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Canada has about doubled its railway
mileage iu ton years.
One child In every five in the north
ern half of the United State dies before
it La j lived a year.
Tho number of Bros in London has in
creased fifty per cout. since 1S82; twenty-five
per cent, of the fires occur in un
insured premises.
The Farmers' Review says that the
United States produce 300,000,000
pounds of wool per annum and use
twice that amount.
The Now York World cites as an in
stance of the vostness of tho insurance
business that the premiums paid in
Louisville, Ky., alouo this year amounted
to $1,000,000.
The aim of tho University Settlement
Society of Now York is to aid tho citi
zens of a neighborhood, "without in
fringing ou their self respect,'' and no
patronizing airs are assumed.
Twenty million dollars is tbav ,ti
mated worth of flax products imported
into this country Inst year, and our farm
ers aro said, records the Now York
World, to have destroyed 1,070,000 tons
of flnxstraw.
A joint cammitteo of the two home!
of the English Parliament has reported
electricity a suitable and efficient source
of motive power, and reccomended that
.electric railway construction be encour
aged throughout England.
What is now North Berwick, Me., was
known as Jsughty's Falls thirty yeors
ago.- A postitwork says that occasion
ally letters are even now addressed to
Doughty's Fulls, smd that he has had
one such in his hands within the lasl
month.
The Chicago Herald is astonished thai
Although the United States is a count rj
possessing immenso timber tracts, it ap
lears that it imported wood and wood
roducts to the value of $21, 772,185 in
e year ending June 30, 1891, and in
same time exported similur article
the value of $44,811,004.
woman voted at tho recent Parlia
'meutury clooiiou at Birmingham, Eng
3
land. Home question arose as to the
.lidity of tho vote, but the mavor and
town clerk agreed with tho Liberal
agent that as tho lady's namo had some
how got upon tho register the returning
officer bad no optiou but to reccivo her
ballot.
Says the Galveston News: "Tho peo
ple of the United States ara thoroughly
organized in one way or another. It
would not take a week to convert those
standing armies into very active and ef
fective armies ready for battle. The or
ganization begins with political parties
and runs all the way down to amateur
baseball clubs."
II costs $105 pur ton to transport dry
goods from New York to Sua Francisco
by rail, the time being from twenty-two
to tweuty-six days. The samo goods,
if brought via Panimu, part rail and
part steamer, pay $34 per ton, the time
being about forty-live days. ' By clipper
ship round the Horn the same goods can
bo laid down of a cost of $20 per ton,
the time being about eighty -five days.
The Secretary of tho Treasury has re
quested the Sucrutary of State to iu
struct the United Statos consular o!fl;jrs
everywhere to refuso to certify invoices
of goods on aud after September 1st un
less the merchandise is invoiced after tho
metric system. This action is taken on
information received from the consuls at
Paris an1 (Lyeus, who say that tho
"aune" l ietn of measurement now in
use in France oa invoices of goads in
tended for the United States, facilitates
frauds on tho Custom House, and that
the metric system would greatly simplfy
commercial transactions aud facilitate
a somparisou of invoices and prices.
A man up from Venezuela, where
they have- beeu cutting one another's
throats in a revolutionary matinee, says
of that unhappy country's warriors:
"Falstall's ragged regiment wasn't iu it
with the soldiers down there. They are
tho hungriest looking creatures you ever
saw. I've given pennies to tiiein on the
street. They wear linen breeches and
an uudershirt, aud wheu they come into
town tuey wrap their blankets around
them to cover their nakedness. They
carry old fliut-lock muskets. There
are a few liemiugtons aud Winchesters,
but mighty few. They have machetes.
A machete is a sort of big butcherknife
without a point. It is about three
inches wide aud thirty inches loug, aud
pretty heavy. Tuey cut wood and kill
snakes and enemies with machetes.
Some of them have shoes, but the most
of them wear a leather sole with a strap
across the heel aud toe. The bare heels
aud toes stick out,"
W4 BUILD THE LADDER,
Heaven Is not reached at a single bound,
But we build the ladder by which we rise
From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies,
And we mount to the summit round by
round.
I count this thing to be grandly true,
Tbat a noble deed is a step toward God,
Lifting the soul from the common sod
To a purer air and a broader view.
We rise by the things tbat are under feet,
By what we have mastered of greed and
gain.
By the pride disposed and the passion
slain,
And the vanquished ills that we hourly
meet.
