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The Into Lyman Trumbull, of Illi
nois, was tlio man who drafted tho
(he thirteenth amendment to tho Con-rtitution.
In India telegraphic dispatches ore
headed "nfter compliment," tho re
ceiving operator writing out a not of
rouiplimonlary fortnnla established by
tho telcgraphio company, which isviu
dispcupablo in oriental conntrios.
A oily auction honso is noon to bo
bnilt by tho Berlin municipality as tho
best menus to do away with tho pres
ent abuses in tho auction btiBincss.
Tho ring of dealers now prevents nny
outsiders from buying, and tho thing
has nHsumod tho proportions of a pub
lic nuisance.
Tho Chicago Times-Herald remarks:
A tax of $1 per year upon each wheel
would J kdd nenrly $200,000 in Chicago
nlouo mid would bo oppoKcd by very
few whcelnieu if it wcro applied di
rectly to roadmakiug. Ibis is merely
ono of tho numerous pinna suggested
lor inaugurating tho movement in Ill
inois. A doilnr n wheel would build
noro highways than a thoiiHand "good
loads" plauks in National plntforms.
Tho Intent oducationnl ngitation is to
institute schools on wheels. It is pro
j.omoiI to fit out railroad trains, fur
nished with diniog and sleeping oars,
uo that pupils cnu combine travel and
lit inly, halting at various sidings for
tho Mudy of miuerology, botauy, go
oloey, nud so on. Of conrso, only
pupils having mouey ootild patrouizo
this scheme to sjo the whole country
nnd study its resources at tho sarao
time. This way of railroading knowl
edge into pupils is an advanced theory
of education. If it is proposed to tako
the pupils in tho railroad schools out
into tho region of train robbers, it
will aleo bo necessary to teach tho
jomig ideas how to shoot. One, pleas
in feature of tho plan, suggests tho
New Orleans Picayune, is that should
tho tcholiirs prove refractory it will
be veiy ent-y to switch them.
"It is uuuecessay to explain at
length why tho South will continue
during the next ten years to grow
steadily, " declares tho Financier, of
New York. "Its destiny as a manu
facturing icction is as certain as any
thing humnncan well be. It hiR every
udvuntago Hint other sections lay claim
to, and the development of tho South
urn railroads will make it as accessible
to market us New England is to-day.
Willi mountains literally composed of
rich iron ore, with coal cropping out
on every hillside in tho mineral belt,
with limestone- uud timber in nbund
nuce, tho S.uith can manufacture iron
at a price which no other producing
region cuu meet, l'ig iron is being
made in Birmingham, Ala., to-day nt
a cost not exceeding a ton, and tho
Inct that tho Tcuncssco Coal and Iron
Coinpuny a If w days siuco had orders
booked for nearly 270,000 tons of
iron, an increase of 122,000 tons since
March 1 1, is on indication of the
trend of tho market toward tho South.
Eighty percent, of tho iron miulo in
tbi Birmingham region is now being
whipped to other points for conver
sion iuto steel and tho higher grades
of tho manufactured product. This
will not contiuuo indefinitely. Tho
loss on freight, which now has to bo
counted iu estimating cost of produc
tion, oilers a sufficient profit to induce
change of loeatiou, nud the centre of
steel production ultimately must be
within tho radius of tho cheapest
market for tho primary material out
of which stool is made. Tho Teuues
eoo Coal and Iron Company recog
nizes this fact, as witness its deter
mination to build a million dollar
plant at Birniiubaui. With cheip
steel a factor it is equally certain that
industries depeudent on this material
as applied to higher uses will follow)
uud tho next decade ought to bring
about the erection of new factories, or
the removal of older ones to the South.
The climate, tho labor, nud the fuel
invito tho change, aside from other
considerations. And it is not alouo in
iron and steel that this change will bo
felt. The South is being dotted with
new cotton mills, forced by the same
Primary reason to desert the East, and
tho exodus of industries, if such ft
may be called, is bound to continue.
Shrewd observers say that oottou man
ufacturers have not gone South far
enough, and that the mills might with
equal advautago locato nearer the fuel
tiupply, siuco tho railroads at those
points run through rich t-ottou coun
try, nnd ull'ord better facilitios for
reuehiug Northern and Western mar
kets. Deal ing ull these fucts iu mind
t is not strange that far-seeiug in
vestors and manufacturers predict that
wilbiu a circle lifty miles in diameter,
taking tho ceutro of the State of Ala
bama as a blurting point, will be locat
ed the future great manufacturing city
if the South, du 1, for that r'Uer, of
tbu Nut ion."
