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"The Solid eoth" will be flnnn.
eial phrase ten ycnrs hence, predict!
the Chicngo Timee-Herald.
The pcnch blossom has been select
ed by a vote of the school children of
Delaware as tbe floral ornbloin of the
State.
It is remarked by a statistician that
the Stales which have tho largest per
coulnge of women teachers have also
the lowest per cent.' of illiteracy.
Professor Cesnre Lombroso, who ad
vises Hint children and youths of
habitual criminal ten loncies be iso
lated ns luuntics, says thoro is scarcely
a child who docs not abuse his power
over those who are weaker than he.
If England ecos fit to equip its most
important war vessels with wire
wound gnus, this country must follow
suit, declares tho New York Telegram.
Tho wire-wouud segmental cannon is
nn American device that has proved
under tests by this Government to be
practically uubnrstuble.
Frofefsor Dyohe, of Kansas Univer
sity, iityn that he has practically de
cided to roako auother trip to the
Arctic Ocean iu search of the North
Pole, huvirig received an offer of as
sistance from u source which he de
clines to unme. His plan is to creep
n round tho west const of Greenland,
end thou make a dash for the pole by
file li'c or boat.
So .-reat has been the reduction of
steamboat nccitlents in tho waters of
tho United States since the Federal
Government introduced the inspec
tion system that Inspector-General
Duiuout now asserts that travel by
water is much safer relatively than
travol by railroad or even by street
cur. He asserts, on the strength of
the fatality records, that ono is safer
on a steamboat than in walking the
streets of a city or even sleeping in
one's own bed.
Tho New York Bun thinks it wonld
doubtless surprise many folk to know
tho number of furs that are taken an
nually in Connecticut and Massa
chusetts. William Clark, of Vernon,
Conn., makes a tour of Tolldan
County, Connecticut, and Hanipden
County, Massachusetts, every fall col
lecting furs from tho farmers. Last
season ho collected some 1000 skins,
mostly skunk skins, but many of them
wink. These animals ore. probably
not moro plentiful in these two coun
ties than in some other parts of the
two State?.
Tho result of the census taken the
other day in Berlin has caused some
surprise. It shows tbe total popula
tion of tbe German cap.tal to he 1,
674,112, whereof 797, ISO aro males
and 876,920 females. The estimate,
based on the periodical returns of
births and deaths and of departure.
nnd arrivals, which in Prussia have to
be reported to the police, had shown,
ns worked out ou November 10, a total
population of 1,757,898. Moreover,
tho increase in the population daring
tho lust five year.', according to
this ceusus, has been only six per
cent., us against twenty per cent, be
tween 188 j and 1890, nnd sixteen per
cent, between 18S0 and 1885. The
explanation lies iu tho enormous
growth of tho subrubsas compared
with Brlin pro;?r.
Tho Atlunta Constitution says:
About six mouths ugo Massachusetts
created the State Highway Conimis
bion, and since that timo eighty-nine
miles of first-class roads have been
constructed under tha auspices of tho
new Buurd. Tho experiment is to
satisfactory tbat the Legislature this
winter is expected to make a larger
appropriation for roadways, and it is
now certain that the work so auspic
iously begun will bo pushed forward
with ice-reused vigor. Tho fact that
tbe people ura willing, after spending
8700.000 iu 1895, to spend a still
larger sum shows that tho movement
iu favor of good roads is already pop
ular enough in Massachusetts to hold
its own, and it is natural to suppose
that other States will organize their
commissions uud go to work on the
bauie liuc. New Jersey had a some
what similar experience a lew years
ago, aud after a few score miles of
substantial roads had been completed
tho people all over the State demand
ed their extension aud expressed thoir
williugncfs t submit to a mnoh
higher tax rate iu order to secure
theso improvements. " As tbe country
tills up with population the highway
question will assume greater promi
nence nnd goo 1 roadways will be con
structed at tho expense, of future
generations, m-teil of causing tha
tint ire cost to fall upou the people,
who uiu proiesaive euuu;;U to luaug
urate su b reforms. :
A BONO OF LIBERTY.
Across tho land from strand to strand
Loud ring tha bugle notes,
And Freedom's smile from Isle to islo
Like Freedom's banner floats!
The velvet vales ring "Liberty'.'
To answering skies serene;
Tbe mountains sloping to the set
Wave all their flags of greeul
The rivers dashing to the dwp
The joyous notos prolong,
And all their waves tn glory leap
To one Immortal song!
