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20 QUESTIONS ABOUT ELECTRICITY. Information In Drier Concerning the Practl cal Workings of the Mysterious Force. From Scrlbner's Magazine Articles. 1. How strong a current is used to send a message over an Atlantic cablet 2. What is the longest distance over which conversation by telephono is daily maintained! 3. What is tho fastest timo made by an electric railway! 4. How many miles of submarine cable are there in operation! 5. What is the maximum power generated by an electric motor! G. llow is a break in a submarine cable located! 7. How many miles of telegraph wire in operation in the United Stateaf 8. How many messages can bo transmitted over a win at one time! y. How is telegraphing from a moving train accomplish d! 10. What are the most widely separated points between which it is possible to send a telegram! 11. ilow many miles of telephono wire in operation in the United States! 12. What is the greatest candle power of arc light used in a lighthouse! 13. iiow many persons in tho united States are engaged m business depending solely on, electricity I 14. How long does it tako to transmit a message from San Francisco to Hong Kong! . . 15. What is the fastest timo made by ati operator sending messages by tho Morse system! . 10. now many telephones are m use m the Uniied States! 17. What war vessel has the most complete electrical plant! 18. What is the average cost per mile of a transatlantic submarine cable! 10. How man miles of electric railway are thrre in operation in the United States! 20. What strength of current is dangerous to human life! ANSWERS. 1. Thirty cells of battery only; equal to thirty volts. 2. About 750 miles from Portland. Mo., to Buffalo. N. Y. S. A mile a minute by a small experimental car; twenty miles an hour on streetrailway system. 4. Over 100,000 miles, or enough to girdlo the earth four times. 5. Seventy-fivo-horso power. Experiments indicate that 100-horso power will soon be reached. t. By measuring the electricity needed to charge the remaining unbroken part. 7. Over a million, or enough to encircle the globe forty times. 8. Four, by the quadruplex system in daily use. 9. Through a circuit from tho car roof, inducing a current in the wire on poles along tho track. 10. British Columbia and Now Zealand, via America and Europe. 11. More than 170,ou0, over which 1,053,000 messages are scut daily. 12. Two million, in lighthonso at Houstholm, Denmark. 18. Estimated. 2."A00O. 14. About fifteen minutes. Via New York, Canso, Penzance, Aden, Bombay, Madras. Penang and Singapore. 15. About forty-two words per minute. 10, About SO0.00O. 17. United States man-of-war "Chicago." 18. About $1,000. 19. About 400 miles, and much more under construction. 130. Five hundred volts, but depending largely on physical conditions. The Shah and the Phonograph. New York Graphic: During the Shah's visit to Earl Brownlow, he was shown the mysteries of Edison's phonograph by Colonel Gonraud. Colonel Gonraud made a little speech to tho Shah, saying that if his Imperal Majesty would prolong his travels to America, he would be afforded as splendid and hearty a welcome thero as had been extended to him in this, tho great mother country. All this was trauslated to tho Shah by Frince Malcom Khan, and indented upon tho phonograph. Then tho speech was wound oil' as pronounced in Persian by tho Prince, whereat the Shah smote his palms together and cried: "Oh, oh." and "Wonderful:" Anxious for more, his Imperial Majesty bade tho poet of the suite recite some verses from the great Persian poet Hatiz into the receiver. Out came iu duo eourso from the phonograph tho verses of Hatiz, with tho exact intonation of the speaker, which caused tho Sbah anew to clap his hands ami express the utmost surprise. One thing led to another. He spoke into tho instrument himself, Frinco Albert Victor did tho same, and Lady Browulow followed. Then the Duke of Abercorn said something, thero was laughing, crying aud whistling, and finally the baud played a tune at it, all of which, in duo succesison. wero afterward reeled off, to tho astonishment of the .hah and his suite. A pause ensued, and his imperial majesty laid his hand upon tho machine, and Prince Malcom Khan, speaking for his sovereign, said: "The Shah would like to havo that instrument, or one liko it." "It is his," said Colonel Gonraud. "But." said tho Prince, "ho knows it is a new one. and tho onlv one you have of its kind in Europe." "Aft the- same.it is his Imperial Majesty's, as though thero were many more," said the astnte and courtly American. "Then the Shah will take it at once to Teheran, and h'j would like to get some one to go with him to work it," further interpreted the Frince. Fence Story from Texas. New York Tribune. An electric-wiro fence is said to be causing considerable discomfort to cattle of Texas. Recently, a Texas newspaper states, steer attempted to break throw eh the fence to ioiu hfteen other steers. "He had no idea," says the Mui!oh:iu"ii who rrlutrs the story, "that he was tackling a ltt,:.-,aw when ho struck that sonooth wire fence.

