A GLOVE.
Jamea Berry BeiuoL
Ah. yBtrtonlar I found glova ' ;
Grown shabby, luU of liny-rlpt, f
But: dear t!ie becaus my love . a
Of cj tlmjt,throiujl it bfr flngerllna,
A glove one would not oar to oe '
Cim bi ann in public rtroet; '
Yet here I own there ia for ma '
No relic in the world more aweot
A faint, far acrnt of lavendor
Hteala from it, aa the clover amelt
When through the fluids I waited with her
And plucked Uie bloteoms for bar belt.
Faith I but I loved the little hand
That lined to wear thin tinie-ctained thing 1
It MiKhtoat gwture of command
Would ut my glad heart fluttering. a
Or if it touched my finger, ao,
Or fmootlmi my hair why ihould I apeak
Of thwe old dnya! It make, you know,
The tean briin over on my cheek.
Poor atained, worn-out, long-wristed glovel
I think it almotit unilerxtawli
That reverently and with love
1 bold it in iny trembling han.U.
And that It ia so dear to me,
With Ita old fragrance, far and faint,
Because my mother wore it, she
On earth my love, in heaven my saint,
THE ARMIES OF THE FUTURE.
What Pruaalaa major end a French
Colonel Have to Bay.
Chicago News.
Two noteworthy boots have just ap
peared in continental Europe. One is
the "Nation Armies." ty M. de Goltz, a
Prussian major. On the boels of it
come a book called "l'Europe Sons lea
Armec," by CoL Uenncbert, the formor
professor of the military school at tit.
C'yr, Franco. .
Both these works, from directly oppo
site political standpoints, agree in one
thing, which is that tho first European
nation which relaxes ita vigilance will
infallibly lose its military position and
firestige and be the victim of every col
ision which might ensue.- Tho Prussian
major says that if war is to be avoided a
nation can only escape it by being so
prepared that no other nation will dare
to bo its aggressor; in other words, na
tions unwilling to perish by the sword
must become bankrupt in peace; they
have simply a choice between two evils
national subjugation or national insol
vency. While the French colonel is not so bru
tally frank aa the Prussian major, in his
Gallican courtosy of speech, his postiion
amounts to about tho same thing, white
hot h agree with Vou Moltko that "the
empire of the world is obtained only by
war and by war alone can bo main
tained.,
Further than this tho Prussian major
contends with his late chief now
on tho ' retired list in effect
that1 tho scientilio war method now
adopted by Gonnany is inseparable
from an offensive brutality; that Ger
man tactics are to strike crushing blows
on tho field of battlo; but, abovo ml,
that tho foo must be paralyzed by the
employment of gigantic masses, whilo
tho conqueror says, with Murk Antony:
"Happen what mayl misfortune is un
chained, let it go w hither it will."
On his sido, the French colonel, with
tho idea of waking up and warning
France, which country he asserts is
wholly unprepared, shows that not more
armies but armed nations are hereafter
to meet on tho battle-field. Deducting
everything, the ml number of trams
available in the field in 'Europo now is:
.Germany, 8,800,000; Biissia, 2,1500,000;
Austria, 1,2115,000; Italy, 2,570,000.
This would give the triple 7, .100,000, aud
the quadrupio alliance 10,000,000 com
batants, with 1,000 batteries of field
guns.
The same destructive emulation is
apparent in naval matters. When Italy
constructed 100-ton guns, England im
mediately produced a monster cannon of
200 tons, tlirowing a projectile of 0,000
pounds, piercing armor three feet thick.
For the last twelve years Woolwich ar
senal has turned out a Held buttery daily,
whilo England, Belgium, Italy, Ger
many, Russia, France and Austria aro
expending millions yearly in defensive
and other fortifications.
' ' But Col. llennebert points out that it
is chiefly in Germany that offensive arm
aments are being created and offensivo
works constructed; that these point in
two directions, toward . Franco on . tho
west and Russia on theeoat; whilo, even
at the moment of urilrug, in the in
trenched camp at'Strassburg, railroad
trains stand filled with supplies of all
kinds prepared to start in any dirctiou
on receipt of a telegram from Berlin.
