It iestimated that 119,000,000 cop
per pennies have beer, lost to circula
tion in the century since tho United
States began to coin money.
Tt is a fact of curious interest that
twenty-four of tho 0100 murderers ar
rested in the United States iu 1800
cere blind men.
A queer new law in Chihuahua, Mex
ico, permits any one to shoot at sight
a person caught stealing cattle. Such
11 law seems like a dangerous invita
tion to the holders of private grudges.
The American mosquito lias crossed
the Atlantic, is entertaining itself to
its heart's content 011 the blue blood
of Eugland, and, according to tho
New York Ledger, is getting iu its line
work most effective! v.
Tho religious census of Australia, I
just completed, shows 1,495,060 mem
bers of the Church of England, 84,118
Catholics, 493,309 Presbyterians nnd
394,504 Methodists. These nro tho
four most numerous denominations.
A lenrncd German who hns devoted
himself to tho study of physiology and
allied sciences makes a startling asser
tion that mustaches nro becoming
commoner among women in tho pres
ent day than in the past. He says
that in Constantinople among tho un
veiled women one out of ten possesses
an unmistakable covering of down ou
tho upper lip.
Kerosene oil is rapidly growing in
favor as a cheap illuminaut iu China.
The consumption, which was 8,250,-
000 gallons in ISB2, had risen to 49,-
848,000 gallons in 1891. Of this
amount eighty per cent, was imported
from America and twenty per cent,
from Eussia. Tho illuminaut before
kerosene was introduced was bean or
teaoil. The Chinese have discovered,
however, that kerosene is cheaper and
gives a much better light. It is called
lire oil by them.
|
It is mentioned as an instance of
what the fashionable world has come
to that a recent private concert given
in, London cost the hostess §12,500.
According to this figure entertaining
one's guests will soon bo impossible,
and society must inaugurate some new
method of keeping its end up in that
line. First-class artists over there ask
Bums ranging from §IOOO to §2500 for
three or four songs, hut, fortunately,
the number of these artists is limited,
and those who employ them are tho
painfully rich.
The Sergeant-at-Arms of the House
of Commons would foci lost if ho lia.l
to exercise similar functions in one of
our American It gislatures—say in Kan
sas or even Illinois, declares tho Chi
cago Herald. He is too easily upset.
Mr. Erskine—for that is tho gentle
man's name—is described as going
about during tho recent fracas "bo
seeching infuriated legislators who
were engaged in the fray to desist, an 1
hogging others who were marching
around with their hats on, to remove
tho offending headgear." Imacine an
American Sergcuut-at-Arms begging
and beseeching. He would us.,- a club.
Tho series of official reports setting
forth tho material and educational
progress of tho country, recently is
sued by the Mexican Government,
though not marking so great an ad
vance as expected, is .still very encour
aging. During the past twenty years
the period covered by the comparisons,
tho railway mileago liau increased
twentyfold, nnd th • telegraph mileage
eightfold, followed iu each ease bv a
proportionate increase of husin - s.
Exports ami imports have largely in
creased, as have also manufactures and
agriculture, and the appropriations of
the Federal an I State Governments
and municipalities for educational
purposes hns advanced frost .1 009 -
000 to 93,500,000. Peace and pros
perity have been secured, . pecialiv
during tho Presidency of Gem . d
Diaz, who holds the reins of Govern
ment with a lirtQ hand, and who is not
afraid to suppress tho tendency to
revolutionary movement by the prompt
application of military force. The
country still suffers, however, fron
the lack of esteem for productive in
dustry on the part of the upper classed
whose chief ambition is t i hold public
offices, imitating in this respect tho
Argentines, and the absence of trained
habits of industry on tile part of tli •
Indian and mixed ra ■ , w : di o.m .i
--tutO four-fifth) of the poo time.
What is most needed is iudu-.tto ,u, ui
migrants to develop th.) vat o ird
resources of tho Kopubiie, a : ■ ' . ;i ..
]y perceived by the Go varum i .which
has already permitte I tho . , iir
mont of Mormon colon ii , in ('hihi.t
huu and Honors, and bid for me m
tiyn from not thyra Europe,
BONG OF A HEART.
Hear heart—l love you ! all tho day I wonder
If skies are rieli with blue,
Or bending black with torapost nnd with
thunder,
Dear heart, dear heart, o'er you !
