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Lord Tollemanche, of Cheshire, England, has gathered together his cheeso-making tenantry and told them that if they expect to hold their own against American competition they must quit sighing for their lost pre-eminence and make better cheese. Postm aster-General Ky fays that the women who have been appointed postmistresses during the last four years dotheir business more faithfully and take more pride in their work than the men holding offices of the same grade. Tiie prosecution of the corrupt Rus sian army contractors, Cohan, Greger and Horwitz, has been abandoned by order of the Czar, because the proceed ings threatened to compromise so many persons in high official positions. Two Swedes, who kindly entertained a tramp near Kane, McKean County, Pa., were both killed by said tramp with a hatchet. The tramp was soon cap tured, and it was with difficulty the peo ple could be restrained from lynching him. A few days ngo a Northern Pacific train crossed the Missouri on ice three feet thick at Bismarck, Dakota Territo ry. It is stated that this is the first train that ever went over a river on ice with out some false work beneath. A gentleman of Caiubridgeport, Mass., offered a prize of 3 to the New York newsboy who would save the most money in a month. The largest sum saved was $20, and 110 boys saved 20.1.25 in different amounts from twenty-five cents up. "Tiie Chinese washman has gained a footing in New York. He has organ ized a large system of wash-houses, and there are indications that all belong to one company. The style of their sign boards in the various streets and ave nues is, as uniform as those of the tea stores. The Chinaman has a very mole like fashion of creeping into business and capturing it after creeping in. There is an old gray fox in Ogle thorpe, Ga., that could tell many excit ing stories if he had the power of speech, lie has been chased time and again, and his h:drbreudth escapes are the talk of his county. Recently he was driven in to a railroad cut bj dogs, and would certainly have been caught if a train had not dashed along and scatter ed his pursuers. In a public meeting it was formally voted to let him die in peace. The English agent in an Indian prov ince lately arrested the head priest, whereupon fakirs to the number of 70 or 80 sat down in front of the official bungalow, and proceeded deliberately to starve themselves to death. It was not until they begun to dig graves for a few of their number who nearly reached the expiring point that the agent gave ii up ana reieasea me priest. Tiie Omaha News gives as a reason for the delay of a Union Pacific train into that city one day recently, that cat tle blockaded the track. It seems that herds of cattle, numbering 300 or 400, get on the track at different points to enjoy the shelter afforded by the snow piled high on each side, and pay no at tention wnaiever to me trams. A num ber are generally killed before apassage is effected. Needles and the stories about them keep coming to the surface. A Chilli cothe (Ohio) man who has been afflict ed with rheumatism for some time, finally had a surgical operation per formed. The result was that a needle was found, just ready to show a point against the theory Qf rheumatism. Now the man is well, but he insists that at no time in his life did he ever make a pin (or needle) cushion of himself. Ar-mk a marriage ceremony had been performed in one of the churches in Adrian, Mich., the bride, when receiv ing the congratulations of her friends shed tears, according to the established custom, at the sight of which the groom followed suit, with a copious flow of the briny fluid. After his friends succeeded in calming him he said he could not help it, for he felt as bad about it as she did., " The Vallejo (Cal.) Chronicle says that one of its butchers lately discovered a Missonrian a long way from any settle ment, and purchased cattle of him United States notes were offered in pay ment, but the Missourian, who had evi dently not seen any thing but hard money for years, did not want to take them. Finally, however, he said: Wall, ef you'll agree to indorse them , Till il ii . mi . ar- xii uuvu weni." j.ne traae was thus at once brought to a specie basis. This is the .way they play billiards in New York, according to the reporter who has been attending the tournament: "The globes crept along with a soft, musical click, and amid the cheers of the assemblage, crossed to the bottom rail, rambling leisurely on their way like two children wandering in a coun- try lane, who sometimes separate to ptck sweet flowers by tho wayside and sTmaback to meet each other with a Asailwat employee in France, bv apieeeof bravado Jit his trine with :55.Q6f is. tfee great French lotte- ry, ad that time Might be no doubt on tfei object, he chalked the figures on a.waU lathe presence of several of his atood all agape at the ujmuu w o wiixea mat turned onta jnd aad tke employee only mm hcck would irtkAMITI-t A.O0OfrMr. . V.Ti '- - . Poli a lair who aa JrraacMco, and report, .has gone ? TK-aoUoai and v: Skt ii described at a taWe cover- kricht, fair- eSeerful, matron- m,m1 lli d in. a dress of -which was worn1 .air' .if,'-' BK' wntmMrrmWk in '- rt a most non-judicial checkered apron. To an interviewer she said: "There is nothing to be said about me. I origi nated from the cradle, the wash-tub, the sewing machine, and the cooking-stove. I have educated myself aad am now try ing to earn a living for myself and lit tle ones by practising )m, and I mean to succeed, and that'ajU there is to be said of me." The new