Tho conclusion of both writers is that
the next war must be of a destructive
violence which has been unknown up to
tho present day: that on both tddos will
Ih) displayed, in this struggle to tho
death, all moral and material forces noa
Kihle tor tho work of mutual annihila
tion. . ' i; ,1 ' -
The Atmosphere; of the Interior,
Clara' llollc'a Letter. J ' ,
Permit urn to instruct you in. tho mat
ter of furnishing your summer homes,
in case you are going to have any haud
in it. Carpets should be chowm with a
view to their being a background to the
furniture of a room, while thov wall
papers must be selected with an eve to
their forming what may bo termed" the
atmosphere of tho picture inado by tho
interior. This is the foundation of tho
new art ideas in furnishing houses
cither in the country or city. , Walls,
therefore, should be papered or paiutod
in a manner that will not make- t'.iem
more conspicuous than the fumituro of
tho room, and this dogma must rule
with regard to the decorations on the
walls.
Therefore, whether paint, par or
calcimine bo put upon tho walls, it
should bo in neutral tints aud tertiary
colors. (.'Loose, therefore, for your
country houses what are called quiet
colors for paH'i', paint and calcimine;
but for tho friezes and dodos let a more
decided taste rule, giving freedom and
boldness in tho figures or lowers for
these decorative jxirts of your apart
ments. If you decide to tmpor your
walls, li t tho grounds le of an agree
able, soft color, and tho figures as small
as tho size of tho apartment will permit,
and put on in vanishing effects, rather,
than staring or striking; in a inanucr,
to to speak, as to give one a blow in tho
eye.
"Wilkins' Star Proverbs: A small soul
baa plenty of elbow room ia narrow
minded man. . - -
A PARTRIDGE'S STORY.
! i Afphonas Paudet
You know thatjaftrldges go in co'
ana miija tuoir. ncsw i ig;iuer m
hollow of the furrow so that they
-. 1..o.a i..nf tiinH in ili
liko crain from the: hand of the bowci
Our ow n company is numerous and gay,
established on a plain at the edge ol a
large wood, with good pickings and fine
covers on both sides. Thus, hilice I first
knew how to run, well feathered, well
l fruin1 mv lifo a Imnnv one.
Nevertheless, one thing disturbed ,me1
lime, iv was una 'i "'a
tho bunting , season, .. of which our.,
mothers began to' talk softly among
themselves. ' One old member of our
company always said to me at such
times: . , '-':
"Have no fear, nougct," they call
me liougct on account of my beak and,
claws, the color of service berries
"have no fear, Kouget, I will take you
with me on the opening day, and I am
sure that nothing will happen to you."
This is an old cock, very cunning and
still active, although he already has a
horseshoe marked on his breast, and
white feathers here and there. While
still young he received a shot in his
wing, and as that made him a little
heavy ho looks twice before flying, takes
his time and always comes safely
through. He often took mo with him
as far us the entrance to the woods.
There stands a curious little, house
nestled among the chestnut trees,' silent
as an empty kennel and always dosed.
"Look carefully at this Louse, littlo
ono," the old fellow said to mo; "when
you Bee Biuoke rising from the roof and
tho door and the shutters open, things
will bo going badly for us." ,
And I had confidence in him, knowing
well that this was not his first season.
In fact, tho next morning at break of
day, I heard some ono willing softly in
tho furrow: "Kouget, Kougetl" -
It was the old cock. Ilia . eyes were
wonderful to behold.
"Como quickly," said, "and do as I
do." . - ,1.
I followed him, half asleep, running
between tho clods of earth without flying,
almost without Jumping, like a mouse.
Wo went toward the wood, and I saw in
passing that smoke camo from the chim
ney of the little house, the windows were
open to the day, and before the wido
open door wero huntsmen, ready
equipped, surrounded by leaping dogs.
As we passed one of the huntsmen cried:
"Let us try tho fiold this morning; we
will go to tho woods after breakfast."
Then I understood why my old com
panion took us first, to the forest.
Nevertheless, my heart beat, above all,
when 1 thought of our poor friends.
Huddonly, just as we reached tho edge
of tho wotid, we saw the dogs running in
our direction.
"Lie down, lio down," said the old fel
low, crouching.'
At the samo timo ten paces from us, a
frightened quail opened wido his wings
and his beak, and Hew up with a cry of
terror. I hoard a fearful noise, and we
wero enveloped by a strango smelling
dust, all white anil warm, although tho
Bun had scarcely risen. I was so fright
ened that I could run no further.
