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J'lioro aro fewer blind persons in tho
United States than any other conn-
I Mir Edwin Arnold says that there
nro about 20,000 "poetesses" in Great
Britain.
I A Los Angeles (Cal.) preacher
thought he was delivering tho funeral
aermon of a woman, whereas the man
of tho houso wbh dend, and the woman
Lad to listen to a eulogy upon her
self. Tho managers of American Mi cet rail
wnys may bo interested in tho infor
mation thnt London's underground
railway has carried over 1,088,000,000
passengers )u th" thirty years of its
existence, and hasn't killed a single,
passenger.
By tho now bui of railway tickets
adopted in Hungary, the traveler
makes out his own tickot. Tho Gov
ernment sells stamps and supplies
blank cards. Tho passenger, when ho
desires to take a journey, writes on a
card tho name of his starting point
and destination, and affixes as many
stamps as tho published list of fares
calls for.
Home years ago it was decided in an
English court that an engagement ring
is not recoverable in any circumstances.
Vermont has Jits', given a different de
cision. A young man sued to recover.
a ring that he had given a young woman
who, after accepting it, repudiated tho
engagement. The Judpo decided thnt
it must bo returned, or else that tho
recipient must fulfill tho conditions on
which it was presented.
In Paris tho owners of a dog which
bit a man, who subsequently died of
hydrophobia, are now being prosecu
ted by the authorities on a chargo of
manslaughter through carelessness.
This is the first ense of tho kind, and
its result is being anxiously awaited
by tho thousands of proprietors of
dogs throughout France, who, in case
of a conviction of tho defendants, will
be called upon to bear a now and heavy
burden of responsibility.
A novel and interesting plea has
been entered before tho United States
Commissioner at Buffalo on behalf of
no Indian charged with murder on the
Cattaraugus reservation. His attorney
denied that tho United States had any
lawful jurisdiction over tho caso. Tho
Indian, he said, belouged to the Fivo
Nations, a government that was in ex
istence long beforo tho United States
was heard of, and whose existence was
recognized by tho Uuited States. This
point will probably havo to go to tho
(Supremo Court beforo tho case can bo
tried.
Hays tho Boston Transcript: "Tho
first lady w ho ever gave money to Har
vard Collego could not havo fancied in
her most imaginative moment thnt
moro than 2.10 years later her girl
hood's uamo would be given to a col
lego for women ut Harvard. Ami
Kadeliffe, who was afterward Damu
Moulson, sent her hundred pounds
over seos from England to aid the causa
of education. She cast her bread upon
tho waters, and it is returned to her
memory iu honor after ull these many
days. Mrs. A"ussiz, tho President of
tho Harvard Auuex, is congratulated
on this most charming and suggestive
choico of a name."
New York grows 5,000,01)0 tons of
hay and rr.'.ses 30 000,000 bushels of
votatoes. Tho internal trade of New
York exceeds $3, 000, 000, 000 a yeur;
l,Gr0,000,000 of freight pusses over
railroads, 8150,000,000 over tho canals
and $250,000,000 over tho Souud nud
lakes. New York sustains over 1000
newspapers and periodicals, has $000,-
000,000 in tho savings banks, $:100,
000,000 in insurance companies and
$700,000,000 in capital and loan
of tho banks. There 0000 milec
railroads, which cost over$500,000,000,
There are 2M, 000, 000 acres of farm
lands, valued nt $1,050,000,000, nud
auuuslly producing $17, 000, 000.
Baron Edmund do Rothschild, whose
presence at Constant inople has been
of materiul advantage to his colonists
in Palestine, has bought a largo tract
of pasture land, the personal property
of tho Sultau, near tho Jordan. 11
intends to fouud there a large Jewish
colony. Life and property in that
region have been much more secure
within the last fifteen years than for
merly owing to the important military
etutiou established there by tho Gov
erument, which has also constructed
a bridge over tho Jorduu to facilitate
communication between Jerusalem and
walleye on the other sido of tlmt
jf, whence the Holy City obtains
iuost of its cereals. An iron bridge is
now being built near Surono, on the
road from Jaffa to Sbechem, ty the
ro4 Um teea improve.,
A SONO OF THE WORLD,
"World ain't 'what It usotor be," you'll hoar
a feller any
As he crosses of li Is log an' li naves a sigh ;
But If happens,she's the best world that she'
ever been to-day,
Ad' she's whlrliu' like 3 :0 'round the sky.
