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California supplies Boston with cod
fish and beans.
' In spite of the large boantios it en
joy the mercantile marine of Franoe
continues to dwindle.
For the area, the cost of street
cleaning in Now York is nearly double
that of any other city in the world,
Tho New York Advertiser maintains
that tho frying pan is responsible for
at least COOO ailments that flesh is heir
to.
L. .. .. . . .
It costs 80,000,000 a year to gov
ern New York City. The total ex
penditures of the National Govern
ment in 1850 wero no larger.
The centnry is old ; only six years
remain to it. But thia is quite suffi
cient to work mighty changes in the
map of Asia, and perhaps in that of
Europe, also.
The arrival of 6,718,000 hogs in
Chicago during the past year would
teem to indioate to the New York'Ad
vertiser thnt that city is getting tho
fat of the lund.
Since the year 1891 more than 11,000
claims, aggregating $10,000,000, have
been made fur land taken from tho In
dians. The sums paid since 1799 un
der tho act passed that year for what'
re called depredation claims will
amount to more than one Lundrod
billion dollars.
According to the Real Estate Reoord,
office buildings which oost upward of
SI. GO a oubio foot ton years ago can
now bo creoted for from thirty to forty
cents a cubio foot. This great ear
ing, due to the increasing use of
6team and mechanical devicos, mast
finally result in a marked reduotion of
rents.
Football playing is not only e.
teemed an excellent advertisement for
college, but some preparatory
schools are said by tho Now York Bun
to have gone to the length of enticing
good players from rival schools by th
offer of free tuition. This means
good deal, sinco tuition in fashion
able preparatory school costs a pretty
sum.
The gypsy moth which is taking
possession of New England is an im
migrant from Franco. It reached New
England in 1870, 'and has since multi
plied in an alarming way. Its cater
pillars are very destructive, and New
Englund would like to have a Federal
appropriation of (200,000 to use in
preventing it from interfering with in
terstate coninieroo.
Deputy Sheriff Hall, of North Caro
lina, stood in that State and killed
an escaping prisoner who was across
the line in Tennessee. Aooording to
a recent decision of the Supreme
Court of North Carolina he seems
likely to escape punishment, as he was
not in Tennessee when he committed
the crime, and the crime was not com
mitted in North Carolina.
The Interior remarks : Asa nation,
Japan is s child of the nineteenth cen
tury. Tbe progress of Christianity in
Japan is one of the marvels of modern
church history. The first five years
of faithful Christian struggle pro
duced one convert. In 1872 was or
ganized the first Evangelical Church
of eleven members. Now thore are
8C5 churches with a membership of
85.C35.
A little loss than 2000 miles of rail
road were built in the United States
lust year. That is almost the low
water mark ia railway building,
though tho yoars 1805, 18GG and 1875
J".ade likewise a meagro showing. For
five years now the additional annual
mileage has shown a steady and rapid
decline. In 1890, CG70 miles were
built; in 1891, 4282, and in tho three
ensuing years, respectively, 4178,
2633 aud 1919, bringing the record
down to January 1, 1895. . But all
signs now indieute that the bottom has
has beon reached, and that the busi
ness will again resume its normal vol
ume and activity. It is of great im
portance to the prosperity of the ooun
try at large tbat this form of industry
be not impeded or prostrated by ad
verse aud ill-considered legislation, as
it sometimes has been, and it is to be
hoped that all artificial obstacles to
its resumption will bo speedily re
moved. There are in the United
States 179.C72 miles of coapleted
road, 54,300 of which has been laid iu
the lust ten years. Between this and
the year 1900, with any luck at all, we
ought to reach tho 300,000-mile lime,
and are quite likely to do so. It looks
now as if steel rails would soon be
turned out at $15 per ton, a fact which
in itself will impart a powerful impulse
to railway building and all the indus
tries allied with it.
THE LITTLE VALENTINE.
Though 'lis fnded now ai yellow
With the dust of mnny years,
Ami lis versss float before m
To the mist of unshed tears,
Vet of all tbe tender treasuros
That around my honrt entwine,
Titers U none 1 love so fonlty
As this little vnlnntlno.
