Statistics show that enough corn fodder goes to waste in Missouri each year to feed all the horses and cattle in the State. Charles Dudley Warner says that fhe use of the typewriter in composi tion makes one wordy, diffuso and sloppy. He advises authors to stick to the pen. All tho merchants in Plymouth, Mich., have entered into an agree ment to hereafter do business on a business basis. None of them will in future offer chromos, prizo packages, or any other gifts in tho effort to se cure trade. It is not generally understood in this country that in Germany, Franco and Italy priests are liabio to military duty, us well as all other classes of the population. In Germany they are usually assigned to service in tho hospitals, but iu Franco aud Italy they are compelled to go into tho tanks. Professor Clark, of tho Northwettern University, Chicago, says that the great mass of students applying for admission to that institution nowa days nre extremely deficient in their knowledge of the English language. He attributes this condition to the de fective system of instruction employed in the public schools. For tho first time in eighty years the results of the competition for the Porson prize for the best rendition of a jiassago of Shakespeare in Greek by Cambridge (England) students havo been so poor that the examiners de cided not to award the prize. Tho Chancellor's medal for an English poem on the subject of "Tho Mar quis of Montrose" has also been with held. The Roanoke Colony Memorial As sociation of North Carolina intonds to erect an appropriate memorial on Ro anoke Island, North Carolina, where Sir Walter Raleigh's oolonists settled In 1585 nud 1587, and on which was born in 1587 Virginia Dare, the first child of English parentage born in America. The association appeals to all users of tobacco, and dealers in it especially, to contribute to this object at least tho valuo of two or three olgnrs, inasmuch as Sir Waiter Raleigh first discovered tobacco at Roanoke. The President of tho association is Graham Daves, of Newbern, North Carolina. The Property Protection Society of England sends out a little leaflet en titled "The Expenditure of a Great Landowner." Tho landowner is tho Dnko of Bedford, and tho lands aro his Thornoy and Wansford estate. His outlay, according to Mr. Wilson Fox, one of the assistant commissioners to tho Royal Commission on Agriculture, 'luring the twenty-one years from 1872 to 1891, was over 82,650,000. Tho total rent received from tho property during that period was 83,750,000. Thus tho averago annual outgoings represented 70.6 per cent, of the aver age annual rent received, without do ducting income tax. The net income derived from the estate in 1893 gavo no rent at all for tho land, and repre sented only 3.4 per cent, on tho sums spent on buildings. Tho Columbia (S. C.) State says: "It is not to tho interest of the South that its commercial and financial operations shall bo limited to one channel; it is greatly to its intorest that it Bhall have close relations with more than one metropolis. Wo want to see Now York and Chicago competing for tho trade of the Southeast, for the inevit able result of that competition will bo to give us better terms and greater consideration. The Eastern metrop olis has heretofore taken our trade as a matter of course, with hardly on of fort and without thanks. Southern trade moro than Northern has mado New York great. Now we want Chi cago to bid for it, and get what she can of it by offering cheaper goods, better accommodations, easier terms. There is no prejudice, no feeling in matter. Wo simply offer our trade to tho highest bidder. The West has not sent money hero to 'build cotton mills and uphold banks' bacnuso it had no business relations with us of tho sort requiring or prompting such action, and because it has been until recently itself a very great borrower from the East to develop its own resources. Wo do not assert that the feeling of tho West towards tho South is warmer than that of the East, or that tho East merits our commercial hostility. Wo only say that it , l \ 'setter to havo two buyers of our products than one; two offerers of goods and money and ac commodations than one; two investors and developers than one. Thero is no sentiment in the matter so far as we are concerned. It is business, 'strictly business,'" A BYGONE SUMMER. An hnmble eceno among the bygone sum- When limbs woro round and maidens' lips were red. Among the grass the rhymes of insect