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and $15 Light-weight Well, sir, he jumped like ho was hit at onco by 40.000,000 hornets, and with his tail colled over his back he wheeled and only struck the ground in high places. Then the fifteen made a dash to follow him. One by one they rubbed that electric fence, and as fast as tney did, they jumped, bawled, kicked, wheeled and sailed on as though they had urgent business at the north pole and had only a few hours in which to mako it. Tho electrio fence is a stunner it is tho eighth and greatest wonder of the world. Not one of these cattle was hurt, but not one of them will go near the fence again." JUMPED ISO FEET. Baptlste Feynand Performs This Feat Like KoUlne On a Log. New York Sun. Nearly two thousand spectators watched Prof. Baptiste Feynaud jump from a tower 150 feet high into a net a few feet abovo , the water, at ltockaway Beach, last evening. it was advertised that ho would jump at 2 o'clock and again at 4:S0 o'clock iu the afternoon, but, owing to a delay in the completion of' the tower, it was nearly 6 o'clock when he appeared. The tower is about twenty feet square at tho base and live or six feet sqnaro at tho top. The top is a platform guarded by a wooden rail. Thero is r.u opening in tho railing on the side where tho net is wide enough for a man to stand in. Tho net n stretched horizontally from the sido of tho tower on two poles in tho water. When the athlete appeared tho crowd applauded. Monsieur Peynaud is dark-complexioned and has a long, flowing mustache. Ho wore a pink suit of tights. While ho was climbing to the top of thetower on aladdcrlike attachment on the outside his manager mounted a platform and made a speech about Peynaud's former jumps. When tho jumper reached tl top he quickly stepped to the opening in the railing, grasped the rail lirmly with each baud, and looked about him. A big shout went up from tho crowd and ho bowed. His manager asked him in French wheth or everything looked well from above, and he answered yes. Then he planted his feet firmly'on tho edge of tho platform, put the palms of his hands together above his head, and bent forward in tho attitude of a man diving into water. Ho balanced himself on the very edge of the platform for an instant, and then he straightened himself out in the air horizontally, and 6hot downward head foremost. lie fell like an arrow a distance of fifty or sixty feet, when his body slowly described a quarter of a circle in the air, and ho landed llat on his back in tho net, rebounded ten or twelve feet, and came down on his feet in the net, while tho crowd yelled and a lot of steam launches blow shrill whistles. Ho was immediately taken to the hotel by his friends, but lie soon reappeared. Somebody asked him how he felt in tho air. He replied: Zat ees my trade. I do it like you roll off ze log." Ho will mako tho sarao jump twice a day for the rest of the week. An Incident of the Franco-German War Karl Blind, In North American Review. Whilst French officers were often in hopeless ignorance as to tho geography of their own country, educated Ircnch people in whoso houses German troops were quartered, were amazed at tho evideuco of instruction in the common soldier of that nationality, oven if he did not como from the classes in which that might naturally bo expected. Tho linguistic accomplishments of these "outer barbarians" was also something to marvel at, seeing that that branch o knowledge was until then so much neglected in I ranee. To tho French otlicer, his own Alsatian or Lorraine compatriot was. as a rule, tho only medium lor understanding German. In tho German army, on