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Tho annual tuxes of tho world aggre
gate tho enormous until of $1,350, 000,
000, -
According to statistics, women to
day Bro two inches taller, ou 8a aver
ago, tbnu they wero twenty or thirty
years ago.
Tho plague raging ia Chiua is said
lo be identical with that which do
vustated Londou iu 1GG4, when thero
wero CH,5'J0 deaths in a population of
400, 000.
Forty-five pounds of corn nro Raid
to be worth only n cent and a hulf in
Ilnssia to-day, and many farmers are
vending Uioir cattle into tho fields, as
tho cost of harvesting would exceed
tho I'rico of tho corn.
Somo one, who hu evidently con
siderable timu ou his bauds, estimates
that of 1000 meu who marry, 332
marry younger women, 57!) mnrry
women of tho smo ago and eighty
uiuo marry older women.
About $7,000,000 in cold cash bus
been expended thus fur on Chicago's
big ditch tho draiuago canal. Pub
lished estimate, neeordiug to tho
Intost authorized revision, put the
Cost of tho work nt $21, 000,000,
Tho America-it euglo must spread his
Wings over a ininintio doniniu alto
gether, tlio New York Muil and Ex
probs concludes, if the quinine con
sumed by Americans is any indication.
Unclo Sam's subjects swallow just one
half of all tho quinine produced in tho
world.
A school census of Chicago, just
completed, putt tho population of
. . that city at 1,5G7,7J7, which is less
than tho total cluimod on tho basis of
the names iu tho directory. Of this
number G58,3fl0 aro uuder twenty-ono
years of age. Tho tminbor of pupils
attending private schools is 43,51(1.
Tho same census places tho foreign
bom popnlutionol Gliicigoat 018,505.
' : The' twelfth report of tho Illinois
Bureau of Labor Statistics says of
soma of tho contracts made by coal
mine operators with tho miners : "Tho
-teudeucy of theso contracts is to cause
tho signers to be considered mora iu
tho light of chattels thim freo men.
Hy the terms certain rights are waived
that aro common to all men, while
tho provisions seem to be iu violation
of tho laws of the Ktato and aro ap
parently imposed on the miner to cir
enmvent all laws that may bo passed
for bis protection."
Little shops ape the ways of tho big
cues' sometimes with absurd results,
muses the Chicago Herald. One sees
now and then a tiny ten by twelve
shop fairly hidden boucath hysterical
declarations that a great stock must
be sacrificed. Sometimes a shop that
'dtild by no possibility hold more
than a few hundred dollars' worth of
goods, auuouuces a great clearance
sale, when a half-hour's rush such as
tho big shops occasionally havo, would
leavo the place ns bare as Mother Hub
bard's cupboard.
. It begins to look to tho New Orleans
Picayuuo as though one outcomo of
the lato strike would be compulsory
military service for tho whole Nation.
General Curtis, of Now York, who is
a military outhusiast, has prepared a
bill which has recived tho sanction of
tho House Militia Committee. Tho
National Guard is subject to be called
' by the President into active service,
' for a time not exceeding nine months,
to repel tho invasion of foreign foes,
to suppress rebellion, or to put down
ludiau uprisings. While iu activo
service it is to be subject to the samo
regulations as tho regular troops of
the United States, and to bo entitled
'to tho same pay an I allowances.
Huch a pluu as this would turn the
wnolo Nation iuto a vast military en
camiimeut and make a soldier of every
citizen.
A Maiuo lumberman says tho wild
lauds of his Htato would make thirteen
States as large as llho do Island, two
as largo as New Hampshire and Ver
mont, and one twice as largo as Mus
achusutts. Theso lauds are located
iu the followiui; counties : Aroostook,
j2,iJ518 acres; Franklin, 580,054
1 acres; Hancock, 31)2,803 acroe; Ox
ford, 553,651 acres; Penobscot, 827,
COllcres; Piscataijis, 2,00i,441 acres;
Sonvrset, 1. 733,833 acres; Wanhiug
toiu Jl, 123 acres. Tho spruce tim
ber) ands of Maine aro worth more
to day than tho pine hinds fifty year
. ago. This statement, observes the
Xew Vii.ik Sun, is basscd ou tho opiu
iou of lumbermen who havo been en
iged in the busiuuss for forty years,
Ths vUi of those sprues lauds has
bin it s'Vatly teUnuu.il by t'u vula
Uiuil JuoisuJ lor puljj WtwX
Land forces linvo most influenced
the destinies of mankind through
warfare.
