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'XIIOS. A. BUCKLEY,
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he made in tho manner provided by law.
Olio hundred and fifty lnemborß of
tho British House of Commons have
Bent out a petition to tho editors of
the lending daily papers of that coun
try asking them to refrain from re
porting sensational cases of immoral
ity and brutality.
The descendants of Queen Victo
ria are either now in possession of, or
will in the natural course of events
come, to occupy seven thrones—thoso
of tho British Empire, the German
Empire, the Russian Empire,the King
dom of Greece, tho Grand Duchy of
Hesse, the Duchy of Saxc-Cobourg and
the Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen.
The Presbyterians carry great re
sponsibilities in Australasia, remarks
the Missionary Review, for their num
bers are large, being almost 500,000
in 1891. Of these 100,911 are in Vic
toria, 111,477 in New Zealand, 109,-
383 in New South Wales, 45,439 in
Queensland, 18,200 in South Austra
lia, 9,750 in Tasmania, etc.
Tho Do Losseps family appear, to
tho Chicago Herald, to ho coming out
of their sea of troubles in fairly good
flhape after all, thanks to tho bounty
of tho Suez Canal Company,which has
not only re-elected Charles de Lesseps
a director, but voted madamo a pen
sion of 312,000 a year and a handsome
sum to each of the thirteen children,
enough at least to keep the Panama
and other wolves away from tho door.
A resolution was recently introduced
in the House of Commons of the Brit- |
ish Parliament by Mr. Hanbnry to
provide each private soldier with a
pair of clean sheets fortnightly in
stead of monthly. To this Mr. Camp- '
bell-Bannerman seriously protested,
upon tho ground that it would involvo
an increased expenditure of $50,000 a
year. He thought that the monoy might i
be spent to the greater advantage and j
comfort of tho soldier in other ways.
It looks to tho New Orleans Pica- j
yuno as though the next war of gen- i
eral interest were likely to take placo
in China. Indeed, it appears to be al
ready begun, according to the late
dispatches to the London Times from
Tientsin. The provinces of Kirin ami
Mnnohouria aro in a state of rebel
lion, and tho insurrection is daily
growing in strength. Mounted rebels
armed with repeating rifles, have de
feated the imperial troops in a num
ber of battles, and have captured many
important places, among others the
Sursing arsenal, where aro stored
900,000 rifles. This will provide the !
rebels with a good store of arms and
ammunition. It i said that the situa
tiou is HO serious that the viceroy, Li
Hung Chang, is waiting to gather a
large army before attempting to sup
press the rebellion.
The English locomotive manufac
turers are not going to have things all
their own way in Japan any longer.
Recent tests of hauling power in the
Mikado's country resulted in favor of
the American engine. A section of
track sixteen miles long on the Taka
ido road was used for the trial. The
English competitor managed, after
several starts, to haul twenty-one
loaded cars half the distance, whilo
America's representative took tho
same train with an extra car added,
and made good time /ill the way, Gov
ernment officials were well pleased
with this performance, and according
to the Railway Review, "preference
will hereafter be given to tho Ameri
can locomotive." Until a few years
ago nearly all tho railroad engines in
South America were of English make,
but of lato years both Argentine and
Chili have beon patronizing the loco-
motive works of this country exten
sively. Little railroad building is be
ing done in other Spanish-American
Bepublics except Mexico,and Mexico's
railways are nearly all equipped with
rolling stock from the United States.
The only exception is the old Vera
Cruz road, which was built and is still
owned by an English company.
jOLD-TIME ANIMALS.
REPTILES THAT FLEW AND BIRDS
WITH TEETH.
TIIP Many Strnnjjo ami Weird Animal* of
Other DIIJ-R HN In NaturalUt
IlutclilnHon'n Now Hook—Tlio Terrible
bnber-Tootlied Tiger.
Are Now All Kxtlnrt.
