1 ilat- and o you this rbrms who sends, , Love, th best of friends t 1 you scot-n this waif oIiODg bo loved la silence loaf, - mel then be cmol thoo, Indian M$ send young Cupid home ajjata t nd he who love with love forego Benauso Lots'i (rtt reply U Ko t I Sat, flwetf heart, when tills mcMAffa liu D(-nNtb the hesroas of your eyes, And looking Into them above, Whispers the soctet of my lovet Be kin 1 1 pray be kin 1 1 pray Bemerahrr Yalntln, tils day, When he who lorrt mny lovo confess And hop" to hoar Lovi answer test F. D. Sherman, in Harper's Weekly. The Valentino Ho Sent r.y dim a a. om:n. KitnxARi) r.nxT- lw.v, tho young nrti-t from tho city, b n ut e li c (J down Lis cmiviiv, strapped his iosel paint-box nuil cn tu p-s tool to K tin r, nnd strode toward home, or towafd tbo Trum Lull Hotel. There w n s n black snow-cloud wit,l wn slimm ing up sharply, and in.cllc-liic lroZen fperks wero beginning to prick Lin cheek. F.verbody in Trumhnll knew nil about liim. It wni known that ho was a rising young landscape painter, that Lo wo handsome iu nppearnnco but unpleasantly citified iu mnuner, and thnt ho was taking dowu in oils the February aspect f Lemuel Park' creek crossed meadow; uUu, that Lo wore gloves every dBy, ntid possessed - diamond studs iin t smokjug-jticket. Th llnkeswtro commit dowu fut mill thick now, nnd their stinging j utility was increasing. Bentley pulled his collar up nnd his Lnt down, lowered hi head uud Lur ried. Tho Trumbull Hotel was not Itvxuri .oh, but it was preferable to a Febru ary snowstorm. It wo:i blinding. Ho pushed uroinid a corner force fully. Somebody was turning the cor ner from the opojito direction quite as forcefully, uud Vent ley dropped Lis burden. Sit ting at Lis feet, in the prone attitude to which their violent collision Lad forced her, was a girl a you ug lady, Lo raw with hcrritlcd ctb and a young lady with tho most charming lace, framed tn n soft, pina Lood quite tho sweetest face, it scemod to the young artist, Lo Lad ever seen. J uxt now tho faco was red an to tLo cheeks and angry ns to tuo eyes which lil not look ut nun. Veutley stood with both nrm3 con fusedly extended, but Lis victim took neither of them. Sho got to Lcr foet deftly clourd, and idiook the anew from her bluo dross energetically. "Are you hurt? criod wio young . man tha, helpless . nurT ot all dia- f 1 ' ' , 1 , .,.- w tuvit topanit. ' "xne snow flew between them thick ly, but it could not dim the prettines of her flushed face. What blooming ripcucsB 1 What a complexion I "I don't need to A.y that I didn't mean to that I didn't e.-o you I" Ventley gasped. Tw fearfully eorry f" Bhe bowed coldly. fcsho was lot king toward a gmy, col), webby article tosing merrily over the mow at come distance. "Your veil I" Vontley cjncalateJ, lie rushed after it. 51b iu the west, thu I luThe wind whipped it from the pot v 1 wafted it before him. TLero wi It now ? Ifo w as in full l but It Lad di.sapjieared. u otley ground Lis U.ttu. What . she say now J" Uid not sy anything, fiho wai o when he got back Sho was her way up tho street, Lot t blown wildly, both her vned hinds to her fao;. u. watched hr iu a Ulisirrable went into the po.itoQce. dozing , lord of theTrnmlull Hotel, the hurr. ofllct", waa astonished at hoarder, sno1 cutraiico of Lis Ik's He citsi w-covcred and excited .P"'loh ardcr, wLoia general vratic ed with bi ing arista- iS txVtf a beamed his welcome ' -o paused, open-mouthed, at v pn ry with liich tho youag uxnix uurst forth. "Who's tho prctti -st girl in town?" .Veutley demuuded. 'liless my son! I I doL't kn-jwl" eaid tho hiudlord. "'I'shaw 1 haven't yon got eyes in your head?" tho uitibt tpjestioued vigorously. "Why, she's a beauty, man I I saw her ju.it now and knocked Ler down in tho snow," he confessed grimly. "Who is she? hh 4eut in to tho postulBce. Does sha do any thing in the posto&co?" Ho bent over tho tturtled old person lmoxt fiercely. "Wy, Teeny Wilson," ho faltered, in alarm. "Teeny Wilson she's 'tend ing to the pootoClce jest now, while Ler aunt's away; great-euut 'tis-f Mis'Demuing; widow, ahe ia. tihe'a l'en post-mistress here fer going on twelve year. They con put in any Presideut they want to, they can't put Mm' Demming out: town wonlluH Lev iU Wai, Teeny she's staying t li ova ta'lttlii fib 1 Viirtirt ? r rwm Aha " "Is she pretty haudsyne hcauti ful?" his boarder doruunjud, hotly, "Wol, Teeny 'h pretty good-)ocI in?, tuo lutuiura aamittea, witu a dry moderation thnt exasperated the irtibt. "Wai, I guess the young men thyik so, nuyhow. Teeuy'sgot plenty Indeed I" uli bestley, aavagcly. D dL5 not wall for too test. He strode np to his room. Once in It, he pat on the renowned smoking-jacket, and lat down to think. t Bat calm refleolion was mpflt im possible. Teeny Wilson portoffl&e beaux. He m Ler charming, in dignant face wherever bo looked on the walls, the carpet, the ceiling. Bach a faoe I A girl with that face could be nothing bnt sweet and chever and good. Where had he ever iQen one like it? The actress tho city had been raving over ttben he left was a simpering doll beside her. That etatnesqne model so admired bj the follow in his artis tic circlo was an expressionless iceberg iu comparison. And he had knocked her down like any clowninh booby. Ape I Probably she wouldn't look at biro again, even if he could manage to meet her. lie bus, eh? Pooh! lanky, raw-boned hobbledehoys, fctill ahe might like them probably ahodid--nndoubtodly she was engaged to ton o of thorn. Ho got tip, at this bitter termina tion, and tramped almut the room with a heaviness which startled tho landlord below. ' Tho poptofilec didn't ho need eomo pontage-stamps? Ho bad Ins overcoat hair on before hi sterner judgment prevailed. hew I it was auowing furiously ; ho would get lost in it Ho poked the fire and lighted his lump, in desperation, nnd his dis tpjioted eyes fell suddenly on tho cal endar on tho wall. February tho twelfth. Jl'tn His enthralled heart bouudod. Jly George t ho would, anyhow. They were going out of style, he supposed, but that was all right ; she wouldn't inind thnt. Ho would make a handsome one, n stun ning ono. Thank goodness that ho brought hi water colors! Good I He would take all day to morrow, if necessary. Licmncl t'arks s meadow was under the snow, anyhow ; ho couldn't go on with thnt He w hisked his paper aud colors out of his trunk, drew out the table, rubbed back bis hair, executed a round divuco in the centre of the room and wcut to work. Tho yoiyis! artist from tho city walked into tho pontofllce, two days later, lute- in tho afternoon. It was a delightful uay. ilw snow which had hurled itself down two days beforo lay while and still on everything; the air was pleasantly keen and bracing. Ventley's chueka were becomingly reddened and his ejes alight. Withal, thero was an eager flutter, a pleasant agitation plainly visible. Moreover, ho was resplendent in tho finest of his rainment silk hat, satin-faced overcoat, heavy stick and broad-. titched gioes. Ho advanced boldly to the little gate which lad to that division of tho pOFtotUco behind the letter boxes. lie took Lis bat in his hand, smilingly. Thu ncrson behind it turned from L?r Assortment of a pile of letters, and came promptly forward, with a tmile ouuioing a is owb , , i . . .1,1 in little -ACL..y Person. What shapo she had was' lost in tho folds ot the green-and-black shawl which enveloped her shoulders;, visibb below this was a rickrack-adorned apron. Bbowus the possessor of a fat chin, cheerful, beady little eyes, and o tightly-drawn knot ot hair not much larger than a walnut. Delight and benevolence beamed from her face. "Vou're that painter from tho city, ain't you?" she said. "Wol, I've jest b'ea wanting to sy! you. Now, why haiu't you b'en IntcJore? I says to Teeny I thought likely you'd bo in by uca cr so. Wai, I don' know 03 I was ortr so tickled in my life aa when that thing covM, I jest got home this morning, anl there 'ttfue, a-waiting for me." She shono upon him. Ho obRervod the leathery tint of her complexion and the large mold on her chin. "I picked up the box and looked at it iur the post-mistress,' says I to eeny, 'Now, wat on earth's that?' hen I not it oen. Wai. I never saw iiothtug like it beforo. 'Ton ever soo anythiug like that. Teeny?' aaya I ever? -No loony halntuoUhor. "Wai, we kew right off who sent it 'Thero uiu't but ono t!iat oonld do it,' says I. 'And that boy from tho hotel brought it, too,' r.ja I. 