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Th® New York commission wishes to utilize Castle Garden as an aquarium. French statesmen have offered a reward of 1,000 francs for the best athletic game. The candles at Mrs. Roger A. Pryor’s receptions, in New York City, stand in candlesticks 200 years old. When a New York man goes to Philadelphia to be married his friends invariably send a tribute in the shape of a floral pillow inscribed with the word “Rest.” Vinnie Ream Hoxie, the sculptress, is described as “an emotional little mature, with an alternate tear and smile in her eyes. ” Here are the elements of a rainbow. The numericallv smallest religious denomination discovered by Porter’s census takersis that of the Schwankfeldians. There are 306 of them, and they dwell in Pennsylvania. Joseph Bond, colored, living near Toronto, has lain in bed in the sulks for twenty-seven years, and is now approaching death, all because his mother sold her farm against his will. When his father dies young John Jacob Astor will have an income of $3,000,000 per year and can grace his table with early vegetables, fill his coal bins and have ice in his refrigerar tor. The salmon fishermen of Maine are in earnest in their war against the seals, that seem to be multiplying along the coast. They say a bounty of $2 a head must be offered by the State on seals long there’ll be no salnio:w ■Kt educated Apache Indians at Soromon ville, Ark., turned their newly acquired knowledge in the direction of forging notes in a government quartermaster’s name, and will have the pleasure of engaging in industrial pursuits in prison.

The quickest trial on record is reported from Oconee, Ga. A man who stole an umbrella from a store was arrested. arraigned, pleaded guilty, and paid a fine of $29.25 inside of fifteen minutes. After the trial he claimed 1 the umbrella, but didn’t get it. An lowa farmer fed in November two acres of corn to his cows as their sole ration, and sold the milk they produced to the creamery for S6O, and had 6,000 pounds of skim milk. 280 pounds of which will make as much pork as a bushel of corn, for his trouble of ingThe editor of a weekly paper in Kansas has been shot at twice, assaulted three times, and had the windows of his office smashed in three times within the space of four months, because he declared that the Mayor ought to be impeached for drunkenness. At Columbus, Ohio, the other nigh a lady caught a rat making off with her gold watch and chain, which she had left upon a dresser on retiring. The rodunt had dragged his prize nearly twenty feet, and in a minute more would have disappeared in hts hole with it. Maine has produced a Kee’y with a mysterious motor. He lives in Monroe, and says that his machine is capable of one to ten horse power, and does not derive it from steam, water, gas, or any agency now known. He’s going to hitch the machine to churns and pumps. The American railway passenger coaches used on the English lines a-e in every manner superior to the compartment car, but they are American, and John Bull won’t patronize them on that account. He’d rather freeze to death in a box-stall than have a whole car with steam heat. Near Winnepeg Lake, Manitoba, a large heard of famishing wolves attacked a party of Indians and killed a number of them. This is a new solution of the Indian question, though rather hard on the Indians, and the Canadian Indians have been far more peaceable than the American. Every preacher in the State of Georgia could be walked to jail under an old law, which says that each and every one of them must read the laws of the State from his pulpit four times a year. Somebody, who got bitten in a horse-trade with a preacher, has found the law and proposes to enforce it. A Wisconsin saloon man refused to Stop selling liquor to a certain woman’s husband, and she called upon him and said: “Next time you sell him a drink I wiH come in here with an open keg of powder and a lighted candle, and you and I and all the rest of the crowd will go up together with a bang. ” He tumbled. There was a slide in the Himalaya Mountains of India in January which beat the circus oat of sight. Over 250 acres of surface, and extending to a depth of twenty feet, took -a tumble of over two miles and built a barrier sixty feet high across a valley. Everybody wks invited, and there was no extra charge for reserved seats. A Missouri man applied for a divorce on the ground that his wife refused to

go to a card party with him." Her defense was that she didn’t know one card from another, and the Judge dismissed the bill and complimented her for her refusal. He said it was the rule for women who didn’t know anything about cards to go to card parties. A coach horse balked on the streets of Boston and nothing would start him. A man brought out a small electric battery, put on the current, touched the animal on the flank, and he got 'out of that so fast that he ran over two men and a dog. It is believed that the subtle current would even move twelve loafers off a grocery platform.

