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UHEXftlffllUS.PiMlilurs.
WAYCB083, - - - QEOBOIA.
The stockmen of Nends complain of
fhe quantities of jack-rabbits which in
fest the cattle ranges and are rapidly de
nuding the country of all vegetmtiin.
Jferer since the settlement of that section
have thosa animals been so plentiful, and
unless some means of destroying - them
is soon found the experience of extensive
portions of Australia bids fair to be re
peated. In many parts of California
and Oregon, where t!io rabbits have
piultiplie 1 so as to become a pest, they
have been thinned ou: by a combined
move ou the part of the settlers. All the
residents of a given neighborhood by
common consent have turned out for half
* dozen entire days, and, well supplied
with arms and ammunition, have waged
successful warfare against the common
enemy. By this means thousands have
been destroyed in a single day.
The total annual coat to the gover
ment of the 716 men cmplejod in the
United States military bands is $269,724.
In addition they receive from the savings
of the post bakeries and from subscrip
tions and outside earnings enough to
bring their total receipts op to $296,724.
Secretary Endicott says th t the
musicians are trained soldiers, and for
that reason a valuable part of the army.
Apropos of the warlike feeling in
Greece, a prominent Greek who was in
terviewed as to what his countrymen arc
aiming at, saya: “We want Epirus and
Crete, and other smaller territories, be
cause in all respects—historical, geo
graphical, ethnological, linguistics and
ecclesiastical—they arc Hellenic,' inte
gral portions of Greek territory, and by
natural right the inalienable possession
of the Greek race. The vast majority
of the inhabitants of those provinces are
our compatriots, eaten up and preyed
upon by Turkish banditti who have been
encamped there for four hundred and
five hundred years. The Turks have no
more right to the possession of those
provinces than has a band of pirates to
the ship which they have captured by
force or fraud. Epirus, besides, was
ceded to us by the treaty of Berlin.”
At the present time in the United
States there are remaining about 200,-
000,000 acres of public land for the use
of the coming generations of men. The
Chicago Herald says that “at the rate of
disposal of the last year only ten more
years of such reckless and prodigal frit
tering away of the nation's domain will
be necessary in order to reach the end.
During the lait fiscal year 20,113,063
acres were swept off the list of the free
lands.” ~
A great many people ore unaware that
there are eight small reservations in New
York State, located in the extreme south
west portion. The Indians number over
0,000, and consist of Senecas, St.
Regia, Onondagas, Tuscaroras, Oncidas
and Cayugas. The State provides
the reservations. The general Govern
ment makes a school appropria
tion. General Eli Parker, formerly
of Grant’s staff and ex-Indian Commis
sioner, is the hereditary chief of the
Senecas.
The East foreshadows the coming day.
And mist-wreaths mass on the river wide;
While swathed in their robing of clinging
6«y,
A soul drifts in oo the coming tide;
Singeth the river; “Oh Dawn, behold
I bear on my besom a new-born souL”
noon.
Fainting wi® beat in the midday san.
Yet prone to pray that its beams abide
Lest evening findeth its work undone.
Theoool is tox*J on the turning tide.
Sighrth the river; “Tay hoar, oh noon,
Cometh—and goeth too syoa—too sooa.”
NIGIIT.
Orer the world as th; daylight dies.
Twilight has droped its veil to hide
The passing sonl which from mortal eye i
Is drifting out on an ebbing tide.
Whispereth the river, as darkness fell,
“Thy day has ended—oh soul, farewell.”
—Frank H. Converse.
MY IMITATION WIFE.
Then I played euchre with her for a
while, and we managed to have a very
enjoyable evening.
Next morning mother met me at the
table with smiles, and about the best
breakfast I had eaten in a long while.
“You must imagine that your wife saw
to this breakfast,” she whispered.
Going up on the street car that morn
ing, who should get on but Miss Beaufort.
I bowed to her gracefully, deposited her
fare in the nickel box, and was about to
sit down by her when I happened to
think of my imitation wife at horns, and
walked to the rear of the car.
“Married men have no business talking
to the young ladies,” said I to myself.
Miss Beau 'ort looked at me rather
queerly, but arid nothing, and I thought
the car never would get up town.
Thursday was my evening to call on
Vene, and I forgot to send her an oxcuse.
Friday, came a note from her, which
mother took the liberty of opening, as
she thought I would not care, and she
felt like representing my wife in the
desk. It was a tender missive, and some
what surprised me when I saw it. But
what could I do. Married men have no
business getting tender notes from young
ladies. Inasmuch as 1 had contracted to
carry out mother’s plan for two weeks. I
left the note for mother to answer. She
is a very truthful woman, bat in answer
ing the note she prevaricated.
She said that I was very sick, and as a
natural consequence Vene called that
afternoon to see me, but I was up town
and mother had to invent another story.
Then mother had to come all the way up
town so os to keep me from coming down
Aa an evidenco of the growth of thrift
among the colored people of South Caro
lina, the Charleston Newt and Courier
publishes a statement showing that one
thousand and fifty-seven colored people
of that city have deposits in the local
savings banks amounting to $124,936.
