THE SENSE OF S3 ELL IT IS LESS ACUTE IN HUMANS NOW THAN IT USED TO BE. What W Row Fnneeee In rrnbatilr the 'Merc Nemnant of m Onre l'iw erfal Mfi'bunlim"-The Hrrn 1'owrr f See at la the Urate Creation. Is tilt sense of smell dying "ill among rtvlllr.cd men? riiynlnlofclsls tell im that, although nu entire segment nf tbe brnlnnnmoly, the olfactory loho Is apportioned lo the olfactory llhem, What we now posncna Is probably "the mere remnant of n once imwrrful mechanism." In the lrul creation the sense In much keener, iiltlioiigti among the lower nipintle riiIiiiiiIh It Im Indiscriminately blended with tint I of taate and In tho toothed w hales Im iiuh exlntent. On the other bund, tlocs, specially thou that Imve been train ed to hunt by cent, neoin lo ileieuil upon that faculty almost entirely, even to the exclusion of their eyesight. If It la a "had aci-nllng" hiy or If lilt nose la out of order yon limy nee n re trtever literally wnlk over n dead hlnl or even He down on the top of It, n pretty clear proof Mint he In not look ing for lila quarry, lie In smollliu; for It A fox In covert will sometime run In nnd out among tho very lee -4 Of the puck unnotieed, iiIIIioukIi In tills caao the necessity for keeping their beads down, owing to the fact Unit animal smclla are heavy nnd lie close to tho (.'found, will nerve to prevent bounds from using their eyes. A ter rier will race down n drive, barking ecstatically nt the Hlcht of hln uniNier, but even then he will usually nlve Miii preliminary sniff before lie I n1.no lutely autisflcd of hln Identity. Generally apenking, awcet odorn nre more pemlstont than their opposite, the aulphureted compound In particular evaporating rapidly on exposure to the atmosphere, although the amell of de caying iinlinnl mutter Im sold to endure for daye after tho cause of It has been removed. Tho olfactory BciiMe, how over, usually becomes blunted In time When annulled continuously by any one odor. Workmen In big perfumeries lie come cane hardened to tho fragrance of their aurroundliiKn, and homo pain In fortunately even more deadening In Us effectn than mont forms of ph.VHlcal Buffering. Again, different Hindis do not mix. It la auld that if two nostrils are atuffod with different attlmtniieea we amcll flrnt one and then the other alternately, but never a blending of the two together. Thla In probably the caae with the lower animals, too, nnd explains how foxhounds con pick out and follow the trail of a fox over ground that has boon tainted by sheep or cattle. The writer personally lian een a pointer find birds successfully all one afternoon on the western prai Tlea at a time the dog himself was no odoriferous owing to an unfortunate encounter with a skunk on tho previ ous day that he was hardly approach able. Among human Individuals tho sons.) of amell, like those of Night nnd hear ing, varies considerably, and certain persona aeem to bo quite unaffected by certain odors. Just aa others are "color blind" to certain colors or "tone deaf" to the shrill call of a but or tho chirp ing of a cricket Fcrhnps It la Indica tive of tho manner in which wo nro discontinuing the use of our noses that there la no one word tu tho English language (such aa "blindness" or "deaf ness") signifying the complete absence of the perception of amcll, although tho condition undoubtedly exists and is in deed not uncommon aa a sequoia of some diseases. It is true that we may claim a su periority to the brute creation in tbo range of our susceptibility to various odors, for the carnlvora scctn to bo quite Insensible to the scent of plants and flowera, while the horhlvorn pay little attention to animal odors except for the purpose of detecting tho ap proach of enemies, nut we are cer tainly Inferior to them In acutcness, nt all events we of the civilized races, al though there seems to be no reason Why thla sense should not be cultivat ed and lta efficiency re-enforced by de liberate training. This view Is sup ported by the fact that men born deaf nd dumb and blind have been known to develop their Intent powora of smeHI to a pitch of perfection qulto unintel ligible to ordinary mortuls. We tine spectacles to assist the eyesight, car trumpets and artificial enr drums to correct deafness; why should not dene supply us with aome handy in strument that would stimulate the ol factory fibers or magnify the potency of effluvia T There are many ways in Which such an addition to our physical (and mental) equipment might be use ful, for the noso has the one cardinal advantage over the eyes in that It is quite Independent of light. After all, even the range