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'E—1TS FLUCTUATIONS AND US VAST CONCKRNS."
IA. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1891.
THE DIAMONDS.
Meriwether never liked Eustace,
did hitn justice from the be¬
and when he heard that I was
lly engaged to him he spoke in such
that I declared I would not eu*
old enough, I hope, to choose fot
said L
know about that, Patty," said
shrugging his shoulders.
to bear no more. 1
into the house, slamming
in Uncle Meriwether's honest,
face, and bursting into tears
I reachai tlie sitting room.
shame, ” said my either' Elspeth,
cry, Patty. I’m sura the whole
is transparent eAeugh. Uncle
wouldn’t be «a domineering
if he did not waxi you to marry
marry PdrA Meriwetlier if
another mag in the world,”
“And Til marry Etw
anyhow, now. Uncle Meri
says we don’t know anything
him, but I’m sure we know
was a false assertion on my part,
we w of my handsome fiance what
Bhad chosen to tell me—namely,
If a New York engineer, stay
BriAraysgebl ^Fau<\ a few weeks for
liis friend, Mr. Belfield,
Vdc Bid broker. Oh, how I wished
might take a fancy to Kls
Tl would be so nice to lie married
ame time—to go together and live
York 1
ved together in the lonely old
uso on the edge of the moor, *>
va a very glad when Olive Oatley
wn from Binchestor to visit us
ight her wedding set of diamonds
h and I looked with awe and od
Pat the sparkling gems—ueck
trings, and brooch,
hey very valuable?” I asked,
> thousand dollars, 1 believe,"
Wive complacently. “They lie
Aiierberf’s ftfore mother, and are to
I wear them. •
B then Elspeth gave a start and
Krlet, and following the direc
He InlaeU eye I turned and beheld
standing smiling in the
revith his hat in his hand.
Bjv Hcould the diamonds nst help, made in the me nerv
Bing, course
confiding my vague ter
■taco. But he laughed at me,
Bight Bialzoll of my fears.
Bright. went home earlier than
In my perturliation I
B ^jielf resolved to ask him to remain
constituted guardian of
✓ . but I did not venture to
^Uj^dris,
(IC1ENTIPIO AMD MKVIIL.
P.vlglit is unlouded by electricity.
Kit ctricity is to send a train 150 milt*
on hoar.
ProftWHor Barnard haa brought out an
ingenious device for discovering comet*,
bused upon the principle of selenium cell.
A new substitute for ivory, called lao
tite, has been invented by a Norwegian.
It is made from skimmed milk, and will
take auy coloring.
A Newcastle inventer has applied for a
patent to construct cycle wheels without
spokes, using instead two disks of very
thin steel, riveted together at the rims
and axle holes.
The works of watches are now plated
with palladium, which is a whiter,
lighter, and more fusible metal than
platinum. About one-seventeenth o' a
grain of |».)l.nlium will, by electrical dep
ositiou, c>at the works of an ordinary
watch.
A new pianoforte keyboard having six
rows of keys has recently been exhibited
in Manchester, England. An octave is
formed by six keys in two contiguous
rows. AII the keys are on the same level,
and each note is separated from the next
by an interval of two semitones.
It has been calculated that the electro,
motive force of a holt of lightning is
utioiit 3,51)0,900 volts, the current about
14,000 000 amperes, and the time to be
aliout 20,000 part of a second. In such
ii I m t lucre is an energy of 2,480,000,000
watts, or 3,284,182 horse power.—{Popu¬
lar Science News.
The Washburn - Moen Company at
Worcester, Mass., is making a series of
<-x|ieriinetiU which psvmiae to transform
tlie roil and wire business. Copper is now
used altogether in rods and wire where
great strength and resistance to tension
are required. Steel lacks this tenacity.
U is stated, however, that the company’s
sxju-rte have discovered a process by
which steel can be tempered so as to poa
sous this uecessury tenacity.
