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VOL. 11.
If We Could Know.
Whither do our footsteps tend?
More and more we yearn to know,
As life's shadows longer grow,
And the evening hours desccud,
And before us lies the end.
When the door shall open wide
And behind us aoftlv’elose,
What to our expectant eyes
Will the future life disclose?
Shall we see a morning break,
Fair and fragrant and serene,
Seeming like the blessed dream
Of some unforgotten eve?
Shall we walk In gladness on,
Ruder smiling skies of blue
Through an ever deepening dawn,
into wide fields fresh and new?
Meeting those who came before,
Knowing each familiar look
And each well remembered tone.
Though so many years had flown,
Since each other’s hand we took,
Saying farwells o’er and o’er?
Shall we talk of earthly days,
Speaking low, with bated breath,
Of the awful mystery
Of our human life and death;
Shall we wonder to recall
How our hearts were prone to fear,
How we scarce'y dared to hope
In any heaven, so fair, so near?
Ah! if we could only know,
As the shadows deeper grow-,
Whither our swift footsteps tend.
As they surely near the end!
-[Catherine S. Mason, in Boston Courier.
THE NUT-BB0WN MAID.
JIY MAltY C. PKESTON.
Never had the world looked so love¬
ly to Inez Kent—never had life
seemed so well worth the having, as
when, turning her pretty pony’s head,
6 ho rode homeward with Vane Carrol
her distant kinsman, whose mother’s
guest she had been for a whole mouth.
Ho was so tall and princely; so
graceful, courtly, polished; and then
the only son of one of the richest wo¬
men in the state; and Inez, with all
her beauty and her grace, was not over,
burdened with worldly gear, nor had
bo eligible a party ever shown such
pleasure in her society; and Inez
Kent was very worldly and practical,
despite of a pink-aiul-whito daintiness,
a delicate ethereal softness of
face and manner, which made her
chief charm.
“Of what aro you thinking, little
cousin?” Vane questioned, with a
smile, as they cantered side by side.
“Your face is full of suulight. Is
there some lover who is responsible for
those dimples?”
“No,” she answered, with a blush
and a shy, swift glance into Ills laugh¬
ing eyes. “I havo no lover,Vane, and
I was thinking only of how happy I
am here.”
lie smiled very kindly—almost, she
thought, tenderly—at her.
“You have brightened our house,”
he said, softly. “Do not think of going
from us yet. We, my mother and
myself, could not—”
At that moment the pony Inez rode
gave a sudden shy, and ho caught tho
rein, as she uttered a slight shriek,and
held the animal in.
A young girl, with the sweetest,
brightest, sunniest face imaginable—
a veritable “nut-brown maid”—was
stepping lightly down from a stile,
and her great, black, shaggy dog had
leaped before her, causing the fright
of Inez Kent’s pony.
“Come, Shock!” the girl called;
and the dog ran forward to her out¬
stretched hand. “I am so sorry,” she
said, looking np at Inez. “We were
running a race, and did not hear you
come. I fear my dog has frightened
you.”
“He frightened my horse,” Inez
said, in cold, curt tones, at which the
brown eyes below her grew distressed
and Vane’s lingers dropped from the
pony’s rein.
“1 am so very sorry,” the girl said
again.
But Inez made no reply, savo to
shake out the rein and canter on.
Vane, as ho followed, bared his
head and bowed low to tho small,
dark-faced stranger, who made so
pleasant a picture, standing in the sun¬
set with one little brown hand resting
on (lie head of her dog, and a deep
flush on either olive cheek.
“I wonder who she was?” he said
presently to Inez
The porcelain-tinted beauly merely
shrugged her shoulders and curled her
tip- ’
“A gipsy. I fancy,” she said, even'
iy-
But Vane Carrol knew that tiie face
he had seen was not that of a tent-
hem waif—that the voice he had
heard had canght none of its music
from wild bird or streamlet; and
somehow the words lie had almost
said to Inez remained unspoken, while
he and she rode iu at his own gates,
and the day died suddenly, in paling
clouds and sharp wind-arrows,
It rained within an hour, and for
three days and nights there was the
ceaseless beat of rain-drops, heavy and
fierce, upon Hie world about them.
7!mi, la t-Jm p*ynw of a wind.
THE ENTERPRISE.
swept, rain-washed morning, word
was brought him that bolow in the
village there were poor wretches who
were struggling with the [risen wa¬
ters.
