THE DIFFERENCE.
tovily liist within oursolvos,
Aftr all, thpjr My;
And, be mire, tha happy bsr'9
Makes the happy day.
In ft cool ami shady garden
rhylls lint. The fowt' sct t
Fanned fa wheroon worn wrlttet
Host lsfiieM ftnd discontent;
Lllli-s noilloil, l.lii.'lx'llii tinkle. 1,
Hint Mtiif swwtly In the f'
5Ir:y tnlk nnd ! . Ih'kIiVt
S uiiilet on th" sii.-tunor bfoi-.in.
OIi," hIkIkmI Nivlls, '! tm stlMn;;"
And !li raised lier prettv had.
'I urn mire 'tin going to shower
What n horrlil day!" she said.
In ft warm and lunty city
Jntwy, ( 11 li ntnl wnn and whit'),
Innel ngninst a hentod building,
I.nnglng (or the cool of night.
Suddenly hhe spied ft floweret,
I'ftle and slender, at her feet.
Oh!" sho erie.l.nnd tooped to pluck It f
Looking up In raM lire sweet
Through the crowded house-tops, Jnuey
('might n gllmpsi of Mue o'erhead;
And she kissed the little posy
'What n lovely day!" she' said.
r.eiinly llis within ourselves,
After nil, they uny;
Atid the Kind mi l hnppy heart
Makes the Imppy day.
-Gertrude M. C'niiiioti, In St. Sioh
'la?.
COWSLIP GREENS.
nt sorniE kwf.tt.
HEN I enjoyed my
victuals thorn
wa'n t n o t h i n'
that 1 thonght bo
in a c h of (in 11
muss of cowhlip
nrecn,"said Mrs.
Tibbetts pi ft in
tively, surveying
a hnge pan filled
with tropical
looking leaven
and brilliant yellow blossoms. "Anil
tho blown carry mo right back fo Kant
Macedonia nnd tho pretty smells there
used to bo there in tho faring of tho
year. Seems ns if spring hadn't a fair
chanoo hero in Potiphnr City. Your
father used to liko a mess of pork and
greens "
"Oh, inn, I wich you wouldn't want
such dreadfully vulgar things 1" Addie
Ltiolln, who wuh sixteen, had tears of
vexation iu her pretty bluo eyes.
"And 1 wish yo i e mid get over East
Macedonia. Th.i I'nrkhur.its came
from there, too, but who would think
it? They'ro the very firt people in
1'otiphnr City una nnd Augusta
wouldn't invito mo to tho Charity Club
tableaux.
The reason for tho littlo flue puckers
that had been u'd day between Addio
Luella's brows hml coino out now.
Mrs. Tibbetts looked vaguely per
plexed ftud troubled ; sho dimly com
prehended that to have a tnotb?i
.-... . 4- , i. t I J"U-1.lf,'Ol,,,BOiS!Hf
aspirations made life full of pin
pricks for Addio Luolla.
In I'otipuar City ouo was nothing if
not stylish. Fjfteou years before, tho
city had been a strip of uurccluimed
irairie; now it was a great lumber
town with moHt of the appliances of
civilization undull the fashions. Hiram
Tibbetts, coming from East Mace
donia iu Maine, did his share iu re
claiming the prairie and mado a for
tune iu lumber, "i'u" was quite a
magunto ol Poliphur City ; but of
whut uho was that, demuudod Addie
Luolla, with tears, if ma would bo no
common and old-fushioued?
"I guess you'll have to do your so
cial climbin without your ma," said
good Hiram Tibbetts, gaziti' with
pride upon his pretty daughter. "IV
did understand a little.
"It don't necm a mite liko Adeline
Parkhurst to get so stuck up." said
Mrs. Tibbetts, reflectively. "When
we was girls in East Macedony, there
wa'u't nobody so intimate as Adeline
and me ; and I mime 1 yon for her aud
sho named AiiguMy for mo. Enoch
l'arker and your father are soooud
cou"iuK, too, and it's a dretful clan
nish family; they dick to one 'nother
through thick and thin. Hut your
father and Enoch had dilllcnlty about
some railroad blocks aud hain't never
hpoke to each other scuco; aud then
their giu' to another meet in', aud
Adeline gettin' ho kiud of high ttyiu ;
Hot but what he's a real good woman
and gives away a night "
".-she iiu't likely to havo much to
givo away if what I've heard is true."
