Them is :: new industry in tho West, j robbers knocking men's teeth out to secure the gold fillings. An illustratio* of tho ferment that is' going on iu V. is found iu the j number of new religious seet3 con- ; staidly arising. An addition of $11,000,000 a year will lie made to the Prussian Govern- j ment expenses by the proposed iu- ' crease of the salaries aud pensions of ! otlicirls, teachers and their families. j "Coal lands, iiou lands, copper j lands, in fact, under the present sys- ; tern of taxation, every district in | which wild lands have a great natural ! value, practically escape taxation," as serts the American Agriculturist. Experiment stations of tho United Slates are institutions that have as sumed large proportions. There are fifty-four of them,nil but two of which are mainly supported by the Hatch j fund of $15,000 per year from the I Federal treasury to each State. The j tolal payments from that source list' year for experiment stations was ' $720,000, aud the New England Home stead thinks it will surprise most peo ple to know that tho various States contributed aid to tho stations to tho amount of $208,000, while individuals and communities gave over SSOOO, and fees for fertilizer analyses and other work amounted to $52,000. Farm products were sold to the value of $70,000. IT is Majesty the King of Siam, who will return to his country byway of the United States niter a visit to Eu rope this summer, is expected to reach Nov.* York in the early part of Sep tember, and will remain in America about a month. The Hangkok news papers say this about the trip : "Tho European tour is expected to occupy about eight months, and, according to present arrangements, his Majesty's suit will consist of T. B. H. Princes Sommot, Mabit, and Sauphasat, Phva Srisdi, Xai Kajanat, Mom Anuyat, and two royal pages. During tho voyage to Europe H. P. IT. Prince Sauphasat will act as aide-de-camp to his Majesty, but on arrival those duties will be un dertaken by H. R. H. Prince Ciiirax. K. IT. 11. Prince Swasti Sobhon will also meet the King in Europe." On his visit here the King will visit Wash ington, Chicago, St. Louis, Denver, Salt Lake City and San Francisco. He will take passage at San Francisco on one ot' the Occidental and Oriental line steamships to Yokohama, whero the royal yacht will meet hiui and convey him back to Hangkok. T arper's Weekly says: A symptom of the modern tendency in rural life to approach urban compactness, which the trolley car has been oue of the potentinfluences to help along, has taken on recently a new form in tho attempt made to revise the old-time district school. In most country town?, of New England, and in the Middle and Western States, tho sys tem dividing a township into from live to twenty school districts still prevails. A generation ago no one could have conceived of the prnctica bility of any change in this plan. From the very beginning of our na tion's history it has been the district school that has furnished the loftiest and most inspiring theme for the ora tor and the poet. In Whittier's poem of "The Littie Red School House" all of us who have grown up from coun try bred childhood find our earliest and most tender memories refreshed. It certainly was a boon iu its day; but it would seem thero are reasons now for replacing it by a better species* In ome of the Western Reserve Ohio towns schools of thi- sort have already been abolished, and in their stead may be found in a central part of the township alarge two-storied structure, usually made of brick. The school having this liberal space can, from its systematized aud various grades, make education more comolete and carry it further than the best district school has ever been able to do. To this ceutral point, all the school chil dren are brought iu stages furnished for free transportation by the town. The vehicles hold about twenty-livo pupils, are comfortably fitted up, and are arranged so as to bo either open or covered. The routes, which are made to pass every house, are open to competitive bidders. The drivers of the stages go iu tho morning to tho < xtremest limits of tho township, and blow a horn when within car-shot of a house to notify the children who are to take passage. When the school hours are over, the stage reappears, and tho scholars are taken home. Tho system has been going about two years, but it is said to work perfectly. It needs no argument to show that this massing of scattered forces brings many advantages. j HE WO RHI ED ABOUT IT. | iYlieii the weather was murky, he gazed at | j the sky And he worried about It; fie watched the gray cloudlets go scurrying 1 by, An I he worried about it; | "I'll bet it will rain," lie would say to a I friend. All manner of dire disaster portend; His lifo was one fret from beginning to eud, . He had a few troubles, as human kind will, ; And he worried about it, Lie good ho b littlod and magnified ill, Aud he worried about it; ; Ills health was nigh perfect, but then, if you i please, j lie fancied he had mostly every disease, Aud martialed his ailments iu columns of | threes, Aud he worried about it. No doubt when bo entered the world long As a matter of fact, when lie marriod, you j ; And when he ilej arts from this scouo of do- j i Aisl mounts o:i liaat \vin.;s thro* ethereal I ' When usVrc right up to a heavenly chair, Ilo'il worry about It. .