Tin' present governor of M:ir,vlniicl is the first one in many vents who was lioru outside of state. Tn 1f.lt there were only five trades mid l'i ofessions open to women iu England. Today there nre over 15(1, From Paris the significant fact is reported thnt n part of the horse market liim lieeu trniiHfonneil into n bicycle imirket. New York shippers nre prently ex ercised to find flint tho corn shipineiitfl from lliiltimore for n month were tl, 0(10,(100 bushels, while those from New York were less thiin 2,000,000, "Trimmings" is the term under which alcoholic drinks nre disguised in the hills English Indies run up nt the Loudon department stores, ac cording to Sidvntion Army investi gators. The inerense in therurnl population of Egypt from 18K2 to 1H!7 wns just a shade under thirty per rent., or nhont two per cent per nnnum. This is nhont donhle the normnt rate of in crease in Indin. A Freneh snvnut named Leveille, writing in (Cosmos, nssures his rend ers thnt the fakirs in India have inde pendently discovered the nrt of milk ing gold, the reported discovery of which by nn American chemist re cently attracted some attention. Schools of Michigan City, Ind., tin der the inspiration of a member of the bonrd of education, Martin Krueger, celebrate "Bird dny," w hen a special utility of song birds is made and ad dresses upon them are delivered. The custom tins spread to other towns of northern Indiana and it is said to bo making its way into Illinois. The inerense of nrbnn populations is one of the most important social conditions brought out by successive censuses. In England 71.7 per cent, of the population were in urban dis tricts in IHill, nn increase of 15.3 per cent, in a decade, as against an in erense of 3.4 per cent, in rural popu lation. The balance of civil power lias gone to the boroughs. Fred Schaoffer's fine five-acre or chard, near St. Louis, lntely took a notion to slide down the hillside and over a precipice. The upper crust of enrth thirteen feet thick slid com pletely off, revenling, however, a de posit of fire clay twenty feet thick, which is far more valuable than the recreant orchard. The moral of this is that what appears at first to be a misfortune is really a blessing. Harper's Weekly gives this extract from a private letter of ex-Postmaster-General Wilson, which tells why he accepted the presidency of Washington and Lee university : "I was influenced, I may say captivated, by the possibili ties of making thin institution a great centre of sound learning and sound citizenship, a power to reproduce in the Houth some of that high thinking that made her leadership in past gen erations so conservative yet national, I am sure the seed has not run out. Hut it needs strong and wholesome culture. All the rest of the country is interested in this as much as Vir ginia and the Houth." After Moscow, Constantinople is probably the most picturesquely beau tiful city in the world. Like Moscow, the chief city of Turkey combines Oriental color with western method. There is certainly no city in the world more happily situated than Con stantinople. Its position between the Black Sea and the Heaof Marmora, w ith the Bosphorns for a gateway to the former, and the Dardanelles effectually blocking all access from the Mediter ranean, is as strong as it is beautiful. Constantinople is quite Oriental iu respect to the juxtaposition of the beau tiful and the repulsive, the gorgeous and the squalid ; but most of the But tan's palaces, kiosks and villas have been built with a view of avoiding the contiguity of poverty and unclean Hot Competition" on the Bowery. "Doctor, medicine ami burial, lOo. per week," is a somewhat startling an nouncement on a tin sign . just beyond the Bowery, on Third avenue. Burial is placed so alone to the doctor and medicine that in the shock that at tends a first observation one may fail to grasp the full iuqiortance of the fact that all three may be had for ten cents a week. Tliisii a threefold and deadly blow at the doctor, the drug store and the undertaker, "hot com petition" in expressive Third avenue phraseology. New York Muil and Ex press. Caleb Fall of the Worcester (Mass.) Spy, is one of the oldest nieu iu jour nalism. He reoently celebrated bis sixtieth anniversary of his beginning newspaper work. IF. If nnv little word of mine Slay iniike a life the brighter, If any little son of mine Slav make a heart the llithter, Cl'i'l help mi' spenk the littln word, Anil take my hit of singing, Ami drop It In sumo lonely vnlo, To set the echoes ringing. pMRMBEKS'S PRISONBlT"1 2 IT l.fSTF. SKTCItfM. f He said his nnme wns Meeks, and it struck thoughtful ones in Buffalo Horn thnt the patronymic was sin gularly appropriate; for the gentleman himself wns a mild-eyed, "sandy lookin'" little man, with a self-deprecatory nir thnt suggested a standing apology on his part for presuming to exist. He flouted into town quietly, and so unobtrusive and modest was he thnt it was several dnys before his presence began to be noticed, and then only on account of a rumor thnt had gained circulation to the effect thnt he was nn officer of the United Htntes secret service. Then Buffalo Hornites smiled. Of course, like all western people, they understood that it is not best to judge from nppenr ancps; but, oh! w hat a chump Uncle Sam must be, to send a wee bit of a man like this to arrest an Oklahoma malefactor! To be sure, nobodv hnd the temer ity to suggest this to Mr. Meeks. 