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A PEW THOUGHTS. f " WWW-whit* ILIW* <IM>IWI<IIU| , - Dowo from tfac malms of celestial light. i:<F-x- : - ftn ta soul, oh 1 h<> Cro#» depending, ; GoI<fin« mankind through this lif« aright. ®opf 1» that Stat which nerves the weary-- That Joue bright jewel which In hi«t«t ehtnes, 7 '. tifihiim: t hn path when all life seems dreary. » Cheering the leoble when their streagib d*> jl cllaon. Charity i« that ulat who Roothea the dyiog, ifi'VbWhow oars are opened to theorphan'# wall; ! IWho hears the voice of the homeless crving, i' Who feeds the hungry and protects the fralL • ^i^-irljieaco Is tbftt calm, meek, tender glory • r > ; • That fills menu so;:?« with a pride ft r llfo, V ;., wear to the Youth, and to Age when l»n*rv. Dear to alb things free from war and strife. 1+- Jfcv is that.fracrant nir from fiowow M,.. ,'C Whioli bloom along life's happy *trea«|, )Si Vj ||liecr:ng\he heart, in ii H youthful ho in^ • , . Lulling meu's cares like a merry dre^BBu " J., , / SPriith is that grand, majestic splendor! t i •< That light wbioh i liines In all honent aoals, «•». -forming jest men, In their uaiuro milder. ?/.'• v { And gives to character what s.rcngtb it bolls. ^ : ̂ f-Oreat Divide. . v NEW COOKING STOVE. Bl CL.AIIA AIUISTA. k' • tr P; w$f rW'?:> Wt--i fri, . * } • &>?* H J* • ^ * '• &f-*, f %Kfts. Job Bangs was possessed of a •' - apirit--an evil spirit, Mr. limp said: mp , > but then men are so prone to indulge pf i i'v*; iri extravagant expressions that it is p;' f»ot well to place too much dependence . ' 111 what they snjvj^ /• t Mrs. Bangs'greatest ambition was iff* ,/ "'yto possess a peculiar kind of cooking " ,»stove--the counterpart of which pre- Bided, in black and glossy self-satisfac- jjKr tlon,over the cleanly kitchen hearth of .. Mia. Judge Marlow's grand establish- fvr . . «*ent. 0\' - ! t "Queen of the World" was the title ill!'-;1; :$m which the interesting stote re- k . JOtaxL - - . The queen herself ^ds itossrisSwl of as many dampers, grates, heaters, flues, ovens and nondescript poke- holes as a twenty-horse-power engine; and scientific old Watt himself would :&• have been puzzled in comprehending l i itehe use of her -'heat rfefi^tQis'/ tind %team generators." \ . jL» But Mrs. Marlow fancied the Stove --and, surely, Mrs. Judge Marlow might to know about ,a stove--and the consequence* was poorl&ngs could »ever retire to bed without . having "that stove, dear Job," dinged in his ,^rs. I . There is a period to human endur- Ijtoce, and the time at length came When Bangs could hold out no longer, but consented to make his wife the happiest of her sex forthwith. And three days afterward the deed was ac­ complished; a magnificent Queen of the World, which cost $45, was in­ stalled on Mrs. Bangs' hearth, and the delighted lady "would not have Changed places with the President's .wife. _ Si The man who set up the stove »sked Mrs. Bangs if she knew how to «j~' MRinage it. She laughed in his face. Know how to manage a stove? Of jSv,; course she did! Why shouldn't she? ;/%>" And before her lofty mien ot injured dignity the stove man shrank away fp: Abashed. It was in July, pleasantly hot, and dinner was to be prepared for the six it-) " hired men who made Mr. Bangs' farm p , . blossom like the rose. isr " / ^ Mrs. Bangs cogitated on the subject pj ' Of dinner for a few moments, and , - Unally decided on boiled potatoes, rtewed cabbage, fried pork and hom- . iny pudding, with hot coffee, etc. if' , "Come, Bangs,* love," she said g/Jf - v > ^eerfully, "make a Are while I clap Hf/ ; j, ou the kettles and see to things, and * jsou shall soon have a dinner worth IpT «*ting." , Bangs flew to do hei^ ̂ iddin^, but m after opening and Shutting several ^' doors, with the kindlings in his Wands, he was still undecided, and ^•„ .' called his wife out of the meal. « ,v "See here, Sarah, can you tell me p/ • ^ * , >|here to build the fire?" •- ** "Why, in the place for it, to be , „#*ire," replied die. • 3 < ' "Yes, dearv, I'y6 "hQ doubt of ,/ . tliat," remarked the perplexed. Bangs; "but according to my idee, it f would take a college learnt man to g<;-f' " find out which the place is!" ; "Why, the one where the grate is, l:"-r ,i:"fOf course," said Mrs. Bangs. 'J "Well, there are just seven holes \ With grates In 'em, and three ' * things that look like strainers; ac- f;~ . cording to my idee, I can't tell to'ther from which." EL ; ' "Stand round, Job; I'll soon find |?t ' t out. Why, Bangs, it's strange that |r , - • - you can't see into nothing: this is the , place--rite here in front, la with P"; . t^e kindlings, and be spry alx>ut it; fi*,y . _ It's a'most 'leven o'clock now." '0J- ;* ' So Bangs put in the kindlings--a Wf i ;' (jenerous quantity of shavings, some £kr< ' pitch wood and a hemlock knot--ap- - plied a match and stood by to watch - -the result. The fire sputtered and |m f hissed; a glorious smoke arose and i/', * poured out of every nook and cranny 1 '«f the queen. Poor Bangs' eyes were %> . 1 ' rapidly changing to pools of watery mp, "tears, and his sense of vision fled com- §• j ..'.'fletely. th'f _ "Good gracious!" screamed Mrs. m " , Bangs. "Job, you've set the house aflre." • • ^ *!V- ' "No, I haint," stammered Job,. Ws «ye» °n hi* coat sleeve, r- * • "According to my idee, it's that con- founded stove." W u • *' "Mercv on us! Where's the damper? Hi; •, * •--Where's the draft?