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Show Mill's AM (OW..M1MM. IlbACit glasi wai once uisd for tnrr rors, as well as tranrent glial with some black substance uu the back. It Is related that tho Hpinlardi found mlrrori of pollihed black stone, both convex and concave, among the na Uvea of Bctuth America. The construction, con-struction, mode of ue and eir.ct of burning glasses was known to tho ancients even a full thouiand yean before the time of the Archlmedel, who aretald to bnvoconitructed alum lug glasa which ho used to a good ad-vattsgo ad-vattsgo lu reducing several Roiunn warships lo ashes at a time when Ibey were besieging Syracuse. PnnFiTMJU political speculation li ilfc.Horae oue asietltthat a Republican ticket contpoisd of the names of Ill.iloe nud Rusk would tweep the country. No one denies that Mr. Hlalna bos tliowu htmielf to bo onoof the ableit men America bat produced, but be maintains that ho will not consent to engage lu tbe presidential race. Without With-out his conieut he cannot tie run, io what It lb ute of speculating on the rutject. Till: protorllou of negroes who per-jetraled per-jetraled outrages uton joung white girls Is enormous; st li tho proportion of uiurdert committed by them. Tha coiesofexrcutlon of colored awn by Judge lynch keept petty well along-tl along-tl Jo of Itieie Crimea Liumerlcally. The situation present! a colored problem, connected with tbo moral coudlllon of tbli country. AN Interesting Instance of Iho aril-cacyof aril-cacyof tba Liudon.Parlt telephone occurred the ether day. The Halve tlou Army band were marching from ho Riyal Exchange playing the "Marselllalie" when an Idea ilruck Ibe men present tn tha telephone room. The windows aad doors wero thrown wide open and the attendant at the Paris end was asked If ho could hear anything. The responsu (In French) waa Immediate, "Yes, I can. bear a band playing the 'Marseillaise-.' " That a band of music playing In the atreels of London could be plainly tils-tlngulslietl tils-tlngulslietl In Paris Is a' sufficiently striking marvel of tho nineteenth century science. The Hrltlsh War Olllce bat Issued an order tn supplant thu reulstlon sword that lias been In uio In the army of that country fur more thau a hundred hun-dred Jean. In the new tword the blade Is vrfectly straight, Its abaft I e Ing set lu a roomy hilt, squared (o give play to thu wrist In guarding and thrusting, the. mode cf fighting recorn mended to unmounted uflloers of tho present day on actual service, who are taught to regard cutting sinn obsolete 'method of attack. Only about ten luchta of the edgo from the point, aud six Inches of the back, are sharpened, the rest of the blade being blunt and roundc-d for parrying purposes, and having, therelyre, no cutting capacity whatsoever. The new regulation tword, lufacl, It vxcluiflTely a thrusting aud guarding wcajiou a sort of railer, doub'e-edged for about a fourth of Its blade length lu order to facilitate twno-trallon twno-trallon when lis "wearer gives point," but useless at an arm wherewith to strike a twinging blow. . |