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Professor Arthur T. Had ley stated, in l.:,, the course of a recent lccture at Yale coliegc> that no less than 15,000 persona >?v. were injured annually hi the United States in the duty of coupling cars. *< : .. A St. Louis physician cured a case of , alcoholism by means of opium; he then curcd the opium habit through the agency of cocaine, and now he is search mg for something with which to cure the cocaiuo habit. i ?Antliony Comstock, of the New York society for the prevention of vice, says it is difficult to trace persons conducting fraudulent schemes because of their mumerou3 aliases. One man whom ho had urrested had 145 different names and addresses, another 13G, and a third had eighty. Mr. Theron E. Piatt, of Fairfield county, Conn., has raised 200 varities of potatoes on his farm during the past year. The study of fungoid pests of the potato has also occupied his attention, and his discoveries respecting ccrtain diseases of this plant are likely to provo serviceable. The almost incredible story is told of a Western farmer that, some years ago, hearing burglars breaking into his house, and heing out of buckshot, he hurriedly loaded his gun with a box. ofpills, which were compounded, however, of a soft material, and merely smeared the burglars somewhat, as warmed cobbler's wax might have done, when the weapon was discharged; and that the other day, ngain hearing burglars and being out of buckshot, and bearing his former failure in mind, he loaded up with pills which were sugar-coated, and shot one burglar dead and seriously (rounded another. " An Albany doctor asserts that electricity has been one of the most beneficent modern health restorers. It is now used ., successfully for a great variety of maladies. Tumors are cured by it, paralysis relieved, neuralgia dissipated, sleeplessness overcome, colds broken up, rheumatism benefited, constipation helped, some skin diseases healed, and asthma, St. Vitus' dance, and a great number of t i-i? t-a ? ' vuiti uuu^tiuus mvuiuuiy muuenccu oy its proper use. Of course many eases are not in the least helped by electricity, and it should always be administered bjT any expert as a guarantee that more harm than good may not result. It is announced that Messrs. Appert,of Clichy,France, have discovered a process that will make glass blowing by the mouth unnecessary. Many attempts have been made to get rid of this painful process in the operations of glass making, to this day in every bottle house, may bo seen the pale-faced" men with their cheeks hanging limp in folds, the result of years of glass blowing by the mouth. Cases have been known in which men's cheeks have been worn so thin that they have actually cracked, and it is a common sight in a bottle house to see blowers at work with their thin cheeks puffed , out like the fingers of a glove. It appears that one of the reasons for the low price of quinine lies in the fact that the cinchona trees are no longer destroyed in the harvesting. The old plan was to cut them down and strip off the bark when they were ten years old. Then the idea was adopted of tearing off long strips and filling the bare places with moss. The present method is to scrape off the outer layor of the bark, the por> lion richest in quinine, and this does not interfere with the crrowth of the tri>R. The bark is scrapcd half around at one operation, the other half being scraped six months afterward. The process may be repeated year after year. The expedition sent out by the Dominion government to ascertain -whether the 'Hudson Bay route" to Europe is navigable was highly successful. It discovered that it was not navigable. The Alert fought the ice nearly every inch of the ; \Way; had to put back for repairs in July; was stuck in the ice during August; broke a blade of her screw, and, after be? ing for several days at the mercy of the > ;.f: ice pack, returned, baffled. If an Arctic ice VP.Hfifll CATl'f imvAroA+Vi? TI, ,/!? ? - - V?wv vuu JUUUOVil UttJ route in midsummer, the chance of any ordinary steamship getting through in January, or even in July, can be , easily calculated. Miniature painting is an art which, if ?not lost, has at least fallen into decline. Certainly the costly ivory miniatures of our fair grandmothers could not be reproduced to-day by the same process, with