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X EDE &SDAY, FEB. 27, 1895. Surrender and Suicide. Self Destruction of Chinese Commanders atiWei-Hai Wel Confirmed. LONDON, Feb. 17.-The Central j News correspondent in Wei-Hai-Wei j says in a dispatch, dated February j 13, and delayed in transmission:! "Admiral Ito accepted yesterday | Admiral Ting's proposals for the surrender of the Chinese fleet. He ; requested the officer who conducted the negotiatioD for Ting to open the military port of Wei-Hai-Wei and j jeturn this morning tb arrange the ? details for the capitulation. The offi | cer came back early to-day aud in formed Admiral Ito that Admiral Ting, Comodore Liu and Gen'. Chang li ad committed suicide. Admiral John McClure was the officer upon whom devolved the duty of negotiat? ing for the surrender. Admiral Ito then sent a letter to McClure as to the arrangements for the capitula? tion.'' The Central News correspondent in I Tokio telegraphs under yesterday's date : "Gen Nodzu reports that to? day the Chinese forces under Gene ral Hsu, Chang and Yihi, were con- ? centrated at Hai Cheng from the I Liao Yang near Chwang and Yinkas j road They attacked the city, but i after suffering heavy losses, were re- ! pulsed. The Japanese lo?ses were ! small." From Port Arthur the Central News I has this dispatch: "A detachment of ? Japanese cavalry occupied Ning Hai I Chu on the morning of the 12th, with out encountering opposition. Natives say that on the 9th the Chinese forces j at Hunh?qrj Ton was divided into two Darts. The larger one fled to- j ward Fu Shan Shan and the smaller j one to Yen Tan. On February 14 in the afternoon, Marshal Oyama re? ported on the state of affairs at Wei Hai Wei. He said that a proposal bad been tendered to the Japanese flagship Matsu8ima to surrender the warships and the remaining forts and their armament at Wei-Hai-Wei, j provided that the foreigners of the military and naval force be released under a guarantee obtained from an admirai of a neutral power. The Japanese accepted all the con? ditions excepting the one concerning the guarantee and the agreement was concluded. Marshall Oyama confirms the form. JO report of the suicides of Admiral Ting, Commodore Lia and Gen Chang. All three left letters address? ed to the flagship. The garrison of Liu Kung Tao was conducted beyond the Japanese line and was set free, j The Chinese seamen will be treated | in the same way. The foreigners ! who were captured will be taken to \ some more distant point and will be i released there. What We Know About the ! Moon. From Harper'3 Young People. The discovery of the mountains on ; the moon by Galileo were among the i 5rst results of the invention of tele- ; scopes. A very ordinary modern gla^s reveals them; aod a telescope of four or five inches aperture shows them io much detail; an endless delight for the observer. Over thirty thousand of them haye been charted on maps of the moon I Nearly all of these mountaius have a ringlike form, with the central j area depressed, often to a lower level than that of the surrounding country, 1 as is known by the relative length of ' the internal and external shadows. The diameter of the rings varies great- ! ly. some of the larger being fifty, one hundred, or even one hundred and fifty miles, while the smaller look like little' dots in large telescopes. Their height above the surrounding plains may be an much as three or four miles: this bein" .ess than the highest of terrestrial mountains, but greater in proportion to ; the size of the moon than any of our mountains are to the earth. On ac ^junt of the resemblance cf these ring mountains to certain terrestrial volca? noes, it has long been concluded that : they were produced by volcanic activity although oo certain sigh of vocanic aetiv i:y bas been detected by direct observ? ation. This conclusion is very gener? ally accepted; yet there are reasous fur questioning it or at ?cali for boldics au open miud with regard to the crigiu of the rings and craters of the moon. In the first place, nearly all the vol? canoes of the earth have a large cone, and a relatively small crater, while the reverse is true of the moon. It is true that in certain terrestrial volcanic dis? tricts the upper portion of the cenes ha6 been in some way destroyed- ! blown off or fallen in-leaviog a broad ! and deep depression, called a caldera, enclosed by ringlike walls. For exam? ple, in Italy several such calderas con- < tain lakes of roughly circular