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l\ THE MU 1H\ 1 II ! Hi I KY. fbe Awful Punishment (liven a I iiif ril siiiio, Soldier. M h>ie l Ike Crralrr stUsrrurr, thr P*Bl*h- I or Ihr FBBlihrnr r>ll I'nrii. ul.ir< r the llMulllalUii of Yosmg lu'ii . The news of the Attempted assassination of Mr. Krick reached the military jamp, oa the hilltop on tlie other side of the river, about half put 2 o'clock in the afternoon. This camp is little frequented by visitors or :ewipaper men. The discipline i* very ttrict, and the camp line* are difficult to pass. 80 it happened that the punishment and the great disgrace of a man who had expressed hii approbation of the anarchistic deed had passed before any outsider heard of it. The man wat private soldier of Company K of the Tenih Regiment. Thomas lams, and until he was paraded in din- grace before the whole brigade very few outside of hi* own company had beard of him lami is lets than 30 year* of age and comes f a good family. His father was at one time Commissioner of linten county and IJUI^B wealthy. The young man is a drum mer for a Pittsburgh house, and although lu home is in Waynesburg he in in 1'it ta- bu rgh most of the time and has large circle of friends there. He w.i* standing in front of his tent in the company street, cleaning his rifle. There weie dozens of soldiers standing and sitting about in idleness. Lieut. -Col. Strcator, while Col. Hawkins is acting as commander of the brigade, is in command of the Tenth Regiment. He approached a group of men and said : ' Wa've just heard terrible new from Homestead. Mr. Frick has been shot." Other men approached the group. lams stood his rifle against his tent and hastened to the group also. He said to the first man he met : " What's that Streator says?" " He nays Frick was shot." " \"uo did it ? Who did it!" lams asked eagerly. The soldier to whom he put the question did not know, and lams returned to his tent, took up his rifle again, and stood for a moment buried in thought. Then he raised hit voice and cried : " Boys, let's give three cheers for the man who shot Krick. Hooray !" All voices ceased and the men looked at one another in consternation. Col. Streator had started to walk off. He turned and i looked lams full in the face. lams stared i at him defiantly. The other members of the company, anticipating trouble, walked slowly away to he out of hearing. The Col- onel waived to when lams stood. " Young man, what do you mean by that?" he asked. lams looked down sulk- ily* and answered. "I meant that 1 was glad that Frick was shot, and I am too." " Now, my friend, you are a soldier and , you have no business to make such remarks. I Do you want to retract it ?" lams thought tor a moment and then raised bis head and said : " No, sir ; I am glad that Mr. Krick was shot, and I cannot rutract anything I said that I really meant." The Colonel turned ami left him. Five minutes later he gave the order for the re- giment to return without arms. The men of company K felt what was coming and assembled with Serious faces. The other companies, unaware of what had happened i answered the call, asking one another what ' was the matter. There had been no such or- der before since the organization of the camp. When the regiment was finally assembled. Col. Streator atldrossod the men thus : "When the news of the attempt on Mr. Frick s life was announced here a few min- utes ago a member of the regiment offered three cheers for the assassin. I want that man to advance two pace*." There was deep sileuce, but no one moved. "I know the man," the Colonel continu- ed, "and he can gain nothing by keeping silent, I order him to step forward at once." There was another moment of suspense, snd then lams advanced two paces, saluted respectfully, and stood at attention. In spite of the severe ditciplme of the uamp the other soldiers could not refrain from looking around at lams. Col. Streator ad- vanced to where lams stood, took out his penknife, and, amid the most profouml silence, cut the buttons from the soldier's uniform. When he had finished and retired few paces to look at him lams saluted again in a most respectful manner. "Corporal of Company K." called the Colonel. A corporal advanced and saluted. I "Tako a guard and take this man to the guard tent. Ask the surgeons to stand by, and string this man up by bin thumbs until he can svaud it no longer. " lams, who up to this pom I had