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A -M H 1 THE JOURNAL. WEDNESDAY, AUG. 8, 1883. Xstirel st tbt 7:ttoS:i, Colsatu, Kit., u iteorl cUm sitter. THY OVE. It brightens all the cel gloom That closes round me Kk a tomb. And fills my Heart -with aummer bloom It makes me quite forget tft pain That grief has wrought wlthusiny bratn. And brings a flash of Joy agaia. It mates the darkest night to me More clear than ever day con be. For In my dreams I am with thee. Jtnny P. Blgclow, in Harpcft Maoaztm. ADVICE TO A Y0CS6 CLERGYMAN. You are anxious to know, my dear young man, how you may bo as sured that you are mentally and phys ically and spiritually fitted for the min istry? Well, about the best way to get at this is to size yourself up honestly and con vince yourself that while there are a hun dred other things you can do, ten of which you can do well, you can preach better than jtou can do any thing else. But before you enter the ministry be thoroughly convinced that you can make a good living at something else. Don't wait until you have preached five r ten years and all but wrecked two or three churches before you find out that Providence was advertismglor a ule in surance agent or a lawyer when you jumped up and said: "Here am I," and went straight to the theological depart ment. If you know how, or can learn how to Mix kalsomine and put it on the walls in reasonably good shape; or, Groom a horse and put on a harness; or. Beat a carpet twice a year and lay the same after the fifth year so as to bring all the holes under the sofa and book-case; or, Plow, drop corn, bind after a reaper or feed a thrasher; or, Help a blacksmith; or, Sell goods on the road; or, Clerk for a carpenter; or, Make shoes; or. Practice medicine or law; or, Work a hydraulic pump in a milk fac tory; or. Write in an insurance ofiico; or. Pound sand; or, Write novels; or. Grind poetry; or. Run a ward caucus, and paok a State Convention; or. Shave yourself and polish your own boots; or, Go to tha Legislature; or, Drive cattle; or, Brake on a freight train; or. Bun a stationary engine; or. Serve in the army; or, Steer a steamboat; or, Drive a street car; or, Teach school; Then, my dear young brother, if you E refer it, if you honestly feel that you ave something to say in tho pulpit that people must hear, then preach. But: If you can't do anthing else; if you san't plow or reap if you know not how either to fish or cut bait; if at any thing else you would starvo, then, m nsaven's name, keep out of the pulpit. 3od never yet established a church as a pension agency for an3rbody. And if you nave made up your mind that jot 11 have to preach or starve, you &il confer a favor upon the commu nity by starving. Or, j'ou can edit a newspaper, which is a respectable wav of doing tho same thing. Anybody can edit a paper except the editor. He doesn't know the first principle of his business. Any man whom he has had occasion to bring into the dissecting room for dem onstration will tell you that. You see, my son, we want men in the pulpit to-daj real men, who would be men among men anywhere; men who can help the world carry its every-day burdens, if need be; men like Paul, the tent-maker; Luke, the physician; Peter, the fisherman; Matthew, the collector of customs (who must have been an active and successful politician;) real men. Tfiere were, doubtless, dudes in Israel when God took Gideon away from the threshing-floor and made him the de liverer of His people; but a thousand dudes would not make one Gideon, as thousand naughts will not make one unit. So David was taken from the aheep-fold, and Moses was taken from the palace, because, you see, men who are good for something are good for something else. Save only in tho caso of a fiddler; I believe a fiddler is usu ally good for nothing else under tho skies save only to fiddle, nor doth ho know aught else. But, as a rule, a real man amounts to a reality wherever tou place him or find him, and a dude. In the ordinary walks of life, will be a dude in the desk; and a Paul in tho sail loft or a Gideon in tho pew would be Paul and Gideon in the pulpit. Don't preach, if you think you would bo utterly good for nothing" at any thing else. "You see," said the Pew, slidins down into an easier position, preach clear over my head." you "It isn't that,' replied the Pulpit, "you dodge under my preaching. Now listen just a minute longer till ftell you how a man last week made $20,000 in Louisiana swamp lands." And the Pew sat up so quickly and so straight that its back cracked. You see, my inexperienced brother, you have entered a profession of all callings, even from a worldly point of view, most difficult. You could keep the Pew wide awake and bolt upright all the time if you would talk about The things the Pew wants to hear about But that isn't your mission. You must -make the Pew want to listen to tho things you talk about. And your work is going to be hard, wearying, depres siag at times, discouraging. You will find that men consider tho twenty-five-miuute sermon too fearfully long, when the same watches proclaim a three-hour circus too short. The man who can't stand "one of &ose hideous, b3ck-breaking pews" fifteen minutes without fidgeting until everybody within sight of him is nervous will sit calmly and patientlv in the blazing sun on the bleached end of a cotton-wood log a whole Suuday morn ing, watching his cork bob lazily in