of vision may be outdis tanced by that of amell, if it be true, for instance, that the Spice Islands of (be Indian archipelago are to be distin guished far out at sea long before they have been sighted from the lookout According to Humboldt the Peruvian Indiana on the darkest night cannot only perceive the approach of a stran ger while atlll far distant, but can ven tell whether be Is a negro or an Indian or a European. The Arabs of the desert are auld to smell fire thirty m forty miles away. The Indian of ortn America certainly uses bis nose in the pursuit of game, and Major Gen eral Baden-Dowell strongly recom mended the practice to white men In bis treatise on scouting. ' Bat It la not only savages and un civilized tribes who surpass us in tbe efficiency of this particular organ and In the attention which they pay to lta education. With the Japanese "in cense snuffing" has reached the dignity of ceremonial. It has been prac ticed, 'we ave told, by priests and dalmloe for the last 400 years and Is alien very norloimly Indeed, Urnve CHMayn have been written on ho sub ject, nnd an Mabnrale code of llipietto has been trniuluted for Its uluory nine. It Is also n form of enicriilii ininl, nnd at a k Ik I Ko parly your host produces on n special tray Home twen ty or more different Minis of Incense, from which he selects live, lo each one of which he given n dlirerenl inline, founded on Home literary allusion, c.ich inline receiving It number. The varl inn kinds nre then burned In Irregular or. der, nouiellmen In combination of two or three kinds, nnd the gnosis have to write down the correspond hut num bers on Hllpn of paper by means of certain slutin n tuhiillcnl of the chap ter In II celebrated classlrnl lomalne railed "I ienjl mono galarl." 't he per ron who guesses their Identity most ai. cessfully wins n prize, and bet w ecu mills yon nro allowed a whllT of vino- nr to refresh your Jaded nostrils. In New York ii tt attempt Wits iiimle lo found a scries of "perfume concerts," w hero scent took the place of music, but the energetic Ainorlonns voted the eiilerl.ilnuieiit slow, nnd the Innova tion was hardly a success. There Is another reason for which It iiili-hl be worth our while In pay more attention lo this particular sense - for lis iniiciiioule HiiMgcsllNene s. The facnlly of memory plays n rather queer part In coimeelloii with thai of duell ing, although around It our menial lis Hoclall ins cluster most slrongly, for It Is very doubtful If anybody can Me dially call up or "represent" n particu lar odor, though there are cases of subjective hallucinations of scent among the insane, nnd the records of (lie Society I'or Psychical llosearch qllole Instances of what we inlidit cull the "ghost" of n smell.- London Spec tator. WASTE OF ENERGY. One of llti ('.rent rrittileiim Thai Are l'uKllttu Hie nclentlstN, Ninety -nine per cent of the sun pow er or energy slored up in u Ion of coal Is lost on Its way to the electric light bull). Thus we get only a hundredth part of tho possible light contained In a ton of coal. The other ninety nine pans are lost on tho way, dissipated hi beat nnd used up III friction In the engine or the electric nppnriiliis nnd never become light. To discover some way to prevent this fearful waste of energy Is one of the great problems confront lug sclent lstn today. .lust as fearful a waste of energy goes on In man's use of bin ow n pow ers. Instead of 1do per cent of hln en ergy appearing III results, that are worth while often not more than I per cent of It gets Into bin real work, the rest being thrown away, dissipated In scores of ways. A young man starts out In life wild a large amount of force nnd vitality stored up In hln brain, nerves nod mus cles, lie feels an almost llinlll 'ss sup ply of energy welling up wilhlti him, n fullness nnd buoyancy which know no repression, lie believes he will do won ders with thin energy nnd Hint ho will transmute practically all of It Into light achievement. In the pride of hln youth anil strength he seems to think that there Is practically no end to his power to throw off energy, anil so he often llings It out on every side with reckless prodigality. He burns It up here In a cigarette or a pipe, there In whisky or wine; hero ho drains It off In heavy suppers nnd Into hours, there In vicious living, Idleness, shlftlcssuesn nnd ' botched work until ho llmilly conies to himself with n shock nnd nsUs: "Where is tho electric light I meant to produce with nil my energy? Is this flickering candle tlamc nil that I can generate?" He In appalled to find that, with nil hln superabundant vital