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0T£_ A new industry of Southern Idaho\ it' •aid to be the shipping of elk to Eastern States. All the indications, declares the Chi cago Sun, point to 1893 as destined tc be the best year ever had in mining. Fifty years ago, recalls the Atlanta Constitution, a cold winter was enjoyed in New York. Now tho complaint is ' that it is too expensive. It interferes with'business and travel. It is proposed to introduce into this country the traction engine, so largely used in England, for'hauling freight be tween small towns where it would not pay to build railroads. The newsboys in a certain quarter of London are encouraged to save a penny a day. The money is kept for them in a savings bank, and the boy who de posits regularly for a month in given one penny interest on his money. The bank is tho work of a good woman. . In consequent of the growing popu larity of savings banks in Prussia and the difficulty found by the banks in mak ing profitable investments, the interest paid has been gradually reduced, and this had its effect. About $14,000,000 less was deposited last year than in the preceeding year. It is a strange fact, thinks tho Chicago Times, that while paper is being used for dozen B of purposes formerly monopo lized by wood, or even a harder material —such as car wheels, boxes, barrels, tub3 , pails, etc.—wood is rapidly driv ing other ingredients to the wall in tho manufacture of nearly all the cheaper grade* of paper. A public library has been founded in Panama in commemoration of the four hundredth anniversary of tho discovery of America. Three hundred volumes were provided to start tho library and 300 more were donated by the Society Progresso del Istmo. An appropriation to found and maintain the library wa3 tnndo by the municipal council. Tho modern Greek is not a law-abid ing citizen. Ho believes it no sin to murder and steal, provided ho is not found out. So, though Greece has only 2,000,000 people, about the same as Indiana, she has over lOtf condemned murdcrois awaiting execution. Tho guillotine is used to thin out criminal s, but it seems to have no 'more moral ef fect in repressing crime than it would have had in the days of Agamemnon. \The best gold fields in America to day are in North Carolina,\ is tho opinion of Dr. Tiernan, an old miner of Atlanta, and the statement is backed up in a local paper by other gold minors of that region. This should be interesting news for the crowd of disgusted miners now trying to get away from the San Juan country, Colorado, and recalls a remark of a Connecticut gold mining expert \There's a great deal of gold in Connecticut,\ he said, \just about enough to ruin any company that under takes to get it out.\ Tho Chicago Tribuno, promising that \in Illinois, the third State of tho Union, the absenco of country roads passablo in all weathers is a serious loss,\ urges tho Legislature to do what it can for highway reform. The criticism which the Tribune passes upon Illinois roads is applicable to the roads of all the other States, remarks tho Now York Tribune, and there Is reason to boliove that the lawmakers in nearly all of thorn Will endeavor during tho present sesssion of their respective Legislatures to pro tnotctbo reform by well considered prac tical measures. And New York should take tho lead. Tho great Yukon River of Alaska is •oon to be made a highway of commerce by the establishment on it of a regular lervico of side-wheel steamers. Tho first boat of tho proposod line, now building, will run from St. Michael's [eland, fifty-five miles from the meuth or tho Yukon—at which point it will oonnect with Norton Sound steamers— over 2200 miles up tho river. The fact that Alaska has the third—possibly the second—largest river in North America li not often remembered. The Yukon is only navigable during July, August and September, and it is thought that for tho present probably but three or four trips i year may be made. If Ferdinand do Lesseps had com pleted the Panama Canal the whole world would have bent tho knee to him. He failed, and tho world upbraids him. His fall has degraded France, disgraced him and ruined his friends. The^Suez Canal is a lasting monument to his gen ius; tho Panama Canal is his tombstone. The world has forgotten the abuse and ridicule heaped upon him bofore ho car ried to successful completion the project of joining the waters of the Mediterra nean t o those of tho Red Sea, a project In which the Pharaohs, Darius the Great, Napoleon Bonaparte and Mehemot All bad failed. He was a quarter of a cen tury maturing his plana, and ten years In building the canal. . The actual cost of the canal was $87,5»0,000, and the net profits in a single year have been as much as $9,000,000. England owns more than two-fifths of the canal, and has profited more by it than all the other Nations of the world put together. ! TRfJS1\ ——• 1 I shall sec, ' ' 'When I am dend. And all my life, a finished, scroll, Is reao. That all the poor, rude fragments written now \With faltering hand Gather together in that scroll, and make A n epis grand. I shall hear Tho noise and strife, The clash and discord filling all of lire, Gather in one deep burst oE harmony. Whose sound shall risa Brand, wonderful, with a triumphant swell, And fill tho tkios. ' 00 tnougb the days may seem' Useless and pitiful and incomplete, 1 still cm trust my dream: I know at last will come a triumph sweat, When Death and I shall meet. —Ploy Campbell, in Lipplncott. The Weddine: Coronal. VERY small room, in a very small house, with a very small fire burning in tho grate —this is our scene. There was no orna ment, unless tho puro white curtains, and and tho yellow dim ple of the April sun shine on a somewhat faded carpet might be characterized as such, and the fresh loveli ness of two girls who sat in tho apart ment struck you like an incongruity, it seemed as if thoy must be, there by mis take. \Half a pound of beefsteak, Ruth, and a few potatoes, and a loaf of bread; that will do, I think,\ said the elder, thoughtfully, to a tall, gaunt old woman with a little market basket on her arm, who stood in the middle of the room, as if awaiting orders. \Aint that are a pretty clus' dinner for three, Miss Josephine?\ said Ruth, giving her rusty black bonnet an extra twitch. \ I know it, Ruth,\ laughed the girl; \but we must regulate our expenditure according to our resources, you are aware. See!\ She held up a lank little purse as she spoke. Ruth smiled too—but she was looking, not nt the purse, but at Jose phine Carey, standing where the sun shine threaded her brown curls with gold and melted into hazel wells of light under her long dark lashes. But she was not as regally beautiful as her sister. As Cecile Carey sat in the antique easy chair by the smouldering remnant of fire, it would scarcely have been difficult to fancy her a crowned queen. She looked fretfully up from her em broidery as Josephine spoke. \Ruth do bring a few oranges for dessert—I canuot live on this beggarly diet!\ she said. \We cannot afford it, Cecile,\ inter posed Josephine, gently. Cecilo pouted. \You don't care whether I starve or not.\ Josephine's lip quivered. \Deirest Cecile! is it not better to bear up cheerfully and strive not to re pine?\ \A s if one could help repining in this dismal hole 1 And then since papa's bankruptcy and death our friends have all deserted us—of course, they would not come to such a place as this.\ \Of course, then, they are not worth our regrets. But Cecile, you should not say all. Mr. ArchcliU has been here several times.\ \Yes \ said Cecile, a little conscious ly, as if she would have added: \An d I defy him to stay away while I choose to keep him with a smilo or a glance.\ \But then, Josophino, he is our lawyer.\ \The law business has long since come to an end,\ said Josephine, archly. \Never mind, Cecy, wo won't investi gate his motives too closely; and now, where is my sowing?\ Cecile looked rather scornfully at the plain calico dress which tho busy lin gers of her sister were working on. \Things will lie different when I am Mrs. Archcliff,\ she mused to herself. \Iwonder if he will como here to—day; he has been aosent since Wednesday.\ The sunshine was creeping up the wall like an ebbing tide of gold, and the coarse indices of the wooden mantel clock wero pointing to somewhere about 6, that afternoon, when Ruth put her stiff muslin cap into the room where Cecile was dozing over a book, and Jos ephine still at work over the calico breadths. \If you please, young ladies—\ \Well?\ drawled Cecile, sleepily. \Mr. Archcliffe is here.\ And, without further ceremony, she ushered the lawyer into the apartment. A tall, stntely man, somewhere be tween thirty and forty, with dark, heavy hair, straight features, and eyes full of quiet, thoughtful strength, he entered with the same chivalrous respect no had been wont to show the sisters when they 'lwelt in a superb mansion, and were clothed with purple and fine linen. \ I have como here on business,\ ho said, breaking the momentary pause that ensued after tho usual greetings; \bus iness that imminently concerns both of you young ladies. \While examining some wills and leases relating to an en tirely different case, I accidentally stum bled on a clue which, when followed up, brought me to tho knowledge that you are hoirs to considerable property, which has for some years been enjoyed by those who possessed neither right nor title to it.