--St. Paul Dispatch. Tiff LOST" ISLAND. ift A ® I'ail called nt vi \A/ Mauritius ou our >• vL. V way from Liver r/f. pool to Bombay iu tho ship Fare -1 ■/WA* well, and were live C f'l l Vji W days out from tlio MUTINY I island when the ad !/,'■■ v K i.'iV' venture occurred l>7 which we lost j !y\\J the captain and VVV laid the foiindu- W tiou for this story. It was three o'clock in the afternoon of a bright day, aud the ship was not making above four knots au hour. What sea there was ou would not have bothered a quarter boat, aud the ship lifted to a wave only at long intervals. The second mate and I were superintending some work forward, while the captain was alone on the quarter deck. All of a sudden, and without the slightest warning, the sea began to boil and lieavo under and around us in tho most violent manuer, aud for five minutes every man had to hold on for his life. In her pitching the craft shipped three or four green seas, which cleared the decks of everything movable, hut we were congratulating ourselves that nil had escaped when the captaiu was found to he missing. The man at the wheel had had a nar row escape from being swept over board, and for two or three minutes had lost sight of Captain Graham. The lust sea we shipped had no doubt carried him nway, aud by the time we had come to this conclusion it was too late to make any move. The sea had been disturbed by an earthquake. .1 list where we were when the agitation began the chart showed tho depth to bo a full mile. Three months later, when soundings were taken by a French vessel, it was found that a luounfaiu, two miles in circum ference at the base, had been heaved up uutit its crest was only forty feet below the surface. The Bet of wind and wave before and after the agita tion was to tho westward, and ten minutes after the ship had come back to a level keel tho wind changed to the east and blew half a gale for the next seven hours. As a matter of record, the ship pursued her voyage aud miuio the port of Bombay without further adventure, and the remainder of the story relates to the captain. Ho was swept overboard by tho last wave, just as wo concluded, and pres ently found himself far to leeward among a lot ot' spars and casks which the same wave had taken from the main deck. While tho man seized a spar and passed a lashing around his body, he Ur.d no hope of roseue. Almost before ho realized his posi tion the ship was a mile away, and he felt sure that 110 boat would be low ered to make a search for him. The spar to which ho was lashed drifted away to the west and evening came on. Between five o'clock and sunset four ships passed tho drifting man, but all too iur away to see or hear, and when night, came down he felt that thero was no longer the slightest chance 'or him. He drifted to tho westward, as I have told you, but how fur has never been known. Night passed aud another day came, and toward the close ot that day Cap tain Graham lost consciousness. He may have drifted a day after that— perhaps two days. When he came to his senses again he was lying on a sandy beach, with his feet in the water. He had been cast ashore on an island. It was surely an island to the north and west of Madagascar, but for reasons which will bo explained later on it cannot be more definitely located. For an hour after opening his eyes the man could not unlash him self from the spar. When ho had finally accomplished that object he had to crawl on hands and knees to reach the shade of the bushes. It was high noon and tho weather hot, and the Captaiu was so exhausted that if he had not found fresh water and wild fruit at hand he must have perished. Ho ate and drank his fill and then slept, and tho sun was just rising next morning when he awoke. Tho island, when the castaway eamo to survey it, was about two miles and a half long by one mile in breadth, and "ts average height abovo tho sea WIIB not over fifteen feet. It was of volcanic origin and was entirely cov ered with verdure, and thero were six or seven different sorts of wild fruits. Along the beach were oysters aud shellfish in abundance, and the Cup- I tain soon assured himself that j