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Wben mf love frowns, will whiitle though I v «W>. ,,V , , 4 May, man, a kindly and a merry world! ^ 8ay M, wben tbou arc near thine end; ' ' "Tie all in say-ao. iMt life, if I must leave thee, I, Mt speak tbee fair and whiet e thoogh I die, % RACE FOE LIFE* It was during the summer that we had our race with a spout, and won it, too, or 1 of * 1 f ^ p & si * > ' • Ml:"? - "•• « WM as • 4^-•" -&.•< Vt* 4) & w * ' tV LITE*' |pV.: i'sy l *h r» V> & U-pi ' £* V K / ' fe j) ~ ' MS «* ft ' 'f • IkV I- v!> /•:j' . r. • s " 'k*f. Or,. - / - . »rr, ; l':t Vf:P'A ty" ?' Ml#-' v,;" • K.A" ^•v 14';" ' ' t < ^ , ' v rv S- "> (4 s<n FJ 1 A-^ or Jooo's gulch and caught a glimpse of a black moving w&ti of water, fifteen feet high, roiling down toward us. •The car will outrun it," yelled Teddie ip my ear. Don't get scared." "What if we meet a wildcat freight?" I screamed back. A wild­ cat train is one not running on regu> lar time, but whenever the usual trains happen to leave the track clear. '•Got to take our chances on that," yelled Teddie in reply. And now we entered the goix« proper. The roar of the river as it whirled along over huge boulders be­ tween the side of the gorge and the stone-bound railroad embankment, united with t*he rattle of our car wheels in a volume of deafening sound. Overhead hung the weather- scarred granite walls of this cavern­ ous canon, and the eye traveled upward thousands of feet before reach­ ing- their summit. I looked up in despair at the narrow strip of blue sky above us and thought that the bright sunshine away up there was only mockinV our hopeless race. But, upon glancing behind us, my heart gave a great leap of joy, for that j death-bringing wall of water had °^r | been left out of sight in our rear. On and on we fl%w. I looked up at Teddie's face. The color had re- of'86 water- would thing awtfirttJfefore my eyes until dark* Mm feil ufcoii ine. When 1 came to myself ojgata. 1 was lytog In a room at tine McClure Hotel with father and a doctor bending over me, while dear old Itoddtt Watt blubbering away in oihWtotaer. - He thought I was dead became I had turned so pale while fainting. When he found that 1 was all right again, he was so glad that he threw his arms around my neck and gave me a regular bear's hug. As a reward for our pluck and fore­ sight, the railroad company presented each with a gold watch containing our Initials on the' inside of the case, I while my father sent us both back to j St Louis to school. We have been ) here for the past four years, vaca- ; tions and all, but the coming August we are to take a trip up through the Koyal gorge, and visit 1>xas Creek once mora, We both sincerely hope that there may be no occasion to re­ peat our adventure of '86 again, for; I can asstiro you, such, a thing is much more pleasant to read about than to experience.--American Agri­ culturist^^ MUST OO DOWN WITH HIslsHIP. not be alive to tell the story adventure. "We" were Tedd'e O'Brien, the Station agent's son, aod myself. Char- j turned to his cheeks, but his mouth , . .. had lost its usual grin and was tirmly lie Cameroa My home is in St. Louis, but that summer I wafsTa lanky, spindling fellow of 16, with no more strength than a girl, so my father took me out to the mountains of Colorado tn rcu?h it and grow set across his tightly shut teeth, while his eyes had quite forgotten to blink and were looking straight down the track. At the sharpest curves he stendily applied the brake, but ne>er healthy while he looked ^afte^ some | siaekened our speed as we tore around . the slighter ones, though more than once the little car careened until 1 thought we must surely fly the track. Illumined as it was by calm courage, that ugly face of Teddie's grew hand­ some to my eyes, while my admiration for his cool judgment grew apace as I noted how he ran no extra risks yet lost not a second of time that could be saved. And time meant life or dpath not only to us but to that train-load of passengers. And now we had reached the bang­ ing bridge and had flashed under those V-shaped beams of solid steel Inserted in the living rock of the granite wails of the gorge, upon which the structure is supported. The grade grew steeper and steeper, and si. b,- I V*' J i h-- • ||tKv j '-Jjfij < v;' > j& * mining claims which he owned in that State. One of the?e claims was a few mile north of Texas Creek, a little station on the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Just west of the Koval Gorge of the Arkan-as River. While father was overseeing some work on that particular propertv, he and I boarded with the wife of the station agent, and mv only occupa­ tions were hunting and fishing with Teddie O'Brien. Father rode"J a bucking broncho to and fro be­ tween his mines and the station. One fine day, the vicious little brute threw his rider and gave him a l-ad falL Indeed, so bruised was father's hip and side that he was unable to ride again for a week or more. Of course, he could not go up to the mine during this