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England ban 200 mon ench worth
ovor $5,000,000.
Two thousand patent hnTO been
taken out in this country on tho man
ufacture of paper alone.
Greater New York, with 817 iquaro
mile, of territory, would bo throe
times as big aa London an iwelve timer
the area of Pari.
In tho past soven rears tho German
production of beet sugar has dcublod,
whilo the home consumption has only
ioroasod one-third during the oanio
period.
A few years ago tho Chinese cabinet
advised tho conquest of Japan to stop
the spread of western civilization.
It Bscnis tho plan was put off a little
too long.
The Now York World observes:
The courts iu Brooklyn are trying tho
effleaoy of $23,000 verdicti for damage
when a trolley car kills a person. Wo
predict that tho death rate from this
cause will be greatly reduced.
Good apples are aaid to bo dearer
than eggs in the New York market
The reason is that most of the good
ones have been exported to England,
where tho demand for Aniorioan ap
ples has been unprecedented during
the past season.
Chitral, in the region of Upper In
dia, the inhabitants of which the Brit
ish are now attempting to punish and,
peihapB subjugato, was, until tho en
trance of tho British Army, entirely
without commerce and without money.
Tho peoplo accepted tho rupees given
them by tho British officers for tho
penormance oi peiiy servloes, esteem
ing them highly as ornamonts; but
they made serious objections to receiv
ing too many of them as their use of
ornaments waa limited.
A abaft into the earth is proposed
by M. Paschal Groussct as the sensa
tion for the Paris Exposition of 1900.
His plan is an inversion of the idea of
tho Eiffel tower. Elevators will carry
tho publio down the shaft; at inter
vals there will be restaurants and con
cert rooms, decorated so as to har
monize with tho temperature, which
will increase with tho depth, aa far aa
2100 foot below tho surface. Beyond
that point, aa tho heat will bo too great
for comfort, a narrower shaft is to be
driven for scientific purposes only to
a depth greater than hai evor yet been
obtained, possibly C000 feet.
It is a quoBlioti whother the Semi
nole war is ovor yet or not. Tho Secre
tary of tho Interior has asked the
Secretary of War to tell him, na it in
volves a question of the Seniiuolo
lauds. Most of tho people who fought
in tho war uro dead long ago. Secre
tary Laraont replying to the com
munication from Secretary Smith in
formed him that tho first Seminole
war in Florida, from 1830 to 1812,
was officially annouuood as closed
August 14, 18-12, and that tho aeoond
Florida Seminole war began Deoumber
20, 1835, and was officially declared
closed on May 8, 1853.
When the great Salt Pond of Block
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ocean by tho ship channel that is now
being dug, it will becomo an impor
tant roadstead for the luagest ships.
It is pe;.fcr'y land-locked, and covers
1200 acres, of which 800 are navigable,
the depth ranging from fifteen to sixty
feet. Tho New York Tribune thinks
tho value of such a refuge, situated as
it is so near Gardiner's Bay, Long
Inland Sound and New York City, must
be of considerable coneequence from
a naval poiut of view ; it would surely
be worth holding by an enemy preying
on our coasts, especially by a tleet of
worships operating aguiust New York
City. Tho possibilities aro interesting-
Max Nordau, a German investigator,
bus publisbod a work entitled "Lie
generation," which is startling Eu
rope. He soeks to demonstrate that
tho bruin of man has been put under
a suicidal strain by tho enormous in
crease of activity in the lust fifty
years, and that it has proJuoed in tho
upper 10,000 of every great city a
race of "degenerates," thut is, men
who, though per Imps brilliunt meu
tully, are physically and hereditarily
ou the down grade, uud who are bound
in a generation or two to perish
through partial insanity uud sterility.
In difcussiug this overpressure be
cites thi immense increase of mail
matter an declares thut "a cook re
ceives au-semla inoro letters nowa
days than a university professor did ,
formerly." The iucrcuse of suicides
throughout Europe helps llerr Kor
ean's deductions, St. Petersburg, for
iuttuisce, reporting Hi successful sui
cidog iu the pact twelve months.
THE ANGELIC HUSBAND.
Thoro are husbands who are pretty,
ThnrA Am litiahnmlawtin mm rlt
Thoro are husbands who in publlo aro ns
smiling as tho mora;
There aro husband who aro healthy,
There are famous onos and woalt by,
But the roal angollo husband woll, lio's
nevor yet boon born.