By careful experiments made at the
United .States Mint, Bays The Iron Indus
try Oozrtte, it haa been shown that $5
ve lost by ahrrslon every time $1,000,000
hi gold coin vie handled. The export
nirni* were conducted with 1 contain
log $5,000 each, and it was wn that
the mere lifting of tiie 200 bags making
up $1,000,000 to a truck to be removed to
another vault, resulted In the loss stated,
and that their transfer from the truck
again made a second simitar loss.
At a recent meeting of the Linneau So.
ciety at London Mr. Christy exhibited
and descriU-d some specimens of honey
from different countries. “Arbutus
honey,” from Turkey, is said to produce
great drowsiness and sleep; “Eucalyptus
bouey, ” from Mount Barker, Adelaide,
Australia, is said to possess valuable tlier
tpeutic properties, and “wool honey,”
from the Euphrates, which is really
honey dew collected from the leaves ut
gdgwud ; deposited. by aphides.. _ *
ONE DOLLAR Per Annum in Advance.
TIIR CXAH’S SHOT PHOOV CAR.
Hsw ttka Kbpw« mt Rauls Trawls
*■“« "I* h»»ls* iaAlwls.
When the cur travels in Russia the
precautions taken tor his safety oould
not lie greater if he were in the enemy's
country, writes a foreign correspondent
A battalion of infantry in detailed for
every two miles of distance, and allowing
500 u.en as the effective force of each bat
taliou, every spot of ground on both
tides of the track is covered hy sentinels
within easy distance of each other. The
czar is suddenly whirled off to the station
nccom|ianied by a chosen twelve of his
bodyguard, without pomp or oircum
stauce, swiftly and silently. The czar
always travels in a train of fivecarringea.
Mis carriage is built in a peculiar style.
The windows, while ample for light,
are high, so that a person sitting down
is invi ble from the outside, and the
sides oi the cor are fortified with plates
of steel concealed in the ornamentat
woodwork, but amply strong to resist s
bullet. There are two sentry lioxes Ir.
tlie carriage, one at each end ami each
looking out at an opposite side from Un
other. The guard m.n on duty in these
apartments are shut iu from any olmor
vation of the interior of the carriage, but
at intervals of about two feet, I whole
communi. length of the atiugwith saloon, the tf* guar^ electuj tt-aUS
as well as with the two ciB
containing the suite, and th»B
rear, occupied therefuaJfl by the gumikB
duty. Ho far, the^fl
is concerned, IV^B
secure in Ht.
The train twB
without a iB
accident. B
five 11i. iml.w^B Jl
Olid the H
railway >B
always r:B
hy the riB
urmsandV
waiting B
("lllllCOiB passed. h{B
of miles.
ney, the rflB furl
intended
The street.®
•tables, in holder^® thB
property
supply one or
own expense to do duty when
ereign makes _
a public appearance. The
constables average one in ten of the
crowd that throngs thestreets, and being
in ordinary dress, they can mingle with
the people, note what is said, and per¬
haps do something that will obtain them
regular employment among tlie secret
polioe. With one-tenth the population
engaged ae spies upon the remainder,
with troops enough concentrated to stand
a formidable siege, and his fidtliful
guardsmen dogging every step, the czar
through the forma of a visit UM
NUMKER 28
TV O 4AIIKICR SVAHSKUSTI.
Tk.y A -« Called I wlMII iiksry hrg
mmS O.MB M W*. _
The “twin cvHiigeU/sls" .
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attention on Uis boardwalk eg As bury
Park and Ocean Grom. They are the
"Uarrill bn there," Frank and
fi »< J’> 31
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THK BARRIU. BROTHERS.
Binring and in thsfr sa
Ins wonBI tlflfl
Every .l»y Hi the :-^B
till/, tlm twins take s
fid avenue. Then it
they are bald on the back of the head, all
but a little fuze. Each cranlom Is a dip
plicate of the other.
They are fins swimmers, and gsmaaliy
take to deep water.
A UESKROIJS TIB.