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Show SCIENTIFIC TOPICS. CURRENT NOTES OF DISCOVERY AND INVENTION. Fire OwtlloK linn Ita Origin Wrapped la Boat Obeearlty Three fcclipst-s Visible Tula Yfw-A L,ife-Savlig Col-I Col-I Bit For a Nervous Hon. First tiattlne; ion. The early inception of the Catling gun is wrapped In much obscurity. Some French critics ciaim that their mitrailleuse antedates it, but there in absolutely incontrovertible proof that not only is this not bo, but that the French government made strenuous efforts to secure exclusive control of Catling a invention; failing which their competing mitrailleuse quickly followed the adoption of the doctor's gun by the American authorities, says Self Culture. Some good Christians have claimed that Dr. Galling invented hi3 famous weapon from humanitarian motives an argument which has some weight, as we well know that a mob or a regiment even, will very quickly get out of range and danger when once it is known that such a gun is facing them. The doctor himself calls his invention a "peacemaker." but, with the greatest respect to him, I do not believe he had any idea of saving life or anything of that sort In mind while at work upon the gun, whatever he may have thought of since. There was a field for weapons, offensive and defensive, the more murderous the former the better, and from what then existed in firearms and from the fertility fer-tility of his own brain the Gatllng gun was evolved the first of its kind. His experimental gun was made and tested before military men and experts at Indianapolis in 1SG2. When ihe first lot paid for by Dr. Catling was ready for shipment to Gen. Butler, the factory burned and with it bs guns were destroyed and his hopes blighted. Another year and many thousands of dollars were spent to remake the patterns pat-terns and drawings and a new batch of guns a year of heart-burning, pinching and sacrifice that many of us, at some time or another, have experienced ex-perienced and therefore one with which we can sympathize. Gen. Butler used some of these guns on the James river, near Richmond, and the way in which their inventor cherishes the rec ords of the execution wrought by them is amusing when one thinks of the hu manitarian theories attributed to their origin. In 1300 the government officially offi-cially approved the gun and. after tests that make an inventor shiver to think of. placed an order for 100. Then not only did the powers of Europe order guns, but so did China, Japan, Siam, Egypt and the South American countries. coun-tries. A machine gun that spread devastation in a swath wider than a company of infantry and fired inch tullets at the rate of 1.200 a minute (to-day, fired electrically, its speed Is slightly in excess of 3,000 per minute), was a revelation to most foreign experts ex-perts and no Christian or other power could long withstand the temptation of mowing down its Christian or other foes at any such rate and by machinery. machin-ery. Deadliest roUon Known. The discoverer of prussic acid was instantly killed by inhaling one whiff of his own handiwork. Pure prussic acid is never sold or handled. The smell of it Is always fatal. It kills not in three minutes or half an hour, but the instant It enters the lungs as a gas. The mixture ordinary sold as prussic acid is 98 parts water to two parts of the drug. Even in this form It is very deadly. A 20 per cent mixture mix-ture of the acid would kill nearly as quickly as if pure. Atropine, though It has no harmful odor, is so deadly that as much of it as would adhere to the end of a moistened forefinger would instantly cause death. Cyanide of potassium has a pleasant smell, which is not injurious, but a small quantity swallowed kills at once. Pure ammonia, if inhaled. would cause death almost as quickly as prussic acid. When a carboy of nitric acid is broken someone has to suffer. It will burn wood, eat through iron plates and destroy de-stroy whatever it touches. Such an accident ac-cident once happened in an acid factory. fac-tory. Everyone ran away, leaving the acid to amuse itself by setting fire to the things. Soon it was seen that the building would be destroyed and hundreds hun-dreds of people thrown out of work, and four men volunteered to put out the fire in the acid room. They succeeded suc-ceeded and came out feeling all right. Five hours later all were dead. Bit For a rrooi Horse. This new safety bridle is a French invention and is composed of two jointed snaffles and a curb, forming a pring which Is placed over the horse's nose without disturbing him unless occasion should necessitate Its use. The bit la operated by the reins, or there can be extra or safety reins added. As eoon as the horse becomes restive or unmanageable, it is only necessary to pull up a little harder on the reins, when the links slide out and cause a pressure on the . horse's palate and tongue and forces the mouth open, preventing pre-venting him taking the bit in his teeth, and at the same time the curb presses on his nostrils. The animal loses his free respiration and soon comes under control. The cut shows the bit' In Its three positions, and explains its operation. oper-ation. Three