"Thtro ought to bo a law compelling
every ninn to read a petition before
nignin it," thinks tho Atchison
(Kan.) (ilobo.
It is said that the world tines 19,
500,000,000 bushels of wheat and 25,
000,000,000 bushels of Indian corn
annually. Of the latter about 7,500,
000,000 bushels are used by man, tho
rest being fed to animals.
It is said that a set of harness is on
exhibition in London, England, which
automatically slips off a horse when it
falls down, leaving tho animal per
fectly free. If safe, remarks tho New
York World, this harness will meet a
long-felt want, especially in cities with
asphalt pavements.
Tho engineer who is installing tho
electric power plant of tho Metropoli
tan Elevated Railway in Chicago
figures that tho use of oloctricity will
save that company $300,000 a year in
operating expenses, compared with tho
cost of rttuniug trains by anthracite
burning locomotives.
Shocking casualties resulting from
balloon ascensions have lately been so
frequent that it seems to tho New
York News high time for legal inter
position. Several women havo lost
their lives during tho summer by mis
haps in essaying tho parachute act.
It speaks ill for the civilization of tho
time when great throngs of peoplo
will congregate to see a poor woman,
in tho effort to earn a living, take the
horrid chance of plunging through
space to an appalling death.
Ilran, the refuse" of wheat, and
which at tfno time was considered so
worthless as to be spouted into tho
river at Minneapolis, now sells within
a fraction of the wheat itself, an
nounces the Amorican Cultivator.'
And oats, hulls and all, bring nearly
as much as tho finished product. The
following comparison of wholesale
bulk values per ton will show how
matters stand : Bran, per ton, 816.25;
corn, $19.25; wheat, $18.50; oats,
$24.50; flour (best St. Louis), $23.
American interest naturally attaches
to the Japanese Navy from the faot
that her first armed ship of modern
design was an American vessel, and
her first admiral wag an Amorican
officer. The vessel was the ram Stone
wall, which was captured from tho
Confederates while at Havana, and in
1808 was sold to Japan and taken to
Yokohama by way of the Straits of
Magellan, in charge of Captain Georgo
BrowD, Uuitod States Navy. The first
Japanese Admiral was Walter Grin
noli, who was appointed to that oflloe
while an ensign in the United States
Nary stationed at Hiago.
Bays tho Buffalo News: The fre
quent relerence to the "Midway" in
the newspapers, periodicals and the
everyday speech of the people proves
Chat the unique thoroughfare on the
World's Fair grounds took a wonder
fuld hold upon the imagination of
those who visited that most peculiar
feature of the fair. The "Midway"
as found entrance to church ex
hibitions, to sooiety festivals and pub
lic amusements of various kinds, and
"Midway" scorns to bo a word that
lingers longor upou the lips of tho
people than any other term connected
with the great Columbian festival of
last year.
E. T. Sitnoox in his "Primitive Civil
ization" says tho two occupations in
China are learning aud agrioulture.
The standard of comfort for the la
boring masses is fixed by that of tho
smallest cultivators, who form tho
largest section of tho population.
Poverty never involves actual starva
tion, except in times of famine. It
means having to eat plain rioe. The
average man iu China probably gets
enough to eat, such as it io, in ordinary
times. Tho farms aro small, from
half an acre to four aud a hulf acres ;
tho estimate is that ono acre will sup
port twelve persons iu abundance.
Wages are very low. A recent Chineso
w riter states that the average earnings
of workmen uro twenty cents a duy,
aud that half of this is enough to sup
port a family of five, after Chinese
fashion. Tho now Penal Codo lixos
tho value of labor impressed iuto tlw
public service at fourteen cents a day.
But these nro minimum rates. In
cities carpouters and masons got thirty
cents a day without food ; ncrvants,
$0 a month without food ; farmhands,
$17.50 a year without food. A sol
diui'spuy is $2 a luontU with board,
but half of this in paid ia rioe, Ia
ioui if the. oitivs cijuuuju lnbotsiM
fcUl tvurk us tin vwuU it dy.
"FAILED."
Fallod of tho goal which once bail been
my aim,
Tho distant port whloh I oncshnd snlloJ,
I think the gr.ivim wor Is abovo my numo
Must bo "Ho fnllod."
