Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1896 — Page 4

MEMORIES. IM a perfume doth remain la the folds where it hath lain. So the thought of you remaining Deeply folded in my brain Will not leave me; all things leave me; Tou remain. -Other thoughts may come and go, Other moments I may know. That shall waft me in their going. Xs a breath blown to and fro. Fragrant memories; fragrant memories Gome and go. Only thoughts of you remain In my heart, where they have lain, Perfumed thoughts of you remain. A hidden sweetness in my brain. Others leave me: all things leave me; You remain. Arthur Symonds.

Love That Was False

Helen Marsden’s new life rose phoe-nix-like out of the ashes of the old. Turning out of one of the broadest and most fashionable avenues of C- . well down in the older part of the city, where the substantial houses and spacious grounds tell of a respectability which is of more than a nay's growth, you will find yourself in a quiet little street, if we dignify the place with the name of street, only two blocks in length, and coming to an abrupt termination against a garden wall. A strip of sod borders the narrow walks, old elm-trees stand sentinel at either side of the way, aud the pretty cottage houses are set back in the midst of shrubbery. In one of the prettiest of these cottages Helen Marsden was horn, and lived happily enough for the 19 years of her life. Her greatest joy and her greatest sorrow found her within its walls. In many a pleasant summer evening, she and Charles Belsham paced the gravel walks in the moonlight, or lingered by the little fountain that played in the middle of the grass-plot, or at the gate, while the elm-tree shadows fell over them and around them, and flickered on the pavement at their feet, and earth seemed fair enough for heaven. That was her greatest joy. The story of her sorrow will take me longer in telling. Marsden was a rich and influential man, but he was not a happy one. His business was old aud well established; his name stood high on ■‘change;” and and his house on the broad avenue, not far from the cottage in which nis■ niece and sister-in-law lived so pleas-; antly, was one of the largest and finest, but it was cold and empty, and there were no children to inherit .John Marsden’s name and wealth. Helen ‘ Marsden was her uncle’s only heir. This was why, although her father had died poor, she and her mother were dwelling in comfort and case; this was why she was well dressed and well instructed, and lived in every way as only a rich man’s daughter has a right to live; this, too, was why Charles Bel- j sham paced the garden walks with her ’ in the moonlight, but how was she to I know that? Charles Belsham was an inmate of ' her uncle's house, and a nephew of her ! uncle’s wife. Mrs. John Marsden was 1 a cold, hard.fashionable woman. T here | was one person in the world whom site : loved, and tliat was her nephew.C-harles I Belsham. There was one person in i the world whom she hated, and that was her husband s niece, Helen Marsden. If John Marsden died intestate, the law gave his immense wealth to his widow, but John Marsden's will was in favor of his niece, and although Mrs. Marsden was well provided for during her life, everything reverted to Helen. Mrs. John Marsden first discovered this will in the private draw of her husband’s secretary, she was inwardly raging, but outwardly as calm and cold as ever; and when she had tnaSe her plans, she gave her nephew her orders. Then had commenced those visits to the little cottage, those pacings in the moonlight, which were Helen Marsden’S greatest joy. John Marsden's home need not have been silent and empty, for he would long since have brought Helen aud her mother to enliven its solemn grandeur, If Mrs. Marsden would have consented. But Mrs. Marsden would not consent; not that she was jealous of quiet Rose Marsden—she could but respect and confide in a character so opposed to her own—but that she was jealous of hethusband’s love for Rose Marsden's child. So Helen and her mother continued to occupy the little cottage; and night after night, when Mrs. John Marsden had rolled away in her carriage to the opera or theater, or party, with Charles Belsham for an escort, John Marsden, growing tired of loneliness, would betake himself to its quiet hearth-stone, and there find his only realization of domestic comfort. But latterly there had crept a new pain into his life—an ever-increasing fear that this “ark of refuge” would be swept away; for gentle Rose was drawing visibly toward the end which cometh to all.

