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ON A TROPICAL PLATEAU. kit be am or as at■ tehnooh nr Mexico. Cumbersome Mexican Vehicle* Fif teen Feet High— Market Women —A Ranchero and Hia Dress. Thomas Wallace writes from Zacate cas. Mexico, to the Detroit Free Press as follows:_ The air is clear and cool,, and the sky is set with a few bright, fleecy, floating clouds, such as the artist is won’t to paint in his pictures. The cloud shadows are passing over the canyon, along the Talley and up the mountain side. He e they present that bright contrast .and many beautiful combina tions which nature forms by means of sunshi :e and shadow. The mountain slopes far and near are covered with the thorny ch parral, the century plant, the many wild Cowers of the tropics, and the wild tuna (prickly pear) which is now laden with the most delicious and wholesome fru'.t which we have yet found in the tropics. i Here, too, we see a flock of goats quietly grazing under the care of a paHarchal looking shepherd, who is seated on nn ancient boulder be-ide his dog and crook. Another flock, preparatory to early milk ing time, is wendiug its way down the mountain to the goat corral. On the summit we see a number of lame and galled back burros, which, because of their age and infirmities, hive been turned adrift to die in the mountains. In the distance wc see a long freight train moving across the plateau. It is Composed of cumbersome carts, each drawu by six mules. These carts aro sometimes ten feet wide, with three shafts made of hewn timber about six in hes square. The wheels are about as high as those of the old-time log cart, and are often run without tires, but in this case each felloe is from six to ten inches square, so tires are not needed. One form of wagon bed is unknown here, but in p!a eof it they build a single room house on a balan e over the axle, using the rear half of the shafts for sills. It is built of square tim ber or round p >les, with foors and walls made of green cow skin. They are some times fifteen feet high, and are usually covered with a kind of coar c bagging. There is no door to the structure, hen e everything must be loaded in over the top, at the gable ends. When a long caravan composed of these carts is seen moving slowly over the plain, ea, h loaded with almost eve y class and kind of products known to the tropics, one can then form a be;ter idea of the re sources of this ountry, but when we look at the tack'e of the mules and th; odd and ancient garb ot the drivers and the ranchero, we can form a still better idea of the harness fashions of an tiquity. Well, I ha-.dly know how to de scribe this procession, but, in the lan guage of the Arkansaw Traveler , every thing “appears wonderfully out ot kilter.” In the distance beyond wc see a great xdoud of dust rising in the plain. This is the signal that the evening stage will soon be here, and also that it is lightly loaded, and that the mules are coming “in full tilt.” It is the evening hour, and the market women are passing out of the city. One is riding a spry little donkey that seems anxious to get home. She is closely wrapped in a shawl and carries a baby in her lap, while her husband follows on behind, driving the donkey. The whole is a tine representation, recalling pi tures of the flight into Egypt. i A peon on board his burro is passing out to the distant hacienda. Now he dismounts to take his drink at the way side pulqueria; but there is no hitching post. What shall he do? Ah! he is equal to the emergency, for he has hitched his donkey to its own hind foot. Over the way there is a humble jacal. It has but one room, with a dirt floor and decayed canvas roof. The chickens are ■picking each other for their respective positions on the roost in one end, while the family and a pet goat are taking their supper in the other. Hoon the front en trance will be closed by means of sus pended gunny bags, after which the happy family will bid adieu to all things external unt.l day. Now the ranchero of the caravan it passing. Ho is mounted on a fine horse, which is prancing under a silver-mounted saddle. Th : s is made so strong and fastened so tight that we often see a pair of horses draw a heavy load when hitched by the saddle horns. The fend ers and panels are very large and richly embroidered with colored thread and silver tinsel. In place of saddlebags there is a pair of baguerillos. These are long, black, hairy appendages fastened to the rear of the saddle, and hang half way to the ground on either side. They have long po ket3 on the inside, and the whole in the distance resembles a half side of