Bloomington Telephone, Volume 10, Number 52, Bloomington, Monroe County, 6 May 1887 — Page 2

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THI SHIP OF DREAMS.

Wbsn silent lies th sleeping town In its profound rest. Tnre U a snip comes sailing down Upon the river's breast. Wide-winged as that enchanted swan, She saileth through the night. And purple grows the gloom upon The m&gjo of her light. The bark sh bears no mortal name, No crew of mortal mold, XJlywen ship of song and flame. Of cedar-wood and gold ! She is the ship that Turner knew On the enchanted seas. She floats fair isles of innsie through And isles of memories. And she is mystic Ml y fraught With dreams remembered long. That drift on all t ae tides of thought And on all the seas of song. She has Ulysses by her helm. As in the olden time ; This is a ship of diviner realm, , And of a fairer clime.

HER FIRST LOVE.

BY SABA B. ROSE. Ontravalla, the well-known country-seat kf Jesse McLane, was enjoying a miniature 'Carnival upon its own spacious grounds. It had its elalxnrately-built and prepared 'toboggan slide upon the steep hill-side back of the great stone mansion, whose liuJl was well-stored with Sioux and Chip pewa snowshoesy and all the implements necessary for a successful carrying out of 'the plans which Minnie McLane wrote teat in full to her city cotuttn Ina. The pleasant, girlish letter closed with a

j pressing invitation to como to On travail a (immediately, for a number of the nicest of the guests had already arrived, a gentlejlnanby the name of Leigh Ellis among 'them. He is the most fascinating young man 'of the dozen or more that are expected, and (lie turns'the heads of all the girls of his acquaintance, wrote Minnie. Ina kept this part of her letter to herself. It was but the postscript which she read to her father. "All the preparations are 'going on rapidly; there will be a tiny ice palace built upon the river where the best skatin? is; papa thinks it will be an immense success." "That sounds just like Jess," laughed Mr. McLane "Anything that he goes into is smre tb he immense.' Do you remember, Ina, the flaming sword which fell from the akies into that very river a :few years ago? It drew hundreds of visitors to the old place, but I know I have seen that old relic Hof barbarism in the garret there years ago. and I have an idea that it did not fall from any very great elevation. You'll find your oarnival something of the) same sort when you get there. And Mr. McLane laughed heartily at his brother's exaggerated views of his own importance, while Ina exclaimed delightedly: So I am to go, then?" "Oh, yes, if you like. Ben can go with jrou for escort, for I can't pcssibly think of going down there to be frozen up for the take of seeing an ice palace wbici will Itave evaporated before I get there. "Leigh Ellis will not have evaporated, thought pretty Ina, arching her bros as the ran to her room to begin her pai ring, never thinking of plain, good-humored, Ben Hoes, wbo was to be her escort. Why could she? Well, for one reason he loved her devotedly, and she knew it, but then he was only the confidential de ck in her father's store almost her brother as she told him upon a well-remembered occasion. Ben Boss was known to be strict! y honorable. "His honor had been the making of him,'1 Mr. McLane, who would have liked nothing better than that Inn should take a liking to him, often said. Ina knev her father's n ishes, too, and perhaps these expressed v ishes were the very reason she did mot take the fancy. She knew Ben's honorable record, toe, and was rather inclined to laugh at it when her father grew loquacious upon the point. "Nonsense," she would exclaim. "Oihc r men are just as honorable as Ben Boss. I know plenty of them that axe more agreeable." And Mr. McLane would hang his head and stroke his beard and say no more upon the, to him, agreeable subject. Xieigh Eliis occupied a considerable portion of Ilia's thoughts during her hurried preparation, and when at length she was on board the train with Ben by her side, ahe could keep them to herself no longer. "There's the loveliest fellow at Uncle Jesse's, so Minnie writes. Lei'h Ellis is his name; all the girls think he is just splendid." Ben was used to Minnie's gushing style, but the words brought their sting with them, and he felt rather bitter us he replied: "And you, I suppose, will be influenced by the rest, end soon become one oi the nucleus which surrounds this brilliant - A M

