IT HAS BEEN SO EVER SINCE THE CREATION OF THE WORLD. _ #90,000.000,000 tons of salt. If thissalt _oonld be gathered in a solid form and scmpressed into the shape of a cube. it would contain 10,178,000 cubic miles Each edge of soch a cube would meas- pie somewhat more than 200 miles. Lis is enough to cover all the land on thix globe with a uniform layer of salt to a depth of 1,000 feet. the ses is interesting enough in itself, may well be asked, Where did all this #alt come from, and what is the use of it? Feveral scientific gentlemen have attempted to answer this frst question, ‘and their efforts are not f tirely satis- fictory. The second question is not 80 Cd ficalt. | Ancording to the history of the crea tien of the world, as told by Moses in ‘the (Genesis, it is implind that the coesn existed before the land, for, on the “third day’ the ‘water under the heav- ons" was gathered together and the dry : | land appesred. This statement | number of sabia philosophers, who, in | their effort to stick to the latter of Che © Beripture ind at the same time to rea mom vot evrything on perfectly natoral | principles, : J | bow suck & grand transformation eonid | be accomplished in ome day. And their | perplexity was not relieved when learn ed geologists announced that it must have required ages for the waters that anveloped the earth to sabwide and re | weal this Jand that lay beueéath. 5 Put when it was suggested that the word “day ss osed by Moses meant, | mot a period of £4 hours, bot an era of thousands of years, the difficulty was removed. This meaning of the word May’ is at present generally accepted by devout scientists, who now desiare | that there is nothing impossible in Mo | sew’ mecount of the creation. | This description, to be sure, is Ja | mentably brief. It was hardly adequate 0 pase over such a hugs event as the ereation of a world in a few Hoes That wens a big story from a hewspaper point of view. wd all themghitial perscnc. mast scknowledge that Moses did pot oo take advantage of bis opportunity. Accepting the Mosaic account, Dr. T. "| & Hunt, a earoed writer en the phys ical history of the globe. wapplien what | Moses left out, and in so daing be gives | m very good reason for the presence of the salt fu the sea. Having wirived at the point of Moses’ meager Larrative here the earth was in a molten sate and sorrounded by an envelope of games water vapor, Dr. Hoot says: “The carbonates, chlorides and sul phates (chemical combinations uf ear bon, chlorine and saiphur with oxygen | were changed into siliontes. The ear bow, chlorine and saiphur, being thos freed from the oxygen, separated iu the Sorin of acid guess. These, with nitro: | , vapor of water and a probable ex of oxygen, formed the at miophiere, hich was very dense (and also very snbonithy ). “The surface of the earth was cover. od with Jumps of molten rock (probably renesnbliog furnace slags. The depressed parts of ihe surface were filled with highly beated solutims of hydrochloric aud sulphuric acids, which ate into the surfaces and decomposed it. In this way the silicates were changed to pure silica, taking the form of quartz as the atmos phere cooled. and the condensation of vaporons atmosphere prodoced sea t, boiding in solution salts of sodi. , calé¢inm, magnesinm and ammoni- The atmosphere, thos freed of its tlements, became pure aod fit t is therefore evident that the soa has been salty from the creation of the world. The salt does pot cone, as 3s generally supposed, from friction of the water against salt “'rocke’’ in the bed of the onean. This, then, auswwers the fret question. Where did the salt come from? The second question is pretty well answered by Mr. GW. Lintle Bales im Appletan’s Popular Science Monthly, © fy seems,’ he suys, thot the wea was made salt in the beginning as a puirt of the grand design of the Creator fo provide for the system of evaiotion ich bias been going on since the crea Gon. Many distinct species of Diving Organ uns exist in the sea ns 8 result Gf fix salinity, and their renains base | largely contributed to the growth of eon | fps, : The minote creatnres that have lived in the wea for ages past have left endor- ing monuments in the shape of blauds ‘rocks and continents. If the sea bad not been salty, these marine suimals conid “pot have existed and secreted the hard ~ subiiance known as a “calcareous shoe ton,” which has largely coutmbuted to the growth of continents. Among thes early inhabitants of the sea were corals enmoids, sea urchins and warfishos The saltiness of the sea bas alo much to dg with the ocean currents, which distribute the heat of the tropics over the colder regions of the earth. Carrents are lwgely due to the difference be tweeh he speeitie gravity of sea water and the fresh water of rains Thus when rain fails cn a ceniain part of the | goean, the efoit of the Leaver salt wa ger of the ocean to establish su equilib rium camses a current. -- New York World. The famous Chevalier Bayard, who is held up in all the histories and ro © mamices us a model of cb ovalry, wes : greatly apposed to the nse of firearm, mpd aways ordered his troops to pu 2 captured mnsketeers to deiih without : mercy, as practicing a form: of waitin entirely anaivilized and unwind This statement as to the saltiness of bas bothered a great ‘have