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Ukm of u wwuionlcaUoa. aaearmous ST KEP JL V.JlV-ti- Indian corn meal has become extreme ly popular in Germany. The St. Louis Star-Saying thinks that "Uncle Sam.with $400,000,000 in silver laid up in stock, ought to be in a posi tion to control the market." In Samoa the advisor of the King lives in a handsome house and tho King in a shed next door. The adviser luxuriates on s salary of $3000 a year and the King starves on $840. Robert Bonner is opposed to kite shaped tracks. That may not cause their abolition, obsorves the Now York Com mtrcial Advertiser, but the veteran horso lover's opinion is shared by thousand of hoi semen. Some genius in Georgia is forming "before-brcakfast clubs" among the far mers. Tho object is for each member to set asido a piece of ground which he agrees to plant and work before break fast, giving the cntiro proceeds to his wife for her use. "Jenny Lind is truly but a memory in America 1" soliloquizes the Chicago Herald. "In London the volumes of Memoirs' of the great songstress have gone through three editious, while in this country barely fifty copies have been sold. And yet what a name and fame were hors." Now that students of the art of Hying are crying out for now meat to relieve the ioevitablo recourse to beef and mut ton, veal and lamb, It is remembered by scholars that Mxconas, tho rich Roman patron of tho poet Horace, delighted in tho flesh of the donkey and sorved wild ass from Africa as a fur greater delicacy than vonison. The gonius of Yankecland is irrepres sible, boasts the Chicago Herald. "Ger many has at last opened her arms to re ceive American corn as an article of food, and corn dodgers and johnny cake will soon become familiar articles upon the tables of the Teutonic empire. This is a gigantic strido toward tho unification of the human race. Theso articles, in conjunction with 'hog and hominy,' will tend to strengthen the friendly tics between Germany and the United States and promote that harmony which shall result iu hastening the advent of that period when the sword shall be beaten iuto a plowshare and the spear into a pruning hook, and nations shall not learn war any more, but devote their time to the cultivation of the ethics of mush and hoe cake." A crop statistician in Kansas calcu lates our wheat crop for 1891 at 800,. 000,000 bushels, of which 265,000,000 will be available for export. To this exportable surplus Canada may add 15, 000,000 bushels, and he estimates the surplus of other wheat-exporting coun rie at an amount sufficient to ralso the aggregate to 377,000,000 bushels. On the other hand he figures the require ments of countries that have to import wheat in excess of their own production at 455,000,000 bushels, leaving a de ficiency 73,000,000 bushels. This, in the opinion of tho Epoch, is more cheering to our farmers than to the populations of wheat-importing countries. But the prospect in tho shortage of rye, so largely used for food in European countries, it far more serious. This statistician calcu lates the requirements of importing coun tries, including Russia, at 835,000,000 bushels, whilo the surplus of other countries for export is only 30,000,000 bushels. This must open tho way to a largely increased consumption of Indian corn. One of the most interesting experi ence! of the Uuited States troopers is patrol duty in tho Yosemite reservation. Captain A. E. Wood, of the Fourth Cav nlry, who recently returned to San Fran cisco from a tour of this attractive ' n i u- i l : 1 region, says maw ue uan a very uve-iy time of it keeping the reservation clear of cattle. Until tho Government inter fered, the herders took in as many as 2000 cattle and 90,000 sheep every sum mer for pasture. This has all been stopped. It is the duty of the soldiers to keep on the trot in every part of the re servation, turn the herds back and warn owners not to trespass. But, in spite of this vigilance, cattle slip iu. The herders aro promptly arrested and es corted to the other sido of the reserva tion, a journey which takos five days. Meanwhile their flocks are unprotected, and bears aud wolves attack the animals and kill them. By the time the herder secures a permit, gets his flock together and leads them out of the reservation, he is taught a salutary, if a severe, lesson. Another duty of the troopers is to lay out trails. Captain Wood had the au thority to hire a guide, but he found no one who was familiar with tho wild country, aud explored it himself. Dur ing the suminur tho soldiers laid out twenty-five miles of