NN, --of- the- “Himalayan chain. WINDLESS | RA N. The rain, the desolate rain! Ceaseless and solemn and chilli How it Sipe on the misty pane, How it nches the darkened sill! Oh scene of sorrow and dearth! I would that the wind awaking To a fierce and gusty birt ay vary this dull refrain Of the rain, the desolate rain; For bus heart of the heavens seem break- ng In ns o’er the fallen earth, And again, again, again, We list to the sombre strain— The faint, cold monotone, Whose soul is a mystic magn Of the rain, the mournful rain, The soft, despairing rain. The rain, the mournful rdin! Weary, passionless slo Tis the rbythm of tend SOTTOW, The sobbing of cureless woe nd: all the tragic of life, The pathos of long ago, Comes back on the sad refrain Of the rain, the dreary rain; Till the ge in my heart unclose, And the dead who are buried there, from a solemn and a wierd repose Awake, and with eyes that glare ‘And voices that melt in pain On the tide of the plaintive rain, The yearning, hopeless rain, The long, low whispering rain! —Paul Hamilton Hayne. Re RR Re Ce ee RRs Ie Bet RL RRR HEIR Guncoiton vs. Wild Animals. Ey GEORGE D. MITCHELL, S8lSel 3s 280% File SR RD RCN ROTORS RRER0R | stayed. a week Hindu city My compan- and I had 1g down the Sin Goer’ jonrne b d plain of the G :, ol our way across India’ by bic As we had little to eat : ur route but boiled rice, cot cks, parched peas, a little buffalo’s milk, mfortable European and occasic we found in the co hotel of the holy city ateful respite from our jun We were ¢ » only foreigners in Bemures, for every man, woman and child who could possibly do so had de- serted tlie~ up itry for the winter excitement of Calcutta. One evening, however, a, third guest presented him- , self at the dinner table, and, as some- ‘times happens w hen men are thrown together in far-off lands, we became better acquainted with him in the next hour than we might have done in half a lifetime at home. He was a comparatively young man, a Mr. Reid, a mining engineer, and— not toenlarge upon the story of an in- teresting. was now employed in 2 e service of the East India Coppt fining Com- pany, whose operations in Sikhim are well known in metal trade circles. } He was bound on a prospecting tour for a district nearly 200 miles to-tire north of us, up in tlre foothills of the Himalayas, + amost on the Nepalese frontier, where there wege aheient-cop- per workings, which had long since been abandoned by the native miners, but whichamodern methods might per- haps. make.gemunerative. . The country he was about to penetrate was rough, infested w ith wild animals, and con- tained scarcely a European at that time of year. It naturally fell out, thése- fore that Reid should invite us to join his lonely and adventurous jaunt, and we in turn welcomed so unusual an opportunity to see the .count: 'y in its roughest aspect. ‘Although it was too early in the sea- gon for systemdti¢ hunting, the abun- dance of big game gave promise of all the excitenient we cared for. Through the kindness .of a geatleman-in the Bengal Bank, to whom we had a letter of introduction, Stevens and I equipped with a pretty complete hunt- Ang outfit. We left our bicycles and ex- tra bagcage behind at the hotel, with instructions that they were. to be for- warded to our home address in case we:were not heard from. We took the train as far as Gorakh- pur, where Reid found awaiting him his - khitmutger, or native assistant, Ram Chunder, who had come up di- rect from ‘Calcutta in. charge of three’ cases of. guncotton, the electric deto- nating apparatus, and some. other re- quisites for the expedition. There was a small branch line of railroad under construction from this point to Uska Bazar, fifty miles to the north, but it was not yet in operation. 