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THE PEOPLE'S ADVOCATE.
CRAWFORDVILLE, OA.
_
Mullmll estimate* that tho civilized
Nations pay anr.uaily $13,700,000,000
tor food.
i'atnews in women is 'regarded as a
mark of beauty in the Orient, Since
their advent, in the World’s Fail
grounds as sedan-chair carriers, the
Turks have had a good deal to do with
fat women, and the Argonaut aver*
that they have revised their esthetics.
Joint-stock furmiug, by which largo
Agricultural operations can be carr.cc
on under one management than is pos
slide for the single-handed farmer,
will probably be one of the future de¬
velopments of our agricultural system.
This is a practical way of reducing Hit
cost of production.
An aerial electric railway, in Venice
by Albert Leslie Widdis, of Detroit, if
expected to perform wonders. Tlieow n
i-r claims that it will son 1 cars whizzing
through K|«arc at tho rate of -WMI mile
in hour! Think of it, exclaims the New
York Ledger, a letter mailed in Chi¬
cago will reach New lorh in two
hours!
Observes the Detroit l-’reo Press;
“There is a certain amount of soii-ntilio
interest in knowing that it is not the
high temperature that makes tho peo¬
ple uncomfortable, but the humidity
with which the air is charged. But un¬
fortunately tho scientific fact does not
lessen the suffering. One is just as hot
after finding it out as when he was is
total iguorunce on tha point.”
Franco is soon to adopt on interest¬
ing innovation in the postal-card sys¬
tem, announces tho Argonaut. Tho
cards will he issued in the form of
check-books, with stubs. Tho sender
of tho postal card can make memo¬
randa of its contents on tho stub, and
can have this stamped at tho postofllco
before the card is detached, so that n
verified record of tho correspondence
can be kept.
At tho moment when horses have
taken a back seat in this country cam
elfi have come to tho tore in Australia.
It is said that flvo lines of tralllc have
■and camels are in use daily. It is noi
accoemry to enrry any food for them
animals, as they are able to subsist OB
tho coarse grass and shrubs where
horses or bullocks would starve.
Statistics concerning tho failures ol
farmers in tho first six months of 1H93
throw bright lights on tho present de¬
pression of agriculture in England.
From last January 1 to last July 1 tho
number of failures among farmers has
boon forty per cent, larger than in the
oorreapouding months of last year. lu
England and Wale* more than 111,000
persons engaged in agriculture are liv¬
ing in sheds, herns, touts, vans aud in
tho open fields. Thousands of unem*
ployed agricultural laborers are hover¬
ing on tho outskirts of London. In
tho same volume of statistics 52,481
fiersons are reported to bo living now
on coasting merchant vessels aud iu
land barges.
Evidence of the most direct vnrietj
places the blame for the destruction ol
tho British battle ship Victoria on the
Admiral who went down with his ship,
•tates tho M’asUiligton SUr. All the
witnesses who testified before the
court-martial at Vslctts agree ou that
ind every other material point and
two of the officers heard Sir George
Try on confess the responsibility. In
*11 groat catastrophic* there i* gener¬
ally an effort made to place the burdet
>u a cor I'm 1 , and when Admiral Tryon
was first declared guiltr many people
imagined that tho accusation wo* duo
almost entirely to the fact that he was
dead and could not, therefore, defend
himself, but it is now certain that he
blundered and did *o with persistence
that lAooked no interference.
It is sati*factorv to ih- Seiondtio ‘
. ...... , , tb.- centlemcn I
who have urged the New York botani
eal garden project an* nearly now in a
,'onditiou tiuaueiiillv «bh to Lem ae
tual preliminary work n. *r s he Bronx
Hirer. At least the sum of Hdlo.iKh
has been received. There are se veral
large subscription* yet expected frota
wealthy citizen*. *ud whi n these are
received at » probable toe general
nublie mil lie t 1 I to contribute.