For aronnd It rlln? nnd cluster
Mom'rle of the long ago ;
Of the sunny days of chllrihoo I,
And the joys I medtokoow;
Cherished drosms and youthful fannies,
Thnt In thews old days were mine,
Hover, like tho breath of roses,
Itound this little valentine
And like shadows flitting softly,
Loving faces com nnd go
Faces thnt have long been sleeping
'Neath the blossoms and th saow i
Kni deir hnnde, that long hav vanished,
On attain I olusp In mine,
As I gas lu love and roverenco
On this little valentine.
Voices sweet that death bas silenced,
Whisper to mo words of love,
Iiiko the sound of angel mnsto
Floating downward from above t
Till nt last, the eohoes dying
In tbs depths of mem'ry's shrlno,
I am loft In sllenoa gar.lng
On my little valentine.
Bo, although 'tis dim and faded
With the dust of many years,
And Its versos float before me
In tho mists of uushad teats;
Vet of nil the tender treasures,
That around my heart entwine,
There is none I love so fondly
As this little valentine.
Julia T. Itlordan.
A VALENTINE ROMANCE,
BY. J. L. BARBOUR.
Mfyff knowho'irftho
mZSJO. l"nd of the livin'
fW-vW.'. fei' nvnr snnt mn thai
wooden rocking-chair, with her bon
net and shawl still on, although she
was ono of the most methodical of
spinsters and mado it a rule to put
her gloves, bonnet and shawl away,
neatly and carefully, the moment she
entcrod her house. But on this oc
casion she- had sunk hastily into tho
rocking-chair with oven her gloves
on.
She had been to the village post
ofllec, and, to her unspeakable amaze
ment, had received a valentine.
She had not oven remembered that
it was St. Valentine's Day until she
had passed one of the village shop
windows, hanging full of valentines,
and she had said to herself when ehe
saw them:
"Dear me ! I thought that silly and
redikilons custom of sending valen
tines had about died out. Such non
sense as, it is I But I gness only chil
dren and fools do it."
Five minutes later, Mr. Moses Moss,
tho village postmaster, handod Miss
Dyko a square, highly embossed white
envelope through the littlo postoflice
window.
"I gaess somebody's sent you val
entine, Miss 'Cindy," he said.
"I don't think anybody' been so
silly," she repliod, a little tartly.
She was raroly given to joking, and
she always resented jokes having even
remote reforence to affairs of the
heart. She acknowledged herself to
be "touchy" on this point, and she
felt offended when she knew that it
was really a valentine that she hold in
her hands.
She dropped it quiokly into the
blaok-cloth Laud-bag she carried, her
face flushing crimson with indigna
tion. She was so disoouoerted by re
ceiving the valentine that ehe forgot
to ask for the postage'stamps and en
velopes she had come to the office for,
but marched out very primly and
stiffly, giving tho door of the post
office a sharp little bang behind her.
She felt quite mire that Moses Moss
was watching her through the one lit
tle front window of the postoffioe, and
she hold her head very high and
swung her black alpaca skirts scorn
fully as she walked away.
"I wish to the land I'd torn the
thing into a thousand pieces right be
fore him I" she said, as she turned the
corner, "lie likely knows who sent
it, as he's the postmaster and familiar
with ev'rybody's writin'. An' Mose
is such an old gossip ho'd be sure to
tell the person who sent it if he'd seen
me tear it up. Wish I had. "
Her brown eyes were none the less
beautiful because of the angry sparkle
in them, and the flush of crimson on
either cheek was very bocoming to
MissLuoinda.
She found her scissors, tho moment
she entered her house, and cut off au
end of the envelope with a snap.
Then she drew out a dainty littlo cre
ation iu pink and blue and gold on a
foundation of white, satiny paper,
with an edge of paper laoe. She held
it out at anus' length, in her gloved
hands. Hor eyes fairly glittered now,
aud the crimson flush on her cheeks
deopened.
"Whoever sent me that thing is a
fool !" she said.
Thou she held tho valentine a little
nearer, and said, scornfully ;
"Humph I Hearts with arrers run
through 'em. au' nasty little Cupids
an' weddiu'-bells the idea of it I It's
a perfect iu-sultl WlaD a wouiau
gets to be forty-three yours old, as I
um, tbe less sue thinks of Cupids an'
weddin'-bells an' such nonsesnse, the
better off she is. I've a good mind to
put the thing into tbe tire, and
what's this? l'oetry, as I'm a sinner !"