time, since it was impossible todrive a wagon along the narrow mountain trail, so he de­ cided to take a trip down to Denver for a few days. I should have gone with bim, but the very morning that we were to start I teased Mrs, O'Brien's pet kitten until it scratched my face too badly for me to think of showing myself to our friends in the city. So I was forced to stay behind with Teddie. Now Teddie was the most good- natured jfellow you ever saw, but how ugly he was! To a round, red lace, whose big mouth was forever stretched in a grin, add a pair of white eyebrows beneath which the , we uj,usl; ua,vtJ ,ie( greenish eyes could be seen enly now aRaiust the cliffs and then since the white-fringed lids were always winking and blinking; 3<his countenance was topped by a •shock of bright-red hair that ran .-straight down from the crown like the straw on a thatched. roof, and there you have Teddie O'Brien's pic­ ture complete. But that homely face grew beautiful to me that summer; And now that my hero has been prop­ erly introduced to you, 1 must tell you what he did to merit the title, And how he did it The morning of the day that, was to bring my father back to Texas Creek had dawned bright and clear, it -seemed a week to me before noon came. More and more slowly the minutes dragged by, hut at last it "was 3 o'clock. Father's train was >due at 6:30. Three hours and a half more to wait! What would lever find to do with myself for all that time? Just then Teddie stepped out of the MOOT of the station-bouse and glanced carelessly up toward the northern hills. ••Look, look, Charlie," he cried* suddenly. There's a waterspout coming down Jones-s gulch!" In a moment I was at his side and looking where he pointed. Swooping down from the top of a barren mount­ ain came a horrible black cloud that twisted and whirled as it drew on, while its tail-like portion reached nearer and nearer the earth. In a twinkling, this tail had sunk out of sight in Jones's gulch, and the main body of the cloud floated along as if following Che course ot the ravine below. 1 looked at Teddie. His face, usually so red was now ashy pale and the freckles stood out like brown blotches, while his eyes blinked at a a fearful rate. "It's a-coming down Jones's gulch and it *11 strike the river in fifteen minutes more and go down through the gorge. The track's bound to be torn out. What if it catches the up- train?" cried Teddie^ in a husky ,. voice ' My brain whirled. In imagination ^ytsaw the train hemmed in between " perpendicular walls of the gorge ^wRere tne railway embankment tres­ passes upon the Ark nsas River, soon ti . iBgfwollen by the waterspout to SIT*rirresistlble |torrerit And nay father would be one of the pas­ sengers on that train! "Telegraph down and stop the : teain," 1 cried, trembling with ex­ citement. j ••Can't, Father's gone up to the j springs and In ten minutes more the j . line will go out at the mouth of the gulch. The drift wood will break off the poles, you know," groaned Tod­ dle. And that awful cloud drew still fearer. * - Jqst then Teddie's eye fell upon e hand-car standing beside the irack. It will beat the water through te gorge. Hurry, hurry!" ] n a second we baa thrown it upon $he rails. ' "Tell father how it was if 1 don't ijfcme b^ck/' said Teddie, jumping pboard while 1 shoved the car oft A^ut I sprung on beside him and to­ gether we started on o-r errand of lite and death. ; It is all down grade from Texas •Creek to Canon City, the first stop- liing place beyond the gorge, so we - fliad nothing to do save to hang on " and let the car ga How we flew! "We'll beat it If we don't get itctoed," Teddie observed, and as Brlthh Nswl Captoiai Bound by an boo Tkaafb Unwritten Lav, The action of Vice Admiral Tryon in refusing to leave the bridge of the Victoria while there was a chance is being compared by military men of this city with the action of Brig. .Gen. George A. Custer at the Big Horn massacre. According to now gen­ erally accepted facts, an opportunity was offered Custer by a Government Indian scout to cut his way out. Custer refused the proffered Brule blanket and headdress and remained to die with his men. Instance! are many in the British navy of captains of war shins preferring to go down with their ships in preference to out­ living them. It is an old practice in the British navy, and one whicft, ac­ cording to the New York Times, practically amounts to a rule, that the Captain who loses a war ship never obtains a second one The be­ lief among many Amer'can officers is that Tryon was fully imbued with the seaman's idea of the duty of a com­ mander, and, knowing that hundreds of men were imprisoned below decks, calmly decided to go dywo with the we flew the faster. The wind created j ship so long asa man aboard had to die by our swift motion made my eyes water, while the rails of the track seemed to be devoured by our little car. And still we went faster. "Here's the last big curve," screamed Teddie in my ear as he put on the brake We slackened our speed and rounded the