It was a dreary night in November; the rain was falling steadily; the wet, dead leaves that strewed tne sidewalks glittered in the lamplight, and not a footstep broke the stillness; but in tbp cottage there was unusual stir. Mrs. Marsden was suddenly worse, and Helen was hanging over her in an agony of fear and hope. Before morning she was a double orphan. Bose Marsden was dead, and John Marsden was not there to comfort the daughter she had loved so weii.Wnen they had come to his room in the morning to tell him ojf his great loss, they found that it was rather a gain. Somewhere in the measureless realm two souls had met. The servant who went to summon John Marsden to the cottage came back with a white face, and there were hushed comments and whispered consultations as to who should tell the quiet girl up-stairs. Helen seemed to be living in a dream, a trance, out of which she would wake to find all the sorrow and pain which were so new to her gone out of her life. When she was at last told she did not even seem surprised. It was when the funerals were over, and she came back to sit alone in the •ilent house, and wait for Charles Bel•ham, who would be *vith her in the evening, that her thoughts turned to the future, and she caught eagerly hold of the one comfort that was hers !a the midst of her deep affliction, Bel-

■ham's love. Whatever storms might bear upon their heads, whatever sorrows might come into their lives, they two together would meet them. Boor, foolish girt, she waited expectantly, anxiously. It was twelve o'clock and Charles Belsham had not come. She was tilled with a vague prescience of calamity. What was it? At last it. was morning. The fire wis i dead; the servants were stirring. She I rose chilled and miserable, and went. up to her own room. There could be ■ nothing serious the matter, and soon > her lover must come to explain away i the trifle. But as tin* morning wore away, aud lie did not come, the doubt and uneasiness returned, and for the first time ! there crept into her heart a feeling of i condemnation for the man she had ! thought could do no wrong. It was near noon when the servant j announced a gentleman.

"Who is it, Jane?” "I don’t know, Miss. He is an old i gentleman.” When she entered the parlor, she ! recognized in the person who rose to . n eet her her uncle’s lawyer, j "Mr. Haverly," she said, “it is kind | ; of you to remember me.” "My dear Miss Marsden, I came upon I business, and I would rather this moment be almost anywhere else. I have bad news for you—” She sat looking at him, unable to articulate. "Very bad news; but you must try to ! bear it bravely. Your uncle's will cannot be found—l mean, your uncle left no will.” She breathed more freely; her ...st thought had been of Belsham. “I do not quite understand,” she said. He saw that she did not understand. “My dear, if we do not find a will ■ you will get nothing at all.” She sat silent for a long time, and when at last she spoke she showed that she comprehended the whole matter. “Did my uncle know?" "Certainly, certainly. It is an almost unpardonable piece of careless-

ness.” "My uncle was not a careless man.” "That is what puzzles me.” "Mr. Haverly, if my uncle knew what the law was, there is a will somewhere.” Mr. Haverly only shook his head. “We must be careful what we say,” he said. "Did you say anything to my aunt?” "Yes. and I found at once that she i would hear nothing concerning your i claim. I may as we.* 101 l you at once that you have nothing to expect from her generosity. If you want any help or advice, I will be glad to do all that I can for you.” She thought he had gone, but he was back. "Miss Marsden, you will not be offended—but, do you need any money—immediately I mean?” The tears came into her eyes. “No.” she said. “But I thank you, thank you!" Belsham had known this, and he had not come to her. It was all plain enough now. No mother, no uncle, no fortune, no lover! If she had not been a brave, strong nature, she would have been utterly crushed; but pride and indignation came to her support. She engaged board in a distant part of the city, with the privilage of furnishing her room, and removed to it her own room furniture, adding her mother’s work-tnble and many little articles of ornament; but there was not room for half the things she would have taken, for every article in the old house had its associations, and to qart with any of them was like leaving old friends. Nevertheless the red flag had been hung out, and they were gone. All debts were paid, the servants were satisfied and discharged, and mere were a few hundred dollars left, with which to begin the new life she proposed. Helen Marsden was a successful woiiian. After ten years, she was for the first time going back to her uncle’s house. Mrs. Marsden was ill, and had sent for her. She did not hesitate a moment; all feeling of animosity had long since died out. As she ascended the well-known stairs and entered the library, she looked curiously around to note me changes, and was shocked by the dilapidated aspect of the place. There was but one change to note—that of time; the carpets, the curtains, the furniture were the same, stive that they had grown old and faded and shabby. “How long has Mrs. Marsden been ill?” she asked of the servant. “Its years since she has been downstairs, Ma'am; but it’s not very long since she took to her bed.” If there had been any enmity yet lingering in Helen’s heart, it surely would have received its death blow at sight of the ghastly face that peered at her from the midst of toe pillows of Mrs. Marsden’s bed. Mrs. Marsden’s voice was much stronger than one would have expected from such a frail body. “Is that Helen Marsden?” she asked. “Yes, Aunt, it is I.” Mrs. Marsden moved uneasily. “Give me a drink,” she said to the nurse; but even while she drank, she continued to gaze over the rim of her cup. "How I hate you!” she exclaimed; then suddenly to the nurse again, “Well, what are you staying for?” Helen began to fear that she was in delirium. “You sent for me, Aunt. Did you want me? Can Ido anything for you?” “I hate you. 1 cannot rest for dreaming of you. Why do you torment me? 1 never did you any harm.” “I never accused you of doing me harm.” “But I did. Yes, and I would do it over again.” “Mrs. Marsden, it seems to me it is time for you to put all hatred out of your heart.” I A look of terror came into those immovable eyes. “Did, you come here to tell me I am going to die?” “No.” “But lam going to die; I know it. 1 am afraid to go ■without telling you. I will tell you, and hope it will as great a curse to you as it has been to me.” “Aunt, Aunt. Do* you Mean my uncle’s money?” “Yes. He gave it to you.” “He gave it to me?” “In his will. I hid it!” “The will?". “I hid the will. I wanted Charles to

