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Tho number trf emigrants from
Great Itritniii ' Ireland decreased
very hugely lnJjvcsr.
"Rome in its palmiest dnys know
untiling of buckwheat cakes or coil tilth
ball," excluims the Detroit Free
l'l'CSS.
The Hnrlford Journnl man sagely
remarks th-it people who think every
olio oii'ht to Ihi perfect Hhoulil re
incmlicr that even the buii hits spots
on it.
There are seven colleges in tho
United States which maintain thtily
newspaper, namely: Harvard, Yale,
Princeton, Brown, Cumuli, tho Uni
versity of Pennsylvania mi l tho Uni
versity of California.
The iiiHiiriince statistic of England
show thnt in case of tho deaths of hus
band and wife, if tho wife dios first,
tho husband survives nino years,
while if the husband is tho first to die,
the widow lives for eleven years longer.
Puck turns philosopher : "Tempor
Bry insanity is tho excuso for a pood
many things ; lint what excuse can be
given for temporary insanity? Hue
any 0110 ever hesrd of this madness
causing tho doing of a good action?"
The English Homo Secretary has re
fused to allow Mrs. Muybriek, the
American woman who is alleged to
have poisoned her husband, to bo
Hubjected to a hypnotic test in order
to discover whether sho is gnilty or
innocent,
Goorgo W. Child, tho great philan
thropist, ouee said that tho best in
vestment ho ever made was sending an
overworked employe on a two-months'
trip to Europe and paying hia ex
penses. Said he: "Ho could do
twioo as much work when ho came
back, you see."
Southwest Louisiana is one of the
lieiit sheep countries in the world,
maiffVaius the Courier-Journal. Sheep
live all tho year on tho range, and
there are no wild animals that prey
upon thorn. The ouly expense involved
is in driving them up, marking tho
lambs and shearing.
Secretary Lamout estimates tho
militia strength of the country at one
eighth tho total of population, and
thinks that incase of need the United
States could take tho field with an
army larger than that of any civilized
nation of tho world. 8,23;l,tW men
is his figure for the available military
strength of tho country.
The New YorkTribnne, in comment
ing ou tho recent aggravated case of
prime at Con t University, asserts
that college ruffianism is 'dying out,
aud thata hotter foeliug prevails among
college students generally now than iu
former days. "We hope that it is so,"
remarks tho New York Witness, "and
that the college faculties will pluck up
courage enough to make and to en
force righteous laws without regard to
consequence."
Southwestern North Carolina shelters
tho most important and prosperous
bund of Indians iu the East. They are
Cherokees, and tho baud is an incor
porated company. Thoir whole uum
her is a little over 1500, and they iu
habit a beautiful mountain region,
. Although they retain their aboriginal
features and tho stroug frames of their
savago ancestors, they dress iu the
garments of civilization and follow the
pursuits of white men. The priucipB
chief is a distinguished looking man ;
he has three sweet-looking daughter?.
two of whom would bo noticeably
pretty girls in any community. Old
fashioned spinum? wheels are btill
used iu the cabins of these Indians.
Several wealthy New Yorkers have
spent a great deal of money iu the iui
provemeut of Jekyll Island, off the
coast of Georgiu, ami now it is one of
tho finest winter retreats in tho
couutry. Guorgo Bleistein, publisher
of the Buffalo Courier describes it us
follows: 'Nature did much" to mtkfi
Jekyll a thing of bejMity, and mau and
mouev have madeitajoy forevor. Wo
have the grandest beach on the South
ern shores, as good on that of Gulves
ton, eleven miles long, from 300 to 000
feet wide, its hard, white sauds washed
twice per diem by old ocean's waves
that sing an etornal lullaby. On the
island we have sport-fit for kiugs--the
red door, the wild turkey, tho wi!
boar furnishing excitement for our
Nimrods, while the wutors abound iu
drum, shoepheud, aud bass. Our elu'u
house cost 1)0,000, and there are eiijht
cottages that oust from i.000 t-i !'),-
000. Wo have built forty mites
beautiful shell roadway, mi I thcro al-
bridle iat'us till ovn the island. The
climate ia beini-tropic and in wir.te
more periect. thau thnt of California.
LIFE AND l.OVE.
Life has hurried Lovo away,
As though he never kni-w Its birth.
