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5lfX ? r *' "* ' >"? * 73*7, s ' *" v T iyr.'K ' V7.^rr? ; i^rs V* ' ' K?'i* ^ v. * - *?> . - ^ x 1 : . 'i " ADcs Moines (la.) paper says the! United States Express Company is sel-i ing off all its bay liorscs ami replacing, {hem with grays and sorrels. It is ilaimed that bays are more liable to dis-1 lase and injury thau horses of any other, jolor, aud that grilys and sorrels have ihe most immunity. If this be so the. prices of the fortuuato colors will ad-, ranee. It is estimated that twenty-five acres >f grass land are necessary to keep an inimal the jrear round in Arizona. The total acreage of the Territory is about 18,000,000. On this basis, it is easy to jstimatc its capacity for cattle-raising. But a serious drawback is water. This rvill have to be supplied by artesian wells, If at all. As yet, onlj about half ot the grazing area is occupied. There was a bull fight at a Mexican iown just across the Rio Grande from Brownsville, Texas, recently, at which the bull got into the audience and elimbed up the seats among the women. The men at once drew their revolvers ind began a fusilade, and, as they were good shots, they put thirty bullets into he bull, without hitting anjT of the spectators. The bull gave up the ghost and the gate money. Prizes for essays on various subjects 'connected with agriculture are offered by the Society of French Agriculturists, to be awarded during the session of 1387. A.irfong the topics are the rotation of crops and systems of culture, a better method of inoculation with attenuated nrus than that now in vogue, the fattening of animals on pastures, the organization and working of mutual agricultural credit associations, treatise of commerce, and various diseases of the vine and some other fruit trees. In 1890 prizes are to be given for the creation of fruit farms. To talk with one's mouth seems to be the end and aim of a good many men and most women; but John Carter, an English peasant, makes use of his to paint ttrifll CnmA n n>/% V* /\ ilin ? f ?f AiliX. UUII1U JUU13 I1U 1U3L U1U U5U K>L all his limbs by paralysis, occasioned by falling from a tree. lie was, of course, bedridden, and of a sudden acquired a faculty of painting on Bristol board by the aid of his mouth. His work was suspended above him, and with his camel's hair pencil dipped in sepia he made the accessary strokes, as fine and as effective as a delicate line engraving. One of his works, "A Ratcatcher and His Dogs," was disposed of not long since to a gentleman of Boston, says the Herald, for a sum amounting to nearly $10,000. Few persons, perhaps, are aware that they possess a pair of harps. They are called the organs of Corti, after their discoverer, and arc located in the ear. They are estimated to have 8,700 strings, being, of course, microscopic and varying in length from 1-500 to 1-200 of an inch. If you hold a properly tuned violin near a piano when the E string is struck the E violin string will vibrate and sound too; so with all the rest. Now, the 8,700 strings of the human ear harp have such ri wide compass that any appreciable sound in the universe has the corresponding tone string, and the sound is conveyed through the connecting fila"^^^ment to the auditory nerve, thence to the sensorium, and thus* a knowledge of the sound is received by the mind. M Ex-King Theebaw's famous liairy family, which he long kept jealously at Mandalay, are to visit Europe for exhibition. The family have been renowned in Burmese history for many years, and the present members, a mother and son, form the fourth generation known. The mother, Maphon, is sixty-three, quite ! ' blind, and usually sits motionless on a f / platform, occasionally fanning herself, and speaking in a low, sweet voice. She was seen and described by Colonel Yul< when on a mission to the Court of Ava i r " ; ^ aw n v i * itwo. oave ner nanus ana ieet, she is covered with long, soft hair, like her son, Mo-po-sin, "who is covered even to the drums of his ears, the hais in some places being five inches long. Mo-po-sin is ol medium height, with pale brown skin, and is fairly friendly, having been partly educated, and married to a maid-of. honor. Neither he nor his mother hai either canine teeth or grinders. dfe . ' Prof. Graun, of the Berlin Geographical