The red deer of New Zealand are es
timated to number between 4000 and
COOO individuals, the offspring of two
stags and six hinds that were turned
out in 1808.
Many cotton mills are now in opera
tion in Bombay, and others will soon
start. It is said that the whole yarn
supply of India, and a great part of
that of China and Japan, is furnished
by Bombay mills.
Coffee has been cultivated In Vene
zuela only since 1879, and yet it is
now that much-talked-of country's
chief commercial product. About 200,-
000 acres are under cultivation. Agri
culture is the leading industry of the
country, at least one-fifth of the popu
lation being engaged in it.
The vomiting of fishes from vol
canoes is no new experience, and it
seems more startling than mysterious.
M. J. Girardln explains that in the
interval between two eruptions—often
a century or more—the craters bccomo
filled with flsh-stocked lakes, and the
next eruption blows out the water and
Its contents,
t,
California figs and grapes, nt low
prices, have been flooding the London
market, and the dark plums of the
same State have met with so much
favor that the English growers have
actually let their fruit rot on the trees
because it would r.ot pay them to corao
In competition with the imported. The
California fruit is packed so well that
it reaches England in prime condition.
The city of Los Angeles, Cal., was
deprived of light and power for several
hours recently In a singular way. The
electric plant is situated in a canyon
thirteen miles from the city, where it
/ Is operated by a rapid stream, and in
vestigation showed that a bald eagle
had become entangled in two of the
wires in the canyon and short-circuited
the current. Traffic was nt a standstill
and lights were out, while fifty men
searched for the cause of the trouble.
In his balloon experiments, J. M.
Bacon lins been able to see the sen
bottom from a height of 500 feet, all
waves seeming to be blotted out, with
no apparent scattering of light from
the surface. At 1000 feet or higher, all
water, whether deep or not, seemed
opaque. Photographs taken during tlv
ascent on a clear day became gradually
blurred until at 4000 feet good pictures
were made impossible by'tho dust par
ticles that reflected the sunshine, the
definition over water being better than
over land.
1 "Water of the Underworld.
iT'he amount of water within the
crust of the earth, says Professor
Slichter, in a recent paper, is enor
mous, amounting to 505,000 million
million cubic yards. This vast accu
mulation, }f placed upon the earth,
would cover Its entire surface to a
uniform depth of from 3000 to 3500
feet. This estimate is based upon the
supposition that the average depth
which waters can penetrate beneath
the surface is six miles below the land
and five below the ocean's floor.
Experiments have shown that not
only sands and gravels are porous, but
rocks supposed to be solid aud com
pact may be traversed by water, even
so hard a rock as Montello granite,
selected for the sarcophagus of Gen
eral Grant on account of Its grant
strength, shows a porosity of a quarter
of one per centum. The most p: duet
tve water-bearing rocks are found to bo
> The great mass of ground water
slowly percolates through sand and
gravel deposits, sandstone and other
porous material under a wide extent
of territory. Though its motion carries
it but a fraction of a mile in a year,
this ground water is so wide: ;>read
and often so accessible as to be of the
greatest economic importance.
Pleusnntrlcß of War.
A reader has sent us the following
story of General Viljoen, which, he
says, Is absolutely true:
While on the way to keep an apnoint
men with the Boer General our cor
respondent met a friend of his—an offi
cer in the Scots Guards—who had seen
service in South Africa.
"By the way, I'm going to see an
acquaintance of yours," he said to the
t efiiccr; "General Viljoen."
"Oh, he's no friend of mine," was
the comment. "He once stole our con
-1 voy, and we had to go on quarter
rations for a fortnight."
Later our correspondent told General
Viljoen of his meeting with the officer
and what the latter had said.
The General laughed heartily nt the
story. "Tell your friend," he said, "I
did not steal his convoy. I only bor
rowed it."—London Express.
Taming the Tiger.
