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BRUNS SOBHCRlI *2; tlire* 1 Payable per wee I i iiay moi I Huslnea WanU, ' cell I* et ny order. : Hpedal { sped, Car O (tidal I Comnaui regular ra Kor rate tlaluB ano BBU , We a bacco s a good # the sarr Our 1 ing wit "and thev is goinf Stem Btcms s the shi •^"‘"road abu The • tide oi gays tl pronor iug ad Wit selfish of ado for th« aplifti we ma certait experi the cc '|ule,*t profot The >rtt We ^empori tious ?ral of | knowlec] ing thv dlBpH oonv<] cauni not «| waotj ‘V m w *■ will to tb Td live! bon past of E the andi bind W. and I to syst ml Will iintcr Went Point to Train as a Poldier tor Uncle Sun.. Through the appointment of Presi dent McKinley Ulysses S. Grant, son of Col. Fred Grant and grandson of the famous Union General and Chief Executive of the United States, will en ter West Point. Before his death, in 1885, Gen. Grant framed a petition, directed to the President of the United States, asking for this favor, and later Gen. Sherman, as a matter of courtesy, indorsed it. Young Ulysses, now In his sixteenth year, will not be of age to enter West Point until June, 1809. Before enter ing the famous Institution he will de- °WCOo /l 4i liVi.flbfiv.'L- A roostf-r once trarsfiel a worm That ilngerm! not to bravo him: To sco bis wretched victim squirm A pleasant thrill it gave him. He .summoned all hts kith and kin; They hastened np by legions, With quaint, expressive gurgles in Their cesophageal regions. Just then a kind of glimmering Attracting his attention. The worm became too small a thing For more than passing mention; The throng of hungry hens and rude He skilfully evaded. Said he: “I 1 faith, if this be food, I saw the prize ore tht y did.” It was a largo and costly pearl, belonging in a necklace, And dropped by some neglectful girl— Home people are so reckless! The coca assumed an air forlorn, And cried: "It’s really cruel, 1 thought it was a grain of corn; It’s nothing but a Jewel.” He turned again to where his clan. In one astonding tangle. In eager haste together ran ^ To “lay the helpless angle. And sighed: “He was of massive size! f should have use 1 discretion. Too late! Around the toothsome prize A bargain sale’s in season!” The worm’s remarks upon his plight Have never been recorded, Bat any one will know how slight Diversion it afforded, For worms and human beings are Unanimous that, when pecked. To be the prey of men they far Prefer to being hen-pecked. The Moral: When your dinner comes Don’t leave It for your neighbors Because you hear the sound of drums And see the gleam of sabres; Or. like the cock, you’ll find too late That ornaments external Do not for certain Indicate A bona ti le kernel. — Harper’s Bazar. A 2TJGHT IN A BRIDGE. (liflet I made oat at panther, stretched, do^tvard, along a beam opposite me. fierce, fixed eyes were still tu I toward me, and although the bo of the beast was perfectly still, tant vibration and slight lash- in, the tail al< ess. Never once did it turn its bi. ,, ey away from mine, but for An Evenly-Distributed In the States in which a betokened its*Intonse i St*te-aid has been inaugurated the ur ban resident bears his share of the ex- ' pease of improving and maintaining ovflan hour watched m as a cat | highways, instead of leaving^theui, wa es some bird that it U intent to cal hi JJy 1‘A.UIL l^ASXMOR. ✓'V \ / ♦/■ «/•'4/'. «/'' ♦ 'V♦/w'' «/- »^ t' ^“^aoooooO' 10 ^ ri.vssrs K. OTIAXT III. vote a good deal of the intervening time to scientific study in Columbia College. He is now a sturdy lad and measures 5 feet and 11 inches In height, with a quite certain prospect of reaching l»e- yond six feet when he puts on the uni form of a West Point cadet. Ho is now two inches taller than his father and four Inches taller than his famous grandfather. Ills other Iwidlly meas urements are In good proportion to ids stature, and lie gives every promise of developing a physique far alwve the ordinary. He has proven himself the jmssessor of more than usual mental abilities of a boy of his age, Is very studious, stands high in his class in the New York school which he attends, and shows marked proficiency, partic ularly In acquiring languages. He manifested an early fondness for the military by Joining the cadet corps of Troop A, National Guards, when but 12 years old, Mlsa Viola Taylor. UT from the stygian <• shadows of the flooded forest through which I had been pushing and carrying my must yield to the undermining power of the flood, and yet I dared not leave it, for I realized by this time the water on the flat must be over my head. lieturning to my wheel, as if for silent companionship, I sat down, wheel ever since lighted another pipeful of tobacco,and 'V. Vi She has organized the Young Ladles' Guild of the National Guard of the State of New York. The work of the society will be to attend to the needs and minister to the comfort of the wounded on the battle field. EELIEFFROM PAIN. Women Everywhere Express their Gratitude to Mrs. Pinkham. rtf*. T. A. WALDEN, Oltwon, 0«., writes: “Deah Mrs. Pinkham:—Before tak ing your medicine, life was a burden to me. I never saw a well day. At my monthly period I suffered untold misery, and a great deal ot the time I was troubled with a severe pain in my side. Before finishing the first bottle of your Vegetable Compound I could tell it was doing me good. I continued its use, also used the Liver Pills and Sanative Wash, and have been greatly helped. I would like to have you use my letter for the benefit of others.” Hr*. FLORENCE A. WOLFE. 