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aamymoas
oaucanicaueas.
Fores
Official rtatistics show that Colorado
has over 20,000 square milies of coal
and the products of 1800 was 8,000,000
tons.
The' London County Council has de
citled to purchase such of the London
street railways as have a purchase pro
vision In their chatter. The roads are
to be leased to operating companies by
the Council.
The Supreme Court of North Carolina
holds that a railroad company becomes
I'mblo for punitivo damages in wilfully
falling to stop for passengers at a regular
station and cannot escape liability on the
ground that there was not sufficient
room In the train if it appeared that by
reasonable diligence it might have pro
vided extra cars.
An American lawyer, who is also an
English barrister, says that it is money
thrown away to subscribe to any fund
for employing counsel to obtain a new
trial for Mrs. Maybrlck, became after a
criminal conviction in Great Britain .the
procedure of 'new trial or of appeal is
utterly unknown to ' English law. The
caSte of convict, after . judge or jury
have done with him or her, is then ex
clusively at the mercy of the crown.
' ' It is stated that within a short time on
entirely new mode of using the current
of rivers haviug no waterfall, when the
current runs from three to ten miles an
houf; with a dopth of two to four feet,
will be brought out. The proposed
scheme involves the use of a new water
wheel, which, it ia said, will practically
and effectually settle the question of util
izing" the natural current of rivers and
will be especially advantageous in power
transmission for mining districts.
Bays tho Atlanta Constitution: "Humor
has its fashions. The funny men of the
past generation do not pleaso the read
ers of to-day. ' Mark Twain realises this,
and he is trying to strike a new vein.
The Danbury JVk man, Bill Nye, Ell
Perkins and a host of others have found
their popularity waning, and they are
working bard to adapt themselves to the
change in public taste. Their failure is
inevitable. The average humorist has
only one career. When the public drop
him he is at the end of his row."
The fox thnt lost his tail in a trap
afterward explained to his brother foxes
that it was fashionable to go tailless, and
he suggested that they should follow his
example. Something like this appears
to havo happened in the comet world,
observes the Chicago Herald. When
Biola's comet appeared in 1872 it was
found ,to have been split in two and to
have lost its tail. Professor Barnard, of
tho Lick Observatory, in California, has
now discovered a tailless comet, which
would Indicate that Biela's erratic trav
' elor had been more successful in setting
. the fashion than was drop's fox.
It is reported from Russia that the
Czar is both enraged and depressed by
the official corruption which could no
longer be concealed when the famine set
in. Ue was under the impression that
there was an ample reserve of corn in the
village magazines, but it was impossible
to keep him decoivod on this point, and
- his Ministers were compelled to tell him,
at lost, that not only had the contents of
the villago granaries been sold, but that
the military granaries had been depleted
also in tbt effort to cover up these
pcc-' .,ygl g .Iis enlightenment upon
tb---- ' i i said to have filled him with
sor Toos as to tho actual condition
of the military stores, aud to question
Jhe truth of the reports of the amounts
of ammunition, forage, clothing, food,
etc., in actual existence. Being natur
ally a man of timid disposition, this un
certainty is likely to make him anxious
for peace, and, in this way, the famine
may prove a not wholly unmixed evil.
Our agricultural colleges deserve the
favor and heurty support of our farmers,
declares the New York Observer, for,
taken as a whole, they are doing much
good to the cause of agriculture. There
are some individual schools that as yet
have not fallen wholly into line with
what should be the main purpose of
their existence, but that is no reason why
all should be condemned. The report of
one. of these colleges now before us
shows that thirty-six per cout. of all its
graduates are practically engaged in
farming, whilo four per cent, are
engaged iu the other industrial pursuits
for which the college fitted them, and
seven per cent, are Presidents or Pro
fessors of other agricultuial schools.
Thus forty-seven per ceut. are eugaged
in the line of work for which the college
especially trains. We doubt if luaoy
teehutcal schools can show as good an
average. Aud It is to be presumed that
- 1 - I :n i
v 't.v m .. u i.iiiui.i frill
agriculture, as many oi In.
-:lMprtllvi
V.'ITH A LAUOH AND A JBST,
Even as a shadow
Over waving grass,
As an 1 mag. straightway
Fadeth from a glass,
With a laugh
And a jest
Young Lova doth pass.