A Cossack was recently hired at
Moscow by the FrcncL Hon tamer
I'ezon to clean the cages of his wild
ibeasts. Being ignorant of the French
language, understandings were ar
ranged by means of gestures. The
next morning the Tartar began ids
new duties by entering, not the cage
' of a tame beast, as his master had
l <ione, but that of an untamed tiger,
Which lay asleep on the floor. The
fierce animal awoke and fixed its eyes
upon tho man, who calmly proceeded
ito wet his large sponge, and, untcrri
fied, to rub down the tiger. The ani
mal, apparently delighted with the
told water, showed no resistance, but
rolled on its back and offered every
part of its body to be washed.
RENTING FROM_ WOMEN.
An ObserTant Man Tells of Ills Ezper
euces With Tlicin.
"Speaking of the want column," said
an observant man, "I noticed a peculiar
thing in this connection a 'few' (thy s'
ago, and there is a good bit of philos
ophy behind It in these days when
women are playing such a conspicuous
part in the affairs of business. Some
person, whether a man or woman I
do not know, advertised for a small
furnished cottage, and he tacked tills
sentence on to the end of his adver
tisement: 'Prefer to rent ffom a man.'
"Here is a lesson for you. When I
read that ad. I thought of a few little
things which have happened to me
during my own career as a renter. I
do not like to say it, for fear of offend
ing, and yet it is a fact that I have
never been able to conduct satisfac
tory rental relations with the female
owner of a house. I might go further
than this and say that I have never
made any sort of satisfactory business
deal with a woman. Plainly, tbe.v have
all been blunt, flat failures, frequently
ending In a perfect whirlwiiul of un
pleasant loquacity, bordering on denun
ciation, and in bad feeling generally.
"They nre plausible renters. They
make fine promises, but rarely keep
them. In business women arc not re
liable, so far as my experience goes.
I do not mean to say that they are
wicked and designing in these matters,
idiey simply promise too much. I
suppose It is because they talk too
mfich. Speaking much while making
a trade is unwise if you want the
deal to stick. The short, categorical
answer is the thing in business. But
you can't hold a woman down to this
rule. She is too fond of talking. One
cannot talk all day without committing
oneself in some way, but women do
not seem to realize It.
"Of course, there are some excep
tions. But, looking at the thing in n
general way, I am inclined to commend
the wisdom of the man who put the
sentence, 'prefer to rent from a man,'
after his advertisement. He's right
about It and evidently speaks by the
card."—New Orleans Times-Democrat.
WISE WORDS.
The fairest without may be the foul
est within.
The big sword docs not make the
brave soldier.
The worker's pay may be the shirk
er's punishment.
Right ends arc never furthered by
wrong agencies.
Great sorrows expand the heart to
receive great joys.
Foes without arc less to be feared
than faults within.
No man becomes wise until he has of
ten called himself a fool.
Humility is the secret of the steady
head on the giddy heights.
To return good for evil is to make a
flower bloom from a weed.
When the evolution of history is held
back it results In a revolution.
To take the fuel of lust into the heart
is to invite its fires to consume the life.
Men are valued by others in about
the inverse ratio of their own valua
tion.
Happiness depends not on the things
the heart has, but 011 the heart that has
the things.
The first thing some people do when
troubles fly into their lives is to clip
their wings.—Ram's Horn.
Decline of the Amateur.
"The Decline of the Amateur" would
be a good title for a paper for one of
the magazines, says Black and White.
Twenty years ago a girl who could
sing a simple song simply, or could
play a waltz or a drawing-room piece
correctly, with a light touch, was re
garded as an accomplished woman. A
man who could occasionally make a
thirty or forty break at billiards was
looked upon as a fine player. The
man or woman who could draw or
paint a little bettor than boys and girls
draw or paint who have been taught at
school, was described as an artist.
