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% I * ' f y \ \ I THURLOW 8 CARTER, Editor and Manager A Family Newspaper: For the Promotion o'f the Political, Bocial^Agriculturai and Commercial lute tests. * * ^ Terms $1.50 a,Tear. Payable in Advance. SEMI-WEEKLY EDITION. - * LANCASTER^?^. DECEMI&R 20,1893. ESTABLISHED 1842. Z. _ 1 mo Hindoo* are apparently ft abiding race, conclude* tho Now 1 World, for the number of prisone India, in proportion to populatiu le?8 than half of thnt in OruutBril There :*re but two colored ofticei the United State* Ariny--liie'.iten J. H. Alexander and Charles Yotiti, tho Ninth Cavalry, which is cotnp entirely of troop* of tlicrr o;vn rac The Hartford Journal declares moneyed men of to-day have their sons as well guarded as tho Cza Hussin, to protect them from murderous cranks which now it tho whole country. Over seventy-two per cent, of population of India are of the Urn anic religion, nin deeu per cent, ? sulnmnr--, three per cent, of Anim * or aboriginal forms of worship, 0.80 per cent, nr returned as CI tians. Jamaica has considerable cliui variet y an there are about 2000 raj milca of land along the coast, lisin 1000 feet of altitude, t ITcJ stpiare u between HNh) and 2000 feet, KM) tween 200) and !1000, an 1 1'27 I tliat height to 7280 feet. Tho street railroad* ??f New 1 v mv nau, iiibtii uii' introduction o cable system, 20,000 horses in nor' and tho to till number of Imrm's mules mi American afreet railr was not fur from 100,000. Now, 7000 mi Ion of trolley roads, and 1500 of cable, there in decidedly demand for horses and mtilox, correspondingly smaller demand bay for fodder. Says tho Philadelphia Lodger: is a curious fact that, far nioro h rides aro committed in tho Ui States l?v persona who havo enxf meat thin l>y those who are ni ployed. The census of hmuicid< tho United Htatea taken in 1H0I Freih'rick II. Wines, special agon pauperism and crime, a rarefu vesipruior otYhe** auiijeet?, suow* those charged with thin crime had employment at the time of 1 arrest numbered 5650. Those who unemployed numbered 1225. If t figures are reliable, and there i reason to challenge their aeeni: since they aro matters of recoi tho courts, it would be an unsafe | oral i/.at ion to say that a crime that of Prendergast has any cot tion with tho "hard times" and "age of discontent." Professor darner's annouucei (hat his visit to Africa to study language of tho monkeys has been tirely successful is necessarily of f interest, observes tho Now 1 Times. It is of tho greater int< because ho ban brought hack with two chimpanzees, with who n "claim#" to have established runv tional relations, and with w) doubtless, ho will consent to rou\ in public ? not necessarily for pub tiou, but an i, guarantee of good f Of equal interest in his statement when ho was aushorc I out in a in thn middle of an African fo oaTt'Hilro|)|)inx on tho eircumninl ape*, he kept a phonograph, am trick ami ilevic < in lueed tho mon to talk into it. Their romarkn cloubtloaa bo ground out again for benefit of learned bo'ictiex, in wlioezy wml asthmatic tones into w tho phonograph converts all wonm Tho crusade which is now iu proj in Kngluii 1 again it tho use of plumage of birds for purpose i fotninino decoration lias not, in opinion of tho New York Hun, c too hooii, as this e ninlry li v; b.v grievous sufferer from tho aetivit English taxidermists, who have ill from here their prineipi! suppl bir?l skins and feathers. From I to timo tho o.\oot figures of enormous contract* placed in a tho Htales of the Union by t Britiah purveyors hare b*eu pri iu the Hun. Certain species of birda of oong an I of Una plan have been almo.it exterminate! comply with this demaii I. Ainow moat interesting an 1 b -iuliful in little tern whieli <m gave wick air of animation fo our coastwise b This specie* hn bcou i/ipod out ol Utenco in moat of our waters, agent* of tlie.oj Khglidi tax idem have been ao active that hardly nort of bird in this country escaped their attention. The i serious aspect of the ea?.j ho* I that tb de.n in I fur bit I iiHiux ala -.7S h?v?n more active in the api W?i i Mie p|rtma?rc attain# it* qrt' hfi'i t?y. hv *0' ,h? ntfMl *?f iho two bodtot?the low* new ami the <>l?l woul<l nutke itavlf f??ll lieaitl |n jj,,, n?>w." ImiL-l mini "Year* *?M Knowl?;n, Kinilin/' ngitin moan , |, ( tin<l returning t<? M *?oik, "l?ut I *l<? fell It out Iwlirvn in tmc*r <r?IJ*>ii to that ex- nti in "'OfiT* tnnt, my dear fo'l-K iiere ii a line, who I We*' you know, tin* )i?n *? fanatic* have to hum draw, ami 1 wvt *er imagine it i* tome- Mine, law- IX Tin-: VALLEY* whor fork j"cch rw in To day, when the <>iiu no l'ghlini; niT liouie .! (. n is c n tho |iin elivl 111?. ,|c* * The breast of a l?ir?l wan r illto 1 as it {torched rl ',IU1- on mjr window-ail1, my . And a loaf wan chased by tlio kitten on tho knov fr> jn brcoac-swopt pardon walk, yOU ( And tho daiuty trad will rtnt9 Of n dahlia rol "> P? ?