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Show IIEY, IllTIiE ! IIEY EURE! A BUSINESS CRY OF THE CLD CIRCUS DAYS. llulif!" IVh thr tVatrhwuril Alarm Crr of th flreii Wh Mra, anil It Meant Hul-ar- a for All Hand. It After mv first engagement was effected," said nn old eirciis man. I was told something' that I had not lcaniotl 1 was initiated into tin: mysteries of lloy, ltubu!' The manager down to the one day I wad practising, and of course when I discovered Mm looking on strained a IHiint to mako iny somerset a little higher and do my host generally. I wad fully repaid for iny extra effort when lie laid hi hand patronizingly and tnhl mo I would lie a on my great performer some day. Then he turned my f:u-- to him and. looking me In the oje. lie asked: "My mm, do yon think you would 1st iinn-- frightened in a - Hey. KuW? I thought ho doubled my nervo. and as I felt my cheeks is::d ears tingio with the warm ring-hous- e. on my part a citizen of Arkansaw lay prono at my feet. That was my linst him Mi. After t:i:il 1 win nut at ull partieulsr who 1 hi. Any unu that diil not wear a familiar faro or eireus clothes got it. It all seemed like a nlglilinaro hi itie. If I had lieen shot. Ido not think tim fuel would have suggested itself to me until uflor it Was ull over. It was a hot fight Empress's keeper turned her loose. and that rattled tlio jays, and they tied in dismay. whioh of course put an end to tho trouble temporarily. Then I came to myself. I was frightened nearly to doath, and wished that I had learned fountain und never to r.in a soda-water gone with a show. Was there much damage done? Well, yea Three mca were killed. One of thorn helongud to the show. About a score of broken heads, several men badly cut, ami a lent slathered to ribbon represented thn wounded. The rauso of all t'm trouble was tho of our priueipul clown, who thoughtlessly wore a red, white, uud Muu suit, with an American eagle on a shield at his breast. This exhibition was a trill-- ; partisan for tho ldoti I I si raighten-.-myself no and, chivalry of the gentlemen in Arkau-sautmost height, So, you see. one of them took a stretching invsclf to my answered thr.t I did not think scrornl shot at the eagle. Tho clever and jocwould se.nv mo very und clown was there for the i of lloy, 11iiIm-mueh. lie smiled und said: That is affording pleasure to tho dour public, all right, mv son; Iml you have never hut as inj did not care about sacrificing lsjen through olio yet; wait, himself to art lie yelled Hey, Katie! I did not have very long to wait Of courso that soft led it. We hail that Spring came, and with It the oieiiing kind of oierienci) several times in llie of our reason. That win tho spring Smith, und I uni not fully satisfied that of fill. My 1 art nor informed mu that thiiso battles, while not accompanied we were going inlo tho South. It was by great lim of life, w ere quite us my first cirrus to go Into tho Southern ficiuu us any while they lasted." states after the war. There were ninny ns to whut kind of In a Sinks' Used, opinions exprus-oThere is a lieliuf current In all parts a reception wo would get. A rumor had been startl'd from soino source or of India that a certain variety of snoko other that no show from tho North called shesh nag, when it attains the would bo allowed to cuino down there ago of 1.000 years, has a precious ami be comfortable. As wo started jewel formed in its li ad. Thu jewel, it from a point smith of tho Ohio river is affirmed, possesses the quality of we thought ourselves a Southern in- sucking up llie puisoa of Iho deadliest stitution. nnd so did nut take much snake if applied to the wounded part. stock in the rumor. Strangely enough a larsue gentlumau Our show traveled overland by is reputed to possess tills invaluable wagon. No sleepers nnd railrmul jewel, according lo a corresinmdent of trains then. Weil, wo got along first a (idjarnti weekly, published at Wadh-wain (iujarati. rate for about eight week, and finally Thu correspondent says that when got into Arkansas. Tho second town wo nindo in that stnto we arrived in the present owner who, by tho way