EcIIpaea. In this, the last year of the nineteenth nine-teenth century, which, by the way. Is sot a leap year, though it is divisible by four, there will be three eclipses, two of the sun and one of the moon. The solar eclipse, taking place on the 28th of May, will be visible throughout the United States, and be total from the southern p-rt of Virginia down through Mexico, while north of Norfolk. Nor-folk. Va.. it will be partial. In the city'ef Baltimore It will begin at 7:48 f. c O ai'i nkrnomcna of nafure there is none so profoundly impressive and aw-inspir:ng as a total eclipse of tie sua. and a trip to those regions of tha country through which the shadow of the moon will sweep on the -8th of May is well worth undertaking. It scarcely admits of any doubt that many thousand people of the northern and middle states of the Union will go to see a phenomenon which comparatively compara-tively few people havs ever had the privilege of beholding. The average breadth of the eclipse track will be nearly 60 miles. A second eclipse of the sun will occur on the 21st of No vember. It will be annular, but not visible in this country. A partial eclipse of the moon will take place on the 12th of June, though it will not be visible In this country. DlaniomU la Sooth Africa. Since the discovery of the first diamond dia-mond at Reitfontein, in August, 1897, there has been a considerable development develop-ment of the diamond industry in the Transvaal, and in 1S9S the output amounted to 11,025 carats, valued at $43,151. The largest stone found there this year weighed 382 carats. The average value of the diamonds in the Pretoria district is stated to be $3.89 per carat, those found at Kimberley at $0.33 per carat and those occuring at Jagersfontin, in the Orange Fre State. $8.27 per carat. The area of dia-mondiferous dia-mondiferous ground in the Transvaal is very extensive, but its thickness is not considerable. The weight of the diamonds found throughout the Transvaal Tran-svaal in 1898 was 22,813 carats, valued at $212,812. A Lire-Savins Collar. 7 V7&v An Ingenious Belgian inventor haa constructed a life-saving collar that will fit the necks of children and adults. It will keep bodies weighing over 200 pounds afloat. New York Journal. The I'reseut Aim of Physic. In his evening address on "The Centenary Cen-tenary of the Electric Current," delivered deliv-ered before the British association. Prof. Fleming referred to Hertz' proof that electrical energy could leave a rod in which a rapid oscillatory current was set up, and could travel , with the speed of light outwards in all directions. direc-tions. It existed as free radiant or wave energy in the ether after it left the radiator and before it reached the receiver. Both optical and electrical phenomena had compelled the assumption assump-tion of an imponderable material which could be the vehicle for energy in certain cer-tain forms. The aim of physical inquiry in-quiry at the present time was to devise de-vise a theory of the ether, such that from the simplest possible assumptions could be deduced the facts of electric ity, magnetism and optics. Scientific Jolting. Great Britain's Automobile club has adopted a badge made as a pin, buttOD or pendant. It is made up of a ring of blue enamel bearing the club' name, in the center of which is a small representation of Hancock's "Infant," "In-fant," a steam wagon built in England about 1830. Four new vessels are being fitted up by a couple of prominent ocean-liner companies with icemakiug and refrigerating refrig-erating machinery. In addition to the usual cooling rooms and icemaking plant, two of the staterooms are cooled artificially. This is said to be the first case in which staterooms have been cooled with the aid of refrigerating machinery. Representatives of Bombay commer cial houses have placed orders with several manufacturing firms for Amer ican textiles in the value of $500,000. The Indians are high in their praise of American goods, and they seem anxious to further trade relations between be-tween America and India. A scheme for the establishment of two lines of steamers between Bombay and ports on the Atlantic and Pacific seaboard is under discussion. At present tramp steamers carry all the cargoes that are shipped direct to Bombay. ffl The division of botany of the United States department of agriculture is at work to reduce the importation into the United States of some of the little things which have been costing the Americans $8,000,000 annually. West-ern West-ern states are now growing chicory. In 1S96 16,217,388 pounds were imported, import-ed, but in 1S9S only 315.707 pounds ol raw chicory were imported. The division di-vision in botany is also making test? to protect farmers and merchants against fraudulently imported seeds and tests the importations of the department de-partment before distribution. The Main Point. "Yes, my dear," said a New York man to his 13-year-old daughter, "1 wish you would do your best to captivate cap-tivate the heart of our coachman." "And elope with him, papa?" "Yes, my dear." "Ah, I see; you dear, cute papa! You want all the papers to say I am a fascinating beauty and a reigning belle." "Well, that would help a little; but that is not the main point." "What l.i it, then, papa?" "Why, the papers will all say yoi are the daughter of a millionaire, and thai will enlarge my credit. See? Now. you run out to the stable; that's a good girl." Ohio State Journal. Well Fitted for the Jolt. "Judging from that fellow's splendid shoulder and chest development J should say that be was an eminent athlete." "That's Herr Spitznoodle, who conducts con-ducts the orchestra in Wagnerian opera." Chicago Record. A Knowing Man. - "It Is so disagreeable out," said Mrs Sntlth, the day after Christmas, "thai I hate to think of going downtown." "You needn't go, my dear," replieo her husband. "You'll And the price mark that belongs to your present In my other vest pocke.V--Brooklyn Life '.