As it ever endeth
With a tear or sigh,
An empty world it leaves
And an empty sky,
Why
With a laugh and a jest
Bid Love (lood-bye.
New York Truth.
A QUESTION OF SANITY,
BT CAROLTKB S. VALENTINE.
Early in the summer of '87 I startod
for Longvue by the sea.
I was completely run down, having
applied myself too closely to business.
Although I bad made several hundred
thousands in lucky ventures on 'change,
my nervous system was injured, and the
money did not give mo much pleasure.
After trying several physicians without
relief, I concluded to run over to Long
vue. There was an excollent sanitarium
there which was quite renowned for its
cures.
The moment I saw the place I liked it,
and felt convinced that I would leave it
a well man. The sanitarium was a large,
handsome building, surrounded by beau
tiful grounds. The front yard was full
of bright flowers and shrubs, which gave
a cheerful aspect to the place. And from
the windows the bright blue sea, peace
ful and calm, or full of angry billows, as
1U mood might bo, could be . plainly
seen.
I had not becu at Longvue a month
when 1 pogan to improve wonderfully.
The air was bracing, there was no ex
citement, and the attendants were very
skillful.
In this peaceful atmosphere my over
worked nerves became invigorated and
life became pleasant again.
At the end of two mouths I was com
pletely cured, but I lingered, for Long
vue was more to my liking than a gay
resort. The sea had a strong attraction
for me, and I took daily walks on the
beach. At first a half-mile in one di
rection was enough to satisfy me. I
would wander along until I found a shel
tered nook, and lie there dreamily look
ing at the waters for hours.
One day, it was tho first of August I
remember the date perfectly, as it began
a new era in my life I started out for
the beach early in the morning. Feel
ing unusually vigorous, I walked farther
than ever before and rounded a point I
had never passed beyond. To my sur
prise I beheld a large building, some
thing similiar in architecture to the
sanitarium. Never having heard of such
a place I was naturally curious to find
out something about it. It was not far
off, and I walked on until tho entrance
gates were reached. Then I discovered
that the windows were all barred, and
concluded it must be an asylum for the
insane.
I had never had desire to visit such
a place before, but my idle fancy bado
ine open tho gates and enter tho
grounds. As I touched the gates I
found them locked and I shook them
until a bell, fastened on the inside, rang
loudly.
An elderly man appeared, turned the
key in the lock, and looked at me. I
asked if visitors were admitted. He
motioned me with a courtly wave of his
hand, and bade me enter. I said I did
sot wish to see any hopelessly insane or
violent patients.
The janitor directed me to a door in
the west side of the building, saying
that the patients I would see in the main
sitting-room were all quiet and harm
less. Entering the room indicated, I glanced
around rather uneasily. A number of
women were sitting quietly in their
chairs, looking toward the end of the
room. Good pictures were on the walls,
flowers and papers on tho tables. At
the far end of the room stood a grand
piano. - Some one was playing a few
soft notes as I entered. I had not
noticed the musician until my glance
fell on the piano. Then I started in sur
prise as my eyes beheld tho loveliest
woman I had ever teen.
A cloud of golden hair was caught up
and coiled on the top of a perfectly
shaped little head. Her figure, though
slight, was exquisitely moulded, and her
every movement betrayed grace.
I could not see her face, as her back
was turned to me. As I stood gazing at
her, waiting impatiently for her to turn
toward me, sue struck the keys a little
louder and began to sing. I listened en
tranced, for the notes that came were
sweater than a lark's song. I had heard
the great Patti and most of the world's
renowned singors, but the voice of this
unknown girl moved me as none had ever
before.
Thero was such a pathos thrilliug
through the notes of the glorious voice
that tears unbidden rose to my eyes. As
I brushed them away, half ashamed of
my emotiou, on elderly woman, sitting in
tho middle of the room, called out,
'Enough, Miss Bibyl," aud the music
ceased.
Then the singer turned and I saw her
face. A faco as pure and lovely as the
greatest artist could desire as a model,
was revealed to my guzo. The contour
of her lace was Grecian. The greut
brown eyes held in their depths an ex
pression of sadness. The straight nose,
the lips 1'rin but sweet, the softly rounded
thin, betrayed the refinement of their
owner.
As I looked at this golden-haired girl,
two feelings awoke iu my breast. I
pitied h'-r young, beautiful and
acconv"' 'oouied to spend her life,
or an asylum for
""t because
The patlonfis began to move here and
there around the room, some regarding
me with curious looks. Seeing me stand
ing there, Sibyl t already dared call
her that in my heart approached me.