This was Hiram Tibbetts, junior, a
boy of seven teen, who bad just come
iu with the importance of a rossessor
of news. "U'h a secret; I overhead
pa and another man talking about it.
I'lirkhurxt is iu un awfully tight place;
they think hu'll fail ; then his mills will
be closed ; they say he's mado au awful
struggle to Keep 'em open nil winter
aud don't you breathe it to anybody,
but they're afraid there'll be a run ou
the bank that heV President of; he
hasn't done auvthiu ' wrong, but he
lost his head wheu ho begau to get
into trouble, and there are douots
about the way co-no of tin bank's
money is invented. ''
"Do you suppose there won't beany
tableaux, Hi?" asked Addie Luella,
breathlessly,
"O.i, Musta don't kuow auythtng
about it yet, of course, nor her mother,
either. I taw them driviug i i tud
this morning with that pair of Hik
ing bays aud a new carriage. I sup
pose he thinks ho must keep up ap
pearances." "Jin glad wo don't h ive to," said
Mrs. Tibbetts, dialing a long breath.
"I declare, if we have gone such dif
runt ways i feet a uutirue to Adeline
wheu she's iu trouble. Km I of queer
.that! wasthiuUin' ot her this tuoruiu'.
1 expect it twa -trtcau-'0 eeiu' them
eowslips iu a vtdd let's wagon l'etchod
old times riubt tae;;- i'i me. I lu i
riht out aud l.otl,li, all Lk had u.i .
uoiv 1 dou't kuow as I kusw exact I.
-
what to do with em til I Tour father
nsol to like a tucsa Jf pork and
gr.vns." ,
Addie Liiella ftihed heavily! bat
he helped herself t all !he blossoms,
and trade of her lbonl'ir what her
friend, Trisy WWawrj'fht, called a
srinphony in yellotr th them, and
filled a great bowl Iritl them to deco
rate the dinner table. J ''Ma" enid ehe
loTod to smell jinAenr rhen tha wu
tftting ; but shn di.jti'l ke tho candles
with which Addio Lit) U persisted in
lighting the table f si ea said candles
were old-fasliioned:n,,itst Macodony
when she was a girj' and what was the
lenseof bavin' Vn when they had
electric lights?
"IV looked usUnco nt the cowslip
greens ; he said li nscd to like 'em
when he was a l"h but he guessed
with his dyspepfv l a wouldn't resk it.
Mm. Tibbetts ooki;l at the neglected
dish of greens ami jnd an inspiration
(sho kept it private, as she did many
of her inspirations lest they should
lio frowned upon ,ty Addio Luella).
Sho put some of llio greens, with a
slice of pork on tho top, into a dish of
the old olover-lcnf hin that was her
mother's they seemed to belong in
something old-fasl ionod and sent
them to Miss Lucrctia Lund, who had
come from Maine, t. keep house for
her brother. She placed the dish in
a dainty banket and slipped a card in
side conveying her compliments; that
would impnrt a littlo uir ot stylo to
the nflair, which win desirable, in view
of tho fact that A (die Luella might
find it out.
"Cowslip greens from Mrs. Hiram
Tibbetts ; that's what tho servant said. "
Miss Lucretia Lund took the clover-
leaf china cover off tlio dish and sniffed
daintlv. Then she looked across the
table nt her brother for tho basket
had been brought iu whilo they were
at dinner and made a wry face. "Of
course it's vcrv kind of her, bat what
queer messes these Western people do
have I" sho said, for Miss Lucretia
was only about thirty, had lived in a
Maino city, and never in her lifo had
heard of cowslip greens. "We can't
cat them pork, just think of it I Hut
it Bcems they're a delicacy ; nnd I think
I II send them around to Mrs. 1'srkor,
who sent mo that bilicious pineapple
preservo; it is so much the fashion
hero to send daintiel about."