the yellow ripples of a sluggish creek. He needs no cushion and back for the lo, but he wants an easy chair and a has sock at church. CHUKCUE5 OF PEXAUCE. It won't do any harm to humor the man in the pew a little in this matter of personal comfort. The dav of physical penance has gone by. We no longer wear the hair shirt. Since the inven tion of tight boots it has become a feeble and useless superfluity. Men no longer make pilgrimages to holv places in their bare feet. If they walk a quarter of a mile to church they think they ought to go to Heaven for it. The only pilgrims of to-day are tramps. But now and then, and here and there, we till build churches like barns, only nore so. We still perch the worshipers n oencnes so uign mat nobody can reach the floor with their feet when they tit down. It may be that the severe pew of the Queen Ann style is conducive to vital Siety. Certainly it will have to be con ueive to some great good to atone for he measureless evil it hath wrought in the world. Don't be afraid of making the church too comfortable lest it may look much like a theater. The Bibb rill be none the less the Bible eve though it be tgurnl iw hstf pirfanr jjjrs THB PBW AS SEEN FBOK THE PULPIT. As you preach the word, my dear young brother, cast your eyes around upon the congregation and you will ob serve these people, as follows, to wit, namely, viz.: L The Sleeper. Ho will bo there. Peradventure he leaneath his ohiu upon a cane, so that when the moment of deep and profound slumber cometh upon him, his chin slippeth off and with the bang of his head upon the pew in front of him he is awaked. Howbeit the bang upon his wife's head no man can hear. Or, the slumberer may sit bolt upright and nod in time to his deep and regular breathing. Only when you cast your eyes upon him, the watchful wife of his bosom stabs him with her elbow, and he glareth npon the congre gation 49 who should say: "He that sayeth I slept the same is a liar and a villain and s horse-thief." Or, if he be so that he leartth his head back until the lid thereof fc'leth down between his shoulders, and he playeth fantastic tunes with his nose, insomuch that the boys in the gallery make merry over tho same, then is it hazardous to awaken this slumberer right suddenly, because he dreameth of divers things and say eth to tho tithing man who shaketh him up, "Hey? hi! ha! yes, yes, all right! I'm up. And thus is the congregation much scandalized. But if ho foldoth his handkerchief over tho back of tiie pew in front and boweth his head de voutly upon the same, even in that moment when the text is pronounced, then will that sleeper trouble no one. but will slumber sweetly on until the time of the benediction; and ho will awaken refreshed and smiling, and he will oxtol tho sermon and maguify tho preacher. Ho is tho old-timer from Sleepy Hollow. TL The Lounger. He falls into the pew and slides easily into the most comfortable corner. Ho shakes himself down into a comfortable attitude. His legs extend under the pew in front and meet his hips at the crookedest of ob tuse angles. Ho crooks his pliant elbow into the arm of tho pew, and drops tho side of his face into tho fearful hollow of his hand, by moans of which ho nushe-rhis cheek un into hi? evo. HLs shoulders are nearly on a level with his Itonn expect to see him slida out of sight. And although you aro a eood ?:m Lvory timo you look at him you : ..:u i. 7..,ii .i .MJiutTuiiiru vuu vvinu ajo nuum, auu i you never come vp again. HI. The Fuwbt. Whether you look for him or not 70U know T'lacu he is. Ho pushes t(iO hassock away with a long, resonant groan of its own. Then he sits bolt upright, hooks his shoulder blades over the back of tho pew and hangs on. He is going to sit still this Sunday if it kills Tiim. But tho pew is too high, so he settles down a little. Then ho puts a hymn-book between his back and the pew. Then he leans for ward and lets it fall with a crash. Then he folds his arms; ho half turns and lays one arm along the back of tho pew. Suddenly he slides down and brace both knees against the back of tho pew in front. Ah, that's comfort. It lasts ninety seconds, when ho abruptly straightens up, elevates both arms and hooks his elbows over tho baok of his ew. That isn't what ho wants; hU egs are tired; ho reaches for tho has sock with both feet, upsets it, and in a frantic effort to stay it, kicks it against tho pow. Covered with burning em barassment he pulls out his watch twice or thrice without once looking at it. He folds his arms across his breast, then he crosses them behind his back; he thrusts his hands into his pockets, he drops a Bible on the floor and puts his feet into his hat, and at times you look to sec lxfm go all to pieces, but he doesn't. He stays together and comes back next Sunday, every limb and joint of him. IV. The Watcher. His neck fa fitted on a globe socket and turns clear around. He sees everything that goes on. The man who comes in late does not escape him, and it is vain for tho tonor to think ho got that little note to tho alto conveyed betweon the leaves of the hymn-book unobserved. Tho watcher saw it. rlo sees tho hole in the quarter that Elder Skinner dropped in tho plate. He see tfeat Deacon Slowboy has on but one ouff. If tho door swings ho looks around; if the window moves noiselessly he looks up. Ho sees the stranger in his neighbor s pew, and he sees Brother Badman sit ting away