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it i +»• ie as ?'lHKjr:imUl now pM^of her ltin- llng in this and intends ' tft ibout ten days to gather ma- dellghtful book well-known In Iceland," "A Norway" and in Carta" have Tweedie Is a dls- woman, who owns brown eyes, a »r and a refreshing experiences and it result is a most she has a beautiful lie ia a fa«©us club- •48,170 TWEEDIE. Jty la aomething awe* Kiss from 9 till at her literary IP* Innumerable daring the sea- It has been said has pre- lish court her list of HU the writers, and distin- ttfco live in or visit MM to this is aha owns which <a in London as » gwets who have sat table hate scribbled on it in pencil, have and signed them, hits of verses, and these as covered with fifes result being in the line of aou- has come to America -:*to Paris, where she France' and epoke beforn one of the congresses on agriculture in Great Britain--thto sub- Jest being one of the numerals hob­ bles for which Bhe snatches time, em­ broidery and painting being two more that she pursues with success. She is such a versatile woman that she crowds enough experiences, achieve­ ments, amusements and good hard work into one year to supply a dozen ordinary persons and such is Tier vital­ ity she seems to thrive on it. As a charmingly representative English­ woman she stands a type by herself. An interesting bit of news brought by her is that Sarah Grand, the novel­ ist, one of her intimate friends, is com­ ing to America soon on a lecturing tour. English women writers seem about to follow in the footsteps of their brother authors who have addressed American audiences the last few years. OCEAN'S FLOOR. ' -- » UAi It IS Bdaf Cbfurcd kf • Dsposlt at Scientists estimate that the floor oi the ocean is being gradually covered by a deposit of sediment, but so slowly Is it forming that it amounts to but a single inch in a thousand years. Scien­ tists are rather fond of estimating all manner of things which other folks usually overlook. When they turned their attention to the 'bottom of th« ocean they went into the subject most thoroughly. For one item they took the ships which have been wrecked since ships were first built. They found that there were over thirty thou­ sand of them in one much-traveled part of the ocean--so many, that were they all afloat, a boy or girl might stand upon the deck of any one vessel and count the masts of a dozen oth­ ers. Then they speculated upon the lasting qualities of all these wrecks, and decided that tens of thousands of years hence, when the present floor ot the Ocean will have risen and become populated farms, the man who plo^rs the fields will find no remaining trace of all this wreckage unless he turns up an occasional object of gold, silver or glass. Wood, steel, iron and copper will have disappeared altogether. Should the great battleship Oregon sink to the ocean bed a plowman ot the future will find only coins, bits of jewelry and the bull's-eye lights that go down with her. Man is leaving only one permanent trace of -himself upon the ocean floor, and that, strange to say, is the deposit of ashes and half- burned coal thrown from steamers. Great quantities of this refuse are cast over the sides of ships every year and the scientists believe that heaps of it are forming in quiet spots and that their brother scientists of • the coming ages will be able to do a little estimat­ ing on their own account regarding us poor mortals of the twentieth century. :APE. * ! ii"<h is de- _ E*JMiw»hrt>ace in a jcsjiwnsn admitted to fr--dy for *#niik»8 he comes b~ner^ ob" BefVifcw, the ^-^^escaM *lndsd The fres^tlvelv hld_ daaptere not aoce in use. the lor the attendance t̂ der for use Which, everything t>d be lost in vtii suggestion, , fThe chair „ = ' •: l»lfefllnd the but- Sbgbistast at of 5 sad clean* a good ien the reel ladder is the Party dtJBIHMHte thing, although Uw*e was nlllfrlBfcatin sight. All marvelled g^esHBi^9l[^|A moment later they notl^||raHj||pe distant mountains were dfaakMiflMftng behind a cloud of mist. Mist wppolorado in February? Surely there munt be some mistake. But there was no mistake, because within ten minutes a gentle wind began to blow, and the air,be­ came filled with fine particles of some­ thing that scintillated like diamond dust in the sunshine. Still the peo­ ple drove .on until they came to a cabin where a man signalled them to stop. With h?