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Show TIIE SENTIXEI. HOME BY 1 UK p. o J H. O. Cshfr, iii O T. V J IKI 'UN. t- . mahii, i . tht M.t.M-t- r. luJ NY n jm governor n- i. mi: Lx Anil - h u - ) t or LauzM'-I mv y o ii.liam I)awon, h j't id f" .H-- r- - m r : ii .one, i u.l8Jy man in Few South Wales. Nidii'-liurdokin, began in paxvnbroking. It is worth several millions of pounds. to have the women of wealth in Gem. liori.AMiKit seem I ia t I ) tld,r; Lhnt!i oil. , !is-i- WAVES. to furnish in complete modern style a uite of rooms for tho Nineteenth Fifty years ago I was a sailor on a boat at Hea. The captain alof to New York club and fishing Century low the club to occupy the rooms rout and prop; ietor of the boat was my o iternal uncle, Thomas, who had free. me tohis family at the death of taken Adolf Sutho is traveling about tho I was 18, and my fi.'h-In- g my parents. world getting ideas and plans for tho was comrade a boy of 13, named great public library building which ho Bilmeh. proposes to put up in Nan Francisco. Hough and stern as my uncle was, He will give the building and his 2'X),-Ohad the noblest and most generhe volumes to that city. ous heart one can imagine, lie had The honor of living in the most ni irrii-- a young woman whom iie magnificent private home in New York loed with the deepest tenderness, and belongs, it is said, to Ilenry G. they had a daughter of about my age, Marquand, the Madison avenue million- as sweet ami as good as an angel. That year we hud t he most ext raor-dinaraire. Almost $2,n xi.tHU, it is said, In vain we ill luck was spent by him for the decorations were the first on the suitable spot; alone. our nets took not lung hut dead lish, Bin a and of no value, w bile other boats Hociii-.ruiiTM. Rkni.t who Jr., at ourside weie obliged to throw overrecently killed himself in Algeria, was born d all their ballast to make room 2!) leu a had most but only years old, for their fish. It continued thus the adventurous life. lie hud been with w hole day after day. It was Oliver Pain in the Soudan and with impossible to blame the bout, which M. do Brazza on the Congo. He had could not huvebcen bet ter; or the nets, w e: e chosen with the grt atv-- t also traveled much in South America. winch care; or thecrew, w liich was rompo-e- d of the most famous fishermen between Washington Ikying Bishop, tho Mu hieiieo and the Cape of the Figuier. mind-readw ho died the other day We w ei e in despair. seemed always to belong to the night dm- - night Bilmeh and I were on the It was very unusual to see him about jetty at .Mu o', making ready for tbe He usually occupied depart lire of the boat, which usually in the daytime. bi room until or 3 o'clock in tho tooc pI'H'e at 3 oclock in the morning. When everything was ready we affi moon, w hen he got up and took saw that we still bad a long time to breakfast spare, and we lay down in the boat. I fell very soundly asleep. SuddenWilliam K. Gladstone considers I was awakened by my ly the prince of Wales a shrewd, clever companion, abruptly who was pulling my arm man, who keeps himself well informviolently. I was about, to teach him ed regarding the topics of the day. gentle manners w hen I wasstruek with He seldom opens a book, but glcnns a terror by the deep fear I saw printed his face and by the inexpressible great deal from conversation. Mr. on that contracted his features. Gladstone thinks the prince a success anguish What is the matter? I asked as a public man. anxiously. Did you not see them? Did you his recent tho actual illness Diking not bear them? be murmured, his State of tho duke of Edinburgh was eyes starting from their sockets with kept from the queen until the doctors fright. Who? Who? were able to report that ho was hotter, Mario and the other. Fly Thomas, lie has not exuetiy been in imminent and do not look at, them! danger, but he has been seriously ill, his words I was Not and it will bo some time yet before ho about understanding to ask more explanation, when Is quite convalescent. the hour for our setting out struck. I was obliged topost pone my quest ions. "Come away! come away! screamIIekk Josef Hi iter von Wernijl, liestill, Thomas; the groat Austrian rille inventor find ed my companion, are waiting for us. manufacturer, gained bis knowledge of they Thecrew was already on the jetty, s in America, and