undressed bear skin. The rider is dressed in the popular garb of the country, and carries a belt of cartridges around his waist and a largo revolver, a lasso and a breech-loading ri’c on one side and a long sheathed sword on the other. In his appearan e and mode of life among his peon stibjc ts he mig't be thought a fine representation of n feudal lord of the middle ages. To look at, he appears a formidable ob ect, yet he is not at all dangerous, neither in peace nor war. His sons, following in I)is footsteps, are the would-be Vexican knights of modern times, but their race is nearly run, and until this much tc ded but sickly flower of ancient ancestry < an find a more congenial dime in which to bud and bloom, it must soon fade and die from the sheer neglc t and cruel treatment it continues to receive from the foreign tribes of the north. Federal Losses at Gettysburg. The losses of the Federal troops at Gettysburg, according to olciil data recently issued in pamphlet fo in by the War Department, were as follows: Kill*o, yumbrr IT o iniinl. Prone ut Captu red ('orps for Duty, or Nirein'j. First 10,85 1 It lo>t <1,024 Hecond tß,oott It lost 4.‘TO Third It lost 4 f 210 Fi th 13,211 It Ist 2,1*7 Sixth t 0,710 It lost 2W Klaventh 10,Mil It lost ,<>< Twelfth H.BW7 It lost I,<Wl Cavalry 10, ltJ It lost S-t'.t Artillery 9.888 It lost Mi Total ttT.llW Total SK/JUtl Wheat is the only crop which can b > produced in Southern California without irrigation. some Costly New York Dnlldlnga. The cost of sum : of the big building* which now so olieu attract attention in New York may be given thus: Tribune Im Mlui 11,00(1,000 Drsxsl biuhtiuu l.Mo.taw O, H I'otUff building V,uoo,* Slesarl I*ll Idlug MOO.UW < yru* W, Fi*bl wMidlng, *,,* fin it ii> building . k.ftou.wa) pr<du>* l.okting* mK6 In I'ddition to the above are man* other liusuisse * d(flees of lergroost. nod 11 .11k >e e the greet *p#wnt< I<m WP Ur loan • of whicii * teh ©oet ‘ MV |, thau # villi >o If, It if Captain C. Thomas Swift. I presume no person will deny that Swift's Bpe cldc is more widely beard of than any medicine that ever ctalmed the attention of mankind. True, Its manufacture and Its active operations sre yet restricted to America, but that only makes Americatbe heart from which this vital Quid is pulsed out through the arteries of a sentient world. Yes the sun never sets on Swift’s Specific, and it< ‘ going forth” may be compared to the move ments of that Oriental bird which Is said to feed and sleep and live forever on the wing. Crider these circumstances we find no cause for surprise in the universal inquiry: “Who is 3 *i!t;'’ and do reason why the question should remain longer unanswered.” I hare known “Bwift” ever since he buttoned on his first suspenders. I knew his parents and kin dred in the long ago, and f njnyed tha hospitality < f Ms father’s home when “Tom" was but a “broth of a boy.” I also lived in Houston county when the Indians wi re coming and going, saw them occasionally and slept under the roof where, I was afterwards to and, they led the formula of S. 8. 8. I waa told this by a person who had no connection with Cap tain S*ift, and no interest in his fortune. I know the biography of the man and the history of the medicine, and without reward or the hope thereof, without any solicitation from him or any reference to the S. 8. S, farther than it Dears upon toe story of hi life, I now comply with the earnest and universal demand of the public and furnish ibis brief BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF ('ATTAIN CHARLES THOMAS SWIFT. C. T. Swift was born near Madison, Ga., in Mor g*u county. His grandfather, Thomas Swift moved to that county from Virginia many years ago, and, after a protracted life devoted to heroic struggles and Christian dntiea, died, leaving his family in comfortable circumstances. Judge Wm. V. Swift, his eldest son, is the father of Thomas; hi. mother's maiden name was Elizabeth Furlow; she is a sister of Colonel T. M. Furlow, of Ameri ca-, who, in 1863, was a formidable competitor of 'he Hoa. Joseph E. Brown for governor of Geor gia. When Thomas was three years old, his parents moved to Alabama, and settled near Salem, where they remained seven years. At this place, at the age of five years, tbe callow pharmacist buckled •m his first satchel and started to school to a Mr. Dodson, who made his academy a Babel by tbe old fashioned plan of studying aloud. It was under the inspiring music of Mr. DodEon’s switch that "Tom" took his first lesson in dancing, and so vivid were the impressions of those early eveDts in at even now he sees the benignant face of that