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peo ki 0 1 d th A The t. In Btu,% Was told t For white. And on his ath. Appeared this t, A railway spans the And climbs thu ou'. Before it savage sway u', FrQmu prairies broad to o% t And high up in the contunon . Are now-made honics tilled wit '. And lot as Midas misor king, Bosocobing gods in days of old, given tho power whence anything etouched turned instantly togold; ,by the weiglt of labor's wand, ranSgured is the dcsert land. 'oon the plains the black hords swarm. vhore'or the genial sunshine falls; From eastern workshops, field and farm, Armed mon attack her mountain walls, And earth yields up the key that unlocks Her vainly hidden treasure box. From babyhood Wyoming loaps, Strong limbed aind vigorous in her might, And jealously her freedom keeps, In watch and ward on mountain height, We hail tho land of all our love, Minerva from the brain of Jove. HOW DONALDSON I)EI:D. The Alleged Spirit of the Balloonist Describes His Last Voyage from Chicago. A young girl of Iteading, Pa., has lateoLy developod remarkable powers as a spiritual medium, it is said, and last Saturday, with a circle of Spiritualists about her, she took a trip to the spirit world, as she called it, and related what she saw. Among the people mot there was Professor Donaldson, who has never been heard from since he started on that perilous balloon voyage from the lake front, this city. The Professor was considerate enough to clear up the mystery, and told the young lady all about his porilous voy age and the terrible experiences accom panying it. THE AERONAUT's STORY. The young lady's story, as given by the Philadelphia Presfs is :s followd: "The fact is that for the past ton days I have sopn the face of the same man every da y. I was in the spirit la71d. I call it spirit land, it is so much prettier, I think, than the clairvoyant state; the latter is so vulgar and com mon, and, I am told, there is so much humbug in it." By this time eleven peoplo had as somblod in the parlor and formed n circle about the girl. The gas wat turned down just a trille, and in a very short time the parents nodded and pointed to thoir daughter, whose face had turned slightly upward. I1cr oyea closed and her hands rested togeth er on her lap: She sat upon a hassock, and it was at least three minutes 9J silence before she spoke again. The measured tick of the clock, the low hum of the gas, the cracking' coals in the grate, the hurrying, creaking foot " on the pavement in the icy air of nig alone broke the stillness. "I see the same man's face coming toward me again," said the young me dium. "ie has black, wavy hair, well rounded head, large, short neck, dark complexion, and black mustache. As he comes nearer to mo I see that onc *of his eyes is dark and the other light. On one of his cheeks I see a black mark. It is a mole or birthmark of some kind. A SPIRIT'S FRUITLESS SEARCII. "le looks at me as if seeking somc one he cannot find. This is the eloventhl time I have seen hlis face. Hc( seems to want me to SpeOak to him, and appears to be in trouble because Idid not speak to him before. I now speak to him and Is eyes lighlt up and sparkle with delight. lie smiles anc Bays: "am glad you sp)oke to mc. Yeu Sthe first to greet, me from tile wvorld l. Aow since I left it. Why did you no' speak to me before? D)o you not knowi meP No, youl do nlot. You were toc young when I lived in your city. Bt *no doubt you have heard of me. M3 name is Donaldson. I was called Professor D)onaldson. [Here tile circle of friends were astonishled and becarme doubly interestod.] D)on't you remem ber my nameP I went up in ballooni in Reading andl gavo entertainments, with p resents to all the little childron and the grown folks too. T1oll your father and thoso people niear you whc I am; they will remember me. Also tell them that I want to clear up the mystery of my strange death. "$3omo say thlat I anm net dead, and wi come back to my old home and fri57nds once more. That is not so. I am now out of the earth and flesh and am in the spirit world. DONALDSON's LAST ASCENSIOIN. "Everybody who remembers me wvil] remember that I was never heard from after I went up in the halloon at Chica go. That was my last ascension. Our balloon was caught in a terrible wind storm in the upper current. I novor experienced such a storm on land. -It blew our balloon-basket to pieces. My friend, or friends, woere blowna out of the basket car, leavino me up in the rigging, sitting on theohoop of the bal loon. I saw everything below me blown into shreds. Then the gas chamber of the balloon made a fearful plunge and careened to