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Ohio possesses more colleges than
any other State.
Tho United States is the only conn
try spending more for education thuD
' for war equipments.
A stonolcss peach has boon cnlti
rated in California. It has an insipid
flavor, and is of no valuo except as a
curiosity.
The Anglo-Saxon raco is in posses
sion of ono-third portion of tho earth
and rules over 400,000,000 of its in
habitants. Ex-rrosidont Orton, of tho Western
Union Tolograph Company, doolared
that the English language was twenty
five per cent, cheaper for tolographio
purposes than any other.
fly order of the postal authorities
tho final "h" in the spelling of towns
and oities ending with "burgh," has
been dropped in oflleial communica
tions. Tho genoral publio ceased us
ing "h" at the end of rittsburg and
Harrisbnrg twenty years ago.
The popularity of novels is proba
bly nowhere so great, declares the
New York Tribne, as in Australia. It
is said thst ninety per cent, of tho fe
male and sovcuty-five per cent, of the
inalo frequenters of tho publio libra
ries road novels almost exclusively.
It. Lahann, a Danish resident of
Monmouth, 111., took out naturaliza
tion papers twenty-six years ago. A
few days since ho had occasion to ex
amine the papcrs.and found that ho
had renounced his alligance to Quoen
Victoria, instead of tho King of Ben
mark. So it appears that ho is not a
citizen, Bud as ho wants to be Mayor
of tho town, ho is very much disap
pointed. Tho new catalogue of tho romances
in the British Museum begins with tho
record of the unique and priceless
manuscript of "Beowulf," and tells of
tho escape of tho manuscript from the
conflagration at Ashburnham House
in 1731 ; aud of its still having a fair
pretonsion, despite all the scholars, to
bo tho very oldest poem in any "modern
European language a monument of
English which is asserted to bo hun
dreds of years older than tho first lit
erary stammerings of tho Romance
language, and probably much the
senior of any Teutonic literature.
The gentlo art of shoplifting is on
the increase, according to Mr. Whito
ly, tho great London provider. It is
iad to think women of the middlo and
upper classes are said to be the chief
offenders, although it is difficult to
credit such a statement. One of the
commonest tricks is to have several
largo pookets in a dross into which
things can be pushed easily without
inouring observation. Very often
long, loose cloaks are worn. It cannot
bo urged that kleptomania is the rea
son for these thefts, because the shop
lifters usually hunt in couples, one
engaging the attention of the atten
dant while the other does the thieving.
For every man caught at tho work
there are three hundred women I
Russia is evidently not a paradise
for photographers. Every amateur
photographer in that country has to
communicate with the police and se
cure a license. If he happens to be
Been photographing in the vicinity of
a fortress, he stands a chance of being
dispatched on a free excursion to Si
beria, whence return tickets are not
supplied. Of every picture taken a
. copy must be given to the police and
S another copy filed for reference, and
tho police have the right at any time
of the day or night to enter your dark
room and examiue everything therein,
as well as to soarch all your photo
graphic paraphernalia. Furthermore,
all dry plates have to bo imported,
and each box is opeuod and every plate
examined.
Says tho New York World : "It is
now pretty generally known that there
is to be a great celebration at the
close of the nineteenth century, and
the ushering in of tho twentieth. A
great deal of effort is being made to
carry out a very unique, though grand
plan. It is proposed that tho Colum
bian Liberty aud Peaco Bell be rune;
on the spot where the shepherds heard
the chorus of angelio voices proclaim,:
"Peace on earth, good will towards
men." The idea is to have the bell
oonneeted to all parts of the world by
telegraph and cable. Then, at a spe
cified timo, all telegraphic business is
to be suspended, every congregation
in the religious world to be assembled
in its place of meeting, each having a
wire oouneoted with the Jerusule.-x
wire, and simultaneously the bell bo
rung and tho message of "peace" bo
'-w4.ww Uie earth.
CARPE DIEM,
The tnfags to come are bubbles,
That we have bad Is ours j
The frosts may doom Hope's dearest bloom,
But never Memory's flowers
To-morrow Is a maybe,
But Testordsy has been ,
And dear To-day is hero to say,
'Who use me well are mon !"
Charles F. Lummls, in Harper's Weekly.
A GOOD TURN.
ST WAITEB LBOlt SAWYER.
ASY-GOING Mr.
