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r ; ' ' ? ' ? The modesty of the rod man is not proverbial, and does not promise to be. Red Oloud, a Sioux chief, believes that it h Ibettcr to got a living out of the white than to quarrel with them. "What wo want," says he, "is white mon to plant our corn, hoe it, harvest it and put it into the barns which they build for us. "Warriors don't work." A largo town is growing up around the ijhore of Lake Elsinore, Cal., a sheet of water which is seven miles long and 'tnreo miles wiue. a. peculiarity oi tno (town is that the peoplo go from street to atrect almost entirely by boat. In fact the principal street of the town is circti- | Bar and can bo touched by boat at any point. * The San Francisco Iiecord congratulates the golden state thaf with 70,00J,- ' 000 bushels of wheat California will have I ?n income of at least $54,600,000, where ' last year it had one of only $28,000,000. ' ,4'Our barley crop," says the Record, "of 18,000,000 centals will bring in $10,000,C00, as against $9,000,00 last year. In thes j two items alone we will have $72, ' <500,000, where we had in 1885 only $47,000,000, an increase of over $35,000,000, or nearly double that of 1885, while the area sown was only a fraction larger. Despite low priccs, say even lower than 1885, the tiller of the soil is in a much ^better condition than ho was a year *g?-" Lieutenant Stoney, who was sent out tr the United States Government to explore Putnam river, Alaska, which was discovered by him iu 1883, has found a river to the north which the natives say empties into the Arctic near Point 13 ircow. The river is supposed to bo the same as the ono at the mouth of which Lieutenant R.iy established his headquarters during his observing expedition. Along the banks of this river were Indians who had never before seen a white man. Liftlltnniint. stnnntr nffnrnmrdo nvnlnmil Noatak river to its headwaters, nnd found It longer than tho Putnam. Ho intended starting on a series of explorations cast . and north. :y . The Philadelphia Notes computes that tf one could see 1,000,000 babies start on a race and could follow them through life, this is about what he would see: Nearly 150,000 of them would drop out of the ranks at the end of tho first year. Twelve months later the number would be still further thinned by the deduction of 53,000. Twenty-two thousand would follow at the end of the third year. They would throw up tho sponge by twos and threes until the end of tho forty-fifth yem, wuuu il wuum uo iouna ItlHC iu tue intervening period, something like 500,5)00 had left the trade. Sixty years would see 375,000 gray-heuded men still cheerfully pegging away. At the end of eighty years the competitors in this great *'go-as-you-placen would number 97,000, but they would be getting more shaky ?nd "dot" each lap. At tlie eud of ainety-five seasons only 223 would be left in the final "tics," while the winner would be led into his retiring room, a solitary wreck, at tiro age of 103. jiy discussion, is going on in Europe concerning the distance at which large objects on the earth's surface may bo visible. Emil M.-tzgcr mentions that he once saw, with some difficulty, Keizer-jpickt, in Sumatra, when distant 110 English miles; and he also made out tJug Merapi, in Java, when 180 milo3 ?way. Prom the Piz Muraun, near Dissentis, E. Hill has seen Mont Blanc, the -intervening space measuring about 110 miles. J. Starkie Gardner states that Mont Blanc is visible from the Piz Laniard, though distant about thrco degrees. y ' iCn Greenland, Mr Whymper beheld a mountain from which ho was separated by 150 miles; and from Marseilles, Zuch saw Mount Canigon at a distance fif 1 milno Tho A-1? -- ?