curve safely, but just as we reached the straight track beyond, a little stone lying against one of the rails upset the car, fortunately for us, on the uphill side. We both shot headlong into the sand that covered the bed of a dry ravine | whose mouth broke the rocky walls of the gorge. Had we fallen a hun- I dred feet on either side of this point, we must have heen dashed to pieties Picking ourselves up hastily we ran to our faithful car which luckily lay close beside the rails and threw it on the track again. I shuddered as 1 looKed down the rock rip-rapping of the railroad embankment and thought wbat would have been our fate had we fallen down there into the river that raged below. And now we were going once more, but not a moment too soon for close behind us rolled that horrible black wall of water. "We'll beat it yet," cried Teddie. i I read tne words on his lip;, but the j air was too full of the roaring noise of the flood for me to hear him. The little car flew faster than ever, but to my excited fancy that huge wave of liquid mud that reached from wall to wall of the • gorge and overwhelmed the track a? it came was surely gaining on us. "Now, we're safe," Teddie shouted so loudly that I heard him above the roar of the waters, and as he spoke we shot past the bridge across Grape Creek where the Silver Cliff branch of the Denver and Rio Grande turns off, and were living down the widen­ ing valley of the Arkansas River with Canon City right before ua. Barely half a mile down the track was the train running straight to­ ward us! Teddie never touched the brake but began to make the railroad signal that means, "Back up," while I waved his red cotton handkerchief in lieu of a danger signal. | The engineer put on the reverse as ! we tore toward him and then Teddie j applied our brake, but we had to i jump for it when we reached the en- ( gine and our car climbed the cow­ catcher as if it meant to go in at one of the cab windows. The train was moving very slowly, having ^ust pulled out of the station a few mo­ ments before, so Teddie and 1 man­ aged to scramble into the cab. "Waterspout's coming. Get back to the depot," gasped Teddie. "It 'most caught us just beyond the bridge," 1 added. ••There it |s now," cried the fire­ man, and as he spoke we saw the flood strike the bridge. The center pier crumbled away before our eyes and the angry torrent rushed down | the river-bed toward us. The rail­ road track lies close beside the stream for some distapce out of Canon City, hence were in imminent peril Throwing open the throttle, the engineer stood at his posj; with his band on the reverse, and the huge engine wheels flew faster and as the result of carrying out orders given him during the maneuvering. At the United Sfetes Naval Academy a-monument in the center of the grounds stands to-day with the name ' 'Werndon" on-its face. Herndon was an American naval officer who, be­ fore the eivil war, was engaged while on a furlough in the command of a mail steamer plying between New York and the West Indies. The ship was lost in the Gulf Stream itff the Florida coast She carried a large number of passengers at the time. The majority of the passengers Hern­ don saw placed in the boata The last boat waited for Herndon to lump in. Instead of availing himself of the opportunity, Herndon ordered the boat to cast off. The ship went down with Herndon in his naval uni­ form standing alone and in full view on the bridge*. The Tramp Got Photographed. He wag poor and shabby, with all the earmarks of a veritable tramp, when he applied at a photograph gal­ lery to get his picture taken. The proprietor looked bim over and pointed to a sign on the wall It read: "Cash in advance." 1 -All right, pard; here's a five dol­ lar William," and be pulled out the money much to the surprise of the photographer. | "Per'apg you think I'm Jimcomh Riley or some other swell in disguise, but I'm not in it with any of those fellers." ' "Out of a Job?'" asked the photog­ rapher. , i "Yepl And out of everything else." "Going to sell your photograph?" "Nevet struck me ta Who'd want my picture? Nobody but fool lolks who let a feller be a prodigal son all his life; an' never killed any fatted calf for him. They sent a V tor it for the family album. Think I'll be an ornament?" ••Going to keep your hat on?" ••Yep. And my hand in my pocket, to look natural. And the kind of expression that a feller wears when he knocks at somebody's back door and asks for bread and gets a stone. Is it time, pard, to smile and look pleasant?" The picture was taken, and it was a success. But none of them have yet reached the family album. The original sold enough copies to buy himself a suit of clothes, and the next time be pose* will represent a turning tide in his fortune. The photographer had unconsciously held out a straw to a drowning man.