QattQ of Holland, Queen Emma, or to give her name in full, Adelaide Emma Wilhelmina Theresa, is in her 21st year, having been born on the 20th of August, 1858. She is of medium stature and a nicely turned fig ure, with animated features, a fine com plexion, a fresh and laughing mouth and an abundance of chestnut hair, which she wears in waves down on her fore head. She is delightfullv shortsighted, and has to make as much nse of a business-like eye-glass as if she had been born in Boston. The temperance cause has suffered a reverse in Sierra Valley, Neb. The total abstinence society flourished during the fall, but about holiday time rumors of inebriety on the part of leading mem bers were circulated. In a subsequent meeting, it was moved that those who had broken their vows be expelled. The motion was lost. Then a resolu tion wa3 adopted, amid great enthusi asm, that all who had passed the holi days without getting drunk be turned out. Three cheers were given lor John Barleycorn, and the meeting was ad journed at the President's invitation to step across the street and take a drink at his expense. IVilhklmj did a kindly thing In Co lumbus, O., the other day. Just before his visit a lady died who dearly loved music and had been impatiently antici patig the pleasure of hearing him play The day of his arrival was the day of her death. A message was sent to Wilhelmj stating the circumstances and that night he knew well the reason why the many reserved seats were unoccu pied. The next morning he, with an accompanist, visited the house and re quested the privilege of playing a re quiem, as was the custom in his own ls-.wm ir Cmwmtamn It- mat sf nAnwia granted by the sorrowing family. There are deserted towns in Nevada, but thejT are not old ones. A few years ago the population of Hamilton is said to have been nearly 8,000 ; of Treasure Hill, G.000; of Shermantown, 7,000, of Swansea, .1,000. All were incorporated, with Mayor, Council, Fire Departments and daily newspapers. Hamilton has now about ICO inlmbitauts,- most of whom arc merely waiting in dreary inaction for something to turn up. Treasure Hill has about half as many. Shermantown one family, and Swansea none. In one canyon of the Toiyabe range, near Austin, are five dead towns without a single inhabitant. The streets and blocks graded on the hillsides are rapidly falling back into the wilderness. The Amazon and Its Tributaries. Extensive, important, and profitable as arc rivers are in respect to commerce and development of the country, they are wholly unequal to the rivers of South America. The Amazon alone furnishes a host of watery resources, and is fitly named the Mediterranean of that continent. Together with its tributaries, it is navigable by steamers, according to oflicialreports, for 26,858 miles; its average breadth in Brazil is 4 J miles ; it rises, when high, .54 feet above its or dinary level, and its volume is so vast that sailors at sea drink its water and find it fresh out of sight of land, its cur rent being visible 500 miles from shore. The volume of the principal rivers of our sister continent is, in proportion to the area drained, far greater than the volume of rivers here, on account of in creased rain-fall. The anntifil rain-fall on our Atlantic coast averages from 40 to 45 inches ; on the coast of Brazil, 79 inches. The main channel of the Ama zon is, for the first 1,000 miles from the ocean, nowhere less than 30 fathoms. Beyond the Peruvian frontier, it contin ues to be a big river more than 1,000 miles into the heart of the Andes,, the head of steam navigation being at Mayro, Peru, 3,623 miles from the At lantic and 325 miles from Lima by pub lic roads ; so that it is only 331 miles from Callao the port of Lima on the Pacific, io the head of steam navigation on tho Amazon. Peruvian railways will soon bring steamers on the Ama zon within one day's travel of the Pacific, and Peruvian enterprise will speedily improve Andean communica tion, and open the interior of South America to civilization and commerce. The tributaries of the Amazon are longer than the largest rivers of Europe. The Madeira is navigable by steamers to its falls, on the Bolivian frontier, over 1,000 miles, and above the falls its tributaries furnish 4,300 miles of continuous steam navigation, thus rendering commerci ally accessible to the whole of Bolivia and the western part of the Brazilian Province, Malto Grosso. Brazil has lately granted a subsidy to a foreign company to build a railway around the Falls of Madeira. The large rivers, Napo, Maroni, and Putumayo, a navi- fable from the Amazon, through Ecua or and Colombia, fortalmost 1,000 miles beyond the frontier of Brazil to the Andes,within 400 miles of Quito and Guyaquil, and so open communication with all the regiox. of Ecuador east of the Cordilleras. The Rio Negro, enter ing the Amazon at Manaos, some 1,100 miles from tne Atlantic, rises near Bo gota, Colombia's Capital, passes through southern Venezuela very close to the Orinoco, and is a channel of trade between Venezuela and Brazil, while the Orionoco is navigable for sail and steam vessels from the ocean to the Andes in Colombia. Thus, the Amazon and its tributaries are commercial high ways for Venezuela, Colombia, Ecua dor, Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil, and are navigable for steamers a greater dis tance than is included in the globe's circumference. New York Times. The Story of a Batterfly. During last fall, while Mr. Cham pagne, of Nelson Street, was bringing in vegetables out of his garden he discov ered what appeared to be a green cater pillar clinging