One song of Liberty and llfo,
That was, and is to be,
Till tyrant flags are trampled rags
And all the world is free!
One song! the nations hall the notes
From sounding sea to sen,
Aud answer from their thrilling throats
That song of Liberty.
They answer, and an echo comes
From chained nnd troubled Isle
Aud roars like ocean's thundor-drums
Whore brave Columbia smiles.
whore crowned nnd great she sits In state
Beneath her flag of stars.
Her heroes blood the sacred flood
That crimsoned all Its bars!
Hail to our country! strong she s'.ands,
Nor fears the w.vr-irum's bent;
Tbe sword of Freedom in her hands
The tyrant at her feet!
Frank L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution,
THE PHANTOM CELLS.
BY MRS. M. L. KAYNR.
HE ladies of the
Chateau Fronte-
nao had invited
their bf
flanoee to .-flake
them a visit in
order to explain
to her the strange
shadow which
bnnp; over their house for nearlv
hundred years, and to whose baneful
influence she must beoome habituated.
wnen a memoer oi tne family..
When they first saw Clotildo, she
was so young and timid tbev made nn
their minds to wait until Gaspard-him-
sen came, but one night as they sal
arouna tne great nnn-Bre there was
great jingle of sleighbells and the
sound of swift runners on the crisp
snow outside, and then that inaioal
clash at tne door which announced
the stopping of the turnout, and the
arrival of guests.
Surely there was nothir, - uncommon
in this, the coming of a party of merry
peopie io a country nouse, and on
magnificent moonlight night when
the whole landscape was as light as
day I Yet instead of looking pleased
or surprised, ine ladies sank back in
their chairs, and covering their faces
with tbeir hands, murmurod a
prayer.
Clotilde, the little ono, clapped her
nanus, and asked earnestly:
"Might it be, my friends, that it is
uaspard, who lias come with a sur
prise?"
No, no, Clotilde, it will not be our
Uaspard. Won Dieu, how then shall
we toll her? Child, go you not to the
door? Those sleighbells you hear are
uoi oi iue uesu and blood I mean
the driver is not
But the little Clotilde had ran joy
ously to the great ball door, and
though nc servant stood there to open
it, she swung it wide on its massive
hinges. A bitter blast of eold air
rubbed in with a dreary, wailing
aounu, and no eloign stood outside,
bnt even as the startled girl watched,
a clash of musical bells and the swift
sound of the steel-shod runners filled
the area of snow. She turned whiter
than a lily in the somber moonlight,
and flung the door to, affrighted.
"Come to tbe fire, little one; yon
hive seen, then, our skeleton in the
closet?"
"I saw not any skeleton nothing
nothing, but I heard the bells -oh,
what does it mean?" - -
"You tell her, Agatha," said the
younger sister. 1
"I would greatly prefer that she
should hear it from your lips, Oeeilo,"
answored the other.. .. , i.'-.., .
"I am not afraid," said the girl
proudly. Tbe color was coming back
to her lips and cheeks, and bet eyes
sparkled. It could not be worse than
tbe legends of the Losp-Gnroo which
her uncle had told her Bince she was a
child not so very long ago that but
now she was a woman and weuld not
show fear.
"You will now know why our Clas
pard has dark spells when not even bis
sweetheart can comfort him, why the
shadow is never lifted from our lives,
and we cannot be quite like other peo
ple. Perhaps you will not then like
to marry our brother, who is the best
aud dearest in the world, but like us,
under the ban."
"It is the more I would love him if
I might, when he has the trouble ; but
tell me, please, is it tbat some wicked
souls come baok beoausethat they can
not rest?"
"We know not, petite, but the story
is like this : So long 830, maybe, that
not our oldest relation can remember,
there was another Gaspsrd de Fron
tenac, a brave, good man like this one,
but hot-headed and fiery. And you
know, the steep hill) thai shut us iu
so". high with the big ravine the
preoipice on either aide? And in the
winter there was alwaysnow, aud the
people went coasting and sleigh-riding
with swift horsesdowi. those long hills,
but never could two meet, for the
road was just tbe width for one sleigh,
and the people all knew this, and they
waited at the plattau on the top, anil
each took his turn.