the contrary, a great many men could converso with tho French in their own tongue. Occasiouallv a puzzle arose in matters of language Ouo day, on tho lield of battle, apparently the diarv of some German soldier was found, written in an alphabet no one in the French camp was able to read. Tho important document was sent to headquarters, but there, again, thero was nobody to make ont what it contained. Tho strango letters were held to bo a secret cipher. Tho document itself was supposed to be the report of the inevitable "Prussian spy." So tho paper was once more sent on this time to Paris. At last it came out that a German soldier, who happened to bo one of tho seven or eight Sanskrit scholars who served during that campaign, had amused himself with writing a report of tho previous engagement iutho sacred language of India. To think that a chance bullet should possibly mako an end of tho store of kuowledgo in such a brain u melancholy indeed, lUisinesi Is Business. iJalUmoro American. Mr. Wanamaker's letter to tho Western Union is a business document all tho way through. After having thoroughly stated his position, he, in a very manly manner, invites any answer which might be made to his arguments. Tho fairness and good logic of the letter are highly creditablo to tho Postiuaster-general. Where She Went for News. Philadelphia Inquirer. "Maria," said Mr. Jones, as ho looked up from his breakfast coffee, "tan yon tell me why you will gossip about mo with that vixenish Mrs. Talk!" "Certainly, Henry," was tho easy reply. "I do it because it's th ouly way in which I can find out what you have been doing." m . s Her Majesty' Rheumatics. Alts California. Queen Victoria is very bad with rheumatism. Kup.se 11 Harrison should have offered her the standard Indiana remedy, which is a horse chestnut carritd in the pocket.

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CILVUTAUQUA SUMMER LIFE

PlcasantTimcs for the Thousands of Visitors to This Famous Rcsting-Place, Where Rational PiCcreation Is Found for Loth Body and Brain Something About Indianians Who Are Sojourning There. Special to the IndianaDolls Journal. Chautauqua, N. Y., Aug. tt Tho twontytwo miles length of Lako Chautauqua boasts of a dozen summer resorts. Tho region is rapidly developing, and in half a score of years it is expected that docks and cottages, pleasure grounds and country villas will stretch in almost a continuous lino from Jamestown, a thriving little city at tho foot of the lake, to May ville at tho head, a quiet, pretty villago where Albion W. Tourgee, tho author of "A Fool's Errand," has made his home. Tho two best known resorts aro Lakewood and Chautauqua. Lakewood is experiencing a boom. Two large hotels, each with a capacity of over a thousand, stand on tho shore of tho lake. They wero built within tho last two 'years, and when their now raw colors havo been softened by tho winter's storms, there will not bo two more finished or graceful piles of architecture on the lako. A colony of Cincinnatians have gathered at tho Sterlingworth Inn, and the Kent House is largoly patronized by Pittsburgers, while mingling in the two houses aro Indianians in good numbers. Lakewood's grounds aro well laid out. Some of tho owners of tho pretty cottages are Capt. Thomas Fawcett, of Pittsburg; Capt. J. M. Clapp, Washington. D. C; Mrs. Iv. 13. Wright, St. Louis; John P. Ernst. Covington, Ky.; Telford Grocsbeck. Cincinnati, and D. K. Paige, Now York. Mrs. Spoor Mackey, of Chicago, has built a handsome cottaco this year. Mr. W. II. Harrison, managing editor of tho Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, is summering in his own