to a cucumber. He threw it away, but one of his chil dren took it in secret and placed it in the family clock. Soma weeks af terward the insect was discovered encir cled in a silken web of it own making, and one of Mr. Champagne's children inclosed it in a warm coverinsr of wool. Nothing of interest occurred until a few days ago, when Mrs. Champagne, who had forgotten all about the InsecUonened the clock to wind it as usual. As soon as the door was opened a beautiful and perfectly formed butterfly flew out around the room, to the surprise of the. lady, and to the great joy of the chil dren, who have become much enamor ed of their fairy pet. Ottawa Canada's Herald. A TRUTHFUL TRIO. Mark Twain, aby and Kll Prrkla". Omaha, Mass., July 41, 1932. While strolling around Oshkosh yesterday I was surprised to meet two very distin- guished and truthful individuals. Sur - prised, I say, because I supposed these gentlemen were thousands of miles away. These men were Mark Twain, sometimes called tho Great Truthteller of the Sierras, and r. V . rasby, gen- erallv known as the Great International Truthteller at Large from the State of Ohio. Now, I thought Mark iwain was doing missionary work in New Jer sey, and I had been "informed that Mr. Nasby had gone to labor in the tem perance field in Italy with Mr. Murphy. Notwithstanding my surprise at seeing them, I was glad to have a chance to sit at their feet and hear the truth de fended. After we had talked a spell Mr. Twain laid down his cigar and told us about a fast horse he once owned in Virginia City. Said he: 'Gentlemen, this horse of mine was tough bitted, and he went so (fast that I had to eruide him bv electricity had to have wire lines and keep a battery in the wagon all the time in order to stop him." Why didn't you stop him by holler ing whoa?" I asked. "Stop him by hollering whoa!" ex claimed Mr. Twain. Why, I could not holler loud enough to make that horse hear me. He traveled so fast that no sound ever reached him from be hind. He went faster than the sound, sir. Heller whoa and he'd be in the next town before the sound of your voice could reach the dashboard. Travel fast?' I should say he could. Why, I once started from Virginia City for Meadow Creek right in front of one of . w.. . ... ... ....... w. - the most dreadful rainstorms we ever had on the Pacific Coast. Wind and rain? Why, the wind blew 80 miles an hour, and the rain fell in sheets. I drove right before that storm for three hours just on the edge of that hurri cane and rain for 40 miles." Didn't you get drenched?" "Drenched? No, sir! What did I keep that fast horse for? Wrhy, I tell you, I drove right in front of that rain storm. I could lean forward and let the sun shine on me, or lean backward and feel rain and catch hailstones. When the hurricane slacked up the horse slacked up,too, and when it blew faster I just said 'ti lk ! ' to tne uorsc anu toucn cd the battcry,and away he went. Now I don't want to lie about my horse, Mr. Perkins, and I don't ask you to believe what I say ; but I tell you truthfully that when I got to Meadow Creek my linen duster was dry as powder. Not a drop of rain on the wagon-seat either, while the wagon-box wa3 level full of hailstones and water, or I'm a- ii " Look here, gentlemen,'.' interrupted Mr. Nasby; "speaking of the truth, did you ever hear about my that man in Toledo?" striking We said we had not. Well, sir, it was this way: There was a man there one of those worldly, sceptical fellows, who questioned my varacity one day. He said he had doubts about the truthfulness of one of my, cross-roads incidents. He didn't say it publicly, but privately. I'm sorry for the sake of his wife and family now that ha said it all and sorry for the man, too, because he wasn't prepaid to go. If he'd been a Christian it would have been different. I didn't want to strike this man, because its a bad habit to get into this making a human chaos out of a fellow-man. But he question ed my veracity, and the earthquake came. I struck him once just once. 1 remember he was putting down a car pet at the time, and had his mouth full of carpet-tacks. But a man can't stop to discount carpet-tacks in a man's mouth, when he questions your veracity, can he? I never do. I simply struck the blow." "Did it hurt the man much?" I asked. " I don't think it did. It was too sud den. The bystanders said if I was go ing to strike a second blow they wanted to move out of the State. Now I don't want you to believe me, and I don't ex pect you will, but to tell you tke honest truth, Mr. Perkins, I squashed that man right down into a door-mat, and his own wife, who was tacking down one edge of the carpet at the time, came right along and took him for a gutta percha rug, and actually tacked him down in front of the door. Poor wom an, she never knew she was tacking down her own husband ! Wnat became of the tacks in his mouth? you ask. Well, the next day the boys pulled them out of the bottoms of his overshoes, and" 41 Gentlemen!" I interrupted, "it does me good to hear such truths. I believe every word you say, and I feel that I ought to exchange truths with you. Now, did you ever hear how I went to prayer-meeting at New London, Conn., in a rainstorm?" They said they had not. " Well, gentlemen," I paid, "one day I started for the New London prayer, meeting on horseback. When I got about half way there, there came up a fearful storm. The wind blew a hurri cane, the rain fell in torrents, the light ning gleamed through the sky, and I went and crouched down behind a large barn. But pretty soon the lightning struck the barn, knocked it into a thou sand splinters, and sent my horse whirling over into a neighboring corn patch." " Did it kill you, Mr. Perfcins?" asked Mr. Twain, the tears rolling down his " No, it didn't kill me," I said, "but I was a good deal discouraged." 