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THE MIDDLOUliOII POST.
T. H. IIAllTER, Km roB Ann I'ko'r.
M:rni.f:nri:, p.t., .m.v. a, imm.
It is believed in In li.i, China, nml Indo
C'liinu that a cobra that iseipes mi attack
from a man iill cvciitu illy rcv ngo itself
tijKin its n-;iil;in, whatever lie may do o
luT' vcr In- nmy go.
A Spanish steamer brought to V-v
York recently eighteen Portuguese who
urn; mi their way to t 'u'.iforni.i,
where they int nil In in ik' w in" after
r-paiii.-h methods. They were will sun
plied with money.
'I'll'' cvpei inn nt of amalgamating the
Indians with the surrounding p jui j.-i i n
in Canada and inducing tlcm to adopt it
settled life has hecti most successful in
Ontalio, nnd in nil rases the tribes show
nn im reuse ii tiuiiili' Tli -rc arc I'.'l,
fiv.) Indians in tic I minion.
A vi II - know ii I.mii l hi journalist, red.
iing the fact ill .1 tin ordinary professions
iu llngland arc grc.i'.y on rerowded. is
liming his chlc-l -mi i m -it I to lie a
cook. The 1 ' i y h is In en trained by n fa
mous i lief of the Grand Hotel, I' irU, and
later -rivcii for three jem to M. I'lir.r
pect ii r, c'nef of the Savoy Hotel, Lon
don. '11." 1 1 1 1 i : 1 1 1 ..team -hip City if I'ati-,
which sailed fr i:i .Mcv York for l.iwr
ji.miI ire. nl 1 , i arried more than il'HI pas
engi r.-, i m I 1 1 1 i i t!n.-i! in the steerage.
Th" :i .'cut 4 of the i--i l s.u',1 thai thU
was the lai.;i -t number of pa-et,:;ers to
h ave New York on any one vessel. A
gnat many of the p.:se:i.;er.s were pcr-hon-
who wi n', to Ihiglaiid to sp Mel the
hoi;, l., .
Tie Atli'.ta i"iii.v''.'.',.ui thinks Pri
vate ( i ict '.ry II alfor I a very sensible re
former. At a iiic'tiii'i r, ci ntly held in
the Washington Mount Vi nnm Place
Methodist church, Mr. Hnl.'or.l iisk''d
niil for the street vwiifs. 1 ! said I hat he
iiil been a newsboy hiius"lf, ami wanted
to d sonn thing to in lp ami elevate the
bojs. J led id not believe in the theory that
!o'l pennitte I pun r.y ami eiliii" as a
airt of grind-tone for men, ami so long
ns t!ie pooler rlas-cs remained with us he.
thought it, was imr iluty lo ail theni.
riorlil.i will noon In: the greatest lemon
growing country in the world. Lemons
weighing a pound each aiv common in
I'lornla, ami along the hanks of Culoo
sahntchie Hirer there is a single tree
in Li h hear.s .'i(i')i) lemons, Many of which
weigh a poiiml each. I!i,l , except for
how, Mirh larixi1 lemons arc of little
Value, a-, the y are 1 1 ar-e-Lriaiacil ami
pulpy. The In -t leiiceis arc l.io n mi
pM' .soil ; :m l for tha' reason they are
u very pr.,!it i'li crop. Tiiis conii'ry
i i -in u - in.ii-e lemons every year thaa
all i'thr coin.t rii comliiiieil, n:i,l tin'
-i in-.ii,, i it ii u i-. c in-tan! lv incrc'isin,'.
I WHEN THE SON OOE3 DOWN.
Though tha morning may iMxIranrf,
Anil tha itay t long anil weary,
Thnti(h the rlomU ma j drkl7 lower
Anil the torn pout flercoly frown
shall quit forjtPt the iihailow
That have lliijfnrwl in tha mnt'lowt
If there tie a roIiIimi hour
When the nun gmn down.
What though fnlnimr ho oppo1
What tlmuKh thorns nhtitout the roww,
Ami the crow Imlxirno in aorrow
That we carry to tho crown.
Hr ami hy we'll iviwo to wamlur
An, I we'll ret forever yonJer
I f t here ilnwu a hrixli t to-morrow
When life' sun hihs ilown.
POLLf'S GHOST.
Ink. The chair wm sitting i befora the
tablo at if aome one had Jut bean writ
Inst, ami upon tho hearth wcrd frcah em.
bcrn. I
"Mrphoat h ccrloinlr A aenoiblo crea
turehumanly in," wtfil Polly, an alio
aeateil hnrelf in tho rhnir ami beepm to
iook nverino Jwpers on llictaWe.
