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quarterly. 1 roporary tarrBnmB mam
bt raid in advance,
country. mum IU M Ua M u
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Job
oo deltvsry.
Fores
Wyoming ii richer in minerals than
any other State in the' conatry.
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It U asserted by tho New York Wit
ness that eighty per cent, of the earn
ings of railroads go to the payment ol
wages for labor.
Statistics (how that daring the last
ten years the value of assessed prop
erty in the District of Columbia has
increased from $93,491,891 to $191,.
417,804.
Russia is said to have 137,000,000
more acres of land under cultivation
than the United States, but these sta
tistics are supposed, by the New York
World, to be misleading, if not wholly
false.
Baltimore is the fourth maritime
city in the conntry, being exoeeded
by New York, Boston and New Or
leans, and nearly 8000 foreign Teasels
arrive and depart every year. The ex
ports exceed (50,000,000 a year.
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Large irrigation works costing $2,.
000,000 and irrigating 400,000 acres
of land are to be built in the Rio Verde
Valley of Arinona. The work is to be
completed in eightoen months.- It in
olndos about 110 miles of eanal, and a
reservoir of immense oapaoity.
a
A French statistician says that the
number of men and women in Franoe
is more nearly equal than in any other
country of the world, there being only
1007 women to 1000 men. In Switzer
land there are 10CO men to 1000 wo
men, and in flrecoe only 933. The
conditions iu Hong Kong, China, ac
cording to this authority, are ap
palling, there being only 3GG women
to 1000 men.
A man whose business it is to solicit
subscribers for several medical peri
odicals complains that doctors are
feeling the hard times, remarks the
Chicago Herald. Many decline to
subscribe, and more who subscribe de
lay payment. The fact is that many
sick folks are making shift to get
along without the doctor, while some
are seeking advice at the hands of lees
expensive men than they have usually
employed.
Professor Q. Hall says: "Some
years ago, by careful individual study,
I found that sixty per cent, of the six-year-old
children entering Boston
schools had never seen a robin, eigh
teen per cent, had never seen a cow,
some thinking it as big as their
thumb or the picture, thus making
mere verbal cram of all instruction
about milk, cheese, butter, leather,
and so on. Over sixty per cent, had
never seen growing corn, blackberries
or potatoes; seventy-one per cent, did
not know beans."
The struggle for supremacy between
gas and electric light has been a de
termined one. Eleotrio light has made
wonderful progress in point of cheap
ness since 1877, but the gas men are
also advancing. Formerly gas waa
made wholly from ooal. Later on eoal
and petroleum oombined (known as
water gas) came to the front and re-J
duoed the ccst materially, and now
another big step has been taken the
production of gas wholly from petro
leum. A plant of that description for
making both fuel and illmuiuating
gas is building at Ilaverstraw, N. Y.
Gas at fifty cents a thousand is bound
to come, maintains the New York Re
corder. The old Liberty Bull now rest in a
handsome new case iu the east room of
Independence Hall, Philadelphia. The
case is made of selected quartered
white oak, is8ve feet ten iuches square
and ten feet high. Ou each of the
four sides is a large plate, glass over
four feet wide and seven feet high in
tho coutor. At each corner is a bronzed
pillar surmounted by neat carved work,
while over each of the glass sides is nu
arch with the names of thirteen orig
inal States carved, that of Pennsyl
vania being on the keystone. Facing
the doorway leading down from the
top, is a carved model of "Old Abe,"
the famous war eagle, the wings
measuring fifty-four inches from tip
to tip. Beneath, on the top of the
case, is the inscription copied from the
bell, "Proclaim liberty throughout all
the world to all the inhabitants there
of." On each corner of the top is a
polished bronze toroh. The bell is
suspended within the case from the
marred old yoke on which it hung
when it made its historio peal. The
joke itself waa made from a tree just
back of the hall. This is supported by
columus of bronze and its columns
rest ou a truck, which fits snugly in
side the cute, and appears to be sim
ply a floor. Beneath art four rubber
tired wheels, which will permit a quick
removal iu case f fire. The new case,
complete, cost 816UO.
