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GEM SCULPTURE. /_ •Somethin* About ths Makin* ot Cam sue and Intaglios. Gem sculpture, or' lithoglyptics, is an art of great antiquity, having been practiced by the Babylonians, the Egyp tians, the Hebrews and the Greeks. Afterward it sank into decadence, but in the fifteenth century was revived in Italy. It is an art that calls for great elegance of taste and much skill, for on a small stone, generally precious, de signs are represented either in raised work, as cameos, or by being cut below the surface, as intaglios To cameos the term “minute sculp ture” is indeed applicable, for since the days of Greek art celebrated statues have been copied in this way. The first intaglios were the scarabs, or beetle shaped signets, worn in rings by the Egyptians from a very remote period. One side of the stone was shaped like a beetle, the other side was flat, and the name of the king or wearer was cut in to it A hole was then drilled in the stone from end to end, and through it a strong wire was passed to hold it in position in a ring. The flat or seal side was always worn next to the finger, but when used as a seal it was turned. In the art of gem sculpture the Greeks excelled all predecessors. The Etruscans, contemporary with the Greeks, also attained excellence in gem cutting, and it is said that “on these early gems of Etruscan or Greek origin may be read as in a book the forms of their religion and the subjects ot popu lar interest in politics, song and fable tor centuries " s Under Augustus gem sculpture flour ished among the Romans, many of them possessing oameos and intaglios ot great value, end cabinets ot costly gems be came numerous It Is said that Caesar tent aix cabinet* ot rare gems to the temple ot Venue There are many sns oameos and in taglios In the British museum Among the finest ot them accessible to the pub lie are the "Cupid and Goose" intaglio, the "Dying Amazon," the "Laughing Fawn," "Bacchus” on red jasper, and the "Julius Cresar" of Dioscurides. In modern times gem sculpture has reached a high state of perfection and beauty. —Philadelphia Times. THE FUNCTION OF ETHER. Without It There Would Be No Light, Radiant Heat or Magnetism. “Whatever difficulties we may have in forming a consistent idea of the con stitution of the ether, there can be no doubt that the interplanetary and inter stellar spaces are not empty, but are oc cupied by a material substance or body which is certainly the largest and prob ably the most uniform body of which we have any knowledge. ” Such was the verdict pronounced some 20 years ago by James Clerk Maxwell, one of the very greatest of nineteenth century physicists, regard ing the existence of an all pervading plenum in the universe in which every particle of tangible matter is immersed And this verdict may be said to express the attitude of the entire philosophical world of our day. Without exception the authoritative physicists of our time accept this plenum as a verity and rea son about it with something of the same confidence they manifest in speaking of “ponderable” matter or of energy. It is true there are those among them who are disposed to deny that this all per vading plenum merits the name of mat ter, but that it is a something, and a vastly important something at that, all are agreed. Without it, they allege, we should know nothing of light, of radiant heat, of electricity or magnetism. With out it there would probably be no such thing as gravitation—nay, they even hint that without this strange some thing, ether, there would be no such thing as matter in the universe. If these contentions of the modern physicist are justified, then this intangible ether is incomparably the most important as well as the “largest and most uniform substance or body” in the universe. Its discovery may well be looked upon as the most important feat of our century. —Henry Smith Williams, M. D., in Harper’s Magazine. A Good Story of Sheridan. Sheridan once had occasion to call at a hairdresser’s to order a wig. On be ing measured, the barber, who was a liberal soul, invited the orator to take some refreshment in an inner room. Here he regaled him with a bottle of port and showed so much hospitality that Sheridan’s heart was touched. When they rose from the table and were about separating, the latter, look ing the barber full in the face, said, “On reflecting, I don’t intend that you shall make my wig.” Astonished and with a blank visage, the other exclaimed: “Good heavens, Mr. Sheridan! How can I have dis pleased you?” “Whir, look you,” said Sheridan, "you are an honest fellow, and, I re peat it, you shan’t make my wig, for I never intended to pay for it I’ll go to another less worthy son of the craft. ” —Liverpool Mercury. Spoiled Pleasure. Mrs. Meyer—What’s the trouble, Mrs. Schulz? You are in bad humor this morning. Mrs. Schulz—You see, my husband staid at the club every night last week until after midnight Last night I sat up, determined to give him a curtain lecture, when he got in late. And what do you think? The fool came home at 9 o’clock.