one side, and thbrow me and the hoop upward, anId for a few minutes I was sailing thIroughi the air on top of the balloon. Thai was the strangest ride over indulged in by mortal man. The few minutos seemed like an age. I had the pros ence of mind to grasp hold of the not, ;thig, so that it would not s1l1) dow! *vd release the gas chamber. Tiler 'thre - gas -began to escape from the mouth of the balloon, and it would have suffocated me had not tiio stern hurled us through the air at a terribl< pc.I was far above the clouds, bui how far I could not tell, because all our instrumente had i)een blown intc the hake. I tried all I could to hlav< the balloon right itself. I got wa~ down on the side of tile ballfoon and pulled at the hoop1 and rigging, but it would not come. STRUGOLES FOR IFE" D)EsCRIBiED. "i'Then I wont back and tied mnysoll to the end ofastrong ropo around th< bd,and fatndit to tho iron hoop,) so that if I should be blown off I wou ld not drop to the earth. Then I crawled 'nt on the~ sido of the hallonn again o'.. half t. other, an. the two lalY, bulged up and formed a parachut brulla, leaving me s . TilE STORM BEATEN PA. " 'I realized for a momen.. had answered my praeyr. '1.m truth unshed upon me that I was g. down so fast that it nearly took a breath. I was too heavy for the pan chute. Then I saw that the cany had split again, and suddenly anoth frightful sweep of the storm tore t parachute into tatters, and I was hurl headlong down through the clouds. closed my eyes and prayed, and di going down, thinking of loved ones home. My poor body fell into a wi] lonely, and bleak swamp, ten mil north of the northern shore of La Superior, where it, slowly sovore separated, and scattered by the e and flow of the waters, until it h now returned to its original earl My spirit entered spirit land at one where it has now boen lodged ov since. "'I am slowly working my way I to higher circles and to a higher lif I have been happy ever since my com ing here, and have not changed n mind but that some day some one w discover a method by which the air a be navigated. I am obliged to you f your kindness, and will be please: talk to you again when our eyes n here or elsewhere. I have oth thoughts, too, of dear ones for whom amt waiting in peaco and h appinet Good-bye.' "Now," continued the young Iuot um, "the face vanishes with smilc He must have been a good man < earth. I see that, he never drank swore, but led an exemplary life. I was brave, warm-hearted and gen ous." In a few moments the young met umi wais out of her clairvoyant stall and soon afterward the company dl parted, considerably impressed wi the story. * _____ Canada's Treatment or the India Canadian statesmen siay that the I dians in the States woubt, nt cost ai more than they do if cu:- r,'s board, them all at the Fifth Av:nue liott whereas in Canada e:h Lli:n costs little less than would ;Op a private the army. There are a Vt :. <luart of a million Indians sp1 upt into litt bands. whose reserves :wr' sprinklb over the land like the la. of Main 'lio government keeps an aceo unt wi each band, sells for themt what lan are not wanted, and holds 43,000,0 in trust for them. It instructs then in farning, pr vides them with iml)lonents, seeds ai cattle, instructs their children, au feeds all who need food with pork ai grain. Already the home farms, who the savages were shown how to till t soil, are rapidly being closed up), at the rations of food are being wit drawn from one band after another thme Indians manifest abilit,y to sto and preserve their crops through tl winters. Nearly all the Indians something toward self-supp)1ort. Sot make bas kets, o thrcis make snow she and toboggans, others sell furs, othec make barrels, ethers catch fish, and on. Five years argo the Blackfeet we o'n the warpath. Now almost eve family has a house and farm. Dutring the present session of Parli menat Sir John Macdonald introduc a bill to comaplete their civilization ai convert thom into politicians by an a dlesignied to "'train thema for the ext cisc of municipal powers." The u shot of the wholhe timng, as 3onator WV. Ogilvie put it the other day ,is th "the Unitedl States means well, but h agents hold( that no Indian is a go< Indian except a dead Indian, whi Canada believes they are human bi ings, and that it costs less to treat thme kindly than to fight them."