tion would not be out; of the peridot iiis situatiou. What struck liitn curi ously was the entire absence of life on the island. There was neither animal nor bird, reptile nor insect. There should have been a dozen varieties of birds and an abundance of insect lile , on so fair a spot with its tropical cli j mate, but it was simply tenantless. | Aud yet there was life there, and where the castaway least expected. He had been on the island a week or so, and had twice walked clear around it, when one day as bo was gathering fruit iu an open spot he was suddenly and fiercely attacked by a naked man. The surprise was great, and the Cap tain had not yet recovered his strength, but, shaking the man off, ho seized *a club aud laid about him so vigorously that his assailant ran away. , It was a white man, and from the marks on his hands he must have beeu a sailor. llow long he had lived there j aud how he reached the island in the I first place are maters lor conjecture, ! but the fact of hie being nude went to I show that ho had been there long j enough to wear out his clothes. In : breaking away from the Captain he rau for the beach. The latter lollowed | at his heels, shouting for him to stop, but the unknown ran to the water, plunged iu, ami swam straight out to sea, looking back now and then and seeming to be iu a terrible fright. He held to his course until he could no longer bo seen, aud there wasno doubt he went to his death, as ho did not re turn. Iu a dense thicket the Captain found a rude shelter which the man had used, and umoug the dried grass forming his bed were a few fragments of cloth, which had once been a pea jacket. There was also a sailor's pipe and an empty tobacco box. Living there alone for years and years, with neither the note of a bird nor the chirp of a cricket to cheer him, the man had lost his mind, and, looking upon Cap tain Graham ;u nn intruder, had meant to take his life. When the castaway had been a month on the island without sighting a sail, ho made up his mind that the fate of the poor fellow who bad dashed into the sea would some day be bis. Only the surf beating on the shore and tho wind sighing through the trees broke the maddening silence brooding over the island, and the man shouted with delight when a galo swept oat of the west and blew down scores of trees about him. Ho felt that he would soon lose his mind unless he made a great effort to divert it Irom the gloomy situation, and he began a closer survey of tho island. The centre of it was considerably higher than elsewhere, aud exactly iu the middle was a single tree, surrounded by a thicket which ho had never yet penetrated. In carrying out his ex plorations he entered this copse, find ing a hard beaten path, evideutly made by a crazv man. Piled up at the roots of the tree tho Captain found a great stock of small, iron-bound boxes, and it needed but one glance to satisfy him that they were treasure boxes. Thero was the cavity where they bad once been buried, and the boxes were weather beaten as if long exposed. Two or three large shells lay about, which had doubtless been used to dig out the dirt, and one o: the boxes had beeu onened. The Captain shouldered this box and carriod it down to the spot ho ealled "home," and thero inspected its contents. In contained about SGOOO in gold coin of all nations, but prin cipally English, and not a coin among them was of recent date. In fact, there were some which no longer cir culated in England or India. Erom the material and construction the Captain judged that the boxe3 had been made by a ship's carpenter. In the pile at the i ot of the tree were fifteen other bones of the same size. One was broken open, and its contents found to be the same as the first, and the amount very nearly the same. There was a total, as tho Captain figured, of SIOO,OOO more or less. This was based on the supposition that all tho boxes contained gold, but as he looked into only two he could not be sure of the contents of tho others. How came the treasure thero? Cap tain Graham believed it tobeapirate's caehe, aud that the gold had been there loug years before ho was thrown on the beuoh. Perhaps the mad sailor had beeu one of the pirate crew. It was certain that he had unearthed tho treasure ut any rate, aud it was hardly probable that lp; stuiublod upon it by accident. Well, there was a big fortune there, and it belonged to the fiuder, but it might have been so much sand for all the good it could do him. Days and weeks and months passed away, aud one day tho castaway counted the peb bles he had laid in rows along the beach to murk tho time, aud found that ho bad been eleven mouths on the island. On that day there came a furi ous galo from the oast, with a very high tide, and from some