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THE UNION TIMES UNION, s. <\ Horse shooting is said to bo tbo newest sport in soma parts of Queensland. On one station, near Bundaberg, over 3,000 "brumbies" have been shot during tho'past Uvo years, a keen demand for their skins for tlio London market existing in Sydney, It takes ovor $200,000 a month to pay tho police of Chicago, and it is claimi-il that the wagon which carries tho money nrouml has never been hehl up. From tho uuiubur of "hold-ups" in that city of lato, tho Now Orleans Picayune thinks thoro is reason to bolieve that tho poiico may eventually bo minus their pay. Tho Society of Friends in Philadelphia aro opposing a bill to introduco military tactics into tho public schools of Pennsylvania. They urgo that instruction of this eharueter will tond to prumoto the belligerent spirit. Tim attitude of tho society is entirely consistent with its principles, stutes the New York Advertiser. The Italiaus in Loudon aresuflleieut of themselves to form a large town. There are as many as 14,000 of them ; 2,000 of these are ice cream verniers, nud 1,000 aro organ griude i. Tho other 11,000 aio cliiolly cuyuged us plaster bust sellers, artists' models, cooks, valets, teachers, artists, restaurant and hotel keepers, anil so ou. The Biological Division of the Agricultural department advocates tho os tablishtneut of ii bird division to i?e devoted to instructing children in the value of our native birds uud the host means of protecting theui. The idea originated with Professor U ibeoek, superintend, at of schools in Oil City, Peiin., where it has been in force foi several years. The suggestion has re. ceivod the approval of Secretary Mux ton. The trcmeudoiis increase in the its. of copper is attracting general atten tiou. "Its consumption," the Loiidoi Statist facetiously remarks, "eouli not bo greater if it were used for bi cycles." It is fortuuuto for tho worli that tho metal exists in great nbun dance, and that tho increasing denmn leei tno effect of tho enormously iu creased consumption, but they wil never rise sufficiently to dctor it use. Says tho Philadelphia Inquirer While engaged in tho hunt for tin north polo and tho exploration of Af rioa it is generally overlooked tha nobody has yet traversed Australii from east to west. At tho Londoi Geographical congress Mr. Logai Lobloy road an interesting papoi showing what portions of tho earth remain unexplored, and according to him tho extent of these is 20,000,OO'J squaro miles ; G, ">00,000 equaro miles in Africa, 2,000,000 in Australia, 2,000,000 in America, 200,000 in Asia, and -100,000 in islands in tho Pacitic nro absolutely unknown. IJosidos, iu tho arctic regions there are d,0'.)t),0J0 and in tho antarctic regions 5,dot',000 square miles that are unexplored, but which, being uninhabitable, are of scientific rather than of practical interest. Moreover, only a small portion of tho earth is well known. The sens have been explored, but <>f tin) land there are vast regions in South America, Australia, Asia and Africa which have been traversed by whi to men, but which have uot yet been taken possession of. For many years there is work ahead for geographers iu man ping those regions which will ut it stiil later period in the fnturo beconio capable of sustaining a population of many millions. It would l?o interesting to know whether the essential moveineut to these now unexplored or uninhabited regions will he gradual, as it his b n'ii toward Africa, or whether it will be a su l len exodus, as it was toward colonies of the United States in consequence of dissatisfae tion witli existing tfoverntn nts or social oust ?:n ?. Speculation on tins point could only ho con tin nod 1?v uti effort to ns.vrta'ii whether thorn is now existing nnv ;> >w??r likely to (?row ho fpj>ro-sivo :h to ciiho jn; >|>o; to line to otiiel' l.ltl > l!l ofil'T t > es'.Mji : it. Apparently tlcro i< 11 ? 1 noli power. The power <?l 11? : c .urch and tii> power of m. 1 ]> 11y hereditary rulers it! h . 1 l?r ..on an 1 mm n free fXo 1; or. it.ids own : m tol'S. < > < \ i . ? 