The person who has the largest deposit,
$6,747, to his credit, is a pure-blooded
African, but a born financier. He has
recently bought a valuable plantation for
$10,000 and has paid $7,000 of tho pur
chase money. Tho Neict and Courier
odds; “There are thousands of active
and thrifty colored men in the State who
have bought land since the war, and who
ore steadily collecting about them the
comforts and many of the luxuries of
life. Comparatively few of the colored
people entertain decided notions of
An Indiana aeronaut says that a balloon
can be made to carry an elephant as
easily as a mouse, 100 men as easily as
one man. He proposes to construct a
cylinder-shaped balloon 160 or 200 feet
long, with which to make captive and
free ascents. He is a believer in the theory
that the north pole may be reached by a
balloon, and in no other way. His plan
for this project would be to employ a
screw, operated by an engine to be car
ried in tho car. By means of this screw
the balloon's course could be controlled,
as already demonstrated by French ex
periments.
In Vienna the goose is skinned before
it is sent to the market, and the skin
garnished with its down is sold as swan’s
skin or down. It is thus effected: The
skin of the back is slit, and the whole
is drawn over the head like a shirt with
the greatest care, so as not to injure the
breast. Such a skin sella foe two or
three francs, but the value of the bird
is lessened one-fifth The carcasses are
sent to Paris, and are eagerly bought up by
the work-people and •tavern-keepers. At
Poitiers there are two houses which pre
pare annually 40,000 to 50,000 swan
downs, England and America being the
chief markets.
I had just adjusted my tie and was
©sparing to leave, when mother came in.
“Going out, are you, Tom?” said she.
“Yes, ma’am.”
“Where, to another party?”
‘.‘Yea, ma’am.”
“That makes three this week, doesn’t
it, Tom?”
“Yes, ma’am. We’re hurrying to get
through. Goin’ to take Miss Beaufort ( r 0
to night, and then I’m done with the : town my usual way for fear Vene might
Jolly Club’s parties.” ‘catch me.
Mother, somehow or other, did not I laughed a good deal at mother, and
seem to think very much of what I said. 1 Vene did not find us out, but the society
“Tom, I wish you would get married,” ; reporter of the paper met her, she told
she said, with a troubled face. “I be- j him I was sick, and the next day all of
THE GRIZZLY.
The Bear Among the Beehives—How
a Sian Was Thrown Into a
Canon—a Desperate Fight
With a Grizzly.
The use of dynamite for proper pur
poses has grown with great rapidity
economy or have any faith in govern- j within a few years, and men who
ment savings banks, but tho wealth they
have hidden away in old stockings and
tho money they arc investing from year
to year in lands and houses, if it could
xightly be estimated, would prove to be a
pleasing revelation.”
nperaaQH^'-
in Ohio, where 1
The advocates of tern]
a point in the contest in
Legislature has passed what is known as
the Dow Liquor Tax bill, a measure sim
ilar in most particulars to the Scott law,
which was defeated in the Supreme
Coart. The new law provides for yearly
assessments instead of license fees, tho
tax on the sale of Spirituous liquors being
$200, and on malt liquors $100. Where
liquor sellers refuse to furnish to tho
assessors the information required by law,
the assessment is increased to $400.
accustomed to handle the powerful
plosive have learned that only reasonable
caution is needed to remove all danger.
Dynamite cannot be exploded by any or
dinary concussion, because the molecules
of the nitro-glycerine are too firmly held
by the fibrous substance which it sat
urates. Thousands of pounds of it are
made every year at the Du Pont works,
opposite Wilmington, and shipped in
cars to all parts of the country. One
frequent use to which dynamite is put
on the Jersey coast is to blow up sunken
wrecks which are dangerous to naviga
tion.
The vexed problem of whether bees are
injurious to fruit may be regarded at last
as settled, at least so far as the courts of
California arc concerned. A recent suit
Tho penalty for false returns of tho kind for d T“S c * •*!«
. * i nn AtnmuhvR trial thn SiiTW>rir»r
of liquor sold is an increase of the assess
ment to $250. Local option is provided
for in a cause which empowers municipal
corporations to regulate and prohibit ale,
beer and porter houses, and other places
where liquors are sold, aed whoever sells
to a minor, or a person in the habit of get
ting intoxicated, is to be subjected to a
fine of not more than $100 nor less than
$25, and imprisoned not more than thirty
nor less than five days. If one section
of the law is declared unconstitutional, a
provision is injected to hold the others
Intact.
David Van Dvke, of Mason, Ohio,
seventy years old, owns arouse and lot,
and that's all, and owes a large debt con
tacted blgoipg ?6?uritj for $ friend*
**"X* long as "Vlrs. Van Y)yke lived the
bouse and lot could not be attached foi
4be debt, under the homcstcid exemp
tion law. But Mrs. V6ft Dyke died f
abort time ago, and suit was at onc«
brought against the widower and the
Sheriff advertised the property for sale.