We hope, we aspire, we resolve, we trust,
When the morning calls us to life and
light;
But our hearts grow weary, and ere the
night
Our lives are trailing the sordid dust.
We hope, we aspire, we resolve, we pray,
And we think that we mount the air on
wings,
Beyond the recall of sensual things,
While our feet still cling to the heavy clay.
Wings for the angels, but feet for the men I
We may borrow the wings to And the
way;
We may hope and aspire and resolve and
pray.
But our feet must rise or we fall again.
Only in dreams is a ladder thrown
From the weary earth to the sapphire
walls;
But the dream departs and the vision
fall?.
And the sleeper wakes on his pillow of stone.
Heaven is not reached a single bound.
But we build the ladder by which we rise
From the lowly earth to the vaulted
skies.
And we mount to the lummit, round by
round.
J. O. Holland.
THREE AGAINST TEN.
AN EPISODE OF THE SEMINOLE WAR.
ROUND a bend
oo, the Ock
lawaha, just at
sunset, there
appeared ad ug.
out paddled by
two stalwart
fellows in a sort
of homespun
uniform, while
a boy dressed
as an officer sat
in the stem. Fiva minutes before the
crocodiles and cranes, water turkeys,
bitterns and herons had had the black,
oozy river all to themselves as it slug
gishly made its way through the swampy
palmettos and cypress.
The boat bumped aloDg slowly, strik
ing against cypress trees and fallen tree
trunks. Tho paddlers looked anxious
for the chance of finding a comfortable
camping grouud wns growing slighter
before young Will Loring began to be
sick of his escapade. He had left the
camp eight miles away without orders
and taken two of his company with him
to do Indian scouting on his own ac
count. Little more than a year beforo he had
been a schoolboy, playing soldier in the
streets of St. Augustine with other
youngsters. When' the Seminole War
of 1835 broke out, sweeping with a wave
of nre ana massacre across the State, he
ran away from home and joined a com
pany of volunteers. His daring aud
coolness at the battles of tho With
lacoochee and Alaqua, in connection
with the social importance of his family.
had given him his epaulets at an age
when other boys of the same years were
still in terror of the schoolmaster s birch.
"Wall, Lieutenant," drawled one of
the men as he peered wearily into the
depths of the dark cypress arches, "we're
in a 'orrid fix, I reckon. If we keep on
we 11 run plum into a nest of then lnjin
devils, dead shore."
Both the soldiers were Crackers, bred
in the woods and swamps, good shots
and skillful hunters, though thin, slouch
ing ngures were not ornaments to a
dress parade.
"Keep on paddling," said young Lor
ing in low tones, but with an air of stern
ness, which did not set well on bis
smooth face aud mischievous black eyes,
"and await my orders." Then feeling
that be had asserted bis authority, he
continued with a burst of boyish, conn
dence, "I tell you what it is, Scraggs,
we'll have to get back to that hammock,
about a mile up the river, where we can
find pine knots to cook supper; don't
you think so?"
"Bless you, Lieutenant, d'ye hanker
to lose yer skelpf No supper to-night
but a drink of swamp wuter, and a chew
of raw bacon. I'll bet there's a hun
dred of red varmints in two miles on
us."
"You're not afraid, Scraggs, are you?"
said the youngster with a lordly air; "a
fellow who can bore a potato tossed in
the air at a hundred yards with a rifle
ball, ought to have plenty of spunk."
"A leetle more skeery than I war forty
year ago," answered the Cracker, with a
twinkle in his eye. "Uowsoruever, as
men of ray inches do, I reckon I've got
as much cl'ar grit as most on 'em."
1 bis talk had gone on in half whispers.
The darkness was increasing every min
ute. The boyish officer in spite of his
airs was evidently uneasy, for his eyos
shot continual glances ahead and on both
ides iuto the swamp, as the dugout
glided at a snail's pace. They weie
nearing another bend in the stream,
when through the tangle of leaf and vine
there was a red gleam like a huge firefly.
Without waiting orders Scraggs whirled
the boat back with a powerful paddle,
and turned to his officer with eyes al
most starting from their sockets, shaking
bit bead iu warning.
"Injuns, Injuns, Lieutenant Will, a
dozen on 'em," he whispered. "I seed
the hind end of two canoes jiss roun' the
bend. Thar must be a hummock whar
they're camped. They're jiss got
through eatln', an' are stampin' out the
embers. Sh don't speak. I'll work
the old scow deep into thu cypress.
