Ill England over $1,000,000 worth of medicine iH nnniinlly distributed gratis at the dispensaries. Tlio authorities of Philadelphia havo declared Hint tho rcil ling of an archy will not bo permitted on the streets of that city. A largo number of tho merchants of Chicago hnvo organized for tho pnr poso of compelling tho railroads en tering thnt city to elevate their tracks. Tho Medicnl News says thnt even eewago water enn bo converted into pure drinking water by Band filtration in filter basins at tho rnto of 2,000,000 gallons per aero per day. Tramp apiaries are common in Southern California. Tho hives nra set on wheels, tho colonies moved from one pasture to another to suit the season and secure the most honey. Hnys tho Kansas City Journal : A New Orleans man was compelled to pay 817 for plucking three rare flow ers in a Philadelphia park. He might as well have bought them at a fashion able florist's. M. Flnmmsrion, tho well-known French nstronomer, writes to the New York Herald that the luminous pro jections observed on tho planet Mnrs are either due to mountains or clouds, and thnt the idea of their being due to burning forests or flashing signals aro the fantastic crochets of astrono mical cranks. Somo gulls off Cromer, writes a London Graphic correspondent, have just been playing a practical joke ou the visitors and inhabitants of that town. Forming themselves in line and distances to a nicety, they skimmed along tho surface of tho sea at a rapid rate, and by keeping exact ti mo in the movement of their wings successfully deluded some spectators into the belief that they were a "aoa aerpent. " New Jorsoy has a Stnto hangman named James Van Hise, and ho offic iated at tho recent execution of Alteu berger, who was hanged for murder ing Katie Rupp. The fee (or hanging a man is $230, and Van Hiso made ap plication to tho sheriff at Jersey City for his pay. He was disgusted at as certaining that a garnishee suit on an old debt that ho supposed was forgot ten had got in ahead of him. He de clared that it wns a now way of "cheat ing the hangman." Sheet music may now bo bought at some of the Berlin shops by tho pound, tho Republican Post Express avers. "If you can afford three pounds of music, you can tuko ono pound of sentimental, ono pound of dramatic, twelve ounces of comic, and four on iioos of devotional, or any other iguch arrangement thnt suits your fnu cy." The musical butcher must of course hit upon some method of weigh ing by which the lean and desirable cuts, Hitch as"Il Trovatoro"and ".Sweet Marie," will bo larded in with the fat and bony compositions of less popular musicians. It is only a step to paint ings by the squnre yard, sermons by the hour, (these might come in inverse ratio down to a certain point, three times as much for twenty minutes as for an hour) and statues by tho pound. 'The excitement of finding out what one has secured would fully repay the purchase price, Cull-making is one of the greatest industries in this country, yet how seldom we hoar of it, observes the 'Chicago Becord. Foreign countries recognize that our bulls are superior in toue to any other mako, and evon the Japanese are sending ordors to this country for bulls. T he Japanese Lave long boon regardod as famous bell-makers, but they do not hesitate to apply to American manufacturers -when they find it to their advantage to do so. There ia grim humor in the fact that the fire-alarm bulls to be used in Tokio hav e been ordored of a manufacturing firm in Jersey City. Tho largest bell in America is in the cathedral of Montreal and it' weighs 23,000 pounds. The bell in the pub lic building at Philadelphia is to weigh between 20,000 and 25,000 pounds. There is a bell at Erfurt, Germany, (east in 1179) and one in Notre Dame, Faris, oast iu 1800, each weighing 30, 000 pounds. The great Chinese bell at Pekiu weighs 120,000 pounds, is 14 feet high and 12 feet iu diameter. By tho way, the Chinese used to make bells nearly square iu shape. The largest bell is of course that in tho .Kremlin at Moscow. It is over niuo teen feet in height and measures . nearly 23 foot across the mouth, its thickness at the point where the olup 1cr would strike is twenty-throe in chos; tho oobt of manufacturing this noble work of human art was abt 4800.000. ' ' ' " ' ' When (lie Heart Bents KlirliU When tho h'-nrt Is dentin' right, All