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IN THE SUMMER EVENING. fnrxinf? thn flnlHa nt ths hannv old farm. The hours would travel so slow! rhe sun seemed to pause by some wonderful charm That Joshua know long ago! But after awhile came the shade3 from the hills; Thou the sunset and gloaming anon; Lnd homeward wo trudged to tho mockingbird's trills, When tho time to cease working came on. The whippoorwill dreamed iu the thicket s'viate, And the cricket chirped out in the wheat; rhe cattle stood lowing beside the farm gate, And & milking song rose low and sweet. The summer air told o' the roses that grew Ana Kiowea in ine iwin^ai, so ?au; And mother would meet us in welcome, we knew, When the time to cease working came on. We are toiling on still, yet in different ways From the ones where we labored when young, ind not with tlie pleasure we knew in the days When hope all her melodies sung. The hours are longer, it seemeth, than then, But the toiling will sometime be done; And peace once again will be ours as when The time to cease working came on. ?Will T. Hale. TIE IDEAL HEAD, MELLO! What's John Ainsworth stooped to pick up a gold cross which-was lying on the sidewalk outside his office door. Being intent on his morning duties, he put it in his waistcoat pocket without furthor thought, for he was a busy man, the editor of a great daily paper. The small portion of his time which was not spent in the sanctum of hia office was devoted to his snag rooms in a large apartment house; it was there that he gained what little rest and pleasure his busy life afforded him. John Ainsworth was in every sense of the word a man of culture and refinement, with very little fondness for society. In fact, he had studiously avoided the other residents of the house, and, perhaps, it was for that reason that he scorned the elevator, preferring to bound up the marble stairs to his cosy rooms on the third floor. This habit greatly unused his young brother, Elliott, who shared his home and any other comforts that the gods or John provided. Elliott was a happy-go-lucky artist, whose profession had not as yet brought him an income. When John entered the pretty sitting room that evening, he found his brother putting the finishing touches to what he was pleased to call an "ideal head." "Hello! Jack. I've been waitiDg ages for you. Shall we dine at the Albemarle to-night?" "Why, no. I am going to the Writers' Club, so you must look out for yourself this evening." "Well, all right, only look at this a moment before you dress. Don't you thinls there is something sweet in the expression?" John walked to the easel and glanced carelessly at the sketch, rather bored to be forced to spend time on one of Elliott's many daubs. But for onoe his attention was arrested, something in the light brown eyes ap? pealed to him, and as he studied the face it seemed more and more to be leech his friendliness, at least. The waving, chestnut hair, the delicately moulded brow, the sweet, thin lips, and the daintiness of contour all united in completing a beautiful face. "Elliott, you rascal, you have ?tolen this! By Jove, it's the best you have done!" JjV: Elliott could not conceal his satisfaction at his brother's honest praise, for who was so dear to him as sober old John ? "Thank you, Jack, and to tell you the truth, it's a face I've seen and dreamed about, but painted entirely irocn memory." ' Where did you see her? If you have really portrayed some living girl she must indeed be a beauty !" Elliott seemed well pleased that an answer was not expected. He put up his paints and brushes and the editor and his friend prepared for the even ing, one going to his club and the . other sauntering off to a favorite cafe to e^t, smoke and dream about the subject of his sketch. The next morning when John put his hand in his pocket for his car fare, heran against something unusual, and pulling it out recognized the little golden cross. He looked at it carefully and saw the inscription "Muriel" upon it. When he raised hia head, he blushed to see the light brown eyes of Elliott's sketch watching him demurely, even appealingly, it seemed to him? yes, it must be she, the same brow, the waving hair, the dainty lips Knr-4 /\ f nit f Vl rt tr?An fl Ol* ?11 1 ATTAO f ttUU UC3t \JL ail, tuc nyuuciiui vj co ; For some reason he felt much disconcerted and hastily replaced the cross in his pocket, binking behind his newspaper, though furtively glancing across the aisie only to find the hazel eyes still fastened upon him. Now, Johu Ainsworth had reached the sober age of thirty-five and if any one had told him that a pair of hazel eyes would eot his heart to beating like a steam pump or cause a crimson hue to suffuse his manly facc he would have scouted at the idea. Hut thnt was just what was goiugon this very morning, and as the seusation was so J ? 1 .