We'll see what tricks they're up to, see
in' we're hyar and can't get away very
easy. But by Jimmy, my skelp kinder
crawls as if 'twould not bo thar to-morrow
moruin'."
Young Loring noddod, and tha pad
dlers cautiously forced the boat fifty feot
through tho mouth of a black arch into
the heart of the swamp. Hidden here
they were nearer tho savagos than before,
and could hear their movements.
It soon became clear that the party of
Scminoles had do purpose of leaving
their camp that night, and no suspicion
of white men close at hand. One by one
they dropped asleep, and their slumber
chorus, which sounded not unlike tho
frruutiu" of tho alliuators in the swamp,
was music to the prisoners squatted in
their gloomy covert.
Three hours had passed, and the grow
ing light that silvered the lagoon outsido
of their retreat proved tho moon well up
over the tops of the trees. "Now is our
time," whispered Scraggs, "to get outer
this hole and puddle up stream for a sale
lundino place and vamouse back to
enmp."
Lieutenant Lorincr answered not a
word. His boyish mind was deep in
thought a daring thought which thrilled
him with excitement.
If he returned to camp as he left it
there was sure to be sharp reprimand,
perhaps a court martial for absenco with
out leave. The excuse that be was an
irresponsible lad would alone save him,
and at that fancy his heart had waxed
hot with shame. But to go back as con
queror and hero ahi that was worth
risking bis scalp for.
"Are ye asleep?" whispered Scraggs
again.
"No," was the reply; "I am going to
take these redskins back to camp with
me. So, Scraggs, you two can just tie
your hair on, for it will soon be in
peril."
The men jumped as if they heard the
whizz of Seminole lead.
"You see it would be a shame to
sneak back empty handed. We can't
exactly take their scalps, but we can take
themselves as a present to the General,"
said the ingenious youth. "The Indians
are fast asleep. We'll paddle up and
take their canoes. Then I'll land on the
hummock, you know, and pick up their
rifles. Then in the morning we can or
der them to surrender on peril of being
shot down, for we shall have loaded
guns, and they'll hive none."
Ths two Crackers groaned over this
piece of youthful strategy, but Scraggs
respondod
"All right, Lieutenant, I s'pose we've
got to die some time."
The dugout loft its covert and glided
silent as a shadow into the open stream.
A few strokes brought them in full
sight of the Indian camp. The island
where the savages lay was well-shadowed
by tho trees, but their forms could be
dimly seen stretched on the earth.
Silontly the little party detached the
two canoes and towed them to a secure
position, where they fastened them to a
cypress tree fifty yards from shore.
As the boat approached the shore on
its second more dangerous mission
young Loring slipped oil his bcots and
stepped into the ooze, regardless of
moccasins and rattlers. Scruggs and
bis comrado coverin" the advauce with
leveled guns, felt their stout hearts quake
as their boy leader crept in among those
sleeping figures of bronze.
A stumble or the snapping of a twig
might mako the difference of life and
death. The lad moved as if he were
cat. Tho coarse hummock grass, armed
with minute thorns, cut into his flesh,
but he scarcely felt them. Tho sleopim
redskins lay partly in the moonlight and
partly in the shade of the trees which
roso in the centre of tho hummock, each
one with his rifle by bis side, tho fierce
copper face chiseled as if in metal.
Had the Indians disposed of their guns
as the whites do, by stacking or resting
them against a tree, tho task of securing
them would have been less risky. But
they bad kept their arms within reach,
and some even had their tomahawks
loosened from the belts as if for instant
use. The Indian rarely sets a guard at
night, unless iu the immediate presence
of au enemy. Here iu the depth of a
trreat cypress swamp, impassable to
troops, a surprise would seem impos
sible. Yet even now the cunning and
suspicion of tho race had not forsaken
them.
The nerves of the young officer were
strung to the highest tension. One by
one he stealthily lifted the naos from the
earth till he had what he could carry.
These he boro to the low bank and
passed to the men ou guard in tho dug
outs No word was exchanged. Again
he returned to the dangerous sleepers, a
distance of about a hundred feet from
shore, for a second loud. A biawuy sav-
e tossing in his dreams gave a fierce
gruut aud threw out a baud, which
touched the young thief's ankle as if to
clutch it. The moment thrilled him with
all tho agony of discovery, but he stood
stock still waiting for somethiug further.
