Show A passion for flowers Is I think the only one which long sickness leaves untouched un-touched with its chilling Influence Mrs Hem ns An Inquisitive man isa creature naturally natur-ally very vacant of thought Itself and therefore forced to apply to foreign assistance as-sistance Steele I J 1 a RUSSIAN FINANCES I From the Nineteenth Century It is rather difficult to form a correct opinion on the financial condition of an autocraticallygoverned empire like that of Russia where little reliance can be placed in the official publications publica-tions It must be acknowledged that the government hitherto has rigidly observed its obligations toward its foreign creditors yet English capitalists capital-ists have sold nearly all their property Invested in Russian securities and this for the simple reason that the finances of a country which goes on borrowing annually even In times of profound peace deserve no confidence The Germans have followed and France having bought most of these bonds is now the foremost creditor of Russia Rus-sia the sum total of her securities in French hands being estimated at no less than five milliards of francs The deficit of the famine year 1892 3 cannot have been less than 200000 000 rubles The Russian budgets as they are published show always the most beautiful equipoise if not a surplus sur-plus but in that of 1894 the surplus given at 61870000 rubles is in truth a 1 deficit of 87474000 rubles for the so I called surplus is obtained by treating freshlyborrowed money as clear extraordinary I ex-traordinary income without reckoning it as a debt on the opposite side amounting to an increase of 162500000 I rubles from last years internal loan at 4 1 and the remaining bonds of the unsuccessful 3 per cent loan in Paris Deducting the profit of the conversion of the 6 per cent loan the debt increased in-creased last year by 113000000 rubles In curious contrast to these facts the Russians boast of the gold hoarded by the finance minister at home and abroad the former alone amounting to 620500000 rubles The alleged reason that this gold is to cover the newly issued notes is evidently a pretext as these notes are as little convertible into cash as the old ones The cause of this extraordinary policy can only be that the government wishes to have a war chest tor sudden emergencies The cost of the army and navy is stated stat-ed in the budget for 1893 at 282700000 it is already rubles but evidently larger ready because Russia has to furnish her army with rifles of small calibre of which about onethird may have been delivered while the rest will not be ready before the end of 1896 FRANK DOCKLANDS BEAR Mrs Cross in Temple Bar The greatest animal lover in White Coopers circle of intimate friends was Frank Buckland Cooper had been his fathers guest during the meeting of the British association dn 1847 and I there saw the young naturalist for the first time On one occasion walking with some ladies in the garden to their dismay they came upon a snake which no sOoner scuttled away than a second a third with more to follow made their appearance Frank had some thirty harmless snakes in a box and it seems they had escaped at an Inopportune moment Young Bucklands chief pat et p-at the time was a young bear whose birthplace was Mount Lebanon but whose education was to be alt Oxford where Jie is traditionally remembered to this day At the association meeting he figured amusingly at breakfasts and luncheons ant the learned Dr Dau beny always the kindest of men invited i L in-vited him to assist at an evening party Bruin had nothing of the shyness of an undergraduate and thoroughly enjoyed en-joyed his social advantages even presuming pre-suming to put his paws on the knees of the ladles He was then about the size of a setter dog As time wenton said Mr White Cooper Tiglath Pile sogh as he was called increased in i stature but not In wisdom and Frank Buckland received a formal intimation that if the bear did not leave the university uni-versity he must Poor Bruin was rusticated and he died of a broken heart at the Zoo He could no more do without society than could Sydney Smith or any other diner out I FRENCH AND GERMAN ARTILLERY From the Saturday Review It must never be forgotten that during dur-ing the memorable campaign of twenty I four years ago there was usually nothing > noth-ing at all approaching an artillery duel The French guns were so much inferior as regards ballistic qualities and their handling was so Indifferent that it was in general not so much a matter of grappling with them as of knocking them flat down at once The vanquished batteries were in the ma jority of cases armed only with muzzle loading fourpounders deficient both in power and in range But they were even more hopelessly handicapped in I the matter of fuses perhaps the most important adjuncts in the gunners armory A time fuse which is so constructed that it can only be made to act at two ranges and these so widely separate as 1500 and 2900 meters is Indeed a hopeless ally and this was what was then to be found In the French limber boxes No wonder that the Germans found shells bursting either far in front of them or long distances in rear and that it was only exceptionally bad luck which brought a crash of flying splinters splint-ers about their ears No wonder too that the Frenchmen declared it impossIble Impos-sible to aid their observations such as all gunners use in the present day More than once did they endeavor with ill possible gallantry to tackle their opponents but with such Instruments the best workmen could not have succeeded suc-ceeded At Woerth a struggle was obstinately sustained as long as possible but in the words of the German official account ac-count their fire remained ineffective because the majority of the shells which fell in neighborhood of the I l c > < t Prussian artillery did not burst until the whole French artillery was soon reduced to silence except on their left where one battery still maintained