! have it At first the only way seemed I for him to marry you; but he did not I love you, and did not want to marry I you; and when John Marsden —ed I ' knew where thewill was. and I took it. I was afaid Charles would hunt you up, I and I made him go to Europe. I thought he would come back soon aud stay with me, but he has never come j back. They say that he is dreadfully i dissipated, and I know that he is dread- , fully extravagant. I have sent him ' money, and money, and money. He i never writes but when he wants money, I and he cares nothing at all about me. He thinks he will have it all after I am gone, but he is mistaken. Here, ' take it,” and she threw a paper at Helen's feet. Helen glanced around the cheerless room, and thought of the pitiable condition of the woman before her. “I wish you would let me stay and take care of you,” she said. “No.” “Shall I come again to see vou?” “No.”

So Helen left her. She did not. however, stay away from the house, hat ■ came daily to inquire about the sick I woman. A month passed and the in- ; valid grew steadily weaker. One morning Helen came as usual. “How is she to-day?” she asked. “Oil, she’s most Hadn’t you better go up? she Won’t know you.” Once more Helen stood within the forbidden chamber; the difficult breathing of the dying woman fell upon her ear. Louder and louder, and more difficult grew the labored breathing. At times it ceased entirely, aud again it went on and on: but ever the pause's grew longer, and the time between them grew shorter, till at last that long pause came—eternity. Helen and Charles Belsham were together in the library of the old house, and Belsham was pleading for the love he had lost so long ago. “If you knew how I have suffered, you could forgive,” he said. “I was weak ami easily led, but I have paid the penalty. I have never ceased to regret you for one moment." “You were right.” said Helen: “you were in no way fitted to work for us and your aunt would, as you say, have disinherited you if you had insisted on marrying me then. But you must not hurry me; I must have time. If you will come to-morrow, i ..<mk I will grant you all that you want.” "My darling!" He would have taken her to his arms, but she stopped him. “Not to-day,” she said, "wait.” When he came next day the servant handed him a document, upon the inner wrapping of which was written: "All that Charles Belsham wants." It was the will of John Marsden. The signature had been torn out and destroyed. Helen went back to the new life and not a memory of him remained with her.

CURED BY SWEATING.

Rheumatism Yields to the Air of an Old Cave in Italy. There is in Italy a bath, a natural vapour bath, in a mountain grotto, where men and women sit in simple robes and give themselves up to the passive process of perspiration. If they have gout it makes them better; if they have rheumatism it gives them great relief. Though not a fashionable resort, the Grotto of Giusti might well be one, so pretty is its situation at the foot-hills of the Apennines, not far from Lucca. Garibaldi was cured there, and Ludwig Kossuth—just by sitting within it and letting the humors of the blood sweat themselves out through the skin's pores. More than fifty years ago, while working in a lime quarry on land belonging to the poet Giusti, after whom the grotto is named, the discovery of the hole was made. The strange stalactite structure drew many visitors. The astonishing perspiration brought on by the strength of the air in it reminded one of a Turkish bath. But it was more than a curiosity—it was a cure. Old sufferers from the gout left the grotto entirely well, or else greatly helped, till the grotto’s reputation grew to such an extent that a building was erected by the owner for the accommodation of the patients. Each day at a specified time the patients, clad in long garments and light slippers descend through a sloping passage to a cellar-like apartment. The air now is warm and damp. Guided by a bath attendant clothed in a single robe, they continue through the long, widening way, lighted by side lamps and swinging chandeliers. The space widens. Ou one side there is an abyss in which there is water. Rocks throw shadows over the gulf. Then the passage narrows again, the air grows warmer, and presently the patient enters a large lighted cavern. With a “Perspire well,” the guide disappears. Seating themselves upon the benches the patients await with high hopes the results of the heat. The air is saturated witli dampness, yet light and easy to breathe. Crevices in the walls and ceiling provide fresh air to the cave. In a few minutes beads of perspiration cover the skin, and soon it runs off in drops. Patients remain in this state one or two hours or longer. Then they are rubbed off, and, wrapped in dry woolen clothes, conveyed to their rooms, where they rest quietly another half hour. Merely as a sensation this air bath is delightful. Men and women chat with one another while taking it, and so pass the time quickly. Its many cures, recently, have brought it into notice again throughout Europe.

