The historical works relating to the
American Civil War already exceed 6000
volumes.
Efforts are being made in the courts to
have e' 'ctricity considered as a manufac
tured article.
The cattle industry of the United
States represents the immense capital of
61,200,000,000.
A shoemaker named John Ryan, of
Joliet, 111., has won the international
prize of SSOO offered by a boot and shoe
journal of Boston for the best essay on
boot and shoemaking in all its branches.
Every State in the Union contested for
the prize, also Canada, New Brunswick,
and Nova Scotia.
An official inspection of Russian prisons
has revealed a sad state of overcrowding.
In one prison in the Caucasus designed
to accommodate eighty prisoners no less
300 are huddled. It is said that the
chief cause of the annual increase of con
victions is the widespread drunkenness
which now obtains in the village com
munes, and is demoralizing and impover
ishing the peasantry.
The noted Philadelphia street-car syn
dicate, which now owns many street car
lines in Chicago and other cities, has
just purchased the Citizens' and People's
lines of Baltimore, and has its agents out
through the country looking for fresh in
vestments in the same line. The Phila
delphia syndicate is composed for the
most part of retired politicians. The
Traction Company, as it is known, con
trols 150 miles of street railway in Phila
delphia alone.
Electric lighting has had a marvellous
growth in this country. President Dun
can's address to the recent National Elec- j
trie Light Association contained the state
ment that one year ago there were 4000
plants in the United States; these now
number nearly 6000. One year ago there
were 175,000 arc lamps in use; there are
now 219,D24. One year ago there were
1,750,000 incandescent lamps in use; at
the present time there are over 2,500,000
—forty-nine per cent, increase.
Says the Atlanta Constitution: "There
are many queer devices for inducing sleep.
Manj' believe that wo should always lie
down with our heads pointing due north.
Some use a hop pillow. Another way
is for a man to breathe through his nos
trils, and imagine that he sees every
breath. This is very like hypnotism.
The sensible way is to have regular tem
perate habits and not excite the brain.
Great soldiers like Napoleon, and Wel
lington put themselves to sleep merely by
exercising their will power. They could
sleep at all times and under all circum
stances, and wake up when they
pleased."
The New York Sun says: A new era
in the South's iron and steel history is
marked by the organization of English
companies, composed of the leadiug Lron
ami steel makers of Great Britain, to
build extensive steel and iron works, in
cluding four furnaces, a steel rail-mill,
rolling mill, etc., at a new town at Cum
berland Gap, on the dividing line be
tween Tennessee and Kentucky. The
name of the town is to be Middlesbor
ougli, Ky., and for over a year the work
of buying mineral lands, preparing rail
road connections, etc., has been vigor
ously pushed by the American Associa
tion (limited), which is the name of the
parent company. Over 84,000,000 in
cash have already been paid out, and up
ward of 60,000 acres of mineral lands
purchased and over 87,000,000 more
have been pledged for new enterprises.
The interesting fact appears to be now
well established that petroleum-produc
ing strata do not always belong to the
same geological period. Thus, in Ken
tucky and Tennessee, the petroleum is
furnished by the lower Silurian stratum,
that is, by the most aueient stratified
rocks; in Upper Canada it is found in the
lower Devonian, and in Pennsylvania in
the upper Devonian. The springs of
western Virginia flow from the upper car
boniferous strata; in Connecticut, and
North Carolina coal oil is found in the
trias; in Colorado and Utah in the
lignites of the cretaceous formation,while
the oil-producing regions of California
belong to the tertiary period. It is
stated as a remarkable fact that most of
the deposits of the ancient world exist in
comparatively recent tertiary formations,
as, for instance, those of the oil-impreg
nat'.'d sands of Alsace, of the south of
France, and of Abruzzia and Emilia, in
Italy. There are numerous deposits in
Galicia and the Danubian provinces sim
ilarly placed, while the strata that con
tain those of the Crimen, the Caucasus,
and the island of Tainan are of nearly the
same geological epoch. Another fact
stated is that the oils coining from the
greatest depth prove to be of the best
quality, those produced from nearer the
surface of (he earth seeming to have lost
»ouie of their volatile elements.
j TRAINING ANIMALS.