1 There nre communities in winch the one w ho presumes upon appearances is taking very long chances, and Buf falo Horn was one of these. There fore, Mr. Meeks wns treated with great show of respect by nil the lead ing citizens, who squnred things with themselves by privately "giving him the horse-lnugh." And, all uncon scious, Mr. Meeks kept on his way, or, rather, stayed where he wns and lay in wait for some certain criminal wlio was wanted for violating a score, more or less, of the federal stntutes. In strictest confidence, and with child-like faith, he had imparted more or less information concerning his mission to Mart Winslow, the landlord of the little hotel w here he w as staying nnd Mart being, after the manner of his kind, an inveterate gossip, soon spread what information he hnd gleaned from the strnnger, thereby causing n broad grin to appear w hen ever his guest wns mentioned. "Oh, lint ain't 'e easy?" chuckled Mart to a couple of friends, one day, as he nodded towards the barroom, where Mr. Meeks wns eugnged in "settin' 'em up" to the ever ready crowd. "!)' ye ever see neeh a suck er? ('omes yere an' 'spec's th' duck 'e's Inyin' fer t' lope right intuh th' camp an' give 'isself up, I s'pose; so yere 'e stays, diggin' up fifteen a week f'r board nn' spendin' copious nt th' bar. Oh, I c'n stnnd it awhile." "H'posin' th' man sh'd come in, all of a siiddintV" said Jim Wylie, the city marshal. "Hay, I bet 'e'd die o' scare!" "Who is it th' little feller wants, Mart?" asked some one sitting by the window. "Hh-h-h! Easy, Frank! Oh, I d'no', not now. Hut I'll bet ye one thing 'tain't nobody he's a-goiu' t' ketch right off." It came to be .rumored, within a day or two, that "Kingfisher" Wil liams was the man Mr. Meeks wns after, this rumor being based upon the fact that the little Jimn had been very quietly, of course making in quiries concerning that notorious per son, whom numerous county and na tional officers were more or less anxious to meet. He was not known person ally to anyone in Buffalo Horn, lint Mr. Wylie assured the little man that Kingfisher Williams was a very bad man indeed, and that if Mr. Meeks, effected his capture it would tie a great feather in his cap whereupon the lit tle man swelled np considerably and invited Mr. Wylie to join him at the bar. It was about a week after this con versation that the secret service officer ami the city marshal were standing in the barroom, discussing some question or other, when the door opened, and stranger entered and, 'walking up to the liar, called for wh'skey. Mr. Meeks was looking earnestly up ward into the big marshal's face as the stranger entered, hut withdrew his gaze for a moment to glance at the newcomer. Then he reached for his revolver. "There's my man!" he remarked, calmly, in an undertone, to the mar shal. "Get back from the bar, please." Wylie, dumbfounded, did ns he was bidden, in ti i.e to see the stranger look up just as Mr. Meeks got him covered. "Hands up, Mr. Williams!" com manded the little man. "I want yon I " With au oath the other "drew," and for a few seconds there was a confu sion of shots, iu which the city mar shal could take no part by reason of his revolver getting stuck and refusing to come forth. Then the stranger threw up both hands in taken of sur render. "Have yon er a pair of handcuffs, Mr. Wylie?" asked Mr. Meeks. "Put em on him please. Horry.Mr. Williams, but I can't take any chances with you. " Williums did uotauswer.but gro.itii angrily under his breath as he sou nd t ted to being handcuffed. "I'll git you for this!" he said to Wylie, as the latter stepped buck after finishing the operation. "Oh, ye will, will ye? Wait outell my friend, Mr. Meeks, gits through 'ithye, Mr. Williams," was the cheer ful reply. "Wuu't put 'ini iu th' eooler?"8ked the marshal, presently. "Ho, thanks. He'il bunk with mo If any Httl" love nf mlnn May milk" a life the sweeter, If ntiy little enreuf mine Jliiy make a friend's th Ilcetcr, If any little lift of mine tuny east) i The Imrileii of another, (Ind give m love amt cure anil strength To help my tuilliiK brother. Homo. (Uh.) Masonic Herald. tonight, and tomorrow we leave. Much obliged, all the same." It was not more than nn hour be fore everyone in lliill'alo Horn knew that little Mr. Meeks hnd, single