A gas well at Montpelior, Ind., La'
changed its tune, and cil flows freely
from its month.
Within a district having an area of
thirty square miles, in the State of
Vera Cruz, Mexico, there are more
centenarians than in any of the
United States.
Franoe is reported to be taking an
increased interest in swine raising,
and it is thought that this will en
hance the attention given to the pro
duction of corn.
Sky-scraping buildings are becom
ing so common, that after awhile,
Puck predicts, cities will be known as
much by their altitude as by their
length and breadth.
The Northwestern Lumberman,
which a few years ago took the ground
that the supply of white pine in the
Northwestern States was inexhaustible,
now shows by what it believes to be
authentic figures that the shortage in
one district alone for the ourrent year
will be 700,000,000 feet, and informa
tion points to a general shortage in
all the Northwestern pine territory,
running' into billions of feet.
A business man remarks that it is
wonderful what effect the speed of
elevators has on the manners of men
in transacting business. Go into an
office building where the elevators
rush up and down like a flush, you
will find the effoot reproduced on the
men who do business there. It is
quick, sharp, nervons work, Where
the elevators are slow there is more
deliberation and conservatism.
The royalties of Europe patronize
the bicycle with as much energy as the
boya of America. The King of the
Belgians exeroises upon one daily, lit--tie
Queen Welhelmina rides one when
he is at her castle of Het Loo, and
the Czarowitz, Princea Waldemar and
Carl, of Denmark, and Princes George
and Nicholas, of Greece, are all cy
clists. The bicyole of the Khedive of
Egypt is a gorgeous machine, almost
entirely oovered with silver plating.
Brooklyn appears to be rapidly los
iU character as a residence suburb of
New York City, observes the New Or
leans Picayune. It is no longer to
any great extent the "bedroom of New
York," and is beooming in an eminent
degree a mannfacturing town. Accord
ing to the last census no fewer than
109,292 persons are employed ou the
average in the 10,583 manufactories in
Brooklyn. Their combined capital, is
over $250,000,000 and $65,000,000 is
annually paid out in wagea. If each
person employed in a factory can be
held to represent four others depend
ent upon his or her labors, fully one
half of the population is supported by
home manufactures. There are 2S
industries represented in the list, the
first, numerically, being shoe shops,
but the leading one in point of value
of product is the sugar-refining inter
est. More men are employed iu mak
ing olothes than iu anythiug else, and
foundry and machine shops come uext.
In no lessthsu fifty-two different in
dustries the value of the product an
nually exceeds (1,000,000.
The direct and indirect losses caused
by the recent strike will perhaps ex
ceed $100,000,000. The Presiduntof
one of the largost railway oorporatious
iu the country is reported as Baying:
The earnings of the railroad oompauies
of the Western roads fell off in two
weeks an avorage of at least twenty
five per cent. The pay rolls that were
topped will represent a loss to em
ployes of, let us say, at least six times
as muoh as that suffered by the com
panies. Hundreds of factories were
obliged to close from lack at coal or
ooke. The wages Inst in those were
five times the amount lost by the inauu
factories. The beef oompauies loat
hundreds of thousands aud California
and other fruit crops were either tem
porary or total losses. The following
is not an unfair recapitulation of
losses, 1 think :
The United Stat a. Government . . ..t 1,030, 000
Loss in earning ot railroads can
tering in Chicago 8,000,1) X)
Lou la earnings ol other rallroais. 2,500,003
Loss by destruction of rallwiy
property . 2,500,000
Loss to railway employes in wages 20,000,000
Loss in exports, pro luoe and mer
chandise 2,000,000
Loss in fruit crops 2,500,000
Loss to varied manufacturing com
panies 7,500, OX)
Loss to employes 33,000,000
Loss to merchants on quick goo is 5,000,000
Total si,0u0.000
To this must be added lo&s from
what would have beeu increased sum
mer traftio aud manufactured good
for the coming season. The i'lrul
ho.'. ing will easily be more t'wu
$100,0011,000.