Fulled to achieve the vision and the quest,
Tho solf-forgettlng nnd solf-sncrlflco (
Palled to attain the hei'ltngo of rot
B'jyon 1 all price.
Failed to rntnln tlio birthright, h ivlni? sold
For pining ploasuro an 1 fro n fear of
pain i
paying tho watf") ol Go 's eterual goll
For timely gala.
Fallo l of (ho purity that purgns sight,
Tho faith that nourishes with daily bread ;
Failed of tbe hnn I that renohos through the
night
To gtiidn our trend.
Failn t, having Inl I bis h ind upon the plow,
Rosoon lo faltor and so ooo to tire ;
Fnllod, though the Go t of Ufa mny even
now
Save as by fire.
21 jwevor bright life's aftor-glow may fl.ini',
If storms ritrtwt that have so loug ai
sailed, 1 think the gravon trot Is a'lovo my mi
Must be "Ho failed."
Arthur L. Salmon, In The Aoademy."
THE P0INTOF VIEW.
A. OITER.
JUST hate it !" said
Julia Ives, not vio
lently, but plain
tively. "What?" her
mother ques
tioned, in anxiety,
And her father
looked up in
startled apprehen
sion.
Not that they
were astonished at
Julia's bavivg fonud something new to
despise. She was their only child,
aud perhaps a little spoiled and capri
cious. "Oh, Pelham Heights and every
thing in it I" said Julia. She had on
her gray riding-habit, with a rosebud
on lirr. lapel. "I'm sick of Pelham
Heights I Let's move I Isn't two years
ot it enough lor you? Such a plaoe
such restrictions! You can't build a
houso under four thousand dollars ;
you can't keep a cow; you can't," said
Julia, satirically, "wear a silk hat
with a sack coat, or eat your salad
wimom ou. i want to move out in
tho woods and live in a shnntv and
keep pigs !"
"Julia I her mother gasped. Aud
she added with as much severity as sho
was able to master, "lou to be tired of
Pelham Heights! When yon have
bad such a magnificent time here, so
mnch attention from all tho gentle
men, nnd "
"The gentlemen !" Julia murmured,
pulling on her gauntlets. "It is the
gentlemen mat l want to get away
from. You meet ono Pelham Heights
man. anil you know all the rest.
They're precisely alike They're just
li ko the place itself perfectly correot,
and polite, and bwoII, and monotonous
and tame, andand wearing! I'm
deathly tired of them! If 1 oould
meet a a farmer or something," said
Jnlia, "that didn't know anything
about clothes or tho opera, or the
books that you have to read if you're
propor, ami ttiut wore a slouch hat
and tucked his trousers in his boots,
and said, Vin't' and Mil tell I' if I
could meet him I'd marry him 1" Miss
ves imoriceci ner rtaring parents.
And then fho went out and monntod
her horse, changed her mind about
having tho roo:a accompany her, and
rode off alone.
"I don't know what to rnako of
her," said her mother, despairingly.
"She isn't like ray family. She's an
Oi-cutt. She has your Aunt Felicia
Orcntt's nose, and she's like her. 1
hope she won't do anything peouliar.
I couldn't live through it. If she
only would take a liking to some nioo
fellow here in town and settle near
us 1 Uut how sho talks !"
"Let her alouo," Julia's father re
sponded, with coolness which was
exasperating. "Hho's a little romau
tic just now, but she'll come out just
as she ought to go. She's a level
headed girl. I'm not worrying about
her."
"Do yen 'jver w.irry about any
thing?" said his harassed wife. "If
she could lik) Horace Upham or Spen
cer Prescott both eligible. But sho
won't."
"She'll liko somebody just as good,"
Julia's trustful father retorted.
Miss Ives chirruped to her horse
tiil ho struck into a bar I trot, Peo
plo bowed aud smiled from hammocks
and porches; hats (lew off at her ap
pr jnch.
She saw Spencer Prescott ou bis
bicycle and Mr. Upham in bis road
cart, and hIii smiled in weariness.
Perhaps her father and mother bad
considered it nonsense, but she was
tired cf l'eiham HoighH She did
pine for something new and interest
ing. She d'd abominatu tbe Pelham
Ileighls sooiety men, Bin', she did feel
a gloomy despair of ever knowiug
anybody any better, or btronger
miiulod, cr livelier. It wan all per
fectly true.