* Wa? itlrred on its slender stalk, ways oae?l civil) Ohl happy tho bird at tho roaj treo, unhood- uow ing tho tbroatenlng storm! then And happy tho blitho Icaf-chuaor, tejoicing in was I aunahine warm! he \v ' Thoy tako nt thought f r the morrow?they thee per- know no caros to-day; steps r of And tho thousand things Bllcu< That the futuro bringa hell" . . Aro a blank to si eh as they. tloor if est Com! Hut I, by tin household ingle, can iniorprej chair tho looming clouds, f;l:iii< For tho wind "Boo-hoos" through the key- into i the hole, an 1 a s adow the bouso entil 111- shrouds; IJ^? ,, And I know I inns' unit mv mountain, and go klm;- . .. , , , ? i>rcs? to tli: va o Ik low. it-tie > > < > mum ror my houso Is chill ^ ninl On tho win ly bill, , ift?:- When Iho Autumn tompoala Mow. j: ? s Mv mind is fo ever d awing an inatrnctivo n'"' ,. , cuair paral oi m > t (,^jc 'Taixt torn pot al things tliat | or sli and o'or- wj,j(. ual things that dwelt? ??,i mire ... nun i Whon billows an I waves unround me, and |,?rit] " watora mv so?il o'o llow, untti ililes I descend in h ?pj strov l,p. Ftom Hie mountain top scurv r.. To tho sheltering valo In 1 .w. woin but I go down to the Yahoy of Sit nec win ro the ,.|ose wot Id y aro never me ; enntf I know Micro i< "1> Im aud healing" Iboro a wee fork !('r eves lliat with tears ate wet; ni/ci 1(. ^IU' 1 flinl, in i s sweet secltia oil, g< utlo inytr solace for a I my eare, wlilc For that va ley pure, knov uii'l With its thiil or suro, hiicI, nada In the bvautilul Va'o ? f Flayer. ?(Nannie l'owor-O'lhinoghuo. I ' Willi m over ? - s wed mt Hint utpminT-BROWN.]s for itant nv K. .1. AI'IM.KTO.N. I purill Kichnrndson picked up the soft little | . cylinder and looked at it again. I t ' ' What di l you call it?" he naked. ! |tjIM oini "Mummy brown," replied Kuowlton, litod taking a bru-h from between his lips to }or, |, lov* 8lH;a'<? and touching the can\as before 1 ,j0 f him with it. (>| aent- "Itmwn it undoubtedly is," remarked ' ,j(1 mi in his friend, "but whcie does the mummy ' 'T(|,?| I) jiv come in?" up tl "In the tube, my boy," returned the t,??j "ll painter, half closing his eyes and putting jia|| , 1 iu* his hi nd on one aide to observe the ulTcct ^(( Ilint or itli last it>.?kii, "Ih'iju ti it* la mad" g, _l of pulverised Key pi inn uuinimies, and it is one of tho best colors we have." over ihetr Hiiliardson put the tube back upon g1#, were the much littered studio table, and bono whistled softly. ! nroui "Well," said lie, "you may count mo g, H uo out if ever 1 become a painter, when it fr>, acv, comes to using dead lueu's bodies to | K,11j ?d in make pictures with. I'd be afraid they i would come back again!" j "Nonsense," said Know Hon. laughing; , |{jpj, like "they nro entirely too dead for anything 1 t|?.jr inec- ot that sort, you may l e sure, and it | us?., I the they are sensitive to fueling , tlicy n ver ; W:ls ( snow it. uoscrvo iiow 1 am using litis ",.j tube, fur Instance, up n litis French rutin's cunt; do you suppose any well R|ial? meaning Egyptian would like lo l>isv?> ,J,.\ j| ,Kt himsclt clothing n foreigner in tiny such ; SI(W , ' inauuer, if he kucw it?" ! fa||,-, t en- "No, 1 Mtppose nut. ' * ' The ! rreit coloring is lien, too," rcmarkod Hiehnrdaon, thrusting his nands deep into his { fork put W'.'ts nud sutveylng his fricud's work ' ^ srost with tlio eye of un uneducated critic, ^ | l,jn| "though the same can't he said of tlio j ^ 1 models, judging from appearances And j ' ' Ity tli<! powers that Ihj, Francis," he '"""J I'rsi- widen, sutltlonly, "you've mole that tall | *"^.| ,om fellow a very good likeness of you! Hid . you know iff" ' Knowlton fhrugged his ahouldera. 1 lies- "I lia'l an idea his fare was something sitli like mine," he answered: "hut ns (hat 1 ' II) IIIII that n com.nun trick of curs, I have riot I . given it a second thought. What I am : ( cage striving f??r is a gootl picture, not |n?r | " rest, trsita, ami I must iesli/.e something ^ ?icnt fr?m it, too. Hy heavtns, l{|chai<lann, i . . it lias come to he at use of dire nice nity, J"." ' * snd that's ail tliorc is to it!" " ? keys "Kent not paid?" asked his friend. wil' "That's too bad I've hecu there mysolf, j j. and then it is a very uncomfortable thing ,jme to have hanging over one. As long as ^uu 1 ",e one can ?liti.lt up and down the water- u,,." hieh pipe, and thus avoid meet I g the land- V|lii|| lady on the ntairs, life is made endurnhie, Imt with you, I suppose?" "Thero isn't a water pipe w itbin | j.j\,t|, ;r. twenty feel of my window. No, ! must )t un (I, sell, or get out, so the mummy hrown (( . again, if you plea?e!" # Hh hardsell itaiidcd the paint to Ititn trnil( thr once more, somewhat gingerly. " I on can't help feeling I'm dealing with a ... piece of a dead body," lie said, coloring ,.r i at Knowlton's pitying look; "and I y **' should think you would do tlie same, trj<( j awn iielievlng, as you say you do. In turns (jme, v oi migration and re-iucarnation, and all that j1(, (j, fort of atufT. 