\ \ The wretches 1\ interrupted Cecile, passionately. \Nay he said, gently, \tho present possessor is quite ignonnt that he has done any wrong, whatever suspicions bis father may have had on the subject.\ \An d how aoon—when—\ stam mered Cecile. \Do you mean how soon do you come into possession?\ he asked, as she paused abruptly. \Within a very few weeks, [ tr'ist—as soon as the troublesome forms of law can be gone through with. Acting as your legal advisor, I have already given notico to tho young man.\ \Then it is a young man. Poor fel low I\ sighed Josephine \What sort of a person is it, Mr. Archcliff ?\ \ I know nothing, Miss Josephine, except that he is about sixteen, and a cripple.\ \A cripple?''\ \Yes; a martyr, I am told, to ipinal disease.\ \And this is the only property he possesses?\ , \All I believe.\ \But toll' me about it, Mr. 'Arch cliff!\ interrupted Cecile, with kindling eyes and deepening color. \This prop erty—in what doc 3 it consist?\ \In Audley Hall and its estato to be gin with, and further, in stocks, land, mortgages and railroad shares, amount ing altogether, I think, to something like fifty thousand dollars.\ \Twenty-five thousand each—that is very little,\ pouted Cecile, rather disap pointed. Mr. Archliff smiled. \For you to gain, perhaps; but a great deal for him to lose.\ He glanced at his watch and rose. \ I will see you again to-morrow morn ing, yaung ladie3. In the meantime, I suppose I have your authority to pro ceed as expeditiously as possible?\ \Certainly said Cecile, eagerly. 1 'Pray let there bo no delay that can be avoided. I am all impatience to como into ray now property.\ She smiled as she spoke—a smile that made her seem like some fair-haired angel. The lawyer looked at her with a long, penetrating glance, as he bowed good-bye. Cecile wondered, with a beating heart, what that grave, wistful look meant. \Put up that horrid calico thing, Joseyl\ she exclaimed, when they were alone together. \Don't pray, work any moro to-day. I'll send Ruth out after some oranges and jelly and iced cake, and we'll have a nice little banquet. Oh! if you knew how I have longed for these little dainties after our anchorite farel Why are you looking so grave, Joseph ine? Why don't you rejoice with mo?\ Josophinc looked up into her sister's radiant face. \Because Cecile, I see nothing to justify us in any great amount of rojoic- ing.\ \Nothing!\ Josophino Carey, what do you mean?\ Josephine rose and stood quietly bo fore her sister. ' Cecy, look at me!\ \So I do look—what of it?\ \I am strong and healthy, am I not?\ \Yes—of course.\ \With hands that are not useless and a heart that will not fail?\ \Yes.\ \And do you suppose, Cecy, that I, with all these priceless blessings at my command will stoop to take a poor crip ple boy's inheritance from him?\ \But it is not his; it is ours!\ \No matter whoso it is, I will not take itl Oh, Cecile, do you supposo my heart is of stone or adamant?\ \But Mr. Archcliff—\ \A s a lawyer—as our lawyer, Mr. Archcliff has acted entirely right. He has discovered thi3 inheritance and taken proper stops to place it in our hands—it is for us to decide whether we will accept it or not!\ \As if wo should hesitate for a mo ment!\ \ I shall not, Cecile; this poor cripple has greater need of the money than we.\ \Josephine arc you in earnest?\ \ I nm.\ Cecilo grew scarlet with anger. \Very well—you will do as you please. I shall not relinquish my share of this scanty property for a baseless whim. Is it not sufficient that this boy, or man, or whatever ho is, has enjoyed our rights and comforts all his life?\ Josophino did not answer; she saw how useless it was to argue with her sister, but not the less was her own mind made up. And when Mr. Archcliff called the next morning, Cecile detailed to him what she called her sister's absurd Quixotism. \Say what I will, she cannot bo turned from this ridiculous piece of /oily,\ concluded Cecile, \and she wishes you to deed back her half of the estate and money to this young man.\ \And you, Miss Cecile?\ \1? Oh, I am troubled with no such ultra scruples of conscience. I shall, of course, desire to como into possession as soon as possible. Audley Hall will be a very pleasant change after theso miser ably cramped quarters.\ \Does your sister accompany you?\ \Oh no—she will remain here and open a little day school. Tho idea of Josephine Carey teaching school for a living!\ When Josephine returned from a brief walk, she found her sister in high spirits. \Did you tell him, Cecy?\ \Yes.\ \What did he say?\ \Nothing at all—it is evident very highly displeased, however.