The Cloving Year.
"Vhon chimneys no more music bold,
l'uf that tlir swallow all re lionet
When wind be a.itly. blowing rnlil
From anllliiK ship ami Hie wet dawn;
When brier where the rose was Imlil.
On blackened twigs show berries sere.
Then oh, my love, ami hey, my love,
The timing o' liia year!
When Rusts ilir down ami hum prow nt i It,
And ihe enld weal her comes mice morel
When tinvn'uu stalk hcuin to llirlll.
And twisted IhmixIis Iiii.I at Hie door;
V hen fur aomc arret space on the la I II.
While as tntiK siiire tin' tliniti-linsli Mows,
Then nh, my love, and liey, my love,
The year Is at Hip rinse.
l.lgptli- Woodward Itrcse.
MAT'S HUSBAND.
Iv H. I.. ki:h III M.
She doubtless hud n woman's consult
for ninn y In;; liiin. That Mini uf rea
son limy not snlihfy other imiiIc, but
It it levin Inbly sulllcienl fur llio fcinl
uino lensoiier.
Sum Tunis wits what Is railed
vii'.iless" by liis i'l'xmi iitifliliort.
(I d ilill Ilium, liia futh'M -in-law, him
self mil it very onoigelle r useful
ciii.en, ued to sit on the sii'is it f the
rros-i'ondt si ore nml publicly bcivnil
(its tnil lot In having Sum for 11 mem
ber of his family.
Nominally, S im wan u cowboy; Imt
most of the limn he would loll you l.o
was "jes' Itiyiu' off :i spoil, t' rest up
like."
1 1 o hud nlwny hern just so distin
guished for l.i iiohs in mi euy-going
t'Oiiiiiiiinity nml nobody expected him
ever to bo otherwise; niul It puzzled
pcoplo Immensely whan energetic,
cnpubla Muitiu lluiin ncccptod liiin for
"rcg'tiir coinp'ny," to any nothing of
(lie icntntioti i rented by their wed
diug. Mill, os Ins been suggested, prnh.v
lily hud aouiu i'iiiisoii for marrying
Sum; but it la quite rerlniu tluit alio
never lohl nny out) what (hat reason
was, S.un was lull, nml big, nud
handsome In his careless, slouchy wny ;
ho had nl way iniiuuged, no one knew
how, to wear good rloihos, too. Those
faclt, nnil liia inrvnniiil gooil-nnluic
mid f rio ml ly ways, were llio only
point in liia favor. Against liiin
wero llio point ho forcibly taken by
his fulhei-in-liiw, nml, also, Hint ho
got drunk whenever ho could possibly
do so, and wits, morally, an weak t tint
nny ouo could onslly loud liiin astray.
How Mat ami Sun (rot along, no
one but Mat knew. O.n-o In a great
while. Sun would do iuiiio work nml
emu it few dollars. It lid uol home
Willi It without slopping at llio saloon,
well and good. Hut of leucr than not,
ho would "drap In jus' t' tuko n nip 'r
two," Ulld Unit would aottlc it. A:
audi limes, ho would slay nml buy
drink for everybody preout while
hi money lamed. Then lie would
como home In a maudlin, tearful stub)
of Intoxication, nml Invent home lain
to account f jr hi condition nud the
disappearance of his money, winding
lip with Ilia promise never to let it
happen again. Anil Mat would pro
toud that alio believed him, and would
Iroko hi curly head until ha fcl
asleep. Then alio would look at tho
IisikUoiiio scamp for a fow minute
wild lov unutterable In hor eye tho
llred eye back of which were u world
of unshed tear. Hut she never corn
eal nod not the first word; tho fli'in
tcl laoulh and weary look might ludi
cato ever o iiiiich, but her lip novcr
cxprcod it. And Sam gradually
grew more and more useless and shift
loss, trusting to hit wife' reudy wit
and fortuity of rosoinco to carry them
both over the bad placet.