Balcom rose early
that morning, and
hurried off to the
city as soon as ho
had swallowed
broakfast. That
was not his way,
and Mrs. Balcom
wondered J but, be-
iVn W f, ! u'l nga good wife, she
f All BB'?et' no questions.
isoiore sue can
fullly acoo m m o
dated herself to the
novel event, tho
man- of-a 1 1-w o r k
gave her another
surprise, presenting a telegram which
set forth that his sister was ill and
noodod him; Of course Mrs. Balcom
lot him go. It did not occur to her
that tho double doparturo loft her and
tho children unprotected, and if
it had she would have smiled at the
idea of danger. She did not know
that there was a burglar in town.
Mr. Balcom did know. As ho came
up from the train the evening before,
his neighbor Jones had stopped him
to whisper that the Hartshorne house
had been entered and judiciously ran
sacked. The Hartshornes were in
Europe. Their care-taker had been
sojourning in that other foreign land.
a drunkard's paradise, but as soon as
he came out of it he discovered the
robbery and hastened to ask Jones's
auviee. Jones, wno una a nervous
mother-in-law, suggested that the mat
ter be kept as quiet as possible ; and
he wanted to know if Mr. Bulcom
"You did just right I" Mr. Balcom
interrupted, when the story had gone
thus far. "TheBe country constables
would frighten every woman into hy
sterics, but they wouldn't catch a bur
glar onoe in a thousand times. Frofes'
sional, is he?"
"So I suppose. He seems to have
gone into the house and through it as
though he knew his business.
"I'll baok my burglar-alarm against
him!' Air. Balcom chuckled, conn
dently.
"How about Ben Ezra?" tho neigh-
Dor asked.
"No foar of him. You see, my stable
is as well protected as my house, " Mr.
Balcom explained. "Fact is, I'd
sooner lose half there is in tho honse
than that horse. Little olT his food,
the poor fellow is. I had a veterinary
out yesterday to look nt mm, aud
can t drive mm lor a week. 1 guess
1
"I suppose we ought to do some
thing," Air. Jones ventured to hint,
He knew that it allowed to go on Mr.
Balcom would talk about his horse
until the burglar aud tho listener
died a natural death.
"Oh, of course wo must trip the fol
low before he goes any further.
Toll you what : I know a private de
teotiye who was on the Boston force
for years long enough to get ao
quainted with every rascal in the
country, I'll bring him home with
mo to-morrow to look over the ground.
It would be better to pay him a nun
dred than have tho thing get out and
eoare tho women.
"Yes, indeed 1" said Mr. Jones, fer
Tently.
Bo it was decided. And after the
neighbors had exchanged the usual
remarks on the dryness of tho seaton
and the need of ram, Air. Balooin
sauntered homeward, calm in that
contentment which a managing man
has a right to feel. Ho kissed his
wife and children and then he went
out and caressed his horse. With the
burglar's accomplishments in mind be
looked carefully to the locks and
the alarmB. They were perfect aud
in order. He went to bed in peace.
That night, however, he hud a hor
rid dream. It seemed that Ben Ezra
was stolen ; that he had expended his
fortune lu seeking the horse: that
finally, when he had sunk to a beggar
outcast, he found the wreck of Beu
Ezra hauling a garbage-cart I Tha
dream so wrought upon Mr. Balcom
that ho awoke in a cold perspiration,
Ho rushed to the stable aud proved it
only a dream. But it might be
warning I That superstitious fancy
lingered with him through the hours
of dusk and dawn, and the early glare
of an August sun did not dispel it.
hurried him to the city, as has been
told.
