V
The population of Egypt Increased
from about nix and ft half millions in
1882 to over eight millions in 1891
The use of trolley curs in connec
tion with funerals is becoming quit
common in Borao of the northern
cities.
Chicago is not satisfied with its
river, and is talking of digging an
other, which shall run from the lake
end into tho big ditch.
The Irishmen of Australia have no
tified the Irish politicians of the Brit
ieh parliament that if the counsels of
the party are not united they will not
pot tip another penny.
In Mexico less than 5,000 mnrders
were committed last year, or one to
every 24,000 of the popnlation, while
in the United States there were 10,500
mnrders, or one to every 7,000 of the
population.
Philadelphia has so many electric
railwaysmnningin every direction that
the United States Geological Survey
is having considerable trouble in de
termining the magnetic variation in
Philadelphia, as the earth beneath the
city is so filled with electric currents
that compass needles behave in most
eccentrio manuer.
New York City is the great center of
the ready made clothing trade. In
the manufacturing part of this busi
ness there are about 00,000 workers,
while within a radius of twenty-five
miles from the city hall there aro prob.
ably 25,000 more. Of these, about
65 percent are American and foreign
Hobrews, 23 percent Italians and the
balance of American, English and
Other nationalities.
Calculations as to the speed of an
eloctrio locomotive and train of the
weight of the famous Empire state
express, running at a speed of seventy
miles an hour, show that, without in
creased cost of coal, the electric mo
tors could make a speed of 108 miles
per hour, indicating a saving of over
one-third the expense and that much
higher speed is economically possible
with eloctric motors.
Liechtenstein, the smallest sover
eign stnte in Europe save Monaco, is
having a constitutional crisis. The
Prinoe lives at Vienna, leaving tho
w iue uroverumem 10 a miinuger,
who recently undertook to establish a
censorship over the only newspaper
published in the principality. The
people and Legislature are up in arms
for the freedom of the press, and de
mand that the Prince shall observe
the Constitution. Liechtenstein used
to send a contingent of 7 1-2 men to
the army of the German confedera
tion. A man by the name of E. H. Ken
nedy, who lived in Philadelphia, died
fow days ago, leaving an estate
which was valued at 8100,000. Ac
cording to the terms of the will the
property is to be held in trust for the
benefit of the woman's branch of tho
Pennsylvania Society for the Preven
tion of Cruelty to Animals. The
trustee is to pay to the society the en
tire inooine from this large sum, un-
' less the sooiety shall disband,or cease
to do the work which it is now doing,
to protect animals from cruelty. In
the latter event the net annual iooome
of the trust estate is to be paid an
nually to the commissioners .of Fair
mount park, for the purchase annual
ly of one painting, which shall be
' placed in the art gallery of Fairniount
..... .1 il. n . .
park. Mr. Kennedy, who died at
Hahnemann hospital, had long been a
devoted friend to the society which ho
made his beneficiary.
Says the Twentieth Century : "Oor
large cities are becoming clearly more
and more dangerous to live in. If it
is not the trolley and the cable that
laughter people remorselessly, it is
manhole that bursts or a live wire that
slays. It is fur cheaper for monopoly
to kill women aud children than to
pnt its implements of death where
their destructive oapacity is under
control The resource of damage
suits is beyond the reach of the poor.
Anyhow, the damage suit is a curious
nperstition. If a man loves his wife
and child, what good will a few thou
sand dollars do him? What good
would the entire coinage of the coun
try do him for that matter? Of
course, grown people oan take care of
children are in oonstant peril. It is
very odd that the peril always in
creases. One might suppose that the
monopolies would try to kill less
children every year, but the faot is
that their young victims increase in
number daily. Progress. is a most
carious thing. "
The Isle of Lone; Ago.
0t 1 wonderful stream is tlo River Time,
As It flows through the realm ot year-
With a faultless rhythm and a musical r
Anil a broader sweep and a surge su'
As it blends with tho oeean of years,
How the winters are drifting, like flakes ot
snow,
And the summers like tmds between i
And the years In the sheaf so they come
and they go
On the river's breast, with Its ebb end flow,
As they glide In the shadow and sheen.