- lU. new ami HO UlUriiUlJ^ lUCUUlj mcnium came to him was tli^bt. So taking one more look at the girlish figure, ho male Lis way to the door of the car and dropped o2'. only to regret it, as in a mum?.'Qt lies was overcome to discover that h? ha-J voluntarily given up the only ohance of finding out who she was or where she was going, for he was suddenly aware of an intense interest in her whereabouts. Following hie tirst impulse, he started at a lively pace to pursue the car, but stopped shortly when he heard a familiar voicc calling: "Hold on there, Jack, old man What's the rash? Is there a Lire oj are you after a scoop?" "Well, you here? I managed to ge off at the wrong corner and thoughl to regain the car." John smilec / v I ' , * ' '} * * . M vu, * . ,v . " blandly as he manufactured this weak explanation. "Your supper last night must hare been too much for you, though I should have supposed you would have slept off the efiects. At any rate, as this is a fine morning, let us walk on down town. I'd like to take you in to see some water colors at Brown's." "Speaking about water colors, what are you going to do with that head? You won't sell it, will you?" "Will I? Won't I, if I can find any patron of art who appreciates it to the tune of $100 or so? This art for art's sake is all very poetical, but the time is coming, ray boy, when 1 must earn my living." John looked at his brother in surprise, bat Elliott continued: "You know, I can't always expect to live on jour bounty, Jack. You may be wishing to ir.arry some day yourself." "I don't know about that. We are all liable to succumb, but don't 6cnd that head to Brown's anyway. I want it, and if I take it yon can show it at the spring exhibition, and perhaps gain glory, if not wealth. And I'll supply the funds, old chap, till your pictures bring your own price, which will possibly be sooner than you think, if you can make more ideal heads like this last one." The subject was settled in John's waj, which was always the best way, though Elliott really wondered a little at John's fancy for the ideal head. The mind of John Ainsworth was full of but one subjeet all that week, and street-car riding became a steady habit, his hope being to catch another plirrmfle of the hazel eves. But for O f * ** tune did sot seem to favor him. One morning he remembered the golden cross and bethought himself that some effort shoald be made to find its rightful owner, Suiting the action to the word, he wrote a description of it and inserted it in the advertisement column of the morning paper. The following day brought an answer, stating that the owner would be very grateful if the finder would return the cross to her home, giving the very apartment house where John lived. That evening John called at No. 25 and asked for Miss Muriel Marigold, waiting listlesely till the owner of the cross should come in, Dut when oVia ,r1i,lo cnftiv inf.o the room she glided also into bis heart, for who should it be but the possessor of the hazel eyes! It was the sweet-faced girl who spoke first. "Thank you so much, Mr. Ainsworth. for bringing my little cross. It is an old keepsake and was given to mo when I was a child. I regretted its loss exceedingly, but when I saw you had it," she aided, mischievously, "I knew it was safe. Let me thank you, warmly." John was astonished to hear his name from her lips and to have her fofan +n fhe cfrp?t nap enisode. but he pulled himself together aad replied: "It is a great pleasure for me to have been of any service to you. I am only sorry that I should have unwittingly kept it from you so long." "Oh, that is all right, Mr. Ainsworth; I hope now that we have met we may be friends. Your brother and I often meet in the elevator, and, though we only nod and smile, I feel that we are old acquaintances." "Yes; let us be friends." * ***? Two months later at the spring exhibition of water colors three persons stood before a painting which was catalogued as aa "Ideal Heai." "It is very like?yes, very like," said the elder of the two young men. "There is only oue thing lacking-the golden cross?for that, you know, is what brought me my sweet?" "Hush, JohD, dear," whispered the girl who looked so like the picture. 1.1 -1 J *-1! TM1 l i.. "All rigus, oiu itsuuw, j. n put tu the cross; you always get everything you want," the youoger man said, rather wistfully, as he moved on, apparently much interested in a large painting near by, leaving the other two standing close together, seeing more beautiful pictures in each other's eyes than ever hung on any wall,? Chicago News. M?al ot Sunflower Cake. Sunflower cake has been found, especially in Russia, one of the best auxiliary cattle foods. As early as the year 1866 about 100,00) centners of sunflower oil (oil of the seeds of Helianthus anuuus) were manufactured in Russia, aucl its amount nas increased year by year, it bein#? esteemed os a very palatable alimentary oil. Tbe oil wa3 formerly obtained by hydraulic means; the residual cake is harder than any other variety of oil cake, and for this reason apparently it has not found a wider application. Denmark and the northern countries import large quantities annually, as do also the eastern provinces of Germany, and the problem of its disintegration has been suscossfuily Bolved by several manufacturers there. It is still unknown in Southern and Western Germany; now, however, that it