Thcro were many note ami acrups,
mcaninijh'M nml dinjoinieil, but finally
nhn ranic to a jncket containing rpiito n
lengthy tnanuscript, rhinely written,
much fohlnl nml rltijrcrod.
"The fhost nn nuthor," Polly,
"ami hia manuscript hni been rcjenteii.
'Proveil unavailable to fur foliunni.'
Poor fellow I AVell, I hull real hi
atory if it be one. The plot thieken.
Think of being nble to reail a ghont'a
atory! One that the eye of mortal hm
never bcheM !"'
She bei;iin to read, turning tha leaven
ovrr Mowly nt lirst, but irivlually lirr
eyes (lew over the chmely-written page,
tlui worils nml thought were filling her
with nn interest tlmt ithe hml seldom felt
in printed page. The mystery of it all,
the M muteness of her position impreaiil
tiiinnselve upon her, wrapped themselve
about the utorv alio wan reading nml in-
I tensitied her intercut in it.
I The rain beat upon the roof that was
iust above, the light shown but dimly
i tho one small window that
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I ccniotsAcui
Pretty Polly P.is, hill nat btilt upright,
her riil luowti i urN falling in rich con
fusion about her bare white throat, her
brown eye n wide a if hu hud not
been in lied mid asleep for hours. The
lamp wn turned liw, a she had left it,
and hIioiii: with :i dim, noft radiance over
all the richly furnished room.
Polly stared about her. The (hairs,
the table-, the little tiuaintlv cal ved stand
by the window, and which held her j
l.reetiiitj i.tl.rflt.. I... !.. ..II ... i
slw. 1, i.l 1. I, , Wl,..' I.i .1... . ""'""g'.l tho
have I.,, ,,.' Smhienlv her eves f-ll ,,o "'n",i . "'""! " lm """J of. '"""I"-
the little k ouare door iu
alwive lt,e I.....1.
'ti- I ,i I . I I Ii ll i" Nl-'" H'llel.
". I L'ini-t at last, s.inl 1'ollv, einsi). 1 , , ,
in r l r .,-etiv tun i , i. J... ,f ""'' ' 'i" v.i niiaTi had not been
- t 'i;, ill' I, .-lie
NMOo .l a moment in lirealhless silem
t ii "" ""i 'iioii 11 loni; nrrny 01 imineiops.
I at reading. She finished ut last with
but, hearing no repetition of the noise
whi. 'n ha I awnki lied her, sic sprang out
uch a stick, ' she said; "if alio had not
said such Mi;T, silly thiiu;., one could
feel that the Moty wa jier'ert."
of bed. Mil on herstloners ..,,,1 .l,-,..i,. " "x '' " 'IP triOUgllt.
goun. tf,re,v some bit'sof woo 1 upon tlw 1 1 W1" 'i" ' ' ""V r
siia.iowingcmberv.aiidlurningouttl.el I ' "i '; -vcnb. I .I...1I
lamp .-hes,.. don for-the lire to await i,r-V' , m" , K "P.
the..,,,-,, whose coming she h,, been 1 I''"1-'''1 ''i'' l',''i and chair just a ahe
ii.i'i MMiiei i i,, ,11, ;ill'l I I I'pi IIOWI1 iiirougii
rxpcctiiig for lo! these many days.
Tie- I'aseh.ills, father, mother and
d iu.;i,t,'r, had moved into their present
abode to av.ait tlui erection of their own
house, -ind upon the very first, day of
their coining Polly had pu d the little
secret door," lis slid called it, ;;nd sv.
Iccled t his for her room.
".lu-t think of the pos-ibilit ie for
the little door into her own room.
The next day Mis Paschall Hiirprised
th" fa-hionalile -tationeron the corner by
or b ring a whoh ream of "foolscap,,''
ltieliar.l l'ioiint opened the door of his
bare little "st.nly," put down the urin
;l lul of wood ho was eurrving. and knelt
loi.i leec, : she sanl to ner father, and he , 'town up m the hearth to kindle a fire.
took It, and for n moment neither 'poke.
"I fear I cannot open thia little 'trap'
door for you from this aide," ho nahl nt
laat. "There la a long hnll which lendi"
over your houo to the ono gr.indinchet
nnd 1 occupy now. Come, I will tnk
you out that way. I come nil the way
over here o that my light may not dis
turb grandmother nt night. If vourown
apartment are near this I fcir I have dis
turbed you," he added, a ho held tho
door open and she passed out into tho
narrow hallway.
"(), no," alio nnswered; "I think I
have only heard you once, nml then I was
so in hopes you were a ghost."
'So you were caught by that little
spring lock." said old Mrs. Ulount, when
they iiad found her and Polly'g presence
wn. explained.