trail passable t. nouuted meu, often over mountains thai muu declared inaccessible. WINTER LILACS. A rmnch of lilac, there by the door, These and no morel Delicate, lily-white, Ilk. the new snow Falling below; A friend saw the flowers and brought them to me, As one who should see A ride, a glove, just dropped and returned While a loving thought burned. Dark all day was that room of mine Till those flowers divine Into my darkness brought their own light, And back to the sight. Of my spirit the fairest days of June And the brooklet's tune; Where the garden-door was left open wide, While by my side On. sat, who, raising his eyes from the book With the old fond look, Asked If I loved not indeed that page And the words of the sage. And as we spoke the cool blue sky, The robin nigh, The dropping blossoms of locust-tree. Humming with bees, The budding garden, the season's calm, Dropt their own balm. All these, my friend, were brought back to me, Like a tide of the sea, When out of winter and Into my room Came summer's bloom; The flowers reopened those shining gates Where the soul waits Many and many a day in vain, While in the rain We stand, and, doubtlug the future, at last Forget the past I So you will believe what a posy may do, W hen friends are true, For the rick at heart in the wintry days, When nothing allays The restless hunger, the tears that start, The weary smart, But the old, old love and the summer hush, And tb. lilac bush. Annie Field, in Scribner. THE WRECK OF THE SALLY. BY R. C. DODGE. I am the captain of the fine canal boat "Sally No. 452," my wife is first mate and our baby is the crew. The "crow isn't big enough to steer the mules yet or throw stones at them when they stop to nine on tno dusiics along toe tow path, but he can do his share of yelling, and, as the mules think the yells aro for their benefit and start up a littlo whon they hear tho disturbance, tho "crew" earns his salt. The cargoes we carry are of coal from the mines, and our trips often extend to the seaboard, wbero we sco tho ocean blue in the distance, while the Sally lies moorca to the dock. Sometimes, in late fall, while anchored that way in salt water, tho canal will freeze over so we cannot get back, and we are then forced to spend the winter in or on the edge of tho city, for we, of course, live aboard our boat, as wo o it. my urai mate enjoys mis Hugely, as she has been told it is quito fa-hionable to speed the cold weather in town. It also gives her an opportunity to go a shopping, hear tho opera, and attend scicntic lectures same as city women do. 1 take much pride in sailing our mulo yacht, and many a race I've run and won with her by sneaking past tho boats ahead of us while they were heaved to for the night. Folks think a canal boat sailor is sometl i lg to make fun of, aud they always like to get off their littlo jokes about getting wrecked in a storm on the raging canal. They take delight in speaking of the lurboard mule and the starboard mule, and like to ask if we have had a spanker-boom on deck when ever they see the baby. They like to call out "Breakers ahead" when the mules stop to kick at a fly, and "Low bridgo" und "All hands to the pumps," and "Let no the main sheet," and "Weigh anchor,'' and other ridiculous things. It makes my first mato mad when The Sally is treated with disrespectful levny, ana sometimes l lose my patience, lot, out i no uauy uon t miuu It, so after till, what ditlereuce does it do. If the small boys catching catfish out of the canal think it is smart to display their ignorance of seamanship in those ways, or if the grown up people attempt to show off their nautical knowledge in such silly manners, they can. But if they knew that The Sally had really been to sea in a raging storm and prop erly wrecked and that those aboard ouly saved their lives by a thorough under standing of what is required in such emergencies, the laugh would be on them and not on the captain, first mate and crew of a mule yacht. Two years ago we were spending the winter on The Sally moored alongside one of the great coal docks of Jersey City opposite New York. Our small cabin fas handsomely deco rated by ' my wife and in it we were as cosy and comfortable as possible. The baby was then about ten months old, and in his hammock enjoyed life im mensely. The mules were snugly stabled in the forccas'i after the coal had been takon out and extra planks laid on the floor to prevent their kicking a bloe in the bottom, aud everything looked favorable to all bauds leading a sereno and happy existence aboard till spring. But "Mau