver named Lambert,
whose record for dariug and successful
work beneath the surface is a remarkable
one. The great tunnel under the mouth
of the river Severn, in England, became
flooded iu part, und he descended tho
shaft and worked his way for a quarter
of a mile in the nbsolute darkness
through what was called a baby tunnel
which was nearly tilled with a rushing
torrent that carried with it much heavy
debris. His object was to close a heavy
iron door, and ho hud to carry au iron
crowbar with him. After a hard strug
gle he reached the door aud fouud that
two rails had to bo pried up iu order that
tho door could bo closed. After two
hours' work ho got ouo out of the way
and then, dreading the xhaustiou of his
supply of oxygen, ho retreated to the
mouth of the shaft nud was drawn to the
surface, with a very small quantity re
maining. The uext day, after renewing
tho supply, he went iuto tho tuunel
ogaiu aud suocceeded iu closing tho
door, and thus enabled tho engineers to
j.ump tho flooded portion dry.
Lambert lias been a diver for a quar
ter of a century, und has visited every
part of tho world during his professional
career. Once ho recovered iji'io0,000
worth of gold Spanish dollars aud ingots
which hnd beeu lo,t in a mail steamship
called tho Alphouso XII., which sank
oil Point Gaudo, Grand Canary Island,
in 100 feet of water. The treasure,
?300,UU0 iu all, was in a small room be
low thiec decks, und Lambert first had
to blow a poitiou of the vessel up iu or
der to get at it. This feat ho considers
his most praiseworthy, mid he wears oue
of the fold pieces ho saved, ou his watch
chain.
Diors havo also saved '.250,000 iu
gold and silve. from a steamship sunk
oil the Chinese const, near Shaughai.
Just as they had secured it a fleet of
piutu juuks came u!ong, uud the divers'
vessels bad u very narrow escape from
being captured.
Iu the pearl and spongo fisheries in
Miious parts of the world the diving
dress has almost superseded tho old
methods of having naked native divers,
ii. id the output has consequently beeu
very largely increase'.
As yet the coral fishers in the Medi
teuaneaii uud the amber fishers iu the
Baltie have nearly all proved too cou
m native to adopt the modern methods;
but iu one case, where a Loudon dealer
iu diving uppuratus und dresses sent a
inuu dowu to search for coral, tho diver
( .line back with a large supply of choice
MU':i:iu ns, and the o.vuer of the fishery
has lined tho dies ever since. A'oto
Yvrlc Sun.
Italy has raised the duty on petroleum.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL,
Electrical smelting Is announced.
Compressed coal dust is coming into
extensive nse in France.
The laundries id Rutland, Vt., art
now run by electric power.
An electrician predicts that oloctricai
fireworks will soon supersede those now
used.
A wool of good quality is said to have
been made from the fibre of the fir by
the aid of electricity.
The maximum snfo velocity of cast iron
fly wheels should not exceed a rim speed
of eighty feet per second.
Of 805 weather forecasts issued in
South Australia in 1890, 250 were veri
fied and forty were partially verified.
It is stated that coffee is a germicide,
the bacilli of cholera and typhus having
been destroyed by the infusion of coffee.
An attempt to produce artificial rain
is to be made in Kansas. Balloons filled
with hydrogen and oxygen gas will be
sent up and exploded by electricity.
Thunderstorms are gradually decreas
ing in number in the larger towns of
Natal, South Africa, according to tho
Superintendent of tho Natal Observa
tory. A Parisian camerist has devised a
method of taking panoramic views by
causing tho camera to revolve on an axis
so that the sensitive paper may "take
in" tho horizon.
A German biologist says that the two
sides of a face are never alike. In two
noses out of five the eyes are out of line;
one eye is stronger than the other in
seven persons out of ten and the right
ear is generally higher than the left.
In Sweden an improved quality of
glass for use in microscope and other
line lenses is secured by tho addition of
phosphorus and chlorine. Absolute
transparency, great hardness, and sus
ceptibility to tho finest polish are thus
obtained.
More than 140 different applications
of electric motors have been enumerated,
and the number is still increasing. Tho
sizes of the motors range from those
having the power of a mouse up to ono
of 5000 horse power, which is in opera
tion near London.