--De­ troit Free Press. as we backed down the track. But thft flood was close upon us and the spray from the bailed waves dashed in at the cab windows as they swept out the last reach of rails exposed to their fury only a moment after we had crossed them. And now we were lying sateat last, beside the dnpot platform at Canon City. An excited throng of passen­ gers, among whom was my deair old father, greeted Teddie and myself as we climbed out of the locomotive cab. ••Good thing for you youngsters that we were ten minutes late," re­ marked the engineer as he sprung on the platform behind ua. "If we bad been on time, we would have caught you at Grape Creek bridge and knocked you into Kingdom Come." "Yes, and gone after them, 1 reckon," added the flreman, "if that water hadn't ground us up Into pieces too small to put together again." Meanwhile I was incoherently try­ ing to explain our presence to my Russian!) as Silk Pro<lncem. Paterpalism. as applied to the silk industry, and particularly to serlcul ture in Russia, cannot be described as a pronounced success. The Gov eminent has spent more money for the furtherance of the silk iindustry in the Caucasus than for an/ other industrial purpose, yet despite the fact that the country has whole forests of mulberry trees eminently suited for feeding silk warms, and de­ spite the decidedly favorable climatic conditions, the estimated production faster \ of silk in Transcaucasia to-day is but FARMING UNDER <3LAS3» Cob JLoroe of Sheltered Honm auad Tfcolr IObor-SaTlni Devtorc. The old farmer and hi^ son-in-law, says the Cbautaguan, bad entered a long glass structure containing count­ less tiny green, lettuce plants growing in the ground. "What a monstrous lot of plants! Shouldn't think you could sell 'em alL" 6 Oh, there are only 1,000 dozen in this house. The next house carried 2,000 dozen last winter." "I should think it would taka a Ban all day to water 'em;" "It would if he used a watering pot I once used a hose, but that took too much time, so I rigged a pipe on the roof under the glass. Stand back in the doorway and take out your watch while I let on the shower." An instant later a fine mist seemed to All the entire place, and t|ie& it was gone. "Why, It wasn't a minute!" Na I usually give them abettt forty seconds. You see every single plant has been given a gentle sprinkle of water by only a turn of the hand. I calculate that saves at least 20 cents a day in labor." "How do you keep the weeds down?" & "Well, in the first place, I don't have many. I use fertilizers largely, and if weeds do appear I have a little wheel weeder that a boy pushes along between the rows of plants. The let­ tuce soon covers the ground and chokes off the weeds." Farmer Allen walked along the narrow paths between the beds, lost in wonder and admiration. Every tiny leaf sparkled with dewy drops of water and stood^up fresh, green, and vigorous after tlie artificial shower. Was not this whole business of rais­ ing crops under glass a key to much of the peculiar position of farming in­ terests? Here were crops raised in an artificial climate. Under glass there is absolute control of heat and rain, and these things are the essen­ tials of plaqt life. Would the use of glass spread, 'would it be possible to raise other crops than flowers and Jet* ture in this way? Did suoh farming pay? To all of which the son replied in this wise: "Yea It pays me because I am a manufacturer of food. 1 run my lit­ tle ten-acre farm precisely as a fac­ tory is run. 1 use, as you See, labor- saving devices; I produce great quan­ tities of a very superior article, 'and consequently 1 get fair and steady prices. My lettuce goes off by rail as far as New York, and some of it even to Albany and Hartford and New Haven, arid other places this side of New York. I make money by re­ ducing the cost of manufacture and by the use of labor-saving appliances of every kind. I never plant a seed by hand. It is ail done by planters. I never touch a weed out of doors or inside with the hands. 1 do not even dig my potatoes by hand. As for this glass business, it is growing tremendously all the time. Some of of these millionaires who are experi­ menting with glass in a large way' and showing us food manufacturers that almost any garden crop can be raised under glass." The Battle of Iilssa. J'\~; >. The battle of Lissa was tlfe l^St great sea-tight in history, and the only one wherein armor-clad vessels have opposed other similar vessels in any number. It was fought on July 20, 1866, between the Austrians, un­ der Admiral Tegethoff, and the Ital­ ians, under Admiral Peruana * Each side had twenty-three vessels; but eleven of the Italian fleet were armor-clad, while the Austrians mustered only seven armor-clads. The battle was remarkable for the amount of ramming done by the Austrians, and for that reason has been men­ tioned in connection with the cut­ ting down of the Victoria. The Italians had for their most import­ ant vessels two ironclads, the Re d'ltalia and the Re di Portogallo, and a turreted armor-clad. The Aus­ trians two ironclads of importance, the Drachke and the Ferdinand Max; Tegethoff's flagship was the wooden line of battle ship Kaiser Max. The Italians began the attack; and just