There's a magical Isle up the River Tlmo,
Where the softest of nltn aro plnvlng t
There's a cloudless sky and a tropical clime,
And a voice, as sweet as a vesper chime,
And tho Junes with the roses are staying.
And the name of this Isle Is the Long Ago,
Anil we bury our treasures there t
There are brows of beauty and bosoms of
snow-
There are henps of dust, b"t we love them so !
There are trinkets and tresses of hair.
There are fragments of songs that nobody
sings.
And a part of nn Infant's prayer,
There's a harp unswept and a Into without
strings,
There are broken vows and pieces of rings,
And the garments she used to wear.
There are hands that are waved when the
fairy shore
Ry the mirage Is lifted In air i
And we sometimes hear through the tiirbii'
lent ronr
Sweet voices we heard In the days gone be
fore.
When the wind down tho river is fair.
Oh, remembered for aye ho tho blessed Is!o
All the day of our life till night.
And when evening comes with Its beautiful
smile,
And our eyes are closing In slumber nwhile,
May that "Greenwood" of soul be In sight,
Renjamin F. Taylor.
Wooing of Mis3 Anna Beggs.
BY KATHF.HINE BATES.
"No," said lawyer Anna Beggs, "no,
I shall never marry."
"That is a great pity," replied the
mai Vj whom she was speaking, "for
you vould make a delightful home for
some lucky fellow. "
The lawyer lookod at him in sur
prise. "Do yon think so ?" she asked. "I
hardly agree with you, for I am not at
all domestic, lou probably think so
because it ie your theory that women
should make homes"
"No, that isn't it," interrupted her
friend. "I think yoa would mako a
delightful homo."
Miss Beggs was silent; she crossed
her feet and slipped down in her
chair, meditating for a little while.
At last she said: "Ob, I think not."
"Why not?"
"Well, it is generally held that one
of the essentials of a homo is wifoly
admiration for the head of tho family.
It is not my custom to admire men."
"That is true," admitted the man;
"but a man's admiration for his wife
goes a long way toward making a
homo."
"That's another theory, isn't it?
Did you ever see a home properly
oonduoted without wifely admiration?"
"No; I can't say that I ever did.
But I should be willing to try the ex
periment if yon would take mo."
"Take you? Are you proposiug to
me, Henry West?"
"That's what I am working up to
I have intended for some years to do
it when yon bad time to listen. You
seemed a trifle short of clients this
afternoon the extremecold.no doubt
so I deemod it a good time to try
my luck. That is why I introduced
matrimony as general topio ; unless
it is positively disagreeable to von.
I'd now like to make it a speoial
one."
The lawyer sighed She was a
handsome woman, with very long
lashes to her dark grey eyes, and she
drooped these convenient lashes as
she considered the matter.
"Well, if you must talk it ont I
suppose now is as good a time as auv :
but I am dissappoiuted in yon, Henry.
X have known you for years, and I
have always counted on you as oue of
the men who would uot want to marry
me."
"For a good many of those years I
did not inteud to woutto,"said Henry,
apologetioally. "In fact, I thought
the men who were anxious to in spite
of your eccentricities, were great idiots,
but 1 have changed my mind."
"Aud yon a man 1"
"Yes, but I am not verv much of
one, Anna. That's the plea I am go
ing to advanoe this afternoon the
basis of my argument. I Lave gone
over all the'poiuts in the case, and it
seems my best ohanoe. I know that
I am no better looking, no more en
tertaining, have no, better principles
and no more money than some of the
men yon have already refused ; but I
do thiuk I am ahead of them in that
one point. You enjoy being a manly
woman well, I enjoy being a man
with womanly tustes. Why shouldn't
we bs just the people for each other?
