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S1.00 PER ANNUM, REST Jtv Dancing masters agroe that the bi cycle has ileal t a crnol blow to their art. Living is nearly forty per cent, cheaper in London than in New York Cily. The Doll us News says: One county in Texas will produce this year more corn than Jacob's agents found iu all Egypt. Sociologists .have boon paying an unusual amount of attention of late to the questions of prison reform, re duction of the criminal classes and the like. . A correspondent who evidently is worrying about a gift wants to know what we consider best for a wedding. Wo cau't recull anything more appro priate than a girl from thy locality for such a function. Figures just compiled by the Sta tistical Society give the amount of money in tho savings banks aud sim ilar institutions of the world as $7, 000,000,001). The United Kingdom has $1,235,000,000 laid away iu small savings. Archbishop Corrigan, of New York, presides over tho greatest Catholic see in Christendom, comprising the city aud county of New York, tho counties of Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess, Ulster, Sullivan, Orange, Rockland and Richmond, and also the Bahama Islands. The Catholic population of Vhia archdiocese was estimated a few years ago at 800,000. Some great scientists have had tho Indelicacy to gj prying into the ques tion of the age of the earth. A few weeks ago we told what one conclusion was in this regard. Lord Kelvin, the great Scotch astronomer and mathe matician, in an address in London, said he was able to declare with confi dence that the earth solidified between 20,000.000 and 80,000,000 years ago. The , latest estimate of the time re quired for the formation of all strata . sinoe tho beginning of the . Cjinibrian rocks is 17,000,000 years. Lord Kel vin assorted that the earth could not have been habitable more than 80, 000,000 years at the most. The reasons advanced by the Eng tJU.sh for continuing to occupy Egypt iue resented iu a curious fashion by the papers of Cairo. The British as sert that the great prevalence of crime and violence renders necessary the in terposition of a foreign power to keep the peace. In-order to answer this tho Cairo papers publish each morn ing reports, taken from the London pa;ers, of crime iu Eugluud, aud print long editorials full of statistics show ing that an Egyptian army ought to take possession of Grout Britain and maintain the order which the reports they quote seem to indicate the British are nnable to preserve themselves. The New England Homestead says: The biggest speculation since fne palmy days of the Argentine boom were the dizzy transactions at London lust year iu Kaffir shares of gold mines iu the Transvaal region of South Af rica. The bottom has gradually dropped out until to-day forty leading stocks, -which one year ago represent ed a "value" of $000,000,000, ore soil ing on the basis of one-third thut sum. Here is a decline of more than two thirds iu less than one year. And this after the Loudon market had been sorely bitten by Argentine, Panama and previous wild speculations.. We have been tuught to regard London as tho center of fiuanciul conservatism, but of lato yeurs it has been the scene of some of the wildest speculations on record. This Kaffir bubble may cveu !n; compared to the notorious schemes : Law which almost ruined the French pcoplo about a century ago. Tho Nashville Banner says: "At the Tennessee Centenniul Exposition are exhibited the old cabiu birth place of two fumous Americuu citizens. '.These cabins are genuine, as certified by affidavits in tho possession of the owner and exhibitor. The Rev. W. O. ' ;i jham, a Methodis't minister, while i aveling a circuit which embraced , uits of Todd and Hardin Counties, Kentucky, bought tho two log cabius uud the laud on which they stood. One of the cubius wus built by 'Tom' Lincoln, aud iu it he lived with his wife, Nancy Hanks. In . this cabin, without a floor, 'Abe' Lincoln was born iu the year 1801). Every log, ex opt a few w hich did not withstand the ravages of time and the weather, is preserved. The other cabin is ouo in which the President of the lute Con federacy was born. It came from near Fail-view, Todd County, Kentucky. Mr. Davis was born there in 1808, aud when sixty-six years old was giveu a banquet by old citizens of Fairview in the very same cabin." THE HEART'S SUWiWTCtt TIME. When fall the wintry flakes of frost eurnmer-tlmo somewhere Violets In the vallnys bird songs in t:r; The chilly winds, they only blow the lily's Hps apart; It's summer In the world, my dear, when It's summer In tho heart. When gray the skies are glooming It's summer In the dolls In tho merry song of reapers, in the tinkling of the bells; The sweet south-skies ore brightening as with springllmo's magic art, Hut tho swoetost season, dearest, is the summer in the heart. fttlll, still the birds aro Ringing and still the groves are green, And still tho roses redden and