"It was my great uncle's pleasure to
take his young wife aud go out ou j A Chesterville, Maine, couple re
these steep hills aud drive her like the ' ci utly celebrated their golden wedding
wind with a stwft flying horte, uu 1 iu the very house into which they
she loved the hport aud wrapped iu muved on their wedding day, fifty
furs, with her curls floating in tbe ' ears age.
wind, a One picture the country folk
thought her ; and that Gaspard was
much admired, too, for so the story
has come to ns, and their pictures are
in the salon, though some think ns
not of the right mind to keep thorn
there.
"It comes soon now, petite, the
tragedy of those two. One night, just
suoh a night as this, they went riding
in tbe so gay spirits, and going up
bill for the second or third time
what should they see but another
sleigh coming down 1 It was coming
fast, and my great nncle knew it was
death for one side or the other, since
pass they could not. And he shouted
to the other driver to halt I
"Ab, it was too sad. On, on, came
the other sleigh, fast like the wind,
and my great nncle Gaspard saw that
it would into him crash, and he
qnickly drew a pistol, and fired to
kill ' the horse, before it was
too late. And his own norsn,
he get suoh a fright ho plunge over
the side, throwing him out, but taking
his bride down to death I
"He lived, but like a man in a
dream, till some one tell him tho
truth that on tht night tbere was no
other sleigh bnt his own, and that he
saw the shadow was of his own, in
some way I know not the exact, the
moonlight make that effect by what
you call projecting tbe shadow, and
when he know that, he take again the
pistol and with it end his misery and
hi life."
A long silence suioeede 1 this weird
tale and then Clotilde asked in a
broken voice :
"Is it then that the sleigh is a ghost?''
"Yes, petite, a what yon call phan
tom." "I am not afraid. I accept, and
will pray to give the poor ghosts
peaoe."
It was not like the Loup-Garou, not
to the mind of Clotilde half as dread
ful, but she was not really afraid of
these because her old uncle had much
sense, and he did not believe one of
these stories, although tell them he
did, and most graphically.
Again on the following evening
came the sound of balls, and this time
Clotilde went not near the door, but
sat moving her sweet lips in prayer.
Then the door was flung violently
open and a brusque, cheery voico
called :
"Hello there. Viator. Alnlionso 'von
varlets, aere are you V' "ng?"
Certainly this was no crbost. and the
three women who clung about his neck
gave frantio evidence of joy at his
coming. Clotilde wns not one of the
three. A big old man in a fox-skin
coat had taken her ia his arms, and
was talking to her in gentle burr, the
old nnole who told her. the dreadful
stories, and then she slipped one small
hand into her lover's and looked at him
with shy, happy eyes.
"It was so good of yon to come in
stead of the ghosts," she said, when
later the) cooing in a corner, while
the uncle, who was a great favorite
with the young Gaspard, was making
himself agreeable to the ladies.
1 hen you know, dear little one?
said the young man. "And you are
not afraid to make your home in the
Chateau Frontenac?"
Not with my Gaspard," came the
soft answer, "but I like it better if the
ghosts oame not, and your sistet
thoy are sorry, too. Bnt afraid no I
"What of this so mnoh beinsr
afraid?" asked a gruff voice, and the
old nncle of Clotilde hobbled over to
the corner where snatches of their
conversation located the two lovers.
Then be was told the storv of the
ghostly sloigh, and looked wise and
thoughtful for tbe rest of the evening.
The shrewd French Canadiau was
filled with marvelous stories of ghosts
which he loved to relate, but none of
which he believed, not even his stock
fright-story, the legendary Loup-
Garou. .
The next morning Uncle Pierre was
missing from the chateau, but no ono
was disturbed, he bad taken his gun,
and would return when he pleased,
which was at nightfall, and simultan
eously with his ooming rang out the
angliug, invisible bells.
He found the family
shivering
they weie
Even Gas-
around the great tire us if
stricken with deadly cold.
pard looked troubled and
the littlo
Clotilde was trying to assure him that
she was not "Oh, uo, not tbe least
afraid !"
"Fine is the night," he said in salu
tation, "and the air is the clear, so
you hear-r-r, oh, so far I Heard you
not, my Clotildo, the sleighbells that
00 me me with?"
'Ob, oh," cried tbe ladies of the
chateau in a faint chorus; "the bells
do make our hearts to shake," aud
they said an audible prayer.
bat you make in raid? Not the
bells of echo, that tbe wind do brin.'
to your door for the too sweet music?