Now, however, the drawing-room song
or piece, the occasional thirty or forty
break at billiards—lengthened by the
frequent assistance of fortune—and
the home-made "artist" do not acquire
any reputation. Most men and women
nre supposed to be, and are, mw well
grounded in the theory' of whatever
they take up; they approach the matter
from the professional side, 110 longer
from that of the amateur. It is curious
that as the standard all round has been
so greatly raised there are so few
who surpass their contemporaries suf
ficiently to become permanently fam
ous.
The Difference.
He was a man who was making SSO
n week and was having luncheon with
bis fiancee in an uptown restaurant.
The lady ordered chicken salad, fol
lowed by black coffee and wafers. The
man, who could have ordered every
thing on the bill and not felt a fiole in
his pocketbook, had consomme aud
Little Neck clams and drank water.
The waiter got ten cents.
A clerk who was kept busy earning
his salary of $lB a week took his
sweetheart to an expensive seaside re
sort. It took twenty minutes to decide
what they wanted to cat. Finally the
order came, heaped high up on a large
tray.
At the lady's place the waiter depos
ited roast beef, mashed potatoes,
chicken croquettes with peas, a salad
of lettuce aud tomatoes and a cup of
coffee.
The man, wondering how he could
get a winter overcoat, ate a porter
house steak with mushrooms, fried po
tatoes, green corn and coffee.
For dessert they had ice cream and
fancy cakes, with more coffee. The
■waiter got a quarter.—New York Her
ald.
It was only recently that the Bra
zilians found out the value of the
halata tree as a producer of the gum
that makes gutta-percha. They hare
been in the habit of cutting it down for
firewood and building material. It is
said that the tree grows in such abund
ance near Para and along the tribu
taries of the Amazon for hundreds of
miles that there is practically no limit
to the supply. More sap is yielded
by the balatn than by the rubber tree,
but it is not so easily obtained.
By the Hubon process, black pigment
Is made by pumping acetylene Into
steel cylinders to a pressure of about
two atmospheres, aid tftfen packing
an electric spark through the vessels,
the gas being thus disassociated into its
carbon and hydrogen. The hydrogen
is collected for any convenient use; the
carbon is ready for the market. Acety
lene black is free from the oily impuri
ties of ordinary lamp-black, and the
demand is already so great that the
first factory—now running in Switzer
land—is likely to be followed by others
in other countries.
A snowfiake, like a hailstone, is
formed on a particle of dust in the
upper atmosphere. It begins its ca
reer at the top of a cloud, many miles
above the earth, and passes in its
downward course through many at
mospheric strata, differing in their
temperature and the quantity of mois
ture they contain. In a stratum of
warmer air it catches moisture and
when it enters a eold stratum below
the moisture is frozen, and so the flake
grows until it reaches the earth. In i
thawing air. many flakes come to
gether, forming larger ones.
It is said that a cement for mending
iron, which is strong enough to resist
the blows of a sledge-hammer, may be
made by a mixture of equal parts of
sulphur and white lead, with about
ono-slxth proportion of borax, the three
being thoroughly incorporated so as
to make a homogenous mass. When
the composition is to be applied it is
wet with strong sulphuric acid, and n
thin layer of it is placed between the
two pieces of iron, which are immedi
ately pressed together. It will be per
fectly dry in five days, all traecs ot
the cement having disappeared, and
the work having every look of weld
ing.
The gardens and fields of Yucatan
are filled with vegetables and fruits
almost unknown to the outside world.
The forests and jungles also contain
wild fruits, excellent even in their un
cultivated state, which might he bred
into valuable food products. One of
the most important native Yucatan
grains, ixim, called by the natives.
"Grace of God." somewhat resembles
the Indian corn of the United States.
There are six native varieties culti
vated. Xmic nal, the long-stalked,
iarge-grnined variety is the most large
ly planted. The seed is put into the
ground in May and the plant is fully
matured by January. Under the prim
itive nature methods twenty or thirty
bushels to the acre are raised.
