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Tbo Duke of Argylo co mplains tbnt
tbo Highlanders are too prolific
"Tho bicycle in responsible for e
serious decay in public manners," de
clares tlio New York Sun.
China propones to fortify Fekin by
building a chain of huge, forts, pro
vided with the best of artillery,
around the city.
Our War Department coi:t lust year,
1801. $51,507,931). Our army is the
most expensive, proportioned to its
numbcro, in the world, stales tho New
York Mail and Expross.
A Babylonian tablet in the British
Museum which has just been de
ciphered has nu accouut of tho death
of King Sennacherib, almost identical
with that in tho Biblo (II. Kings,
xix., 37).
Tho Department of Agriculture is
preparing n gigantic rood map of the
United Slates. Tho inajftrhen com
pleted will show the condition as re
gards paviug or macadamizing, con
struction and repair of every highway
in tho United Stales. The first Btep in
(ho construction of good roads ii to
find out how many bad ones there nre,
which this mnp will set forth.
Tho Volk points out that the Ger
man courts discriminate in favor of
duelling. If a tailor or cobbler re
sents; an insult by knocking clown his
I'efumcr ho suffers imprisonment with
nil its rigors, but if an officer or other
chap of "quality" punishes a similar
insult by shooting his adversary, or
running a sword through his body, he
is merely detained within tho confines
of some fortress and there treated as a
"gentleman."
Maine is well in hue, cote- the New
lorkSun. Her corn crop this vest
will be one of the lurgcst over known.
It is also a grc:ii year for beechnuts
iu Maine. It's been a bij year for
lobsters, too, over 4,000,000 lobster?
having been taken along the Maino
roast this season, Recording to tho es
timate of tho Fish Commissioner.
This is a greater quantity than was
taken on all tho rent of tho Atlantic
coast from Now Hampshire to Florida.
Tho fishermen got au average price of
eight cents apiece for tho tisb.
There is considerable talk again in
tho Michigan peninsula about the pro
posed canal to connect tho southoast
end of Lake Michigan with tho west
oud of Lake Erie, that is, to connect
Chicago and Toledo, and thus save tbo
several days of transit through the
length of Lake Michigan 'and Like
Huron. It is said Chicago capitalists
have recently been making investiga
tions in connection with the scheme.
Tho undertaken ii spoken of as the
"Trans-Michigan Ocean Ship Canal."
It looks fasciuatiugon the map.
Batavia, N. Y., formerly paid $7,
200 for seventy-two are lights, or $100
a light. By the issue of bonds a new
municipal plant costing $23,000 was
completed one year ago. The number
of lights was increased fourteen, mak
ing eighty-six in all. The actual cost
of ruuuing tho eighty-six lights was
Tj70.0S, or 11.(32 per light per
year less than eleven and one-half
cents per night. Adding extraordi
nary expenses, Batavia paid for eighty
six lights uuder village ownership So',
055.57, or at the rate of sixteen cents
a night per light.
A lumber dealer in New Hampshiro
of advanced age, and who retired
from active operations many years ago,
expresses great surprise at tho rapid
Change in the distribution ol wood
uud lumber since his active business
period. Ho referred to many piles of
Southern pine timber along the tracks
of repair shops and railroad yards,
throughout New Hampshire and Ver
mont, ready for use in bridges, plat
forms, car construction aud general
.repairs. Ho also referred with disap
pointment to the almost total cessatiou
in the use of hard wood for fuel by
the railroad corporations. Those com
panics in yours gone by made large
contracts at almost every station along
the road for hundreds or thousands of
cords of firewood for the engines and
"boilers, also for the stoves in the tail
wny cars. Now the amount of wood
consumed by the railroad corporations
is quite iusiguilicunt aud only for
kindling purposes. Thus a large in
come is withdrawn from the towns
and villages along tho lines of New
Englaud railways, and the price of
cord wood has sunk to an uuremuuer
atire rate, diminishing the present
valuo of hard wood lands, but allowing
the same to grow up and finally t be
used as timber fur many aud vaii sd
industries which are sure to b ia iY a
duced in the future ooouoiuy of AVm
JJljUud.
LITTLE KINDNESSES,
tf you were lolling up n weary lil'.l
liearln? a load beyond yum- strenglli to
bear,
Straining each nerve v.niiriugly, and still
Htumhlliig and losing f--o!hol .1 hero ami
there,
And each one passing by would do so ninc-h
As glvo one upward lift and go Jlhelr way,
Would not tho slight reiterated touch
Of li.lp and kindness lighten all the day?
