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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. ■■ m. 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.