then from but, before the boat had touched, a small beginning built up a factory Bilineh sprang ashore and began to employing 8,000 inon. On the an- run toward the village, lie met Uncle nouncement of his death stock In the Thomas and threw himself on tho leannot! ground at his feet, crying; concern fell 10 per cent. 1 willnot! I am not going to sea! A sailor raised hint up, took him by Mr. Gladstone Bays that he has had tbe ear and forced him to enter tho his portrait painted thirty-fiv- e times, boat. and often by John Millais, who takes What is all this? asked my uncle. This lazy fellow wants to fish for pnly five hours to do the work. As Millais usually receives 2,000 guineas birds replied the sailor. (t 10,000) for a portrait he tnay bo con- theBut the poor hoy writhed at captains feet, begging to sidered to wor.i, in Gladstones Case, he put ashore. The sailors, seeing at tho rate of $2,000 per hour. nothing in it nil but a trick to avoid work, made sport of him. But I, still The 8ir John Laws wtio has just under the impression of the strange given $300,00.) for tho promotion of manner m which he had interrupted agriculture in England is the father of my sleep, went to my uncle and told him quietly that I was anxious in rethe sculptor who figured conspicuousto the hoys health. My good lawsuit, gard ly in the famous liclt-Lawthoughtful uncle quieted the men bir John is one of the best, living au- and and spoke gently to Biitnch. thorities on farming. Despite his Now, be calm, my boy, and tell me vast wealth ho is a man of plain and why you do not want to fish Oh, master, it is impossible for mo simple habits. to tell you, but I swear that I cannot Mrs. li. M. Wilke its of Denison, and must not go with you. But it is not enough. You are Tex., recently gave birth to three to me for bound and male children, tho combined weight cannot miss a the season,unless yon single day you Two she years ago being 22j pounds. have a good reason to give. I hat5 one, sir; I have been told gave birth to twins, which weighed j Mrs. Wilkers is a Welsh that if 1 sailed I should be 18$ pounds. woman, aged 32 years. Her husband drowned without pity. But how? Is an American. There are fourteen In shipwreck. children in tho family, all enjoying exThen if you drown the whole crew cellent health. will perish with you. Yes, and for that reason you ought seems tho recent arrest of y 11 , fire-arm- to-da- es to-da- to-da- y ! It that gamblers at the Field club, London, was brought about by Lady Dudley, who wished to teach her son a sharp kseon. The young earl reached his majority only a few months ago and has already gambled away $200,030. n a Montague Williams, London police magistrate, was among He had a the gamblers arrested. pull and was released. He has been noted for his severity on the bench. well-know- few days ago Henry Shaw completed a residence of seventy years In A $L In that retired Mr. Shaw was a merchant city from 1819 to 1810, when ha from business and soon after began the work of erecting the Missouri Botanical gardens, which fame. He have acquired a world-wid- e now which land the the city gave forms one of its most beautiful parks and made other liberal donations of a public character. Mr. Sbaw lacks but a few months of being 90 years of age and still enjoys good health. not to go out Come, boy. to-da- this Either you are fooling is not serious. ns, or you know important which we all something ought to know. I cannot tell it. "Very well; you will run" no greater risk than the rest of u For heavenssake, master Be still, you coward. Your life is worth no more than ours. And taking the helm my uncle gravely cave the order for setting out. Thirty oars dipped at the same instant. and the boat leaned forward, she had gone a good distance when Bilineh begged the captain again to stop, adding that he would tell them all. My uncle gave the order, the sailors lifted their oars, and the boat paused gently apposite Urazandi. The captain sat down and said to Bilineh, who was weeping bitterly: Come, Bilineh, be quiet, and tell us what has happened. I will do so, master, and God grant that no evil befall us! This morning at 2 oclock, Thomas and I had finished our preparations "But for to-da- NY -- h, i. offered 1 1 ( TIM-THRE- has 1. e iImz pre-eii- -. y, ability to interest himself and his cause. Tho Baroness BuriU tt--( butts is his atest CoUqUoat. Andrew Carnegie i.i; "'4 w i d at mv ti''ii(e, ,c ' imis qi'j.'