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SEA LEAPERS. Gigantic Jumps Taken by Mon sters of the Deep. The Astonishing Feat of a ty-foot Whale, ' “Speaking of jumping,’’ said an old seaman, who had been watching some boys playing leap-frog on the sands, •‘let me tell you of the greatest jump ever seen. It was many years ago, when I was little more than a lad, but I was bow oarsman on a whale boat belonging to the ship Henry Staples. We had hud bad luck for several weeks, when one day we sighted a big whale, and two boats set off in a race to see who would get there first. It was fairly smooth, what the sailors call a whitecap breeze, and our boats fairly flew over the water. Finally the whale rose not 100 yards away, headed directly for us. The mate, gave orders to stop, and we sat still, expecting that the monster would riso near us. The harpooner stood with his iron all ready to throw, while we grasped our oars, nervously prepared to jump at the word ‘stern all, that nearly always came when a whale was harpooned. Not a word was spoken, and a mountain of black appeared, it seemed to shut off the entire horizon. Up it went until I distinctly saw a seventy-foot whale over twenty feet in the air hovering over us. “The mate was first to regain his senses, and gave tlio command ‘stern all.’ Just as we were ready to spring overboard the boat shot back several feet, and the next second the gigantic animal dived into the ocean, just grazing us, having completely passed over the boat iu the biggest leap I ever heard of. ” Such gigantic jumps are rare. A similar one was recorded by Dr. Hall, who at the time wus a midshipman on the ship Leauder. They were lying iu tlio harbor of Bermuda, when all hands were attracted by the appear¬ ance of a very largo whale that sud¬ denly appeared in the harbor, and seemed very much alarmed by the shallow water floundering about vio¬ lently. The young midshipman joined a boat’s crew that started in pursuit,, and just as they were about to strike the whale disappeared out of sight, leaving s deep whirlpool, around which the boat shot. Before it stopped up oame the whale, having, in all prob¬ ability, struck the bottom, and went into the air like a roeksh “So com¬ plete wa3 this enormous leap,” says Dr. Hull, "that for an instant we ■aw him fairly up in the air, in a hori¬ zontal position, at a distance of at least twenty perpeudicular feet over our heads. While in his progress up¬ ward there was in his spring some touoh of the vivacity with which a trout or salmon shoots out of the water, but he fell back again in the sea like a huge log, thrown on its broadside,and with such a thundering crash as made all hands stare with as¬ tonishment, and the boldest held his breath for a time. Had the whale taken his leap oue minute sooner, he would have fallen plumb on the boat. ” Comparatively few people have seen a large whale, but wo can immagino what an object au animal 70 feet long and weighing as many ton would make flying through the air. Within a week of the writing of the present nrtiolo T was drifting along the shores of Santa Catalina island, ■outhoru California, when a 60 foot whale almost cleared the water about 1000 yards from the boat. I was about to ask the boatman what rock it was when the great head descended and the tail roso into the air as the mons ter dived. Mr. Scorsby, the famous whaler, chronicles a number of incidents of jumping among whales, some leaving the water completely and rising 20 or more feet into the nir. Many of the inhabitants of the sea are good jumpers, and some have be¬ come famous. Among them should be mentioned the tarpon or silver king, a hughe fish with scales that gleam like silver, which constitutes the famous game fish of Florida. The leaps of this beautiful creature are often as tonishiug. Several years ago a steamer was rushing down the St. John’s river. The captain was sitting on the fore deck loaning against the p o when suddenly there rose .2 ?be far a beautiful shining fish four feet in length. It came on like an arrow and landed in the lap of the captain as neatly as though it had been placed there. In Pacific waters the tuna, an ally of the horse mackerel, is noted for its leaps. Sometimes a school sweeps up the coast and the power ful fish, often weighing 800 pounds, are seen in the air jn every direction . They are like an arrow, turn five or six foet in the air, and come down, keepi ing the water for acres in a foam, and if not the greatest jumpers they are certainly the most graceful of the leapers of the sou. —Philadelphia Times. The Sea Cow Looks Human. The coming attraction for the small boys of Gotham, at the New York Aquarium, in Battery Park which is to be opened next November, will be a manatee or sea cow. Dr. T. H. Bean who is now in charge of the Aquarium is in correspondence with certain par¬ ties, and expects to secure a fine speci¬ men in time for the opening. Being a native of tropical seas, and more ; e8 p e cially inhabiting the hot waters of thfl bay8 and estuaries of Florida, appliances will have to be made for heating an enormous tank in which the monster may disport itself. Dr. Bean is an expert in the building of aquariums and keeping of fish, and this novel feature will doubtless bo found very attractive. The manatee, which is an aquatic mammal and not strictly a fish, has an elongated body, like that of a whale, the anterior limbs being flat¬ tened into fins and the posterior limbs wanting externally and only being represented by rudimentary bones. The bead is conical,without a distinct line of separation from the body; the fleshy nose much resembles that of a cow, and the full upper lip has on each side a few bristly tufts of hair. The swimming paws may be used for climbing up the muddy banks of rivers. Separate bones may be felt through the skin nud the fingers are provided with small nails. The skin is a grayish black color, with a few scattered bristles. They inhabit the sea shores, especially about tlio mouths of rivers, and feed upon aquat¬ ic plants. They do not feed ashore, although they sometimes quit the water, and not unfrequently support themselves in a Bemi-erect position. Under these circumstances they pre¬ sent at a distance a somewhat human appearance.