There mil be no patnsor t xsh u*e * pared
tl*e garden worth* of the St no
ind ui the Nat •i.1. Kew Gar Ivu :*the
node! which th fai-sci ing u.. u who
have undertaken the ebargs *f thi*
wrpri* have in view, an«i ther*
- % try reaaon to beli that their if
forts wiii bs crowned with euccosa,
PATIENCE.
patient! Easy words to spoa(
While plenty fills the oup of liS*
While health brings roses to the eh--»k,
And far r-moved are care and strife.
Falling so glibljr from the tongue
Of those—I often think of this —
Whom suffering ha* never wrung.
Who scar -ely know what patience Is.
Be patient! when the sufFrer lies
Prostrate beneath some fail disease,
An-1 longs, through torturing agonies,
Only for one short hour of ease.
Be patient! when the weary brain
Is racked with thought and anxlou3 care,
An-1 troubles in an endless train
S-.-rn almost more than it can tear.
To feel the torture of deiay
The agony of hope deferred ;
To labor still from day to day,
The prize unwon, the prayer unheari
An-1 still to hope, ami strive, ari l wait
The due reward of fortune’s kiss ;
This is to almost conquer fate,
This is to learn what path-nee is.
Despair not ’ though the clouds are darV,
Aud storm and danger veil the sky ;
bet fat-- and eourage guide thy bark.
The storm will pass, the port is nigh.
IP- patient! ami the thin will turn.
Shadows will fade Isifore the sun ,
These are the hopes that live ami hum
To light us till our work is done.
— All the Year Bound.
AUNT SUSAN’S QUILT.
F Jimmy and his
bride
’ll pleased
€8 thut, I don’t
know what would
rk please ’em,” said
e£Ms I little with arms Mrs. akim¬ f)nko
m bo and head
twisted to one
m side, stepped as hack aud she
•w*
gazed with admiration at the object
spread out on the bed. It was a care¬
fully-pieced quilt, of a somewhat in¬
tricate pattern.
“Jimmy’s bride can’t help being
tickled with that,” said Mrs. Dake, as
•he smoothed out a fold; “and if she
knows anything about nice quit ing,
she’ll see that wa’n’t quilted in a day.
Well, I guess not! I quilted ev’ry last
Ititch of it myself, and there's a good
half-day’s work in someof them blocks
with tho feather and herrin’ bone pat
ternsand tho shell border all 'round
tho uidge. I laid that quilt in tho
frames five weeks nnd throe days, and
I put all the time I could gut on it, and
there ain't no slack work, tired us I
did get of sceing’it ’round.”
Bho smoothed out another crease.
•‘Demme we, ” she wont on. ‘‘There’s
2147 pieces in tho quilt, and a good
wife, I jest know. Here’s a block made
of calico like a little pink dress he had
when his ma first put him into short
drosses. I remember it was made
with a low neck and short sleeves, like
they made t«by dresses ill them days,
and his little shoulders aud arms was
almost as pink a* the dross.
“And here’s pieces like a little double
s own ho had ’fore he went into short
reason. And this piece of blue chain
bery is like a little sunbonnet he had,
all lined with flue white jaconet. And
bore is a piece of fine muslin with u
little pink sprig in tt like the first short
dress Jimmy ever had. He did look
so cuunin’in it, with the sleeves looped
back, aud a tumble-curl on the top of
his head!
“I’ll show his wife-to-b© all these
pieces, and if she ain't tickled with tho
quilt, she’ll he queer one. ”
a
Then Mrs. Dake went over to an
old-fashioned mahogany bureau with
brass knobs, and took from the upper
drawer a large, square cream-tinted
envelope, out of which she carefully
drew the “invite" to Jimmy's wed¬
ding
“Mr. and Mrs. William P. Hqlbcook
Invite you to be present at tho mar¬
riage of their daughter Helen and
James Barclay Larkin, M'ednesdav
•veiung, September 14."
