Show tax IRON cages used in penal institutions for tb purpose of confining refractory prisoners have until recently been constructed in a square ferro form but experience has demon deman that a cage made round like a tower possesses many advantage 5 tover the old etyle style and bonce hence the coop of the future will pro probably bibly assume that shape Is an fn i HOST hox A fl state 4 of new now York ork gives ome some curious facts on the compulsory law u to teachers achors are employed in the 4 av state of or dropout drop out nevery year the average salary Is rj I 1 1 isoo of the children enumerated only 62 per cent tent are enrolled in the ar ie 1 schools mr draper asserts that the average attendance has fallen off 10 per cent since the enactment of the compulsory clause two aix maxim of bay city mich treat to a spiritualistic epi ritualistic and pay 2 each if all allowed to converse with departed friends whom 4 v they ibey could recognize one called for r ithe the spirit of f bis his eister sister nelly and it 01 fh wine same and spoke to him the other asked for bis lis uncle john and was ras astonished at bearin bis relative bolce 0 ilci in the darkened dooin room the first man roan never bad a sister and the be sec 1 ond ud mania ducle nofa ead A cdail recent teri 0 dis disaster asteal al rio wis via is owned by a resident of beloit it consists of a shapeless lump lamp of of gold of the weight of a 10 piece in ila which is embedded a portion of a sk pocket knife the eagle and the knife bad ncr Favi evidently dently been companions compan lona lo 10 the lum of borne some entombed csenger passe neer and the terrible heat bad had united them in a lasting embr embrace oLce anz cider question bothers the legislator maine As the law now stands it ie Is not satisfactory to the temperance people so the good tern tem ft a bill which author authorizes lej X ow the eile of apple juice lesa 3 than awen ty days old in quantities not less than a barrel to persons over awen ty yeara years of age and P prohibits rold bito the eale sale of elder cider more inore than twenty days old except for making vine ear gar min of the census taken throughout france may 30 ISSO has just been majo ado public the previous census was taken in 1881 at which 4 date dite the total population waa as in 1888 1686 it was or an A increate of of the th eighty seven departments fifty five show an iacre sae of and thirty two a x et of from 1870 to 61 1881 the population of paris was in created creased by from 1881 to 1880 aby by to the he natural gas wilt M JOI 0 iund tb abe e inda indianapolis an s journal says y a that the computation estimates thai the we well f supplying up as much gasatis gas atis now con A dmd by cities alak jaike 0 k while another estimates that it would require four welo wes like the theone io now opened ope ii eato to supply kokomos kokomo alone in abdo ici spite of widely dl diffor fie ring log compu arc tat tation ione the are seriously i w consla considering ering whether the town will be ibe rival to pittsburg anz of telegraph and H telephone wires so often heard is c generally considered to be caused by v vt the wind E R W mcbride of water looping loo Ind vrho who spec specially lally studied the 1 l matter for several years on his prim T vate tate wire wh which ich had a strong gift of h humming is satisfied talat th at the wind is not the agent for he found the sound more likely to be heard oi on a TH dry clear cool and calm evening than at any other time tile ile is also aa f th aba af the tile sound I 1 is 5 not p produced r 0 by electricity for he be could v detect no signs of that agent when i the humming was going on while whilo at a i times when the wire WM was evidently charged there wa was no 6 bound the 1 1 fi 4 ha humming was accompanied by a pit lod 4 j rapid vibration of the wire in fact the matter litter m is ls thought to be a sort of ja 1415 14 15 puzzle of popular science Bc lenc esce |