tho lovely lilies lean; Love fades not with tho season; when summer days depart, It's summer still, my dearest, lu tho Eden of the heart. Atlanta Constitution. I 1$ How Polly Saved the Express. ANE CREEK was a railroad crossing on the H. and C. C. Bail road about two miles from the division ter minal at Mercer. It was in the midst of a scrubby pine forest. with a sandy road crooking out from the trees on one side aud into the trees on the othor. Thoro were only two or three houses, a little general store with a porch like tho visor of a military cap, and a schoolhouse, all arranged in a scraggy row along the railroad track. The dusty red depot wa3 an oasis in the midst of a cinder desert, with a great many telegraph wires singing overhead. A dozen trains whirled through Kuue Creek every day with only a shriek of greeting and a whipping wake of fine sand. Only two of them paid the slightest attention to the girl in a blue gingham dress who stood in the little observation window. One of them was tho way freight which stopped at Kane's every time it came along while the conductor handed the girl a bundle of yellow papers and re ceived another liko it in return. The other was the night express westward bound from St. Paul, and running at forty miles an hour. It was a splen did train ton cars, with the finest en gino on the road, big No. COO. As its glaring eye flashed around the bend iu the direction of Mercer the girl in the gingham dress often thought of the great train as a powerful and ferocious beast BUorting and roaring westward on a race with the sun. It was a beast, but it was well trained, aud she knew the baud that trained it. When the train was a mile away there were always two blasts on the whistle. Everyone else in Kaue's thought they meant simply, "Wake up, look out!" for that is what all locomotives say at every crossing but the girl in the gingham dress heard "Hello, Polly," and darted out ou the platform aud waved her handkerchief. As the great train thundered nearer a hand was thrust from the engineer's window, and although it was usually dark, she could see the flutter of something white, and oftentimes as the engine darted past the station she heard the blurred sound of a voice and caught the glimpse of a grimy face and a blue jean jacket. And then she went back to her place in the little station with a sigh of deep contentment. For it was a niwment of great joy to Polly Marshall when her father's en gine went through. Polly was the station agent at Kauo Creek any one sould have told that a woman presided in the little depot, for was there not always a bouquet in the window and dainty pictures surrounding the grimy time-tables on the walls, aud a kitten curling upon the door-step? At eeven teen Polly had gone in asassistuut to learn telegraphy ami when Clark, the agent, was called to Mercer the com pany had left the independent girl in charge. She and her father lived in one of the wooden houses a stone's throw back from the depot, aud since Polly's mother died they had been everything to each other. Engineer Marshall was a big, silent man, aud his companions, some of them, thought him gruff and ill temp ered, but to Polly he was always ten der as a kitten. Often when she was a little girl he took her down with him to Mercer on his engine, audwhilosho sut on his black leather seat at the cab wiudow, clinging on with both hands, he explained to her how the big black creature under them was started and stopped, whut this brass crank was for, and how, when the eugiue squeaked here or squealed there, a little oil was needed iu this cup or iu that crevice. And Polly had learned to know an eu giue as well as she knew theueut little pantry in the house at home. Indeed, she had more than ouco managed the levers and the throttle, although it was very heavy work for a girl to do. It was one night late in the full that Polly Marshall had need of all her knowledge of engines. She was sit ting at her desk iu the little observa tion window, a shaded light throwing its rays down ou her telegraph instru ments and the sounder clicking sleep ily. Suddenly she was sturtled by the sudden call of her number. Instuutly her fingers sought the keys, and she gave the answer that signified thut she was all attention. "Look out for " clicked the sounder, aud theu it suddenly ceased, and try as she would Polly could get no further communication with the station next to the eastward. Whut could the trouble be? What was she to look out for? Polly sprung to her feet, remembering thut the niht ex press, of which her father was engineer, was the next truin due. Could any thing be the mutter? She run out ou the dark plutforinto see thut her lights were all iu place uud that tho switches ware properly set, so thut the express would slip pust the station without an accident. i'heu she went buck uud culled up Mercer. "Cou you get Piuckney?"bheusked. Piiu'kuey wus the station which had sent her the wumiug dispatch so