-. , V "si 76'S VALENTINE. From Chicago Inter-Ocean. J Seventy-six was "Bavin' up." All her little set knew It because she quit "etlckin' In" for coffee at noon, she walked to and from work that Is, In theory she walked, for she often ran for blocks at a time to ward being late either at the store or at home, for no one was supposed to know she did not ride. She took the 10 cents her mother moth-er offered her every morning, either to ride "both ways," or ride one way and ! get coffee, whichever seemed best. Seventy-six was a queer combination of child and little old woman, like most of the cash girls in department stores. She saw and heard a great deal every day of her busy life. And Seventy-six had an Ideal, In the person of little Miss Magee, the cashier cash-ier to whom she took her checks. Miss Magee was a slight, short, sweet, little body, with a great quantity of pale reddish hair that was the delight of all the cash girls' hearts. It "stayed in" so good all da; But Seventy-six in particular longed for red hair and I little hands and every charm possessed by Miss Magee. So when St. Valentine's Valen-tine's day came and Miss Magee got a nice bunch of violets delivered by a messenger boy. Seventy-six made a mental resolution that she would have a bunch uS violets come to herself like that one if she lived to the next St. Valentine's day, and everyone would think she had "a fellow" and that "he sent 'em like Miss Magee's : fellow did." And after the severe strain of the holidays was lifted a little lit-tle In regard to .her earnings, she se-i se-i cretly commenced to save up. Poor little Seventy-six! To save up ; meant to her to walk miles twice a day, though sometimes she got a little "hitch" on a friendly express wagon, but she'd be nearly home when she'd "hitch." No one would see her away out on West Twelfth street. When she couldn't run or get a little ride and came home late she glibly invented invent-ed excuses all very plausible. "Changing "Chang-ing stock around" was one; "getting in new gooda" that had to be opened and fixed at once, was another, and her mother and little sisters noted her great importance at the store. One Sunday afternoon" she canvassed the florists' stores and the combination florist and undertaking establishments, ; where prickly looking pillows made of ' hard, dry flowers, with "Rest" done In purple in the center, and white satin 6lippers were displayed in the windows. win-dows. Up on one side of the street and down the other she sought violets, ' to inquire as to prices, but she never ; found even one. Next day at noon she got permission to go out and she had : not far to seek a florist, and the wise young man there told her violets were : "from 75 cents up," and that they were scarce and would be scarcer and she would have to order them a few days ahead if she wanted any. Then she hurried back to the store, and when she was reporting to the timekeeper, time-keeper, Mr. Goldstein, head of a department, depart-ment, laid his hand on her shoulder and asked her number. "I think. Seventy-six you are getting tall for a cash," he said, and still holding hold-ing her by the shoulder he half pushed, half led her to the rear of the store, , and word went round that "Seventy- , six was fired." When they reached the wrappers' and i Inspectors' desk he found her a place ! there and told her if she was as good i a wrapper and inspector as 6he had i been a "cash" she'd be all right. She : started in at her new job at once and when the cash girls that she had been one of a few hours before came up with 1 goods she gave herself lofty airs, as is the way of the world. On the Monday following her promotion promo-tion she ordered the 95-cent bunch of violets in the florist's window, left her name, number and the name of the firm she worked for. She knew the flowers would go to the office first and be "O. K.d" and in due course of time drift down the channel to her. Then all the girls would open their eyes and wonder who her fellow was and be Jealous and mad if they wanted to except, of course. Miss Magee. She would give her a few violets yes, and poor little Eighty-nine she would give her a few. Thus planning for the morrow mor-row she hastened down Wabash avenue av-enue to Twelfth street and ran along west, inhaling crisp, frosty air, which, despite all the injunctions of all the doctors to get out in the air, wasn't helping her lungs a bit. After supper she was feverish