handed, captured the notorious King fisher Williams, after a short battle in which nobody wns hurt, nnd the gen eral sentiment was of the "Well, I'll be dog-goned" variety. Thnt. night Mr. Meeks hnd a levee and blushingly received the congratu lations of the best citizens of Iluffnln Horn during a period of two hours, the while his now staunch friend, Jim Wylie, obligingly guarded his desider ate prisoner. Hud he been a less tem perate man tie might have retired somewhat the worse for liquor, ns did most of the citizens of Buffalo Horn; but he kept his wits about him and was ns sober as his prisoner w hen they turned in. Next morning a hnlf-score of lead ing citizens hnd sufficiently recovered from the night's revelries ton impnny him nnd his prisoner to Four-Mile t'reek. This honor was modestly pro tested agninst by the little man who seemed not to see that he had done anything remarkable, but he wns hooted down, and when they reached Four Mile his escort parted from him with three rousing cheers and a volley of revolver shots by way of salute. It was about one o'clock iu the af ternoon when an excited, hntless man, mounted on a panting horse that dripped with perspiration, dashed np to the Hotel Winslow.in front of which a number of citizens were sitting, dis cussing the events of the day and night previous, and hoarsely nn noiinced; "Kingfisher he's killed 'im!" "What 7 Who?" asked Wins low. "What ye tnlkin' about, man?" The stranger wns gasping for breath, but presently munnged to explain thnt, 2(1 miles south, he had been resting under n tree by a stream, when n little man and n big man, whom he had know n in Kingfisher ns "Kingfisher" Williams, enme nlong nnd dismounted near by. The little mini wns leaning over to get a drink when Williams sneaked up behind him and struck him down w ith his haudciitfs. After this, said the strnnger, ho saw Wil liams take the keys from the little man's pocket nud unlock his handcuffs. Then he shot the insensible victim with the hitter's own gun, mounted nnd rode away; and the new-comer hurried into lliill'alo Horn the faster because Williams caught sight of him as he was leaving ami took a few shots at him. "W'y didn't ye shoot back 'r else git th' dnqi on 'im when 'e hit little Meeks wi' th bracelets?" asked Jim Wylie, fiercely. " 'Cniise, in the first place, I didn't think 'e'd kill the man. Hecond" and the strunger eyed Wylie quizzi cally "I reckon ye ain't renl well acquainted 'ith Kingfisher Williums, be ye?" In less than an hour the little town was practically depopulated of men, all but the cashier of the local bank and a few bartenders having gone on the warputh to catch and hang Kingfisher Williums for the murder of Mr. Meeks. The strauger did not accompany thoin, his horse being blown 'and 'himself not being anxious to meet Mr. Wil: Hams. However, it made no dilfer eiue, as everyone knew the' ford which the stranger said was the scene of the tragedy. Thus, ' nearly everyone being gone southward to mete out justice to the alleged murderer of Mr. Meeks, it was really child's play for that gentle man and Mr. Williums, emerging from their hiding place in the hills just north of the town, and joining the strauger who had brought the news, to loot the bank, three stores, the hotel and every saloon in the pluce, and to get safely away on fresh horses at least three hours before the pursuit could be organized. And that is why every officer whose business takes him into lliill'alo Hon and neighboring towns is looked upon with suspicion until his credeutiuls ure approved. The Argonaut. The Luteal Flali Story. The latest fish story comes from Philadelphia and is vouched for by the Record. The tide runs that off the Virginia coast the schooner M.A. Bos ton rail into a i immense school of bluefish. The ew lowered eight small boats and scattered among the fish. The men used hook and line and herring for bait, and the voracious bluefish swallowed the hooks as fast as they were thrown among them. For miles the school followed the schooner and the boats, and the work of haul ing the fish iu only ceased when the vessel's hold would contain uo mure of its glistening cargo. Nearly 5000 of the fish were taken, ami their average weight was nearly seven pounds. The vessel was immediately headed for Philadelphia and the catch disposed of. Ilur Nationality. Beenaway Why, hello.Hennypeckl I hear that you are married. Bride one of the villago girls? Heunypeck (meekly) No; she is a foreiguer. "Eh?" ' ' " tartar." Puck. TRADES THAT KILL. Ocrtipntttins That Destroy the Lives nf Men t-'.liKHlri'il lit Tltcltl. People are afraid lo trnvel by land or sea, nnd tnke out nil sorts of acci dent policies, but there nre ninny le gitimate occupations or t miles that kill as certainly nud steadily ns the most ill-regulated steam engine. An old writer said that human life wns the cheapest