wreck at sea the waves brought in n vast quantity of stuff. There wus nothing to eat or to wear among the wreckage, but there were planks and spars and a carpenter's tool chest, and as soon as tho storm had abatod the castaway went to work to build him a raft. He had determined to loavo the island at any hazard, and after four or five tluys' work ho had his raft completed. It was a rude but stout affair. Wild fruits were taken for provisions, and lresh water was taken in a wine keg which had come ashoro with tho wreckage. From one of tho boxes the Caplain took SSOO in gold pieces, and one morning when the wind was from the west lie launched his raft aud drifted off before it. By his reckon ing, which is probably correct, it was seven days beforo he was picked up by the John J. Spoed, an American mer chant vessel, homeward bound. The raft had made good weather of it, drifting most of the time to the east, and the captain judged her total drift to have beeu one hundred miles. I His loss hr.il been alluded to in the newspapers and talked of n/noug I sailors, and he ws given a hearty welcome aboard the American. He related his adventures in full, except I as to the treasure, and in duo time J v/fts landed at Capo Town. He had figured out the latitude and longitude of his island to his own satisfaction, but the chart on board the Speed failed to show any such island. Cap tain Graham at once set about fiuuiug a ship to bring the treasure off. A brig was flually chartered, but after a cruise of mouths she failed to find tho island. Where Graham said tho island ought to be lead found bottom at forty feet, and in the immediate neighbor hood a mass of trees and bushes was found floating about. But for certain things the whole story wonld have been put down to sheer imagination. It was a fact beyond dispute that Captain Graham was swept overboard. He was picked up off a raft eleven months later. Where had he lived in the interval if not 011 j an islaud? There was the raft to prove his story, and how about the gold pieces? Some of them were so old as to liavo an additional value as souvenirs, and scores of people at the Cape handled them. Where did ho get the money if not from one of tho treasure boxes on the island? In tho space of two years ho made three different voyages in search of his island, and when the story leaked out three or four other expeditions were fitted out, but in ail the sailing to and fro no human eye could find the looked for spot. It had been raised l'rom tho sea by a volcanic distur bance. Had a second disturbance caused the sea to swallow it up? There are many reasons to believe that this was the fate which overtook it. About ton years after the cap tain's last voyage a volcanic island, which was simply a barren rock about a milo in circumference, was pushed above water about where his islund was supposed to be, and it is there to day with a fringe of trees all around its outer edge. It has been searched inqh by inch for treasure, but not u a single gold piece has yielded up. Flowers Delivered by Wire. If you wish to send a box of Ameri can beauties to some person in San Francisco to-mght you can buy them in Chicago and have them delivered fresh and fragrant within half an hour. If your fair ono resides in New Orleans, Boston or Philadelphia, or any other large American city, you can do the same thing in the same way. It can bo done even in the Eu ropean capitals. Florists of the United States are in a pool for the rapid delivery of blos soms. The pay for the service is ef fected by a system of trade balances through a sort of cloaring house. You go to a florist in Chicago and tell hiin you want to send two dozen American beauties to so and so in San Francisco. Ho makes out a bill, plus the cost of a telegram, takes the money, and the iiowers are in the hands of the reci pient almost as quickly as if delivery were made in Chicago. The telegraphic delivery of flowers is called into p'a.v frequently. If a friend is to be married and some ono who hoped to attend the ceremony cannot do so for any reason, it is a pleasure to know that a vase of roses takes the place of the absent one. If he likes, his card may bo attached to the white ribbon that binds the long stems loosely together. When death comes suddenly a tri bute may bo placed upon the casket ! of the departed almost as if laid there J by tho loving bauds of the sender. In Piccadilly and Regent street, : London, there are two French florists I who carry on a sort of International floral clearing house. There is no agency or member .iu Chicago. * Put from Now York oue can order flowers sent to friends iu London, Brighton, Paris, Berlin, Nice, Rome, Madrid, Alexandria, Constantinople, Vicuna and St. Petersburg.