Love holds no lnstlns fealty here,
Upon this solemn enrih.
Love, tho bondsman, onmn an hour
To sport above t le wnb of things j
Life, tho master, went Ills wny
Crushed are the lrisml wings.
Melville Upton. In UciribnT.
OUR INVISIBLE GUEST.
BY II. 0. IH1IX1K.
E
wero spending
a pleasant even
ing in tho parlor
of my father's
handsome coun
try homo when
the front door
bell rang and
started us all
into guessing who
our visitor might
ijti In spite of my
blushing attempt
to ridicule the
idea it wasprctty
well settled by the youngest mem
bers of our family, at least that our
caller wonld prove to be a young man
and neighbor supposed to be deeply
in love with mo, when our dainty
waiting maid announced a messenger
with a telegram.
Of courso thnt unusual event in our
rural and sometimes too quiet exist
ence, caused a little commotion, and,
as the dispatch was addressed to me, I
was watched with curious eyes while I
opened the envelope and read its con
tents. "Will start to-morrow to visit yon,"
it said ; "have sent trunk to-day,"
signed, "Mary Norton." She wos my
very dearest girl friend on earth and
had long promised to visit me. The
anticipation of her coming made
everyone so happy that nothing more
was said about my "bouu," for which
I was thankful.
The next afternoon tho expressman
brought the expected trunk. I had it
taken upstairs aud placed in my room,
for I insisted that ray best friend
should share my lovely, sunny bod
chamber and not be poked away in the
cold apartment reserved for ordinary
guets.
After some trouble and complam
ng, for tho trunk was unusually largo
and heavy, the expressman, helped by
our gardener, curried it up aud set it
against the foot of my bed, there to
wait for its beloved owner.
As I huve mentioned, our house and
grounds were large aud handsome, for
my father, being rich, prided himself
on maintaining a home befitting a
country gentleman. We also pos
sessed much jewelry aud other rare
treasures, and, for fear of robbers,
our house was well protected without
by dogs aud within by bolts und bars
and electric alarms at each door aud
window. In addition we all had large
dinner bells by our bedvides to ring
furiously in case of necessity, aud the
male portion of the family had no end
of guns and handy pistols.
Consequently, on the following
morning when we discovered that we
had been robbed during the night, we
were frightened and shocked beyond
measure.
Almost every room had been en
tered and nearly ah our jewelry was
gone. Even watches from under pil
lows and poeketbooks from father's
and brother s trousers had been taken.
And most puz.Ung and alarming of
all was the fact thnt not tho slightest
sign of breaking in or out could be
found at a single door or window.
The electric contrivances were all un
disturbed.
Who could have done tho robbery?
We couldn't suspect our servants of
any share In tho crime, for long years
of faithful duty proved the contrary.
If a burglar had secreted himself iu
the house before closing time, which
seemed probable, how could ho have
gotten out aud loft no. trace? The
more we tried to solve the riddle the
more mysterious it became to us,
though the village constable, hastily
sent for, said he'd soon huve a theory
to work ou,
Iu the afternoon of thut awful day
another telegram came to our house
from Mary Norton. It read : "Moth
er suddenly ill. Cannot come. Will
send for trunk, l'lease deliver to ex
pressuiau wheu he culls. Will write
particulars. "
In an hour following that came tho
exprebsman ami, glad that Mary was
to be spared the unpleasantness of a
visit at such a forlorn time, we again
let our man help him away with the
heavy trnuk from its place at the foot
of my bed.
For a week we did our best, assisted,
too, by city detectives, to discover a
clue to tho robbers, but all in vain.
And every day wo sent to tho post
office for my friend's promised letter,
but uoue came. Then anxious for
foar her mother was seriously ill, I
wroto to hor. By return mail came
an answer, saying she had sent neither
trnuk nor telegrams, that her mother
was not sick, and asking what it all
meant
At once 1 understood our robbery.
The burglar had been in the trunk
when it came, he had passed the night,
save when he was making the round of
tho house, in my room when 1 was
alono ; then with his valuable plunder
he had been shipped away in his queer
hiding place. No wonder the trunk
was heavy aud hie:. No doubt from
peepholes iu it tho robber had watched
tne uutil certain I was suuuil asleep.
Then out he must have crept and the
thought made me shudder aud foel
faint.