is put on the market in the form of meal it will doubtless soon find general application, suited, as it is, both on account of its composition and pleasant taste, for fattening cattle. The percentage of proteid varies between about thirty to forty-four per cent., the fat between about nine to eighteen per cent. It is possible to prepare two qualities, one rich in porteid and poor in fat, and the other rich in fat and poor in porteid. When, for example, the Bomewuao nneiv ground meal is sifted, employing a mesh of 1 mm., that which passed through is much richer in proteid arid poorer in fat thau the original, while the reverse is true of that which remains ia the sieve.?Scientific American. Willeil $1 n>;> ?.?r .ier I'arrot. Widow Mary Jean Bradford, oc Boston, was a devoted lover of her parrot. The widow has lately died, leaving a will, dated January S, 1891, which was probate 1 yesterday, and which contains this curious provi i "1 give S-AOOO in trust to G. H. s Pierce, to be invested in good mort< gage or mortgages, aud the income ! thereof to be paid to the person who r may take care of my poll-parrot. Tin bird shall have the beat of care am c be kindly treated; must not be pu t into a store or public place. "?Hart 1 ford Times. . QUEEREST OF FOLK. ti'/?vr?70L'iTT WPW MRTICAV ?? v/^i/uivr UIJ ??? i CITY OF ACOMA. Probably Built Centuries Before the Discovery of America?Peculiar Construction of the Houses. THE most wonderful city of the world is in New Mexico, onlv a few miles from Cubero, or Laguna, on the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad. It had been in existence hundreds of years when Columbus discovered America. Acoma, for snch is its name, is perched upon the level summit of a great rook, whose perpendicular sides are nearly 400 feet above the surrounding country, and reached by some of the most difficult paths ever trodden by man. The feet of generations have worn these paths six inches into the solid sandstone. The Acomas now number 600 souls. Upon their seventy acres of rock they have six communal houses, each three stories high, besides u church of enormous dimensions. The inhabitants h-ive carried up the toilsome trails every particle of the material from which the buildings were constructed, and besides this the graveyard consumed forty years in being completed by reason of the necessity for bringing earth from the plain below. All supplies at the present day, even to drinking water, are brought in the same wav. The architecture of Acoma is as fctrange as its location. The houses are all terraced, so that they resemble flights of stone steps, or Egyptian pyramids on a small scale. In each house the second story stands ten or a dozen feet back on the flat roof of the first, thus leaving a broad, uncovered walk the whole length. The third otory is similarly placed upon the second. There are no doors on the lower walls of the houses, nor stairs inside. To get into the first story one must go up a ladder to the first roof, enter the second-story room, lift a trapdoor in its floor and back down another ladder. All these houses are of stone ma :M ~c r L XL.A il. BUiiry, in opito ui tuo tuut me builders had do metal tools for dressing the material. Instead, they chose rock which broke naturally into the shape desired, and laid it in a very durable mortar made from mud. So neatly was their work done that the outer faces of the buildings are as smooth as a board. The rafters are straight pine sticks, stripped of their bark, and above them is a roof of smaller sticks, straw and clay. The combination is perfectly water-tight. The windows are very small, and until glass waa introduced the panes were made of translucent gypsum. The finishing touch is to plaster the walls, inside and out, with adobe clay, and then whitewash them with a preparation of gypsum. This whitewash giees a pueblo town at a distance the appearance of being built of marble. Acoma is simply a type of twentysix inhabited pueblo towns r?v existing in New Mexico and Arizona, and containing a population of 10,000 souis. xne nineteen pueoios 01 r?ew Mexico are scattered up and down the Rio Grande Valley from Taos, the most northern, to lsleta, which is jast south of Albuquerque. Then they extend westward, along the line of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, to near the Arizona border, the last one in this direction being the far-famed Zuni. The seven pueblos in Arizona are close together in the northern part, the inhabitants being collectively called Moqui. The origin of the Pueblos has never been unveiled. A profound interest centers in them. Bat one thing has been settled?they and the oave or cliff dwellers are one and the Bame rru~ ~ [jeupie. Aiic lULici uavo uut vauioiicu as was once supposed. Their descendants are with us to-day. The ancestors of the Pueblos were probably the earliest inhabitants of this continent. The remains of their forts, towns and stupendous irrigating canals are thickly scattered over New Mexico and Arizona, and indicate that the population waR teeming. The Pueblo Indians now live in much the same way as did their