thing on enrth. Ht range to sny, snys nn English trnde journal, you ennnot frighten the workmen who know how dangerous is their trade, and not even higher wages will tempi them from such death traps. Lend, in the form of bullets nud shot, is a deadly, dangerous thing, but it is nlso death-dealing to all who use it iu their work, as house-paiiiters.gililers, calico printers, type-founders, Hitters ami braziers. Mercury is a foe to life. Those who make mirrors. barometers or thermom eters, who etch or color wool or felt, will soon feel the effect of the nitrate of mercury in teeth, gums and the tis sues of the body. Silver kills those who handle it, and photographers, makers of hair-dyes and ink and other preparations ere long turn gray, while a deadly wenknens sublines them, and soon they succumb. Copper enters into the composition of ninny articles of everyday life, and too soon those who work in bronzing and similar decorative processes lose teeth and eyesight and finally life. Mnkers of wall-paper grow pale and sick from the arsenic in its coloring, and match makers lose strength nnd vitality from the excess of phosphorus used in their business. Nitric acid is used by engravers, by etchers in copper, by makers of gun cotton and those who supply our homes with lovely picture fi nines. Its fumes nre poison to the human lungs and soon destroy them completely. Ammonia kills the soap-makers; work ers in guano grow deaf; hydrocyanic acid dents death to gilders, photogra phers and picture-finishers, while zinc is a fatal foe to calico-printers, mnkers of optical glasses and meerschaum pipes. Mankind is by nature brave, and very few are deterred from action be cause of supposed danger. If the great builders nud engineers of the world would stop and ask, "How many lives will this tiuitertakingcost?" it is probable that the world would be without some of the greatest triumphs of modern thought. Everyday life ami common occupations nre full of silent courage, nud nil around nre workers who die in the harness nnd are true heroes without knowing it. QUAINT AND CURIOUS. Tobolisk, Itussia, is the oldest in habited place iu the world. Football wns a crime in England during the reign of Henry VIII. The first printing-press in America wns established nt Cambridge, Mass., in Kilt'.l. A man in a balloon four miles above the earth can plainly hear the burking of a dog. There are two business men in an English town named I. Came and H. E. Went. C. A. Barber of Salem, Ohio, claims to have a violin that was made in 1414. and believes it to lie the oldest in the world. The latest project in Switzerland is thnt of a mountain railway to the sum mit of the Breithoru, next to the Mnt terhorn. Tenpotswere the invention of either the Indians or the Chinese, and are of uncertain antiquity. They came to Europe with tea iu Kilo. An inhabitant of Arendskerke, in Holland, has notified to the municipal registrar the birth of his twenty-first sou, nl the others being alive and in the enjoyment of good health. About ten million cattle are now to tie found in the Argentine Republic. They are said to be nil descendants of eight cowb and one hull, which were brought to Brazil in the middle of the sixteenth century. Small diamonds have been discov ered in the sand taken from a lake formed by the crater of an extinct volcano in the Witzies Hock mountains of Natal, which ure beyond the hitherto known diamond fields. In Oermnny the bridul wreuth is usually formed of myrtle branches ; in Hwitzerlnnd and Italy of white roses ; in Hpain of red roses and pinks ; in the United States, France nud Eng land, of orange blossoms. The French minister of war lately offered a prize for the swiftest bird in a flight from Periguoux to Paris 310 miles. There were 2740 eutries and the winner did the distance in seven hours and thirty-four minutes. The first public library in England was founded by the corporation of Loudon some 300 years before the Brit ish Museum was established. Crom well borrowed books from this institu tion and "forgot to return them." While praying in church at Tirzah, S, C, on a recent Sunday, Jonah Crosby, colored, found a tiig pistol in his hip Hcket uncomfortable. Iu re moving it the weajion was discharged, wounding him seriously and causing a stampede of the congregation, A Methoil of Measurement. "There is such a thing as becoming too much devoted to the bicycle," said the young woman, thoughtfully. "I was riding with a friend of mine who demonstrated that fact." '.'Did she talk constantly about the' wheel? "No. She didn't talk about auy thing until I asked her if she knew w hat the hour was. She looked down at her cyclometer and said we'd better hurry home, as it was two miles and a quarter pnst diuuer time." Washing ton Star. ' The Fairy Slaters. Thnrn wns once a little maiden, Ami she IihiI a mirror bright i It was rimmed nhont with