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r A SUMMER SCENS. itfrn corn tbe maidens ham itb poipiee snd wild rus inning dlttlea bey eorae. And blushing Ilk their posies, Crowned I o merry maid jib coronal of puppy ; Kature has with beauty played. To make a fulllu oopjr. laughter gatbcre In her eye. Her every movement bluahea Inrkt she niorks a hirer's sigh With songs b blrdllko gushes. Cupid, ohuold ha pa bnr way, Fur lack f tn ntb must tarry j She will steal bla bow awny nd bid the rogue go marry. .Charles T. Lusted In lilackwood'a Magazine. OLD MILITARY LORE. regulations That Guided Soldiers la tl Sliteenth Century. "Tie Patbwnie cf Martlall Disci jline" ( 1581 ). by Thomas Styward, Is (all of plates and abounds in quaint re marks. Giving tbo duties cf a provost jDurhlml. we find : "Ho (ball according to t he luwcs punish oil offenders with out regard or respect uf persons, and in the market place abnll lot op a pair of gallon, both for Ibo terror of tbo wick ed iud fur execution upon them tlmt of fend the lawo. Tbat be ball set upon all victnalls brought to tbo market a reasonable price, that the Roller and tbo buyer may reasonably live by it. " In the offlcoof coronol (or colonel tbo two terms scorn to buve been iutrodnced at tbe samo timo, but tbo luttor became the favorite), after mentioning his appoint ing of as many coptoini aa ia needful, giving 300 men to a company, "which It a convenient number," for if the men are divided into smaller companies too much money won Id be spent on tbe offi cer. With regard to tbe lieutenant, be is to to "of great experiences, qnalitiea and behavior. "'"The coronel iball alio exiimiue tbe aclcctiona that the captaini have made of all the officer throughout their com panic, and if they be inch aa ooght to be, or not much worse be may allow them, and not otherwise." Before firearms drove out all other weupons it wus an object to eqnali. the strength of tbe company, "tbe ahot" as tho musketeers came to be called) mppleuieutiug tbe pi kef. All the com bination! of men for drilling which are given by vurioui an t bora illustrate thii; tliui fur the defcu.se from horsemen: "Place tho rauki of pike every way, your aliot next nuto them, your bill (or halberds) and eusigu in tbe midst, tbe pikea eudi couched down tbe better to roaist the enemy." All kindi of dodges are taught thui: "If in light of tbe enomy, which ia su perior in numbers, the front rank of pike shall spread out so aa to admit the men of tbo second rank in tbe open spaces. Bat if tbe enemy nituiifost a real intention of attacking, and .there bo no plnco cf refngo near, tbe second rank shall return to their places, and all shall serrie close togother. The shot shall be placed in tbe voward and roar ward so tbat they may skirmish and re tire as occasion sexvetb. " Ueutleman's Magazine. White Doom of tba Confederacy. Within a short time tbo old borne of Jefferson Davis In Richmond will be thrown open to tbe pnblio as a Confed erate 'museum. Tbe "White House of the Confederacy," as it has been called, baa been tbe property of tbe city for many years and bns recently been used at a scboolboose. A room in tbo bouse will bo assigned to each of the states that seceded far a collection of relics, and In addition there will be a large roeui for a general museum and one for a library. The first of the state collec tions tlint of Georgia has been re ceived. It was presonted to tbe commit tee by Mr. Do Reune on the eighty-sixth birthday of President Davis, J uue, 1894. Among the relics are tho cape, gauntlets and sword cf General Lee; tbe plnmos from Uenoral Etnart'a bat; the spy glasses nsed by General Beauregard at the battle of Manassas, and the colleo tions from tho variona soldiers' homes established throughout the south, in cluding tbo Leo Camp Soldiers' borne collection, which contains, in addition to many rare and interesting relics, tbe skin of Stonewall Jackson's cbarger. There are also a number of manuscripts and private papers. New York Trib una. Hester Mnaaon Damped. Huntsman T. Mnnson, tbe loader of tbe "angel dancers," bad an exciting experience in