! There was a time when reptiles
roamed this earth that could have
i eaten a dozen ordinary human beings
lor a meal. Fortunately there were
j no human beings about, and the de
| sccndants of most of these reptiles
have become so small that they can
Ibo crushed by the human foot. In
those days reptiles flew, and birds,
that were uncommon, had teeth moro
; terrible than btizzsaws, and four legs,
j The ltcv. 11. N. Hutchinson, an
J Englishman, has just published his
second work on extinct animals. The
new book is called "Creatures of Oth
er Fays." It Is published by IX Ap
pleton & Co., and is of absorbing in
terest. Mr. Hutchinson tells the
dimensions, family and habits of
these strange animals. With his as
sistance artists have provided very
striking pictures of them to go with
tlie descriptions. His earlier work
dealt only witli monsters of geologi
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TUB DODO, EXTIWCT 81N CE THE SEVEN*
TEEN Til CRN TI'HV.
cal epoch. Some of those described
in tills work wore not monsters, and
some have existed during the time of
man's stay on the earth.
1 ab.vrinthodonts were amphibians
found usually in coal formations, and
hail teeth of a remarkably compli
cated construction. The lowest, but
perhaps the most interesting, of all
the Inbyrinthodonts is the archtego
saurus. A learned man who came
upon an arclregosaurus said: "Its
head might be that of a tlsli as well
as that of a lizard or a batrachian
frog." It was finally decided to be a
missing link between the fish-like
bat ruclila and the lizards and croco
diles.
'J be archa gosaurus resembles more
nearly the salamander than any oth
er living animal. It had permanent
gills and lungs, and stunted limbs
adapted for swimming. It was of
great size.
The anomodonts were animals of
uncertain family, many of which had
teeth like the modern carnivora.
The body of an anomodont was llz
ard-liko and the limbs adapted fot
walking. The teeth were placed in
distinct sockets. The structure ol
tlie foot was distinctly mammalian.
The anomodonts had other mamma
lian characteristics. They are ap
parently allies to the spiny ant-eater
of Australia and the duck mole,
which lays eggs like a reptile.
Tlie paricasaurus was a remarkable
animal of the anomodont order. It
must have been fully nine feet long
when alive. Jt was very wide and
square. The skull looks like that of
a labyrinthodont and has a frog-like
look. Internally It resembles the
present tuatara of New Zealand,
which appears to be a survival from
the frlassic period. In the pelvis and
region of the thighs the pareiasaurus
had mammalian characteristics. It
was intermediate between the tailed
amphibians and the mammals.
When the fossil remains of anom
odonts were first discovered, many
men of science maintained that they
were stones which had assumed ani
mal shapes, so difficult was it to be
lieve that such creatures had ever
lived.
At some remote age it Is believed
that the bird was evolved from the
/lying reptile. The oldest known bird,
'according to Mr. Hutchinson, is the
archieopteryx, which lived in the
.secondary or Mcsozolc era. It had
feathers and claws, as modern birds
have, but also teeth and a tail. It
is a bird, but hs some reptilian
features still clinging to It. Its ver
tebra- were bl-eoncave, like those of
fishes, and some extinct saurians.
Another reptilian feature is the pres
ence of sclerotic plates in the eye.
The wings had three free digits oi
lingers, and a linger of greater length
to support the primary features. In
size It was as large as a rook.
The hespernornls, found in the
cretaceous strata in North America,
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MACHAUCHENIA AND TUB SABER-TOOTHEE
TIOE it
was a (living bird six feet long. It
was carnivorous, and had powerful
teeth set in a groove. It had clastle
jaws, like a boa constrictor.
The dodo is a very strange bird,
which differs from the other animals
previously mentioned here because
it has only been extinct about twe
hundred years, since 1681.
Its sclentlllc name Is Hldus lnep
tus, suggesting the bird's foolish
character. It was a very'unwieldy
creature, with a huge beak. It was
larger than a swan and a great deal
heavier. The legs were short and
stout, having four toes on each foot,
and the tail was extremely short., car
rying a tuft of soft plumes. The beak
was very much hooked. The dodo
existed In the Islands of Mauritius,
Bourbon, and Rodrlgucs, down to
the middle of the seventeenth cen
tury.