ity, ho has scarcely produced light enough to illumine his' own way nnd ban nothing left for the world, He who had boasted of his strength and felt confident of shedding a light that would dazzle the world stumbles along himself in scuildnrkness. Tho energy which should have been transmuted Into achievement has been lost on the way. Orison Swett Mnrden In Success. Tha Scamllnavlua Island. I never heard nny particular pother mado' over the number of the Hcnndl nnvian Islands. I had often heard of tho fiords, never of the Islands. There fore I was surprised when wo sailed through endless Isles of granite pierc ing through steel colored swirls of sea, for tho islands around tho coasts of Denmark, Sweden and Norway and thence ncross tho gulf of Bothult and the gulf of Finland are literally end less, and they nre all of primitive grnn Ite. There are great Islands, sinull Is lands, little Islands, Islets, rocks, pin nacles nnd noodles. Thousands of them are nameless, although all seem to be charted. Coming from the North capo down the coast of Norway through the Sknger rack, the Kattegat, past Copenhagen and up Into the strait be tween Gotland nnd Swedeti, I believe the ship must pnns through scores of thousands of Islands. In one group ulone lying off Stockholm, the Alands Islands, there are over 300 on the chart. Jerome Hurt in Argonaut. At the Head. Bishop Polk, afterwurd General Tolk, was one of those men who wear the seal of authority upon their brows. On one of his episcopal visitations he Stopped for the night at a country Inn, when his host nt once addressed him aa general. "No, my friend," auld Polk. "You are mistaken. I am not a soldier." , "Judge, then?" huzarded the Innkeep er. "That la not the title given me by those who know me," replied Polk, be rlnnlng to be amused. apisliup, Uien7 ' 'Tight," anld Polk, laughing. ' "Well, I knew you were at the head of your profession, whatever it wua," said the innkeeper. TEACHING THE HOF SE Will Learn Anrthlnn " Inneles an Perlifrm, Import horsemen believe that n horse ran be taught to do anything that It In possible for nil nnlnial no formed mid to be utterly fearless. Thus we know of horses rushing Into battle with a fearlessness that In magnificent, nl though In the beginning of their liven (hey may have been foollshl ' timid, nh) lug nt everything unusual Hint hap pened to be seen In their travels, lit order to touch a home fcnrlcnsncnn he must be accustomed to nil noils of sights nnd sounds. He must come to know thai lns'iiuse something that be seen or lienrn In unusual It dm-n not fol low that It In harmful, for It Is the un usual Ihltms that frighten him. The horse I:: an animal of one Idea at a time nnd In not able lo discriminate, so nny the men w ho have made n study of the horse. While ho will travel along q'llolly close by the roar of a train, he may tremble at tho Duller of a piece of loose paper Hying In the wind. It In not the f rightfulness of the object Unit fceins to nlarin ti I in. but the iinfainll Inrlly of It. Horse I ralnors nny Unit the mistakes made In "breaking" ami training a colt In that It In too often done In the seclusion of some country road Instead of iimlil (ho nlghln nnd Rounds that the nuluial must liivcssurl ly become familiar with later. As noon an the horse becomes famil iar with anything and has learned to believe thai It will not hurt him he w III stand quietly or trot along peace fully, even though nil sorts of noises and queer nlghln nro nbout him. Thus the artillery horse will ntand ntnld Hie roar of cannons, being used to the noise nnd not knowing that the sound predicts anguish and death. It in well to accustom n homo to unusual nounds an noon an possible after he In trained for riding or driving. It renders hlui safe and doolie, even though he he a nplrlted niilmal. A certain trainer of horses said that an Ideal school for horses would contain thrashing ma chines, pile drivers, sleain drills, elec tric, steam nnd elevated cum, a bund of martial music and a gang of quarry I ,'n blaming rook. A horse that wan drilled among such a bedlam aa thla would Indeed prove Immune to strange noises. The gentle family home, petted by man nnd child, In not always train ed to all this, yet lip often luiikiM a use ful and fiiMliful animal, loved by Ida owner and evidently making Home re turn of nll'ectlon.