«s head tied up in a .mufflers, he rushed out and Hggl'll piece of paper on whl^p into the kiil all bt here." Of course no time was ffjpln getting under cover and putting thc° iOrses ia the stables. But they were a little late, for in less than an hour the whole party was sick with violent coughs and fever. Before the next morning one of the women died with all the symptoms of pneumonia. The others were violently ill of it, managed to pull through after sickness. but long INGRATITUDE holds ' ladder is .. the ap- jf||y§Kerftack of a covering with snap • being the I,TH. Wkleh pe- region than lib the In- Scientific •to Wi ' rty ~»e, it tines *>- wfco It Is file one occurs part occa- years d two in a 'shone M the ^©HA*l|b BY -- >•< - >•->> JExetttas of ike ©raw me a Plrtiih gtfihlfr The P. and O. steamer Egypt, which arrived at Plymouth recently, had among |wr ̂ passengers those of the crew of the British steamer Indra, who were so long missing after the wreck of their vessel at Cape Guarda- ful. The Indra, bound from Java to Philadelphia with 8,500 tons of sugar, •was wrecked on August 20, about 28 miles from Cape Guardaful in line weather. The crew left in four boats, but the captain and second officer were soon picked up and the men con­ veyed to Aden. Twenty-three days later the remainder of the crew arriv­ ed there after extraordinary experi­ ences. Two days after leaving the Indra they fell in with a Somali dhow which Offered to conduct them to the shore to find fresh water.. One of the native crew understood something of the language and gathered that the strangers Intended making prisoners of the shipwrecked mariners and hold­ ing them for ransom or selling them into slavery. The Somalia had placed an armed man in one of the boats, but during the night he was thrown over­ board and the towline was cut adrift Hoisting sail, the two boats stood away, but were soon followed in pur­ suit by the Somalia, who were seen preparing their blow-darts and stones. The sailors' smaller craft was aban­ doned, Its occupants being taken on the sailing boat, which now had thirty-nine people on board, with a diminished supply of water and food. In the darkness the Indra's crew ef­ fected their escape, but another eight days elapsed before a friendly village was reached on the Arabian ooast Meanwhile the water supply was lim­ ited to four tablespoonfuls a day, whilst the last seven days there was nothing to eat. The victims' suffer­ ings were frightful. Several steamers were seen but signals were not regard­ ed. Day after day in the fierce sun­ shine the Europeans, although longing for water to moisten their cracked lips, manfully kept up their spirits, but the natives handed knives to one another, and would have Induced each other to put an end to their troubles but for the Influence of the officers. At last Barrali was reached, and dur­ ing the twelve days spent ashore the food was of the scantiest description, though everything possible was done for the comfort of the men. On reach­ ing Aden the unfortunate men were sent home. AZTEC TREASURES To OM Qiwt Servants of th« Coaiaioa- vm! U Anetoat Oinn. Probably the early Greeks and par­ ticularly the Athenians were' least grateful to their great men. There was a predisposition to fickleness and to hasty judgment in the Greek char­ acter, as well as a strong Jealousy of any individual who seemed likely to attain a preponderating power in the state; and their political and Judicial system unfortunately supplied no com­ pensating check. Their leaders were thus sacrificed alike in good and evil fortune, and a list of those who fell victims would be a long one. Arlstides (the "Just"), Miltiades, Themistocles, Socrates and Timotheos are a few of the groat m«n who ended their lives in unmerited exile or by judicial mur­ der. Sometimes after defeat there was a general butchery of the unlucky leaders.. The Carthagenlans were noted for their ingratitude to the geat servants of the commonweal, and this, no doubt, helped to handicap them In the struggle with Rome, where a wiser policy was pursued. Spain, amongst moderns, h&s been most neglectful of the Juft claims of her great men. The caprioi and pride of a court may be as stupi* if not so violent, as a Jealous afed fickle mob* •' '*•' 'W CiMrthcd After Betas BuM Ctontarfea Ago. The work that is being carried on In the Calle de las Escalerillas for the laying of the sewer mains has led to Important archaeological discoveries, for, as is well known, that street, as well as the present cathedral, formed part of the site of the great temple of Huitzllopochtli, the Aztec god of war, says the Mexican Herald. The latest discoveries seem to be the most important of all. Foremost among them are two figures of the god Ehecatl (god of air), the companion of Quetzacoatl. One of these figures is painted red, yellow and black, tnd in spite of the dampness of the ground where it has lain for centuries, the colors have remained fresh and vivid. These idols are adorned with disks of gold, which are polished and engraved in a remarkable manner. The