The stores give bigger measure j
The mines, a sight o' treasure ;
Tnore's more o' love an' pleasure
In tho land.
The skip Is mostly sunny
You Jingle more o' money.
An' the brown bees bring ttaolr honey
To your hand I
"World ain't what It useter be." Of course,
It ain't, because
It's eultln' out a newer kind o' wny.
It ain't got time to worry 'bout the kind o'
world It wan,
For It keeps a glttln' happy on the way !
Brighter blossoms twlnln' j
Brighter suns n-shlnlu' ;
What's the use In plnln'
An' whinln' through the land?
Kklesis mostly sunny;
You jingle more o' money,
An' tbo brown bees bring thoir honey
To your band !
Atlanta Constitution.
MRS, MEDLICOTf.
BY E. M. HALLTDAY.
YfA k Iffc Mrs. Medli
Wr pott married Mr.
V V T Medlioott there was
wonder. All of his
friends sent gifts,
because Mr. Medli
cott had spent a
large percentage of
his not too largo in
conio upon wedding
presents, for some
thing like twenty
years. It was nn
cveninc weddinir in
a Harlem church. Mr. Modlicott's
friends seemed to have gathered to
gether upon ono sido. Tho ladies woro
rather splendid gowns and diamonds,
and carried an ostentatious look of
wonder in their eyes as they gazed
around. Tho men wore expressions of
conscious good nature in hnviug conic
to help an old comrade through a
rather tight place.
Mrs. Lupin, -who had sent a superb
set of painted plates, put up her lorg
nette and let the corners of her mouth
speak her thoughts as the brido went
by. Good natnrod Mrs. Richards,
who had como with her, looked kind.
"Now I think she is pretty," letting
her ryes roam to the pure profile and
delicate pink ear of tho young brido.
"Look at that back," Mrs. Lupin
said sternly.
"Well now, that is probably tho
fault of hor modisto."
"Modiste 1 Sho made thnt
herself."
gown
t Mr. Hart, ono of Mr. Modlicott's
oldest friends, his associate on tho
houso committee of tho Philistine
Club, leaned over the back of the pew
where tho two ladies sat. Mr. Medli
cott was just now taking the hand of
Mrs. Medlieott to be, and Mr. Hart
heaved a deep sigh. "Poor old Mat 1"
aud then aloud in his usual tone of
gossip: "My dear Mrs. Lupin, you
give a new explanation for Mat's in-
Jatuation for the village maiden. If
she can make her own gowns, doubt
less she can cook," and ho chuckled
his loose laugh.
Ou tho other side of the church,
where tho -elderly ladies were uniform
ly clad in tho clegunco of stiff black
silks, and the young girls in that sim
plicity which is "so sweet," the scru
tiny was all directed toward Mr. Men
licott. "How strango it is," Miss
Alice Grant, tho President of tho local
charity society, said, "that a serious
girl will mako such a choice. A ciub
man !"
"I do hope" Mrs. Graves, whose,
plump and pretty daughters sat
flushed and excited, beside her "that
Marguret will reclaim him. There is
no influence like a good, wife's, but I
should fear, were it ono of my girls. I
hope they will never even meet any
men of that sort. ft seems almost a
providenoe that Margaret's mother is
not nlivo."
"Well, I rather fancy Murgaret will
set him straight." Miss Grant re
marked with a short laugh. "She will
know how to manage. She isn't going
to givo up her work with us. Hhe is
going to contiuno to edit part of the
Woman's Friend. 1 suppose that man
thinks ho is marrying a girl like those
he knows in his own set. He'll find
out the difference. She will open his
eyes to the meaning of Woman. Mifs
Grant always spoke tho word with a
capital W.
Mr. Medlieott had arrived at the
ago of forty, aud in marryiug he cer
tainly did not think that he was tak
ing a woman like those ha knew iu his
own set. If ho had, he would have
gone there to look for a wife. Mr.
Medlieott hud begun lifo with a small
inherited fortune, which years had not
increased. Mr. Medlieott, being unable
to enlarge his income to lit his tastes,
had wisely cut his tastes to fit his in
come, and had lived like a gentleman on
little money, la his youth he had
fallen in love with a beautiful, frivo
lous girl whom he could not afi'ord to
marry. 'Ho had seen her carried oft'
by another man who could give her au
appropriate setting, and been best man
at the wedding. Love had never
stirred again until now.
