NOTES AND COMMENTS. TIIE mortality of the globe in said to be (17 every minute, 97,790 every day or 85,080,835 every year. The births amount to 100,000 everyday, 30,702,000 every year. TIIE recent order issued apparently by the Swissgovernment to expunge the story of William Tell from the school books was bogus. The myth is to be retained, even although it is only myth. Happen ing only in some fertile imagination, it Is an exquisite protest of liberty agaiust tyranny. THE rabbit pest in New Zealand is un abated. The efforts put forth for the extinction of the nuisance, which have cost a large sum, have completely failed and the rubbits are as numerous and de structive an ever. It is now proposed that the government shall abolish the rabbit department and offer a uniform price for all rabbit skins. ALTHOUGH the small fruit crop in the Eastern States was an almost complete fail ure this year, California is reported to have done very well with grapes (raisins) and prunes, and to have had generally a re markably good year for fruit. The yield of primes is estimated at 15,000,000 pounds, or more than a pound for each family in the country. IN his address as President of the Na tional Electric Light Association, Mars den J. Perry, of Providence, stated that the capital invested in electric lighting plants in the United States lias reached the enormous aggregateof 41118,758,500; that there were at the present time in use 1,590,907 incandescent lights, 127,441 arc lightsand 1,379 stations. These fig ures tend in a measure to show the im portance to which electricity lias ad vanced within a few years. This aggre gate does not consider the thousand and one applications of the element other than lighting. RUSSIA is the leading grain exporting country of the world, tho United States, India and Rouuiania following in the order named. Odessa is the leading grain exporting port of the Russian Em pire, and may be considered as the prin cipal business city. Tho export trade has for many years been almost ex clusively in the hands of foreigners, and Odessa might equally be called a Frenclt, German, Italian or even a Hebrew city, as fur as the languages spoken or the characteristics of the inhabitants arc con sidered. A MAN who lias been out there snys: "Riverside, the buuncr orange-growing town in Southern California, is perhaps the richest town in the country, if the average wealth lie accurately estimated. Of 5,000 porsons, 200 are assessed for more than $4,000 cucli, which represents $12,000 of value. So oue out of every twenty persons in Riverside has more than $12,000 in property. This is due to the fact that three-quarters of the peoplo in the town own their places; and even if they have only five acres in oranges, this small grove will support a family Well, as tho average yield will be worth S4OO por acre every year. Mits. FENWICK MILLEB, a well-known London journalist and lecturer, was late ly asked by a correspondent wliother she really thought that women could, il they likca, do all that men can do. She re plied as follows: "Speaking for myself, there is at least one thing that many men havo done and now do which I know I should never have the courage to do. I have studied medicine, contested elec tions, written political leaders—all 'like a man'—but though I have never in my life worn on my head a tress of hair which hud not grown there, I am sure I never, never should have the courage to go about with a bald head." It would probably depend, howover, oil whether the "bald head" were her owu or some body else's. TIIE Southern Lumberman says that the census returns will show a most cn couragiug growtli of Southern cities, nud will be substantially as follows: Louis ville has grown from 128,000 population in 1880 to 180,000, Memphis from 38,000 to 64,000, Nashville from 43,000 to 75, - 000, Atlantu from 37,000 to 05,000, Sa vannah from 30,000 to 43,000, Dallas from 10,000 to 89,000, Galveston from 22,000 to 35,000, Chnttanooga from 13,- 000 to 30,000, Birmingham from 8,000 to 27,000, Fort Worth from 0,000 to 81,- 000, and the growtli of nil other towns has been equally as great. It is sale to Buy that the Southern towns, takcu on an average, have almost doubled iu pop ulation within the last ten years and have increased fourfold in wealth. The active development of the mineral and timber interests ill the South has been one of the chief factors in promoting the growtli of the towns, and has added no small share to the general prosperity. IN estimating tho chances of a settle ment of the long-standing troubles of Ireland, a most hopeful sign is that the employment of light electric railways or telpherage in that country is now being (eriocsly