"" PERMANENCF,
"Have yon thought," said the roseto the Illy,
"That our Hardliner Is a god?
Furlhoy toll mo ho planted that plum-tree,
And evon made grow tho sod.
"Ho surely will live forever,
His llln Is so strong and strange,
For Ihe tulip who died this morning
Mad novor soon him change.
"Sho said ho was unruly Immortal,
And the peony thinks so, too;
Fur he spoiled hor roots In tho sprin-,'-l. .. i
As her mother had seen him do.
"For my part I think ho has nlwnys
Boon honing (he tnssclod cjru,
And It wo could only prove It,
Tho man was never born!"
Then tho Illy bent near to Iho roso-troo
And, opening her snowy bell,
Exhaled her heart In porfutno
While sbo whispered, "I cnunot full;
But I feel If his Ufa be lovely
And sweet as our own, nnd pure,
Tho Ouo who made us will bless bim.
And cause bis soul to enduro.
"For beauty, dear Rose, is deathless,
And goodness can never die;
Willie ovor serous nud perfect
13 wo lis tho spirit of purity.
"And Blnce ho Is vory gentle,
And tonds us with so much care,
I think when wo bloom In heaven
Wo shnll Mod our gardener there."
Cora Linn Daniels, In Domorost'S.
ANGELA'S DILEMMA.
BT CL1NTOK noss.
1113 scandal mon
gers of tho wheel
are con fi nod most
ly to those who
cannot, or do not,
wheel. Not so
long ago women
wore likely to
mnko montal faces
at other women
who rode, but as
soou as they
themselves were
spinning along
with a freedom they never had fancied,
thoy straightway wondered at all these
allegations. And how, indeed, does a
brisk turn nndor tho Bky, and between
tho fields, drive away cobwebby no
tions. In the old days a canter might
do it, but a horse is a luxury, and,
even if you can afford it is ev$r get
ting out of condition, and to be tit
must havo a moclioiuu of coustaut ex
ercise. Bnt naw all go a-spinniug,tho
horseman as well as the onetime long
distance walkers, tho sinnors, and
those who strive to rogain this old
world from the enrso.
Among those latter, no ouo is better
equipped for tho ancient light than the
rector of Saint Mattbow-iu-tho-Pitrk,
tho Uov. Lemuel Springer. With
body and mind attuned to a flue
healthfulucss, at thirty, he believes
ttrougly, and preaches and acts his
belief, aud in these days when clergy
men sometimes forget that their duty
is but to heal tho heart's wounds, and
to preach tho reward of simple hon
esty and cleanly living, it is a delight
to sit of a morning in a pew of Saint
Matthow-in-tho l'ark and liston to the
direct and human religion its athleo
tio young rector expounds. I, myself,
remember him when he was No. 3 on
tho 'Varsity crew, hud a very great
man. Uo still oonld pull that third
oar as strongly, but the only sport hii
dntics now permit him is wheeling,
aud if you go to the park of a morn
ing you may see him going up and
down hill and doubtless meditating
those words for tho soul cheer afforded
by his bits of sermouiziug, put always
iu English tersely strong.
And yet he has all his troubles, his
experiences, his questionings, his sin,
his falsity, and if you will follow my
story, you will see bow it was all due
to the whoel that he once forgot him
aolf. Of a May day tho llov. Lemuel was
coasting down tho long hill into the
straggling village of lloundbush,
Westchester. It was his day of
outing, and now at noon he was
hungry after a twenty-mile exhilar
ating spin ; and tho world had put
its oare away, and his blood was
tingling and his heart singing liko
the birds in the fields and the treetops
through the windy blue spaces of
that sunny spring-day sky. The old
tavern at Koundbush bears on a creak
ing sign a distorted likeness of our
first groat President, and after long
years of desuetude again has found
usefulness through the revival of the
road, and flaunts a noon pluoard :
"Luuohes for llicyclera." Yet this
afternoon the lteverend Lemuel
thought that he bad it quite to him
self, as tho fat landlord pushed bis
shirtsleeves further above his brawny
elbows and said ho gueBsod ho could
give his visitor "somethin that was
tit outiu'." Aud Lemuel I will drop
his title thought the broiled chicken
dolioious and sauntered iuto tho par
lor, dark after the sunshine, with its
haircloth chairs and its colored priuts
of "Washington Crossing the Dela
ware," and "John Brown's Capturo,"
and certain photographs of prim rural
folk.