No, that was only a rhetorical ques
tion I don't want an answer yet, for
I should like to set forth the whole
plan. That is the great advantage in
proposing to a sensible woman one
doesn't waut to got hurried and flur
ried. If yon married me, yon
conld go on just the same with your
work tho honsckoeper aud I conld
manage the house well enough, I am
sure "
"Yon and the housekeeper I" inter
rnpted the lawyer, impulsively.
"Yes no doubt we conld get A
capable woman to help us ont I have
quite good taste in the furnishing of
a house, the equipping of a small eon
sorvatory, aud so on ; and I conld
confer with her on the points I nm
weak in. She could manege the cui
sine with hints from me about game,
fish, aud a few other matters in which
I am well up. I know quite a littlo
of landscape gardeuing, and if she
had taste, too, no doubt we could man
age to make the whole place quite at
tractive." "I thought yon said I would make
a delightful home."
"So you would; the housekeeper
and I are only going to see to the
house."
"May I ask why you don't marry
ucrr
"Because I am, unfortunately, in
love with you."
"And yet you don't count me in
your plans at all 1"
I nm dwelling merely on the mate
rial side now. When you came homo
at night, after dinner (about which,
you remember, yen need have no
thought whatever) if you had no ref
erences to look up, and if there was
nothing yon cared to go to, why you
and I could talk. I am a good listen
er, Anna,"
"And what should we have to talk
about? Evory possiblo common in
terest would bo monopolized by the
housekeeper, it seems to me."
"Oh, no, not nt all. i read a groat
deal especially fiction and we could
discuss current literature. I know
littlo Mrs. Hardy nud her husband
often read the magazines , to each
other in the eveningafter she has at
tended to tho ordering breakfast nnd
other household mnttcrs nud they
seem very hnppy in doing so."
"After sho has attended her house
hold affairs," in used the lawyer.
"Yes ; but of course you would not
hnvo any household affairs to mar your
enjoyment. Yon could feel exactly as
if yon were in a hotel."
"I haven't the faintest doubt that I
should," said Miss Beggs, warmly.
"All the details of our life together
would soon fall into shape there are
a good many things I should like to
do if I were established in n home of
my own, but I should never think of
insisting on your sharing thorn. For
instance, 'I should like to have a
visit from Aunt Lne.itia, the
dear old lady buck in the East
who brought me up; but if we haij
succocdod in getting ajploasant woman
ns housekeeper, Aunt Lctty would
not bo in the least a drain on yon.
She is a chummy old soul, and very like
ly sho would grow fond of the house
keeper and they conld go on all sorts
of larks together. Then I should like
to take n pew in tho nearest church of
our of my persuasion. My father
had one as long as he livod, nnd some
way nn interest in a church has always
seemed to me a part ot domesticity, I
dare say I should not go ofteu, but if
she were a Christian woman, and
that is the sort we should like to get,
shouldn't we? why, she could use the
pew. "
"Do I understand that you are go
ing to churoh with her, while I"
"Oh, not at all, of oourse not.Aono.
I merely wished to have the pew in
my name, and I hoped she would oare
to attend that chnrch because well,
because I should like to thiuk of a
good woman in the West pew my
briugiug-np cropping out, yon see.
Then there are other things books
are my hobby, yon know, but we
could have two libraries, one for your
legal books aud political science and
all the other things you know so muoh
about, and a little den for my novels
and books of verse. I confess to lik
ing some oue to judge a new book
with mo but I promise not to bore
yon in that way, Anna."
"The housekeeper, in the intervals
between beautifying the home and go
ing to church, could probably read
them with you," said Miss Beggs.
"Isn't it queer, I had thought of
that very thing if we should chanoo
on a cultured womau, Now, Anno,
doesn't it seem a possibility? Won't
you consider "
"I consider," said the lawyer, ris
ing to ber feet with sudden vim, "that
you are insulting me, Henry West I
After our long friendship, I should
not have expected this of you. I may
have been indifferent to marriage,
from personal point of view, but I j
have always considered it a sacred
institution. To be asked to join with
you in such an arrangement as yon
propose" she broke off aud for the
first time sinee she hnd beon admitted
to the bar tears came into her eyes,
and her voice trembled.