Under the law Van Dyke could not now
claim a homestead, as his wife had died,
and he had no minor children or unmar
ried daughter living with him. The
only way to escape was to many again,
he thought, and so*he went to Cincin
nati and called on several women before
be found one to suit him. At last he
hit on Mbs May Jones, who was willing,
and they were married. That was but a
few days before the day fixed for the
-eale, and the proceedings in execution
were stopped at once. The case was
then argued in the Common Pleas Court,
and the judge has decided that it was
net necessary that Van Dyke should
have beer, a married man at the time of
the levy on the property, but that it was
sufficient to entitle him to have the
homestead exemption by becoming the
Here you would stay at home some.'
“Well, lam awful tired, mother, and
completely worn out.”
“Then why don’t you quit it?”
“Best reason in the world, mother. I
am neither engaged nor in love, but I’m
willing to be.”
It was getting late, so I started after
this, but the look on mother's face set me
to thinking.
My mother is the best woman in the
world, even if I do say it myself, and I
felt worried about her.
She was right. I was out nearly every
evening. This evening at a reception,
next time a ball, then a theatre party and
so on. Of course I could afford it, for
my salary v bier at Hart's was a lib
eral one.
But
I wasn't saving a cent, and my own
home folks never saw me except at the
table. Even poor, old, patient mother
was complaining. __
But I was having lots of fun. There
was that Beaufort girl. She was a fine
one. Could dance any kind, talk about
anything you wanted, and make you
hare the finest time in the world. Then
there was Vene Wright. She would take
in the baseball with a fellow, go rowing,
skating, anything for fun.
Then Vene had money. That was an
important item.
Why shouldn't I tackle Miss Vene on
the subject of matrimony.
“Thomas, old son,” said I to myself,
“Vene is the one.”
But Vene, somehow or other, did not
exactly suit the ease, and my mind
verted to Miss Beaufort. - Miss Beaufort
was smart, pretty, stylish and suited
better, but I knew nothing about her
financial standing. This was an import
ant matter to me in those days.
Meanwhile the coupe had neared Miss
Beaufort’s. I had never been there be
fore, and to my surprise found it to be
a very unpretentions house.
I confess I was disappointed. I ex
pcctcu to drive up to an elegant man
sion, be ushered into a fine reception-
room with servants in livery, and there
await the coming of Miss Beaufort.
Then I expected to make a bold dash
for Miss Beaufort's heart—propose, and
possibly be accepted or declined by the
time the party was over. But not so.
A little lady with gray hair opened
the door, and she was introduced to me
by Miss Beaufort as mamma. Miss
Beaufort was ready and waiting,
walked out to the coupe.
“Mr. Silver,” said she, “don’t you
think there is a great amount of snobbery
in society, and lots of downright fool
ishness?”
“Well, yes,” said I.
“For instance,” said she, “here is ar
elegant coupe that you have brought for
me. and yet the party is only two blocks
away.”
This certainly was very refreshing,
had actually squandered fire dollars to
have the coupe for the evening, and she
did not even so much as notice it. I
know Vene would have enjoyed a ride
in it.
“3rr. Sil\cr,”said she to me again,
“this U the last party I am going to this
winter.”
“Well, why ?” said I. “Aren’t you
going to take in the German Club ball
and the others?”
“No, said she. “Mamma hasn’t the
money; she can’t afford it.”
“Mr. Silver,” she continued, “can you
afford to spend so much money on so
ciety?”
I looked at her. There was honesty
fairly shining out of her pretty black
eyes, even if she wasn’t very polite. So
I answered her honestly.
“Talking about grizzlies.” said a
spor.sman who lives well up in the
mountains beyon 1 Pa alenn, “I’ve seen
soma in this range that e p a! any in the
northern part o. the State. The last
time we had a visit from one I f mnd my
cattle and l.ors;s from three to five miles
away. The brute stampeded everything,
and as it was done in the night I tnonght
at first it was a mountain lion. Anyway.
I got reidv for him, and the very next
morning I heard a row in the yard, and
rushing out, there was a big grizzly
standing among 'ray beehives with one
under his arm, as sociable as you please,
while with the other paw he was striking
at the bees that were clinging to his hair
and body in regular heap*. I made a
rush for my ii1e, a id when I got back
he had movod off about twenty paces and
was going on his hind legs, like a man,
still carrying the hive under his arm.
Now he would drop on all fours and go
a pace, then rise up again. I made a
jump for him, and fetched a yell, and as
he turned to see what the matter was I
put a piece of cold lead right through his
there was too much gam 1 for him, alto
gether.
‘•One of th; quickest shots I ever*saw
was in the northern part of the State.
We were in camp
had to go down into a little
1 untains and
i to get
popular Science.
The young of the coni O', at their homo-
in the heights of the Andes, remnin in
the nest for a year, being fed by the pa-
d one Jay a young i rentsuntU Ihoy nrc able to fly
t ok pails and went
We always carried
turned the rock at
A gigantic sea weed, more tlm 1,500
: feet long has been found near the equa-
I tor by the ship “Clever,” Captain John
a big grizzly drinking. Stone, portions being tak;n to Mcratcvi-
saw him ha whirled deo.
