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Every Northern State west of the Al
hniaBirs has a Stnto university.
London publishers are said not to
relish the Increasing ante in that city of
tlio American, magazines and porir di
calf. Aocording to the New York Indepen
dent "business Is growing more sctiye
nt nearly every Important point, whether
in the East, West or South."
A well-informed statistician has stated
that more Ilobrew synagogues have been
set up in this country during the past
, tcu years than in all previous years of
American history.
Tho popular subscription of $13,000
raised in New York City to provide for
sick babies did a great work. Over
116,000 families were visited and over
10,000 sick were prescribed for.
The Doston Transcript laments that
whales aro gottlng almost as scarce at
sea serpents, and that whalebone is got
tlng to cost so much that dressmakers'
bills aro just about half "or trim
mings. "
The Kalmucks have an original method
of treating cholera. Whenever one of
thcin is attacked by tht epidetnio ho
mounts a horse and gallops as long as ho
has strength to stay on the animal's back.
A Russian journalist tried this remedy
recently and is said to have found it ef
fectual. Columbus is everywhere, the Now
V"rk Journal exclaims, and -the very
i- mils seem to shout his name. Even
p yasht clubs talk of having lectures
u tho voyago of Columbus, and before
Inter is over some of them may be
' biding the question "Was Columbus
.;r,b of a sailor!"
U was lately quoted in British shipping
-:!o as a proof of the depression affect
Ini; tho shipping trado that a splondid
fo;ir-iunstod iron bark of 2000 tons reg
'er, owned on the Clyde, came into
i t from Australia in ballast, was un
"Mr to get a caro, and sailed baok for
'io antipodes again with the same ballast
'i i brought with her.
Tho Azores are to be connectod with
' irnpa by cablo and European weather
: ruphcts are indulging In tho hope that
; .m: Hands so eligibly situated in mid
Atlantic ooean may be utilized at meteo
rological stations. As most of the Euro
pean storms come from that quarter the
Chicago Herald thinks that a station in
the Asorcs would be of the utmost value
to science as well as to tba world's com
iv.iTC.tal marine.
') l.o railroad building of 1893 in the
Vuiii.d Statei is entrusted by the New
York Independent at a little less than
4'JOO miles. This 4000 miles will bring
Uib railroad mileago of tho country up to
nn aggregate of 175,000 miles. Only
10,000 miles of railroad wero built from
1830 to 1851; duiing the next five yean
ns many more were built, and then tho
increase was greater until 1837, when
13,800 miles were built, tho largest num
ber of new mileage roc r led in any ono
year.
Capitalists ate preparing to establish a
line of steamers between Portland, Ore
gon, aud tbo Sandwich Islands to obtain
u share of the trado which San Francisco
i i.v mcnopolir.es. The Islands last year
i to San Francisco firms $37.3,000 for
1 1 and $165,000 for grain and fcod.
i ':aud can supply these staples cheaper
i.i.. ii its rival, nod in return for thorn
. to bring bananas, pioeapnlos,
.u-u.joub, and other fruits to its own
door. As a loctl merchant puts it:
"There is co reason why Portland should
pay Ban Francisco a commission on our
f r-.i it., and no reason why the islands
, i.i pay San Francisco a commission
. a Oregon flour and feed. Closer com-
m relations must prove profitable
' ' . to Portland aud the islands, and I
i. : reason why the enterprise should
. . . l a success."
u Eastern paper appears a lament
- r the departure of tho typical grand-'-"tier.
A pretty picture is drawn of
' .o gray haired old lady that is a mem
ry of childhood, with her sweet and
( iUiout face and gcutlo manuers. Theu
: t is affirmed that she is no more. In
r place has como a womau who uses
rouge and has her children's , children
call her "Aunty" There would be
iutsous for lamentation had the grand
mother really vanished, admits the 8au
KriinciKCO Examiner, but she hasn't. The
i-ni writer may have been deprived
e, imJ may have seen a spcoimeu
. of the bogus aunty. But the
. . ; i.jsUlt is a fixture. In many a
...1.1 she is tho central object of at
.'I, us sweet and gentle as ever.
M i -) of living" ohauge, and not al
. , i .r the better, but they have never
..! so radically and badly as to
. .u'.n tho grandmother, and when
v do the time will have coma to writ
. i,,iiou a failure.
