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rVT" . * A STREAM THAT FLOWS FOREVER. In Willow Brook least my hook, And long I stood and waited; Bat not a trout could I fling out. Though well my book was baited; Nor did complain, while yot no gain Repaid my slack endeavor; I only sought to take a thought Prom the stream that flows forever. i But I was told by one not old l (I wondered he should know it), r The hook must skip, and bob, and dip, And so, and so, you throw it, . And many a trout was hurried out MSj^ To pay his deft endeavor? # I only sought to take a thought From the stream that flows forever. His trout now dead, had others bred, p1 'J? For life is ever flowing: ! This willow spray, unfurled to-day, 1 Six thousand years was growing. I The ripples glanced, and tripped, and danced, 1^: Wifh cfone fV?of raror* r-^ - ?vu ?iw^g bUMV UU^QI CU WW ?v? I "While yet I sought to take a thought From the stream that flows forever. The brooklet drains the hoarded gains The mountain-hand secureth; Each drop is dead that fills its bed, The stream alone endureth. Be world on world to darkness hurled, Succession endeth never; Jehovah's thought hath all things caught In the stream that flows forever. ?A. E. AUaben, in Overland. mm * n iPT?m * ? A ??;?C?tJLbJLi?i MlbiAJlli. v ? ______ Mr. John Jones: You are requested to draw two weeks' salary, and for reasons with wh'ch I trust you are acquainted, seek another position. P. V. Knicker, President Drovers' Bank. PHiAnsr.PHiA, Dec. J8, 1S87. How many times John Jones had read this note ha could hardly have told. ".Reasons with which I trust you are acquainted." lie, the cashier of the Drovers' Bank, dismissed for reasons with _ which he w*s acquainted. What did he thf mwtn ? ?-_"yY'hat were the reasons, and -why y was hcySuppoaed to be acquainted with | them? : These were some of the quesgt tions which he was putting to himself as ? he sat in his ioom almost stupefied. 5 ? He did not fear inability to nror.ure 3 / another situation. John Jones was too "well known and had be;n too faithful in his services at his bank to fear that; but K why was he dismissed? K Well, he couldn't find out until the Hfi next day, unless, to be sure, he called upon Mr. Km'cker at his home, and that John couldn't do in the state of mind he was in just then. S^^^^^The feeling of injured innocense is aUn&MH^ytogetber unpleasant after all, and dispersed the constantly ro. n^9Q8HTng questions, and prepared to go mHHH He would go and see Beth, his NKHHItb, and together they would talk over HnQH&e matter, and he would decide what KHWto do. ' John Jones had keen sick all day. A blind headache had begun to bother him before he had left the bank the day beIpgPg fore, and had grown constantly worse all that night until when morning came he W was nnoV\1a fa r?r\ V*ir? Tl.-% r nno uuawto vy w UiO MU31UCd9, JL JLIO headache was forgotten now; occasion throb of pain would make him wince physically, but his thoughts were too thoroughly occupied with that unaccountable note to realize the pain. He soon left the house and decided to walk up Chestnut street and thence to lee Beth. He paw no one, did not even ieel the exertion of walking, until he brought up with a baug against a gentleman who was going in the opposite direction. He mechanically apologized and started on, but soon did the same thing again, and saw he was unable to think about the present, even enough to dodge his fellow pedestrians. He called a cab and nave the driver orders to take m him to Beth's home. Eefore he realiz.ed ih&trtbey had started he wtiS aroused by the sudden pulliDg up of the vehicle, and ^ the man, clambering down from his seat, opened the door aud stood waiting for him to get out. He did so, and started up to riDg the bell when the driver called after him. He had forgotten the man's fee. He paid him, and then pulled the bell. . The door opened and he passed in, not peaking to the servants who admitted him. He seated himself and didn't ^^^^^mo?ymJiree^r^four minutes. This who aroused him. to HHRftBj^HHHMSHB|B^for the first time man before. me man siarica. were ill. John H^MnBBSH|^En to his question, but 31 iss .Hughes that Mr. ;>arlor. Then he setl^nNHHBCn^HB^Hforiiier position and did aflnS^^n^OHH^Min until Mr. Hughes enup for 99HQ^SHSpSnfl^hter i i engaged at present,11 raunr^THiighe?. WUBsBg^Micth. engaged when he, her betrothed |fia|gQfi^H?baud, was waiting to see her? That very strange; he couldn't nrnlerHHbBnd it Bnt he said: "Very well, I IzRMKill wait." QHmH "Miss Hughes will be unable to see H^HHKBou this evening and requested me to SffinbriE^^vi.e you this package. I am sorrj, Mr. HHBHIHoned, but I must beg you to disconEMffiflHbnue your calls." fflnH Great God ! What did it mean ? John iU^Bffli^Bwaa !"? ArAti rrV* 1 xr noinfnlltr w J/ln amnl'A mhwh n(M vuvivu^uiji mug ?H<IAVJ USgOT mow, and sprang to his feet. HHBdH " Bertha can't see me, and you ask me to discontinue my visits ? Please tell BsHHH me why ?" BjaEB He was now standing perfectly straight H0H|^^-tnd gazing composedly but intently at Hughes. trust that you understand the Hjfl|^H^Btoons, Mr. Jones, as well as I do," said rafflflfl^^^Uftughcs, with a peculiar look. mm^iost the identical words Ivnicker mUHAd in his note. John turned withand left the house, lie did liis although the HHBEH8K09flkr.u xr~ v:? 1.-4 fl^B^HH^Bj^rafl^^valked. lie now realized HBBgH?