■ could move A member of the Koval Horticultural
water from
fellow and
down togethe.
rifles, and just
the spring we s;
The miuute *
about, and almost before , % — v ——
was on us. I was bchi id, and I stepped 1 Society of London hna observed that
back just in time to see my partner fling dahlias collect much dew on their leaves;
his pail at the bear. It struck him clean , the peach rose and evening primrose very
in the face, and lik; a flash down came 1 — : -* —•*—
the rifle, and the grizzly dropped not five
feet from us. I never saw a neater or
quicker shot.”—San Francises CalL
HOUSEHOLD matter;:
Recipes.
Omelet with Spinach.—Pick, wash,
and cko;i a handful of spinach; put in
an omelet pa» an ounce of good butter;
when it is hot. add the spinach with a
little ralt and pepper. Thin beat up
Three eggs with a tables] oonful of sweet
cream and a soupcon of salt. Add to
the spinach and finish as a plain omelet.
Chicken Patties.—Chop very fine
the dry, poorest bits left from baked
chickens, season carefully wi.h pepper,
salt, and a little chopped celery. Make
a light puff-taste, roll a quarter of an
inch thick, cut with a neatly shaped
pr.ste cutter; lay a narrow strip of paste
all aronnd;- cut another piece the same
size and lay over. Boil fitteon minutes.
Cooking Onions.—Different methods
recommended. Boi ing
exhaustive trial before the Superior
Judge and a jury in San Bernardino
County, has resulted in a verdict against
the bees. A vast amount of “expert”
testimony wa3 given, and after a pretty
thorough marshaling of everything that
could be adduced cn either side the con
clusion mentioned was arrived at. Here
after, therefore, it must be accepted as a
legal proposition that bees are injurious
to fruit (in California, at least), and the
owners of apiaries in fruit-growing re
gions will have to govern themselves ac-
cordingly.
During 1885 the number of “recep
tions'’ at the morgue in Paris were 858.
Of these 659 were bodies of men, 199 of
women. The busiest month was August,
when the number was 106; the slackest,
Febrovy, when it to forty-one. Of ..jj 0 Miss Beaufort, I cannot! I
the 858 bodies, 605 were identified, and ■ haven't saved a cent this winter, and I
my society friends came around, among
them Miss Beaufort.
Mother met her rather coldly, but in
vited her to stay awhile.
“I suppose Mr. Silver is almost worn
out with so much going out,” said the
young lady.
“Ho is much better,” said mother,
“bat I do not think he will go out for
several weeks. I think I shall keep him
at home.”
I am so glad,” said Miss Beaufort,
“not that you are going to keep him at
home, but that he is not going out so
much. I am getting so I fairly detest
society.”
Here, was a woman who had my
mother's views, and they both, there
upon, sat down and had a confidential
talk, and pleased each other mightily.
Then she asked mother to call on her
mother, and this mother did.
Meanwhile I was staying home every
evening, and getting pretty tired of it os
the two weeks were drawing to ariose.
‘Don’t you think a man ought to take
his wife out once in a while?” said I to
mother.
“Why not?” said she. 4
“"Hion I’ll take her to the theatre
to-night.” So I bought a couple of re
served seats in the parquet for Saturday
night, and mother, who represented my
wife, went with me.
We had hardly taken our seats before
I noticed that they were adjoining those
of Miss Beaufort and her mother. My
mother was highly pleased when we
changed scats si that I sat by Miss Beau
fort. and my mother sat by hers.
We went home together that night
and laughed and talked a good deal.
I think Mother told Mrs. Beaufort
what we had been doing, but I did not
hear it. I know that several days later,
after my two weeks of married life* were
over, I went to call on Miss Beaufort.
We had a pleasant time together, and
just as I was about to leave, the old lady
came in.
“I forgot to ask yon. Mr. Silver, what
you thought of married life?” said she.
Miss Beaufort looked horrified, but’ I
laughed.
“Mother has been telling on me, has
she?” said I.
“She has,” said she.
“Well,” said I, “during the two weeks
I was married, I read three good books,
gained four pounds in weight, and saved
eighteen dollars and forty cents, besides
paying my mother my wife's board and
a ticket to the theatre.”
“And who' were you married to?”
asked Mrs. Beaufort.
“I forgot to look,” said I. I hurried
home to sec who my wife had been. The
envclove was just as I placed it in my
desk drawer.
I tore it open and there was the name
of Miss Beaufort.
“Well,” said I, “mother made her an
imitation wife, now 1 will try to make
considerable
damage, coming down at night and
knocking over hives and breaking them
open to get the honey. . „ , , , , . - „ „ ,
t4 Fve killed a good many grizzlie-,and j ters well salted, or letting them lie in
thpv’re an nnimil vou want tr» kill the co *d Water, IS thought to be effective , ,
flrtt XScSm rh.ncc tor j Boiling in milk usef to be thought the ! te 2ZT t .l 0 't'r
a rough-and-tumble at clo*c quarters. | "fJ to remove the rank flavor, but
little; while the quince and mulberry t
; only very slightly wet.
