Bloomington Telephone, Volume 13, Number 38, Bloomington, Monroe County, 5 April 1889 — Page 3

filoomlngton Telephone BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA. WALTER a BRADF1JTE, - - PuBUsam

There are eleven women students at the University of Lund, Sweden. Calvin's old church at Geneva, St. Peter's, is to be repaired and partly rebuilt at a cost of $100,000.

An Albany jeweler loaned all his diamonds on the occasion of a "swell" ball given in that city recently. At Strasbourg a German newspaper of the year 1609 has been found, which is the oldest German paper known. Gen. William S. Harney, the famous Indian fighter, now nearly 89 years old, is living at Jacksonville, Fla., fad in the enjoyment of good health. American settlers are char gel with depredations on Canadian forests along the Manitoba line, and the Dominion Government has stationed a police there. Major John M. Carson, Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger, stands a good show, it in said, to be Clerk of the next House of Representatives.

Sunuay and two night out in each week and tho use of the draMiug-room for the reception of her friends. Address A. F.j Scotsman office."

Miss Jem Weakley proved a (access as Enrolling and Engrossing Clark of the Alabama Senate. She is the first woman ever elected to office by the Legislature of that State.

The young ladies of a Kansas town got together and decided that they would send their beaux home promptly at 10 o'clock. The toys are on a strike, and the girls are said to be weakening. Isaac Cohen has sued Lena Broner in a New York court for $10,000 damages for breach of promise of msxriage. He claims that she courted hin, proposed, and was accepted, and then she jilfced him, Russell Harbison is to be a partner of Mr. Arkell in the publication of the reconstructed Frank Leslie's Weekly. It is not known whether this a rrangement will make any change in Mr. Harrison's Montana enterprises. Washakie, the head chief of the Shoshone Indians in Wyoming, has been enrolled as a Government scout, with the pay of a regular soldier. The appointment was made to reward him for faithful service to the Government. A genuine Raphael, which has been for some years at the South Kensington Museum, London, is for sale. Its owner, the ex-King of Naples, would like $200,000 for it It is called the "Madonna rf Perugia, and also the Colonna Raphael. A man while eating lettuce in a Boston restaurant came upon a piece of gravel so suddenly that it snapped a tooth off. He sued the proprietor for $300 damages. The judge gave the case to the jury. The latter found out what an entire set of new false teeth would cost and made that the figures of their award. Catherine L, of Russia, had a musical watch. In the interior was the holy sepulcher and the Roman guard. By touching a spring the stones moved away from the sepulcher, the guard kneeled down, angels appeared, and the holy woman stepped into the tomb and sang the Easter song of the Russian churches.

Frederick W. Seward, son of President Lincoln's Secretary of State, lives quietly vith his family at Montrose-on-the-Hudson. His country seat is one of the most charming on the Hudson banks, and is the pride of the owner. Since his retirement from political life Mr. Seward seems to have dropped completely out of sight. John Jacob Astor has all his life been a firm believer in the efficacy of pedestrian exercises as a means of health. He rarely enters a public vehicle, no matter what the weather may be, and seldom makes use of his own private carriage, one of the plainest and most inconspicuous of all the millionaires in New York.

The bringing of suits against the government for ancient claims is growing in fashioiu-. The heirs of Col. Nicholas Lotz, wheeled in the la3t century, met at Reading, Pa., and organized a raid on the treasury for $17,000,000, the amount due, it is alleged, on an unpaid bill for hay furnished the continental forces by the Colonel during the Revolution. Prop. Shaleb, of Harvard College, who has given much thought to a scheme for providing the necessities of college life at the lowest possible price, has, with some other instructors, organized the "Economic Club, which will provide board for $3.50 a week, and text books and other things at low prices. About one hundred students have decided to go into the scheme. An advertisement in an Edinburgh paper might be copied in this country : "Servant Wanted, by a family living in an Edinburgh ilat, a general servant who will kindly superintend her misfess in cool ing and washing, nursing the baby, etc She will have every