515 Hulberry St., Laaa.*t*r, Ohio, writes! “Dear Mrs. Pinkham:—For two years I was troubled with what the local physicians told me was inttumma- tion of the womb. Every month I suf fered terribly, 1 had taken enough medicine from the doctors to cure any one, but obtained relief for a short time only. At last I concluded to write to you in regard to my case, and can say that by following your advice I am now pefectly well.” nr*. W. R. BATES, Hacwfield, U., write*! “ Before writing to you I suffered dreadfully from painiul menstrua tion, leucorrhcca and sore feeling in the lower part of the bowels. Now my friends want to know what makes me look so well. 1 do not hesitate one min ute in telling them what has brought about this great change. I cannot praise Lydia E. Pinkham s Vegetable Compound enough. It is the greatest remedy of the age.” POWIlBRaFEV? I ,? 8TH,?;A (TEETHING * '* n , ot * Patent Medic I no but n dirtlnfutskod reiult^wHfomm* h< } V0 tHl J knd se * Q Ggocd * n( i w bj- will you delay re.torin making ^ twthtmi^ * t,a itren * ,h ’ ana ln i ow ’ , l. ooU '‘ n * 8 5 rru P forohlldre* U tiling, ■often* die gum*, reducing indama Uun.allay* pain,cure» wind cotir, joe. a bot:t; lam entirely ourod of hemorrhage of lun;s by Pi«o s Cn e tor Consumption.—Loris a Lixdakan, Bethany, Mo.. January 8. 183». a flooded the early night de scended, something suddenly loomed, dark and high, before me. So silently and unexpectedly did the huge, black bulk confront me, like some monster stretched across the road, that I stopped involuntarily, my heart beat ing thick and fast. Then, as I strained my eyes to make out the na ture of the object in my path, its black outlines gradually resolved themselves into the shape of a covered bridge, raised high above the road on its stone piers. With an exclamation of joy, I! cold dragged my wheel up the sharp pitch of the roadbed and water, into the welcome shelter of that refuge in wilderness. For two days the raia had been pouring heavily and steadily down up on that deep valley in the backwoods of Maine, through which lay theronte which I had chosen for my bicycle tour. Thinking that the storm would soon wear itself out, I had kept on my way, penetrating deeper and deeper into the wilderness. The road, in spite of increasing mud, had proved fair for wheeling, and not until the afternoon of the second day of rain did I encounter sufficient standing water to make it necessary for me to dismount and wade. I had not passed u house since early in the morning, but kept hoping I should yet chance upon some isolated backwoods farm ere the night fell. ^The valley kept sinking in level, however, and I soon realized that I mast be approaching its lowest point, wheye there would be little likelihood of^flnding^j^habita- ing back, however, while there is a possibility of going ftoward, so I kept on until I came to thd bridge. Thare was, at least, solid satisfaction in hav ing a roof over my head and dry boards under my feet, though the doors of my house stood somewhat too widely open to the chill 'night air for perfect comfort. However, I was disposed to make the best of a situation which might, surely, be worse, and leaning my wheel against one of the stringers of the bridge, I sat down and proceeded, first of all, to remove my soaked shoes and stockings and replace the latter with a dry pair from my luggage bag. When I had changed my shirt also, ami wrung abont a quart of water from my coat, I felt so much better that I began to whistle. “Every pickle,” said I to myself, “has the elements of adventure in it; and a bi cycle trip lacks its chief chaim if not spiced with adventure.” • Fortunately, I had the remnants of a lunch in ray bag, and having de voured the cohl bread and meat and lit my pipe, I was still further disposed to tn! e a philosophical view of the situa tion. I was, at least, sheltered for the night, and might be able to snatch some sleep by lying close to the string ers of the bridge, at its center, where I would be comparatively out of the wind. As soon ns daylight came, I could review the situation and make up my mind whether to go forward or turn hack. When my pipe was smoked out, I took a walk the whole length of the bridge, using matches to light my way. The structure proved to be only about titty feet loug; an old fashioned cheap ly constructed affair, such as one al most always finds in sparsely populated sections, when it has become neces sary to bridge a stream of any size. The river, now overflowing its banks so widely, was evidently, in ordinary weather, quite narrow; though, drain ing so large a section