THE ART OF TEACHING DUMB
BRUTES FOB THE ARENA.
The Zebra Hardest to Train— Hojjs
arc Highly Intelligent.
Animals Vary in Dispo
sition as Well as Men.
Charley White, the veteran animal
trainer, entered the lion's cage at the
tender age of fifteen and handled the
king of beasts ;is he would a tame kitten.
For forty-five years, says David Wechsler
in the Brooklyn Citizen, he has done
nothing else but train animals for the
arena. His right shoulder is shrunk
on account of an attempt by a big African
lion to make an early bieakfast off him.
He has a theory that any animal can be
trained if more or less time is expended
in the work. "Some animals are ruled
by fear and others by affection.
"I once trained a laughing hyena, but
it was a dangerous undertaking. The
repertoire of these beasts is necessarily
limited and the result is not worth the
trouble it gives. But of all contrary and
thick headed animals, the zebra takes
the provender.
"The mule is wise and docile com
pared to the zebra. I can teach a mule
and obtain a perfect mastery over it, but
the zebra has an indomitable spirit that is
in open revolt all the time. It would re
quire the assistance of a strong derrick
to get one of these black striped quad
rupeds to do one half the tricks of a
horse. Beside it is lazier than the mule,
and capricious as the wind. They are
not intelligent enough to be taught many
tricks, and their stubborn tits makes
thein too uncertain for every-day per
formances. A mule has a very good
memory, but a zebra is incapable of re
membering anything. The horse is the
most intelligent of all animals of the
equine breed, yet it takes from six to
eight mouths to teach one thoroughly in
what we cull the high school of Spanish
trotters. Some horses are naturally more
intelligent than others, and on that their
progress depends more or less. It is often
difficult to train a horse to perform with
an animal of a different species. A little
pony and a baby elephant are often
taught to perform together, but no one
lias ever seen a grown horse and a large
elephant trained to do tricks together.
I have been training a horse and elephant
together for many months and intend to
bring them out next season. One of the
most difficult things for me to get the
the horse to do is to lie down and let the
elephant walk over him. The elephant
does not mind it, but the horse is
frightened and has no confidence in the
mastodon. It will take months of con
stant. practice to make the horse feel
secure whenever the elephant walks over
hiin.
"Nearly every species of the animal
creation has been tried by experienced
trainers and educated as much as possible
in the art of doing tricks. In Germany
especially, there are men who devote their
lives to teaching and experimenting with
animals. The big gorilla monkey, sup
posed to be Darwin's missing link, al
though ferocious and uncertain in temper,
has been taught to perform. There are
some animals, and amphibians, that are
never taught, such as the giraffe, the hip
popotamus and others that are too un
gainly and awkard in their movements.
The antelope and chamois have been cap
tured and put through a curriculum of
study that would educate a dozen horses
or elephants without having any effect
upon them whatever. It is the absence
of intelligence and not stubbornness that
makes it almost impossible to train them.
There are few training schools for ani
mals in America, the very place where
they ought to be taught."
"Is there any secret in the art of train
ing animals?"
"None whatever. Every trainer has
his method and a natural apitude for
handling animals. Perseverance and pa
tience can accomplish raore in training
dumb creatures than anything else. Hogs
are very intelligent compared to other
animals, but,dear me! it requires patience
to train them. There are certain cues by
which they are taught. These cues are a
series of motions on the part of the trainer
which can be understood. I remember
that when I iirst saw a hog pick out cards,
and work sums in arithmetic by selecting
the answer on a card, I was astonished.