\ Josephine's heart sank within her. \ I must do my duty,\ she thought, pressing her hand to hor throbbing temples, \no matter whom it may of fend. My duty—my duty 1\ It was almost a sob, in its agonized intensity. he is \Yo u will come and see me soon, nt Audley Hall,\ said Cecilo Carey, bend ing her sweet eyes on Mr. Archcliffe's gravobrow, as he bade her adieu at the railroad depot. He bowed quietly and stepped back, just as the tiain began to move. Cecile drew a long breath. \Strange that he has not proposed,\ she thought. \But there will bo no lack of opportunities at Audley. Selden Archcliff did not return di rectly to his office, although thero was a considerable arrear of business awaiting him in those dingy precincts. Ho went, instead, to the little room where Jose- phiuo Carey was crying quietly on her sister's empty chair. \I know I am very foolish,\ she fal tered, \but my little school commences to-morrow, and I have such a brief time left for tears.\ It was the first time he had seen her since the ovening he bad brought tidings of the discovered inheritance. Since then she had slyly avoided his presence, dreading to read disapproval in his face. Now, however, there was no evading the ordeal—it must come! \Miss Carey,\ be said earnestly re garding her,\ I have come to speak to you with reference to this very un usual decision of yours respecting the Audley property. Few girls in your cir cumstances would hare acted as you have done.\ Her bright cheek caught a more vivid rose. \You think Ihave acted wrongly I\ \Let mo tell you what I think. It was a deed whose noble magnanimity is be yond all praise. Yo u have abandoned comparative ease, and devoted yourself to & life of toil, because you thought it right. I am learning now for ' the fliit time the true emblem'a-that dwell in a woman's nature. I loved jo u before— need I say how much dearer you are be> come to me no*? My little heroine, will you trust the priceless heart to me I will you be my wife? \But Mr. Archcliff—\ ' \Well?\ \ I fancied that you loved Cecile 1'' He smiled, \I have loved you, dear- est, since I knew you first, scarcely a year ago. But you have not answered my question yot!\ The soft brown eyes, dewy with a sense of great happiness that was in storo for .her, wero raised to his with in nocent frankness. \ I love you, Mr. Archslifl,\ she said with a shy dignity that was Hko herself. ! 'But never dreamed you could love an insignificant little creature like me!\ He drew her towards him with a caressing fondness that was like new lilo to her starved heart! He loved her —that was enough I The little school was never opened— and when Cecile read the long letter that reached her tho very next mail, sho bit her beautiful lips until tho scarlet blood started. 1 'Fool that I have been I\ sho muttered, \And to think how skilfully that un conscious little Josey has played her cards! Audley Hall, indeed 1 Why tho Archcliff estates nro ten times as large 1 And the same June that brought a wroath of white roses. Josephine Carey's sunny curls, brought also the dawn of a new bliss to hor girl heart. Selden Archcliff thought his wife had never looked so lovely as she did on her wedding dayl—New York News. How Russia Rporulls Uer Spies. Females play an important if not pre dominant part in the army of Russian spies, all of them belonging to the so- called educated classes. Tho way in which they are recruited is very simple and ingenious; the method was de scribed to me once by one of the pillars of tho Secret Section, and was confirmed later on by a lady spy with whom I had a conversation on the subject. An official dies (ninety-nine out of a hundred educated Russians are officials) before he has served long enough to en title him to a pension. His young wifo petitions the Ministry for nn allowance, and she receives a sum varying from $50 to $250. After the lapse of some months she petitions again and is told to call at tho police office, where about one-fifth of tho former sum is given to her, and she is encouraged to hope that in two months' time something may be done for her again. When she next returns, sho is informed that as her husband did not enrn a pen sion, she cannot expect to receive any further assistance; that the authorities, in fact, possess no funds for the purpose, but that they aro willing to give her a little light employment which will en title her to a monthly allowance, suffi cient to save hor from social shipwreck. She generally catches at the straw, and seldom has leisure or calmness enough to discover that it is not even a straw, but a golden chain that drags Ker down to unfathomable depths. She is then in troduced into various families, visits the semi-public bolls and places of amuse ment, and forwards regular reports to tho Third Section, and visits tho depart ment perodically to answer questions and take fresh orders.