For the river had crept beyond its
banks and poured its overflow into
the valley, whore hundreds dwelt, and
all night long it had crept higher
about them, they never knowing till
the dawn showed them their danger.
Mounting hurriedly, ho rode down
to the valley, whero lie was stopped
at last by the flow of sullen, turgid
waters.
All around him were wan, white
faces, weeping women, wailing chil¬
dren, and more than one man’s eyes
were dim, as lie watched a little home,
reared so slowly and with such toil
swept away by the flood.
“My friends,” Vane called out, as
he sat like a young prince on his horse,
Ids face showing pale and grave in the
gray light, “I am truly sorry for your
misfortunes; but if no life is in dan¬
ger, all else tan be borne. Now, let
the women and children all go to my
mother. She will Blieltcr them gladly*
and we men will save what we
can.”
A few broken voices breathed bless-
ings on him as, dismounting, lie went
among them, saying cheering words
here and there and sending all the wet
shivering women with their frightened
little ones to tho great house on the
lull.
Suddenly lie saw that a couple of
men were about to venture on the
swollen waters in a small boat.
“If all are safe, why risk your
lives ?” lie asked them.
“All aro not safe, sir,” one replied,
hurriedly. We never thought of old
Mr. Glavin and his niece, and their
house is surrounded by the water—
lias beeu so for hours. The old man
is a paralytic, tiie niece only a slip of
a girl. They're in danger, sir, and
we’re going lo try to get them.”
“I’ll go with you,” said Vane, step¬
ping into the boat.
And in a moment they were out in
the rush and swell of the current, un¬
able, for all their six strong arms, to
guide the boat. Several times they
were caught among floating debris;
they were swung round and round;
tho boat was dashed forcibly against
some building which the water sur¬
rounded.
At last, with infinite trouble, they
secured the boat at an open window in
the second story of a cottage, of which
only that floor and the roof were
visible above the surface.
With a ringing chccr one of them
leaped over the sill, and Vane looked
after them.
In a great chair, with shawls
wrapped about him, and a shrinking
terror iu his large eyes, sat the paraly¬
tic; beside the chair, slight, pale, but
Arm as steel, stood a girl, witli eye
like stars and lips that began to quivo
as she saw the help that had come;
while at her feet, with his low whines
changing to joyful harking, crouched
a great black dog.
The chair was wheeled to the win¬
dow’, the helpless man lifted into the
boat; then the girl put out her hands
to Vane, and, as his closed on them,
and lie drew her over tho siii, sh
fainted and fell forward.
There was only lime to lay her
gently down, with her head resting
against Vane’s knees, when the boat
shot away; and, with a bark, tho dog
plunged in and swam after.
It was some time before they could
effect a landing, and more than once
Vnpe’s eyes wandered to the still face
at his knee.
It was the face of the “nut-brown
maid,” with all its rich bloom and
warm funniness swept from it; but it
was sweet, and young, and lovely,
and tho young man found such a
charm in it as no face, not even tiie
fair one of his mother’s guest, had
held for him before.
“I have met my fate,” he said lo
himself, while lie strove to guide the
boat to land.
And when at last land was reached,
and she was given to him ,to carry to
a place of safety, his heart leaped with
delight to find that his mother had sent
their carriage down to the valley.
Mr. Glavin and his niece, Beatrice,
were taken to Vane’s home, which
wa 3 already filled with sufferers from
the flood; and as lie gave Beatrice to
his mother’s care, he bent and kissed
the stately old lady on the brow.
"Mother,” ho whispered, “bo very
kind to this now guest—for my sake.”
sj, c j 0 oked down at the sweet, pale
£ace 0 f the girl, then up into her son's
6 y 0gi an d ghc understood,
that moment the dog. shaggy (
wet, panting, ran up to Vane, and
put His nose iu his hand.
A few days later tho flood was a
thing of the past. Clear skies and
sunlight smiled upon tho world; and
^ $f rg/ gmotfi bat three
GA.. FRIDAY, JULY 10.1891.
were left—Inez Kent, Bcatrico Glavin
and her uncle.
‘•Arc those people going to remain
here forever?” Inez naked Mrs. Car-
rol, with a frown on her face, » » They
quite spoil my visit.”
