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Life and Lore* Ah, Love! thou art the azure skjb And Life a summer cloud. Which blends with thee io raptus, Within thy lovelight bowed. And Life is hke the ripples Which spread, across the lake; Lewe is the depth beneath them O'er which the ripples break. Love is one long mellow breeze On which light Life doth float? Love?ah* yes, it is the oar, And Life, it is the boat. ?[Boston Transcript IS SPITE OF HIMSELF. BY HELEN EOKKEST GRAVES. "Matti?! Matti?! did you take that huckleberry pie out of the oven? . "Yes, Aunt Ann." ?Ani the cup custards?you didn't forget the cup custards ?" "They're all right, Aunt Ann.*' "Matty!'* in au accent one degree shriller than usual. "Yes! What is it?** "There's a tramp coming up the back garden path. Send him about his business." "Yes, Aunt Ann." Matty Vernor went valiantly to the back door, prepared to do battle, glancing this way and that as she did so, to make sure that there was plenty of boiling water on the stove, aud that the broom was handy, iu case of need. "Well,'* said Matty to herself, eye ing the mass of rags on the doorstep, "yon are a tramp. Nobody could possibly mistake you for anything* else. What do you want?" she added aloud. ' Could you spare me an old shirt, young lady? or a suit of clothes? Tin in great need?" "That's what you all say !" crisply interrupted Matty. "I'm sure I don't know where yon get all your rags and tatters from. "Your*e just from an hospital, I suppose. That's the ' "next chapter." Bat even as she spoke her woman ly heart melted within her at the sight of the tired, pale face, the wretched garb. "No," said he, with a sigh, "I'm not from the hospital" He was turning away, when she recalled him. "Wait a minute," said she. "I'll go see what I can find." Bolting the door unceremoniously in his face, she went to a store-room opening ont of the unused best par lor. "I don't care!" said Matty, arguing with herself with a certain fierce im patience. "Uncle Job's things have lain here, of no use to anybody, since he died. That poor fellow may as well have them, I suppose." She came back presently with a compact little bundle under her arm. "There," said she, flinging it out of the window, "take it and begone! For," she added to herself, "if Aunt Ann should find out I'd been giving away any of Oncle Job's old traps Why, goodness me! he's eaten up the j huckleberry pie and the three cup cus. , tards that I left to cool on the buttery 5 window-ledge! Here, give me back - those clothes! You shan't have so , much as a rag! You don't deserve ( them!" She had unbolted the door as she spoke, and, with a quic light move- 1 ment, caught np the bundle before the ( stanger could possess himself of it. "I'm very sorry," he said, peni tently, "but 1 was desperately hungry , and I didn't stop to consider." "Didn't stop to consider?" indig- , nan ti y repeated Matty. "No, I ? should think not. You are a thief ! Do you hear that? Not only a vaga bond, but a thief ! And I should think a great able-bodied scamp like you would be ashamed to go begging and stealing around the country. There!" Thus terminating her lecture with a very expressive outburst, Matty once more shut the door in the poor, tired face, and resumed her occupation of ironing out Aunt Ann's Sunday lace cap. "Matty! Matty!" called out the old woman from above stairs, where she was turning over the contents of a big eedarwood chest. "Yes, Aunt Ann !" "Did you send the fellow pack ing?" "Yes, I did." "That's right ? that's right!" chuckled Aunt Ann. ?'These stroll ing beggars are getting to be a perlect nuisance hereabouts." But as Matty fluted the borders of lace with a quick, efficient hand, thinking the while what she should do replace the missing pie iu time for Aunt Ann's dinner, a softer mood came over her. "Poor wretch!" she murmured to herself. "Perhaps he was hungry. He certainly did look pale and tired, and his rag* were dreadfuL I wish I hadn't snatched those clothes back. It wasn't real nice and ladylike of me, now I come to think of it I wish?" All of a sudden, Matty Vernor made up her mind as she bung Aunt Ann's lace cap on the nail by the window. She set her rosy lips together; her eyes glistening determination. Down through the golden gleam of the ripening rye field went a little curving path cio>e to the stone wall, crossing the brook on a narrow plank, and often losing itself in a wooded copse, joined the main road close to a peaceful, willow-shaded graveyard. Here ten minutes afterward, Matty Vernor came upon the tired tramp eitnng on the stoue wall "Oh, here you are!" said she. '?! thought I should overtake yon if 1 took the short-cut. I've brought you a tin of coffee and some sandwiches and a piece of home-baked ginger bread. m sorry I spoke so cross to yon; but, you see, I was vexed to see r^^ifllfr pie gone, ftgd the cap ces iarde, too. Aud Here aie the clothe*. Pm afraid you need them very much, "Thank you," said the man, deject edly. ? ?Ton see, I haven't always?99 <Oh, never mind all