But, though o admired the cunning
and bold trick, wo immediately set
about tracing the trunk to where it
went after leaving our house,
II
The exprcFsman, whom we found to
be honest and unsuspicious in the mat
ter, had given it to the railroad which,
on telegraphic orders, had forwarded
it to an adjacent city. There it was
called for and taken away by a dray
man who likely was an accomplice of
the burglar, for no one at the station
knew him and nothing further could
be learned regarding the trunk, at least
for the time being.
Now comes the strangest and almost
incredible part of my story.
Soino mouths after our robbery I
was on a week's visit at mv uncle's
house in a distant town. Like my
father's, it was spacious, and showed
evidence of the wealth it contained.
Ono evening after supper and whilo
wo were all gathered in the parlor a
telegram was brought in and handed
to my Cousiu Alico. Of course my
detective curiosity was aroused at tho
similarity of tho event and when it
turned out to bo almost identical in
its reading with the ono sent to mo
the night before our burglor, I in
stantly know what was coming. So
did the rest, for they, as you may
guess, were not ignorant of the af
fair. For some moments we gazed at each
other in speechless astouishmcnt.
Then Uncle John, bouud to joke, no
matter what happened, asked me with
mock seriousness if I would like the
expected trunk set in my room, which,
being tho guest chamber, was the
right placo for it.
My look of terror made him smilo
iu spito of his straight face.
"No! No!" I gasped. "I should
die at t ho sight of it. Oh, Uncle John,
do send for the polico at once. I'm
suro we'll all be murdered in our
sleep."
"Yes, but we want to trap your bur
glar friend," he laughed, "aud maybe
recover your jewels. However, if you
aro so nuhospitablc, perhaps Alice will
take tho stranger iu."
But Alice, with a faco more scared
than mine, declared positively that
sho wouldn't.
. "Well; thou, I will do the honors,"
said uncle, glancing mischievously at
his frightened wife.
"John ! you shall do no such thing,"
spoke up auntie, with a trembling
voice. "I'll have tho trunk thrown
down the well ns soou as it arrives.
No burglar, dead or alive, comes into
my room, llie idea!
Finally wc settlod down to business
and fixed on a plan to catch tho com
ing burglar red-handed and without
any danger to ourselves.
Early next morning I moved from
tho guest's chamber to my room with
cousin Alice. Ihen my deserted apart
nient had its windows securely barred,
so that our expected gueRt could not
escape through them should he feol so
iucliued, and its door was fixed to be
strongly bolted from outside, in the
hall. Some old watches and jewelry
of small value were carelessly left on
the dressing case to tempt the rascal
and keen him in innocence ot our
crafty scheme.
Several well-armed men were to be
stationed quietly in and about the
house, to do whatever fighting might
be necessary, though our plan was to
let the burglar rest iu faucied peace,
if possible. Then, after his departure
in the trunk, we were to follow and
capture his pals iu the city, and so re
cover the previously stolen articles.
'Tis needless to mention our excite
ment, of waiting all the next day for
the trunk, or our scarcely concealed
agitation when, toward eveuing, it
arrived.
Uncle John himself, loudly proclaim
ing his gladness at the pleasure of tho
visit it promised, helped the nnsus-
jiecting expressman up the broad stair-
case ana careiuiiy leu it. in mil guest,
chamber, right side up and where it
could be observed from the hall by
peeping through the kcy-holo of tho
well-fastened door.
Before dark I mustered courage
enough to steal in stockinged feet to
the key-hole and peck in.
Yes, the trunk was the very one I
had entertained and even sat on iu my
room at home,' with never a thought
of it I horrid occupant. Ugh I Tho
sight of it sent chills through me aud
aroused a feeling ou my scalp, as if my
hair was trying to erect itself. Hast ily
I ran away from that worse thau Blue
Beard chamber, and never stopped
shivering till Btipper was over.
Yon may be sure no eyes were closed
in the house that night. The men
guarding the hall heard the knob of
the prison-room door softly tried,
but, of course, it didn't open, which
was lucky for the rascal within.
At lust daylight came aud relieved
us of some of our awful Buspouse.
After breakfast Uncle John noiselessly
uubolted the door and, carelessly hum-
ming
t u ne aud coueealiiig a haudy
weapon, eutereii tne room, ine iruuK
stood just as it was left the evening
before. But the jewelry uud st uff hud
disappeared from the dressing-cuse.