—London Telegraph. Vast Water Power Lying Unused. Tho vast water power in the Feathei River lies unused and neglected. A force sufficient to run 100 mills and fac tories flows past our doors from the mountains to tho sea and is not gathered up nor utilized for our comfort, con venience or weilth. Water power in other lands is being brought under con trol and made to ubserve the purposes of man, and why should notOroville de velop this great souice of wealth which now lies dormant and neglected. In tho Wilametto Valley in Oregon electric pjwer is conveyed twelve miles. At Telluride, in Colorado, 100 horse power is carried over a mouutain and runs several mills. At Solothum, in Switzerland, a factory is dr.ven from the power in a mountain stream five miles distant. Near Dcrendingen 208 horse power is generated in a dashing creek, and this is transmitted twelve miles over the mountains to run 30,000 spindles in a mill. A.t Lucerne 120 horse-power is carried half a mile. At Basel-on-tbe- Rhine 9440 horse-power is generated and the wires transmit 7000 horse-power. This will be utilized to run mills, fac tories and workshops. From Lnuffen to Frankfort the distance is 100 miles, but electrical power is to be transmitted that distance, and the electricians assert that only twenty-five per cent, of the original power developed will be lost.—Orovillf (Cal.) Register. Novel Way to Kill Deer. A lumberman was a neophyte, as it were, in the art of deer slaying, know ing which he armed himself with a Win chester rifle and took an armed Indian along for luck. The first day's bush whacking beat up no deer, and our lum ber hero, with his faithful guide, biv ouacked beneath the silent stars. Early tho next morning upon opening his eyes he beheld two deor standing on a knoll not far away, gazing curiously up on the camp. Snatching up his trusty repeating rifle and quivering with a suppressed case of malignant buck fever, he was about to open a lusilade upon the game when the haughty Indian struck up bis firelock with: \Um l Waughl no shjot uml You no kill um! Me fetch uml\ Taking off a red Dapkin with which he was begirt this son of the forest began circling it about. The deer caught on. Their eyes followed the gyrations of the rag. They approached. They came nearer, still following tho motions of the clout. As circled tho rag so circled their eyes. Then their heads. Thon their bodies. Till with one mighty sweep of the napkin these antlered kings of the forest turned a somersault and fell dead at the hunter's feet. Their necks were broken. They had been stalked. Our hero had saved his powdea, his reputa tion and his meat.—Michigan Lumber- Japanese Superstition About Flowers. The Japanese are superstitious about many flowers, and will have none of them. Many of our favorites, as the orchid, gentiau, daphne and azalia, are utterly prohibited for felicitous occasions. There is also with them an aristocracy of flow ers most sharply defined. The seven royal favorites are the chrysanthemum, narcissus, maple, cherry, peony, wista ria, snd.the evergreen rhodea.V The iris, also, is of princely dignity, but' because of its purple color mult not be used for weddings.—Demorest's Magazine. Wrestling With tie Hands. With those persons who do not care to try the more intricate forms of wrest ling hand wrestling has always been a favorite. It affords an excellent oppor tunity for healthy oxercisc and is not dangerous. Figure 1 shows the posi tion to bo taken by the wrestlers prepar atory to the start off. At tho word \go\ each man endeavors to force his opponent to lose his balance so as to be obliged to move one of his feel. This constitutes a throw. A good throw, if quickly done, is to push your opponent's hand agaiust his side, then push hard and quick and make him lift or slide his forward foot. To do this well it is necessary to stoop a little. Another way is to turn about quickly toward your left side, if using your right, raise your opponent's hand so that it is over your right shoulder; then lean forward and pull hard. This can be used by a short man better than by one of larger size. Figure 2 shows a very ordinary throw. The opponent's arm is faced backward nnd drawn out to the side directly away from him, so as to make him lose his balance. Still another tbrow can be nnde by pulling backward ami to one iide, so that your hand comes directly in 'ront of the body, then push it away jutwardly. The best position to take is the one ihown in Figure 1. The forward foot is placed asainst that of your antagonist ind the rear foot about thirty inches re moved lrom and at right angles to the onvard foot. Botli knees should be jent. The ri'lcs nf hand wrestling are as fol- ows- The man moving his foot or :ouchinghis hand or at,y part of his body .o the