hum mers; The katydids' harsh triolets overhead. Whero the white road the mountain's coarse hair parted, Spilled nectar, but a moment sunshine flowed; The whippoorwllls their night-long chansons started, And on tho sky-plains tents of bedouins showed. Two stood beside tho farmstead gate—a maiden, And ho who there with Hope's misguiding eyes Saw fame ahead, as some child legend ladon, Believes beyond tho ratnbow treasure lies. They stood togothor in the locust's shadows Thoir faces pale beneath the twilight glow; And shosaid, soft as vespers over meadows "I hato so much, so much, to see you go!" Tho years went by in disappointing fashion, For who has seen tho future's scroll un fold, Nor learned that those wo iovo with youth's first passion Are not tho ones wo wed whon we are old? Yet, little maid, iu memory's blue now sleep ing! A lover yot, an old man's teardrops flow, If thero wero only one to cheer him weeping, And say—"l hate so much to see you go!" —Memphis Commercial-Appeal. AIERO. t \ \ T the dead of night a cr J • . J I 1 Even in the great City ' wlloro thou /Br ' M \ sands are at hand to /] MOA'. I'/V-l V rotH ' er it n Jl Kk\lj terrible cry at that xj \J hour. But on a ' oue 'j plantation / kwtck—ffln \ how inexpressibly / 'f "*4l awful! IT a "Eiro, fire, fire I" It rang through the wide halls, and was echoed from tho colored quaiter, in overj variety of the tones of horror and alarm. Tho mistress of tho mansion, awak ening at tho cry, sprang from bed, and hurriedly begau to dress, gazing around bewildered. For n moment sho was oonscious only that her hus band was absent. Sho was recalled to something liko herself by tho shrieks of tho maid who had slopt in tho room, and who, instead of assisting her toilot, was pointing, with terrified gesticulations, to tho ruddy reflection playing against tho trees in front of the house. Suddenly, to add to the confusion of the scene, the chamber door was Hung open, and a crowd of female servants rushed in, flocking affrigbtedly to gether, like a covey pursued by the sportsman. They closed around Mrs. Stewart's bed, scroaming, weeping, wringing their hands and dopriving hor of what little presence of mind had been left. "Oh, missus, wo shnll be burned to death, wa shall, all of us. The fire has caught the staircase. The blessed Lord abovo hab mercy un us!" These, aud similar exclamations, filled the air and distracted her attention. Meantime tho conflagration became more serious eaoh minute. Had that terrified group listened they could havo heard the roar of tho ifames in tho hall outside, and tho crackling sound that announced tho approach of tho firo to tho woodwork near tho staircase, warning them that, if thoy would sovo their lives, their flight must bo instant. But thoy only hud dled tho oloser together, sobbing, moaning, embracing one another frantically. All at once a man dashed into tho room, with agitated face and dress disordered. Thrusting aside the tor ritted maids, ho hastily approached his mistress. "Fly," he cried, breathlessly, "this momont, or you'll be too late." And glanoing rapidly around tho room, ho snatched the rich cover from a center table, whioh stood in the middle of the apartment, covered with books, pretty trifles aud flowers in vases. This he threw around his mistress, ex claiming, "It will keep tho fire from catching. Come." The sight of his faco had reassured his mistress. Juba was about her own age, had boen born in her father's family, and had always shown the most devoted attachment to herself per sonally. Above all the servants on tho plantation, bo was distinguished for n strict, religious porformanoo of his duties, for Juba was consistently pious. Ho was also shrewd, and ready in overy omergeney, and Mrs. Stewart felt that ho would save her, even at the peril of his life. Juba, oven while speaking, had seized hor hand and dragged her to ward the staircaso. But now a gust of wind drove such volumes of thiok, black smoke toward them, that she was almost suffocated, and she paused, unnble to proceed. It was not a timo to hesitate, so Jubu, snatohing her in his arms as he would a child, and dragging the cover entirely over hor face, dashed into tho rolling volumo of smoko, and down tho groat stair case. He was not a moment too soon. Scarcely had he reached the bottom, followod by the affrighted maids, bo foro tho passagowas closed entirely by a dense wall of flame. Neither he nor the female servants, indeed, escaped entirely unhurt. But