- Iietroll Tribune. A lnr llrelpa. "Don't talk to mo about the recipes In that magazine," said Mrs. I.une, with grout energy. "Wnnn't that tho very magazine that advised me to put on that sisly solution ami leave the tu bloclolh out overnight to tnke off those yellow stains?" "I'm Inclined to think it may have boon,"- mild Mrs. Lane's slsler, with due meekness. "I sent you a number of them In the spring, I remember." "Well, unci what happened?" naked Mrs. l.iine, with rising wruth. "Didn't the stains disappear?" asked her sister. "Dlnappenrr auld Mrs. Lnno In n withering tone. "It waa the tablecloth that disappeared. I don't know any thing about tho ntnlns." I.ate Ucarlnnliia;, Sir Walter Scott began to write his celebrated novels at forty. Milton bo gan "Paradise I.ont" nt fifty. Whoo "Kant I.ynne" appeared Its author, Mrs. Henry YVood, wan forty-five. Cromwell was forty-one when ho be gun his public career. The your of the hcglra wits the fifty-third of Moham med, nnd Marlborough reached his In dependent command at the nnnie age. In spiritual examples Abraham waa seventy-live when called out of Chu rnn, nnd Moses was eighty when he atom! before Pharaoh as the champion of Isruel, The? Were All Rlaht. He was n typlcnl backwoods farmer. Ills first visit to a city restaurant, how ever, had taken away none of the ap petite he hud at home, where every thing was placed In large dishes on the center of the table and each one help ed, himself. Tho waiter hud plied the food around the plate In the customary little dishes, which the farmer cleaned up in turn. Settling back in his chair, he hulled tho passing Walter: "Hey, thero, young man! Your sam ples nre all right Krlng ou the rest of the stuff." Judge. John Bright' Reply, On one occasion John Itrlght received a letter from a very bad writer, to which he replied: Dear Sir Many thanks for your letter of the 12th Inst.- I have no doubt but that It Is a very good letter and that It con taint matter an Interesting- an It In Impor tant; but, by the bye, If you nhoiild be In town In the course of a few days, would you mind just stepping- In and reading tt to me? Yours faithfully, JOHN BRIGHT. A Watch's Variation. As to the sympathetic vagaries of watches a correspondent writes: "I dis covered some years ago thut it was the metal buckle of my braces that caused tbe Irregularities of my own particular wutch. I therefore now muko a rule of putting my spectacle case on the in side of my watch pocket thus cutting off tbe connection." Loudon Chroni cle. Mutual Slip. Tom What mado you give me away so when I waa telling that yarn at tbe dinner table? Dick I didn't mean to; It was only a slip of tho tongue. Dut that's no reason why you should have kicked me ao hard! Tom Ob. I didn't , meuu to It was only a slip of the foot : Detroit Free Press. Ingratitude is a form of weakness.' I nave nevpr known a man of real abil ity to be ungrateful. Goethe. THE 'CROWS OK IJDIA THEY ARE THE ARCH VILLAINS OP THE BIRO WORLD Two Rltvelvn of llir Fralbereil Vina, hnnds Kits! Mile hv Side and I'lr Their Trlrhn of liilimllr In I nin aioa l.nrernr Knr the l.o nf It, It la quite Impossible for any one Who has not sojourned In Hie "Land of ltegiels" to appreciate the Impor tant part played by crown In the dally life of the Anglo Indian. India with out Ha crown In unthinkable; It could only be likened to London without Its fogs. Wherever human beings have their abodes there are inullllildes of corvldue to be found, for the Indian crow In an Inseparable appendage of town nnd village. Two spisden exlnt Ride by aide In India, the great black bird known to Auxin Indians an the corby nnd the smaller gray nocked spe cies. Hot Ii birds lead liven of aimless vagabondage; both are scoundrels of the most pronounced type; both nre sinners hcioiul redemption. Did l ho black crow exist alone It would be held lip an the emblem of nil that In evil and mischievous. An things nre, Itn InlqiillleN pule Into Insignificance bc Rlde those of Itn gray necked cousin. The very name of Hie latter bird In siilllclont to raise the Ire of tho right eous man. To call the arch villain of the bird world "the splendid" In mere mockery of words. Jcrilou, the famous Indian naturalist, "often regrets that such mi Inappropriate spcclllc name should have been npplbsl lo thin spe cies, for It tends to bring Into ridicule among the unscientific the system of nomenclature." Tho Indian crow In nb'o to utilize most tilings. A Calcutta bird ban made Itself famous for nil time by constructing a nest of tho when used to secure the corks of noiln water bot tles. Itmnhay In very Jealous of Cal cutta, and the crown, of course, npo their bettors. The lloniluiy birds (In tel mined not to be outdone by the Calctlltit coi vldae. Accordingly one of the former promptly built her nest of gold nnd sllven spectacle frames stol en from Mesnrn. Lawrence & Mayo'n