When brave Uuele John returned to
ns to report his eyes shouo with a
hunter's delight. His game was
trapped aud ready to be bulged when
tho timo came.
Just before dinner the other tele
gram, almost a duplicate of mine,
arrived, and after it the expressiuau
for the trunk. Again uncle and the
still unsuspicious man lifted the
burglar's receptacle and placed it ou
the wagon to go to tho railroad sta
tion. Then, as we watched it driveu away
with uncle aud a pair of constables
following iu a buggy, we dared speak
above a whisper.
The rest of the story uncle told us
ou the following day, when he came
homo safely from his hazardous trip.
"At the station," ho said, we
found a nice looking, respectable chap
waiting. When the trunk appeared
he paid the expressman and cheeked
the trunk through ti New York, to
which place 1 bought my ticket, uud,
ulso, telegraphed on for city police
detectives to meet mo on arrival of the
train.
"When th trunk was placed in tho
baggago part of the smoking car its
ow ner got ou board and took his sent
among tho smokers. As innocent as
a babe 1 plumped down beside him
and in a right friendly way offered
him a cigar, which, like a gentleman,
he accepted. Then, puffing our cigars
together as chummy as you jdease, we
soou got acquainted and had a truly
delightful chat principally about the
weather, though, for the fellow was
mighty careful to avoid other topics.
"When wo reached New York I
found it necessary to attend to some
business, which concerned him rather
more than he thought, bo shaking
hands 'good-bye,' and expressing a
hope to become better acquainted, J
left him watched by my town con
stables whilo 1 sought my smarter city
detectives and put them 'onto him.'
'His drayman was on hand waiting
near the baggage-rootu. As soon as
he got the trunk on lm cart and drove
off a ways my smoking friond was
neatly "collared and cuffed" aud
marched in an opposite direction be
tween two valiant policeman. Then
the detectives aud my self took a cab
aud started after the trunk.
Through streets becoming dirtier
and wickeder we followed, without at
tracting suspicion from the drayman,
until he stopped before an apparently
unoccupied house and prepared to on
load. Ere he could do so one deteC'
tive jumped on his cart, and without
sneaking started his horse anead again.
The other, aided by me, grabbed the
fellow and prevented him from mak
iuar an outcry to alarm his pal in the
trunk. Immediately several police
men who I didn't know were following
behind suddenly appeared and burst
into the house which turned out to bo
n 'fence' for the thieves.
"Leaving our surprised drayman in
charge of some of the officers we
seated ourselves in tho cab and again
followed the trunk to a uolice station
house, into which it was carried and
placed iu front of tho captain's desk
ou the floor.
'Then silently we awaited results.
It was dusk, and as no light were yet
burniue to let our game sco where he
was we riehtly supposed he would
think himself safe at home and act ao
cordingly. Prepared to turn on the
cas full blaze when he did so, we
watched the trunk. For perhaps fif
teen anxious minutes it seemed life
less. Then we heard a movement in-
Bido, heard a bolt drawn and saw the
lid slowly riso and a head cautiously
appear. Up weut tho gas aud over
went the trunk's lid, pulled by" an
armed office. At ttr3t the head, or its
face rather, wore a happy, tri
umphant, broad grin ; then as things
didn't look familiar its eyes opened
w ider iu an effort to understand mat
ters, while the griu faded away like a
rainbow. Then, as the facts of the
case forced themselves on the bur
glar's startled brain the poor fellow's
hair straightened, his eyes bulged ont
like a lobster's and the astonishment
aud terror depicted on his youthful
but evil features beat acting all hollow,
" 'Come out of that, you scamp !
shouted the police captain as soon as
he could talk for laughing, 'and give
au account of yourself. What's the
name of this particular racket any
how ?'
"The burglar tried to laugh also,
but it was a dismal failure. 'Oh, that'i
all right,' he grinned, 'I took yez for
the conductor. lhat s wny 1 was
scared. Yer see, I've been beatiug
the' railroad, boss. 'Taint every chap
kin git ahead of old Vuuderbilt am:
Chauncey Doe-pue. Hut don't t
'em, kors they'll bo a-openiug all the
trunks on the line and the wimmiu
might object. Ha, ha, ha! Say.purty
Buck trick, wasu t it?