st'tod fl tub- d but entirely self-possessed, turned the color of chalk and trembled, but he never flinched. With another wtlutu to his Col- onui he turned and fcllowcd the corporal to the guard tent. The mon were dismissed, and with awed faces retired to their tents. They did not dare discuss what had taken place. Three regimental surgeons, followed lams to the guard tent. The young man soon regained his self-posession and held out his thumb* for one of his fellow soldiers to tie. A stout piece of twine was tied tightly to each thumb and lams raised his arms while the corporal drew the line over the tent pole. The cord wat pulled by three men u.itil lams stood on tiptoe, and then it was made fast. Tl-e surgeons took turns counting iiis pulse heat*. They had to stand on a chair to do so. Not a word was spoken. The young man's face was deathly white, but his eyes were bril- liant with determination. His arms were rigid with his weight. The twine wu cut- ting into his flesh, but ho pressed his lips tirtulv together and did not allow a moan to escape him. The soldiers and the cor- poral turned their faces away. The sight was too painful. The surgeons, watch in hand, kept their fingers on Tiis pulse. The beats came faster and faster, and slowly the man's head fell forward on his breast unu his eyes slotted. He could no longer press the around with his tors. This dead weight bung heavy en the twine. Mi/y^*<s after minute passed, and his pulse beats where constantly increasing. At last one jurgeon said, " One hundred and twenty beats. Let him down. " lams had bung for nineteen minutes. A surgeon held him firmly while the soldiers cut the cord. The young man fell into his arms and was laid gently on the ground. His sycBOpoued soon, and lams said : " Let me lie here. I feel sick. " They covered him with a blanket and withdrew, and lams lay there in the guard tent all night. Col. Streator made his re- port to Col. Hawkins, who endorsed it, and sent it by an orderly across tne river to lieu. Snowden. (Jen. Snowden read it over care- fully and endorsed it : " Dismiss that man in disgrace from your regiment, and drum him cut of camp to-mor- row morning. " These were written orders. But to the orderly he added : " Tell Col. Hawkins to have the man's head shaved on one side be- fore he is dismissed. " Karly this morning the provisional bri- g.ide iuM i- the coimnauo. of Col. Hawkins was ordered to assemble on parade. Three regiments of infantry and a battery of artil- lery turned out and drew up in two lines fac- ing each other on the parade ground. The disgraced soldier was brought out by a cor- poral guard. He presented a pitiable appearance. His uniform had been taken from him and he wore a pair of cheap overalls and a ragged coat, which could not hide his undershirt. He held a tattered straw hat in his hand. The top of his head, on the right side, had been shaved to 'lie scalp, and had ic not been for his pale face and his bruised thumbs the assembled soldiers could not have re- frained from laughing. The corporal turned him over to a Lieu- tenant, who with twenty men proceeded to march him from one end of the parade ground to the other and then back again. The soldiers looked at him curiously, but there was no anger or displeasure in their glances. They all pitied him. He was Drought before Col. Hawkins and an Adjut- ant proceeded to read the report which had been submitted to (Jen. Snowden and the orders which the General had given. lams listened to it with an air of indifference. His face betrayed no emotion whatever. When it was finished. Col. Hawkins said to him : " My man, this has been an exceed- ingly painful duty for me to perform, but I think the punishment was just. You are now discharged in disgrace from the ser- vice. You will be esaorted to the limits of the camp. If you ever dare enUr it again you will be summarily dealt with." The regimental drum corps then fell in line and began playing the Rogue's March, lams wu ordered to march behind them, and he was followed by bis regiment. This strange parade moved over the hilltop and down as far as the railroad station. A freight train was slowly passing, a-.id lams was t>ld to jump aboard. He climbed into a box car and wai soon lost to view. The drums and fifes ceased, and the men return- ed to camp in silence. No one here knows where lams has gone. His discharge from the militia in disgrace deprives him of his