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V is generally believed that the Rus sian Government maintains spies all ever tho world who keep it posted about tbs oporntions of tho Nihilists. Iu most of tho countries pf Europe the manufacture of salt and tobacco is cod trolled by tho Government. The Swiss Government no-w proposes to buy up all tho match works of Switzerland and make their rnauufacturo a Governmeut monopoly. ' .... Genoa Is preparing to celebraUs the fourth centenary of tho discovery of America, by an Italian-American Expo sition, tho niiu being to strengthen the friendship nud increase tho business re lations between the native laud of Col umbus and that discovered by him. Now that they are beginning to renlizo the effeofc of outside competition in Eng. land It is amazing, declares tho Aincri. can Dairyman, the number of dairy schools that are springing up iu all direc tions, and most, if not all of them, itiuerant at least for a part of tho year. Dunug the English Protectorate over Egypt irrigation has been extended in almost every direction, thus increasing tho agricultural productions to a won." derful extent. Lust year Egypt raiBcd 400,000,000 pounds of cotton, or nearly one-fourth of tho entiro quautity con sumed iu Great Britain. It is stated that Japan rice is now shipped from Japan via the Canadian Pacific Railroad to Chicago, a distance of 7000 mites, at a.fotal cost of eighty cents per hundred jiuuds, while it would cost, if shipped! via San Francisco, thence by rail,i$1.31 j the cost from Japan to Chicago via. the Canadian route being less tliau from Sau Francisco by rail to to Chicago. me uuicngo Post exclaims: "As tho world moves, and as surely as the sailing vessel replaced the galley, as the swift locomotive took tho placo of the post horse and stage cm-h, as tho trained lightning displaced the courier, so will coal, cumbrous, costly and grimy, give place to some moro perfect, more cthcral essence, evolved from itself, distilled from its liquid essence, or it may be to that kindred invisiblo agent that springs forth spontaneous ami perfect at the touch of the drill." Pasteur, the French scientist, has an eye or wonuertul power. A visitor to his "menagerie," iu Paris, where he has gathered various kinds of animals for experimental use, saw the chemist quell with a glance a fierce Spanish rao9tiff which for bis ferocity had been muzzled and chaiucd. Pasteur had tho bruto brought before him, and looking the an imal straight in tho eye fearlessly took off his muzzle and removed his chain The dog cowered at tho glance, thou fawned upon Pasteur, licked his hand and finally lay submissively bo fore him Among the numerous petty principal ities of Germany is tho Grand Duchy of Saxe-Coburg Gotha. The whole popu lation is less than 200,000, and its very existence would be scarcely known, but ' for the eccentricities of tho Grand Duko who takes pains to let his hostility to the reigning house of Germany be known on au occasions. ne, However, has no children, and his heir upparent is tho Duke of Edinburgh, whoso wife is sister of the Czar of Kusiia, and at heart an iuteuse Russiau, especially in her dis like of everything German. The possi ble complications are interesting as illustrating the iufluence of personal prejudices in the politics of Europe. M. M. Cowley, a pioneer in the North west, who for many years dealt iu furs with the Calispel, tipokano, Cceur d'Al ene, and Columbia River Indians, and is one of the best informed men on all matters pertaiuiug to the tribes iu the Northwest says thut the Indians are dying off rapidly. "Take the Cceur d'Alenes, for iuetuuee," he says. "I was among them for a longtime. They have a magnificent reservation and fine farms aud good houses, but the houses "aro killing them. They cau't stand roofs. When I was located on the Spo kane River, there were immense bands of the Cceur d'Alene, Calispel, Spokaue, and Columbia River Indians about there. . They were engaged steadily in hunting aud trapping all kinds of wild animals. I bought black and si'vergray fox skins of them at $1.50 aud i'-i apiece, 500 martins a year at 10 eacb.fisher, grizzly, black bear, beaver, and other kinds of skins without number. Then the whites bad not eucrouched on them, and they were robust aud healthy. It is a mis take to try aud civilize them. They must be wild or they are nothing. If we keep on civiliziug them, we shall have uo Indians. Apparently this is ' something the Government will not uu-derstaud," When? Well read that book, we'll sing that sang. But when? Oh, when the days are longt When thought, are free and Votoei clear; Borne happy time within the year. The days troop by with