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Official steps havo just been taken,
without opposition, to abolish tho
only remaining toll road in Connecti
cut, the Derby turnpike. The com
pany was chartered about ono hun
dred years ago.
It is said that Thomas A. Edison
has been the subject of more biogra
phies than any other living man. Tho
latest, entitled "Tho Life and Inven
tions of Thomas Alva Edison," has j
just been issued by an English firm.
Sixty-three years ago Daniel Web
ster hail Isaac Barrett appointed a
pago in tho United States Senate.
Fifty-two years ago the special posi
tion of doorkeeper was created for
him, and he has held it since. He
now has the distinction of having been
in the service of this Government
longer than any man living.
Expert Moore estimates that it will
require about 89,000,000 per year for
the next five yeai3 for the physical
needs of the Atchison railroad system.
This amount is considered moilernte,
as it amounts to less than 81000 per
mile and includes many extraordinary
expenses, such as replacing wooden
with iron bridges, and contemplates
putting and keeping the road up to
the highest standard.
A Las Vegas (Now Mexico) news
paper oalls the attention of patriotio
New Mexicans to tho fact that Arizona
has 119 inmates in its State insane
asylum,while New Mexico, with nearly
three times tho population of Arizona,
has only fifty in its asylum. Further,
Arizona's insane population has in
creased thirty per cent, in the last
eighteen months. The newspapor
urges that "the next Legislature
should remedy this crying defect."
The Ohioago Record states that in a
very ablo and scholarly addross de
livered before the Kansas Irrigation
Association Judge J. S. Emery, of the
National Irrigation Society, put for
ward some faots of vital interest not
only to the inhabitants of arid States,
but to the whole Nation. It will
doubtless be a surprise to most read
ers to learn that that portion of
America which may be considered as
practically arid and unproductive is
nearly half as big as nil
States, save Alaska. Judge Emery
vouches for this fact and also for the
other fact, sustained by tho opinions
of expert geologists, that of this enor
mous area 100,000,000 acres can be re
claimed by tho use of proper methods
of irrigation.
The annual of Governor
Renfrew, of Oklahoma, furnishes an
interesting picture of tho wholly
unique American way of colonizing
and State building, according to which
new commonwealths grow up into the
Union as naturally as a younger child
is born into a family, on equal tonus
with the rest from the beginning.
Oklahoma, it is true, is not yet a State,
but it is getting ready to become one.
As the Governor remarks, at the orig
inal opening of Oklahoma proper the
world beheld the strange spectacle of
a city of 10,000 inhabitants built in u
day, and a Territory of 9400 square
miles settled in half a day. That was
four years ago. Its present popula
tion is given as 250,000, and tho value
of its property as $20,000,000. Noth
ing thero was begun moro promptly
than provision for churches and schools.
Already thero is a school house conven
ient to every family, a Territorial uni
versity, a Normal School and an agri
cultural and mechanical college. As
for churches, thero are ninety-five
Baptist, fifty-five Congregational, for
ty two Methodist, thirty-one Presby
terian, twonty-four Catholic, and so
on. Afi to Statehood, some desiro to
have Oklahoma admitted at once;
others would wait a little, hoping that
Indian Territory may yet be joined
with Oklahoma, both muking one great
State, in which case, says the Govern
or, "it would be equal to tho greatest
and, in my opinion, tho finest State
west of the Mississippi."
THE RIDDLE OF WRECK.
Dark hemlocks, seventy and seven,
High on tho hlll-slopo sigh In dream,
With plumy heads In heaven ;
They silver tho sunbonm.
One broken body of a tree,
Stabbed through and slashed by lightning
keen,
Cnsouled and grim to see,
Hangs o'er tho hushed ravine.
\ hundred masts, a hundred more,
Crowd clo9o against tho sunset llrcs.
Their late adventure o'or.
They minglo with tho spires.
Cut ono Is lying prone, alone,
Where gleaming gulls to seaward sweep,
White sand of burial blowu
In sheets about its sleep.
When lightning's loashed and soa is still,
Ye sacrificial mysterios dread,
Scapegoats of shore and hill,
I Your riddle may bo read.
