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A compiler of statistics recently an
nounced that fifty per cent, of the
personages in the "Dictionary of Na
tional Biography," a British publica
tion, were children of clergymen.
The "Soo" Canal was built and Is
owned and operated by the United i
States. It carries fifty per cent: more
tonnage than the Suez Canal, and our
Government dors not charge the ships
that use it a cent. British vessels have
the benefit of it as well as American.
The destruction of the Palisades, j
which ha- brought the reproach of j
vandalism upon two rich States, has
Been stopped ly the commission ap
pointed for that purpose until the Ist
of June next, by which time it is |
hoped that the Legislatures of New |
York and New Jersey will establish j
an interstate park along the river aud I
preserve the Palisades forever.
The Philadelphia Record observes:
•'When free from every form of ner
vous debility a person may expose
himself to draughts, dampness and
other usual causes of colds and escape
entirely, while at another time, when
weary or depressed from any cause,
he may become the victim of a fatal
attack of pneumonia from a much
slighter • xposure. The nervous origin
of colds seems to bo recognized by all '
physicians who have made a special i
study of acute diseases of the lungs
and throat."
Continued satisfactory results are rc- j
ported of the operation of the indeter
minate sentence and the parole law in
Indiana, even exceeding the hopes of
those who were favorable to the law. I
Much of the improvement in the penal
institutions due to the new laws can
not he told, but the tangible results
shown In figures are very encouraging.
From the reformatory 71S men have
been paroled since April, 1597, and un
satisfactory results are reported in
only eighteen per cent, of the cases.
Better figures even are given by the
State prison, which reports that of the |
2.70 men paroled only twenty-three, or !
nine per cent., have violated the par- '
ole. The wages earned by the paroled
men, including the hoard furnished
them, aggregate $170,150, practically
all of which would have been lost lo
1 lie men and their families under the
old system.
lliileit in Greece.
Consul McGinley reports to the State
Department from Athens: "The Greek
health authorities require that nil
trunks, packages, etc., the personal
baggage of travelers, when unaccom
panied by their owners, must, on ar
rival at any port in Greece, be accom
panied by a certificate of origin or a
certificate from the health authorities
of the port from which the baggage
was shipped to Greece. As ignorance
of the foregoing rule has caused many
American travelers delay and trouble
in regaining possession of such hag
gage, and as thousands of Americans
annually visit Athens and others parts
of Greece, this information should he
published widely in order that they
may come prepared with the necessary
certificates to release their baggage
without delay.—The Express Gazette.
Vienna Wires Cannot Cross.
In Vienna effective means of pre
venting future accidents through the
breaking of overhead trolley wires
have been decided upon. All telephone
and telegraph wires which cross trol
ley wires are to lie placed underground
in the form of cables at the point
where the crossings occur.
Up to 1701 there were hut three banks
in the United States, with an aggregate
capital of $.2,000,000. Last year there
were 3.651 National banks in the coun
try and the total capital invested in
banks of all kinds in the United States
siaouiiu to almost $8.0c0,000,000.
In Japan It 13 customary for the
bride to give all her wedding pres
ents <0 her parents.
LOVE AND I.
Wf hold hands,
Love and I;
And bit together;
We spread the book of llfo
Upon our knees and turn its loaves,
In l'air or cloudy weather,
To see
But pictures there and poetry.
There may be hard, dry prose
Somewhere upon those
Pages; yet we see
But pictures there aud poetry;
And sigh for those
Who only lind the hard dry prose.
—William J. Lamptou in the New York
Sun.
j A Coiiry Cousin. [
Tho news and thu dessert were
served simultaneously. "By George,
if I hadn't nearly forgotten!" quoth
Stafford pere. Ho rummaged in an
inner pocket. "Can't find the letter.
Must have left it at the ofiice. Any
how, it's from my cousin. Godfrey
Chester "
"Now, Henry!" interrupted the mild
voice of Mrs. Stafford in amused ex
postulation. "Why will you keep up
that Action about the cousinship? It
is mythical, and you know it!"
"It's certainly remote," conceded the
beaming paterfamilias at the opposite
end of the table, "but there once was
a relationship—a long time ago, I ad
mit. But Chester and I have taken
the world as we found it. He's a good
fellow and I've always been urging
him to manage that our young people
may become acquainted. He writes
that his daughter will pass through
Chicago tomorrow cn the way to New
York, and will spend a few days with
us. He says he wishes one of my
family would moot her. Bless my
soul, here's the letter after all!" He
put on his spectacles and read
aloud:
" 'You can't mistake her. She's a |
curly-headed little girl, in a gray gown
aud a hat with gray feathers. She's
ti nice child, and I'll he glad to have
her meet your youngsters.' There!" I
"A child!" groaned Ralph, who was
"2 and studious.
