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Tli» value of -farming lands in thi* country is greatest in New Jersey! la' 188S it averaged: Now Jersey, S65 ; Massachusetts, $50; Ohio, $46 ; Ne w York, S44 ; \Vorrnont $36 ; Maryland, (32; Wisconsin, $23, and in some West-\ ern States less than $5 per acre. 'I'll' J J'icayune notes that most of the professional writers who attended the authors' congress at Chicago were noticeably well fed in appearance and sleek, its if they took life easy and slept well of nights. Even the poets he.'l none of Ihe spirituelle look that was once supposed to be a character- Uc HI verse makors. CARRYING MAIL. THE P.OSTOKFICK EXHIBIT AT THE AVOUIJD'S FAIR. How the I-iittlc Two-Cent Stam p Transports Tjcttcrs In All Kind s of Conveyances - -\Magnitude of the .Postal Service. V Tlii' Congregationalists and the (Jnitid Presbyterian Church publish figure-- -howing how the membership in ea h iiody stands as regards the proportion between male and female. The proportion in each is nearly two to one in favor of female members. The returns made by these two relig ious bodies may safely be taken as rep- resent'ug the general condition m this respect in nil our denominations. The men are certainly the \lesser half\ in the churches. A Mstcr of the Czar who attended the royal wedding at London gives out the information, according to a cor respondent, that the liking for French mnnii-rs and customs which has hith erto ptrvaded Kussian society has given way to an inclination toward Ameri can views. American women are sought as H'ir.-\s and governesses, and the fa- vovte theaters produce American pla\-. while in St. Petersburg one of tin' TOST successful modistes is a New Yi'..v woman named Smith. This may lie true, but the story lias a fish-liko flavor Thr question has often been raised wli-;in r or not the sender of a telc- gruu A as obliged to use the blanks primdi d by the telegraph company for tii\ purpose This point has been decided, states the Chicago Record, in the Houth DakotaSuprenie Court. The court lit Id that the Western Union Telegraph Company, against which suit •was brought, mint accept messages tend •••'•d whether or not written upon the r, pillar telegraph blanks. The plaintiff evidently combined enterprise with p.ibhc spirit in his method of test:us the point. He was awarded $o(l damages under the decision and has fort3' other cases pending The Boston Globe published a map of Mount Auburn Cemetery a few days ago and tiio names of the noted deail who now sleep there. Look at thib lint .lames Russell Lowell, Henry \V. I-iungii How, J. L. Motley, Judge Cur tis, Sidney Bnrtlett, Leopold Morse, Mine. l!ud< rsdorr, Professor John W Wcbsu r >>atlnm'cl Bowditeh, Jacob BtgHow. Hiuina Adams, lbifus Choate, Doctor^ ieorge Pi.rkiniin, Doctor Joseph K. \\ nicest< r, Josiah Quincy, Charlotte (Y .Miiiitm . Edward Everett, William Warren, Charles Sumner, Judge Char les Devetts, Louis \gassi/i, Margaret Fnllrr-Ossoli, Edwin Booth, Anson Buriingiiine, James T Fields, the Wes ton sisters, Fannie Fern, Mrs. Vincent, Dorothy Dix, Phillips Brooks, Peter Char Ion Brooks, William Eller\ Chau- mug ('a-ilani Trott of the efTble steamer Minia has done a clever piece of work in the transmission of information while at sea. When in latitude -17.30 north, longitude 32.30 west, he re ported through tiio end of an Atlantic cable which he had on board for re pairs the following steamers bound westward—viz\ Manhattan and a Pied Star steamer, also the Paris of the American line and the Mohawk of the Atlantic Transport line in th\ same position Captain Trott was the first to introduce this most acceptable method of making known the where abouts of steamships, andhas report 3d steamers in mid-ocean on several oc casions, a service which was much ap preciated b y both the owners o f the vessels reported and the friends of the passengers. The experiment to be made in the use of electric locomotives m the tun nel that has been built by the Balti more and Ohio Kiulroad under the city of Pialtinioro is expected by the Now Yor<t Post to give nnalmost conclusive answer to tho question whether eloc- trie motors can lie economically u.sud on elevated and suburban railroads now operated by steam locomotives. The locomotives are to be Used to haul both passengers and freight trains. They have been completed by tho General Electric Company, and are the most powerful ever constructed. Each is of 1200 horse-power, and con sists of three separate trucks coupled together to form one motor. The weight on driving-wheels is 100 tons, and there are twelve drivers to each locomotive. The maximum weight of freight trains to be hauled is placed at 1200 tons, which enn be corne d at a speod of fifteen miles an hour ; of passenger troins, 500 tons; speed, thirty miles an hour. The current will bo supplied to the motors by the regular trolley wire with the ground return through the rails. The tunnel itself will bo raado as light as day by 4000 incandescent lamps fed from the' same.