8up|ioac, for instance, that ' l,m you were painting this picture with a tlio piece of your own father's body when lie \V| 11 of nn Egyptian, ten thousiiml ycurs I egol" "N "Or, hotter still," returned Knowlton, an oil ule \ squeezing a fiesli supply of th?* paint honw our out u|miu his palette, "my own old time watci t , iiody, say!" As he spoke lie touched "'I the paint with the tip of one finger, and urd n I l ' a sliiver, at tlio aamc time, passed over have {the him, leaving hiui strangely |<alo nud Knm tj, . shaken. n fell "Yea, l?ut?hello, what's wrong?" ex- mud I All . - ? - - ? claimed Hioliardson, noticing the chntigc m?W * J*. in his friend'* I so?. ton's Foe- "Nothing ? I don't know?a touch of howe .p. sortigo, that's til," returned the painter, clutr * oonfuscdly; "I- wbut were you say nn ii tWi ingt" loud, nuv "Only that If your supposition were ho tv 0 near that point in Hits case. But f tinge the subject, will you be nt the It to night ns u ual? If Mrs. Mr ;itin should happen lo take it into s ;?)o?l old head lo ask nie to pay or <| out, I'll have to realise on sonic of t l>ersonal propeity, and ns I don't h 1 the best places in town, I want a .0 steer me around. Won't object, u you?" <1 lot in the least. My services are al t at your disposal, nnd I'll bo at the s at half-after seven or eight. And I most tear myself away; so, until t " nnd the end of the sentence e lo*t ill the slight slain of the d or as 1 ent out. The aitist listened until s clio of his friend's retreating foot- u had (lied into the murmurous 0 ce of the great tenement in which 5 red, and then going softly to tho I) himself, ho turned tho key iti it. i ing back to tho table, bo drew bis I close up to it, and cist a furtive e :e about the unh? in : like room and li the deep shadows that linked in the t rebby corners. Then, with com u !cd lips and trembling hands, ho e tlie palette to bint and gently li ted a finger into the little daub of v imy-lrown still upon it. li cold thrill shot up his arm, shaking c mry nerve centres of his body as It 0, and making him shudder again t gain, even as he sank back into the s half uneonscious. In another mo- e sudden dusk filled the room,through | t h the familiar pieces of furniture c ilroperics seemed to lose their funiil- 0 f and to take new slia|ws and colors t themselves. Wttli staring eyes he a 0 to pierce the mist that half oh a al hia vision, and lo shako oil the ' 1 feeling that had nci/.cd upon him; t grinlually the lals drooped and d;and to his distended nostrils there ( 1, ns h lost cous? i. nsncss, 11 faint, I t odor whioh oven then ho rcoog- t I?the uncll of rcilar pitch and 1 li. liow long the teinble dream ! f li follow, d lasted he could not t r; but at last he woke to life again ' t struggling to his f. ct, lie staggered r le window, threw it open, and let j I faint breath of nir stirring j I the court yard far below | |> up pit -it li i nt ami into the room helm <1 riio dink wan just ig ov? r the ?ity, ami fur, far below ^ lie rouM 11?>mi the tenement's Inliab s of the first ami second fl. ort put ig their evening meal, s'nging and *K hy tlitns as tlitt prcpntntion t ol or displeased them. The night e a>1ed his fevered face and rcfro-hed j i however, and the great heads of t liration that had gathered on,his a ie:nl were gone, as lie I unit d hack to ? oom again. t am a fool !" he exclaimed itn- < ntly, "aud Inn gry, I dare say. No t It r I imagine things !" ami catching i in worn soft hat that lay beside lilt I iled hod lie hurried out into the i iml down the weary length of stalra t e street. . 1 t it as he c'Vaed the door, a email, I > y hi.oled tink, upon a shelf dlrcetly J I the spot where he had hastily shoved unfinished pictuie and its oitd. ' I d by his haste, whirled slowly ! j ltd until it rested upon the very edge t 0 shelf, where it balanced to and t ml trembled in the little hree/.c that t pnlTed in at the opt u window. t rgnn, the favorite story-te'lcr of the I miitn Idler's Club, waa talking as t nrdson and the painter came in from t journey to the pawnshop, and the 1 audience of interested listeners 1 rollectod about him, t t may or may not have been a hum* t " I c was saying, with a shrug of his t by.genteel shmildcrt, "hut it was s ish queer any way you take it. I j he man do it live times, too, and tin f I hut ouce." Vital do you rail it?hypnotism?'' ? I a new center. I don't know; ho simply says he ti/.cs the water and lets you call it ! you like. Firs*, he puts the turn- j ' of pi in hydrant water into one , 1 i, and he and the subject go into 1 lior. lie ma os a few passes?that acre the hypnotism comes in, I sup ' ?and once the man is under his 1 i d, tht professor walks into the r room aud stands with his hands 1 that tumbler of water for perhaps a 1 lie, not uttering a sound. Then he ' s some of us into tho room with the ing subject, and