back under tho gallery fur tively take a chew of the inhibited fine cut. All things that nobody wants him to see the watcher sees. Ho sees so much he has no timo to listen. V. The TiME-KBBfgR. As you pro nounce your text, you seo the time keeper take out his watch, look at it carefully, and close It with a snap that says, "Go!" clear to tho pulpit. You know that he has you down to a sec ond, and that he keeps a faithful record of the length of every sermon you preach, usually adding five or ten min utes to the record, "to allow for a dif ference in watohes." During the Bor mon he refers to that watch every few minutes or oftenor. And when you have been preaching, say, twenty-five minutes, the time-keeper looks at his watch and starts. Can ho beliovo his eyes? He looks at tho watch; then he gazes at you. Then ho looks around at the clook on the gallery to bo assured that his watch hasn't been stopped ever since last Sunday. Then ho makes a movement to close the watch and re turn it to his pocket, but changes his mind, looks at it again, smiles a de spairing smile, and holds his hand up a little so that his neighbor can see what timo it is. Then, with a long, fixed look at you, he clicks his watch shut and slowly returns it to his pocket with the expression of a man whose amaze ment has struck him dumb, and who cannot actually believe the evidence of his own senses, if the time-keeper cannot ruin the closing fivo minutes of your sermon you are proof against an noyance. VI. The Squeaker. Ho comes in late. His pew is the furthest from tho door. His boots are vocal monsters that arc never worn save on the Sab bath day to keep it noisy. Down the long aisle ho walks, squee-squaw, squee squaw. When he reaches his pew there are strangers in it. Ho is the soul of hospitality, and he wouldn't disturb one of them for 81,000. Back he goes to a seat under the gallery, squee-squaw, squee-squaw. Then ho remembers that he has a notice for you to read, and back he squeaks to the pulpit, hands you tho wrong notice, and solemnly squawks back to the door, and once more squeaks back to the pulpit, delivers the proper notice, and calmly squawks back to nisi msiani seat, ne alone solemn, while all others are inclined to smile. The squeaker is such a good man you can't bear to scold him. He's awfully good. And the erooder he is the worse he squeaks. VH. The Talking Traveler. This brother is usually a sister. She comes to church Sunday morning careful and troubled about all the unfinished mis sionary and sewing circle business of the week. She has no idea of going directly to her own pew, but she heads straight for some other sister, and in the solemn hush that precedes the ser vices and all the time the consresration j is gathering, you can hear her voice as cending nigh in sibilant buzzes. From the first sister she flits to another, and buzz, buzz, buzz, the talk goes on. Her voice rises higher as the choir inter rupts her conversation with a voluntary, and only when the minister rises for prayer does she relapse into enforced silence. The time of the short prayer she utilizes by traveling to her own pew, so she rustles and patten an accompani ment to the invocation, dropping into her seat with the amen. Then shinooks I across tke church, aad seeing a sister ( over on the other side whom she had been uuable to include in her itinerant caucus, she noiselessly shapes half a dozen words at her with hsr mouth, which she opens andshuts, ami expands, in this voiceless effort, in such dreadful pantomime, that if it were not :'n church you would think the sistar was swear ing. Robt. J. Burdcltc, in Chicinnali Enquirer. Girls Who Si?h for Gum. In a Division Street milliuery store. Small girl comes down and hands madam Dehind the counter a small slip of paper. "Tell the forewoman she must cut down on this. I believe they carry i off and give it away," said the madam to the small girl, wiio weut away with a package in her hand. "Do you know what I have been giv ing to that girl?" went on the madam to the reporter of the Journal. "No." "It is spruce gum. There i3 a curi ous thing about this business. We can't get the girls to work well without it. This is how it is. The girls are all in one large work-room. We found that they talked so much that ti good deal of time was lost from work, and though they work by the piece, when there was a rusn ot uusmess n oiien ueiayeu or ders very much. Then my forewoman suggested that an order be issued that the girls do no talking during work hours. We put this into effect, but you might as well have tried to stop a Hood with a bar of soap. To see the tricks they would resort to just to get a moment of gossip together was quite instructive. They would make all sorts of excuses and try all sorts of expedi ents to get out a few moments and have their little talk on the lauding. Wo then tried a system of linos, but it liI no good. They would lose theirweek's wages rather than not have their talk. "After a while I found that it would not do, and I just nicked my head to know what to dof At one time I had a notion of building a lot of little rooms like cells, where they would be alone. But I was afraid I should have no girls at all. Then I tried bribers. I bought some spruce gum and got the fore woman to announce that 1 should give each &)t.on0 'bl 'morni""' am' .T'W' on condition that they dul m.ttak. lhu plan lias worked admirably. Inu can . . . go up m tne wont-shop, anil all the noise you will hear is that of a lot of jaws opening and dosing. Hardly a word is spoken. The girls are con tented. The problem is solved. A girl must move her mouth fonie way, and if it isn't chewing, it's talking. Town house along tho street has adopted the same plan now. But 1 find that my chewing gum disappears in alarming quantities. I think the girls are getting more than they are entitled to." In the upper circle of society chewing gum is frowned upon as being vulgar. Bit in East Tenth Street there is a club of ladies called the Spruce Club. They meet twice a week in winter, ostensibly to chew spruce gum. But this is an excuse. During the two hours they chew they work on baby clothes for poor people. Each member oonlribntis fifty cents a week, which buys the lhiMi ana the gum. A really benevolent ob ject is accomplished with chewing gum as its foundation. A Thirty-fourth Street dentist of great reputation said yesterday: "Of course any kind of chewing-gum is injurious to "the teeth, and spruce just as much as any other. It is not the gum itself, but tho process of mastication which is bad. The suction affects both the enamel and tho nerve, and is ofteu the cause of pulling out the filling of a tooth, no matter how strongly it may be put in. I will have nothing to do with a patient who uses chewing-gum, for it is labor lost." N. Y. Journal. How the Cables Were Made for the Brooklyn Bridge. After the towers had been built and the anchorages made ready, then came tho strangest work of all. To make tho ';bles and then put them over the 1 towers would be a difficult matter. Very likely it could not be done at all. So the cables were made, just where they hang, one small wire at a time. The cables are not chains with links, nor are they twisted like ropes. They are bundles of straight wires laid side by side, and bound together by wires wound tightly around the outside. They called the work "weaving tho cable." At the Brooklyn anchorage was placed a powerful steam-engine, and on tho top of the anchorage were placed two largo wheels, and with the aid of proper machinery tho engine caused these wheels to turn forward or backward. From each wheel was stretched a steel rope to the top of the Brooklyn tower, over tho river, over the otlier tower, and down to the New York anchorage. Hero it gassed over another wheel, and then stretched all the way back again. Tho ends were fastened together, mak ing an endless rope, and when the en gine) moved, the ropes traveled to anil fro over the river. For this reason they were called the "travelers." Thorc were, besides these travelers, two more ropes placed side by side. On these were laid short pieces of oak, thus making a foot-bridge on which the workmen could cross the river. There were also other ropes for sup porting platforms, on which the men stood as the weaving went on. On each traveler was hung an iron wheel, and as tho traveler moved, the wheel went with it. It took only ten minutes to send two wires over the river in this way. The men on the foot-bridge and on the plat forms suspended from the other ropos guided the two wires into place, and thus the cables were woven, little by littlo, two slender steel wires each time, and carefully laid in the place till 5,434 wires were bound together in a huge cable, fifteen and three-quarter inches in diameter. Tho work was fairly started by the 11th of June, 1877, and tho last wire was laid October 5, 1878. There are four cables, each 3,5781 feet long, and if all tho wires in the four cables were placed in line, they would reach over fourteen thousand miles. The work was long and dangerous. Sometimes the wire would break and fall into the water, and an hour ormorc would be spent in hauling it up and starting once more. The men on the foot-bridge or on the cradles high in the air watched every wire as it was laid in place. To stlirt and stop the engine, men stood on tho top of tho towers and waved signal flags to the engineer. Such a mass of wires would not very easily keep in place, and aa the work went on, a number of wires were bound together into little bundles or ropes, and at the end all were bound together into one smooth round bundlo or cable. Charles Barnard, in St. Nicholas. It is believed at Richmond, Ark., that Joe Young, the negro who was hanged there May 26, is yet living, hav ing Deen restored to life by the efforts of uis friends, who thought they noticed signs of life in his body soon after it was cut down and handed over to them at the hanging. Young drop ped seven feet and was pronounced dead by the phy sicians, although his neck was not broken. Chicago Times. In a horse-car the other day, as the conductor approached a young passen ger, the little fellow was seon to turn nrst pale and then red, and when the official held out his hand for the fare, the young sufferer gasped out: "Will ?rou please charge the money to my ather, Mr. A. L ; I've swallowed, my money 1" Boston Courier. "Pinkeye." Old diseases will occasionally develop new symptoms by changes in climatic influences, and mode of living in tho humau family; and changes in feeding, stable architecture and the manner of work among animals. I am inclined to look upon "pinkeye" as a form of epi demic catarrhal fever, sometimes called distemper, which is very common among horses. The "epizootic," so called, which prevailed so extensively about 