Looking at it in the light of his ne
knowledge, Mr. JJaleoui oould sec
many reasons why Maple Fark should
attract a burglar. Its isolated and un
guarded location is one ; the small
ness and sleepiness of the town that it
fringes is auother. Seekonket has
only two constables aud one hand firej
fire engine though, to be sure, it has
four churches aud the aristocratic
residents cut themselves off from all
these blessings by buildiug on the
farther side of Greeuleat's Hill. As
Maple Fark holds aloof from Seekon
ket, so Seekonket keeps away from
Maple Park ; aud Mr. Balcom won
dered, the longer he thought of it,
that some frowsy Nupoleou did not
organize his army of tramps aud ob
literate Maple l'urk, sure that the deed
would never come to light until q
wandering peddler passed that way 1
Mrs. Balcom was not imaginative,'
and no such terrors ever oppressed
her. If she had formulated hor rule
of life she might have said that uu-
pleaaaut things were bust let alone, to
bo disposed of in a bunch at tho day
of judgment. She was young enough
to enjoy her money, ond old enough
to appreciate her health ; and since
her daughters had not reached a mar
riageable age, noither her health nor
her money seemed in danger. Of
course she should have been, as she
a happy woman. She spent her
day as tho truly happy must in small
activities that amuse one and. make
one fool useful but not fatiguod. So
accustomed was she to a routine of
quiet, that when Abbio tho cook ap
peared excitedly before her she was
slow to realize that this particular doy
might prove an exception.
"Tho stable s afire, Aliss Balcom !
the cook proclaimed.
Is it? the mistress absently
answerod. "Tell Henry to put itont,
please. Oh, I remember ; I allowed
Henry to visit his sister." She closed
her writing-desk and stood consider
ing. "3an't you throw some water on
it?" sho asked, presently.
It's the roof. I s'pose it caught
with a spark from one o' them pesky
ingines bein's 's everything 's dry as
tinder. Ain't nothin' to git scairt
about, 'cause the wind's away from
the house, what little the' is. But tho
hoss is in tho stable, yon recolleo'."
"Oh, my I Aloved beyond her
wont, Mrs. Balcom swept electrically
through the kitchen aud out of the
back door. "Oh, my 1 sho repeated
as she came in sight of the blaze,
Ben Ezra will be burned, won't he?
What will Mr. Balcom say? What
can wo do?"
D' know," was tho depressing
answer, "1 sent Jane to the corner
a'ter the firemen J but the land knows
how long it'll take to git 'cm here."
Bon Ezra must come out I Mrs.
Balcom asserted ; but there was an
accent of despair in the words, deter
mined as the sentiment was.
"Can't break that door down ! 'n
that air payteut lock on Mr. Bal-
com's got the key with him."
Mrs. Balcom stared straight be
fore her like one fascinated into help
lessness. The servant's conscience
would not let her rest until she had
kicked the door and thrown herself
against it. It did not even tremble.
Sho mopped her flushed face with her
apron and, shaking her head mourn
fully, drew back beyond tho heat of
the flames that were laying bare the
rafters.
"Ben Ezra must come out!" Mrs.
Balcom said again. The horse's agon
ized whinny had broken the spell that
was upon her. Her eyes filled at tho
sound, and Bhe ran forward aimlessly
and glanced desperately about her.
"Man I You man!" she cried, all
at once. "Come here and get our
horse 1"
Though the stranger had seemed to
spring from the ground, he Bhowed no
alacrity about coming further. He
took timo to survey tho landscape be
fore he climbed the fence. He looked
post the women, not at them, as
though he feared a possible somewhat
behind. And when he had advanoed
to where they stood, though he
abruptly took the manner of haste and
impatience, his shifty eyes seemed to
cover every point of the horizon.
"Now, then," ho demanded,
"whero's your ax?"
"In the Btable, I suppose," was Mr.
Baloom's dejected reply.
" 'N' it's a paytent lock I" tho cook
chimed in, tragically.
"Hey?" The stranger started and
stared at them suspiciously, but the
wretchedness in their faces appeared
to reassure him. He turned again to
scan the hill road. Then he ran up
to the door.
"Huhl That thing!" tho women
heard him say, contemptuously.
Through the waveless atmosphere of
the August noon the smoke floated
lazily off aud left the vision unob
soured, and the spiteful snap of flame
overruled every other noise. Tho
women looked and listened with an
intentness that would have been pain
ful had it long endured. From the
bag he carried tho stranger took a
glittering something which he applied
to the lock. Instantaneously, almost,
the door swung open. Stripping off
his blouse, the man passed through,
and when he reappeared the horse,
safely blinded, uninjured, was with
him. Mrs. Balcom fluttered after as
ho led the trembling brute to a safer
plaoe. Events had shaken her accus
tomed calm. For once iu her life she
could not meet the occasion with
graceful words.
"Oh, I don't know how to thank
you 1" she faltered, at length. "Mr.
Baloome values Ben Ezra sol I'm
sure ho'll " Why, hero he comes 1
Oh, James 1" she cried, as her husband
hatless, costless and visibly perspir
ing took the fence at a bound and
dashed up to the group. "Oh, James?