"The burglar's bluff was good, but
it didn't work for u cent.
" 'What yer doing with thoBO
watches iu the trunk?' asked a polioe
mau as ho fished them out after tho
fellow had painfully managed to crawl
out himself.
" 'Seein' if the road rnns on time,
boss. Tho blamed train wos ten min
utes late and I'm goiu' to report it.
Say, yer hain't got a swallerof whisky
yer could lend a tired traveler, hoy?
Couldn't get at the water coolor, yer
know. '
" 'Well, you'll have no trouble get
ting at the 'cooler' now. Lock him
up, Sergeant. We'll give him another
free trip to-morrow.'
"Off tJ tho coll they took the
wretch, and then we examined his
trunk. It was padded inside so that
being tossed ubout by baggage
smashers couldn't hurt. There wero
pockets maJe to button in the lining,
hut only a couple were tilled with his
plunder. Some empty flasks and
crumbs of food we found, lutho bot
tom and Bides were ventilating and
peepholes. A inau might live a week
in that trunk, I think, if his provisions
h.-ld out."
In a week or so I received a notice
to appear in a New York court to give,
my testimony and identify th things
stolen at my own home, most of which
we recovered. I saw tho trunk oaiu,
and its occupant, but I guess he knew
me better than I did him. Detroit
Free 1'rebS.
Heads (JrowTill Sixty-five Years ol Age
"Head's grown, sir," observed my
hatter one day to me, manipulating
the interior of my topper with a foot
rule; ami when 1 indignantly dis
claimed the soft impeachment he
added : "All my customer' heads
grow, sir, up to sixty-live, excepting
tho ecclesiastical gents, and theirs
don't grow after twenty-live." Here
in, doubtless, lies the rtusou why
clerical headgear i so characteristic
of the man beueith, for never wus n
fleutir fallacy thun the adiie thut
"it is not the cowl that iimke. tht)
luouk." London Globe.
HE WANDERING KIRG11ESE
PICTURESaUE NOMADS OF
THE
STEPPES OF ASIA.
ihe Milking Hour Is Their CHler
Amusement larrlane an Import
ant A flair A Hrlde's press.
T
HE Kirgheso are a nomadic.
tribe, living in tho steppes ot
Asia, north of the Caspian
( oca, ana among m cuiiiuuii
of Issi-Kul. They are one of the most
interesting and picturesque tribes at
that wild and barbaric country, ior
the reason that they make no pretense
to civilization, yet live in comparative
comfort, with the samo primitive cus
toms which their ancestors maintained
before them. Their houses aro bam
boo or wicker hnts, which aro open to
the woather in summer, but m winter
are thatched with heavy blankets of
their own manufacture and walled
with solid mosses of snow fifteen feet
high. Those are pressed against the
dwellings, making them air-tight tad
shutting ont the severe cold ol that
rigorous climate. A hole in the side
admits light, or at least as mucn oi it as
those children of the wiiaa inane use
of. Like the Indians, they sit or re
cline about their fires on deerskin of
their own curing, and add the smoke
of their pipes to the clouds that em
anate from the fire, not minding in
the least the stifling atmosphere.
To these nomads life is mostly a
holiday. Their laws are simple and
traditional, a chiot settling au tacir
disputes with a royal autocracy, iney
are not warlike as are their neighbors
the Cossacks, and give mnch attention
to the hunt and a rude sort of agricul
ture. The women, who dress almost
exactly like the men except on holi
days or at weddings, do the greater
part of the domestic work. It is they
who manuiactnre in iu.,mL,
that delightful beverage which is
known variously to Europeans as
kumys, konmiBs, kumiss, and is made
of mares' milk.
The evening and morning amuse
ment of the Kirghese is the milking
hour. Then the herds of goats, camels,
mares and colts are driven in from
pasture, and the -women turn out in
their mannish costumes and high fur
hats if it is winter to milk and
chatter. It is, then, a labor of love,
since they all love kumys, which is
their substitute for whisky. It is
really a strong intoxicant when fer
mented with a mixture of asses' milk,
goats' milk and camels' milk, making
a liquor bo strong that one glass of it
will upset a temperate European,
while a native will imbibe eight or ten
glasses before ho loses his head. The
Kirghese sip their kumys with true
appreciation of its exhilarating prop
erties, and all the time that can be
frnm eatinn is set aside for
drinking, when men, women and chil
dren alike participate.