1872, was another form of the catarrhal fever, and was so treated by me with great success. The influenza or distemper, as it is commonly called, is singularly preva lent in some seasons, and although it ex hibits general characters in common, yet the epidemic of one year will be marked with some particular symptoms which will not appear in tho epidemic of the next. Horses of largo cities anil crowded towns are more obnoxious to it than thos of the country; and in the country those are most liable to be at tacked which are most contiued. it has been disputed whether it be contagious or not, and both the negative and af firmative may be maintained with some show of reason. In some sections it exhibits little or no contagious charac ter; in others it is apparently infectious, particularly among young horses. It is of great consequence to distin guish this complaint from pneumonia or inflammation of the lungs; for if bleeding and oilier parts of the deplex ive system, which are usual in pneumo nia, be used in this affection, tho con sequences are either fatal or else .some thing serious is left behind most likely dropsy of the chest. It must bo re membered that pneumonia is a disease depending on excessive excitement, while catarrhal fever is dependent upon an entirely opposite condition. In proof of this 1 will state that most, of the deaths from the epidemic of 1872, that 1 became acquainted with, could be di rectly traced to the injudicious use of bleeding, aconite, or some similar de pressing ageney. Even to an attentivo observer the symptoms of this disease may be mistaken for inflammation of the lunjrs. even the discharge from tho nose, and its tendency to become puru lent is exhibited too late to prevent the mischief; then tenderness and swelling of the glands under the jaw, with the early prostration of strength which generally accompanies the disorder, rarely sufficiently early characterize in. ihi'jiiza; the pulse is by no means to be depended upon; and although often small and frequent, yet it often has tho wiry, oppressed ami indistinct feeling usual in pneumonia, and even the charac teristic redness of the eyes (from which the name) may be present in a case of lung lever from various causes. Pinkeye usually begins with a rigor, or shivering tit, which is frequently not observed; to this succeeds- increased heat with hurried breathing and swol len logs. At this period-very few can venture to determine the true nature of the symptoms. There is, however, one sign which will justify caution; this is a yellowness of the membrane of the eye which rapidly passes to a bright red and affects both the covering mem brane of the eye and the lining mem brane of the lids, the small veins whicl supply this membrane previously scarcely noticeable now stand ou prominently like crimson threads. I a day or so thin, serous discharge from ono or both nostrils ensue; these become quickly heightened in color, eventually appearing of a bright crim son. The serous exudation from the nose, however, soon loses its thin char acter, for cough comes on and the dis charges become purulent. It is au axiom in medicine both human and equine that all raucous surfaces have a tendency to sympathize with one another; therefore, in influenza, not only niay the disease extend to the in terior of the air cells of the lungs, but it almost invariably affects the lining membranes of the great digestive eauai and generative organs. Sore threat is a very frequent accompaniment to the complaint, which shows itself by a diffi culty in swallowing; the hay, chewed or "quidded" then fails out of the mouth. The disease, extending itself, make; the cough more harsh, dry and fre quent. From the swelling about the opening of the glottis, the cough is often almost incessant, as well as deep and sonorous; it is frequently so pain ful as to occasion much impatience and violent stamping in the horse during the effort. In its progress throughout the extent of the membrane of the nose it often affects the frontal sinuses, in which case the head hangs down, the eyelids are nearly closed, and even slight appearances of stupor present themselves. The general affection makes it very common for the glands beneath the jaw to become much swol len, extremeh tender and, on rare oc casions, to suppurate. The same ten dency likewise produces swellings in various parts of ttie head, which greatly protract the disease. In some instances, also, hanging swellings appear on the chest, belly or legs; but which often prove critical, and announce the termi nation of the disease in dropsy of the chest. The pulse varies in different subjects and under different modifica tions of the disorder. It is, however, quickened in all instances, and tho breathing is usually accelerated in the same proportion; but it is only occasion ally that the pulse is full or hard. A remarkable prostration of strength soon follows the suppurative process. Thus about the third or fourth day, after pus has run from the nose, the horse, on being moved from his stall or box, will usually be found much weaker than the violence of the accompanying symp toms would give reason to expect." As the purulent discharge becomes confirmed and increases in quantity the disease grows milder and all the symp toms may be expected to abate. The cough and soreness of the throat will lessen, the pulse moderate, the heat of the body will become equable, the