pianec ' "Of all the comparisons as if ladies would stoop to such things as that! Ben Bobs, I am ashamed of you. "You manner of speaking suggested the comparison," said Ben, meekly. "Worse and worse, " cried Ina, indignantly, "but then 1 can pity yonv Jealousy has been called an infuriating flame." "As if I could be jealous of a man I have never seen," said Ben, his color rising. "Of course I am not so stupid as not to know that I am considered but a necessary evilr "For the sake of sweet peace let us change the subject," cried Ina, with a little provoking laugh. "Your face is as long as the train we are trying to pass, and 1 do believe the conductor thinks you are insane from the way he is looking t t you." "I agree with you. Ina," replied Ben, gravely. "What 6hall we ;alk about, the entertainmen t at your uncle's?" Upon their .arrival they found that for once Uncle Jesse had not exaggerated. The nowshoes end toboggans were of great interest to Ina and her companion, who were not pested in such matters; the ice palace too, which was in the course of erection, was beginning to get above the treetops, and when with Minnie they walked out to the river side, prominent among the graceful figures which were skating about upon the ice, bringing and laying in place the gUttering blocks of ice, was Mr. Leigh Ellis. Minnie McLane, who fels in no xaore awe of Mr. Boss than did her cousin, said to her companions in a low tone: "There is Mr. Ellis. Isn't he hardsome? I think him 1 he finest looking of all the company, 1 allies and gentlemen included, unless it may be my sweet cousin Ina." This compliment was accented by a rapturous hug and a kiss, while Ben said humbly, "He is a fine skaler." He did not wish to be charged with jealousy aain. The introductions to the company were given jnst before dinner, and, as if to confirm the fears in Ben's breast, Mr. Ellis offered his arm to Ina and conducted her to the dinner table. After this there was a week of r.ire doings in the great stone house at Ontra TCilla, and ia all the merry-makings na bore a prominent part with Leigh Ellis as lr constant attendant. Ben bore si. this patiently, and comlorted himself its wfcll as he was able by bringing to mind numerous flirtations -which Ina h id indulged in ere this, and which more thtn once she had been only 4oo glad to cirop, but one evening some

thing occurred which prepared him for the blow which was to be dealt to his fondest hopes. The band of young people were busily at work trimming the house with evergreens, and Ben, who was very clever in arrangement of the variong devices which had been prepared by the young ladies, was sent to hang a five-pointed star in a little alcove in the wide hall. He ran along lightly nnd almost noiselessly and lifted the curtain which hung over the alcove. Leigh Eilis and Ina McLane were standing within it, and Ina's soft voice was saying, i;Leigh, dear Leigh." A heavy wreath which Mr. Ellis was holding shielded Ben from their observation, and he was certain he heard the sound of a kiss through the evergreen circlet. He dropped the curtain as noiselessly a3 he had lifted it, and with silent footsteps he walked out into the darkness of the winter's night. It was hours b afore he returned, chilled and half frozen, for he had gone out hatless and unco ate d, but the chill of the winter's night seemed as nothing to the dreadful cold which seemed to benumb his feelings with its frozen chains. The house was silent, for it was long past midnight, and with a bitter smile Ben hung the star to its place and retired to his room, where he walked the floor until the unmistakable sound of the breakfast bell recalled him to himself. He made some changes in his toilet and

went down to the dining room, where he found Minnie McLane alone, and greatly elated with a secret which had been confided to her. She put her am. inside Ben's as he neared her side and exclaimed, gleefully: Oh, Ben, you never can guess the news. Ina and Leigh Ellis are engaged. Will they not be a handsome couple? Ina is the most beautiful jrirl here, and Leigh admires beauty more than anything else. He told me he fell in love with Ina's face the first time he saw it.