disks ar about twenty centimeters in dia­ meter and the gold, plate is of fair thickness. Other objects found at the same time were four ear ornaments of gold, a gold jewel case belonging to the god of air, beads, amulets of green stone, axes of silex, small idols of stone, lances of sharp stones, a. curious mask of pyrite of Iron, knives of large dimensions, a mask of dlorite, censfers of earthenware painted in col- ors and many other figures of stone am! cement, the latter being always polychromatic. t i BrMthlnf Kxerclse. ' A %rKathing exercise, which is said to work wonders in the way of filling np the neck, hollows in the cheeks, ex­ panding contracted chests and curing many of the minor ills which flesh is heir to is taken thus: Stand out of doors in the sunshine or by an open window, hold the chest up and inhale through the nose as long as possible. Exhale equally slowly. Fifteen min­ utes of this exercise twice a day will Effect a great improvement in health and) appearance. The exercise is as good for men as for women and is sometimes recommended by drill ser­ geants to young volunteers and others by way of increasing their chest meas­ urement to the requisite number of Inches. Growth of BclfMt When the Prince and Princess of Wales come to Belfast in the early part of 1901 they will find that many changes have taken place in the city during the fifteen years that have elapsed since the last royal visit. The population has greatly increased, the city has extended its limits and is in every way prosperous. One of the chief events of the present visit of the prince and princess to Belfast will be the laying of the foundation stone ot Hie new Royal Victoria hospital. mam mm AND con Danger at Ulagara. It is doubtful if a more dangerous and interesting piece of bridge con­ struction has ever been done at Ni­ agara Falls than the building of the new concrete arches between the mainland and Goat island. The point where operations are being conducted 1b right over the upper rapids, where the waters dash furiously, as though hungry to sweep a human being down through the rapids and over the Amer­ ican fall. This interesting work is only 500 feet back from the brink over which so mafiy have been hurled to death and the workmen have to use the greatest care that they may not fall into the forty-mile current of the fascinating waters. These new bridges are being built on the state reservation lands and the work is under the supervision of the state engineer department. All sum­ mer long it has been necessary to use a temporary wooden bridge only six feet wide in passing to and from the shore of Goat island. The old bridges have been closed to pedestrians, as well as carriage travel, and It is many months since an ambitious Niagara hackman drove a fare about the Island. It is doubtful if the bridge will be opened this faU. The commissioner of the reservation will take steps to hur­ ry the work as much as possible, says the Rochester Democrat. , When the new bridges are completed they will add materially to the beauty of the view looking from the mainland to Goat island. They will be of con­ crete, but faced with stone in all parts, and so will have every appear­ ance of rustic stone structures. The bridge from the mainland to Green island will have a length of 371 feet It will have three spans. Surmounting the structure there will be an iron rail­ ing of appropriate design. Between Green island and Goat isl­ and the second bridge will be located, and it is now well under way. This bridge will be of the same style of con­ struction, but will not be quite so long. From shore to shore it will be 198 feet It will also have three spans or arches. The water over which the bridge Is being built varies in depth from six to twelve feet and the current has a wonderful force In its hurry to plunge, over the falls and bury itself in the waters of the gorge. Right in the cur­ rent the contractors are forced to sink cofferdams in order that the bottom of the river may be reached for the construction of the piers. It has been found quite a task to shut out the waters of the rapids, for the pressure all about Is awful. However, it has been done, and the concrete for the piers is placed in a practically dry cof­ ferdam, the water that does enter being pumped out by electric motors. The concrete is mixed in mixers oper­ ated electrically. Men working in the water have life lines about them, and all about the dangerous points lines are stretched and life buoys floating to catch any workman who might be un­ fortunate enough to slip into the water. The consulting engineer is R. S. Buck.whp has won fame ia connec­ tion with all the Niagara bridges, and D. D. Waldo of Medina, is his assist­ ant