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EST
JKEPTJBL
The now Slinh of Persia i anxious
to opon tbo country to international
commerce, and favon tha introdao
tion of electricity and steam.
The now widd-firo law whioh went
!jto effect in Connecticut on July 1,
189(1, is not enforoeJ. "Oooil law, but
reforms are slow," comments the New
York Recorder.
Cyoling is slowly bat surely obang
Ir.g tlto fashions in Eugland. The
silk hut is actually going 'oat of
rogue, klllod by tho bicycle. At
oast 'bailors roport tint thore is
scarooly nDy demand for the fall
Irailo. Cuuos aud walking sticks in
nnothor branch of business that has
boon nearly ruined.
An old law of Geo rgiarermittcd tho
medical oollogos to claim tho bodies
of pauper for tho purpose of tlisseo
lion, and for yoars those were fonnd
adequate. A few years ago the law
was repealed by tho Legislature, and
as a result the mcdioal oollegos now
llnd that they will bo compelled to
dismiss their classes nnlesj means are
to and to provide subjects.
Tho machcto about which we read so
much in tho Cuban dispatches is the
tool with whioh tho Cuban works when
he is not fighting. It is used in the
sugar fields to oat the oane and is a
combination of a knife and a hatchet.
It inltiuts a severe and mutilating
wound. Every ouo in Cuba owns a
machete, which is as necossary to the
Cuban as au ax to the New Englandor.
No Nation otu beat the Frenoh at
arranging a funeral or a reception.
They oro a spectacular people, with a
keen rense of the picturesque. Then,
too, they hive the sense to employ the
right poopte. Tho best tragio aotor
recited for tho Russian Czar. The
best poet read an ode, and ho on. The
acoonut of the Russiau Imperial visit
to Paris reads like a page oat of ro
maucc.
I'ho Charleston (8. C.) Nows and
Courier asks: Is it any wouder that
our game birdt are becoming extinot
when wholesale butohery is not only
permitted, but regarded as sportsman
like and worthy of a gentleman? It
is a strictly National question in its
scope and application, aud by no
menus only a question of sontimeut.
The evideuoe multiplies yearly that in
destroying the birds so wantonly we
are destroying what has woll boon
oallod "our insect police."
The use of motor carriages at the
rate of fourteen milos an boar is now
legal on Eoglieh roads, and shrewd
men in tho cyclo business believe that
this new development in locomotion
will bo even more remarkable than
cyoliug in its general effects on the
country. The great manufacturing
firms of Leeds, Preston and Bedford
have already made big preparations
for the now industry, but apparently
tho bulk of it will- be centered at
Coventry, tho town which first had the
intelligence to grasp the possibilitiep
of the bicycle trade.
The Hues of some of the poets do not
fall in pleasant places in this rough
world, muses F. L. Stanton, in the At
lanta Constitution. Some year's ago
an editor gave Samuel Minturn Peck
85 for a few verses. They were pub
lished in duo time anfl soized npon by
a compos jr, who sot them to masio.
Tho minstrel men and opera troupes
took to einging them, and, as a song,
the verses realized a fortune to the
niutio house and the composor of the
notes. Peck askej for a royality :
"We don't know you in this business,"
they said: "We cover heard of yon
before I" And thus the world wags.
In viow of the 150th anniversary of
Princetou University, the romarkablo
purt played by the graduates of that
institution in the Revolution and Constitution-making
period deserves oom
incmorution, the New York Sun thinks.
Of the four hundred and sixty-nine
fraduatcs belonging to that period,
cue bundled and fourteen were clergy
men, thirteen of wboin became Presi
dents of colleges ; of the remaining
threo hundred and fifty-five, one,
James Madison, was for eight years
President of the Unitod States ; one
wr.s Yioo-Presideut ; six were mem
bers of the Continental Cougrese;
twenty became Senators of the United
States; twouly-tbreo entjred the
House of Representatives ; thirteen
were Governors of Status ; three were
Justices of the Supremo Court of tho
United Stutes, and some twenty served
us officers in the Revolutionary army.
These lucts which Professor Hibben
has collected demonstrate that With
trrpuon's administration gave Friuoo
tou an illustrious name, und placed
t lie collne on a high ground of es
Ueu ',ioi t-.-ntimious progress was
WE CAN to WITH SO LITTLE.
