Attorney-General McCormick, of
Pennsylvania, has decided that life in
surance policies are not taxable, as
claimed.
It is estimated that the cost of car
rying ripe beeves from Australia to
London is about S7O per head. Tho
cost for sheep is $6.
The French Minister of Foreign Af
fairs has formally announced that
there is no French protectorate of
Madagascar, but that Franco has taken
possession of that country.
The gift of $1,000,000 to tho Chi
cago University by Miss Helen Culver,
of Chicago, is the largest single gift
that university has received, always
excepting tho princely gifts of Mr.
Rockefeller. This gift assures a further
conditional gift of a million from Mr.
Rockefeller. It will go to science.
The Baltimore Manufacturers' Rec
ord says: "Florida furnishes the
country from 3,000,000 to 1,000,000
boxes of oranges a year. Georgia
ships over 10,000 carloads of water
melons every year. In the aggregate,
the shipment of early fruits and vege
tables North and West probably
amounts to $50,000,000 a year. This
business is increasing very rapidly.
Ten years ago it was of trifling im
portance."
Methodist ministers in Chicago are
still discussing tho caso of the young
divine who claims that ho "uncon
sciously assimilated" the sermon of
Dr. Abbott which ho preached a few
Sundays ago, and which unfeeling
people accused him of stealing. Ono
of the other ministers declared that
his defense of "unconscious assimila
lation" might be all right, but that if
he had it that bad he might uncon
sciously assimilate tho clothes off n
clothes lime somo dark night.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe is well in
formed on the subject of the Turkish
massacre of Christians in modern
times, and writes to a Boston papei
giving the figures collected by her
husband and herself. During her own
lifetime nearly one hundred thousand
Christians have been murdered byithe
Turks. In 1822 a Turkish army killed
23,000 Greek Christians on the Island
of Chios and sold into slavery 47,000.
This is the largest single item, but, as
a matter of fact, the slaughter has
been almost continuous.
As Thomas P. Wood, a resident of
Brooklyn, was classing Park row, New
York City, on crutches one day in
March, 1891, one of his crutches
caught in a small hole in one of the
manhole covers used by tho Third
Avenue Cable Railroad Company. He
fell and was severely injured. Ho
sued the company in the Supremo
Court in Brooklyn and recovered a
verdict of S2OOO, which the 1 rial judge
set aside on the ground that tho com
pany loubl not bo held liable for such
accidents. The case was appealed,
and the general term reversed tho rul
ing and directed tho recovery of the
veidict. Jqstice Pratt, who writes tho
decision, holds that tho public high
way is made for people on crutches as
well as others, and that if a railroad
company leaves a holo in tho street
largo enough to admit the point of a
crutch and thereby injury is occa
sioned to a person on crutches it is li
able for such injuries.
How far can the human voice bo
heard, asks tho Washington Path
finder.' It all depends on tho condi
tions. If we had a pneumatic tubo
trom hero to London, perfectly
smooth inside, it is probablo our
"smart set" could acquire the correct
Bow Bells cockney dialect *at first
bunds without ever going abroad for
it. A man's voice calliug "Bob" was
recently heard for a distance of eight
een miles, through tho Grand Canyon
of the Colorado. Tho walls of the
deep gorge confine tho sound waves
like a closed tube. Lieutenant Foster
reports that, when in tho Arctic re
gions, he conversed with man at tho
distance of 6696 feet, or about a mile
and a quarter. It is recorded that at
Gibraltar tho human voice has been
heard ten miles. When thero are no
trees, hills or other obstructions to
difiuso the sound, as in tho Arctic re
gions or on the water, tho voice, of
course, has a good opportunity to bo
transmitted afar. In water it i 3 prob
able sounds might be still farther
heard. Colladon, by experiments in
Lake Geneva, estimated that a bell
rung under water at sea could bo
heard sixty miles. Every boy knows
that when his head is uuder water, two
stones cracked together by another
boy make a sound that is painfully
acute. Fraukliu found that he could
hear this sound under water for a dis
tance of half a mile, whereas iu open
air it would have been lo9t at a dis
tance of a few rods.