WHERE THE CATTLE COME TO
DRINK.
At evening, where the cattla come to drink,
Cool are the long marsh-grasses, dewy
eool
The alder thickets and the shallow pool,
And the brown clay about the trodden brink.
The pensive afterthought of sundown sink
Over the patient sores given to peace ;
The homely erics and farmstead noises
eease,
And tho worn day relaxes, link by link.
A lesson thnt the open heart may read
Breathes in this mild benignity of air,
These dear familiar savours of the soil
A lesson of the calm of human creed,
The simple dignity of common toll,
And the plain wisdom ot unspoken prayer.
O, Q. D. Eoberts.in Youth's Companion.
ON THE BRINK,
BY AMELIA K. BARR.
EARS ago
there was a
grand brick
house stand
ing in the
midst o f a
sweet old gar
den on one of
the pleasant-
eat sites of
R i ch mo n d
Hill. It had
once been the
residence of a noble family, but it
was at that time only a celebrated
school for young ladies. The house
itself was a plain, substantial brick
one, and there were plenty in the vi
cinity that in every point excelled it ;
but nowhere was there a garden of
greater loveliness than that its high
brick walls shut in.
This was especially so in the morn
ings and evenings, when the pleached
alleys and the hazel walks and the
woodbine arbors were full of groups
of beautiful yonng English girls
girls with flowing brown hair and eyes
as blue and clear as heaven, and faces
innocent and fresh as if each faoe had
been made out of a rose. But even
where all are beautiful, some one will
be found loveliest of all, and Laura
Falconer was the acknowledged belle
or the upper class.
She was nineteen years of age, but
he still lingered at Madame Mere's
school, partly because it had been her
only home for five years and partly
because her guardian considered it to
be the best place for her until she was
twenty-one, when she would receive
her fortune and become her own mis
tress. So Laura remained at madame's,
studying a little, but still having a
much larger amount of liberty than
that granted to the other pupils. This
liberty permitted her to shop with a
proper escort and also to pay frequent
visits to acquaintances resident in
Richmond and London.
On one of these excursions she had
met Mr. Ernest Trelawny, and it is of
this gentleman she is so confidentially
talking to her chief friend, as they
walk in the loneliest part of the gar
den togethor.
"I am so glad, Clara, that we met
him this afternoon ; I wanted you so
much to see Ernest. Is he not hand
some?" "I never saw such eyes, Laura I
And his figure 1 And his stylish dress !
Oh, I think he is so grand and so
well, so mysterious-looking, as if he
waa a poet or something."
"And then his conversation, Clara!
He talks aa I never heard any one else
talk so romantic, dear!"
"Oh, I think you must be a very
happy girl, Laura ! I often wish I had
some one to love me aa Ernest loves
you."
Laura sighed and looked up senti
mentally :
"You have a father and mother,
Clara. I am quite alone. Ernest says
that is one reason he at first felt as if
he must love me."
"What would Madame Mere say?'1
"Madame must not know for the
world; Clara. She would write to my
guardian. Oh, Clara, 1 am going to
tell you a great, great secret ! . Ernest
and I have determined to run away to
Gretna Green and get married."
"Oh-h-h-hl Laura, how dare you?
Madame will be sure to find it out
She never looks as if sho knew things,
but she always does. AVhen are you
going?"
"To-night. Ernest will be waiting
with a carriage at the end of the gar
den wall. I have bribed cook to leave
the kitchen door unlocked, and I shall
go through her room and down the.
back-stairs."
I Thus, until the nine o'clock bell rang,
the two girls talked over and over the
same subject and never found it weari
some, and when they bade each other
a good-night in the long corridor, it
was a very meaning one. They were
both greatly impressed with the ro
mance of the situation, and timid little
Clara envied and admired her friend,
and could not sleep for listening for
the roll of a carriage and the parting
signal which Laura had agreed to make
on her friend's door as she passed it.