before it began Persano left his flag­ ship, Re d'ltalia, going to the AlTon- datore. The battle began with a cannonade; the Austrians, whose guns were inferior, closed immedi­ ately under cover of the smoke, and began to ram their opponents. The Drachke rammed the turret ship and sent her out of action, so that she sank shortly afterwards; the Ferdi­ nand Max rammed three Italians and sank one of them. The Kaiser Max, with a maximum speed of only six knots an hour, rammed the Re d'ltalia and sank her, about 690 of her crew going down with her. In turn the Re dl Portogallo attacked the Kaiser Max and drove her out of action. The Italian ironclad Palestro was set on flre and blew up, with a loss g2 181 out of 200 men on board. Shortly after this both sides withdrew, the Austrians to Lissa, the Italians to Ancona. The Italians gave the bat­ tle out as a great victory; when the truth became known, Persano was tried for cowardice, | condemned and dismissed from the service for diso- 36,000 poods, against 30,000 poods in 1855, the value being but 6,000,000 roubles, and leaving more than double the value still to be imported, it is alleged that considerable improve­ ment has been made in reeling, spin ning, and twisting--new foreign ma chinery being everywhere at work-- yet, in face of protective duties and exceedingly low wages, the imports are increasing, while the exports are decreasing. If Kusaia cannot withstand Japan ese rates of wages with the aid of the measure of protection her silk men enjoy, how woald American silk manufacturers tare If any tariff policy left them at the mercy of un restrained Japanese competition.-- Dry Goods Chronicle. Neveb measure a man's intellect by his size. Good wine is served up in small glasses, and slop beer parades in schooners in this country. It would be nice to be the creek when tne girls go wading, but toujjh wins ys go swimming. RZUI-IR bedienee, incapacity and negligence; Tegethoff was promoted Admiral by the Emperor of Austria. Insects and Searoh-Llghta. A new contribution has been made to the abundant data which has been collected on the subject of the at­ traction of and destruction of insects by the glare of the electric light, by L, Newltt, an electrical engineer, who was on service on a ship of the British navy during the last war in Egypt Mr. Newitt was desirous of testing the power of the search-light and states that he and a friend read a newspaper one night as they sat in the garden of their hotel at Port Said with the greatest ease, >J the only illuminant being the light of i pro­ jector, whose beam had been thrown a distance of four and one-half miles frotu one of the battle-ships. Some of the ships had instructions to fol­ low the movements of the enemy by the aid of the search-light which in every case was more than two miles from the shore. However, in spite of this great distance, it was found that millions of winged insects were at­ tracted by the beam of light and traveled along the team until they struck the glass in front of the |dto. jector, and fell into the well at its foot where they accumulated in a seething mass two feet deep. They had to be cleared out by the free use of a hose pipe, and the process had to be renewed frequently, and the in­ sects became such a pest that it was difficult to find a man who would stand by the projector to keep it working, owing to the attacks made upon dim. Blatchfbrd's Ambition. A New York correspondent calls attention to,the fact that when Just­ ice Blatchford was appointed to the Supreme Court he was not only the richest man over chosen for this high post, but he was one of the richest men in New York pity. He heads the list of rich men who have entered the service of the Government No man so rich as he has ever accepted an appointive office, and it has caused something of amazement to those who have known gomething of Justice Blatchford's wealth that he should, have been willing at his time ot life to undertake the severe tasks im­ posed upon a member of the Supreme Court rather than to spend his de­ clining years amid the pleasures of a cultivated taste and intellect which he couid easily have commanded. But there was no pleasure of the li­ brary or any other mental delight which furnished Justice Blatchford so much joy as did his responsibilities upon the bench, and he was far hap­ pier when preparing an opinion or listening to an argument from an able lawyer than he would have been in that repose which most rich men find in their declining years so grati­ fying.