mysteriously interrupted. She knew the nnnratm- at Piiickunv well vnrv night he told her of tho approach of her father's traiu, and whether or not it left his station on time. "Piuckney quiet; can't get answer," was the report of the wires. "Wrhat's the trouble?" Polly answered as well as she could, and Mercer made another attempt to arouse Pinckney. Her father's train was now due. It should be whistling cheerily at the lower bend. Polly stepped out on the platform and peered up the track. Yes, there was the familiar headlight she would have known it among a hundred. Then came the whistle "Hello, Polly," and Polly ran back into her office much relieved and sat down to warn Mercer. At that in stant she heard a peculiar cracking sound that sent her heart quivering deep in her bosom. Then there was the shrill scream of the locomotive whistle, suddenly interrupted, as if the hand that had drawn the lever had been struck from its place. Polly knew it was a cry of distress. It seemed to soy "Help" in a long, tremulous wail. Instautly Polly darted outside aud flew up the track. Already tho express should have thun dered past the station, but she could see its headlight a hundred yards or more away. The train had stopped. With a hundred terrifying questions flashing through her mind Polly ran on through the gloom. When she was almost within range of the big head light she saw a half-dozen armed men swarming around the engine, she heard fierce oaths, and then the en gine started up again. She saw in an instant that it had beeu cut free from the train. In the cab wiudow, where her father usually stood, there was a big, nufamiliar figure, managing the lever and throttle. Terrified, Polly sprang to one side into a clump of bushes. As the locomotive passed her on its way up the track she saw that the man in the cab wore a black mask on his face, aud then she knew what had happened. She understood why Piuckney had tried to warn her aud then failed. Bobbers had held up the traiu aud wore preparing to rob the express car. For a moment Polly was torn with doubt and terror. Had they shot her father? She knew that he never would Bubmit to have his train cap tured without a struggle. Should she go to him? Then she remembered her station and the telegraph, and without a moment's deloy she was flying down the track toward the depot. She would send for help to Mercer. But squarely iu front of the little depot the locomo tive stopped and the bluck-masked man spruug from the cab wiudow and darted across the platform. Hardly thinking whut she was doing, Polly ran up ou the other side, the fireman's side of the eugiue, and, raising herself up, peered into the cab. She had half expected to see her father's dead body lying on the floor, lor she had heard much about the terrible doings of train-robbers. Through the cab window she could Bee the robber sitting at her own little desk in the depot sending a message. If flushed over her all at once that he was wiring Mercer thut the express was delayed, thus preventing any alarm. The robber hud pushed up his mask aud sho saw him plainly. What should she do? She dared not enter the of lice, aud she, a mere girl, could be of no service where the robbers were making their attack on the truiu. If only she hud the little revolver thut lay iu the drawer of her desk she set her teeth us she thought whut she would do with it. At thut moment three shots rang out, clear and distinct, from the de tached train. The muu at the tele graph instrument sprung to his feet aud ran to a side wiudow iu the waiting-room and looked up the track. Now was her chunce. Uurdly think ing w hat she did, Polly sprung to the engineer's side of the cub, threw back the reverse lever and opened the throttle steadily. The big steel wheels began to turn, very slowly at first. Further and further the throttle opened aud faster and faster turned the wheels, and yet they did not go half fust enough to suit Polly, who was now glancing fearfully over her shoulder. Suddenly tho depot door was thrown open and she suw the robber darting up the track. He hud his pistol iu his haid. He was pointing it at her aud shouting for her to stop. But the engine was uow going at good speed, uud, ruu us he would, the robber could not cutch it. But he stopped uud fired, the bullet ripping through the cab cover above Polly's head. The engine was now touring down the track at full speed. Polly knew thut it must be fired or it would not go far, and so, leaving the throttle opeu she sprang to the coul pit, fiuug opeu the fire hole, and with the heavy shovel iu her small white hands threw iu load after load of coul. When she returned to her place she could see the first signal light of Mercer already blinking into view. She pulled down on the whistle cord and the engine shrieked its distress. Five minutes later Polly strained at tba heavv reverse lever, turned hard on th nir-brake and brought the great iron horse to a sudden stand still. How she ever