Now, usually, Lemuel was most ob
serving. Yet he had beeu in. that
room fully five minutes before ho no
ticed a figure stretched out on a
conch; at thu dark side, to bo sure, so
that it may not have been so strange
that ho had not seen hor ut lirsO Her
face sunk iu a pillow, sho seemed to be
sobbing. Lemuel at ouuo made for
the door, when ho heard a swoet and
strangely plaintive voice:
"I'm such a fool I Oh, I beg your
pardon 1" she added, with such evident
confusion that Lemuel turned about
hastily to see thu prettiest tlguro of a
woman iu a witching bicycle costume ;
acd what sho was like I'll leave you to
iuucj; just luucy, that is, the very
Mpnllf I vvi
If
nicest girl of your acquaintance, and
you will see her as Loniuel saw hor
much more easily than from any de
scription of mino.
"Oh I" sho said hastily, rubbing her
eyes.
"I bog your pnrdon," said Lemuel.
"It was my fault," sho said, looking
him over demurely. "I forgot this
was a public room."
"I am Ruro it was mine," said Lorn
ucl, hastily. It was all rather strange
and sudden, and yet ho dooidod at
once that sho was a wellbred young
person.
"Oh, I am glad," sho exelaimod.
"I don't see why," ho blurted out,
in astonishment.
"Because yon are Mr. Springer of
Saint -Matthow-in-tue-l'ark.
lie bowed, romombering with a bit
of conceit that a lot of pooplo doubt
less know him whom ho didn't know
from Adam or Evo.
"I need a clergyman," she said.
Now nt this astounding statement
Lemuel stared his nttcr astonishment,
Did she need his spiritual advhe? She
looked a bit worldly.
"That is rather a surprising state
inent," sho added.
"I don't know," he Baid, hopoiossly,
"I moan," she said, "I want an os
oort to Greenwich, and with a clergy
man there can be no question. "
"I don't know," said Lemuel again,
"You must think me strauge."
Ho looked at her for a moment, and
made a very worldly reply :
"I think yon delightful."
"You will lot me go with you theu?"
"Why of course, if you ask me," ho
said ; aud why in the world uid no say
exactly that.
"I do aud wo must be started be
fore him."
"ilim? I don't understand."
"I will explain later; wo must bo
started now. We have no time."
"Oh, no time?"
"Can you oblige me, Mr. Sprin
ger?" And with tliopo eyes on him he could
and did, aud having paid his reckoning
ho was iu tho saddle, this graoeful
young person beside him, again and
again looking over her shoulder. She
kept up a brisk pace, neither saying a
word, although you may beliove he
was wondering ut the impulse which
had brought him to such sudden com
plaisance. Whnt, if any of his par
ishioners should sco him as he was
now, tearing madly up and down hill
with this undeniably very pretty
young woman, and running madly for
Him? Who tho deuce was "Him;"
only, of course, Lomuol didn't say,
"who tho douce."
Oh I ohl"Bho cried suddonly.
"Am, what's tho matter?" said ho
slowly.
"If ho should appear, and attempt
to speak to mo, you must knock him
down."
"That would bo rather nnolerioal,
wouldn't it?" said Lemuel.
"You must," said she.
"Ob, if I must," said ho, looking nt
her, aud knowing he certainly would.
The road forks half a mile further
with, at thu point, a bit of wood aud
thicket. As you near tho wood, you
have the stretch of the road to the
loft, and now as they came into that
view, Lemuel's companion criod out:
"Oh, I saw him I"
"Who?"
"No matter; we must hide. I don't
believe lie could havo seen me," sho
added quickly.
And dismounting, she dragged her
wheel after her int) the bushes.
"You stny there," she called. "If
bo asks if yon have seen me, vou must
say yon haven't." Aud she disap
peared. "iliat would be a no, woman t m
"1 have no patience with a man who
can't lie when it's necessary," came
back the answer. Aud all was still,
save for the rural noises of tho sunny
May day. But at last about a turn
came a wheelman. ne was youug
and well groomed. Seeing Lemuel, he
paused.
"Have you passed a young ladv,
sir?"
