i oimi-AO.
f dnsm"' war shir J
Plh.pW" hVmmon board another of
rtmrf ,4 to w). h their last breath
L,thrrh .low.ky of spring
CmVdArkrl.m are looming-
Vhul!fn,h'!,mlkefini5,
h.huiMM''1,,-ri,'fBlv,A
ft,rht her anchor straining
Mack. face;
u lightens 'tixt the mining.
Ik.crutnil was Iw th8 n,lst
TThidlcnref enwreathlng.
pth those Gibing.
on tii'y ,n1"' 11,0 f001" dumb thI,,B
The .term winds fiercely driving;
. .iron,! work each breaker sings,
V!Te-t"ltt",l",,,r,vlntt
, must die"-the leader's voice
Out."'"'-' the roar of thunder
t i,nunwn " solemn chotc
To die our dear flsg under.
rjrut v.laT the battlefield
, hrf the wo i"-8 1.vinK.
,,iin a right we cannot yield,
T, ,?;.) in i-ur dying."
frta,l: upon the topmost mast
Vh ftr and Stripe were floating.
,, jht i like a trumet blast,
,D'tl,"''"r ships quick noting.
.(,,('! ; tlierj sounds a cheer
fr l5t .t:c-t th .own flying.
I . aiKiii'itr liinil find plear.
m -K iviic - iv . , -
a-.im KiU-mt h'-urtJS though dying.
jii .nie;ii'-l'iK'' the waves til lirine
1 i -
J , ,,!' nag low lyimr.
& ( jr..nt :h ' breakers e lines no sign
t ,j i - .if if ilviie
r.il-.'rtVi oil'1" more thy nam.,
u.ii;ii in my iory.
iiii-md hearts nlla'irj
fc ,r ill.-.- and Tor thy j.lory.
-.4 iw i' '. King, in nrjwr J Hitzar.
FATEFUL VOYAGE.
tlic vi i r IStJS I signed pnpers with
Lin IHatio, of the brig Josephine,
i : 1 . . A 1.1 I
ia vul.ige iroiu .-miney id .luihiiiim
Wtnrn. She wax tin English craft,
jw-.i loinlnl with ii general cargo. and
:ule many voyages across the New
"mm ...I
ami a. I iie crew consisieu oi
tiin. mate, cook ami four men before
i..ist. and every one but the cook was
lr mid Mioke Knglish. I was then
i'ii yi ir old mid just out of my
ili'i ..ip. I should have had ii
I n ate s berth, but the Josephine
1 no Mich oliiccr. The Captain
liix own watch, and there were oe-
iiiIa!i the mute had to go aloft
the men. Captain Delano was n
viii'ir and a good-hearted man, ami
was nothing in the grub or tho dis-
e to find fault with. We left Sid-
ni..ining with a fair wind for the
fcliiimiri d-niilu voyage, and had nny
Iri ilieti d the queer adventures and
nigedics winch wero to befall us he
f Invo been looked on as a b natic.
portion of thu story I am goiug to
m appeared m some of tho Austrn-
b.iprr twenty years ago, but only a
n, and that lull of errors. It was
:i month ngo that I was asked to
my ntlidiivit to certain facts to a
Ir at Melbourne, and so the whole
of adventures is fresh in my moiu-
tlie first three days out wo had fair
and a Miiooth sea, and the brig
tine proijrcM. At midnight on thu
niaht thu wind shitted, blew up a
which lasted half an hour, and then
Wiy as flat as you please. Wc wero
piliii'' on the waves for an hour or
3i.lt uhell davlii'llt eame llie surf u'..
jr sia was without, a ripple, while
Jv us not the sliohtost breath of air
fx above. The sun came up like a
f tile, and the ureenest hand aboard
that we were in for a calm. It was
' ii"t by mid forenoon, and our
'' ( aiitaili orderi'il nil lem.ls In
"11 and make themselves as coni
i' as possible. 15y noon tlio liri.ir
o' an oven. The decks w ere so hot
fvi ii the I'onk with bis tiniirli f.-..t
not walk them unshod. I)ovn in
'Vastle in was stillinjr, hut as it was
on deck we had to stand it.
fan about noon when the cook, who
Piie to the side to throw over mime
calleil out to us to come and see
i'ist simrk which human eyes ever
i rnwieti up rrom tho fo castle,
curious to see one of thu iiuuwti.rs
t hand, hut expecting that the cook
uiy exaeratcd, and when I
over thu rail I
lay a shovel-nosed shark of such
"us that I dared not credit my
'esiifllt. lie lnif ,..,....11.. I 1 ...