She smiled, and the smile lifted the
ladness from her face, and bade me
good-morning. Young as she was
nof more than twenty I could see by
the ease of her manner that she had
boen accustomed to the best society.
She asked if that was my first visit to
Longvue Hospital. I noticed she avoided
the term "asylum," and felt it was be
cause the insane have ofteu a violent
dislike for that word.
I answered that it was my first visit,
and complimented her on her singing,
saying that words could not express the
pleasure it had given me.
She accepted my praises very serenely,
and said it was her one gift. Then she
turned the conversation to the piano,
which was a very flue instrument with
remarkably pure tono.
I felt an almost uncontrolable desire
to know more about her. Sho was
seemingly sane at the moment; perhaps
she ha aonly occasionly spells of madness,
or a distressing monomania. I felt sure
she could never be very violent.
"Have you teen here long't" I felt
myself a clown and stupid fool, as I
asked the question. Her great, brown
eyes looked at me in an odd, surprised
Way.
'Oh, no; just a few weeks. I shall
not stay much longer," she said with a
sweet precision of speech. "Do you
know," she said, coming a little nearer
to me and speaking almost in a whisper,
"I sometimes fear if I stay hero much
longer I, too, shall lose my reason and
be like these unfortunate beings."
Poor girll She imagined those around
her insane herself suae. She imagined
she had only come on a visit, instead
of being incarcerated there for an in
definite period.
I almost wept for the pity of it, but I
answered her soothingly, and talked of
the grounds which were laid off in wind
ing walks that extended In every direc
tion around the building.
"Do you ever walk out alone!" I
asked.
"Certainly," she said, seemingly sur
prised. "You do not suppose I spend
all my time in here, do youf I should
periBh if I did not get out and spend part
I remembered then that the fences
were very high, the gates massive and
securely locked. There could, of course,
be no danger in allowing the patients a
littlo liberty, if they had no tendency to
harm themselves or others.
I rosolved to watch for Sibyl and talk
with her alone during her walks. I felt
positive that her malady was not deep
seated. I determined to return to the
sanitarium and search through the doc
tor's private library to which I had
frea access for books on insanity.
Every day I would try to see Sibyl and
study her case carefully, and perhaps by
devoting myself heart and soul to the
work I might be able to find a cure. I
lingered at the asylum nearly an hour.
She was so charming and lovely, and
talked so sensibly aud entertainingly, it
was bard to leave her presence.
At last I went away, assuring her that
I would see her quite soon.
The brown eyes took on a look of
surprise again, as if she wondered why I,
a perfect stranger, should be so inter
ested in her. But sho answered me
kindly and I left her.
There was no peace, however, in my
breast. I thought only of Sibyl's sad
fate as I wended my way along the hot
sands, and I sent up a silent prayer that
the Ruler of all would help me find some
way to deliver my little princess from
the thralldom of insanity.
I knew I had left my heart in ber
keeping, aud come what might, I would
love her. My sudden passion was in
deed so great that I felt willing to take
her as she was, if no cure could be ef
fected, and' knowing nothing of her ante
cedents or former life.
I hastened homeward, secured the de
sired books from the library, shut my
self up in my room, and began to read.
I lead steadily uutil the shades of even
ing dropped like a veil between the
priuted words and my eager eyes.
I felt I had a clew; but I was stranga
ly weary, and my head ached terribly.
When tho physician dropped in to see
me before bedtime he found me lying
unconscious on my couch. Tho rapid
walk along the hot beach, following my
excitement, and the atrauge things I
had read, were too much for me.
I had a severe nervous attack thnt
confined me to my room f Jr a week. In
the meantime I heard nothing of Sibyl.
Cid she think of me aud wonder why I
did not comet I longed to know. Often
I tried to speak to my physician about
her, but words refused to come. I had
formed a theory in regard to her malady,
and at last questioned him about it, us
if it were only au imaginary case.
"Did he think such a case incurable?
Could the insanity bo transmitted to pos
terity? My heart glowed with joy when
he auswered no to each question. I
forgot that I Knew absolutely nothing,
about Sibyl's malady that my theory
was bused on supposition ouly.