"I remember being fastened in tho lit
tle sipmte room once," said tho old lady
Very gently. "It was when I was a
young girl nml here on a visit to your
Aunt Ellen Hichards. Your grandfather
induced me to climb through the littlo
bor, nml then ho fastened it behind me.
Ila called to me that he would not let
mo out until I had nrotniscd to innrrv
him. I stayed in nil night nml half tho
next day before I would promise, though.
Hut come, Kichard, we will take Miss
IWhall through the little aide door of
the library and she will be nt homo in a
liniment," suit theild lady.
"There wa n time when I wn in
hopes you were a ghost, too," Kichard
said to Polly, n he held tho door open
for her to pas through.
"Why!" naked the girl.
"So that I might hope for further as
sistance in writing my stories," he nn
sttered, with a snifle.
Xot many month hud passed, how
ever, before he was telling her that ho
could not writ without her that he
could not live without her.
"Well, I suppose I must make the sue
rifico nml marry yon, Kichard, dear,"
Polly answered, "if for nothing but to
preserve you from manufacturing such
heroine. a your first ln-foro I redeemed
her. "' Uwklh it Tinun.
POPULAR SCIENCE.
iid.
safe from lnort i!
but pilosis stand
had gotten upon the lioii.seee;iner .s step.
ladder and found tin; door fastened lend
nml fa-'.
"It is all -.ile," he
"i, I want il to Ik
hatni-," Pollv -.,1,1;
Hot I, e k for holts and bars. "
"If it is a ghost you want," said her
father, "you may get it. 'J'iiis lcci-e l,e
l uis to one (,f th" oldest, and at one
time til" wealthiest, families in t lie State.
It has stood here for yens, nml has
known in my t h ujoes, and, 1 piesiime,
could tell niMiy stories and perhaps give
up a :;,,ol many ghosts. 1 rented it
from a -wcet-laced, grand looking old
lady, woo live somehow mid somewhere
in thus,, dark up irtinents next door lo us.
I think she is the only surviving member
of the nohle family whose glory and
wealth have departed. .No. I beiieve
she told I;,,, that there w as a liov. her
graiiosoii. v
Hie w hat he
Ile was wli it n casual observer would hnvc
called an ugly limn, but ho had a good,
well-knit tigure, a lino head and strong
though irregular features.
There was a tired, troubled look on his
face a he sat down at hi writing table
and I, -tit his i.eid upon his folded hand,
lie was weary in mind and body. His
days had always been ilays of toil, hi
life liad liecn one long struggle. AVith
the heritage of n good iiuiiih that had
come to him from hi. forefathers, thero
had cini" from his father a legacy of debt
which he had been striving for years to
pay.
"My task is almost done," he said to
himself. "If I could only get my story
accepted! If I only knew how to mako
it go! I feel sure there are good thing
in it, but if I only knew what to make
the girl say. When il fellow's acquaint
ance, with women doesn't extend beyond
io i working nt she told I a knowledge of his own grandmother he
s, but I don't remember." can't have a very clear idea of what n
IIoa interesting!" exclaimed Pollv. ! young girl conversation would bo like.
A great outcry his 1 n raised in thi
.Swiss Canton Tcs-i;i against the preval
ence there of bribery at elci lions. The
political workers arc coiistMiitly racking
thi ir brains to devise new ineain of buy
ing votes. The Mayor of a small city
near Locarno recently, while running for
re-ch rtioii.iitvitcd every man who would
promise to vote for him to cat and drink
at his expcii 'i' for three mouth at certain
specified taverns. The success of his
plan is .sho.vn by the fact that, he was re
elected and that bis bills at the t iverns in
ipicstioii iiiiiouiitcd to J.-'mH). Votes
bought in the old-fashioneil way cos;
from twenty cents to Ti each, liven the
ilergy nre said to bribe electors right
and left.
(Juelion are often nsked about the
relative slrene,!'.! of the various religious
bodes. Here is a table of statistic ,
gathered by th.' I.th rt mlt it' from the ile.
iioiniii.it ioaal Year books and otlcr mi- !
tli,,i It.itive .sources:
Cit M r 1.',,, .l'','.,, I.Vinlf
A,!venti-N l.'il i s.i !oo.nI ,
l":n.;ists IC.C.'l e'.'.lit; l.llT-..'iS;l
t ill'isli.,11 I'llioll. l.."i,HI ,"iOO r.'ii.ikio
I ', n.ii', ,4'iti, null .t. ),.V,:i 4,'.'s:l ('.'.is
I'm ml- i.oit I'H'i.'.no .
ti'iin'n l! aiii lieal !','." ,"sii I'.'.'i.om
I.lltlli V.'.lll- I l.l.'ll i'ssli-sS
Men,,,. h.ts .M'.i'.su :.".i.t;o t.;:i.s-i
Mi nn, Hi, i. s -IM JiH.mM .