Then followed the address of the
bride's parents, in a city 100 miles
from Airs. Dake’s home.
“But I’m goin’!’’ she said gleefully,
ss she slipped the invitation back into
its envelope. “I’d go if it was twice
as far. I ain't seen Jimmy for near on
to five years, and he always seemed
like my ow n 1h>v to me Vaueo I never
---- . .
had none o’ my own. and I helped to
br j ng j nI1! „j, his own ma died,
when he wa’ut but just in his first little
trousies."
^ aint "hmg been so far from home in
vear. and 1 reckoned my
lTavr i m ’ days was done, but I’ve got
to go and see Jimmv married. I must
see Elvirv Hodge right away about
turning and making over my black
ulk. and 1 must see Samantha Rose
about y new cap. I guess I’ll have to
have something kind o’ smart fora
citv weddiu’, where they’ll all be fini
fied up so. I don t waiit Jimmy to be j
sshamed of hi# old aunty; but lawsy
me! Jimmy wouldu’t be ashamed of
me jf j went in my plain calico house
dress. He wa’n’t raised to set clothes
above his relations, ami he ain't got
uotbing to be ’shamed of in any of his
kdks. "
Then Jinuuy * aunt, her face aglow
«ith loving thoughts of seeing Jimmy
again, folded up the quilt carefully in in
an old sheet, and laid it away a
0 wer drawer of ths bureau, saying.
“I s'poae they’ll have lots of nice
present*, but I’ll warrant you they
won't have one that represent* as much
Lnm labor a* that quilt. 1 had to
cry a little when I quilted them blocks
sith th> piece* of hi* Irnbv dre**ee m
Vm. Hi* wife ought to think the
world and all of the quilt. I ho|>e to
the laud she won t go to using it com •
•sou. 1
Mrs. Dake, who was a widow and
childless, lived in a small, remote
country town in which her nephew,
James Durkin, had been born, and
from which he had gone to become a
successful young lawyer in the city.
He had not been back to the home of
his childhood for five years. As his
Aunt Busau sad, he “wa’n’t no hand
to write letters,” but he often sent
brief notes and little gifts to his aunt
to assure her of his affection and
gratitude.
He had not announced his engage
ment to her, and the invitation to his
wedding was one of the greatest sur
prises of Mrs. Dake’s uneventful life,
“Ho jest wanted to give his old
aunty a big s’prise,” she said to Elvira
Hodge, the village seamstress, when
she came to “fix over” Aunt Susan’s
black silk. “I couldn’t believe my
own eyes at first. It don’t seem no
longer than yesterday that Jimmy was
ruunin’ ’round hero in pinafores; and
to think of him bein’ married—I de¬
clare 1 can’t git over it!
“But I’ll give him a s’prise, too. I
don’t intend to give him a Lint that
I’m cornin’ to his weddiu’, and if he
won’t he took back when he sees me
raarchin’ in on him, my name ain’t
Husan Elizabeth Hake! Don’t you
reckon his wife’ll bo tickled with that
quilt, Elviry?”
“They’d ought to be, that’s sure,”
said Elvira.
“I think it’s a kind of special Provi¬
dence that I put in the frames when I
did. I didn’t cal’late on quiltin’ it
until next winter, but I had a kind of
feelin’ that I’d better do it when I did,
and now it’s turned out that there was
a good reason why I should quilt it
then.”
There was quite a company of Aunt
Susan’s friends at tho little station to
sis-her off on the morning she started,
There was unusual color in her cheeks
and unwonted sparkle in her eyes,
She bade each of her friends good-bye
two or three times, and promised to
take good earn of herself. Borne of
thorn who promised acrumbof .Jimmy 8
wedding cake, nnd u full account of
the wedding festivities.
“An* if you could git me a scrap of
the bride’s weddin’ dress an’ of any of
her other dresses for my silk quilt
.Susan, I’d bo ... pleased with ’em 1”
said old Mrs. Gray.