Sib Julian Launoefote, the new En glial Minister to Washington, is said by Americans who know him to be an inadequate selection. He is a big man phytrically, with an amiable face and a long, gray beard; courteous in manners, fond of good dinners, but mentally dry as a bone. He is really appointed as a result of a Foreign Office intrigue to get him out of the way, and thus make room for Sir Philip Currie. An outbreak of yellow fever ift reported from Versailles, France. The infection is said to have been brought in the feathers of certain parrots imported from South America. This is bad news indeed. The world has lately heard on high authority that the familiar, domestic diphtheria is often due to poor pussy and her inquisitive investigations into neighboring premises, but it is ouch more startling to hear that such a far-off foe as Yellow Jack may be lurking in the plumage of Pretty PolL The Boston Journal tells a queer story of three St. Louis men Dr. Sylvester Videlet, Col. Celeus Price, and Qucnius Price. The last two are sons of the Confederate General, "Pap" Price. A lady friend of thurs was dying several years ago, and the three dropied on their knees and vowed that if her life was spared they would devote the rest of their days to the spiritual elevation of mankind. The lady survived, and the three men have since traveled fron city to city, preaching to the poorer classes. The French Government has taken the bold step of suppressing the socalled Patriotic League and of prosecuting its leaders among them its President, M. Paul Deroulede. The league was founded in 1872, and has load for its object the promotion of means for the recovery of Alsace and Lorrsine. During the last year or two it has been one of Boulanger's most effective agencies, and enthusiastically followed his lead as an enemy of Prussia and the friend of Russia. Its suppression by the new Ministry is a direct blow aimed at Boulanger. An Ohio newspaper tells this story about Horace Poxter, son of the G eneral. When he was in Princeton College (he graduated in the class of '87) he was ill for some days. While he was stretched out on a couch in his room there came a rap on the door. "Who's there?" he shouted. "It's me, Dr. McCosh, was the answer in a hard Scotch brogue. "You're a liar," retorted Porter, who really thought it w&s a classmate. "If it was Dr. McCosh he wotld sav, 'It is L' There wast no answer to this but the sound of feet scuffling down the corridor. Young Porter ran to the door, cautiously opened it, looked down the hall, and saw the back and tall, stooped form of Dr. McCosh disappearing. The President of Princeton never spoke of the incident, nor did Poiter until he had his sheepskin, Brazil has pinned her faith on the iron horse. Confident that they will prove a profitable investment, she has gone on piling up a huge debt to extend and improve her railway systems. It is the expenditures for this purpose that have caused the steady deficit in the balance sheet of that country. Since 1881 she has run behind $48,000,000, and. it is believed this year will add $3,000,000 to those figures. The revenues have increased rapidly, rising from 931,000,000 in 1871-72 to $75,000,000 in 1886-'87, but they have not sufficed to cover the cost of railway construction. As a result oi these public works, which the Brazilians claim will more than pay for themselves in time, the country now has a foreign debt $147,000,000 and an internal debt of $206,000,009. Therefore it takes $17,0QO,000 a year or more than a quarter of the national income, to pay the interest on the debt. Of this income three-fifths comes from customhouse duties on imports, $8, 000, 000 fron export duties, and the remainder from internal taxes, railroads, etc. Brazil, seeing her' foreign, trade is larger than thf.t of any other South American State, her exports and imports being each over a hundred millions, looks forward hopefully to the future. Future of the Engine. The present efficiency of the best noncoiidensing engines is probably not gre ater than at she rate of two i:md a half pounds of coal an hour a horse power, and of a good condensing engine about two pounds of coal an hour a ho7:se power, or not materially different from James Watt's engines of fifty years ago. It is my opinion that with our present knowledge of machinery a steam engine can be bnilt that will produce a horse power with three-quarters of a pound of coal an hour, if of sufficient size ;o reduce the percentage of loss by radiation to a minimum. Under these circumstences your fuel expenses would bo less tefln one-third of what it now is. The future before men oi' your profession is brilliant indeed. The unes of electricity are now only beginning, and in a short time it will bo the docile eomprnion of man's labcrs, where now it ;.a dreaded as the treacherous ft lave. Study the laws of nature, which are the thoughts of God, and do not attempt to rebel against them. We cannot create new laws nor produce force. 11 N. Dickerson to New York Electric Clutk