Luckily, wo hod entered tho wood. My
comrade squatted behind a littlo oak, I
placed myself near him, and we re
mained hidden . there, looking out be
tween tho leaves. '
In tho fields thcro was a terrible noise
of gutis. At each report I shut my
eyes, completely stunned; thon, when 1
decided to open them, I saw tho plain,
!... (iii.l Imt'i. at.il fl.tru riitit.iniT ui.i.rf.ti.
ing in tho blades of grass, in tho littlo
bundles of groin, turning ou their tracks
liko mad creatures, liehina them tue
huntsmen . swore, snouted; tho guns
shone in the sun. At ono moment, in a
little cloud of smoke, I thought 1 saw,
Lai thouL'h there was no tree noar, somo-
innv' uy like falling leaves. . But the
old cock told mo it wus feathers; and, in
fact, a hundred paces in front of us a
superb gray partridgo fell in tho furrow,
turning up his bloody head. ' '
Wbou tne suu became very hot, very
high, the shooting suddenly stopped.
Tho huntsmen returned toward tho littlo
house, where could be heard tho crack
ling of a big fire of vino branches. They
chatted toiwther. eiin on shoulder, and
discussed the shots, while ' their dogs'
camo behind them, tired, with ' lolling
tongue. ..'! -t
. '.'They are going to breakfast," said
my companion, "let us do like them."
, "And wo entered a field of buckwheat,
which is near tho wood a great big
white and black field, in flower and in
grain, with a smell of alnxjuds.' Hand
some pheasants with golden-brown
plumage wero. feeding there also, lower
ing thoir mi crests for four of being
seen. Ah! they were, Ie.ss, haughty than
usual. While eating they asked us for
nows, and if auy of their "number had
fallen. During .this timo tho breakfast
of the huntsraeu, at first, quiet, becamo
more and moro noisy; wo heard tho
glasses clink and the corks of the bottles
ily.' My guide considered it time to ro
turn to shelter.
At that hour tho woods scorned asleep.
TIip littlo pools, where the doer camo to
drink, wero troubled by no lapping
tongue; uot tho muzzle of a rabbit in tho
wild thymo of tho warren. ' But a mys
terious" trembling was to bo felt, as if
each bliulo of gross sheltered a meunneed
lifo. Those wild creatures of tho forest
have so many hiding places tho bur
rows, the thickets, tho wood-piles, tho
brambles, the ditches those littlo wood
ditches whioh retain the water So long
after it has rained. 1 confess that I
would have liked to be at tho bottom (if
ono of these holes, but my companion
preferred to remain in tho open, to have
room, to sec about him, aud to feel the
free air before him. It wits well fof'UR
that ho did m, for tho huntsmen camo
into tho woods.
Ohl .that first shot in the forest that
shot which tore holes in tho leaves liko
an April hail, and scored the bark
never shall I forget it. A rabbit mado
olT cross the road, tearing up tufts of
grass with his extended claws. A squir
rel ran down a chestnut tree knocking
off the green burs. There wero two or
three heavy flights of big pheaianta, and
a tumult among tho branches and tho
dry leaves at tho wind of this shot,
which agitated, awakencS, 1 frightened
everything that lived in the wood. The
field mice ran to tho bottom of their
holes. A horn-beetle come 'out ot a
I J!
crack in the tree . against which
we were squatting, and rolled
his' big,, stupidities, 'filled with
terror. t And then blue dragon-flies,
drones,); butterflies, poor insects flying
wildly frbm all Scales, eve lo a little
beetle kifh scafloLif ings, who placed
himself ckwe to ihy Beak; bo'Iwas too
frightened myself to tako advantage of
bis fear.
-The old -cock remained calm. Very
attentive to the, barking and the sounds
of the guns, when they approached, he
mado me a sign, and we went a little
further, beyond the reach of' the dogs
andwell hidden by the foliago; -;Nevee-tholesa,
I thought atone time we 'wftre
lost, . Ite path which we had to cross
was guarded at each end by a sportsman
in ambush. On one sido was a big jolly
fellowvith black whiskers, who mode a
whole arseiml jingle at each, movoment,
hunting-knife, cartridge-box,' powder
flask, without countitig gaiters buckled
to the knee, which mado him look still
taller; at the other end a little old man
leaned ngainHt tho tree, Bmokedhia pipe
tranquilly, winking his eyes as if sleep
ing. Of' tho latter I was not afraid;
but the big follow beyond. .