“I am sorry,” Mrs. Carroll an-
swered, with a slight llusli in her eyes,
“but I have invited them to remain a
month with us here, and I think, I
liopo they will do so. Miss Glavin is
a lovely girl. I could ask n > s v >eeler
wife for \ ano.
“\\ ifo for V ane! cried Inez, witli
unsteady lips. “Do you quite mean
that?”
“Ho loves her; slio is worthy of
him; I wish his happiness beyond all
tilings,” the lady answered, with gen¬
tle dignity. "Tho Glavins are now
poor, Inez, but I knew them when
their wealth matched our own, and
they were always upright and loyal.
I think Beatrice is learning to caro for
my boy. I know he cares for her,
and I would not have things other¬
wise.”
Inez turned silently away and went
to her room. It was not wounded
love she felt, but disappointment and
chagrin are not pleasant companions,
and they were witli her.
From her window she could sea
Vane and Beatrice walking slowly in
the grounds, his face earnest and
grave, hers shyly bent, with smiles
about the vivid lips.
"1 will go homo to-morrow,” she
said to herself. »
And on the morrow she went.
And when the ‘‘nut-brown maid”
placed her little olive hand in Vane’s,
and vowed him Jove and honor, ho
knew that it was liiinseif she valued,
not his broad possessions. — [Saturday
Night.
A Drop of Rare Poison.
The novel spectacle of a well-known
physician of this city extracting poi¬
son from one of the deadly rattlesnakes
at the “Zoo”, was witnessed by a large
crowd of visitors yesterday, The
spectators stood at a respectable dis¬
tance, for the hideous reptile hissed
viciously and showed every evidence
of intense rage.
,Tii 9 t what the doctors do with the
poison after they get it is a profes¬
sional secret that lias never leaked out.
It is used as a medicine in some kind
of nervous diseases, so it is said, and
as a commercial product tho poison is
worth several times its weight in first
water diamonds.
Tiie method of obtaining the poison
is interesting and exciting. Tiie doc¬
tor is usually assisted in the operation
by Head Keeper Byrne,who thorough¬
ly understands tho habits of all tho
reptiles at the "Zoo.”
The doctor approaches the rattle¬
snake cage with a stick about a yard
long, on one end of which is a stout
leather loop that tightens when tho
stick is raised. This i 8 inserted at tho
top of the cage, and instantly every
snake coils himself for a spring,'and
sends out a warning rattle.
Tiie loop is deftly slipped over tho
head of a reptile before it has had a
chattels to spring, and tho stick is
quickly withdrawn with tho snako
dangling from one end of it. No time
is lost in pulling tiie snake out of the
cage, as tiie other enraged snakes aro
sure to sink their poisonous fangs
into the body of their dangling com¬
rade.
The assistant then holds a large
pane of glass in front of the snake,
and the doctor dashes his hand against
(he other side of tho glass until tho
reptile is beside himself with rage.
The snake, after sending forth tho
warning rattle, dashes his head against
tho protecting pane, and invariably
there is left a tiny drop of poison on
the glass. This is carefully put in a
tiny vial, and the precious package is
stored away in the doctor’s safest
pocket.
The doctors never obtain but one
drop at a visit, as this seems to be
enough to make medicine for a long
time.—[Philadelphia Record.
llie l’ianoplione.
The “pianophon#” is the latest. It
consists of a keyboard with keys of
the same size and description as the
ordinary piano, a simple but effective
striking action, and the substitution
of metallic plates for the ordinary
strings. These, being tuned to the
ordinary scale, yield sufficient sound
lo make the playing 011 tho instrument
distinctly audible to the player, hut
inaudible at any distance. Tiie in¬
strument never gets out of tutte.—
[Chicago Times.
Pills vs. Bills.
Mr. Hacking Koff—Doctor, didn’t
you make a mistake in going into
medicine, instead of the army?
Dr. £aglc-—Why ?
Mr. Kofi—By the way you charge
your friends, there wouldn’t bo much
Jeft at an enemy.*-(Tusk-
^ CITY OF TEMPLLS,
i>UCh IS Benares, T Itldia j- . S n Refllge ,
for Idolatrous Pilgrims.
Besides the Temples There aro
Sacred Bulls and Monkeys.