...j .,.,iivt mm uot
II feet uwuv. Ulld when, nft
nutes, Cuntaiii iiii.l nil l,,,,u I,.,. l
l'l to look lit the fellow.
K'j length by a tape lino ulonK tho
uiiriy-iwo ami une-Iiulf
"mi jaws capable of cutting a
two at i. iu. 'pi t..
lite lie Kavo was a sli'ht move.
If the eve iiou' um.1 1... ii.. i...
ls U'riat dorsal tin l.,Li,, j i,
and so near that wo could see
Mb detail. All o-reed that he
lui? K,",rk ""y ,mo ever
fll"-'li nil of us had sailed in the
k', and some of tho men hud
I wa when the cook climbed upon
i ami said he. would stop a little
t'uuewith tho UK fellow. He
-by that that hu would have n talk
P"'- I have met numbers of ship's
o claimed tolmve 'mwlo up"
NrksHiul wero not afraid of beinc
rl'Hii The cook sat just oppo
I 'h"rk "iWl. and ho had l.o
f rt of diaut, when I puccd for
P'mh,,K to find a missile, and
f "vi'r 8,1,1 cl",ethe monster wny.
H ouml an old bit of irou and
r j10 th rail when there was a
M a yell. Tho cook tva. in tho
C'r "h 0,n careless move of his.
I v? the ,hark. W move-
,his ta. he slewed himself around,
M Ji opened, aud I Wtts looking
Y in
right down upon him as he took the cook
in clear to tue munne ana bit Mm in lyo
so slick and clean that t'.ie upper pnrt of
the body rolled away from tun shark a
nose and remained on the surface directly
below inn. After hnlf a minute it began
slowly to sink, but wim not yet out of
sight when I saw the shark seize it. As
he grabbed it be rushed away aud we
saw him no more.
The tragedy upset us in more ways than
one. l!ero wo were, left wtthout a cook
at tho beginniug of the voyage, and there
was something in his taking oil which
aroused the superstition of the hands for
ward. I think the Captain felt it as much
as we did, but of course ho concealed it
as much as possible. All that day wc lay
roasting and motionless, and ns tho sun
went down and a light breeze sprang up
every man uttered a heartfelt "Thank
Heaven J" Wc crowed toosoon, however.
Tho breeze did not push us over five miles
before it tired out, and wo wero left as
before, the sky full of stars and tho sea
like a mirror. I was in the mate's watch
aud came on duty nt midnight. Indeed,
wo were all on duty for that matter, as
t'uero was nothing whatever to do and wo
were sleeping on deck. I was aroused,
however, to take the lookout, nnd I took
my seat ot the heel of the bowsprit ns a
matter of form. As we were not moving,
no other sailing craft could move, and the
few steamers crossing on our lino could
seo our lights and nvoid us. Something
happened, however, before I had been on
duty nn hour. The Josephine was rising
and fulling on the glassy swells, and
swinging her head to every point of the
compass by turns, nnd I was scanning the
sea and the heavens in the most perfunc
tory way, when an object suddenly came
into view. It was n black spot against
the darkness, and after rising to my feet
and watching it for a few minutes I mad
out, as I thought, the dismasted hull of a
small vessel. It was coming down to
ward us, mid when sure of this I hailed
the mate. Ho came forward with the
glass, and after a long look he said:
"Well, that beats my time. It is the
hull of a dismasted schooner, and stands
up hiifh and dry. There's n lot of rallle
around her bows, nnd I lielieve a whale is
tangled up in it and towing the wreck!"
He sent me to call thu Captain, nnd in
a few minutes all hands had caught the
excitement. The wreck stopped for n
while on our starboard bow, and not over
a quarter of a mile away. Then it crwscd
our bows and came down on our port
side to the quarter, where it lay so close
that every man could see what it was.
It was then, nt the sm;e;c.stioii of the
Captain, that wo raised our voices in n
shout to see if anybody was aboard thu
strange craft. Wc were answered almost
immediately by the barking of a dog, and
the Captain said :
"There are men there, and they may
be starving and suffering. Well, lower
a boat and pull out to her."
