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Malaria is reKponsihlo for half the
deaths of nil mankind, according to an
English physician,
It is sold (lint two-thirds of nil the
rot ton iluek produced in the. world id
nindo within twenty milcB of Baltimore,
Md.
Dr. Burnch recently told tho New
York Academy thnt less drugs and
inoro hygiene ought to bo lined in tho
euro of the Kick.
1 A tnblo showing tho monetary sys
tem of tho world has been prepared
by Director of tho United States Mint
Trenton. The statistics show that tho
aggregate stock of gold is $H, 582, 005,
000; silver, $4,042,700,000, and un
covered paper, 2,!:l5,87i,O0O.
It in stated by tho Chicago Hernld
(lint an American house has concluded
acoutraet for 2, 500,000 tonsof Japanese
coal, to be delivered at Han FranciHCO
in tho courso of tho next ten years.
Hitherto tho coal imported at Han
Francisco has been principally Aus
traliau.
Tho American Farmer admits that
"tho New Zealnnders aro more pro
gressive than wo are. They have
passed a law giving women, married or
single, all the rights and privileges of
citizenship. Every woman in New
Zealand is now as good as any other
innu, and better if sho behaves her
self." Tho effect of a newspaper paragraph
may be far-reaching in its legal conse
quences sometimes especially in
Fraiice. AT. Cornet, overseer at tho
West of Franco Engine Works, was
severely attacked in tho columns of a
railroad newspaper L'Echo des Chem
ist lo Fer (Eulish, "Tho Railway
Echo"). . Ho took these criticisms so
much to heart that he committed sui
cide, leaving a widow and child. Tho
raid widow brought suit for damages
against L'Echo, holding that her hus
band's death was the direct result of
tho criticisms in that paper, and the
court, concurring in that view, award
ed tho'full amount claimed, ten thou
sand dollars, and condemned tho news
paper in tho entire costs of the action.
In his annual report Brigadier-General
Carl i u, commanding tho Depart
ment of the Columbia, says that the
experiment of making the Indian a
soldier is a decided failure so far as his
experience goes, and ho has recom
mended the discharge of the few Indian
soldiers now in his department, less
than a company. General Carlin re
ports thnt thero has been a decided
increase in desertions during the past
year, due, in a great measure, to the
unpopularity of the ten year service
law, and ho recommends tho ropeal of
that law. Ho also recommends that
tho small posts in his department be
abandoned and the troops concentrated
at a general post at the principal rail
road center.
The varieties of sleigh bells this sea
son will bo larger thau ever, announces
the Chiougo Herald, and manufactur
ers will cater more to luxurious tastes.
As ouo can now pay $50 or more for a
whip, bo can he give $40 for a body
ttrap of bells. For that he can get a
strap covered with Alaska sealskin,
with sixty silver, brass, gold or nickel
bells, the metal not being, of course,
so precious as tho names indicate.
Somewhat cheaper straps iro made of
beaver or mink, wool seal, kangaroo,
ooze calf or Persian lamb. Or if the
pleasure-seeker wishes, he can imitate
the tastes of the Russian, tho Lap
lander or the Tartar. In foxtail
plumes ho can find tho upright, the
drooping and the hanging plumes, or
some elegant horse hair plumes, for
$30 per pair.
That grand being, the American
heiress, specially created for the re
lief of embarrassed nobles, says the
London Speculator, has attained al
most to the summit of her ambition,
She has not won a throne yet, though
she may, if the King of Servia is a
wise man; but she 1ms almost up
proached that surpassing altitude. Ac
cording to the Pall Mall Gazette,
Prince Iseuberg-Birusteiu has been ac
cepted by Miss Pullman, daughter of
the lord of the diuing curs, and the
hereditary prince is not only the eldest
son of a mediatised prince, one of the
even-boru who might niurry a Haps
burg, but is hiuiHelf an imperial high
ness, his mother having been an Aus
trian archduchess. At least so says
the Almnhaeh do Gotha, which is a
iinal authority, American brides who
have only won Oolouuus, Borghesos or
English dukes, will feel quite eclipsed
and take no further pleasure in diu
moiids. The passion for rank is cer
taiuly not coutined to England, though
here it is so strong that ever, the
Queen felt promoted when she was
saluted Emprebb.