If you were breasting a keen wind, which
tossed
And buffeted and chilled you as you strove,
Till, liaflled and bewildered quite, you lost
The power to see tho way, aud aim and
move,
And one, If only for a moment's space.
Clave you a shelter from tho bitter blast,
Would not the touch givo you tho strength
to face
Tho storm again when tho brief rest-was
past V
There is no little and there is no much;
We weigh and measure and doflne in vaiu.
A look, a word, a light responsive touch
Can be the mlnlstors of Joy to pain.
A mau can die of hunger Walled in gold,
A crumb may quicken hopo to stronger
.'' breotb,
And every day wo give or we withhold
Some little thing which tells for lifo ol
dest b.
Hunday School Times.
DAPHNE.
ALL, angular and
peculiarly plain,
she was the wife of
a Queensland Bush
Carrier; and it is,
I bolieve, an ac
cepted fact that
ladies of that sta
tion are not noted
cither for their
culture or their re
finement. Crawling with heavily-ladoned bul
lock wagons across plains aud never
ending scrubs would not appear to be
an existence possessed of muny
charms, and yet I behove there is no
case on record of a man or woman
who, having ouce served his or her ap
prenticeship to the trade, has ever re
turned to a civilized life again.
In tbo Qneenland Bush carrying
trade, you must understand, tbero are
three main arteries, the townships of
Hugbondun, Longreaoh and Charle
ville, and from eaoh of these places
there flows continually a stream of
enormous table-topped wagons, bound
for stations in the Oreat West, all
more or less remote from what is
generally supposed to make lifo worth
living.
Tho existence of the carrier is rough
to a terrible degree, and must in no
way be confounded with that of the
respectable, jog-trot class who ply
their trade in English rural districts.
Small wonder that the women grow to
bo hard and rough, consorting, as they
do, with nono but the sternest of the
opposite sex, and daily doing work
that would test the patience and en
durance of the strongest man. These
are some of the folk who in reality do
the building up of our colonies, al
though the credit goes to another
noisier, uglier and far less useful class.
But to get back to my story.
As I have said at the beginning, she
was tall, angular and peculiarly plain,
and, in spite of the glaring incongruity
of it, it must be recorded that her
baptismal name was Daphne. Her
husband was a carrier on the Hid-geree-Kalaba
track, and she was at
onuo tho brain and the mainstay of his
business.
My first acquaintance with them
occurred ou the edge of a Boree scrub,
a dismal place, and more than a hun
dred miles removed from either of tho
above townships. They were camped
boside a big .water hole, and ou dis
mounting from my horse 1 was intro
duced by the carrier, with becoming
ceremony, to his wife. Greatiwero
tho proofs of friendship they showed
to me, aud long will X cherish tho
memory of that rough but hearty hos
pitality. Next morning I went my
way, they theirs, and it was not for
nearly a yoar that we met again.
Wuen next I heardjof them. Daphne
was in the township hospital, recover
ing from a serious accident occasioned
by n full from the wagon ; aud her
husband, au enormously built mau,
with a rough manner, which, by those
unskilled iu such matters, might easily
have bceu mistaken for insolence, had
that very day returned with loading
from the west. By inquiring alter his
wife, whose illness I was aware of, I
touched the right string ; for ais eyes
lit up, his voice softened aud ho au
swered my questions with surprising
meekness.
"3he was getting on well," he said,
"but all the same, it was terrible slow
work."
Now, it must be kuown here that
although tlio Kalaba Hospital ocoupies
tho best position iu the township, even
theu it if, il anything, a little less
cheerful thau an undertaker's show
room. Oreat gray plains surround it
ou three sides; the township, with lis
ugly whitewashed roofs, stares at it
from tho fourth; aud it would be im
possible to say which view would be
likely to have the most depressing
cifleut upon an invalid. I am told that
Kalaba was only desigued as adepot
for tho Great West, aud I console my-
Kll with the reflection that in the
very near future the Overland Railway
will obviate that necessity, aud theu
it will be scattered to the four wiutls
of heaven. At present it is tho Deca
logue turned backward.
