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i
The population of Greeco !i increasing j
At a greater ratio than that 01 any other
European country.
. J
Lunacy uppean to have increased la
Bootlnnd to a startling extont. Ia 1853
there were BS2 1 lunatic on tbo rcglstet
of tbo Lunacy Commissioners, but now
there nre 13.S95.
The British Government proposes to
build a Tory extensive bnrrack at Hall
fRX, which, ia caio of war, would be oc
cupied by troops on their way to India
by way of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
The sito for these barracks bos already
been selected.
One of the greatest modern Industries,
assorts the San Francisco Chronicle, Is
the product on of beet sugar. Its crea
tion has given employment to a vast
numbor of persoua, and has so cheapened
sugar that it is within tbo reach of the
lowest-waged workman.
The farm products of Vermont this
lemon wilt realize 130,000,000, which,
declares the Now York Commercial Ad
tertuer, is tho best year's showing for
theOiecn Mountain State farmers since
tho war. Improved methods of culture
are largely credited with tho prosperity.
Tho civilized nations of the earth bare
agreed to co-operate in taking a photo
graphic chart ot tho heavens. Some
twenty telescopes are to work four years,
and will result in mapping proba
bly twenty-fivia millions of stars; Vith
longer exposures probably two thousand
millions could ba photographed.
An expert (Hoard's Dairyman) says:
'Tho cow is wiuuing her way into the
hearts of tho Southern people. One in
stance in proof thereof is the first con
signment of cheese over received in St.
Louis from Arkansas, which reached that
market lately from tho (J rand Pmirie
Dairy Company, ut Stuttgart, Ark."
Tho project ol domesticating tho Si
berian reindeer ia Alaska promises well,
thinks the Boston Traimcript. Captain
Uealy, of the revenue steamer Bear, pur
chased several deer of tho Siberian na
tives during his recent cruisa and
brought four to Alaska. There is littlu
doubt but that they will thrive, as the
moss upon which they feed ia plentiful
iu Alaska, nud that climate is almost
identical with that of Eastern Siberia.
Canada giv.a to its geological survey
only $63,000 a year, while, contrasts
the Chicago Herald, tho various geologi
cal surveys in our own country absorb
nearly $1,000,003 annually. Yet Can
ada makes a flue showing with this
modest sum. Tho annual geological
records aro in part records ot original
discovery and research, and, with their
fine maps and photogravures, arj as in
teresting as many bojks of travel. Can
ada contaius tho largest unknown areas
ot the American contineut.
Savage or hair-civilized prince often
prefer death to exile in a foreign coun
try. Malietou, the King of Samoa,
jumped overboard wheu the Germans
took him to the Gilbert Islands, and was
not rescued with his own consent. Three
chiefs ot the Comoro Islands, off: the
East Afripau coast, were taken away
from home three months ago on account
of tho revolution which they headed
against the French. They wero very un
happy oa board ship, and when the ves
sel reached Obock they tried to jump
overboard, and were placod in irons to
prevent further suicidal attempt.
, . ! . .
It is said that a few years ago some ot
the members of foroigu legation iu
Washington gavo tho police no end of
trouble. Tli3y knew that they could
not be punished for any ordinary misde
meanor, and frequently raised a row on
the streets. When arrested they had
to be released as scon as identified. Fi
nally the police triod a new dodge. They
had a few sluggers loaliug around the
station, wkomado it a point to pitch into
the foreigners, and give them black
eye and bloody noses. This quieted the
riotous member of the legation, and for
louie time post thoy huve given tho po
lice very little trouble.
; Californiaus now engaging in the cul
( tivation of prunes flud the profit very
tempting, being about one dollar a tree,
j or $100 tho acre. This rate increases as
r the tree grows older until the fruit each
)ar is worth almost two dollars. Ex
I Secretary of State Thomas Beck hai given
up everything else to engige in tho cul
'jvution of tho prune. The Pajaro Laud
nd Fruit Compauy was recently formed
r the purposs of raisiug this fruit in
Tge quantities. It ha bought 600
ta-e of luud iu Fajuro Valley, aud will
But au orchard of Freuch prune trees,
icy will be from four to six feet in
Ight wheu put into the ground. The
feck of these trees is to be two year old
Id the grufliug one year. Next year
y will begin to yield fruit. The av-
jo life of a tree ia thirty year.
E-U M-IN- A H-DO.
'T Was In the bazars of the Smyrniote
That we heard the lingering call,
With lta mellow, musical, bell-Ilk. notes,
And its rhythmic rise and fall.