The valentine had suddenly opened
in her hands, and, in gilt letters, with
a gold hear above aud below it, wns
this verse ;
'Oh, lonely, lonely is my heart,
Ho louoly, love, for thee,
I'm happiest when I'm where thou art,
Oh, wilt thnn oome to me?
Oh, wilt thou come to m for aye,
And be forever mine,
To gliddnn all the future yonra?
Buy i 'Yrs !' Bay i 'Yes ' My valentine.
"Mercies I" cried Miss Dyke, as she
let the valentine fall into her lap, whiio
her arms fell limply to her sides and
sue almost gasped for breath. I res-
ently she said slowly, nodding her
bonneted head to and fro : "I just
wonder wbo did send me
that silly thing? Some mischiev
oils school-boy, likely. But, no; he'd
sent me one o' them nasty comios with
a picture of an old maid on it with a
nose a yard long and a sassy verse
printed on it. 1 never saw thut writ
ing before, that I know of."
She took up the envelope and scru
tinized the address carefully.
"No," she said, "I never saw that
writing before. Now, if I knew who
sent mo that thing, I'd send it right
back with a note, telling 'em just
what i thought of em. I vow I
would!"
She put the valentine back into the
envelope and gave it a spiteful little
toss over to a small stand near her.
Then she rose briskly, took off her
bonnet and sbawl. exchanged her black
alpaca for gray mohair house-dress
ond a crisp white apron with wide
crocheted lace on it, and sat down by
ttio littlo stand with a piece of half
finished sewing in her hands.
The valentine fell to the floor at her
feet, when she took uu her sewiuir.
She let it lay where it had fallen for
several minutes, while she stitched
away in silenoe, drawing the thread
through the cloth with quick, short
jerks. Suddenly she stooped and
picked up the valentine.
"How did that silly verse go?" sho
said, as she drew the valentine from
its envelope, "Suoh stuff as it is
anyhow I"
She road it again and again, heed
less of the foot tuat the cat was snarl
ing up dreadfully the contents of her
workbasket.
"1 know what I'm going to do,"
she said, suddenly. "I'm going back
to the postoflice and make Moses Moss
toll me whose handwritin that is on
the envelope. He'll know, and he'll
tell me, too. Mose always was a good
natured follow, and he'll tell me if he
knows. I've just the faintest s'pioion
that old Jasper Hoyt may have sent
me this. They say he's half cracked
to marry again, and his first wife not
six months in her grave. La t I want
it flying back to him with as sassy a
letter as ever ho got, if I find Jasper
iioyt aid sena.it.
"Or it may bo that it came from
Silo Lawson. Some think ho wants
to marry 'cause bo's painted and fixed
up his plaoe so, and got himself so mo
decent duds. He'll never marry me.
It may have oome from Judaon Sparks,
and there ain't no one I'd sooner send
it flying buck to than him. He
worried his first wife into her grave,
and he'd never get the obunco to worry
mo there, not if he'd get down on his
bended knees and begged me to have
him. John Gleeson may have sent it
for but I'll just go and find out of
the postmaster who did send it, I'm
just ourious to know."
But there was something more thnn
mere curiosity in Miss Luoinda's .lonely
heart as she walked back to the post
office. Not for the world would she
havo admitted it even to herself, but
there was a feeling of pleasure as well
as of curiosity in her breast now. She
could not dismiss the doggerel lines
of that verse from her mind !
" 'Say i "Yes I" Say : "Yes !" My Valen
tine.'" she repeated, reproaching and scorn
ing herself for her weakness in doing
so, and saying stoutly to herself :
"The man don't live that I'd say;
Yes' to ; no, he don't. What a big
goose 1 aui anyhow."
She . reached the postoflice. The
postmaster was alone in the neatly
kept little room.
He was a short, stout, kindly-looking
man of almost fifty years. He had
childish-blue eyes and a round, honest
face, a little inclined toward efl'omiu
acy iu some of its outlines.
The softness and sweotnoss of his
voice were surprising when one looked
at his Bwelhng chest and broad shoul
ders. Everybody knew and every
body liked Moses Moss.
Lucinda Dyke had known him all
of her life, aud sho had never called
him anything but "Moses" or "Mose."
Now she said quickly, eager to do her
errand before any one came in :
"bee here, Moses, 1 want to ask a
favor of you. "
"All right, 'Cindy. Ask away."
"You know that some great goose
had no more sense than to send me a
valentiue?"
Moses's smooth, round cheeks crim
soned.