WHF.RBTHE BOUC5H ROaD TURNS,
Where the rough road turn and th valley
sweet
' Smile soft with Its balm and bloom,
We'll forget the thorns that have pierced
th feet
And th nights with their grlet and
gloom.
And th skies will smile and th star will
beam ''
And we'll lay us down In th light to
dream.
We shall lay us down In th bloom and
light
With prayer and a tear for res
As tired children who creep at night
To th lov of a mother's breast;
And for all tho grief of th stormy past
Rest shall b sweeter at last at laatl
Swoeter because of th weary way
And th lonesome night and long,
Whtl the darkness drifts to th perfect
day
With its splendor of light and song:
Th light that shall bless us and kiss us and
lov ns
Anu sprinkle the rose of heaven above
ns!
F. L. Stanton, In Atlanta Constitution.
A SWISS LOVE STORY.
BY. ANNA PIKRPONT BIVITBR.
N a pretty chalet
that nestled high
agnintt the shaggy
breast of Mount Ob'
gadin lived the
widow Neur and her
daughter Marie.
A lonely home you
would have thought
It, but the fir trees
that wailed so in
iyour ears whispered
good cheer to Marie,
When fierce winds
came rushing down
the mountain side, the knew the trees
would bend their tall heads together and
twine their strong arms arouud her
home, until, robbed of bis victim, the
bafBed storm rushed by.
When morning broke, the same
friends stood erect and stately, drawing
aside their leaves and branches, that the
sunbeams might not linger In their soft
embraces, but hasten down to awaken
their favorite, Marie.
Very lovely was the little Swiss maid,
with violet eyes that now danced and
sparkled and then grew soft and tender
a a little child's. Two rose rod lips
shut in her pearly teeth, and when she
smiled a tiny dimple danced foi a mo
ment on her peachy check. Her hair
clung in caressing curls around her low
white forehead, and fell in ripples of
golden sunshine far below her slender
waist. And her voice I Ah I that was
Marie's greatest charm. Soft and clear,
not a discordant note marred its sweet,
pure harmony. Sometimes as she sang
at her evening devotions the herdsmen
far below in the valley, catching faint
notes of her song, looked up and crossed
themselves, half believing they heard
the echo of an ange'. choir.
But very few knew of Marie's beauty.
For when she went with her mother on
on of her raro visits to the hamlet be
low, she brushed ber wavy hair straight
and smooth back from her forehead, and
braided it in long still plait which fell
down her back.
Her eyelids, with their curtains of
long illky lashes, drooped over her danc
ing eyes until one looked in vain for a
glimpse of their beauty. Her red lips
shut firmly over her pearly teeth, while
the dimple hid itself resolutely away from
sight. And ber sweet voice, frightened
at its own sound so far from home, grew
faint and huiky, until, in this shrink
ing, sober damsel, walking so timidly
beside the Widow Neur, you would havo
found it hard to recognize the beautiful
Marie of the mountain.
So it happened that only her mother
and one other person knew bow good
ana sweet ana now lair Mane was.
This other was a stranger who came
from a far away country and spent his
summers in a little house on the moun
tain's very top.
The simple villagers called him "the
wizard," aud told strange tales of how
be spent whole nights gazing at the
heavens through a long tube; that he
could foretell to an hour when the sun
would cover itself with darkness; but,
strangest of all, he had a little wire
stretched for miles over hills and valleys
to the great city I This wire talked to
him in a queer language which no one
elsj could understand.
"Vick, tick, tickety tick," It said,
and it told him things that happened
miles and miles away.
Marie did not know how wise the
wizard was when he csme to hor home
one morning and asked for a drink of
water.
He followed ber to the spring when
she went for it and stopped by the way
to break open a curious stone. He
showed Marie how queerly marked it was
inside, and then teldher a story about it.
The usually timid maiden was so inter
ested she forgot to be frightened, and
thus a strong friendship between the two
was begun.
After this the wizard often came to
the widow's chalet for rest and refresh
ment on his long rambles, and Marie un
consciously revealed her charms to him,
one by one, until, long before the first
summer was ended, the stranger knew
that no girl in all the canton could be
compared with Marie.
On the other side of the mountain from
the Widow Neur's home lived another
widow. Sh?, too, bad but one child, a
son, who was the pride and delight of
her life. This was the brave young
hunter and guide Qustavus Friel.