and tired. Her mother did all the little things a woman thinks she must do before she sends for a doctor, but the little daughter grew steadily worse. Aoout 2 o'clock in the morning a doctor doc-tor was called. He ordered the necessary neces-sary remedies and left instructions and still Seventy-six was very sick for four days. The doctor said the frost burned her throat and lungs and she should be more careful. Tuesday the 14th. when all the world got its valentine, the young man at the florist's store was very busy, but very gay. He whistled bits from "The Serenade" and "rags" by way of encore en-core and he worked hard all the time. Just before noon a tall, narrow youth In the very boxiest of topcoats came into the florist's and ordered a big box of violets sent to a beauty out on the south side, extra long stems and some nice leaves, he said he would like. The musical youth took the order to the air of "Take Your Clothes and Go" and the customer went on his way. It was half-past 2 Tuesday afternoon SHE GOT A LITTLE "HITCH" ON A FRIENDLY EXPRESS WAGON, and every bit of stock in the florist's was sold. Everyone was busy and the young man who whistled was so rushed he had to just whistle ragtime rag-time tunes all the afternoon, they being be-ing the quickest. So it came about that when he had a long row of boxes set out filled with the divlnest gift i3od sends to man flowers he had beside him a pile of gummed labels with addresses on them. He dampened one that had on it a little sick girl's V.me. her number and the name ot the firm- she worked for, and with "Mr. Johnson.' Don't Get Gay." filling the air about him he fastened it on a big brs of violets with extra long stems and nice leaves and so be sailed through his day's work. The big box of violets for Seventy-six Seventy-six got to the office of the bin store just before closing time. The man in the office, not knowing the little girl was absent from the store, "O. K.'d" the btx and sent it downstairs to her, bat It came back in a few moments for more "O. K.s." This time it was opened op-ened and the office stood still. Violets, hundreds of them, long stems, nice leaves: violets that trembled trem-bled at their own loveliness; violets that filled all the air with springtime. "Seventy-six rs coming up," said the head bookkeeper as he handed a few of the flowers to the pretty typewriter. "I think it looks very bad for Seventy-six," said the typewriter as she fastened fas-tened the violets in her waist. -That speech set all the office thinking. think-ing. The girls in the office thought of Seventy-six going down the broad, bright, flower-strewn path almost any young girl can go at the price of her soul. The men in the office thought of all the things she must have stolen from the firm to buy that box of flow- HE HALF PUSHED, HALF LED HER TO THE REAR OF THE STORE. ers, for when they asked the delivery boy who ordered them he said, "A girl. No. Seventy-six." So on that evidence evi-dence and on the lack of faith in human hu-man nature in general the little sick girl out on West Twelfth street lost her reputation and her occupation. Everyone in the office had a few violets when they went home that night, not that anyone wanted to cheat the rightful right-ful owner of them, but it was too late to attend to the matter of sending her word about them that night, and they would be spoiled next day, and It would be better to use them. So everyone took a few, not all of them of course, but the violets never found Seventy-six not one of them. Saturday morning she came down to work, pale and thin, and Mr. Goldstein sent her upstairs to a private office to report to Mr. Ware, who had her case all laid out before him, and had no doubt but she was the coming Mme. Mandebaum, for she surely must be a clever thief, this thinly clad, frlgbt- ! ened little child-woman. After Mr. Ware opened his mail and looked over it he turned to her and asked what she wanted and when she told her number num-ber he said, "Oh, yes. Sit down. Now, Seventy-six, a large box of flowers came here for you on the 14th, and as they were altogether too expensive for a girl like you I determined to look into the matter. Now, Seventy-six, do you know who sent them here?" "Yes, sir. I bought them," said the girl. Mr. Ware started. "Urn, um," he said. "Who gave you the money?" "I saved it." "Um yes well Seventy-six, I'm sorry, but you take this note down to Mr. Gale and give in your passbook and your badge and I hope you'll be a better girl next place you work. That's all. Seventy-six." She slowly crept down the stairs, struggling with tears and pride, got the quarter for her badge which she had deposited for it, and once more word went around that "Seventy-six was fired." The south side beauty took her dear, little 95-cent bunch of violets to her own room and kissed it, for she "knew whom they were from." She arranged some of them in her pretty yellow hair and though she got oceans of flowers she pressed one bunch of violets to remember re-member that Valentine's day. O poor Mr. Postman, you never will know What fine things you're carrying there! What dear little doves, just as white as the snow, What roses so blushing and fair, What nice little Cupid's, so smiling and fat, What sweet little verses, all rhyming so pat. O poor Mr. Postman, I'm sorry for you! 