--Where's the If" ,7 J1'1" slide® Job, Job, where are you, that you don't do something? The »ew whitewash will be ruined In this ^fmoke!" " Mrs. Bangs stood with her apron R: - *>ver ^ head, and Baugs managed to C*' ?e^ UP ^o a window, at which he ob- & : iained some relief. In a few moments ^ v.;.:.|the kindlings had burned out and the fe;;v„;';jBmoke subsided. There was no draft '•h/' , 1>ut the fire had been made in the % wrong place, and now Job set about W to,find the right one, p>-; .by trying a handful of shaving in jp^ C eac^ cavity the complicated queen, it Fortune favored him, as she always ^ ̂does the brave, and finally Job could •'Mil'.-have. shontMl "Uiirotn « if *.« K31 have shouted "Eureka," if he h'sfd thought of it. The Are burned splendidly! The numerous grates /^glowed; the .water in the kettles siz­ zled; Mrs. Bangs was radient, and the "spider" of pork and lard boiled •charmingly. But suddenly, just as Mr*. Bangs was congratulating herself to being the most favored woman in the uni­ verse, the stove gave a lurch, its three legs quivered pnd trembled, the for­ ward one dmppkd out, the immacu­ late Queen of the World tottered on her throne! For a second only, then over she went, kettles and stewpans. : The pot was in the fire, and the fire took royal advantage of it. The blaze steamed up the chimney, ignit­ ing the soo&and sending a column of flame ten feet out of the top of the chimney. The observant neighbors screamed Mftre"at the height of their voices; the school children across the way took up the cry; Mrs. Bangs was ankle-deep in hot water and floating potatoes; the house dog lay prostrate under theiruins, howling with fright and rain, and Mr. ;Bangs had fled to the elevation of the kitchen table, from whence he was comfortably sur­ veying the scene, being seated in the broad dish of hominy pudding which hip wife had prepared for baking. The cfies of, lire called out the en­ gine company--ever prompt in danger --and stripping down Mr. Bang's fence, they nurried their machine through a fine field of corn and up to the house. Just as they arrived, cov­ ered with perspiration and out of breath, Sirs. Bangs made her exit from the kitchen, screaming and Wringing her hands in the wildest agiratioii. The zealous captain of the company was a little near-sighted, and suppos­ ing the lady's clothing to be on fire, he seized the end of the hose already filled, and let fly the whole stream of water over her ^rson. The shock knocked her ever instantly, and after a few somersaults she came to a halt in the rain-water cistern, from whence she was afterward fished out half ^drowned and considerably indignant. • The grand uproar aroused a high- spirited bull that -^vas confined in an adjacent yard, the red uniforms of the firemen inspired his bullshjp with just wrath, and after$rJialf dozen premonitory bellows, he gave a tremendous leap and cleared the barring. Captain, privates and .populace, as­ tonished and terrified, fled befo/e that, elevated head and those smoking n<;»s- trils, fled ingloriously, leaving Bangs' chimney to burn out without help, all except Judge Marlow, who, being a dignified man, did not compromise his dignity until the last, when he weHrt-through his best paces, but in vain. The bull singled him out from the others, caught him on his horns, and tossed him into the pig-pen, where the irate mother of ten promising porcine little ones nearly finished htm. In fact, the Judge would never have come out of that hog's yard alive had not Mrs. Bangs, recovering from her temporary fright, gone to the rescue with the ftiop handle. The bull, after scattering all in­ truders, turned his attention to the engine which was left behind, and never were the walls of a beleaguered city battered and charged more zeal­ ously than he charged • that non-resi- dent "masheen." Mr. Bangs came down from his perch as soon as the crowd had dispersed, and secured the quadruped, now pretty well blown, from his extraordinary exertions. "The Queen of the World" was sold for old iron, and Mrs. Bangs cooks un- murniuringly over the little old con­ trivance of a stove that she has had for a dozen years. ^ Bangs says that, "according to his idee, these here new-fangled s0Tes ain't the thing; they're great crt And little wool." JtdMla Retrograding Henry Labouchere says in London Truth: "I hear that it is expected at Berlin and at Vienna that the furious persecutions which • are now disgracing the Government of Russia will assuredly lead to some frightful catastrophe before many months have pgtss^d. It is not only the Jew's who are ruthlessly persecuted, but the Protestants and Boman Catholics also. * The Czar is now positively exe­ crated by the Finns, who were form­ erly his most loyal subjects, in conse­ quence of the insane attempts to com­ plete tfje Busslfication of Finland. Russia has gone back forty years in a few months. Persons of Tank, ef-thife' liberal professions, and of both sexes, are being ferociously flogged all over the country. At Warsaw the other day a Catholic priest of exemplary character received sixty strokes with a birch-rod because he had endeavored to hold a service in open air after his church had been