Although tho tomples in Benares aro
numerous, they aro, with scarcely an
exception, modern. Many of them
are believed to ho on tho 6 ites of
ancient temples that havo long since
ra8ged awaVi probably not ono of
them dates earlier than tho Moham¬
medan invasion of India. Tho temples
of Benares and nearly all of them in
Northern India are small and unim¬
posing when compared with tho grand
and stately temples of Southern Iiulta.
The temple of Bishcshuiar, Lord of
the Universe, known also as Mahadcy,
is probably tho largest, and certainly
the most popular of all the sacred
city's temples. It occupies one cornor
of a large square, the greater portion
of which is an elevated platform. On
one side of it stands tho principal
mosque of tho city. It is built on the
site and partly with the materials of
the ancient temple of Bishoshmar,
which was destroyed by the order of
Arutigzob. A high and massive wall
surrounds the temple, and in the midst
of the quadrangle is a raised platform
with a roof, above which are images
ju sandstone, marble, and brass of va¬
rious gods and goddesses, who form,
as it were, the court of Bisheahniar.
Tho India metal workers and those
of their craft have their shops near
the gato of the temple. There idols
can be bought according to weight, or
workmanship, and not a little wrang¬
ling may be heard as the seller praises
nnd tiie buyer disparages, tho imago
of the god that both of them worship.
At all hours of the day, hut specially
from 5 a. m. to 12, crowds of wor¬
shippers pass iu and out of the temple.
Each one comes at tiie hour most con¬
venient for himself, as there is no
appointed time, and worships any or
ail of tiie godB as ho may please. Each
worshipper in this temple must of
necessity' pay homage to Bishoshmar,
the presiding doit}'.
Many women of middle life or aged
aro to he seen in the templo. Bands
of pilgrims who speak strange tongues
are conducted through tiie temple by a
paid guide, who directs them in tiie
ceremonies that must be performed,
and insists upon tho offerings that
must be made to insure tho full spirit¬
ual benolit of a visit to tho sacred
city. Men and women move around
confusedly, noisily, muttering pray¬
ers, proclaiming tho names of gods,
conversing or even quarreling- A sa¬
cred bull or two may be seen moving
around in tiie crowd, themselves wor¬
shipped as gods, while, unconscious of
the honors paid to them, they cat Ihe
offerings made to other gods. Nine
hells aro hung from tho roof of the
temple, so that each worshipper may
call tho attention of the god to him¬
self. The almost incessant ringing of
these bells is bewildering.
In tiie same street nnd not far from
the temple of Bishoshmar is another,
the temple of Anapuma, the goddess
of plenty, erected about 170 years ago.
The temple stands on a raised platform
built in tiie centre of a quadrangle,
surrounded by high walls, on tho in¬
ner side of which nre cloisters. A
dome, supported by pillars, and a
small tower are also parts of tiie tem¬
ple. Elaborate carvings and fantastic
paintings of plants, flowers, fruits,
and birds are seen in profusion.
There are four shrines. Iu one is an
imago of Gatiesh, tiie God of wisdom,
in human shape, but with the head of
an elephant. In another is Ilanuman,
the monkey god, who aided tho deified
hero Ram to conquer Raman, the
demon king of Ceylon, and to recover
his Queen, Sita, who had been carried
off by him. The third shrine contains
an image of Gauri, wife of Mahaden;
the fourth, an imago of tho sun in a
chariot drawn by seven horses and
surrounded by a glory representing
rays of light. Durga is
The temple of the goddess
at tiie southern end of the city. Here
very many bloody sacrifices are of>
fered. They have no connection, in
the minds of those who offer them,
with sin or the means of atoning for
it. The goddess is supposed to de¬
light in tiie diseases and death of man¬
kind. As she thirsts for blood, it is
given her, in the hope that she may ho
appeased and induced to spare the life
of man, woman, or child whom she
had doomed to death.
A colony of large tailless monkeys,
numbering many thousands and all
regarded as living gods and goddesses,
is connected with tho templo. Thoy
wander around all over tho neighbor-
hood, through tho temple, and are
sceu in the bazaars, upon tho
flat yoofr of hou?os ia
tho gardens, and everywhere. Tho
visitors to tho templo feed them liber
ally with grain, fruit and sweetmeats.
The gardens and ovon tho shops of (he
open bazaars are often ruined by them.