the table-cover effeotually protected Mrs. Stewart. Juba had scarcely, however, placed his mistress safely on tho lawn, be fore sho started up, crying, "Where is the baby? Who has seen the ohild? Oh 1 it is in the houso yet." And she would have rushed toward the blazing doorway if she had not been instantly and forcibly detained. The servants looked at eaoh other in dismay. In the suddenness with which the conflagration had spread, and in the excitement of their mistress' dan ger, nobody had thought of the child. It was an only one, a boy about two years old, who slept with his nurse, or "mammy," as she was called in the household, in a back room in the up per story. Mrs. Stewart's first thought on her osoapo had been to look for her darling ; and but for this the absence of the child might have been evon longer overlooked. The hall of the houso was now all in a flame, the fire pouring out through the doorway as from the mouth of a furnace so that ingress by that path was impossible, Most of the second story was also burning, and the entire first floor, for the conflagration had broken out there originally. To reach the apartment where the nurse, prob ably paralyzed with terror, was still with the child, seemed out of the ques tion entirely. But there was one there who deter mined to make the attempt. The sight of the mother's face, and the sounds of her broken moans, as she sank into the arms of those who restrained hor, oxhaustod by her struggles to escape, determined Juba to try at least to ros oue his young master. "I will go, missus," he said; "don't cry no more." He looked around as he spoke for some means of scaling the second story. There was no ladder, and only one staircase, but the bough of an orna mental tree, that overshadowed the house, fortunately held out a means of access to a bold heart and a strong arm. Not stopping even to hear his mistross' thanks, ho clambered up the tree, ran out on the limb, and drop ping on the roof, disappeared within the dwelling. How breathless woro the moments that ensued. The flames wero spread ing with frightful rapidity. The eaves of the building began to smoke, show ing that the fire within had roachod the roof, and soon after the whole line of them flashed into conflagration. Meantime tho lurid element poured out from tho windows, ran upward licking the combustible front and streamed in a waving, dazzling pyra mid high over the top of the mansion, far into tho blue firmament. Millions of sparks, accommpaniod by volumes of rolling smoke, sailed down the sky boforo the breeze, completely obscur ing tho heavens at intervals, though occasionally this thick canopy,partially blowing aside, tho calm moon was seen peacefully shining down through tho rent, in strange contrast to tho other terrible scene. The roar of the con flagration had now become intensely loud; and, to add to the horror, there began to be heard tho awful Bound of timbers falling within the house. Mrs. Stewart had watched tho fire in silence, her hands clasped and lips parted ever since Juba had disappeared within tho house. Each moment ap peared an lage to her. At last the suspense, thus lengthening out inter minably, as it seemed, became intoler able. Oh I it is vain," she criod, making a now effort to rush into tho flames, "ho cannot find my boy. Let mo go mysolf. For the love of God—" But at that instant, through the smoke that almost hid the only window that was not already on fire, appeared the faithful Juba, holding aloft the in fant. Tho flamos wero all around, and in a moment more would overtake him. Ho made a rapid gesture for some one to approach. Four of the males, comprehending his wish, snatched a blanket and rushed promptly forward. The heat was intolerable, but they disregarded it, and standing beneath the window, with the blanket outstretohed, thoy shouted to Juba to throw the child down to them. He had, however, an ticipated them. The infant fell while they wore speaking, was caught safely in the blnnkot, and was hurriod imme diately to Mrs. Stewart, who clasped it to her bosom with frantic delight. The whole was the work of less time than we havo taken to desoribe it. But simultaneously a terrifio crash was hoard, that made tho very earth tremble benoath tho spectators; a huge column of smoke shot up toward tho sky, from whole the roof had been; nnd, as if propelled from a force pump, a gush of intense flame fol lowed, leaping far up into tho highest heaven. Tho crowd, one and all, gasped for