Raising Muskrats for Profit.

Back of Afton, Va., in the mountains there lives a queer old man, who is a born trapper and hunter. He owns a little farm at the foot of the ridge, on which he raises.corn and other produce, but it is chiefly valuable to him because it has a number of running brooks which furnish homes for myriads of the little fur-bearing animals, the musquash, better known as the muskrat. The trapper carefully protects the little animals, and will allow no trespassing on his preserves. He has fenced off, in many places, wet spots in the swaley meadows, so' the rats can build their nests undisturbed by the poacher or neighboring dogs. His furs he carefully cures and markets in person to Staunton for the Northern trade, which pays well for good skins.

SKATES IN ITS FEET.

Th* Peculiar Formation of a Philadelphia Duck. There is a remarkable duck in the lake which will probably prove the only one of its class that ever has been discovered. says the Philadelphia Press. It is a large, snow-white bird, whose plumage is so luxuriant that it would fill a good-sized pillow. Its wings, ■ when spread out. cover an area of four j feet seven Inches by three feet and a half. The wings are very peculiar, being jointed very close to the body. This enables it to bend them in such a way as to form a tent. In terrible winter storms in its native land it finds this verj’ useful. When the skies o'erdoud ■ and the wind liegins whistling merry I tunes through the icebergs this cute ■ and cautions duck erects his wing tentl above his shivering self, ami goes to sleep in peace, knowing that when the snow and sleet descends it will prote I harmless.

As soon as the cool weather was scented those who watched this wonderful duck noticed that a peculiar growth was forming on his feet. As the weather grew cooler the growth grew more pronounced. It appears to be a thick cartilaginous substance which gradually extended. It looked like another toe. and it was thought at first that the bird was going to be malformed. But instead of stopping when the growth reached the size of the other toes, it kept right on. It grew to he alxmt six inches long, and then the end of it took a curious turn. Instead of turning down like a claw, it curled up and round in a picturesque loop. Then it gradually hardened. What on earth caused this curious growth was a puzzle. What could it I be for? Was it simply a malformation. or some adjunct necessary for the duck's happiness? Finally the solution was discovered. The duck laid skates on. The peculiar formation was just like the “skees" of the Norsemen. More than probable the “skees” were actually pat term'd after this growth. These skates were invaluable to the duck iu his native land, where ice aud snow, with heavy crust, covered the face of the earth and the deep. Travel by swimming was largely tied up by this ice. Wading afoot was slow and tedious, so kind nature provided a better and quicker way. skating. All the duck had to do was to spread out its immense wings, stand firmy on its skates, and whiz lie would go spinning over the surface of snow and ice at a high rate of speed. With the approach of warm weather these “skates,” or rather this formation. fall off. and the feet arc similar to those of any other duck. Then when winter comes again it makes its j appearance once more, and gradually j grows to its full size. A peculiar characteristic of the duck is that during the . the period of getting its skates on it is ! ill and avoids all food. It drinks a great deal, however, but this is not enough to keep it alive. Consequently, it is likely to die at any minute during i this time. It also keeps out of sight, i and only close search will discover the ■ bird until its skates are fully formed, I This duck has never been fully de- ! scribed by scientists, owing to its extreme rarity. It is known by the name of Fakeducus Maxiums.

BURSTING OF A GLAZIER.