^yfflnK|^^was. His bead throbbed would bu:st. What gB^Pj^N^^H^SHKRB^Kven made him smile a He pul.'ed his hat that tightness g&B9HH9HM^HnH|^wed if that would |^RBHgHHHBn|^ra^tny harder. He nche any g|ffiHBfiBB^^P^xHKBSt^a^^H)ould like to yEnSH^^^^HnM^^^RSS^^^S^Adiere he was himself HtfflUBlBB9^fltj^BHHBEKH^M>use> goISHiWiBWHHBMlL. Ah! BMmS8Hw3KSaiMBSMJ?BSWM3^^ery BBBBHBBgBHBBBKSMfifi? f . / > cashier's desk, and yet it was only yesterday. He didn't care now about Mr. Knicker's note. Beth's message had inflicted a so much deeper sting that he had almost forgotten the note, but he would read the article, and he thought he should feel pleased to leara tnat Knicker had been cheated. "This morning when P. V. Knicker, the President of the Drovers' Bank, reaehed the office, he found a note telling him that his cashier, John Jones, was ill, and would be unable to be at his desk to-day. Mr. Knicker is a very careful man in business matters, and he decided to take the duties of cashier upon himself until Mr, Jones was in a condition to relieve him. He, accordingly, unlocked the vaults and prepared for work. Soon Adam, Mealie & Johnson presented a check for a large amount and, upon rcferrirg to the record of yesterday's business, Mr. Knicker found that a package of ten $1000 bills had been deposited. He immediately decided to use one of those bill& in cashing the check, and. going to the vault, removed the package supposed to contain them. In counting the "money, he found nine $1000 bills and a $100 bill. On investigation it transpired that the last person who had handled the bills was John Jones, the cashier. Before passing into the hands of the cashier, the bills had, however, been handled by four subordinates, who reported that there were ten of- the $1000 notes in the packet when they saw it. It then went to Mr. Jones, and one of the clerks happened to be standing near by, when Jones took it. The clerk noticed particularly that Mr. Jones seemed to find it nil riorht. huh that instead of Dinnin<r -- - 0 T - i O the litt.e slip of paper with the amount marked on it, which it is customary to place arond packages of money, he withdrew one of the bills and laid the others loose on his desk. The clerk was then called to some other part of the room and can give no further information. Other evidence conclusively shows that notwithstanding Mr. Jones's previous integrity he has yielded to temptation and gone the way or many otners. it is i mentioned incidentally that that very morning1 Mr. Jone3 had said he was in great need of $900, the exact amount extracted from the package. Mr. Knicker, in consideration of Jones's former uprightness and strict discharge of duty, will not prosecute. John read this once, twice, three times. He only uttered two words: 4'My God." Falling back in his chair with wideopen eyes he sat staring at the wall. The clock ticked away on the manrel shelf, the fife grew lower and almost died, the lamp sputtered and smoked, but still John Jones sat back in his chair, , staring, staring at the wall. Finally it | gradually becamo light, and the noise of ; traffic began in the street. John moved uneasily, looked around the room and ?ot , up. His he?d, he thought, was aching , somewhat harder than on the night before, and he bathed it. There was a spot on his cuff and he put on a clean pair, \ | Yes, he was sure his head was aching harder. What was that noise? "Why. of course, some one was knocking at his i door. He would open it and see who it i was?a messenger boy. He took the , message, opened it, and forgot to read j it. He was standing still aud wondering j if if tttoo (.\nrrtr on fairln 1 f hia PVPQ WfTfi i 41 *"66j v-~.-v?. .. -j ? i dim. j "The lady said to wait for an answer," i said the boy. 1 Oh, yes." There was that note. He \ would read it. j "Dear John?Come and see me today, i I cannot believe it. . Beth." < Who was Beth? Oh! he remembered < now she was the girl who had prmiaed to < marry him, the thief. The word, he i thought, sounded well, so he said it over 1 and over again. Thief! Thief! Thief! The boy asked for the answer. "Well," he laughed wildly, "tellher I will be there." John sat down again, *nd again bpgan ! glaring at the wall. It was nearly 10 i o'clock now, and John got up and put ' on his overcoat and hat, scrupulously ' brushed them and went out. He again i took a cab and went to Beth's house. < This time he paid the cabman, and as he j went in was about to speak to the serv- 1 nnt whf>n hp that it was Beth her- i self who had opened the door. He, however, was not at all surpiised, but < said good morning to her much as he i would have done to the servant. ] "Oh, John, I am so glad you have ( come?why, John, are you ill?'' ] He laughed and aijain said good morn- ] ing. He preceded her into the parlor and sat down in the same chair he occupied the night before. He was laughing quietly to himself all the time. His head i, was aching terribly now, and that was very funny. "John, dear John, tell me it isn't true. I know it is not. I was hasty la3t night, > TnKn nrnn'f-rnn fnrnrirA ?uuu1 ?? Vffc* w J V*. ---C- ' ~ j John looked at her, brushed a speck froDi his knee, jnd laughed a little louder. "John, John, why don't you answer , me? Why don't you tell me it isn't true? ! But no, 1 won't ask that, I know it ' isn't." She threw her arms around him and sank at his side. He did not move, but stopped laughing. Oh! how his head did ache. No, it had stopped aching. Where was he? Oh, yes. Beth was with him and wa3 ' sobbing. Why was she crying? He 1 didn't remember, but thought that he J was connected with it some way, he didn't know how. He lifted her head ' from his knee, bent down, and kissed her. Kissed her many times, and drew | her up, folding his arms about ' V>oi> iinfl toMinfr Vi?r lift was snrrv Wbnf. he was sorry for he couldn't have said. He got up and drawing her to him, kissed her again and said: "Good-by, ! Beth." He could see her lips move but he J didn't hear anything. He went to the door, opened it, and went down to the J street a:id wondered why the horses and ! wagons didn't make any noise. How ; silently they went along; how quiet ' everything was. He couldn't even hear \ his own footsteps. He looked at his i ! watch and saw that it was nearly 12 j 1 o'clock. The bank had been opened j j nearly two hours. He would be late for j ' business. Well, he would hurry. | John naa iorgotten mac ne was no j longer cashien of l he Diovers' I.'ank, he only remembered that he would be late at his desk. He reached ihe bank, : walked in, took off his coat and hat, and i started to go behind his de.