\ A. calculation made of the figures of a.
i mile-long railroad train drawn by a sin
gle locomotive, establishes that there
i were 3,252 tans weight on this train L
: which was drawn by a single fifty-fivi
. ton engine. This would be more thJ
j the we*ght of many steamships wijj
] their cargoes.
j It has been found by Dr. Tait that the^
car in women can perceive higher notes, '
that is, sounds with a greater number of
vibrations ner second, than the ear in*
men.. The highest limit of human hear
ing is somewhere between 41,000 and
43,000 vibrations per second. Fqw per
sons have equal sensibility to acute
sounds in both ears, the right ear usually
hearing a higher note than the left. The
lowest continuous sounds have about six
teen vibrations per second.
A new French clock contains a novel
application of the magnet. The clock
appears like a tnmborine with a .circle of
flowers painted oo^fs pnrchme'nt head.
Around the circle crawl two bees, the
larger requiring twelve hours to complete
the circuit, while the smaller makes it
her a real one.
And so I did.— Thos. H. Stark,
Current.
■ the
When I lived up in the north.ra* part of 1 °nxdns ' v
the State, some twenty years ago, bears 1 * A '
were as plenty as hops, and you didn’t
have to uunt them, as they’d buit y
had a young fellow living with ni
that time who considered himself
mous shot; but, between you and me, he
was only so-so. One day we found rme
of the sheep killed and some t:t d off; so
Jim proposed to go out and make it hot
for the grizzlies for a day or so, and hav
ing nothing particular on hand I went
with him. I had a couple of mongrel
dogs that were the best oa a bear [ ever
v,so we took them along, and the next
ruing about 10 they started a tra'l
and off they went whooping, we follow-
* ig.. I reckon we must have tramped it
mile or so, when we carae to a thick
piece of brush, and into it the dogs went
with a rush, and the next miuute there
commenced the greatest yelling and
snarling you ever heard. I was packing
the camp things, and so Jim jumped
through the bush, and I after him, and
there in the centre of a small clearing
was the biggest grizzly I ever saw or
heard of. The minute I saw him I
dropped my stuff aud grabbed ray rifle.
The grizzly was standing on his
haunches, spitting fire and froth, just
waiting for them dogs to come within
reach, and every now and then making a
jump at them. Without wasting any
time, Jim stepped up until he was within
four foot of the beast, then raised his
rifle and pulled the trigger. . He had a
dead shot, but I he.vd the click of the
hammer and knew his rifle had missed
fire, and the next minute tl e bear, Jim.
dogs and rifle was a-going it up ar.d
down, ia and out. up and over, in the
greatest rough-and-tumbleyou everheard
your life. For a minute I
able to purchase
the country, are not sa strong in
odor or taste as was the onion of cur
fathers. The Bermuda, the ideal onion
a t of the Spanish, needs nothing beyond
boiling in two wateis.
Mashed Potatoes.—To make mashed
potatoes good and palatable pare them
before boiling. Cook dry aud mealy,
then salt, mash and moisten with boiling
milk and a piece of butter. Beat up
light with a spoon or fork, put into a
hot dish, and trey are ready for the
table. Any left over can, by adding one
beaten egg, be made into round cakes
and fried frr breakfast, or may be made
into croquettes, pear-shaped, and
browned in the oven for the next din
ner; or it may be put into a vegetable
dish, with a few bits o’ butter on the
top, and browned in the oven.
Bell Fritters.—Put a piece of but
ter the size of an egg into a pint of water,
let it boil a few minutes, thicken it very
smeothly with a pint of flour. I.ct it re
main a short time on the fire, st rring it
carefully all the while so that it may not
stick to the bottom of the stewpan: pour
it into a wooden or china bowl, set it
away to become cold. About one hour
before your dinner is to be served, add
five eggs, breaking one at a time, and
beat all the time until the dough is very
light. Put a pint of lard in a frying
pan and let it come to a boil; then drop
the fritters in so that they shall be small,
and fry them brown; they should puff
up very much and be crisp. To be
served*with boiled molasses, or French
sauce.
Meat Croquettes.—Take the remains
iy cold meat and mince it fine; add
onion minced just a3 tine (don’t any
.. tuck” uSi it" tho "‘audlcnncsl onio”. '
of the whole thing that I couldn’t tell
the following is tho classification given
of professions:
men. ? women.
laborers U5:Workingwomen... 37
Employes 67.Domestic servants. 36
Driver*. 51 [Washerwomen.... 17
The sondryfonns of death are clari
fied as follows; Drowned, 181; hung,
79: firearm*, 163; sidearms, 91; poi
soned, 62; suffocated, 154; falls from
houses, etc., 75; other causes, 53.