closed by the police. The Emperor has abolished all the privileges of the provincil councils, trial by jury is suspended for an in­ definite period, and the schools , and universities are ruled as if they were barracks or prisons. The political re­ action which has gone on since the Emperor fell into the hands of his present advisers, who are as reckless as they are stupid and brutal, can only end either in a revolution or a military or palace coup d'etat. Alexander is eithei a maniac, like most of his family, or else he is so saturated with apprehension for his own personal safety or with religious fanaticism that he is practically i- sane." To Avoid Ranting of Machinery. A mechanic gays that in order to keep machinery from rusting he takes one ounce of camphor and dissolves in a pound of melted lard, taking off the scum, and mixing in as much fine black lead as will give it color. The machinery is then cleaned and smeared with this mixture. After twenty-four hours the machinery is rubbed clean for months. The same artisan gives the following method of hardening tools: Forge the tool in shape, then melt in a dish sufficient Babbitt metal to cover the end of the tool as far as it is wished to harden it. Thrust the tool into the metal and let it cooi. This method makes the tool much harder than cooling in oil or tempering by any other process. A Strang* Mineral. ^ A prospector in Montana has found a strange mineral that takes fire and consumes itself when exposed to the air. When taken from the ground it has much the appearance of iron ore andds quite as heavy. The first that was taken out was piled up near the shaft one evening and the next morn­ ing was found to be smoking. It con­ tinued to grow hotter until it arrived at almost a white heat, remaining in that condition several days( after which it gradually cooled ofT. It was then found to be but half itjs first weight, and. resembled much the fragments of meteors that are found on the surface. « ^ fOUCHINQ STORY , BOB. OF CLACK Hhrtrnrjr ««Mt Pathotle DMth -«t *» Ofct * War Boiw. A famous regimental pet In days jone by was Black Bob, a horse which belonged to the Eighth King's Royal Irish Light Dragoons--now li tissars. Black Bob was foaled at the Cape and he became the favorite charger oi Rollo Gillespie, Colonel of the "Roy­ al Irish." The heroic Gillespie fell at Kalunga (1814), and after that af­ fair Black Bob was put up at auction, "with his saddle and hdhsings still spotted with the blood of his gallant master." Gillespie was greatly be­ loved by the Royal Irish, and they determined not to let the charger go out of the regiment. The upset price was 300 guineas, and an officer of the Twenty-fifth Light Dragoons bid 400 guineas, but the Irish troopers bid 500 guineas among themselves, and so Black Bob became their prop­ erty. Black Bob always marched at the head of the regiment, and could distinguish the trumpets of the Eighth from those of any other corps. It is said that he was particularly partial to the air of "Garry Owen," always pricking his ears when the band struck up the national tune. At length when the Eighty was ordereffe" home circumstances rendered it im­ perative that their "pet" should be sold, and Black Bob was bought by a civilian at Cawnpore, to whom the Irish troopers returned half the money on his solemnly undertaking that the old horse should pass the re­ mainder of his days in comfort., But poor Bob had only been three days in his new quarters when he heard the trumpets of the Eighth as the regK ment marched off at daybreak to etfi- bark for Calcutta. At the /well known sound' the old horse became frantic and made every effort to es­ cape from his stable, until worn \ out with his exertions and well-pigb strangled he sank down exhauste As days passed by, and Bob saw no more the familiar uniforms, and heard no more the trumpets nor the voices of his old comrades, he began to pine away, refusing his corn and other food that was offered him; so bis owner had him turned out into a paddock. But the moment he was free Black Bob jumped the bamboO" > fence and galloped off to the canton­ ments of the European cavalry. Mak­ ing for the parade ground, the old horse trotted up whinneying to the saluting point, and on the spot where he had so often taken post with Rollo Gillespie on his back, watching the squadrons of the * Royal Irish defile past, Black Bob fell down and died.-- Pall Mall Gazette. tor" J/,-. LOCOMOTIVE riRST CHIMiSfSB li liazet ome Kioh Indians. - There are scores of Indiana on the reservation worth from $50,000 to $250,000 each, and when the reserva­ tion is thrown open by Congress, as it will be in a very few years, there will be in Pierce County a dozen or two of the richest Indians in the United Stateg. Following are the names of some of the wealthy Indians: Mrs. Joseph Douette. a fnll-blooded Indian widow, $250,000. Mrs. Douette owns 160 acres on Brown's Point. She was a full-blooded Indian girl, tier husband died about two years ago. She has several children, and now lives at the reservation build­ ings, leasing her land to some fisher­ men. Her land is probably the most valuable on the reservation. The Union Pacific railway will run through it. Chris Laughlet a widower, 120 acres, $60,000. Laughlet holds 120t acres back of Mrs. Douette's. which