is nno morning nbout 7 oclock, after one now 113 was 23 years old he lighted of the toughest night's drives I think I upon a snake of tho ever experienced over a rough moun- variety, which ho killed, Thun ho tain road. About every twenty min- found tho jewel in its head. It has ute you could bear a stentorian voice already saved several lives. When breaking the stillness of the night with Mr. Vidal, tho Collector of tho District, Miio up, Empress! Mile up, old gnl!" was there it was shown to him, too. And that was soon followed by a grunt The jewel is said to contain a thin from tho great old mother elophunt as crcsccntrliko fiber, which unceasingly slut lifted some wagon out of a mud-hol- osellatcs in tho center. Tho galkwar of Uarodn, the maliarajah of Kolhapur are As I was saying, we pulled into and several of tho natlvo town about 7 o'clock and we felt tough, said to have offered several hundred but I will remark we none of us felt as thousand rupees for this unique jewel. touh ns tlio clllznna of that hamlet The name of the owner is Fratnji Wo had looked. the hardest Dodabbni (jovokar. Tnrspur, Bombay lot of canvas men that ever Presidency. ln-n- e s pui-ixix- d n. almro-mnntion- o. Il-ino- e were entertained at tho expense of nny slate. Thore was probably no crimo on the calendar that some them bs-- l wet baaw uUtr ut. Myl Iml they wore a wirkod sot. They begun pitching tho tent immediately, und there was quite an assemblage of native citizens gathered to see the thing dono. The mnle portion of that crowd one could not conscientiously term prepossessing. The performer went lo a tumble-dow-n shnnty they called a 'hotel, ' washed, and ate breakfast. after which we prepared for the parade. The grand pageant took place 10 o'clock A. M. Then about half-pawe had our dinnor and started for the how grounds to prepare for the afternoon show. As my partner and I were on our way there he called my attention to the men congregated in groups along the way. Some of them addressed chaffing remarks to us. We paid no uttentlun to them, however, though they did make my companion some-wha- t restless. All tho men carriod guns. It was a queer assortment of firearms. Thera were old flint-loc- k rifles, musket, carbines, long rifles, short ones, horse pistols, navies, Derringers. and pepper boxes. I suppose they were all fixed. My partner observed that it was possible that we might hare trouble before we left, and though I was young I could appreciate that the mention of a possibility meant u probability. -- The doors were opened at the regular hour and everybody was called for the grand entreo, after which several minor acts were in the ring. I heard tho call for Master Willie, tha hoy rider, and lmundud out into the ring, made my obeisance, mounted my horse, nnd went through my act as usual. When it was finished I ran back to the dressing room to make a quick change for our brother act I opencl my trunk and was seleoting such wardrobe os 1 needed, when I heard a shot followed by a rush and some excitement Then sonio one stuck his head in our dressing room and yelled: lloy! liubo!' -- That yell vibrated through every fibre of my body and echoed nguln and again through my bruin until it was tho only thing I could hear, tho only thing 1 could think, the only thing I could s pciik. It paralyzed mo for an instant r.nd then 1 moved niechunically. Leuning ngaiust my trunk was a bunch of iron braces, instinctively I grasped them ami dashed out into the big tent There 1 witnessed a sight that no one lias warn except In the days of barbarism or in a lloy, Kubo' with n circus. 