anything like satisfactory results. ^Something which is more than a substitute, however, is found in the curious j? and beautiful rock-crystal portraits which are now to be seen at leading jewelry stores of New York city. They are {^produced by a process known only to the inventor, Monsieur E. Irlande. The por, trait is first vitrified, upon the crystal, ?nd then painted in oil colors, either in monochrome or in the style of the Ivory ^ miniature. It has all the artistic effect of the latter, wl\ile far surpassing it in fiidelity of likeness. These miniatures can be produced in flawless perfection down to the minutest siie, and will probably come into high favor for lockets, brooches/sleeve buttons, etc. * ' ' ' ' W1 - "v"- WW v {:v* ' '. 'S'"' \" V' ''J'V V^S?v * J 5 ; :' r\ ? *^'?? ' - ^Vi'VvT-^* w.] ', - : < v ''', ' . : .. ' -'. ' Felicity. j Tho eat sang on the back-yard fenco s I "Whence all but sho had fled; I seized my stock of common-sense And flung it at lier head; I flung my best liabilaments, My chair, my feather-bed; Fct still, with passion quite intens^ #\Vith strnugo contorted lineaments. That cut sang on tho bock-yard fence, Alienee all but sho hud lied. I spoko with strange grandiloquence, In coaxing tones I plead; My boots Wbte gone?my last dtefense? My Sunday hose had sped; All things or jjetty or immense Found lodgement on the shed. Tho feline wondered much from whence They came; but still, with grief intense, cu <i... i?1. 1 t uuu c*aii? u^'uii uiu uawA-jaiu icuu1, "Whence all but she hud fled. She roused two other residents? I oft had wished them dead, For they were music-loving 4'gents," And dwelt above my head. They seized their stringed instruments, "Which stood hard by their bed? They played with wondrous eloquence? "With one vast howl of jxiin intense That feline fled afar from thence: She sings 110 more upon our fence, But on a loftier eminence? Our next-door neighbor's shed. ?E. Frank Lintabcr in Puck. WE MET BY CHANCE. < wns going to Nice for the carnival. Only one other person was in the coupe with me?a stiif, magisterial appearing man, whose only baggage was a portfolio. Just as the train was starting soumls ol' a dispute arose at the door of my coupe. aIsTo, sir! no!" said a woman's voice. nr/lniv?fl CI 7 ?*/ on/1 T mnrf %f tJ) a v>* v?vi w4 it w uj tn-ivi jl muou iia > u it "But, Maclam, since we have none " "You ought to have heeded my letter!" "We received no letter, Madam!" "Make them add another car, then!" "Impossible! We have the regular number. Come, come, hasten?the train is going!" "But I must have some place." "There, in that coupe." "There?" 4'Yes, there!" A. little brown head wa? thrust in and oiiddenly withdrawn, as if frightened. "There are two gentlemen there!" '''Eli, madam, I cannot give you a car to yourself!" "Very well, I will not go!" . ' 'As you please! The train leaves! I give tho signal!" "Stop, sir, stop! I am obliged to go? and since there is only that coupe?but they will give me a coupe-lit at the first station?" "Yes, madam?yes, madam." "You will telegraph for that?" "Voc mnrl om irna mn/1 om The door opened, the little brown head entered, surrounded with bundles and wraps. There was a picrcing whistle; we had started,, The stiff gentleman gallantly took a seat by me,leaving all one sido free for the new arrival. Without glan-cing at us,breathless and crimson with wrath, she arranged her things as if for a long journey?one bag, two bags, three bags, and cloaks and shawls. I looked on out of the corner'of my eye, and saw with pleasure that She was charming in appearance. At Laroche the stiff man arranged his papers and left us. He was received by the depot master as "Monsieur l'Inspector." The lady rushed to the door. v "Did they telegraph from Paris for a coupe-UtV' "Yes, Madam, I sent the dispatch on." "What! I cannot have it at once?" j "Impossible, Madam. We have no cars 1 here. They will give you ono at Lyon Perrache." "Not till then? But I cannot stay here oil fhof fimn if T MM VMMV AW AO JUU^/VCOIUIU* A. TV 111 not " "Take a care, Madam?the train is starting." The cars were in motion. She returned to her corner, furious, never glancing my way. I opened my tenth newspaper. Shall I own it?it occupied me longer than the nine before it. I read the same lines twenty times. I believe I held it sometimes upside down. I wanted