--Boston Herald. About a Beauty. The late Marchioness of Waterford was one of the grtateat beauties of her day. When she was to be pre­ sented, her mother, Lady Stewart de Rothesay, took her to the Court painter, Mr. Hayter, who wits greatly struck with her retlned girlish beauty, her divinely tall figure, and her golden hair rippling on her forehead. On his expressing his admiration, Lady Stewart de Rothesay quietly un­ tied the confining bonnet and let her daughter's magnificent hair stream over her figure. The sun was shin­ ing into the studio, and Mr. Hayter used to tell how he was dazzled by the vision of love iness before bim, clad, as the artist's vision told him, tn a vesture of gold. The ba r reached far below her knees. Some years afterwards, when the wife of the handsome Marquis of Waterford, she lay at death's door in fever. The doctor condemned her magnificent hair to the shears and Lord Water- word allowea no band but his own to execute the sentence. Those locks were buried with bim, twined round his neck. A Novel Plea for Divorce. The causes of conjugal infelicity are like the stars in number, but sel­ dom have they been so curious in character as those enumerated ' by a witness in the divorce court on Satur­ day. Witness considers he was the in- jQred party, as the petitioner was con­ tinually objecting to the shape of his feet (Laughter.) He further said that when be. had his hair cut it was never done to please the petitioner. (Larghter.) She also used to say his upper lip did not suit her. She was continually blaming him for leaving out his h's in speaking. He was not so well up In theologi­ cal subjects as his wife. And there waa sometimes a diver­ gence of opinion when they were talk­ ing about the sermon they had heard. One is not surprised after this to hfear that one of the allegations against the respondent is that he had struck the petitioner with the Methodist Magazine,--Westminster Gazette^ - ? • A FoeHo Vfill, . * An authenticated copy of the will of Anson P. K. Saffbrd was filed in the Probate Court Safforddled In Hillsborough County, Florida, in Decomber, 18#1, leaving property in that State and in Cali­ fornia valued at W0,000. The will was probated there, and is brought here to secure the administration of the property here. One-third of Safford's estate goes to his widow, @ne4hlrd to his sister, $5,000 to his adopted son aad the re­ mainder to his daughters. There Is nothing remarkable about the will except its quaint conclusion. Here the testator says: ' •This life is only the beginning of another. You will miss me, but I shall be with you and meet and welcome you on the other shore; but you have-your work to do here. "Do it bravely and do not mourn for me, for I shall not be dead. I sHall only hid you good evening in order to be able to say good morning to you when we meet on the other shore."--San Francisco CalL American Otrla and Money. The editor of the San Francisco Argonaut has a pointed way of ex pressing his views. Speaking of the marriage of Miss Bradley-Martin to the Earl of Craven, and the expatria­ tion of William Waldorf Aster, he says: Social tendencies are not to be "MURPHY" BREAD. <«<*• In Slowly iMM-oteg to SpfreMatf <Hw Corn am Food. There is a gentlemah in this country, who is known to a great part of Europe and America as "Corn- meal Murphy." This is Col. Murphy, a special agent of the Agricultural Department, who has spent many years of his life in trying to intro­ duce corn bread into Europe. After being scoffed at abroad and laughed at in the United States, he has at last succeeded in getting the military authorities in Germany to adopt the use of cornmeal for the army. The failure of the rye and wheat crops over nearly all of Europe had made it a serious question where bread for another year was to come from. Col Murphy saw - his oppor­ tunity, and going to Berlin, put in operation an American kitchen for the preparation of cornmeal in all its forms. The German peasants like rye bread, preferring it even to wheat bread. Col, Murphy, therefore, had one-third of rye put into his sample loaves, which the Germans have dubbed "Murphy bread." He secured, through the American Minister, the Emperor's promise to taste the bread thus made, and it is said that the Emperor could not toll it from bread made altogether of rye Col. Murphy had specimens sent to every member of the Reichstag, and also to the different charitable institutions In Berlin. The bread gave general satisfaction, and the experiment resulted in the adoption of this composite loaf for the armv. CoL Murphy then went to Sweden and the American Minister gave a corn dinner. The bill of fare con­ tained a great variety of dishes made of corn, including hominy in many forma The dinner was universally pronounced a success. The northern nations have, strangely enough, accepted corn as an article of food much more kindly than the people of southern countries where maize is grown. Italy, wbich produces a good deal of maize, as it is universally called in Europe, has no use for it as food except for the po­ lenta of the lower classes. This is a sort of mush. The Italians cannot be persuaded to eat the boiled green corn which in the United States is such a standard dish. The scarcity all over Europe this year prevails in Italy, too, which will have to import over a thousand mil­ lion bushels of wheat Col. Murphy hopes that this will induce the Ital­ ians to listen to his corn-bread theories. Maize will not ripen any­ where in Europe except in the ex­ treme south. In England a stalk