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t dare to make an m th many millions of dollar; is situated 1n the centre 1re a few feet of land means 5’ in establish your claim 2” 7 JULY 13131.15: DID rr. .1 first went to New York Lego I took with me our ich has descended to me I V l. It is 107 years old, and lines of the family since rer disputed my claim at ere mm? peo loin Ne [ed to take uppmy cans: in the possession of Mr. any of the other Cans.- lare several awa u in h and John Cobpe: of 11d Mr. Robert Hill of he latter is an uncle of former are cousins. Mr. pompanied me on my first Mrs. Rachel Cameron, is also a bona fide heir. that his attention was atter of the inheritance re the lease expired, or -0. An uncle of hi -s, Mr. Detroit, was even at that establish a claim to the had frequent talks with '33 L031? HOPE imately get his lawful . His uncle, he says, is 11 matter to-day as he He 13 well acquainted glities of the case and 1~ money in establishing 111 says his own father wlx about the matter. of heirs at London on copy of the expired It was sent over by the w,hose name 1\lr.yl-lill ind, but who possesses ‘ nt. Should theazfair ter- . as Mr. Hill seems con- le Sam’s already depletâ€" ufi'er considerable,for 16 taxes will have to be 11 d their successors. or of the Andes- old white peaks of the 1 human foot has had the sometimes seen a dark g in the clear air. The cends, and we see that d of the air, the condor. than the eagle s. Noth- - could have made the . seem small and slow ftly descending, cruel, his eye upon some luck- I arely it is able to es- tance is impossible. 1t carry ofi'1ts prey in its ,;le, for it has not the p, and the sharpness 1e worn off on the hard home; so, standing up wimal with one foot, the 11‘ thing with his power- er foot. greedy creatures, the 1ner, becomes incapable nly then that he can be fety; but even now the 11tious and strong. A was celebrated for his gth, once thought that - Dconld capture a condor rually stupid after its t forth all h' wers, was long an desper- poor miner was glad to Exhausted, torn and god to carry off a few of the hardest battle He thought that he 1rtally hurt. The other h of the body, but in- dalive and elect, flap. 1 not reach an ultimely is, accordmg to all ac- lived. The Indians of 'at it lives 1or a bun- ndors’ homes seem just Igly and fierce. They 1e female selects some 1 rock that shall belarge her from the strong tching her eggs. t of desolation, the ugly their cries for food, 1'1: weeks old begin at- 1'r wings. The parents trait they possess in ung, feeding and train- hat in a few months 1t for themselves after their elders. sand Papers. Bible that W13 print. ed in 1535. eillustrated book yet Bible now owned Shy Oswego, N. Y. It is 11 ed at Cochran, Ga., is 1 an ordinary envelope, smallest weekly paper ing to learn that the uguay has more news to its population than the world. arinted in Europe is en the Kalendarium tanus, calculated for . 1494. and 1513. It a1, in Hungary. tence, it is claimed, 1ade from rags as early tury, the oldest extant a letter from J o1nv1lle 1ce, dated A. D. 1315. ere first written on 1apyrus, and rolled up The Old Testament dHebrew characterâ€" nician. It was a- sym- tten, and. the vowel he voice. The words ntinuous line. After dead language, vow- reserve usage, which After the Babylonish .1 Hebrew was modified the schoc‘: of reading and emphasis Then jn of wor1s fir-~111 ewe was verses Their Resolutions- There were three little folks, long am) W ho solemnly sat in arow On a December night, And attempted to write For the new year a good resolution “ I will try not to m xke so much noi=8. And be one of the quietest boys,” Wrote one 1 f the three, Whose nprOar10111. lee Was the cause of no end 0 contusion. “ I reso‘. vo that I never will take More than two or three pieces of cal; ‘ Wrote plump little Pete, Whose taste for sweet Was a problem of puzzling solution. The other, her paper to fill, Be gun with .“Resolved, that I will"â€" - But right there she stopped, And fast asleep dropped Ere she came to a single conclusion. Peter Schuyler 8 Ladder “ Master Corwin. "’ said one of his 3311001 boys at recess time. “ The fire balls are ringing. Could I go to see where it is?’ “ Is the fire in your district? ’ ask“?l Master 1 orwin, writing at his desk. “ N â€"no sir.’ Another voice said in a low tone. “ Pleathe let me thee. 9” “ Is the fire in your district ‘2” "No, thir.” Soon Master Corwin laid down his pen. went to a blackboard, and seizing a piece of chalk, dashed off a sketch of a. ladder with a broken round. “ No," he murmured, “that 13 not what I intended. I have only one broken round ” He 11 gan again his sketch. \Vhen he had finished there was a sorry- -looking ladder on the boardâ€"three of its rounds 111 a very mutilated condition. “ Now, scholars, if I wanta good la. lder, can I afford to have one whose rounds are broken. 