> ??, ?uvi nuuiu lUll^U U1 tuu Swiss Alps has been looked upon by J. Hippisley while 200 miles away, while v 8ir W. Jones has affirmed that the Himalayas have appeared to view from the distance of 224 miles. "The frozen meat trado is assuming great proportions in England. A cargo which recently arrived at the E ist India docks in London consisted of over 30, 000 frozen carcasses of mutton in excellent condition. This contribution to the food supply of London came from v * > the Falkland Islands, whero thero are i now more than 600,000 sheep. The London Timts says: "Tho carcasses brought *-ovdr are described as being those of slieep of prime Canterbury type, well flesheel, and with no superfluous wasteful fat, and they average from sixty to seventy pounds each. 8 lies havo been f v -effected of portions of the cargo at over 45d. per pound." The colonists havo hitherto contented themselves with what . they could realize from tho wool, skins tj: and tallow to bo obtained from their t sheep, but now, in consequence of this most recent development in refrigerating machinery by means of cold, dry air, they will be able to send their mutton to the English market, not only to their own ^ advantage, but also to that of the conIll;; Burners over there; and there appears to !%>,. be every reason to expect that tho enterprise which has been entered into in so practical manner will result in a complete success. J i ' .1-v>7vv^-VV:'* y*vjT<*>?*' ' i * V\ ':'.v . ' MnHHaMMMMMMMBBBBCm* An organization with a noble purposo has boon founded in Europe. A society has been formed whose aim is not only to protect strangors, but girls of all nationalities who are boset by any difli. culties, material, moral or spiritual. The general headquarters are at Neufchatel, but the socioty has branch offices all over France, in Algiers, Germany and Eugland. All girls who aro 'without shelter of home may thus find a protect injr hand in this widesnrcadincr charity. which has been founde'd and is carried j by women. ~ = I One of tho striking peculiarities of I the earthquake is tho terror with which it inspires human creatures as well as | brutes. There is no other fear which j resembles it known to the human mind, i When the low rumbling is heard from the depths of the earth all animation seems suspended for a brief instant. Tho very heart seems to cease to beat, and the intellect becomes paralyzed. This condition of mind and body lasts but a moment. It is followed by a terrible, but vague fear of somo awful danger, tha | nature of which is quite incomprchcnsi- ] ble. The mind jumps rapidly and with- j out reasoning to the conclusion that flight i.ffors the only safety, and the J body acts upon the conclusion at once. ! Men, women and children rush headlong | into the street, by tho stairways, and doors if they happen to be convenient, by plunging from the windows if they j happen first to attract the attention. And it is in this wild rush for imagined safety that the real danger of the earthquake' lies, but no experience in the past has been sufficient to enforce this lesson, and j the probability is that no experience in the future will impress it so vividly as trk rnn/1 or if nf nntr nt-nnfiAol vvr UUJ |#k UVyVttUI UQUt | The New York Commercial says it is a mistake to suppose that criminals of the higher grade?like burglars, forgers and bank robbers?are coarse, ignorant, ! vulgar men. If they were they would | not succeed. Their dishouest trade ro- ] quires intelligence, mental training and j a large amount of self-restraint. Many of them have been clever mechanics, whilo j some are cultured and of good antecedents. Louis C. Clermont, the notorious ! bank robber, who died three years ago, was a southerner by birth, his parents boiug rich and highly respectable. Ho was a college graduate, but being without principle and extravagant, his father got tired of furnishing him with money, and he determined to get it for himself by what he thought the easiest means. Ho became acquainted with several notorious forgers and check raisers, adopted their calling, and profited by it. He went abroad and in Germany fell in with Max Shinburn, | a noted bank robber, who got rich by plying his profession hero, crossed tho sea, purchased the title of baron and settled down as a' momber of the old aristocracy. Clermont probably gained valuable knowledge from Shinburn. Ho returned to his native land, took up his abode in Philadelphia, and, by his handsome person, agreeable manners and bright conversation, gained some social position. He assumed to be a Cuban refugee, and his dark eyes, hair and complexion, with his fluency in Spanish, assisted the assumption. Ho paid court to a pretty widow, Mrs. Joseph'Dumel^ and married her. They decided to go oKrnoHl fnt* n lwi^nl C3U? ?? mvivuv* w uimui iiuui unu i^uu ucr valuables, together with $20,000 in cash, and they were ready to start, when he asked her to carry a note somewhere for him, while he took charge of licr things. When