"Vou know nothing, Rougct," said
my comrade laughing; and fearlessly,
with his wings spred out, he flew almost
against tho legs of tho terrible whiskored
huntsman. . '
. And the truth is that the poor man
was so entangled in all his hunting ap
parel, so occupied in admiring liimsolf
from bead to foot, that when he got his
gun to his shoulder we wero already out
of shot Ahl if sportsmon knew, when
they believed themselves alone in somo
comer of the woods, how many steady
little eyes watch them from tho thicket,
how many restrain a laugh at their awk
wardness. We kopt moving, always moving. ' Be
ing able to do nothing better than follow
my ancient companion, my wings kopt
stroke with his, in order to fold them
solves motionless as soon as ho stopod.
I have still before my eyes all tha places
which we passed; the warren pink r with
heather, full of burrows at tho foot of
yollow trees, with a groon curtain of
oaks, where 1 seemed to see death hidden
everywhere; the little green path where
my mother partridge had so many times
taken hor brood to wajk in the May sun,
wburo we all hopped about, pocking at
tho red ants which swarmed on our
claws, where we met conceited littlo
pheasante, heavy aa chickens, that would
not play with us.
. I saw it as in a dream, my little path
way just as a hind crossed it, high on
her slender hoofs, hor great eyes wide
open and ready for a leap. Thon the
pool where they go in parties of fifteen
or thirty, idl of the eamo cover, rising
together from the plain to drink water
from the spring and splatter about the
little drops which roll over thoir lus
trous plumes. In the midst of this pool
there was a clump of bushy alders; it
was on this islet that we took refugo.
The dogs would have needed a famous
noso to seek us there. We had been
there for a moment when a roo-buck ar
rived, dragging himself on throo feet
and leaving a rod track on tho mosses
behind him. It was so sad to see that I
bid ' my head under tho leaves, but I
heard the wounded animal drink at the
pool, panting, burning with fever.'
Tho day declined. Tho reports of tho
guns wero more distant, became ; rarer.
Thon all was still. It was finished We
returned slowly toward tho plain to got
news of our companions. Passing the
littlo house in tho woods I saw some
thing horrible.
Ou tho edgo of a ditch hares with red
ur and littlo gray rabbita with white
tuils lay sido by sido. Here were little
paws joined by death, which looked as if
begging for mercy, and closed eyes
which seemed to weep; then red part
ridges, grey partridges, which had tho
horseshoe like my comrade, and young
ones of this year's brood, which, like me
still had down under their feathers. Do
you know anything sadder than a dead
bird? Wings are bo full of life! To see
them folded and cold makes ono shud
der. A great deer, stately and still,
appeared asleep, his littlo pink tongue
hanging out of bis mouth as if to lap
once moro. c '
And thb huntsmen wero, bent over
this slaughter, counting and drawing
toward their gamo-bags the bloody paws,
"theninngled wings, careless of all those
fresh-mado wounds. The dogs, coupled
for tho journey, wrinkled their lips and
jHiintod, as if making ready to throw
themselves anew iuto tho underbrush.
OM while tho great sun sank and they
all departed, weary, their shadows grow
ing long over tho hillocks of arth, and
the pathways damp with evening dew,
how t detested them, men tu'd beasts,
tho whole troop! Neither my companion
nor I had courage to thiw; ns usual a
little "farewell iioto to this day as. it
endod.' ' ' . .' l-
. On our way we met unfortunnto little
creatures, struck by a chance shot, and
lying there, abandoned to the ants and
field-mice, their' muzzlos full of dust;
magpies, swallows, lightning struck in
thoir flight, lying on their backs aud
stretching their little stiff claws' toward
tho night, which descended quickly, as it
always does in 'the autumn, clear, cold
and damp. But tho most grievous of all
was to hear, along the' woodside, at the
edge of the meadow, and below in the
willow Ihiekeul.by tho river, 'anxious,'
tod, scattered urios, to which thcro w
noaiwwcr.! .. . .
" " Education In Scotland.
. Chicago News.
An intelligent writer sets forth that
tho progress of education in tcntland
pince tho passage of tho educational act
of; 1872 h:is been very remarkable. Out
'era . school population, ot 012,000 no
loss tlan 500,009 aro enrolled, aml 85
) r cent, of Ithexe ar4 in actual attend
unco, which is double tho number at
school previous to tho operation of this
act. With this great influx of pupils,
ruOstlyrtf course, in tho lower '.grades,
tho scholarship has improved, ami tho
number now examined in Latin, Greek,
and mathematics ia almost four time
greater than formerly. ,
Femalo vaccinators have boon intro
duced into Madras, so that native
women need not havo their prejudices
shocked by being treated by medical
men.. ,
A Tcry violent poison has been iso
lated from decomposing animal fiohh by
Fro ItfgSft o lief un. c j
A PUZZLE IN BOSTON.