factory. The value of tho materials used In the construction of thin nest was estimated nt 'J(l. Hut crown will appropriate, things for Which they can have no posslblo use. They commit larceny for tho love of tho thing. Tho Indian crow la tho Incurmite spirit of mischief. Tho bird will wantonly teur a loaf out of a book lying open on the table. My gardener, adds Mr. De war, puts every morning fresh llowcrn In the vases. Thin operation la per formed on the veranda. One day the man wan culled away from hln work for a couple of minutes. During hln absence a crow swooped down ami suc ceeded In taking n beakful of (lowers nnd breaking tho vinio In which they were placed, A retired colonel of my acquaintance who lives In the Hima layas la a very enthusiastic gardener, and the crown nro the bane of bis life. They rout lip hln choicest seedlings, sever the heads of Ids most superb (lowers from tho stalk and lly away with tho little pieces of paper which he places In cleft sticks to mark where seed have boon sown. Hut It la In towns that the Iniquity of the crows reaches its maximum. The Madras corvidan are a byword throughout tho length and breadth of India. The hospital In their favorite playground. They are neer so happy na when annoying tho Inmates. They know at once when a person la too ill to move. The consequence la that It ban been found necessary to have mado for all tho tables wire covers which protect articles placed at tho bedside from the ravages of tho "treble dated birds." I have seen a Madras crow quietly helping Itself to tho contents of It basket which an old woman wua currying on her head. Tho bird was possessed of Htilllctent Intelligence to refrain from alighting ou the basket Hud It done so its presence would prob ably have been detected. It Happed along Just above the top of tho basket, keeping puce with the woman, and ao, unpercclved by her, made n meal off the contents. The knavish tricks of crowa nre by no means confined to hu man beluga. As Colonel Cunningham truly says, "Any animal pets are, of course, even more than lnuulmute ob jects, subject to their attentions, ami unless In wholly Inaccessible places nro constantly liable to have their food purloined nnd their lives rendered a burden by persistent and Ingenious per secution," I once possessed n grey hound which used to bo fed in the gar den, A man had to stand over tbe dog whllo it wua feeding; otherwise the crows would devour tho greater portion of the inoul.' Their plan of campaign wua simple and effective. They soon learned the dog's feeding hour and as It drew near would take up a position on any convenient tree. Tho moment the' greyhound began to eat a crow would swoop down tiud peck viciously at its tall. The dog would, of courso, turn ou the bird, und the others would seize this opportunity to snatch awny some of the food. The process would be repeated uutil the meal wua over. Crown tense and annoy wild creatures with the aume readiness that they wor ry domestic animals. They mob every strange bird in much the same way as the Loudon street urnb makes fun of any person In unusual attire. Loug mun's Magazine. Sadden Want of Information, Tommy Ma, lend mo a loud' pencil. Mother I Just left pen and Ink on tho table for you. What do you want with a pencil? Tommy I want to write to the editor of tbe paper to ask hint wbatTI take Ink stains out bt the par lor carpet Phlludelpblu Ledger. Think much and often! speak little and write less. Wouiuu's Life. "A MONSTER DUMPLiNQ." It Wei Pnnnil Tnw Bask Tata Cant at Itmapllas; Tawa. In Halifax county, N. 0., prior' to Iki.i there waa a voting precinct known by the odd nam of Dumpling Town. In I W0, when William Uanry Harrison waN elected president after most exciting campaign, Dumpling Town hud exactly 114 voters, and ev rry man of them cast bin ballot for Hi t risen, The people nf the small but prosper ous town of Hoot la nil Neck, In that county, shoved their appreciation of the unnnliuo'iN Vote of Dumpling Town by it generous nnd whimsical gift. Two ihns and a night wera consumed In budding a big dumpling, which waa innilc of apples nnd Hour and which weighed III pounds, una pound for each vole cunt at Dumpling Town. Thin mounter of a dumpling waa put n it suck supported by a tripod and lowered Into an Immense Iron ktttlt. It required two days and night to cook It properly. Then It was lifted out and placed In a specially mads bowl cut from the trunk of an nor-' inoun cypress tree, and round It wart placed 114 dumplings of ths usual sine. A bund of music and fifty wagons wars nent to Dumpling Town, and In tbass wagons were taken