Sir Thomas Herbert has left this
charming description of a dodo
which ho saw in 1634:
"Her liody Is round and extreme
fat, her slow pace begets that corpu
lencie; few of them weigh less than
llfty pound; better to the eye than
the stomack; greasle appetites may
perhaps commend them, but to the
delicate they are offensive and of no
nourishment. Let's take her pic
ture: Her visage darts forth melan
choly, as sensible of nature's Injurlc
In framing so great and massive a
body to be directed by such small
and complemental wings as are
unable to holse her from the
ground, serving only to prove her
a bird; which otherwise might
lie doubted of; her head Is vari
ously drest, the one-halfe hooded with
downlsh, blackish feathers; the oth
er perfectly naked; of a whitish hue,
as If a transparent lawne had cov
ered it; her bill is very howkcd and
bends downwards, the thrill or breath
ing place is in the midst of It; from
which part to the end the colour Is a
light greene mixed with a pale yel
low; her eyes be round and small,
and bright as diamonds; her cloath
ing Is of finest downe, such as ye
see in goslins; her trayno Is (like
a China beard) of three or four short
feythers; her legs thick and black
and strong; her talons or pounces
sharp; her stomack fiery hot, so us
stones and yron are easily digested in
It: In that and shape not a llttlo re
scmbling the Afrlck oestriches."
A commonly accepted theory of the
dodo's origin Is that it was the de
scendant of some large ground-feed
ing pigeon, which had found wings
unnecessary and food plentiful on
these islands.
The last of tho great auks was
killed In the Orkney Islands a few
years ago. Tills bird was larger
than a goose, and very swift on foot
and In the water, but unable to fly.
It was so stupid that It allowed it
self to be overtaken hymen in boats.
During the miocene period there
lived a very stiange and primitive
kind of elephant, known as thedino
thorium. Unlike all other elephants
the tusks were In the lower jaw and
curved downward, like those of the
walrus. On this account it Is con
lectured that It was of aquatlc|hab
its. A length of eighteen feet has
been attributed to this animal.
Tip, of Central Park, was about
nine feet long. The remains of the
dinotherium have been found in the
miocene strata in many parts of
Eu rope.
In the Slvallk hills of Northern In
dia was found the skull of a mastodon,
an extinct species of elephant, hav
ing four tusks, two In each jaw. The
tuskß alone were 10 feet 6 inches in
length, and the total length of the
A ITUNE ANOMODONT REPTILE (PAREIASAIT
IIUB) PECULIAR TO SOUTH AMERICA.
cranium and tusks was fourteen feet.
The horse, which has only one toe
to each foot, Is, apoarently, descended
from a five-toed ancestor. That an
cestor was the eocene phenacodus, a
curious little animal, with the small
est brain ever found in a mammal.
It had a long tail and long hind legs.
It was probably something between
a sheep and a tapir. The Immediate
predecessor of the horse in evolution
was the protohlppus, which had only
two rudimentary side toes In addi
tion to the hoof.
Among the animals of the pleisto
cene age In South America was a
saber-toothed tiger, one of the most
terrible carnivorous animals known
to natural history. It had curved
and serrated tusks twelve inches long,
projecting eight inches beyond the
gums. It lived in an age when huge,
defenseless animals of the horse
type abounded, and they must have
supplied It with plenty of food.
Nicotine ami lnoacco.
Many people regard toba co and
n cotine as synonymous terms, though
it is known that there are varities of
tobacco which conta n practically no
nicotine whatever. A Venetian doc
tor, Sig. 0. 11. do Toni, has bce.D
making some exhaustive researches
on "Nicotiana Tobacuw"— the va
riety of tobac o generally used by
smokers—and has Just published the
results of his investigations. He
finds that nicotine, which Is an alka
loid, is located ch.ctly in the ep •
dermal tissues, but Is entirely absent
from the seed and young plant. In
the root of mature plant It occurs lu
the cortical tissue, and especially in
the layer of cells Immediately be
neath the epidermis. In the branches,
leaf stalk, lamina of the leaf, pe
duncle, calyx and corollo It is con
fined almost entirely to tho epidermal
cells, and occurs chiefly In those at
the base of the hairs. In sumller
quantit es It Is found in the anthers
and p stil. but the mesophyl and as
similation tissue of the leaf were en
tirely devoid of nicotine in all the
samples examined.