V little work, a little piny
Co keop us going anl so good-tin) 1
V little warmth, a little light
5f lovo's bestowing and so gool-nlghtl
I little fun to matoh the sorrow
Of each day's growing and so gooJ-mor-rowl
a littlo trust that wnon we dla
Wo ronp our sowing! And so good-bye!
Goorso Du Muurlur.
A WOMAN'S WIT.
BY. JAMES M. ADAMS.
NDEED, Miss
MoLaughlin, it is
not ouly pos
sible, bat easy of
accomplish-
-Vis
mont.
"I think not.
The a 1 1 e raut
"ft would be hazard
ous. No one should endanger his life
in such a way."
Tho afternoon san shone warmly on
Bridgewater ClilTs. The soft murmur
of the sea fell faintly on the ear. There
was peace in tho air and npon the
sea.
Mark Hilton's usual clcar-boadetl.
judgment was somewhat disturbed this
afternoon ; for was not Kitty Mo
Laughlin with him? It was not every
day that bo bad her all to himself three
miles from human habitation. How
ever be might strive to conesal it, his
elation would show itself in face and
speeoh. Nature was in opposition
with his mood.
This was no ordinary pair. Mark
Hilton was twenty-four, handsome
not a pretty man. He was tall and
straight, possessing a face of peouliarly
intellectual cast. His manner, and at
times bis speech, exhibited the slight
awkwardness often seen in those who
are given to habits of seclusion. lie
did not much affect general society ;
he was a man with an object in life,
and that objoot was not mere per
sonal popularity. Mark Hilton was,
in the highest sense, a gentleman.
Miss Kate MoLaughlin was nine
teen years of ago; tall and well
formed. She had a pleasant and in
tolligent face. Pcorlo did not con
sider her beautiful, Mark Hilton to
the oontrary, notwithstanding. What
most distinguished bur wis her re
markable gracefulness of speech and
manner. She was finely educated.
and, like Hilton, possessed ot a marked
individuality. The young men who
sought her eooioty were well treated,
bat, with tbo exception of Hilton,
made small progress in their efforts to
acquire ber confidence and to beeoine
more intimate. There was a line they
could not cross. They could never
see tho reason why. Sho did. She
knew that even the alchemy of love
could not nnito gold and lead withont
debasing the former.
The subject whioh Mark Hilton and
Kitty McLaughlin were discussing so
earnestly was tho possibility of safely
reaching a certain tiny bine flower
which grew far out on the rugged faoe
of the cliff. Kitty had discovered it
in its isolated position a few moments
before, and, romarkiug that it wus
nnlike any they bad seen that day.
wondered what it could be. The dis
tance was so great sho coald not de
cide, although sho was a good botan
ist." Mark, with more enthusiasm than
judiciousness, volnnteered to get it
for her a proposal sho would not
listen to.
"Nonsense I" returned Mark. "Thore
is no danger worth mentioning. Don't
yon see there is a line of shelving rock
jutting ont from behind the cliff which
leads directly to it.
"Rut you might slip or become
dizzy. It must be a hundred feet to
the bottom," she said, with a shudder
"Slipping is impossible with these
on," said Mark, calling attention to
the rubber-soled lawn tennis shoes
whioh be wore ; "and my bead was al
ways a steady one.
"But you shall not imperil your life
in such a foolhardy attempt," said
Kitty, deoidedly.
"Ob, yes, I will. You don't know
what a determined fellow i am when
got started," answered Mark with
laugh ; and in a second he was several
feet out on the face of the crag.
The shelving rook along which be
undertook to make his way was barely
four inohes in width. A diflioult path
way. There was nothing to cling to
exoept occasional sharp points whioh
jutted oat from the mass of rook.
Slowly and carefully he advanoos.
Kitty watches hi m intently, pale
and breathless with suspense.
A few steps more and he will reaoh it.
Ah I be has it, and holds it up tri
umphantly to ber view.
She waves her handkerchief, not
daring to speak for fear of startling
bim.
Now for the return. He starts baok
along the precarious pathway. He
suddenly stops aud hesitates. Why
so long ; is it to rest? No ; he is test
ing a portion of the rock with bis
foot. Has he become suspicious of
his highway? Yos; and with good
reason. A large portion of the rock
is loose I 'He bears on it it harder,
when a sudden roar, followed by a
terrible crash, reverberates from dill
to clilT.