When Mr. Medlieott met Miss Davis
at tho house of his lawyer (not a very
expensive one) whoso niece, she was,
sho was sitting under a lamp, em
broidering. Homo way it seemed to
Mr. Medlieott that she breathed the
spirit of home, and he had grow tired
of being homeless. The courtship hud
been short. Mr. Medlieott had soft
and elegant ways, and a considerate
speech, which wne unknown charms
ia the kick of Minn ,livis' acquaint,-aoti,
They did not stop to ask much
about each other's inner lifo. Tho in
come which seemed Bo small to Mr.
Medlieott and his friends seemed Inrgo
to Miss Dsvis, and thr.t pleased him.
Sho was evidently domestic, and knew
how to economise. Hhe was a pretty
young woman, twenty-five years old,
and Mr. Medlieott, '.i looking past his
wedding day, saw himself, with all his
stock of worldly knowledge, training
his young wifo in his wr.ys. He felt
that ho was in her eyes a superior be
ing. He waa glad sho was so much
younger nud had lived such n simple
lifo. He thought of how her opinions,
her ideas, would bo molded upon his.
5.r. Medlieott was very happy.
After tho honeymoon was over and
they came back to New York they went
to a hotel.
"Now, my dear," said Mr. Medli
eott, "wc will go ont and look for a
little home. I have a list here that an
agent sent me."
Mrs. Medlieott enmo . and looked
over his shoulder, sitting ou tho arm
of his chair, whilo he put his arms
caressingly around her waist.
"But," sho pursed np her pretty
red mouth, "all these places are ever
so far down town."
"Down town? Do yon call Fifty
Ninth street down, down? There are
only ono or two down town. This
one on Gramercy Park, and another
ou Irving Place."
"They're all below the Park."
"Well, where do want to live?"
"Why, up by my old friends ; up in
upper New York."
Mr. Medlieott laughed.
"My dear child, nobody would ever
come up there to see us."
"Wouldn't they?" There was, a
compression of his wife's lips which
Mr. Medlieott did not see. "I have
some friends who would not find it
necessary to come up," she went on.
"They live there."
When they went out to walk, Mr.
Medlieott enticed her into a furnished
apartment which was a little gem in
its way. The price was a little more
than Mr. Medlieott enred to pay, Tint
he had a young wifo to introduco to
his old friends, and this apartment
was in a moRt desirable neighborhood,
very near the club, and the dining
room was large aud pleasant for a flat.
Mr. Medlieott anticipated giving din
ners. Dinner giving wos very expen
sive at the club, but with a clever wife
who had been brought up in a domesto
fashion it would be different.
Mr. Medlieott a week later invited
Mr. Hart and the best man at his wed
ding to dinner. He announced the
invitation to his wife, and made ono
or two suggestions ns to the menu.
When the evening of tho dinner ar
rived, ho had a little fire in tho draw
ing room, and when the bell rang,
stood beforo tho grate feeling like a
lord, ut home iu his own house!
But there was not the entry of two
quiet, well bred gentlemen ; instead
of this tho shrill voices of women.
Presently Mrs. Medlieott ushered in
Miss Grant and a friend of hers, a shy
looking girl.
Mr. Medlieott was surprised. "I
thought," his wife said, "that we had
better have some ladies."
Mr. Medlieott said nothing. He
went out into tho dining room to look
at the table, nnd on into the kitchen.
They had a very satisfactory cook, but
Mr. Medlieott shuddered when ho saw
what ho had been about to ask Hart
nnd Elliot to sit down to. Ho had
always known how to order a dinner,
and he ordered one now from the
restaurant around the corner.
"I know tho tasto of men better
than yon do, my dear," ho said to his
wife. "I took the liberty of changing
some of your arrangements."
Mrs. Medlieott was perfectly calm
aud well bred, nud looked delightfully
pretty in a pink dinner gown which
her husband had insisted upon order
ing for her, although she said it was
useless. Sho had gowns. .
Miss Grant talked a great deal, but
tho ono or two little tales Hart tried
to tell seemed to full flat. Tho con
versation finally settled between tho
three ladies. Thoy discussed tho re
cent death of a noted woman reformer,
aud her published opinion upon mar
riage. The men looked respectful,
but not very hilarious.
Mr. Medlieott made up his mind that
it wouldn't do to stop with that dinner.