FIKE IN SNOW-SHEDS.
HOW IT IS FOUGHT BY THE CEN
TRAL PACIFIC ROAD.
An Important Railroad Department—
The Company's Property Is Pro
tected by Special Crewa—Their Alarm
System—Fitzgerald's Excellent Run. j
In the Sierra Nevada Range.
There Is In California a lire depart- !
mont which protects property extend-1
ing over a distance of forty miles, and ,
costing n million and a half of dollars.
The property referred to is familiar to
every one who has taken a daylight
trip over the Central Pacific Railroad,
as it runs from the land of sunshine
into the land of sage brush.
Owing to the heavy snowfall in the
Sierra Nevada the railroad has been
ENGINEER FIT7.GF.RAI.P AND FIREMAN.
compelled to protect its track from win
ter blockades by building a series of
sheds to cover it. These extend con
tinuously from the little telegraph sta
tion of Blue Canyon to Trucltee, on the
eastern slope of the mountains, a dis
tance of forty miles. In the winter the
FIGIITIXG FUSE IX TIIE SIIEDS.
j snow protects these sheds from all dan
! per from lire, but when summer conies
the wind and sun soou melt the cover
ing of snow and rapidly dry the tim
bers, until by July 1 the lumber in the J
sheds is as dry as powder.
The forty miles of sheds are constant
ly patrolled by men selected for thai i
purpose. Each man's beat is loss than j
three miles long, and is so arranged that ■
he passes over It a short time in ad
vance of every train. Situated at (lis- 1
tances of a mile apart throughout the '
entire length of shed guarded track are 1
placed unlocked electrical call boxes sim
ilar to those in use in the cities. <>n the
face of these are inscribed the words
"East West—rock on track —shed
down—train wreck-car off slide
tire." Besides these there are thirty
four alarm boxes, which are kept lock
ed. These are used exclusively for tire.
When an alarm is rung in on one of
these a gong strikes the number of the
box in Sacramento, 100 miles away,
and on the different points where the J
tire trains are situated.
In 1877. J. A. Fillmore, general super
intendent of the Southern Pacific, had i
occasion to reprimand "Johnny" Fitz- J
gerald, of the Summit lire train, who
is tho oldest tiro train engineer in the
service, for not running fast enough.
A few weeks later Mr. Fillmore hap
pened to be at the Summit when an
alarm was rung in from Emigrant Gap.
twenty-two miles away. lie thought he
would like to make the run, and so lie
boarded the engine. "Johnny" saw his
opportunity and determined to make
the most of it. As soon as the words
"clear track" were received, "Johnny"
pulled out, and throwing the throttle
wide open let her go. In less time than
it takes to tell it, the train was running
n tulle a minute. Open places in the
sheds a hundred yards in extent seemed
little more than flashes of light, and the
Cascade bridges were crossed with
such speed that the train seemed to
P ap them, as a gra.vhound does a fence.
Mr. Fillmore sat perfectly still, except
that once or twice he asked the en
gineer to test his all*. In twenty-three
minutes they had made the run of
twenty-two miles, and when "Johnny"
turned to look at the superintendent,
expecting to get a ripping up the back,
Mr. Fillmore said cheerily, "That's the
way to go to a fire."
Near Cisco is one of the highest
mountain ridges on tho western slope
of the Sierra. On the topmost, point of !
this ridge, at an altitude of nearly 8.000
feet, there Is a little cabin, in which
a man and his wife and a boy live from
the time the first snow begins to dis
appear in the spring of the year until
it reappears in the autumn. This man
and boy from the point of observation
which they occupy can see thirty-five
miles of snow sheds.
Day and night, no matter how stormy
the weather, this man and boy keep
their vigil, aud at the slightest sigu of j
fire threatening the sheds a telephone
message locating it is immediately sent
to Cisco, from which place orders are
Issued to have it extinguished. These
fires are located from Red Top, tho
name by which the site of the # litlle cab
in is known, by means of a dial in the
j center of which an arrow swings like
! the needle of a compass. The point of
j the arrow is directed toward the fire
, which causes the feather end to cover a
I marking on the dial indicating the
I name or number of the place toward
j which the arrow points.
