Democratic Press, Volume 1, Number 50, Decatur, Adams County, 26 September 1895 — Page 2

FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS. tommy’s alphabet. “Now this is A.” mama would say; “And this is Q, and this is V, And this is I. Now say them—try.” Oh: Tommy was a youngster yet To learn to say his alphabet: But. bless his heart! though he was sm JI, He knew his letters—nearly all. So mother pointed, and her son Began to name them, one by one. ‘■This one?” “It’s B.” “And this?” “It’s C.” “And this?” “It’s L: I know it well.” “Nay: try again!" “It must be N.” “As d this one?”—pointing to an I—“That’s YOU!” was Tommy’s quick reply. Mama, the error to undo. Now pointed to the letter U. Small Tommy pondered; then quoth lie. His face aglow with smiles, “That’s ME!” —[Agnes Lee, in St. Nicholas. COLOK PROTECTS THEM. More than twenty-five years ago Alfred Russell Wallace predicted that it would be found that brilliantly colored and conspicuous caterpillars were not among the favorite food of birds, although dulllooking caterpillars are devoured by them witli great avidity. Various observations and experiments since then have tended to confirm Mr. Wallace’s conclusion. His idea was that the bright colors of certain caterpillars are the result of natural selection, the caterpillars that originally possessed such colors having also possessed some peculiarity, such as the secretion of acid juices, which rendered them distasteful to birds. As the conspicuously marked caterpillars were thus let alone by their enemies, they tended to increase at the expense of their less brilliantly colored relatives. Experiments have shown that birds actually do avoid the bright colored caterpillars as a rule. And this seems almost to have become a second nature, for a jackdaw, which had been raised in captivity, and had bad no experience in judging the edible qualities of caterpillars, was observed to regard the brilliant caterpillar of the figure-of-eight moth with suspicion and aversion, although it eagerly devoured dull, plain caterpillars placed within its reach. When it was driven by hunger to attack the other, it finally refused to eat it. giv. ing plain evidence that there was something distasteful about the prey.

THE UTTLi HERO. One beautiful spring morning a party of .is girls and boys went out to pick berries. They grew by the side of a lake. We started at half-past 7 o’clock in the morning. We laughed, talked and gathered berries until 12 o’clock, when we all sat down to eat our lunch. There was one little girl in the crowd named Bessie Daring, who was very willful. She had a friend just like herself named Lucy Hope. They kept going too near the water, although some of the girls were continually telling them not to go too near. Bessie and Lucy, hand in hand, were standing right on the edge of the lake eating their lunch, while the rest of the party sat further off. All at once we heard a loud splash. We looked and saw that Lucy and Bessie had both slipped and fallen into the water, and had gone under. The children all screamed, but, without a word, Olid I'ttle boy in ’_b,e crowd named Ira Perlinsky jumped up. ran to the edge bf the lake and. without one moment’s hesitation jumped into the water. With little trouble, he caught Lucy just as she had started under the second time. He brought her out and laid her on the bank, lie then went back after Bessie, who was much larger than Ira, and it was with much difficulty that he caught her just as she was going under for the third time and brought her to shore. When he reached the bank himself he fainted. Two of the boys ran home and told Ira’s and Bessie’s fathers, wiio immediately sent for a hack, and went for the children, whom they carried home in the hack. Ira and Bessie both had a long spell of illness, and Lucy was quite sick. After Lucy and Bessie got well they were always wiser, if not better, girls. The hero of this story is a bright little boy, who formerly lived at Chicago, but now lives at Beaumont, Texas.

THE WHEN AND HIS HOME. Quaint little birds the wrens, dressed in their brown feather jackets and flitting hither and thither in their brisk, busy way from twig to twig of the bushes, or searching beneath them for the worms and in- • sects on which they delight to feed. They are small birds, with long, slender ; legs, and their plumage is of a red brown ' color, somewhat streaked or mottled with dark brown. The under part of the body I is a light color, nearly approaching white, , and on the tips of the wings there are I small bead-like spots of while. Their wings are not long, and instead of flying continuously they flit and jump I from place to place. The song of the male bird is sweet and clear, but he is very pugnacious, and will defend his rights wherever occasion requires, even though he may be obliged to fight larger birds than himself. The nests are made of hay or moss, | lined with feathers and covered with a roof: the opening is at the side. To prevent being discovered the birds select for the outside of the nest material resembling in color the object against which it is to be built, and always choose some spot where it will be sheltered from storms, such as under the eaves of a house, or beneath the projecting edge of a wall or bank. They will also gladly take possession of the little bird houses which may be prepared for them or others ot the feathered tribe, and consider the quarters very luxurious. One species, called the Winter Wren, is quite numerous, and may be found in the cold climate of Labrador, and thence to . the far south. Another is called the i House Wren, and loves to make its home near dwelling houses, and renders itself a ' truly welconi- neighbor because of its sweet and cheery song. When the winter is very severe, a num- | ber of wrens will form themselves into a . company and take possession of a bird ! house, or some old nests, and there make - themselves as comfortable a» possible until the intense cold is gone. There are several varieties of these little birds, besides those already mentioned, such as the common wren and marsh wren, and they ale all Very -liter- < esting little creatures, and as they sing their sweet songs in coldest winter

