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CANADA'S DIAMOND FIELD,
llnra a Kkb via Those rrf iSouth AB
ritui Perhaiia, Nfr lloilaoa'a liar.
Somewhere lntthe far North, souta
tf Hudson's Bay, lie undiscovered dlaV
uond Held a rich us those of South
tCn-a. At 1uhi, this t lie assertion
f Professor W. II, Hobbg la an article
arltu-u fur the popular Science
Monthly.
Iu proof of bis remarkable statement
Professor Hobbs has prepared a map
which shows wit bin a lew hundred
allies where the great diamond belt
s:ay be found.
The reason of his Investigation wag
the discovery of the following seven
diamonds In Wisconsin anil adjoining
States:
Eagle atone"
Oregon diamond '.
Kolilaville diamond ...
Smikville diitinond
Burlington diamond . . .
'DownKiite siiiiie" ....
llilford diamond
Hi carats
.. 4 carat
21 carut
(i curat
2 rural
i i carats
li carats
These diamonds were jiU'kiil up by
fanners who were ignorant of the.r
worth, and kept ns- curios for years be
fore their true value whs discovered.
The Saukviile diamond was k t mi
the clock shelf of a farmhouse for six
teen years be fore It was rcrugni.i d as
anything but a curious bit of brlgi.i
quartz.
The -Eagle stone'' was kept for sev
en years ami then sold to a Milwaukee.
Jeweler for a dollar, neither buyer no:
aeller having .my Idea of its vvoflji.
Perhaps the strangest fact about
these discoveries that attracted tlr
attention of Professor Hobbs was that
the soil in which these seven diamonds
were found was not In any case the
fcind from which diamonds could be
jiroducod.
; In ."pile of all l lie digging and delv
ing that fidlovved every discovery no
second stone was ever found.
Professor Hobbs soon discuvcre
that all these diamonds, besides a
number of smaller ones, had been
found along the ridges of land form d
millions of years ago by the great gla
ciers that had moved down from tint
north.
lie at once concluded that the pre
cious gems had been eiin!,d to Hut
places where they were found by thos,!
moving Icefields that are known t(i
have existed long before there w as any
life on this planet.
When at last the glaciers stopped
and milted, the diamonds which they
had carrhd on their bucks wero
lropped upon the Kround, lo be dis
covered ages afterward by Wisconsin
farmers.
I The Important question, therefore, In
ax answen-d Is: At what place die
The glaciers pick up the diamonds?
; Professor Hoblm replies by traeinf
seven lines northward from the placet
.where the stones were found, showing
jthat they come almost to a point Jus
south of Hudson liny.
! "The ancestral home of these dla
monda," aaya Professor Hobhs, "mus
fbe In the wilderness of Canada be
tween the points where the severa
tracks converge upon one another. I'
is by no means Improbable that whei
the bnrren territory about Iliidsn
Bay Is thoroughly explored a regloi,
for profitable diamond mining may bj
,rc-V( tiled. " -New York World.
The I nk Mown Kuainp.
Within twenty miles of one of tli
largest and must energetic of tin
Southern cities of the coast, and on tin
border lauds of two of the oldest
Southern States, there lies a district
isonie two or.; three hundred squari
Jnlles In extent, but little better kuowi
'at this day than It wus 150 years ag
when George Washington bluiHelf liiij
but a route through Its wilderness
fl'he name alone. "The I'isinai
(Swamp," is a by-word everywhere
jWbeu the spring Is far enough alonj
lor the wild honeysuckle and Jasmlni
B,nd the arbutus vines to be hanging li
idellcious masses over the sides of tin
Hitches and reaching down to the red
brown water, of a color so clear am!
warn) and sunny, then there Is a fes
tival time In the Swamp. Companlei
Of young people come from the vlllagci
lying around the borders of thr
swamp, twenty or thirty at a time
'with some slight camping out tit. em
jbark on large, fiat bottomed dugout!
