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p.m A POSTAL CAR. OPERATIONS OF THE FLYING POSTOFFICE. i How the Clerk's Handle the flails? Catching Mail Bags on the FJy?An Arduous Occupation. tHE wonderful facility, rapidity and accuracy which has been attained in the transDortation and f jfr- I V?J| Hi, delivery of our daily \^y?\}\mails, although of 11 , fcuch immediate lm' |' portance are,says the V7 \ j San Francisco J \ Chronicle, one of if i \ tbe most ill-appreciII \\ atct* benefits which (Jr^ | an indulgent and pro SL gre?sive Government ever bestowed. The mighty stride from a lumbering stage coach,dusty,uncertain and slow, with cne man for driver, mail clerk and postman, to the rushing special mail trains?grabbing and distributing the pouches as they tear along at sixty miles an hour, and with nearly 7000 railway mail clerks working like beavers to land the mail on time, has come bo gradually that man,woman and child regard it as a matter of course,and rarely stop to wonder how it all happens. Through the courtesy of A. H. Merrill. AmiotAnt Sunerintendent of Rail way Mail Service for this, the Eighth Division, a Chronicle representative was ipermitted a few days ago to ride with ithe mail to Sacramento and return to this city, and watch the whole progress of newspapers, business and love letters (from their authors to the happy recipients. At the Oakland mole a great pile of at least thirty pouches and tie sacks iwas thrown into the car, and those not being "worked" were piled in a corner ito make room for an installment of .twenty more that were loaded in at Sixteenth street. The mail clerk on this particular day (Sunday) was fortunate enough to have the assistance 01 anotner clerk, who was enjoying a rest of live days after a five days' run, as the ungual weight of Sunday's big paper mail required two men. Both boarded the train an hour before it started to work up the first installment of mail. They had each a pair of overalls on, sleeves rolled to their elbows, and before the train started the perspiration streamed from their brows. WORKING UP THE MAIL IN LETTER CAR. Along in the middle of the car. ranged on both sides, are the racks for pouches, with thirty huag up in each, and a box-shaped receptacle is arranged to slide along on ways between the two racks, so that they can get at either end readily to throw mail. It can be lifted out when not in use. Into this box the contents of every sack are dumped. All of those sixty pouches, strung openmouthed in the racks, are labeled for every town or city, be it great or small, along the route with others named fcr roads and still others for destinations far beyond California. Now those clerks must inspect every paper, parcel and bundle of letters, for letters are sorted at the main office and many of them tied in bunches for different towns, for which they are labeled, and throw it into the correct pouch as fast as he can work. Papers, bundles, letters?everything I fairly flies in that car. Cold Spring is away over m a corner sack; bang! goes ten pounds of papers, and then comes a THE CLERKS DIPTH1EUTING MAIL"handle-with-catc1' box of bonbons before the first Las hit?cxactly where it belongs. In the mean time the train is thundering along and the whistle gives warning of an approaching station. The clerk grabs a pouch, stu&s the last letter in, hurriedly locks it and rushes to the door to heave the sack out and grasp the handle of a queer-shape-! contrivance that hangs on the side of the car. It is the "catcher." that crabs a pouch as they fly along. Tip! something hits the car, and in the crutch of the iron catcher a .pouch doubles itself up like a jack-knife and is hauled in to be dumped and worked up. This catcher is a great invention. It 'is simply a sort of two-tined pitchfork fastened to the door iambs, so that it will turn, and a handle is provided to turn it with. The mail at a by-station is done up in a special sack, strapped in the middle to make it oarrow-waisted, so as to sup way into inc catcner anu ooi fall, and is hung on a scaffolding bymeans of turning hooks, which arc placed in rings at both ends of the pouch. When the catcher is turned horizontally ?one tine, as it were, sticks out, and the narrow part of the sack glides up into the crutah, when the catcher hits it, sometimes sticking so hard that it is difficult to remove it. Mail received on the route has to be opened and distributed instantly, as there may be something for the very next station, and where the train runs fast it re quires some lively worK to get tue poucucs ready. The letters that are scattering?thai is, few for any one town?are tied in a bundle and addressed simply to the road, as "Ogden and San Fran." These are r THE MAIL POUCH CATCHER. placed to one