-k. Mr. | Knicker confronted him, and he suddenly saw it ail again. The note, the newspaper and the night before at Beth's. This man, this benevolent-looking old ' gentleman, who was frowning at him ' now, had branded him as a thief. "It's a lie! it's a lie!" he shouted. Great God. how his head ached. Well, he had told Mr. Knicker that it was a lie; he could go now. I He took down his coat and hat, put *hem on. and went out into the street. plow was this? This wasn't tbe city ^reet he had just left; this was the old |Bk^-grown lane running before his old MH^^JIow the sun shone I How the HHBBflug! There was the yard with wagons and haystacks H|j^X9R^^?nc side, and ? tortoise-shell cat sunfcnce.'. There were the old milk pans, bright as silver, stand* ing in a row on the grass by the kitchen door. But best?far best of all?there was his mother who had lain in the churchyard up on the hill for ten yeari, holding out her arms to him. "0, mother I O, my dear old mother lw All was black. When John regained consciousness there were minv faces around him, but the light was so dim that'he couldn't see whether he knew them or not. He heard some one say, in a soft voice: "He has opened his eyes. Then one of the faces leaned forward and kissed him. It was Beth. "John, John, don't you know me?" t I T r, t 1 1 I J donn ill tea nis arms uuu presacu w > sweet face to his breast "John, here is Mr. Knicker come to tell you it is all a terrible mistake." John didn't look at Mr. Knicker, but kept his eyes on the sweet face close to him. Hi3 hand gently smoothed her hair, and he kissed her lips. "Beth, my darling Beth, how I love you. Of course I forgive you, and we will go-?." His voice sounded strange and weak. How hard it was to talk. "We will go and get married, won't we, dear? Why, there is mother. Mother, this is Beth. We are going to be mar " John Jones was dead.?Inter-Ocean. Incubating Ostrich Egjjs. i The ostrich egg is very delicate and will not keep its vitality for more than | fhirtv davs. Now. as the laying lasts a couple of months it is evident that half of it becomes worthless for setting and 1 can serve no purpose except as curiosities in bazaars. It is, therefore, the business 1 of man to provide against this improvident character e# nature and utilize what is wasted by that force. No occasion to go into detail about incubators; the i principle is well known. Practically they are padded boxes, each holding 15 to ^0 eggs and heated by hot water, which can have its temperature readily under control. The eggs are taken away 03 laid, one always being left in the nest. Each one is numbered and dated, and a list made out with its weight and descriptionof the parents. They are kept in a dry room till the necessary numberis obtained, when they are placed in the 1 box and the heat is applied. The temperature is forty degrees centigrade at first, 39 degrees at the end of, eighteen days, and then 36.5 degrees to the finish. During the whole process each egg must be turned upside down every day at a regular time. This is absolutely i necessary. About the fifteenth day The eggs are examined to see which are impregnated and which not. This is done with a box contain'ng a lamp and a reflector, in front of which is an opening which fits an egg supported on the 01 tside by a little shdf. If the egg is 1 clear it will not hatch; if opaque, except ; at the larger end, where the air chamber < is, it goes back to the incubator. Some- i times the egg is rotten; in which case the gas formed within forces the liquid through the shell and turns it yellow. After 40 days the greatest attention must be paid day and night to listen for the noise of the chick. On the forty-third iay a small hole should be in the shell i aear the a'r chamber, which has already t i :i *r?i. t>een niarxea wnn u pencil. hcai uuj this hole is enlarged so as better to notice iny movement inside. When this is seen the shell must be broken, the membrane torn away, and the chick freed, , taking care to u-e the greatest delicacy in every movement. The chick is trapped up and kept warm for 24 hours, when it has a very small lot of finely;hopped greenstuff with a few bread srumbs. On the third day it gets a little nilk; on the sixth a little grain with :he vegetables and a little water to drink. ?All the Y(ar liovnd. Sfysterions Fate of Mexican Exiles. Tor many years Yucatan has been the Siberia of Mexico, says the Philadelphia Record, whither are exiled the offenders whom the Government does not know what to do with, since the amended constitution of the Liberal party practically does away Wltn capital punisumenr. ib is bandy in cose of political prisoners and troublesome people generally ?who might turn up a<*ftin if banished elsewhere?for from that bourne none has ever returned. It has been the fashion to conduct such obnoxious persons, under military guard to the frontier of Yucatan civilization, or to some out-of-the-way landing place along the coast, and simply let them go. What becomes of them none can tell. The interior is known to be populated by a warlike people, who have towns and cities, and a certain degree of semi barbaric civilization. Whether they enslave newcomers, or naturalire and make citizens of them, or put them to death, is food for conjecture. Probably the mystery of it adds to the punishment its greatest terror. However, it is a well-known truth that among the unfortunates condemned to Yucatan few reach their destination, the soldiers in Viftirin?r gprret orders to give the ?" 