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But one per cont. of tlio ontire pop
ulation of this country hos boon d
orced.
A Minnesota judge hos just ruled
'tint a husband is responsible foi
slanders utter oil by bis wife.
The nineteenth century will bo end
ed with the end of the your 1000, and
Jot at its beginning, as a great many
pOOplo Suppose,
Tho year 1804 in tho United Statci
closed with 0800 murders to its dobit.
"Thero are not 300 mnrdorers on trial
ii. this country nt present," signifi
cantly remarks tho Detroit Freo Press.
Lord Coleridge and others havo
formally protested ngaiust the use of
ftp.ti-toxine in EngliHh hospitals on
tho ground that "publio inonoy ought
not to bo devoted to experiments in
physiology." .
A Texas judge has declared the anti
scalper law unconstitutional. He says
that when a railroad oompany sells a
ticket it presumably gets all it is
worth, and that a scalper has the same
right that acalcrs in other second
hand articles have.
W. H. Harvey and his wife, Mrs. L.
M. Harvey, of rullman, 111., have
been admitted to the bar of Whitman
County. Tho New York Sun shudders
to think of what would happen if they
happened to be retained on opposite
sides in the same case.
It may bo fairly questioned, admits
the New York Recorder, whether the
army and navy of Japan are not now
equal to those of several of the Euro
pean powers, and whethor tho new Na
tion on the Paeiflo isn't in a command
ing position for future diplomatio vio
tories.
The Meade County (Kentucky) Mos
eenger complains that there are many
prominent farmers in that county who
take no interest in politics. "Men
who own hundreds of acres of land
and who are rated high in their com
in unities," says the Messengor, "oan-
not tell you who are the probable oan
didatea on the State ticket."
The number of desertions in tho
French army increases constantly. In
single week lately no fewer than five
deserters arrived at Strasburg alone ;
while at the present time some six
hundred French deserters live in Alsace-Lorraine.
Abont the same num
ber have taken up their residence in
Belgium; and Switzerland boasts a
still larger contingent.
It will be romembered how the tor
pedo boat, the Gushing, Bneaked into
Now port harbor in spite of the foot
that a sharp lookout was kept for her
ashore with the ri istanoe of big
earoh-Iighta, The value of these lit
tle destroyers is shown to the New
York Sun in despatches from the seat
of war in China. The destruction of
the biggest ironolads in the Chinese
navy seems to have been the result of
audacious and successful dashes by
these tiny craft. They oan finish any
thing afloat so long as they are not
found out in time.
Tho fish supply in Lake Ontario is
substantially exhausted, and the Chi
cago Herald annonnoes that the sup
ply in Lake Erie is going rapidly.
Fishermen have caused the fish famine
by selling for fertilizing purposes the
small fish caught in the nets with
those of eatable size. The Ohio Leg
islature is trying to devise a law for
fish protection in Lake Erie, bnt such
legislation praotioally would be use
less unless similar laws were enacted
by other States bordering on the lake,
and by Ontario. The magnificent
fish preserves of the United States are
not exhaustless, and, unless care is
taken for their perpetuation the finny
tribes iu publio waters will follow the
fate of the buffalo.
An attraotive feature of the Cotton
States and International Exposition,
to be held at Atlanta, Go., next Sep
tember, will be the reprod notion of
the World's Columbiau Expobition in
miniature by Q. W. Ferris, the builder
of the Ferris wheeL The great World's
Fair will be reproduced in its en
tirety, complete in ovtry detail, on a
scale of 1-lAOth. This makes the
Manufactures and Liberal Arts Build
ing about ten feet long, and the whole
exposition seventy-live feet long.
Searchlights will be shown on the
battleship and the various buildings,
the intramural railway will be seen
with cars in motion, the whaleback
steamer will be seen arriving and do
parting, aud Lake Michigan will ap
pear in the distance. By electrical
aud mechanical effects, sunrise, day
light, moourise and tho White City by
moonlight will appear in succession.
YOU NEVER CAN TELL,
You onn never toll when you send a word--
I.lko an arrow shot from a bow
By an archer blind be It cruel or kind,
Just where It will chance to ro.