Buoyed up with hope at the doctor's
words, I started out as soon I was able
to walk to the asylum. I was scarcely
stroug enough for the effort, but could
restrain myself no longer. The face of
Sibyl was constantly before me her
linage was enshrined iu my heart.
When I reached the gates, aud the
leau usher admitted me, I gazed eagerly
around, hoping that Sibyl might be walk
ing in the grounds. I had formed no
plans, but I expected to reveal my love
iu some manner.
A little cloud came over the bright
ness of the day when I discovered that
she was not out-doors. To tell one's
love in a room where twenty pairs of
curious eyes may be watching you is not
iust what au ardaut lover desires. But,
regrets, I entered the sittiug-
'-Y as on the duy of
the crown of golden hair, was not draw
ing melody from the keys of the grand
piano.
I looked there instinctively at first,
then my eager ayes looked around the
room. But Sibyl was not theie. A
namoless terror seized me. Had they
confined my poor darling in a solitary
cell, or, worse still, might her tender
body bo lying in one of those cruel cribs?
I shuddered at the thought.
Tho middle-agoi woman was sitting
with the patients, and was evidently a
nurse. At this momont she saw me and
approached. In the terror and confu
sion occasioned by my fears for Sibyl I
seemed to lose the faculty of speech. All
I could do was to seize her hand and say,
"Sibyl," and look at her imploringly.
"Miss Sibyl has gone," sho answered,
betraying no surprise, although she must
have felt it at my emotion.
"Gone 1" I groaned, and sank into a
oh air.
The woman regarded mo with wonder
ing pity in hor eyes, but said nothing.
Presently I roused myself.
"Did she escape, or did her people re
move her to another asylum?" I asked,
hoping that she would answer the latter
half of my inquiry in the affirmative.
For, dreadful as was the thought of the
poor girl being shut up in an asylum,
the thought of her wandering around in
tho cold, wicked world alone, with none
to protect her, was far more dreadful.
The nurse gazod at me, a look of min
gled horror und amusement upon ber
face.
"Did ypu you suroly didn't think
her one of them?" she cried, waving her
hand in the direction of the patients.
"Why was she here, then!" I demand
ed, stupidly staring at ber.
'Dr.,Holcombe,our President, is Miss
Sibyl's brother. When she came home
from abroad, after finishing her educa
tion, she came here to visit him. Her
brother and herself are all of tho family
that are left,' with tho exception of ono
aunt. When Miss Sibyl was here she
felt so sorry for the poor unfortunates
she-did all she could for them, singing
and playing for them by the hour. - But
being with them so much did not agree
with her. Sho grew melancholy, and
Dr. Holcombe declared she must go
away. She didn't want to go, but he
insisted, and stnt her to their aunt at
Saratoga."
-Before she had finishod my heart felt as
light as if it would leave my body and
fly to Saratoga to greet my love.
"If you want to know anything more
about Miss Sibyl I'd advise you to go to
Dr. Holcombe and talk to him."
The nurse evidently understood the
affair with a woman's ready intuitibn.
"Thank you, I will," I replied.
I slipped a bauk note of such goodly
value in her hand that her eyes opened
to their fullest, extent in delighted sur
prise. 'You will never speak of my mis
take f" I said, and left the room to find
the doctor, taking her promise with me.
To my reliof ho was young and friend
ly in his manner. I told him my story,
confessing all my sudden great love for
Sibyl, which had become a part of my
life, and the absurd error I had made.
He laughed at me a good bit in a
friendly way, but said my mistake was
perhaps natural under the circumstances.
After I had told him about my family
connections and my standing in business
circles, and we discovered wo had sev
eral mutual friends, he sat down at his
desk and began to write. After a few
moments he brought mo a letter. It was
addressed to "Miss Sibyl Holcombe,
Saratoga Springs, N. Y."
"There," he said, in his genial way,
"this will introduce you into Sibyl's
good grace;, I think, if you are not in
them already."
I wrung his hands and tried to ex
press my thanks, then hurried back to
the sanitarium to pack up. As soon as
possible I presented her brother's letter
to Miss Holcombe.
She was more lovely and attractive in
the midst of the gay throng than at
Longvue. I devoted myself so assidu
ously to her that bofore she left Saratoga
at the end of the seaspn for her auul's
New York home I had her sweet promise
that she would be mine. Frank Leelie'i
Kempaper.
Improved Fruit of tho Futnro.