Tba "Japaneaa Crrat!, mirror ot
' 1 Hcoond Bight, . f
ttilian Whiting In Inter Ooaan.1
nVti have been having a little private
sensation of out own here at Hotel Vcn-
I dome. I believe the raid-summer days
and this will give you a "variation from
jhe annual soa-aerpent. . This little sen
sation of ours is a Japanese crystal. He
who has not looked into its depths has
yet one sensation of life, at least, in re
serve, and if he be curious in the tricks
and trances of demonology, be has yet
something "to live for. Tho Japanese
crystal is not common. It is cut in the
round, oval and ' egg sliapo, "and varies
in its size. Tho egg shape is held to be
the best . 'for experiment, and it
must be wrapped, or rather held, in' a
piece of .black cloth so that only the fide
upper-most sliall be presented to the eye.
Black silk cannot be used as it is non
conductor, but black woolen of any
kind will serve tho purpose. Tho Jap
anese crystal is said to servo as a mirror
of the spiritual light in the hands of one
who has the mediumistic temperament
Faces of those long since passed beyond
the ehadowy porUU ot the silent land,
scenes that are. recorded in the book of
fate to -be sometime enacted; 'the, faces
of people still unmet who will have to
do With our lives. All these, and jnore,
are said to bo, rcvcalod in this . stone, to
him who has the temperament through
which its revelations may come.
A party of people was grouped lost
evening in a parlor on the fifth floor of
Hotel Vendome, bo high that no re
flections from the street were possible,
and it was suggested that the Japanese
crystal be examined. In the hands of
One of tho party curious visions appeared
'in it. The lady holding it had chanced
never to have seen the stone before, and
she looked incredulously as a face ap
peared to her in it. The first picture
washer own forma .natural reflection,
she thought, as she was looking into it),
but beside her own appeared the face of
a stranger whom sho had never seen,
and, as has been said, tho height of tho
room from the street utterly precluded
tho possibility of a reflection from with
out, and as sue sat with her back to the
window thcro was tho samo impossibility
for any one or any picture in tho room
to be reflected there. These two
pictures were succeeded by thoso of
strangors to the gazer, but when de
scribed wore recognized by others in the
room and verified by photographs to the
lady who saw first those unknown faces
in the stone.. '
Then came a scrioB of pictures. Tliore
was a suspension bridge over a great
rivof, and apparently an accident tda
train; this vanished, and there again
appeared the 'bridge 'with numbers of
pooplo seeming to climb tho trestle work,
as if to escape from drowning in the
water below; and with this a profound
impression that the sebno was some
months distant in the future. Space
would foil to relut? the various tableaux
that appeared in that stone, ' and . many
of the most singular circumstances and
coincidences and related associations can
not bo narrated. Among othor faces
appeared that of Emerson by the side of
a beautiful young woman, whom no one
in the room could recognize. The prop
erties of tho Japanese crystal aro very
singular, aud in tho hands of somo per
sons even extraordinary.
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An bh(lluman'a Vlewa.
Georgo Alfred Townsend.
A British gentleman said to me dur
ing the week: "I wish we had force of
character and public opinion enough in
London to have such railroads as these
elevated ones of yours." Said I:'"ls it
possible that I see, an Englishman who
concedes anything' "Why," said he,
"almost every Englishman who goes
home exclaims against our underground
railroads. They are dingy, damp, sub
terranean, and here you ride to business
with not a shadow falling ou your news
paper,, reading as you go, and every
handsome woman's face receives all the
bonotit of the sunlight, and you can
look from one end of the car to the
other and recognize your friends." Said
I: ,'.'We gave up npble streets for such a
benefit." J'Ves,"aid he, "and that is
where you aro really a young, strong
nation; you recognize tho greater neces
sities in spite of the littlo decencies.
You give your streets up for the benefit
of the many instead of hesitating at
the discomfiture of the few who may
not liko tho noise."
In Spain.
Foreign Letter.
J Hero, if you ask a man for a light, the
chnnces are ten to ono that he will pull
out a handful ot brimstone matches and
offer you one, but that is never dona
anywhere eUvrJn Spain .they. make
rmile-n formal matter of rsking tcr iv
light. Tho gentleman who wislu-s tlint
accommodation approaches the smoker,
removes his hnt, and says: "Will you
favor me with a light from your einarf"
or words lo that eil'ect. The jjentleiiiau
addressed idv removes his bat, thou
carefully' bnisbea tho 'ashes 'froia his
cigurtanfl presents it wit Ij a bow. The
other! ninn; accepts it with an equally
ofalmrato' nbVisanee, lights,' 'returns the
weed, then both bow again, wish each
other good day and depart. ,' ' . -
Potato Growing la Alanka.