1 . . / S' ) ; 1! t v force t |": - t . t r, an ! it i? erieoiira:.;no t ) i. . > t it t re nr.. aneli vi-t < \ nt . oJ .'.iii rc:uJi:j> JPZ uuy<N."U?iodj J MEN AND DEEC0. , Wanted: Men? tfot systems fit and wise, Not faiths with rigid eyos, Not wealth in mountain piles, * Not power and gracious smiles j Not oven the potout pou? Wanted: Men! ; Wanted: Doods? Not words ol winning note, Not thoughts from life romot* Not fond religions airs, N<>t sweetly languid pray'ra^ Not lovo of ancient eroods? Wanted: Deeds! \ Men nnd Deeds? Men that can dare and doj ?\nt loni?iiiir? for the now. Not prat lugs for tho old ? irood life and notion bold? Thogo tho occasion needs? Men and Dood.-t! ?London Christian Endeavoror. THE GIRL* IN GREEN. BY FLOBEXCB WARDHN. HE following nar ' ' ratiTs is givon in JkTl y]'^i' tho words of ^ A George Pentland, of Somerset ' House and tho -3mBnfo<iL Albany, to whom ^ tho adveuturo oov currod. It was in tho vory lost days of Docember, a fow yeura ago, that I was going ovor to | ran?, by tlie invitation ot some menus | who had a'tlat in the Boulevard liana*i maun to upend Now Year's week with | them. The weather waa bitterly cold, but at throe-and-twonty, with the prospect of a wcok in I'aris before oao, nobody minds that. I had to go by the night mail by way of Dover and Calais, and you may bo sure I was ! careful to miss tho train. On tho contrary, I was at Charing Cross station thirty-five minutes too soon, and I spent my time when I had selected a corner 6eat and disposed ol my rugs and my bag, in watching the , travelers as they arrived?no bad oni ' tertainmont at any time. I It was about a quarter of an hour j before the train started when a tall, thin old gentleman with a long, silky ' i gray mustache and bushy gray eye brows, came slowly along tho plat form, leaning 0:1 the arm of a smarl ! servant in livery, and scrutinizing tht ! compartments, as he went along, witl ? i fastidious care. & I " T ? __ 1 1 ii. i._i I lie wauseii up uuu uuwu vuu wuoh - ! length oi tho train two or threo times ii and at last chose mv carriage. fl< l waited outside, with a cigar in hi mouth, while his sorvant arranged tin L" corner Beat for him at tho other em I cf the compartment from the one I Lnw i. taken, which was on the platforc j sido. He watohed tho man'^ejer >f una enjoyment his chief, if not hi t. only care, now directing un alteratioi j in tho position of his traveling bag ii the rack above, now complaining tha 8 the man had unfolded ,tho rug to< muoh. He was rather a distinguished look : ing person on tho whole, and I shook a have judgod from his appearance thai . i he was a man of high rank if he hoc t not pat ou so many of tho airs of th< I parvenu. 4 ; When ho got in ho apologized foi i touching my foot in passing, with ? , manner which gave me hotter hopes . ; of him. As he passed, tho long, fur| lined coat he wore was dragged back, i and I saw that tho lining was of very i i (lark sable, tho handsomest T had ever i ; seen, and that on tho hand with which ' ho pulled it round hiui again there was ! one enormous diamond. Ho settled in his corner, screening himself effectually from possible i I draughts by pulling his cap down o\er | his eyes and his traveling rug utmost I up to his chin. i The man waited outside tho carriage. "Do we stop anywhere on tho way to Dover, Giles?" asked his master, i "Only at Cannon street, sir, uud then at Shorncliffe Camp." I "Oh, well, be stiro you got a carriage as near as possible, and come to me the moment tho traiu gets to the l"Cr. "Yea, sir." Tho servanttouchad his hat and di.sj appeared. Then at last the fastidious old gentleman seemed to ho satisfied for a time, I for ho buried himself iu his furs and subsidod into tranquility, i I looked out again at the passengers, who wero now hnrryiug iu a state j of more or less excitement. And my i attention was arrested by a lady very j neatly got up in a very smart, furtrimuied green ulster, a huge mutV and a traveling hat and veil, who sauntered up tho platform with a dignified and statoly step, looking into all the carriages with ns much careful attention as my old man himself lia i shown. Her appearance excited a good deal of attention, for she was undoubtedly a splendid young woman, tail, broad shouldered, erect; and ns she walked up and down in a leisurclv nisnuer. upparontly imiirteieut U> the* comments sho excited, I trot out of the carriage to have a better loon. As aho cmuo pn-t t!io t-ceoutl limo1 pho stopped t> fur-' tlie comportment v? hero t he olil "eutleimwi now .