! lu r. i v Ini-l- mmg -- .3 (l.,nJ tt Le la' All the drunk- - riiiet f X I, r nm of fi'i rnn 'lower. Thoueh I love tne mirili d r'nl'lren, ThouEh I prize youth 8 xu. in jplJ, What bun I to do with eitheif Tune is telling T grow old. Not io dread the clooniy river of jure; That I shrank from All my first of love nml fumdship i r shorr. fin her (lllthi-i'll the Were it not the best to join them Ere I feel he h'"ud r in cold' Ere I hear it s.od too bar-lfiare oM .y titaiel I ie k ll am All the Year Bound. If vice-preside- nt of the fl I.h Fnn.e in I p.'ir c t- nr ! x f Mi SM ret. ii V.iutn the Total Abstinence society of Eng for boin;, land, who recently arre-te- d The fortune r evn A nil t'i- ssachusett. Mn - E- - Bu-tn- T! r.'M - K. On.y IIoroHTov, to WHQlS KH 1 Am tear tn,i heal us all Out OU the del moment. in tu.it supie.m T!. (Glia' wa- - ound.'V M.dda! ct lei .' ke i.rm.;. m Luxe l...n long m !'.: bimsell. I c!oed male, not I my ei"im h:( if ample liaim I my eyes, an I with a feaibhug of the hv the aroU-'-midst the into u hurled Luxe spear my lrcn en, who .'1111 to uiopp. I w S' lmGe 'x.ih tear, bloody w axe. the do idA lamenr.-d.groan was heard. and baid.y dared U mouoiih- -s hi tore our prow, broke bleat in. TL it sat ed me. tor ie,ii..n wave, partingthe shore ami covered it fnrio y on fmr us an 1 ex.memi mug u a en; ivc w .u LUixiiiy foam. tli-my p he !i' thought the said That dav our anus ao-pnition. due elder one of ts m our of we xil.at labor is emptying them sleep. Tins I I aure vou that VNe tools enough to They duiH not awake now until per- make up for our lo"es during the mit them. winter. hole felt tl I Immediately But when we came home late at was taken up awl w a pa iug h rough a night mv uncle and I sought in vain unite Hym-After fiamg the air. my aunt time we c une down again gently and tor two loved faces. Neither e exthere. were cousin a mr nor o! leaves stopped finally under the uncle My glances. changed uneasy great olive tn e. she The two omen came and loo!..! asked for hisxxife and learned that I feared it, he said, at us attentively a few minutes, tl..n was suffering. and left, tilt boat and 1 saw Lliein lei hastening toward her chamber, W lien sh. we. him. followed ping. more. hht- raitsl Ikt braa us Jn spite of my great fear niv curion her Llbftnd a look, of liiextiu osity was so strong Unit I could net ugui'hable hate, coven d her face witii keep fioiil opening my t yes to look tter them. After I rawd m.V'clf I the sheet and died xvit h a leaifnl groan. Her unhappy husband cast husarnis si ruck against a brant h that hindered it her body, and sought; by hid I it and about oil cut movements. my his caresses to' bring it back to lilt under these.it. 1 then could see oi the boat, and through the again. The sight pieiced my heart, darkness I saw that we were m a great and I went out of theA house. horrible transI met my cousin. olive grox e.and in the di't aiice I could format ion had taken place in her. see figures gliding in the shadow. It is some dance of J ,a inias, 1 Her angelic look xvas displaced by a said to myself; and I was about to frightful expression ot bitterness. awaken Thomas when I heard ap- Seized with nervous trembling, Disked xxas matter. proaching footsteps. Thinking that it her what on the the assassin! she ret'nrses might be the two women, I lay down and did liotinoxe. It was they. They plied, and vanished irom sight.. I rail to the shore to find Bilineh. came into the boat, which immediateWho, I asked him. were the two ly began to move. In a few moments we w ere againat women you saxv last night? Marie and her mother, he anthe jeltv at After having moored the boat the swered, in a low voice. elder w oman said: My daughter, we My poor uncle took iiis bed a few must, bid them farewell lorever. For- days later and soon died of grief and ever, I say, for you will never see this chagrin. From the French of boat again or any member of her crew. In t wo hours from tins time they will all be at t lie hot tom of the ocean. The Next Census. the ovtrwiw ) i!1 xx ! x I - Oilt-Md- Ma-p- e. Ara-quistia- But the ocean is as smooth as oil. Nevertheless, before they shall have passed the Ioint, of Arrangat.i I will cause to rise three lingo waves the first ot