SPANISH GUNS TRAINED ON THE WHITE HOUSE. ' " Two of the cannon captured by Dewey at Manila, May 1, 1888, now bclorn the east front of the War, State and Navy building. in Washington, {jointing toward the White House. One of them, called the Belicosa, was cast at Manila. October 23, 1759. The other, called the Carduna, bears the monogram of Carlo; IV.. and was cast at Seville, February 21, 1777. The crown of Spain is cast on each. The present mounts, provided by the Navy Department, are gilt shields, bearing the Stars and Stripes. purious Method of Making Wax, | r-k tK The white wax exported from China is made by the curious method of us ing minute insects in its production. These insects are found in brown, pea shaped excrescences or galls attached to an evergreen free called the "insect tree." The galls are gathered in May and carried in headlong flight to the market towns by bearers, who travel at night so that the heat may not force the insects to emerge during the jour ney. They are then placed on the "wax tree," which is a stump varying from three to twelve feet in height, with numerous brauches rising from the top similar to the pollard willow. The wax insects are made into small i a ut- n.ii msecis lire uiuue into small I uuces iuuii line suiucuiing ueiweeu uu l__ CHINAMAN FASTENING A PACKET OF WAX INM'.UTd TO THE WAX Tit EE. packets of twenty or thirty galls, which are inclosed inn leaf of the wood oil tree fastened together with rice straw. These packets are sus pended close lo the branches, under which tliey hang. Oil emerging from the falls the Insects creep rapidly up the branches to which th«-y attach themselves, and begin fonniii-j u coat ing «>f was that in about three months attains a thicKDc.ss of almost a quarter of an Inch. The branches are then cut off. and after removing as intich of the wax as possible by hand they are putin a kettle of hot water, when tin- remain ing wax floats on the surface and the Insects tinisli their Icrui of u.-.e fulness by g< ing to the bottom. For OHIn r*' I'itr. llc»re we illiihtraif «i tn:iil»lnntion RI'MUISINUN K«Nll) AMI H*VOI,VKH. sword anil pistol r •cetitly patented In Untflsud by li. Iteyus. vt M uiun y. Mexico. An officer in battle is always expected to carry his sword in one hand, and if his horse is at all frac tious or hard to guide he lias very lit tle opportunity to defend himself with his pistol, and there has been in stances when if a revolver was within easy reach an officer could have saved his life instead of watching an enemy aim his gun and fire before the doomed man could reach the pistol. The ad vantage of this combination weapon will therefore be easily understood, as the officer could easily swing the point of the sword foward the enemy in a shorter time than a gun could be raised and fired. The arrangement ol file two weapons is such that the trig ger can be easily manipulated while the hand is closed over the sword grip. Mexican nreail Oven. The accompanying photograph shows the manner in which the Mexicans used to build their bread-ovens. Seen at a distance these peculiar contriv ances look like something between an ant-hill and a Kaffir hut, and, al though it took several hours to bake the bread in them, they seem to have answered their purpose pretty well. Now, however, tin- Mexican is getting an appetite for new things, and his i '* .i- OVKSH IS Wflli'tt MKXICANS II \K It ItItKAD precious oven, one of the most Impor t.tni part* of tils whole house. Is oun of the tirxt things to fall a victim to tie march of ctvtlliatlon. Mtoves are now the rage; and even the very |n>or est manage somehow to scra|ie enough together to buy one. Australia's biggest offertory wa» taken up at the cousecrntlou of th« Hlkhop of Carpentaria la Myduejr Cathedral It aiuouutrd to $42.3 purpose. He lias three big money "v manufat uring plants in operation j ✓ —at Philadelphia, 7 * y at San Francisco, ) J and at New Or y leans, turning six hundred tons of silver into subsidiary coin. The Southern mint is working at its full capacity now on sliver dol lars alone. From the ingot to the coin is a rapid Journey at one of the mints. It begins in the "weighing room," where stands the pair of balances that receives all the metal brought in. The scales in the Philadelphia mint are said to be the largest and finest In the world. They hav" a capacity of 655 pounds, but exhibit instantly the variation of MILLING THE COIN. one-hundredth of an ounce. The sys tem of weighing nnd recording