Iron made in Alabama is steadily fundi in. ; its way into tho mst'kcts ol tho ()1I World. Of tho eighty-one million of dol lars appropriated by the Chilinn bud get, no loss than $19,000,000 nre for army and imvy expenditures. In the seventeenth century the average iliirntion of life was only th r toen years; in flm eighteenth, twenty ; in thin century it in thirty-six. Look ont for the twentieth. Florida' orange groves will about double in vulno this year, ns result of the fuvornblo winter. It is re ported that all crops are doing noil ami that prosperous time are ex pected. Hnrrnh for thn Iowu cow! exclaims (he Dubuque Herald. Sim is one of tho greatest ennrcoa of wealth the etate nffords, and is doing her work quietly, faithfully and well. During tba past year she produced wealth to the value of 842,000,000, which is more than all the silver miues iu the country did. The Florida deer is but litle more than half thesiKoof the deer of North eastern United States, and for this reason beside certain cranial charac teristics and the larger molar and pre molar tooth Mr. Bangs describes it as a distinct species, though probably others would be content with calling it a climatic variety. Tho Canadian department of agri culture estimates the population ol the Dominion to be 5,12."i,43S, again of rather less than -300,000 since the census of 18D1. In 18'.)0 there were two states of thn Union that exceeded Canada in population New York, with 5, !)37,8."3 inhabitants, and Penn sylvania, with 5,2."S,014. A number of northern f.idiann Counties have perfected organizations whereby it is agreed not to purchase farming implements this year. A system of exchange has been agreed upon. The leaders in tho movement disclaim tho establishment of a boy cott on manufacturers or dealers, nnd Btate that tho organizations ore the outgrowth of busiues and limiuciul depression. Tho English show their acute knowl edge of tho snvugo character by send ing, on a mission to Abyssinia, men who aro over sis feut iu height. Judged by tho native standard they will bo persons of far more couse quonco than even the royal prince and his staff, who arein thecouutry repre senting France. If Engluud scores some important ndvnutnge from this hrewd device it will not bo tho first timo in tho history of hur African vonttiros. The Now York Independent says; "Wo would give aeordiul welcome to tho United Slates of Australia, for that is virtually what the Federal Convention at Adelaide has proposed. Tho executive department is to cousibt of a governor-goncm! nndcouncil, the legislative is modeled upuu our Con gress, nud the judicial is similar to our federal supreme court. The governor-general, uuliko our presi dent, ia to be appointed from Lou don. This will be a chief tie ooutieot jng the new government with tho rown." A Missouri womuu who is so very pious that she will do no work on the Sabbath day was very much annoyed by the fact that her hens would not as eonsoieutiously refrain front all labor on Sunday, .but persisted in luying eggs in disregard of the biblical in junction to rest on the Sabbath day. She was uudeeidod whether she ought to dispose of such impious aud heath enish fowls or uot, wheu the brilliant idea struek her of giving all the egg laid on Suuduy to the churoh of which she was a wemboc She has aoted ou this idea, aud now a regular source of income of the ehureh ia the proceed of these eggs. In order to understand the extraor dinary attitude of the European pow er ia connection with the conflict between Greece and Turkey, it must be remembered that whereas most of the enormous uatioual debt of the Ottoman Empire is in the band of French, English, and Austrian bond holder, well-nigh the entire state liabilities of Greece are held by Qsr man investors. Inasmuch as war between Turkey aud Greece would tend till further to embarrass the ttnnnoes of these two heavily iudebted countries, and thus compromise the interests of their foroign bondholders, the great power have deoidud that nnder y oiroitrustsnoes would they permit any coufliot to tuko pluou. Change. " Tim world goes well, and ltfn Is nil gaf There Is no tomorrow, Just today !" HmHIng t sulci It, anil turned to go -Thinking lillinlly 'twould ever be so, A friend fnld softly, " Mfe Is all woe Joy Is n thing I never shall know." Hnillliig she said It, calmly resigned. Nor dreamed tin' eloinl wss all silver lined. J.nter. when life had brought sore grief, Anil robbed me of all that llrst belief, 1 met this friend. All ! Joy had been there, Lifted her burdens, and eased hereare. Lena Han kins Watson in Huston Transcript A NIGHT'S EXPERIENCE. 