Every one knew and liked Qustavus.
He was tall, straight, and huudsotue,
with flashing brown eyes, and a laugh as
frank ai a child's; he was the favorite of
the canton, and there was not a girl
within its bounds who would not have
been proud to plight her troth with
him.
Qustavus, however, cared little for th
Obgndin maidens. lie would far rather
chase the chamois Up tho mountainside
or guide travelers through its dangerous
passes than spend his time with the finest
of the maid, of the hamlet.
His mother often said, "My son, when
wilt tbou bring me home a daughter and
thyself a wifet"
And Qustavus, smiling and and press
ing a kiss on her forehead, would an
swer "When I find a maid as good as thee,
mother; but I want no idle, shrill-voiced
wife to disturb our quiet home."
But one day his mother said more
sadly and seriously than ever before:
"Qustavus, I am growing old and
feeble. I can no longer make and mend
thy clothes and keep our home. Thou
must have a wife. Promise me at the
fete next week thou wilt choose one
from among the maidens there."
Qustavus reluctantly gave ber the de
sired promise, but it weighed heavily
upon him. He could think of nothing
else, and the more he pondered the
heavier his heart grew.
At last be seized bis gun and went
out on the mountain, but the perplexing
questions followed him, until at last be
threw himself on the ground groaning,
"Oh, that some wise man would make
this choice for me 1"
A moment after he looked up and
saw, as if in answer to his wish, the
wizard approaching him.
"Why," he exclaimed to himself,
"did I not think of him before? Surely
he, if any one, can help me." Then,
with a throbbing heart, Gnstavos sprang
up to meet him. '
The wizard greeted Qustavus warmly,
for he felt a strong friendship for the
young guide who had taken him safely
through many a dangerous mountain
excursion. "
And now his sympathetic question,
"Why, what's troubling you, my boy?"
opened the way for Qustavus to pour out
ail his perplexity, euding his recital
with the question;
"Canst thou not help me choose a
good wife who will make ray life hap
py! For now I have given my mother
tny promise to find a wife at the fete
next week."
The wizard smiled sympathetically,
and then thought in silence ft little
while before he answered.
"If a pure, true heart ie united to a
true, pure heart, both lives must bo
bappy."
"Alas I" answered Gustavui, "but I
know not which maiden among them all
has the purest, truest heart I"
"There will be ono such heart at the
fete," answered the wizard, "but you
may fail to recognize it. However, If you
will come to me to-morrow I will give
you a charm that will show you this
heart."
Here was comfort, indoed, and with a
light heart Qustavus thanked his friend
and bounded forward.
Left alone, the wizard continued down
the mountain-side until he came in sight
of the Widow Neur's chalet, where he
found Marie sitting by the spring. In
stead of her usual sunshiny smile, tiny
tear-drops stood In her eyes, and there
was a grieved look about her rosy lip
that made him wish to comfort her.
"What is the matter little one!" be
asked gently.
"Oh, sir," she said, "I want to see
the great fete next week, but I have no
pretty ornaments to wear, and then
Tho long curtains drooped over her
shining eyes and the sweet voice sank
almost to a whisper.
"The good mother says none of the
young men will care to dance with me."
"Hut why ! ' asked tho wizard in sur
prise.
"Because I cannot talk and laugh
with them as other maidens do. My
heart beats fast if they do but glance
toward me, and I know not what to aay,
and so," here a tear slipped from under
the long eyelashes "my mother says I
had better not go."
"Courage, little one," the wizard an
swered. "Tell your mother," he added
suddenly, "that I am going to lend you
a silver belt to wear, and that my knowl
edge tells me that the bravest, hand
somest youth in all the land will dance
with you quite joyfully."
The happy Marie thanked the wizard
as Qustavus had done, and ran off to tell
tho wonderful news to her mother.
Early next morning Qustavus went for
his charm. Ho lound the wizard waiting
for him, aud taking him into bis strange
room, the wise man said, smiling, as he
had the day before, half quizzically,
half sympathetically:
"Here's the charm, my good fellow.
You see it is a magic ring. Put it on
before you go to the fete, and be sure
you dance with every maiden there.