forefathers when first discovered by the Spaniards, 350 years ago. Years ago their lands, which they hold in common, were granted them by Mexico, and at the close of the Mexican War these grants were confirmed by the United States. They are quite selfsupporting, and should every human being but themselves be blotted from the earth they would jog along with-' out concern. The basis of society is not the fam ily, as with us, but the clan. The number of clans in a pueblo town runs from six to sixteen, every individual belonging to one. A man cannot marrj a woman of the same clan : he must go outside. Still stranger is the law of descent. With civilized people it is from the father; with Pueblos from the mother. Children take the name of their mother. Furthermore, the house is in charge of the women exclusively; everything within it, the men's clothing and weapons excepted, belonging to the housekeeper. If once housed, the crops are hers. As long as they are in the field the man may dispose of themafterward he must consult the woman. Even the proceeds of uhecomicon hunts are treated in the sacea maunor, Only when the man kills game when out alone is it his. The Pueblo woman is an excellent housewife, and hef home is a model of neatness. Beds are usually made up of blankets, of home make. Bedsteads are not unknown, but oftener the blankets will be neatly folded and laid in a corner in the davtime and spread upon the floor at night. Nearly every room has its dome-shaped fire-place, iu which sticks of wood are placed on end to be burned. Those for heating oniy are small, and stand in a corner. Those for cooking are much larger, and are frequently placed out of , doore. , The cooking fireplaces must not be , confounded with the estufae, which j are found in every pueblo. The es1 tufa is a circular structure, rising a t few feet abova the ground, like the . upper part of a sunken cylinder. Its flat top ia reached by rough steps of r stone. In the center is a square opening, out of which a ladder or notched beam projects, and by which the un derground interior is reached. The males of each clan were formerly required to sleep in the estnfa, but it is now used only for ceremonial and religions purposes. Estnfa in Spanish means stove. The name was given by the early Spaniards to these subterranean rooms because they were of so comfortable a temperature in winter. The Pueblo is a true pagan, wrapped in dense clouds of superstition, fujl of fanciful legend and profoundly ceremonious in worship. His gods are without number. Not even the ancient Greeks had more. Gods ol peace and war, of the chase, of harvest and famine, of sun and rain and snow elbow with a thousand others for TH>/? oornorf io ftn obiect of x uuuj xuu qui ^/wmv ~ ~~m adoration, and the annual snake dance of the Maquis, in which hundreds of rattlesnakes are gathered from the desart and handled with impunity, ia one of the most profoundly impressive ceremonies ever witnessed.?Chicago Times-Herald. Medical Uses ot Sucrar. There ia a very strong opinion growing up among medical men that sugar has a remedial value that haf hitherto been wholly unappreciated. As a tonio and invigorator its value has been, in experimental cases, extremely satisfactory. A case in point ia related where a person from force of circumstances had fasted for nearly twelve honrs. This patient was subject to the most violent headaches from hunger or lack of food. After a certain period, a peculiar pressure or congested feeling was noticed in the head, invariably followed by acute pain, sometimes by severe nausea. These enforced fasts, occurring at frequent intervals, became the subject of some concern. One day the individual in, question tried the experiment of taking sugar and water, this being the only available article of food at the time. Several blocks of cut sugar were dipped into water and eaten very slowly, with frequent dippings so that the sugar was almost entirely dissolved. When the operation began, the pressure in the head * i t ii I was already very marJtea, ana me headache was coming on. Strange to I say, the unpleasant symptoms almost immediately left, there was no return of them, and the stomach was in nowise disturbed. Bepeated trials had I the same effect, and it seemed to be a foregone cod elusion that with this patient at least the sugar application I was a success. Farther experiments are being made, with a view to demonstrate the value of cut sucar as a luncheon where other food is not to be had. It would be a simple and easy matter to carry half a dozen pieces of sugar in one's pocket, to be I indulged in with no other accompani... i ?A-- I? ment due a giaati ui wmei, uj iuu means preventing or probably postponing those frightfal attacks of cerebal congestion and agony that many persons are subject to.?New York Ledger. Nested in a Stirrup. When the first warm breezei brought np from the South the promise of returning summer two sparrows that had spent the winter among the leafless trees of Lincoln Park began to look about for a place in which to build a home, says the Chicago Tribune. Finally, after much flying