A deep silence follows. What bas
happened. Has Mark Hilton pussod
forever from human eyes? No ; there
be is on bis narrow pathway clinging
olosoly to the lodge. A huge piece of
rock constituting part of liis perilous
road has scaled off, leaving the chif
ncurly as smooth as glass for six or
eight feet m his front.
His return is out off.
The sun has become obscured by
heavy, dark clouds. A wind has
ariseu. Tho sea no longer murmurs
softly, but sends forth a sullen, omni
ous roar. How suddenly everything
has changed I
Murk Hilton realizes bis situation.
He cannot go forward ; he caauot go
back, except a few feet. Above bim
the perpendicular rock rises to the
height of ten feet before the top of the
olilT is gained. It is smooth excopt a
lew flight projections here and thore.
No mortal could climb it. Mark
knows this, nd yet bo feels ho must
try. He cannot long romain in his
present position.
Was this beautiful day and bis life
to end together? Had he brought
this girl whom ho intended soon to
ask to be bis wifo to this lonely,
isolated spot only to witnoss his exit
from Iho world? the world in wnion
ho had hoped to accomplish so much.
The thought of death, when in close
proximity to it, is a dreadful thing, es
pecially to a young person.
Kitty McLaughlin, when she real
ized tho catastrophe whioh hod over
taken her lover, was so appalled that
sho could neither speak nor move. She
stood like one paralyzed nntil tho
voice of Mark, calling to her not to bo
alarmed, brought her back to tbo
world of reason.
Kitty was not one to remain long in
active if there was anything she could
do. Coming to the top of tho elm,
above bis bead, she cried :
"0, Mark I" (There was no "Mr.
Hilton" cow. On the verge of death
as ho was, Mark noted this withathrill
of pleasure.) "Can you bold on till I
can get assistance?"
.Mark mado a lapid calculation.
Three miles to the nearest bouse, and
the roughest possible path. It would
take at least an hour for help to reaoh
him. Too woll be knew that he coald
not retain his hold for half that time.
Ho was already muoh exhausted and
beooming dizzv. It required a great
effort to keep from falling.
"So," said Mark, mournfully. "We
must shout for help, and if no one
comes I must attempt to scale the
cliff!"
The olearagonized voice of the girl
rose on the air, but was nearly
drowned by tho ever-inoreasing roar
ot tbo sea. Mark's deep voice pene
trated bnt little farther. Neither
oould be heard a half mile. Their cries
re-echoed from crag to crag nntil
there seemed to be a soore of voioes
calling. A score calling but not one
replying!
After a few minutes spent in this
way it became evident to both that it
was useless. Mark was growing weak
er. He felt the necessity ot making
his perilous efiort before losing more
strength.
Without a word he lays hold of some
sharp points of rock above bim and at
tempts to ascend. When np about
three feet his foot suddenly slips. and,
half unconsoions, bo feels himself
roughly sliding down the face' of tho
oliff. Throwing oat his bands by in
stinct, oue of them reaches a fissure in
the rock and he finds himself, faint
and breathless, in his oiiginal posi
tion. Nothing bat a miracle saved
him from going over the precipice.
Kitty, hearing the noise, cried out
in an agony of apprehension.
"It is no use," callod poor Mark ; "a
cat oould not climb it much less a
man. I! mnst remainhera until I fall
from exhaustion, unless somebody
comes. And whit could they do if
they did?"
Kitty was in despair. Must she re
main there doing nothing and see her
lover perish? She never realized be
fore how she loved him, or, indeed,
that she loved him at all. Now it was
all revealed to her. And she the cause
of bis peril t A pang of anguish passed
through her when she thought of this.
What should she do? She looked
about wildly.
Ah! the milkweed!
The hill was covered with it. Her
knowledge of botany was not useless.
Running to tho veige ot the oliff,
she cried out :
"What is the longest possible time
you can hold on?"
'Twenty or twenty-five minutes,"
said Mark, feebly.
"Then for heaven's sake, oling!"
Rushing baok, she pulled up a score
of the largest stooks of milkweed. Se
looting one, she rolled the fiber into a
cord or string. How often she had
seen her teacher do this when botaniz
ing! She knew tbo cord thus formed
to be very strong, capable of support
ing at least twenty-five poands. Fonr
of these twisted together mado a sab'
stantial rope, but they were so very
short not more than two feet in
length.