It was a ber.ntful day, and she
wanted tr n'et us far away from town
as she could.
Bingo enjoyed tho oating hi keenly
as his mi tri hs tie trotted smoothly
and swiitly. At turning of a nev
roid, Julia reined him at lust, hesita
tiu,;ly, th-n ncut him on.
Tho roud looked smooth. It v.i3
iuv'tijjf. at any rate; there was a
ehaiy thicket ou either Md.
Mim Ire. threw back her ftracuful
head aod rirtult in th woody frn
frf'toCi lining bouuded along Willi
pgiuv uluuiutui. iUt tfiii w4
r.r fmma
rather young and sometimes heodlofs
without a strong guiding hand, and
Julia had forgotten everything but
her triumphant enjoyment of being
flvo miles away from Pelham Heights.
At an unlooked-for nnevonncss in
the newly-made road, Bingo stum
blod, could not recover himsolf and
came down on his knees, with a fright
ened whinney, and his mistress was
thrown to the ground.
She was on her feet the next in
stant. Had anybody seen her her,
that was rated the best horse woman
in tho region? She felt a dreadful,
creeping certainty that somebody had ;
and she was right.
Out from the tangle of young trees
on the left came stalking a young man
with a gun and a dog.
"GreatScott!"ho ejaculated. "I'm
just in time. Are you hurt?"
"Not in the least," said Julia.
Her nose the noso which partook
of the qualities of her father's Aunt
Felicia's went up a haughty three
inches. Bingo got ou his feet and
looked crestfallen.
"Well, your habit is torn a little,"
the young man observed, eying tho
tear wfth a twinkling expression.
Julia could have boxed his ears.
"I presumo I should have dis
covered it," sho retorted, stroking
Bingo's nose.
"No doubt. And your posy came
off," said tho stranger, picking up the
fallen rosebud. "A Jack, isn't it?"
Julia fixed him with a severe look;
but that look revealed to her some
interesting facts interesting and
amusing.
He was a tall fellow, blonde-haired
and blue-eyed and darkly sunburned ;
his eyes were really fine, and he wore
a fuded coat and disreputable looking
old soft hat. Ho looked a good deal
like a tramp, but there were tho gun
and dog.
"An American Beauty, since you
are particular about kuowiug," said
Julia, .'rigidly.
"I am particular about everything;
it's my nature," said the young man,
in a tone of mild apology. "And
youMl exouse me, but it disturbs me
to see your hat on one side fearfully
on one side."
Julia's frowning eyes met his. She
could not hold out against his mis
chievous, gay impertinence. She
laughed.
"I did look absurd, I suppose, and
Bingo, too. Wo never made such a
break before, did we, Bingo? Is my
hat straight now, please?"
"Perfectly.geometrically. Seriously,
I was frightened when I saw you go
over. Are you cortain yonr'e not
hurt?"
"Not a bit."
She blushed a little under his look
of concern.
"But you are shaken np a little bit.
Let mo toll you !" ho said, almost
shyly, his strong, brown hand on
Bingo's shoulder. "There is a farm
house only a quarter of a mile np the
road, and I know the people well. If
you will ride up there with me, I will
get you some milk, or buttermilk,
whichever yon like best. I happen to
know the quality of it. I've had maDy
a meal there."
"Is buttermilk tho best thing to
take when you've fallen off your
horse?" said Julia.
"Always. You know those little
books about first aid to the injured?
Buttermilk is always recommended in
a case like this."
"You are ridiculous," Julia said,
laughing.
"It isn't buttermilk alone, you know.
Mrs. Mclntyro makes splendid ginger
bread, and she's been baking to-day.
It melts in your mouth."
The buttons were off his coat most
of them. Ho was peculiarly graceful ;
every move was easy. What was he?
who was )ie?
"I don't know," Julia murmured.
"I-"
"Is it too unconventional?" said her
new acquaintance "Don't say so.
You don't know Mrs. Mclutyre'a ginger-cake
you dou't, indeed !"
"Unconveutiopal?" Miss Ives
echoed. "I hate conventionality I"
The young mau cast a look at her
faultless attire.
".So do I," he responded, quite
solemnly. "Do come, then. I can
smell that ginger-cake 'way here."