LITTLE ALL-AI.ONEY,
Mltle AU-Aloney's feet
I Titter-patter in the hall,
And his mother runs to meet
And to kiss her toddling sweet,
Ere perchance he fall.
He is, eh, so weak and small 1 '
Yet what danger shall ho fear
When his mother boveth near
And Be hears hor cheering call
"All-Aloney?'
Little AU-Aloney's face
It Is all aglow with glee,
At around that romping place
At a terrifying pnee
Lungeth, plungoth he
And that hero seems to lie
All unconscious of our cheers
Only one dear voice he hears
Calling reassuringly i
"All-Aloney !"
Though his legs bend with tholr load,
Though his feet they seemed so small
Thnt you cannot help forebodo
Some disastrous episode
In thnt noisy hull j
Neither threatening bump nor full
I.lttlo All-Aloney fears,
But with sweet bravado steers
Whither comes that cheery call I
"All-Aloney !"
Ab, thnt In the years to come.
When ho shares of Sorrow's store,
When his feet nre chill nnd numb,
When his cross Is burdensome,
Mkil his heart Is sore ;
Would that be could hear oneo mora
The gentle voice he used to hear
Divine with mother love and cheer
Calling from yonder spirit shore I
"All, all alone !"
Eugene Field, in Chicago Record.
REGINALD.
nr emma a. orr-En.
RTHUR CRAIG
tossed his cigar
away and strolled
around to where a
red-and-blne ham
mock was slang be
tween two o a k
trees, in the big
lawn which was the
great attraction of
the select summer
hotel though
it was summer no
longer ; there was an autumn scent in
the soft air. ,
But Lucy Wiuslow was staying here
still, with her brother's wife and her
little nephew ; therefore Arthur Craig
stayed on also.
She was sitting in the hammock,
with little Reginald beside her. Reg
inald always was besido her; their
fondness for each other was great. It
had been a sourco of affliction to Craig
all summer.
He told himself that ho wasn't jeal
ous of Reginald, but if a fellow could
get a chance to see a girl alone once a
week or so, it would be a relief. Lato
ly he had particularly wished to sec
Miss inslow alone.
"Hello, Arthnrl" said Reginald.
"Oh, Reginald, snid his pretty
aunt, nushing, " say Mr. i:raigl"
"That fellow that was down here to
see him called him Arthur, and I'm
going to, said Reginald.
He was eight years old, and had the
oiue-eyeo, iair-SKinneu lace ot a
cherub. But no cherub was ever so
pert and precocious as Reginald.
"Let him, Miss Winslow," said
Craig.
He dropped down on the grass at
her feet and looked up at her.
Surely she must know by this time
"Say," said Regir.nld, "you said
you'd take me boating on the river
again and you haven't."
'We've been several times, haven't
we?" snid Craig.
How sweet she looked I
"Oh, well, Aunt Lucy's always been
along I You said you'd take me, and
you got to !"
'Reginald, dear !" his Aunt Lucy
remonstrated.
"So I will," Craig agreed. "Hid
you read that poem I gave you, Miss
Lucy?"
"Veup, sho read it," said Reginald.
"Read some of it to me. It ain't any
good. Got a nice cover, that's all."
Lucy laughed softly.
"It is a beautiful thing, Mr. Craig,"
sho Baid. "I enjoyed every word of it."
"You you saw tho passage I
marked?"
Craig's face was flushed and eager.
"Yes!" Lucy murmured.
She looked closely at Reginald's
tailor-hat, in her lap.
"I'll tell you, Arthur," snid Regin
ald, swinging his lithe little legs, "if
you'd rather takemedown to Murphy's
and buy me two ieo-oream sodas choo
olnte first and then strawberry in
stead of taking me out in the boat,
w'y, you can it won't make any dif
ference to me."
"Oh, Reginald!" Lucy begged, with
a distressed luugh.
"Now, that is magnanimous!" Craig
responded. He wondered if his hearty
wish that Ecgiuuld was soinewhero else
was apparent? "I think I'll accept
that alternative. That passago I
marked, Miss Wiuslow I didn't do it
idly. There comes a time in a man's
life when he feels a a love like that
for some woman."
Did she know all he meant? Her
face was downcast and averted. Reg
inald, however, wasstariugfull at him,
and Craig's inward chatings intensified.
