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LOSSES CAUSED BY LIGHTNING.

Hindoo, Cnr. Nothing for Amn.rmpnt I'll. Ic.m Arronipnnlrd by I'hy.lral Huffrrlng or Urr.t Oangrr—Itnltls of llnud, and the Swinging Festival.

Some IntrrMtlng FIgurr, Taken from a Work rubllulied by tlia fioverninent. Science has been busy among' the cherished beliefs regarding everyday phenomena of late years, and one by one they have been demolished and the list of vulgar errors grows smaller. An exception to this, says the Washington News, is a little publication that has made its appearance from the publishing house of Uncle Ham, compiled by Alexantler McAdic, of the weather bureau, and containing some very interesting facts regarding lightning

fatalities it

eiuses in this country. Its primary object is to show the best methods of protection by lightning rods, but incidentally it gives some very unique fig'

A CHEMIST’S DREAM.

GREWSOME SIGHTS IN A MINE.

Mil-

India is a land of sport, but occidentals are always much surprised to find that sport, to be appreciated by the average mild Hindoo, must have something cruel about it, either to man or ,

beast. It is to India, by the way, that an '^ damages and

Europe and America owe polo, which was introduced into Hritish canton- i ments by the Manipuris. Hindoos are great cock fighters, says a writer in the

Han Francisco Chronicle. Large sums ures - a,1, l shows that a few at least of of money are spent on these contests I ^’'diefs that are common to every nor are the birds furnished with spurs 1 class Brt ‘ wel1 ,oun,lcd -

to make the combats still more sanguinary. The cocks use only nature’s weapons and the wounds inflicted are severe enough to satisfy the Hindoo craving for bloody spectacles. (if horse racing the Hindoo is passionately fond; and a race will practically close all business. The government printing offices at Allahabad have on occasions been closed because the compositors abandoned their cases to see the races. A steeplechase where there is every

possibility of someone being thrown, ,

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gust alone chronicled fatalities. Ihe

Itowewt. Vision, of an Approaching

Irntal State.

M. Berthelot indulges in the rosiest visions concerning the benefits which chemistry will heap tipon the human race in the course of another century or two, says the New York Post. In an address before the manufacturing chemists of France delivered recently in Paris he said that he looked to chemistry for deliverance from present social evils and for the possibility of re-

Tba Trip I>own a I>»ep Shaft Full of

Thrill to th« Tenderfoot.

Going down into the mine is indeed a thrilling experience and one rather overwhelming to the “tenderfoot,” says a writer in Cassier’s Magazine. Enveloped in suits of waterproof, with hats of oilskin and provided with candles, a party ready for the descent presents a grewsomc spectacle, reminding one forcibly of certain conceptions of Do re. The cage, which serves fof botli

The number

of death-dealing lightning bolts that find victims in this country yearly is greater than is probably generally believed. According to figures given by Mr. McAdic there occurred in 189 - J 2.51 deaths by lightning, and in the year following there were 209. The statistics do not go further back than 1890, but even this short space of time has demonstrated that the danger seems to be on the increase by extending over a greater portion of the year than formerly. In 1800 the months of

deeply as chemical science could mod- L S _ H ,' mply , a , plat f 0rm ^ ."'° od Z) th T

ity the globe. This change, he de dared, will be greatly due to chemis

rights and framing of iron. This tits closely in the shaft, being lowered and

try utilizing.the heat of the sun and raised by means of machinery puzzling •r V i , , , , , ortmitrii tr» trio rtfT*»r