A BLIND BA& AS A DETECTIY1S. Uoxv a Sighting Trade, nan CuugKt a HearUfBs Wretch. A blind man has to depend a g.eat deal upon the honesty of humanity, and it is to humanity's credit thai; the confidence is not often betrayed. There was a case of this sort of rascality, however, in the city some time ago, and the rascal was happily rebuked. There used to be a young blind man who sold cigars at a stand on Winter street and thereabouts. Ordinarily his sales were of single cigars or small packages of cigarettes, and the denier being expert in the handling of coins, had no difficulty in making change. Sometimes paper money would be given him, and then the blind man had to trust the honor of his patrons not to give hini counterfeits. One day a mm came to him who wanted to buy a lot of cigars, and offered a $5-noto in payment. The blind man trusted his honesty, took the $5bill, and gave what change was due in silver. The bill proved to be counterfeit. Some time afterward the swindler, feeling secure in the inability of the dealer to identify him, came back to the blind man's stand and bought a cigar. "I should think," he said nonchalantly to the dealer, "that you'd sometimes have counterfeit money passed on you." "Oh, no," said the dealer, " nobody would impose on a poor blind man like me." "So?" said the sharper. His victim had thrown him off his guard. "Evidently," be 1 bought, "the blind man succeeded in passing the bill, and nobody discovered it was bad till it got into the third or fourth man's hands. So here's a chance to get him again." "Of course, said the shaiper, again, aloud, "nobody would come such a game on you. By the way, I got a lot of cigars of you awhile ago that were good. Got any more of the same sort?" "Yes sir." "All right. Ill take another five dollar's worth." The blind man got up like a flash and seized him by the arms. "So you're the man that passed the counterfeit $i-bill on me, are you?" he exclaimed. Help I thief !" There was crowd on the street, and the blind man had plenty of help to secure the swindler, who was promptly marched off 1 3 the station, where quite a supply of counterfeit money was found on Ms person. Boston Transcript Seeing Seorge D. Prentice. It was away back early in the fifties, when the Oh io and Mississippi Railroad was building from St. Louis to Cincinnati. The JoiFersonville Railroad had but lately be m finished through to Indianapolis and the Ohio and Mississippi had just reached Its crossing of the former at th- then very little village of Seymour, in Indiana. One day, at this time, half c, dozen young newspaper men went up from Louisville to Seymour to see the railroad. Among them was Mr. A, C. Norton, afterwards editor of the Kentu cky Turf Register. "Refreshm ents" were taken along, and as a consequence our crowd reached Seymour with a good deal of gentlemanly mellowness abroad. The Seymourites knew we were from Louisville, b it who we were and what we were after, appeared to be involving them in ever so much puzzling contemplation. Noting this state of affairs, a member of o ir crowd got a citizen aside and solved the problem by whisperiug to him that it was George D. Prentice and his sta:T, and Norton, being the oldest man among us, was pointed out as Prentice. From thai; moment on we had only the finest s itting imaginable, and the attention paid the supposed Prentice was astonishing, to say the least of it. He at once became the center of attraction everybody seemed to be constantly planning for a good close look at him. When supper came on at the little hotel, and we sat down to a long table, the dining-room soon became crowded with people, all gazing at Norton. Evidently they wanted to see how Prentice fed himself. Finally, full as he was, Norton noticed it, and when our crowd got out of the dining-room he said: "Boys, who the h 1 am I, anyway?" "Don't you know?" said one of us. "Well, I thought I did," said Norton, "but I'll swear I begin to think I must be mistaken in the man." "Why, you are George D. Prentice." "What?" exclaimed Norton, then taking in the situation he added, "yes that's a fact Prentice had actually forgotten himself. " After that he humored the joke, and afforded. all a fair opportunity of seeing Prentice up to the time of starting on our return trip, an hour or so later. The people appeared to be highly delighted with him, and I suppose there are old persons yet living who still think they saw George D. Prentice on that occasion, and doubtless they remember him as the wildest and most rollicking editor on record. Arkansaw Traveler, Terra Cotta Lumber. For the past year a company has been working at Brunswick, near Melbourne, Australia, in the manufacture of a new material known as terracotta lumber, says the Australian Builder. This material consists of a

