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An English paper says that "shortened
honeymoons appears to be in vogue."
A writer in Orchard and Garden say
that "the apples from the Blue Ridge
region from Virginia to Georgia will
lend the whole United States in respect
to fine quality."
Ninty-fivo per cent, of all the money
transactions in the associated banks of
New York are accomplished by means of
checks and drafts, leaving five per cent,
of the total business to be represented by
coin or paper money.
This tot ought to live long and pros'
per, exclaims Once A Week. At the age
of two years Charles Lee Burdon, of Pro
Tidoncc, fell into a cistern and floated
around in seven feet of water until his
grandfather hrtidod him a polo, to which
he "caughm."
Perhaps, muses the New York Com
mcrcjijfi Advertiser, science will somo
dayHcach us bow to use petroleum in
r , -
itary Operations, when we will hove
agency by which our harbors may be
n verted into Infernos to consume the
navies of the world.
Thero are just 1157 millionaires in
New York City, according to the Tri
bune's final reckoning. The Vaudcr
bilts couut six, the Goulds four, tho
Astors three, the Gocluts four, and tho
Rhinelundcrs five, while the otnniproscnt
Smith family lead all the rest with
eight.
"Tho Bering Sea offers less attractions
to Canadiuu poachers this year than
last," argues the Sun Francisco Chroni
cle. "Very few of them feel inclined
to take any risks, so wo may safely con
cludo that the close season under exist
ing arrangements will prove a complete
success."
A company has been incorporated. in
New Jersey for tho manufacture of
membranoid, a fancy leather made from
tripe nothing else than tanned tripe.
The patcnt-ollice authorities insisted
that tripe was tripe, no matter through
what chemical process it might have
been put, and some timo elapsed and
there was much parleying boforo a com
promise was affected on tho namo of the
product dow called membranoid. This
new species of leather is said to be pretty
and durable.
Mies Angelina Brooks, who is arecog
nized authority on all questions of kin
dergarten methods, has recently devoted
her time to a careful investigation of the
curbstouo children in this city, says tho
New Yotk Commercial Advertiser. She
has ascertained that there are 140,000
boys aud girls between the agos of four
and six who spend their lives in the
streets and never once see tho inside of a
school. Sho is trying to enlist sympathy
for these unfortunate waifs which will
ultimately lead to 'the establishment for
them of free kindergarten school.
It is asserted that after this year the
United States will not only bo able to
stop importing fruit, but will begin to
be a factor iu supplying the markets of
the world. The estimate is that New
York will have 20,000,000 pounds of
fruit from California alone this summer.
.Fast fruit trains now cross the continent
in seven days, and enable the growers to
harvest a riper product than hcretotore.
Aiizona and Oregon aro coming to the
frout as fruit states; Mississippi is getting
famous for tomatoes, and Florida oranges
and Georgia peaches aro always sure of a
ready market. The outlook has never
been so promising.
Frank Leslie's Weekly states that the
State of Pennsylvania shows the largest
percentage of forcigu born adult males
who are aliens, the percentage in that
State being 35.13 of the total number,
representing 139,523 persons. In the
Btate of New York, 103,C11 foreign
born adult males, or 23.13 per cent., are
aliens, and iu New Jersey, 41,877 or
28.87 per ceut. aro aliens. New York
shows tho greatest number of naturalized
foreign-born adult malcj, there being iu
that State 418,31)2, or 60.74 percent,
of the total number of foreigu-bora adult
mules returned. The city of New York
shows the largest percentage of foreign
born of the total population, tho foreign
element. iu that city representing 42.23
per cent, of the total . population hi
against 39. 68 per cent, iu 1830. Bulla
lo shows 35.00 per cent, of foreign -born
as against 33.05 per ceut. in lbi).
Brooklyn shows 32.4'J per ceut., uu in
crease from 31.36 pur cent, iu 1S80.
Long Isluud City has a forcigu-boru
population of 36.67 per cent., while iu
1880 the foreign-boru element iu that
city was 31.27 per ceut. of the total
population; sixteen places show a great
er per cent, of foreign -born population
in 1880 than is shown iu the State as a
whole, while in 1880 niueteeu places
were reported as having a larger percent
age of foreign-born population thau v;s
reported in the Sutu as whole.
tnjrf
A SUMMER'S DAY.
Black bees on the clover-heads drowsily
clinging.
Where tall, feathered grasses amHbntter
cups sway j
And all through the fields a whitolsprinkle,
of daisies
Open-eyed at the setting of day. :
Oh, the heaps of sweet roses, sweetcinna
mon roses, '
In great crimson thfekots thatcover the
wall!