"I knew you got one a while ago,"
he said.
"Think of it! Tha idea! Well.
now Moses, I want you to tell lue
whose handwritin tbut is."
She laid the envelope before him.
He lookod at it and then at her, the
womanish blush deepening in his
cheeks.
"You know, don't you?" asked Mint
Lucinda. "I felt sure you would,
you being postmaster and seeing ev'ry-
body s handwriting so much. iuu
know thut, don't you?"
"What you want to know for,
"Ciudy?"
"Well, because I do," she said,
quite sbarply. "If it come from the
person I s'pect it come from, he'll get
it buck in short order."
"Whom do you suspect, 'Cindy?"
"I uiu't going to say."
"It may be ag'iu tho Qov'ment
Postoflice laws for me to tell without
a written order front tho l'o.itolllee
Ueu'ral."
".Stuff, Moses I Mose, how's he go
iuuf to kuow anything about it? And,
do you s'pose tbe Postoflice Oen'rul
cud the President aud his Cabinet u
going to hang you if you should hap
pen to tell an old maid who sent her a
silly valentine? You know bettor than
that I Did Jas Hoyt send it ?"
"No, he didn't."
"It ain't Silo Lawson's handwrit
ing?" "No."
"Nor Judaon Sparks's?"
"No, 'Cindy."
"Did John Gleeson send it?"
"It ain't his writing.'?
"Well, who in creation didsendit?"
"You'll get mad if I tell you."
"Well, 1 won't get mad at you, any
how, Moses."
"Sure not, "Cindy?"
He was leaning over a little counter,
now looking up into her face with an
eafur, pleading, searching look.
"You sure not, 'Cindy?" ho asked
again.
"No, of course not," she said.
"Why should I? I 1 why, Moses
Moss'l"
She stepped back with a wild, fright
ened look. Something in his face and
manner startled hor.
"'Cindy," he said.
"Why, I well?"
"I sent it, 'Cindy. '
"Good Lor' I Mose Mobs!"
"I did, 'Cindy. I Wait a mo
ment, 'Cindy !"
She would havo fled from the post
oflice, but he reached across tho
counter and caught both her hands in
his, saying eagerly:
"I did, 'Cindy 1 I did I I sent it."
"Let me go, Moses Moss!"
"Yoa won't send it book, 'Cindy?"
"I I why, Moses Mossl"
"You won't dear?"
"Oh, mercy!"
"Say you won't"
"Well, I I won't -there."
"Oh, 'Cindy, I've wanted for months
and months to say what that poetry
verse said, but I ain't dared to say it
myself. I am lonely, and you must
be, too, 'Cindy. You'll say 'yes' to
that verse, won't you, 'Cindy?"
"I I let me think. Oh, there
comes old Mrs. Duke into tho office.
Lot go my hands. She'll tell it all
over town before sunset, if she saw
yon holding my hands. I must go. I
must go. "
She jerked her hands away; and
Moses called out after her :
"If it's 'yes,' 'Cindy, when I go by
to supper, you be settin' by your
front winder, with that red ribbon bow
in your hair, that you had on to the
church social last night. Please,
Cindy."
Sho made no reply, but hurried out
with orimson cheeks and shining eyes.
At five o'clock that evening Miss
Dyke's nearest neighbor, Mrs. Price,
came home from a walk to the village
store and said to her daughter, Martha :
"'Cindy Dyke seems mighty happy
to-night. Sho was soreechin' out a
silly love song when I came by her
house a minute ago, and she came to
the door as I passed, and she had on
her brown Bilk dress and best white
apron and a red ribbon bow in her
hair,"
"Maybe somebody sent her a valen
tine," said Martha, with a little titter
ing laugh, never dreaming that she
had guessed aright. New York Led
ger. A Crew of Deaf Mutes.
The schooner Mary and Belle is
probably the only vessel in the world
that is manned by a crew that is deaf
and dumb. The schooner is not a
large vessel by any means, being
about seventy feet long, but she is a
neat-looking craft and her decks, spar
and rigging look in much better con
dition than those of many other ves
sels whose crews can speak the lan
guage to the Queen's taste, says the
Providence (it. 1.) Journal. The cap
tain of this craft, George Bennett, is a
most intelligent-looking man, ap
parently fifty years old. He is alive
to all that is going on around him and
seems toenjoy his silent and speechless
life.