W hen iny business was finished I
io. to up to the hospital aud left some
newspapers. Duphuo beiug the only
putieut, I found her ocupyiug the
hest bed iu tho ouly ward. Her wiry
black hair atraggled in rank confusion
about the pillow, while her complex
ion huriiiouiy.ed, us well as a well
tunned skin would permit, with the
dingy whitvuw-t of tiiu count "'.' iuc
Only the great dart boaest eyes lent
relief to the monotony of her expres
sion, and they were now full of some
thing which, when read aright, spelt
hopelessness of an extraordinary do
gree. Toward the end of tho afternoon tho
husband made his appearance, and,
preceded by tho matron, stalked into
hiswifos pretence. For r. moment
he stood in tho doorway, dazed, be
wildered perhaps by half darkness;
then, recognizing bis wife, ho ad
vanced toward the bod.
"Daphne, old gal," he said, with a
liitle tremor in his voice, as he bent
over her, "an" 'ow"s it with ee now?
le looks better by a good sight I"
She gave a little sigh before she ro
plied.
"I'm nearly well, now, Bill; bet
ter'n 1 'ave been by a long chalk. Sit
ye clown, old man, and tell ne w it
it goes with the children an' the
team !"
Bill sat very gingerly on the edge of
the bed, and as if out of compliment
to toe peculiar cleanliness of the place,
fell to scrubbing his face with a flar
ing red cotton handkerchief.
"Tbo kids is fit, and the team's first
class I" ho answered.
Theu with a gesture of almost awe,
he assumed possession of one of the
tbin brown bands upon the coverlet.
"My lass, 'ow dog poor yer 'ands
has got, to be sure ; but they was al
ways pretty 'ands to my tbinkin'."
Dnphue patted his great brown paws
and allowed a little wan smile of grati
lied vanity to flicker across her faoe,
Let the woman be ever so old and
plum, shs is never beyond the reach
of a compliment from the man she
loves.
"An' 'ow's tho roads lookin' out
back?'' she asked.
"Al, an' no mistake; green as a leaf
all tho way. irom here to Kidgeree
Creek there's water in every hole, an
the little wild flowers yer used to like
is that thick along the track yer can
hardly see tho grass tor em. I
brought yer some 1"
Out of the lining of his big cabbage-
tree hat he took a tiny bunch of Bush
bluebells and placed them in her band.
It was a critical moment for both of
them. He was acntely afraid of ridi
cule ; she, for somo reason she could
not have explained, did not know
whether to laugh or cry.
She laid the flowers on the table by
her bedside, aud then turned to her
husband, tho better to expross her
thanks.
"Bill," she said softly, "you was
alius a good chap to me 1"
"Nay, nay, my lass, you mustn't
say that. You don't know 'ow we
misses yer out yonder ; things ain't the
same at all without you. Make 'aste
an' get well an' come back to the kids
an' me, au' let's get out of this 'ere
town.
"Bill! I shan't be "
Shan't bo what, lass?"
He laoked rather anxiously down at
her.
"1 Bhau't be " The weak voice
paused as if to think of n word, then
she seemed to choke, and after that a
painful silence ensued.
Finally she said :
"I I shan't be long."
Bill gave a sigh of relief and con
tinued :
"I'm 'avin' now tires put on the
forewheels, an' we've got the new pair
o' steers in place o' Billabong an'
Blossom that were too old for work.
We've got full loadin' out to the Dia
mautiua an' back, an' when the trip's
dono there'll perhaps be a matter o'
20 to put in the stocking for the
kids. Out well, my lass, an' come
back to yer place ou the load ; tho
Bush wind, an' the blue sky, an' the
sight o' them wild flowerB'U soon set
yer right. Yer ain't foelin' any worse,
are yer?"
"No, old man; the doctor says I'll
be out this side o' Sunday."
"That's the talk! We're camped
dowu yonder on the creek, an' the day
ye're out I'll como up and fetch yer
meself. The team'll be all fresh, tho
loadin' '11 be aboard, an' the very
next mornin' we'll have the yokes on,
au' bj where a man's got room to
breathe I"
"Why, Bill, I never 'card yer talk
so before! It's like what the parson,
who comes here every Monday, oalls
poetry I"
Thera was an ocean of pathos in the
man's reply :
"Yer sue, old girl, I must talk a bit
different, ior yer aiu't never been ill
liko this afore I"
Another long sileuco fell upon the
pair. Then ho rose to say goodby,
aud his wife's faoe grew, if possible,
paler thau before.