Society, estimates ttyt, outside of the polar regions, an area of at least 800,000 square miles is still geographically a terra incognita. Europe has been thoroughly surveyed, all but the icj summit jpegions of the northernmost fields, but in old Asia vast territories are known only from hearsay, as the soli ! tudes of the Bactrian desert and the mountain regions of western China. The i best maps of central Africa still show ;.r blanks and conjectural dots; the secret of the Nile's lakes has yet by no means been satisfactorily solved; the sources of the Congo and the upper tributaries of ? ^ the Zambezi still rise in a cloud'and of ;f> tradition. Brazil and its border states | v ; Still contain certain large stretches of untrodden virgin woods, the swamp jp-f, labyrinth of the Gran Chaco, for in^ ftance. and the all but impenetrable junjjjp; }. gles of the delta formed by the junction ?3??' of the Rio Maderia and Machato, where even the native Indians can travel only Hp : by the waterways of an occasional inuny dftion. ? . >;r * $ I One of the most iutcrcsting of moder; ] charities is the "Loan Exhibition" c fine pictures in the east end shows c London. Tho first one was held si years ago; a devoted clergyman of tb Church of England, inaugurated an still directs the schema, and so far ti popularity and artistic merit go?an tlicv seem to iibout cover tho enso?it i a great success. The artists and man owners of galleries cordially assist in tli work, and the exhibition Is always ver fine. A catalogue with explanator notes is sold for a penny, and beside oral explanations of the pictures ai given. The gallery where the picturc are shown is continually visited by a classes and conditions of men. Th promulgators of the move do not conten that the sight of good pictures is goin to reform the East End of Lrndon, bu they think the tendency of the cxhibi tion is in that direction, and that eve the "smallest service is true service." A match is a small thing, but in th manufacture of matches one of thegrea corporations has grown up. It originate in a combination of the leading mate manufacturers. The capital stock i about $23,000,000, and last year a divi dend of eight per cent, was paid Matches are much elieapcr now tha they used to be, by reason of some out side competition with the great coinbiiu tion. The Chicago manager of th; combination, referring to the eonstan consumption of pine, says that his con pany has pine enough to last for twenty five years. It is located, in the Ontont gon region of Michigan. Matches ca be made out of straw board as well as c pine, but there is small inducement t attempt to make straw boad matclic while pine can be had in the productior "Wax matches can also be made clicaplj Southern pine cannot be used for matches 6ince it is too full of pitch. The dry punk-like pine of the northern woods i the only pine which is really fit for use The further north the supply is secure* the better the pine for the purpose of th match maker. A Base-Ball Dog. The rival nines were made up of boy under thirteen, and Major. As I reach ed the ground it was his inning, and hi master, who claimed the privilge of strik ing for him, was at the bat. The do was right behind with one paw in ad vance, and his eyes on the striker. I came the twisters, and Major made sev eral false starts; but finally, as the bal went scudding from the bat, off he rush ed for first base, his eai-s flapping, hi plume-like tail out straight behind. Bu the short stop was too nimble for the do, and just before he reached the base th ball arrived there, and he came slowl back, his tail hanging low, and a vcr mournful expression in his great eyes. "Maje's out, side out!" cried the boys and immediately conceived a method b which he could retrieve this disaster; th dog seemed to regain his spirits, dashc into the field, and was speedily in his pc sition as left fielder, before any of th others had reached their places. In the preliminary "pass around" tha preceded the play, Major was not lei out, and I saw that the balls that wci thrown at him directly were quite n swift as thostj. delivered from base t linen* onrl in liiofino fn V*?m T nnw/.i* VIIWW ^ M?tv? JU4WIVU WV AAA.!