as it did, it was doubtless deep aud carried a largo volume of water. As I lay down to sleep, with my head resting against one of the trans verse stringers, I heard the raiu still beating fiercely against the side of the bridge; and, during my fitful slum bers, this was always the sound that greeted my ears on rousing to con- scionsness. At about 3 o’clock in the morning I became so chilly I could sleep no longer, and so got up aud beat my arms until the blood began to circulate more freely. Then I went to the end of the bridge to see if the water had risen any higher. I was amazed aud startled to find that it was nearly on a level with the floor of the bridge, and was surging by with a dis tinct gurgling and laoping sound, that showed there was considerable force to the current. It was, I knew, only a question of time before the bridge waited. It might have been half an hour later—my pipe was not yet burned out—when I heard a sound like heavy breathing from the end of the bridge I had lately visited, and then a distinct splashing, over and above the gurgle aud lap of the water. Presently, as ray eyes were fixed on the spot whence the sounds seemed to come, I saw what looked like two dim ly burning candles, set close together, rise over the edge of the floor and slowly enter the bridge. At the un canny sight I felt as if a stream of ice water were running down my back; my hands involuntarily clutched be he shi tb co: am GOOD ROADS NOTES. ISurtlea. system as heretofore, to be cared for by the rural population. Under the old theory that the maintenance and care of the in there came a sudden tremen- j , j v ,1 .. do shock to the bridge, and one end roads should depond whoUy ou thedis- . at f the icy I my knees, and there was a strange, Irrness and prickling sensation all over my body. It was positively a relief when I heard a scratching sound on the floor of the bridge, and knew then, at all events, there was nothing ghostly about my mysterious visitor. Evident ly, it was some wild creature of the woods seeking shelter and safety, like myself, in the bridge, I could hear it rustling cautiously about, and occa sionally uttering a slight wheezing or coughing sound, as if to free its throat and nostrils from water. By and by the 'animal, whatever it was, began to sniff suspiciously, and I knew that its quick sense of smell had detected my presence. Then, for the first time, I experienced a feeling of genuine alarm. I could see the eyes of the beast glaring through the dark ness; and the size of the phosphor escent eye-balls, and ( the distance be tween them, showed that the animal was 6ne of considerable size. I was unarmed, save for alight 22-caliber revolver that would brove about «ffeo*iv» a^ainsr alfoAr, WOTf DflTatJi- mount as a boy’s popgun. Suppose the beast should be hhngry enough to crave eyeh a meal of soaked and gristly bicycler? Shut up in that cage of a bridge, what could I do to balk him of his purpose, should he decide to eat me? While I was debating one side of this question, and my unseen visitor was, doubtless, debating the other side, something occurred that was cal culated to divert the thoughts of each from the other, for the time being. Without the slightest preliminary jar or lurch, one end of the bridge floated off’ its pier and swung down stream. Then followed a grinding noise,as the other end was dragged from its bed of masonry, and with a rolling and toss ing motion our unwieldly craft got un der way down stream! I had sprang to my feet, as I felt the water rushing up through the cracks iu the floor. There was an in sane idea iu my mind that I must make a rush for the free end of the bridge and leap into the water, to save myself from going to the bottom with my leaky craft. Then I reflected that, from the time of Noah’s ark un til the present, all wooden structures tossed upon floods—no matter how leaky—have invariably floated until they found some resting place on dry land again. Undoubtedly, I was safer, and would be more comfortable where I was than anywhere else in that flooded wilderness—provided my fellow passenger would keep his dis- tauce. So I sat down again, unmind ful of the cold water swirling about ray feet, and listened. I could hear nothing of the un known animal whose company I so much desired to part with. Bnt, presently, I located his blazing eyes half way up the side of the bridge, and perceived that the beast, when the water rushed into the bridge, had leaped on one of the slanting beams, and was now crouching there, in more unreasoning terror, doubtless, than mine. I thanked fortune then for the floating off of the bridge and the inrush of water, which would, proba bly, act as an effectual barrier be tween what I now realized must be a cavamoant or wildcat and myself. • Shiveringly, I waited for the dawn. The bridge floated smoothly enough, save when it whirled in the current and struck some tree ol the river bank. Then it would tremble all through its timbers, but soon swing free and start upon its coarse again. The floor was about two feet under water all the