The "crew," Charlie Malone, is also
deaf and dumb. These two duaf and
dumb men manage the stanch schooner
Mary and Belle admirably. They are
always on the lookout and sleep with
one eye open, as good sailors always
should. When they are caught in
heavy squalls tbe Captain ranuot
shriek out his commands, but simply
attracts his man's attention by a
wliistlo and tben tells bim what be
wants by signs, while he sticks to tho
wheel.
The First Methodist Church.
The 128th anniversary of the Meth
odist Church in America has recently
been oelebrated. Tbe first Methodist
church in this couutry was organized
in a sail loft at 120 William street,
Now York. When the congrogatiou
bud outgrown its quarters the edifice
in John street was built. In 1818,
when the church was erected, there
wero 400 members of that denomiua
tiou iu America ; now there are more
than 5,000,000. Some of the old relics
owned by the present congregation are
tne origiual pulpit chair, the altar
railing of tho Williuxi street churcb,
tbe subscription book, which ooutaius
the "iims given by tho charter mem
bers aud entered in their own band-
w riting, and other interesting articles.
New Orleans Picayune.
Dr. Lnrkwnod'ji Curious Experiments.
A ffurious series of experiment on
tbe hereditary transmission of mutila
tions has been made by Dr. C. (1.
Lockwood. By tho iu-aud-in breed
ing of white mice for niuety-uit gene
rations be obtained a larger aud tiuer
animal thnu tbe origiual pair. Iu or
der to breed their ttf.ls off, be selected
u pair, aud, puttiug tUoiu iu a cuu;c by
themselves aud clipping their tails, be
got a breed of tuilltvis mice iu thy
seventh generation. Then, by tnkin,'
oue with a tail and on s without a tail,
uud alternating the sexes iu each fen
eration, ho linaliy h'aiu got u breed
of all-tail mice. New York A Iver-tutr.
THE WORLD'S SEA POWER,
WITH OUE NEW NAVY WE RANK
FIFTH.
Modern Shipbuilding; a Itecent Art In
America The Strength ol Kuro
pean Nations.
1 HE navy now contains thirty-
' I one modern high-class war-
Jt ships in active service, and
fourteen more soon to be put
in commission, together with thirteen
iron and wooden steam vessels manned
and armed, elcveu steel, iron and
wooden steam tugs, thirteen single
turret monitors and twenty-five ob
solete steam and sailing vessels used
for various pnrpo3ea. The number of
sailors in the United States Navy is
about 9000. Of tbe new war ships iu
terviee, eighteen are steel armored or
protected cruisers, seven sre steel
gunboats, four are steel coast defense
monitors and two are steel torpedo
boats. Of the other new war ships
well advanced in building or almost
completed, five aro steel battle ships,
three are steel cruisers, threo are steel
gunboats, two aro steel coast defenso
monitors and one is a steel ram.
Three more torpedo boats, authorized
at the last session of Congress, are
soon to be built, raising the total
nnmber of vessels of tho new navy in
eight to forty-eight. Of tho ships
now finishing, the three sister coast
line battle ships Massachusetts, Indi
ana and Oregon are nearly ready for
commission, as well as the leaser battle
ship Texas, the cruisers Maine and
Olympia, the monitors Puritan and
Monadnock and tbo ram Katahdin.
The greatest of all, tbo mammoth sea
going battlo ship Iowa, the crniser
Brooklyn, and gunboats Nos. 7, 8 and
9, now building at Newport News,
Vo,, will not be completed for a con
siderable time. The others havo been
delayed chiefly through lack of prompt
deliveries of armor plates.
In point of real effectiveness auJ
practical naval power our new nav
stands fifth in the list of Nations-
Great Britain being first in rank.
France second, Bussia third and Italy
fourth, with Germany and Spain be
hind us. Our great progress since the:
beginning of tho new navy in 1883
has been achieved not so much in tha
mere number of our ships as by their
greater power and efficiency in speed,
excellence of design 'and construction,
quality of armor, penetration of guns
and variety of types. The first ves
sels were begun in 1884. They were
the cruisers Chicago, Boston aud At
lanta, and tho gunboat Dolphin, now
used as a dispatch boat. At that time
modern shipbuilding was an unknown
art in America. No modern war ship
had ever been constructed in the Uni
ted States, and no armor plant had
ever been established, nor had any
groat naval guns been fabricated. But
plants were rapidly reared, and to
day we havo some of the best ship
yards, armor plants and gon factories
that can be fouud anywhere. Thero
is not one of our new war ships that
will not compare favorably with tho
best vessels of her type in other couu
tries during tho some period. Ono
fact of which Americans enn fuel especi
ally proud is that every part of our
new ships and all the materials that
have gone into them are exclusively
of home production and manufacture.