STUDY OF THE MOON.
Peculiarities Noted in Ita Appearance
at Different Reasons.
To the casual observer the motions
of the moon appear to be exceedingly
whimsical and irregular. If its place
in the sky is watched it will be found
that it is first north and then south
of the sun's path and west of that lum
inary. The last two motions are steady
and regular from east to west, carry
ing the moon in its endless swing
arouud the heavens, starting at new
moon near the sun and progressing un
til at full moon the whole visible por
tion of tho sky separates the two bodies.
After this there are two weeks in which
the moon still appears to move back
ward, approaching the sun from the
other side, then, again apparently all
of a sudden, it passes the sun and we
behold a "new moon."
Tho north and south motions of the
moon are entirely different. While per
forming its endless Journey from west
to east, there are two special periods in
which it either moves far northward
or takes up its position low down in
the south. In spring the first motion is
north, but afterward the general motion
is reversed, in December you will note
that the full moon occurs at. the most
northerly point in her course and in
June at the most southerly. This is
why we have most light from the full
moon of winter and least from that of
summer Observations on these various
movements indicate to us the path
which the moon moves about tlie earth
and also show us that that body iti dif
ferent parts of its orbit is at varying
I distances from the earth.
| This indicates that the moon's path
I is not a circle, but an eclipse, having
I the earth in one of its fuel. The moon
I being governed directly and held in
j position by the attraction of the earth.
holds its primary movements in a path
1 around our globe, hut the attraction
; energy of the sun and of the giant plan
ets. perhaps in si lesser degree, pro
duces motions in the moon which may
he summarized briefly as a combination
of tin- six following movements: ill
Its revolution about llie earth, (2) its
revolution with 1 lie earth about: the
sun, (') the vibrating eccentricity of its
orbit, ( t) the slow, direct rotation in the
"line of apsides." t."i the retrograde
' rotation in the line of nodes and db
its rotation on its axis.—St. Louis he
public.
Incongruous Friends.
j A pretty story of affection between
' a cat and a rat comes from the shores
I of Lake Ontario byway of the New
| York World. A farmer, who is also a
shopkeeper, found a nest of rats in
pulling down an old shed, and one of
two baby rats stole into a pocket of his
coat. It seemed so helpless and trust
ful that he could not hear to kill it.
and kept it as a pet, feeding it with
meat and cheese, which it took from
his hand.
Its life was in constant danger from
the cat, and to save it he put it into a
large wire cage. By and by the cat
grew accustomed to its presence, and
finally the fanner one day put the eat
also into the cage. It made one or
two half-hearted attempts to catch the
rat, and then lay down and went to
sleep.
The upshot of the matter was that the
two animals became fast friends. Now
they fairly live together. By day they
wander in company nbruit the house
and shop, or lie side by side in the show
window, where tho strange sight at
tracts much attention.
They are very jealous of each other.
If any one pets the cat, the rat runs
about squeaking with anger. If the
rat is the favored one, the cat in its
turn bristles and complains. If thev
get separated for any great length of
time they are sure to be soon looking
for each other, and sometimes wheu
| they meet they fairly dance for joy.
Not in llin.
"I hardly know whether to marry or
not," said the count; "her father is in
the clothing trade."
"There is money in clothes." said
tho (hike.
"There isn't any in mine.' said the
count - Indianapolis Journal.
When an Arab fails to make a raise
i any where else, lie can "strike" his tent.
ARMY OF THE SULTAN
A FACTOR THE POWERS MUST
TAKE INTO ACCOUNT.
A Nation of Soldiers with Brninlcsn
Generals—The Turkish Irregulars—
Bands of Cutthroats Who A re Worth
less Against Civilized Troops
The Turk us a Fighter. ■*
The interest at present felt in Turkish
affairs generally is intensified with re
gard to the Turkish means of defense
against the aggressions of Europe, for al
though the existing difficulty may be
smoothed down without an outbreak of
war. still any untoward Incident, when
affairs are in so critical u condition, may
be productive of serious results.