11 was man to man nnd linnd to baud. Every laxly was fighting. It wa tlio kind of an aiau'.ttlmt meant great liojily injury and even sudden death. Knives pistols popped, ilic din win punctuated by the dull thud of a heavy stake as it ilcceiiilul ate of mine jav.' upon t in hiiii!i-- .s by guided th .a witlt much Iho sinewy arm of a canvas mm. I hud m.; bunch of Iron grasped lightly action in my lists, unJ after .pata-uilst , c A BUNCH OF DATES. Tha first complete translation of the wui torn vwigiisu was sTentM tiy John IVyelU in 13 St). Harvard college was founded in 1M(, Tale in 1701. William and Mary, ot Virginia, was chartered 1093. The first shipment of Inin pipe ever ins-lIn the (South left Birmingham, Ala , for Baltimore in May. It wss made by a Bessemer, Ala., firm. A solid train of can composed the shipments, twenty-fiv- e sad the first of s 5, contract. A piece of sculpture from ancient Ephesus ha reached the British museum. The relic forms part of a marble bull, the head being exquisitely carved, while the figure of th goddess appears on the body, it is auppoiad to be 2,000 year a Ode-to- n old. A firm of stone ratten in Berlin have introduced a pneumatic chisel Into their establishment The workman hokla the apparatus with both hands, and, be slides it over tha surface of the stone or metal, the chisel making 10,000 or 19,000 revolutions a minute, chips off par-tide- In the lime region on Guinea Hill, town of Coxsarkle, N. Y.. there is a large stream of water that flows through an underground rave, a distance ot about twelve mihw. Tradition say that an Indian once went in the hole" for the purpose of making an exploration, and he is exploring yst CHINESE JOKES SOIL Kpselmea Auscdutr from th Jo MlUr of THE MYSTERIES OF THIS WONtli Crlrsllal Kmplra, DERFUL EARTH. Wo are accustomed to tliink of thn as Oiin--s- sulcmil-lookin- g people ph Wbira thr iriuml la iVrjiPtiiHlIy Friurn t urlutiB tu m Jk'iitli f 01 1 1 I Aliout tlir limit tof blunting eye and the corner of tl.cie down. Nt mini Iia Hindi uni its they huvi; a nmiio is .siiiii li Nino." Here are translations of some of lilts justs. Tlio render will bu struck by the similarity of ninny of them to western jokes: A confirmed drunkard in his of imagined that ho tin-- found a excellent toddy und put it hy th fire to warm iu unh-- to bring iti Davor not the laittor. lint tiio moment that he nttompled to taste lliu delicious Fool that 1 was, " draught be-- awoke. Ini cried; why could 1 not have drunk t ol.l. iner-clia(Ivor fifty years ago a in Yakutsk. .Mbci-iu- , that he would no longer draw water fit mi the river, cays (loiilthwuitc's Ru-si- an l.t-n- r " . i imvi-iim- ibs-id-'- l IVti-i-cijur- o; 32 o. . n one-sev- (Mr-ticul- ur r pre.-iclie- e w-- one-six- th one-i-ig- TEN O'CLOCK TOO EARLY. posed thul one must have tli eyu" und the ailisl's ta-t- u und llew Two llrlght end harming Ctrl perspicuity. Tin- - latter faculties Yidul Outwit Thslr Sen. Ibis Mother. has tu un exceptional degree even excellent and suimiliie lady in th An mure unite, ho than 1! the western part of tin city is thu inuHu-- r funner were not lost tu him forever. of two iittructivo uud popular girls, say THE SOUND OF THUNDER. tin; Louisville Post. The sisters buvs admirers among tho young Iluw In Aarcrtsln lluw Far Away tli Tliunilrr fa. of thu uuigiibiirhiHid. ami have One of the most terx- und succinct cullers The nearly every owning. descriptions of a natural phenomenon mother siu not altogether displease. I is that, recently given hy M. Him, in which he says that the sound which is ut this, but found it necessary to adopt known as Ihuiider is due simply pi tin: sonic rulu as to t.lio timu wliuu the were expected to leave. Her first fact thul the uir traversed liy ail spark, that Is, a Hash of lightning, plan was to ring a little liell precisely is suddenly raised tu a very high tem-p- e at 10 p. in., at which time thu visiters were supposs-- tu depart. rat uru und has its volume, Thu mother would llion go to sleep. cuiisiilerHbly increased. Tlio roliiniu of gas thus suddenly ami ex- But she disrovered after wind that thu panded is sometimes several miles liell was not being ulieyud nnd found long ami, as the duration of the Hash the girls closing tlio front ilmir after is nut over the millionth of a second, 11 o'clock. They expluined that they All d it follows that tlie noise hurst forth at could not hear the bell. ularnidock was then purchased uiiii- from the whote column, though, for an observer at nn, one pknv. it nnd placed in the parlor and every commence where the lightning Hash night at 10 o'clock it turned loose. is ut tint least