It tfi red o'er tb. camel-driver's shout,
And th. bale-bent porter's angry flout
"OO
K-lim-in-ah-dof
There were the figs of Omoorloo,
Large and luscious and bursting ripe;
And from a cafe noar there blew
The tempting scent of the water-pipe;
Hut Tirch's grape would have hung in vain
Upon the vines bad we heard that strain
"O-O
B-lim-in-ah-do!"
Amber, clear as a prisoned ray
Of the morning sunlight, was forgot;
Rugs, rich with the hues of dying day.
From the looms of Persia, lured ns not.
While th. motley Smyrna world swept by,
W. hung on th. sound of th. witching cry
"OO
K-lim-in-ah-dol"
Then out of th. jostling crowd b. came
With his crook-necked flask and his clink
ot glass;
As keen of eye and supple ot frame
As a Lydlao pard we saw him pass
Saw him pas, and above the roar
Caught the lilt ot his oall onoe more
"O-O
E-lim-in-ah-do!"
Who can measure melody's power?
It sways the soul with the same strange
spell
On lovely lips In a lady's bower,
Or those of a vagrant Ishmael.
And still floats baolt, with iU thrilling bars,
Tb. strain from the Smyrniota bazars
"OO
"K-lim-tn-uh-doH
Clinton Scillard, in Atlantle Monthly.
DOROTHY'S DIAMONDS.
BY nKI.EN FORREST GRAVES.
"You can't bo in earnest, Dotty 1" said
Ralph Imray.
"But I am in earnest," protested
Dorothy, his wifo. "Why abouldn t
be in earnest!"
I
Mr. Imray laid down the pen with
which he bad been following a long
column of figures. lie was a bank ac
countant, and sometimes eked out his
small salary by bnnging horns the
books of neighboring firms to post after
his regular day s work was over.
lie looked intently at Dorothy. Nor
was she by any mean a oisagrecaoie
object to behold, as she sat by tho
shaded lamp, stitching away at a piece
of yellow China silk which emphasized
her purple-black masses ot silky hair and
the jetty light of her long-lashed eyes.
Some people, to judge by appearances,
aro born kitchen-maids; other are
princesses. And Dorothy Imray, albeit
ber father was a master carpenter and
her husband a bank clerk, was one of
nature's aristocrat slim, taper-fingered
and swan-throated, with a delicate com
plexion and a protilo that leminded one
of a Roman cameo.
"Why shouldn't you be in earnest!''
repeated Ilalpb. "Because, Dotty,
there's a fitness in all things. A poor
inau's wife has no business to wear
diamonds."
"Mrs. Clifford wears them 1" petulant
ly retorted Dorothy. "And Job Clif
ford doesu't get any higher (alary than
you do."
"But ber father is a man of means,
Dotty."
"And Luclla Dixon has the loveliest
lace-bar I She showed it to mo yester
day." "Dixon nod I differ materially in our
financial ideas," observed Imray, shrug
ging bis shoulders. "If a man owes
money, I, for one, don't regard It as a
very smart thing for his wifo to be
flaunting around in costly jewels. Come,
Dot, give tip the idea. Twenty years
from now I may bo able to give you
diamonds."
Dorothy pouted. She sewed away
with little, swift jerks of the needle.
"Twenty year from now I shall be an
old woman," she uttered.
Mr. Imray laughed.
"I'll risk that," said he. "No, Dotty,
if my wife were to come out in a pair of
diamond ear-rings, my employers would
be quite justified in scrutinizing my ac
counts. The topaz ornament I gave
you at our wedding were good enough
for you then. Why can't you be con
tented with them now?"
Dorothy answered not a word. The
needle seemed like a sclmetar in the
lamplight; the rose-red lip were tightly
comprested; and ltalph resumed hi pen,
with a igh.
Dotty had "got into ociety" lately,
and the little home bad never recovered
it pleasant old-time aspect since.
Mr. Job Clifford and Luella Dixon
were her models now, instead of kind
Aunt lthoda and the rector' pretty
young wife.
The next day Mrs. Dixon called,
dressed in a fantastic combination suit,
with a French hat, and a real Uco scarf
twisted loosely around ber neck.
"Well, Dorothy," began she, "What
did be say!" Mrs. Imray'a pretty face
gloomed over.
"Just what I expected,'" said she.
"Of course he won't give me the dia
monds. I might have known t' at be
forehand.
"Don't be discouraged, dear," said
Mid. Dixon, with a furtive glance.
can auggest a plan. Are we quite
alone!"
Dorothy looked surprised.
"Yea," said she. "Bridget has gone
to market, and there is no one else ou
thi floor."
Mr. Dixon drew ber chair close to
Dorothy' sofa.