tho world Is bill of light i Run by ilay ami stars by night, When tlin lionrt Is bentln' right. When tho heart Is bentln' right, Ktorms bring only Mlnhnws bright, Ami the s' dior wins thn fight, When thn heart Is bentln' right. When tho heart Is bentln' right, Ites bloom reil and Willi" i Weakest aniilsara souls of might Earth a garden of ilelljlit, When the heart Is bent.!' right. F. H. HrAMTo In Atlanta Constitution. A LUCKY FALL. Miss Doria Kemp is ono of tho luckiest young women in the world. She went out to sketch in tho hills of old Mexico, and whilo looking for n brook fell into a bed of gold nuggets. Sho jumped from poverty to c m parative riches in the twinkling of an eve. Her find netted her $9,700. Miss Kemp is now in Chicago on her way to Paris, France, whero she pro poses to study art in the h.pe of be coming a grea painter. Hhe was in Charharipari, a little settlement at tho mountain's foot, six hard days' riding from any railroad Hhe says: "There was aomo magnificent scenery near this quiet little place of 3 0 souls and 1 passed many a plea sant day sketching. In this fashion a month passed, and it became very monotonous, and I began t) think of going somcwhero where I might be among white folks. Tho only Eng-lish-spenking persons there were Mil ler, Inndlor 1 of tho little hotel, nud a little quaint Italian who was a handy man for the more pretentious shops. One afternoon I started out from the town with my sketch-book under my arm, and after a brief walk came to a rolling, rather steep hill. CurioiiB to see what was beyond I went on up and over its brow. Before mo lay one of tho wildest scenes I have ever soon before or sinco. "Tho tall orchnrd trees stood closo together, slanting down the hill, the top of tho Inst ones failing into tho misty blue that filled tho basin of the canon. Tho intersections wero filled with a twining, twisting mnss of un dergrowth, from which grew all sorts of rare and beautifully colorod flow ers, whilo on the sides of the two hills to the left, standing out iu a menacing splendor, were rocks of gigantic size. Tho sound of a stream camo up to mo from tho depths of bluo below. It sounded tempting, and I stnrtud for it. As I went on down the sides 1 toro my skirts in the jagged tinder growth, but I kept on and marking my way by breaking low limbs, Isoou camo in sight of the stream, and was turning to mako my way to tho left to find a slant that would tako me to tho bank of it, when I found myself sinking down and dorn. I reached out for something to clutch, but some thing always gave way, and I finally landed ou a sandy bit of bench in a little covo that tho horizontal wall of the mountain's base made at tho edge of the stream. I was not hurt. My fall bad been gradual. I had fnllon through a growth that covered tho aide of the hill above me fully thirty foot I scannod the sidoa of the rock that mado the covo. There was no retreat that way. I lookod down tho stream. Thore was a waterfall not ten foet away, whoso distance I could not moasuro, but it seemed as if it was a great deal Up the stream it oemed as bad ; the water was fully twenty feet across and lookod dcop, although here at the edges it was shal low enough, but tho sharp projection of stono stood well out into the water and it meaut a wado of proportions I had yot to ascertain. "I secured from tho hillside a sinu ous vine and made a rope, fastened it to a solid point of the rock, and thon, as it was early, I sat down to sketch tho canon as it stretched away in the blue depths I could see down over the waterfall. I reclinod on the sand with my back to tho hillside. While con templating the view I absently picked up pebbles and threw them into the water. One of them I happened to notice as I hold it in my hand. It was of odd Bhape and peculiar color where the dried earth didn't oover it. I washed it off in the stroam. It look ed auspiciously like gold. I looked where I bad been sitting, and thore in an oblong rift of the rocks was a hat ful of just such clods as I held in my baud. I had seen nuggets of gold, but had never heard of them in such quantities as met my gaze. Hoping it was gold, but not sure, and with thoughts of Monte Cristlike splen dor iu my mind, I plaood those that were loose iu a uluhe as high up tho bunk as I oould reiclv and made my way around the point of