“I will if I can, Nancy,” said Annl
Husan. “There’s tho train cornin’!
I’m so glad I could got my trunk
eheeked clean through f I’d bo in a
nice fix if that trunk should get lost
with Jimmy’s quilt and my black silk
in itl Where’s my lunch basket? Oh,
yoh’r# goin* to carry it away on the
train for me, aro you, Hiram Drew?
1’m ’bleogod to you' but mind yon git
off the train ’fore it starts. Good-bye,
Nancy; good-bye all 1"
In a moment tho train was on its
way, Aunt Busan’s handkerchief flut
tered from ono of car windows as long
as the train was within sight of tho l'*
tic xtati—- -**— ------ •„ ,
All tho people in the'car noticed the
happy old lady in her queer, old fash
ioned garb. Borne bud not seen for
many years a shawl like the one she
wore, with its fringe a foot long aud
silk embroidery in tho corners; but
nothing was coarse or amiss in her
dress, mid there was a quaintness and
charm about her that attracted thi,
sympathy of all tho passeugera.
She had not gone twenty-five miles
before she was telling some of them
nearest her all about Jimmy and Jim
uiy's quilt, aud the wedding to take
place on the coming M’ednesday.
She was delighted to find that a mid
die aged, kindly looking woman who
was one of the passengers lived in the
city in which young Mr. Durkin lived,
and could easily show her his board
ing house.
“I’m so much oblecged to yon!’said ^
Aunt Bu.san. «“I’ve been dreadful nerv
ous ’bout trying to find the house my¬
self. I hated to write to him to meet
me, ’cause it’d take off the best part of
the s’prise. I jest want to walk right
iu on him.”
That was just what she had the
pleasure of doing the next afternoon.
James Larkin was taking his wed¬
ding suit from the box in which it hud
been 6ont home, when there came a
knock at the door of his room.
Aunt Susan was trembling with ex¬
citement when her nephew opened the
door.
“Why, Aunt Susan!” he cried, and
then he took her into his arms and
kissed her on both cheeks.
There was no lack of tenderness m
her nephew’s greeting, yet .4 *L« the change
in him was painful to her. He was a
beardless, boyish-looking young man
when she had seen him last. Now he
was a tall, broadshouldered, 1. full- full-,
bearded man with • way that made it
a little hard for her to call him
“Jimmy.” He did not say so, but
she felt that he would rather have her
call him “James;” aud that sounded
so cold and formal to her.
He now had the graces of a city
bred young man. Hho found it hard
to accommodate herself to them, and
to the usages of the fashionable board
ing-hoiu*- iu which her prosperous
young nephew lived.
He might, perhaps, have wished that
Elvira Hodge had made his aunt’s
garments more stylish when he took
her down to dinner, but he was in no
sense ashamed of her. M’hen they
were going down stairs with her hand
timidly resting on his arm. he made
her very happy by looking down into s
her face and saving tenderly and heart
iiy, “I am so gist! you came Aunt
Husan.”
“I thought you would be." she said,
patting his arm affectionately. “You
know you're the only boy I ever had.”
“And you w«re always the Kwt of
mothers :
But when *he was alone in btr room
she wondered if it had been wme for
her to come after all. She did not
doubt now that J*:a.* wa* g« uuinciy
happy to «e* her. but «b« had diacov- i
wand that hi* betrothed was the dangh- ,
ter of a rich man, and that the wed
ding was to be an elegant atfair. Aunt
Susan feared she would be out ol
place—that she might in her inno
cence do or say something to give
James and his bride cause to be
ashamed of her.
TJio wedding was to take place the
next evening, and there would be nc
opportunity for her to meet the bride
or hsr family until then. All was sc
new and strange to her!