9” “ No, sir. "’ came from his scholars in a round chorus. “ Neither can you be out of school, if you are going to learn anything. You want to go and you want to stay out, but every day is a round, you know, in a ladder. You break something important if you are out. ” Peter Se huyler told his grandfather after school what the master had said. Grandpa Schuyler was acarpenter at workt in his shop, mending a ladder. “ Ha, ha. "’ cried grandpa. “ The mas- ter was telling his own experience! He went to climb his ladder and three of the rounds were cracked, and down he came ' 1 am mending his ladder now. Heâ€"he is right about school. You must be there everyday and must not keep running out.’ Peter was looking out of the window. “ There,” said he, “ I’d like to have that boy‘s chances. His father is rich.” “ O, Clarence Smith? Humph ! I don't believe he will climb high.” “ “’hy not. 9” “ See where he 13 going. "’ The boy went into a beer shop. He came out, bringing a pail and wiping his lips. Then he turned in the direction of his home. “ His fathe1 has taught him to like that sort of drink. Peter I want to make you a ladder, I know you are poor, but if you have got a ladder with three rounds in it, you won’t stay poor. It will be a small ladder, and you can put it in your pocket- book.” Peter grinned : “ No money in it, but a ladder!” “Y on wait and see if my ladder won’t bring you some money.” Grandpa Schuyler s tiny ladder was two inches long and half an inch broad. It had three rounds; on one was the word, “Honesty,” penned in ink; 11. second was marked, “Diligence,” - a third was inscrib- ed, “Temperance.” “I don’t know but I ought to make it four rounds, and what the fourth will be, perhaps your grandma will tell you,” ‘said grandpa Schuyler. Peter lived with his grandparents and he did not need to go far to find his grand~ mother. She smiledto see the ladder and said; “That fourth round, Peter, I W1ll name prayer. Through the day, Honesty and Diligence and Temperance will give you a good lift, but you won’t want to stop there. Tired and worried, you want to go a round higher and you will get into a large, beautiful, beautiful chamber of Peace There you can lie down and God’s angels will watch over you.” “Grandma, don’ t you want a fifth round, one to start with in the morning same kind as you leave off with. 9 ’ “Peter, you are right. grandpa.” Granzpal made the fifth round, and in Peter’ 8 pocke .book was deposited this tiny ladder, its mite rounds labelled “ Prayer,” “Honesty, ” “Diligence,” “Temperance,” “Prayer, ” again. “A good, strong ladder," said grandpa Schuyler. The next morning.. Master Corwin sat at his school- desk as usual. “W here, where are all my boys?” he wondered, looking round. “All. Peter Schuyler is here, yes, and several more. Girls are all here.” The fire of yesterday had been extin- finished, but breaking out again, it proved a fiery magnet whose attraction had been too powerful for a number 0: the boys, Peter, though, had borne in mind that lad- derin his cketbook, and also the ma?- ter’ 3 talk about broken rounds,a and he had come to school. “I want to drill you to-day in interest,” the master told the class in arithmetic to which Peter belong ed. “Don” t get tired 01" it A drill to a soldier means work, pa- lI‘lence. attention. You will get your pay for it.” Compensation came to Peter that very day, and in this way. “Peter, I have some interest to pay. and the man to whom I owe it says it is so much. I am not extra on figures. Just see if he 1s right,” said grandp a aSchuyler. Peter found that a mistake of ten dollars had been made. “Ah, it pays to be on a ladder whose rounds are not broken,” thought Peter when his grandpa. generouSIy rewarded him. He could not help telling the master that his attendance at school had helped him cofiect a m: stake of ten dollars. “Indeed. "’ said Master Corwin. “ You lieve in having a ladder whose roqu .11 “'9 all in, good and strong 1” pays ‘9 follow up school.” “ I have aladder 1n my packetbook. V11 grind ather and grmdmother made i3. Master Corwia." You tell your “ A pocketbook ladder! I have heard of f. YOUNG FOLKS’ ladders you could take down and fold up. Let me see the mighty one in your pocket- M W book, please.” Peter produced his ladder. “That is curiousâ€"‘Prayer,’ ‘Honesty,’ ‘Diligence,’ ‘Temperance,’ ‘Prayer!’ In- deed. "’ said Master Corwin. To himself, he said. “ Peter’ 3 lad'der 13 interesting. Afraid I can’t climb some of those rounds. \Vhat about the first and fifth, Master Cormn. 