about the park and many twittering consultations, they selected the Grant monument. And here, secure from molestation, they set about building their nest in the left stirrup of the great bronze figure. Many long and fruitless quests were made for material, but finally after long days of labor the task was done. Here they remained unobserved for days while the mother bird nestled on the tiny eggs and the father bird flew about in quest of food till the sharp eye of the General's widow discovered them last Saturday. Though they are now the most famous sparrows in the city, renown has not changed their lives. The mother still warms the five little eggs A<rain9t her downy breast and the "O" * father goes marketing the livelong day. Silent and motionless, hoTse and rider stand looking ever seaward, ever heeding the life and happiness so near. Before many days there will be five little months to feed and both parents will be busy all day long bringing dainties for their young. Beau Brumniel's Practical Joke* Beau Brummel once met at a public dinner a pompous old French Marquis, and managed to put some finely powdered sugar into his hair powder. The weather was exceedingly hot, and the flies, of course, numerous. The Marquis relinquished his knife and fork to drive off the enemy with his handkerchief, but back the whole swarm came, more teasing than ever. Not a wing was missing. Those of the company who were not in tbe secret could not help wondering at the phenomenon, as the buzzing grew louder and louder every moment. Matters grew still worse, when the sugar, melting, poured down the Frenchman's brow and face in thick streams, for his tormentors then changed their ground of action, and having thus found a more vulnerable part, nearly drove him mad with their stings. [Juablo to bear it any longer, he clasped his heaS with both hands, and rushed out of the room in a cloud of powder, followed by his persevering tormentors and the laughter of the company.?New York Herald. I A Deal and Dumb Fakir's Clerer Scheme. A deaf and dumb fakir who peddles blacking made a strike at tbo Buffalo Gymnasium yesterday by a clever piece of acting. Entering the office he indicated by feeliug his biceps thut be knew it was an athletic resort. Then he went through the motions of the leading spores. He boxed au im| aginary opponent, played a visionary game of haudball, pulled the weighte, I used the rowing machine, and went ! through all the other exercises in dumb show, finishing up with a rubdown. The men present were so pleased with the exhibition that they bought the deaf mute's entire stock. One of the spectators who had seen the fakir before said that in bakeriea ' 1- i' nt . 1. tie went turougu iub uiuhuuo uauo.iug bread, mixed drags in pharmacies and drew soda water in candy stores. It is a clever scheme.? Buffalo Enquixer. WORDS OF WISDOM. Prudence ia a plug to prosperity. An army is a great monster with a bead, but no heart. No man can be happy without sharing it with somebody. Cnpid is a physician who never takes his own medicine. A dead beat that is hatched from lazinem in nf faw rl&vs and full of trouble. Some men will "bet you ten dollars" when they are at the end of their argument. The man who becomes a successful hypocrite has to work at it every day in the week. Hate is two points with poison tips ?one toward your enemy the other toward yourself. There is no place like home, and that is why so many men spend their evenings down town. It takes some people whole lifetime to find oat that no dollar is big enough to give an hour's happiness. There are two sides to every qnesfcirm tnn arid hnlknm ! And thfl man on the bottom aide is liable to be crashed. Aa a rale, women say almost everything else of a woman who is engaged except that she is too yonng to marry. Some people never want certain things until they see others anxious Cor them and then they want them bad. The man who falls in love with a pretty face alone, gets over his disappointment as soon as the pretty faoe grows old. One of the most imDortant, bnt one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind, is to be its own master; a pond may lie quiet in a plain, but a lake wants mountains to compass and hold it in. , A Novelist's Story. Mr. Frankfort Moore was for many years one of the leading journalists of Belfast, before he took the English literary world by storm with his succession of brilliant books?so brilliantly paradoxical in subject and phrase?"I Forbid the Banns," "A Gray Eye or So," and "One Fair Daughter." His "Journalist's Note Book" is full of good stories of his experiences; but the other night he told me one which has never yet seen daylight on paper. A slim, fair-haired young man, almost a boy, called on him and sent in his card as Mr. Archibald Clarering Gunter. Mr. and Mrs. Moore happened to be familiar with the huge, turly, Max O'Rellish appearance of the author of "Mr. Barnes of New York," but they welcomed the visitor none the leas, though Mrs. Moore was at pains not to leave them alone, for she intuitively grasped what the pseudo Gunter wanted. So things went on till it was time