to talk with her, but where was the pretext? Considering the temperature the classic resource of raising or lowering windows did not exist. What could I do? I saw she was a woman of the world and of the best class. I could only attract her notice by some very original speech. But what?what? I meditated in vain. I was still studying the point when the train stopped. "Tonnerre! Twenty;five minutes for refreshments!" was shouted at the door. My fair neighbor rose, dropped her WFaps and left the car. It was noon. Hunger made itself felt. She wcut toward the refreshment room. I followed. I could then admire at my case her elegant figure, distinctly outlined by a long otter cloak. I also remarked that she had pretty curls in her neck, a gray felt hat and very small feet. I quickly swallowed several things. My fair traveler took a bowl of soup. The time soon passed, and the travelers raced back to their cars. I went to mine. The lady had not come. I saw her at a little book and newspaper stand, looking at the row of books. Although I saw only her back I recognized her pretty figure, her otter cloak and her gray hat. Her hair did uot look so dark to me?doubtless the efiect of distance. Everybody was our board; doors were slamming. v "She will miss her train," I thought, and then I called to her from the window* "Madam! Madam 1" v;' V ; . k . ' .... ' ' " ". +' .;; ' ' .:; y .. " ! I wns too fnr away. She did not hear. I The whistle sounded; the train wassturt! in^r. What should be dont? An idea flashi cd through my head. She was going to remain there, in this horribly cold weather, without any baggage. The poor little woman must have her things. I snatched the three bags, and all her shawls and wraps, and Hung the whole out to a man stauding near the car. "Give them to that lady over there," I cried. The man caught the things, and went toward the lady at the bookstall. At the same moment, from the other side of the train, came my pretty companion in great perturbation, hustled b3r a grumbling official, but safely on board, just as the train moved off. Ilorror! I had mistaken the lad}' traveler; the one at the book-stand was not the right one?same cloak, same hat, same outlines, but not the same woman ! She had scarcely entered the car when she uttered a cry : "My things! Sdhie one has stolen my things!" For the first time she looked at me-<with what an eye! I shall never forget that look. "No, Madam," I said, "your i.1 * 1 niin^o uiu iiui aiuiaij i>ui*y lire?muy urc: left at Tonucrrc!" i4At Toiincrrc! How?" I explained everything. Bless me! I eoulcl never describe tho second look she gave me?but I believe I shall remember it longer than the first one. "Iam very sorry,Madam,"I stammered. "I am greatly distressed, but the motive was good. I thought you would miss the train,and you would be cold, and I did not want you to suffer. Pardon me?don't fear for your things. They are in honest hands ?a railway official. At the next station you can telegraph?I shall telegraph?we will telegraph?we will soon get them. Ah 1 you shall have them! I swear it, if I have to return myself toTonncrrc to get them." "That is sufficient, sir," she said. "I know what I must do." Sllfi Kilt", down. Kr>v#?r#?lTr twictino J - ^ J ?" ?-0 gloves in wrath. But alas! poor little thing! She hacl reckoned without the cold. She no longer had her good warm wraps. It was scarcely ten minutes before she began to shiver. She shrank into herself, drew her otter cloak around her fine form and positively shook. "Madam," I said, "I beg upon my knees (hat you will accept my shawl! You will take a cold; it will be my fault, and I could never console myself in all my life." "I do not speak to you, sir," she said, haughtly. I was furious at having made myself ridiculous. "Madam," said J, "accept this shawl, or I swear I will jump off the train!" Throwing the shawl between us I seized the door-knob. My air must have been convincing, for she cried: iiV ? - - ' * ' iuu iiju uruz.y, isir?you arc out 01 your head I" v4'Take the shawl?or I shall spring off!" She took the shawl, saying: "But you, sir, you will perish from the cold." "Don't be uneasy about me, madam. I am not delicate, and even jf I should be cold it would only be a just punishment for my unpardonable stupidity." "Say for your too great liastc, for you are right?the intention was