"IKavenst sir, but you wouldn't think
of it!" whispered the mate. "She's being
towed by who knows what? See! There
she moves again I And just listen to
that howling!"
It was true that the hulk was moving.
She moved across our stern nt slow speed
nnd ranged up on tho other quarter, and
the dog ceased his burking and sent forth
such mournful howls that every man was
upset.
"What do you make out under her
bows?" asked tho Captain of the niato, as
he handed him tho glass after a long
look.
"Why, sir, there's tho bowsprit, tho
foretopmast, and a big tanglu of ropej,"
was the reply. "It looks to mo as if all
the foremast rallh) had somehow slewed
around under her bows, and I'm certain
that a whale is tangled up therein. I
can see flecks of foam as ho chums away,
and you can hear a ripple along our side
from the sea he kicks up."
The dog barked and howled by turns,
but we got no other answer to our re-
peated shouts.
j "Men," said the Captain, as the wreck
j began moving slowly away, "it's our
; plain duty to board that hulk. 1 could
never forgive myself if I left any one to
die of starvation. I won t order any one
to go, but I'll call for volunteers."
Not a sailor responded for a minute.
I waited to give the men a chance, nnd
us they hesitated I volunteered. Two
others then came forward, and their ac
tion shamed the innti) into saying:
"Very well, sir. I'll take Jones and
Harris and pull oil and investigate."
Why hu left me out I do not know,
but I wus quietly ignored, and tho two
middle-aged men whoso names I have
given had the oars us the boat moved
away. The Captain called after the niato
to be sure to board tho hulk, aud if ho
found her in good couditiou to cut the
ralllo loose and report. The wreck had
been moving aw ay from us pretty steadily
for ten minutes, and us the yawl left us I
could hardly make her out. Tho mate
wus to show a light when ho boarded
her, and for tho next half hour wo were
straining our eyes to catch it. Then we
figured that hu had missed tho hulk und
was pulling back to us, and nit hough we
had out our regular lights, which could
have been seen for two or threo miles, wo
sent up several skyrockets and burned a
flare us further guides. Hut tho hours
wore on und brought no tidings, and
daylight camo we swept tho sea iu vuiu
for sight of either hulk or boat.
A breezo camo with tho sun, and wc
began a search which lusted all tho day
without rckult. Tho loss of threo meu
reduced us to sad straits. There wero
only two working hands, and as a measure
of safety wo hud to get tho big sails reefed
against whut inighi come. The breeze
was light, and us w o wero under, shortened
suil we did not cover unr gftat distunco
during tho day, nrover thirty miles.
This sutisfied us, however, thut a calamity
had occurred. ''Tho wreck could not
havo been over half a milo from us when
tho yawl pulled away. I would not tako
over ten minutes to pull to hor. What
could huvo happened to the boatt If not
able to board, she should have re
turned. In boarding sho should huvo
displayed a light, as ordered, and then
returned to report the state of the wreck.
The last ever seen of tho threo men was
when they pulled away from us. Not a
word Los becu heard from them to this
day, nor will it ever be known how they
perished. .
Night brought a cnlm again, and I w3
so fagged eut with the heavy-work of tho
day that I went to sleep almost before I
hnd finished the cold bite I got from tho
pantry. Wo understood from the Captain
that ho should cruise atout for a day or
two more in hopes of falling in with the
boat, but it was easy to see that he was
badly upset, nnd in tho afternoon I
studied liquor about him very strong.
iMicn lie told us to go into the pantry
and forage for something to eat his voice
was thick and his legs very wenk. My
niato was to stand watch tho regular time
and then awaken me. Sometime in the
night I waa aroused by something and
sat up nnd looked nbnut me. The
calm continued, and everything was
quiet, and so I lay down nnd slept again.