9 Once, thong ~h, he pray yed. “ I can get along myself,’ had always been his proud assertion in later years. That evening he was at the home of Clar- ence Smith, making a. call. “ Why y. how tired you look!” exclaimed \1 rs. Smith. “That must not be, Master Corwin. Here, let me see what I can do. "’ Before he could realize what she was do- ing, she had nimbly startel to a closet and brou ht back a glass of crimson wine. “â€" ow, take this. ' Do, Master Corwin. ‘ It 15 just what tired teachers need!” She extended the glass 1n her hand, and he held out his, surprised by this abrupt approach of temptation. “ Climbing up so many stairs in your schoolhouse,” she said, “you must get very tired. Now refresh yourself! Take 8. bis- cuit to go with it. 9” “ Climbing up. "‘ Did that expression remind him of Peter’s ladder? He certainly seemed to see it stretching up before him. He caught also those words going up in grand succession. - “ Prayer,” “ Honesty,” “ Diligence,” “ Temperance” “Pray er.” His glass was going up to his lips. yHe hit his weakness. He glanced again at the ladder and then he glanced upward.“ God help me,” he cried 1n the depths of his soul. His wineglass went down. He set it on a table near him. “ I thank you, Mrs. Smith. You are vgry” kind, but excuse me if I do not take t is “ Why, Master Corwin. ' You are not one of those tee-tee- totallers. 9 You have so many ‘ boys to look after.” He sm1led. “ You are very kind. You know how many boys I have that will look to see what my example 1s.’ In a few minutes he left the house. His face was flushed as if he had been facing a fire. He muttered: "' 1â€"1 am mor- tified! To think I should not promptly have put aw 1y that temptation! I believe another moment I would have put that glass to my lips if it had not been for Peter’ s ladder. ‘hose prayer-rounds, I -. ” He Idid not think any further along that line Iof t?,10ught for he was not prepared to make the advance. He made it, though, when he reached his home and was alone in his study. He fell upon his knees and in his Weikness reached up and took hold of the strength of God. “ Peter Schuyler’s ladder in his pocket book,” thought the teacher, the next day, looking at his scholar. “I wonder if he knows how much good that 18. lder has done. He is not the only one that through G 1’d s strength means to clim‘ 1 it. ”â€"[N. Y. 0b- server. THB WAIQLAJ... Trixi- An Interesting llrmsc lnhnblted by 11.11 In- teresting Familyâ€"One Branch is Now in Nova Scotla. Longicllow’ s \Vayside Inn is in the town of Sudbury y, Massachusetts, about twenty- fi re miles west of Boston, on the main road between Boston and \Vorcester. It was built by John Howe early in the 17th cen- tury for a country seat, and 1t declined with the fortunes of the family from a stately mansion to an inn, but never a humble one. It was first licensed under the name of “The Red Horse Inn,” September 14th, 1663. When Sudbury was burned by t 1e Indians in 1676 it was the only house in town that escaped destruction. It is a great plain colonial mansion,built of solid oak, and made picturesque by its gambrel roof, moonstone chimneys, and its original tiny windows (eighty in number.) with its leaden sashes. And strange enough it looks 1n this country of to- morrows with no yesterdays. N o wonder its picturesque image lingered in Longfellow” s mind until he used it as a con~ necting link' in a chain of poems. Longfellow first saw the mn when at the age of nineteen, he was on his way to New York, to sail for Europe. It was then a coaching station. Later 1n life when the inn still called the Red Horse 1nn, became a favorite resort of some of his friends, he visited them and took observations for the poems afterwards written at Craigio house and Nahant. Longfellow’s description of Lyman Howe, the landlord, is said to be true to life. He was “justice of peace, proud of his name and Sndburv said to me, “I’d a known he meant Squire Howe if he hadn’ 1'. there; it sounds jestl1‘. ehim. ” He was very proud of the family silver brought from England, all bearing the Howe crest. And their rare and del1cate china would delight the heart of a connoisseur. These Howes were descended from the noble family of that name in Britain, and showed their pure ancest1y by their refined speech and manner. The grandsire, whose sword is mentioned in the poems, was Colonel Howe, who was appointed a. mem- ber of Lifayette’ s stafi' because of his knowledge of French, and that accounts for Lafayette’ 3 visits to the inn. Colonel Howe died of smallpox, which he caught from a traveller, 1n 1786. The inn came to Ly man in direct descent from the founder, John Howe, but at his death it passed away from the Howes, and became the property of his mother’s sister, Rebecca Balcom, wife of Daniel Pufi'er, of Sudbury, gmnd- aunt of the writer. Since that time it has been a peaceful farmhouse. John Howe, a cousin of Col. Howe, the “grandsire,” whose sword hung peacefully 1n the parlor, was engaged' 1n newspaper work in Boston when the Revolutionary “’9‘? began He remained loyal to the King of England and emigranted