Then Laura made her few prepara
tions and sat down in the moonlight to
wait for the hour. She thought of
all her favorite heroines who had en
acted a similar part, and tried to feel
as they were asserted to have felt.
"Half-past eleven I"
She rose aud laid her bonnet and
mantle ready, but, in spite ot her ro
mantio situation, she was really chilled
and unhappy and conscious of a most
unnatural depression of spirits.
Just then the door opened softly,
and Madame Mere, with a candle iu
her hand, entered the room. She waa
a very small, slight woman, with a
grave, lovable face and a pair of won
derful eyes. In their calm, clear light
lay the secrei of her power over the
fifty girls whom she ruled absolutely
with a glance or a smile, She came
gliding in more like a sixit than, a
woman, and putting tha light down,
said :
"Laura, I have had a dream, dear
girl a dreadful dream and I am
afraid. Let mo stay here with you."
So she sat down and began in a low,
trembling voice to talk of Laura's
dead mother ; of her pure, lofty wo
manhood, and of her love for her
child. Laura scaroely heard her ; the
time was going fast ; it was close upon
midnight ; she must make an effort at
once. So during a moment's pause,
she said :
"Will madame try to Bleep now?"
"Yes, I will put out 'the light, and
we will both try."
"First, will madame permit me to
go to Clara's room ? I have left my
things there. I shall not disturb any
one."
In a moment madame's attitude
changed; her eyes scintillated with
light ; all the caressing tenderness and
sorrow cf her voice and manner were
gone. She was like an accusing spirit.
"Down on your knees, false girl,
whom no memory of mother's love
could soften ! Down on your knees,
and let your prayers strengthen the
hands of those good angels who are
fighting your evil genius this very
moment ! Pray as those should pray
whose very life and salvation hang
upon a villain's word!" And, draw
ing the girl down beside her, she
watched out with het those dangerous
midnight hours.
At two o'clock Laura was left to
weep out alone her shame and her dis
appointment. Madame had kissed
and forgiven and comforted her with
such comfort as was possible; but
youth takes hardly the breaking of its
idols, and it was bitter and humiliat
ing to hear that this handsome Ernest
was better known to the police courts
than to the noble houses he talked
about, and yet Bhe had chosen his so
ciety and had been willing to become
his wife. Madame had not spared her ;
she had spoken very plainly of a
gambler's wife and of a thief's home
of shames and horrors Laura trem
bled to recall adding :
"I had willingly kept you ignorant
of such things, for the knowledge of
them takes the first bloom of purity
from a good girl's heart; but, alas,
Laura, if you will go forbidden roads,
you must at least be warned ot the sin
and the sorrows that haunt them. "
Laura was ill many days afterward.
Madame had indeed forgiven her, but
it waa hard to forgive herself ; and for
a long time even a pasaing memory of
her first lover brought a tingling
blush of shame to her oheeks and a
sickening sense of disgrace and fright
to her heart.
It was ten years after this event,
and Laura, with her two daughters,
was driving slowly across Cannock
Chase. The pretty children sat on
either side of her, and she drove the
ponies slowly, often stopping to let
the little girls alight and pull a blue
bell or a handful of buttercups. Dur
ing one of these stoppages, as she sat,
with a smile on her handsome faoe,
watching the happy little ones, some
one, coming from behind, touohed
her rudely on the arm. She turned
and saw a man in grimy leather cloth
ing, with an evil, cruel face, at her
side.
Supposing him to be one of the men
employed in her husband's iron works,
who had been discharged or who
wanted help, she said :
"Well, what is it, sir?"
The man answered curtly:
"Laura!"
Then Laura looked steadily into the
dirty, imbruted face. And in spite of
soot and scars and bruises, she knew
it.
"Mr. Trelawny, why do"
"Bosh! My name is Bill Yates.
Yon fooled me onee my lady, but you
will pay me for it now. I've been
lagged sinoe then sent across for
seven years only got back six months
since. Glad I have found you, for I
won't work any more now. Come, I
want a fiver to start with."
"A 'fiver?'"