the central heat of the globe. 1 ho

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people, who do not hesitate to call themselves the greatest physical cowards in the world. Their hunting, too, is of the cruel order. Panthers, or, as they are called in India, cheetahs, are ! trained to pursue deer and kill them, j There is no risk attaching to the hunters, but there is a great deal of danger ! to the unfortunate shekari who trains : the ferocious beast. The panther is i blindfolded, a leash is placed around I his middle, and he is thus led to the ! plain where deer can be found, or to ! where the deer have been driven by a 1 swarm of beaters. The assemblage, mounted upon elephants or horses or in conveyances, keep a respectful distance from the cheetah, who is led into the open and the hood quietly removed and the leash slipped. The cheetah, when furiously hungry, has been known to turn upon his trainer as the quickest prey, and this is the supreme, the agonizing moment. The cheetah stands straight, his forelegs stiffening and his tail slowly moving. He purrs like a huge cut, looks angrily around him, then, crouching, bounds after his prey. The cheetah catches his victim and

year following September was added, and in 1892 every month from April to December provided a victim to heaven’s fire. The average number of persons killed yearly by lightning is 196. A glance at the table shows that by far the greater number of fatalities occurred in June, July and August. In the eight years ending in 1892 there were 8,510 fires in the United Htates due to lightning, causing a total loss of $12,008,885. This is a rather startling statement to those who arc inclined to scoff at the danger from thunderstorms. liurns, stables and granaries apparently had the greatest attraction for lightning, forduringthe nine years ending in 1892 2,335 buildings of that class were struck, as against 004 dwellings and 104 churches. Electric light stations und telegraph and telephone offices seemed to have enjoyed a comparative immunity from danger from the element with which they are pervaded. In certain states there has been a marked increase in the number of lightning strokes in the past year, particularly in Connecticut,

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fangs deeply, sucking in the blood with greedy gasps. The trainer approaches gently, so gently that his footfall can scarcely be heard. The cheetah is growling ominously. His tail beats his sides in ferocious impatience. Quietly the man steals toward the crouching beast and slips the hood over the eyes; then the leash is passed around and all danger is averted. The head of the deer lias to be severed. still leaving in the cheetah's mouth a goodly lump of bleeding flesh. There is nothing very sportsmanlike in this performance, but there is a great deal of danger attaching to it, and that danger devolves upon one man. There have been cases where the panther has absolutely refused to chase the deer, but has devoted his entire time and attention to the hunting party. Then the game was not

voted a success.

A villainous amusement in India is that called jmnjan. Itconsists in locking hands and seeing who can be made to kneel. There is no fun in it. hut still it is assiduously cultivated and hands are daily being broken in this inane form of sport. Kite-flying is a national affair and bets of the most extraordinary magnitude are made as to who shall cut his opponent’s string. The swinging festival, or churruk poojah, is another form of pleasure which could only satisfy a race naturally cruel. There is now a good deal of correspondence between the India office and the government of Calcutta witli a view of stopping this detestable sport. Hundreds of Europeans visit the scene and leave immeasurably disgusted, but the natives find much to enjoy in it and beat their tom toms and blow their pipes witli great gusto while the poor victims arc swinging in midair. This sport lias some remote connection with a religious rite, and the men who permit themselves to be thus tortured are probably fulfilling some hideous vow. Vows in India are common, and no vow can avail unless its performance inflicts some dreadful punishment upon the body. The affair is thus managed: A devotee hasahook pa-sed through the muselesof his back, which hook is tied to the end of a crosspole. This beam can be tilted for the express purpose of having victims fastened to it. After the man is securely lashed to the pole lie is lifted up into the air with his hands folded on the chest and the body fairly hanging by tlie hooks. There is no other support. The muscles of the back alone hold him to the hook. The pole is then rotated by pulling on the ropes at the counterbalance end. its attachment on the vertical part permitting of free rotation. This gentle amusement the Indian government intend to abolish, but whether it will he done without serious trouble is a question.

