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A 4- 4. |l;ulc <Toun!i! i^tus TRENTON, GEORGIA. A newspaper has been startefl at los Cruces, New Mexico, which is “devoted to war with Mexico,” There is a wonderful mirage in Glacier Ray, Alaska, reflected from the glassy surface of the Pacific glacier. It is said that just after the change of the moon in June, just after sunset and while the moon is climbing above the sky, a city appears above the glacier. It is so dis tinct that a photograph is said to hove been made this season by a resident of Juneau, who learned of the mirage from the ' ndians and has seen it appear and disappear for four years. In some towns in Louisiana, where the business interests of the community are mostly wrapped up in the success failure of the sugar crop, according to the Ch icago U/rald, one may see on the regis'ersof the hotels after each arrival’s name the expression: “Stubble good,” “stubble blamed poor,’k and so on. The “stubble” is the local name for sugar cane, and this method of each planter writing down the condition of his own crops saves time for the reporters and spares tlie planter the annoyance of being interviewed. Hunting for turtle’s eggs on the ftlandr of the coast is a summer pastime of eorgians. It is said that one of the curiodiies of a turtle’s nest is that no one having taken the eggs from a tur tle’s nest can get them all back in again. Several have tried the experiment to find it a blank failure. After filling the cavity ia the sand there are always enough eggs left to fill a couple more oests just as large, r Id Mrs. Turtle, when she deposits an egg, p oldies it in tight with her feet, egg by egg, the elasticity of the egg shell permitting it, but raau cannot compress the eggs as does the turtle. The “record” in rapid machine work lias again been lowered. Heretofore the Baldwin Locomotive ’Works, of Phila delphia, have held the first place with the record of an engine built in twenty four hours, bet the Pennsylvania Rail road L ora; any has now ta en the palm by constructing a full-sized (110,Out) pounds) anthracite-burning locomotive at the A-too,na shops in sixteen hours and fifty-1] va minutes. The work was com menced in the morning, and in five min utes less than seventeen hours the engine was turned out ready lor use. It is to run on the New York division of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Th ■ feat is un rivaled in locomotive building. Dr. Gatling, the inventorof the de structive engine of war which bears his name, proposes, remarks the Mail and Exvi-'M, to revolutionize the art of building heavy guns. The successful ordnance of modern times is the built up gun. The Krupp and the Armstrong guns are manufactured fro n successive layers of steel. These are very likely to burst, the makers being unwilling to guarantee that a gun will stand firing more than a hundred times. I)r. Gat ling proposes a steel gun cast about a cold core, so that the cooling will go on from the inside outward, making the middle hardest and the outside softest. The e guns •an be made for about fifty per cent, of the cost of built up guns. Bays tHfe New York M re>ir>/ : “One of the marked features of business and professional bfe at the present day is the tendency toward the pursuit of special ties. Scih Green, the noted piscicul turist, who died last week, was an illus tration of the manner in which attention to a fixed idea and faith in the ability to carry it, out will conduce to ultimate suc cess. M lien he began tli? study of the artificial propagation of fish he was looked upon as a visionary; but as his experiments gradually developed theii economic va ue was acknowledged, and fish, culture has now rca*< hed the point where it has become an important agency as a food producer. Men like this qu ef an l unassuming student of nature are among the greatest of the world’s bene factors.” Theie was recently published a state ment that it was discovered amonor the papers of 1 ieneral Sheridan that a life in surance policy of $15,000 had been placed for him by his friend, General W. B. Franklin, of Hartford. A friend of the family corrects this in the New York &t ir, and the correction shows what a generous friand General ; heridan had in his old war comrade, General Alger. It appears that a few years ago General Alger, at that time Governor of Michi gan, gave General Sheridan SIO,OOO in money, npon condition that it should be invested in a life insurance policy, and that that policy should be kept up for the benefit of the widow. The money was in. ested in a policy for $23,000, and ' inquiry since the death of General Sheridan, at the office ot the company, was answered by a statement that there had been no default in the payments upon the policy. BEAUTIFUL WINGED THOUGHTS. Eonutiful birds have plumage, Beautiful thoughts have wings Stars shine far above the sigh Of earth’s vague whisperings. Under the