he stays with the I f the witnesses. When every thing idv, lie tells one of them to take his 1 1 nife and thrust the blade carefully \ the water, lie does so, and wc hear lib ?i scream from the other room, as 1 hypnotized man had felt the stab. I was repeated three times, and every ' the subject screamed and twisted * I hi liis chair, as if in agony, while ' knife remained in the water. As ' as it was removed the pain np- ' itly ceased, and he rested quietly 1 i. I was skeptical, of course, ' con ' ?d the talkative Morgan, "and said >s aii chicanery; hut afier seeing ! hing half a iio/.cu tlinos, I felt dif- 1 tly, ami I must say that it is ex ' ly peculiar, if not mysterious." ' A lint had tho subject to say for I elf when lie came to?" asked Kich Ml, who had joined tho group, fery little, except that route one had ' to stall him. and had succeded three i in sticking a knife into hit hack, ' ought." ml did he know of the tumbler iter and its bearing on his halluci- 1 n?" [o, he lm<l been kept in still , ier room when tirst brought to the , \ and ha<l not seen or heard of the , r." 'lull is ratio r pcouliitr", said Rich- I ii, thoughtfully. "I should like to i wen il myself." As ho spoke, t vltoa, who had been talking with low painter at the other side of the < e lllhd room, started across it in t cr to a beckoning nod of Richard- t llo had taken only a few steps, r vcr, lieforc he stopped suddenly and < bed convulsively at his breast,while | itiuman sbriak, shiill and pierringly t i urst froin hia lips. For a second t iayed thero in tlio sib iice that fol I, for every man in tho room bad I I tlio scream, above the talk ami iter, and had turned to mc what it r t and then his knees l?ent, and lie \ leavily <>n Hie toogldy ? arpelod floor, I sensible mass A young physician \ b id b?'? n i 11a' i utg lieu the lire pla< o * cd foiwarti as Ithbirdson did tho ? , and kneeling at tbo stricken man's 1 WBBNPF v,: "tr-% '<1JL cct, ho t< ro o|icn the shirt and put his and over tliu Watt. "Ho is ipiito dead, gentlemen," ho aid, in it moinont, hi answer to the iutiiiing looks of those collected ahouf item. Then lie got to liii feet and unshed the dent from his trousers. Ihit, s they pic ked the lifeless artist carcfillly p, not ono among the number saw the ueer, while mark, just ovor the heart, hat cuinc and went mjaiii like a very old car. The next morning, after huriivd nrangements had boon made for the funral 1 ?y K now 1 ton's Bohemian friends, lichardson had occasion to return to-the tudio. The door was looked, hut, with key of his own, he let himself In withut distill bin# the nwo-strioken Mrs. IcGwiginu. Tlie hedy lay upon the icd, beneath a sheet, ana the early mornng light drifted through the broken ilinds ami fell across it w ith an uncanny ITec t. Tho visitor w? ut quiotly to ihe ied, and, tinning tll^| duet hack from he face, looked dow\W..to the still fentires of his dead frii^d. Then he cov>n d them again and .noved away. A-; iu passed the easel, which still stood there Kuowilo i had last shoved it in lis haste, he turned denthlv pile and aught the- mantel for support. . "My ttoil!" lie i ried. recoiling from he painting as if it were tt'ivn, and taring down ut it .with horror Tilled yes. Then lie hurried past it and hrcw open the shut tars. Idling a flood if light into the roots-. A stray hit of arly sunshine fought its way through lie grime-covered dimlm* and crept long the floor to where the easel stood s .lid, doieg so, it lighted upon a blight lit of metal that caught and reflected he light into Itii luirdsou's face. l-'enealh the easel, as if hiding like a ominon murderer from justice, was the leavy dirk, driven into the unearpetod loor nn inch. Soino night wind, nn?rc loisterous I linn the rest, had shaken it rotn the sholf, iiikI, plunging downward o thi* floor, it had passed directly hroiigh the |?nintin?r. rot an eighth of in inch from the heart of the largest i<4ure on the eanvo* tho man in the >iown cout. l~\in TinniU'o Argonaut. Ol'TWI lTI*:i> T*IK HANItir.H. t<lvent lire in n Mm* itnin I'.ihi It.ick of Ai'inniifo. "If you arc going, l?? travel alone in his country you mud* Carry two fcvolvra, luit one of them may he worthless; n fmt ii may he hotter to have one of hem of somen hit ol I-fashioned make," aid Mr. .1. V. Ila .kins, of 1'uohlo, itcxico. "Mexico h ia improved innrrellously in i lie past ten years, hut btnlits nro still too nioticrou*, and lean ell you how to protc. t yourself hy reining the experience ot n friend of mine, lis name was Mo(Jo Hhepard, and he vns on his way alone torn Aenpulco to lie capital. It Is .w easily followed .rail, ho had hmyioytt' it onee, and he poke the I o???iiii5n^Riy well, lie bid tttle thought of danger, although holdips are commoii enough on that route, rut he went prepared for business. He nit in tho holster of his saddle a lljulihre revolver loaded with cmtridgos lint hurely had enough ponder in thorn o hlow the