—Chicago Tribune. Third Set of Upper Teeth, Mrs. J. J. Lower, an aged lady, re siding at Orrville, Wayne County, Ohio, is experiencing a singular freak of naturo in the way of cutting her third set of upper teeth, she having lost her original second set ten years ago, after a severe ifttack of sickness. Early last full she suffered greatly from weakness of her eyesight and an inflamed condition of her eyes. Since then she also suffered from much swelling and pain of tho gums. Tho result iH a large-sized eve tooth, which is almost full grown, while other teeth are rapidly pushing their way through tho gums. Dr. Eugene D. Yager, who extracted and made Mrs. Lower's arti ficial teeth, pronounces tho case al most unknown in tho history of den tistry.—Cleveland Plaiu Dealer. A Tree Clock. Professor Roberts, of Cornell, has growing around his house what he calls a "tree clock." Trees are planted in such positions that one of them will shade a portion of the house at every hour of sunlight. For example, ex plains Rural New Yorker, at 9 o'clock in the morning the "9 o'clock tree" shades a part of tho piazza, while, as the sunlight changes, the "10 o'clock tree" shades another part, and so on through the day. On a hot summer I day this "tree clock" insures a sue- j cession of shady places around tlv house. The Camilla King's Gift. John G. Garibaldi, of Chicago, known throughout tho Northwest as tho "Banana King" is to build u home in Chicago for aged and indigent Italians. The Italian col any in Chi cago numbers 30,000 and they have never had such an institution. Mr. - Garibaldi came to the Western metrop ; olis from Italy in 18G3, a penniless , boy, and by his industry and business : sagacity he has become a millionaire. SHARKS BIG AS WHALES, MARINE MONSTERS THAT INHABIT THE INDIAN OCEAN. Some are Seventy Feet Lonj:—So Powerful Tliey Easily Drag Coats Beneath the Water's Surface. SOME years ago, sai J an ex-Con sul to one of tho Indian ocean ports to a reporter of the Philadelphia JTirnes, I spent nearly a year on the Island of Mauri tius, making a study of the natural products of the country for acommer cial firm in Loudon, and, incidentally, of tho animals for a society of which I was a member. Among other things I investigated was the fishing, and I soon learned that, there was an extraordinary swordlish, known as tho ; saillish, on the coast, which was sup posed to be very dangerous, and wheu attacked often turned on the boat and destroyed it. As one of the risks of the country I looked into it and found that there were at least two or three accidents yearly in which no ono returned to to tell tho story. Bnt I soon made up my mind that the swordlish had nothing to do with it, a fact which I proved in a singular and unexpected way. I hired a boat, or a pirogue, one day, with half a dozen men, to go on a bunt for a sailflsb. I discarded their crude methods and took n regu lar harpoon, with a good stout rope for towing and a keg to throw over, alter the fashion of tho New England lishermen. Onea in the oQing, beyond tho reef that was a garden in its beauty of coral growth, ono of the men pointed away on the horizon, where he said ho saw a saillish. The bout was turned in the direction indicated and soon I observed what appeared to be a beautiful sail. Tue nearer we ap- I proachcd the more charming it became j in its coloring; rich yellows, greens nnd purples combined to make it a magnilicent picture, and I could think only of a mimic and diminutive gallev of Cleopatra, where all the sails were rich in coloring. The fin was so tall and large that from a little distance it seemed ex actly like the small sail of a vessel, and quivored nnd scintillated as tile liali moved along. The lish paid little or 110 attention to the boat, so that it was an easy matter to run alongside. A few minutes later we had tho har poon in it, and it was towing the buoy away over the water, exactly as does tho American swordlish. It was ulti mately captured in the same man ner. I then set the sail and we went four or live miles out to seu to a certain reef to try the fishing. Whilo there the men suddenly became very much oxcitcd at the sight of the tin of a large fish coming near the boat. Some of them wanted me to strike it, others wore vociferous in their demand that we should pull for the shore, but in my sublimu confidence, the rosnlt oi perfect ignorance, I ordored the anchor palled up and wo rowed to ward the fish. It permitted us to run alongside, a3 a whale wonld, and when almost over it the harpoon was thrown. I huvo had a somewhat extended ex perience with large fishes and have even been behind a seventy-foot whale, but the result ol this strike surprised me. Immediately an enor mous tail and body rose into the air, by a miracle