considered. It is shown that telpherage lines might be used for bring ing to market from the remotor districts parcels of farm produce which caunot now be marketed economically. In such districts, while the production is not enough to support even a light railway, there is real need of some ready means of reaching the market, especially with perishable goods. The establishment of such means would to a certainty, declares the New York Sun, give an enormous impulse to small farming, dairy farming, poultry raising nnd other occupations of the peasantry. The carriage of the mails, too, which is now douc by liorse cars and foot messengers, would be enormously expedited. The force of the greatest objection to the whole scheme, the pos sible expense, is very much lessened by the fact that water power exists iu plenty and its utilization would minimize the cost of working. SEVERAL polar expeditions have been projected since the remains of the ill fated Greely expedition were brought home, but none of them have developed beyond the speculative stage until now. It "is the Swedish government that takes the initiative this time. Next spring Dr. Nanscn will start upon the quest with an expedition abundantly equipped. Of course he is sanguine that he will be able to succeed where ull others have failed; but that the elusive North Polo will per mit itself to be captured by him no one should be rash enough now to predict. Another expedition over the icy fields of the North, that promises at the outset more definite results, is that which will be undertaken next year for the explora tion of Greenland by Lieutenant Ryder, of the Danish navy. It is intended to make a thorough scientific examination of the east coast of Greenland north of 73 degrees, a great part of which is an unknown land, and it is believed that the expedition, if successful, will be fruitful in information regarding the ice fields, the Arctic currents and possibly unknown inhabitants. Tho exploring party will be gone at least two years, and the re sults of its work will be looked for with great interest by the scientific world. A PRACTICAL beginning toward ren- dering our coast defenses worthy th# name is to be made at Fort Wadsworth, on Staten Island. Some 143 acres of laud, valued at $5,000 an acre, arc to be added to it, and the residences, green houses, stables and improvements ou the property will aggregate half as much more. Echelon batteries with an armor of forged-steel plate will be erected on the riugc along the water front and will comprise eighteen 10-inch 110-ton guns, using from 850 to 900 pounds of powder and an 1,800-pound shot; two 14-inch 80-ton guns, using 600 pounds of pow der and a 1,200-pound shot; forty 12- incli 50-ton guns, using 425 pounds of powder and a 850-pound shot; twenty 10-inch 80-ton guns, using 250 pounds of powder and a 500-pound shot, and fifteen 8-inch 20-ton guns, using 125 pounds of powder and a 250-pouudshot. The 110-ton guns will be incompletely protected turrets, and the 50-ton in case mates, while the 30-ton and 20-ton will be on disappearing carriages in pits, in suring perfect protection to the gunners. On a part of the newly-acquired land, which is heavily wooded, a battery of 144 12-iuch rifled mortars will be con cealed. An improved torpedo system, with bomb-proof operating rooms and tunnels for conveying electric cables to tho water will complete the armament. AQUATIC LOAFERS. The Idlest Social Group in the World. On one of the most charming of the many wonderfully picturesque little beaches on the Pacific coast, near Mon terey, Cal., is the idlest if not the most disagreeable social group in the world. Just off the shore, further than a stone's throw, lies a mass of broken rock. The surf comes leaping and laughing in, send ing up, above the curving green breakers and crests of fonm, jets and spirals of water which flash like silver fountains in the sunlight. These islets of rock are the home of the sea lion. This loafer of tho coast congregates here by the thousand. Sometimes the rocks are quite covered, the smooth rounded surface of tho larger one presenting the appearance at a dis tance of a knoll dotted with dirty sheep. There is generally a select knot of a doz en floating nhout in the still water under the lee of the rock, bobbing up their tails and flippers very much as black drift wood might heave about iu tho tide. During certain parts of the day members of this community arc off fishing in deep water; but what they like best to do is to crawl up on the rocks and grunt and bel low, or go to sleep in the sun. Some of them lie half iu water, their tails floating nnd their ungainly heads wagging. These uneasy ones are