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One of the most interesting results of the observations that have been made of late years regarding lightning and its freaks is that the geological as well as the topographical conditions influence it. According to the statistics a chalk formation is the least liable to damaging lightning, while next in order of frequency come marl, clay, sand and loam. With regard to trees the oak is most frequently and the beech the least frequently struck. Neither does it seem to have been the highest or most exposed trees that were struck, as the bolt hit in the most erratic and unexpected mannur. As regards the superstitions or beliefs regarding the safety or danger of certain localities when the lightning is on the rampage, Mr. McAdic states that it is not judicious to stand under trees, in the doorway of barns, close to cattle or near chimneys and fireplaces, which is a scientific justitication of the actions of probably five persons out of six when a j

storm is prevailing.

right and left, but its parallel walls are smooth, often highly polished, at \ times four feet apart; again more, hut always with an inclination to the | vertical. These are the faces of the \ fissured rock between which, overi head and below, is the vein matter. | Through the gloomy darkness we pick

j ixici > x/^;x,x'inx; i^i x. xti cx x/iv; vxj j . . , , . .

. \ i i \ our wav cautiously aloncr the narrow

fertile us habitable places, because: i , * , . , ... . . - plank, resting on tics laid over the

they will not be pestiferous from ages 1 1 .. ,, , ., „ , , - . , . . 7 , gutterway. Below us the water rushes of manuring. I lie reign of chemistry , . .‘u > j. . • • . .i .,, , ... .. , 4 down to the shaft, emptying into the will lieautifv the planet. There will „ t . .. * i , .. ., , .4 ... “sump, a continuation of the shaft

then be no need to disfigure it with the , , , , , , . .V . , lie low the lowest level, serving as a

geometrical works of the agricultural-I .. t . 4. ’ . , , .4 .,« ,, . . . 0 . , well out of which the water is lifted

1st, or with the grime of factories and . . ,

, . .. , by the great pumps, whose continual chimneys. It will recover its verdure , ’ . . , 11 -.u

. bent, up and down, up and down, with

and flora. The earth will be a vast . r , .y , , , , monotonous regularity, breaks the si-

pleasure garden and the human race , .7 , , . , • ,

,,4 .. lence like the throb of some great hid-

xx'ill live in peace and plenty. Howe , , . • 111

. . t. , deu heart. Climbing a ladder, or,

must look to chemistry, it appears, for .. „ , ,1 . .1 1 4 , J rather,five ladders—for there is a plat-

form at every twenty feet—-in Egyptian darkness, illumined only by the light of a caudle,with ice cold water dripping from each round and trickling along one’s arm and a small torrent from the tarpaulin hat down one’s back, is apt to dampen, if not to eradicate forever, any lingering fancy for a miner's

life.

A modern government does a great deal besides governing. Witness the post-of-fice, and, for a further example, the successful manufacture in shops at Washington of all the hig guns used in arming the new cruisers of the United States Navv. The Superintendent of the shops. Commander Theodore F. Jewell, describes the process in tlie July Harper’s, and the same Number contains an article on the commercial possibilities of lightning, by Mr. Alexander MeAdie of the National Weather Bureau. Among flowe-s chrysai.t lemums live the longest after being rut.

the millennium.

CLAMS VS. CHICKENS.

A BAR3ER SHOP SURPRISE.

A Fashionably Dressed Young Lady Nonrhalantly Takes a Shave. But one of the dozen chairs in a popular Cincinnati barber shop was vacant about ten o’clock the other morning, when a fashionably dressed young woman entered, removed her wrap, veil and hat, handed them to tlie openmouthed boy, walked to the vacant chair, sat down in it, threw her head back on the padded rest, and placed her daintily shod feet on the foot bench. “Bangs trimmed?" asked the bar-

ber.

“Nope, sliavel” she said, gazing composedly at the ceiling. “Huh!” grunted tlie wonder-stricken

barber.

“Shave,” she repeated, without winking, "here and here,” pointing to her upper lip and to the skin in front of

her cars.