sho returned, he had disappeared. He was engaged in several bank robberies afterward, under the namo of Colonel Ralph Pollard, formerly of the Louisiana Tigers. In one of these he was arrested, sent to prison for twelve years, and ended his life there. Working Up. Two men who were oncc warm friends but who had not seen each other for nearly twenty years met on a railroad train. After an exchange of greetigsn one of them said : "You are looking fleshier than you did, Corporal." "I beg your pardon, but it's 'General.'" "What?" "My friends call me 'General.'" "Why, how's that, we used to call you 'Corporal?"' "Yes, I was a corporal whon I camc out of the army." "That's what I thought. I don't sco what you could have done siuco to raise your rank." "Don't, oh?" "No, I don't. What wns it?" "I've moved farther west fotir times." Eitel'.ine Bell. They Were Not Particular* "Um?urn," he said, tubbing his chin in a self-satisfied way, "I think I could marry oither one of the girls if I felt disnAfiAfl tn maVn flin f ' "Yes?" replied his friend, with an affirmation of recognition and an interrogative negation. '*Yca> I think I could. You soe they are getting along toward the timo when girls arc not unw.liing to mnrry." 4Yos, and not very particular," cor.* tiru'-'d his friend, and the conversation abiuptly coaclu led. ? Tid D'.t*. j y'" wV , } 'y-'v 5 ^ ' r - >v,;' '*'' .'.V: ' " ;- ' ' ' . '" It Yflll AM Ba Iliglit In Tlio Morning. " I. and We long for the brighter time coining, fluei And we watch for it early and late, To hear through the halyards the humming That shall lift the dead sails of our fate, nim^ To leave Babelmand-jb's sail gate, of i And we sigh for it, try for it,?wait I over It will all be right in the morning! casit tt ... UV/ A U The lillie3 light up the brown water; tho And tha diamonds grow in the gloom, Imil' And the moon is the midnight's daughter, aftc! Aud tho night-flowering aloe will bloom As a trophy that garlands a tomb, a When the daytime has gone to its doom, aion It will all be right in tho morning 1 wou III. Prtrl< Half way up in bis mounting the lark tricl< Meets the morn in its earthward bound The flight, j gr, And tho carol born down in tho dark ? Is a marvelous lyric of light, Is a burst of melodious might, was Is the Io triumphc of Wight, wile It will all be right in tho morning I me, i IV. " In tho graveyard of Arctic tho dismal saw Where the bones of dead glaciers are ?? strown, Where they tower, the icebergs abysmal, lt Are the buds of bright flowerets full blown, There they cling to death's border's alone, j And they thrill to Eurochydon's moan, mca: It wiil all be right in the morning! and V. tim< Through the long dim day of dull twilight hav< I They repose like a soul at a shrine. _ of t< There uuder Aurora's north skylight, | That memorial window divine, indc At the very same intervals shine | As their sisterhood under the lino, I It will a'l bo right in the morning! VX lean Twelve hours for unfolding and waking. And twelve'for their slumber and sleep? youi Who told them when day should be breaking that Who taught them when sbudows should << creeP? ston That the calendar true they c in keep, Faith arise like the moon loving deep, 1 " " It will all be right in the morning! cape yjj horr Born trouble is bettor than borrowed, son I Light and darkness aro blent, but beware had i Of tin man who never has sorrowed, The fine gold unalloyed is not there, to sc lot us come to the bridges of care sorr< Ere their crossing of danger we dare, how And the thought in our hearts ever there, 41 It will all be right in tho morning! VIIL him' cure If earth's weary burdens euro sorrow, If the noblest of triumphs denied Aro always bdginn ng to-inorrow. mca If we fail to take time at the tido, imm If old friends wane away from our side, nevt Still tho trust and tin truth will abide, , , It will all bo right in the morning! l>1 ?Benjamin F. Taylor. ??????????? neve THE MANIAC SUITOE. "Oh, Alicc, you ought to have been with us; wo had a lovely time;" and then she added, as a truer thought lighted her j ^ eye, 4<tho inmates seemed to enjoy our music so much that I think I nover tried harder to acquit myself well, and I flatter . myself I succeeded, too." ' "Well, Amy, I'm glad yoU went," re- !?4 plied her friend; "but visiting insane asylums, to entertain the inmates, is not to ^ exactly in