'It'a that artist thit's staying taure,' ears I; aud Teeny sho said ho, Xoj. "WaJ, I'm tioklnd to denth with it. It's tho prettiest thing I ever did soe. How you coul 1 'a done it I don't know. And mo a perfect stranger, as I says to Teeny. I hang it right up thero where you soo it, ana I showed it to everybody that's b'en in," s:id the pottt-inihtrotu, in congratulatory tone. There I I ain't half done talking about it, but there's them letters got to bo sorted. I'm jest as much obleeged as J know how to be," Mrs. Dcmming declared, cordially, as ahe returned to her duties. The young man stood where she left him, staring up at hia Valentine, w here it hung on a nail. It waa in trnth exquisite a charm- njt design, finely executed, of a frosty I valley, a frozen river, a snowy moun 1 fnli taau; farther down the sheet, a sum roor field ; and, in a modest corner, thu time.houored design of an arrow liiorood heart, with some pretty, re membered verses beneath It ltd artist uuzod at it in blank 'wretchedness. llo got out Komehpw. The day seemed to have darkened. It was hard to sea tho humor of the affuir, though he dimly recognized it. He was quite miserable. He had not kLown thai he had been to hard hit; he hud not rUzed that he was al- tkfi sweet -faced Trnmbnti girl be had up set in the snow, and to whose great aunt he bad sent a valentine ; bat he realised it now. Welt, it was all over now. What a balk from beginning to end I Hia heart thumped angrily. He would go home to-morrow. Home was the only fit plaoe for such an idiot ! He thrust his bands into his pocket and fairly rushed in his vehement im patience1. "Oh, don't, please not again 1" somebody eaid, in a meekly-pleading voico. Bentley gazed at the speaker. A pair of brightly daring dark eyes looked at him from out a fuzzy, pink hood, and a pretty voice laughed a little. Their owner had swerved out of Lis path, and paused. 'I waa afrai'l yon wero going to run into mo again. Ton weren't look ing," s'no added, apologetically, and tundo as if to go. But Bentley was squarely in front of her, his gloomy face suddenly aglow. "If I lose this chance," ho was say ing to himaclf, tremulously, "i de serve hanging 1 "Don t you, thennot again I ho commanded, "Don't leave ine again like that, aud make mo fx l like a brute, and tho most wretched of be ings I Didu't you know I didn't mean to, Miis Miss Wilson? You urc not anpry yet?'' They wero looking at each other almost eagerly. Nor did they appear to find anything straugo in their situa tion. They did not seem embarrawe I over this their very firft conversation. Sho looked down at her mull'. "I know I owo you an apology!" sho murmured. "I evou thought of mailing you ono ; but then 1 thought I might- I miht meet you. 1 was very rudo that day and stupid. But you did hurt me a little, and 1 thought I wondered if you could have douo it purposely. I had hoard Low how peculiar you were, you know, and I wasn't sure; but afterward I knew better, I was ashamed of myself 1" said Teeny Wilson, heroeically. Bentley smiled rapturously. "Aud my Valentino?" ho sail. "Didn't you know it was yours?" Tho cx-post-miitress turned piottily rod. "I thought so," tho confessed bash fully. Then propriety asserted itself, "I don't know you!" sho said, with sweet, half langhing horror. "Anl hero I'm talking to yon in broad day light, like like au old friend!" "Are you goin? to tho postolllco?" said the art it from tho city, vigor ously, "so am L I want some post ago stamps." Tho fourteenth of February was some distance iu the past by tho timo Lemuel Parks's meadow was entirely and satisfactorily put on canvas. It was sai 1 in Trumbull by the mora for seeing that it tho artist oonld have mado the task last all summer he would have. If it had been necessary, undoubt edly ho would. But it was, in fact, only in the edge of spring that tho prettiest girl in Trumbull (or any- wLitvvum, -uewover firmly believed) promised to marry him. omo Hare Coins. Numismatists have interesting ob jects of search in two coins which bo- long to tho transition period betweon tho French republic nnd tho second ompiie. One of these is an cxtremoly rare com which was struck oti at the moment of tho assumption of the r?ius of empire by Napoleon III. Only the die for tho obverso or head of arew imperial coin, hod been "competed, and by boiho accident, or possibly by mischievious design, a coin was struck off which bore the head of "Napoleon