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The rate of increase of population in the United States is a little more than three per cent. South America took 50 per cent, more Bibles last year than she has taken anv previous year. In eighteen of the great agiieultural, sheep-raising States and Territories there is no <1 <>o- »a\- at all. A Boston doctor has compiled fig¬ ures showing that out of 19,838 males examined 806 were color blind, while out of 14,971 females only 12 suf¬ fered from that affliction In consequence of the prevalence of suicide among the scholars of the high schools in Germany, the Government has addressed a circular to directors urging greater leniency with backward scholar* - A new danger has been discovered In the tornado. The experience of a family living near La Grange, Ky., forty miles from Louisville, indicates that the tornado can take up the germs of a contagious disease and scatter them broadcast with their virulence undiminished. The English speaking people of the world are now said to number dose to 125,000,000, audit is claimed further¬ more that our mother tongue is ern- ployed by nearly twice as many peo¬ ple as any other civilized language, while the use of it is constantly spread¬ ing. Emin Pasha apparently feels no more grateful to Stanley for rescuing him against his will, remarks West Shore, than docs the heroine ox a plav when some excited member of the audience jumps upon the stage to save her from certain death at the hands of the vil¬ lain. Alabama papers are calling atten¬ tion to the wanton distruction of mocking birds in that state. Large numbers are shot every spring and summer. “By the way,” asks the St. Louis Star, “did anybody ever hear of the Engiish sparrow being made an article of female adornment?”—[Say¬ ings- ___ A correspondent says that the gal¬ leries at the nation’s capitol “have been the scene of many a romance and not infrequently yon will see some Senator chatting earnestly with some fair young constituent in them. Love matches are frequently made in the Capitol, and Henry A. Wise’s noted father proposed to his second wife on the Capitol dome.” The supreme court of Indiana has decided that when a life insurance pol¬ icy provides a forfeiture in case the assured “should become so far intem¬ perate as to impair his health seriously and permanently, or induce delirium tremens,” it was not enough to make a forfeiture that the assured was a per- son who indulged in the use of iutox- Hquor, „,,les S such use im- paired Ms health seriously or perina- nentlv. It is said that the Pennsylvania sys¬ tem of railway lines will erect a great ice-making plant to supply ice for its own consumption, The whole will cost about $1,000,000, and be located at Jersey City. The New York Central may follow suit with an equally costly plant at Albany, This leads to the hope and belief, remarks the Picayune, that when the world is older and bet¬ ter all railroads will have ice of then- own to put in passenger car water coolers when thej run long and crowd¬ ed excursion trains on hot summer days. A “banana train” is a new thing in railroad nomenclature,which illustrates the steady development of transporta¬ tion facilities. It has been found that bananas cannot be carried from the Gulf of Mexico to tlie Northwest by ordinary freight train without serious damage, and a special fast train has therefore been put on one of the routes to Chicago, which takes the fruit from Port Tatnpa, Fla., in about 90 hours, ventilated ears being used, in which the temperature is as perfectly under control as in a stove. The train runs from Atlanta to Chicago in about 48 hours, and Georgia fruits and vege¬ tables can thus be put on sale in the Northwestern markets on the third dav after they leave the field, to the great advantage of both producer and con- sumer. It is quite true, asserts the New York Commercial Advertiser, that the aver* age income of the Wall street broker is less now than it has been in years. Perhaps the small speculative commis¬ sion broker never before averaged in.igniilcant annual receipts. Everything is being reformed or re¬ measured or remade now, laments tin- New York Telegram. It is sad to learn, for instance, that Alt. Popocate¬ petl, that darling of every child Jeariv- ing geography, is not so high by half a mile as it was thought to be. One by one cur childish faiths depart. Says the San Francisco Chronicle: Europe is unquestionably in a critical condition. That may be affirmed with certainty, even though most of the real facts are studiously concealer from the outside world. The conti¬ nent is in danger not only of the gen¬ eral war, but of a widespread revolu¬ tion, the only question being which is likely to occur first. A phonograph is to be placed in each principal postoffice in Mexico. This will be for the accommodation of the numerous citizens who cannot read or