with his family to Nova Scotia. When the British Government rewarded the U E. Loyalists, for their patriotism. with grants of land, John Howe received a grant of land about two miles from Halifax. Here his 8011 Joseph was born in 1804. He was the Hon. Joseph Howe, who is considered one of the greatest orators the Dominion of Cinada ever produced. He died in 1873, 1 few weeks after his appointment as lieutenant-governor of Nova Scotia. -â€"-[Cau- adian Magazine. put his name HEALTH. The Night Air lnjunoug. An extraordinar fallac is night am What yair call, wzhlfreiltliag :5 night but night air. 9 The choice' is between pure night air from without and foul air 1rom within. Most people prefer the latter â€"an unaccountable choice. What will they say if it is proved to be true that fully onc- half of all the diseases we suffer from are occasioned by people sleeping with their windows shut? 'A partly open windoW, most nights 1n the year, can never hurt any one. In great cities night air is often the best and purest to be had in twenty- -fout hours. The absence of smoke, the quiet all tend to make night the best time foi‘ airing the patient. One of our highest medical authorities on consumption and c.1mate told me that the air of large cities is never so good as after ten o ’clock at night. Always air your room then from the out- side, if poss1b1e. \Vindows are made to open, doors are made to shutâ€"3. truth which seems ext reunly difficult of compre- hension. Every room must be airel from without, every passage from within. Position for Healthy Sleep Many people sleep on the lelt side and this is the most common cause of the un- pleasant taste in the mouth 1n the morning which is generilly attributed to dyspepsia, If a meal his been taken within two or three hours of going to bed, to sleep on the left side 13 to give the stomach a task which is difii: ~ult'1n the extreme to perform. The student of anatomy know: that all food leaves the stomach on the right side and hence sleeping on the left side soon ’after eating involves a. sort of pumping operation which is anything but con lucive to sound repose. Tne action of the heart is also interfered with considerably and the lungs are unduly compressed. It 111 probable that lying on the back is the most natural position, but few persons can rest easily so and hence it. is best to cultivate the habit; of sleeping on the right side. Dyspepsia. Dyspepsia means a difficulty in prepar- ing the food eaten so that the nutriinent can be extracted from it to supply the wants of the system. If food 1s eaten rapidly, it is swallowed in large pieces and these are dissolved from detained, and as a result, the discharges are of a lie, htilecolor that are attributed to a deficiency of bile. Hence excess of bile and deficiency both mean that there is too much bile 1n the body either 1n the blood or in the gall bladder. But the exercise already referred to will purify the blood of any of its unnatural con- stituents, of every kind of impurity, while careful eating imparts strength to make better blood. Thus it is seen that what- ever may be its symptoms, that is, the feelings, the manifestations to which it- may give rise, the thing to be done' 18 to get rid of the bad blool and supply a better in its place. The way to do this is to engage in out-door activities and so select the food as to enable the stomach to act upon it in such a manner that it may yield its nu triment, it} til; system naturally. â€"[Hugh Slevin, 1W REMEDY FOB-.- HARD TIMES. The Ideas era Boston _Mnn Who Does not Believe in Ben Franklin. The hard times in the United States have set people moralizing on how to meet the emergency. Here is what one philoso- phe1 sayszâ€"Never keep money which is . due to another. Simple as is this rule, there is none so generally disregarded. We have a large class' 1n this community whose bank accounts would allow them to owe no man anything save charity and good will, yet who make it a matter of pride to pay no small debts save by lordly courtesy, or at such times as it may please them to mail a check to the marketman or the mechanic. To them it appears as though the good name they have always borne put them above suspicion. They would pay instant- ly upon being dunned by the humble creditor, and latter would await their pleasure months and borrow money rather than ask for his due, since to demand his own would be to lose their custom in future. If you cannot pay what you owe, or owe nothing, you have no duty in this respect; but if there is the least sum due for work or purchases see to it that the sun does not set to- night until that sum is put into circulation. Spend all you can possibly nfl'ord to disburse. I give this advice boldly, says a writer in the Boston Transcript, although it 18 just to the contrary to that usually offered. But one