"Cowslip green, with my compli
ments, to Mrs. Purker, Mike," she said
to her servant, nnd dispatched tho
basket, all uuwitting of the card which
Mrs. Tibbetts had slipped into it,
Tho 1'arkcrs were dining when tho
basket arrived ; but the meil was a
hurried one, because ono ot tho chil
dreu had been tnkeu suddenly ill with
tousilitis.
"Cowslip greens? dear me, I don't
know what they ore," said Mrs. Par
ker; ''but I um suro they must be
very nice, for Miss Lund is ft flue
housekeeper. Wo don't caro tor greens
at all ; I think I'll send them around
to Airs, rarkhurst ; tier motner is a
rerr c'1 la lv from Mini).' i visiting
-Z. '- i.. irT... ... ..vi
uer, uuu poru auu greoa aro au uiu
fashioned." ' '
Mrs. Parker iJidu't soo Mrs. Tib
bett's car I in tho basket, and her mes
senger, who was sent for tho doctor at
the sanio time, gave tho basket to ono
ot tho l'orkhurst muds without any
explanation. Tho Parkhurst funily
had got to their aft.'r dinuer colToo by
tho timo tho basket reached them. As
it had come mysterioudy, Mrs. Park
hurst looked for some token of tho
donor, and foiiu I the c.ir l.
She uttered nu exclamation of sur
prise, and her face flushed as she rea l
the inline nloiid.
"Augu-ty Tibbetts! Why Adeline
why Adeiiue! and cowslip greens,
in the cloverde.if chiny that was her
mother's the chiny that Augusty
I'ritchard had wheu she married a
hum Trench 1 It's just is if 'twas yes
tiddy." The wrinkled hands that
lifted the clover-loaf china cover
trembled visibly, aud a tear came uenr
falling upon tho pork aud greens.
Grandma was childish, the Parkhurst
children thought.
"I dou't see how she camo to do it,"
murmured Mrs. Parkhurt.
"It's holdiu' out tho olive branch,
Adeline, and it nu't Christian not to
take it so I" said the old woman, bro
kenly. "Life is too short for Justin'
bitterness; we was young together,
and like own folks! Why, Enoch aud
Hirum Tib.ietts nre own folks."
" Su !" Mrs. Purkhur.-tlaid her hand
on her mother's and glanced warning
ly at her husband.
"They're tho kiud that hold a
grudgo both of them," she said, iu a
low tone, Euoah Parkhurst arose and
lett the table silently. He was ft taci
turn mau by nature, nnd of late the
habit of silence had growu upon him.
Tho old ladv said she thought Euoch
was burdened ; old eyes are dimmed to
some things only to be opened wider
toothers; his wife and the children
said he was always so ; ho had so niauy
busiuess cures,
As he closed the dining room door
behind him Enoch Parkhurst put his
hand to his hea l.
"Jl iraui iihoettsi no could save
me," ho murmured ; "he would have
dono it once now it is impossible."
"Adeline, you'll take me to-morrow
to see Augusty Iibbetti", won t you?
Grandma was saying as the door
closed. "Wtien Augusty lias come
uiore'n halfway so, seems as if 'twas
the least you could do 1"
"We haven't spoken for so long.
aud she is is in such a different set,"
faltered her daughter.
"I would really have liked to have
Addie Tibbetts iu the tableaux," said
Augusta Parkhurst, a seventeen -year-
old girl, wnose very plainness was
stylish, Addie Luella said. "She
would make a beautiful Bluebeard's
wife with ber head bung up, you
kuow, her hair is so long and light;
but she urn t in our sot.
"1 don't kuow how Augusts, would
''( it, imbued Mrs. Parkhurst
ilitttively.
, should think she had shown you
bow she would take it, sendin yoa
cowslip greens on he mother's clover-
Itftf chiny, insisted Grandma.
The next day the prancing bays and
the new carriage stopped at the Tib
betts's door. There' had been some
anxious and angry looks cast after
them, as they passed the mill, by
workmen who had heard that the
bread was soon to be taken from thoit
children's months; but the two oceu-
pants of the csrringe were qnte obliv
ions of sitoh troubles. Gr.m lmi, ra
diant with delight, holding the basket
containing the precious china ol her
knee, and Adeline'Parkhurst, wonder
ing whether all her acquired society
manner would enable her to be quite
at her caso with "poor Augusta," who
had never acquired any manner at all.