44 Well, what did you do, Mr. Per kins?" 44 What did I do? Well, gentlemen, to tell the honest Connecticut truth, I went right out into the pasture, took oft my coat, humped up my bare back, and took eleven clips of lightning right on my bare backbone, drew the electricity all out of the sky, and then got ou to my horse and rode into New London in time to lead at the evening prayer-meeting." Arise and sing! Eli Perkixs. Forest Tree Plaatias HoWTo Do It. Experienced foresters, as a rule, re sort to planting in preference to sowing in the beginning of new forests. They understand that while the cost of first establishment is a little less in sowing than in planting, the expense occasion ed in caring for the work and replant ing in vacant places is much, greater in seeding.. Experience demonstrates that a forest growth can be established soon er ana more sureiy oy pianung- oecaose it starts at least two years earlier than the one that is sown, and furthermore indicates the very next season every plant which is unable to survive. Where as, in sowing, one has frequently to wait four or five years before certain there are any gaps to supply. Professor Henry McAfee, in a report to the Iowa Horticultural Society oa forestry, mentions the two systems of plant injr in voruo furrow and 5padc, " giving, however, the prcfcrcnCO to the latter in any but a very damp spring, ijc approves of planting 3i by 31 feet apartt though 4 bv i feet generally . adopted. Mr. McAfee has found that , n vellow cottonwood placed the first distance mentioned will cover the ground within one year. In planting trees the J eartn should not be .et enough to make j, m0rtar, neither should trees be set while there is water standing in the hole. The clay that may adhere and dry on where the roots have been puddled in trans planting ought to be rinsed out before the trees are set. Numerous failures in forest tree planting arise from the fact tliat young trees are not sheltered. A careful for j ester, knowing that the little shoots in their native condition begin life shelter- ed by parent boughs, imitates nature bv I protecting the tender plants with i -'- - - . branches of trees lightly spread upon tho ground, removing this shelter grad- j ually a3 they become accustomed to the open air. Professor E. Gale, of the j Kansas Agricultural College, urges that tree be planted closely, not only for the mutual and immediate protection of the anous opinions nave been entertain trees but for economy in culture and for cd as to the construction of the Saturn the purpose of securing available tim- iau rings. While they can hardly le ber and insuring early returns from the J wholly gaieous or liquid, there is dilli planting. He also advises that farmers , culty "in regarding them as compoed of planting timber on their farms set the . solid matter, since but few solids are trees judiciously, i. e . so as to derive all ! known which would endure the violent possible beuetits tneretrom; lor in stance, twelve acres arrayed in belts in many localities is far more desirable than would be forty acres in a body. It is laid down by sylviculturists as a rule worthy of observation, that certain trees hear the shade of other species better than that of their own. Therefore a mixture, as of oak and beach, will grow j nearci aione. nearer together than eithor kind would In thinning out plantations of trees feeble growths are gradually removed, the thinnings being repeated until the forest has gained its maturity. The number of trees to be left standing de - jKjnds upon many and varying circum stances. A fixed law will scarcely hold good in every case, and much is left to the intelligence of tho planter. A gen eral rule given is that half of the trees planted at four feet apart shall be re- moved before the growth is u leet , mat mo planet has already entered up high : tho number not to exceed 800 to on tie later stages of its life. Ho thinks tho acre when 30 feet high, and when J 40 feet ;3 :Utained not more than 300 to .i .-rt. 350 are to remain to the acre. Still an- zone. A dismemberment ami a conver other rule allows the space between at j sion into a ring, he jays, mut be tho one-fifth of the height. In eight j'ears . general fate of every planeUiry bod larch has averaged 1G feet in height; i (and a moon is a planetary body), which, cataloa. 12 feet in four year.; ash and by a slow contraction of tho path in walnut growing about as rapidly as the larch. New York World. ' " -. .i Disinfection by Cold. Tn n 1ofr fn iVin Congressional coni- mittecon the subject oi epidemic dis - - O ..! cases, having special reference to yellow fever, Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson states that the designs for a refrigerating steamer by Professor John Gamgee, of London, England, are far advanced at the Navy Yard, but it will require at least three months from the date of signing contracts to construct this life saving ship and its machinery. It is intended that this steamer shall proceed to New Orleans, as the port most threatened, and there try the ef fect of extreme cold in the disinfection of ships coming from infected ports. Mrs. Thompson says: 41 The Board of Experts authorized by Congress to investigate tho yellow fever epidemic of 1&7S declare that 4 ships are especially dangerous,' and 4 remain sources of infection for months after having been infected with the poison;' that 4 yellow-fever poison is not able to withstand the influence of frost, and when exposed to a freezing temperature it is rendered innocuous and is probably destroyed ;' that ' if the apparatus and experiments now pro jected for the utilization of extreme cold for this purpose should be found to be of practical application to the disinfec tion of the holds and other parts of ves sels, their success would prove to be as anitary acquisition of inestimable value.' 