The man with womanly tastes was
pleased at tho sight ot the drops on
her chocks, and he bent over and kissed
them away.
"Dearest," he said, "will you bo
my housekeeper?" The New Bo
hemia. Somo New IMsonses.
The intensity of present-day life
has developed new and enrious ills
that act principally npon the nerve
and brain. There is one malady that
is peculiar to cities. It is called the
elevated-rnilroad disease, and has be
como sufficiently common to attract
the attention of scientists. Among
the leading symptoms are nervous
irritation and a habit of hesitation in
speaking. Many people who live on
tho line of the elevated railroads are
suffering from nervous systems that
are almost entirely shattered.
An eminent surgeon is authority
for tho statement that there are
about half a score ot new diseases
developed by the high-pressure
methods of present-day living.
Writer's cramp and telegrapher's
cramp aud paralysis are not new,
but they are becoming modified nnd
complicated with other diseases. A
number of telegraphers hnvo become
insane from the nervous strain of
their occupation, and several have
committed suicide.
With tho introduction of tho
typewriter, writer's cramp grew less
prevalent, but in its place came
muscular cramps, uorvous dilllcultics
nnd brain troubles, half a score
of them.
A new disonse is called railroad
shock, nnd is a nervous affection in
duced by fright and the shock caused
by being the victim of an accident.
There is n flute-player's disease of
the throat, nud medical men tell ns
of piano paralysis and cramps. The
violinist has his peculiar ills to battlo
with, and now somebody has dis
covered that street-car conductors
are snbjoct to an illness causod by
touching brass railings with thoir
bare hands nnd then bringing them
in contact with the eyes and face.
These aro only a few of the out
growths of our artificial method of
living, but they are quite enough to
furuish occasion for serious thought
as to whethor our manners aud habits
are not in urgent need of modifica
tion and reformation. Now York
Ledger.
Story of a Poultice.
Family discipline is still maintained
in some American families, as of
course it ought to be in nil. The
Rcboboth Herald furnishes an in
stance. A small boy got a sliver in
his foot, according to tho writer and
his mother expressed - her intention
of putting a poultioe on the wound,
Tho boy with the natural foolishnoss
which is bound up in the heart of a
child, objected to the proposed rente1
dy.
"I won't have any poultice I" he
deolnred.
"Yes, you will," said both mother
and grandmother, firmly. The ma
jority was two to one against him, and
at bedtime the poultioe was ready.
The patient was not ready. On
the contrary, he resisted so stoutly
that a switch was brought into re
quisition. It was arranged that the
grandmother should apply the poul
tice while the mother with uplifted
stick, was to stand at the bedside.
The boy was told that if bo "opened
his mouth" ho would reoeive some
thing that would keep him quiet.
The hot poultioe touched his foot
and he opened his mouth.
"Yon" he began.
"Keep stilll" said his mother,
shakiug hor stick, while the grand
mother applied the poultice.
Once more the little fellow opened
his mouth.
"I "
But the uplifted switob awed him
into silence.
In a minute more the poultioe waa
firmly in plaoe, and the boy was
tuoked in bed.
" There, now," said his mother,
"the old sliver will be drawn out,
and Eddie's foot will be all well."
The mother and grandmother were
moving triumphantly away, when a
shrill voice piped from under the
bodolothee:
"You've got it ou the wrong foot I"
It is charged that Succi, the fasting
man, managed to get raw beef and
other such trifles without the knowl
edge of the attendant physicians dur
ing hie late phenomenal fast at
Vienn
OSTRICH FARM.
A Picturesque and Profitable In
dustry in Florida.
The Eggs of The Big Birds Fetch
Twenty-Five Dollars Apiece.
During tho Atlanta exposition last
fall major H. C. Tiffin, ot Courteuay,
on the Indian river in Floridn, while
he was in Atlanta, bonght fifteen os
triches, seven females and eight males,
and carried them to his Indian river
home.
