THE MIDDLEfiUKGlI TOST.
T. II. IIAKTER, Editob ard Tiio'k.
MiiiiLhtiri;(i, vi.. .voir n.iKMii.
It is now m'kI that English syndicates
have ppcnt $50,000,000 in buying up
profitable American properties.
Ilecent statistics show that ii inn million
Germans live outside of the Fatherland,
tf whom seven million arc to bo found
the United States.
in
The choice of Pierre as tin1 iiital of
South Dakota has given the town R
wonderful boom. Men bought lot for
flOO and a week Inter sold them fo"
flow).
The Idlest Itritish annexation consists
of Humphrey :inl Il'iewm Islands, in the
South Pacific. They form part of the
M:i:iil'iki group ami lie north of Cook's
kiil the Society Islands, and to thy north
cast of Samoa.
It
lias often Inch reported that the
ii iiiiny is largely composed of
I'.tili
uti'I rizfl boys i 1 1 t -. 1 of stalwart men,
lc.it the returns tlx not bear out these
statement. Of Jo'J. TCI im ii only 1 1..V.K!
me under iiim ti'i'ii years of aire, while
thii tyfoiil pi v rent, are over live feci
tight itn hi s in hei 'hi.
The man aing i
ib-aiing linn in I,
once saw a h -adint.
luv
l.y
dupii'-ntc
I'. I l d till
li.lplie.UC'
Kn i tur of a t I ;jf tea
.otidon t.(t. ) that he
broker in that city
ixtytcas, ranging within one pen.
n i i 1 in value, hi iuhed up in
the I-'1 iots nuuilii red ami
he Ihen (licking out the sixty
without a single inNtake.
James liniT, author of "The American
f'oinmoiiwca'iih," l is been .,uei f ;- liliel
l.y A. Oakiy Hall, once Mayor of New
Vol k, fur con hi it ing hi in with 1 he Tweed
rit.g. linili live in Knglnnd. 'l!ie com-
'. on Hit in -hidi s aliout twenty pages cl
tiii hook, thai being the .pace, devoted
to an article cunt lining the aliened libel.
I)
Trained dogs for military purposes
live answered so well in iJcrmatiy that
.milar experiments havii been made in
Au-triau iirmv. Pointers. shcp dogs
in
dog
timi,
1 poodles
g V.iil (
nurd
"ss:i
One
nut V.
over a di'.taiic
;.::! ;i.' mini
are t:,e
HIV m
lepot am
dog recently
het lined", and tin
's ami nmniuui
perl'orm o;itpot
l a til' i;;i
i i::lit nidi - in an Hour
'i:i.,av I ;'. C 1:1 I ranee is ii tin means,
to '. i aelal a a lew years Yiirr
In Paris cannot fail to no. ice how many
iimre ..'.lip- me shut on r-'unlay alter the
curly morning and nmv the first step has
l.i-en tiikeu toward Su.nlay ict on the
railways. The Paris-Lyons Uailnay Com
pany rceentlv decided unanimously til
give their employes in the goods station
it holiday, and intend to gradually intro
diiee similar reforms int other branchc
of the service. In nil probability the
other lines will be obliged to follow suit.
Indeed, fume of the Northern l.ailwny
dlrccl"is have already pronounced 1:1
favor of Sunday re-1.
The
. ; ii'iioits telegruii'.dd from
I'.UI.ipe, in which (he assertion WW lnw
that the oil wells of the Caspian district
were rapidly drying up, is now pin.
liii'.lliceil il s.ock jobbiii;,- canard. "1'lie
statement was made w ith great po-itivc-i.t-s
that the supply of oil nas diminish
i ii mi rapidly that the Uu -i in linvirn
un lit contemplated pioiiibitino; its e.
port, and that the shainers which an
now H.siiu; the oil exclusively for fuel
wolihl not be able to do so much longer,
on hit; to the threatened hii;!i price. Je.
spite : lie positivi ness of the statement
they seemed to hae no cli'na mi Ameri
can prices, i vide utly l.ecmise the Slandatd
()il Cui.ipaiiy keeps ili-U'.itlui.ly pi -'ed on
the leal situation.