Haikensack, N. J., tbe other day. While driving down Main street bis horse sank in a deep bole. Muason was thrown over the dashboard of the wagen and struck on bis bead and shoulders on tbe hard ground, but escaped without serious injury. When aeuislnnna si wirnil Xfnnsnn was sitting on the borne 'a bead, exclaiming: "Tbe ' Lord be praised. Glory to God In the highest." Shortening tha Time. Friend Dcesn'l the journey to and from tbe country every day seem very long? llr. Suburb LongT It's too short TCheu I take tbe train in tbo morning, I know I've got to pinch In and work like a horse the moment tbe train reaches tba city. Tbat mnkes the Journey seem too short, doesn't it? "I presume it does. But bow about tho journiy buck?" "Well, I always remember after I start tbat I'vo forgotten something my wife wanted particularly, so that ride is always over too soon. 1 'Pearson 's Weekly. B Won Bla Baa. One must tuko tho word of an arch deacou, or I should bo inclined to re quest further particulars iu the case of the patron whom Archdeacon Wilson mentioned at the conference at Cam forth the other day. A certain living so said tbo archdeacon bad fallen va cant by death. The patron summoned to bim his legal advisor, who explained tbat tbo presentation must be entirely gratuitous. "But." added tbo lawyer, "I will bet you 1,000 tbat you do not present my aon-iu-lnw." Curiously enough, tbe son-in-law was tbe lucky man Loudon Realm. Be Coderstood. Paul Louis Courier, when bitterly aa SaiUvt V,. . c i. i- t. u marked: "I fancy ho must be vexed. He calUmoJhin ,.,1 t,.!.,u.. .bief. V-w , , limt, ft ' poiiuner, forger, leper, madman, im ltr, calumuiator, libeler, a horrible, ni'hy. grimacing ragpicker. I gather what be wants to say. Ee means that he sud I are not of the same opinion, 4 this U bU only way of putting it. " ROENTGEN'S experiments, follow d as they bavt been by the efforts of other ssrsnts alone tha same lines, together with wide newspaper dis cns.lon, bsve given popular thought auJ common conversation s teudeney toward the scientific snd tha sbstruse. Itoeutgeu rays. X rays, cathode rave, ultra ei,.i u ; . -nww a 1'itor. IIOKXTOES. . raya the words are as familiar to the ear sa the alphabet. Ktated briefly, Prof. Wllholni Konrad Itoentgen has found a means whereby artii-lea behind opaiiie suliatancea, or contained therein, may bo photographed and their position accurate ly defined. The pictures thus obtained are light often shadows only on the plate. Their character la determined by the rela tive density uf the inclosing mailer. If the envelop present alight obstruction to the X raya, the impression of the ubjeet whose photograph ia Knight ia promrtion ately distinct. It is easy to see that this discovery may lie put to great practical use, and it baa for that rvasou excited an Interest almost universal. It la ditUeult to describe the Roentgen discovery and mode of procedure In such terms as may be popularly understood. To photograph sny objert, of course there must be light. In the Itoentgen method this la furnished by what are called Crooke's tubes. In brief, they may be descrilied aa glass cylinders from which the air has been partially exhausted. In each end of each tube Is placed a disk, one of which conveys an electric current to tbe Interior of the tube and tbe other carries it away, making the return wire a battery. It is believed that the glass ab sorbs U3 per cent of the light, so that it is a great point In their manufacture to have tin-in aa tain as possiuie. iuouiu ... son makes very thlu ones, and ho claims that Is a point of superiority. He applies tbe term "fluorescent tubes" to those of bla own manufacture. In bis experiments he nsea two alum inum diaka, one repreaenting the auode or positive pole, and the other the cathode or negative pole. Tbe positive or anode disk or electrode Is suspended by a small wire close to the mouth or top of the bulb. The cathode or negative disk la fixed in the center of the bulb. It la half an inch V WII.I.IAU CROOKPS. Famous Inventor of the Crnokrs rube. In diameter and is placed on an augle as If Intended to act as a