The Turkish empire has long been de
nominated "The sick man of Europe,"
but this expression must be understood
to apply only to the political state, for,
individually and collectively, the Turks
are about as healthy a lot of people 11s
exist on the globe. The Government is
weak and inefficient, as despotisms grown
old are wont to be, but tliut is 110 sign
that it is near the end of its days, for
tin r Oriental despotisms have a trick
of hanging 011 to life, sometimes for cen
turies after they ought to die. The
Greek empire at Constantinople lived for
five centuries after its territory had been
rediucd to the region immediately sur
rounding that city, and it is not at all
impossible that the Ottoman empire may
not follow its example, ami it probably
OKFK liltS OF Tin. I/.AM.
will unless the powers show more unan
imity in regard to disposing of its estate.
But t.h<se who suppose that Turkey will
fall ;m easy prey to the rest of Europe are
: •• k<>ning without their host, for, lazy
and degenerate :is they are, the Turks
t: mar . i lus fighters, and when their
: in n: isui is roused, they show a degree
military aggressiveness that has more
om-f dutnfounded their opponents.
During the last three centuries they have
! a dozen wars with surrounding
pow. rs, ami, on each occasion, their op
ponents were forced to confess that, had
the Moslems been properly commanded,
the result would have been extremely
doubtful. Their weakness lias always
been the miraculous stupidity of the Ot
toman generals. Whenever they have
been led by trained officers of other 11a
lions than their own, their record has beet:
good. It has always been clear of cow
ardice. Their fatalistic creed makes
them strangers to fear; to thoiu every
thing is "Kismet," or fate; and if com
manded to go forward to attack a battery,
where certain death seems to await every
assailant, they neither hesitate nor falter,
considering that, if it is their fate to be
killed at such a time and place, there is
no use trying to avoid it. Besides this,
they are a hardy race, capable of enduring
great fatigue and hardship without break
ing down, of inarching long distances
without food or rest, and all these quali
tics, in a soldier, are invaluable.
The Turkish army, therefore, is a fn
•tor to be considered in the discussion o
the fate of the Ottoman empire, for if tli
Turks should make up their minds not t
be divided up into parcels without 1
struggle they are capable of offering :
very effective resistance to any proposei
plan for the partition of their count 17
among the powers of Europe. The area
of the Turkish empire is about 1.000,00b
square miles, or a little over one-half
that of the United States, and the popu
lation is nearly 40,000,000, or about two
thirds that of our own. These figures,
however, do not furnish a definite idea
of the strength, or more properly, of the
weakness of the country, for comprised
in the enumeration of inhabitants are tin
people of all the races that were con
quered by the Turks, who constitute
more than one-half of the whole number.
Christians within the limits of Turkey
A BUGLER.
are regarded as aliens, or rather as ene
mies, whom both the Government and the
Mussulman population would be glad to
see removed or exterminated. They are
not liable to military duty, but, instead,
pay an exemption tax of about $1.50 n
head per annum.
Theoretically, every Moslem in the do
minions of the Sultan is a soldier on fur
lough liable at any time to be railed 011 to
serve his master in field or garrison, but
such is the corruption prevailing in every
part of the Turkish administration, both
civil nnd military, that any one can seen re
an exemption who is able to pay for it
There is. moreover, a system of conscrip
tion organized by law that is supposed to
lc carried out In every part of the empire.
It is bused 011 the military system of Geiv
many, for since the last Tureo-Itussian
war the army of the Porte has been en
tirely reorganized by German officers,
who naturally adopted the plan prevailing
in their own country, and with which
they wero most familiar. The military
system consists of the Nizam, or regular
army, two classes of Itedifs, or Land
wehr, and the Mustafiz, unawering to the
Laudsturm of Prussia. At the annual
conscription the ranks of the regular
army are supposed to be filled by the men
of the levy, who must serve six years with
the regular army ana nrst reserve. Tliey
then pass into the second reserve, to bo
called out only on emergencies. Hero
they remain eight years, subjected to an
nual drill at their homes, then become
members of the third reserve for six
years longer, thus passing twenty years,
either in the army or in one of the re
serves. This is the system and, in work
ing order, it won Id furnish the Govern
ment with an army, in time of war, cf
nearly 1,000,000 men. But, like every
thing else in Turkey, theory is one thing
and practice quite another, and, as a
matter of fact, there are very few districts
where the system has been put in run
ning order, and none where the conscripts
of the year do not buy exemption from
service whenever they are able to do so.