\ central station that supplio*\ powor to tho locomotive. PPE R Michigan mail is transported on dog-sleds in the winter. Can inc letter-carriers are not beautiful to the ey» and it is doubtful if they would even be al lowed to enter a cross-roads bench show, but there is a business-like look about a 'tandem do g team that at- tractsthe attention of every person wh o passes the stuffed group in the Postoffice exhibit. The dogs harnessed to the toboggan loaded with the mail pouches were alive arid in actual service t*lust winter haul ing mail out of Sault Ste. Marie. The wax figure loping alongside is a good likeness of tho Indian who drove the team. From his snow shoes to the tassel of his woolen cap the Indian's costume iB a faithful copy of the clothes which enabled the bronze-faced mail courier to brave ten-foot snow and a forty degree below zero ther mometer. This group is one of the exhibits which show, how ma'il is tran sported in this country Few consider what they arc doing when they stick a two-cent stamp on an addressed envelope They know that the person whose name and ad- ling cart. ' The Oklawha, can travel in eighteen inchos of water. Much handsomer is the model o f the City of St. Louis, a side-wheel mail packet that brings letters to the river towns'on the Mississippi.\ An old-time Rocky Mountain mail coach, swung on its leather strops, with its boot s full of mail sacks, occu pies a prominent position. It waB built m 1868, and was among the first to carry the mail in Montana. ' Onco a woelt it made the run between Helena an d Bozeinan. To-day four mail trains perform the service daily. In 1877 the old coach was captured by Indians, and after a hot pursuit by General O. O. Howard was recaptured. Before General Garfield became President he rode on the coach through the Yellow- rapidly and he also predicted that the sale of postal'cards would suffer. The figures bear him out. Postal cards were first issued in 1874, and tho first full year 91,079,000 wero issued. 'In the last vear of three-cent postago 379,576,750 cards wero sold, but the first year of two-cent postage dropped tho total to 339,-116,500. It took five years for the postal cards to Regain their original figures. The magnitude of the postal-service of the United States as compared with that of three other loading administrations of tho inter nal postal union is placarded ^n a way to delight the enthusiastic young Ameri cans. The tigureB aro takon from tho reports of the fiscal year ending Juno 30, 1892. They read as follows: ' OROSB AMOUN T Ol ' POSTA L KEVgNUK . United States 870.939.47 6 German y ... 57.790.11 8 Groat Britain 50,21-1.271 Frnneo ' 33,493,177 Th e llKiires do not incliido telegrap h re ceipts for tin* foreign countries. MILE S O f MAI L SEIiVIC E PEllt'OnMED. United Stales .103.087.69*1 Frnnen _ 200,581.120 Gcrinunv 1G5,912.2G.\I Groat Britain 03,203.500 PIECE S O F MAI L MATTEt t MAILE D A>' D DELIV r , , EUEO . United State3 4^)02,780.920 Qecmiiny ,.*- :2!77C,218,719 Great Britain 2,750,535,591 Franco 1.881,322,911 A Boat For Land and Water. A correspondent of tho Marine Re view, writing from Kingston, Canada, \ gives tho following description of a boat constructed for use in towing Canadian lumber rafts, that will also travel on land: A peculiar kind of tug passed through here recently for the lakes ad- ' jaeent to tho Bonne Chone River, in , the back country. It is callod an al- I ligator tug, because it is able t o travel ' upon land as well as in the water The boat was turned out of the shops of WeBt & Peachey, Simcoe, and is pat ented by the firm in Canada and in the United States. It has proved n great success in the lumbering busi ness. The firm has completed six oi them. They are thirty-seven feet long and ten feet beam and docked all over Thoy arc built scow-shaped, with steel shod runners for working portages. Iu water the boat is propelled at the rate of sit miles an hour, either for ward or backward, by an engiue of twenty-two horse power On laud it is propelled by having a cable drum on which is coiled five-eighths of a mile of stool wire cable, which is fastened to pulleys on trees in front, the boat moving as the wiro is coiled up. The rollor is hung on an axle, and can be kept level in going up oi down hill. McLachou Brothers, of Eganville, have secured two for im mediate use, the one just deenbed bo- mg the first to turn up here. I AHRYING MAIL IN ALASKA. dress are on the envelope will receivt the letter Few of them, however, ap preciate the fact that the stamp places the United States Government under a cast-iron contract to place that letter ' in right hands at the earliest possible moment, oven though the hands are felling