44 The losses to this country by yellow fever 4 have been variously estimHted at sums ranging from $100,000,000 to $200, 000,000' and it has been computed that New Orleans alone suffered to the ex tent of $15,335,000. Millions have been spent in ships of war, and I hope the opportunity we now have of testing na ture's great preventive for yt How fever cold may be taken advantage of with promptitude and liberality." The experiment would seem to be worthy of trial, and, properly conduct ed, would be comparatively inexpensive. In the hands of a practical Yankee an ordinary tug-boat could be fitted out with refrigerating apparatus sufficient to test the question inside of a fort night Scientific American. Carious Case of Arsenic-Poisoning". For some weeks past a local physician has been attending a young lady who has exhibited every possible indication of arsenic-poison. Her appetite failed her, and her face became of a ghastly pallor, while the features were bloated and the eyes watery, with swelling of the lower limbs. Day by day her body was rack ed with intense pain, and finally her condition became so unendurable that she almost longed for death to put an end to her sufferings. Tho physician was satisfied from the beginning that she was afflicted with some disease pro duced by arsenic-poison. But the most rigid investigation failed to reveal in what possible way it could have been administered to her. Her food was in spected, the water she drank was most carefully selected from the wells, where no impurity by any means could find its way to it. By the merest accident in the world the cause of this remarka ble condition was discovered. The doc tor happened to be present when the young lady's clothes were brought home from the wash. The singular luster of the linen struck him as remarkable. He inquired who did that washing, and was tbld that an old negro woman whose great skill in polishing linen made her very popular with the girl3. The doc tor "thought he was now on the road to the discovery, and concluded for the nonce to play an amateur detective. He visited the old woman, and soon learn ed that her polish " was produced by the use of arsenic in the starch. Then the whole case was plain. The girl was afflicted with arsenic-poison prodaced by absorption. Being of a peculiar temperament and organization, she in curred a danger which others might have escaped. Respiration aided it, and her bodily susceptibility to the fa tal drug conspired to produce the daa ferous condition which has just been etailed. Denver Nezcs. The draft of negro laborers to Texas has impelled the Legislatures of Ala bama and Georgia to impose a license tax of f 100 upon every person soliciting people to emigrate from those states J TIIE CRASH OF WORLD. Moom tU!ns Info I'IabcM, nl n lain kltRt. The ringed planet Saturn is generally supposed by astronomers to present a picture of planetary eautenca la its earner stages. Although the planet al- rcadv has eight moons, the matter form- j ing the rings constantly tends to shap lUell into new satellites. The attractive force of the great ccatral mass as con tantly overcomes thb tendency, and is believed to be drawing the rings closer and clo5er. The KnsMan astronomer Otto Struvo has predicted that in 14 than two centuries the inner ring will reach the planet and be united with it. While his views are not accepted by all observers, the fact is conceded that great changes are going on in tho gir dle of Saturn, and there are strong mi kotis to conclude that the matter of which it is made up once moved in a - larger circle man it now occupies. This conclusion is the baisof n paper j c ti contributed, dv l'roi. mniei augnan to the last number of the Popular Science Monthly, in which hiibo interesting if not startling propositions are advanced convulsions that frequently disturb the great circles. It is suggested in thin pa-, per that the priucipal constituent maj bo water, at a temperature near tho , freezing point. In that case, the con stant tendency to freeze would slightly overcome the destructive forces, and would account for such changes of form , as are revealed by the telescope Of course these changes could not go on without heat from some source, but it is . assumed that a sufficient quantity is evolved mechanically by the commo- j tions themselves. ' There seems to be no doubt, however, ! that the rings of Saturn are such stutTas moons are made of, but the question is whether this material is to form moons , in the future or has already performed its functions in this respect by forming i t moons in the past.-" i'roi. aughan i adopts a view which indicates his belief the two rings were formerly two sate!