I'fth I Ghost is it, not at all, but tbe
r-r-ravine, and the hills, they do make
of the bells of the sleighiug companie,
the echo which for the miuu-t-e sto;j
at your door; 'tis eoho always this so
many years that you think it tbe
ghosts I"
Uncle Pierre was compelled to es
cape from the room when tho family
had accepted his soientitio explana
tion, which he further elaborated iu
their native tongue, he was so over
whelmed with thanks and praises.
Ho the shadow was lifted forever
from the house of Froutenao, aud the
story which had so sad an eudiug and
was accountable for tbe ghost, is uo
onger related as the cause of such a
dreary effect, and it is now the pleas
ure of tbe ladies of the chateau, as it
once was the abhorrence, to ask visit
ors to listeu to the "so strange echo,"
and out of tbe materials of a tragedy
they have really evolved a comedy.
Detroit Free Press.
SELECT S1FTIX0S.
Cora is being used as fuel in Central
Iowa.
Brintol, Fenn., claims the credit nf
holding tho first annual fair in Penn
sylvania. Crab pots nnd eel rots are exact
module, on nn enlarged scale, of the
Emperor moth.
It it said that two women swindlers
havo been polling colored sawdust for
ground coffee it Dunkirk, Fenu.
A citizen of Fridcton, Maine, who
is nearly ninety years of age, was
shaved for tho tint time one day re
cently, Tho Vexicnn (.word, in nse among
the aborigines at the coming of the
Spaniards, was modeled after the nose
of tbe sawfish.
Chicory is used ti adulterate coffee,
Chunks of dried carrot are used to
adulterate chicory, but the carrot is
rook bottom.
Thieves visited John Brook's farm,
nt riymoutb, Montgomery County,
Fcnn., nnd sdolo a live porker weigh
ing 250 pounds. .
Lots of acorns nre bought in Pike
County, Missouri, aud sent to spice
mills iu St. Loui?, to bo made into
coffeo and spicc3.
A mountain lion weasuriug eleven
feet from nose to tail, and weighing
230 pounds, was killed iu San Antonio
canyon, Cal., recently. .
The use of nets in lishing for stur
geon is rapidly supplanting other
methods of taking the big fish in the
upper Columbia aud Snako Rivers. The
nets nro from 000 to 900 feet long,
nnd the meshes vary in siza between
twolve and nineteen inches.
In the possession of the Baroness
Burdett-Coutts is a guinea which she
treasurers abovo all her minor belong
ings. Her grandfather, who was a
gentleman of slovenly outward ap
pearance, was given it by a benevolent
old party, who chanced to mistake
him for a pauper.
Several large consignments of salm
on eggs hnvo lfiiely been sent from
this country to Europe. A crate of
50,000 eggs was shipped from the Uni
ted States fishery nt Baird, Cal., to
Ireland, and another crate, containing
50,000 eggs, was shipped from the
same place to Germany.
Two hunters of Boise, Idaho, had a
sorrowful experience. They spent half
a day loading shells, being dissatisfied
with those ou sale, and next morning
drove twenty-two miles to the hunting
grounds. On arriving there they dis
covered that they had left nil their
ammunition at home in Boise.
A fox nnd a hunter together stalked
a partridge near Tyron, Vt., the other
day, but ench unknown to tho other.
The bird alighted in an apple tree be
hind a baru, and tho hunter tiptoed
around ono side of the baru and
brought tho bird do.vii. But as the
bird dropped, tho fox, comiug round
the other sido of the barn, seized it
nnd was ofi with his dinner before the
hunter could appreciate what had
happened.
"Littlo Kentucky."
"Little Kentucky," as it might be
dubbed very appropriately, is located
opposite Island No. 10, where Ken
tucky nnd Tennessee meet. The river.
by gradually cutting out the Kentucky
bank, had worn off a narrow strip of
land, until one bright morniug several
people who lived ou this side of the
line woke up to find themsclveson tbe
other side. In other words, the swift
current had washed away the neok of
earth which mado the extreme south
western oorner ot this State a part
ot tho commonwealth of Kentucky.
The section of territory thus separated
from its parent, ns it were, is ten miles
long aud five- miles wide--quitea good
mouthful to take iu at one bite, even
lor tho greedy Mississippi.