Ben, who had been expecting this, bowed silently in reply, and Minnie continued: "Inn does not v ish to have anything 6.:id about her engagement just yet. I only told you, Ben, because you are one of the family. At this moment others of the guests came trooping into the room, among them Ina McLane and Leij;h Ellis. There was .nothing in the bearing of either to indicate the new relations between them, but during the day it; was whispered around among the guests that there was something between Miss McLane and Mr. Ellis, and before tbe ball, which took place that evening, wits ovtar, there was a fullfledged report that the something was an engagement of marriage, and that there would be a wedding the coming spring. Those who suspected Ben's secret watched him secretly and narrowly, but they did not discover any indications of feeling. It was u wonder even to him Keif that he bore it so calmly, yet he knew that his benumbed feelings bat preceded the keenest pain. The morning after the ball, Ben was sitting alone in" the library, when suddenly the door opened and Ina entered the room and seated herself coquettishly upon a stool jnst at his feet. w0h Ben you cannot thix.k how perfectly happy I am." I suppose that I should say that the happiness of the woman I love is the greatest boon I could desire." "But you do not say it, replied Ina, smiling mischievously up at him. Ben was silent. He was repenting that first unwise speech, but Ina soon broke the silence. "Ben, I want you to write to papa this morning and tell kirn." "Ina!" he exclaimed, in : voice so sharp with pain that the young girl's heart was touched with pity. "Oh Ben, you will make me cry," she said, thickly, with real tears in her eyes. "You know I always told you that I loved you only as s. brother, and you must have expected that, sometime I would see some one that I would care for more, and Leigh is so handsome, Ben.w Another long pause during which Ben's head was bon ed upon his hands. I thought, Ben, you would surely write to papa for iiae," she pleaded. "What shall I say to him?" replied Ben, raising his sorrowful face and drawing near to the writing desk. "Nothing very mnch, Bon. I would like to have him see Leigh first. I think you had better iell him that I have found the man calculated to make me happy, and that we will oring him home with us a week from to-day." "And is thtail?" -That is a l." "And 6hall I not mention Mr. Ellis' name?" "No, that will keep until I introduce him." Ben's hand dew obediently over the paper. Ina glanced at Die finished letter, and then it was sealed and directed and sent away with the day's mail, Ben feeling as the young girl left him as if he had performed the hardest task which could ever be set for him tc do. Mr. Ellis did not attempt to make himself agreeable to Mr. Boss, and the two had very little to say to each other during the days which followed. The afterr.oon of the Inst day but one of their intended tay the young people decided to spend tobogganing. The skating and snowshoeing, the ice palace and the evening parades, as well as the ball and other indoor sports had justified Uncle Jesse's favorite expression of "immense." The storming of the ice palace was reserved for the last evening, and the toboggans were relied upon for this day's sport. The slide, which was built upon a wcky hillside, was as slippery as ice could make it, and for a time the amusement went on merrily. Mr. Ellis, who had made several highlysuccessful trips with his betrothed for a companion, star ed forth once more in his accustomed jaunty and rather reckless manner. There was none fuult with the steering, for suddenly the light toboggan veered from its course aod struck the icy side, and, turning completely over, slid with its fair burden beneath it rapidly down the slide Mr. Ellis was thrown from his place, and was picked up but a trifle the worse for the accident, but when they approached the dismantled toboggan there was a terrorstricken pause, the frosty slide was stained with blood for more than half of its length. Ben Boss lifted the blood-stained and seemingly lifeless form of the girl he loved, and bore it, resrardless of comment or lookers-on, to the house which had been the scene of imch gay doings, and which were ended from that moment. I A physician was summoned by Mr.) McLane, and taen the frightened company gathered in the parlor, and, with pale faces, awaited his verdict. It came at last, cold and businesslike. wMiss McLano is not fatally injured, but she will piobflbly be disfigured for life." It seemed that her head and face had suffered the most. Her beautif al featnres were but a shapeless mass. Her eyes were closed and thare was a deep ice-cut among her heavy masses of hair. One shoulder, too, was broken, and it seemed impossible that she could be moved in several weeks. There was departure from Ontravalla that evening of most of the guests who

had borne their parts so gaily, and at 10 o'clock Minnie whispered to lien: "Every one has gone except; Leigh Ellis. He is so agitated that he has not said a single word. How he must love her." "I hope you may be riht," Bald Ben, bluntly. "To me his silence seems like cowardice or indifference." It was a man, coated, and with a valise in his hand, which an hour later attempted to pass Ben without speaking in the hall. "What, Ellis? Surely you are not going at this hour?" "I fear I must. I have had a telegram from home." Ben looked at him frxedlv, his form burring the passage from the hall completely. "I that is," exclaimed Ellis, excitedly, "it is a disagreeable thing to say, but I hear that Mis McLane will be disfigured for life. I cannot abide a homely persrn. There was a slight flirtation, I may call it, between us. I hope you will expinir it to her I meant nothing beyond the amusement of the hour."