"They aro they ore coming here,
ma I" cried Addio Luella, in a tumult
of delight, and earnestly hoping that
everybody was looking. "Oh, m,
ma, won't you wait till Jenkins opens
tho door I" she wnilod.
Hut Augusta Tibbetts's simplo soul
nnd kindly heart had, in an instant,
dropped into oblivion the coldness and
social slights of yenrs ; she threw her
largo whito apron (trimmed with
homo-mado laco. Addie Luella's des
pair) over her shoulders and hurriod
down the steps; nothing less than a
sidewalk wtlcomo would do for Ado-
lino and Gran'roa'am.
She was a fiimplo soul, but after all
sho showed herself quick of wit; sho
felt only a moment's perplexity about
tho cowslip creens and of that she
mado no sign.
"I won't tell 'em it's all a mistake
about my sendin' 'era not till I havo
to," she said to herself. "And if I
can make Lucretia Lund keen still I
don' know as I ever will 1"
And it may as well bo here recorded
that Mrs. Tibhctti managed tho affair
with such truly Machiavellian diplo
tnacy that tho little comedy ot errors
was never discovered by tho final re
cipients of her cowi.lip greens.
It was a delightful call. Adeline
Parkhurst forgot that sho had acquired
a society manner, and Augusta Tib
betts forgot that Addio Luella was be
ing mortified by her bad grammar.
They talk of "faraway and long ago,"
and the brokea friendship was co
ntented by laughter and tears.
Hiram Tibbett linteuod in tilenco
to his wife's story of Adeline Tark
hurst's visit and the renewal ot tho old
friendship; sho bad felt a littlo uncer
tain how pa would tako it, he was one
to hold a grudge ; but her delight had
to havo vent.
"Mebbe I shouldn't havo felt qnito
so pleased it I hadn't been thinkin'
considerable of East Maeedony as I
do, como spring o' the year," sho mur
mured, apologetically.
"Aud Augusta has sent roe invita
tion to tako part in tho tabloaiix ! I'm
to bo Kluobeard's last wifo not just
one of tho heads hung up iu a
row!" criod Addie Luella, joyously.
Her father's raggod features reflect
ed Addie Luella's jor.
"He's felt her little slights if ho is
a man. nbe takes after linu in mini:-
n' so much of them kind ot things,'
thought Addie Luella's mother.
'I've been thinkin', ma, said Hi
ram iibbctts, tiiihkily, an t littlo a
shamefacedly, to his wife, tho next
morning "I ve been tbinKiu that
mebbo I'd butter help Euoch Park
hurst a little. It's no's I cau about as
well ns uot "
'I was hopiu' vou would, pal"
criod Mrs. Tibbetts. joyfully. "It
ain't worth tho w hile to hoi I grudges
and mebbo vou was some to blame."
There were only a few who ever
knew how Enoch Parkhurst weathered
his financial storm ; but tho mills did
not closo and there was no run upon
tho bank; instead of those catastrophes
ho seemed to be entering upon a uew
ra of prosperity, on I Potiphar City
felt renewed conndeuce iu ttie sound
ness of its rich meu.
And Addio Luella really was H!uo-
beard's last wife iu the tableaux. He
ing a simple soul, to whom it is nat
ural to share her experieuues, Augus
ta Tibbetts has som .'times wantod to
toll, but sho has so far contented her
self by saying, aloud, wheu she was
quite aloue :
" rwas all an ovorrulin Provuleuoe
and them cowslip greeusl" lude
poadeut. Mushrooms as pool In F.uro ie.