distance. In precise Tliuiv could now lie no excuse, and for somo time everything went well and of ihc thunderterms, tho clap gives the minimum distance of the mother wus dclighbil. But, by tin- - lightning, ami the duralion of the and by, the clock suddenly got badly rolling of the ihiiudei- - tlio length of out of repair and refusiHl to run. Uf the column of limit'd nil, lrof. Him course, the leaving hour again ill mi remark that when a flash of lightad lib., though thu girls did not comning strikes the ground, it is not ne- plain of tho crippled clock, nor did cessarily from the place struck that tln-- tell their. niuther lln-- had cripthe first nulro is hennl. Again he pled it on The widow then abandoned tho clock points out that a bullet wliislies in the air. so llml we can, ton idea und a few weeks ago resorted to cei lain extent, follow its flight. The tho plan of turning off thu gus. Sho siimc filing also happen with a fulling would first give a littlo warning, just tha just before striking the as they do ut tint theatre earth. The iiiiIm: actually lieal-i- l ha curtain gou up, anil in lire minutes been compared tu the sound produced the visitors were presumed to have when one linen, it is due, really, dunned their overcoats nnd halo. The to tho fuel that tlio ail rapidly pushed light wns then turned eutirnly off. on one side of tho piujoetile ill front, This worked nicely for awhile, but the wliethur bullet or meteorite, quickly girls grew tired of it, and provided rushes hack to till the gap left in the themselves a coal oil lamp for emerrear. gencies. The widow continues to manipulate the gas as usual from her " What lsM)li-froom, and then turn in. with the fond Tho difference between one woman convictions that tho maidens are retirand another," said Dr. Louise I'iske ing. But tho girl light tho lamp and -- is more than anyBryson recently, sit up as long us they wish, sure when thing else ail affair of style: that labili- their favorite ure calling, when they ty of liemiiic so hard tu define ami feel thut the grate is entirely sufficient. easy to recognize, which makes the In a short time this last rule will be hair, features of indif- discovered by their maternal mentor girl uf ferent turn and lines none Phi perfect, und they will adopt somo other plan of infinitely more nttnirlivo than other deception. maids of faultless curves ami innumerA RACE PHENOMENON. able strong points not : meati-by this magic quality. Style muv lie defined. for want of something I letter to Tha ttnl India Illork Mm llaglnnliig to OpproM the Whltrs. express it, ns an attractive manner of Is a fact that all over the British It a the firm, way graceful holding Indy, of doing things ami uf moving about. West Indies, with tho exception of It is the visible sign of inherent lower Barbadoes, and especially in two uf tho anil reservo force. It is the outcome most vulunbln and important islands, a nnd the use of steady and determined, though unobof long, deep breath is making by curtain many muscles. The prayer uf the trusive, effort Now York child, flaird, make us very ambitious black and colored men in stylish! when viewed aright i recog- office, in journalism, and in tho pronized as an aspiration bused upon fessions, gradually to oust the whites sound scientific principle und worthy from a commercial enterprise and public life, as a preliminary to making of universal commendation." The existence generally inqiossible. home government is over and over Halse If yon wnut to make money and at again indheed to mako and confirm aptho sumo time enjoy your work," said pointments of meit who, while appara inan, raise roses. When I moved ently working in umity with their reinto the country I built a conservatory spective administrations and with thu to grow roses, for I ain very fond of white wopln they hate, arc really them. Front time to time I built ad- doing all in their jsiwor to aubvert the dition to my hothouses, and in time white supremacy; cliiufiy by pushing found that I was raising more roses black and colored men (whoso only than I knew whut to do with. So 1 qualifications are