side in the distribution and have to be "worked*' in the letter case. This case has innumerable pigeon-holes, each one labeled for a town or a mail route, and there again the accurate knowledge of every burg in the State is required; for all those letters must be separated, examined and posted in the case without the slightest delay. Subsequently they are again tied into bundles j and thrown into sacks for their destination. Errors are rigidly checked against every clerk and he never ceases to study ' Viimualf Cnmohmpo nor?. I ttUU UlipiUTC IHIH.1W11? wv/uivwiuiw ! pie write a horrible address or only half a one; perhaps there aw several town3 of one name in a State or similar names in different States and the State is left out, or again a new town springs up in a night. Tliese worry the poor clerk to death. Then there are the ''nixies." These are letters addressed to places that | do not exist, papers and parcels from which labels have become detached, bundles unwrapped and the address destroyed and many other things. All of these are buuehed aud sent to the nearest main division office marked "nixies" and perhaps reported to tbeir senders, as it is impossible to tell where they are to go. Another convenience to people is the ! car "drop," where a love letter, still warm and perhaps still throbbing, is deposited?maybe because just finished, and maybe 60 that the young local postmaster in a village wont know who is corresponding with whom. These letters must be kept out as fast as they fall. The stamps have to be "killed and the letters distributed immediately. Each road has a different stamp, so that receiving offices know who handled that mail. Of course the small stations occur at very short intervals, and the consequence is a continued jumping about of the clerk to land things on time. After the first big receipt of mail is worked up the sacks lrom these stations keep coming along and intervals are very short. However, rests come once in a while; and then a portion of the trip report embracing every transaction is written up, or a lot of sacks are tied and locked. The lock that Uuclc Sam uses is very cumbersome and slow, often vexing the clerk more than the mail itself. A number of new devices F' A MAIL POUCH READY "OR TIIE CATCHER. 1 have been patented, bat the Government | does not care to buy them. The labor ; of locking sixty sacks and dragging I their henvv weitrht alons to Dile them lit) ready for dumping is itself a big job, ' aud as fast as hooks are emptied new pouches must be spread open on them to receive more mail. j Registered packages are treated with unbounded precaution. Every man who receives one in its transit must examine .J its condition and then give a receipt to | the last man, make out and forward one for himself, keep a special record of it in a boot? provided for the purpose and include it iu his trip report. He is required to keep a receipt for it for five year?, as in tracing a lost one every receipt must be shown until the responsible person is found. The postsl clerk has need to be robust in health, active in mind and body aud endurijjg of fatigue above almost any other calling. Frequently they arc obliged to work steadily for from twenty to thirty hours, and this in a close, stulTy car, rocdng and swaying along while they toil like troopers and eat and i ' Icq. when and where they get a chance. A Clock Made of Flowers. A littie masterpiece of mechanism, and ; at the came time a model of garden decoration, is the floral clock which decorates the garden of an ingenious Parisiau. i The aDDeaiance of this oddest of time pieces is shown in the accompanying cut. The dial, which is not less than thirty feet in diameter, is composed entirely of choice plants of various colors. The hands, which actually move over the face of the clock, are made in the same manner, and the whole effect of the arrangement is that of an immense basket of flowers. The mechanism which i drives the hands is lodged in a large chamber built in the garden immediately beneath the dial. It is composed of the usual machinery employed in operating large clocks, except that it is paiticukrly constructed to move the V great weight of the earth which must be supported by the revolving hands. This si a cunions floral clock. is clevcrly accomplished by making an ordinary clock tram release a volume of water every minute and this by its gravltv operates the wheels that send the heavy hands forward. The whole arrangement is exceedingly ingenious and interesting, and, according to the Philadelphia Record, is the daily admiration and 'ponder of hundreds of the inventor's townsmen. Remarkable African Coiffures. The accompanying illustration of a young unmarried woman of the upper Mobangi River region shows a remarkable arrangement of the hair, which is not found elsewhere in Africa. On the upner Mobangi and its large tributary, the Romu River, the young women en'* ' ? ? xL J .4. courage toe growin oi tncir uair, auu it usually falls to their shoulders. They then lengtheu it artificially by braiding into it hair that has come from their own heads. The long and heavy braids often sweep the earth. The braid is saturated with oil, and when a ^I youDg woman is at 5^ J work or on the 9* march she rolls it J' around her arm. a(s^\ \vY\ Usually the upper w >o\\ ^Ps ?