The barber, says the Tribune, keeping ins eyes on her ail the Lime, lucked a towel under her chin, lathered the places she had indicated, stropped the razor and went to work. A few strokes and it was over, and when her face had been washed and powdered, she left tlie chair, allowed the boy to put on her wrap, adjusted her hat and veil with much deliberation, and, throwing a half dollar on the cashier's counter, walked out. The effect of this visit on the other barbers and their victims was to cause the barbers to forget, for the first time in their lives, to tell the victims that they needed shampoos, and the victims to fail to notice tlie cuts in their faces when the lady said "shave.” The barber who shaved tlie pretty lady, when he recovered, said there was a line growtli of hair on her face, just enough when it got long to give the skin a slightly dark hue. “She'd been there before,” he added.

How the Chicago Mun Got Kven with the New York Drummer. “Speaking of restaurants,” said the New York drummer with the Grecian eyebrows, “1 had a friend in New Y'ork who made a mint of money in Chicago before anybody dropped to his little trick,” quotes the Detroit Free 1‘ress. “He had a trick, eh?” asked one of the smokers. “Why, yes; you might call it a trick, I suppose. He built up such a local reputation for green turtle soup that his place was fairly besieged night and day. He supplied as high as three thousand people a day with turtle soup. It was an eastern man who finally gave

him a-,vay.”

“What was there to give away?” “Oh. nothing much, only he had been making that soup out of clams and curry. When a man blundered in who had actually seen a green turtle with his own eyes and knew what the taste of the soup was like the cheat was discovered and his business was busted.” “Yes. I heard of that ease," said the Chicago beef-extract man. who had been an attentive listener. “The soupman changed his business, I believe?”

“He did."

“And lost every dollar he had inside

of a year?' ’

"I never heard that ho did." “But he did. It xvas a friend of mine who put him on to the spec that dished

him."

"What spec?”

“Shipping pnjirie chickens to the New York market. He had twenty hunters out for three months and was

all ready to ship eighteen carloads of ( . bints when a Chicago man put the New ' 1 f.' 4*1.'.'”1!

Y'orkers on.” "On to what?”

“On to the foot that every blamed bird in those eighteen cars was a durned old crow. He shouldn't have done it. for tlie New Y’orkers would never have known the difference, and it would have given us a fine show to clean out our crows; hut he was just that soft

hearted.”

“(icntlemien," said the man with the Grecian eyebrows, after a long period of silence. "T am not feeling particularly well this morning anti will gi.buok into the drawing-room car and try and

get a nap!'”

FRENCH MONUMENTS.

Cruel Sport.

The Hindus are great swimmers, and swim dog fashion with their hands and feet beating the water. The reason of this is to scare their aquatic enemies.

There is a (treat swimming festival A Shower of Feathrrm. after the first rains xx-ben the rivers nre The eminent aurgeon. Hir Astlev swollen. Then Hindus of all ages ' Cooper, was fond of a practical joke, enter the turbulent flood and swim a On one occasion he ascended the given distance, shouting like demons | church tower of a village in Norfolk,

j and creating uu enormous commotion. Crocodiles follow the swimmers and the slower swimmers fall an easy prey to those awful monsters. But it is sport—sport to those who take part in the exciting adventures, but greater sport to the thousands who follow the men in the water from the banks, and

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A Middle Course.

There was a certain bishop of Amiens who was consulted by a lady as to whether she might wear rouge. Hho had been with several directeurs, but some were so severe and some so relaxed that she could not satisfy her conscience, and therefore was come to monseigneur to decide for her, and would rest by his sentence. “I see. madame,” said the good prelate, “what the case is. Nhline of your casuists forbid rouge totally; others will permit you to wear as much as yon please. Now. for my part, I love a medium in all things, and therefore I permit you to wear rouge on one cheek only.”

<irr»tn«M„ Still Goes I'nrerogulzert

by llronze or Marble.