There were lot of bad places, too.
Twice Sam ran into debt several dol.
lar at I he suloou, and Mat found
some mono to pay the debta only
herself knew how. Hut llio Second
lime she informed the aaloou man Hint
he must trust Sum no more. And,
besides those things, to live how did
they do it? Nobody could gues.
Perhaps even Mat herself could not
hnvo told; yet live they did or,
rather, existed and, for tho most
purt, kept out of debt.
bam sometimes workoa, l.r.t nevor
for very long, lie always found some
excuse for leaving a, place within a
few days. Ho could almost ulwav
find another job easily enough, for he
was an cxcollont "hand'' when ho
chose to bo but he did not hutteu
about ilndlug a row job when he hud
given ouo up; not until they were
reduced to the very last slrulu could
Matgothlin to hunting work iigalii.
One .lay, Sam left homo for a ranch
about thirty-live miles distiiiif, wlioro
ho hoard they wauled help. Two days
passed three four live mid no
word came from dim. Mat was not a
a little wurriod, although Sum hud
ofieu boen away for two week at a
lime without sending word to her.
Uut this tlnio it wus difliroiil; that":
was no excuse for ni n sending a
message, a tho singe came by the
ranch he had gnuo lo throe limes a
week. If he had found work Ihore,
as he expected, ho could easily have
could easily have not I Hod her. So.
Inle hi tho ntlurunoit of llio II fill day,
she throw her shawl over her head and
went down lo her ful hcr's lo Hud If
they had heard anything of Sum.
The old fellow was slnudiug In I he
doorway talking to a couple of sii au
gers. "N'o," ho wns saying, "Ihey li'iiint
li'on no poison 'long veto Ins' few
dais, but what b'long yero. Mobile,
thougli. he mom it b'eti seel over yere
t' llicou'. Hon Unit? No? W.i-iil,
my boy's comin' In I'm Ihar purly
soon, mi' he c'n tell ye. Cnno In an'
feed; luek'll brt yen) rio, lit soon."
Mat slaved to help her mother Willi
the supper, nmj duiiiig the course of
the meal learned llmt llio I vt o stniiiiion
were ollicers Iriiiliug a liorsctliinf,
who hud stolen a valuable horsa nt a
iiuir'i forty miles mist nml sold it lit
I'ii kolt Station, nml who was helievod
lo luivu coinn this wny.
As she listened to the ennversntion,
a sudden tiiinu'lo-s fear raino upon her,
milking her feel faint and ill. As
soon ns nipper was over, sho look her
shawl nml hurried home.
SjiiikIiow hliu was not surprised to
lind the door open. She entered
luuiily. Sim was in bed, asleep tiiid
breathing sicrlorniisly. lie had evl
denily been ilrliiking, os his clotlie
were Reallercd ulioiit the Hour, nud
Mai, looking out the hack door, could
see his pony standing patiently where
Sum had left him, wailing for some
one to coma and feed him. Mat
leaned over lliu sleeping mini nud
kied lii si tronllv, her eves full of
love. Then she turiniit to pick up Ids
clothes ami put them away. The
trousers wero heavy, and something
jingled in one of the pockets. In
htlnelively Mat Ihrust her baud Into
it, nud drew it forth, clasping several
gold pieces. As she did so her eyes
opened wide, nud sho stood a if
stunned for u time, her heart chilled
with tho sumo slraugo fear that hud
stricken her nwhilo ngo nud Impello I
her lo hurry home.
She rushed lo llio bed nud shook
Sum roughly. "Sam! Sim - wuko
up!" she utmost screamed.
The mail turned over and looked tit
her stupidly. "Il'lo, M-Mut! Vote,
tut yei (limine kis'," hn said, in
dull tone.
Not twcll yo lolls mo wluu'vedono
got theso yere things!" Mat's voico
soiimlud broken nud shrill.
Sam sat up nml rubbed hli head,
looking at her in drunken wonder.
