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When a nest ing lace is to be selected the male looks jauntily alxnit and is ready to accent anything that conies to hand, but the hen examines each iroioKed site with critical care, apparently studies the re- j Lttions of the place to win. wind and rain, and finally decides the question with small consideration for the opin ions of her spouse. When the nest is to bo built tho house wifely character cf the hen again asserts itself. Slie is busy all day long gather ing sticks and straws to serve as building materii.1. Nothing is taken haphazard, but every stick or straw fits to a nicety and is admirably adapted to tins end for which it is selected. As to tho male, he gives moral supjort and little else. While the hen is devoting all her ener gies to tho task in hand' ho sits on a neighboring lxjugh and encourages her with music. Nor does she exiect or wish more at his hands. Now and then, apparently pricked by conscience, he leaves his ierch, picks up a clumsy stick or straw and carries it to tho scene of the building ojierationB. But his contribution is seldom received with favor. The hen usually examines it with the ill concealed scorn that wives sometimes accord to domestic perform ances of husbands, and in nine cases out of ten she tosses away the proffered ma terial as soon as the back of her spouse is turned. New York Sun. A Cowboy's Sense of Humor. A globe trotting Englishman told me this story: "To show you that the cow boys are not as bad as they have been painted in fact, that they are opposed to anything like lawbreaking and vio lence let me relate an incident. There was a poor clerk standing up over his books at a desk in a shop on the main street, and there was a cowboy riding up and down the street. Well, the cow boy saw the clerk and his sense of hu mor was aroused by the idea of shooting at him, d'you know. Those cowboys have a very remarkable sense of humor. So the cowboy ups with his pistol, d'you know, and he shoots the poor clerk right through the head, killing him instantly. "Well, now, that sort of thing is very distinctly frowned upon by cowboys, as a rule, and in this case the cowboys held a meeting and resolved that the fellow with the lively but dangerous sense of humor should be hanged at once. They put a rope around his neck, and there being no tree anywhere in sight they hung him to the side of a Pullman as the train came rolling in. I've seen a number of occurrences of that sort, which makes me quite positive in stat ing that though they are a very rum sort of beggars they are really not a bad lot." Julian Ralph in Harper's Weekly. A Lazy, Though Shrewd Fellow. Tulkinson a barrister and bachelor combined, by the way is a very sys tematic man. The other day he had his house fitted with electrical appliances, and giving instructions to his servant Joseph, he said: "Now 1 want you to understand, Joseph, that when 1 ring once that means for you, and when 1 ring twice that means for Maggie, the housemaid." Joseph, who is the laziest wretch that ever accepted wages he did not earn, bowed respectfully and withdrew. A little later the bell rang. Joseph never moved. Presently it rang again, and according to instructions Maggie came hurrying to her master, who was very angry. "Why didn't that rascal, Joseph, come when 1 rang for him?" said the bar rister bachelor disgustedly. "Why, sir," answered Maggie, ."Jo seph is busy in the office reading your newspaper. When he heard the first ring he said to me, 'Now, Maggie, wait until he rings the second time, and then it will be you he wants.' " London Tit Bits. Strange Cave Dwellers in Spain. At a meeting of the Royal Geograph ical society, of Madrid, Dr. Bide gave an account of his exploration of a wild district in the province of Caceres, which he represented as still inhabited by a strange people who speak a curious patois and live in caves and inaccessible retreats. They have a hairy skin and have hitherto displayed a strong repug nance to mixing with their Spanish and Portugese neighbors. Roads have lately been pushed into the district inhabited by the "Jurdes," and they are begin ning to learn the Castilian language and attend the fairs and markets. W. H. Larrabee in Popular Science Monthly. The Growth of Railroad Mileage. In 1830 there were twenty-three miltrs of railway in operation in the United States. By 1S32 the mileage had in creased to 229 miles, and in 1835 thi country had 1,098 miles of railroad. Tht first through railroad from the ear westward was completed in 1842 between Boston and Albanj-, connecting at the latter place with the Erie canal. In the same year the last link of the line from Albany to Buffalo was opened. At the end of 1848 the total mileage of all the railroads in the country was 5.U93 mites, or about 500 miles more than there aro now in the state of Nebraska. Edward Rosewater's Omaha Address. The Flute Is Very Old. The flute is very old in its origin, but the flute of today is different from that of the ancients. It has been improved upon from time to time, and the old people would probably fail to recognize it now. The flageolet, which is some what similar, is credited to Juviguy about 1581. Harper's Young People. Tall Men In Asia and Africa. The tallest men of South America are found in the western provinces of tho Argentine Republic, of Asia in Afghan istan and Kaypootana, of Africa in tb.i highlands of Abyssinia. Yankee Ulii-io. HARBOR DEFENSES. PLANTING deadly explosives tc PROTECT THE COAST. What a VaKt Amount of Labor, Skill. Time and Moury la