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be paid in advanoa.
Job wor
work oajb on delivery
'.iliitcswomcli" is the correct thing
'trail t ho female Australian poll
trinii.
'J'bo Japs will boforo long bo a for
viiilnMo factor among tho world'
nv.il power., predicts tho St. Louis
Mar-Say up.
In Frnnoo it is dooided that tho
Junkers of bicycles sro responsible for
"Inmogos when nn nocident oocurs
through a (structural fault in a ma
chine. During tho Inst two months of 1804
the number of serious crimes reportod
in Egypt was 2.1 1, as compared with
184 during tho satno period in 1893.
This is regarded as very satisfactory.
It is estimated by somo that tho
present coinage valno of gold bullion
is nbout forty per cout. of its market
value. Thu remaining sixty per oent.
is tho vuluo given it by demand for
nso iu tho arts.
Tho Secretary of tho North Coro
linn Board of Health cites numerous
cases where neighborhoods almost un
inhabitable on account of malaria bo
came healthy when artesian water was
substituted for that from steams or
urfneo wells.
Tho Southern States are dottod
with gold properties from one end to
tho other, nvers tho Atlanta Constitu
tion. Tho Virginia-Maryland gold
inns in a southwesterly diroction
through tho middle soetions of those
States and continues its course into
North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama into Mexioo. This
belt oovers at least twenty countios in
Virginia, and quart, veins exist of
i mmensosiro in Fauquier, Goochland,
Louisa and other countios, quartz
taken from veins at different sections
showing by fire assay from $10 to
81000 gold to tho ton. Two years ago
Bix hundred pounds of ore were taken
from a vein noor Montgomery County,
Maryland, near tho Virginia border,
whichyielded $30,000 gold, this be
ing pockot. Tho ore of this vein
nveragod $50 to tho ton at a total ex
pense not exceeding $3.
The sod houses in which many of
the farmers of Western Kansas brave
tho blizzards are admirably adapted
to the purpose. It should also be
said that they are the ooolost of dwell
ings during the heated term. The
manner of construction is as follows:
''The farmer outs the slabs of sod for
building purposes just as sod is cut
for transplanting grass. Tho buffalo
grass indigonous to the Western Kan
sas country grows like a thick mat of
tough herbage. The slabs of this sod,
about fifteen by twenty-fonr inches
and fonr inches thick,' hold together
with the consistency of folt. They
are laid in courses like building stone,
and pressed closely togothor, and the
roof is made of timbers and frequently
thatched. The inside is then smoothed
with the native lime, which makes an
excellent plaster. This ooat of lime is
sometimes applied outside also, but
usually theso sod houses present a
natural dun color like the winter
prairie. In some cases tho floor is
mado by excavating a few feet and
tramping the ground solid with horses ;
othorwise a regulur wood floor is laid.
The window and door frames are fitted
as in building stone house. The sod
house oontains frequently only one
room, but some Lave two and - even
three rooms." The sod houso lasts
about five years.
Tho students of sociology, and par
ticularly that branch which relates to
our foreign immigration, will be in
terested in a table compiled by Wil
liam E. Curtis, of the Chicago Record,
which shows the proportion of foreign
.born citizens of the United States
who own the homes in which they
live, and the percentage of those
homes that are free from iucuuibrauce.
The following gives -thu percentages
in fifty-eight cities of more than 50,
000 population ;
.IVrcflntaiyc IVrvvuui'-C"
Nationality. ow.i-"-. free ujuieii.
Gorauui. . ....; .31. s; til. 3D
Scandinavian 24. (i) 15.01
Irish...'. v.. ....... .'21.1' 6S.
Hootch .,. as.i'J '- gUm
French ; irt.CJ Tl.til
jSiuclish and , Welsh . .'. . . . .:.( ' Mi .7;'
Austriun.s tuid Huus..'. . .' . Hl.&d ' iS.H7
English Canadians. 19.77 - 53.54
Kussiun and Poles: . : 14:7 '" 4
t'uoadiau 1"ivni'U.-. .'l . J3.H7 45.7.