Hbe had expected to “take right
hold” aud help Airs. Holbrook with the
wedding dinner, even if she did “keep
ugirl.” There was a big, new kitcher
apron in her trunk, brought with Aunt
Susan to be worn while she was “mak
ing herself useful in Mrs. Holbrook’s
eitchen." It disappointed her to be
told by her nephew that her services
Would not be required, and that a
caterer would provide the supper,
She did not know what a caterei
was, and felt confused and uneasy, aud
ment to sleep half wishing herself
home.
When, the next evening, she found
herself in the beautiful house of Mr.
Holbrook, surrounded by finely
dressed ladies and gentlemen who
looked curiously at the odd-looking
little old woman in the queerly-mad«.
and old-fashioned black silk, she heart
ily wished that she had not come.
Mr. and Mrs. Holbrook were as at
tentive to her as they could be with t
house fall of guests; but Aunt Susan
soon found it convenient to slip off
into a corner, where she hid like the
little country mouse she was.
But she was glad, after all, that she
had come when James, looking so tall
and happy and handsome, came into
the great parlors with his bride on his
arm in her trailing, white satin dress
and long veil. Aunt Susan was so com
pletely overawed by this magnificence
that, instead of going forward with the
others to offer her congratulations, she
slipped off up-stairs to the room iE
which she had taken off her bonnet and
shawl. In it was her wedding gift to
Jimmy—the quilt that had but jester
day seemed to her as beautiful and ap
propriate a gift as she could boiAow
him.
Across the hall was the open door ol
a room almost filled with shining sUver
and glittering glass with pictures, and
rare ornaments, and beautiful books,
' lfts to James uml his bride.
Aunt Husan felt that her own offer
ing, ulthough it was the gift of her own
labor nml love, would be out of place,
}t might offend her nephew and his
ride to see it there. Home one might
laugh and jeer at it, and she could not
Y’ar to think of that. It seemed so
* roor and trifling, now; she could not
f>ear to think of allowing Jimmy and
his wife to know that she had brought
them such a gift.
Bko turned back a corner of the
quilt, and looked at a piece of the pink
and white muslin of which one of
' Jimmy’s first garments have been
Jb-ieed of-te*/ , \ memorial
filled her heart, and she buried hei
lace in her gift and cried as she had
not cried for years.
There she sat for a long time, pay
ing no heed to the noise and merri
uient downstairs. Presently she heard
p rustle of silk and satin in the hall,
.and a low murmur of voices. In a
{moment a pair of soft anus were
around her neck, and a girlish voice
was saying:
‘‘l am so glad that we have found
yon at last! Me have been looking
every where for you! ”
M hen Aunt Susan looked up she
found tho bride kneeling by her side,
while James was bending low over
her.
“You haven’t been up here all this
time, have you?” ho said. “We have
wondered where you vmre. Helen was
so anxious to see you. ”
“Of course I was,” said the bride,
“There is no one here I am so glad to
see. James has told me all about you,
and it was so good of you to come so
far to see Us married. You must kiss
us both and wish us joy, won’t you?”
“If you'll let me,” said Aunt Susan,
with the tears still in her eyes.
“Let you!” said James. “Weshould
think it very strange if you didn’t,
Wliat have you here? It looks like on«
of the quilts you used to make. It ii
a quilt, isn’t it?”
Aunt Susan tried to conceal the quilt,
but * James t - —i. took it from her and — un
folded it. Suddenly he said:
Why, Aunt i * « Husan, didn , , t you , bring -
this for for spresent a wedding present?’’ ?
M ell, I—I—did think I d give it to
your WrtMF wife, Wife James,” .Ismno _ * said coi.l Aunt Alin4 Susan, Clican
soberly. “I thought that—well—well,
you see, ti I made it «- ev ry stitch . myself 1#
and—and--there’s lots of pieces in it
from from the the first first clothes clothes yon you ever ever had, had,
and-1 thought maylw? she’d like it be
eauseldnl it ev rvstitch myself.and—
“Like it ?" cried Helen. “I shall
value it above any gift I have had! It
is beautiful—I never saw such exqnis
needlework! M’hat weeks of labor
it must have cost you. I am so proud
of it.