"Yes; a five-pound note."
"iBhall not give you a penny."
"Then I shall take one of them
little girls the youngest is the prettiest-"
"For God's sake, don't go near my
children I I will give you the money."
"I prefer the money, it will save me
the trouble of selling the child to tho
gypsies. "
Laura hastily counted out the sura ;
there was seven shillings more in her
purse, and the villain said :
'Til take the change, too. Shall I
lift the children into the phaeton?"
"Don't touch them. Don't look at
them I Oh, go away ! Go away !"
"Go away, indeed I You were glad
enough once to come to me. I have
your letters yet. It would be a sweet
thing to show them to your husband."
"You had better murder me."
"I have half a mind to ; but it suits
me better to keep you for my banker.
Be here next week with five pounds
seven shillings, and every week after,
unti! further notice, or else I will
steal your child and send them letters
to your fine husband."
Then, with a threatening scowl and
the shake of a cleiVhed fist in her
face, he went away, taking with him
all the joy and peace out of poor
Laura's life.
She now lived iu constant terror,
and such a dreadful change oame so
rapidly over the onee happy, baud
some woman that her husband was ex
ceedingly anxious, both for het health
and her reason. What did she do with
the unusually large sums of money she
asked him for ? Why did she go out
ridiug alone? Why did she not suffer
her children to leave their own
grounds? Why did she not sleep at
night? Why was her once eveu, sun
uy temper become so iriitab'e? Why
did she searuh his face so eugerly
every night? These and twenty other
anxious, suspicious questions passed
j through hi luiuJ continually, ;ut he
hoped that by ignoring the change it
would disappear.
Alas! Things got worse and worse,
and one day, after ten miserable
months, he was sent for from the
works in haste. Laura was raving
and shrieking in the wildest paroxysm
of brain-fever :
"Where are the children? Sava
them from that man I Henry, please
take him five pounds no, he wants
ten pounds now, and I can't get it!"
In such piteous, moaning ejacula-.
tions she revealed the secret terror
that was killing her.
But perfect love casts out fear and
jealousy, and Laura's husband did her
no injustice. Tenderly he nursed the
poor, shattered wife and mother back
to life again, though it was an almost
hopeless task with that nameless
horror ever be-side her. One night,
when she was a little stronger, he led
her on to talk of the past, and he waa
so loving and so pitiful that in a flood
of life-giving tears she poured out to
him the whole miserable story. Then
the burden fell from her life, and Bhe
dropped happily into the first sweet,
healthy sleep she had had for nearly
a year. She never asked again for
her tormentor; she only knew that he
had disappeared from South Stafford
shire, and joy and peace came back to
her heart and home.
But one day, after the lapse of four
years, she received a dirty, anonymous
letter full of threats and insolent de
mands for money. This time she
went at once to her husband with the
trouble.
"Don't be frightened, Laura," ha
answered. "I know the fellow. He
is one of a gang of four who have just
come to Sackett Village. He will be
in jail before to-morrow night. This
time he shall not escape my vengeance. "
He had scarcely finished speaking
whed a couple of men ran up to the
house, crying:
"Measterl Measterl Here be Dim
mitt's height slewered away and there's
'a crowning in 1' "
The iron-master leaped to his feet
and was soon following the evil mes
sengers to the village. He knew that
Sackett waa all undermined with pits
and workings, and it was possible the
whole village was in danger. The
disaster was right in the center of it,
and he waa not long in reaohing the
great yawning chasm, where the earth
had given way and down which two
cottages, with their inhabitants, had
gone.
As soon as the master appeared, the
pitmen and ironmen gathered round
him, though all knew that succor or
help was perfectly hopeless.
"Where is Bumby?"
"Here I be, measter."
"What mine was under this?"
"Dimmit's, measter, worked out."
"Is it deep?"
"Six hundred feet"
"Dry or wet?"
"Deep water."
The master looked blankly at the
black abyss.
"It's the third 'crowning in, i' my
time. T'lfst were in to Cavill's mine.