Experiments with electric motors in
elevating and dopressiug heavy guns
and turning them iu the right direction
have been made in France. A saving of
time was effected. The thrco Chilian
warships building in Fiance will be pro
vided with such appliances.
The latest scheme for direct railway
communication betweeu England and
France provides for a double water
tight tube, capable of containing two
railway tracks, and sunk about forty feet
in the channel. "The engineer propos
ing this method proposes to utilize tho
displacement and buoyauce of the tube
to give the necessary support, piles be
ing driven into the channel, to which
the tube would be chaiued to prevcut it
rising."
The "schiseophone" is tho name giv
en to an instrument for discovering flaws
in metals, iuvented by Captain Louis Do
Place of the Paris school of cavalry.
The instrument consists of a microphone
combined with a mechanical striker aud
a sonometer. In using this instrument
ouo operator directs the striker over tho
surface of the metal uudcr examination,
while another listens at tho telephone iu
an adjoining roim. When the striker
hits a point over a flaw tho sound is in
creased, and tho iucrease is so magnified
by tho microphouo that tho listener lit
tho telephone enn detect its presence.
Tests of tho instrument were made at
Ermont ou the rails for the Northern
railway company, and in every case
where a flaw was indicated by tho in
strument it was fouud to exist on break
ing tho rail.
Raisins From Grapes.
Raisins are merely dried grapes pre
pared by several processes, but. iu Europe
ouly two are generally practised. Ono
of theso consist in partially cutting
through the stalk of the ripening buuehes
and theu ullowing them to hang ou tho
viues until tho berries shrivel uud dry by
tho heat of the suu. These are considered
tho best raisins uud are known us tho
Muscatels. Largo quantities are raised
aud exported from Malaga. Iu the other
process tho grapes wheu gathered are
hung ou lines or spiead out on drying
floors to dry io the suu. When dried
they are dipped iu hot lye, to which has
beeu added a little olivo oil uud salt.
After dipping tho fruit is spread out ou
wicker work to drain uud dry still more,
after which tho raisins are stripped from
tho stalks and packed iu boxes. But all
tho grapes from which raisms are made
aro dillcrent from any of our nativo
species and varieties, uono of which will
answer for raisins, as their pulp is not
firm und hard enough, uud wheu we
undertake to dry them thero is little left
but skiu and seeds. A good luisiu grapo
must havo a flesh of a firm consistency,
somewhat like that of u good plume or !
prune, us the imported article is called. I
The raisins of California aro made from
tho Europcuu varieties of the grapo uud
not from uuy of the American species.
Ruisiu grapes will not thrive iu Pennsyl
vania unless raised uuder glass, against
walls, or other protected situations.
JVea York bun.
Waste of Life iu Franco.
Among tho suggested causes of tho
stationary condition of tho population of
France, la the great mortality from small
pox uud typhoid fever. Dr. lirouardcl -bus
pointed out that, whilo Germany .
loses ouly 110 persons a year from small- '
pox, Frauco loses 14,001', ami that the
deaths by typhoid fever amount to 40,
000, This emphasizes the necessity of
making vaccination und re vaccination
obligatory, und of providing a supply of
pure water for the towns. Such reme
dies, Dr. lirouardel utlirnu, would save
to the country from 25,000 to 30,000
live! annually, and these mostly of young
persons of marriageable ago. Trentuu
AB A ST R IS;
I saw the star sweep through ethereal
spaoe,
Stars, suns, and systems In infinity, j
Our earth an atom in the shoreless sea
Where each had its appointed path and
place, ,
And I was lost in my own nothingness.
But when I said, Dost thou not know that
He
Who guides these orbs through trackless
space guides tbeel
No longer, groveling than, thyself abase,
Forin the vast, harmonious, perfect whole
In infinite progression moving on,
Thou hast thy place, immortal human
soul
Thy place and part not less than star and
sun.
Then with this grand procession fall in
line.
This rythmic march led on by power di
vine. Anne C. L. Bolla, in thf Century.
RUMOR OF THE DAY.
Crow bars Shotguns.
Loose habits Night robes.
Risen from the ranks Malaria.
Tako things easy Sneak thieves.
Serves us right The tipped waiter.
Come high, but we must have them
Taxes.
The work of a woodchoppcr is known
by his axe.
A bald headed man's hair is like a fool
and his money.