Very soon I saw that the hog was guided
in everything it did by its master's move
ments. Now the hog has become an
acrobat, jumps hurdles, rides and tumbles
in the most approved style. The steer is
not so easy to teach. I have two Devons
now that are highly educated, but it took
me months to do it. Their memories are
defective. Once I taught a fine steer to
go over a ladder one way and come
back another. For two hours one
day 1 tried to get him to do
the ladder act, but it was impossible. I
did everything. I not. pulleys and
hoisted him over, but it did 110 good; the
bovinc's mind could not grasp the situa
tion, and I failed. Then 1 gave it up,
sat down 011 the ring curbstone and gazed
in despair upon the stupid steer. All at
once, like a flash, he mounted the stairs,
went over and came back. At present 1
am waltzing daily in the ring with a beai
and a performing goat. The bear is 11
nervous animal and cannot be tampered
with too much. They have intelligence
to know their master and to remembel
the tricks they have to do. Bruin is not
to be trusted, though, any more than a
monkey, and for that reason I havo to
keep a chain about his neck while he is
performing. The cerebral action of a
monkey is as quick as that of a man, and
a bear, I think, comes next."
"Do you think any animal can be
trained if properly handled?"
"No. There are some dogs and horses
that can never be taught anything. Some
men can learn easily, while others are ut
terly stupid, and so it is with animals. 1
have had fine looking lions and tigen
that could not be taught a single trick.
They could not learn, for it was not it
them. Then 1 have selected a scrawny,
watery-eyed, fierce-looking lion ano
taught him without any trouble. I have
long held that no species of animal is
harder to teach than another.
"Now the goat is obstreperous and
seemingly hard to train, but constant
practice will make him a line performer.
Goats have excellent ideas of how to do
a thing when once taught. Often they
attempt to shirk their tricks by pretend
ing to forget, and I dare say they do fre
quently forget. But where the trick is
performed with the trainer a well edu
cated goat will seldom forget his part.
For instance, the moment I stoop over,
as if I were getting ready for some one
to jump leap frog fashion over me the
goat knows that he has to jump on my
back, and he does not hesitate. Then
when I begin to stand up the animal
knows that he is required to climb upon
my head, and in a twinkling his
are planted securely on the top of my
cranium. When I begin to lower my
head that is a signal for him to leap to
the tloor. You might say that all train
ing is objective, that is, not so much a
process of reasoning on the part of the
animal, but merely a mechanical obe
dience guided by the intelligence of
sight."
New Jersey's Prehistoric Freaks.
The annual pilgrimage of George 11.
Cook, of New Brunswick, N. J., State
Geologist of New Jersey, through the
rocky regions of that State, has resulted
this year in the discovery of many valua
ble fossil specimens in large deposits of
sandstone. Footprints of an extinct
species of beast and bird have been dis
covered embedded in the stone, which
Geologist Cook says was once as soft as
clay. The red sandstone area has been
found to extend over u vast section of the
State and the stone is very valuable.
After boring in several places the geo
logist estimated the sandstone deposit to
be fully 13,500 feet thick. He bored
2135 feet without passing through the
stone. The clear and distinct traces of
animal life were found in the deposit.
Impressions of leaves and perfect fishes
were very plentiful, and limbs of small
trees had become a part of the deposit.
A rare find was the small branch of a
tree with three perfect sprouts and one
whole leaf.
Near a quarry at Belleville two skele
tons of an animal greatly resembling the
horneil toad were found. Slate deposits
run nearer the surface and above the sand,
stone west of Morristown, and from its
appearance there must have been an oily
vegetation in its vicinity in past ages, as
the slate cuts like half baked clay and
leaves an oily stain upon the hand.
Fine specimens of flagging have been
taken from the sandstone near Milford.
On one specimen, distinctly outlined, are
the footprints of a reptile. The stone is
reddish brown and as hard as blue curb
stone.
Along the Washington Valley and near
the banks of the Rockaway River, at
Roonton, petrified fishes have been found.
These rare fossil specimens will soon be
added to the valuable collections at Geo
logical Hall, New Brunswick, where there
is a stone, found near Freehold, on which
is the impress of prehistoric man's foot.
—Nexn York Herald.
A Quivering Tree.
In trout of Macedonia Church, in Col
umbia County, (Ja., is a quivering tree.
