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ADYANC DEVOTED TO TTIE GENERAL WELFARE. VOLUME II. McCORMICK, S. Q./ppiRSDAY, NOVEMBER 11. 1886. — The people of Venffora, Cal., are going to try a novel experiment in sprinkling the streets with crudo petroleum instead of water. It is thought that oil after two or three sprinkles will lay the dust foil months. The experiment is looked forsvith much interest. English sai'ors attempted to catch a fourteen-foot shark off Natal, South Africa, but the shark snapped their line in two, and swallowed bait, hook, and ull. After losing several hooks, the an gled tried a piece of venison in which they had put a ball of gun-cotton. This was connected by wire with a boat's battery, and just as the shark was in the act of seizing the ycnison the charge was exploded. r lhcre is a degree of perse cution which e ven a shark cannot endure, The jaws of the monster were shattered, and it rolled over upon its back and sank. There is a man in Italy who avers that he discovered in Africa a concoction of herbs which renders the human body in sensible to hunger or thiist or poison, without at tho same time destroying life or injuring the body in any way. After taking a quantity of the concoction he entered upon a long period of fasting, taking into his stomach only four glasses of water daily, A nuthber of physicians became interested iu his case, and fol lowed it cmiou-ly. At last accounts the experimenter ha l expre;sed himself as feeling very well, and w’as about to take poison. 1 Three years after data the floating isinnds of pumice, thrown up and into the sea by the stupendous volcanic erup tion at Krakatau, in tho Java seas, are found to have drifted along the Indian ocean iu the last twelve months 07(1 miles in a direction west by south from where they were one year ago, or about live miles a day. This accidental help to hydrrg.aphers and all who study ocean < urrents and drift is probably the best they ever had, because the origin of the pumice is well known, the Coating ex panse-of it so large that it cannot escape notice, and the dates and other particu lars about it arc all matters of record. Hidden iu tho swamps of Livingston parish. Louisiana, is a h.mlet with a populat'd of 000 souls, where until fif teen years ago not a word of English was spoken or understood. It is a settle ment ©f Acadian i wl,o d : splaced tho Spanish founders of the village, and to day arc living in contentment far from any other habi ation. The people are en- giged in the lumber business, and de- tpitethe swampy an Final trial condition of the surround.ng country, are a hardy and long-lived race. The younger vil lagers now u e English to a greater de gree among thems.-lvt s, but their elders cling to their mother tongue. Though isolated, the s ttlemnt is hospitable and a pleasant spot to visit. England’s new c lnnial ac juisition.the Ellice Is'ands in the South Pacific, will prove of value principally as a naval station; There are nine islands in the gro :p, nit atolls, and some of the lagoons can be entered and a Ford excellent auchorngc; th.tof I u intuti being ninety squa c miles in extent with an average depth of fifty feet and two entrances deep enough for the largest ships of war. The population of the islan Is is not im portant in numbers, scarcely ag regatiug s 1 ,000 but the rcople arc physically and menta ly among the finest specimens of the Maylayau race. The islands will be of strategical value to Great Britain in resisting attempts at further annexations by rival European Powers. A Chicago writer discusses the ques tion whether the mau marries the woman or the woman marries the man, and whether the marriage notice in the pa pci should read: “.Mary Ann Jones to Sam uel Smith,” or • Samuel Smith to Mary Ann Jones.” The matter isn’t of much eonsequcnce cither way so long ns they are happily married. However, the Syra use Standard finds enough in the question to say: “Tho weight of testi mony is all in favor of wedding the woman to the man. The Bible is on that s'dc of the que tion, and so is the mar riage service cf the Episcopal Church. Usually, too, the husban 1 objects to being married to the woman, unless she has money, nc prefers the other form, and most of the ladi s agree to it.” Engineers pronounce tho project of tapp'ng Niagara River by means of a canal entirely practicable, and experts have declared that not elsewhere within the kuown world are thcro such natural advantages for the creation of a gigantic water-power, and that it can be delivered at Lock port to the extent of 300,030 horse power, if so much sha’l be wanted, at a minimum of expense. Lake Erie and all the great upper lakes would bo the mill-pond for this power, the Niag a- a River the head race and Lake Ontario its tail race. The supply of water can never be diminished by drouth; no spring floods nor freshets will tear away the dams, for there will be no dams. The supply of water wi 1 be uniform, unin terrupted and practically unlimited. At the ordinary capitalize! value