A marvelous conjurer named Bautier
de Kolta, a Hungarian, has appeared in
Paris, and among other tricks which con
founded a company of adepts assembled
to witness them was this: After spread
ing a newspaper on the floor he placed
chair upon it, and then asked a young
lady to sit down. He threw over her a
piece of silk, which barely covered her
from head to feet. He then rapidly re
moved the drapery, and the chair was
head of a family anytime before the ac- ; empty. As soon as the amazement of
tual sale.
Epitaph on a Jnnkman.
On Mr. Jones, a well-known junkman,
pre have the following:
Here lies the bones of William Jones,
” T ‘ ? collected l ottles and bones;
That here he lies all dona fide.
snug aud tidy,
the spectators gave them time to applaud,
the young lady walked oa from the side
and bowed her acknowledgements. There
certainly was no trap in the door, the
chair was of the ordinary kind, and the
trick was done in a strong light.. The
lady, in fact, disappeared before tho very
eyes of the audience, but so quickly was
the trick done that no one present saw
1 her escape. “
get a big salary, t-o.”
“Well,” said she, “I have met you out
so frequently, I feel quite well acquainted
with you, and I expect I have been a
little impolite.”
“No,” raid I. “I am glad that you
take that much interest in me.”
Then we changed the subject. I had
a spier, dia time at the party, and enjoyed
Miss Beaufort’s company very much. I
found her level-headed and bright, if
she was too frank.
Next day I told mother about it. She
said that she admired Miss Beaufort for
her common reuse, if shehadn’tseen her.
Then she referred to my getting married
again.
“Suppose,” said sbn, “you pretend for
a week or so that you are married, and
6ce how it goes.”’
“An imitation wife, - ’ raid I.
“Why not?’’ said she. “I will write
the nara*- of a young lsdy on a card, seal
it in an cnve’ope, and you can lock it in
your rte^k. Then let* m suppose that
you are married to her say for two weeks.
During that time I want you to act just
os if the lady were here in person, and
your lawfully-wedded wife.”
“Whose name a J e you going to write
on the card,’’ said I.
“Never mind,” said she. “I will
write my preference, and neither of us
will breathe a word about, this to a livings
soul.”
We agrcc-d on this. Mother wrote the
name on the card and scaled it in an
envelope. I knew it was Vene Wright’*
name, so I decided to imagine that Vene
was there in person, and *0 we started
out the week.
Monday night came. That was the
night of the Bachelor's German, but I
staid st home and talked to mother.
Earliest Methods of Measuring Time,
The story is that King Alfred had no
better way to tell th^ time than by burn
ing twelve candles, each of which lasted
two hours; and when all the twelve'were
gone, another day had passed. Long
before the time of Alfred, and long be
fore the time of Christ, the shadow of
1 told thehourof the day,by means
sun-dial. The old Chaldeans so
placed a hollow hemisphere, with a bead
— the center,that the shadow of the bead
Ihe inner surface told the hour of the
day. Other kinds of dials were after
ward made with a tablet of wood or
straight piece of met&L On the tablets
were marked the different hours. When
the shadow came to the mark IX., it was
o’clock in the morning. The .dial
what to do, and then I diJn’t dare to
shoot, they were going about so quick.
The dogs had the bear by the hind quar
ters, and were biting and chawing for all
they were worth. The bear was on top
mostly, but Jim had got out his knife
and wns carving for all he was worth,
and it’s a wonder he wasn’t drowned in
blood. The only thing that saved him
from being clawed all in pieces was a
thick buckskin suit he wore. I dodged
about for about five minutes waiting for
a chance, and all at once I got it. The
brute had pinned Jim down square by
the shoulders, and was just a taking hold
of him by the throat or thereabouts when
I clapped my rifle to his ear and let fly
and shot him dead. Jim was about
played out, but he had strength to feel
that he was being squeezed too close for
comfort. It took all my muscle to roll off
the bear, as it laid right on top of him.
but I did, and yanked Jim out, and wan’t
he a sight? His suit was in rags, regu
larly cut up into strings, and his legs
were almost cut to the bone in half a
dozen places. When I hauled him to his
feet he had hold of his knife, and had to
drop it as it was a foot deep in the bear’s
throat, and by actual count there were
forty stabs in the bear’s hid;. Bo you
can tell what kind of a fighter he was.
‘What made you shoot?’ were about the
first words he said, and then over he
went in a dead faint, and if it hadn’t
been cold, he’d have bled to death before
I could pack him to the doctor, which I
did though, forty miles over the moun
tains. Yes, he came out all right, but
for weeks he looked like one of these
crazy quilts. That was his first grizzly,
and I never heard him hanker for any
more at short range, although he shot a
good many after that in one way and an
other.
