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Mulhall estimates that the civilized \NatfonsannuallY^pay .$13,700,000,000 s TORPfADOBS; loi food! £ i< J 1 / The Midnight Band of Meroy is the 'name of a New York society, organ ized for the purpose of chloroforming •cats, The St. Loui s Republic is proud be- • cause Missouri has built more miles o f railroadj.^sol for £tbis -ycax;- than-- any •other State, 1 -with' the single exception •of Texas. The San Francisco Chronicle\ overs that the great mnjority of the Siberian convicts aro on the moral level of the brutes of tho field, and any kindness shown to them would be regarded as a sign of weakness on the part of their overseers. HOW THEY CARRY DKSTRUC- * TION FA R AND WIDE. Manner In Which They Arc Gen erated — Phonomenti That Arc •\• Mysterious—Seeking . Refuge In Cyclone Caves. The tornado is precisely the same thing as a water spout at soa. \Water spouts hare ofte'n been dissipated by the firing of cannon, and it has been suggested that the explosions o f dyn amite might produce the samo • effect on the terrestrial phenomenon. The At the auction sale, the other day, of the personal property of the late Gov ernor Hale, of New Hampshire, stocks having a par value of S2,700,000, and promissory notes with a face value of $57,000, were sold to tho highest bid der for less than S7. Mexico's Government has again re ported to its old plan of scaling salaries from five to ton per cent in order to keep expenses within its income, but •this timo tho money taken from the •salaries is t o bo returned to the em ployes next year in three per ccut. bonds. In education Spain is far behind any j other European country, Kussia ex.- | cepted There aro school laws that [ would be useful if thoy were enforced. Less than one-third of the adult popu lation are able to read and write; but a considerable number of new schools have been established within recent QRNADOES—what people in the West call \cyclones\— have been cutting up strange freaks lately. But that ia a way they have. Science has for a long time been very anxious to discover' reasons| for the vagaries of these wonderful storms, but as yet the laws control- ing them remain to a great extent unknown. They , x ., have come to be recoguizedos among the most destruc tive of natural phenomena, so that many insurance companies are now making it a part of their business to underwrite property against them. It has been estimated that, taking an average, each tornado costs one life. No subject in the science of meteor ology is of such absorbing interest as that of tornadoes. Their perform ances, says the Washington Star, are soamazingand the manifestations by which they are accompanied are so terrifying that the mind has difficulty in grasping the ingly. ing of STONE COLLEGEBUtLDtNG, GRINNELL, IOWA. difficulty would be to got noar enough, and nobody who could run away would care to stand his ground and for scientific purposea experi ment with explosives on the sus ceptibility of a \cyclone.\ Data re specting tornadoes are unsatisfactory, because those who have an opportunity to observe them are in such fear of their lives that their accounts are not apt to be reliable. No photograph of , one of these whirliug funnel clouds I has ever been secured, though many bogus oneB have been manufactured for sale. However, now that the ko dak fiend, whom nothing can terrify, bo ex- is abroad m the land, it may matter understand-; pe cted that sooner or later some snap As a rule they give fair warn- 1 Boots' will be obtainod. their approach. The air is usually very still and sultry < People feel depressed without knowing why TRICKS TRIED WITH STORMS. pared t o the passage of a heavy tram of cars over a bridge a thousand times intensified.. All the gas jets in the city went out or were nearly extinguished, and tho crash of falling buidings added to the appalling rumpus, while a ter rific electrical display served as an ac companiment, balls of lire playing about. Apparently tho lower end of ! the funnel'did no t touch the ground, ' the destruction being coufinod to the I upper stories of the houses. The only place where safety can be found , against a tornado is under ground. I n the region where storms of this type aro frequent prudent people construct what thoy call \cyclone cellars.\ This is usually an excavation mnde through the west wall of the house outward, BO that no part of it is beneath tho dwelling. Tho west side is chosensbecauBo the danger always comes from that direction, and, if tho house is demolished, tho ruins will b o thrown away from the \cave.