always wriggling out or plunging iu. Some crawl to the tops of the rocks and lie like gunny fags stuffed with meal, or they repose on the broken surfaces like masses of jelly. When they are all at homo the rocks huve not room for them, nnd they crawl on nnd over each other, and lie likcpilesof undressed pork. In the water they are black, but whon they arc dry in the sun the skin becomes a dirty light brown. Many of thorn are huge fellows, with a body as big as an ox. In the water they are repulsively graceful; on the rocks they are as ungainly as hone less cows, or hogs that have lost their shape in prosperity. Summer and win ter (and it is almost always summer on this coast) these beasts, which arc well fitted for neither laud nor water, spend their time in absolute indolence, except when they are obligod to cruise around in deep water for food. They arc of no use to anybody, either for their skin or for their flesh. Nothing could be more thoroughly disgusting and uncanny than they are, and yet nothing more fascinat ing. Ono can watcii them—the irre sponsible, formless lumps of intelligent flesh—for hours without tiring. I scarcely know what the fascination is. A small seul playing by himself near the ahore, floating on and diving under brcukcrs is not so very disagreeable, es pecially if ho comes so near that you can see his pathetic eyes; but these brutes iu this perpetual summer resort are disgust ingly attractive. Nearly everything about them, including their voice, is re pulsive. Perhaps it is the absolute idle ness of the community that makes it so interesting. To fish, to swim, to snooze on the rocKs, that is all, forever and ever. No past, no future. A society that lives for the laziest sort of pleasure. If they were rich, what more could they havo? Is not this the ideal of a watering-place life?—[Harper's Magazine. Metals Costlier Than Gold. Compared with some of the metals gold is a cheap commodity. It is worth $240 a pound, troy ; platinum $l3O, and silver about sl2. Nickel is quoted at about 00 cents and pure aluminum at $8 to $9 per troy pound. But barium sells for $975 a pound, and calcium is worth SI,BOO a pouud. Cerium is higher; its cost is SIOO ail ounce, or $1,920 a pound. Chromium brings S2OO, cobalt falls to about half the price of silver, while didy mium is the same price as cerium, and erbium $lO cheaper by the ounce than calcium, or just SI,OBO per pound. The wealth of the Vanderbilts amounts to uearly $200,000,0000. With this sum they could purchase 328 tons ol gold and have something left over, but they couldn't buy two tons of gallium, that rare metal being worth $3,250 an ounce. The Memory Hoop. The "memory hoop" is the newest craze anion" society young ladies. Any hoop will uo, for it is covered up by pieces of ribbon, presented by girl friends, upon which must be paintecf or embroidered the name of tho giver and the date when given. Tho ribbon must have been worn, else it possesses no charm. From gentleman friends a cop per cent is obtained, highly polished and engraved with the initials of the donor. These are suspended by ribbons from the hoop, which in turn, is suspended in the owner's room. If a piece of ribbon fades, or one of the coppers turns dark, it is a sign that the giver is ill, in trouble, or false, and the owner immediately sets to work to find out which. Of course, it is au infallible test.—[Mail and Ex press. The Heather. Prince Bismarck's fondness for heath er, is not a new fancy. With him the heather is, more truly than the primrose was to Lord Beaconsfield, " his favorite flower." Nearly thirty years ago, when minister to Paris, he made a trip to the south of France, visiting among other places Chambord. Writing to his wife from Bordeaux, under date July 27, 1862, Bismarck says: "From inclosed speci mens of heather you will no longer be able to see how purple this plant 1 am so fond of blooms there, the only flower in tiie royul garden, and swnllows almost the only living creatures in the garden. For sparrows it is too lovely."