'As there was not such a thing as a European gharry, or other reputable conveyance to be had anywhere, we had to conteiit ourselves with places in the camel dak, a cumbersome, lum- bering two-story public stage. Thais kept us three days more on the road. At Uska Bazar we engaged as guide and porter a native acquainted with the region, and we had the good for- tune to find three hardy count 7 ponies for ourselves, as well as a bullock ekka for the bag As for the thin, lithe Ram Chunder, he traveled afoot, and was never far away when anything was wanted. Give him but leave to dream over the incense of his cocoanut pipe and you would never hear a com- plaint from him. : On the third day we had to dismiss the ckka. The path had become too rough for a wheeled vehicle. Ram Clftirider and the Uska Bazar bearer had to carry what we could not stow away in our saddle bags. Our progress was slow, but before noon we came sight of the foothills Above them ave could here and there catch a glimpse of the overtowering peaks of the Snowy Range, rising majestic and awful away beyond in the unknown in- terior of Nepal—“those divine altars” Lefore which, “like a praying carpet.” lies spread the green valley of the Ganges. zs. we entered the hills and began to ascend, we traversed a luxuriantly wooded region and encountered siart- ling examples of tall. slender bamboos and other tropical plants; flourishing side by side with the vegetation char- acteristic of the te Ne reached the vi in e of Barw a our night's objective, without There is not in Ba a dak b or anything approximating a entertai inment. Huts of ehinked with mud offer little hos and adventurous cgreer—he’ ity, any way, and a night or two in the open air was noting less than a luxury in that balmy Indian winter. Inquiry confirmed Reid's opinion that the deserted mine was now within easy reach. That dark and unexpiored hol- low in the mountain was notorious throughout the adjacent country, and held. in the greatest horror by the vil- lagers as the supposed retreat of many wild animals. Great havqge had been committed by these beasts among the n and sheep, .and it had not been three weeks since a ‘woman had béen killed and devoured right within sight of the village. _ When we arrived we found the com- mupity-in consternation. The Hindus | feel a sacred tenderness for life in all its forms, and .it is contrary to their faith and the spirit. of their civiliza- tion to kill. any living thing. So it sometimes happens that a man-eating tiger will terrorize a whole community for months ata time. ; 4 But if a*European chances to appear on thé'scene atisuch a time, the natives feel no compunction. against begging him to kill the monster. They will even zo so far as to point out the way to his lair, and do everything that may inci- dentally contribute to his dow nfall, al- though they will Tot actually strike : a; blow. Cur exporiefice in this instance vori- fied what we had often been told. Tlie! natives were edger to pay off their old grudges. The next day, when we sal lied out of the village to reconnocitre in: the vicinity -of the mine, we were ac. companied. by .a: volunteer escort of: nearly a dozen. men. « After a walk of about four miles. we: came to the place. All round was, yir-* gin forest, and in the midst of the pro-. fuse verdure there was, occasionally,’ at this altitude, a straggling maple or beech to remind us of Home. We found the mine without Cifficul- ty. We saw two entrances. One was a cavernous opening somewhat: higher than a man; the other was a hole that one could hardly have crawled through. The confusion of tracks round about, some of them evidently made by heavy. animals, prompted us to act with cir- cumspection., 5 At their own instance the men fell heartily to ‘work to build in a large tree’ commanding the smaller orifice of the mine a scaffolding of bamboo thonged together with twisted splints from bamboo tips. When this was com- pleted they fashioned a rade ladder of the same materials for us to ascend by. : : : Meanwhile Reid, after a wary inspec- tion of the place, concluded that a preliminary step, it would be w ell, in any ‘event; to blow up the mine with a charge of guncotton before making any attempt to explore it. Stevens and I were set to Sex the mine, - while some, of the men, under Ram Chunder’s direction, made a wick- erwork hatch of strong bamboos thick-’ ly woven and interwoven. This we placed before the larger opening, and re-enforced with a barricade of rocks and tree trunks. . Further search on the hillside above had revealed the. existence of what appeared to have been intended for an air and light shaft. Into this shaft we proceeded to lower with the gv est care a heavy charge of guncotton. Eight octagonal blocks of the stuff had been placed in the sheet metal can- ister—as harmless looking as-so many cakes of soap, although a single one of them was capable of destroying our whole party in the winking of an eye. We paid out nearly eighty feet of rope, little by little, very