breath. Then came o deep, long drawn sigh. For the roof and floors had evidently fallen in; and the faith ful Juba, alas! was nowhere to be seen. A dozen persona rushod toward the building, and, until drivon back by the heat, stood eloso by tho window where he had been latost visible. Thoy had hoped to find him there. They had flattered themselves that there had been time enough for him to leap. But it was now plain this had not boen the case. He most probably felt tho floor giving way boforo ho threw the child, and if so this explained the cause of his haste. They said this to each other as they fell back. But thero was little time for words. Scarcely had this thought been ex changed before there was another crash, and, with a momentary waving motion, almost the cntiro building fell in, so that what had been a stately mansion an hour before was now only a shapeless pile of blazing timbers. The shouts, the exclamations, the sobbings which had fillod the air but tho instnnt before, ceased again at this appalling spectacle. Neighbor looked at neighbor, aghast with horror, the lurid light adding a wild, spectral look to each enquiring face. Then a sim ultaneous cry rose from the crowd, that Juba and tho old nurse were buried in the ruins. But suddenly from out the flame and smoke, in tho direction where Juba had last been seen, what seomed to be a human figure began to emerge, crawlinc painfully on bauds and knees. A human figure, yet crushed almost out of tho shape of humanity, but still with life in it, for it moved. And hark, a voice; a voioe coming from that mangled body. What did it say? Not words of pain, but words of joy. Words suoh as the martyrs used at tho stake. "Hallelujah! Hallelujah,!" For was not he a martyr, too? He had died to save his master's child. He was both hero and martyr.—New York News. A Meteor When in Business. We owe our immunity to our at mosphere, which serves as a bullet proof cuirass for the world. When a meteor enters tho atmosphere, the friotion produoed by its gigantic speed makes it flash up like the arrow of Acestoe, only more so. The ingenious experiments of Lord Kelvin have shown that the heat thus produced, just as a brake showers sparks from a carriage wheel, or a luoifer match lights on the box, is sufficient to con sume the meteor as if it were suddenly cast into a furnace heated to three or four million degrees. Obviously the smaller meteors are utterly consumed before they have penetrated far into the atmosphere, whioh their fate has shown to rise to a height of about 120 miles. Only a very large one can descend, as that of Madrid is said to have done, to within twenty miles of tho earth before being burst by the expansion due to heat and by the resistance of air. The fact that fragments do oc casionally roaoh tho earth is the best proof of the great sizo of some of tho meteors that we encounter. If it were not for the "blessed air," the explo sion of thorn all, with tho accompany ing fervent boat, would take place in our midst. It is safe to say that such n state of things would ronder our great towns uninhabitable. In Lon don wo are somewhat inclined to gird at the atmosphere, with its smoko and its fog and its east wind. But none of us can tell how often it has saved him from a teiriblo and invisible fate, in being, as Mark Twain has it, "shot with a rook." If wo are more inclined to recognize the atmosphere services in future, tho Madrid meteor will not have exploded in vain. —The Spectator. Reading Finger Prints. By a combination of tho Bertillon method of moasuroment with the lin ger print systom any prisoner can bo identified with almost absoluto cer tainty and in a very short space of time. Mr. Galton, says the Saturday Review, calculates that the chance of two fingor prints hoiug idontical is less than 1 in 61,000,000,000, and when wo consider the relatively small numbers of the criminal population, and that other personal evidence, would bo available in any doubtful case, mistaken identity ought now to be a thing of the past. Tho method of indexing finger printß proposed by Mr. Galton is at first sight somewhat complicated, but with a little practice wo aro told that about five minutes would suffice for tho complete verifica tion of auy one of 2632 sets forming a directory. A specimen directory of 303 sets has been given, together with numer ous finger prints. The method of ob taining the prints is to press the thumb or finger upon a plate of cop per which has previously