When you place your arm about the
waist of the one whose heart is true and
good a strange foeling will run through
you and your hand will cling to her. But
you must be sure that you dance with nil 1'
Qustavus, greatly wondering, thanked
the wizard and slipped on the ring. ,
It was a curious circlet of iron, with a
flat extension, which the wizard bade
him wear pointing toward his palm.
When the fete day came Qustavus was
there among the other young men, eager
to try his charm.
All the maidens of Obgadin were there
also, and on the outskirts of one of tho
gay crowds little Marie hovered timidiy
beside her mother.
"Why didst thou come, Marie I ' asked
ono of the girls.
'4idgt thou think any youth would
want to dance with a mouse to-day t"
asked another.
Then seeing the quick tears trembling
on Marie's lashes, she added more kind
Iji "Ah, well, thou canst at least see our
good times."
"What a lovely belt thou hast, Marie 1"
cried another maiden. "Where didst
thou get it!"
"The wizard gave it to her," the
Widow Neur answereJ shortly, for she
did not relish the girl's tone, aud she
drew her daughter away.
"Come, Marie, let us lit here under
the trees and watch the dance."
Marie ntatled close to her mother' i
side, and as the hours fled and no youth
asked her to danco, her head dropped
lower, and she wondered if the wise
man had made a misiake.
In the mean time Qustavus danced
with one after another of the maids, but
though he watched with intense eager
ness, not once did he feel the strange
thrill for which he waited.
'I have danced with them all," he
said at last to himself, "oxcept that shy
one over there: surely she is not the
girll"
He asked her name of one of the
girls, and then going to her, said sim
ply: "Marie, wilt thou dance with me!"
Astonishment and delight made Marie
for a moment forget her shyness. The
wizard's words had come true!
Rising quickly, she said, smiling upon
him, and showing her beautiful eyes
already dancing with delight, and the
dear little dimple in her cheek: "Art
thou come!"
"She is not so plain, After all,"
thought Qustavus, as be answered:
"Wast tbou looking for me, Marie!"
Marie hung her head without answer
ing, and Qustavus, wondering a little at
ber words, led ber to the dance.
As he placed his arm around her his
band touched her shining belt.
Instantly a strange thrill ran through
them both, and Qustavw's arm seemed to
cling to Marie's waist.
"Marie, didst thou feel that!" he asked
earnestly.
And Marie smilingly answered I
"Yes."
So they began dancing, and as they
danced it seemed to those watching them
that a wonderful transformation came
over Marie.
Her hair, shaken loose from its long,
stiff braids, hung like a glittering gol
den veil all around her, her beautiful
eyes shone like stars, and the dimpled
cheeks and pearly teeth formed a fit hiding-place
for tho laughing voice that now
and then rang sweet and clear from hei
rosy lips. Not one of the village maid
ens was half so fair as she I
"Surely," said the amazed villagers,
"there was never suoh a handsome
couple."
"But is not Marie under a charm,"
cried others, "she has suddenly grown
so lovely!"
"Love's witchery, it it is true and
pure, will transform all of us and bring
out all that is loveliest and best within
us."
As for Qustavus, he thought rightly
that he never seen so good nnd beautiful
a creature, and he blessed the wizard for
the charm which had led his heart to
hers.
Long before the summer encled, Qus
tavxs took home Maria to be his own
and his mother's greatest joy and bap
piness.
When M. le Wizard returned to Paris
that winter, be read a scientifio paper
before the savants of the Academy,
In it he detailed many of his wonder
ful discoveries and his work during the
summer. But he did not speak of the
most interesting of all how, by the
aid ot a little magnet, ooncealed in a
steel belt, and a rude ring, he had
brought together two loving human
hearts, and by so doing had caught
some of the happiness of Paradise and
imprisoned it in a ohalet on old Obgadin
Mountain. Pittsburg Bulletin.
An Extinct Monster.
The steamer City of Topeka, which
anived from Alaskan ports early the
other morning, brought a mammoth
skeleton that was the center of attraction
to large number of sight-see re rs at
Pacific wharf, states the Port Townseod
(Washington) Leader. The skeleton is
is that of a rhamphoreates, or whale liz
ard, only the second one known to be in
existence. The other, a much smaller
specimen than this, was found some
years ago near Oxford, England, and is
one ot the most valued specimens now on
exhibition in the British Museum. J. L.
Buck, of Everett, claims the honor ot
having brought this valuable relic to
light, although it was discovered four
years ago by a prospector named Frank
Wi'.loughby.