Dear heart—l love you ! when pale stars arc
gleaming
(Sad stars to m?, and few!)
Z won ler if God s lovelier lights aro stream
ing,
Dear heart, dear heart, o'er you I
Dear heart—if life had only one bright blos
som,
One rose to meet tho dew—
I'd kiss it, climbing to your restful bo.iom— 1
And wear its thorns for you !
—Atlanta Const Hut ion.
OTA) BOSKS' ROMANCE.
T was a barren
Va country, and Wftd
~ eery was generally
■>(s —n nhriveled wit h
I - bent, but lio nl
s\ (,'■ i ways had roses in
I V. his garden, on his
1 I window-sill or in
' v 'f '" s button-hole.
V Crowing flowers
! 'f / y under difficulties
was li is recreation.
,t; - That was why ho
was called Old Eoses. It was not other
wise inapt, for there was something
antique about him, though he wasn't
old ; a flavor, nil old-fashioned repose
and sell-possession. Ho was inspector
of tanks from this God-forsaken coun
try.
Apart from his duties ho kept most
ly to himself, though when not travel
ing lie always went down to O'Fallen's
Hotel once a day for a cup of tea—tea
kept especially for him; and as ho
drank this slowly he talked to Vic, the
barmaid, or to any chance visitors
whom ho knew. He never drank with
any one, nor n.skcd any one to drink,
and, strange to say, no one resented
this. As Vie said, "he was different."
Dicky Merritt, the solicitor, who was
hail-fellow with squatter, homestead
lessee, coeatoo-farnier and shearer,
called him "a lively old buffer."
It was lie, indeed, who gave him the
name of Old Eoses. Dickey sometimes '
went over to Long Neck Biilabong,
where Old Hoses lived, lor a reel, us
he put it, and lie always carried away
u deep impression of the Inspector's
qualities. "Had his day," said Dickey
iu O Fallen s sitting-room one night,
"in marble balls, or I'm a Jack. Hun
neek an 1 nook with almighty swells
ouoo. Might live here for a thousand
years an 1 lie d still be the nonesuch of I
the back blocks. I'd patent him—lilo
my caveat for him to-morrow if I could
—bully Old Hoses!"
VictoriaDowling, the barmaid, lifted '
her chin slightly from her hands, as
she leaned through the opening he
tween the bar and the sitting-room, '
and said : "Mr. Merritt, Old Hoses is j
a gentleman, and a gentleman isa gen- ]
tlemnn till he—■"
"Till he lmmps his bluey into the
Never Never Laud, Vic? But what do
you know about gentlemen, anyway?
You were born five miles from the
Jumping Sandhills, my dear 1"
"Oh," was tho quiet reply, "a wo
man—the commonest woman—knows
a gentleman by instinct. It isn't what
they do, it s what they don't do ; and
Old Hoses doesn t do lots of things."
"flight you are, Victoria; right you
are again 1 You do the Jumping Sand
hills credit. Old Roses has the root I
of tho matter in him—and there von
have it 1"
Dickey had a profound admiration
for \ ie. She had brains, was perfect- ;
ly fearless, and every one in tho j
Wadgery country who visited O'Ful-'
len's had a wholesome respect for her j
opinion.
About this time news came that the
Governor, Lord Malice, would pass
through Wadgery on his tour up tho
back blocks. A great function was
necessary. It was arranged. Then
came tho question of tlio address of
welcome to be delivered at tho ban
quet. Dickey Merritt and the local
doctor were proposed as composers, !
lmt they both declared they'd only '
"make rot of it," and suggested Old
They went to lay the thing before j
him. '1 hey found him in his garden, j
lit- greeted them smiling in his enig
matical way, ,md listened. While |
Dickey spoke, u llush slowly passed
oyer him, and then immediately left
him pale; hut he stood perfectly still,
his hand leaning against a sandal tree, '
and the coldness of his face warmed
up again slowly. His head having
been bent attentively as lie
they did not see anything unusual.
After a moment of silence and in
scrutable deliberation, lu answered
that ho would do as they wished.
Dickey hinted that he would require
some information about Lord Malice's
past career and his family's history,
but he assured them that he did not
need it ; and his eyes idled somewhat
ironically with Dickey's face.