—[Prairie Farmer. I The Engagement Ring Romance. The first one usually dosen't oost much; but it costs enough for all that. Vou are about twenty when you begin looking over the jewelers' advertise ments and find yourself wondering if she will be pleased with what you save and pinch so to get. At length you have bought it. Then comes the event ful evening; you stroll down the street feeling your importance at every step; with thumping heart you pass into your love's sweet presence; there she sits expectant; before vou know anything about it her hand is in yours. Over her taper Angers the jeweled band is slipped, and what follows you remem ber so well it need not be reoalled. Hank Hilliard was born and reared away down in the wild Ozark region of Christian County, Mo., almost within gunshot of the famous Bald Knobbers of South Missouri. He had never been out of the county, much loss out of the State, and his ideas of engagement rings were limited. When pretty Sallie Digg—pretty in spite of her length, shambling walk and freckles—insisted upon a ring before she would oonsider the engagement binding, Hank was non pulsed. He expostulated without avail, scratched his head, thought a long while, and Anally went away. He came back the next afternoon, his face wreathed in smiles. "I've got her," he exolaimed, and xeaohing in his pooket he drew out a great ring of brass. Sallie smiled and reached out her hand. Hank slipped the ring over the girl's largest Anger, and, leaning near the simple maiden, whispered: "Now, Sal, air ye setisAed that weuns is ingaged?" "Yes, Hank," Sal whispered, shaking the ring around on her Anger; "but say, Hank whar did ye get >t? won't tell?" "Nope." "Hones'?" "Hones', Hank." "Ef you must know, I out it outen dad's Sunday galluses." Sal slipped over into Hank's arms, and as their freokled, sunburned cheeks touolied, the girl whispered: "Say, Hank, ain't you 'fraid yerdad'll liok ye when he Ands his galluses busted?"— fittsburah Disuatch. The Origin of Corn a Mystery. This wonderful product, which has conferred such substantial benefits on the world, strange to say, is of unknown origiu; its genesis is wrapped in a mys tery, or at least not definitely fixed. A writer says: "Like wheat and barley, its origin is lost in the twilight of antiqui ty." It was first cultivated in the Uni ted States, however, by the English, on James river, Virginia, in 160 s, the seed being obtained from Indians, who cluimcd to be the first discoverers of the plant—rccoiving it direct from the hands of the Creator. Nearly every artlole sold Is ohesLpeaed. In cost of Droduction, at expense of quahtyTDob £s2?i K&° tr i° la anionw to-day what It was In 1866, abmtutdu pure, harmless and uni form. Aak your grocer for It. Look out for imitations. Wisdom is a reflection rather than a con ception. Woman, her diseases and their treatment. T2 pages. Illustrated; price 50c. Bent upon re ceipt of 100., Oast of mailing,etc. Address Prof. R. H. flfll Arch 81, Phila., Pa. It is better to fail than not to make any effort. Judicious Speculation. Money invested in sums of from SI to $5 weekly or monthly will make you a fortune. Write for In formation. Beuj. 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Worth more than gold when hens Moiilt. "One largo can saved ino S4O, send six for $8 to prevent roup," says a customer. If you can't get it send us 50 cents for two packs five sl. A2H pound can |I.SO post-paid ; fl cans $& express paid. "THE BEST POULTRY I'APER," sam ple copy free. Poultry Raising Guide free with $1 orders or more. I. B. JOHNSON A Co., Boston Maaa nrupinilC NEW LAW CLAIMS! rtli o I U I! a v Milo B. Steyens & Go. Attorney*, 1419 F St., Wnehlngteu, D. C. Branch Ofllcee, Cleveland, Detrolt,Chicno BRICKS MADE OF TEA LEAVES, How Many Churches in England Have Been Built. The Rev. JoLn Winslow, a distin guished English Methodist minister, is stopping with friends in Brooklyn. At a pleasant gathering the other evening he talked at length about the methods in vogue in the old country of raising money for the purposes of his church. 4 'There are some people," he said, "who think that the great progress of Method ism in England is due solely to the en ergy and culture of its ministers. The fact is that its present high standing is due in no small degree to tea. You smile but listen. I was not long ago in a small country town in the midland counties, where resided several families who were followers of John Wesley. They hold Sunday meetings in each other's spare rooms. After one of these gatherings, while the congregation was partaking of a hospitable meal, the local preacher asked them why they did not build a church. The good folks smiled, as they were anything but rich; but the preacher told thein of instances where very poor people had built churches by starting with a tea party. I'll tell you what a tea party is. A number of women get to gether and pledge themselves to provide a tray for a dozen, a tray meaning the needed service of china and spoons, with all the adjuncts, such as bread and but tar, tea, sugar and milk and plumcake. If j in summer time, the party is held in a , field, coppice or wood; if in the winter, i in some church or barn. The husbands or lovers of the women build and tend the fires, fetch the water, boil the kettle, I slice aud spread the bread and cake, and act as