-N. Y. &u lie Rought the Office. "Know Douglas-Stephen A. P Yc indeed, I knew him when he was young man," said the Rev. John Fl mn a recent interview. "He ha dju opened a law ofilice in Jacksonville, 11 and I wvas studying with him. 0: morning as I came into tihe office D)ou las stood with a letter in his hanid, at was gaz/ing at it intently, thiinkih about somethinmg. lie broke out final with: 'I have jusl.t got, a letter fro Vandalia saying that they are going exact an ALtornoy General (lay after t morrow. If I had a horse andI a litt money I would go diowna there and s if I couldn't get it.' Vandalia was tht the sealt of governmnent, and1( was seve ty-five midles fromi Jacksonlvil. I to im, 'Well, there's that 01(d gray hor of mllio, anmd I've got about $8, and thiat wvill do yout any good you're we coinet to time horse and money.' I thiaked m11 and accepted the ofic 'Go catch your horse and I'll go.' I got uap the horse arnd D)ouglas starto lie hand about twenty miles to go bofo he struck the *rairie. iIe hiad to rb through tis In the darkness of ti night,. but lie wantedi to got into Va dalima as soo11nas p)ossible. Well, he n only got there, buit lao got elected. wvas thme first oflice lie ever held. Aft that lhe kept rising from one position another, just like so matny steps goit uplstairs. Auastint, Texar, boys amuse the, solves by dlropphin.Z caits from thme Col rado bridge minto) the wvater forty fo below. Sonie are kcilIled by time fa but the most, of thmem survive to furni 1)r isher or imporati. tact, or it u. 3d The moment tea. I vinced their teachu, 3d competent, is the ioni.. at through that gap, as throur. d, in a Mississi pi levee, the ilooa es order pours in and drowns the ia. ko And, as soon as possible, the princi d pal, man or woman, should have fixed 5 periods of instruction with the higher as classes of the school. Every bright h. child will be gratified by the compli nont of being enrolled in the princi * pal's class, and many a dull or modio crc scholar will do better work with the hope of reaching it. The last ab P surdity is reached1 hien a famous teach ' or is placed over several hundred chil dren and a dozen assistants to be re lieved entjrcly from the work that has made him famous; too often compelled mi to wasto his energies in school-book or koo ino and matters of detail. All to work o? this kind should be reduced as " much as possiblo, in quantity, and ci ther distributed amon the entire corps or assigned to a principal's clerk; leav S' ing the a i perior teacher and ruler of the house in a condition to do the best bi- possible work in the organization, in A- struction and disciplino of the estab )m lishment. or On the otner hand, a most 'lestruc lo tivo mistake is often made by shutting r- the principal 'mtirely in the highest room, leaving -o time for supervision, ii or even for observation of what is going ?, on below. Anybody can see how help e- less the teacher must be in this posi th tion; deal with material which has pass ed through ascriesof rooms over which n. he has no control-ignorant in fact of wi...t is being done in any of them. n- Tno attempt to instruct such a class is ly a porpetual struggle with insurmount d ablo difliculties, which, sooner or later, l, exhausts the patience and destroys the a efficiency of the finest teacher. In too in many of our smaller cities and in some or of our chief towns this arrangement is lo made with a purpose. The assistant .d teachers are thrust in as a matter of fa o. voritism, and, of course, resent supor th vision and work with an eye single to Is please their own trustee; the principal, )0 often a woman, being engrossed by the same degrading occupation. The gen e- oral superintendent is sometimes a id weak man, kept in place by ambitious id trustees on account of his weakness, id that he may net interfere with the p)lans ro of ambitious members of the board; or [10 a "Boss," who aspires to the manage id ment of every room and the personal hi- sup)ervisionl of every teacher. While as this may be done ini a place of moder rc ate size, the attempt to handle the io schools of a city of even 20,000 people lo in this way is a mistake which becomes 10 more app)arent with the increase of es population. rs Supervision is the backbone of every so systemi of p)ublic schools. But no su re perintendent or principal can teach r'y school over the heads of the room teachers. Neither can the room-teach a- er be wisely indulged in an "indepond id once" that isolates her p)upils. and id breaks up the harmony of the school et family. llore, as everywhere, we want r- "the golden mean." P LIBRARIEs FOR EVENING SCHOOLS. at The comp)aratively small attendance or at evening public schiools in Chicano >d and in all our cities where such usofll Io agencies have been estaljished, is to be o. deplored, for the advantages to the mn o1ter boys and girls who have to work . all day is obvious. In