**} X UVTU1 oa Lira "muff." When a ball was throw at him, he settled back, and dropped hi great lower jaw, into which the projec tile seemed to fit; then, with tail wag ging, he would hasten to carry the ball t the next player. He was equally pre ficient with low balls, either catchin them in his mouth or stopping them wit his broad chest, and in fielding he coul not be outdone. When he caught a ball he carried it at full speed to the nearej thrower, and not a few players were pu out by his quick motions and activity.St. Nicholas. A Dakota Judge on His Dignity. We will stop taking testimony for te minutes, said a Dakota justice of th peace, removing his coat, during whic time the court will lick the attorney fc the defence. The constable will pleas removo the chairs and small boy, as w propose to lam him down on the flot about twenty times. When a lawyer r< fers to this court as a square-cornere sage hen of the alkali desert and accuse it of having been bought by the proseci tion for $2.50, he will find that th judicial body is loaded for game foun only in the tall timber, namely, b!ai gentlemen, large griz'ly b'ars. "We pr< pose to maintain our dignity while se ting on this hero naii k?er bench an will do so if we have to stay at home cii cus day and pouud lawyers. And if \* can't do it alone we intend to invoke tli power of the United States and g< backcd up by the supreme court and rej ular army. If the attorney for the di fenso has any friends in the room, th< will be given an opportunity to shak hands with him and take any instructior he may wish to send to his family. TJ gentlemen will please form a ring and v would direct the constable to pull hii off if he attempts to bite or pull hoi Take your position for the court is a-con ing!?Estelline (Dak.) Bell. Th'o largest coffee district in the worl is the Brazilian and Bolivian table lane Coffee, cotton, tapioca, rice, .corn an wheat thrive in the same latitudes. . ; u- V . . ^ ' . ' ... _ : ; ,v\ / SfcJ ' v. ;.r ,. Vi> . v. * h J .The of Home. ?f , I hear them toll of far off eliinos, if 1 And treasure** grand they hold? x j Of Minster wall* where stained light falls j On canvas, rare ancl old 0 1 My bauds fall down, my breath comos fast, ?But ah, how can I roam i us j My task I know: to spin and sjw, il ! And light the llro of home. '[S j Sometimes I liear of noblo deeds; y j Of words that move mankind; 0 j Of willing bands that to other lands y Bring Light to the poor nud blind. j I dare not preach, I cannot write, ; I fear to eross the foam; S ! Who. if I cro. will snin nml sow u j And light tho fire of home ? | My husband comes, as the shadow* fall, " | From tho Holds with 1113- girl and boy; C His loving kiss brings with it bliss d That hath 110 base alloy. (F From tho new plowed meadows, fresh and brown, it I catch the scent of the loam; "Heart, do not- fret, 'tis something yet n To light tho firo or home." ?George TVorstcr. !t The Colonel's Umbrella. 1 BY n. 8. KKLLKK. h ig "Colonel, why don't you marry?" If a cyclone had struck the sharp feaI. turcd man who sat with his hoots clcvau ted upon the iron railing of the veranda, _ it could not have caused him to start up more quickly. He snapped the ashes from his cigar, paced to tho farther end of the veranda, and returning to the questioner's side he said: r. "Harry, what made you ask me that t. question ?" u The youug m in upon whose shoulder ,f the colonel's hand rested lightly*- lifted 0 his eyes in astonishment. Evidently the >3 colonel is deeply moved. As evidently u the young man is at his wit's ends to find possible reason for the other's honest; toned voice, which seems to have search>? ' t ed out the motive for asking the question is which opens my story. "Why, all men marry; that is, men & of means, or, at least they should marry." e "You have not." "And for a good reason. I am not able." "You could keep up a very comforta3 ble household if you were not?well, L* what you are," said the colonel as he s moved away. "Ah, hold on, coloncl! Don't leave g me in that matter-of-fact manner," said - the young man. But the other paid 110 " attention to his words. He went down the steps and walked slowly away in the d moonlight. l- "I know what he means. He might s just as well have told mc in so many t words that I was a spendthrift. Hang g it all! I know I am very careless about 3 money matters. If I had b*en forced to y win my way up from the ranks it would y have been different. I