does not have to be a political economist to see that the relief would be instantaneous. Debt is always to be avoided, but the last available dollar without inwards by the juices of the stom- . it, a blessing to the community. What. ach, as a lump of ice in a glass of water is dissolved from without inwards. But this 15 a slow process, and ifprotract- ed beyond four or five hours, the food begins to ferment, to sour, causing belch- ing, weight or heaviness at the pit of the' stomach, sourness and a variety of other symptoms With which dyspeptios are very familiar. One of the causes then of dyspepsia 1s eating too fast. If a person eats too much, the food remains in the stomach undigest- ed, unmelted, undiesolved, because there 13 not enough gastric juice to reduce it to the I proper condidition for yielding its nutri- possible good does money do which is boarded instead of being put into circula- tion. 9 Suppose a. man in the possession of an income of $10, 000 a year were to enter into one of our suburban villages and daily spend among his neighbors that proportion which he would receive each day ‘2 I do not mean giving it right and left for the support of the poor or shiftless, but buying the labor or products of his poorer brethren. Does it require any instruction in political science to see that he would at once turn that town into a very paradise of prosperity? And if all those in comfortable Circum- stance would scrupulously do this, the dis- “13115333 39 much ice may be put in semination of comforts would increase in a glass of water that after awhile proportion to the money spent. The it ceases to melt, and the fOOd philosophy of Benjamin Franklin has cursed thus remaining unchanged f0" an “um-W!“ this country with a mania. for hoarding. 8-1 t1me, It begins to 80‘1“ 35 before, because We fail to realize that the identical econ the person has been eating to; much. man may have dyspepsia for the want of a suficient amount of gastric juice to digest the food, although a very little food may have been eaten; hence the frequent com- plamt, “It makes no difi‘ereuce whether I eat much or little, - the smallest quantity of anything distresses me. ” Such a person has dyspepsia. 111 an aggravated form, from having had it for a long time. The limited supply of gastric juice is the result of poor or had blood. All the blood of a dyspeptic is bad because the food is imperfectly digested and the blood which it makes is imperfect, hence contains but a small amount of the elements which compose the gastric juice. The al- ways successful remedy is tolive out of doors night and day, exercising until a very little tired ; then rest, exercise again until very hungry, until hungry enough to feel that plain bread and butter taste deliciously ; take a very small amount, such as by ob- servation causes no discomfort whatever; then go on as before until very hungry again, take a little fresh meat at the next meal and a bit of bread crust ; make the next or third meal of the day of berries, grapes, fruit or melons. Persevcring 1n this way, almost any dys- peptic will find himself getting better and better every day, because every breath of out- door air taken relieves the blood of some of its impurities, and every step, every motion of the haul or arm carries all out of the system, through the pores of the skin or otherwise a greater or race, and coat of arms,” anl known every-, ’ less number of impure blood atoms; the, where as“The Squire.” One old man inf blood being thus relieved of more of its impurities,makes a. better quality of gastric juice; this in turn digests the food more thoroughly, imparting more strength, giv- ing a. more vigorous appetite and the man is getting well before he knows it. The gizzard or stomach of a chicken when opened is found to contain grains of corn or wheat and small pebbles. The action of the mus- cles of the gizzard is to keep the grains of corn and sand 1n a constant circular motion, causing attrition, the sand being harder than the grains; hence the action is a kind of grinder; so with the hu man stomach. In dyspepsia the muscles of the stomach are too weak to perform this grinding process and the hu man mill works so slowly that the food begins to decay before it is prop- erly manipulated. Alyl d yspeptics are weak; every muscle of the body is weak and those of the stomach have their correspond- ing share of debility; but they will get stronger inevitably by making better blood, by giving a better digestion in the way above described. Biliousness also causes dyspeptic symptoms. When a man is bilions, it means that he has an excess of bile or a deficiency of it, which means the same thing essentially, although it is not known that such a sentiâ€" ment has ever been expressed 1n writing or in print. When a man has yellow jaun- dice he 15 bilious 1n the