cottage. Tho handsome Phillips homois occupied this year by Col. J. M. ISchoonmaker, of Pittsburg, and tho Hammond cottage by Alan W. Wood. Mrs. Schoonniaker and Mrs. Wood aro among the social leaders at this "Saratoga by tho lake." A brilliant Catherine of three hundred saw tho opening of the Casino, early in the season. Four full-dress hops each week, and Wednesday and Saturday morning germans mark tho progress of the season. A bright and commendable feature of Lakewood life is tho heartiness with which tho ladies enter into tho enjoyment of out-door sports. Tho members of tho fair sex, too, aro practicing at billiards, pool and bowling, and some graceful adepts at these pleasures havo been found among them. Aquatic sports aro steadily growing in interest. It is expected that next j-ear tho National Association of Amateur Oarsmen will hold their annual regetta on Chautauqua lake. Chautauqua, ten miles from Lakewood, and tho seat of tho famous Chantauqua Assembly, is as dillerent from gay Lakewood as though it were a thousand miles away. Tho two-story dock building holds a chimo of bells which swing their music on land and water at regular hours of the day and night. Every timo a steamer makes a lauding a long and startling lino of pretty summer girls ranges itself on tho balcony of tho building. This is a better welcome than the bells to tho thonsauds who Hock to tho assembly. For the bells aro not always melodious, but tho pretty girls are always pretty. This is the henehcial effect of tho eutiro absence of garden gates and fences at Chautauqua, p.ziil of tins rules prohibiting loud talking and street walking after half past 10 at night. Tho Assembly at first was a camp-meeting, then a summer school of languages. Now it is a composite of theso two and a summer resort. It is remarkable to see tho same pcoplo who attend tho lectures regularly and rido a six weeks' intellectual hobby in onoof tho summer schools, frantically cheering tho Chautauqua base-ball nine as it is engaged in tho noble task of stamping on a vhiting club. Tho management is a liberal-minded set of men, and a smart one, too. It provides tho lecture", organizes tho base-ball club from arriving players in college clubs, and provides tho grounds, rnns tho summer schools, and lays out public tennis courts, organizes a women's club for tho discussion of matters pertaining to the home, and give summer-night concerts, lire-works, feast of lanterns and a lot of other pretty and enjoyable entertainments. All for twentylive cents a day in July, forty cents in August, season ticket $". What a crowd of peoplo like life here on those terms! Five or six thousand stay through tho season and tho daily record of transient ranges from one to five thousand. Some mysterious bond of sympathy binds together the State of Indiana and Chautauqua. Great men in the scholastic, literary and occasionally in the political world like to come to tho assembly. Indiana has a penchant for great men, because she is the mother of Rome of them. But whether it be due to this or the other faert, that tho State is a stronghold of litcrajy and scientific circles, enrolled under the Chautauqua banner, there is no denying that thero aro troops of Indianians at tho assembly. In tho corps of students and teachers, at lectures, at concerts, in, the great choir, in sports and pastimes, everywhere they aro here. They leaven that sweet intellectual lump, Chautauqua. Me, Ernest Kuautlt is ono of tho force of instructors. Ho is a well-known artist of New York, a pupil of Frank Fowler, and tho eflicicnt art teacher at Purdno University. Prof. W. N. Hailman, of LaPorte spent a brief season