* ^e8e S^8 are M \V\\ p^erce^t an<^ a veir Kl\ \ small piece of quartz, ffMX \ \\ ivory, or iron is in^ troduced into the ! opening. The married wof'/^M men and the men of the upper Mobanjji WvJL also wear their hair ttgf lou? and in braids, ^jtA -which are profusely adorned with colored ir beads, woveu in and out among the locks. This coiffure excites the astonishment of all travelers who see it. Coquetry is the privilege of the sex under the tropics as well as in civilized lands, and the women arc very proud of their headdress. The arrangement of their hair requires a number of days, and, while it is in progress, or when ttey fear that it will be disarranged, they cover the hair with a finely woven net of wood fibre. Ivory needles, handsomely carved, keep the arrangej ment in position ana give it, some ex-. | plorers say, a truly artistic aspect, j Among the Sakkaras the women twist their hair into flat braids, which are literally covered with cowry shells or bead?, and the ends are then gathered above the head, forming a sort of bonnet. The whole is drenched liberally with palm oil and sprinkled with red powder. At night the women go to sleep with their necks resting in a concavity that has been dug out of a small log, thus keeping their headwear from touching anything and thereby being disarranged. Sometimes this uncomfortable pillow is hollowed out, the top of itbeiug a lid which, when lifted off, discloses a receptacle in which arc kept the hairpins and other objects of the toilet. The natives of the lower Congo wear their kinky hair short, and women and men grease it with palm oil and sprinkle over it the red powder of cam wood. They often shave the head with little kuives, which they whet upon th<; palms of their hands. When the women have lost parents they have a Biugular custom. They mix powdered charcoal with oil and plaster the hair with this ingredient, having previously divided their locks into many little braids. The effect is that of a lot of black, stiff sticks growing on their heads, and is anything but pleasing. On the upper Congo thf; natives give a great deal more imagination and labor to the arrangement ot their headdress. Some of them, however, like the Ban gala, Keep their neaas ci03eiy snavea, except for little tufts of hair 011 top and at the 6ides. On the middle Mobangi Kiver the Datives also shave their heads. This is a very general custom among cannibal tribes. Not all cannabals on the Congo shave their heads, but it is certain that all tribes which follow this practice are cannibals.?New York Sun. The grant Triplet*. nri*** woll br?AT*rn ^Iranf trinlofc of Torrington, Conn., Matthew A., Daniel A. and William A. Grant, reached their i seventy-first birthday anniversary on Friday. i The three were born on September 23, 1J1821, in an old two-story farmhouse in centre of Torrington, and must have been strong and healthy children, for they have had hardly a day of sickness in their lives. William and Daniel look much alike, and are very often mistaken one for the i other, but Matthew is of a little differj ent type, being shorter and more thick J set. They all have light-gray eyes, white hair, and bronzed and weather! beaten countenances, and look uncom| monly well for men seventy-one years old. ~Pv pi S -V i 11 William and Daniel l??e together in Torrington, but Matthew is by himself in a house in West Burrville.? New York Sun. 9 THE KAISER. A GRAPHIC PEN PICTURE OF GERMANY'S EMPEKOK, An Imposing Presence ? His Heformed Lelt Hand and Strong Right Hand?raking the Kaiser's Photograph. I I HAD this illustrious man under my mental magnifying glass for fully one hour, and not his slightest movement escaped my rigid observation, says H. W. Fischer, in Harper's Weekly. He is not a tall man, as you know, but his presence nevertheless is imposing. His limbs are powerful and his chest broad. On a somewhat short, stout neck sits a ruddy and firm face, the forehead expansive and full of meaning. His Majesty has a fine nose, "? * - LI iU.i A :?? ana large iiquiu uiue eyes, mm,, uespuu the semi-inquisitive directness with which they look into the world and the imperious mien they so often assume, are capable of looking kind and considerate. After the first pitting Mr. Russell whispered to me, "I have caught his eyes splendidly, just at the moment when they fell on that little dog yonder. I am so glad." There was a little dachshund chasing about the veranda, who seemed anxious to get on the Emperor's picture. Neither the alluring tones in which the lackeys called to him from a distance nor a well directed but kindly kick from his Majesty were able to divert the little beast from his purpose. So much devotion seemed to V IV- -n ??