;tbat draw but little water,' and then
fare poled up the ditches for ten ot
twlve miles from the fertile farm
jlands of the outer world to the sav
wgely luxuriant beauty of a lake hid
Iden in the midst of the wilderness.
'Then at a camp on the lake shore thej
upend a night or two, llshiug in tin
lake, poling along its shores, doing a
.little shooting perhaps, much daucltij)
'In the evenings and merry-making, tin
till they are poled out again, often by
a different route. A real spring fes
tlval that lias Ix-en a habit In thai
country for many years. Leslie'
Monthly.
Color InlurlauM
Experiments with glass of varlotti
colors In greenhouses Indicate that
nothing Is better than plain uncoloret)
glass. With violet colored glass 1 lie
size of fruit was decreased, and quality
Injured and the carllueso retarded, al
though the number of fruit was great
er. Other color were Injurious lr
every way.
Not i'eazed by Ijtglitiiing.
, A curious characteristic peculiar to
4he California redwood tree is that If
'the head la cut off by lightning a new
one will gradually grow out in It placr
as shapely aa the Brst.
If woman I a widow, and baa a
noletun 12 year-old daughter, the girl
' baa her dutlea the Mine aa any chaper
on. Don't you complain too much, and
don't you And too much fault? Think
over.
The electric life-saving hook of J.
McKenna, a Scotchman, is a long pole
with a hook and an electric light at
the outer end. The light Is made to
glow when seeking a body iu the
water at night.
The hearing of fishes hag been much
debated. The presence of an Internal
ear has given reason for believing In
the existence of this sense, but other
evidence lias led to the conclusion that
the function of the ear is to prcscve
the equilibrium of the fish in the
waer, sound being felt through the
skin and not heard. From late ex
periments, In which the nerves of the
skin and of the ear were cut In turn.
U. II. Parker finds that at least one
species (I'unduliis heteroclltusi must
hear with the ear.
A phenomenon known as "cavita
tion" has lately come to lie recognized
8s one of the most important causes of
loss of efficiency 111 the driving screws
of stVamships. When the velocity of
the screw Is increased above a certain
limit cavity a fnriiiei.) in the wntep
inside which the screw revolves, ami
a further increase of power then
causes no increase of the ship's speed.
.Mathematical investigation, tested by
practical experiments, lias shown that
cavitation can be avoided by preserv
ing a certain ratio between the resist
ance and the propelling surface con
cerned. I'pun this principle the speed
of some vessels has been greatly In
creased by simply changing their driv
ing screws.
The 'United Slates consul at Progreso
says that the lieids and gardens of
Yucatan are filled with useful vege
tables and fragrant herbs unknown to
tho outer world. Iu Ihe cultivated
Oelds are grown species of Indian corn,
beans, squashes and tubers for which.
In this country, we have no name, be
cause we have never seen nor heard
of them. In the forests and Jungles
grow wild fruits, already excellent. In
quality, which could be made delicious
by scientific cultivation, Mr. Thomp
son, the consul, avers that there are
half a score of wild fruits which offer
more promising results to cultivation
than ever did the bitter wild almond,
which was the progenitor of the peach.
There are six varieties of Indian com
In Yucatan, and the natives speak of
this plant as "the grace of God."
Mr. E. A. Martel, the celebrated ex
plorer of French caverns, has lately
been explaining, before the Academy
of Sciences, the remarkable variations
In the Dow of the great natural foun
tain of Vaucluse. This fountain, which
bag been famous for ages, and Is con
nected with the romance of Petrarch
and Laura, excites the admiration of
all travelers. Arthur Young visited
It, during big travels In France on the
ere of the great revolution, and gave
a delightful sketch of it In his book.
The fountain Is so abundant with wa
ter that It gives rise to the Sorgue, a
small river. Mr. Martel says. In fact,
that the fountain Is the debouchment
of a river, which, In the upper part
of Its course, flows entirely under
ground; and he explains the curious
Irregularities In the quantity and the
temperature of the water by ceruijn
assumptions as to the shape and size
of the subterranean cavities that give
It passage.