Jtatiau..v. ...... 6. 21. . '(3.3-
' Tho average of ownership for t.h i
whole popuiutiuu of tho tiity-eight
cities is 2-t.BS per cent, and 61. (it per
ceut. are free of incumbrance. Tun
average homo ownership fur natives o.
the United NUttes in thes-i cities ii
23.41 per ceut., and (il.H'i pur cm-, nro
free of incumbrance. It will m n
tieed that the French no.i nro least
k'iveu to itioria mil t'itt tii
Jtulinu, flthoujh be i-el lo u ii.iy w
Louie, lb accustomed to pay 1j: it.
TRSR MEMORIES.
Tho woodland stretched Its arm? to mo,
And Into Its hnrt I went,
Whlln by my shin invisibly
Walked muslinr-eyod C3iiturr.
Tho woodland spake no word to mo, TJ?
Hut, oh! its thoughts wnre swectf
Against my spirit llkn a sua
I folt tho thong-tit-wnvns lxiat.
Before my vision starved and dull
Tho wood shapes dropped their (fold;
The you nit child trees wnre bunutiful
More beautiful the old.
Within their halls of mmnry .
What heavenly sconce are drawn
The stm.ni, tho wild bird.' company ;
Tho sky's oool faro at dawn.
The golden lanc of the sun,
Tho rain that feels its wnv:
Tho twilight st that one by ono
Load to tho moon's whlto rny.
The multitude of bright loaf forms
F.nifravod on enrth and air;
The blaok and gold of midnight storm;
Tho blue that violets wear.
Those thronii tho jrrwenwood momories,
Upon this perfumed tnw.k
Tho thoughts of all, tho silent trooj
Go wandering ba!k and back
This Is-the charm that eomoth last,
Of all their sweets the sum
' The folding of green summers past,
And fair grenn springs to come.
-Etholwyn Wothorald, In Harper's Weekly.
BARCLAY'S ROMANCE,
SUMMER afternoon
drowsed lazily over
the world. A breeze
came faintly np
from tho south and
drifted through the
window and rustled
the papers on Bar
day's desk. Then it
died away in an ex
cess of languor.
Barclay wits deon
9i
in the intricacies of a will case. The
boys said if he had come into the
world and not found some kind of a
law case ready for him to plunge into,
and a poky one at that, he would im
mediately have loft it ia disgust.
They also held, with that intoloranoe
of dulness that is characteristic of
brilliant youth, that it would have
been no Bpecial disadvantage if he had.
"If I must have been born an oyster,"
said Lance, "I should prefer to b of
the edible variety, that I might get
rid of myself in somo way, were it
only by being eaten." ,
Elsie' Fane oamo in to see Mr. Clegg.
He was an old friend of her father,
ud she was privileged to come when
ever she liked. - Now that the Mesa
land ease was on she found it agree
able to come with . soma frequency.
Should the Moft case be lost Will
Arden would have to begin the world
again with no more money in his
pooket and far less hope in Lis heart
than when he started out ten years
ago to make ' his fortune. Then "Elsie
would go on dancing at charity balls
and seaside hops with partners she
bated until she had grown too old to
danoe even at Mrs. Frump's poky "at
homes," and then she would settle
down as a spinster aunt and devote thfij
rest of her life to hearing her hwAh'tfrs
children say tho multiplication table
and giving them gruel when they were
in. sue wonuereu 11 sue would ever
learn to administer gruel otherwise
titan extornally. The last time she
had experimented with her youngest
sister that small rebel had signified
her preference for clear water for
bathing purposes.
Bometimes in her moments of most
concentrated woe she fancied, some
thing yet worse. She might marry
Mr. Urumple. Mr. Grumple wore a
wig and had rheumatism when it
rained. It rained quite often. Mr.
Qrumple could not waltz even when
he had not rheumatism. How divinely
Will waltzed I The children might
grow out of the gruel and multiplioa-tion-table
stage, but Mr. Qrumple
would never grow out of rheumatism
and wigs.
When she came in -. the clerks rose
and bowed with what was intended
for exoeeding grace, and each was glad
that he did not simper as absurdly as
his neighbor.'.
Barclay looked up. She smiled trhen
she saw him and disappeared beyond
the inner door which oonoealed that
vast repository of legal lore, Clegg,
from profane view. Smiled on Bar
clay i Was there ever anything so pre
posterous? The summer day drowsed on until it
full fast asleep. Barclay folded his
papers in his methodical way and put
them into the fileholder. Lanoe said
if the building should catoh fire Bar
clay would not approach the door un
til the papers had been lolded in their
usual oreases and put away, earliest
date on top, and tautened up. Then
he looked the door and went Away.