of a horse power:* this would add about $200,000,- 000 to the material resources of the country- THE WAITING ANGEL. Tlio painter who should drop his bi ush B: cause ho could not seize the blush Of heaven, when birds so dreamily stir And the fiwt warm sun touches her, Would not be worthy of his name. He cannot copy tho morning flame, But with his best of artist wit Lovingly strives to render it, And heaven in an ideal sense, For him and us makes recompense. Tho poet who should brr ak his lyre Because he could not or tike the wir« Echo the music of the tpheres In perfect time to mortal cal's, Translate a'l utterance of the geds In the rude phrase of mortal clods. Fling from its d;lica 4 e frame of gol 1 The thunder, awful as it rolled— No bard were be! He sings his best, Celestial law provides the rest. The man who will not gird his loins For that which truth orjove enjoins, Because he knows his work when wrought Will fall below his hope and thought, Is no true workmen. Let him do The thing his conscience points him to, And he shall find the seed ho cast Spring up, when many days are past. Whilst ever}' honest deed will bring A training for that nobler thing For which archangel duly waits, Keeping Occasion's golden gates For such a? watchfully pursue Her long, laborious avenue— Many ska calD, but chooseth few To crown at last where crowns are due. BY TELEPHONE “Then I owe something that I’ll never pay,” Helly retorted, with piomptness. “But I do not owe h r an apology. She owes me an apology.” “I'm sure I’ve nothing to apologize for.” Betty said, tossing her head. “The idea of my apologizing, when slio his been saying such rude things! Come along, Glenn!” Helly heard the front door close on ’ them, but kept her seat at the tabic lor some minutes; ;at there breathing hard, her heart swollen, her lips tight, her nos trils widened and trembling. , Just then Holly’s aunt dropped in, a dear, good soul to whom Helly confided eveiything. To her IToTly told her story. “Apologize to her Indeed!” said Helly. “I won't do it! And if sho waits for me to invite her, she’ll never enter this , house again. It’s horrid in Glenn to te rse ' and worry m<5 till he gets me angry, and : then tell me to apologize for not being sweet. It’s insulting' And nowlsup- pose that he’s gone off to the me cantile library to read some novel, leaving mo to clear the table where he's been dallying. And he took Betty’s part against me! Betty, with her i hqtter, is simply ho rrid! Chattered like a mag ie, and then went prancing off with Glenn, instead of help ing me clear tho table, so that I could go along with her to the hall. She’s as self ish ar she can be! “But I’m rid of her, that’s one good thing! She isn't ever coming here again till I invite he.'. I suppose her father and mother will lay a 1 the blame on me, for they think Betty ; is perfectly perfect. . On their nc.ount, I'm sorry about the troub’o, for uncle and aunt have always made a pet of me, because I'm auntie's namesake, I suppose. I 1 shall have to see Betty when I go there, I even if she shouldn’t come here any more. Very likely, though, they won’t want me to come when I’m out with Betty. It will be dreadfully lonesome not to have Betty’s to run to, and to have uncle and aunt cold and distant to me. And I’m so used to having Betty fly in and out at all hours that I don t know how I can ever get along without it. We’ve alwaysdoue everything together. And I know that mamma will th nk I’m to blame; she always does when Betty and I have a spat, and 1 guess it’s about so, for ma nma’s judgment is generally correct; and I'm spunky, and I don't control my temper, and I just let my anger get the better of inc. I bolieve Betty means what she says. I know she does. Lhe means not to come till I in vite her. But I'll not invite her. I said I wouldn’t, and I won't, if she never comes! I’ll show her that I can be as set as sho is.” Feeling somewhat braced by this con fession, llelly proceeded to clear away Glenn's breakfast table. But there was a cold, heavy spot in her throat. “I suppose lean stand it if Betty docs stop coming here,” she went on saying. “I don’t know ei;her ho •/ I can. I’d give everything I own if she'd come run ning in ihlt/TTVimirc: But Tiinio to break my word. I shall not invito her. I think she’s cruel to say such a dreadful thing. Oh, dear! dear! dear!” Having be this timo got the table cleared, and having liberty to cry, Helly did cry, dropping into a chair and hug ging its back. “Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! I don’t believe I can ever stand it!” she said. “And I know that Betty means it; she’ll never come here a min unless I invite her, and I can’t invite her without eating my words and swallowing them right down. “I suppose I ought to eat them and be giad of the chance, even if they choke me, for I didn’t really mean them. I spoke them whea I was in auger. Peo ple oughtn't to speak when they’re an gry, and if they do they ought to take back everything they say, for'thcy hard ly ever sa}’ anything thev can stand by. I wish my lips had a spring-lock that would look wen I NUMBER 34. ■qilencHd in lifer, .anjtJ just as nice as could be.” At this point,>a Itfdy called Glenu to assist-in ' putting up-'a cross of flowers. Ilellyl hasteqeft over to Betty, who at that moment happened to l.o sittin? a little apart, wearing a wreath. She did not lift ber head, evi^n when Helly stood close alongside. “Dear Betty!” said her cousin, slip ping into a seat beside the wreath, “it was Ju t the sweeisst thing that ever was lor you to make up, and~t9 offer to go home w ith me without waiting for me to inv'te you. I think it was grand in you cm BUDGET OF FUN. phone?"’ i said Betty, her face What are you ’talking What There were sharp words that morning, and not at all creditable to the young members of the family. Glenn held out his cup and Eaucer, ' both of which had been duly painted and baked, until they looked duly antique—held them out across the short way of the table to his sister. “Another sip of co fee, if you please, Helly,” he said. “And see here, Helly, don't look at the sugar you put in it.” “What are you talking about?” de manded his sister, testily. 8lic was su-picious of some covert unpleasantness 1 iu the quiet words. “What do you mean? Why shouldn’t I look at 'the sugar?” “Because,” said the non-committal Glenn. “Because what?’’ Helly asked, with some asperity. “Why don't you tell me? Why shouldn’t I look at your sugar;” “Because you uiight change it into something sour.” “What a rich joke!” she said, turning up her nose, with nil her other features P in hed. “You just tho same as didn't get up at ail this morning. It's nearly eleven o'clock And now I have to sit hero and pour your coffee, when I prom ised the girls that I’d help decorate the hall for the festival.” “Why didn’t you tell me thi< sooner? ’ ! Glenn *sa.d, deliberately tipping his coffee. “What good would fortv tellings have done?” Helly mapped. “I should have had to wait and get your roffee all the same. Y on would have gone on with your morning napp ng. .Mamma just makes a baby of you! She pets you till y-.u can’t sit up. If I'm not up at*family breakfast, I have t > take „ust anything I can find about the pantry, while you can sleep till eleven, and get up to fresh cof fee and hot quail and waffles, and every- thing nice, atid I have to stay and watch you eat, you great baby! Mamma won’t let me stir out of this house till you are breakfasted. You tyrannize over me through mamma.” would look wen I get angry. Y’es, I She pau ed, but when Glenn made no ought to take it all back; I ought to, but reply, continued, “I wouldn’t mind it if oh! oh! oh!” ’t you s ly that it enu?” she continued, any confe sion, or >ess by telephone, or Jetty declared. Icily, “you havin’t ie! Who did, then? 4th a comprehen- “I was the peni- you worked at night, like railroad men and telegraph boys and night editors and doctors. But you don’t do a lick of work, n ght or day. Y'ou just sit up with that girl of yours, I know.” Glenn looked at her in a solemn wav, but sai 1 nothing. “I wish you were goingto get married to her right away,” Helly went on. “But I’d pity your wife!” As Glenn was leisurely tabling his nap kin, t'icir cousin Betty, entered, in a rushing way, < r ing out Sho was crying aloud when tho tcle- • phone rang. It was a very interesting thing—this new arrangement in their house, just put iu the day before, and a summons from it was sure to .start Helly to her feet. She patted one eye with her wadded up handkerchief, then the other, and hastened to get the mes sage. “Who is it?” she asked. “A penitent,” was tho reply. Hclly’s heart gave a strong spring. ‘Who? YVhat penitent?” she , ‘I 1 ® tk* 8 ua A J‘° u l ;e ‘P decorate the hardly able to keep the cagerness< ut of hall? Yon promised to come for me by her voice. nine o’clock. I've waited and waited and “O no who behav.d very badly toward waited. Sister Ann’s been out to the you this morning,” said the telephone, gate forty times to tee if you were com- “ It - S Betty! Oh, it’s Betty!” Helly ing, and she s been to the cast window j n j () y whispered to her heart. Her face twice forty times. Its a fact. I’ve just was radiant; her lips were* parted in haunted that window, so that mother smiles, as she asked: “YVhat do couldn’t see to sew, because I was in her w j 8 } 1 to 8av j*» How Birds Fly. In a paper recently read before the American Association for the Advance ment of Science at Buffalo, I. Lancaster gave some insight into the menus by which soaring birds keep themselves sus pended motionless iu mid-air. lie spent rive years oil the Gulf coast of Florida observing the flight of birds. His method was to assume a dress painted to resemble a pine bough, and taking up his position in a tree ion watch the birds fo ' hours together. Th s is one of the things he saw: The gannet, when a tree top near their breeding p’aces wai occupied, would float within a foot of my face as rigidly immovable as a board. They have alighted on my head with their toes in my