IDlen Gray Cone, in tho Century.
LOVE IN A SNOWSTORM.
BY M. BABIXGTOX BAYLEY.
SUE was a little
Puritan maiden,
with honest gray
eyes and a sweet,
bashful face. Her
Aft . parents called her
/rLrff- vk-'i') r Dorothy; her
1 friends, Dolly.
WI&Z AV'l. lu bad been
W~y 'wouglit up very
strictly, and it
WiSTH-™ ■ .1 W " H not wi H ou t
(*j misgivings that
bor family allowed
her to visit her rieh unele and aunt in
in London, but they could not well
refuse the invitation.
Dolly had been in London only one
short week, aud she was bewitched
with everything sho saw. She loved
her unele and aunt, both of whom dis
played strong affections ior her, and
indulged her in a freedom she had
never tasted before. She was delight
ed with tho substantial old house, with
its largo rooms, big fireplaces and
comfortable furniture. More than all,
she admired Loudon itself. The busy
streets, with their palatial shops; the
colossal buildings—St. Paul's, the
Abbey, the Houses of Parliament, the
broad, quiet squares, which seemed to
have been dropped down at random
among the wilderness of houses; the
gay restaurants and tho brilliant, fas
cinating theatres. Sho particularly
liked it at night, when illumined by
countless lights, whose reflections
glittered on the pavement; and when
the black darkness of the sky, unac
companied by the deathly silence that
it brought in tho country, seemed
rather to enhauce the noise aud bustle
of the prodigal streets. There was
something romantic about it all. It
thrilled her, sho knew not why. Her
heart heat faster, her pulse bounded
moro quickly. She feit more alivo
than she had ever felt before.
There was another source of pleas
ure. Never before had she been
thrown into the company of so en
gaging a young gentleman as her
cousin Tom, the only child of her
uncle and aunt. He was Dolly's sen
ior by some half dozen years. Had
Dolly's parents sUßpected what man
ner of young man he was, they would
have made a special journey to Lon
don to bring their daughter home.
Fortunately, they were ignorant.
There was nothing really bad about
tho lad. He had a very good heart,
but he wanted steadying a little. Ho
was exactly the sort of dashing, reck
less, freehanded young Englishman
that a handsome, manly fellow be
comes when placed in circumstances
of wealth and freedom. The first time
he saw his cousin Dolly ho decided
that she was a very pretty girl, but
shy, and that it would bo worth while
to draw her out.
Ho found it not cosy; and that, not
withstanding tho fact, hd he known
it, that there was in Dolly's heart an
intense -willingness to be drawn out by
cousin Tom. Rut that shyness of
of hers B was a fashionable barrier.
She could not chatter 1 tho thing was
impossible. Her silence had been in
bred so long that it had become part
of her anatomical structure; and Tom,
in spite of all his convesrational tal
ents and social polish, frequently
found himself reduced by it to a cor
responding state. On the other hand,
if Dolly could not speak, she could
look. Sho had extremely eloquent
oyes ; eyes that spoke far more than
her lips. Tom soon began to watch
those eyes and to love them. He no
longer attempted to make his cousin
talk; her eyes rendered conversation
unnecessary.
One afternoon, in tho first week of
January, ho sauntered into his moth
er's sitting room, and there discov
ered Dolly, sitting, liko tho historic
Miss Muffit, on a buffet in front of the
fire. Her fingers wero busy with
some crochet work. Tom drew a chair
to the fire.
"Are you going out to-night,
Dolly?"
She lilted her eyes from her needle.
"Not to-night."
"Not. Are you sorry?"
"No."
"I supposo yonr'o getting rather
tired of it. You've been out pletty
nearly every night lately, haven't
yon?"
"Yes. I'm not tired of it, though;
I liko it. But auntie and I are going
to have a quiet evening to-night, and
I shall like that just as well."
There was a pauso.
"Are you sure you will liko it just
as well?"
"I beg your pardon?" said Dolly.
Ho injured on his chair. "Well,"
he said, "I want you to come out
with mo to-night, if you will."
Sho looked at him in amazement.
"Out with you? Why, where'to?"