Fr. Toni believes the function of
nicotine to be simply excretory, being
a product of the reduction of oxygen
ous substances. Hy some it has been
assumed that nicotine exercises a
protective influence on the tobacco
plant to keep marauding insects at
bay; but this assumption is not borne
out by observation, as both the fresh
and dried leaves are eaten by many
insects.
(JKKAT NEW FLASH LIGHTS,
TLLUMINATING THE NEW YORK
HARBOR APPROACHES.
Two Hays Willi an Aggregate Inten
sity of 450,000,000 Caudles—Tho
Fire Island Light.
IT may not be generally known that
the application of electricity to
lighthouse purposes is soon to re
ceive its greatest illustration at
the entrance to New York harbor and
that before the summer is over tbero
will be in operation there the two
most powerful electric lights iu tho
world. Both of these, however, will
not bo for distinctively lighthouse
purposes, as the one at Sandy Hook
is merely a search light, belong
ing altogether to the army and es
tablished for use as a feature of coast
defence. This search light, which has
boen tried recently with fair results iu
transmitting flash light messages to
the city, is tho one which was origin
ally uspd at the Chicago Fair, throw
ing its rays as far as Milwaukee, a dis
tance of ninety-two miles. Its power
is nearly as great as that of the other
light being prepared for Fire Island.
The Sandy Hook search light has no
place in the system of lights of the
lighthouse establishment aud is not
intended as an aid to navigation. It
is merely a large projector, intended
in war to examine at night all ap
proaches to New York harbor, to dis
cover the movements of enemies who
may seek to enter such approaches,
etc. Its power is estimated to be that
of 200,000,000 candles, but it is found
that after the power of a few thousand
caudles is reached, it is difficult to
note tho full effect from the addition
of a few thousand more, so that al
though the power of production may
be accurately calculated and stated,
the human eyo is hardly capable of
distinguishing as to tho excess in brill
iance of one very powerful light over
another.
The lightning flfißh light to bo
erected at Fire Inland consists of a bi
valve lons about eight feet in diame
ter, to bo illuminated by two arc burn
ers of several thousand candle power
each, magnified by the lens so as to
givo a flash of 220,000,000 candles,
estimated. This light will have the
most powerful lens ever constructed,
and in favorable weather its rays, pro
jected against the nky, ought to be
seen at a distance of at least 100 miles,
while the light itself will be visible
twenty-four miles. It will flash every
five seconds. The light at present at
Fire Island will be transferred to Hog
Island, Va., whero it is much needed.
Some idea of the intensity of the new
light may be gained by a comparison
with the illumination of the Statue of
Liberty, the torch of which, familiar
to all New Yorkers, is of only 5000
candle power. The now Fire Island
light will bo 20,000 times as brilliuut.
While the new lights, one at Sandy
Hook and the other at Fire Island, are
thus distinct in purpose, different in
construction, and of unequal brillian
cy -if the estimated candle power can
be absolutely depended upon-the
aims of both may, it is said, be frus
trated by one common enemy, and
that is fog. It is not positively known
that such very powerful electric lights
will not penetrate fog to a great dis
tance, but it is asserted on the other
side of the Atlantic that the electric
light is not HH valuable for the pene
tration of fog or haze as the ordinary
gas or oil lights. In clear weather al
most any light can be seen far enough
for practical purposes, but thick
weather is the test for lights as well as
fog signals.