milk, the second of tears and tin; third of blood. They will escape the first two, but nothing can save them from the last. It is my fate to hate them. I have persecuted them all winter, removing the fish from their course, and since my power over them ends evening, I will end by burying them tinder the waves. Islmil have mercy on no one. You must not forget that, it is our mission to abhor them all, and above ail others, those who love us best. Let us then yield to our fate! But xx hat if by some unhappy chance they should not go to sea Hush, fool! It is impossible! They will go, and they will perish. There is but one single way by which they might escape from the fate that threatens them; but they donotknow it. What is the way, mother? By plunging a harpoon mto the midst of the last wave, tbe wave of idood; for that wax'e will be I, myself. I shall hide beneath its waters, and t he blow that should strike this wave should pierce my own heart. Oh, mother, what if they knew it? That cannot be, since no one knows tiiis secret but you. They shall be mine, and at our next nocturnal festival no one shall be able to boast of success comparable with to-da- v mine! With these words she bade us nxvake, and they both vanished with shrieks of loud iaughter. The boy ceased to speak. Some of us did not believe a word lie had spoken; o tliers explained his tale by a dream and mocked him. But tell does any me, said lie to the latter, one of you know of an olive grove within a circle of 10 miles of this place? They knew of none but Bilineh drew from under one of the seats an olive branch and waved it triumphantly, Dook, here is t lie branch I saying; cut when I raised my head; I hid it there that you might believe my word and know that these two women are not the product ot a dream. No one could say a word against such positive proof, for no olive tree s than ten miles. The grew it Inn fatal branch xvas handed silently from one to another. A superstitious terror seized the most incredulous, and e repeated, shuddering, A Lamia, a Lamm! The captain rose, and, taking th xx le-- xx helm, commanded silence. Then, turning to me, he added, Thomas, take the harpoon. Stand at the proxv with open eyes and a firm arm! At my first order strike firmly into the water! And you others, to your oars! Our boat cut the waves rapidly The trembling light of the daxvn smiled on the surface of the water, which was not rippled by the lightest breath of air. The boat flew onward, and through The morning fog the trees and shrubs on the shore seemed to be taking a strange flight. We doubled the point and reached the liar. There was no trace of danger on any side, but nobody dared to speak. All at once, txvo fathoms in front of tis, there rose an enormous wave, as high as a mountain, ns white as snow. Attention! said the captain, with his eyes on me. It was true! he murmured, with a trembling voice. The wave of milk! Thirty oar blades dipped into the water at once, and the boat leaped to the waxe. Her brow disappeared in a cloud of foam, but before the third stroke of the oars another wave rose before us, greater than the first, as clear as crystal; from it rose a vapor that caused our eyes to smart. As before, we hungfor an instant suspended above the deep, and then the wa-rolled on to break roaring on the sand. The wave of tears! said my uncle. Open y.our eyes, Thomas! The boat swept on, and the fatal spot was almost passed when we saw, enkindling the whole horizon, the terrible wave of blood coming toxxard us and drawing us into its terrible embrace with an irresistible power. 0! friend! it would be impossible to stretched ourselves my describe to von the ternhie anxietv. e Philadelphia Inquirer. By the time the next census been taken it is expected that population will have reached has our the enormous nggiveate of 04,470,000 souls. E. B. Elliott, actuary of the United States Treasury Department says it will number 02, 000, 000 persons on the first of June next. The rate of increase as sriven by him would swell this enormous number to about 04,300.000, perhaps 000 in June, 1800. These figures are enough to make even the most careless citizen think. Since the out break of the last war our population has more than doubled. This is the more remarkable in view of the terrible slaughter on the field, and the obstacles to increase offered by the war. But the percentage of gain, which fell from 33.11 in 1800 to 22.05 in the decade ending ten years later, took an upward leap in 1880, stopping at 30.08. It will be greater for the decade ending next year. The growth of the nation has been marvelous. From a puny people of less that 4,000,000 souls in 1700, widely scattered and distrustful oi each other, we had increased to 5,308,. 