“She said them very words.” said
Aunt Busan to half a dozen of her de
lighted friends who eame to see her
the day she reached home. “She was
so tickled over the quilt. She fairly
cried when I showed her the blocki
made out of pieces of Jimmy’s things,
“.-he said she’d think the world and
all of it. She and Jinuuy had to ge
off their weddin’ tower in about at
hour, and I expected to come on home
that night : but Mr. and Mrs. Hoi
brook wouldn't hear to it.
“They made me stay there a whole
week, and they treated me as if I wa*
one of the greatest ladies in the land,
They took me to ride ev’ry day, and
they never seemed to mind a bit
about my old-fashioned way* sno
“I had a b aatiful time; and the
be*t |»art of it is that Jimmy and hit
wrie are coining t • make me a visit on
their way home from their tower next
week. You never *m *ttcb a »pleadiJ
young woman a* she is!”
ft Mr FOSSILS AT THE FAIR.
RESTORED FORMS OP COLG3SAX
ANIMALS NOW EXTINCT.
A <riant Shark From South Caro¬
lina and a Great Lizard From
New Jersey.
-j—'vROFESSOR I__/ WARD'S natural
I science exhibit from Roches
ter. N. Y., with its colossal and
terrible objects, the immense
skeletons and restored forms of ani
ma i, which roamed the earth in past
geologic ages, although'occupying the
BOU th gallery of ths . Anthropological
Building at the World’s Fair, is the
first thing which strikes the eye and
chains the attention upon entering
fcven a t its extreme north end.
In the centre, and most awe-inspir¬
ing of all, is a gigantic mammoth, a
hideous hairy monster of the elephant
family> beside which the largest ele¬
phant of the present day is a pigmy.
On either side tower weird and fearful
remains of ancient reptile life from
which one shrinks, thankful at not liv
ing in company with such creatures.
To get a clear idea of the exhibit one
mus t begin at the beginning. It is a
collection from every division of na
ture, except those of insect and botani
cal life, the foundation being a large
cabinet of fossils. Starting with the
lowest forms of animal life known on
oar planet, it continues in regular or
der from one geologioal formation to
another, Silurian, Devonian, etc., up
the present time; from the humble
sponge, coral, or trilobite by a series
0 f cases to the more highly organized
fl 9 h e s and reptiles, birds and beasts.
These are carefully arranged in geolo
gio order, but against the walls on the
pedestals of the central area are the
“monsters vast of ages past” which
first startle one.
The largest of these, the mammoth,
already mentioned, is a restoration
from bones found a few years ago in
Wurtemberg, Germany. Remains of
this animal ar« found in all parts of
Europe and Asia between the 40th and
70th parallels of latitude, and the bone*
are usually in such a good state of pres
ervation that their position in the ani
mal’s anatomy may be easily deter
mined. In northern Russia and Siberia
the tusks occur in *ach abundance as
to supply no inconsiderable portion of
tha lvorv of oommerce. Tho Royal
Natural History Museum of Stuttgart
ha* the bones of over a hundred mam
moths, probably the best collection in
the world; it was by a native of that
city, Herr L. Martin, that the mam
moth exhibited hero was originally re
constructed. It was subsequently
bought by Professor Ward, taken to
pieces, shipped to this country and re
mounted by him. For tha original
restoration the largest bones in ths
Stuttgart Museum were chosen,so that
this specimen is even above the average
s j zr 0 f * mammoth. Its dimension*, -H.wfiii'r
arrt~BtaiHfeni.f *11 -ftvt gy arc -
sixteen feet; length, from front of pen
fi an t trank to tail, twenty-two feet;
from front curve of tusks, four feet
more> making a total length of twenty
B jx feet, while the girth in the largest
part of the body is thirty-two feet,
The two tusks, which bend outward
w ith a doable ourve, are thirteen feet
eight inches long and forty inches in
circumference at the base, and tho feet,
nearly round, are Is quite a yard in di
ameter. The body covered with long
wiry black hair; the small eyes seem
to shine vindictively; the pose is life
like, and one almost expects the great
beast to lift his destroying trunk. The