Lanoe had speculated upon the possi
bility of Clegg's ever beiug opened or
closed again if Barclay should happen
to die. Any one watohing hiin only
that no one ever did watch him; what
would have been the use, when there
were so many more interesting people
in the world to look after? would
have thought what a plodding follow
he was. Why was he so devoid of
that eleetrio energy which is the only
thing that can transform existence
into life?
He turned off the main street into
a wide avenue bordered with maples
and rang the bell of a handsome stone
house. When the door opeued he
entered and passed through a hall
which led to a spacious library pan
el) d in oak and tilled with that mag
iietio charm which only the presence
of books cau give.
Elsie Fane cume out from a cur
tained window where she had been
reaning.
"I am glad you have come," she
said.
ITe looked at her, thinking how like
a lily of the valley sho was. She had
once given him a cluster of the little
white bells, fnstoning it to his hut
touhole, laughing at tho idea of his
wearing A flower.
Ho had worn it to tho office ; where
upon, after the first moment of petri
faction consetpiont upon such an ap
parition, Lanco had rushed out and
secured tho largest sunflower tho
market afforded and fastouod it to his
coat, where it shone like a mammoth
gold dinner pinto. Hal had adorned
himself with a cluster of hollyhocks of
unexampled magnificence.
"Butyouaro never glad, so I can
not expect you to bo glad to soo mo.
Sit here where the wind comes in fresh
aud cool. You must get awfully tired
in that poky old ollico.
"I am a poky fellow; I don't mind
it. "
"But you ought not to be poky,
Mr. Clegg told papa you know more
about law than he does.
"But law is a poky subject."
"Papa said it was you who won the
Moloford forgery case.
VI only did the plodding."
"Fapa says it's the plodding that
counts."
"Maybe so. But anybody can do
it who is willing to spend tho time.
My time is not worth much."
"How very slow it is I"
"Yes. We have ono case that has
boon going on for thirty years."
"I shall be very old in thirty years,
sha'n't I?"
"I don't know."
no could not imagine her being
old. He nevor remembered that he
was old except when he was with her.
Thou he realized that he was thirty
seven, even by the calendar ; in
reality he must be about a hundred.
"We won a case lost week that Mr.
Clegg inherited from his father. All
the people interested in it are dead
except one. He is in the insane asy
lum." She Bat for a moment gloomily si
lent. "I wish I could understand the
Mesa case."
"If you could yon would be better
informed than any one else."
"Don' i. you understand it?''
"No. Neither does Clegg. Nor
anybody. I'd better go now, in
stead of staying here and making yon
dismal, I'm always being disagree
able." 'No, yon are not. Tou only toll
me the truth."
"Telling 'thd truth is tho mo;t ob
noxious way in which a man can make
himself disagreeable as a general
Kin
'Will you not stay and dine? You
never stay with us now."
'"Thank you, but there Will be com
pany and I am dull. Feople don't
want dullness at dinner."
Elsie shrugged her shoulders, after
an expressive but inelegant fashion
she had.
"They usually get it, whother they
want it or not."
She looked aftor him as ho went
out, wondering why he never oould be
like other people. Then she fell to
musing upon the criminal inadequacy
of the law. . It had been evolving for
centuries and was still unable to de-
title the Mosa land case iu Will's favor.
What a fossilized institution it was I
No wonder Barclay was dull.
In the autumn Barclay took a vaca
tion. He also took away the breath
of the office. Barolay had not before
had a vaoation sinoe he was a grammar-school
boy.
."Next thing, said Hal, "Mount
Shasta will apply for leave of absence
and go oil on a yachting excursion in
northern seas."
The autumn rains were falling on
the Pacific slope. A pale-green vel
vety carpet was being woven over the
wide plains. I he Pacific summer had
begun. Pitches which had by cour
tesy boruo- the-, uami of rivers had
suddenly put forth legitimate claim to
tne appellation, linages were wasued
away, trains were delayed and ran on
each other s time ; a telegram went
astray. Thus it happened thit the
Westward-bound passenger crashed
into a freight that was lumbering
along to the East, and in an instant
became a mass of splintered wood and
bent metal.