.Moravians !s 1 1 1 It, .'l.l j
ri-.-lyterians. . ... lo,:ill !.;; 1, 1,1.11:1
llpiseopaliau- ,'i. I'd t.inj t-Y'.i'.W j
r.ef,,r,ne.i 'j,o.-.s :v:
Human ('utiioiie. 7,1-t 7,'.K',ii 7,s,.Vi,'.",i4
I niM r-ali-ts. . . . i'.'I I'.sl IN.Tvl .
New .lenisale.ii... 100 . li.Ooil ',
I'liitai'iann e-l 4!1 iVI.T'U j
Total i .'. TiiT ii-4,:cj :.'o,'n;r,:i:o
The increase, as shown by these figures,
is ST'i, SI 05. The notcworty gain were
us follows: Ikiptists, 1(M','J0; t'ongre
..atioimlists, IS.Oai; Methodists, 'J l.Ii.VJ ;
Prc-byteriiins, 4U, i'JS ; Kpi.scopnlians,
l'.',.","; Komati Cutholii: population,
( 1 5 5, ',".11. Tl'.e Society of friends is thu
only one reporting a decrei'su in liiciu
bership, but iu keverul o'lu-w the.'c u
little change.
"I inn sure I shall liml a ghost."
Ihii so many uneven! lul months imd
J'll-se.l since s Use, need her.-ef in the
l ii that she had almost birgotlen to
expect a ghost until to night, when a
iioi-e i.s of slippeied ieet. walking ovil a
hard, bare lloor h id awakeiii'd her.
Sin- - ll torn longtime, he- eyes fixed
Upoll the little lio ,r, expecting every
liioceio l!i,; a gho-tly Icin.l would undo
tic hi e'e n lock, and a gho-t'v folia
would emerge lioin t iie .in! km s lieyonil.
l!u! - her maid found her : till sitting nml
fa-t ii-lci p the next Inoiciug when she
came t, , an nk' n hci .
"My pretty 1'oliy will have a glooinev
.lay of it, 1 tear,'' said her lather when
lie his-, , her good bye. "It Is i.iinin ;
in torn i,;-; "
"i, that is deliohtiiil," said Polly: -I
shall have a good, ipiiet, lay, dreamy
day of it, just such it day as one should
have after an episode with a ghost."
" Yours was a very tame cpi.sode," said
her mother. "I should want something
feaily exciting."
'Xivci' you fear.'' said I'oily ; "last
night's ia pcricnec was only l!:e beginning
j.l-t the prelude, ns il were; the excite.
Ilic ,t is yd to come."
Though the ruin palle.-eil .soothingly
up, hi the windows, and the warmth nnd
glow within were o,i,lueive to day
dreaming, Polly soon found the bonis
id idleness growing long and tedious.
"I shall try for Hie hundlith time,"
she said at last, "to see if I can open the
lit t ! - door, w hich 1 urn sure leads to my
gh..-:;"
I'oily was light and giir eful and agile,
so to scramble from Cue back of the big
( hair to the top of (he book-,' was but
the work of a moment.
The little dour which was sunken i i
the wall above was of black o.tk, richly
toy. red. 1'oliy searched il closely to see
if she could lind any possible way to open
it. Sud, h nly, almost bv chance, Jut
! Well. I'll try oii"e more and sec what I
; cut do with it."
! He picked up the MS., which was
folded carefully nnd still in tho place
wh'-re he had left it.
slowly he turned over tho first few
, page, listlessly leading them.
Suddenly he held the paper up close to
'.he l imp. The handwriting had changi.il
! There was no break in the story, but ns
I." lead on he found whole pages which I.e
1 h i I not rit:en, and gradually it dawned
no "ii him tii.it theii m Mil ion were giving
his story a life, a sparkle that it hud not
had bi lo'.e.
Who can have done itJ" he said,
when he had finished. "No one know
oi this den but myself not even graml
iiiotlu r."
Perhaps it i n ghost come back from
out our pa-t grandeur," ho said with a
.-mile, "nnd a very witty ghost alio is,
too," looking at tne beautiful womanly
I writing that wa mingled with hi own,
and I feel deeply indebted to her for
her interference."
I "Well, I shall send the story off again,
and, if it is published, that will make
' my assistant show up if she bo not a
ghost iu very truth." Jie said, Iry-nud-by.
A Shoeless Crowd.