When the two had gone Old Roses
sat in his room, a handful of letters, a
photograph, and a couple of decora
tions spread out before him ; his fin
gers resting on them, and his look en
gaged with a very far horizon
The Governor came. He was met
outside the township by the citizens
and escorted in—a dusty anil numer
ous cavalcade. They passed the in
spection house. The garden was
blooming, and on the roof a Hag was
flying. Struck by the singular char
acter of tho place Lord Malice asked
who lived there, and proposed stop
ping for a moment to make tho ac
quaintance of its owner, adding, with
some Hlight sarcasm, that if the offi
cers of the Government were too busy
to pay their respocts to their Governor,
tin ir Governor must pay his respects
to them.
Rut Old Roses was not in the garden
nor in the house, and they left with
out seeing him. He Was Ritting un
der A willow fit the Billaboug, reading
over nnd over to himself the address
to bo delivered before the Governor in j
the evening. And as he read his face i
had a wintry arid inhospitable look.
The night came. Old Roses entered 1
tho dining room quietly with the
crowd, far in tho Governor's wake.
According to his request, he was given
a seat in a distant corner, where he
was quite inconspicuous. Most of the
men present were in evening dress.
He wore a plain tweed suit, but car
ried a handsome rose in his button*
hole. It was impossible to put him at
a disadvantage* He looked distin
guished as he was. He appeared to be
much interested in Lord Malice. Tho
early proceedings were cordial, for tho
Governor and his suite made tlionv
selves most agreeable, and talk flowed
amiably.
j After a time there was a rattle of
j knives and forks, and the Chairman
j arose. Then, after a chorus of "hear,
hears," there WAS general silence. The
doorways of tho rooms were filled by
tho women servants of the hotel. Chief
among them was Vic, who kept her
' eyes mostly on Old Roses. She knew
that ho was to read tho address and
j speak, and she was more interested in
1 him and his success than iu Lord
I Malice and suite. Her admiration of
. him was great. He had always treated
j her as a lady, and it had done lier
! good. He had looked earnestly and
1 kindly into her brown eyes, and—
: "And I call upon Mr. Adam Sher
wood to speak to the health of his Ex
; cellency, Lord Malice."
In his modest corner, Old Roses
stretched to his feet. The Governor
j glanced over carelessly. Ho only saw
( a figure in gray, with a rose atbutton
; hole. The Chairman whispered that it
j was the owner of the house and gar
-1 den which had interested his Excel-
I lency that afternoon. His Excellency
; looked a little closer, but saw only a
j rim of iron gray hair above tho paper
, held before Old Roses' face.
| Then a voice came from behind the
paper: "Tour Excellency, Mr. Chair
man nnd Gentlemen—"
At tlio first words the Governor
started, and his eyes Hashed searching
ly, curiously at the paper that walled
the face and at tho iron gray hair.
The voice was distinct and clear, with
modulated emphasis. Tt had a pe
culiarly penetrating quality. A few in
the room —aud particularly Vic—were
struck l>y something in the voice—
that it resembled another. She soon
found tho trail. Her eyes also fastened
011 the paper. Then ?JUO moved and
went to another door.
Here she could see behind the paper
at an angle. Her eyes ran from the
screened face to that of the Governor.
His, Excellency had dropped tli9 lower
part of his face in liis hand, and he
was listening intently. Vic noticed
that his eyes were painfully grave and
concerned. She also noticed other
things.
The address was strange. It had
been submitted to the committee and
though it struck them as out-of-the
wayish, it hal been approved, it
seemed different when read as Old
Roses was reading it. Tho words j
sounded so inclement as they were
chiselled out by the speaker's voice.
Dickey Merrit afterward declared that
many phrases were interpolated by
Old Roses at tho moment.
The speaker referred intimately and
with peculiar knowledge to the family
history of Lord Malice, to certain
more or less private matters which did
not concern the public, to tho author
ity of the name and the high duty de
volving upon one who bore tho earl
dom of Malice. He dwelt upon the
personal character of his Excellency's
antecedents, and praised their honor
able services to the country. He re
ferred to the death of Lord Malice's
eldest brother in Burmah, but ho did j
it strangely.
Then, with acute incisivenoss, he
drew a picture of what a person iu so j
exalted a position as a Governor j
should l)e and should not he. His
voice assuredly had at this point a fine
edge of scorn. The aides-de-camp
were nervous, tho Chairman apprehen
sive, tho committee ill at ease. But
the Governor now was perfectly still,
though, as Vie Dowling thought,
rather pinched and old-lookiug. His
eyes never wandered from that paper
nor the gray hair.