that," inter rupted Maity, "imperiously. "I know about 'having seen better days,' and that sort of^thiug. But. you really ought to be a little-more particular about the truth." Unconsciously Matty had fallen into the air that she adopted when she was haranguing her Sunday-school class. Her bright eyes sparkled ; she emphasized each point by tapping her foot on the giound and lifting her berry-stained forefinger in the air. "Yes, but?" ' Yon should go to work," said the girl. "You can't expect always to tramp about the country. It will end, sooner or later, in the county jail, aud j you are too smart-looking a man to bring up like that." The man, eating his bread and meat and drinking his coffee, listened meek ly until she stopped for sheer lack of breath. "Yes," said he, with a sigh. "But, you see, I'm not a tramp. Oh, I know appearance? are against me!" as Matty's glance reverted to his wretched tatters; "but I really am not a tramp. You see?" The sound of approaching wagon wheels startled the girl. '. Oh, I dare say !" said she. "Bnt I really can't stay any longer talking. I must get back. Here's a quarter for you. Mind you don't spend it for beer." And flinging the coin towards him ?it missed its aim and rolled to the foot of old Deacon Jobley's grave stone, whence the man rescued it with prompt dispatch?she vanished back into the wood-path aud was seen no more. Half an hour later, Squire Somer set, examining a pile of law papers in his office, was startled by the sudden appearance of a tall figure in his door way. "Nothing for you, my man?go along!" said he curtly, without look ing up. "That's always the way!" sighed a resigned voice. "It's ?Move on!' wherever I go. But Fve ?moved on' ?ust about far enough, old man!" And he perched himself composedly ->n the office desk. The squire stared. ??The voice," said he, ??is the voice of Frank Atherton, aud the counte nance also beareth witness thereto! But the faded corduroys and the vei re tee u coat are the coat and corduroys af old Job Vernor, who died two rears aga Old fellow" (clasping liim cordially by both bauds) ??you're welcome! Where on earth did you irop from? For?not to disguise the truth?I honestly did take you for a Lramp !" "I meant to give you a surprise," said Mr. Atherton, still in the same ac cent of melancholy composure. "And I've every reason to think that I have succeeded. I left Wyndale to walk into Glen's Falls, and a mile or so be low here the river meandering through the woods looked so enticing that I Featured on a bath, ?ost at sunrise. Unfortunately, however. I was not the earliest bird going. Some deep dyed villain, while I was di sporti ug myself in the lucid element, stole my clothes leaving a mass of dirty rags behind. Then I was a tramp, in spite of myself, and snch a lecture I got from a pretty maiden at a farmhouse on the road! However, she gave me something to eat, between her pieces of advice, also this wardrobe, aud when the express delivers my truuk, I shall be all right?Richard will be himself agaiu !" "She gave you those clothes?" ?'Sue did." "Then," said Squire Somerset, slap ping the table until the legal docu ments flew in all directions over the floor' "you've been lectured by Matty Vernor, the prettiest girl in town? old Job's niece, and the owner of a pair of superb black eyes and the best farm iu Warren County!" "Yes," mournfully acceded Ather ton. "She told me that I ought to go to work, and then threatened me with the county jail, and finally?bless her dear little heart!?ended up by giviug me?this!" He produced from the pocket of Uncle Job Vernor s trowsers a silver quarter. The squire grinned broadly. *'Here comes the express delivery now with your box," said he. "Aud a good thing for yon, Atherton, for my wife is going to have a tennis par ty here this afternoon, and Matty Vernor is the champion player. You cau handle a racquet, cau't you, old man ?" "Rathei," said Mr. Atherton. Matty Vernor came to the tennis party in pale pink albatross cloth, cut after a semi-masculine fashion that was eminently calculated to drive any one mud. But when Mrs. Somerset presented her to Mr. Atherton from New York, she changed color and started a little. <*Yes," said Mr. Atherton, in his gentle, mournful way, "you're right It's the same person. Huckleberry pie, you know?cup custards." "But?" hesitated Matty, in a be wildered manner. ?