When Barclay began to realize him
self he was crawling out from under
two heavy timbers that had so inter
fered with each other in fulling as to
avoid crushing him under their weight.
He had always thought the advantage
of having few wits was that if they
happened to be lost it would not take
long to pick, them up again. He
breathed a few times to see if he oould,
and in a 'moment" was hard at work
tearing away the. heavy fragments of
the wreck,' helping to- release those
less fortunate than he. One after an
other ho carried out, some groaning
with pain and more quito -still, having
passed forever beyond the world of
pain.
He heard a man's voice calling for
help. Putting forth all his strength,
he lifted away the heavy pieces of
wood from the plaoo wlitncu the
sounds oame. The man crawled out,
stood erect wheu he was quite free
from his prison sud gave utterance to
a suocetiBion of oaths that struck with
grim deviltry against tho ' appalling
awfulness of the scene. Lying ut his
foot was a dead woman, her face
turnod up ' pathetically towards tho
stars. There was something fascinat
ing about a mitn who could give way
to a tide of profanity iu snuh a pluue.
Barclay followed him a few steps.
"How cau you say such horrible
words when you have juot escaped so
awful a death?"
"Tho very reason I can, "he replied,
grulHy. -"If I hudu't escaped I
couldn't say tbem."
Souiotbiug in his voice rung famil
iarly upon Birclajj's memory. He fol
lowed yet furtat-r. ' ' " '
"I know yon now. I was coming
to we you."
Tho man turnod and faced him
abruptly.
"Barcloy, by all that's fiendish I"
He stood silent for a while as if
made speechless by surprise.
"Yon must bo growing neighborly.
Yon are not used to paying me vis
its." "It's the first time you ever had
atything I wanted."
"I thought it couldn't be for lovo
yon hod come."
"Not for lovo of you."
They were walking towards an
adobe hut that stood by the roadside.
When they reacned it they entered
and seated themselves by a table in
tho middle of tho floor, facing each
other.
"What is it you want? Yon have
been long in coming for it, whatever
it is."
"You, at least, should not complain
of my lack of promptness. It has
given yon plenty of rope to hang
yourself with. Why didn't you?"
"Perhaps I should if I had known
that you were coming. As you are
here you may save me the trouble."
"You are the contestant in the Mesa
case?"
; "What is that to you?"
"It concerns you only that it is
something to me.
He took a paper from his pocket
and laid it before him.
"I want you to sign that."
The man scowled as he read it. It
was a relinquishment of all claim to
the Mesa land.
"I won't do it."
"I think you will."
"Why do you think so?"
"You will remember first tho par
ticular thing for which you are wanted
over on the Atlantio coast. Then you
will reflect upon the effect of Eastern
atmosphere upon the health of a man
who is wanted as badly as you are.
After mature consideration, you will
decide to sign."
He pulled a pistol from bis pocket.
Barolay struck it from his hand, and
it flew through the open door of the
hnt. Then he drew his own pistol and
aimed it at the head opposite.
"I give you three minutes to sign.
Here is a pen with ink enough in it to
sign all the names you have. One ia
sufficient the one under which you
claim tho land."
The day after Barclay's leave ex
pired Elsie came in. When she left
Mr. Clegg's room her face was radiant.
Sho did not see Barclay bending over
his desk. Perhaps he did not see her.
His face was bent low over the papers
in the Jarvi6 vs. Leightou corporation
suit as she went on her unconsoious,
happy way. "
"Barolay grows more and more of a
stick every day. How can a man be
such An insensible machine?"
"Oh, he's comfortable enough, I
dare say."
"Comfortable " said Lance, witn
superior air. "I suppose a log in a
swamp is oomfortable. I would rather
be a little more uncomfortable some
times, and have some life in me."
How Two Hum Ire J Lives Wero Saved.
Captain Edward Smith, of the
steamer Yesso, which ran out of Balti
more up to last year, once saved 200
lives in a collision similar to that of
the Elbe and Crathie. He was master
of the steamer Karo when Bbe ran her
bow into the side of a Russian passen
ger steamer. A mate on the bridge
of the Karo was about to ring full
steam astern and back away from the
Russian, when Captain Smith stopped
him. He kept the engines of the Karo
going half spood ahead, and her bow
fast in the gap she had out in the sido
of the other steamer. Over 200 peo
ple passed from the deck of ttje Rus
sian steamer to tho deck of the Karo
and were saved. Tho Russian vessel
wont to the bottom. Whilo Captain
Smith was in a foreign port he re
ceived a cablegram that bis wife had
given birth to twins at his home iu
Charleston. He cumo to Baltimore
last April with the happy news in his
possession and started for Charleston.