- -... ..!. t - . - r . j lies revolving auout aaturn in a wider - - - . . ." which it moves, revolves at Je:ut too close to its primary that is, too close to the larger planet around which it travels. But what causes the orbit of a satellite to contract so as to brinjr it thus dan- : &;'". " "'"' " "" - .lmi(? T . ii. r llifk Jt..l .w- at w - ! .y-hk.V - I.. j-i.nls I - a.mn -. . ... A I . .. to motion would bo sufficient some thing which retarded velocity, very slight.', it might be, but still somewhat. An influence of this nature must be ex erted by any substance, however tenuous or etherial, which pervades all space, or that part of space, at ail events, to which the stars and planets belonir. Like many other men of science. Prof. Vaughau aumes the existence of a rare medium of this sort disseminated throughout all tho known stellar regions; -and to its action of retardation he at tributes the transformation of the lost , moons oi baturn into the mighty rings which now encircle that planet. Evi- dence that a resisting medium really ex ists has been supplied by tho recent din- " covery of tho satellites of Mars ; and onr iinthor (Indian's thnt nnt irmnv mil lion years can elapse before tho inner moon, Phobos, will have its path so shortened as to be brought within tho atmosphere of tho planet. Then, he says, its career as a small secondary world will close with a meteoric exhibi tion. And why may not our own moon come to an end in tho same way? In deed probable fective the cases few ab3orpt: be multiplied by several hundreds to make up the period which will elapse ' hnforn 3 the moon is similarly destroyed. ' The occasion will be a grand one, how- ever, for we are told that it will iver, for we are toiu mat it win be sig- lalized by a far greater display of me- oiic effulgence. Dilapidation will bo-. rin before the moon actually touches f besig- nal toi cin before the moon actually the earth; innumerable fragments will be hurled off a3 meteors into our at-, mosnhere: and the brilliancy of the I -1 t. .t I r""1" V ... 7 T , .. rroi. vauguan minus masonry a portion ; earth at the first near approach. The ! part that is left will haul off, a3 it were, ' into space, to give rise to a similar mag nihcent outburst some millions of cen turies later, when it again comes too near. It is worthy of note that nothing , is not such a result extremely aianuon nan a inmu to, couiunt ho put , imMm wh h hmn.f Wt :. ,. ? The same cause must be ef-1 powder in his own wood ? Dar's no law lbe furnaco ttml wrvaaU. Thrr a-n to check its rate of motion, and J to prewent him. Uc whilo folks hain't m,nv r.nt.,. .. ,n,v i v,. chief difference between the two t do only folks who kin put on style an' by hor nci,.,, or R furnaf .nrMi would be in point of lime. J he pmg eir siovc-woou wm powuer. 0nnfr4, tnr ii,n .i rnni, i .a .. millions of years requisite for the "I fink I ace how all dt.s happened," Ijrov(d:nt, thn himn,.r with t ' - inn n thi I'hnlmi winlil linro in , fiJlld HlackhnrrV V llliamt. a IilMW ant. J.i .1 . ...... vr.. v. ...w a mwo .. w.a. ...... . v j . -,...-..- IUinnitT" Il wnaiever is sa u as 10 UB prooao.e euect , of much t lhc raasicaI wor, 1 outh rooms are warrni up by ray of of this gigantic convulsion of nature j The trcasnre.trove cmuhu of x the sun more or less daring the en-ire upon hfe on the earth This omission I tion of thc missi wort, Df Johafn y. Those who have never rrt may be due to the fact that mankind can gtf jjh. f ho dLtcorerj WJM f mented with the difference will protafclr hardly be said to have a vital present made by Herr Itobert Franz. Convinced be surprised Ui learn that Utere i a di interest in the event. , that the iongi0,t paj0n music and terence of from five to tweaiy-fivc Un just as a moon may fall into a planet, Christmas oratorios might yet be brought j & o the therinorneter bctweira tt so a planet may fall into a sun. The to light, Herr Franz commenced a ays- north aad south exposures, five to ta chief difference is in the splendor of the tematic research in every place where i degrees difference in tha momiag ac J spectacle. Twenty-three temporary the great master had been known to re- f afternoon, aad from twenty to twntr stars have appeared in the heavens ; side. After much fruitless labor he ar- fir degrees is the middle of Umj isr within the past 2,000 years three of rived at the seat of thc Wiuthun family, l Tb ! n windows U a non-con! i them within the present century. W hat ant pitog one day down an alley In j tor oi atmospheric cold, wnile it m ai has caused them to kindle in the sky the garden noUced that the young trees assistance to the active trans miss I with sudden brilliancy, and then grow i wfaerc tbey were tied to their supports i lh rays of light and be dim and constanUy decline in bright-1 were bound round with stripiof paper! Wherever the sun's rays can be en,.l ness? An obvious answer is sugzested , to prevent the bark from being scored. 1 loBgest daring a winter' day i th- -by thc facts we have already consider- A c0ier inspection showed that ths " rable part of the house for hnag p-r ed. The mysterious effulgence which pzpeT bore the beautiful handwriting of " !- flashes across the universe as the transi- h Bach, and, turning to the gardener, Da aUeatkm to this fact will coal. -tory glory of a temporary star is the f Ucrr Franz be-ought him tossy whence Ht enorasously sot merely to th cn bale fire of a dying planet. But it may the precious MS. had come. The reply 'or, bet to the health, of the wous be asked, Why have we not seen thc was to thc eflVct that in the loft thr aad childrea. ho soend tins frrravr . . j . .1 t , ,t- . . T. r- . -.-.. ..a .(.-!..'. selves to be seen, since we suppose them to resemble our sun in character an"d constitution? The difficnlty here pre sented seems considerable, but it i3 sim ply met. There are supposed to be vast central bodies presidrngorer the move- ment of unseen planets, and yet totally dark- Blacx suns, they may wcu De i called .i near existence is reveaieu w ,- . " lJ u?, and we mra nnh? Irnnnr THPi niPM tn the nnfverse. when thev become lumin w.. .