The spot where the skeleton was found
by Buck, who went north for that pur
pose, was nearly a mile from where the
original location was reported. The
skeleton was finally located by Buck and
his Indian assistant on top of the cele
brated Muir glacier, six miles inland and
SOU foet above the sea level, securely im
bedded in a largo cake of ice, requiring
the service of the entire party for two
days to dislodge it. At some time dur
ing its existence the skeleton was badly
shattered, presumabl) by a fall or by
being crushed, and was somewhat dam
aged when taken ont.
The rhamphoreates, or whale-lizard,
bos been extinct for over five centuries,
and is described in natural history as the
"king of the land and the sea," this cog
nomon being undoubted lyabased on the
fact that it was equally at homo In the
water, on land or in the air. In the first
instance the rate ot speed was something
terrific, the momentum being produced
with the legs, while the enormous wings
served to keep the body out of the water,
the operation bordering upon the impos
sible feat of walking on the water. The
great size of the whale-lizard can be
judged from the fact that a single bone
weighed 7tt pounds, while the entire
skeleton tipped the scales at 2400 pounds.
The bones will be put together by Buck
at bis borne in Everett, aud after being
exhibited will be sent to the Smithsonian
Institution. The specimen is valued at
130,000.
The lace bark tree grows in the West
Indies. It is a lofty tree, with ovate,
entire smooth leaves and white flowers.
It is remarkable for the tenacity of its
inner bark and the readiness with which
the inner bark may be separated after
maceration in water into layers re
sembling lace.
Two land granta, said to bear the
signatures of John Adams and Martin
Van Buren, were recently found in a lot
of waste paper at the paper mill In
Palmyra, Mich.
THE SAVAGES OF BRAZIL.
CURIOUS TRIBES OP INDIANS
WHICH INHABIT THE COUNTRY.
Habit ot the Uotocndos Pleasant
People Who Make Parlor Orna
ment of Their Enemies' Head.
OF the 12,000,000 people now
occupying Brazil not quite one
third, says Fannie B. Ward in
the Washington Star, ore
"Caucasians," and in the majority of
individual cases they are so largely
"mixed" as hardly to deserve the name.
Another third are negroes ; less than one
tenth are Indians, and the rest como un
der the general head of Metis, or mixed
beyond classification. The first, the ed
ucated, generally wealthy and compar
atively white Portuguese, Brazilians,
Spanish-Brazilians and Suxon-Brazilians,
whether planters, politicians, merchants
or gentlemen of leisure, are naturally the
ruling class; as in all Nations of mixed
races the whitest, though in ever so
small a minority, arc the controlling ele
ment. To these should be added the
soldiers, or though the rank and file
shade from black and tan to ebony they
are officered by white men of command
ing talent and influence. It was they
who wrought the recent revolution which
overthrew an Empire (really against the
wishes of the majority of Brazilians out
side the capital;, who ousted the first
President in the beginning ot his term,
and are capable at any time of any sort
of political overturning.
Brazilian Indians are said to be about
the ugliest human beings on the face ot
the earth, not excepting the "Diggers"
of lower California and the tribes of
Ticrra del Fuego. The Botocudos, who
are most noted, have advanced far
euough to till small patches of land, live
in huts, raise cattle and weave mats for
sale. The Portuguese gave them their
singular name from the word potogue,
meaning a barrel bung from their habit
of wearing large, round disks of wood
in their ears and under lips. This fashion
used to go so far that in middle life
many of them had stiff uuder lips pro
jecting five or six inches, holding a plug
as big as the top of a coffee cup. Of late
years the custom is mostly discontinued.
The men varnish themselves all over
with bright yellow paint made from the
bark and gum of a species of palm ; and
the women "dress up" as some civilized
ladies do, by applying a few streaks ot
white and red to their faces aud arms.