When the Kirghese move their
quarters from one valley or mountain
to another they make it the occasion
of gTeat hilarity aud feastiug. Ihen
the women wear the gay costumes of
merry-makers, riding horseback like
men, driving the herds before them,
among which the children are dis
tributed in paniers by themselves on
camels or colts, the sagacious boasts
seeming to know that they are part of
the family, and conducting themselves
with great discretion.
Marriage among the Kirghese is a
very important afiuir. The bride has
little to say in the matter, sho being
accepted bv a lover in consideration
of a dowry of camels and horses, when
the oontract is made before the chief,
according to the Iiiwr of their religion,
which is Mohammedan. Tho bride is
decked in the richest stutts, for the
Kirgheso are wealthy in the accumu
lation of costly silks and jewels, which
are handed down from ono genera
tion to another, to bo worn per
haps but once in a lifetime. If a
bride is married as her mother was be
fore her, she will wear a Kaiat oi
striped silk in all tho gorgeous colors
of the orient. Her jacket will be
trimmed with bands of gold and silver
sequins, aud her trousers tucked into
elegant boots of variegated leather,
while her fur cap will be studded with
jewels as big as the Koh-i-noor. The
face will then bo covered with a veil
which has two slits for the eyes, and
these untaught daughters of Eve can
manage a veil in the most coquettish
aud fascinating manner so that no at
tractive feature is really concealed.
The Kirghese is a sovereign iu his
own right and never acknowledges a
superior,
When twoot tiieineu meei,
the question first propounded is
"Who are thy seven ancestors?"
this:
The
answer is usually sat isf actory, us every
tribesman can recite his lineage a
smoothly as if it were a memorized
lesson. Like his prayers, it is a part
of his mental being, for these uomuds
are taught certainthiugstriiditioiuilly,
and never disturb these native posses
sions by any acquired knowledge.
They retain the fundamental truths,
and their khau, or tribal chief, doe
the rest. Uetroit Free Fress.
The Talmud.
The Talmud is of very complicated
composition, inasmuch as it has eight
meanings. In brief, however, it is a
collection of notes, deeisious of rab
bis and doctors on tho books of the
Jewish law. There are two Talmuds,
the Babylonian aud the I'alestiuiau ;
between them they contain vust stores
of religious learning, of historical
references, or geographical hints, or
archeology, numismatics and other
sciences. The Bab.v Ionian Talmud
dates from tho Sixth Century of our
era, the I'alestiuiau from tho Fifth
Century. Trenton (X. J.) Anuinau.
A project to furnish Oinuhc,
with water power by int-tiin- I u
fifty miles long is M-iiig col bid..-r
prominent capitalists
I..1
SCIENTIFIC AMI IMU'STKIAL.
A shorthand typewriter is tho latest
invention.
On a warm day sound travels at the
rate of 775 miles an hour.
More people have died from colds
thau were ever killed in battle.
Tho speed of the newest rapid fire
guns is at tho rate of 10HH miles an
hour.
Every pontoon used m the French
Army weighs K?."iH pounds and has a
buoyancy of 18,075 pounds.
The hottest place in the United
States last summer waa Bagdad, Ari
zona, where tho mercury often
reached 140 degrees in tho shade.
A gas well with a pressure of over
4,000,000 feet near West Muncie,
Ind., is on fire, and all efforts to check
the flames have so far proved futile.
Experiments with aluminum at the
Navy Deportment render it likely
that it will form Bn important part in
the construction of light craft here
after. Fiscatorial authorities say that,
were it not for the natural enemies of
fish, the codfish would fill all the
available space in the seas, rivers and
oceans.
A tiny electric light fastened to the
end of a pencil is a recent invention
to enable reporters to make notes in
darkness, and find the key hole when
they reach home.
Our nickel five cent piece gives a
key to the intricacies of the metric
system, as it weighs exactly five
grammes, and it is exactly two centi
meires in diameter.
Two physicians have arrived at the
conclusion that most persons BtrucK
by lightuing and to all appearanceB
dead could be recalled to life by ap
plying the method of artificial reepir
atiou iu use for resuscitating the
drowned.