It must be lost iu a series. Ho couldn't
havo it going about tho chilis that ho
kept such a menage as this. So iu a
few days he asked a half dozen friends
in, and he nnd Mrs. Medlieott made
out the menu together, or rather ho
made it out, and Mrs. Medleott wrote
it down.
"I wouldn't er ask anybody else
if I were you."
"I must entertain my friends," Mrs.
Medlieott said.
"Oh, certainly. Let us have any
body you like on Tuesday. Wo might
make out the menu for that dinner
now."
It was quite as good as the first one.
Mr. Medlieott reflected rather sadly
that the two would como high even
though they were made up at home.
Hut Murgaret must be gradually weaned
uway from her friends.
The winter went ou in this way. It
hadn't been the great success that Mr.
Medlieott had anticipated. To be sure,
it was sweet to go home, and his 'wife
was domestic, almost too domestic,
Mr. Medlieott thought sometimes w hen
he saw that she was rather bored by
Mrs. Lupiu, and that his intercourse
with all the women whoso houses had
once been opened to him, had taken
ou a new aud formal character. He fell
into a way of asking men to lunch nt
the club, and he thought ruefully that
he was spending a great deal of money.
Aud then, one night, ho was sitting
at home after dinner, reading. Mrs.
Medlieott, in her little houso dress
she never dressed for dinner when
they wero nlone, nor did he any more
-.was sewing, The evciiing uii was
"By Jove I" Mr, Medlieott exclaimed
good nalvtredly, "here ia a bill from
the restaurant around tho corner. I
never paid for that first dinner wo
had. What I Whew ! Why there's
some mistake here." -Ho looked
again. "Why, this is nonsense. Sis
hundred aud fffty-cight dollars! They
havo sent ns somebody else's bill. "
"Oh, no, I think not. That corre
sponds with my account," Mrs. Modli
cott said calmly.
Mr. Medlieott looked from the bill
to her, and from her to tho bill.
"Yes," she said, going on evenly
with her stitches. "You know you
did not like my dinners, so I always
sent to the restaurant when our friends
camo in. I had no time to waste in
the kitchen nil day when we were
going to entertain. I have my own
life wrv.'k."
A week or two later Mr. Medlieott
said: ', My dear, I beliove you were
right as you always are about our
living in upper New York. Suppose
you find an apnrttnent. "
"I thought you would know how to
manage him,', Miss Grant said, when
she heard the story. Munsey's Mag
azine. Burglars Lotifh at Locksmiths.
Detective William Henderson of
Philadelphia discussed the evolution
of burglars' tools in a reoent inter
view : "The modern burglar is like
love iu ono particular," said he, "in
asmuch as he laughs at locksmiths.
His seemingly simple tools indicate
that the attempts made to bar his pro
gress are not difhcult to overcome,
and yet not many years ago they were
possessed of a very different idea, and
in Old Man Hopo's prime brute force
was in a measure tho leading idea iu
forcing a safe. In those days ono
crook was selected t o go with the gang,
not because of his brains, but on ac
count of his muscle, and his duty
was to carry tho heavy tools. Big
crowbars, hugo logs nnd strong men
were then the order of things. Snfes
were literally dragged apart.
"In a few years things went to tho
othor extreme. Men intending to rob
a safe would take hardly any tools,
but would break into a convenient
blacksmith shop, get a crowbar and
a sledge, and then go to the place to be
robbed. As safes were then con
structed, a few blows with tho sledgo
would knock off the hinges of one
door, and then a pry with the bar
would wrench tho door away. But
safe manufacturers soon caught on,
nnd when the handle of the safe was
turned by the owner, bolts shot both
ways, removing tho responsibility
from the hinges.
"Then came the era of powder. A
safe would havo tho crack running
around tho doors plugged with oakum,
two littlo spaces only being left. From
one all the air would be drawn by a
pump, and through the other powder
would be allowed to sift in. When
they touched it off tho safe would be
ripped apart. But this method, de
spite all precautions, was noisy, and
then camo tho modern tools. In tho
case of au ordinary safe, tho knob is
knocked off, a punch removes the com
binations, and a piece of wire throws
back the tumblers. In better safes
the drag is used. If I had a safe, no
matter how good, with many valua
bles in it, I would not trust a burglar
alone with it for over ten minutes at
the outside. So fur the burglars are
abreast of tho makers of safes, and no
improvement is made by the latter
thnt the former in a short time do not
learn to circumvent."