The most powerful light on the
English coast is that at the Isle of
May, for which an illuminating power
of 38,000,000 candles is claimed, but
mariners assert that it is as invisible
in foggy weather as if it were only
3800 candles. The records which
have been printed in English news
papers show conclusively that in fog
gy weather the 38,000,000 candles of
the Isle of May are invisible at a short
distance, while that tho 7,000,000 can
dle-power light at St. Catherine's
Point, is equally invisible in such
weather was proved by the loss last
fall of tho North Gorman Lloyd
steamship Elder near that lighthouse.
Possibly theso assertions may be
what has dotorred European nations
from erecting any more brilliant
lights along their coasts, for they cer
tainly have nothing to compare with
the illuminations that will guard the
entrance to New York. The most
powerfnl at present on the French
coast is that at Cape LeHeve, three
miles from Havre, which is of only
23,000,000 candle power, but this will
soon be exceeded by one designed by
the engineer-in-chief of the French
lighthouse service, to be located at
Ponmarck, Finisterre, and to be of
46,000,000 candle power. It is es
timated that this latter light will be
visible sixty milos in average weather,
twenty-five miles in foggy weather,
and 160 miles on a clear night when
projected against the sky, but this re
mains to be demonstrated.—-New York
Post.
Oddest or All Birds' Nests.
The oddest of all birds' nests is the
one built by the tontobane, a South
African songster. It is built of cotton,
and always upon the tree producing
the material. In constructing the
domicile the female works inside aud
tho male outside, where he builds a
sentinel box for his own special use.
He sits in the box and keeps watch or
sings nearly all the time, and wheu
danger comes in the form of a hawk
or a snake he warns the family, but
never entors the main nest. —Chicago
Herald.
A Michigan man put a notice over
one of his fields: "All parties are
warned and are forbidden not to play
ball 011 this land."
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
WASIIINO AND CLEANING GLOVES.
The so-called washing gloves are an
excellen, choice for utility purposes
all summer, as they can be cleaned
once and again by washing them in
water that is more than warm, but not
scalding hot, using a bit of pure white
soap in the process. It is best to wash
them upon the hands, as tho chamois
is less likely to shrink in drying. Wash
and then rinse in clear water, and dry
by rubbing with a Turkish or other
soft, rough towel. For kid gloves ol
light color, that are but slightly
soiled, but not stained, there is no
better mode of freshening than to wind
a bit of oiled silk around the finger,
rubbing vigorously to remove all
traces of tho mar. Any woman who
tests this easy way of cloaning kid
gloves will be sure to keep thereaftei
a strip of silk in her possession. A
quarter or even an eighth of a yard is
enough to purchase at once, as in
fancy dry goods houses, where it is
sold, it is kept moist in a large roll
and is thus very pliable. Moisten the
silk, however, when using.—Now York
Evening Post.
APRONS.
Much may be said of the indispens
able article known as apron, viewing
it from the ornamental as well as use
ful point. Tho scope of the latter is
great, including the housekeeper,
nurse, waitress, dressmaker and the
clerk, the various styles of each being
unique and pretty.
The housekeeper's apron is generally
of lawn, nainsook or dimity, of two
thirds length and trimmed with a hem
four inches deep, surmounted by
tucks. Feather stitching may be
added either in flax or cotton, or the
ready-made may be bought by the
piece of twelve yards. The belt may
bo feather stitched. A square pocket
laid in a double box-plait on the right
side is indispensable, and may be
finished by a dainty little bow of the
same material.
For the nurse and waitress, the
aprons are usually of lawn or cambric,
and the plainer the better. Both ais
sufficiently full to almost meet at the
back, and in length reach nearly tc
the bottom of the skirt. Sometime*
embroidery is put between the tucks
that surmount the hem.
Striped and chocked ginghams art
relegated to tho kitchen. These arc
made up in two breadths, simply
hemmed and with a belt and string ol
the goods. Those trimmed with h
bias baud of the goods are a little
more ornamental. Aprons of this
sort are excellent for wear when sew
ing. The sewing apron proper has
gored front and side pieces in one
piece style, the latter meeting at the
back after forming a curve below th
waist line, and fastening with on<
button. The waist or bib is fitted
with two darts and the gored sids
seam, with two long tabs passing to
tho back of the neck, where they but
ton. Tlio large pocket is placed at e
convenient distance for the hands io
the outer front, ancl stitched down the
middle to form two divisions.—Home
and Farm.