Presently tho voice of the speaker
changed.
"But," said he, "in Lord Malico we
have—the perfect Governor; a man of
blameless and enviable life, and pos
sessed abundantly of discreetness,
judgment, administrative ability and
power; the absolute typo of English
nobility and British character!"
j Then he dropped the paper from bc
: fore liis face, and liis eyes met those
jof the Governor, and stayed. Lord
j Malice lot go a long, choking breath,
j which sounded very much' like im-
I measurable relief. During the rest of
I tho speech—delivered in a line tem
! pered voice—lie sat as in a dream, yet
: his eyes intently upon tho other, who
; now seemed to recite rather than read. I
He thrilled all by the pleasant reson
| unco of his tones, and sent tho blood
aching delightfully through Vic Dow
ling's veins.
I When he sat down tharo was im
mense applause. The Governor rose
in reply. He spoke in a low voice,
but any one listening outside would
j lmvo said that Old Roses was still
I speaking. By this resemblance the
I girl Vic had trailed to others. It was
now apparent to many, but Dickey
. said afterward that it was simply a
case of birth and brooding—men used
to walking red carpet grow alike, just
l as stud-owners and rnbbit-catehcrs
| did.
Tho last words of the Governor's
reply v.'ero delivered in a very con
vincing tone as his eyes hung on Old
I Roses' face. "And, as lam indebted
to you, gentlemen, for the feelings of
! to the throne which prompted
this reception and the address just- de
livered, bo am I indebted to Mr.—
Adam Sherwood for his admirable lan
guage and the unusual sincerity of his
speaking; and to both you and liim
for most notable kindness." Imme
diately after the Governor's speech
Old Hoses stole out, but as ho passed
through the door where Vic stood his
hand brushed against hers. Feeling
its touch, ho grasped it eagerly for an
instant, as though ho was glad of the
friendliness in her eyes.
It was just before dawn of the morn
ing that the Governor knocked at tho
door of the house by Long Neck Bil
lnboug. The door opened at once, and
he entered without a word.
Ho and Old Roses stood face to face.
His face was drawn and worn, the
other's cold and calm.
"Tom, Tom,"Lord Malice said, "wo
I thought you were dead—"
"That is, Edward, having left me to
my fate in Bnrmik—you were only
half n mile away with a column of
stout soldiers and hill men—you waited
till my death was reported, and as
sured, and then came on to England;
for two things, to take the title jnst
made vacant by our father's death,
and to marry my intended wife, who,
God knows, appeared to have little
eare which brother it was. You got
both. I was long a prisoner. When
I got free, I knew; I waited. I was
waiting till you had a child. Twelve
years have gone; you have no child.
But I shall spare you yet awhile. If
your wife shall die, or you should have
a child, I shall return."
Tho Governor lifted his head wearily
from tho table where ho now sat.
"Tom," he said, in a low, heavy voice,
"I was always something of a scoun
drel, but I've repented of that thing
every day of my life since. It has
been knives—knives all the way. I
am glad—l can't tell you how glad—
that you are ulive."
He stretched out his hand with a
motion of great relief. "I was afraid
you were going to apeak to-uiglit—to
tell all, even though I was your
brother. You spare me for the sake—"
"For the sake of our name," the
other interjected, stonily.
"For the wake of our name. But I
would have taken my punishment,
taken it in thankfulness, because you
are alive."
"Taken it like a man, your Excel
lency," was the low rejoinder.
"You will not wipe the thing out,
Tom?" said the other anxiously.
Tom Hallwood dried the perspira
tion from his forehead.
"It can never be wiped out, for you
shook all my faith in my old world.
That's the worst thing that can hap
pen a man. I only believe in the very
common people now—those who are '
not put upon their honor. One |
doesn't expect -t of them, and unlikely |
as it is, one isn't often deceived in j
them. I think we'd better talk no
more about it."
"You mean Ih id bettor go, Tom?"
"1 think so. lam going to marry
soon." The other started nervously.
"You needn't be so shocked. I'll come
back one day, but not till your wife
dies, or you have had a child, as 1
I said."