In one case in a military district near
Smyrna, the population made a contract
with the enrolling officers that, in con
sideration of a lump sum, paid down in
cash, the district should be exempt. The
money was paid, and the conscripting
officers returned fictitious rolls, and went
hack, rich and contented, to Constanti
nople. In another, the conscripting offi
cer was prevailed 011 to enroll the popu
lation of the prisons; in a third all the
beggars and poverty-stricken wretches
to be found in tho district were entered
us conscripts, while the able-bodied men
escaped.
In reality, the Turkish army is com
posed of young men. unable, under the
oppressive system of taxation, to make
J V PICAI. K rnnißH PACK
tneir uviug on rue rarm or in tlie work
shop, who, therefore, entered the army
voluntarily, and such conscripts as could
he secured in those districts of Asia
Minor and European Turkey where the
military system has been put in working
order.
There is another class, comprising wide
ly different races of men, who resemble
FOR SERVICE IN ARMENIA.
each other in nothing but the fact that
they are all alike, savages. The Turkish
irregulars are all cavalry, and probably
not since the time of Atilia has a worse
lot of thieves, robbers, cut-throats, mur
derers and all round desperadoes been got
together. Turks from Anatolia, Kurds
from Armenia, Cireassians and Georgians
who prefer n wandering life of rapine and
murder to the iron discipline of the Rus
sian military service, Persians, the de
scendants of the Parthinns so much
dreaded 2,000 years ago, Arabs from the
Red Sea Coast, Druses from the moun
tains of Syria and Palestine, negroes
from Egypt, fugitives from justice of"
every surrounding country, escaped jail
birds, anybody is welcome to their bands
who has a horse and arms and can ride,
steal and shoot. These are the men who
desolated Bulgaria; these are the ineu
who are now making Armenia a desert.
The only discipline they recognize is obe
dience to their leader; the}' have no sys
tem of drill and the terror they inspire
is due solely to their well deserved repu
tation as butchers. When they wage
war it is not war. but extermination, l'or
they make not the slightest distinction
between the armed and. the defenseless,
killing all alike with equal ferocity. To
them an expedition is a raid, during which
neither man, woman nor child is spared,
and what property cannot be carried oIT
is burned. Our American Indians were
gentlemen compared with them, for the
Indians did occasionally spare the chil
dren, adopting them into their tribes and
raising them as members of their fami
lies, but to the natural savagery of their
dispositions the Turkish irregulars add a
religious fanaticism of the most exag
gerated type—a fanaticism that causes
them to regard the murder of a uon-
Mohammedan as a religious duty, an act
extremely laudable in the sight of Allah
and which will entitle them to much
credit, both in this world and in the next.
Principles, if they can be so called, such
as these render the Turkish irregulars ob
jects of the tit most terror to defenseless
villagers subject to their raids, and have
at one time or another made their name
a terror word from Vienna to Teheran.
Along the frontiers of Hungary and Po
land they were equally hated and feared
for 200 years; the Popes of the fifteenth
and sixteenth centuries issued sptciai
prayers for protection against them; the
inhabitants of Southern Russia for a cen
tury and n half had an annual fast day
to insure immunity from their raids.
| To tho regular troops of any civilized
potvei 4 they are contemptible. They are
armed with antiquated, hint-lock, smooth
bore muskets, 0 or 7 feet long, pistols of
equally ancient pattern and sabers. One
cowboy, with a Winchester, a pair of
good revolvers and a horse tleet enough
io keep him froin.being overwhelmed by
J numbers, would be more than a match '
for n dozen of them. They are bravo
' enough, in their ferocious, brutal way, I
! but the worthlessness of their weapons
renders them a scoff to any organized
I body of troops. During the war of 1870,
! oho regiment of Russian foot drove before
it, in headlong route, over 0.000 of these
marauders. A company of forly Rus
sian frontier guards has been known to
disperse a band of 700. Worthless for
fighting purposes, they are vnluablo only
when murder and pillage are to be done.
