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v ' - F8W THOUGHT©. ..At* ••WT-W*kit« dove deooeuftlnf fton* tenibni of celestial U*h Mat, on the Cross depending, '• HM&klnd through thin life aright. low I* up* Stair which nerved iho Tto&rr-- That idSalftwit jewel which in lnster ahines, jfeichling thstiath wh®u «U lite Ntmn dreary. Cbaering the feeble whoa their strwnttfi de­ clines. is that snint who soothes the dying, i eRTa are opened to the orphan's wail; ,rs the voice of the homeless crying, bo feeds the hungry and protects the frail. Ueacp w t nnT cajin, meek, imut'i b«" ' That fills men'B souls with a pride fir lite. i ' ' *#• / >- „ . , JBaar to the Youth, and to Age when luiary. SHUv, Usar to all things froo from war and strife. ! •» -. <S '5-vfb* ill that fragrant air from flower* ,*••• 'L C'v i 't Which bloom along life's happy streutt, }%'• heart. In ira yomliful bo;«Mk', S i?Lulling men's cares like a merty uioi.ja.'• - ^Vw-5' V<$rijtb is that grand, majeatfo splendor! ' >K ' That light which •hines in nil honest SOMS, #orminR just men, in their nature tender, "ws And gives to character what s.rength It holls. '• '**• Great Divide. f' SEW COOK IN Gj^TO VE. ... ftt atitA Aivim * %'< '* " --*•"-* /:V v-'V.S3fe? -! Mrs. Jdb Bangs was possessed of a wjfpir.it--an evil spirit, Mr. bangs said; tuc n men are so prone to indulge (to extravagant expressions that it is not well to place too much dependence in what they* say. ? : Mrs. Bangs'greatest ambition was , $o possess a peculiar bind of cooking ysifcove--the counterpart of which pre­ sided, in Ola<jk q#ul glossy s?it-satisfac- tion,over the cleanly kitchen hearth of lira. Judge Marlow's grand establish^ suent. ' •Queen of the World" was the title in which the interesting stove re- . 7 juiom. i The queen herself was possessed of |§^as many dampers, grates, heaters, ^ flues, ovens and nondescript poke- boles as a twenty-horse-pow'er engine; f. *nd scientific old Watt htmself would Slave been puzzled in comprehending, the use of her '-heat refractors" and "steam generators." But Mrs. Marlon? fancied the stove ,*-and, surely, Mrs. Judge Marlow ! ought to know about a stove--and the ,Tiv / consequence was poor Bangs could **\t W never retire to bed without having &t V -/'that stove, dear Job," dinged in his i fars. •: There is a period to human endur- ' rsC • ince, and the time at length came ! g ri" , When Bangs could hold out no longer, . , tut 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 - apt have changed places with the * ,!*V man who spt,; lip t.ho «t/wo £ asked lit Bangs if sher'kneiFhow to manage it. She laughed in ftn -face. ^ Know how to manage a stav^? Of ^•i^eourae she did! Why sho«H^tri' she? ! A n d b e f o r e h e r l o f t y m i e n I n j u r e d 1-v'lignity the stove man away abashed. I o: It was in July, pleasantfei |i©t, ?aiid s.f dinner was to be prepared for the six tired men who made Mr. Bangs' farm ;; blossom like the rose. # Mrs. Bangs cogitated on the subject -of dinner for a few moments, and i; llnally decided on boiled potatoes, ; stewed cabbage, fried pork and hom- f:. iny pudding, with hot coffee, etc. ' "Come, Bangs, love," she said ^ - cheerfully, "make a fire while I clap §|f on the kettles and see to things, and f, "1 ' you shall soon have a dinner worth |f;\ ^ eating." • f: v i Bangs flew to do her bidding, but C- ^ ' after opening an4 shutting several Hi; ^ doors, with the kindlings in his V* l>ands, he was still undecidefl, and Called his wife out of the meal 8|C closet. " - • » •' • •" >*&. "See here, Sarah, can yo|t tell me ^ . Where to build the flre?M ; » ; . -Why, in the place ft* |-V fur^," replied she. : pi"*, -g, . <(1Tes, : dearv, , I've" W "doubt of ^ that," remarked the perplexed ^ *| Bangs; "but according to nay idee, it K> V Would take a college learnt man to find out which the place is!" 0k ' -fa. "Why, the one where the grate is, 0g:;:; bf course," said Mrs. Bangs. £. •' "Well, there are just seven holes p w i t h g r a t e s i n ' e m , a n d t h r e e f5, things that look like strainers; ac- p^," V f cording to my idee, I can't tell to'ther 1 4 from which." si "Stand round, Job; I'll soon And W « i ^ out- Why, Bangs, it's strange that fi\r r - you can't see into nothing; this is the Wr' place--rite here in front. In with E,-„ the kindlings, and be spry about it; |g; it s a'most 'leven o'clock now." t*gs*put in the kindlings--a quantity of shavings, some ood and a hemlock knot--ap- match and stood by to watch It Tiie ttre sputtered and hissed; a glorious smoke arose and , .. . poured out of every nook and cranny '0'? the queen. Poor Bangs' eyes were s ^ i rapidly changing to pools of watery /•"tears, and his sense of vision fled com- pletely. . •» "Good gracious!" screamed Mrs; ^ J Bangsi "Job, you've set the house * afire." "No, I haint," stammered Job, Vv wiping his eyes on his coat sleeve. | .f "According to my idee, it's that con- founded stove." "Mercv onus! Where's the damper? --Where's the draft?