As an article of food mushrooms aro
becoming more widely nu I favorably
kuown ouch year. Immense quanti
ties are grown for m irkut in caves
near Paris, so mo of tho beds being
seven miles long. Ouo grower has
twouty-ouo miles of mushrooms grow
ing nt Merv. In Italy the tru!n j-bn Js
uro so valuable that they are guarded
as carefully as ure game preserves in
Eaglaud. Hut the poachers, quite
equal to tho necessity, traiu their dogs
to go amoug the beds, dig up thoso
mushrooms ot marketable value, and
briug them out to the edge, where
they are waiting to receive them.
Mushrooms briug m a revenue of
$20,0Jt) a year to Home, aud M.
lloques calls the dospis'id toadstools
the "manna of the poor."
Sir. Julius Palmer, our own author
ity ou mushrooms, says: "Were the
poorer classes ot Russia, Germauy,
Italy or Pranee to see our forests dur
ing the autumu rains, they would
feast on tho rich foo I there going to
waste. For this harvest requires no
seed time and asks tor no peasant's
toil. At the same time the value of
mushroom diet ranks second to meat
aloue. America is one of tho richest
countries in mushroom food." St.
Nicholas.
Strongest Vault in tho World.
A vault, said to be the strongest in
the world, is being prepared for the
New York Clearing House. It weighs
050,0(30 pounds and is burglar and
mob proof. The height is lit feet.
the width 2 If feet and the depth six
teen feet uud eight inches. Ne York
World.
LIGHTNING.
roiNTSOF ISTEUKST AllOtTT A
DANGEROUS Sini.MKtt VISITOR.
Fires and Fatalities Which It
Caused More Klsk From
In Country Than In Town
Lightning Rods.
lias
It
Tnn De
turn hi
tin bv
the W
ITU Department of Agricnl-
has just issued a lmlle-
bv Alexander MoAdie, of
eather Bureau, on the
subject of "Protection From Light
ning," whioh, the Louisville Courier-
Journal declares, is of rather more
interest than the usual ran of snch
publications. Since 1891 the Weather
Bureau observers have carefuPy inves
tigated all reports of deaths, fires and
other accidents from lightning; and
the conclusions deduced therefrom by
the author are sure to attract atten
tion. In the first place Mr. McAdie shows
that the danger from lightning is not
imaginary. An immense amount of
property is destroyed and many lives
taken by this subtle agent every
year. The Weather Bureau records
do not contain any figures as to the
loss of property, but the "Chronicle
Fire Tables," compiled from reports
of fire departments, insurance com
panies and tho press, havo very full
and roliable estimates. According to
them there occurred in the United
States daring the nine yosrs ending
1893 no less than 4175 such fires with
an aggregate loss of $14, 309,015. Dur
ing the ten years ending 1893 there
were 2G79 barns, 831 dwellings and
129 churches struck by lightning. A
curious circumstance observed bat
not explained is that there have been
notablo increases in accidents from
lightning in certain Htates. Connecti
cut, Illinois, 'Maine, Massachusetts,
New York and Michigan, for instance,
report many more than Alabama, Ar
kansas, Kentucky or California.
For 1894 the Bureau records ae
very tun. JJuring tne year dot) per.
sons were killod and 351 severely 1q.
lured ; besides which 2G3 barns wer
struck, with a damage of $107,500;
fifty-five churches were also struck,
damage unknown, and 2G1 dwellings,
and several oil tanks, factories and
elevators, the total damage to there
amounting to not less than $351,000,
The great bulk of these casualties
happened during the months of Jane,
July and August, but thero were two
fatalities during February; and Janu
ary, November and December were
the only periods exempted.
Many interesting points were no
ticed. For instance, the risk in thick
ly settled places is light. There is but
little need for lightning rods in towns.
Tho oak trco is the most fequont vic
tim in the forest, the beech the loast
Trees struck are generally on the edge
of forests or oat in tho clear, and their
height averages from fifty-two to sixty-
six feet, lho proportion of sasccpti
bility to lightuing, if tho beech be
represented by one, will be fifteen for
the pines, forty for other trees and
fiftr-four for oaks.
Mr. McAdie is a believer in the
lightning rod, but he shows how wide
ly authorities ditler as to the value of
these conductors. He insists that tho
rods be of good iron or copper, and
that they should be as well "ground
ed as possible. If the rod bo near
gas or water mains it should bo con
nected with them, but an independent
"ground" is preferable to the mains.