begun here is carried out with every transfer of the metal until it is delivered as coin to the cashier. After leaving the weighing room the silver or gold, as the case may be, is sent to the melting room, where it is dumped into the huge plumbago crucibles. After melting, the coin ma terial is cast into bars, and when cold a fragment is cut from each, which is sent to the assay office. The assayer ascertains the proportion of pure metal in the bar and amount of alloy needed to bring it to the required standard. The bars are again melted, the alloy doled in, and the metal then cools in bars about a foot in length, half an inch in thickness and regu lated in width according to the size of' the coin to be manufactured. In the melting room for gold nnd in many other departments of the mints the floors are overlaid with hexagon latticed iron plates, through which fall the small particles of gold that ad here to the shoes of the operators. The sweepings of the floors are even saved nnd treated for the gold and silver dust. Director Roberts is au thority for the statement that more than $20,000 is thus saved annually. The rolling room next receives the metal, which is passed between power ful circular crushers at the rate of 200 !>ars an hour. The bars come out as ribbons the proper thickness for strips front which to cut the "plan chets." These last named are coins In the plain before they receive the stamp or are milled. Before the plan diets are cut, however, the ribbons pass through several presses to bring CCTTIMO OUT TUB COINS. them lo the proper lutrduess aud to t'uusi them to pass muster in the way of width aud thickness to the breadth of n hair. After Ihe plauebets are cut Use metal begins lo look like colli. The round pieces drop from this marvel ous in II chine in the rate of 2.V1 a minute, though when pressed a snccd of .si i tun |m- at tallied. The perforated strips go back lo the cruci ble, while Ihe plauehets go lu tin* coining-ratlin. Here iliey are carefully sorted by girls who are wonderfully c«|M>rt In detecting those thai are un der or o\er weight. The |M-rfect plan chela ilieu goto the adjusting room, where I hey are further scrutinised Thru they vialt the utilliug machine The plnncliet leaves this operation with its edges turned up to protect the device which is Stamped on later. Many persons call the fluting or "reed ing" on the coins the "milled edge." This is an error. Before the final stroke is given the coin that will make it an obligation of the United States Government It goes to the cleaning-room, for.after it has passed through so many processes it is black, greasy and anything but sil very or golden. They are heated to a dull red .".nd dipped into boiling acid, which very quickly removes every trace of grime or grease. The plan chets are dried after their acid bath in revolving cylinders filled with saw dust. They come out bright and shin ing, and are finally bustled into the coining-room, whence they become full-fledged pieces of money. FOR FOG AND NICHT SICNALS. Gas and Bell Buoy, Which Burn* Tlirefc Months and 1* Seen Six Miles. Remarkably effective as an aid to navigation Is a gas buoy which at the same time is a bell buoy. It Is likely to play an important part in the pro tection of the shipping of this port, as well as being a most Important fac tor in increasing and developing the commerce of New York. This is so because through the proper use of these buoys this harbor could be made navigable at any hour, at low tide as well as when the tide is full, while fogs and thick and stormy weather would no longer be a bar to the free and expeditious entry of ships of all tonnage. The height of the buoy over all is eighteen feet. Prom the water line to the focal plane it measures ten feet six inches, and the diameter of the body of the buoy is seven feet, the total weight being 08(50 pounds. The body of the buoy forms the receiver for the compressed gas, and is of suffi cient size to give buoyancy for flota tion and of adequate strength to safe ly hold a pressure of 130 to ISO pounds per square inch. On top of the body is a wrought iron tower about six feet high, surmount ing which is a lantern. Surrounding the lantern is a cage for protecting it, and the tower is provided with a pin'form on which to stand to light or adjust the flame. Just below the platform is suspend ed a bell weighing 183 pounds. This bell is sounded automatically every twenty or thirty seconds, or indeed at regular intervals of