proposes and God dis poses," as the saying is. About the middle of January a terrific wiud storm set in, blowing great guus from the northwest aud every day get ting worse. The cold was intense, the mercury going to fifteen aud tweuty degrees be low zero. Forty degrees below in the Western States was hot along side of it, for tho damp, chilling air of the coast eats right into the vitals and freezes the very mar row in the bones. Keepiug warm was out of tho ques tion. If we could keep alive was enough to be thankful for. The ever increasing aud colder grow- "ales b,ud r - week, without' a lull, and the fearfully angry waves in the bay were leaping mountains high and causing destruction and wreck all around. Old sailors who had lived at sea for years said they never saw tho ocean any worse. Ships were dragging their an chors and dashing ashore by dozens and mnuy lives were nightly lost in vain efforts to save the vessels. I had stout and extra lines from our fresh water boat to its dock, but in spito of them our frail and unworthy craft was wrenched and tossed till I began to feel we had no business to risk staying aboard while tho storm lasted. My wife wouldn't listen to our leav ing tbe only homo we had, and vowed if I talked of deserting The Sally again sho would head a mutiny to prevent it. bo both of us, being only Iresh water sail ors and knowing but little of tho force of a salt water storm, scttlod down to remain aboard in spito of tho warnings given us by men ou the dock. It was on tho fifth night of tho awful and almost unprecedented gale and the chilling cold was at its lowest point. By stufiing all the crevices of our little cabin room and keeping tho stove red hot wo made out to be comparatively comfort able. Bnby was sleeping soundlv in the middle of a big feather bed on the floor, and in his warm nest was happily ob livious to tbe tempest and arctic tempera ture outside. By and by without undressing at all and in fact putting on overcoats and wraps wife and I laid down and tried to sleep and forget how tho gale was shriek ing In the black night without and how our boat was creaking and straining and tossing on the rough waters. The wind and the rocking of our craft after a whilo mado us sleepy and soon we were slumbering as soundly as the baby. I was dreaming of shipwrecks and drowning when suddenly I awoke. It seemed as if our boat was pitching harder thah ever and being battered and knocked about frightfully. The noise of the hitting against the wharf and the creaking of ropes I missed. I got on my feet and managed to get to the little window and peer through the frosted glass. The city lights had vanished and noth ing but intense blackness met my gaze. Something was wrong I knew. Mount ing the ladder stairs and opening our little hatchway door I looked out. We had broken loose from tho dock and wcro flying beforo the shrieking galo and the huge waves to almost certain doath. Where we wero what to do I knew not. I quickly, roused my wife and told her of our danger. How brave and how calm she looked, llcr courage made miue. Leaving her to bu ndlo things on tho baby aud preparo for what was to hap pen, I stuck my head outside again Ve try and discover a way to safety if thero was one. We were drifting rapidly across the bay, and so far, luckily, bad not struck an anchored vessel. Behiud us I could see the distant and dissappearing lights of New York City. In front the light-house on Bobbin's Reef, and beyond that the lights on Staton Island. If wo wero not carried out on tho ocean through the Narrows if we dii not collide with a ship or strike the reef, we probably would bring up against some dock ou Staten Island providing our frail and clumsy craft lived to get there. . As soon as we struck anything, I realized too surely that in a moment's time after the crash we must founder aud dio. Our only chance, then, was to be ready to leap, if possible on tho object we should dash agaiust, and trust Provi dence for the rest. The Sally had whirled around, and was rushing stern foremost through the thuuderiug billows, aud I hoped when we struck that end on which we were would hit first. If it didn't, no use leap ing, for wo never could all of us make our way over the icy, slippery two foot wide deck on the bout's sido to iU other end. Fassing a large ship so close that I thought our end had come, barely missing tho light-house reef, we were fast approachiug Staten Island and tho Narrows. For a time it looked certain that we would be swept seaward aud surely per ish then we switched around and went beforo the