The Secretary Bird's tJood Sfomnrh.
The authorities at Cape Colony pro
tect the secretary bird on account of
the thorough way in which it protects
gardens and poultry from poisonous
snakes. A blow or two from its pow
erful legs or a pick from its sharp bill
is sufficient to break the back of any
serpent, and if tho reptile succeeds in
gettiug in a blow with its fangs it is
adroitly received ou tho long outer
feathers of the interposed wing of the
bird. Then tho suuko is swullowed
whole, a parting blow of the head on
the ground being given it just as that
part is disappearing from view. But
suokes by no means constitute the en
tiro bill of faro of this hungry creat
ure. The contents of the stomach of
one of them have thus been described:
"I found iusido one threo snakes as
long as my arm, eleven lizards seven
inches long, twenty-one tortoises about
two inches in diameter, besides a
largo quantity of grasshoppers and
other insects; or, in other words
seveL' aud a half feet of snake, six and
a half of lizard, three and a half of
tortoise aud, say, a yard of miscel
laneous trifles." As thisdignified and
always reliable bird cau be trained to
protect the poultry yard from all kinds
of birds of prey, small animals and
other enemies, and as it can bo accli
mated iu this country, it would seem
that it would bo well to introduce it
hero as a regular barnyard inhabitant
Mysterious Tides of Fundy.
Statistics regarding tho tides iu tho
Bay of Fundy are so startling as to
seem almost incredible. At Grand
Munau tho full is from twelvo to fif
teen feet, at Lubeo and Eastport
twenty feet, at St. John from twenty
four to thirty feet, at Moucton on tho
bend of the Potitcodiae, seventy feet,
while the distance between high and
low water mark on theCobequid River
is twelve nujes, the river actually be
ing twelve miles longer at high than
at low water. Vessels can be run up
so far ou the flood iu this river and iu
tho Avon that the ebb will leave them
high and dry for sixteen hours, so that
they can be repaired between tides.
Chicago Herald.
A fow years ago horses in Australia
multiplied to such au extent that they
became a pebt, bo that iu cuo district
tbv Government Ud IW,W1 iot.
JN OLD MONTANA DAYS
THE FLAW IN THE GLASS ETE WAS
VERT SERIOUS.
The Old Indian Wanted One Thnt
He Could See With An Experi
ence of Importance With Indlnrs.
THE old pioneero had settled
down for their smoke in the
brain room of the Montana
(s Club, when Hugh McQuaid
remorked :
"I sco that somo smart newspaper
man down East has started a rumor
that tho Crow Indians will get out
of their blankets in tho spring and
clean up tho settlers and the United
States Army. I would bet that a lot
of cigar Indians would fight just as
quick. Why, a Crow hasn't got the
courage of a jack rabbit to fight. Tho
only trait of a white man that is,
somo white men outside of this room
that a Crow has got is humor.
"Of course you mean yourself when
you say outBido this room," said Dr.
Churchill.
"Well, I mean all mining experts,
any how, but I remember back in '72
when a party was sent out here by tho
Interior Department to look up tho
condition of tho Indians, and they
asked me, as a newspaper man, to
join them on a trip to the Crow
agency. We had a fine time ; no end
of gogcl shooting before wo got to
tho agency. Then for the first day or
two there were lots of figuring with
the agents, distributing tracts and re
ligious food to the squaws, etc., and
finally a trip of twenty miles to tho
topee of a chief named Horn-in-the-Foot,
who lived near by the big medi
cine man. There was a fellow in our
party from the Smithsonian Institu
tion who wore a glass eye that was a
dandy. Said that it cost him $700 in
Paris, nud could roll around in his
head same as the other one. Well, we
got to tho old chief's camp nnd found
him dressed like a fashion pinto to re
ceive us. Long headdress of eagle feath
ers, bead-fringed moccasins, nnd
all of that, but having only one eye.
Learned later that the medicine man
made him tear out the other in a war
dance, We passed tho time of day,
and he said "How," nnd inado the
squaws nnd young bucks get down in
tho alkali dust and snluto ns. We
made a few signs in which tho chief
BBked for firewater by trying to stand
on his head, bnt we couldn't let him
have any because it was against the
law. Finally the Smithsonian fellow
thought he would have a littlo fun, so
ho takes the glass eyo out of tho socket
and rolls it around in his hand. Well,
you ought to see tho old chief's face
and tho young bucks andsquaws. They
couldn't'have been more surprised if
that ghost that they looked for last
year hod dropped down in tho party.