“You know the old Soledad trail, up
here,” continued the hunter. “It’s de
serted, and going to ruin now; but a few
... years ago, when it was being made, it
WAS sometimes piqued near th? ground, was the scene of a carious fracas with a
or in towers or buildings. Tod see, iu grizzly. The men at work on the trail
the picture, two sun-dials that
Gray and Block Nunnery in Ottawa, the
capital of Canada. The old clock on the
eastern end of Faneuil Hall in Boston
was formerly a dial of this kind; and on
some of the old church-towers in England
you may see them to-day. Aside from
the kinds mentioned, the dials now in
ex.stence are intended more for orna
ment than for use. In the days when
dials were used, each one contained a
motto of some kind, like these: **Tirae
flies like the shadow,” or, “I tell no
hours but those that are happy.”
But the dial could be used only in the
daytime; and, even then, it was worthless
when the sun was covered with clouds.
In,order to measure the hours.of the
night as well as the hours of the day, the
Greeks and Romans used the clepsydra,
which means: “The water steals awav.”
A large jar was filled with water, and a
hole was made in - the bottom through
which the water could run. The glass,
in those days, was not transparent. No
one could see from the outside how much
water had escaped. So there was' made,
on the inside, certain marks that told the
hours as the water ran out; or else a stick
with notches in the. edge was dipped into
the water, and the depth of what was left
showed the hour. Sometimes^ the water
dropped into another jar in which^a block
of wood was floating, the block rising as
the hours went on. Once in a while,
some very rich man had a clepsydra that
sound a musical note at every hour.
Popular Science Montld’j.
Tee American Tract Society issued
59,539; 628 pages last year.
some one about there hod a young
German, as green as grass and right fresh
from the old country. One night he was
coming down the trail, just before dark,
carrying some tools, when he. turned a
corner and came suddenly face to face
with a big grizzly and cab. The trail
there was only about six feet wide, and
side there was a high cliff,
the most healthful and most obliging
vegetables grown), and season with salt
and pepper to taste. You can also add
a sprig of parsley or a hint of sage or a
dust of thyme if you like. Soak a thick
crustless slice of bread in cold water;
squeeze it dry; add to meat and-onion—
some people say bind with an egg, but I
keep my egg for something else—form
into small, flat cakes and dry. I ani as-
ting that the meat remains arc scanty.
They needn’t be much. About a coffee-
cup packed full after mincing will do
nicely, and give you enough croquettes
for breakfast or lunch or a little side
dish at dinner.
Alphabet or Health.
The Trinity Church Association of New
York city distributes gratuitously among
the tenement houses in the lower wards
of the city a printed caid containing the
following hints on the preservation of
hea'th. The lines are worth preserving
and certainly worth practising:
As socn as you are up, shake blanket and
sheet;
Better bo without shoes than sit with wot
be tight;
id light
you do, I’v
_ ilthy, 1
If you wish tj be health,
doubt,
Just open the windows before you go out;
Keep your rooms always tidy and clean,
divisions, and the bees, which arc of
iron, are moved by two magnets, carried
just under the membrane, by the clock
work inside the tamborine.
According to the calculations made by
a scientific writer lately, it requires a
prodigious amount of vegetable matter
to form a layer of coal, the estimate bcing-
that it would really tike a million years’
to form a coal bed 100 feet thick. Thot
United States has aa area of between
300.000 and 400,000 square miles of coal
fields, 100,000,00) tons of coal being
mined from these_ fields in one year, or
enough to run a ring around the earth at
the equator five and one-half feet wide-
aud live and one-half feet thick; tho
quantity being sufficient to supply the-
whole world for a period of 1,50) U>
2.000 years.
The four feet of an ordinary ox will
make a pint of neat's foot oil. Not a.
bone of any animal is thrown away.
Many cattle’s shin bones are shipped to*
England for the making of knife handles,
where they bring $40 per tom The
thigh bones are the most valuable, being
worth $80 per ton for cutting'into tooth
brush handles. The fore-leg bones arc
worth $30 per ton, and are made into*
collar buttons, parasol handles and jew
elry, though sheeps* legs are the staple
parasol handles. The water in which.the-
bones aie boi’ed is reduced to glue,- and!
the dust which comes from sawing the;
bones is fed to cattle and poultry.
Obeying Orders.
On the Russian frontier it once hap
pened that an officer was playing at cards
with a friend, when a Jew was trying to*
smuggle himself into the Russian empire
without propt-r vise of his passport. The;
sentinel on guard arrested him and re
ported to the officer. “All right,” saidhe.
Hours afterward the sentinel again asked
what he was to do with the Jew. The
Captain, furious at beiDg interrupted,,
shouted: “Why, deuce take the Jew!
Hang him!” The Captain went on play
ing until the morning, whcn r suddenly
remembering the prisoner, he called the
soldier and said: “Bring in the Jew!”'
“The Jew?” said tho amazed soldier?
“but I hanged him, os you ordered.” 1
“What?” said the Captain, “you have-
committed murder!” He arrested him,
and the judgment—death—went to tho
Emperor. Inquiring, before signing so
serious a document, and learning how
matters stood, the Emperor decided that
the soldier, who, without reasoning, had
implicitly obeyed so extraordinary an
order of his superior, was to be made a
corporal; that the officer, who, while on
duty, for the sake of gambling had given
; the murderous order, was to be sent to
> Siberia, and that his pay was to go to
the family of the poor Jew who had so
iniquitously been murdered.—Hew York
• Sun.