"The theatre," he responded.
l'leasure shone in her face. She
gasped with delight. "Oh, you are
kind! But do you think auntie wili
allow mo?"
"I'll ask her," said naughty Tom.
It was really very wrong of him, for
Dolly's parents would have been scan
dalized at tho idea of their daughter
being seen in a theatre. However,
they were not there to see it. It nevor
occurred to Dolly that it could be
wrong for her to go after Tom had
proposed it, and so, as Tom's parents
raised no objections, they started in
due course. Tho only condition im
posed on thorn (and the sequel proved
it a sound one) was to wrap up well,
which they did.
llow Dolly enjoyed the performance
it is unnecessary to relate in detail.
She did enjoy it immensely ; and she
frequently turned to Tom and thanked
him so earnestly for his kindness in
having brought her that Tom began
to feel the ecstasy that follows virtu
ous conduct. Her enjoyment robbed
her, for the first time, of her shyness.
Her face glowed with an unusual ani
mation. There was a color in her
cheeks and a sparkle in her eyes that
had not been there before. When a
shy maiden does wake up to anima
tion she is ten times more dangerous
ly attractive than her vivacious sis
ters, who sparkle all day long. Tom
thought his cousin's face more
seductively sweet than he had imag
ined it could bo. Ho warmed toward
her. Ho no longer wanted to draw
her out, to flirt with her. He was in
love now, all tho way.
They made no haste out of the the
atre, with tho result that, when they
reached the street, there was not an
available hansom.
"We'd better walk on a bit," said
Tom. "We shall como to ouo pres
ently."
There had been a heavy fall of snow
during the performance, and the pave
ment of tho Strand was all slushy and
sloppy.
"It's rather unpleasant under foot,
Dolly," said Tom. "You'd better tako
my arm."
She did as she was bid, and imme
diately experienced a curious sense of
being owned. It seemed to her that
sho belonged to her cousin. While,
as for Tom, the soft touch of those
small, gloved fingers on his coat sleeve
gave him more pleasure than all his
previous flirtations rolled into one.
When they came to Trafalgar Square
Dolly gave a little screum of delight.
"Oh," she cried, "how pretty 1"
It was pretty. The whole square—
fountains, statues, and all, wherever
the snow could find n lodging—lay
draped in white. The portions that
were free from snow looked doubly
black by contrast. It was a study in
white, with just a little black to help
it out. Overhead fleecy clouds scudded
rapidly, nnd a full, brightmoon stared
down at the glittering panorama. The
square was as light as day.
"Oh, how beautiful 1 I didn't think
London could look so lovely 1"
Tom looked at the speaker, and
thought her lovelier than the scene
she admired.
"Yes," ho said, with his eyes on her
face, "it is beautiful, very beautiful
indeed."
"Oh," said Dolly, "let us walk
home. We don't want to tako a cab
on a lovely night like this. I wouldn't
miss the walk for the world. It isn't
far, really, is it?"
"About a mile," said Tom.
"Only a mile. Oh, that is nothing.
Let us walk. Shall we?"
"Decidedly, if you wish it. You'd
better take my arm again," for in her
rapturous admiration she had slipped
her hand loose, "the streets are slip
pery."
They walked on for three or four
minutes. Suddenly Dolly's foot
slipped. Tom, with remarkable pres
ence of mind, prevented her from fall
ing by putting his arm round her
waist. That was a new experience for
Dolly. It had never happened before,
ami she was overcome by tho strange
ness of jt, Sho didn't say anything,
but she blushed, and her face looked
exquisitely pretty. I don't think Tom
wns to bo blamed very much for bend
ing down and kissing it. He should
not havo done it, of courso; it was
wrong; but the temptation was con
siderable. Dolly released herself in
dignantly, pushing him from her,
Thoy walked a short distance in awk
ward silence.
"Dolly, aro you angry with me?"
No reply.
"Dolly"—very humbly—"l'm aw
fully sorry ; but you looked so pretty
that I couldn't help it."
Still a severe silence.
"Won't you forgive mo, Dolly?"
Tho gray eyes wore fixed on the
ground, and the pretty lips were
pressed firmly together. Ho caught
her fingers. She triod to pull them
away, but it wns useless.