A WORLD'S WONDER.
Buch In the Hopl I March of Kvetita In
the Great Northwest.
In the Northwest everything seeuus
to have happened within the last tea
years; events which would be of epoch
making Importance In any country at
any time have here crowded one upoii
another with wanton prodigality, so
that the Northwcstenier, plumped
down In the whirl of great things, can
himself hardly grasp their full signifi
cance, contenting himself with con
fused superlatives.
Think of this march of events! It
was barely eight years ago that t he
gold fields of the Klondike Were
brought to the knowledge of the world,
causing a rush of Americans lo the
Northwest, and building up suddenly a
new and Important business for the
Puget Sound ports, where the miners
outfitted ami took ship. Following the
Klondike excitement, came the various
Alaska discoveries, and Scalile and
Tacoma were and the (lie natural
headquarters for most of I he supplies
shipped northward as well as the en
(try K)lnt for the returning miners with
their treasure, not a little of which is
left to enrich the people of the ports.
Hardly had the gold excitement
calmed to the paces of a steady busi
ness enterprise when the Spanish War
broke otit. uud these Pacific clfies were
thrown Into the turmoil of visiting
battleships and of provisioning and
transKrtlng the army of the Phlllp
"plnes. Then "o the opening trade
with our new Inaiilrir possessions In
tho Pacllle, tb Chinese War and Its
call for equipment slid Us slir of sol
diery and frannports, followed by the
recent commeniial expansion of Japan,
with Its trade tatnunds. And now tin
element has Jurt entered Into the cai
cullitlons of til const -the construe
tion of the Panama Canal which will
ervolutlonlze whole departments of the
world's trade and exorcise a profound
Influence for goWl or evil on the cities
of tho Northwaatern const.
Many of the events, It Is true, nota
bly the opening of the door to the far
East, are mostly promissory assets;
and yet their prophecy of a golden fu
ture has not been without Its profound
effect on the growth of the Pacific cit
ies and the attraction of energetic men
with money, To the Pacific port will
ultimately come most of the trade of
the Philippines, worth sixty mllilonn
annually, and a growing share of the
billion dollars or more of the annual
business of China, Japan, Siberia and,
the Dutch East Indies, to say nothing
of the large foreign trade of Australia
and New Zealand. Alaska, once re
garded as a hopelessly distant and lr
Teclaluiable waste of mountains and
snow, is also progressing with wonder
ful rapidity, not only iu its mines, but
In the development of Its fisheries andj
in the utilization of Its forests and Its)
agricultural resources, so that to-day!
the AlasU.in liaue is of much import-i
ance. j
While these world events were
crowding upon one another, the devel
opment of the country tributary to the
coast, upon which the solid progress
of the cities must ultimately rest, was
going forward with unprecedented
rapidity. Western Canada was open
ing to settlement, is opening now, In
a marvelous manner; railroads werd
building; schemes for Irrigating the
arid lands were in course of develop
ment; crop production was increasing;
timber was being cut. from an almost
Inexhaustible supply, lo supplement
the waning forests of Maine and Mich
igan; coal mines were being- opened,
and salmon caught - all the forces of
industry working together with a ra
pidity which must always remain a
world's wonder. - Cent urv.
TEARS WON HIS CASE.
Kaitced YmiriKSter Stole Hook from
a Public I.I liriii-y.
It was Just after the close of school
yesterday that a public school teacher
walked into the private office of Mrs.
Whitney at the public library. Follow
ing closely Iu her wake was a little
dark haired youngster, with big, fright
ened brown eyes, dressed in raggeil
coat and trousers ami shoes that wouhl
not have protected his feet from thq
cold even in bright weather. Tho
teacher looked sternly at the boy, drew
from under her arm a brightly colored!
book and handed it to Mrs. Whitney
"Here Is a book, Mrs. Whitney!
which tliis boy stole from the library,'!
she said. "Now, I will turn him oei
to you and you may do with him a s
you like."