"You aro au iuoorrigible joker,"
said Julia, biting her lips as she
laughed. "I will go," she added,
with a pretty gtaciousness quite her
own ; aud he helped her to mount.
She rodo back past the scene of the
scoident seventeen short minutes later.
She looked at the spot where he had
stood and laughed at her, and felt such
a sharp regret that she should see him
no more, that sho would not admit it
even to herself.
Sho had left him at Mrs. Mclntyro's ;
sho looked back impulsively ; but the
house was out of eight. She had not
tho faintest notion as to who he was.
For all she knew he was a farm baud.
But he was a strangely clever aud well
bred and handsome farm hand, and
aud fascinating.
And she was goiug back to Pelham
Heights back to Spencer Prescott aud
lloraco Upham. Iter head drooped ;
her eyes dwelt on tho dusty road soiu
brously. .
"Biujro," sho said, "I'm sorry wo
J came out this way. Yes, I am."
There wae a hop at Pelham Heights
club house, a week later. It was small,
because tho club was exclusively and
oarly.
Mr. and Mrs. Ives and their hond-noir-.o
daughter came into tho ballroom
ut niue o'clock, and were hemmed iu
directly by a small crowd of men Mr.
Uiihatn ami Mr. Prescott, and hulf a
do.eu others.
And Miss Ives's curd was almost full,
when old Judge Lambert reached over
the head of thn shortest mau in the
rm'touudiug throng, and tutibsd hut
urui.
"iUvg a iluutia luf Jok Uudourt,
Julia!" ho commanded, with jovial fa
miliarity. ".My friend John Har-
court Mrs. Ives, Miss Ives, Mr.
Ives."
Julia was looking her best, in a pale
greeu silk and cloudy chiffon; but
when sho looked up at tho judge's
friend, she gazed and smilod and
blushed till she looked quito dazzliugly
pretty.
"Allow me I" ho said.
Somebody had taken her first datioo,
but she forgot it. Sho took Mr. Ilar
court's proffered arm and walkedaway
with him.
Neither of them spoke, but in a se
cluded corner of tho room he pulled a
dried rosebud out of an inner pocket
and dangled it before her eyes.
"I was so glad you let mo keep itl"
ho murmured. "It was kind in you."
"I didn't know yon had it," said
Jnlia, striving to frown, and Bmiling
instead, with the happiness she could
not smother. "Give it right back to
me."
"Never !" said Mr. Harcourt. If he
had been handsome in a dilapidated
coat and a slouch hat, he was a strik
ing in a dress suit, with a white flower
in his buttonhole. "You see yonr
self how I have carried it around with
mo. Give it back?"
Julia met bis bantering look and re
turned it.
"You looked precisely liko a tramp,"
she remarked, "or a farm laborer, and
I thought you were. Are you?"
"Come out on tho piazza," said Mr.
Harcourt, laughing, in gay content
ment. "No, I'm not a farm hand,
Miss Ives. I'm a lawyer np in tho city,
and when I feel the need of total rest
I bury myself down therein tho woods
with the Mclntyros for two weeks or
so, and hunt and fish. Sometimes the
judge ferrets me out aud makes me
stop a night with him and go to some
'function' here in Pelham Heights.
So I bring my dress suit along as a
provision again6t that catastrophe.
This time, Miss Ives," said Mr. Har
court, slowly and softly, "it is not a
catastrophe. This time I bless tho
dear old judge from the bottom of my
heart I"
Six months later.Miss Ives's engage
ment to Mr. Harcourt, tho prominent
young lawyer, was announced with
pomp and ceremony, and nobody was
surprised.
Julia's mother drew long breaths o?
peaceful reliof.
"I am so glad?" she said to her hus
band, in her thankfulness. "Do you
remember what alarming notions the
child had awhile ago! She worried
me terribly. And now she is goiug to
marry John Harcourt, the most de
lightful society mau I ever met, aud
have an establishment right here in
Pelham Heights for all but a few
months in the winter, and do every
thing just as we could have wished.
And sho is so happy with it all 1 Don't
you feel thankful ?"
Julia's father chuckled for several
moments.
"Didn't I tell yon she'd come out
in good shape!" he queried. "She
did have some notions one while, didn't
she? It's the point of view, you see
it's the point of view." Saturday
Night. m
Brazen Impudence Ho Thought.