write. The illiterate Mexican will go to the postoffice, talk bis mes-age in¬ to the receiver of the phonograph, and when the cylinder reaches its destina¬ tion the person addressed will be sent for, and the message will be repeated to him by another machine. The latest invention in connection with electricity, if we can believe the editor of an electrical journal pub¬ lished in London, is a machine for buttering bread. It is used in connec¬ tion with a great bread-cutter, and is intended for use in prisons, work- houses and other reformatory institu¬ tions—so it is said. There is a cylin¬ drical-shaped brush, which is fed with butter, and which lays a thin layer on the bread as it comes from the cutter. The machine can be worked by hand, steam, or electricity, and has a capaci¬ ty of cutting and buttering 750 loaves of bread an hour. The saving of but¬ ter is said to be as much as 50 per cent., and the machine will be a great boon to Chicago boarding-house keep¬ ers during the World’s Fair. The Electrical Review calls to mind several instances in which miuderers have cheated the hangman’s noose, and suggests that judicial death by elec¬ tricity can be evaded in several ways. A coat of invisible varnish, for in¬ stance, can be applied to the body, which will render the condemned man entirely invulnerable to the deadly fluid. Of course the murderer would have to be a consummate actor, so that he could feign death until he got into the hands of his friends. Other meth¬ ods are suggested by which the body can be made impervious to electricity, but it is not safe for would-be lnur- derers to rely upon any of them. The electrical chair will not be found con- ducive |o life> llm , er the laosl tavorable circumstances, “I am beginning to think,” says the Man About Town of the New York Star, “that Americans, and New Yorkers in particular, are coming more and more to a belief in country life, after the English fashion. Men of wealth and leisure are taking coun¬ try 1 ouses, and living i-i them perma¬ nently, too. AVliat is more, in a great many such instances they are rich bachelors, whom one might suppose would prefer their c!nbs and city amusements to the shooting, riding and driving that constitute the princi¬ pal sport they can obtain in the coun¬ try. The explanation ollered for this by another man about town of my ac¬ quaintance is, that young men who have any supply of brains combined with money, and who yet do not feel like entering into matrimonial slavery, soon tire of the monotony of the ave¬ nue and the club. They have to chose between emigrating and going into the country to live. Female Victims cf Judge Ljccfi. There have been two noted cases of female lynching in the past forty years. The first occurred in 1851 at Danne- ville, a mining district of California, when a Spanish woman, Inez Paria, who had murdered a man in her hus* band's saloon, was summarily dealt with. The last case recorded is that of Mrs. Cuddingham ai Ouray, Col., in February, 1884.—[Detroit Free Press. GRIZZLY TRAPS. PONDEROUS’ IRON CONTRIVANCES USED BY BEAR HUNTERS. A. Grizzly Caught in a Trap is an Ugly Customer. “There is more danger in trapping the grizzly than there is in chasing him with the rifle,” said a Californian to a New York Sun reporter. “The traps are ponderous iron things weigh¬ ing forty or fifty pounds. The jaws are worked with springs so stiff that it lakes two good strong men to set them. To the trap a long chain is firmly secured, which is in turn fas- tened to o.ie end of a heavy piece of timber by driving an iron ring on the wood until it is six inches or so from the end, so it cannot be pulled off. This piece of timber serves as a hin¬ drance to the bear when the trap is sprung on his foot and he retreats to. or tries to retreat to, his tangled haunts. “A great deal of cunning has to be used in setting a trap for a grizzly, for he is as suspicious as a fox, and will frequently pass by a tempting morsel that has been used for bait for a tiap because lie has made up his mind that danger is lurking beneath it. The grizzly never hesitates to risk danger that confronts him openly, ike a hunter, dog or other enemy, but a suspicious-looking object, the nature of which be does not understand, will quickly start him off about some other business. “It seems strange to see a great xloodthirsty beast, weighing 1200 or 150<) pounds, hunting and devouring such insignificant things as ground or field mice and moles, and even grubs rnd crickets, but a grizzly will do that all day long. It was his love for field mice that led Old Clubfoot to his end at last, and many a fierce grizzly be¬ fore him has been lured to ruin by the same means, after defying for years th^ efforts them down. of hunters Not and long trappers I to run ago was in a mining camp in Montana, and a big grizzly bad been prowling around for some days, and was too smart for us to