"Bill I" she began falteriugly, "I've
been a-tryin' aU the time yer've been
here lo tell yer sometbin', but I duu
uo bow to begin. It's this way "
"Out wi' it, my l iss. What's wrong?
Ain't they been a treatin' yer well in
'orsepital?"
"It's not that, Bill," sho answered,
"But there I can't tell you. Flesh
aud blood couldn't, let aloue yer wife.
You must just ask the doctor, when
yer get otitkide, if 'e's got auythiu' to
hiv uiu' mo wulkiu' with tho team,
will yer?'
"If yer says so, iu course. But,
Daphne, there ain't nothiu' agi'n it,
is there?"
'.ki ax him; 'e'll tell yer, Bill.
But 'eru's tuo rn'itriu comin'; I guess
yer'd better bo goin'. Tell them kid
dies their mother ain't forgot 'em!"
liaising herself with an effirt, sue
pilled the big u.au's tangled h?al
iown to her, uud kissed bim ou the
l'oreheud with a gentleness that would
have been grotesque, if the sentiment
tiiat promoted it had not bee so
growsomely puthetio. Then, l.,
niutrou upproached the bud, he went
dou u the corridor to find the house
surgeon.
The latter, I may tell you, was a
roue.ii mau, embittered by bar 1 work
and iufculliitient l' t u i us ; t'i' pj. ition
boing but little Bought after by tho
sbinicg lights of the profession.
When Daphne's husband entered he
was engaged writing to the Board, de
manding for the sixth time, an in
crease in his meagre salary.
He looked up, and, seeing the man
before him, said roughly:
"Well, what do you want?"
The carrier shuffled from one foot
to the other with evident uneasiness.
"Beg yer pardin, sir, an' sorry for
interruptin' ; bnt the missus axed me
to ax you if it were likely yer'd have
auy objection to 'er walkin' alongside
the team when she comes out?"
"Whose missus? Oh! I under
stand ; tho woman in the ward there.
Walk beside the team? Good heav
ens, man ! What are you talking
about? Are you mad? Howon earth
can she walk beside the team?"
"I mean, in course, sir, when she's
well enough to come out."
"Well enough to come out? Why,
man alive 1 she's as well now as ever
she will be. It was compound frac
ture of both femur, and a double
amputation. She hasn't a leg to stand
ou, much lees to walk with I No!
No ! You'd better look out for a
bouse in the towftship, and find some
body to move her about for the rest of
her life. She'll never be able to trav
el with you again. Here ! hang it,
man, go outside if you are going to be
ill!"
"I ax yer pardin' sir, but if yer
don't mind, I'll just sit down for a
minute. Everything a-goin' round
an' round, an' I don't somehow fee)
kinder well." Chambers's Journal.
New Uses lor Teat.
Oermen chemists have been experi
menting with Irish peat, and havo
secured such remarkable results that
a syndicate has been formed for the
manufacture, on a commercial scalp,
of the various products that may be
obtained from Ireland's bog 'lands.
One of these products is an antiseptic
"wool" for dressing wounds. It pos
sesses absorbant qualities so great
that it will soak up nine times its
weight in moisture. The medical de
partment of tbo French army has
adopted this substitute for lint, and
12,000 kilograms of it were sent with
tbo expeditionary force to Madagascar.
By a different process of chemical
treatment the, peat is formed into a
material from which any article re
quiring hardness and durability can
be produced. The Gorman syndicate
has now on exhibition in London in
snlatois, axle boxes, machinery bear
ings, gun stocks, pianoforte legs and
numerous other things to illustrate
the possibilities of this new material.
Peat has been used in this country
for lining rofrigerators and cold stor
age rooms and to some extent as a
oovering for steam pipes, because of
its value as a non-conductor of heat.
But by these new German processes a
wido field appears to have been
opened, in which capital and labor
may be profitably employed, and the
Irish pout bogs acquire a value hith
erto unknown. One of the largest
beds of fine peat in this country un
derlies the Great Dismal Swamp of
Virginia. If the experiments of tho
German chemists should ultimately
result in a large utilization of Iroland's
great deposits, it will not be long be
fore some American ohemiit deter
mines whether Virginia peat can be
treated in like msuner and the same
products bo obtained. Woroester
(Mass.) Spy.
Nightingales Sold lor Food.