good, but how could you take that lady for me?" "Because she looked so charming." She smiled; the ice was broken?the ice of conversation, for otherwise I shivered. But how quickly I forgot the cold, the journey and all! She was delicious, exquisite, adorable! Dainty, peculiar, gay and original! She loved travel as I do. She had been in Italy, like me; in Spain, like me; she always dreamed of going to Egypt, like me. In literature, in music, in every way our tastes were the same. And then, just imagine?lots of the same friends. Perhaps I had met her twenty times without remarking her. Whero was my head? Heavens I where was my head? While I eagerly conversed I did everything in the world not to have the air of being chilly, but good Lord 1 how cold I was! At Dijou my right foot was numb. We telegraphed to Tonnerre for her things. At Macon my left foot was numb. We heard from Tonnerre that her things would be at Marseilles next day. At Lyon-Pcrrache my left hand became insensible. She forgot to claim her coupe-lit. At Valence my right hand followed the example of the left. I learned that she was a widow, without children. At Avignon my nose turned purple. I thought I understood that she had never lovfed her first husband. At last, at Marseilles, I sneezed violently three times. She handed me _1 1 i l i //-I .1 1 my tuiuwi, say lisp graciously: "woou-uye, till wo meet again.n "Till we meet again!" I was wild. I passed the night in a hotel,, and rose in the morning suffering from a terrible cold in the head, Ought I, in such a state, to call on my friends, the Rombauds? They must tako mc as I am, and to-morrow I will start for Nice and cure myself in sunshine. What a surprise! That excellent Rombaurd had invited some people to meet me, and among them was my fellow-traveler, my charmer! When I was presented there was an imperceptible smile on he? lips. I bowed and murmured: "And Tonnerre?" "I have them," she answered, in the same low voice. We took our seats at the dinner table. "What a cold, my goodness l" el. V ! t' & ;? / v* ^ j/V - * claimed that excellent Rombaad. "Where in the world did you catch rich acokl? In the cars, perhaps?" "It is possible," I replied, "but really I do not rfifrct. if-. " ? 0 Nobody understood tliis queer response, but I felt the sweet and compassionate gaze of my lovely traveling companion coming to me across the ordorous fumea of a superb soup. What more shall I say? Next day I did not go to Nice?and we arc to bo married in two weeks!?From the French ? / Fortunes Made in Old Corks. "You wouldn't think a man could make a fortune selling old corks and bottles, would you? Well,. I know a man who bought out a colliu shop twenty-five years ago and began to deal in old corks. Eight years ago lie went into the old bottle business, and he is now a rich man.'' The policeman who said this took the writer down Mulberry street, and a few blocks below Bleecker stopped before a I rickety old building, in front of which stood several barrels filled with bottles of all sizes. There were bottles emptied of Vino Vermouth, Piper Sec and Rhine wine, of Bass' ale, claret and stomach bitters. Inside the shop were seen the necks of a thousand bottles, pointed toward the door like little howitzers. They were piled up and boxed up and wenS in rows on the floor. From the roof hung dingy demijohns, covered with cobwebs, and in the center of the room was a barrel of old champagne corks. "How many corks have you sold today, Hugh?" asked the policeman. "Eight barrels." "How many bottles?" "Seventy-five gross. You see we never take the labels off, and never wash the bottles. The men who buy wine bottles want the labels as well as the bottles? sometimes want the labels much more than the bottles; but we do not deal in labels. When a junkman comes in with a load of bottles he may have twenty different kinds. "We sort them. When we get a gross of a certain kind we know where to sell them. A gross of quart champagne bottles fetches $4.50; pints, $2.25. Claret bottles sell for $3.75 per gross, and so do soda water bottles. Bass' ale is worth $2.25, but. for Rhine wine bottles we get per gross. "Tom" gins and stomach bitters go at $4; porter and Vino Vermouth at $2.25. Apollinaris, quarts, we sell for $5 per gross, and pints at $3.25. A gallon demijohn is only worth 20 cents, but larger beer bottles