*You see, you wouldn't allow me to explain," reasoned he. "You were determined I should be a tramp. I couldn't get any innings then, but uow's my time. Pleaso may 1 make an unprejudiced statement?" Matty listened to his explanation, coloring like a rose. She would like to have run away, but she had not sufficient moral cour age to do so. "And I gave you Uncle Job's old clothes," said she wringing her hands iu despair. "You never can know how accept ??And some bread-and-beef saud WichesI" ?Ambrosia and nectar couldn't have tasted better. And the cap-custards? don't forget the cup-custards aud the huckleberry-pie. I was so indescrib ably hungry, Miss Vernor." "And the quarter of a dollar?my last quarter I You'll give me back that quarter, Mr. Atherton?" said ! Matty, with a spice of her old rais j chief. ?'Never!" said Atherton. ??r?lpart with that silver coin only with my I life." Matty dropped her head. <?How I did lecture you!" said she. I "How insolent I must have ap peared !"' "Not iu the least," said Atherton. ? Your advice was exactly suited to the occasion, if only I had been a tramp. But I wasn't." ""We are waiting to play, Maltyl" cried Mrs. Somerset. ?'Corne on, Atherton!" bawled his host. "Do you mean to keep us wait ing all day?" . .. ."Please," whispered Matty, catch ing up her racquet, "will you forgive me?" "A thousand times over!" Atherton answered. "George," said Mrs. Somerset that night, when Matty Vernor was gone and Atherton had bidden them good night, "our guest and dear little Matty seemed very much taken with each other. He's rich, and ought to have a wife, and Matty is such a darling! Only suppose they should fall in love!" "I wonder," said Mr. Somerset, solemnly, "if the woman ever was born who wasn't a thorough-going matchmaker.?[Saturday Night." Gunning for Butterflies. All, no doubt, are familiar with the usual methods and paraphernalia wherewith butterflies are now cap tured and preserved; the man with the gauze net, poison bottle, cork lined box, folded paper envelopes, wire pins and sundries ad libitum, long ago ceased to be a cariosity in civilized lands. But there are some unusual methods and implements, a description of which will be . likely to prove of in* terest. Prominent among them is gunning for butterflies, an expedient that is most useful where tropic vegetation induces high flight, and renders by means of its density all chance of pursuit impossible. For this a small bore guu or rifle is best, and dust shot such as is used by humming bird hunters on the Amazon, or a water load is best- Any shot coarser than dust-shot will prove too heavy and will ruin the specimen for sale by tearing the wings. A gun that will ecatter the dust widely should be selected, and even then a few shot bunched may tear off a head or au ab domen and ruin the prize. My own preference is for a rifle firing a 32-calibre, long cartridge, loaded with water. These cartridges can be obtained with an extra heavy charge of powder and without the ball in them. Before loading they should be smeared inside with melted parafino applied with a camels'hair brush ; this prevents the water load from moistening the powder. But even with this precaution it is best to load only so many shells as are likely to bo used during the day, and the water should be emptied from those that aro left over at night. After filling the shell with water up to within a thirty-second of an inch from the rim, a tight-fitting, oiled wad can be forced down and a light coat of paraffiue be applied on top with the brush, I have tried wa ter thickened with starch, with gum arabic, and with gum tragacanth, but I have never been able to eee that anything has been gained by thus ren dering the charge somewhat more self adherent. The water load is much more sure to bring your prize "to grass," and is not nearly so liable to tear and denude the wings. The dust shot will often cause a large specimen to deflect ils course, and by unmistak able signs fehow that it has been hit, vet will not bring it down. ? [Gold thwaite's Geographical Magazine. What is a Wife I The pretty school teacher, for a lit tle divertisemeut, had asked her class for the best original definition of "wife," and the boy iu the corner had promptly responded, "a rib." She looked at him reproachfully, and nodded to the boy with dreamy eyes, who seemed anxious to say something. <*Man's guiding star and guardian angel," he stud in response to the nod. ??A helpmeet," put in a little flaxen haired girl. "One who soothes man in adver sity." suggested a demure little girl. "And spends his monoy when he's flush," added the incorrigible boy in the corner. There was a lull, and tbe pretty, dark-eyed girl said slowly: ?;A wife is the envy of spinsters." *'Oue who makes a man hustle," was the next suggestion. "And keeps him from making a fool of himself," put iu another girl. "Some one for a man to find fault with when things go wrong," said a sorrowful little maiden. "Stop right there," said the pretty ?chool teacher. "That's the best defi nition." Later the sorrowful little maiden sidled up to her aud asked: "Aren't you going to marry that handsome man who calls for you nearly every day?" "Yes, dear," she replied, "but with us nothing will ever go wrong. He says so himself."?