earth’s broad bosom Never beauty lies But shall burn its way to the rim of day. And flash to our wondering eyes. Beautiful gems lie hidden Under the fold of earth; Even the slime hides a thought sublime Till the time of the lily’s birth. Even thn birds went creepi ng Wingless and featherless, Till p'ume by plume, like the roses bloom, They borrowed the singer's dress. Beautiful birds have plumage, Beautiful thoughts fly high; The poet’s song cannot slumber long. ♦ Its track is the boundless sky, Under the infinite heaven Never a wing unfurled But shall find its way to the verge of day. And flash on soma wondering world. —Laura Be l. AFTER THREE YEARS. BY ABFKED 1.. KING. The acquaintance of Marcia Edler, whose father owned a large stock farm near Philadelphia, a id Austin Gaudaur, of that city, beg. n in this wise: He was leaning on the fence and in tently watering the antics of a two-year old colt. It was early morning, but it was not unusual for her to race through the fields while the fog still clung to the grass and the clover leaves were ail or namented with liquid diamonds. So she went out when Austin supposed all women, except servants, were abed. She ajipn a bed him soltly and laid her hand on his back while she exclaimed: “1 e:n, i cannot catch the gray (illy; she is perverse this morning.” Slowly Austin turned and beheld a young lady with her dress tucked up and wearing no hat. Lilting his, he exeat med “It you had a milk pail on your arm I should think you were the pretty maid who-e face was her fortune.” it was a bo d speech, but Austin was a daring fellow “And if it was not daylight I should take you to be a horse thief and hiss the dous on you,” she replied and haughtily turned her back on him. lie gave his attention to the colt. He was moie interested in horseflesh than in femininity. Most young men would have endeavored to follow up the ac quaintance so romantically introduced, but Austin, beyond a certain indifferent momentary interest, was not attracted by womankind. He liked women yet was seldom in their society. Sports en grossed his attention. A fine tennis player, he avoided games in which wo men took part. A good hand at whist, he was not often found at a table where a woman would be either his partner or opi-onent. He was a puzzle to the ladies of his acquaintance, and they good humoredly let him alone. Society knew little of him, and he never discovered a romance in any situation. Marcia was otherwise. Happiest was she vtfheu with the men. Her flirtatious wene numerous. The broken engage ments to which she bad been a parti were many. She made no secret of her eagerness to receive the attention of the beaus, rhe rejoiced in tiiqghiien. Yet really she cared no more for them than Austin did for the women, but they were essential to a flirtation, and in that the frivolous girl delighted. Quick at re partee and careless of He ings of others, she had few frieaas and many enemies. * Hamilton Edler, her father, laughed at her coquetry, humored her caprice and encouraged her. When asked to give his consent to her union with some poor fellow whom she was deluding with a promise to be h.s only, he invariably remarked as lie sent the young man away happy: “Sir, you arc engaged to the wind.” This information, \sith the manner of skepticism, had led to the conclusion that he was dotingly fond of his daugh ter. lie was and he knew the value of her promise, Some day her heart would assert itself, womanhood would enter into the obligation, while the fieklene-s and gayety of girlhood yielded to the dig nity and earnestness o; woman. He was afraid it m ght come soon, this change, and he dreaded it. As she left Austin she snappishly plucked off the head of a daisy and wished he had not the appearance of a gentleman. If he was a tramp he was an impudent one; but although he wore a biue tlannel shirt he did not look as if he had slept in a haymow, f inally sin concluded that ho was some athlete who resembled her brother 1 emberton and who had been out on a lark: That was her most charitable conclusion. When she returned from the fields she discovered the stranger talking to her father. They were on the front porch and she disdained to enter that way. However, she threw her father a kiss, to which he responded with a ro isiug smack of his lips on the palm of his hand. At breakfast site was surprised with att introduction to Mr. Austin Gaudaur. She gravely inclined her head, resolved not to be rude to her father’s guest, but determined to resent the visitor's im pertinence of the early morning. “Tired, daughter:'” asked the genial host. “Vexed. I could not catch the filly.” “Better be careful of that colt’s heels, young lady.” “It’s a singular thing, pap.” spoke up the irreverent Pemberton, “that nobody kicks at Marsh.” bhe shot her brother a wrathful glance. The next moment her face was hot; she felt it and had non the courage to meet the look with which Austin was calmly surveying her. Austin remained until evening. She was not present when he took his leave, and he left his regards for her. 