Tho top of tho rod ought to bo pro
tected from rust.
In spite of tho old proverb to tho
contrary, lightning does ofton strike
twice in tho same place. It is unwise
to stand under trees during thunder
storms, in the doorway of barns close
to cattle or near chimneys or fire
places. On the other baud it is not
worth while to try to insulate oue's
self in a feather bed.
The fatality of the shocks from light
ning strokes is an interesting consid
eration. The only record the author
knows of is that of 212 persons struck
seventy-four were killed. Of forty
threo victims twenty wcro 6trnok in
doors aud twenty-three outside, four
boiug under trees. It is certain that
in many cases death is not instantane
ous, but auimatiou is suspended and
tho patient may die unless properly
treated at once. All tho authorities
advise that every effort be resortod to
to restore respiration, and this should
be kept up at least an hour if the vio
tuu do not show sigLs of recovery
soouer.
Tho subject of accidents from light
ning is a curious and singularly fas
cinating one. Many people, women
especially, have tho greatest dread of
thunderstorms, and no amount of rea
soning can give them courage. Yet it
may be said that while it is truo, as
Mr. McAdie observes, that tho danger
from lightuing is a real oue, so also is
the peril from falling walls and build
ings. And if lightning be more deadly
in the country there are many more
walls and buildings in cities, and these
ought to be looked out for. A care
less hod carrier or mason may let drop
a brick upon a passer at any time.
Only last week a man recovered $8500
from a warehouse iu this city beoause
a shutter fell on his head as he was
passing. If all suoh casualties were
compiled the number would probably
equal those from lightniug. Still,
Mr. McAdie s publication is an in1
teresting and valuable little treatise,
and its suggestions can do no harm.
Lightning Aids a Butcher.
Butcher Goorge Grathwohl, of Cat
choque, N. Y., bad a fine fat pig in
front of his place for slaughter, bud
denly a furious thunderstorm came up
and when it was at its height, a bolt
descended and killed the pig. The
lightniug also skinned the porker aud
all the butcher had to do was to out
I the animal up for sale. Chioago
I Times-Uumo,
Interesting Iljpnallo Experiments.
Dr. A. A. d'Ancona bas developed
into quite a successful hypnotist. lie
entertained the students in the Dental
College with an exhibition of
bypnotio powers last evening. The
exhibition was given in the loctare
room of the college in the Donohue
building and proved one of the roost
interesting and amusing entertain
ments that could possibly be im
agined. Three yon 03 men lii nre subject
to the bypnotio influences of Dr.
d'Ancona aided the professor of physi
ology in his exhibition. Two of the
young men aro students. Tho third
is the agent of a bltckboard company,
and one day, a few weeks since, he
happened in the lectnre room while
Dr. d'Anoone was delivering a lecture
to the students. At the bypnotio ex
hibition last evening Dr. d'Ancona
placed the yonng man under his mes-
mcrio Influence and ma le mm repeat
from memory the lecture as ho had
heard it At Dr. d'Ancona's request
several people in the audience at
tempted to interrupt him in the mid
dle of his reoital, bat without effect.
The exhibition was full of amusing
incidents. All threo of tho subjects
were placed in chairs on the platform
and hypnotized. The doctor then
told that when he counted three he
would disappear through the ceiling,
and at the same time a fountain of
five-dollsr gold pieces would spring
into existence in tho middle of the
floor. Two of the young men nearly
camo to blows in their eagernoss to
Corral the stream of gold pieces, and
were restrained from hurting each
other only by physical foroc.
A barber shop scene, in which two
of the doctor's subjects wcro lathered
with chalk and shaved with ft pencil
by the third young man proved highly
amusing. To prove how completely a
person under the influence of hypno
tism enn be controlled by the operator
Dr. d'Ancona prevailed upon one of
the young men to believe that ho had
)ost all feeling in his right hand bolow
tQy,wrist. Persons in the audience
werei permitted to prod bis hand with
pcnkfuijjv bat the prodding failed to
producSi the slightest indication of
pain or feeling. Dozens of other ex
periments were made, aud the students
were kept in a continual round of
merriment and surprise for over two
hours. Han Francisco Chronicle.