Two STENOGRAPHERS took 120,000 words of the Senate silver debate, which closed at midnight after lasting fourteen hours. They dictated their notes into phonographs for typewriters to transcribe, had all the copy ready for the printer by 8 o’clock in the morning, and the Record was on the desks of the Senators when Congress convened. The Indian is a tighter only when favored by circumstance. He always wants the odds in his favor, and big odds at that. Military men figure that a troop of 100 cavalry can charge and scatter a band of 500 mounted Indians on the open, and that with a loss of only 5 per cent. On the other hand IUO Indians in a gulch will stand off 500 whites. , There is a curious little bit of red sandstone on exhibition in New York. It has on it a remarkable resemblance to the profile of Christ, head, beard and mustache, and even the eyelashes being distinctly visible, although the pebble is only an inch long and the profile little more than half an inch. It was picked up at Oberammergau by Mrs. Oliver T. Bacon, of Atlanta. Ga. A new flash-light fire alarm has recently appeared in .Copenhagen. It consists of a small cartridge filled with Bengal light composition, and provided with a fuse which carries a small capsule of strong sulphuric acid. When the temperature of the room rises above the melting point of paraffine, the sulphuric acid is liberated and ignites the fuse, which, in turn, sets fire to the Bengal light. The device can be supplemented by a piece of fusible metal, which in melting will establish an electric current and ring a bell.

A trick that is going the rounds just now is to measure by the eye the distance to which yon must push away the central one of three silver dollars side by side, their circumferences touching, so that the distance from the lower edge of the central coin, so removed, shall be equal to the distance apart of the outer edges of the two •ther coins. You will probably do as every one else does, put the coins side by side and push the middle one upward along the table until you think you have done a rash thing by pushing it so far. When you measure you will find oat. It’s an old perversity of the eye.

An old project for a line of steamships from England diiect to Chicago via the St. Lawrence and the Great LakGs, has been revived since the depth of the Canadian canals has been increased sufficiently to accommodate ocean steamers. An agent of this syndicate is now on a visit to the different lake cities making contracts for freight by the new line, and so far he has met with sufficient success to satisfy him that the undertaking will be a success. The capital stock of the company will be $5,000,003, and there will be ten steamships built to begin with. These steamshipswill cost from $125,003t0 $159,000 each and will form a weekly line with two trips running wild.

Sir Robert Wright, who ha; been appointed to the seat on the High Court of Justice left vacant by the death of Baro i Huddleston, on one occasion, while at Oxford, was summoned before the De m of Balliol for the purpose of being censured. The Dean was exceedingly card nl of his dignity, as well as of his personal appearance. Wright looked the Dean well up and down while the latter was delivering his lecture, and finally interrupted him in the middle of one of his most telling periods, by remarking, confidentially, “I know you will excuse me sir. but I think you cannot be aware that your waistcoat is unbuttoned.” Completely nonplused, the Dean was only able to stammer out: “Oh, thank you, Mr. Wright. 'Ho very kind of yoi, lam sure. Goodmorning, good-morning!”

Judge Ogden Hoffman, of the United States District Court, in San Francisco, tells a St. Louis GlobeDeniocral interviewer of a foolish lawsuit that once occurred in Fresno County. Two brothers lived on a ranch near Fresno. One was greatly given to going into the woods and listening to the birds. The other and older brother resented this, which he called loafing, and one day, finding the younger man sitting on a tree trunk, rapt in contemplation, he asked him what he was doing. “Oh, I’m listening to the birds that sing for me.” “The you are,” was the answer. “11l let you know that those birds sang before you showed up on the ranch, and that they are singing especially for me!” Words ended in blows, and an arrest followed. In court the judge, after getting the story of each brother, said dryly: “Now, I’ll fine you fellows S2O each for disturbing the peace, and mind you, those birds sing for me.”