countenance more lively, the eye paler in color and the horse will now proba bly be disposed to cat some favorite food. The dung, which has been be fore dry and in small quantities, and the urine, which has been also spare and high-colored, return to their nat ural states and the horse recovers grad ually, but seldom rapidly, The disease, however, does not always take this fa vorable turn ; on the contrary, by inju dicious treatment or by the violence of the attack, or by a translation of tho inflammatory action, the breathing be comes greatly disturbed, occasioning much heaving at the flanks; the legs, ears and muzzle become cold, the pulse is found greatly quickened and the weakness excessive. The membranes of the nose now often look in some parts like bruised flesh and in others of a fiery red; the discharge from them also is tinged with streaks of blood. In these cases, unless relief be speed ily obtained the pulse will proceed to falter, cold sweats will appear, and the the animal often sinks on the fifth, sixth or seventh day. In other cases the fatal symptoms are not so rapid but eventually the horse becomes emaci ated and dies after ten, twelve or four teen days. Very frequently, also, when the inflammation has extended to the lungs serious effusion pours forth, as in pleurisy, and suffocation closes tho scene.' In some instances a partial re covery takes place; but the horse re mains thick-winded, or he proves a roarer, or he becomes altogether broken winded. Dr. George A. Stuart, in N. Y. Tribune. Smoking six cigars a day killed a Chicago youth in fourteen months, but he seemed to enjoy ,em.-Chicaoi Herald. The Science' of Cyclones. I have made tho statement that It in my belief that the immediate causo of the terrific force of tho evdone is dec- tricity. In a lecture delivered last February and printed in this paper, I tried to" show that electric force was . manifested when two unequally heated bodies were placed in a certain relation to each other; that it was a struggle of the higher potential to seek a common level with the lower. If a metallic ring is heated at ono point above its normal temperature, a current of elec tricity will flow through it until the current of equalization is complete. Tho galvanic battery is no excoption to this rule, for the zinc from which the current flows to the copper element is naturally a wanner metal, under the same conditions, than the copper, or, to speak scientifically, it has a higher potential. Metals of the same potential will not make a battery. While tho higher is seeking tho lower the force assumes the form of electricity. It be gins in heat and ends in heat. When two columns of air, or clouds, differing in temperature meet we have conditions favorable not only for condensation of moisture, but also for the generation of electricity. It is a common notion that electricity is the result of condensa tion; it is rather coincident with it, and not dependent upon it. Ordinarily when atmospheric elec tricity is generated it obtains an equi librium by passing off in bolls or sud den charges from cloud to cloud, or cloud to earth as the ease may be. Hut uuiler certain conditions it lakes on tho form hcen in cyclones, and tho force is gradually equalized. When a cloud or .some part of it lakes on tho funnel shape it. is highly charged with electricity. It avsiiun-s a whirling motion and reaches down toward the earth, which has an opposite charge or a lower electric po tential, and therefore a strong attraction for the cloud. This whirling becomes terrific in most cases and carries every thing with it that happens in its track - clouds, air, trees, houses, sand, dirt, etc. The combination of forces is such that a partial vacuum is created in the inside of the funnel. If a house happens to get inside of a cyclonic funnel, ami tins do jrs and windows arc closed, the internal air pressure will bursLthu build ing. If we get near enough to study tho phenomena we can see electric sparks darting from all parts of the funnel, and when 11 nears the earth streamy of elec tric sparks flow from cloud to earth. The cyclone has a compound motion. As a body it is carried forward with tho wind at whatever rate it happens to bo blowing. Besides this, the funnel itself has a gyrating motion of great rapidity and a force that beggars description. Cyclonic funnels are of all sizes, from that of a mau's body to half a mile or more in diameter. The attention of the writer was called to one of the small ones that passed through a section of Iowa a few years ago. It hung like a long rope dangling from the clouds. Now and then it would touch the ground, when it would loose a part of it-s electricity, which would allow it to rise until it had ac cumulated enough more energy to at tract it to the earth, when the same tiling would be repeated. It passed through a barn-yard, touching a corner of the overhanging eaves of the barn, shaving off about afoot of the cornice as smoothly as though done with a sharp tool. The funnel had sucked up sand and dirt, which was set to whirling with such terrific velocity that it did the work of an edged tool. Beyond a gentle wind there was no violent dis turbance of the air a few rods away from the funnel. It has been stated that these storms could be accounted for on the common theory of high and low pressure, which is the cause of the great waves which occasionally sweep over