6- o o prisoners opportunities to escape and to shoot them down the instantthe seeming chance is acted upon. Chickens Hatched in a Tree. Mrs. Samuel Jones, of Cadiz, Ohio, discovered a hen a week or two ago sit-1 ting on the top of nn old snag in her dooryard. She supposed at the time that the hen was sunning herself, and dismissed the subject from her mind. A few days afterward she heard a cackling in her yard, and, on going to the door, saw the hen . on the ground with two young chicks. A "chirp, "chirp," from the tree indicated there were more to follow. A young chick peeped over the edge of the nest, and after some time being spent in prospecting and conjecturing on the consequences of a fall, tumbled out and down to the ground. +r> tljA nonatprnntion of Mrs. Jones, the little leaper rolled over once or twice, arose to its feet and ran unhurt to its mother. This performance was repeated from the nest in the tree until a dozen young chickens were successfully landed on the ground. The top of the tree is twenty feet from the ground and free from branches. When the old hen had counted her brood and found all pre-ent she clucked a satisfied cluck, ana strutted around in a way that was proud.?QloW.-Djinoorat. An Architcctnral Novelty. The building going up on the site of the ruins of the late fireworks' fire in Broadway. New York, presents a novelty in the shape of lintels of copper. All ill'a wnrk \vn.s to have been done in terra-cotta, but the contractor failed in J in his work, and to save time this experiment was tried. It delights the architect and builder and all who have seen it. Dissolved copper treated electrically is deposited on plaster casts, and produces work that is better than that made by casting the molten metal in molds, because it requires no trimming or finishing with edge tools. The Joy of Wedded Lire. Pure wedded life man's joy completes, Philosophers have said, * How true this is when baby eats , Milk crackers in the bed At night, and t.wixt the snowy sheets Three-cornered crumbs are spread. Boston Courier. ( rfTm>n. , j'ja , y, i i|' ' BUDGET OF FUN. HUMOROUS SKETCHES PROM VARIOUS SOURCES. Then and Now?An Infallible Sljpn? A Man of Ability?Homeward Bound?A Summer Day's Idyl, Etc., Etc. He was a man of some account, And well amoug his neighbors stood: For any reasonable amount His name was good. He tpok to drink, and soon his nose Assumed a tint as red as blooi And now, as far as credit goes, His name is Mud. ?Boston Courier. An Infallible Sign. "Mamma," said the sweet, smalt boy before admiring friends. "I knew as soon as I came in there was folks visiting here." "Did you, darling?" said the fond mother, trying to wilt him with her eye; "how did you know?" 'Oh, you had your company voice on."?Detroit Free Press. A Man of Ability. " Do you know if Brown is a man of ability, Dumley 1" " I don't know anything about Brown or his ability either, and don't want to know. He refused to lend me twentyUna /IaIIowj oir mnnf "ha orxf\ and T Tlftvn'f, noticed him since." "He seems to be a man of financial ability, Dumley.1'?Epoch. Homeward Bound. Purser (making "dinner talk"?"Glad you made 'up your mind to come back with us, Mr. Venu. Did you go everywhere you intended? Pa Venu?"Yep: didn't miss nothin'. Went all through Italy, 'n1 all over." Purser?"You spent some days at Venice, of course?' PaVenu?"Xop. Meant to, but when we got thar, ther' was a flood or somethin' and the hull place was under water. Everybody goin' round in boats. So we cleared right out." Ma Venu?"We was so disappointed 1 Inter-Ocean. A Summer Idyl. WT* am n aiimm/tn nnn i a afiininrv QTlfl Tf UCU WUC OUUlUiCl OUU MO OkixukUQ) auu the tendrils green are twining, and the southern breeze is gentle as the voices in a dream, then the man, for pleasure wishing, takes his pole and goes off fishing, to some cool, sequestered valley, where disports the gladsome stream. On the hank he sits and fishes, breathing blue, corrossive wishes that he never had been guilty of a trip so void of glee; and the bank where he's abiding, suddenly goes downward sliding, and the streamlet bears h'm gently down, toward the sullen sea. When he reaches shore and scrambles, through the waste of thorn and brambles, there are' solemnvoiced mosquitoes, hungry for his princely blood; there are wasps and things to fight him, there are rattlesnakes to bite him, till he gives a howl of frenzy, and starts homeward through the mud. Concluded He Was Mistaken. "Miss Kacktus," said the young man at the Arizona hall, casually resting his hand' on the butt end of his six-shooter. "I believe the next waltz is mine, isn't it?" "I think you are mistaken, Mr. Rounfhip," said another young man who was standing by, as he pointed in a careless, easy manner at Miss Kacktus's card with a bowie knife eighteen inches long; "my name is down for that waltz." "?ou are right, Mr. Lariat," rejoined Mr. Roundup, with his eyes on the glittering blade.?Chicago Tiibune. Tommy's Remarkable Standing. Pa?"Tommy, how do you stand ill your classj" Tommy?"Fm the sixteenth, pa." "You lazy little rascal!" A few days later pa asks Tommy again: "How do you stand now in your class? Have you gone up any ?" "I'm the seventeenth?" "WV?v thfl nfher dav von told me VOU ?? ?j "* "" y */" ??? ? ^ were the sixteenth." "Yes, but a new boy was put in the class yesterday."