reading, writing, and to sell them. I learned thut there unbounded impudence) into subordinwas a good winter demund for them; ate positions where they mny hope to in fact, a very strong demand. I was leavou tho official lump. When ladies able to command prices which seemed are pushed aside in tho streets by black Now I mako large winter loafers; when the black servant who marvelous. shipments regularly, and I have paid steals from you almost under your very for my hothouses and ull thu labor ex- ;yo duties you to prosecute him; when pended on them many timos over, and sfllcluls of the highest character are what I call my flower bunk account libelled in public prints by men behas reached a very respectable size." neath the intellectual level of an English street tioy and that in terms All Or NuthlUK. which, through unscrupulous interf?he was a pretty willow, aud Chicago was mediaries, muy actually pus to the her home, L'olonial office, or even to the House of But I loved her. and to gain her e'en to Dommons, as the utterance of white Haile I would roam, men of position tho time has come to Aud when I asked her to ha mine she peak out plainly. looked so shy ami sweet. gen-liciii- ni.-iii- Miiguzinu. as every Imily did in thul far town, but lio would dig a well und have wuti-- r at his own dour. Su he cot lo work with After his nu-i- i linil pick and si ovl-1-. dug t i Lrli the few feet of earth that had been tlinwcil by the sununer sun dcc'iuvil that ihuy had struck they A certain man lmd his jiortinit solid rock. It was only frozen coil, painted; and when it was finished tho howi-vcrt anil the kept th-painter requested him to inquire of the lit work all that siinmii-r- . Next year y what passers-bthey thought of it, in lie resumed work, order that ho might know how he lmd foot lie dag to get ill cvi-r. siirivcdt.-dThe other agreed, uiid earth: but after through the froz-'iasked the first comer: you think pellet rating lO.i fi-- t in colidly fro.-i-this pielure like?" Tim liat is I tin- - big bole with ho coil, like. rcplicl the would-lhoards anil that, river water erilic. lie asked a Kiinillar question nas good unongli for liim. of a second st ranger, who answered Tlio IiiiH-ri-.iAcademy of Hint tho c'litlm.s to be exactly this rciuai-kalilutSl, lie was nlsuit to interro- ctm-y- , aud tln-reproduced. it a good idea thought gate a third, when tho jiaiuler Mtopeil to sou hour fur frost extended tow ard him nnd said: "The of the center of the earth ut Yakutsk. the hut unil clothe is of no imjHirt-snekept, up the work for many uk the gentleman whut lie They Wl-cmi mills. they had readied a thinks of the face." Tlio strungi-of feet, and were still in depth hesitated a very long time; blit at lust, frozen ground, they gavu up not being abln to ctcaMi giving an solidly the jolt, carefully covered tho well to -he The buurd and exclude tlio external uir, mill answer, replied: finally liair are first-rntcent a man to take tho A rich mun living between the forges throughout the well. of two blacksmiths, was continually From these observations the concluof noiso tho the hammers, sion was reached that the annoyed by on anil was in at being unnbk- - to which Yakutsk stands, ground a excepting rest cither hy day or by might. At few foot at the surface, which thaws first he tried to Induce them to hammer nut in frozen slimmer, is more quietly; then ho made them all to a depth of t12 feet. In that region kinds of promises it they would only thn depth of change tln-i- r ulmdes. Tho two black- frozengrouted soil in norlhoru latitudes doubtsmith at last Ml in with Ills proMisals less anil the reason is that there and lio, lransiortfd with joy ut the is exists, found the greatest cold that has pnxqieot of their departure, entertained I icon experienced iu northcrnlatitihli-sthem regardless of expense at a It is a mistake to siipimse that the At end of the feast the lianquet. weather is colder the further north one he nkod tlieni where they intended to Thu northern mi1o of goes. -set up tlioir smithies. Well," said cold is only ulioiit SOU miles grouted one of them, "lie who lived ou your of Yukutsk, where tlio mean annual left will go to the smithy on your right, is a little lower than in thn and he who lived on your right will go toiniieraturo latitudes reached by Nares highest to that on your left." und (iroely, 1,000 miles further north. A lady who had but lately been marThu lfritish Association Inis col'.oeted ried. seeing liur husband return it.