"Won't you forgive me, Dolly?" he
said again.
Sho found her voice at length.
"I wish you wouldn't make me say
things. Of course, I forgive you, but
—you oughtn't to havo done it."
"I am really very sorry, Dolly," he
said, repentantly.
Then the snow came down.
There was no mistake about it,
either ; it did come down, with a ven
geance. The flakes wero nearly as
large as a man's hand, and the sky
was full of them.
"Dolly," Buiil Tom, firmly, "you
mußt take my nrm anil hold it tightly.
Wo am going to catch it."
She took his arm, and ho hurried
hor along as fast as he could. It was
no uso. The snow pelted their faces
so severely than in less two minutes
they were nearlyj numbed with the
cold.
"We must shelter somewhere till
the violence of the storm is spent,"
said Tom. Ho looked about him for
a convenient doorway. Fortunately,
there was one near. Ho placed Dolly
inside it, so that the snow could not
get to her, and stationed himself at
her side.
"Are you cold, Dolly?" lie said.
"Not very, thank you," she replied.
"Are you?"
"1? Oh! it doesn't matter about
me, dear. You ere the important
member of this small community.
Are you sure you arc not cold? Will
you have my muffler?"
He commenced to take it off.
"No, indeed!" exclaimed Dolly,
preventing him. "Do you think I
would take it from you? But it was
kind of you to offer it—very kind I
You arc kind to me."
"Kind !" said Tom, warmly. "Who
could help being kind?"
lie pressed more closoly to her.
Outside the BUOW was descending
heavily.
"Dolly," said Tom, speaking low,
"have you quite forgiven me?"
She smiled, but did not say any
thing. His arm stole round her
again. She made no effort to repulse
it. Ho looked at her face. The cold
had turned it a dead white, but it was
beginning to glow again, and he
thought it had never looked prettier.
"Dolly," ho whispered, "I love
you."
Her heart bounded. He loved her !
Oh! the blissful thought!
"Dolly," ho whispered again,
"could you cure for me ever so lit
tle ?"
"Yes," she murmured.
Their eyes, and then their lips, met.
After that I don't think either of them
minded the cold much.
They were prisoned in that sancti
fied doorway an hour before the snow
abated, and then it took them another
twenty minutes to get home. They
were received with rejoicings.
"We thought you had got lost,"
said the master of the house.
Dolly ran straight into her aunt's
urriis, and burst into a lit of sobbing.
"My poor child!" said tho lady, ca
ressing her, "you aro overwrought;
and no wonder. Tom, you haven't
tuken proper euro of her."
"Oh ! but he has," said Dolly, smil
ing through her tears. "It isn't
that."
"She has promised to be my wife!"
said Tom.
The rest isn't worth telling.
A Useful Python.
Once, while passing through a Dutch
farm, writes the author of "Three
Yeurs With Lo Bcnguln," in Africa, I
went up to tho house to buy some
eggs; standiug iu front of tho door
was a largo barrel, and while passing
I carelessly tilted it up to see what
was inside, but promptly let it down
agnin, as there was a big python un
derneath. The Dutchman told me ho
had shot at tho snake some months
previously, and a few grains entering
the head, the reptile appeared to be
come stupefied nud unable to move
quickly. He then dragged it home,
aud extracted the fangs, and it gradu
ally became tame. The pythou, which
measured sixteen feet, was allowed to
crawl about the place at night, never
attempting to get away or do any dam
age ; in fact, they found it useful lor
killing rats and vermin. By day it
was kept under the barrel. The chil
dren fed tho snake, aud played with
it. I saw one of the little Dutch boys
drag it out, and pour two bottles of
milk down its throat, and then givo it
six eggs, wlrchit swallowed. When
they teased the python, it made a hiss
ing noise unit reared up on its tail;
they wero not a bit frightened, and
would catch hold of it by tho head,
and drag it along tho ground over
their shoulders.
Use!illness ot Diamonds.