For an answer a sturdy fist made the ncquaintance of Mr. Ellis' perfumed herd, and for a second time that day Jesse MoLane's household was startled by a sensation which caused a doctor to be summoned. Before his arrival, however, this last time, the patient had arisen from his recumbent position and left Ontravalla never to return. It was a week before the swelling went out of Ina McLanet; bruised face, and then the physician was able to say confidently that in six months' time there would be no trace of the accident which had at one time seemed so threatening to her beauty. Her shoulder, too, was doing finely, and the cut upon her head was neaily healed, and for the fir6t time, the day after this favorable report, her father, whe had been summoned, felt that he mlgiat converse with he.- freely. Her lover, whom Ben had written to him about where was he? "I am glad that von have escaped as you have, my daughter,' he ui.d. "And now tell n:e about this prespeenve son-in-law, which formed the subject of one ot Ben's letters." The darkly-bruised facellushed a deeper red, but Ben, from his place behind Mr. McLane 's chair, anticipated her reply. "It is my unworthy self," he said. "Mr. McL;tne sprang joyously to his feet and grasped the young man's hand, "It is a most joyous surprise. 1 thought that it must be a stranger who had won my daughter from me." No further explanation was made, but the night before Ina's wedding, a few months later, she whispered 60ftly to Ben: "I believe that I lo.ved you all the time. That day that you wrote to papa for me, I felt that your misery was my own, and Ben, I have a secret to i:ell you. I met Leigh Ellis a month Ago, and he begged me to resume our old relations, but I knew that when I thought I loved him I made a mistake. ou have my first a ad only love."

Where German Pipes Are Made. Ruhla, a mountain village of Thuringia, is the center of the pipe manufacture of Germany. Like our own Sheffield, it was famous in the middle ages for its arms and armour, and at a subsequent period for its knives. When the use of tobacco became common in Europe it turned its attention to the fabrication of iron sraoking-pines. Gradually, however, beginning in the seventeenth century, meerschaum and wood were adopted as more suitable materials to work upon. The iirst meerschaum pipe was carved in the early part of the thirty years Mar, and Wallenstein is said to have bought it. The true clay is only to be procured at Eski-Scher, in Asia Minor, where there are large deposits, and whence it is sent direct to the manufactories in Ruhla, of which there are at present forty, employing almost the whole populat ion of the district. The number of pipes and other articles dear to smokers turned out is enormous, the yearly average being 540,000 real meerschaums, varying in price from 3 pence to 12 apiece; 500,000 imitation meerschaums at from 1 shilling to 1 the dozen; , 000,000 porcelain pipe bo vis, either plain white or ga-yly painted, rising in price from 4 pence to 10 shillings the dozen ; 5,000,000 wooden pipes, of infinite variety in size, form, ornamentation, and price, the common kinds being extremely cheap, and t&ose artistically carved fetching a comparatively high price; 3?000? 000 bowls of clay or lava, plain, at about 3 pence, of better kinds at 3 shillings the dozen; 15,000,000 pipes composed of separate parts (bowl, stick, cover, etc.), from 5 pence to 25 the dozen. There are five qualities of meerschaum used in the making of pipes; the best is known by its facile absorption of the nicotine juice of tobacco, which gradually develops into a rich brown blush upon the surface, and when this process is well advanced the pipe becomes almost invulnerable without being hard. A specimen of this kind sold at Vienna for 50, although it was not very highly carved. London limes. " Does Gold Grow ? Years ago I wrote and published in a London magazine an article in which I undertook to prove chat gold grows grows the same as grain and potatoes or anything else. 1 reckon J did my work crudely, not knowing; anything about chemistry or even the ordinary terms of expression about such matters, and so my earnest and entirely correct sketch was torn all to pieces and laughed to scorn. Well, I have it last found positive proof of my general statement right here in these mountains by the Pacific Sea. Briefly and simply, I have found a piece of petrified wood with a little vein or thread of geld in it. How did that gold get into this piece of wood? Was it placed there by the finger of God on the morning of creation, as men have claimed Mas this case with the gold found in the veins of the mountains? Nonsense! Gold grows. Certain conditions of the air, or certain combinations of earth and air and waier, and whatever chemicals may be required, and then a rock, a piece of quartz, or petrified tree, for the gold to grow it, nnd there is your gold crop. Of course, gold grows slowly- Centuries upon centuries, it may be, are required to make the least sign of growth. But' it grows just as I asserted years ao ; and. here at last I hold in my hand such, testimony as no man in this world will bo rash enough to question a portion of a petrified tree with a thread of gold in it Joaquin Miller, in Chicxgo Times. A man dying left a thousand pounds to an individual who years before ran away with his wife. He said in hia will that he never forgot a favcr.