Tho chief, however, rocovercd quicker
than tho rest nud seemed to catch an
idea, for he reached out for the glass
eyo nnd, nfter nwhilo, put it where
his missing eyo had been. Then tho
squaws nnd bucks givo nuother yell,
and off tho whole crowd started for
the medicine man's tent with us
a-trailiug iu the rear. When we got
there the chief let out a whoop, und
out came tho medicine mau. He gave
ono look at the glass eyo and then fell
on tho ground, and began to tremble
and groan. You see, ho understood
thnt ho had lost his pull. Tho chief
gave him a kick in tho ribs, nnd when
ho got up talked a littlo Crow, and
pointed over toward the Yellowstone
River, tho bamo ns to say that ho was
giving him ten minutes to get out of
the cainp. The interpreter told ns r.f
terward that tho chiof said that any
man who had to loam to make medi
cine from white people was a poor kind
of a medicine man, and was not needed
in thoso parts. Any how the Doctor
sneaked out of tho tepeowith a couple
of blankets aud a pipe, and was soon
out of sight in tho foothills.
"Well, wo had n good tiuio laughing
while tho Indians wero dancing, not
knowing of courso where the eyo came
from. The chief put the horso on us,
though, when ho got ready to leave by
handing baok tho eye to tho Smith
sonian fellow and saying iu Crow to
come back next year, and tho new
medicine man would havo an eye made
that ho could see with." New York
Sun.
Instruction ot Chlldreu.
Tench children to do littlo things
about tho house. It trains them to
be useful, not awkward, in later and
moro important uffairs, it gives them
occupation whilo they nro small, and
it really is an assistance to tho mother
in the end, although she always feels,
during the training period, that it is
much easier to do tho thing herself
than to show another how. This last
excuse has done much to mako selfish,
idle, unhandy members of an older
society, and should bo remembered,
in its effects, by tho mother whilo her
little ones are beginning to learn ull
things, good nud bad, at her knee.
Occupation makes happiness and occu
pation cannot bo acquired too young.
St. Louis Republic.
Trotting Uxe it.
Trotting oxen are being developed
in India. Tho sloping quarter and
straight hock of tho oxeu may possi
bly account for something of their
horse-like gait. Ono of tho first thiugs
to strike a fctruuger in India is the hur
rying ox. All through the Mnhratta
country tho ox is the couimou draught
auimul, differing in speed und size ac
cording to the work for which he is
required. Cattle of the Kagore breed,
used by rich ineu to draw their state
carriages, used to be kept near Delhi
for curr) iug dispatches. The Nagore
cattle hava I'one of the awkward swing
ing motion of the legs of our cow.
They bring their hind legs under thew
iu ten btraight a line uh. Jh boiH..
yew Yoik World,
SCIENTIFIC AM) IMHSTKIAL
An electric cloth cutter is new.
There is an electric rock breaker.
A steam bicycle is a German inven
tion, Thfl breaking strain of an inch rope
is 9000 pounds.
People eat much more bread in win
ter thon in summer.
Butterflies regularly migrate north
and south like birds.
The cost of running a locomotive a
year is estimated to bo about 83000.
Human blood is composed of 77.8
parts of water, 6.2 of albumen, 14.1
of coloring matter, and 1.9 of saline.
A new system, by which smokeless
combustion of coal is rendered possi
ble, has been adopted by the North
German Xloyd and tho Hamburg
American Packet companies.
A strange fact has arisen iu connec
tion with long-distance telephony;
women have great difficulty in making
themselves understood. It is said the
high notes of women's voices, while all
right on short lines, do not carry well
for long distances.
A German has taken out a patent for
producing varnish from linseed oil by
means of an electric current. The oil,
after being purified in a proper man
ner, is thoroughly mixed and agitated
with sulphuric acid and water and sub
jected to the action of an electric cur
rent for two or three hours, so that the
oxygen produced in the nascent state
by tho passage of tho current converts
the oil into varnish. The varnish so
produced is said to be almost colorless
and perfectly free from all mineral or
metallic admixtures or impurities.