If it hadn't been for this this honest
workingman, Bun Ezra would have
been burned."
Mr. Balcom's eye was on his favor
ite, but his hand went into his pocket
and brought out a roll of bills.
"Thauk ye, boss, the strauger said,
sourly.
"Not enough !" Mr. Balcom found
breath to add, "Call to-morrow at my
office give you as much again !" The
thought of
another duty occurred to
him at the same instant, and it made
him face toward the road. "All right,
Parker!" he called. "No hurry."
"All right!" The mau who had just
come into view moderated hit pace.
After the first keen, comprehensive
gluuoe in the direction of the others,
he conspicuously ignored them, aud
looking at the stable deluyed his ap
proach. Mr. Bulcom returned to the
fondling of Bun Ezra. The horse's res'
cuer had beeu standing at the corner
of the house. No oue saw him slip
around it.
"Sound as a dollar, Parker!" Mr.
Balcom said a moment later. There
'was a suspicion of tears in his voioe,
and he blow his nose energetically be-
for ho trustel tirwsuft tu -speak
apain. "Thinks to this worthy man
Why, where is he?"
Mr. Parker smiled serenely to him
self as he began to lift Ben Ezra's leg
but he said nothing.
"Gush ho must 'a' beon in a hurry,"
tho cook put in J "he went off V left
his satchel. I s'pose I better lay it
away, hadn't I, 'fore those 'ere firemen
go to trampin' round."
She offered the stranger's bag to Mr.
Balcom, but Air. Parker took it from
his unresisting hand and coolly pulled
it open. Then, while the hand-engine
men yelled and fell ovor each other
preparatory to deluging tho neighbor
hood,, he drew Air. Balcom to one side
and hade him look in. "For," said
he, "you won't often seo a neater sot
o' burglar's tools than that is 1"
Air. Balcom seemed less horrified
than he should have been ; but it was
evident that he was puzzled. He looked
from the bag to Parker and back again,
like one who wishes but half fears to
speak.
"Well," he suggested at length, "he
isn't likely to hang around Maple Park
any more, is he?"
"I guoss not I" the detective made
proud rejoinder. "He knows me
knew me's quick 's I knew him I"
"Yes well you see "Air. Baloom
buttonholed Parker, in his turn, and
led him still further from the crowd.
"Of course I'm responsible I pay
all the bills," he went on, with dis
jointed earnestness. "I you don't
you understand, I haven't anything
more for you to do here? Why, hang
it all, man, he saved Ben Ezra!"
"Oh, I know how you feel," the de
tective answered. He spoke as though
he really did. "I like a good boss
myself. See? There's a train back
to town 'bout twenty minutes, ain't
the'?" Leslie's Weekly.
A Monkey Farm.
"The fanniest thing I witnessed dur
ing that brief but exciting period
known as the boom, in Birmingham,
Ala.," said Dr. Everett, at the Lin
dell, "was the formation of a company
to establish a monkey farm. About
the time that excitement was at its
greatest height, two bankers from a
country town came with $40,000 in
cash, and were very anxious to get
into the little group of capitalists who
were making big money. They haunt
ed two or three of tho leading invest
ors until finally Dr. Jackson, who
stood at the head of the local financial
world, told them he had a friend with
a scheme in which he himself was put'
ting $20,000, and if they really want
ed to invest he could, as a personal
favor, scoure a like amount, if one
half was paid down, the other half to
be paid in at a meeting to be held in
a few days. The banker wrote a cheok
for $10,000, and felt jubilant that at
last he had been admitted into the
charmed circle of financiers.
"In a few days he was notified to
attend a meeting of the stockholders,
which he did. Then the promoter of
the enterprise explained it. His plan
was to buy an island near Mobile.
Send an expedition to Africa and
South America to secure monkeys.
Stock the farm with 100,000 monkeys
and raise them for the market. An
elaborate array of statistics was given,
showing the oost and market prioe of
monkeys and nguring out immense
profits, but it was necessary that the
entire amount subscribed should be
paid in at once. The banker jumped
to his foot. 'I don'd vant no monkey
farm. I knows nodings about dose
monkey business. You can keep my
$10,000 if you release me from dot
subscription.' This was done, and he
swallowed his chagrin and disappoint
ment at the loss as best he oould. In
a few weeks the money was returned
to him and it was explained that it
was all a joke, but the banker had
$200 dinner to pay for." St. Louis
Ulobe-Demoorat.