In Rcollami Nack the 114 tune blue Ilnrtiaou man and their famlllen. There was great cheering whan tbey arrived nt Hoot la ml Nack, aud the gnosis cheered themselves when tbey anw the fount urepured for them, for, besides the dumplings, no end of good things filled many tables In the spa clous warehouse, and the f runt lug and fun hinted the rent of the day and Hour ly till night. A barrel of tho best molasses waa used us sauce for the big dumpling, mid the hungry people uta It all. Youth's Companion. PAYING IN CENTS. Creditors Mnr flafaae Lara ml Small Caaaffa. Ordinarily when a debtor appears be fore a long time creditor there la no questioning of the United Btntea coin In which the debt la to be paid, but the wide possibilities possessed by an arbitrary creditor In stipulating Just what coins nnd In what nmounta ha will receive payment are enough al most to discourage borrowing. You can't forco a mean creditor to take more than 23 cents' worth of nick els or 25 cents' worth of copper cents. If you could get na much us $.1 worth of old sliver three cent pieces: of an other generation you could unload 13 worth ou lil in. JiiHt ua he would have In take (." worth of the silver five cent pieces and $3 worth of the obsolete twenty cent pieces, which made so much trouble In the lute seventies. Hut you can pay out $10 In silver dimes and silver quartern and silver half dol lars. The Irndo dollars, of which there tire n few atlll coming Into the treasury of the L'ulted Htutun for redemption, tiro worth nothing, whllo the Htanihird dollar Is nil unlimited legal tender, us In the old "dollar of our dads." the first of which wan coined In 1 7b I and the Inst lu 17:1. Colon that virtually have disappear ed from circulation are gold three dol lar nnd one dollar pieces, the trude dol lar of silver, the nickel three cent piece, the cupper two cent piece, the copper half cent nnd silver throe und live cent pieces. Omaha World-Hor-uld. . derma a Pataraallnm. American tourists returning from Eu rope bring buck stories of the paternal watch which la kept upon them In tier many. Due woman wus requested by a policeman to hold up her gowu, which wua a trailing, elaborate uffulr of laco and chiffon. It wua after din tier, nud alio was taking a stroll with her husband through a park whose Im maculate walks seemed to offer no barm to Its delicacy, so she let it hung. The policeman wus polite euough. He informed her gravely thut any dress that wus allowed to trull wua liable to collect undeslruble matter and prove Injurious to health, aud he reminded her that one time a law was under consideration to make the wen dug of such, skirts a misdemeanor. New York Tribune.' Tha Weatharooek, The cfilgy of the cock so often seen on church steeples Is usually connected with u legend lu connection with Bt. I'eter. As a matter of fact, however, the figure of a cock used to be placed ou tho tops of sucred trees long be fore It wus used on buildings. The movement of the bird in the breeze was supposed by the superstitious to ward off evil spirits. On a number of mod ern churches the familiar vane la miss ing, but In days gone by a church was thirdly ever built without the weather cock on Its steeple. Loudon Stundurd, Garden Laatarna. The noted Jupuneso gurdons, famous for their beuuty, owe much of their charm to the quulnt lanterns which nre used In great profusion. The best of tbelr garden lanterns are made of bronze after quaint native denlgna. Home of them are richly curved and nre of-great Intrinsic value. Many of these lantrrra are of great antiquity, nnd the best examplea are aeen ut Nik kho, famous for Its exquisite bronzes. Poatbnmena Kdltloaa. "Did you ever ace anything to equal the way aome of these live young au thors turn out books?" "Well, thry enn't compete with soma of the dead onus who keep on getting out new volumes every year." New Orloaua Picayune. When trouble goes hunting him a man may dodge It, but when a man goea hunting trouble It hasn't one chance In a thousand of escaping him. BURIED BANK BILL 8, Cher Had Alatast ( rankled la llant, hat War Redeemed, The money counters In the t'nlM Rtatea treasury were startled one il y, ays Theodora Watera In die Novenili r Bveryhmly's, by ths appearance of a remarkable looking fat man who en tered the department and told a slrnii' n tale. Ha said ha wa an Ohio farmer r9 did not believe In bunks, and i Ii ..i burled bis money lu the groun I fui siifs keeping. He had dug It tip and whs horrified lo llml Hint It Was slowly turning to dust, as notes wl I when long burled. 