'When Mr. Edler tendered them she merely said: “Thank you.” Two days later he came again. When he went away the colt went with him. For a moment before his departure he stood alone on the porch, while Mr. Elder and Pern caressed the colt. Marcia swept up to him with anger in her eye 3 and said in a low, fierce tone. “My instincts were right when they arraigned you as a horse thief that morn ing in the paddock. I wish I had hissed t »the dogs on you then.” “Why do you judge me so harshly?’’ he inquired. “Y'our money has robbed me of my pet. Your gold bribed ray father to sell that horse.” “I act for my employer solely,” he re plied, on the defensive. 'litis position surprised him, for ho was usually the aggressor. •‘Oh, yon are a slave 1” With this contemptuous remark she turned her back upon him. Her tones rung in his ears, they reverberated in his heart. Such contempt had never been bestowed upon him. A breeze blew softly and tossed his hair. “This is delicious,” he murmured. He may have meant the wind, sweet and fre-h from the clover fields? tie may have referred to Marcia’s indignation. When he rode away Marcia gazed after him. Mr. Edler and Pern looked at the colt, ungratefully leaving the only home it had known to become the resident of a strange stable. They were half regretful that they had made the trade. As for Marcia, she was angry. Her heart swelled with rage. bhe cordially hated the man who had had the impatience to address her as the pretty maid without knotving who she was, and never after apoligizing for it. Two weeks later Pent was talking to some one in the yard at the rear pf the house, while Mae -ia, swinging in the hammock, just out of vie .vdl brand the corner, was interested in a l(5ok. Sud denly she shut it with a bang as a merry laugh oated to her. The discontent that had weighed Iter down for days flew away like a s; ared bird when that laugh reached her, and she forgot how angry she had been at Austin when she last saw him. Promptly on recognizing Iter change of feeling toward him she attempted to school herself,but she wa- rebellious and would perversely en,oy the knowledge that he had returned. The gentlemen approached her, and, fear.ug that she would betray herself by a spontaneous greeting to Austin, site tumbled out of the hammock and ran into the house, lie caught a glimpse of her as she shut the door His visit was rather an aimless one. lie advanced no other reason for it th in a desu e to report that the colt was doing well. Pem, who had formed a coidial ftie ,dsh p for him, pressed him to st ay all night, and he gladly accepted the in vitation. Presently Pem was called away or? some business, and Austin strolled into the paddock. lie was stroking o*3 Ally’s nose, when Marcia t ame up beside him. “Mr. Gaudaur, I am glad to see you,” she said frankly. “You have won the affection of the filly.” lie h ired his head, but something in her eyes pie ented him from uttering the commonplace gallantry that was on his lips. Instead tie said: “1 am fond of horses and kind to them ” “Then you are good to the colt?” she observed interrogatively, with something of her former m schievousness. He did not seem hurt by her intima tiou that he was a hostler or a jockey, but simply said : “I should not treat the colt badly.” His eyes wandered over the fields to the far away mountains, while she looked upon the ground as iPshe s-.Tg.ht for four-leaved clovers. They were em bar.t sed. She made an endeavor to over come the trying situation by olleiing an apology for her rudeness on his former vis ts. llegiavely admitted that she had wounded h.m,whereuponshe flushed, and w.th a bow left him. Jlis eyes fastened on the mountains again, while the Ally, tiied of him, followed Marcia. “That oppressive,” he observed, as he leapt.® the fence near him and went to the barn. 'I he evening was rainy, and perforce host and guest at the Edler farm re mained under co er. Fora while they sat on the piazza, and Marcia, reclining on a sofa just inside the open window of the parlor, heard the tales recounted by the visitor, it was very entertaining, and his witty sayings were rewarded with many hearty laughs by his listeners. He d d not ask for her, and her father aud Rem seemed to forget that she existed. Her mother was a quiet woman, accus tomed to spend most of her evenings alone. Finally Marcia went to the piano and began to play a sonata. Her fingers glided over the keys, and when the music began to posess her she became conscious that that the conversation on the had practically ceased. “That’s my sister, Marsh,” she heard Pern say. • She paused to listen fof the reply. “Ah.” the visitor ejaculated in a tone of polite interrogation, betokening sur priso. “Ah.” angrily she dashed into a roulade, and lhe keys fairly Hashed