Diamond powder aud chips, and
even the finest dust, are of great value
in tho mechanical arts. Braziliau
diamonds aro now put to a novel and
interesting use. A thin disk of steel,
seven feet in diameter, lias spaces at
intervals of about ouo and one-half
inches. These sjiacos aro tilled in with
pieces of steel that exactly lit, aud
iato these are set tho diamonds fixed
in countersunk screw-lieads. They
aro arranged in groups of eight, and
are so placed that they do nob follow
0110 exactly after the other in the cut,
but each line takes its own course.
This circular saw is used for cutting
up blocks of stone, and so efficient is
it that in less than two and one-half
years it has to cut out four hundred
and twenty thousand square feet of
stone, at a cost of a trifle less than
two cents a square foot. In this time
it has been necessary to renew twenty
of the teeth, the average cost of wliicli
has been about two dollars per tooth.
—Tlie Ledger.
Rules lor Gum Chewing.
The visible working of tho jaws in
chewing gum is' not a pleasant sight,
and that it exasperates sensitive peo
ple beyond measure is not unnatural.
A Buffalo coachman lost a good posi
tion tho other day because ho would
persist in chewing gum on tho box
while driving. The severest criticism
levelled at certain regiments of tho
Massachusetts National Guard at a
recent inspection was that many pri
vates and some officers chewed gum
on parade. Tho only persons who
really ought to bo allowed to chew
gum are policemen, on night service
only, and members of football teams
in actual coullict.---Buffalo Commer
cial.
An Eye to Business.
''A proposal having been mado in
London that boxes should bo erected
iu public thoroughfares for the recep
tion of orange-peel and matches, re
calls tho story told of a young gentle
man of excellent principles walking
with an omineut surgeon. As they
neared his house, the lad kicked away
a piece of orauge-peel that lay on tho
pavement into the road. The sur
geon said, "My dear boy, what aro
you about?" aud replaced it exactly
opposite his own door.—Afgonaut.
THE ART OF SAW MAKING
IIOY/ AN AMERICAN TOOL HUM
BLED A TOLEDO ELADE.
The Fine Points of a Good Handsaw
—Tempering Is a Mysterious Pro
cess—The Hand Saw.
SOME of thoso swords of the
middle ages and tho crusades
aro still in tho museums of
Europe, and tho modern steel
makers who have examined them with
professional criticism, while admiring
their beautiful workmauship and ex
quisite art, unhesitatingly say that
uone of them can compare with tho
6teel made to-day.
An American manufacturer of tool
steel declared that an American hand
saw was made of stronger, tougher
and better steel than a famous Toledo
blade exhibited in France. Ho proved
his assertion, for a sword made of tho
samo steel from which tho saw was
made stood tho test to which both
swords were subjected, and then cut
the Toledo blade in two without nick
ing tho edge of tho American sword.
A good handsaw must of necessity
be made of good steel. Its temper
must be such that tho thin saw-blade
must spring in an even curve from
point to butt when it is bent. It
must be elastic without being brittle,
tough without softness, and the steel
must bo of an even temper. From
good, honest steel alone can such vir
tues spring, and when a carpenter has
such a saw, polished to a silver luster,
rightly "hung," well ".set," with tho
handle properly litted to his hand, ho
has a treasure.
Tho making of saws, from the tiny
scroll saw blade to tho long pit saw,
from the diminutive buzz saw of the
dentist to tho seventy-iucli circular
used to slice up tho redwood of Cali
fornia, requires tho best of raw ma
terial aud the most skillful and expert
of steel-workers.
The best Swedish and American
irons only are put in the melting pots
to mako the steel, and powerful steam
hammers work tho ingots before they
are roiled into plates, sheets and flat
bars. The largest saw works iu the
world are near Philadelphia.
The high perfection attainod in the
metal-workers' art is not in evidence
until tho saw blade or disk, after beiug
cut to shape and having the teeth cut,
reaches tho tempering and hardening
stage. Tho steel making, tho "cog
ging" of the ingots under the steam
hammering and the rolling mill are
interesting, and so is the great shears
which cuts aud shapes the saw blades
aud circular plates for buzz saws. The
teeth-cutting machine is an attractive
piece of mechanism, but tho harden
ing and tempering are done by men,
each one uu expert, a master of his
art.