cautiously, before we felt the infernal thing strike bot- tom. ; Connected with the fulminate bridge of the cartridge in the usual way were two insulated wires for electrically de- tonating the charge at the desired moment. These two wires were strung along down the hillside, and the ends we pulled up into our perch in the tree branches. The natives were exiremely ested in these mysterious operations. The air of the hills sharpens men’s perceptions always, and these. fellows seemed to feel little of "the fatalistic indifference that takes all the healthy curiosity out of a Bengali of the jun- OX¢€ as eat- inter- gle. The Uska Bazar man had been retailing tothem w arnings he had about the t r ss. of guneot- ton; but when Rui under tried to impres on them that i wes our in- tention to bl laughed at him operate , inc nin.a sk still round, S having re Ww armed them all ’ to be off. But it was strance that est remon ac 1 for them. =~ $ they were persuaded to take up thelr: stand at. a safer distance, for they were bent on losing sight of no ‘part’ of the operations. We ascende” *o our scaffolding and drew the Mi. up afier us. Includ-, ing Ram ‘Chunder’s, we had four rifies i fo rely upon and little to fear. We as- sured ourselves that the magazines were supplied with eartridges and that everything was-in readiness for instant use. Finally we completed the connecs tions between the wires from the mine we had | . and the magneto detonator brought with us. ? We. held our breath as Reid's, finger approached theinnocent looking Swite 14 that was to complete the ciratit and explode the charge. Ram ge 7 turned the crank of the magieto. “All right!” said the engineer): ? There was a moment of hushéd suse pense. Then followed the most terrifi¢ explosion I ever heard. The airtrems: | bled and pulsated, tlie trees ‘quivered, | the very earth seemed to-vibrate: ‘and |! sway, and an avalanche of stones and ; earth, started by the shock; came rush: ing down the mountainside. - #7 1 thougth we were dooméd. It nil as if we must be swallowed up in the | convulsion. The natives, their heels, and fled recklessly into the bamboo thicket, seized with genuine terror. Ram Chunder rather. enjoyed their predicament; and kept shouting } to them to run for their lives. Th eir. ludicrous efforts to get-out of the way momentarily distracted my attention from the mine itself. 3 Suddenly there broke on the lull an. de in ibable confusion of howls, yells | and Is of rage. hear the like again. ium- opened wide, Something plunged against the barri- cade from the inside, and nearly beat it down. Then, forestalled here, out snar It was pandemon- of the smaller exit there came tearing ’ a train of wild _animals sufficient to have stocked a zoo. i There were several black leopards ! in tie lead, bounding forward with in- {1 credible agility— and the black leopard, although not. so large as the tiger by od deal, is one of the most terrible and vicious of the wild animals of In- i Gia. Following in their wake were a host caw, hurriedly coiling themgelves along, several great repul sive serpents, which Ram. Chunder | pronbunced pythons, although for my- | self I was doubtful, from thet ir mark- ings, what to call them. | It occu red to me afterward saw no ti prised; but these animals do not often : wander co far out of the jungiere gion, | and we avere too high up i ‘the ‘hills ~ imals; also we 2 in hon ercumEanEes our position ‘| might have been precarious; but, for- tunately, the explosion created such ai panic among the denizens of the mine- that they tore past us and scattered for cover in all directions, without, tarry ing for an instant to join issue avith us. It could hardly have been a minute be- fore the commotion was all over and the uprear had died away. It had all been very sudden, but Ww had had the presence of mind, notywith-v standing the excitement of the mo- ment, to discharge out rifles into the pack as they emerged from the cavern and swept past us. As the result; now saw, der our perch, an unusually. fine speci- men of black leopard, a male of large; size, snarling savagely as in the agonies of death. Two more bullets put him out of his, misery. - We soon had him stripped of; his fine coat, and we left Ram C hunder quarreling over the teeth while went to exnlore the mine, The explosion had been very effee- tive. © A large mass of rock had been ‘dislodged from.the roof oi the