capture. One day 1 thought I would try baiting him with ground mice. After a long search I secured a dozen of the little squeakers. Cover¬ ing my trap with dead branches, I tied half a dozen of the mice to pegs driven in the ground, just behind the trap. In less than an hour that smart grizzly had succumbed to his passion for field mice, and had ono of his great paws i;i my trap. He gave me a chase of half a mile, with the heavy trap fast to him, but I got lead enough into him at last to end the race. “ I he men who make a business of trapping grizzlies set th dr traps miles back in the great gloomy forests, where the animals like to have their lairs among the tangled fallen timbers, over which no one can pass except on loot, and then only with great diffi¬ culty. To come upon an uglv grizzly in such a region, an animal weighing as much as an ox and not only ready but anxious for a tight, is something that means business to the hunter. A grizzly bear will get out of a trap nine times out of ten if he is not over- taken within three hours after he is caught. It is to lessen the danger of this that the wooden clog is fastened to the trap, and always with the chain at one end of the stick. Thus it fol¬ lows the bear endwise as he makes his way, and clears obstructions that wouid catch and hold it if it w r ere pulled along with the chain fastened at the middle. A grizzly is nearly always caught in the trap not far from the tip end of one of his forepaws. On being caught he rushes wi^ii all the speed he can summon, and in a tremendous rage, for the nearest swamp, which is never far away in a region where successful grizzly trap¬ ping is to be expected. The hold the trap has on him is not one that will withstand every resistance, and the bear's exertions to get away are great and persistent. He seems to know that his life depends on ridding him¬ self of his incumbrance. As he tears onward through the forest he mows great swaths is the underbrush. He drags the trap against trees, logs and rocks, and whenever it holds fast them for a few seconds he jerks ^ tugs his imprisoned foot, trying fo tear it loose. If the clog were tied in the middle it would soon catch cross- wise between two trees, and then the bear would tear loose with one or two lunges forward of his great body, and escape .to the swamp. I have more than once come up to my trap with nothing in it but the ragged and bleed¬ ing half of some monster grizzly’s foot, and such has been the experience of all trappers. It was an incident of that kind, no doubt, that made the old scourge of Battle Creek a clubfooted bear. “The further a grizzly bear goes on his furious march without ridding himself of the trap, the greater his rage becomes. lie wrill rush against obstructing trees and tear them with his teet, G some irnes biting the trunk half away. I have followed the trails of grizzlies through the thick timber while the bears were endeavoring to free themselves from their traps, and have counted suppling after suppling chewed to the ground as completely as a chopper could have felled it,by these infurialed monsters, and the trees w r ere covered with blood from the wounds made on the mouths of the bears in their blind rage. To come up with a half-ton grizzly bear while he is in such a temper is like standing on the edge of a cyclone. The trail of a trapped grizzly generally leads the trapper a leng way through the for¬ est, and more than likely a mile or so into a swamp where he can see but a few feet in any direction. He is con¬ stantly expecting the bear to rise up somewhere about him and charge upon him like an avalanche. There have been times when trappers have come up with the bear at the very mo¬ ment when it Lad succeeded in tearing loose from the trap. I knew one man —dim Carter by name—who happened to reach his grizzly at such a time. The bear made one rush, and before the companion who was with Carter could realize the situation the bear had torn Carter to pieces. The companion shot and killed the bear, and carried the dead trapper’s body back to camp. I have heard of several similar in- stances, but this one I had personal knowledge of, for Carter and 1 were in the same camp. When you have trapped a 1000-pound grizzly you haven’t caught a bear at all, but simply the devil incarnate. 1 have trapped and killed twenty-four of these mon¬ sters in my time, but as I have some¬ thing of a wish to die in bed, I think I will rest on that, and let some one else have it out with the grizzlies that are left.” A Conscience-Stricken Bog. There was a sad case of breach of trust in Atlanta the other day. An ol 1 blind man was being led down Marietta street by a dog just at the time when the sidewalks were most crowded and the roadway was full of vehicles. Long experience had taught the blind man to trust his four- footed guide, and he went along feeling certain that he would be led into no danger. Suddenly a tempting bone a few feet from the sidewalk attracted the dog’s attention. He ooked at it wistfully for a moment, and then, unable to withstand the temptation, he went after it. Uncon- scious of danger, the blind man fol¬ lowed the dog, and before any ono could put out a hand to save him he was under the feet of a passing horse. The driver pulled up his team just in time, and the blind man escaped with his hat knocked off. Remorse must have immediately seized the dog, for he led the blind man back to the side- wa '^ auk re f US(1 d to look at the bone again.