weather as well as through the summer, they have unlimited power of giving pleasure. Valuable Dog Collars. “I can assure you that you have not been misinformed as to gold and precious gems being used to decorate dogs’ collars,” said one of the best know n dealers in such articles, “but the craze is far more prevalent in France, Russia and England than it is here. “Not many weeks ago I supplied to the special order of an English a dog collar that cost fifty I guineas. It was a chain collar of ; silver and gold links alternately, and ; with a gold bell to hang in front. French ladies are very fond of watch I dog collars, a small gold watch being i let into the front of the collar, and I have made several of these. But in scores of cases I supply beautifully made collars with name plates of solid gold, and often enough with gold ‘bosses’ as well. Nearly all the I collars of this class are intended for ■ carriage dogs and drawing-room , poodles alone. “A fashion has lately had great vogue in France of putting tiny bracelets round the fore legs of poodles, and I have even seen diamonds let into these circlets. At the same time, in my own stock, I have lots of dog collars ranging in price from sls to SIOO. The most remarkable collar I have ever made was to the order of a gentleman from South Africa. It consisted of nuggets of gold and an uncut diamond, which he supplied.and itwas given to a well known lady as a present.’’

How to Breathe. An old gentleman gave good advic* to a young lady who complained of sleeplessness. He said : “Learn how to breathe and darken your room completely, and you won’t need any doctoring. ” “Learn how to breathe 1 I thought that was one thing we learned before coming into a world so terribly full of other things to be learned,’’ the insomniac said ruefully. “On the contrary, not one in ten adults knows how to breathe. To breathe perfectly is to draw ths breath in long, deep inhalations, slowly and regularly, so as to relieve the lower lungs of all noxious accumulations. Shallow breathing won’t do this. “I have overcome nausea, headache, sleeplessness, seasickness and even more serious threatenings by simply going through a breathing exercise—pumping from my lower lungs, as it were, all the malarial inhalations of the day by long, slow, ample breaths. Try it before going to bed, making sure of standing where you can inhale pure air, and then darken your sleeping room completely. We live too much in an electric glare by night. If you still suffer from sleeplessness after this experiment is fairly tried, I shall be surprised.” A Bug Born of Fire. There are some bad bugs and worms in the southern forests, but there are certainly none that are quite equal in endurance and toughness to the worm that developed himself from the great forest fires of the northwest. Scarcely had the fires cooled sufficiently for the owners to make inspection of losses when they found that this new worm had gotten there first and was already completing the destruction of what the Hames had spared. Both standing and cut timber was attacked, and the most vigorous measures have been resorted to and have evolved partial success . This worm seems to have evolved from the heat, and, so far, the cold and snows of the winter do not appear to have affected his health or lessened his voracity . He certainly is a new and unpleasant feature in the timber question, and a nut that scientists have not yet cracked.

Simplicity of Clever Inventions. The best way to become an author is to be born with a brain subject to flashes of inspiration that will supply you with first class plots. But if you want to be an inventor you should work from the opposite standpoint-. Find a crying need and seek to think out a means by which it inay be met. Here is the fashion in which one man did this; Walking through a greenhouse one day, he noticed that the gardener was obliged to go to a good deal of trouble to raise each ventilating window separately. ‘■W hy could not some arrangement be devised,” this observant individual said to himself, “by which all these windows could be opened by one movement?” He thought o. er the problem and contrived a model, and the result was the apparatus now in use in all conservatories. Cats Living in Trees. Two cam are reported—one recently and the other in the summer of 1881. The latter was in St. James’ Park, London, when a stray cat made a nest in a tree some forty or fifty feet from the ground, and her kittens were seen to be disporting themselves in the branches like so many squirrels. Useless Letters. The French language contains 13 per cent, of useless letters. There are 6,800 journals published in this language, and they print 108,000,000,000 letters every year, so that 14,040,000,000 letters are printed, not because they are needed but because they have come to be used in the French language as it is spoken.