Growth or Hair Alter Death.
T. L. Ogier, an investigative writer
of Westchester, Penn., says: "I, for
one, place no faith in the superstition
of hair growing after death. There is
no growth of hair after death. There
may be, however, a shrinkage of the
tissue of the face and body which will
force the hair of the face through skin
so as to give the corpse the appear
ance of having a beard two or three
weeks old ; it is not a growth, it is
only the result of the shrinkage."
In this department of the liepublie
I have giveu many "notes" which sup
port a contrary view to that giveu
above, and have but lately added to
my stock of information on that point.
This late addition is from Elizabeth
Prisleau, and is as follows :
"Lord Howe, who served in America
in 1758 and was killed in tho French
Indian wars, was buried at Albany.
Just prior to his death he had had his
hair cut short so that it could not be
come wet from exposure and cause
colds. Many years afterwards, when
his remaius were being removed, it
was found that his hair had grown sev
eral inches, aud was smooth and
glossy." St. Louis liepublie.
ltut's Xest in a Clock.
A resident on the hill had a some
what curious experience the other
day of tho boldness of a rat. Coming
down one morning to the diniug-room
he fouud that the clock on the mantle
piece had (-tupped, and. thiukiug it
had run down, he wound it up and
put the hands to the proper hour.
Noticing that it struck iu a peculiarly
muffiud way, he took it down to ex
amine the works aud was astonished to
find tlie strikiug apparatus encumbered
with petals aud stucks of flowers and
bits of paper. A further examination
disclosed that these odds aud ends
formed the nest of a rat, which was
still snugly cusconsed amoug the
work i, neither the noise made by the
clock as it was set ;oiu.j or the strik
ing of the hammer having apparently
disturbed it iu the least. KoLrn
(Japan) hioiaiole,
SCIENTIFIC A5D INDUSTRIAL.
A locomotive is mado of 5410 pieces.
"Powollite" is a new mctallio com
pound. Strawboard is used in tho manufac
ture of passenger car wheels.
Tho Health Commissioner of Brook
lyn has started a crusado against un
sanitary Sunday-schools and dancing
academies.
Tho Liverpool (England) electrio
railway, which has bcon in existence
about a year, has proved completely
successful in operation. It is five
miles long.
Edison has perfected and taken per
fect plates with his kinetoscope, an
instrument by which a serious of pict
ures can be rapidly taken of a person
or object in motion in what is practi
cally a single picture.
A new enemy of tho vine in Franco
is a galleyworm, or myriopod, which
has been observed by AI. Fontaine to
invade the buds in numbers ranging
from five to ten on a bud, forming balls
of the size of a small pea.
It is anuounced that Faris is to
build,, for the purpose of handling
World Fair visitors in 1900, a tubular
railway eight miles long, in which trains
will run on two minutes' headway.
Electricity will be employed for mov
ing tho trains.
In water in which decaying vegeta
bles have been infused the microscope
discovers things so minute that 10,000
of them would not exceed in bulk a
grain of mustard, though they are sup
plied with organs as complicated as
those of a whale.
As a the result of a series of experi
ments, Professor Baily, of Cornell,
has proved that peppers can be graf
ted on tomatoes and vice verso. In
the use of material for herbaceous
grafting the wood should not be too
young, but rather approaching matur
ity. Dr. von Blarcom, one of the most
distinguished physicians in Berlin, ex
presses the opinion after careful in
vestigation that coffee long boiled pro
duces more indigestion than any other
substance taken into the human
stomach, and that a simple infusion
facilitates digestion.
An instrument has been invented
for sounding the depths of the sea
without using a lead line. A sinker is
dropped containing a cartridge, which
explodes on touching the bottom ; the
report is registered in a microphone
apparatus and the depth reckoned by
the time at which the explosion oc
curred. In the course of some experiments
on the eject of changes of temperature
in the pupal stage of butterflies by Mr.
Merrifield, some Vaneesaio showed tho
gradual disintegration by exposure to
a low temperature of tho eyelike spot
on the fore-wing, which, iu the ex
treme specimens, ceased to be an
ocellus.