beloved teacher every time he goes to sleep on an overloaded stomach. On such occasions he gen erally wakes to find himself singing: “Thy bright smiles haunts me still,’’ Mr. Dodson taught two years and was succeeded by a Mr. Lyons, who kept school but a short time. He was followed by Miss Yates, a northern lady who Is yet living. Judge Swift then owned a tanyard in partner ship with Mr. Nathan Aldridge. The tanyard was three miles from the judge’s residence. He rode a mare to the tanyard every morning ; sometimes leaving her six months colt in the pasture and sometimes letting it follow. Tom had petted tbe colt, lifted its fore feet and led it about by the mane until he considered it a model of ductility and submlsslvenesa. One day,in his seventh year, be fouad tbe colt alone in its usual grazing quar ters and decided to introduce anew feature in the programme by making a tour of the pasture on horseback. With no bridle, no saddle; nothing to hold on to but a duck-legged undeveloped sample of a mane, he sprang from a stump and lauded ou the back of his pet. The colt was surprised at this performance. “Surprls ed” does not express it, nor do all all the words In all the languages express the astonishment of that “leetle hoss.’’ He leaped thefence like adeer and without inquiring about the roads broke through woods and fields, over ditches and logs broke, yea, shot himself at the tanyard. Tom pressed bis little stomach to tbe colt’s withers, tried to tangle his feet in its flanks, and tried, or would have tried to tie his arms in a hard knot around its neck. To let go or to hold on os equally daugerous. In either event he had no leisure to calculate where he would probably land or where he’d sail to. Fortunately the little fellow never thought of praying. He only knew two prayers, “Now I lay me down to sleep.” and “Lord, make us thankful for what we’re about to receive.” Neither of these would suit his case, and it was fortunate that he was no at this critical moment embarrassed with the necessity of religious, on tbe top of other very active exercises. On, on, on went the hurricane colt, and where the ground was hard and unobstructed bis rapidity was such that his legs looked like so many knitt ing needles. Tom stuck closer than a postage stamp or a po rous plaster, and the only danger was that a collis iou would occur or the hide ot the colt would slip. So, after what seemed to be about fifty years, Tom heard the friendly svhinny of the mare aud p o feedings were amicably adjusted by the "wkoas” of the workmen at the tanyard. Tom never after wards wanted to join the cavalry; for on that occa sion his lather mustered him out of service with a mustard that burned. From Salem, Judge Swift moved to Perry, Hous ton county, Georgia, where he yet re-ides. Tom went to school here five years to Mr. Jim Dunham aud two years to Professor J. E. Croslin. There is but lit* le of interest to the readers in those years of study, when the mind was awakened to the great duties of life and all Its energies silent ly enlisted in preparing for the important tutnre. To the student, that period is full of excitement, with its struggles, its triumphs and Its disappoint ments; to the observer, it is fall of monotony. Thomas was now storing his mind with useful knowledge and laying thelouadatiou of a remark able and most successful career. During this time he grew to be a stout, healthy, boy. Had Captain Swift lived In pbscurity, had hls late been to pass through the Horn Gate, instead of ihe Ivory, he would still have been a man to r-umumud attention, a man to be looked at and iUieav.l to, a man toattract, to move, to impreaa. IIP father waa in easy circumstances, but young Swift was ambitious and whilst yet a boy oom iLeiired to battle for himself. Kor awhile he clerk.*! for Messrs. Qranberry & Kawton of Amerl ru, afterwards fo Mr. Joel Mann of Perry, and at ih- i.reaklngoutofthewarhe waa with Messrs. N..r turn A Shivers in Sparta. In all these en- M*imeut be made a reputation as a youth of j'liUaislii, practical sense, a talent for drawing trad... an aptneaa in learning the details of busi ness sinl an unfaltering davotlon to Utn Interests of hi. employer*. In Mil Mr. awift enlisted uiprivate la the Pint Ueii.fi* Volunteers, under Colonel Hemeer. of Oo- Imohus. end remained In ranks until Utn real man I was mustered oulofaerrlee In im. Ha then I nuad the Montgomery Bouillon (ArUllery)wham ha earned fo the end of th* war with the rank of rapisU. After iba surrender Captain N return ad to Perry and Iwgsa a small grocery husiuaea on a aaphal of UM la the back rum of ibis spot In a now moo eaal. ppt during IMt, bain* Uegaa bis ataoufae tSU uf th* * h- . To# leader wilt poMMy thlah I evshi to pa hank as* relate eeerptalng eon ape red stih th* arifts and sate* *d*. t i.iatnn uf this a.rdir.ee header tat SM rstaled pw that I has GEORGIA HOME JOURNAL: GREFNESBORO. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 22. 1886. not sow advertising il. A lam bat writing a biographical sketch of Captain 8.. the man who has brought and still brings that great Elixir before the public. The 8. 8. 8. with It* wonderful, won derful history, will be commented on, not because it Is for sale, but because it is interwoven with the •ketch. lam writing "interwoven” with so clo • a texture that, like the image of Medusa on the shield of Phldiss, to eraie the one would be to ruin the other. The grocery proved to be a success. Trade increased, business became brisk and every Indication pointed to the necessity of more house room But the medicine outgrew the store. Drummers from every quar ter of the country tasted It, tested it and went away to spread abroad the story of Its vl- tues. A negro presided over the wasbpot and *5.00 per quart wss tbe price, end yet tbe demand was soon lmmessu rably ahead of the possibility of supply Under the circumstances the store was abandoned and oaptaiu Swift moved eight miles from Perry, procured a syinp kettle aud devoted his whole time to the manufacture of S. 8. 8. But peo pie would advertise tbe medicine anyhow and the blood would be purified and tbe patients would be cured and soon tbe capacity of tbe syrup kettle was found altogether inadequate to supply tbe popular demand. Captain 8. was now at the end ol his row. To in crease the number of syrup kettles would but in crease existing embarrassments and advertise bis inability to meet tbe wants of the people in the sale of his own medicine. He tried long tnd earnestly to interest men of capital in giving the medicine a larger sphere and a more extensive manufacture. With this pur pose in view he made propositions to quite a num ber of moneyed men, North and Booth; and vis. ited New York and other financial centers. HU efiorts were unavailing. The medicine was fated to remain in the background until it became tbe arbiter of iu own destiny. It was not the repre sentations of Capt. 8., but the tame of 8. 8. 8. that invoked the aid of Messrs. Rankin & Lamar. Swift had about ceased to hope for assitance from any source whatever, and was hovering over his kettles when the eyes of the present company were directed to the marvelous effects of the medicine and its phenomenal popularity. That was, I think, in 1879. A laboratory with tbe machinery necessary for a rapid manufacture of the medicine was erected ata cost of *IOO,OOO. Steam, with its tremendous energy, now reaches out to the affltcled thousands of bottles every day, and still, I understand, the demand calls for jet additional means of manufacture. Tweniy jears ago Capt S. was poor and needed to struggle; now he Is rich and might well afford to rest, but that the suffering of this and other cations look large ly to him for relief. One circumstance causes metopredict that Capt 8 is now but In the beginning of his fortune, his medicine only in tne moruing of Its history. Every where Igo 1 hear of unadvertised and re markable cures effected by “Swift’s Specific,” and this Is compelled to be the experience if every man who travels and talks. For example, I was going in a buggv to town (Senoia) a few nights ago with Mr. John McKnlght, when the conversation turned to the possibility of curing cancers. "They can be cured,” said he. “I cared one, a genuine, well developed, longstanding cancer,and It’s been well several years, and tbe iormei victim Is stoat and healthy.’’ “How did you cure IK" I asked. "I cured it with 8 8. 8.” "Did you inform Swift of the cure?” “Why, no; what’s the use? Bwift knows his med ic’ne will cure cancers.” This incident Is one of the numberless prophe cies that are dally predicting the future of Swift’s Specific. I might go much further with this branch of the subject—might show the wonderful growth of tbe business-might show the expense in 1879 at 030,000, and in 1886 of *250,000. I might enlarge upon these andmanyotber Gets, were I writing an advertisement, which 1 again assert I am not. I am not wrltiog an advertisement and though the medicine Is a vital part of Captain S.’s biography, I shall now bid adieu to that vital part and “throw physic to tbe dogs." On May 4th, 1880,Ciptain 8. was married to Miss Lena Burckbardt, oi Atlanta, a lady of rare ac complishments, tnd more than all, a handsome, pure, lovely