mouth. They would weigh fts much as eight pounds, with about lour or five square feet of wing surface. A stiff breeze was required to float them if they remained iu one place. They seemed to sleep, as their eyes were ciosed for an hour at a time. They were in a position of perfect equilibrium. I have gently pushed them with a stick ia various di rections while they were thus balanced, and any effort at all would move them iu any direction until they would waken, which they were not long in doing. The position of the wings of all birds while iu the act of soaring was on an incline, highest in front. The heavier the bird the more the inclination. The^c gan- netj would float at. an angle of about fifteen degrees with the horizontal. The frigate birds at very low inclination, of ten seemingly nearly level, but all birds had the power of varying their inclines to suit their purposes. vou light all tho time, and she scolded n.c about it. And all our folks got vexed at me, and called me a fidget, and it’s all on your account, Helly, and I think it’s a shame for you” “I think it’s a shame for you to chat ter at this rate!” interrupted the irri- . ., . ,ated Helly. lctty S talk Used her like | pin-prn kings on an already nettled sur face. * ‘ You your pardon for my I am to blame Telephone back my “You always wera a rattle box. Y'ou can talk longer without saying any- thing than any one I ever knew.” At this Betty’s face flushed in sudden resentment. “Come, Helly, you're carrying things too far,” said Glenn. “Don’t let her rudesnee hes hurt you, Betty.” “I don’t mean to let them hurt me. I always consider the source from which a thing comes, ’ answered Betty, pouting at Helly and sm ling at Glenn.' to the hall, and tell the girls that Helly is too cross for any use in the world; that she’d wither the flowers if she were to try to help us make wreaths. Come on. Gleun! Y'ou're going my way.” She hooked her arm in his, and off they started, chatting and laughing as if there wasn’t any teastcl Helly to care for. Their nonchalant way made Helly mad der. Beside, Betty should not have the last word. “I am glad you’re going.” Helly mut tered, “and I hope you 11 never come here again.” Betty paused and turned, Her face was hot and flushed; her eyes bright. “I shall take care not to come back until you ask me to come.” “Then you’ll never come again, said, quickly, her temper rising moment. “Why, Helly!” Glenn remonstrated. “Y'ou forget yourself.” “No, I do not forget myself,” she quickly interposed. ‘‘Y'ou owe Betty an apology,” Glenn continued. “I wish to ask behavior this for your crossness, pardon, dear ” Helly could hardly stand still as she put her eager lips to the mouth-pioce and in a jubilant tone: “I forgive you, ten thousand times, you blessed old sweet! And won’t you forgive me once, you precious? I’ve been crying ever since you went away mad at me.” “Boor dear!” was the reply, “I wasn't mad at you at all.” “And if,” Ilellv replied, “Iwas a par ticle mad at you, I’ve got all over it. and was so sorry for mv unkind words that I could have cried my eyes out, and did, almost.” “Well,” said the telephone, “bathe X “1M1 go j y° ur eves and come down to the hall, and at Helly I D go home with you.” “And stay to dinner,” amended Helly, all in a twitter that she was to have Betty again in the house, and that without first giving the invitation. “Of course I’ll stay to dinner,” replied the telephone. “Y'ou’re the sweetest thiug in the world!” said Hell}', quivering with de light. ♦“You're another!’’ was the rcnlv. Hoir to Drink Water. The leading medical journal of France has published a pamphlet protesting against the extravagant use of artificial mineral waters, which, it sets forth, do the double damage of chilling the stom ach, thus laying the foundation for gas tric catarrh, while the limestone held in deposit in the < al ternated waters finds its way to the kidneys and eventually pro duces Bright's disease. The pamphlet also protests against ice water as a pro vocative of catarrh in the stomach. It further says: “Water should be drank cool, but not iced, with the juice of a quarter or half a lemon in it. Ylineral water should also be drank with a dash of lemon. Water should always be swal lowed slowly. It is not th; stomach which is dry, but the mouth and throat. If you toss off a drink of water you throw it through your mouth into your stom ach, without doing the former any good, wh le you injure the latter by loading it with what it doe; not require. Drink slowly, and keep the water in your mouth for a moment when you begin. If you work in a hot room iu hot weather, tie a damp c'oth around your temples, and you will not experience half the craving for drink vou otherwise would.’’ HU310R0US SKETCHES Fit 031 VARIOUS SOURCES.