boon coated with a vory thin film of printer's ink. The inked fingers are then pressed or rolled upon the card which is kept as a record. Although finger prints have been used as a sign manual from the earliest times, yet it is only recently that thoy havo been studied from a scientific point of view, and tho evi dence accumulated is as yet insufficient to onablo us to realize their value to tho anthropologist. Now that a good system of classification has been worked out, it is to bo hoped that ob servers will multiply rapidly, and that tho bulk of material at our disposal will soon bo considerable. ? Origin of the Straw Hat Trade. The origin of tho straw hat trade is lost in the mists of antiquity. It ap pears from "Coryat'B Crudities," published in 1011, that "the most del icate strawen hats" were worn by the men and women of Piedmont, many with at 'east a hundred seams. It is evident that the ait of straw plaiting had arrived at a great state of perfection more than two centuries since, but it does not appear to havo renohed England till a hundred yoars later. It is within the memory of some of the old inhabitants of tho straw districts that the wives and daughters of farmers used to plait straw for their own bonnets before it becamo an established branch of trade. Indeed, the oustom of wearing bon nets at all is of a comparatively recent date, ns hoods were used by women of the lower classes, while ladies of rank adopted hats made of silk and other textilo fabrics. A Profitable Urapclruit Tree. The returns from the sale of the product of a single grnpefruit tree in the Terra Cela Island grove, near Braidentown, are given in a late issue of the Mnnateo Ilivor Journal. Tho fruit filled twouty-six boxes and sold for $l7O. The freight, cartage and commissions amountod to $20.3(1, mak ing tho net proceeds $143.(51. —Jack- sonville (Fla.) Citizen. A Peat ot Mechanical Skill. A story of a feat of mechanioaV skill of wonderful delicaoy is told in Iron Age. An expert mechanic is said to havo taken a common sewing needle of medium size, 1$ inches long, nnd drilled a holo through its entire longth, from oyo to point, tho holo being just largo enough to admit I of the passage of a very fine hair. TALES OF THE TREASURY. ROMANCES THAT VARY THE DULL ROUTINE OF MONEY COUNTING. Redeeming Paper Certificates That Have Been Through Strange Ex periences—Unique Frauds. THE United States Treasury at Washington is a rich and vir gin field for novelists. Up to date no writer of romance seems to have thought of working it, though in return for a little soratoh ing with tho pen it might bo made to laugh with a harvest of joyous anoc dotes. Strange and amusing things are constantly popping up to distract tho attention of the officials from the dull routine of money counting. In Ohio lives a farmer named Jason B. Smith. His home is in tho neigh borhood of Ypsilanti, and among his neighbors ho is reputed to be some what "near." A while ago he buried a considerable sum in notes and cer tificates, believing Mother Earth to be more trustworthy than a bank. Going one day to examine his treasure he discovered that tho elements were rap idly reducing it to dust. For it is a fact that paper money when buiied in the ground quiokly decays. This state of affairs alarmed Mr. Smith, and he promptly withdrew the cash from safe deposit. But, instead of forwarding it to the Treasury in the jar that contained it and without dis turbing the semi-decomposed bills ho emptied the whole business into a pil low case. Tying the latter around his body next to tho skin ho started for the National Capital. Being of a frugal turn of mind he made the trip as far as possible us a dook passenger on a river steamboat, sleeping on balos and boxes. He got to Washington safely, pre sented himself at tho Treasury and stated his oaeo. The next thing was to remove tho cash from his person, and this was a matter of some embar rassment. A messenger was assigned to tho duty of assisting in tho task, which was accomplished with no littlo difficulty by reason of a lack of trust fulness on the part of Mr. Smith. Finally, tho money was handed over to one of tho ladies in the redemption division to be counted and identified. She found it very much orumbled, but suoceeded in ideutifying about 819,- 000—all but 8100 of tho total sum represented. Payment was offerod to Mr. Smith in the shape of a druft, but ho would not tako it that way. Ho chose notes of largo denomination and went off with