8omo for strength of lovo are notod,
Avio aro really so devotod
That whene'er their wives aro ubsont they
are lonesome and torloru;
And whilo dow and then you'll find one
Who's a really good aud kind oue,
Tot the ronl augollc husband oh, ho's nover
yet been lmrn.
Ho tho woman who Is matod
To a man who may bo rated
as "pretty fnlr" should cherish him forever
and a day,
For tha real angulio creature,
1'erfect, quite, In every feature,
tie has nevor boon discovered, and ho won't
be, so they gay.
T. B. Aldrioh, in Boston Budget.
"0xE GOOD TURN."
ROM the tiny village
oi uewnurst to Bor
sca, a small town on
tho English channel,
is eight milos by
road and nine by
river. Tho train
takes twenty min
utes between the
two places, good
going indeed "for
OQa of tllnan flntttl,-
ern lines."
One dull, heavy, October Sunday
night. George Langloy would Rladly
have sat a whole hour in tho most nu
paintod, unpadded, draughty and
jolty carriage of any "one of these
Southern lines" if he might got from
tho village to the town. He had boen
paying a stolen visit to Kate to
lovely Kate Basoott, of Dewhnrst. He
had said good-by to her at the bottom
of her father's garden, and run all the
way to tho railway station, only to
find tha last train gone. Eleven had
struck and the one street of Dewhurst
waa aa empty of people as the churoh
yard. Laugloy sat down on a hand-truck
which he found ohained to a post. Ho
lit his pipe and procoeded to con
sider his position. Hardly had he be
gun the reflection that ho had walked
mauy miles that day, and was glad of
his rest on the hand-truck, when
flashed inio his mind tho picture of a
punt, with sculls in her, seen moored
below tho bridge to-day. Then he
ielt a flush of pleasure when ho
brought to mind that it must now be
about ebb at Dewhurst. In a light
punt, and on the back of a six-knot
tide, ho should fly along tha nine
miles of water to Bersea in loss than
half the time it would take him to
reach tho half-way house on his weary
feet.
At tho bridge ho had to proceed
carefully for ho did not know the
ground well; there was no regular
landing place, and hardly a glimmer
of light trickled through the lowering
clouds. With a feeling of profound
relief ho found theskiff with skulls ly
ing on the thwarts. Casting off the
painter he stepped . aboard with a
chuckle of remorse when ho fancied
tho owner's arrival later to find the
bout gono.
Bowing alono through the damp
darkness of that autumn night was
not inspiring; but he realized with
delight the great pace from the light
swiftness with which the skulls came
to him through the water, and from
the ponderous, Bileut sliding by of the
black banks.
His course lay nearly due south.
There was something in tho manner
of the ghostly banks, aud in the hur
ried whispering of tho water at his
bow, which told him he should not
reach home before the storm broke.
"In a lew minutes tho gale will
break," said Langley to himself.
"This is a nice sort of cockle-shell to
be abroad iu the durk if the water
gets sloppy. It would be no easy job
to land here. I suppose if tho storm
docs come down particularly heavy I
must take it as a judgment sent as
puuishmont for stealing the boat."
All at once tho troos on the bank
set up a shrill whistlo of alarm, aud
the woods on the hills took up the
alarm aud burst into a roar. The
chuuncl of the river was tilled with a
barrier of wind and rain, through
which, in spite of Langloy's utmost
efforts, he could not press the sniff.
Water flashed in spray from the
bows, and slopped abourd at the oouu
ter. H tustcd the salt water on his
mustache. He beut his licad tinder
the rain flung upon his neck, and felt
it run down his back.
The banks were steep aud almost
indisoeruiblo. If the punt were
swamped it would go hard with him.
He was strong aud healthy ; only
twenty-seven ; full of life aud hope ;
he wus just beginning to eeo a road
towards competency. Then there was
Kate there was Kate? there wus his
Kate I No, no ; it would never do to
drown here.
But the boat was half full, the banks
high and dim, the storm tremendous.
It looked as if he were to perish after
all!
By Jove, that gust had whirled the
punt's head round aa it she was a
cork I Yet it would be cruel as well as
ridiculous to die here.
And still the tempest wus over
whelming ; tho water gutting sloppj ;
the puut heavier deader aud deader.
