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Show Cow. The zoological collection of the Imperial Agricultural High school at Berlin +has recently been enriched by a very interesting object, viz., the skeleton of a wild cow (Bos primigenius). As the Bos primigenius can rightly be considered the progenitor of our domestic cattle, or at least of certain breeds of them, this skeleton is an important ac- quisition. There are to be seen skeletons of Bos primigenius in several museums, but they have been heretofore very rare. Focal Distance of Spectacle Lenses. The Jeweler’s Review on the subject of ‘focal distance of spectacle lenses says: Place the end of a measure of thirty or these he instance, a- building or window on the ELEPHANT. “Tent Life in Tiger Land,” by the Hon. adventure we have seen for many a long day. Imagine Allan Quatermain in real life, and you have Mr. Inglis. His stories df what. he and his friends actu- sections of the Brooklyn, N. Y., Dr. S. IE. Stiles exhibited samples wax cell and demonstrated the institute, of a new method of constructing the cell and mounting of sheets’ therein. As the cell is both simple and effective, we reproduce for the benefit of our readers the following illustrated description from Scientific American. A (2 ass a Se «Qy \ ity —"s 9 ZZ pe Le og am mae j ‘lis te SILT ia Conta nim to contain a transparent or translucent ject, the entire central portion of removed, as shown at 2, but if ob- the wax is a ground is required for the object, one or more layers of wax are allowed toremain. A portion of the upper layer of wax is removed to form a rim for the reception of the cover glass, Where a black ground is required, a small _ disk of black paper is pressed upon the lower layer of wax. The final finish is given to the cell by a coating of shellac varnish, applied while the slide is on the turn table. These cells are very quickly made and have the finished appearance of a cell formed of different colored cements. The Buried Forests of New Jersey. : An industry the like of whieh does not exist anywhere else in the world furnishes scores ef people in Cape May county, New Jersey, with remunerative employment, and has made comfortable fortunes for many citizens, - It is the novel business of mining cedar trees —digging from far beneath the surface im- mense logs of sound and arcmatic cedar. The fallen and submerged cedar forests. of southern New Jersey were discovered first beneath | the Dennisville swamps seventy-five years ago, and have been asource of constant interest to geologists and scientists generally unconsciousness, when your voices roused me to once more.”—Pall Mall Ga- pulling zette. Never fact in to Go us ere his head was smashed like an egg shell on the powerful knee of the maddened monster... He next made a rush horses, that, by the clamor excited and around Again. relation to the death of dria, of which he was a member, nevcr been permitted One to run, nor Richest Sovereigns. The civil list of Holland, which is secured: king’s bright, good little daughter. She is a inteliigent, clever child, with deal of character and bulk of the with admirable presence-of mind, delivered the hissing hot stew, with quick dexterity and precision, full in the gaping mouth of the furious brute. His next sensation, however, was that of flymg through the air » aS the brute with one swing of its mighty trunk, propelled him on his aerial flight, and he feJl souse in the middle of the stream, with the saucepan still tightly clutched in his a Over the river we could see the infernal brute who had thus scattered us in a perfect frenzy of rage, kneeling on the shapeless heap of cloth, furniture, poles and ropes, and digging his tusks with savage fury into the hangings and canvas in the abandonment of mad, uncontrollable rage. We had little doubt but that poor smothered Mac lay:crushed to death, beneath the weight of the onderous animal, or mangled out of all ikeness to humanity by the terrible tusks that we could see flashing in the clear moonlight. It seemed an age, this agony of suspense. We held our breaths, and dared not look into each other’s face. Everything showed as clear as if it had been day. Wesaw the elephant tossing the strong canvas canopy about as a dog would worry a door mat. Thrust after thurst was made ,by the tusks into the folds of cloth. Raising his huge trunk, the brute would scream in the frenzy of his wrath, and at last, after what.seemed an age to us, but which in reality was but a few minutes, he staggered to his feet and rushed into the jungle. IN A VERY TIGHT PLACE. Just then a smothered groan struck like the peal of joy bells on our anxious ears and a. muffied voice fram heneath P.O. Box, 295. $9,999.00 IN GOLD tion. The marriage of the king and queen, despite the disparity of age, has heen a very happy one.—Loncon Attention Given to Country Orders. Cor. Main and 8rd South Sts. SALT LAKE DON’T CITY. PAY Heavy Interest when you can borrow MONEY CITY. \ orld. DUNN & CO. CASE SsTonse Full line of Boots, Shoes, Hats, TO Cu BE GIVEN AWAY. Caps, Gloves, Dry Goods and Notions; Choice Groceries. 