waiters. Perhaps as many as' twenty, * forty, fifty, or even more trays are supplied, and each visitor is charged a shilling for the tea. These shillings are placed in bank, to form the nucleus of the church building fund. After the tea things arc cleared away a meeting is held, at which permanent ministers de liver addresses. This is known as 'start- I ing the pot boiling,' and the teas are re- ' peated three or four times a year. Some rich man is applied to, generally with success, for a piece of land, and as soon as £SO is raised, 110 difficulty is experi enced in getting a builder to run up a chapel. As soon as the roof is finished a series of special services is begun, and the talent of Methodists for getting money is brought into active play. I have read a great deal about the injurious effects of tea, but I am certain that it has done more to develop the social life of the English people than any one other product. Seventy-five out of every hun dred bricks in the Methodist church edi fices of Eugland are made of tea leaves." —[New York Star. The Lovely and Stately Hollyhock. Of all the summer flowers none can 1 compare in stateliness with the hollyhock. If the rose is queen then this dignified and commanding plant is her chief mar shal in the border. Rising each year from its green base, it attains in July a height of from six to eight feet and be- S'us to open along its fine rosette stem e beautiful flowers which add so much to tho brightness of our gardens. Their colors are very pure, ranging all the way from white to tne darkest crimson and including some fine shades of yellow. On the whole the single and half double ones are the most picturesque, as they are the most delicate, though the massive blossoms of the very double ones convey more fully the idea of masculine strength. When full grown, in strong soil, the the plant will reach a height of eight or nine feet and is of royal appearance in deed. The hollyhock, as every one knows, is one of the oldest inhabitants. Our grand mothers knew it well. It has, in fact, been in use in Europe since 1878, when j it was introduced to occidental gardens from its old home in China. Though, strictly speaking, a biennial, the holly hock (althoe rosea) may, by attention to drainage, winter covering, etc., and espe cially by the division of the root, be made to continue indefinitely. It needs deep soil to do its best, for it is a strong 1 feeder and does not mind all the sunshine you can spare, so long as you keep its feet cool and moist. The greatest enjoy ment of the flower comes probably to those who raise it from the seed of blooms fertilized and crossed by the bees in their own gardens. The innumerable surprises which come from such seed arc a source of interest, which few, perhaps, comprehend who have not tried the experiment. Those proposing to do should lay the founda tion by sowing the best seed procurable— both single and double. Charter's strain of tho latter is still unrivaled. Sown in garden loam in March or April, the young plants will be large enough to transfer luto permanent positions by September. A shovelful of sand placed around them before winter closes is a great benefit, preventing a tendency to rot about the stem in early spring. The plants will flower the second year from seed. The , seed from these first blooms, being care fully ripened and planted in the same way, will afford a many novelties if the collection is at all numerous.— [Boston Transcript. A Lumber Camp in Winter. Life in the lumbermen's winter camps, deep in the backwoods of New Bruns wick, Maine, or in Quebec, is not so ad venturous as might at first appear. It' grows monotonous to the visitor as soon as the strangeness of it has worn off. Tho noise of the chopping, the shouting, the clanking and trampling of the teams, give sufficient warning to all the wild creatures of the woods, and they gener ally agree in giving wide berth to a neighborhood which has suddenly be come so dangerous. The lumbermen are iucessautly occupied, chopping and haul ing from dawn to sundown; and at night they have little energy to expend on the hunting of bears or panthers. Their bunks and their blankets acquire an over whelming attraction for them; and by tho time the camp has concluded its after-supper smoke, and the sound of a few noisy songs has died away, the wild beasts might creep near enough to cam]) to smell the pork and beans with little risk. At rare intervals, however, the monot ony of profound and soundless snows, of endless forests, of felled trees, of devi ous wood-roads, of ax aud sled and chain, is sharply broken, and something occurs to remind the heedless woodsman that though in the wilderness he is yet