Let hiin try to make out the exact
poiut of the river where the water wus
joltiug, and tossiug aud wouudiug hi
puny skiff.
Yes; he was in tho Long Hcucb,
where the bank ou either side is
steep.
Stay! What was that low-ooiliu-ebape-d
thing ttuudiug back against
the frantic sky V
That was the old deserted boathouso
with the slip I
Thank God I If bo oonld only reach
the slip and jump ashore, scramble
ashore, awini ashore, all would be well.
Think of it all would be well I He
should again see the sunlight in the
fields, and tho sails on the shining sea,
and Kate in her white gown t He
should again move back the straying
tresses of golden hair lrom the forehead-
-he should move back her stray
ing tresses with this same palm which
he was now grinding against the harsh
wood of the oar, in desperate endeav
or to tear his life from tho trough of
the water.
At last firm earth held his limbs and
body np I He no longer rocked and
swayed in all his body.
Drenched and sodden, he scrambled
up tho slip. Ho made no effort to save
tho punt. The moment Jhe stopped
ashore she had been swept away.
. "I must make that boat good to the
owner, though she has been nearly the
doath of mo. I'll never put my foot
aboard another craft less than a five
tonner from this until I die."
Oh, what hard work it had been to
keep otie's feet when staggering up
that treacherous old Blip to gain its
place, with its shelter aud its security,
from tha mouths of the lipping, raven
ing waters 1
This boat-house was now used, they
said, by Black Billy, the gamekeeper,
as a lair from which he might surprise
poachers by night. Poachers were
many and daring in this neighborhood.
Black Billy entertained a particular
hatred against them and they against
him. Pray heaven they might not
mistake him for Black Billy, or Black
Billy him for any one of them.
No door ou tho boat houso. That
did not matter. It afforded plonty of
shelter, aud thut was what one now
needed, and lo ! in the light of a
match, a heap of straw, a large heap
of straw, at the end far from the door.
In his saturated conditiou to lie
down on the straw would be to seoure
illness and invito death. If he walked
briskly up and down until he became
warm and then crept under the straw
a fellow would not only etcape a chill,
or rheumatism, but enjoy the ad
vantages of hydropathio -treatment.
Langloy began pacing the floor as
rapidly as the limits of the building
and the darkness would permit. In
half an hour he had worked himself
into a glow; then he crawled under
the straw, taking care to cover him
self completely with it.
The heat of the body increased to
such a degree that ha was sorely
tempted to creep forth again, but a
chill now would bo disastrous, so he
lay still nu t suffered. Ho listened to
the wind roaring in the wood, and to
the flails of the rain thrashing on tho
roof. Little by little the burning
ue.it of nis body subsided, and after
awhile he full asleep.
Ho was awakened by voices. The
storm had ceased, and Langley was on
the point of struggling out and de
claring himself when his ears caught
wonts which held him still.
"It's a hanging job, Jim," said a
deep, gruff voice.
"iVell, that s your affair. lou
knocked him into the river," said a
high tenor voice.
"We were both of us iu it, and
when be started on us 'twas you
clinched."
"I was only holdinz ou bv his run.
and was holding on with my two hands
when yon but-ended him and he tum
bled in. I couldn t have struok the
blow for my two bauds were on his
gun, Ham.
"Aud when I saw you in trouble
did I turn tuil and run away? Did I?"
fiercely; "or did I shorten my piece
and let drive at him? Aud isn't the
durk look of his eyes turned ou me
ever since?" Sam's tone had become
subdued as he weut on, and at the end
it had lost all its anger, aud was not
addressed to Jim, but spokeu to re
lentless vacauov where tho dead eyes
lived.
Langloy felt a cold shiver down his
back. Ho bad been listening to the
history by poachers of Black Billy's
last eucouuter with their fraternity.
Xue man witn tue uigu voice stood
so close to Langley that his feet wero
in tuo straw, aud L'tngley could feel
the straw movo wheu the man moved.
Yet Luuglcy durst not stir an inch
away.
After a pause, Sum, the more distant
man, the one with tha rough voiot,
the striker of the blow, recovered him
self, uud said as if awaking from sieop :
"Wunt are we to do?
"Strike a light aud let us soe what's
in this cursed hole. "
"But any oue ouuld sea a light from
the river."
"And who would be on tho river nt
such an hour, aud after suuh a night?"