--where's the k'< • Pf:P" a* air slide? !«* Job, Job, where are you, that you don't do something? The new whitewash will be ruined in this smoke!" Mrs. Bangs stood with her apron over her head, and Bangs managed to get up to a window, at which he ob­ tained some relief. In a few moments the kindlings had burned out and the smoke subsided. There was no draft but the fire had been made in the wrong place, and now Job set about systematically to find the right one, by trying a handful of shaving in each cavity of the complicated queen. Fortune favored him, as she always does the brave, and finally Job could have shouted "Eureka,if he had thought of it. The fire burned splendidly! The numerous grates glowed; the water in the kettles six- zled; Mrs. Bangs was radient, and the "spider" of pork and lard boiled charmingly. But suddenly, just as Mrs. Ban was congratulating herself in bei the most favored woman in the u verse, the stOve gave a lurch, itsth legs quivered and trembled, the ward one dropped out, the im late Que$n of the World totter* her fcftiiete! For a second only, overm* Went, kettles and stew was in the fire, anatiw took royal advantage or it. The f tOUCHiNO blaze steamed up the chimney, Ignit­ ing the .scot and sending a column of flame ten feet out of the top of the chimney. The observant neighbors screamed "ftre"at the height ot 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 the ruins, howling with fright and rain, and Mr. Tinnirs 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 his wife had prepared for baking. The cries of lire called out the en­ gine company--ever prompt in danger --and stripping down Mr. Bang's fepce, they hurried 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, Mrs. Bangs made her exit from the kitchen, screaming and wriuaring her hands in the wildest agitation. 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 rilled, and let fly the whole stream of water over her person. The shock knocked her ever instantly, and after a few spmersaults she came to a halt in the ruin-water cistern, from whence she was afterward fished out half drowned and considerably indignant. The grand uproar aroused a high- spirited bull that was confined in an adjacent yard, the rod uniforms of the firemen inspired his bullship with just wrath, and after a half dozen premonitory bellows, he gave a tremendous leap and cleared the barring. Captain, privates and populace, as­ tonished and terrified, fled before that elevated head and those smoking nos­ trils, fled irigloriously, 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 be went 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 him. In fact, the Judge would never have come out of thai hog's yard alive had not Mrs. Bangs, recovering from her temporary fright, gone to the rescue with the mop 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 ba trie red and charged mure 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 ft# old iron, and Mrs. Bangs cooks un- murmuringly over the little old con­ trivance of a stove that she has had for a dozen years. Bangs says that, 4•according to his idee, these here new-fangled stoves ain't the thing; they're great cry and Kuaala 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 passed. It is not only the Jews who are ruthlessly persecuted, but the Protestants and Roman 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 the Bussificatton of Finland. Russia has gone back forty years in a few months. Persons of rank, of the liberal professions, and of both sexes, are being ferociously flogged all over the country. At Warsaw the other day a Catholic priest of exemplar/1 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 recklesi as they are stupid aqd brutal, ca only end either in a * revolution or 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 Hunting of Machinery. A mechanic says 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. machinery is then cleaned smeared with this mixture. twenty-four hours the inachi