Milkweed after milkweed succumbed
to her doft fingers, until at length, by
frequent splicing, she had a rope ten
feet long and four strauds strong. It
would easily bear one haudred
pounds. This was enough his own
ellorts, aided by the projecting rooks
aud fissures, would accomplish the
rest.
Kitty, in spito of her celerity, was
nearly twenty minutes manufacturing
the rope. bho knew that Marks
strength must bo most gone.
Hearing her upproach the brink
alone the poor fellow lost all courage,
supposiug her unknown mission had
failed.
"Uood-bye, Kitty, I"
"O Mark! Hold on! Hold on a
miuute longer!" and she flung him
the rope.
He summoned np all his strength.
Seeing the rope be took it iu his bunds
and said with surprise :
"Will it hold?"
"Yes j your whole weight, probably.
But that will not be nooeHimry, Let
me know when you ure ready."
"Brace yourself ! If I am too much
of a burden let go instantly ; for
heaven's sake don't lot me pull you
over tho preoipice. Ready!"
Up, up, he goen, his hope lending
him superhuman streugth. He makes
evory projection aud depression of the
rock ooutributo to his support. His
feet oitun slip, but thd ropu, with the
strong, brave girl at the further euJ,
upholds him. A moment more, aud
he falls fainting at the top of the
oliff.
Kitty is about to faint, but seeing
bis condition, -recovers herself, and
bostons to a neighboring spring fot
water. Mark soon revives, but his
mind is clonded. Looking around, be
says :
"The flower I Where is the flower?"
"Never mind that, dear" ho
thought she said "dear," bnt was so
nearly unconscious as never to be
sure "it is safo. Don't talk now,
nntil yon are feeling better."
A few minutes aud he is himself
again. Holding np the flower, bruised
and broken, whioh bo bos olung to
with a lover's care through all his
peril, he says ;
"Not muoh of a gift, but I got it
for yon."
"Why, it is a forget-me-not," crios
Kitty.
"Yes, a forget-me-not; and its
'language' is 'truo lovo.' O Kitty,
let it be an emblem of the lore I bear
yon," presenting it to her.
"As suob I accept it," she replies,
softly.
It Never Needs Unpacking.
Thore are many useful improve
ments to ohroniole in tho way of lug
gage, and among them a trunk that
does nt need to be nnpaoked, bat an
swers the pnrpose of a wardrobe and
a chest of drawers. It can be set, on
arrival at the journey's end, against
the wall. Tho lid will remain open
when thus placed, and discovers sepa
rate trays for millinery, handker
chiefs, gloves, linen, laoes, and boots
and shoes, lined with washable water
proof, so that, if thrown in muddy,
dirt can be washed off ; some having
one long receptacle aoross for umbrol
las, parasols and stioks; the latter wo
men have taken to in the country
much of late. Bolow this upper tray
the box is divided into a series of
drawers holding a few dresses each a
wonderful oonvenienoe. One of tho
best inventions in traveling bags has
all the fittings removablo as a whole
and fitted on tho outside toilet
requisites, writing, etc, oombinod ;
this leaves th9 interior of tbo bag free.
The bost have square mouths; and a
new kind has all the fittings above the
sides of the square, whioh, oponing
automatically, adjust themselves ou
the top and can easily be slippod off
and stood on the dressing table ready
for use. For the better preservation
of obeck books they can now be fitted
into a long, narrow, leather looked
case, with an accompanying blotting
pad. . Indeed, every want is fore
stalled ; all that is needed is to dis
cover tho purveyors of such innumer
able aids to comfort m traveling. St.
James Gazette.
Why a tut Lights on lis Feet.
An experimenter recently undertook
to discover why a cat invariably fell
on its feet. He finds that a cat always
falls on its feet providing it has a dis
tance of a yard to fall in aud enable it
to make a half turn iu the air, so as to
get its foet undermost. It holds its
paws vertically and manages to pre
serve this position during the rest of
its fall, in spite of the initial move
ment of rotation taken by its body.
The mechanioal explanation is simply
that the animal, by thrusting forward
its left limb, shifts the center of grav
ity of the whole body so as to make i
revolve npon the axis of tho spine nn
til the feet reaoh the ground. More
over, a cat does not hurt itself by o
fall from a height, not because it in
variably falls on its feet, but because
the structure of a oat's back and spine
is extremely flexible. The musoles ol
its legs are extraordinary strong and
numerous, and, further, it has clastic
pads or cushions consisting of a most
of fibrous tissue and fat on all its feet,
seven in eaoh forepaw and five in each
hind paw. Chioago News.