floor, so as to get a better base, is .hrown. Turning on one toe, so as to •each further, is allowed. Moving iither foot sideways or allowing eithet ;o drag is a thro v. In all cases tho ;hrow must be made wilh tho hand. p ushing with head, elbow, shoulder, or ndo is strictly forbidden. Tue beauty if the sport is that it require! no con- reuiences. It can be enjoyed with an irdinary street dress on,'and a mat is lot required —New York Suu. Rcr. Florence Kollock. An American woman who has made a .lost favorable impression in England is he Rev. Florence ICollock. Over there ,be clerical office is still almost entirely a uasculine prerogative, and evidently here was a popular impression that a e^ularly ordained minister of the other ex must be s» strange person. When the nterviovvcrs discovered Miss Kollock to >e a graceful, bright, intelligent woman, vith wavy huir and dainty dress, they vere agreeably surprised. TFIE llltv. FJ.OKEXCK i:OI.I,0('K, II. \. 311** F.ollock is studying Egyptology in ' ^pyrian nrch;s >'.ogy iu tlie Britisn Museum. On her return to this country she expects to ac as co pastor of the University Church iti Pasadena. Cal. F.u thirteen years past she has been pa;toi of a church in Chicago, and she has made the lemarKnbi e lecord of being absent only ones from her pulpit, and theu on account of the grip. Miss Kollock'sedu cation was obtained at the Wisconsin State University and nt the University ol St. Lawrence.—New York World. Aii Elk Tr.iliicil to Hums'!. A female elk was brought dowu from Port Orford to-day or. the steamer E u ily and taken out to the: pa.ldock iu Golden Gate Pari: to become a compan ion to the bis mac elk. Tue Oregou elk is very tame and Willia'ii L'mfester, her former owner, has frequently har nessed her to a cart, which sho druw with ease. At tho park the oik will probably be used occasionally to draw n light wagon in the children's play ground. The elk had a hard trip of it coming down and was slightly bruised and scratched by being flung agaiust the sides of her stall box during toe rough weather.—San Francisco Chronicle. Kea-nrln; a River's Bre tilth. Anybody can measure, apprjximately, the breadth of a river without a survey or's compass or any mechanical means whatever. The man who desires to make the experiment should place himself at the edge of the stream, thon stand per fectly still, face the opposite bank and lower the brim of his hat until it just cuts the opposite bank. Thqa let him put both hands under his chin, to steady bis head, and turn slowly round until the hat brim cuts some point on the level ground behind him. Mark the spot where the hat brim cuts the ground ,.thoi' pace off the distance and it will be found about the breadth of the river.—New York Advertiser, POPULAR SCIENCE. The moon has no water, astronomer* fell us. \ The nearest fixed star is 21,000,000,. 000 miles from the earth. The fixed stars are of all colors, violet, blue,' green and red predominating. Tho mean tomperaturo of 1892 is re ported as being one degree below the average. Astronomers say that some stars are so far away that 2,000,000 years are re quired for their light to reach the earth. It is said that a process has beon dis covered for metnlizing textile fabrics by which the latter are rendered proof against the attacks of insects. A tjlephone desired for service on all floors of high buildings by traveling up and down a chulo is the latest economic idea of the Engineering Record. The machinery now at work tunneling under the Straits of Dover makes a head way of one-half inch per minute. Tho tunnel will, it is estimated, cost $80,- 000,000. About 600 foot-pounds of energy aro set free by tho firing of a small pistol, while a watch consumes about 1-54.000,- 000th of a horse power, the energy of tho bullet being sufficient to keep the timo for two years. A German official report states that no case has been recorded where a ship rigged with wire rigging has sustained any damage from lightning, except in a few instances where continuous connec tion had to be made with the hull. Edge tools are deleteriously affected by tue light of the sun and moon. Tho sharp edge disappears and the tool must be retempercd. An ordinary saw is said to have been put out of shape in a single night by exposure to the light of the moon. Sportsmen in Southern Egypt have ao\ infrequently met with accidents to thcit barrels, owing directly or indirectly to using mtro-cartridges charged for tho damp atmosphere of England and sent out for uso in tho dry, iarefield air of the desert. The largo lens, measuring twenty-eight inches in diameter, for tho Greonwich (England) Observatory, is completed and the other parts are said to be well ad vanced. The new sky navigator when