as they responded to her touch. It was pyrotechnics. “Ah?” she played revengefully, but soon the mood passed away and she took up the air of a ha lad Through the low notes she heard the voice of Austin. “ omebody caught the runaway.” he was observing in a pit id tone. Marcia abrubtlv left the piano and went to the widow. Austin rose on see ing her and said: “Miss Edler, if you will play the accompaniment I will sing that song.” i lis impertinence was beyond endur ance, but unwilling to seem rude, and also curious to hear h in sing, she seated herself at the piano again. *he played in correct time, but methodically only. Before the first verse was completed her soul was engrossed with the spirit of the music and sire played with earnest feeling. Mr, F.d'.er and Pem were delighted with Austin’s voice, and Mrs. Edler ap peared in the parlor before the ballad was con luded. Austin was enthusi astically encored. Lights were brought | and Marcia produced her music. In the I collection he found many songs that he knew. She accompanied lnm with ardor, and the minutes flew. Ether persons were present, Austin and Marcia knew, yet they had a feeling of one ness that isolated them from the wofld. No one asked Marcia to sing. Austin did not, and his monopolizing of the vocal part of the entertainment was done so honestly that it did not*raise the question of his conceitedness. It was dull enough for the party when he declared he knew no more songs. Soon after he quit singing Mrs. Edler slipped away and Mr. Edler followed her. Then Pem made an excuse and dis appeared. Marcia and Austin looked at each other, and straight way the spirit of banter arose in their hearts. Their acquaintance had begun in badinage, and with perversa .Fatality they persisted in it. ‘‘The runaway ia tractable at times.” she remarked, as she toyed with her lan. “And the horse thief becomes a mounteback,” he laughingly answered. “And tbs pretty maid grinds the organ.” iter eyes were looking at him over the top of a fan. “And when we pas 3 the hat, lo! the audience vanishes!” lie was willing, apparently, to protra t th • far e. “J.iko the street vagrants, we have played to no curtain.” Then, quickly discovering the feeling of association that her words intimated, she hastened to observe, “yet, unlike the street mu sicians, we did not play on the curb.” Here she i.u-liod; words were en tangling her. lie came to the tescue. Holding out his hand, he said: “Let us be friends.’' A declaration of love at that instant would have surprised her less. The ces sation of hostilities almo t threw her olf her guard, but she replied: “\\*e really were never anything else.’ bhelet him clasp her h ind. To both the compromise seemed a mockery, vet they were glad it was effected. Without further words they parted for the night. .before she came down stairs the next morning he wa- gone. A telegram lnd summoned him to the city. She uttered only a conventional expression of regret when told of his departure, and shovved no sign of the sharp pain she suffered. “It has been nothing but a farce,” she exclaimed w’ue.i alone. “A bi;ter larce!” she added, honest with herself. Austin had gone obediently, but he protested that the summons had been inopportune. Marcia did not know the handwriting of a letter that came to her soon after Austin’s last visit. «he opened it With out much interest, but read it eagerly when she saw his signature at the bottom. Deah Miss Edi.es— l write it because I feel that to speak it would iea l to a nusuti underscanding. We have been so strangely at cross purposes the round of our voices seems to provoke enmity between i s it is. good-nature i hostility, but embarrassing. To avoi 1 the appearance of insima rity, 1 pat it in black and white, a.id i hope it will be c early legible to you. I love you honestly, respectfully, fervently. Will you become my wife? An aiiinnative answer will b - an assurance of your love for me. Do not leave me long in douut. Lie compassionate. Devotedly yours, Austin Gaudaur. Marcia did not reply that night. She let hersef be glad awhile without definiteness. Aust n waited and waited. His letter was unheeded. At last lie exclaimed in despair: “I, too, am listed with the others. She flirted with me, captured me, l ung me aside. Well, this episode was ex pensive in heart tissue.” His laugh was not pleasant. His em ployer scut him into the far West, and silence softened the footfall of the years, ihe “episode” was bis only romance, and he wondered how human nature could exist so intensely in a short time that long years do not wear off the effect of the tension. Marcia did not seem herself. She wa3 ill. Her eyes had marks under them. Her manner was listless. Tue early morning never found her in the fields, and shea oided the piano as if it were the plague. Bhe never mentioned Aus tin. When by chance any reference wa-i made to him slie did not speak. Once only did she give