-lit alone, niiil, ap| itieutly not pore iving t"n:vt there '.vie. lie- in the i.icu over til" p'.nc.' v,',:ci e I 1. . i i-..', .-ot in an?l feit.41 her.nl;' in my c..r::e;\ 'Ihepj '.m tii'.t'U-i* i In r, t a* I i' ol left in y r:::{ h ing'.JJ I he Incl'lle of tie. ill, J ! > t'i \ ,s might tholt 'lit tint | ' i;i I >:i 1 t.? l!.e oI i in. t-. i 1 le. t In r in ie ? e l :i, 1 e-M:' I tllc 'i myn if wi*ii i i eoi ie r e? ; .i.-. "'hci.t ri l lit in I;,; ii h< r veil v.it'.i t'rau.: e.irm >tv v.lieu I got in. Mlltl i luiiSi-.d tL-i ttiu V a. utiUO^ cd th*t there was to bo a third person In the carriage. I perceive-' iu spite of i her veil, that her complex.on was too t brilliantly white and piuk to be quite ' natural, and I haw that her hair was of e that peculiar sbado of inagenta-brown i v ch is more "fnsbionablo" than com- i - ainly teen in unassisted nature. 80 that I decided, after noticing < these things, her fx owns in my direo- 1 tiou, and her glaces at tho old gentle- 1 man, that she had designs upon the 1 owner of the handsome ooat. and that she was of the tvno that wo are acous- 1 toined in England to call "advontur- 1 esses." 1 The gentleman himself, however, ' seemed to be as nnoonsoions of her 1 prcseuco as he was of mine. He hard* i lv moved, aud but for a slight snore i which ismiod from time to time from the depths of his wraps, he might have i passed for a liguro from Mme. Toa- i sand's. ( For the sako of watching my interesting fellow-pasBouger in the opposite i corner I pretended to be asleep also. Drawing my oap over my eyes, I was able to notice her very look and movement, and it became more and more ' clear to me as we went along that her attention was at leant as much absorbed bj mj oompaaicn as mine was in her sol f. She did, indeod, from time to time oast at me one of those particularly sly, sidelong glances which were enough to stamp her as a dangerous person ; but 1 fancied that it was more to see whothor I was really asleep or shamming than from any interest she felt in my person. I grew oxoitod, interested, anxions for something to happen, as I felt pretty certain wonld be the case. My curiosity wan disappointed, however, for the miuutos flew by aud the train rattled on, and when we stopped at Shorucliffe Cuinp not one of us had stirred from our respective positions. Hero two more travelers got into the , carnage, and their chatter duriug the remaining few minutos that the journey lasted diverted my attention from i my other fellow travelers. On arriving at the pior tho two 1 latest comers jumped out tirst, and the ? next moment tho face of the man ser. vant appeared at the window. The old gentleman had already risen and taken his bag carefull 7 down from tho rack. Then I saw, for tho first time, an intimation that he was as ___ _ r 11. _ J : ~ C ih. . | suspicious oi tut) uesiguo ui iuu?ini?o. | tivo ladv passenger as I was inyseh. t | for be shot at her a furtive glance, > i whiou seemed to imply that he was , thankful to l?o able to put his property out of iior reach. > "Did he know her," thought J, "and had my presence alone stood boj tweeu him aud a sceno of mutual re3 crimination?" a A moment later I had got down my1 self, and then turned to assist the lady a ^Bufshe was indok^ndent ;o^hdi<l 7 not take mr hand_;i?he i . iwr wKtfinng in toe way 0( her do' a signs. At any rate, she brushed a brasquoly past mo, strode along the a platform, descended on the line and t oroseed the gangway with an ability > and rapidity which made me wonder whether she was following the old * gentleman still. 