A west-bound train had just pulled
out of the Union Station at Albany,
says the Express, and tho conductor
was harvesting tickets. All the seats
were taken aud several passengers were
obliged to stand up. Among the latter
was a diffident-looking, mild-mannered
man, who refused to give up a ticket.
"When I get a seat, you get a ticket,"
he remarked mildly, but firmly; "you
aro probably awaro that the company
can not collect fares from passengers
whom it does not provido with seats."
"Oh, come now, that don't go ; I want
your ticket, see?" Thus spoko the
conductor. "No seat, no ticket," la
conically observed tho passenger.
"We'll see about that," growled tho
conductor, who hustled around aud
finally found a brother-conductor who
was going up tho road a way, whom ho
induced to give up his seat to the
mildly firm passenger. "There's a seat
for you ; now give mo that ticket," said
the conductor, ia a ferocious tone.
"Certainly, here it is, " Aud the mild,
but firm, passenger handed out a pass
good to Chicago.
Improvement In Balloons.
A description was givou iu a con
temporary of the Government balloou
establishment near Faruham, which is
uuder the direction of Colonel Tem
plar. Bulloou are mado there of sev
eral thicknesses of gold-beater's skin,
and aro charged with hydrogen in
stead of tho customary coal gas. Tho
hydrogen is obtained either by tho re
action of ziuo and sulphuriu acid or
by the electrolysis of water, and costs
about einlit shillings per 100D cubic
feet. For transport it is compressed
ii to iron cylinders to a tension of
about 10J atmospheres. A properly
aud symmetrically mad aud mounted
balloou is said to gyrate comparatively
little, aud it goes without saying that
such iucroased steadiness renders bal
loou photography easier aud much
more accurate. luvuutiou.
Sou Wave Mny Make Klectrioily.
A number of meu are at work erecU
iug portable houses near tho concourso
at Oouey Island, Brooklyn. lucpiiry
us to what they were for elicited the
reply: "For Edisou, Watch aud
wait." It is said that Edison is going
to experiment in using tho sea wave
as a motive power for generating elec
tricity. It has long been known to
him that by flouting a series of large
casks uttaehed to euch other by chums,
and anchored so as to riso an I full
with tho waves, they could, by means
of rods commuuicutiug with rauhut
wheels placed in power houses on the
bor, be made to revolv dyuaruos
and gtiuvatil kUltritty. WkivayK
A GRUESOME EXHIBITION.
COLLECTION OF VALUABLE BONES
AT THE NATIONAL MUSEUM.
Great Auk's Skeleton Human Hones
Less Costly Than Thoso of Anl
mals I'sed as Fertilizer.
PUNK ISLAND that is, a part
of it has been reproduced for
exhibition at the National
Museum, says the Washington
Star. It was on that lonely rock,
thirty-two miles off the coast of New
foundland, that the now-extinct great
auk had its principal roost. Fifty
years ago tho last individual of tho
species perished. It is represented
now by a skeleton, worth $f00, stand
ing by a heap of bird remains such as
chiefly composo tho surfaco soil of
Fnnk Island, while alongside is an egg
of the fowl, valued at $1500, together
With tho inner skin of another egg.
The National Museum possesses nearly
all of the great auk bones in existence ;
they are tho most costly bones in tho
world. The finest collection of skele
tons in tho world is stored nt the
National Museum. They aro arranged
in a series, so as to run upward from
the lowest fishes through tho reptiles
and birds, to man. Human bones are
muoh cheaper than those of miuiy other
animals. One can buy a nicely-articulated
skeleton of a man tor $40, or of
a woman for $30 sex makes some dif
ference in the prico whereas the
Bkoleton of a gorilla costs $300, of a
whale $150, of an elephant $100, of a
lion $75, of a horse $70, of a cat $12,
and of a python $75.
The bones of n human being aro
nearly one-quarter water during tho
life of the individual. They aro
chiefly composed of phosphatoof lime,
but contain a good deal of animal
matter nnd other elements. In tho
skeleton of a man nro nearly four
pounds of tho metal calcium, which is
many times more valuable than gold,
being worth $300 an ounce. Thus iu
the osseous framework of tho avcrago
tramp may be found material with a
market value of about $18,000, but
the trouble is to separate it from tho
substances with which it is combined.