noiseless tread. The song unsung, the book unread. We'll see that friend, and make him feel The weight of friendship, true as steel; Some flower of sympathy bestow, Hut time .weeps on with steady flow, Until with qhlck, reproachful tear, We lay our flowers upon his bier. And still we walk the desert sands, And .till with trifle. All our hands, While ever Just beyond our reach, A fairer purpose shows to each, The deed. w. have not done, but willed, Remain to haunt us unfulfilled. Boston Journal. LOVE AND WAR. EAR 8. Judge ago Jesse Phillips, of Hillsboro, 111., was a dashing and successful Union soldier. lie is now a steady-g o i n g and level-head- ed jurist. Judge Jesse was a practicing law- Ter When the war broke cut; that is, he was a lawver. but ho wasn't practicing a grcal deal, for he had not yet convinced the public that be could untangle legal knots equal to the dusty, musty old fellows who haunt- ed his Chosen court-house. But he was a live, energetic young man, and when the first call for ninety-day men came in 1861, Company If, of the Ninth Illinois Infantry, was commanded bv him. ml was as proud of its handsome young cap- tain as he was of his very respectable soldiers. When tho regiment was or ganized a little strifo arose between rival able candidates for the command of major, and while those most favored for that position did not share in the strife or its attendant temper, their respective friends were almost painfully in earnest. Just at the time when the situation was much strained, Captain Phillips got up on a cracker box and made one of the best speeches the assembled soldiers had ever listened to. He advised union, har mony, mutual trust aud unwavering fealty to the Government, and advised against jealousy, bad temper and extra va gart words. Even in a day of much speechmaking it was the perfection of timely oratory, and it won the union and harmony he had so well pleaded. It won more. It gave him the ofiice, atd from that day until the summer of 1863 he wore the rank and honored namo of major. y Two years later, long after tho nin, ty-day men became three-vcars soldiers. Major Phillips was promoted to the rank of Colonel, and one day, while the Ninth with others of the Government troops, lay in Uonnth, Miss., a detail in force was sent accross the line to Florence. Ala., with instructions to destroy some cotton and woollen mills in that city wnicn naa oeen uusy lor a year or two making clothing for the Confederate soldiers. Colonel Phillips was in com mand, and so well did he do the work that, although quite a strong body of Confederates was posted to defend tho town, he won tho fight after au hour of sharp contesting and drovo tho last Johnny Reb out of Florence. Then tho mills were destroyed aud a detachment of Union soldiers held the town nut in that sharp afternoon encounter Billy Neal, a fellow-townsman of Colo ncl Phillips aud a member of his regi menr, was Dadly wounded and went Into the hospitul which was established at Florence, and iuto which the disabled from both armies were admitted. For the good women of the town turned sisters of charity and ministered to all sufferers, regardless of the color of uui- form worn. And one of Billy Neat's nrst visitors, alter Federal con trol was assured, was Colonel phillins. A few days later the Colonel came again and sat by his old friend wliilo the ghastly duty of amputation was per formed, strengthening him with his sympathy and cheering him with the kind words of an old friend. The Union force was soon afterward withdrawn from Florence, but the patients remained in the hospital there. and so strong was tho Colonel's attach ment for his unfortunate frieud that he several times went back to the Alabama town to see him. At length the Con federates camo back and occupied the city, throwing out pickets and holdiug the place with all dua formality.butwith no great lorce and with no inteoticn of making a fight to hold it against superior numbers. And the first time after this reoccupation, occurred when Colonel Phillips announced his intention ot going to see Billy Neal, his brother officers ad vised him to forego the visit. The boy was i'i good hands and doinor well, thev argued. The women of Florence were as attentive to him aud those of the North as to those of the South and it would do no good to go there aud chase the Johnnies out. But he was going. He pulled his slouch hat over his eves aud started for permission to iro scoutiiur with 200 men. He swore quietly as he went about it, and thote who see these signs in Judge Jesse Phillips to this day know be meaos what be says. 1 he .Ninth was mounted infantry at this time, and if the dashing Colonel didn't take 200 of