been puseled to know a the Kansas City Times, he found great | amusement in annoying one of the char. acters employed on the piper. Fergosan - was one of the “make ups’ an the pa- { per, and in Wyandotte, where he resid ™ od, just over the line from Kansas City, . he was the leader of a local temperance | sooiety. For over a year Firld, On com- | ing down to the paper fo go to work, | would write a srsonal concerning Fer: Prem. Generally it ran like this: “Mr. Jobw Ferguson, the well known ‘make | wp’ ef The Timex comnixuing room, ap peared for work yesterday evening in hin usual beastly ste of intoxication. This enterisining bir Field wonld send down in a bondle of copy, and the oth ers of the composing room would set it up and say nothing Poor Ferguson kvew that this awfol perccnal was in their midst, and every night wonld go carefully over every gal Jey for the purposy of locating and kill: ing it. It gave him vast trouble Every pow and then Field wonld not write his personsd aboot Fergowm, and then the bedeviled Ferguson was worse off than ever. As long as ba comid pot find it it might still be there It almost drove the poor man off the paper. Now and then it escaped his eagle eyw and was print. od... Om such occasions Ferguson's bur dens were beyond the power of éven a Christian spirit to bear. Delsy That Wasn't Dangerous. Once in a while the dry pages of gov. | ernment reports are enlivened by details of seusational incidents Witness the following from a report of Jahn Ww. Fleming. United States mine inspector for New Mexico: on the evening of at 11 pm On the morning of the 27H I went omt to the White Axh Coal mine, about 35 miles from the fown When 1 arrived there, I asked the superintendent of the mine James Duggan, aboot the - sondition of the mine, snd be informed me that it was never better that he had been in the mine svery day for sight or ten dave past. and had taken air meassrements and found that the venti ation was better than ever before Upon my reqnest that he procted into the mie for ite inspection, be that he was roo ired (0 go to the coke pens of the company at Waldo, shont 234 miles distant, and would retarn hy noontime, and we would go into the mine’ At 11 a man explosion of fire damp ocomrred in the mine which killed 24 men, and showed the inspertor that, sometimes, deiayd are the revarse of dangerons. A Fond Mother's Ruse. There is 8 mother on the north side who has a family of mosll children. Ome day she became wiry mach interest od ina book, aud it peemed as if she must read if, bat the children bothered her vary much. Finally she thought of a scheme whereby she conid get rid of the children, so she took 8 brodm and _ put a red cloth on it and hang it in the window, She then told the children they must play she had the smallpox, and that they most nit dare come pear her. for they would cateh it. They kept away bevutifally all the afternoon, and she finished the beck. Some of the netghbors ales saw the rad fag and asked the children what was the matter, and they said smallpox, snd tha report was current on that side of town ina wary short time. Not only the children, tat the neighbors, kept away ontilihey Joarned «§ the scheme —Indianspois Jomrnal A Beeston Abraham Hayward, the fapons Quar- terly reviewer, cuce thought that ba wonld like to have some ancestors, so he walked straight 15 a picture dealer's Belecting a portra‘t of a cavalier in half armor, with festusors not guite unlike his ows, Mr. Hayward made a bid for it, but deeming the price asked too high, be went his way. A few days later Mr. Hayward went fo dine with Lard Houghton, and was astonished to find the picture in the dining room. Sewing that it attracted his goest’s attention, Lord Houghton ssid: "Very good pic- tare that! Caps into ory bands io a cn rious way. Partrais of a Milses of the pemmonwerlth period-—an ancestor of mine” “Ak indewd i said My. Hay ward ‘Fe was very near being an an. oeptor of meine.” Witches Ia Foptella When Napoleon [i] was approaching sovercignty, he msked a judic ons friend to oteerye hin carefully for a week and to point out to him soything that be did whirl was pod gover ing to the several code of the wanner of a well bred msn, At the end of Lhe vieik There Wan only gos Practice wish bis friend had no tion The emperor, al or eating & bail od epg. mvarialay throat spn throoah it Whenve he fame Dot to say. period and w ariginally in or sutling in the ERE has aren, at ww difflenit fromn a very easly ve that 16 was dope Lh pasting Wilchos this pranioe fas nGE Nome date pati Bies a Bossian Eivtancen One gets an idea of the magnificent distances of the cass # realm from earn. ine thas a Russian jonernl who was in gp Laver to get to it Pelenburg frow Viadivestok fuosd the tine saving routs wis to go to Yokohama by steamer, thence by another s camer across the Pa cide to San Frape seo, by rail tu New York and by steamir to Europe Rap between the finish sections of Transsiberian ra frog 5 so many han: dreds of nities in leveth thar the geporald wii. have kst tir ¢ in AVErsing the wilds of that vast couLity, Whtte Lures furnish all the Liana Fave oveninte ut, “Why s@ You bong BO serions, Babt vy?’ asked the £01 1 ile A ninkin Sesh Ie went and told ws we shoal pol oot oti or people's things and then tried t go all the