the country. The absurdity of this theory becomes apparent by a study of the daily weather map. The areas of high and low pres sure are usually about 1,000 miles apart, and the wind blows from a point of greater density to that of lesser by a natural law of fluids seeking an equi librium. These areas of high and low barometric pressure will not account lor cyclones or even ordinary thunder storms. It is a common experience a few minutes before the most terrific storms, and when they are not a milo away, that there is a dead calm, show ing that the cause of disturbance is local and not general. For this reason it is impossible for the Signal Service to pre dict storms of this character. We can manufacture miniature cy clones in the laboratory, with no other force than electricity, that show all tho characteristics of their larger brethren. An ounce of fact is worth tons of theory. A familiarity with electrical experi ments coupled with intelligent observa tion cannot fail to convince tiie student that tho electrical theory of cyclones is the only one that will bear the light of searching investigation. Prof. Way, in Western Magazine. Tliree-for-a(Juarter Cyclones. A well-known gentleman of thi3 city tells of a miniature cyclone which he saw in operation a few days ago. He was driving along Ford Street, and when near Asylum Street, felt a sudden puff of wind, and looking to the west saw on the water tho track of a narrow, violent wind, which almost immediately lifted a column of water ten to twelvo feet high, and which seemed about four feet in diameter, and must have been produced by a violent rotary movement in the air. This column moved across tho river, and the dust which preceded it was so violent as to lift and move tho carriage. The occupant drove on at once to get out of the course of the disturbance, and the whirlwind was broken bybuild iugs on the east side of the street with out having done any harm. Many per sons have noticed of late tho frequency and force of the little whirlwinds that are so often seen catching up dust and dead leaves. They leave usually very little trace, but for some days past they have been more npt to mark a perfectly clean course a few inches wide. This has been noticed repeatedly in the Pros pect Hill region and out Farmington Avenue, and of course, points to un usual force and well defined limit ol action as characteristic of the disturb ances which seem to be in every essen tial particular mere undeveloped cy clones. Hartford Post. A Precocious Boy. The most precocious boy lives in this cit', or was alive at last accounts. He is less than eight years old, but was ordered to the House of Refuge as in corrigible. He did not like the pros pect and resolved to end his miseries by committing suicide. With his teeth, a pin and a piece of wire he tore a hole in his arm until an artery was reached and the blood spurted out. This was discovered and the arm bandaged, but when left alone again the boy tore off the compress and re-opened the wound. Detected the second time he was trim med with a rattan switch, after which he became docile and promised to desist from efforts at self-destruction. When he found that some of his fornior street acquaintances were inmates of the in stitution he became reconciled to life once more. Philadelphia Times. Spurgeon's wife has for S9vcn years been making collections of books for pastors whose salaries are small. In this good work she has collected and distributed over 50,000 volumes. Last year's work was 9,146 books. She gives it distinctly to be understood that she wants donations of readable works, and not of old rubbish MISCELLANEOUS. Visitors to California are struck i w.ith tho Pf oaT Pron ' P.hra?B; :l.h nS tree: peculiar pronunciation of the Hie aujec- 1 tire is lost in the noun, and both are 1 uttered as if biu trees were one word. with the accent on the second syllable, The heirs of Captain Aaron Biddle, a Revolutionary officer, claim about nine miles square of land in Salem ' County, New Jersey, including large portions of Pennsgrove and rennsville, under a title found recorded in Salem. N. Y. Sun. One of the curiosities in the Laredo, Texas, money market is the introduc tion of Mexican bank notes. The notes are of all denominations, and pass at the same rate as Mexican silver coin. The first paper money ever issued by Mexico was in the present year. There is an old disused and flooded quarry near Chicago which is so full of 5ars and snapping turtles that it is sure eath for any fowl to go in tho water. Tho owner savs he will give a prize to any one, small boys included, who will clear the water of the rapacious crea tures. -Chicago News. Mrs. A. T. Stewart lives in com plete retirement in her great marble palace. Occasionally she is given to liLs of desperate despondency. She will lie on her cou-!i for hours, refusing sympathy from her dearest friends. On the wall is a picture of her husband concealed behind a curtain. To that she will go and, pulling aside the cur tain, gaze at it lor. an hour at a time. Then the certain will not be drawn for days.--iV. .'