This was the initial move toward
the establishment of this most pictur
esque nnd profitable industry in tho
South. Tho ostriches soon became ac
climated and are now bs happy and
thrifty a colony as one would wish to
see. Thirteen of tho birds were raised
on a farm in southern California, and
the other two were raised in South
Africa and were imported to this
country. The hens hnve been laying
since early last spring aud foriy-two
eggs are now hatching.
Major Tifiin uses an ordinary chicken
incubator for hatuhing,oud just forty
two days are required to hatch an
ostrich egg, A number of eggs nre
being hutched by the hens in tho
nests.
The incubator is heated by a kero
sene lamp with thermometer attach
ment. A temperature of 110 degrees
will kill the eggs, nud an electrio bell
contrivance warns major Tifiin in his
house of any undue rise in the tem
perature. "Mineral wool," a compo
sition of slag and other rocks, is used
as packing around the eggs. The
vitreous tubstuuee is converted into a
fibrous condition for this purpose. In
appearance it consists of innumerable
tiny air cells formed by the inter
twining of tlie fibres.
The birds are sepnrated by pairs,
each pair or family requiring a half
acre run. The runs or lots are pro
vided with plenty of gravel, dry sand
and grain food. A hose furnishes cool
aud fresh wnter for the pool and stall
in each run.
The gravel was secured in Atlanta.
The ostrich house is a round structure,
sixty feet in diameter, and is located
in the centre of the ten-acre farm,
lb dating from the centre of the bouse
are sixteen stalls extondiug to the limit
of the enclosure, giving each bird a
room to itself, the sixteenth stall ex
tend iug into the houso yard of major
Tiffiu nnd serving for nn avenue into
the ostrich domain. In the very cen
ter of the ostrich house, under a large
oeutrul draught shaft, is a circular cham
ber, with doors opening iuto each stall
thus affording a means of transference
from one stall to another without go
ing .outside of tho iuclosure, and
through which the ostriches may be
changed nt will. A three-foot open
ing extends along the walls inar the
caves. A similar opening is left in
the cupoln, and these openings will be
screened with fine netting, Tho house
eutrauce to each stall is closed by a
heavy door, thus shutting up the os
triches at night nud keopiug the mos
quitoes out. The ostriches are per
mitted to run during the day, nnd at
night they are confined to their rooms
for repose. A female ostrich begins
laying usually when she is five years
old, laying after thut period during
each year exaotly 50 eggs, weighing
84 ounces each. These eggs sell for
$20 apiece anywhere in the world that
there is a market for them. Thus,
after a hen reaches ber fifth birthday
she earns by her laying $1,000 a year,
as much as a railway clerk or as
much as some bank cashiers to say
nothing of a newspaper correspond
ent's earnings.
This is not all the earning capacity
of this famous bird, for the ostrich
feather is always sold at good prices.
The fertilizer that is obtained from an
ostrich farm is very valuable, and
major Tifiin will hereafter use it ex
clusively on ' his extensive furm.
Mujor Tiffin will soon begin the train
ing of two ot his ostriches to draw a
cart on his farm. In Africa ostriches
are frequently put to such use, and
the same is done in California to some
extent of late. The ostrich is very
strong, standing from five to six feet
high, and is sometimes vioious and un
manageable. A careful and experienced
trainer soon gets even the most vi
oious of the birds in control, after
whioh'the birds beooine mush attached
to the keeper. Atlanta Constitution.
Sew Womau' Year.
DelaWare Ah, welll Man pro
poses and"
Erie Depougb Not this year, Mis
Ware. It's your inning now.
Buffalo Journal,
An Antarotio ioeberg has been seen
that was twenty miles wide, forty
milts in leogtb and 600 feet in height.