Needed to Com plete a Thorough Sytttem of Count De fense Advantages of the Torpedo. There is a very widely diffused idea among people who have not made a special study f the subject that torpe does, and torpedoes alone, can defend any harlxr against a hostile attack. The destructive effects of a few tor Iedo explosions under the most favor able circumstances have caused this branch of warfare to assume an undue importance, an importance wholly un warranted by the results and created by generalizations from isolated instances, entirely without regard to the natural limitations of the c-fneiency of any tor pedo system, however ierfect. It is the object of this article to en deavor to show the actual capabilities of torjedoes, the results attainable by their use, and tho restrictions inevitably at tending their indefinite expansion into a complete system of defense. Great guns must play an important part in all harbor defense, but for the projer and adequate defending of navi gable chenuels bouyant mines, exploded by contact, are the mainstays. With their use, however, a host of per plexing conditions arise, the twisting and wearing of the cables and moorings, the depression due to the currents, the danger of sympathetic explosions, the leaking of the cases, the obstruction of the channel for friendly navigation all these have to bo overcome as best they may be. Where a port has several navigable channels, and it is practicable to sacri fice one or more, their closure by means of self acting torpedoes is easy. Where a channel, however, cannot be entirely abandoned, self acting mines are useless, for in order to be thorough ly reliable they must be as dangerous to a friend as to an enemy. Furthermore, their planting, and much more, their re moval upon the cessation of hostilities is to be accomplished only at great risk. The limited applicability of ground mines is well known. Torpedo science furnishes two other types for harbor de fense; the buoyant mine and the dirig ible torpedo, although the latter proper ly forms a distinct class. Great nicety in planting torpedoes eannot be expected, and this fact, cou pled with the inevitable shifting of the mines from various causes, leads direct ly to the conclusion that a great num ber of mines must be relied upon rather than precision in their manipulation. Despite the number of mines, a vessel attempting to pass the lines may still fail to strike a mine hard enough to work the circuit closer. To meet this contingency a perfect torpedo system must provide means for firing the mines at will in groups of three or four. It will always be possible to accurately lo cate a vessel within a dangerous space of this number of mines, and their simul taneous explosion will have the desired effect. To furnish a passage for the electric current many cables are needed, and to avoid confusion some regular method of planting must be adopted. It is con venient to plant the torpedoes in groups capable of being fired by judgment, these groups constituting the units, which are combined into the larger unit whose limit is generally the number of mines that can be operated through a single seven core cable. The grand groups thus formed are ar ranged in lines, the latter radiating in such a manner from the operating case ments that the separate units can be easily located by triangulation. The intervals between the lines are filled with skirmish lines single mines strung on a single conductor cable and exploding by contact only. Many forms of movable torpedoes for harbor defense have been tried in differ ent countries with varying degrees of success. For accuracy of direction and range of destructive power the Sims-Edison fish torpedo is perhaps unexcelled. Extended trials at Willet's point have satisfactorily demonstrated its ability to carry 200 pounds of d3Taamite to a dis tance of two miles at a speed of about twenty miles per hour. The charge is exploded upon contact with the vessel or by the action of the operator on shore. The dirigibility of the torpedo is per fect. It follows its prey as though endowed with life, swerving to the right or left as necessary, diving under booms or other obstructions, cutting through nets, and never slackening its great speed until the end of its cable is reached. At present a two mile radius is deemed sufficient, although this could be increased if necessary by enlarging the "fish" itself. Cosmopolitan. Confederate Camp Flags. The Confederate stars and bars were in 18C3 supplemented by the camp flag. This was in size and shape like the other, except that it was white, with no stripes, and the battle lag in the upper corner next the staff. It was found deficient in actual service in that, displaying so much white, it wna sometimes apt to be mistaken for a flag of truce, and on Feb. 24, 1865, it gave place to the last flag of the Confederacy, the outer half being a red vertical bar. Appearing so late in the war, it was not so familiar as the others in fact, it was comparatively little known. New Orleans Times Democrat. The Largest Ocean Steamers. The largest passenger steamships in commission are the sister ships City of New York and City of Paris, each hssv ing 10,449 tons displacement. The steam ship having the largest accommodations for cabin passenger? is the Conarder Etruria, which can carry 550. The longest steamship is the Teutonic, 565 feet. New York Advertiser. Sow knots Still In Favor. The rage for bowknots shows no signs of abating. Easter gifts were devised of them in ery form. STATUE OF CHARLES THE FIRST. Coroery and calm he rides Hard