M. De Farville, our Paris corre
spondent ssys.'asks for tho suppres
sion of bird markets. lie counted in
one Paris bird market last May 200
nightingales, hundreds of pinsons
(charming little songsters peouliur to
French woods and fields) and 2000
finches. Ship loads of quails are sent
from North Africa to France for tho
food markets. The goura, heron and
bird of paradise are becoming rare.
The plover must Boon disappear, its
wings beiug a favorite tiimming for
hats and its eggs a supper table deli
cacy. The white of its eggs has also,
when dried aud hardened, great in
dustrial value, imitations of meer
schaums being made with it. Japan is
the only country that shows itself well
alive to the value of all birds. Every
species is now protected in tho nest
ing time. M. I'ichet, an authority on
bird life, unites with M. Do I'arville
in demanding protection for all birds
in the nesting season. They are man's
one auxiliary against the insect.
London News.
A Ueuiarkable Vog.
"1 have a dog," said a iuinister.who
had just heard a precocious crow story,
"who is very sagacious. One Sunday
he followed me to church and sat
among the people and watched my
movements iu the pulpit. That after
noon I heard a terrible howling in my
baok yard, aud of course I went to see
what it meant. I fouud my dog was
iu a woodshed, standing ou his bind
legs in a dry goods box. He held
down a toru ulmuuao with oue paw and
gesticulated with tho other, while he
swayod bis head and howled us to au
audieuee of four other dogs even more
sadly thun I had done iu the morn
ing." The narrator of the crow story
threw up tho sponge. London Tit
Bits. Au Extraordinary Beggar.
At Bilboa, Spain, a beggar diod
lately at the aqe of one hundred aud
three years. There are said to be quite
a number of ceutenarians iu the laud
of the Hidalgos, and the beggar's
death would hardly have been deemed
worthy of public notice if the autopsy
of his body had not disulosed the very
extraordinary fn -t that the deceased
I.nr.n-'ts wh ii consumptive for certain
iy .ii.t less t'mu li.ti.' cvutury. New
V,rU World,
THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE.
8T0RIK3 THAT ARE TOLD BT THE
FUNNT MEN OF THi PRESS.
Fulfilment Itrjectrd Very Profi
cient There Anil He Owes K very
body A Martinet, Kte., VAc.
She grasped the bar, arranged her skirts
With dainty little tucks and flirts;
Posed on the saddle, felt the tread
Of pedal, and, "I'm ofT," she said.
A whirl of wheels, a swerve and sway,
And from the roadbed, where she l;ty,
Hho realized in full dcree
Tho climax of her prophecy.
llichmond Dispatch.
veiiy rnoKiriENT there.
"They say that Gertrude's husband
is almost illiterate."
"Well, he signs a check beauti
fullv." REJECTED.
Business Man "Are you a good
whistler, my boy ?"
Applicant "Yessir; daisy."
Business Man "Get!" Boston
Courier.
AND HE OWES EVERYBODY.
"Jones has a good deal of money,
hasn't he?"
"Well, he ought to have,"
"How is that?"
"He never pays any out !" Chicago
Becord.
IN NEED OP llErAlUU.
Sandstone "Weren't yon dancing
with Miss Calloway last night?"
Fiddleback "Yes; how did you
know?"
"I saw bcr go into a chiropodist's
this morning." Life.
SHY.
Lothair "How do yon manage
about your poor relatives now you
have got rich?"
Staythair "Oh, I sift all my rela
tions, rich and poor, the good from
the bad, and keep 'em strained."
Judge.
A MARTINET.
A soldier leaving the barracks is
stopped by the Corporal of tbeGnnrd.
"You cannot go without leave."
"I have tho verbal permission of
the Captain."
"Show me that verbal permission."
London Globe.
CRAFTY.
Doctor "I really don't understand.
There is no reason why you should go
in for a reduction of corpulency."
Patient "Still I want you to put
me through a course of anti-fut treat
ment. My Eulalia shall see with her
own eyes how I pine away for lovo of
bcr."
NO ACCIDENT.
Mr. Grogan (with tbo evening
paper) "Phwat's this Oi soe ! Two
yachts turned oopsoido don?"
Mrs. Grogan (turning the Bleak in
her excitement) "Bado it, Moike!
How many drowndid?"
Mr. Grogan "Wait a bit, thin
it's moi mislitake. Oi hod tbo iapir
oopsido down." Puck.
THE FAMILY MOCrOK.
