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P T ol Esttmatos ■ $40,000,- ' governmeat Stoningtop, ^ter« about the liltho law agaiust rigidly Quforcod I Weiteru, Wa»bington B tbeir greed for an- ^ a t the extermination foresUof that section (I greatly feared by the tet'a informant. tome statistics col- ^ mtorma Medina, the (dical men in Italy is K lt^diy increasing, and * is especially great a tbere is one medical i^*Mry 51S inhabitants. i time, notes the mden^ a court in , in the case of Ellis, that ^ ’‘'\“ wfiftleal oonrt^ T i i t ^ Within “ Hind with* ib F * % ^|^^|^advaaQ e B states; I'^ M e e t: h i t i|Bt y et ■ , 1 ^ K :him < « h a a s ted.» ItB w y eara ago, I ^ b A ^ I T s , ^at the awooHetrer atu> iM a means of ex- e ltq^ats of space. 4. p at theliick Obsertf I indioelion of the * of the little instrn* Kl&elegvaphed a comet that I h i i falkd to rereal, bat i inetrament disclosed a «f the comet had L tlia camera is there- ISViotScel aid to as- has appeared I Boston Journal, a t are Be fonndetion on IW rned Professor HcHprin Astronomers tell us 1892 was a great year for comets. The sum of $10,000 is to be given by the German Emperor for the pro motion of balloouiug. It is said that for what it costs to fire one shot from one of our largest cannons a missionary and his family can be supported over two years in Japan. The CleslBt Year. When cbimneys no more mnsio h( For that lold, lows all are gone; W hen winds be salty,\ blowing cold From sailing ships and the wet dawnj W hen briers w'here the rose was bold, ;s shov On blackened twigs sh ow berries sere, Then oh, m y love, and hey, my love, The closing o’ the year! The abolition of the government opium monopoly in India would mean an annual loss to the already tottering revenne of that empire of from $20,- 000,000 to $25,000,000 The population of Greenland increased five per cent, in the last ten years. It is a curious fact that the women outnumber the men very greatly, especially in South Grceu- The German Emperor has ordered that the First Life Guard Hussar regi ment is to carry at the end of their lances small black flags bearing the white death’s head, and this order, state the Uew York Press, does not give very great satisfaction. The Prince of lYales receives a sal ary of $200,000 a year, which must seem small to him as compared with the $9,000,000 a year the Czar dis poses of. But, observes the New York World, Albert Edward does not pre- tead to live within his income. The United States contain 70,000 lawyers, 11,000 of whom are in New York city, making the proportion there about oue to every 160 of the population. France, with a popula tion of 40,000,000, has but 6000 law yers, and Germany has only 7000 out of ayopulation of 50,000,000. France possesses a capital in which it is said more murders take place in six months than occur in London, Berlin and Vienna together in twice that length of time, hut altogether, the St, Louis Eepublic is forced to con fess, more murders take place in the United States than in any other coun try. Queen Victoria recently invited Miss Kate Marsdon to luncheon at Balmoral, and conversed with her about her strange and sad experience among the Siberian lepers and her pro ject for forming more leper colonies in Siberia. That Miss Marsden is a veritable heroine, declares the New York Journal, there can be no dispu- ielphia Academy of Scl- I b is theory that the North p H n be discovered, and that few years. This garment property of a seaman whose I e ttered the Arcric regions by Sea. Somehow the apparel ® the ocean current, was swept I ting, and the story of her journey ^ ^ tow a rds the Pole, and finally n along the sho^e of Greeh- > where it was discovered. A ^ argues Professor Hoilprin, can I these trousers have been, l i t i s a fact that an expedition is f to start from Norway in the E of I89s to try it. taler Sheehan and Receiver Slian- I ^ the United States Land Office imi Eranoisoo have received in- I'MtWetiens from Washington to sns- >jp»»d flrom entry all lands in Califor- on which the < Sequoia Gigantea” ‘‘big trees” are found. The Secre- %l^y of the Interior writes that he learns the trees are being destroyed in j certain places where they have been found by persons taking upol^ms for 4h« mere purpose of using these par- Bcular trees. The red wood found in fhe Coast counties is a sequoia, but of Bw sequoia gigantea species, being the sempervirens, and therefore is not Inoladed in the order. There are no gigantea trees growing with- I in the limits of the San Francisco through two thousand miles of swampy and unhealthy country in Asiatic Russia seems