A Frightful Disaster in Switzerland. A correspondent writing to us from Zurich. Switzerland, says: “At daybreak on Wednesday a frightful disaster took place at a distance of four miles from Kanderstag, on the Gemini Pass. A huge mass of ice, measuring 1,250,000 cubic metres, detached itself from tlie Alteis Glacier and was precipitated into tlie valley. Such was the impetus of tlie mighty avalanche that it was not checked in the valley, but dashed up tlie opposite side, which has. a slope of 45 degrees, to a height of 1,300 feet, carrying everything before it until it met a wall of rock, which sent the main mass surging back. At the foot of this rock lies, or rather lay, the ’ Spitalmatte, an exceedingly beautiful and rich mountain pasture with chalets for the cowherds, for storing cheeses, etc. At the time of the disaster there were collected there 150 head of valuable cattle under the care of four cowherds. There were also two officials from Leuk, who had come up to arrange about bringing down the cattle, which event has always taken place on September 13. All have been overwhelmed. Of the animals, only three have escaped. “The loss in the live stock, the ownership of which was partitioned among about thirty families, mostly quite poor, belonging to the village of Leuk. is estimated at $20,000. The pasture itself, which for years will now be useless. strewn as it is with debris, is valued at SBO,OOO. The bodies of tlie two officials and two of the cowherds have been recovered, but in a horribly mutilated condition. It seems that the disaster overtook them while sleeping in their huts. The other two men, whose bodies have not yet been found, are supposed to have been up early for the purpose of milking the cows. Tlie blocks of fallen ice and rocks cover a space of two square miles to a depth of many yards, the whole scene being one of indescribable desolation. Besides the trees which were in the track of the avalanche great numbers have been uprooted by the wind which it produced. Many of the cattle, too, lie about in such positions that they must have been hurled great distances through the air by the same force. Men are hard at work trying to make some sort of footpath over the debris, the ordinary road being, of course, completely obliterated. From old records in Leuk it appears that a similar catastrophe occurred at the same spot in 1782, also only two days before the date fixed for the return of the cattle to the valleys.” able temperature. A small fire for four or live days heats better and with just as little expense as a roaring blaze kindled on Saturday. Church committees often find fault with the heating apparatus on a -cold day, w’hen the manner and time of building the fires are at fault. too, a gradual heating of such a building allows of better ventilation than the sudden warming up tlie day before the building Is used.

Will Not Borrow Again.

There are two brothers in Memphis who are so near the same size and

figure that they can wear each other* l clothing. One of them recently bought ; a fine new overcoat, which was a very • styish and comfortable garment, and j of which ha owner was very proud. ' The first night after he bought the i overcoat there was a rainstorm. The ' water fell iu torrents and the mud | fairly swam in the streels. The I young man was going out that evening, but ho didn't like the idea of taking his new overcoat out in such beastly weather. His brother had a mackintosh. and when the first young matt spied this banging on the hat rack he decided to appropriate it for the night and so save his new overcoat. Without saying a word to his brother lie put on Ihe waterproof and sallied forth into the rain, calculating that he would save lijs new overcoat at least three months' wear that night. When he came home he found his brother in their room. "Fay. old man." he said, “I used your mackintosh to-night.” "That was all right." said the brother. "1 got along very well without it.” "You didn't go out tills evening, did you?” asked the owner of the overcoat. "Yes," answered the owner of the mackintosh. “Then what did you wear?” "Your new overcoat.”

The Banana Tree.

In the West Indies the dried leaves and prepared portion of the stem are Used as packing materials. Fresh leaves are used to shade young coffee or cocoa seedlings in nursery beds and to cover cocoa beans during fermeutaj lion. The young unopened leaves are I SO smooth and soft that they are used jas dressing for blisters. In India tindried stalk of the plantain leaf is used as a rough kind of twine, and the larger parts are made into small boxes for holding snuff, drugs, etc. In the Malay peninsula the ash of the leaf and leaf stalk is used instead of soap or fuller's earth in washing clothes, and a solution of the ash is often used as salt in cooking. In the Dutch Indies the skin of the plantain is used for blackening shoes. The juice which flows from all cut parts of the banana is rich in tannin and of so blackening a nature that it may be used as an indelible marking ink. In Java the leaves of the "Wax banana” are covered on the under side with a white powder, which yields a valuable wax, clear, hard and whitish, forming an important article of trade. The ashes of the leaves, stem and fruit rind are employed in Bengal in many dyeing processes. In Siam a cigarette wrapper is made from the leaves. Fiber is got from the stems of many kinds of bananas. The most valuable is tlie “Manila hemp” of commerce, which holds the chief place for making white ropes and cordage. Old ropes made of it form an excellent papermaking material, much used in the United States for stout packing papers. The Manila hemp industry is a large one. ACout 50,000 tons of fiber, ' alued at $15,000,000, are annually exported from the Philippine Islands. The Manila hemp plant is grown exclusively in the southern part of the Philippines, and all attempts to grow it elsewhere have failed. Many articles are made from Manila hemp-mats, cords, hats, plaited work, lace handkerchiefs bf the finest texture and various qualities of paper. At Wohlau. in Switzerland, an industry has been started for making lace and materials for ladies’ hats from it. By a simple process it is made into straw exactly resembling the finest wheat straw for plaiting.