_ ?< LUUCLL LUC J^UJpciUi a AJcaib at xaov, auu when the dog tried to climb up his leg for the tenth time, looking into his face pleadingly, His Majesty bowed down, lifted up the little creature in his arms, and ordered Mr. Russell to photograph him in this position, "for his boys, rota bene, not for the Marine Exposition," as he laughingly remarked. The Kaiser's movements were swift, almost rapid, but not without grace. He never aeciucu iu iicsiMiiic iwi uuc uiuiucuu about his wants or his doings, and chatted with the photographer about his (the photographer's) art with a freeness and precision that were, indeed, amazing. He seemed to be fully aware of the effects of light and shade in photography, and took his positions with a fine appreciation of these elements. Time and again I have seen it stated in print and heard it remarked that one of the great cares that make life a burden to the Emperor is hi9 constaut endeavor to conceal his disfigured and withered left hand from observation. During the hour I was in attendance upon the Kaiser I found that just the op* posite was the fact. Mr. Russell and myself exhausted every conceivable scheme to induce his Majesty to assume a position which would hide his de formity. He frustrated them all, in a kindly manner, a9 if he saw through our little game, and took special delight iu spoiling ft. The left hand of the Kaiser is not deformed so as to be unsightly. It is small and apparently weak like that of a child. The arm is at least four inches shorter than the right arm, but its upper part seems well built. It is not true that the Emperor is obliged to lift and carry his left arm with his right hand when, perchance, he wants the left to rest on his omnrH or ait. nn liin hin whilfi nn hnr?#>. back. The left hand works quite naturally, and the ?mperor uses it quite freely. Hi? Majesty's right hand is very strongly developed. It is red, almost massive, and reminds me of the "terrible right" of John L. Sullivan. The Kaiser lavishes on this right hand a surprising superfluity of rings, that sparkle with immense diamonds and brilliants. "Have you ever seen the uniform of my Garde du Corps?" asked the Emperor, when we had exhausted the possibilities of the Admiral's dress. Mr. Kusseu naa not, out i assured tne I Kaiser that it would look very well indeed on a photograph. "If that is the case,"said the Emperor "please have your instruments carried to the park in the rear of the palace, and await me at the beginning of the high-road to the commons. I will ride over to the parade in fifteen minutes, and will give you a sitting on horseback before leaving." The Kaiser was ns good as his word, and, before a quarter of an hour had elapsed, appeared with his cavalcade of adjutants, court officials, and lackeys at the point mentioned. It was a most A. ?nt "XT * J.A picturesque sigai. me inustur vi uac Horse in his scarlet and gold uuifortn rode at the head of the proud column, followed by a number of grooms in the splendid livery of the royal house. Then came two of the Kaiser's adjutants, one of whom wore the gorgeous Garde du Corps dress, with the black iron cuirass and the eagle-crowned silver helmfct. The other, Herr von Moltke, >i nephew of the late Field-Marshal, and a young man of immense proportions and a kind-. ly face, wore an infantry uniform set off by much silver ornamentation. Immediately after them followed the Kaiser on a graceful black charger. He looked the very perfection of a picturesque and heroic rider. His Btrong, bronzed face baa perhaps a less pleasing aspect under the heavy silver helmet, but it bespoke the man's high position and his quality as the "war lord," the title given him by the copstitution of the new empire. Trealinent of Earache. There are simple remedies for most common disorders requiring no skilled attention, and even experts arc ofetn willing to give away cures that anybody can manage. No doubt many people have tbanked the man who published without a patent thij easy relief for the earache: "I am afraid I have greatly interfered with my own practice," said a celebrated artist, "by giving the following advice to many of my friends: "At the first symptoms of earache let tUU puiicut xic uu iuc ueu wilii mc jjuiu ? ful ear uppermost. Fold a thick towel aud tuck it