The following thermo-dynamlenl
problem is stated and solved by t lie
Engineer: " A hoy eals two ounces of
ice. Let us see what is the approxi
mately thermo-dynamie equivalent of
the work he has made his interior do.
assuming lie takes five minutes to eat
it. In melting the ice he will require
eighteen units to reduce it to water.
To raise it in temperature to that of
his inside he will require seven more
units, or a total of twenty-five British
thermal units. Taking the mechanical
equivalent as 777 foot pounds, this
will bo equal to 19,427) foot pounds. If
the boy weighs 100 pounds he will
have called upon his stomach to do as
much heat work as would with a ma
chine, having unit eflicieney, raise him
194 feet high, or a heat cxtracation
equal to nearly an eighth of a horse
power."
A "Homing Instinct" Story.
The Byron Itepuhlle relates a re
markable dog story. The paper says
that some seven or eight years ago
Mr. Housouer, of Byron, who was then
living at Galena, Ivan., made a trip
through the territory on a hunting ex
pedition, passing through tho neigh
borhood of Mendon. His dog followed
the wagon the entire journey, from
Galena, being about 250 miles. When
Mr. Housouer moved to Byron last
winter he left the dog at his old home.
About two months ago ho had the dog
shipped to Byron from Kansas. He
was a good hunting dog, and on a trip
a couple of weeks ago near the salt
plains became separated from his
owner, who supposed he had returned
home. On returning home he found
the dog had not arrived, and just a
week from that day received a letter
from relatives at Galena, stating that
the old dog had safely returned and
seemed glad to get hack. He seemed
discontented with Oklahoma life, and
well remembered the road he passed
over seven or eight years ago.—Kansas
City Journal.
His Famo Without Flaxr.
Washington inspiring order and spirit
Into troops hungry and in rags, stung
by ingratitude but betraying no anger
nnd ever ready to forgive; In defeat
invincible, magnanimous in conquest,
and never so sublime as on that day
when he laid down his invincible sword
and sought his noble retirement. Here
indeed is a character to admire and
revere; a life without a stain, a fame
without a. flaw. Quando lnnerriea
paaein!—Thackeray.
ifjV&iiig 4*ie sick. ■' • '
Young mothers naturally feel anxious
about the baby's bath. It is best to begin
at six weeks to put the little one in the
water, first folding a soft towel in the bot
tom of the basin. Use only Ivory Soap, as
many of the highly colored and perfumed
aoaps are verj injurious to the tender skin
of an infant.—Eleanor it. Parker.
There are people who seem to think
that poverty is no disgrace, as long as
they can borrow from their neighbors.
Deafueu Cannot ll Cured
by local applications as they cannot reach t ae
diseased portion of the ear. There is only one
way to cure deafness, and that is by consti
tutional remedies. Deafnos£ is caused by an
inflamed condition of the mucous liniug of
tho Eustachian Tube. When this tube is in
flamed you have a rumbling sound or imper
fect hearing, and when it is entirely closed
Deafness is tho result, and unless tho inflam
mation can be taken out and tills tube re
stored to its normal ccndilien, bearing will
be destroyed forevor. bine cases.out of ton
arc caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an
inflamed condition of the mucous surface.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
cose of Deafness (caused by cataxvh) that
cannot be cured bv Hall's Catarrh Cure. Cir
culars sent free. F.J.CHEN BY ACo.,Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, 75c. s
Hall's Family Pills are the best.
The most miserable creature in the
world is a young girl getting over her first
love affair.
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Every working girl who is not
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to Mrs. Pinkhajoh Lynn, Mass.,
for advice; it is freely given, and
has restored thousands to health.
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that a girl cannot afford to stop work
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poor, I could not sleep, and menstrua
tion was scanty and very painful. One
day when suffering I commenced to
take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege
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soon found that my menstrual periods
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everyone is surprised at the change in
me, and I am well, and cannot be too
grateful for what you have done for
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