woman. "She is the daughter ofG. A. Burckharit, Esq., one of AtUnta’a oldest cud best citizens.” Their union has been blessed with three pretty, interesting little girls. I speak the words of soberness and truth when I say that earth has not had a happier home than theirs since Adam left the bowers of Eden. Silence rests upon these happy wtdded years. There is no hum of the bees while they gather hoaey; and so u y task Is completed I shall not submit this manuscript to Captain S. If after publication he sees fit to adopt it in the family oi Ms advertisements, I will not object. If he becomes offended, I sball regret that It has been written. If he pursues neither course, I will at least enjoy the satisfaction of knowing I have contributed my mite towards the gratification oi public curiosity. Good-bye. “Kit” Wap.rin. 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It is claimed for her that she distances all her predecessors in her availability for purposes of submarine warfare, and in the course of a trial ex hibition she did some remarkable things. Tbe exhibition took pla: e in the pres ence of a number of gentlemen on board a tag moored in the North River, off Eighty-sixth street, and of a large crowd of persons who lined the shore. Besides her pilot and engineer—ihe only two hands necessary to work tho boat—the first voyagers under water in her were a Herald reporter and Dr. Sloane, a scien tific expert. The boat is described as a submarine monitor. She is thirty feet long, with seven and a half feet depth of hold and eight and a half beam. The lines of the lower half of the hull are not un like those of other boats. The deck has a sloping surface. The boat is constructed of iron and steel. The pilot looks out through a dome one foot high and four teen inches in diameter, with narrow slot lights on each side through which he can see in all directions. This dome is well forward; near the stern is the turret hatchway, the only entrance into the vesscL Horizontal rudders on the sides near the stern cause the boat to ascend or descend at the will of the pilot, and a common rudder bak of the screw guides her laterally. Water tanks that can be filled and empt ed in short order lower and raise the monitor vertically without the use of the rudders. By a chemical device the air in the hold m iy be purified, and Professor J. 11. L. Tuck, the inven tor of the boat, claims that the crew might remain in her for several days without a fresh suppiy. Pipes to store compressed air, however, are provided for ordinary use. Though all its parts are protected by patents the most jealously guarded se cret of the Peacemaker is her motive power—the chief problem to be solved in the construction of such craft. The power is obtained through some chemi cal composition, of which caustic soda is an important factor, and by a purification proc ss, it is alleged, the same “fuel” may be used over and over again. The distinguishing advantage of the boat, it is claimed, consists in the ease with which its Captain can sail under an en emy, and by a device in the roof release dynamite torpedoes at will, controlling their discharge by an electric wire when they have been lodged under the enemy's keel. The Peacemaker sailed as well under as above water. The Herald reporter was preceded into the cradle lit interior by John G. Holland, the pilot—no rela tion to the inventor of the Nautilus— and John 11. Klyne, the engineer. These are both young men of intelligence, who are thoroughly conversant with the boat's working. The reporter dropped down through the hatchway. Before he had become accustomed to the dim light Engineer Klyne closed the hatch in the turret and turned a wheel which screwed it down tight. Men on the tug cast off the hawsers. “Give it to her 1” sang out Captain Holland from his place under the pilto cage. A simple motion of the engine lever started the engine. It worked smoothly and well. The monitor plowed its way toward the middle of the Hud son. She sped along entirely sub merged with the exception of the two turrets. A steamer passed. The pilot gave the information, for he was the only man on board who could see out; but in a mo ment more the reporter felt the Peace maker rocking in the big swell like a cradle. “Give her some more,” came from the pilot. Another motion of the engine lever. The boat darted ahead at a speed of eight miles an hour. Then the pilot grasped the lever controlling the horizontal rud ders and gave it a pull. A slight pitch forward was the intimation the reporter bad that the boat was making a dire. She was headed up stream. The swash of tbe