bullets out of the um//.le, iml then in the small of his hack he lung the handiest .'IS calibre he ould find when in T'rUco. 11cwas miking n trap, and U woiked. "It hnpi oucd ili.it .as he was coining town out of the iniiu range three roud igents stoppid liom the rocks beside the ou I and had him corneied before he ouhl whi-tle. They were nrim-d with iliotguns lis well ns inao) otis, hut for tome loison did not shoot before they ipoke, as not infrequently happens I'hcy Invited Msc tc? get down, nod he lid perforce. Then /one of tliein took Ihe big revolver frortpW holster. < ......i i. i i ......... II in " i>U IHJ. " 'Yes,' said Mac, 'bet it's a worth i'sh thing after all. 1 never wnnt to kill my one. I only carry it because ' must nuke |HM?|?|c think I am armed.' "Tha bandits Inugt ,?<| nt that. Imvaa neredihle that -?< li a pistol sliouM be worthies", an<l they saiil so. \ " ' Hut, gentlemen, I will put ink luit n the road and you may shoot at it kvith lie pistol. The bullet will not go hrough the hat.' > "At that he took off his hat, ty gorgeous Mexican affair that cost $ 0 in Acapnh o, ami put it '!> a rook, not ten feet away, ni??l stepj^ed back toward hut ibout live feet at one -tide of the bandits. They were interested at ono j. The idea was novel to them. The man with the listol aimed deliberately and tired at the int. Thin the three ran to look at the ffcct of the shot. Mae's turn to shoot uid come. Whipping out the unnoticed evolvcr lie'shot two of them down before hey could turn on him. The third did io nore th in turn round betore he cnugh| lis dose us well. "Ixaving every thirig as it lay bodies, runs, hat, and all, Vwc sat down in the hade of a rock and waited lor rome one to come along. lie did not oven reload liis revolver. lie had to make out a rood case before the Government officials, and lu? knew just how to do it. "Afh r an hour or ro a native planter a ith his servant cam riding along. " 'Have the goodness to inform tho Alcalde that an American gentleman has liad tumble here w ith bandit*,' said he to the native, and the native did as ropiest* d, of course. Three or four houis ater crime the Alcalde of the next place, ivith a half do/i u soldhrs. Mac told his itory briefly, and the Alcalde noted esoh [>oint ot it with tho corroborating eviIcnre on the ground. " 'You liavo done well,' he said. 'I mow the rascals well. You have saved cartridges for my soldiers by killing hem.' "Then he stop|?d. lie could not unlerstand how the big revolver had failed ;o shoot through the hat. He thought here was some kind of necromancy khnot it. 5*o Mac ci.t a bullet from a -artridgo and showed that the uaual iMiwder spnoo was for the most part illcd with a eork. Tjp/ Alcalde turned :he cork in his hnrtd arid then said: " 'Those wise Yankees! Hut they do ?y subtlety what we would do by valor!' "Thou M in ^nthi-inl u|> hi* hut and Dvolvt-r, mount?*<l hi* niulu, ami rode on villi th<* Alcalde, leaving tin; aohlicra to iiok aftn the dead haudita. Takn my vord for il, ami carry a good ^iiii out of light when traveling in Mexico, and Mother wheio all can ece U."-*jNew fork Bud HOICK OK A nilOIITV ItLAST. Nearly 200,<MH) Tons of Kodt Loosened l?y One Kxplo-toji. 1 I Ml Fet many yeais a huge on.s-< of rock -p technically known is a * ?Iik? ," a legacy ,, fnnn previous workers, has frowned over ''d? ohe of tho (ireat Diuerwick quarries, tlie '' property of A*sehtou Smith, says the Too London Telegraph, and has Ix.eo a grow- Tl ing menace to the safety of the men em ployed in tho galleries la low, which in a Ah series of terraces rise almost from the A edge of the lake far up tho steep lueast And of 1 tic mountain. The Hon. W. \V. Ai Vivian, who manages the quarries for jj)|t Asschtoii Smith, decided to remove the dike, and during the last three months / preparations for its destruction huvobccn " in active progiers. From thuo longitudinal tunnels in the solid rock ten chambers, each 11x4 feet, woic made and charged with gelatine dynamite. Each bug of tbis explosive was pined in position by Mr. Vivian 'j himself, hvcry thing liaving been satis- ,],| factorilv arranged, Mrs. Asm hton Smith was requested to lien the two ity minutes' time fuse leading to the mass of some *ot*' two and a half tons of gi litiuo d \ uanii to i safely packed in tIt: entrails of the net fork, u request to which -.he readily ^ ueeidcd. The hour was li\.d for olio ,.rr< o'clock Saturday, and shoitly Im fore the time thousands of people limn Llau berls and adjacent villages Ihingor, ff'n Carnarvon, and other towns took up bin advantageous position - in the ni ighh r- ' hood. he Fund it illy at the a|q> doted time Mis i^.' Assiditon Smith tiled ilie time fuse, and ^ at I do o'clock the eaitli for a mile around was shikcn as if l?y an earth . quake. At the next ins'ant the farm of "" 1 tho tremendous dike, which towered gloomily upward, and on cither side of which the tain covered rock glisten .1 in j| a