He swallowed his cafe noir at a
gulp and rose disgustedly.
"Youngsters, indeed!" cried Dick
disdainfully. "Does he take us for
klndergartners ?"
Ross, who was the eldest, smiled in
quite a superior and disinterested
fashion. He boasted a flourishing
mustache. He was studying law.
Plainly, the subject had no interest
for him.
"Eh, but one of you must meet the
child!" cried the head of the house.
"You'll go, Ralph?"
"Can't, sir. I'm doing an article on
tho architecture of the tenth century.
It takes a lot of research. I'll he all
morning in the Newberry library."
Henry Stafford, huge of girth, rose
ate of visage and twinkling of eye,
turned Ills harvest moon face implor
ingly toward his youngest son.
"You, Dick?"
"Got a golf match on. Can't make
it, sir."
"Dear, dear! If your sister were
only at home "
"She'll bo hack tomorrow after
noon," put in Mrs. Stafford.
"But the little girl gets here in the
morning. She must he met. She is
from a comparatively small town.
She would bo quite bewildered were
she to And herself alone in Chicago.
Besides, I'm under several obliga
tions to Chester in a business way."
He sent the good looking young fellow
with the mustache an appealing
glance.
"I wonder now, Ross, If you "
Ross laughed leniently.
"You poor, perplexed old chap!
Yes, I'll see that the child gets here
all right."
"Good!" said Henry Stafford, with a
sigh of relief. "Good!"
But when the Western train disgorg
ed its jostling multitude in the Union
depot the following morning Ross
Stafford, standing close by the iron
gates, found that he had undertaken
a task of greater magnitude than he
had at the time imagiaed. There was
such a crush of people, stout and thin,
tall and short, big and little. There
were children—processions of them.
But they all seemed to belong to the
folks who hurried them along. Never
: a glimpse could he catch of a curly
headed little girl in a gray gown,
wearing a hat with gray feathers. Or
—was the dress brown? By Jove! 1-Ie
i wasn't even sure of that,
j The last laggard group trickled
away. Ross knew the conductor of
tho Denver train—spoke to him as ho
came hurrying along.
! "All off your train, Brigham?"
j "Sure."
"There was a little girl coming to
Chicago—had curly hair—a blue dress
—a green hat—blest if 1 remember!
Wasn't she on?"
j "Alone, was she?"
| "Yes."
j "No, sir. Didn't come. Sure?
Course I am."
I Ross wheeled around,
j "Well, I'll telephone the folks that
she wasn't on. Dad can wire her peo
ple and find out —1 beg your pardon!"
i And he suddenly found himself bow
ing profoundly, hat in hand, before a
i young woman with whom he had nl
-1 most collided in his haste, a slender
i young woman, a graceful young wom
an, a lovely young woman, as his sus
j ceptible heart Instantly acknowledged.
I She accepted his apology with a
' slight bend of tho head—a vivid blush,
i Half way up the stairs he glanced back
j saw her standing where he had left
i her. He hesitated —went back.
"You are waiting for some one? Can
J 1 bo of service?"
"Thank you/' Ye gods, what a sweet
voice. "I am afraid there has been a
mistake. No one has come to meet
me. May I ask you to call a cab?"
And when he had done so. when she
had thanked him, when he stood bare
headed on the curbstone as the vehicle
rolled away, he recollected that he had
not listened to the address she had
given to the driver, and he walked off
in a towering rage at his own imbecil
ity.
Never was there so dreary a day, al
though the late August sunshine found
its way into his office. Never had the
reading of the law seemed such a dull
and tiresome drudgery. Never before
had the pages blurred into a mass of
meaningless black marks. But, then—
never before had a bewitching young
face come between him and his bookfv
a face with reddish-gold ringlets clus
tering around a white forehead, and
shy eyes the color of woodland vio
lets!
He leaped from his seat as a bright
thought struck him. lie would hunt
up the cabman. That was the thing
to do! But, although he hung around
the Union depot for two whole hours,
and questioned every jehu within
reach, he could not find the man he
sought. It was evidently that particu
lar cabman's busy day.
Tired and disgusted, Ross Stafford
took a plunge at the athletic club, got
himself home, shrugged himself into
his evening clothes, for he was going
out after dinner, and went down to
the parlor to find hiself face to face
with the divinity of the red-gold ring
lets and the violet eyes!