trees in the almost-inaccessible depths of an upper Michigan pine for est, or working in the tangles of a Florida overglade. T o do this tin- Government uses human legs, wagons, bicycles, railroads, steamboats, dog sleds, horses, ponies, ocean vessels, river boats and anything else that will carry the letter over laud or water, mountains or plains, swamps or -snow drifts, in suminor or in winter, at all times and any time. Lives have been sacrificed that a let ter might go forwurd, millions of dol lars have boon spent preparing the way for othor letters and yet people placo the two-cent stamps on their en velopes and drop the letters into the red boxos on the street corners with no appreciation of what they arc doing A visit to the Postoffice exhibit in the Government Building is apt to increase one's respect for tho little postage stamp. There aro displayed all the moans used for transporting mail, as well as a. thousand other interesting things which might keep a visitor busy half a day. General Hazen, who was Third As sistant Postmaster-General under Pres idents Hayes and Harrison, took a great deal of interest in assembling the exhibits, and is o n the ground daily for ho is a member of the Government Board. He wished to show the de velopment of tho service and has suc ceeded- admirably. No groater con trast could bo found than is formed by tho two models of ocean mail steamers. There is a model of tho old Southerner, tho first ocean steamship built to carry United States mail. Forty years ago it did the service which is now per formed by nautical greyhounds such as tho City of Paris of the International line, whoso beautiful .model is placed r near tho old ship. A queer mail carrier is tho Oklawha, which runs on the river of that namo in Florida. Assuming that the model is a good miniature, the Oklawha is all above water, a regular floating ..house; According to_Gonernl.vB»zenite^\draft r light that'it could follow A sprink-' ,i.-..v ..>>•• * \; y ,\>;. stone country, President Arthur sat on the boot with its driver in 1883 and General Sherman in 1877 made i trip on the anc.eut vehicle. Near the old-timer is the moderu vellow-bodied open coach used in the Yellowstone Park for carrying tourists an.I mail It has usurped tho prou 1 oositiou once held by the stage coach, which Indians used to capture. The post ri ler, mounted on his spirited br-mcli >, armed with revolvers and bout-il and spurred, tells of the letters curried over alkali plains, broad prairies and wild western lauds. This tuouute 1 group is the ndmirution of the small boys, who gaze on it with wide-open eyes. The pon y express was tin- original letter-carrier across the plains, and to day 1000 mail routes use pomc .M and bronchos. The- Indian question wiib a most serious one t o the men who carried mail-bags through a country swarming with redskins. In the dead-letter exhibit is a mail-pouch stainod with the blood of a post rider and slashed by the keen blade of the Indian murderer From these exhibits, around whioh people gather in wondering gioups, to the mail car, mnil-delivery and mail- collecting wagons,\ the special-dolivery messenger astride tho bicycle, and the familiar city carrier and railway postal clerk, is coming from tho romantic to the realistic-commonplace. Statistics are usually dry, but the largo tabulated postal statistics from 1775 to 1893 are always the center of an interested group. Tho totals roach almost incredible figures and demon strate the enormous business trans acted by the Postoffico Dopnrtmont. Benjamin Franklin was tho first post- mastor-general. Ho was appointed by the Continental Congress July 26, 1775, and apparently made no report of tho wor k done m his department. Samuel Osgood, appointed September 26. 1789, who was the first postmaster- genera! of the United Statos to hand down reports, had seventy-five post- offices to look after in 178'J, and 2275 miles of post routes. The gross rovenue for the year amounted to $7510, and postmasters were paid $1657 for sal aries. Th e total number of mail pieccsofall kind handled was 500,000, evidently an estimate. At the close of the fiscal year, 1892, there were 67,119 postoffices in this country. The extent of post 'routes aggregated 447,591 miles, the miles of mail service performed reached tho amazing total of 3G3.087.695, the gross receipts were §70,930,475 and tho post- officos cost S76,960,846. There wore 2,543,270,210 ordinary postage stamps issued, 593,684,700 stamped envelopes and wrappers, 511,433,500 postal' cards. Of registered letters 15,260,- 094 were carried and 6,781,180 picceB went to the doad-lettor office. The domestic money orders issued amounted to S120.06G.801 and $15,- 120,271 wore sent b y international money orders. During tho year the Postoilice handlod4,776,575,0,76 pieces of mail matter of all kinds. From 1851 t o 1883 tho postal rato was three cents for evory half-ounce. In October, 1883, the rate was reduced to two cents. The total receipts for , the last year, of three-cent postage were $45,334,950. The first year of tho two-cent rate dropped receipts to $42,560,844, but tho'figures crawled .up so' rapidly that last year th.oy amounted to' $70,930,475. General , Hazen' was a firm advocate of cheaper postage. He believed that the slight decreMe in receipt* would be made up J \IJi'-r-tnilctl\ Sheep ol I'ersin. Mr John W.