Six decent families whent down at
midnight ; they were dashed to bits
on t' rocks at the bottom."
-'Do you know who lived in these
cottages?"
"One were empty, thank God. Four
strange lads that worked i' Saokett's
mine had t' other ; they nobbnt work
ed there a week, they wor glad to get
8 hut on them at end of it."
"I know, measter," said Michael
Raine, the publican, "for they owe
me for a week's beer and 'baooa tho
score is set ag'n' John Todd, Tim
Black and Bill Yates."
" 'Bill Yates?' are you sure?"
"Sure to certain of that name,
measter, for he said he wor come spe
cial to get upsides wi' you. "
The ironmaster turned thought
fully home, and as he kissed his wife,
said :
"Bill Yates is dead, Laura. My
vengeanoe has beeu taken from me by
Him to whom vengeance belongoth.
You may rest safely now, darling."
"But oh, Henry, what a destiny
might have been mine !"
"Don't say 'destiny', Laura. Our
choices are our destiny. Nothing is
ours that our choices have not made
ours."
This is a true story, and I tell it to
many thousands of youug girls with
just as muoh earnestness as Laura told
it to her daughters, to show them that
olaudestine love affuirs are always
highly dangerous ; for a passion that
is cradled iu deceit is pretty sure to
end in sin or shame or sorrow. New
York Lodger.
Testiui a Horde's Wind.
While talking about homes the
other day an old farmer anid: "Wal,
I'm a pretty good judge of hursus aud
can always tell whether a horso is
short-winded or not.
"Before I buy a horse," he contin
ued, "I just borrow it for about an
hour or so and then I get out ou some
lonely road aud see what kind of stuff
he is made of.
"I just let him choose his own gait
for a oouple of mile posts aud finally
give him plenty of rein, making him
go for all he is worth. All the time I
just keep my eye on his haunches, aud
if I see any rotary motion there it's a
sign he's thiok-wiuded, aud, of oourse,
every one knows that kind ain't muoh
good." Philadelphia Cull.
Wonder I ul Speed ot Atlantic Liners.
The highest recorded speed ou the
Atlautio as au average for the whoU
passage is 21. 'J kuots per hour, per
formed by the Cuuard steamer Lu
cauia. This bus now bueu nearly
equaled by her sister ship, tho Cam
pania, which has ju.-t maUu the passage
from New York to Queoustown iu five
days, thirteen hours, eight miuutes
over a total distance of Z'JOS knots,
her average speed haviug beeu 21. BJ
knots yer hour. bcieutiuo American.
SAVED BY AN INCUBATOR,
NATURE'S SUBSTITUTE DOINO
WONDERS FOB INFANTS.
How the Lives of Many Babies Have
Been Saved In New York Hospi
tals A Clever Device.
E was incubated," the
proud mother of some
I I great man of the future
(J" will say of her son. For
the baby incubator is a success and
has come to stay. The doctors de
clare that incubators have already
been the means of saving the lives of
100 infants in New York, Bays a cor
respondent of the St. Louis Post-Despatch.
In fact, the new born baby,
who, under the old-fashioned methods,
has no chance of living, now, if put in
an incubator, stands about an even
chance of becoming a healthy, crow
ing youngster. Baby incubators are
now in use in two hospitals in the city,
the Post Graduate Hospital and the
Maternity Hospital of the Women's
Medical College.
A bright young woman, with a sweet
face and modest ways, is in charge of
the babies at the Maternity Hospital.
There is a room in the third story
there, a room with a great window
whioh lets in plenty of light and over
looks tho tops of the trees in Stuy ve
Bant Park. Around the walla are four
cribs of from ten to twelve feet in
length. In two of these there were
three little lumps.
You discover that these lumps are
alive and breathing. They are very
mall and delicate, and dainty and
pink. They are babies sure enough
any man could tell that, but nobody
would ever think they are incubator
raised.