wind straight for tho islaud docks. Five minutes I calculated and our fato for life or death would be sealed. Getting a rope I placed our darling baby, laughiug aud crowing at tho ex citement, ou its feather bed, rolled tho soft bed entirely around it, trusting if wouldn't smother for awhile, and bound the precious bundle firmly with the rope Taking it iu my arms, biddiug my brave and quiet wife to hold me and follow 1 gained the stern, over the slippery boat's deck. Thank heaven, we wero still stern foremost dashing straight on a dock. One more moment of suspense an(j horrible dread then with a crash thai smashed the boat under us like an egg shell, we hit tho wharf. At the same iust mt, beforo tho wreck could rebound, I flung bed and baby on tho dock, seized my de:tr wife's hand and leaped for lif We landed safely ulongsido our child then down under the raging wators pluuged our good boat, drowning the awful cries of tho poor mules lelt on board. Cutting the ropes to givo air to out babe, blown along by the blasts behind us, we reachod laud an I a house and, soou iuside, found shelter and a warm welcome. We also found The Sally after the storm was over, raised aud mcuded her, aud uow she is as gooi us ever for fresh water sailiug, which she mejus to stick to for the balance of her days. Aud this is why I am provoked when land lubbers try to ridicule her, or her cuptuiu, mute aud ere. C'ic? Sua, WISE WORDS. Character is capital. Loafers aro never happy. Old men are always lonesome. An aimless life is a fruitless life. There is no rest in doing uothing. A covetous man never owns anything. Thoughtlessness is tho curse of the nge. Whenever a man gets mad ho kills himself. All people are "peculiar people" to somebody. No heathen language has any such wora as love in it. We nre nil willing to admit the deprav ity of other folks. A man is very small if you can put all thero is of him into a coflio. A great many giants become very small when you get close to them. A little sinner only needs time and op portunity to become a big one. A hungry poet forgets that ho is hun gry while ho is reading his own poetry . An empty gun that you think is load ed will scare you as badly as one that is. The world is full of Hon fighters, but nearly everybody will run from tho hornet. How easy it is to find people who aro anxious to do good at somebody else's expense. A pig's idea of a parlor probably is that it has a big mud puddle in the cen tre of it. The man who walks straight himself keeps a good many other people from wobbling. - The man who attends strictly to his own busiuess will always have a business to attend to. A great man is always more surprised than anybody else, when he hnds out that he is great. You can tell more about a man's char acter by trading horses with him once than you can by hearing him talk for a year. Jiuluinapolu (Ind.) iiam i Horn A Remarkable Career. Robert Harvey, of England, is quite a remarkable man. One of thirteen chil dren of an assisstant ovorscer of Truro, he started life in an engineering firm nt thirty-five cents a week, and when he came of age was earning $2. A little time after, his firm built somo machinery for South America, and young Harvey took so much interest in its construction that he attracted the attention of the owners, who took him out to superintend tho fittiug-up,under a three-years agreement, nt one hundred aud fifty dollars a month salary. At the end of this term ho picked up his traps and made for Peru, whero be cast about for a job, and got ono at two hundred dollars a month. Then camo the "discovery" of the nitrate fields, and young Harvey showed his spirit by seeking and obtaining the posi tiou of inspector-general of the nitrate fields for the Government of Peru, at a salary of fifteen thousand dollars a year, Then came tho war. Ho was taken pris oner, put on board one of the Chilian ironclads, and condemned to death nc ono knows what for. This did not prove a very great obstacle to Robert, for he anrued the Chilian Government into be lieving him invaluable in tho working of the "fields," and they straightway par doned him and installed him iu his former position, under the new Govern ment, at an increased salary of twenty five thousand dollars a year. Enter Colonel North, sent over by Fowler, of Leeds, to fit up engines. North and Harvey join forces, discover other nitrate fields unknown to tno Peruvians and un captured by the Chilians, start largo ni trate and iodine works, and prosper. It s turn to imzlaud, float tuoir comuamc for the procuring and working, etc., of