"Ross, my dear," cooed Mrs. Staf
ford, "let me introduce you to Miss
Chester, whom somehow you managed
to miss this morning. Why, you "
For they were smiling at each other
—merrily, spontaneously.
"Indeed, no, mother!" Perhaps he
held the pretty hand she gave him a
little longer than was necessary. "I
met Miss Chester this morning. Did
she not tell you I put her in a cab?"
Miss Chester laughed. Ross Stafford
laughed. And the bewilderment of the
house of Stafford, of the golfing son,
and the studious son, as they v/ere in
turn presented, set them laughing
again.
"Lord bless me!" cried Stafford sen
ior, ruffling his hair; "your father said
you were a little girl!"
"Oh, I shall never be grown up to
papa!" criea Miss Chester.
"He said," stammered the young
man who was getting up an article on
the architecture of the tenth century,
"that —that you were a nice child!"
"Don't you think," queried Adele
Chester, mischievously, "that I'm
nice?"
Whereat Ralph grew guiltily red.
"A gray gown!" gasped Dick. "And
—and a hat with gray feathers!"
"My traveling costume. Don't you,"
with sparkling eyes, "find this becom
ing?"
"This," was a trailing, foamy, be
rufiled robe, all delicately green and
white as the crest of a breaker, a dress
that revealed while concealing the
snowiness of arms and bosom. Becom
ing! Ross told lier then and there how
becoming. Not in words—dear no!
But words are so stupid—sometimes.
Helen Stafford reached home before
dinner was over. Her brothers' rap
turous reception amazed her! Never
had she known how they missed her!
Nor could she dream that each of the
three young hypocrites was saying to
himself, "She won't go oast in such a
hurry if she and Helen take to each
other."
They did take to each other. Ross
found it was not necessary to keep his
engagement that evening, and permit
ted his friend to cool his heels alone
at their appointed rendezvous. Ralph
learned his tenor went wonderfully
well with the pure soprano of their
guest. And Dick was so anxious to
initiate Miss Chester into the mys
teries of flashlight pictures that he
made himself no end of a bore. The
country cousin of the Staffords did
not to go east that week—nor the next.
When she did go all the mirth and
laughter of the Stafford domicile
seemed to go with her. One morning
a week after her departure Ralph and
Dick said some bitter things when they
discovered that Ross had found out he
must attend to business in New York,
and had left for that city on the mid
night train. And when Ross returned,
silent, but smiling .and exultant, they
wore not at all backward about telling
him with true fraternal frankness their
opinion of his conduct.
"You wore awfully good to go to
meet that little country lassie!" com
mented Ralph witheringly. "I believe
you knew all the time she was the
prettiest kind of a young girl!"
"Kindness—sheer kindness on my
part, dear boy! But, as I have striven
to impress on you, virtue is ever its
own reward."
"Oh, come off!" entreated Dick.
"You just got the inside track, and
you kept it."
"I assure you in taking my late
hasty trip I had only the best inter
ests of my brothers at heart. My sole
ambition was to secure you the most
charming sister-in-law in the world!"
Helen jumped up.
"Oh, Ross! Did you—did she "
He laughed quizzically.
"Adele gave me a message for you,
my dear. She said to tell you that you
are to be "
"What—-Ross?"
"Bridesmaid!" —Chicago Tribune.
A Itoor'ft Unkind .Toko.
A trooper in Paget's Horse who was
taken prisoner writes home that the
Boer commandment, slyly pointing to
the letters P. H. on his prisoner's hel
met, asked; "What does 'P. H.' stand
for? 'Perfectly Harmless* ?" —West-
minster gazette.
Every man has his field of useful
ness, but lots of them aro too lazy to
| climb the fence.
A PSYCHIC PHENOMZNON.
In This (nun No Heed Wio raid tm tht
Warning*.
