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KNOXVILLE, GEORGIA.
A weather record kept at (Juebes
Shows that the climate of Canada hac
not altered in the last 200 years.
Of the seventy-six United States Sena¬
tors only thirty have received a classical
education, and of the 333 Representa¬
tives but 108 have attended college.
_ C. J. Jones, the Buffalo breeder oi
Kansas, recently sold to Austin Corbin,
President of the Reading Ra'lroad, six
head of Buffalo. They will be sent East
and put on Mr. Corbin’s place on Long
Island.
If ten of the richest men in this coun¬
try, says the New York World, should
withdraw their capital from railroads
mines and factories more than 800,000
men would be thrown out of work, aud
more than one million people would suffer
by it.
_
New Y’ork city educates about three
hundred thousand ihildren annually, in
one hundred and thirtv-four school
buildings, covering an area of thirty-five
acres. These buildings placed side by
’ side would extend than two miles.
more
There are about four thousand teachers,
and the annual expense of these schools
is about four million dollars.
The barb-wire industry is in a fair
way of being overdone. According to
the Iron Age there are forty-four manu
fauturers in this country who own 2,191
machines. It is estimated that in 200
workitfg days, running single turns, they
will make 300,000 tons of barb wire,
while the consumption ranges from 130,
900 to 150,000 tons a year.
It seems, remarks the New York Sun,
that the State prisons of Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois and New Y’ork undersold each
other in what is known as hollow ware,
namely, pots, pans and kettles, which
are made in the prisons, and at last they
saw that they were cutting out profits so
that the work was uolongei self-support¬
ing. Then they formed a combine, and
up went pot and kettle prices.
A novel idea is to be carried out at a
Presbyterian Church at Bethany, Penn.,
at a date set for celebrating the lifting of
its mortgage, A mock funeral service is to
be held, and the mortgage is to be sol¬
emnly cremated, amid the thanksgiving
of the congregation, after which the
ashes are to be deposited in an urn pre¬
pared for that purpose. A funeral ora¬
tion will be delivered, and the pastor
will recite a memorial poem.
It would be almost impossible, says
Franklin S. Pope in Scribner's Magazine,
to catalogue the number and variety of
purposes for which the electric motor is
now in daily use. Some of the most
usual applications are for printing
presses, sewing machines, elevators, ven¬
tilating fans, aud machinist's lathes. At
the present time every indication un¬
mistakably point3 to the probability that
within a very few years nearly all
mechanical work in large cities, especial¬
ly in cases in which the power required
does not exceed say 50 horse-power,
will be performed by the agency of the
^ electric motor. It is an ideal motor, ab¬
solutely free from vibration or noise,
perfectly manageable, entirely sale, and
with the most ordinary care seldom if
ever gets out of order. Indeed there is
uo reason to suppose that the limit of 50
horse-power will not be very largely ex¬
ceeded within a comparatively short
, period, when it is remembered That
scarcely five years ago the production of
u successful 10 horse-power motor was
considered quite a noteworthy achieve¬
ment.
The Richmond Religious Herald has
raised the inquiry as to what proportion
of the beneficiaries in x>uv Southern Bap¬
tist colleges use tobacco, and what the
indulgence costs. One estimate places
the number at fully one-half, and $15
as the annual expense to each devotee of
the weed.
The immigration into the United
States in the seven months to January 31
was 236,845 persons, against 206,968 in
the same time last year. Here is an ad¬
dition to the population in seven months
sufficient to make a city as large as
Buffalo and twice as large as either
St. Paul, Minneapolis, or Kansas City.
The War Department has prepared an
interesting tabular statement showing
the number of army officers born in each
State, Territory, and foreign country.
Of the States, New York takes the lead
with 447, Pennsylvania takes second
place with 370, and Texas and West
Virginia come in for 3 officers each in the
service, and Nevada has but one. Ol
the Territories, the Indian Territory has
only 1, New Mexico 2, Utah 3, and
Washington Territory 4. Four officers
were born at sea. Of foreign countries,
Ireland has the largest representation,
having 83 officers in the army who were
born within her boundary. The follow¬
ing is a list of the foreign countries rep¬
resented in the American Army and the
number accredited to each: Asia, 1;
Austria, 1; Belgium, 1; Canada, 17;
Chuta-Nagpoor, 1; Corfu, 1; East In¬
dies, 1; England, 23; France, 9; Ger¬
many, 32; Hungary, 1; Ireland, 83;
Malta, 1; Italy, 3; Netherlands, 1: New
Brunswick, 2; Nova Beotia, 5; Poland,
1; Prince Edward Island, 1; Prussia,
15; Sandwich Islands, 1; Saxony, 2;
Scotland, 15; South America, 3; Swe¬
den, 3; Switzerland 3, and Wales, 1.
How to Get a Cinder Ont of the Eye.