France, the eve ning schools established by the govern ment are very largely attended, and the fact is p)artly due, perhaps, to 8, tihe systenm of free libraries connected a with the schools. There are about ton uk thousand of these free libraries, which at contain the most valuable, books on cv .,cry p)ractical subject, fully up with the 1o times andl constantly increasing through g- purchases by the government, and the ud gifts of p)rivato lindividuals who are in ug torested in popular education. These ly local libraries are open to all who wish in to use them fourteen hours out of the to twenty-four, and they ate generally o- used by the working people in tile eve le ning. In most of our states some effort 30 has been made to establish district mn school libraries, but for the most part~ a- these collections are poor andl unsatis 1(1 factory, being complosedl largely of east so off literature, second hand obsoleteness If which, as has recently been shown by I1- Prof. Tyler, disgraces even such agreat [o state as New York. Good free libraries r. attached to each wvard school and open ) in the evening wvould effect a reformia il ,tory work whose value would far trani re scond the expeonse &f keeping them up. lo -CurrenL. nuAN NATURE. og Many a boy, says a writor in the It Philadelphia eachcr, gets to himself a or bad name because of the rapidly do te velop>Ing faculties within him seeking 0g ompey ment. Much of what passes for igjuvenfle depravity may be easily ac counlted for. Misch,iefI is not moan~noss n. it is nuiidirected (energy. Intentional o. wrong-doing is gon erally the farthest ot from tihe boy's thought. The force of li, temptation and impulse overcomes his ih own choice and power of resistance, while the imprudlenco, ill-temper, or recl1ess haste of thn tneaherm. m the 1. control v. imburso it we u Boston Journal Extent of the Czar's Estate. One may form some idea of the ex tent of the possessions belonging to the Russian Emperor, as property inimodi ately attached to the crown, when we hear that the Altai estates alone cover an area of 40,000,000 dcsjatins,or over 170,000 square miles, being about three times the size of England and \Vales. Tho Ncrtchinsk estates, in Eastern Siberia, are estimated at about 18,000,000 desjatins. In the Altai es tates are situated the gold and silver mines of Barnaul, Paulov; Smijov, and Loktjopp,the copper foundry at Sasoum, and the great iron works at Gavrilov, in the Salagirov district. The receipts from these enormous estates are in a ridiculously pitiful ratio to their extent. In the year 1882 they amounted to 950,000 rubles, or a little more than ?95,000; while for 1883 the revenue was estimated at less than half this sum, or about 400,000 rubles. The rents etc., gave a surplus over expense of admin istration of about 1,500,000 rubles. On the other hand, the working of the mines showed a deficiency of over 1,000,000 rubles, henceo the result just indicated. A partial explanation of this unsatisfactory state of things is to be found in the situation of the mines, which are generally in places quite de titute of wood, while the smelting-wor were naturally situated in districts where wood abounds, sometimes as much as six hundred or seven hundred kilome ters distant from the mines. The cost of transport of raw materials became considerable in this way. By dogrees all the wood available in the neighbor hood of the smelting-works becamo used up, and it was necessary to fetch wood from distances of over one hun dred kilometers. Formerly the mines woro really penal settlements, worked by convicts, who were partly helped by immigrants whose sons woere exemp)ted from military service on the condition of working in the mines. But since the abolition of serfdom this system has been quite altered, and there is now a grcat deal of free labor on the ordi nary conditions. -London Timecs. Franklin and Adams. Some time during the revolutionary periodl, or a little after, John Adams and Benjamin Franklin woere dis patched from Philadelphia, I believe, to Massachusetts, on a public orltand. Adams had a mortal antip)athy, shared by himi along with the majority of mankind at that day, against the nio-ht air. He believed that if he kept 'lis bedroom window open even a crack at night ho would surely (lie. Franklin, on the other hand, was a disbeliever in the theory of danger in the night air, and he had many arguments with Adams thereon. Circumstances and the crowded condition of maniy of the taverns they stoppe)d at on their jour ney eastward compelled them frequently to occupy the same room, and often the same bed. Adams always opposed raising the