gallery, and the passage was almost choken up ‘| and a small | with. debris. ‘A chetah leopard: cub we found half How many other animals had covered up in their attempt {o escape we never discovered. Reid carefully noted the results of the explosion. A rich vein of copper was disclosed, a thick seam of it being in the pure state. In short, the work ha d been so thorough and the evi ences were so favorable that he cons er d furor blasting unnecessary. Af athering up what specimens he Cc red for analysis, he returned with us to Barwa, whence we took our buried. ir little our desirous of needlessly prolongi in trict. We way down ful. incid ng stay and small game was plenti den eid aide a report to his company soon after, giving the details of his ex- periment, and before we left Calcutta they had decided to establish a mining | plant on the ground. In my sleeping room, I now have a fine rug. leopard pelt, to put me in mind of the most exci iting adventure that - befell me du o my stay in India. it feels very soft and warm” and plehsent to one’s feet on a cold winter morning -— Youth’s Companion. eb Pleased to Oblige. “Can’t you asked an old woman. who had pur- chased a half pennyworth of carrots. from a greengrocer. The man replied sarcastic like, “Cer tainly, madam,” said he. “If you will sit down a few minutes I shall be glad to. throw in a sack of pc and a barrel of apples, and, while it, I'll add a hundred we 1toes and a box of ! ,7 he shoute ed, as:the old lady indignantly i flounced out, 4 well r dn the cart and horse. If that aint enough, come back for the shopl’— London Tit-Bits. , |i Uk ong who had ¢ been hanging furtively about, took to. I hope I may never , jackals and other small an-: we | lying on the greund just un-| he writhed we'' been ‘| irture again the next morning for | so wild a dis- | shot one black deer en,the | Beyond this the trip was without | by my bedside, ; made of a black throw in something else?” ; I'm about | ht of turnips {= WOMEN WHO NEVER SEE MEN h «—0—0—-G—3= The Remarkable Life of the Sisters of St. i Bernard in tie Pyreness. { ; = . BS <3] OT many miles from Biat- ore ed 3 : /#\} ritz, among the pines that clothe the lowest slopes of the ‘Pyrenees, is tlhe nun: % a nery of Anglet,’ the home oi the most remarkable bodies i of. women in the world, who have vol- ‘untarily deprived themselves: of their i sex’s most eherished privilege, the use b of tongue and eyes. i To steal away from Biarritz w ith its t gay crow ds, whose days are passed in . pursuit “of pleasure, to this home of 1 | silence at the foot of the equally: silent hills, i$ .to touch within a few hours fie two extremes of human’ life, and ; the contrasted picture to those who have seen-it.:is one that lingers in- effacably in. thé memory. “One might think that such a place as retreat of the Sisters of St. Ber- nard would be jealously gugrded from the world of curious observers, but it is not. The only. condition imposed on vigitors is the notice that greets them atfthe entrance to the nunnery grounds —a request ‘to speak in a low voice. i The first. glimpse. that the writer got’ | & the, mysterious occupants of” this retreat was, when he: was conducted i info the garden, surrounded on: three | 8 sides by .plain, . one-stoyied.s buildings, { and on the fourth by the equally mys- { terious-conyentrchmpel.: | VScattored over ‘this: square - garden were abeut «thirfy. women, robed in loose-fitting™w hite garments, with the { sabots of the peasant on their feet, and black hoods concealing their faces, and bearing a large white cross where § they flowed down the back. A few § were prone up and down the. paths 4 bowed in deep meditation, but the ma- jority. ayere, busy with spade and rake, 4 Working'sh ‘the’ Fol! ‘Most remarkable «© i — rT py i FEE ¥ { of all, :althoug --these awonen: must have been aT ar - that a stranger was REIN or ate them, ngt. a. single ‘move- ale nt of the head, much Jess a glance, owed . the: slightest consciousness of § fhe fack ~~ + : SI While I was taki 4 in’ this strange. whisper, iow =the convent was found- ed sixty-four years ago by the Abbe Cestac, a priest of Bayonne, famed for 4 his asceticism and piety; and how the nuns, many of whom entered as youig # and beautiful girls, are pledged to life- | long solitude and silence, holding no communication w hatever even with | each other, although constantly thrown togethér at: meals; work, and. at relig- ious exercises. Sox¢omplete is this.isolation that the i Sisters of St: Bernard are always shut | oft” by curtaing from the neighboring | Sisters’ of St. Mary, who occasionally | worship in. the same chapel; and : stories are told of women who in the outer world-had peen‘close friends and | near relatives, living for years togeth- er.in the convent without even kuow- ' ing of each other's presence. This state of things is rendered more bearable by the constant work that oe- i cupies’ every hour of the day. ~ Except at meals or devotions, each nun must never: spend an idle. moment. They 1 are. famed for the beauty of their needlework, A oe irony—many of the most lovely trousseaux in Eu- ‘rope: are Ty by the hands of: these silent w omen, with w ho itis=a . sin to lpok even on each others faces. | Mhe.refectory in which- od take their meals, and which I was permitted | to] see, is a long, thatched building, with, whitew dstiol walls and an envi. en figor, and its furniture cousists of a. wooden table and benches. Dry bread, vegetables, and water in an { eartienware jug constitute each day’s | menu, with the exception of a small quantity of meat on alternate days. ! This refectory and many of the orig- inal convent buildings, it is interesting . to record, were built by the nuns them- | selves, who can thatch a roof, drive a | plow, or do an exquisite piece of em- | broidery’ with equal skill. Devotion naturally. enters largely into the: lives of these Sisters of St. 4 Bernard. Every hour, as the clock strizes, they cease whatever work they ! are engaged on and, dropping on their knees, spend a few nlinutes in prayer; and much time is spent in religicus services in the chapel, with its Deauti- ful image of “Our Lacy of Sor 3 rows,” i of which a romant’e story is te or in prayer at the chrine of “Our Lady of Pity” in the zarden. ws | @To each nun is allotted one of two i; rows of tiny, narrcw whitewashed { ealls, eontaiamg only a hard, rouch i fim . A bed and a woodcn chair and opening iato a long, dreary ccrridor, the only drawirg and reception room | the convent Loasts; and so Spartan are these sisters that in the ‘egldest weath- cr a fire's unknown. { t ds:little.swonder ‘that life led uacer | such conditiers should, bo siert, or that beforc half their possi Hle days i { are numbered, riaiy of these: mute s’s- tars should be takexa to rest in thescy- Zringad graveyard, where a Tude {he only memorial. vi ; ddentifica, #8\What has become,” nsked ‘he occa- signal cuest “of the iis black-eyed girth v used to wait at that table over ia the corner?’ “What preity black eyed girl 2% frig- idly inquired the young woman with snfib nose and prominent chin. I remember wightly, she had a a mole on one cheek.” girl with the blotch on I think somebody married r York Press. 3 Spectacle my cicerone told me, in a; that we: rs, and I was a littie sur- which is THE, PEANUT KING. How Pembroke D. Gwaltney Amassed a Fortune in Virginia. The humble little peanut has made this man rich and given him a titie— The Peanut. King. : The man was Pembroke D. Gwaltney. He: went. away from a corner of Virginia, that gave him birth, to bore spikes from Federal guns captured by Stonewall Jackson. ‘'Fhat occupation, however laudable, ended with Lee's surrender at Richmon Back to the little cor: ner of Virginia, then came the Confed- erate armorer fo rejoice in a wise and prudent wife. The bundles of ‘shin plasters” he had received as army pay and sent home she had invested in Jand. There it was—a fine Virginia farm, to begin with. Smithfield, Va., of 1500 souls, is on Pagan ' Creek (and very Christian nevertheless). a branch of the James liver, thirty miles from Norfolk. By the genius of the Peanut King it is the opulent centre of a thriving and lucra- tive industry—the greatest peanut fields in the«world. The. business of ney soon after the wa He prevailed on all the farmers vondd about te plant them. Then he built a packing factory. and bought their product. A thou- sand bags atday, cleaned and sorted, is the output of the factory. The in- come from the business is a million’ dollars a year. Rivals he has had, but they have not lasted, they didn’t know the arts of the peanut business so Ww ell His son, Penibroke, Jr., follow ed in’ his father’s footsteps and owns a general store at Smithfield. A. story illustrates ‘the old ‘gentlfeman’s business