UI, Emperor," on 6nV aide and "French Kupablio" on tho othor. With tho other ccia a similar story is oonnecte 1. hilo liouls apoieon was "nrinco president. " and iust be fore he made himself Emperor, a de cree was iumod ordering a ilve-frano pieco to be coined bearing his image. Tho dies wero mado and the coin was trnck off as a sample and sent to the "princa prosi lent" for approval. But some time passed Iwfora ho examined hen at last he gave it Lis atten tion he was annoyed to find tuut ha had liecn represented on the coiu with a "love lock," or hookod lok of hair, on tho temple, which ho did actually woar at that period, but thought un suitable to so dignitiod aud permanent representation oi himself as au ouly upon a coin. The prince president sent for tho director of tho mint and ordered him to removo the "iovo locks." Then ho found that his silence with regard to tho pioco had been taken lor approval, and tho stamping of coins had com. monced. Tho work was stopped and tbo image deprived of its uudignified look; but the twenty-threa corns that had already betu struck off were not destroyed, nnd are uow regarded of great value. Boston Transcript (ovcrnmeut Lights, The United States has 1312 light houses, 33 lightships, 23 electrio buoys and 1389 lights on tho Western rivers. The ooast lights of this country re quire 1139 men to keep them in order; the river lights, 1503. Great Britain has 727 lighthouses; Franco has 423 ; Germany, 183 ; Uussia, 101; Austria, 63; Italy, 263; Kpain,-173; Sweden and Norway, 337 ; Denmark, C3 ; Hol land, 102; Belgium, 2 ; Greece, 51: Turkey, 134; India, 9t; Australia, 313; Canada, 631. New York Ad vertiser. There aro forty-five survivors of tho War of 1H12 on tho roll of the Pension Ofik-e, of whom fifteen are one hun dred or more years old. Thero are twelvs pensioners of thu Revolutionary i Wt Vut they aro U vtivvn, MILITARY PARM" THE PEACEFUL FATK OY JTOCR FAMOUS FIELDS. The Government Intent on tesrrtng the Scenes of Gettysburg, 8 hi fob Antletam, and Chtckamauga and Chattanooga. "TV MONO the first bills passed by the House at the present session waa one making an d appropriation of 875,000 for establishing a National military park at Hhilob and another appropriating 820,000 for the dedifieation, next Sep tember, of the park elrpady founded on the battlefield of Chickamauga and Chattanooga, aays a Washington correspondent. Tho promptneM with which theso measures were acted upon is sicnifi cant. Four of tho most famous fields of the Civil War aro now to bo pre served for the wonder and study of future generations, nnd that, too, with n hearty co-operation aud by tho mu tual desire of victors and vanquished on tho field. It isdoubtlul whether thero is anything quite like this to be found in history. Tho first field to be set apart was naturully Gettysburg, tho place of the most tremendous buttle ever fought on this continent, one fruught with momentous consequences. A state ment in Kecretury Lmuont's report of Inst year i-howed that, besides the largo Minis expended oa tho field by the Memorial Association uud other bodies nnd by individual, no less than 88(33,017.82 had up to thnt timo been contributed by States whoso soldiers took part in tho battle. Trnch of laud hnvo been bought, roads laid out nudiiionunu utsaud tabletserectod. In thi present report Mr. Lamont says thnt the movement undertaken by troops on both tides, as well as the lines which they lel.l, hnvo been in the main ucenratoly established, and, after final verification, tablots will bo placed at points on tho flanks of each regiment in its various posi tioni, whilo surplus cannon will in like manner identify tho positions held by tho batteries. When it is re membered that 2 j3 Union regiments, with sixty-seven batteries aud 180 Confederate regiments, with reveaty butteries took part st Gettysburg, it will be seen how g;oat is the labor in volved. The sugt'stion, however, of fers itself that euro should be taken not to overdo tho details, and so con fuse by needless minutaj a study so impressive and instructive in its broad er und more general aspects. It can also bo understood from tho figures just given why so largo an expense haa been laid out upon this field, and why bo many monuments, some of them costly and beautiful, mark this