HORSELESS VEHICLES. WE ARE NEARING AN AGE OF MECHANICAL STEEDS. France is Leading the Way--Horse-less Vehicles in American Cities --Petroleum Wagons. Carriages without horses have long been popular in France. Since ISO 2 they have been coming rapidly into favor through the invention of a petroleum motor. The recent race from Paris to Bordeaux, in which machines adapted by MM. Pauhare and Levassor, of Paris, to carriages of two or four seats competed, has attracted the attention, not only of France, bnt of America. These carriages, made after traditional patterns, are driven by means of a motor, which is situated indifferently either at the back | or in front. The driver sits with a lever ready to his hand, by means of which the machinery can be set in motion in a few minutes . Some experimenters have proved that two minutes will suffice for a start, and others agree upon five minutes as the time required. Anyhow, it is a small affair, even if the horses have a sort of advantage here. But horses, at least, cannot go j backward, except at great personal inconvenience, and after a vast , amount of manipulation by the coachman . The petroleum carriage runs either way without protest. And in the matter of speed no mere horse can approach it. The average speed on good roads recommended by the manufacturers is something more than eleven miles an hour, and even greater claims are made for it. The petroleum in these engines is used as ; n fuel for the production of steam. I They are as easily worked as a tricycle, probably easier. A novice, as I many witness, is able, upon the first ■ trial, to drive his carriage over two ■ hundred miles in two days of ten . hours apiece. Tourists have wandered over half a dozen departments : in them, and the taste is spreading ( every day. These vehicles, perfect as they appear to be, will have to give place to the later devices of electricians. So far those that have been constructed have proved too heavy and expensive to find general sale. The batteries alone cost about SSOO. They have undoubted advantages. They are clean, noiseless and require no engineer or skilled operator, resembling in this respect the trolley and the cable car. But the excessive 1 load of the batteries and the lack of facilities for recharging them will prohibit their use outside of large cities for some time to come. Supplies of petroleum and gasoline are to be obtained in any town. The petroleum vehicles are light, more convenient in running, and also re- 1 quire no engineer. For these reasons they must take the precedence for ordinary use until the ingenuity of the Yankee has overcome the obstacles that elecricity presents. Take, for instance, the electric wagon of the Boston inventor. It is heroic in its proportions, resembling an English brake in general design, and is built to outlast the “wonderful one-hoss shay.” It weighs 5,100 pounds, and is undoubtedly the heaviest motor wagon on the continent, rivaling in weight the steam omnibuses of Paris. The general design of the Vehicle is well adapted to the purpose. The batteries contained in the body and under the front seat are extremely powerful, consisting of forty-four chloride cells, with a total capacity of two hundred ampere hours, and an average discharge rate , of twenty-five amperes The motor ; yields four horse power and three ; different speeds are obtained, the j minimum being four and the maximum fourteen miles an hour. The owner has put this carriage through the paces in hill climbing and over heavy roads with most satisfactory results. An electrical wagon in use in Philadelphia has run several hundred miles without an accident. As compared with petroleum vehicles it is rather ponderous, weighing 4,250 pounds. The batteries weigh 1,600 pounds and consist of sixty chloride accumulators, having a maximum I capacity of thirteen horse power. From fifty to one hundred miles, can be accomplished on one charge, according to grade and speed, and the maximum speed attainable Is fifteen miles an hour The motor, weighing 800 pounds, is of nominal three horse power electric launch type, capable of developing for a short time nine full horse power. Steering is accomplished by means of a wheal in front of the driver. The first electric wagon ever seen near New York has appeared in Brooklyn. It came from the west and is the invention of two residents of Kansas City. It weighs about 3,000 pounds and as at present constructed has but one seat. Eighteen hundred pounds of storage batteries of the choloride accumulator type furnish the power, which is communicated to the wheels by a rawhide friction pulley running on a steel flange attached to the inside of the rear wheels. When desired, an automatic lever detaches the power from the driving wheel without stopping the motion of the motor On ordinary good roads a speed of fifteen or eighteen miles an hour can be obtained and for ascending hills a reserve of twelve horse power can be drawn upon. A run of fifty miles can be made with one charge of the batteries. Lock Haven, Pa., is also a claimant for honors in this direction. This wagon is intended for hotel service. The seats run lengthwise, and under them are stored the batteries, eight cells in all. four on each side. Though so few in number, these cells are said by the inventor to have suf-