my line; I always had an un- 11 comfortable aversion to every being who * ^ai ;_ Li. J T < ' ..... tbin ?o uui iu ins iiynt ujiuu. jl naa a uttio adventure once, top, which I can never rcca forget." "An adventure! I doto on anything ^ro of that kind; do tell me about it," and Miss Amy folded her pretty hands and prepared to listen. hom "It isn't much of a story, Amy, but it not was a serious matter to mo at the time. ^ad You remember the visit I made to father's *kat relatives in the eastern part of the state? cure Soon after my arrival at Cousin Julia's, I the i met, at a little party ono evening, the His most peculiar and, at the same time, the k?rr most fasciniting man I ever saw. Ho Lavt was very large, swartfty as an Italian; lie wore a heavy beard, dark as night; his hair, which was of the same color, had the most ccccntric habit of standing "^it straight up from his forehead, in an ag- Clt^ gressive style." r^y "Bless me! You call that a fascinating cout man!" wid< "Just wait till I tell you of his wonder- acco ful eyes. His eye-brows were very he&vy the and almost met. Of course his eyes and were black, but they had such a peculiar hith expression; they seemed to draw you, pern eomohow, even against your will. Tho prob most trivial remark he made assumed all d an importance that no one else ever im- fincc parted to it. of N "From the first I was rather awed by the < him, and he seemed to be quite attracted blc t by little me. I forgot to tell you hisijecti name was Mr. Chase. He sent me music pape and then gazed at me while I saner it un- of ti i til I felt impelled to sing better than I at T ever did beforo. lie sent me flowers and buil< I wore his carpations, though, you know, hori; I don't admire them at all, and I never whi< want to seo one again. Of courso I was an toascd a good deal about my conquest, strei and I really began to dread bis calls and pout contrived to have someone present al- tioni ways, as I feared he would ask me to that marry him and I did not knew how to shall answer him. One evening he found me angl alone, and had ju?t begun a most touch- the i ing remark when to my relief little Ettio curv ran into the room and effectually put a wiiu stop to sentiment.. He left very soon call} with a sort of longing in his weird eyes lines which impressed me strangely. illus "The next evening my host remarked high to his wife: upp< " 4 Poor Chase has been obliged to go shou back to the asylum; they took him to t\ at Harrisburgh to-day.'" ?ik L / Tr f ' X.'v*ii ' J ' ' A-" ' , *. ; -: ) . t .v i^v>V; 1 / ' 4\ ' 'S,'J's*' ?- \ * ' <' < '.' '; ' ? .:>.? * j '- - , j- . Vwmmtmm m ? So here was the end of my romaneo the solution of tho mysterious inico ho lmd over mo. I always had ( there was something uncanny about ( and this explained it. I had heard ^ nsune persons having such powei . others, and I must say I breathed 5r to know ho was out of the way re I had been borne entirely undor H spell of tho-:e wondrous eyes. * ginc my fcolin<?s when, a few duys 8 , tho servant brought mo this card 1 told mo he had asked to sec mo C c. Cousin Julia was out, else I Id have insisted on her going to the ^ sr with me. I thought of all the ^ ;s of insane people that 1 had read, t more I thought the more nefvous ? ;w; but at length, summoning all my *1 possession, I went down stairs. Ho ? moving restlessly about the room n I entered, came at onco to meet | j and taking my hand exclaimed: f 'At last! It seems an age sinco I ' you.' | -v Terrified as I was my innate love of t li compelled me to say: f 'It is just a week.' i 'Ah, yesl' he murmured, 'but timo is sured by what we enjoy or suffer, so it seems to me a long weary J t 5 since I saw you. Perhaps you t s heard I was obliged to go out 1 j )wn after I saw you last, and I havo j j just now returned from Harrisburgh; ' ( ed, I have not been homo yet. I ( I must see you first.' I lie was sitting close by me and j ed caressingly towards me as he said : . ?T woo f? *1 I JL < ua KkUiJIIlg 1U1 U1U Slglll Ol i dear fucc, for you must surely know v you are very dear to me.' ; I felt as if I was slowly turning to ' e. II re I was, a mere mite, in the : plcto power of this giant of an cs- \ ' id lunatic. I shall never forget tho : or of it. Just here fate in the per- j( of Cousin Julia interposed beforo I | in any way committed myself. 