"Listen!" she whispered. "How
much money have you?"
I "Twenty dollars of my own," Djr
othy answered, "and forty that Ralph
left to pay the agent our rent. That'
sixty. And there' tifteeu that Auut
Rhoda aent me to match her old broc
, aded (ill with."
"beventy-hve! said .lira. Dixon, ex
ultiuL'ly. "Dorothy, you shall have
your diaiuoudal"
"It'a impossible I" breathed Dorothy.
"But it is possible, and I'll tell you
bow. Come closer, dear; not a soul
must know of this. Dixon ha helped
a shipping merchant on the docks to get
his cargo in Dixon know a man in the
custom house, you see and ho has given
ns a poiut. There was a Brazil
schooner came in last night, laden with
bananas. Tho captain has friends in the
diamond mines up among the moun
tains."
"You don't mean "
Mrs. Dixon laughed a shrill, excited
laugh.
It i really quite interesting to visit
those odd little foreign vessels, said
she. "I'll take you there, dear, if you'd
like?"
Ia that tho way you got your dia
monds, Luella!"
"Ask me no questions, and 1 11 tell
you no lies," merrily retorted Mr. Dixon.
" lou have the same chance that I did.
It's the duties on these luxuries that
makes the cost. Captain Sazeda is in a
hurry to set back to Rio Jaocrio. If wo
go at nil we'll have to go to-night."
"But it s Ralph's late night at the
bank I" hesitated Dorothy.
"All the better. He mustn't know
word of it- Men are so ridiculous about
such things. I never would havejbreathed
a word to you u I had supposed you
would betray met"
"Iwon'tl I won't!" cried Dorothy,
her checks flushed, her dark eyes spar
kling. "Un, Luella, do you think my
poor little seventy-five dollar will buy
anything fit to look at?
"Great bargains are sometimes ob
tained in that way," nodded Mis. Dixon.
"But, good gracious, is that eleven
striking! And me due at my dressmak
er' at half-post ten. I must go, Dor
othy. Remember I'll call for you at
seven. Not a minute before dark, you
know. Sazeda will send up the cabin
boy to show you the way. Put on your
waterproof, and wear your oldest hat and
veil, and make some excuse to Bridget
Mind, sharp seven 1"
All day Dorothy Imray went about
her occupations like one in a dream
The strange, fantastic nature of the ad
venture appealed to the romantic side ot
her being.
She longed for diamonds as a desert
wanderer longs for cooling fountains
She could tell Ralph that she had hired
them, that some of their relations up in
Canada had bequeathed them Bhe could
make up any sort of a story to pacify
lii.n. The rent must wait. Aunt
Rboda would surely be in no baste about
ber clack brocaded gown I
And Dorothy fell to thinking in what
shape the stones precious sparkler
from far Southern mines should be et
Seven o'clock came a raw, smoky
twilight, filled with lino, drizzling rain
and D.irotny and Mrs. Dixon wore
picking their way along tho narrow
half-lighted streets on the edge of the
wharves, where the wind was full of
saline odors, and the crowded masts am
smoke-stacks seemed to overshadow
them like somo outlandish sort of forest,
A stunted lad in tattered garments
trottel along in front of them, whistling
as he went, and now and then casting a
backwack glance to make sure that they
had not lost their way.
Presently be plunged into a crazy old
house which seemed to balance itself on
the black tides below.
Mrs. Dixon followed so did Dorothy
Imray, after one startled glance around.
They descended a nig tit ot ruinous
stuirs, crossed a rude gangplank:, ana
found themselves on a stupenduously
dirty vessel, smelling of tar and onions,
and rockiug back and forth with the
swell produced by the ferry-boats that
came aud went at intervals..
A humpbacked little roan in tarnished
velveteen eat on a bucket turnea upside
down, holding a lantern which he swung
toward a cabiu door beyond.
Ha, Giacomer' he uttered, "Za sig-
nora sue come to see ze parrot an za
cockatoo 1 She is welcome. Walk cat
way, please."
And Dorothy ana ner iriena descend
ed into a low-ceiled, dirty place lined
with cages of number lea suneking
foreign birds, and a jocund-looking
young man with a mandolin slung around
his neck was leisurely picsing out a tune
by the light of a smoke-blackened lamp.
He looked at Mrs. Dixon, wno naaaca
ber head, while Dorothy stood trembling
and a little sea-sick at her side.
He laid down the mandolin, bowed
not unaracefully, to Dorothy, and clos
iug the doors with vigilunt care, opened
a shallow ciear box which lay on the
table.
All at once the air seemed to flash into
scintillations of light. Dorothy started
back with a slight exclamation.