New York's Leisure Clast. '
| London, says a New York letter to tho
j San Francisco Argonaut, has many mom-
i ing concerts, fisheries exhibitions, horti
cultural exhibitions, private views, the-
everlasting Zoo, and an endless array of
amusements of a mild and taking charac
ter, calculated to assist the leisure clasx
! of the English metropolis in-killing time,
i New York, which apes London in its-
i amusements, is showing a tendency in tho
Now to open your windows be ever ycur
and old rubbish should never bo
drags 1
keol
direction. We are now forming &
leisure class here. It goes slow, but it-
goes. Just now it consists largely of
gamblers, with a sprinkling of. night,
editors, younger eons, ruined financiers,
club men who can not afford to playi
— r -, . . . Wall street, actors, college boys home for
Quick movements in children are healthy aud ■ vac *tion, government employes and
RememSer'the young canact thrive without rounders The younger sons form a pic
turesque element. They seem to be use
ful to the ladies and they wear very good
clothes, so that the gamblers and round
ers do not object to them particularly. :
That this leisure class will in time grow:
large is evident. The number of younger
sons and society men who have nothing]
to do bat amuse themselves increases'
every day. There is now a very consid
erable number of them who have no moro ;
arduous aim in life than that of killing!
Zeal will help a good cause, end the good yon ! time. The women who have leisure are,
will rcey. J c f course, limitless as to numbers. They!
trim:
Use your nose to find out if there bo a bad
drain,
Very sad aie the fevers that come in its
train.
Walk as orach as you can without feeling
fatigue;
Xerxes could walk full many a league;
steep wall, and on the other a
steep, but sloping off ab:ut 500 feet into
the arroyo canon. The young chap was
so took aback that he didn’t know what
to do, and while he was a-waiting the
hear made a rush Iot him. Dropping
the tools, he started up the trail, going
for all he was worth, and the bear gal
loping along behind. Ever seen a bear
run? Well, then you know the kind of
time they make. As the grade was up
and steep, and the bear had the br.-t
wind, there wasn’t much doubt as to hew
it would come out, and after a short heat
the caught up to him, and with one blow
of her paw caught him. right in the back,
took a piece of fie-h out ai big as my
fist, and sent him whirling into the air
head over heels into the** canon. He
struck in the greasewood about twenty
feet down the slide and r.lied down a
hundred more, and there, bleeding and
tom, his clothes neatly off; he gained his
feet and ran for camp, and how he got
there he nor any one else could ever tell.
The boys said when he came in you
could have hung a hat on his eyes, they
stuck out so far. When he went over
into the canon the old bear stopped and
went back to her cub, and thit saved
Mm. As soon ns be got so he could
walkj they say he skipped the country; two pounds fourteen ounc
How to Laugh.
Man is the only animal who laughs,
but. for all of that distinction, he often
sinks below those creatures that are not
gifted with a sense of the ridiculous.
Very few human beings know how to
laugh, and the noise they utter expressive
of hilar ty U sometimes frightfully, un
musical and absurd, though it offers a
relief forth.irfeelings. A natural,hearty
laugh might be cultivated, precisely as
the cacliinnation on the stage is produced,
by “study,” and when a person breaks
into hysterical squeals c-f pleasure, or
chokes and gasps with the effort to show
his appreciation of fun, there would be
some harmony in the sounds. Iif$ is too
serious for the most of us, perhaps, to go
about in the role of the laughing phi
losopher, but if we could tram this
“sptcial gift,” as we traia other human
qualifications, it would be much more
agreeable for society at large. The man
or the woman who carries around the
power to laugh has a panacea for dys
pepsia on which there is no copyright.—
Boston Herald.
twelve ounces per score, Leghorn *
little over three pounds and Spanish egg
are the strongest factors in promoting
morning entertainments. The lectures,
readings and concerts given in the mid
dle of the day are 100 per cent, greater
than five years ago.
The Carrying Tower of Water.
. The carrying or transporting power of
water increases os the sixth power of the-
velocity—aprodigious rate of increase,'
as may bj inferred from the fact,
that a stream having a velocity six
times as great as another will be able to
transport material weighing 46,63G times-
as much as that carried by the slower
stream. The data from which engineers
commonly calculate the effect of a scour
on a _ river bottom are about as follows:
A stream flowing with a velocity of three-
inches per second barely produced an cf—I
|fect on fine clay; six inches per second!
.will raise fine sand; eight inches per sec
ond will raise sand of the coarseness of,
.linseed; twelve inches per second will]
sweep along fine gravel; twenty-four
inches per second (or one and one-third ;
'miles per hour) will carry pebbles ofi
iabout one inch diameter; thirty-six
inches per second (which is about two;
miles per hour, or about, two-thirds the
. rate of speed of a moderate • walk) will
‘ sweep along fragments the size of ou
tee.—Boston Budget. . Xt