.Every well-posted river man and
every person who is acquainted with
the geography nud typography of this
State will understand how such a
thing could happen, llight at the
State line the river forms a loop about
ten miles long, Tho loop extends up
into Fulton County. Tho swift stream
lias simply drawn ibis noose tight nnd
formed nn island out of what wns
formerly a peninsula. Hickman is
tho closest town of any size to tho
place whero nil this land maltiug oc
curred. Darnel!, a littlo hamlet over
in Obion County, Tennessee, is quite
near the spot.
The boundary lino between Ken
tucky nnd Tennessee has always boeu
rather complicated down about Island
No. 10, owing to tho peculiar bend iu
tbe Mississippi mentioned above. The
lukes, bayous nnd sloughs whijh bisect
that corner of Faltou County, iu all
directions ulso serve to mix matters.
The biting oiV of Mich a lnrge strip of
soil will add to tho general confusion,
nud tho (jucstion may arise as to
whether "Littb) Kentucky" will here
after belong lo tho domain of the
volunteer Stalo or still bo a part and
parcel of tho dark nud bloody ground.
I'aducah News.
lliinovei-iaii Ltiipiette.
One of tho iniuula points of eti
quette upon which tbe King of Han
over insisted was tint ha would not
receive visitors for iirst presentation
to him except iu uniform. Sir Joseph
Crowe bin! no uniform, aud ho com
ments ou "tho fact that a King who
was utterly blind could not sen sio
uuless tho person be wished to honor
was iu uniform." Au Amerieau jour
nalist was once refused uu interview
with tho same Kin;,' ol Hanover i-n tho
same ground ; but hu was ultimately
moro biiccesslul, mi', pleading thut ho
us 1111 American republican, aud
therefore could nut do otherwise than
appear without 11 unilorm, ho was re
ceived, the King cijiuuiuiilinc; lumielt
at tho beginning of the mtervien
upou the special ground for tho ex
ceptiuu. The Atbi;uaum,
THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE.
STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BY THB
FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS,
The Cow to Follow the Horse A
Marine Sketch On Publication
Corroborative Kvldence, Etc.
We can stand tho horseless carriage
Think it's lust as fine as silk,
But we klei hard, harder, hardest,
When they mention cowless milk.
West Union (Iowa) Gnzetto.
'corroborative evidence.
"They say there are fewer persona
dying this winter than nnual."
"Yes, I know lots and lots of people
who haven't died at all." Chicago
Record.
A MARINE SKETCH.
"Say, old boy, when yon lose the
soap in the bath tab how do you
find it I"
"I step on it getting out."
cago Eooord.
Chi-
AM UNFORTUNATE PRESENT.
Mamma "Oh, Johnnie, are you
going to break all yonr toys? There,
lie's trying to open that bank again I"
Papa "First thing we know, he'll
grow up to be a burglar." Truth.
ON PUBLICATION.
"Do you pay for poetry?" asked the
pretty girl.
"Y yes," replied the editor with
some hesitation.
"What do you pay?"
"Compliments." Pearson's Weekly.
AGENTS WANTED.
Ferry "How did it happen that
you never took that job of soliciting
the one where you could make $10
a day with only two hours' work?"
Hargreaves "I found that the only
ten a uay 1 could make would bo for
the other fellow." Cincinnati .En
quirer,
A COMMON FATS,
"Poor fellow I" she said sympathet
ically.
"What's the matter ?" he asked.
"The poor man was disappointed in
love," she replied.
"Of course," he returned. "It
never does come np to expootions."
Chicago Post.
AN INFALLIBLE TEST.
A miser had diod very suddenly.
The doctor who was oalled iu to cer
tify his death appeared to huvo his
doubts about the caso.
"Plaoe a ten -mark piece in his
hand," said tho old housekeeper of
tne deceased ; "if he doesn't crasn it.
yon may safely make out the order
for bis burial,' Wegweiser.
NO REVERSIBLE ART FOR HIM.
"If you would like something un
usually fine," said tho art dealer, "I
have a genuine Tamer I shall bo
happy to show you."
"A picture that's painted on one
sido is good enough for me," re
sponded Mr. Boodello, the wealthy
contractor, transfixing the presuming
tradesman with a sharp glance, "ef it's
well done." Chicago Tribune.
BIS COURSE DINNER.
"No cold turkey, ma'am, if you
please, said Mosely Wraggs, waving
his hand majestically. "Ve bed our
roast turkey a hour ago, at tho first
plaoo we struck, follered by scolloped
orsters at tbe next house. Wo ett
punkin pie jest now acrost the road.