In comparing the earlier descriptions
of fruits with modern accounts it is well
to remember that the high standards by
which fruits are now judged are of
recent establishment. Fruits which would
ouce have been esteemed excellent would
to-day be passed by as unworthy of re
gard. It seems probable that tho list of seed
less fruits will be materially lengthened,
provided our experimental horticulturists
make use of the material at their com
mand. Tho common fruits which have
very few or no seeds are the bununa.pine
apple, aud certain oranges. Others
meutioned by Mr. Darwin as well known
are the bread-fruit, pomo;;ruute, azurolo
or Neapolitan medlar, aud date palms.
In commenting upon theso fruits, Mr.
D.irwin says that most horticulturists
"look at the great size und anomalous
development of the fruit as the cause and
sterility as the result," but he holds tho
opposite view as more probublo that ii,
that the sterility, coming ubout grad
ually, loaves free for other growth the
abundaut supply of building material
which the forming seed would otherwise
have. Ho admits, however, that "there
is an antagonism between the two tonus
of reproduction, by seeds aod by buds,
when either is curried to an extreme de
gree, which is independent of uny in
cipient stority." Popular tscieiicc
Monthly. I
AtMorfury Mine.
The San Aiutouio Erreti snys that the
discovery of mine of quicksilver is re
ported in the mineral region of Texas,
known as the Lfauo district. Tho metal
issues, it says, from a spring that flows
from a fissure iu the rocks ou a hillside,
und is found in -"I'erablo quantit
THE WONDERS OF ALASKA.
LOVBLT GARDENS IK THB MIDST
OF VAST. FIELDS 07 IOE.
Fields of Lnsclona Fruit Along a
Glacier'. Edge Experience nf
an Exploring Party.
Strawberries and mosquitoes seem to
be equally plentiful in the neighborhood
of Mount St. Elias, according to the tes
timony of Mr. Israel C. Russell, who has
just returned to Washington from that
region of eternal ice and snow in Alaska,
where tno highest peak in North America
rises to an altitude of 19,000 feet from a
glacier 1000 square miles in area and as
big as all those of the Alps put together.
Along the edge of the glacier, all the
way from Icy Bay to Yakutat Bay, there
extends a strip of green coast which is
covered with luxuriant, vegetation.
Strawberry vin ;s cover the ground for
miles, and the verdant fields are reddoned
as far the eye can reach with luscious
fruit, which compares favorably in point
of size and flavor with the finest grown
in temperate latitudes. There are huckle
berries, too, and "salmon berries," which
are something between blackberries and
raspberries, but of giant size, measuring
nearly two inches in diameter. All the
lowlands are carpeted with violets, . but
tercups, yellow monkey flowers, and
other wild blossoms. Here and there,
in the midst of the vast ice fields, are the
loveliest gardens watered by the melting
snow.
Thero are plenty of grizzly bears in
the vicinity of Mount St. Elias, but Mr.
Russell did not find them very danger
ous. Ho says that his encounters with
them reminded him of killing pigs. Of
brown and black bears he saw and shot
a great many. The expedition met with
enough perils, however, to satisfy the
most adventurous geographical explorers.
Nearly all of the climbing had to be done
up steep walls of ice and snow by cut
ting steps. At almost any time a slip
would have precipitated the party down
tb.6 frozen precipices thousands of feet.
On one occauiou they wero descending
when they found that an avalanche had
carried away the steps which they had
made in going up. The Impromptu stair
case was destroyed for 800 feet, and they
had to lower a man by a rope to chop
out another, there being no other way
of getting down. Such accidents as
this were not uncommon. Avalanches
were continually falling, rushing down
the slopes with the spcod of railway
trains and with a roar like thunder that
could be heard twenty miles away.
One night about VI o'clock the party
was passing over a bad place in the Agas
sis glacier. Two men were in the lead,
drawing a Bled. Suddenly they disap
peared from eight, having fallen into a
fissure in the ico. Luckily they were,
caught upon a projecting ledge at tho
depth of about twenty feet, else they
would never have been & en again. They
were hauled out with ropes. The next
duy, in the same neighborhood, Mr. Rus
sell chanced to looked behind him and
' saw that the ice field over which he had
just passed was gone, leaving an enor
mous hole of unknown depth. Another
timo one of his men tumbled into a
crevasse, and was only saved by the pack
fastened to his shoulder, which inter
rupted his progress through a twist in
the frozen tunnel that had yawned for
him.