If n European or a Mohammedan wore
to kill one of the monkeys it would
probably lead to a disturbance of tho
peace of tho city. A similar colony,
or, rather, two such colonies of mon¬
keys two found in tho city of Muttra,
a few hundred miles north of Benares.
Tho two colonies aro of one species
and seem to havo divided tho city be¬
tween thorn. Tlie natives of Muttra
are not able to distinguish the monkeys
of ono colony from those of the other
When they meet any of their simian
fellow-citizens. Not so with the mon-
keys, however, for if any member of
one colony ventures to invade the ter-
ritory of tho others, a desperate battle
begins, in which all tho monkeys of
the two colonics engago-[New York
Times.
Training Elephants.
“The training or elephants,” says
’•Elephant” Bill Newman, the veteran
trainer in charge of Barnum’s herd,
“rcqulres a vast deal of patience and
much care. For instance, to teach ono
of them to stand on ids hind foot rc-
quires a heavy block and tackle. Just
back of the fore legs is the rope which
runs over a block and to which is at-
tnched another elephant. Elephant
number two walks away, elephant
number ono lifts his foro legs from
the floor. Sometimes tiiis has to lie
done for days before tho beast real-
jzes what is required of him. Then
ho is quite willing to try it himself.
At first lifting his foot a few inches
from the floor, he is finally persuaded
to stand erect on his hind legs, This
simply illustrates the ponderous diffi¬
culty and the great amount of pationco
required for training tho animal. But
ones taught ho generally remembors
it. I spent several months once,
though, trying to teach “Don”
to write his name. He learned to
hold the chalk correctly, and after
tracing a capital “D” for several
scoro of thousand times lie be¬
came an adept in writing “D’s,”
but when he had mustered th 0
small “o” we found that tho construc¬
tion of the letter “D” had entirely
faded from Don’s mind; so I gave it
up. We have to be fertile and imagina¬
tive in devising tricks and schemes.
Tho entry of tho keeper on a chair
placed on tho tusks of an elephant is
an idea which flashed across me some
few weeks ago. I tried it and found
that it worked, and it has been one of
the most sensational features of our
act this year. Very often tricks on
which we have set great store do not
“go” at all. It is exasperating, but
then if we trainers are not gifted with
patience wo have no excuso for being
trainers.
“Yes, I have trained all sorts of
birds and beasts, but I never found
any animal so docile, patient or obe¬
dient as r.n elephant. They arc tiie
only animals t[iat will answer to their
names promptly and without mistake.
But it is a long, tedious piece of work.
Only a natural love for tho animnls
could persuade any man to undertake
the job. I do it because I love tho
life. Probably to my dying day I
shall be with my herd. They are an
inexhaustible
A Remarkable Body of Rock.
At Austin, Tex., 11 dam is being
built in the Colorado River where it
flows through a canyon. The dnin is
intended to furnish power for pump¬
ing tho city’s water supply, and for
the electric light and street car systom,
with a large surplus which can be used
for manufacturing purposes. Below
tiie dam a wide plateau stretches down
(he river, forming an admirable loca¬
tion for the hydraulic canal and mills.
Tho slrncture will bo 1150 feet in
length and 70 feet high. It will bo
built of granite, 06 feet thick at tho
bottom and 18 feet at the top. The
granite used is found in Burnet county,
80 miles from Austin, with which the
quarry is connected by rail. It is a
most remarkable body of rock. Enor¬
mous domes of hare granite, half a
mile wide at tiie base, rise hundreds
of feet high to the summit. These
masses are separated by horizontal, or
approximately horizontal seams; not
seams of stratification, but apparently
tho result of shrinking in cooling.
Enormous cups, varying from one to
10 feet or more in thickness, having
been lifted from the mass, stones of
uny desired thickness can ho quarried.
— [New Orleans Picayune.
Possibly Pardonable.
Primus—Duunington is an ill-bred
fellow. I have known him to whistlo
in a drawing-room. There was no
excuse for that,
Secnndus—Well, I don’t know about
that. Were yon tolling ono of your
true stories?—[Epoch.
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.
The first submarine cable of French
manufacture is now being fiuishod at
Calais.
Professor Barnard has brought out
an ingenious devieo for discovering
comets, based upon tho principle of
tho solenium coll.
In fish culture and tho skillful
breeding of many kinds of animals we
arc in this country said to excel, but
in making marketable game a plenti¬
ful product of fields that havo been
cultivated many centuries before Am¬
erica was discovered the Germans havo
set the rest of tho world an oxutnplo.