by his own Whitehall: Only the night wind glide; No crowds, nor rebels, brawl. Gone. too. his court, and yet. The TH his courtiers,' Ktars in their Ht.tli'Jlin net; And every wandering olar. Alone he rides, alone. The fair anil fatal king: Dark night is all his own. That btrangu and solemn thing. Which are more full of fate. The stars, or those siul eyes? Which are more till and great. Those brows, or the dark skien? Lionel Johnson. Symbols of the Thunderbolt. The different nations of tho world, both ancient and modern, have employed various symlols to represent the tires that flash from the thundercloud. The Chaldeans symbolized it with a trident, the learned Babylonians used a human arm for the same punose. The bas-reliefs of Nimrud and Malthia. the work of later and more refined Assyrian artists, show tho trident doubled or transformed into a trifid fascicle. This triumph of the classic art secured for the ancient Mesopotamia!! symbol the advantage over all other representations of the thunderbolt. The Greeks represented the storm tire with the features of a bird of prey Later on, when they had begun the use of the Asiatic form of tho symliol. they put it in the claws of an eagle and made it the scepter of Zeus. Gatil received the symbol from Italy, but soon altered it to the familiar two headed hammer Been on the Gallo-Itoinan monuments The same symbol is seen on amulets found in Germany, Scandinavia and Brittany. St. Louis Republic. The Color of the Complexion. If Mrs. Emily Crawford's deductions are true, beauty and such a hitherto dif ficult achievement as a complexion are mere matters of determination. Mrs. Crawford says that Frenchwomen nsed to be brown as a berry; but of late years they are conspicuous for their marble charm. The expression is Mrs. Cra ford's. This, she says, is simply the suit of their intense desire for beauty a: pallor; it is altogether a matter of v ill power. It is elsewhere admitted that the Parisian has been giving a great deal of consideration to her diet, and has found that poultry and milk are better allies, so far as her skin is concerned, than butcher's meat and wine. San Francisco Argonaut. Perfumes the Horse Likes. There are Bome perfumes that are very grateful to horses, however little credit a horse may commonly receive for pos sessing delicacy of scent. Horse train ers are aware of the fact and make use of their knowledge in training stubborn and apparently intractable animals. Many trainers have favorite perfumes, the composition of which they keep a secret, and it is the possession of this means of appealing to the horse's sestheticism that enables so many of them to accomplish such wonderful re sults. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. An Electrle Hell Call. One of the patents for electrical con- ! trivances issued from the patent office is for an automatic guest call for use in hotels. It consists of a combination of a clock connected through a series of relays and contacts with an annuueia- tor bell system. A guest wishing a call at a certain time has his bell connected to this time strip on the clock circuit: at the designated hour the bell in his room rings for a certain period, or until he stops it. New York World. Barbers Use Little Wax Now. Says a barber: "A thing that isn't used much these days is grease. This 6tore consumed three pounds of it a day ten years ago, and we don't get away with a solitary pound now. 1 once cal culated that 100,000 New York men car ried around 150 pounds of wax in their mustaches. This was at the rate of one ounce of wax to forty mustaches." New York Herald. Enemies of the Salmon Fisheries. Seals and sea lions are a great nui sance to the salmon fishermen. At the mouth of the Columbia river they watch the gill nets and grab the caught salmon by the tiiroats, devouring those parts which they regard especially a3 tidbits. Bears are very fond of salmon and catcl. j a great many of them in the streams. They eat only the heads. Washington Star. Felt Flattered. England is laughing at the story told in Henry Norman's "Real Japan" of the American minister at Tokio.who thought the Japanese "darned clever" people be cause they greeted him with cries of "Ohavo." "How did they know that 1 was from Ohio?" he asked. "The tenement house," said a speakci at a recent public meeting, "is the eneuij of philanthropy of the present day.' He meant that whatever is done to ameliorate the condition of the masses of the poor in the great cities is, to a t great extent, neutralized by the condi tions under which they live. The value of the product of the fac tories and mills west of the Mississippi during tha year 1891 is computed at 423,003,695, and the product of the states west of the Missouri alone is com puted at $198,722,653. In territorial area the United States ranks third. Great Britain contr-. 8,557,000 square miles of territory, Rus sia, 8,352,940 miles, and the United States, counting Alaska, 3,580,242 miles. It is said that in all the forests of the earth there are no two leaves exactly the same. It is also said that amid all peoples of the earth there are no two faces precisely alike. Watch a man reading his own contri bution to a magazine, and you will get a picture of absolute concentration. 1 Every Month many women suffer from Excessive or Scant Menstrustion; they don't know who to confide in to get proper advice. Don't confide in anybody but try Brad fie Id's Female Regula.or Specific far PAINFDL. PROFUSE. SCAKTY. SUPPRESSED snd IRREGULAR MENSTRUATION. 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