"What sort of a young lady ?" said
Lemuel, avoiding tho lie direct,
"Wheeling."
"A half dozen, I think," said Lemuel
truly, breathing a Bigh of relief.
For our young gentleman was in his
saddlo and teatiug on.
l'ivo minutes passed; but presently
a face appeared in a leafy frame a
laughing, tantalizing face when sho
followed dragging the wheel.
"Ho didn't see me."
"Now what doestuis mean?" Lemuel
asked rather angrily.
"Is your patience worn out?" said
sho demurely.
"Yes, I think it is. What's your
name?"
"Angela,"
"Augela what?"
"I am not going to tell you."
"But you know mine."
"Everybody does," said sho with
gentle flattery.
"Oh, I don't know. But what does
it nieau?"
"Now, please don't be augry
please." And sho added :
"You've been so good."
"Have 1?" said he.
"Yes; I don't know what I should
havo done if you hadn't appeared just
tu,i. You make me able to say if any
ouo should see me, 'Why, I urn out
with Mr. Springer, and he is a clergy
men.' "
"Oh, dear?" said Lemuel.
"Now, don't bother, please I We'd
better be on the mad.
And she mounted..
"Come ou !" she cried.
Aud when ho was by her side sho
began agaiu !
"I'll explaiu as Iouht. Theru was
a girl, and she thought sho loved a
man."
"Yes, I have heard of girls lino
that."
"But she didu't really."
"Ves, I know."
"How do you?"
"Hum I have a parish,"
So yon havo. Well, to go on.
When sho hears that man is ongagod
to another girl, sho tries to 'cut' tho
other girl out out of piquo, uot love
for the man, you understand."
"No, I don't."
"Well, von nte not so clever as I
thought. But to return to this girl "
"Angela?"
"Yes, sho wos Angela, if you will.
Angela encourages tho man
"The man who just paasod?
"Tom, we'll coll him."
"Yes, Angela encourages Tom ; and
Tom snccumbR "
"Do vou think so?" sho said, look
ing at him mischievotiBly. "Yes, ho
did; I must bo frank with you, a
clergyman. And it goes on in a
country honso in WeptcheBter iu May.
But there's small chance in a house
party, yon know."
"Yob, I know," said ho.
"Of course you know because yon
aro a youug clergyman of a modish
church. Now to go ou with the story
Angela ngrces to meet Tom on the
wheel. Sue wheels for a long time
before the appointed hour, aud, get
ting tired, stops, as you know, and.
being tired, her conscience pricks
her."
"I know of such cases," said Lemuel
laconically.
"And she thought of tho other girl,
and remembered how wieked sho ha
been, because she has boeu 'encourag
ing Tom just for fun."
"She Bliould havo felt wicked," said
Lemuel severely.
"Just then she sees a very promi
ninont young clergyman."
"Ob, no," said Lemuel, becomingly.
"Well, at once she snatches the
chance. She will appear to Tom when
he meets her to be out with the clergy
man. If ho speaks she will ignore
him. Shonld he persist, the clergy
man, who is tho stronger, will knock
him down."
"Will he?"
"Yos, ho promised."
"Did he?"
"Yes, becauso Angela wished it."
"Well, perhaps. But when Tom ap
pears why docs Angela ,ruu to the
bushos?"
"Don't you think it was bettor to
avoid the meeting?"
"Possibly."
"Aud now," she said, dismounting
and extending a hand, goocl-by."
"You aro going to leave me?"
"I livo over there."
"Thore aro a 'lot of houses. Green
wioh, isn't it?"
"Yes, Greenwich ; but no matter
which house. You nre going back to
town. I am ever so much obliged to
you. You have beeu ever so good."
"Angola," ho said, "must it be
good-by?"
"Yes."
"And you won't flirt any more?"
"I never do."
"But you have confessed to it with
Tom."
"I never will again. Now good-by,
Mr. Springer."
And she wns in her saddle, an lsmil
ing back at him, and vanishing over
tho slope, leaving bim rubbiug his
oyes.
At first he thought ho would fol
low, but then in Greenwich ho likely
would met some one who knew him,
and ho could not afford to appear ri
diculous, particularly after such au es
capade. Yet, as ho wheeled, he regretted his
resolution, aud he envied Tom, and he
couldu't think of his sermon ; nnd ho
really was ou that ride simply to
clarify his mind that ho might make
his next discourse a fitting one.