He arrived there to hud botu wife aud
children dead. Captain Smith took
to his bod and died shortly after.
Baltimore American.
ii Cat With a W hite Ta'l.
As you seem to be interested in
cats, and as I am too, I make bold to
ask you a question : Did you ever see
a oat with a white tail ? I have been
looking for one, simply as a matter of
curiosity, for about fifty years, and
have never seen one, although I have
so en many pure white cats, except
that their tails, or a part, were not. I
was asked this question wheu a small
boy by a person probably as old as I
am now, aud he said ho had never
seen one, though he was induced all
bis life to look for one, just as I have,
and for the same reason, so this
would make a search of considerably
over a ceutury ou this question of
natural history, uud as iu this louf
space there is no authentio account o
auy one ever having seen a cat with i
tail all white, I am almost tempted tc
believe there is no such thing. Balti
more Sun. .
A Unique Exhibit at Atlanta.
M. F. ' Amorous, of tho Atlanta
Lumber Company, has in view an ex
hibit at tho Cotton States and Inter
national Exposition which will be an
objeot lesson of unique and sturtliug
character. It is proposed to combine
all forms of woodworking in ichinery,
from the log to the finished product.
Logs will be brought from the forest
and given to sawmills of various lypos,
thence to driers, planers, finishers an t
wood-working machinery. Jt is pro
posed to make cradles, colllns and
everything iu woo. I that uuiuos be
tweeu. This imvul i lea is a practical
one and the exhibit is expected to lie
one of the featuit'S of tho exposition,
Chicago Herald,
TIIGMERRV SIDK0F LIFE,
STORIES THAT ARB TOLD BT THE
FuXNT MEN OF THE PRESS.
Ilread Comes, IJut IMe Mngfrs-l sed
to It-lie Knvlrrt Them Man's
Impracticability, Ktc, Kte.
A mn mny pray for his daily broad.
And got it by and by;
But ho must liustlo for himself
la ease ho longs for pie.
Cincinnati Tribuuo.
A PARADOX.
" I lost my head completely. And
tnen l kissed tier 1
"I don't quito see how you managed
; I" t ;..
man's impracticability.
Husband "t think you'd better
save that money for a rainy day."
Wife "But on a rainy day I can't
go shopping I" Puck.
used to rr.
Tom "Didn't tho encore unnorvo
Miss Twitter?"
Jess "Not a bit: she is used to
having the neighbors pound on the
Door when she sings. Truth.
BE EVVrED THEM.
"Scientists say that there are mi
crobes in kisses," said Miss Kittish U
Mr. Hnnker.
"Happy microbes!" exclaimed tho
young man, ecstatically. Life.
GOT TO COMB.
Inspector (looking at his watch)
"it is time to close the polls.
Judge (of election) "Wait a bit.
Two of tho lady voters haven't been
back yet to change their ballots."
Judge.
Ttre NEW YOUNG MAN.
"Young man," said the femalo phy
sioian, "you are in a bad way; I'll
continue to call on you."
The sufferer raised himself on his
elbow, looked at her tenderly, and
said : "I've no objection, but I would
advise you first to see papa."
PRUDENCE.
"Madame, would you kindly sub
scribe something for the missions in
Africa? The money will be used for
the conversion of heathen children."
"Very well; you may have a few
cnildren converted, and send the bill
to me I" Fliegende Blaetter,
HOW TO SAVB TIME.
"Are you doing anything for that
cold?" asked Ray nor.
And Shyne handed him a card in
scribed as follows :
"I'm taking the advice of every
blamed fool that comes along with a
remedy. What's yours?" Chicago
Tribune.
A nOPELESS CASE.
May "I wonder why Reggio never
married."
Jack "He had a love affair when
quite young And has never gotten
over it."
May "Who was tho object of his
affections?"
Jaok "Himself." Philadelphia
Life.
MUr.DEB WILL OUT.
The Groom (at the first stopping
place) "It's no use, Clara; we can't
hide it from people that we are bride
aud groom."