the Chilian properties, become million aires, and, in Robert Harvey's case, pur chase a sumptuous mansion at Palace Gate, and "Duudridgo,"iu South Devon, become a Justice of the Peace for the County, a Deputy-Lieuteuant for the City of London, aud an aspirauf lor political fame. Robert Harvey, iu all his com mercial transactions, is as "stiaight" as the riveU he handled as a lad. Ha honors all men, fears none, has an ac complished and charmmg wife, unl no children. Yankee Blade. People ou Wheels. It is interesting to observe how the habit of moving about iacreuscs with the facilities for gratifying it. When street railways were first introduced they were intended to accommodate the lim ited number of business men who lived a half mile or mile from tho couutiug rooms and women who lived such dis tance from the retail stores, aud a slow going horse-car was fully equal to tho easy task of draggiug the limited number of persons about. But the insignificant enterprise has grown into proportions that its projectors were not uble to con ceive at the beginning. The horse-car loads alone of New York City carried last year 162,000,000 passengers. This is 30,000,000 moro tbau they carried in the year 1870, when the first elevated railroad was built, so that tho elevated roads which, it was thought, would de stroy the business of tho horse-cars have not had auy such effect. It might be thought that, with 1G3,000,OOU passcu gcrs carried ou the surfaco roads, there would be none lelt for the elevated ways, and their cars would run empty. Aud yet the elevated roads have had all they could do also. They carried last year 201,000,000 pussengers, making a total of 3(53,000,000 for both systems. This is 240 times the population of the me tropolis. So that thero were 210 trips for every inhabitant. The per capita number of trips in 18S0 was 175. At this rate it will be ouly a fow years be fore the city will exhibit the phenomena of a population ou wheels. Sf. Louh Star-Saying. The Mexican orange trade with tht V'uitvd States, is griduully iucreasiug. EXPLOSIVES FOR THE NAVY HOW THE AMMUNITION FOR OUR WABSHIP3 19 PREPARED. bonding the "Tank." lor the Big Ten- Jncli Gun. and tho Kit;lit-Ilich Kiflp.--I,owder In Sack". Insido the damp and eloomy casemates of the old water battery at Fort Wads- worth a forco of experienced men has been kept hard at work tho post few weeks preparing tho ammunition for tho war ships fitting out at tho various navy yards. These men aro skilled in tho handling oi explosives, and the olliccrin charge, Gunner John A. McDonald, has had long experience in this kind of work during the thirty years he has been in the naval service. When a Recorder reporter called upon Mr. McDonald at the fort the officer had just succeeded in getting the last of the Newark's ammunition transferred from the magazine down to the powder light er at tho wharf. At the magazino tho powder tanks or cases and the boxes of shell were loaded on to a truck by a working party of tho blue jackets from tho ship. Arriving at the wharf ths truck was unloaded and the contents passed by part of tho bluo jackets to others on the lighter, where it was carefully stowed below. A navy yard tug was lying at tho wharf ready to tow the lighter and its dangerous cargo up tho bay to where tho Newark was anchored. On entering the fort ono ascends scv eral flights of winding stone steps be tween walls of gray stono and under a stone ceiling. One could almost imagine himself in somo historic fortress or prison built during the mediieval ages. The very air smells of dampness. Tho fort is shaped like the letter O aud tho in side is open aud exposed to the elements. On the outside threo rows of frowning gunports face tho Narrows, whilo the waters of tho bay beat against the base of tho massive walls. Tho place has long been abandoned by tho Boldiers, who aro now quartered iusido tho big fortifications ou the hill above. On what corresponds to tho third floor, ono encounters . long piles of wooden boxes. Theso nro all empty, but wheu received hero from Wilming ton, Del., they contained browu pris matic powder. Hundreds of tons hava been used iu tho past four months. Tho powdor is manufactuarei according to contract with tho Navy Djparlmout by the Du Pont Mills ou tho Delaware. The powder tanks for the ten-inch guns of tho new monitor Miantonoaioh aro cylindrical in shapo, tho sides being of copper and the ends of steel. Tho tank is divided into two sections, each of which contains a quantity of powder. Four of theso sections, or some 230 pounds, are used each time