time, and I soon con cluded to follow the example of my brute companion and climb up on one of the beams. Here I ensconced myself as best I could, and spent a miserable two hours, until the first gray light of morning began to steal into my prison. As objects gradually became more of hot up several feet in the air, su erging the other end where the pa er was clinging, until the water su d over the head and shoulders of th artled beast. I saw it shrink ba rard up the beam, but its hind- qu era were blocked by the frame- of the roof ere its head got above Then it launched from the with a mad plnnge, and swam ly past me, till it reached the eh >wing water at the other end ol thi ridge, and climbed, half drowned, np to the morning light, that instant, when its head and ders hung over the threshold ol ridge, a rifle shot rang out clear an sharp. The great cat quivered ilnively and then sprang forward isappeared. slipped down from my perch, pit ?ed through the water, and cli jod up where the cat had lain. Be iv me yawned a gnlf forty feet dei , into which the flood thundered in vellow, yeasty mass. The bridge ha< itrnck a dam, and the forward en< sliding up over its slimy verge, hu suspended in mid-air. At this po* banks of the river were steep am high, with huge bonlders scat ter over them. On one bank, clii ing to it like a swallow’s nest, was a s rmill. Tbe greater part of it was urn r water, but a man stood at one of ie upper windows, with a smok ing rifle in his hand. He saw the loo of intense inquiry on my face, tho rh he could not hear the shoot 1 rah d, amid the thunder of the waters. In ply he pointed to the swirling, foa ing gulf beneath me. Then I un< rstood how the wounded panther hac eaped to his death.—Detroit Free Pre 1. Disciplinarian. Commodore Dewey Dewey m i was with whA he was executive officer of the Col rado,” said a financier, “and I re 11 mber one incident which shows the uanner of man he is. We had a finei crew, some of them as powerful as I ever saw. Four or five ol went ashore one day and came fighting drunk. hree of them were men who singly have been more than a ih iu strength for John L. Sullivan, rder was given to put them in and it was found impossible to out the order, for the men were dangerous. Dewey was notified of the situation. He was writing a let ter in his room at the time. “He went to the place where these giants were «nd he told them to come submit to the irons. 'They volvera.* And when he had his pis tola he again called upon the men to eome out, and they did not move. Then he said: ‘I am going to count three; if you are not out here with your hands held np on the third count you won’t come out of that place alive.’ “He counted one, then he cocked the revolvers, and he counted two. We all expected to hear the reports, for we knew that Dewey meant what he said. The men knew it, too. They stepped out just in time to save their lives and held up their hands, and they had been partially sobered by their fright and the moral effect of Dewey’s glance. “One of them said afterward that when he saw Dewey’s eyes he knew that he would either be a dead Jacky in a moment or he would have to yield, and when the irons were pnt upon him he was as sober as he eve* was in his life. Dewey went back to his room and finished the letter he was writing. ”—Philadelphia Press. tricts through which they passed, great injustice was done many persons whose interest in the roads was less than that of others who bore the expense. To re move this injustice, and provide an eqnable system is the purpose of State- aid. Speaking on this subject recently, General Stone said that the farmers of Maine own one-fifth of the prop erty of the State, and that one- fifth of the property has paid tho entire expense of building and maintaining the roads of the State, which are just as necessary to tho peo ple who live in towniu and the people of other occupationaakau farming, as they are to jie f^Sfcer Concerning Now York, h€ saidvlSt there the farm ers own only one-fourteenth of the property of the State, and that every farmer has been making roads for thir teen other men to travel on, and he is getting tired of doing it. He is now abont to stop it, and he finds the peo ple of the cities and large towns, the manufacturing people and the com mercial people, ready to bear their share of the expense of improving'the country roads. The only drawback is that the farmers themselves have been afraid to let any change be made in the road laws of the country, for they have imagined that people of the cities de sign to impose heavier burdens on them, instead of being ready to help them carry existing ones. By degrees all classes of tho people will begin to better understand each other on the subject and will get closer together. It was not strange, at first, that country people should be sus picious of city people who took the trouble to tell them how much they would be benefited by better roads— it was natural for them to think that such philanthropy was not wholly dis interested. But as it becomes daily more evident that’all classes, trades and occupations will reap the advan tages resulting from improving the highways, that the ultimate burden will not be increased and that all are ready to share it, the movement will acquire an impetns that will ensure its future success.