The Bride "What makes you think
so, Oeorge, dear?"
The Groom (dejectedly) "Why,
here the waiter has brought us rice
pudding!"
CUPID HAS AN OPTION,
"I have come to ask for your hand,
Miss Judson," said Perkins to the Busi
ness (iirlof the Period.
"Well, I'm very sorry, Mr. Perkins,
but it is already taken. Mr. Wilton
berry called last evening and I avo
bira the refusal of it for teu days," re
plied the fsir one. "If he decides not
to tako it permaneutly, I shall bo
pleased to have you renew your offer."
--tlarper s Bazar.
BEFORE HER TIMK.
A recently published book on rail
way systems contaius this new version
of the old story of ail aged lady's first
journey by rail. As the train was
pitched dowu an embankment, and
she crawled from beneath the wreck
age, she asked a pnsieuger, "Is this
Stamford?"
"Sit, inadanj," replied the man who
was piuued down by a piece of timber.
Ill is is uot Stamford: its a catas
trophe I"
"Oh!" cried the lailv. ''Then I
hadn't onghter got oil here." Amus
ing Journal.
THEV I)')N'r SPEAK NOW.
Mrs. Singleton put her head over
the garden wull an 1 tlnisa l.lres-eil tier
neighbor, who wm hauging out her
week's washing :
family has moied in tho empty
house across tho way, Mrs. Clothes
line?" "Yes, I know."
"Did yon notice their furniture?"
"Not particularly."
"Two vauloa Is, and I wouldu't givo
a ten-dollar bill for the lot. Carpets!
wouldn't put them dowu iu mv
kitchen. Aud tho chil Ireu ! 1 won't
allow minu to associate with them.
And the mother ! Him look as if sho
had never k non u a day's happiuesi,
l'ho father drinks, I exoeA. Tjo lia I
that such people should oomo iulo this
neighborhood. I wonder who they
are. "
"1 know them."
"Do you? Well, I declare! Who
ire tbi-v V"
"The mother n my sis'er."
(I paiiilul i.iu.y eiisiicoi. Spare
Moments.
SCIENTIFIC AXI INDUSTRIAL.
A scientist claims to bavo discov
ered the microbe of obi age.
Wjth a preparation of sodium tnn
tto cloth can bo mado practically
fireproof.
Babies do not hear well because the
bones of the ear nro too soft to convey
tho sensation of sound.
Tho lino of perpetual snow varies
both iu latitude and in altitude above
tho sea all over tho globe.
Four hundred and thirteen differ
ent species of trees grow in tho var
ious States and Territories.
In 18!)3, for tho first time in four
years, there wns a slight excess of
births over deaths in France.
During all tho wire cuttiiipr in
dulged in by sympathizers with tho
Brooklyn trolley Btrikers not a single
man was shocked.
Seventy-five horses are used in tho
anti-diphtheritic laboratory in Ber
lin, and tho supply of the remedy will
oe aoout luu quarts a month.
a cnaser tnat is Biiot from a
rocket, and shoots around the heavens
for fully ten minutes, has been in
vented by a man in Victoria, Austra
lia.
An electric furnaco for heating iron
strips used in making horseshoe nails
has been recently installed in Mon
treal, Canada. Five feet of strip are
heated every minute.
A German has invented a small
house capable of ' holding four or five
persons to be used in diving and work
ing in sunken ships or valuable wreck
age of other character.
Cases of infection have boon fre
quently traced to cats that have been
allowed to spend hours in a sick room
and then go to another house where
they hove been petted.
Forage made np in the form of
bricks is being tried by tho French
war office. Tho bricks are made of
hay, oats, and bran in cakes as hard
as a board, and can be handled easily.
The velocity of tho wind is contin
ually changing. It varies every seo
ond, and while tho average velocity
may be twenty-threo railed an hour ,
in the course of one minute it will bo
altered several times.
Dr. Hermann Weber has presented
810,000 to the RoyAl College of Phy
sicians on condition that it is to be
used as prizes for the discovery of a
cure for consumption. The college ac
cepted the gifts with thanks.
The Philadelphia oommittoe recent
ly appointed to investigate the merits
of the "chloride electric storage bat
tery has recommended the award of
the John Scott premium and medal to
Clomont Payon, the inventor.