^Northrup, of the Statb Agricultural Board of California, is making arrangements to secure a con sigument of the famous \big-tailod\ sheep of Persia. This lot of sheep will be imiftirtod by the State of Cali fornia, at great oxponse, a previous effort to import and breed them made ' by the United Status Government when ; Jerry Rusk was Secretary of Agricul ture having- failed, as out of the fifteen big-tails\ imported only four are now alive. \These sheep imported b y Secretary ' Husk came fromBushirc, Persia.\ said Mi- Norhrup at tho Gilsey House, \i'hey were shipped by Mr. Truxton Beale, the Uuitod States Minister, and were treated in a royal manner. From tho time that thoy were selected' from thi; great flocks of 'big-tails' in the IVr.sian agricultural districts until they arrived at their final destination in the balmy climate of California they received attention similar to that accorded a S100.000 racc-horso. Only the handsomest and strongest animals were selected. ' \In England the 'big-tails' wero j placed aboard the Helvetia in padded I compartments kept at an even tcmper- | ature while on the ocean. Thoy reached this country in safety, but in | a much weakened condition. \When they arrived in Lower Cali fornia th -y were so waak it was impos sible for them to stand. They wero fed carefully on prepared fodder and uiirsed along, but they dropped off one by one. \But California is bound to have TUE UIG-TAILBD PEnSIAN' SHEEP. these valuable sheep feeding on her pastures within a few years. This time we will select a larger number and on their arrival in this country will dot tin them a much longer titne than were tho Government sheep, so as to givo them an opportunity to re coup thoir strength after the very weakening ocean voyage. Then two or thrco stops will bo mado before they finally roach California. B y tak ing this care in transportation we hope to have better luck than did Secretary Rusk.*'—Now Yor^c World. •(Till Run Trains by Telephone. It IB stated that tho great Pennsyl vania Railroad has decided to dis pense with tho telegraph in running its trains, and to substitute the long distance telephone. The change is made in the interests of economy and safoty. The management has decided that it costs less t o run tho telephone, and that its messages are less likely to bo mistaken. The tolophone will ona- ble tho train dispatcher to communi cate directly with his conductors.-- New Orleans Picayune. Quicksilver was first discovered within tho limits of the United States in California i n 1860. The World's largest Diamond. A flashing gem, whose purity of water and wonderful size eclipso the famous Kohinoor, has just reached England from tho Orange Free State, It is now in London , but its whero about are not known The owuere evidently are afraid to make its pres ence public. A model has, however, been obtained, of which the accompany ing skotch is a copy. It is the most perfect large stone over seen. Its weight is 971 carats, its color is bluo-whito and almost per fect. It has one black spot in it, which, however, tho owners state, will cut out. Its value, of course, can not now be stated, but, writes a corre spondent, I think* if $250,000 were offered for it now, or even double that amount, it would not bo accepted Some declare that it. will be worth S2,500,000. It was found by a Kaffir, who was working in the mine, shortly after blasting. The s Kaffir, in this case, was talking to his overseer, when he saw something shine, ami JAOERSFONTEIN DIAMOND.—(EXACT SIZE.) Pliny, mentions .a, .Spanish ..mine he put his foot over it until his \boss\ had gon e away, wheuht-picked up the immense diamond an.l put it in his pocket Afterwar 1, in th- compound, ho handed it over to th • manager, for which he has been given --'\.iu n h .rse, saddle and bridle, and has gon-- home in, no doubt, perfect happiness. Vn extraordinary circunistanct is that some gentlemen were under contract tn buy all stoues, good, bail or in different, at so much per enr.it. Tho contract terminated on the -Itltli of June and this stone was almost, n imt quite, the last stone found on th.it day The model shows that th\ stone is in the form of a sloping cone, flatt-ned on two side .s and stan hug on an nvnl base, so Hush as aliuont to appear to have boon cut Its height is about thrco inches an.l its width is about two, wlnlo the Hat bus-- m .