While carriages have not been allowed to cross to Goat island, the reservation van service has been maintained in order that aged people might have some means Of traveling about the island. All the vans and horses used in this island service were taken over before the bridges were commenced. trip. ' Vj. .'Ygfe- t Old Pogsy-CfmWTai Ataetibh, An interesting relic of the eari of Beaoonsfleld came under the auction- sets' hammer at a sale in the parish of Hughenden, Bucks,' England, the other day. It was the two-wheeled pony chaise in which the conservative leader was aoeustomsd to take his country drive in company with Lady leld when in residence in manor. The vehicle, very ted in design, was knocked the small sum of 2»S (VMfr mA: Modjeaka'i latest Farm Fays. Born in Poland in 1844, Mrae. Mod- jeska mostly lives in America and makes a hobby of farming. So long ago as 1876 she made a farming exper­ iment in California and lost her mon­ ey, but since then she has had more luck. Her present California ranch lies at the foot of the Santiago peak and is fifteen miles from anywhere. There, among her shorthorns, bees and her fruit trees, the greet actress likes to live. Saetaslen of Upen. One of the local American papers In Manila is agitating the leper ques­ tion and advocating the selection of one of the numerous islands of the group as a place where they mar be secluded. RP<rR£SS fashionable. Noblemen vied With each another in making agricultural ex­ periments and In improving their es­ tates. They thought more about in­ troducing new root crops or new grass­ es or Improving the breed of sheep and cattle than they did about the amusements of a London season, says the London Graphic. At the same time large areas ot land that had been previously cultivated on the semi communistic and wasteful "open field" system were enclosed and divid­ ed Into separate farms. The other im­ portant developments of the eight­ eenth century may most fairly be re­ garded as a preparation for the cen­ tury to come. Toward the latter end ot the century several of the wonderful machines which were to revolutionize the tex­ tile industries of the world were in­ vented in rapid succession, but It was only gradually that they were brought into use. Toward the end of tho same century began the grekt im­ provement of highways and the con­ struction of canals. But In the case of each of these brilliant developments the greater part of the profit accrued to the century that succeeded. At the beginning of the nineteenth century England was still an agricul­ tural country--still a frequent seller and a rare buyer of wheat---and she was only just beginning to utilize the marvelous Inventions of Arkwright and Watt, the engineering triumphs of Telford the immense stores of mineral wealth burled beneath her soil. If we turn back to contemporary estimates of the wealth of the country at the beginning of the nineteenth cen­ tury, we find that the first point con­ sidered in the rent of agricultural land. Today it would be one of the last AUTOMATIC PEN-WIPfcll. In the illustration is shown a novel little device for drying the pen after use, which has just been patented in the United States by a German invent­ or. If a pen wiper could always be at hand when wanted and was so con­ venient that the writer would not neglect to use it when about to lay down the pen, its life would not only be greatly lengthened, but It would be in much better condition when required for further use. The M1ATINO LIGHTS. An inventor of London has designed the electric novelty illustrated below, which at least has cleanliness and neatness to recommend it As will be INCANDESCENT HEATING LIGHTS seen by a glance at the picture it Is simply a series of elongated electric light bulbs, arranged in a metallic frame, with reflectors at the back. Any desired number of lights may be used, and a switch is provided to cut off those not in use. In addition to the reflectors the stove is provided with a series ot air inlets at the bottom, through which the air currents ascend, passing around the bulbs and out Into the room upon striking the slant­ ing hood at the top. The heater is arranged to stand In the fireplace, which makes it possible to bring the stove near a chandelier for reading purposes. The extreme lightness and small amount of attention required will recopimend it to many persons, the attachment of the wire to a lamp socket and turning on-of the current being all that is required to start the stove going. • 'i Technical Kdu«ailoa la Wale*. Alfred L. Jones, the Liverpool ship­ builder, has offered £1,000 a year for Ave years toward a fund tor estab- a comprehensive system of ^ 4 ^ ^ . ' v h , ' „ • - , * ' ' KM* .