—L. A. W. Bulletin. in the several counties, ns well as the present and recant costs of road* therein, and how to secure better ex penditures,” and 810,000 have been appropriated for the expenses of the work. Convict* For Koad Work. The bill relative to the employment of prison labor, passed by the Massa chusetts Legislature, permits the su perintendent of prisons to use the prisoners in any jail or house of cor rection to prepare material for road making, such material to be sold to County Commissioners, city or town officers and the State Highway Com mission for the construction of roads. Item*. In New Brunswick they have had such roads that in one section a party going for a doctor to attend an injured man required six hours to Havel twen ty miles. Dnstless roads are made possible by a new material, composed of a fine earthy or mineral matter charged with heavy oil, placed on the levelled bed of ordinary roads. Brookline, Mass., will spend $100,- 500 on her streets during the year, and the Newtons will devote $292,500 to the maintenance and improvements oi their highways. ' The terms “highway” and “high roads” came into use from an early custom of raising public roads above the level of the country through which they passed in order to secure drain age. A bill is before Congress appropri ating $100,000 for the purpose of test ing materials suitable for road con struction, for examining and reporting on the best methods of construction and for co-operating with State and associations in constructing specimen roads. Not a single mechanical vehicle can run on the roads of the Grand Duchy of Baden until the driver makes a declaration to the central authorities, who will give to him, after a long in vestigation, authority to run upon a certain road decided upon in advance. After the authority is received the driver is bound by an almost endless number of restrictions. Experiments With Broad Tire*. Iu order fully to test the relative merits of broad aud narrow tires, an agricultural college in Missouri has been making some experiments with the two. It has been demonstrated that on reasonably good roads broad tires have an advantage of from six teen to forty-five per cent, over narrow tires. In no case except where the mud was soft and very deep did the if,.. said qui- harrow tires prov^ n»qre slAisfactpry. orderly: ’Bring me rqy re- According to these tests, the narrow tire in a In Diplomatic IM.grace. The United States has been a nation with foreign relations for about a cen tury and a quarter. During that time, seven representatives 'of foreign gov ernments have been dismissed. The first instance was the case of Genet, minister from France, during Wash- ingtou’s second term. He was re called in 1794 at the request of this country for endeavoring to stir up trouble between the United States and Great Britain. Daring Jefferson’s administration, Vrojo, the Spanish minister, was sent home on account of eondnet not only unbecoming a diplomat, but even in an honest man and a gentleman. Jackson, the British minister, during Madison’s first term, was recalled on a request from Wash ington because of offensive criticism of this government 1 ’ In 1849 General Taylor, -then President, sent the French minister, M. Poussin, his passports. During General Grant’s first term, the Russian minister, Catacazy, was recalled at our request, and during President Cleveland’s first term a like fate happened to Lord Saokville West, the British minister. Then follows the De Lome affair oi recent date. In all, the recall of seven ministers has been demanded, two British, two French, two Spanish and and one Russian. A Huge Glaw. A year ago, when a glass company in St. Louis failed and the works shut down, the “pot” was left full of molt en glass. Recently the property was purchased, and now it is found that the pot contains a solid piece of glast sixty-six feet long, twenty-two feel wide and five feet thick, estimated tc weigh almost 600 tons. is desirable only when roads are state almost impassable, a con dition of things which is fast disap pearing from thickly settled and well- managed districts. The experiments were made with the same wagon, the wheels being exchanged by merelv slipping them from the spindles. The loaded wagon weighed 250 pounds more with the wide tires than with the narrow ones, making the weight of the vehicle when equipped with the wide tires 2250 pounds. On a clean, smooth road of macadam the wide tires required from sixteen to thirty- five per cent, less power than the narrow ones. On gravel roads the broad tires had forty-five per cent, advantage; on loose gravel and dirt roads as well as on roads entirely of compacted soil, the gain was some thing like twenty-seven per cent. On a piece of road where there was a solid foundation, but very deep, thick mud