combination of clay and sawdush. On the clay in the pit is laid hardwood sawdust, and this is allowed to remain there for thirty-six to forty days to allow the sawdust to sweat The olay and sawdust are then elevated to a steam crusher and stone separator, a powerful machine which ejects all stones and knits into one substance the two elementary materials, which are then passed on to the pup: mill, where the admixture is ' rendered as thoroughly and complete as possible. Thence it is dropped into a press and comes out in whatever shape is required, and is then taken on a continuous band up to tho steam drying house. After they are dried there they are passed into the kiln, where they are for two days exposed to very high temperature, keeping them at, it is BaicL & white heat, During this exposure, the sawdust is consumed and 6. strong porous material is left. This material is terra-cotti r

and is guaranteed to be fire-proof, proof against heat and cold, and against vermin. It is made in any size. The cost of the material per cubic foot is about the same as bricks, and there is a saving of fifty per cent, in the labor of erection and quantity of mortar used. The terracotta lumber is worked into blocks for fireproof floors for heavy ware-houses and public buildings ; as a roofing material it possesses the advantages of non -conductivity. It can be secured or nailed into whatever position is required, in the same way as timber. Sliding in Earnest. Dqwu ordinary descents, and quite steep ones, too, it is the custom to allow the reindeer to trot and increase the rapidity of their motion as the sled pushes upon their heels, until at last they gallop at the top of their speed. Near Bulun, which is two days' journey from the mouth of the Lena river, there are several very steep grades, and the reindeer scampering down like the wind, the drivers shouting at the top of their voices, and the sleds bounding over the rough places make up a scene well worth witnessing. The Esquimaux of North America, on land journeys, often encounter hills where it would be very dangerous to attempt a descent with heavily loaded sled drawn by dogs. When such a place is reached, they unhitch the dogs and let the sled descend by its own weight. All the men act as brakes to prevent, if possible, a descent so rapid as. to land the equipage a complete week at the bottom. The two strongest of the drivers take their places on the sides at the front of the sled, and the others hold on where they can ; all pull back as strongly as possible when the speed increases. Some plant their feet straight in front of them and send tho snow flying as if from a snow-plow. Others find themselves taking leaps that would astonish a kangaroo, are dragged furiously along, or, maybe, come rolling to the bottom after the sled. The dogs regard the whole affair as a joke, and with their traces tied together come dashing along in the wild chase, some barking joyously, others yelping distressedly as, caugh in the traces, they are dragged to the foot of 'the hill by their reckless companions. It often seemed a wonder when, evert with all our exertions, we could land sled and party at the bottom in safety. W. H. Gilder, in St. Nicholas. A New Industry in Russia, The St. Petersburg correspondent of the North British Mail says that during the last few months a new industry has sprung up in Russia in the form of nicotine extract. This product not only finds a sale in Russia but is idready exported in considerable quantities, especially to South America. The lees obtained, when preparing the tobacco leaf, have been used for a long time for destroying parasites on plant;, and they have also been found efficacious when applied as an antidote to the various skin diseases to which sheep are liable. It has now, however, been discovered that this product affords a remedy for another destructive agent