rook to find a way home with the nugget securely fastened iu my dross. Thn watur was up to my shoulders, but I succeeded in getting around then mnrklng tho way carefully with bits of paper, I mado up the hill again ami gained tho house, much tho worse for wear. I put on a dry dress, nnd seeking Mil lor, showed him my Hud, asking him with a calmness I certainly didn't feel what it was. He acanuod it carefully, nud saiil ; " 'It's dirty good gold. Whero'd you get it?' "I rather stninmerod thnt I hnd found it in tho creek's bed a short (lis tnnco from tho house. Thoughts of tho treasure, if it woro one, being filched from mo caused this little de ception. Ho snid further: 'It's purty well mixed with dirt,' and then laugh ingly: 'If you had a wheelbarrow lul of bits liko this you could buy a farm.' ' 'How much is it worth?' I asked. " 'Oh, about ei.), I think.' "I thanked him and went to my room. To get tho rest of tho bits as he called thorn, from whero they wero, and tnko them s.r ly to a place where I could dispose of them, gave me much to think on. I did not care to trust any one with my socrot, anil I wanted to know the extent of my find. The next day I was putting query af ter query to Miller about placer min ing. At night I was as far from know ing what its extent was as could be. After supper I resolved to try tho Itnlian, who had taken aomo fanoy to me, I thought, for having given him several cast-off garmonts for his wife. I found him, secured his services for tho next day, making a tryst whoro he was to moot mo with a pick, shovel, bags, and ropo, and ou the way told him of what I was about to do and offered him 850 to assist mo to tho railroad with what we might secure. He swore by the Virgin ho would never betray me. Wo mado our way down to tho rock, and, fixing the rope firmly, I went around, took tho tools from him, nud then he en mo. I asked him what ho know about plncer min ing. He know considerable. I show od him whero I found tho nuggets, or rnthor tho clods, nud we went to work. "It was hard work, too. But after eight or nino hours of picking I came to tho conclusion that I had got all there was out of tho rough gutter of tho rock whore tho stream trickled through. Wo hnd in all, at a rough estimation, nbout eighty pounds of dirt and gold, including thu loose bits I hud concealed in tho niche. I could not sco signs of any more. There was no beach except whero I had stood. Wo looked that all over and saw no signs of gold. We dug down nnd soon struck solid rock, and we con cluded there was nothing more thnn tho 'pocket.' We mado two packages of the dirt, and with much effort I helped the Italian to carry them up tho hill. Wo left tho tools. Thnt night I went to bis hotiso, guarding my treasure. I sent a noto by him to Miller telling him I would not bo at homo, saying tho Italian's wife was ill and thnt I would stay with her that night. I had tho Italian securo mo a cart and donkeys, and tho next morn ing, with my fortune concealed under the scat, I started with it for the near est station, after settling with Millur for my month's board. "We reached tho station aftor a six days' trip. I gave the Italian five or six ounces of the most solid of the stuff. I had the rest packed in a stout box. While at the station I met a travelling salesman, to whom I con fided. Ho advised mo to tako it to tho city of Mexico, I lacked $10 or 12 of hiving enough money to pay my fare, but ho loaned it to mo, say ing I could send it to him. I arrivod safely in tho city, and with tho assist ance of an American at tho hotel I had tho stuff molted, and, after thu customs and license were paid, it net ted me 80,700. Ou the ndvioo of the same gentleman I invested iu a small oultivatod coffee plantation near Min atitlau. It was profitable, and I have boon thore sinco July, 1891, until the fall of last year, when I sold my in terest in tho coffee ground to one of tho larger growers. I do not like Mex ico, and I have spent considerable time sinoe I closed out my interest in travelling. Chicago Tribune. Jove and Hornet Strike Together, There was an uuusually sharp flash of lightning, a stunning peal of thun der and a sharp, sudden pain, and a West Ooldsboro youug lady gave a shriek and jumped into the middle of the floor. Her friends thought she had been struck and she thought she had been killed, but