franchise. He cannot cast a vote, nor can he ever hold public office. The soldiers will not discuss his case, and all that any officer will say is, " Well, discipline must be maintained." Some of the officers say that hanging np by the thumbs is not permitted by the re- gulations, nor is the shaving the bead. As lien. Snowden approved of the rinding of the court martial, they refuse to givo their views publicly. t'ri-r it ii. I I <iun' Mrs. Millet, in her story of life in " An Australian Parsonage." says that she and her husband had looked forward to the sight of wild men with the keenest interest. Tho objects of their curiosity did not keep them long in suspense, but were equally desirous of seeing what the new-comers were like. This, it should be premised, was almost thirty year* ago. Of one of their new acquaintances Mrs. Milieu says : After we had been settled at Barladong about a fortnight the natives began to pay us fre<|iient visits. We had learned the names of several of them, but had formed no especial friendships, when one morning a shadow fell across our window, and on looking up to ascertain the cause, wo saw a stranger standing in a calm, easy attitude, surveying us from two brilliant oyes, with a mingled expression of pleasure a'i'l curiosity. His jet-black hair was bound with a fillet in the native mode, and h'.s features were somewhat of the Malay type ; his com- plexion decidedly black, but not the sooty hue of the negro. Cast over his left shoulder and brought beneath the other arm, hung his mantle of kangaroo skin, the fur worn inside, securely fastened with a long wood- en pin like a skewer, whilst in ouo of his hands, which were small and well-shaped, he held lightly a bundle of slander spears, six or seven feet in length. A twisted string of opossum fur, in which was stuck his tobacco pipe, was wound several tunes round the upper part of his bare, muscular arm, and his checks were painted with red earth, as a lady puts on rouge. It seemed that he had come to make a call of ceremony upon us, his new neighbors, and having no cwd to send in, he altably became his own introducer. " I Mister Khourabene," he said ; " you gentleman fellow I gentleman fellow 1 come see you." Perhaps what struck us most in his man- ner was the complete taking for granted that he and ourselves were upon precisely the same social level ; an idea which we were fain to accept in a complimentary aenac, such being evidently our visitors 's intention. Typewriting machines are now manufac- tured at the rate of UK) a day. Negotiations are said to have been opened for the introduction to this continent from England during the World's fair of a road vehicle propelled by steam. It is said to be in successful operation 1.1 Creat Britain. An officer of the British army thinks that ducks would be preferable to pigeons for carrying naval dispatches over the sea, be- cause they would drop down and sit on the water when tired and resume their flight after resting. A Berlin shoemaker has invented an arti- ficial stono sole for footwear. It is made of a solution of sumo kind of patent cement and pure white quartz sand. A pair of such soles will last for years on any pavement, and are said to be clastic and easy on the feet. To restore faded ink on parchment or paper it is recommended to moiston the parchment with water, and then gently to draw a brush dipped in a solution of sul- phide of ammonia ovar the writing. The application of this reagent changes thn iron in the ink into the black tmlphido, and it, becomes more distinctly n.vUe. Ill t I II I I I J K It Ml KIM I All Were Arcesmteil for KHl.rr u Ike ritld or ! lb I rrnrkf* He had been lying very quiet for a long time, and the nurse at his bedside dozed and nodded struggled to keepawake,and final- ly slept in her chair. Then a .Shadow stole into the room and stood by the bed whisper- ing : "Right dress ! Hack on the left ! Front !" The .Sergeant opened his eyes and looked about him in wonder. Ills hair was thin and gray, his face pale and wasted, and death had set its mark upon his brow. " Attention, to roll Call !" continued the Shadow. "Adams, Ansil, Artman, Averill, Allpcrt, Amsden " " They do not answer," said the Sergeant as the shadow paused. " They can answer no more ! They were buried in ths trenches at Manassss. Barn- ard, Baxier, Bebee, Burton, Bloom, Bailey " I do not hear them," said the Sergeant. " Their lives went out when