It was daylight when I awoke again, and
after a wash I got some biscuit and meat
from the pantry and looked around for
my mate. Not finding him after n hunt
of ten minutes I knocked at tho open
cabin door. Receiving no response, I
finally ventured in, nnd five minutes later
I realized thut I was entirely alone nbourd
he Josephine. Neither Cnptnin norsailor
ould be found, nor was there tho slight
st clue to tell me how or why they had
disappeared. I did not give up until I
had searched every possible place where
they could have hidden away, and then I
I sat down and let superstition nnd terror
take such hold of me for half a day that
I liked U have gone crazy. It was only
by calling up all my will power that I
could prevent myself from lenping over
the rail. After several hours, however,
this feeling wore olT, and I could view
the situation with common sense. I was
alone, but it was n flat calm, nnd I turned
into the cabin and slept for six hours be
fore I opened my eyes. Then it was to
find that evening hail come, nnd that the
brig had been boarded by a boat from
one of the mail steamers plying between
the big island und New Zealand. My
explanations astonished and nstouuded
the men, and after 1 had been taken oil
to the steamer, and given nil the details
to the Captain, he took the brig in tow
and continued his course for Sidney.
There the story was told and retold,
but with very little satisfaction to nny
one. A craft was sent out in search of
the lost yawl and the hulk, but neither
could be found. The general idea at
Sidney was that the Captain nnd sailor
both got drunk that night, and somehow
got overboard, but no one could even
guess the calamity which befell the
vawl. AVio 1'ink A'nil.
The White House.
The residence of the President of tho
I'nited States, says Youth' Cu;iyiiiirt,
is ollieially known a.s the Kxectitive Man
sion, which means that it is the residence
of the head of the I'.xeeutive branch of thu
Government; but. it is seldom called, in
ordinary talk, either by those who live in
it, or by the American people in gener.l,
anything but the White House. This is
nvery unpretentious title, and it is inter
esting to notu how thu residence of the
President, in n country which is full of
white houses, camu to bear this simplu
name ns its special property.
Tho explanation is easily found. TJio
first Executive Mansion at Washington
was occupied in 1800. It was v,ilt of
freestone, and was, unpaintcd ; but in
1814 tho British army occupied Washing
ton, nnd burned, with other public build
ings, the President's house, leaving it a
blackened ruin.
The house was rebuilt on the same site,
nnd tho same walls weru used in its con
struction ; but they were so discolored by
smoke that, on the suggestion of General
Jackson, they were painted white, not
only to improve their appearance, but in
token of the successful defiance of Dritish
fire by the American Republic.
Thu mansion soon became tho "White
House" in the mouths of th, people on
account of its da..liug color, and from
that day to this it has been repainted
w hite every ten years. Its naniu com
memorates a patriotic feeling, therefore,
as well as st-rves to describe the appear
ance of the mansion, for thu original coat
of white paint was a sort of protest against
the vandalism of the l.ritUh, and every
.subsequent coat has served to perpetuate
the protest.
Tlie house has not been altogether com
fortable us a place of residence, und has
required almost constant repairs und al
terations. It is said to be damp, mid
while it muy not bu positively unhealthy,
it 1ms become customary for tho Presi
dent's family to tako quarters clsewhero
for the summer.
Thu White House is tho President's of
fice as well as his residence. On tho first
floor are several largo apartments, includ
ing tho East Koom, which is forty by
eighty feet iu si.o and twenty-two feet
high, the Illuo Itoom, thu Ited ltooni and
the Green Koom.
On the second floor uro tho President's
office a large room looking to tho Poto
mac aud t ho Long Bridge tho rooms of
the President's secretaries, and tho pri
vate apartment for tho President's
family.
It has occasionally been suggested that
a new and moro muguiticeut residence bo
erected for thu President, und thut the
White House be reserved us nn office for
tho Executive Department, but Congress
has thus far been disinclined, or too
busy, to udopt the suggeatiou.
UOlSriOLD MATTERS.
Father of Ainiriemi Photography.
Tho father of American photogruphy,
Mr. M. U. Brady, has lately been in town
on a short visit. Ho comes from Wash
ington, where ho is widely known. It
makes it easier to realize whut sort of pho
tography Mr. Brady has dealt in, to know
that at tho close of tho war tho United
States Government bought thirteen tons
of negatives from him. Ho had photo
graphed every celebrated personage in
this country. And not only did he pho
tograph them on his plates, but he has
retuiued tho most interesting rerabis
conces of all of them in his memory. In
person, Mr. Brady looks liko a French
marshal of tho Empire, though his bel
ligerency bus never tukon any form other
than that appropriate to the best amateur
boxer ol his day. AVw York JvurnaU .
A OOO HOVSKKKEFEH,
Jto can 1 toll herf
By ec cellar:
Cleanty hr and whitened wall,
I ri jrnens her
ltyi-r dresser;
Ily the hnc' staircase and balk
Ad. with pleasure
Ta " her measure
By the wa she keeps her brooms, .