above, the broad tires were at a disadvantage, mainly because they cut in and picked up a tremendous weight of mud with every revolution. On a road that was drj ing np and had a somewhat firm surface the broad tires showed sixty-two per cent, ad vantage over the narrow ones. The latter cut into the mud in some places from six to seven inches, but the wide tires rolled safely over without making deep grooves, merely packing the half-dry mud as they passed over it. The entire experiment goes to show that narrow tires have really no points of advantage, save at exceptional times and under exceptional condi tions. On what would be considered a road in a tolerable condition the broad tires had every point in their favor, and demonstrated their superi ority so dearly that no room was left for doubt or question. A Keagon For Foor Country Koad*. It is claimed by a correspondent of a Maine paper that, in proportion to population and wealth, tho country roads are as good or better than those of the cities. Why country roads are not still better he explains as follows; “Young people flock to the cities and consider themselves as ‘progressing when they learn how to press a button, or hail a trolley car, or c’atch a train.’ And while cities find it necessary to dig tunnels or build rorial railways to get from place to place, the old folks in the country struggle with their farms and with the roads for a few years, then die and leave fair acres to grow np to bushes.” To Begin Koad Investigation. The Maryland Legislature has di rected the Geological Commission to investigate “the condition of the roads of the State, and the bes^ methods of improving the same, together with a study of the classification and distri- bution of the road-building materials Carried Hose Up Sixteen Stories. Several thousand people watched Carl Eldfeldt and Patrick Hickey, members of Truck No. 1, carry a lead of hose from a chemical engine np six teen stories on the fire escape of the Monadnock Building in Chicago re cently. As the two firemen neared the top of their perilous ascent up the slender iron ladder the crowd cheered. Most of the spectators thought it was an exhibition drill, but the arrival oi more fire apparatus and the appear ance at all the upper windows of anxious-looking tenants soon nude- ceived them. The enthusiasm of the crowd again demonstrated itself when the last platform at the sixteenth- story window was reached and thft two f truckmen disappeared into the J tid ing. The 850 feet of ho'se hatlj «»n carried up to the top of the bv^flfctg in lesK.than two minutea The fire occurred in the storerooms of an elec tric switch manufacturing concern on the seventeenth floor. Many of the tenants of the building, however, knew nothing of the fire for some time after. On each floor of the building leads of hose are connected directly with the honse pumps. The fire was practically out when Truckmen Eld feldt and Hickey appeared with their line from the chemical, aud they fin ished the job in short order. It took every inch of the 350 feet of hose the chemical carried to reach the blaze, and this was done only by getting it up on a straight line by the fire es cape.—Chicago Inter-Ocean. Children’* Cast-Off Clothing. While great quantities of men’s sc ond-hand clothing are sold, there proportionately but very little ch: dren’s second-hand clothing. Tl small boy is likely to wear his cloth more than a man does his clothes begin with. It would not, for exar pie, pay a dealer to buy, to sell aga as clothing, a pair of boy’s trouse that had to be patched. New tron ers can now be bought so cheap th the price that could be got for tl patched second-hand ones wouldi pay for the handling and the work repairing. It does pay, however, repair men’s trousers that need pate ing, for there are always to be fout for these purchasers at prices th yield some profit. But while children’s second-hai clothing is rarely seen hanging abo with the men’s clothing in secon hand stores, all dealers will buy when it is in good or fair conditio and there are some dealers that ma specialty of it, and seek fine clothii that has been cast off when but Ittl worn. There are customers for t comparatively limited supply of ch dren’s second-hand clothing that offered.—New York Sun. * The Mile in Many Countries. The English mile, used also in i country, measures 1760 yards, or 5 feet. But the mile of foreign co tries varies almost as much as langnage, so that traveling a milt one thing in France, and quite anot thing, either shorter or longer, other countries. The French sys’l of the "kilometre,” or 1000 metres also used in Belgium and Holland, cyclers and others traveling in th countries the kilometre—equal to 1 yards—is used as a mile measure. 1 Spanish mile is 1522 yards, and Russian only 1167 yards. But Chinese have the easiest time of all making a mile record, their mile be only 600 yards. In Norway and 8 den the mile is 11,690 yards, and Germany it equals three Engl miles. Other differences are: Itali 2025 yards; Portuguese,2250; Ausb 8297, aud Denmark, 8238.—New Yi World.