—New York Advertiser, The Tree Killer. One of the curious forest growths of the Isthmus of Panama and lower Central America is the vine which the Spaniards called matapalo, or “tree killer.” This vine first starts in life as a climber upon the trunks of the largest trees, and owing to its marvel lously rapid growth, soon reaches the lower branches. At this point it first begins to put out its “feelers,”—ten¬ der, harmless looking root shoots, which soon reach the ground and be¬ come as firmly fixed as the parent stem. These hundreds of additional sap tubes give the whole vine a re¬ newed lease of life, and it begins to send out its aerial tendrils in all directions. These entwine themselves tightly around every limb of the tree, even creeping to the very fathermost tips and squeez¬ ing the life out of both bark and leaf. Things go on at this rate but a short while before the forest giant is com¬ pelled to succumb to the gigautio parasite which is sapping its life’s blood. Within a very few years the tree rots and falls away, leaving the matapalo standing erect and hollow, like a monster vegetable devilfish lying ou its back with its horrid tentacles clasped together high in the air. Morgan in “Central America Afoot,” says, “Corelike arbors of metapole are to be seen in all directions, each testifying to the lingering death of some sylvan giant that formerly sup¬ ported it”—St. Louis Bepublia Her Last Chance. Miss Elder—I will bet you anything you like that I will never marry. Mr. Easy—I’ll take you. Miss Elder (rapturously)—Will you. really? Then I won’t bet, after all, —Puck. CANDY SECRETS. A Successful Crusade Against Confectionery Adulteration, Output of tlie Country’s Largest Factories. There has been great reform in¬ augurated lately in the candy business, and a leading New York confectioner said recently that now there is very little adulteration in candy. Ten years ago things were very different. The result or the crusade began by Dr. Cyrus Edson, the members of the National Confectioners’ Association, and the editors of the Confectioners’ Gazette and other lights of the trade, brought about this difference. The candies made a few years ago by the prominent manufacturers were copied on a cheap scale by smaller dealers, and the material used was inferior, and generally so adulterated that the manufactured article was positively injurious to health. The cheapest candy sold today is made of sugar and glucose, prepared with as pure extracts, if not as strong, as those used in finer confectionery and colored with vegetable colorings. The secrets of a candy factory have always been very jealously guarded, and the cause is found in the fact that manufacturers of confectionery largely invent special machinery, which they never patent nor make to bo used by other manufacturers. Sweepings of the floor are commonly supposed to be used in making gumdrops' and caramels. Old shoes, hides and horns are supposed to be converted by the boiling kettles into cheap jujube pat¬ ties. This is all wrong, at least as far as applies to any respectable fac¬ tory. Candies are usually divided in¬ to hard, soft, and clear candies, and subdivided into machine-made and hand made goods. The penny goods candies cut an important figure in the trade. Many of the cities and States in the the Union are now prominent in the trade for certain kinds of candies. Nearly 75 per cent of all the caramels made come from Pennsylvania. There are three factories, capable of turning out 50,000 pounds of caramels a day and employing 4,000 persons. Just why Pennsylvania should be selected as the best place for this line is prob¬ lematic, unless because of large dairy farms there and plouty of nice milk. Milwaukee, Wis., and Elgin, III., boast of large caramel factories. Bos¬ ton is the center of wafers and lozenges. Three Boston candy houses produce two-thirds of the lozenges made in this country. New York city and Phila¬ delphia turn out most of the marsli meliows. Cream bonbons and choco¬ lates for the trade are largely made in New York. Every fine confectionery retailer in the large cities nowadays makes his own bonbons and counter goods. .The hard candies like fruit drops, imperials, Jordans almonds, robin egga, eta, all bearing a smooth polish, are made by hand. Brooklyn and Philadelphia turn out all the licorice, and the Quaker City is noted for popcorn novelties, al¬ though nearly every city now has factories that make this line of. goods. Prize-package candies largely come from Chicago and St. Louis. Balti¬ more has a deservedly good name for purest stick and clear candies. One half the clear toys, roosters,, animals and figures, red and white, and clear as glass, so familiar to children at Christmas time, are manufactured in Beading and York, Penn. The most peculiar conditions exist in New York. On Wooster street there are factories, all located within two blocks, with a Frenchman making bonbons, a Greek makiug Oriental candies, a Hebrew making popcorn novelties, au Italian selling marsh¬ mallows, an Englishman manufactur¬ ing butterscotches and wafers, an American dealing in fancy candies, several Turks iu the business, and Bussian and Chinese dealers handling Canton preserved ginger. Bussian and Chinese confections and preserves. There is one block with every store but one a candy store. This is called the “Sugar Bow,” and is known all over the country.