passing hurst of sunshine, began to quiver ominously and the loose earth in '[ lis crevices clattered down its smoetli face like an avalanche. Next from dif- ,|,.,x ferent parts of the rock came sputtering q<ri loitsts of smoke, mid tie n commons blocks detailed thems?dvei from the mountainous tens of rock, topp'cl slowly forward, and linallv cr-ishcd into ' '' ' the nhy.ss hclow with bc ifciiii g uproar, which mingled with the thunders of the exploding dynau ite, now fieed fr. in its "|; ro ky nriso-i. rcv< rlier.iting grimily |(js among Ilie mountains that towered rug (j,,i godly into the cloud darkened sky. Again ntnl again was the <1 iwnfall of tInhuge masses of rock repi ati d. I'll 1st), IK)-) tons lay like "tumhled fragile nts of the liill," far hclow. A dense white smoke, the do idly ttf erdamp, e'ung for ' awhile aiottnd the scene of the i:\plo tvn sion, and, when cleaiod away, in the dr< place of th dike there w a * a great gap, liit in which glisti n d, hero and there, pin >. nodes of splintered locks. The Wealth Of tils' \Vurl<l. |,jH | Kl'rt people, (ivP't rllfpmg the professed ' ! polil iciaus, luiVc much idea of I no wealth ,vfl of the world < r of the uiuiner in winch lli.it wealth i-> glowing. Still fewer ',M have any notion of llic potent iuiity of ' wealth to increase. >1. Jniinct ijuotea ho the elit'iorate ealetllalda of an ingenious net until"! to show that ltl<) fta c , an unm |.|(| latin*; at p< r <vnl. c >'ii|>otitiil interest for sevi ii centuiios, woul 1 lo sutlieient to liny the whole surface of the gtohe, both land and w.iti r, at tin* rule .if J,j (HK).O '() francs it! |o,Hl t the hectare. I' Hie actual growth of riches has not I 1 hitherto assumed sin h inconvenient pro hit' portions, says he Fdiiihurgh Kcviow not M. Janm t idles various authorities to to show that the weal.li of the 1'nitcd < Kingdom exceeds tlO.tt Ml.tNXl.OOO; that ri of Frnin e. t'H II (MH) >,<<(); that of all '' Ktirnpc, CIO.IH) that of the JV! I'lilted Stall s, til 000,0: O.OiM). If we 1,11 place the; wealth of the rest of the world at till,000.00 i,II I), wo shall at rive tit nil tin aggregate ot ?H0,000,000,0:0 We .?t! shoal I have, we m ty add, to multiply this mi vast sain .'JO <> 10 times lief, re we loaelied the total to which, n?conling to M. J an net's ingenious authoiity, l> 0 francs Accuiiiinuluting tit o per cent compound ^ inteiest for'DO years would grow. Tile fl^UiCH w?: have g.ven are so vast that they c nvry no nppreci ihle idea to to; the ordinary reader. It may assist the ah apprehension f it he added that Franco a | on an nverage. possesses inon* than IPiOO, lik the fnited Kingdom more than t'i-'O,j *j for each mo nher of the population. ' Just gilO years ago Sii W. IVtly est?- 'I I united the entire wealth of Fnglatid at only l"JfiO,000,000. Two centuries, I tl.eicfere, havii increased it forty-fold. 1 tni the chief additions to it have hcen n" j mad*' in the last lift v years, and we he vei lieve that we :iio not f u wrong in say lug that the sum ivlihdi is annually added sat to the fnited Kingdom amotinla to mi i t'COO.O' O.OitO, or. in other words, is ' neatly c.pinl to its enti:e wealth at the time of tlur revolution of HJH-t. ^ lYIiferent Kin Is of l.oeomotton th< The different kinds of loo uno'ion have t"! he-*n studied elirO'ni pho|ogr>i| hicall> hv j I'rofi ssor Maicy . In old i lo pliotogr ipli . reptiles in motion, tiny must be placed in a sort of circular < anal where they { can run An iitdo'ini'cly. Fishea are made to swim in a similar < tin il filled with j water illuminated from above, so that ' tiny appear dar!\ on a light ground, or i from hc'o'.v, so as to appenr light on a ' 'J d:iik background. Some intuicsting sl Analogies may b ol served between situ y'*-'1 pie Creeping and inoro complex movements. Aii eel ami tin adder progress in tlx water in the same wav; a wave ol lateral inflexion runs incessantly , from the head to (ho tail, and the *|?ecd of bin kground propn gallon of this wave is only slightly supeiior to the velocity of translation of tl e animal itself. If the eel and adder ,M( are placed on the ground, the mode of NO1 crisping will ho modified in tho samo lb. manner in tin* two MjHoies. In tioth the on wnvp ot repiaiioo will nave a greater re; amplitude, ami this amplitude grows iv< n ore and morons llio surface laconics | >r smoother. "In fishes provided with linn, 0n nnd in reptiles possessing feet, there re- (i, m Ins, in general, ft more or lens pro rtU nounccd trnoi> of tho nmlu'atory motion of repialion. 