The principal Nations of the world
are computed to have 2201 war ships,
manned by 237,000 men and mount
ing 8383 guns of heavy calibre. The
average cost of maintenance per mau
in the American Navy is 81500, in tho
British Navy it is $1021.
Great Britain, the foremost naval
power, has in commission and in re
serve 34 battlo sbipp, 17 coast defense
ships, 100 cruisers, and 118 other ships
not torpedo boats, or a total of 275.
In addition sho is now buildiug and
completing for sea service I) battle
ships, iy cruisers and 22 other ships.
Fiance has in commission aud re
serve 24 battle ships, 8 coast defense
ships, 43 cruisers and 112 other ships
not torpedo, boats, or a total of 187.
Then sho htiB in process of buildiug
and completion 8 buttle ships, 2
coast defeuoe ships, 19 cruisers and 5
other ships.
Guruiauy has iu commission aud re
serve 14 battle ships, 0 coast defense
ships, 31 cruisers, aud 21 other skips,
besides 7 buttle ships, 3 cruisers and
one other ship in course of construc
tion. Bussia has 12) war ships, princi
pally small ones, aud Italy hu 93.
Including torpedo boats, the total
number of effective war ships of all
classes owned by the principal uavul
powers of Europe is tttated to be:
(Iroat BriUia, 723; Frauce, 707;
Bussia, 380 ; Italy, 35 1, uud Ger
many, 227. New York Recorder,
Tha .Alan Who Picks Lock.
In tbe lowest spheres of life the
force of inventive faculty may be de
tected. The burglar himself as a me
chanical genius may be u rival of na
ture. Au houest genius of an iuveu
tive kiud invents a lock ; straightway
another inventive geuius of a dishou
est kiud picks tbut lock. A man, not
a burglar, but a professed lockpickor,
picked a subtle lock of a bureau for
urn because I bad lost tho key. Tbo
science tho man showed, the resource,
the ingenuity, iormed a study, uud his
efforts were soou crowned with suc
cess. I wus struck by tbe skill the
man displayed, but still more by the
philosophy. "They call tbe muu wbo
invented that there lock, sir, a gen
tleman, uud they say hu'tf mule a tre
mendous fortune by it ; but they gives
no credit to them an lias learned to
pick it, not a bit of it! Not they!
And somo of them us cuu pick it they
culls burglars and gives 'iu years ol
bard labor, though they wus just ui
clever as tbe lucky uu who set the
thing a-goiug."---New York Advertiser.
SCIEXTiriC AD 1SDUSTRIAL.
Garbage is cremated in fifty-five
English towns.
Chicago's death' rate for tho year
1894 was only 15.1 per 1000.
Soap bnbbles are round because every
part of their surface is equally pressed
by the atmosphere.
A colony of medusae has been com
pared to a collection of muslin sun
bonnets floating right side up in the
water.
Over one-half of the sand of every
shore is composed of minute ehclle,
each of which was once the home of a
living creature.
Timbers have been removed from
immense swamps, where horses could
not penetrate, by building an elevated
trolley through tho tree tops.
The Pasteur Institute will hereafter
obtain its serum for the treatment of
diphtheria from horses condemned as
no longer fit for the French cavalry
service.
The action of coffee on the body is
mainly duo to a certain acid and oily
properties contained in the berries,
and greatly developed in the roasting
process.
The Japanese University has the
most delicate series of instruments in
the world for measuring earthquake
shocks and plenty of material to use
them on.
The giant of all the telescopes of
the world, the great Yerkes instru
ment for the University of Chicago,
will soon bo scanning the heavens with
its immense cyclopean eye.
The scintillation of stars, according
to a new theory suggested by S. E.
Christian, is largely due to the con
stant passage between tho earth and
the stars of small moteorio bodies,
which are now believed to be drifting
in space in the immense numbers
necessary to produoo this effect.