A Tramp, a Sparrow nnd a "Cop.!
lie sat slouchingly upon the end of
the park bench, his heal hanging list
lessly over his breast. There was
complete dejection in his attitude
An old hat that resomblod a piece of
"culls" in a rag shop lay on tho
gronnd, where it had fallen from his
head. On one foot was an old felt
slipper, and on the other an old rid
ing boot with the top cut off. His
trousers and coat were of a dull,
mottled gray that comes, from bard
year and dust. Twice had he been
mioved on by the "sparrow cop," and
he had made his way to a bench that
was secluded and shaded by a tree,
lie had gone to sleep.
In the trco tho sparrows hopped and
twittered in the shado of the foliago.
Suddenly through the branches came
twisting a tiny feathering, striving
hard to make its tender wings bear up
the weight of its body. It tailed, aud
feel on the gravoled walk at the old
tramp's feet, stunned aud breathing
with dilllcnlty. Something caused
the tramp to open his eyes, and they
lit on the little sparrow. lie looked
at it stupidly for a minute. Thon
drawing his band across bis forehead
he leaned over and picked it up tea-
rly. He gazed at it in a wondering
way, and then gazed up at tho branches
ot the tree, where the mother bird
fluttered ami chirruped in fright.
He drew the bench a little closer to
the treo and climbed upon it. That
put him within roach of the lower
limb. lie laid tho little bird carefully
on a forked branch, and with a
strength surprising in one so appar
ently feeble he drew himself up and
sat on the limb. Above him, but w ith
in reach, ho saw a nest. It was tipped
over so that ho could soo in it two
downy bits of birds liko the ono ho
had. lio gently planoJ the turd no
carried in tho nest, lot himsolf down
to tho ground, drow tho bench back to
its original place nnd turned to' go
just as a "gray coat" called out to him
"Come, now, get on. louvoooon
around hero long enough." Now York
World.
The Moiikcy I'p a Tree.
"I see a monkey np a trco. IIo sees
me and gots behind tho truck of tho
treo. I fctart to go around htm and ho
keeps going around as I do, koeplng
the trunk of the trco betwoonhim and
me. I reach the place I started from,
with the monkey still opposito on the
tree. Now I have boeu nrouud the
tree. Have I also been nrouud the
monkey?" A Boston woman is quoted
as saying: "I triod it on my husbaud.
I bad him for the monkey, and I took
a whisk broom and went around bun
brushing his clothes. Ho kept turn
ing around just as I did, and when I
had been clear around I had ouly
brushed oue side of him an I oue leg
ot his pantaloons. Now, all tho pro
fessors of Harvard University couldn't
convinoe me that I bad been around
that mau, and neither had the man
been around the monkey in tho tree.'
Buffalo Express.
Ills Peculiar Maine.
Everybody is laughing over the
latest remark of a society woman
whose habit of getting words wrong is
provorbial. They were discussing Mr.
Maokay-Smith bofore her not long
ago, and somebody Baid :
"Is his name Smith, with Maokay
for middle name, or is it all one
name?"
"It's all one name," she said. "lie
writes it with a siphon." Washington
iPost,
rOWLAR SCIfcXIE.
Overhead trolley lines will soon n
persede steam on the Mount ilolirfv
h;9 1 J.) branch of the Pennsylvania
toad.
A scientific mission is to be di.J
patched next year to Madagascar f
the purpose of reporting on the phy.
cal geography, geology, fauns a
flora.
A new and cbss-p byilranlio tnot,,
recently invented consists of a no,,
wheel stationed on two boats in a ear
rent. The separation of the bi'
gives a space, in which the wheel r
volves.
If the new hypothesis of Profev ,
Newcorab proves to be correct, o i
planetary system includes a ring
planetoids between Mercury and Ven
similar to that discovered during th
present century between Mars
Jupiter. The hypothesis is a a h.;
probable one.
Some ot the London electrical n
rly firms nre taking steps to ensl
tho publio readily to enjoy tbs alvi
tages of electrical heating. I her
not only lending electrical con
stoves to customers, but nre prepnr
to supply a separated metre andcLnr
half rates for cooking.