the best riders and the best fightors it was because he didn't know who they were. They went across the Tennessee River aud came dashing up at the town as fiercely as the Assyrians when they came down line a wolf on the fold. The simile ended there, however, for Colonel Phillips and his men took the town beyond a doubt uud spent a day there visitiug comrades in the hospital and renewing such socialties as had been formed during the Yankee occupation of the previous months. Some of the shrewd soldiers noticed that the haudsouie Colonel seemed M heap more interested Iu one bf the yodng women nurses than in poor Hilly Neal, and When they mounted to rido back they felt like chaffing him about it. But you can't chaff Jesso Phillips much, and never could. The Confederates didn't care much about Florence, AU., just then, anyway, so they lot the Fedorals have it, and did not soon rcgarrison the place. AH tho summer and fall of 1803 the Colonel took occasional trips across country, with the ostensible object of seeing Billy Neal, even continuing them long after that young man had got well and gone home. If the army was busy the Colonel was all conlentmont, but when the troops lay around with out employment simply watching, ne would luss tor a day or two and then announced that he was going over to Florence to see Billy. Nothing could break him of the habit, and nothing could satisfy him when he reached the town but a visit to that same kind-hearted girl who had forgotten all North, all South, in the greater problem of suffering men. He didn't talk about her much, but his associates knew he would give up one of his coal-black eyes any day for the privilege of possessing her. And it didn t seem unreasonable to expect he would win her. She received him kindlv. she treated him well: she really appeared to love him. The Confederates had been eraduallv creeping back into Western Alabama. Thev seemed to want tho river and the good towns up there, and Major Falkcn- I hlirrr. Who vm in p.nmmnnd nf thnir fnrrna nt. Tnml,i nt. m thn riF an,i stationed two companies of men in the town, meeting with no sort of opposi- tion. The Union forces were massed at Decatur now, and all through tho fall thn two nnnnsinor fnnpi relaxed Mm nil. of war s little and traded coffee aod tobacco, bread and meat, and luch little things as did not give combative aid or m(n.i tn n anmu n; .i,t Major Falkenburg came up to Colonel Phillips's ears from tho soldiers who talked about tho Johnnies, and there was no evidence wanting that he was a big man. where he was known. One night in October, as a private in tho North Illinois Mounted Infantry was swapping trucK witli a Uonfedcrato, he was informed incidentally that the com mander of the Confedorato forces was going to get married. 'Who is your Major Falkenburg going to marry i demanded the Northerner. 'Oh, a Miss Charity Blank, at Flor ence. She i a regular stunner. No nuther such a woman iu all Alabama," said the admiring Johnny. The information dinted up through tho various grades of loyal blue aud finally fell on the ears of Colonel Phil lips Fires of Tophct I" raved the Colonel, "she shan't marry him," with a rising in- ucction on tue last pronoun, expressive of the unfitness of such a fate for Miss Charity Blank. But what about it? He had nothing to say. He walked around his tout and tried to think of something else; tried to forget this, tried to see some way through it, trie! at last to stop the banns The marriage was announced for Wednesday night at 8 o'clock, and this was Sunday. He fussed around till he got permission to go out with another detail of 200 men, for it was well known the Confederates were again in Florence Tuesday afternoon be started, mado a masterly detour, and just before sun down faced straight for Florence. He struck a patch of canebrake about raid night, for tho march had never been abated for darkness. Here he hid his meu and there they stayed all night, all day Wednesday, aud just at dusk they crept out, six miles from Florence, and pulled for the town, lhe surprise was complete. It still lacked an hour of 8 o'clock, and when the rattle of musketry which told of flying Confederates had died away the Federals were in com. maud They threw out pickets and surrounded a good portion of the residence district, particularly the home of old Judge Blank, where Colonel Philips had often visited. It wasu t as light as a bouse of wedding ought to bo, but the Colonel dismounted aud knocked at the door, Just what he meaut to do nobody knew. Maybi he will tell by now, but, havinz driven away the doughty M-jor, he had little fears he could win the Major's charmer. Judge Blank himself answered the summons at the