are worth at least $500 an acre. He has one son. Joe Coates, 160 acres, $80,000; Mrs. Joe Coates 100 acres, $48,000. The Coates family is worth $128,000. Coates has 160 acres in his own name. His first wife died, and he married an Indian widow who had 100 acres, worth at least $300 per acre. Theirs is tide-fiat land. She has one child. Jonas Stannup, father of the well- known Indian Peter Stannup, eighty acres, $60,000. Joseph Stannup's land is on the banks of the Puyallup River, is among the very best tide- flat soil, and is worth not less than $750 per acre. The old man has lived so long that he has forgotten the number of seasons he has lived, but he does not forget the value of his land. General Peter Stannup, 100 acres, $40,000. Mrs. Lahobit, a widow, 120 acres, #84,000; the best tide-flat soil. Charley Jake, married and large family, 120 acres, $84,000; best tide- flat soil. There are at least a dozen more In­ dians who have* from forty to 120 acres of the best tide-flat bottom, worth from $700 to $1,000 an acre. All of these Indians are pure-blooded Puyallups.--Puget Sound News. wrong tree..i• fridtitarn't noap* pie. De ole pf«m sarpuittdidu t ped­ dle out no sich innercent fruit es dat. It war a banana, dat's what it war. Fu8\ yo' see, Ebe she tuk hit an'%t up de top half. Den she jes' scooped out de res' an' handed hit toh Adam, an' frowed de peelin' night down dar under foot. An' Adam he jes' warn't noticln' ontwell fus' t'ing he knowed he slipped up on dat banana-peelln' an' went down kertblim! An' dat, my deah bruddren, is widout doubt de properest s'plainashun ob de fall." --Boston Post. . • •lining On Coins. . What is the "milling" on adoHar or other coin? Probably not one person in 500 could answer this simple question correctly. There is a popu­ lar belief that, , the corrugations on the rim of a dollar are the milling, but this is not so. Mr. C. M. Gor- ham, coiner at the San Franciscq branch mint, was recently asked to explain what the "milling" on a coift really was. Mr. Gorham went into the counting-room and picked up a "blank," a round piece of plain silver cut out of a silver bar. It had gone through one machine, which had slightly rounded the edges. The blank was dropped in a milling machine, and when it came out a second or two later the rim was flat and the edges of the rim were raised a little above the level of the sides. Th% verb "inmlng" is this raising of the rim of a blank piece of money, and the noun "milling" is this plain raised rim without reference to any corrugations antfwhere "T^he^purp^&e, of the milling is/ to protect tnfe^mr- face tronywetfr. The milled blank w^drQpped into a stamping machine from which it dropped • a perfect dollar. While in the machine the piece dropped in a carrugated collar; under great pressure the rim was forced into the corrugations and be­ came similarly corrugated. The par­ allel notches or corrugations, generally called milling, constitute^ the "reeding." The term is adopted from its architectural use to express a small convex*moulding, especially when such mouldings are multiplied parallel to each other.--Great Divive. the outskirts Rock, owns a A Dura • A gentleman _ of the city, near Black curiosity, the like of which Barnum never dreamed of. It is a deaf and dumb rooster--a full grown, brilliant­ ly plumed, brown Leghorn chanti­ cleer--that has lost his voice--can neither crow nor cluck, nor make any other audible sound with his vocal apparatus; does hot wake up the neighborhood at 5 o'clock in the morning with an everlasting cock-a- doodle-doo; does not give an alarm of hawks every time a ' black cloud crosses the sun, but is still as much the lord of the chicken park as ever. lie has not always been thus. Up t<\the time he was 8 months old he was as noisy as any young rooster need be. Then he got his head caught in a barbed wire fence iri such a way as to mangle his neck and probably tear out the vocal chords. »Losing the power to make sounds, he evidently forgot how to hear them. At least now, at the age of 3 years, he gives- no evidence of hearing. But he makes his eyes answer for ears and voice, If Any one wanted proof that he really deaf and dumb, those eyes^ would batfconyincing. There is nothing he (Iocs not see. When the first glow of sunrise appeal's he begins the duties of the day by rousing all the rest of the fowls in the hennery in his own orig­ inal way He walks around to^each one and kicks it off its perch./There is no resisting siich an invit/ation to getup.It's rau£h more effective than crowing. When he gets a challenge to light he does not stop to announce what he>can do. He goes and does it. srmMniis battles are all victories. The most remarkable thing about this intelligent bird, however, is the fact that, though deaf, he can distin­ guish "between an admonition to "shoo" a request to come to dinner. How he does it is a mystery, but it is believed that he tells by the motion of the lips and general attitude of the person who addresses him. J A course of instruction in a deaf and dumb institute is all this rooster needs to learn to talk With his spurs. --Buffalo Expre^. Jenny Und'* Tribute to Payno. No American poet ever received a more enviable compliment than one paid to John Howard Payne by Jenny Lind on his last visit to his native land. It