in July with Mr. B.. E. Hailman, on Simpson avenue. Prof. Hailman was tho instructor on Kindergaiten work in tho Chautauqua Teachers' Ketreat, a summer school for the study of methods of teaching. The retreat closed a week ago, after a most successful season, under the charge of Dr. J. W. Dickinson, secretary of the Massachusetts State Bo;ird of Education. Will Cumback is a favorite cvnth the ampitheater audience. His graphic and positive stylo in lecturing "takes'' with every crowd. He has spoken on 4,Tho Common Man." and the "Invisible Some People." Ho tells his popular amVieuces just who they aro and what they aro worth, and then sends them away pn&ty well satisfied with themselves. Mrs. E. P. Ewing. of Lafayette, the authority on tarts, chariot russe, and other good things with wljchto line one's interior caverns, has been having a most successful season with bjr cooking classes. Mrs. ireorgo Rent a Ad tamily, Miss Annio Kent and Mrs. F. M.. Klliot, of Shelbyville, are among those wi; liavo enpoyed tho ashly. with their home on North avenue. sem Miss U. i. Fry., of Indianapolis, was among early arrivals, stopping at a Rootavenue cottage w th Miss Isabella Preeton and Miss Violet Deniree, of Dublin. 1. 11. Timberla of New Albany, is regifitered at tho Aldino. with Miss Mavnio Clarko and lloxadell Croxall, both of New Albany. Miss A. M. Jil)son has been summering at No. 130 Kobe?rty avenue. Mrs. X. F. E'thcll, of Muncio, arrived on the grounds cirlv in tho season. Iheodore ,). Louden, of Bloomington, was among the July arrivals. Mrs. S. i. Woodward and Miss Lulu Blanchar i, of New Albany, have taken rooms in a Simpson-avenue cottage. John l Parker, of Knightstown.is spending the summer on Asbury avenue. J- A. Carnacey, of Madison, is among the guests m the Cook cottage. A-I L Conwell, of Anderson, is boarding on rth avenue. E. Aldrich, of Merom. is pleasantly locate d at tho liryant cottage. Mja. Alexander and daughter. Miss L. J1 Attichard. Mrs. F. D. lllanchard. Miss J- rrie lllanchard, Miss Anna Carithers and -iiss Belle Wiugato. all of Shelbyville, rakc up a merry party at No. 23 Miller avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Newton, Miss Katie C. Sheridan. Miss Carrie llmtant. SniceUudj Mi&s Elva Elliot, Ureensboroughi Miss

Marieta Lyon, Salem: Miss Millie Parker, Kni ghtsborou gh, are all at 0 Asbury avenue. Miss M. C. Lewis, of Terre Haute, is summering on Terraco avenue. Mr. J. A. Woodburn, of Bloomington, is at the Cook cottage. , . . Miss Jennie Bryant, of Crawfordsville, is summering on Miller avenue. Mr. C. E. Kutherford, of Peru, is enjoying Chautauqua at No. 234 Morris avenue. Miss Clara Mann and Miss Jennio Brown, of Lafayette, were early arrivalsron Peck aveuuo. Mr. E. A. Williams, C. II. Fleming and lady, of Richmond, aro lato arrivals at tho Hotel Athen&um. S. 11. Parsons and wife, of South Bend, reached the Athenamm early in July. Mr. P. H. Boudmot, of Terre Haute, is spending a pleasant summer at tho Athemouin. Mr. Cal Woodbury and tho Misses Lou and Clara Blancard. of Now Albany, are registered at the Sterlingworth Inn, Lakewood. Mrs. Fannie Turner and Mrs., N. T. Ethell, of Muncle, reached the Sterlingworth last week. Mrs. K. S. Fisher, Mrs. E. J. Cotton, Neele A. SmithvMiss Cora A. Fisher, Clifford C. Fisher. Miss Lillie Mitchell, all of Union City, are registered at tho Kent House, Lakewood. At Bernus Point, a pretty and popular resort, half way from Chautauqua to Lakewood, Mr. H. L. Whitehead, Mrs. A. J. Whitehead, Mr. Frank Ritchie, wife and daughter. Mr. H. 1L Friedley, wife and son, all of Indianapolis, are spending the summer at the Lenhart House. W. N. C.