It may plerco the breast of your dearest
friend,
Tipped with Its poison or balm;
To a stranger's heart In life's great mart
It may carry Its pain or Its calm.
You never can tell when you do an act
Just what the result will lie;
But with overy doed you are sowing a sood,
Though Its harvest you may not see.
Each kindly ant Is an acorn dropped
In God's productive soil;
Though you mny not know, yet tho treo shall
grow
And shelter tho brows that toil.
You novor eon tell what your thoughts will
do
In bringing you bate or lovo;
For thoughts are things, and (heir airy
wings
Are swifter than carrier doves.
They follow the law of the univorso
Each thing must create Its kind;
And they speed o'er tho track to bring you
back
Whatever went out from your mind.
Ella Whoelor Wilcox, In Munsey.
HE DREW TEN THOUSAND.
T 3.45 on the af
ternoon of March
0, 1887, the pay
ing cashier of tho
bank, in the
city of London,
cashed a check
for $10,000,
drawn by the
highly respeoted
firm of Ployd,
Gow & Co., ol
Fenchurch street,
merchants. It was presented by the
manager of the firm.
At 3.55 the manager of Ployd, Gow
k Co. handed in his books and cheoks
amounting to $20,000. Tne paying
cashier looked up as he heard his
voico. '
lie oalled some one to take his
place and disappeared into tho sec
retary's room, and within twelve min
utes tho police were at work on tho
case.
The chock prosented at 3.45 was a
forgery aud the man who presented
it some "bummy," who had made
himself up like Mr. Smith of Ployd,
Gow 4 Co. 's.
This was not a difficult task. The
oouuterfeit man was the same height
ns the original and about the same
make. Smith had not spoken 100
words to tlio oasbier during the five
years his firm had dealt with the
bauk. ;
He always wore a blue serge office
coat whatever the weather. He al
ways wore a silk top hat, and it invar
iably worked its way to tne baok of
his head boforo he had worn it three
minutes.
No oue over saw him at the bank
without his gold-rimmed eyeglasses
and his tightly rolled umbrella.
Smith had a friendly nod for the
patrons he knew in a business way,
but he seldom spoke a single word to
any one.
Oflloers were tont to overy railway
terminus; they searched the hotels
aud very likely place for a man to try
to change his clothes. If the fellow
had not some safe hiding plaoe se
lected in advance the chances were
more than ten to one against his mak
ing an escape. '
In room 5 of Cremane's private and
oommeroial hotel, whieh I will admit
was not a Urst-olass establishment, but
still good enough for a traveler earn
ing $20 a week, I read most of the
particulars given above in the even
ing paper. The officials had done
their best to keep the wholo affair
d irk nutil some due was gained, but
the roporters had been too many for
tbem.
I had como in from my round of
calls utterly tired out. Beaching my
room, I pulled off my boots, lighted a
pipe, sat down with my foot on the
bed, aud this bank businoss was the
first thiug which which caught my eye
as 1 glunoed over the paper. I had
just finished the article when tho night
porter came up.
"Heard about the bank swindle?"
he asked, as he entered my room,
without the preliminary trouble of
tapping.
"Just read it."
"Cool chap, wasn't he? And, I
say, there are a couple of detectives
downstairs now. They say they've
shadowed him here, aud they're go
ing to search the whole place. They
are on the floor below now, und will
want to come in here in a minute."
He had uoarcely finished speaking
when the men appeared. I was a head
shorter than Ployd's manager. I was
thin, while he was stout, and I was
young, while he was middle aged.
But those old sleuthhounda came in
on tiptoe, looked at me out of the cor
ners of their eyes, and sat down on
the edge of my two chairs to question
me, the bigger of the two taking the
precaution to place his seat between
me and the door. It was fully a quar
ter of an hour before they had fin
ished, and then they seemed to take it
as a personal injury that I hadn't com
mitted the crime.
Bufore my visitors left one of them
suggested with a wink to hia comrade
that I might as well bo taken along on
generul principles, as there was no
telling what I would not own up to af
ter a week iu prison. But the other
was not so evil minded.