was in the great National Hall in the City of Washington, where the most distinguished audi- ence that had ever been seen in the Capital of the Republic was assem­ bled. The matchless singer entranced the vast throng with her most ex­ quisite melodies. "Casta Diva," the "Flute Song," the "Bird Song," and the "Greeting to America." But the ?reat feature of the occasion seemed to be an act of inspiration. The singer suddenly turned her face toward that part of the auditorium where John Howard Payne was sit­ ting, and sang, "Home Sweet Home," with such pathos and power, that a whirlwind of excitement and enthu­ siasm swept through the vast audi­ ence. Webster himself lost all self- control, and one might readily imagine that Payne thrilled with rap­ ture at this unexpected and magnifi­ cent rendition of his own immiirtdl lyric.---New England Magazine, v A Courtly Celestial. .& Chinese Chesterfield has been dis­ covered in the person of the late Tseng Kno Tan, whose letters to his son derive an additional interest from the fact that this son was no other than the Marquis Tseng, who, as the Chinese Envoy and Minister Pleni­ potentiary, was long a notable figure in English society. The style of this sage's admonitions, says the London News, judging from some translations that have been published, certainlj bears a remarkable resemblance to that of Dr. Johnson's negligent patronc. In one Tie recommends his young correspondent to avoid "an excessive animation of manner." "If," he ob-' serves, "there is one virtue which your ancestors emulated, it was that of dignity." With admirable candor he adds: "Lack of perseverance is my crowning defect, as levity is yours." Hearing that his son js disposed, he bids him beware^ of drugs, also of doctors. "All I have met witfi," he says, "at home or abroad, have been frauds." In another letter he acknowledges the news of his correspondent's mar­ riage, and observes: "It will be a great pleasure to your mother to have a daughter-in-law." ^ He also takes the opportunity of inculcating the duty of early rising, jyid reminds his son that "our an­ cestors were never in bed after 4 in the morning " True Courtesy. •' True courtesy is "the beauty of the heart." How well it is that no class has a monopoly in this kind of beauty; that while favorable circum­ stances undoubtedly do render good %nanners more common among persons moving in higher rather than in lower spheres, there should neverthe­ less be no positive hindrance to the poorest classes having good manners. Here is an illustration of true polite­ ness exhibited by both classes of society. One day, in hastily turning the corner of a crooked street in the city of London, a young lady ran with great force against a ragged little beg­ gar boy,and almost knocked himdown. Stopping as turned around and said very kindly to the boy, "I beg your pardon, my little fellow. I aw very sorry that I ran against you." The poor boy was astonished. He looked at her for a moment in sur­ prise, and then, taking off about three-quarters of a cap, he made a low bow and said, while a broad pleas­ ant smile spread itself all over his face, "You can hev myjparding, miss, and welcome; and the next^rUne you run agin me, you can kuockThe clean down and I won't; say a word."x-TAfter the lady had passed on he turned to his companion and said, "I sajr, Jim, it's the first time I ever had anybody ask my parding, and it kind o'took me off my feet." WOMAN conceals only what she does not know. > Of interest to Theologian a. "One ob the most a'prisin' mistooks dat de gre't trelogians is now lab'rin' under am dis," remarked the Rev. Wharyogwine Simmons in one of his powerful doctrinal discourses. ^'Dey all declar' dat de fruit wha' cawsed de fall ob Adam an' Ebe outer dat gyarden war a apple. Lemme Jes' tole yo', my bruddern, dat dey is eb- try las' one ob 'em barkin' up de , Little Children ot the Bace. The following interesting view of "Childhood" is from an article by Miss Roseboro, on that subject, in the Century. "The little children of the race are intellectually more re­ spectable than the majority of its adults. To be sure, it is their atti­ tude and not their achievements that makes them so; but in estimating the human being as a mind rather than as 'a screw in the social machine,' who can help thinking the attitude more important than the achieve­ ment? The abounding intellectual curiosity of children, and their con­ tinual return to the biggest and deep­ est questions,--the origin of things, the source and ends of being,--these are what make them superior. What if the questions can never be abso­ lutely answered? Is it not infinitely more respectable to have them earn­ estly in mind than, accepting some mumbo-jumbo reply, to dismiss them altogether and to devote existence wholly to the frivolities we call busi­ ness, or pleasure, or learning? What else was Carlyle's fundamental raison d' etre but his power to call us t)B a degree of the serious reasonable won­ der with which we start in life? "Upon my word, I uometimes think that if the world were started now on a new plan, an£ peopled altogether with the middle-agetlyreligions, after going on a short time^tthrough the iiSpetus <*f custom, woulodM.out all over the world from this ot interest in the questions they pri­ marily