483 in 1800, 7,230,780 in 1810, 0.623,822 in 1820, and 12,886,000 in 1830. In 1840 we numbered in 1850, 23.101,876, and in 1860, 31,443,321. The rate of increase was highest in the decade ending in 1810, when it reached 36.38, and the lowest in the period comprising the four years of the war. Except for that period, also; thegain has been steady. When will we reach the enormous figure of round 100,000,000? Barring war, famine or deadly and widespread plagues, it should be before another fifteen years have passed. Assuming the rate of increase to be 33 per cent, from 1 800 to 1900 and it will certainly be be no less than this our population in the latter year should he more than 86,000-000- . Five years later it should be 100,000,000, or more than that ol nny other country on the globe, with the three exceptions of India and the Chinese and Btissinn empires. It is customary to view such large gains in population with some apprehension, but the experience of our first century does not justify this. Those of the immigrants who do not come with any patriotic purpose are soon taught that nonsense wont be tolerated long, and with few exceptions they soou mend their ways. In the cases of those born here there is no trouble. They are for the stars and stripes by intuition. 03,-0(H- A Woolly Horse. James Carroll, of No. 28 Willow Seventeenth and avenue, Eighteenth streets, is the possessor of a horse whose hide is covered with a thick mass ot curly white hair, about three inches in length. When seen Irom a short distance, the hide presents a woolly appearance, and the nninml looks as though nature had given him the skin of a sheep through mistake. Although the horse is more than usually attractive, owing to his peculiarity, lie is daily hauling a milk wagon. Sau Francisco Examiner. between Drop Nickel and See Pictures. The latest nickel and slot device is a sort of big stereoscope which has been invented and manufactured in Paris. You drop in your nickel and apply your eyes to a pnir of protuberances like the eye pieces of an Pictures are then displayed in rapid succession, one picture lasting seven second, until the contents of the box are all exhibited The pictures are shown in the glare of an electric light, which is extinguished when one has had his five cents worth. New York 8un. LORD LONSDALE. He Kil ed IHiu. Mr. J. TL Gilmore reinTes that on the civil war, me occasion, he was ri mg in n ratlxxay train, and had fallen half asleep, when someLis shoulder body laid a Land' on Don't want ter str.rb and said; frtraiijr r. tut tht'iv ;huT nir 'iiv.ther siltin' place in the whole kear. The speaker was a man of about ."( years, w liosest range cloth- 9 at once attracted Mr. Gilmore yc-- i ing attention the gray uniform of a Confederate officer, and in the coat, hole Ju t over the heart, a round at the ec res and stained with blood. He proved to he a Union scout. Ilow could you manage to live with such a hole there? asked Mr. scorched Gilmore. o' tm just wnrnn't then, though I warrant he xxas a livelv feller, that war. I ortent ter a done hit, but I bed ter. This war Hi, I im-id- e he. He took out of his poikt-- a small miniature. It was a plain circlet ot ribgold at tached to a piece of blue bon. Une side rd the run xxas slightly clipped, and the upper portion of the ivorv was stained with blood; but enough of it was unobscured to shoxv me the features ot a young man, with a full, trank, manly face. With a feeling akin to horror, I was handing the picture back to the scout, when, in low, stammering tones, he said: Tother tide. sir. t Luk at tother side. I turned it over and saw the portrait of a young woman, scarcely more than seventeen, a most beautiful and engaging face. With intense loathing I turned upAnd on the scout, and exclaimed: killed that man? Yes, sir, God forgive me! I done hit. But I couldnt holp hit. He had me down; hed cut me tliar, turning up his sleeve and showing a deep wound in his arm. an' tliar, removing the bandage and displaying a long gash back of his ear. His arm wus riz ter strike agin: in another minute he'd live eluv my brain. I seed hit, sir, an' I fired. God forgive, me, I fired! 