"W-w'y, tlieni them tluir, honey?"
Slit) sli iok him liercoly, and said in
n lower tone u tone of earnest force
"Toll me, Sam Toms, whar yo iIjiio
got. thine yere coins! (juick, now!''
Hor l ouo partially sobered tho man,
whoso eyes opened wider a ho asked
querulously:
'What va ko all-llrrd fussy 'bout?
I hain't done nothlii'," And ho
laughed In a liulf-dftiiikcti, hulf-nerv
ous way,
'Sum! whnr did ye git 'cm?"
He sut dumbly staring ut her.
"Si'.in!" bur volco was full of hor
ror, "did you steal that t'lar boas?''
No answer; but Mat saw by hi eyes
sho had guessed tho truth. Slowly
iho coin foil from her htitid to tho
floor; slowly her head bout forward
until tier face touched tho pillow. I'or
minutes she did not move not 1'iitil
Sain, who had been staring at her
woiidcringly, reached out his big hand
and laid It caressingly on her head.
Then she sprung lo her feet, her hot
eyes glaring, nud her form trembling
with anger and horror. She did uol
speak, but tlxed hcrgnzoon his faoo
for a fow seconds. Ho did not meet
her look, and, presently, sho turned
and ran out of tho door.
Sum.1 almost sober now, called aftor
her, but sho did not unswer. lie got
out of bod slowly and started to dies
himself. He had almost finished,
wliou Mai, accompanied by her fulhor
and tho two strangers, returned.
'Thar he Is an tliur's th' money,"
she said, and passed on on', through
the back door, without looking at
Sain.
There was a jail at the cross roads;
it was a primitive affair, but solid and
substantial. It was a dugout in the
side hill, and had u heavy oak door
and groat steel hlugo and lock. It
was plenty strong enough lo hold i
dozen iiioii, all unxlou lo escape, and
Sam Toms did not try to escape. J lo
only sat still lu tho low, dump, dark
some room and Iriod to understand
how it hud a',1 happened. It must be
a drunken dream but no, he was
almost sober, nud know whero ho was
and how and why he was thero. Uut
he could not understand. Hid M ul
wav It really Mat who had given
nun upf ii.eis) must tit soma imt
lake.
The big strong mnu Anally began to
renllr.e ft all. He lay down on the
bunk and cried himself to sleep, Ilk
a child.
It must have been about mm o'clock
In Iho morning when some one silent
ly entered Hie house of old Hill Iluuii,
constable. Tills some one entered by
the back door, went lonllhlly Into the
room whero Hill nud his wife slept,
riimiiiiigod fllmut a few minutes, ami
then emerged from the house. It was
ik woman, ami the h id something ir
her hand.
Sum Tom was awakened, a Utile
after this, by n rattling, jurriogsound.
I In sprung up, Just ns the big oaken
door swung bae' nud revealed thn
Humes of a Woman nud two saddle
horses. 'I comn f'r ye, Sum," (aid tho wo
man, Willi a son. "I ilona lining IhuIi
ponies nn' on' clo's. I.e's go, Sum;
wo t'.'n git 'crost lh' rlv.ih ho to' maw
niii'. 1'iMne!"
Ha clasped her In his arms, and Ihey
clung lo each oilier a littlo while.
Then Mat said, more steadily:
"(!ome, Sum. I.Vs goovnli l" Mex
ico nu' moblie we c'n try 'u do bet-
ovuli iliur."
And they rode forth In Iho bright,
free moonlight, iloUai toward the I'io
lii-amlo into a new a id belter life.
f Tin Argonaut.
A Wonderful Miielilne,
V. M. Spencer, whoe invention
some lime a:o much h! in pi i It i-il the
making of screw, has, with A. II.
l: lily, I'lesidnul or the Kddy l.locii ic
Company, recently invented uud com
pleted a miichim) which Is believed lo
be ns fur ahead of his other Inventions
lis I hot- wero ahead of the old hand
machines. Tim now machine, says
the Hartford (Conn.) Coiirnnl, Is in
successful operation, uud every test of
it hn proved highly satisfactory. Hu
man Ingenuity, it would socio, can
develop screw in chinory no furl her.