McClelland turned at bay at Malvern Hill. They died as heroes die. Carter, Curtis, Claxton, Cole- man, Caniff, Campbell " " Does any one aiuwer for them ?" asked the Sergeant. " Aye ! I do !" replied the Shadow. " I saw them laid in the shallow trenches at Antietam after the roar of battle had ceased and the cries of the wounded had been hush- ed. They were following Hooker's Hag when they fell. Davis, Denton, Danforth, ! Dougherty, Donahue. Uillingliam " "Absent without leave V' said the Ser- geant. " No ! Absent forever '. They crossed at ' Frcdericksburg, and their dead bodies lay i nearest the terrible stone wall at the bam of Marie's hill. They could not win victory, but they could die. Knright, Kberniau, Eckliir, Epstein, Eugleman, Kckart " " They may be on guard, said the Ser- geant, as ha listened for the sound of their I voices. " Then the dead guard the dead," replied 1 the shadow. " I saw them lying sUrk and | dead under the tree at Chancellorsville, left to be buried oy the victorious enemy. Fab- er, Fen'on, Foster, Franklin, fitch, Fizt- williams " " They have been detailed for special duty suggested the old soldier. " Their duty ended at Gettysburg. I saw them lying dead after the Virginians had been driven back and thousands were shout- ing victory. Gray, (iorman, tiobel, Cos- port, (iaiisel, Gieen " " Where?" asked the Sergeant. " In the thickest of the sombre wilderness where 10, PIN) men died without seeing an enemy. When night came the songs of the whippoorwills were heard above the plaints of the wounded. Hall, Harmon, Hennes- iy. Hill, Hilton, Hurlburt " " And these too ?" " Aye ! every one of them. They were left behind. Ingalls, Irving, Ishain, Irarie, Isabel, Irgersoll " "Ah ! I remember '" whispered the Ser- gent. " They fsll as they guarded ths trenches at Petersburg I myself helped to bury them." "James, Jenkins, Jordon, Jolly, Justin " Dead at Appomattox '." " l.aikms, Umpton, Larry, Lennox, Le- vering, Lonng " " Call no more. Only when the angel I calls the roll of the dead at the last great day will the dust make answer. I alone am left of my company '" The old Sergeant fell back upon his pillow ' with a moan, and before his dim vision the spectres of the dead seemud to form in line I and await his order. " Sergeant ( irnn !" called the Shadow. The nurse awoke and cried out : " Who has called him ? He is dead !" " It was I," said the Shadow. " Ho was the last on the roll, and I can call no mure. " " And you you " " I am tliu Shadow of Daatb !" Th, Ciar's 1 ,. in , Emperor 'Alexander's yacht. I'oliarnaya Xvesd.i, or Polar Star, is the largest pleasure boat that hits ever been built. We might say th it, it is a inirine palace. It is .100 feet long, draws nineteen feet, ami is 4,900 tons | burden. The crew numbers .1OO picked men, 'omiii.inded by 1'rince Chakhovskoy. The service is innumerable. An idea of it may | be formed by one single item an orchestra ; of fifty musicians, always ready to charm 'and shorten the length* of the journeys. . Bui it mustlw said that these svra singularly abridged by the extraordinary speed of this splendid vessel. The Polar SUr travels , ordinarily at the rate of eighteen knots an ' hour. On her trial trip she made nineteen and a half. She made the recent trip from Cronstadt to Copenhagen in thirty-eight hours. The apsrtments of the Czar and the Kin- press are ol course on the starboard side, the place of honor. The two bedrooms are tii iHitf. The first things that attract > attention are the height of the ceilings anil the immense size of the window*, and then the incomparable brilliancy of the wood- work. In the Czar's study, or cnliimt <l< trarait, there is a writing desk that one might take fora beautiful casting of tortoise shells. It is of maple and marvellously polished. A few family photographs, a copper image of Saint Alexander, and an image of Christ form the only decorations of the bed chamber. The same simplicity ; in the rooms of the Czarina. The walls and I furniture are of molesquine : empire design on a clear ground, parallel bands support- ing crowns. But the favorite yacht of the imperiae family is the Tsarevna, which may bl translated either as the daughter or the nan- I cee of the Czar. This yacht is commanded by Capt. Friedrichs. If the Polar Star in a magnificent palace, the Tsarevna is a retreat. It is made small purposely for the admission of intimate friends only. There is no room in it for suites. It is on board this vessel that the Czar, the Km- press, and children take refuge in the sum- mer months from th< annoyances of imperial grandeur. The dining room is divided into two pieces. Consequently it is also the parlor nr ;>x . tit reunion. As alt the family are fond of music, the lit- tle piano is alrays open. The old music scores, ranged upon a little shelf are well worn and thumbed. Sometimes tho Czar, when in a ploasant mood, takes a part in the concert. He plays the Mute, nol as a virtuoso, but without pretension. It is not every Czar that can be a Tallanel. Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man, but for one man who can stand prosperity there are a hundred who will stand advers- ity. [Jane Carlyle. Bmr <>i i nwviiWE. The rirsl Mews lsir Hit le|arlure of the Doing* Tbrrr. During the last expedition of Eniin Pashr he met, west of Albert Nyan/.a many of his former soldiers, and they told him the story of the fate of thu eq iatoria pro nice. There has been rmc i specu- lation as to the Egyptians whom Eniin left behind, and as to the success of thn Mahdists, who had seized the northern part of tfe province, and were likely to absorb the whole of it. N'ot a word about the province and its people was heard from the time Kinin lefi until he went hack and recently returned to Victoria Ny.ui/ i with the news. The Mahdists did not overrun the prov- ince. The Egyptian soldier* under the leaders who had rebelled against the rule of Kinin, gave the Mabdists battle on two or three occasions, and, though they won no signal victory, they prevented the Mahdists from ascending the Nile to Albert Nyanza. The southern limit of the Mahdist mfluence now appears to be the basin of the Bahriel Ghazal. After Rmiu departed with Stanley the Egyptian officers who were left behind were divided by serious quarrels, and the strong- est among them assumed each tin- command of a particular district. Fodliel Mill* Aga, the leader of the revolt against Emiu,settled down ut \Vadelai and is still in control there. Another important officer, Selim Bey, wiio was really Kmin's frieno, though he did not return to the coast with him, took possession of the region around the south end of Albert Nyan/.a, where he found it very difficult to ins>*s%ain his authority. He proliably would have been compelled by his disaffected soldiers and the hostile pop- ulation ta leave the country if it had not been that be discovered the hiding place of for! v boxes of ammunition which Stanley left behind him. He was thus enabled to keep the upper hand, though, to soothe his discontented soldiers, he adopted the expe- dient of making many of them commission- ed officers, and fully half of his force now oonxists of Colonels, Majors, Captains, and Lieutenants. Selim recently had an opportunity to join the force of Capt. Lugard, who represent* the British Rast Africa Company in Ugan- da. He declined, however, to enter the British service without the consent of the Khedive, and he therefore remains in Equator! a. I'h" general condition of Kmin's old prov- ince is pitiful. The natives have suffered nearly as much from the Kgyptian soldiers who served for years under Kinin a they have from the incursions of the Mabdists and hostile tribes around. Nothing is being done for the development ol the great re- gion, which was fairly prosperous under Emm's regime. Seven-eighths of the bread used in London is made of American wheat. In the British Mint a machine for counting hruii/e coins has been in service somn time. The machine has four distinct sets of count- ing apparatus, each of which can be worked independently of the others, and when all four are in full work upward of .1,000 pence 0D Ml I M. Belgium's telephones are run by the Gov- ernment. In Tennessee there is a fifteen-year-old girl preacher. The Bell company controls fifty three telephone companies!. In Tokio there are more than eight hun- dred bath houses in which a bath can be had for one cent. There are I'J..V>IJ men and more than 4,500 women engaged in the retail liquor business in Chicago. In 1'eutonville Prison, out of 1,000 con- victs st one time confined there, 721 had been Sunday-school scholars. There has been a tremendous increase of drunkenness in France since the destruction of the vines by the philoxera. Bad wine is thought to be largely to IiUino. A few families can show a record like that of the "irons family, of