Langley a heart stood still. Up to
this his only ieeliug was oue of loath
ing and horror of the presence of two
meu, red-handed from murder. Now
the fearful peril of his owu position
struck him. Hero were two dosporate
men, fresh from the most awful orime,
with no other thought than, How ahull
we escape tho terrible consequences?
They were armed, thoy were goiu.4 to
ttrike a light. II they discovered him?
lie tried to lie still as a lo '.
A match was struck.
The high voice said: "What a heap
ofsti'awl I suppose it was his bed. It
Ijj ; more like ha if one hud been
sleeping under rather than on it. Notb
iug butthestruwiu thoshauty. There,
the match is out! Wb it are we to do,
Sam? "Twill sjou, be day. u 1 I theu
they'll find it iu the water." With tho
going out of the match Jim's terrors
returned.
Silence for a while.
Langley felt sure his breathing, or
the ticking of his watch, or the beat
ing of hiu heart must be heard. The
cold sweat rau dowu hU fuoo uud neck.
Ho was madly impelled to shriek. Tho
muscles ol bin legs twitched. Ha had
to dig his nails juto hi palm, to kei"
nis uuudi still.
Suddenly, with an 01th, Sam cried:
"I have it! I have it!"
"Are you shouting for the police,
even before thny have light to find
anythingin the river?" whispered Jim.
"I have it, I tell you," cried Sam,
iu triumph. "What fell in the rivor
was carried to the sea in tho dark,
when there was no light."
"What's your opinion, then?"
"Old Billy often slept here. There's
the straw to show ho did "
"I heard the straw move as if he was
on it now," said Jim, in a whisper of
horror.
"Black Billy is in the channel long
ago, yott fool !"
Jim moaned. "Either the straw
moved or I'm mad."
"You'ro crazy with fear. You
haven't the heart of a hare. Listen.
To-night old Billy slept on tha
straw "
"Don't 1 Don't, Sam! Let the straw
alone. It hears you ! He has come to
it np out of the water. I'm nearer
the straw than you. I can hoar him
breathing."
"Hold your prate, or I'll put a
charge into you. To night ho set fito
to the straw aud was burned to dust.
What do yon think of that, my white
livered Jim?" cried Sam, exultantly.
"I I I think it might do if he
was in the river or the sea. But he's
here. He's lying on the straw, listen
ing to us, aud whatever you do or say ;
he'll baug us. I can feol the straw
stirring against me now. For God's
sake strike a light 1 My hands are
shaking so I can't."
"Ay, I'll strike a light fast enough."
The action followed the words, and
Sam thrust the flaming match into the
straw.
A cone of fire shot up.
Langley, pale and resolute, determ
ined to make one desperate plunge for
the door, leaped from the blazing
straw and, dashing tho smoke from
his eyes, staggered, paused motionless,
and stood staring with distended and
open month at the door.
"It's Black Billy himselfl" shrieked
Jim, cowering against the wall and
pointing to tho ghastly face of Lang
ley. Quick as lightning Sam covered
Langley. "If you move you are a
dead man. Who are you?"
"It's Black Billy himself," whimp
ered Jim. "Black Billy himself, come
out of the river to hang us!"
' "He's the makings of another mur
der. It's a spy. His hair is light, not
dark, yon fool!"
Langley did not move. He glanced
from the mnzzlo of the gun to the
doorway. He spoke:
"I am not Black Billy. There would
be no good iu my saying I did not
hear your conversation."
"Then it was a bad hour for you
when you did hoar it," said Sam, with
the gun still pointing at Langley.
"I'm not bo sure of that, and I think
it a very good thing for you I did over
hear it."
"I don't want to take you too Bud
den, for you may not have been here
as a spy ; but you know too much for
ever going out of tho door of this
place alive."
"I know more than you think, and
therefore I will go out of that door
alive."
"Come; tho honso is filling with
smoke. You can have ten minutes."
"Can't I have till day?"
"No. In three minutes this place
will bo too hot and too lull of smoke
to stay in it."
"Not till day, not to see the snu
once more, and it is already dawn.
Look !
The poachers already turned their
eyes towards the door.
With a groan Jim fell forward iu
sensiblo. With an oath Sum dropped his gun
to the ground.
The figure of BInok Billy, the
gamekeeper, stood on the threshold.
Jim was dragged out of the burn
ing building and Sam's hands were
bound.