THE ELIXIR AT WORK. Truly Progressive Physicians Heady to Experiment and Test Its Merits. Boston Transcript. From all parts of the country come reports of the siiccessfinl experiments made with tho elixir of life discovered by Dr. Brown-Sequard. North and South, East and W'est, medical men of undoubted prominence in their calling have gone to work to lind out for themselves its value, and the results are not only interesting, but are remarkable. In eyery instance so far reported it has been successful in infusing now life into the subject. Whether theso hypodermic injections of the elixir will prove of lasting benefit can only bo determined by time. But experiment with it has reached the stago that for reputation eaKe doctors will treat it less as a joke and more of a subject for future investigation. It may bo that tho f lixir is only a stimulant and that its e fleets may soon wear oif, but even then the discovery has been a valuable 0110. Tho process of administering is thus described: "Tho eyringe punctures tho cuticle or scarf-skin and the 'cutis' or true skin, and then enters the subcutaneous or cellular tissue which covers the muscles or riesh. Through all the tissues of the body run the lymphatics which convey the injected, mat ter to the lymph ohaunels, these in turn to the veins, and thence throughout tho system. A half ounce of tho fluid will be distributed in from oue to three hours. Sometimes the subject might feel the stimulus very quickly, and in some cases hours might rlanse before anv enect was felL The hu man system is able to absorb almost an un limited amount of this liquid, if adminis tered properly and if pure. It will take considerable experimenting to settle the relation that Dr. Seouard's discovery bears to longevity. It may bo a new life to those who use it, or it may shorten natural liie oy artificial exhilaration. Other stimulants havo direct effect upon life, and it yet remains to bo seen in what essential particulars this discovery differs from the great number of stimulants now in use. Tho ono reason why it may prove very different in ultimate enects irom any siimuiani in uso is tnat it. is absolutely innocuous, and has iu element of vegetable, animal or mineral poison about it. A long series of experiments will have to be made before it can be reduced to an exact medical science. But, meanwhile, its use will continue, for it harms no one. Dr. lirown-Sequard has made a discovery which ranks in medicine oven before Dr. Jcnnor's discovery of small-pox virus. It is so recent that, although experiments are in progress all over tho world, results will no do known for some time to come." " Ponce de Leon, wandering through tho wild, rank luxuriance of the Florida woodland, and the dank, pestilential everglades, in search of the fountain of youth, littlo dreamed that the 6qucaky animal that scurried out of his path contained in his organization perhaps the principlo for which ho sought tho elixir of life. A Mysterious Woman In an Opera-Box. New York Times. A young woman in a most remarkable attiro was in ono of the boxes at the Casino last night. Her dress was of white lace, with broad bands of yellow silk. A lace sash was wound about her head and face, completely obscuring all but tho noso and eyes, tho latter looking big aud beautiful. Tho audience was in a state of great curiosity over her, and the opera-glass slot machine on the backs of the chairs did a thriving business. .It was passed around that 6bo was an Egyptian princess, and she certainly created enough of a sensation to be one. No one knew who her escort was, and Hie audience did not give its undivided attention ta "The Brigands" until after the veiled woman left, at tho end of the second act. When the tickets for the box were purchased they were ordered to be sent to tho Hotel Metropolo to Frank He Murin. At the hotel nothing was known further than that a man escorting a woman answering tho foregoing description applied for rooms there on Monday, but did not get them. Tho woman's striking appearance attracted a grtat crowd in front of tho hotel. Why the Widow Was Crushed. Chattanooga Times. Speaking of widows marrying made mo think of an incident that happened, near where I lived way back in the fifties. I lived next door to DickTolbot Ho had live littlo'brats. Dick went off a hunting ono day and 6hot his leg. -It was mighty bad weather, and at last the doctors had to cut off his leg to save his life. He lingered along for several months, and then died at last. I was thero the night that he died. Sho took on mighty bad. Some of the neighbors went to her to console her, but it did no good. At last I went to the seemingly heart-broken wife, and told her that poor Dick was gone, and told her that it did no good to "take on" so. "I cau't help it." said she, and continuing, pointing towards her children, said: "Just think that theso poor children will havo to come