Though many of the Bjtocndos are now
partially civilized, we are assured that
those of the far interior are yet cannibals
to the extent of eating their captives
taken in war. Like the Qreeks of the
Homeric age, they consider it the great
est of evils to lie unburied after death;
so tbey delight in making flutes and
trumpets of their enemies' bones. I
have the questionable pleasure of own
ing one of these ghastly trophies, which
has five holes, and is ornamented with
tufts ot red and yellow feathers attached
to the bone by strings; but it requires
somebody more courageous than your
correspondent to test its value as a
musical instrument by personal experi
ment. There is another Brazilian tribe,
whose name I do not remember, who are
an almost exact counterpart of the Pue
blos of Mexico and Arizona simple,
peaceful and Industrious. They live near
the coast and are doubtless descendants
of those Pinzon and other early voyagers
first encountered. But unfortunately
they are few in number and rapidly
dying out, for among their tierce neigh
bors tho "turn unto him tho other
cheek also" principle is disastrous to
life and property. 'I hero are many scat
tered tribes of unreclaimed savages, most
of whom are wandering caunibals and
all implacably hostile. Perhaps the
most interesting among these (at a safe
distance) are the Muudrucus or "IJe
headers," who, with their ullius, are
said to number between twenty and
thirty thousand. They live up the Ma
dura Tapajos, Itio Negro and other trib
utaries of the Ama.ou, in palm leaf huts
set around a central malocca; the latter
not the dwelling of a chief, as might be
supposed, but rather a grand council
chamber, fortress, arsenal and general
pow-wow room. Ta it aro deposited
those horriblo trophies, the preserved
heads of their enemies, which have given
to the Muudrucus their title of "Bo
headers." Vnlikethe Jiveros of South
eastern Ecuador, tbey do not extract the
skull, but by some savage process of
embalming keep the cranial relic as
nearly entire as possiole, inserting false
eyes (made ot bits of shell or polishod
quartz), the long hair combod
carefully out and decorated with
strings of rockcock and macaw
feathers, feather earrings in the ears and
dyed strings passed through the tongue by
which to suspend it to the rafters. In
peaceful times hundreds of these aro
ranged around the walls of the malocca
or set in rows arouud the mandioca fields
to keep the ghosts away that might
otherwise injure the growing food, and
on warlike and festive occasions they are
trotted out on the poiuts ot tho warriors'
spears. Strange to say the Dyaks of
Borneo have a similar custom of preserv
ing their enemies' heads, and are pro
vided with blowguns, almost identic
with those of South Americans.
Like most other Amu.nniun Indians,
the Mundrucus cultivate a little mandioca,
corn and plautains. They know how to
prepare farinha meal from the mandioca,
and also to brew a sort of intoxicaut re
sembling chica. They have gourd ves
sels, some of them quaintly carved, ruUe
j-jta ot baked clay sud utensils of wood
and stone. Their canoes are hollowed
tree trunks, snd besides tho blowguus
for killing birds, they have bamboo s-iears
with poisoned points and arrows tipped
with the deadly curare. By the way, the
latter is now generally conceded to bo
neither a vegetable poison nor the veuom
of serpents, as was formerly supposed,
but the putrid matter from ducked
human bodies, the arrows bein'j stuck
into a festering corps aud left uutil
soaked full of the deadliest poison known.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
A door-closer is operated by gravity.
A machine is made for grooving horse
shoes. Plowing by electricity is in contempla
tion for a large property in Spain.
At the present time the average height
of the tides the world over is only about
three feet.
An incorrodible metal, which Is like
wise very hard, is made by amalgamating
nickel with steel.
A French chemist has succeeded in
making imitation diamonds that cost
more than the genuine.
It is believed that diphtheria is some
times contracted by little children while
playing near the sewers when the latter
are opco for repairs or other purposes.
The use of minute quantities ot chro
mium in steel to give it exceptional hard
ness was probably first carriod out on a
commercial scale by Julius Bauer, of New
York.
The life of a locomotive crank pin,
which is almost the f.rst thing about an
engine to wear out, is 60,000 miles, and
the life of a thirty-three-inch wheel is
66,733 miles.
A California company makes a splendid
article of toilet soap from the froth
skimmed from a boiling compound. It
is supposed to bo a mixture of borax,
alkali and mineral oil.
At Baku, Russia, there is an Immense
oil well that "ebbs and flows" with the
same regularity as do the ocean tides.
It is believed to have some mysterious
connection with the sea.
The lower grade of molasses sells for
such a poor price (two cents a gallon),
that some of tho Louisiana sugar houses
use it for fuel. Several ot the Cuban
sugar houses thus use It.
Sir John Lubbock, who probably
knows more about bees than any other
man in the world, living or dead,
says that there is strong evidence that
the queen bee has the power of control
ing the sex ot the egg.