POSTAGE-STAMP SWINDLE. How a German Denier Has Obtained an Knormous Fortune On of the Most HICantlc Impositions Kvcr Perpetrated Vpon Mankind. Now York World. J One of the greatest swindles that have ever been perpetrated upon mankind is the work of a German dealer in old postage-stamps. There are in the world about 450,010 persons making collections of postage - stamps one specimen of each issue of each country who may be classed as retail buyers. TJiere lira several thousand dealers, big and little, who buy to sell again, and about 1,000 publications devoted exclusively to postage-stamps and their history, Some stamps are very rare and very high prices are paid for them. The purchase of stamps in bulk from the non-philatelist is a lottery. No man kno ws when he is going to get a prize in any loose boxful that may be sent to him by some person not a collector. About ten years ago a dealer in a small German town, whose capital was his brain i, conceived the brilliant idea of making all the world collect stamps for him without charge, and send him, also without charge, vast collections to sort out nnd sell again. Other dealers have to pay for this work and haye to charge high prices for their stamps. He would have all but the sorting done for nothing. To-day this dealer has a capital represented by seven figures and a million enthusiastic agents collecting in every section of the civilized globe. His daily mail contains hundreds of thousands of postage-stamps sent to him without cost. He has the largest stock of any dealer and his prices cut imder all others in the trade. How has he done it? This was his brilliant idea: "People who are not willing to give money will give work to help the poor. I will represent the poor, and they shall work for rue. I have a brother in Palestine. He shall start a 'Syrian Orphans' Home' on the Mount of Olives or in his imagination but we will advertise it as the Mount of Olives. We will send a description of this great charity to all the churches throughout the world, telling them that for 1,000,000 stamps we will board, clothe, and educate an orphan until old enough to support itself. The stamps will come to me. My brother will supply the orphan in his mind." His happy thought found a response wrherever a Christian congregation gathered. There is not in any little hamlet in the United States, or En