New Resident (at Faraway) "Who
is tho best phyBiciau in tbo place?''
HighLocal Authority- "Dr. Germs,
by all means. He is becoming a very
famous man. Why, people aio send
ing for Iii in from everywhere. I ad
vise you to try bim."
New Resilient--"What is his spe
cialty?" High Local Authority (with pride)
-"Autopsies, I believe, sir." Jud;.;e.
A flESEllOVS LAD.
"Tommy I"
No answer.
"Toiu-mec !"
"Well?"
"What are you doing lo your broth
er Willie?"
"Nothiu'."
"Yes, you nre. You are making
him cry."
"No, I aiu't I'm beiu' generous.
I'm giviu' him half o" my co Uiver
oil." Harper's Round Table.
NOT (C1TR HOPBt.CKrf.
Husband (after a long tirade)
"You have talked for an hour about
that letter I forgot lo mail."
Wife "I havo a right lo. Just
thiuk how "
"And yon are Mire I am ju.st as bad
as yon make out ?"
"You are utterly and entirely "
"Ono inomunt. Give me credit fur
at least one thmc. "
"Well, what?''
"I didn't steal the stump," Now
York Weekly.
A llldl.odll AI. KIU.
First Scientist "Eureka ! What a
find! Hero is conclusive proof of all
our theories. See this rock? it is
us rouud as u barrel, uud just about
the same shape and si.e. It must have
rolled for ages at tbo bed of khuiu
swift htreaui. Note how smooth it
is." .
Second Scientist "Jt is uuliko auy
rock iu this vicinity, it must iiuvo
been brought from a great distance,
probably by some inihty iceberg iu
tbo agei that aro gone."
Third Soieutist "There aro moun
tains near here. It muy have come
dowu iu a glacier."
Fourth Scientist "It is uuliko auy
of the rock on those mountain, iu
faot, it is unlike any rock to be found
ou earth. It mu-t havo dropped lrom
the moon. lie re comes a furm baud.
I w ill ask bim if tin re nre any tru li
tions concerning it. Sen here, my
good mini, do you Know uuvtliing
about this htruiiij roc!; y
l.rm Hand "That tisiter bo u bur
lei o' cement," New lork Weekly,
SCIENTIFIC AX!) IXDL'STHIAI.
In tensile strength mahogany is next
to lance wood, 'sustaining 2 1,000 pounds
per square inch.
Some Danish naturalists in Green
land have brought up lobsters from a
depth of 1300 fathoms.
What argon is is still n puzzle to
scientists, as all attempts to discover
its chemical nature havo so far failed.
It is said that tbo largest crauo iu
tho world is in the Krupp iron works,
Essen, Germany. It lifts and turns a
weight of 150 tons.
The French makers of horseless car
riages claim to bo able to propel them
at cost for fuel of 1 cents a mile,
where the cost of oats for horses is
about four cents a mile.
A naphtha spring has been opened
at Grosni, in the Terek province, in
the Caucasus, Russia, which is throw
ing jets to a groat height and discharg
ing a large amount of the fluid daily.
Galton declares that the pattorns on
the finger tips are not only unchange
able through life, but that the cbanoe
of the finger prints of two persons be
ing alike is less than one in sixty-four
billions.
Dr. G. Schwalbo, of StraBburg, Ger
many, is making a tour of the world to
make a scientific collection of the
measurements of tho heads of various
races and tribes, besides an assortment
of skulls and hair.
A committee of tho British Dental
Association has examined the teeth of
11,422 school children. One thing
shown is that the teeth of children of
the rich are more prono to decay than
those of children of tbo poor.
I'ictet, the great Swiss chemist, has
fouud that a combination of sulphur
ous and carbonic acid gasos possesses
remarkablo power as a disinfectant.
It not only kills disease germs, bnt it
also diffuses itself iu such a wonder
fully penetrating way tbnt it acts more
rapidly than other fume.
The importation of steel wire gauze
with prepared wood pulp has rendered
it possible to employ paper for build
ing purposes. The rigidity of the wire
counteracts the buckliu; tendency oi
the paper. The material is water
proofed and readily fastened with steel
bands. It is said to bo nu effective
non-conductor, successfully resisting
heat, cold and wot, and to lend itself
well to artistic treatment.
Pencil That Went Throii?;i the War.