door. His colored help bad grown too strong to work since the Federals camo down. Ho wasn't very well dressed, and he was a good deal frightened. But the familiar figure of Colonel Phillips reassured him ' by, Colonel," he said, "is It you? Come in. "It is I," said Phillips grimly,going 1C They entered the parlor and sat down The Judge apologized for not appeuring in tuner dress, and alter his apology was accepted conversation nagged a little There was nothing in the rather strained relations of Southern and Northern to make them specially sociable, yet they had frequently met on cordial terms, and did so again this time. But it scon hap pened that theie was nothing; more to talk about, aud then Colonel Phillips re vealed the secret of his preoccupation by asking: "Whero is Miss Charity?" "Charity ?" said the father, a little i ur prised aud a little inclined to vate a twinkle iu his left eye. she's married." culti "Oh, "Married!" shouted tho Colouel, leap ing to his feet. "The dickens!" "To whom are you referring?" asked the old man, sober iu an instaut, but carefully polite. "Oh, to no one certainly not to her. Who married her?" "Rev. Dr. Brown, of the First Bup tist " . "No; I mean to whom was she mar ried P Colonel Phillips was getting very angry. "To Major Falkenburg, of the Con federate Army. They left for Tuscumbia last night right after the wedding." The Federal officer was an extremely a"ry au awfully chariued man, He could have prevented that marriage, but aiMKo UUUU BUUb U1U1 IUO HCWS IUBC IOG ceremony would occur Wednesday night instead of Tuesday. Ho raved around for a timo a really pitiful object, for he did love that little girl, and he knew he was worthy of her, but he could not undo the work of the past day and night, so When the passion of disappointment had exhausted him ho led his men back to camp for all tho world like the King of r ranee, wuowitn Twenty thousand men marched Up the hill, men aown again. The happy Major of Confederate gray baa a hint that 1'hillips would rob him If he could, and so he had announced the wedding for a day later than it was really to occur, and immediately after the ceremony he and his bride rode horseback to the Tennessee River and hailed the ferry man. But Yankee caution had long beforo driven ferry boats from the river, and no one re sponded. There was no bridge then as thero is now, and there was nothing for it but to hunt up and down the bank for a skiff. To add to their trouble the canebrake was so thick and tangled they had to abandon tho horses and creep along me water s edge through the damp and the darlc till way past midnight bo fore their search was rewarded. When they finally found a skiff and got across the river not a man in Tuscumbia would receive so dilapidated-looking a couple. and it was broad day before they could get either food or lodging. But they were married and are yet, gotting gray and 1st together in a pleasant Southern city, resigned to everything in life, even to the final vanquishment of Major Falkenburg and his brave legion Colonel .Phillips and his men returned to camp and two days later, while the oln cers were basking in Sue sun, a flag of truce approacued the picket lines. Major Clements was Provost Marshal of the rc8ion the timo aQ(i ho went out to some sort of I ,ueB' lu, raesseSer I Peac0, IIe 'ound it was a hireling of Major Falkenburg, bearing a great bas ket with about two bushels of wedding cake which Mrs. Charity had baked with her own hands and sent him het parting shot in the campaign. The messenger was recived with all courtesy, was entertained as became a belligerent in the time of temporary cessation ol hostilities and was given safe conduct out side the lines when formalities had been- complied with. Then Colonel Phillips, making the best ot a bad matter, shared his cake with his command and was bet ter liked than ever. That was a long time ago. Tho fot of Confederate majors came home in due season, bonorod by service and sancti fled by wounds, and after some years ol piticnt, horest work won a high place at the bar, which ho has never siuct dimmed by any act unmanly. Yean ago he married bis choice of all women and lives with her yet, laughing witb her now and then when some old com rade chaffs him about his raid into Flor ence or his bushels of wedding cake Chicago Herald. Early Marriages of Royalty. A glance at the pages of history re veals the fact that early marriages have long been the fashion among earth's royal personages. Here are a few in stances Queen Victoria was married when she was scarcely twonty-one. and the Prince of Walos espoused Princess Alexandra beforo he was twenty-two. The Emperor of Austria took to wife tho radiant