namely: the dry rot among sheep and

last autumn the Russian firm of Nikola, Bogdanow Sc Co. started works in Moscow for the production of nicotine extract on a large scale. Four to five poods of common Machorka tobacco yield only about one pood of the extract, but in such a concentrated form that a teaspoonful is sufficient for nearly two pints of water, and the works produce about fifty poods of the extract per diem. The Russian Government has decided to exempt this product from excise duty. Any other uses to which nicotine may be applied, although not difficult to imagine, have not yet transpired. A "Fab" in Nursemaid. There is a "fad" in nursemaids, and literally will it be a "cold day" for the sharp-eyed, keen-witted "bonne ," if the Russian maid, a new departure in service, meets with the favor she anticipates. The Russian nurse-maid is already an imposing feature in more than one aristocratic household. To look at, she is all that is delightfully picturesque. She wears a long, loose garment of deep blue cloth, bordered with a band of crimson, and on her head is the veritable Russian headgear, &. creation of much-puffed white tulle, from which depend, all the way to the bottom of skirt, two wide lengths of crimson moire ribbon. So looks the Russian maid; how acts the Russian maid remains to be farther tested. So far, though, she has been found trustworthy and capable. Another fashion, "a la Russe," is that of dressing children for out-door exercise entirely in white wool and white fur. The little ones, so arrayed, look like tiny wraiths as they speed along over the frozen ground, through the crisp atmosphere. Table Talk. A Novelist on Matrimony. If ever one is to pray, if ever one is to feel grave and anxious, if ever one is to shrink from vain show and vain babble, surely it is just on the occasion of two human beings binding themselves to one another, for better and for worse, till death part them. The two people most concerned, especially the bridegroom, are on such a day willing enough to shrink from vain show and vain babble, but their friends and relatives insist on trotting them out anl making them show their paces. Indeed, for a man of

shy or nervous temperament to be married without chloroform is a painful operation. He may be a strong man, but he feels like Samson when, for the sake of a woman whom he loved, he allowed his eyes to be put out, and heard the Philistines calling upon him to make sport for them. Ouida. What Our Weather Costs Us. The United States pays $900,000 a year for its weather service, Great Britain pays $80,000, Germany $5(3,000, Russia $65,000, Austria $10,000, Switzerland $6,000, France $60,000. And, though no European natior. attempts to do as mud? as we do, or takes general observations more than once a dav, the percentage of verification o:f predictions is rising there, which is hardly the case in this country. Our weather service with its great tost and thorough organ ization, ought to be the best in the

WORDS or WISDOM.

Duty is every moment the brother oi sacrifice. Perreyve. Stick to the business in winch yon are regularly employed. Bettek live green and die green than to be prematurely rotten. Production of the press silent ag snowllakes, but potent as thunder. IIapp:;xess if composed of so many Sieces that one is always missing. lossuei. What is resignation? Placing God between us and our troubles. Madam Swetchine. The light of friendship is the light of phosphorous seen plainest when all around is dark. The greatest events of all ac es are itc best thoughts. Thought find its waj into action. Boice. It is folly to believe that one can faithfully love who does not love faithfulness. Sir Philip Sidney. I find the doing of the will of God .eaves me no time for disputing abou His plans. Georg e Macdona Id. Faith is to believe what we do not see, and the reward of faith is to sec what we believe. St. Augustine. To an honest mind the best perquisites of a place are the advantages it gives a man of doing good. Addison, If our private prayers are to be real, they must be the natural interpretation of a vision of the world of God. "I find," says Father Faber, "great numbers of moderately good people who think it fine to talk scandal. They regard it as a stort of evidence of their own goodness. W. D. Howells is of opinion that Christ and the love of Christ are at this moment inspiring the literature of the world as never before. All good literature, he says, is now Christian literature. HoyoB, like that precious juice extracted from flowers, forms itself from whatever it finds itself to be the most exquisite in each virtue, and its delicacy is such that the slightest spot i? sufficient to stain it. Blanchard

POPULAR S0II1NCE.