It was a false alarm, but cold sweat
poured from his face. Another of the
savages had his haud on tho stock of his
gun, and the piece had to be geutly slid
trom under his lingers.
Aguiu, the third time, he went back
to complete his work. Tho moon was
now high up in the "sky, aud poured a
flood of light on the little, islaud. Tho
recumbent Indians were cut out like
monstrous silhouettes against tho grouud.
The boy's swimming bead warned him
that his strength cculdu't last much
longer. But he resolutely went at his
task, though his throat felt as if squeeze J
by au irou grip. He had gathered the
last armful, wheu one of the red men in
his dreams raised himself oa his hauuehes
aud sat with chiu resting on his knees.
The moonshine flickered os. tig face
through the quivering foliage, acd his
sunkeu eyes appeared half open ao fol
lowing his wuiie enemy, iuo mui
Scraggs, too, observed this mov ,
and his tanned cheeks turned wh
chalk, as his linger was about to p
his rifls-trigijor. But he waited, and to
savage slocper made no further sign.
At last the work was done. The tort
minutes had seemed a year. The lad stag
gered to the boat, staggering as if with
an ague. "I must speak," he panted,
"or I shall yell. I thought twice I'd
have to whoop or go into a faint. But,
Scraggs, I pulled through, didn't II
Help me in."
"Wall I You've got the guns, shore,"
said Scraggs, "and drat my stein cf the
biggest bully in Jessup's camp would a
done it."
No time had been lost while Scraggs
was relieving his mind; the dusout was
skimming out into the stream with lively
paddle strokes. The plan was boldly
executed in the moruing. With the
coining of light the Semiuoles discov
ered the robbery of their weapons and
rushed to the edge of the swamp with
frantic yells, brandishing their toma
hawks. But the marauders were far be
yond the throw of axe or Knife, and sat
with levelled rifles.
Then came a shrill voice, demanding
in Spanish the instant surrondor of tha
little Sominolo band, for at that timo
nearly everyone in Florida knew some
thing of this language. After consider
able parley the red men agreed to throw
their knives and tomahawks iuto the
marsh. They were taken aboard in pairs
and their right wrists tightly fastened
together with stout strips of Scragg's
homespun shirt. Tho dugout towed toe
canoes up stream, whilo tho young officer
sat in the stern and guarded the captives
with loaded pistols.
So the daredevil returned to camp tho
same afternoon, and instead ot a rowing
he was covered with praise and honor by
General Jessup and his little army.
This boy afterward became a dis
tinguished General Major General
William W. Loring who led armies in
the far distant East as a Pasha iu the
service of the Egyptian Khedive, as well
as in this country. But iu his long ca
reer he never did anything moro daring
and heroic than the feat planned and
executed by the boy of fifteen, the sub
stantial facts of which were tald me by
the General himself. G. F. Ferris, in
St. Louis Republic.
Uses of tho Umbrella.
"An umbrella is one of tho most use
ful articles that a man can carry with
him," said Lamar J. Saunders from Jack
son, Miss. "One can be used a dozen
different ways. When tho sun is shin
ing hot, or wheu i is raining, a man
without an umbrcha must either remain
indoors or suffer. As a weapon of defence
there is nothing better. You can keep
a man at his distance with one better
than you could with a stick. You re
member what a conspicuous part tho um
brellas played in the tragedy at Home
stead the other day in the bauds of the
infuriated women! Next to a shotgun
or a pistol there is no more dangerous
weapon.
"I remember one time I was in a hotel
that caught afire in the morning. Tho
guests were awakened by the stifling
smoke and noise. My room was ou tho
second floor and by the time I had slip
ped on my trousers the fire had gained
such headway that all avenues of escape
were closed. But there was my um
brella and a window and the rest was
easy.
"Another time I was walking through
a pasture when a bull with his eyes
ablaze with fire made for mo. I kept
my censes, and when he got within about
fifty yards of mo I ran towards him,
opening and closing tho umbrella as fast
as I could. The bull wheeled around
and ran from me faster than he ever rau
beforo in bis life.
"And forfrigntning dogs I had rather
have an umbrella than an arsenal." St.
Louis Republic.
' r
Reversible Suakeg in India.
A snake not often heard of, at least in
America, is the liver-colored snako with
two heads, or perhaps they should bo
called mouths, though it does not have
two mouths at tho same time. They are
reversible mouthf , occupying the opposite
end every six mouths. It lies with the
two ends crossed in each other, as with
folded hands. Every six mouths the
chauge of the seasons reverses the func
tions of the two ends, the head becoming
the tail aud the tail becoming the head.