undertake to answer. As it is, the children force us to keep some sort of theory of existence furbished up." How to Oubil no m Fierce Dog. A good method of conquering dogs 'was exemplified in the presence of a correspondent, who tells the story as follows: * While staying at a country house the conversation turned upon thei ferocity of a dog, half bulldog, half mastiff, that was chained up in the, yard. A small, del irate-looking man, who was one of the guests, smiled contemptuously at our host's descrip­ tion of the hound's savageness, and offered to bet that he would go down to the kennel and take a Jone from under his nose. The bet was taken, soon as she could, she and we all adjourned to the courtyard to witness the feat. The small man, who had/vanished for a moment, reappeared, and strolled up to the kennel with his right arm outstretched. The dog rushed at him with open mouth, then stopped, turned tail and slunk into his hutch. The man followed, put his hand inside, pulled the dog out by the collar, and then, after permitting it to crawl back again, cooly took up the bone it had been enjoying and threw it away without any protest on the part of the animal. The secret of his success Was that he had rubbed his hand with a solu­ tion of ammonia. A dog cannot bite Without drawing in its breath, and ^the inhalation of this pungent odor was too much for it. Spirits of cam­ phor, eau de cologne and other power­ ful perfumes of the kind are said to b® almost as effective. •en Ua*<C to Wear Petticoat*. !>„ is a remarkable fact that the petticoat was first worn by men, and that even in this age and generation men are loth to discard its flowing drapery. When Henry VIII went to meet Anne, of Cleves he was hab­ ited, we read, "in a coat of velvet, somewhat made like a frocke, em­ broidered all over with flatted gold of damaske, with small lace mixed be­ tween, of the same gold, and other laces of the same going traversewise, that the ground little appeared;" and in a description of a similar garment belonging to his father, Henry VII, we read of its being decorated with boifos of ribbon, quite as a belle of the present day would adorn a ballroom gress. . - ... Thonght Transference. Prof. Lodge, president of the sec­ tion of Mathematics and Physics at the late meeting of the British As­ sociation, used the following lan­ guage: "May there not also bean immaterial (perhaps an etheral) medium of communication? It is possible that an idea can be 'trans­ ferred from one person to another by a process such as we jiave not yet grown accustomed to, and know practically nothing about9 In this case I have evidence. J assert .that I have seen it done and am perfectly convinced of the fact." A Female Traveler. There is Miss Isabella Bird, of Lon­ don, known to her friends as Mrs. Bishop. In accordance with the pro­ visions of her late husband's will Mrs. Bishop went to Cashmere in India and founded a hospital about two years ago. Her mission accom­ plished, this advanturous woman de­ cided to perform a feat never before accomplished by a European since the days of Hue and Gabet, the French misssionaries. This' was to visit Lhassa, the capital of Thibet. She ultimately failed to enter the -ftlty,/ although she reached the outskirts of the province. The Thibetans hardly knew at first how to Jtreat this Btrange personage from the heathen world. Men travelers they expelled under menace of death, but here was a woman asking admission to the sacred city of the Buddhists. Jfrs. Bishop was finally circumvented in an odd. plever way. She was told that she migHt go to Lhassa, and that no one would molest her, but the chief official of every village through which she passed would lose Uis head for permitting her to ad- rance, and every district that re- teived her would be heavily fined. This was t6o much for a woman't tender heart and the traveler re» traced her steps, She passed, how* ever, through Beloochistan to Persia and Armenia, and was the first European of modern times to look upon the sources of the Karuir River. ,l>lte On ttie Moon. It does not seem improbable that in the course of events the earth and the moon may become more intimately acquainted. A few years ago scien­ tists held the theory that the moon was a dead planet, without atmos­ phere and consequently uninhabited. This theory has recently been entirely controverted, The work begun by Professor Holden at the Lick Ob- servatory upon Mount Hamilton, has been steffdily continued, and the photographs taken by him and his as­ sistants have revealed certain facts hitherto unknown. Photographic observations show a perfect map of the moon, $nd upon the summit of the highest mountains is a white sjx»t which has the appear­ ance of a glacier, proving the presence of atmosphere and making the theory of the habitableness of the moon ten­ able. It is claimed by Profesfpr Holdon that by a continuous series of photographs he is able to detect any changes upon the surface of the moon, and that a building fifty feet in height would cast an appreciable shadow, says the Chicago Graphic. If the moon is Inhabited the fact will certainly be discovered sooner or later, but the question of the estab- lishment of communication is still unsolved, although in the face of the scientific achievements of the last century