And flocks of bright butterfllesfgiddy to see
them,
And a sunny blue sky overall.
Trailing boughs of the elms ' drooping over
the hedges.
Where spiders their glimmering laces
have spun;
And breer.es that bend the! light top of th
willows
And down through the meadow grass
run.
Silver-brown little birds sitting close in the
branches.
And yellow wings flashing from hillock to
tree,
And wide-wheeling swallows that dip to the
marshes.
And bobolinks crazy with glee.
So crazy, they soar through tho glow of the
sunset
And warble their merriest notes as they
fly.
Nor heed how the moths hover low in the
hollows,
And the dow gathers soft in the sky.
Then a round beaming moon o'er tho blos
somed hill coming, .
Making paler the fields and the shadows
more deep;
And through the wide meadows a mur
murous humming
Of Insects too happy to sleep.
Enchanted I sit on the bank by the willow
And trill the last snatch of a rollicking
tune ,
And since all this loveliness cannot be
Heaven,
I know In my heart it is June.
Mrs. A. O.Woolson, in Boston Transcript.
LOVE AND LUCK.
BY I1ELEN FORREST CRAVES.
" Undor a spreading chestnut tree.
The village smithy stands "
RETTY little
Elma ' .Elwood
was whispering
the words softly
to herself as she
leaned both el
bows on the win-
i dow-sill, and gazed
ing landscape.
" Are you ready
for breakfast, Miss
Elwood 1" primly demanded Mrs.
Perkins, the governess, as she
manciurcd her nails at the marblo wash
basin. "No. Come here, Perky," said the
audacious girl, "and I'll show you tho
corner of that picturesque old black
smith's shop I told you of the one I'm
going to sketch this afternoon."
"It's past eight, Miss Elwood, aud you
know jour grandfather attaches great
importance to punctuality," begau tho
governess.
"Right there, over- the' top of those
mountain pines, Perky," composedly
continued Elmo, extending her slim
forefinger in a due northerly direction
along the valley of tho river, "you can
just see the odd little three-cornered ga
ble peeping out through the trees "
"And -there's tho bell, now," ex
claimed Mrs. Perkins, with a little ner
vous start.
"And the smith, a mighty man is he."
Hummed Elma, beginning to tie back nor
curls with a fillet of blue ribbon. "But
not nearly so handsome as that young ap
prentice of his, who fixjd tho crooked
nail in Swallow's shoe, yesterday. I won
der if I could sketch the place? To bo
sure, I have bad only seven lessons, but
one must try one's wings sometimes, you
kuow."j
Mrs. Perkins straightened Emma's
sash, gave her curls several twitches this
way aud that, and dragged her into the
breaklast-roora just in time to avert tbe
usual morning lecture from old Major
Elmwood on the evils of late risiug.
But that afternoon, iu the purple soft
ness of twilight, Elma managed to evudo
her pruciso guardian, and slip otl into
the woods with her sketch-book.
And she was sitting on a moss cush
ioned rock, working with all her might,
when Louis Dulzell strode toward the
spring 'or a pail of water.
The sleeves of his red flannel blouse
were rolled high up ou the forearm.
He still wore his staiucd leathern apron,
and his short, chestnut curls plainly re
vealed themselves through the rifts in
his tattered straw hat.
Had he but known it, he never had
looked better in his life; yet a deep flush
of mortification rose to his brow as he
encountered the pretty twelvo yeuc old
damsel in white, with the shady, rose
garlanded hat, aud the soft Romuu susu
tied loosely arouud her waist.
"Good afternoon !"fuid Emma, calmly.
"Please step a little to one side, Louis,
if that is your name. I'm trying to
sketch the smithy."
Dulzell ventured to glance over I.ji
shoulder.
"It's beautiful," said he. "You can
almost see the wind blowing that sweet
biitr bush !"
"Yes," complaceutly observed tho ar
tist, "I think it is rather good."
"Aud the little dog sitting by the
door it just exactly as uuturui as life!"
be added. i
Ella frowned.
"The little dog, at you call it," said
she, "is the stump of the old tree.
Don't stuud quite so close, please! I
can't move my elbow."
Dalzell colored. He took up hi) pail
and moved ou.
"I'm always saying tbe wrong thing,"
aid he, in a sort of despcratiou.
Eluia hoie,d she hud not oiluuded tUe
young man. Sho rather liked him, al
though it was awarkward for him to mis
tnko tho butternut stump for a little dog,
and sho made up her mind to say some
thing pleasant to him when ho carao
back to the spring.