ficient capacity to run the wagon fifteen days of nineteen hours each, recharging themselves from a generI stor of ten sixteen candle-power 1 ghts. The motor develops three i horse power, geared to equal six. The vehicle weighs 1,600 pounds, and 'is said to carrv 8,000 pounds. The i rubber tires with which it is fitted i increase the comforts of riding. When the wagon stops or is running down hill the generator returns the used up current to the batteries, thus economizing power. It is claimed that on a good road a speed of twenty-five miles an hour can be reached, and the project is on foot to apply the invention to fire and police patrol wagons, hotel omnibuses and pleasure wagons. A light and graceful buggy propelled by a gasoline motor has, for three months past been traversing the streets of Springfield and adjacent country. FRUIT AS FOOD. Good Ripe Fruits are Digestible and Nourishing. Eve is said to have seen that fruit was good for food. Every generation since has indorsed her opinion, and now perhaps more than ever before the world is waking up to see how good a food it really is. Good ripe fruits contain a large amount of sugar in a very digestible form. This sugar forms a light nourishment, which, in conjunction with bread, rice, etc., form a food especially suitable for these warm colonies, and when eaten with milk or milk and eggs, the whole forms the most perfect and easily digestible food imaginable. For stomachs capable of digesting it fruit eaten with pastry forms a very perfect nourishment, but I prefer my cooked fruit covered with rice and milk or custard. I received a book lately written by a medical man advising people to live entirely on fruits and nuts. Tam not prepared to go so far —by the way, he allowed some meat to be taken with it—for, although I look upon fruit as an excellent food, yet I look upon it more as a necessary adjunct than as a perfect food of itself. Why for ages have people eaten apple sauce with their roast goose and sucking pig? Simply because the acids and pectones in the fruit assist in digesting the fats so abundant in this kind of food. For the same reason at the end of a heavy dinner we eat our cooked fruits, and when we want their digestive action even more developed we take them after dinner in their natural, uncooked state as dessert. In the past ages instinct has taught men to do this; to-day science tells them why they did it, and this same science tells us that fruit should be eaten as an aid to digestion of other foods much more than it is now. Cultivated fruits such as apples, pears, cherries, strawberries, grapes, etc., contain on analysis very similar proportions of the same ingredients. which are about eight per cent, of grape sugar, three per cent, of pectones, one per cent, of malic and other acids, and one per cent, of flesh-forming albuminoids, with over eighty per cent, of water. Digestion depends upon the action of pepsin in the stomach upon the food, which is greatly aided by the acids of the stomach. Fats are digested by these acids and the bile from the liver. Now, the acids and pectones in fruit peculiarly assist the acids of the stomach. Only lately even royalty has been taking lemon juice in tea instead of sugar, and lemon juice has been prescribed largely by physicians to help weak digestion, simply because these acids exist very abundantly Ln the lemon.

Care in Buying Shoes. "Great care should be taken ir buying shoes,” said a well known dealer to a Rochester Fost-Express reporter. “Especially is this so in the cheaper grades. There is a large factory in Maine which turns out a compressed paste that is extensively used in the manufacture of shoes. Large quantities of them are shipped to other countries, but some are sold even in this city. Leather is high and it is not to be expected that the feet can be clothed at a slight expense. For this reason the compressed paste shoe has gained in favor. People, when buying it, think they are getting the leather shoe, whereas it is simply a bogus. This class of shoe wears very well if it is kept dry, but after a good soaking, or twice wearing in the rain, it will tear and is of little use thereafter. It is always better to pay a little more and get a good article upon which you can depend for service.” Some Small Kingdoms. Monaco is probably the smallest kingdom in Europe. It has an area of only eight square miles and a permanent population of 18,000 people. It boasts a “sovereign prince” named Albert, but is more noted foi the famous gambling den at Monte Carlo than for anything else. Liechstein, between the Tyrol and Switzerland, is another tiny European kingdom. Its area is sixty-one miles and its population about 10,000. The state owes a tremendous debt of £5,280, but could pay its debt off any time, as its revenue amounts to SII,OOO a year. Sat Marino is a tiny republic of thirtythree square miles -about a quartei the size of London—up in the hilh near Rimini, on the east coast o Italy. The population Is 8,000, anmost of the men are dukes or generals in the armi.