acumen. Young Pembroke:bought several large lots of peanuts one reason with the in- tention. of hoidmg them for the usual rise to realize a profit. The rise came slowly that year, the young man was almost. discouraged and his father hearing that he was anxious to sell for fear that he -would lose not only profit but principal on the peanuts, bought the stock at the market price and thus relieved the younger man of a great anxiety. - Several months afterward Mr. Gwaltney said: “Pembroke, you made a pretty neat profit -on.those peanuts you sold to be, 1 believe?” | | : “Yes, #M sold without loss,” said’ the prudent youiig min, rot knowing what turn, the colloquy might take and un- willing to commit himself to a large profit. . ; © «Ag a matter sof curiosity tell me how you came out?’ said the eider man. The young man reluctantly ac- Fknewledged; apparently fearing that he might be called on to divide, that he Lad realied a profit of $3000. To Lis great astonishment his father said: “Pembroke you are a successful nrer- chant, but I made $5000 more an that same lot of peanuts.” Smithfield ds noted for its expor. nuts, and the- controlling genius of the world in ‘the latter produet. When Admiral Evans returned from Kiel he said of Emperor W illiamy’s ° wonderful general knowledge: “Fe knows even ‘the flavor of the Smithfield ham.” For many years before her death the hams that supplied Queen Victoria's table-at Windsor Castle were packed at Smithfield. The little town is very proud of its hams, of its peanuts, and of its leading citizen, the Peanut King, whose children; and grandchildren, a populous family, are adding to the wei- fare and wealth of tlie State, : A Defective Memory. Mrs. Ferguson had just returned from an entertainment, and was in ecstagies over: a’ young wolnan elogu- tionist who had taken part in it. “She had on a trained gown of dark purple vélvet,” she said, “with bodice trimmed in decp cape collar of real Trish ‘lace and lace cuffs. She wore her hair ponmipadour and had a dia- mond cluster at her throat.” “What did che recite?’ asked Mr. Ferguson. “Sometiting about a little gil Thos mother lost her ia the park, cr sam where; I've forgotten tie name of’ ok You know aell enough what a wretelied memory I have. But it was awfully pathetic. What are you grin- ning abcut, I'd like to know{’—Chi- cago Tribune. Not rx sactly Lost, “In Moscow,” daid a wri iter, “Lisaw a litle child crying raseribly one af- ternoon. Ie walked slowly down cne of the principal streets, ond his howls soon brouzht a big crowd around him. “What is the matter, my child? What troubles you?” every one asked.’ ‘The boy paused finally. He looked titude which had assembled; Lie shouted, at the mul ihen, liftiag vp his voice, in a shrill treble: ‘I arm lost. Will secmebody please take me home to Ivan Troubetskoy, the champicn clothier of the South End, who has just got in his new stock of autumn overcoats, suits, neckties, shirts, hat3 and umbrellas, which we will sell cBeapex than any one else in ihe cily? $ The Rise of the Sea. r—1 “he phenomencn of the changes in the level ef the sea is one of which is well shown in the case of the Medit- crranean. A recent brochure present- ed to the French Academy of Sciences furnishes interesting information on this point, it being apparent that the sta has greatly increased in depth as compared to ancient times. : Formerly a bridge 3000 feet long united Leucade to the Continent. To- day it is submerged, but the founda- tions of the work. were discovered eleven feet beneath the surface. It may, therefore, concluded that since the construction of the bridge the sea has risen at this point over nine feet. Similar incidents have been not- be i ed at other points. growing, them was started by Gwalt-. A ‘seventy-five cents. - Sem LR POPULAR SCIENCE " The Ambidextrous Society, of Lon- jon, has been formed swith the object »f ‘encouraging people, to use both hands with equal facility. A recent mechanical wonder is 2 telegraphic instrument which sends! 