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Show the inertia of the pistoz and its attached machinery. Moreover, this inertia, once overcome, requires an equal AND QUEER CURIOUS THINGS force to bring the Machinery to rest again. Thus it la found that with a AND EVENTS. turret fifteen feet in diameter the least IN TIIE ODD CORNER. movement possible with steam machinHrrrnry'a Plaint Tlia Origin or ery, calculated on the rim of the turtha tut Klrrtrin Turret -- To KuruuM ret, is four inches, while actual tests on one of the warships of the United Niagara Made Tln-l- r Own IU lirtdga several months ago showed that States Tha Boatblll. with electric turning gear a turret of the same diameter could be moved Tlia Mercury's Plaint. that is, started and stopped again I don't know why 1'in slandered so. times in one inch. The twenty-nin- e If I go high If I go low proportion between steam and electricThera's alwsys some one will say, "Just see that mercury ity, therefore. In delicacy of movement And whether toward the top I crawl in this Instance is four times twenty-onOr down toward sero 1 may fall. or 116 times as great. They always fret, and say that 1 The chief objection to all radical inAm far too low or far too high. And though 1 try with all my might novations like this one has hitherto I never seem to strike It right. been based on the sound principle that Now I admit It seems to me in actual conflict the machinery or moThey show great Inconsistency. tive power might break down and the But they Imply I am to blame. Of course that makes my anger flams. work would have to be done by hand And In a fiery fit of pique power in such an emergency; thus I stay at ninety for a week. guns, turrets and every other fightOr sometimes In a dull despair, I give them Just a frigid stare; ing appliance on board some warships And aa upon their taunts I think are provided with alternative hand My spirits down to sero sink, tackle. But there does not seem to be Mine Is Indeed a hopeless case any reason why electricity would net To strive to please the human race! CAROLYN WELLS. lend Itself to he coupled with hand power apparatus, at least as well, If not Tha Origin of tha Cat. better, than either steam or hydraulic It la Impossible to trace the origin power. of the domestic eat with certainty to any existing species or variety of the Liverpool sod Mlsvs Trad wildcat Indeed, the time at which the The great wealth of the merchants cat was first domesticated and intro- of London and Bristol enabled them to duced to human society is purely a enjoy a practical monopoly of the Afrimatter of conjecture. Professor Sha-l- can slave trade for a long period prior expresses the opinion that the do- to Liverpool having any share In it, mestication of the cat must have been says Corner Williams History of the much later than that of the dog, while Liverpool Privateers. Liverpool adother naturalists give reasons for be- venturers with a small capital were unable to equip vessels and purchase lieving to the contrary. Some people agree with Professor goods specially adapted to the African That market and of no use outside of that Shaler, and for this reason: dogs were probably first domesticated market, nor could they afford to await In order to assist In hunting, and, the uncertain results of round voyages, therefore, probably, In what is called sometimes prolonged to more than a the hunting age of human society, year and subject to terrible dangers whereas the cat has nowhere been gen- unknown to any other description of erally used as a hunting animal. The trading adventures. Early in the eightdog Is essentially gregarious; he loves eenth century, however, a successful to hunt In packs, and when Introduced rivalship with Bristol in exporting proto a human family he regards the fam- visions, coarse checks and silk handily as his pack and hunts accordingly, kerchiefs of Manchester make to the so that he Is easily made serviceable West Indies and the continent of Amerby the human hunter. The cat, on ica eventually enabled the merchants the contrary, is unsocial; It lives alone, of Liverpool to participate In the more hunts alone and feeds alone, so that lucrative slave traffic. While Liverpool obtained from this It could not he expected to he easily trained to hunt either with men or for competition a sudden accession to her them. In fact, the only member of commerce which filled her warehouses the cat family that Is known to have with sugar, rum and other West Inbeen trained to hunt is the cheetah, dia produce, the trade of Bristol to the though an ancient Egyptian painting, West Indies declined. The checks of which may be seen in the British Mu- Manchester, carried In Liverpool ships, seum, represents a cat which is appar- ousted from that market the German, ently assisting a hunter to catch birds. French and Scotch osnaburgs exported There Is another reason for thinking from Bristol. that the cat must have been adopted The Boatblll. by man after the hunting age, namely, the cats wonderful attachment to loThe boatblll, of which only one specality. Animals like the wolf, with cies Is known. Is considered by naturalwhich the dog is most closely allied, ists as merely a night-hero- n with an follow their prey over vast tracts of exaggerated bill, so much widened as country, and seem to he entirely des- to suggest its English name, but has al titute of local attachment The wildcat, on the contrary, settles down In a particular spot and waits for its prey to come. When removed from Us accustomed habitat It seems to lose Its skill, and therefore would be useless to men In a hunting age, because in that age men seldom had fixed habitations, but roamed abroad wherever Of course, game was to be found. much of this Is conjecture. Whether the cat or the dog was first adopted by men cannot now be certainly known, but the cat was well known as a domestic animal at an early period of human history. Th !" e, er To Surpass Xls(srs. But big as the Niagara scheme is, work haB Just commenced upon a still developlarger scheme of ment near Massena, on the St. Lawrence river. United States of America. It is Intended to develop here 150,000 by taking advantage of the difference In level between the St Lawrence river and the Grass river, flowing nearly parallel to It at a distance of three and a half miles. A big canal la to be cut across the intervening plateau, and a fall of water fifty feet In height thus obtained on the banks of the Grass river. The latter river will Itself form the tall race" of the power station. This scheme dwarfs the Niagara one, since not only do the plans provide for a greater amount of power, hut man is going to do what nature has done for him at Niagara The namely, provide the waterfall. out for this carrying necessary capital scheme has been provided, work has been commenced and it is hoped that some of the turbines and dynamos will be