11Y JENNY. WHES. "Good-bye, then, K ite, if yon will not repent at this last moment, and go with me. I heartly wish you would. 1 do uot feel at all comfortable about leaving yon alone, even for a single night." So said tny aunt, a she stood ready for her journey to her country home. My trnnk were standing strapped and packed with hots, but I had in sisted upon remaining until the next day to attend to the last things neces sary, and she had given consent very reluctantly, and, oven at this late mo ment, seemed repenting. Hut I laughed as I kissed her again aud ngsiu, and said : "You forget, Auut,Clnndo is to spend tho evening with me, so I will not have time to feel lonely; and as for fear, it would be a sensation so novel that I think I should quite fancy an experience Besides, yon have left two or three of tho servants, and I do not know that your absolute presence would scare away any intruders." Hut she shook her head with rather nn un believing nir, and the lust look I had, as she leaned from the carriage window to wave her baud iu adieu was one of loving anxiety. But ou my own face was bo shadow of care, as I glnncod a moment with little pardoning pride nt its reflection in the long min or in tho drawingroom. A glad delight was dancing iu the bright blue eyes nt thought of tho evening's anticipated pleasure, for was uot Claude coming, and was not that name synonymous with all life and concentrated sweet ness? Hud not the thought of one evening more spent with him lent weight to the entreaty thnt I might remain another day under plea of use fulness? What practical test had 1 ever given that I could be useful? But my aunt mercifully l'oreboro to nsk thn -question. She remembered, doubtless, thnt once she, too, had been young, and had tasted the first sweetness which comes iu the knowledge that, we love and are loved, and so let me have my own willful way, and accepted my pretext with a very faint smile, in wbioh I thought I could detect just a faint shade of incredulity. When Claude came I laughingly recounted to him my aunt's foolish fear and how near, through them, wo came to losing these few precious hours; but aomehow.for tho first time, his laugh failed to echo mine, and when the clock upon tho mnutel chimed eleveu silvery strokes, and he rose to go, he said, very earnestly: "I half beliove, Kate, your mint was right, and almost wish you hud gone with hor." "That is all vory well to say now," I answered, "when the time has come really to bid good-bye. If you had let me know your wishes this morning, I should havo endeavored to comply with them." "My selfishness forbade my giving them room, and beside it is a mere temporary infection, (This with a half laugh). Your aunt, as you say, is no very formidable protection, aud, after all, Kate (growing serious), I leavo my darling in the good God's hands. Ouly, dear, I shall be very glad when the timo comes that I can offer her a husband's protecting love." Then kissing the cheeks into which the scarlet blood had rushed at his words, he held me for one moment with a new earnestness clasping to his heart, uttered a last good night aud left me. "See thnt everything ia securely closed for the night, Bun," I said to the old butler, whose eye were al ready half olosed, aud then slowly mounted the stairs. Usually I fluw up them a a bird, but Claude's words had filled me with happy thoughts, and it seemed a though some aweet, sooth ing spirit bad favored me with its white wings, and I must muke no hur ried movement, lest it should fly away. Ieutered my room, closed and bolted my door, aud sank into a chair before my dressing bureau. My wiudows opened upon a little baloony, and the curtains trembled with the cool bret ise which on me laden with the taunt of the flower I hud truiued upon it. I seemed tilled with a delicious lauguor, and it required ome effort to at lust rouse myself to the task of preparing for bed. With liugeriug touch I uu- claspod the jowels from my cars. They were family heirlooms of great value my aunt had givcu me on my eigh teenth birthday. Their light seemed almost