we will not predict that it is unsolvable. ' The Wearing rower of Hlvar*: To illustrate the early difficulties which appalled naturalists, th# case of Charles Darwin in his explorations on the Beagle are to the point. He found, on the coast of New Zealand, enormous canons rising to a height of several thousand feet and reaching close to the water's • edge. It is now believed that these valleys were worn out by the action of running water, and that by a sinking of the coast line the mouths of the rivers have been transformed into fiords. Dar­ win could not appreciate, at that time such enormous denudation by sub-aerial forces and he publishes his theory that they are great bays worn out by the tides when the land was beneath the waters. At about this time and earlier, the current belief was that most great river valleys were the products of the great uni­ versal flood described as Noah's del­ uge. -- Goldthwaite's Geographical Magazine, Aluminum the Rarest Metal. Aluminutp Js now the rarest metal in the world, although it is the most useful, and the earth from which it can be reduced is found all over the globe--in Ohio as well as far off India. The largest piece of aluminum in the world is the cap of the Washington Monument. This weighs 100 ounces. A larger piece of the metal has never been produced. Not many years ago a Washington chemifet discovered a process for the production, of the metal. He thought it was perfect, ahu found no difficulty in^getting $500,000 to back him up. A huge plant was erected in Tennessee and work was commenced, but no alum­ inum was produced. The prqfegSQt!^- theory and experiments were all good enough, but they did not work upon a large scale. There have been dozens of like experiences, and thousands of simpifr lack^ men are to-day trying to discover the perfect method that will be com­ mercially practicable. " Hello! Otve Me Chicago." "Connect me with the eWorld's Fair" will when the great Exposition begins be the constant demand upon the American Long Distance Tele­ phone Company, and to meet this demand an undertaking of such mag­ nitude has been begun that by next spring telephonic communication will be established between Philadelphia and Chicago. This will be the longest telephone line in the world, yet the company claims that conversation will be per­ fectly conducted over the hundreds of miles of intervening wire. The route traversed will extend from Philadel­ phia to Reading, to Harrisburg, to Altoona, to Pittsburgh, to Cleveland, and thence directly* to Chicago.-- Philadelphia Record. lletU In India. Going to bed in India ' is a Very different process from going to bed at home. To begin with, it is a far less formal process. There is, in the hot season, no shutting of the door, no cutting yourself off from the outer world, no going up stairs, and, Anally, no getting into bed. You merely Jay down on your bed, which, with its bedding, is so simple as to be worth describing. The bed is a wooden frame with webting laced across it, and each bed has a thin cotton mattress. Over this one sheet is spread, and two pi*ows go to each bed, bolsters not being used. That's all. Some people do not even have the mattress, preferring the coolness of a piece of fine matting. Consumption of Water la German Cltle*. The consumption of water in twenty-three German cities, having a population .of 100,000, is stated in a recent number of Schilling's Journal for gas lighting and water supply, to have averaged about twenty-six gal- Ions per capita daily. / Although this amount seems very small to Ameri­ can engineers, it is $till further re­ duced if the data for Hamburg are omitted, becoming twenty-one and one-half gallons per capita. Ham­ burg, with approximately half a mil- J ion inhabitants, consumed in the fkst year 42,000,000 cubic meters of water, or 7,000,000 meters more than Berlin, a city of twice its size. Queer Atmospheric Freaks, ~ Prof. Leonhardt Webber, in his at­ mospheric experiments with kites and balloons, has found that the atmos­ phere is negatively electrified up to a height of about 100 yards, beyond which it is positively electrified in a degree increasing yery rapidly with the distance from the earth. The negative electrification of the lower strata of the air is attributed to the presence of germs and dust particles. ^ N» ' > * i( trv fh iii '•C k 1 tr tf tSifi hi 'V L<; 4kVif *'f A A " i v - , ADVICE to those using Don't mix your drinl^ glassea-- MmC* <Wrt «T Scrap Iron by irat^r* ****- men la 1881, :]0 '• In 1878 coal mining was begun at Tongsan, about eighty miles north- * east of Tientsin. It was arranged to « build a railroad twenty-nine miles long, from the mines to the nearest V* navigable water, that is, to Lutai on , ; - the Peh Tang Ho, says the author of | "Railways in North China." It was } t then, in 1878, that Mr. Kinder went - ^ out as a resident engineer. Before the railroatLwork could be begun the authoritiefnad decided to operate a canal twenty-one miles long, to a point Within seven miles of the \.,r; S colliery, and to connect the canal and f % collery by a traniwayto be worked by . mules. This was done. "J Fortunately the gauge of 4 feet 8J ^ inches was, after much difficulty, t '7^ sanctioned, but it was stipulated that , no locomotives should be used, but ; before the