** £, • Doelln* of Kngltsh Vkradag. England in the seventeenth oentury was an agricultural country, and, broadly speaking, that condition con­ tinued throughout the greater part of the eighteenth, century. As between the centuries, however, there was one great difference,-that while In the sev­ enteenth centmy agriculture progress­ ed very slowly In the elgft&Mmth cen­ tury it made laun«a» " strides. Throughout the greater pact <*"•• tfea DRYING DEVICE ATTACHED TO HOLDER. inventor believes he has provided an arrangement which will come up to the requirements and the mode of op­ eration is extremely simple. The fer­ rule on the holder is grasped between the thumb and finger and given a backward pull, which causes the pivot­ ed levers to tilt the pad supportng arms outward. When the arms have reached a certain point a slight move­ ment with the finger tilts them past the dead center, when the pressure of the spring inside the handle forces the fer­ rule downward again and presses the pads against the pen. When the pads become soiled or saturated they are easily replaced with fresh ones, and the mechanism is so simple that ltirlll not get out of order easily. Tho H«ny That Kills, 1 hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, tp get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind toy phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprentice- shop, or the sale of goods toy pretend­ ing that they sell, or power by making believe that you are powerful, or through a packed jury, or caucus,brib­ ery and "repeating" votes, or wealth by fraud. Men think they have got them, but they have got something else--a crime which calls for another crime and another devil behind that. These are steps to suicide, infamy and the harming of mankind. We counte­ nance each other in this life of show, puffing, advertisement and the manu­ facture of public opinion; and excel­ lence is lost sight of in the hunger for sudden performance and praise.--Em­ erson's "Essay on Success." * ~ rancwfi Irtueloua Vralla ^' 'United States Consul Ruffin at Asun­ cion advocates the establishment ot the frult-<prd«erving industry in Para­ guay toecause he thinks the excellent fruits o€ that country would toe much liked if seat to the United States, Among the beet of these fruits is the gua/va, which is of a yellow color and about as great in diameter as a silver dollar. It makes a delicious jelly. Another la the aguai, equal In size to a plum, and having a delightful flavor. Oranges, lemons and pineapples of pe­ culiar varieties are abundant WU'.. tun of Barter An enormous and increasing amount of burlap is used in this country, 500,- 000,000 yards a year, It is said. Bur­ lap ill used for making bags, it figures In coat linings, among other things, taA is even entering, in a dressed-up stale, into wa^l coverings. But it is eMefiy used for packing and wrapping and with our increasing export trade great quantities of it are demanded. VoasMI Oafti / 4%-ITill you marry me. Miss. Eve­ line? " She--Sir! " He--Rejected again! She--Certainly. I only waited to see whether you: .ynf- in -earnest or ,t\ is .x A writer In the Quarterly Review makes a powerful attack on "the eth­ ics of cremation." He regards it as an improper corrective to the mis­ chievous practice of interment in vaults and coffins. He says: "Little or no difficulty appears to have at­ tended the ready and efficient disposal of the dead till towards the close of Charles the Second's reign. Not only was the strong coffin--the fons et origo man--till then unknown, but the plainer sort of men were content to be carried to their graves in the open chests or coffers which were kept in every parish church for the occasion and only employed to convey the body from the house of death to that other "house which hath been appointed for all living," after which the chests were returned to their accustomed place, which was usually a niche in the church wall. Arrived at the grave the body, enveloped at one. time'in coarse linen kept together by bone pins., and afterwards In woollen, was removed from its temporary case and buried." Resolution of the body by the agency of the earth to which we commit it, is affirmed "by the writer to be the nat­ ural and innocuous method. "Earth Is the most potent disinfectant known." The common v impression that graveyards pollute the air is emphatically contradicted. "Nothing worse than carbonic acid (cartoon diox­ ide) and water are ever given off from the surface of burial grounds, and these Only in quantities so small as to be even less than are naturally present in the superincumbent atmos­ phere; and, further, that even this lit­ tle is at once taken up by vegetation and returned to the air, not as a source of peril to the health, but as a