water on the deck became hushed, the light filtering through the slats in the pilot cage grew dim and went out. Only the candles lit up the interior and threw fanta-tic shadows of engine pipes and of the deadly torpedo machinery upon the side walls of the hold. “Fifteen feet, going North,” called Pilot Holland. “Give her more speed.” Fifteen feet under water and going at the rate of eight m les an hour! Asked his sensations, the Herald re porter would have said he was in the engine room of a river steamer. No un pleasant effc ts were noticeable, there was no more heat than that caused b X the working of the machinery. The speed of the engine was increased. “Thirty feet. We're now going south, ” said the pilot for the benefit of the re porter. “When did we come around?” asked the latter. The turn had been made so easily and sttreiy that only the steersman knew of it. tic was guided by a compass in front of him. “St.ip her! ’ was the order given shortly a ter, and in obedience to it the engine ceased to work. All was still. Three seconds after,daylight shone through the glass in the pilot dome and the rippling water at the surfa-e lapped gently upon the steel armored deck. The monitor had been under water nineteen minutes. She came to the top more than half a mile from the place of submersion. The tugbort was away down the river. On the w.iy to rejoin her another dive of Urn minutes’ duration was made, and a depth of twenty-five feet whs attained. The diver* landed in three-quarters of an hour nnd received a warm welcome in the shnp- of a cheer and a handshake from th.* sightseers who “didn't care to go down ” Decently the crew took the boat fifty feet under water an I . ante to the surface without her. She was raised by a der rick. They did this to show that if everything else fafle I those on board could still escape unharmed. —Ntio York Ut nhJ. Superstition Attached to Gem,. ( f the superstitions that attach to gems and ornament*, a writer in the New York Commtrti'il sgya: “King* are worn as lal .man*. The turquoise ring is said to poaaesa ipeeial prop rite*, a supersti tion to which I r Donne alludes: A . ottipu a mint*. tu quoi u that doth tall, lly lo -airig pale, lie waier is not woll. Th< carbuncle among other propgrtfcM is said to give out a u itural light. A piece of superstition makes it unlucky to wenr an b|ml. although it i( a most beau tiful stone the diamond is hello. and to counteract poison, an aui.iald ring in sure# purity of thought, and a loadstone ring i* an amulgt to lutvent now-born cbihtr. n and their nec*her* Isom fairies, a n< chief e ut amber i* said C> > ore a w#u, and tike n <n*uu. is loaded ilasa widh •UpefstiUOM.' SCIENTIFIC ANB INDUSTRIAL. In • paper to the London Entomolog ical Society, Mr. J. W. Slater showed that all brightly-colored insects do not live upon flowers, as Mr. Grant Allen has asserted, but that many species are carnivorous. An immense quantity of jewelry is now made from the layers of gold alloy upon an ingot of brass, formed while it is hot. On the ingot cooling it is formed between steel rollers into a long thin ribbon, each part of which is of course still covered i with the gold alloy, incalculably thin, j but which wears .for years, and can be molded into any shape. If the levels of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans at the Isthmus of Panama are the same, there will be no need of locks in the Panama Canal; but locks will be re quired if there is a difference of level between the two oceans. Mons. De Lesseps has been assured by a scientific commission, who investigated the ques tion for him, that the levels are the same, but he wants a committee appointed by the Paris Academy of Sciences to make further inquiry into the matter. The amount of matter in solution an nually poured into the Gulf of Mexico by the Mississippi is estimated at 150,0 )0,000 tons, at which rate one foot of land over the whole basin would be removed in 4,000 years. Similar calculations applied to the St. Lawrence, La Plata, and the Amazon reach the result that 1(10 tons per square mile are removed from the Ameri can continent every year. Again, it is calculated that not less than one cubic mile of earth is deposited every year in the Atlantic from America, Africa, Eu rope and Asia. Ac English newspaper states that evi dences of a post-glacial forest have been discovered on the western outskirts of Hull, about a mile from the Humber,and one and a half from the river Hull. Workmen engaged in a brickyard in the locality named, on cutting through the clean warp clay about twelve feet, have come across a forest bed on an irregular