managed to stammer the story she never knew, but in a few minutes the engine was headed back with half a dozen armed men aboard of her. Behind them came another load of men on a switch engine aud two men were racing up the street of Mercer calling the alarm. They heard firing before they reached Kane Creek, but it ceased soon afterward. The robber had gone. They had taken with them much plunder from the passengers, but they had not been able to get into the express Bafe, although they were at work drilling it open when relief came. From the time that the engine stopped Polly was missing. When the rescued and excited passengers and express messengers began to crowd around aud inquire the Mercer men remembered her. A party of them went ut to find the girl who had brought help to the beleaguered train. In a little clump of bushes they heard a man moauing, and an instant later they saw Polly kueeling in the sand, with her father's head in her lap, crying bitterly. And they gath ered up the brave engineer and his daughter and carried them down to the train, cheering all the way. Eugineer Marshall was not badly hurt, and he was able to be in Mercer when the general manager of the road thanked the blushing Polly officially and offered a new and better position in Merocr. And of course all the pas sengers and express messengers beard about Polly's brave deed and said a great mauy pleasant things about her, but Polly, being a sensible girl, only blushed and said that she had to do it, and that any other girl would have done the same under like circum stances which no one believed, of course. Later, when tho robbers were cup tured, Polly was able to identify one of them positively the one who had run the engine aud through him the entire party was convicted aud sen tenced to the penitentiary. ltustlu's Growth. Many years may elapse before Russia cau become a leading manufac turing country, but her growth toward industrialism has recently been shown in a remarkable manner at the "All Russian" exhibition iuNijni Novgorod. Besides her extensive sulphuric acid industry, Russia is opening up im portant manufactures of chroraate salts, vitriol, phosphates, lead, zinc, tin, strontium and copper salts and mineral dyes, and platinum is almost a Russian monopoly. In medicinal plant growing the progress in Russia is very great. Six castor oil factories, all working from native grown seed, were represented at the exhibition, and oils of peppermiut, wormwood, caraway, fennel, auise aud pine needles were also shown. The output of Russian benzine has grown from 81,500 gallons in 1882 to nearly 1,570, 000 gallons in 1894. The petroleum industry is the second largest in the world. One firm alone owns 188 miles of petroleum pipe lines. It has an enormous fleet aud owns 1157 tank wagons for the conveyance of its prod ucts by rail. The industry of the dry distillation of wood in Russia is only just begin ning. In Northern Russia, away from the railways, there are still many thou sands of square miles under wood, yet up to the present only one-half per cent, of all the rosin and but a slight ly larger proportion of the turpentine used in Russia has been of home manu facture. New York Herald. A Philosophic Sweep. "The best thing I heard," writes a correspondent of tho London Daily News, "in the greut crowds which thronged the streets of the West End yesterday came from the mouth of a sweep. Rolling out of Piccadilly into Berkeley street cauio one of those splendid old fumily carriages, gorgeous with golden lious and dragons, heavily hung with maroon trappings, guarded by two maroon footmen iu the rear, driven by a burly maroou coachman in a curly wig and containing two visions in white with lovely bouquets. At that moment the sweep I refer to and his friend were emergiug into Picca dilly, with blackened faces uud brushes, having evidently just transacted some uiTuir of business, when this splendid vehicle attracted their attention. Says one: 'Bill; I wish we wus them!' 'Why?' answered Bill, much surprised, 'They'll have to die the suuie as us.' I have just turned over the 'Medi tations of Marcus Auvclius' in search of some more profound reflection upou the inequality of our lots ou this out heap of ours. Aud iu vuiu." Hadrian' Wull. Hadrian in A. D. 120, built a stone wall from Bowness, near Carlisle, on Solway frUh, to tho river Tyne, near Newcastle, England. It was eighty miles long aud garrisoned by 10,000 troops. It was from twelve to twenty feet high at various points, eight feet thick at the top aud wus provided with a gallery in the rear, which enubled its defenders to take their stuud with only head and shoulders visible to the enemy. At every quarter of a mile there was a castle, with a garrison of troops. Beacon lights uud signals were used, and on nu attack, whether by day or by night, 'xo news was at ouce flashed up aud dowu the wall from sea to sea. Atlanta Constitution. Nu More Jllurk Klivelopca. The postoflice department