. Tribune. A curious experiment was made re cently at Paris to determine the power of a cro odile's jaw. The animal was fixed 0:1 a table with its upper jaw con nected with a dynamometer. An elec tric shock caused him to give a sudden snap. Three hundred and eight pounds was marked on the instrument. It was calculated that tho contractile force of the muscles causing the movement was 1.510 pounds. The muscles on an or dinary sporting dog had 300 pounds of contractile force. Farmer Weeden, of Rhode Island, Iuls been persecuted. His two large barns were burned twelve years ago, with cattle and horses. Last year his outbuildings were destroyed, and a bot tle of dynamite was found in the ruins. Next the fences were torn down, re cently tho family tomb lias been vio lated, wires have been stuck in his mowing field, his well poisoned, and his house bedaubed. He says he knows no reason for the outrages. The auth orities fail to protect them. N. Y. Sun. A Nihilist tobacconist of Boston suggests putting poison into cigarettes to the end that the bloated bondholders who smoke them may be killed oft" by the thousand at a puff. There is no need of poisoning them. The cigarette young man will kill himself fast enough if left to himself. And the most fiend ish of the Nihilists could wish for no more miserable death of his victims than the slow-poisoning and self-consciousness of torture of the suicide who is en snared by the festive fumes of the fatal cigarette. Chicago Inter-Ocean. The matter of providing a corps of trained nurses in every community re ceived attention in the Cleveland meet ing of the American Medical Associa tion. A member recommended the es tablishment of schools for the eflicient training of nurses of both sexes, "such training to be brought about by lectures and practical instmction, to be given by competent medical men, either grattutously or at such reasonable rates as shall not debar the poor from avail ing themselves of their benefit." The dependence of the physician on the competent and faithful nurse was ac knowledged. Torpedoing" an Oil Well. When a well fails it is usually "tor pedoed" to start the flow afresh. A Along tin tube, containing six or eight quarts of uitro-glycerine is lowered into the hole and exploded by dropping a weight upon it. The tremendous force of the powerful explosive tears the sand rock apart and looseus the imprisoned oil ami gas. Nothing is heard on the surface save a sharp report like a pistol shot, but the ground heaves perceptibly, and pretty soon the oil comes spurting out in a jet that breaks in spray above the lofty derrick. The "torpedo man" is one of the interesting personages of the oil region who is seen with most satisfaction from a distance. He travels about in a light vehicle with his tubes and his nitre-glycerine can, traversing the rough roads at a jolly round trot, taking the chances of an accidental ex plosion, and whistling or singing as he goes. Sometimes the chances are against him, and a blow of a wheel against a stone sets free tho terrible force imprisoned in the white fluid in his can. There is no occasion for a funeral after such an accident, for there is nothing to bury. Man, horse and "buggy" are annihilated in a flash, and an ugly hole in tho ground and a cloud of smoke are all that is left to show what has happened. The torpedo company buys a new horse and hires a new man, and there is no more difficulty about one transection than the other. Tho business of "torpedoing" wells is in the hands of a singlo company, which has made a large amount of money from a patent covering the process of using ex plosives under a fluid. Most oil pro ducers regard the patent as invalid, be cause nature supplies the fluid in the well into which the nitroglycerine tube is lowered; but the courts have sustained the patent. Sometimes well-owners "torpedo" theirwells stealthily by night to avoid paying the high price charged by the company. This operation is called "moonlighting," and many law suits have grown out of it. E. v Smallcy, in The Century. Staking a Life on a Cart. The long and prosperous career of Flotow, the composer, who died re cently, was temporarily clouded in 1864 by tho death of his younger brother, which took place under painfully dra matic circumstances. Ho was rather what is euphemistically called a "wild" fellow, and a practical joke which he perpetrated in a half-drunken freak was taken as an insult by the whole body of the Mecklenburg Deputies, of which he himself was one. A dozen challenges ensued, and young De Flotow agreed to meet any single antagonist selected by lot. This, as it happened, turned out to be a certain Count Z , ono of the Deputies who resented the offense most keenly. On Do Flotow's asking him if he thought a stupid joke worm iignimg aoout ana receiving an emphatic answer in the affirmative, "Be it so," he said; "and if you attach as little value to life as I do we will fight in the American fashion I staking my life against yours in a game of ccarte of five points; the loser to blow out his brains in twenty-four hours." The proposition was agreed to. Cards were brought, and the two men commenced their terrible game. The score stood at four points on each side, when Count Z turned the king." "You have won, sir," said young De Flotow, rising; "I will pay before noon to-morrow." Next day he slept till eleven. After breakfast he took a turn in the park, and wa3 observed by his valet gazing for some minutes at the facade of the ancestral mansion; after which he hid his face in his hands for a moment as if weeping. He then pulled out his watch; it wanted but five minutes of noon. M. de Flotow entered his study. 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