The incubator is used only for the
prematurely born babies - and for
babies which are so weak that the wise
yonng women doctors are pretty sure
that they will die if left in the open
air. Strangely enough, the incubator
is shaped something like a coffin,
while its particular aim is to keep
babies out of coffins. There are two
kinds of baby incubators and they
differ somewhat in construction.
The moment a baby for the in
cubator arrives at the Maternity
Hospital the white capped nurses and
the doctors gather about the little
wooden box, whioh reBts upon a stand
some three or four feet high. Baby
is swathed very oarefully in warm
clothes, and is then weighed, clothes
and all, before he is laid inside, and
the glass cover is placed over him.
Underneath the board upon which
the little mite rests are three bottles
that are kept constantly full of hot
water. The air passing in from below
flows over these and through an open
ing in the board into the chamber
where the infant is. A thermometer
keeps the attendant continually in
formed as to the temperature, and a
little aluminum anemometer in the
small chimney through which the air
escapes and which furnishes the
draught that keeps the baby supplied
with fresh air, always indicates
whether or not the circulation of air
is good.
The weight is a very imp)rtnnt
matter. Our baby in the incubator
is weighed every day. A healthy baby
should show a slight diurnal increase
in weight, and if the doctors find that
the diminutive patient is not growing
heavier, they seek remedies for his
indisposition.
The incubator whioh will be in the
babies' ward of the new building of
the Post Graduate Hospital is a great
improvement on that at the Maternity
Hospital, although it lacks the senti
mental surroundings of the one in
charge of the young women doctors.
In this improved affair the patient
will not have to be once lifted from
his snug nest from the time he is
plaoed inside until he beoomes strong
enough to be removed with safety.
The incubator is set upon bicyole
wheels, so it may be moved about
whenever desired. The fresh air is
heated by passing between two strata
of hot water, rises up both at the head
and the feet of the mattress, and is
kept iu motion by an aluminum fan
ruu by clockwork, thus preventing
the possibility of the little patient's
suffering for waut of air. There is
alto a tube for the supply of oxygen,
liberal quantities of which are good
for babies who are hanging on to life
by the merest thread, and it is be
lieved this improvement will save a
great many lives that would have been
lost in the old incubator.
By means of a clever mechanical de
vice, the weight of the body is always
registered, so that the physician may
discover the slightest variation at any
time. Of course the iuoubator must
be opened to feed the baby its artifi
cial food, but by means of a deft slid
ing of the covers the entrance of any
cold air from the outside is prevented.
The temperature of the inside of the
incubator is kept as near ninety-eight
degrees as possible.
Oil vs. Coal.
A careful test was made at Chicago
the other day with a couple of power
ful sea-going tugs of the relative ex
pense aud merit of oil and coal as fuel.
The two tugs made a run from Chicago
to Waukean and back, one fired with
coal and tho other with oil. The coal
bnrniug tu mado her j-un in three
hours, and consumed $15.72 worth of
fuel. The oil-burniug one, which is a
much slower vessel uuder similar con
dition, made the run in 7J miuutes
slower time, a tieed which she had
never uiuile before, ami consumed but
l.(i.' worth of oil. Besides, she made
no smoke. She is to be put to work
iu the river, and submitted to all sorts
of practical teste. New Orleans Pica
J'uue. The earliest suow ever known ia
England was on October 7, IS. "J.
A LESSON IN LOVE.
'Love is not wise." they say
Those sne advisers that have lived and
died,
And In their sterner moments put aside
The arch Intruder from tholr way ;
"Love is not wise," they say.
They seek to frighten thee
Thou who art far from their old, stupid
world,
And on the airy wings of youth art whirled
Above all practicality j
They seek to frighten thee.
Decline their wlsdSni now ;
And seek that only that cur hearts perceive,
Only that grand, great bliss which I believe
Comes from our spirits' secret vow
Decline their wisdom now '.
Edmond Tlcton, in Times-Democrat.
IirMOR OF THE BAT.
Money
talks in all languages.
Truth.
A receiving
teller The soandal-
bearer. Truth.
Fame is smely a bubble; for plenty
of "soap" will make it. Puok.