Elizabeth of Bavaria when he was not yet twenty-four years old. The present Czar of Russia was twenty-ono when he gave his hand to Princess Dag mar of Denmark (who was two years his juuior;. Jiang iiuruocri or Italy was twenty-four at the time of his marriago to the fair Marguerite of Savoyfthen a girl of only seventeen). The present King aud Queen of the Belgians were one eighteen and the other seventeen at the time of their wedding. And tho late Kinsr ol Spain, Alphonso XII., was very little older when he fornoed bis brief, bright union with his charming cousin. Mer cedes. He was only twentv-two when he married bis second wife, the present Queen regent. And it was at the same age that the preseut Emperior of Ger many was united to Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Augustenburg. The unfortunate Prince Rudolph of Austria was twenty-two at the date of his ill- starred union to Princess Stepbanio of Belgium. Chicago Post. An Example of Scientific Serenitr. Dr. Itichet, the famous physician who died quite recently at Paris, gave iluring 1. n .1: . . mo buuinn iuo uiseasu wnicn carrieu him away au example of scientific seren ity, the equivalent of which can be found only iu the biographies of ancient philosophers. Duriug the few days of his pulmonary congestion Dr. Richet was constantly atteuded by his son, a professor of physiology at the Paris faculty, and by another doctor, a friend of bi3. He did not cease making to his companions a lecture on the evolution of the disease from which he was suffering. Ho kept describing and analyzing tho symptoms, aud predicting the course of the disease and its possible complica tions. At every new step of the inva sion of the organs Dr. Richet deQued it with great precision. On tho last dty, when he bad hardly any vitality left, ho told tbem: "When tho phenomenon which you have just ascertained has oc curred, every chance is lost, aud death is only a question of seconds. Iu fact, you see, 1 am goin to die. I am flying." These were his lost words. Boston Transcript. llix California Dams. Some of the biggest dams in tho world aie in California. Vhe Merced dam is sixty feet high, with a capacity of 5,500,000,000 gallons, spread over 650 acres. 'lhe sweet water dam, near Sau Diego, is ninety feet high, aud has a capacity of 6,000,000,000 gallons, cov ering 725 acres, and the Bear Valley dam is sixty feet high, with a ca-iacity of 10,000,000,000 gallons, coveriii" L 2250 acres. New York Commercial Ad vertiser. WITH A SPONGING VESSEL. HOW N IMPORTANT FLORIDA IN DUSTRY IS CONDUCTED. The Meu Work in Palrn, a "Hooker" and a "Sculler" Groat Ocxterity and Knduranoe Required. yc CTIVE life on a sponging ves sel begins About 3 A. M. in lino weather, all hands being then called by the cook to prepare lor the laoor ot the day. After the men have dressed and washed, coffee is served to them, and when that is disposed of they turn their attention to mending any cars, polos or boats that may need re pairing. Breakfast is served about dawn, and finished before it is light enough to begin the work of the day. In summer the men are often in their boats at 4:30 A. M., and searching for sponges as soon as they have light enough to distinguish one species from another. Two men work in each boat, and while one sails it tho "hooker" lies on his chest near tho bow and closely scans the depths below through his water glass. This apparatus consists of an ordinary wooden pail with a piece of glass in the bottom. It is kept as deeply buried in the water as tho "hooker" can keep it with one hand without putting its rim under. The sea being usually clear tho man can descry sponges fifty feet below him, and, if ho is experienced, can distin guish the various species at a glance, each having somo peculiarity of eye or form to mark it from its congeners. On noticing a valuable sponge the "hooker" signals or calls to the "sculler" to stop the boat, then takes hold of tho long iron-pronged polo which lies iu "chocks" besido him, lifts it over his shoulder with the right hand and sinks it to where the marine growth ho desires is fastened. If the prongs got under the sponge tho "hooker" gives his wrist a peculiar inward and upward turn which may loosen the bunch immediately, or ho may have to work nt it a long time be fore bringing it to the surface. The poles used for gathering sponges vary from eighteen to forty-fcur feet in length, and while pliable and well balanced are difficult to handle iu tide ways and deep water. They aro gener ally placed iu "chocks," lengthwise the boat, about five feet of them bein in front of the "hookers." These men must, therefore, lift the remainder over their shoulders by moin