Years ago, tlie negroes of the neighbor
hood say, a murder was done under its
branches. Two nun had accompanied a
woman to church, and after she had en
tered the edifice they quarreled about
her, and oue cut the other to death. The
murderer escaped, and ever since every
limb, large and small, on the tree trem
bles as if in fear, or as 11 suffering ani
mal would quiver. This occurs when
not a breath of air is stirring. No negro
in Columbia County can be induced to
pass the so-called haunted spot alone at
night. Prominent gentlemen say they
have noticed the phenomenon, but no
explanation of it has ever beeu volun
teered . Ohicinjv Herald.
Thirteen railroads concentrate at Chat
tanooga, Teuu. It has over 200 nianu
i factoring establishments.
POPULAR SCIENCE.
Electric lighting on man-of-war ships
is so great a success that it is now con
ceded no such ship is complete without
it.
The first submarine cable manufactory
was started in Italy two years ago; now
it has an output of 10,000 metres per
day.
An increase in phosphorus in iron has
been found to decrease its conductivity,
and the same peculiarity has been no
ticed with manganese.
The shortest time occupied by the tor
nado cloud in passing a given point
varies from "an instant" to about twen
ty minutes, the average being seventy
four seconds.
During the last ten years an oculist of
Cronstadt is said to have treated thirty
cases of photo-electric ophthalmia, a new
disease due to the action of the electric
light on the eyes.
Two traveling platforms of ten tons
capacity moved by electricity and
mounted on girders are used to carry vis
itors around the machinery hall of the
Paris Exposition.
An English clubman wagered $25 that
he could stand for thirty minutes without
moving a muscle outside of those required
for respiration. At the end of twenty
two minutes he fell over in a fit.
The boring for oil in the United States
is not always successful—for instance, a
boring at Southbury, Conn., has lately
been abandoned after 200 feet had been
explored and SIO,OOO lost in the under
taking.
A fragment of a meteor which recently
fell in Chicago, was analyzed and found
to contain 73 per cent, of iron, 21 of
nickel, 2 of manganese and small quanti
ties of aluminium, cobalt, tin, copper,
arsenic, etc.
Coal dust triturated into dust as fine as
flour lias just been tested as a fuel for
iron-making at the Morehead Mill,
Sharpsburg, and found to accomplish as
much in one hour as the gas furnace does
in an hour and a quarter. Being mine
refuse it costs nothing.
Dr. Imlach, of Liverpool, has come to
the conclusion that consumption can be
transmitted from cows to human beings
through milk. His experiment prove
that guinea-pigs, rabbits and monkeys,
fed on the milk of tuberculous cows de
velop tubercular disease.
An official report gives the number of
British boiler explosions for the year end
ing with last June as sixty-one, with a
loss of thirty-one lives. More than half
of the explosions were due to the use of
worn out boilers, seventeen to defective
designs and fittings or undue working
pressure, seven to ignorance or neglect of
attendants, and six to miscellaneous
causes.
Mushrooms are but tender toad-stools
grown where the soil is very much of
vegetable substance. All such objects
are but the cells of plants in the soil given
a discharge from the ground by a force
jf electricity which the earth discharges
wherever plants or corals are grown. A
form is sjiven the object by a part of the
substance being spilled over the top of a
stalk and contracted by the dryer con
dition of the atmosphere. The seams in
the top are but a consequence of the
shrinking of the substance.
K Pound of Lead Outweighs a Pound of
Feathers.
A scientific paper recently offered a re
ward for the most correct answers to cer
tain scientific problems. Among others
was the old scientific "conumdrum
Which weighs the most, a pound of
feathers or a pound of lead? Of course,
a pound is a pound, no matter of what
substance,and when the simple or thought
less person answers that a pound of lead is
the heaviest, everybody laughs. Charles
Pitt, in answering this question, claims
that the pound of lead would weigh the
heaviest because the feathers would be
buoyed up by a weight equal to the
amount of air which they displace—just
as cork is buoyed up in water. In
future, therefore, we must refrain from
aughing at the fool's answer, as practi
cally it is correct. Of course, if weighed
in a vacuum a pound of any two sub
stance would weigh alike.
A Walking-Cane of Rhinoceros Skin.