She turned and left the office ami
the boy stood in the center of th
room, slowly turning his cap in hid
hands.
"Sit down," said Mrs. Whitney,
"Now. when did you take that book?"
she asked, when he was seated in tho
big chair opposite.
"Saturday," he answered, almost
Inauiilbly, while he kept his big eyes
fastened upon her face. Then the tears!
began to gather and make white
streaks down his grimy little face.
"Saturday. And why did you takq
It?"
"'Cause it was pretty and 'cause i
'cause 'cause I ain't never ain't
never had no book for my very own,"
be said, and his voice was almoel
choked trying to keep back the tears,
lru H'Mli,..,, !,.,,! ,,,..,,! in .n ifsn,'
her heart got the better of her at thiij
point, and there were tears In her own
eyes as she answered him.
"Iion't you know that It's very
wrong to take anything without ask
lug? Why, you could have taken t!i:i(
hook home and kept It for a while, if
you had asked. All of the books In
the children's room are part yours and
you may have any one of them any
time you ask for It. If you want a
book for your own, come dow n some
lime and ask Miss Kead for one of
those which have lost a leaf or two,
and you may take It home. Yon will
remember?"
"Yes'm. I will," ami the big, brown
eyes smiled gratefully Into hers ns ha
left the olllce. Kaiisaa City Juuj'uaI
I' nl'it ifiillnr wild the Hoi)) cel.
One of the college clubs gave a recep
tion last fall to the members of the
football team. It was a great night
for the club. An important gama
had Just taken place, uud I lie home
team had won. There were speeches
and songs and cheers. Finally some
one called for the trainer. For foue
years he had been responsible for tho
physical fitness of all the collegd
learns, and he was as proud of their
excellence as any graduate present,
Hut his forte was deeds, not wolds.
Finally, however, he got warmed up
to the occasion, uud this, according to
the New York I.'veiiiug Post, Is whill
he said:
"The only trouble up here," he be
git ii. "Is the system. It's all wrong,
anil we're lucky to have as good a
siring as we've e,,l over there," Jerk
lug ills thumb at the team. "To Illus
trate: The cry is 'livery mail coma
out.' but t tie men that come out aiu'l
any good at their books, mid the hooky
ones ain't strong enough for the.tlchl.
"Why, I remember when college
opened and the candidates trotted out,
I set my eyes on a likely lad, and salJ
to Mr. I.amson and Mr. Itriggs, "I le's)
a find; Just what we've been looking
for.' Then he disappeared, and I
didn't set eyes on him again till lasj
week, when 1 nu t, liiui going to recital
tlon.
"'Hey, you!' says I. 'Why hnven'l
you been out?'
" 'iot a condition," says lie.
" 'Why don't you work It off?'
asks.
" 'Keen trying to,' be growls, 'but lt'
something 1 ei r si lulled before.' .
" 'What Is It V" says 1.
" 'Kngllsh,' says he."
In the ron t that followed this imlvi
title the Iralner had hard work tn
make himself heard. He grew red
the face, waved his hands deprecating
ly, and sat down, with the remark.
"The system's all wrong."
After a fine bun I concert, poor plan
playing actually I iir.a
OPiNIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS
Work and Leisure.
n MAINE rnotornian, having come
A$ii0,0O0, announces that lie will continue to work
for the company that now employs him. Ills money
at 5 per cent would give him leisure and an income
six times as great as his waes, hut work is his
choice. The president of Harvard,
the other day that a man should work
as his health permits, will be Interested
torman, John C. Tripp.
But the possession of wealth puts
He must try to do more than to earn his week's wages. He
must aspire to rise until, like Motorman Hoot, who was
running a car seven years ago, lie becomes general mana
get- of his company. He must cultivate
ns he can, studying books and men
himself every year a more useful member of society, lb
must dress as well as his purse permits, and educate his
children. If he has them, and give his
helping hand and be good to the poor.
make life more complex for him, loading him with new
responsibilities. He will find enough to do to keep him
busy If lie does not seek to shirk his obligations.