-- r a amount of data on the quo-lio- n throe dny' absence, stole up secretly of large tho dopth and geographical limits behind him and gave him a kiss. Tlio of jicrmanenlly frozen soil. Tliuy huve husbund was angry, and told her that told us soma curious things, slie had offended against all his notions already such as the fact that excellent wheat of propriety. I am very sorry." she lands north of Manitoba overlio frozi-exclaimed; -- I really didn't know it earth that never tliaws. Sometimes was you, my love!" find strata of rocks that they In a certain house thore was a baby geologists are ublo to show must have been that annoyed every one by its continual bnricil at a remote age 20.000 feet unquailing. At last a physician was der the Burfuce. These upturned edges called in. lie administered a Indus of nf rock, which some terrible convultho soothing virtue of which ho had a sion lifted to tho air. givo us a high opinion, und offered to pass the of tlio condition of tho interiorglimpse some night in the house to olwerve tho ef- ways Inflow the greatest to dopth fects of the remedy. After a few hoiu . tthiStl wa ow attala. hcnrtng no noise, bo exclaimed: 'lood! But, after all, whut we arc able to exthe child is cured." Yes." icpliod the attendant, "the child has indeed amine in the earth beneath our feet is more than what a pin prick on stopped crying, but tho mother lias be- hardly the skin of an apple shows of tho frnit gun to mourn. in tho deciest A certain man was condemned to within. Tho workmen intlio thiol's collar, wherciqion some of mines of Kiirojie swelter in almost his relatives; seeing him. naked him tolerable heat nnd yet they have never thousandth how ho had brought such a punish- penetrated over from the surface to tho center of ment upon hlmsulf. He replied: As part the earth. In the lower levels of I was going along the road I chanced some of tho Comstock mines tho men lo see on the ground n littlo bit of ixqio. fought scalding water, and could labor Thinking it might )erhaps prove useor four hour at a time three only ful I picked it up and proceeded on my until the Sutro tunnel pierced the way. Such is the origin of my present mines nnd drew off Mime of the territrouble." "Hut," replied his relatives, ble hunt which stood at 12U. Thu we can not bellove that the thuft of a deepest boring ever made, that at piece of rope would bring you to this near Berlin, penetrates It is true Sperenbcrg, misery." Said tho thief: 4.172 feet, about 1,000 feet deepor that there was something at tho end only thnn the famous artesian well ut SL of tlio rope." They inquired what It Louis. was. Only," answered he, two little Some eminent physicists, for indraught oxen." (It may 1)0 nientionod stance, like Sir William Thomson, In passing that in 1872 a writer in tlio British (junrterly Review quoted this have believed that the crust of the earth Is at least 00 miles thick. The from a Chinese story as coming source." though he dhl not allude to majority adduce good isreasons for beonly twenty-fiv- e "Siao li Sino," It Is possible that the hoving that the crust to fifty miles thick. All agree heathen Chinee has more than ono just book. The date of Siao li Sino" is that if tho temperature within tho earth continues to increase as it does but to d - liat mill jcsl-lioo- k with regard this unknown; tale the English hare fairly A LITTLE OFF COLOR. early claim to it as it occurs in the edition of Scogln's Jeatos" (1613), A novel legal procedure the other day in New York was the calling of a juror and possibly in also that of 15e, when tho book was first licensed. ) from the box to testify for the defense. A middle aged Russian who arrived the A Fraad. other day from Europe on the steamer Brethren, set