'Ah, Mr. Chase,' she said, 4I am glad j 1 e you; when did you icturn? I was : ^ y lor the occasion of your absence; j I j did you leave your brother? | 1 'He was more quiet when 1 left j 1 , but I fear he never will be entirely , d.' . |< [ sat as one in a maze. What did it | 1 n? He soon took his leave, and I 1 lediately asked my cousin why I had ^ ;r heard of Mr. Chase's brother ' re. - ?' 'Well, I don't know, I am sure. I 1 ;r thought of it, and he would not ' pt to speak of it. People, as a rule, * lot parade their family skeletons. 1 r A1 has been greatly tried with lirotllfir. nnd hn? lu>?n . I , trying every way to help him, but < c he is discouraged now. By the J , what did I interrupt? I did not 1 k he seemod delighted to see me; noth- l serious I hope, for I esteem him too i ily to thwart him in any way.' 1 I wisely kept my own counsel, and ' lis day Cousin Julia does not know ( ay absurd mistake, and wonders why 1 me home so suddenly. And I never * k of the insane without a shudder as I ( II the creeping horror of that day." 1 Why, Mr. Browning is coming ( ugh the gate, and he looks just like 1 lunatic you havo been describing." 1 Well, so ho is. He followed me * e; he assured me that lunacy was . 1 a hereditary trait; that his brother's 1 been brought on by business troubles; 1 he had returned from the asylum ] d; and what could I do? I loved man, and so I married him after alL * name wasn't Chase. Still, I havo a 1 or of supposed lunatics."?L. B. 1 ly in Current. Earthquakes aud Building. ( ao recent severe earthquake shocks ] :h have wrought such huvoc in the of Charleston and vicinity are probuniquc in being the first in this itry to canse destruction of life. The jspread destruction of property also mpanying them cannot but bring to mind of every thoughtful engineer architect the question whether this erto apparently remote danger to lanent atrueturns is not of ability to require its recognition in j lesigns. There havo been well de- f I earthquake shocks in the vicinity , ew York and many other parts of { country, and it would seem desira- s hat the practical bearings of the sub- r should bo carefully studied. A recent r ir by Professor John Milne, P. G. S. r le Imperial College of Engineering i f okio, Japan, suggests the support of t lings in earthquake countries upon Kontal cast-iron plates, between :h are cast-iron shot one-quarter of inch in diameter (the cracking e lgth of each of which is about 1800 > ids). Ho also suggests deep founda- r ) free from tho surrounding earth; all arches where such aro necessary 8 i be curved into, and not form an e e at the abutments?in other words, mbstitution of elliptical or other i orl fnrm. OAnmnnt.l *U_1. v?x* *v? u?si ivi 01 VtUUO ^ VUQI) lows and doors shall not bo verti- 1 ' over cach other, since they form i of weaknoss, as has been repeatedly a tratcd in destructive shocks; that I l buildings shculd be avoided; that ir parts of walls, and also roofs, t ild bo made as light as possible, and x steeply pitched roofs are dangerous, initary Engineer. 8 ' . , . y."- . :r-'v. v;v'.'vv v.w "; ' ' ' SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS. ? The mean annual rainfall of India, aclording to the Government meteorolo- L jist, is about forty-two inches, varying ] rom nearly 500 inches at C'hcrra Poonee to about three inches at Jacobbabad yy In experiments in Borlin, a new decryption of shell, charged with rolls ol ;un cotton, is reported to hnve produced j uch extraordinary destructive effects j cr hat no kind of defensive works can bo j Si ixpccted to resist it. I to A Wisconsin farmer going down a hill w vith a load of hay, locked one of the ni vheels of the wagon. The friction oi w he wheel upon the ground struck t ; ar park which ignited the hay and started l fire that required eleven men to extin- P1 juish. A writ; r in a French medical journal , >roposcs that cities be supplied with \ resli country air. A large field in the | . rountry is to be surrounded with a high | ^ vail an I planted with balsamic trees to ibsorb the dust, and the air from this w iold is to be conveyed through pipes a lto every city house. a' J J lc At the Liverpool exhibition there Is o nachine for condensing milk in a vac? . oi lum, a plan preferable to boiling it a( w itmospheric pressure, as the flavor is un- n. mpaired. The apparatus consists of a argc globular