Seven ladies and eleven gent?emcn
were landed from a Pullman palace car
iu Cincinnati a. few morninu since with
out shoe to their feet, ami this is how it
happened On the Pennsylvania west
Imund express out of Pittsburg in tho
evening there wn an unusually heavy
travel from New York, and at Pittsburg
it was necessary to attach mi extra
sleeper. Tho porter selected for the run
was an eastern route man, and he discov
ered soon after tho train left the depot
that an old friend of his wa running on
one of the regular cars ahead. The por
ter nut, exchanged salutation and
agreed, after gelling all their people to
bed, that it would be a good nchcine to
polish the passengers' shoe together in
the forward tar nnd spend the balance of
the night in a social chat with intervals
devoted to libation from a pocket Mask.
The porter of tho extra gathered his
people's shoes together in n pillow case
three Parisian petite pair owned by
young ladies of Cincinnati cu route homo
from Europe, four pair of matronly gait
ers and eleven heavier pair of various
style nnd sizes, belonging to the men in
the car. lb; took them forward to hi
chum's car, each shoe carefully chalked
with the number of the berth, nnd the
two guardian of the slumbering passen
gers had a genial time together, so pleas
ant, in fact, that it wa nearly daybreak
when it occurred to the porter of the ex
tra that it would be well to lake up iiis
people's shoe ami get back to hi own
tar.
He went back, but hi car bail van
ished! To say that he turned white w ith
astonishment would l! no exaggeration.
The Cincinnati cur had been sw itched at
Columbus, mid the Cincinnati passen
gers shoes were spinning along ut fifty
mile an hour toward Indianapolis, on
the St. fjouis section of the Yandaliti ex
press. The M,rter felt the gravity of tho
situation, so Inr as he wn i-oneerned,
nnd at the next stopping station he dis
appeared rapidly toward thu casb with it
pillowcase full of shoes over his shoulder.
The passenger did not discover ther loss
until the breakfast hour, and the comical
surprise can better bo imagined than de
scribed. They leeched their homes in
carriage with slightly soiled hoisery.
I'h iltulclph ia Jiirtu'tl.
"I have brought you the magazine
containing tin1 new story that is creating
such a furor now," said Polly's father to
her one day.
"Nobody knows the author, but I am
told he ha made the hit of the season,"
said Mr. Pa-a hnll.
"t)h." said Polly, significantly, when
she had cut the leaves. That was all.
She we:,: up to her room, taking the
magai.iiie.
"I believe I shall pav another visit to
Inv ehost s aoai'tmetit . ' she w:iul wlii.n 1
she had finished rending the story.
So saying she scrambled up on the
bo.ik-cnse, opened the door and went
into the room be' ond. Her dress caught
on the door as she Missed through and
linger touched a little spot iu the eve of I nulled ir lo wiih n click. l'.ef.'.i',. !,..
one ot the i u ved griliins, a spring clicked ; h. time to try to extricato herself she
heard a key hist rted into the lock on the
oilier side of the room, tho .loor opened
mid a man walked iu. Polly leaned
back against the wall startled, fright
em d.
The young man stood holding the
door in his hand and a startled ex-
the door Hew open iu her face.
Polly gave a scream and sank down
Upon the top of the book case. She
waited a moment; no sigh, no sound re.
fii! ted from her sueccsslul cll'ort nnd she
stood up nnd peero I through the doorway.
(irailiinlly, a her eye become necu. i pivssion in hi big gray eyes,
tomed to the seini-diu kin's., she began to ! '-How how ilid y,',u get here?" he
distinguish the object in the little room asked u'ruptlv,
beyond. Tnere was a little case of books, ; "Through he little door here," said
a large sipiare table ami ono chair, big Polly, breathlessly. "It ha shut to be
and cosy and comfortable looking. j hind' me. Oh, dear, I thought you were
Polly's father had always called her a 1 a ghost." ,
"plucky" girl, and now shj hesitated j ..-, I think it is you who nro tho
only a moment, then stepped up through .-host," said tho young man, with a
smile.
the opening into the room beyond.
It was a very small room she found
when she had gotten in, and tho only
door that led from it wa locked. The
books on the shelves were old and rusty
looking.
"They lolong to a dead generation,"
said 1'oliy. Polly turned her beautiful eyes a mo-r
mi .lie liiiue were papers, meet alter , m uitup tolas good, ugly faeo and held
I'.ieet of tnanuscript, pencils, pens and out her hand to him. Ho blushed M ho
"Won't you open tho door for me?"
snid Polly, recovering herself.
Tho young man camo up to her.
"You are .Miss Paschali," ho said. "I
have heard my grandmother f peak of you.
Mv name is Itiehard lilount."
How Tcnplu Halls nro Made.