But he did not come back at all. Evi
dontly there was some other way between
the smithy and the little brook.
At six o'clock, according to compact,
Mrs. Perkins came for the artist to es
cort her home.
"And you've been nil this time doing
that little bit of work?" said Mrs. Per
kins. "Oh, I haven't worked all tho time,
Perky 1" impatiently spoke the girl.
"Besides, one can't hurry art."
As they strolled slowly down the shady
road, Elma suddenly stooped and picked
up something.
"What's that?" said the governes?,
lifting her crisp flounces out of the dust.
"A horseshoe an old, common horse
shoe. Put that down at once, Mist El
wood I"
"Wait for a moment, Perky I" cried
the girl, rushing away through the
bushes. "I'vo forgotten something."
Half a minute later, she was down in
front of the closed smithy, balancing
herself on tho identical butternut-wood
stump.
With a round stono for a hammer, she
drove in a rusty nail, and hung the thin
old horseshoe over the door.
"There's good luck for Louis Dal
zell 1" she cried, as Bhe sprang lightly
backward.
"Take carol" said a voice behind her.
And then sho became aware that D.il
zcll himself had emerged from tho bow
ery shadow of the trees, and that sho
had nearly knocked him over.
"Is that for me?" ho said. "Oh,
thanks!"
And placing both hands lightly on her
shouldors, he kissed her, driven by somo
sudden impulse for which ho himself
could scircely account.
Elma Elwood turned scarlet all over;
sho rubbed her checks to efface all ves
tige of the offense, aud stamped her kid
shod foot in tbe sand with futile passion.
"How dare you?" she cried. "How
date you?"
And Iiko a flying nymph sho vanished
into tho dense shadow of tho woods,
leaving the youug man transfixed with
surprise.
"Wby does she make such a fuss?" ho
asked himself. "She's only a. child
but good fate I what a beautiful child I"
Ho reached up aud took dowu tho
the thin, old horse shoo and put it in his
pocket. Ho and the picturesque, loug
bearded old blacksmith had quarrelled
that day, aud he meant to leave Wyudalo
with the break of tho morrow's dawn.
"I'll take my luck with me," ho said
to himself. "God bless the child for
thinking of me!"
Just a year afterward old Major El
wood died, leaving his affairs hopelcisly
entangled; and when the lawyers had
squabbled long enough over tho busi
ness, it was formally announced that
there was nothing left for the child to
to live on.
"What am I to do. Perky?" said
Elma, with big, blue eyes of apprehen
sion and dumay.
And good Mrs. Perkins, who had suc
ceeded in obtaining a situation as Eng
lish teacher in a boarding-school, bar
gained to forego a part of her own salary
lor the sake of having Elma'i education
go on at Watlcy Hall.
"A teacher's life isn't all roses," said
she, "hut I can't bear tbe idea of hav
ing tho poor, little dear bound out to a
trade or stood up bchiud a counter.
And, really, her voice might be inado
something of."
All these things happened years ago,
and Denveras was not tbe big city
it is now when Mrs. Perkins and her
adopted daughter decided to cast their
lots iu the shadow of the Black Hills.
"Music is overdone in tbe Eastern
States," said the good, cx-governess .
"But I think we'll make a try for it
here, Elma, dear. I'm told that if we
can iuterest that rich iron man that lives
in tho castellated mansion out beyond.
Plaza River, his influence cau do every
thing for us ."
"Really!" Elma's dimples dauccd
roguishly. "What a very curious sort
of a person an Iron man must be ! I'm
very curious to see him, Perky, do you
kuow?"
"Nonsense, ray dear!" cried Mrs. Per
kins. "You know what I mean per
fectly well. He's made his fortune iu
the iron busiuess railways, aud that
sort of thing. And I'm going to call
there this very aftcruoon, to bespeak his
recommendations aud good offices."
"Oh, Perky, must I go?"
"Of course you must go, child!"
Elma Elmwood sat trembling iu the
great entrance hull of the Moresque
mansion, on the south shore of the Plaza
River.
The sunshine glimmered on tho floor
of rose and white marble; giaut myrtles
and blossoming lemon trees filled tho
angle', and a low easy-chair ou a tiger
skin by the door, was drifted over with
newspapers. Presently Mrs. Perkius
came smiling back.
"lie will be with us presently," said
she. "Really, my dear, he's quite a
young man not at all the bald-pate I
railroad king I expected to see. And he
is most kind aud gracious, and has
promised to recommend us everywhere."