1 A few moments later I discovered t this to be the case. We were crossing 1 by one of the small, old boats (I think > it was tho Petrel), and the old gentleman, learning that he could not get a : dook cabin, expressed to his sorvant i his intention of remaining on deck. ( But no sooner had he seatod himself on one of the centre seats near tho cabin staircase thau tho girl in green placod herself on a camp stool exuetly opposite. He was lying down nt full length, with his ha/ under his head. But ou I soeiug the youug woman arrive he half started up anil seemed to bo lookiug around for his servant, who had now retired. 1 was too far olV to see moro than this, that, after staring about him for a moment, atd again patting his hand j apprehensively ou iiis bag, he lay i down auain, with his head turned awav lrotn her ; but I felt moro sura i than ever that lie wasafraid of tho girl J < in green. i Again, however, nothing happened. 1 In the crowd at tho bottom of the gangway, when we arrived in Calais, i I found myself jammed up against the < old geutlouiuu, who had his bag in one ; baud, his rug over the other arm, and { I who was looking helplessly and t iiaxiondy about him. At that moment < the ?irl in green, not far behind, again < caught his eye. He turned to mo sad- 1 deuiy. 1 "Would you be so very kind," said c be, apparently recognizing my face as t that of a follow traveler, "as to hold f rny bag while I get out my ticket? My t servant is a bad sailor, and I am afrAid c tho poor fellow won't turn up until I r have got ashore." t "Certainly," I said. f I was hardly surprised by the re- ii quest, as he was evidently feeblo and q greatly burdened by his heavy coat t and rug. But what was my astonish- b mout and eon-teruatiou when, on arriving a few niKitit * ? v II1? tuj) of the f*naP;w:iy, 111 tho rear, as I supposed, of my conti liii<_j fellow p:iSH?nyor, I foundthftt ho hud disappeared. c< I looked rilioat mo in every ilireo- p tion. 1 not told l?y tho dounmern to ri "move on." I walked on with tho nj r. st of the crowd to tho bullet, think- L in" that I should hj snrc to meet c< either tli" oi l o-iiile n;i*i or hisservant Si tiler . I'.ut f 1 ioke I in vain. d< ('! to my In Is, liowcTi-r, T poon sc found the : ir 1 in 11, wiio follotvod tl in .mic; h t; iml'i :i: i coming up In with i..e unh'.i!y on tho phitlortn gi pom with i peri'int t*>ry linger, tola! ti I \.;,.e At tbisflnmoIgi i.i .l i' : t turiii who wero be- vc hi' 1 her, i toll a It itul on ono of1 fr my hoi:I.i, r-. tli "i'.My, ir, is (h it 1, \ ' your prop- pr .rtj V .. h. i o'jo e? theui iu l'lcuoU# . co "No,w answered I, in considerably gitation, which was not decreased >y my imperfeot knowledgo of French. 'A gentleman who came over iu the lame boat with me, asked mo to hold t for him while ho looked for his servant; "I am afraid, sir, I must ask you to ?omo inside the bureau with us," said :he otl^or gendarme. "I havo infornation that that hag contains a num? t>er of stolen securities." I gavo up tho hag at once, with n jasp of indignation. mm x uau tricked, then, and wnn the prosperous, prcll-dressod old gentleman a thief who, peroeiviug himself to bo followed, had passed his booty on to mo ?ud then promptly and mysteriously iisappearcd. I looked at tbo girl in grcon, but die was still obstinately silent. It must bo she who held the koy to this enigma. "You can boar witness," said I to her, "that I was a stranger to tho owner of the bag." But she tnrned hor back on mo without answering and stalked toward tho station master's office, toward whioh the gendarmes were leading me. "Do yon saspeat me of being his accomplice?" I asked, indignantly. "That romains to be seen, sir," said the gendarme I addressed, not too oivilly. As soon as wa were inside the office they opened tho bag, the girl in green meanwhile hanging over them with eagernoe#. The oontcnts wero tnrDO<l over ond then laid out on a desk?two shirts, a Bradshaw, n sninll dressing ca?o, whioh wkb rifled without rosnlt; nud u oopy of Punch. Not ft scrap of ineri minatory paper auywliere, though they ripped open every stitch of tho lining, and tore oflf the locks. The gendarmes looked In dismay at tho girl in green. Suddenly, to mv unutterable surprise, she flung down her muff, nt tho same timo bringing down her right foot with u stamp which mudo tho door rattle. "Taken in!" ronrod a stentorian voice, which, to my amazement, carno from tho