bus given orders excluding l':-om tho irnul ull letters in black envelopes a device adopted by certain creditors for the collection of bad bills. If they wish to blacklist a beat they must do it some other way than with Uncle Hum's help. The mailing of postal curds containing duns was prohibited by the depart meut some years ayo. Washington Star. THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE. STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BY THE FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS. Not Original rackagea How Kxtremea Mel Where llone.tr Cleta Left Science In the Homo Trying Conrlu atnns Sure to Work The Iteaaon, Etc "I always like your Jokes," she said, "they are so full of life.' Then added, with luclslvoness that cut him like a knife, "And still your wit and humor, sir, I really don't begrudge. Your Jokes are always full of Life and Punch and Puck and Judge." Chicago Times-Herald. How Kalremea Met. "Did her husband come np to her ideal?" "No; her ideal camo down to him." Puck. He Was Genuine. She "Did the Count turn out to be m impostor?" He "Not much! Why, her father had to borrow money to pay his debts!" Tho Keason. "I'm writing to Belle." "Because you have something spe cial to say?" "No; because I have nothing special to do." Puck. Where llonc.lv Cleta Left. James "The rain falls alike on the just and unjust." Jones "True, but the unjust man is generally provided with the just man's umbrella." Fun. Meeting the Demand. "Gracious, Jack, what immense shirt studs you wear!" "Well, you know how buttonholes act. I'm going to keep up with them if it takes a dinner plute." Chicago Record. Trying Conclusions. Wife "How poople gaze at my new dress. I presume they wonder if I've been shopping in Paris." Husband "More likely they won der if I've been robbing a bank." Tit-Bits. lteasonahlo. "Bridget, there's a napkin missing." "Yes, mum, I've taken it to boil the pudding in." "To boil the pudding in!" "Well, mum, it was only the dirty one." Pick-Me-Up. Sure to Work. "Papa," said Sammy Snaggs, as he paused, pencil in hand, "how do you make a Greek cross?" "Mention the oonoert of Europe to him," replied Mr. Snaggs. Pitltiburg Chronicle-Telegraph. Science In the Home. Mrs. Newmarket "Have you any nice cocoanuts?" Huckster "Yea, mum; here's one full of milk." Mrs. Newmarket "Is it ster ilized?" St. Louis Star. The Thing They 8ay. Edith "He told me I was so inter" estiug aud so beautiful." Julia "And yet you will trust your self for life with a man who begins de ceiving you even at the commence ment of his courtship." Tit-Bits. A Game Luw In lfluisclf. Gobong "I think I'll do quite a little shooting this summer. I wonder what tho closo season is?" Buckshot "Well, in your case, old man, I fancy if you apply to the Legis lature they'd throw the whole year open to you." Truth. Hopeful, "I'm going to invest iu thermome ters," declared Chumpley with a know ing look. "What in the world do you want to put your money in thermometers for?" "They're bound to rise soon. This depression can't last." War Ahead. Mamma "I don't want you to play with that Jones boy. He isn't fit com pany for you." Johnnie "All right. When he asks me to play with him I'll tell him you said ho ain't fit company for me, and he'll tell his mother." Puck. Quite Likely. Mrs. Grimm "My goodness! I have just beeu reading an item ubout a muu who traded his wife for a shotgun. What iu the world do you suppose mado him do that?" Old Grimm "Probably the guu was wurruuted not to kick." Puck. Caught. "O, say, Proudly, I was very sorry to hear thut you hud lost ull your money." "Lost ull my money," snorted Proud ly, aud he produced a roll thut filled his fist. "Let me tuke twenty till to-morrow, old muu." Detroit Free Press. la lh Liars' riuii. First Dentist "Tho fuct is, I've got gentleness dowu to such u tine point that ull my patients go to sleep while I'm pulling their teeth." Second Dentist "Thut's nothing! Mine are beginning to have their pho togruphs taken while 1 operate, be cause they utways have such pleasant expressions ou their faces." Puck. Iu llurtl l.uuk. Gilhooly "Whut'tf the matter, Johnnie? You huve a lovely black eye." Johnnie "Sister Jennie ulmost pounded tho life out of iue." Gilhooly "Whut did you do to her to provoke her?" Johnnie "Nothing at ull. She got a note from her feller telling her thut he couldn't take her to tho theatre this evening, aud I happened to come iu the room just ufter she had read the letter, so sho took itout ou me." New York World. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL Some insects are in s state of mi' turity thirty minutes after birth. Doctors say people in Ireland who live on the potato never have gout. A man in South Dakota believes that he has found uranium on hip farm. A Gorman doctor of reputation pre scribes aluminum as a cure for rheu matism. A means of renewing the filament in electric light burners has been dis covered. Sydney, Australia, has a flashlight town clock, so that the correct time may be seen miles away. Crocodiles, liko ostriohcB, swallow pebbles and small stones for the pur pose of grinding their food. Iron has for ages been a favorite medicine. Nearly 100 different prep arations of iron are now known to the medical chemists. The rarest metal is didymium, and its present market price is 84500 per pound. Tho next costliest metal is barium; its value per pound is $200. Lord Kelviu snys the earth has been hubitablo for thirty millions of years. He does not bolievo that it is bo in conceivably old as the earlier scien tists declared. England is trying submerged can non. Oaken beams twenty-one inches thick and the hull of a ship protected by three inches of boiler plate were pierced by a solid shot from oue. The French lens which throws elec tric rays 100 miles to seaward, and which was a part of tho French Gov ernment's exhibit at the Chicago Fair, is to be placed in theBarnegat (N. J.) lighthouse, where it will bo the most powerful beacon ou the American coast. Tesla recently announced that he had succeed in discovering a new source of X rays more powerful than any heretofore available. This new source is an electric arc, not, however, the ordinary urc, but ouo maintained between aluminum plate aud platinum terminal, both inclosed iu a glass jar. It is said that dogs in a wild state do not bark. An investigator is led to believe that the true reason for their barking was their endeavor to talk to mau. Wild dogs howl and whine, but do not bark. In the wilds of Egypt the shepherd dogs make a soft, peculiar noise, but it does not suggest barking. Manufactured Fuel. The question of cheap fuel is a most important and vital one to all persons of moderate means, as well as large consumers. To be able to uso what has heretofore been waste material is the object of a great deal of scientific study aud research. Already a num ber of sorts of fuel have been prepared, and in countries where coul is high and Bcarco this prepared material is quite extensively used aud gives very good satisfaction. The processes have become so scientific that it is guaran teed to contain a certain percentage of heat-producing elements and waste. Tho coal is washed and cleaned from all slate and other impurities and the available combustible material is in creased as much as possible. The im portance of the concentration of valu able qualities is of groat moment where tho fuel must be transported and handled. The extent to which this fuel is manufactured and used may be seen from the following statistics for the year 1893: France 1,750,000 tons; Belgium, 1,200,000 tons; England, 850,000 tons; Austria, 250,000 tons; Germany, 1,230,000; Italy, 500,000 tons; Spain, 100,000 tons; Russia and Sweden, 100,000 tons; United States, 100,000 tons; China, India and Cauadu, 150,000 tons. Origin of "Mr." and "Sir.." In curlier times the ordinary man was simply William or John thut is to Buy, he had only a name without any "bundle" before it or surname after it. Some means of distinguish ing one John or William from another John or Willium became iiecessary. Nicknames derived from a man's trade, or his dwelling place, or from some personal peculiarity, were tucked on to his name, and pluin John be came John Hull. As yet there were no "Misters" iu tho luud. Some John Bull accumulated more wealth than the bulk of his fellows became, per hups, a landed proprietor or un em ployer of hired labor. Then he be gun to bo called iu tho Norinuu-Freuch of the duy the "iiiHistro" of this place or thut, of these workmen or of those. In tiuu) the "muistre" or "muister," as it soon became, got tucked am before his name, uud he became Muister Bull uud his wife was Muistress Bull. Gradually the sense of possession was lost sight of, uud the title wus con ferred upou miy kind by mere pos session of wealth, or holding some po sition of more or less consideration und importance. Tid-llits. lish lull 1'iiuuril. Atu depth of two miles tho pressure of the wuter in the oeouu is very greut so great, in fact, thut such Hbu as are used to the greut weight dare not enter shullow wuter for feur of fulling upward and bursting. Fishes which urc udupled to considerable depths muy accidentally leave tho bottom swimming towurd the surfuce. This allows the eases iu their body to ex pand slightly, und thus renders them more buoyant. The more tho gases cxpund the more buoyant thty become, und the greater is the difficulty of re turning to the depths, until fiuully tho buoyancy of the body becomes so greut that they are no longer uble to return to the bottom. They continue to rise to tho surface more und more rapidly, until the expanding of the gases iu tho body kills them. As soon as tho bodies reach the surface the release of ull pressure cuunes them to burst into pieces. FRUITION. I scnttercd seel on a barren plain And watered the furrows with tears; My heart wa heavy with grief ami pain, And my soul surcharged with