Notes Upon Cheese.
Nine-tenths of the oheeso produced
in this country is made in the States
ot New York, Wisconsin. Ohio, Illi
nois, Vermont, Iowa, Pennsylvania
and Michigan, ranking iu the order
named. The New York produot alone
is almost one-half the total, and this
State and Wisconsin together make
over two-thirds of all.
It requires the milk of about 1,000,.
009 oows to make the oteeBO annually
pressed in tho Unitod States.
The value of tho annual cheese
produot of this country varies from
820,000,000 to 325,000,000.
About 0,000,000 pounds of oheose
are imported annually into the United
States.
The rate of consumption of oheeso
in America is about three pounds per
capita per aunam.
Consumption of cheese is apparent
ly somewhat decreasing.
Qood cheese is approximately com
posed of ono-tbird water, one-third
milk fat and one-third casein, with
souio sugar aud ash. II. E. Alvord,
Chief United States Dairy Division,
Colors in Cuudy-Makiiig.
The French Government, whose pa
ternul car? extends over oven the
eandy-making and candy-eating of its
citizens, prescribes what substances
may or may not be used iu tho manu
facture of candy. According to the
Frenoh law, the materials that may bo
employed are us follows: For blue,
mdigo, Prussian bluo aud ultramarine ;
for red, eochiueal, csratiue ami citr
ruiuo lake; for yellow, satfron, French
berries, Persian tumerio aud fustio ;
for green, a mixture of oue of the
yellows and one ot tho blues.
World's Most Striking Monument.
The tuo-t striking monument iu tho
world is said to bo that erected on tho
shores of Lako ls.y-Kul, iu Ceutrul
Asiu, in houor of the Russian Gouerul
Prjevalski, a famous explorer of that
region. The tomb is hollowed out in
the summit of a jutting clill ou the
euhtcrn luurgia of the lake, uud the
mouuuient consists of uu enormous
rough-hew a block of gray graiulo,
tweuty-tive feet high, over which is
thrown a chart of Central Asia.
TUB ME BUY SIDE UP LIFE.
STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BY THD
FUNNY MEN OP THE PRE3S.
A Reasonable Ioilt Ifplplnj Them
Out-Would Kill Illm I'p-A
Strong Resemblance, Ktc, Ktc.
A weight llos heavy on my soul,
No Klf'nm of hope or elisor is nigh;
Oh, toll mt, ye who thlntrs control,
Atn I in lovo, or Is it pli?
Chicago Record.
nELPINQ TIT EM OUT.
"Is Nora really going to leave?"
"Yes, but she said sho would givo
as a certificate of good character."
A GTCNERAI ' RMASII.
"So you went wheeling yesterday.
Did you break tho record?"
"No; but I broke nenrly everything
else." Detroit Free Pross.
MAKING IT CLEAR.
"Papa, why do they call language
tho 'mother tongue?' "
"Because tho father so seldom gets
cbanoe to uso it." Chicago Record,
WOULD FIMi HIM TP. '
The Toet "Sho invited mo to ber
bouse to dinner."
The Friend "Sho told me she didn't
think there was much in you." Town
Topics.
a STnosa nESEsiniANCE.
Visitor "How much tho baby re
sembles its mother I"
Father "Yes, it talked whon it
was only six months old." Harlem
Life.
HI3 MASTERLY METIIOD.
"Uncle Simon, whjit is a campaign
orator?"
"He is a fellow who doesn't let
thinking interfere with his talking."
""Chicago Record.
no Dounr ABOUT IT.
Johnnie "I fcol sure our dog bit
that tramp."
Papa "Did tho tramp say so?"
Johnnie "No, but tho dog looks
sick," Harlem Life.
TRAPPED.
Canny "Is Miss Wilbur at home?"
Norah "No, sorr."
Canny "Well, go up stairs and ask
her when she will be at home."
Norah (going) "Yis, sorr." Har
per's Bazar.
HARD TO TELL.
Little May "Why do they consid
er marriage such an important step in
life?"
Agatha "Because it's so hard to
tell whether it's a step up or down."
Pick-Me-Up.
ARITHMETICAL.