reflector. "Tho generation of the light," ssys Mr. EdiBon, "tnkes place when the projwr flu orescence is obtained within the tube, and It is csused by the action of the electric fluid in disturbing the molecules of rare fied air. The cathode disk dues not make the light, but propels It with great force againat and through the glass of Its prison and anything else that may intervene be tween It and the sensitive plate which is to register Its rsys." With the Crookes' tube at hand and with a battery containing enough elec tricity to last during the experiments, the scientist now devotes his attention to the securing of a sensitive plate which will register sn Image of the object to be pho tographed. So far, the ordiuary dry plates used by aa amateur or professional have been used with success. The unex posed plate is put In a dry plnte holder. This furnlanea protection irom me uy light Any article which It la desired to secure an Image of is procured. All the light Is shnt out from the laboratory, or wherever the experiment Is to be msde. The proper wire connections sre made with the battery and tubes. Directly un der the glsss is placed the dry plate, still In the holder. It is unnecessary te draw the slide, for the X rays will penetrate wood or steel as resdily as they will pa through a piece of glsss. Between the glsss and the dry plate Is placed the ob ject to be photographed. It Is laid on the slide of the holder. Lenses or reflectors are unnecessary, aa win oe epimu-u later. When everything has been placed csrefully, and all Is resdy, the electric current is flashed on. For a moment It creepi along the tube and flarei up. Soon it becomes steady, and Its rsys spread out upon tbe Image. Down through the envelope the rays fall. They cnt their way through every fiber straight down until they fall upon the sensitive plate and register their passage. If an object, guch as a bone or piece of metsl stands 4n the way, then, and only then, do they pause and their Interruption is shows i by the delicate plate being unaffected. If a bullet Is Imbedded In the flesh, snd here Is where the first practical benefit to snr gery bss been found by the new art, tbe impression Is left. The time of exposure iu When It haa been sufficiently ex- r ed the current is abut off snd the plate . . . TIiam thai There the taken to tbe developing room n wi hf anr amateur is out The plate Is first developed In the n.hi id It la then "fixed" with krnn.nlnhita nf SO(l. It CSU tllCtt be fX posed to daylight without any fear of be ing changed. The negative, if the experi ment has been a auccesa, will show a thin outline of the enveloping medium and a I nhtoe shade for the article whose photo- ' graph or shadow Is desired. It will be understood that In the developed work tbe conditions of the negative are reversed, tndnsinz substance is represented in the lighter shade, the Interposed denser object In the darker. Prof. Itoentgen. when he ascertained the effects producible by the X-the un known rava a ursuiu a ioio . Qlrr l i continual on o . .er,e J f Prt ments by (ie.ssler t.ass o t. Hi torf n Crookea. He progressed from the points at which they had stopped, snd In later laboratory work In Europe snd Amerlrs It is found that tbe results obtsined by Roentgen hsre been improved npon. The ssrlier explorers Id this field regarded the rsys as proceeding directly from the tlthode. RosBtgsn Mi vUniTil. ill Ik 13 HOKXTOK. SII.IIOl'KTTK. Hnrnlamlled rnior In lt ene of eloth eon-red u .uni. i-iioiovraiiiiH liy A. A. Hwlulon b'c'lVtli a l'Utk vukaiiuod niwr ,vju conreses himself at aomewriat of a loss to describe these rays and their full nm erties, but ia confident thst ther do not proceed directly from tba cathode, but Issue only from that part of the Crookes' tube where the cathode raya atrike the glass nail. It Is aa if the true cathode rays were decomposed, aud those which 1 ror. Koeutgcu deuominatea the X rava pass on. while the other components of uie catnoiie rays are exhausted or !. sorbed In the glass. Iu the earlier expert nienta early is nsed in a relative aeiiaa only, aa all this ltoentgen Information