"Suy, you want to make a trade?"
Reginald demanded. "I got a k'loid
oseope, and I'm sick of it. I want a
printing press. 'Cuuso you haven't
got any, but if you'll buy one and give
me, I'll give you my k'leidoscopo and
mebbe fifty cents or so besides. Say,
'11 you do it, Arthur?"
"I'll think about it. Do you waut
to run over uud see if the mail is in,
Reginald? I'm expectiLg a letter."
Reginald reflected and shook his head.
"I guess I'll wr.it till byine-by," he
said, "und you cm go with me and
'.ve'll stop ut Murphy's."
"Miss Wiuslow," snid Craig, des
perately, "I don't know whether yon
know whether you have guessed-!
don't know, Miss Wiuslow, whether
you you have Biispeeted "
"My goodness 1" said Reginald, with
a high-pitched cight-ycar-old laugh ;
"what nre you trying to say, Arthur?"
Craig looked at Lucy. Wns she
laughing at him, too? jlis face grew
warm with tho sudden wretched sus
picion thnt she wns.
After all, wan be not a fool to think
for a moment that she could care for
him? Of a sudden ho saw matters in
a new, a painful light.
If sho had cared for him, would sho
not havo managed now and then that
they might seo each other alone?
How rarely had that occurred now
continually had that little nninhTnce of
a nephew dogged them ! Had Bhe con
trived it? Had she mode Reginald a
defense, a guard against unwelcome
advances? He was all at once misera
bly certain of it.
He was warm with mortification, and
cold nt heart with keen unhappinness.
Ho had been stnpidly slow of percep
tion, that was all. Rut thnt was a
thing which could be remedied.
Ho rose from the grass, and looked
down at Lucy Winslow with a set
smile.
"Well, I don't believe I know my
self what I'm tryingtosay, Reginald,"
he answered. "I needn t say good-by
to you just nowt Miss Winslow, for I'll
be here a day or so yet. But I'll bo
off about Thursday, I guess, and after
a month or so at home, I expect to go
out West on business that will keep me
there indefinitely, I imagine. I shall
think of this summer often, and with
pleasure, I assure yon."
He bowed, and turned away.
He took himself and his bitterness
up to hisroom. He felt that ever hour
until Thursday would be a period of
anguish ; and he began to put things
into his trunk in helter-skelter fashion.
Ho had half filled it when Reginald
walked in, without knocking. He sat
down in the largest chair.
"Ho?" he remarked, scoffingly,
"that tho kind of a trunk yon got,
with cloth all over it? Mine's got
wooden slats on, and tin and brass
nnils. Whnt's that thing? Opry
glasses, ain't it? Say, '11 you give
'em to me !
"Yes, take them," said Craig, wear
ily. Reginald spent several minuteB in ex
amining objects in the room through
the glnsses, for which he saw lit to re
turn no thanks.
"Say," he observed presently, turn
ing them upon Craig, "she's crying.
That's what I come up to tell you. 1
thought mebbe you'd like to know."
"Who's crying?" Craig demanded.
His heart stood still.
"Aunt Lucy's crying," said Regin
ald. "Sho began to cry soon s yon
turned round, most. 1 told her
somebody'd Bee her, but she didn't
ftop, and I wnsu t going to stay there
and her a blubbering, and I thought
I'd come up and tell you." Reginald
looked up with his angelio blue eyes
and his cheruluo smile. oay, lm
going to see what's in that plush box.
Arthur. You care
Craig strode from the room. He
got down the stairs two at a time, and
rushed around to the red-and-blue
hammock between the shady oak trees.
"Lucy!" he said, bendiug over her.
"You are not you can't be crying
because 1 in going away, Lucyr
There was a hot flush in tho tearful
face she raised to him.
"Oh, Lucy," he implored, "don't
bo ashamed of it ! If you are crying
about mo, don't you know I am tho
happiest man on earth? I was bo cer
tain yon .didn't care for me, and had
tried to ward me off with with
Reginald, you know, because he was
torever around. But if you can cry
because I am going away, Lucy, then
I can finish what I was trying to say
to you. Y'ou know what it was."
Lucy caught a sobbing breath.
"But you are going out West !" she
faltered.