for Mr. Moore to go to his office. The stranger followed him there. Of course, he wanted money, and when Mr. Moore suggested that the Atnerioan Consul would be glad to assist so distinguished a fellow-countryman, he explained that he and that functionary had taken opposite sides in the Civil War, bo he was afraid he ^vould have to auk Mr. Moore to lend it to him. "I'd be delighted to do so, my dear fellow," said Mr. Moore, with his ready Irish wit, as the office boy appeared in answer to his ring to show the visitor out, "but'the fact is, you haven't told me who you are." He pointed to a print of the real Archibald, but the stranger had fled.?London Queen. Curious Feats ol Swallowing, It seems incrediblo when the statement is made that a snake nine feet long swallowed its companion eight feet long. It appears from all accounts that food w is placed in the cage and one of the boas, in attempting to secure a piece of it, tried a sort ot tng-ofwar game with his fellow, with the result that he swallowed not only the coveted morsel but took the other snake in as well. This incident, whioh occurred at the Zoological Gardens in London, is only one of numbers of equally remarkable. Some years ago a number of men were spearing pike in a Western lake. The spear entered the head of the enormous fish, which was landed in the boat. One of the fishermen observed that the sides of the pike appeared strangely agitated, although the fish itself was unmistakably dead. Upon opening the pike, a fish two-thirds its size was found in its interior. One of the most notable things of this sort was that of the encounter between the dog-fish and the octopus in the Brighton Aquarium. The two were close neighbors, and ODe night the octopus scrambled to the top of the glas* partition, presumably on the lookout for something to eat. The dog-fish immediately seized upon and swallowed his for tradable visitor, uonsiaerrag mac lae octopus was of large size and was known as a very bad customer to handle, the performance of the dogfish was looked upon as something quite out of the common.?New York Ledger. Domestic Feriuiuery Farms, Perfumery farms are a new industry, and are going to be popular and profitable. There is no reason why we should not raise our own perfumery and essential oils in this country whore flowers grow in such great profusion and carry so high a degree of juices. In the south of France, where most of the world's uerfumcs are made, the climate is not to favorably as here; land is a hundred time* more valuable; fertilizers of tho must expcusive kind have to be used, an-.f the strength of the flowers is obtained only by the most assiduous cultivation, while hero the most available flowers for the purpose grow wild, ami with the slightest cultivation can be brought to a very high degree of perfection. The perfume is ho puugeut that delicate people cannot sleep, and many cannot even sit in a roum with a bunch of ordinary blossoms. A iuuij.> of wax placed in a chest or box, or even a cupboard with lilies, orange blossoms or other varieties of flower* will absorb their perfume through and through in a single night and hold it indefinitely. Labor is cheap, but there seems to bo plenty to do ii one may judge by the advertisements for help wanted that appear daily in the newspapers. ?Chicago Record. . . #p ' 'vrOrULAB SCIENCE. Dr. Young estimates the mean depth of the Atlantic at about 16,000 feet. mi. ? ?i?,l fka "Hna/1 Saa -LULU WQlOi vi tuo 4/whu MVW about two gallons of saline snbstances. An echinodern that inhabits the West Indian seas has over 10,000 arms. The pages in Congress will be summoned hereafter by electrio bell, instead of hand dapping as heretofore. An employe in a German chemical works fell into a tank of sulphuric acid. Two porcelain buttons were all that was loft of him. It has been discovered that the rings of Saturn are made up of many small bodies, and that th9 satelliting of the inner edges of the rings move more rapidly than those of the outer edge. N It has frequently been notioed that meat becomes luminous under oertam conditions, &b do also dry wood and other substances. The microscopio vegetables (bacteria) which cause this phosphorescence have been cultivated successful [7 on gelatin, and in an article on suoh bacteria C. A. Mitohell recalls the fact that Foerster succeeded ia photographing a colony of them in a dark room by their own light. He does not attempt to explain the phosphorescence of glow-worms and fire flies by the presence of such bacteria. The astonishing and inhuman possibility of building up living animals from parts of several animals has been demonstrated by Dr. 0. Born, a German physiologist. The experiments were made with tadpoles and other larvae of amphibians. Each of these was cut in two, and different parts were placed together in different ways, when some of them united, the hinder more readily than the fore parts. Two hinder parts, eaoh with or without a heart, nnited in twentyfour hours, the monstrosity living and growing for a week or more. The system of sending messages through pneumatic tubas into Paris from outlying