Show puro gold out of soot thai chimneys arc better worth sweeping than others was bly proved a few ways ago at berlin by the result of an experiment performed upon somo soot with which the ienaido of an old flue pulled down during lato alterations at alio etoyal mint was found to be thickly caked this eluo had served for many years na on outlet for tho smoke given off by tho furnaces in which alio bullion undergoes fusion boford its conversion into coinage and it occurred to tho architect super intending alio repairs in question that it might be worth to analyze tho soot lining tho chimney through which fumes ot boiling gold and surer biad parsed in such quantities the liquefaction of the less precious metal requires a temperature of 1000 degrees celsius while that of gold cannot be effected under I 1 50 degrees it is usual to bestrew the surface of elioso when in ft liquid state with order to hinder evaporation at such a fierce heat 03 the indicated somo evaporation is bound to tako place and its rc i suits acio made manifest by tho iced of four pounds weight of gold valued at something under mark obtained from the boot aliat was scraped off alio of iho melting room chimney in question london daily telegraph that was a curious vei diet given by alio coroners jury recently in the cac of llie man who was run crossing tho flagman warned tho victim of his danger and told him not to cross tho track until the and passed but his warning was not headed and death was alio insult tho jury strangely enough congiu cd the railroad for employing n flagman ano was too old to do his duly it is not exactly clear of what nac a flagman must be to prevent persons who do not listen to warnings from rashly losing their lives perhaps the coroners assistant will explain philadelphia bulletin iy ay a law which passed on nov 1 1881 and became operative on ma 1 0 alie it is forbidden through out holland to retail spirituous liquors of anny kind to any person holding any public appointment or to any other person not holding a license under tho provisions of the statute during the first four months of tho present year before the law went into operation tho from spirituous liquors showed a decrease of ono per cent though during tho preceding ten years it had morago of per cent per annum the anticipatory effect of the law is considered surprising very felarc abaro of the fact that one of the most mathematicians inca in yew york and 13 a woman for the enst thirty jcarl she has instructed captains and olTi in tho navy and in the revenue and merchant service in their mathematical and nautical s she being thoroughly versed in being the daughter of 1 wealthy ship owner alio sailed for several years balb with her father anil her husband who was a captain N Y mr Bradl cv an english writer records a count apt of a pair of birds bringing caterpillars to their nest to feed their young tho calculations mado on tho count showed that ono brood consumed no loss than caterpillars in p dy this would dispose of in n month and if a li undred such nests in a the death of caterpillars would con to the life of somo birds hoop snakes havo recently ban fean in county now york one was killed which measured three feet in this nako has n ciara fine pointed bonelike bone like substance at the end of it ail willi which it strikes it fonna itself in the shape of a hoop and speeds over the ground at a lively rato but it is only necessary to step ono side to avoul jt it being impossible to alter its course when rollin A mississippi steamboat has been named tor a southern poet but its no use nothing will suppress a poet if it is tho design to antico tho poet on baird the boit ancl then explode the boiler the plot will mccarry mh carry lie might ba blown one hundred feet into abo air but ho would comisa a poem on the as ho was coming down Jkr alil an electric ol 01 iho most magnificent character waa visible at seattle washington territory one recently the hashes began about dusk and continued all night and for a timo were almost incessant there being or more minute thunder tomcod it aci y loud accompanied tho lightning as ako a sharp fall of rain chicago kows A decoration day incident was tho very affecting scene at woodland cemetery at stanford conn mrs hobble the venerable mother of five soldier sons who were buried knell at anch grave and offered a silent prayer moist fica among 1 he derails who stood about boston JW |