?Texas Siftings. A Queer Dish. Two gentlemen who had come into a restaurant one day, had scarcely seated themselves at the table when a waiter rushed up and asked, "What shall I bring you, gentlemen'?" "Oh dear," said one of the gentlemen impatiently, give us a little respite!" "All right 1" said the waiter, and diS' appeared. They had been looking over the bill of fare about five minutes, and were waiting rather anxiously for the waiter to return and take their order, when he came up suddenly, as if in breathless haste. / Sorry, gentlemen," said he, but the respite is all qjit 1"?New York News. Could Think So. Two men on a railway train began to discuss a book which the newsboy had left on the seat. ilt ^:?lr if io o woolr fhi nor." A mmiv xv a* ?. .?- 0, said one of them. "I examined it awhile ago, and I see that the characters are weak and ill drawn." "I like it very much," the other man replied. "I think it ia one of the finest pieces of fiction ever produced in this country." I don't see how you can think that." "I do, for, you see, I wrote it."?ArTcan&as Traveler. The Manager's Speech. It was in a Washington theatre one nignt anu uu upeia i"um[mujr nas jjmjing. One of the singers was taken ill, and it was necessary to notify the audience of the change of cast. The manager elected to do it. "The fellows will hear a speech to-n'ght," he said. "These things are always made ridiculous and silly, but I'll show you how to speak to an audience." He went out before the curtain. The audience gave him a reception and then waited for his spccch. "Ladies and gentlemen," he began, "Washington baa always been the home and ceutre of all that is artistic. Music has been more carefully nurtured here than anywhere in the world, and the best and greatest of oper?" At this noint a voice in the gallery called out "Kats!" The manager stopped, looking blandly at the audieuco. "Mr. Smith is sick this evening, and Mr. Clark will sing in his place." Then he bowed and walked off. He did not comment on the speech to the listening crowd behind the scenes. Working in the Dark. "Ma and I," she said, shyly, "are more like sisters than mother and daughter." "Yes?" he said, with a lingering inflection on the afterguard of the "yes" which rose clear to the ceiling. ..." - - ' "Yes, indeed," said the girl, the tosj flush on her cheeks making her infinitely more beautiful than ever. "Ma and I 'are inseparab'es. We have never been separated a single day since I was a little baby." "N-no?" he said, this time with an inflection on the second section of no that went only half way to the ceiling and back again. "Oh, dear, no," the girl went on, in her artless way, "and ma and I always said that when I was married she was going to love my husband like her own son, and come and keep house for us." "Oh-h!" William said, with a circumflex. Then he rose up slowly and firmly and said that he had a note in bauk to take up a? 8 o'clock, and as it was now 9:30, ne would go. And he did go. And he didn't come back again. Not never. And ma said to tne giri: "That's where you missed it in not fully trusting your mother. Why didn't you tell me that man had been married beffire? Had I known he was a widower, I would have played the 'Home for Old Women' racket on him."?Burdette.. Love's Labor Lost. "Now, George, dear," said a fond little Newark wife to' her husband of a year the other day, "this is your birthday, isn't it ? You see I didn't forget if you did, and I've been working dreadfully hard for four months to get a surprise for you, arid I'm going to give you something that's all my own work." She drew back a silken scarf as she spoke and George saw before him alargg * _ - r At. .1 L-1 1 1.^ on painting m a irame tnat ub kb?w ue would have to pay at least $25 for when the bill came in. "Now, my dear," she said gleefully, "aren't you surprised ? Didn't know I could paint, did you ? I couldn't four months ago, but I painted every bit of that picture myself." "You did ?" said George, "well, I am surprised. How perfectly natural those cows are." " Cows ? Why, George, those are horses." "Oh, so they are; I wasn't looking "closely, I was so taken up with the natural look this old stump has." "That stump I Why, my dear husband, that's a man." "Oh, of course it is. I see it plain enough now, and I suppose that is his little dog running by h.s side. Looks wonderfully like our little Fido." I "George, it isn't a dog; it's a little ! boy!" "Why, I?I?the picture isn't in a ' good light, is it? Let s more it around a little. There; that's better. You have succceded wonderfully with that mountain in the distance." "George, where are your eyes? That isn't a mountain?it's a hay stack." "So it is. What am I thinking of? I've been looking all the time at that 1 pretty rustic bridge." "There's no bridge in the picture. You must mean that rail fence." "No, surely not. What is the matter with this light? See, now it is a fence, and there's a white cow lying down i on " | "George Jenkins, that white cow lying ; down is a lady in a white dress sitting ; on a fallen log. You're making fun of I the picture and " i L \T**. M/t m T? T T f I i^u, iii/, mj ucai) x j. ? "You're just as mean as you " "Now, now, dearie, I 1 " "You're horrid; you just are! I'll never paint another picture as long as I live. I never wilL"?Detroit Pree Preta. The