- . e ous as temporary stars, through the de- jj structive dismemberment of some orb f in their own planetary family. The twenty-three temporary stars, then, indicate' that twenty-three planets have been destroyed is 2,060 years. Prof. Vaughan estimates the entire number of primary and secondary planets in the universe as equal to half the population of the globe. This would make from 600,000,000 to 700,000,000. The aver I a swa M1tf x snSfiVifiii 9 ffvT t mmtm 1 ago utuibBUkj ui iuuuuu ta uwwiou tv i siar oeiorer ii. is uui. nudugo i.u. iuc fiaa oegn scverai chests full of paper, planets of other solar systems, which covered with old notes, and as k was ao revolve around stars as their own suns, jy ODC ne kj nude it serve ia should be invisible to us here on the atead of leather for binding up the sap earth, since they do noi shine by their ; i jngf adding that he had done so for own light; but ought not the stars them- some time and found the result highly be oae death a scond. If we rrd th ftnooirancc of a temporary ? the record of Ike iJatof a planrt, Um fact., caabl to cowpam the kagta ,.,, T?i with Um duration Uhs dnraUon nlanctarr life: ami it PTear, from fc that a century Ua small a part of the carter of a plan a suvu a v4i "v'. twit wmnili sr OI IDC lire Ot a oa The period embracing th hitory of the human raco hardly cjnal two minute will endure from the banning to the end : and the oWrvtd fart of atrooo- my lead Trof. Vanghan to beliero thai a pos.Mblo age of fir hundred billions of yors may b attained by a world. It teems most probable that wban the earth falU into the sua it will be la the f form of Innumerable roetwric frag-, menu rather Uxan as one gigantic ro- u-or. As the shower of terrestrial mat ter ruhej through the olar atrao pbere, tho un will blazo out into a glow such as astronomers have witness ed and wondered at in remote star , and tho earth will have pa.et awaj, with no more effect on the inhabitant of thoe dutant orb whence tho light may bo vieweti man similar spectacles a. ft T . .Y.I nave prouuecu upon vxs. The contemplation of a finality like j thb, however far removed, natural y I leads to reflection upon the fate of hu- ( inanity which it involves. And the thoughts thus induced are fcarcely sat isfactory uulcu one can say, with Campbell's I.ast'Mau: Tfi! plrlt hill return to Hit Who iju !: ticat?nly jwk, Yik ihtRW not. atiti.tt hail 2tor dim Wtitii thou clival ti (laik! N It -ha't Itvo twltt BH1 hln, Iti lHt unknown to WiikuI th!(( Uy lilts rrcsllfHt totirratti Who rapttvi trtl onjitlrlty. U ho tott-l tttr C.nivnnt Victory And took Din Uri from iNsitlit The Caue of the Kxplunloiu ' Gem'len,a curus anecdote happen- cd at do cabin of do Hon, Lyctinru Standoff la' night," said Brother Gard- ner, as the janitor lighted a fnwh lamp, ' De bnidtler am not heah, owln' to iesuns to be menshuned a ltttlo furdcr on, an' do ca.se am one to which do at- tenshun of tie club has been called by several white men, an' an investigahun deit.anded. De facts in do anecdote seem to unwind as follows: De Hon. Standoff was about to retire fur do night Do ole woman had already nought do downy couch of sweet repot, de chlll'n were dreamm' oi applo-t)loioni5 an angels, an' do cat an' uog had dropped behind' tie .stove in bliWul harmony. Dar was a hot tiah in do stovu. De i ... lion, binndofi lingered behtn' to injoy .. r. . .. ...... i.e ruiruai.iueiu, nu tie uau juai ieaneu ober to ptt under do front doah, when sunthtn' happened. De loo of dat tttove ri. up. So did do ole tea-kettle, a hot brick, and more or less tiah. De Hon. Standoff nlso riz up an1 got out doalw an' yelled 4 murder!' at do top of hli voice It was a riz up time arottn' dat house, an' folks iay dat fam'Iy wa du wildest-looking lot o' niggers ober neen in Detroit. 'Sovi't den, what canned dat 'sploshun? It wasn't gas. It wasn't low water in de biler. White men wiy dat it was caused by powder In a stick of wood, an' dat do wood didn't belong to de Hon. Standoff, who now lies in bed witl blisters all ober him. Was It ' powder? Was dat powder in a stick of wood ? Did de brudder incorporate dat wood from some surrounding naybur? Let de member speak." Samuel Shin was first to break tho silenco. Rising to his feet with a bhuth ot philosophy covering his face, husald: 44 Bekaso dar was a 'wplosion in do stove itdoan' foller dat dar wa powder in de wood. Suppose one of do chil'cn had dropped a bottle of hoss-medicino in de fiah befo' goin' to bed. I've knowed dat worry thing to happen in my own house, an' whar's de man who says I stole wood?" 44 If I war tn be axed for my opinyun j on dLs subject," remarked Waydown Mcbee, as hu took the floor, " I Hhould say dat dar mought have bech powder in de wood. What of it? If do Hon. down. 44Fur instance. De Hon Standoff owns wood. He sees dat wood pile growin' si smaller meltin' away like he had six loves gom . . . 'hivaa of one. He plugs a stick wid powder Ho for-, . u pi" "ck wm poocr. no ior-, who with the gits which Is de utick. It finds its way , q thinsrs mto his own stove, an' whar' amdatjaone ,,-, stove to-day?" mf... .-.