Aud back at his desk, it was tho
same, and his sermon was singularly
poor that next Sabbath morning.
And be Btrovo with himself ; and
tried to put her out of his miud ; and
to think of how scandalous it nil
would seem to nny of his parishioners
who should hear of it. Yet he yield
ed, so far as to And himself looking
ubout furtively for Angela, He even,
with some self-deception, wheeled sev
eral times over the same roads.
But when he understood bow im
pulse was carrying him, ho lashed
himself mentally as a hermit of old
did his flesh. And ho wrote a mighty
sermon, which quite astonished his
congregation, uud after he had de
livered it ho was compelled out of con
sistency to givo up his ouo indulgence
surviving from a great career as a col
lege athlete.
Acd ho plunged deeper into bis
work and "God's poor" nod suffering
never had more atteutiou in that par
ish. But he cauldii't give up dinners aud
routs altogether, as a certain attend
ance ou these functions is plainly a
clergymau's duty. Aud at ouo of
these be saw Augela and was present
ed. And under her eyes he forgot him
self, as, heaven knows, clergymen are
as the rest of us.
"Angela," ho began, "I havo been
looking for you."
"Have you?" ho said.
"And Tom?" he atkod fearfully.
"Oh, he's married."
"To whom? I didn't catch your
name. Was it Mrs. ?"
"No, it isn't. It was tho other
girl."
"I hopo you liava followed my ad vice,"
he biid, after a moment.
"Not to. I told you 1 never did."
"I wish I rosily wish you would
make me the exceptiou," said thelluv.
Lemuel.
And tho parish gossips save, to be
sure, crtaiu dowagers, mil priiii,
acidulous virtus declare Unit An
gela, the rector's lady, shows the rule
of au outrageously lively youug wo
man turning sedaio if her fancy and
faith may bu caught uud held; ull ot
which, of course, is lilting the cur
tain fall ou a coinedv. New York Suu.
"How did Charley get out of Unit
eerape caused by his knocl.iiig tho old
woman down with his wheel ?" "Easily.
Ilo proved that the woman, who was
walking ou thu sidevulk, ha I uoither
a bell nor a lauteru." Judge,
TIIHMKKKY 811)15 01' LIFE.
BTORIKS THAT ARB TOM) JIT THE
FUXEN OF THE FRES3.
The Fml -glto IMslit-tironnil for
HopeThe IHfleienee of ft K"
A ool Foundation, Kle.
Though some girl may count their admirers
by scores.
And loud of their victorii-s prate,
Tho maiden whose followers number the
most
Is tho ouc on the fashion-plate.
l'uck.
Ql'lTB ni'UIT.
Ethel "Louise, what's tight and
wrong?"
Louiso "Why, ma and pa, of
course." Judge.
OIlOUNH Foil Horn.
Lillian "But, surely, sho must sco
that ho is mercenary."
Grace "Of course! Thnt is why
sho thinks his iuteutions are serious."
Puck.
AN EXPRNHIVK HluRNf'K.
She "Do you mean to say Hint
papa didn't teply to your request for
my hand?"
He "No. Ho said ho couldn't find
words to express hiiusolf." Puck.
THE DIBTKWINCK Of A K.
Young Wife "Isn't it a pleasure,
George, dear, to seo mother so happily
engaged?"
Young Husband "Yes, dear. T
always love to seo your mother nit."
Judge.
A MATTKU OF HEAl.Tlt.
Thoatrieal Manager "You say yon
want a position in my company. Why,
man, you dou't look well enough."
Aelor "That's just it. My doctor
says if I will walk thirty milos a day
I'll bo cured."
A OOOD FOUNDATION.
"Jack, you have an unusual nmonnt
of useful kuowledge for a man just
graduated from college,"
"Well, you see, Uncle, I had a good
common school education before 1
went there." Life
A BOY TO BIS rROHD OF.
Mrc. Dolau "My boy Dinny is
gittin to be a groat buuday-schuol
worker, biess the heart av urn."
Mrs. Nolan- "Indado"
"Vis. He has worked free av thim
for free excursions already." Lifo.
BRAIN WOI1K.
Tom "How do you like wodded
bliss, Jack?"
Jack "All right, except tho Suu
day work."
Tom "Goingto church, I suppose."
Jack "No ; thinking np excuses for
not going. It's a terrible mnutul
sUaiu." Judge.
rKKSlSTKNT.
"That bill-colioctor is still down
stairs, sir."