simply marvelous as the record of a woman’s pluck. Says the Lewlitoii Journal: Au in teresting story could be written on the Maine mines. Twelve years ago there were|nolessItbanseventy mining companies in full blast—actually at work in the state. Today not a single one of them is left. If the money invested in holes along the Maine coast could be dug out of them they would be regular bonanzas. But it is not at all unlikely tliatimprovments in mining methods and in the science of reducing refaotory ores may some day bring now life to those iudus- The trial, the other day, on the British Admiralty’s proving Imlk Nettle, of an armor plate hardened by the Harvey process, seems to have been a great triumph for the Ameri can method. Not a crack waS de veloped in the plate, while the five projectiles, three of which were Holt- zers a»td the other two Palliscrs, wore broken into small fragments. The gun employed was the six inch, with the usual velocity, of 2,070 feet a sec ond. Of course, this was only a con firmation ill Portsmouth harbor of re sults already fully established in‘trials at Indian Head and Bethlehem. In deed, the value-of this super-carbon, ized process had. been oven more emphatically shown on this side of tho ocean, since a plate of the same size as tho one used at Portsmouth—that is, having the customary dimensions of eight feet by six. with a thicirness of teu and ouc-halC inches—had re, listed, without cmcklng, five shots from one of oiir oight-incli brecch- ioading viflei, producing a much great er striking energy than the six-iiicli. The English have their own process of surface-hardening, but it will be iutoresliug to Icuni liow tho officers who coiulitcted the recent tost will sneak of tho Atnericai! method. That the armor in preparation for our battle surpasses iti resisting .quality. by tile Eiigiiah ooi'riod by How'itt service is beyond n gusts die down and lanes grow still, And the cold weather comes once more; When stiffening stalks begin to thrill, \ sd boil A n d twisted begin to thr bud at the doorj When for acme sweet space on the hill. W h ite as long since the thorn-bush blows, thorn- Then oh, m y love, and hey, my love, The y ear is at the close. —fLizette Woodward Keese. MAT’S HUSBAND. BY It. B. KETCHUar. She doubtless had a woman’s rensou for marrying him. That kind of rea son may not satisfy other people, but it is invariably sufficient for the femi- nine xeasoner. Sam Toms was what is called “wuthless” by his Texan neighbors. Old Bill Bunn, his father-in-law, him self not a very energetic or useful ciiizon, used to sit on the steps at the cross-roads store and publicly bewail his sad lot in having Sam for a mem ber of his family. Nominally, Sam was a cowboy; but moat of the time he would tell you he was ‘<jes’ layin’ off a spell, t’ rest up like.” Ho had always been just so—distin guished for laziness in an easy-going community—and nobody expected him ever to be otherwise; and it puzzled people immensely when energetic, capable Mattie Bunn accepted him for ‘rog’lar comp’ny,” to say nothing of the sensation created by their wed- Mat, as has been suggested, proba bly had some reason ior marryiflg Sam; but it Is quite certain that sbo never told any one what that reason was. Sam was tall, and big, and handsome in his careless, slouohy way; he had always managed, no one know how, to wear good clothes, too. These facts, and his perennial good-nature and friendly ways, were the only points in his favor. Against him wero the points so forcibly taken by bis father-in-law, and, also, that he got drunk whenever ho could possibly do so, and was, morally, so weak that any one could easily load him astray. was no excuse for his not sendini ;e, as the stage came by >g a the ranch he had gone to three times a week. If he had found work theroj as he expected, he could easily have could easily have notified her. So» latq in tho attornoon of tho fifth day, she threw her shawl over her head and wont down to her father’s to find if they had hoard anything of Sam, The old fellow was standing in the doorway talking to a couple of stran- “No,” ho was saying, <‘they h’aint b’en no person ’long yoro las’ few days, but what b’longs lyero. Mobbe, though, he mout a b’en seed over yere t’Bacon’s. Ben thar? No? \VVa-al my boy’s cornin’ In f’m thar . purty soon, an’ he n toll ye. Come in an’ feed; Jack’ll bo yore right soon.” Mat stayed to help her mother with the supper, and during the course of the meal learned that the two strangerf were officers trailing a horse-thief, ye? Gimme kiss,” he said, in a How Mat and Sam got along, n0*^ixli tone. one but Mat knew. Once