[Pioneer Press. Death Valley iu California is the ORIENTAL SHOPS. Curious Pictures of Life in the Bazars of Cairo. A Confusion of Articles Use ful and Ornamental, The appearance of Oriental shops is well known. A square cavity hol lowed out of a wall two feet above the ground, that is a shop at Cairo. Strictly speaking, it is nothing more than a large rectangular niche open ing on to the street, with no way out either at the back or the sides, in which, instead of a statue, is a mer chant squatting amongst his wares, or a workman at his task. These shops, instead of being scattered about in different streets, as in Europe, are all together at certain corners; and when the corners are roofed in, they become a bazar. For there is uot at Cairo & special structure for protecting these shops, as there is at Constantinople or at Tunis. All these shops make curious pict ures. There behind a mass of pots and pans, dishes and plates of red and yellow copper?some black and rusty with age, others spick aud span with newness, with here and there gleams of the red or straw-colored gold so dear to painters of still-life subjects? an Arab is busy at repouese-work, his hammering making a deafening noise which is heard afar off. Egyptian metal work is very fiue, with a dignity all its own. and the common ewer in use amongst the poorest is of really extraordinary heauty of style. Further on we come to a collection of red, black, or gray earthen-ware; cheap stoves, pipes, and vases, en graved with ornaments iu intaglio, painted blue or red. This common Egyptian pottery disdained, I know not why, by dealers in Oriental ware, is extremely interesting. Its shape is often grand, and the forms found in Egyptian tombs have been preserved. Next, gleaming like a border of jon quils and poppies with its masses of red and yellow, is a shoe-shop, a regular flower bed for color. And in the midst of a confusion of Turkish slippers in scarlet or saffron leather crouches the cobbler stitching away or drilling holes with his awl. .The bazar, par excellence, is broken up iu au extraordinary manner. Fan cy an alley so short that it is barely two hundred paces long ; so twisted that you can only see a scrap of it at a time; so narrow that the houses seem to be scowling at and ready to fall upon their opposite neighbors; and beneath the dull-hued lean-to walls, in every nook and corner, are shops full of dazziing objects; many colored Oriental staffs, figured bro cades, dainty Arab jewelry, gleaming daggers and sabres, ancient damas cened helmets, silver wine bottles, spread out or piled up for sale. And amidst this confusion of stuffs, weapons, and jewels in glass cases, or of unfolded silks, is the merchant, squatting in the shadow aud smoking with absolute indifference, his dreamy eyes gazing forth in a kind of ecstacy of melancholy, whilst be fore him, in the transparent bowl of his nargilcn, at each breath he draws, floats a regular flotilla of rose leaves, dancing, whirling round, and suffer ing shipwreck amongst the big bub bles on the surface. These shrewd old merchants really look like poets lost iu the third heaven of blissful contemplation. Immediately after sunset the life and motion of Cairo cease, aud it is arare thing to meet a native returning home on a dark night with a white paper lantern in his hand, or to see an Arab cafe still lit up, and with the candles hung up round the door, making a brightness in the deserted street. ? [Harper's Bazar. Valuable Moss, The valuable moss of Florida, says Harry Bomford, abounds in the ham mocks and back lands. It is gathered chiefly by-colored men. In its natural state it hangs in festoons from the trees in strands from one to five feet in length. The moss is gathered by pulling it from the trees with long poles, or by cutting the trees down aud then removing it. The moss is buried in the earth for about a month, after which it is dug up and is dried and shaken and sold to the local moss dealers for $1 per hundred pounds. It is then run through a machine called a gin, which is nothing more than a cylinder covered with three inch spikes revolving between a roll of 6imilar stationary spikes. The action of these spikes is to knock out some of the dirt and trash, but it does not complete the job. It is then shaken over a r:>.ck formed of parallel bars, afrer which it is pressed into bales of about 200 pounds each. Some of the moss works do all this work by hand, except the ginning. The moss, after having gone through the above pro cess, brings from $2.50 to ?3 per hundred pounds. If, instead of allowing it to remain iu the earth for one month, it is left there for three months, the entire bark of the moss is pulled off and there remains a beautiful black ?ber almost exactly like hair. The hair moss brings from $5 to $7 per hun dred pound?. . Bomford suggests the treat ment of this moss as a good field for invention. He thinks a machine could be made which would take off the bark, leaving the liber, without the necessity of burying the moss for so long a time in the earth.?