with the patent stoppers bring $8 per gross. Root beer bottles sell for $6, while ginger ales only fetch $1.50. We sell Ilathorn, Congress and Geyser bottles back to the mineral spring men in Saratoga for 30 ccnts per dozen. Most of the small bottles are bought by catsup and table sauce makers. We don't buy medicine bottles. We sell very little stock to medicine men. "You know a ehampagne cork has a sound head and is turned from the bark. It is not cut out as straight corks arc made. When it pops from the bottle the head is cut up by the string and the cork looks like a mushroom. Wo. mifc t.liom all in a big kettle of boiling water and swell them. Then they're as good as new. Ordinary sound corks sell for twenty-five cents per gross, but corks from champagne bottles, made with more labor, bring $2.50. We have handled enough corks in the past twenty-five years to float the Great Eastern."?New York Sun. Newspaper and Orator. Compare the orator, one of the noblest vehicles for the diffusion of thought, with the newspaper, and you may gain a faint glimpse of the ubiquitous powers of the latter. The orator speaks to but a few hundred, the newspaper addresses millions; the words of the orator may die in the air, the language of the newspaper is stamped on tables imperishable as marble; arguments of the orator may follow each other so rapidly that the majority of the audience may struggle in a net work of ratiocination, the reasoning of the newspaper may be scanned at leisure without a fear of perplexity; the passion of the orator influences an assembly, the feeling of a newspaper electriiics a continent; the orator is for an edifice, the newspaper for the world?the one shines for an hour, the other glows for all time; the orator may be compared to lightning, which -flashes over a valley for ?, moment, but leaves it again in darkness, the newspaper to a sun blazing steadily over the whole earth, and fixed on the basis of its own eternity. Printing has been happHy defined the art that preserves all arts. It catches up his (lying words and breathes into them the breath of life. It is the gallery through which tho orator thunders in the ears of ages. He leans from . tho tomb over the cradle of the rising generations. Hnwk and Cat. A huge California hawk swooped down on a sleeping cat at Santa Rosa the othe? day, and bore it squalling and scratching high in the air. When about 500 foot high the hawk lost its grip, and the cat came down with fearful velocity, but tho hawk caught it again just before it struck the earth, and was carrvinor it off. ' W O ? when euddeniy both fell like lead to the ground. The cAt had bitten through the hawk's head, killing it instantly, and the fall killed the cat. *-J *,v ' ' . v , . .,! ;v , , .V-'* ' ? i&c- ' * . Vl" ' " ' ' : i >v . . A GOAT FARM. A. "Woman's Venture which ' has Proved Profitable. t Baising Angora Goats and Selling Their t Wool at One Dollar a Pound. A Nyack, (N. Y.,) letter to the New * York Times, says: Three miles from ^ this village, near the Hudson River, is an Angora goat farm, which from its nov( 1ty attructs much attention hereabout. 1 It is looked ui>on as something in the na- C ture of a farmer's freak, like the raising \ of bees or silkworms. Goats browse and goats prosper on this farm on the heights 1 that border Rockland Lake as readily as * they do on the rocks about Shautytown, k in New-York City. But they are a differ- ' ent breed of goats, more aristocratic than * their city relatives as to wool, more epic- * urcan in their tastes, anu more blue- 1 1 { blooded as to ancestry. The herd in this somewhat novel farm just iww num- j bers 75, varying in age from the tiny object of three months which looks like a cross between a dos?, a rabbit, and a 1 lady's powder puff, to the handsome patriarch of the flock, a magnificent specimen of the pure Augora breed, with immense curlimj horns. This handsome old 1 fellow with his wife were imported by 1 Dr. Agnew, the famous oculist of NewYork, from Asia Minor, and the importation cost him a heap of money as the price of goats goes. Their present owner is the crood woman who now runs this ( goat farm, and who never tires of dis- , canting on the good qualities of her pets. They know her voice, and answer to their names when she calls them. Kind and gentle they appear when visitors are . about, but