It appears that a colored or dark pig
ment in tbo olfactory region is essential
to perfect smell. Iu cases where ani
mals are pure white they aro usually
totally devoid of both smell and taste,
and some, the white cat for instance,
are almost invariably deaf.
A Boston dentist advocated hypnotism
as a local anooithctic in a paper read be
fore the New England Dental Society
and hypnotized a patient there and then
as an object lesson in the practise, per
forming a dental cutting without elicit
ing from the patient any manifestation
of feeling. The paper was unaccom
panied by drawings.
The gall of a gall-fly produced on an
oak attracts, states Dr. Rathay, by their
viscid secretion, a number of small ants,
which he believes to be advantageous to
the tree in killing quantities of caterpil
lars and other insects which are its
natural enemies. He illustrates tho
value of this protection by the statement
that the inhabitants of a single ant's nest
may destroy in a single day upward of
100,000 insects.
It is found that masonry may be ren
dered impervious to water, especially in
positions exposed to direct contact to
that element, by the application of coal
tar. The latter is employed in a boiling
state, in ono or more layers, or it may
be made to flame up before being used,
the first being suitablo for surfaces ex
posed to the air, while tho second is ap
propriate in the case of parts intended
to be covered up. This method of treat
ing foundations is declared to be of
special utility in all publfo buildings,
particularly those designed for the pres
ervation of works of art, preventiug as it
does exudations of water charged with
lime salts from the mortar.
Morale of Thirteen Fnrs.
A rug, ten by fifteen foot, made up the
fur of thirteen wild animals is now in the
possession ot W. II. Wallcnbar, who has
an office on Dearborn street. Mr. Wal
lenbar keeps his rug, which cost him
$1500, locked up iu the vault in his of
fice and takes it out only occasionally to
exhibit it to particular friends.
The rug was made in Moscow and took
one man two years to put tho pieces to
gether. Finished the rug has tho ap
pcaranco ot a rich mosaic, the deep yel
low ot the tigor woven into the coal
black of the South sea seal in diamond
shaped blocks. The center is made up
of three rings of a diameter of twenty
inches, the patch-like diamond pieces
radiating from a circular tuft of monkey
skin and bordered by a rim of otter.
The ground woik of the entire piece is
in monkey skin. Outside the large cen
ter pieces are two rows of circles. The
outside contains fourteen circles, six
inches in diameter, made of mink, an
gora and ottor. The inner rows contain
sixteen circles of Russia sable and monkey
akin. At either end aud on the sides is
a six-inch selvage of Russian silver fox
bide and twenty silver-gray fox tail
adorn the ends. In tho make-up pieces
of the furs from the Russia sable, Per
sian lamb, Angora goat, China goat,
mink, otter, South sea seals, monkey,
Thibet lamb, musk rat, weazel, leopard
and the Russia silver-gray fox are used
Chicago News Record.
EhkUhIi Fruit Market.
There is a prevalent notion that? our
markots arc richer iu fruits and vegeta
bles than those of Enlaud, yet a woman
writiug home of the great Coveut Gardt-u
market in Loudon says: "Of the lovl -n
ess aud variety of fruits here expose I
Americans have no adequate Idea. 1 sa v
so oi os of varieties ot Euglisband foreign
grapes, peaches as large as cricket balls,
glossy nectarines, scarlet and browr,
downy apricots, freckled by the sun,
monster nlunis. luscious Lrreen cajes.
Orleans plums and swans' eggs, glowing
magnum bonums, pears from the Chan
nel Islands and the south of France, mul
berries, melons, the ambergris, and lato
strawberries big as eggs, in temptiu,'
bouquets, bringing from teoptnee to a
shilling apiece." New York Post.
THE ORIOIN OP olt.
He talked about the origin -Of
sin.
Bat present sin, I mart confess,
He never tried to render lew.
Bat used to add, so people talk.
His shar onto the general stock
But grieved about the origin
Of sin.
H mourned about the origin'
Of sin.
But never struggled very long
To rout contemporaneous wrong,
And never lost his sleep, they say,
About the evils ot to-day
But wept about the origin
Of sin. ,
He sighed about the origin
Of sin;
But showed no fear you could detect
About its ultimate effect;
He deemed it best to use no forco,
But let It run it natural course
But moaned about the origin
Of sin.