If
tin ,
an a.-
V. I'll n
ectirate
for
sweeping over
V;ehi.iLt..:i Tci-rl
tie. N"w Vork ;
di si riptioii of the
two montiis have
Montana, Idaho
Itoi ies coi
I
ofCt
unil
nud
I oe written,
it would
iiiive a si
it 1 1
II
to ee
most cm
tin s have
an.
ami
I fas
iry so thrilli;
in inter."
iiaiitim; ii i i ii. J. i i .
been so extensive.
CXI
'it.ii
Th
n 1 1 : :i
iioll the
forest
no .errib':.'
ih strui tive that the beat informed
oioneiT looks at you with blank imiae
nu nt when vou ivipiest him to place in
figures the value of the timber destroyed
or to jriv! an estimate of the loss in the
Territories. When it is known thai in
one day the lire swept through Montana
over uu area of ion miles in length mid
eighty iu width, timi that for weeks the
flame have been lining similar work lit
dilTerent points in a country stretching
from the eastern slopes of the Kocky
Mountains to the waters of the. Pacific,
ouie vaiji.e, indetiniti) idea of the rcnt
destruction of timber and other property
may be gained. Where but recently
stood tall ami stately pines now black
ened stumps and bald and nsheii moun
tain fronts " ted eve
The way to get rich witli a rush Is to
HO slow.
SUNSET.
Slowly on 11 ftttalnminit or dfivi
The day (tins cut far In tlio ilarkeninj WMt;
Leaving the earth, lUgol.len ting complete,
To mu an hour away, then sink to rest;
Dark wirth tlia heaven yet touched with
minuet (low;
Urightnew above, an-l huslixl, lubmlssive
ralm below.
.liiMieil i the world of toil. In evory p'.aj
A wealth of lie. -.ling silent ni doth II".
Or soun U more atill than nilenej fill tliospaefl
I'.enenth that far intiiutv of sky;
And w.ftly shinm thfl evening star on ona
Whosn il.iy lis sp-iit, a ehronielo of thingj
UlllI'llK.
Even reeret, In tin's e.ilm air and mil 1,
)"iirs little of in wont. , I nnnish oYvji:
Ono lon ilrawn breath of orrov, as tlio
ell, 1,1
I'roludi.s a snd, sw,"t sinking int osleep, "
flien pM-e. yighl ipistcm lef.at nuaiii;
I'ut what was I, that 1 should itruglu and
attain?
Mury t'onWie lW, in fie Atlantic,
All's Well That Ends Well,
IIT IIKI.KN fOltnt;T firiAVE.
."Old folks will be old folks," said
Myra Manton, "nml th best plan is t
let 'em have their own way."
"Oh, ye, 1 know," said Lona, !ap.
inn her hands. '-Ihit that old L-.'horn
hai, with the crown like a stove-pipe and
the front like a v ash-hands basin I Who
ouhl tolerate t '.nit f And everyb dy
la i ;)is when sir- comes into rhiireli."
"I.et 'em lauLih," shrewdly u. nuked
Myri. "I'd be willini; folks s!iould
laii','h at me if I was worth thirty tiioU'ind
doll. .is and owned tin: Uliveti .Milis iuto
Hi- liar-ain."
Myr.i Maiiloii was "hiiod help" nt the
r.liven rami a stout New Ku ;l inder of
lifty summ'.rs, with hair rut short, no
visible waist, and snapping black eyes.
I.e.nia was old Ali-s. Jl. h en's iiiee.. n
slim ;;irl of i-i-.ht en, v. it'i a bilsam-piiik
eomplexioii, di-einiy i.iy eyes, and tej'.ii
white at.d ev il as hiii iII r:irls.
In the eyes of .l imes Itliveii, tho old
lady's son. I.eona was fairest of all created
bein;:-. JCvcn Myr.i .Wanton allowed
"that she w;.s sorter nice to look at!" As
for Mrs. Iliiven h-rs'df, she cxptescd no
oiinio:i whatever; Mr.-. lUivcu was not a
person who talked much.