All the world is now cither rolling or
talking about tenpins. The balls arc
made of lignum vita1, which grows in
South America. Tho tree grow to be
fifteen inches in diameter, but tho out
side of the wood i not hard enough to
make a good ball, and only the heart of
the tree is used. The largest ball usually
made are eight inches iu diameter, whilu
the smallest one are four inches. Twelve
balls constitute a set for one alley, and
they are worth from 11.5(1 to i:1.5() each.
They urn turned in a lathe by a tool which
liio"es in a tiuo circle, nml will luako u
ball from an inch to a foot in size. The
block of wood is net in a chuck, and ouu
end is turned into a hemisphere. It is
the.t changed around, and the other end
presented to the tool nnd the ball is
nearly finished, needing only to be fin
ished with sand paper and polished, all
the work being done in the lathe. The
balls get out "out of true" from use, and
they have to be turned occasionally. The
pins are usually made of maple, nnd are
turned in a lathe. lincln tter J'utt-Ksjirt
Electrical Frauds.
Those electrical machines ut which you
test your strength on the oidewalk nro
frauds. Tho moving of the hand on the
dial ha no coniicctiiiu ut all with the
measurement of the amount of electricity
which is sent into tho system of tho pa
trons by tho withdrawal of the core from
tho soil. Tho hand on tho dial is moved
by a spring in.Mdo tho core which tho
fakir works as ho draws out the core,
so that all bets paid on tho relative
amount of electricity people can stand
front these machine are off. This is a
piece of news contributed confidentially
by an electrical expert. Ut. .Louu Star
The average human life In Home,
under Ca?sar, wan eighteen year ; now it
ia forty.
A Russian mineralogist, K. D. Chrust
srholT, claims to have li.scovereil a new
metal, which he proposes to naino "Kus
ium." The largest Incandescent circuit In the
world is forty-five mih's in length. Th
company working it is situated nt Ot
tawa, Canada.
No fewer than 1810 patients bitten by
dogs were treated at tho Pasteur insti
tute in tho year ending October 31.
There were thirteen deaths.
According to the eminent physiologist,
M. Happey, tho stomach contains 5.000,
000 glands by which tho gastric juico is
secreted, nnd a few others which secrete
only mucus.
To the perfumes of flowers M. ln
gerer ascribes tho power of protecting
ngainst, nnd even arresting, consump
tion. In the perfume distilling town of
La fira-sso lung troubles are but littlo
known.
Tho elephant skeleton set nn in tho
' front ball of the Madras (India) museum
is ten feet six inr ilea high, and it has
been stated that this i the skeleton ol
the largest elephant ever killed iu that
country.
Oil for locomotives in place of coal
will, it is stated, be largely introduced on
one of the English railway soon. It i
probable also that, petroleum refue will
be used for fuel in consequence of the
high price of coal.
A complete list of tho flora of New
foundland and Labrador, in preparation
by Kev. A. C Waghornc, will contain
about nine hundred specie of flowering
plants, fifty ferns and over two hundred
und fifty mosses and lichens.
Surgeon are finding constantly increas
ing opportuniti'-s for making use of elee-
j tricity in the servico of th"ir profession.
It 1 sanl to be ad numbly adapted for tho
treatment of neuralgic pain, nnd its ap
plication in chronic, cases is very beueib
cial.
Among those who have worked out tho
problem of procuring alluminiuiii by dcc
trolysis M. Minet is one of the most suc
cessful. The electrolyte used by him is a
mixture of from thirty to forty jn-r cent,
of cryolite with from sixty to seventy per
cent, of common suit.
Dr. Bunion Sanderson foresees another
divb'ii.n in science. He observes, iu a
biological paicr in the Kritish Associa
tion, that morphology and physiology have
now ili verged so widely, as regards sub
ject ami method, that there seems to be
danger of a complete separation of one
from the other.
A new stylo of horseshoe has been
patented by two Wisconsin men. The
shoe is made in sections, with clastic
cushions between nnd rivets connecting
the sections, making a shoe in which
there will be a vertical yieldiugof Fpring,
avoiding shocks or jar to the horse whilu
traveling over hard pavements or roads.
A new moihi of teaching music hia
been proposed in France, based on the
periodicity of the octave. A radical re
form is aimed ut, the system being ex
pounded in a scries of fundamental prop
ositions such us musical effect is ipiitc
different from acoustic effect; there can
be no physical gamut, a major and minor,
but only one, that of the white note of
the piano called the major an 1 so on.
After the lamentable experience of thi
country, it is interesting to know that
there i a part of the world where the
buffalo is not only not dying out, but in
creasing in numbers. Vast herds of these
animals tire now running wild over cer
tain district. of northern Australia. The
ii ii i ri in I m are said to be massive and well
grown, with splendid horns. The first
buffaloes were landed at Port Kssington,
tueensUnd, about the venr IS".",).