under a step-father. It is more than I can bear." ' " The Japanese Commissioner. Boston Transcript. Mr. Kentero Kaneko. the newly appoint-. cd imperial commissioner of Japan, who has been sent to this county and England to report to his government on parliamentary procedure, and will arrive next week, is, educationally, a product of Boston, so to speak, as he came here in 1S70, at the age of about fourteen years, and wholly unacquainted with our langnage, customs, etc. Ho was very bright, intelligent and agreeable, and remained in this vicinity about tight years. Ho had for a private tutor Miss Allison (now Mrs. Goddard, of Brookline), then attended tho English highFchool, Boston, and finally tho Harvard law school. Before the Days of Christian Science. Fairfield. Me.. Journal. The late Dr. Thayer was ono of the best physicians in the country, but his skill was of no avail in tho case of his wife, who kept her bed for more than two years. Ono day thero was no grown person about tho house and her littlehoy came running in with a bad cui on his finger, bleeding profusely. With true motherly forgetfulnessof 6elf she sprang up, fouud bandages and dressed the wound; then sitting down to rest she looked around: everything seemed so pleasant and sho felt so comfortable that she decided not to take her bed again, aud sho did not. Sho lived several years in the enjoyment of comfortable health. Chaunceys Floirfrr. Detroit Free Press. Chauncey M. Depew is said to be vory fond of morning glories. People are very apt to admire their oppositcs. The morning glory shuts up at mght. Interesting to Dudes. Philadelphia Record. Quite a foppish suit, with n t of cuffs thrown in, can be bought now for ;1U

COMFORT IN SUMMER-TIME

An Ideal Cooking Arrangement That tho Women Will Gladly Yelcomc. Hints About How to Be Comfortable at Homo During the Hot Season Suggestions in Eehtion to Female Health and Beauty. Epecial to tho Indianapolis JonrcaL New York, Aug. 9. The southwest wind blows like tho draught from a furnace afar off. Opening the doors and windows this morning, the outer air rushed in 6o many degrees warmer that it seemed as if the world had been simmering over night. The moist, depressing heat gives one a eyrnpa thizing idea what it is inland, in closelybuilt towns and country houses with only the breeze between them and tho sun. How do people live without east winds cooled by icebergs off Labrador and the strengthening of salt air! Why does not some genius study a new subject and go about telling people how to live comfortably! Notably, there was such a one, tho Polish exile and philosopher. Count Lehmanowski, yet remembered in the interior, where ho used to lecturo in a benevolent way. But the best of his work was always done nights and mornings, giving peoplo iuvaluabio hints about health and conveniences, and how to man-, ago from cooking a foreign dish to tho routine of crops or choosing a vocation. He was a man of very sincere mind, and that wide, clear sagacity for which nothing was too vast or too small to be of interest, and I havo heard him spoken of almost adoringly for the help his advice had given on practical matters on which the comfort of narrow lines twined. The philosophers, like Franklin and Count Rumford, and Horsford, of Harvard, found their genius never better employed than in devising aids for doniestio economy. It is to Franklin wo owe the open parlor stove and twenty other conveniences under patent to-day. Tho best cooking ranges and utensils are copied, direct from Bumf ord's designs, one hundred years airo. which never have been improved upon. I have heard one of the old' Gloucester folk tell of the first cooking etovo ever brought to the place, more than fifty years ago, which drew almost as much wonder from the neighbors as the railway engine years later. People harnessed teams and drove up from Marblehead and. Ipswich to seo the new cooking machine. We are apt to think we are at tho completion of improvements, when we have hardly begun on the ideas the fathers have written and stored away. Life goes so much easier with intelligence, and a tour among the inventions for coolness and comfort discloses great alleviations for days at 85 in the shade with humidity. We must eat if it is summer, and that necessity adds fearfully to the distress and mortality of heated months. It is a very serious fact that many women die every summer from overwork and overheating. They could endure the work if it were not for the heat of that -Moloch of a cooking stove. Kerosene stoves are a great boon, but even an oil stove equal to the needs of a family creates oppressive heat. The ideal arrangement is this square, closo shut Japanned box, about two feet sqnaro, on four high legs, under a tin hood higher than one's head, with pipe connected with tho chimney. A larffo entry lamp under the box supplies tho heat. Lifting the cover of the box, behold a