the fondness for fighting, as characteristic of goats as it is of a native of Tipperary, crops out when the herd is together and apparently out of sight of mnnKind. A strange fact noticed in the breeding of these animals is that the females do not thrive in this locality as well as the male. The hardy female goat of the ordinary species was introduced into this fiock for experimental breeding purposes. ? - 'I and with marked success. Repeated t crossing with the common goat and her offspring has produced apparently pure Angora goats, the tendency being in all cases lor the kids to revert in the texture , of their wool toward the male side. As . a consequence the third generation has all the appearance of its distinguished an- ' cestry, and in the fourth generation even the best experts cannot tell the pure bloedcd from the grade Angora. This , fact is a matter of considerable interest to breeders of goats, as an Angora buck cost $100 or over, while the conunco goat can be had almost for the asking. The fecundity of the Angora is not so i great as that of the common goat, the , Angora ewe giving birth to but one kid yearly. ^ 1 As a source of profit the goats have i turned out well. The wool is from four to six inches in length, silky, and of , beautiful texture. A full grown animal , will yield four pounds of wool, which . will readily sell at ?1 per pound. Just i now the demand for this wool is not par- , ticularly lively, as the lustrous dress of fabric into which it was at one time largely converted is out of vogue with fashionable ladies. It is therefore used almost exclusively in the manufacture of plusli for upholstery purposes. When the kid is G months old its hide, undressed, is worth $3, and will sell readily for that amount to glove manufacturers. Kids on the farm in question meet with sudden death on that account at about that age with considerable regularity. When it is necessary to kill them tlxe good lady has them cliloroformcd so that she may not hear the death cries of her little nets. Thn milk- nf tlm 5q J ? """ fa""" *" ? much sought after by dyspeptics, by persons suffering from pulmonary troubles, and by otherwise delicate persons, and it brings a much greater price than cows' milk. As to their use for food little can be said, because the goat does not flesh up well, but the kid, when killed young, furnishes a fair amount of tender meat which some people like. It will never become a great delicacy in the market, or be in sufficient demand to bqcomo a j boutco of income to the goat raiser. , There is nothing in the world so cheap to ^ raise as goats, because they will find ample food in lots up here where other animals would starve to death. Acorns are a favorite article of food with them, and , as these abound in the woods the cost for Winter fodder is mainly confined to the , trouble of gathering the acorns. . What For. , Mr. Doline was always lending money 1 to impecunious friends and his wife was forever quarreling about it. She heard 1 yesterday of his latest misdemeanor in j this direction and she called him up. ] "Have you been loaning money to that i -*,,^.*1,1 T?* Oi. on -A- - - :?J nviuticoa uuo OLUiiiM 8IJU luijuircu IIUIIJF. j "Yes, my dear," ho answered meekly, l "Oh you have, have you? well how i much was it?" ] "Ten dollars, love." i "Goodness gracious," she said, "what | did you lend him $10 for?" > "Don't mention it, dear," he respond- ' ed in a most deferential tone, "but I 1 loaned it to him for two weeks." I The shock prostrated Mrs. D. in a fit i of speechlessness.?-Merchant- Traveler. Hiding Valuables. Speaking of silver, says M. G. McCleland in the Chicago Times, reminds me >f u little story I heard a Richmond lady ell my mother some time after the capurc. She had a quantity of valuables md stowed them about in every conceivible place for safety. Among other lungs she had a huge solid silver lirenan's trumpet, which had been presented ;o her husband by the volunteer lire jrigade of Richmond many years before n recognition of his service as their hief. This trumpet was forgotten ir. lie general hiding of valuables, and tha Yankees were fairly iu sight when she liscovered it resting ostentatiously in the niddlc of the center-table in the parlor. 