down! said tho Rev. Elbe wore a long beard, one-ha-lf of which was pure white and the other half brown. Mr. Harps, of Uoomopolis charge, ns the congregation rose on masse in the It was a strikingly carious sight After living with his wife for fifteen midst of the sermon. -years in their cosy home in Horsham townBut, elder," whispered a deacon, ship, Montgomery county, To., without hoarsely, a boy has jost brought speaking a word to her in all that time, word that thore an Eastern capitalist J. Henry Knott has mysteriously de- In town lookin' over the corner lots camped. with a view to purchasin' The youngest litigant on record h and Is whose of Jones, fit Louis, age Big fat man with pink whiskers six months anil who is suing tha HL Louis, Kansas City A Colorado railway for 85,000 and two watch chains?' for the death of his father, who was killud Ilia boy say Hint's him sure." in a wreck. "Brethren, set down! 1 saw tlmt A Louisville couple were to have been man over at lrulrio City yesterday. married in the church and great prepara- He hain't a capitalist; he's a corn doo tions to that end had been niado, but wbrn tor. Sot down! the time came their timidity so overcame them that they stole away from their A Woadcrful Hallroad Junrtlon. friends and were quietly married in a minister's parlor. Clapham Junction, London, is probIpon learning almut the sale of thn ably tho most rcmarkablo and busiest of that city to a railway junction point in the world. At fotnou whipping-pun- t spcculntor who incaut to exhibit it at the this point the Itendon nnd Southwestern world's fair, the negroes of Wilmington, and Itendon, Brighton and South Coast Del., went in a body to the yard where it Railways join and cross each oilier, was kept aud with axes and saws reduced and an avoriige of 1.200 trains pass it to a mass of kindling wood. this plain every twenty-fou- r hours. The government's efforts to tax oleoOf this number 1,000 pass the junction disuse into have nut margarine proved 7 a. m. anil 10 x very successful, ltcvcnno from stamp between tho hoursof rile lies stendity increased sfiu-- tlio law m.. which give an average of one seconds during went into etfert and during the ten months train every fifty-foriuli-with April more stamp were sold tho ti Recti hours. The traffic is chiclly limn fur any previous twelve months. pu.--. conger trains, Engineering News. A at Femnniliun. Kin., was forced to sue liis rhurcli for nearly P.'illl The Tight Little Isle. owed him ever i:u-- February 1. 1 . n colonizer tlu What little i rliiiM-lwlu ii the gave him a due hill Island has been." The tight English flag t for the amount, -- i HI. till. Tinof tlio population up thn singular defense that tho iiW-- t wss floats over of l hi surfacj of the lianvd by the rluliu- of limitations and the nnd habitable glebe. aUry was. thcicfure, - FII0ZKX FOREVER. near the surface at the rate of one degree Fahrenheit for about every fifty-fiv- e feet nf descent all igneous rocks must be fused at no great dupth. In fact, ut this rate of increase, tho temjioraturo at 200 miles is lH.oo(l Fahrenheit which is Prof. Rnsctti's cstimuto of the probable temperature of the sun. It is improbable, however, that this rate of incrcoso is maintained for a great distance, and many physicists believe that at some unknown, but not very great depth, tho increase in temrcasus. Ono of tho most wonderful things in the study of scionccs is the fact that tiie mysteries of one science are some- perature times completely or partly explained by knowlcdgo gleaned In somo other department of study. It is thus that naturalists who hare investigated the fauna and flora of score of 1aeiftc islands have learned how fur south Asiatic type prevail, and have added great weight to the concliisioas of geologists that these island were once a :ii-- t of tho big continent north of them. Xoy it is very likely that ns knowlcdgo increases we shall ho able to learn some important fact about the interior of the earth through our better acquaintance with the phenomena occuring on its surface. All people who use the magnetic coinpn-- s tire iiwnrc that often