Richmond, Ind. There are six brothers and five sisters of tho family, ami there has not been a death among them for fifty years. Aneut the chance of death in war, a care- fully deducte 1 calculation at the battle of Solfurmu, a bloody engagement, shows that "00 bullets were expended for every man wounded and 4,'20I) for each man killed. Cold iron has been rolled so thin that Is. (XHI sheets, one upon another, would tnea- ' sure only ui inch in thickness. It is added t'uat 1,300 sheets of tissue paper make but little more than an inch in thickness. The throne of an Kgyptian queen who flourished 1000 years B.C., is still in ex- istence, and is supposed to l>e the oldest chair in the world. It is of ebony, so hard- end by age as to appear as if carved from black marble. A heavy plate-glass shade, ornamented with ^ohl and securely locced to throe step- I Us set in the marble top of a pulpit in a ; church in Brussels, is said to cover one of the thorns which formed a part of the Sav- iour's crown. On one of the islands of the coast at Mains lives a man now fifty years old, who ftras boi n there, and has never been off the is- land. He has accumulated a fortune ill the grocery business, and is content to live and die on the few seagirt acres. The Kscurial Palace contains a cathedral, a monastary with 'JOU cells, 2 colleges, three .chapter houses, three libraries and nearly .'i.OUO other rooms. It is lighted by 1 , 100 outer and 1.70U inner windows and has been fitly termed the eighth wonder of the world. A substitute lor oil ass wave-breaker has been discovered. It consists of a thin cot- ton or silk net rendered unsubmersible by being dipped in a special chemical composi- tion. The net is thrown on the troubled waves, and immediately they are still. The inventor got his hint from observing that floating masses of srs>wed always broke tbs force of the billows. * . CUMIklM. 4 1M.I IJ To Hark Luck far r Fl.krrm.'isi. A sportsmiin in India went fishing, ac- companied by on ull and faithful slukan, who carried hit rifle, to lie ready in case can be counted perminutf. Tho coin to be j any large game was met with, the country told is rained to the level of two tables plao being exceedingly full of jungle. The two got separated, but the fisher, knowing that shikari was wnll able to take care of ed on a platform by a lift worked by elect ric motor, which a'so drives the count- ing machine*. A |>air of these machines is fed from each of tho two tables, the coins passing from the table down an inclined iron plate forming a flat hopper, from which they issue in single rile through a channel of appropriate width. They are then grip- ped by a pair of india-rubber driving wneels, which force the coins past the rim of n thin disc provided with recesses in its ?ircumfer- ence to fit the circular edges of the coins. As the disc is thus made to revolve, the coins are pushed forward, falling into a bag placed to receive them, am! continue to ad- vance until the collating wheel is automa- tically stopped and the bag containing the coins is removed. the himself, proceeded to the river, where, after a while, he hooked and landed a large inasheer, weighing over twenty pounds. Returning with the trophy he met in a ravine leading up from thu river a hug* tiger, from whose presence ho moved before it saw him, hiding nimbly behind a con- venient rock. In the agitation of the moment the fish, from which the spoon-bait had not yet been extracted, fell from his hands, and was fully exposod to the view of the tiger. It seemed as if the tiger would pass with- out notice ; but in an evil moment tho fish gave a feeble flop, which at once attracted the animal's attention. The) tiger made straight for the fish, *eizod it by the head, and carried it off. The fish was still joined lo th tackle, and no sooner did the tiger feel the resistance of the reel than he gave The disappearance beneath the sea of an island, long marked on the maps and well known to mariners, is a viry rare occur- rence. Such an event is reported from the) j, k hjh , , in nooklng ..orth^est coast of Australia- in a region* ^ , m junct.,4 where no white .nurpnse. are carrel on,, > P ( , P , ht ' of tn . and winch is rarely visited by ships. A cowerlng * orUmall , .,, g xc ,l ,. gr een and l.crman sailing master reports the discovery JJJJJ * ' , lml . The W , atter , u, of the mysterious disappearance of Expedl- , *,,,,,/ ,,,,/ to pUy , he IM ., MI