them and a strong senso of grati tudo to tho ladies of the redemption division. To thorn he sent a newspa per filled with grape 3, together with a poem. Mr.Smithdepartodjoyfully for bis Western home. On his way thither ho waß robbed of tho entiro 819,000. Another buried money case was that of a colored man near St. Louie, who put 915G in a tin can and interred the lattor in a hold nonr hie honee. Soon afterward ho was taken ill, and spent several months in a hospital. On be ing cared and discharged, he sought his bank and found that the farm in which it was located had bo sold. Not only that, but it had been cleared, so that overy land mark was obliterated. The new ownor, an honest German, promised to look for tho treasure, and by good luck he did actually find it, turning it up with his plow. The cash was much rotted, but all of it was re deemed by the Treasury exocpt ono 920 National bank note, of which only tho outer rim remained. If this note had been an ordinary greenback or certificate the amount would have been recovered, but in tho case ot a bank note it is necessary that the name of tho bank shall be known in order to secure redemption, and in this instanco both the name and the signature of the bank's offioers had disappeared, in one way, therefore, greenbacks and certificates mev be considered safer property than bank notes. Not long ago, in tho interior of Now York State, a wretched tramp died in a barn. He was evidently of German birth, and inquiry disclosed the name ho went by. A few lines in tho local papers wero copied by tho Stoats Zoitung in New York, and from that sourco tho death notioo was recopied into newspapers in Germany. Tho brother ot the dead man saw it, and wrote on tho subject to the German Consul at New York. Ho said that his brother oould not havo been a pauper, inasmuch as he had received a largo sum of money a short timo previous. Accordingly, tho body was exhumed, and beneath the under clothing was found a belt containing over SOOOO. The cash was sent to Washington, and its condition was such ns to make the clerks weary of life while going though tho necessary processes of counting and identifying the notes. Oases of this sort nro by no means infrequent. On ono occasion some village children in a Northern State, while playing in tbo woods, found a dead man. They reported it, and the Coroner mndo an investigation. Little more than the skeleton remained, and it was never ascertained who or what the man had had been. Beneath him was a portion of his clothing, which contained 861). The money reached the Treasury in a decided crumply and nasty condition. But that was by no menns so bad as a consignment which was the fruit of a steamboat explosion on Lake Michigan. This was a num bor of years ago. The loss of life was groat, and among tho killed was the clerk, whose body, after nature's ohemistry had done its work, was found floating on the water. In the coat pockets was a considerable sum in cash. When it got to the Treasury, not one of the clerks was willing to handle it. . Finally, the ohief of the redemption division was obliged to count it himsolf, after sprinkling it liberally with cologne and disinfect ants. On Maroh 27, 1893, a package con taining $87,000 in Treasury notes WBB received from the Assistant Treasurer at New York. It was counted in the usual manner and found correct. Fifty-one of the notes were for SIOOO each. These were done up in a pack ago by themselves. Holes were punched through the paokage for can cellation, and it was then cut in two in tho customary fashion, one set of halves being sent to the office of the Secretary of tho Treasury and the other set to the office of the Register. Both sets counted up or.ly $50,000, in stead of $51,000. Of course, tho per son who did up tho notes and marked them $51,000 was responsible, but it is hardly practicable to subtract SIOOO from the wages of a clerk who gets only SIOOO n year. She was dis charged, and tho Treasurer of the United States, E. H. Nobeker, made good the sum out of his own pocket. If any monoy disappears anywhere in tho acoounts of tho Treasury Depart ment, the Treasurer must go down in his olothes and square it. Frauds on the redemption division of tho Treasury are constantly being tried. What are called "drawer scraps" are presented almost every day with demands for new money in excliango. These are the torn-off frag ments of notes which are found in tills and cash drawers. A young man em ployed in a New York