Old Billiard Facte.

A billiard table can be built In twenty-four hours if carte blanche is given to the manufacturer, but he prefers to have time to get the right effects. from one month to six. The wood needs to be seasoned for a period of very nearly seven years. Rich, deep Spanish mahogany is used, pollard I oak, ebony and satin wood. Tables are not always covered in green. Blue is sometimes used and a pure olive green. The late Prince Leopold was the first to make use of the latter color, and olive green is known to-day in the billiard world as “Prince Leopold's color.” j The balls must be well seasoned beI fore they are used for play. Manufacturers have incubators in which to store them that they may undergo the drying process. Some incubators will hold fully 3000 balls. When they are first made they are “green.” Solid ivory is the only satisfactory material of which to make them; “artificial balls (those made of composition) are much heavier and do not wear well. English makers, to give the red balls a perfect color, steep them in a decoction that is sometimes described as the “guardsman's bath.” This is extracted from the old coats of “Tommy Atkins,” and for billiard balls it is the finest scarlet dye known.

Smugglers’ Tricks.

Some amusing anecdotes arc related in connection with the recent discoveries of smugglers' tricks. A few years ago an individual in an ecclesiastical costume used to cross the frontier from Switzerland into France every morning with a large breviary in his hand. He was a man of dignified aspect. and received every mark of deference from the customs officers, who sometimes accompanied him part of the way in his daily stroll. At last a letter put the authorities on the alert, and the presumed priest was found to be a professional smuggler, who had conirived to Introduce into France at least a thousand watches in his breviary, which on examination proved to l>e a tin box. Very curious also was the experience of a former Inspector-General of Customs here. During a visit to Geneva he brought a clock, and instructed the vendor to forward it only when he had informed him of his re- ] turn to Paris, adding that he must be careful to pay the duty. One of the first things that he noticed on his ar- ! rivai at his home was this identical timepiece in his drawing room, and in reply to his questions his coachman explained that the tradesman had himself stowed the clock away in his carriage. It is calculated that only one out of ten professional smugglers is ever caught. ' j There are more than 4000 pledged abstainers among London cabmen.

MOTES AND COMMENTS.

A German scientist proclaims that “the chewing of cloves will kill all the microbes that happen to get into a man’s mouth." What does it profit a young man. however, to kill his character and his mierolies at the same time? Captain James in a recent address at the Royal United Service Institute in Ixindon declared that modern military development would inevitably shorten the period of war. Moreover, he asserted, while at the aetuaUpoint of battle the destruction of life would be vaifily increased, the aggregate loss of then in an entire war would lie really reduced by the improved means of treating the w?undcd. An investigator has discovered that there an* 238 lawyers in Congress, 41 farmers, 27 editors. 28 manufacturers, 1 railroad manager. 2 steamboat owners. 14 teachers and college professors, 25 bankers. 20 merchants, 1 housebuilder. 3 clergymen, 7 who say they are -“engaged in business,” 8 doctors, 1 architect. 1 music teacher, 1 owner of oil wells, 5 miners. 2 insurance agents. 1 theater manager. 1 manufacturer of ice. 3 civil engineers, 9 lumbermen, 2 owners of stone quarries, 2 real estate agents. 1 pharmacist and 1 ■teainboat captain. It lias been calculated that if the world keeps on developing as at present .torses. cattle anti sheep will oecome extinct and man will be differentiated into two distinct animals, an i upper world of “feeble prettiness” ami 1 a most repulsive subterranean race reduced to mere mechanical industry, i In die course of a few millions of years the motion of the earth on its axis, which is supposed to be growing slower every year on account of the friction of the tides, will have ceased entirely an the earth will present a constant face to the sun.