-ns -u-es nearly two inches by one mil a quarter The diamond has be u ii'.inud the ''Jagorsfontein Excelsior History ol the JloMinilo. This insect is always encouraged by the prescucoof stagnant water m which it breeds. The male feeds on (lowers, it i6 the female My only which sucks the blood of animals. The eggs aro laid in water and hatch into i-mitll wiggling creatures that in time chaitgo into the fly, bursting the fakin of the immature insect, and leaving the wa ter a winged one. There are be*,end methods suggested for tin destruction of the insects while in their larval stage and inhabiting water One in is to cover the water with a thin liln.- of kerosene oil, by which the insects arc killed, another is to drain tin marshes, and by keeping the long grass cut, to dry the ground and thus pre vent the eggs from being hatched. There are two common varieties ol this insect—one has a black or bro.rn body, the other is striped and ha.-, two light spots on each wing The lieak of tho mosquito cousists of six bristle like organs which\ are gathered into : IL awl-like probosis, that is thrust into the ilesh, and ' the blood is drawn through the cbanuel formed by the spaces between the bristles. There is no reason to believe that poison is in jected into the wound, by which the severe pain aud the Wwolhng expert enced by some pcrsous ate produced. Tho wound itself is sufficient to cauaj these results. —New York Times. WILD HORSES. FEW HERDS NOW FOUND UPON ' THE WESTERN PLAINS. Ecccntrieitic' ol a Cyclone. Below is a drawing of it part of two trees from Mrs. Slater's farm, south ol Aurelia, and in the path of the recent cyolonc. Tho larger >*eprc-sents a maplo eleven inches in diameter, through which was driven a board one inch twelvo inches wide. Tho a maple also about eight diameter, into which is ordinary stove shovel of This is driven .into the tiec across tho grain about 21 inches, —Chicago Inter-Ocean thick and smaller is inches in driven shoot an iron. \Bobbing \ lor Flounders. * The popular way at present fot catching flounders along tho Connecti cut coast iB by tho \bobbing\ method. When a tlsh bites tho \bob\ is raised perpendicularly, and then the excite ment begins. As soon as tho \bob \ rises a rush is mado for it, and Ihero iB a chase of several minutes 6omotimcs. In nine cases out of ten tho fish is caught. Tho number of \bobs\ gener ally used is eight. —Now York Herald. L ^ A buffalo bull was seen recently by .'a stagoPi .driver on. tho d08crt,,noar .RawlinSj-fWyoming.' ,_It is supposodto' \'•bo'ono tof-'i* 8'mall.ner d that isstilirun-' njng wild. .'•\•r^'K^gg Hunting Tlic m is an Exciting Sport Tha t Requires Unerring Cour age—Methods Followed by the \\\Iustnngcrs.\ N E feature of prairie life which is becoming a thing of the past and will soon bo known only from the stirring tales of old-timerB is the wild horse hunting, a sport that has proved en joyable itnd profit-'ile to many. The opening of the Indian lands has hurried the extermination of the wild horse bands that roamed the Southwest, and when the Cherokeo strip is opened to settlement little room for their exist ence will remain in the Mississippi Valley. The herds of wild mustangs wander up from the regions of the Rio Grande in search of the more succulent pas tures of the North, and tho finding of a herd is regarded as'a rare prize. No pleasanter task can be imagined, if one wants a rough and ready experi ence of a few days or two or three weeks, than the capture of u herd of wild horses. When tho \Mustangers aB hunters of this game are called, start out, it is with the iritontion of making a stay that shall last until the wholo herd is captured. In a large, white-covered camper's wagon is stored food for the trip, and three or four extra riding horses are taken along, as well as some strands of barbed wiro and posts for a corral. Whott the ponic3 aro sighted it is usually in companies of twenty-five to 100, and there is a rich reward in the capture of thorn all if it can be ac complished. The party in pursuit is divided into three \wotches each to bo on duty about eight hours, aud when a herd of animals is discovered the work commences. One \watch\ starts out on horso- back aftor the herd, following on patiently and steadily for eight hours, then another watch takes its place, [n the meantime the third watch has been sleeping in the wagon preparing for its turn on the arduous part of tho pursuit. Mustangers aim not to immediately overtake the wild horses, but to tiro them out. Night and day, twenty- four hours running, the herd is pur sued. Steadily, carefully, unrelent ing as fate, on the followors go, never allowing the game to rest. So far as possible tho mustangs aro kept away from water, and if the guide knows the section in which the chase takes place well, this is not difficult—espe cially in the sparsely