* Dramatic Writings—Carrie's Expla nation—She Knew It—Senti ment nnel Prose—A Promi sing Journalist, Etc. —so much nicer than to stick to a silly promise made in anger.” “Why!” Betty began. Helly went on. eagerly, without no ticing the interruption, “But I invite you now. with all my heart, not o>ly to stay to dinner, b 1 ^ to spend tho after noon, and stay aft night and all next week and all next^^ft* and.forever and forever!” "A ' ' “But,” said Betty, “I don't know’’ “Y'ou showed what lots of seuse you have by not layiug._up my foolish words,” Helly went on; “but honor bright! Betty, would you have giwen up if you couldn't have done it by t:|Cf ‘ “By telephone full of question tv fiat are you about? I can't understand you do you mean.” i “Why, I mean this: wasn't it easier to make your confession by telephone, and ask my forgiveness by telephone, than it would have been ^standing face to face with me? Woul would be easier, 1 as he came up. “I haven't m asked your forgivi in any other way,’ “What!” cried conf. ssed by telepl Somebody did!” Glenn wa? sm'li^ sion of the situatij tent,” be explained “Wes that you, Glenn:” Helly said, her face sobering at the revelation. “The voice didn’t' sound at all like yours.” “Well, fts to that, I suppose a person uses a higher pitch of voice tliau natural in speaking by telephone. Beside, you haven’t heard my telephone tones enough to be familiar with them.” “ So you hadn’t made any advances?” Helly said to Betty. “Not an advance,” Betty laughed. “And I’ve gone aud invited you to my house to stay forever!” Heily said. “I’m so glad I don’t know what to do, f ;r I was wishing to make up. And though I didn’t ask your forgiveness by telephone, I have asked it by this uote, , which 1 meant to send you by Glenn.” j Betty drew a scrap of paper from her pocket, and Lauded it to Heily, saying: “My bond to keej the peace with you.” — Youth's Compaiaf)!}. Dramatic writer—“Y’es, sir; dramatic writing is the most profitable branch of literature.” Newspaper reporter—“That so?” D. YV.—“Certainly; you ought to try it. I am to get $5,00e for the play I am writing now.” N. R.—“Down?” D. W.—“No. If the piece is success ful.” N. R.—“I guess I’ll stick to my $11 a week.”—Bouton Courier. ' Carrie's Explanation. A young teacher in one of our primary departments spent the greater part, of an afternoon in describing the appaearance and habits of the mole to her class. And when she had finished she said: “Now, children, I want you all to try and re member what I have told you, for I shall call upon one of vou to repeat it to-mor row.” Accordingly on the morrow she began by asking, “What did I talk about yes terday?” Up flew a dozen hands in the air, sig nifying that the owners were ready with the answer. “You n?ky tell me, Carrie,” said the young teacher, singling out a five-year old who had scemed'uucom- moniy eager to be singled, and tho five-' year old, with a beaming smile, in a loud and cheerful voico proclaimed:“A wart.” Chicago Tribune. these a fel- She Knew It, “There!” exclaimed young Spriggins, suddenly, as they were all sittiug on the p>ia. za. “I must go and get shaved. My face is as rough as a cow's tongue. I tell you it feels uncomfortable to have little short bristly hairs all over low’s chin.” Miss De Puyster always gushes when young Spriggins says anything. 4 ‘I know it,” said .she now effusively. And then everybody leaned forward and asked her all at once how she knew it, but Miss De Puyster only blushed painfully and said that they were horrid things. —Somerville Journal. were poked into his boots to resG and whose shirt yearned toward a wash-tub, and took the fatal seat without paying any attention to me waving him away. I had to do it, though I shuddered. I walked to him and gently and politely told him the scat belonged to another man, wheu, all of a sudden, ho jumped up as if there was a tack in the seat and euve a regular Comanche howl, as I sat back into my seat, wishing there was a trap door through tho floor of the car. “This scat belongs to another, doe- it!” YVherc is the duffer? YVhere are his symptoms? Nothing here. YVherc are his remains, bis silk uinb ella, his peanut shells, his tobacker spit, his chewing-gum shoes, his fur-collar over coat, his thirty-eight calibre valise, and his eye-glass?' Show me, if you please, his assets, his liabilities, his heirs, ad ministrators, or assigns! YYlierc is his mortgage, or his lien, or twenty years’ lease? 1 am Cross eyed Bill from Bra zos ! (and ho parenthesi ed the name with a couple of long-horn revolvers). Arc you the ozone, the canned fruit man who is trying to preserve this seat for the coining man, or the rising generation?” I begged t> prove an alibi, insanity, or anything legal that was necessary or would do any good, and begged him not to mention it, when in came the former occupant and asked the stranger shortly to get out. The stt anger got out, an l the owner of the seat began to fall all over himself, to exp’ore the c-e'lin c with his feet, to tost the floor, to unhandle the neighboring seats, and when the strauger laid him gently down in the aisle and spread him out comfortable to rest, and recuperate, and cati h his breath, and get his health back, and try to feel better, and try to be oa a ier, and wait for a doc tor, and gather his senses, 1 had time to think that it was thermit way for a man lo be served who will ask another to hold his seat during his absence.