FOR THE YOUNG PEOPLE

HOW GRANDMA LOST HER BON N ET. An JnterattiHg Sketch for Little Girls to Head-V hicajo’s i.abyllr miner. “Yes, dearie, that is right pretty,” said Grandma Hobbs,as Nannie pranced before her with her new hat set jauntily on her curly head. “I hope there won’t anything bad befall it.“ “Didn’t you ever have a hat, grandma ? ” “Not exactly, dearie; but I had a bonnet when I was about your age, and well do I remember the sudden and awful end it cttme to. It was a ‘ seven-strand,’ made of wheat-straw that we’d gathered from the field when the kernel was in the milk. Father used to give us a little corner of his wheat-field for bonnet-straw. “Mother got Kizzy Trip, a spinster that went around the neighborhood making bonnets, to braid and sew mine; then it was hung in a barrel and bleached over burning sulphur. I dare say it was as big as a peck basket, but I thought it a wonderfully beautiful bonnet.

“I hadn’t had it very long when our hauling-bee took place.” “What’s a hauling-bee, grandma?” said Nan, hanging her hat carefully on the tall post of grandma’s chair. “Oh, it was a gathering of men and great yokes of oxen to haul buildings from one place to another. Father had built him a new barn, and the little house we lived in was going to be drawn close to it for an ell to the new house he meant to build when he got able. “It was a long distance from the barn, and down hill part of the way. It had only one room, and was low, so it wasn’t very heavy. We didn’t move out, for we had nowhere to go. “Mother kept right on weaving at the long web of ‘wale,’ and Sally and I had to wind the quills; but I’m afraid they had ‘naughty noses’ we were in such a flutter to see all that yvas going on. “Father had put long ‘shoes,’ or ‘skids,’ beneath the house, like the runners of a great sled, so that it would slide along easier. “The men came early, with more than twenty pairs of oxen, which were hitched in three strings—two at the corners of the house and one string in the center—and at the word the drivers all plied their long goads, and such shouting! You could have heard them a mile: “ ‘Hi.' hi! hi! Gee up! Haw, Bright!’” and grandma’s eyes sparkled as she described the exciting scene. “The little house was jerked forward and all the beams and timbers groaned and cracked. Down came the pewter plates off the dresser and scurried over the floor, the brass kettle tumbled off its peg with a gr§jjt rattling and the cradle rocked crazily. “Baby Joe screamed, little Jake dashed under the bed that stood in one corner of the kitchen, and for a moment I was tempted to crawl after him. But mother said there was no danger, so I got very brave at once. “In a little while I found that brother Toby had climbed, by a short ladder i i the loft, out through the chim-ney-hole in the roof and was having a ride on the ridgepole. “I always tried to do everything that Toby did. But I meant to ride in style, so getting my bannet, unbeknown to mother, out of the big red chest that stood under the eavei, I put it on and clambered out after Toby. “I could climb like a monkey then, but the lurching and jerking when the house stopped and started, as it did every few yards, made me dizzy. We kept prbtty still and the men were so busy they didn’t pay attention to us. “We got along all right till we were near the old ‘pulky hole,’ a kind of mucky place where some bushes grew, when all at once the oxen started and began to bawl. They had run the eaves of the house into a big hornets’ nest in the bushes. “Such a time as there was then! The oxen took to their heels and pulled with mad fury. “Jerk—jerk! Bump—bump! “They roared and kicked and lashed their tails; the men got bushes and fought the hornets as thev ran. At last the house brought up with an awful crash! Snap went the chains and away galloped the oxen, snorting and bellowing. “My bonnet tumbled off at the first plunge and the house had gone over it. and when the house struck I followed it, rolling over and over down the low roof. “By good luck the bushes broke my fall into the ‘pulky hole’ and I wasn’t hurt much, except that my nose got a twist that it hasn’t got rid of to this day. and I was covered with mud. “We had to stay there two days before we conquered those hornets so the neighbors dared to come again with their oxen, and in our battles we all got stung more or less. „ “But I didn’t feel half so badly about that, or even my twisted note, as I did over the loss of my bonnet.”— Ybulk’s Companion.