—[Atlanta Constitution. Death and Burial ol a Bank Note. There is a certain ceremony which attends the death and burial of a Bank of England note. It is only three days after its cancelling that it is car- lied to its last home in the Banknote Library. Its first dark day of noth¬ ingness is spent in the inspector's office ’ where f evere j llf1 ?*; 3 sk ifl j«dg- ment on ks virtue. During its second day. it and its thirty or forty thousand fellows, done up into parcels, arc counted and sorted; that is to say, each parcel is deait out like a pack of cards, according to dates and denotni. nations of value., The third day, they are pos ed in ledgers, which are kept as indexes to the paid notes; and then, on the evening of their last day in the "PP** regions of light and air, they «« carried down with scant ceremony, kl huge bags, to the Banknote Library, —[Yankee Blade. No Show. Joe Beal ’ud set upon a keg, Down to the groc’ry store, an’ throw One leg right over ’tother leg, An’ swear he’d never had no show ■ “Oh, no,” said Joe, “Hain’t had no show”_ Then shift his quid to ’tother jaw, An’ chaw, an’ chaw, an' chaw, an’ chaw He said he got no start in life. Didn't git no money from his dad, The washin’ took in by his wife Earned all the funds he ever had ■ “Ob, no,” said Joe, “Hain’t hed no show”— An’ then he’d look up at the clock. An’ talk, an’ talk, an’ talk, an’ talk. “I’ve waited twenty year—le's see— Yes, twentj-four, an’ never struck, Altho’ I’ve sot roun' patiently, The fust tarnashion streak er luck. I Oh, no,” said Joe, . “Hain’t bed no show”— j Then stuck like mucilage to the spot, | An’ sot, an’ sot, an’ eot, an’ sot. “I've come down regerler ever’ day For twenty years to Piper's store; I’ve sot here in a patient way, Say, hain’t I, Piper ?” Piper swore, “I tell ye, Joe, Yerhain’t no show; Yer too blame patient,”—ther hull raft j Jest laded, an’ Jaded, an’ Jaded, an’ Blade.! laifei —S. W. Foss, in Yankee HUMOROUS. Too fly—The young bird. Fatal fall—unhealthy autumn. I Extraordinary phenomenon in nJ ture—a feat of arms. “Gas is going up,” as the aeronaa said when he cut the balloon rope, j There are some men to whom a iJ of their reputation means mighty good luck. | The man who is going down hil meets lots of people with their nod turned up. “Has your chum any vicesT ■ only know of one.” “What is thatH “Talking of his own virtues.” Squimps—How’s the new babfl Jenkins—How is he?—He’s a howlini success, and don’t you forget it! j The reason that a great many neopl fall into the blues is that they dm look at things in the right light. I Evangeline—How pale the moon iJ Louis. “Yes, love; it has been nl until quite late for several nights. I Boatman—Were you ever in I squall? Landlubber—I should say sol 1 tried for an hour last night to the baby’s crying. There is something annoying a glass eye. The man wearing it know it’s a fraud a..d still he through the fraud. Customer (in cheap hope you don’t call this a square Waiter—Well, we’ll call it When you settle for it. Squiggs: “I never see von Miss Mary Aim out together Have you quarreled?” Biggs:“No, not exactly. We’re married.” A rather indolent young lady of the storm in Kentucky, and s&it she would like to live there becaus the cyclones do all the sweeping. Hardware—No. The Egyptian doffi n Jalis are not employed in cutting trees; they are not that kind of “fefl lers.” You should not axe such qceJ tions. j Dentist—Can I see your mistressl Servant Girl—No, sir; she has tbai tlij toothache. Dentist—IIow is possible? Why, I have her teeth niv pocket. “It is said to be fashionable now move at night.” The fashion is new. It was introduced years ago the young man who was a few iu arrears for his board. << Why, Mr. French, you talk to half the time as if 1 were only years old.” “Well, Miss Newail, must remember you never told how old you are, so I hope you'll don me.” Airs. Artless—Good morning, Mfl Palette. I’ve but a moment to spaff can you tell me briefly the secret ol your art? Artist Palette—Certain^ only tN Madam. You have to select right colors and put them on the rigjjj spot. Airs. Artless—Oh, I see. Th*® you very much. Logical Reasoning. Teacher—Who was the richest of ancient times? I reddy Fangle—AIethuselah,Ala What ? Aes; he had more time than anyo 1 ! else, and time is inouey, you knd *-[ Epoch.