It is calculated that if the ivio
composed 01 pure carnou nn i
oxygen in tuo proportion to t..r:u c
bon dioxide, tho heat develop'; 1
burning it up would only last 1
years at its present rate ot r.vlmt
The energy evolved, howevir, ty
merely contracting 'one teu th
sandth part of its present radius w
keep up its present radiation for 1
years.
A recent invontion is n pncnmn
India rubber boat, shaped like a imi
collar, from the forward part of ych
two boots or leg cases depend, i
bottoms ot the boats nre pi ovi.lc l it
collapsing paddles, which open on
back stroke and close on tin forw,
stroke. A rudder is attached t
stern. The boat may be intl ited in th
minutes, when tho space inside
Collar forms a comfortable seat. I'
Dulsion is entirely by tho feet. WL
not inflated tne uoai loses us cm
teristic shape aud may be p icked an
in a valise.
One of tho latest uses to whii-li
per has been turuod is the makin
telegraph polos, me paper pulp
ployed is saturated with ft inutur
borax, tallow aud other siile-tnu
Tho mass is cast iu a mould i
core in tho ceutre, forming a L !
rod of auv desire l length, tuu cr
nieces being held by wooden V
driven in on either side of tho
Tho paper poles are said to be li
and stronger than those ol woo 1,
to be unaffected by the many x
influences which shorten the lu
the wooden pole.
Production of Mecrsrlimim,
Mr. Cumborbatch, British Com
Angoria, in bis ' latest report,
that rich deposits of meerschaum
found twenty miles to tho southern
Eski Shehir, an importaut biiiuoJ
the Anatoliau Bail way.
The meerschaum is extracted it
same wnv ns coal. Pits lroni tit
Uvo to 125 feet deep are lug,
soon ns tho vein is struck lmru
calleries, scmetiiues of conoid'
length, nre made, but more thau
galleries aro seldom to be found
pit. The stone as extrude 1 in
"ham tash," or rouah block,
soft enouah to be easily cut 1
knife. It is white, with a yell
tint, uud is covered witli a red,
noil of about oue inch thick. I
ht.itA tho blocks are nureluiM
dealers on the spot, not by wi
tneimnremeiit. but accord HI,' t
proximato quantity, either per i
three sacks or per cart load, nee
to the quality. These blocks are
i.n.1 mihieetnd to certain prepur
before being conveyed t Edd
Some of them are us s-uall as 11
while others attain tho size of a
foot. Those which combine r
ity of surface and size lire th
The lunnipulation lequirod
tliov am readv for transport"1!
Ion aud costly. The clay seil.
moved, nuil tho meerschaum dri
summer exposure for ttva or i'i '
to the sun's ravs sullioes hut
ter a room heated to the r
temperature is necessary, utidt
ing process takes eight r U'
When dried the blocks n.
cleaned aud polished, then th
sorted into about twelve ehmii
class beiug packod with gre-i
in separate eases, aud each hi
ing wrapped in cotton wool. '1
of tho meerschaum is sent to
where it is worked uud dii:
over the world.
A lbigus llime.
Counterfeit silver ten-cent !
that contain as much if ut
ver thau genuine coiu, havo hi
covered iu the United State-
Treasury, 'i'hey have been t
from bauki and are so carelull
that it renuires the trained ej'
t-xpert to detect their bogus cM
The coins have the appearand
ing well-woru, a result of caret1
on the part of the counterfeit
valuable aid to their oirculatior
eral of the ooius have been nc"1
secret servico ollioialH, w he pr
them most dangerous oouuief''
express the belief that they wei
in Europe aud sent to th'
for circulation. Philadelphia 1
1'l.lu i Old iu Art.
Resides the art of iriutintr,
nfacture of paper, aud evun
of newspapers, the Chines arc
ited with liaviui made ueot
iron and steel for 20J.) ytmri
is reoor led that thuy thrrf
of oast iron over a raviue 1'
deep in tho first century of t
tiuu era. (Jhiciijo Timea-H?