Chicago's Baby Drumnie-, Any child can make noise with a drum; to beat a careful accompaniment to a musical selection is an ac compli hment bestowed upon few' of tender years. Saul Rogers Woolf, one of the mo-t remarkable of Chicago’s wonderful children, has received this gift in great measure. It was born with him. No one educated him to his marvelous performances. One of the first things (hit his baby ha ids grasped was a drum, and all toys ba\e been thrown aside whe iit was near. ] rom the age of two his practice has been steady and his performance wonderful. Saul i s the four-year old son of Henry Woolf, of 152 Blue Island avenue, and made his first public appearance the other evening at an entertainment in Madison Street Theater, where he drummed an accompaniment to his mother’s piano selections.

The onl v way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he was poor; which a:e Esteemed the worst part of poverty.

How Mail-Cars Are Manned.

Nearly every railroad in the United States carries, at least once a day, one or more men whose business is to receive, sort and deliver the mail gathered at the towns along or near that road. If there is little work to be done one man does it alone, in a small room bnilt ii a part of the baggage-car or smoking-car. As the business increases, two or more men work together, having a whole car for their accommodation. The car is drawn directly behind the engine, so that there shall be no occasion for any passing through it. With still more business, between the large cities, two or more cars are run, until between New York and Chicago we have a whole train run exclusively for the mail service, made up of five cars and worked by twenty men. A line of railroad between two cities, used in this way, for sorting the mail, is called an “R. P. 0.,” i. e., “Railway Postoffice,” and there is an immense number of such in the country, taking their names from the chief offices on the line. Such are the “Boston and Albany,” “Boston, Springfield and Now York,” “Portland and Island Pond," “Chicago and Cedar Rapids,” and many hundred others. The runs vary greatly in length, ranging from twenty miles to as high as n thousand miles. The extremely long runs, with the exception of the “New Y’ork and Chicago,” are found only in the West, where there are great distance? between the cities. On such a run there will be two or more men, one crew sleeping while the other works. The “New York and Chicago is divided into three sections. On this run the twenty men who start out from New York are relieved by as many more at Syracuse, and these in turn are relieved at Cleveland by another company who take the train into Chicago. As a general thing, however, a run is planned to be about the distance which can be covered in a day. On all the more important lines there are two sets of men, one for day am d for night service. If the run is a short one with but little mail, one man does the work alone, running every day, and usually having several hours to rest at one end of the road or the other. Where the run is long enough, so that the trip takes all day, there will be four sets of men. One man, or set of men, starts at one end of the run, and covers the entire line, meeting the other somewhere on the route, and returning the next day. When these men have worked a week they go home to rest a week, and the others take their places. Such is the arduous nature of the work, the strain to mind and body, and particularly to eyesight, from working all day long in the constant jar and rattle, that few men would be able to retain a place were it not for these periods of rest.—St. Nickolas.

A Tree Which Smokes.

Newton, a vigorous mountain town west of Charlotte, N. C., has a curiosity that beats by a large majority the rain tree which gained such notoriety in Charlotte in 1886. It is a smoking tree, and baffles all efforts at explanation. It is a white mulberry tree, and stands on the sidewalk in front of the residence of Levi Yoder. It was brought from Illinois a year or two ago, and is now about twelve feet high, with a bushy top and many lateral branches. The" other Sunday one of the family noticed a puff of smoke proceed from one of the limbs, and by watching it closely, puffs identical in appearance to cigarette smoke were seen starting every now and then from all over the tree/sometimes from the leaves, sometime i from the bloom, sometimes from the bark of the limbs or trunk of the tree. The puffs are at irregular intervals; sometimes two or three at once from various parts of the tree, and sometimes they are several seconds or a half minute apart. They just seem to come at haphazard from any part of the tree, and as they ascend in the air look exactly like the smoke from a cigarette. Since the curiosity first became generally known, large crowds, both of town and country people, can be seen there at any time in the day. All doubting Thomases are soon convinced on the first visit that the tree “do smoke.” Among the white people it is only looked upon as a curiosity, and many, of course, make explanations of the phenomenon, which, perhaps, are plausible enough to their authors, but which carry very little in conviction to the minds of all. But the negroes don’t like the thing at all. One negro after intently watching the puffs a few minutes, started off on a run, saving: “J wouldn’t lib dar fur nuthin’: people better go to doin’ better ’bout dis town.” A negro man said: “I’m gwine stay ’way from dat thing. I can smell de brimstone clear down to de libery stable.”

A Little Pot Is Soon Hot.