"Nearly all married men are good
accountants ; they can carry enormous
sums in their heads."
"How do you account for that?"
"Because they wouldn't daro carry
snch sums iu their pockets."
HORTICULTURAL.
"That man in tho next flat calls bis
lively wife Blossom."
"Great Scott; how inappropriate."
"What makes you say so?" -
"Blossoms shut up when the sun
goes down." Chicago Record.
THAT is IT.
"When it rains, Bryan simply hoists
an umbrella and goes on with bis
speech," remarked the snake editor.
"1 see," replied tho horse editor.
"Ho'd rather put up thuu shut up."
Pittsburg Chrouiolo-Telegrsph.
HIS THIS WAS VALUABLE.
Teacher (severely) "Tommy Smith,
come bore. Why haven't you learned
your geography lesson?"
Tommy '"Causo tho papers say
there's going to be a change in the
map of Kurope. " Chicago Dispatch.
TnE DOLEPl'L llArnELOR.
"Why," asked tho Sweet Young
Thing, "why do they say that love is
of the heart?"
"To show," said tho Doleful Bacho
lor, "to show that tho brains havo
nothing to do with it." Indianapolis
Journal.
NOT FOR "KEEPS."
"What do they mean by 'salting' a
mine, popper," uskod the small boy.
"Is it anythiug like halting moat?''
"No, ludneJI" answered Mr. Bitt
wuntz. "Whon a man ealU meat it is
because ho wants to keep it." Cin
cinnati Enquirer.
THE TIP.
"WhoBo immeuso funeral procession
is that?"
"llo was ono of tho richest hotel
men iu the country."
"Of what hotel was ho proprietor?"
"Ho wusu't any proprietor. He wus
the bead wuiter." Cleveland Plain
Dealer. THE PROPER MOOU.
"What an idiot lovo makes of a man 1
Here Timmins bus beeu writing poetry
to hisBWeetheart's 'geutlo eyes.' "
"Well, what of it?"
"What of it? Ho can sho bo gentle-eyed
when she is cross.eyed?"
Indiauapolis Journal.
A I.OlilflA.N.
Corporal (to soldier) "Why is tho
blade of the sabre curved iutlca t of
straight?"
Private "It is curved iu order to
givo more force to tho blow."
Coruorul "llmulitiu I It is curved
so as to fit tho K'ublmr.l. If it was I
straight how would you get it into tho j
crooked scabbard, blockhead ?"- Flie-
ttuJe Blaetter.
SCIENTIFIC AS1 IXDISl'tJJUr,.
Thirty-five million human beings di
every year.
A Pastonr Institute has been estab
lished at Athens, Greece.
Tho juice of a pineapplo cuts tho
mombrano from the throat of a diph
theria patient whon nothing else will.
Astronomers eay that 1.000,030
"shooting stars" fall into tho Bun for
every one that comos into our atmos
phere. Luminous inks may now be nsod to
print signs to bo visible iu the dark.
Zino suits and calcium are tho medi
ums generally used.
Motor carriages which can travel
sixteen miles an hour on on ordinary
road, at a cost of a half-penny n mile,
havo been exhibiting in Wombly Park,
London.
An "elcctrio restaurant," serving
dinners automatically without waiters,
will be a feature of next year's inter
national exhibition of hotel arrauge
montsat Amsterdam.
A new lead for deep sea sounding
carries a cartridge which explodes ou
touching the bottom. A submerged
microphone receives the' sound, and
the depth is estimated from the time
oconpied by the load in sinking.
Tine and fur have long fibers, ex
ceedingly well adapted to the use of
the paper maker, but the resinous sub
stances contained in these woods form
bo large a percentage of the composi
tion and are bo diflioult of removal
that the paper makers are compelled to
use other varieties.
An experimenter with Roontzen rays
states that, besides the now well
known sunburn effect, exposure for
two or three hoars to these rays may
cause the joints to becomo nearly
transparent, the nails to die, and the
hair to fall out, although both nails
and hair will grow out again. Tho
effects seem to bo duo to electrical
notion.
A Bullet Mailo a Hailstone.