complete cooking battery of white-ware jars, one with chicken, another with beef roasting, three more with vegetables, and dumpling.9 light as sponge. Another pair hold brown bread, loaves, steaming to perfection; a square tin holds a loaf of white bread which will bo finished in the oven at one side. Observe the convenience. The cooking-box is so high there is no stooping to stir the food or look in tho oven. There is no anxiety about burning the food in theso thick pots of fire-proof ware, so nicely is the heat adjusted, and consequently no burning and withering women's faces standing over the fire. The box, or oven as you please, is of paper pulp, lire-proof as iron, with the excellent property of conveying no heat into tho air. All heat and odor whon opened, aro drawn at once into the chimney by the tin hood, under which one might fry fish without any one in the next room being wiser. This is the invention and practical diversion of a very busy and very practical man, Mr. Edward Atkinson, diplomate. financier, writer on political economy, secretary of a ricji insurance company and student of such philosophies of common life as the ablest men of all times have been. The idea of the cooking-box is an old one, used by the shrewd peasantry abroad, and approved by every old writer on the economy of heat, but it was left for Mr. Atkinson to improve and develop it. It simply reduces the expense of fuel and tho heat felt to the lowest degree, while making cookery absolutely an exact science in practice. The llavor imparted or rather developed in such cooking, the tenderness and richness of meats, the sweetness of bread and tine quality of vegetables, ia rom ark able, and the gain in substance of food pays for the oil burned thrice over. The whole process is so freo of all tho evils of common cooking that one would imagine women reaching for the new invention en masse, but tho iutenso conservatism of ordinary women in all matters outside their self-interest stands stupidly unaware what a lightening of their burdens is here presented. J?uch an invention would do more for them than the ballot if they only knew it, and I think tho Western women will know how to appreciate it. Tho value ot the cooking oven depends on the non-conducting property of paper pulp. What is good to keep heat in, will keep it out, and tho next application of the material is the convenient refrigerator of compressed wood pulp. This has the advantage of not needing double walls, and being light enough to wheel into any place, unlike tho common behemoth refrigerators. The Ideal refrigerator of wood pulp is decorated with nickel plate scrolls and oil. pictures to be ornamental enough for an ordinary dining-room or side hall. To my taste the decoration is its only drawback, being too much in cheap chroino style. When will dealers learn to send out a few, at least, of their household wares in severely good and plain finish to suit artistic no tions! But we must forgive its panel of lakes, and mountains, and gilt finishes for its lightness and cleanliness, till good tasto has its renaissance in manufactures as well as art. This refrigerator is a nico thing for apartments, being oval in shape, a yard high by twenty-two inches through, and weighing only forty pounds. The ice is put iu the top and tho provision chamber has a full circulation of air with a large door, which will commend itself to every housekeeper. The demand in cities now by families who havo been abroad and found the immense advantage of some foreign ways, is for lodgings on the. English plan, whero rooms aro let furnished and people buy what they fancy for food, and the landlady cooks and serves it for a certain sum extra. By this way people get more variety and more to their own tastes than in the usual boardinghouse fare, with more economy and entire privacy. They pay the market rrice for every article they consume, and only for what they have, and pay the hostess's price for cookery and service. For such men a gs all sorts of nice, portable, woll-iinished domestic contrivances will bo in demand, and such a refrigerator as this wood-liber ono will not be tho least benefit where each family can keep its food with proper sanitary precautions, and none of the "coldmeat" suspicions which sound so vulgar iu English lodging-house novels. With this there will be no need to keep the baby's milk on the window-sill. or the mamma's bottle of porter, if she must have that detestable compound, or any keeping gingcr-pota and Swiss fruit among the tooth-brushes and medicine bottles in the dressing-closet. Next comes the indurated fiber bath-tub, which is a boon in houses without completo water service. It is a question in country or suburbs, where the prices of water service are exorbitant, whether it is not best to adopt Independent plans. It costs near Boston $13 first payment to the water company for making connection between tta