pan from which the air is I C] sxhaustcd by an air-pump. The milk ! ^ ji r ' I (i&uii uouo niLu it nuiii u reservoir ocio\^ I md is boiled there, together with the I c] lugar which is added to condensed milk, j a] By observing how fur the sun has to rink beneath the horizon before the top- J tl nost summit of the air is cut off from its ci ays, M. Bravais some years ago deter- g nined the greatest upward limit to be tl 578,000 feet, or nearly 71 miles above a: >ea level. By observing the earth's shad- ai )W on the moon during eclipses, astrono- 1] ners had inferred that the atmosphere I: nust be sufficiently dense to produce g twilight for at least 240,000 feet away from the earth's surface. I v 1 According to a noted Russian scien- J tistib-isa fallacy to assume that the weight of the brain ha* any influence I "V whatever on the mental faculties. It 3ught to be borne in mind',#he says, that ^ the significance of the brain weight should depend upon the proportion it ^ bears to the dimensions of the whole ^ l>ody and to the age of the individual, [t is also equally important to know what was the cause of death, for long ^ listasc and old age exhaust the brain; 1 thus showing the slight significanco ol iierc weight. ^ Some time ago, Dr. Schmidt, Profcssoi ? rinnl r\rrrr a 4- 4-V% rv ^ A ? ... av Olio uUKL'lsllJf VI UTHli, j jmployed several weeks of the early sumnor in artificially producing and renring y ;he bath sponge, and his labors, it ap- ^ >ears, have met with such success as to ^ nduce the Austrian government to adopt B1 ,he system along the Adrian and Dalma;ian coasts. The fact is well known, ol v course, that several families of zoophytes lave such great powers of reproduction tl ihat a portion of one will grow and form tl jn an entire new body. It is this simple id vantage or property which is availed y )f, the process being to cut the sponge sj nto pieces, fasten each portion to a pile ind immerse it in the sea. The pieces ti hen grow, and eventually from each one ti i spherical sponge is obtained. Accord- c< ng to the statistics published, a small d uecc of sponge at the end of three years will represent a value of about ten cents, b rhe total cost of raising four thousand iponges in tbo three years is said to real- t< ze to the grower the very fair profit ol lume $35. p New H- brides Hair Dressing. | The inhabitants of Tanna have more , >f the negro cast of countenance than ^ Papuan tribes usually have, but there ure good-looking men and women imong thom. They paint their faces yith red earth, which the}' get from the D leighboring islands of Aneiteum and rt Erromango. They frizzle their half, h: ind the men esneciallv carrv hair dross- ol ng into a fine art. Dr. Turner^ says he ci counted no fewer than 700 separate curls al ra tho head of one young exquisite. A In limilar practice prevails on tha othei s* slands of Anciteum, Nina and Portuna, tl md Dr. Livingstone has noted a some- c( vhat similar practice of twisting the hair ft nto innumerable small spiral curls imong the Banyai of Central America. w Hie people of Tanna are fond of ornanents, but not of very much clothing. w rhey do not tattoo, but they wear fear- s? ul and wonderful tortoise-sholl arrange- U1 rents in their ears. ?Ail the Year Iiound. a' ? hi Shears or Pair of Shears 1 tl Perhaps some of our readers are critical p( snough in tho use of language to decide vhethcr the customer or tho clerk was ight in tho following dialogue: Customer (to clerk in a hardware b] tore)?"Show mo a small, low-priced tc hears." tl Clerk (facetiously)?''Perhaps you ol nean a pair of shears." no customer (severely)?"I mean precise- u y what I said." si Clerk (defiantly, opening a specimen h irticle)?"Are therj not two blades y< icre? and don't two make a pair?" d Customer (triumphantly)?"You have ti wo legs. Does that make you a pair oi tl ocn?" tl The shears were dono up in profound A ilcnce.?Homettead. h i;-:--nil . 