The nofjito can le irrown in Alaska in
favorable scison only. The ground is
dug up"nnd M'veed with a law 6f. kelp,
and fttter this foTtHixT hat. oeen exposed
to tho air for a week or two it is dug
umkrrand the- sod-auttpod into high,
narrow bids, and planted in shallow
drilla. The sun's heatalbrt&is depended
niKin, aad evm-opportunity givcu ;t to
pemitrate thoVlUIVl, ,which if that
frigid votmtry .iiot tidy grves out no
warmth of ts pwn, Jfcu frequently re
mains nrrn thrtiwghouf-'t'lio year-at H
depth bejbnd tho influence of the sun's
rays.
, Kind Editorial Conalderatlon. .
San Francisco Post
Tho officers of a British man-of-war in
tho harbor gallantly fired a salute as the
Jersey Lily arrived iittonn last' woei-J-Langtry
bangs, as it were.
There is no British man-of-war in the
harbor, but rather than spoil Mr. Todd's
joke, we let it go. Ed. Post. , r e
In Sweden a man who has boetf drunk
three times loses the right of suffrago.
Letting OuT tho Strain.
Trot Blackio In CaaU' Magazine. .
There are more interesting cases by
far in which excitable persons, know
ing their own weakneases, have pro
dded themselves with' some mode of
axercise on purpose' to divert their ex
citement from a hurtful to an innocent
olmnncl. An instance of this we find in
.the life of Oberlui, pastor of Ban debt
Koche in the High Alps, in ino soum oi
France. Oberlin was one of the beat of
men, and endeared himself to his peo
ple almost beyond example Besides
tain. an earnest mi! or. he was a maker
of roads, a builder of bridges, a reformer
aud philanthropist generally, wno
transformed bis parish from a chaos of
desolation into a beautiful abode ..of
Christianity, civilization, and comfort.
It was not to bo -wondered at that a
rnun with an ' manv irons in the fire
should be somewhat impatient and have
a littlo trouble witn ins temper. At
such times Oberlin used to run back
ward and forward in his room, beating
his hands together rapidly with a re
sounding noise, until his temper re
gained composure.
Those who are familiar with the his
tory of the Brontes will remember what
is told of their father, the eccentrio and
AYf.ir.nhlA irwnimhcnt of Haworth. Even
'during his wife's lifetime he formed tho
habit of taking his meal alone; ne con
stantly carried loaded pistols in his
pockets, and; when excited would fire
these at the door of the outhouses, so
that the villagers were quite accustomed
to tho sound of pistols at any hour of
the day in their pastor's house. If we
are not-mistaken, ne had another outlet
for his emotion, setting up a bolster and
boxing it when he was angry; but ot this
we are not so sure. .
A LWe Poultry Car.
Chicago Journal. i . i
An invention of an extensive poultry
shipper in Indiana is so designed and con
srructed as to enable the shipping of live
fowls any distanoe by rail without any
of the drawbacks attending the handling
of "crates" and "baskets, which are tho
bane of the express agent everywhere.
The car is not unlike a stock car m gen
eral appearance, having .four or five
decks or floors far enough apart ' to ac
commodate , standing poultry. . Each
deck may be separated by portable par
titions into coinpartments, or the length
of the car may be thrown together,
Each compartment is provided with a
main door, which locks aa hereafter de
scribed, and each door has a sliding
door, which locks independently, for use
in transfer. A simplo contrivance of
rods and staples locks with" a lever crank
every door at once, and a storm curtain
protects the fowls in bad weather. A
food and watcrroughj which Jiolds feed
and water for a trip to the seuboard, and
will not' allow the latter to splash out,
tops off the completeness of the inven
tion. Delta ITIetal.
Scientific Journal.