"I havo a very flue and choice cab
inet of relics and specimens of thq late
war," said J. Fillmore, of South
Dakota. He is an old veteran, and is
returning home from tho Louisville
encampment. "In thu collection is an
old-fashionod common lead penoil,
only three-quarters of an inch loner,
which was given to me by Major L.
B. Fairbanks, who carried it through
the entire war, aud iu presenting it to
mo the Major gavo me this biographi
cal sketch of the penoil : 'This peucil
is a veteran of tho late war. When it
enlisted it was rouud and of full
length.
" 'When tho war was over it wa
liko muny other veterans badly used
up. Diiriug its sLTvico it campaigned
in dust Bnd mud, over the hiiU au 1
plains of Maryland and Virginia,
through the swamps of Mississippi,
across tbo mountains of Kentucky and
Teuuessee aud ag.vin through Vir
ginia, from tho Wilderness lo Appo
mattox. It has witched upon the
picket lino iu daylight and in dark
ness, iu bent and cold, iu ruin aud iu
snow. It has taken part iu many
skirmishes, and iu more thau half v
scoro of regular battle, aud iu addi
tion it went through tho sioge oi
Petersburg, aud was engaged in several
of the assaults upon that stroughold.
With it, for eight mouths, while the
owner was first sergeant of bis com
pany, be kept the daily record aud re
port of the company.
" 'It wrote tho nuuio and the num
ber of those ou detached service, oi
tho absent with leave, of those daily
detailed for ordinary camp duties or
occasionally for somo special duty, of
the number present for duty nu I of
the siok in qimrk'r.-'. At the roll call
alter battle it bus noted tho names of
those wha did not answer. It has re
corded tho names of those men as
killud iu battle, wouude.l iu buttle,
died of wounds, died of disease, dis
charged on account oi wounds received,
aud diseuso contracted iu line of duty.
Iu its own way it has written its
bumble puge iu the history of the
most eventful epoch of nil times.
Preserve it aud cherish it.'" Kansas
City Times.
Knows die llelu-eir Bible hy Henri.
Whon Professor Jacob Cooper, of
Rutgers, was examined for udiuisiiou
to Valo iu 1852 Tutor Tuleott said to
Mr. Cooper: "How muah Greek havo
you read?" "Over pages," was
tho reply. "You don't menu that,
do you?" said Mr. Tuleott. "Isu't it
30110 lines?" "No, bir," was tbo reply.
"When 1 say pages f mean panes."
Iu later lifu ho declined that if ul! the
Hebrew Bibles iu tlio world were il
stroyed ho could reproduce the text
from memory. Professor Cooper's
scholarship was recognized by the
bestowal last summer of a degree of
I.li.D. by Tuluno I'niveril v.tho Pres
ident of which, Professor Juiiusou, was
a nicubcr of tho same class at s'a!o
uud remembered tlio iuuideut cited
above. Chiougo Chronicle.
A I'll iv lo;1 Marnier.
In Poluud it wn-i once tho custom to
teutouce backbit, -r.) to go ou ull four
uud bark liko a do,- for the sp.u-e o. u
quarter of au hoar. This mo le o
piiuishmeut was iiitro lac-d diuin.,
tho reigu of Charles V., lull il .i
boou abolished, as it had to Im ap
plied so fre.jiieiitly t'lit his niiji.ty',;
rest was tlist'irue I, for t'l i laii,;u.
went ou ull tho jloi a noon while l!ii
Courts wore sittiu j.
THE MYSTERY OF LOVE
The million stars that throng the skies
A score of mcons would make;
Yet now their twinklings Just suffice
The glonm of night to break.
So friendship may the offering bo
Of scores of royal hearts,
Yet fail to give the ecstasy
'rhat love alone Imparts.
Joseph W. Qulnn, in Womankiu l,
HUMOIt OF THE DAT.
As a rule, when a story is funny, it
is not true. Atchison Globe.
If nobody considers yon a crank,
you must have attracted very liitle at
tention. Tho family tree would be all very
fine if it were not all tree and no
crop. Life.
A dog will always fight another dog
quicker if it has a ribbon around its
neck. Atchison Globe.
"I will snatch a kiss!" heexclaimod.
"I verily believe," she faltered, shyly,
"you have the face to try it on."
The man who can compose a song
without the word "Ob" at the begin
ning should be given a medal. Peck's
Sun.
Friend "Was the season satisfac
tory?" Actoi "Well, wo escaped
with our lives and somo of our
trunks?"