Tbe door opened aud the irou tuuti cu
tered, followed by two or three magnif
icent houuua. Elma sprung up with a
cry.
"Why," she exclaimed, "It's Louis
It's Louis Dalzell!"
He held out both his hands.
"I can't have changed so very much
theu?" said he."
At the same instant Elm i's eyes caught
sight of a slrauge object above the
arched doorway a gold-plated horse
shoe, woru thin at the cuds, with here
and thero a bent uail iu its curve. L mis's
glauce followed her own.
"Yes," said he. "it's tho very horso
tlioe. It has done its task, Miss El
wood it has brought me luck ! Miss
Perkins," he added, turning to the elder
laly, "1 shall expect you aud ou
young friend to remain here as my
guests for tho present. I have a large
house, and I am a lonely man."
"Oh!" said Miss Perkins, her eyes bo
coming larger than the lenses of her
spectacle glasses. "You're not married
then'"
"No," said Mr. Dalzell. "Beforo I
left the East, I fell in love. I shall
never marry until I can many that first
love of mine."
He looked Elma full in the eyes as he
spoko. She colored. Her long lashes
drooped.
At the end of the month Mrs. Per
kins aroused herself to the exigencies of
the case.
"All this is like life in fairyland, dear
Elma," said she. "But it isn't business.
I see by tho papers that several music
teachers have recently arrived from the
East, and if we aro to get to work"
"But," said Elma, patting the dear
old wrinkled hand, "I don't really see
any particular reason for our getting to
work."
"Eh?" gasped Mm. Perkins.
"You sec," went on Elma, "Mr. Dal
zell is engaged to that first love of his.
He has given me back the horseshoe, aud
as I couldn't think of breaking tho cur
rent of luck by taking it from the house,
of course I must stav here."
"Oh!" said Mrs. Perking. "Then it's
true? lie's tho same young man that
kissed you when you were hanging good
luck up over tho smithy door the 'un
der the spreading chestnut tree young
man'?"
Elma nodded assent.
"Oh!" again uttered Mrs. Perkins.
"But you said you never, never would
forgive him."
"Don't you know, Perky," coaxed
Elma, the audacious, "what the Bible
says about forgiving people? Anyhow,
it's all settled, and wo are to be married
very soon, and you are to live here with
us always. Does that plan suit you?"
And Mrs. Perkins said that it did.
How Chinese Caleb. Shrimp.
"There are some very curious fisheries
carried on by the Chinese on the Pacific
coast," said an officer of the United
States Fish Commissiou in Washington
recently. "One of the most temarkable
is tho catching of shrimp, which is an
important industry in San Francisco Bay
and adjacent waters. These little crus
taceans upon being captured are taken
ashore and boiled in big iron vats, aftei
a rude fashion, holes being scooped out
of the side of a steep bank for fire
places, which are built up with stones.
After the shrimp have remained in boil
ing water for tea minutes they are spread
out to dry upon baro ground. One such
shrimp yard at Hunter's Point is about
fifteen acres in extent. The Chinese uso
brooms, shaped somewhat liko hoes, for
spreading the shrimp and to turn them
at the required intervals.
"After being thoroughly dried by ex
posure to the sun for about five days the
shrimp are crushed by being trodden
upon by Chinese in wooden shoes. This
process loosens tbe moat from the shells,
which latter are removed by shaking in
a basket or by passing them through a
ciude fanning mill. Both meat and shells
are then packed in sacks for exportation
to China, where the meats are sold for
food and the shells disposed of as a fer
tilizer for tea plants, rice and so forth. All
classes of people in China eat the meats,
although regarding them as inferior to
the native shrimp, which are compara
tively scarce and proportionately dearer.
Both meats and shells are fed to fowls,
with reruarkablo egg producing results.
"Another interesting fishery prose
cuted by the Chinese on tho Pacific Coast
is for abaloncs. These beautiful uni
valve mollusks are found along the rocky
shores, at low tide, clinging tj tho rocks
above the water line. Each shell is
slightly litted, sq that the fisherman can
thrust a stick under it aud pry it off;
but, if alarmed, the animal shuts dowu
its valve, so that it can only be removed
u breaking it to pieces. The meats aro
taken from the shells and boiled on
shore in vats mado of sheet iron. Shells
and me its aro then packed in sacks aud
forwarded to Suu Francisco, whence
most of the meats are exported to China,
aud the shells shipped to Franco, the
latter being highly valued for their beau
tiful mother-of-pearl. " Baltimore Arner
.icau. A Dust Detector.