It is well known that vessels built
of thin steol will rust , through rapidly
if not kept constantly painted. This is
found to be the ease to a remarkable
extent in such vessels when navigating
the rivers draining from the interior of
the African continent, the aters of
which possess the power of corroding
and eating through steel plates very
rapidly. In view of this, it has oc
curred to Mr. A. Dick, of London, the
inventor of the now alloy known as
"delta metal," to apply it -to ship
building purposes, as it successfully re
sists corrosive action. A steam-launch
called the Delta has, therefore, been
built entirely of this metal and is for
tho preseut at the Crystal palace inter
national exhibition. Delta metal (which
is an alloy of copper, zino and iron)
having been proved by repeated exper
iments to be equal in strength, duc
tity and toughness to mild steel, the
plates and ongle-pieces are of the samo
thickness as they would bo if steel
were used.
The Drlnkera ot Blood.
Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette. !"'
They haunt the abattoir every week
and drink the warm beef blood by the
cupful. It ia caught as it flows from
the animal's throat. ! It benefits thi
blooded persons. Somo time sinco a
woman came to the stock-yards who
said her physician hod told her she must
drink beef blood. '' - -
"But I never can do it, never !'r said
she, shuddering. ' ;
"But it tastes just like milk," said tho
gentleman appealed to. "Come, I'll
blindfold you und give you, a glass of
milk. Then I'll givo you some more
milk, or a glass of blood, then a taste of
milk until you get them mixed up, and
yon won't know which is which.". ;
She' consented, und drank the plass
first given her with.a relish... "Ah! that
was the milk;-' Now 1; think can try
tiie blood," she told him. '
"But madam, you havo drink jtj al
ready," said the gentleman.
A DUireasliiK Accident.
(t'hiengo Tribiuio.J"
It is not gquernlly kpowi that the
popular .Mother Hubbard" clbak was an!
accident.: Mr.' Worth,! having somo
yards of. nn unsaleable; fabric on hand,
gathered it up into a sort of bag, cut
slits for sleeves, and trimmed tho bot
tom with' flounces. - , It is doubtful if he
himself knew w hat he meant to do with
this "gathered bag. V , Oneday Jady
saw it. - -"Oh! what a queer thingl'1 she
cried. . "I shall never wear that." The
next day she tried ft ou, the third she
bought it, And in throo seawns' time"'
every woman in Paris wore a "Mother
HublMird.'
Romance of a Loat Diamond.
La Lanterne has a remarkaWe story of
tb diamond Sunbeam," i valued at
60ii, 000, the property of -Queen Vic
loriii, wheentrustod it to. a Bond street
jewelerlo be sot, and from whom it was
stolen in 1S&67 in M"ay thefe'died in a
miserable lodging in Strasburg a man of
70, in w hose pocket was found the dia
mond wrapped in a letter proclaiming
himself the thief. The diamond Was so
well known that he dared not sell it
- ,-, Draad AJruulr Sliced.
' A novelty in the baking trade is a loaf
of bread that docs not require cutting
after it is bakod. It i3 shaped like
Vienna bread, and so mado;ns1lo form
Uycra tr ' slices of 'uniform thickness,
whioh by plurilf lfcntlf detached,
thus avoiding the use of the knife. :
DETAILS OF THE 8TORT
Of the Man Who Had HIa Faea Torn
J, t j OCThf a'Hhall, I
. I ' Lfidentiflo Journal '
y It is almost impossible, lot the un
scientific reader to believe what is re
lated of Jean Moreno, a French artillery
man: wopndod ; in athe Franco-German
war, whoso story is told - by Gen. Am
bert in the second volume of his 'Sou
venirs Mflitaires,'hlch is shortly to be
published in Paris.
A brief outline of the case, from The
London Globe, has been going - the
rounds of the press, but the following
details are so extraordinary irt(ti'ar
character that they are given in full:
"'Moreau' entered the service-in 1870,
and the 3d of January, 1871, was en
gaged in the affair at Bapaume. To
wards 8 o'clock in the afternoon, while
he was loading a cannon, he was struck
down by a shell, which, bursting across
his face, tore away his nose, eyes, the
upper jaw. and a portion of the: lower.