"Didn't I tell you to say to him that
I died quite suddenly half an hour
ago?"
Yes, sir; but he says he would
like a few moments' conversation with
the corpse." Life.
THAT CTUAN WAR.
Senor Iruzo (latoly arrived) "What
lias been the success of our arms dur
ing tho last fow weeks?"
Colonel Calvermau (of tho Spauish
army) "We havo been very sucuiss
ful. I believe that not one true re
port has gotten out of Cuba during
that time." Puck.
' HEII IMI'IIKSMION.
Papa (just arrived from down town)
"Well, whore's Bessie? Why isn't
she running to meet me, as usual?"
Mamma "Bessie bus beeu naughty
and disobedient. I havo had to de
prive her of her playthings, aud she
Los been weeping bitter tears iu her
own room for tho last half hour."
Voice of Bessie ( rom adjoining
room) "Tears ain't bitter I They're
ualt. " Chicago Tribune.
A OIIKAT llKAD.
Financier "You literary men
haven't thu first idea about buinei-s.
Hero you have about 10,000 manu
scripts piled up iu this dark closet,
and you say they aro all paid for."
Editor Great Maga.iuo "Ifears
ago."
"Just think of it) Hasn't it ever
occurred to you, sir, that you aro los
ing thu iuterest on ull thu money you
paid out for those useless bundles?"
"Hull I You financiers haven't tho
first idea about literature. Every one
of those manuscripts is from a diflureut
author, aud the whole 10,000 of them
will go ou buying our maa.iue ut
tliirty livo cents a copy until the
articles aro printed." Now York
Weekly.
KXi't.MSINU IT.
"Say, Maine," said Maud, as she bit
oil' a tiny piece of chewing gum, "1'vo
beeu improving my mind agaiu."
"Go 'way! You haven't!"
"Yes, 1 have. 1 have been leading
ull ubout the convention, ll's per
fectly fascinating, too."
"l!au you understand it?"
"Most of it. I used to think a con
vention was stupid, but it isn't a Int.
It's just like a gymnasium or riding a
gout at uu initiation, or something of
that kind, you know."
"How do they do?"
"Why, they bring out a plank.''
"Yes."
"And it's very w ide ; uud the can
didates try to straddle it, uud other
people try to keep them from doin
so; uud thu side that wins y tn llm
nomination. I don't know what it
means, but that's tho way it'rl ilo ie,
for 1 mw it iu tho paper. "--New lork
Advti tlBtr,
"lit M liFIC AM) INDUSTRIAL.
The sruoko of wood fires is not in
the slightest degree injurious to vege
tation.
The Smithsonian Institution has do
nated a collection of 215 duplicate
specimens of fishes to tho University
of Orogon.
Next October a soiontifio jubilee
will be hold in honor of the fiftieth
anniversary of tho first application of
ether in surgical operations.
It takes the moon exactly -12,521.
minutes (tweuty-uiue days, twelve
hours and forty-four minutes) to mako
its revolution around tho earth.
The first fossil insect ever found in
tho southern coal Held of Pennsyl
vania, according to Naturalist W. Vic
tor Lehman, of Treraont, Penn., wai
sent by him to tho Smithsonian In
stitution lately.
A new use has been discovered for
hops, namely, the curing of baccn. It
is found that a sprinkling of hops iu
the brine when bacon aud hams are
put in pickle adds greatly to the flavor
of both, and enables them to be kept
nn indefinite period.
Paris gelee groseillee, which the
careless take to tho currant jolly, is
Bimply agarngnr, or Coylon seamoss,
flavored with chemical essenoa which
give it tho tasto of fruit. Tho au
thorities refuse to interfcro with the
Bnle of tho substance on tho ground
that it is harmless.
M. Moiasnu is reported fo hnvo dis
covered a substance which is harder
than tho diamond, in the form of u
compound of carbon and boron. It
is produoed by healTng boracio acid
and carbon in au electrio furnace nt u
temperature of 0000 degrees. In ap
pearance the composition is black nud
looks not unlike graphite,
A gas lamp for checking boilei
furnaces, which performs for the
furnace what the manometer and
steam gauge do for steam and water
has beeu devised by Herr Walther
llempel, of Dresden. It shows at a
glance by the fluctuations of the jet,
what is the proportion of carbonic
acid and oxygen in the gaies of com
bustion at any moment, enabling the
stoker to control the supply of air at
once.