The Discovery of Australia. Some Portuguese navigators are said to have sighted the coast of Australia as early as 1542, but the first real discover;?was made in 1606, when a captain of a Dutch vessel, sent to explore the coast of New Guinea, saw the northern shore of the continent. In. the same year the Portuguese nanigator, Torres, sailed through the strait, between the main land of the continent at the north and outlaying islands, which has since borne liis name. In 1616 a Dutch captain discovered the west coast of Australia;, and other points were seen by Dutch sailors at different times during the seventeenth century; but bo attempts were made by them to follow up their discoveries. The English, therefore, though coming to the discovery over a century later, utilized it so extensively by exploration and colonization that then claim to the continent was accepted as valid. In 1770 Capt. Cook discovered New South Wales and Botany Bay, the latter bein& named by Sir Joseph Banks, the botan ist of the expedition, lecause of the wonderful floral display of the surrounding country. The English immediately decided to use the newly discovered country as a place of exportation for convicts, and the first penal colony was established in New South Wales in 1788. Between 1798 and 1835 a great part of the country along the coast was visited by exploring expeditions. Penal transportation to the main land colonies was abolished, in 1837, and about this time permanent colonization began. This, however, proceeded but slowly till after the discovery of gold in 1851-53. Subsequent to that date the settlement of the country went on very rapidly, Inter-Ocean.

Wealth foir the Timely Inventor. "One of the best opportunities for a young fellow to make money quickly in these days," said a self-made millionaire the other day, "is to rack his brains until he has invented something' useful or that the public wants. A general impression prevails that it takos a skilled engineer or a man of phenomenal inventive ability to develop anything useful to manufacturers i a. this age of m achinery. But there is a wide field open to shrewd amateurs, S3 to speak, to supply little aritcles of convenience to housekeepers, shopkeepers, etc., and designers can be had at reasonable rates to execute idea, once it is conceived. "American women are so accustomed to getting what they want that anything which lightens their labors in the household is sure to 'go.' When I was a boy on the f arm at home ray mother used to make me clean all the dinner k nives on Sunday with bath-brick. Now, scraping this brick into a fine powder with lumps in it uned to be the most tedious part of the whole work. The other day I heard of a man who lias made a fortune by supplying thq trade with powdered bath-brick in neat packages. You know how dilficult it is to pick up small coins from a wooden counter. Yet the whole civilized world has growled at and endured it since coins were stamped and counters made, until the other day a young fellow invented a rubber mat with little bristles of rubber standing up thickly ail over it. Coins thrown on the mat are as easily picked up as if they stood on edge. The public was quick to ar preciate it and the inventor need not work for a living any longer," New York Tribune.

Playing Cards.. Cards, which were invented at the close of the fourteenth century, says Notes and Qu eries, were originally very different from those h use at present! In shape they were square, and instead of suits of spades, clubs, hearts, and diamonds, their marks were rabbits, pinks, roses, and flowers of columbine. The figured cards were very prettily devised; a queen riding on horseback with a rabbit beside her marked the queen of rabbits or of clubs. A rustic looking man, grotesquely dressed, and standing in a strange attitude, with a pink beside him signified the knave of pinks or diamonds.

The sounds of the heart have beea recorded and reprcdmd by the phonograph. Thick brass wire has been made a brittle as glass by being kept extended and subjected to vibrations. The Atlantic liners accomplish their high speed with a consumption of H to If pounds of coal per horse power. An "inch of rain' means a gallon of water spread over a surface of nearly two square feet, or a fall of about on hundred tons on an acre of ground. Powdeheu rosin, according to H. Hager, is liable to spontaneous combustion, owing to oxidation by the airr and it should be kept in tightly closed tin boxes. Paop. Ayrton estimates that the power wasted at Niagara Falls exceed that which could be produced by the annual consumption of $150,000,000 tons of coal. The microscope often reveals impurities in diamonds, t articles or organio matter and bubbles of gas being com mon. Quartz chlorite, pyrite, hematite and topaz ve also been seen. It was k and that the loss by evaporation from a large tank: ior supplying the city of Napur with water, was 2 times, as great as the quantity supplied for consumption. During the recent fogs in London plants are said to have suffered not only from the absence of light, but from the pores of their leaves becoming filled up

witn tiie sulphurous sooty matters contained in the fogs. Banking in China.