\ The floor of the latter is made level with the floor of the cellar; and the earth roof of tho cave is sup ported by heavy timbers and arched with masonry of brick or stone. Those are precautions against damage b y the falling of heavy masses of debris. Sometimes a cave is dug apart from the house, but close by it, on tho west side. It is made big enough to ac commodate all the inmateB of the dwelling. Such a resort is a moans of absolute safety. Fortunately, as has been said, the approach of a tornado is ad vertised in advance b y unmistakable premonitory symptoms. The house holder has simply t o convoy his family to the \cyclone cellar,\ close the en trance -by a strong door provided for the purpose and await *tho rt passing of the danger. If a person finds himself in the path of the whirling monster and has no refuge tho best thing for is June 19, 1835, caught a.man una road with a team and wagon carrying a hogshead of sugar. Th e hogshead and contents weighed 1250' pounds. 'It, ^together with the horses and cart, was hurled over a stone wall. The man was blown in the opposite direction a distance of fifteen rods. Ligh t objects are sometimes transported'o distance of twenty miles. I n one instance n horso was carried half'a mile and put down uninjured. People who are struck by tornadoes aro commonly stripped entirely oi their clothing, particularly, women. In one recorded instance the trimming was taken off a dress as neatly as i f it had been done by hand. Persons who meet with such a misfortune are apt to be covered with mud, plentiful quantities of which seem ordinarily to be carried by the cyclone. The hair of women is torn from their heads and At .Cent Coined iu'-Oold. A mint proof in gold of a copper sent is a great rarity, butW. L . Boyd, of Spear's Wharf (Baltimore), has in his possession a gold proof of tho first cent issued by tho United States Gov ernment. It is over 100 ( years old. The Pulses oi Anima'.R. Tho pulse is as perfect an indicator of the health of ftu animal as it is of a human being, but few people are awuro how to feel or the normal beats of the pulse in adult healthy animals. These ure given in tho subjoining table,: Pulsation per minute. 86 to 40 16 to 50 70 to 80 90 t.) 100 with The entire sum realized by theSpit- y.er sale of antiques in Paris, which has been one of the longest if not greatest on record, amounts to S2,400,')0O The treasures collected by 31 Spitzer are now spread oven many countries, lint England has a good share of the spoil, and some of the finest specimens nre already to be seen in the rooms ot the very first dealers in objects d art in London Dark and threatening clouds appear on tho western horizon and the sky from west to south take's on a peculiar lurid or greenish tinge. The \tor nado sky\ is a characteristic feature. THE FUNNEL-SH* APED CLOUD, Men have stood within 15 0 feet of i him to do is to throw himself faco tornadoes on the north side, which is I downward, with his head to the east the safe side, without being injured, and his arms over hiB head to protect All sorts of foolish tricks have been . it. If near a largo stone or stump he tried with these storms. A Kansas should lie down with his head toward man tried to drive across the path of the object, embracing it. If compelled to remain in a building he should go I one with a team and wagon, thinking that ho could got over in time and be lt is a matter of common occurrence in England nowadays for an auctioned tu sella castle or nn abbey, but if is ran' that an entire villnge comes under the hammer, as will be the case when the historic Aldermaston estate in Berk shire is disposed of at auction soon. This huge property comprises the man sion house, sitaatod in the centre of a Ifine park renowned for its ancient trees, together with the entire village of Al dermaston. From the suspended masses of vapor ] ing ln a hurry to deliver some lumber, \ort of tail is seen to project itself | The consequence was that he and thr wuward. It gradually assumes,while j uor8e s were killed and badly mangled, L ~~' ' ;art being reduced t o a wreck am lumber scattered over several approaching, the aspect of a gigantic j tue cart being reduced t o a wreck and funnel, with the small end toward the 1 t h e 1 ' — to the west room on tho ground floor I and stand in the center of it. It of- j ten happens that half of a house is I torn away, tho other half remaining 1 uninjured. B y