The most important sea-dredging
ever done under American auspices
was the United States Fish Commis
sion's steamer Albatross, under Alex
under Agassiz. Tho animal life of tho
Pacifio was found to compare poorly
with that of the Atlantic.
According to Lord Kelvin's theory
all substances are composed of atoms,
and atoms themselves arc nothing but
"vortex rings that is to say mere
whirls in the other a theoretical sub
stance so much finer than matter that
it is as near as the scientifio imagina
tion can get to nothing at all.
Ingenious llot-AIr Bath.
At St. Bartholomew's Hospital.
Loudon, nn ingenious hot-air bath is
now in uso for tho treatmont of
sprains, inflamed joints due to gout or
rheumatism, and similar affections. It
consists of a copper cylinder about
three feet long and eighteen mches in
diameter, which will hold an arm up
to the shoulder or a leg up to the mid
dle of tho thigh ; it stands on an iron
frame, and is heated by gas burners
placed uuderneath, so that the temp
erature cau be raised to !)')0 or 400
degrees Fahrenheit. The patient is
placed iu an arm ohair at one end of
the cylinder, tho limb is introduced,
and tho joint made air tix'it by a rub-
bor bund. No discomfort is felt up to
250 degrees, until" perspiration sots iu,
wheu tho moisture hfls a scalding ef
fect, which is relieved by opening tho
further end of tho cylinder uud let
ting tho moisture evaporute. A sit
ting usually lasts forty minutes, The
immediate effect is a greatly iucreused
circulation in tho part treated, pro
fuse local perspiration, aud relief from
pain. New York Suu.
Climate el Hie (itilt States.
"It would bo interesting for somo
ono to compile the weather statistics
aud let people kuow how much colder
the climate averages iu the Gulf States
and how much warmer iu tho Northern
and Middle thuu it did some years
ago," suid A. 1'. Bowmau, ut the
Emery. "Tho climate is becomiug
equalized slowly but surely. I re
member twenty years axo visiting
New Orleans, and 1 was told that it
had not snowed there for thirty years.
It now snows every winter. Wheu I
was a boy there was zero wouthcr iu
Ohio over three mouths, and usually
sleighing all winter. 'Ten degree-i be
low zero was uot considered ui very
cold. Now tie o are but few days
wheu the theriiiometor reauhos zero,
uiel biiow seldom remains ou the
ground louder than a week ut a time.
1 am sutislied that thu climate of the
Middle htates ia warmer an I that of
the Southern States colder than it was
a quarter of a century ugo. Iu oth ir
words, the torrid and frigid zoues nro
becoming narrower." (Jiuoiuuuti Ku
quirer. largest Plow in the tVoi 1,1.
Richard Gird, of Chiuo, ('til., owns
tho largest plow in the world. It is
ii",'htccu feet hiyh, Weij;lis Mti.Otl I
pounds, is run iy steam, and will
plovtr fifty acres per dav, with a eou
su.uptiou of Ucs 1 1 1 it u two tons of coal.
New York World.
A I.IFE'.'J EPILOGUE.
1 turti tV tiny koy nud senn with ran
Mv reliquary's troiwure uii'iehnliten.
I I 'll their t.-lle, Hum- lin;ir,led In-kfl of hnlr,
The siipony-'ilnek, tho sllvi-r-irruy, tho
jmlilen.
What niivy I yon singers, lofty-thrnnd,
Who v ilen nwh mood lu life's eternal
proem?
No sweeter love tlinn miuo their Hps hnvo
moaned.
They sum; their soiiRy- hut I have lived my
poem.
ti rant Allen, In Ledger.
IIU.'!0lt OK THE BAY.
A bookkeeper is one who borrows
but never returns. Life.
Thero is more history to be ninde
than ever was written Judge.
The very safest train to take is tho
no that immediately follows a dis
aster. l'nck.
A curious socioloRicnl fact That
the Old (Jirl frequently develops into
tho New Woman. Life.
Somfc peoplo know a good thing
when, thev-wa.it,. n(d others think it
ou'glit"to take notice of them. Fuck.
It is believed thnt even tho old
woman who lived iu a shoe insisted ou
having it several sizes too small.
Buck.
".Seo here!" said tho cup to tho
coffee, "your account has been stand
ing long enough. It's ubout time you
settled. " Life.