Making of Glass Tabes. "How is glass tubing made?" said a Mail and Express reporter to a large New York dealer. "Well, it will not take very long to tell you all I know about it, but its manufacture is surprisingly simple. The ' ?1 ? omnll nuanfif T7 f\f UlUWCl (atVUO O OLUUii ^uauvivj v* melted glass from the pot with his blowing tube, rolls it slightly on a marble slab to give it a cylindrical form, he then adds a small quantity of glass from the same pot, and blows the enlarged mass while rolling it, taking great pains to keep the shape cylindrical. If the tubes of large calibre are required, the inside diameter of the cylinder is enlarged and the glass is allowed to cool slightly before drawing. For tubes of very small calibre, such as thermometer tubes, the internal diameter is decreased and the glass is used very warm. In making a piece of glass tubing the assistant places a ball of glass against the end of the glass cylinder by aid of his blowing tube. Now the men, each holding an end of the glass cylinder by means of their blowing tubes, begin to i snnarate. walking backward. The ! cylinder is thus lengthened, and at the | same time made smaller in diameter. : When the tube has attained the right size it is generally too warm and soft to admit of laying it down without destroying its shape; it is then cooled by means of a fan. When it is sufficiently tooled, it is laid upon a series of equidistant parallel blocks of uniform length, whore it remains until cool. It is then cut into lengths with a diamond or file. If the tubes are required to resist great pressure or changes of temperature, they are annealed, by plungin them into boiling linseed oil, and then cooled. Modern ISngar Myths. There is no white sugar. It is not crystalline, out coDgiuuieraic, n, m uu> sweet, and, if ynu put it into hot water, a strange phenomenon appears. The experiment is crucial with modern sugar. In at least the rast majority of cases a dirty, cloudy solution is the result, bringing sometimes most unjust accusations of hapless servitors. As used in tea, coffee and other opaque and deeplycolored mixtures, this abominable characteristic of modern sugar of course escapes observation. But let anybody try his sugar in a colorless solution, and if he does not see a soapy cloud diffuse itself he is a lucky man. The scientific person whose aid has been called in to screw the last gram of sugar,or so-called sugar, over the legal amount out of the harmless beet, so as to secure profit, best knows what oDSCene means jib iskcs iu secure this obscene result. We only know the fact, and the further fact that of swgar taste in modem sugar there is about as much, let us say, as of cheese taste in American cheese.?Suturday ifcvieir. Wandering Celestial Bodies. Between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, at the distance of about 210,000,000 miles from the sun, there revolve some 205 little bodies whose diameters vary from eight or_ten miles to 200. Whether they are, as rroiessor loung once aescribed them, parts of a p'anet spoiled in the making or not is unknown and, perhaps, may never be solved. But certain it is that there are almost numberless little celestial bodies of this character. whose revolutions around the sun are performed as unerringly as those of the larger planets. They are called planetoids, from two Greek words, which mean resembling a planet or wanderer. Chicago fruit dealers are buying large tracts of land in Sonoro, Mexico, to engage in orange culture. INDIAN BELIEFS. SUPERSTITIONS OP THE PUEBBO AND NAVAJOE TRIBES. 1 The Eagle and tbe Snake Held ih Sacred Estimation?A Hideous Rite?Afraid of the Camera,. Eta A San Mateo (New Mexico) letter to. the St. Louis Globe-Democrat says: The Pueblos?commonly called Indians, but rpallv /locnon^onfa nf iVin onnionf A 7tAP.fl ?*V,UUVUV4UU Vt VUV UUV4WMW * ? lovvw ?have numerous superstitions. The eagle is a sacred bird with them?the winged throne of tjieir emperor god, Monteczuma, for whose promised second advent they still patiently wait. In any of the Pueblo cities you will find the great, dark eagles, either tethered upon the housetops or penned in little corrals of cedar, and religiously tended. The Pueblo hunter always has marvelous luck if he carries with him a tiny stone .image of a cayote with a tiny arrow head lashed to its aide. Though nominally converted to Cotholicism, the Pueblos are still secret but ardent fire worshipers. The snake, too, is sacred to them, and von will find its Rvmbolic coils in their rock sculptures and on their quaint silver jewelry. Some Pueblo towns used to keep each an enormous snake in a closed room,and feed it with children. The Pueblo of La Cla, twenty-five miles we3t of Bernalillo, was nearly depopulated thus. It had a snake of enormous size, kept in a room, whose doors and windows were watted up. In the roof was a small hole, sealed with a heavy fiat rock. The first I day of every month the, people drew lots to see whose child should be sacri ficed to the snake-god. The chosen babe was carefully bathed and anointed, and then tossed, naked, down the hole to the hungry serpent. It is only six years since this hideous rite was stopped by a priest, who finally prevailed on the Pueblos to tear down the walls and kill the snake. The Novajoes, now the strongest an^ richest tribe of Indians in the country, are all enormously superstitious. Their oldest terror, perhaps, is that which they cherish for the photographic camera. Plant a tripod within a quarter of a mile of a Novajoe hogan and the dusky inhabitants will flee as from the plague. It is their solemn belief that a picture is actually