—New York Adver¬ tiser. The State of Vermont is worth $86, *06,775. The Old Frigate UoBslilutiom The venerable old frigate Constitn* t-ion, of glorious memory, now lies stark and gaunt, at the dock in the al most deserted navy yard at Kittery, Ale. She is housed in with her old fashioned lines, her sides tumbling home, as it is said, when they incline inward, her stern gallery in which her cajitains were wont to take the air,and their pipes and arrack in pleasant weather, she presents a quaint sight. - Of the original ship only a small section of the deck and a few iron stanchions remain. But she was re¬ built much upon her original lines in 1848 and 1876, first by the son, and again by the grandson of Hart, her original builder, so that she is practi¬ cally the same ship which outsailed Admiral Broke’s squadron, and out¬ fought everything at which she backed her topsails. The Portsmouth people regard her as their own individual property, and raise an awful howl every time it is proposed to take her away. It was, however, a mere accident that she happened to go out of com¬ mission at Kittery Navy Yard about fifteen years ago, and the navy being then in the chaotic state which pre¬ ceded the creation of the new navy, she simply was allowed to remain there. Her guns were of no use and of no historic value, as those with which she hod walloped the Guerriere the Java, the C.yane and the Levant had long gone the way cf destruction. So her armament was removed and everything else of value, She was housed in and left to her fate, Her planking is decaying, but as long as her stout timbers stay in the water Jfchey will keep as hard as iron. It is thought that some time in the next few years the Constitution will be refitted like the Constellation, and made into a training ship for boys also. Like the Constellation, she has never had steam in her, but when she has been rigged with great square sails, and given a spread of canvas worthy of her, she has been known to leg it at a fourteen-knot gait during the best part of a cruise. These two frigates are the solo sur¬ vival of the great frigates of the “poetic age” of the navy, and not all the steel battleships going can alto¬ gether deprive them of their useful¬ ness. The Kittery Navy Yard is as dead as Hector, for the present. The people grumble at it and complain because the modern steel ships are not built or even repaired here.—Lewis¬ ton (Me). Journal. To Show How Fast Shells (Jo. The results of experiments made by Professor A. C. Crehore of Dartmouth and Lieutenant G. O. Squier, Third Artillery, with a new polarizing photo¬ chronograph, are described by them in the Journal of the United States Artillery. The experiments were made at Fort Monroe last winter. The object was to employ an instrument that would accurately measure a vari¬ able electric current for determining the velocity of projectiles. A single switch fires the gun and obtains the record, the latter, which is made by a break in the current, due to the pas¬ sage of the projectile, being sharp and well defined, so that - the accuracy in reading it is “even beyond that at¬ tainable in measuring the interval be¬ tween screens on the proving ground.” The instrument might also be made as simple in operation as any of the chronographs now in use. Walking on the Water, Frederick J. Vogt of No. 100 North Bond street, has invented a pair of shoes for walking on the water. They are shaped like beats, and are about four feet long. On the bottom is a sort of paddle, which folds when the foot is moved forward and projects when the foot is planted on the water, so as to secure a grip. Mr. Vogt gives an exhibition of walking in his queer shoes each evening at Chase’s wharf, and a large crowd of people are at¬ tracted thereby. Mr. Vogt has also constructed a suit iu which it is pos¬ sible to float on the water and propel one’s self by the arms.—Baltimore American. A Scratch Substitute. Mamma—I don’t know what to do with baby; he’s inconsolable since his kitten died. Aunt Jane—Never mind. I’ll give him my cactus plant to play with.— Puqk. A NEW LEASE OF LTFP XX GOOD health - at three YEAR 5 of age. SKVKXr*. WU« Cornwall’s Wonderful Health —Became WeU Recovery of Months Alter T ffo Six ai1 Illness of Years. From the Register, 2Vew Haven In tnis rapid age of ours Conn, men and when so many women are old at one who has lived three-quarters of a then, after debility and suffering, century, aa<j health and vigor, must be regain* feeling akin to wonder. regarded with « A New England lady , . , has . been found who markable has Ltd this re. experience. family of Clarence Williams a n. shire farmer on the Meriden Cornwall's road f’w Ct., lives Miss Cornelia 5S™ MH.