pennies © ¢ bod’ —Linal- Yi Lnguirer. aber he pr He | When gone Field was city sditor of pincing stated The a of power expended in aying on 4 piano has recently been 4 out in a way which, if not aito- gether accurate, ie at least interesting. Commenting on the staterpent made that “it requires more force to sound a note gently on this instrument than it does to lift the lid of a kettle," The American Art Journal says that this is “emny to verify if ona takes a small bandfol of coins and pike them on a key of the piano. When a sufficient quantity is piied on to make a note sonnd, they may be weighed and the figures will 1» frund to be froe If the pianist is playing fortissinin, a much greater force is needed. At times a force of xix pounds is thrown Bpon a KOR ia key to produce a solitary effent With chords the force {a generally spread over the varicns notes sounded simnitaneons ly, thongh a greater onftput of force is. andoubtedly expended. This is what gives pianists the wonderful strength in SRR SR It o Minute Cough Cure acts quickly, and | that's what makes it go. C. W. Hodg-| § kins Rimon 8 Hartman, of Tanpelton, CW. Va, hax been mbject to attacks of | solic about once a year, and would | have to call a doctor and then suffer for about twelve hours as much as some do when they die. He was taken | recently just the ame as at other times and coneloded to try Chamberlain’ Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. : Fle gays: took one dome of it and it gave me relief in five minutes. That | is more than any thing else has ever, done for me. For sale by Patton Pharmacy, (0. W. Hodgkins L gucemen Lpity 19 secure some i133 their fingers that is often commented on. “A story need to be told «f Paderew- ski that he conld ernck a pans of French plate glass balf an inch thick merely by one hand upon it as if apap a keyboard and striking it saarply with his middle finger Chopin's last study fn C minor has a passage which fakes two minotes and five seoonds to play. The total pressure brooght to bear on this. it is estimated. in eqaal to three full tons. The average ‘tonnage’ of an hone's piano playing of Chopin's mame varios from 12 to 54 tons ‘‘Pagner has not yet bees taloniated alorig thess lines ''—Cassier 's Magazine. The Magicians of Indin iq grrivendt at Corilion ~ Tha magicians of India sre x clever the 38th of Febrnary,/ Jot. For » ropes (20 cents) they will farnish gnite an enterinizment. Une beats a drom and acts as inferioentor, while there is generally a sumll boy or girl ms sswistant A clever trick is per. formed by placing the small boy or girl iy a Bankes, covering the opening. After pamoniing a sword in the bask from the top and all vides, until ne imngines the youngster Gone 10 dearly, the basket in oponed and he is stil] thes intel Na preparations are made bedi hand, and these cunning fricks are done on the ground bot fivw or ten feet way in the sane vray a small bash prac 15 grow ander merely a cloth covering. Consid ering {hat the pag cian bas no povesso view, it ix really wonderful The last part of the musician & pro gramme was no trick by any means A soccannt was handed to me for inepee tiem. It seemed sound and sulid After a great deal of dromming and booting to producs an excitement the cocoanot was thrown into the air 20 fact. With » joud yell the magician sprang under it, wheti it descended and fhe ecconnnt prret fo pisces on his bead The biow staggered bim at fiest, but i few appray. ing pats on the hack by his comrades and a drink of whisky soon straightensd him ont. Navteh girls, acompanied by ane or (Wo mnsicians, ae frocaently seen dapeing in fhe street, tut their per: forman-s ia vary slow and nuinterssting. rel IRR. ¥ The Real Mistress of Baimorsl The ruler of Balmoral castle 2 not the queen, tf the housekmeper, a Mrs Mossens, a fypieal permmage of her clam, gowned always in rnitng hisck silk, Ince trimmed apron aml waits cap She and the queen are saul to be exoel jemt friends. and many 1 gossip bave they had together when alluirs of state have heen laid aside Mrs. Muossens also stands high in the aver of the Hitle Battenterga, » bho aan sure to seek Bar out as soon ae they havo janded at the castle, for aon fairly idol fpes the little cues and kieps many a treasnirs in her apartmnis with which tor reals them To tha world at large Mon Mosmwns 8 a holy terror. Her word is law, and 250 enforces it at the point ol the bayouet or the broomstick. It bs seid hat ones the queen wanted a eeptain 1m 1d, Ww whos she had taken a fazoy, detailed to tha care of bor own room, bint the buns keeper remonmtrated, telling her majesty it war quite out of order sid she really must not apeiil the ser nadnn potion The guern War Wisk enough not to indir, and Videar Mrs won the day — strand Magasin bi Top SHER wR M nase 1a ne Fool jer Senin af getting A very povel netic senle in a boiler Bored Paper fo ad alg seule cumie foo The feed pire corr theowarer Dow, Herd £5! boiler toss ay slots cut ia pighih of fos ethual and smironnd larger (pe, ulxs and cut awd; at the fon jiameter vad water Lrongh &ii He ws Er ab od Sa Beet is % Jk at Named by Bayard Taylor Mons Clair, in dontis ns was nased by Bavard 1 a string day Tayiors asaciation with the Dias Id be snfeient to wile § leis ? 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