"Siii-'s come to make, me a visit," saiii
Mrs. liliveii one day to Myra. "I siiji
pose, if .;' suits me, I .shall ask her to
-lay l'nr fjooil and all."
If you don't, I suppose Jim will,"
said Myr.i, with a shrewd twinkle of her
eyes.
"As it happens, I'm tin nii-tress of
this hoii-e," s-i. M.rs. llliveti. "Well,
we'll -ce how she suits."
And leather Myra the solid, nor L-nn-i
the sviphlikc, knew, as they hM on the
uiishiny doorstep, siii in;r yreat, red
heart. "I peaches to lry for winter use,
t lint Mrs. llliven, from theoarret window
shove, whi te she was lookillL' over her
icar
"llislud
basket.
balls of carpet-r is, - iiill distinctly
every word they uttc.ed.
"Myra." said I.eona. as shit rep!
Inr pan from the ure.it bu-he
"!'m u'oinu to tell you .omet bin.'. "
"Till ahead!" sueciiii tly ret-jrte
Myra.
"I've u'it such an id"a !''
'.What is it :"
"Vcll, one of mv schoolmates at Han
over Hall had u i;randiiiother. And her
oramliiiotiier had jut sueli a Noah's Ark
of ii bonnet us Aunt llliven."
"Humph!'' said Myra, peeling ilili-'
gently away.
"And hh and her sister took a pair of
bit; shears and snipped it up into little ;
bits nnd made the urandinother believe I
that the rats did it."
"Must have been a credulous old tree
tur," observed Myr i.
"Oh. no; but it was really such a neat
job. ). in t you think, Mvra, we miuht
di tpo-e of the old Leghorn hat in some
such way.'"
"No, i don't!" said Myra, spearinj n
peadi on the end of her knife and begin
iiin' artistically to remove il.s pink-vclvtt
jaektt.
Leona sighed, and went on with her
vork. Myra Mmiton paused to call her
frolicsome little terrier off from a brood
of half-uTown turkey poulu who wero !
fora.'im; around the barn door.
"I do wij.li," she said, curtly, "that
Cappeu John Jackson hadn't sent me that ;
plaguey beast to take rare on till he come
back from that voyage to Fayal. If he I
hurtu nay of the fowls. I expect Mrs. !
illivcn'll murder inc.'1 !
"Myri,"' said Leona, "are you really
engau'ed to Captain John Jackson "
"l!et out!" said Myra, with a sheepish
smile. "1 ilunno whether 1 be or not."
The next day Leona camu into her .
aunt's room with a pretty black ami
white straw bonnet, trimmed with a jet
li iuker and loops innumerable of black
ribbon.
"Look, Aunt llliven !"s thl she.
"What's that ."' said the old woman,
turning her spectacle glass m fn on ti.
girl.
'l'v! been trimming a bonaet for
vou."
"Vou might have saved yourself th
trouble," sharply spoke the matron.
"Hut don't you like it.'" pleaded
I.eona, who was beginning to tremble, all
over.
"It's very nice, dire say, but I'm
very well suited already with what I've
got."
"Hut, Aunt Hliven "
" Taiit't worth w hile to discuss the
nailer," said Mrs. Ulivcu, drily. "I
iileulate I'm old enough to choose for
myself what I'll wear mid what I won't!"
Leona fchrank into herself like the
Ijo bok a soon m they prR)!y can
spare Iiei and I'm to do the housework
while she is trone."
Old Mrs. ijliven sniffed discontentedly.
'Seems to me people arc always havjn'
accidents." said she. "However, )Ytt
may go and pick some Lima beans and
sweet corn, and we'll have a diihof jjood,
old fashioned succotash. Myrn is a good
cook, but she never could make- succo
tash. And in the afternoon wo'H hnve
Toby hnrn'-ssed up and tlriva over to
Widow Sally Smith's to tea."
The long shadows of afternoon xvero
lying athwart the closely mown grass
when old Toby was lert to the door, and
Mrs. Biiven called loudly to Leona to
bring down her bonnet and shawl.