wonderful soot. The Chiokamauga and Chattanooga Park is to the West what the Gettys burg is to tho Eafat Chiokamauga waa the bloodiest oi the Western battles, and if Chattanooga is added it towers np with a great strategic im- fiortance. When the bill for estab iahing this park was before Congress -the House Military Committee maue an elaborate comparison, based on the losses of the combatants in Napoleon's great battles, such as Marensro. Austerlitz and Waterloo, and again on the losses at Sadowa in 16(30, and at Gravelotto, Sedan and other battles of the Franco-German wot of 1S70, eo as to show tbo deadlinens of tho struggle at ChicKainaugo. iho committee do clared that the "nvcrago lc-ses on each side for the troops which fought through tho two duys were fully thirty-three per cent. , rhjlcf or many fioHions of each line the losses reached fifty per cent., and for some even seventy-tivo per cent." It con cluded that tuch a field had "an im- f'loHinea to tho Nation ns an objoot t?8on of what is poeeible in American fighting." Mr. Lamont tells us in his present report that of tho 5521 acres compris ing theChtekamauga and Chattanooga Park, 2100 havebocn cleared of under brush to facilitate the work of the States locating the positions of their troops, and UU0 remain to bo cleared. So yet possibly the underbrurfi rother than the clearing may best represent tho condition of tho field in 18(13. Boads aggregating forty-oue miles have been completed. A committee from the Society of the Army of the Teuncbseo and twenty soldiers there, are expected soon to co-opcrato with tho Park Comminsioa in establishing the lines of battle, and Alabama, Connecticut, Kansas, Maryland and West Virginia, which also La I soldiers there, aro expecting soon to co-oper ato. Some of tho lands on Missionary Vidge and Lookout Mountain, desired for the park, havo been held at anch exorbitant prices that tho commis sion recommends tho abnudoment of efforts to purchase them; but the further purchase of about 1000 acres ut Chiokamauga is contemplated. The monuments of Massachusetts and Minnesota, and the fitty-five of Ohio have been completed, as have also tho nine monuments to tho regulars, while pyramids of sholl mark where general officers folL Various tablots for army headquarters and to mark corps, division and brigade move mants ar up, and seventy or more guns will deuote the position ot bat teries by Ike end of the year. Thus far the sum ef 9651,710.63 has been appropriated for this park aloue. Antietam is the third great battle field preserved by the action ot Con gress for determining and marking the lines of battle. Here, however, the task undertaken is different. Tho buttle was fought on farms, and it is believed that by leaving the land in private bunds, so that it may be used for farming, the best method will be taken for keeping it as it appeared to tho combatants in Heptember, 1802, Tho sumo considerations miht vroUt ably b kep4ln mfalnthfc8nAgo ment of the (Jsttyabajg aud Chioka manga fields, ah hough there the es tablishment ot a park reqnirea some what different rale. Yet the pur pose should ba to koep them looking aa nearly as they were iu 1803, exoopt for the monuments and identifying marks and the means of transporta tion. However, even at Antietam it la the purpose of the War Department to acquire certain lanes and roads along which the moot severe fighting ooourred, providing tho laud can bo bought ot a reasonable rate, and not otherwise. Then tablets ana markers on such roads will bo set np. The Antietam acene waa, in fact, occupied with cleared fields and cornfields, and tho famous "sunken road" ran from tho Eecdysville to the Hagarstown piko. It is to be hoped that tho effort to acquire some of tho old roads and lanes at a rensonablo price may not bo bafllod. Still, at present it would not be oorrect to speak of tho battlo field as a park. At Hhiloh, however, a National mili tary park is contemplated by the bill of Mr. Henderson, which tho House has passed. Mr. Henderson explained that he and Mr. Black, of Illinois, and Mr. Wheeh r, of Alabama, had under taken to look aftor tho interests of tho bill, and that hoiA of the land had been secured at an average purchase prico of 12 an acre, whereas tho Chfcknmaua Park had cost an avcrno of S29 an acre. Tho