window, and poor Ben nearly suffocated and reviled Adams for his wretched theory of the deadly effects of nature's universal medium of breath. One night Ben slyly raised a windlow in their common chamber, but Adams, on the alert for his friend's little games, insisted that it should be closcd[at once. Said crafty Ben: "Now, Mr. Adams, we'll go to bed with the window up, and I will show you why it will not be harmful for us to permit the windowv to stay open. if I cannot con vince you of the reasonableness of my theory, I will myself get up and close the window." Adams weakly con sented, and Ben began to reason with him. Fiinlly poor Adams wvas talked to sleep, and Ben tranquilly resigned himself to slumber. Next morning great was Adams' horror at finding the window up, but not having died through the umight, and fooling no ill eflects from having breathed the night air, he became a convert to sly Benja min's night-air theory. The author of a history of America during the colo nial opech told me this anecdioto as something amusing, which had hitherto escaped type. A Talbot farmer and his good wifo lost their reckoning last Sunday, and the farmer drove to Easton with a load of marketing while his helpmate stayed at homo and finished up the family ironing. Finding the stores and market house closed, he inq1uired the ca'nso, and being told it was Sund,ay, h'j ex claimed: "Good gracious! an dmy wife is at home lroningi" Wion the church bells began to rimg b'e madol a boe-lin for home to report to Mrs. O. man and stop the ironing. --G(rcensbo roumh ( Md )'.Timnce from exposure to tno sun, and saw ni difference in the yield. In portions of North Carolina nine toenth century methods have made bu little progress. A recent letter fron the state says many of the housowivo still "follow the cotton with their owi fingers from the stock to the stock ing." Grass means cattle: cattle mean: manure; manure means rich lands rich lands means good crops, and goot crops means prosperity. This is th history of the world. Seed part o your farm down to grass and see if Lb assertion is not true. Gravel or coarse sand is as muel needed by fowls ns ordinary food With this their food is rendered di gestible. When the birds arc confine< to close quarters, especially in house with wooden floors, the absence o gravel will quickly become apparent it the fall away in flesh and good healti of the inmates. Every wood that secures growth or the field deprives the soil of so muel fertility and robs the crops of that de gree. The labor of eradication is als< greater the stronger the wood, and it i a well-known fact that the majority o weeds are not only gross feeders bu tenacious in habit, doing more injur3 in occupying and seeding the grounc than by depriving it of its fertilizinc elements. Of the 36,000,000 people in Japan nearly 16,000,000, in 1880, wore farnt ers, in almost equal proportion of botl sexes. Since 1863 the people own the land, paying the tax for it to the gov ornment. Three-tenths of the tillec land is In the hands of small proprie. tors, who, with their wives and children, do nearly all the farm-work. The plo in common use is nothincr but a spade with a narrow blade about three feel long, There Is a fine climate anc much fertile land in Japan. A Kansas corresp)ondent of thi Prairie Farmer , Mr. Jacob Nixon, ir answer to a request for something t< prevent wire-worms from injuring seed corn after planting, advises the trial o: a pint of coal oil to the bushel of seed, Hoe finds this remedy effectual In pro venting moles from following th< planter's marks, and also the p)rairit squirrel, or striped gopher. Corn thus treated gives no trouble to horse 01 hand corn-planters. "An Old Man." An old man Is a beautiful object ir his own place, In the midst of a circl of young people, going down in varioun gradations to infancy, and all looking up to the patriarch with filial rover once, keeping him warm by their owi burning~ youth; giving him the fresh ness of'thelr thought and feeling, wit! such natural influx that it seems thati grow within his heart; while on then ho reacts with an Influence that sobers tempers, keeps them down. is wis dom, very probably, Is of no great no count-he cannot fit to any now stat< of things; but, nevertheless, It worki its offect. In such a situation the o1< man is kind and genial, mellow, mnore gentle and generous, and wider-mind. edi than ever before. But If loft to him. self, or wholly to theosociety of his con temporaries, the ice gathers about his hor,hopo grows torpyId, his love nohn fhis own blood to dovolop It grows cold; he becomes soltish whein lie has nothing in