They are picturesque objects, in their
Orientul costumes, with belts stuck full
of pistols nud daggers, but, lu a soldier,
plcturesquouess Is a qunlity of very
Hinull consequence.
In actual warfare, therefore, with any
civilized power, Turkey must rely ou tho
infantry and artillery, tho effective forco
of thoso two arms being less than 400,-
: 000 mou. Such a forco as this could offer
I n strong protest to the partition of tho
j Turkish empire, but oven after its ro
sistanco was overcome, tho trouble would
not be at nil end, for before tho division
[ could bo norformcd n campaign in every
neighborhood would bo necessary. Tho
! fanatical hatred entertained by Moslems
j for everybody and everything Christian
' is almost inconceivable by tho Western
j mind. When, ut the close of the war of
1870, Bosnia was assigned to Austria, an
" A HIGH PRIVATE.
army of nearly 100,000 men was needed
to complete the transfer of the territory,
although there was not a Turkish regi
ment in the province. The Moslem pop
ulation rose en masse, the women fought
sido by sido with their husbands with
guns, pistols, swords, hatchets and even
pitchforks. Military operation had to bo
carried on against every village, and a
year elapsed ere there was complete sub
mission and order was restored. In case
a partition of Turkey wcro attempted,
population uprisings might be expected
in every province from Albania to the
Euphrates. They would all ho ineffec
tive, of course, but they would all be
bloody and costly. A knowledge of the
facts tliut Turkey is by no means help
less, even with a bankrupt treasury and
corrupt administration, lias probably
something to do with the general w.l!
ness to give the unspeakable Turk a lu
tle more time. Nobody believes he will
reform, but his army is too big and its
lighting reputation is too well established
for aggressive operations to be thoroughly
undertaken.
| GIANT AND LILLIPUTIAN WED.
He Becomes Tired of Her, and Now
They Arc Divorced.
Pretty little blue-eyed Minehen Beck
! er came to tills country five years ago.
She was then about 20 years old. and
not more than three feet six inches tall.
Since that time she says she lias grown
IYj or 2 inches. Minehen will be re
membered as the leading lady In the
Lilliputian company which made such
a success in this country. When Min
ehen came to New York her heart was
free. Two years ago she severed lier
connection with the Lilliputians, and
since that time has not appeared in pub
lic.
Some time prior to that the little wo
man made the acquaintance of George
HOLT.IIEIMER AND MISS BECKER.
Ilolzlieimer, a good-looking Teuton,
i lie is a big. blonde raoustached man,
, over six feet tall, and weighs 200
) pounds or more. He wooed and won
her. They were married on June 25,
1 1803. They settled down in their cozy
little home, and the bride says they
* loved each other dearly. But last
] spring her big husband told her he had
grown tired of her. They quarreled,
and finally they separated. Minehen
1 remained at the home on Fulton ave-
J nue, while her husband took up liis
Q abode in the neighborhood. In August
the little wife brought an action for
? absolute divorce, which was granted
her.
London funerals cost over $5,000,000
annually.
The commercial marine of Canada
gives employment to some GO,OOO sail
ors.
A Japanese seal fishing company has
been organized by Tokio capitalists
to compete with foreign sealers off the
coast of Japan.
An area of 5,000 square miles south
of GO degrees north latitude in Canada
is suitable for the production of all
crops grown in England.
A Chesterville, Me., couple recently
celebrated their golden wedding in the
very house into which they moved on
their wedding day fifty years before.
Almost the only monument of the Ro
man dominion in Egypt, the fortress of
Babylon, at old Cairo, is being torn
down to make way for modern build
ings.