watered No Man's Land in which the hords are most fre- luontly found. At first the wild horses think thoj have an oasy time. The}' canter hero iud there gaily kicking up their heels md shaking their shaggy manes in jlee. But after a day's pursuit they ire of a different mind. Their heads Iroop, their pace is slow aud doubt ful, aud it is not difficult for the pur- •uors to turn them to right or left. Sow they are driven in a huge circle md the wagon, which is at the centre if the course described, halts. The barbed wiro and posts now ;ome into play, and a rude corral six feet in height is constructed with a funnel like spreading entrance. All tho timo the herd has been iriven relentlessly onward without time to eat or drink or sleep, aud has become as spiritless as the most docile farm horse. When the right stage of weariness is tttained all the hunters are called out, and with all points carefully guarded the herd is driven down the spreading path to the corral and .he gates closed behind the prisoners—the game is won. Not entirely won, either, for the hc*rd must be broken and taken in to some of the shipping stations be fore anything can be realized upon the animals which have proved so dif ficult to overtake It is an art to \break\ a wild horse. No one but a consummate artist with •addle, spur and lariat can undertake It and succeed. Going into the corral the lasso is first thrown over the steed's inwilhng head and the creature, frightened and frantic, is driven out m the level prairie. Then the fun be gins. In order to get olose enough to put on bridle and saddle it is usually necessary to choke the mustang into insensibility. Then tho bridle with Its great cruel Spanish bit is put on ; tho Mexican saddle with its huge back md pommel and its two wide sea- *[rass girths is \cinched\ into place. The larint is loosenod and tho horse trisas. For a' moment he is stunned by the indignity forcod upon him and then in a desperate attempt to free himself from the burdens he rears, rolls, plunges, until it seems that he aiu3t break something. But of this he wearies and at length isven the resounding crack of the hugo leathern whip carried by tho breaker fails to rouse him into action. Then the breaker approaches. The horse is' too tired to care, but all his flagging energies are renewed when, with skill ful leap, the breaker throws himself into the saddle. \Bucking\ at tho .Wild West shows is o mild kind of exerciso compared with tho antics of tho wild mustang. Every possible effort that an almost crazed creature can devise is put forth, but tho horseman is always the winner and usually without a scratch. There soon comos a timo when the horse can physically stand it no longer and gives up, allowing the rider to guide it whero ho will. Re volting cruelties are ofton practicod at these \buoking\ ovonts. The bits usod are almost like knivea and in the hands of a passionate man leave the mouth of the horse gashed and bleed ing. The \anokowhip a long, plia ble leatern instrument, is also used without mercy, and each stroke of its biting end sinks deep into the flesh of tho torrifiod brute. So even upon tho plains tho poor horse suffers from tho brutality of his master, man. The horso breakers or \mustangers\ claim that cruolty is nocessary in order to ..conquer the wild spirit in their victim, but ono who will watoh tho two hours' transformation of a wild horse into a reeking, blood-Bpoekod, wilted, but lubdued riding pony will dpclfce that much of the crnolty if unnecessary. — , Ostroit Free Pre**. Uncle Cam as an Advertiser. In Eighth avenuo thoro is a recruit ing office for'tho United States Army. Iu front of the premisos during busi ness hours is stationed an orderly whose crcctfigure, bright newuniform aud fine, soldierly bearing are well calculated to make a favorable impres sion upon the minds of discontented young men who may be taken with a Btuldon impulse to enter the sorvico ol thoir country On tho streets in the neighborhood there aro generally to be seen two or three robust and well fed young men in the uniform of pri vates, lounging about in a contentod sort of way, from whose leisurely man ner it might easdy be inferred that, m time of peace at least, the soldier's lot was quite a happy one. \Tho wholo scheme is a slick one,\ was the remark of an ex-privato who only a few weeks ago received an honoroble discharge from the regular army after six years of service in the Wost \'Tho wholo scheme is a slick one,\ he repeated, \and it catches lots of fellows who aro just as fresh and green as I was when I enlisted in Philadelphia nearly six years ago. Young fellow;s who are out of work or who are dissatisfied with their positions or who are in a desper ate frame of mind after a spree oi who arc unhappy in their love affairs, accidentally run across thes3 recruit ing officers, and the idea suddenly