"Wheu I was just exhausted in the
water, after that ruffian had knocked
me in," said the gamekeeper later, "(
gripped the gunwale of a half-swamped
punt, and with tho other half of her
kept afloat until I scrambled ashore."
"That must have been my boat,"
said Laugly, "so that my punt saved
your life, aud theu you saved mine.
Woll, one good turu deserves an
other,' I daro say." St Paul's.
- Animated Barometer.'.
Says an old Pennsylvania farmer:
"I always know wheu there is to be a
windstorm by watching tho turkeys
and chickens go to roost each night.
Iu calm weather tho fowls always
roost 011 their poles with their heads
alternating each way; that is, oue
faces east, tho next west, uud so ou.
But wheu there is going to be a high
Bind they al vays roost with their
heads toward tho tiirectiou from which
it is comiug. There are reasons for
these different ways of roostiug, I
take it. Wheu there is no wind to
guard against they cau see other dan
ger more readily if they are headed iu
both directions, but wheu wiud is to
urifo they f:ice it because they can
hold their positions better. But the
part I can't rtudclstaud," he con
cluded, "is how the critters know
that the wind is goiur to rise when
we mortuls luck ull iutimuliou of it."
New York Tribune.
The JluUlier'i ( hiiptiuT Block.
Butchers' chopping blocks ma lo in
sections uro now sometimes used iu
stead of tho old tiiuo block made from
a tectiou of a single large tree. iVr
iiups the scircity of timber has some
thing to do with the introduction of
the uow sort of block. It is made of
maple iu lou: purullidopipu Ions about
una uud a half inches square, it is
said that such a block may be made
of uniform harduu.ui throughout, a
thin; li)'. u iii'lv fill ud IU the solid
block. Nvw I'orik Sim,
TIIE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE.
STORIES THAT ARE TOLD 3T THE
TVSST MEN OP THE PRESS.
A Mgn of Sprlns; Lovers' Lunacy
Iter Own Limited Conditional
"There Are Trick," Kt, Kto.
We know tnat spring time has como round,
For as we walk tho street,
We see a shining, brnml-new tto
On every niuu we mel .
Hartford Journal.
IvOVEBa' 1ATNACV.
She "What effect does the full
moon havo upon tho tide?"
He "None, but it has considerable
upon the un tied." Life.
conditio an.
"Will you lovo mo when I'm gone?"
asked Mr. Linger of his sweetheart.
"If you'll go soou," replied tho
faithful girl with a yawn. Judge.
M TUB GWAMrXO.
She (pointing at a stur)
'Ah,
there is Orion I
Voice (from the darkness)- "YeZ
are mishlukeu, mum, it's O'Reilly. "
Life.
JIER OWN,
"The duke seems to bo completely
bliuded to Miss do Million's true char
acter." "Yes; she threw dust in his eyes."
Puck.
BEATING AliOCT Till! BCSH.
A. "What I You called me a swin
dlor?" B. "No; but I am prepared to
give ton dollars to any one who proves
to me the contrary."
MMrTEO.
Patient (about to bavo his leg re
moved, cheerfully) "Well, dootor,
I'm afraid that I won't bo able to go
to any more dances."
Dr. Knifer "No. After this you'll
havo to confine yourself to hops. "
New York World.
HIS PBEFBKKNCC.
A Milyun Haire--"My daughter re
turns from Europe to-day, sir. Mako
arrangements for a stunning reocption
to her. I give you carte blanche."
His Secretary--"! would lie per
fectly satisfied, sir, if you would only
givo ine Blanche." Truth.
"THBBK ARK TBICKS."
Visitor "Are all thosa ladies wait
ing for change?"
Merchant Prince "Oh, dear, no I
They are connected with the house.
They stimulate trade by struggling
with customers who try to approach
tho bargain counter." Puck.
A PASSION WITH HIM.
Sho "And tell me now, are you
much interested in science?"
Ho "Interested iu science? I
should say so. Why, I know the his
tory of all tho champions of the ring,
and there isn't anything about any of
tho big fights that have taken place in
the last forty years, that I can't tell
you. Science? The manly art is just
food, drink and lodging for me."
Boston Transcript.
THE LOXSIAWOOD UOSli COMPANY,
Citily "I see you wear a badge of
the Lonely wood Hose Company. Isn't
it pretty tough to havo to rospond to
an alarm on a cold, rainy night, when
you've worked hard in the city all
day?"