In fact, he took a fatherly interest
in my welware and put his hand upon
my shoulder pleasantly and oompus
biouately as be advised me it would be
better to restore the money while
there was yet time. I refused to dis
gorge, and he went out sorrowing,
buying that I had missed a golden op
portunity and thut I should like to re
pent and wear a convict's suit.
m
Tho hotel was thoroughly searched.
Those men did their duty ; and I think
would hove carried off every soul
within the place as a suspioious char
acter had not the manager interfered,
and the detectives finally withdrew,'
with at leant two pocketbooks crammed
with notes.
At 10 o'clock I was finishing my
third pipe and had long before ex
changed my paper for a novel. I was
Just getting sleepy when a queer thing
happened.
My bed was in ono corner of the
room. I sat on a chair on thejeft
hand side, with my foet across the
middle. I had my book on a line
with my eyes, and all had been quiet
for the last half hour, when suddenly
a voico exclniinod ; , '
"Well, old man, thut must bo an in
teresting yarn. "
I bounded to my foet aud saw no
one. I looked around tho room care
fully, peering into overy corner no
one. I slipped toward the door on
tiptoe and opened it with a jerk and
saw no ono.
Then I turned, and there wan a man
standing on the other side of my bed.
He wasn't a ghoKt. He was made of
blood, flesh aud bones like myself.
To Bay I was frightened is putting
it mildly. I was scared. I sank right
into a chair, with my mouth open and
my eyes bulging out, until my visitor
laughed outright.
"Who are you?" I gasped, faintly.
"Well, that's a fair question," he
replied. "I suppose you've got a
right to ask. For the last three
hours, up to a minute ago, I was the
man under tho bed, and now I'm the
man on tho bed," and Euiting the no
tion to word he lay himself out at full
length.
He was a cool hand. I knew human
nature well onough to know he had
plenty of nerve behind his check.
"It wasn't all put on. As he lay
thero I noticed a revolver in his hand.
Then I began to understand.
Tho evening paper bad given a por
trait of Smith, and I saw this was his
double. It dawned on me all of a
sudden that he was the identical
chap.
"You were under the bed when I
came in?" I queriod, as we sat looking
at each other, and I was wondering
how to reach the bell.
"Exactly," he replied.
"And you heard1 what the porter
said and the detectives?" '
"Every word."
"And, to come to the point, you're
the man they want."
"I am."
"How the dickens did yon get
here?"
"I didn't chooso this abode for its
comfort," he said, "nor for its oom
pany. I had other plans, in faot. But
they miscarried. I dodged into this
hotel in search of a temporary asylum,
and it looks as I had found a lunatio
asylum. Did you ever see $10,000 in
one pile? It's a refreshing eight.
See here."
He watched me with pioroing eyes,
and though lie was toying with his re
volver carelessly enough I saw he had
his finger on the trigger all tho time.
He bent over from tho bed and
picked up a bundle of notes from the
floor.
"This means a visit to the tailor's,
quail on toast with champagne, a long
trip to America cr tho Continent,"
and he fondly patted the money. "So
they've got an aooouut in the papers,
have they? I'd like to read it.
Thanks."
He ckimmed through the article
with evident enjoyment, now and
then chuckling to himself. The he
said :
"Pretty close shave, that. I'm sorry
for the cashier, but suppose he will
wriggle out of tho responsibility
somehow. Excuse my asking the
question, but whut do you do for a
living?"
"I'm a traveler in calicoes."
"Married?"
"No."
"Ever been abroad?"
"No."
"Look here.old chappie, "he went on
with easy familiarity, as he. stretched
himself on the bed, "you're giving
me shelter and I'll do you a turn.
Hand in your resignation and come
with me. It will do you good and,
open your eyes. This little pile will
do us first class for a year'"
'I'll see you bunged first, you
cheeky villaiu," I shouted. "I'm not
making tours with bunk thieves and
jailbirds. Yonr trip will end in pris
on, if it 1'oesu't start there."
"Too peppery, altogether too pep
pery for the head traveler to a respec
table firm," ho quietly observed.
"And do you thiuk I'll be arrested, as
you know so much about it?"