missing the boat, the tail coming down with such force that had it struck the light craft it would have broken it into splinters. The same moment the animal souudod with such impetuosity that the bow of the boat was jerked under water, and when thelrope broke, as it fortunately did, we floated half lull ot water, which was with difficulty bailed out. One old native in the crew said that wo had had a fortunate escape, a3 had the line held we should have been hauled beneath the surface as it fouled. Such a result was very appar ent, and I saw at once the cause of tho mysterious losses. This fish was so powerful that with comparative ease it could drag a large boat beneath the surface in case the lines fouled and were strong enough. Several of tho natives told me of inci dents illustrating the remarkable power of the fish, and some of them had been in boats or eauoes that had been jerked beneath the surface and had made their escape by the breaking of tho rope. The fish was undoubtedly the larg est shark in the world, a spotted mar bled monster that weighed almost as much as a large whale and uttained a length of seventy or more feet. It was a singular creature, with mouth not placed beneath the head, as in the man-eater, and with enormous gill openings. Its teeth were small and it had a series of whalebone-like iingors in tbem, calling to mind the bone shark of American waters. This shark, rhinodon typicus, a3 it is called by science, is well known at the Seychelles Islands, where the pi rogues of tho natives are often de stroyed by it. It is oftou mistaken for a whale and harpooned, when its light ning-like rushes either earry the boats beneath the surface or destroy them. Very few specimens He—"Will you come to my wed ding?" She—"Whom are you going to marry?" He— "You."—Tit-Bits. CYNICAL. The Happy Man—"l tell you, old fellow, a man doesn't know what real happiness is until he's married." Cynical Friend—"Then he finds that it consists in being single. Brooklyn Life. A CHRONIC WEAKNESS. Mr. Backpedal (tenderly, to Miss Breaker, as thoy wheel down tho Boulevard)—" Are you tired, Miss Breaker?" Miss Breaker—"No; but my wheel is."—Judge. CONFESSION. Mrs. Talkerly—"So you arc going to marry Colonel Landly, my dear. And [ hear you love tho ground ha walks on?" Miss Shnrpleigh—"Yes; it belongs to him."—Tit-Bits. HOW HE FOUND OUT. Coa Vivial—"Doctor, mv wife suf fers greatly from insomnia." Physician "lnsomnia? How do you know?" Con Vivial—"Why, every time I some home at two or three o'clock in the morning I always find her wide twakc!"—Puck. SAVING TROUBLE. "I guess I'll propose to Herrietta," said the young man, thoughtfully. "I had supposed you admired Ma tilda most." • "Oh, I do admire her ever so much. But I've got some poetry addressed to 'Marietta'—a young woman who mar ried last month, and I'm afraid it wonld be a good deal of work to go through it and make it rhyme with Matilda."—Washington Star. 51ATRIMON1AL PROONOSTICATIONS, "So yon wish to leave to get mar ried, Mary ? I bopo you have givon tho matter a serious consideration?" "Oh, I have, sir," was the reply. "I've been to two fortune-tellers and a clairvoyant, and looked in a sign book, and dreamed on a lock of his hair, and been to one of those astero logors, and to a nieejum, and they all tell me to go ahond, sir. I ain't one to marry reckless like, sir."—House hold Words. FEMININE FINANCE. Mrs. Blocklcy—"John, do you know that Royal Worcester vase I bought yesterday for twenty dollars? Well, they reduced them to ten dollars this morning." Mr. Blockley—"Then you are ten dollars out by not waiting until this morning." Mrs. Bloekloy—"No ; ouly five. I went down to day and bought another one for teu, making two of them averaging fifteen dollars each."— Puck. HE KNEW THE KEY. A young man leaned up against the counter of a branch telegraphic office where two pretty young ladies are em ployed as telegraphors. He had been chatting with them for about an hoar, but had forgotten to say that at ono period of his life he himself had been an operator. During a lull in tho conversation one of tho young ladies "oDened" her key and said to the other: "What do you think of his nibs at the counter?" "Dcn't think much of him," was the reply. "Why?" "Oh, he makes me tired—he talks like a parrot." "He makos me tired, too—wish he would sneak." The young man broke in at this juncture and said: "Ladies, I thank ' you for the compliments you have be stowed upon me, and as you are tired of my company, I'll sneak." The numerous colors of the rain bow wonld not be sufficient to describe the changes that took place in the vonng ladies' faces. There is a moral attached to this tale and young ladies in branch offices and elsewhere would ' do well to take heed."