-S,. .J' i None of the other members Kccmcd inclined to tackle the subject, and Brother Gardner said: ii it. ft .frr t t i - .... - 1 " i. . . . A if ""7 ' m"1"4 Ui uc cuargc ui twin hmwooo Chair feels it his dooty to warn dc brud- der to be a little more kecrful in de fu ture." JJctroa tree tress. Interesting Musical Discovery. uuiujau uituiii BuiivuukC s ulKUtcrv f I OITfS A n S rm m MMMrrtMn)tt tayMit. I .. . . . " " -"" satiifactory. Herr Franz hastened to " the loft, when he was rewarded by find- Ij lk available. iuaJight, are the t o ing a chest yet untouched, and fifted to f ca coadJUoasto good health in boae to brim with MSS. whkh ob iaspecUos M fc- la Fraace, Italy and Crr- proveo 10 contain no lewer taaa 120 , im sonatas. Hk joy was dashed. however, by the certainty that the nre-1 rinn, Pjusion nm hlnmrL ,A Diad up the treas, and had UTecoTerablv ' ' ----- - "& fcvww W .t . a .. . . w OS-I peruaeu uixoaea exposure La th :J it i . i weather. tries have led the people totake advaa- . . ' 77 tageof taesua'i heat to the largest po- Gixls are advised by a Chicago physi- stble extt. The natural warmth of cian to always sleep oa thesr backs U tke mn'i rays should be still morecalti they wMh to keep crow's feet from the Taied ia a eoM climate like tab. aad corners of their eves. "These blm-f & .k.- ; (.n. -..J. -.- . . . --w- w he says, 4are tberasltof ikn. -rMrV mgon the sides. The prasswe upon the temple and cheeks leaves wrinkles at the corners and underneath the eves which disappear in a few howrc h finaUybecoinesonxdthatmjitk - i.w. " -j vav- . ,l1 n .- ox 3KHUUOBS Will aOaXS rmi Ai roivr. !Stn any thisg of tint rhip '" prof fei d opd--s!:r-kTr -.-? of f prof of tfcti Ran!r. PkuCatk cnilrao (or iv SHaat Coatdrr3U9 Itfti jjk " lr Krepr. will it mn .firm fclin a carr.-wji oal of my b r" I a looking for t&idJmHn. wiw bd i&rv& I rt up h , , gmrooa-boan!. and w Tp v under th table. Each Infswtrr mn In tfe ftv be aocoropASM! by a p?fcvl win . lion wagon, if the d?Tktfaal f -pealing arnxi goc on a fc Wd- ? t : do. A ATTK4UST f th,U a rt rxr bet at mJdaihl; bt llwy r n-- able to ee a man at tio bk w swearing and yctti "jaiat" at aT I of the night. It U becoming fajJitonaMe m trlHgrmi men to wnd a mrd t'cv! gotng to a party. H4ic " dancing. ad waling a &Upfl-'L per watb Ladtftg up. d iwrt -i-card. ,Vca OrUttnt AwywM. Tuk dUJUki ef the pfUn f wlekrdant of ti waKz hv er &. again. The walu wtll nvwt i- a ithed, and thoo who ppu it w under lb; up4eo i rlMm.i cork lcjr. -C'iwww 7VA. t A man At K.- vax. Mia v Iv fined -t'.V. foe ii v. . around a girl ami Lltag jmc I j teem to be all oror ta wmmmiri a I uided feeling again p.t . ', kiing, and fin lor UMtebjr z V t without invitation ar a -sr SoiKJM and Gomorrah ant t built, we learn from a furvn This appear to tn Ui b a wrr rlht dlrocUon a n&rnr fcar Rbl to a whv thv mifc! kit. destroyed whtfo St iul aad t natt wero allow! u gt i vrr w cdnex. Chwtpt 7VWk. ' TiiK wife of a prialar I Vw lit j ha applied for a divwnM, o Un xi j : that ner hutband hal tto jiyi a ) htm ; he wouldn't brae trp, h ' , dash, cut no figure, ha! o to4', up to no rule, wm f Wwl l-ia. a , mako-up, wasn't a man of lotuf i U the pcrit!, wa a poor typ f i genun, was out oi ninn,uioi. ; i . unpo5o on her aay longer. Amo.no othcc.-eiirlonw a oih. at the American DepirtmMtuf ih - -" --' ExM).,iuon wa a t1g ohr,ta t n ,j. American lMwrdingluMiw X c chicken was taken U the gtttMotin . morning, but, when tho heavy kn ?r f on Its neck, tho fowl gave a fn. ! nquawk, and, after one or two ir- , doits pulU, jerked Its hood awv. f , under the knife and miulo lu wt v K to its coop In tho HtpwlUmi. Th ' was ncnt to the foundry for rpa UurtkUe. Till: timlf.tt call to ftxlflah tU Ami lumh that mk tl iit4l ! ' u Tli lilrtnt girt tk" Ui! ntuhnr V And thf wild buokwJmnt Unf 1m - Ituati. HrMj;)t. ruh. it U W ' ' nyi"K. hpeak, Mtiil rwitft: nner, nanak, f f rytnjf. irjrtn. O. hark, nil rijcht! bVr iMn ntrnl tsi ' No Hiiir on trlu oir nrpnm Tukn thrr or four or maylm mr Ami flM! with N'w OrltwuM . HrlU"t. ilon't toj, ttio bailor ,pu. nlvtin 5 Work, Itrt'ljct; nror, fY)lmr, iry'lnK- )4lllW, Tlnry'rn nfc at limn" or w!n yt wa TUy'r nlc on hill r nl or rtt . They r o k'"I I f I ihwW Kat on tornwr anl fumfn. Hump yotiriM?lf, llrMtfntl Kwp ta 1 in flytriK Ami anrr, piincjvkm, n-r. tryi lnx, trying. Itencllts or SuHllK-hf. Tho unusual noverity of Ujij pr'- t winter has letl a g hx! many pn.j. Ut turn their thoughta and bniui thotr f,r tries In thn direction of warmtnir '! - . , - - --- - r protect the huvi ar diverse winds, In tho contrurti . hotue, etc.; but all thec thing4 tr t f a a I ft.nnr.Kt " -. --- tw-.- ... .. wio u ivnuimrc oi rounT oj wr t wb0fftwUh lho of intnlUm..! as thoy find tncm. Xh i- most ovnrv hmv c.xn ihw.rvn :th t waste of time r expenditure of rnon-v, and which will always make tb ze" est difference in pergonal comfrt ! r tnr too witl a.,m. This U to vale the nunllht to the largest prv cable extent. In all houses with a north fron t the poitirc duty of families oecup.' 4 them to transfer their living room, to the tooth lde of the house during th wintcrmontha. The sun rise and t daring the six cold months of tha j-sr to the south of east and wet, o that aad childrea. "who part of the time within doom in th winter season. There Is a ra.st sd-av. of talk aboet ventilation and change " f air as necessary to good health; L-ci the suppression of the light and ro phitic sewer gased by affording proper ... ' r r- aveaues of escape, and an admission I aar, taoesra tfce winter climates ar ot nearly so severe beaegts of saalhrh't are uaderstood U AH. n-m fk. i - ulniti;rfri m.ttfK4n amocg as. The comparative O S scarcity ua cosuiaaM or rni i Lh coon- . . I . . better en joymeat thereof will save more ia the redacsd coascmptloa of fuel than ! w vmmk9 u Mwmjo JlwuaDrnM "-r it can possibly coss. Ta soath expos ure b aot only warmer, but ls damp, aad in every way raore coaducire to good health than aay other. Chtatj Tribune .- :. ' J iasiassacssasrssaaaay: , - . 's.."t''?-2J . J T