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in China. The Chinese, however, have thousands of private banks. There are 400 banks in Peking, 300 native banks in Tientsin, and Can an has banks and pawnshops by the hundreds. The rates of interests are high andshoift loans in tight times reach 83 per cent. The pawnbrokers charge 36 per cent, e year or 3 per cent, a month, and the rate from one pi-ovince to another ia very heavy. China lias no national currency, and each bank issues its own notes. These are much like our notes, save they are Chinese characters and on cheap white paper. The only coine of the country is the cash, of which ifc takes from 1,000 to 1,500 to make $1, and which, small as it is, is oounter feited. The cash is a thin, round cc in little larger than one of the big American cents of a century ago and sometimes no bigger than a nickel It has a square hole in the center and is usually carried in strings of 100 or 1,000 each. Gold brick and silver nuggets are usedin making large purchases and the unifc of weight is the teal or ounce. Oqe or nee of silver or a teal is worth about $1.40 Mexican and a common denorain tin is a ten-teal piece, which ia a chunk of silver cast in the form of a Chinese shoe. I saw some of these silver shoe at the Hong Kong and Shanghai bank at Peking. They :ire stamped with marks denoting the ilneness of the metal within them and thej contain from 97 to 99 per cent, of pure silver. Gold bricksare of the size of little cakes of Indie ink, and these, like the silver, are sub ject to counterfeit. The business of the

creary pores, wmcn :uciuaes tnat oi airforeigners with the C hinese, is done in Mexican dollars, and each business house has a man called a shroff who does nothing else but count money and pass upon its genuineness. The Chinese are the greatest swindlers in e small way in the wcrid. They appreciate the Accumulating proprieties of little drops of water and little grains oi sand better than any other people, and they will shave a hi; of silver dust off of dollar after dollar so small that you cannot perceive the loss until they have shaved enough to have made quite e profit. Tfc ey bore holes in the coins, fill them with lead, and cover them with silver, and in taking money from the banks here it i s necessary to ring every coin. Frank G. Carpenter Two Kinds of Consciences Let us take the caiie of a man of very meager culture and education, whose ancestors for generations have been oppressed arid their lot one of bare survival. Haa he a true conscience ia reference to a large range of moral questions? To be sure he knows it is wrong to oteal, and he probably could be trusted not to steal money; but hor about pilfering? On the contrary, if your man of culture steals it will only be large amounts, for he despises and would feel disgraced by pilfering. Here you have the two extremes of society, with a common conscience about stealing ; but it is a weak conscience at opposite ends. The high born fellow will not pocket a slice of ham, br.t he will default m the handling of an estate or bank deposits. The one is feeble in moral judgment just where the other is strong These two men have also a common moral law against murder. Neither one dissents from the commandment, Thou shalt not kill,0 but one of them, who is fond of society and dislikes the burdens of a large family, does not hesitate to commit foeticide; the other would reooil in horror at such a crime, but he is ready at a moment for a shindy ia . which he hi liable to kill some one or to be killed himself. In neither case doe conscience speak loudly or condemn keenly, lour con sconce is your power of morally seeing things. It is your inherited iind acqxiired ability to judge when an ac t is wrong. It is far more easy to have a poor conscience than it ia to have a good one. SL Louis Glob Democrat 1m Aid to Surgery

A well-polished glass rod, rendered luminous lihroughout its length by a small electric lamp at one end, is ttsed by two Vienna physicians for illuminating, fro n the outside, some of the cavities of the body, such as the larynx and the no ;e. Placed against t&e ttlaa of the throat, it lights up the interior cl the larynv sufficiently for surgioal operation. Arkansaw TravtlGT An indication of th growth of the morphine craze is gi?An by a FortlancL He., manufacturer, wiio has xMde and sold 25,000 hypodormio noedks aiaoe 1886.