On he peeping
A' i he keeping
Of her lv: and nnsoen room.
Uy her kl- hen's air of nmrnesa,
And i(f irrl romplnteneaa,
hera in 'leanllness and sweetness
The ruse if ordor blooms,
Jewiih Jcswiiirr.
rt.r.AKlNO I.ACR.
To clean l ice fill a bottlo with cold
water; dru a stocking tightly over it,
securing boh ends firmly. Place the lace
smoothly icr tho stocking and tack
closely, lut tho bottlo in a kettle of cold
water contining a few shavings of soap,
and place ivcr tho fire to boil. Hinse
in sovcral raters and then drain nnd dry.
When dryemove a'.id plnco smoothly in
a large bok and press with weights.
Very nice mcc enn be made to look like
new by tl process. Wathiwjton fr'f.ir.
i ron TnATKLtxo wiurn.
This la will lie found very convenient
in travel! g, ns several wraps not in use
may bo pi into it and kept clean. A
piece of rato crash or holland forms
the found: ior, which may be ornamented
with astri) - nd any simple pattern may
bo worked I ftween tho stripes. Hed
Andalasian sol or coarse red marking
cotton will suitable for working the
bag, which should bo cut twenty-seven
inches wi l- and one yard long. The
ends are sc t i together, and the edges
turned ov. about three inches. The
cross stitch pattern is worked upon the
turned ove part, and the edge is finished
by fringe. Tho handles are of the same
material, diked with a cross-stitch
Iiatttrn, ad nro fixed to the bag by
mttoiis auibuttou-hok's. Ytinktc UluU.
lKTRIIOI.O OltNAMKNTS.
A very iTectivo dining-room portiere
can bo mat'- of the best quality of burlap.
Across Mie op work, ith coarse worsteds,
a bonier ii tapestry stitch, a design of
fruit and 1 wes, using shades of brow n,
purple am orange, with a little bright
olive greet If you prefer, the bodv of
the curtail i nil be plain, w ith only a dado
and frieze or a conventional design may
b' traced 'ere and there, doing away
s ith the i nlo.
Small, .v rockers of willow may be
painted ji black nnd then decorated bv
a floral di gn. A bunch of red poppies
is very ell live ami will not soil so readily
ns the mo delicate colors. Bright red
ribbons, i everal shinies, arc tied on tin
ImicK ami "lit legs oi I In? chairs. It is
well to v:. lisli the chair before painting
the floral i- signs, using good copal vai
liish.
A chair .linted in deep old gold, with
a muss of urplc and yellow palish s (lu
the Heat, l lie thu back is decorated with
a band of liush in shades of purple und
tied with hreu shades of purple libbou,
would hej lovely ornament in uny par
lor. AV York mtitr.
i. .
. , , hie Turru auout motifs.
"I wi you'd put something in the
paper tctop people believing that lib
nbout nu.hs," said a pretty woman of
phlluntnnpiu turn. With that denm
stupidity :haracteristie of my sex I was
obliged t ask what lie. "Why, they
arc always saying iu the papers that it is
not necessry to do anything to keep
moths out; furs, but to wrap the furs in
cotton clots or in papers; that the moths
will not qi through those fabrics to get
to their ,ntive diet of Russian sable
beneath. Well, now, that may be Very
true und lieresling as a scientific fact,
but as iidv'e for saving your sables it is
simplv Tonnyrot. I ought to know. I
paid $100 for the in format ion lat year.
I went mi did my things up in cotton
cloth last ipripg. I don't know why.
It would live been easier just to go ami
turn them into a trunk with a nickel's
worth of (tiuphor, us I always had, but
this other , u new und sui t of learned
idea, and yok up with it. I suppose
the eggs wre ulrcady in my furs, but that
is it; thuers always will be in them. I
thought I l.'at them out, but I evidently
didn't, for.'ho moths weru there, ami I
suppose thy did not go through the
cotton, bul if 1 couldn't get them out,
neither can .hose other poor women that,
urclistenin.o tho irresponsible journalist
now. No,) oil go put it in that a dime's
worth of cui.phor is worth all the ento
mological icieneu in tho world ugaiust
moths. Jut dump it iu the trunk w ith
your thin(find you are ull right. Aeie
Yvrk Gryjiic.