The electric locomotive which the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany has secured for the purpose of
hauling passenger cars through the
Baltimore Tunnel, is capable of haul
ing the heaviest troins, weighing 1200
tons up tho grade, nnd through tho
tunnel under tho city, a distance of
three miles. The weight of the loco
motive is 180,000 pounds; its length
a trifle over fifty feet; the height is
fourteen feet three inches, and the ex
treme width nine feet, 6 inches. It
is claimed that a possible spaed of
fifty miles an hour can be attained by
this locomotive.
With the ophthalmoscope and oph
thalmometer there nre very few prob
lems with regard to the functions nnd
diseases of the human eyo that cannot
be determined by nn expert iu n very
few moments of time. It may safely
be asserted thnt there is no department
of knowledge of the functions nnd dis
eases of tho huuinn body that is so ad
vanced as that of ophthalmology, nnd
this has been the work of the civiliza
tion of the nineteenth century. With
tho ophthalmoscope the circular open
ing the iris, which we call tho pupil,
is made a window looking in upon a
scarlet picture, iu the center of which
is a beautiful white moon-like disk,
over which rndiatu vessels pulsating
with tho blood constantly pumped in
by tho heart. Tho darker returning
current in tho veins is also seen, while
the varying and almost numberless
changes made by diseases aro noted by
tho practised eye, and tell tale of
warning and ofteu of woe.
Effects ot Opium Smoking.
I made a point of watching tho ef
fect of the successive pipes on myself
carefully, says a writer iu the Pull
Mull Budget. As before, the first pipe
had no effect at all ; after tho second
pipe I was beginning to perspire gent
ly, nnd the skin was soft nnd related.
I smoked fivo pipes one after thoother
and fancied that the action of the heart
-wns slightly depressed; but beyond
this I felt nothing whatever. After 1
had left tho place about a quarter ol
ail hour I began to find that the opium
was taking effect. My limbs felt ns il
they did not belong to me ; I could
control thorn, but they seemed to bo n
part of someone else. My brain seemed
quite clear and very active, but 1 be
came aware thnt it was doiii the
thinking on its own account ; I could
not govern or direct tho chain of mj
thoughts, which proceeded iu the most
grotesque order, the most irrelevant
ideas following ono another, and get
ting mixed up with the ideas called up
by externul surroundings. My sight,
too, wns affected ; I fancied there was
a very faint tlazo over everything, and
it seemed as if the powerof adjustment
was lost, aud size and distance were
difficult to determine. I had slight
hallucinations, also. For instance, I
was, for a moment, certain that a cen
tipede, about four or five inches long,
with a chain round it, was walking up
fay leg ; at tlio sumo time 1 know it,
was only a vision, and that it arose
from my huviug seen during tho (lnv a
mau iu the street selling ono of the
reptile toys which run along and are
held by a string. Soon alter I found
the greatest difficulty in keeping my
eyes open, though my bruin wuh Htill
abnormally uctivc ; this passed off and
1 felt no ill effects of any kind, aud I
muy mention that next morning 1 hn I
neither headache nor the leant feeling
of discomfort of anv kind.
Romance of a Treasure Trove.
A tin can filled with a incited mass
of silv.il- weighing about, eight pounds
was fouud the other week by quurry
meii near Roudu, Ttwut, buried about
two feet below the surface iu the
banks nf a creek some lwlvo nah'i:
from the Red River. Whilo Texas
was ytt a .Spanish province a rond
known an the Suutu Fe trsil ran ttlon:',
besido tho Red River, and it is sur
mised that tlio silver was buried by
somo traveler who wa-s hard pressed by
Indians, nud who cither wait 1 iiivd or
who could not nttcraard l;en!o Lit
buried treasure. Tho trunk i an ohi
saddle, found near tho anuic p!nce
short time ago, wu probably part oi
the wayfaf-r't; i-'juii'iri.-:;'. thi
ewu HeialJ,
WHE.M I GET TIME,
Whfn I get time
I know what I shall do ;
I'll cut the leaves of all myookn, -
And rend them through and through.
Whn I get time
I'll writo some letters then
That I have owod tor weeks and week
To many, many men.
Whin I get time
I'll pay those bills I owe,
And with those bills, those countless hills,
I will not ba to slow.
When I get time '
I'll regulate my Jlfo '
In such a way that I may get
Acquainted with my wife.
When I get time
Oh, glorious dream of bliss ,
A month, a year, ten years from now
But I can't finish this
I have no time.
Tom Mnson, In vogue,
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
The season is here when the bravest
of us are glad to get under cover.