"Yes, and you with me !" Craig re
torted. Nobody was near them, and he sat
down besido her, his hand warmly
clasping hers.
"How did you know I wa9 crying?"
Lucy queried, suddenly, after ten
minutes of glowing hnppiuess.
"Reginald came and told me.
Reginald is a trump," said Craig "a
jewel !"
"There he comes," said Lucy. "Oh,
Arthur, he's got your your smoking
jacket on !"
"It's my bath:robe," Craig re
sponded, with the composure of a
perfect, all-satisfying beatitude. "I
don't mind it in the least !" Saturday
Night.
(us For Cooking.
While electricity is trenching so
seriously upon the field of gus light
ing, uuy recent application of gas
which leads to an extension of its con-f-umption
is of importance to gas pro
ducers. Some foreign companies seem
to have done this quite successfully in
at least one direction. At the recent
Dundee meeting of tho North British
Association of Gas Managers one mem
ber, Mr. J. Bulhiutyne, of Rothesay,
stated that the company had gained
an increase of consumption of at least
fcity per cent, in about six years, due
to cooking by gas uinong its custom
ers. The gus company furnishes the
cookers to its patrons nt a rental of
ten per cent, of the list cost price per
annum, which charge also includes
putting them in, taking them away
and keeping them in order. About
eleven per cent, of the customers are
supplied. His and other companies
have not only found this a profitable
part of their market, but it has the
added advantage of being nearly a day
light consumption, thus tending to
equalize the deimyi 1 onthn plant.
Engineering Record.
SCIENTIFIC AM) INDUSTRIAL.
Clouds aro on the averago about
600 yards in thickness.
American tools aro for better thnu
those of European make.
The largest fish known to Rei neo in
tho basking shark, an enormous but
harmless variety.
A steel ship has been constructed in
Cardiff, Wales, with tho standing rig
ging, as well as the hull, all of steel.
The largest known species of night
flying insects is the Atlas moth, a resi
dent of the American tropics, which
has a wing spread of over a foot.
Human hair varies in thickness
from the 250th to the COOth part of nn
inch. The coarsest fiber of wool is
about one 200th pnrt of nn inch in
diameter ; the finest only the 1500th
part.
South American ants have been
known to construct a tunnel three
miles in length, a labor for thorn pro
portionate to that which would bo re
quired for men to tunnel under tho
Atlantic from New York to London.
Many larvsa of beetles and other
insects are used for food ; the bee gives
honey and wax, the coccus manna nnd
cochineal, the Spanish fly a blistering
drug, the gall insects an astringent,
and the silk worm an articlo of dress.
In Japan there are now twenty pub
blio electric companies in ojieratiou.
Further companies aro proposed, and
there is a considerable demand for
electrical engineers. Nearly all of tho
companies are conducted by Ameri
cans. ,
A New England firm is introducing
an automatic gas lighter for street
lamps, which works on tho prin
ciple of an eight-dny clock. It is
explained that the only attention the
lighter requires is a weekly winding
of the clock movement, and that it
lights the lamp at the required time
and extinguishes it at daybreak.
Safety matches that can be used
without a box are to be placed on tho
English market by a German inventor.
The idea is to tip the two ends of tho
wood separately with those composi
tions which in the ordinary way go
one on the box and the other on tho
match. To use, break the wood
across the middle and rub the ends to
gether.
An agent of tho Suez Canal Com
pany has invented an apparatus to
split the electric lights that illuminate
the canal into two divergent streams,
one sending out rays one way, the
other in the opposite direction. This
enables ships to approach each other
and meet with perfect safety. Formerly
the lights blinded pilots so that they
could not soe vessels coming in the op
posite direction.
A physician points out thnt fat
people endure most kinds of illness
much better than thin people, because
they have an extra amouut of nutri
ment stored away in their tissues to
support them during the ordenl.
Moreover, there aro many other con
solations for persons of abundant
girth. They aro generally optimists
by nature, genial and jolly com
panions, whose society is universnlly
preferred to that of people with
angular frames and dispositions.
At a recent State fair an inventor
exhibited a machine that he had con
structed for converting grapes into
sugar and syrup. Experts who wit
nessed the operation and others affirm
that the process is a complete suc
cess. The experiments were mostly
confined to Muscat and other sweet
grapes known to carry a large amount
of sacchnriuo matter. Heretofore tho
difficulty has been in granulating
grape sugar. But by this new pro
cess it is claimed that granulation is
perfect.