The Agassiz glacier is one of the four
great glacieis which, together .with about
a thousand small ones, flow out from the
mountains at the north to the mighty
Malaspina glacier, pouring their streams
of ice continually into this vust frozen
sea. This glacier of Malaspina, from
1)500 to 2000 feet thick, is interesting
not merely because of its enormous size,
but also by reason of the fact that it is
the only one now in existence of the
samo type as the glacier which formerly
covered all of this continent as far south
as Philadelphia and St. Louis, leaving
traces that are visible to this day in
scratches on the rocks.
Where the land in that region Is bare
of ice the vegetation attains an almost
tropical luxuriance, and the Arctio jun
gles are well nigh impassable to the ex
plorer. One of the chief obstacles en
countered in threading them is a plant
known aa tho "devil's club," which
grows to a height of ten or fifteen feet,
its stoms running along the ground for
some distance and then turning upward.
f Every part of its surface, even to the
ribs of the leaves, is thickly set with
spines, which inflict painful wounds,
aud, breaking off in the flash, cause fes
tering sorei. In the Lucia Glucior oc
curs a most interesting feature, in the
shape of a glacial river which comes out
from a mountain through an archway of
ice, flows for a mile and a half in plain
view, and then is lost to sight in auothor
tunnel. Where the stream emerges finally
is unknown. No explorer has aa yet
boon bold enough to enter the tunuel
and drift through, after the fashion of
Allun Quatermain aod Umslopogaas. The
greatest risk in such an undertaking
would be from falling blocks of ice. At
tho mouth of the tuuuel there are al
ways confused noises and rhythmic vi
brations to be heard from the dark re
cesses within. . The air is filled with
pulsations like deep orgau notes, aud it
requires but littlo imagination to trans
foim these strange sounds into the voices
and congs of inhabitants of the nether
world. It used to be supposed that
Mount St. Elias was a volcauo, and sea
captain i sailing on tho Pacific have often
behold what they imagined to bo smoke
issuing from its summit; but this is a
mistake, and it is probable that the al
leged smoke was really avalanche dust
blown upward by the wind. Mem York
Sun.
Adulterated Honey.
"They aro now making houey out of
BULjar, mineral acids aud wutcr. It both
tastes and smells like honey, and is said
to be wholesome. The timo seems to be
v when l.iauy articles of food w ill
'hemists out of atranne "-
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Cars aro started automatically.
Weldloss steel chains are here.
Some insects are in a stato of maturity
thirty minutes after birth.
A French beekeeper has experimented
with his bees as carriers of dispatches.
The avornge longth of life is consid
erably longer in England than in France.
Recent calculations show that the sun's
light is 600,000 times that of the full
moon.
Some naturalists assert that a rattle
snake placed in a circle of half nsh
leaves and half hot coals will cross the
coals rather than encounter the leaves.
So convinced are tho officials of tho
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Rail
road of the value of creosotiug ties that
they intend to erect a plant for that pur
pose. A valuable antiseptic soap is made by
adding twelve parts of sulphate of cop
per to eighty-eight parts of any good
soap. It will readily heal sores and
scratches and is devoid of any Irritating
action.
With steam at tho full boiler pressure
of 120 pounds the engines of the new
screw ferryboat Cincinnati, making
100 revolutions a minute, havo indi
cated 1018 horso power, giving a speed
of fourteen miles an hour.
The new Maxim Dying machino will
be propelled by a light screw making
2500 revolutions per minute. Its sus
pending power will be a kito 110 feet
long by forty foet wide. The motivo
power will bo a petroleum coudcosing
engine.
Recent observation throws doubt on
the existence of the so-called fatiguo of
metals. Two large iron links, one used
lor forty years iu a suspension bridgo
at Kieff, Russia, and the other kept in
store since the building of the bridgo,
were tested togethor, and wero found to
bo of partically identical streugth.
Wlieu the atmosphere contains eighty
five per cent, of moisture it is satuatcd.
The amount of humidity is calculated on
the eighty-five per cent, scale, so that
when we are told that there
is seventy-flve per cent, of humidity
it does not mean that the atmosphere is
only ten points away from saturatod, but
that it contains seventy-fivo per ceut. of
the hnmidity necessary so saturate it.