Commuter (lightly) "Pooh, pooh,
man I Why, you can stay at home
and pay a dollar fine. That'e what
everybody does except the mao whoso
honso is afire." Judge,
BLIGHTED.
"What is this?" exclaimod the pri
ma donna, as sho crumpled tho printed
Rhoet, threw it 11 pun the floor and
slumped upon it.
"What is tho matter, my dear?"
asked her husband.
"A brand of piano bus been placed
on tho market without my knowledge,
and I have not written a testimonial
eayiug it is tho finest instrument I
havo ever used. This is tho flrit timo
suuh a tbiug happened aud it is an iu
sult." Washington Star.
JUSTIFIED SITil'ICION.
"Yes," said t'-b landlord, who was
i-bowing a prospective tenant through
the house, "tho ,'lut is fitted with ull
modern improvements, good sanita
tion, ample heat and light arraugo
inents, a fine kitchen, elevator nurvioo
ull night, and the rent is only J25."
"Sny 110 more," interrupted the flat
linnter, sadly. "I must refuse the in
viting offer. There can bo only one
iuferenco from your low rent there
is a young lady pianist iu tho flat
above." Chicago Becord.
BUKPK'IENTLV I:KW MtbKD.
The latest jokt at tho expense of
the French Society for the Protection
of Animuls is to llio following ollect:
A countryman, unucd with nu im
u.euso club, presents himself before
the I'rcfcidci.t of tho sooiety, aud
claims the firt priz lie is asked to
describe thu net of Immunity on which
he fuuuds the claim :
"1 saved tho life of a woit," replies
the countryman. "1 might msily
Lave killcd'him with this bludgeon,"
uud he. swings bis weapon in tho uir,
to the immense discomfort of thu l'ro
ileut. "But wheio wwi tliiewoll?" iu.piircs
the latter; "what hid ho doue to
youV"
"Ho had just tluvoiirod lay wift',"
was tho reply.
Tho I'resideut reflect uu iiiptaid.
aud theu says: ".Vly friend, I am uf
opinion that you havo becu suUicieut
1 rewarded." New York Post.
SCIEXTIFIC AXD INDUSTRIAL.
Only one-half of children born reach
the ago of seventeen years.
Coal tar is tho latest Parisian remedy
for all the ills. It is taken in the
rough.
On a summer day the average healthy
adult perspires about twenty-eight
ouncos.
W. C. Eagan has given a collection
of J0.000 rare fossils to tho Chicago
Academy of Soicnces.
Twenty-seven knots per hour is tho
guaranteed speed of tho new British
torpedo boat dostroyer Jonus, just
launched. A number of physicians declared
that cuclein, tho recently discovered
fluid, will create a revolution in medi
cal scienoe.
An English inventor has devised an
automatic air brake, in which tho
weight of the train supplies the power
to set the brakes.
Soa anemones have boen known to
live for three or four years without
any nourishment save what they ex
tract from tho water.
Experiments are being made with
two ambulance wagons, tho one
equipped with solid rubber and tho
other with pneumatic tires.
The sound of a bell can ba heard
through tho water at a distanoo of
45,200 feet. Through the air it cau
be heard at a distance of only 156 feet.
Freight cars iu Eugland aro only
seventeen feet loug, oarry but teu
tons, and forty-five of them make a
train for one of their funny littlo en
gines. Women nowadays are generally ac
knowledged to be an iuch or two taller,
and two or three inches greater iu
ohest development tU vu their grand
mothers were.
I The people of tropical couutrio
almost invariably uso some form of
capsicum with maize as a stimulant to
the stomach, maizo beiug mora ditli
cult of digestion than some other
grains.
A well known electrician, S. A. Var
ley, has expressed his opiniou that a
lightning disoharga may occasionally
kill birds flying in tha air, but simply
from their being accidentally iu tho
Hue of the path of dischargo or iu
close vioiuity to the path.
It is now a well recognizod fact,
states a medical journal, that the
structures of the eye, especially the
cornea and conjunctiva, are subject to
malarial affections, periodical in char
acter, differing from the usual affec
tions of these parts, but involing actual
tissue change, aud amenable to qui
nine or other antimalarial treatment.