'Tis a very hard lot, I must say, To carrry such lovely things hidden from view, Nor get one peep inside them all day; And when merry St. Valentine's ended and done, To have given them all away, every one! E. H. THOMAS. HWhop Gatlor's Story. Bishop Gailor (Episcopalian) of Tennessee, Ten-nessee, tells the following story at his own expense: One day when tramping tramp-ing through rural Tennessee he came up to a typical Cracker, whistling la front of his cabin, and introduced him self. After a few moments' silence the Cracker shifted his tobacco quid to a ' corner of his mouth; glanced out of a corner of his eye and said, with deliberation: delib-eration: "Waal, stranger, so you be a preacher, he you? Waal, we don't know much about them fellers around here, but we did hev one here a few weeks ago, who got people worked up powerful-like. I went to hear him one night, and I quit after he prayed. He was a big, powerful fellow, like yourself, your-self, parson, six feet tall and nigh as big round. He had lungs that made the mountain shake when he hollered. I listened to his sermon, or what he called a sermon, and then hern him pray. He got sorter hysterical-like, I reckon, and in his prayer he kept yell-in': yell-in': 'O God, give us power! Give us power! Give us power! I sed to Sue, 'I reckon what that there feller needs ain't power, but ideas,' ' Old-time valentines, with their lacs paper and sentimental rhymes, have very nearly fallen into disuse. What little of their splendor remains has been relegated to the children. But If the tawdry types have been cast aside better things are offered in their place. If the poet is less heavy, entertainments entertain-ments of various sort flourish. Dinners, Din-ners, luncheons, teas and dances are all chronicled for the fateful fourteenth, four-teenth, and suitable and significant favors and souvenirs are being sought and purchased by the score. Cupids, hearts, bows and arrows and lovers' knots make the favorite designs. One or more, if not all, are included In every list; but as jewels, precious metals, flowers, painting, fine needlework needle-work and ribbons all go to make up, there is considerable variety and a nna opportunity for the display of personal skill. One dinner which is to precede a dance is to be pink in its decorations, and, as far as practicable, pink In its food, while its souvenirs and those of the cotillon, which will make the finale of the evening, have all been designed with the purpose of the day in view. In the center of the table is to be a huge heart of la France roses, while over It will be suspended a bisque Cupid, Cu-pid, with bow stretched and a:ruw aiuieC. Encircling the entire u&m swi-'i. milax in a succession of htlwisi ZZ3k designed to mark off the spsss 4?- cover, and before each guest frt be placed a menu card in heart-shape and a silken box of the same design, within which will be candied rose leaves, and which later can be made receptacles for jeweled pins. The ices will be pink, and in heart shape, and both candles and lamps will be provided with pink shades. During the dance arrow pins will be presented to the men, and pins in a design of lovers' knots to the girls. Bunches cf roses and boutonnleres will be made the features of another figure; sachets, in heart shape, of a third, and calendars, painted upon water color paper, showing Cupid hovering over a mail box, for a fourth. At a second dance, the Invitations for which nanie an early hour, the dancing up to the supper hour will be general, but as each guest leaves the supper-room he or she will be required to draw from a bag containing sections of hearts. Upon each section will be written a part of some familiar and suitable quotation, one portion having been among those distributed to the women, the other among those given to the men. The two which shall match, making a perfect heart and a complete couplet, will designate part RELEGATED TO THE CHILDREN, ners, and when all have been matched the cotillon will begin. Among the favors are to be bonbon boxes in heart shape, tiny Cupids, silver sil-ver arrow pins, pink ribbon tied with true lovers' knots and engagement cab endars made from a succession o hearts, each cut from water color paper and painted with suitable design. After dinners and dances, card parties par-ties afford the greatest opportunity, and are in greatest demand. Among the younger set progressive hearts Is much liked, and affords an excellent opportunity for the decorations and favors suited to the day. One clever hostess has had her plans laid for some time. The large room in which tho tables will be arranged is to be decorated with pink flowers and with smllax arranged in hearts and bowknots. On each table is to be placed a heart-shaped dish, in which will be bonbons, also in heart-shape and all pink. When the guests arrive each will be given a section of a paper heart, which exactly fits some other section, and will be required to find its mate before partners can be arranged. The prizes are to be a china bonbon box, painted with a Cupid design, and a volume of sentimental poems, with an extra cover painted in a similar manner, with borders of leather cut in heart-shape, and showing etched Cupids weeping over broken hearts for the boobies. After the game supper will be served, and among the dishes will be salads upon heart-shaped plates, with crisp little lovers knots taking the place of the usual linger rolls, and ices molded into miniature gods of love. Republic. A NEW KIND. 