whou tho excite ment had oulmed down enough for an investigation everybody was rolieved, for then it was found that tho shock had been iuflioted not by the light uing, but by a hornet, which had ohoseu that iuniispioio.is tiim for ac tion. Lewiatou (Mo.l Jouru.iL tJrnlcsipie Korean Interims, Tho houses of Heoiil, Oiimsoii, Che mulpo and Fusan are much thn snme both in architecture and docorntion. They are built chiefly of stone. There Is a roofed gateway nud a gato hoiino In the outer wall. They nro usually triple-roofed and surrounded by a cluster of fanciful smaller buildings, the whole inclosed by a second wall. From cavo to cave they nre generally not moro than from forty to forty-five feet wido J tho rooms being twenty by twenty-flvo. There is a wide plntforra all tho way around tho building, which has a rieo-ntraw roof. The inmates sleep out there during tho warm weathor. Tho inside is partitioned off into rooms, but tho partitions only riso about throe-quarters of tho way to tho ceiling. The interior furnish ing is grotesquely artistic. One miss es tho soft, tender tinting of Japan, with tho swallows, storks, nnd quaint figures painted upon the ceilings, walls, floors, side panels, rugs, mats, table cloths, aud even the hostess, who is, of course, the chief decoration of the apartment ; ono also glaucoa iu vain for that grim, gloomy Hatania figuring of dragons, devils, horned human beings and distorted flora, which is rife in China ; but the Korean idea df giiruituring is quite individual aud interesting of itself. The sea flowers, sea shells and fish scales are the special products used. The ceil ings are massed with shells, looking like an ocean of white waves, aud oftimes the wnlls nre so covered with baked seaweed iu rocky design as to look like great cliffs rising upon oach side: then again the whole room may be tastefully draped in sea moss. Occasionally a Korean household has just plain, bare matting tacked upon tho walls, with crude pictures hung thereon, and the only furniture will be a "kang," three or four benches nnd some mats. Tho poorer classes live in wretched huts aud hovels, whoso wall may bo of stone or clay and at all times are filthy, smoky, greasy and unkempt. I spoko of the Korean "kang." This is a cross between a divan nud a bod. It is used iu the "Hermit King dom" at all hours of the day. Mother sits upon it when sho brews tea or Congo water, spanks baby or makes father's shirt ; sister prays upon it ; is betrothed while she sits on its com fortable surface, nnd, mayhap, stands on it when sho is married. Altogether it is a special Korean necessity. Thoso I have seen are very wide, probably ten feet, built of wood, but tho ultra clans mako them of gold, silvor, stone and even onyx. New York World. Devotion of a JI other Bird. I often watch tho chimney-swifts, a dozen nt a timo, with closed wings nnd ii wabbling motion, drop iuto our un used chimney for tho night, Iu this s'imo chimney, which first drew my at tention to tho birds, I otico saw a Iteait tif ul tiling a tender side of bird na ture. Ouce, some month or moro after all these little birds had taken their flight to more sunny climes, I hoard a familiar twitter in the chimney, and taken out the old-fashioned firebourd found a full-grown bird lying upon tho hearth. Looking more closely, ilisftovernil thnt hn wilh fastfttintt tn tlin liest, which by its weight had fallen from its attachmont up the chimney. The fellow seemed to be assured oi my friendliness toward him for he lay vory still and quite whilo I examined thu case. I found that ho was fastened by a strong hair from a horse's main or tail, which, wrapped over hia log, bound him fast to the nest. Hia an xious mother, who had cast in her lot with him to remain and dio too with him, for the time of insects was about gono, came iuto tho chimney and no tuully waited beside me while I snippod the strong hair and released him. It was an hour or moro bofore he got the use of his leg aud loaruod what his mother was teaching him by flying up and down in the chimney, and thon the both started ou their louesome flight to the fur South. Forest and Htream. "Feet or Yards!" Oue of the members of our Yulo Yule athlotio team tolls rather a good story about a youug English inter viewer who probably kuow as much about the North Polo as ho did about mauly