fears. lJut after many wear)' days Of lowering cIoikIh ami "rain. I gathered with Joy from a fertile llcld A harvest nf golden grain. -Lluzii) Clark Hardy, In Midland Monthly. HUMOR OF THE DAY. He "She looks nice enough toeat!" She (severely) "Yes; plain food has its charms for some people." Stand ard. Dora "He said there was one thing about me he didn't like." Cora "What was that?" "Another man." Life. "Almost any man will admit that he's liable to make mistakes." "Yes; except when he makes them." Chic ago Journal. Bowe "Harduppo has been ar rested for assaulting Bullion, the bauker." Locke "Ho he finally struck something rich." Puck. Primus "Didn't Mr. Goodman say that Colonel Blucgrass had become a prohibitionist?" Secundum "Yes, and now the colonel is lining him for libel." Yale Record. "Is your flying machine a success?" "Unquestionably," replied tho enthu siast. "Have you mado a trip with it?" "No, but I've sold several shares of stock." Washington Star. Barings "Perfidious woman, you have broken my heart!" Miss Wheeler "Oh, I don't think it is as bad as thut. Nothing worse than a small puncture." Indianapolis Journal. "What aro the weather indications to-day?" asked the thin man. "Rain, to a certainty; circus in town," said die thick man, without looking at the bureau's report. Cincinnati Tribune. "He is a very poor judge of human aature," remarked Miss Cayenne, thoughtfully. "What leads you to that conclusion?" "He has such a good opinion of himself." Washing ton Star. "Atwhat ago does a mau really be gin to feel tho weight of years?" "Usually on his twenty-first birthday; and it takes the sensation at least four sr five years to wear off." Cincinnati Enquirer. Foster "Hello, Felton! What are jrou doing now?" Felton "Oh, I'm iu business for myself. I have a store of my own." Foster "Ah! Good ! What make of bicycle do you sell?" Puck. She "Aud you say there were thir teen at the table?" He "Just." "One of the party is snre to die before the year's out." "Oh, I guess not! You see, we are all officeholders." Yon kers Statesman. "I don't know why the papers should speak so harshly of General Weyler. The dispatches say he was at the head af his troops at the last battle." "Yes? Which way were they going?" Cleve land Plain Dealer. "Well, there is one thing to be proud of; we have no class prejudices iu this couutry." "I guess you were never around when three or four sophomores got hold of a freshman." Indianapolis Journal. "It must be awful to be broke away out West." "I didn't find it so. I had a pretty good suit of clothes, so I pretended to bo wanting to invest in real estate. Nothing was too good for me." Indianapolis Journal. Mrs. De Withers (ou the way from church) "I think, my dear, Dr. Longwind's sermon was a very finished effort." Mr. De Withers '"It was, but do you know I was afraid it never would be." Pittsburg Disjiatch. "Who says I'm out?" shouted the ball tosser. "I do," replied tho um pire. "Well, I'd rather have an un prejudiced opinion as to thut," re inarked the slugger, and then the kick begun. Philadelphia North American. It was the first night of tho new do mestic's sojourn iu the house, and, as she had not appeared at 7.30 iu the morning, her mistress went up to her room, and, rapping on tho door, said: "Mary I Oh, Mury I We ure all up, aud it's breakfast time." "All right, mum, go ahead an' eat, an' don't wait forme. I'll be down in time to do the dishes, mum." Harper's Bazar. Hooting Kalne Teeth. A Russian dentist has at length solved tho problem of supplying us with false teeth which will grow iuto the gums as firmly as natural ones, says tho London Figaro. Teeth are mudo of gutta perchu, porcelain or metal, as tho case luuy be. At tho root of the tooth holes ure mude, and also in the jaws. Tho tooth is theu placed in the cavity, uud iu a short time a soft granulated growth finds its way from tho juw iuto the holes of the tooth. This growth gradually hardens, uud holds the tooth in position. It does not mutter in the least, according to this enterprising Russiuu dentist, whether the cavity iu which the tooth is placed is one from which a natural tooth has receutly been drawn, or whether it has been healed for mouths or even years. Iiisuruuco of Doga. A novel insurance company has been organized uud is ulrcudy doing a large business iu this city insuring dogs against loss, stealing or inpouudiug. This is done by registering the dog with this compuuy with its full de scription, uud receiving a tag to be worn with the city license tug. Tho company has a man ut each pound to release any dog bearing such a tag uud return it immediately to the owner. This is a great advantage, as dogs often coiitra.'t disease! iu such a place. It ulso savej both dog uud owuer much misery, anxiety aud trouble, to say nothing of tho expense anil tiresome traveling uud red tape which are necessary to rescue a doj from the p Hind. Chicago Tribune. i
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