measures ita existence by weeks In the first attempts at the new photography, it was necessary to cxmse tho plate for a Ions time, more thau an hour in some In stances. Before any results were produc ed. The iMTfectiou of the appliances kept pace with the Interest of the subject, and rnr. Wiitmnn, of the high school at Buila Pesth, has reduced the time neces sary to obtain a well-dehned Roentgen photograph to three minutes under ordi nary circumstances, and thirty seconds under perfect conditions. No substance Is iuiMrvlous to this new form of radiant energy. Matter againat which ordinary light raya beat helplessly, snd from which they are thrown with a power apparently greater than their strik ing force, arc as open gates for the X rays. On ibis point Itoentgen, the pioneer, says: The most striking feature of this nhnnm. enoii Is tlmt an lultupnce capable of rirltlng Driiimni uuoresi riu-e is ante to pass through the bU-k esrdlKMinl ever, which transmits none of the ullrs-vlolet rays of the sun or of the electric are, aud oue Immediately In quires whether other txlles possea this property. It la soon dlaeoveml that all bodies are trnurelit to Hits Influence, but In very different degrees. A few rxsmplea will siilnYe. I'sper is very transparent. The fluorescent screen he hi behind a linunil vol ume of 1,IN pages still lighted up brightly; the printer's Ink offered no perceptible otv slucle. Kluorewelice waa nlao noted behind two packs of enrds: a few ranis held he tweiti appnrntus aud screen ninde no per ceptible lilffereura. A single sheet of Un pnoToortAPn or snot i.x bat s boot. foil la scs reel noticeable: only after several layera have been laid on top of each other Is a ahsdow clearly vlxible on the screen. Thick blocks of wood are also transparent; Br nlsuks two or three centimeters thick are but slightly opaque. A mm or aluiniuum about fifteen nilllmelera thick weakens the eaTect Very considerably, though It does Dot entirely destroy the fluorescence. Several centimeter of rulcnnlsed India rubber let the rays through. (Huh plates of Ibe same thickness behnte In a different way. accord lug na liny routala lead (Hint glass) or not; the former are much leas triiimnarent than the hitter, ir the hand Is held between the discharge tube and the screen tho dark shadow of the boura Is vlslblo within the alight ly dark shadow of the band. Water, A COt, AX AWL, AX!) A CHISEL. I'hoto by lir. Miller, Toronto. bisulphide of carbon and various other lliiulds behave In this respect as If they were Very transparent. 1 was not able to deter mine whether water waa more irauspsrent than air. Ileblud plates of copper, sliver, lend, gold. pUtliiuui, llnnresceuce Is still rlearly visible, but only wheu the plates are not ton thick, rinlliium 0.2 millimeters thick Is transparent; sliver and copper sheets msy lie decidedly thicker. Iad I B millimeters thick Is as good as opaque, and whs on this account often msde use of. A woollen rod of millimeters cross sec tion, painted while, with lead paint on one side, uciiaves in a peculiar maimer, nun. It Is lutoriioscd between apparatus ano screen It has almost no effect when the a rsys go through the roil psrallel to tin minted side, nut u uimwa a ur u.i.. t ti.u , imv 4a trsveme the onlnt. er similar to the metals themselves are their suits, whether soiiii or in soiunoi PRACTICAL TEST or TUB X BAT. triintoeraph taken by I'mfeswr Co. of Moa 1 ...... i.n stm et waalodumt. which Iihh been eMiaeted from the leg ot a roan alio was shot on ('hrl-tuiin Day.l The reports oi l'rof. " periments produced a great activity among students everywhere. N""P" pern and scientific Journals were filled .i.k ....rt. nf the labors snd new discov eries made. There is not sn Institution of learning or a lsboratnry worthy the In America where the Roentgen method of photography has not been pud o nracticsl test.' One remarkable diH rovcry was made Incidental to some ex ,... in New York. Prof. Max 0 tetiberg, of Columbia College, nesiring to photograph the framework drowned the crcatnre In a bucket of water. The snimsl renisined under wster fifteen' minutes sfter