in a great while, Sam would do some work and earn a few dollars. If ho got homo with it without stopping at tho saloon, well and good. But of toner than not, he would «drap in jos’ t’ take a nip ’r two,” and that would settle it. At such times, ho would stay and buy drinks for everybody present while his money lasted. Then ho would como home in a maudlin, tearful state of intoxication, and invent some tale to account for his condition and the disappearance of hii money, winding up with the promise never to lot it And Mat would pre^ m, and would that she believed himj stroke his curly head until ho fell asleep. Then she would look at the handsome scamp for h few minutes with love unutterable in her eyes—the tired eyes back of which were a world of unshed tears. But she never com plained—not the first word; the firm- set mouth and weary look might indi cate ever so much, but her lips never expressed it. And Sam gradually grew more and more useless and shift- loss, trusting to his wife’s ready wit and fertility of resource to carry them both over the bad.places. There were lots of bad places, too. Twice Sam ran into debt several dol. lars at the saloon, and Mat found some means to pay tho debts—only herself knew how. But the second time she infoi’mcd the saloon man that he must trust Sam no more. And, besides these things, to live—how did they do it? Nobody could guess. Perhaps even Mat herself could not have told; yet live they did—or, rather, existed—-and, for the moat part, kept out of debt. Sam sometimes worked, but never for very long. He always found some excuse for leaving a place wUhhi few days. He could almost always find unotlier job easily enough, for he was au excellent <‘hand” when he chose to be—but ho did not hasten about iitidiug n now job when ha had given one up; not until they Were reduced to the very last straits could Mat get him to liuntiug work again. Oue day, Sum loft homo fora ranch about tliirty-five miles disiatit, where he hoard they wanted help. Two days passed—throe—fonr-^hve—and n word came from him. Mat was not a little Worried,^ although Sam had often been away for two weeks at. a time without sending word to her. But this lime it wao difforont; there. who had stolen a valuable horse at a ranch forty miles east and sold it Pickett Station, and who was believed to have come this way. As she listened to the conversation, a sudden nameless fear came upon her, making her feel faint and ill. As soon as supper was over, she took her shawl and hurried home. Somehow she was not surprised to find the door open. She entered hastily. Sam was in bed, asleep and bieatliing stertorousiy. He had evi dently been drinking, as his clothes were scattered about the floor, and Mat, looking out the back door, could see his pony standing patiently where Sam had left him, waiting for some one to como and feed him. Mat leaned over the sleeping man and kissed him gently, her eyes full of love. Then she turned to pick up his clothes and put them away. The trousers wero heavy, and something jingled in one of the pockets. In stinctively Mat thrust her hand into it, and drew it forth, clasping several gold pieces. As she did so her eyes opened wide, and she stood as if stunned for a time, her heart chilled with the same strange fear that had stricken her awhile ago and impelled her to hurry home. She rushed to tho bed and shook Sam roughly. “Sami Sam.'—wake upl” she alnfost screamed. The man turned over and looked at her stupidly. “H’lo, M-Matl Yere, “Not twcll ye tells mo wliaryedone got those yere things I” Mat’s voice sounded broken aud shrill. Sam sat up and rubbed his head, looking at her in drunken wonder. ‘W-w’y, them—them thar, honey?” She shook him fiercely, aud said in a lower tone—a tone of earnest force; “Tell me, Sam Toms, whar ye done got these yere coins! Quick, now I” Her tone partially sobered the man, whose eyes opened widefir as he askedi querulously: “What ye so all-fired fussy ’bout? faain’t done nothin’.” And he laughed in a hulf-druukdu, half-nerv* ous' way. “ Sami whar did ye git ’em?” He sat dumbly staring at her. “Sami” her voice was full of hor ror, “did you steal that t’aar boss?’’ No answer; but Mat saw by his eyes she had guessed the truth. Slowly the coins fell from her hand to tho floor; slowly her head bent forward until her face touohed the pillow. For minutes she did not move—not vuitil Sum, who had been staring at her wonderingly, reached out his big hand and laid it caressingly on her head. Tbeu she sprang to tier feet, her hot eyes glaring, and her form Ireinbling with anger and horror. She did not speak, but fixed her gaze on his face for a few seconds. Ho did not meet her 'look, and, presently, she tamed and ran ont of tho door. Sam, almost sober now, called after her, but slie did not answer. Ho got out of hod slowly and started to dress himself. He had almost finished, when Mat, accompanied by her father aud the two strangers, returned. ‘•Thar ho is—au’ thar’s th’ money,” she said, and passed on out through the back door, without looking at hini up? Thet-e must be some mis- The big strong man finally began to realize it all. He lay down on the blink and cried himself to sleep, like a child. There was a jail at tlie cross roads; it was apriinlLivc affair, but solid and gubituntial. It was it dugout in the side hill, and had a heavy oak door and great steel hinges and lock. It wa* plenty strong miougli id hold dozen men, all anxious to escape, and Bam Toms did not try to escape. Ho only sat still in tho low, damp, dark some room and tried to umlcrstnnd how it Had all happened. It must bo a drunkon dream*—but no, he was almost sober, and knew Where ho was and ho W and why lie was there. But— he coiild not understand. Had Mat— was its really Mat who had given It must have been about one o’clock in the morning when some one silent ly entered the house of old Bill Bunn, constable. This some one entered by the back door, went stealthily into the room whore Bill aud his wife sle^t, rummaged about a few minutes, and then emerged from tho house. It was a woman, and she had something in her hand. Sam Toms was awakened, a little after this, by arattling, jarring sound. He sprang up, just as the big oaken doors swung back and revealed the figures iof a woman and two saddle- horses. “I come f ’r ye, Sam,” said the wo man, with a sob. “I done brung both ponies an’ ou’ clo’s. Le’s go, Sam; we c’n git ’orost th’ rivah befo’ maw- niu’. Come!” Ho clasped her in his arms, and they clung to each other a little while. Then Mat said, more steadily: “Come, Sam. Le’s go ovah t’ Mex ico—an’ mobhe wo c’n try ’n’ do bet- ovah thar.” ^ud they rode forth in the bright, free moonlight, down toward the Rio Grande—ijjto a new and bettor life.— —fYhe Argonaut. A Wonderful Machine, C. M. Spencer, whose inventions some time ago much simplified tho making of screws, has, with A. H. Eddy, President of the Eddy Electric Company, recently invented and com pleted a machine which is believed to be as far ahead of his other inventions as they were ahead of tho old hand machines. The now machine, says the Hartford (Conn.) Couraut, is in successful operation, and every test of it has proved highly satisfactory. Hu- man ingenuity, it would seem, can develop screw michinory no further. The machine will take the wire from a coil, head the screw, cut the threads^ cut off the screw from the coil aud make the slot No machine has been invented before that will do all this. It does without any additional handling of material what before this present invention was always done by two or three machines. Besides, it separates the finished screws from the shavings, depositing them clean * n d bright ill a receptacle placed to re ceive them, AU other machines have igh 10 The last two or three inches of every rod are wasted. With this machine the only waste is at tho end of each coil, two or three inches, aud the coil to bo fed with the straightened wire, the rods being about 10 feet long. may be 400 or 500 feet long. The advantage of feeding from a coil is not only in saving of waste, but also in the saving of labor. Put on a coil of wire, start the machine, aud it will attend to itself. The oper. ator can attend to other duties if ha pkes, aud when ho returns ho will find a lot of completed screws, the little machine being still at work and attending strictly to business. Simplicity is the ruling feature of this machine and tho impression pro- dneea in watching it work is the won der that no one ever invented it be fore. It is safely covered with patents, of course. In other machines the wire is revolved rapidly against the tools and die. In this the wire is held in the same position throughont the pro cess and is carried by an arm against tho different iustriimonts, which oper- ate upon it until the completed screw is turned out. The Gun Not Needed. A certain doctor in northoru Maine is noted for hia love of hunting, and lie is reckoned a pretty good shot During au epidemic not long ago a well-ktiowa lumbarmaq (now de ceased) had the misfortune to have several of his men quite sick, and one of them being in a dangerous condi tion, tho luinbormaii started in haste for this doctor. Now our medical friend is sometimes quite slow in get ting ready for his trips, and on this occasion, after being called, he was nniisiially so. Suddenly tho thought came to him that he was to go so far into tho woods he might see some game, and stepping to the door where the nervous lumberman was impatient ly waiting, ho inquired, “Say, don’t ik I hud better talce my gnu you ihini along?” “Gun? no 1” wa# tho excited reply, “the man will be dead enough before you can get there.”