Counterfeiters.
Counterfeiters, unlike most other classen
of "crooks," are drawn from all ranks
of society. Many person of worthy
antecedent drift into crime almost by
accident. A line engraver, for instance,
iu a moment of thoughtlessness, tries his
hand at an imitation of a Government
note us a mere test of skill. Success in
deceiving his friends, perhaps by way of
jest, gives him a dangerous impulse on
ward, and in an hour of weakness the
temptation to uso his powers for bad,
und find him a ready victim. The same
insy bo true of n die-cutter or metal
worker who makes a matrix for a coin
even for the adornment of a bit tif
jewelry or a un advertising device. The
policy of tho Secret Service has been
uniformly to discourage everything of
tho sort. The statutes of the. I'nited
States on the subject nre very i weeping,
and their interpretation by the :ourts
correspondingly broad. Where there i.s
plainly no fraudulent intent a person dis
'overi'd making anything which could
possibly be mistaken for a (iovcrnmeul
coin, or note, or bond, or slump, or, in
deed, for any part of one, is (piietly
warned from headquarters to cease. If
thu work is finished it is ordered de
stroyed, and on non-compliance declared
contraband, and confiscated. This often
seems like a serious hardship to innocent
makers of fancy goods, but the majority
of them yield gracefully enough when
the principle underlying the rule is ex
plained to them. J'ithtitirij J)mj'ih-li.
Darnnin Opposed to Pahy Shows.
illinium has been successful in every
thing ho undertook, except baby shows.
Ho ingeniously :oufeh.se that "baby
shows" were the hast satisfactory. Wheu
he announced that n committee of ladles
had decided upon tho baby of so-and-so,
ho was invariably received with a storm
of indignation from uinety-niuo disap
pointed mothers, who (making common
cause) pronounced tho successful littlo
one tho meanest, ugliest baby of tho lot,
and ho and tho committee got roundly
abused for their stupidity and partiality.
Itanium could stand a great deal, but not
tho tears and reproaches of ninety-nine
disnpoiuted mothers aud ao ho will no
liavo a baby show In Loudou.- London
Court Juurnal.
John Kink, of JennerTon,vt
una a colt, which when ;. " v" l H
weighed 814 pounds. D10n,1'
Lockjaw resulted from the !
reived by a hoy at Pittsl '1
truck In tho bark with sr. .. , 1,0
Tho camel is used sneeessf n . ' I
perior to tho mulo for !k,'?n,.i,,'rlsl
The Government at preH'tit i. .
frlgold piece it ,LrX
-m,umo,,K.twecnthirty.sVe,--
There is advertised fur ...
tcrshiro. Enirlinil. . ,.i . " "'"H
a lease which h... IT it J. ' l,roP"J
It was made for 0(1(1(1 ... ... ... "l:
I rank C rone, a wealthy m-r, K .
Krie County, Ohio, has hP(,n
his sisters trraiulilnn,,!,!... . rlw
is sixty-flvo and the bride twty
Thero has Imwt, ilixon... i. .
C,d,thestu,pofn.e,p,oiaU.hK;i
feet from tlm ,rr, I . " ""4
.... . ... ,, ,,e;,sr,,, fn 1
feet in diameter ami 1:c. i. .. "I
fere nee. ""0
The owrator of nn electric ( ,lr p
idinr rivnisiii1 ........... .
i 1 uii'-iii v,rv mi,,u
and the iron work l.eetn,; , '
i.mi, iu passengers ree,,)lhi ,
vere shocks. '
John Slinro. of n,l, i
...ie.,, lllip ,1
tn ll'kVd l.((.ll mn.n., I.... . ,
, : iu i.n mn,;.
4lay he Was accident ly shot j t ;;
nnd badly hurt while' hunting wj;, t
keys for the wedding feast. "
The soil of Hrailfonl i,.,.
said to impart a pe..ulir g 't ' J
lM'rrirs.inakinir them l,,k ... if . ... ', .
and giving the berries a beautiful v.'
I tin i It is .In.. il.. .'I' .
Vl " i me siuea in tli,
A Pocahont.is Cm nt.- , u- v.
i .i.: ...... .. v ' "
in me swipe oi a woman in w , ,
: t ..i. .... ... - ' 'v
ingil "en SIUCK Hill Of reviilv,-, lr
out to be nothing but the i,.w
tree as thrown against a wall hv a .;,
lamp.
A iifm.i. .!t.-!.. . .