bank once sent in a box full of them, claiming S2OO. They wore the rosult of many sweep ings carefully accumulated. Unfor tunately, they represented SIOOO or more, if anything, and the youth was lucky to esoapo prison. An Ohio wo man not long ago mailed to the Treas ury a number of rolled-up pellets of paper, which she said represented a $5 note torn up by a obild. The pellets wero straightened out and found to bo thirteen centro strips cut lengthwise from ns many bills. It is hardly neces sary to sny that the woman got noth ing in return. People seom to think that Undo Sam is precious greon ; at the lame time the redemption division does got chento.l now and then, un doubtedly. —Philadelphio Times. Warlike luilfnns. An island in the Gulf of California is inhabited by queer human beings. Tho Coris, without doubt, are one of the most interesting tribes of abor igines to bo found on this hemisphere. They aro said to havo fair skins and blue eyes, aud bear no resemblance whatever to tho ludian tribes of tho mainland or of the peninsula. In former days they rnado excursions upon tho mainland, spreading havoc along the coast, but in later years they have kept closely to their island home. They are extromely fierce and warlike, aud use venomed arrows in fighting. Tho island is known to bo very mountainous, with innumerable rugged oanyons and gorges, where the Indianß ambush, and which renders subduing thein almost an impossi bility. Beyond tho faot of tho ex istence of tho Coris tribe very little is known. Their habits and languago aro said to be peculiar to themselves, while their origin is a subject of con jecture. The island shows no sign of vegetation from tho Gulf, and thoir method of gaiuing a subsistence is un known. Skippers cruising in those waters carefully avoid this island peopled with bine-eyed savages, and its rugged outlines, which loom up in the Gulf, aro shrouded in mystery.— Oakland (Oal.) Echoes. What About Leather! Tho question is frequently asked: What is a vegetarian community to uso instead of leather? Of courso substitutes would havo to bo found. At present, as hides aro a waste pro duct, there is no need to seek furthor ; but when they become scarce other substances will oertaiuly take their place. Other things havo already be gun to compete with leather. Form erly the doublet aud breeches and even bottles were made of that sub stance. Now wo use cloth for book binding and other purposes, nud may have artificial leather boots. Demand always stimulates invention and pro duction. It may, therefore, be safely predicted that to make ample pro vision for our clothing, 6ven under a vegetarian regime, is a task not be yond the resources of civilization. Wo may bo sure that if we havo fol lowed nature thus far and trusted her for our greater wants she will as suredly not fail ns in these lesser things.—Westminster Review. How Fast Does Electricity Travel! The above question is frequently asked in every-day conversations, but is seldom asked to the satisfaction of tho querist. Wheatstone says that the speed of electricity from point to point along a proper couduotor is practically instautaueous. Various at tempts have been made to ascertain the exact number of miles which the current will travel in a given longth of time. According to the most re liable estimates whioh such experi ments have made, its speed is not less than 114,000 miles per second. The writer adds: "Such speed is incon ceivably great; the mind cauuot con template it without staggering." Defects of Speech Remedied. If the proper ofiort is mado in children from tho age of two to five years of age, it is in no way difficult to correct defective pronunciation. The faults lies usually in the necessity of tho ohild's learning how to correct ly pronounce certain words which to him soem incorrectly learned, A little practice on consonant sounds will sometimes correot many defeots. The idea that "tongue-tie" is to blame for defoots of speech is usually erroneous. It is surprising how quickly a little mothodical education will permanently correct defects of speech, and this is almost equally truo of stammering.