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TIFrtl'KS.
Sausage Cmclet Cut thin slices off a
round of saisage, place iu a frying-pan
with a littlt butter, aud pour over six
eggs vVtf ""'jiuscd with pepper und
suit.
Molasses finger Cukes One pint of
molasses, oa tablespoon of lard, two tea
spoons of sout in two-thirds of a cup of
boiling wuto' and two tablespoons of gin
ger. Mix qilckly us possible, ltoll thin
und bako quck.
Cinnamon Uuns In making baking
powder bisoiit tako some of the dough
and roll threi-quurters of uu inch thick;
cut out with i biscuit cutter; spread with
butter, then sigar and cinnamon ; put in a
tin ; make a d-nt with linger iu the center
and bake till i light brown iu a hot oven.
Tapioca Jely One-half pint of tapi
oca, one quart of water, the juice and
grated riud of a lemon. Souk tho tapioca
over night in vater; sweeten and boil it
for an hour iuu furina kcttlo. When
nearly done str in tho lemon und pour it
into molds, iervo with cream sweet
ened. Omelette Soiffle Five eggs, a quarter
of a pound of .utter, four tublespoonfuls
of sugar, one of flour. Mix well, add
lust the stiff nth of tho whites of tho
eggs. Melt a iece of butter in a suuee-
1an, pour in thj mixture, and stir with a
iroadknifo urril done. Sprinklo with
lemon juice aac( sugar, or serve with pre
Apple Custard A. way io prepare ap
ples for dessert Is to core, pare nnd grotf
them. For a qunrt of grated apples stii
in a qnnrter of a pound of incited buttet
nnd half a pound of sugar. Bent the
yolks nnd w hites of eight eggs separate
ly; stir in tho whites the hist thing, nnd
bake like custard in a deep dish lined
with puff paste.
Fresh Tongue Parboil a beef tongue
in a littlo water for two hours. Aftei
boiling one hour add some salt and boil
one hour more. Then take out and skin
nnd remove nil tho rough part. Bent otio
egg nnd roll the tongue in cracker dust
nnd egg. j.sy in a pan; season with salt
and pepper; pour over n hnlf pint of the
water in which it boiled und bake to a
nico brown. Baste with butler und serve
with gravy.
Kich Pudding Mix apples, chopped,
one and one-half pints of milk, ten ounces
of bread crumbs, ten ounces of raisins (or
currants or both), six eggs, half of a
grated nutmeg, the grated peel of a
lemon, a quarter of n pound of sugar anil
a small tenspoonful of salt. Mix all thor
oughly together, putting iu the fruit bust,
and steam for four or lite hours in a
mould. This makes a large pudding;
hnlf the quantity will answer fur a small
family.
Tho Bucking Horse.
Most persons who have witnessed the
vicious and acrobatic antics of the "buck
ing bronco" in llulTalo Bill's and other
wild Western shows hne supposed that
the animals were merely acting a part to
which they had been trained, like the
trick -mule of the circus. The fact is
that these traits are in tin- nature of thu
beast; and what the hm-es do on exhi
bition is as nothing to the diabolical con
tortions which they g through when
riid.'avoring to ntis"at a cowboy rider on
tin ir native prairie. The broncos of the
Southwest, like the cros-i bred l.iiliau nnd
ca) iim' poniisi.f Montana, are not usually
broken uulil tin y are four or live yens
old, nnd then their training is of thu
rudest aud most impromptu character.
Individual animals, like individual men,
exhibit tempers and idiosyncrasies of their
own; but even the best-tempered cow.
ponies will Koinctimi-s buck on a frosty
morning. Such "mavericks'' are turned
over to hands who make u specialty of
conquering horses that are determined
not to be ridden; for a great many thor
ough cowboys wlni are good horsemen in
the sense of being able to get thu best
work out of their string of steeds in n
round-up do not pretend to be able to sit
a hard pitching or vicious animal. The
horse. t.uner, with his wonderful lariat,
brings the rebellious horse to the ground by
a noose around one of the fore feet ; then
he mounts, and pursues his dare-devil,
ant i - bucking tactics until the shaggy pony
is daed and cowed into luc-A sul'lni.-.-ion.
I'i'tiik J.t.-!Wi.
FOP IL Alt SCIENCE.