The mouth at one end heals or closes up
all but a small opening, while tho oppo
site end becomes thu mouth for thu uext
six months.
A friend of mine in India who told
me about this remarkable snake said ho
refused for a long time to believe that
the functions of the two ends were re
versed every six mouths, but one day he
found one of these snakes in thu jungle
and carried it home, whero he had a
physician examine it. The result was
thu physician confl.-ine 1 the stories of
the creature, and my friend was skeptical
no longer. I learned no other name for
this singulur reptile than that of "the
liver-colored snake.1' Hartford (Cuuu.)
Times,
Cooklui; Willi Ice tar Fual.
The genorally accepted theory of the
cooking of meat relates to the application
of heat; but Dr. Sawiczevosky has called
attention to the fact that ahno it precisely
the same chemical aud physical changes
can be accomplished by the exposure of
auimal flesh to extreme cold. Indeed, thu
sensation experienced by touching freez
ing mercury is very much that of a severe
bum.
Then the experimenter referred to ap
plied his method to tho preservation of
meats, first by subjecting them to a tem
perature of thirty-three below zero,
Fahrenheit, and tiieu sealing them up
hermetically in tin vessels. Animals and
substances whic1! had been so treated aud
for some time kept iu these boxes, ou
exumiuatiou proved to be extremely pala
table, aud, being partially cooked, re
quired very little heat to prepare them
for the table.
An establishment iu Hungary is now
engaged in the preparation of meat by
this method on an extcusive scale , New
V 'W Wwld,
SCIENTIFIC ASH INDUSTRIAL.
Cooking by electricity is increasing.
The drcno lice's eyes each contains
1300 mirrors.
The common caterpillar has 4000 mus
cles in his body.
Artesian borings-have recently proved
to bo very successful in the Saliaran
Desert.
A steam launch has just been built
which makes a milo in two minutes and
one second.
A London firm finds a windmill tho
most economical means of securing tho
motivo power necessary to run a dy
namo. It has been compiled by competent
authorities that in a single cubic foot of
ether there are locked up 10,000 feet of
energy.
It is calculated that in London nearly
100,000 tons of sulphur are produced
annually by coal consumption aud thrown
into the air.
Recent experiments iu Franco on tho
velocity of propagation of electric waves
givo a mean velocity which is almost ex
actly that of light.
The best way to clean wells and cis
terns of foul air is to throw down a peck
of unslacked lime. Too heat so caused
carries out tho foul air with a rush.
Experiments made by n Hungarian
physician on animals seem to show that
permanganate of potasn acts as an cm
cient antidote in acute phosphorus poi
soning.
According to Dr. liaison, the red iu
flowers iss single pigment soluble in
water and decolorized by alcohol, but
curable of being restored by the addition
ot acids.
The dynamo is replacing the battery
to such an extent in telegraphy that its
use will, it is thought, be universal in a
few years. It is both cheaper and more
efficient.
Investigations of rain drops lead to
the ccnclusion that some of the large
drops must be more or less hollow, as
they fail when striking to wet the whole
surface enclosed within the drop.
Many of tho small lakes of tho alkali
and saline regions of California, Nevada
and other parts of the world are sat
urated aud deposit their salts when any
of the water is removed by evaporation
or when salts are added from the inflow.
A watch for the blind is among tho
newest inventions. A small per; is set
in tho middle of each figure. When tho
hour hand reaches a given hour th'e peg
for that hour drops. 'rue sightless own
er, when he wants to know the time,
finds which peg is down aud then counts
back to twelve.
A new alloy for use iu the manufac
ture of wire sheets and castings has been
introduced by a New England lirm. The
wire made of this material resembles or
dinary copper wire on the outside, has a
pinkish whito tinge at the surface of
fracture, and is very stroug without
losing much ductility.
There is still a chanco for invention
in electric railway controlling switches.
The awkwardness of regulating a car's
speed by a brake which turns one way
and a rheostat crank which turns the
other is evident. Sooner or later a lever
urm or some similar device will replaco
some of the confusing number of crunk
motions with which manufacturers at
present equip their cars.