to dazzle me, as I placed them in my jewel case, then glanced nt my betrothal ling, which cnught nnd held the light reflected from their depths. Then ono by one I took tho pins from my hair nud lot it fall a soft, shim mering mass upon my shoulder. How Claude had admired it when one day on horseback it hud escaped it thrall dom. Would he love me the same when Its gold had turned to - gray aud wrinkles hud taken the place of dim ples? Aud, peeriug into the glass, I strove to fancy the change, and add, iu imagination, two wore nnd ten to my age, when, great Heaven I wns that face white nnd blanched, eye wild with terror, mouth half apart, with lips from which every truce of color hud fled, the same which, a momeut before, bad pictured unsullied happi ness? What had brought tho change? Only a muu's barn foot projecting from under my bed and casting its own hideous reflection iu the glass. I watched it a a cat might watch a mouse, a snake, a bird, with a fascina tion which seemed to enchain and en thrall me. I strove to scream aloud, but tho effort, mercifully, wus a vain one. My mouth, dry and parched, could utter no sound. My breath came bard and quick. My heart beat so loudly I thought that he must hear it. "Ah, if Claude were but here!" And with that thought the horrid spell broke. Some degree of calmness took the place of almost frenzy. The re memhruiico that for his sake 1 must make some effort to escape. Hut, ah I was ever prisoner in more hopeless chains? Slowly, determinedly, I with drew my eyes from the fearful thing, lest courage at the sight should fail me. I tried to think, but reason seemed to have deserted me, nud n hopeless terror to have taken full poll session of ni". "For Cinudo'a sake I for Claude's s ike 1" This I murmured again and again to myself, living on the transient calmness it might bring. Should 1 go to the door, unlock anil unbolt il? I knew be would su-pect, and that my trembling lingers would fail at their work, while perhaps a hand hideous as the foot would clutch and bar me. Or should I succeed, what then? The servant were in n remote part of thn house, nud the butler, who had been iu my aunt's servio Homo twenty years, wus lio match for a muscular opponent. Then came an impulse to leap to the street anything to escape from th horrid preseuce which seemed to tiil my room; but I abandoned that, un less as a more merciful m uin of end ing my life. Hick my eves crept to the fearful thing still immovable 1 What, were his thought-? Where Ins eyes? Watching mine? I wondered exulting with hutuuio glee over tho poor trapped bird w :i toll lul l fallen into bis not. S un 'thing must be done to save me from mudiicss! This 1 reiili..'d as I rose to my feet and yawned aloud. II id I not screamed instead? No; there was uo movement of the foot. "How hot it is!" I oxclaimed, aloud, and my voice hounded as though it hud come from a grout distance. Then stuudiug for a moment by the open wiudow, 1 stopped out upon the bul eony. The night wiuds seemed to greet mo lovingly ; tho bands which had been wrupped so tightly ubout my heart were loosened ; the hot weight pressing ou my bruin lilted. The street was silent aud desorted. Tho world luy all around me wrapped iu sleep. I seemed alone deserted by all, wtiou, suddenly, a whistle loud aud clear broke upou my ear. Tho air wits one Claude loved and I had snug so ofteu to him, his dear eyes looking into mine. Ah! would ho ever bear tny voice again? Neurer and nearer came the sound; a man's footfall, quick aud dear, ringing out upou the pavemeiit. Should he come this way, could I uot iu the unmu of humanity appeal to him for help? Hut how? Would Uot the ears behind me be quicker to outoh my words than he who passed nuoousciously ou his route? 