A Douhle-Timlheil Skeleton.
While wandcriiiL' in the ncighboi hood
of Poston Butte, northwest of town, a few
lays ngo, Charles p. Mason observed some
singularly laid stones in an elliptical form
in one place, mid prompted by curiosity,
he excavated its interior. At, u depth ol
several feet he uncovered the skeleton ol
one of the prehistoric dwellers of this
valley. In one Innd wero evidences of n
bunch of arrows., the stone of which ho
gathered as curiosities. The skeleton was
that of a person nearly six feet in height,
but the body had evidently been crowded
into a grave too small and was doubled
up iu u cramped position. Mr. .Mason
took the jaw-bone, showing a full set ol
good, sound teeth, every one of whidl
was a double tooth. It is barely possible
that the skeleton was that of one o the
more recent occupants id the valley a
Yuqtii, Pima or Papago but the evident
care taken in its interment suggest the
likelihood of its prehistoric otieiti.
V'Wn'i (Aii;"i,n) 'ntrj'iu.c.
An Irresisliblc Bail f,.r KaK
According to a Wu-hingtoii corre
spoii'lctit of the Cincinnati Cim.rvei,
an ii.teri sting not to say valuable discov
ery has been made by Captain Wceilin,
iu churio' of the animals at the Zoo. The
building is infested by rats, and how to
get lid of them has long been a perplex
ing question. Traps were used, but noth
ing would tempt the rodents to enter. Iu
a .'tore iiioni dr.i.ver was plainly quan
tity of sunflower seeds, used as food for
some of the birds. Into this drawer the
rats gnawed their way, a fact w hich led
the Captain to experiment with them for
bait iu the traps. The result was that
the rats can't be kept out. A trap which
appears crowded with six or eight rats is
found some mornings to hold fifteen.
They arc turned into the cages containing
weasels and minks. The latter will kill a
rat absolutely almost before one can seo
it, so rapid are its movements. The wea
sels are a tritle slower, but none of the rats
escape them.
Half u ( ctil nry of Inventions.
Those of us uot yet fifty years of age
have probably lived in the most important
and intellectually progessive period of
human history. Within this half century
the following inventions and discoveries
have been among the number: Ocean
steamships, street railways, telegraph
lines, ocean cables, telephones, phono
graph, photography and a score of new
methods of picture making, aniline colors,
kerosene oil, electric lights, steam lire en
gines, chemical lire extinguishers, nnas
thetics and painless surgery ; gun cotton,
liitro-glyccrine, dynamite, giant powder;
aluminum, magnesium, and other new
metals; electro-plating, spectrum analysis
and spectroscope; uudiphoue, pneumatic
tubes, electric motor, electric railway,
electric bells, typewriter, cheap postal
system, steam heating, steam and hy
draulic elevators, vestibule curs, cantilever
bridges. These ure only a part. All
positive knowledge of thu physical con
stitution of planetary and stellar worlds
has been attained within this period.
llomiUtic HeckiD.
Jnpnn 1ms an electrical society with a'
membership of MM).
One pound of coal equals in valuo 7
feet of natural gas.
Powerful interrupted voltaic currents
have recently been used in surgery to ar
rest the grow th of cancer.
When snow falls tho fir.-t portions in
variably contain greater numbers of bac
teria than the subsequent ones.
A unit of heat is the nmoi'it of heat
required to rnise the tetnperaturo f one
pound of water 1 degree, or from 'A'2 de
grees to ,'!.' degrees F.
An eminent physician declares that nb
stinence from food for a period of from
twenty-four to forty-eight hours will
nllcviate nny common complaint or ill
ness. A rocket bus been patented in Eng
land designed to carry a charge of high
explosive which may lie tired without risk
of explosion before reaching its destina
tion. In generating steam, experiments
under various boilers show KHIO feet of
gas to be equal in heating ower to from
H to 1J,'1 pounds of dill', rent kinds of
:oal.
The w ire-wound guns are again coming
Situ prominent notice, as they can Iki
Iiade in much h ss time than built up
jruns, ami have thus far seemed incapable
if being burst.
Arch.'c illogical researches appear to
ihow that the islands and the coat of
Norway were well populated in tirehis
'jiric lil ies, but that the cultu.iliotl of
'.he soil did not begin until a late date.