ELK GREAT FIGHTERS. Handsomest Members of the Deer FamilyThe Moose iMy be the lar E ,st member of the deer family, but our Elk or Wapiti, is certainly thv handsomest, and it also stands next to the first in size. Take an 8 year old male Elk in November, when his sides and quarters are ptumply rounded, the long black hair on his neck like a grizzly’s winter overcoat, his nostrils distended, eyes flashing, neck swelled with vigor, and his fine new antlers, fairly spoiling for a fight—and then match him if you can ' It is then that he goes about with a chip on his shoulder, feeling not only willing, but eager to whip all creation. He is then at his finestHiscoat is new and bright, he is the finest deer that ever stepped—and he knows it. If you have any old scort ; to settle with him, better postpone I it until February or March, when his I antlers fall off and leave him meek ; and inoffensive. It it by no means uncommon for , captive Elk to commit murder, and to become so dangerous as to require | summary execution. Not long age a keeper in the Philadelphia Zoologcal Gardens was gored to death by one. Os all the difficult problems that perplex the superintendent of a zoo, the worst is that of keeping the Elk herd so that none of its weakei members shall be murdered. As tc | their food supply, they are easily kept, for they will eat almost anything that is fit for them; but b» tween October 1 and February 1,1 would rather keep a lion or tiger in my back yard than a full grown Elk in good condition. In appearance the adult male Elk is magnificent. There is nothing about him that is “out of drawing, as the artists say. His legs are small and shapely; his form is beautifully’ modeled; his head is far more finely modeled than the heads of out smallest deer; his eye is big and brilliant, his hair is luxuriant, and his “color scheme” is pleasing. He is built for strength, speed and beauty combined, and he looks it. But his antlers! They are his crowning glory. Even when you find a single one, where it has been dropped on a bleak hillside and lies al) alone, you instinctively halt to admire it, for you know that it came from a grand animal. But let the king of the Celvidse himself stand before you, with two big brown trees of solid bone rising from his forehead, thrusting two branches forward, then sweeping backward and upward, branching grandly as they go.until the topmost prongs rise in the air above the wearer’s loins, and i! you have within you one spark of admiration for grand things in nature, you will surely exclaim with me, “What a magnificent animal!”« I’ut him in a grassy mountain park, surrounded by his wives and children, with a background of pine timber and snowy peaks, and his majesty is undeniable.

Japan's Ex-Tycoon. It may interest some people to know that the ex-Tycoon, of Japan, the last of the Tokugama dynasty—the last of the fierce Shoguns who ruled the country for so many years with mailed hand—is still living. His home is at Shizuoka, lie is now in the sixties, and he leads a sort ol hermit life. lam informed that he receives very little company and is practically inaccessible to strangers. Formerly he visited Tokyo occasionally. No political disability rests upon him, as he voluntarily abdicated all power during the revolutior of 1868. He takes no part in public affairs whatever. His chief pastime is hunting, though he is growing rather old for that. This man is the son of that Tycoon who received and treated with Commodore Perry in 1854. He came to the throne a few years after that important event. What changes he has seen 1 What mighty results he has noted as a sequence of that simple introduction of Japan to the new world of the far West! Not long age the ex-Tycoon, while hunting, accidentally shot and severely injured one of the poor farmers of his neighborhood. The affair worried him greatly, and he has of late shown i disposition to give up the chase altogether. A New Motor. A queer craft has just made its appear•ace in the bay at San Francisco. It is a wave motor designed to prejiel itself as a boat and to furnish power for other machines when drawn up to wharves. The inventor is Paul Brietenstein, stage carpenter in tlw> Macdonongh Theatre at Oakland. Brietenstein spent S6OO and many months in constructing the machine in Oakland Creek, and brought it out to try it on the bay. It certainly propelled itself. IS hat else it will do remains to be seer when the harbor commissioners give him permission to fasten his engine at a wharf and try it on machinery. The wave motor has side wheels and consists of two flat, bottomed, double-end scows fastened together bow and bow by a hinge. When the scows roek in the waves Hie motion u communicated to a lever, which in tun moves a flywheel, completing the “mo tor.” The peculiar craft is forty-two feel over all, nine feet in beam, drawing but sixteen inches. An Electric Flag. It is stated that an electric novelty in the shape of a standard intended for night use has just been delivered from the Kiel dockyard to the Ger!mperial yaebt Ilohenzoilern. lhe flag is four meters square, and the design is traced in colored electric lamps, which are lighted by wire from the deck . An experimental liiuimnation proved very successful and gave the utmost satisfaction tc the spectators