—Fliegende Blatter. Apoplexy has increased in England in a very remarkable degree since 1860. In the 16 years ending with 1866 there were 457 deaths from apoplexy per 1,000,000 inhabitanta Last year the ratio was 577 per 1,000,000. The eruption of Etna has entirely de stroyed the chestnut woods on the mountain slopes, the trees being devas tated by the lava LIGHTHOUSE IMPROVEMENT Change* That Have Been Made In Lights and Lenses. Ah article about lighthouses, entitled “The Lights That Guide In the Night,” is contributed by Lieutenant John M. Ellicott to St. N icbolas. After telling of the growth in the number of light houses Lieutenant, Ellicott sayft: Meantime the means of lighting were being steadily improved. The open fire gave place to the oil lamp, then a curved mirror, called a parabolic mir ror, was placed behind the lamp to bring the rays together; next, many lamps with mirrors were grouped about a central spindle, and seme such lights are still in operation. The greatest stride came when an arrangement of lenses, known as the Fresnel lens, in front of a lamp replaced the mirror be hind if. This lens was rapidly improved for lighthouse purposes, until now a cylindrical glass house surrounds the lamp flame. This house has lens shaped walls, which bend all the rays to form a horizontal zone of strong light which pierces the darkness to a great distance. The rapid increase in the number of lighthouses has made it necessary to have some means of telling one from another, or, as it is termed, of giving to each light its “characteristic.” Col oring the glass made the light dimmer, but as red comes most nearly to white light in brightness some lights have red lenses. The latest and best plan, how ever, is to set upright prisms at inter vals in a circular framework around the lens and to revolve this frame by clockwork. Thus the light is made to flash every time a prism passes between it and an observer. By changing the number and places of the prisms or the speed of the clockwork the flashes for any one light can bo made to occur at intervals of so many seconds for that light Putting in red prisms gives still other changes. Thus each light has its “characteristic,” and this is written down in signs on the charts and fully stated in the light lists carried by ves sels. Thus, on a chart you may note that the light you want to sight is marked “F. W., v. W. Fl., 10 sec.,” Which means that it is “fixed white varied by white flashes every ten sec onds. ” When a light is sighted, you see if those are its characteristics, and if so you have found the right one. MOTHER GOOSE. The Iconoclast Throw* a Big Stone at Boston’s Famous Personage. Iconoclastic Boston has decided that if there ever was a Mother Goose with poetical talents—which isn’t likely— she was not the Mother Goose buried in that city and whose grave has for years been haunted by sentimental, patriotic and more or less literary visitors from all parts of the country. It seems that the respectable Mrs. Elizabeth Goose, whom legend credits with the composi tion of all those sprightly lyrics in which, for no very good reason, ’chil dren are supposed to take such delight, had no more right to a place among America’s eminent women than Jack the Giant Killer has to be included among our famous generals. She lived and she died, and that, except the names of her parents and the fact that she had some children, is absolutely all which is known about her. The story that she wrote, or at least collected, the famous'poems is a myth invented by one of the presumably good lady’s descendants. “Mere I’Oye” was from time out of mind a character in French fairy tales. The name first ap peared in English in 1729, when the prose “Contes de ma mere I’oye” were translated as “Tales of Passed Times by Mother Goose. ” This book became the property of John Newbery of Lon don, the famous publisher of little books for children, and about 1765 he utilized the trade name by printing as a companion book “Mother Goose’s Melodies.” Tho latter was merely a collection of old English nursery rhymes. From England it came to America and was reprinted by Isaiah Thomas of Worcester, Mass., about 1787, then by Munroe & Francis of Boston about 1825, and now by every one. The fiction about Mrs. Elizabeth Goose of Boston was started by John Flint Eliot about 1860, utterly without proof or probabil ity, and has since been repeated, gain ing imaginary details at every stage.— New York Times. The Queen of Greece. It is said by a lady who recently vis ited Greece and had the honor of meet ing the royal family that perfect har mony exists between them, and the king and queen are devoted to their children. The queen is still a very beautiful wom an and the only lady admiral in the world. She holds this rank in the Rus sian army, an honorary appointment conferred on her by the late czar because her father held the rank of high ad miral and for the reason that she is a very capable yachtswoman. The king has a very remarkable memory, an in teresting personality, and is a brilliant conversationalist. He goes about the streets of Athens without any attend ants and talks with any friend he chances to meet. Prince George is very attractive, and his feats of strength, shown often in the cause of chivalry, are a continuous subject of conversation among the people. A Telling Look. “lean tell a man I like the first time I look at him. ” “Yes, ” rejoined the other girl, “your eyes are certainly very expressive.” Os course, the poet was on the right track, but it is woman’s inhumanity to woman that really stimulates the crape market.