"Certainly. I'm going to take you
down stuirs and haud you over to the
pohoe."
"That's a lie," ho said, as he swung
his feet off the bed and stood up. "I
don't blame you for refusing a trip to
America, but pleaso dou't uiuke an
idot of yourself in other ways."
"How do you mean?" I askod, also
getting up- and trying to keep my.
head.
"Just look at things straight and
you'll see. I'm no chicken. Hsviug
played for a big stuko aud won it, 1
am not likely to let myself bo balked
by a kid like you. I'm armed, as you
see.- loureuot, so Keep your back
huir on. Even without arms I could
do for you, buiu,? the larger of the
two."
"You cold-blooded scoundrel," I
muttered.
"No, don't o all names. It's low,"
he said, pleasantly. "Let's consider
whit is your puth of duty. I've got
the best of the bauk. And how many
people have the bank got tho best of
before? Last year over twenty bunks
closed their doors iu the fuoa of de
positors. Every failure was brought
about by sumo kind of fraud. Aud
don t nutter yourself thut you owe a
duty to the publio. The publio would
lot you starve or freeze ami not movo
a finger. Yon owe a duty to your
self. It is to take change of air. And
now's your chance. Presnrvo tho
present state of your health, that's my
advice, and very good advice, too."
"All of wliich means," I interposed,
"that you will shoot me if I give tho
alarm?" j.
"Precisely."
"Then I shan't do to.'" ;
"I thought as much." !
He climbed again onto the bed and
continued : "I thought I. was right
when I sized you up. Wo have now
come to an understanding. I've got
one or two favors to ask, but I won't
keep you long, and I see you want to
go to bed. Ah, there ore -your scis
sors. I must sacritico toiy mustache.
Please sit over by the window."
He laid his revolver on the dressing
table and cut off his fine chestnut
mustache. . I sot-watching him and
wondered if I had gone out of my
mind, or if, perchance, I was dream
ing." "You shave yourself, don't you?"
he finally asked, as he turned round
and faced me.
I pointed to my razor and strap,
and in barely another moment he
stood before me clean shaven.
He had sandy hair, while his eye
brows were almost red. There was a
bottle of black ink on the tablo. He
dipped bis handkerchief into it and
painted his eyebrows. With the same
fluid he made as neat a block eye as
any prize fighter would care to boast,
and he was chuckling as he turned to
me :
"Just one thing more, old man a
suit of clothes. I must got off this
blue serge. Perhaps it will fit you.
Your oldest suit, please. I will pay
cash for it."
I handed over a much worn suit.
"Bather a tight fit, but it will do,"
he said. "Here's $25 for it."
"I don't want your dirty money," I
said, savagely.
"Don't be finicky, it's silly. Now,
then, to wrap up the money in a news
paper, and then I'm off. Look here,
my boy, take this $500 ; it will make
up for any little inconveniences I have
caused you."
"I'd starve first."
"Oh, come now, you're too good for
this world. What are you going to dp
when I leave the room?"
' "Kick myself, for an ass and then go
to bed Inost likely." ' ,
"Go to bed without the kicking
part. You are a very sensible young
man, you may take my word for it.
If I'm arrested I'll say nothing about
what happened here. Ta, to."
He reached the doorway and then
he turned. "Here's a present for
you," he sang out and threw his re
volver on the bed. "Its no use to me,
I lost my cartridges getting here.
Adieu," and he was gone. -
I locked the' door and sot down.
After a quarter of an hour I slipped
into bed. The next morning I awoke
with a fearful headache. 1 went to
my dressing table, and there, rolled
up in a neat parcel, was the $500.
Did the man get away? Yes; he
walked downstairs and out into the
streets, and the detectives never got a
clew of him after that night.
About the money. I returned it to
the bank by post, and that part of the
business is still worrying the dotoo
tives. I conld tell them a thing or
two, but I won't. Boston Post.
A Wonderful Stone Saw.
A newly devised stone saw that has
been put in operation in West Phila
delphia is demonstrating extraordinary
cutting powers as compared with
former processes. It is the invention
of an expert stone mason and carver.