Tho color of the water of tho Medi
terranean Sea varies considerably. Du
ring stoims it is deep green and some
times brown, and when culm of a deep
blue. In the Bosphbrus and among tho
archipelago it is of varyiug tints, in
somo places being of a liquid bluu grad
uating iuto a brighter green, and in
others assuming a blue so deep as to al
most approach a purple.
Rubber Tires For Carrlngeg.
The st'ccess of rubber tires ou bicycles
has frequently led to attempts to increase
the comfort of buggy and carriage rid
ing by fixing tires ou to wheels, but
iu the majority of instances the attempt
was not a success, as tho tire either came
off or woro out iu a vciy shor; space of
time. Since, however, pneumatic tires
have displaced the solid ones ou bicycles,
the attempt is being reuewed, and bug
gies aud other vehicles are likely to bo
seen ou tho boulevards in large num
bers before long as noiseless and free
from vibration us bicycles. Carriage
builders believe there is an immense
amount of money to be made out of
Vehicles with rubber tires on the wheels,
aud they are likely to keep ou experi
menting until they finally succeed iu
producing the desired article. St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
Bees and Clover II pads.
Each clocr head is a compound ag
gregi tiou of flower spikes or tubes, the
whole number averaging about sixty-live.
Each of these contain sugar not to ex
ceed the tive-humlredth part of a giain.
Therefore the probosis of a honey bee
must be inserted into 500 of these clover
tubes beforo one single gruiu of honey
can be obtained. Think of thu labor in
volved in the mighty tusk of collecting
ouo pound of such sweets. There are
7000 grains iu a pound, and us honey
contains three-fourths of its weight of
dry sugar, each pound of clover honey
represents the insertion of the bee's pro
bosis iuto not less tliau 2,503,000 clovel
heads.
The Horse iu a Fire.
Few kuow that it is characteristic of
the horse to become freozie I when sur
rounded by tire. No appeal to his in
telligenca is of avail during the efforts
made to reiuovo him from the preseuce
of flumes. He is terror-stricken, aud
seems to be in the tamo condition of
uiiud as moot humau beings are when iu
a pauic. It is therefore useful to know
that by a very siuipMexpudient tho hursts
can be easily muui.ged in case of tire.
All that is uece-ssunV to do is to put a
saddle on him, aud heyaubu led without
the least difficulty froiA his tubl. Uur
Animal Friends.
'THE rETRIFIEl) FOREST."!
TIIE
WONDER 9 OF CHALCEDONY
PARK IN ARIZONA.
Thousand nt M In My Tree- Turned to
Solid Stone Mi id ids ot I'l-eclous
(irtii All l;n lntnlril Spot,
T T" C. 1IOVKY describe in the
ljj Scientific American a trip to
I Chalcedony Park in Ar.ona.
(J" Ho says: From the very
start the foad was lined by specimens of
agatized wood. Now and thcii n petri
fied log, or solitary .stump, Wero harbin
gers of what was to be .-ceil further on.
Tho term "park" is a misnomer; for
there is no natural park hero, nor has
tho band of man done anything but to
shatter tho marvelous rein s of d itele-s
antiquity. The people of the vicinity
always speak of it as ' tin- Pel rifled
Forest." But that again is m;lc.idiug;
for there is no forest, whatever L e :nay
have been fifty centuries n','o. It , rr.
tainly seems as if tho place ought to I..;
made a National park, and should b.
both better protected and more easy of
acPra it is, tho enchanted spot
licsot .uticy of vandals, tho only
precaution against spoliation being a
railroad rulo against shipping specimens
irom it in bulk.
How shall the Chalcedony Turk lie
described? At first odo cots the im
pression that it is a small affair, of per
haps fifty acres. Then ho says that it
must be a hundred. And after riding
over its amazing ruins for many hours
in succession, he concludes that the area
includes a thousand acres; and finally he
hardly questions the bold cstimato of
Mr. C. F. Lummis that the extensive
forest now hardened into stone formerly
covered "hundreds of squaro miles;"
and accepts without dissent the assertion
of Mr. G. F. Kuuz, that thcro may hero
be seen at a glauce a million tons of
precious stones. A matter-of-fact
visitor might say that the sceno reminded
him of a vast logging camp, where the
lumbermen had tossed tho liuuo logs
from their sleds at random, ami then
had gone away, leaving them to become
rain-soaked and moss-grown. The
trees when standing were fully two
huudred feet high; for even now their
prostrate trunks measure, when un
broken, from ouo huudred to ono hun
dred and fifty feet. Tho peculiarity
already hinted at is that these mighty
truuks are as regularly severed iuto
sections as if the work had been done by
a cross-cut saw. The lengths vary from
disks like cart wheels to logs twenty or
thirty feet long, or longer. Twigs nrc
found an inch through, and truuks ten
feet thick. They lie at every angle;
parallel to each other, and at right
angles; singly and iu great groups: dowu
in gulleys and perched like uuuuou on
hill tops.