Ivildare and Wicklow have been just
ly termed the garden of Ireland, for no
where is nature more profuse in her
display of the picturesque and the beau
tiful.
A footman in an Englism nobleman's
house testified recently that his regular
pay was $250 a year. He also testified
that his average "tips" amounttHl to
$3,000 a year.
Tho Magna Charta, or great charter,
of English liberties is still preserved
In the British Museum. The impress of
the seal and King John's name are both
very distinct.
A Kansas district has a written con
tract with a teacher to teach the school,
chop the wood, make the fire, sweep
and find the matches for $35 a mouth.
The teacher Is a woman.
A mass of eels weighing 300 pounds
clogged the water wheel which runs
the electric light plant of Riverhead,
L. 1., tho other night, and the town was
in darkness for several hours. .
Of the 4,014 seal skins brought Into
Fort Townseud, Wash., during the sea
son just closed 3,050 were of female
seals, an Indication of the rate at which
the seal herds aro being destroyed.
The persons of African descent In the
United States are classified according
to the degrees of colored blood into
0,337.080b1ack5, 050,080 niulattoes, 105,
135 quadroons and 00.03G octoroons.
A seaweed of the South Pacific often
grows to be thirty or forty inches in
diameter and 1,500 to 2,000 feet long.
It has no root in the proper sense, the
nourishment being absorbed from the
water.
Down to the depth of 200 fathoms,
where daylight appears, the eyes of a
fish get b : gger and bigger. Beyond thai
depth small-eyed forms set in, with
long feelers developed to supplement
the eyes.
Three times as many American horses
have been sold in England this year as
were called for in 1894, and their aver
age price at the ports of shipment has
been $155. They are used chletly for
draft in London.
The Bank of England lias 1,100 of
ficials on its pay roll, which amounts
to about $1,000,000 a year, and 1,000
clerks. If a clerk is late three times lie
receives a warning, the fourth time he
is discharged at once.
There is a woman contractor and
quarry operator in Buffalo, who has
supplied stone for some of the most
important structures in the city. She
is tho only woman who is an active
member of the Buffalo Builders' Ex
change.
A novel document was filed in the
office of the county recorder at Sedalla,
Mo., a few days ago. It is a paper
Wherein Mrs. Belle Aslier apprentices
her daughter, Letha As her, 9 years old,
to Mary Jane Love, "to learn the trade
and art of housekeeping."
A thorough test is to be made in Mari
on County, Florida, as to the adaptabil
ity of tlie soil for the profitable cultiva
tion of tobacco. It is estimated that
1,000 acres will be planted with to
baeco seed from Cuba and Sumatra
during the present winter.
M. Lebeau lias succeeded in obtaining
pure glucinum from the emerald by
heating t'he precious stone in an electric
furnace until the sillicon is volatilized.
The residue is combined with hydro
fluoric acid, and after a series of puri
fications gives pure glucinum.
Some people have been making a
count and find that not one of the State
governors in tlie United States is a
Roman Catholic. There are no Roman
Catholics in the Cabinet, none in tho
Supreme Court, and there never has
been one in the White House.
A Parisian had the remains of his
brother cremated. The ashes were put
in a leather bag, and sent by rail to his
brother's home. The bag was mislaid,
and a suit has been instituted by the
brother against the railway company
for the value of the dead man's ashes.
A Spanish illustrated comic weekly,
La Tela Cortada ("The Cut Cloth") ij
printed ou cloth tho size of an ordinary
handkerchief. After it has been read
it can be put in water, when the ink
will wash out and only a handkerchief
remain. The price of this novel Journal
is 5 cents.
Experiments Indicate that spiders
'have a long range of vision. It is not
always possible to tell, however, wheth
er the lower animals perceive by sight
or hearing, or by the action air in mo
tion has on their bodies. It is asserted
that mice are sensitive to motions of
tho air which to human ears create no
sound whatever.
Knew Whereof He Spoke.
"He had the reputation of being a
good man, but I consider him the tough
est citizen I ever struck!"
With this remark the cannibal chief
tain put the 11(1 on the pot again and
added fresh fuel to the fire.