vent to her feelings. he was in her room, and spoke relentlessly: “It was a cruel trap and I walked into it. Well, that is the la v of compensa tion. I set traps lor others.” About three weeks went by, with a weight on e ery hour. One day Marcia took down some of Pern’s oil clothes to give them to a tramp. Taking the pre caution to look into the pockets of tne coat, she discovered a letter in her hand writing addressed to Mr. Austin Gaudaur. The tramp thought her suddenly in sane when she handed him, in addition to the suit, a five-doliar bill. “I will post th s letter myself,” she said. In a few days she received a telegram. She was afraid to open it; but at last was brave enough to meet possible iil news. Austin wired her: 1 received th ; old letter with recent post mark, and am on my way to you. —Sen York Mercury. “Taking tlie Cushion. “Taking the cushion’’ is a quaint old Spanish court custom still practised, at Madrid. The ceremony creates noble ladies “grandees of Spain,” with the right to sit in the royal presence by per mission of the iving and Queen, and re cently ueea i hristiua solemnly followed the prescribed form in order to admit several young lad es about the court to the higher rank. All the lady grandees of the court assembled in one of tiie State apartments, each holding a large cushion. In the centre of the room were a larg e arm chair and a low stool. Queen Christina entered with her suite, took the arm chair and requested the ladies to sit down on their cushions. Then the candidates for grandeeship were introduced one by one; each* was attended by a sponsor, and made low reverences to the Queen and to every grandee m turn. The Queen next invited the candidate to sit on the stool at her feet —arranged as more convenient thin a cushion—spoke a few words, and allowed the lady to kiss her hand before rising to give olace to the next comer. I'he new grandee then retired and sat down upon the cushion within the charmed circle of ladies. —London Graphic. Where Wolves are Worked with Dogs. In Arctic Alaska the natives keep all young wolves that they catch and train them as dogs for teams. Dogs and wolves are reared together. The dogs are more than half wolf, and have the characteristics of those animals. They are with >ut ntrection, but obey theii masters through fear. - One dog in each team makes himself master and overseer. If any dog shirks he will punish him. If he cannot get at him when in har ness, he will not forget to give him chas tisement when released at n ; ght. They are capable of enormous endurance, like wild wolves, and can fast and work a long while. CHINESE NATAL SCENES, CEREMONIES FOLLOWING A MON GOLIAN BOY’S BIRTH. His Horoscope Immediately Taken —Visiting the Ancestral Tablet— Bedecked with Amulets. No sooner is a Chinese boy born into llie world than his father proceeds to write down eight character or words, each set of two repie-enting respectively the exact hour, day, month and year of birth. These are handed by the father to a fortune teller, whose business it is to draw up from th an a certain book of fate, generally spoken of as the boy’s “pat-tez,” or eight cha acters. Herein the fortune tel er describes the good and evil which the boy is iikeiy to meet wiih in after life, and the means to be adopted in order to secure the one and to avert the other. The pat-tez having received the first attention, the father prostrates himself before the ancestral tablets and there o ers up thanksgiving for the birth of his boy. In every house in China a room, or among the poor, a niche in the wall of their common-room, is set apart for the worship of ancestors. The names of those of the four past generations are painted on wooden tablets, befoie which, night and morfting, as well as on other special occa ions, joss sticks are burned in honor of the departed. The father next visits the temple of the goddess called “mother.” bhe is supposed to look iffter the welfare of all children until they arrive at the age of 1(>. Here incense and oblations ot fruit, etc., are offered and the goddess is ic quested to look with favor upon the precious boy. Meanwhile a bundle of leaves of the ar,emesia is hung up over the door of the house. This answers the double pur pose of frightening away demons and of warning visitors that they must not call. The entrance of an ordinary visitor dur ing the first fortnight of a child’s life is said to entail upon the infant th^penalty of sore gums. On ihe third day the ceremony of waffling the -head takes place. The child’s head is washed with soap and water, in which latter, among other things, walnuts, aca da wood and pepper have already I con placed. This washing isperlo ined before an ima:e of the goddess “mother” which has been fixed up in the department. Around the boy’s neck a red cord is next fastened, and to it are attached cer tain charms. Another red —i, e. lucky —cord about two feet- in lenglli