th') gun is fired. Tho projectile! fuel from thn ten-inch guns weigh over 5JJ poumls apiece. For tho eight-inch rifles tho tanks used, of course, aro not so large, and tho weight of tho projectile is 230 pounds. Only a small quantity of this calibre has been prepared at tho fort, tho only ships using them being the Baltimore, Chica go, Atlanta and Boston; in all only twelve guns. Most of the work is for the six inch riles, with which every cruiser of our new navy is armed. Each ship has from one to twclvo of these, nud the quantity of ammunition expended iu target prac tice and that needed by new ships going iuto commission keeps the men nt tho magazine busy tho year round loading shell and weighing out powder. For this calibre tho powder charges nre of two kinds, tho full weight being forty-six pounds, aud what is called tho reduced charge for use at target practice being thirty-three pounds. This powder is put into sacks rea ly for use and in closed in copper cyliuders, which aro then scaled to mnko them water tight. These cylinder nre very easily stowed in a ship's magazines and being fitted with rings at the ends, cau readily bu hoisted to the guudecks when needed. Tho projectilo mado for tho six-inch guns weigh 107 pounds, and is of two kinds. The armor-piercing shell is longer aud sharper poiute 1 than the common or iron kind, and the point is of heavy forged steel. The bursting charge, which is placed inside, weighs several pounds, and is ignited by a timed fuse. Fixed ammunition for the rapid-firing guns is also loaded here occasionally, la this kind the projectile and powder charge aiq fixed together in the form of a cartridge to expo lito tho loading and firing of the guns. Tho projectilt weighs ono, threo or six pounds. The most of tho ammuuition for the Hotchkiss guus iu general use in the navy is furnished uow by tho Hotchkiss Company itself, and is mado in Connecticut. Tho car tridges aro packed in specially designed boxes. Loading blank saluting charges for tho guus of tho secondary batteries of the ships keeps the men busy part of tho time, but this work cau be done on shipboard. Theu the old stylo smooth bore guus, such as are in use on the Lan caster. Pensacola, Kearsurgo aud a few other of tho remaining relies of our "wooden walls," make a demand for au othor form of projectile and sizo of pow der charge. Tho gunner aud his assistants at Fort Wudaworth do not manufacture auy of the powders, forgo auy of tho shells or make auy of the powder tanks uud fuses, but tho work of putting them together keeps thoiu busily employed. Hauilliug powder may bo a dangerous occupation, but great care is exercise 1 thero ami it is not often that un accident of any kiud is reported. JVtifl York llccorder. Tho Japanese practice refined cruelty to delight their palates. They believe that the fish called the dui is most de licious wheu eateu alive. Ail expert Japanese carver can dexterously remove five-fcixth of the edible matter from its bones without touching a vitul part. During this cruel operation the fish is kept ulive by net seaweed, which, being placed over its Jjillt) enables it to breathe. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. The heaviest guns made for the navy are twelve-inch, forty-five-ton breech loaders. For such a small country, Belgium has made great progress in the adoption of electric lights. Illuminated walking sticks are among the latest applications of elcctricy. A small incandescent lamp is concealed in the head. Rigcl, the magnificent star of the first magnitude in the constellation of Orion, has recently been discovered by astrono mers to be ono of the most distant stars in the celestial vault. A new invention is an elastic rubber cushion for the soles of the shoes, tho special object being to give relief to thoso who are compelled to stand all day on wooden or marble floors. The new Italian rifle is a repeater and will penetrate planks five inchos thick at a distance of 4000 feet. A smokeless powder is used with it, thus allowing the soldier to carry greater weight of cartridges. MiBs Annie I. Oppenheim has been awardod the diploma of the British Phrenological Association, honoris causa, in recognition of her studies of tho anat omy of tho brain and her interest in phrenology. A Russiau electrician has invented a process of etching on metal by means of electricity, thereby dispensing with use of acids for this purpose. The ima;o is first transfered to the plate by photo graphic acthods. Tho method of determining specific heats by the use of Joule's law has only been successful