RECIPES.
Lobster Cutlets—Mince a pound of
lobster small (the canned may be
used), season with salt, white pepper,
two ouncos of melted butter, two
beaten eggs and enough fiuc, sifted
breadcrumbs to make it cling togeth
er. Shape in the form of cutlets; dip
in crumbs, then in egg and again in
crumbs, and fry in hot drippings.
These are very palatable with green
peas or tomato sauce.
Chopped Omelet and Egg—Have
your round steak chopped very fine
and freed from skin and siuews; sea
son with salt, cayenne aud minced
parsley and onion (a teaspoonfnl of
each of the two latter to a pound of
steak), add the beaten yolk of an egg,
and make into small fiat cakes. Fry
in drippings until cooked through aud
browned on both sides; pour over the
gravy, and crown each with a poached
egK-
Potato Omelet—Take a pint of cold
mashed potatoes and heat over the
fire with two tablespoonsful of sweet
cream, beating with a fork until
smooth and light. Add four beaten
eggs, pepper, salt and a little nutmeg,
and press through a sieve ; beat one
tablespoonful of butter iu a saucepan
and cook half of this mixture like an
omelet. It is delightful with bacon
or ham cut in thin rashers and fried
crisp.
Spanish Ragout—Fry in butter a
minced Spanish onion or an equal
amount of white onions; add a green
pepper minced fino without the seeds,
and sprinkle theso over six large to
matoes that have been 6lioedand fried.
Put a poached ogg for each person on
top aud pour around a cream sauce,
made by adding cream or milk thick
ened with flour to the butter, in the
pan in which the tomatoes were fried.
There is no more delightful hot-weath
er appetizer than this.
Shrimp Salad—Shrimp salad is a
useful and pretty dish. Sholl a suffi
cient quantity of freshly broiled
prawns, taking care to preserve the
coral, which put Bside for garnishing
presently. Pile up the prawns in the
centre of a dish, pour over them a
thick mayonnaise sauca in which a
sheet of gelatine has been dissolved.
This causes it to adhere better. Round
the base of tho pyramid, arrange a
ring of capers, next these a ring of
yolk of egg which has been rubbed
through a sieve, then a ring of
chopped white of egg. Garnish with
sprays of chervil aud sprinkle the top
of the pyramid with the coral.
Shrimp, lobster or remains of cold
aalmon can be utilized in this way.
The Princess of Wales has started
again the sensible fashion of wearing
the two-button glove for summer.
<"smm
Dresses are sold by weight in Japan.
Belva Lockwood is sixty-three years
old.
Tiny pocketbookß are now the prop
er caper.
Girton (England) College girls have
a bicycle club.
Mrs. Kate Myrick has been appoint
ed river observer at Girard, La.
There are 10,000 more women than
men in the District of Columbia.
Miss Laura Creighton has beon re
appointed State Librarian in lowa.
The plain swivel silks in light tints
are used for lining diaphanous toilets.
Snowflake crepon has a very attrac
tive sound for a midsummer fabric, as
it is.
Miss Balfour, sister of the English
Conservative leader, is now traveling
in Africa.
In Victoria, women have been sub
stituted for men at no fewer than 200
railway station.
The Chicago Woman's Club has ad
ded a woman suffrage section to its
other departments.
There are now 797 prisoners in the
Kansas State Prison, and of that num
ber fourteen are women.
Miss Wrllard and Lady Henry Som
erset are two celebrities in the Cat
skills, of New York, this season.
Many ladies find the ready-made
nifties quite too expensive, and there
fore buy taffeta silk and make their
own.
A young lady named Johnson is
sixth wrangler in t'.e senior mathe
matical class at Cambridge University,
England.
Of the 1100 persons who patronized
a fortune-teller in Chicago during the
progress of the World's Fair 920 were
women.