not truly of it. He is suddenly made aware of those shy but savage forces which, regarding him as a trespasser on their domains, have been vigilantly keep ing him under a keen and angry watch. The spirit of the violated forest strikes a swift and sometimes effectual blow for revenge. A yoke of oxen are straining at their load; a great branch seems, with conscious purpose, to reach down and seize the nearest ox by his horns, —and the poor brute falls with his neck broken. A stout sapling is bent to the ground by a weight of ice and snow; the thaw or a passing team releases it, and by the fierce recoil a horse's leg is fractured. A lum berman strays off into the woods bv him self, and is found days after warif, half eaten by bears and foxes. A solitary chopper drops his ax, and leans against a tree to rest or to dream of his sweet heart in the distant settlements, and a panther drops from the branches above and seriously wounds him. et the forest's vengeance is seldom accomplished, and on the careless woods man the threat of it produces no per manent effect. His onward march will not be stayed. His ax goes everywhere. —[St. Nicholas. LIFE ON A CRUISER. Early Morning on the United States Vessel Chicago at Sea. "Bos'n's mate there ! call all hands! Call in the deck lookouts! Lay aloft the lookout to the masthead!" the orders follow in rapid succession. "Turn off the spar-deck circuit!" and the great red and green lights on the port and star board sides of tho bridge, aud the light at the mast-head are extinguished by the touch of a button in the "dynamo room" below, while a sailor goes "tripping up aloft" to the fore-top-sail yard, simulta neously with a long-arawn shrill whistle of the boatswain's pipe, echoed on tho gun-deck by others, aud the hoarse cry of the boatswain's mates calling : "A-a-ll ha-a-nds 1 Up all hammocks 1" The great snip is waking up, and out of the hatches the men come tumbling one after the other—sailor-men, appren tice boys, firemen, marines, cooks, fnd " all hands " —each with hammock neatly rolled, ready to be placed in the nettings in the bulwarks. Brawny, bare-chested, bare footed fellows, most 1 of them; regardless of the cold wind j blowing and the wet decks, they run nimbly to their appointed sta tions, some clambering up aud opening the nettings, while the others pitch their hammocks in and stow them away and out of sight for the day. As we lean over the rail now, and look down, the scene is an animated one. The deck for ward is swarming with men and "Jackie" is making his morning toilet and prepar ing for breakfast and the day's routine. Sec that gigantic young coxswain yonder as he souses his well-soaped neck and face inio the cold water in the bucket before him, spluttering and blowing away like a grampus, then rubbing and polishing his muscular, sun-burned neck and broad white back and chest with his rough, parti-colored towel. With his little circular mirror perched on a coil of rope another sailormau is carefully part ing his thick curly locks, while a ship mate looks over his shoulder and gives a final twist to his black silk neckerchief, and a marine brushes his coat and hums softly to himself meanwhile. The steam from the galleys is rising out of tho hatches, and with it—mingled, it must be confessed, with a smell of oil and grease from the engines—an odor of hot coffee and broiling bacon, and the boat swain's whistle is heard again piping to breakfast. —[Scribner. Orange Culture. "Raising oranges is somwliat like rais ing a family of children—it requires con stant care and attention." The speaker was Col. D. S. Troy, a wealthy orange grower of Lake County, Fla., who was at the Metropolitan last evening, says the Washington Post. "Some people," he went on, "imagine that all that is to be done is to buy a piece of land and set out trees, but they make a big mistake. There was a great rush to Florida some years ago by persons who were utterly ignorant of the business, and who dreamed of making large fortunes. Many failed, but there's good money to be made in oranges yet by judicious plan ters who understand the conditions of their production. It's exactly like cot ton planting. One farmer may make money by good management where dozens of his neighbors get only a bare living. "It's a crop that takes a long time to realize from. Trees planted from the seeds won't bear under twelve or fifteen years. A quicker method is to graft seedlings of the sweet orange on trees of the wild variety, and they will then pro duce in from five to seven years. "I have kown a single tree to bear as high as 8,000 oranges, but this is very uncommon. A grove that will yield 1,500 to the tree is considered excellent. The