around the neck; then with a teaspoon fill the ear with warm water. "Continue doing this for fifteen or twenty minutes. The water will till the orifice and flow over on the towel. Afterward turn over the head, let the water run out and plug the sar with warm glycerine aud cotton. "This may bo done every hour until relief is obtained. It is an almost invariable cure and has saved many cases of acute inflammation. The water should be quite warm, but not too hot." ?London Tid Bits. Cowards in the Dark. *'I was in the British army when a young man," saifl an Englishman the other day, " and was stationed for some time in India. Our Colonel, an old campaigner who had won his spur in the Crimea, became involved in a difficulty with a fellow officer, and a duel was the result. The Colonel, being the challenged party, selected pistols as the weapons and elected that the affair should occur in a darkened room. "We 6ccured a room twenty feet square, closed every crevice that would admit light, placed our men in corners diagonally opposite and withdrew. Each man was provided with three charges and when these were exhausted we rushed in to gather up the mutilated remains. Each man stood erect and soldier-like in the corner untouched, but directly behind the head of the Colonel's opponent were the three bullet bole6 made by the Colonel's pistol. 'How is this'? said 8 grizzled old Major. 'Had you been standing here when those shots were fired you would have been killed.' The culprit was compelled to admit "that lie had dropped to one knee. 'You are a coward, sir, and unfit for the company of soldiers and gentlemen,1 snorted the Major. 'Hold on, Major,' said the Colonel. 'It is a stand off. While he was on his knees in one corner I was on my stomach in the other.'"?New York Dispatch. Wonderful Blade 8. The most wonderful weapons in history, uniting miraculous sharpness with wonderful elasticity, are undoubtedly the blades of Damascus. The sabre of Japan, though as hard as a diamond, with an edge so acute that it will go through a pillow or a poker as if it were air, cannot compete with the old Syrian swords, because it has no elasticity. This elasticity i? not alto gether a lost art, as to-day one may Bee in Toledo, Spain, blades packed in coils like watch spring*. Swords have been made during the present century in Ruesia that rivaled in edge and bending qualities the famous Damascus blades. At the imperial factory of Zlatoust, in the Urals, some have been turned out which bend till the point touches the hilt, and which would also cut through an iron bar. More than this uo blada has ever done, or can do. ?Yankee Blade. The area planted to rice in Queensland was 456 acres in 1891, yielding 22,914 bushels. The industry is being extended. A Correspondent Answered. I. N.?The factoir town of Griffith lies nine miles southeast ot Chicago and has four railroads, one a complete bnlt line, and two fuel-ail pipe-lines. A full description of this growing town can prohnbly be had by addressing its founders. Jay A. Dwiggins dfc Co., of Chicago. Japanese fruits have proved of great value in many sections of the United estates. ? 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Colossal heights mantled in nevermelting snows tower thousands of feet in the air, but within the shadow of these mighty uplancu, id tDe aneuerea hollows beneath, lie immense valleys j carpeted in richest grasses, and grace-, fully tinted with wild flowers. Here in1 the summer a genial clime is found,! where strawberries and other wild fruits' ripen to luxuriance, where there are fourj and a half months of summer and seven, and a half of winter. In June and July: the sun is lost below the horizon only for a' few hours, and the temperature, though chilly at night, has an average of sixty-five degrees in the daytime.? Century. Berlin's 1,315,600 people have only. 26,000 dwellings, fifty persons living in house. ! It Ait Wonder That Dr. Hoxsie's Certain Cure should be so universally popular.' Of course not; It Is so pure in Its preparation, 601 otent in effect. It ntnpn a cntflfram g -ing t/i hie lung# ItHe magic. 