iu liquids which were good conductors. A now method has been adopted for such measurement by means of a glass spiral filled with mer cury. An automatic cut-out that replaces a new fuse when one is burnt out is being introduced by a firm of electricians. A rotating drum with tho sevor-wiros on its surface is so arranged as to turn around and insert a new fuse when a burn-out occurs. A maritime laboratory of biology aud zoology will be opened next year at Ber gen, Norway. Situated in a region where tho marine fauna is particularly rich and interesting, it is destined to rendered great service to science. It has been decided to allow tho free use of tho establishment to foreign savants. A new life-belt has been patente 1 in iu Germany. It is in the ordinary form, but is mado from reindeer hair covered with canvas, and is much lighter than the belt of cork. Its weight is only two pounds, while it will support twenty-two pounds of iron in the water. Its buoyancj is not affected by prolonged immersion. A new idea to give an ordinrry room the appearancejof a parquetry border is tc cover tho floor with wall-paper, forming a design representing wood'purquetry. This is afterward varnished and the floor will then so closely resemble inlaid wood that ouly a connoisseur will detect tbe difference. An oriental rug throw in tho ceutcr of tho floor will complete the floor decoration. The magnificent glacial scratches and groovings in tho limestone vat Kellcy's Island, near Sandusky, Ohio, have beog preserved from destruction aud perpetu ally dedicated to the public by tho cor poration owning tho quarry. Theso markings aro unique of their kind, nnd the finest in the world, und their de struction would have been au irreparable loss to geological science. In the neighborhood of Schaffnausen, closo by tho threo rocks know as the "Schwczcrsbild," Dr. Rucsch has dis covered an extensive human settlement belonging to the Stoue Age. It is in a rocky nicho about thirteen metres high and thirty-seven metres long, and is the first of that period which has been dis covered iu Switzerland aud which is not in connection with a cavern. One of the greatest obje:tions to tho wooden flumes commonly used in the mining districts of this country, aud moro lately for irrigation purposes, is the alternate shrinking aud swelling ol tho wood, which causes warping and distortion. To avoid this galvanized iron, the upper edgo of which is stiffed, is being used for flumes. Theso mental flumes aro nearly circular iu section und are usually supported iu c.ist-irou brackoU placed iu timber supports. Dr. Mitcherlieh has invented u stuff made from tho libers of wood. Thin boards, with tho kuots taken out, m-.j treated with a solutiou of sulphuric acid in a hollow boiler. Not ouly the hard matter, which is the cause of tho brittle ncss of wood fibers, is eliminated by this treatment, but the liber itself is chemi cally transformed. It is bleached, and becomes silky as well as strong an I elastic. It is then treated iu the same manner as any other goods,, that is, combined, spun and finally woven into stuffs of exceeding Uueuess and different varieties. Now Mode of ditching Elephants. The Indian mode of catching elephants by driving them iuto iuclosares formed of felled trees iu tho forests seems likely to bo dethiitively abandoned by tho Madras Government iu favor of what is known as tho pit system. Too forest officers are of opinion that if the pits are properly constructed aud duo precautious are tukeu to break tho fall of the- auiui ds tho pitfall method of capture is the less liable of tho two to cuiie injury and uioitality. Salt York Cvnmcrei it Adccr- A New I'ever-Huuso. TfcrpVat couuli ies have been adviso 1 to establish cold greenhouses as hos pitals. This idea has resulted from the remarkable niccess of a Cuban physiciau, who has beeu treating jcllrw fever by keeping the patieuts in artificially coole I rooms. It is proposed that each town iu districts liable to epidemics of this dis ease shall buili a great glass house foi the fu"er victims. Then houses would be artificially cooled, and plants of cold aud temperate regions would bo growr iu them. Trenlvii (.V. J.) American. THE THREE WISHES. Three little girls sat idly on th? bench One like a lily, tall and fair. One brilliant with her raven hair, One eweet and shy of spooch. "I wish for fame," the lily snid; "And I for wealth and courtly life." Then gently spoke the third i "As wife, 1 ask for love Instead." Years passed . Again beside the sea Three women sat with whitening hair, Btill graceful, lovnble and fair, And told their destiny, "Fame is not all," tho lily sighed. "Wealth futile if the heart bo dad." "I have been loved," one sweetly said, "And I am satisfied." i -Sarah K. Bolton, in Iloslon Transcript. RUMOR OF THE DAY. A rousing speech "Get up!" The best thing out An aching tooth. Onions form a largo percentage of too many dinners. The dust has been laid. Its namo i3 mud. Picayune. A man goes to law to gilt justice or to keep it from somo other fellow. The bill-poster knows his place, and there he sticks.