h . lion Island. The hrt news was printed in the reproduced Europe. vanished from view, and the only explana tion of the phenomenon is that for some cause or other there has been a sudden de- pression of the earth's crust in those wa- ters. Tho subsidence of the island was not accomplished with mich rapidly and vio- lence as to attract attention, through the disturbance of the sea on any civili/od coasts. If a sudden cataclysm had occurred, like that which blew the greater part of Krakatoa into the air and scattered the frag- ments over the sea bed, great waves would have carried to far distant shores the news that something unusual had occurred ; for 7 i D j i i -i won d have done a nsn ; but I ,, H, *m,d~ AUH. and it h*. been nonplussed for a mo need ,n the geographical purna 1. of ,,, , M \ U>1 wem lik . ly >. No one knows when the island though the moment, the to last long. Luckily sTt this crisis the native shikari turned up, and, with a well-aimed shot, laid low the monarch of the jungle. There are 136 telegraph stations in China, mainly under the control of the government. All the operators are Danes. In London an incandescent lamp sheds its pleasing rays from the top of a barlier pole. A pencil with a tiny electric light at the top i* also mentioned, being design- ed lo enable reporters to make notes in the absence of light from other sources. There is no richer or more abiding glory to be gained on earth than is secured in the exercise of ennobling influence upon human- ity, and especially upon the development of Expedition Island had some importance in that region of tiny ocu>n specs, being much larger than any of its neighbors. It was thirteen milos long, and, on an average, one j [^ young * and this^privilege is particular mile wide. The German vessel sailed back ( w ,thm reach of the actor. [William and forth over the sea that has risen alx>ve ' w inter. the island, finding an average depth of forty*- eight feet. In all the soundings the plummet undoubtedly struck what had once )>eeu the surface of the Hat, low-lying island. Thu surrounding sea is some hundreds of feet deep, and the landward end of the island was forty miles from Australia, a little north of the indenture known a* Collier Bay. It is known that the. southern coast of Australia :s gradually rising, while the northwestern, northern, and eastern, coasts, with a wido expanse of the adjacent sea floors, comprise a great area of subsidence. In other words, tne earth's orust in these regions is very gradually sinking. Expedi- tion Island was in the extreme south-west- ern part of this area of subsidence. We are accustomed now and then to the spectacle of a new island suddenly appearing above the surface of the sea ; and we are not sur- prised when thess islands, reared upon un- stable foundations by submarine volcanoes, show a tendency, like New Bogaslov and Kaclon Island, rapidly to disintegrate and disappear again beneath the waves ; but it is very rare indeed that an island of con siderable dimensions and supposed stability leaves these upjrar regions, and it is rarer still that it drops peacefully out of view without lotting the world know, in some way or other, that it is taking its depar- ture. An electro-magnetic light-coin rejector for the use of banker* or mint* is among tho exhibits at the London Crystal I'Mace. Coins can be run through the machine at the rate of sixty a minute and come out properly divided into receptacles marked " full weight " and " Ugh'* Tho biggest telegraph office in the world is that of London. It is located in the gen- eral post office building and ia not accessible to the general puhlfe. It contains more thsn .1001) operator and its batteries are supplied by a plant <^J<0,- 000 cells. Of these 3000 operators about 1000 are women. The submarine cable, two miles in length, connecting tho dynamo station on Sandy Hook with the new electrically lighted buoy on Southwest Spit, New York harbor, has been laid, and the current to the red incandescent lamp turned on. Boston, also, has an electrically lighted buoy near thu entrance of the inner harbor. The money has all been subscribed to place on the top of Mount Washington the strongest searchlight in the wvrld whose light will be visible from New Y o k, Canada, Connecticut, and far at sea. Tie idea was originated by I. H. Rogers ; and among others interested is General Manager Tuc- ker of the Maine Ceulral Railroad.