outline. Similar basins occur on the Azores, in Sumatra, and elsewhere, but by far the greater number of terrestrial volca? noes are of the Iarge-co&e and small crater variety. Hence if the ring mountains on the moon are of volcanic origin, they represent a phase of volcan? ic activity that is exceptional, and not prevalent on the earth. There is one very curiou? thing about the movement, of the moon. Al- j though it goes around us once a month j -or Moouth, as I like to call it-we see only ODe side of it. The other side j is entirely unknown, a? it is always turned away from the earth Some persons argue from this that the moon ; does not rotate OD its axis; but such aD opinion implies a wrong understanding of rotation. Rotation consists in turn- j ing so as to face in every direction sue- , cessively all around the compass. The : moon certainly has this motion, for dur- j ing the period of a moonth, while it is \ moving around the earth, it turns its j visible side toward us from all directions ! The curiuns point here involved is not that the moon does not rotate, but j that it rotates oe its axis iu the same i period as it revolves around the earth ] -m - I The New York World for sale hy H. G i Osteen & Co Postage stamps always on hand at H. G. j Osteen & Co s. Stationery Store. NOT ON THE BILLS. fie Lost His Job, but Made Sure of His Girl. An actress who has toured in Eng? land told me a tale that I thought in teresting. She said: "In a play produced in the provinces j there is a scene in which the hero strikes the villain, who slinks away without seeking to defend himself. "One night in a large manufacturing town the young fellow who played the deep dyed scoundrel remarked to the leading man before the curtain rose: " 'I say, old chap, I've got my fiancee ; out in front tonight with her father and mother. Now, of course they don't know anything about our business, and j I'm afraid it would rather hurt me with j them if I received a blow and got away in the usual cowardly fashion. So, dear j old chap, can't yon omit the blow to? night?' .* 'But, my boy, the management will ? fine me 2 shillings.! " 'Well, I'll pay the fine. " " 'Oh, yes, that's all very well for | you. But what do I get ont of it? Noth? ing but a bad name with the powers that be. ' " 'Oh, well, I'll give yon 2 shillings extra, or, better yet, you hit me as usu- ; aL and I'll hit back! They'll fin?me, I not you, and I'll give you the 2 shil lings besides. You see how I'm situ?t- j ed. I shouldn't like the girl to mix me np with the character I play. Outsiders j are so funny that way. ' "So the compact was made, and that night when the hero cried, 'Sir Daniel Deepwater'-or something of that sort 'base offspring of a noble race, take that !' . Sir Daniel not only 'took that,' but gave it back with such force that 'the ? pit rose at him, ' including his relatives ; to be by marriage, and he walked off the stage in triumph. "I am sorry to add he lost his situa- 1 rion, but he gained his point. "-New York Recorder. FORMATION OF SILVER MINES. How Nature Accumul?t?? the Great Stores of Valuable Ore. The process by which nature forms ; her silver mines is very interesting. It must be remembered that the earth's crust is full of water, which percolates everywhere through the rocks, making I solutions of elements obtained from them. These chemical solutions take up , small particles of the precious metal, ; which they lind here and there. Some? times tho solutions in question are hot, the water having got so far down as to be set boiling by the internal heat of the globe. Then they rush upward, picking up the bits of metal as they go. : Naturally heat assists the performance of this operation. Now and then the streams thus form- i ed, perpetually flowing hither and thith er below the ground, pass through cracks cr cavities in the rocks, where ? they deposit their loads of silver. This ! is kept up for a great length of time- ? perhaps thousands of years-until the ; fissure or pocket is filled np. Crannies j permeating the stony mass in every di- j rection may become filled with the pre- ! cious metal, or occasionally a chamber i may be stored full of it, as if a million hands were fetching the treasure from all sides and hiding away a future mine for some lucky prospector to discover in ! another age. -Pittsburg Dispatch. Mounting Photographs. The satisfactory mounting of photo- j graphs is a troublesome operation, and the following suggestion from a con- ; tributor tc The Outlook