Tombs ol the Danish Kings.
In tho resting place of the old kings
of Denmark, the Cathedral of Rokes
kild, a reoent visitor notes thnt there
is a column against which a number of
monarchs have been measured, and
upon which their different heights are
recorded. One of them is Peter the
Great, and we learn by this means
thut the shipwright Czar measured no
less than eighty Danish inches, equiv
alent to something like six feet, ten
inch t s in our measurement. Only one
other of the sovereigns was taller, and
that was Christian I of Denmark, who,
according to this authority, was just a
trifle over seven feet English. Tho
Czar, Alexander II T, is about six feet
ouo inch, and is aout a couple of
inches taller thuu Christian IX of
Denmark, and about foiir inches taller
than King George of Greece, neither
of whom, nevertheless, is what would
be called a short man. It is worth
noting that in the same ancient cathe
dral where this column is to be seen,
Suxo Graiuuiuticus, the Danish histo
riuu from whom Shakespeare borrowed
practically the entire plot of "Ham
let," lies buried. Loudon News.
Sewing In Public Schools,
The course of study in sewing in the
Boston public schools is interesting
for uu amateur of sewing to consider.
To read of "thimble, emery, scissors,"
set off neatly as articles of study, und
and to gaze upon sprinted curriculum
of "basting, baukstitchiug, overcast
ing, half-backstitching uud combina
tion of one running and one-half buck
stitch," is to renlize most intensely
the advantages Boston offers to her
daughters. In tho fourth year are
taught, among other things, stocking
duruing, straight uud bias felling,
whipping and sewing on rulhYs, hem
stitching, bliud stitching, tucking if
uot taught previously, gathers over
handed to a bund, sewing on hooks
and eyes uud buttons, eyelets, loops,
and in tho fifth year there is u system
of dress cutting by which girls uvo
taught to take measuit :s, druughr, cut
and tit a dress waist. --Boston Transcript.
BIRTHPLACES OF FOOD
IHE NATIVE LANDS OF TUB VAHI-
OU3 GRAINS AND FRUITS.
Most of Them Have Kvolvrd From a
Wild State The True Home of
Indian Corn The Cherry's Origin.
THE grains and frnits nscd r l
r 1 11 iJ .-.
I difi
Q exi
loon oy innu origmaieu : i
liferent latitudes, and first
existed in a wild stato some
being indigenous to the tropics and
tome to temperate zones. As they be
came improved and differentiated they
were distributed in different countries
sccording to their utility and the
ipread of agriculture. It was but nat
ural that the first gradual changes
from a wild to a cultivated state
should have taken place in general in
warm countries where the climate
and the advanced state of civilization
conspired to effect amelioration. For
instance, tho grape is indigenous to
America, and had existed here in a
wild state long ages before tho conti
nent was disooved by Columbus, but
it was first put to practical use in
Egypt and Central Asia, to which lo
calities its origin is sometimes attrib
uted, and whence it wns in reality
distributed throughout the Western
world. A similar remark may bo made
of rye, one of tho less valued cereals,
which is a native of tho temperate
zones, and spread thence toward the
South. It is supposed to have been
unknown in India, Egypt and ancient
Palestine, and, though it was more or
less used by the ancient Greeks and
Romans, it was from the north of
Europe that they received it.
Nearly all the grains now in use are
of unknown antiquity. Wheat was
cultivated in eighty-six latitude as far
back in the past as we have authentic,
knowledge. Barley is thought to have
originated in the Caucasus, but it wan
known and used everywhere in the
most ancient times. Oats, like rye,
was unknown in ancient India and
Egypt and among the Hebrews. The
Greeks and Romans received it from
the north of Europe. Had there been
an early civilization on this continent
tho wild oats found here and there
would probably have developed into
the useful cereal now considered abso
lutely essential for the proper nourish
ment of horses. This continent it
credited with having given Indian corn
to the old world, but this useful cereal
was doubtless known in India and
China many hundred years before tht
discovery of America. Cotton wai
used for making garments in India at
a date so remote that it cannot even be
guessed at. The fact is mentioned bj
Aristotle. The first seeds were brought
to this country in 1621. In 1606 the cul
ture is mentioned in tho records of
South Carolina. In 1736 the culture
was general along the eastern coast ot
Maryland, and in 1776 wo hear of it
ns fur north as Cape May. The use ol
flax for making clothing is nearly si
ancient as that of cotton, and perhapt
more so, plants of soft and flexible
fiber having been without doubt among
tho first vegetable productions of th
ancient world nnd their practical valiu
discovered Boon ufter the invention o!
weaving.