lost his NERVE. After This Affair Wild Jim Was a Changed Man. A score of us saw the man as he came cantering into the frontier town on his cayuse, and more than one remarked how singular it was that he was unarmed. He hitched his horse to a post in front ff the Big Elk saloon, and had just disappeared within the door of the shanty when a man came running up and exclaimed: “Boys, that’s the sheriff over at Deadwood, and he's come for Wild Jim!” We crowded into the saloon to see what would happen. There were live men play ing poker at one table and three at another. One of the men was Wild Jim. who was wanted for murder. On entering the place the I sheriff had backed up against the bar and faced the players. \V ild Jim had 1 leaped to his feet and pulled a gun I with either hand, and the other players leaned back and looked around to see what was going on. “After me, Joe,” queried Wild Jim as he stood with guns presented. “Yes.” “Going to take me dead or alive ?” “Yes.” “You can’t take me alive, and if you move a hand I’ll drop you!” The sheriff smiled and looked around the room and back at Wild Jim and queried: “How does the game stand, Jim ?” "I’ve just dealt a hand.” “All right—finish it.” Wild Jim sat down and took five minutes to play out the hand. Then he looked up and said : “Sure you want me, Joe ?” 'Dog sure.” “Jest com** for me ? “Jest for you.** “Then I’m goin’ to kill you where you stand !” He raised the gun in his right hand ind blazed away, firing six shots as fast as his finger could pull trigger. The sheriff never moved. When the smoke had rolled out of the open ioor and we could see him he stood in the same position and his face wore the same smile. One bullet had burned his cheek —a second had grazed his ear—a third had cut through his shirt collar under the left ear. Wild Jim was a dead shot, and yet he had missed his man at fifteen feet. “Got through, Jim?” asked the sheriff, breaking a silence that was positively painful. “And you—you are not heeled!” gasped Jim as his arm sunk slowly down. “No —come on 1” “You didn’t bring your guns?” “No. If you are through shooting , we’ll go?” I Jim laid his two guns down on the table before him and walked to the ioor and out into the street. His ■ horse was tied to a post a block away. He reached the horse, mounted, and then headed down the long street after the sheriff, who was giving him not the slightest attention. In five minutes the pair were out of sight. - “What ailed Jim?” I asked of the barkeeper, who had come to the door □f the saloon. “Lost his nerve,” he brusquely]replied. “How do you mean?” “ Why. the sheriff coming without a gun and standing there to be shot at took all his sand away and made a woman of him.” "Suppose the sheriff had had a gun? ’ The man jerked his head toward the field wherein fifteen or twenty victims had been buried and said: “ He’d a-bin over thar'! ” “ And will Wild Jim get clear? ” “ Likely, but he’ll hev to leave here. The boys hev already put him lown as N G. ” At his trial for murder in Dealwoo<] Wild Jim was discharged from custody, but he went forth a changed tnan. No man took him by the hand : —all men avoided him. Two weeks ; later he was found dead in Custer i City—a victim of suicide.

A Golden Shower. The manufacturers of clocks have not been so busy at any time <’ ,r several years past as they are at present; the factories devoted to the production of silver-plated ware are running full time, with large complements of operatives; the watch manufacturers have this year given their hands shorter vacations than usual, and are increasing their already large forces ; the jewelry manufacturers of Providence. New York, Newark and other centers are running their factories to their utmost capacity; the importers of art goods, pottery and bric-a-brac are receiving immense shipments of goods: makers of cut glass are producing many new patterns and are working every frame in their plants. Thus the anticipation of a golden shower during the fall season, says the Jewelers' Circular, is evident throughout the manufacturing branches of our industry, and that the manufacturers will not be disappointed all signs indicate. A Curious New Industry. A curious new industry is reported from Paris, where the demand fi r small dogs is being met by rearing pups on an alcoholic diet, which prevents their growth. at the play. She—They call this a play with » moral. I wonder what it is? , Ha (thinking of the price for seat? — The loot and his money ate so? r parted,” I guess—lndianapolis J° ur ual.