[Scientific American. Tools Used in the Pyramids. During a residence of two years in a tomb at Gizeh Wilhoim M. Flinders the tools used in working stone 400 years ago were made with the jewelled cutting edges, as in the modern cus tom. He baa stated his reasons for coming to these conclusions, and proves in a very satisfactory manner that the pyramid builders used solid and tubular drills, straight and circu lar saws and many other supposed modern toote in erecting that greatest of buildings. He also shows that their lathe tools were eet with jewels, and that they did work wiih them that would puzzle the modern artisan. In one place he found where the lines of cuttiug ou a granite core made by a tubular drill form a uniform depth throughout, showing that the cutting point was not worn as the work ad vanced. The regular taper of the core would also go to prove that the drill was set with jewels on the inside and on the outside alike, thereby facilitating its removal. In some specimens of granite he found that the drill had sunk one-tenth of an inch at each re volution, the pressure necessary to accomplish this have been at least two tons. The capacity of the tools and the skill of the workmen are illustra ted by the clean cut they made through soft and hard materials alike, there being no difference iu the width of the groove wheu it passes through soft sandstone aud granite hard as iron. Nothing is known concerning the material of which their tools were made nor how the jewels were set. The diamond was very ecarce at that time, therefore the only logical con clusion is that they used corundum.? [Chicago Times. Higher Council of Labor. A British consular report gives an account of the new "Higher Council of Labor" which has come into exist ence in Belgium. The object of the new body is to form a permanent centre for the local councils of indus try and labor, and to act as the inter mediary between them and the Gov ernment; it will also advise the au thorities in regard to labor legislation and labor questions generally. It is composed of 48 members, 16 repre senting employers and 16 workmen, while the remaining 16 are selected for special knowledge of economic questions, all being, in the first in stance, nominated by the Crown. They are appointed for four years, after which time it is hoped that the organization of the local labor coun cils will have improved so as to be capable of electing the representatives of the employers and workmen. The members during sessions are to re ceive $1.20 a day and traveling ex penses. The first subjects for discus sion are the application of the law of 1889, regnlating the work of women aud children, apprenticeships, techni cal education, insurance against acci dents, etc. The names of the first members have been published by royal decree, but it appears that the Socialists among the workmen are not satisfied because they think that the clerical element is unduly represented. Another Socialist has resigned because his party, which is in a majority in the local, is in a minority in the higher councils. Further trouble from this source is inevitable. Restoring Breath in Desperate Cases. Anybody may be called upon to af ford assistance to drowned persons while the doctor is being tent for, and Professor Laborde's simple method for restoring breath when all other means have failed deserves to be uni versally known. The other day at a watering place in Norraaudy two bathers, a young man and a boy, who were unable to swim, went out of their depth and disappeared. They were brought on shore inanimate aud were taken to the village. Two doctore were sent for, but the young men gave no sign of life, and they were declared dead. . Laborde, who was fishing at half an hour's distance, came up as soon as he heard of the accident. He examined the body and found that the extremities were cold and the heart had stopped. Then taking hold of the root of the tongue he drew it vio lently forward, giving it a succession of jerks in order to excite the reflex action of the breathing apparatus, which is always extremely sensitive, says the London News. At the end of a few minutes a slight hiccough showed that the patient was saved. In addition to the usual restorative means, Professor Laborde in extreme cases rubs the chest with towels soaked in nearly boiling water. Some Spanish Practices. The Spanish shepherds practiced marking their lambs by branding the uose with a hot iron. Shearing time came in May. One hundred and fifty men were employed to shear 1000 sheep; each man was expected to shear eight per day; but if rains, only five. The sheep stood on their feet while being sheared. For a time after shearing they were care fully housed from storms and the chilling air of the nigh The flocks were not permitted to cat the grass while the dew was on it, nor were they suffered to drink out of brook or of standing water wherein hail had fallen, experience having taught them that on such occasions they are iu danger of losing them all. ?[Ameri can Farmer. The Father Improving. Mother?Have you heard how Mr. Spanker is this morning?" Small Son?Oh, he's all right He's getting- well fast." "Who told you?'1 "No one." "Then how do you know?" "His little boys has begun to hear w'en their mother calls."?