It is hard to believe that a man is
telling the truth when you know you
would lie were you in his place. Bos
ton Transcript.
Cave Gnome "What's driving you
ashore?"- Seo Serpent (shu lderingly)
"The mermaids are trying to wear
bloomers. "Chicago Tribune.
If )re 's a fact that 's truo to tho cyuio
As to the old gray-'ieur led susc:
The up-to-date woman is never
llight square up to date in her age.
-Pack.
"Miss Passe indulged in somewhat
withering sarcasm when she was talk
ing of yon.'" 'It is her privilege, poor
thing. Sho is somewhat withering
herself." Indianapolis Journal.
"Anyhow," said Dismal Dawson,
"they ain't no man can lay his hand
on bis heart and say truthfully that I
took bis job of work away from him,
and that goes!" Indianapolis Jonr
nal.
"Better wait awhile," said the Cut
miugsrille sage. "After you get to be
n few years older you won't want any
thing to live for. Just living will be
considerable satisfaction." Cinuiu
uati Enquirer.
Horteuse "I suppose there is al
ways something in life to spoil a man's
happiness?" Van Jay "Yes; if a
mau is poor he can't be happy, and if
if he is rich the chances are he will
get marriod." Brooklyn Eagle.
The Guest "Here ! What do you
mean by waking me up three times
this morning and telling me it is
breakfast time? And hero I catch you
running away with the sheet." Boy
"Well, you see, sir, we'vo got to git
tho tablecloth whether you get up or
not." Tit-Bits.
Old Mercator (to httlo Billy Ducks,
just left school, who applies for situa
tion as oflico boy, and produces testi
monial from clergymun) "We dou't
waut you ou Sundays, my good littlo
boy. Have you a rofereueo from any
ouo who kuows you on week days?"
Sydney Bulletin.
"Why," asked Dismal Dawsou,
leauing over tho fence, "why do you
keep ou diggiu' when the boss aiu't
arouud!" "Because I really like the
job," said the new farm baud, "Got
it real likin' for work?" "3urel"
"You'd orter take treatment." In
dianapolis Journal.
Judge B. fell dowu a flight of stairs,
recording his passiigo iu a bump on
every stair uutil he reached the bot
tom. A servaut rau to his assistance,
unl raising hiin up said: "I hope
your Honor is not hurt?" "No," caid
thu Judge, sternly. "My honor is not
hurt, but my bead is."
The laics', addition to Americana
abroad is the ninurt saying ot a New
York girl to an Englishman who took
her iu to dinner. "I sometimes1 won
der what becomes of all the peaches
in your country, he said. "Ob, we
eat what we can, and can what we
can't," answerod the ready-tongucd
maid. New York Sun.
First Olliee Boy "Do you like your
job?" Second Oflico Boy- "Naw I
Tbo typewriter is thirty-five, tbo book
keeper's sore 'cause he cau't be a dude
ou i8 u week, the instalment company
took tho head clerk's bicycle uwuv ,
Trout 1 1 i in last week 'cause be hadn't
paid up on it, and the boss won't let
me whistle uuy where. " Soiucrviilo
Journal.
A Whale fa.- Aliiw TiU'WAter.
Captain J. II. D. Gray, of Astoria, r.
has tho petrified vertebrae of a whale,
which was found thirty foet uuder
grouud ou ouo of tho hills buck of As
toria, at au elevation of 1S3 feet above
tlio boa level. There was also a lurgo
deposit of clam shells around the
whale's bone, but the rest of the bones
of tlio whale were not visible. The
fact that a wbulo was stranded 1S 5
feet ubova tho present water level iu
Astoria shows conclusively thut there
has bceu a Hood at Astoria iu duys
gone by, to which tho flood iu Port
laud a year ueo last Juno was not a
murker. Portland went through that
ioo.l, uud is stilt here, 1 nt it is plum
that liio Astoria which existed when
that wbulo was strauded was annihi
lated. Portland Oregouiau.
Ingenious Sniudliuif Di vic:'.
Tbo French. customs authorities ou
tlio Swiss fioutier have detected a
novel and ingenious swindling ujuce.
Watebes uvio seut aerosi tlio border,
i ealed up in o ms of cou leusvd milk.
It is t--.lunuitd that '22.0J'I Matches,
vulued ut $40.1,0011, have entered
i'l'uuct thus iu tho past su mouth,