rubbed clean for months. artisan gives the followii hardening tools: Forgi shape, then melt Babbitt metal to M? GS1.ACK atstwgr nad Pnthetic Oaatti GM liar Bon*. A famous regimental pet in days yone by was Black Bob, a horse which belonged to the Eighth King's Royal Irish Light Dragoons--now hassars. Black Bob'was foaled at the Cape and tie became the favorite charger oi Hollo Gillespie, Colonel of the "Roy­ al Trlsh." The heroic Gillespie fell %t Kalunga (1814), and after that af­ fair Black Bob was put up at auction, "with his saddle and housings 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 <)Ut of the regiment. The upset price was 300 guineas, and an officer of the Twenty-ttfth Light Dragoons bid 400 guineas, but the Irish troopers bid 500 guineas among themselves, and so Biack 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 Eighth was ordered home circumstances rendered it im­ perative that their "pet" shofeld be caUI onf] linh was Imiiorlit. hv 21 M»»U J.MUV1V VV.«n..v civilian fat 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 regi­ ment marched off at daybreak to em­ 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-nigh strangled he sank down exhausted. 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 his 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. , ^ ' Some Bleh Indian*^ ' - > There are scores of Indians 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 States. Following are the names of some of the wealthy Indians: Mrs. Joseph Douette. a full-blooded Indian widow, $250,000. Mm Douette owns 160 acres on Brown's Point. She was a full-blooded Indian girl. Her 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 120 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 fir.;t wife died, and he married an Indian widow who had 100 acres, worth at least $M0 per acre. Theirs is tide-fiat land. She has one child Jonas Stannup, father of the well Renown 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 perjicre^JIJHFEABFCMN1 nAisi 11B- iiiiKPfflflaeii death, which in out of four cases is unsuspected, symptoms are not generally under- These are: a habit of lying on ;ht side, short breath, pain or dis- in side, back or shoulder, irregular asthma, weak and hungry spells, |d in stomach, swelling of ankles or •sy, oppression, dry cough and iherinqr, Pfi JU*Tftrwhwi ini«^ family, 120 acres, $84,000; best tide- ^!at 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-blpodfd Puyallups.--Puget Sound Newsi '.VJ' wmngtree. pie. ,vT die out no slel|:^iiM|i^iiiit es dak It war a it war. Fus', yo' see, Ebe she tuk hit an' et tip 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 noticin5 ontwell fus' t'ing he knowed he slipped up on dat banana-peelin' an' went down ker-blim! An' dat, my deah bruddren, is widout doubt de properest s'plainashun ob de fall." --Boston JPost. Mtlllttff CoHts. f "IflHlt is the "milling" on adoliar 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 Francisco branch mint, was recently asked to explain what the "milling" on a coin really was. Mr. Gorham went into the counting-room and picked up a "blank," a round pietee'of plain silver cut out of a silver bah" It had gone through one machine, which had slightly rounded the' edges. The blank was dropped '|n a milling machine, and wlren it cariae out a second or two lateif the rim was flat and the edges of the rim were raised a little above this levfel' of the sides. The verb "mining" is this raising of the rim of a Waftk"piel& of money, and the noufc""rfiHlfti#* is" this plain raised rim without reference to any corrugations anywhere. The purpose of the milling is to protect the sur­ face from wear. The milled blank was dropped 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. --GreafcDivive. A Conrtly Celestial. A 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 patron; In one he 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 is disposed,he bids him beware of drugs, also of doctors. "AH I have met with," he says, "at home or abroad, have been frauds." In another ietter 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, and reminds his son that "our an­ cestors were never in bed a||§£ £ the morning " tool as far as it. Thrust and let it © the tool mu' .t , oil or temperifi] iarden metal makes cooling in ity other proems. A Strange MintisL A prospector in Montana has found mi ieral that takes fire and If when exposed to the taken from the ground it le appearance of iron ore as heavy. The first that out