profits on an acre are sometimes as high as SI,OOO, but the average is far be low. There is no country on earth where oranges grow to such perfection as in Florida." Original Form of the Horse. The wild horse of Dzuugaria is an animal the size of the hemione and more robust in its proportions, in which it res embles the pony. Its head is large, with ears smaller than those of the hemione, the shoulders thick, especially in the male, the limbs robust and stubbier than those of the hemiones and the asses. The mane is short aud straight, and the mod erately long tail is terminated by a tuft of long hairs in much more abundant supply than in the tail of the hemiones. It has warts on the hind legs as well as 011 the fore-legs—a peculiarity of the horse, distinguishing it from the other species of the genus, which have warts only on the fore-legs. The hoof, are full like those of the horse, and not com pressed as in other species; and the low er parts of the legs are furnished with long hairs falling to the crown of the hoof, a feature which the hemiones lack. Likewise characteristic in the color of the pelage, a pale gray, almost white, passing into dun 011 the head and neck, aud blending insensibly on the Hanks with the pure white of the belly and limbs. Tne mane, the brush of the tail, and the long hairs of the lower legs anil hoofs, arc black. There is no trace of the dorsal stripe running from the mane to the tail which is characteristic of the hemione. The hairy covering is long and undulating, especially in the rigorous winter of that northern country.—[Pop ular Science Monthly. Don't Fool with Perspiration, Considering all that has been written and published this year about sunstroke, and the danger that arises from a dry, non-perspiring skin, it is really amazing how many people call for preparations to prevent perspiration. There are several of these, anil they are all effective, tho main ingredient in each being the same. The effect is not only to stop perspiration wherever the preparation is applied, but also to increase the temperature several j degrees and seriously injure the skin. Ladies, of course, use such complexion preservers more than men, but there are not wanting young men who, to keep up a spotless appearance, will subject them selves to annoyances and take dangerous chances. The only legitimate mauner to check perspiration is to keep quiet and avoid excessive exercise.—[Globa-Demo crat. The MlgTity Water#. The sea ocoupies tliree-fourths of the surface of the earth. At the depth of about 3,500 feet waves are uot felt. The temperature is the same, varying only a trifle from the ioe of the pole to the burning sun of the equator. A mile down the water has a pressure of over a ton to the square inch. If a boi six feet deep were filled with sea water and allowed to evaporate under the sun, there would be two inches of salt left on the bottom. Taking the average depth of the ocean to be three miles, there would be a layer of salt 200 feet thick on the bed of the Atlan tic. The water is colder at the bottom than at the surface. In the many bays on the coast of Norway the water often freezes at the bottom before it does above. Waves are very deceptive. To look at them in a storm one would think the water traveled. The water stays in the same place, but the mo lion goes on. Sometimes in storms these waves are forty feet high and travel fifty miles an In \\r—more than twioe as fast as the swiftest steamship. The distance from valley to valley is generally fifteen times the height, hence a wave five feet high will extend pver seventy-five fet of water. The force of the sea dashing on lie 11 Bock is Said to be seventeen tons for each l Square yard. Evaporation is a trondor ful power in drawing tvater from the sea. Every year a layer of the entire sea fourteen feet thick Is taken up into the clouds. The winds bear their bur den into the land, and the water oomes down in rain upon the fields, to flow baok at last through rivers. The depth of the sea presents an in teresting problem. If the Atlontio were lowered (1,564 feet, the distanoe from "hore to shore would he half as great, or 1,500 miles. If lowered a little more than three miles, say 10,600 feet, there would be a road of dry land from New Foundland to Ireland. This is the plain on whioh the great Atlantic oables were laid. The Mediterranean is comparatively shallow. A drying up of 660 feet would leave three different leas, and Africa would be joined with Italy. The British channel is more 'ike a pond, whioh accounts for its ohoppy waves. It has beta found diffi cult to get the correct soundings of the Atlantic. III! 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