Colonel Clark R. Westcolt, of Lon
don, England, who bas been spending
a couplo of months in Chicago and the
West in tho interest of a syndfeato
which owns considerable mining prop
erty iu this country, is responsible for
the following account of a singular
natural phenomenon. His story is as
follows :
"Ono hot day a couplo of weeks
sinoe I was riding along a mountain
road in Colorado ou my.way to a mino
in whioh I am interested, when I no
ticed high above soaring in majestic
oirole au eagle. I had a 45-90 Win
chester Elung across my baok, and it
was but the work of a moment to un
filing the gun and fire at the bird,
whioh appeared to be directly abova
me. As I fired I noticed that the bird
was directly betwoon myself and a
donse black cloud which hung above
me. The shot was a clear miss, and,
not caring to waste any more cart
ridges, I was about to rule on, when I
was startled to hear what I took to be
the dull 'chung' of a stone thrown by
an unscon hand, which fell into a littlo
gully partly filled with leaves, within
tweuty loet of me. I looked carefully
about me in all directions, but could
see no sign of n human boing, and
then dismountod, and, scraping baok
the loaves, wus ustouished to find a
pieco of ice as lurgo as a goose egg
and abont the same shapo. Upon
close examination I was further aston
ished to discover my rifle ball firmly
imbedded iu its oeutre. I have spec
ulated a doal over this phenomenon
since that time, and the ouly solution
I can see is that the ball iu passing
through the cloud gathered the moist
ure and held it by its whirling motiou,
so that it was frogen at a higher ulti
tude and fell to the earth as I havo
described." Chicago Chroniolo.
The Clilncso Work Backward.
Tho Chinese do everythiug back
ward. Their compass points to tho
south instead of tho north. The mou
wear skirts and tho women trousers;
while tho in cm woar thoir hair long,
the woman coil theirs iu a kuot. The
dressmakers are meu ; tho wonion carry
burdans. The spoken language is cot
written and tho written lunguago is
not spoken. Books are read back
ward, and any notes are insertod at
the top. White is nsod for mourning,
and the bridesmaids wear black in
stead of boing maidens these function
aries aro old women. Tho Chinese
surname comes first, and thoy shako
their own bunds in&toud of the haud of
the one whom they would greet. Ves
sels aro launched sidowiso and horses
aro mounted from tho off side, Thoy
commenoo their dinner with tho des
sert and end up with soup and fish.
In shaving the burber operutos ou tho
head, cutting tbo huir upward, then
downward, and then polishes it oil
with a small knife, which is passed
over tho eyebrows aud into the cose
to remove uuy superfluous huir. St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
The .New England Apple.
Other friuts may do thoir best in
milder regions ; but tho apple of New
England remuius supremo. Thore are
several thousand vurietic j,but of these
cot more thuu a couple of hundred
are actually grown for profit, anil
probably not more thuu tweuty havo
uu wido reputo or sale. Aud there
is reasou for this. With all the ex
porimoutiiig of horticulturist, there
roiL'aiu to be fouu 1 uny bettr varieties
than tho old luuuliur oti. s, tho Bald
wins, Rhode Island (ireeuiugs, Hub
bard. dona, PortcrH, RuHi-et, uud tho
like. Providciit-o Journal.
'Ihu Littlo llnt'iT.
Adepts iu palmistry usei t that the
length of the fourth or littlo linger is
the most itnportaut diu iu tlio hau I.
There is no man, thoy ruy, who riei
to importuuee in any line of life with
but a loU aud straight .ntle linger.
WHEN POLLY E MILES.
When I'olty smlls the gmyost sklos
Take on a heavenly blue;
And O, the light In I'olly's eyes
How bright It Is! How trtw!
And from Ids perch, on her scdato
Young ehouldcrs you can n-e
Lovo shoot his arrows swift and straight,
When Polly sml'.es at tno.
But, O, my soul! when Tolly Trowns,
How bl.v:k nnd fierce the skies!
And, ottcntluios, a ralndr.jp drowai
Tho light In I'olly's eyes
tut when I kisa her nil tho rain
And storm clouds quickly flee,
And hnrTpy skies are blue again,
Tor Polly smiles at mo.
, Anna Tczler.
HUMOR 01' THE DAT.
VThen in thebrnHsy skies above
V" hope nnr help I ,.,
1 gladly seek the girl I love
Bha'd always oonl to mn.
Cleveland l'luln-Dcaler.
Littlo Elsie "Ain't those oows
email, ma?" Ma "Yos, dear."
Little Elsie "I guess them's the kind
they pots condensed milk from, ain't
they?" Philadelphia Rcoord.