bill provides for a commission, to bo solertcd from what wero ouco known as tho armies of tho Tennessee, the Ohio and tho Mississippi. Thus two great linttlefields at tho East and two at tho West w ill be ap propriately morkod for preservation, assuming that tho Shiloh bill is to be come a law. They will form a remark ublo scries of memorials for future generations. Gettysburg andChicko manga wero in tho broadest aense National battlo fields. Tho former included troops from Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wi-u'onsin and Minnesota on the Union side, and from Louisiana, Arkansasnnd Texas on tho Confederate. Chicknmauga and Chattanoo(, chiefly the latter, brought in eleven regi ments aud two batteries from Pennsyl vania, sixteen regiments and batteries from New York, two regiments each from Connecticut, Massachusetts and Now Jersey, and an artillery battalion1 from Maine. All f Jnr wero battles which thd sur vivors on both aides can look npm with memories of prido as well as sor row, and with the feeling that military laurels woro won for both parts of the country. New Orleans Picayune Talking Timepiece. Thero is no longer any necessity of asking, "What timo is it?" as now tho hour and minute are accurately spoken by a phonographio attaohment to clocks and watches rooently devisod by M. Bivan, of Goneva. Tho nearest approach to this has beon the repeat ing watches having a atriking arrange mont to give the hour end minutes. This is monotonous and too much liko counting the strokes of an alarm bell to locate a fire. Sivau's watch is freo from all these objections; the pho nographic, sounding plate is made of vulcanized rubber with striated fur rows and a delicate point resting thercou as in tho ordinary phono graph. On this rubber plate aro forty-eight furrows, twclvo of which correspond to tho twelve hours and thirty-six representing the quarter hours travcrsod by the bauds of the wat'sh or clock in each circuit of tho dial plate. The traversing point vibrating with tbo ninuoaities of tho furrows translates the vibrations into spoken words ns for instance: "It ii S o'clock." "Itfsquartor ofS." "It is half-past 10," and so on through ajl the quarter-hours of the day. This rubber plato i oajy tea exact ropro dactioa upon a plain surface of the re ceiving cylinder of a phonograph. Tho possibilities of such a watch aro immense, it can woko yort in time for your early ttaia or remind you that you ought to be hungry for your breakfast or inform tho long-winded statusmau thiit he is wasting too much timo and money on impracticable and tiresome oratory. What a weloome convenivnea such a po?kot-piece would he to tho convivial club man when in the wco small hours ho could gaugo his gait by the oral parsing of timo. However, this phonographic watch is practical and has coiuo to stay. Atlanta Constitution. Kueezlug. i Dr. Scones Spioer, reading n paper iho cither day befoo the Chemists' Assistants' Association on ".Sneezing," told his hearers that the act ot sneez ing has always been regarded as super- natural, ana by many races was hold iu reverence. Hence arose the custom, not even now altogether obsolete, of tuaking some romark directly after sneezing. Sneezing was regarded as sign of impending death during tho plague of Athens. Many classical yriters make especial reference to ine7ing, and some supposed that dar ing sneeetng devils were expelled. 1 Sneezing itself is a reflex nervous action, and is brought about by me chanical irritation to the ends of the nerve fibers which occur in the tissue of the nose. When this irritation oo ours, whether it be due to a foreign body or ohauge of temperature affect ing the tissue ot the noso, a nerve im pulse is transmitted to tho brain and certain nerve oontres in the medulla oblongata are a duo tod ; this results iu Certain impulses being transmitted along tho nerves to the musoles con trolling respiration. By this means the egress of air daring expiration ii delayed, and the various exits aro closed. When the pressure, however, reaches a limit, tho exits ure forced open, "a powerful blast of air is ex pel led, and tho patient sneezes." London N vs. CTBI0C9 tiers. India has 23,000 acres in tea,' Goldfish are of Chinese origin, Egypt prohibits tobacco cull;, Hon. Seeds 3000 years old known to sprout bar J India in its Bo trees Las the CjJ L 1 IV . 