When the saw blade roachos this
department it is soft. When bent it
is slow to return to its original shape,
and if bent beyond its elastic limit it
remains bent. To make u saw of it
tho blade must bo tempered, an 1 each
variety of saw must have a different
temper. Tho circular saw which is to
go through pine logs must have a
toughness, hardness and stiffness dif
ferent from the saw which is to cut
up steel rails into thirty-foot lengths
in a roliing-mill. Still, tho process,
the simple manipulation of the blade
and disk is about the same. The de
sired results are secured by a varia
tion in tempcraturos in the hardening
and annealing furnaces, the time in
which tho blades are kept in the fur
naces, the composition and tempera
tures of the tempering baths.
Tho blades are first hardeued by be
ing heated and then suddenly cooled.
Tho greatest euro must be exercised
in dipping tho heated blado in the
water, for if one side cools quicker
than tho other the unequal teusiou
distorts tho blado and it is warped.
Tho larger the saw the more diflicult
is tho process.
Tho workman poises tho blade ovor
tho bath, watching it keenly. Tho
lilm of oxide on tho steel changes color
as it cools, aud when tho proper tiut
glistens in tho blade it is plunged hiss
ing into tho water. When it is cold tho
blailo is hard, but its toughness has
disappeared, for it is as brittlo as
glass. A hammer blow will shatter
tho steel to bits, lor all its molecules
aro in a state of extreme tension,
ready to fly apart 011 the slightest
provocation. To restore tho tough
ness, tho essential elasticity, tho
temper must bo "drawn," so the blade
must bo heated again.
Here the mysterious art of tem
pering is seen at its best. The work
man gives tho steel just tho right
amount of heat, and then withdraws
the blado from tho furuaco. Again
ho watches tho chamoleon-liko oxide
or skiii; it changes and blonds from
ouo color to another, sometimes a
pigoou's egg blue, an amber, a straw,
a yellow or a deop-bluo color. Wheu
tho proper color appears tho blado is
dipped iu tho cooling bath, oil or
water or some socret mixture, an I it
is ready for auothor set ot experts,
tho men who handlo tho cold blado to
tho proper thicknoss. This in itself
is a sovere tost of tho temper, and a
saw blado which successfully passos
through this departmont not ouly re
ceives that "tension" which tho ham
mering gives it, but can bo guaran
teed, so far as tho temper is concerned.
Tho hammering makos tho blado or
disk truo, perfectly flat aud of uni
form texturo. Up to this point tho
blado has been of the same thickness,
but in a saw the tootliod edgo must bo
thicker than tho middle aud back of
tho saw or tho saw would liavo no
clearance and would stick in tho wood.
Tho smiths hammer tho blado thinner
back of the teeth and this gives tho
saw that stiffness and tension which
uro all-impoitaut.
The blado passes from this depart
ment to tho polishing-rooms, where it
is ground absolutely even and highly
polished. Muchiucrv lias to u great
extent taken the place of manual la
bor in grinding and polishing saws.
When the saws are polished they are
placed in a machine which automati
ca ly sharpen tho teeth. Then the
handles are fitted on and tho laws aro
tested and packed.
In some circular saws tho teeth aro
inserted instead of being cut in tho
disk. The teeth with their holders
are fastenod in tho rim of the disk so
that they will not fly out when tho
saw is zipping through a log with its
edge racing 10,000 feet a minute.
Yet, when dull, tho teeth can be easily
removed and new ones inserted at tho
saw-mill. To the unobservant all saw
teeth are alike, but tho saw-maker
knows teeth as chisel, solid, beveled,
gullet, diamond, hook, lancet and
scores of others. If a rip-saw is ex
amined it will be seen that the teeth
are the largest at the handle, gradually
diminishing in size toward tho tip.
Yet, to such perfection has Raw-mak
ing machinery been brought, a ma
chine will take a blank blade, and, be
ginning with large teeth at the butt,
will bito out tho teeth in uniformly
decreasing size to the tip. The strip
of steel, sometimes eight inches wide
and fifty feet long, which makes a
band saw, has its teeth cut by ma
chinery. Tho strip is fed into the
machine ; after each bite it moves along
a certain distance and tho inachino
bites again. Band saws are gradually
superseding circular saws in saw
mills, for on largo logs two circular
saws aro required, one at the botton
and the other for tho top, and some
times tho saws getting a trifle out of
alignment, do not track, and damaged
lumber results.