1'nulc stricken, he gnlliered the illi Integrated money Into an old pillow raso, bound It around his wnlnt benonlh hln clothes and started for Washington. He traveled part of the way on home bark, part of the way ou an Ohio river teamboat aud part of the way by trill ii, During the Journey be never once took off tha pillowcase. He even slept with It on. The oftlclala of the treasury department found It dllllciilt to make him part with It. He did Hot want to go with a clerk to a hotel for fear ths clerk might rob him, but aa It was manifestly Impos sible for him to disrobe In ths office he had finally to submit. They got the money at last, and tha condition of It waa so bad that the treasury expert had to be culled to decipher IL No great wua her skill that the farmer lost only a few hundred dollars out of IIU.UOO. EARTHQUAKES. Taeerlrs tu Aeeoaal Car These L p neavala ut ike tcarlh'e t'raal. A scientist who bus mado a special atudy of earthquakes nays: "Let us Imagine the Influx of the sen Into one of the fissures formed In the earth's crust. Ou coining Into contact with molten mutter It would Instantly bo changed Into gaseous steam, expand ing to more than IH,(HX) times Its origi nal bulk. Thin would press Willi enor mous force upward upon the crust of the earth and downward upon the sur face of the liquid lava. If there were then mi vent for the lava to escape nn earthquake would result." There, nre other Ingenious .theories which have Wright, such na Hint of Davy, who when he discovered the metallic bases of the earths mid alka lis conceived that water may pene trate to these metals If they exist un derground in an unoxldlxed slate nnd so net free niiMlclaiit gnseous mutter to cause an earthquake. Rhrlnkiige of the earth's crust is also to be taken Into account CLIMBING SERPENTS. Tha Method bf Walea Tber Ulld I u Hmoulh Surfaoea. Hcrpents can .anally climb a smooth wall. "I buve often seen them do no In Ceutrul Amurlcu," nays u traveler, writing to a Joiirilnl published in Homo. "I watched a little one. whose bite Is fatal, climb up a canvas stretched taut betweuu two snakes, tin reaching the top the reptile curled Itself round u hundglass. und I killed It Willi a cane." A serpent Is to lie seen in uluiost any zoological garden which makes no trouble of climbing Itn glass case. This In how It nets to work: Stretching Itself up the glass for about four Inches, It discharges from Itn glands a quantity of viscous mailer which nerves us an adhesive liquid tu hold and support Its body long enough to enable it to thrust Itself up a II t tin higher, when the proc ess Is repeated. In warm cltmutea thla mucus Is very thick and glutinous, ao that by Its aid even heavy serpents can glide up per fectly smooth surfaces. Mlerosrnple Detect tire. Ehreubcrg, prince of mleroseoplsts, aome years ago wua employed by the Prussian government to investigate a enne of smuggling. A cuse hud been otK'iiod. vuluublea extracted nnd the cuse repacked and shipped onward to lta destination. The only clew to the criminals wna that the unpacking must have been done at aome of tho customs houses through which the goods had passed. To all appearances the mi croscope hud a hopeless tusk. Lhren berg took aome of the sand which hud boon used lu repacking, pluced It un der the microscope, looked through the tube, and, behold, there on the sand lay n pecullur specimen of foriiininl fern. That unlmul wus found only at one place In the world und told Just where the crime hud been committed. Flower Kaeaaeea. To extruct the essence from any flower plnce u layer of the flowera In A clean earthen pot und over them a layer of fine suit. Ilepeat tiro process Until the pot Is filled, cover closely and place In the cellar. Forty days afterwurd strain tbe essoin from the Whole through a crape by presnure. I'ut tho essence thus expressed In a clear bottle and exj-ose for six weeks In the rays of the nun and evening dew to purify. One drop of this es sence will communicate Its odor to a pint of water. Tha Wroaar Place. "Porter, do you Intend panting a lot of those labels on my trunk':" said tbe young man. "Y'es, sir." answered the po-ter. "Well, Just give them to me and I'll pnt them ou myself." "Oh. I wouldn't do that, si:- You'll look like a tattjocd man If you do." Yon kern Stutesmau. The Dopfiir Aaswered. Wagstuff tloid niorn.n i.n -tor. Are you enjoying gokl health this morn ing? Docto- Well er that's about tbe only kind of health u man can en joy. Isn't It? Y.iu ncvor knew any one to enj.iy had hei'th. did yfiV Wu'g staff Oh yes. I've known sjuie doc tors to eniy b id health. f rlTTclimtfl, CLARION SUM- - MWIVtlXK KAIMIOAO. I'ljsseiiaorl'rnlnMeiifliiiiin, first t IsseTrnlnn, 1'iiiiy ncc,i sunnuy, I'liniiiictliis with V, U. It. 