It had ce.sed to s rnggl It had been effectually dead more than sa .our when the snnsrwfiss was finsily V ranged. It was laid upon tTie plate and subjicted to the powerful rays from tbe Crookes' tubes, and after an hour of ex poauro revived aulllciently to struggle to ' its feet and crawl about the plate. Nat ; urally this pheuouieiion excited much In- terval, aa a uew quality of the Itoentgen rays was disclosed. The ixisslbilitlcs uf benefit to humanity In case the rays are found upon further elimination to pos sess the revivifying power are vast. Kdison, the wixnrd, has plunged enthu siastically iuto the near study, and baa largely invented bla own npparatua. The Crookes' tubes, he thought, diasipntud too much of the new euergy and he made some for himself. They are thinner and give letter results, l'rof. A. W. Wright, of Yale, Is one of the most hard-working scientists who has entered into tbe new de partment of research, ami has strikingly confirmed all of ltoeutgcu'a experimeiita. Prof. Wright's experiments were made with a great variety of substances, and it was found that strong linpressiotis were obtained upon a photographic plate, even when it was inclosed iu nn opuiue wrap ping of Mack paper and covered with a pine board half an Inch thick. I l'rf. Henry A. BunsteaJ, of the Shef field School at Yule, bus also ardently pursued the investigation of X rays along with Prof. Wright. Mr, Bunstead has ex perimented on several animals. He first took a mouse, and the photograph shows the skull unite elearlv, but the bones aro. uot at all well brought out. With a hsh and a frog Mr. Bunstead also obtained good results. The bnckhona of tbe fish is easily distinguishable, as Is also the bladder. Ia the frog the leg bonce are clearly visible. Mr. Bunstead obtained good photographa of coins In a heavy leather case. The coins were mixed lu with a lot of visiting cards and the esse was placed beneath s pine board an iuch thick. He also obtained a good photo graph of a pair of eyeglasses, placed be neath a board, aud of the kernels of Eng lish walnuts. All theso experiments were made In broad daylight, and the exposure of the negative lasted about aa hour la each Instance. Prof. Hike snd Dr. Miller, of Toronto, together with others, have made careful, experiments. They have photographs clearly defining the bony structure of the frog and another allowing the esse with which X rays penetrate wood. A coin, ' a bradawl and a chisel were exposed. The tang of the awl where It entera the wood can be traced easily. The wood la In half shadow. Prof. Kugene Ilaanel, of the incuse University, had marked success In photographing the Interior of a frog. Prof. Ilaanel and other scientists of de gree predict that Edison's attempt to photograph the brain will never prove suc cessful. They think he may got tbe in terior line of the skull, but the brain, be ing less dense, will not furnish a sulli elent resistance to the rays. What of Itoentgen, and how did he make hia great discovery 7 He has a chair In the department of physics in the Wurs burg 1'nlverslty. A short time ago be Waa unknown except to bis fellow inquir ers into the phenomena sud laws of nat ural philosophy. This discovery wna brought about by pure accident. Trof. Itoentgen, while experimenting In a dark room with a Crookes' tube, through which an Inductive electric current waa passed,' waa greatly astonished to find Hint a pho tographic plate Inclosed In wooden slides which had been lying in the aaine room. revealed some atrnnce Impressions which ' could not possibly be attributed to the ln-1 faience of ordinary light from without. ! Struck with the curiousuesa of thla phe-j notnenon, for which no possible reasons seemed to exist. Prof. Itoentgen eiperl-j mented again under exactly the same conditions and found that the photo-' graphic plate could have been reached only by a light which was capable of penetrating wood, a substance which hith erto has always been considered opaque. Kurt her trinls showed not only that such light existed and was generated In a, Crookes' tube, but that It possessed the faculty of penetrating