Not a loud word was spoken as, guid
ed by Mrs. Dixon's advico, Dorothy
selected five many-faceted stone and
laid down her little roll of bankbills.
Ue heart beat loudly, her pulses seemed
to race in a mad scamper through her
veius as she thrust the diamonds luto the
bosom of her drcs. Sho did not bear
what Sazeda was saying the murky
cabin saaiu before her eyes.
"I'm afraid you feel the swell of the
waves, clear, wmspereu Mrs. Dixon.
'Let us get out as quick as we can."
In the same instant a curious ex pre
sion passeu across oazeua s nanasome
sardouio face. Tho ciear box vanished
as if by magic the captain disappeared
also.
"A cmtoin houso fellow," whispered
the little huuchbacx, madly swinging
his luutcru to and fro. "AU ashore I
Quick, siiiuoias!''
He thrust the cage of a drooping white
macaw into Mrs. Dixon's hand. She
nodded shrewdly, and p'.uho I Dorothy
across the plauk toward the stairs. Iu
her huste. however, the young woman
stumbled.
"Quick," cried Luella "quick
What's the matter with you?"
"I'm I'm afraid I have sprained my
ankle," wailel poor Dorothy, growing
white and sick. "Oh, Luolla, wait
Aud that was all she reiuembeied.
"Diamonds, my dear diamou Is?
echoed Auut Rlioda. "Just cut glasi,
and nothing more. Bright pebble that
one can pick up anywhere."
But Mr. Dixon" stammered Dor
othy.
"Don't talk, dear," said Aunt Rhoda,
with a wave of her hand. "Ralph made
me promise not to let you get excited.
But I think it's best to tell you the
whole story at once. They've cut and
run, the lot of 'em Dixon and his wifo,
that Sazeda fellow and all. They pal mod
off a lot of those false jewels on people
who supposed they were buying smug
gled diamonds, and the ship was found
deserted the next day. Where did we
find you! Why, fainting away all alone
on the dock steps. I bad followed you.
I had come in that morning, and was in
the next bedroom all the time that wo
man was puttlug her falsehoods down
your throat.
And I knew, In Ralph s absence,
that it wa my business to look after you.
Bridget was with mo, and together wo
got you home. Much that other woman
cared whether you lived or died I She
has left you to your fato. No, Dotty,
no; don't look so grieved I It was a
false step, but the Lord has mercifully
preserved you, and now we'll wip9 oH
the old scores and begin again."
And Dorothy had just enough strength
left to press bor liiw to Aunt Rhoda'
withered hand.
"Ralph," she laid, when she was quite
recovered, "if ever you aro able to bu
me any jewels
"Which I certainly shall do, dot, ono
of these days." be gaily interrupted.
"Don t let them be diamonds. 1 nato
diamonds I I never want to see one again
Turquoises, amethysts, whatever else
you please, but not diamonds I"
"Well, it shall be as you please," said
Ralph. "Your bright eyes, love, are all
the diamonds I want!
"Oh, Ralph," sobbed Dorothy, "how
good you are to met How I love you!"
What Becomes or All Old Hats t
What becomes of all old liaU ? " We
have about 200 old bats strewed along
under the counters and in the back
room," said a South Clark street hatter.
" From ten to twenty-five tramps come
in daily and ask for a hat, yet our
refuse supply seoms undiminished. The
tramps are glad toe see cool or rainy
weather at this time of the year. They
know that it will drive in the straw bats,
and they will fall heir to them. After
these straw bats have done service all
ummor the tramps wear them all winter.
For a summer bat the tramp gets tho
cast-off winter hat. He reserve the
fashion. A great majority, however,
take their old hat home and lay them
up for a rainy or a snowy day. Some
people will wear a straw hat two sea
sons, but tho great majority give them
to the poor. We send a large number
to the charitable institutions. A great
many hats are left to bo called for. If
not called for within thirty days we give
them away. Sometimes sharpers attempt
their little games ou us. A small man
left his hat here, buying a cut-off crown
hnt. The one he left was out of shape,
bad lost its gloss and color, and .was
worthless, ne did not say that he would
return for it, nor did he say that he
would not. We put it aside, but wheu
he called for it we could not find it at
the moment. He then claimed that it
was a good hat and demanded 5 for it.
We made a thorough search, fouud the
battered tile and bandod it to him.
Seeing that his schema had fa'led ho
threw the old bat into tbo street."
Chicago Time.
Providers of Free Lunches.
The free lunches of upward of 800
saloon in New York are furnished by
one concern. A lunch of ham sand
wiches. herrings, baked beans and crack
ers and cheese is furnished at (1 per day.