All we're wantin' now, ma'am, is some
caffay noyer, an' we'll git a toothpick
or two at the next plaoo."
And ho beckonod to Tuffold Knutt,
who was leaning pensively against the
rainwater pipe. Chicago Tribune.
JUST SAVED HIM.
. A oertain Miss X. was in the habit
of calling on a minister's familv often,
nnd sometimes tho calls lengthened
into visits which were very wearisome.
One day the donrinie, in his study,
hoard Miss X.'s voice, and kept long
nnd vigorously at work. Somo hours
afterward, whon his wifo summoned
him to lunch, ho cullod down stairs:
"All right and is that boro goue?"
"Yes, dear," replied the wifo, "but
Miss X. is hero, and will tako lunch
with us 1"
Thus she saved his life. Boston
Transcript.
HOW TO PURCHASE TENDEII CKKSE.
It was one of Piatt Evaub's pleasures
to teaoh his friends how to purchase
tender geese, though he could not al
ways got them in tho market. Cue
morning he buw a lot, and inquired
how many there were.
"About a dozen," was tho reply.
"W-w-well," said Piatt, "I k-k-eep
a b-oarding-house, and my b-b-bourd-ers
are the biggest e-eators you ever
B--S-HUW. P-p-pick out n-uiuo of tho
t-toughest you've g-g-got."
Tho farmer complied, uud laid aside
tho other three tender oues. Piatt
picked them up carefully, and, put
ting them iu his basket, said, "I b-b-belicve
I'll take these three."
SHE HAD TO HAVE IT OUT.
"What do you kuow about womou ?"
askod the thin old man.
"Nothin1," said tho fat man with
tho bald head.
"1 guess I don't either, and I have
been married three months, too. Yes
terday my wifo asked mo how I liked
the dinner. She does tbe cooking.
you kuow."
the fut man didn't kuow. but ho
nodded.
"Aud when I beynu to praise the
dinner sbo began to cry, and said she
luaieil 1 loved her ouly for her cook
ing!
"Ob," said tho fat muu, "she ha 1 a
cry coming. That was all." Cin
cinnati Enquirer-
SCIENTIFIC AMI IXDCSTIUAL.
In largo doses mato is said to bo
strongly emetic.
Distilled water is rocoramended as it
solvent to act upon the earth salts in
the blood and expel thom from tho
bn-iy.
A prize of W0O0 has been offered by
the German Ifygienio Association for
a paper on tho efhcieucy of clectrio
heaters.
That tuberculosis is increased by
living in thickly settlo 1 communities
is shown bv statistics collested bv Dr.
Fetit for (1G2 French towns.
A telegram from New York to Aus
tralia has to go nearly 20,000 miles,
10,000 of whioh aro by submnriuo
cable, and it is handled by fifteen
operators.
A Swiss scientist has been testing
the presence of bacteria in monutmu
air, and finds that nota siugle microbo
exists beyond nn altitude of 2000 feet
above the level of the sea.
'Attention has been drawn to tho fact
tbat the cool oil used in tho lamps in
the cars of the Manhattan Kailwny
Company, of New York City, is 100
degrees below the teat required by
law.
A new kind of water-color paper,
the sheets of which can be warranted
to bo free from blemishes, is to bo
raado by a process discovered by
Mr. North, ussociato of tho Hoy at
Academy.
Only tho purest water is employed
by the Chinese iu washing tho finer
grades of silk. Ordinary well water
in its natural state is unsuitable, and
is purified by placing a quantity of
mollusks in it for a day. Theso prey
on any impure organic matter aud act
as filters.
The island of Zealand boasts of an
amphibious boat, which makes a daily
trip across three lakes aud tho istli
mases which separate thorn, making
its land trip on wheels which run on a
track. The seventy pnsengers make
the entire voyage if it can bo callod
such without disembarking.
Cripple Creek will bo tho first min
ing camp iu the United States to adopt
electricity as a motive power to travel
from one mining poiut to another
a journey that heretofore has beeu
made afoot or by muleback. A double
track-road is to bo built to tnku in all
the surrounding hilis aud all the miucs
of importance.