was piled up near the evening and the next morn- und to be smoking. It con- grow hotter until it arriyed a white heat, remaining in ndition several days, after it gradually cooled off. It was und to be but half its first , and resembled much the nts of meteors that are found surface. * MAN concealb only what she does now. '.':S mm Jenny Liwl'i Tribute to I'aynn- No American poet ever received a more enviable compliment than one paid to John Howard Payne by Jenny t Lind on his last visit to his native land. It was in the great National Hall in the City of Washington, e the most distinguished audi- at had ever been seen In the of the Republic was assem- he matchless singer entranced vast throng with her most ex- isite melodies. "Casta Diva," the Flute Song," the "Bird Song," and the "Greeting to America." But the great 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 immortal tyric.--New England Magazine. Of Inter*si to Ttieologlana. "One ob the most s'prisin' mistoolcs 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' JSbe outer dat gyarden war a applfe. Lemme jes' tole yo\ my bruddern, dat dey is eb- A gentleaiiu! of the city, naif ..... curiosity, tS#|ti©^| never dreamed of. AHirbutsk® owns a Barnum tttradeaf and dumb rooster--a full gr^fttt tirilllanfr- ly plumed, brown LertkRU chanti­ cleer--that has lost his voice--can neither crow nor cluck, nor make any other audible sound with his vocal apparatus: does not wake Up the neighborhood at 5 o'clock In the morning with an ev^rlnutmjj 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. He has not always been thus. Up to 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 in 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, too. If any one wanted proof that he was really deaf and dumb, those eyes would be convincing= There is nothing he does not see. When the first glow of sunrise appears he beginsthedutiesof 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 nerchi There is no resisting such an invitation to get up. It's much more effective than crowing. When he gets a challenge to fight he does not stop to announce what he can do. He goes and does it. And his 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 adinonition 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. A course of instruction in a deaf and dumb institute is all this rooster needs to learn to talk with hi* spurs. --Buffalo Express, Trnt Conrtoajr. 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 manners 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 ?reat force against a ragged little beg- ar boy, and almost knocked him down. Stopping as soon as she could, she turned around and said very kindly to the boy, "I beg your pardon, my ittle fellow. I am very sorry that I an against you." k 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 time you run agin me, you can knock me clean down and I won't say a word." After the lady had passed on he turned to his companion and said, "I say, Jim, it's the first time I ever had anybody ask my parding, and it kind o'took me off my feet." Hon Used to Wear Pettleoat*. I\ 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 bows of ribbon, quite as a belle of the present day would adorn a ballroom dress. • <$', * Thoaffct Tra«*t**oa«ft Prof. Lodge, president of the? tion of Mathematics and Physics at the late meeting of the British As­ sociation, used the following lan­ guage: "May there not also be an 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 have not yet grown accustomed to, and know practically nothing about9 In this case I have evidence. I assert that 11 have seen it done and am perfectly fcrjr iatfene oh barkin' up do | convinced of the lack!! iwMti m _ . " em . _ * - .... little Children oi tli«» Itaco, 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 to a degree of the serious reasonable won­ der with which we start in lite? "Upon my word, I sometimes think that if the world were started now on a new plan, add peopled altogether with the middle-aged, religions, after going on a short time through the impetus of custom, would die out all over the world from this si in pie lack 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 Op." -- - Now to Hntodno a rioroe Xfcpc* 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 the ferocity of a dog, half bulldog, half mastiff, that was chained up in the yard. A small, delicate-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 oone from under his no&e. The bet Was taken, 