—Detroi' Free Press. DID YOU EVER. Sentiment and Hard Prose. He was rather sentimental, and he and his friend were in the park. A little way off two ladies were seated. One ol them was very pensive and extremely pretty. She was resting her cheek on her hand, and her eyes were full qjf far- off coytemplat'on. —pi Wiij . iar>?l nhe?” mid h _ Jove, I’m falling in love with that girl. I wonder who the fellow is she’s think ing about? I say. wouldn’t it be pleas ant to think a pretty girl like that could sit and dream about you as she’s dream ing about somebody? Let’s walk past and look at her.” So they walked slowly past. The maiden was still wrapt in contemplation, aud, as they passed, her companion said, quite distinctly: “Now, Emily, this is all foolishness. Let’s go in to Dr. and let him take the tooth out.”—San Francisco Chronicle. ’’Helly every was “Come along to the hall!” In fifteen minut s Helly was down town. As she entered the hall, Gleun came down the aisle to meet her. ‘*Y'ou look happy as a queen,” he said, recall ing the mood in which he had left her. she re- liave “I feel as happy as a queen, ■ ■ id plied, buoyantly; „ and I made up.” 4, I am glad to hear that,” said Glenn, ‘ ‘for Betty was very much hu t this morn ing. Bhe said, most decidedly, that she never would make up with you, unless ! you made the first advances.” “And yet she made the first advances.” . Helly said, with triumph. “It was Peculiar “Canned Corn.” “See that man going into the bank, there?” said a veracious citizen one d iy last week over on Dearborn street; ‘ well* he’s rich and getting richer. He’s got as nice a little business as there is in this town—one that makes hand-ome profits every day in the year.” “YVhat business is he in:” “He cans corn for the Iowa market, ami sells dead loads of it, too. This may surprise yon that Chicago should sell corn to the great corn state of Iowa, but it’s a fact. Tae corn is picked in Kentucky whisky, and the flavor of the liquor isn’t hurt a bit by the mixing. As to the corn, I couldn't say whether it is improved or not,” —('hitago Herald, A Promising- Journalist. Little Aleck was a small-sized African who was employed in a newspaper otiico as the errand boy, says the tot. Paul (Hole. He was rigged up in a blue suit. A cap with the name of the paper thereon completed his showy costume. He be came very much interested in the work. In sport the editor of the paper called little Aleck in and told him it would be among his duties, whenever he saw an item of news on the street, to bring it in the office. “Now, "said the editor, “if you should happen to run across a dead man, or a lost child, or a runaway horse, bring it into the office. Do you understand?” “Y'es, sah,” replied Aleck, “I done ketch on.” Not long after the conversation Aleck, while walking along the street on an errand, saw a runaway horse coming down the street. The horse passed hinq aud Aleck took after the frightened ani mal. Several blocks away, the horse got l id of the carriage that was attached to him by running against a lamp-post. Be fore the horse was able to get under headway after the little accident, Ale k had him by the bridle, and was on his back riding him down town. Straiglxt to the newspaper office Aleck rode the horse. Once there he dismounted, and leading the horse to the dqpr of the busi ness office, yelled out to the editor, who happened to be standing there: “Boss, here’s a horse I dune catch run ning away. YVhar shall I put him while I go for dat buggy what he smashed up?” Holding a Seat. • “YY r ill you be kind enough to watch my seat here and allow no one to get into it w’hile I go into the smoking car and take asmoke?” asked the presumptuous passenger in the opposite scat of me. YVhat else could I do but to answer yes, though I had started out on a pleas ure excursion, and this man’s condeseen- ; sion quite knocked all tho pleasure out of the trip at the beginning, and now that fatal seat lay on my mind like my last year’s debts—provided I had some. At the next station a big man came in, and spying the only vacant seat, pre-empted it on the spot, and pro ceeded to make himself comfortable. I sat a lung time considering how far my responsibility went, but I saw that I must do something, so I mildly whisp ered to him that the seat belonged to another, and lie scowled and left at the next station, where some ladies got aboard. As a last resort I placed my new hat over in the seat to preserve it—the seat, not the hat—and two of the females sat down on the hat. They did : not appear to not ce the hat, or probably 1 thought it was the bustle, and began to make themselves at home. I told them as coolly as I could that the seat was oc cupied. They said of course it was. I remarked that the owmer’s hat was under them. They obliterated me with a frown aud got up; the hat didn’t get up. Its get-up was gone. I tried to straighten