would then know the value of a dollar. Ah, well! Life is short, my dear colonel, aud here she y comes." e Was it the tap-tap of the tiny shoes or d the frou-frou of the snowy skirts that i- made Harry Lancaster's heart throb tue multuously? It was both, and the knowI ledrre that tlio woman lie lovnd hoftor it than all the world was approaching, ft Rising, he lifted his hat, tossed his cigar o over the rail and offered this charming is creature in white his chair, o "Do not get up, Mr. Lancaster; I ,v merely came out for a short walk up and n down the veranda. Isn't it a lovely eveis ning!" There was a witchery in the >. tones of that low, sweet voice. Harry r. Lancaster's heart pumped away more vi'j;0 orously than ever in his bosom. If the i- veranda roof hadn't been eave-fringed g with ivy, the moonlight would have disI) closed the hot flush that mantled the d young man's face. Bowing low, he was 1 one of the most nolite men alive, he Raid : '? 1 ' .j "It is, indeed, a delightful evening. If you will not accept my chair, will you _ permit me to offer you my arm for the stroll?" , '* She laid her pretty white hand upon his arm. When they reached the other n end of the veranda they turned to retrace ie their steps. k "Ah, was that not a fire-fly? Over >r there among those bushes to the right? 5e See?there it is again. Now it has dise appeared." )r "It may be a fire-fly, but it is my opin2" ion that the colonel is smoking a cigar ^ there among the shadows," said Harry, d "la that charming old beau here?" she suddenly asketi, allowing her hand to 19 slip from the pther's arm. ^ "He came this afternoon." ra "And as I was not down to tea I did )* not meet him." "You seem to be well acquainted with d the colonel, Miss Lisle." r" "Fairly. Really I ought not to have 0 spoken so shamefully about him. He is ie a perfcct gentleman?but I detest that quaint idea of his strange umbrella." "Umbrella 1 What umbrella, may I 2" inquire?" asked Harry. ' y "Why, have you never heard about :e the colonel's umbrelJa?" is "Never." ie "Colonel Stone possesses a blue, oldTe fashioned umbrella which is supposed to m be a very potent love charm; or, in other r? words, when he invites a lu^y to sharo his shelter against the rain the lady's heart is won forthwith. Strange, is it not?" 1 "I should dislike you to accept its ' shelter," softly said Harry, lifting the white hand and pressing it to his lips. If tho lady understood his meaning she was coy in acknowledging his words, purport. But she quickly disengaged her hand from his, slipped it over his arm, and tho pair resumed the stroll jxist in time to meet tho colonel as he ascended the steps. The latter lifted his hat and passed on into the hotel, while Harry and Lcona continued to murmur sweet nothings unde r the friendly shadow of the ivy-trelliscd veranda. * * * * * * The next morning Harry's heart was like lead when he looked from the window and saw the leaden clouds scurrying along the angry horizon. "Rain! And I w;is to take her out for a drivel Well, I suppose I must make the best of it and while away the time in the parlors," muttered he as he performed his toilet. When lie entered the dining-room he snw Miss Lisle's place was vacant. Ah, the colonel's chair, too, is vacaut! Over the coiloc Harry made the resolve to make or break before night. He will ask her for that dainty, white hand. He feels in his heart of hearts that she does not dislike him. On the contrary, there is something in those lovely blue eye* that tells him she rather is pleased with his presence. He went to the gentlemen's smoking room, lighted a cigar and seated himself near a window overlooking the white stretch of sand, the curling wave crests and lowering sky. Ah! A couple approach from the beach. Tho gentleman carries?a blue umbrella! As the pair drew near, Harry's heart beat wilder and wilder. It must be the colonel's umbrella. It is the colonel 1 But who is the lady? Only Hiss L-'ona Lis.c! "Pshaw! I'm a fool to think anything strange about this! What do I care about the colonel's umbrella and its potent charm? But I wish it was some one else than Leona,' mused Harry as he tossed about his cigar and went out upon the veranda. Leona went indoors. The colonel closed his quaint, blue umbrella with a click of satisfaction and passed Harry with a polite bow and a