the needle is subTho entiso ject to great disturluinoes. of those magnetic variation is now a mystery, but some physicists believe they are produced by great movenn-nthat nro going on in tho molten interior ut tho earth. - or c mui-euvc- able-lntdie- - bei-am- meli-oi-it- s no-col- llot. bi-g- an And dropied her head, and blushed, and AtlOVr Hallo. whispered: With It has been found that one of thn Both most important elements in decreasing Feet!" New York Herald. THE DUMB WORLD. Ft Worth, Texas, rtalma a carnivorous row that eata cats, rata and mire, A row in Phillips, Me., recently drank five gallon of maple syrup. Mhe ought to give aweet milk. An Atchison man whose wife does all the work for a family ot eevun, recently paid the license on five dogs. A dog at Hyde Park. Chicago, tailoring under permanent ineutal aberration, stole nearly 1.0IHI ncwiaicn and carried them to kia VeniieL An Alalmma poultry raiser has a chicken with three perfect wings. The extra wing is in the niMillo ot the Wk, and when the fowl is in a burry serves ns a sail. a hive of Iwes in (Million. carrying it a quarter of a mile dropped it. The Uss stung him so bad that the mere mention of honey makes A tramp stole Mich., end after him nick. A resilient of Ten Mile Run, X. J., attempted to sit down on a chair on which there waa n uewpaier. Beneath the tiewiqiaier was the family cat. The cat lilt him and he is dying of MihmI poisoning. A Hagerstown (Mil.) ninn owus a par-rthat Is known to be nt least fifty-fir- e yean old. The Venerable bird is just Iraedng to say the laird's prayer, but it an areouqiliaheil swearer ever has since it wns a fledgling. Mrs. Pronty. of Waterloo, San Joaqnia county. Cnl., with her two children, to ers the railroad track In front nf n moving train; but her horse, insre sensible than its driver, refused to go. and only the animal's stubUmi rcsit-nn.-- e to her whip and voice saved the live of the whole paitr. The ancient Filins that a mys-t- i bird inld an rgg on the lap of who lintekcd it in his Iimiiii. He let it full into the water and it broke, the Thr llllnd Sculptor. lower pm tii 11 of the forming the Vidal, llie blind sculptor, is ono nf the upper the ky; tli liquid white tho wonder of the French caniiaL earth, l the sun and the the moon, lie lias been blind since his 21 t year. while th-- : little fragm-n'- .s yolk u.' broken shell To be a sculptor it is generally sup were transformed tutu stars. ut Ih-c-u slu-1- train resistance and thus increasing peed is in the Improvement of the track by adopting etiffer rails. This has the effect of reducing the deflection 3r wavo motion under each of the wheels; so that on the best roads where tho Improved rails have boon laid down thore is scarcely any oscillation and there is very little difference in oscillation in riding on a tangent or a curve. All tho trials hitherto made show that the train resistance decreases in exactly tho proportion that the rail is stiffened. It is claimed that with a stiffened rail noarly power a mile is saved on tho fast express trains, as compared with worn 60 or rails. The oscillation when riding on heavy rails at a sjiced of 7d miles an hour is less than that of 46 miles an hour on light rails. There is considerable ground for the belief that before long 120 miles an lour cun bo safely covered by an clcc-ri- o locomotive on a track of 200-hor- se 100-pou- 106-pou- mils. moMPtarjr Item. A few nights ago a policeman hulled t supicious looking colored man who knd a trunk on his shoulder. Where are you going with that Junk?" asked tho minion of the law. Dcr family I has been boarding wid las been axing for money, nnd as dc-was done gone out I tuck advantage of do opportunity to get inter tome family what hus some consider-llio- n fur do panicky condition ob do was flic reply Texas Jionoy marki-tor-nig- Siftings. Hlahts or SttMlIiwi Pattern. Judge Thayer of Iffiiludclphia says .lint no person c.vn be legally compelled to leave liis lionsc nnd lio i in a hospital, e n if he have sr.inll-xi- x or other contagious disease. !'.& :he right uf tho uni lent to stay in his house if he chooses. |