1 wouldn't a done hit ef I'd knowed thet. and he looked down upon the face of the sweet young girl, and the moisture came into his eyes. I'd hev shot im somewhar but yere, somewhar but yere! and laying his hand over tlie rent in his coat, he groaned as if he felt the wound. With that blood stained miniature and listening to the broker words of that ignorant scout, I realized the horrible barbarity of war. Youths Companion. in my hand, The Difference. an Ayrshire farmer, was somewhat remiss in attending divine service, and.his parish minister, on one of his pastoral visits, took occasion to refer to it in ralher a pointed manner. Willie excused himself on the score of advacing years, hut his spiritual guide would not condone the offense on that ground. That will scarcely do, William, for I observe you are very regular in your attendance at market every Friday. Oh, ay. sir, replied AYillie, hut that's easy explained! You see when we gang to the toon we can get what we like, but when we gang to the kirk we hae just to tak what thou likes to gie us. Scottish American. Willie M., A Edison Explains Friction. gentleman w ho thought he know a thing or two about electricity, and was doing his best to convince Edison that he did, advanced a the- ory about how electricity was produced. said Edison, Oh, fudge, Do you want to know how electricity is produced? Why, by friction of course. It Hies off a wheel as it goes round. What makes it fly off! Why, the resistance of the air. All the electricity in the air is caused by friction produced by the atmosphere as the earth turns round. When you get higher up there is no electricity, because there is no friction. Pittsburg Times. The Divorce Question, From the Des Moines Register. Whatever relief can come must come through the voluntary efforts of the states themselves to reach some common plane upon which all can stand. If Congress could legislate upon it the trouble would have been settled long ago. But as long as any legislature in any state can upset the existing law, and at the instance of any interested party make a new divorce code, there is be to endless likely conflict and trouble, unless the states will by common agreement decide to uniform lawson this subject adopt and make no changes except by consent of a majority .of the states. t The Eritish Noblemans Trit Ic Regions of the Nortr' Lord Lonsdale, bronze, by ti vh p suns, arrived in this city a f ' .I ago says the New York We.-yrep hi- tramp of over 12,u0 runes m j to. t jjfiD frozen reigon of the north. rat'll1 I left here, he said, 'on the M f" d..v of March of l.t- -t Feu, way uite axvuy I've traveled l2,tKiit tly; t) startld with a valet and fmontti gKfflt but at Green lake, mi!,,, uo tit ki Winnipeg. 1 had to send them bn home on aeeount of the eo:d trtith purpose of my trip was toobUuI,6, ini to im us, information us to localities . iTtb vies of birds, ami varieties of da the northern latitudes. Thonn' tt to went in the interest of the bout (.lire s'ter Naturalist society it was viituan! 2, j'1 sporting trip. My reasons flU rt,', ill. ing by the xvay of Montreal xveiC. rongv collect the specimens 1 hud left at Biff n 5 ferent points on my xvay out. jy' were opr' specimens I found at Montreal tv?; T" oxer two Ions. Iliad no thuushm bowt reachiuir the north pole. It xvmTn,,; Hies i All that I Wi(,v polar expedition. was to go as far as 1 believed life existed or us far as 1 In kabi1 signs of anim ds. "Do you think the north pole ennv llrttt readied? asked the reporter. lr. of ei was the prorrz Certainly 1 do. "If a mini wants to reueh reply. l gnioi Clilcl pole he can do so, but he must from travel with , large party. The xora-five must bo made by sleds and notbjou flies sea. Tho great trouble has beeu th MPI largo parties have been sent out oc tagit to fail. To reach the pole the plri;; havt must not number above three. What do you think of Alaska? Fo "The southwestern part of Alaska ' beeft found very valuable in seal, timbt ers. and minerals. I don't believe the rbaft s Dob abound in eports that bas numbers. Did you suffer from the cold? "No, not as inui'li as I expeetec There was one tiling that