Aboard tho British ship Devastation,
‘ho telepliono apparatus includes a
‘‘Bcrthon’ microphone and two
“Ader” receivers, with which oonver-
«“•">» was not interrupted between the
conning tower and tho central battery
during tho tiring of the heavy guns.
The following plan is adopted in the
Paris laboratory for testing tho com-
pai . ativo durability of paving stones:
A Bamplo of tho rock ig placed upon a
| loI . izou tal plate rotating around a ver-
(ica , axia> and pi . e8S<!( i against it by
s( , Ual)lo contr l V anccs. Tho wear is
(hen compared with tl.ot of a stan-
(1(ml matcriaI „„dcr tho »amo eondl-
lions.
An actually fired projectile shot from
a 110 -ton gun will be shown at the
naval exhibition in London as having
passed in succession through a 20 -inch
steel plate, eight inches of iron, twenty
feet o£ oak ba , u llvo foct 0 f granite
a id eleven feet of concrete, being
Btayod iu 5ts path 0 f destruc-
tion by a mass of brick masonry, into
which it made its way to a depth of
three feet.
In excavating at Nitnroud a number
of drains were found covered over
with pointed and elliptical arches, cncl'
layer boing built slanting so that it
rested on tho one immediately benoath
it. This method of building renders
a timber-centre or scaffolding unneces¬
sary to support the stones until the
keystone is in placo. Experiments
with this plan are now in progress in
this country.
Lord Rnyieigh showed, in a recent
paper, that a pin-hole may replace a
lens iu photography under ccrtuin con¬
ditions. Witli an aperture of .07 of
an inch anil a focal distance of seven
feet, a photograph 8 by 10 inches of a
group of (roes gave as much detail as
a lens covering the same plate; but to
obtain the definition of a lens of four
inches in aperture a focal distance of
five miles would bo necessary.
Dr. J. Brown, an English physician,
says that phthisis is a disease which
can bo prevented to a groat extent. It
is generally believed that the disease
is due to a specific micro-organism.
There are predisposing causes, of
which occupation is an important fac¬
tor. Stonemasons and weavers head
the list in liia district. Iu employ¬
ments like these, where the air is
loaded with solid matter, efficient res¬
pirators should be used. It is impor¬
tant, that bedrooms should ho well
ventilated. In case of phthisis, the
expectorations should bo thoroughly
disinfected, or should ho all burnt.
Annual Fur Fairs In Siberia.
At the very inception of the fin
trade a system of annual fairs was in-
auguratod by the government, which
brought together to tho ostrogs once n
year the entire nomadic population of
fur-hunters, and a considerable
tion of the permanent
for the purposes of barter. The prin-
cipal fairs were, nnd arc, held at Os-
trownoje, the easternmost and re -
mutest trading post of the Old World;
Ochotsk, on tho sea of thut name;
Yukoutsk, on tho Lena river; Irkutsk,
on Lake Baikal; lviachta, at the con-
tral gateway of tiie Celestial empire;
libit; Tobolsk; and Nishuc-Nov-
gorod. whence the bales of fur
and tho miscellaneous products
of the Arctic seas find their way
cvontually through regular channels,
to 8 t. Petersburg, Moscow and Pekin,
and at last to markets far beyond.
There is also at tho presont day a very
considerable trade to tho A moor,
which, being ceded to tho Russians ig
1858, was again occupied by them
after nn interval of almost two linii-
dred years. Yakoutsk is the focal
point and entrepot of eastern Siberia,
lying on the border-line which separ-
ales the countries of the Yakoutsk and
Tungusl—the latter occupying the
centre of Siberia, and tiie Yakouts the
country north of them up to (ho Arctic
Ocean. Originally, the Yakouts, or
Jakots, occupied as far south and west
as tho Baikal and Angora, but were
driven thence by the more powerful
hordes of Tuugusi; who were, in turn,
subjugated by tho Russians in 1040,
about tho time when the Man elms con-
England qu»rod the Magazine Chinese * Empire.— [New
NO. 27.
Our Uholr.
Thero’s Jane Hophln,
And Aim Marla,
With Obedlah,
And Jedeklab,
In our choir.