color and texture of the hair were
copied from the mammoth now in the
Imperial Museum st St. Petersburg,
which when found frozen in the ice in
1799 was in such a remarkable state of
preservation that, notwithstanding its
thousands of years of imprisonment,
tho flesh was greedily devoured by the
Siberian
Another tremendous piece is the
megatherium, or fossil ground-sloth of
the pampas of Buenos Ayres. It seems
nearly twenty feet high, of truly
dreadful appearance, and is repre
Rented in an erect attitude, tearing
down a tree, on the branches of which
it was accustomed to feed, a point in
P its habits said to be ■ early proven I, by
its anatomy. „ Another largo piece is
the colossal-chelys, or immense land
turtle, nine feet in length and stand
ing five feet high, which was found m
the upper tertiary beds on the banks
of the Himalayas about fifty years
ago. By it* side is the megaeeras, or
great Irish T«taU elk. „llr Thi* Thia specimen ia is Iwiam from
a pest P** 4 . , bog in . County County . Limerick, Limerick, T • . , T He
, land. It is the king of all the deer
family, its antlers spreading eleven
feet feet and and being beine bToad broad in in proportion, proportion.
Next is a mounted specimen of the
mastodon, the fossil elephant neLly which
once was so common in all part,
of our country.
By the aide of this is a strange res
toration, ths jaws of a fossil shark
from the phosphate beds in the neigh
borhood of Charleston, S. C. The
largest man-eater shark of our present
oceans has a gape of scarcely a foot,
through which it might take a man or
a dog with effort; while this restora
tion, carefully constructed with the
actual teeth in place to show its cor
redness, is more than six feet across
from side to side of the jaws, so that
its old-time and no doubt ravenous
possessor might easily have swallowed
a full grown horse.
Another specimen is a skull of the
elephasganesa, or mammoth from the
tertiary formations of the Sewalik
Hills of India. The tusks of this ex
traordinary fossil are similar to those
of an elephant and over twelve feet in
length. On the adjacent wall is the
Flesiosauras from the Lias beds of
Whitby, England. This is a great
marine lizard belonging to a genus
which filled the seas of the Jurassic
period and preyed upon the fish. They
seem to have been the lord* of creation
in that part of geological time. This
*pvcimen u ova twnty thres feet
long. Distributed over the walls ara
other smaller specimens of this genus
and its cousin the icthvosaurus, while
on pedestals are restorations of both
of these classes of animals.
Towering higher than all is the
Hadriosaurug from the green sand
beds of New Jersey. This was a great
land lizard, standing over twenty feet
when raised upon its hind legs, the
position it usually assumed both in
resting and progression. It is the
great past representative of the present
dav iguana. The number of these
pieces preclude further individual
description, but they are very
numerous, very interesting, and are
supplemented by colored maps and
pictures showing in a realistic way the
appearance of things in the various
geological periods.—New York Post.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Many small animals eat their owe
w ®*ght foo< * a day.
By means of the electrical current it
is now possible to produce a higher
temperature than ever before.
a thousand millions of the animal
culae found in stagnant water do not
collectively equal the size of a grain
Q f B and.
In severe paroxysms of coughing
from whatever cause, a tablespoonful will
0 f glycerine in hot milk or cream
give speedy relief,
Wool warehouses in Bradford, Eng
j an( j ’ ara being fitted with electric
crftn e8i supplied with current from the
eity mains. Hydraulic cranes were
f ormer lv used,
p ‘ G. Plummer, civil engineer, says
that Mount Tacoma is fifteen thousand
feet hi h ; ust one hundred and two
f^t higher than Mount Whitney, United sup
lJO scd to be the highest in the
grates
An electrical engineer has suggested
to a British Parliamentary Committee
tb a mar king of imported meat
should be done bv the electric current,
atl(1 submitted a simple apparatus for
the work.