And all these myriads of trunks,
stumps, logs, bruuehes and tiny twigs
are solid stone. Aud on inspection they
prove to bo precious gems of almost every
known variety. Those that romaiu in
tact have been weathered to a dark rod,
rich brown, or sober black. But Time's
relentless ax, aided by tho geologist's
hammer, has niado havoc with so many
of them that tho ground is thickly strew n
with their fragments, from rocks like
bowlders dowu to chips and minute
splinters, that show their brilliant colors
under the lierco Arizona sun with
kaleidoscopic effect. At every footfall
you tread on gems, some of which might
grace a ducal coronet, while tho most
plum and least attractive would lie worthy
ot au honored place iu the finest cabinet
mere aro no ruiues, rappliires nor
diamonds hero (as has bceu incorrectly
reported), Dut the Hiiiethyst abounds,
ami the red und yellow jasper, chalce
dony of every hue, the topaz, the onyx,
the carneliuu, and every iuiagiuable
variety of ogatc. Nor log, nor frag
ment, is limited to a single kind of gem.
Many aro massive niosuics of ull tho
kinds named above. The material breaks
pretty easily into cubical forms, but it is
extremely hard, und takes a brilli itit and
durable polish.
Hoir Dust (jets Iu.
When thu uir around us becomes con
densed shrinks into u smaller volume
it becomes heavier, puts greater pres
sure ou the surface of the mercury aud
makes it ascend iu thu tube; then thu
mercury is said to rise. When thu air
expands swells into a larger volume
it becomes lighter, the pressure ou tho
mercury is less, the mercury sinks iu the
tube and the barometer is said to fall.
Therefore every change of height of tho
(juicksilver which wo observe is a sil'ii
und meosuro of a chatigu iu the volume
of uir around us.
Further, this change iu volumo tells
no less tipuu tho air inside our cuses ami
cupboards. When the barometer falls,
the air around expands iuto a larger
volume, und the air iusido the cupboard
ulso expands aud forces itself out at every
luiuotu crevice. When thu barometer
rises agaiu, the uir inside thu cupboard,
as well us outside, condenses and shrinks
and uir is forced back iuto thu cupboard
to equalize thu pressure, und along with
tho uir iu goes the dust. Thu smaller
the crevice the stronger I hu jet of uir,
the farther goes thu dirt. Wituess tho
dirt tracks so olteu seen iu imperfectly
framed engravings or photographs. Re
member, lu lies und gentlemen, w henever
you see the barometer rising, that uu ad
ditional charge of du.-.t is entering your
cupboards ami drawers. Detroit Free
Press.
I ni quo May of Cutcliiii Seal.
Mr. Dyer, wiio lives on a small island
near Seveu Hun lied Acre island, lules
borough, -Me., Iris a unique way of
catching .seal. lie takes a pole seven
feet iu length, to w Inch are attached a
number of common co .li,li hooks wilh
lanyards several feet in height. Thu
hooks me I a le I wilh a Liniu.'. 'I'll in
contrivance is unciiorcd and booted, the
hooks being just below ihu surl iee. The
seals in swallowiug the Inning Imonii.
hooked aud are cuught. .Mr. Dyer ha
taken a laue number iu this in u.ui r,
ew Voik Post,
THE EARLY OWU
I An Owl once lived in a hollow tre
And he wns as wise as wise could ba
The branch of Learning he didn't know
Could scarce on the tree of knowledge
grow.
He knew the tree from branch to root.
And an Owl like that can afford to hoot,
And he hoote 1 until, alas I one day
He chance I to hear. In a casual way, 1
An iuslgi ant little bird
Make use oV term he had never heard, y
He was flying to bed in the dawning llhfc
When he heard hor singiug with all her
might,
"Hurray I hurray for the early worm I"
"Dear meP' said the Owl, "what a singu
lar term I
I wonld look it up If it weren't so late;
I must rise at dusk to investigate.
Early to bed and early to rise
Makes an Owl healthy and stealthy and
wise I
Po he slept like an honest Owl all day, I
Aud rose in early twilight gray.