- Providence Telegram. Tho American hog is a success. Ho has often beeu "tried." Columbia Pott. All who invest in good deeds will bo cutting coupons in the sweet by nnd by. Only 4 very selfish man or woman can have the blues persistently. St. Louis HqtuUic. Tho wharf builder is a man whs is pretty sure fo be tried by his piers. Lowell Courier. There's pitch in the voice, and that's why somo singer's notes stick. PiUt hunj llitpntch. When thero is work to bo dono tho buzz saw is always willing to tako a hand. Stutetman. Tho nuaronda who tried to swallow itself should havo credit for being a self-contaiued animal. A Boston boy recently defined a wed ding as nothing but a prayer meeting with a sociable after it. Why is buttermilk like something that has never happened. Because it hasu't a curd. 1'cxat Siftinjt. Young people iu tho country aro not so slow. They often make love at a rat tling gate. Statennan. She "The man I marry must be hand some, brave and clever." He "iiow" fortunate wo havo met!" The sluggard who goes to liis aunt and gets nothing is forced to deal with his uncle. PitUburg Dispatch. The watch that is placed -over the peo ple's interest at the polls must not bo a repeater. St. Louie llepublic. It's bad enough to bite off more than you can chew, but it's worse to try to chow it. Detroit Free Press, We should like to see tho man who would make no bones of eating a fresh mackerel. JVt-io York Mercury. "You're a dead loss to yourself" is the latest sarcastic way of telliug a man ho is no good. Philadelphia llecord. Man is a good deal like a fish. You know tho fish would never get in very serious trouble if it kept its mouth shut. Of lo.-e and naught else would lio chatter; He would ofren porsist till near dawn. At lli'xt 'twas -'A tru-t) to this matter!" A troussoau it was later on. Jxtdqe. Sho "Tell mo what difference is there between a ready mado tie and one you tie yourself f" He 'About au hour." Aeio York Neite. "What did you get for your birthday? "A watch-chain." "Whero is it? Let's seo it." "Can't. It's with tho watch." Harvard Limpom. The people shout, the bands all play. And lou lor every minute-, The bass drum has all things its way; . Tue ear drum isn't "in it." l'liilaUfljihia Press. "Did you run for office the other dayl" osked Spriggius of udefei' I candidate. "No," 6uid the candidate, sadly, "I walked. The other fellow rau." Sonur. riUe Journal. "I am of a very sympathetic disposi tion," said N. Peck. "Whcuevcrl tome home ana Hud my wife with a nervous headache I utn sure to catch it.'' Indian nxj'ia Journal. Singleton "I am suffering dre id ful ly; cutting my wisdom te-tit, you Know." Doubleup "Don't say. 1 didul cut miue till after I was married." Kit; VUW Wathintoit. "You ueedu't open your mouth so wide,'' the dentist remarked; "I ishaU titaud outside." And then he was shocked at the back talk's flow that cmiio with tho tootli when the roots "let go." She "Am I not clever, dearf I hive just given the porter tweuty-live ceuts not to light the lamps when we go through tho tunnel.'' lie Yes, dear. But I had already given him half a dollar for tho same thing." HrooUyn Lite. "Do you think you could tell the difference between u kleptomaniac and a shoplifter" "That's t-iy,'' said the would-be floor-walker. "The shoplifter is unable to pay double price for 1 ho goods, if detected." I t li t t nuli Jour nal. A II are Onyx. It is reported that a very rare and valuable green onyx has beeu di-c n'jied in the mines of tho irk Onyx Com pany, situated seventy-live miles from St. Louis, .Mo. A car load of it has just been brought iuto tnat city, iu which is ono slab that measures 3x i feet. Tho only supply of this onyx hitherto has beeu out. lined from a mine iu .Mexico, which was exhausted somo threo years ago, since wheu it has not beeu obtain able in tho ni'iiket. .V ia Orle int Pica Hunt. Travelers have remarked the absence of song birds ou the l'a'-itio coast. An effort is beiug undo to introduce hardy Varieties from Gcruiauy. r
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