One of the most curious among all the
curious presents which the Emperor of
Germany hus recently received as pro
ducts of his African possessions is a trans
parent walking-stick made of rhinoceros
skin. It appears that "Reichscommis
saer llauptmann Wissman" sent a large
piece of skin over to a friend at Hamburg,
who gave it into the hands of a clever turn
er to be made into walking-sticks. By
means of some novel process the turner
has rendered the skin transparent and is
a beautiful amber color, which has been
rlnne before, but never without changing
color in a very short time, while in the
present case the yellow is steady and un
changing.—Jftte Y»rk Tribune.
The blood in the human body counts
up a record of lt!8 miles a day or 61,320
miles per year.
A Colossal Flower.
In the farthest southeastern island of
of the Philippine group, Mindinao, upon
one of its mountains, Parag, in the
neighborhood of the highest peak on the
island, the volcano, Apo, a party of bot
anical and geographical explorers found
recently at the height of 2500 feet
above the sea level, a colossal flower.
The discoverer, Dr. Alexander Schaden
berg, could scarcely believe his eyes when
he saw, amid the low growing bushes,
the immense buds of this flower, like gi
gantic brown cabbage heads. But he
was still more astonished when he found
a specimen in full bloom, a tive-petaled
flower nearly a yard in diameter—as large
as a carriage wheel, in fact. The enor
mous blossom was borne on a sort of vine
creeping on the ground. It was known
by the natives who accompanied Dr.
Schadenberg, who called it bo-o. The
party had no scale by which the weight of
the flower could be assertained,
but they improvised a swinging
scale using their boxes and specimens
as weights. Weighing these when op
portunity served, it was found that a
single flower weighed over twenty-two
pounds.
It was impossible to transport the fresh
flower, so the travelers photographed it
and dried a number of its leaves by the
heat of a fire. Dr. Schadenberg then
sent the photographs and dried speci
mens to the Royal Botanical Gardens at
Breslau, where the learned director im
mediately recognized it as a specimen of
the Rafflesia, a plant formerly discovered
in Sumatra, and named after the English
Governor, Sir Stafford Raffles. The new
flowsr was accordingly named Rafflesia
Schadenbergia. The five petals of this
immense flower are oval and creamy
white, and grow around a center filled
with countless violet-hued stamens,
thicker and longer in the female, or fer
tile flower, than in the infertile.
The Rafflesias are stemless plauts, the
flowers springing immediately from the
surface of the branchy, and are immersed
among the scales which represent leaves.
Even this mass is a parasitical plant.—
Prairie Farmer.
Long Life With a Broken Neck.
The unfortunate Mr. Hill in this city,
is not the first man who has lived with a
broken neck. In a certain North Caro
lina district before the war it was the
practice to send to Congress the man who
could lift the heaviest weight. When
the champion got the seat he held it until
he was literally lifted out of it by a more
muscular man. One gentleman won it by
lifting two barrels of turpentine, but
after holding it several terms he was chal
lenged to contest it with an opponent,
who undertook to lift three barrels of
turpentine at once. He did it, lifting
one barrel with each hand and a third
on his head, but the effort broke his neck,
or rather crushed the cervical vertebra;.
The accident did not kill him, and he was
elected to Congress and served many
terms, using an artificial support for his
head. Of course the spinal cord was not
injured or he would have been paralyzed.
—San Francisco Alta.
"Maine is now a greater spruce than
pine tree State with regard to the pro
duction and sale of lumber.
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The several climates of Florida, Colorado
ami CaliforniahuveMOhbeen much pivser bed
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of the natives in those States die of this fatal
malady. A far more reliable remedy is to be
had in every drutc store in the land, and one
can be used at home; a remedy which is sold
by druggists, under the manufacturers' i»< ti
tive quarmitee that, if taken in time and given
a fair trial, it will effect a cure, or money paid
for it will be promptly returned. We refer to
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lung-scrotula) known as Dr. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery.lt is the only remedy for this
terrible disease possessed of such superior cur
ative properties as to warrant its manufactur
ers in selling it. under a guarantee.
Don't hawk, and blow, and spit, but. use Dr.
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THS different, manufacturing establishments
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capital of $202,990,830.
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gifts during the past year.
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COTTON SEKD, which used to be thrown
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ly.
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