One of the most useful little inventions lately patented in England, says the London Queen, is this water heater, by means of which food and shaving water, etc , can be heated over any gas

bracket. The illustration fully explains its construction. Something similar has been in the American market for .some time, it serving well to boil a single egg or heat water for a cup of-tea. It is in especial favor for warming baby food at night. All is but lip wisdom which wants experience.

In Japan.

A sleepy village it was as it lay by the sea that beautiful sunny day. We saw some bronzed girls out upon the beach looking for clams. There, were a few men spreading their nets to-day. A number of children, with smaller children fastened upon their backs, quietly nestled upon the sandy shore. The dogs lay with their noses between their paws looking sleepily out of their half-opened eyes as we passed by. The fowl, squaddling in the warm hollows they had fashioned for themselves, and here and there were to be seen women at work picking cotton from the seed in a languid way that suggested that there was time enough and to spare. The sea caressed the sand as gently as the touch of an infant. The air was hushed, and the foliage of the trees rested. No bird gave forth a note, the cats slept in the sun. and we thought if there was comfort in the world it was to be looked for just here. But appearances are not reality. The quiet village of that day must have its storms and commotions, and be, like other human habitations, full of all the evil that flesh is heir to, though for that one day of the new year it was at peace and at rest. There was a calm and quiet about it that was like the hush of a shrew’s tongue—something to be wondered at as a phenomenon. After leaving Singeta to its sleep in the sun, we entered upon a narrow road leading over the range of high hills, which boldly push themselves down to the sea in seeming defiance, for their bases show how many a rent and seam that tell of fierce combat with the waves when they have rushed against their foundations in the wild fury of the storm. The hills of Japan are very unlike any that I have seen elsewhere. They are all narrow spurs, with rapid ascent, cleaving into and dividing the valleys in all directions. The hand and industry of man through the long centuries have doubtless contracted the natural slopes, as plateau above plateau is terraced and utilized by the husbandman. As we wound through the leafy maze of the way, charming vistas were on cither hand, and wherever there was a level spot large enough to swing a hoe on it was cultivated. There were many patches, detached and away from any habitation, that were certainly not of the area of 100 square feet, under the highest state of cultivation. Not a weed or blade of grass was to be seen trespassing upon the spots. Yet we did not see a single man at work in the fields during our entire trip, covering the entire day.

Ought To But Couldn't.

“Do you make keys here?” asked the woman as she entered a locksmiths shop, “Yes’m,” “Well, I want one.” “What sort of a key, ma’am?” “One for a front door.” “Have vou a duplicate?” . “No.” “Bring the lock?” “No/’ “What sort of a key is it?” “I—l don’t remember.” “But how am Ito guess ? There are about 40,000 different kinds of keys.” “H’m. I didn’t know thut.” “Is it a night key?” “Yes, ves. That’s it. Its a night key.” “But that’s also very indefinite.” “Well, my husband sometimes comes home at midnight and unlocks the door with his pocket-knife or buttonhook or anything else that comes handy, and you ought to know about what sort of a key would fit such a lock.” He studied over it awhile, but finally had to admit that he was up a tree. —Free Press.

Spare Moments.

The fined composition of human nature, a* well as the fined china, may have flaws in it, though the pattern may be of the highest value. The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding. Exaggeration, as to rhetoric, is “using a vast fcce to lift a feather;” as to morals and character, it is using falsehood to lift one’s self out of the confidence of his fellow-men. He who indulges his sense in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason; and to gratify the brute in him, displeases the man, and sets his two natures at variance. Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well: for as a whole city is infected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so is it likewise reformed bv their moderation.

Which Is Your Style.

“I can usually tell what city a man comes from,” said a traveling man the other day, “by the style of his hat.” “How do you make out?” “Oh, easily enough.” replied the man. “Of course I refer tp men who travel a good deal, who are on the road, if you please.” “Yes.” “Yes, a man from Chicago usually wears a silk hat, generally of the latest fashion, well brushed and stylish to a degree. A man of Cleveland usually affects a derby of a low broad crown, perhaps a year out of date. A Philadelphia man, if he has his choice, w ill nine times out of ten, pick a squarecrowned derby. A San Francisco man wears a slouch hat; a Southerner ei f her a stylish silk hat or a low' crush w hite hat.”— Detroit Free Press.