In England and Ireland women
writers number 660, while tho num
ber of men engaged in this kind of
work is 5111.
Royalties have, as a body, defective
eyesight. Princess Maud, of Wales,
is the only royal lady who wears a
single eyeglass.
Husband and wife as law partners
is something unknown in Great Brit
ain. There are no less than twenty
one such firms in the United States.
The grandmother of the German
Kaiser was, in early life, a musician
of marked ability, and , composed
many marches for the Prussian army.
The Association for the Advance
meat of Women will hold its next an
nual meeting in Atlanta, Ga.,with the
supplementary congress at Tuskegee.
There is a demand for tho old fash
ioned taffeta ribbon of our foremoth
ers. It is made in throe or four-inch
widths, and is used for skirt ruohings.
English papers say that Mrs. Hum
phrey Ward bus made SBO,OOO from
"David Grieve," SBO,OOO from "Mar
ceila," and SIO,OOO from ".Robert
Elsmere."
One of the ways of telling whether
the temperature is risiug it to watch
a girl's front hair. When it begins
to lose its curl and grow straight it is
a sure sign of a change of temperature.
Very lovely are the open fronted
Parisian tea gowns in Directoire style,
made of flowered taffeta or China silk,
and worn over petticoats and blouse
vests of white or yellow guipure lace.
Miss Mary Garrett of Baltimore,
Md., has founded a European fellow
ship scholarship, of a value of SSOO a
year, and five graduate scholarships,
worth S2OO a year, at Bryn Mawr
College, Pennsylvania.
The most heavily insured woman in
the United States is the widow of Sen
ator Hearst, or California. The poli
cies on her life aggregate $300,000.
Mrs. E. B. Crocker, of Elmira, N. Y. t
probably comes next with $150,000.
Mrs. Henry Irving is an Irish
woman, whcse maiden name, O'Calla
han, effectually proves it. She lives
very quietly in London with her two
sons on the SSOOO a year which her dis
tinguished actor-husband allows her.
An extreme style of the sailor hat
shows a brim of mottled brown and
white patent leather, and a white
crown of the same shiny material.
This mode is a trifle too outre to com
mend itself to women of fastidious
tastes. f
Miss Herbert, daughter of Secretory
Herbert, has been selected by the
Mount Vernon Ladies' Association as
Vico-Regeut for the State of Alabama,
which position was made vacant sever
al years ago by the death of her
mother.
Mrs. Willian Waldorf Astor wore at
the recent drawing room in London
the historic diamond coronet comb, of
whioh she has lately become possessed.
It is the one that Louis XIV. gave to
Mme. de Moutspan, and our wealthy
countrywoman, it is said, paid SIOO,-
000 for it.
It is said there are 2133 women
writers in Franoe. When thi was re
peated to the editor of a New York
magazine ho said he thought France
was in luck ; that there were not less
than two millions in the United
States and he had the manuscripts of
a million of them.
Mrs. James Miller of Stanton,
Minn., is a prosperous farmer and
business woman, and, in addition to
taking care of her farm, purchases
poultry and ships it to market. Dur
ing the last sixty days she has shipped
to Eastern markets 102,000 pounds of
poultry, and has paid out to the far
mers over S3OOO in cash therefor.
Mrs. Miller has been in business for
herself for the last fifteen years.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
There are 4500 species of bees.
A locomotive lasts fifteen years and
earns about $300,000.
The Earl of Dunmoro proposes to
cross Bering Strait on the ioo next
winter.
Steel barrels, made from sheet*
ranging in thickness from one-six
teenth to a quarter of an inch, are
ooming into uso.
Leuenhoek says that 4,000,000 webs
spun by young Bpiders when they first
begin to use the spinneret are not, if
twisted together, us great in diameter
us a hair from a human head.
The fibre of the nettle hemp is
claimed to be four or five times as
strong as silk and not inferior in lus
tre. The production of a nettle hemp
thread as fine as No. 100 is now re
ported.