The cherry in its improved condi
tion is of Persian descent and is an
other fruit that might have been im
proved from our wild varieties had out
civilization been contemporary wit!
that which preceded Egypt and Baby
lon in tho valleys of tho Tigris and
Euphrates. Peaches, plums and cher
ries were all known to the ancient
Greeks and Romans.
The apple, the most useful and satis
factory of all the fruits of the temper
ate zones, has been known from tim
immemorial. It originated from souk
of the hardy wild species that are found
sometimes almost as fur north as tht
Arctic c '.role. It is a fruit that like;
tho cold, and is found in the greatest
perfection in purts of New England,
Now York and Michigan, where th.
winters aro severe. As it approochei
tho equator it loses its finest of taste,
while still preserving its beauty. I.
is a notable fuet that, owing to care ii
the culture, and in part to a preference
for the climate, all tho fruits mentiouoi
in this list are found of better qualitj
in Europe and America thau in the lo
calities where they aro thought tohav.
originated. Tho oranges of India,
Burmah and Cochin China are abso
lutely tasteless and those of Malagt
scarcely better. Tho best grown ir
Spain come from the region of Valen
cia, where they have been introduced
at a comparatively recent date. So o!
tho cherries, apricots and peaches,
which have uttuined a perfection ir
Europe and America of which the an
cient Persians never dreamed. Al.
these fruits appear to increase in siz
and improve in flavor in latitude)
where tho winter is sufficiently severe
to check the growth of the tree ami
give it a needed rest.
It could Hot be expected, for tll
reasons alleged, that Ann-lieu, in
habited until a recent date by suvugc
tribes only, should furnish to t lie
world products thut require tbousundt
of years of care and culture to givt
them their perfect development. Th
potato, however, is an invaluable boon
conferred by the new world on the
tdd. The touuit ) is also of South
American origin, and, though it playt
a much less important part in alimen
tation, it is uu article of food that
Americans would not willingly purl
with. As to the fruits in conmiou use,
though America has done much to im
prove them, there is not one of them
of which it can reasonably claim to b
tho place of origiu. Sau i'rancisci
Chronicle.
u lira.il not one per cent, of tho
mule or female scrvuuts w ill sleep in
their master's house. They insist oil
leaving nt th hi test by 7 o'clock iutiit
evening, iindwill uot return beforu 7
or c :a th uiofuiu;..
WISE WORDS.
Love gltlns every time it is tcstoi!.
Home is the fortress of the virtues.
The truthful mnn is dead; been dead
a long time.
The real ruler of the man is within
him, not without.
The man who throws a stono at an
other hurts himself.
It is time wasted to arguo with a
doubt. Kick it out.
It's the youngest man who thinks ho
has the least time to spare.
The whisper of a slanderer can bo
heard farther than thunder.
There is no good quality which does
not become a vice by excess.
A woman is seldom quite bo happy
as when Bhe is thoroughly miserable.
Finding fault with another is only a
roundabout way of bragging on your
self. Some people are kept poor because
they will not believe it is blcBsed to
give.
The man who is afraid to look his
faults squarely in tho face will never
get rid of thorn.
No man is perfectly consistent. Ho
who is nearest consistency steers tho
crookedest course.
The Ethics ol Weariness.