By tests made with the saw, using a
chilled-iron shot abruder and cutting
through the hardest of all brown
stone, known s the Hummellstawn,
using a block of stono ten feet by six
inches long and two foet two iuches
in thickness, the following results
were attained :
The first cut through was made in
one aud three-quarters hours, the
second, with increased feed, iu one
hour, and the third out, with the full
limit of speed, iu three-quurters of
an hour, which is equul to outti'ng
thirty-three' inches per hour. Four
inches per hour bus been considered
good work in the ordinary mills '-of
tho oountry with other saws.
Thin slabs are also - out, leaving no
ridges on tho face of tho pieoes after
outtiug, although the saw passed
through various veins of flint.
In the improved saw is used a
lineal or horizontal motion, while iu
other saws the pendulum motion has
been depended on. Further, the im
proved has a thinner blade, with
thicker teeth, which ullows the abrad
ing material to full dowu between tho
teeth to the bottom of the kerf.
Philadelphia Ledger. .
He Killed Superstition.
.The Count da Lesseps never seemed
to lose sight of the oduontiou of ' his
ohildreu, even iu tho smallest detail.
One morning at breakfast a beautiful
Dresden teacup was broken. "Ah!"
cried the Countess, "a disuster I Two
more of that set will now be brokou.
It always happens so." "Are you so
superstitious," asked the Count, "ai
really to believe thut two more will be
broken?" "I know it." "Then let
us get it oft' our minds." Aud, taking
up two of the cups by the huudles, he
dashed them together. The auger and
dismay of the Couutess proved con
clusively that she had not beriously
held to lier superstition. It also
looscued uiiy hold the absurd idea
may have hud iru the minds of tho
children. New York Recorder.
Lucky lor Her.
Concealed in caudle moulds thut
had been unused since her grand
mother's time, Mrs. White, of Middle
to wu, Mass., found u quantity of bauk
notes a few duys uo. Now Yur.s
Journal.
THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE.
STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BT THE
FUN.NT MEN OF THE PRESS.
Interested Her Store A Ocnn Sweep
The Safe Iosc Kcpudlated-An
Ignoramus, Ktc, I'.le.
"Now, as to the Coming Woman"
Bhn yawned l"hind her fan:
"Beg pardon, Mr. Luyte, hut how
About the going nuin?"
Ciui'inunti Tribune.
A CLEAN SWEEP.
Depositor "Is tho cashier in?"
Directors "Yes, he's in all that tho
safe held." Judge.
REPUDIATED.
FirBt Tramp "I dunno why they
coll 'em tramp steamers."
Second "No more do I. They'll
go anywhero to git work." Puck.
TUB SAFER DOSE.
"It isn't advisable to swallow every
thing a doctor says'
.''"No; but it's much i
safer than swal
lowing everything ho prescribes."
life.
INSUPERABLE DRAWBACK.
Cumso "A good sewing machine
is- said to do tho work of twelvo wo
men. Do yoa believe that, Cawker?"
.Cawker "No; it can't talk."
Pnok.
AS IGNOKAMCS.
'She "Do you known anything
about the vanity of women?"
He "Not a thing. You know tho
infinite is beyond human knowledge.''
Detroit Free Press.
; NEVER SETTLED.
'"What have you two thermometers
in your room for?"
"The doctor said 1 must have mora
exorcise."
"What has that to with it?"
yI am on my feet continually see
ing if the theremometers agree."
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
AN ASPERSION ON HIS SPELLING.
.'"How does Blufkins manage to get
along so well in the world?" asked tho
critical acquaintance.
"He minds his p's and q't."
."Well, I didn't observe particularly
on that score. I suppose p's und q's
are his speoialty, for iu a letter I got
from him he certainly played smash
with the rest of the alphabet." Wash
ington Star.
i THERE'S SOMETHING IN NAMES.
Publisher "Fine number this
week, isn't it? All big names every
contributor famous 1"
Subscriber "But it struck me as
being one of the stupidest issues of
the year. "
Publisher "Great heavens, man I
what do you expect? We give you
fame this month next month we'll
havo something really interesting. "
Judge.