Professor Langley demonstrates
that if a body of coal sufficiently
large to last the United States
thousand years should be set on fire,
the hoat given forth from it would not
equal that which the sun gives out in
the thousandth part ol a second.
The interior of Greenland is eati
mated to bo covered with a shield
shaped cap of snow and ico not less
thau uOOO feot, or one mile in tnicic-
noss. In winter this mighty shield is
even thicker, and its gross tounaga
becomes something that paralyzes the
imagination and banrupts the boi
where the printer keeps his zero signs.
The English Government report ot
an investicalion into tho influenza
epidemic of the last four years, re
cards the proof of the contagiousness
of the disease from person to person as
ovorwhelmine. aud denies that it is
transported through the atmosphere
another warning of the folly of un
necessary contact with the sick, oi
contact withont precautions ; an emi
uent laryugologist attributes the cos
tagiousuess to the breath.
Danger iu the Hath.
Some of the facts recently bronght
to light on the philosophy of bathing
are us interesting oe they aro import
ant, and special mention may be made
of tho investigation in this lino by in.
Wertheimer. of Fans, and now com
municatcd by him to tho public. He
shows that a sensation of cold ou the
skin acts us a circulation of the
lower part of t ho trunk, that is to Bay
on the veins, and also on the brain
iu the same way us a mechanical or
electrical stiiii'iilus of tho sensitive
nerves of the skin. This observation
it is declared, affords au explanation
of the fact that a sudden immersion o
the bodv in cold water after a meal
and while the process of digestion
uoinir on. may be attended with dun
L'er : at such a time the abdominal
svstom is the seat of intense physi.
locrical congestion, and the accumula
lion of blood in it is suddenly thrown
back toward the nervous centres, and
tho consequence may be a disorder re
sultinir iu death. New York Tele
gram.
Extracting Fruit Juices,
The diffusion process of extracting
juice from fruits is gaining ground.
It has long boon applied iu France iu
the extractiou of beet-root juice for
sugar, aud it is now used iu making
cider without a cider null or a cider
press. Iu crushing aud pressing the
apples tho pure fruit juice is not ob
tained, for much albuminoid matter
is extracted with it from the cells. In
tho now process tho juice is washed
out from sliced fruit with cold water.
Warm water acts more quickly, but
the result is not nearly so savory. The
water passes from one compartment
filled with fruit to auother, and the
process is so arranged thut in each it
meets fresher fruit thun ill the last, so
that it leaves saturated with juice, or,
rather, it aud tho juice chani' places,
so that nearly pure juice issues from
tho machine. The results ure said to
be satisfactory iu the highest degree.
New Y'ork Advertiser.
Spelling Kelorm '( K.asy.
Tho French Academy decided soiuo
time ago to reform French orthog
raphy, and very soon it will issue a
pamphlet giving details of the changes
to be made. It is a matter of con
jecture how iiiuoh attention the com
mon people will pay to this official
tampering with their language. Some
thing of tho same kind was tried iu
Germany a few yeurs ugo, with dubious
success, and iu the United States
eminent philologists, like I'lofessor
Marsh, have been urging for u decade
past a change iu the spelling ot Kn,1,'
lir.li along the lines ot phonetic re
form, but thus fur proselytes have not
bi-i'ii uuuieroiis. it is a ililticult mut
ter to illlll' the plum people to
abandon an accepted u.-.ae in speech
vr iu spi lliug. - New Yirk Jenruul.
THE BRIGHT SIDE.
Loniiln' on the bright Mile
That's the wny to gn ;
T-et vou It's th rlht sMe
Summertime cr snow !
Nvit h In' mudi In urievln'
K'ps you In the groove .
It's a man belipvin'
Mks the mount'iinf movel
Clou. Is Is got a liKht side
All the bclls'll chime :
Lookiu' ou the lirlRht side
Oils there every tf m !
Atlanta Constitution.
HUMOR OF THK DAY.
Peacemakers and fools carry cracked
heads.
A lie never stops to put on its hat.
Barn's Horn.
It is not what one knows, but how
one tells it, that aeiermiues ones
ability.
You can always tickle a girl with a
feather, if it happens to be an ostrich
feather. Puck.
Thero is not faith enough in this
world to go around and never was.
Galveston News.