'There was but oue way to write aud throw down to him my let ter, aud to do this I must go buok into my room perhaps to find imputieuce had overmastered prudenoe aud be met by the horrid thing itself. But courage boru of desperation oime to me. One rapid glauoe showed me the stale of affairs wus unaltered, and, hiiuimiug a tune, I believe, if memory serve me rightly, I went over aud sat dowu at my desk. "For Heaven's suite help met" I wrote. "A man is in my room, my door bolted. I cannot escape I I will reward you liberally " Then throwing down my pencil as though the mood for writiug had de serted mo. I cautiously held the nnmir in my hand and stepped iiguin upon the baloony. The steps w-ere very near now tho whistlo almost nnder my window. I could see tho man and form as he passed under the gaslight. He gluuond upward. With tho swift ness of thought I wrapped the paper in my handkerchief aud threw it at his feet. He saw and picked it up, retraced hi steps to the light nnd road the words I had inscribed, and a ho did so I saw that it was Claude my Claude, and knew that he would save me. Ho kissed his hand nnd waved the handkerchief, theu hastened off, nnd a his form disappeared from sight, the sick terror once more took possession of ray heart, as I wondered how ho could reach me. I must go back nnd pretend to undress to pre vent suspicion. With ears strained for every sound, nerves quivering and unstrung 1 began to remove llrst a ribbon or a clasp, until nt Inst I took off my dress and slipped on n wrapper, wheu once more my eyes fell upou the fearful semblance of a human fool, nud courage, reason and endurance de serted me while my eyes were fastened ou thnt spot. Not even when I heard footstep hastening back, realized a ladder was being placed outside my wiudow, saw the men, Claude fore most, rush into my room, watched them drag the intruder from his lair, heard his muttered growl of ven geance, could I take my gazo from that one spot. Claude's tenderness, his appeals, seemed to bo as untight. I heard but understood them uot until I fell fainting iu his tirms. It was not until long after, when youthful health nnd vigor hail con quered the fierce fever which then hud seized ma that I understood how Claude, anxious nnd restless with n love and foreboding, wutideriug buck to the house to see if my light was out, nud nil still mid safe, had come barely iu time to suvo my life. The man hud meant to murder me, doubt less, but, even had ho spared my life, reason soon would have beeti forever eclipsed. Ho is now serving out a long sentence, nnd I have given Claude what I promised wheu I penned my words, its I thought to it stranger, "u liberal rownrd," It is nil bo claimed myself I New York Ledger. MiKNTIFU! SCH.VrS. In tho winter months n child grows only one-lift li us much us it does iu Tune nud duly. Manchester, England, is experiment ing with a system of underground electrical traction. A new nail making machine pro duces us many nails iu it given time its were formerly lu.tdu by one thousand men. It ruins on nn nverago 208 days iu the year iu Ireland, about. 13') in Eng land, nt Kazan about ninety days und n Siberia only sixty days. A Berlin physician has mudo exper iments which show that certain utii mills that wo cut may swullow poisoii oils matter insitnieieut to kill them, but BUllicieut if used us food to poison men or dogs. Tho council of the American Geo graphical society has indorsed tho plan of Lieutenant l'uury lor the coutiuu ance of bis north polar explorations, and recommends tout the society sub scribe towards the next expedition. Tho U-sliuood springs joined to gether near the ends by a bolt and thumb-screw compose a new adjusta ble wrench, the ends of one spring being V-shitped to eugngo the Hilt aud thu other sptiug swinging out ut right uugles for use as a handle. The German government is sending out invitations to nn international con gress ou leprosy, at which Dr. Koch, the emineut bacteriologist, will pre id.. Sweden, Denmark, Norway, und Russia huvu ulready intimated their intention of being otllciully repre sented. Of nil the ntbletio exeroises, with perhaps the single exception of foot ball, the very best is diggiug, says a doctor. Every musole, vein, artery aud uorve iu the body - i worked iu the process. There is uo aid to diges tiou, no recipe for a good night's sleep to match au hour ut honest digging once or twice a duy. A projectile from tho new Euglish wire guus in a recent trial at Shoebury uess completely penetrated au eight-teen-inch steel-fueed com pound armor plate bucked by a six-inch wrought iron plate, by eight feet of solid ouk und nud three inches of iron, aud wus found imbedded iu a oluy bank thirty live yards behind the target, Euglaud has one member of Purlin meut to every 10,230 electors, Ireluud oue for every T177, Scotland oue for every 8971 nud Wulus oue fur every 0013, DRUMS UP TRAVEL. Novel Occupation That Yields $3000 a Year and Expenses. OoUlng