,; EXPERT ON CHEESE.
Tho French are a witty raco, bnt
French servant aro reported the
stupidest in the world. It is of a per
son of that race that this story is told.
Justine was reproved by her mis
tress for bringing homo lobsters that
were not fresh.
'You must positively not get any
lobsters, Justine," said her mistress,
"unless they are alive."
The servant took the injunction
deeply into her consciousness. A few
days afterward her mistress sont her
to get some cheeso.
''Is this fresh cheeso, Justiue?"
asked the mistress.
"Oh, yes, madam," answered the
servant. "I took pains to see that it
was1 alive." Philadelphia Inquirer.
A IIOR1UULE FATE.
Long ejio stood at tho window aud
mused. The rays of the setting suu
entangled themselves in her Titian
hair, or surrounded her glorious
height of five feet eight with uu aure
ate hilo. Proud, queenly, limbed
like a goddess, she was indeed u mag
nificent specimen of femininity.
"Strange," she muttered. And then
a soft, self-pitying, half-happy smile
flitted across her face like a gleam of
April sunshine. "Htrauge," she mut
tered again, "to thiuk thut I, who
only six short mouths ao was the
quarterback of the Eiuuuciputed
Maidens' Footbull Eleven, should have
lost my heart to a muu whose collar is
a size and a half smaller than mine.
But such is fate. Aud I love him !"
Carelessly picking up a forty-pound
dumbbell she tossed it out of the win
dow and then sought her boudoir.
The Amusing Journal.
ENUMERATING THEM.
Mrs. Crewe Doyle reached her own
homo the other afternoon just as Mrs.
Knickerboek was about to riug the
door boll. Mrs. Doyle had been pin
iug for a coll from Mrs. Knickerboek,
and was extremely anxious to make a
good impression upon her now she hud
her.
When the servant had let in her
mistress und her mistress's culler, Mrs.
Doyle said :
"Were there any cullers while I wus
out, KulherineV"
"Yes, mum," replied the faithful
servant.
"Where are their curds?"
"They didn't lave curds, mum. They
left bills, and tho butcher especially
was very anxious to have his "
"That will do, uow,"suid Mrs. Crowo
Doyle, and she took her culler into
the purlor and tried to enuo her iu
conversation, but Mrs. Kuickcrock
could only stay a minute, for elm hud
ever so many calls to muko. Phila
delphia Life.
SCIENTIFIC AM INDUSTRIAL.
The average annual amount of dew
in England is equal to five inches of
rain.
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad pos
Fenger trains are lighted sololy with
electricity.
A number of Western water powers
transmit electric power from fifteen to
thirty miles.
It is probable that Tampa and Port
Tampa, Flo., will be connected by an
eloctrio railway.
In Franco tho population averagos
about 137 to tho square mile. In this
oountry the average is twonty-one to
the square mile.
A recent survey has established the
number of glaciers in tho Alps at 1165,
of which 21'.) have a length of more
than four and three-quarter miles.
The cold of Canada seems to dimin
ish with an increase of population.
Between 1828 and 1837 Hudson's Bay
was closod an Averago of 181 days
every year; now tho ice last 170
days.
The deepest ice ever found lies at
depth of 116 metres under a great foi
est between the Ural Mountains and
the Sea of Ochotsk. A well was driven
and the ground was found to be froaeu
stiff at that depth.
It is stated that Dr. Frolich, of Ber
lin, has discovered a method of ob
taining nitrio acid from the free nitro
gen of the air, and will soon make it
public. It is understood to be an elec
tric prooess, based on the action of
ozone.
, A French railway has arranged its
V telegraph lines so that at a given sig
nal the wires are switched from the
telegraphio instruments to telephones,
thus enabling tho operators either to
talk or to communicate by the tele
graphio code at will.
An English chemist named Arm
strong asserts it as his belief that no
chemical action ever takos place ex
cept in the presence of some substance
capable of being decomposed by eleo
trioity, and that, therefore, all chem
ical phenomena are electric.