J. L. Allen, a telegraph operator at
Loretto, in Marion County, Ky., has
invented a railroad clock that is a
marvel of ingenuity. It registers each
train as it pa.saes aud tho timo at which
it passes, and an accompanying device
gives warning to incoming trains if
another train has passod tho station
within fifteen minutes.
Undeveloped Western Krsnirccs,
Figures aro at hand as to the cxteufc
of the building btouo industry in tho
United States. A report just issued
by the geological survey bhows that
the quarry value of tho stoua pro
duced in 1831 was SJ7.377.81 6, of
whioh S33.O00.0OO was used for tho
construction of buildiugs. Fennsyl
vonia leads all of the other Statos iu
this product, Ohio coming next aud
Vermont coming third. Over three
fourths of tho total product is in a
small portion of the area of tho coun
try, from Mnine to Illinois. It is evi
dent thnt tho gret.t stouo deposits of
tho South and West havo been only
superficially worked. Of no State is
tbis more true thnu Oregon. Many
buildings in Portland bear evidencoof
the excellence of such stouo ns has
been uncovered in sufficient quantity
to justify largo oontraetp. San Fran
cisco buildings nro also usiu? Oregon
stone to soino extent. A sreat deal of
stone suitable for ornamental build
ings, especially of a licht color, un
doubtedly exists in tho State. Tho
trouble has been tho quarries were not
developed enough to warrant con
tracts being mado for it in largo quan
tities. This should be remedied Here
after and undoubtedly will be. It is
most probable, for exumplo, that when
the time coiuos for n new Court House
at Multnomah County, it will bo built
of Oregon material. Portland Ore-
gonian.
Tho Shop II114 Hi ai us.
The toudeuoy of successful business
is to enlargement ; nud with enlarge
ment comes a uow multitude of ugonts.
now variety of markets, a new Kind
of competitive danger, to avert which
absolutoly requires mind. Tho very
number of hm employes compels tho
great tradesman ot our duv to become
a judge of character ; tho very expan
sion of his market drives him to study
many countries, mauy tariu-, many
aws; and his extreme dan 'er from
competition makes of hiiu uu artist, a
chemist, and a eritio. Tho process is
slow, because ha is ulwuys governed
by tho idea of selling, uud ho often
learns rather to Know public tasto
than to kuow what taste is, and to
seek iu his purchase tho popular
rather than ttio ooil ; but btill tho
process must develop his min 1. Tho
Spectator.
Birds Make u Mot ol S'ccl.
A curious gift has beeu ma le to tho
Natural History .Museum of Sjlelta
This gift :ousi4s ol .1 bird's ucst con
structed entirely of steel. There nro
u great mauy wut di-uaUers ut Soletta,
uud in tho vicinity oi tho workshops
there aro always the remains oi tho old
priugs of watches, which havo been
cast aside. Last au lUiuer u w.itciim i!;cr
discovered this curious bird' uet,
which had been built 111 a tree iu I. is
court yard by a pair of water waeta.l-.
It measures ten cenliiuelers 111 circum
ference, uu 1 is iu t hi holely of watch
pnu;;s. Wlu u the bit Is lia 1 H..d;;-d
their brood tho watchmakers M ealed
their unique net, in an luti ie-lin
proof of tho intelligence of birds in
uduptiug anything which comes with
in their reach. l.ou lou News.
WIND VOICES
TWnS, thnt art wniliutf through the nfghr,
With the voice of a soul in pain!
Thou hast waked the wave thnt slept on thn
shori,
1 honrthem rise, and dash ones moro
'Onin-t th sullen, fixed, and changeless
rock,
Which has stood unmoved through many a
hock
Of tho raging storm, and the breakers
white
That must sweep to the sea again.
Wind, thnt art wnillng through the night,
With tho voice of a soul In pnin!
Thou hast waked the passion of wild regret,
Which slumbered so long to rage nnd fret
'Oalnst the pitiless, fixe 1 decrees of lifet
A well .'may tho waves with tho rock hold
strife!
Back to tho tide of the Infinite,
Poor heart, that bust cried In vain!
Wind, that art wafting through the night,
With the voice of a soul in pain!
Thou hast gathered up eaeh cry of earth
That from mortat anguish over had blrtb,
At thf door of the living to enter iu.
Weeping for sorrow nnd doath and sin;
- Yet heart, make answer, "God's will Is
right,"
And rest iu I lis peace again.
Mary Gorges, in Chambers's Journal.
HUMOR OF THE PAY, , , .