There is a little wolf and a little
rabbit in every man. Atchison Globe.
In the grammar of femininity two
negatives make two affirmatives.
Puck.
Most men and their stomachs don't
understand each other. Atchison
Globe.
Let us be frank, and admit that we
are all somewhat gossipy. Atchison
Globe.
rr-i t. ... . n Aw.Ia . . . ikn..
who have greatness thrust upon them.
Truth.
The difficulty in chasing men lies in
getting them started to ruu. Atchi
son Globe.
Tolerance is tho admission oi the
right of other people to hold wrong
views. Puck.
There is no suocess so sweet as tho
success achieved by acting aaiust the
advice of our friends. Puck.
"And do yon think Binks can fill
the requirements of the place ?" "M
m, well if it requires Binks, he can."
Puok.
No man will ever amount to much
who labors under the impression that
somebody else is always iu his way.
Dallas News.
"Does your wife put up all her oan
tuff herself?" "Certainly. Self-preservation
is the first law of nature."
Boston Transoript.
Prisoilla "I want to get a gown to
match my complexion." Perdita
"Why don't yon get a hand-painted
one?" Brooklyn Life.
He who thinks that imagination is
solely an attribute of youth should
chat a while with one of our "oldest
inhabitants." Truth.
Caller "Your son graduated from
college this year, did he not?" Mrs.
Malaprop "Yes; he was valetudinari
an of his class." Puck.
There are times whon the man who
thinks he fills the public eye merely
occupies the position of a speck of
dust. Milwaukee Jonrnal.
Training will do muoh for a man;
but it will not teach him never to
neglect to look for the towel before
he rills his eyes full of soap. Puck.
According to Kipling, the elephant
is a gentleman. Nonsense! Whoever
heard of a gentleman erryiu? his
tmuk himself? Bostou Trauscript
The world no doubt owes a great
many peoplo a liviug; but the records
do not show that it ever has assigned
for the benefit of its crodi tors, Puok.
Though womuu, lovely woman
Hoiiiellmi'S (nils to Imvo her way,
You cm but your hot ton dollir
Tn.it she II alwiiyn have her say.
luJlnnaDolis Journal.
A teu-cent box of blacking, proper
ly applied, will command more re
speot thau a hundred dollar diamond
aud runty iootwear ou a man who is
seeking work. Washington Star.
"There is more pleasure in giving
than receiving," was the proverb that
a mother was trying to instill iuto a
youthful mind. "That's true about
castor oil, mother," was the answer
she got. New York Advertiser.
It has been said that there is some
thiug not nnpleasing to us in the mis
fortunes of our friends. While most
likely this is true, yet pleasure, at tho
misfortuues of our enemies, is still do
ing business at the old stand. Puok.
Haughty Lady (who has just pur
chased a stamp) "Must I put it on
luyKcW'i" Postoffice Assistant (very
politely) "Not necessarily, ma'am J
it will probably accomplish more if
you put ltoutheletter." Newark Led
ger. Ho "I had a queer dream about
yon last night, Miss Louisa. I was
about to give yon a kiss, whuu sud
denly we wero separated by a river
that gradually grew aa big as the
Rhino." She "Ami was there no
bridge or uo boat?" Fliegeude Blaet
tor. "How many feet ought I to have to
the liue for this poem?" asked the
young man, aa he sauntered careless
ly iuto the editor's office. "I hardly
know," wearily replied the gloomy
mail of shears, "but if I ha I a thou
saud I would gladly give thorn to
you." Atlanta Const it utiou.
The Telegraph in China,
A Chinese euuiueer, educated iu New
Iluven, Conn., has linurly completed a
tulej.'rbih liue, Sil.lU miles long, across
tho Gobi desert, from IVkiu to Ka-sh-gar,
Chinese Turkcstsu. It has been
three year under construction, and
poles iu places were hauled i:KI mill.,
l'luuch lines connect i. wiib the Rus
siau system. Literary Digest.
Only eight per cent, of the popula
tion if St. Louis, Mo., live iu tenement.