—Detroit Journal The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor and the fourth wit. —Sir William Temple. There are V'veral “giant bells” in Moscow, the'largest, “the King of Bells,” weighing 432,000 pounds. SCHOOLS AND POLITICS. A Scheme With Beal Estate Trimmings That Won In Oregon. “Speaking of schools in relation to politics,” said the ex-boomer from Ore gon, “always reminds me of a campaign in which I was interested some years ago. The Douglas county representative in the Oregon state legislature, realiz ing that his popularity was not exceed ingly great, had been talking of build ing a new state normal school, presum ably at Roseburg, the county seat and his own home. This caused great con sternation among the 850 inhabitants of tho little city of Drain, who had been profiting by the courtesy title of ‘Drain Academy and Oregon State Normal school, ’ under which the school there had been run since 1885. The postmas ter, who kept a drug store and sold school supplies, took counsel with his sister-in-law, who dealt in millinery and ran a boarding house for students, and she sought the mayor, at whose general merchandise emporium she was the principal customer. “The mayor was a man who thought slowly, but to a purpose, and, having set himself the task of devising some way of circumventing the member from Roseburg, he passed the next three days in profound cogitation. He con ceived a scheme whose various elabora tions and ramifications were too diver sified for him to handle alone, and he came to me for help. I had just gained considerable influence in the county through backing a projected railroad to the coast, and also as a real estate deal er and sawmill owner. With my busi ness methods and the mayor's knowl edge of the conditions confronting us our plans were soon put into operation. First, we suggested the candidacy of an ambitious young Drainite, a dealer in leather goods and hardware, for mem ber of the legislature, taking all the Wind out of his opponent’s sails by heartily indorsing the talk in favor of a new normal school. Meantime we had a large grain field of the mayor’s, which had begun to lose its fertility on ac count of overcultivation, surveyed into city lots, and as soon as our candidate had received the regular party nomina tion we put the town site of East Drain, with its streets named after conspicuous men of the state, on tho market and gave one of its centrally located blocks for the new normal school “ Well, everything came to pass ex actly as we had planned. Our candidate was elected, and the building of the new normal school on the site we gave was authorized. We sold a sufficient num ber of East Drain lots to more than pay for the land and all expenses. The con tractors on the new school were men who had aided the legislation authoriz ing it, and they got their supplies from the mayor, their hardware from the member and their lumber from me. My mill also supplied lumber for other buildings in East Drain, including a new boarding house for the milliner, who has prospered ever since. The post master’s increased business soon war ranted his moving into one of the two brick buildings in the city of Drain, and the former dealer in leather goods and hardware is still member of the Oregon legislature.”—New York Sun. Duration of Human Life. That the human being was intended for greater length of life than is usually attained in our artificial existence is probable from the fact that he does not reach his full and complete development until his twenty-fifth year. The life of most of the low animals is reckoned to be about five times their maturity in a natural condition, and, although dis turbing causes interfere with human life in the present day, yet within cer tain limits man is subject to the same laws as every other type of existence in either the animal or the vegetable king dom. Nature has assigned to him a certain period during which he should attain to a sound physical and mental maturity, and any attempt to curtail that period by early forcing is and must be neces sarily productive of lamentable results. The boy or girl may be developed under a system of steady “cramming” into a highly accomplished man or woman, long before full age has been reached, but it may be accepted as an axiom in almost all instances that the earlier the development the earlier the decay. The lesson to be learned from the records of those who have lived to advanced years is that moderation in all things, whether physical or intellectual, is the secret of long life, and that it is easy by system atically violating this rule to produce an artificial old age.—Nineteenth Century A Friendly Bar Examination. A Georgia correspondent sends us this account of a young man’s oral examina tion for the bar by a local committee before an old judge, who was also an old acquaintance of the candidate. Be ing asked, “Whatis arson?” he scratch ed his head and finally said, “I believe that’s p’jzon, ain’t it?” On this the old judge, to help him out, says: “Tnt, tut, Jim. Suppose I were to set fire to your house and burn it down, what would that be?" With quick and emphatic reply Jim says, “I think it would be a dad dratted mean trick. ” But although this answer was not technically accurate Jim was in the hands of his friends and was honorably admitted. —Case and Comment Walked Right Over Them. “So your wife won that suit about ; her real estate?” “Os course. Yon didn’t suppose that i such little obstacles as a judge, 8 law yers and 12 jurymen could throw her off the track, did you?”