strength, raise tho further end almost perpendicularly iu the air, tnd send the hooked end down to the sponges as promptly and directly as luey can. W hen a sponge is torn from its home and friends it is placed in its natural po sition in the boat to allow tho blackish fluid culled "gurry" to flow away, and to prevent tho bunch from being injured in euape and texture, for shape bas much to do with its sale, tho roundest ant; most even bringing tho hiuhcrt price Spongers usually work with the tides and take every advantage they can of cur rents and shoals. As soon as a boat is loaded, the scul ler lifts an oar as a signal to bis vessel to come up. The cook, who has chargo oi tno vessel while tho crew aro at work. promptly responds to the signal, and ou coming up to tho boat receives its load aboard, each bunch being carefully placed upwards along the rawing. lhe cook is kept busy aboard tho ves-scl, for he must not ont only prepare the meals and arrango tho sponges on deck, but he must also sail his craft iu such a manner that he will bo able to keep in sight of nil his crews, which may number from two to nine, nud respond promptly to their siguals of "boat full; lake us aboard. About 12 o'clock the chef sails his craft as closely as he can to the center of the widely scattered boat crews aud blows a long, loud and mellow blast on a punctured couch shell to announce that dinner is ready. This melodious call is answered by an immediate cessation of work, and within fifteen minutes every boat's crew is aboard. Alter washing themselves carefully, they sit down toau appetizing meal. The hbor of tho after noon is similar to that of the morning, and is comprised iu sculling, "hooking," or in vain efforts to find marketable sponges. lhe "sculler" only uses ono hand nt a time and can rest that at intervals, but the "hooker" can have do change except fo transform ono form of arduous labor from his chest to his arm, uud as that is done by the same set of muscles he is often so weary at tho close of the day that he can neither sleep, eat nor think calmly about uuy matter. The constant leaning with his chest on thegunwulo of the boat while searching for sponges through the water-glass produces blood boils," which often burst while ha is tugging at a refractory bunch, and tho steady use of bis right hand in handling a heavy pole causes tho veins ou his bi ceps and neck to swell and become so sore thut he cannot bear to be touched. Some become so inure J to the labor af ter a while that it does not cause them any great inconvenience for a few years, but the majority have to finally relinquish it for souiethiug less arduous. Even tho "scullers," whose lot is sun- posed to be an easy one, aro not as happy as one would imagine, for their constant standiug iu the hot sun. aud the using of their arms "ive them severe headaches and necks aud faces that re semble boiled lobsters in hue. The spongers work as long us it is light enough to enable them to see tho growths ou the bottom, then return to tho vessel. The vessels engaged iu spougo gathering in Florida work over three separate loug stretches close to tho western und southern coasts of the State. The most northern grounds cxtcud from Cedar Key to Apaluchoo Bay; the second from Cedar Keys to Anclote, and the third from Biscuyuu Uiy to Key West. The best grounds ruugu from five to fifteeu miles from the mainland, and have a depth of water varying from two to seven fathoms. This proximity of the grounds to harbors of refuge uiukes (ponging comparatively safe, even in the tloiuiiubt weather. Detroit Free PrcoS, SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Parsley is poisonous to many kinds ot birds. There are 365 electric roads in this country. Cr.ly nine per cent, of all operations iu amputations are fatal. Conch shells, when ground, enter into the manufacture of porcelain. Electricity is to be applied to tho flour milling interests in St. Paul, Minn. Ammonia as a motive power is coming into use on various street car lines. France's latest torpedo boat made twenty-three knots and a half iu a bud sea. Good peat in Germany furnishes a col lulose which is valuable to paper makers. The phonograph is now used iu hospi tals for the purpose of studying the auditory characteristics of pulmonary dis ease. The Liverpool (England) Elevated Railway will be worked by electricity, using motor cars instead of scparute locomotives. An Antwerp (Belgium) inventor has patented a system of ventilation by com pressed air, for use in the holds and cabins of vessels. A recent English Invention is a screw propeller in which tho blades can bo ad justed fcr maneuvering or can be feathered for running under sail. Four tons of