'Twas just the nicest valentine That came to me today; A pretty box, and on the top A little letter lay. Which said: " ' "I know a little maid. She isn't far to seek; No dainty wild rose petal Is pinker than her cheek; There is no shining hazelnut That's browner than her eye. Just look within the box, my dear. This little maid you'll spy." Of course I was in haste to see So fair and sweet a lass. I raised the lid. within I found A tiny looking-glass! Helen S. Perkins. To Abolish the fide Saddle. It Is announced from Cleveland that the Health Protective Association, a local body of sanitary betterers, is about to- inaugurate a crusade against the present mode of riding for women. It is asserted that the side-saddle is dangerous, and that a woman should wear divided skirts and bestride the horse man fashion. High tats, corsets cor-sets and trailing skirts are also subjects sub-jects of attack by this association. The Columbian. Not Likely. He Would you call for help tried to kiss you? She Would need it? if I yoi Mil Mil iSTFFP TWO YT? 4T?i iXK3XJJuXu. l "V X JjaIIO, KAN FRANCISCO GIRL SLOWLY AWAKENING. After m Lonr Period of Slumber She Shows Signs of Regaining the Kormal State Hypnotism Hail No Seet On Her. After remaining unconscious for nearly two years and baffling the skill of many noted scientists in their efforts ef-forts to awaken her, Miss Elida Wilbur, Wil-bur, a beautiful San Francisco girl, now shows -signs of recovering her senses and will soon, it is expected, be aroused from her long sleep. Miss Wilbur began her strange sleep in February, 1S9S. She rvas found one morning in her room, lying fully dressed dress-ed on the lounge, in an easy and unconstrained un-constrained position and was supposed to be sleeping naturally. The efforts of her mother to awaken her were unsuccessful, un-successful, however, and physicians were called. Every remedy known to have availed in similar cases was tried, but in vain. In the days that followed prominent physicians examined this unusual case and gave their best efforts ef-forts for her relief. But there was not the slightest improvement. Blistering, electricity, white heat, ice bandages on the spine, everything known to science MISS ELIDA WILBUR, was tried in turn, and still the patient lay unaffected and inert. It would have been impossible to determine when she slept but for the fact that her eyes remained re-mained wide open during the day and far into the night. If the lids were forced down they instantly flew open upon removal of pressure. Only during dur-ing a short interval in the night did this persistent staring at nothing, into nothing, cease. The eyelashes then rested on the cheeks, until suddenly, without movement of the body, or any of the customary signs of awakening, they were raised once again, and the eyes resumed their absent gaze. Hypnotism Hyp-notism had no effect and the efforts of Christian Scientists were fruitless. The physicians had about exhausted their skill and still could find no way of prevent the sleeping girl from slumbering slum-bering her life away. About six months ago new methods were employed, and these have been highly successful. Now, although not able to talk, Miss Wilbur takes an interest in her surroundings sur-roundings and receives the light sustenance sus-tenance offered. It is confidently expected ex-pected she will soon have fully recovered. recov-ered. When a school girl, Miss Wilbur was considered one of the handsomest young ladies of the Golden State, and when she made her debut in society received re-ceived much attention. Battlefleld. One of the ladies who went out to see the fighting at Ladysmith has described de-scribed that experience in a lively letter. let-ter. A shell landed not many hundred yards away, and she ran to get a piece of it. "Off I scampered. Spoke to the first soldier I came to. He said: 'Come with me; I can warn you in time to clear before another comes.' So I went gayly on, talking away. Another soldier sol-dier said: ,TIere comes another,' and before we had time to think the awful SIR MALACHY Malachy Bowes Daly, lieutenant-governor lieutenant-governor of Nova Scotia, who has just been created a K. C. M. C, by Queen Victoria, is a son of the late Sir Dominic Domi-nic Daly, his mother being Caroline Maria, daughter of Colonel Gore, of Barrowmount, County Kilkenny, Ireland. Ire-land. Sir Dominic belonged to an old Irish family of County Galway, and was for twenty-five years colonial secretary sec-retary in the Canadian legislature, representing rep-resenting Megantic. He was also lieutenant-governor of Lobago, and subsequently subse-quently of Prince Edward Island, and governor-ln-chief of South Australia. Malachy Bowes Daly was born at Marchmount, near Quebec, on February Febru-ary 6, 1836, and