T j i() bifusorin one of the lowest
|, )rm8 0 f animal life, can propagate
their species in three distinct wav*,
^ budding somewhat after the
man n er of plantssecond, liy the span
taQaoua Givision of the animal into two
third from pin™
The English town of \V nines i pro
p08 * ;s to depose °f its refuso by luciu
eratlon » aml to u *“ ize the heat t “ us
generated in operating an engine for
* unnlI }g an electric lighting plant and
furmshing light to Tarioua public m
»«tntions and some of the streets,
An automatic switch has been ap
plied to the electric lamps of guests’
room* at hotels, by which tho locking
of the room door from the outside,
but not from the inside, turns of^ the
lights. Many travelers leave the
tlia lights turned on when they go
away from the rooms, and this, in the
aggravate, c-^a‘vUp-taA.coi tt iJ e
«*P«nse to the hotel management,
It is a familiar fact that persons born
deaf are usually defect mute in ths not from any ol
congenital organs
speech, but from the fact that, nevei
having heard others speak, they cannot
imitate articulate utterance. It i«
probably true, too, that the source ol
some current errors of speech among
those who are not esteemed deaf lies in
a defect of hearing. Many persons
who habitually tack on the “r” sound
to words ending in “w” say that they
are unable to distinguish, for example,
between “law” and “lor.”
Btatistics presented at the recent
Congress of German Surgeons show
that in a total of 157,815 persons who
took soma form of anaesthetics while
undergoing surgical operations, fifty
three persons died, a ratio of one iu
itoaai Not one of these deaths oc¬
curred with persons who took simple,
unmixod ether, and hitherto none
have happened with a mixture of chlo¬
roform, ether aud alcohol recommend¬
ed by the great Viennese surgeon, Bil
roth. The congress strongly indorsed
ether as the beat and safest anseathetio.
Shapes ot Eggs.
Various attempts have been made to
account for the diversity in shape seen
in eggs. A recent study convinces
niay'be Doctor Nicolsky alftraced that gravitv” the differences
to all’the and he
fin j s hu idea coatirm ed bv eggs
in the zoo i ogic al collection of the St.
j Petersburg University. He He supposes l
that pressure by the sides of the ovary
tends _____________ has”hardened! to elongate the egg before the
.------------ j -- - _ In . birds . which
keep keep a a vertical vertical position posii while at rest,
M j 0 t jj e falcon and the owl the soft
eg weight; _ is ma j,. short bv the act iou ovarian 0 f the
of tho body against ’__*i______•__ the
prossure ; while in birds that, like the
£e enTleZStenJd npftr i v SJSSS
weight acts with ths compression by
the ovary. The egg is made more
pointed at one end than at the other
m birds that, like the guillemot, are
f ro q Uen tly changing their position—
sometimes swimming on°the and rocksFetc diving, some
times perching —
Scientific American.
lOO.tBHtJBW Pounds a Tear.
The number of pieces of metal, tech*
nieally known as brake-shoes, which*
are used in the coarse of a year in stop
ping railway trains, is really aston
ishing. The Master Car Builders’ As
sociation discussed the matter and it
was found that on the roads repre
sented in the association probably 32,
000,000 pounds of metal were used for
thi, purpose on ear, and tender*,
while it was estimated that over 100,
000,000 pounds were used on all the
ears, locomotives and tenders belong
ing to the roads represented. Approx
imately two-thirds of this metal wm
worn out in service and the other third
wa* returned a* scrap. Fire-sixths of
these shoes were east iron and ths
others were of composite character,
partly hard ani partly soft.—Detroit
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