[Good News-_? ' A FEATHERY CROP. Plucking of Ostriches on a Farm in California. Stripping Valuable Plumes From the Big Birds. The invitation of "Biddy, Biddy, come Bid," and haudfuls of yellow corn scattered over the brown sand at the Coronado ostrich farm one after noon, brought the eleven full grown birde into a feaihery mass before E. P. Waters and his colsred assistant. A group of curious people banked the low railing along the west reserve of the grounds. It was the second pluck ing this season, but of a generally fresh lot of birds from the American Ostrich Company's parent farm at Fail brook, as intervals of eight months must separate the pi tickings. Superintendent Waters was in his shirt sleeves, and a limp flour sack dangled from his rear left pocket. It required, some time to counteract the 6u?picion that would flare up in a fringe of shaky necks, until the re assuring gaze and the soothing voice of the feeder caused them to drop in security to the temptation in the sand. Suddenly there was a wild stam pede, and the neck of a gray female that Waters had bent to seize wa* hooded in the sack, an opening, for breathing admitting several inches o? her bill Between the men this strangely subdued creature was guided into an open-end stall. Apparently, the ostrich, with its fore-and-aft eye sweep, feels its helplessness when blinded. There was no resistance, as the powerful pronged toe could not get a back hit at the plucker. The assistant stood behind as guard, while Waters pulled, snapped aud answered questions from the inquisitors. They learned that in each wing, over the protectors or floss feathers, there grow to maturity iu eight months tweuty-sixlong, white plumes. In the black male these are pure white, but the female adds slight shadings of ecru or gray. The sweep of short feathers above this splendid fan of white is plucked for tips, and each wing furnishes seventy-five of these. The tail fe-tthere are toned into a deep old ivory, and sixty-five of these are of commercial use. Scis sors were used only to clip the long white plumes, as thi.? must be done a month or more before maturity to pre vent the ends being whipped out The quills are then pulled when ripe. Nearly 300 feathers were secured from Biddy, which will have a mar ket value of $65 after being curled and dressed. The female averages seventy eggs in a year, and nowadays these are all incubated at Fal brook, where alfalfa pastures await the y oung ones. Green teed at Coronado for the eleven costs, on a daily average, sixty cents. None of these birds are over three years of age, and all are native sons and daughters. The youngest male, a eplendid, curly-coated fellow, is but sixteen months old, and this secoud plucking in his experience was cer tainly anticipated. He fought, kicked and crouched through the process, but Mr. Ward secured from him the fin est plumes of the pick. A second fe male was denuded, and the remainder were left unmolested for a third plucking soon.?[Sau Diego (Cal.) Sun. How to Go to Sleep. Scientific investigators assert that in beginning to sleep the senses do not fenitedly fall into slumber, but drop off one after another. The sight ceases in consequence of the protec tion of the eyelids to receive impres sions first, while all the other senses preserve their sensibility entire. The sense of taste is the next which loses its susceptibility to impression, and then the sense of smelling. The hearing is next iu order, and last of all comes the sense of touch. Fur thermore, the senses are brought to sleep with different degrees of pro foundness. The senso of touch sleeps the most lightly and is the most easily awakened; the next easiest is the hearing, the next is the sight aud the taste and the smelling awake last. Another remarkable circumstance de serves notice; certain muscles and parts of the body begin to sleep before others. Sleep commences at the extremities, beginning with the feet and legs aud creeping toward the center of the nervous action. The necessity of keeping the feet warm and perfectly still as a pre liminary of sleep is well known. From these explanations it will not appear surprising that there should be an imperfect kind of mental action which produces the phenomena of dreaming.?[American Analyst. Cheaper Than a Tallow Dip. A fish dealer in the California mar ket had on his slab the other day two specimens of fish not frequently seen in our markets, but plently from Van couver Islaud, northward, says the San Francisco Bulletin. In plain com mercial language it is known as the candle fish. Technically the name is Thaleichthys Pacificus. The specimen shown measured a foot in length, and has somewhat the appearance of an eel, except the head, which is pointed and conical. It has a large mouth. The Indians of Vancouver Island and vicinity use the iish both for food and light. It is the fattest of all fishes. When the Indians want a light they put a wick through a fish and burn it ae if it were a tallow dip. The first society for the exclusive purpose of circulating the Bible was organized iu 1805, under the name of of the British aud Foreign Bible So LADIES' DEPARTMENT. FLAUNTING FEATHERS. Ostrich feathers, almost every ? ?? cies of bird and of birds' wings, are the trimmings par excellence?ostrich plumes distancing the smaller tips iu popularity. As a result the disposi tion of hat trimmings is somewhat lower than heretofore and they are spread more evenly over the crown With a tendency to mass near the front. The fore aud aft structure h a thing of the past, likewise the iso lated loop of ribbon rising to an ex treme altitude in some particular spot. The use of peacock feathers and a duplication of their colors in manu factured wings, aigrettes, etc., is very noticeable in trimmings.?