was educated at St. Mary's College, Oseott, near Birmingham, Birming-ham, England. He was married at Halifax on July 4, 1S59, to Joanna, sec ' 1 booming and stocking came and 1 i wiah you couia aave seen your younger I sister. I Just shut" my eyes tight and i clung to a barbed-wire fence, and whispered: 'Good God!' It exploded ubout 20 feet away; perhaps not so much; the earth shook under me, and ; iry legs felt hot all over." A GREAT TRUCK GARDEN. Mexico May Supply U with Our Early Vegetables. From recent developments is is apparent ap-parent that the southern states will not possess the monoply of supplying northern cities with garden product says the Philadelphia Record. T science of refrigeration and the corf-struction corf-struction of refrigerator ships asd refrigerator re-frigerator cars has reached such a high state that it is now possible to raise fruit, it might be said, In almost any part of the world and carry it to any other part. This fact has been for years demonstrated by the shipment of carcasses from Australia to England by the shipload, where an enormous trade has been built up. The same principle can be applied to the transportation trans-portation of fruits. A very large proportion pro-portion of the product of California Is now shipped eastward in refrigerator cars, and some of the finest fruits on display in the east come from that state in this way. The agriculturists in the south have recently had their attention directed to the advisability of diversifying crops by the high price paid for garden products. The market garden has of late years become a very important factor in southern agricultural economy. Enterpri&ing capitalists, since the development of Mexico by railroad, have been looking at the possibilities of climate there and have taken steps in some cases to establish plantations for the growth of fruits on a large scale, which It 13 their intention to ship by refrigerator processes to United States ports and then to inland points. The schemes road well and apparently are well based. There appears to be no reason why garden truck could not be raised in Mexico and delivered safely and profitably to a great mamy cities and towns throughout the United States. A great many products tkere are four to eight weeks ahead of the south. Dairy farming has become very profitable. profit-able. Milk in large cities sells at 25 cents in Mexico; butter at 36 to 48 cents per pound. Labor costs only from 12 to 25 cents a day. Sugar cane turned into brown sugar yields from $70 to $95 per acre gross. Green barley and corn are raised in large quantities for fodder. Cattle raising since the Spanish war has been greatly stimulated stimu-lated and the western cattlemen are now there laying the foundations for big ranches. Wheat is cultivated on the high tablelands of central Mexico, but it is not as good as that grown in the states. Such products as coffee, vanila, rubber, cocoanut and cocoa are all raised in certain sections and raised profitably. A Telling Postscript. Judge: Miss Jones was 111 and in great haste lo go out of town. She wrote to the proprietor of a mountain farmhouse that had been recommended to her to engage board. This is the reply: "Miss Jones My terms are $5 a week each, where two occupy a room; $6 when occupied by one. House is very near the river and a large brook runs through the place. Table of the best, with milk and cream in abundance. Plenty of shade about grounds. Horses and wagons at disposal of guests." But it was the postscript that went to the heart of the matter (and of Miss Jones). It read: "I could not accommodate you this year, as my house was burned to the ground last May." An Insinuation. From the Detroit Free Press: HusbandThat Hus-bandThat tramp I met at the gate told me he weighed 250 pounds. Wiffl What a story teller! Why, he told me when I fed him that he only weighed a hundred. Husband Ye3, my dear, but that was before he had eaten those biscuits of yours. BOWES DALY. ond daughter of the late Sir Edward Kenny, Kt., of Halifax. He is by profession pro-fession a barrister-at-law, nd was private pri-vate secretary to his father, when goT-ernor goT-ernor of Prince Edward Island for six years. He was also private secretary secre-tary to Sir R. G. Macdon-nell, Macdon-nell, governor of Nova Scotia, and Sir Hastings Doyle, also provisional A. D. C. to Sir W. Fenwick Williams, governor gov-ernor of Nova Scotia. He was for two successive years president of the Charitable Chari-table Irish Society of Halifax, and of the general council of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul of Halifax. He sat in the House cf Commons for Halifax from 1878 to 1882 as a Conservative. H received his appointment as lieutenant-governor of Nova Scotia, on July 15, 1890, and was re-appointed for a second term In 1895. Montreal Star. AGAIN AN ACTBESS. MRS. GEORGE J.GOULD IN OLD-TIME OLD-TIME ROLES. Bat Only Her Frlendi See Her Perform In a Miniatur Theater A Pretty Stage llailt in T'.:cir lake wood Home. (Special Letter.) Amateur theatricals are ualn to become be-come popular in society, aud this fact gladdens many young hearts. There is no form of social enjoyment more TVertainlng than the stage art. For