is fast ened to his wrists, one end passing around the right and the other aro ml the left. This is called the ceremony of binding the wrists, a ceremony the per formance of which, it is believed, will keep his hands from picking and steal ing when he is older. A sheet of red paper being spread out the following ar ticles are spread upon it: Two fruits, the seed of wh.ch are used as soap, some pitch, cat’s and dig s hairs, an onion or two, a pair of chop sticks and some charcoal. These are symbolical of good wishes— viz., the desire that the boy may be i lean and tidy in h.s appeerance, be successful in all things, not be Heightened during infancy by the cries of cats and dogs, be quick witted,always have plenty toeat, may finally grow up to be a iiardy and enduring man. 'i he paper is tied up by a red cord in the form of a bag and sus pended over the bedroom door. The only visitors allowed on this oc casion are near relatives and very dear friends, all others being supposed to biitig ill luck. These are now duly feasted, after which they take their de parture. On the fourteenth day special thanks giving and obligations are made as be fore, and the wrist-cord, the red bag and trousers before - mentioned are removed as being no longer needed. On the thirty first day the mum yat or full month ceremony is performed. To this feast all the friends and relatives of the family are invited from far and near. Everyone is expected to brflig a present. These consist of a great varie ty of objects —wearing apffcrel, brace lets, anklets, a red or lucky bedstead, a red chair, red cap (with a hole all ready for the little pigtail when it has grown), etc. The boy is placed in front of the an cestral tablets. A basin of watir con taining leaves from the wong pi tree be ing provided, two boiled duck eggs and nine cash are placed therein. With this water the child’s head is first washed, after which a barber commences to shave him. The older the barber the better, because in proportion to his age or youth, so will the child attain the age or die. The shaving over, the duck eggs are gently rolled around the shaven crown. Then another-aged man stands up, and placing his hand Upon the child’s head, says: “May long life be thy portiou.” After th s the boy is, dressed in a new red jacket and green trousers, whilst the red cap already mentioned is placed upon h>s head. Oblations to the ances tors and to the goddess have been made, the child receives his first, or milk name. A feast concludes this important cere mony. , The next, if not the same day, the ch id is carried out for the first time, on which occasion it is taken into a temple, and to see its grandmother All unlucky objects are removed out of the child’s sight. A cash sword, perhaps, is hung near his bed. This consists of a sword-shaped charm, consisting of two iron rods covered by a large num er of copper cash, fastened together by wire and red cord, or the father collects wire cash from a hundred different families With this he purchases a lock shaped neck ornament. This is called the families lock,” and when worn by a child is reckoned a powerful preservative. These, with many other charms, are supposed either to bring good luck or to avert evil. At four months the child is taught to sit up in his pretty red chair. When he goes out—that is, if the family be poor —he takes the air comfortably strapped up in a bundle npon his mother’s back. As soon as he shows any signs of a de sire to walk the mother or nurse pretends to cut with a knife the imaginary cord which is said to have hitherto tied his feet together. He is then presented with a pair of kitten shoes—that is, shoes which have a cat’s head worked at the ioes. These are supposed to guarantee for him a sure and cat-like walk.— The Quiver. Gideon Thompson, the oldest man in Bridgeport, Conn., is 82 years of age. SCIENTIFIC AM) INDUSTItIAI* Carbolic a< id is a dangerous poison and must be handled with ware. The death is announced of Philip Henry Grosse, F. R. S., the English naturalist, aged seventy-eight years. The severity of scarlet fever is greatest in the first two years, lessening year by year throughout childhood and adoles cence. An excellent syrup—at least it’s so pronounced—is being made from water melons by farmers in Dougherty Coun ty, Ga. Professor Rogers ha-- invented a solid ified gas which can be immediately volatilized for the special use of bal loonists. The latest invention for rescuing pas sengers in a shipwreck is a ‘1 fe-saving saloon.” The whole saloon slides over? board and becomes a kind of ship. Due of the largest shoe contracts made is that of a firm in Bangor, Me., who have engaged to make 100,000 pairs of wigwam slippers within a year, for which they are to leceLe $71,100. Nine-tenths of the diownings at the sea beaches result from heart failure or cramp, and not from lack of muscular power. The safety of sedentary people in the water depends more on their ner vous condition, tiiau ou their strength. Normal human skuils, according to the measurements of Professor Flower, range in size from '-0 To cubic cent.meters dowa to IPiO cubic centimeters, the lamest average capacity be ne found in a race of long, fiat-headed people on the West coast of Africa. Wild turkeys have - lately been ac climatized in Austria, though such a thing has hitherto been considered al most impossible. Prom four hen tur keys and three cocks, brought from the American prairies, the colony has in creased to about .