'Iho machine will lake llio wire from
a coil, head the screw, ( lit the llireiiilf
cut oil' thn screw from llm coil ami
maku Hie slot. No iii ichiuo hn been
Invented before (hut will do nil this.
It doos without uny additional
handling of material what before this
present Invention wits always done by
two or linen iiiiiclilno. llrsiiics, it
sepiiinles lite lluislied screws from the
shavings, depositing llieui clean mid
bright lu a leeepltn-lo placed to ro
coivo lliom. AH other machines huve
to bo fed with the straightened wire,
tho rods being ulioiit 10 feet long.
Tho lust two or llirco luetics of every
rod are wailed. Willi this maeliiiio
Ilia only wuslo Is nt llio end of cacti
coil, I wo or three inches, and tho col'
may ba 400 or fiOO feet long.
Tho iidvanlugo of feeding from a
coil la not only lu saving of wuslo,
but also in the saving of labor. I'ul
on a coil of wire, slart Iho mnchiue,
nml it will attend lo itself. The oper.
utor enn attend, to oilier duties if ho
likes, ntid when he returns ho will
lind a lot of completed screws, the
little muchlnn being still at work am.'
uttoiidiug strictly to business.
Simplicity Is the ruling feature ot
tills machine and thn impression pro
duced In watching II woik I Hie won
der that no ouo ever inventod it be
fore. It is safely e.ivercd with patents,
of course. In other machines tho wire
is revolved rapidly against (lie tool
and die. la litis tho wire is held in
the same position throughout tho pro
cess and is carried by an arm against
iho different instruments, which oper
ato upon it until tho completed screw
is turned out.
The Uiiii Not Needed.
A certain doctor in northern Maine
is noted for his lovo of hunting, nud
he is rockonod a pretty good slioL
During an epidemic uot long ago
well-known Iiiiiiharuiau (now de
ceased) hud (he misfortune to have
several of his men quite sick, and one
of them being in a dangerous condi
lion, tho luinbormnii started lu haste
for thl doctor. Now our medical
friond U sometimes quito stow in get
ting ready for hi trip, and on this
occasion, after being culled, lie was
unustiully so. Suddenly the thought
canto to him lhat ho was to go so ful'
into tho woods he might sea some
game, and stepping lo llio door where
iho nervous lumberman wus impatient'
ly walling, ho inquired, "Say, don't
you i III uk 1 hud boiler Inko my gun
along?" Gun? no!" wus llio excited
reply, "iho muti will bo dead enough
be f oio you can get there." Lcwlstou
Journal.
A young man who lost both his legs
a your ago wliilo saving u girl from
bolug run over tit a station on it French
railway Is about to marry the 'girl,
duughtor of a wealthy silk maiiufio-
tlllCl'.
CHRISTMAS LAND.
NATitfj, MOUTH APIUCV WAftlHft
VUVKHKM ON lKCrtMHKH U.l
Why ItaOrowlh llaa linen Helarileil
-Conflict llrlwenn thn Mai Ivor,
the Ontiih and this UnRllsli
Curlnu Custom.
(1N December, 11117,
M it,. i. i t..
nun initio until II, v
year after Colum
bus had discovered
America, ii-co da
lliiinu, the great
Portuguese navi
gator, was sailing
with three small
ship along I h e
southeast riiut of
Africa, The Cape
of Ihiinl Hope Itnd
hern il Hoovered
and rounded only
nine year before,
ami l)n Oaina had
now been sent by
Portugal lo discover whether It was
possible to reach India by way of It. On
Christmas Day hn spied a broad nml
shallow bay in about thirty degrees
d'tith Intitude, nml put into it lor water.