working by December, 1898. If no unforeseen difficulty occur, and If this scheme be completed by the date named, it will certainly form one of the most remarkable achievements of the century. Chambers' Journal. water-pow- er ways been allowed generic rank. This curious bird Inhabits Cayenne, Surinam, Brazil and similar lands. It sits perched upon trees which hang over running streams, and ever and anon darts down upon fish. These it devours most greedily, and, Indeed, they The seem to be its principal food. boatblll Is about the size of a domestic fowl, has shorter limbs than most of the herons, but resembles them in plumage, and is abundantly provided on the back of the head with elongated feathers, which it erects when Irritated. The front parts ara white (the crown black In the male), the upper surface and tall whitish gray, the under side yellowish white, the belly rusty red. Succeeded la Bar lay Both Backs llow lie Bid It. A friend of mine, living on New river, in an adjoining county, was the fortunate owner of a superb black setter called Don, says a writer in the Richmond Dispatch. He was a splendid dog In the field, and by far the best retriever I ever shot over. While we were hunting one day in the low grounds near the bank of the river, a gang of wild ducks alighted in the stream within shooting distance. My companion at once fired into them, killing oi e and wounding another so that It could not fly. The current waa somewhat rapid, but about 100 yards below a small island had been formed. Don, who, by the way, seemed to revel in water, waa at once sent out Into the stream to bring the game aahore. But when he attempted the task he waa greatly perplexed. He could not mouth both of the ducks at one time, for the wounded bird would escape from him every time he attempted to take up the other one. He evidently saw it would not do to come out with only one and leave the other,for if he left the wounded one it would hide and escape before he could swim to the bank and then return for it, and If he brought the wounded duck first the current would soon carry the dead duck beyond recovery. He made several Ineffectual efforts, seemingly, to solve the problem how to save both birds before he succeeded in accomplishing the task, and by this time the water had floated the ducks close to the island. This was Don's opportunity, and he grasped the situation at once. Seizing the dead duck, he swam rapidly to the upper point of the Island and laid it down on the sand, and then dashed into the water again in pursuit of the disabled one. He sot in overtook and captured it, and at once struck out for the bank where we were standing. Aa soon aa he reached us he went up to his master, who received the game from him. Instantly, when this was done, he plunged into the stream again, and, reaching the Island, took up the dead duck and again reached us with his trophy. Count's PsshIob for Prison Ufa. Of the many methods of achieving fame or notoriety that of Count Rocco Dianovltch is surely among the strangest. The count has made the getting into prison the chief business n of his life for thirty-fou- r of the years he has lived, for the purpose of gathering information for a book he is anxious to write on the subject. At th.rteen he left his home and went into Prussia, where he was arrested for tieapasslng, and sent to prison for three months, working at From that time .to this, he adds, I have never been free from the desire. From thirteen he was in and until he was twenty-on- e out of more than twenty prisons In Belgium, Prussia, Poland and Russia. His first experience of Jail life In England was In Liverpool, which he says was one of the worst he ever was In, filled with drunken sailors from all over the world. He stayed there six days, when he paid hla fine and got out the first time he failed to serve his sentence. Then he went to Ireland, France, Spain, Italy, Greece and Turkey, then to Egypt, where the jails are the worst la the world except Australia; and to India and Japan, and America, where he has been for more than & year, spending most of his time in Jails and penitentiaries. According to his views, the best jail in America is in Denver, and that in St. Louis, where he spent a week, is very bad, for the prisoners run the place, and it was impossible to find any peace or comfort In the place. The count ought to giv.r us the book of the season. er Tnrrcl-Turnln- g. fac-slul- le It has Calamities of Liquor. been eaid that greater calam- A ities are Inflicted on mankind by intemperance than by the three great historical scourges war, pestilence and famine. This is true for us, and It Is the measure of our discredit and disgrace." W. E. Gladstone in the House Perfect Type of the Higheet Order of Excellence in Manufacture of Commons. The older a man gets, the more of a tool he thinks ahoy is. 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It Is a rather curious coincidence that the scriptures should have caused the first dispute about copyright of which we have any record, and also the last In the sixth century, St. when a monk In the north of Ireland, visited a monastery where there was a celebrated psalter, and while the members of the religious institution were asleep or at work he made a copy of the book, which he Intended to carry away with him. .But the prior found out what he had done, and impounded the manuscript. A terrible dispute arose, which was ultimately decided by the local king, to whom it was referred, against the Infringer of the copyright, the Hibernian monarch sententiously declaring that They Mads Their Own Ire Brtdgo. But We often hear mention of Ice bridges, "To every cow belongs its calf. not did end which one like of that the seldom the and this there, quarrel but Oxford County Advertiser describes. question of copyright gave rive to a Two young men from Bethel who were great war between SL Columba's partihauling birch, on reaching the Andros- sans and the others, which did not end coggin found a channel in the middle until the saint fled to Iona for refuye. of the river that had not froxen over. No Sfgm in South Africa. Nothing dismayed, they went upword negro is not heard In The stream. detached a big field of ice and Africa excepting as a term of South fill down to the After gap. let it float Electric Over and over again imopprobrium. into this one place masettling to night's One great drawback hydraulic Afrikander Englishmen stopped have was safe and the young chinery la its tendency to freeze up in provised bridge of Zuliu, Banitoa, when me speaking ahead with went their buaineas cold climates, which, of course, at once men on as negroet. "You so and Matabele destroys Its efficiency, says Cassicr's in America only know the blocks who The Eyes of Birds. Magazine. Steam, on the other hand, of blrda the The that fly by came over as slaves. 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