An air tester, for showing the de
gree of contamination of the air of a
workshop or other place where people
are crowded together, is nn interest
ing apparatus lately shown iu Zurich.
A closed glass vessel is filled with a
red fluid having the property of being
bleaohed by carbonio acid. One end
of a glass siphon dips into tho liquid,
and from the other end a drop falls
every 100 seconds, and glidB Blowly
down a cord kept stretched by a
weight. The more carbonic acid the
air contains, the quicker tho drop
loses color. Tho drop may turn white
near the upper end of the cord, if the
air is very foul, or it may pass nearly
to the other end before the change
takes place, such graduations as "ex
tremely bad," "very bad," "passable"
and "pure" being marked on a scale
for the guidance of tho observer.
The Zerogrnpli.
The zerograph, an instrument in ap
pearance very muoh like nn ordinary
typewriter, is being used in England
for transmitting or receiving telegraph
messages. Ouo machine is employed
at each end of the line. In sending a
telegraphic, message no special train
ing is required. The operator de
presses iu luru the keys of what ap
pears to be an ordinary typewriter
keyboard, with the usual arrangement
of the letters. The depression of a
key closes tho couuection of a local
battery of from five to ton small ac
cumulators, which causes a currunt to
flow, not only actuating tho printing
aud inking mechanism of the trans
mitting instrument, but also closing
tho line circuit, which in its turn com
pletes tho local circuit of the receiving
instrument. Tho two machines uro
thus simultaneously actuated, aud as
the operator presses tho key ho uot
only priuts tho message on his own
instrument, but makes an exact re
production upon tho receiving instru
ment. As soou as tho end ot a lino is
roaohod tho machi uo automatically
moves the paper forward, uud, releas
ing a spring, causes the paper roller to
move along ready for the llrst letter to
strike at tho commencement of n new
lino. The machine is thus perfectly
automatic, iu its action, aud may safely
be left to tuke care of itself at tho re
ceiving end, tho message as received
being printed ou tho roll of paper
without auy atteutiou being required.
A fJoldeii (i nil u (lardcn.
A drive through tho Bed lliver Val
ley will oouvinoo the most skoi ticul
that there is a brilliant future for it.
In no seotiou of America does tho hus
bandman reap a greater reward for
bis labor thau iu this beautiful valley.
In uo sectiou of America may any
more beautiful sight be seeu thau iu
this sumo couutry between seed time
aud harvest. Tho vast field of "yellow,
golden graiu" stretching as far us tho
eyo cun reach, waving gently to uud
fro iu the gentle summer breeze, with
hero uud there a pretty farmhouse
nestling among the trues; the stretches
of virgin prairie thickly malted with
rich aud succulent grasses and flowers
of every hue seudiug forth a most de
lightful perfume, the blue vault of
heaven mean while, stretching away to
thu hotizou ou either side in uubrokeu
spleudor, save hero uud there a ileocy
cloud- ull this is a sight to thrill the
heart of tho most unroiuautie. To all
those men iu tho crowded East who
aro endowed with a spirit of thrift and
enterprise uud who wish to provide
comfortable homes for themselves uud
families we say, come to North Dakota,
She has room for the farmer, tho uicr-
1 chant aud tho mechanic. Thu Bed
Uiver Valley of North Dakota oilers
facilities second to no pluce iu America
lor all such peoido. Euruo Itccord.
MINE F.NtMY,
Tireless enemy havo I,
Who, with arch Inconsistency,
Mnketh without lgn of censo
Keen attacks upon my peace.
Had my plight, who never know
If by night or day my foe
Will, with his strategic nrt,
Htorm the ramparts of my heart.
Through delay and dearth and doubt
1 have kept tho foeman out;
Hut I fear the fort must fall,
And his banner top the wall.
And I plno In long duress,
If no friend heed my dlstres.
Who will come and e.iuso to lleo
Love, thnt m mine enemy?
Clinton Hcollard, In the Century
IIIJMOK OK THE BAY.
In nutobioginphies thero is no such
word as fail. Puck.
How lucky it is thero aro no taxes
on air castles! Lifo.
"I can seo through your tricks,"
said Photo,-?, ns ho applied his X rays
to tho magieiau'R sleight-of hand per
formance. Norristown Herald.
"When I loso any little thing liko
that 1 know whero to look for it."