subtracted from the entity of the sitter?that he is so much the less uy ine operation, now many piciurus they would think it would be necessary to take before the person would be all gone, and his whole being diverted into the counterfeit presentments, I have never been able to learn, but, apparently, they deem the fatality as rapid as it is certain. The snake they hold in holy abhorrence. Of the violence of their prejudice against it I had a striking proof some years ago. Chit-chi, brother of old Manuelito, the boss silversmith of the tribe, is a very good friend of mine and has made me some remarkable specimens of native jewelry. .On one occasion I employed him to make me a bracelet in the form of a snake. He had it about half finished when some of his fellows chanced to call at the hogan. To say that they were horrified when they saw what he was about is putting it very mildly. They fell upon the obnoxious f* 3 . 3 ?l _ J A. 1 - A. - _l ngure ana destroyed it, ana men reporteu Chit-chi to the elders of the tribe, who promised him aa artistic stoning to death if he ever dabbled again in such tabooed workmanship. But the most vivid of all Navajoe superstitions cluster around the bear? Shash, as they call him. "Bear heap sabie"?in fact they deem him the wisest of created things. His clairvoyance surpasses that of the best mediums in whom so many of our own enlightened fellowcountrymen believe. The Navajoes never kill a bear, save under the direst necessity. IJe is an evil spirit whoss wrath fhey are scrupulously careful not to invoke. If a bear kills a Navajoe, and.it can be proved conclusively which bear 1 did the murder, a larce force turns out 1 and slays the bear?albeit with many , lamentations, and deprecations and apol| ogies. But, save in tnis extreme case, his ursine majesty is left severely alone. If a Navajoe spies a bear's track or cave, he takes to his heels, screaming at the top of his voice. Some weeks ago I offered one of our Navajoe shepherds $30?a fortune for him?if he -would show me the cave of a bear which wa3 beginning to thin the flock, but the proffer was vain, as I knew it would be. The Navajoes firmly believe that if one of them were to show the retreat of a bear, or in i any other way incur his displeasure, 1 Shash would know the culpiit and incontinently devour him and hi3 entire fami| ly. The mountain lion's skin is of suI preme value among tliem; but no Navajoe can be hired or driven to touch'a ! h*>Ar skin. Such ia the effect of suDer I stition upon a race who we: e until rej ccntly the bravest native warriors on the . continent, except the grue3ome Apache. Flannel Made of Yejretables. Vegetable flannel is a textile material largely manufactured in Germany from the pinus sylvestris. The fibre is spun, knitted and woven into undergarments and clothing of various kinds, for which medical virtues are claimed. There are two establishments near Breslau, in which pine leaves are converted into wool ana flannels. The process for converting the pine needle into wool was discovered by Mr. Pannewitz. In the hospitals, penitentiaries and barracks of Vienna and Breslau, blankets made from that material are exclusively used. One of their chief advantages is that 110 vermin will lodge in them. The material is also used as stuffing, closely resembles horse hair and is one-third of its cost. When spun and woven the thread resembles that of hemp, and is made into jackets, spcccevs, drawers and stockings, flannel aud twill fcr shins, coverlets, body and chest warmers and knitting yarn. They keep the body warm without healing, And are very durable. The factories are lighted with gas from the refuse of these manufactures. Co operation of the Seus33. Some curious experiments have led Dr. Urbanschitsch, of Vienna, to the conclusion that the exciting of one sense-organ mcreasca uie ac.ucueso ui the others, the different sensations seeming to re-enforce one another. Hearing a sound will bring out the ;ust indistinguishable color of a distant disc. The ticking ol a watch is heard more plainly with open than closed eyes, the fact that we listen to music or speaking with the eyes closed being due to other reasons. The sight of red and green increases perceptions of sound; that of green and red weakens them. These colors affect sensations of smell, ; taste and touch in like manner. Touch and temperature act reciprocally. When the skin is tickled and plunged into warm water the tickling ceases; when into cold the tickling brings out the feeling of cold. These observations offer an explanation of the singular associations between colors and sounds | that some individuals obtain. - ^ 'ir^ Paper todf&LwftE>mixtu?*of camphor oil and li^^d oil becomes watetDr. Julias Pohlman declares that our teeth decay from lack of exercise?oar foodbeiag too soft to require*much chewing, especially daring childhood. !||B| The sag&r mite (Ac&ras sacohari) is es..nWiAA nnn tut Mnn/I in uiuatwu vu uuutuvi awjyw j*v? ? ? v >. most unrefined sugars. It causes the "grocers'it ch^ft ho 3d handling the Ei height, is the more ambitions Alpine clubmea. 