Show misch 4 OUS human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils the cost of the proposed congo railroad is only franes francs about the entire length of the route is to be kilometers or about miles taking it from the coast to the neighborhood of stanley falls it will soon be the dark continent no more prince Bis marcks salary as chancellor of the german empire is only a year or less than the emperor receives receive s in a week however he is helped out somewhat having a house of great proportions furnishings and belongings at the expense of the state they have found a new and very good use for castaway tin cans the tin is straightened out cut into rectangular tan trular pieces about three times longer than broad these aria arfe automatically mati cally fed into a machine which squeezes them up into square nail shape and puts a head on oil one end the result is a nail stronger than the ordin ordinary ory nail and one which oui AW b be driven into hard wood without breaking the future felure of photography the ease with which photographs can n now be taken by any one is des tined to have an important influx dwse upon science art and literate literature ture re it must not be an supposed P posed however that with the cheapness of the material and simplicity in applying it perfection in the art of photography is any nearer to its votary than it was when the difficult wet plate was in vogue pictures can be taken more readily than formerly but the conditions of light and composition remain as difficult aa ever and the amateur every eve ry year throws behind him his quickly taken photographs and discovers that art is still long the improvements in phot photography ogra h Y have resulted from the labors of t the te chemist rather than from those of the optician and toe the makers of lenses indeed one of the most remarkable features of photography is the simplicity of the apparatus which is necessary this simplicity perhaps might have been foreseen by a careful study of the human eye the eye of every pern son may he said to constitute a detective camera the retina is the dry ry plate upon which all objects are by means of the crystalline bells DS the cavity behind this lens colo institutes at atutes the camera the iris and the diaphragm and the eyelid the ciro drop p shutter the latter it is true te is a slow drop shutter shutt r not master than a tenth of a second whereas the drop shutter that is employed to take an express train may move ve as fast as the one hundredth of a second or ten times as fast as the te eyelid the eye gives the brain a number of composite impressions of an object in motion while the positive plate and the drop shutter of C the camera can call give but one phase of the mot motions lons it does not seem just therefore that the photographer to should insist that the sculptor or artist should copy certain instantaneous attitudes of animals in motion for the eye does not see them thein may drowning on sunday last eliza the eldest daughter of mr B gibson of chill whack was accidentally drowned while playing with some other little girls in hope slough the children had been warned against going near the place but had yielded to the temptation and the victim of the melancholy accident slipped off a log lito into deep water and one of her companions in the attempt to rescue her was very nearly dragged in when the children saw that their playmate was drowning they ran for help but long before assistance arrived she had sank out of foht sight A strange coincidence atten attending i ing this sad story is that the very day this little girl was born twelve years ago her brother was drowned almost at the same spot at which the sad affair here ch oni cled took place mrs gibson is crazed with brief at her terrible loss and her condition gondi tion is considered critical actoria B U G colonist the persian gentleman in persia boys and girls never play together even at home the inferiority of the girls is insisted on just as much by the mother as by the father the little girls have to in invite vite play playmates a s of their own but their games a are e never lively ones T they h y generally prefer to sit by ti them i em selves under the shade of mulberry or pomegranate trees in the garden which usually Is laid out in the courtyard surrounded on all sides by houses or high walls and listen to fairy tales which their mothers and nurses can tell very interestingly indeed while there is very little companionship or love between brothers and sisters there is no quarreling or fighting either between them and the hoys boys while thinking themselves above the girls show them many little kindnesses ex snakes stop a ball game A well contested game of baseball base ball between the cities and round house trams at long branch N J was suddenly terminated the other day when the center fielder in fielding a fly ball fell headforemost into a nest of thirty two garter snakes the young man picked himself up but again sank to the ground almost prostrated by fright the players with their bats succeeded in killing twenty six of the reptiles some of the t snakes measured three feet in length it was wag fully half an hour before the young man who fell into the nest recovered rec overe 1 sufficiently to walk the game was postponed st louis louie globe democrat A good story of lincoln A lawyer is presumed to be always able to suggest a difficulty no matter how self evident the case may seem hut the truly great law lawyer tm knows how to state a point so that even a brother lawyer cannot start an objection according to theyan they n kee blade stephen A douglas and mr lovejoy were once gossi kingto together when abraham lincoln came in the two men immediately turned their conversation upon the proper length of a mans leg arow now said lovejoy abes legs are altogether too long and yours douglas I 1 think are a little short lets leta ask abe what he thinks of it the conversation had been carried on with a view to Lincol ns overhearing it and they closed it by saying abe what do you think about it mr lincoln had a faraway far away look as he sat with one leg twisted around the herbut ot he responded to the question u e stion think of what well ell were talking about the proper length of a mans I 1 legs we think yours are too long and douglas I 1 think are a little short and wed like to know what you think is the proper led length th well I 1 I 1 saig said mr L lincoln I 1 neola I 1 lahat s a matter ive never dever given ven any thought to so of course I 1 may be mistaken but my first impression is that a mans leg ought too to be long adough to reach from his body to the ground youths the field of invention unbounded the impression is very generally prevalent that the field of invention is being reduced by the achieve ments of the thousands of bright intellects ts that are now working upon its various problems As each circuit of a mowing mowing machine diminishes the area of grass to be cut in a meadow as each furrow turned by the plow lessens the work to be done on a farmers farmer Is arable amble acres so it is supposed that every new application of science or device for promoting the comfort convenience or profit of mankind brings nearer a coming time when invention will be compelled by lack of room to come to a halt this is natural because we are accustomed to compare the immaterial and intangible with material and tangible things when we speak of a field whether it be for the plowman the poet or the inventor we naturally think of meae preable space but the field of mental effort is not measure able and so far as we know is unlimited to fix its bounds would be to set an arbitrary limit to the progress of the hu human n race in science art literature in all that exalts and embellishes life the space yet available for progress comes as near infinitude as anything we are capable of conceiving ce to one who stands in a valley the horizon is near let him climb a hill and his view is expanded when he attains a greater height the prospect appears still wider the inventive genius of the world is rising higher and high er every day its prospect never appeared so utterly boundless as now BOW all that has been achieved all the grand conquests that are recorded are but an atom in the balance weighed when brought against the possibilities of the future every victory suggests new lines of effort and equips the victor for further and better work the supplying of one want suggests means of supplying others so long as there is work for man to do the inventor will find employment unless the author of nature has fixed an impassable barrier to the progress of man invention will wh never have a vacation the inventive age |