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 enjdying 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 Ik Spirits of cam­ phor, eau de cologne and other power­ ful perfumes of the kind are said to be almost as effective. > ,j * A Femalo Tnnlw. ' There Is Miss Isabella Bird, OT'^ton- don, known to her friends as Mrs. Bishop. In accordance with the pro­ visions of her late husband's *Mllv 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 'vttit Lhassa, the capital of Thibet. She ultimately failed to enter the ' city, although she reached the outskirts of the province. The Thibetans hardly knew at first hdw to treat this strange 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, Mrs. Bishop was finally circumvented in an odd, clever 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 his head for permitting her to ad- ranee, and every district that re- IQteed; lgp£x b<$vi^ toed. iAtetra traced passed, lmw to Persia. and Argwfllp^iind was the first European of Jj$odern times to look upon, t^idiiiiiglf the Karun River. f«M«On tho Moon. It does not seem improbable that in the course of even U the earth and the moon may become more intimately acquainted. A f«w wnra oi»n cfiien 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 steadily continued, and the photographs taken by him and his as­ sistants have revealed certain facts hitherto unknown. Photographic observations show a pcrfect map of the moon, and upon the summit of the highest mountains is a white spot 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 Profesr^r Holdoh that by a continuous scries 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 jit Is unsolvable. The Wearing Jfofror or Mivi To illustrate the early difficulties which appalled naturalists, the 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 Magarino Aluminum tlie Barest Moti^r Aluminum is 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 chemist discovered a process for the production of the metal. He thought it was perfect, and 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 professor's theory and experiments were all good enough, but they did not work upon a large scale. There have been dozens of like experiences, arid thousands of men are to-day trying to discover the perfect method that will be com­ mercially practicable. , "Hello! UlTe Me Chicago." r* ; "Connect me with the Wxild'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 telephoniccomn;unication 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. . '• /%y §£ :: J-'; ' r vw.,'-. Had* oat of BmWrtf"" °r Mmitvm 1881. In 1878 coal mining Tongsan, about eighty east of Tientsin. It build a railroad twenty-nine #! long, from the mines to the navigable water, that is, to the Peh Tang Ho, says the au "Railways in North China.^ KIH then, in 1818, that Mr. Kiuuvr w«n| *> . out as a resident engineer. Before ' the fail road work could be begun th« authorities had decided to operate # 4# canal twenty-one miles long, to i * '• * point within seven miles of thifc \ - %* colliery, and to connect the canal and ;-V collery by a tramway to be worked b| ; mules. This was done. !f; Fortunately the gauge of 4 feet 8| .• Inches was,, after nmch difficulty! sanctioned, but it was stipulated thai;; no locomotives should be used, but before the track was completed this had virtually become a dead lette# The country was easy, but several sharp curves were introduced to avojf^flt graves. Subsequently the owners ol. these graves, obiccting to the nolsf so near the bones of their ancestors# ^ allowed the remains to be removed *"-* and theline vv^^s rectified. Thistracfe was la'.d with thirty-pound steel rails, , flange section, and ballasted with , broken limestone. ft',' y During the winter of 1880-1 Mr, vY Kinder built a locomotive in the shoj# \ ' of the company. It was built entirely, of odds and ehds which could bepro^ cured without attracting attention*.