, , .Mirt!i:i,-ti(,
w Aurun, wmo, wiii nttr-n-ti'ti tXrM
ILIHUMrOl1 t I in n I.
i.i t .. . " l
MM-.U u urn. investigation n vt-v - j
met tlmt tlio tiniiAii...iio..
unman; pnospnorcsccnt ilisjil.,v,
A line drawn from the ectitn
i i ... .i... . ..
ne.-i in in,; eemre oi un.. Kri,Jt t(J
fallen tlie ".Meyer a line. It -li,,,:
the range of the feet is scarcely M,:tj,
same in two individuals, and, tli,:
iu rxpcci a ut irom uuiiomi u.
poet the impossible.
Martin hnrsou, of North 1),; 4
stumiileil ami fell while walking ar-s
piece of land from which mhu,, n-j.
ItusIi hail just been cut. la f.
1 I.:- .1. .1 e ,.
ipeiii'u ma lllliuill Ullll It'll nn ,i ,:n
I. ..... I.... I V! 1. .... . " '
Hi"" ten iin-iies IllLJll. I He j, , , q
tercd his brain ami he did nli;. j
htantly.
John Peyton, of Maine, was :ijr:-',
ns healthy a man as there wuini
State. Ho was sitting in a clmir vleti
friend camo up, spoke to him, ltd
slapped him familiarly on the .;A,'jc.
IIu died instantly. The nutnjxr'W
no evidence of heart failure or icilw,
anil ttie causo or Ins death is a v.,w,.x
C I.. Alexander has on exhiiih.iK
his store in Madison, X. I., a ur; j
lect little specimen of the tiiuir :-.x.
presented him by his friend. Vi'iljl
j.iiuo linn, it came tortti I rutin
ta
- :::.-t
:, I. i'tl
iir .ii (0
foot artesian well twenty mil,
of Howard. This well, it is
with a wonderful force, ane
small lish freely during the
summer.
A limit two venrs iil'o a nvir Irs
burst the burl; of an oraieje tr e .it
burn, Cal., all around i ear the & si
and it subsequently fel' i.;T. In,i.:.i
space of from eight to tivi h ii'ii,
the tree without any bark. Stu
upper part of the tree lived nnd : i "
i . ... , r..
nun i unity lo-nay. Hearing inn:,
fact of a tree living niter being
pletely girdled is proluh'y u::;t
dented.
V1ij 1IKM) Is Not h Le.il Tor.
Tho following explanatior. uill l"
you why the year 1100 will not hn u:j1
among leap years : The year i
o hours ami 4'J minutes long: elivicu
utes are taken every year to iiulr
year .'IJ5J days long, mid every fo
Vear we have un extra day. flu'
Julius ('ivsar's nrraiiL'eineiit. Y"1:
ask: "Where do these eleven nJ:
come from?" They i-ome frcin w b
ture, and are paid by omiuiiig l 4'
every 100 years, lint if leap
omitted rcgularlv every ion yai, u'
course of 400 years it is found thi!
eleven minutes taken each u .ir "ill
only have been paid buck, Im!
whole day will have been given up
Popo Gregory XIII., who improve!
t.'iesar's calendar iu 1SS2. di i ro'1'-
iery centurial year ilivisihle
vli...il.l l. u 1.,.,.. V.,... fi..r .,11 ye
borrow eleven minutes each i-.ir,
than paving our borrowings In
(.lilittilnr tl.r.xi I, ,... w ill ll.rt
; ,s - r j -
tlll'iiil veurs. ikli.l 1.. to lire lil.-lt t cl'S i'V
' - 'I - ,
ing a lea) year iu the fuiirtn ('"
year. Pope Gregory's arrattU't-''
so exact and the borrowing I"-'
back baliiuced so nicely, that v.i'
more than we pav back to the ii''"1 '
onlv one duv in MSdlS veins. Sf, "v
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JUl'iiblic.
A lleinarkahlo M ar Ilisb'i'J-
It cost Thomas S. Townsiinl
eight years of labor und iS'''''A"
111. ,1.1, If ti ..o. .tl.il., fl.,,1,1 lli.LVSll
.......l l, LUlllj.llU (('(.( ..t,-', (
lllrioil Ii'mIs. itml from lllltUllllHi
und biographical records, a lii''1!.'
the late Civil War. It covers the f
from 1KU0 to 18US: comnriM'
100 volumes, iinii enntuins CO.'JOO
Mr. Townsend paid 5000 sold' '
1 I...11.... fr.illl
lit. vrnpupi I uuu puril'lllt-ili" 1
tii niu.l.i lit. (.It., tttn.ru The c03-r
lilaces thu vnliiu of the niIUftJ-"
15,000, und among tho men '.
testilied to its worth were (Jem-nil W'
General lleaureganl, Willi:"" J
t'.rvulil niwt tit.. I'..,,,,., .to I'liris. U
fV - lfnftk'V
dueed a bill for the purclui
library. jtev J vrk Jvit.
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