completely set up will have a length of thirty feot. What is said to be tho largest gas holder in tho world has just been com pleted for the gas company of East Green wich, England. It is 300 feet in diam eter, and when fully inflated is 180 feet high. The floating vessel of the holder weighs 1300 tons, and tho capacity of the arrangement is 12,000,000 cubic feet. Tho new leather \membrauoid or \boucle is somewhat puzzling to those who are not in the secret of its origin. It is neither moro nor less than tripe, tanned by a new process and prepared for use in about ten days. It is said to be the lightest leather known and as pli able as cotton cloth. It is made in ten colors and can be used for pocket-books, nlbums, millinery, dress trimmings and slippers. The leather looks like crash toweling and the honeycomb portion of cross-bar pattern is most ornamental. Swect-Toolhed Ruffians. The Afghan has an extraordinarily sweet tooth, and it is most amusing tc see these great hulking, shambling fel lows patronizing the sweatmeat shops. The Hindustani is a great consumer of sugar, and his tastes in this direction nro tho grossest. Their sweets are simply lumps of unrefined sugar forme! into fantastic images, or maae to crudely re semble animals and human beings. The Mohammed, however, through his hatred of idolatry, would not pur chase a sweetmeat which bore likeness to living things, nor would a Hindoo who had respect for his person bo bold enough to offer an image to an Afghan, The deadly insult would be followed with the exclamation, \Hut jao! \ \Gel hence!\ and a blow sufficiently powerful to fell an ox and kill a weakly Hindoo The picture that nn Afghan present! with his hands and moutb lull of sweet meats a) assuredly excites a smile a! does tho spectacle of two stout, unwieldlj men falling upon each other's necks and weeping and kissing an aflectionati adieu. You feel morally certain that thii huge, innocent-looking Afghan has re morselessly killed several of his friends, who have made themselves objection able to him, and you are equally as cer tain that in the folds of his voluminous chapkan several deadly weapons are stowed away, while his loose, baggy trowsers, tied fast at the ankle3 , also cover slaughtering steel.—Ne,v York Advertiser. Ho Sav.il His Life. \Years ago I saved that man's life,\ said a well-known business man, in speaking of a cortatu bank official. \It's been fifteen yeirs ago, I suppose,\ con tinued he, \when one day this fellow came to me in a frantic state of mind and told me a startling talc. He was teller in the bank then, the same posi tion ho now holds. 'Jim,'ho said, 'I've got to have $5000 to-day or I'm ruined lor life. I am short just that much in my accounts and they are going to check me up to-morrow.' I was astounded, of course, but he had been a true friend to me and I got him the money and saved him from exposure for four years. Ho gave mc a portion of his salary every month until the monoy was paid with interest. His honesty has never been questioned, and as the year3 have gono by he has grown in the esteem of his su perior officers at the bank. I think, when I helped him, fifteen years ago , that I saved him from dishonor and dis grace. It was as good a day's work as I aver did.\—Louisville Commercial. Strcnjtli or Spiders. The strength of tpme of tbo spiders #hich build their webs in trees and other places in and around Santa Ague, Cal., Is astonishing. One of them had in captivity in a tree in that town not long tgo a wild canary. The ends of the •rings, tail, and feet of the bird were bound together by some sticky substance, to which were attached the threads of the spider, which was slowly but surely (rawing up the bird by an ingenious pulley arrangemept. The bird hunt? lead downward and was so securely sound with little threads that it .could lot struggle, and would have soon been »prey. t» its great, ugly captor had. not in onlooker, rescued it.—St. Louis '•JCjw,• .-•*. '•\ * - -«• - i. A PRISON AND PAI_A.CE; Behold that tall and-lambent spire Irradiate with sunset lire, those windows smlt with twilight beomH (Vith evening's irrldescent gleams; How they reflect the early night, lt8 mingling gold and lastulite; And how those tall transfigured towers Bloom 'gainst the night like granite flowers; How grandly lifts you burnished dome A skyey shape of lire and foam I \What are those buildings, friend?\ said I r \That loom against the eastern sky, And dashed .with many a sunset gleam, Look like tfio palace of a dream?' \Them buildings, boss,\ the man replied— A sly smile lit his features pale— \You jest look out you keep outside; Them buildings is the county jail.