Nine persons out of every ten, with a
cinder or any foreign substance in the
eyo, with will hand instantly begin hunting to rub for the their eye
one while
handkerchief with the other. They may,
and sometimes do, remove the offending
cinder, but more frequently rub till the
eye becomes inflamed, bind a handker¬
chief around the head and go to bed.
This is all wrong. The better way is
not to rub the eye with the cinder in at
all, but to rub the other eye as vigorously
as you like.
A few years since I was riding on the
engine of the fast express from Bing¬
hamton to Corning. The threw engineer, the an
old schoolmate of mine, open
front window, and I caught a cinder
that gave me the most excruciating pain.
“Let your eye alone, and rub the other
eye” (this from the engineer). I thought
he was me and worked the
harder. “I know you doctors think you
know it all, but if you will let that eve
alone and rub the other one the cinder
will be out in two minutes,” persisted
the engineer. I began to rub the other
eye, and soon I felt the cinder down
near the inner canthus, aud made ready
to take it out. “Let it alone and keep
at the well did eye,” shouted the doctor and pro
tem. I so for a minute longer,
looking found the in offender a small glass he cheek. gave me, Sinie I
on my
then I have tried it many times and have
advised many others, and I have never
known it to fail in one instance (unless it
was thing as that sharp as into a piece the ball of steel, and or required some¬
cut
an operation to remove it). Why it is so
I do not know. But that it is so I do
know, and that one may be saved much
suffering it they will let the injured eye
alone and rub the well eye. Try it.—
Medi'nl Summary.
A Wonderful Irou Tower.
Notwithstanding is some reports to the
contrary, work progressing rapidly
upon M. Eiffel’s wonderful iron tower,
or observatory, which is to dominate the
Exposition According grounds and all Paris next
year. to the plans, it is to
roach a height of 300 meters, equal to
about 1,000 feet. The four mighty
arched pillars of the base, rising over
the Champ de Mars like the skeleton of
some extinct monster, have already
nearly reached the height of the towers
of Notre Dame. —Frank Leslie's.
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THE ROGUE’S RUSE.
A NEW YORK HOUSEHOLDER'S
VERY QUEER VISITOR.
Startinsj With Epilepsy, Drifting to
Thieving, Wandering to In¬
ventions, and Ending
With a Surprise.
There is a plain house in Eighteenth
street, not far from Fourth avenue, which
is distinguished from its substantial
fellows of brownstone only by a parti¬
cular episode which happened within its
doors.
Two or three nights ago, a lank, pale
faced man, dressed in a suit of black so
him, badly cut that it hung in folds about
mounted the steps of this partic¬
ular house. He rang the bell, which
was answered by a maid servant, who ran
away in a fright when she saw the man
and called loudiy for the master of the
house. He came and was startled out of
his every-day polite manner by the wild
appearance of the stranger, who said,
while he trembled in every limb and his
teeth chattered:
“Beg pardon, sir, but would you mind
my sub having a them fit in and your hate vestibule? make I’m
ect to to a
spectacle This of myself in the street.” floored the
householder. extraordinary request within the
of his It was not had pale
experience at all. He never
been subject to epilepsy himself and did
not know what co do with an utter
stranger suffering with the disease. But
in the kindness of his heart he sent the
servant for a doctor who lived across the
way and went up stairs to his wife for
her advice and a camphor bottle. Ashe
glanced over the balustrade on his way
up, he saw the stranger writhing in ap
parent agony ou the lounge in the lower
hall, where he had left him. Heliastened
in his search and reached the head of the
stairs on the way down just in time to
see the man of fits get up, look stealthily
around and then sneak into the parlor.
The householder, descending the stairs
cautiously, reached a point where he
could see the stranger helping himself to
some small Japanese vases and rare
china cups which adorned the mantel in
the dimly-lighted room. Then there
was a shout:
“ What are you doiDg with those
things?”
The lank man dropped his booty, and,
aftcr the crash of china, said calmly: “I
beg pardon, but I’m a kleptomaniac.”
The householder was even more a9tou
ished at this statement than at the re
quest of the man which led to his intro
auction into the house.
“Don’t use any violence,” said the man
of fits, as he burst into tears. “I’ll tell
you my story if you will promise to let
me go afterward, and to-morrow, will if show you
care to come to my room, I
you some of the most wonderful inven
tions of the age.”
The householder, assuring himself that
he was dealing with a crank, finally con
sented to let the man go if he would tell
his
“ I may as well confess,” said the lank
man, as he sat down, “that the fit bnsi
nes9 is all put on. 1 don't have fits, but
I suffer with a passion for art, and I have
worked that fit scheme to get into houses
lets of times, and then have made my
escape. You see I am frank with you.
I love bric-a brae, but I am poor and
have to supply myself from the mantels
of the rich. Better than art, though,
and bric-a-brac I love invention. I am
an inventor myself, and, as I promised,
I will show you at my room to-morrow
some remarkable things.”