—Detroit Free ! Press. * Physiological. Instructor—What is It that gives to the blood its bright red color? Little Miss Thavuoo —I know. It’s ‘ the corpuscles. But ours ain’t red. They’re blue. Mamma says sex—Chi cago Tribune. A PRIVATE AMBULANCE. BsenlnUoencee ot the Civil War Related by an Old Soldier. “Among tho men wounded in my regiment at a battle in Virginia," said the old soldier, “was a man in my com pany who was shot through tho body and taken to the rear. Our troops fell back after the fight, and wo had more wounded than we had transportation for, but two men out of his own tent so; out to carry this man wherever wt were going, which was presumably the camp behind intrenchments thal we’d left in the morning. “They took turns at backing him foi half a mile or so until they camo to s farmhouse that had a grassy yard it front. They laid him down on the grasi and took a little look around the hotftt to see what they could see. In a build ing at the rear they camo across some thing that made ’em stand still and look at each other and laugh. It was a hand cart. What use the folks here had made of it they couldn’t guess, but they knew what use they were going to make of it They got it out of the building and rolled it around tho side of the house alongside the wounded man and dropped the handle on the grass. He laughed, too, when he saw it. He was going the rest of the way in a private 'ambulance. “The two men took their blankets of! their shoulders and untied them and spread their rubbers down on the bot tom of the hand cart and spread theii woolen blankets down on them, and then they ran the hand cart up and rest ed the handle on the front steps of the house and lifted in the wounded man and laid their guns in beside him. Then they turned the cart around again, and one man got inside the shafts, with the crosspiece aganst his waist belt, and the other man got behind to push. They all smiled again when they started, wounded man and all. , “It beat backing him out of sight. It was dry weather, and the roads were sandy, and up hill and on the level the wheeling was hard. But there was more down hill than there was up, places where they had to hold back, and it was all immensely more com fortable for the wounded man, and so they got him back to camp and to the surgeon again. But he died after all. ” —New York Sun. FORTUNES FROM GARBAGE. Science Converts the Refuse of Cities Into Steam, Fertilisers, Soap, Etc. William George Jordan, writing on “Wonders of the World’s Waste,” in The Ladies Home Journal, says: “The garbage of a great city is worth a for tune every year if properly utilized. In St Louis the refuse is placed in enor mous vertical cylinders, surrounded by steam jackets, which evaporate the 75 to 80 per cent of water in the garbage. The fatty substances are dissolved, and as the result of a number of processes a fertilizer is produced which is worth from $9 to sl2 per ton, the demand ex ceeding the supply. One of the purest and best soaps of the country was made of garbage grease before cottonseed oil entered the field. It is now proposed to light London by electricity for nothing. It now costs that city fl.oß (4s. Bd.) to get rid of a ton of garbage. A combina tion of rollers and other apparatus has l been devised that can burn the garbage at 24 cents (1 shilling) per ton and gen erate steam sufficient to run enough dy namos to light the entire city. London , can thus save Bs. Bd. on each ton and in addition illuminate its city without cost Garbage, by a machine called the dust destructor, is converted into clink ers, which can be used for roadways, as artificial stone for sidewalks and as sanflor mortar and cement. In Parii the invisible particles of iron, worn from wheels and from the shoes of horses, are rescued by passing powerful magnets through the sweepings. ” A Vision of the Future. Clarence King, formerly chief of the United States geological survey, says: “The time is not far distant when a man can start out of Denver and travel to Klondike, stopping every night at a mining camp. Already two Ameri i can stamp mills are pounding away on i the borders of the strait of Magellan, i and the day is approaching when a ’ chain of mining camps will extend from i Cape Horn to St Michael’s. I believe r we are about to enter upon a century ’ which will open up vast resources and will be the grandest the earth has ever i known. Before the end of the twentieth century the traveler will eniefa sleep ing car at Chicago bound via Bering strait for St Petersburg, and the , dream of Governor Gilpin will be real . ized. ’ ’ * Slang. * The difference between ancient and modern slang was amusingly illustrated in a recent incident at the Chautauqua assembly, when the teacher of English j literature asked, “ What is the mean- I ing of the Shakespearian phrase ‘Go to?’ ” and a member of the class replied, 1 “Oh, that is only the sixteenth century expression of the modern term ‘Come J off. ’ ” The two phrases, while appar ently opposite, do, in fact, substantially mean the same thing.—Chicago Chron ; : r A Natural Inference. “Did you hear what Whimpton’s lit tle boy said when they showed him the twins?” I “No; what was it?” “He said, ‘There, mamma’s been get- * ting bargains again.’” Collier’s ' Weekly. r 0 It is an extraordinary fact that only two presidents were born between April and October. The record by months is as follows: January, 2; February, 8; March, 4; April, 1; July, 1; August, 1; October, 8; November, 4; December, 2. In Russia women householders vote for all elective officers and ou all local matters. ANOPEN LETTER To MOTHERS. WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD ‘*CABTORIA,”AND -j “ PITCHER’S CASTORIA, 1 ’ as our trade I, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, qf Hyannis, Massachusetts, was the originator of “PITCHER'S CASTORIA,” the same that has borne and does now m eoery bear the facsimile signature of wrapper. This is the original “ PITCHER’S CASTORIA, ’ which has been used in the homes of the Mothers of America for over thirty * years. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is the kind you have always bought //tt — on and has the signature of wrap- per. No one has authority from me to use my name ex cept The Centaur Company of which Chas. H. Fletcher is President. n/, ,ay J - B March 8. 1897. 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