Tho band saw is an endless-tooth
stoel belt running at a high speed
over a wheel above tho log and under
a similar wheel beneath tho log. With
it the largest logs can bo sliced up
into boards, and, as tho baud saw is
thinner than the circular saw, the loss
of lumber in sawdust is less and more
can be obtained from the log.—Chi
cago He cord.
WISE WORDS.
You can't tell what a woman means
by what she says.
We can tell you what you like best:
whatever you have the least of.
Time heals all troubles save one, and
that it makes worse: growing old.
A man with a pint of importance or
dinarily has u quart on election day.
It must bo mighty louesomo to he a
woman and wait for an ideal husband.
Many a man is compelled to stand
punishment who never tought a prize
fight.
No man who dobuts tho worthiness ol
his principles can be bravo in theii
defense.
It is hard to believe that a sin will
bite when it comes ulong with gold in
its teeth.
The scholar has no place in politics
if ho has no money wherewith to buy
influence.
Don't allow yourself to be hoodooed
, into tho belief that life is only a pre
tentious strut.
If you really love what you beliovo
to he a duty, oppositou only makes
you stronger.
Nearly any man will sign any peti
tion, or give a letter of recommenda
tion to anybody.
It is a good maxim to forgive many
offenses of others before you fully ex
culpate yourself.
The man who is so straight that ho
| leaus backwards looks worse thau tho
fellow that stoops.
The best stimulant toward right po
litical action is a healthy interest iu
what is to bo done.
To make a well-roundod citizon the
moral sensibilities must bo oue with
tho mental faculties.
It is worth remembering that Gov
ernments as well as individuals have
rights of self-defeuse.
What aro you doing to mako it
easier to do right and harder to do
wrong in your own town?
A man who is always boasting oi
what he has douo is not nl ways the
boldest in tho honr of danger.
The L router New York.
Some of the larger cities that aro to
bo distanced by Greater New York aro
content to boast of their acreage. Chi
oago has the biggest municipal acre
age in tho country, covering over 100
square miles, while New York covers
only about forty. Some idea of the
eardiue civili/.atiou of New York can
be had by reflecting that it covers but
little more ground than Boston. What
is still more astonishiug is that when
the Greater New York comes to covei
oIS square miles it will still be more
densely settled than Chicago. We
fancy Boston to bo a very crowded
city, with 18.5 persons to thi acre.
New York has over 58 persons to tho
acre, and Chicago, witli all her boast
ing, has but 10.7 to tho acre. If wo
are to estimate population by tho
aero it greatly disturbs all previous
calculations. When tho greater me
tropolis is completed it will still have
more peoplo to the acre than London.
—Boston Gazette.
The Yosemite Park Threatened.
Galen Clark, tho guardian of tho
Yosemite Valley, iu his report recom
mends that much of the underbrush
in the valley ho cleared out. Ho de
clares that tho Indians by their an
nual burning over of the valley kept
down this youug growth, wiiioh is
now a hindrance to tourists and an
obstruction to clear views. Mr. Clark
declares that thero is serious danger
from fire, both iu the valley and iu
tho Mariposa big treo grove. Two
hotels will be open next year in tho
valley, the Stonemau an 1 the Senti
nel. Upon tho latter improvements
have been raado amounting to ,-
UUo.—New York Tribune.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Dews aro less abundant on islands
and on ships in midocoau.
Darwin declared that insanity is
not peculiar to human beings. lie as
serted that animals often become in
sane.
Tho earliest known attempt at an
explanation of tho rainbow was made
by Aristotle. It was along tho lino of
modern scientific investigation.
Many physiologists believe that in
sanity is a return to the habits of tho
wholly undeveloped man. Professor
Freeman writos that at difforont peri
ods of insanity tho action of tho un
fortunate patient becomes "horribly
monkey-like."
Milk should be kept at a distance
from every volatilo substance, and
milk which has stood in sick chambers
should never be drunk. The power
of milk to disguiso tho taste of drugs
—as potassium, iodide, opium, salicy
late, etc. —is well known.