Tho degree of delicacy which has
been attained in the application of tho
radioml-crometer for measurement of
radiant heat viz : from the candle, a firo,
the sun, the moon, tho stars, or anything
else which radiates heat in space is
pronounced marvelous by scioutists, a
single illustration of this power bein,'
afforded by the fact that a really appreci
able effect is produced on that instru
ment by a candle placed two miles away.
A kind of bituminous rock which is
found iu several places is California Is
being extensively used for stri pave
ments in that State. Thesj pavements
are Tory like the asphalt pavements In
New York and other eastern cities, such
us that in Wall street. The only differ
ence between tho two materials is said to
be that asphalt is a manufactured article
made of bitumen und sauJ, wUilo tho
rock has practically tho samo elements
naturally combiued.
An Apple Orchard Tneuty Miles' Lon?.
In the wild district of Hawaii, bo
tween Uana aud Haiku, during July aud
August tho most beautiful aud largest
applo orchards in the world can bo seen.
The Wildornoss of Koolan, us tho dis
trict is called, contains a iorcst of native
wild apple trees, countless in number,
stretching from the sea fur up the mount
ain sides. The trees vary from forty to
fifty foet in height, and in the harvest
seasou, from July to September, aro
loaded down with fruit, some whito, but
mostly red.
A f erson standing in the mtdit of this
orchard can look around him for miles
up the mountain and toward tho road,
and the only thing in view will be one
vast grove of applo trees literally rod
with ripe and ripening fruit.thobrauclms
of tho trees bonding to tho ground with
the bounteous harvest. The crop of this
extensive apple orchard which nature
planted in tho solitary wasto would fill
a fleet of ton steamers.
The orchard stretches over a country
from flvo to ten miles wide by twenty
miles long, and muy of the larger trees
bear at loast fifty barrels apiece. Tno
fruit is delicious for table use, and will
appease both thirst and hunger, but as
yet no one will tuke the trouble to luaUo
any coraracrciul use of tho apples. Wheu
ripe they will not keep more than a
week, but they make exeullent jelly and
jam, and simply for tho luck of a littlo
American enterprise millions of apples
aro permitted aunually to full to the
ground and rot. Lhiavjo Tribune.
Tlio Blcyclu as a Courier.
Tho bicyclo is comiu; into favor in
military circles und its uso is belug
seriously considered for couriers iu pluco
of the horse. Tho horso has to bo
watered, fed and rested; ho may become
sick or restive, and tho noise of his
galloping, his size und his proneuess to
ueighiug uro great objections, us betray
ing tho whereabouts of the courier to
tho enemy. Ou the other hand, the
bicycle is less tiresome to thoricur. Its
pedal motion rests tho knees. It re
quires neither water, feed uor rest; so
the rider may push to tho top notch of
his owu endurance without thought of
his steed. It can be taken ucross streams
easier thau tho ordinary horse. It is
small and noiseless and will ruu until
woru out. It is considered that ono
niuu ou a bicycle would out distance re
lays of cavulymeu at thirty mile Intervals
for 300 miles. Au important cousidc ra
tion is whether tho bicyclo can curry
food enough for the couricr,uiu! another
point which would havo to bo definitely
settled by a series of contests is the kind
of man to be eulisted in a bicyclo corps
-whether he should be litit und slim
alcavaliy sohliir, or u lur.i?o
uiuudu and brawn of the
A LITTLE MAID.
I u?ed to know a little maid,
A blossom fair.
With eyes a laughing, brownish shade,
With lips Wiat loomed for kisses made,
And finer than an old brocade
Her silken balr.
Ilor frown and smiles she threw on all
Like an export,
And though but ten years old, and small,
A host of couriers she could call,
To hold hor fan, her glove, or shawl,
The little flirt!
I usod to be her willing slave,
Ah, happy lotl
She scolded, did I misbehave;
Tiiion turned at one. and quit, forgava,
Because sh. had some boon to crave,
The cunnlne; tot!
And we were just as chummy then
As chums should bo.
Ofton do I remember whon
She wished that I were only ten,
Because, sh. said, she hated men
All men but me I
But time passed by, and year by yor
Ws both have aged.
She's now eighteen, or very near,
A roiguing balls, calm and severe;
Then, too, what makes it seem more queer,
(She is engaged.
Sometimes I wonder if she thinks
Of days when she
And I were mates in childish jinks,
Ah, not she's now a frown spinx;
And she's engaged, the littlo minx,
Engaged to me.