'I In- gray liaird, when \| photographed nt the rule of forty or fifty ^ ex|K>*uroM por a ootid, ? vhihits thin clearly, and also rovcnls the fact that tho i mode of progression by mrana of the "" fe? t is diagonal, and analogous to trot 11 111 Kg. Thin gives lien to an alternation of convexity and concavity in the tody Nt on each side." nEI OHE THE DAYBUfAK, >re tin* daybreak shines a star hat,in (Ik- day's full glory fndo.s ; lloreely bright Is tlio great light < it her pale-gleaming liitnp upbrnhi?. iro tin' daybreak sings a bir I nit stills hersong at morning's light ) loud for her Is t ln> day's star, u> woodlands' tlioiisind-toiiguod d'diglit. great the honor is to shine light wlu-roiii no traveler errs j rich the prl^o to rank divine inong the world's loud chorister?. I would be that paler star, n 1 I would bo that lonelier bird, shine with hope while hope's afar, lid sing of love when love's unheard. ?F. W. Iiourdillou. HUM Oil or THE DAY, 'In* maids of old were not necessarily tenuis. ? Hallo. 'oM weather iloes'ntseom to nip tlio iety 1 ?m I.?I'urk. 'lie iroiilile with llie love of u hull- 1 is tile lint i of n hill, oine men aim so high that their iwsent nothing Imt the air. ? I'uek. 'lie great trouble with llie luidding , ills is that he usitiillv nipped it? the I. 'How strangely I'ultor aelsl Isn't ii little off?" "No, hut the market Hostou Trnnsenpt. Vheti a minister is installed there ia barge (o the people, mid paying his iry isunolher one. I.owell Courier. I like this hat." sai I Isah d. It makes my fa ! long an 1 well ; ill when dear father saw the lull made liia faee loo'; I uig *r still." i'uek. 'ime is motley, they ?>iy. Aiel It heeil notie I ill it it take* IV goo I I of money to h ive a goo I time. ? ith. I inuii is inn -ii it';e u r r.ur, lieenuse i ean't tell how sharp he enn he nil* lie is eonnih'tely atr viip-l 'L'e\ai I ill's. 'See till! mull yonder'.1'' "Vim." i-en in Congress (en years." "Whuf record?" "L'eii Years!"?Atlanta isi ii nt ion. It surely niiist l?e safe to say, Without the least transgression. That lie who "giv . himsell away ' II.is I.'St Ills aelf-possessjoil. Il ivmond's Monthly. 'Meihink I ueeni the iiiortiingair," iarke.1 the swell collector, us ho >vo down Main struct at !5 h. lit.? Hul.. Court* v. Vcri'l societies liuvc charms thill especially attractive t<> the man <i likes t?i make a f^audy display on watch-uhuin.- l'uck. Lit ??11 nay the furnitur. s Louis ,\'i \ t" She - '' Vea. Wl?y? ' "The Mi;?5?eHt the Kciffn of rror.liean Monde. 'What a bit; hill I am ;*c*tt-ii*f5 t<> !" juiil the amhitious ritl^e of dirt ir the river. lint it wan only a ill*. ' ?Chicago Tribute*. "I would nr?i live nlwuy," lie sanpr, Thi) notes lie loved to frame ; Dili lie wore a chest protector and His tfum shoos, just the same. Washington Star. [flood may lie thicker than water, t < I id any one know a "ill who would t htrul her brother'h eij;nrs to j?iv< Home one else??Truth, loorijo ? "You would marry the big;t fool in the world it lie asked you, uldii't you V Ethel?-"t)|i, decree, s is so sudden."?Vogtlo. rrunip " da lam. I was not always is." Madam ">o. It was your icr arm you had in a sliti<; thisl irtiiuo.I >< i roit Trilmne. When you are buying a horse don't lisult a pedestrian, and when you j ; courting a woman don't aak advice a bachelor. Mawkinsvillo Dispatch. j ia....... ... u.i.. i ..1.,.. I graphs. A pretty picture it; itivari 1y "the perfect image of her," whih ?oor picture "doesn't look a hit o her." I tost on Transcript, lie < v.nr erie I tMil.Jly "give us pnaee Tim Kreiiclimaii eric I "of course ! ' rtien each oil ti Ml ell" I to 111 "fells 1 Ills tuuit an I naval fore . ("I'velan 1 I'lain Healer. M iss Manhattan (maliciously) ? "Vim 1st mis* the tlcur nM London fog* ry much. ' Lord TuITnutt (tottily) "I ilo. lint i am partially eompeiiled l?y your charming New York nl." ? Vogue. "What is the ditVerenro l?et\vceii ancient Unmans mi l the nioilern uericiins?" "(Jive it up." "rim iiiuiiiH used to urn tlicir deu 1, 'while Americans have to earn their livg." 'i'e\as .Sift iligi-:. The rain eume down in torrent- . With a splishy-splashy .wash. And it soaKisI the foolish fellow Who hndso.ikel hie mackintosh. \\ lishlll 'toll New*. "My friend," aaid the Holeniu old ntleniAli, "to what end litis your life irk Ileen directed!" "fo th.? hea l I," luuru'UiVtl the l>ar!>er, an 1 then eueo fairly poured. 11 didn't merely igu,? Indianapolis Journal, Highest (liurcu in Europe. The highest church in Europe istlio gr imago chapel of ;st. Moriah ?lo toil, above {Snlux, in the {Swiss cuiin of (Iraulmnden. It lien 12181 i r< h niMivo i iii' m h level nearly lit) feet high above tho forest, near ! limits of perpetual snow. It is ly opon in the summer lime of that giou ? or, as till) folk thereabout ?kon, from St. John the Hajitiafa ly to St. Miehnel'a l>ay?an 1 is used ly by the AI f> herds, who remain rough tiie an tumor with their cowu I goats, and occasionally by hunt* i.j eareh of t lie chamois and marmot.. I the inhabitants of Hnlux climb tij? itlicr on Midsummer I >uy to assist the first inns-1 and bear the tint! ?n of the year, and tlmr-i is abo a on- led conpTegntion on Michactnin.'i IV, at the lad uermoil o? the year. jw York Wituca, THE PKOCEEIHN jS Of th? (it mral Assembly at the Str.to Capitol,Columbia. A Resume of the Business T ansacted fr >m Day to Day. lath Day.?The He list!icing hill caused a Hurry iu the Huuc. It vv s then laid aside until the morrow, and the balance of the day and i is; t ens spent in tea tin; the new c nil'. The Scuate 1 el 1 an iutciesting rrs-ion. Senator Smythe prevent d a fa vorable report from the c unmittce on privileges and el clions'on this Australian ballot loll. Then tin phispha'e b:ll held the board i f. r houri, and liu illy pas ed its sccon 1 reading. A petition a as presented from the Colombia Typ 'graptucil Union prnji ig that the Legislature mcmori di/.o Congress to establish a pos'al telegraph system. 