the p)resont or future worth oaring about himsolf; so that, in steadl of a beautiful object, lie Is an u1g ly one, little, mean and torpid. I sup. p ose one chief reason to he that, unless he hins his own race about him, ho doubts of anyboidy's love, lhe feels him. self a stranger In the wvorld, and 80 be comes unamiable. -F1rom "Dr. Grim-~ shawve's .Seret." German St udenlt Po;inposity'. A party of American travelers were on the railroadi platformu at Ileidelberg. One of the travelers hIapplenied to crowd a Heidelberg studenit, when lie drow~ himself up, scowled p)omp)ously and said: "Sir, you are crowding; keep back, sir." "Don't you like it, sonnyP" asked the American. "Sir," scowled the student, "allow me to tell you, sir, that I am at your sor vice at any time and place." "Oh, you are at my ser vice, are you?" said the American. "Then just carry this satchel to the hotel for me." "If somne men would treat their wives as well as they do their servant-girls there would be fewer divorces," saya the Inianannlis TIvm - .. sun (lid you throw it oil at allP Didn't you know your own propertyP "Yes, but It was all so sudden, and . you told me to throw it, and-" But the roar of laughter that greeted his explanation broke short his sen tence, and he was voted a leather med al by the passengers. I was convinced there was some ex planation for the old man's conduct, for l was personally acquainted with him, and know that he was as honest as the day was long. About three weeks after I saw him at the depot, and questioned him on the subject. "I thought," said he, as his face grew round and red, and his eyes twinkled with merriment, "I thought I should die to see that fellow hvper round after his valise and hustle on board the train again. I didn't extwect to cause so much trouble.'' "IWell, whero was your valise al the time?" "Oh, the driver took it without my knowledge and put it on top of the stiuge. lhe's b:'en carrving it 'round ever since, and I tust got it this mo ment. Good day! "- -Boston (lobc. Sugar in Lumps. In answer to a correspondent who asks the difference between the sugar which is sold in apparently smooth cut lumps and other white sugar, the lumps of which are somewhat rough on their surface, the New York Sun says: The difference is considerable, and the latter, which is pure loaf sugar, cut into lumps, always comlmands a higher price in the wholesale market, and cannot be adulterated. It is called in the market "cut-loaf." The former quality of sugar is what is known as "cubes." 'I'ho cut-loaf su gar is made in lumps of fifty pounds out of cane sugar, then sawed into slabs, and these slabs are partially cut through and partially broke. It is easy to distinguish the marks of cutting and break iing on each lump. The cube I sugar is madoeof soft sugar andi pressed In molds, which gives theo smooth ap - oaranco, and is suitable for shipment. The enbo sugar will sometimes on a sea voyage resume the consistency of the soft sugar, and the change of form is duo to adulteration. The safest sugar for anyone to buy is pure loaf sugar, and it, is much sweeter than any other. Th'le p)rincip)al sub stance used in adulterating sugar is glucose, which is sugar made from va rious vegetable substances, chioily grain. While glucose is sweet, it is easily detected by the expert because it is not so sweet as cane sugar. It is, nevertheless, very extensively used to adulterate cane sugar and p)roduco cheap) sugars which are sold in the market. Reputable dealers sell it as -glucose, but there are many dealers who sell glucose for sugar. Th'le naturo of the glucose is to make a close, sticky sugar; it does not produce grains, liko cane. A Fight With a Heron. A few wveeks ago Col. Wmn. E. Sisty, the Fish Commissioner of Colorado, wont to the State fish-hatchery, on the Platte River, iiinc miles from Denver. Whilo he was inspecting the hatchery ho saw a large, blue heron preying up cr the fish ini tho box. Ho approachedI tne heron, e3xpoting that the bird would take alarm andl fly; but the her on attacked him furiously. Th'io bird was fully a.s tall as Col. Sisty, and was so very swift that lhe was upon tho man in what scomod0( an instant, Hio used his neck wilth lightning rapidlity, strik ing al' the tinmo at Col. Sisty's face, Col. Sisty was unable to doc more at first than protect his eyes, and the blows rainedl upon his hands and left thomn bloeding. His face was also cut In places, for the bird was quicker with his bill than the man was with his hands. After the surprise was over, Col. Sisty prepared to assume the of fensive. Protecting his face with his h:at, he rushed in upon01 the hugo heron, seized the creature by the body, andi hurled him to the ground. T'hen the struggle was soon decided, for Col. Sisty graspeod the heron'a neck, and held on until his enemy was choked to death. The heron was taken to Donm vor and exhibited to hundreds of >oeo ple, who soon learned of the Fish Conm missioner's exploit. Did anyone ever think how much space is required to bury the (load? If one would be con ten ted with a oravo two feet by six, 3,600 bodlies couTd b)o interred in onto acro, allowing nothing for walks, roads or nmonunmnts. On this crowd(ed theory SOndlon's annual dead numbering 81,120, wvould fill vakeel possesses twonty-four. 