seeking tho west sido 1 one is more likely to escape being Professor C. K Jenncss, of the Stan ford University, California, who has been investig.itiii ; the tramp problem by dressing as a vagabond and mixing with the wanderers, says that it is a •mistake t o suiijiose that whisk}- makes tramps. Most of the regulars, he suyj, wilJ drink, but not to excess. He has ^concluded that inefficiency, both in herited and developed, is the trouble in most cases. Inefiicieucy is probably a collegiate euphemism for laziness, oh that seems t o be the besotting sin ol the tramp brotherhood. .lames Gordon Bennett has estab lished vn Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Columbia colleges, the University of New York and the College of the City of Now York annual prizes intended to encourage young men to prepare •themselves for the profession of jour nalism. In each institution the prize will consist of tho interest on S1000. Th e competition for the prizes is' t o be in the form of essays in English prose on subjects of contemporaneous inter est in tho foreign or domestic policy •of the Government of the United •States. Orchid hunting in the tropics leads to strange adventures, observes the Atlanta Journal. 31. Hamelin, who has sent the most valuable specimens ever received in England, while re cently searching in the woods of Mada gascar, had for a guide the brother of Chief Mnyombosa. The guide was killed b y a lion. Hamelin returned alono. After his reoital the irate chief gave him the option of marrying the widow or being greased ond burno j alive. He chose the lesser evil, but couple d with tho marriage a contract by which the chief undc rtook to close his lands t o all other orchid seekers. ground. This funnel «moves with. enormous rapidity, its speed being I rarely under forty miles an hour and I sometimes as much as eighty miles an ] hour As it comes nearer an indescrib-1 abl6 roar is heard, which has been' likened to the bellowing of a million | mad bulls or the rumbling of 10,000 i trainB of cars over as many bridges. I Still the great cloud advances, black j as night, somewhat resembling an im- j menHc balloon, sweeping its neck round ( and round with terrible fury and de- 1 stroying everything in its path. It whirls with almost incredible velocity. | sometimes leaving the earth for a mo ment, then bounding back to continue its dire havoc. The whole period of destruction may occupy only three or 1 four minutes, but in that time towns are wiped out and fields are laid waste. A few minutes later the blue sky ap pears, the wind turns to the south and all quiets down. No one would sup- poso that a terrible catastrophe had occurred, save for the devastation that is all about and the cries of the unfor tunates. It often happens that the funnel- shaped monster is preceded by a great cloud of duBt, producodby an outrush of air before the storm, so that the approaching danger is not seon until it is immediately at hand. The mighty balloon of vapor travels twice as fast as tho tempest out of which it is en gendered. It is frequently accom panied by a vivid display of lightning. | The width of the destructive path is ( rarely over 300 feet. In the central • line all trees are strewn in the same ( direction, as though a mighty river had passed and left thorn behind, i Just after the tornado usually come torrents of rain, which has caused | theso phenomena to be called \cloud bursts. \ On one occasion hail was re- , ported as having fallen to a depth of j four feot. CAUSES wincn PRODUCE TORNADOES. The causes which produce tornadoes are pretty well understood. They are found very often' m the Mississippi Valley, which, as is well known, is a region particularly liable to 'suoli at mospheric disturbances. Suppose that tho day is warm and sultry and the stratum of hoated air near the earth is full of vapor. A current of cold air flows in above. There you have a sit- 1 uation which is calculated to make trouble. The cold air being much heavier thau the warm, the natural place for it to occcupy is the bottom layer, with the warm stratum on top of it. So there is a tendency for the two to change places. A meteorolog ical squabblo ensues, which produces what is called a storm. Presently the cold layer of air aloft finds a place in the warm layer below it, through which it can make its way downward. It does so, and tho per formance is exhibited to the eye of the observer by the appearance of a de scending funnel of vapor. It whirls around in obedience to the same law which