And went to work in the dusky light
'i o look for the early worm all night.
He Ht-'uvhed the country for miles around,
lint the early worm was not to be fouu I.
So he went to bod in the dawning light,
And looked for u i "worm" again next
night.
And again and again, ami nain and again.
He sought and he sought, but all iu vain,
Till he must have looked for a year and a
day
For the early worm, In the twilight gray. '
At last iu despair he gave up the search,
And was heard to remark, as he sat on his
perch
I!y the side of his nost in the hollow tree,
"Tho thing is as plain as night to me
Nothing can shake my cinviction firm.
There's no such thin.; as the early worm."
Oliver Herford, in St. Nicholas.
HUMOR OF THE DAT.
Brightest idoa of the century Tho
electric light. Dallas News.
The man with a pocketful of rocks
can afford to throw stones. Boston
Transcript.
Tho shoemaker is a man who fre
quently gets "beaten out of his boots."
Statesman.
In baseball it does not follow that tho
heaviest nine will gravitato to the bot
tom. Boston Transcript.
It's only iu the order of events that
when his boat girl shakes a fellow he's
rattled. Philadelphia Times.
His Chance: Edith "How cheap I
fecit" Young Scapoly "Edith, will
you bo mine?" Kate Field's Washiug.
ton.
Couuting the chickens before they ara
hatched is the highest way of showing
couliduuco iu the reliability of tho heu.
Baltimore American.
A man always knows what ho would
have done iu another fellow's place, but
the other fellow doesn't always believo
it. Louisville Courier-Journal.
"Give mo the treasury, pie ise," he cried.
To a maid with a dark brown curl;
Til do it with pleasure, sir, she replied,
For sliu was u telephone yirl.
Washington Star.
A young woman who went out sailing
at Atlantic City the other day described
the bow and stem ot tho ynoht us "tho
point uud th blunt." Philadelphia Rec
ord. Edison has putonted COO inventions,
but he bus to slap at the summer lly just
as vainly us anybody else. Genius can
not do everything. Baltimore Ameri
can. Gushing Girl "Now, don't you put
my mime in your paper; don't you dare."
Experienced Reporter "Very well.
Row did you say you spell your namei"
Washington Star.
"Jack Wilkins broke his bicyclo yes
terday." "Lucky fellow," replied
Willie Wishingtoti. "Aline is a wild a,
it was the first day I twiod fi wide it."
Washington Post.
Things ouo would rather have ex
pressed otherwise. (Lady Festus at
home, 2 a. m.) Hostess "Only just
come, Sir George! How good of you to
come so late!" Punch.
"You can't claim," said tho mau who
doesn't care for tho rod and line, "that
fishing affords exercise." "Oh, yes it
was the reply; "for the imagina
tion. V ashiU''tou Star.
"Thu stylo of writing that you do
must be very hard work." Herbert
"Well, it is; but what made you think
of iff" Gladys "Why, it makes me
tired to read it. "Chicago Inter-Oceuu.
"Ah, Ilardup! I hear your uncle is
de-id. Rather an eccentric man. Was
he alto ether right iu his head:" "Well
.1 1 couldn't say, you know, till
tho will is read.'' liostou Commercial
Bulletin. Mis Thin "Don't you think my new
di 'es is just exquisite They all say so."
runiiiu "Oil, lovely! I think that
dressmaker of yours could muko a
clothes-pole look quito graceful."
Brooklyn Eagle.
Tramp "Madam, won't von please
help a poor sick inaui'' Woman of
House "Why, vou don't look sick."
1 ramp "Yes 1 be, too, mi lain."
Woman of House "What are you sick
off" Tramp "Work."
A poor old toper, who was in the habit
of getting lost on his way homo, was
asked how lie could afford to keep tho
dog thut was always with him. "That
dog," he said, "not only boards himself
but buds me." Boston Post.
Rivers "I hear Cliollv Li'htrtate is
not going to Europe, alter all. lias hu
changed his miudf" B.iuks "II in
uiindf" Great tklottl His miudf '
lie simply isn't goiug ou account i
total lack of change." Chicago
buue.
Young Author "What did you
of uiy uew novel?'1 Cynical L'u
"Oh, it is all well enough, 1 sup
but for general use 1 uiu inclmo.
think tome other opinio would
cheaper uud easier to take." Somei y;
Jouiuul.