"She has married tbe man she want
ed." "That's nothing to marrying the
man somo other uirl wants." Lifp ..
"Every timo I see yon Inm remind
ed of Herr F.nmmel." "How so?"
"Ho owes mo ?20." Fliegcnde Blaet
ter. "You never told mo Miss Fairgirli
was au athlete." "Well, is she?'J.
"Yes; sho has tbrowu me over." Tit
Bits. . '
There is a difference bntween'a cold
nnd tha grip, but you will not realize
it until yon receivo the doctor's bill.
Truth.
Nell "Jack Softleigh doesn't know
his own mind." Belle "I never knew
ho was as iguorant as all that." Phil-
aflnlniiin l?rif
"I tell you what, Sharp, marrving
an heiress has its drawbacks.'.' "Yes;
but thiuk of tha greenbacks, Bond."
Harper s Bazar.
West urn bio on the gifts wo prize
All other thiugs above.
For evor since thu world began,
Wo've fulloii Info love.
New York Recorder.
Scene: A schoolroom in the year
1900. Teacher (to new boy) "Hans,
have you got your oertiflcnto of vac
cinatiou ugaiust smallpox?" Now
Y'ork Sun.
Fussy Old Lady "Now, don't for
get, conductor. I want the Bank of
England." Conductor "All right,
mum. (Aside). She dou't want mucb,
do she, mate?" Punch.
"IT you will give your hand to mo,
I'll tell your forlauo true."
"No doubt, duar eouut," tho maid replied,
"Aud you would spend It, loo."
Now York lfo iordor. ,
"Tho world owes mo a living," he
said bitterly. "Of course," replied
tho other sarcastically. "But I don't
seem to get it. " "Well, you never
were much good ns a collector." Chi
cago Post.
Sho "So there aro tho Alps at
last!" He "Must be. Yon don't
suppose u first class tourist company
like this would work oil any substitu
tions or imitations on its patrons?"
Household Words.
Mr. Goodhcart "My income is
82200 a year. Don't vou thiuk your
daughter could livo ou thut?" Mrs.
Speudwell "She prbouldy could, with
couomy; but how would you live. "
New York Weekly,
The safe flow open, and there lusldo
A leeeln.oj uii, hill lnv
Til" baifl I hurg.ar shook his head.
I ve , Miino a littlo to late," ho said,
And ho mournfully limit! I hw.iv.
Chleago Tribune
Thoughtfulness : Magistrate "If
you broke into tbe house with honor
ublo intention, us you say you did,
why did you tako oil your boots in the
bull?" Burglar "I was told bv my
mato that the muster wus lying ill ia
bed." "Six months." Dorfbarbier.
Fully Explained : First Detective
"Straugo that I didu't recognize him!
1 thought I'd kuow him in any dis
guise." Second Detective "But
when ho was cuugbt hu had no dis
guise." First Detective "Oh!
that ucconnts for it." Puck.
New L'se lor Coi-mobs.
Frauk Shafer took to Lacon, III.,
rcceutly, a sample of sirup which a
number of experts pronounced genu
ine maplu sirup. It was nothing more
nor less than corncob sirup, made as
follows: Twelve clcuu cobs were put
iuuyullouof water hu I boiled until
toft. Then tho juice was strained otf
and a gallon of dark brown sugar so- '
lutiou added. This is boiled a littlo
while, resulting iu a line quality of
Miiip, hardly distinguishable from tbe
iiuiplo product. --Chicago Times-Her-uld.
A Bai-guiii ut leu Cent.
A horso was sold by the Sheriff at
public uuctiou iu irout of the court
house aud was bought by Flint Hen
drix, tho ouly bidder, ut ten cents.
Tho horse was tho property ol B. H.
Morris, uud wus told to satisfy amort
page, amounting to ubout oj. Mr,
llemlrix afterward refused ou offer of
$2. .VI for his burguiu, if such it might
bo considered.- Alkcu (S. C.) Journal
uud lteview.
A foxy fox.
The fox's reputation lor smartuess
was well sustained by u member of the
tribe near Falmouth, Mo., tho other
day. A couple of houudx uud a hun
ter wtro utter it, nud tho fox led tho
hoiiudn to u frozen pond, uud out ou
ico to thin thut it just supported thu
fox, which escaped, while tho houuds
iv iiit through uud ivcro drowuod.
New York r?uu.