The Atlanta Constitution call atten-. tlon to Hie valuable advertising that has ! been given to the South by the Exposi- i tion. “Twenty-five governors,” it i says, "twenty-four State press associ.i- j tious, the chambers of commerce of per- 1 haps forty leading cities, hundreds cf mayors, scores of senators and eon- ' gressmen. the President and his cabi- | net, the Now England Manufacturers* ' Association, the bankers of the coun- i try, the National Farmers’ Convention ‘ and dozens of other big organizations have come and gone, and in every quarter of the Union they have sung the praises of the Exposition and of the South.” Uncle Sam puts photography to a unique use in the far off seal islands. These he has photographed annually. | The views, taken in sections, are afterward fitted together in Washington, where, by means of a strong glass, the seals are counted. Thus a sort, of cen- i sus is taken, and the increase or de- | crease of the beards approximated. It ; will be a good day, in the opinion of the ' Pathfinder, when our decennial ceil-| sus enumerator comes to our door. ! armed witli a kodak, instead of voluminous schedules of irrelevant questions, and says, simply, "One button does it all.” The United States Fish Commission Ship Albatross, has just returned to San Francisco, after a cruise of sevpn months in far northern waters. During this time she has been engaged in deep sea fishing, and has made many important finds of new fishes. One specimen totally unlike anything yet described in the books; was taken at a depth of 1700 fathoms, or nearly two miles. It was physically constructed so as to stand he enormous weight of water at this great depth, a weight that Mould crush to death any ordinary fish. When drawn to the surface its stomach had been forced out of its mouth, and both eyes were popped out of their sockets. It was unable to live in the shallower depths.

A curious case of prolongation of life i comes from Piedmont, Cal. Pneu- ; monia had attacked a man and closed I up so much of his lungs that he could • not inhale enough air to sustain life, i Oxygen, of course, was the element | that was wanted, and the physician in charge procured a number of receivers full of this gas and administered some of it to the patient every fifteen minutes. For a week the man not only : kept alive but showed marked improvement. But suddenly paralysis set in, resulting in death. About 3,200 gallons of oxygen was given within the week. Small quantities of the life-giv-ing gas have been frequently administered. This case tends to show that its use in large quantities would be beneficial in some cases. According to a Los Angeles (Cal.) paper, a number of Los Angeles men have received a concession from the Mexican Government of the Island of Tiburon, in the Gulf of. California. A company of 300 men is being organized under the command of I. H. Polk. Each man is to receive $250 and a hundred acres of land, after the island is conquered. The money for the expedition is being put up by Colonel Bradbury, who inherited a million or so a few years ago. There are only about 100 male Indians on the island, but they are said to be such valiant fighters that the Mexican Government despaired of subduing them, and has offered the island to Bradbury and his companions, if they would undertake the work. It is the intention of the Tiburon Conquest Company, as the new corporation is called, to establish a republic of its own and have, the United States establish a protectorate. It is stated that Mexico has consented to this. One of the objects of tne company is to establish a groat resort, and lines of steamers wil’ be put oii from both Yuma and Guavamas. There are surviving and upon the United States pensions rolls twelve widows and daughters of Revolutionary soldiers, while the war of 1812 is represented by twenty-one survivors and 3,820 widows. There are 12,586 survivors of the Mexican war. There are In the United Sattes eighteen pension agencies. There are residing abroad 3,481 persons who draw pensions to the extent of $605,000, 1,737 of these living in Canada, 664 in Great Britain. 573 in Germany. The names, ages and residence of widows of Revolutionary soldiers surviving are as follows: Lovey Aldrich, aged ninety-five, Los Angeles. Cal.; Nancy Cloud, eightytwo, Chum, Va.; Susannah Chadwick. ' eighty. Emporium. Pa.: Esther S..Da-|-mon, eighty-one, Plymouth Union, Vt.: I,