Experiments have been tried with to
ascertain if color has an effeot on oer
tain forms of disease. In making this
test a number of smallpox patients
were placed in a room to whioh only
red light was admitted. Tho patients
were for the most part those suffering
from unusually severe attacks, and
about half of them being unvaccinatod
children. In spite of the violent form
of the malady, they all made speedy
and safe recoveries, with very little
fever and but few scars.
Benedict has relieved a case of
writer's cramp by injecting carbolio
acid in the neighborhood of a scusitive
point in the course of one of the flexor
tendons of tho related foroarm. Langea
has succeeded in overcoming writer's
cramp by having the pen hold between
the second and third fingers in suoh a
way that the holder rests upon tho
latter at an angle of from 110 degrees
to 125 degrees, while it is supported
below by the thumb, tho index finger
resting lightly above.
Those who have mado a study of
bird habits say that birds of almost
all sorts are rather the frieuds than the
euemies of farmers aud gardeners.
Not only do the soug birds by destroy
iug insects earn their right to e-t a
few berries, but even tho crow that
generations of farmers have scared aud
killed, is said to prefer insects to ooru,
and often to bo iu tho very act of de
stroying pests whuu farmers suppose
him to be maliciously bunt ou undo
ing the work of the sower.
A Duck Drowuei! by an Oyster.
Captain Edward A. Caulk of tho
steamer Tangier yesterday saw a dead
"fisherman" duck floating on the water
near Claiborne, Md. The duck was
picked up and the cause of its death
then became apparent. The fishernmu
duck foods ou fish and oysters. Tho
duck which was found dead had evi
dently stuck its loug aud narrow bill
into the opon shells of a feeding oys
ter. The oyster shut its shells together
on tho bill. It is supposed that the
duck tried to. shake oil' tho oyster but
failed, and that the weight of the oys
ter hanging to the bill finally pulled
the duck's head under water and
drowned the fowl. The oyster was
not heavy enough to pull the . duck's
body boueath tho water. Baltimore
Sun.
A Worthy aud Wise Sentiment.
Before Cardinal Manuiug, of Eng
land, died, he delivered two messages
to the euro of a phonograph. One
was for tlie people uu I the other for
posterity. The latter was us follows:
"To all who com after lne : I hopo
that no words of mine, written or
spoken iu my lite, will bo found to
have douo harm to any one after 1 am
dead. Henry Edward Mauuiu',-, Car
dinal Archbishop." Not au original
sentiment, but a worthy aud wise one,
aud one to which men of lesser note
. than a cardinal might well aspire.
I ficw York Observer.
THE LOW PRICE OF WHEAT.
SOME INTERESTING AND VALUA
BLE IMFORMATION.
Increase tn Wheat Contributing Coun
triesWhat Farmers Must Do to
Meet Competition.
"W1
ILL wheat ever again bo
a profitable crop for ex
port ?" a correspondent
of the New York Tri-
bnno asked a prominent official of tho
Agricultural Deportment at Washing
ton. Tho latter answered :
"In the first place, wheatis now and
for many years to come will be a crop
which invites competition from coun
tries in which farming is poor and land
or labor abundantly cheap. It is es
sentially a crop of cheap lands or in
ferior tillage, or both. In India, in
Egypt and some other countries the la
bor is cheap ; in Australasia, and here
tofore in our own Northwestern terri
tory, while tho labor is high, tho lands
are cheap and tho farmer, moreover,
ruthlessly robs the soil. Now in South
America we find cheap wheat lands,
and, compared with our own, cheap la
bor. So in Southern Russia, where
there are comparatively cheap lands
and positively cheap labor.
"In arecentstatementof tho world's
wheat supply issued by tho Depart
ment of Agriculture are found a dozen
countries contributing whoso existence
is probably ignored by the majority of
American wheat raisers, aud of whom
little is known even to American com
mercial men. Among thorn wo may
mention especially the Caucasus, lia
mania, Bulgaria, to say nothing of
European Turkey, Turkey in Asia, Ser
via, Porsia, Poland, Cratia and Sla
vonic, and in Africa, Egypt, Tunis and
Algeria. In the aggregate tho couu
trics mentioned have contributed a
yearly average of ovor 290,000,000
bushels to the wheat crops of the last
throo years. The aggregate popula
tion of the first three countries named
is in all about 12,000,000, and of this
a large number are not users of wheat
flour, usiug for their own wants rye.