5he was loath to lose it, knowing that ' ler husband valued it greatly, but where .0 stow away the big thing she could not hink. At last she took it out to an old logro man who was very much attached .0 her husband, explaining her dilemma, tnd told him to take the thing away and lide it. Long before the end of the hrec days she gave the trumpet up for ost, as the soldiers, not being hurried, joked about iu every hole and cranny with a prcsevcrance and fertility of resource worthy of a better cause. But tho lay after they departed the old negro presented himself at the house with smiles ju his countenancc and the trumpet liuler llis JlVm On linimr nimu+inrwirl lir. ? ??? explained that he had "toted de horn lown de hill an* jammed it up iu one ole idler log what was sorter layin' in de :reek, an' too soggy fur to make fire." [fe had stuffed up the opening in the end with wet leaves, and calmly watched the soldiers sitting on the log by the hour at i time without the faintest suspicion of its silver heart. Killing' a Giraffo. The noble animal stood at bay pawing ind stamping the ground, his long neck swaying to and fro; several more shots tvere fired at him, causing him to strike lesperatcly with his fore feet a blow which would knock a horse down. Dismounting, I ran to get a nearer view. There was despair in his large drooping jrowu eyes, and a look which seemed to ;ay, "What harm have I ever done you?" [t seemed a shame that no one gave him a joup de grace, and put him out of his igony. Turning to one of the men I said, "Shoot liim in the head, and put an end :o his pain." But he answered me by rasping my arm and pulling me to one side, shouting, "Look out, or he will be >n you." Looking up I saw the crazy creature swiuging his head about, hi9 ong neck putting me in mind of anmaconda, as it fairly whirled through \ the air, forming wide circles as he made lesperate plunges to keep his body ui^ ler his neck; pitching forward, he fell Vn lis head and shoulders, and rolled with a thud that shook the ground. ^ vas a "zwart bont" (black-spotted; the -S variety usually seen in zoological collections; the white-spotted ones are longer ind finer made, and have never been jrought to Europe, and arc never so leavv). He measured from the root oi ;hc tail to the shoulder G feet 1 inch, and 'rom the shoulder to the tip of the nose 10 feet 7 1-2 inchcs.?J^ondon Graphic. Short History of Candles. Cnixllcsticks are mentioned in the Bible, but there seems to be no doubt ;hat these were lumps for burning olive )il rather than supports for which ure iow called candles. The candles used jy the Greeks and Romans were rude :orches made by dipping strings of papy*us or rushes into pitch, and afterward joating them with wax. In Europe this laudle was in use during the middle ages, the wick being of twisted tow. Often these were very large and heavy. Among :lie poorer classes candles were made by soaking splints of wood in fat or oil. The use of these wood splints is mentioned in English history about the beginning of the fourteenth century. Wax handles were also m:ule durirw this mn tury, but they were expensive and dcem2d a great luxury. Soon after this ? lipped candle made from tallow was introduced. A company for making wax ?andles was incorporated in London in 1484. Mold candles are said to be the invention of the Sieur Le Brcz, of Pari*. Spermaceti candles are of modern manufacture.? Chicago Inter- Occaix. Goats as Animal Doctors. It is a curious fact tha t. nreiudiced aa ' 1 ? " we seem to be Against the useful goat, in Bpite of all its really admirable properties, it has been from very early times popular in this country, on account of a virtue which is purely fictitious and fanciful. Antiquity has bequeathed to us the legend that goats were exceptionally wise in the matter of wholesome herbs, that they were, in fact, the herbalists imong quadrupeds and "cunning in simples." Out of this grew the idea that they were virtually physicians, that their presence among domcstio animals waa acncncini, ana tbat their odor, though unpleasant to man, was wholesome to liorees, cows, pig3, sheep, and the farmyard generally. For this reason one single goat was often kept, and farmyards may still be found where "Betty" ox "Nanny" lives at its ease, and is maintained, not for any real use it is put to, >ut in deference, perhaps quite unknowngly, to an almost obsolete superstition. ?London Telegraph. xr t*'> i<?tivi:4L >