Owing to repressive measures by
the County Council, glanders declined
at the rate of sixty per oent. in Lon
don lost year. Owners of horses and
stablemen have been warned that the
disease may be easily oommunioated
to man and is almost always fatal.
Ground mustard, mixed with a little
water, is an excellent agent for cleans
ing the hands after handling disagree
able or strongly odorous substances
such as cod liver oil, musk, valerianic
acid, and its salts. Scale pans and
vessels may also be readily freed from
odor by the same method.
Captain W. J. L. Wharton writes
that ocean storms originate chiefly in
regions where warm and cold currents
meet. One of these regions is south
of Newfoundland, where the Gulf
Stream meets the Arctio Current. An
other is south of the Cape of Good
Hope, where the Tropio and Antartio
Currents meet.
Damage Done by Ono Shell.
What a single shell can do ono
modern projectilo flying true to its
mark was manifested at the battle
betweon the Chinese and Japanese
fleets off tho Yalu River in September.
Ono Canet shell weighing nearly 1000
pounds, of the Holtzer make, struck
the Chinese battle ship Ping Yuen,
crushing through the after part of tho
armored deck, toaring a vast hole,
through which the water poured in
such volumes that the vessel went
down, carrying most of her officers
and crew with her. - The oost of such
a shell is somewhere between $500 and
$1000, but the oost of a battle ship is
from $3,000,000 up. Such evidence
of the power of a'singlo shot goes far to
support Admiral Furagut's belief that
in tho race between projeotile and
pluto the former was bound to win,
aud the result would bo that armor
would come off ships as it oame off
men, and for the same reason, that
ceasing to be a protection it beoame
a burden. London Engineering.
Odd Preferences iu Flows.
Manager Frank M. Whitney, of the
New Custlo Plow Works, makes a curi
ous assertion. He says: "Plows are
made differently for cortain counties
aud States. The tendency of a son is
to use tne same kind of a plow used
by his father. In Lawrence Cou nty
the uso of the loft-hnuded plow is
almost tne rule, but in Mercer County
the right-haud plow is used, aud this
unacoountable difference in the kind
of plow used extends to other States
in the Uuion. In central aud eastern
Pennsylvania the left-handed plow is
used, and wherever the Amish Ger
man farmers huve emigrated from this
county the sous are almost sure to use
the left-handed plows. We would
never dream of sending a loft-hauded
plow to Michigan, neither would we
to Ohio. Among Gorman people only
left-handed plows are used, while the
reverse is the case with people from
Mexico and Italy. 1 cuuuot tell why
this is so, but it is." Pittsburg Dis
patch. Rapid Speed Photographs.
Professor O. V. Boys says that to
take photographs of a bullet ai it is
being projected through the air at a
maximum possible speed it is neces
sary to huve recourse to a method of
illumination infinitely more rapid thuu
that giveu by an eleetrio spark. For
this purpose a steel mirror, so mount
ed as to revolve at the enormous speed
of 10IJD tunes per second, is used.
This mirror is not larger thuu a silver
tweuty-livu-ceut piece, uud the beuius
of light giveu oil from it puss across
the boreeu at such uu unthinkable rato
of speed thu,t , it enables the pho
tographers to take pictures of the bul
let ou exposure of only oue-iuillionth
uf a beooud. St. Louis Republic.
j THE DRAMA OF THE ROSE,
Once I was white as any snow that falls
From the far skies, with storm and sun
light blended;
Until that day when stuud a hero -plea
did
Before the lion in the Ilomnn stalls.
Then, when the beast's l'ud ronring shook
the walls "
And cheer on ehe-r In thunder tones as
cended,
A woman's hand, nil white mid undo ,
fended,
Plucked mo and cast me fr m their coro
naif.
Ho caught me kissed mc held me to hi
heart;
A momentary glitter iu tho air
A roar of voices'. Well he played hlf
part!
And I prono with him, but vigorom
there,
Caught on my petals, scented by the south.
The red ratn dripping from tho Hex's mouth
Frank M. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution
Hl'MOU OF THE DAY.
No man ever traveled to fame on a
pass.
When a man is his own enemy he
can't help winning the fight. Puck.