proper sense of the term, meaning that the bile has not been withdrawn from the blood by the natural and healthy action of the liver, as shown by the yellowness of the skin. The blood is then so impregnated with bile, which is of a yellow color, that it tinges the skin and whites of the eyes. In th1s case there is a torpid liver, a. sleepy liver; It does not act, does not work. But the liver may With- draw the bile from the blood and accumu- lite it pi the gall bladder, where it may be A omy which may be commendable in the young mechanic, may be a positive wrong in the retired merchant. Did you ever calculate the amount of good done by (let us call 11: the Franklin phraseology) the useless extravagance of inviting a lady to the theatre? In the first place, in accepting, she will probably dis- burse for gloves, millinery or seamstress work quite a pretty sum, each payment being a blessing to the one who receives it, sometimes representing to the employe the very means of life. Then your own dis- bursement will help support the hack driver, the florist, the hotel where you dine together, while it would be impossible for the worthy corps of the employes of the theatre to get their daily bread were it not for just such extravagance as that of which you are guilty. To rigidly economize at such times as the present, so that you may have the means to give for benevolent purposes is simply to withhold with the one hand that you may disburse with the other. If the two rules herein recommended were observed by every pe1son in the community, only the inebriate and the culpably shiftless would be a charge on their fellows. As intimated here, I do not in the least share the general commend ation of Benj amm Franklin. His maxims are worldly,J sensual, selfish, entirely ig- noring chivalric, spiritual or lofty ideals. The efl'ect of his parsimonious ideal of hu- man conduct 18 to be seen in just such strinâ€" gency as that which is now felt by the American people. Had Been Kept Too Long. “Any complaints ‘2” asked the orderly- ofiicer of some men who were about to begin their dinner on an outward bound troop- ship from Portsmouth to India. “ Yes, sir,” instantly exclaimed one of the men ; “ this salt junk ain’t fit for the likes of us to eat, and I wish to report it.” The doctor was at once sent for to inspect the meat. “So you think this meat isn’t fit for a man in your position to eat,” said the doc- tor. Allow me to to tell you that greater men than you ever will be have eaten it. Why, even Nelson, our once-famed Admir- al, wasn ’1'. above eating it, and has made many a meal of it.” “Oh! has he'!” said the complaining individual. “ Yes, he has, ” replied the doctor. “ Oh, well, ” said the man,“ the meat was fresh and good' 1n his time. You see, sir, it’s some time ago since Nelson lived, it can’t be expected to keep good all these years.’ A Ring Under a Tree- During the recent gale a holly tree grow- ing near the Lake of Menteith Hotel in Scotland, was blown dowu ,leaving a pretty deep cavity in the soil where the roots had been. Shortly afterwards a. young woman found 1n the loose earth a gold wedding ring with the intials “ W. A. G.” engraved on the inside. Singular to state, agbout three weeks after the great storm, another gale from the opposite direction lifted the holly tree into its original position, and it ap- pears to be thrivi being covered with berries. The owner of the ring so strange- ly recovered has not yet been found. L NEWS OF HEEGTBIOITI. my 1'... rank ron sacrum-11v. What a handy reservoir of electric cur- rent the storage battery 18 when no other source of electriciiy canbetapped, was shown recently at a wedding reception. It was desired for the one evening, to produce a special effect of light in a large library. Storage cells were set up in a born about 50 feet 1n the rear of the residence, and tem- porary wires run into the house. By this means the library was filled with a glow of soft even light, and the beauties of the paintings that adorned its walls were fully brought out. Impromptu plants of this kind are so quickly installed that they are being very much resorted to for special occasions. The entire plant in question was erected and ready for Operation within twelve hours from the time the order was given. TUNNEL DRIVING BY ELECTRIC MOTORS. The introduction of electric power in the improvement of drilling and quarrying Ma- chinery within the last few years is evidently destined to work a revolution in the recom- plishment of tunnel engineering projects. Excavations that formerly occupied years can now be made 1n a. few months, and a striking reduction in the estimates of the time required for the carrying out of en- gineering plans 1s apparent. It ls stated that the proposed Simplon tunnel 13 to be constructed at a cost and rate which will place its predecessors in the shade. Motive power is now easily obtained from water in the Swiss mountainous districts, and the facility with which electric power can be transmitted renders the site of a generating station a secondary consideration. This new tunnel through the heart of the Alps is to be completed in five and one-half years. THE SCIENCE 017‘ ELECTRIC COOKING. A London paper expresses the opinion that the effect of the advent of electric cook- ing apparatus will be to evolve a highly scientific species of cook, with, unquestion- ably, high.