1000swords a minute pver lines 1600 miles®in length. A human ‘operator can transmit Eris aw words a minute. % Welding by electricity is brought to: such perfection that welding appar- atus can be carried to a railroad frac and two rails joined as solidly as if: they. had come out of: i rolling: milk in one. piece. A novelty. in stoves is a ba eship range, with steel racks for preventing. ® the pots and pans from going helter- skelter in a high sea, and with ingeni-g ous: braces for ‘holding foe range it- self ‘in place. . Though the ocean ‘covers three-fourths of ~the surface earth, it does not in the same tion provide for the wants of ma 11. is estimated that duly; akout three per cent:rof the people in the world © thei living directly fromthe sea, ‘about br. Wolf, director of the Koei stuhl Observatory, in Berlin, Ge has discovered photographically a planet, ‘of the thirteenth ma efit It is presumed to be one of a nb er revolving ‘between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, of which; number $00 have been. already - «charted. <3 year coal constituted _dghout forty per cent. of the total tonnage of the American railways. To camry a ton in England: from. : the ‘Yopkfhire coal fields to London, a distancetof 158 miles, costs $1.87; while coal is ffom the Carbondale coal region, Illinois, to Chicago, 276: mileSy Last for TRE MODERN HORSE. = wpm am He Must Be a Beast of Redparior tao gence: Now- g-Days. The, horse is getting wise. { al- Fags was intelligent,” but He has learned many things in the | few ry Ya really, successfui hotse to: day must know a great many Be ‘not essential to those olden horge whe did ‘not live in electric lighted ‘stables or ride up and down stairs on an cle vator, and did not have their hair cut by ‘electricity. A horse to have a ca reer to-day must not only have horse sense, but he must be acquainted with the ways of the world, says s the Wash. packed hms. as well as for its ‘pea- ington Star. He must be a “horse-of- ‘the-world” or a “horse- about-town,” if it be permissible ‘to. paraphrase those hard-worn ‘phrases, “man- of:thesworid” “and “man-about-tgwi 4 Nearly every horse is becoming an educated horse. During thie last few years the horse has been taking a course in the study of automobiles, and ajready he has a very good understanding of the sub- ject. Time was when a horse would forget his spavins, sore shoulders-or quarter crack and would jump a six- bar gate at sight of one of these n:on- sters. Now he can walk up to auto, look it in the lamps and sniff its evil breath without breaking: a ‘trace or kicking in the dashboar 3 He can now meet one of these benzine bug; oies oh a lonely road and a dark nisht with: out throwing either a fit or his rider. The time may be coming when the horse and the auto will sleep in the same stable and drink from the same bucket. There was the trolley car. A few years ago it was the abomination of every horse... Now the horse would fecl positively lonesome if :he had all the street to himself and did not have his wagon smashed now and {hen as a diversion. The horse is learning. . ‘Exploa ng Trees. Instances of exploding trees are well authenticated, though not common Some years ago an oak in the grave below the front of the White Lodge in Richmond Park, in England, exploded when struck by lightning. The bark flew off and disappeared; in smal patches, while the rest of the tree was shattered into fragments. Although the cause of this phenom- enon is not certainly kmown, a very probable explanation has been sug- gested. The eleciric current, it is said, generates such enormous heat that the sap in the trees is converted suddenly into superheated steam, which expandsg and causes the explosion. Between the bark and the trunk there is most moisture, and this fact accounts for the bark being driven into space, while often the rest of the tree’is not af- fected. American manufacturers of wood pulp use a similar method. Logs of fir are placed in a strong room and ex- posed to the action of the superheat- ed steam until the moisture in every cell becomes an explosive gas. The room is opened, and as the log ex- plodes. it is changed instantly ihto wood powder. Italian Royal Residence: The favorite sumiser “abode of the Italian King and Queen is the beauti- ful Castle of Racconigi, "as*indeed it has been of several monarchs of that country. King Humbert, when ii: need of relaxation, used to go to the castle, which Tesembles an Engli¥h country home rather than a castle. of! Italy, standing as it does in well’ kept grounds and a thickly wooded park. The gardens are most beautifully laid out, and the whole estate is the delight of the Queen and Victor Emanuel, who spent a great part of his boyhood at Racconigi. 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