any duration, all of which may l}e predetermined. The flow of the gas from the receiver to the lantern furnishes the means of operating the bell. Thus a reliable ~OAS ASD BELL MCOY. sounding of the bell warning is se cured without any dependence upon the action of the waters, as is the case with the old-fashioned bell buoys. The advantages of these buoys can be easily understood, for they not only furnish a fixed or flashing light, that can be seen a distance of between six and eight miles, but operate in combi nation, and most successfully, a bell, thus affording a double protection to mariners. These buoys will burn con tinuously day and night, from three months to one year, with one charge of gas, aud may be rented for about fifty cents a clay, including the cost of gas. Ituoys of tills type without the bell attachment are used very largely by all the civilized nations of the world, and are otticlally recominei led. England has 23ii in service, France the United Stales l.'il, Germany i !»S. Holland lid, Denmark Ul, Egypt 112, Canada -It! aud Italy 15,—New York Herald Kidding Havana of Dog*. Havana used to be overrun by own erless dygw almost as badl.v as Con stantinople. The mangy curs were everywhere about the Ureets. Sluce the American occupation the work ot clearing Havana of these nuisances has IMH'U going on. aud now the Directs are comparatively free. In the last | year nearly IHNSI dogs have been cap- , lured In the street* and kilted by the | inuuiclpal dog catchers. Th« Hulul'i *!•»••« limaklug. A Journalist Who bus often been called upon lo make a stenographic report of a »|Heclt by Umperor W ill laut deeh -ei» that Hie Kaiser speaks slowly al ltrst, but gradually gets rast er aud faster, uutll It is liu|msalhh* in follow Itiin verbatim. The repurieia, lie says, generally wrl' down what they cau. and, by comparing notes af terward. concoct a tolerably accural* report w( what he aalU DK. TALMAGE'S SERMON SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE, Subject: Spirit or Unrest —lt Is the Cauae of Mucli Un happiness—.Need of the Church and the World i» More stability—Stop Gadding About. (Copyright IHou.i WASHINGTON, D. C.—From an unusual text Dr. Talmagc in this discourse rebukes the spirit of unrest which characterizes so many people, and shows them the hap piness and usefulness to be found in sta bility; text, Jeremiah ii, 36, "Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way?" Homely is the illustration by which this prophet of tears deplores the vacillation of the nation to whom he wrote. Now they wanted alliance with Egypt and now with Assyria and now with Babylon, and now they did not know what they wanted, and the behavior of the nation reminded the prophet of a mnn or woman who, not sat isfied with home life, goes from place to place gadding about, as we say, never set tled anywhere or in anything, and he cries out to them, "Why gaudest thou about so much to cnange thy way?" Well, the world lias now as many gada bouts as it had, in Bible times, and 1 think that that race of people is more numer ous now than it ever was—gadabouts among occupations, among religious theo ries. among churches, among neighbor hoods —and one of the greatest wants of the church and the world is more stead fastness and more fixedness of purpose. It wa, no small question that Pharaoh put to,l aco i and his sons when he asked, "What is your occupation?" Getting into the riir'it occupation not only decides your temporal welfare, but may decide your eternal destiny. Tho reason so many men and women are dead failures is because instead of asking God what they ought to be or do they, through some vain am bition or whimsicality, decide what they ought to be. Let me say to all young men and young women in homes or in school or college, do not go gadding about among occupations and professions to find what you are fitted for. but make humbL- and d'rect appeal to God for direction. While seeking divine guidance in your selection of a lifetime sphere examine your own temperament. 