The price ranges all the way up to $50.
A Cjo luncn comprises a big tureen oi
soup, cold lamb, roast beef and corned
beef, tour or five big baked pike.culcKen,
clam, oyster, sardioo or Brie cheese
sandwiches, varied daily; lobster and
chickeu salad, and olives, pickles, lettuce,
etc. Everything is of the belt. It takes
ten cook the better part of the night to
get the lunchea ready for fifteen wagons
to distribute early in the morning. The
solid are placed iu baskets and the
liquids in earthen jars. When tho
lunch it delivered nt a saloon the at
tendant bands back what is left of tho
previous day's delivery. That is part of
the contract. The "coia pieces - are
told to keeper of cheap boarding-
house. The average price paid daily
by the customers of this firm is $15. It
pays both tho caterer aud the saloon
keepers. A first-class saloon cannot be
run now without an appetizing and well
served free lunch. Au elegant establish
ment not far from where I live never
made any money until a few months ago,
when a couple of enterprising young fel
lows took hold of it and set out a free
lunch tit for an epicure. Business picked
un with a rush and the new proprietors
aro getting rich fast. Ntio Orlean f'u
a yum.
Curiosities About Gold.
Gold is' so very tenacious that a piece
of it drawn luto wire one-twentieth ot an
inch in diameter will sustain a weight of
500 pounds without breaking.
Its malleability u so great that a single
grain may be divide! into 4,uuu,uiiu
parts and a cubic inch into ,aJ,ouu,
523 parts, each of which may be dis
tinctly seen by the naked eye.
A grain and a half of gold may bo
beaten into leaves ot ouo iuch square,
which if intersected by parallel lines
drawu at right anglei to each other and
distance only .he one-hundredth part of
an iuch, will produee 25,000,000 little
squares, each of which may ba distinctly
seen without the use of a glass.
The surface of any given quantity of
gold, according to the belt authorities,
may be eitsnded by the hammer 310.1H4
times. The thickuess of the metal thus
extended appear to be no more than the
Su'H.OaOth of an iuch. Eight ounces of
this wonderful meUd would gild a silver
wire of sufficient length to extend en
tirely around the globe. ItchiAxttn iun
day lltrald.
ON STONEWALL JACKSON.
A NORTHERNER'S ESTIMATE U
HIS CHARACTER AND CAREER.
Interest ing Views ly Her. Henry M.
Field. l. !., on the Uontcdorato
leader, Published In "Harper."
Rev. Henry M. Field, D. D., the well
known Northern divine, has an article in
rr . a nn tV,a, Ufa mil ntinrftn- '
ter of General "Stonowall" Jackson.
The reverend writer says:
Tho midsummer of this year (1891)
witnessed a scene in tho mountains of
Virginia that recalled the event of
past generation. The 21st of July waa
the thirtieth anniversary of Bull Run,
where North and South met in the first
real battle of the war, for the engage
ments in West Virginia, near the Ohio,
hardly rose to the dignity of battles.
But Bull Run was a conflict of armies,
in which both side took their first les
sons iu war, and out of which came at
i .l - A I
least one great soiuier, wuu
firmly while the battle raged around
him that other who wore broken and
dismayed took courage as they saw his
unshaken column standing "like a stone
wall," from which he received tho name
of "Stonewall" Jackson. This wa the
hero to whom a monument was now to
be unveiled in Lexington, where he i
buried. Of thoso whoso stood besido
him on that bloody day thirty year ago,
almost all had followed him to the grave;
but the survivors, the shattered wrecks
of war, came from far and noar to do
honor to him who once led tbeni to
battle, and wept with overpowering
emotion at the grave of their beleved
commander.
The demonstration furnishes an occa
sion for a Northerner to give his opinion
of this extraordinary man. The years
that have passed have removed us so far
from the great tragedy of war, and from
the passions it aroused, that we can do
justice even to thoso who were in arms
against us ; and no one can read the his
tory of Stonewall Jackson without recog
nizing in him all the qualities that go to
make a popular hero. As A soldier,
some competent critics rank him as the
first thot the war produced oa either
side. Not that he was at the head of the
largest army, or undertook the most ex
tensive military operations, but that
with tho means that he bad he accora
nlisbed more than auv other commander.