The girl, who had no especial funcy
for the society of Widow Sally Smith
and her hard voiced dntigliters, listlessly
obeyed.
Hut the moment she opened the "best
bedroom" door, where the old lady kept
her choicest treasu-cs, she uttered a shriek
of dismay. There, on the floor, in a se
ries of jagged strips nnd indistinguish
able debris, lay Mrs. Hlivcns's famous
Leghorn bonnet!
"Goodness me!" cried a shrill voice,
"what's the matter?"
And Leona became conscious that old
Mrs. Uliven had toiled heavily up the
stairs, and stood close beside her, peering
over her shoulder. Her face grew black
as night.
"Oh, Ann, niiven." gasp-d Leona,
"how could this have happened?"
"I see through it all, plain enough."
said Mrs. Hliven. "You needn't trouble
to tell my lies about it. Leona Parish! I
j h 'ard what you nnd Myra were talking
j about yesterday morning about the old
i lady and the bonnet that was snipped to
pieces nnd th" blame laid on rats. It's n
I very saiart, ingenious plan, I don't
I doubt ; but somehow it don't suit me to
have sti'-j Very smart, ingenious folks
' nboiit my premises. So, if you plea.se,
, I'll dispense with the rest of your visit.
Tlio hor-e and wagon are at the door,
nn 1 little Pefr will drivo you to the do
pot ns soon as ever you've packed your
trunk. '
"Hul. Aunt Hliven, I never"
"I told you I'd havo no mere false
Iioo m," sternly interrupted the old lady.
"I don't know what sort of consciences
you girls have, in this ago of the world.
15" silent. I say, and obey me."
And thus, in all the bitterness of un
merited disgrace, Leona was turned out
of the house, that was beginning to be
unspeakably dear to her.
James I!!iven, when ho came horr.2,
was thunderstruck.
"Mother, for heaven's sake," cried he,
what is this? The girl has no pluco to
U'o to."
"I.et her go back to the bonrding-
hool hc came from!" said Mrs. Hliven,
sternly. "I'll have no double-dealers in
this house!"
'Til go after her and bring her back."
"You'll do as you cdmo.se," said tin
old woman; "but if Leona's the girl I
take her to be, she won't come with
you."
A sudden wave of dcspiir swept over
James's soul as lie recognized tho truth of
th"so words.
"Mother," he criel, "you'll forgive
lc r! You'll send for her to return for
my sake, mother''
Hut Mrs. liiiven shook her head.
"X girl that isn't frank -hearted nnd
true cau have a homo here!" she reiter
ated. Yet. in spite, of nil this, the house
seemed strangely desolately without Lo-
ona s Itgutstep nnd winning smile.
Late at night thero was a loud knock
ing nt the door. It was Myra Man ton,
come I nek.
"Things is all right," said she. They
was frightened more than they wits hurt.
Absalom Atkins always was a coward,
and I ain't goiu' to spend any mora o' my
time foolin' with 'em; so I've comeback.
Was you surprised when yon seen Wagtfy
was gone? The dog," in .answer to Mis.
I il i ven's puzzled look, "that Cappen
Ja "kson left in my charge. When I seen
I lie mischief he'd done, I jest ketehed
him up and left him to Cappen's sister's
Mary Ann Jackson, nt the cross-roads,
and afterward it occurred to mo you
might miss him a:id worry for fear ho waa
lost."
"I never once thought of tho dog,"
said Mrs. Hliven, impatiently.
"And the bonnet?" said Myra. "I'm
powerfully sorry, but "
"The bonnet!" said Mrs. Hliven.
"What do you mean, Myr.i? hut arc
you talking about?"
"You don't tell me you never diskiv
erel it?'' cried Myra, bursting into a
laugh. ' "Well, I do declare. What did
you s'pose done it?"
"Hone what?"
"Why, worried that 'ere Kpgiiorn hnt
o' your'n into ribbons! It was Waggy,
that's who it was! .Pups is always mis
chievous, nnd I think he's tho worst I
ever seen. I meant to told Deacon Ship
man's boy, that helped me to tote, my
satchel to the daypo, to explain it t' ye,
but we was pretty nigh bein' left, and
flurry nnd llastcr driv it all outcu my
head."