No soience, unless it Vie that of the
! electrician, can boast such a wonder
ful growth in the pust quarter century
as that of bacteriology, which has de
veloped with romarkablo rapidity
since Pasteur made his initial investi
gation.
A company formed some time ago
for the purpose of constructing an
electric railway on the Jungfrau,
Switzerland, now propose to establish
a scientific observatory at the upper
end of the line, at a height of about
13,000 feet.
The latest theory concerning the
cause of the aurora borealis has been
deducted from a careful analysis of
that light thrown through a spectro
scope. This unique experiment clear
ly establishes the fact that it is caused
by an electrical discharge among the
particles of meteoric iron dust con
tained in the atmosphere.
Harvey Bejim, a medical student in
Ann Arbor, Mich., has succeeded in
joining two living dogs together, like
Siamese twins. It was done by graft
ing strips of flesh from one body to
the other and retaining them in posi
tion for forty days. When one dog
barks it appears to give his compauion
intense pain, and vice versa.
An English company is introducing
a new method of horticulture. Glass
houses are mounted on wheels running
on rails in such away that the houses
—with or without heating apparatus
—may bo moved in succession over
crops to be forced, protected or
ripened. It is claimed that tho work
of the hothouses can be greatly in
creased by this plan.
For the lighting of Antwerp the
novel plan is proposed of distributing
water from steam pumping stations at
a pressure of 775 pounds per square
inch, and using it at small district sta
tions for driving dynamos by means
of turbines. These stations would
supply local consumers through a low
pressure, two-wire circuit system.
The cost of coal per sixteen candle
power per hour is placed at only 2}
cents.
George Jimson, of Jimson's Grove,
Wis., astonished his father, mother
and seven guests by eating and swal
lowing in rapid succession thirty-one
spheres of what appeared to be thin
glass. Old Mr. Jimson was about to
send for a physician, when his son
showed that the spheres were merely
frozen bubbles of water, made after
Professor Dewar's method. The elder
Jimson was greatly relieved by the
discovery.
To Get Rid ol Flics.
Flies are the post and worry of all
tidy housekeepers, and how to rid a
room of them is an unsolved problem
to many. This is quite oasily accom
plished by taking advantage of the
flies' habit of flying to tho window or
place from which light is admitted,
and to accomplish this, darken all the
windows with a heavy shade, or any
material, outting a hole in one of the
shades, over which is firmly pinned a
sheet of the common transparent fly
paper, and, if possible, hnvo this
located at one of the east, south or
west windows, from which the most
light may be obtained. It will be but
a short time ere the flics in tho room
will be sticking to this paper in their
effort to be near tho light. This is
far easier and more cleanly than plac
ing paper about the room for them to
accidently light upon, or killing them
with poisoned liquid or pyrethrum
powder.—St. Louis Globc-Domocrat,
Engineers Fight,
A remarkable case is soon to bo
heard at Longtown. George Glen
denning, a stoker on tho North Brit
ish Railway, has summoned John
Blythe, an engine driver, for assault,
and Blythe has taken out a cross sum
mons for Glendcnning for a similar
offense. Tho two men were in clinrgo
of a passenger train to Carlisle. They
quareled, and while tho engine was
running at the rate of fifty miles an
hour they fought on tho foal plate.
Gleudonning asserts that Blythe
knocked him to tho engine floor and
battered his head against the lever.
On the other hand, Blythe maintains
that Glendenning was tho aggressor.
This new peril to the safety of passon
ger traffic is attracting much atten
tion, and people who write to the
newspapers aro suggesting various
means for the prevention of quarrels
betweon engine drivers and tho stok
ers.—New York Advertiser.
The Bacillus ot the Influenza,
The microbe of tho "grip," other
wise the "influenza bacillus," was
discovered by Dr. Canon, of Vienna,
who first detected it in the blood of
one of his patients. It is a curiously
shaped organism, mnny times smaller
than the microbe of any other known
germ disease, and was only revealed
to the human eye by iming a micro
scope with a magnifying ~ower of
1000 diameters. —St. Louis Republic.