He had made a study of the carr paigns of ,
Napoleon, and saw that success lay not I
merely in having "the strongest battal
ions," but in secrecy of design and of
rapidity of execution. In the latter he
outdid oven Napoleon himself, training ,
his men to such a pitch of endurance that
he could "rush" them twenty-live miles ,
a day over a broken country, across rivers
nnd over mountains, and fight a battle as
tho sun was going down. Nothing in
tho war gave moro decisive pi oof .
of military genius thau the ,
campaign iu the Shenandoah Valley j
in the spring of 1862 the only ono
which he coad ctod absolutely mono,
with no interference froai thoso above
him where he was pitted not against
one army, but four (under Banks, Fre- i
mont, Shields and Milroy), advancing
upon him from different quarters, and j
outmanoeuvred them all, attacking and j
defeating each iu turn, till he drovo j
them, one after another, out of the val-
Icy, when he gave them all tuo slip, An I
crossing the Blue Ridge in one of bis ,
rapid marches, suddenly appeared on tho ,
flauk of McClellan's army before Rich- j
mond. That decided the Peuinsular
campaigu, wheu- he turned north, and
by a bold movement threw himself bo- .
tween Pope and Washington, aud the
secoud Bull R in proved lar more bloody ,
than tho first. All this is matter of his- '
tory which it is not necessary to recall,
nor to follow the tireless soldier to Har
per's Ferry, to Autietam, to Fredericks
burg nnd Cbancellorsvillo, where he fell
at the very mo nent that tne great nan ,
movement which he ha I canceived mil
conducted bad struck the Union Army i
with a shock from which it reeled aud
could not recover, but sought safety ou ,
the other side of the Rappahannock, ,
which it bad crossed only a few days be- i
fore iu all the confidence ot victory.
This is a recorl of continued success of
which it is hard to find another ex- ,
ample in our own history, or, indeed, ia
nny other.
Cruel Punishments in the Past.
In the matter of punishments, we
liavo entered upon a time of greater
cruelty than prevailed uudcr the Plan
tagcuets. Men are boiled and women
burned for poisouing; heretics are still
binned iu 15S5 one thus suffered for
denying the divinity of Christ; ears are
nailed to the pillory and sliced off for
defamation und seditious words: long
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case through Westuilustor ' nnd Loudon
1 ...I n.1.;....in..j.Kiln(i;nll)ll in unit
for forgery. An immense number ate
hanged every year; the chronicler
Machyn coctiuually set down such a
fact as that "ou this day XII were
hanged at Tybura, VII men and V wj
men." Mariner were hanged at low
water at Wapping for olTeucu commit
ted nt sea; the good old custom ot pil
lorizing was maintained with zeal; nud
the parading of backslider ia carts or ou
horseback wa kept up. Thus ouo wo
man, for selling fry ot fish unlawfully,
rode triumphantly through the town wit!i
garlands of fish decorating her head aud
shoulders aud the tail of the horse, while
one went before beating a brass bason.
Another woman waa carried rouud, a
distaff in her hand and a blue hood on
her bead, for a common scold. A miia
was similarly honored for selliug measly
pork; aud another, riding with his head
to the animal' tail, for doing something
sinful counected with lauib or veal.
llarptr't Majunint.
The Uayu's Nest.
Tho baya bird of Iudi spends his
nights catching tire flies, with hic!i he
plasters his nest. Tho baja does not
kill the fly, but simply attaches it to his
nest by means of a piece ot moist clay.
Ou a dark night a liaya's nest lias the
appearance of au electric street lamp.
Chicago 1'imei.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. !
Germany leads in paper-mills.
Coffee mil! are run by electricity.
Instantaneous photographs show Hp
movements.
The experiment is about to be tried
in Chicago of running double-decked
street cars.
A atreet railway system, to be operated
by compressed air, is to be inaugurated
in Leavenworth, Kan. The power will
also be applied to factories.
The phonograph has been applied to
the telephone, io that any conversation
coming over the wires during the day
may be readily reproduced.
Phosphorus is now being made by
decomposing a mixture of acid phos
phates and carbon bv the heat of an
I electric arc within the mass.
The latest innovation in car decora
tion is a new material called "sill
chrome."
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It can be used also for depot
or other interior decoration.
On the eastern frontier of the "Dark
j Continent" coal ia so plentiful that by
lining a BQOveu ui oi ciny ou any particu
lar spot it may bo reached. But there
is no mean of transporting it to market,
The range of naval gun li rougtly ono
mile for every inch of calibre lot guns
less than ten inches, but last year a 9.2
I inch brecch-loading rifle attained a
range of twelve miles. The pneumatic
! gun has fired a dummy shell two miles
and a half.
It is said that the local steam trains
between St. Paul and Minneapolis have
all been taken off, bciug unable to coin
pete with the electric road, which is
running trips every eight minutes, and
is expected soon to change to five minute
schedule.