fair one's rod lips. The girl in green was a muu 1 And from Scotland Yard ! "He's given mo the slip, and this bag was a blind. This chap's only u mug 1" A mug! It was not a very pleasant, name, but under that or any other I was glad to get away. I gave them my address, my name; I allowed them to turn my pockets and my luggage inside out; and then I was set free and allowed to continue kit journey, whilo the handsome old gentlemau with tho false whit? mustache nud eyebrows, and hie faithful sorvant, wero making the best of their way, in the blue bloneee of a couple of French peasants, | over the open oountry toward Brussels, with tho stolen securities securely Tho Story of the tS allium. In the antuma time, and onward to the beginning of the next year, the mother salmon tusoenda the rivers to deposit her eggs, aud than to secure the contmnanoe of her race. In con* noetion with this periodical visit lor visits to the river must be mentioned a very carious fsot. The idea is en* tertained very strongly by some authorities that a salmon invariably returns to its native river or that in which it was bred. It has even been asserted by fishermen that, when several rivers enter the sea in one stream, (as at Bouar Bridge, for example,) the salmon bred in each river will pass back into their own water and will avoid tho strange streams. The lato Frank Buckland, a strong believer in this instinct of tho fish, regarded the sense of smell as that which led it to its native river. Perhaps the trnth it that for too most part salmon do return to their own rivers, but that the practice and habit are not necessarily invariable. We know the fishes corUtnly swim great distances along const liues where they are captured in stake and bag nets, anil it may well bo the | case that now and then a fish will turn | into a river that is near, in profercuco tc seeking its own aud distant water. Arrivod in her river, tho mother salmon bogius to scoop oar a kind o.' irench in the gravel of tho stream. This she effects by plowing into the ?ravol with her body. This trench is ;o he the nursery of her young. The >ggs are laid in the furrow ami uru luly fertilized by tho male salmon. Phen the trenoh is tilled iu !>y the oforts of both parents, tho egg* aru iovered with gravel, and tua inouud bus formed is called, iu fisher's language, u "redd." How uiauv eggs u uother salmon *"il) deposit i?, of ouree, u dilfieult questiou to deteraiao, but a stook calculation mainaius that sbo produces about 900 cggf or every pound she weighs. Each ogg a its diameter measures about i> uarter of au iueh, aud it is estimated liat 25,000 eggs go to a gallon.? hambers's Journal. Two Cunning Kogiirs, Two oily tougued adventurern rn5Ut.lv played a very ueat trick ou too eopio of Msrsjillcs. When they ar? ved at the city a couple { v.ooks $o, they said they w-ro tho sous o? urn iwugms, ami wore at unco wcl* j >med ns wool thy Englishmen. The , iih-I'rcfeet ut' tho city, who had r.vi- | ;ntlv uot heard of tho O.senr Wildo i r.udrtl, became very intimate with j i 10 well drossod stranger*, tho roult ) jing that one of them became en- ; icjed to his siati r. Win n the wed- } utj tiny arrived, h.>v.e\er, the bride- t oom was not t>? be found, ?:i i in- i stipation dhott'i il that ho fin I 11i-= t icnil had decamped, cnrrviiv; with l cm which, u;u;?t Mtrio-.n | ctextH, tliey hid invei led from ihu v, residenU of the citj, [ BUDGET OF FUN. HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. + When liovcly Woman, Etc.?Summoi I'euoo?Authoritative?It Depends?Her I'et Name? Etc., Etc. *4 When lovely woman ku1oo3 n wheel. Or points, perchance, the light eauoe, If thou dost value life, o<1go near What she's supposed to steer luto. AUTHORITATIVE. Stronger ? "What's the quickest way to get to tho Emergency Hospital?" 1'olicemuu?"Try to cross Broadway plone."?New York Truth. SUMMER TRACE. "3ay, Cothcrstone, don't yon ever oV,. ? < ivov i ' * Yes, iny daughter always goes away in .Tuuo to a musical couveution."? Chicago Keoord. IT I>RPRNDS. "Which would yon say?that a young lady has a pug nose, or that her noso is retrousse?" "How much ia her father worth?"