In a lecture at Cambridge, Englond,
on the subject of "Weariness," Pro
fessor Michael Foster Baid undue ex
ertion was exertion in which tho mus
cles worked too fast for the rest of tho
body. The hunted haro died not be
cause ho was choked for want of breath,
not because his heart stood still, its
store of energy having given out, but
because a poisoned blood poisoned his
brain and his whole body. So also tho
schoolboy, urged by pride to go on
running beyond tho earlier symptoms
of distress, struggled on until the
heaped np poison deadened his brain,
and he fell dazed and giddy, as in a
fit, rising again, it might be, nnd
stumbling on unconscious, or half un
conscious only, by mero mechanical
inertia of his nervous system, falling
once more, poisoned by poisons of his
own making. All our knowledge went
to show that the work of the brain,
like the work of the muscles, was ac
companied by a chemical change, and
that tho chemical changes were of tho
same order in the brain as in tho
muscle. If an adequate stream of pure
blood were necessary for the life of tho
muscle, equally true, perhnpB even
more true, was this of the brain. More
over, the struggle for existence hu t
brought to the front n brain ever
ready to outrun its more humble help
mate, and oven in the best regulated
economy the period of most eflectivo
work between the moment all tho
complex machinery had been got into
working order and the moment when
weariness began to tell was bounded
by all too narrow limits. The sound
way to extend thoso limits was not so
much to render the broin more agile
as to encourage tho humbler help
mates, so that their more eflicient co
operation might defer the onset of
weariness. New lork Press.
A Remarkable Career.
A remarkable autography goes with
damage suit for $5000 filed at Wash
ington, D. C. The complaint is against
a Washington street railway. Tho
complainant is Henry Johnson, who
says he was badly cut and bruised by
the cur starting while ho was getting
off. Attached to tho complaint is the
affidavit of Johnson that ho was born
in Georgetown on Christinas day in the
year 1800 ; was hired out to Geueral
Walter Smith, who comminded the
militia at the battle of Bladonsburg ;
was captured by Captain Patrick, and
was present and saw them burn tho
Capitol, and when ho was seventeen
years old he went with Commodore
Porter as a cabin boy on a four years'
cruise. In 1824 ho went as a footman
with his old mistress to meet General
Lafayette, and escorted him to Gen
eral Smith's in Georgetown ; was with
General Macon in Florida during the
four years' war with tho Indians; had
waited on General Scott, Gaines and
Jessnp ; lived with Geueral Totteu,
and waited on Daniel Webster, Clay
and Calhoun when living with Mr.
Nicholson at Goorgetown Heights.
Was with Captain Herndou on the
George Law, thut was burned, and
when the women ami children and
crew were off he stood close to Cup
tain Herndon at the wheelhouse, and
he saiil to him : "You go and shift for
yourself," anil he begged tho captain
to come with him, when ho replied:
"No; I must stand by my bhip. " Then
struppiug himself to a door he was
thrown into the sea and saved, and
saw tho ship go down with the captain.
The Cats Ate the Crickets.
There is a man in Hurlem who has
a much respected aunt. The aunt is
wealthy and eccentric. She came to
live with this Hurlem resilient, and
having been reared in the country and
having recently como from there she
missed the rural hum of insects uud
the agricultural noises of a country
residence.
Being anxious to -please his rela
tive and make her reconciled to city
life this llarlom man hired a numln i
of boys to secure crickets for him. He
bought twenty caua of crickets oud
turned them out to pasture iu his
buck yard. For several nights the
cheerful chirping of the crickets
proved very soothing to the aged uutit.
The various cuts iu the neighborhood
soon became awaro of the unusual
number of crickets iu this buck yard.
Cats are fond of crickets, and now the
Hurlem man has cuts uu I no crickets
iu his back yard. He suvs that all tho
cats iu Harlem have made his yard a
trystiil plans and the uunt threatens
to move buck into the country. New
York Herald.
THE SILENT BATTLIi.
Rhnll I toll you about the battle
Tlint wns fought in the world to-dny.
Where thousands wmit down Ilka heroes
To death in the pitiless fray?
You may know some ot tho wounded '
And some of the fallen when
I toll you this wonderful Imttle
Was fought In tho hearts of m'n.
Not with the sounding of trumpets,
Nor clashing of sabers drawn.
But, silent ns twilight in autumn,
All day tho fight went on.
And over against temptntton
A mother's prayers were cost
That had come by silent marches
From the lutlnby land ol tno past.
And over the flold of battle
Tho force of ambition went,
Driving before it, like arrows,
Tho children of sweet content.
And memories odd and olden
fame np through the dust of years,
And hopes that were glad and golden
Were met by a host of fenrs.