causes a stream of water pouring twisted into ropes sometimes. On one occasion a carpet, which had been seourely tacked to a floor, was taken up and carried out of the house with out being torn. Such freaks as the driving of a piece of sqantling seven feet long and six inches square length wise through tho bod y of a hog are not unusual. Attempts have been mads to refer the phenomena of tornadoes to srjots on the sun, but it is not likely that any connection cxistB. Clubbed as a Favor. Djenal Effeudi, a Mahometan in tho Midway ously cago with Plaisance, was unceremoni- , arrested tho other day by a Chi- i policeman, for beating a man | a club. Djenal, however, gave AN APPROACHING TORNADO. squarv miles of territory in the shape ' struck by dobris. of kindling wood. People have ac- A tornado struck the towsi of Mor tually refused to run away from a tor nado with similar consoquences. Others have made the mistake of run ning in frout of it, thinking to out strip it in tho race. But it is a fact that auybody who has once encount ered a \cyolono\ is always more than ready afterward to promptly \hunt his hole \ It is not possible to detormine with accuracy the path of a tornado until it is to o near to be comfortable, save that its track is always from southwest to northeast. The question as to which TH E COLLEGE AFTER TH E CICLONE. It Booms to be tho mission o f Eng land to mnko tho world monotonous. Whcrover in Asia or Europe her influ ence is at all strong, it operates to divest the natives of their customary raiment and fit them out with English shirts, elastic braces ond tail coats, You no longer see the gondolier of the Grand Canal in tho picturesque garb memorialized in old paintings; he has learned from the English how trousers may b o held up with one Buspender; how a nail may serve for the missing button and how effective it is to go •about \in shirt sleeves.\ In the Alps, in tho Tyrol and along the Nile n o •native wears tho old native costume any more than sailors wear rolling col lars and flapping trousers. Some of the hotels make tho \National dress\ tho-livcry of .tho servants? •which is the only ^Bight -a ' stranger *gets* of' it >oa <wain-travolcd roads. BALLOON CLOUD AT NORTH VERNON, IND. JUNE 10, 1893. through a hole in tho bottom of a bowl to revolve. Inoidentally an enormous energy is dovelopod. The balloon of vapor goes sweeping along with a tremendous roar and an accom panying electrical display. . It is nothing more, nor less than a highly exaggerated thunder storm. Thunder storms are brought about in exactly tho same way, save that the cold stratum above and the warm stratum below are mingled more gradually. way to run may have to be decided on the instant. Supposing tho danger imminont the proper way t o do is to run either north or south, but never to the east or northoast, because that is the direction in which the storm is moving. If it is only a mile away and coming direotly toward tho observor the latter has just about one minute to get out of tho way. If ho does not start wrong the chances aro that ho will excape. If in doubt strike for the north, for, as has beon said, that is tho safe side of a tornado. Happily, in the oast such phenomena are comparatively infroquont, but there is not a State between tho 100th meri dian and the Atlantic Ocoan in which they do not occur. Accordingly, no- j bod y can be sure that he may not at some timo have to tackle a tornado, and these rules, if not worth pasting in one 'B hat, should be at least remem bered. As for seeking shelter from such a danger in a building, there is no safety in that. Exports in suoh matters declare that no structuro can be raised by man abovo tho surface of tho earth which will resist the violence of this sort of t storm. Not even so massive a pile as the treasury building could withstand a first-class tornado. In the great \cyclone\ at Grinnell, Iowa, a few yoars ago, which destroyed many lives and a vast amount of prop erty, ono of the buildings reduced to complete ruin was a solid edifice of stone and brick used for a public school. The tornado tore i t to pieces as easily as i f it had beon so muoh lath ond plastor. On the contrary, a building of brick or stone is a more unsafe rofuge from a. tornado than a frame dwelling, bo- cause, if destroyed, i t tumbles i n and buries people in the ruins. Whon tho famous \cyclone\ of 1890 struck Louisville forty-four persons wero killed in the week of tho Falls City Hall. That storm wiped out seventy- six lives and $2,250,000 