? Detroit Free Press. AN* OIUjUUX'.I BORROWER. "I say, Trivvet, can you lend me fifty dollars for a few days?" "I lmveouly one dollar about me, Dicer." "Woll, I'll try to malio that do." A DIFFERENCE NOTED. "I think nil children should learn early to say 'No.* " "Yea, boys should, of course; but. with girls there nr'o times when they should be prepared to say 'ITes.'"? Chicago Record. Dli'f'ER'JST. "Xo, I'm not well euougu to run n lowing machine.*' "What do you iutju 1 doing this afternoon ?" ; "I hclievo 1'il toko a ten-mile run on I uiy oicvclc." ?Sau Francisco Wave. with a nr.r.K.r.vATiow JTo ? *4Will you marry mo?" I b'ho ? "Xo; I'm not a olergymau." lie ? 44\Veli, will you permit a clergyman to marrv uk?" She ? "Yea. You to somebody else, nut mo to?well?somebody else."? llurpcr'e Haznr. iter fi:t name. i .Judge ? "What if your name?" Youug Wife ? "Oaroliuu Augusta Emma." Judge?"Audhow are you generally jailed?" -Jf?^Jli/eXhaaMulW^ ? "Aly svreel wm aaloivluu vllluvriul j Husband ?"Aro yon aware, my dear, | that ou this grasey spot bog an a wax i that lasted ten years?" Wifo ?"Why, John, it woe horo that yon proposed to rue." Husband?"Exactly; juet ton years ago."?Itoohoster Times. I biblical nreronr. Teacher?"\S'ho was tho wLest | man?" [ Toaimv ? "Noah." "Noah?" "Yee'm. JTc was the only man who ! know euoagh to como iu whou it \ rained."?Iudiauapolis Journal, calculating. "I.iiitla girl." ?aid tho lady who was passing, "doesu't it worry your mamma | dreadfully to hoar yon crying bo j hard?" "Course it docs I" howlo.l tho littlo girl. "That'n why I'm a-oryiu'I iioolioo I lioo-hoo hoo!"?Chicago Tri| buuo. tup. 'rr.aii jusnribd. Miss Kccdiok ? "Did you know that tbo wealthy ltulh Ktopaelook was mur* riod?" Miss Fosdick ? "No; is she?" Muw lvoediok?"Yea." Miss Fosdick?"Now I know why people call it tho almighty dollar."? Judge. panokrocs. First Wheel-Man?"I always get rattled when I seo a womau crossing I tho Mroet ahead of mo." Second Whcol-Meu? "So do I. They have so mauy pins in their olothoa that If a follow collides with thorn ho is almost sure to punoturo u tiro."? Truth. already dioustrd. Dctoctive?"Wo havo reason to beliove that ho swallowed the stolen diamond half an hour ago." Chief of Bureau ? "Hal ho caunot defeat us so easily I Catliodo him ut ! once." a/ciccuyo ?"it is usoIe3? ; ho hoards ; ut. ii cheap rostfturaut." ? Detroit j Sows. A Curiosity hi i'iiotosrraphv. A curious cxncrinx at in photogm}?I?y wan recently made in England. I \ man was made to look steadily at n lo.stago Kt.v.np on a black card lor a niuute ; the room wan t lion darkened, j ?. l em-itivo photographic pluto put in j dneo of the card, and tho man looked ' i it it steady for tv.enty minutes. Tho iir.to was ih velopott and showed two l:-tn.et ima:.\ s of the tamp, Ingles ; I lo '.erv, one of tin- three witnesses of ' ' ins f.iet, i . un .bie \> dr-ide whether j ' bo i>hoiogmpU ouo of fbo itnngo i < >iojeetc I ou tir) man's retina or J 1 >*hctU< v it i n case o? thought trans- ! 1 wKuyc. 1 rorUAK SCIENCE. Of tho 2001 cases of 8mallpo~ in Austria duriuff 1S05 tio less thai* 2d<50 occurred in Galicin. They say there uro about 200 dif* fo~ent shapro mid varieties of tooth* pulling forceps 011 the market. Professor Hodden claims that Rtopheiison obtained his idea of the railway eon :ii from tin Irish jauutlu? cnr. T11 the West Indian if.Inn Is, such in Saba and Santa Lucia, are several promising sulphur deposits closo to tho oceau. A steel wire fly wheel, twenty-five feet iu diameter and requiring 250 nnlee of wire in its construction, ha9 been inado in Germany. Compressed air has prove 1 so satis* factory in use in Pullman, 11!., that it i is likrtlv to ftoino into central uso tlicro for power transmission. Perhaps the largest boiler in tho Unit-Oil States io that of tho New York Heating Company. It was receutly put iu place, anil weighs 119,000 pounds. The advantages claimed for the triphoso electric railway to be installed at Lugano, Switzerland, are that tho cars will go as fast up hill as down. Two overhead trolleys arc used. By taking the current directly from . tho rail the electric train on the New York, New Haven and Hartford