Sarah c. 11 uihurt, seventy-seven. Chap ham Valley, Pa.; Nancy Jones, eightyone. Jonesboro, Tenn.: Rebecca Mayo, elghty-two. Newbern, Vt.: Patty Richardson. ninety-four, East Bethel, Vt.; Mary Snead, seventy-nine, Parksley. Va.: Ann M. Slaughter, efghty-five. Mitchell's Station, Va.; Asenath Turner, ninety. Manchester, N. Y.; Nancy Weatherman, eighty-five, Lineback, Tenn. Instruction in regard to the laws of health and the effect of stimulants on the human system is now obligatory in many of the states of the Union. In view of this fact, a petition was recently sent to the trustees of the American University, at Washington, asking tliat there might Is- ' rented in it a department for such original investigation. study and instruction as would furnish to the country the needed teachers of teachers in the new and almost universally mandatory branch of public school instruction above refereed to. The Board of Trustees of the American University complied witli this request on certain renditions, aurt appointed a committee, viz.: Bishop John F. Hurst. LED.; the Rev. Chas. 11. Payne, LL.D.; and Vice ChanceUor Samuel 1,. Beiler. Ph. D„ to meet the Board of Counsel of the Temperance Educational Association to arrange all details. At a meetings just held in New York it was agreed thaft upon the payment to the treasurer of the American University of the sum of $250,000. or such lesser sum as should be deemed by the Board of Trustees sufficient for the beginning of th work of said school, there should be inaugurated a department of tlie university to be called ‘•The College of Scientific Temperance,” which shall be a college of investigation and instruction in physioi°".V, hygiene and pathology, with special reference to the nature of alcohol and kindred substances, together with their effects upon mankind.

Five Miles Down.

The deepest spot in the ocean has | been found. More than five miles of wire ran out without the bottom being i reached. Then the wire broke. This j spot was recenty discovered by the surI veying ship Penguin, near the Friendlv i Islands, in the South Pacific. Coni- | niander Balfour, of that ship, reports i that this remarkable discovery was imide in latitude 23.40 south, longitude 1 io.IO west. AV hen he first discovered this extraordinary hole, which so far as we know now is bottomless, Captain Balfour attempted to take the depth and the sounding line was run out. After 4.300 fathoms had run out over . the side of the ship, the wire broke, and a rising sea and wind prevented any further attempt of the kind being made. Upon the second attempt he managed I to pass 4.900 fathoms, of 29,400 feet of i the wire over the ship’s side before the ■ wire broke, and put an end to the ex- , pertinent. The deepest hole in the ocean prei viously known was close to the coast of Japan, where a sounding had been made of 4,(155 fathoms. This is 245 fathoms, or more than 1,400 feet shallower than the deep hole which lias now been discovered. How much deeper it goes than 4.900 fathoms no man can know. It is a piece of water more than five miles deep. What the pressure must be at the bottom no scientist has yet been bold enough to conjecture. There is no glass instrument that could resist this pressure. It would be impossible witli the most approved scientific apto take the temperature at this enormous depth. No living thing that is known to science could exist at a depth so great as this, where the pressure must be equal to many hundred or thousand foot tons, sufficient to squeeze the life out of any fish. Even brass ami iron instruments lowered to this enormous depth would be twisted and distorted. The most painstaking work in lowering a piano wire to sound a depth such as this will not suffice to keep it from breaking. This is because of the friction of the water against the wire. In spite of every appliance of balance and spring in the machinery on deck, designed to counteract the motion of the vessel, the increase and decrease of pressure caused by rising and falling on a wave will snap the strongest wire when it has been lowered to so great a distance.

All of tlie water at the bottom must support the weight of the water on top of it. The consequence is that the water in the lowest depths is coinpressed under enormous pressure. The theory has been advanced that some strange unknown creatures may live in this highly compressed water. There may be fish of a kind so peculiar that they cannot exist closer to the surface, where the water is thinner and the pressure less. Through countless ages of living in the darkest, deepest depths of ocean these fish may have evolved forms and natures unknown to men of science, because hitherto such vast depths have been unexplored. What the bottom of such a place may be like is only a matter of conjecture. It may support a fauna and flora of its own. It may have its own plant and animal life, which some daring scientist will bring to light to astonish and amaze the scientific world. Here, where there can be no light. the fish, if fish *here be, must be eyeless, like that queer breed of fish which Darwin cited existed in the rivers of the Mammoth Cave, but still, under the scalpel of the scientist disclosing what is known in biology as a eye.” The fishes of these deepest depths may have rudimentary eyes and rudimentary lungs. They may have been pressed hard and flat like a pancake by the enormous weight of the water above them and may indeed move about by a method as strange :wid curious as was that of the kangaroo when first brought to the attention of Europe. These are questions for the scientific world to solve. They have been brought to the front by the discovery of the Penguin of a spot in the ocean deeper than any that has been known hitherto.

A WISE COOK.

New Chambermaid—Are there really so many mice in this house? < ook—Of course not. I was determined, however, that the mistress should get a cat. You see. I've a young man who calls on me pretty often, and we must be ab’.e to account in some way for the food I give him.