"Cancer is contagious," declared
Dr. Guelliot, of Bheim, to the con
gress of French surgeons held recently
at Lyons, France. "The transmission
may be direct from tho body, but it is
effected more frequently through wear
ing apparel or tabla utensils ; in two
cases it was through a tobacco pipe."
The ling has been found in the Col
umbia River, which Professor Eigen
niann finds to present no specifio dif
ferences from those of Lake Michigan.
The fish is found in all three of the
great water basins of the Atlantic Slopo
the Saskatchewan, St. Lawrence and
Mississippi and its distribution is
now extended to tho Paoifio Slope.
It is estimated by Professor Dolbear
that a lump of coal weighing a pound
has in it energy enough to lift its
weight 1000 miles high. He says that
this energy is inherent in matter that
every particle of matter is constantly
exerting its force on every other par
ticle, and that if not prevented they
will come together no matter how far
apart they may be.
Some curious balls of hair, rolled
up by the action of the waves, have
been collected by M. Forel on tho
beach of tho Gulf of Morgos, near
some great tanneries. Iu some places
they wero numerous enough to form n
continuous stratum uudor the ground,
and it is suggested that in time they
might form very puzzling fossils for
future geologists.
Signs ot a Wet Year,
P. Y. Baker, of Traver, made a trip
to Fanoche grade last week, and on his
return told of some woather signs
pointed out to him by an old Mexican
of that section. The Mexican showed
him a number of tarantula nests that
were built in an unusual manner.
The tarantula digs or appropriates
a hole six or eight inches deep and
nearly an inch in diameter. He then
makes a cement wall from bottom to
top of the hole and about a sixteenth
of an inoh thick. On the top he fits a
lid so nicely that when it is closed the
nest is impervious to the elements.
His spidorahip raises and lowers the
roof of bis mansion by meaud of a fiber
hinge, which ho bus deftly placed on
one side.
The walls are always built up half an
inch above the ground, but the pecu
liarity about them this yeur is that they
are built up four or five iuches above
the surface of tho ground on which
they are located.
This is one of the many instances
that have been observed iu which ani
mals havo beeu prompted by instinct
to protect themselves against incle
ment weather, aud it is regarded as an
unfailing sign of a very wet season.
Selma (Cal.) Irrigator.
A Famous Tonu Fair.
Lancaster, Penn., is one of the
few American towus with tho tradition
of an annual local fair. It is a loui;
time since the fuir was held, but it
flourished onco so that it was tho event
of tho year. The principal street of
the little city was utmost hidden iu
booths aud tables, and every sort of
merchandise wus sold, from ginger
bread to rich silks. Couutry lads
saved their pennies tho whole year t
have money for the fuir, uud ou fuir
day every lad bought somothiug
pretty for his lass. Lancaster wus
then iu many esscutiuls a Gcrmuu
village. New York Sun.
A Street-Car Pulled by a Thread.
A s'.reet-cur fitted with bull-beuriiigs
was druwu a distance of Koverul hun
dred foot by men pulling ou threo
strands of ordiuary sowiug thread iu a
recent experiment iu Cuuuda. A car
riage manufacturer put another btyle
of ball-bearings ou the uxles of n
coach ordinarily pulled by four
horses. A trained dog was hitched to
the pole uud be drew the coach around
the yurd with littlo effort. Tho com
biuutiou of pneumatic tires an. I ball
bearings would relieve much of tho
strain now put ou horses. American
Agriculturist.
HEART-COIN.
One day I gnve my heart's best dower
To one whose tears were flowing,
My sympithy In thnt dark hour
Her poor, grieved henrt was knowlns.
To ma she gav a rose, to-day.
From oat her Iovb and sorrow
'TIs ever thus along life's way,
We lend, or elso wa borrow.
Did w rt . Diber "love or hate
Thol.k loin will render,"
Mnyb, sometime, bofore too late,
Our words weald be more tender f
M.irgnret May, In New York Observer.
Ill'Mim OF THE DAY.
A man vh is crooked usually fol
lows his own bent.
You can usually tell an ass by hid
lack of horsfc-seuse. Puck.
Miss Elderly "I fainted last night."
Maude "Who proposed?" Life.
A man would be snrpiisedif hewers
what a woman thiuks he is. Detroit
Free Press.
She "And what would yon be now
if it weren't for my money?" He
"A bachelor." rail Mall Budget.
Elsie "She says s.e i twenty
two." Ethel "Then s'lio must have
deducted her timo allowance. " Puck.