That is what makes calcium costly. It
is only in bones that phosphato of
lime is found iu anything like a pure
state. Everybody knows the value of
that material as a fertilizer, but it is
only recently that human skeletons
have been imported into this country
to grow crops with. Not long ago a
shipment was mado from Mexico to
the United States of ton carloads of
human bones, said to have been ob-
tainod from ancient mounds in South
ern Moxico, but moro probably gath
ered from various old and abandoned
cemeteries. As theso remains were
fragments of unassorted skeletons, it
was estimated that 50,000 individuals
were represented in the lot. '
This would not bo considered a nov
elty in Europe. Yeors ago English
farmers used human bones to some ex
tent to fertilize their land. The bat
tlefield of Waterloo was for a tim.i the
base of supplies, and this was supple
mented by mummies from Egypt,
ground to a tine powder. Iho mum
mies were fetched for this purposo by
the cargo, and tho preserved corpses of
people dead for thousands of years
doubtless formod part of tho consign
ments, but tho bulk of tho material
consisted of mummies of cats ami other
small animals. The Egyptians of old
used to mummify tho cat, ibis and
other creatures, which they regarded
as sacred. In ancient Egyptian tombs
are found great numbers of copper
boxes, opening at one end by a slide,
which contain mummies of cats, hawks,
ibises and now and then snakes and
small crocodiles. Mummies are n rec
ognized commercial article in that
country to-day. For a long time lo
comotives were run between Cairo and
Suez with no other fuel. Corpses of
of royal personages, 3000 years old and
upward, fetch high prices. The pro
cesses adopted for their preservation
began with the removal of t'uo intes
tines. Then tho brain was taken out
through tho nostrils and the body, af
ter being soaked in preservative sub
stances, was wrapped round uud round
with bandages. Tho bundle thus made
was placed insido of a papier mucho
case formed of a pulp composed of linen
and whiting, aud this was iucloscd iu
a series of wooden colli m.
Less than a year ago tho Austrian
bark Vila was deserted by her crew.
Later she was picked up as a derelict
off Capo Huttcrus aud fetched into tho
port of Now York. Her cargo was
found to consist iu large purt of
bones of horses and cattle. Iu one
corner of her hold was a great heap
of human skulls. Nobody knows to
this duy why tho crew deserted tho
vessel in mid-ocean. Sho was worth
$40,000, including her freight Tho
gruesome character of the latter was
added to by frightful odors and tho
presence of swarms of blue Hies. In
formation obtained respecting tho
bark from Alexandria, in Egypt,
showed that tho bones had been col
lected iu deserts uud cemeteries of
that country uud were shippe.l to tho
United States for use us fertilizer.
The preparation of human skeletous
for market is quito uu important in
dustry. Tho chief centre for this
branch of commercial activity is
Paris, where three eoiux-rus uro i u
gagod in the business on a considerable
scalo. Thoy obtain the requisite
supplies of raw material iu tho shape
of bodies from public iustiutiouH,
most of them being thoso of puuprs
and criminal.-, who have died in tho
asylums ami prisons. The French
Government considers it a good plan
to turn to a useful account iu thin way
after death tho thieves and murderers
who have been enemies of society
during their lifetime.
Not until tho cluot) of tba lunt ecu
tury torture of criiuiualy uvuel
)y aboluhud u Europe,
A LITTLE WHILE. '
Tot n little while to Lo
Hero, where few bnvo lovo for me I
Yet Hnother cross to bear
Journeying through tho darkness hcrl
Day by day r.ro naring home !
Aching heart and feet that roam,
Vet a little while to bo
Where tho dnrk night liadows mo I
Yet nnothor song to sing
Yot nnothet broken string .
Then, tho rest in rosos given, "'
Aud the sleep that wakes In henven!
Atlanta Constitution.
HUMOR 01" THE DAT.
Only two people nttond a real pic
nic. Atchison Globo.
It takes hard times to make soiuo
peoplo thankful. Ham's Horn.
A boy's idea of a hero is auothes
boy who runs off. Atchison Globe.
It is hnman to err, and human na
ture to say, "I told you so." Barn's
Horn.
Did anyone ever get all tho reward
that was offered for a thing? Atchi
son Globe.
Miss Brooks "Do yon tret board in
Brooklyn ?" Bridges "Awfully. '
New York World. .
A busy man usually prefers telling
a lie to answering a lot of questions.
Atchison Globo.
There is as littlo mercy in stabbing
with a word as thoro is in doing it
with a knife. Ram's Horn.