\ Pained at this ending of my dream, fnis anti-climax to my theme, I found a poultice for my pain In this wise moralizing strain: We all live in a county jail (Vhoso towering walls we cannot scale. Though firmly, all in vain, wo press Against its granite stubbornness. Dull, cold as fate, its walls arise And shut our vision from the skies. But when hope's sunlight falls upon [ts thick and heavy walls of stono They loom against the coming night Transfigured in a mystic lighr, And, bathed in gold and ametu/st, The granite grows as soft a3 mist- Transformed bpconie3 tbo culprit's jail, and from its towers cloud banners fling Their gorgeous windings to the gale— it is a palace of a king' Sam Walter Foss, in Yankee Blade. PITH AND_P01NT. A canoe-club—The paddle. The dear old times—When gold was- it a premium. \Dreadfully cut up\—The amateur carver's fowl. A grievance to a mau is what a sore oeel is to a boy.—Milwaukee Journal. There are two sides to every quarrel in tho world but your own.—AtchisoD- Globe. Do as you please and in the end you'K. find yourself displeased with what you have done. \A brush with the enemy,\ as the fox remarked whoa he left his tail in tho trap.—Puck. One person with a chronic case ot vanity sometimes gives the disease to an- entire town.—Galveston News. Women are usually tender-hearted, out it is not uncommon for them to en gage in crewel work.—Lowell Courier. He is a nervy sportsman who will dare bring home dead ducks from tho- butcher's without first firing some shot into them.—Puck. \Yo u fill a long-felt want,\ as tho starving tramp remarked to the gentle man who bought him a square meal.—• Philadelphia Record. There are symptoms that crinoline is coming in again. The ladies' fashion journals are preparing to \hoop her up.\—Lowell Courier. A difference between a knifo-blado losing its temper and a woman is that the former becomes duller and tho latter more cutting.—Philadelphia Times. \If marriage is a lottery,\ Said Chappie, \I will thank Tae wife I get if sho will not Describe liie us a blank.\ —Washington Star. Do Young—\What would you call it, proud beauty, if your cruelty drove me to kill myself in yonr presence?\ Proud Beauty—\ Infnnticide.\—Detroit Tri bune. \What doyou suppose old Scourgo wears his whiskers loug for?\ \To savo the cost of cutting 'em? - ' \No to save the cost of buying neckties.\—Chicago News Record. \It's too bad we are not a family ol Eskimos.\ \How would that benefit us any?\ \Johnny furnishes blubber enough for the whole family.\—New i'ork Herald. \Daltoa said he felt awfully cheap last night when MiS3 Savecash accepted him.\ Morton—\Why?\ \Because she never takes anything unless it's a bargain.''—Chicago Inter-Ocean. Penelope—\Oh I'm in awful luckl\ Perdita—\What'sthe matter?\ Penelope —\Engaged and I have still eight new dresses of which I will never have n- chance to try the effect.\—Vogue. TUo people all get frightened at a hoadncho- or a cold, And they turn from all frivolity and fun; ' And it's useless to assure a man it's safer to be bold, For the microba has tho Nation on tho run. —Washington Star. \Shadows nre always larger and. olacker than tho objects that cause them,\ said some ono. Tnis is particu larly true of the shadows of the trouble- that never comes.—Boston Saturday Evening Gazette. Mistress—\Bridget I've found five- Dr six large pieces of glass in the soup io-day. How did it happen?\ Bridget —\Shure ma'am, and didn't yez tell ne to cook some new dish for dinner?\' —Chicago Inter-Ocean. To a woman's eyes, indifference, not jowardice, is the unpardonable sin in a oian. The unbestowed cares3 of the- lover who lon^s to kiss bis sweetheart, but dares not, is valued infinitely more than an indifferent salute.—Puck. Rock a bye baby, in tho top flat. Along toward morning wa know where you're at; When the dawn breaks and we're longing to snore, Down comes you'ra ear-splitlng voice through the floor. —Art in Advertlsng. ; 'Women seldom indulge in sarcasm.'*' \You think tbey do not?\ \As n rule they are too kind-hearted to be sarcas tic.\ \H'm ! Did you ever hear oca of them say from the top of the stairs,. •This is a nice time to come home!'''— New York Prosj. Willie—\Papa what is that big; hammer for, in the box at tho side of thecar?\ Papa—\It serves two purposes, my son—to enable the conductor to- knock down fares and to help the com mercial travelers to crack jokes.>\ Pittsburg Bulletin. Editor—\No my dear sir; as a post- humorous poem these verses would be* good. But I do not see my way clear to publishing them just now. \ Poet— \But what advantage would it bo to me to have them published after my death?\\ Editor —\I cannot say, my dear sir. But a posthumorous poem is especially valuable in the fact that it assures the> reader that no more will be written -by the same author.\—Brooklyn Life.