Sam S. Stinson, in Munscy's Magazint.
HUMOR OF THE DAT.
Aiiollow mockery An echo. Lift. ,
Bonoy men nre not easily rattled.
Columbia Vott.
Tho rain-makers ought not to bo dis
couraged. Thoir aim is high. Boahc
ter Pott-Expreu.
Only olovon per cent, of flowers emit a
porfumo. Tho other eighty-nine per
cent, omit a perfume Binghamton Re
publican. Chinoso doctors make a reduction ia
their charges when tho patient is old. It
doesn't take so much medicine to kill.
Textu Siftingt.
"Who gooth a-borrowlng gocth a-sor-rowing;"
but he is in a cheerful state of
mind compared with the man who gocth
a-lending. Pud.
Demosthenes put pebbles in his mouth
to cure his defective utcrance. Even to
this day people Und it a difficult job to
speak Greek. Puck.
We have noticed that the cheaper tho
trousers a young mau has on, the more
fur he puts on the collar and cuffs of his
overcoat. Atchisor,1 Olobe.
Hackctt "How is your wife getting
on with her dress-roform movement?"
Bunsctto "Immense. She has two now
dressmakers." Cloak lltvieio.
It is not until a man goes ou a quest
for a hired girl that ho fully appreciates
the immense proportions of the woman
question. Baltimore American.
It may bo true that somo are not as
black as they are pointed, and it's equal
ly a fact that others are not as white as
they nre whitewashed. Philadelphia
Timet.
"So your son has been starring as an
actor, Mr. Cashcounter?" "Yes." "Do
tell mo all nbout him. Who is sup
porting him?-' "I am." L'altimon
American.
Hogan "I have known McGinnls for
for-r-ty-flvo years." Grogan "An'
sure, so have I." "Ah, get out wid ye I
He's no ninety years old at all." Indi
anapolii Journal.
History repeats itself; and so long as
fellows can make money by writing now
lives of people who are too dea l to kick
their biographers we may expect to see
tho histories repeated. Puck.
Topples "There goes a follow who
tacklus tho high sea for a living." Van
Cure "He don't look liko a seafaring
man, does he?" Topples "Ho uin't;
he is a orack tenor." Urookhjtt Citiien.
"In your essay," s.ild the pretty
schooliua'um to Freddy Qaswcll, "yt
say the horse his six legs. How do yu.
muko that out?" "lio bus fore '.tuwf'in
front and two behind," exdjjfciod
Freddy, Pittubunjh Chronicler
Miss Tomax "Oh, yyit-ro such a bad
boy. What shall I do with you if you
don't mind?" Freddy "Do what Mr.
Vau Jay did to sister, lie said ho would
kiss her if she didn't mind, and I guess
she didn't, for he kissed her. "Hrovklyn
Citizen.
Conductor (on north side curette)
'Tree cents more, mum, for do kid."
I,ady "Throe cents? Why, thoy don't
charge me anything for this boy on the
cable road." Conductor "Well, do
cable don't eut oats I Bee!" Chicago
Tri'iune.
Timmins "Er is Laura Figg a girl
of any education?" Simmons "I sup
poso so. Why?" Timiuius "O, 1
caught her looking into a volumo of my
poems, you know, und she remarked that
she wus "conniug tho funcies of my im
aginary bruiu." Iitdianavolii Jourwd.
"Am I to understand," said the youug
man, bitterly, as ho arose to go, "that all
is over between us?" "I am afraid that
is the case," she said, calmly, a slight
tone of Jersey City hauteur observable ia
her voice. "Then," ho answered, brhkly,
reaching fur hii hut, "you havo tol I mo
at just the right moment. I have ordered
a new winter overcoat, and I will just
huvu timo to countermand those pockets
under tho arms." Clothier and Far'
ii isAer.
Ruduey Bates U a sportsman of more
enthusiasm thau exporiimco. Ho hud
good luck one duy la;t summer while
fishing up iu the Muine woods, and his
joy overflowed iu a telegram to his wiio
like this: "I've got ono. Weighs seven,
pounds and is a beauty." In reply cum.
tho following, siguod by Jlis. ii.itea:
"So have I. Weiuhs ten pounds. llu
imi t a beauty. Looks like you." it
was more than ten wonU, Lai
I urHVtt her.X. -et-ji I