- The boiler belonged to a portable winding machine. The wheels wens , 30-inch Whitney chilled wheels, whlcfv bad been bought as scrap casting^ and the frames were made of channifei iron. Before this was finished Hgi preparation became known and ordei| were issued that it should be stoppe^ Eventually, however, through the ' offices of Li Hung Chang Mr. KindQje wna sllo^cd "to finish the IoconiOtlv^ which was christened the "Rocket at China," just 100 years after the birtli of George Stephenson. Oa /Nov. 1881, this, engine took a party of officials over the line at a speed of twenty miles an hour and after thai the objections to locomotives wer<| virtually abandoned. Mr. Kind# says there is little doubt that if thtt engine had not been built as it wat» in China, and by native workmen, ft would never have been allowed to run and the use of locomotives would hayf been postponed for many years. %¥<>. Red* In India. Going to bed in India is* & ifery 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, finally, no getting into bed. You merely lay 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 h;is a thin cotton mattress. Over thin 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. Coniiuinption of Wator li Germaa Cltiea. ; 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 lons per capita daily. Although this amount seems very small to Ameri­ can engineers, it is still 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- lion inhabitants, consumed In the last year 42,000,000 cubic meters of Vriater, or 7,000,000 meters, mp^ thah Berlin, a city of twice its si^e. Queer Atmospheric Freak*. 1 * 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 very rapidly with the distance from the earth. The negative electrification of the loiter strata of the air is attributed to the presence of germs and dust panicles. glasses-- 4? 1, '£ j'V». , 'JU ADVICE to those using Don'tvour drinks., ' v " ̂ Vow OrsTT Uolped a Woman Jo«rHaHM<; I never saw any one who filled a station of dizzy height with a mo$g» level bfad nr a more charming eracl- ousness of manner than the late ei- ; president, says London Truth. Hps, deportment at great receptions wail ideal. The broad red ribbon of th& Legion of Honor athwart his waist* coat appeared to stimulate him. Oij^ could take small liberties with hpd% "M. le President, I'm dying to ha*§! a good close view of the Queen Islfe bella, who is now surrounded by tl diplomatic circle. How can I man it?*" said a lady jouralist one eveni to him. "I'll manage it," Ivas t answer, "Go into the green-hou and wait there." M. Grevy a little later took her majesty round the ground-floor rooms. She hid on $ lace dress, and he contrived that ft should, through no apparent fault ot his, get caught in a thorny plani^ The lady jouranlist was asked to dis­ entangle the flimsy garment and ta pin up a renk This done, the much* obliged queen, to whom M. GreVy 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 1800 to 1879. He had brought her husband tc^ separate quietly from her, acid her any number of services as a coun­ selor and friend. She used to go and dine with Mme. Gi'evj,andi insisted dh . obtaining for him the knighthood of the order of the Golden Fleece*'v * v Y •m 0 Beooher'* F|r*t Homo. ' 'k One room served for entrance int)» the house, for parlor, study, and bed*' room; the other to the dining- aiil workroom, writes Mrs. Henry Waetf Beecher in describing the first hon|e which she and Mr. Beecher had yeai| ago in the West, in the Ladies' Horn? Journal. The bedroom was so small that I was obliged to make the on one side first, then go out on ttie > veranda, raise a window, reach in an^/ make the oed on the other side. Not'5 such very troublesome work after allt when one gets accustomed to it. The little kitchen--partitioned off from-' the veranda--was just large enoug^ to allow a passage between the cook% ing table and the stove into the din» ing-room without burning my dresst; and my kitchen table was only di­ vided from Mr. Beecher's study tabli; by the partition. For nearly seveil^ years this was our home--a home full ? of cares and no luxuries; but a verjj,, happy home--for many reasons the - happtost we ever knew, for we wet£rf. less separated there. In Brooklyn, in*' • after years, Mr. Beecher's public du?|. ties naturally drew him more aws&W, from the family circle,„ but in those days fn the West I had him al­ most entirely to myself. A Game of Balk . ; -> j;! Emerson's saying that the child is' ~ the true democrat is illustrated by ay-"- incident in the life of Queen Victoriii® Mr. Willert Beale, afterward known as ^ music publisher and a manager , of concerts, says that when a boy lie 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 we were going, followed by a tail 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 fot 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 tba next day and the next, and were al­ ways greeted with gracious smiles recognition when we mek ' I wonder whether Her Majesty has any recollection of that game of ball played more than once in Kensiogtoa