sports. "Now," said tho scribe, after get ting tho athlete's impressions of things in general, "about that famous loap of yours what was the exact dis tance?" "Twenty-three five aud a half," an swered the college man. Without looking up from his pad the interviewer briskly inquired, "Foet or yards?" Truth. A Milan pianist recently won a be) by playing f r twenty-live couajcutiv hours without r.'st. SCI EST! Fit' SCRAPS. Insect-eating animals nro gradually becoming extinct. If left without food for a fow hour tho molo will dio of starvation. Iu Franco typhoid fever patients nro given five to six quarts of water a day. Ninety per cent of tho energy in conl is lost iu converting it iuto power. Tho city of Potsdam, Germany, has been photographed from a distance of three miles. Tho hypnotic stato is frequently se cured by fixing the eyes steadily upon some bright object. Whito spots appear ou tho nails, bccatiao tho vascular tismo underneath is attached to the substance of the nail, but from some accidental cause, such as a blow, occasionally becomes separated. Iu a new French method of illumi nating a tunnel, reflectors throw tho light from electric lamps sixteen feet nbovo the rails to the sides of the tun nel, where it is again reflected by bur nished tin. The current is switched on and off automatically as trains en ter nud leavo thu tunnel. It is a great mistake to peel pota toes before cooking them. The skin, like the bark of all medicinal roots, is the richest part of the tuber. Po tatoes baked are more intuitions than prepared in any other form, because the valuablo mineral salts are held in solution by the pellicle of the skin. If it is desired to remove tho skin it should bo done by rubbing with a rough cloth, w hich preserves the true skin. In Germany recently one man was killed and auother injured by an elec tric current, the one who was Injured being awarded damages, while the re latives of tho oue who was killed were not. This would appear to bo an argument, at least in Germany, for tho uso of high tension circuits, ns it appears to be cheaper to kill outright thnn to injuro persons. Our railway companies iu tho United States tlud it cheaper to kill thnn to injure. The (ymklinua. Tho gymkhuun, a sort of gymnastic hash, iu which tho participants aro ex pected to cxerciso their ingenuity in devising nil sorts of unheard of per formances, has been introduced iuto England from India. Tho sport is very popular iu that part of tho Orient, but ia little kuowu iu Western countries. The idea was launched in London tho other day, aud according to tho papers thore tho lovers of sport havo gono crazy over it Tho most amusing event on tho programme was a cos tume race. Heated ou side saddles and nttirod in dresses of tho gayest colors and tho most startling cut five men went round tho courso, which in cluded a bushel hurdle. Two ballet girls, (both men) covered their ponies' quarters with voluminous skirts, a Dolly Vardon and baby in bed gown aud sun bonne', nud raced for the fence, ami Charloy'a Aunt brought up tho rear. Auother feature of the day was tho obstoolo raoo, in which a var iety of objects likely to put ponies on were nrrauged round the course. The ono that attracted poople most was the series of paper screens through which tho pouies hnd to force thoir way. Tho head-to-tail raco and the handkerchief dash were mirth-provoking features. In tho former men rodo at lively speed with their faces toward tho horses' tails, and in tho latter a rider dropped a lady's hand kerchief on, the g rou ml, then at a gal lop picked it up without leaving tho saddle Now York Advertiser. The Seven Bible of the World. Tho question is often asked whether there is any Bible besides the Christian Biblo, There are seven. Each faith believes its own to be the Word of God. They aro tho Holy Scriptures, the Koran of the Mahometans, the Tu Pitikes of the Buddhists, the Five Kings of the Chinese, the Three Tedas of the Hindus, the Geuduvesta of the Persian, the Eddaa of the Scandi navians. The Etldas is merely a semi aaored work, aud was born in tho fourteenth century. The most receut of the real Bible is the Koran, which in a collection of aayiugs from tho Christian Hcripturea aud the Tulinud, and dates from the suvouth century aftur Chriiit. The Vedos are the moHt anuiuut of Hindu literature, although the