‘ y up- -to date notions about the “liVing wage.” It quotes froma description of the electric process in the latest culmary manual: “Cookery 1s raised from the rule- of-thumb level to that of an exact science by the use of a graduated thermometer. For bread or puff pastry a temperature of 370 ° Fahr. 18 required, for pork, veal or ordinary pastry, 350°~ , for beef, 340 ° ,” and infers that formulae are forthcoming for jam tarts, mince pies and Christmas pud- dings. The completion of the list of mate- rials available for the purposes of the chef and the determination of the proper tem- perature for cooking them “to a turn” is a matter that involves not only the knowl- edge of modern kitchen lore, but also a fam1liarity with the specific heats, latent beats and density of the heterogeneous mass to be cooked. Some of the recent cooking appliances are fitted with a whole battery of switches, various combinations of which, hire the stops of an organ, are necessary to produce various effects. The instructions which go with the apparatus are elaborate. For instance, after the treat- ment of a. joint up to a certain point has been specified, we are told that “ four of these switches are now turned off, and he beat is applied from one side only.” If this accuracy and flexibility 1n the con n- tration and diffusion of heat rays in he development of the subtle flavors of animal juices and tissues is to go much further the electrical cook will attain to the rank of the virtuoso, the dinner menu will be constructed after the manner of a concert programme, and such items as “ A sym- phony in venison,” “Nocturne in fricasseed pheasant” or “ Rhapsody in frogs’ legs,” will be both consistent and justifiable. -â€"â€"_â€"â€"â€"â€".â€"â€"â€"â€" A Royal Highness’ Costume- It appears to be not go enerally known that the unhappy Lobenqula has, in his fi ght,his royal sister,Nina, with him. She is decidedly plump, tremendously embon- point, and her skin is of a. coppery hue. She wears no dress, the only coveling about her waist being a number of guilded chains, some encircling her, some pendant. Bound her arms are massive brazen bracelets. A 1118 and white Free Mason’ 3 apron appears in front and looks strangely anomalous there, though really not unbecoming, From her waist also there hang down he- hind a number of brilliant colored woolen neck wraps, red being the predominant color. Under the apron is a sort of short, black skirt, covering the thighs, made of wrought ox hide. Her legs and feet are invariably bare, but she wears round her ankles the circlets of bells worn by women to make a noise when they dance. Her headdress is decidedly prettyâ€"a small bouquet of artificial flowers in front and amongst the hair, standing' 1n all directions, feathers of bee- eaters’ tails. A 8118.11 circular ornament, fashioned out of red clay, 1s fastened on the back of her head. She has always been a great favorite with European settlers. -â€"[London Figaro. Tools of the Pyramid Builders. A two years’ study at Gizeh has convinc- ed Mr. F linders Petrie that the Egyptian stone-workers of 4, 000 years ago had a surprising acquaintance with what have been considered modern tools. Among the many tools used by the pyramid bui1ders were both solid and tubular drills and straight and circular saws. The drills, like those of today, were set with jewels (prob- ably corundum, as the diamond was very scarce), and even lathe-tools had such cutting edges. So remarkable was the quality of the tubular drills and the skill of the workmen, that the cutting- -marks in hard granite give no indication of wear of the tool, while a cut of a tenth of an inch was made in the hardest rock at each revolution, and a whole through both the hardest and softest material was bored perfectly smooth and uniform throughout. A Would-Be ‘Liz'e Saver. Tommyâ€"“ Say, Billy, (1’ ye see Johnny J orkins es gotten a medal from the Humane Society for fishing outen de river little J 1mm J ohnsm 9” Billy â€"-“ Yes, I’d like to sport a medal like that.” Tommy (in a whisper)â€"“ Watt 1 yer gi’ me ter axerdentally fall into the riversos. can fish me out. 9” 15,1,- Billyâ€" “ But I can’t swim.” ' ' Tommyâ€"“ That don’ t inptte: I’ll hold yer up till der boat coma: “1.13;”; 1 . [35.4.3 \ ‘ . .51. “-"N’ A; N- a. Afimv‘,‘ 1 1' 1