The Governor rose to his feet and
went to the door. "Whom do you in
tend marrying?" he asked, in a voice
far from regal or vice-regal, only
humbled and disturbed. The reply
was instant and keen. "A barmaid." j
The other's hand dropped from the
door. But Old Boses, passing over, 1
opened it, and, mutely waiting for the 1
other to pass through, said: "Good 1
day, my lord 1"
The Governor passed out from the
pale light of the lamp into the gray
and moist morning, lie turned at a
point where the house would bo lost
to view, and saw the other still stand
ing there. The voice of Old Boses
kept ringing in his cars sardonically.
He knew that his punishment must go
on and on.
And it did. Old Boses married Vic
toria Howling from the Jumping Sand
hills, and there was comely issue, and
that issue is now at Eton; for Esau
came into the birthright, as he hinted
he would, at his own time. But lie
and his wife have away of being indlf- ,
fereut to tho gay, astonished world, j
And, uncommon as it may seem, he !
has not tired of her.—London Speaker, j
Substitutes a Finger lor a Nose.
Fred Darcy, a boy eighteen years
old, isatSt. Mary's Hospital, Rochester,
N. Y., recovering from the first stage
of a peculiar surgical operation. When
young, necrosis of the nasal bones de
stroyed liis n-ose, leaving an unsightly
depression. Doctor John O. Rowe, a
Rochester specialist, undertook to pro
vide an artificial nose. He has done
so by amputating tho third finger ol
the loft hand at tho first joint and
taking the bono of tho middle linger
for tho bridge of the artificial nose.
The skin of the face was raised and the
iiuger put in place and stitched to the
tissue above the nose. In order to
secure circulation and maintain life in
the finger the hand has been bound to
the face for a week, but will be re
j leased on Sunday by an amputation at
, the finger's second joint, after which
new nostrils will be established in con
j nection with the old. Doctor Rowe
Has had one case of the kind before.—
j Chicago Record.
Human Skeleton Tweuty-flveFeet Long.
M. Lc Cat, the French scientist, in
his monograph on giants says: At
Dauphino on January 11, IGI3, at a
place known as tho Giant's Field, a
brick tomb thirty feet long, twelve
feet wide and eight feet high was dis
covered. When opened it was found
to contain a human skeleton entire
twenty-five feet and a half long, ten
feet wide across the shoulders and
eight feet thick from tho breast bono
to the back. His teeth wore each
about the size of an ox's foot and his
shinbones each measured four feet ia
I length,-c-St. Louis Republic.
THE IMITATIVE DISEASE.
A. CURIOUS AFFLICTION THAT IS :
COMMON AMONG MALAYS.
A Form of Nervous Excitement Pccti- |
liar to a Single Race—Symptoms
of the "Latah."
IT seldom happens that any form
of disease presents an aspect as
purely ludicrous in its ordinary
manifestations as to be a fit sub
ject for lay discussion. Such, how
ever, is tho singular and as yet unex
plained affection known by the Malay
name of 1 Tatah." As might ho inferred
from its title, it is, although not un
known amongst other nationalities, an
almost purely Malay disease, and has
naturally attracted the attention of
Europeans residing in the countries
peopled by the trco in question. It
is at the same tu#-- questionable, says
the Pall Mall Gazette, whether one
person in ten thousand in Great Britain
has ever heard the word, or known
that such a curious affliction prevails
amongst any portion of the human
race.
How to define latnh is somewhat
puzzling. If any short equivalent bo
desired, it may be described as an ir
resistible impulse to imitate the words
or actions of those around them. An
other form of the disease, very often
not less startling to the onlooker, is
tho exhibition of intense nervous ex
citement when some particular word
is mentioned—usually in tho form of
most abject fear. A third and less
notioeablo form is the exhibition of
alarm at some unusual but not ordin
arily terrifying sight 01* sound, much
as a child will start at tho sound of a
gun, or a grown person on suddenly
discovering a corpse.
The two first-named manifestations
are, of course, those which strike the
spectators and auditors as most strange
and inexplicable. The nervous im
pressionability of the Malays in other
ways is well known to all who have
lived among them. A very slight
cause will change an ordinarily placid
and inoffensive native into a very de
mon of rage, the extremo illustration
of such a mental condition being
known as "running amok"—or, as
(foreigners usually call it, "amuck."
(Over and above a readiness to take of
tfense at unjust blame, or what he con
isiders disrespectful treatment, native
public opinion considers a Malay dis
honored who does not avengo a blow
hy taking the lile of the party giving
•it, not at the moment, but on some
subsequent occasion when tho intend
ed victim is off his guard. It would
jbe going too far to say that a tendency
ito sulk and take revenge ac
counts for the Malay liability
to latali, as many other peo
ples among whom tho disease is un
known develop tho same disposition,
1 while almost destitute of tho child-
I like good temper and unaffectedly
j good manners of the Malayan tribes.
' All that can bo asserted is that such
I a disease would never exist among a
j phlegmatic race. Nor, again, must it
j be imagined that latali is of everyday
I occurrence. Many people have lived
I in the Straits Settlements for over
■ twenty years without ever seeing a
' single case of it.
[ Let us then describe its peculiar fea
tures. The impulse to imitate tho
words or actions of others is some
time evinced in not merely a ludicrous
but a most distressing way. In some
cases it should be premised tho attack
occurred only at long intervals; in
others the patients are habitually sub
jected to the disease, and can at almost
any time bo compelled to exhibit it.
When this results in any unpleasant
| consequence the latali (it is customary
j to apply the word both to tho disease
j and to the patient), while quite unable
I to resist the strange influence exerted
1 will keenly resist the practical joke.
An absurd manifestation of the dis
ease was provided bj a Malay woman,
who, on seeing her master tear up a
letter and throw it out of the window,
at once followed suit with a basket of
clean clothes she was carrying. No
great harm, of course, resulted in this
case, but tragical affects have more
than once followed practical jokes
with latahs. The following instance,
related by Mr. O'Brien, happened whilo
the writer was residing at the place
where it occurred.
The ship's cook of one of the local
coasting steamers happened to be a
pronounced sufferer from the disease,
and, as but too commonly happens in
such cases, was continually victimized
by liis shipmates. As a rule the effects
were simply ludicrous, and hugely
amused the crew, who shared the fond
ness for horseplay proverbial among
European sailors. On the occasion in
question the cook was dandling his
baby on the forward deck. One of the
men, noticing this, picked lip a billet
of wood, and, standing in front of the
latah, commenced nursing it in the
same way as the latter was dandling
the baby. Presently he began tossing
the billet up to the awning, the cook
imitating liis motions with the baby.
Suddenly the sailor opened his arms
and the billet fell to the deck. The
uufortunate latah did the same, and
the child, falling on the planking, was
instantly killed.
The second form of latah mentioned
above, in which intense nervous ex
citement is caused by the mention of
some particular word, is scarcely less
curious to onlookers than that already
illustrated. The patient in this case
will exhibit uncontrollable fear, evinced
by running away at full speed or plung
ing into a jungle if on shore, or by
jumping overboard if in a ship or boat,
at the mention of some animal or rep
tile. Homo arc thus affected if a com
panion shouts Ular! (a snake), others
at the words Ptiniau (tiger), or Buaya
(crocodile). The strangest fact in this
connection is that such patients seem
to have littlo or no fear of the animals
themselves, or certainly not more than
uny prudent native exhibits when meet
ing tliem in the river or jungle. Thtu
a man who will jump overbonrd in hot
fear at the shout of "crocodile!" will
readily stalk, and when it is disabled
approach one of these reptiles. The
Malay, it should be added, is an ex
ceptionally plucky and expert hunter
and woodsman, so that this particular
form of nervous fright is the more re
markable.
WISE WDKDB.
A bad habit is a chain. '
Birds with bright feathers are not
always fat.
| Your most deadly sin is tho one you
| love the most.
Love never has to go to school to
learu how to speak.
If our eyes were better the stars
would give us more light.
The wounds made by a friend arc
the ones that smart the most.
The trouble with the man who knows
nothing is that it takes him so long to
find it out.
The glory of love is that it delights
in doing for nothing what nobody else
will do for money.
There are communities in which
Solomon would not have received any
credit for his wisdom.
If sunshine had to be paid for, there
are people who would declare that
candle light could beat it.
Every sinner reasons that if there is
happiness in the heart there ought to
be some sunshine iu tho face.
The man has to fight for his life who
undertakes to tell other men great
truths that they do not know.
The sin that shines has as much
death in it as the one that does not.—
Ram's Horn.
Breath ing for Health.
Of all the cur % which have emerged
into public notice from time to time,
the simplest and the most easy is that
which Major-General Dray son de
scribes in the Nineteenth Century. Ho
calls it the art of breathing, and ho
seems to have hit upon it by mere ac
cident when he was climbing a very
high mountain. Tho rarefaction of
the air at that altitude rendered it
necessary for him to breathe twice as
fast as he would have done at a lower
level. All inconvenience caused by
tho rarefaction of the air disappeared
when he doubled the rate of his breath
ing. Reflecting upon this he stumbled
upon the great discovery which should
immortalize him if there is anything
in it. Breathing in the ordinary way
ho pumps fourteen pints of air into
his lungs per minute, containing three
pints of oxygen, with which ho can
sufficiently oxygenate his blood. But
on ascending to 7000 feet the pump
j ing of fourteen pints of air into his
I luugs per minute would only take iu a
I pint and a half of oxygen, and as it
requires three pints to oxygenate tho
blood, he became almost suffocated.
His heart palpitated and he was in
danger of his life, but by suddenly
doubling the rate by which he had
been breathiug ho found instant relief.
Ho has tried it under a great many
circumstances. Whenever he was in
a vitiated atmosphere he was able to
get rid of his headache and incipient
palpitation of the heart by taking long
breaths twice as rapidly us lie would
011 ordinary occasions. He maintains
that in a very great many cases pain,
sleeplessness, headache and many other
ills which flesh is heir to could be al
most instantly relieved by this simple
practice. Moderate exerciso in the
open air, upon which all doctors in
sist, he asserts is quite unnecessary.
All that you need to do is to breathe
as rapidly us if you were taking mod
erate exercise.
A Curious Snake.
A curious serpent has been seen on
Mount Hamilton. It is represented to
be twelve or thirteen feet long, with
red eyes that shino like stars in the
night out of a head as long as a man's
fist. This curious reptile was seen by
a stock ranger named Jack Waudall tho
other day when he was out after cattle.
Wandall had only a long rope with a
ring in the end. He was on a horse,
and when tho beast saw the reptilo it
stopped and snorted and refused to
proceed that way. The snake was ly
ing almost in tho trail, apparently
asleep. Wandall backed his steed,
swung the rope, and let go at the mon
ster, hitting it upon the head, where
| upon the reptile rolled down into a
; deep gully at tho bottom of the moun
j tain, where tho chase ended. —San
i Jose (Cal.) Record.
"Cow's-Foot-ln-lhe Milk-Pall."
One of the curiosities of reflected
light from a curved surface is the
"caustic," popularly known as "the
cow's-foot-in-the-milk-pail." It is a
well-lcnow property of light that its
rays impinging upon a reflecting sur
face are thrown off so as to make the
angle between the reflected rays and
the normal equal to that between the
incident rays and the normal. In con
sequence of this law, when the rays of
any light which are practically parallel
are reflected from a curved surface tho
intersections of the reflected rays take
upon themselves the form of a cow's
foot. This shadow, as reflected in the
milk pail,is given the name used in the
headline. Prove it by taking off your
ring nnd laying it upon the table so
that its inner surfaco will reflect the
rays of tho lamp. —St. Louis Republic.
The Creole Horse.
This is a diminutive horse, which
originated during tho war along the
Gulf coast, when many planters allowed
their thoroughbred mares to escape.
The latter bred with the native horses,
and the result if a breed that rarely
reaches thirtoen bauds. These diminu
tive horses are quite spirited, and
their good blood shows in their sym
metry, stylo and action. Their gait
is a long gallop, —New York World.
THE WIND' 3 STORY.|
lam sure that tho wind Is speaking, \ .
For enoh flower is nodding its head,
And tho limbs of tho trees aro croaking—
I wish that I know what it said.
Borne story, perhaps, it is tolling,
A story of some distant land ,
But to me it is like tho swelling
Of breakers upon the white sand.
The leaves wa s t a moment to listen,
Then shako with a perfect delight,
AU the flowers like diamonds glisten
And nod first to left, then to right.
Tho wind passes on in its measure,
And long ere the story is through
Tho forest is dancing witfl pleasure—
I wish I could understand, too.
—Flavel Scott Mines, in Frank Leslie's.
IIUMOIt OF THE DAY. \
Tho general run of men—After tho
last street car.—Philadelphia Record.
The man who falls in love very often
dislocates his common sense.—Puck.
To make bills inhuman; to pay them
—these days—is divine. Pittsburg
Bulletin.
Forged notes can always be properly
classed among the gilt-edged paper on
a bank.—Chicago Inter-Ocean.
The most popular bird of passage
arriving at tho port of New York this
month is tho gold eagle. —Baltimore
American.
"That," said the man who smote n
calamity liowler, "is one of the best
financial strokes I ever made."—Wash
ington Htur.
The photograph of a boy never looks
like liim, because no one ever saw a
boy as clean as lie is in a photograph.
—Atchison Globe.
The clerk who attempts to livo be
yond his means will soon be obliged to
livo beyond the reach of his friends.—
New Orleans Picayune.
"What sort of a girl is she?" "Oh,
she is a miss with a mission." "Ah?"
"And her mission is seeking a man
with a mansion." —Sketch.
Occasionally you will meet a man
who seems to think just as you do.
What clever ideas he lias, and what a
pity ho is so scarce.—Blizzard.
Jack the Clipper has been arrested
in New York. The girls whoso tresses
he cut will be present at his trial to
upbraid him.—Galveston News.
Customer—"Do you suppose you
can take a good picture of me?" Pho
tographer- -"I shall have to ntswer
you in tho negative, sir."—Vogue.
Unmixed evils rarely occur. The
fact that money lias been tight is /aid
to have resulted in a good deal ol
sober thought.—Baltimore American.
It is not true that 4 'every man
His prion has," as they say -
I know of one, an honest man,
Who gives himself away.
—Vogue.
A man never looks so helpless and
insignificant as when standing around
a dry goods store waiting for his wife
to get through trading. Lowell
Courier.
It is very hard to explain the attrac
tions of country life to a city man who
has just investigated tho voltage of a
black-faced bumble-bee. Baltimore
American.
"And you are poor?" "Yep, but we
are happy." "Happy in your pov
erty?" "l r es, for every one around
us is poorer than ourselves." —New
York Press.
Miss Antique—"How mean these
newspapers are! Here is a column
headed 'Proposals,* and it is all about
public improvements und such non
sense."—The Club.
Mrs. Skidmoro (reading) - "Ph 1-
ippa Fawcett, who won such great dis
tinction as senior wrangler at Oxford,
is still unmarried." Mr. Skidmore—
"No wonder."—Detroit Freo Press.
Watts—"l can't see what reason
you have for comparing old man
Gotrox to a sausage." Potts—"Be
cause his stuff* is all that makes him of
any consequence."—lndianapolis Jour
nal.
Gaswell —"I'm disgusted with young
Mr. Van Braam." Dukanc—"Why?"
"He docs nothing but flirt with the
girls." "Then you don't like to see a
man's efforts all miss directed."—
Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
"Can't you settle this bill to-day,
sir?" asked the tailor of the delinquent
M. P. "No, Snip, it wouldn't be par
liamentary. I've merely glanced over
it, you know, and I can't pass a bill
until after its third reading."—-Tid-
Bits.
He blushed a fiery red; her heart
went pit-a-pat; she gently hung her
head, and looked down on tho mat.
Ho trembled in his speoh; ho rose
from where he sat, and shouted with n
screech, "You're sitting on my li.it!"
Tid-Bits.
"So you only hive a week's vacation
instead of two, this year?" "Ye s;
they told mo I must either give up
half my vacation or lose tho situation;
and I concluded that half a loaf was
much better than 110 bread."—Brook
lyn Life.
"Men are not to be trusted," she re
marked to her younger and more suc
cessful friend. "Oh, my dear," said
her friend, sweetly, "has it taken all
these years to teach you that?" The
silence that followed couldn't be
broken with a sledgehammer.—De
troit Free Press.
A young lawyer talked four hours
to a Indiana jury who felt like lynch
ing him. His opponent, a grizzled
old professional, arose, looked sweetly
at tho Judge, and said: "Your honor,
I will follow the example of my young
friend, who has just finished, and sub
mit tho case without argumeut." Then
he sat down, and the silenco was largo
and oppressive.—Christian at Work.
There are now seventy linos of ocean
mail steamers. In 1888 there were
107,137 steauj vossels ou the high sens,