"Mrs. Hliven stared at Myra.
"It was the dog, after all, then," said
she.
"La me, who else did yo suspect?"
cried Myra. "Where's Leona? I fetched
home some o' them puce-colored poppy
seeds and n slip o' rose geranium for her,
i 'caused I knowed Goodness, what's the
! matter with you, eh? What uro you
. looking at me that way for?"
Hy the very curliest morning train
James Hliven went after Leona, with a
I letter from his mother imploring her to
return to the farm:
"I'm an oM woman." wrote Mrs. niiven.
but I ain't too oM to own when I've been in
"ItV dreadful becoming, " taid she,
with complacent glance at the looking
glass, "and berenfter I mean to get yon
to trim All my hats for me, Leant.''
Saturday Night.
Tim Seven Itihles.
The seven Hibles of the world are the
Koran of the Mnhomedsns, tho Tri Pit
ikes, of the Buddhists, the Five Kings ol
tho Chinese, the Three Vcdas of the
Hindoos, the Zendavesta, and tho Scrip
tures of tho Christians.
Tho Koran is tho most recent of the
five, dating from about tho seventh cen
tury nfter Christ. It is a compound of
quotations from both the Old and Xew
Testaments, and from the Talmud. The
Tri Pitikes contain sublime morals and
pure aspirations. Their author lived
and died in the sixth century before
Christ.
The sacred writings of the Chinese
are cnlled the Five Kings, the word
"kings" meaning web of cloth. From
this it is presumed that they were origin
ally written on five rolls of cloth. They
contain wise sayings from the snges on
the duties of life, but they cannot bo
traced further buck than the eleventh
century before our era. Tho Yedss are
the most ancient books in the latiguago
of the Hindoos, but they do not, accord
ing to Into commentators, antedate tho
twelfth before the Christian era.
The Zendavesta of the Persians, next
to our Hible, is reckoned among schol
ars as being the greatest nnd most
learned of tho sacred writings. Zoroas.
ter, whose s.-.yings it contains, lived and
worked in the twelfth century before
Christ. Moses lived and wrote the Pen
tateuch 1500 years before the birth of
the meek and lowly Jesus; therefore, that
portion of our Hilda is nt lea a KUG
years older than the most ancient of oili
er sacred writings.
The Hildas, a semi-sacred work nf tin
Scandinavians, was first given to thf
world iu the fourteenth century, A. L
High Observation Toners.
The Knglish speculators who have pro
posed building an observation tower in
London double the height of the KilTcl
tower in Paris, nnd similar to it in plan,
referred the mutter to M. Salles, the as
sistant of M. Killed, for mi opinion as to
the practicability of the scheme. M.
Salles is popularly supposed to have been
the active engineer of the Liliel structure,
lie has condemned the Knglish idea
very probably being biased by his connec
tion with the Paris tower, which would
hue its prestige, if a higher rival should
be erected. His argument, as reported,
is this: That we are ignorant of the
force of the wind at varying high eleva
tions, and that there would be difficulty
in transport titer material above Klimfict.
"As tJ the tir.st point," says the Knyt
nttriii'j mill Mining Jnurnnl, "the argil
nteut is weak. It is mainly a question of
leverage, not of absolute wind power.
As to the second point, that of transport
of material, reference to what is being
lone every day iu deep mining would
show that there would be no ilillieulty.
The whole thing is (.imply u matter of
business. If the passenger tolls would
pay interest, running expenses, and prof
its on the enormous original outlay, the,
tower can be built. Kngineering nowa
days is ready to face almost any difficul
ties when a profit cau be shown."
rortLAit SCIENCE.
r.w.v brad sorr. 1
Take the lis-T-which w, ,v J
..... 1 ' has Ihyo
snu skim lit n.f
- w ti . i ruin .
"
1
ile Clifi
1 o.
-
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A' Cincinnati scientist thinks t but In
At years all tho telegraph wires wijj bo
Biado of aluminum.