"There goes an old flame of mine!"
as the sun said when the comet came
into perihelion. Puck.
Dentist "What are the last teeth
that come?" Brilliant Student
'Falso teeth, I guess." Life.
Example is stronger than precept;
but precept is expected to do a gieat
deal of example's work Puck.
His love, he said, was like tho sea.
The mniden answered quick
Sue thought that lie was right in that
Because, it made her sick.
Life.
Of course wo don't know what it ii
to pass a night iu the tomb, but we
havo slept in a spare beilroom. -Atchi
son Globe.
".io Mr. Onedgo is avcrso to music?"
"I should say so. He won't even use
rubber bands in his office." New
York Meroury.
"I see you have a glass cyo, Pat."
"Yes, yer 'anur; but it's a swindle,
sir. I can't see nuthin' out ol it."
New York Mercury.
We often hear men complaining of
their hopes being dissipated, and as a
rule that's just what ails the complain
ant. Richmond Dispatch.
"When will man be able to fly?" in
quires an exchange. JuBt as soon as
he has been a trusted bank cashier
for eight or tea years. Troy Press.
This world would be a hnppy world
And men would all bo brothers.
If people did themselves one-half
That they expect of others.
Boston Courier.
Mr. Smith is an estimable and ami
able but harmless gentleman who
during his lifetime has sturvod his
brains to feed his whiskers. Syracuse
Courier.
Mrs. Bacon "It is terrible down at
your boordiog house. You can nevel
get any hot water." Mr. Bacon
"Ouly wo have soup, my dear."
Statesman.
A clergyman named Fiddle refused
to accept the title of D. D., because,
as he said, he didn't want to be oalled
the Rev. Ichobo Fiddle, D. D." New
York Mercury.
"How could you conscientiously toll
Miss Elder that s'uo is the only woman
you ever loved?" "It is a fact. Com
pared to hor, tho others were mere
girls." Boston Budget.
Bagloy "That pawnbroker bowed
to your wife; does he know her?"
Brace "I presume he feels that he
docs ; he has seen her pioture so often
inside the case of my watch."
Blinks (meditatively) "What a
greedy world this is ; tho great ma
jority of people, always after money."
llardup (sadly) "Yes ; and a long way
after it, too." Buffalo Courier.
"Your new servant girl is very
pious, I hear?" "Yes. If she was as
careful about tho crockery as she is
abont the ten commandments she
would be a jewel." New York Press.
"So Rusher has got a job at lost,
eh? I wonder is it thut oue with the
sleeping cor conipouy?" "I guess
not. At least he told me he'd struck a
comfortable berth." buffalo Courier.
Primus "Dultou'ssight has become
strangely affected, poor fellow. He
seos everything double." Secoudus
"By. Jove I I'm glad you mentioned
it. I owe him a pound, and I'll tender
him this half sov." Tit-Bits.
"Dour mo," said Mr. Meokius, "it
seems so absurd for men to be con
stantly talking ubout their wives
having the lust word. I never object
to my wife having the lust word."
"You don't?" "Not a bit. I always
feel thuukful when she gets to it."
An Irishmun recently applied for an
enlistment in a United States urmy re
cruiting office. "Do you kuow auy
thiug about drilling?" asked the otli
cer. "Oi do," auswered Put. "It's
twelve an' a half cints a yard at anuy
av th' drygoods sutures." -Loudon
Globe.
Kate "I wuut to tell Aunt Susan
about my engagement, but I dou't
know whether I can trust her or not.
I don't wuut it to get out just yet."
Edilh- "Trust her? Of course you
cau't. You kuow she makes no secret
of her ago, and a wuuiau w ho will toll
her age will tell anything. " Boston
Truubcript.
The Reprehensible Small Itoy.
There are some smart boys iu Mas
sachusetts. The Massachusetts school
luw does not permit tho schools to bo
kept uuless the thermometer registers
above forty-live degrees lu the school
room. Under this law oue school in
Worcester has had inauy half holidays.
Fiuuliy the teacher discovered a six-
year-old boy puekiu the thermometer
with kuow below the bulb. -New
Havcu Journal aud Courier.