many other sub stsnces, such as organic tissues, paper etc., while certain metals and bone sub- Stances (calcium phosphate) did not lose (heir opacity. Prof. Itoentgen further ucceeded In obtaining photographic Im- resalona of metallic objects which bad CltOOKKS' TUBB III POSITIOJC. been Inclosed in a wooden box, snd slso of the skeleton of a living hand. Thea he gsvs bis findings to the world. King AlphoBto'i Tart. Alpbonso, king of Arngon, was one day examining the different srtioles In bis Jeweler's shop In company with many Indies ot bis court Hebsd scaroe ly left the house wheu the Jewelor miss ed a diamond of great value and ran after him, complaining of the theft. The king, not willing publicly to disgrace any of his attendants, commanded a large basin full of sand to be brought him, Into which he directed each person to put in the hand clinched and to draw it out flat By this menus the diamond was left in tho sand, unknown by whom. Household Words. Mot Interested. An old man and his wifn were last sum mer sailing on a steamer between Black pool and tbe isle of Man. As the sea was rather rough and the old woman unaooostomed to sailing the said to bor husband : "Oh, Jobn, this ship is going down. " "Well, never mind," said ber bus band. "It isn't ours. "London Fun. Ran Salvador. Bon Salvador ia built on a volonno. It has been three times destroyed by an eartbqnske, but tbe people are becoming an-natomed to rucn occurrences, tavn qnakos are pretty frequent, and while one Is nsturally very nervous there is really little danger to life. Tho shocks have been known to come as frequently as 60 times in sn hour. I Since the war of 1813 the United ; States army has by no means enjoyed i Im life of luxurious ease sometimes at I tributed to it, for, iu the Intorvenlug ! years, it has fought 640 bsttles or ac tions with tne lu'iions. Tbe state of Iowa is so far from being wholly agricultural tbst it baa 69,174 persons engaged in its factories, whose annual output Is 1 1-8,0.9,11. S I AN AFRICAN WASHINGTON. The Commander-in-Chief of the Doer la an American, Gen. (Icorgo P, J. Jouliert, tbe leader of the Boers who defeated the Itrltbis uuder Ir. JumeMon in their Intended In vaalon of tho Transvaal, Is a IViinsyl Tallinn. Ceil. Joubert's parents came from Holland and located nt I'tilon town, where be was born In 111. When 14 yearn old be went to Holland and from there to South Africa. At the outbreak of the civil war bo returu ed to America nud served In the nuvy under Admiral iMipout. Ho wits aftcc wurds rnptiilii of a colored company under On. Woltxel. Wheu tbe war was over ho went to Holland again, ami next to South Africa. In lssi ho was a plain fanner when the Boers revolted. He led a handful of Dutch warriors, aud defeated the British army at Mil- or., oiconna p. i. Jot nrnT. Julia, securing freedom for tbe Boers. After the victory over the British tbe Boers made Mm vice president of their republic, and coiutiiandcr-ln-chlcf lu all military matter. Iu 1110 ho visited America and arranged for an exhibi tion of South African products at tho World's Pair. He Is looked upon by tbe Boers ns tho Georgo Washington of the South African republic. First Morals, Thea Literature. Moral teaching wus Miss Edgeworth's first object ; litcruture or tlie interest of Iter talo came ouly second. To this car dinal defect she is indebted for most of her faults as a novelist Her plots are improbable, nnd her characters become dummies. If alio does uot avow her nt ductio purpose so clearly as Hannah Autre or Airs. Dnorwoou, sue is noi ant- i ii-fled, like Miss Austen, to leave her I diameters convey their own lesson, She' lecius nioro Intent upon erecting moral j slgu posts for the convenience of future 1 travelers than of accomplishing her own Journey with rnpidity and success. Nor is her teaching of an elevated kind. Its polo star is enlightened selfishness. As bnr pattern children are always re warded, so her heroes snd heroiues are sum to prosper, to discover themselves the inheritors of great fortunes and to marry into tho peerage. Smnll space ia allowed iu ber systom for imagination, pnnsiou