In the recent autumn manomvers In
Germany the fortifying of an intrenched
position wlth bsrbed wire fencing wa
found to bo very efficacious.
Voightlander, a famous optician, of f
Germany, perfected a new lens whicKl
gives a rery wido angle, working with r
large aperture. This invention makes i'
possible to uso tho lens in very confinnc
situations, such as rooms, for groups, o'Olll
ingle portraits. t
Tho Zoological Society of London ha i
Just receive a white pencock. This bin
preserves tho markings which distinguisl
the species, particularly tho large eye
like s(H)ts on the tail feathncs. The effect
of these stiots is most remnrkablc. The'
are exactly like tho pattern ou u damasfOlll
tablecloth.
Anew candle lias been brought out
.:.. :. ..! i ... 1......
nii.ii iTA.iii.iiuun HACK 111 nil mini . i
This it does by means of an extinguish.lCWj llandKCrcLlcfs.
of tin which is fastened in the wax Up liml fino (JUillitv
wires and which effectually performs itin fin!, .ni f!
ask. It Is only necessary to remove th""' L1 and Kid
diminutivo extinguisher when its worOUSj JfirgO 810CK of
is done, and tho candlo is again ready t)lidAV COOtls of everv
burn another hour. 1 .. a i "
i, i t, . it. , positively not lo un-
Professor Ha.en of the Signal Off! J
ho lias been stopping on tho mountai.
relieves that he has found the explanutbst fllVOrS, J WOllld TO
of the extraordinary velocity of the wiu continuance of pa
on top nf 3Ioiint Washington. His id I
is thut the great gulfs below compress t
atmosphere, which, seeking an outK
rushes up the sides of Mount Wuxhingt
and sweeps over its summit.
A correspondent of Komi nnd Strtl
reports observing n true. Southern ml
ing mm ns i.ar norm ns lorty iegv
nortn latitinle. j nat oncer murine y- -m w -m f m r
nml, tho Portuguese man-of-war, xrt II 1A T tl . tf f
2.50 to 15.00
2.2j to 10.00
1.50 to 3.75
3.50 npward
3.00
1.00 to 5.00
20c nn
'Joys Caps from 5c up
liaw " 10C tin
H
s1 11
In 1 nT iiniv TT
M 1 U W
I I Millie
for Stoves!
Li (
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., ri tor.
Iicavt
XcwSuns
of '89.
Crown Cir
lutor
How Ye
15-imu Where the 1'lres Kage.
Professor Jones answer (in nn Knglish
newspaper) thu (piestion raised as to
whether tho tupping and drilling of the
earth for oil that is k'oing on in America
is dangerous or not that is to say, likely
to let out the internal tiles of the earth
to play havoc with the surface fur and
near. Ho compares the earth to a bal
loon floated nnd kept distended by thu
gas in thu interior, which, if exhausted,
will cause the crust to collapse, nlT'jrt
tho motion of the earth in its orbit,
cause it to lose its place among tho
heavenly bodie i and fall in pieces. An
other writer thinks that drilling should
be prohibited by stringent laws. Thu
scientist says an immense cavity exists,
and that here the gas is stored; that a
milu below thu bottom of tho cavity is a
mass of roaring, seething flame which is
gradually eating into thu rock floor of
the cavern and thinning it. Eventually
the flames w ill reach the gas and a Icrrilic
explosion will ensue. The simile of thu
earth being like a balloon ii not very
solid. Why not weigh the earth and
settlu thu ipiestion of solidity Thu
scientist cau weigli the sun and moon ;
the figures aru long, but thu result
is worth thu troublu. t'rwcica
Argmnut.
The Former's Pen.