One of the latest Enudish torpedo
boat destroyers recently main a suc
cessful trial, attaining a meau speed
on six trilea at 27.97 knots, and for the
three hours' ruuniug 27.0 knots, beiug
more than half a knot in excess of thu
contract spoed. Exhaustive trials of
steering, both ahoad aud astoru, at
full speed were also carried out with
satisfactory results.
A Couvlcl'i PtMplictlc YUIoa.
Ira Cooper, rcooive.l at tho Peni
tentiary December 0, lS'JJ, from Ash
land County, to servo a three-year
sentence for burglary an 1 larceny, h i 1
his left arm wrenched fro 11 tus sock
et and torn completely o:i by beiii;
caught iu the shafting.
A remarkable incident in conjuuo
tiou with tho affiir is related. At
throe separate times, as stated by
Cooper to a friend who stood by the
side of his oot after ho had becomo'
somewhat culm after tho accident, ha
had dreamed of being one-armed.
Soma three mouths ago ho hud the
dream and saw himself with oue arm
gone ; which one he di l not remem
ber. Shortly after be hid the same
sort of a dream aud rumcinbered iu
his wakiug hours that it was the lefc
arm thut waa missing. Ou Wednes
day night, bo he statud to his friends,
he had tho most vivid dream of tho
series in which tho ssjuo of tha actual
occurrence of yostyr.luy was live I
ovor iu almost tho ox tct details, lie
stnted bis dream to his eellmatj
Thursday morning, uud ulso stuted to
him that ho had a siiuilur dream twice
before. Ho gloomily predicted that
Hometbiug would happen that day,
und seemed to bo thoughtful uu I de
pressed ull day uuuau.illy so. Wheu
night came Thursday he was a littlo
more cheerful uud seemed glud the
day had passu I oil without the occur
rence ho had fenro.l. Yesterday morn
ing he rose tomcwhut gloomy, yet
hopeful, but tho vividucss of tho
dream could not bo sli'ikuu off, uud it
wus tho first thing ha thought of an I
spoke of ufter he ha I recovered some
what from the first bliock of thu af
fair. Ohio Slate Journal.
Suuu Mini's.
Tho natural soap minus at Owon'a
Luke, California, are uccoiiulo I for by
a bciontist who advauci-a this theory,
according to tho Uiu -iuu ili Kuijuirer :
The water iu the bike contiuu, lie
says, a strong uolutiou of luth borax
aud soda. Jn the water u curious
specimen of grub breeds by millions.
Thoe grubs go thruu ;li their various
transformations uud tin illy emc-'ge at
short -winged, heavy-lio lied Hie, very
fat and oily. They Jive but a few
day, dyiug uud laliiu .; iut i the lake
iu such numbers as I iio treijiientl
washed unhore iu l avers nioiu than a
loot thick. Thu uiiy tut.;au.'j of tit
dead flies blends w;t!i th j alkali of I It j
borax tin I soda ail t n 1 rc-.nl; is a
layer of pure soap, cm r.'spuu.liu;; iu
thickness to tile drift U il 1 o I ho
ileud llios, a foot deep oi lli.s m-ikiii ;
a layer ot sosp ucurly uu in :U thicl..
Theso strata, repeuto I year a tt-r yi-ar,
huve formed tho i-e! lirate I
Bunks of Oneu's I.alu','' win-re for u
number of years pa.it a larjo body ui
uiuu have biuu tegulurly at norL,
WANS O THE MOON.
Tho Icy moon hath had her day.
The moun thut bnniKUt the frost 1 itayi
'Tis time that she wore Rone nway
To ftny away forever,
ner hands that let the frost-flowers fall'
The white uud velvet funeral pall,
No more have any power at all
To sot the worn to shiver.
Bare trophy hers of frozen lards
Stublied to the death with ley sword.:,
Aud plteos frozen flocks and herds
Amid tho teo-flolds lylux: ,.
Of piteous huaiau folk that K'"'an
Clustered about a cold hearthstone,
Aud unborn flowers as cold aud luue,
And unborn blossom dyiu-t.
Come, mild spriuR moon, that sweetly strays
O'er gold and purple meadow way?.
Sown llko our laud In rich May days,
With cowslip heads and clover;
Come with thy iild eyes like a irlrl,
Thy lifted gowu of mother o' pearl.
iVheroiu the dear spriutt blooms unfurl!
Come, make tho world thy lover!
l'all Mull Budget.
HUMOR OF THE BAY.