Never attempt to Bit down in a chair
that isn't there.
Banker Wales Is reported seriously em
barrassed, Button Herald.
Poems on "washday" should bo called
clothes lines. Danville Breeze.
Magistrates have a great many flue op
portunities in life. Philadelphia Timet.
The man who stolo the chicken roado
a clean breast of it. Boston Trantcript.
A tunnel must be completed before it
can bo called under way. Elmira Qa
tettt. Some men's talent for discovery ts al
together iu tho lino of fault finding.
Boiton Courier.
Many men do not smoke, yet thero aro
but few who object to an occasional puff.
Lowell Courier.
It would not be wiso to suppose that
the floating populutiou lives eutirely on
water Stutetman. ,
If a man tries to be jus', to himself ho
will begin to have troublo with his
friends. Atchiton' Globe.
A man is willing that a woman should
have tho last word if only sho says
"Yes." Somertille Journal.
Tom "Do you bolievo in hero-worship,
Jack?" Jack "No, but I do in
heroine-worship." Yankee Blade.
Ho Was Loaded : Judge "What's the
prisoner charged with?" Officer
"Whisky, yor honor.' Uareanl Lam
poon. Mudge "I'd much rather a mau called
mo a knave than a fool." Yubsley
"Of course. It's tho truth that hurts."
IndiiinapolU Journal.
A Bad Shot: Ho "I have never yet
met the woman I thought I could marry."
She "No, they uro very hard to please,
as a rule." Lie'$ Calendar.
Thoy say that 1 have cut a tooth,
Hut why 1 cannot see, !
If they would only hoed the truth,
They'd see that it cut me.
Harper' Uazar.
"Several important steps quickly
faken," murmured thoyouiig mau when
the girl's father helped him over tho
frout door sill. W'athimjtoa Post.
"What is unselfishness.'" asks a sub
scriber. "Unselfishness is ouo of the
rarest qualities iu the world to Uud iu
uuyoue else." yeto York Ikeorder.
Out of the conflicting statements con
cerning the seasou's crops, the oidy thing
certain is that tho hair crop generally
tends to shortuess Philadelphia Times.
"Mother, m:iy I go out to swimr"
"Vou do, it you dare, my win;
And then I'll take a hickory limb
To dry you, sure as a ;pm !" ,
.Yew York Jiiurnal.
"Ts it true that a graduate soon for
gets what he has learned at college?"
"No, sir; it is uot. 1 cau play football
just as well now as wheu I was at Yalo."
Puck.
"Who isthat weazeued-looking littlu
mau wilh the squeaky voice ou the plat
foim?" "That's tho grand supreme dic
tator of tho Royal Puujandiums." at.
Lou it Jlepublic.
"What is that?" said a visitor, as tho
dogcatcher's wagon weut down tho
street. "That," replied tho Western
man, "Is one of the latest ideas iu rabid
transit." IIWi('te W.
Miss Fussanfeather "I like to see a
girl stick to her colors." Young Crim
sonbeak (brushing the paint from his
nose) "So do I; ami 1 like to see her
colors stick to her!" Stutetman.
Mrs. Bondclipper "Doctor, what do
you thiuk is the matter with mo?" Doc
tor "I am iuclined to think your blood
is uot pure. I'll havo to give you some
thing to purify your blood." Mrs. Bond
clipper (huughtily) "You ure probably
not aware that I belong to one of the old
Dutch families of New York." Tcxat
Siftimjt.
"Cyrus," said his wife, us he camo in
wearily uud throw himself oil tho lounge
ufter an cveuiug downtown. "I wish you
would let politics alone. The excitement
und worry are just ruining your health."
"I cau't help it, Emily," replied the Al
derman from tho S'teetith Ward. "I am
not iu politics for my health." CUicajo
Tribune.
Brobsou "You look ull broken up,
old mau. What's tho matter!" I'raik
"I called on .Miss Pruyn last night, aud
no sooner had 1 eutered the parlor thau
her mother appeared und demanded to
kuow my intentions." llrobson "That
must have been rather embarrassing."
Craik "Yes, but that was not tho
worst. Just as tho oi l lady finished
speaking Miss Pruyu shouted dowu
stairs: 'Mamma, manuua, ho isn't the
one!'" i.V York Hun.