A woman thinks nothing of buying ,
a fifteen dollar hat, and then eating a
seventeen cent luucheou. Truth.
We should always treat fortune iu
such a way as not to causo her smile
to turn into a horse-laugh. Puck.
Ami what isa pneumntic tlrei"
You nske l ma oneo before. i
It is tho name that, without blaui3
They now glvo to a bore.
Judge.
They say that money talks. Prob
ably that is tho reason a doctor first
asks to see the patient's tongue.
Puck.
She "What colored eyes do you
admire; brown or blue?" He "I
can't see well enough in this light." -Buffalo
ExprcBs.
"Is Frauloin Snssmilch nt home?"
"No, Bir." "Please tell her that I
called." "I will tell her at once."
Lustigo Blactter.
The person who can sing and won't
is bad enough ; but suroly there is no
forgiveness for those who can't sing
and will. Elmira Gazette.
"In oldon tlmo did walk on air
Yo winner of yo mutdnu fair ;
But now" and hnro the joker nriuned
"Ho mounts bis wheel and rides on wind."
Buffalo Courier.
People think it is tough when they
have to pay thirty-tivo or forty cents
por pound for eteuk, but it is a great
deal tougher when they pay only fif
teen. Boston Courier.
"Why don't yon try to paddlo your
own canoe," growlod Crown ns Joues
struck him for teu. "I can't," said
Jones, "but I am trying to float
loan." Washington Times.
Billtirod "The world owes me a
good liviu' an' that's all they bo to it."
Tom Wiser "Ves, ol' boy ; but you
seo they is so many o' you fellers thet
she can't pay her bills." Bostou
Courier.
"Now," said tho young mm, "take
tho averugo woman " "But there iH
no average woman," interrupted the
elder. "You just naturally have to
consider each woman by herself."
Cincinnati Tribune.
Tonix "My friend Soarer's busi;
ness frequently puts his life iu danger,
but I've never yet known him to de
sert his post." Toddies "What's his
basilicas?" Tonix "He's an aero
naut." South Boston News.
Banks (from his berth, feebly) "I
say, steward, do you think it's all up
with me?" Steward (cheerfully)
"Hovery thing, for the present, sir;
but your happetit" will bo a-coiuiu'
by an' by." Now York Herald.
'I.lllloboy blue, eomo blew up your hem,
'J'hes'i-wp's in the inn low, the cow's iu
th eoru ! '
He o.uuo wlieu tho ca'tlo had Ion ;;o:leu
through,
A mess.'uger do this little boy b!u.
-rue:.-.
"I was as founded when I heard that
Mr. Brown, who married Miss Schmidt
last week, had given up bis position.
Docs ho think that lovo will support
him?" "Ob, no; but ho hopes that
his fatucr-iu-Uw will." Flicgeudo
Blactter.
Miss vi .n A-tcr ' Di I yvu tell Mr.
Chumleih I wusi uot r.t home,
Eugenie?" Eugenie "! ui mam'sdlo ;
and ho zay bo spik not Fraiicais, and
I to lii.it uy zat milady v ill or.iez
do'vn her own self and t li him iu ze
Anglais. "Tho King's Jo.der.
Mrs. Nexdoor "Your littlo boy
climbed over thu fence and ran all
over in y flowerbeds." Mrs. Suburb
- "Horrors i Tluy had just been
watered, hadn't they'.'" "N' o."
"Oh, well, never mind; the exer-ii.o
won't, hurt him if he don't get hi i foot
wyt." 'i.i j I New...
Soulful Young Wouiau -"Do you
ii.cautotcll mo that you havo never
yot met the womtu whose presence
uud touch thrilled your whole being
iu au m U rly indescribable minuof?"
Weary Young M ;e "Duly once. It
was w'leu I wen iu lii.- hands of a wo
man denti t." Indianapolis .Ijiiruid.
When i.lie lull.ed she talked; uud
when hb talked no'ioty else much
talked- at least not ill thai immediate
vicinity. Nor was her husband en
tirely oblivious I i tho fuel. "four
vile," remarked a frieii I I him no
day, "has a remarkable command of
laugiiugo. " "Well, yes," lot icplied
thoughtfully, "I piciiiiiid tin) bus;
but ther uro tunes w'nun 1 ubuont
tlnuli it t'H uity wiih her," -i.',tiV'
Fr It too,