And a word about: President. Flint's precept regarding
hard work. If is the salvation of man
labor. He is happier than he would be under enforced
Idleness and more useful to society and to himself. And
to work a. little harder than you have to-tliat Is the secret
of success.
Relaxation in its place is equally beneficial. The liar
vard president gets It when he goes to a Boston symphony
concert or makes an after dinner speech. lie got It as a
youth rowing a boat with other undergraduates on the
Charles liiver. If he had spent that leisure or were to
spend it now in hard mental labor unremitted we do not
suppose he would be any greater man than lie Is, any more
than we can suppose a motoruian or a
overtime would he more serviceable
better equipped for the next day's work. There Is much
to be said to the contrary, and much to be said about that
moderation which secures for the toiler a proper relation
between work and leisure. New York World.
learn lo Torgct Injuries.
SOME people are so intent on revenging their Injuries
that they never have time to accomplish anything
worth while for themselves. From a purely selfish
and practical standpoint, not to consider the moral
aspect of the matter, revenge is not worth the trouble
that it lakes to accomplish. A man had better employ
himself In honest, productive labor which will bring him
K ime valuable returns instead of giving himself up to petty
schemes for "getting even" on his enemies: Kvery man
would do well to wipe out all those old scores of enmity
which lie had Intended to pay back by evil retaliation, and
start afresh to do something honest and positively bene
ficial for himself.
After all, most of our enemies would be our friends If
we knew one another better. Few men are wholly or ma
liciously evil, and when one does another an Injury there
Is usually some misunderstanding at the bottom of it. How
often it happens that mutually hostile men, having been
thrown together by chance and become mutually acquaint
ed, conceive a warm friendship for each other?
This Is a busy world and life Is too short to remember
grievances a long while or to take trouble for the sake of
obtaining revenge. A man must learn to forget Injuries
as well as to remember favors, else he will go backward
Instead of forward In life. The past is dead. Let It be
Think of the future and endeavor to build up your own
fortune and happiness Instead of tearing down the fortune
Bud happiness of your enemy, who may he, for all you
know, some decent fellow not nearly so black ns you paint
him. San Francisco Bulletin.
Vandalism at Niagara.
LAMENTATIONS come from Niagara Falls over the
Intrusion of power-houses and Industrial innovations
upon the scenery. The American side has not been
helped estliellcally by the various means devised to
make the river run In harness, but the reservation of
the State of New York seems to have been reasonably well
guarded. Victoria Park, on the Canadian side, bus not
fared so well. Vociferous complaints are made about the
ABSENT-MINDED VICTIMS.
Ludicrous Talea Told of Tbeir Kx
truorrilnurjr Performancea.
A peculiar trait of humanity Is what
fs called absent-mindedness, and many
are the imiuslug stories told of those
suffering .from this species of mental
aberration.
A Cambridge professor, whose fits of
mental aberration were as frequent as
they were a musing, was one day out in
a heavy rain, with his umbrella held
high over his head, when be met u
friend, who stopped him and ex
claimed: "Dear me. Prof. M . w hy
don't you put up your umbrella? You'll
be drenched!"
"Put up my umbrella?" suid the pro
fessor. "It is up."
For half an hour, more or less, the
professor had been walking tle streets
wilh a closed umbrella held above his
head.
At another time the same scholar
was riding downtown In an electric
car, and lost himself In a book he was
reading. Suddenly he noticed symp
toms of merlrmeut among the other
passengers. What cofld they be laugh
lug at?
The mystery was explaiued when he
discovered, that, having been annoyed
by someihlug between Ihe plate of his
artificial teeth and Ihe roof of his
uioiiih, he had removed the teeth and
was holding lliem up lo view between
Hi" thumb ami finger of his band!