gland, or India, or Australia, or any civilized country a Christian congregation tha'5 has noM'rom one to ten members saving up postage-stamps begging, borrowing, and even stealing them in order to help make up the million that will go to clothe and educate a Syrian orphan in this mythical "Syrian Orphans' Home." Bui; there are many people, not church members, who do not take much interest in Syrian orphans. They require a little stronger meat. The Syrian orphan dodge worked so well that our little blue-eyed German stampdealer live years ago started an imaginary mission in the city of Chang Kiang, China, rhe holy sisters of which agreed, for every million stamps sent to him, to save from the jaws of the crocodiles of the Yellow Eiver at least one Chinese baby. Furthermore, they agreed that after savicg it from the jaws of the crocodiles that thy would support, educate, and Christianize it. All the stamps, however, were to bo remitted to Munich or Stettin. They were not to be sent to the asylum at Chang Kiang nor the Orphans' Home at Jerusalem. If any conservative soul did snd them there they would not be lost. The brother or an agent secured them, &orted them, and sent the prizes to Stettin. New circulars have gone out lately promising that for 1,000,000 stamps a home will be found for an old lady or an old geutleman for the remainder of life in one of three homes one located in London, another in New York, and a third in Cincinnati For half a million stamps a bed will be eudowed in a hospital. For 100,000 stamps a home will be found for some fatherless or motherless child for one year. This is a bolder game than any of the others. No address is given for either of the homes, but the names of reputable people are given clergymen, physicians, well-known philanthropists, society ladieB to whom the stamps are to bo' sent, to be forwarded. Inquiry shows that in e very case those whose names are &iven have agreed to forward the stamps to some one else, and that they know nothing about the location of the home or hospital, except that it is in New York or Cincinnati, Twenty scattered inquiries revealed agencies in Boston, New Y'ork, and Philadelphia to receive these stamps, the ultimate destination for all that are vain able being Stettin. It i;i estimated that this swindler has collected over 1 00,000, 000 postagestamps in the United States alone, and that he has obtained among them rare stamps worth from $500,000 to $1,500,000. Tennyson's Early Love. Those who ere familiar with tlio story of Alfred Tennyson's life will smile on reading his latest work, "Locksley Hall Sixty Years After," over the spirit of self-deception which runs throughout the verses. To the world, "Maud" and "Locksley Hall" are beautiful poems only. A few know that they are something more than poems of the imagination they are heart records. In the sequel to "Locksley Hall," just published, the poet tells his grandson that lie could never have loved a worldling like Judith, who has played such sad havoc with the susceptible youth's feelings, but this is precisely what ho did. When Tennyson was a promising young poet, crowned with Oxford's academic laurels, he wooed his first cousin, the story of which wooing he wove i:ato beautiful verse and gave to the world. Another author, the wealthy heir to the Earldom of Boyno, however, appeared on the scene, and the fair Amy, afterward so liberally adjeictived as "ffdse or servile," became a peeress. Lord "Boyne, who is the owner of large estates and valuable coal mimes in the County of Durham, the heart of the Northern coal-fields of England, freely extended hi hospitalities to his bride's

cousin at Brancepeth Castle, a modern but imposing mansion. The poet repaid the kindnosr. by satirizing the good-natured peer, his brand-new title, and his recently-acquired wealth most mercilessly in his "Maud" and "Locksley Hall." Independent of his wife's veiy natural indignation, Lord Boyne was not gratified to find his beautiful home described by a recent guest as a "gewgaw" castle, or at having the worid informed in verse, however harmonious, that lus wealth had come from the sweat of miners. Neither did he enjoy the thought that the tongues of the world were wagging over the story of his wealth having bought him a wife who preferred another lover. It is possible, too, he failod to soo the beauty of those llembrandti-kke touches wherein he is described as a clown and drunken. It might be beautiful poetry, the outraged host urged, but it was r.ot good taste and it was nos true. His lordship is certainly one of the most commonplace and uninteresting of peers or of commoners, but he is neither coarse nor drunken, and Brancepeth Castle, with its shivering larches, knew Tennyson no more. London Cor How to Live Without Eating. Henry Howard explains in h:is article on "Fosters and Fasting" in the G'o,smopoliian how it is that some people