surface of the drift, on the top of which is a greenish san iy clay, with pebbles and stones. The roots of the trees arc stand ing where they grew, and from their clo eness represent the remains of a dense forost. Thu forest bed is now at the low water level of the sea. A stone imple ment has been found on the surface of the drift. >lr. A Sanson, in an article in a recent number of the Recue Scientifique, states that, from a comparison of animal and steam power, in Franca at least, the former is the cheap r motor. In the con version of chemical to mechanical energy, ninety per cent, is lost in the machine, against sixty-eight in the animal. He finds that the steam horse power, con trary to what is generally believed, is of ten materially exceeded by the horse. The cost of traction on the Montparnasse- Bastille line of railway he found to be for each car, daily, fifty-seven francs, while the same work done by the horse cost only fortly-seven francs; and he be lieves that, for moderate powers, the conversion of chemical into mechanical energy is more economically affected through animals than through steam en gines. Chestnut, pea and buckwheat coals, formerly allowed to go to waste in the huge piles of “culm” which accumulate near every mine, have, within the last fifteen years, been successively separated from the worthless material by processes that have been invented to meet the need. The ne plus ultra seems to have been reached in an air-blast, which not only transports the waste from the breaker to the refuse heap at one-sixththecost of the old method by mule carts, but before depositing it in its final resting-place, by means of a graded series of screens, takes from it and sorts out into the dif ferent sizes all the good fuel. The “buck wheat” is found to be just the stuff for making steam on the Hudson River boats. The cost of carrying the culm from the breaker to the dumps has heretofore been, at a low estimate, $20,- 000 per day in the anthracite region of Pennsylvania. WISE WORDS. Strong character, like strong muscle, come from activity, from warfare, not retreat. I was neyer happy till I gave up trying to be a great man, and was willing to be nobody. Nature is frank, and will allow no man to abuse himself without giving him a hint of it. Contentment is a good thing until it reaches the point where it sits in the shade and lets the weeds grow. He who is the most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in the per formance of it. You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, want ing your play to begin. A man protesting against error is in the highway toward uniting himself with all men who believe in truth. Wickedness may prosper for a while, but in the long run, he that sets all knaves at work will pay them. Genuine cheerfulness is an almost certain index of a happy mind and a pure, good heart. Some are brave one day and coward# another, as great captains have told me, from their own experience and observa tion. Burning Banknotes. In 1806, 'Turner determined to nuke Liber Studiorum , or “Book of Studies.” It was issued in a series of twenty num bers, containing five plates each, and thn subscription price was ii 17 10s. Them were endless troubles with the engravers, and it was not paying well, and waai abandoned after seventy plates were is sued. It seemed to be so worthless that Charles Turner, one of the engravers,, used some of the proofs for kindling pa per. Alter tho artist became famous, however, this Liber S'uliorum grew to be very valuable. Before Turner died, a copy was worth thirty guim as, and more recently a single copy has brought three thousand pounds, or nearly fifteen thous and dollars, Colnnghi, the London pr.nt dealer, pa and Charles Turner fifteen hun dred pounds for the proofs which he had not destroyed; and when the old engra ver remembered how he had lighted hU fires, he exclaimed: “I have been burn ing banknotes all my life.”— Bt.Meholas. & Wonderful Indiana Dog. Dr. Allen, of New Mayeville, lud.. ha* e wonderful dog. It i* a large black anil white Newfoundland. This faith ful animal performs its daily wot k with the utmost promptness and reg darity. Thi'consists in keeping the kiuhen wood box filled At intervals through the day it will report to the kitchen end view the wood-box. Whenever tbe sup ply of fuel le getting low he pro<eed to tbe >ard. grubs a flick in his mouth •"d tak< ■it to tbe kitehen, repeating the operation till the box is filled strain, ■ It keep, a special lookout on waah days, and at other times when an unusual quantity of wood is being used, and nee!. >t* lira box empty as long *