Buffalo Courier.
Filing a will sometimes rasps the
feelings of disappointed legatees.
Lowell Courier.
Maud "Our engagement is a se
cret." Lena "So everybody tell me."
Brooklyn Lifo.
It will not help your own crop any
to throw stones at your neighbor's
truck patch. Ram's Horn.
Watts "Yon look rather shakythia
morning." Potts "Naturally. I feel
rocky." Indianapolis Journal.
The girl of the period says she ob
jects to flattery, but she likes to have
her sleeves puffed. New York World.
She "Do yon think he is a real
nobleman?" He "He must be; he
isn't an ideal one." Detroit Free
Press.
A Philadelphia doctor ti ied to "raise
the dead," bnt was immediately fired
on by the cemetery watchman. Plain
Dealer.
Young America, with his parents to
help him, is rapidly educating the
timid teachers of this country.
Galveston News.
No matter if a man is peaceful at
all other times, when he meets a cy
clone he is sure to strike a blow.
Rochester Democrat.
Naturalist "And now. how shall we
prove that man is the superior crea
ture?" Pi-.pil "By asking him."
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Barber "How would you like your
haircut, sir?" Undo Hayseed "Fust
rate, young man ; fact is, that's what
I cum iu for." Brooklyn Life.
It doesn't make much difference to
barbers how hard times are. Even in
the best of times they have to scrnpo
for a living. Philadelphia Record.
Oh. woodman, spam thnt tree,
I pray you let It stand,
A refuge It inav bo
When tho bulldog Is nt hand. v
Atlanta Journal.
She "What ft foolish reason! So
she wouldn't marry you on account of
your family ?" Ho "No ; and I only
iiad a wife aud one child" Pick Me
U...
Mrs. Flatte "Maria snys sho can
cook." Mr. Flutte "Oh, that girl
would any that she could read a Chinese
laundry-ticket." Kate Field's Wash
ington. Student "T tell you frankly that I
shall not be able to pay for the suit till
next year. When will you have it
ready'?" "Tailor "Next year." Flic
goude Blaetter.
"Yer kin talk," said a phihMophet
of the East Side, '"bout it's beiu'
vulgar t' wear di'mou's, but I notice
that them that has "eiu wears 'em."
Buffalo Express.
Young Men (ut restaurant) "Hear,
you, we wanted these oyster cooked.
Waiter "Den vot for you keep cry
rail! rah! all dor dime? llowvosdot?"
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Griggs -'Why, don't you ever have
any trouble whatever in meeting your
bills?" Hpriggs "Trouble? Not a
bit of it. 1 meet 'em cv.ry where I
go." Somcrvillo Journal.
New Yorker "You don't see any
grass in our streets, anyway." Sho
(from Philadelphia) "No-o. Must
be the climate. The soil is certuiuly
rich enough." Brooklyn Life.
"1 was careless this morning at
church and put a dollar in tho box
when I intended to give only a dime."
"A ease of contributory negligence,
so to speak." Detroit Tribune.
Good Samaritan "Don't you know
better than to drive thst poor horse up
hill so fast ?" O'Connor ---"Up hill, is
it ? Oh, btgorra ! the nag's blind aud
he can't see it !" Life's Calendar.
Hn dropped a curtridK iu the slot
And llieu he south' I lie lair
(if forest game, nnd soou he got
A fat und jui ) bear.
- Detroit Free Tress,
"I think a love of football must be
inherent in tho J'igs'kiu family."
"What makes yon think so?" "Why,
whenever littlo Jcniiuie wants to play
the game, his mother kicks." New
York Press.
Duriug the siege of Paris a French
lady, driven by hunger to cat her pet
dog, excliiiine l when ';lo had finished
her meal: "Poor I'ilinc! how pleased
she would have been t i gnaw her own
bones!" Lo 1'apillou.
Mamma "Robbie, your face doesn't
look uny cleaner thun when 1 sent you
to wath it. Did you n?e tho soap?"
Robbie "V.::, nr.d it made tho dand
iest soap bubbles you ever m
blowcd. " - Inter Ocean.
The Right Rev. -Mr. Cassock "1
greatly bur, my dear madam, that
your husband is destined to reap a
harvest of tareu." Mrs. Swiftly Cuy
"Indeed, 1 fear so, j!:s-hop; lu has
bvTU ou 01:0 for t'y :ll threw vli'Vi,"