of corn growing in a pot is a common green-house ornament The importance of the subject mav be estimated, when it is understood what an immense revenue would come to the United States from the ex­ portation of corn and cornmeaL About one-twentieth of the land sur­ face of the United States is devoted to corn. Yet only four per cent of the entire crop has been' exported during the last ten years. stopped by diatribes or satire. So long as the girl who marries a lord is envied by her sex, giitfs will seek to marry lords. But absenteeism, as represented by Astor and other de­ nationalized Amercans, is another matter. That represents a drain of wealth from this country of which the legislator can take some notice. Ownership of land either by aliens or for a given period out of the United States, should be forbidden by law. And the ingenuity of statesmen might profitably be turned toward devising other disabilities for Americans who sit on the European shore and suck the orange of the land of their birth. MttrWe X>nst. A'rich and brilliant effect Is ob­ tained on walls intended to be decor­ ated by mixing an equal quantity of marble dust with the lime used in making the plaster. This gives softness of tint which cannot be ob­ tained with ordinary plaster. In Italy it has long been the custom to give a final coating of marble dust to walls intended to be treated by the wet process. "What hoe there!" Is the farmer's greeting to hisfteld hands. -r--> •-- , .ONE ON THE COOL CAPTAIN. ^ Kb* XJajpfaay XJeatenant FlnaUjr Geta !!•>• ; eMedly Etc* for X*fMt Jokeoo» HIo Wwr- '•* " When Things Get in the Eye. One of the most frequent and most annoying of the smaller accidents which are happening to us every day Is the getting of small particles of dust and cinders in the eye. What is at first a loose attachment of such a body soon becomes a firm one by tte rubbing of the affile ted eye, which is sure to follow. When this happens to a child try to make him under­ stand the rubbing only makes mat­ ters worse, and that It Is best to let the free flow of tears called forth by the presence of the irritant wash it out When this is not effectual, grasp the upper lid by the lashes aud pull it well down over the lower lid, allowing it to sweep back over this part, thus cleaning it out Most foreign bodies get entangled in * the upper lid, so that, this proceeding is usually effectual if such body is not deeply and flrmly attached. If the body still remains, the lids must be everted over a pencil, and all parts, including the ball of the eye, be care- full? examined in a good light The disagreeable sensation may remain several hours or longer after the body has been actually temoved, from the irritation already set in. This can be palliated by freely bathing the lids with very hot water, holding a sponge so saturated over the closed eye. Specks of dirt may blow into the ear. or hard masses of wax may act as a foreign tody. Oc­ casionally insects crawl into the ear passage. The safe and only proper way to remove anj object from the ear is to employ irritation with tepid water. Do not let the nozzle of the syringe be pointed straight into the eaf, but at an angle, which will pre­ vent the chance of doing harm to the drum. A current of water is thus produced which will clear the chan­ nel. No harm can come from using a large quantity of water. There is always danger in using hairpins or any hard, sharp instruments in the ear. Tolltng a KnelL Ttoe traveler through some of more remote rural regions of Maine occasionally hears what most men of three score and ten remember as a familiar sound in their young days-- the tolling of a church bell oh the death of a denizen of the neighbor­ hood, the strokes numbering the years of the person's life There is something particularly solemn about the use of the bell, so long neglected in the more popular communities; and to the writer no funeral service ever brought the fact of death home with the same pathos, as listening to tlie unexpected souud of "the death bell," startling the community into a hush, broken for a few minutes only by the low, whis­ pered query: "Why, who can that be?" Then, as the tolling went on, the count was kept carefully to help solve the mystery. The tolling began usually very soon after the breath had left the body, and before the news bad spread through other channels. If a very aged person, the count would require a considerable time, while all would sit very still, and listen for the strokes. -- Lewiston Journal. 