neces­ sary increment ot atmospheric re­ newal." The two hundred disused burial grounds in London now used as recreation grounds and health resorts are cited as proof. "The air of the * r \ dpwai cemetery is absolutely ons." Sir Seymour Haden from experiments carried on far It' yean te the burial of animals bodies buried four feet deep more than four years for their piste dissolution; three feet d yews; two feet deep, two yett*; ioot, one year; while bodies not buried* but simply covered with a foot of eMtkt . disappeared, all save their tones, la , lees thaa a year; bvt in all cases with-, • oat injuring the purity of easHi or V air. The Pruseian government Shmk also made a notable contribution / * ; our knowledge on this Important peril of the subject In 1872-73 a scuet 4' i commission was issued by it tn annsr " „, ̂ tain the condition of the dead la tH - battlefields of the Vosges. Two years, " , or thereabouts, having elapsed tints those battles were fought, it was fsaiv ed, as many dead bodies were known ' ̂ to hare been only superficially buried^f that epidemic disease might result, . 4 ̂ What the commissioners found, how-' " •;' ever, entirely dissipated any aud*;);" fears. In cases in which as many a^* eight hundred bodies, in the hurry in- / fi cident to rapid military movements, had been thrust into one shallow exca-» vation, these bodies, it was foun ̂ha4 1̂ v. already disappeared, their bonesi and « v accouterments alone being left But ,4--i to this disappearance there was * re- • marlcable exception; the bodies of of*. , fleers, having been buried in mackta* toshes (the action of which re that of coffins) had not so disappear*. ed." Against the testimony of Sir Henry Thompson, the writer quotes^: the authority of Kooh and Klein to' • show that the bacilli of beins - ^ aerobic, or dependent on air, are^ritae. buried four and a half feet IncapMbkl ' of reproduction. The rest "of the pa* f per is occupied with the argument that- cremation, by making exhumation la. possiible,prevents the detection of mur*- ders. • 1 Fvrture of 1 Expositions [ A NEW YORK PAPEF THINKS THEY HAVE RUN THFJM COURSE. In the following article the New York Evening Post suggests that great expositions have r.uu their course: Though international exhibitions date only from 1851, the earlier half of the century led up to them with a series of national expositions, which were held in nearly every country of Europe, as well as the United States. They be­ gan In France and were born of the freedom from the old restrictions upon commerce and industry, and of the ef­ fort of improvement that marked beginning of a new life. They were essentially different from the medieval fair, like that still held annually at Nijni-Novgorod, for example, in that they do not exist for the sale of goods brought in bulk by traders from re­ mote lands, but for the encouragement of invention and enterprise by the dis­ play and comparison of results, aid by competition for the prizes offered. They were not places of exchange, but industrial, exhibitions. They marked the end ot the system of trade guilds and carefully guarded secrets, and' Il­ lustrate the openness to ideas, the search for new methods, and the in­ troduction of improvements, both in agriculture and in processes of manu­ facture, which mark the dawn of the nineteenth century. At the same time they were conceived in a spirit of na­ tional pride and glorification, which was intensely hostile to outside pow­ ers. At the first French exhibition of 1798 a gold medal was offered the man who should deal the heaviest blow to English trade, and in 1849 the minister of foreign affairs ascribed to the ene­ mies of French industry a proposal to admit foreign exhibitors. The Crys­ tal Palace exhibition of 1851 in Lon- THE SOAP BUBBLE. Ooomatrie Research Has Frovod That It Is » Porfoct Bphoro. A perfect sphere presents the least amount of surface in proportion to its bulk. Apart from geometric proof the best Illustration of this fact Is to be found in the common soap bubble. The envelop is perfectly elastic and homo- gdueOus, and when detached from, the pipe it takes the form of a perfect sphere, because in that shape the least amount of film contains the greatest amount of air, or in other words, it presents the least amount of surface In proportion to its bulk. The early experiment to prove the incooipressi- bility of water was founded on a knowledge of this fact the knowledge iKtving been obtained by geometric re­ search, A golden globe was filled with water and subjected to pressure, the experimenters knowing "that if it could be altered in shape the water must be compressed." A similar prob­ lem has been propounded, "How should a shepherd arrange 100 hur­ dles so as to oontain the greatest num­ ber of sheep?" and the answer is, "In a circle," and what is true of a circle Is true also of a sphere.