Henoe the average home consumption
per capita is not more than two-thirds
as much as ours, and yet these threo
countries produced wheat in the years
given as follows : In 1891, 160,575,000
bushels; in 1892, 171, 9G0.000 bushels,
and in 1893, 1415, 529, 000 bushels an
average of 159,088,000 bushels, with
probably a home consumption barely
exceeding 40,000,000 bushels. A few
years ago tho products of these coun
tries, or at least their exportable sur
plus, was too insignificant for record.
"The London Miller states that tho
total figures for Bussia show the ship
ments from that country for January,
1894, to be 810,000 quarters, compared
with 210,950 quarters in January, latra,
and 575,950 quarters in Janury, lo'Jl
In 1892 they were prohibited.
"Another factor, and one that
promises to count more than all the
rest in the next decade, is to be fouud
in the rapid increase in the wheat
crops of the Argentine Republic, an
increase whioh promises to bo phe
nomenal. According to tho paper al
ready quoted, shipments from Argcn
tina to the United Kingdom were, for
tho six weeks ending February 10th,
over 280,000 quarters, or at tho rato
of 2,444,000 quartern (over 19,000,000
bushels) per annum ; but, adds the
paper quoted : 'March and April ship
ments will show a material iucrease.'
Tho director of tho Department of
Agriculture of Argentina, recently in
this country, assured me that within
ton years that country would export
moro wheat thau is now exported by
the United States. Aloroover, (Jhile,
Australasia aud the great Northwest
territory of British North America
seem likely ere long to show their
ability to supply any deficiencies
which may occur iu tho other countries
namod.
"Acoording to tho Department au
thorities the wheat supply of the
world for the threo years 1891, 1892
and 1893 was respectively, iu round
numbers, 2,3(50,000,000, 2,303,000,000
and 2,3(50,000,000 bushels, au umplo
supply for the world s demand, with a
very considerable surplus in 1892, to
say nothing of the alleged undercut!
mutes of the Department iu tho yours
1891 and 1892. It is true that without
a marked iucrease in the supply there
has been a steady diminution iu price,
but that is readily accounted for by
tho large availablo increase from coun
tries not formerly contributing in any
marked degree, but which, by tho de
velopment in means of transportation,
as iu the case of tho Caucasus, or
owing to changes iu their political
status, as iu Bulgaria, aud from other
causes, have now permanently joined
the ranks of exporting countries, and
are able to sell ut low prices.
"Tho situation iu this country can
only be met by a general reduction in
acreage aud a considerable iucrease iu
yield per acre. Our farmers must
learn to attain the yield which prevails
iu the more civilized couutries of
Europe, instead of lagging among the
more backward. Our pitiful thirteen
bushels to the acre must bo increased
to eighteen or twenty, and our wheat
acreage reduced from 3(5,00(1, 000 or
37,000,000 acres to 20,000,000. At
eighteen bushels to tho acre, an aver
ago more than equalled by Franco aud
greatly exceeded by Great Britaiu ami
Belgium, tho farmers ou the cheap
lands of the Northwest can imiko a
small profit with wheat til fifty or sixty
cents a bushel, where a yield ol thirteen
bushels means au actual loss, lu this
reduction iu wheat ucroago, tho older
States, notably Ohio aud Indiana,
which together raised nearly 75,000,
000 bushels last year, must take tho
lead, their opportunities for diversifi
cation being greater thau those avail
able to the fanners of Minnesota aud
tho Dakotas. and tuo other newer
States, "
BONO.
There's beauty In the dawning light.
And twilight fair or starlit night
Has each Its charm and graoe
But lovelier still on earth to me,
The fatroet thing my we can see,
The beauty of thy face.
Thoro's ealmn9 on the ocean's breast,
As deep and blue it seems to rest
'Neath bluer heavens above
But deeper, ealmer still to mo
Than ever sea or Bky can be,
Thine azure eyes, my lovo I
Thoro's muslo in the running stream.
And muslo when the woodlands soom
Awake with songs of birds ;
But sweeter, dearer still to me
Than nature's voloe can ever be,
Tho music of thy words.
O. Roxby, in the Ledger.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
More dead than alive Heroes.
A repeating rifle Plagiarism.?
Truth.