Canny "Is Miss Wilbur at home?"
Norah "No, sorr." Canny "Well
go upstairs and ask her when she
will beat home." Norah (going)
"Yis, sorr." Harper's Bazar.
The orator tho nlr mnkes blue,
While selling In hi. Iluks,
And as the dnys growoooler whew!
How hot grows politics !
Boston Courier.
"What in thunder are yon speakin'
to tho school children for?" asked tho
voter. "Just keop quiet," replied the
candidate; "they'll all be old enough
to vote before I'm elected." Atlanta
Constitution.
"How did yon daro toll futher that
yoa had a prospect of a hundred
thousand dollars a year?" she asked.
"Why," ho answered, in righteous in
dignation, "I have, if I marry you."
Washington Star.
It is talk wasted for an unmarriel
woman to boast of her economy to an
unmarried man. A man never appre
ciates economy in a woman until after
he bat marriod a woman who doesn't
praotico it. Atchison Globe,
Hendrioks "Say, if we can't get
this crowd in front of us out of tho
way, we are goiug to miss our tiain.
What shall wo do?" Curr "I have it.
Let's start a discussion on the coiuago
fiii.n tt
lie rails In long aud tedious proso
Ahmit- tha Hpii'nti'a ili.urMt.
Yet lie pays and goes
To see the shows
Aud ho laughs his money's worth.
Washington Star.
Mr. Frankstown (admiringly)
"How fresh yon look this morniug,
Miss Homewood I" Miss Homewood
(who detests tho youuy; niau) "How
fresh you talk this luoruiug, Mr.
Frankstown." Pittsburg Chronicle.
"What did the crowd gather at tho
corner for a few minutes ago I" "A
woman's wheel collapsed." "I sup
pose they wanted to Bee how badly she
was hurt." "No, thoy were trying to
iind out the name of the wheol. "
Judge.
"I want yon to understand," roared
Beoily, "thut tho sun caver sets ou the
British Empire." "That's right,"
quietly remarked Yank E. Doodlo,
"but Undo Sum has found it necossary
to Bet on her onco iu a while." De
troit Freo Press.
Coroner "is this man whom you
found dead on tho lailroad traok a
total stranger?" Wituess (who bad
boon told by tho company to be care
ful in his statomouts) "So, sir. Hii
leg was gone iutoirely. lie was a
partial stranger." Texas Sittings.
Mrs. Spoonor "Charles, do you
thiuk you would over marry again?"
Mr. Spoonor "What, aftef having
lived with you for ten years! Never!"
Mrs. Spoouer says sho would give
something handomo if she only knew
what he meant by that. Boston Tran
script. Fixing His Identity: Attornoy
"Well, cow, you say you taw tho man
who did the stabbing?" Witness
"Yis, sor." Attorney "Aud would
you know the culprit again if you saw
him?" Witnoss "Ho wasn't no cul
prit, sor; bo was a Eyetalian,"
Cleveland Leader.
Bees Mop Kuilwav Work.
Bees recently stopped tho construc
tion on tho Butler (1'oun.) aud Pitts
burg Railroad, Audrew Carnegie'f
new freight line from Pittsburg to the
groat lakes.
Near Butler the road passes through
a two-aero field whero bees are kept
by tho owner, George Reibur. Mr.
Reiber refusod to givo tho railway
company the right of way through th
bee hold, Mr. Reiber refused to inovf
the bees, but oflered to sell them to
tbo railroad company. The company
deoliuod to buy them, aud ordered tho
workmen to remove them.
When this was attempted the bees
reuistod the invamou of their homes
bo violently that the invaders were
compelled to floe. The beos are there
yet, and the workmou ou the road will
uot touch them. New l'ork Press.
A Deadly Venom.
The question bas been asked which
is the most powerful poison. So far
us is known, snake poison cousists of
a peptone which produces local ulcera
tion, uu uukuowu virulent substauco,
which causes iiililtrutiou of blood when
injected into tho tissues, and au albu
men which is not apparently poison
ous. When snake veuom is concentrated
by removing tho third subbtuueo and
retaining the other two, w hut is left
constitutes the most powerful poisou
known to toxicology. It is forty times
more powerful thuu the original snake
veuom. It has beeu reckoned thut a
siuglo thimbleful oi it suitably applied
would bo enough to kill '25,000 people.
Now York Journal.