silver: "l'was her prliln ami her delight, lint she (omul two fnlry sisters l.lveil within this pretty glass. And very ilifTerent M"es showed, To greet the littln lass. If she wns sweet nnd sunny, Why, It was sure to be The smiling sister who looked out Her hnppy face to see. B it If everything went criss-cross, And she wore a frown or pout. Alas! Alas! within the gloss The frowning one looked out. Now this little mnlilen loved so much The smiling fnne to see, Then she resolved with all her henrt A hnppy child to lie. To grow more sweet nnd loving. Hhe tried with might nnd main. Till the frowning sister went away, And ne'er came bank again. Hut If she's looking for a home, As doubtless Is the ease, Hhn'll try to find n littln girl Who has a gloomy fane. Bo Im very, very careful, If you own a mirror too, That the frowning sister doesn't enme And mnke her home with von. Helen H. l'erkins, In Ht. Moholns. A l-'ew Word About Tends. A fund's eyes are the only things in nnture which could not be represented without using gold. As to tonds being poisonous, as the French pensnnts suy.or making wnrts, lis some old people tell us, thnt is pure nonsense. Their tongues are ns curi ous as their eyes are beautiful. The root of the tongue is just behind the under lip nnd folds backward. When Mr. Toad sees a fly, he darts his long and active tongue out so quickly t,hnt it is hard to see him do it, nnd jerks the fly alive down his wide gullet, Detroit Free Press. KvIiib for Her llrntlier. A tender story is told of a French girl only 12 yenrs old, who succeeded in saving her little brother from wolves. It was during a severe winter, in a remote village of France, and wolves were constantly seen prow ling nliout. One dny a wolf with five little ones burst into the cottage, attracted by the smell of the bread w hich the girl hail been linking. By menus of a henvy stick, the brave girl hnd almost succeeded in driving the mother wolf off, when, seeing one of the cubs about to attack her brother, she . seized the boy, thrust him into a cupboard, . and but toned the door. That gave the wolf time to fly at her, and in a moment she was the prey of the savage beasts. Her brother remniiied quite safe, and wns released from the cupboard by some neighbors. Ho lived to be an old mnn, cherish ing the memory of the sister who had died to save him. Sunday School Visitor. A Sensitive Monkey. Dogs and other pets are often keen ly alive to praise and blame, and seem to know infallibly whether they are being well or ill spoken of. The ex tremest case of which we ever read was that of a canary, which died from grief at being harshly addressed by its mistress. Here is an anecdote which shows that monkeys are not wanting in sen sibility of the same interesting and amiable sort. It is quoted from Mr. Bate's "Naturalist on the Amazons," He calls the creature "most ridiculous ly tame," atid adds: "It was an old female, which ac companied its owner, a trader on the river, in all his voyages. By way of giving me a specimen of the intelli gence and feelings, its master set to nnd rated it soundly, calling it scamp, heathen, thief, nnd so forth, nil through the copious Portuguese vocabulary of vituperation. "The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble. It looked reproachfully at him, then it whined, and lastly rocked its body to and fro with emotion, cry ing piteously and passing its long, gaunt arms continually over its fore head; for this was its habit when ex cited. "At length the master altered his tone. " 'It's all a lie.iny old woman; you're an angel, a flower, a good, affectionate old creature.' "Immediately, the poor monkey ceased its wailiug, ami soon after came over to where the man sat." Crystullltlnir With Alum. We have had inquiries from several of our friends as to bow to crystallize with alum, and as it seems this is again to be popular, we give directions as we find them in a late magazine: You must form your basket, vase, tree, grotto, or other object of wire, taking due cure to leuve sufficient room for the formation of the crystals, so that they may have their full effect. Over the wire twist some worsted thread so that it is completely covered iu every part. If, iu a grotto or other similar object, fantastic forms ure de sired, pieces of coke may be fastened to the wire ami, covered in. the sumo way. This done, dissolve one pound of u'.uin iu quart of water by boiling in n tin vessel, not too fust; hnlf n pound iu a pint, or a quarter of a pound iu half a pint of wnter, preserv ing the snme proportions whatever the quantities employed tuny be. Kec stirring the solution with a piece of wood until the process is complete. Itemove the liquid from the tire, nnd, placing a piece of wood across a deep, glnzed, earthen jar, suspend the wire basket, or other articles in it. from tho stick with a piece of stout thread. When