About twice as much energy is re
quired to stop a moving object as to
start it. In order to relieve its horses of
a great deal of work, the London Gen
eral Omnibus Company has adopted au
ingeuious device by which springs nre
wound up when the omnibus stops. The
amount of energy which is thus stored up
in the springs is utilized for starting the
vehicle again.
A smokeless powder lias been prepared
at the Newport (R. I.) Torpedo Station
which is credited with having given a
rifle bullet tho astounding velocity of
2800 feet pet second. Moreover, it is
stated that at a distance of 500 yards the
report of the gun was not beard nor was
any smoke visible. Gun cotton pulp is
reported to be the base of the powder,
but the other ingredients and their ma
nipulation are a Government secret.
A lake has a wonderfully tempering
effect on the climate. Thus, according
to M. Forel, the quantity of beat accu
mulated in the Lake of Geneva, Switzer
land, during the summer of 1889 was
equal to that given off by the combustiou
of 31,000,000 tons of coal, or tho amount
carried by a coal train 1120 miles in
length. Tho greater part of the beat is
discharged iuto tho air of the valley dur
ing the cold season, thus producing a
milder temperature in autumn and win
ter. Dr. Brown-Sequard in one of bis loc
tures dwells with great emphasis on the
importance of goueral knowledge in the
matter of checking coughing and knee
ing. He states that coughing can be
stopped by pressing the nerves of the
lips in the neighborhood of tho nose,
aud sneezing may be stopped the sanio
way. Pressing in tho neighborhood of
the ear, or right in front of the ear, may
stop coughing. It is so also of hiccough
ing, but much lewt so than for sueeziug
or coughing. Pressing very bard on tho
roof of the mouth is also a means of ar
resting a cough, atd tho will itself is
often fouud to be a wonderful preventive.
A Church Built or Coral.
The Seychellas Islands, which are sup
posed by many to ba tho site of the
Eden of the Old Testament history, form
an archipelago of 114 islands, aud are
situated about 1400 miles east of Adua,
and 1000 miles from Zanzibar. They
rise steeply out of the sea, culminating
in the Isle of Mahe, which is about 3300
feef above the level of the ocean, and is
nearly the centre of the group. All these
islands are of coral growth. The beaches
which surround them are the most
beautiful in the world, aud are of white
calcereous sands iuclosed iu coral reef
of the most subtile aud varied structure.
The reefs form a sort of wall around
the island, and when the iuu's ray fall
slunting on the sauds tho shore reflects
here aud there light-tiuted rainbows of
the most exquisite shades.
Tho "houses are built of a rpectes of
massive coral hewn iuto squaro blocks,
which glisten like white marble aud
show themsulvos to the utmost advantage
in the various tinted green of the thick
i tropical pulms, whose immense feru-liUo
' .' . , , .
leaves give plcasaut and much needed
shade.
The palms grow as high as 100 feet
and more, ovcrtoppiug IjjiIi the houses
and the coral-built church. They Hue
the seashore and cover tho ruouutains,
forming in mauy places cxtsusivu for
ests. Button Ulile.
Bucou Adjourns a Legislature.
It i related that one winter wheu the
Kentucky Legislature was iu a dead-lock
and bad passed a sleepless uigtt iu ses
sion, the morning fouud them still iu au
obstinate and ugly mood. All efforts to
adjourn were severely put down. Soou
after the breakfast hour arrive I a mem
ber from the Big Sandy country went to
oue of the lire-places in the ancient hall
aud luid ou the hickory coals a piece of
bacou that he had found iu a pocket
sandwich. The appeti.iug o lor grad
ually filled the room; the sizzling was a
cheerful sound suggesting home, case
und comfort. The members began to
stir confusedly iu' their coaiis. The
hostile sides looked at each other sheep
ishly and wistfully. They coulda't h"lp
smiling, aud at lust broke into u I.ui,''i.
Au adjournment was move 1 by seveial
aud ( irriej unanimously. They say
politics is swayed by phrases, but u bit
of Kentucky bacou did the busiuess this
lime. Cincinnati Tiin:-&tii;
CHORES.
i
Jed Dorenm always used to say
When we asked him to come and play
With us boys down to Harry 24 ore's,
''I've gotter stay and do the chores.'
No recreation would he take
For ail his wealth .in jelly cake;
No glad fun in or out of doors.
He had to stay and do the chores.
We drove a woodebuck in the wall
But Jed he paid no heed at all;
A circus passed through lower Town
But busy Jed, he couldn't go down.
The elephant went tramping by
And shook the earth and touched the sky;'
The tiger howls, the lion roars,
Jed stays at home and dees the chore.