>BO individuals. By the Costner process some new works at Oldbury, England, expect to produce lfiOu pounds of sodium daily, from \\ hi: h a ton and a half of aluminium can be produced a week. This process reduces the cost of aluminium from siO per pound to about $4 or less, or from $~5, 000 to SSUU / per ton. Power by compressed air is making itself felt. The length of pipe laid in I aris lor the distribution of power by compies.-ed air already exceeds thirty miles. The compressing engines are of ..000 horse power, about ,oou,ooo cubic feet of air aie compressed daily to a pressure of eighty pouuus per square inch. Au inventive mechanic of Bridgeport, Conn., has perfected a locomotive attachment winch utilizes the phono graph in a new way. By means of the device every blast of the engine’s whistle is recorded, with the exact time at which it occurs. This will, of course,be of great va.ue to grail road companies, protecting them from the faLe sentations of persons who are injured or rautiiat d while on the track. A medical journal states that new ex periments have changed old theories upon the best methods of treating frost bites. A physician froze sixty dogs into a condition of completely suspended animation; twenty of these were treated by the usual method of gradual resusci tation in a cold room, and of these four- , teen perished; twenty were treated in a warm apartment, and eight of these died; while of the remaining twenty, which we put at once into a hot bath, all recovered. Steam p’pes of copper are now made v by electro-deposition from sulphate of copper solution. The pipe is formed on an iron core in the depositing bath, and I the deposited copper is presse dby a mov- I ing tool as it is deposited, so as to give I a tibrous strength to the crystalline cop- I per. After the pipe is thus formed it is I subjected to hot steam, which expands I the copper shell, or p pe, clear off the I iron core, thus separating the two. I These pipes have no joint, and are said I to be very strong, tests showing that I they break with strains of iron twenty* I seven to forty-one tons per square inch. K A Kentucky Child Wonder. Fifteen years ago was born a son to Mr. Andrew Woods,' a wealthy stock man and farmer near Keene, Ky. After a few months the child seemed well developed, but suddenly the body began to dwindle while the head grew. The child’s bones were of chalky formation, and at live years of age “Dot” was regarded as a marvel, lie grew in knowledge, had a great curiosity, and was carried on a pillow to every attractive meeting or speaking within the adjoiniutr counties. At ten he be.ame aesthetic in taste and dressed with great cate every day e Physicians despaired of his life, as the limbs were but a few inches long. Tbs i chest could be seen in full play, the heart beating and heaving like a maiden’s, llis living to fifteen was regarded by the 1 people as miraculous, for he ate, said *1 gentleman, hardly enough to keep a | chicken alive. I - For years museums have resorted tU all soits of extravagant offers to tbil parents, but they would never consent! to having him exhibited. The child'® death a few days ago was painless, an* the remains were deposited in a bab« coffin and followed to the burial by® great concourse of neighbors. Precaul tions have been taken against ghoul* who might seek to profit by robbing tbiß grave. Little “Dot” complained, aaß for the first time, a few days before, the pressure upon his heart, which waj smothering him. He had attained great degree of intelligence, and recent™ attended apolitical speaking, conversing like a matured mind upon that and otb® topics. Cincinnati Commercial. || Systematic Punctuation. | In a Boston newspaper office not I°® ago the chief proof-reader had be® greatly annoyed by an extraordinary a® of commas that cropped out in oc® sional “takes” on his proofs, and, b-j® ing that they occurred regularly u n j® a certain “slug,” he went to - ‘q® Fifteen’s” frame to expostulate i'® him. He found that the man new “sub,” who said he had come In® from Nova Scotia, and had learned® trade in a first-class office in lln‘*® “For pity’s sake,” exclaimed the p rJ ® reader, “what sort of a. aj'teuj ■ punctuation do they employ in Ham# ■ “The rule in our office,” replied ■■ compositor, with a patronizing air, J®k to put in about three commas to a — Boitr/n Transcript. _ *®