cut the hat and l'cit sick, so did the hat. I indulged inwardly in some strength}' secular language, aud soon a tall, long- fellow got aboard, whose pantaloons How Bohemian Glass is Colored. The ornamentation of the glass is done partly in connection with the exposure in the furnace and partly in the finishing shops, where the w r ork is completed by cutting, polishing, tarnishing, etching, painting and mounting in metal. The glasshouses have at their command a very complete color scale for transparent, opaque and clouded glasses. But it must not be supposed that a crucible is placed in the furnace for each color, from which glass colored for each ornament is to bo made. The colors arc worked out by means of what are called pastes, which, are kept on hand in sticks or cakes. From pieces of these pastes, pro ziously warmed till they are soft, suitable quan tities are cut off, laid upon the founda tion of white or colored glass, and then spread out by drawing or blow-ing. By this means only i i an economical use of such costly materials as gold and silver mpositions possible. 5?omo of the Sms llms.— 1. u.ilul -*guld, 1 pp. Hhid silver glasses—remain siill little, or not at all, colored after the melting, shaping, and quick cooling, and do not take on tint bright hue until they are reheated. This is the case with the new yellow' silver glass, which con tinues uncolored after the intermelting of the silver salt until it is exposed in the furnace again. Y'cry fine effects are produced by blending or overrunning of paste colors, provided proper attention is given to tho laws of harmony. A blue glas-icupis, for example, overlaid with silver glass at its upper edge, and this is drawn down in gradually thinner tones till it fades away at the foot of the vase. Gold and copper ruby colors arc thus combined with green glass s, etc. An other brilliant etiect is produced when a still hot bulb of gla c s is rolled in finely pulverized aveuturinc glass, and after this is melted, and previous to the shap ing of the vessel,is overlaid with a coat ing of cither colored or colorless glass.— Popular Science Monthly. Married iu Two States. A whimsical marriage took place iu the Eastern part of the State last Satur day, during an excursion from Lafayette to Dayt n, Ohio, over the Lake Erie and Western Railway, YVhile the train was crossing the dividing line between Indi ana and Ohio it was stopped by an ac commodating conductor, and David Clark, residing near Ylulberry,candidate for Sheriff of Clinton County, assisted off the cars a lady named Mis. Mary Hawkins, of Lafayette. The gentleman placed himself on the Indiana side of the line and the lady on the O! i > side. A minister in attendance lor the purpose straddled the dividing line and oon pro nounced the couple man and wife. The whole 800 passengers on the train then formed a circle around the c-. ntral fig ures in this singular marriage and gave them three cheers, the ever present photographer secured a negative, the band played, and tho train st irted up with everybody happy.—ImUauapolis ^ Journal. Longest Railways of the World. The Union Pacific Railroad Company | controls the greatest length of line of i any company in the world, to wit: 5,027 ! miles. The Union Pacific Railroad j proper, l’ronj Council BiutF. lo va, to Og- ; den, Utah, with branches, is 1,831.9 | miles in length. The Canadian Pacific I has the longest main line in the world, j from Quebec to Ft. Yloody, being 3,02> miles long; with branches it has a length of 3,994 miles. The Northern Da i lie has a main line of 1,074 mile-, from Su perior, YY'is., to YVallula Junction, YV. T. Its extent of lines owned, lead, and operated is 2,340.81 miles. The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul oper ates owned and leased lines to the extent of 4,801 miles; the Chicago and North western, 3,700,25 miles; the YVabash, St. Louis and Pacific, 3,519.5 miles; the Chicago, Burlington andQuiu.y, 3,47LG7 ndles. * How Cloth is Tinned. A mixture of finely pulverized metal lic zinc and albumen, of about th : con sistency of a thin paste, is spread with a brush upon linen or cotton < loth, and ! y means of hot steam coagulated. The cloth is new immersed in a bath of stan nic chloride, well washed, and dried. Gunning the cloth through a roller press, the tin film is said to take metallic luster. Designs cut in stout paper, letters, num bers, etc., when laid between cloth aud roller, are impressed upon it. It can also be cut in strips, corners, etc. — Sri mtijic American. In hats the uovelty consists in having the crown different from the brim. Did you over wake to consciousness Of L'liss? When the maiden fail* was willing To bestow the pleasure thrilling. In a moment’s taste of heaven called A kiss? Did you ever urge a maiden To confess? TVhen the coy, evasive glances Held the sweetest of romances— Every sigh and every quiver A caress? Did you ever feel the terror Of a doubt? And the subsequent beguiling When assurances of smiling Put tho peace-disturbing traitors All to route? Did you over meet aft obstacle So sad? When the angel sweetly heeding The existence of your pleading Supplemented—you had better Call on dad ? —Texas Siftings. PITH AND^ POINT. The tramp is a man of many ties—• railroad ties.