I was talking with n Treasury official
on the subject of forgery. "Did it ever
occur to you," said thu official, "that a
Jorger bus half his xvork done when hu
cau get hold of thu identical pen with
which thu owner of the signature habit
ually writes A great many men, bank
Presidents and the like, use the same
pen for their names only for a year or two
without change. A pen that has been
used by a man iu writing his name hun
dreds of times, nnd never used for any
thing else, will almost write thu name of
itself. It gets imbued with the spirit of
thu signature. In thu hands of u fairly
good forger it will preserve the character
istics of thu original. Thu reason for
this is that thu point of thu pen litis been
ground down in n peculiar way, from
being used always by thu same hand and
for tho same combination of letters. It
would splutter if held at u wrong angle,
or forced on Hues against its will. It
almost guides tho sensitive hand of thu
forger when ko nt tempts to write thu
uamu." Pall Mall Giuette.
found last summer KlIKI miles or nn
north of the seas it is usually routined "
The invnsion of this one by thu trop
is a peculiar feature of the year.
Dr. Armaur Hansen, n Xorwegi
savant, recently visited this country, it
iu Wisconsin and Minnesota examinee
- . ..... . l l : .
iiiiiuorr oi icper.s who iiiiu i-nngrai hbJ
from Norway. lie arrived at the in tl
cstnig result that or mil or such enngra
the olTsiirinir had remained free to t
third generation. This, the author ?
lieves, shows emphatically that lepr
is not n hereditary disease.
In all of the London streets which
lighted by electricity the gas-lamps In
lieeu retaincii reatlv lor lininciliato u
Whenever the slightest interruption
curs in the electric lighting the police
duty iiiiiiiediatclv proceed to light all
gas-lumps. The gas thus consumed
cliargeil to the clcctriclight cinmmn1
and deducted from the rental paid by I
city for the usu of its lights.
An Austrian savant has obtained a 1
Vest of 4001) sponges which are the res
of ao experiment of litcrallv sou ing sio.i -i-v m ti ..t , I
parts of living sponges in ,,'soil favor,," Jl?ed h T KoaM-l
to their production. The Austrian JA-" U" UllUIIUU. Ul 1 TlIrilllTjr
. : . I -.1. .1. .... . 1 0
ei mucin, is in in ii pie.iseii wiiu me expijjyQ ft
nieiit, w hich is to be repeated on a !n
scale in Ualniatia. The cost of the KIT" Q1
which havo been glowing for the vLJlliC Ul Q LUV CO,
three vciirs. is it little over J.W eve
thing "int hided. w rntes. Also the very beft qwlit;
The belief that smoke from soft c'
may have bcnelicial sanitary '''', OUtillff 2i SpeCialtV,
ginning ground. It is claimed that "vwiimji
sulphur in the coal when burned been;
. i i. i i:
suiiiuruim nciii as, u .veil miuwii .11
feetant. Further, that creosote nnd
allied products are thrown oil with fu
of bituminous coal, and that an atn
pheru charged with carbolic acid must
freer from germs of disease than nil
parently purer air.
tlMAD
IF 1899
Ali
Chemical Transformation,
ohol, one of the best known i"
leaves of 11 sensitive plant ; shu crept ! the wrong. L'imw buck, ami I'll KuaranUs,
hack to her bedroom with thu rejected
triumph of homo madu millinery, nnd
had a good cry over il.
Presently she heard her aunt culling:
"Myra! Myra!"
Shu ran out.
you anil ins won't havo any more quarrels.
Leona came back, and when once again
shu crossed tho threshold sho was James's
promised wife.
"Mother will bo plensed at the engage
ment as I am myself," said thu young
"Oh, Aunt Hliven, I had forizotten to man. ranturoiislv."
.ell you. Myia had a telegram from her , And Myra's kind eyes shone a cordial
ister up at Portland, and shu had to run I welcome, and Mrs. llliven herself camu
o catch the 10 o'clock train. Her sis- ! to meet Leona, wearing tho simplo straw
er's husband has had au accident, and I ; bonnet with tho jet dagger nud tho bluck
iromised her I'd explain it to you. She'll 1 ribbou bowj.
The Coldest Spot and Coldest Day.
Tho coldest region iu tho United
States is thu stretch of country ou the
northern border from tho Minnesota
lakes to the western lino of Dakota. At
Pcinbiua, which lies near tho forty
ninth parallel, thu lowest tcmporaturo
recorded In tho great storm of tho winter
of 1873 was fifty-six degrees below zero.