In honor of the day he named the ad
jarent land Natal Christmas.
America and Nntal were thus dis
covered nt prictieally the same time and
might have bnon expected to progress
together. Hut many cause conspired
lo give America tho preference, and it
wns nut until !ilj years later that any
settlement at all was made in Mouth
Alricn. This was nt Cape Town, and
nearly two centuries more elnpsed bo
fore nny permanent settlement was
affected at the Hay of Natal. This was
in IH'ii. When it was nine yetirs old a
tonniile wns laid oil nml named Dur
ban, in honor of Kir Hon juiniii D'L'rlmn,
tlovernnr of Cape Colony.
At this time the white population of
Natal wns very amiill and consisted al
most entirely ot KnglUuinou. Tne next
four years were lo witness the arrival ol
an overwhelming Dutch population.
The Dutch had settled the rape and
had never become reconciled to the K ig
lisli taking possession of It in 1H(I,".
Many had nt once retreated to the in
terior, far beyond the reach of the Kng
lish i llleuils. Hut n Kngland extended
the bi.r lor of Cupo Colony most of llieui
were once mine brought buck under the
A STllhX'l-
haied Itrttisli riair. Many causes con
spued to iccrease their dislike of llritlsh
rule, iind during the years lS.'tllnnd l.'iT
iivei 10,l'l!0 of t lie in gnthered together
their Hocks and herd nud "trekked" to
the mote.
Some ncnt to what nro now the
Ormigc Free Sttle and tho South Afri
i u ii Ifrpiiblic or Triusvniil. Others went
lo Nntul, at that time unclaimed by any
Kuropenu Power. In lti'M, tnkini; advan
tage nl certain I roubles with the natives,
England se..ml Natal, but Parliament
relmed to appropriate money for its
irnveruuiuul, uud it was evacuated a year
later,
A lew months nfterwurd the 7. ilus.
Under their chief, Dinunun, us irdered
treachernu'ly a large party of Uoe. iand
laid Natal waste. Hundreds of tho
Dutch were killed, nud many others
only escape I by putting nut to sea. Dur
ban was ilcn roved. Hut the liners
dually rallied, defeated Dingaau in n
griiit battle and drove him from Natal.
They then org hi to make repiisnls for
the troucjvruu murder of - their kio
llred. NATIVE WOMAN.
Hut here England stepped lu. She
had not been much troubled by tho Zulu
strncities; she was now borriHed by the
Dutch reprisals. She ordered them to
be stopped. The lioers paid no at tea.
tion to her demands, and in ISl.'l the
ro-olied Nutul and has hold it evor stnee.
1 The Uoer resided vigorously, bu'. were
I forced to yield at last. Fate, however,
i worked out it revenue pretty well.
in
Nesrly forty years after, at fsandlhwana,
these very Zulus whom Knuland had
protectml from tho vengeance of the
liner almost annihilated an entire Brit
ish armv. killing all but a score out of
1300 men.
In IHSO gold was discovered In the
Transvaal, and sii rn then Hntith Africa
has every where progiessid with great
rapidity. Nntal lias now a population
lit -"32--
INDIA cool. IK IN NATsr..
ol 400, 000 unlives, 45, 000 whites and
.'14,000 Asiatics. D.nhsn has 21,000
inhabitants, half wnile, the oilier half
-ratty eipmlly divided between nu'.ivc
and Hindus. Tlieie Hindus are lo a
stranger a wholly unexpected sirht.
Natives ho experts to son of nil kinds,
hut not Hindus. The nmj ultr of these
are coolies, brought fro u In III ong.
Innlly as indentured servant, bound for
a term of live year at moderate wae.
If they stay another live years they can
claim a (rco passago home at any time
within the ncx'. three years. Hut fow
take advantage of this, Thn uujority
become thoroughly nccliiiriteii nud ini
tio down with their futilities as perma
nent residents.