Tlie rule of the minority That of
tho first baby.
"One-half the world doesn't know
how the other half lives." Neither
does the other half. Life.
He "Hero comes Mrs. Gadabout.
That woman goes everywhere." Sho
"Yes, except home." Harper's Ba
zar. Va "Why is the loader of the choir
like a pine tree?" Pa "Give it up."
Va "Both give the pitch." Tho
Hullabaloo.
Man shows his teoth and growls;
but woman shows her toeth and smiles ;
with far better chance of attaining hor
object. Puck.
Few people can stand prosperity J
but they are legion compared with the
people who never have a chance to
stand it. Puck.
Nervous Wife "I hear a burglar."
Nervous Husband "Woo ! I'll craw)
under the bed and see if he is there."
Now York Weekly.
"Er has young Hill come into his
money yet?" "Come into it? Great
Soott, man 1 He's gone clear through
it. "Buffalo Courier.
There is nothing like a certainty
and yet most peoplo prefer the Un
certain prospect of starvation to the
certain prospect of death. Puck.
Tho whole system of right and
wrong hinges on the question whether
a disagreeable thing disagrees with
us, or wo disagree with tho disagree
able thing. Puck.
Teacher "Now, remember, that in
order to become a proficient vocalist
you must have patience." Miss Flip
kins "Yes; and so must tho neigh
bors." Washington Star.
"You say you have been in Kansas
City. I suppose tho place was built
almost wholly ou bluffs." "I guem H
was. There seemed to be little money
around." Buffalo Courier.
Mr. Gusher (a self-satisfied bore)
"I can tell just what peoplo are)
thinking of me. " Miss Pert "in
dood t How very unpleasant it must
bo for you. "--Brooklyn Life.
An Irish lawyer said to a witness :
"You're a nice follow, aiu't you?"
Witness replied : "I am, sir, and if I
was no on my oirth I'd say the same
of you." Oakland Enquirer.
"It pains mo very much to spank
you. Johnny," said his mother with
deep feeling, "and I shall have to turn
you over to your father. His hands
are harder." Chicago Tribune.
Elder Sister "I'm writing to Amy j
is there anything you'd like to say to
her?" Younger Sister (who hates
Amy) "Yes, plenty ; but you'd bettel
only give her my love." Tit-Bits.
Employer "Boy, take this letter,
and wait for au answer." New Boy
"l'es, sir." Employer "Well, what
are you waiting for?" New Boy
"Tho answer, sir." Harper's Bazar,
"Graudpa," said Tommy, examin
ing critically tho bald head of his an
cestor, "may 1 ask you a question?"
"Certainly, Tommy." "Do you comb
your hair with a razor?" Texas Sitt
ings. "That's what I call hush money,"
rsiuarkod the daddy when he planked
down tho cash for a bottle of paregoric
to take home for use among the in
fantile portion of the family. Brook
lyn Life.
"I am collecting bills for Sugar,
SieoArCo." "Collecting bills, are
you? Very well ; I have two or three
of their bills which you are welcome
to add to your collection. " New York
Weekly.
Mamma "Why has Lucy gono
home so early? I thought she was to
stay all day?" Mary (confidentially)
"Well, mamma, I just found she wasn't
a friend I could quarrel with. "Kate
Field's Wushingtou.
Clergyman (visiting prison) "So)
you were arrested for passing bad)
money, my mau!" Convict "Not
exactly, sir! You see, if the money
had passed, 1 wouldn't have beeu ar
rested." Philadelphia Record.
At the Great Chess Match : Dr.
Schweitzer "t'layiug chess is liko
making lovo the kui,'ht tries t talte
tho queen ; you are mated by the
bishop; then o!i to the castle- in tha
air--and, alas ! everything is iu pu.vu !"
-Hullo.
Freddy "Why won't you tight mo
if you i'..i.'t afraid to?" Willy ( noy
iiirf oil) "I aiu't afraid, only 1 ain't
going o have nil the boys iu tho
block savin' I fought a feller just lie
cause I kuew I could lh-k him." --Cui-cugo
Record.
"What makes you look so uncom
fortable?" said one young writer to
another. "I'm thiukiug about what I
shall put iu my next article. " " 1'hiuit
iug!" "ies." "Uood gracious, uiuu I
ion mustn't do that. You'll spoil
jour etyle," M'si-uiutou Star.