Magnetic Torpedo for Ships,
Experiments are being made with an
invention for the torpedo service, aft
tho torpedo station in Narrsgansett
Bay, ot which remarkable results arc
expected. The torpedoes now in ex
istence, su fares their destructive qual
ities are concerned, are perfect when
a vessel is struck by one of them, but
should one of them miss tho torpedo
is lost.
The devico which is now being ex
perimented with consists ot a magnet,
dolicately constructed and intended to
be hung ou an arm at the bow, which
is in turn fastened to the rudder.
The two urms are connected by crossed
wires or chains, and the idea of the
invention is thnt, whon approaching a
vessel the magnet will be attracted in
thnt direction, and in turning will
move the arm to which it is fastened
and so operate tho ruddor, thus steer
ing the torpedo toward the ship. It
is said thnt the magnet is so dolicately
constructed thai should it come with
in one hundred yards of the vessel it
would be effective.
Tho torpedoes will be painted water
color and would be of immense ad
vantage at night, when the enemy has
distinguished the lights aboard ship.
'I'tlA l..,.,..n,1 ...
Imped, nud would approach a hostile
fleet with more stealth than even ft '
submarino boat would.
The question has been raised as to
whether the magnet wonld not be at
tracted to the vessel from which it is
fired, but the meohaoism is arranged
so that the magnet will not be influ
enced nt nil until it has reached a cer
tain distance from the vessel,
Caryl D. Haskius, of the Qeneral
Electrio Company, of Boston, is the
inventor. The device is seven feet
long aud weighs 130 pounds. At o
recent trial the magnet needle followed
an iron steamer at distances of from
fifty to several hundred feet. The
boat against which the device was op
erated was a comparatively small iron
one, and could not be oxpeoted to offer
ns great an attraction as the big but
tlcships plated with armor.
The fact that these experiments are
being made has been cabled abroad by
the military attaches of foreign lega
tions at Washington. With a view of
offsetting the deadly power of these
torpedoes, thore is a tulk of trying to
demagnetize the big war cruisers. If
watches can be demagnetized, it is
thought that warships may be also.
New York Journal,
Fishes Eating All Ills Meadow (J ran.
A rancher, whose plaoe is ou tho
bottom along the Willamette slough,
below Uolbrook station, was in the city
recently to find out whether he had:'
any recourse against tho United States
fish commission for the .introduction
of carp iuto tho rivers of this section.
He say these fish are destroying
his meadows by eating his grass niid
grubbing up the roots. As the wnter
overflows' his meadow, tho carp fol
low it np in thousands, the small ones
weighing about throe pounds pushing
thoir way up where the wator is only
three inches or so in depth, when tho
water recedes he will have mud flats
in place of the meadows.
Ho says that while looking at tho
fish eating bis grass one Sunday he
got so mad that be took off bis shoe
nnd stockings and went out into the
shallow water and attacked them with
a hoo. He slashed a lot of them in
two, bnt when the drove became
alarmed and made for deep water they
bumped their noses against his shins,
and came near knocking him off hia
feet, and his ankles were all black and .
blue from the bnmping he got A for
driving the carp away he says he
might as well have tried to sweep back
the rise of the Columbia with a broom.
Morning Oregouian.
Fre-Natnl Influence.
"The most marked case of a
mother's fright showing in her off
spring is that of au Indian in my
couutry," said D. L. Rogers of Tan.
couver, B. C-, at the Howard. "He
ia known as the 'Bear-faoed Indian,'
and the resemblunoe to a bear is much
more marked than that ot the dog.
faced boy who was exhibited for
several years to a dog. The bear
faced Indian, which is the only name
by which be is known, comes down
from the north every bop season to
pick hops, and bis services are very
greatly in demand. He can pick more
bops than any two other Indium in
the band. His companions have bnt
little to do with him, seeming to re
gard him in a superstitions way, bnt
the oause of his deformity is well es
tablished. His mother, while picking
hops, was suddeuly confronted by
large bear and was frightened rata
oonvulsions, the bear, however, not
molesting her. In a few weeks the
bear-faoed Indian was born. "-Washington
Star,