"Speaking of superstitions and
Strange warnings that come to
people," said a veteran Washington
correspondent, "I had an experience
once that i hardly know how to ac
count for. 1 may say in advance that
1 don't believe in any of the business
that cannot be demonstrated scienti
fically. One day, not a great while
after the present elevator to the house
press gallery had been put in. my
mother sent for me to stop at her
house on my way down town, as she
had something particular to see me
about. I went, and she asked me if
there wasn't a new elevator to the
press gallery. I told her one had
been put in three or four months be
fore that. She said that was it. and
that 1 must not ride in it. for she
had dreamed the night before that 1
had been crushed to death in it. I
laughed at her, of course, and went
on my way. Down on P street I met
an aunt who told me she had some
thing odd to tell me. She said she
had been the day before, with a niece
of her husband, to see a fortune tell
er, as the niece had taken a fancy to
see one of those fakirs. The fortune
teller, however, instead of telling the
niece anything, had directed her re
marks to her (my aunt) and had told
her that she had a relative, a young
man, whom she should warn, as he
would be crushed to death in an ele
vator. That was rather a jar to me,
as I was her only young man relative,
and as I had so shortly before been
warned by my mother. However. I
laughed at her also and went on my
way to the Capitol.
"I went about the committee rooms
awhile, and at last. Quite forgetful
of my late warnings, went to the ele
vator to go up to the gallery. The
elevator man, an old fellow whom I
had known for some time, was in the
cage when I got there, and before
opening it he talked to me through
the bars.
" 'J don't know.' said he. 'whether
I ought to let you come in here or
not.'
" 'Why not?' I inquired, laughing.
" 'Because,' said he. as serious as
could be, 'I dreamed last night that I
had run the elevator up too high and
that as you started to get in you
slipped some way under it. and when
I got down to you at the bottom of the
shaft you were smashed to death.'
"This looked like the 'fatal' three
warnings,' and I confess I had a few
doubts myself, but I had some nerve
left, and I jollied him on his notion
and got in. On ray way up I told
him what my mother and my aunt
had told me, and the old fellow was
so scared that he hardly knew what to
do, but I got through all right, and
up to date I have not been crushed in
that elevator or any other, but, of
course, that's no sign I won't be, and
if I ever am. the cranks will be sure
to hold me up as a frightful exam
ple. I suppose there are some people
who wouldn't ride in that elevator for
all kinds of money, and still they
may fall down stairs at any moment
and break their necks." —Washington
Star.
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.
The highest spot inhabited by hu
man beings on this globe is the Bud
dhist cloister of Hanle, Tibet, where
21 monks live at an altitude of 16,000
feet.
Three miles from the village cf
Krisuvik, in the great volcanic district
of Iceland, there is a whole mountain
composed of eruptive clay and pure
white sulphur. A beautiful grotto pen
etrates the western slope to an un
known depth.
In the western part of British Col
umbia is a novel railway, two miles in
length. The rails are made of trees
from which the bark has been stripped,
and these are bolted together. Upon
them runs a car with grooved wheels
ten inches wide.
Bug eccentricities are being brought
into a special collection by the British
museum. It has now motns with male
wings on one side and female wings
on the other; butterflies with no fore
wings, and insects with an abnormal
number of antennae or of legs.
Ed. Geoghegan of West Point, Ivy.,
has the most remarkable horse in that
state, if not in the United States. This
horse has as keen a scent for a par
tridge as any setter or pointer in the
country. He can scent tliem from 75
to 100 feet, and never makes a mis
take. 110 pays no attention to rab
bits or to any bird but the partridge.
One would think that 12 wrs
more entitled to be considered an
"even" number than 10, for its half
is an "even," whereas the half of ten
is "odd." on the Stock Exchango
12 is an "odd" number. The
house takes Ave shares as the basis of
dealing, remarks Commerce, and all
multiples ©f fiv? are considered "even"
numbers. Any intermediate numbers
arc "odd," and parcels of shares not
divisible by five arc difficult to sell,
except at a reduced price.
Order! Order!
The dignity of the House of Com
mons consists in inventing all sorts of
childish excuses for shouting "Order!"
After a few years of it the average
member seems to become a sort of au
tomatic machine wound up to shout
"Order!" The House would shout
"Order!" if the place were struck with
lightning, just as mechanically as it
shouts "Order!" if a member puts an
awkward question to a cabinet minis
ter. —Ix>ndon Echo.
THE MINE BREAKER BOY
MOST CROTESQUE AND PATHETIC
OF COLLIERY TYPES.
Part Ho riay* in tlio Mine*, nil SI C n
I-aiiltuage— What He Huh to Look For
ward To —The Summer Senaon (.runts
Relief from the ilreury Winter Trial*.
The strike at the Pennsylvania coal
mines is happily a thing of the past,
but it will be many years before one
of the most grotesque and pathetic of
the mining types who figured in it will
fade from the memory of those who
had the opportunity of observing him
at close range, writes the Hazclton
(Penn.) correspondent of the New
York Post. We heard quite a little
during the progress of the strike of
the "breaker-boy," but it is hardly
likely that the general public has any
fair notion of what he really is. He
is, for the most part, a mere child;
small in stature, as black as coal in
face, hands, and clothes; a little lab
orer chained to a monotonous toil, but
a3 sharp and shrewd as a Yankee.