"You do?" "Yes; it's nearly always
in baby's month." Chicago Itccord.
His Mama "You children know
more nowadays than they usod to in
my tiino, Freddy." Freddy "That's
coz there's more to know, ma." Box
bury Gazette.
Higgles "Old Bilson callodin four
doctors in consultation over him
when ho diod." Migglo "There is
uo danger of his bciug buried alive."
Brooklyu Times.
Friend "What did you find the
most, difficult thinsc whon vou wrote
jour first poems?" Poet "To find
somo one who would let me road thorn
to him." Fliegoudo Blaetter.
Lady "Is it true that you havo
fallen in love with tho princess?"
Lieutenant "(juite right. I jnst
wanted to seo for once how hopeless
love feels." Fliegendo Blaetter.
"Cnn you lend mo 103 marks?"
"That's a singular umouut to ask for.
What do you want of tho odd five?"
"I wish to demonstrate my honest in
tentions by paying to you nt once, five
marks ou account." Fliegoudo Blaet
ter. Benny Dictus "There is an article
in to-day's papor I should liko you to
get my wife to read, but it is no uso
asking hor." Sam Singleton "I'll
tell you how to do it. Cut tho piece
out nud put it iu your pocket." Now
York Herald.
Sportnor "You muat havo had
great fuu when your football team
played Vassar." JackTaeklo "Fun?
1 guess not. I am engaged to the
umpire, and sho ruled me oil" for hold
ing iu tho very first scrimmngo,"
Princeton Tiger.
Tho Quantity: Old Carper "It
takes an enormous amount of material
to mako n fashionable gown nowadays."
Mrs, Carper "Oh, no I Why, you
lake tho material for two skirts aud
make tho sleeves, aud lake the mate
rial for one sleeve and make the skirt ;
that is nil." Puck.
Insufficient Dala:"You arean ex
pert, aro you not?" said tho caller.
"Yes, sir." "Well, I wish you would
take these two papers aud tell me
whether thoy ero written by tho .same
person." "la it a matter of litiga
tion?" "Very possibly." "Theu it
would bo really impossible fbr mo to
comply with your request; not until I
havo learned upon which sido I havo
beeu retained." Washington Star.
No Necromancy About luvciiHuu.-'
One of tho great inventors of tho
ago is Mr. Edison, who has beeu called
iu term i of well iutuutiouod, but
doubtful, compliment "The Wizard
of Menlo Park." There is uo spirit
of uecromaucy t bo fouud brooding
among; tho vast collection of apparatus
in Mr. Edison's laboratory. Tho
whole dace is devoted to invention as
expressed iu the good old Latiu root
meaning of the word: "to como
upon," and hence to find. Invention,
in the case ot Mr. E lisou, is search ;
and tho search i.j prosecuted along
multitudinous liues with a persever
ance which may havo been equaled,
but has never boon surpassed iu tho
history of tho world. Speaking of
himself aud his work, Mr. E lisou has
said: "in my own case but few, and
thoso thu least important, of my iu
veutions oweil anythiug to accidents.
Most of them have been hammered out
after long uud patient labor, aud tiro
the result of countless cxi oriuiouts,
all directed toward attaining somo
well-deliuod object. All mechauical
improvements may safely bo said to
be inventions, uud not discoveries."
It is not tho mau who dreams' of
better mechanical ways of dolug
work, but he who by intelligent- ox
perimeut works out tho mechauical
forms that translate the dream iuto u
reality, w ho is entitled to thu name of
inventor. Scieiitilio Amcricau.
I.uck t o nes ti u M'uihci-noiuaii.
Mrs. II. II. Leonard, of Wichita,
Kau., while looking over obi papers,
found that the bum of SIO.OOJ had
beeu deposited by her brother in a
bauk at Trenton, Tuuu., in lSii;i. Ho
was killed iu battle a few weeks after
ward. A local bauk wired tho Tcu
nessoo bauk to-day uud got u reply
stating that tho mouey was still there
aud that they had beeu hunting tho
heirs for over tweuty-tlvo years. Last
fall Leonard got a divorce from his
wife and married a woman named
Irene, Leonard. Iu two mouths after
this marriage the second wife killed
him for a rf'i'MK) iuntirauoo policy ou
his life. Since then the lir.it Mrs.
Leonard has been wu.thiug for a living.
Her fortune, with interest, is now
estimated ut $20,000. Kuuous City
Tiiuco.
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