Some curious color phenomena have
becu observed by John Aitkin when air
is suddenly expanded, and have led to
the construction of a new instrument
called tho "koniscope," for roughly de
terminiug the amount of impurities in
the air. The instrument consists simply
of an air pump and a tube twenty inches
long, provided with glass ends. The
air to be tested is drawa into tbo tube,
where it is moistened and cxpaodod. If
comparatively few dust particles are
present, say 80,000 cubic centimeter, the
color is very faint, but a blue of inclin
ing depth occurs as the particles increase
iu number, becoming a very dark blue
with 4,000,000 per cubic centimeter.
The koniscope makes it easy to trace the
pollution arising in our homes from
open dames and other causes, and to
separate pure from impure currents in
tho rooms. Treuton (N. J.) American.
II ith Boy and Tub Wailed.
Ono of Mr. Lampsoa's boys came near
having a serious encounter with a bear
the other day. While going to work he
met a largo bear uud two cubs. The
mother uud oue of the cubs took to the
woods while the other cub climbed a
small tree. The boy thought to capture
the cub, and climbed up after it, where
upon the cub set up such a wail that the
mother Boon returned and started up
after the boy. It was now his turn to
wail, which he did quite lustily. Owing
to tiie smullness of the tree, the bear
could not reach the boy; but the situa
tion was anything but pleasant during
the iuterval that elapsed before tho ar
rival of the boy's father. The old bear
took to the woods. They succeeded iu
capturing the cub by meaus of ropes aud ,
:uuny sacks, sud took it home. Luinus
Can I Wttsuiujitou) -No.
WASHING BY MACHINERY.
WOKK I IT THE BIOOEST LAUNDRY
IN THIS COUNTRY.
Qnlolc Work AVllh an Ocean Idnor'S)
Wash Steam Power Uswl Alto
gether Pay ol Employes.
PID you ever see a big laundry in
full blast? It is worth seeing.
When the News reporter
visited this Hudson River fac
tory, tho washing from ono of tho great
Inman liners had just come in. It was
the washing for a wholo week the
washing for 2000 persons. There was
bedding, linen, napkins, towels and
some few articles belonging to the ward
robe of some of the officers. The rest
of the wash belonged to the ship. It
rolled up to the door in two wagons,
and it rolled out on the floor of the
sorting-room and spread out like a dirty
snow storm in a high wind.
Tho work ot sorting this wasli took
just twenty minutes, and four young
women, with bright brown eyes aud
bright red arms. After it was sorted,
the big pieces going with the big pieces,
and tho little pieces staying with them
selves, it was taken to the washing
machines. Once there were wash-tubs.
There are wash-tubs now, but they aro
simply amateur appliances. Tho pro
fessional wash shop employs washing
machines, otherwise called "washers."
These contrivances are from five to eight
feet long, and are shaped like the boiler
of a locomotive. They are mado of
metal and they revolve on their axes,
like the cylinders in lawn mowers.
They are connected with the shaft by
pulleys, and when the clothes are put iu,
the door closed aud the water let iu by
a pipe, tho crank is moved, and then
they begin to revolve with a mighty
swishing and slashing in their inside.
After a few minutes of this, which is
called the soaking, the water is let oil
and hot water is turned on. With hot
water soap is brought in and the crank
is turned again. This time ic is for
keeps, and when the washer stops the
clothes are clean. This is the sort of
washing that requires no starching, so it
goes direct to the wringer. This is tho
kind of a wringer that the original Inuu
dryman knew naught of.
The wringer up to date is a round box
set upon four round legs, made of gas
pipe and hollow. The interior of this
box revolves several hundred times a
minute. This turning interior holds the
wet clothes, and from it dry clothes are
turned out. They are not entirely dry,
but they are dry enough to go to the
ironing room. The revolutions of the
interior are so swift that tho water is
thrown off in showers.
The ironing-room is filled with irou
rollers, set in frames, so that oue roller
rolls against another, like the rubber
rollers in an old-fashioned wringer.
One or both of these rollers is hollow,
and is heated by either gas or steam, and
the sheets and pillow-cases, napkins,
towels and table-cloths pass between
these rollers and come out steaming hot,
smooth as glass, aud white.
For some kinds of laundry work a
dry room is required. Now this dry
room bears about as much relation to tho
drying-room in the ordinary house as a
French bonnet does to a bread bowl. It
is a small affair, heated red hot by steam
pipes. For starched goods this is used,
and does its work in a hurry.