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HAMILTON, JOS. E. TAYLOR, General Undertaker & Embalmer by the long flexible trunk of the infuriated brute, and had but time to utter the terrible death scream which had startled affairs till the huge towering MAKING THE WAX CELL, Sheet wax, such as is used by the makers of artificial flowers, is the material employed : in the construction of this cell. Three or four sheets of different colors are pressed .together by the thumb and finger to cause them to adhere, and asquare of the combined sheet thus formed of sufficient size for a cell is cut out and pressed upon a glassslide. The slide is then placed. upon a turn table, as shown at. 3 in the cut, when, by the dexterous manipulation of an ordinary penknife, the wax is cut into a circular form, and the center is cut out to the required depth. If the cell is a dreamy old crew, sensation A Mullen, mG OC es of rice trying to blow the smolderin embers of his fire into a flame, was seize Poor George, who was bending over some stewpan, wherein was simmering some delicacy of his own concoction, was not aware of the suddenly altered aspect of ; = : after GC. The not for the onset. straining at their ropes, and buried his long blunt tusks in the quivering flanks of one poor Caboolee horse that had struggled in vain to get free. . All this was the work of a moment. ee but THE DESTROYER AT WORK. One poor fellow, bending over his pot ened By to any part of the city. Wedding and Party Cakes made to order. Crackers, Confectionery and Canned Fruits of every description. of maddened excitement fury. The men with the spears waited at the y breathe, : D. St. Proprietor. Bread, Cakes, Pies, Etc., Delivered a desperate race against Oxford with my SKELETON OF A WILD COW. ‘ally did in the jungles of an Indian fronThe skeleton represented in the cut was’ tier district outdo in graphic power and found recently in the deepest stratum of a exciting adventure anything that. Mr. eat bog. Illustrirte. Zeitung says concern- Rider Haggard has imagined. Mr. Ining this fossil skeleton that in many points it glis.is a trifle prolix, but his pages will resembles the Podolian and Hungarian steppe simply be devoured by boys, and read cattle, although much larger than these, and, with eager interest by children of a indeed, all kinds of domestic cattle. It is larger growth. The story of the hunter not to be confounded with the so called auimpaled on the horns of a buffalo bull rochs, the real bison.. Whether the so called and carried about for days until the rot‘“‘wild cattle” which are kept in the parks of ting flesh dropped maggot eaten from certain large landed proprietors in Scotiand the bull’s horns is one of the most grewcould be considered direct descendants of the some horrors ever printed in the English Bos primigenius is doubtful; at any rate, language. Sauer Here is asample of one of Mr. Inglis’ these ‘‘wild cattle” are no longer of the game size and general appearauce as the stories describing the escape of one of the really wild urus, but have greatly degener- author’s friends from the attack of a must elephant: ated in the course of time. “Run, run, sahibs—the tusker has Several investigators areof the opinion He has broken that the last specimens of this class were gone ‘must.’or mad. killed in Poiand about 300 years ago; but We all started to our feet. George others maintain that the urus was extinct in prehistoric times. The authority quoted in- had just gone down to the bank of the river to where the cooking was going on, clines to the former opinion. which lay nearer the mad elephant’s The height of the-withers of the wild cow, By this time the terror stricken recently mounted, is 5 feet 6 inches, while picket. were flying in all directions. the skeleton of a domestic cow seldom meas- servants ures 5 feet linch. Theskull of the former is The huge brute, with infinite cunning, 2feet 1 inch long, that of a very large had all along been making mighty efforts domestic cow is 1 foot7 inches to.1 foot 9 to wrench up the stake to which he was bound. This at last he succeeded in inches in length. With the first desperate bound, In regard to the horns, the part which was doing. lurch forward, the heavy ankle - really horn has, naturally, perished in the or eourse of the hundreds or thousands of years; chains, frayed and worn in one link, had asunder; and with the huge but the well preserved bone portions, called ‘snapped the horn.cores, show thatthe horn sheaths stake trailing behind him he charged down on the camp with a shrill trumpetwere large and well formed. Of Interest to the Microscopist. At one of the meetings of the microscopical to C. 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AN had BARERY, 126 W..-First South not daring to stir, while the savage beast had behaved as has been described. His escape had been miraculous. The cloth had several times been pressed so close forty inches in length against a smooth wall or other suitable ground, in plain view of some well defined object a few rods distant; -for EMPIRE you fellows, and get: me out of, this or Tl besmothered!” — . In trying to get out of the way of the first rush of the elephant his foot had ‘caught in one of the tent ropes, and the whole falling canopy had then come bodily upon him, hurling the camp table and a few cane chairs over him. Under St Wild tthe tolds of the shamlana m Mac's well known tones groaned out: **Look alive, aS oh al The ever since. ‘Imere are stanaing at the present day no such enormous specimens of the cedar anywhere on the face of the globe as are found embedded in the deep muck of the Dennisville swamps, says Scientific Ameriean. WEEKLY. 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