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Write for (Treasury < j Inforrr 11 Condensed Encyclopedia H Being a handy Reference upon nearly er n taining in a condensed form whnt < V a great many large Encyo A WITH A COMPLETE ANALYTICAL I EDITED BY THE ABLEST TA It tells about nearly every subject under the i It gives wtmt nearly every one want* to know, or paper there are frequent referee oes to a tnoui would like to understand a lltUe more about, an books to refer to. be oan learn nothing; but here, Index and find toe page, and the wboie thing Is c ant feature of the book la, that In addition to e\ that any one word can be MKMMiBMna reader will find everything _ ^ >ect Is coUt-ctid lopriktr r W fixation. For examples 1% I1 1J one place, and everything " JF MM r Ur; while, In the Complete I fa II M aeter and reference la al- V M ?w A enabling the reader to ologr, or to refer, at a PROFUSELY I oloipo&l character, aod sfcort paragraph. Tbeaame In History, Phllosc. rive an Idea of the more important matters we e Geology, ChemUtry, Mythology, Vegetable Creatl log, European Literature, English Literature, Bralah History, History of all Nations. .No one n work at hand. Kvery person should poesess a oo valuable information have been tne books most i too many volumes aod too oostly for the general TOLUME, at a low price, wltaln toe means of all. covered: There are 288 paragraphs In Astronom Chemistry, beat and Light, Electricity, Hag- / ? Motion: IflS on Veceta- ||| V CZf tlok; IS# on Ethnology, J |^| ^ | 0\ gunge. Literature, etc.; % man Philosophy. 57 on POHT and Arts, lit on Liters ny, Spain, Italy; 381 ^ssssssss?#?sss#? Literature and the Fine Arts, 90 on British Cons and Historical Explanations, 13ion Ancient Hlsto Mythology and Grecian History, 4S on Auclent Gi and Medieval History; 851 on History ot All N'atlc travels 192,000 miles In a second?See page 50. Vi Hramurlitfl wiu turn 1564: dled 1616?pttjfC 143. Ti ?page 330. Printing Invented 1487 by John Uutte tomb* of the Pharaohs, and arc from 3,000 to 4.00C of 1,135 feet per second?page 4J. ^Eaop, the fan lived In the ?th century, 14. C?page 1US. Ambros 348. The great earthquake which pMm 50,000 Inhabitant* In eight minutes? pnustroyed In the year 70?page 28a WJflf lenses, each lea* possessingthe power iMn au.OOO.OHJ square mile*?page 28. The ,nl' etc., were fanciful notion* of the ~ Corsica, 1768: died 1821?111. Amazon River, Bout navigable 3,S<0--25. "Order of Che Garter" was were a nation of female warrior*?243. Croesus, i >43. Philosopher'* .stone originated In Egypt, ant Georga Washington, first President of the U. 8.; b a prison In Pari*; destroyed 179V?40T. Mariner'* < by Marco Polo, of Venice?300. The atmosphere i dlan Knot" was a knot tied by King Oordlu* of F It I* Impossible for any intelligent person to oc created. From beginning to end It Is oJJE CON atrucUve and entertaining. 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In reading nearly any book H> uind and one matters which the general reader > d which, unless he ha* a large library of costly W with this one roiume he can turn atonue to the X ilearly and concisely explained. A very Import- A 'ery subject being carefully indexed by Itartf, so H turned to at once, ihe ^ reiM'DJT woaeyeapraiiuw w k ^fl ff vvdrt un* General Clasii- W I I II ml Mytholoiry U treated of la A l| * m about It U under one chap M II 1111 /ntb-xeach individual char hpstbatbd. ^ a iphy, Geography, Art, A?trono?y. etc. Merely to numerate tbe following: ArtronOmy ,G?<wraphy, M oa. Animal Cre?llou, LAngrusnjfcedleTafi^ro. W Klne Arts, Ancient History, Madleral A ,eed erer be Ignorant of any subject with this py as s rule encyclopedias Ml works of real B wusrht after, but, heretofore, U.ey hav* been In !?Sr bui here a book is pubflsbed In ONE ? MKE bow thoroughly General Knowledge Is * r and Georraphy, 3to on Geology, Mineralogy, A Atmosphere; 1SS on > * *( * *% net ism, Matter and H )f\ mm B| V C * ble and Animal Cre*- W |j t, 1^1 I CI Chronology, Lan- I w w?9?on Greek and Ho- A paid, : Medieval Learning 1 tun-. France, Germs. H > ? ? paragraphs In Knxltsb ' tltutlon and Law, 131 on Miscellaneous Subjects 1 ry, Hebrews, Babylon.aus, Assyrians, etc.; 98 on A eece?Credible clstory; 286 on Ancient Voman fl ius. Here are some abbrovluuxl extracts: Light H; 'iillam Shakespeare, tse gtvatent of all poets and ic famous Spaulsb Armada vvus destroyed In 1588 W nhoM?nan/. V* Cha P^nniMa UM WA?IU.IA..??I M. I years Old?page 2S7. Sound travels at the rmt? A, ious writer ot fables, wu> t Greek slave, who H< la. In Mythology, wan tho rood of the Qods?page ' occurred at Llsbou, lu 1753, destroyed V . CT c page 426. Solomon's Temple was de- X l?fc I fc pye of a butterfly contain* 17,000 M p y of an eye?page 77. Earth's surface is H, E Al ckitdoQ Age, Iron Age, Bronze Age, H Qreeks?page 342. Napoleon, bom In W h AmprlcA; longest in the world; 4,000 mllee: I a knighthood, instituted 1S44?122. Amazons A i kin-; la AbU, renowned for Us great wealth? fl, I supposed to oonvert baser metals Into gold?117. orn in Virginia, 1733; died, 17W?428. Bafltile was W' compass Is a magnetised needle. Invented 1380, T eachcs to the height of 45 miles?17. The "Uor- A, 'bvrgla In the harness of his oxen?329. A' teii the book, on any page, without becoming In- H DENbEU MAS8 OF KNOWLEDGE, useful, In satire field of Learning. Sent postpaid on receipt Iver. A 4 Leonard 8t. New YorlT^Olty. i