worth of prop erty in Louisville, and in other towns fifty-nine lives and $1,000,000 in prop erty. The,whirling oloud, which was described as shaped like a turnip, struck Louisville at about 7 .46 in the gon, Ohio, June 19, 1883. At 9.30 p. | in. a householder, whose account is | quoted, heard a roaring as of heavy thunder, which called him to the door. On opening it he immediately discovered a bright cloud, which had precisely the color of a glowing oven, apparently the size of a half acre of ground, moving ropidly in the direc tion of his dwelling. The brightness of the cloud illuminated everything about. There was no lightning nor I rain, but a continual and tremendous ! roar during the passage of the storm. The roaring of a tornado had been described as a combined woo-oo-oo and whir-r-r-r. l Tornadoes seldom occur singly. I There are usually several of thorn in a line, which all run up tho country toward the northoast. Frequently there are several lines, ono following another. In rare instances the same place has been struck by two of the whirling\funnels in quick succession. It is supposed that this form of meteorological distubance generates an immense amount electricity. Some of the things it 'does are such as, it would seem, could only be accom plished by electrical action. To this agenoy has been attributed the pluck ing of ohiokens, which is a common freak incidental to the passage of a cyclone. Fowls, without being hurt, are often divested completely of their foathers, and roosters are pres ently seen strutting about the stricken an explanation of his act that is inter esting, if not plausible. He said that he is the priest of tho little mosque o n the Plaisance In that capacity it is his duty, on the monthly \day of penance,\ to chastise publicly any coreligionist who asks him to d o so. Hassani Ali had made such a request; and he was simply giving the said Has sani a sound religious drubbing when the police arrested him. —New York Tribuno. Latest Styles in Hamlrcssiiijr. The latest stylos of coiffures affected by the modern fashionable woman are scarcely less intricate than the elab orate modes long prevalent in Japan. The revival of the 1830 style cannot be effected without the intervention of a skillful hairdresser. Some women simplify the matter by using a detach able chignon and \front\ which can be* securely fastened to the head b y improved attachments, and which have the undeniable merit of never becom ing disarranged. But where thore is nn abundance o l natural tresses, this convenient expe dient becomes as impracticable 08 it is undesirable. With instruction and a very little practice, a new method of dressing the hair may b o quickly ac quired. T o arrange the hair in up standing bows, it is necessary to use a com b specially made for the purpose, Under the Confederation, on Octo her lGth, 178G, Congress passed an or dinance for establishing n mint, and on July 6th, 1787, tho first cents wel comed, 300 tons in copper being or- I dered of James Jarvis, tho contractor. I This coin was called the Fugio cent, because of the inscription on it. The obverse bore a sun dial with the sun at meridian, on one sido of which was the word \Fugio \ referring to the flight of time, while on the other side wa» the date, 1787. Below the dial was the legend, \Mind Your Business from which the coin gained the nani2 ] of \Franklin cent,\ inasmuch as he •was said to .have uttered that sen tentious remark: The reverse bore a chain of thirteen links, each of which represented one of the qrigmal States. In the centre wore the words, \We Are One,\ surrounded b y a ring in scribed with tho words, \United States.\ Mr. Boyd's gold cent is exactly as here described, but there are seven varioties of tho Fugio coin, most of the differences being of minor import ance. One of them, however, has the name of tho country as \Stotes United.\ Another, which is very rare, has each of the chain links marked with the name of a State After the Fugio coins werj made, the Govern ment put out no other coinage until 1791, when the Eagle cent WHS issued. Only one other proof in gold of thii- cent is known. It is not in as good condition as Mr Boyd's, and sold re ceutly for §125. One of them was sold in the Pratt collection in New York ID October, 1879, and was classified, as \unique\ by W. Elliott Woodward, the numismatist, who prepared the catalogue. Proofs of the Fugio cent were also made in silver The gold proof is of very fine metal, oud is of bright yel low, being nearly us large a.s u silver halt dollar The marking is very dit>- tiuct, little wear showing upon it.