The laundry that the reporter visited
does not make a practice of doing family
work, although it has facilities for do
ing any kind of work. It devotes its
time chiefly to hotel, club and steamboat
work. It can turn out 100,000 pieces a
day, and the average price for 100 is
from thirty-five to sixty cents. These
figures aro for unstarched work, snd
they are very low. It requires 140 per
sons to do tho work. The washing is
done wholly by men, who get 12 a
week each. Tho rest of tho work is
done by girls and women, who aie su
pervised by four forewomeu, who get
$17 a week and their board.
Tho workwoman get from sixty cents
lo $1 a day, the folders jn tho ironing
room commanding the highest wages.
New York News.
A Great Tree For tho Fair.
The (reo selected by the Tulare Board
of Trade for exhibition at the World's
Fair slauds ou the land of Mrs. M. C. K.
Shucy, one-half mile southeast of
Summcrhome, on tho summit betweeu
North and Middle Tule, about thirty-live
miles northeast of Porterville. The tree
was selected at tho request of the
National World's Fair Association. Mrs.
phuey douates tho tree as a gilt. It is
said to be a magnificent specimcu of
tequoia gigantea, some 3011 feet in
height. At the base it is 70 J feet in
circumference, aud eleven feet from tho
ground it is 63 feel iu circumference.
This gives a base diameter of 21J feet.
The section that will be removed lor ex
hibition will be a portion thirty feet
long. This piece will be cut into two
fifteen-foot sections, with a natural slab
between them. This circular piece will
be 21 J feet in diameter aud 16 inches
thick. It will serve as a roof for tho
lower section when hollowed and a floor
for the upper one. Visaliu (Cal.)
Times.
Wonderful Work of Hew.
Bees must, in order to collect a pound
of clover houey, deprive 62,000 clover
blossoms of their nectar. To do this
the 62,000 flowers must be visited hyuu
aggregate of 3,750,000 bees. Or, in
other words, to collect his pound of
honey oue bee must make 3,750,000
trips from and to the hive. The euoi
mous amount of work hero involved pre
cludes idea of any oue bee ever liviug
long cuougb to gather more fiail tuu
fraction ol a pound of nectarine sweets.
As bees are kuuwu to fly for miles iu
quest of suitable fields of operutiou it is
clear that a siuglu ouuee of honey re
presents millions of miles of travel. It
is no wouder that these industrious little
insects have earned the reputaliou o!
being "busy'1 bew.sl. Lcuis Republic, i
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL
Bad salt meat is said to have causod
cholera on a British vessel.
It is rumored that Dr. Pasteur has dis
covered a cure for epilepsy.
Tarts of a mastodon have been un
earthed near Sherman, Texot.
If cork is sunk 200 feet deep iu tho
ocean it will not rise again on account of
tho great pressure of the water.
Experienced planters in the South now
raise the male cotton plant, being thus
enabled to secure the seed without the
lint or cotton.
Three broad patents on electric loco
motives aud electric railway systems, ap
plication for which have been filed sinco
June 3, 1880, have just been issued to
Thomas A. Edison.
The General Manager of the Wiscon
sin Ccutral Railroad is rcportod to havo
said that all the trains on that line will
be run by electricity beforo tbe Colum
bian Exposition is over.
Tho greatest enemy of suburban tele
phone aud telegraph poles is tho wood
pecker, whoso search for the numerous
insects which inhabit the wood often
leaves tho polo literally honeycombed.
A medical officer of tho French army
is credited with a rcmarkablo simple
euro for obesity. His plan is to restrict
the diet to one dish it does not greatly
matter what at each meal, and it has
proven very effective.
Tho part of tho larynx commonly
known as Adam's npplo has just been re
moved from the throat ot a man at tho
Carucy Hospital in Boston, Ma9S., tho
lirst operation of the kind in that city.
A cancerous growth had started in tho
allected part.
The electrical apparatus for extracting
teeth without paiu has an arrangement
of adjustable prongs, carrying buttons
and connected with a battery. Tho
buttons aro placed over the nerves lead
iug from tho teeth to tho brain, and a
circuit is established tho moment the ex
tracting instrument touchos the tooth.
Trials of compound armor plato at
Shocburyness, England, are held to havo
demonstrated thut, when these plates
have been submitted to the Tresidden
supplemental process, they possess pow
ers of resistance and endurance much ex
ceeding tho compound plates tried in
this country in competition with nicklo
plate.
The longest span of telephone wire in
the world is said to cross tho Ohio River
between Portsmouth, Ohio, aud South
Portsmouth, Ky. Tho wires span tho
river from a pole on the Ohiosido, meas
uring 102 feet above ground, to the
Kentucky hills on the opposite side, the
distauco being 3773 feet between poles.