And Jane Sophia, aopnrno, ulitjjs
So high you’d think her voice had wings
To sour above all earthly things,
When she lends off on Sunday;
While Ann Marla’s alto choice
Kings out In such harmonious voice
That sinners In the church rejoice.
And wish she’d sing till Monday
Then Obediah’s tenor high
Is unsurpassed beneath the sky;
Just hear him slug ’’.Sweet tiy and By,"
And you will sit and wonder;
While Jcdckiah’a bass profound
Goes down so low ii jars the ground,
And wakes the echoes miles around,
Like distant rolling thunder.
Talk not to us of Patti’s tame,
Of Nlcolini’s tenor tame,
of Cary’s alto-but a name—
Of Whitney's ponderous basso!
They slug no more like Jane Sophia.
And Ann Maria, Olieillnli.
And Jcdekinh in our elioir,
Than eats sing like Tommsso!
— [Musical Record.
HUMOROUS.
Full measuro—Ten dollars or ten
days.
Natural philosophy-Taking core ol
number one.
Weleomo converts stale bread into
hot biscuits buttered,
She—Is Jack trying for the chorus?
jj 0 —Well, ho must be, if they are at
ftl i B cnsitivo.
Now a tack combine is forming.
Who will he brave enough to “sit
down” on it?
Tho oflico may seek tho man; but
the boy looking for a job comes down
on it like a mob.
Customer—Are you sure this broad
is fresh, baker? Fresh baker—Well,
1 should so, it’s tomorrow’s,
There is no solltuilo so miserable as
that of tho man alone in a noisy city,
unless it bo that of a man alone wi.h a
noisy baby.
Soborly—Do you believe, Sprathy,
that tlioro is luck in horse,hoes?
Sprathy—If there is it stays in 'em.
I never know of any coinin’ out of
’em.
Painter: Doctor, I should like to
present this painting to some public
institution; now which would you
recommend? Doctor: Tho Blind Asy¬
lum.
Caruthcrs—It takes a good deal of
urging to get Miss l’ruyn to sing.
Waite—Yes, but it can bo done. What
I want to learn is how to stop her once
she gets started.
“What makes yoii color your lemon¬
ade red?” asked tho curious old gen¬
tleman of tho circus merchant. “Great
Scott!” was the indignant response;
“you don’t expect us to take money
for clear water, do you?’’
Mysteries of Figures.
A California quidnunc lias boon col¬
lecting some remarkable facts about
tiie mystery of certain combinations
of figures. A very curious number i«
142,857, which, multiplied by 1, 2, 3,
4, 5 or 0, gives tlio same figures in the
same order, beginning nt a different
point, but if multiplied by 7 gives alj
nines. Multiplied by 1 it equals
142,857; multiplied by 2 equals 285,-
714; multiplied by 3 equals 428,761;
multiplied by 4 equals 571,428, mill-
tiplied by 5 equals 714,285; multiplied
by C equals 857,142; multiplied by 7
equals 999,999. Multiply 142,857 by
8 and yon iiave 1,142,85(1. Then add
tiie first figure to tiie last and you
have 142,857, the original number,
the figures exactly the same as at the
start.
The number 37 lias this strange pc-
euliarity: Multiplied by 3 or any mnl-
tiplo of 3 up to 27, it gives three fig-
urcs all alike. Thus, three times 37
will be 111 ; twice three timo (6
times) 37 will he 222; three time three
times (9 limes) 37 gives three threes;
four times three times (12 times) 37.
three fours; and so on.
W. Green, who died in 1794, is said
to have first called attention to the
fact that all through the multiplication
table tin products of nine come to
nine. Multiply by any figure you liko
and the sum of the resultant digits will
invariably add up as nine. Thus,
twice 9 is 18; add the digits together
U ml 1 and 8 make 9. Three times 9
ftl0 27, and 2 and 7 arc 9. So it
goes on up to 11 times 9, which gives
99 , Very good. Add the digits,
9 ftm i 9 j 9 18 , and 8 and 1 is 9. Go
on t 0 an y extent nnd yon will find it
impossible to got away from the figure
3 . Take an example at raudom.
xine times 839 is 3051; add tho digits
together and they make 9. Or, again,
9 times 2127 is 19,134; add tho digits
together, they make 18, and 8 and 1 is
9 , Q r still again, 9 times 5071 is
45,039; the sum of these digits is 27,
and o and 7 is 9.--[San Francisco Ex-
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