— New York Sun Chicago's First Child. In winterless Southern California n pleasant-faced old lady, Mrs. Susan Winans, is restfully passing the close Inspiration Horso 8 to 10 Ox 1G to 18 Sheep 12 to 15 Do? .... IB to 13 These numbers vary, .if course, the age A young horse, for example, makes, fourteen or fifteen respiratory movements per minute, whereas in an old horse \the number may fall to niuo or ten. in. a young ox the number is from eighteen t o twenty-one, in an old one it varies from twelvo to fifteen. The accompanying illustrations show tho proper methods for feeling tho pulses of these onimals. In the casg of the horso the operator app'lies his right PEELING THE PULSE OF THE HORSE. FEELINO THE PL'LSE OP THE OX. PEELING' THE PULSE OF TH E SHEEP MRS. SUSAN WINANS. SOSIE OF THE NEWEST STILES IN HATR- DRESSrKG. having rings through which the strands of hair are passed and kept firmly in place. The least discrepancy about suoh a style of dressing the hair would have a most damaging effect on the appearance. Our illustrations show some of the newest coiffures to be worn during the coming season. BLOWN PROM THE TRACK. barnyard, naked. crowing, though porfeclly POINTS Ei DISPUTE, are many points about There are man y points about the tornndo which ore m dispute among meteorologists. Some of them ore of tho opinion that thero is a partial vacuum in the middlo of the whirling balloon oloud, and many witnesses spook of tho manner in which tho huge funnel sucks up everything in its path. It is stated that tho sucking sound is very distinctly heard as the monster rushes across the country. It certainly does take up water from streams, and one instance is recorded where a tor nado completely emptied a well forty feet deep. Other authorities aver that in the midst of tho revolving funnel thore is a plonum, the reverse of a vaonum. Some of the doings perpotrated by tornadoes are most astonishing. At Wallingford, Conn., August 9, 1878, a storm of this sort blew atone monu ments off their bases. It was estimated that the velocity of whirl required to accomplish this was 260 miles an hour. Children hove frequently been lifted huridreds of feet into the air and laid down unhurt. It has been observed that objects uplifted by this agenoy do not drop with the ordinary forpe ol' Jailing bodies in ,nuy-niftracttC'' George Washington's Cabin. Half a mile from Berryville, i n tho Shenandoah Volley, stands to this day, though much dilapidated, an old log cabin which once sheltored George Washington when he was a surveyor. Thither he went directly from hom e WASHINGTON'S CABIN. to begin surveying the estate of Lord Fairfax. At that time tho country was wild and infested with- Indians. Washington's companion was Georgo William Fairfax. Both wero boy s of the time, Washington boing only six teen, but tradition has it that thoy built the hut themselves. Thoy used it for an office, sleeping in the attio and keeping their tools on the lower floor. \Greenway Court\ was ten miles away.—New Yor k Recorder. •You 'can't \get a boy to* eat his pie crust up clean by' telling :-him.it 1 will make ,him-!strong.,-, That,.;worked, inf of life. Children ond grandchildren attend her, nor blizzards nor cyclones nor luting cold nor scorching heat annoy Yet midst wars, massacres aud priva tions of every kind her life began. At the Fort Deerboru massacre of 1811! her baby eyes may have seen fathei and brother murdered. At u mother'.- breast she clung close that no savage club might bruise her tender frame Then came wigwam life and weary marching from Indian camp to Indian camp. Thus the first year of her life jiussed away, and the^fair-haired child j little dreamed when at last safe in her | grandfather's house, that where hoi j eyes first saw the light some time . would stretch a monster city, some time bo held an exposition on so mag nificent a scale as to astonish the world, and this bo her renown—that . she was tho first white child born where now tower Chicago's myriad blocks. But, having felt all of lifo'd vicissi tudes in Western wilderness, now, in her rose-covered cottage in Southern California, she peacefully waits the end.