1 t uvya ui iuo worm. Orange trees were known to listed in England in 1505. San Francisco, Cal., is tho third mercial city in the United States, k in a t ir aothing else. The volcano at Cotopaxi whil eruption early in tho century stSI oiaas oi rocii iuu cuuio yards tu voli atno miles. An alligator with a perfectly trzy oody wos scon on the banks of jueeeiiooue, i iiv., ruccnuy ny ( soioroa larni nanus. Dr. Alexander, of Wyandot, OLi tell into an unusu l well while rrspc ing to a miunignt ran, ana tcior was rescued tho patient died. T 1 f- i r , uuuuuu iitu I'umen uiteu LiT itop on their way to n flro to take a turncock, a liveried functionary, is aiono nuoweii to havo tuo key nrepiug. The great hearth firo in the Is Roby Castle, England, is full i to Lave been permitted to go wtt centuries. That in Warwick (.' will bum a quarter of a cord of t at once. In Slam, when a fnnexal is pn tho women tal-,o down their hair unfasten their beads, and tho fnmblo around in their pockcU ( littlo pieco of niotal to hold beb their teeth. Bats must havo acooss to wut't they die. A trapped rat msy ea tamed by allowing no water bat offered in a spoon, fot tho cth l toon lenrns to rccognizo tho which supplies this all-importuM essary. ; Maine's oldest fisherman, Tec! Lyer, died at Portland a few iLiv: at tho uge of ninety-two year worked at tho nets almost up to day of his death, and less than i ago captured, single-handed, a weighing 332 pounds. Tho earliest known conri: weather record in tbo world, co: ing observations by tho P.ev. V,;:, from January, 1337, to January, I is in the Bodleian Library at bi this reooM shows tho weather to been similar to what it is now. Ben Cook, of tho West rhiklt: Stock Yards, bas in thirty ' handled 827,000,000 worth of k weighing as much as 10,000 Iw lives ; enough to reach in a doufc'i from Hong Kong to San Franck furnish a bite ot mutton for ever; son on this globe. As far as is known, swallows' c tory nights are always carried a day. The fact that, though vs. and other migrants aro coni found dead around lighthouses, dashed themsMvcs against .tht dows of the lanterns, swallo never been known to meet thti: in this way, furnishes strong pro tive eriueuco of this pocuharttj swallow tribo. A Woniiuriul Light. The idea of an electrio light v fod by a current from a dynamo atcd by a forty horso power e: ami giving 70uu caudle powc: have its illuminating power late: 35,030 times, is not easy to grr means tho projuction of a suu light Ot about 250.000.UJJ power, and it is no won kr th announcement that such a li about to bo uacd in this couctrj be en racoivej, with sonn incr:; Europe. Y'et this is tha c: in of tho liuht which will bo erected at Firo Island for tho il!' ation of the adjaocnt caast a: protection of tho fleet of ship. ing New York Harbor. A remote gestion of tho power of this tas bo arrived at by bearing in ruin an ordinary oil lamp is about ' eiaht or forty caudle newer, on trying to imagine tho combine! of 3,000,000 lam. Tho or olectrio street light may be put at 1000 candlo power, and 2j ', theso would about represent strength of tho Firo Island Iig-t. Tho most powerful oil 1-uc; mado is supposed to shiuo oat clear night for a distance of fivo or forty miles, but tho no will tla?h its welcome ruvs to coming; Eurouean liuers whet aro 12 ) miles away. Tho lic volves rapidly and throws t beams with tho intensity of si1 lightning. Tho motive )over actuates it is a simple clockn-i raugement contained iu a h feet square, aud although tho i ing portion of tbo light woi,'!iM tons, tho meehuuism ooutrollit. so delicate that tho pressure fingers will turn it. The value marvelous lamp can only bo mined by practioal working. promises to represent au iu- strido in the science of cons' house illumination. Phil-i- Proas. Flax iu Oregou. There are two values in thv and the seed. Our Northwest States are the best Uax-grow: trict in the world. Many yt'; the fibre was extolled by cxi' saw it. But wo woro dixtsai market and did not press thu ot industry. Conditions aro f now. and tho tiroduot of ti"' aud seed or oil, will now, v' baar transport This is one oi dustrius to be studied in tbeue -Purttuud Oreirom'in 1
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