The breaker itself, from which he
gets his name, is a huge wooden box
like structure. 100 feet or more
in height. Its boards have been paint
ed only by the sun. winds, and rain,
and an ugly workhouse it is. Grim
and dusty, it dots the landscape In
every direction and around it are
gathered the numerous pyramids of
culm, for which it seems to stand as
sponsor.
The interior of one of these build
ings can well be compared to the
mechanism of the old-time church
steeple. There is a maze of wood
work, beam, upon beam; winding
black staircases; platforms and floors
ingrained with coal dust; innumerable
troughs down which great chunks of
mineral slide with a never-ceasing rat
tle; translucent windowpancs, upon
which the coal dust has hardened—ln
all a realm of blackness, of dust, and
everlasting crackling which would
soon prostrate the average man. As
the coal falls in at the top great rol
lers receive and crush it into various
sizes. Thence it falls downward, over
the spirals or through tho jig ma
chines and the screens, and finally
tumbles into the railroad cars from
the huge bins where it is momentarily
stored. In this process the breaker boys
are an Important and essential part. In
the breakers where there are no spirals
or jig machines, every bit of coal for
the market must pass through their
hands. One can see them sitting
astride the troughs where they pick
all day and toss slate or bono into re
ceptacles at their sides. Amid a
weird system of machinery, in a cen
tral portion of the workhouse where
tho shadows are lost in darkness,
some have to spend all their time.
When these youngsters begin to
work, they must learn to discern defi
nitely the differences between coal and
foreign substances. The majority of
them do this very quickly; some, of
course, are backward, and consequent
ly their productive powers are not so
great. The smaller boys have charge
of picking tho small sizes of coal,
while among the larger chunks can
be seen workers of various ages. Here
and there an old man is found, whose
hard and calloused hands tell of many
years' labor in the roaring work
houses, where on the sunniest days
the light is equal only to that of the
average cellar of a city dwelling.
When clouds obscure the sun, a miser
able darkness is over everything, and
the eternal thunder of breaking and
sliding coal is for ever heard. No
more drear or desolate life can be
pictured than that which is impressed
upon one by the appearance of tho
breakers on cloudy or rainy clays.
Yet in them the little imps of black
ness must work. In the winter sea
son, when tho dull, sober light is
more continuous, they uso minors'
ever-wavering lamps. Winter time in
the breakers means chilling work for
/ill, men and boys. Few are the
steampipes which heat the huge wood
en structures, and as the icy water
trickles down the chutes with the
coal, it saturates the woolen gloves of
these little mining slaves.
But when the summer season comes
It brings a great relief from winter
trials. As the days grow longer the
little fellows of 10, 12. or 14
can trudge to work in the day
light, and there is no more walking
over the roads perhaps for several
miles, in the bitterness of the moun
tain cold. Between half-past six and
seven in the morning they begin for
10 or 12 hours' toil* while the
sun rises and falls and millions of
vonug being 3 like their own selves
are enjoying the free bounties of na
ture.
To know really the hardships of
work in such surroundings it is neces
sary to observe and feel them. A
sad sight it is to sco thousands of boys
laboring in the grimy breakers for
30, 40 or 50 cents a day, lead
ing a narrow, ignorant life, working
as dumb machines, plodding away, in
nocent of a broader existence, of the
unconscious liberty of other children,
and slaving because they were born
among the mines—because the condi
tions under which their fathers work
compel It. For a few years all goe3
well, but then a change comes; the
boy becomes a man; he recognizes
another world living apart from him;
he trios to ameliorate his condition;
he demands more wages; he strikes
and then, after a few weeks' priva
tions, goes sullenly back to work once
more.