Much like Jed Dorkum are we all
Who long for great things and do smoitj
We moll among the trivial sods
Within the gardens of the gods.
While the dark clusters hang above
Rich with the juice of life and love.
We cannot reach and pull them down,
These fair pomegranates ot renown;
Whose Juice life's early hope restores,
For we must work and do the chore.
Above us sternly loom forever
The mighty Mountain of Endeavor,
And whoso on their summit stands
Looks on the sun-kissed table lands.
We grasp our mountain staff to climb
Their sky-enshrouded peaks sublime.
Up where the crystal torrent pours
And then we pause to do our chores.
We start with courage in the heart
To try the endlessness of art.
In hope that we may speak some day
The word the Spirit bids us say.
But ere we speak the word aright
The shadows come and it is night.
Put out the light and closi the doors,
For good or ill we've done our chores.
Sam Walter Foss, in Yankee Blade.
HUMOR OP THE DAY.
Cast iron Quoits.
Ujside down Tho moustache.
A feast of reason To. entertain t
idea.
A corner lot The "gang" under the
lamp post.
The spread of intelligence Not more
than the appetite requires.
Lost at C The tenor who reached for
it but didn't get there. Yonlert Oatette.
Men with well knit figures nre seldom
worsted in a fight." Pilttliarjh Diipatch.
The girl who has had a faithless lover
ihould be sharper the next time sho is
I cutlass. Lotcell Courier.
" Financial cmbarrassmcnt'yMs the
only kind that ever troupes youug
America. liotton Courier.
A ring around the moon is a sign ot
rain, and a ring around the eye is a sign
of blow. Texa Siflingi.
The crank with a theory is like a dog
chasing his tail it's nothing new wtea
be grasps it. Columhut Pott.
"Ah, yes," said Aunt Sary, "Jennie's
a great singer; some day she'll be a rog'
lar bclladonnal" Columbia Pout.
The ocean wearily exclaimed,
Incessautly I go;
I wonder that 1 don't get corns
Upon my undertow.
It the world, as it is, owes everybody
a living, the world ought to get a mort
gage ou itself to pay its debts. Texai
Biftingi.
If men were half as wise in their ac
tions as they ore in their minds, the
word "fool" would be out of uso.
Atchiton Globe.
The peacock may not be inclined to
gossip, but he loves to spread a highly
colored tail about the neighborhood.
Elmira Gazette.
In looking for causes, the little thing
under our nose is hardest to see. Just
try to cast your ere on the centre of your
own moustache. Puck.
"Why is it so much easier to contract
debt 3 than to pay them?" "Because we
ruu into debt, but usually have to crawl
out." New York Herald.
Facetious Tourists "Is it true that
your canton is full of idiots?" Merry
Swiss Peasant "Yes, sir, in summer.
But they don't stop long."
Carruther "Of what tise is a family
tree, anyhow?" Waitc "Why, to cast
one's neighbor iuto tho shade, of
course." itoio York lltrald.
A Western man says this is n "tough
world," and it is his opiniou that very
few who are in it now will ever get out
of it alive. Pharmaceutical lira.
Ethel "I am sure now that Gcorgo
thinks me an angel." "Maud "What
makes you so positive?" Ethel "He
asked me to fly with him." Aisi Yorb
Herald.
"Why do they ring the bell iu t'jat
railroad station in that style) I', sounds
like it was tolling." "Probably it is
for the passing of tho dividend." Balti
more American.
"Mrs. Gairill fell down stairs and bit
her tongue in two." "Poor Garrill! If
that woman has two tongues, heaven
knows what will become of hiin!"
Harper i limtr.
Mrs. Blacklot "Yes, my boy's doiu'
well to Harvard. He's sluJyin' fer a
doctor now." Mrs. Xextdore "Dear
me! Can't the doctor do his own study
iu'i" Mo Pott.
Brido (in anticipation) "I should
like to give my intended a little surprise
before our marriage. What would you
advise?'' Fumalo Frieiul "Hum! pre
sent him with your certificate of birth."
t'lieycnde lihutttr.
t'au you help me?" said tho tramp,
addressing the doctor, who was ridiug
past. "Perhaps I can," said liiuilncto'
humorously. "I'm a physician. Wlnt'a
your trouble?" "I thiuk, sir, I nee 1 a
little change most." He got it. .V.
York Prete.
Joachim, the musiciau, was haviug his
hair cut, aud strenuously iuiiste l tut it
ihould n'j. bo very short. "Well, sir,"
said the barber, losing patience, it you,
as a gvulluiuaii, don't mind ht-iug
taken for a forcigu musician, I'm suit) 1
dou't care," Chrittiaa Lnion.