' "Tho' plessfthtest way to tako cod
liver oil," says an old gourmand, "is
to fatten pigeons with it, nud then eat
tho pigeons." 'Tit-Bits.
Little Freddie, iu a dark collar
with his uncle, clinging to him in
great fear, said : "We ain't afraid, iire -we,
Uncle Tom?" Judge. -. ' . "
To- lay hrowu end are ehwtoriug "
rpon her forehea I, llless her;
Time tiles, twelve hours elnpte, and
Tuey'ro clustering on her dresser. ' :
ruck."
Mr. Park Hill "Were yon aware
of tho fact that the gentleman who sat
beside you at supper was a baron?"
Mr. Harlem Hites "Sq, but I judged v
from his conversation that he was-.
barren of ideas." Now York Ledger.
Attorney "I have no fears of -woman
filling all the avenuos of pub- '
lie life." Lady "And why so?"
Lawyer--"Whero is the woman who
will claim to bo tho peer of the mod
ern juryman." Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
"You brought all thnt beautiful
ohina back with you?" exclaimed the
culler. "Didn't you break any
thing?" "Xothing but tho customs
laws," replied tho smiling young lady,
who had just returned from Europe.
Chicago Tribune.
"f understand," said tho masculine
go$sip, "that tne JJuo uo Junkfooeau
is to marry Miss Millions. "Well,
replied the ntnn who is in tho publish
ing business, "thnt won't bo the first
financial success due to a catchy title."
Washington Star.
"Mamnin," said Willie, "do vou
pay Jennie $15 a mouth for looking
after me?" "Xo, $10," said mamma.
"She is a good nurse and deserves it."
"Well, 1 say, ma, I'll look after my
self tor $10. You'll save $t by it."
Harper's Young l'eople.
Chronic Grumbler "Look here!
There's no meat iu this s.iudwich."
Affable Waiter "Thou why do you
cull it a sandwich? I am surprised
that a geutlcmuu of your erudition
should commit such a solecism in
rhetoric. " Boston Transcript.
What's the uso of all this fusi And
worry and questioning about what the
men ure going to do while their wives
are ut literary clubs developing their
minds? If worst comes to worst tho
men can stsy at homo and look after
the baby, can't they? Fresno Repub
lican. -
"Well, Mrs. l'arslow, I suppose you
are doinit us many other ladies do
nowadays, taking lessous ou the bi
cycle?" "Xo, Mr. Johnson, lam not.
All the lessons I have had bj far huvo
beun oil' tho bicycle, but I hopo soon
to take them ou it, as you suggest."
Harper's Bazar.
Timid Guest "I havo a delicato
wife, nud if I stop at your place I want
to bo sure there is a good doctor near
by." Aspiring Clerk (briskly) "You
needn't be alarmed, sir. We've got A
tine man within call. Why, ho has
just pulled through six of the toughest
oases of smallpox I ever heard of." -Brooklyn
Life.
Sou-iu-Luw (to Register) "I jist
cam' tae register the daith o' ma
inither-iu-liiw. " Register "When
did sho die?" Son-in-law "Wecl,
tho fuc' is, sh's no jest deid yet; but
the doctor says she's gaiiu tae gie us
that grief vjra suue, sue I thocht it
micht bo as weel tae provide against
coutoeugencies. " Household Words.
"Tho other day I was wulkiug be
side u railway lino with a man who
was very hard of hearing. A train
was approaching, and us it rouuded
thu curve the whistle gave oue ot
those ear-destroy ing shrieks which
seem to pierce high heaven. A smile
broke over thu deaf mau's fuee.
'That is tho first robiu,' said he, 'that
I havo heard this spriug. ' " Life.
Early I'se ot Copper ami tiidd.
Gold, because it was found pure aud
fairly tractable, was probably the first
metal used by man. Copper, it is
true, is found as a metal, but only iu
one comparatively restricted locality.
Occasionally gold fish hooks have bt-eu
discovered iu graves iu Sew Grauada.
Iu mining a tunnel iu Cuuca a gold
hook was touud iu lrtSJ titty feet un
der tho siirlaeu of the ground and be
neath what must have once been the
bed of n river. Copper llsu hooks
havo been loiiud iu many of the an
cient burial moimds of 1'cru. Chi
cago 11 etui. I.
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