He was left for dead on the field, but
after a time recovered his senses, and by
chance staggered, falling at almost every
step, on the road to the village of Ervil
liers. , The colonel of the Twenty-fourth
regiment sent him from this place by
carriage to Arras tho next morning,
where he stayed till the 4th of Octo
ber following. Ho was transferred
to the military hospital of the Val de
Grace at Paris a fortnight later, and re
mained i there till -tho 26th of , March,
1872, when cicatrization' was hearty
complete. All the soft portions of .the
forepart of the head having diaappeared,
and the bony-frame work being crushed
in various places, the unfortunate mAn
resented the appearance of a veritable
eath's head, with two cavities for the
eyes, one for the nose, and a large open
ing for the mouth. ' However, by
ingenuity and patience a ,wax
reomblauee of a face was invented,
and fitted -with the utmost exactitude
to- thehealthy-, portions .of. Jheflcsh
which still 'Surrounded, the immense
cicatrix. The adhesion, which is almost
hormotioi was completed, by, a .natural
cushion of skin, w.hi(jh thus, as it"ere,
keeps the borAyL f the mask in a
groove. The fnner cavity has also been
utilized, one of its use being by means
of lint, to guard. Uie patient against the
effect of sudden alternation of hoot
and cold, whilcTtae Upper jaw' and the
palate are protected by opiate to whioh
are attached a row .of false t-jth, and
mastication of the hardest kinds of food
is successfully performed.
"Thanks to the disposition of the nat
ural parts and to the ingenious shaping
of the mask, and particularly that of the
false nose, respiration is rendered possi
ble through its nostrils, and indeed has
regained the normal direction, from bo
low to above. Tho system of aeration it
assisted by two Bmall holos toward the
inner angle of the eye, creating a cur
rent of air, the eyes themselves of oouree
being closed, . ,The sense of; smell, strange
to say, has . been regained, whilo U
voice possesses its natural tone and
clearness.' Thus Morean who when he
removes T hi --mask, it is - needless
to t say ,t .presents J ai most hid
eous aspect in consequence of
the 'disappearance of a great part of
the bony portion as well as the muscles
which should cover them, and of whose
head there literally remains only, the
brain and the cranium is enabled by
the wonderful exercise of medical Bkill
and constructive talent to breathe, eat,
speak, smell, and even, so it is said, to
play tho flute. The mutilated soldier,
who is fond of chatting .about his cam
paigns, possesses that resigned air com
mon to blind men, and his sense of
touch, moreover, bos excessively devel
oped. He lives at Favril, Landrecies,
in the Nord department, and , ekes
out his pension by the sale of a pam
phlet recounting the facts of his won
drous cure. 'Perhaps,' says Gen. Am
bert,' 'it would have been well to have
kept Bilcnce about this1 poor fellow; but
it is not sufficient to onlyjshojr the
glories of war; every one should know
the sacrifices of the. soldier. I This one
has given more than his life, for each
day which passes is a martyrdom.' But
Moreau, never complains. He is held in
great respect by those who know" him;
and feels a genuine pride in showing the
Cross of the Legion of Honor on bis
breat to the. many ctfrious travelers
who turn "out of their' way to see the
"homnfe a la tote de ire.' " .-,. r k
. ' ' Pbotosraphln Rogjuea.
fChicaeo News.
The procesnised is the dry-plato pro
cess, and tho picturo is taken instanta
neously. It was found bost to intro
duce this method, as it successfully over
comes any attempt on the part of the
sitter to spod tho effect of the picture by
making faces at his captors. While he
is umonscioualy looking,; at Jth camera
the operator quietly squeezes a littlo rub
ber ball like that on a syringo, ..two.-itin
slides fly open, and instantly the "phiz"
of the criminal is on the plato to stay.
The detectives say it works to a charm,
and they have not nearly the wear and
tear of muscle and wind in making a
. recalcitrant roguo sty still as formorly.
Meilco'a Population.
' '' ; Chicac Timea
Tho census of Mexico gives tho popn
lation at 9,0fc!0,777. ; No state has 1,000,
OOOtTvo states- have loss than 100,000,
and several states have lew' than 800,000
inhabitants. But Senor Romero thinks
that the population is really not far
from 19,000,000. Eighty-two per cent,
of tho population lies south of the paral
lel t Tampjeoi jMorrt.'-tjhan h1f5 the
wealth of the republic lies sohth or tha
northern boundcry of the federal dis
trict in which Mexico City is situated.
Gardening; for the Inaane.
Inter Owan.1
New York Ls arranging to try a new
method of treating the insane. Under
the idea that occupation is good for the
diseased mind, the state haspurchoRod a
1,000-acre farm on Long Island,,, about
thirty miles from New, Fork oity. AH
kinds of useful and fancy gardening
will give occupation to patients who can
be trusted. The experiment will be care
fully noted by other state. . Withont
doubt the step is in the right direction.
Philadelphia Call: A dimplo is a be
witching depression in k ladyH cheek
which makes an impression hard of sup
pression and ends in oppression.
New York Journal: , Strawberries are
nature's sweet blushes materialized.
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