Tho wire is made of steel and its size is
No. 12 gauge.
A Most Wonderful Creature.
The chameleon has for agos been au ob
ject of curiosity, not only on account of
its ability to change its color at will, as
one might suppose who had road ac
counts which mentioned only that one
characteristic, but also on account of a
remarkable power which admits of tho
creature instantly changing its form. At
times it takes upon itself almost the ex
act form of a mouse; ng.iiu, with back
curved aud tail erect, it is tho exact
counterpart of a miniature crouching
liou, which no doubt gave origin to its
name, chamel-lcon, which clearly means
"grouud liou." By inflating its sides
aud flattening back anil belly it takes
upon itself tho form of an ovate leaf,
the tail acting as the petiole, tho white
lino over the .stomach becoming the mid
rib. When thus expauded it also has
tho extraordinary power to sway itself
over so us to present an edge to tho ob
server, thus greatly adding to its means
of concealmuut. As is well knowu, tho
least excitement, as in handling, will
cause a change in the color. Iu its nor
mal state it is of a light pea green.
When excited the groundwork reinuins
the fume, but transverse stripes about
thirty iu number appear on tho body.
These stripes, which are of a very dark
greeu to begin with, soon change to inky
blackness. The prevailing idea that tho
chameleon takes upon himself thu pe
culiar hues of whatever he is placed upou
is us curious and widespread as it is er
roneous. Placed iu boxes lined with red
or bluo silk, they retain their pea greeu
rolor with no hailing toward tho brighter
hues of the surroundings. St. Louis
Republic.
The Trade iu Old Siloes.
There is a largo and growing den.and
in big New York for second-baud shoes.
All along Seventh avenue there ore deal
eas who make a specialty of old shoes.
The men usually have .stalls in cellar.
Their wares embrace shoes of all sorts,
from the baby's tiny slipper to the big,
still brogans of the laborer.
"We get our old shoes," said one of
them, yesterday, "from all sorts of
places. I usually make u couple of trips
u week myself to a lot of stylish fl its iu
tho upper part of the city. I collect all
the old shoes I am able to buy. What
do I give o!i, verv little, of couae. I
Usually pay forty cents or so for a pair
of tivo dollar shoes, but they must bo in
good shape to win such a price, for, you
know, we do not get much more than
twicu that sum when wu retail tlieui
uyaiu over the counter."
"Who sell shoes to you?"
"You would bo surprised if you saw
the line, swell fellows that havo to put
up their shoes occasionally to help keen
up appearances. We take the shoes,
black them up, repair tueiu, au I theu
oiler thi iu for sale."
"Who buys them?"
"All classes. Yes, wo have nice,
prosperous people who wear tcou d-haud
shoes, uud think nothing of it. Tliru
there is a class of young lellosvs iu New
York h ho have cxprn-ivu ta-tes and
small capital. They co ne to us, pick
out a good-looking patent leather shoe,
puj oevcuty-live cents or so for it, ami
no away rejoicing. They go home, put
Ihtui ou, and, then, who can tell tuu
fcuctf" New Yoik Rucuidov.
TIME AND CHANGE.
O Time and Change, they rnnfro nnd range
From sunshine round to thunder)
They glance and go as the great winds blow,
And the best ot our dreams drive under:
For Timeand Change estrange, estrange
And, now they have looked end wn uo,
O we that were dear we are all too near
With the thick ot the world between us.
O Death and Time, they chime nnd chime
Like bells at sunst falling 1
They end the song, they right the wrong,
They set the old echnej calling:
For Death and Time bring on tho priiuo
(Jf Ood's own chosen weather,
Anil wo Ho In the peace of the Ureat Release
As once In the grass together.
W. E. Henley.
HUMOR OF THF, DAY.
Not enough to go arouud A semi
circle. Life.
You cannot hatch ideas by sitting on
goose eggs. Dallas News.
A baseball maxim A run iu timo
saves a nine. Boston Transcript.
If poor relatives had their way they
would not have rich uncles very long.
Dallas News.
Young man, no oue may be able to tell
your fortune, but you can work it out.
for yourself. Troy Press. S
You can't tell how much money a man
has in his pockctbook by the size of tho
strap around it. R irn's lloru.
Watts "Did vour barber shut up on
! Sunday?" Potts "No. He merely closed
: the shop." Indianapolis Journal.
The summer girl asks the same ques
tions nt baseball games this reason as sho
did last year. Boston Transcript.