1 '-i. v"if ' > - ' :f ^ ' -VV'1" ' ~r CHINA CUCUMBERS." ' ikewise Some Other Vegetables of Oriental Cultivation. hat a Reporter Saw in a Tour of New York's Chinatown. Ono of the attractions which draw a nwrl r\t nhmnwA? * ? -A ? ..vuiiiiiuicii iu ju.uk. biruut on indays at this season is tho opportunity buy several kinds of alleged vegetables liich can be purchased at no other arket in this part of tho world and hich are sold there from street stands id wagons. A tall, grave-looking Chinaman, whoso gtail vasof a finer fibre than that of ic average laundryman, and who was esumed to possess superior intelligence, .id that one of the baskets contained China cucumbers." They were about x inches long, an inch thick, of a vivid lolera morbus green, and deeply rinklod, somewhat after the manner of dried pepper pod. They looked about i much like a cucumber as a Chinaman ioks like a Yankee. They were selliug ; the rather steep price for cucumbers f forty cents a pound. The venders ere weighing them out on contrivances lade somewhat after the manner of ^ eel yards, with a tin scale pan at one id of the r^d, and a weight that hung y a string loop. The rod was of wood, and istcad of notched divisions tlicro were lusters of pin heads. If the inspectors lid Scalers of Weights and Measures ould turn their attention to these scales loir placcs no longer would be sincurcs. The Chinaman with the intellient-looking pig-tail said that these healen cucumbers were not sliced up raw nd eaten with salt, pepper, and vinegar, nd followed by anti-cholera mixture, >ut were cooked before being eaten, [e did not know where they were rown. In another basket were some larger cgetables, also of a forbidding green, 'hey were of the size and shape of a ttle brown jug without the handle, 'hese, the intelligent Chinaman said, rere Chinese squashes. Still anothoi asket held vegetables which can be kcncd to nothing else that exists. They ^ ,'ere suspicious-looking pods about a not long, tapering to a point, a little ;ss than two inches through at the butt, nd fluted from butt to point. They also ire re intensely gieen. In his endeavors ufind out what these things were called nd what they were good for, the reorter nwakened so much suspicion rearding himself that a riot seemed im linenf, and he took a walk own P rk street to give the heated opulace an opportunity to cool off. Vhen he came back on the other side ol [ott street a Caucasian youngster was ftlnln O nKinnmon o/*U vtjnujj u WUUKUUUU KV OUU VCJ^flUUIW jch as have been inadequately de;ribed, and others, nut of a covered ragoni 4'What are these, and these, and icse?" asked the reporter, pointing to io contents of various buskets. "Dunno, dunno, dunno," were the oungstei's replios.to tho questions, re? pectiyely. One of the baskets contained vege- ^ ibles?or fruit?which looked liko minalre, crook-necked squashes. In their ulor there was a yellowish and pleasing eparture from tho prevailing green. ""Where arc those things raised?" tho oy was asked. "Long Islaud," said he, and he seemed > be sorry that he knew that much. The Chinamen were buying briskly, at rices which, from an unlearned comiiriann nf nrir*n wifli frtimnfifir a!\. lined, seemed in violation of every priniple of domestic economy.?New York un. Strnnsre Internal Eruption. Nine miles from Cimmaron, on the ijnvcr & Rio Grande Railroad, in Coloido, the country, which was naturally illy and broken, with a heavy covering [ trees, has been visited by an interna] uption, which had displaced a tract joufc two miles square, causing a large ike to lose its water and its bed to and at an angle of 45 degrees. "Whew lerc had been hills valleys now appearJ, while the valleys were uphcavea into ills. Trees stand in all conceivable lapes, some of them being reversod ith their roots free from dirt, standing tvward, while the leaves and branches ero buried in the debris. The whole iction is so much changed as to make it nknown to those who wero heretofore ^quainted with it. A party of scientist! nvc been on the ground taking observaon3 and photographing tho principal Dints of interest. A Tirade Against Shirt Fronts. "There is nothing in tho world that [lows tho inborn tendency of mankind > run in a rut than the architecture ol 10 modom shirt." So said a young man f iconoclastic tendencies. "For year* len's vests havo been buttoned almost p to the chin, and tho little pioco ol lirt front that would be left exposed as been covered by a necktie. And et men go on woaring shirts with front* own to the waist starchod and ironed 11 they arc as stiff as a boiler plate, and icy pay every week for getting two oi irec of these things carefully polished. k man might at woll havo the back oi s vest laundered every week. * v\v't>\ :.?v x& > ., .V,\ .V. V ,Vr& I' *;' >i *'%M