Ilailroad made a speed of eighty miles an hour recently. This is reckoned a triumph for the "third rail" system. Tho Japanese are keeping up with ' the discoveries of science. A scries of I sixteen reproductions of photographs [ obtained by means of Uocutgen rays | has been issued by Professors Y. Y'amaI guelii and T. Mizuno, of I'okio Uni TUIOUJ. Long distauco telephones have been placed iu tlit: smallest Swiss villages, making it possible to eommuuicuto from one end to the other or' the couutry on instruments kept iu perfect repair, and on which one can hear distinctly. The ii'O Viii 103 from two to eight cents a message. Electric lighting from wn.t r power litis been introduced in even small places. Insurance companies have decided i that electric lighting, when the wiring [ is well done?imd they have formui luted special rules on the subject?is the safest of all illuminants. Statistics j show the following comparative risks: Fires in oeo year from mraihn uud | kerosene, -"9 ; from gns, 11'?; :u itches ! used for gas, do ; cuud'os, ; arc eleej trie lights, 7, and incandescent olec| trie lights, only j. Eiilcl Toner's i-.iigiisil liivu). Two noticeable differences will exist k between the Eitfel Tower in Paris and' its English rival, the Wembley Tower, which bus been completed up to its first stage. Tho Eiffel Tower over-, lnokfi tho citv. and the Wombleyi > -:'-t n' M?e truecountry; the Eiltel Tower is, kuum-i over, le*? high than tho Worabley isdesigned to bo when finished. It would not do, of coarse, to eroct a tower ut all, uuloss it were to be higher than any other tower in cxist1 ence, but it appears that the Wembley Tower is being built in installments, and it may be a lnngtim3 before tho last of tho 1100 feet lifts its skyKornping fmial to the clouds above Wembley Park, says the iloston Transeoript. In the meantime tho platform has this month beeu opened to tho public as a resort, -100 l'eet abovo soa level, and the description of tho typical rural English laudsenpe which is to be seen Iroru this elevated aero of coucrcto lloor is enough to rnako the mouth water. The scene commanded from this breezy eminence in truo country, save near glimpses of tho railway and too masses of bricks ami mortar in tho distant L >i:dou suburbs. Tbo shining bosom of Kingsbury Keservoir is underneath, with tbo northern heights of tho metropolis wooded and beautiful beyond. liar ow-on-the-hill, with its i landmark spire, aud the verdaut slopes j of Neasdeu have as a lar-olY hnck| ground the hills of Hertfordshire. I Windsor Castle has been seen, on ox* ! ceptioimllv line days, and tbo great wheel at Earl's court, from its "endon" position, looks like a tall, slender spire. Sweet fields, swelling slopes ami abounding woods are nil arouud this lofty standpoint, and tho oyo rests and lingers upon many a mansion, village and cottage home. I naming Windows. To stop windows rattling on n windy night so us to insure sleep is often a puzzle, and few people realize that ihoy huve the remedy awaiting them on tbo toilet table. Take u dressiug comb, wrap it in two or throe thicknesses of soft paper and squeeze it, teeth downwards, between tlio two sashes,or where ouo tits into tbetramo. Some old and badly-litting windows need several wodgos, and nothing is better for tl:e~e than a piece of toilet 3omb, nicely washed, wrapped in old linen, and covcrod in a piece of glazed calico. To .these can bo attached a loop or ribbo.i so they e.m hang on a nail near the window frame and always bo rcn.lv I.> Ti, .......? .ui.ua rco Pres.-. [ I'ishsis.; Wit!i a A good lisa story is 1 old i i Fcaver Fnll. JJoyd .feet;, of Yunport, drovo his buggy info the river at that place to wash it. After worhiny a while ho saw what ho thought was i; largo siuiko gyrating around the huggy. I'rocuri ii;? n ohih, .5 ioi; v. aitoil I??r a ood up* portmiity "htl :"t < . , r'i.i the supposed sii t' e : hi ilJIliug blotV, V/lii.rn laid if ou f iii* top <>. t!i w '.tei'. With ttii* elu'o it" th. a hii' i. 1 tae :i>??:i n-r >11 dry land, whet , to h " .surprise, it proved to no a largo t'Ynnan carj? weighing I i:u t' i "i |i'JlU;d:;.?I'ltlaburg 'Joiuui'.reial