The dog that loses his master it with
out a fricud, nnd so are some men when
they lose a dog. Biughamtou Repub
lican. A baby born in Ohio is without hands.
When he grows up ho will bo able to
sweep his town for the ollioo of 'i'roas
urer. Philadelphia Ledger.
A man nlways knows what ho would
have done in another fellow's place, but
the other fellow doesn't ahv ys believe
it. Louisvillo Courier-Journal.
Mnmma "Don't you know that your
father is the muinstay of thu family?"
Freddy "Golly, ain't he, though! Aud
the spanker, too." Brooklyn Life.
Miss Antique "Won't your mother
go with us?" Miss Rosebud "No, she
eays sho doesn't think she is old enough
to chaperon you, dear." Djtioit Freo
Press.
"Oh, dear!" sighed Henry, whoso
clothes nro all mado of his papa's old
ones, "papa's hud his mustache shaved
off, an' I suppose l'vo got to wear it
now." Tid-Bits.
Fidgety Lady "But what nm I to
do? I can't ride with my back to the
engiuo." Sarcastic Youth "Better
speak to the guard. He'll turu the train
arouud." Tid-Bits.
Train Conductor "All aboard. Hurry
up, miss, if you nro going by th's train."
Littlo Girl "Just a iniuutc, till I kiss
mamma." Conductor "Jump aboard;
I'll attend to that." Oakland Echoes.
Billy the Beau "Anything new in
cngngemcut rings?" jeweler "Yes;
ouruew 'Seaside' plated goods are cheap,
and are warranted to out-wear any sum
mer resoit engagement." Jewelers
Weekly.
Hostess "What has becouio of Sandy
Smith, who stood so big'.- in your class?"
Alumnus "()!', he's taken orders."
Hostess "He's iu the ministry, then?"
Alumnus "No; in a restaurant."
Brooklyn Life.
Frieud "Docs your son belong to tho
old or tho new school?" O'd Lady
(whoso sou is a physician) "Oh, ho
doesn't belong lo any school at ull now;
he's beeu graduated for two years."
Detroit Free Press.
Mrs. Wutts "Mary Ann, these balus
ters seem always dusty. I was at .Mis.
Johnson's to-day, and her stair rails are
c'.e.iu uud us smooth as gia-s." .Mary
Ann "Yis, mem. She has t'lee schmall
boys." Indianapolis Journal.
"If you like," said the young man at
tho desk, "I'll have your poem sub
Piilted to thu editor." '-.No," sho
answered positively, "I'll ica I it aloud
to him, I prefer to have the editor sub
milted to the poem." Washington .tar.
"I told you yesterday I would not
many you," said she. "I kuow it,"
said he. "That is why I ask you aguiu
to-day. Y'ou would not he so lacking
in originality, I hope, as to repeat to-day
what you said yesterday." Harper's
lla.ar.
Judge "Y'ou stole the pocket-book,
but how is it that you did not impropri
ate the wutch lying by llio sido o. iti"
Prisoner "You don't mean to say I was
as ihift as that) 1 couldn't have noticed
it. You iniit excuse me, Jadjc!"
Tcxui Sittings.
Hi.' "I thought the bride nnd groom
were going to start right oil' on their
wedding trip, insUa I ( waiting." Sho
" I hey were. Hut she had to change
her wedding dress lor a traveling gown,
uud they didn't get slurie l until the next
day." Cloak Review.
.Miss Pinkerly " You act as if you were
uucoiulortalile.Mr. Tutter." Mr. Tutter
"Yes, .Miss l'lnkciiy, the J act is, I
have i ever beeu able to get a dii ss suit
to tit me." Mi.-s l'liikerly -"Perhaps
you don't gel there euiy cuutiyh.''
Clothier aud Furiwher.
Ills Lund Burned I p.
A teamster in l'.osiou, Mass., bad qiiitu
a ,ir,.i-se the other ilay. lie was haul
ing a hv.d of furniture through tile yard
i a railroad, when soiucbudy .sh.i'nud
liie. Ti.uiiug around he di.-covere.i Unit
his hud of furuituru w is all iu a iila.j.
lie Jumped oil tl,u wagon and unhitched
his hiTi.cs as promptly us pouiide, and
au alatui brought a tire engine that e.
Iingiu.siii.-d tho blaze, but not until tua
liiniituru was destroyed and thu wagon
o.idy badly daioa.e I. A sp.rk lr.nu 4
eeoiotivo cau-el Uu tl oablc. .Nc
Cncuj uuu,