1 Traveling, according to Mr. Freshfield, is tolerably secure. The French Government is about to build an absolutely unsinkable man-ofwar. This will be accomplished by the use of celulose amorphe, a product of cocoanut fibreJjjo elastic that if pierced the hole closes^f itself. Never use fl^ic acid when cleaning glycerine bott*r?"iiurse recently ied this experimenCTQm^the bottle exploded. i -k Nitric acid and glycerine form a liyely compound called nitro-glycerine, which won't be pounded with impunity! Among recent mechanical Curiosity are a scarf pin with a bird's head that, as you examine it, is made to twiner dj gut preseure upon a concealed rubber ball: and a bicycle aith wheels six and a-half feet in diameter, between which the rider sits on tlie connecting axles.. A-museum (^religions is a novelty of the French nftopolis. A. traveler of ? Lyons, M. GuiKel*,hM long been collecting altars, pri?8tr robes, and other objects relating to religious ceremonies; ? and these have been presented to Paria on condition that a suitable building be provided, which has been done. An automatic chess recorder has been IW, produced by Dr. "Wurstemburger, of J Zurich. An ingenious electrical arrangement prints on a strip of paper the index number and letters, of . the square from to which the piece is moved, and jjftres of the black pieces have a di5ercQRl4c?_Qjuthe tape from \ those of the^Spt^ ^ Some peof>i*5onbt the poiaonous eifect of nutmeg, but several eases of nut-meg poisoning have been notec??fc tfya Bri'.iah Medual Journal during the past summer. A whole nutmeg was taken in four of the cases, and five whole ones ifc S. the remaining: case, In still another case, the use of half a nutmeg in a hot drink was nearly fataL . * A very rare water lily fortv yearn ago liait '' 1? "rrr_r_i_i. discovered t?ur. ensues ??n^uv w Texas, has Sgtr, been re discovered near Waco. <^HHw~plitnt -raised In England fro^WT^it's seed, Dr.'Hooker named it Nympliaa elegant?elegant from . its remarkable beauty. The half-opened bnds are deep lavender, lighter at the base, and the sepals of the expanded flowers seem tipped with purplish blueThe sepals are also brownish or purplish lined. No doubt there are other places in Texas where it also grows, await- V ^ ing some watchful eye to cee. The 'j&Bk seeds are globular instead of coid. Two young ladies^^Saiah A. Trimble and Hiss 38 H. Judith Upright nrnqd it there. . lWl^g'with ^nnatlCT^v, Manyjrtecdotes are niFTateThMtiiUfc trate the tact required in dealing lunatics. Ajnoncr the inmates of an asylum near Philadelphia was a man who was considered perfectly harmless, but who, having no home, was allowed to remain there, Jjeing employed to show visitors aro?l. The doctor went on the roof wirajhim one day to see about repairing it, when the man suddenly turned and suggested that they shoulfr^jgH jump down to the ground together. Immediately the doctor replied: 'No, don't let's do that. Any one can jump down. Let's go down and ?ee if we can jump up." The lunatic considered the -point "well taken," and agreed. The head of a private asylum in Eng- . land was in the bathe room watching a "'-v number of lunatics bath, when one of , ^ them called out: "Let's duck the doc- ''7 tor," and thoLall took up the cry. Seeing his danjA the doctor said at once: "All right^btT^ Jmt. suppose you give a cheer for him tirst;" and thSfeoise of rV their cheering brought the keepers in to. his rescue. The same docto? was in a room with a'lunatic who by some mean* had possessed himself of a carving knife. The lunatic informed him gravely that he had been ordained by God to cut him into little pieces, and much as he re* ^ gretted it, he should be obliged to do it JL 4,Very well,"said the doctor, "of coarse^ T? if that is the case, I shall make no at* tempt to prevent you, but I see yonr x , knife needs -sharpening. Allow me to ? crrindstona for VOU. And DO ob jectioa Seing raisfc, the quick witted -*} doctor made his escape.?New Pork Post. The Bomance of the Stocking Loom. In speaking of the 'invention of thf'^-fei? stocking loom, Dr. lire says: "It was an ancient tradition around Wood borough, England, his birthplace, that Lee, in youth, was enamored of a mistress of thi v knitting craft, who had become rich by employing young women at this highlyprized and lucrative industry. __ By studying fondly the dexteroia movement of the lady's hand, he became himself an adept, and had imagined a scheme oi making artificial nngers ior kuuuu^ many loops at once. Whether this fen*-' 3&I inine accomplishment excited jealousy, or detracted from his manly attractions, is not said; but his suit was received with J coldness and then rejected with scorn. . ,.<* Revenge prompted him to realize the idea whicn love first inspired, and to give days and nights td the work. This, ere long, he brought to such perfection that it has since remained without essential improvement the most remark-^?* able stride ia modern invention. He thus taught his mistress that the love of . ' a man of genius is not to bo slighted with impunity." Oar Eyes arc Close Together. The effort of the War Department to secure a field glass for the service of greater power than the one they now use, has discovered the fact that the eyes of the average American are closer tnrrothnr than thnsfl of men in foreisrn countries. The double glass, known as the field glass, now used, is weaker than that used in the armies of Europe. It is of only from five to six powers?entirely too weak for the purpose. The only glass they can get of sufficient power ia a single spy-glass, which is defective in that it docs not take in a broad enough field. The best military field glass in use is that with which the German army is supplied. An attempt was made to adopt them by the "War Department, but it was found that the eyes of tbe glasses were so far apart that they could nnf hcucpH hv Americans. The Depart ment is studying now to overcome thia difficulty.?Pittsburg Dispatch. . Vermont's maple sugar crop this season is in quantity and in quality above the ^ average, owing to recently introduoed ^ improvements in its manufacture. The < yield is estimated at lo, 000,000 pounds. L v