Still more embarrassing was the case
of a lady who liuriled Into church one
Sunday morning without her bouuet,
n ml when reminded of the omission
by her husband, who hud preceded her
by several minutes, rose hastily nnd
hurried up the broad nlsle with a large
red parasol raised nnd held cloae to
her head!
A certain old man suffered much
t' oiit alis' iil iiilndcdness, nnd waa fre
;ueut!y compelled to seek the aaalat
in of Ills servant.
" I hoiiniH," lie would way, "I have
,:ii! bei ii looking for something, mid
into a fortune of
who said In Boston
as hard and as long
iu this Maine mo
obligations on Tripp
ills mind as much
and politics, making
fellow motormen a
His fortune will
that he Is obliged to
miner working hours
to his employer or
study both sides of
Bulletin.
now I can't remember what it Is,"
whereupon the obliging Thomas in
varlubly made suggestions.
"Wus It your purse, or spectacles, or
check book, sir?" and so on, he would
Inquire, until he hit upon the right
object.
One night, after the old man had re
tired, the bell rung for Thomas, and
on reaching the bedroom he found his
muster rambling aimlessly about the
room.
"Thomas, Thomas," he said, "I came
up here for something, and now I've
forgotten what."
"Was l! to go to bed. sir?" suggested
the faithful retainer.
"Ah. the very thing, the very thing!
Thank you, Thomas. Good night!"
A clergyman, walking one day in the
country, fell Into thought. He was so
accustomed to ride that, when he
found himself tit a toll, he slopped and
shouted lo the man:
"Here, what's to pay?"
"Pay for what?" asked the man.
"For my horse," said the clergyman.
"W hat horse? There's no horse, sir."
"Bless me!" exclaimed the clergy
man, looking down between his legs,
"I thought I was on horseback!"
One of the llnest Instances of absence
of iiilnd on record Is that furnished by
a certain Oxford don, whose "scholar
ly abstraction" frequently landed him
In dlfllculties. lilning out oik? night,
ho suddenly became immersed In
thought, and for a time sat ga.ing at
his plate, evidently deeply engrossed In
some mighty problem.
Now, It happened thai his left-hand
neighbor, n portly dame, had n habit of
resting her hands on the table, palm
down mill fingers closed.
Suddenly the professor awoke from
Ills brown study, seized his fork, struck
it into the plump paw reposing to Ihe
left of bis plate, and, beaming genially
through his glasses, remarked, "My
bread, I think!"
The (list Lord l.yttleton, nn Kngllsh
nobleman, wns very absent-minded. It
Is declared of him thnt, when he fell
ioto the river by the upsetting of a
alarming concessions of the Canadian commissioner! t
tunnel-builders and power companies on that side of thi
river. Several power-houses are being built in Victoria
Park itself, and, worst of all, another is building in thl
gorge at the foot of the Ilorsesuoe Falls. The Cauadiai
commission has shown Itself so indulgent to industrial.,
companies that confidence in It is violently shaken. Thq
New York commissioners have made a protest against ifa
concessions, and the feeling is that, bad as is what bat
been done, there is only too much reason to fear that wors
remains behind. Another ominous enterprise is going on
at Niagara. An American company is using electricity t
extract nitrogen products from air. Mr. Wells write a
prophetic story that turned on the discovery of a process,
for getting nitrogen out of the air and turning it Into,
food. The upshot of the tale was that the atmosphere
was deprived of so much nitrogen that the resulting excess
of hydrogen made every one tipsy, and tiling went from
bad to worse, until finally the atmosphere took fire. If
any such process as that has begun at Niagara the police
should be notified. Whatever needs to be done to restrain
the liberality of the Victoria Park commission must be done
by the people or Government of Canada. All we can do
Is to spread the tale of vandalism and stir remonstrance
Harper's Weekly.
The Metric System,
THE action of the international customs congress,
which has recently been in session In New York, in
voting unanimously in favor of the adoption of the
metric system of weights and measures. Is another
indication of the growing popularity of that system.