distriots, and also from one station to another within the oity, has been in successful operation since 1866. The compressed air is furnished by steam power from seven stations in the oity. The tubes are of wrought iron and run through the sewers as much as possible. From thirty to thirty-five letters or messages are carried in eaoh box. The boxes are of iron with leather collars to make them fit the tubes. They are often sent in trains of ten together. In caee of acoideqt to a box or train its position in the tube oan be looated witmn tmrcy metres dj special appar* atus. World's Carrjin? Trade. The people of the British Empire own more thaa half the ocean vessels of the world, and fifty per cent, of the annual savings of the Nation is expended in bailding new* ships and railroads. Since 1840 the tonnage of British shipping has trebled, while that of all other Nations has only doubled. Fifty years ago British shipping held one-third the carrying trade of the high seas. To-day it holds over one-half. Sailing vessels have now an aggregate carrying capaoity of only one-fifth that of steam vessels. The decline of tonnage of sailing vessels since 1860 has been 4,000,000 tons. The increase in trade has not fully kept pace Jwith increase of tonnage, which gives color to the assertion made in some quarters that the business of transportation, like other industries, has been developed to a point beyond existing needs. The greatest inorease in port entries is found in the colonies and South America. The tendency in ship building at present is toward increase of size. Turning next to the railway carrying trade, we find that there are now in operation 410,000 miles. This would be sufficient to girdle tl;e earth at the equator about sixteen times. The total cost of these railroads has been 33,073,400,000,000. Of existing railway mileage ninety-nine per oent. has been built since 1840. Since I860 the average annual railway construction has been 10,000 miles. Bailway traffic has reacted upon marine traffic to largely increase the latter. In 1850 the cost of land carriage was eight times as muoh as it is in 1895. While Great Britain holds supremacy in ocean traffic,the United State3 is far in advance in railway traffic, doing two-thirds of all the railway transportation of goods, and owning one-third of the total railway mileage of the globe. The navigable waterways of different countries (rivers and canals) are, in milec, as follows: flreat Britain, 3810; France, 7730; Germany, 17, ? * ? - rtrtrtn . 080; Kussia, acJ.y^u; Austria, uw, Canada, 3360; United States, 51,820; Brazil, 22,000. The carrying capacity of vessels navigating lakes and rivers of the United States is 9,300,000 tons. Of the total carrying traffic of the Suez Canal, British vessels do seventysix per cent. The net profitB of thia canal in 1892 amounted to 8.5 per cent, of the cost of its construction.? Contemporary Beview. Philadelphia's Aucient Lock-Up. An old English dungeon has boen brought to light by the tearing down of a building in the rear of a pickle factory on Spruoa street, below Second. The building is thought to bar 1 ? QOH Trmranir? ueeu XiiUl D liuau KV? j ^ briok in it was brought from England, and the building was once the pride of the little colony that lived here. ]t was originally, it ii said, the Court Honse of the settlement, and underneath the ground were those dungeons, or cells, in which prisoners wero kept. It is supposed that the cells were used as temporary places of confinement, and not for prisoners serving long terms, much the same as the "lock-ups" or station boasts of to-Jay. The brickd are ns solid as in the days of old, and will be used again in another building. Tfao old Louse has been burned out several times, but the walls were never damaged much. The whole neighborhood is aa interesting one. The building adjoining the one torn down has a fourth lioor, which is windowless. Instaad of the usual windows, it has port holes, slanting downward, from which, "in days of old, when knights were bold," men probably picked off | prowling Indians or enemies of some | kind,? rwlaaeipma rrees. .1 v /. . W - V ; =S 1 Men-s Darning Parties. The changes and chances of this nineteenth century in which we live are rich and etrange indeed?richer and stranger, surely, than any cea changes such as Shakespeare wrote of ' mi -t ? so eloquently, j-iiuue ui ua wuu observant and interested in what goesj on around us are continually watching, for the latest development in the ways of living of men and women. The very latest development concerns ifc-i self with men, and is in all conscience; odd enough. Somebody has started,1 darning parties for men, and they; have been a great success ao far! A certain lady noticed, or found out,' that quantities of men in London! throw away their stockings and sooka, directly a hole appears in the toe or; heel, merely because they have no-! body at hand to da a bit of darning: 1 fnr f Vi/im An/? 