And the heart grew worn and weary
And said : "Oh, can It be
That I am worth the struggle
You are making to-day for me?"
For the heart itself wns the trophy
And prize of this wavering fight !
And tell me, O gentle reader,
Who camps on the field to-night?
Alfred Ellison.
HUMOR OF THE PAY.
Kisses are tho coupons of love.
Don't be a valet to your hero ; it
may disgust him.
The most lovsaile of dumb animals
is a good listener. Puck.
After all, the love knot is the top
knot on the head of human happiness.
Puck.
A cynic observes that the most popu
lar air with the girls these dnys is a
millicniire.
A girl will never forgive a fellow
whom she has jilted for making a suc
cess of life. ruck.
When a man gets a hearing in court,
he is likely to hear somet hing that ho
doesn't like. Puck.
It is tho man who wears Congress
gaiters who wonders how tho ehoe
string sellers mako a living.
She told the young mnn oftentimes
Blie really couldn't love him :
Six feet, Bhe : but live foot, he
Of course she felt above htm.
Detroit Tribune.
Solemn Stranger "All flesh is
grass." Deaf Man "Hey?" Solemn
Stranger "No, grass." New York
Press.
The bulldog has a pretty tight grip
in this world, though ho often escapes
trouble by tho mero skin of his teeth.
Truth.
Gunson "Another increase in your
family, eh? Son or a daughter?"
V. ilbeo (gloomingly) ' 'Son-iu-iaw. "
Kuto Field's Washington.
"I've conio out of this tight squeeze
in pretty good shape," said the new
half-dollar, fresh from tho stamping
machine. Chicago Tribune.
"Man wnnls but little here below,"
Jlut 'tis this fact tlint daunts
IIm's sure to get a little less
Thau the littlethut ho wants.
Washington Stnr.
Some of the fushiouuble bcIiooIb nre
making world-wido reputations by
teaching the young lady students to
Bpell their names wrong. Galveston
News.
In tho American Colony: Sho "Is
Misa Bond engaged to Prince Sans
bou?" Ho "Not exactly. Ho has an
option for ninety days, 1 believe."
Harlem Life.
When a woman has quail for dinuei
sho wants to invito iu a neighbor, so
the neighbor may know it, but a man
doesn't want anybody thero but him
self. Atchison Globe.
Customer (in bookstore) "I would
like to get some good book on faith."
Clerk "Sorry, sir, but our rule it to
sell nothing to strangers except for
cash." Buffalo Courier.
Miss New combe ' 'Hcems to bo rut her
a good year this for fruit, Giles? Aro
nil your trees as full of apples n that
one!" Giles "Oh, nuw, miss, only
tho apple trees." Judy.
lie had a sorrel trotling-horse
Which was so pesky slow
Hu named him I'liiui-sc, utter a while,
because he wouldn't go,
Detroit Free Frees.
Van Noodle "D'yer know, Miss
Tltngbit, thut old duller ChapwitU
called mo a muff the other night?"
Miss Tungbit "Indeed Why, I think
you more closely resemble a boa."
Brooklyn Life.
Jack (who has popped) "It takes
you a long time to decide." Nettie
"I know it ; and I've about Concluded
to wear a deini-truin of white chiffon
over w lute silk and have no brides
maids." -Texas Sittings.
Mrs. lUllus (after tht- company had
gone) - "Johnny, you shouldn't have
eatoii those preserved fruits. They
were not intended to be eaten. They
were put on the tubleto till up." Johnny
Billus -"Well, that's what I used 'em
for, ii -t i ii i ii a . " Chicago Tribune.
Two ciiliinena short time ago had a
fishing mutch for hu!i' u sovereign and
drinks. Suddenly one of the jurvies
fancied he had a bite, uu I, being over
anxious, hud the misfortune to fall
into the river. On his regaining tho
shore, his rival shouted out : "VII bets
arc off, .1 ini ; none o' yer di iu' in after
'cm. " - Tit Hits.
Lulidjii'iivc Is the only one of the old
Teutonic titles that siirsivcs. It was
invented in MHtt by Louis of Tliiiriu
giu, to distinguish himself from the
crowd of lil'ufs w ho tilled the Germau
courts.
Mexico's standing army number
It, 0:10 ui-n, or r.boiit double that o.c
tho I'm' l st-it-s.