Let a piny house bo built
Which no others may usi
Thnn tha girls with big hats
And the mon with big shoes.
Washington Star.
ne "Darling, will yon love me
when I'm gone?" She "Yes, if you
aro not toj far gone." Londcn Tid
Bits. Miss Olds "Xcs ; he said yesterday
that to him my faco was like a book."
Miss Frend ".'a plain as that?"--Pnck.
'
The first setback in many n man's
life occurred at school when ho waa
setback among thti girls. Rockland
(Mo.) Tribune.
"But what earthly rtso is it to ti.i
cover tho North Toie? I can't Bee. '
"It will save future expeditions."
Harper's Bazar.
"How can there bo suoa a thing
a whole day, yen kuow," mused
Fwcddy, "when it bwoaks evewy
ruawniug?" Chicago Tribune.
"You'll please look over this small bill."
Exclaimed tho duu. Tue debtor took it
And tben said he, with weary sinlle,
"I'd rather overlook it."
Philadelphia Beeord.
Pertly "There is one thing I have
to say in favor of the wind when il
whistles." Dullhead "What's, thai?"
Pertly "It never whistles populai
airs." Harper's Bazar.
No matter how good tho doacon is,
he will always look wise and pleased
if anybody suggosts that he was a
pretty lively young fellow when ha
was a boy. Somerville Journal.
'I thought you told me that Mis;
Brown had spent a groat deal of mouej
on her voice?" "Well, so I did."
"But she can't sing." "Well, Ididn'i
say that sho oonld, did I?" Truth.
Littlo Kich Girl "Don't you wish
you had a pair of lovely red glovei
like mo?" Littlo Poor Girl "Don't
you wish you had a pair of lovely ioi
hands, like mo?" South Boston News,
Bronsou "Havo tho detectives
found out anything about that burg
lary yet?" Johnson "Yes j they've
oome to tho conclusion that the mo
tive for the crime was money." Bos
ton Herald.
There is a woman in Goorgia weigh
ing COO pounds who makes moonshine
whisky. Hasn't a woman who weight
600 pounds got trouble enough of hei
own without making it for other
people? Rockland (Mo.) Tribune.
She (at the dinner) "I think our
hostess is the most perfect lady I ever
saw." He "Yes, but I notice that
she made one break early in tho even
ing." She "Sho always does that.
It puts her guests more at thoirease. "
Now York Herald.
Rambling Raggsy "Will yer pleaso
givo me a dime, 6ir, to get sumthin'
to ent?" Citizen "What can yoa gel
for a dime?" U. It. "I kin get a
plate of hush for a nickel, sir." C.
"What do you want with the othor five
cants?" It. It. "That, air, is fur a tip
fur tho waiter." New York Press.
Sir Goorge "Look here, Johu ! My
lady complains that when you see boi
in tho street you never salute her.
What do you uiten by it?" Johu
"Boggin your pardin. Sir George, but
iu a book on ettyketty which I pos
seSH it ic set down thnt tho lady ought
to bow first." Household Words.
Tbo neighbor who borrows yout
wheelbarrow aud rube aud spriuklinjj
hr.so aud lawn-mower and one thiuj;
and another iu tho summer never
comes to borrow your suow shovel iu
the winter. Aud when ho shovels oil
his own walk it is touching to note
with what exactness ho works np to
the line where your lots divide, with
out infringing the smallest fraction of
uu inch upon tho snow that lies on yout
part of tho sidewalk. Kocklaud (Me.)
Tribune.
'J ho Tumi's (Jitwr Way.
Paternal nlVection is uot perhaps tbe
precise emotiou thut wo should be dis
posed to look for iu tbo cold-blooded
frog. But the Surinam toad tif which
no fewer thuj ten specimens have just
arrived at the Zoo -appear to oxhibit
this pruisewoi thy uUitudo of luin.l to
ward his Humorous progeny. When
his mate lays hor egs tho solicitor
father places them carcdill) upon her
book, where in duo time thoir pret
ence causes un irritation that pro. bice
Humorous small holes, into which the
eggs forthwith drop, la tbefo cells,
which, from mutual pressure, gets to
be hexjgomt), Itku honeycomb, Ihx
young frogs are finally batohod, aud
lor a bit scramble u'j.mt their moth
er's back, hiding in their nurseries
when, danger threatens. London
News,