Travelers to Take Cer tain Llnea of Railroad. A Rochester (N. Y.) Democrat nnd Chronicle representative met n well dressed mail on the Empire State Ex press train who said to him, after tho two hud struck up an iicquiiitnncc: "I am a professional traveler. No, I do not presume that you understand me, but I will explain. The Americans nre traveling people, not tourists, but hustling travelers. That's premise No. 1. Secondly, foreigners aro in tho habit of visiting America to see the sights. I thought of this, and went to the general passenger agent of a great Western railroad nnd unfurled my idea. It is this: There is always a sharp competition for passenger trnllio west of Chicago. Thu various roads leading across the plain adver tise extensively iu Eastern magazines, have bureaus iu New York nud But ton, mid send agents to the landings of the Atlantic steamships. The pur pose of these various kinds of adver tisements is to persuade tourists, Eng lish, French, Germau, or any other foreignor who have come to oe Amer ica, to cross the continent to the the Golden Gate over the lines of a particular company. Occasionally, there is n young and unsophisticated married couple who need ndvice as to hotels and routes. "In a word, I am n personal adver tiser. I board the train at New York at least twice n week. I spot tho trav elers, get acquainted with them, nud insinuatingly nsk them if they have ever ridden over such n road. Of course, they haven't, nnd I remark casually that 1 nm going West as fur us Chicago by the B nnd B., which is always the same rond they intend to patronize. Theu they ask me if I know anything about the lines west of Chicago. I ulways do, you can bet. nud 1 tell them that 1 um nn old trav eler, nud that I lmve always found tho best serviuo on the B., M. and W. I crack the merits of tho roud up to the limit, I get a salary of 1000 a year for doing it, besides my cxponses paid to mo by the road. Then I continue acqiiuintutica until I get to BiilV.ilo.iiud tell them that I know the Eistcru ugeut of tho 1!., M. nnd W,, located iu thnt city, nud that I think thnt I could, through my friendship with him, lit them out with tickets over tho B, , M. and W. to Denver or 'Frisco, or any pluco.tbey want to go. "It generally works, nud I see them safely ou board tho train, nud then suddenly remembering that I have left my grip ut thu parcel stand, I go buck to gel it, nud wait until the train bus pulled out, nud theu board the next train for Now York, wbero I re peat tho operation. I tell you I did a big business World's Enir year. In thu winter I post up ou tho benulus of the Bccucry nlong tho B. , M. mid W. , the solemn grandeur and all that stuff, and iu thu summer time I tell of tho beauties of the plains. Did you ovor see them? I think they uro the dreariest sight under creation. "Incidentally I got a commission from two hotels iu Chicago recom mending travelers to patrouizo them. That helps out considerably. I have had a good trip this time. Buck in the next coach ure threo young mar ried couples on their way to Califor nia, They came up from New York with mo tho other night nud stopped off in Rochester. I got acquainted with tho men, was introduced to the three brides, jollied them along, und mude myself generally useful to those young husbands. The result is thnt I bunched them nil iuto a Rochester ticket-office the next morning, aud made them buy transportation to Los Angeles by way of the B., M. aud W. I got a commission from the local agcut, too." Ton a Disease Disseminator. Can greeu tea, imported from India, be a means of introducing to ' Europe the infection of plague? The author ities iu the Caucasus appear to thiuk that it may, aud havo put in action certain ruther striugeut measures' to pre vent the possibility of such an event. The importation of green tea is to be stopped nud all truck whioh have curried it ure to bo disinfected. Chests of tea already unpacked iu Butoum are to be isolated nud kept so by sentries; tea eu route is to be stopped ut Baku ou the Caspian und there quarantined in the suuio wny. All persons who have boon in contact with these goods ure to undergo it six duy observation, and ou the appear ance of uny suspicion vyinptouis aro to be at oqoo isolutud, Thn Ohltnm j Ilithlt. A tin shadow of a great rock in ft weary I md, so is tho obituary habit to the men