A monument to Gounod is decided

upon. A subscription of twenty thousand dollars xvas raised easily, rapidly and triumphantly. The sculptor is selected, and soon Paris will be endowed with the statue of the composer who will only be known to fu-

ture generations as the author of one

great creation, namely: “Faust,” and the perpetrator thereafter of various charming works, “Mireille" and

"Romeo and Juliet,” for example, and

also of large quantities of more 01 less dismal failures. No one xvill claim that Gounod was the greatest composer of his day; j et he is to be glori-

fied while the ashes of Victor Hugo lie unburied in their dusty eotfin. tossed

carelessly into the vaults of the Pantheon and covered with the moldering remains of the magnificent floral tributes that were sent to do honor to his funeral, says the Paris correspondent

of tlie Philadelphia Telegraph. A statue of Victor Hugo was decided'

upon also, but the subscriptions languished and dwindled until they stopped at an amount of twenty-five

hundred dollars. Ho the literarj- giant

of our generation is only commemorated by his own groat works, and his

is left unremarked,

save bj' the horrified or indifferent eyes of the countless tourists who drift to the Pantheon to see tlie new frescoes, painted bj’ the great artists of France by order of the republic, and who incidentally explore the vaults of

the huge temple.

Until not verj- long ago one hi go vacant space was vision at. the Pantheon, among the completed panels that surrounded it. As was courteous to so great an artist, tlie government had offered a section of the Pantheon to Meissonier to decorate. Meissonier instantly accepted although perfectly conscious he could not paint one of those huge frescoes any more than a. fly could fire a cannon; but being an artistic dog in the manger, he could neither do it himself nor would he allow anyone else to take the work. Of course, since his death it is satisfac-

torily completed.

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taking with him one of ids mother’s pillows, and finding the wind blowing directly to the next town, ho let off handfuls of feathers until he had emptied the pillow. Tlie local papers reported this “remarkable shower” of feathers, and offered various conjectures to account for it, and the account xvas copied into other papers, ami was probably received us a perfectly natural

occurrence

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An exchange tells a story connected with a strike on the North British ruil-

wnv. during w hich much difficulty was t p 0C j (>s experienced in finding engineers to j num bers.

keep the necessary trainsrunning. One j ■■■- of the substitutes, a young fellow, ran i A Celestial

How Russians Destroy Rats.

The following is said to be the Russian method of destroying rats, and as it appears to he an effectual one those who are annoyed with these animals are recommended to try it. Uatcli in a wire trap fifteen or twenty large rats (feed them in an extra trap or wire cage until you have the required number); then cease to feed them. Thej* will soon become ferocious and fight, kill and feed upon one another. When onlj’ six or eight remain, turn them loose. Accustomed to feed upon their

xvill hunt and destroy

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fine calf & kangaroi

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other way. He was preparing to make | morning, and whose <V»ty it was in tv- th7mWdl?m.n's profits.- o.,r shoes i i . . 1 44 4 4 . ,,-,4..*, ft'., if-ktl..,' 4 4 . 44,4 d .4 ♦ I 1*. -.4,1.*.. 4 Z'W 4 t • 4 V 1 . I , * 4 “ 4 .1- 4 _ _ 1 ..... ^ 4 4 * . . _ _ .4

some distance past a station, and then, | An Egyptian shopkeeper had a deity I Time's in Ihe workt.aud^uarn.uce

) whom he offered sacrifice everj’ the value by Stamping the name and price on

hich protects you agamst high

putting hack, ran as much too far the J to

a third attempt, when the station turn for tills reverence to stand in eqiiVf custom work in style, easy fitting and agent shouted, to the great amusement front of the shop during the day, a sort ^ 'jo,Vrr prices e fo*r a t'he t va'lue S Kiveri V th I ;ui

lalities We_ have them sold every-

of the passengers: “Never mind, Tam-j of celestial "barker,” ami direct the rny ottTsYmnkV.^Tike no substitute if your mas; stay where you are! We’ll shift j attention of the people passing by to dealer cannot supply you, we can. sold by

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the shop and its contents.

P. R. CHRISTIE.