'I l a Ins itl Miiiiiiiiui villi!. Homo SAST, No, I. No. a. Nn. 8. t'liii-lnii, bun,, 7 win in, 1 1 lo s m. liUn.m niisiioiiviiii., h 1 1. an 4:mom. ' " hot " 4;Mn.ni. or.l.n N II " I MM 4M,, m Niiiiiiiierlll,ar, vi " mm It inp m. iinino wrT, No. II, No, I. No. . aiiiioiiiirvllle, Iv, fid u ta, I'tsi ,,m. A'sip m, (orslcl., W 14 ' i!.:m ' t.M Wlilel.iin, l ill .1 .i , ,i 4() i, HiMiiitinvllle, i.; a ii riiiiluli, srilve, ti.ftA " j iu " J in " In envri itMoiu-r 17. IKil. I'or further liifor- "'' !""." ""' 1 '"ill""'' a rsl onice nl MriMtk villi, pa. I no uuro that Cures Coughs, Grippe, Whooping Cough, Asthma' Dronohltls and Inotplttnt Consumption Is : Cum ttavA. w Vunn iiuMH iu"" "i " ' " V Y .rfvdv S.ilil l,y II. Alen.Hlolie. A MIGHTY PREACHER. John Hoes Wus ntrona; of Arm Mil m I. mill flslier, John It oss wan u Hootch minister who flourished In tho early part of the seventeenth century. Tnlen of bin won derful deeds are told to thin day lu hln former parish of lllalr. At one time tho reverend iicul Ionian walked to Mause, n distance of about three miles, for tho purpose of seeing n certain farmer and If possible Inducing hi in to come to church, where lie had never! been. Ho found him fishing In the riv er nud usked to bo allowed to have a cant. "I never lend my rod to nny body," said tho farmer. "Hut," replied the minister, "I have come ull the wuy expressly lo sen you, und I must have a cunt." The farmer, who was a very strong man and had never been beaten lu a fist lluht, offered to fight for It "All right," suld tha minister, and he! gave the fanner such a innuling that; he wus glad to glvo up hln rod. Hut It! wan a dilTcrcut kind of fishing thut the! minister hud coinn for. lie asked the; farmer to keep tho rod aid conduct! til in to his house ut Muiisn. When tbeyi arrived the minister said, "Now, you go ou your knees nnd pray," telllnif him Unit he would not leave till hs did so. Ho the farmer fell on bin knees and cried, "Oh, Lord, deliver me from thla num." "Mop:" suld tho minister. "Thfct la very good. I hope you may always be able to do un well. Now, you have to promise to come to the kirk next Huuduy." This the farmer did. Not long afterward he became a leading elder. Icebergs an Indicators. In the loves limit Ion of the currents round tho const of Newfoundland It has been observed that there is at times a wide difference in the direction of tho drift of Icebergs and that of the flat or pan Ice, which, having no great depth, Is governed In its mo tions by the niirfueo currents and tbe winds, whereas the Icebergs, the lar ger fin rt of which Is submerged to a great depth, follow only the movement of tho ocean water na a whole and are iinlnlliienced by tho winds. In conae'j ipicncc a huge herg may often he aeenj majestically maintaining Its slow ad-j vuiicn In opposition to the wind and! across the gonernl motion of the fields! of flat Ice surrounding It. The scaler; often take iiilvuntiieo of thin fact by; niootiiic thivr vessels to'nn Iceberg in! order to prevent u drift to leownrd. i Youth's Companion. ' While Vou Willi. Klio li id taken her umbrella Into one of those places where they offer to re cover the. n "w hile you wait." "It will take tiv j days," s.ihl tl.o twin. "But I can't p.i. !bly wait two duys In here," she io, :i hi. t rated. "It's so very stnfTy, Isn't tt V" " l.e umbrella mender, with out a Hi ii i said be would send It uroiui l in a couple of days. 8l:e point ed out to Irin that there wus still a big difference bciweou wbut he advertised und what lie ould accomplish. Then he explained. "It will be done while you wait." suld he. "but you needu't bee;lii i wait until day after tomor row." CuJciiuu New s. Too Much Atbletlea. 1 Muny physlclana now claim that the! general health Is hurt rather than ben-! efltcd by athletics, that muscle bnild-i Ing Is not nece.-is.iry b nix d health.; thut to bring nbout n perfectly train-! ed condition has u severe eTect on! the nerves, that a built up muscle bus a tendency to ilc;,oncrute und that the; heart, bolm,- n muscular organ, shares; In thla dunger. ; Jest an With Her Father. ! "Your daughter's music Is linprov-j Ing," suld the professor, "but when she! ruus the scales I have to wutch her; pretty closely." "Just like her father." auld Mrs. Nu-; riteh. "lie mado h.'s money In the grocery business." lUillade!! hln Ledg-i . ' : i It is not tho Intelligent ' mnu who! rules, but Intelligence; not the wise! man, but wisdom. Goethe. 1 TTOS
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