—[Lewiston Journal. A yoitiig man who lost both his legs a year ago While saving a girl from being run over at a station on n French railway U about to man;y the girl, daughter of a WdHUby silk manufac- A Parable. “ Who sang the song that thrilled my soni • last nigh Querfedthe King. His courtiers bowing Before the throne with gold and gemJ Answered him, musing: ‘‘Sire, we do not “We heard the song. It echoes In ouf The singer from our vision passed away,; We deemed him only o f h is song a And then—it is so long since yesterday I” The singer heard, nor heaving felt regret; W hat could it matter .where their praise might fall? The song, at least, they did not quite forget. Naught is tho singer, but the song Is all. — [May Lennox, in Independent. HUMOROUS. With the accountant it ia always Bjimmer time. A man who is in society and wants to keep in must be constantly going Ere long the wind w ill whistle, But let us still be gay. For it cannot w h istle “Comrades” Miss Greenleaf—^I have just been reading a book called How Men Pro pose. 'What is your opinion on that subject? Miss Browulcaf—Simply that they don’t do any such thing. Featherstone—What did you leave your suburban boarding place, for? I thought your landlady was going to be like' a mother to you. Ringway— She was. She wanted me to sleep in a cradle. Paint from Cottonseed Oil. A new paint, which is said to bo specially useful for the protection of metallic surfaces, is prepared from cottonseed oil. A gallon of pure cot tonseed oil is put into a suitable iron vessel and twenty pounds of melted lead poured into it. After a thorough stirring tho lead separates into glob ules, and when the oil has boon poured off after cooling, there are found to be about seventeen of the twenty pounds of lead remaining, the other three pounds having been absorbed by On tho lead which has been to Ml .tri be Sim Pathizer—You look run down, old man. Kant Holpit—I am. My orodilors arc after me everywhere. It isn’t considered good form for [f physician to tell hia butcher patient that something is the matter with his “ Who won that long-distance walk ing match?” “Spriggins.” “He did; •ftinoi*?” <'His who was his trainer?” ‘ ‘ 10-month old baby.” Ralph—There is one thing I notice that every girl likes to have her finger in. Robert—What is that? Ralph — An engagement ring! Or *‘Tarara Boom-de-ay.” “That wallpaper has a very aold look,” said a customer to a dealer. “ Well, you see it is intended for a frieze,” was tho dealers reply. Mr. Youngwifo—My dear, the bank in which my money is deposited has broken. Mrs. Y.—What a mercy you’ve got your checkbook at home, love!” Lieutenant Tliorpe—Were you pres, ont when Moynoll died? What wero his last words? Lieuteuaut Foley— He hadn’t any—his wife whs with him at the time. “The moau things that are said about women,” said a very nice man to me today, “are just as likely to bo untrue as tho nice things which aw said about the men.” First Orator—Everyone thought you were very happy in your speech to night. Second Orator—Ah I First Orator—Yos; everybody said yon loved to hear yourself talk. the oil. employed being again melted, mid ihex ^ operation being repeated pouring—tho amount of^ Jead being less at each succeeding ’pouring—the total quantity of lead absorbed is about ten pounds. The oil thus charged with the lead is thou used as a painty being pmliloyed in the usual manner for metal lie surfaces.—[Picayune. in th T1 be Fi »I b( la ' tl P J t:i> Quite Appropriate. A book podler, who was wearing a small circular piece of court plaster on ids face, removed it wliilo shaving, a few mornings sinoq, and replaced it when Ills toilet was coinploio. Contrary to his usual experience, as- he went about his business during the rest of tl.e day, he was everywhere reewiyed, with smiles, which grew broader and broader, until at last somebody laughed in Lis face. Led by this to look in the glass, ho was somewhat taken aback to discover hat,iu9teadof (lie court plaster, ha had affixed to his face a hUle round pnulcd label which had fallen from the back of a new mantel dock pur- chased the day before, and which bore the appropriate inscription, ..War ranted solid bras,.”- [Yuukeo BladJ