track was completed this had virtually become a dead letter. The country was casf, but several sharp curves were introduced to avoid graves. Subsequently the owners of these graves, objecting to the noise so near the bones of their ancestors, allowed the remains to be removed and the line was rectified. This track was laid with thirty-pound steel rails, flange section, and ballasted with broken, limestone. During the winter of 1880-1 Mr. Kinder built a locomotive ih the shops' of the company. It was built entirely of odds and ends which could be pro­ cured without attracting attention. The boiler belonged to a portable' winding machine. The wheels were 30-inch Whitney chilled wheels, which ; had been bought as scrap castings, < and the frames were made of channel iron. Befqre this was finished its preparation became known and orders were issued that it should be stopped. Eventually, however, through the offices of Li Hung Chang Mr. Kinder , was allowed to finish the locomotive, • which was christened the "Rocket of • China," just 100 years after the birth of George Stephenson. On Nov. 8, v? 1881, this engine took a party of^: officials over the line^^at a speed of ^ twenty miles an hour a5d after that M&v the objections to locomotives were: .{I virtually abandoned. Mr, says there is little doubt that iif this engine had not been built as it was, in China, and by native workmen, it would never have been allowed to BUD and the use of locomotives would have been postponed for many years. .X«;: V '• f i '5'b1'! !<*. A Bow Grew Helped a Woman JonriaHlf, • I never saw any one who filled a station of dizzy height with a more level head or a more charming graci- ousness of manner than the late ex* president, says London Truth. HI* deportment at great receptions was ideal. The broad red ribbon of the Legion of Honor athwart his waist­ coat appeared to stimulate him. One could take small liberties with him. VM. le President, I'm dying to have a good close view of the Queen Isa­ bella, who Is now surrounded by the diplomatic circle. How can I manage it?" said a lady jouralist one evening 4 s) to him. "I'll manage it," was the f answer, "Go into the green-house V/af-C" and wait there." M. Grevy a little ... Grevy a later took her majesty round the., ground-floor rooms. She had on a- • lace dress, and he contrived that it jhould, through no apparent fault of 7/^'*v get caught in a thorny plant. u The lady jouranlist was asked to dis­ entangle the flimsy garment and to , pin up a rent. This done, the much- j, obliged queen, to whom M.. Grevy A; presented her, returned thanks, and the whole thing passed off like a na­ tural accident. M. Grevy's eye twinkled,and as good as said: "There, now! Am I not a sly old fellow, and deserving of your best thanks?" Isabella was his client from 1860 to 1879. He had brought her husband to separate quietly from her, and ,,, v j her any number of services as a coun- t selor and friend. She used to go and dine with Mme. Grevy,and insisted on : obtaining for him the knighthood of the Older of the Golden Fleece. , ^ 1 . ^ '. * '• If peechox'a First Horn*. Gtttrfftbm served for entrance the house, for parlor, study, and bed­ room; the other to the dining and , workroom, writes Mrs. Henry Ward 1 Beecher in describing the first home which she and Mr. Beecher had years •- ago in the West, in the Ladies' Home J o u r n a l . T h e b e d r o o m w a s s o s m a l l \ ; , s that I was obliged to make the bed V . ? v on one side first, then go out on the veranda, raise a window, reach in and make the oed on the other side. Not such very troublesome work after all, - ^ when oue gets accustomed to it. The little kitchen--partitioned off from • the veranda--was just large enough ; . to allow a passage between the cook- ing table and the stove into the din- ing-room without burning my dress; and my kitchen table was only di­ vided from Mr. Beecher's study table by the partition. For years this was our home of cares and no luxuries; but a very happy home--for many reasons the happiest we ever knew, for we were rrv less separated there. In Brooklyn, in -*\V; after years, Mr. Beecher's public du-1 ties naturally drew him more away 'lV/,, from the family circle, but in those- days in the West I had ^ most entirely to myself. ^ . ,, "<$ % nearly seven . a home full ' $$ A Game of Ball. Emerson's saying that the child is the true democrat is illustrated by an Incident in the life of Queen Victoria. Mr. Willert Beale, afterward known as a music publish&r and a manager of concerts, says thatVhen a boy he used to walk daily with his mother and sister in the gardens surrounding; Kensington Palace. ' A lady and her daughter were one day walking in the same direction I we were going, followed by a tall footman. We were throwing a ball about, and once it happened to fall at the lady's feet. Her daughter picked it up and joined our'game for a minute or two, and then returned, out of breath and laughing merrily, to her mother's side. The lady was the Duchess of Kent; her daughter the Princess Victoria. We renewed the acquaintance the next day and the next, and were al­ ways greeted with gracious smiles of recognition when we met. I wonder whether Her Majesty bai; any recollection of that game of ball played more than once in Kensington J Gardens. M