“rS-. C LSh of result which that she is procured best told in at her once, and^riftth woTfe ^ 8 “About six own Cornwafi “my health years ago,” Miss ! W gan commenced to fail .3" ferent ered from parts loss of of my appetite body. and My pains kS f* gradually grew worse until limbs conditi™ wl™ apparently unable to bear my ZJy cpuld longer my weight ’S no go up stairs whhom Bistunce ot some one. mu as effect. limbs seemed The sense to be leaving ot feeling in mv be3 lowJ to fear that it hopeless me, and T I still suffering was to look for a cam through was body, when terribly from the naj n » my I chanced to read the story of a cure that had been effected with the use of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People. I discovered that the town druggist here had none on sale so I sent tady, immediately N. Y., and to the headquarters in’ Scheaec secured two of the boxes of the pills. “Last December I commenced using the pills regularly, and a month after I had been taking them, I felt greatly benefited by their use. The feeling in my limbs came back again, and in two months I was able to go about the house as I had been accustomed to a year before. Now, as you can see. I am enjoying good health. The pallor in my face was removed by the pills. A number of my friends in the neighborhood were com¬ plaining of symptoms somewhat similar to my own, and I recommended that they taka Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills. They did so, and they tell me that they have been very much benefited by their use. I still continue to necessity take the pills, them though there is not so much for at present. As a purifier of the blood, I consider the Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills a wonderful medicine.” Pink Pills are sold by all dealers, or wifi be sent post paid on receipt $2.50—they of price, (50 cents a box or six boxes for are never sold in bulk, or by the 100) by addressing Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co., Schenectady, N, X, THE WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta, Ga. It contains all the news of the world with & bright of collection travel, of miscellaneous stories, notes etc., etc., and will he sent to any address for fifty cents a year. The Juve¬ nile Journal, a bright children’s raper. is in¬ cluded with each copy ot the Weekly without extra charge. Send lor specimen copy. Ad¬ dress The Journal, Atlanta, Ga. How U it with Yon?—Do yon Masticat* Yonr Food Thoroughly? A little attention to tnis matter is well re¬ warded. Eating, just for the sake of it, will cut life short by many a year. Eat to live. Look well to digestion. If your stomach 1* weak and unable to properly care for the food eaten, the use of Tyner’s Dyspepsia Remedy will work wonders. It benefits from the first do e. A p<T-i ive cure for every form of indi¬ gestion. Price 50 cents per bottle. For sale by aii druggists. Deafness Cannot be Cured by lo^al appl cations, as they cannot reach tha diseased portion of the ear. There is only one wav to cure Deafness, and that is by consti¬ tutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an i< flamed condition of the mucous lining of iho Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets inflamed you have a rumbling sound or im P'Tfect hearing, and when it is entirely c'o-ed Deafness is the result, and unless the inflam¬ mation can be taken out and this tube re¬ stored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out ten are caused by citarrli, which is nothing hut an in¬ flamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that can¬ not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure, if end lor circulars, free. Co., Toledo, , 0. _ F. J. Cheney & t35“\Sold by. Druggists, 75c. At The Office you may have a sudden bilious attack or headache work. when If it is have impossible box of for Ripans you to leay* Tab your iiles desk you tabula a taken the first in your a at symptom will relieve you. There Is Pleasure and Profit and satisfaction in abating trouble -onto and painful ills by using Parker’s Ginger Tonic. FITS stopped free by Da. Kline’s Great Nerve Restorer. Treatise No tits after and first $2.OOtrialbot¬ day’s use. Marvelous cures. Phila.. Fa tle free. Dr. Kline, 931 Arch St., I believe Piso’s Cure for Consumption saved my boy’s life last summer.—Mrs. ALU* Douglass, LeRoy, Mich., Oct. 20, ’94. If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp¬ son’s Eye-water.Druggists sell at 25c per bottle. Do Fishes Talk? A naturalist has been making some investigations in the fish ponds at Guilford, with regard to the much de¬ bated question as to whether fish can communicate a notion of their expe¬ riences to other fishes. The experi¬ menter, when he had caught a trout, threw it back alive into the pond. hook, Then he put in a freshly baited and only two or three trout came after it. By experimenting in another pond, equally well stocked, and not throwing back any fish, Mr. Field found that he could catch trout with¬ out any trouble. This seems to show that captured fishes, when released, may communicate their sufferings to their neighbors in the pond. Safety on Railways. It is stated that Peter Stvers, an en¬ gineer on the Lehigh Valley railroad, who died recently at Bethlehem, f ’ a -» aged seventy-three years, has traveie during his forty-6ix years of service »s engineer, at least 1,000,000 mnes. During that time be has never hat; an accident.