good morning. Two hours later, Miss Lisle blushed flq TTfirrV acL'/wl Kit ?i nnncfinn Cl?i* softly said : "The potency of the colonel's umbrella is not a liction. He is a charming man, and?I thunk you for your ofTer ?but I said 'yes'?under the blue umbrella. ? Tanker* a Gazette. Tlio Science or Silence. He -who has learned the science of silonce may hide ignorance and even acquire a reputation for knowledge and wisdom- A story is told of the painter Zeuxis, how he reproved a certain high priest of Great Diana of the Ephesiuns, who discoursed of pictures in the artiste's studio with so reckless an audacity of ignorance that the very lads who were grinding colors could not refrain from giggling, whereupon Zjipjis *suid to his to eloquent friend, "As long as you kept from talking you were the admiration of the boys, who were all wonder at your rich attire and the number of your servants; but now that you have ventured to expatiate \ipon the arts of which you know nothing, they are laughing at you outright." Denouncing the vapid verbiage.of shallow prater--, Carlyle exclaims, "Even Triviality and Imbecility, that can sit silent, how respectable are they in comparison S" It was said of one who has taken for a great man so long as he held his peace: "This man might have been a councillor of State till he spoke; but having spoken, not the beadle of a ward." Lord Lytton tells the story of a groom married to a rich lady, and in consequent trepidation of being ridiculed by the guest in his new home. An Oxford clergyman gave him this advice: *'Wear a black coat, and hold yourtongue." The groom was soon considered tho most gentlemanly person in the country. Silence is an excellent foil for conversation. A clever person makes his talk far more delightful by interposing occasional flashes of silence, as Sydney Smith said Macaulay did on his return r..? t?/i...'... ' iiuiu Ilium. \^ru ti-t/ , Drying Tomatoes. In Italy an extensive business is carried on in drying tomatoes to use during those portions of the year when fresh fruit cannot be obtained. According to the Rural Record, tomatoes are grown, for tho most part, between rows of grape vines. Sometimes tho tomatoes are trained on the lower bars of the trellis to which tho vines are attached. The tomatoes are allowed to remain on the branches until they are quite ripe. They are then picked and pressed in bags inude of coarse cloth, which allows the pulp to pass through, but which retains the seeds and Bkins. The pulp is then thinly spread out on cloth, boards, or in shallow dishes, and exposed to tho sun to dry. When it has become quito dry, it is broken up fine, or ground, and pu: into boxes or bags and sent to market. A largo part of it is used for soups, but a considerable portion is employed' as we do tomatoes when preserved in tin or other cans. It is soaked for a few houra in warm water, and then cooked in the ordinary manner. There is a great prejudice against canned tomatoes, many being unwholesome. The acid juice which they contain unites with the solder of the tin cans and forms a disagreeable compound. 1 ^ -' VTii ' ; '' : ^WRrMLIVINGr"! A. Contest Between This Country and Europe. I 1 Superiority of our Food. Products Both ! in Quality and Variety. One of the commonest and best effects of foreign travel upon our people is to j make them aware of the exceptional blessedness of their own lot as citizens of this happy land, and bring thein homo more contented than when they left. In going across the ocean on a Hamburg steamer, in company with many nativeborn Germans going over to revisit tho vaterland, it was wonderful to hear them declare, with united voice, that much as they loved the old country, they preferred fr.1 1 ft n/?W wnrl/l no o rnt-i rl /?n /-w-v All uvit ti vi iv% ito tv ivouiuuu;? ivn HUI U eoming back after a few months' absence. The profusion of fruits, vegetables, and provisions generally enjoyed with us can never be appreciated fully until after i lengthened sojourn iu foreign lands. Only think of the void that would he I made in our larders by the alftence of just two of our summer vegetables, viz., corn and tomatoes, and yet this is virtually the case in Europe. Summer vegetables I call them, although by the processes of drying and canning they are now bccoine almost equally plentiful and indispensable