Sam W. Foss, in Yankee Blade.
HUMOR OF THE DAT.
Of course a young woman expects to
be killing when sho puts on a kilt.
Fun.
It takes a master stroke to smooth
down a rebellious schoolboy. Texas
Siftings.
About all some peoplo want with re
ligion is to make them feel good.
Ram's Horn.
When the head of a mortal gets turned
it is always turned the wrong way.
Galveston News.
Many a wlso man has picked up a good
suggestion where some fool dropped it.
Galveston News.
Figures wont lie, but they aro as clay
to the potter in the hands of an expert.
Boston Transcript.
"She's a very upright young lady."
"Yes, but she's bout on matrimony."
Philadelphia Record.
A man who lives fast cannot expect
that enjoyment will keep up with him.
Binghamton Republican.
"Was the pug dog mad that the po
lloemnnshot!" "Gee, whiz I no; but the
woman that owned him was." Inter
Ocean. Forrester "How time doei fly."
Lancaster "I don't blame it. Think
how many peoplo there are trying to kill
it.1' Brooklyn Life.
At Home: Jack Dashing (angrily)
"Pen, I have found you out!" Penelope
Peachblow (yawning) "I really wish
you had, Jack." New York Herald.
When on bis hobby once he mounts,
He'll chatter by the hour.
His eloquence is not what counts; !
It is bis staying power.
Washington Star.
Al ft rule, a man who has a moustache
he can twist, or whiskers he can stroke,
Is three times as long making up hit
mind as one who hasn't. Atchison
Globe.
"Was your son graduated at the bead
ot his clots ( ' "No, Indeed. He was in
a much more responsible position at
the very foundation of it." Black and
White.
Walking is said to be the best exer
cise for brain workers, and it is worthy
of note that brain workers can seldom
afford to do anything else. Boston
Globe.
Mrs. Coldwatcr "I wonder why he
doesn't try holding his breath when ha
has hiccoughs." Jaglots "I guess it's
'most too strong for him." Chicago
Inter-Ocean.
"Well, this Is tough 1" exclaimed Jack
Frost. "What is J" asked tho man in
tho moon. "Hero is a newspaper allud
ing to me as Jack the Nipper." Indian
apolis Journal.
"Why is it that Mr. Hardy proved
such a flat failure in socloty?" ""That's
easy enough to answer. He talked sense
when out at sociul functions." Chicago
News Record.
Ho "A woman can't couceal bet
feelings." She "Can't, ch? She can
kiss a woman sho bates." He "Yes,
but she doesn't fool tho woman any."
Brandon Banner.
' "Do you think it is a symptom of in
sanity for a man to talk to himself!"
"Not uecossarily. It may bo merely a
good-natured toleration of poor society."
Washington Star.
Wife (excitodly) "If you go oti like
this 1 shall certainly lose my temper."'
Husband "No danger, my dear. A
thing of that size is not easily lost."
Commercial Bulletin.
It does not follow that a niau is super
ior to bis fellows becuuse he makes au
impression in society. The dull r.izor
is most successful in making its prcseuco
known. Boston Transcript.
"Do you see double'" asked the oculist
who was examining Farmer Fodder's
eyos. "Of course 1 do," replied the
farmer. "I have two eyes, haven't It"
Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph.
Van Arndt "She told me it was ber
first year out." Maid Mariau "Why,
she's been out four seasons." Vuu A.
"Ah, woll, she counts four sextons tho
year, I suppose." Kato Field's Wash
ington. A Jersey City ollicial who is in tho
coal business, anil has been underselling
bis neighbors, has beeu put uuder arrest
for selling light tons, aud is now likely
to learn something about the famous
weigh of the transgressor. Philadelphia
Ledger.
Jimmy "Cau you talk, Mr. Flypp!"
Mr. Flypp "Yes, of course I cau. Why
did you ask!" Jimmiu "Why, 'cauiu
I heard mamma say that your voice was
diowned lust night ut the concert, aud
that she was just awful glad of it."
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Mrs. Goodluck "I don't believe I
evr missed any oue as I do Mrs. Ill-
tone." Mrs. Dasher "1 didn't kuow
that you were acquainted with her."
Mrs. Goodluck "I wasu't exactly, but
we bad the same washerwoman aud we
have been exchanging haadke chiefs for
a loisg time." luter-Oceaa.