oomiiicutators do not ascribe them to au earlier period than the twelfth coutury bofore Christ. The Pentateuch was written by Moses 1,500 years be fore Christ, so that the Christian Bible antedates tho oldest of its rivals by three centuries. New York World. Happy Itnrs, Oh, thoso horn aro tlio hnppy days No matter what thny sny i There's uiore good fun In all fho way Than's been there many a dny! The eraekln' of tlio tonmster's whip Tho shouting of a boy. As tho hlck'ry nut comntiimblln' down Turn's Joy for yon big Joy! Oh, these hero nro tho linppy dayi, Tlio farms aro full o' life i Tlio feller and his sweetheart Is a-thinkln' of a wife. There's plenty In tho corncrlb, There's honey In tho lilvoi Aud a feller's kinder feelln' That it's good tobonllvo! Atlantic Constitution. HUMOROUS. The closer you got to a great man the smaller ho 1 oka. Do not waste nil your time explain ing why others do not succeed. The cynicism of some people seems to be a desire to make bright re marks. It would puzzlo an onion to under stand whntthoro is about a rose that people like. People aro usually willing to do thoir duty, but they do not like to do too much of it. If you value the friendship of your frieud, never agree with him when he calls himself a fool. Having a "steady" keeps a girl nt home as close evenings as if sho was married nnd had a baby. Our servant was deeply In lovo, Nor could sho tho secret long koflpi Rho'd sigh and she'd stare With preoccupied sir, And call out "Police" in hor sloop. A Mild Rebuke. He "How many conquests have you made this season? Sho "I never talk shop." When a man is weighed in the social scale, nowadays, he must be heavy enough for tho cash balance. "I hear you profor to be cremated when you die." "I do I" "Anil why?" "Ho that my remains may bo mingled with the ashes of the grate." Cwsnrwasa lucky man. He could go around whero he pleased nud his wife never asked him annoying ques tions. She was above suspiciau. Wool "Ono of these hunting-bolts seems to bo loaded with blank cart ridges." Van Pelt 1 forgot to tell you ; young Brown has asked to go with us." At a Prize-Shooting Rifloman (aftor repeated misses) Donnerwet ter! If thoso rascally follows haven't gone and stuck up tho target in tho wrong place again. 'J.augh, ami tho world laughs with you ; Weep, ami you weep alone," Unless It be nftertho minstrel Joko, In which novelty there Is nono. "Is it truo thnt your bride ia Tory hard of hearing?" "It is. Why, when I proposed to hor I had to shout so loud that all the neighbor ran out and congratulated mo." If the Japs aro as long-hoadod as they are loputed to be they will make nil haste to organize an Amazonian battalion among the servant girla of America. Few warriors could beat them smashing China. The eyes of the suitor filled with toors. "Sir I" be protested, "I would givo my very life for your daughter." Hor father started violently. "Young man," hn thundered, "do. I look as if I was easy picking ia a trade?" "Tho Sins of tho Father, etc. Tommy (studying hia lessonj I say, pa, where does the Merrimao rise and into what sea does, it empty? Pa I don't know, my son. Tommy Yoo don't know ! And tomorrow the teach er will lick me on account of your ig norance. Big Official Salaries Iu England. It is interesting to note that the sal ary of the late Lord Chief Justice Col eridge was 810,000 a year, whilo that of the Chief Justice of the supreme court of tho United States ia 810,000. The difference between the salaries of these two officials ia no greater, how ever, than that between other high officials in England and this country, The lord chancellor receives 80,000 a year while in office aud a pension foi life of 83,000. The lords of appeal get 830,000, aud all the other judges 825,000. The income of the British attorney-general is at least 860,000 a year, against a salary of $8,000 for the nttorney-geuerul of the United States. The latter ttguro is the salary of our secretary of statu, while all the En glish secretaries of state get $23,000 a year, aud after terviug for a certain time they are entitled to 810,000 a year for life. Altogether it will be seeu that the high officers in England are very handsomely paid wheu com pared with those iu this country, aud the beuoh is about the beat-paid of all. Boston Herald.
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