A small percentage of the Asi itie cle
ment consist of 1'arsres, Sikh t and other
higli-ra'tn Indian tribes. Thero sre
also many Malays and unlives of Jura
and Hum it i n. Them are popularly
known as Arnlis, although they urn
nothing of tie) sort. T.iuy are usually
inuichniits, peddlers hit, grc.tsy-luoll-ing
fellows in dirty whiro gowns an I
turbans, many of them. All the Hindus
wear their iititliuml dress. Every fashion
extant, in India um ulso bu found In
Durban.
There are few nogro wo nen In Denhs.ii,
nearly all domestic work being dune by
a
IN IMTAt,.
nujro men. The nirojinuids are nearly
all half-grown negro buys.
Colloo is served at tl o'clock every
morning nil over South Alricu, ami is
brought to you in be I by negro men or
boss, irrespective of your sex. This
custom ot seising morning coflco is
practically universal, although no one
seems lo know how It originated.
Natives aro uiuully spoken of a Kaf
fir , an Arabic name meaning "unbe
liever." Their name for themselves i
Absutii, whicli limply mean "people."
The Kaffirs are not tho original people
of Alricu, but a comparatively late im
migration. The original possessor of
the luud were the Huslimen, probably
Ihelnwcst and molt degraded tet in the
world. Upon theso people, centuries
ago, thn Hottentot dcicended like a
storm, uriviug them to the inuccessible
part of the mountains and de.-erts. In
turn, tho Iluttentota were themselves
overpowered and driven south by u yrcat
wave of people belonging to the Abuatu
race.
When the Dutch settled Capetown in
tho middle of the seventeenth certury
the Hottentots still occupied what is now
Cape Colony and the Abantu held all the
laud to the North, while the Bushmen
eked out a precurious existence by rob-
biug Abuntu, Hottentots nud white
with the greatest impartiality. In the
courtc of ihe last -0U years both Iiiuh.
meoui'4 Hottentots have almost diej
out o-day the Kutlir coastituto ueurly
the entire native population. Divided
into bundled of tribes of varying sizes
they are yet all more or less closely re
lated. Tbcir customs are largely identi
cal over thu wildest tracts of country
and the grammar of their language is
the lame, th.-ouohout its manv dialects.
Thu Kaffir language is a ditUeult one '
at best, Tbero nre ten different ways of
terming plnril'. The verbs are also
very complicate . There are four sounds
in Ksl'lr Dot found in Europe m toogues.
Few whites attempt to speak KalSt
grammatical! r, but nearly, every one in
Natal can speak a kind of dialect known
to nil town Kaffirs.
At the beginning of the present cen
tury there were about niuety-four tribes
of Katllrs in Natal alone. The year
IS 12, however, saw tho rise of the great
Zulu empire. For sixteen years, Ctuka,
the Zulu Napolcoo, carried tire and
spear lar and wide, and when quiet was
once mora restored tlftj-ninu of the
uiuoty-four tribe bad utterly perished.
The Natal native luw are very strict.
No Kutlir is allowed out after ! o'clock
at oight without a pas. It he vealure
out and is raugbt ho is arrested aud
severely puuisbed. No drink or tireartns
can be sold or given to Kaffir without
subjecting both patties to tine or liu
iirlsonmeut. The Kaffirs are controlled
by native police a very uieful and ath-
letio looking body of muu, who, ho.t-
evr, have no power to srrest whites un
do! any circumstances whatever.
The natives are wonderfully honest.
Not one per rent, of the bouse la Dur
ban are locked at night, nearly evcryon
leaving the back door open to admit the
servants In the morning, yet theft it
almost unknown. There 1 no poverty
In Natal at least one never sees a beg
far nr heats of one.