pops into their heads that it would be a mighty nice thing to join the army and thus run away from thoir trouble. \They soo the orderly and the pri vates in their neat, bright uniforms, with apparently nothing in tho world to do but keep their shoes and clothee well brushed, and what was at first merely a vagrant notion becomes a de termined resolution Thoy apply fot enlistment, pass tho necessary examin ation, and, almost before they are aware of it, have surrendered a largo share of their personal freedom and become subjects of military discipline. Too often thoy seek to retrace their steps only when it is too late, and in many cases they begin their army ser vice with a sullen hatred against tho (lag they have sworn to follow Oneo in a while, but not often, a follow is exempted or discharged after he has boon sworn in, but it is generally done because ho pleads the baby act or through som<\ pull of his friends in the War Department. But the natty orderly on duty in front of the re cruiting office and the well fed privates on the streets nearby -what of them, you aik? Why, thoy run the scheme I .spoko of in the first place. Uuclo Sam is the shrewdest advertiser in tho business. He places «those fellows, wearing ne v uniforms, on view, to ad vertise what a royal, free-for-all picnic be has in store for those who join tho regular army.\—New York Herald. Lightning and Lightning Boils. Lightning us a cause of the destruc tion of human life has not boon mado a special factor in tho mortality tables of the sanitary statistician. Some attention, however, is paid to it, and on the authority of respectablo publications the loss of life from this cause in the Unitod States cast of tho Rocky Mouutains during the year 1891 is stated at 205, in 1892 at 292. According to (ire insurance statistics, for the six years of 18S5-1890, in- I elusive, more than 2200 fires, eutail- mg a loss of 33,386,326, were charged to lightning Of course, the ordinary provision for protection is a metallic rod or a number of them projecting above the building, to which they are attached, and inserted in the earth. A lightning stroke is caused by a dischargo of elec tricity from a cloud to the earth. If the cloud should be positively olec- trified and the earth beneoth nega tively charged, in the effort of nature to establish an equilibrium there would be an outrush from the cloud to tho earth in the course of which the cur rent passing through a poor conductor would set it on fire. The rod which is relied on for protection must be a good conductor. But it sometimes happens that the volume of the elec trical current is greater than the rod can carry, and then in spite of tho rod a buildiug miiy be damaged. Some times the discharge is from the earth to the clouds, but the rod will answor its purpose in such a case The fact that buildings provided with rods have been struck has raised an argument against the efliciouoy of these appliances, and many theorists refuse to give rods any credit for pro tecting power Tho weight of tho testimony, however, is in their favor. The function of a rod is to bo a good conductor, perfectly connected at its joints. Copper is better than iron, and whon in the \form of a tapo or strip it is better than the same weight of metal in a rod or wire. Nobody appears to havo studied tho effect, if any, of the numorotiB lines of railway track and electric wires ex tending through the country. Whether they have any influence in increasing or lessening the danger of thundor storms is wholly unknown. Thoy should be investigated as to thoir re lations, if any, to tho tornadoos of our Western States.—New Orloans Pica yune. Thieving Monkey Meets Death. A gentleman living in Eighth street; has two pet monkeys. He has taught them many tricks himself and thoy have pioked up others without his as sistance. Among thoir various accom plishments acquired without help is tho natural ono of thieving, for whioh monkeys are especially noted. Those two monkeys until a few days ago triod to oiitdo each other in this particular. One of them succeeded. It died a violent death as a result, and the graphic events of the last fow days have so unnerved the other ono that it has forgotten that acomplishment, temporarily, at least. The gentloman is troubled dread fully with insomnia, and tho other night took a box of morphine pillB home with him. Upon entering tho houso ho laid the box of pills down on the table. The monkeys winkod at eaoh other and then jumped for tho box. Tho one that is dead got tho pills. It,got out of tho gentleman's reach, tore the cover off tho box ondbogan t o eat tho pills. By the timo the gentle man got to the monkey it had swal- lowdd every ono in the box . Thero was nothing further for him to do but to wateh his pet meet doath, which the pot did shortly afterward in a most violent way indeed. —Now York Hwald.