At this point the servant returned,
ing that the doctor was not at home, and
as she looked at the odd stranger, seated
comfortably blooming in the interrogation parlor, her point. face be¬
came a
“As I was saying,” continued the
shabby man, with an engaging smile, “I
have a number of inventions, some of
■which I am sure are destined to make
countless thousands happy. 1
“You go to the theatre, of course ?
Ah! I thought so, and you dislike tall
hats? Light again, 1 see. 1 nave per
fected a plan for relieving fail of ladies meeting of their tlicir
hats which cannot
approval, and which will place the the
atrical manager who adopts he it will upon a
throne of popularity where re
ceive the homage of all men. \ T ou have
seen the wires and cups used for trails
portin' 1 change from the counter to the
cashier in our large retail dry-goods
houses? Certainly. It is my purpose to
adapt this invention to the needs of the
theatre. I have at my room an excellent
working model of my invention. I pro
pose the stringing of wires across thf
k
theatre which shall lead to a check room.
On these wires I intend to place tiand
some gilded cages large enough to" con
tain a lady’s hat. I have a cage to hang
over every other seat, and springs to pro
pel it to a place in the check room. The
lady arrives, takes her seat in the theatre,.
languidly her removes her headgear, hands il
to escort, who places it in a conve¬
nient cage, pulls the spring, and shoots
the hat to the check room, where it re¬
mains until after the performance, when
it is shot back over the wire to its owner.
Nice idea, isn’t it ? You shall see the
method of its working to-morrow.”
At this point the householder, lost in
admira.ion of his strange guest, offered,
him a cigar.
“Now, I have at my rooms, ” said the
his guest, cigar, as he puffed lings of smoke from
“and you shall see that, too, a
very simple invention, which I have not
patented, but which has everything to
commend it. There is a fortune in its
manufacture if I can get it patented. It
is a paper shirt bosom, but not like those
which have been made before. Mine is
composed of from twenty to fifty sheets
of linen paper pressed together like a
pad of writiug paper. When one smooth
front becomes soiled all a man has to do
is to rip it off. and then he has a beauti¬
ful, clean, fresh surface to display to the
world. These fronts will be a nice thing
for busy business men andj after a pause j
for reporters. When they happen to be
without writing paper all they have to
do will be to tear off a front and go to
work.”
There was a flash of silence after this
speech ingenious which was broken again by the
guest. other accomplishments
“With my I
am hand,” proud to place that of sleight-of
said he. Then he arose and
walked timidly toward the householder,
“I touch you,” here he seemed to tap
lightly on the waistcoat of the man he
was watch entertaining, “and now I take your
out of my coat-tail pocket. He
pulled the watch out of his pocket, to the
astonishment of its owner, and handed it
to him.
Then, writing an address on a piece of
paper, he handed it to his host and
humbly begged leave to depart. The
nian of the house begged to know how
he got the watch.
“Please do no not ask me that,” he
said, as he backed to the door. “It is a
matter will of give practice, $10,” that is said all. ’ the
“I you owner
of the watch, who had replaced his time
piece in his pocket, “if you will tell me
how you did that trick.”
By this time both men were at the
frontdoor. “Well,” said the pale man,
“$10 is a good deal. I'll take it anil do
the trick again; perhaps yon can catch
on this time.”
He approached the gentleman again,
lightly tapped him on the waistcoat
pocket, and produced the watch as be
fore.
“Didn’t you see liow that was done?
No? Well, I’ll put it back in yourpocket
This be appeared to do deliberately,
saying, with a weary smile: “Now, if
you will call at my room to-morrow I’ll
show you just how I did the trick. It is.
too late for me to show you to-night.”
Fascinated by the man’s deftness, the for
getting how he had entered house,
and ignoring his peculiar conduct, the
householder said he would be on hand
sure the next morning. Then he opened,
the door, hade his visitor a cordial good
night, and returned to his comfortable
fireside. Soon he had occasion to eon
suit his watch. It was gone, and the
$10,and the man too, who had given him
an address which of course householdcer proved ficti
tious. This is the story the
tells to his bosom friends now that h*
has given up search for the skillful thief
who stole his watch.— Hew York Time*.
Trouble Caused by One Little Comma.
The Washington Critic says: A Con
necticut avenue man, whose wife is away
0 n a visit, wrote to her the other day, and
this stanza, which he meant in
good ^ spirit, but which is likely to raise
row .
jf absence makes the heart grow tender, dear,
And distance makes the dear more
j pray thee do not cease to wander,
And stay away at least a year.
———— j
On the new bonnets all the trimmings .
are lowered, though they pointed are by no hows means of
flat. But the towering
last year have given place to soft, wme
loops, put on to give a broader effect.
Very thick aigrettes will be used again,
and these are as high as ever, hut too
fine and light to be ob ectionable.
Telescopes -----T” invented j :" m the . year
were
1580.