4>Viia rnniflL J cut to the heart at such woeful waste; of good material, promptly set to; work to remedy matters. She organ-: ized these darning parties. On the; card of invitation is put "Ye who attend. bring all yonr old socks with; yon." j When the men arrive, they are,, ranged in a neat and expectant rowi around the room, provided with darn-j ing needles and with yarn, and set; busily to work to learn the whole art j of darning; and it is faid that they | ' ' take very kindly to their new occupa-i * 1 tion, and that their progress isex-i ceptionally rapid. All this is very! interesting and very instructive. Of j course, there have always been a few j men able to busy themselves with sew-! iUK* auiibiu^ nuu mo uao. We have ourselves met two or] three, and have known one little man! who seldom went from home without! taking his bit of embroidery with him. j =.| But these men have hitherto been the; exception that proves the rule. In: future, it appears, they will be the rule that is proved by the exception. ; Many sailors can sew and darn in a rough sort of way, and those who have traveled must be familiar with thej sight of a hirsute son of the sea squat* j ;;i ting down in the for'ard part of thej ship, and cobbling away at a hole in a! pair of trousers, or a jagged rent in aj shirt. Such a sight as n man sewing j is, however, queer enough on land.; But no doubt we shall soon become! ; ' j accustomed to it, and marvel at it no! ; more than we marvel at the female! cyclist or the decadent masher.? Loa-! a? r\ xi I uuu. vjeuuwwumaij. Sleepr Grass. j In some parts of New Mexico there| grows a grass which produces a som-j nifercus effeot on the animals tbatj graze npon it. Horses,' after eatinci &. thip grass, in nearly all cases sleepj standing, while cows and sheep almost! invariably lie down. It has occasion* ally happened that travelers hav^j : h stopped to allow horses to feed inj places where the grass grew pretty thickly, and the animals have had! time to eat a considerable quantity be-? fore its effects manifested themselves.! In such cases horses have gone to sleep on the road, and it is hard to arouse them. J The effect of the grass passes off in! an hour or two, and no bad results] have ever been noticed on account ofj it. Cattle cn the ranches frequently! come upon patohes of this grass, where' they feed for perhaps half an hour,; and then fall aelesp for an honr or, more, when they wake up and start feeding again. : 3?j The procrramme is repeated perhaps a dozen times, until thirst obliges them to go to water. Whether, like1 the poppy, the grass contains opium, or whether its sleep producing prop-1 erty is due to some other substance, has not been determined.?Pearson's Weekly. ! ffi Mr. Frederick V. Colrill, Botanist United States Department of Agriculture, says: "The so-called sleepy grass mentioned in a recent article in Pearson's Weekly is known technically as Stipa viridnla robuata and is known from reliable persons to have a ztarcotio effect on horses and other stook.Soientifio American. * The Cost ot Electric Cooking. Inquiry is often made as to the cost of eleotriocooking. Nelson W. Perry, writing on this subject, gives the most reliable data at present obtainable. The cost of an electrio lamp is taken at about one cent per hour. One pint of water can be brought from sixty degrees Fahrenheit to the boiling point at the cost of two sixteen candle power lamps for one hour; or, by the use of the equivalent of Ave lamps, it can be made to boil in twelve minutes, while by the use of the equivalent of' ' sixteen and a half lamps it can be made to boil in 3.7 minutes. Four or five cutlets can be fried by employing the equivalent of five lamps for twelve minutes. This includes the time required for heating the pan. When the electrio oven is used the equivalent of eighteen lamps will raise the temperature from lifty-two degrees Fahrenheit to 120 degrees in five minutes, to 256 degrees in ten minutes, to 356 degrees in fifteen minutes, ana to 437 degrees in twenty minutes. At this rate electrical cooking is still more expensive than ordinary methods. Nevertheless, its use is daily increasing. Its great advantage is perfect cleanliness. The electrical kitchen hardly seems to be a kitchen at alL There is no heat from the fires, no smoke and no dirty utensils. As soon as the current can be sold at a figure wbich will commend its use for kitchen onrr>oses to everybody it wi'l become universal. When that time airives cooking will be elevated to an exact science, and dyspepsia will become but a memory of the past.?Boeton Transcript. ? ?? Typical American Face. Hero is an analysis of what is alleged to be tho typical American face: The prominent nose, tho sloping forehead, the fairly large rnoutb, the full eyes and predominance of the oval type are the natural characteristics of aa aggressive, talented and shrewd peo pie, agreeaoie iu muuueiB, UUII HCCUIJ alive to the main chance. It is a composite face, made up of qualities taken from Puritan, English, Scotch and German sources.--Detroit Tribune. Burning lor Twelve Centuries. A Parsee sacred fire, which is burning in a temole at Leicuie, Persia, has ? ? * ? . not been extinguished since the days of Rapiboreth, twelve centuries ago. ?Chioago Mail, :s ,;:m