This is believed to be tho lowest temper
ature reached iu the Uuitcd State. San
hrneitco Examiner,
.liicts of chemical industry, may scrv
evidence to w hat degree of perfection
composition and decomposition of die
cal compounds has been brought.
the chief constituent of intoxicating 1
crages, alcohol, together with carbi
acid, originates by fermentation f.
sugar; but this is not the only poss
way to produce it. Thu brightness
electric lights, by which public; pin-,
roads, stores, etc., of our cities now
illuminated nt night, is emitted by.
electric current passing between two .
lion points. When such a pnssag.
electricity takes place in u glass ball
tilled with hydrogen, the electric cur'
causes this gas to unite with carl
forming acetylene, a gaseous compoi
which iu contact with more hydri
readily takes it up, forming a second g
oils compouml ethylene which is
chief light giving constituent of ill
nating gas. Kthylene, when brought
contact with sulphuric acid, fori
liipiid combination, and this, a
treated with potassium hvdrate, is
verted into alcohol. Having thus 1
up from its elements a sulistauce forn"
known only as a product of feiiueuta,
we may proceed nt oncu to decompo:
again into its elements. Wtt can
regain the carbon which it contain
heating alcohol with sulphuric
which again converts it iuto ethv
nud this gas, when mixed with chl
gas and lighted, burns away, lea via
bon, which, ns a dense black smoke,
the vessel. Popular Scimee Monthly!
BARGAINS
IN
iowin,
AT
IS., Selinsgrc
heart good to go and tic
Finter
IUrd Seed from Morocco.
liird seed forms a considerable ite m in
thu export trade of some of thu Moorish
ports. This seed is never town npa'rt by
thu Moorish farmers, nor is any special
attention paid to its cultivation, f It is
sown with whuat, and when u-aped ) Hud
thrashed it is separated by thu country
women in sieves. Thu reason of tlids
practice is that there is a general super
stition among the Moors that iu very wet
seasons thu wheat is iu part converted
into bird seed, and hence they sow the
two together. Of course, if they wero
sown separately tho crops would hu much
moro abundant and thu quality better,
tho soil in many parts being especially
suitable for tho bird seed. Ijtndun
Time.
It is no sign that hen meditates harm
to her owuur because she lays for him.
-AT
Ooo
J
Jiscolored inside that sliotu:
ivill not cleanse them, fill the
Inely chopped potato skin-,
ind let thu bottle stand fo"
when tho skins wilt fernn-n:
mul rinse. Tho bottle will
and cleau as when new.
In canning tomatoes peel
toes and crowd them into i
them down slowly. Put n l"
oottom of a boiler and set w
tho board. Kill the hil,r
miter to half the height of tl"
ing the tops of tho cans ou
ting them remain until
toiled twenty minutes. T-''
hu cans, and if thev are no1'"
I t water and seal at once.
Wuterinelnn eopila were
.teyptian tomb that wa
ixiiii., auu i uui Mini' nan iiiuuu h..iui. .u
disturbance occurred throughout ths day.
Iinlce I, Urn luelc of enthusiasm which gen
erally characterize the Anarchist gather
ings was tho chief fuuturo.
unu uii;mi cuvtoiifc. ma utsy iuiui. vuv vim
lull shoulder, tlw second piercuj the heart.
As 8wosi full he tlrod the second shut, the
bull entering Uoodloo's ilo uu:b, producing
a futul wound.
I..IW bUItt ... .bWVV4.
The natives desertod the villages and Hod to
die hills, wher they are ife from pursuit.
Other cr.sej of cauniluliitu oa the bland art
ceported.
the second column of the expedition, which
lea Vitu iu t-eptoiuber, in command of liar
rou liorchert and Itust, ever Joined Dr. Pe
ter's Bdvanctj party.
bad : 1X1 miles to t uvel, but only reached
KoUom aturduy evening. Thu last 7 miles
between Trinidad and KoIs jiu occupies three
days.
hovvfvor, not ibiigerous. Mrs. t'on)1'
American. The assassin imiiilia,,''1'
blmsflf. Hu wa a tumvio vv'io
been UlacharjjJ fr j.tj tUj po,ic to