The woman who is vain of her
beauty is as wise br tho man who is
vain of his brains. Puck.
The mau who is "alwaysonthe go,"
generally doesn't- know how to stop
when he gets there. Puck.
When a cirl coos visiting she re
turns home as soon as sho has worn all
her dresses Atchison Globe.
Many a man who would like to re
form the world has a front gate that
won't stay shut. Ram's Horn.
Borrows--"Have you Buy spare
funds?" Lenddee (ourtly) "My funds
are all Bpare." Chicago Record.
"Nothing succeeds like distress,'
remarked the beggar, ns he counted
his coin at the end of the day. Fun.
Little (trains of wis.lom,
Little bits of sense,
Ilae a way of mnkinir
Cupid less Inttmee.
Detroit Free Press.
The battleship does well enough at
long range, but when she comes on a
reef, then comes the tug. Boston
Transcript.
A good many boys have tamed out
badly, because they had fathers who
made tbem work with a dull hoe.
Ram's Horn.
"There'e a lesson to be learned from
the pin, my son. It is given a head
that it may not go too far." Boston
Transcript.
The man who discovered that the
darkest hour is just before the dawn,
must have been making a night of it.
Philadelphia Life.
Teacher "In the sentence, 'Time
is money,' can you parse money?"
Scholar "Yes'm, if it is good money."
Detroit Free Press.
Polite Gontlemau (in street car)
"Take my seat, madauie." Lady
"Never mind, thank you. I get out
here, too." New York Weekly.
That wouiiui tli weaker vessul Is
Full many u lioipit he hath,
Who fiw"ls the weighty contents of
The vials of her wrath.
Puok.
In Iceland whistling is regarded as
a violation of the divine law. In roost
countries, however, it is regarded only
as a confounded nuisance. Boston
Transcript.
Criticus "I'd bo ashamed to write
such stuff as you write." Authors
"Of course, you would. Everybody
would say it was plagiarized." Chi
cago Record.
Minnie--"Don't you think our
modern styles are just horrid? I do."
Mamie "Is that the reason you are
still wearing your last year's bon
net '!" Indianapolis Journal.
The era of excessive and cruel pun
ishment has not yet wholly passed
away. A Socialist agitator was sen
tenced to hard labor iu Germany th
other day. --Courier-Journal.
Westerly--"I tell you there's elec
tricity in the air ont West. You can't
get the Chicago atmosphere iu Now
Y'ork." Hii(l8on--"Yes, you cau.
Walk just behind a garbage cart. "--Kate
Field's Washington.
Mrs. Vau Asthelt "I suppose you
take a lively iuterest iu the politics ol
your couutry, Lord Suxouorine?"
Lord Saxonorine (with pride) Oh,
dear, no. I'm a member of tho House
of Lords, y' know." Chicago Rec
ord. Clara "Going in for rhurity again,
aro you? What is it this time?" I 'ore
"We are going to distribute cheap
copies of Beethoven's symphonic
among the poor. Music is such au aid
to digestion, you know." New York
Weekly.
Master (examining pupils in geog
raphy) "What i the name ot ihi.
town?" Pupil -"Uiriniii-iiHiu." Master-
"What is it noted for?" Pupil
'Firearms. " Master "What are lire
urius?" Pupil - "I'oker, shovel and
longs." Tit-Hits.
Restful Rugs "What's become o
Pete?" Weary William (shaking hi
head) "Don't usk me, liugsy. He's
gone to tho bad." Restful Kua "Iu
jail, eh?" Weary William "Worst
than that! He's workiu' reg'lur iu a
factory." Kate Field's Wiuhiugloa.
First Young Lady "Dj you alway4
tmy two kiuds of paper?" Second
Young Lady "Always. Y'oii see, when
I write to Charlie 1 use red paper;
that means love. Wheu I uiisw-t J-m's
letters I use blue paper, which menu
'faithful uut i death. ' " --Brooklvu
Life.
Auntie "Does your new delictual
its eye.''" Little I'.thel " Yes' in. but
she it, tho most wakeful child I ever
saw. Shu ili'i-Mi ! :-hut her eyes when
I lay hcl down, as -h'- oii-lit to. The
only say to make- li -r fc to sleep is t i
bis ii I h r o:i h r he.'. I :;'i I uiWe her,"
livvd New),