of clippings. Tueiice cooi'k soino of their fattest j ibs. About nn S) luiiu of moderate prominonon they nr reasonably sure of gathering from fW hundred to a thousand clippings There i a sort of correlation union; certain of the bureaus, which enable! them to gut whntover is printed any whore on thu globe, within a very brief space. Prominout men nri nenrly always among clippings-bureui subscribers. If they are Uot, eithei the grief, or tho joy of those thc leave behind suffice to insure n mar ket for tho mortuary linrvest. Per hap the biggest collection of such things ever begun was that relating to the Into day Gould. His heirs ordered "everything," but withdrew the ordm when, within the space of throe weeks the enterprising bureau man bud cor ralled eleven thousand odd. Even that tinmbir was exceeded in the ease of George W. Childs, whose widow gave n clipping man a similar order. The end of tho clippings wns a set of scrap books. Each bit of priut, great or small, wns pasted accurately in tho middle of a great square of grayish Bristol bonrd, nnd then tho bourdp were bound into big volumes, covered iu black morocco, and lettered in gold upon tho bucks, "In Memory of George W. Childs." There was a shollVul of tho volumes. Thu cost of making thoui went nwny up in the thousands. New York Sun. (rant to Ilnckncr. In the Century, Mr. John R. Proc ter contributes "A Blue tin I Gray Erieudship," describing the relations between Grant and Buckner. The bitter visited Grant at Mount Mc Gregor, nnd ns Geuernl Grant could not then speak he wrote a messngn to his friend nnd former adversary. Tho mcssno was ns follows: "I have witnessed since my sickness just what I have wished to see ever sinoo the war; harmony nud good feeling between the sections, I have always contended thnt if there hud bcou nobody left but tho soldiers wo would have hud pouco in ti year. Jti bul Early mid Hill nre thu only two that I know of who do uot seem satis fied on thu Sjutherii side. We have some on ours w ho failed to accomplish us much ns they wished, or who did not get wurmed up to the light until it was all over, who have not hud quite full satisfaction. The great ma jority too of those who did not. go into tbo war have long since grown tired of th'J long controversy. Wo may now well look forward to it per petual peace at home, nud it national strength that will secure lis against uny foreign complication. I believe myself that the war was worth all it cost us, fearful as that was. Sinco it wns over I have visited every state in Europe und a number iu tho Hist. I know, us I did not before, the value of our inheritance," Beach (imss. Tho bench gruss is oue of tho most wonderful of plants. There is no other plant outside of the cactus fam ily that thrives so ou sand ; planted deep iu the salt sands of the shore, the wiud sweep t the saud above and through it, and yet it rises nnd sweeps its koon-pointcd blades over tho packed surface, sometimes threo or four feet higher thitu its roots. Tho people of the cape know it us it dev.ee of nature to hold the shore together. But even tho bench gruss, sturdy and uudiscourugeublo ns it is, needs it sturdier backing. It wants the broad rooted heath family behiud it and the troes thut breik the force t the wiud. A good while ago the planting of beach grass on thu Cipe between Provincetown and Truro savjd what threatened to be a possible inroad of the Atlnutio iuto Cape Cod buy, which would have cut the peninsula iu two where its level is very low as uforo said. This result was due to t'.ie hab it of this precious member of the grnmiutiD of rising .above obstacles. Thiuk of poor Provincetown as an island and a doomed island more over of Cape Cod bay as a toy of tho great tides of the Atlantic of quiet Plymouth us a recipient of those tides of all the other ohuugos that might be. Springfield Republican. A Ilrilllunt Coup. Mr. Guswell The Cuban Junta iu New York hits information that tho iusurgonts contemplate a brilliant stroke with which they expect to end the war und win ' their independence. Mr. Duknuo What is the uutttru of this brilliant stroke? Do they expect to carry Havana by a sinldmi dash aud make W'eyler prisoner? Mr. Caswell No, they will simply kidnap Weyler's typewriter nud run off to Florida, Pittsburg Car ouiclu-Telegraph.
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