'lhe will tell you your mental proclivities. The physiologist will tell you your physical temper aent. Your enemies will tell you your weaknesses. If you are, as we say, nervous, do not become a surgeon. If you arc cowardly, do not become an en gineer. If you are hoping for .a large and permanent income, do not seek a govern ment position. If you are naturally quick tempered, do not become a minister of the gospel, for while any one is disadvan taged by ungovernable disposition there is hardly any one who enacts such an in congruous part as a mad minister. Can you make a tine sketch of a ship or rock or house or face? lie an artist. Do you find yourself humming cadences, and do the treble clef and the musical bars drop from your pen easily, and can you make a tune that charms those who hear it? He a musician. Are you born with a fondness for argument.' Be an attorney. Are you naturally a good nurse and especially interested in the relief of pain? lie a physician. Are you interested in all ques tions of traffic and in bargain making, are you apt to be successful on a "mall or large scale? Be a merchant. Do vou pre fer country life, and do you like the plow, and do you hear music in the hustle of a harvest field? Be a farmer. Arc you fond of machin*iry, and are turning wheels to you a fascination, and can you follow with absorbing interest a new kind of thrash ing machine hour after hour? Be a me chanic. If you enjoy analyzing the natural elements and a laboratory could entertain you all day and all night, be a chemist. If you are inquisitive about other worlds and interested in all instruments that would bring them nearer for inspection, be an astronomer. If the grass under your feet and the foliage over your head and the llowers which shake their incense on the summer air are to you the belles lct tres of the lield, be a botanist. If you have no one faculty dominant and nothing in your make up seems to point to this or that occupation, shut yourself up in your own room, get down on your knees and reverently ask God what He made \ou for and tell Him that* you are willing to do anything He wishes'you to do. Before you leave that room you will find out. For the sake of your usefulness and happiness and your temporal and eternal welfare do not join that crowd ot people who go gadding about among busi nesses and occupations, now trying this and now trying that and never accom plishing anything. There are many who exhibit this frail ty in matters of religion. They are not sure about anything that pertains to their soul or their eternal destiny. Now they are Unitarians, and now they are t'ni verjalists, and now they are Presbyteri ans, and now they are nothing at all. They are not quite sure that the Bible was in spired or if inspired whether the words or the ideas were inspired or whether only part of the book was inspired. They think at one time that the story in Genesis about the garden of Eden is a history, and the month alter tluy think it is an allegory. At one time they think the book of Job describes what really occurred, but the next time they speak of it they call it a drama. Now they believe all the miracles, but at your next Interview they try to show how these scenes had nothing in them supernatural, but can he accounted for by nafhral causes. Gadding about among religious theories and never satis lied. All the evidence is put before them, and why do they not rentier a verdict? It they cannot make up their mind with all the data put before them, they never will. I here are all the archaeological confirma tion ot the Htble brought to view by the "Palestine Kxploration Society." There are the bricks of Babylon, the letter "N ' impressed upon them "N ' for Nebuchad nezzar, showing that lie was not a myth and the farther the shovel of the anti quarian goes down tin- m ire is revealed of that ni'nd Cod the Son and C.od the Holy Chost and a'! angcldom, Cherubim and -eiaphun uitd Archangel became your al lies Found among the papers of th>- learned Samuel Johnson v i* a prayer inscribed with the '.onls. "\Vh«n mv eye was re- Storrd t > its u«e," ami it is a great mo ment when we act over our moral blind in -sand gain sniritn tl eyesight. That u a moment from which we mav well date everything. Ml the «l..ry of llenry If. of France vaniatied when in a tournament a la nee extinguished his eye. end the worst dirtier that can happen to us is to have the visi >n of our soul put out If you have gone wrmi; so far, now go right. If 'he morning »ur life have I Mien a moral defeat, make the evening of i >ur life M vietorx the battle of \ltn*n go, ' >»t it i o'clock in the afternoon, was gloriously Won at tl and in your life and mine II is not too late to achieve some thing vorthy ot au immortal Start right and het II on IKi not »|H-UJ t«*i much time in tacking shin Dm id felt the impor tance ni tiaedaeas of pur|M*#e when he cried <»lt, ''Jit heart i« tilv-J, 0 UoJ, Uijr heart ta tu»d!"