grapes to tho acre aro said to take from the soil thrco pounds of nitrogen, twelve pounds of phos phoric acid and forty pounds of potash. In calming the oceau by means of oil, it has been found that petroleum and mineral oils in general are indequate for tho purpose, aud that train oil is the most effective. The heaviest freight locomotives built nowadays weigh 115,000 pounds and their tenders loaded weigh 61,000 pounds. Passongcr coaches weigh 50, 000 pounds and the palatial Pullmans run up to 95,000. Dr. Valentini, of Konigsberg, Prussia, who bas met with phenomenal success in the treatment of typhoid fever, gives his patients all the water, milk, etc., they can driuk. He says the fluids eliminate the poisons in the system. The first ingot of nickle steel to be used for the manufacture of armor for the United States Navy was cast iu a mold weighing fifty-six tons. Tho ingot weighed 60,000 pounds. This armor plate will be used on tho Maine. A snake movos by meaus of the ribs and the scales on tho abdomen, to which each rib is attached by a set of short muscles. These scales tuke hold of the surfaco over which the serpent may bo passiug, and in that manner aid tho creature to glide, often very rapidly, around tho trunks of trees aud along the smaller branches. Machinery Is now made for the manu facture of all kinds of casks and tubs, so that no handwork is required. Flour barrels are mado in this way for six cents each, and other kinds in proportion. If butter firkins sell for forty cents each, it seems as if the business of making tbem, where lumber is cheap, might bu profitable, if the cost ot shir meut wus paid by the purchaser. A Norwegian farmer has invented a curious lock in which the bolt is released by a stroke from a pendulum bob. Tho pendulum, invisible1 from the outside, is moved sufficiently by blowing sharply levcral times through a hole iu the door, but the puffs of air can be given at the proper time only by swinging a key pen dulum, previously adjusted, tovibrata ill unison with the lock pendulum. Air plows, V-shaped contrivances, to be placed ou the front of engines of fast express trains, are the latest schemo to get more speed by overcoming much of the natural resistance of the air to the front of the locomotive. Tho plow ex tends from a few inches above tho track to the top of tho smokestack, the sharp ld;:c, of course, in front. "Shoveling fog" is a common expression among rail road men, but piowiug wind is a new thing in railroad agriculture. Saved Prom Suicide by His Do;. An intelligent pet dog owned bv Louis Schmidt, of Camdein, N. J., has prevented hiin from committing suicide. Bchmidtis just recovering from a serious attack ot typhoid fever, which left him very nervous and subject to liU of mel ancholia. He was seized with one of those spells Monday night, and wliilo his wife was asleep stole to the kitchen. Hero he procured a rope, and, making a noose, tied one end to au iron hook iu the wall. Then procuring a chair he adjusted the rope, uud kicking aivav the chair swung himself off, us he thought, into into eternity. But, unknown to Schmidt, his faithful dog had followed him, aud instinctively knowing some thing was wrong the intelligent animal went buck iuto the beJrooiu whining pitifully. Finally he awoke Mrs. Schmidt by tugging at tho bed clothing uud rub bing his cold noso in her face, and she followed the dog down stairs us soon us she missed her hubhuud. There she found hiin hanging lrom tho hook. She mauuged to cut him dowu iu t into to save his life. PhiludcJphiu Times. An Epidemic of Heliotrope. We are about undergoing an ppi- demic of heliotrope and the grceu tints; we mo goiug to have it bad. lhe trouble will run its full course; it will be something like tho yullery greenery craze that struck us along with Oscur and his loug locks some ten years ago, and is directly traecubleto the prevalence of the teveutecuth century styles iu decoration, aud we aro sorry for it, for tbou delicate colors which looked well aud were charming uguiust the fresh painted faces of tho court beauties of Louis XVI and the powdered wigs uud silken attire, white storkiugs aud laces, would show to horrible disadv iiitugo uguiust our modern dress and huue.