[New York Sun. VEILS WORN WITH COMFORT. It is not everyone who likes the present fashion of wearing the veil under the hat. It is apt to press the hidr down upon the forehead so very tightly that the effect is anything but pretty. For those who wish to avoid this and yet cannot afford to go with out a veil even if they wear a big hat, because their hair so soon gets blown about, is recommended a veil cut on the cross. Of course, it can only be made out of wide tulle or net, and it cuts rather to waste; but that is far preferable to wearing a veil which continually slips over the brim of your hat and leaves a big and most unbecoming ventilation hole some where about your forehead and eyes. ?[New York World VELVET A SUBSTITUTE FOR FURS On account of the scarcity of seal skins, it is predicted that during the coming winter, velyet cloaks heavily trimmed with rich passementeries, are to be revived for handsome garments. Mink?after one or two season's ex periments?has been unable to take its old rank as a fashionable fur, aud Sable of the Russian variety is out of the question for everybody except the "protectionists" and their friends, the millionaires. So common folk, who want something nice at a moderate price, must look around and do the best they can. "Well, it must be ad mitted that a pretty black velvet cloak is not a bad thing. Tc is monstrously becoming, and handsomely lined and quilted is mighty comfortable withal. Think of it, my sisters. Over in Lon don an excellent seal-skin coat may be bought for $75, here in New York, we have to pay at least $200 more for a garment of equally good quality,? [New York News. BEAUTIFUL LACES. This year beautiful laces are being imported in bell-shaped skirts for weddiug and ball gowns. For a bride nothing could well be lovelier than the exqnisite poi ut api pique training skirts and the price is only $160. The bell skirts come also in dainty Chantilly lace. Of course, the veils come to match. A great deal of lace is to be used this year, aud real laces are in unusual demand, being used for the most part in narrow widths. Black thread lace and black Chantilly are to be much iu ? gue as we'll as the heavier laces. Among the new laces is the "Pointe de Paris guipure," a silk and cotton lace that comes iu ecrn and white. It is made of fine silk cork on a cotton mesh. Irish lace with net top is dainty for evening dresses. These come as insertiugs as well as for flouncing9. Black Milanese lace for flounces has a curious square mesh and is very effective. Black Spanish hand-run scarfs arc being introduced once more and are being sold in large numbers.?[Washington Star. FASHION NOTES. Red flowers now appear on hats and bonnets. With cooler weather comes back the standing collar, and, too, "justa shade higher." Dealers say sealskin will soon be so expensive that "only the richest ladies will be able to wear that fur." Those wbo have seen the new arti ficial flowers for the w:\iter season de clare they look as if "just plucked from the garden." The Eton jacket is rapidly losing its identy iu that of the Bolero. These little sleeveless jackets made up iu velvet will be greatly worn. If you wish to show off your rare pieces of China to the beet advantage, put them in a cabinet made simply of shelves lined and backed with white vuiltcd satin. The very latest Parisian combination is dark-blue and emerald-green. A dark-blue crepou is trimmed with dark-green velvet, or a dark-blue silk may have sleeves, collar aud skirt niching of green velvet. A favorite decoration for each side of the closing of a black or dark blue cloth coat consists of loops and ende of broad, black braid so carefully sewed on the material that they look as if they were woven on the stuff. Frilled skirts are threatening the fashionable woman. The insidious little ruffles have crept to the knee. It is to be hoped their encroachments will be checked there, as nothing is so distressing as a gown frilled to the waist. Fine light wool costumes for jour neys were made with bell skirt and low peasant waist of goods, plain, striped or checked, that reaches just under the arms. Above this is a waist of wash silk, which is always cool and comfortable. New nun's waists are made with the plaited backs and surplice fronts of the nun's robe, the little V at the neck filled in with gray chiffon, em broidered with white, the sleeves gathered like a bishop's sleeve to a littlo band of silk stitched with white aud edged with a full trill of chiffon* SCIENTIFIC