The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, September 11, 1896, Image 2
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