the alum solution is about tho warmth of new milk, pour it into the jnr, nnd leave your subjects suspend ed in it for about twenty-four hours; after which remove the same to dry in the shade. To obtain colored crystals it is only necessary to put some dying material into the alum solution tur meric gives the transparent yellow crystals; logwood, purple, etc. As can be readily imagined, there i liternlly no end to the pretty and at tractive ornaments thnt can be made from these fairy-like crystals, and the, only difficulty is to curb the energy of the devotee of alum work. Farm, Field and Fireside. A While l(rl Squirrel. Dr. Emily O. limit, in St. Nicholas, describes the following interesting pet. It is a-white red squirrel. You have all seen red squirrels "chickarees" they cnll them, from tho sounds of their chattering and scold ing, as they drop nutshells tin your head, or run down a tree trunk by fits and starts, giving n little "chick"vith ench forward rush, while they watch yon sharply. Our little pet is like one of these in every way, except thnt ho is so snowy white thnt the cleanest table-cloth looks dingy compared to him. He wns born in a cranberry bog. Home men cutting brush there snw two strange little animals, one white, the other crenin-colored. They caught this white one by throwing a coat over him, but the creamy squirrel ran way. When the captive wns brought home all admired him greatly, for he wns.nn you may iiiingine, a very beautiful lit tle creature, with his long bushy tail ami bright woodland tricks. But there is renlly one strn::gethiug nhont him, his eyes are not red or pink, as are those of most white ani mals, but they are as black ns nny squirrel's could be. So my girl cousins, call him "Beads." When an animal belonging to a species commonly dark in color is born white instead, it is called nil "albino." Y'ou have all seen albino rabbits nnd ruts nnd mice. Their eyes nre pink. So that Bends is really a most uncommon fellow, u snowy squirrel with jet-black eyes. Albino or not, he is at any rate it most winning little pet, and there iu no end to his pretty wnys. As a cat and a kitten live with the same family, he Iibh to be kept in a squirrel-cage; but he is let out a long time each day. Then Beads is quite hnppy. He climbs np the back of the chair, and nibbles the hair of the person seated iu it, gnaws the flowers iu the window sill, rushes up the stems of the ciiIIhs, nnd scratches in the enrth until it Hie on all sides. He will rub his head nud face and all his body in the enrth, until his clean white dress is a sight to behold. After that he hops to the floor, and rubs his face carefully upon tho car iet. He loves to retire to a corner or un der a piece of furniture for his toilet, going in gray and coming out white. If you eep and watch him, it is great fun, for he. scrubs and combs himself with his pnws in the ueatesfway,. washes his face just as a cat does, and then takes his big tuil in his paws and uses it for a towel! One ofteu hears, people wonder why squirrels have such big tails. All know thnt they are useful as balancing poles and blankets, and are charming as ornaments, but not many are in Beads' secret of their usefulness as towels. Hut anil Music. . On more than one occasion I lluva drawn attention in those pugs to jthe influence of man's civilization on tild animals. For the past month I liAve noticed that a common species of tlie, small bat, probably the pipistellft, which frequents the towns iu southern. France, congregates in the evenings ' about those cafes where it is the cus tom to have outdoor music. This does, not seem to apply to any particular town, as they are to be seen flitting about in the crowded streets umong all the traffic in Marseilles, Caunes, Nice, and Monte Carlo. Ho tume are some individuals thut they hawk about for flies under the awning which cover the chairs placed on the footpaths. It may be said they come for the flies attracted by the electric lighta, but the bats are fur more numerous near those cufes where there is music than around the ordinary arc lights in streets or before shops. The inference appears; to be that they find pleasure, in thtt presence of music. Science Gossip, Hot I led Air. Among the miscellaneous articles in the North Carolina Medical Journal in one stutiug that a French chemist, Liude, has invented a process for con densing uir to such an extetit that ifc will contain 70 instead of twenty-live per cent, of oxygen. It is proposed to bottle mountain and sea uii- und furnish U to iuvulids ut their homes. It will l recalled that' yrurs auto u. Vienna physician treated 'his patients, with the bottled air of mountainous, health resorts supplied ut their homes. It is to be presumed that the physiciuu profits more than thepettMut from tUin method of treutmeut.
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