annoyed full; than the cold. That Vnb tb it In the Arctic seas the mosquitoes. the are simpy dreadful. They ate the thick at times that the sun is darken pro them. by Ino But it was a jolly trip withal." wer foot ! on his lordship. have had to t don some pretty hard stuff, sleep in A that dace, and take considerable the natives, but I have learned a Thu of great deal, and I hope my report Chi this trip will prove of interest to th 8"(ttish Naturali-- t society. I've bee B in camps where the native told men the white man had ex'er been before, ax I've crossed a peninsula with the coY 30 degrees below z ro, that tbe native raid could not be done, and to attemr it xvould be to give up my life. But When did cross it, and here I am. readied the Pacific slope 1 learned to the first time that the report had gone out that I had met with a severe dent which was likely to result in tar death. The report came about in tht way: I was traveling with a party of when two of them got lost spent txvo days looking for them an. when found one of them had fallen inti a crevice and had broken his leg. brought the fellow back to camp an. by some means or other it went on; that it was I that had met with the aI ; A ft v -- 1 , . golu-lield- s m c: i I ccident. Lord and Lady Lonsdale, sons of Arctic curiosities, England on the Celtic. with sailed tw I for Efflorescence on Brickwork. The unsightly effloreseense on walls, due to what is termed saltpetering, and noticed generally in dry weather, is due to several causes. Perhaps tin only satisfactory explanation Is that the newly built brick wall i9 expose! to dampness, or dampness in tion with something in the brickthem selves. It is stated that bricks made from clay containing iron pyrites are the subject to this efflorescence; that the converts from the fuel sulphur lime or magnesia into sulphates, ant that whenever tho bricks dry, the suthe lphates evaporate, leaving behind crystaline appearance or efflorescent The evil is therefore due to the chemical action that takes place between the sulphur in the fuel and the magnesia in the clay. The mischievozd part of the efflorescence is that ) the stroyes the pointing, and injures work generally. Remedies are few. The chief object is to stop up the pores xvith one solution of fatty matterthe quicklime and cement powder; but main thing is to avoid the particuh clay and coal fires employed to nW"' and burn the bricks, and to mix th' mortar with animal fat Buildup News. An Irresistable Bait for Eats. An interesting, not to say valuable Capt discovery has been made by animals Weedin, in charge of the the Zoo. The building is infested h) h rats, and how to get rid of them long been a perplexing question. temp used, but nothing would the rodents to enter. In a stors--of drawer was placed a quantity some flower seeds, used as food for the birds. Into the drawer theleu r. gnawed their way, a fact which fj captain to experiment xvith them th bait in the traps. The result was j. the rats cant be kept. A traP appears crowded with six or eiffbtnit is found some mornings to hold They are turned into the cfes, tK weasels and minks. fe. fnre taining .Hatch Making Boxes. will kill a rat absolutely almost K Few are there who, when are its traveling one can see it, so rapid a trifle si m Sweden in the home of the are ments. weasels The tand them-- ' stickors, leave the fjords, rocks and but none of the rats escape Cc' Cincinnati n rs for a day, and trace Cor. Washington the Swedish match hack to its source. And vet mercial-Gazett- e. it would more than repay a days soA Victim. journ at Jonkoping to visit the So you are at your old trie factory whence proceeds not a small part of the light of the world. The you? said the detective, as he latest novelty is an enormous en- ed a three-car- d monte man. of ( ( gine which daily produces 1,000,000 Yes, but it was necessity that boxes of Swedish matches. This me to it. wonderful machine receives the Necessity? Tnttfl raw . vs, I didnt have a dollar. material namely, blocks of wood and f church one at fair last night, end, and, after a while, gives out of every cent I had in the up at the other the matches neatly Merchant Traveler. arranged in their boxes, ready to be dispatched to the uttermost the world. London Tid BitB. ends of "Flatterer! is a delicate perip11 Puck. say so some more. lW-wer- s Cl |