—St. Paul Journal. “YYould you believe it? I have had that idea in my head these six months.” “How lonely it must have been!”—Tid- Eils. Borne men are so m’ghty penurious that they keep everything they get hold of—except the ten commandments.— Blizzard. Mamma—“Frankie, are you eating those green apples again?” Frankie— “No, mamma; I'm eating some others.” —Harper'8 Young People. Brown—“See those two ladies over there. They seem be enjoying them selves.” Fogg—“Yes; I wonder which of their dear friends they are gossiping about.”—Boston Post. Some Americans are about to start a national banking system in the Hon duras. The venture will probably fail, owing to tho great distance between Canada and the Honduras.—Life. Tobacco blindness is said to be on the increase; still we never found any friend of ours to be afflicted with it when we have incautiously left a choice segar ex posed in our vest pocket.—Siftings. “Y'ou sit on your horse like a butcher,” said a pert young German officer who happened to be of royal blood to a veter an general who was somewhat bent from age. “It is highly probable,” responded the old warrior with a grim smile, “It is because all my life I’ve been leading calves to the slaughter.” A Monster Safe. There is about to be erected in premises of tho National Bank of Scot land, St. Andrew Square, Edinburgh, tho largest steel strong-room or saTe e/er manufactured. Its external dimensions are fifty feet long by twelve feet broad and ten feet high, and a careful compu tation shows that within it might be stored about 1,250 tons weight of gold bullion, equal in value to $550,000,000. It is heavy in proportion to its size, weighing 100 tons. Its walls are be lieved to be thicker than those of any other steel room of similar proportion in use in the United Kingdom. YVith the view of insuring greater security than has hitherto been obtained, its walls are composed of a triple series of plates, similar to those which the firm have for many yesrs used in the manufacture of bankers’ safes. These plates are so tough ened and hardened a 5 to be practically impervious alike to tfie force of blows, leverage and cutting by drills. This “compounding of the plates,” as it is termed, involved an enormous amount of drilling, no fewer than 1,000 holes being pierced in each lection. Admission to the interior of this strong room is ob tained by means of three massive doors, each seven inches thick and weighing a ton and a half, but on the hardened steel pins on which they are hung they swing with the greatest of ease. Apart from the great thickness of compounded hard and mild steel plates in these doors, the prin cipal feature they present is the patent diagonal bolt. These bolts, of which there are twenty in each door, shoot out from the edge of the door at opposing angles of forty-five degrees, and thus powerfully dovetail the door into the frame at either side. Thus any attempted wedging between the door and its frame simply tends to bind these bolts tighter into their holes. Trade YY'iuds. YV. M. Davis has recently given iu the American Meteorological Journal an ac count of the derivation of the term “trade-wind.” The original meaning of the word “trade” has been so far replaced by an acquired meaning that a popular error has arisen as to the derivation of the common term “trade-wind.” YVeb- ster’s dictionary says the trade wind is “so called because of great advantage to navigators, and hence to trade.” YVorces- ter’s dictionary explains it as “so called because favorable to commerce.” But looking further back, the following extract from Skeat’s etymological dic tionary is instructive: “Trade-wind, a wind blowing in a constant direction, formed from tho phrase, ‘to blow trade,’ to b'ow always in the same course.” A step further discov ers that trade is “properly that path which we ‘tread.’ It once meant, literally, a ‘path.’ The M. E. [Middle English I words are ‘tred - and‘trod,’both in tire sense of foot-mark. All from the A. S. [Anglo-Saxon] ‘tredan,’ to tread.” The following extracts show the early use of the term, two or three centuries ago, by the navigators of that time. Hakluyt wrote: 4 ‘The wind blowing trade, without aniuch of sail, we spooned before the sea.” (“Voyages,” published in 1900.) Dampiersakl: “Trade-winds are such as do blow constantly from one point or quarter of the compass. There are divers sorts of these winds; some blowing from cast to west, some from south to north, others from west to east, etc. Some are coustaut in one quarter all the year, some blow one-half the year one way aud the other six months quite eontrary, and others blow six months one way. and then shifting only eight or ten points, continue six months more, and then return again to their former stations, as all these shifting trade-w inds do.”