--Cincinnati Enquirer. Tenacious of lifo. Two instances showing how tenac­ ious of life lobsters and cod are are related in a bulletin of the United States Flah Commission. In the fall of 1889 about twenty lobsters were left in a car in the "basin" at a fish com­ mission wharf. Near the end of March, 1900, when the car was opened, all seemed to be in a perfectly healthy condition. On the conclusion of the fishing for brood cod in the fall of 1399 fourteen cod weighing from four to six pounds, taken with hand-lines off Nomans Land or Nantucket were Inadvertently left In the well of the Grampus and not discovered until April, 1900. These fish were placed in the well not later than November 18, possibly some days before. During this time they had not been fed and had only such food as came through the holes in the well. " When released April X^mey don was the triumph of material civil- ' izatlon over national prejudices. It ^ marked the fact that Europe was das- tined to be. If it had not already be- ; ^4 come an industrial unit. The network** of railways, which In the next few* I years were to spread over the conti­ nent, helped to bring this about, a$df^ by the increased facilities for transport tation and travel which they offeredMH J contributed another element to theiUlflfi success of the international exhibition*' But above all the Crystal Palace stOOd^T"^*H for the beginning of the age of ma­ chinery. It was the point of depart-* ure for the revolution which haas;*:£|Ii changed the face of modern life, and? fy which forms the most conspicuous! characteristic of the half century just!- , A\ finished. The revolution is now ac-t".., f, *; complished; what i« to follow it? Ia £ the rate of progress of the past to con- %'• tinue? And, if so. can it furnish the*, material for future expositions? TImJ'*£• question hinges on the individual ex- > hibitor. Rivalry among the different^ , ' concerns to make an effective showing^ is so great that the preparing of an*1 ' exhibit usually involves a heavy out- lay. Many well known houses have al-s- • ready decided that exhibiting does not * pay. They cannot now, to any such. *VC extent as formerly, show some lmprov-«' -v--;' * ed method or new product, or find cus--„ ' tomers otherwise beyond their reach., f Novelty must be obtained mainly lalp;§t*?i- the form of display; and it Is hard to see how, generally speaking, the* necessary outlay can yield any propor­ tionate return. Under these circum­ stances it seems as though the ma­ terial for making great expositions*!; like those of the post were bound to run short • . 'M were found to be lively and strong, although somewhat emaciated, and it * '* was noticed that their backs and sides»f* » were much darker than normal, whileu the belly was unusually light colored., •---- , Paris to Borlla »Phon«. The telephone line between Parte and Berlin, which has been but r»- : cently inaugurated, was completed is>. June last The French and German* ^ officials, however, would not give line over to the public until it had t h o r o u g h l y t e s t e d . A c o n v e r s a t i o n b e - • ' £ - , tween Berlin and the French towna • J.- cost five marks, except in the case otf C % Bordeaux, Orleans and St. Etienne, forlM^ which marks is charged. Both lines between Paris and Berlin an*. Paris and Frankfort are doufble, and" are constructed with bronze wire flve»> millimeters thick. It was originally' the intention of both governments thafcT the telephone should be ready at thet»-fa) opening of the exhibition. The Oep-c.. I man part of the wire was brought tar the French frontier in March. Thet French portion, however, was as%,( ready until June. - . if ' 'V#*: . -! • •*?. Alrta* Sleeping lUon. Too little attention is given to thsi proper airing of sleeping rooms andi to the ventilating qualities of bed oov>{ * * ' era. Comfortables that are almo^tr/i" air-tight should never be used, a-nd sf ; > the test these cotton stuffed coven a menace to health. Properly, noth-L - / ? lng should be used about a bed whlfllll W cannot be washed. Bedclothes should! -jW; be spread upon chairs, singly, in th# V; light and air for at least two hoursl every morning, and a draught shook!/ meanwhile be allowed to swee* through the room. Pillows should ceive a good kneading, and be left di­ rectly before the open window la sun and air. Flak Fearts of the Bwha--. | One of the most important lnduetrie# of the Bahama Islands is the lng of pink pearls. It Is 11m place in the world where 1 are found. These pearls, wi bring very high prices, it is said, lng from £10 „ . . . , >s:.* „ Vf*. i