and and animals can get along without food : Auto-suggestion, or a belief that one is nourished when one is not, is a great thing, and accounts for many phenomena otherwise inexplicable. Bedillot relates an incident to prove its existence in the animal kingdom as well: "A tortoise weighing one kilogramme and a half had been captured and permitted during several weeks to wander around the garden, subsisting on flies and other insects. When weighing two kilogrammes the creature was recaptured and eviscerated from behind, its head, members, and shell being left intact. It was then restored to its liberty weighing fifteen grammes less than at the time of its rirst capture, and, although entirely hollow and open in ita posterior aspect, it roamed about us before, snapping vp flies that, after being swallowed, readily escaped from behind. After two weeks the animal wap taken and again weighed, when it was foand to be five grammes heavier than at the period immediately after its evisceration. The creature was a eroyant that is, it believed it was taking into its system an abundance of aliment; it was growing fat. What was this mysterious energy that worked an apparent impossibility if not auto-suggestion?" On the other hand, this aensation of hunger is, at least, in a certain measure, independent of the state of inanition. In other words, in cases of nervous diseases hunger may be felt acutely, with all its distressing effects, in a body snfticieily nourished. In support of this distinction, M. de Parville says : " We are acquainted with u lean lawyer and a fat engineer, both of them neurasthenic. If the lawver does not take a glass of Madeira and a sandwich at 5 o'clock he becomes livid and has an attack of vertigo. The engineer is tougher. For about a year he guarded himself against his indiosyneracy by smoking, but toward half past 7t when he came home and smelled the odor of the dishes, if he was not served on the instant he could not control himself, and went into a veritable fury. He became positively and in spite cf himself furiously ravenous, And yet be was fat, and had no need to repair the losses of the organism that w;s already too well nourished. " So also numerous stones are found in all ancient medical dictionaries relative to those great eaters whose insatiable stomachs engulp!tied enormo us masses of solids and l iquids. Such was the case of Tar an is, who went so far as to drink the blo;dof his patients and eat the flesh of his cadavers, and. who was &uspected of having devoured a 4-year-old child; yet he had a most sweet disposition when he wasn't hungry. The Whitehead Torpedo. The torpedo that has boen adopted by nearly every naval power of Europe is known as the Whitehead, and belongs to what may be designated as the "projectile class," that is, having been started on its course toward the energy, no control of it is retained by the operator. Most of the various types of thie class are wholly submerged when operated against an enemy, and are generally arranged to run at a given depth below the sxirface, varying from 5 to 15 feet Naturally, one oi the main objects of inventors of torpedoes, as well as of fchose engaged in other fields of invention, is financial profit. The Whitehead is the only torpedo that has yet proved a tuccess in this respect. It is built of thin sheets of steel, is cigarshaped, like those already described but without the attached float, and Is made in three sizes, the largest being 19 feet long by 16 inches diameter, and the scaallest 9 feet long by 11 inches diameter. The motive power is compressed air, carried at a pressure of about 70 atmospheres, in a cylindrical reservoir within the torpedo. The speed attained is about 25 miles per hour for a distance of 450 yards. The torpedo v& divided into three sections "forward," "middle," and "rear" containing, respectively, the charge of 70 to 93 pounds of gun-cotton; the adjusting mechanism, wherein lies the secret of the inventor, and by which the hydrostatic pressure of surrounding wate is made to regulate the depth of immersion ; arid the air-engines and steering machinery. It is designed to be carried on board a very swift torpedoboat, capable of overtaking the fast iron-clad, and, when within effective range, to be discharged from, the boat with the steering rudder of the torpedo set in such a -position as to direct its course toward the enemy. The first motion, or "discharge, " is effected through a guide-tube in the bow of the boat, either above or below ttte surface of the water, usually by means of a very small charge of powder, after which, upon reaching the water, the torpedo is propelled by its own engi nes. The explosion may be made to take place either upon im pact with the enemy or after the torpedo has run a given distance LieuL W. 8 Hughes, in Scribnw's Magazine