Contrary to the general Impression la
Iho United Btntits, this country, and In
fact all of Africa south of Delagoa Hay
is very healthy. Tho death rate in Dur
ban Is only ten In a thousand, and that
nl nil Natal Is even less. One reason of
this I that there aro comparatively few
children hero and the list Is not swelled
by tho infant mortality that cuts such a
llgurn in ether part of the world.
Durban Is the principal city of Natal.
It Is laid nil on the longitudinal plan,
nearly everything of importance being
situated nn out of two long streets,
which run west from the landing place
and lose themselves in the wooded heights
of the Merei, some live miles distant.
The lleie is a long ridge running north
and south, and thickly dotted with the
villas of the richer people. During the
summer or rainy Reason it is very beau
tiltil place, lu winter, however, it I
rather dusty.
Of roure, being In thn noiithero
hemisphere the snasnirs hern aro ilittnr-
cnt from tluxe ol Americs. Christina is
midsummer duv and Juno is the dead of
winter. Tim climate varies with tint
di-laiice from the sea level and cotise
(pnttit elevation. Durban' winter cli
mate, is much like Hist of Southurn Cali
fornia, wlnh in summer thn host Is very
great, the thermometer always stun ling
nhove 100 decrees in the middle of tha)
duv.
1'ieter Muritr.hurg, the capital of Na
tal, I only seventy-three mllei from
Durhiiu by truiu and lets than llfty in a
direct lira, bui its elevation is 2218 lent
and its cliiiiiiteconse pinutly much colder.
At Charlestown, ISO miles in a direct
linn fro.n Durban, the elevation is nesrly
BIO') feet nu. I the win'er Is very cold.
lucre is some wonderful engineering
on tha lino of the Onvernnient railway
in Nntal. Thn country, besides being a
limply nseeuding one, is cut by a brou l
transverse valley, ncerfssttiting many de
scents in grddo. Tho result is that in
running trom the const to Charlestown,
at the eilc of tne Trunsvatl, 110 1 miles
by train, every pound of freight is lilted
vertically two miles an 1 a hulf. The
railways and telegraph linos all belong
to the Government.
Natal is governed by a legislative
council of thirty-one mouih-rs, twenty
four elective, tlv) sitting by virtue of
their olli'.-iul positions and two appointed
by llie O iveri.nr. All high cfliuialt are
appointed by the (Juoeii. Itcally the
council has very little power. Tho ad
ministration is not responsible in nny
way to the people, and ran do pretty
much what it likes. Still, the council
has a very handvnne Parliament build
ing ut 1'ietcr M iriu mrg uu 1 gmt
through the motions of governing with
lrent iinpieisivei:ets. inn Krunciscj
Chronicle.
A Watch Without Work.
A peculiar lorn of pocket dial is here
illustrated, whicli is used by tin peas
ants of tho French Pyrenees.
This instiu nen t has n movable head
holding a piece of mutul. wnlr.h moves
on a joint like the Innde of a knife. For
convenience in carrying it i turned
down, as in Fig 2, and placed in the
cylinder. Wlieu in use tha metal is
turned outward, as In Fig. 1, and the
Instrument suspended by the ring at thn
top, so that the shadow of the style is
thrown vertically upon the cylinder. The
extremity of the shadow fall upon the
nlAf, USED BY KRKSrn MOUNTAINS KM).
I curved line denoting the hour. The in
strunvint must lie adjusted for every
month in the vesr.which U accomplished
by turning thu m ivable hea 1 till tin)
style corresponds with the vertical line
denoting the month.
Such a dial is not very accurate at tb
best, but it doubttes serve tne pur
pose of the French mountaineers, to
whom the loa or gain of a lew minutes
is of no importance.
niul H Gtt For Cliritma.
Did you get anything for Chris!ai,
Billy T-
'Yes, Dud giv' rue two lickios, an I
didn't hang up no stockia' tor thu
neither I" Life.
The Czir id Hussia is the largest la
dividual luud owner in the world. The
(area of his posaeisionii fur grtattrtbau
tLat of thn cutu republiu ol f tauc.