'T'lo Mos loms in Khartoum "are horrified at tho Medhi's exceeding the number per. mitted in the Koran." A member of Congress, in recom cetding the aplintlent of a naval cadet to the Annapolis Academy, state n his letter to the Navy 1)opartment that the younn man will be found fis cally qualified, he is sure. An immense aerolite fell on the Rancho Rodeo do las Agnas, twelve miles west of Los Angeles, plowing a deep hole in the ground. tho light was visible from Los Angeles, and the explosion was heard for miles. Since the colmmencement of work on the canal tho population of Aspinwall, Panama, has suddenly increased from 1,500 or 2,000 to 8,000 or 10,000, and building has extended into the swanps, where there are no streets graded. The region south of Cedarville, Kan., is infested with wild dogs, which have already killed two large steers, nearly wiped out two flocks of sheep, and enten two litters of pigs. The dogs aro more diflicult to capture than wolves. Leatheroid is a new substance manu factured in Maine principally of cotton laper. It looks like leather, but is harder and very clastie, and no amount of tossing about or hammering will break it. This suggests its udn for trunks. Mrs. Livermore's little book, "What Shall We Do with Our Daughters?" has been translated and published in Paris, quite superfluously, as most French men know enough to marry off their daughters at the first favorable oppor tunitv. Thie Washington Monument Com mission has -granted authority to an electric light company to erect ten electric lights on the top of the Wash ton monument. T1hey expect that the lights will be so efl'ective that the city will be illuminated as far out as tho :iorthern boundary. i ti outy according to the Weather Signal, is lowest In New Mexico (13 inches) and California (18 Inches), and highest In Oregon (49 Inches) and Alabama (oG inches). 'Thoe annual rainfall In the British Islands among the mountains is 41 inches, on thme plains 26 inches; 45 inches of rain falls on the west sido of England, 27 on the east side. 'Anm Interest ig Inianm Itclic. D)r. Oglesby, of Fossil, has a beauti ful Indian relic, which ho found imn bedded in the roots of a fir tree near Mary's pea:k. The tree wvas about 300 years old, andi tihe trunk was so decay 0(d that it could be knocked to piccos easily. 'The relic resembles the huge blade of a knife, cighteen inches in length, three in wvidt%, and one and a half thick. It is cut out of brown granite, and has execed(ingly fine pol-. Ish, being nearly as smocoth as sculp) turedl marble. The doctor came to the coast in 1853, and du ring the pioneer days became Intimately acquainted with an Indian chief, which acquaint mance finally ripened Into friendshin, from the fact that at one time when theo chief was attacked by a vicious grizzly he came to his aidl and killed the bear. This old Indian was very conversant with the traditions of his tribe, and re lated to D)r. Oglesby a legend which had boon recited from father to son for ages, and which stated that at one time a people camne from the ocean armed with larg s tone knives, and while they peaefuly lep intheir wIiwams these fercios ivadrswould~attack and murder them. The doctor believes that this instrument is one of the knives described by the old chief. D)allas (Orcyon) TPimes-Mountainecr. I1ecomng Acquainted. Two old negroes become acquainted in a way that shames formality. Moet ing for the first time, the y look at each other. The one remarks so the other can hear him: "D)oan' belebo I knows dat man, but his face is mighty 'miliar." Then the other one says: "Seed dat man somnewhar, but I kain't place hum. IIowdy do, genormanP" "Porely; how is It wid yesso'f?" "Porohy, thank ycr. Whar does yer libP"' "On de Pryor placo. Whar does yerso'f 'zidlcP" "On do Avery placo. HIow's all yer folks? "PIorel,y, thank yer; how's all wid yesse'f P' "PIorely, 'bleeged ter yor.'" After this they are 01(d acquaint ances, andI never fall to groot QBch other as tfon.