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 <sf this fish have
been examined by white men. There
is one specimen in the Colombo Mus
eum which is twenty-three feat in
length, and which was taken in a net
by some Cingalese.
Dr. Wright, of the Dublin Univer
sity, observed one of those sharks that
was fifty feet in length, and had the
assurance of competont witnesses that
they had beon taken seventy or eighty
feet in length. One hundred years
ago there were giant sharks near Capo
Cod, whore a monster almost as largo
as the rhinodon was followed with
such persistency that the rest almost
entirely disappeared, only one now
and then being taken.
Tho largoßt on record was about
seventy feet in length, and was taken
by lie schooner VirgiD. When hauled
alongside it was seen to be longer than
the schooner, that was of" sixty-eight
tons burden. The \irgin harpooned
another, which was apparently still
larger. Such a shurk is more active
than a whale, and could easily carry a
large boat under water, and to these
fishes may be laid many of the mys
terious casualties of the deep sea.
WISE WORDS.
Great people always have small
enemies.
To be a lion for a day, would spoil
a sheep forever.
Habits are the ruts worn in a road
habitually traveled.
The hardest problems to solve are
the providences of God.
The secret of u secret is to know
how and when to tell it.
Grief is an outcast, and no man
grasps his hand cordially.
Every man is our neighbor, who
needs our compassion and help.
The knack of easy travel is in know
ing how to keep ready all the time.
The man who wears a face like a
coffin, should not complain if he iind3
no welcome.
The giar.ts who frighten us most,
often turn out to be common-sised
man on stilts.
The man who gets up in this world
by putting another man down, loses
more than he gains.
Teach a boy no higher morality
than that honesty is good policy, and
he will only be honest when it is
policy.
The man who falls 011 a banana skin
once will have sympathy, but he will
only make fun for the boys the next
time he lands on his back.
There is nobody we like better than
the man who is willing to speak his
opinions, exoept the man who is will
ing to keep them to himself.
It is doubtful if even angels ever
weep any over the man who never
finds out where the mud is, until he
gots into it up to his noek.—Ram's
Horn.
Music in the Bible.
Dr. Cyrus Acller, of tlio Smithsonian
Institution, lectured in Philadelphia
at the Mickve Israel Synagogue, under
the auspices of the Mickve Israel Con
gregation, on * 'The Musical Instru
ments of the Bible and Their Modern
Bepreseutatives." The lecture was
illustrated with a number of stereop
ticon pictures of ancient musical in
struments as shown in statues and oas
relief and their prototypes of the
present day. The different musical
instruments of the Bible were de
scribed in detail by Dr. Adler, under
the following three classes: Instru
ments of percussion, wind instruments
and string instruments. The only
musical instrument used among the
ancient Israelites of which wc have)a
contemporary representation is the
long trumpet preserved in the arch of
Titus in Home. This resembles the
modern "n'feer" of the Moors. The
only instrument used in ancient times
which is still in use is the "suofor,"
or ram's horn, blown in the synagogues
on the Hebrew New Year Day and the
Day of Atonement. Other ancient
instruments which have their repre
sentations in modern forms are the
tabret and or baud drum, cymbals,
tho flute or pipe, the double flute, the
bagpipe, tho harp, the psaltry or dul
cimer. Various instruments not cer
tainly identified, mentioned IU tho
Bible, are evidently instruments in
tended to accompany particular
Psalms, aud these nro named accord
ing to the instruments which were
used in the accompaniment to their
rhythmic rendering.
Steel Mantels.
The introduction of steel mantels ia
being largely favored by Eastern build
ers in the construction of dwellings.
In these, all the surface below the slab
is composed of twenty-gauge wrought
steel, pressed into tho desired shape
or stylo by heavy machinery, tho out
side surface being enameled to imi
tate any kind of wood or marble, the
nature of this enameling being such
that the material will withstand all
changesof temperature without injury.
Of the advantages pertaining to such
mantels, iu addition to their economy,
prominence is given to that of dimin
ished weight, as compared with tho
slate or marble mantel, which they
take tho place of, one of tho latter
weighing, say, some 400 pounds, while
one of steel weighs only 100, this also
including seventy pounds for the slate
slab which is supplied with the metal
mantel-pieces. Such mantels hold
their shape if the house settles, as
thero are no joints to part; they are
fireproof, and act as a radiator of the
heat instead of absorbing it.
What Scurvy Is.
Though scurvy is popularly sup
posed to appear only during long sea
voyages it has been known in besieged
cities, camps, prisons and even among
a destitute rural population. Dr.
Joseph Jones, who was a surgeon in
the Confederate army, estimated that
nine tenths of tho great mortality in
tho prison at Andersonvillc, Ga., dur
ing tho Civil War was due directly or
iudiroctly to scurvy. Many causes,
such as depressing mental emotion,
fatigue, exposure to cold and wet,
neglect of ventilation and cleanliness,
and insufficient food undoubtedly con
tribute to the production of scurvy.
Its essential cause, however, is a defi
ciency of some important constituent
of food.
Always Hungry.
The greatest living authority on In
dian statistics calculates that from
30,000,000 to 40,000,000 people
scarcely ever lose the sensation of
hunger—in fact, do not know the feel
ing of a full stomach except iu the
mango season.
THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE.
STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BY THE
PUNNY MEN OP THE PRESS.
A Toast—Assurance—In a Barber
Shop—An Offensive Bequest—A
Woman's Reason, Kte.
Illustrious Greece! Here's health to you.
Who dares the Turk to brave,
While greater Powers to keep the peace
Would leave poor Creto a slave.
Let loso the does of war, and when
The battle's dia shall cease.
Here's hoping Europe's map will show
A larger spot of Greece.
—Charles S. Carter.
A WOMAN'S REASON. '
"Why does Mrs. Van Meter halo
Mrs. McMasters so cordially?"
"Somebody told her they looked
enough alike to be sisters."—Chicago
Journal.
AN OFFENSIVE REQUEST.
"What was the nature of the trouble
you had with your last nurse giri?"
"She didn't like it because I asked
her to stay at home with the chil
dren."—Judge.
IN A BAUIIEIi SHOP.
Barber (putting on finishing
touches) — " What'll you havo ou your
head?"
Customer—"A little more hair,
please."—Judge.
ASSURANCE.
> 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."