in winter. It seemed so Btrange to be asked by an intelligent lady in London for a description of Indiancorn as a vegetable, and be requested to give some idea of how it tasted. At the lame lady's table it was remarked as a fact not to be disputed that "to cat fruit in London was like eating gold." Sweet-potatoes are also exceedingly rare and high-priced in England, while in Germany they arc never seen. In the latter country green peas are brought to table, iudeed, but generally spoiled by having carrots chopped up and cooked with them into a mess that is mawkishly jweet, and frequently mushy. >v ltti us it is not unusual, in the country, to see from seven to nine vegetables upon the dinner table at once (all raised in one's own garden), which to a European would seem an inconceivable extravagance. The variety of our breads and breakfast cakes must be equally amazing to foreigners, for cold rolls or brodchen, frequently stale at that, come upon the table from year's end to year's end in Solitary state, and no one ever seems to think a change among the things desirable or attainable. Truth to tell, the German brodchen are excellent and wholesome; so exceptionally well baked that a house-keeper brought a specimen ill the way across the ocean to show her 2ook how beautifully browned was the irust, and how thoroughly done the irurnb. And yet she despairs of ever teeing the precise duplicate on our side jf the ocean. The knowing say this is because of the difference between our itoves and -the German brick ovens, the latter being capable ot a regular even beat, the results of which are unattainaole by any other heating apparatus. "While all over the German Empiro they have the like good bread, yet each city seems to have its special form of roll. In Dresden it is much smaller than in Berlin, and, if possible, better, round, with a division through the middle. The pre-eminence in the manufacture of bread jeems given, by universal consent, t? Vienna, therefore to that city it must be conceded; but in all of the good restaurants of any large German city their rolls of white bread are faultless to the stranger's pa'.atc. Going from Berlin to London in two days, the inferior displays upon the bakers' counters there were actually pain ful, through force of contrast. For the very basis of health and good living seems to reet on good bread, and it was evident that this the poor Londoners did not have. Their loaves looked dark, li'eavy and coarse, compared to the fair dainty brodclien left behind, and the sight produced a real sense of discomfort. But oh, the horrors of the German black bread, apportioned to servants and the lower classes generally, which they actually cat spread with lard ! I mi _ _ _ a _ - * a I ine poorest peopio in America must needs be at the point of starvation, or submitting to the rigors of an arctic winter, before they could touch a morsel of such fare. We are told that the French peasant counts himself happy if he can taste meat once a week, and the Italian blissfully basks in the sunshine while fed upon a similar meagre diet. While we, happy people, rich and poor, employers and employed, have flesh in the pot daily, accompanied by vegetables in profusion ?in short, so varied a bill of fare that the enumeration of its items is impossi\-i _ rr? i - t> Die.?jj.urper 0 jjiizur. Gobelin Tnpestrj, In the famous manufactory of Gobelin tapestry, which belongs to the French Government, are produced largo and beautiful woven pictures, and the great merit of the work is that it is done entirely by hand, no machinery being used. The operation is very slow, each workman putting one thread at a time in its place, and faithfully copying a painting in oil or. water colors, which stands near him, as a model. If, in a day, he covers a space as large as his hand, he considers that he has done a very good day's work. " . t '?*l , PEARLS OF THOUGHT. ITc who seeks only for applause from without, has all his happiness in other'' keeping. ] h art wise thou knowest thine own .^..orance, and thou art ignorant if thou knowest not thyself. The wealth of man is the nnmber of tilings which he loves and blesses, which he is loved and blessed by. Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the power of his understanding, ami makes his mind uara letic. It is not the quantity of meat, but the cheerfulness of the guests, which makes the feast. Where there is no peace there can be no feast.! Fame is an undertaker, who pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals and follows them to the grave. Readers who are in the flower of their youth should labor at those accomplishments which m:iv sut off their ivrsnns | when their bloom is gone, and to lay in timely provisions for manhood and old age. Every man goes into the future world with a character on his hands, lie will have it their on his bauds, and must do something with it. lie ought to be careful about what he is to take with him inseparably into eternity. Drove A Duke from her Pew. "Be ye careful to entertain strangers,n' was a wise command, teaching courtesy and hospitality, "for thereby some have entertained anqcls unaware." The woman of the following incident was unmindful of this obligation, and but little sympathy can he felt for her chagrin and discomfiture at the result. The Duke of Wellington once walked from "Walmer Castle to Deal to attend Trinity ^hurch. Not finding the sexton to show him a seat, he entered a roomylooking pew in front of the pulpit and sat down. Soon after a fashionablydressed, liaufejhty woman entered and, both by her manner and expression of face, showed that she felt liis presence an intrusion. As the stranger bore her indignant glances without moving she said, bluntly: "Sir, yon will find free seats in the rear, and I beg you to find a seat there or in some other pew." "I beg your pardon for intruding," said the Duke coldly, as he arose and left tue pew. At the close of the service a friend said to the woman: "My dear Mine. , jtou were honored to-day; but why did the Duke leave you so abruptly?" Mme. , construing the remark as a sarcasm on the impudence of the stranger, replied: "The presumptuous fellow! Then you saw him in my pew? I had to tell him there were seats for strangers in" "Why, surely," interrupted the friend, with almost horror in her tone, "you* knew that the man wa? the Duke ol Wellington 1" The woman's mortification over hei | rudeness to the man she would have lion orcd cause her a fit of sickness. ? America's Wealth. In 1850 the total wealth of the United States was ?8,430,000,000 while that of the United Kingdom exceeded $22,500,000,000, or nearly three tin.es that sum. Thirty short years sufficed to reverse the positions of the respective countries. In 1882 the Monarchy was possessed of a golden load of no less than eight thousand, seven hundred and twenty millions sterling. .Tust pause a moment to see how this looks when struug out in cold * figures; but do not try to realize what it means, for mortal man cannot coneeive it. Herbert Spencer need not travel so far afield as to teach the "unkuowable 1" He has it right here under his very eyes. Let him try to "know" the import ot this?$43, GOO, 000,000! It is impossible* "Rnf cf nnunrlrviia iiq tliic onnma if ia - ceedetl by the wealth of the Republic, which in 1880, two years before, amounted to $48,950,000,000. "NVhnt a mercy we write for 1880; for had we to give the wealth of one year later Another figure would have to be found and added to the interminable row. America's wealth to-day greatly exceeds ten thousand millions sterling.?Andrew Carnegie. A Jtli? of Conl Cars. A correspondent wimte to know how much coal thpre ;may be in a mile of loaded coal cars. In reply we can say that a 5 ton car or coal jimmy is 11 ft. 6 in. in length from bumper to bumper; An 11 ton car is 22 ft. 1 in. A car holding from 14 to-16 tons of anthracite is 24 ft. 2 in. A gondola of 20 tons capacity is put at 27 ft. 4 in. AJarge gondola with 25 tons capacity is 32 ft. in length. Now, then, for the quantity. There will bo 400 of the jimmies to the mile, and that means 2,300 tons of coal, perhaps. There will 240 of the double jimmies, and that vriAAno nnrhrtn.H 2 fi<10 tnrifl Thnr/t will K* ? rw i --w.w 218 of the large cars, and that may mean 3,270 tons. Of the gondolas there will be 193 care, and this may mean 3,840 tons. Then of the larger ones there are, say, 160 cars, whioji will equal in capa* city 4,000 tons. All this goes to show that when you see or hear of a mile or two of cars standing loaded, it reully does not mean so very much coal.?Coal Trad* Journal* ' * '** v . t % v* , ' , s, - ^