1 -Itil Day.?The SeiiHtc debated the new dispensary bill. 'I lie. I Ion <e spent 1 he day >>n tie He>li Dieting bill. Lite in t lie evening t he I !<?:: killed the bill to put Cll til > too into the " Hlack" eongrc s'.onil ijiatriet by a vote of .Vi to I'i 1 > b I?>v. The Dispensary bill pa s i<l i 11? 111 leading in the {senate. The House took up the hill to form the new county of Si lew. It w.u? killed hy i vtva veil e vol:. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Instead <>f jaws the butterfly has a curled proboscis like that of an elephant. The vegetarians contend that tlio animals that do not eat meat are tie* strongest. A year on Jupiter is equal to eleven years, icn 111* m11!ih ami seveniei u nays on our*globe.. A correspondent of flu; Loudon Isinrot points out ttint when augst* in partly burnt in a gas tlamc it is destrue.tive to iniee. A traveler in India attributes his itnmuuity from fever and sunstroke during live years to having the linings of his hats and caps made of yellow material. The bee can draw twenty times it'' own. weight? can tly more than four miles an hour, and will seek food at a distance of four miles. By a beautiful mechanical adaptation its wings bear it forward or backward, v itli upward, downward or suddenly arrested course. The current over the Mersey bar, Liverpool, since the extensive dredging operations baa been found to increase, much to the surprise of a number of engineers engaged in the wort, who have thought that if the channel were deepened tlio current would 1?. more sluggish. Lobsters are not peace-abiding crustaceans. They cannot be persuaded to grow up together peaceably. If a dozen newly hatched specimens are put into an aquarium, within a few days there will be only one -a large, fat and promising youngster. lie has eaten all the rest. The helieoid anemometer is said t ? be quite independent of friction for all excepting light winds, but it is not so simple in construction as th en ? form. The mr meter consists of a single screw blade formed of thin aluminum, and made as nearly as p > slide into the exact shape ot a portion of a lielicoitl. I?v placing two iron bars at. seven oi* eight yards distance from each ot her, and putting tliem in commitment ?o i on olio aitle by an insulated eoppe." wire, and tin the other side witil a ttdephone, it is said that a storm oa i be prodicteil twelve hours aheatl through a certain dead sound heard in the receiver. We can now talk any distance, hear at any distance, write or draw jiictturcs at any distance. It only remains for us to see and feel at any distance. The problem of eight is now nearly solved and within ten years it will be possible for a man to nil in liie room, see the opera, hear the mnsie and read . his own newspaper at his own fireside at the same time. Home very industrious students of microscopy, an applied to medical problems, have been offering pretty strong evidence that parasites ay? the origin of malignant and eimeerfrms tumors; so the Pathological Society of London appointed a committee to investigate the evidence, which committee unanimously reports that, notwithstanding the iabor expended, t '10 point i-i not proved the parasitica aro not demons! rated. A 5 ippbn - t>i iM iiimn'l, The writer . "Natural Hbtorj Note ' in the > oi ksliire Weekly Post, j fen dig to an extract from Phil Iloli InsonVi new booh, in which the author described how a bear was lured into a drunken bout, mentions pome remnr". able instances of a taste for alcohol among t lie lower run nut ik. Ho anys : "I possessed ik very lino deerhonnd i'lloli. Ono day, wliilo emptying some Scotch whisky out of i? jur into a decanter, I spilt. a quantity on tlio floor. .Inno, who had boon rnititing about, immediately began lapping it up, and to my great astonishment Deemed to heartily relish the 'blend.' An far an I knew that wiw the beginning ,,f u sad and brief career. .tune beeanie a notoriona drunkard. She frequented several public bars ami won the subject of many wafers, Mho could drink anything in the liquor line- anything In' water and milk. 1 hove Been her Mt? gcring home very early in the nidi'iiiiiK aftk r a 'Imhiw,' The end came before she wan three yearn old. A friendly V. ft. and I held a Vrowner quest'on thoeoreaiw: Verdict?I>ied of intlikinmatinn of the braiu, tho effect of alcohol "