It has spread so rapidly that the European states, with
the exception of England and Hussla, have adopted It, ns
have the the South American states and Mexico, and even
Turkey and Egypt.
Both In England and Kussla the sentiment is growing
steadily in favor of the change. There are 290 members
of the present House of Commons iu England in favor ot
the metric system, and the Premier, in speaking on the
subject, said: "There can be no doubt whatever that the
judgment of the whole civilized world, not excluding the
countries which still adhere to the antiquated systems
under which we suffer, has long decided that the metric
system is the only rational system."
Opinion in the United States is divided on the subjectj
but the people of this country will have to consider whether
they want to be out of harmony with all other nations on
this continent, and in Europe on this subject. It certainly
will not be advantageous to our foreign trade.
A recent consular report from Mr. Mason, in Berlin,'
deals. particularly with this phase of the case. Germany
made the change in 1872 without difficulty, and Consul
Mason says that public opinion there is unanimously of the
opinion that great advantage has been derived from the
change. Inquiry among importers led the consul to believe
that our trade was injured by the use of the awkward
system at present employed in the United States. rbila
delphia Press.
Shall Clergymen Work as Mechanics?
A prominent Philadelphia clergyman urges young men,
who contemplate entering the minstry to learn some!
trade either before or after ordination. He is moved
to give this advice by the large number of minis-i
ters who are without a charge. As the number of
ministers without charges Is increasing rather than dlinin-'
Ishing, the most effective -way to comply with the law ofj
demand and supply would be to reduce the supply. It)
could hardly bappeu otherwise than that, undej the plan
proposed, there would be either poor clergymen or poor
mechanics. The ministry is an exacting profession, and
in the present strife for mastery In mechanics the inferior
Is left behind. If it should appear that that inferior waa
also a clergyman his value as a mechanic would not bet
enhanced. There has never been a time when high schol
arship was more urgently required in the pulpit than at
present. Not only does the layman incline more to enquiry
than formerly, but he enters the theological debate with,
better equipment. If the teachings of the scientists of
the nineteenth century do not possess the force of divine
authority they furnish arguments with which the skeptical
layman may confuse the minister who has not had time to
the theological question. San Franciaco
boat at Hagley, "he sank twice befor
he recollected that he could swim."
Chinese Fruit.
" 'Tis an ill wind that blows nobody
any good." Now that China la beintf '
opened to, civilization Western nations
may have many things, both t range
and good, from that country. A writ
er in Garden and Farm says that some)
of the Chinese fruits, cunningly coax-j
ed and lovingly cherished through
many centuries, are said by travelers
to he delicious.
There Is an orange grown In ChlnaJ
that is reported to surpass In aweeU
ness and delicacy any of the oranges?
to whielii the people of Europe or
America are accustomed; and It may
bo grow n In places where the tempera-
lure falls twenty degrees below tba
freezing point. There Is also a peach,
unlike anything to which the West 1
accustomed, and a winter muskmelon
jlhat will appeal Irresistibly to the
j American palate. This melon is at Ita
best In December and January,
i There are many other good things
! In China to which the United State
I will doubtless be Introduced In time.
Of some of the choice Chinese Atobes,
such as blrd's-nest soup and the like,
' there have been abundant descriptions;
j but there nro better things In reserve.
The frulfs nro described as surpassing
those of nny other country.
i
Disappointed.
! The story Is told of a Scotchman,
'one of several brothers, whose father,
' a wealthy man, had died. There was-
i much quarreling about the property.
A friend condoled with them on th
bereavement. "Well," said .he, "our
father's death might have been a Tval!
pleasure to us; Instead of that It la!
only n misery."
No Chance to Get Pictures.
Mrs. Gaddle Tliey hain't got nianyi
plxtnres In their house.
Mrs. Kromo I didn't s'pose they
liuil. Why, she told me they don't
never buy no tea at all; don't use It
Philadelphia Prese.
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