English authorities have concluded
ihat dynamic cooling, if not the solo
Muse of rain, is, at all events, the only
Muse of any import. nice, all other causes
Ii ing ciiher inoperative or relatively i:i
lignilii ant.
The fact h:.s lately been satisfactorily
'stablished that a'phall obtained from
jielroleuiu and bitumen contains, in nd
Jitioii to an oxidized organic coloring
aiatter, a large pcrcciila;:c of inorganic
.Mlistituents.
The Watson gold medal for the most
Important, discoveries in astronomy was
jtivcti to lr. Sclioi'.feld, of Bonn, for his
researches concerning variable stars, ami
for catalogiieing stars brighter than thu
tenth magnitude.
To distinguish steel from iron, pour on
'.he object tube tested a drop of nitric
Icid of one half specific gravity. Li t
it net for ii moment, and then rinse with
water. On iron the acid will cause a
ivhitish :;rny : iin, and on Med a black
it.iin.
The life of a w ire rope may be doubled
ty the ii .plica! ion of graphite mixed w ith
ji ease, w liich prevents rust ing and saves
the rope from abrasion w hen coining in
Contact w ith hard substances. The graph
lie finds it4 way into the space between
'.he wires nnd is kept there by the grease.
The tensile strength of a wet ropi is
found to be only onc third that of tho
same lope w hen dry, ami a rope saturated
with grease or soup is Weaker still, us thu
lubricant permits tin- fibres to slip with
greater facility. A dry rope twcnly-livo
feet long will .shorten to twenty-four on
being wi t.
An Knglishinati has produced a piero
nf mechanism containing dOO figures re
prcscntiiig horses, cannon, artillery, in
fantry, and a band of fifty t wo men, cadi
with an instrument. A tiny windmill
turned by the current from burning can
dles furnish the power to move ull thu
figures automatically.
Seventeen whales have been washed
ashore ou the coast of Norway in tho last
threo mouths, and an English paper
claims thut an epidemic has set in which
bids fuir to uxtermiuuto thu big fellows
Bathing in Alaska.
Every Kussian trading post, according
b Mr. Mall, has a bathhouse, nnd once ii
week all the pie avail themselves of
its privileges. The apparatus is simple,
Hot to say primitive, but the method is
what might be called heroic, especially
the dressing iu a room w hen the tempera
ture is below zero. A rude arch of loosn
clones is built, ami more stones piled over
it, so that a lire made bem.ilh the arch
can pellet late hi t w cell them.
There is no chimney, but a trap door in
the roof. A largo (ask full of water,
heated for the purpose, nnd .'mother of
cold water, generally with ice filiating in
it, and a succession of benches, one above
the other, complete the equipment. WllcU
tiie stones are thoroughly heated and tho
smoke has all passed out, all coals are re
moved and the trap door is shut; any
smoke or coals remaining w ill make tho
pyes smart and the bath very uncomfor
table. Each one leaves his clothing in
an outer room, ami on entering wets bis)
head and throws hot water on the heated
itones until as much steam is produced as
he can bear. Then he mounts as high on
thu benches as he finds comfortable, ami
the perspiration issues from every pore.
Next he takes u sort of broom or bunch
of dried mint or birch twigs with tho
leaves still on them, which is prepared at
the proper season and culled meenik. With
this he thrashes himself till all impurities
ire thoroughly loosened from the skin, ami
finishes with u wash-off in hot water and
map. Then taking a kantag, or wooden
tlish, full of ice-cold water, he dashes it
over himself and rushes out into the dress
ing room.
This last process is disagreeable to the
uninitiated, but is absolutely necessary t'
prevent taking cold. I have know n cases
,)f acute rheumatism brought on by omit
ting it. The dressing room is spread
with straw and always communicates w ith
thu outer uir. Thu temperature is often
many degrees below zero, but such is thu
activity of the circulation that otio dresses
in perfect comfort notwithstanding. A
warm dressing room would bu insuppor
table How the Money (Joes.
Money toes, no ono kuows;
Where it KoctU, no one showuth;
Here and there, every where
Hun, run;
Hun, dun; .
HK'nd, hm'Ik1;
I nil, lend;
Senil, semi;
Flush Uxlny, short tivmorrnw;
Notes to puy, borrow, borrow;
How It Koes, no olio knows;
Where ft goetli, uo one kuownth.
To-Dav,'.