MECHANICAL, V M At Vienna pipes are nistde If paper and designed for convening giis and water under ground. They are rolled from sheets like fireworks cases, charged with asphalt during the rolling and lined with an insol able enamel. They are only half an inch in thickness, and yet will resist an inteznal pressure of 2,000 pound. A Munich manufacturer formulates a compound consisting chiefly of common salt, alum, soluble glass, t.nd tungstate of Hoela, which hss been introduced with great success in Austria and Switzerland for the extinction of fires, and is now being used itn Germany, where the admiralty have recommended it to their navy yards. An improved automatic steam engine of Erie, Pa., make claims to have obtained the same results with a single valve that it has heretofore required from four to six valv.es to accomplish. The admission, compression, and release are constant at any and alii points of cut-off from nothing up to threefourths, and beyond if desired. Alexander E. Tucseb, writing to Engineering, says thai; he has successfully edged grooving tools for chill rolls by dipping the actual cutting portion in mercury. So mcre'of the steel than is actu&llj necessary should le dipped, as, while imparting extreme hardness, it naturally makes the body of the tool extremely brittle. A steam engine that runs the electriclight system in the works of the Portland, ( Me. ) Stoneware Company is built on an entirely new principle-. It has no piston rod, and is surprisingly compact, the one at the pottery occupying a space 16x19 inches, eighteen inches in height, yet it does with ease the or dinar? work of a ten-horse power engine of the old pattern The cost of construction is estimated to be about one-third less'than that of an ordinary horizontal or upright engine. Sir Joseph Whitwobth was the first to inaugurate) a system of standard screw threads. The form of thread, and the number of threads per inch which he jrccoin mended, were based partly on the results of numerous experiments a:ad partly on the average o btained by comparing the various forms of screwed bolts then in use. The Whitworth system has len very generally adopted in fdl parts of the civilized world except the United States. The Seller system introduced here in 1364 has the' same number of threads per inch, but the form of the tliread is different. There are machines now made which employ emery wheels in place of a tool to face of iiutirons and otiher flush surfaces. Flatuons faced off on one of tlliese machines will be found truer than the majority of slide-valve faces as they come from the manufacturers. This result is better obtained by giving the wheel a right-angle movement to the feed motion as it is advancing. A flatiron five inches long and tow inchea wide can be finished in :;orty-iive seconds, and. it will not be so warm but that it can be handled. New a tool which can give such a result iu so short a time is a tool of great value, and in these days of close competition it must be tal:en advantage of. There are results obtained by an emery wheel which cannot be obtained otherwise at any cost. Jay (ioiihi's BIiiniterbnM. A German once called at th-- ol;ico of Mr. Morosini and inquire1 for Air. Gould. This man had invented a new method of churning butter. Tae invention consisted of a:a immense copper syringe, about two feet long ami six inches in circumference. His. ilea was to supply the great American puMic with the means of churning ;heir own outter, and thus making every household happy. The cream was to be placed witlmt the syringe and then put mto the owner's pocket. The constant walking during the day was supposed to agitate the cream sufficiently to form Gutter; failing in thiis, howererfafew :; apid movements of die plunder ould answer the purpose. This could be lone by a gentleman when leaving liome for business in the mozning, and svhen he returned at night he would lave two pounds of fresh butter that would astonish the natives. The ide was certainly econoinical at. well as aovel. On entering the offico tbe man met Mr. Morosini, who atked him his business. The German replied that he had perfected a great invention, and. desire to show it to M:r. Gould. The gentleman in question w as standing close by and on hearing his name mentioned he stepped forward to the pigeon-hole m she office. The outor room at that time was divided by a partition in w hich was a pigeon-hole, and through this visitors were interviewed. With a wave or his hand Mr. Morosini referred the stranger to Mr. Gould. Afer looking at the railroad magnate in silence for a moment, the man smMenly made a dash with his right hand into his vest pocket and drew forth this odd butter churn or syringe, which he pointed in a confiding manner ad with tbe blandest of smiles toward the two gentlemen. Visions of an assassination erosa kig their minis, both Mr. Gould and Mr. Morosini simultaneously dropped tremblingly to the door, beneath the pigeon-hole, and in the maafc v eartrendering tones shrieked : 1 x lease shoot; high.w The wounded feelings of the innocent German may be imagined vrhea he diecovered thai; his great invention was mistaken for a blunderbuss. Neio York Star. How to Turn Their Heads, "Miss Smith, are you going to the ball to-morrow nigh ?" asked Kosciusko Murphy. Miss Smith "Of oourso I am." "1 supposed as much. Why is it that you are so fond of dancing?" "You see, its the easiest way to turn men s heads. Teo?w Siftings. Anort Wife (thne l a, xn.) Is thai you, Charles? Jolly HmibandZash mo. Angry Wiie Here have I been utanding at the head of th o stairs theee 1iwo hours. Ok, Charles, howanyuu? Jolly Husband (bracing up) Sfcfcandin on your head on t'sht airs? Jenny, rs ah'pr ised 1 How can I ? B y Jove can't I Twohourts, too! 'Storor'ntry woman I