And yet, when the breaker-boys are
boys, they can be said to be truly
happy. In spite of a grimy face and
black sooty clothes there is a sparkle
In their eyes. A stranger among
'.hem is examined as wonderingly as
1 astronomers scrutinize a newly tit*
covered star. A sign for his presence
is passed along, as it Is useless to at
tempt speech, for the little fellows
could shout themselves hoarse and
not be heard more than a few feet
away. Consequently all the boys have
the gesture language. To ask a fel
low-worker the time one boy will hold
up his hand and quickly open and
close his fist a number of times. This
will bring an answer from another
one, who stops work just long enough
to make a few motions with his fing
ers, designating the hour and the min
ues before or after. They also employ
a signal when an exchange of posi
tions is desired. When the grinding
monotony of the toil, the aching backs
bent over the troughs, and the never
ending roar of coal and machinery
become monotonous, a rapid beating
with the hand upon the breast will
draw the attention of a fellow-worker,
and the two will make a mutual and
hurried trade of positions. The signal
for a drink of water is a twist of the
wrist around in front of the mouth,
and there are many others. The little
fellows, comical in all their ways,
make use of various signs, gestures,
and furtive glances when the boss,
the foreman, or the mine superintend-
ent approaches.
SOUTH SEA WHITEBAIT,
Trt Wliich Vsciflc Islnmlrri Have In
Karly Autumn.
For a few days In each year, and al
ways in the month of September, the
South Sea people have a treat In the
way of fish—a small stream runner,
smaller than the Thames whitebait
and better flavored.
The natural history of tills fish is
obscure. It seems to be the fry of
some fish, for when taken away many
have the yelk sac still attached to
them. The first that is known of it is
when schools appear in the mouths
of rivers. The river mouths at all sea
sous of the tide seem fairly alive with
the multitudes of fish not an inch long,
but all swimming and leaping, under
the impulse of the instinct to ascend
the freshwater streams. Then they are
simply by sinking a piece of cloth In
the water and lifting it by Its four cor
ners at once. A square of cloth six
feet each way will hold, at an ordin
ary draft, half a bushel of the fish,
which t-he Samoans and many other
islanders know under the name
"inanga." During the few days they
are running they are taken by millions
without diminishing the schools in the
least. Enormous numbers of tliem
are known to pass up the streams, but
once past the bar at the river mouth,
they disappear from sight and all
knowledge. Even In the height of their
return they are not seen in the streams
above the mouth, yet they are never
seen running back to sea. The run
lasts for not more than a week or ten
days in any one stream, and on the
island of Upolu seems to begin in the
eastern streams earlier than in those
down to the west. Apia harbor has two
streams debouching into it. Not more
than half a mile separates the two, yet
the school begins to run in the Vaisin
gano three days before it make its ap
pearance in the Mulivai, which lies io
the westward.
In native cookery they are wrapped
in banana leaves and steamed tor a
short time. Dut the catchers eat them
raw with great avidity. Once a for
eign resident secured a mess of the
dainty fish and gave them to a Sanio
an cook boy to prepare after civilized
methods of cookery. Tlio domestic ty
rant was not prepared to venture on
blunt refusal, but ho professed to be
much shocked at the order. When
asked why it aferied him that way,
1 e whispered that of course he would
obey orders, but he would have to do
it when he could be sure that no other
Samoan couid discover >vaat tho was
doing. Still further pressed for rea
sons for so much secrecy,he announced
that the "inanga" was, in his own way
of putting it, extremely "tufauna" or
low caste, and not at all a fish for one
to cat so highly placed as the family
he had the honor to serve. It was a
clover device, hut it did not bear the
investigation which followed, the qius
tion of foods proper to certain ranks
being interesting if true. The frying
of tho fish showed why the cook
3hlrl:cd tho task. They keep their vi
tality for a surprisingly long time, and
when they are put into a hot pan It is
a task of much attention to keep them
there, for they hop about like so many
winged creatures. It was solely to save
himself this bother that the cook had
Invented a low rank for a fish t".ai Is
really superior to any of the most fa
mous whitebait, whether of England,
New Zealand or Puget Sound.—Forest
and Stream.
Metming of " Instantaneons Heath."
"The instant of death," says tho
Indian Lancet, "Is a vague and indefi
nite expression when viewed from tho
point of physiology. An animal or
plant cannot be considered dead until
it has reached that period in disinteg
ration where it is impossible to re
vive life. Some physiologists still fur
ther restrict the definition to that point
in decay where every cell in the body
of an animal or plant Pas ceased to
contain or consist of living protoplasm
—ln other word 9, each cell must havo
lost beyond recall its life p jwers. Prob
ably one of the most striking examples
of instantaneous death was that of the
person who accidentally fell into a
large vat of boiling caustic potash,
which at once consumed the entire body,
leaving only the metallic plates from
the heals of hi 3 shoes and a few but
tons from the clothing as remains.
Death from electric shocks also border
on the instantaneous prooess. It has
been fouud that living cells taken from
the body can be preserved in a nor
mal state for a long time and then
have life processes revived '■'/ they are
properly treated.