'tis unfair to take advantage of a man without front teeth by calling him a back-biter. A good story is told by an English 9apw of a lisping officer having been victimised by a brother officer (who was noted for his cool deliberation and strong nerves,) and his getting square with him in the following manner: The cool joker, the captain, was always quizzing the lisping officer, a lieutenant, for his nervousness, and said one day in the presence of bis company: ... "Why, nervousness is all nonsense. I tell you, lieutenant, no brave man will be nervous." - "Well," inquired his lisping friend, "how would you do thpose a thell with an inth futhee thould drop it- thelf tn a walled angle, in whlth you had taken thelter from a company of tbarpthootberth, and where it wath thertain If you put out your nothe you'd get peppered?" "How." said the captain, winking at the circle; "why, take it cool, and spit on the fusee." The party broke up, and all retired except the patroL rf Tbe next morning a number of sol­ diers were assembled on the parade and talking in clusters, when along came the lisping lieutenant Lazily opening his eyes, he remarked: "1 wantj to try an experiment thith" morning and see how extheedingly cool the captain can be." Saying this, he walked deliberately into the captain's quarters, where a fire was burning on the hearth, placed in Its hottest center a powder canister, and instantly retreated. There was but one mode of egress from the quarters, and that was upon the parade ground, the road being built up tor defense The occupant took one look at the can inter, compre­ hended the situation, and in a mo­ ment dashed at the door, but it wa3 fastened on the outside. "Charley, let me out, if you love me!" shouted the captain. "Thoit on the canister;*,' shouted he in return. Not a moment was to be lost He had at flrst snatched up a blanket to cover his egress, but now dropping it, he raised tbe window, and wut he bounded, sans everything but a verv short undergarment and thus, with hair almost on end, he dashed upon a full parade ground. The shouts which hailed him brought out the whole barracks to see what was the matter, and the dignifled captain pulled a sergeaut in fiont of him to hide himself. "Why don't you thpit on it?" in­ quired the lieutenant "Because there were no sharp­ shooters in front to stop a retreat," answered the captain. "All I've got to thay, then, ith," said the lieutenant "that you might thafely have done it: for I'll thware there wathn't a thingle grain of pow­ der in it" The captain has never spoken lot nervousness since. * Unique Ply-Trap. Dick Beck in an has a unique fly. trap at his place of business, on the corner of Pacific avenue and Chestnut Street There lb not another trap ; in Alameda like It, and probably not another In the State. The trap is an effective one. too, and Mr. Beirkman declared that he has never seen one that could beat it On the counter in Mr. Beckman's store is a transparent jar filled with water. This is the home of two fes­ tive bullfrogs* and they are the fly­ trap There are perches in the jar foi the convenience of the frogs, and > here they live, apparently happy and contented. A small platform sur­ rounds the mouth of the jar, where the bullfrogs sit and masticate the flies wbich alight within their reach. The frog never moves a muscle while catching flies. Let it get its "eagle eye" on a little fly within four inches of Its mouth and it is licked up like a flash. Tbe frog has a tongue , like a snake and it darts at its prey as quick as a wink, says the Alameda Argus. The frogs are great pets and they never attempt to leave their home in the glass jar unless a rainstorm is ap> proachlng, and then they want to get outdoors. They smell the rain in the air, and are better indicators of a change in the weather than $ barom­ eter-1--New York Journal Hereditary Pauperis*!!. Mr. Henry V. Spencer, Superin- tendent of the Poor for Oswega County, N. Y., who has traced the history of many pauper families back for two or three generations,, is in favor of separating the parents and children and binding the latter out in respectable families. He flndsthat this is something the pauper will never do himself, for his children are useful to bim as mes-engers to tbe charity office to bring back the weekly pittance, and as long as he keeps them at home no attempt is likely to be made to send the family in a body to the poorhouse. In support of his theory Mr. Spencer cites the case of a family of four generations which he found in his oWn county. Among them was a woman wlt)i two children and a worthless husband. Previous to their coming f> the poorhouse the town had supported this man and his family in a mud hovel. As soon as homes were found for the children tbe woman left the poorhouse and has supported herself ever since. Mr. Spencer admits that his plan of re­ ducing the number ot paupers would prove costly at Its inception, bu that as the children become ed and self-reliant hereditary pau would rapidly become a thing past--New York Post ,r"i J 'J?.'?:; "t" >- Credit Where Credit Was Squire Phinney, an old tir acter at Pawtucket. R L. waj who believed in giving credil it was due. He used to raise -tne most luscious pears in his neighbor­ hood and send them to the local ex­ hibition placarded: "Raised by God Almighty on the premises ol Sjuira Phinney."--Belfast Age. There is only one class of tnemroTT tbe face of the earth whn look well when they are in a box, and those men are the base-ball pitchers. . 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