— Chicago Medical Times. THE TWO TIDES. In n vast tidal-wave of rosy light The morning breaks on the receding shore, Where sounds the swelling, multitudinous roar Of Life and Labor rising in their might; While, far behind, with scintillant specks of white- Drowning the tumult which It deepens o'er— In enrth-long curvature, rolls evermore The black and silent avalanche of night. O thou of selfish power and fortune proud, The world rovolvos. The night shall over shroud Its faoe, unshadowed though it be with cloud. O thou from whoso sad life all light seems gone, Beyond the blaek horizon lino the dawn In rosy tide comes rolling swiftly on. Edward P. Jackson, in Youth's Companion. HUMOR OF THE DAY. Advice to a brunette who is about to become a blonde—Keep it dark.— Statesman. "What makes you think Pilker is over fifty?" "Oh, he has begun act ing silly again."—Chicago Record. "Uncle Bob, what is a movable feast?" "The waffles and wienerwurst wagon, my boy."—Chicago Record. Had the prodigal's money hold out ho would never have kuown the taste of his father's fatted onlf. Ram's Horn. "Love me little, love me long," sho warbled. "Yes," said he. "But will you love me wheu I am short?"—ln dianapolis Journal. "1 don't see Jimpsou any more." "You are not likely to for some time. He's got a new camera and a baby at his house."—Cincinnati Enquirer. "Say, loan me $lO for abont a week?" "Can't; haven't got but five." "That'll do—lend me tho five for two weeks!"—Chioago Record. The difference between a somnam bulist and a messenger boy is trifling: One walks in his sleep, aud the other sleeps in his walk.—Philadelphia Press. Little Lulu—".Mamma, papa is com ing." Mother—"Cau you see him?" Little Lulu—"No, mamma, but I can hear tho voice of his footsteps."—Rox bury Gazette. As the hurricane swept the deck and upset a few yachtsment it breezily re marked: "I guess I can turn au occa iional summer 'silt' myself."—Rich mond Gazette. Vexed Mother—"James, how many more times must I tell you to stop making that noise?' James—"l'll leave that to your own judgment, ma." —Philadelphia North Americun. "I havo done nothing but blush all day," complained the rose, "and still that idiot of a poet goes on talking of the modest violet, as if there were not others."—Cincinnati Enquirer. "Oh, mamma," snid littlo Willie, as he made his lirst close inspection of a bicycle, "this machine Ins got rub bers on to keep its wheels from get ting wet!"— Harper's Ilouud Table. De Vere—"l heard a compliment for you to-day." Miss Antique—"ln deed! What was it?" Do Vere— "Young Chapman says you oarry your years well."—New York Town Topios. "Shoes were blacked as early as the tenth century," says an oxohange. And it might havo addod that many of them look as though thov had never been blacked J since.—Boston Trans cript. "Mr. Crayon 3 is very successful in his drawing," remarked the young wo man. "Yes," replied the discourteous rival, "I understand lie disposed of several pictures at a rnllle."—Wash ington Star. "People don't think I amount to much in this concern," said the oflioo boy as he filed away the paid bills, "but they'd think different if they know I handled all tho receipts."— Boxbury Gazette. He (admiring a vase of flowers) "Are they not beautiful? Do you know they remind mo of you?" She (softly)—" But they arc artificial." Ha —"Ah, yes; but you'd nover know it."—Washington Towu Talk. Mother—"Did you try to mako yourself agreeablo ut Mrs. High stone's?" Little Daughter—"Ye6'm; 1 told her all the funny things our callers said about her, and sho seemed to be real interested."—Good News. The New Woman. Chloroform and ammonia killed a centipede and saved a cat at Spring field the other day. The centipede dropped from a bunch of bananas up on the cat, and at once buried its poisonous fangs in the animal's legs. Its mistress, with rare presence of mind, dropped chloroform on the in sect, which succumbed, and then she applied ammonia to the cat's leg. It was a triumph of presenoo of mind, apparently.—Boston llernld. Hungarian Gipsies. A census of tho gipsies in Hungary has just been taken. They number 274,940, about half settlers in towns and villages, while the other half keep np a nomadic life. Of the total numbor 82,045 can only speak the Tsigany Or Romany language; 104,750 speak Hungarian, too, as their mother tongue; G7,046 Roumanian, 9857 Slovak, 5861 Servian, 2396 German and 2008 Ruthenian. Horseless Carriages in 1810, Horseless carriages are by no means new, ns in volume 13 of the Encyclo paedia Britanica, published in Edin burgh in 1810, there aro diagrams and a description of a horseless carriage invented by Mr. Ribhnrds, a physician in Rochelle. The machinery by which the movement was effected was plaoed in a box in the rear of tho carriage,
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