Ll3 Mrs. George J. Gould must be thanked. At a house party given to friends at their Lakewood home. Mrs. Gould made her reappearance on the stage for the first time since she abandoned aban-doned it as a member of the profession. profes-sion. When Edith Kingdon married the son of Jay Gould the stage lost an artist, and George Gould gained a handsome wife. She had been with Daly's company and the Boston Stock company, and it was said that she had a future as bright as any young woman on the stage. But with her marriage came the determination never to act again. Of course, her return to the stage is absolutely private, and only MRS. GEORGE J. GOULD, her friends will be privileged to se her act. At their Lakewood home, th Goulds have erected a little theater, perfect in appointments, with a seating seat-ing capacity for 125. The stage if Bmall, and the scenery was built to fit it. The "footlights, curtain and other accesssories are a miniature reproduction reproduc-tion of those on the best stage in New York. Any play, except one with an unusually unusu-ally large cast, which might tax the capacity of the stage, can be performed in this little playhouse. The appointments appoint-ments of the house, as to lighting, changing scenery and the hundred and one details that go to make up the back of a stage, have been perfected under the eye of a man skilled in theatrical work. There Is a property man, a stage carpenter and an electrician, electri-cian, whose duties are the same as those of the men in large theaters. THE RUSSIAN CROWN And the Komantlc Story Couoeming One of Its Diamonds. The crown of Russia is at present presumably the richest in diamonds. Besides several valuable collections in the imperial treasury, there are three crowns entirely composed of these stones. That of Ivan Alexiowitch contains con-tains 881, that of Peter the Great 847, and that of Catherine II., 2,536. One of its most remarkable diamonds is the "OrlofT," now set in the top of the imperial im-perial scepter, and on thi3 account is sometimes called the "Scepter" diamond. dia-mond. The history of this stone has been much mixed up with the "Moon of the Mountains," another great diamond dia-mond in the possession of the Czar. The most authentic account seems to be that it formed one of the eyes of the Hindu god Sri-Ranga, to whom was dedicated a magnificent temple situated on a fortified island in Mysire. A French deserter from the Indian service, ser-vice, who had been at work in the neighborhood of this temple, hearing of the idol's eyes, determined to become be-come their possessor. As no Christians were permitted within the precincts ot the pagoda, he, in order to gain the confidence of the priests, became a devotee and so ingratiated himself with the Brahmins that they confided to him the guardianship of the inner shrine, which contained the idol. Watching his opportunity one stormy night he succeeded In forcing one of the eyes out of its socket and fled with It to Madras, where he sold the gem to an English sea captain for 2,000, who, in turn, disposed of it to a Jew for 12,000. From him it was purchased pur-chased by Kojeh, a Persian merchant, who, at Amsterdam, while on his way from England to Russia, met Prince Orloff. This prince, in order to regain the favor of Catherine II., under whose displeasure he had fallen, bought the gem from the merchant for the sum of 90,000 and an annuity of 4,000, and presented it to his imperial mistress, who had previously declined the purchase pur-chase as too costly, but now accepted this truly royal gift from her Illustrious Illustri-ous subject. The "Orloff" diamond weighs 194 carats, and its estimated value is 369,800. Sanitation. Chambers' Journal: Was it Lord Beaconfield who, as Mr. Disraeli, was once twitted with being the exponent of a "policy of sewage?" According to Sir William Preece, no loftier subject sub-ject can occupy the attention of man; and, according to him also, an ancestor ances-tor of the great premier Moses, to-wlt to-wlt was "the greatest sanitary engineer en-gineer the world had ever known," and the Book of Leviticus was "a treatise on hygiene." The Jew was the healthiest and longest-lived type of humanity, and the doctrines of Moses could be summed up as the objects ob-jects of sanitation today namely, (1) pure air; (2) pure water; (3) pure food; (4) pure soil; (5) pure dwellings, and (6) pure bodies. Pure air, he said, was to be found in lunatic asylums, jails and workhouses; but not in our churches, theaters, railway carriaeje. or dining-rooms even the dining- room of your "dearest friend." Secured an Appropriate Topic Mrs. Stubb John, I expect to attend at-tend the sewing circle tonight Mr. Stubb Well, Maria, what is the program? pro-gram? Mrs. Stubb We are going to discuss this man, Aguinaldo. Mr. Stubb Absurd! What has he to do with sewing? Mrs. Stubb A good deal. Don't the papers say he is hemmed in and his temper is ruffled? New York World. He Came Home Early. Husband (airily; they had just returned re-turned from their wedding trip) if j am not home from the club by ah Id, love, you want wait Wife (with appalling firm-ess) No, dear; 111 come for you. He was heme bv 9:4S sharp. J" ', 7 r |