itself In a very favorable position WATER YOUR HORSES OFTEN I From Our Dumb Animals Feeding a horse principally on grain and driving it five hours without water is like giving a man salt mackerel for I dinner and not allowing him to drink before supper timevery unsatisfactory for the man If you know anything about the care of horses and have any I sympathy for them water them as often as they want to drInkonce an hour if possible By doing this you will not only be merciful to your ani I mals but you will be a benefactor to yourself as they will do more work look better and live longer If you area I are-a skeptic and know more about horses than any one else you are positive that t the foregoing is wrong became you i have had horses die with watering them too much and boldly say that the agitators t I agi-tators of frequent watering are fools in your estimation and you would not do such a thing Just reason for a moment mo-ment and figure out whether the animal ani-mal would have overdrunk and over chilled his stomach if it had not been allowed to become overthirsty A driver who sits In his wagon and lashes his wornout halfcurried half fed and halfwatered team deserves to be punished as a criminal SKULL OF SIR THOMAS BROWNS From the Yarmouth Mercury Considerable interest has been excited I cited in Norwich by a dispute concerning concern-ing the skull of Sir Thomas Browne the writer of Relyigio Medici His body was interred in the chancel of I St Peter Man croft Church about a couple of centuries ago and In 1840 some workmen in digging a vault broke the lid of the coffin The remains I re-mains were examined by a local antiquary anti-quary who ordered the coffin and Its contents to be reinterred it appears however that the sexton took possession posses-sion of the skull which was purchased bv a celebrated Norwich surgeon and on his death was handed over to the Norfolk and Norwich hospital museum where it now remains Recently the attention of the vicar of St Peter was called to the circumstances I circum-stances and naturally regarding the removal as an act of desecration and dishonor the vestry requested the hospital hos-pital authorities to restore the skull i of this illustrious man to its resting place This application however has II been refused At another vestry meeting meet-ing it was agreed by eight votes to six that no further steps should betaken I be-taken The vicar has expressed his intention of consulting Sir Walter Phil limore on the matter IN POLICE CIRCLES GEORGE KEACII WAS ARRESTED FOR SUNDAY LIQUOR SELLING The Water Was so IHuilily Yesterday That Beer Was Preferable for DriiiUinpr Purposes Minor Offenders Offend-ers Arrested Yesterday was quiet in police circles cir-cles the only event importance being be-ing the arrest of George Keach who runs a saloon on Second South street near the Eagle building on the charge of keeping open on Sunday Sergeant Ford1 made the arrest which included besides the proprietor three or four outsiders who were found in the place as witnesses At headquarters Keach i took his arrest good naturedly and deposited de-posited S25 for his appearance at 2 oclock today When the preliminaries preliminar-ies had been completed Keach turned to Sergeant Ford and said Sergeant can I ask you a question Yes sir certainly was the affable response Have you or any of your men investigated in-vestigated the condition of the water hydrants today 7 This allusion to the dirty water I which for two days has not been fit to drink which fact implied as stated I in Keachs remarks that beer was preferable pre-ferable raised a general laugh Jennie Smith who was released upon her own recognizance a day or two since did not see fit to appear for trial and was apprehended yesterday upon a bench warrant I Frank Jacks a cigar maker Is booked book-ed for stealing chickens I Stole Hix Horse Philip Hornberger of Taylorsville attended the stake conference last evening and left his horse tied opposite oppo-site the Deseret News office When his business was completed and he was ready to go home he missed the animal ani-mal An hour and a halfs search resulted re-sulted in discovering the rig occupied I by two men being driven down Main street Hornberger gave chase but I the borrowers of his buggy were like the Indians deertoo swift They drove down Main to Second South street thence west to West Temple and down West Temple to Ninth South where they were seen by a citizen driving at a rapid pace The case was reported at police headquarters but at an early hour this morning no arrests ar-rests had been made NO DEANS FOR EGYPTIANS FFrom Smiths Exotic Botany We can no longer wonder at the prohibition pro-hibition of these beans Cyamus nelum bo to the Egyptian priests and disciples disci-ples of Pythagoras A plant consecrated consecra-ted to religious veneration as an emblem em-blem of reproduction and fertility would be very improper for the food or even the consideration of persons dedicated to peculiar purity The Egyptian priests were not even allowed to look upon it Authors scarcely explain ex-plain sufficiently whether Pythagoras avoided it from respect or abhorrence However that may be we need not in order to ascertain his motives have recourse to any of the five reasons sup posed by Aristotle nor to the conjec tures of Cicero Neither can there be any doubt that the prohibition given by Pythagoras was literal and not merely allegorical allegori-cal as forbidding his followers to eat this kind of pulse because the magis trates In some places were chosen by a ballot with black and white beans thereby giving them to understand that they should not meddle with public affaIrs Such farfetched explanations show the ingenuity of commentators rather than their knowledge As the Pythagorean prohibitions are now obsolete ob-solete perhaps these beans imported from India might not be unwelcome at out tables Men of genius are often dull and Inert in society as the 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