Many people can do worso than road
spring poetry. They might write it.
-Philadelphia Times.
Strawber "Was her father willing
to help you out?" Singurly "That's
tho way he actod."--Brooklyn Life.
"Tom, whom did you say our friend
Lawley married?" "Well, he uiarriod
$10,000. I forgot her other name."
Tid-Bits.
'"Do you think the new boarder is
permanent?" "Yes, indeed ! He threat
ens continually to leave." Chicago
Inter-Ocean.
He "I'm awfully iu lovo with her,
but I wouldn't have hor know it for
the world." She -"So Bhe told mo."
Pall Mall Gazette.
"Oh, doctor, how do you do? You
look killing thi evouing." "Thank
you; but I'm not; I'm off duty, you
know." Brooklyn Life.
"Oh, my dear Mrs. , how glad I
am to see yon. It is four years siuoe wo
met, and von recognized roe immedi
ately?" "Oh, yes; I rocoguizod tho
hat."
Tommy Ask 01 "Now, if you was to
git to be a artist, what would you
like to draw?" Audy Quick "A
check on the bank." Philadelphia
Inquirer.
First Boarder" What's tho star
boarder making all that hubbub about
over that berry pie?" Second Board
er "I guess ho found the berry."
Syracuse Post.
Sqnildig "He's a great criminal
lawyer, isn't he?" McSwilligcn
"Well, I believe be always stops short
of actual criminality." Pittsburg
Chronicle Telegraph.
"Say, Jack, what is the capital of
Switzerland?" Jack (who has just re
turned from abroad) "Why, tho
money thoy get from travelers, of
couruo." Boston Bulletin.
Figgs "My ! but isn't that a pic
ture?" Fogg "Quite stylish. But
what is it? Looks rather large for a
piano lamp, and rather too small for a
woman." Boston Transcript.
She "So the count's relatives con
eider it a mesalliance?" Ho "De
cidedly. Tho girl has only a quartet
of a million, and the count owos three
times as much as thut." Judge.
Professor (to his wife) "Elisc, I
have promised to deliver an uddrosa
to-morrow evening ou the rational ex
ercises of tha memory. Dou't let mo
forget about it." FliegonJo Blaolter.
Qussy "Why do you sa persist
ently wear the hair of auother woman
on your bead?" Beatrici "For tho
same reason that you wear the skin of
another calf on your foot. " Tho Oreat
Divido.
Goutran burst liko a whirlwiud iu
upon his frieud Gastou. "Will you
be my witness?" "Going to fight?"
"No, to get married." Gastou (after
a pause) --"Can't you apologize?"
Los Angeles Herald.
Her "John, I do believe the baby .
has swallowed your collar button."
Him "It won't tike loug to find out,
If ho has he will bo trying to crawl un
der tho bureau iu a few miuutcs."
Cincinnati Tribune.
Wife (to uuhappy husband) ''I
wouldn't worry, Johu ; it doesn't do
any good to borrow trouble." Husband
"Borrow trouble? Groat Ciusur, my
dear, I ain't borrowiug ttoublo; I'vo
got it to lend." Colorado Sun.
Slum Parent "ITou tell mo that
you love my daughter and wish to
marry her. But how do you expect to
live ou 3300 a year?" Loving Swaiu
"Oh, come, uow, your income must
be moro thau thut!" Bostou Truu
script. Nell "Do you kuow, I was ull
uloue iu the conservatory for ten min
utes with thut fusciuutiug Charles Ful
lertou lust evening, uud I wus s
afraid." Belle ".So afraid of wbat?
Afraid ho was goiug to propose to
you?" Nell "No; afraid he wasn't."
Somervillo Journal.
Mr. Shaudy (petulantly from his pil
low) "Kthol, 1 kuow I heard a uoisa.
I'm sure there's a womuu iu the house.
1 wou't sleep a wiuk unless you go
down uud see." Mrs. Khuudy (oit
with revolver) "Blumo it all, Willie,
if you bother mo like thut uuiu, 1 11
send you hues to your Xuthcr."--Nw
York Herald.
Now York City has lost one of its
typical characters in tho deatli of
Nutliau Sanders, who for years sup
plied street venders with their wares,
uud thereby earned the title of the
"King of the Fakirs."
The number o! divorce eases iu
France is steadily ou the increase,
nixty per ceut. of thu suits being
brought by women.