The depths to which the sun's rays
penetrato water has recently been de
termined by the aid of photography.
It has been tound that at a depth of
553 feet the darkness was to all in
tents and purposes the same us that
on a clear but mooiiless night.
Tho Canadian authorities have de
cided to test all cattle imported into
the Dominion with tho Koch tuber
culino lymph. "If any animal is
found to be affected with tuberculosis
the owner will have tho alternative of
taking it back to the place whonco it.
came, or having it slaughtered with
out compensation."
As far as is known swallows' mi
gratory flights are always carried on
by day. The fact that, though warb
lers and other migrants aro constantly
found dead around lighthouses, hav
ing dashed themsolves against tho
windows of tho lanterns, swallows
have never been known to meet their
fate in this way, furnishes strong
presumptive evidence of this peculiar
ity of the swallow tribe.
Tho habit of feigning death when
attacked is widespread among animals,
and Angus Gaines has found it in the
microscopic insect which produces the
itch. When he touched an itch in
sect with tho point of a needle it
feigned death, remaining perfectly
still for some time. This it did re
peatedly. The same habit of "pos
suming" has been found to character
ize several varieties of snakes.
A medical paper reports cases from
Philadelphia hospitals where men who
have recovered from electric shocks
of upward of a thousand volts "felt
no pain whatever." As in tho reports
of several of theso casos it is said that
the subjects moaned and writhed be
fore recovering consciousness, it
would Beom to be more accurate to
say that they did uot recall their suf
ferings at the time they made tho
statement to their physiciun.
The Last ot Her Tribe#
The last survivor of the Delaware
Indians, who formerly owned all of
the lauds in this section of New Jersoy,
died a duy or two ago in her humblo
cottage in Southampton township, N.
J., and was buried from tho little
Methodist chapel at Tabernacle. Her
name was Anu Roberts, and she was
the widow of John Roberts, a mulatto,
who died a number of years ago.
They had several children, some of
whom are still liviug. A picturesque
figure she was as she stood
erect in front of her cabin with her
loDg black hair streaming over her
shoulders, and tho neighbors all had
u wholesome respect for her. She
was nearly six feet in height, very
muscular, and despite her years—she
was past ninety—could do a day's
chopping in tho woods with almost
any of tho men in tho neighborhood.
Tho houso she lived iu was bought
with eoino pension money she had
secured on account ol' the death of
one of her SDUS iu the war. Somehow
sho managed to pick up a living for
herself until her last illness, when tho
neighbors kindly supplied her wants
until tho end came, when they gave
her a Christian burial.
"Indian Ann," as she was eallod,
was tho last survivor of the E Ige
pillock Indians, a branch of the Dola
wares. They wero assigned to a
reservation in Shamoiig township in
1757, where they remained for a long
time prosperous aud happy. Then
they were removed to another tract
of laud in Oneida County, New York.
Indian Ann's parents accompanied
them, but soon became weary and
returned to Burlington County, where
they lived in a cabin on the Woolmau
farm, near Mount Holly, until their
death, which occurred some time iu
tho fifties.—Philadelphia Ledger.
Wanton Destruction ol (btine.
Our attention has recently boon
arrested by a recent invention which
is a menace to wild water game, aud
an outrage ou tho sentiment and prac
tice of all true sportsmen. A recently
devised pneumatic boat has for its
upper portion simply a circular rub
ber float, arranged into water-tight
compartments, easily inflated with air.
Attached to this on the under side is u
pair of rubber wadiug boots. Tho
operation is very easy. Tho boatman
legs into tho wading boots,
inflates his boat with air, propels him
self with his feet; his body being con
cealed in his boat, which is covered
with loose sea weed, he can easily ap
proach and mingle with the unsuspect
ing water fowl to his profit and their
destruction. Wo do not know whou
wo havo hoard of a more piratical rna
chiuo for tho extermination of our
wild game. Some gunners will un
doubtedly use it, but the true sports
man never will. It might be woll to
mako a target of this pirate boat and
its vandal occupant whenever it makes
its appearance on tho water. —Atlanta
Constitution.