may be of assist-i ance to amateurs: "I have found a . method by which a photograph or en graving can be mounted on the thinnest paper without curling or wrinkling. If . the picture is a photograph, it should bo ironed out smooth with a hot iron , and then trimmed. Mix a little gum arabic in hot water so as to make a rather thick mucilage. Place the pic- ? ture on the pago in position and mark jtjst inside the corners. Remove the picture and take some of the mucilage on a ruling pen and draw a heavy line of mucilage from one point to another, so as to make a line of mucilage all around the place where the picture is to ? be. As soon as the mucilage is sticky .? put tho picture in place and a Lookover ; it to keep it flat. When dry, you will have a smooth mount that will not curl." I An Effective Warning. The train was just ready to start for Boston when a detective from Superin? tendent Byrnes' office got on one of the smoking cars and said, "Be careful, gentlemen; I believe there aro a couple of sharpers inside. ' ' "Good gracious!" exclaimed a very stylish looking gentleman, preparing to get out. 4'I'd no idea there were such people here. I'm sure I shall get out. " Another, who was sitting in a seat opposite, exclaimed: ' 'I have a larue sum of money with me, and I have no wish to loso it, * whereupon he, too, got out. "All right, gentlemen," tho officel calmly remarked; "they are both gone now."-Millard J. Bloomer in Harlem Life. HOW BULLETS ARE CAUGHT. One of the Most Mystifying Conjuring Tricks Neatly Fxplained. Speaking of the bullet catching trick in particular, Professor F. D. Howes, who is also a dealer in the art mystic, said: "There are literally but few tricks in magic. The so called new ones present? ed to the public from time to time by our leading magicians, conjurers or whatever they call themselves, are sim? ply the revival of some old experiments clothed in new form. The catching of bullets is not by any means a new trick, for it is almost as old as magic itself. I remember seeing the old 'Fakir of Ava' perform the same trick, only in a differ? ent manner, when I was a small boy. The catching of the bullet is easily ex? plained. In the first place, to accomplish it the conjurer must procure an old style caplock, smooth bore musket, some pow? der, caps and a leaden bullet All these must be perfectly free from any decep? tion. Now we come to the ramrod. Therein lies the whole mystery of the trick. It is constructed with a small metallic tube closed at one end and so arranged as to become detached from the end of the ramrod at will. "Having explained the construction of ail the appliances, we will now pro? ceed to do the trick. The gun, bullet, powder and caps are freely given for examination. The performer requests some one to put the charge of powder into the gun. Next he inserts a small piece of paper and rams it down, and by a twist of the ramrod to the left the small metal tube is dislodged from the point and remains within the gun bar? rel. Now the bullet is marked and placed in the gun by one of the audi? ence; again the professor rams it down. Now, by a contrary twist, the metal tube becomes fast to the ramrod so that in withdrawing it the bullet is re? moved. "The performer now palms the mark? ed bullet and all that remains to do is to go through the motions of catching it when the gun is discharged, and the spectator* are thoroughly mystified. You see, it is all very simple when you know how."-Boston Post Korea's Sacred King. It is high treason to touch the sacred person of the Korean king with any in? strument of iron or stee'i, though one of Li Houi's predecessors came to his death simply because no one dared to lance an abscess from which he was suf? fering. Queer country, Korea-queer people, Koreans.-Boston Globe. Say! You Bee-Keeper! Send for a free sample copy of T.oot's handsomely illustratsd 36-page, Gleanings in Bee-Colture, Serai-Monthly, (Si.00 a year) aad bis 52-pages illus, catalog of Bee? keeper's Supplies free for your name and address on a postal. His A B C of Bee Culture, 400 double-column pp price $1.25, is just the book for you. Mention this paper. Address A. I. Root, the Bee-Man, Medina, U. Thousands of Women Suffer untold miseries from a sense of deli? cacy they cannot overcome. BRA DFI ELD'S Byaronsing to Female Regulator, ni^her ROTS RS R SPECIFIC. It causes health to bloom, and joy to reign throughout the frame. lt Never Fails to Cure. 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