-t complexions. The Upholsterer, GOLD IN THE STAR3. fA meteorite recently found contAlned gold in its composition. Several scientiflo men of considerable note ronsidor this aa. proof positive that there is gold in. the stars, j Ho, poor folks all over the earth I - Have you heard it, tho beautiful news, ' To relieve you from poverty', dearth. And to save you from poverty's blues? A metoor fell in the West That was striped with auriferous bars, And scientists therefore have guessed That there's plenty of gold in the stars. Then away with all hunger and woe. And away with all sorrow aud want. Let your spirit exultingly flow While you join in the glorious eh.mnt. Ob, why bo with sorrow oppressed? There is gold in Arcturus and Mara, In the Dipper, the Twins and the resk There is plenty of gold in the stars I O, ye toilers with sensitive souls, Who are chained to a tedious grind. Now the burden away from you rolls And is left in the distance behind. Cast the shackles that bound you away And forget the disfigured soars ' You oan soar as you will from to-day, There is plenty of gold in the stars. Ob, ye slaves to the rigors of fate, Who live but to struggle for bron 1, ' -. Whose love has been curdled to hate Till ye sigh for tho peace of the dead; Bid good-by to the era of wrong. Bid good-by to the pitiless bars Behind which ye have struggled so long, There is plenty ot gold iu the stars. Let us hear of injustice no more. Nor of riot surrounded by dearth; God is merciful now as of yore, And has never forgotten the earth. Ye who grovel in poverty's ditch, Look to Jupiter, Venus and Mars; They are nearer by far than the rich, , And there's plenty of gold in the stnrsf v George Horton, in Chicago Herald. HUMOR OF THE DAY. Jlalf a loaf is better than a railroad sandwich. Timo works wonders. That is becauss ho never docs any loatiug. Truth. . Man wants but littlo hero below, and as a general thiug he's getting it. Biug hamton Leader. II is considered by many pcoplo ex tremely forward for a young man to send a girl a valentine in leap year. When the tired mother asks her hus baud to tako the baby ho is apt to an swer, "I don't mind.'" Union County Standard. Police Captain "Did you catch that murderer last night?" Detective "No, but I dreamed I had a clew." New York Weekly. Tho writer who taxed his ingenuity never know what a low valuation the editor would put upon tho property assessed. Truth. Bjcnkins "Isn't Bjones a very liberal man?" Bjohnson "Yes; I don't know how many times I havo heard him give himself away. .Lowell Citizen. Jack Bpratt took anti-fat, Mi. wif. toolc nnti-lean, And so betwixt them both They struck a happy inoau. Detroit Free iYess, Nothing Like a Chnngc: She "Since my return from the south of Franco I'm another woman." Sarcastic Friend "How delighted your husband must bo." Fun. Bilious "I sleep in feathers, but I be lieve it's not healthful." Toffnut "What's thut; look at your spring chicken see how tough ho is." New York Humid. Everybody knows a woman is hard to please. She likes tho mav.irr.onial haruess, but doesn't liko to be hitched up with a man who is strapped. Ring hamtou Republican. Gavo It Up and Guessed It: "What does a volcuuo do with lava?" asked Freddy. "Givo it up," replied his father. "That's right," said Freddy. Harper's Young People. Tiio proposed fast mail trains from New York to Chicago will have ono serious drawback. They will land the London comic papers here several hours earlier. Chicago Times. Cora "Why do you think Attorney Jimpsnu is destined to become a Supreme Judge'!" Dora "llo says ho has du- . cided I nm tho prettiest girl ho over saw." New York Herald. Teacher of Physiology "What in grcdieut which is highly essential iu the composition of the human bo.iy does sugur possess?" Pupils (iu ono voice) "Sand." Pharmaceutical Era. Haughty Lady (who lias purchased a stamp) "Must 1 put it on myseli?" Stamp Clerk "Not necessarily, it will probably accomplish inoro if you put it on tho letter." New York Herald. "Sir, you have iusulted ine. I here by challenge you to a duel with pistols. My name is Hare." "Indeed! Then you'll havo to wait till I have procured a shooting license." Kolner Tageblatt. Passenger (iu a ruilway car) "Can't you make room there? All tho other seats are full." Twoseuts "Go along; cau't you see that I am sick?" Passen ger "What's the matter; trichinosis?" New York Sim. Serious Artist "I think you kuew the model for this figure poor beggar, deaf aud dumb." Light-hearted Kiieud "I know used to sit at corner of street. Deaf aud dumb I By Jove, you'vo luado u 'speaking' likeuess of biiu! Wonder ful!" Punch. Johuny "Where are you going?" Tommy "Home. D m't you hear maw a calliu' nie?" "That's notliin'. She called you two or three times before." "Yes, but she's out at the peach treo now t-iit t in oil hu ultimatum." ludiaua polis Journal. "Theio go tho Spicer Wilcoxes, niuiniim! I'm told they're trying to kuow us. Hain't wo better calif" "Cer tainly not, dear. If they're dying to know us, they're not worth knowing. The only people worth our knowing are the pe,iilu who dou't wuut to kuow u!" l'uuch.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers