FllE EL A NT) T RTBUNE. rUBLISKFP FVFHY MONDAY AND TIM KSDAY. THOS. A. BUCKLEY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE: MAIN STREET ABOVE CENTRE. SUBSCRIPTION KATES. One Your $1 GO Six Months 75 Four Months 50 Two Months 25 Subscribers arc requested to observe the date following the name on the lubcls of their papers. By referring to this they can tell at a irlaucc iuw they staud on the books In this office. For instance: < Jrover Cleveland 28Junc35 means that Grover Is paid up to June 38, ISAS. Keep the tigun-s in advance of the present date. Report promptly to this office when your paper is not received. All arrearage* must bo paid when paper Is discontinued, or collection will IK' made In the manner provided by law. The most honorable business of "housewifery takes equal ami recog nized rank with that of "husbandry" in Colorado now. When the wife of ex-Governor Routt stepped up in the front rank to register us a voter at Denver under the new equal suffrage law recently, and was asked her occu pation, she replied, "Housewife." And hundreds of women who had felt some embarrassment on this point took the cue. The undeniable insecurity and de crepitude of many of the largo build ings of Chicago is a subject which is beginning to agitate and alarm build ers and business men, declares the i New York Suu. The I'osioftice and Custom House has been settling upon its soft clay foundation for years, and is now generally spoken of as "the ruin." This is not alone because tho city wants a new building, but be cause the structure is absolutely un safe. Its floors are uneven, its walls are crumbling, and the drainage pipes are so broken and disconnected as to fill the building frequently with nox ious gases. The British warship Goldfinch re cently returned to Sidney, New South Wales, from a five months' cruise among tho Solomon Islands. She brought back reports which show, arers the San Francisco Chronicle, that the work of missionaries among the South Sea islands has been prac ' tically without result. Cannibalism goes on as it did before the white man appeared, only now the natives re move the skulls from their huts and hide theni when a warship is sighted. A missionary who has spent seventeen j years in tho Solomon group lias de cided to abandon tlie Held, as the na tives are beyond his influence. This group presents a striking contrast to other islands, where missionary work, though slow and vexatious, accom plishes valuable results in a few years. It is reported that tho French Min ister of War has decide I that tin canned goods for the use of 1 lie army must hereafter be of French manufac ture. Tho cost of the change to tho Government will be, it is said, 130 per cent., additional, and it will 1)3 neces sary for the department to ask for au increase of appropriation. Hitherto ' most of these goods have been pro cured from this country. The Ar mours, of Chicago, who have held large contracts for supplying tho French army, say that they have hear 1 noth ing of such u decision, and arc not in- j clined to believe it. It is said that such an order would make very little difference with their business, any way. They wonll still continue to supply tho goods, which the French contractor would sell at the advance price by changing tho marks on tho packages. "A venerable man," says tho Chi cago Inter-Ocean, "who deserves wel' of his country an I is honored the j world over for his achievements, has been quietly walking these .streets for ! three months, almost without recog- i nition. His name is Theodore 11. Timbv, ami your memory is KO short that the name will not enlighten you as to its claims to a paragraph in this 1 letter. Ah long ago as 181'3 Mr. Tiiu by exhibit Ito army officers his plans for the revolving tower which is now in use in tii • navies of nearly all na tions. In IH'IJ h> patented this de sign, and in that year contracted with the builders of the Monitor for tho use of the revolving tower upon that vessel for a consideration ,t' )')(). He also invented thyik what it means to all who go to war and whom armies I and navies protect tho system of ' firing guns by electricity, and the American pattern of the turbine water wheel. Mr. Timby is wventv-two years old, but is as vigorous as Glad stone was at that age, and hi mind is ; as fertile in invention as eve. Last ' week General Miles au I some memb>-r.i of his stiff honored theuR?lvui by' calling unon this errand old man." •THE TIME HAS COME." The time has come when rustics go a Hold And make Die lazy air resound With loud tnlloos ; The birds begin to sing, j i'ho fi > sto pipe, ico and tho black frost in oowsllp marshes thick with OOE°. An-1 murmurs of the trembling ground Breathe o'er us, this is spriug. The time has corno when Pleasure claps her hands When Love puts on her purple dress, Her shoes of gold, Wlitn Fancy spreads her wing > The Ilower of hope that lights new fairy j i lands * In mixed with poppies .'n the old, An l all I lie sous of men confess : Aii, it is spring, spriug, spring! ; Dora If. Goodnle, in Godey's Magazine. THE IRoTiIiIACELEXS. BY FRANK BARRETT. /f&b*' NTON took the | 'v tickets ns the train i t'■ Avasruuuing into the / $ station; in hastily Mia telling up the ,v CSfj .*?, J ;jf-%'f i." change a half sovcr oign slipped from : his fingers. It look j v \ ' I,s R couple of min-, v - ' utes to find it, and the train was lost. "i'lnvc-qunrters of an hour to wait in this hole, ' llinton groaned. "Better walk over to Chorlev. The train is duo there ai 0.15, we can do it easily." Wo did it a little too easily; the train was in sight before we reached ('hurley. We leaped over the railings 1 and ran along the line ; the train passed us at the sigual box, and wo overtook I it as it came to a stop. The lust carriage was a third class; i a young lady, leaning through the open window of the end apartment J looked toward us anxiously. I "IVill you he goo I enough to open tho door, - ' she asked, as ws drew near. We both stopped, llinton brushed ' past me to render the service; he was younger than f, his gallantry was boundless, and the present appeal to it \ias made by one of singularly pre- ! possessing appearance. It. was not u common lace that smiled down on us, showing a long row of dazzling teeth, a white, sensitive nose, an intelligent forehead from which the hair was drawn back assertively, and a pair of dark gray eyes, capable of anything; not a common figure that stood re vealed when the door was opened—tall, graceful, simply elegant, and dressed with faultless taste, and the first ques tion that mystified me was how such a lady came to be traveling alone in a third-class carriage and at this early | hour. She stood at the open door in em barrassment that added a charm to her face. The platform did not extend to the carriage. The depth of the ground was considerable, the step awkward. | She put out the neatly booted foot, ami drew it back hastily; all the time . she kept her hands close in her muff, which made the descent more imprac ticable. With a faiut tinge of color in her pale check, and her fine eyes twinkling with vexation, she said : "May T ask you to help me? I have hurt my hands; they are useless." In a moment we were on the foot- I board, one on each side, helping her I to descend. As I glanced along her I arm I caught the glimpse of a bluish- 1 black metal inside her sealskin muff. J She wore an iron bracelet. Was it au eccentricity of fashion, or a surgical appliance, I wondered. It was to Hinton she smiled her sweetest acknowledgment, and when ! in parting she bowed to us both, her i eyes rested last and longest upon him. 1 We stood by the open door watch ing her as she walked up to the plat : form with a graceful step. "Now, then, sir, are you going on?" ■ colled the guard, with hi* whistle raised. At that moment the young lady lurned round, and seeing us still stand- j ing by the door, smiled bewitchingly, | made a short step forward, turned I again and stopped, fixing her eyes on i llinton, who \wis scarlet to the roots of his hair. It was an invitation that my fiery young friend was not very \ slow to accept. "I shall come on by the next train, j Jack, laid lie, and started at once to rejoin the fascinating lady. The guard blew bis whistle, and I j stepped up mechanically into the car- j lingo, closing the door, and never losing sight of my friend and the lady I | with the iron bracelet. He bud his j hat off, and was speaking to her as the | train whisked me by. They were both I ->o pleasantly occupied with each other I that they took no notice of inc. I continued to watch them until the ! train was out of the station, and then ! I at down and glanced round to see i if there were any other occupants of th* compartment. Heavens! What was this at the other i end. half on the ground, half on the | ' :i '' ' ; tarted to my feet and drew near the dark mass, with growing ter ror, as I p< l- 'civt-d tint it was a police j officer who lav huddled together, with I one shoulder on the seat and his head 1 drooped down upon his breast. His helmet had dropped off. When I ' raised his face I found it terribly col- | orless, only half tho whites of his eyes were visible through the half closed j | lids. There was no sign of any wound, 1 |no blood upon his hands or face. A I white handkerchief lay upon the seat. It seemed to me that the man had suddenly fainted. I tried to raise him from his supine position, but the dead weight (lie was a large man) was more | than I couid manage. The can iage was open from end to end the compartments simply divid !ed by backs. There was only one ■ other traveler in the carriage—a navvy in the next but one compartment, with bis back to me, and his head was out of the window that the short black pipe he was smoking might not be ob-1 jected to. I called him twice before he heard me, and then, taking his pipe out and holding it in the hollow of his hand, i he looked at me in vacant surprise. "Come over nud help me," I cried. "There's a policeman lying here dead." "A dead policeman!" ho said, his little eyes rounding with wonder. "Yes, come over and help me lift him up." "Nought me," he said, his face set tling with an expression of dogged ob jection. "I ain't goin' to have no truck wi' no dead policemaus, no fear. I'm a poor mau, I aiu, and they'd have me off to the station'us soou's look at me if I get messin' myself in that job, no fear," and with that he turned his back on me and sat down in an at titude of neutrality. I made what effort I could to restore life to the dead man, to cnll the atten tion of the guard to rouse up the nav vy to a sense of humanity, but all to no purpose. The train was express to London, ami alone with my ghastly fellow-passenger I had to await the end of the journey. As the train ran into the terminus I called loudly to a porter on the plat form. It took the fellow a couple of minutes to overcome his astonishment. Then he did as I bade him, and ran oil* for assistance. Three minutes more passed before he returned with a couple of policemen. While they were getting tho dead man onto tho platform the inspector came over. After lia had heard my brief explanation lietook out his note book and pencil, saying he must have my name ami address. 1 gave them, and added that I was to be found dur ing the day at Guy's Hospital. "If you are a medical gentleman you may perhaps be able to tell the cause of death," he said. "Heart disease, I should say." "Where did you get in, sir?" "Chorley." "Anyone in the compartments be side yourself?" "No." "Anyone get out there?" "A lady." "l)i<l she say anything about this?" "No." "Tiiero was no one else in the car riage?" he asked. "There was a navvy in the third compartment." I explained his be havior. The inspector smiled. "Ho was right. I should have had to detain liini. That would have been the loss of a day's wages, perhaps— couldn't let him off with his name and address. However, there's no sign of violence, and most "likely what you say about heart disease is right. That will do, sir, thank you. I ex pect you will bo summoned to attend j the iuquest." The platform was empty ; the ticket collector had come up to satisfy liis curiosity. As I was going away he said: "Your ticket, sir." I gave him my ticket; as I turned the corner by the barrier I saw him showing it to the inspector. My friend Hinton, on coming up to j the lady with the iron bracelet, said: "I have ventured to follow you with the hope that I may continue my as sistance—your disabled hand"— "It is precisely for that reason that I found courage to—to look back," j she said. "I felt sure that you would i not misunderstand my motive." "Only tell me how I may serve you." "I am ashamed to tell you that T have no ticket, and I cannot get at my purse," she explained, blushing and smiling at the same time; "and if yon would kindly get me some sort of con veyance." Hinton paid her fare; she said slio came from Ovevbury--gave up his own unused ticket, and opened the door of a fiy that stood outside the station. When she was seated she drew herself to the side, holding her winsome head a little on one side, and smiling an invitation. Hintou took tho vacant place by her side. "Where do you want to go?" he asked. "Where are you going?" she asked in reply. "I have to go to the city." "Then I want to go to the city, too." "City," said Hinton to the driver. "I must show you something," she said, when the fly was rattling along. She raised her muff from her knees, j and added: "Slip my muff up my arm." Then very gently he moved her I muff, an I uncovering her hands started back in horrified astonishment. The small, white wrists were menacled together with a pair of iron handcuffs. "Good God! what does this mean?" he exclaimed. "Press the spring you see there and I will tell you." He pressed the spring and the hand cuffs dropped off in her lap. "Late last evening, as I was leaving a friend's house, 1 was arrested. The last train to London was gone. I was taken to an inn and confined there. This morning the policeman put those things on my wrists, and led me to the railway station. In the carriage where you found me tho policeman fell asleep when we stopped at that station 1 saw my chance to escape, and thanks to your help I am here." "But why were you arrested?" asked j llinton. "Ob, I cannot tell you that," she replied, covering her face with her hands, "not yet—lnter on, if I may hope to gain your friendship and con fidence, I may unburden my heart of its secret. But look in my face" —shi uncovered it, and laying down her hand mi Hinton's ar.n, offered her charming face to his examination. "Look and tell me if you can find there the sign of a crime that should be punished with this shame." My gusliing young friend had g t ns far as this in his narrative, when tlio hall porter usliered into our sanctum our old frienl Kennet, a clear-liea-led lawyer. "Now, you young fellows," he he- j gan brusquely, "I've come to get you i out of a mess, if I can. I must know 1 all ahout the affair this morning." T told him my story as T have writ- | ten it here. His first question sur- ; prised me. j "Can you briug anyone forward to prove that you got into that train at Uliorley, and not at Steveuham?" ' After tixing our recollection to the | full, Hintou and I came to the conclu -1 siou that we could not find a witness ito prove this. The station master ! had closod the ticket box the moment I alter giving Hinton his change. The | door leading onto the platform was i locked when we reached it. At Choi | ley wo lial not gone through the hooking office. The guard's vau was in the front of the train ; tlio porters ' were on the platform, and we were | not seen till the moment when wj ! were helping the lady to descend. 1 Kennetjlooked grave. ! "Now, give mo your account, Mr. i Hinton," said he. I Hinton went over the facts again. "J)o you know where the young lady is now?" "Yes, hut I must decline to tell you ' until 1 know your reason for asking." j "My reason for asking! That's sim ple enough: J wish to save you from criminal prosecution." We gasped: "What crime has been ! committed?" j "Murder!" "Murder!" we echoed aghast. "The handkerchief that lay beside the dead man is found to have been 1 saturated with chloroform." "Good heavens, Kennet, do you think wc carry chloroform about with i us'." "You arc medical students." Hinton and I stared in blank be wilderment. "Of course you don't believe the young lady committed the murder," Kennet said, addressing Hinton. "How on earth is such a thing pos sible? She had her wrists haudcuffed, and a muff on her hands." "►So much the worse for you. The man is murdered, and the respon sibility lies upon you two young men snd that young woman. Of course, I believe in your innocence, but that counts for nothing. Your fate will be decided by a jury, ami not by me. Now what is the evidence that will be ! laid before them? One of you is found ! in a third-class carriage with the dead ! man, and gives up a first-class ticket from Steveuham, the station at which the policeman got into the train with his prisoner. The other young man gets the young woman out of the train at Chorley, pays her fare, and whisks her out of the way in a fly. A hand kerchief saturated with chloroform is found beside the dead man, and you two are medical students. What is the presumption? That you, seeing this attractive young woman put into a third-class carriage by a policeman at j Stevenhaiu, get into the same carriage with her. The young woman fascin- I ates you and excites your sympathy. On uearing Chorley the policeman ! dozes, and one of you, intending, possibly, only to prolong his sleep, applies chloroform. The effect is more serious than you expected, and while one saves the young lady, the other remains with the policeman to use such means of restoring him to life as your experience suggests. However, you had better let me see this young woman at once. If we can prove her guilt—" "Then you shall not sec that young lady," cried Hinton, in a fierce fury. "If you think I'm going to get out of the difficulty by shifting my responsi bility onto the shoulders of a woman you are in error!" "Then you may prepare for twenty years of penal servitude," said Ken net, brutally. In all probability wo should have got the punishment, but for au event i that never entered into our calcula tions. The young ladv with the iron brace let had assured Hiuton that in three days or four at the outside she could clear her character if only she was se cured from misapprehension in the in terval. The infatuated young man sent her to his mother at St. Albans with a touching letter that appealed to the old lady's sympathy—of course she regarded her son as faultless in all things. The youug lady was treated as an honored guest. The first thing she did was to send telegrams to Lon don. The old lady seems to have been as enchanted as her son ly the lady of the iron bracelet, and at night-time tliev separated with affectionate re gard. When the servants came down in the morning they found the street door, which had been carefully bolted over night, open, and the plate gone. Later they found that the lady with the iron bracelet was missing also. In the evening a man was arrested on suspicion of having committed the burglary. At the examination I identified him as the navvy Iliad seen in the carriage on the morniug of the murder. He was recognized by the police as one of a gang who, in con junction with a youug female of fashionable exterior, bad been con cerned in a series of burglaries, for which the "young female" had been apprehended at Stevenham. The lady with the iron bracelet is still at large, and I trust my friend Hinton may never see her again, for nothing has cured him of his folly in regarding her as the hapless victim of a diabolical conspiracy. As there were just thirteen mar riages in Henuiker, N. If., Inst year, the brides ore alt the objects of super stititious solicitude. COPPERAS FOB GRAPEVINES. Copperas has been tried in Franco j on grapevines which are suffering i from an absence of the proper green color. The results are reported to have been most satisfactory. Early spring is the best time for the experi ment. In making the application tlio surface soil above the roots should bo removed to a depth of several inches and the copperas water then poured over the space and the soil afterwards restored.-—New York World. FOUR MILK FOR CALVE?. Hour milk is not tit food for a calf. It may keep the. animal alive, but it will not thrive or make a healthy growth. The sour milk will quickly curdle in the stomach and cause indi- ■ gostion. It is this way of feeding a calf that makes so many poor cows, for ai. animal that has been stunted in its early growth will never recover the loss afterward. Skimmed milk, if sweet, is good for any calf, but it should be warmed to eighty or ninety degrcer, as it is most digestible at that temperature. Fat is not so much required for a young calf. Muscular growth is needed more than fat, and thus makes a better cow than if the food made a fat animal. It is quite safe to give a mouth-old calf a light ration of groun 1 oats and corn meal, a few ounces at first, gradually increas ing.—New York Times. FATTENING SHEEP. When the hog has stopped putting on flesh or fat ho must be disposed of, no matter what the market, for after that period all food given is practi cally wasted. Hut the case is different with sheep. After reaching their maximum weight and condition as to flesh that will eat but little, and this is amply paid for in the increase in quantity and quality of wool. Be sides prices of mutton sheep are al ways better after the weather begins to get warm, as mutton is more of a hot than cold weather food. Again, 1 the market will pay more for nicely shorn and well handled wool than the | butchers will; and wool can be more j cheaply freighted when packed iu i sacks than when on the sheep's back, j Another consideration is shorn sheep, if well fattened, will sell for more than unshorn, for the former can be seen by the buyer nt a glance, while the latter must he carefully inspected, one by one, and lastly, shorn sheep will ship more comfortably ami be in bet ter condition when reaching market than unshorn. These conditions make nil winter feeding most desirable.— Farm, Stock and Home. 1575KS AND FEUIT. The business of the horticulturist and that of the apiculturist arc each a necessary adjunct of the other, says a lady writer. The beekeeper may pay a wonderful sum for the best bees in the world, may "have them in the best of hives with movable frames, queen excluding honey boards, etc., etc. ; above the brood nest he may have the whitest of section boxes, every one containing a foundation starter; in fact, have everything ready to catch the surplus honey when the honey, How shall come—if tho land be not full of flowers on every hand there will be no surplus for him. Professor Wilson has made an elaborate calcula tion, and concludes that it would re- Itliro 2,500,"009 florets like those of the white clover to yield one pound of clover honey. This gives some idea of the vast number of blossoms necessary, as well as the amount of labor represented in every houey oomb. The fruit grower may ransack the earth for new and improved varieties; lie may be as skillful as possible in planting; he may graft and propagate and hybridize, and yet if the winds are not favorable and the bee does not visit the blossoms iu search of pollen or nectar the blossoms will soon wither and fall and never produco the fruit for which the blos soms lived and grew, and for which the horticulturist had bestowed upon tlie tree or plant liis labor, fore thought and fostering care.—Chicago Times. TII3 EUUDY OP AGRICULTURE. Agriculture is the lmsis of our national progress and prosperity. While this fact is widely recognized, yet the study of this most important of nil callings is not placed in the curriculum of the public schools of the country. Generations of chil dren pass through life without ability to distinguish between wheat and barley when they see it growing. It seems necessary to be born on a farm to bo acquainted with even the rudi ments of agriculture. This is all wrong. The studies of the school room should be arranged to meet this oversight. True, men have become famous in many ways, whose solo equipment was furnished in the com mon schools of the country, but these have yet to graduate a scholar who was ever aided iu his life work as a farmer by the knowledge acquired in them. The introduction of sound text books on agriculture in rural pub lic schools would remedy this defect of the system under which they are operated, 'the children of farmers have as perfect a right to the technical knowledge of their prospective call ing, as that such knowledge of things that at best are mere accomplish ments shall be taught. The tendency I toward the latter is very manifest in I many directions iu the studies of the public schools. It is always better to teach a few things that the student may be fully acquainted with them rather than to overwhelm him with a lot of useless trash that retard him iu his life work. For that reason agri culture should form a prominent future in the studies of rural public schools, because of its future useful ness to the average attendant at them. —Americau Dairyman. SUMMER FOll AIE When extra feed is needed as early as June there is nothing better than clover. The best time for sowing clover is in July or the early part of August. It. may readily follow some forage crop fed oil' in midsummer. When grown for forage the clover should be seeded at the rate of twenty pounds to the acre, and will produce ten to twelve tons of green for ago, worth at least a fourth more than timothy for feeding purposes. Oats and pen*, sown at tlie rate of one and one half bushels of oats and two of peas per acre, will afford excel lent forage for midsummer. The pens should either bo plowed into the length of four or live inches or else the seed be well covered by use of a wheelbarrow. The outs should be sown several days after the peas and lightly harrowed in. Uysowjug three or four small areas one week apart, starting as early in the spring as pos sible, this crop will supply fresh, nutritious forage for about a month, beginning with the last week in June; while if the whole is sown at one time part of the fodder becomes dry and j woody before it can bo utilized. On fertile sods a second crop of clover should be available by the first lof August and will afford the best of feed for ton days or two weeks at this period of the summer. With most farmers corn is the gront forage crop for late summer, and early fall feeding. While it is doubtful if there is any crop that will produce a larger amount of food material per acre, there are a number of legumin ous crops that can bo grown with less drain upon the soil and will afford forage of much higher nutritive value pound for pound. In Southern New England and as far north as Central New York, the cow pea can be easily grown on warm, light soils, while the soja bean affords a large amount of excellent forage and can bo grown in nearly all parts of New England. These I crops will afford forage from about the middle of August till the killing frosts come. Late in September it is sometimes found necessary to use rowen from the mowing field and in this case the more clover there is in it the better. Grasses when young and tender are more nitro genous than in the larger stages of growth, and hence rowen affords a much better food than the full grown grasses. For a late fall feed there is no crop yet in use equal to barley and peas. This crop can be sown the first part of August on the clover ground, or it may follow the oats and pens. Two bushels of peas and one of barley make a good mixture. Both of these plants withstand frosts well and make excel lent growth in cool weather.—New England Farmer. J" ARM AND GARDEN NOTES. Gi"o the peas a light, rich soil. Red raspberries should not bo given deep cultivation. Do not forget parsley seed. A small package will yield enough to use nil the year. Many nro discarding the polo lima, and taking up the bush lima beau as a specialty. Young bees nro valuable in the spring, and none should be allowed to die from carelessness. Sow celery seed early. It is esti mated that oue ounce of seed will pro duce about 2500 plants. Beeswax will be darkened if melted in an iron vessel. It is better to use brass or copper vessels. The best shipping crates for honey are of a single tier, and hold from twelve to twenty-four pounds. Basswood is light, white, and free from gumminess. Nothing so far has been found to equal it for making pound sections. Never set plan, ? of a poor quality. Poor seed will make a failure, but only for a singlo year, while poor plants last over many seasons. All fruit plants, including trees, should have a generous supply of line, light-colored, fibrous roots, in order to be of a vigorous and healthy growth. For the potato crop sulphate is thought to be much bettor than muri ate of potash, tor it gives a greater yield and improves the quality in a higher degree. The cucumber should not be set in open ground until about the middle of May or until the weather settles, as it is a very tender annual. Plant in June or July if you want them for pickles. Do not plant potatoes on hard, poorly plowed soil, for the crop will be poor, no matter how thorough the cultivation or how favorableother con ditions if the soil is not mellowed deep enough. SCIENTIFIC AM) INDUSTRIAL. There are aluminum bath tubs. Incandescent lamps now sell for twenty-five cents apiece. More than 1(5,000 Hindoos have been inoculated for the prevention of cholera. Illinois physicians indorse the theory that sun spots and smallpox are connected. The human skin is exactly like that of a fisli, as it is covered with miuuto scales overlapping each other. Peach stones find ready sale to be used in manufacturing perfumes, flavoring extracts and prussic acid. Illinois University is to have a sum mer station for the natural history laboratory and the study of aquatic fauna. Opticians say that the eye cau de tect the color produced by adding bill one-millioneth of a gramme of fuch sine to a glass of water. The projected Pan-American Rail way will be from six to ten thousand feet above sea level, and a good inauy long and expensive tunnels will be necessary. The largest passeuger cngino in the United States belongs to the Cleve land, Columbus, Cincinnati and Iu i dianapolis Railroad. Weight, sixty | five tons. Zoologistsclaim that the strength of the lion in the fore limbs is only sixty nine per cent, of that of the tiger, and the strength of the hind limbs sixty-live per cent. The cylinder head of a Connecticut locomotive blew out while at full speed. The train's momentum carried it to the station, live miles away, without a pound of steam. It is said that Paris will build a tubular railway eight miles long fin* the exposition of 1900. It will be for passenger service and electricity will furnish the motive power. Josiah Iloopes, of Westchester, Penn., has been collecting American birds for forty years past, and now has carefully mounted what isbelioved to be one of the finest collections in the United States. It numbers GOO J specimens. As to where man first appeared it is beyond doubt that his earliest home was in southern Europe, or Asia, of North Africa. No earlier traces ol him have been found than thosj found in the area that is now Euglaud, France and Spain. Professor Otto Lugger, in charge o! the Minnesota experimental station at St. Anthony Park, Minn., has discov ered from numerous experiments that if the animal is healthy no rise in temperature will follow the injection of Koch's lyinph, while, if afflicted with tuberculosis, even in its incipient stages, there is an instant rise in tem per at n re. In tests last year iu the German town of Dessau it was shown that cook ing by wood and coal costs a little more than twice that done with gas. From experiments continued at Leip sic for several years it is estimated that a consumption of 700 cubic feet of gas per month is sufficient for pre paring the ordinary food of a family of four persons. l)r. Koppen, of Hamburg, his com municated to the United States hydro graphic ofH 's his method for calming the wave- out a ship in times o' storm. • recommends the use of soap suds. G. W. Leutchales, assistant United States hydrographer, says that it is the pirticles of air un derneath the water which result in the formation of waves. Ho also recommends soap suds for preventing the growth of waves. The Delicious Maracujas. Havo you ever eaten maracujas? If not, 1 advise you to make the exper - ment as soon as may be. I hid never Keen them till the other night, when I was dining out, and noticed what at first i thought were oranges nestling on the dish beneath glorious bunches of purple and green grapes. The fruit was arranged on low silver epergnes and mingled witli flowers, as is now often the case. I soon, however, dis covered that the skin of the fruit as well as the shape were quite dis similar to that of an orange, the ex terior being shiny and "papery," aud the size and shape resembling that of a very large Victoria plum. I found that maracuja was another name for the fruit of the passion flower, and as soon as I had been told this I recollected that even in England the shape and color of our own passion flower fruit is exactly similar, though it becomes no larger than a good-sized damson. Those to which I was introduced the other evening came from Jamaica and the 6outh ot Maderia, and were obtained at a West End fruiterer's. It requires a little pluck to eat them, as the interior is rather a shock. The fruit is like a collection of dark gray seeds in silver-colored gelatinous syrup, and does not look appetizing, but the flavor is delicious, resembling a most beautiful hothouse melon. If maracujas were better known, I am sure they would be a favorite addition to our dessert.— London Gentlewoman. The Phantom City ol Glacier Bay. During the past eight or ten years a curious phenomenon has been regu larly observed at Glacier Ray, Alaska. It always occurs immediately after the full moon of June and at no other time during the year, aud is said to bo i a beautiful mirage of soma nnkifowu city suspended in the rarifled air directly over the bay. A. Juneau (Alaska) photographer has taken pic tures of it on four different occasions, but so far no one lias be?n able to identify a single one of the ghostly buildings outlined on his plates.—St. Louis Republic.
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