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Many Georgia farmers ar dropping
the culture of cottcu for that of tobacco.
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.