—St. Louis Bepublic. Incidents in the Life ot a Dog. Willie is a small, rough-haired ter rier, a truculent and aggressive charac ter, the terror of tramps, in a skirmish with ono of whom he has lost an eye He rules the kitchen with a rod of iron, the inmate thero admiring and fearing him. Next to tramps, Willie hates cats; ho has been flogged again and again for chasing the neighbor's Tom; nothing can stop him rushing at the alien cat, however. But for his own domestio Tabby he has tolcranoo and a certain amount of affection; if an other dog wero to attack her, diro would be the warfare. A while ago, this cat had three kittens; two wore taken b y the maid and placed in a bucket of water, and left to their fate. Before that fate had come Willie per ceived thorn; he snatchel them from tho bucket one by one, and carried them to his kennel. The maid at tempted to get them away, but Willie flew at her with fury, oud then le- turned to lick first one and then the other, to shove them up together, and lie down near them, and in every way to give tho rj° or half-dead things a chance. This went on for some time; but when at last there was no sign of breath, and ho saw that they were hopelessly dead, he marched out'of the kennel, shook himself, and indi cated t o tho maid that she might now proceed\ to bury them, that they were past intelligent treatment. He treats the remaining and living kittfen with the indifference of thosoiontific for the normal.—London Spectator. Henry Vm. per cent. hand to the inferior border of the loft lower jaw, whnre tho beatings of tho glosso-facial artery may bo perceived. In the case of the ox tho foot of tho tail is grasped between tho hands, when the pulsations of the coccygoal arteries are felt on the under face. In tho sheep and smaller animals tho beating of the radial artery can bo felt on the internal face of the foreleg, in the groove just above the knee.— New York World. A Piucli of 5>!ist. The dangers that lurk uubi-en ID th« air for'n the subject of an essay by 31. de Nnuhouty on \The Atmosphere ol Lar-je Towns aud Mierogniphy \ He points oj t the increased pollution of the air m Paris from the fuctorici work.'d by steam machinery, aud ro- marks that vapors which contain nut phur arc specially disastrous to the lungs, since the sulphur which thej contain is transformed into sulphuroiu ncid, and then into sulphuric acid, which fulls back to the earth with the ram and fog. An analysis of dust por tides reveals that a remarkable collec tion of diverse objects may be ab sorbed at every breath in the street ol a large city silex, chalk, plastor, pul verized rock, charcoal, hairs, fibres, vegetable refuse, starch, pollou cells, etc A specimen of dust collected from furniture on tho third floor of n street in Kennes contained all this and ncirly throe million bacteria in addi tion. A gramme of dust (about iiftocn grams) in movement in the stroets on- closes about 130,000 bacteria. The dust of houses, then, is far more dan gerous. 31. de Nansouty concludes that it is of incalculable importance tc devote incessant attention to the num ber, quality, and nature of these mi croscopic beings which surround us— London Hospital. During the reign of H( * twenty-three' 'to twenty-five One Tlic»ry About Dyspepsia. \Dyspeptics uflir.us Doctor Austin Flint, the well-knov/u medical special ist, \are chiefly persons who eat regu larly, restrict their diet to simple food in small quantities and constantly have their stomachs on thsir minds. I tell my patients to oat whenever thoy aro hungry, even i f it is just boforo going to bed—to eat as much as the appetite demands, to appeasj the thirst in tho same wj-y and live as sumptuously as possible. Gourmands may have gout —they don't hove dyspopsia.\ Chestnut Trees Near House.-!. Chestnut trees aro not suitablo for planting very near buildings of any kind, for thoy soon reaoh a blooming age, and then cast thoir long yellow catkins over tho roofs, stops, walks and stain everything they touoh. If tho rain water is saved in cisterns it will be badly stained by these catkins. The chestnut is a. rapid growing and beautiful tree, and should bo largely planted for its sw.oot and dolicious nuts, but for the reason given it should not be planted noar buildings.—New Yor k Sru^ Truthfulness of Animals. No writer of natural history has over satisfactorily oxplainod h o wi t happens that tho lowor animals aro so much su perior to mankind in tho matter of truthfulness.- Birds and dogs have been known t o steal, bu t whon found out they havo never beon' known to tell lies about it. Indeed it is proved by the fow anthontio cases o n record where animals. have qpoken that the quadrupeds .were more keenly alive to I the necessities of, tho' truth i than their ' m »ikr ».^I ^ttd^ n Tel^aph.'