A Hairless Horse.

Now and thei a very curious specimen is found among the deseit horses of Australia, writes a traveler. The oddest of these that I ever taw was a huge, ungainly beast, without a hair upoa i l . It was cut out of a wild herd and roped in by a station hand, who sold it for a drink and a plug of tobacco to some man. The latter tamed the hairless taught it a few commonplace tricks and showed it all over the colonies. He ~was said to have taken in SIOO,OOO. The horse had no wane, but a high neck ar d crest. Its skin was perfectly smooth and shiny, and a dark mottled brown in color. I r is to a woman that (he h°art appeals when it needs coaso’.atiun.

THE CITY OF JERICHO.

It Is at the Present Time the Most Squalid Place In Palestine. Jericho is between thirteen and fourteen miles northwest of Jerusalem, and it is to-day the most squalid town in Palestine. There were, in former times, three Jerichos. The Jericho of Joshua, it is was located near the lovely Fountain of Elisha—called “Ain es-Sultan” by the Arabs—the place where Elisha healed tae waters with Slit. This was the Jericho of the Jews, whose history is so full of romance. The Jericho of the Romans—

JERICHO HOME BRIDGE OVER THE CHERITH.

that is, of Herod’s or of Christ’s day—was more than a mile away, as the old aqueiduct beyond Ain es-Sultan and the Roman ruins thereabout indicate. The ruins of the Jericho of the time of the crusades probably lie beneath the modern village, only a short distance from the Fountain of Elisha. The present Jericho is opposite the opening of the Valley of Achor, in which Achan, “the troubler of Israel,” was stoned, and through which runs what is supposed by some to be the Brook Cherith, where Elisha was fed by the ravens. A fine stone bridge, thirtyfive feet high, with pointed arches, crosses the Cherith here. Standing upon it, one can see several ruined aqueducts, showing how much attention must have been given to the irrigation of the entire plain. Some of these aqueducts have two tiers of arches, and are handsome even in their ruin.

CYCLING BY KEROSENE.

A Ga'lon of Oil Will Carry Machine ami Rider Forty Miles. Very few of the many motors that have been designed for the propulsion of tricycles and other light vehicles have withstood the tests of practical use. Interest in this means of locomotion has not died out by any means, and there is a want that is still ununfilled. An English inventor, Mr. Edward Butler, of Greenwich, lias recently produced a petroleum-motor tricycle, which looks like a step toward the solution of the problem. A pretty good Idea of the general appearance of this machine is given in the cut herewith, which comes from the Scientific American’s column. This machine is designed to run forty miles at a speed of three to ten miles pc hour upon a consumption of one gallon of kerosene or benzine. At each

side of the driving-wheel is a motor cylinder, the pistons of which operate the rear wheel of the tricycle by means of a crankshaft and a specially devised epicyclic gear, which communicates the motion of the shaft to the wheel in the ratio of 6 to 1. The motors are driven by the explosion of a mixture of air and oil-spray in the cylinders, the ignition being effected by a current of electricity supplied by a small single-fluid battery under the seat. The machine is stopped, not by stopping the engine, but by raising the driving-wheel from the ground by a foot-lever, whicl throws the weight of this portion of the machine upon small castor-wheels. Ir. starting the driving-wheel is merely lowered to the ground again, the engine being already in motion. The whole framing of this machine is made of oval steel tubing, and the entire apparatus weighs 289 pounds.

Hon. Charles F. Manderson.

At the Republican senatorial caucus held recently, Senator Manderson, ol Nebraska, was made President pre tempore of the Senate. Charles F. Maude . son was born in Philadelphia. Pa., February 9, 1837. He received his education in the schools

and academies of his native city. In 1856 he removed to Canton, Ohio, where he was admitted to the bar ia 1859. He took an active part in the civil war, rising Lorn private to captain, major, lieutenant-colonel and coL onel of the Nineteenth Ohio Infantry. He removed to Omaha, Neb., in 1869, where he held a number of city offices before being elected to the United States Senate ia 1883. He was reelected in 188 J.