SCBAPS. The length of a day on Mars it 24 hours and 37 min?tes. Vienna omnibus company em ploys incandescent electric lamps upon its vehicles, Iron expands with heat, and the Eifiel Tower is said to be eight inches higher in hot than in cold weather. Electric welding has now become almost universal in large establish ments. The use of the flux is un necessary. Electricity is used for making forg iuge, augers, railroad spikes, ball bearings, and other articles hitherto made by hand. There is a tree in Jamaica known as the life tree on account of its leaves growing even after being severed lrom the plant; only by fire can it be entirely destroyed* An observatory of a fire aud light ning proof quality of construction has been designed and section built so as to be easily carried to the top of Mount Blanc, Switzerland, where it will be permanently located. A French manufacturer makes min ute electric lamps about the size of a pea for the use of photograpliers in ihe dark room. They are intended to be mounted iu the middle of a pair of spectacles or on the frame without the glasses, the lamp being shielded by a reflector. The battery is made up of ! accumulator cells. I The properties possessed by the I metal gluciuum, about which compara* tively little is yet known, appear to render it valuable for the construction of electrical instruments. It is said to be lighter than aluminum, stronger than iron, and of better conductivity than copper, besides resisting oxida tion, while its cost is estimated at $1 an ounce. , M. Adam Paulsen, of ihe Boyal Danish Academy, has been conducting a series of experiments to measure the heights of the aurora boreali*. At Godihaab -ihe approximate height was from 1 to 4 miles, at Cape Farwell from 1 to 10 miles, a? Spitzenburg from one-third of a mile to 18 miles. ! The measurements were made with I theodolites. ! Hiram Maxim says in relation to i the rapidity with which single bar. reled machine guns can be fired, that if the gun and ca* tridge were made expressly for producing the highest possi ble rate of fire, and if the recoil energy aud the escaping force of the gases were both utilized, 1500 to 1600 rouuds a minute might be fired, bat at this speed the barrel would be highly heated even if inclosed iu a water casing. Two interesting photographs of lightning are given in Knowledge. One was taken by F. H. Glew of Lon don with a ieus attached to the vibrat ing hammer of an electric bell, and shows a discharge that was over in about oae twentieth of a second, and consisted of three distinct flashes, each lasting about one two-hundredth of a second. The other picture was se cured by W. F. Dunn of Newcastle, and is believed by him and his father to be a photograph of ball lightning. Macadamized Beads. The ideal country read is the mac* ad am. The first cost is heavy, but the roadbed can be kept in repair at small expense, and ultimately saves to those m who use it far more than it cost. The usual method of laying a mac adam road is as follows : First, a layer of three to six inches of broken stone* about the size of one's fist, to be pnt upon the graded roadbed iu dry weath er. After consolidation add succes sive layers unti! the desired thickness has been obtained, all the layers ex cept the first to be put down in wet weather or saturated with water and rolled. Macadam's custom was to put three layers of broken stone to secure a depth of nine to ten inches. The cost of the construction varies greatly ac. cording to the material used, distance of transportation and manner of pat ting down. A part of Randolph street was macadamized last year, says the St. Paul Pioneer Press, ana it furnishes a test of the cost of such work iu this vicinity. After the road, bed had been put in the proper shape a course of broken limestone about eight inches thick was laid and solidly packed by sledging. Ou the top of this was a course of finer stone, none larger than two inches in its largest dimensions, of about four iuches thick, waa laid and thoroughly rolled with a fifteen-ton roller. The top layer was kept sprinkled while being rolled, and it was rolled a second time. A thin layer of gravel or very fine stone was put over the top to act as a binding material. Limestone was used, although it is a little too soft to make the best road way, because of t.'ic crumbling or wearing away. The cost was about $4^00 a mile. The tightest Metal. "Some people seem to think that aluminum is the lightest metal in the world," said a gentleman who deals in ail the fancy articles now made of that commodity, "but that is a sis take. The specific weight of magn? sium is only one-third of that of alu minum, and is even more hard and durable. It is not as useful, however? as it catches fire very easily, even at the open hearth. It is not destined to crowd the popularity of aluminum, although up to a short time ago it waa even the cheaper of tho two."?[Cin cinnati Commercial. A Similarity. Ethel?You remind me of my piano lamp. Stalate?How so? Ethel?No matter how much it is