or religious enthusiasm. The in ternal struggle which their strength cre ates would only have disturbed her sim ple balance between right and wrong. Previous uovelists had based morality on feeling. She ascribes it to the un derstanding. Sho allows no amiable weaknesses, no sudden impulses, no un conlrolable emotions. Even Cupid, king of men, Is elbowed from bis throne sud iu exclntnge for his kingdom is offered a sinecure as the keeper of conconform ist consciences, A largo tract of life Is, In fact, to Miss Kdgoworth a terra in cognita of which she knows nothing be- cause she fools nothing. (jnorterly lie view. Ilrldae I'mlnts. A careful investigation of tho relia bility of different paints used on bridges bos boon mado by E. Ucrbcr of tbe American 8oclety of Civil Engineers, with some important practical results. It appears that in all cases mat was fouud to a greater or less extent, occur ring always In spots in the center ot clean metal, most of this, however, be ing thlu and as bad iu new structarcs ns iu old It was, nevertheless, round that the Iron oxide paints adhered more firmly to the metal than the lead paints, only one case being found In which the latter adhered well snd wns tough, though mnch of this brittleuess, it is suggested, mny be due to adulteration of the oil by turpentine, beusine or other petrolouin products, there being more likolihood of such adulteration with lend psints than wlih iron, as the; are more difficult to spread, and consequently diutlon of the nil is resorted to. In some caeos bridges coat ed with iron oxide 11 or 13 years ago were found to be still in good condition without having to be repainted. Only two of the bridges examined bad been painted with carbon or aspbnltum paints, but the condition of things In these two cases wss found to be not al together satisfactory, aa the coating was not tough or adherent. Too llttlo atten tion, Oerber remnrks, has been paid to thoroughly cleaning the metal before the first coat of paint Is applied. Aa Artless ftponea. In the south of Ireland a short time ago a prominent gentleman was elected to tbo corouerrbip, and very naturally was proud of tho honor which hud been conferred upon him. Wheu ho carried the news of his election to bis home, be appeared before his wife in a very dig' nified manner and said : "My dear, I was elected coroner to day, and there is something I wish to say to yon. In the future I wish you to ccu.'e talking so much with the servants and assume the dignity becoming the wifo of a high public official. Do yon understand?" "Yes, Tom. Oh, I'm so glad that yon have been made a coroner I Just think I Mrs. Prawn aud all the Smiths will be calling to see met" And ber eyes fairly , bluzed with delight I After revolving the matter in her1 mind and cackling with pride as only a womun con she suddenly exclaimed : I "Oli, Tom, If you are a coroner, I suppose I shall be a coroneicss, won't If" Liverpool Mercury. Uorse Talk. Wickwire Thore can be no doubt' tbat the burse Is rapidly passing. Wnflge-Aieuoe, out ine one. or. don't seem to psss anything very matt, Indianapolis Journal. MANY LONG JOURNEYS. Remarkable Travels nf a Letter te Kallor from Ilia Mweelheart, It any man doulrf that the postal authorities; do their bent to deliver let ters under dlttli'tiltlc) let ti 1 in examine .1... ..!......... ..I. I UIU l(1lllMlliyillK 1UMI,IIIIIM Ul III" front and buck of an envelope which I bits traveled four times across the At- I In lit li. took a trip down the Medlicr ruticnn, and nindo several long Jour- j tieys In the I'nlted Stntea twfore it j overtook the ouo to whom It was ad- . dressed. This letter Is IndlevoU to have broken nil records for distance travel- j tl, number of times readdressed, and minimum amount of postage paid. It started out on a two-cent stamp mid ended Ita Journey free from debts lu the way of "postage due." j ! To itinke tbo story more Interesting j the letter whs from a sailor to ul sweetheart. It started out from New Bedford. Mass.. bright and early on i Decoratlou Dny, the postmark Mug I "0:30 a. in." It was addressed to "Mr. , Iteo Bennett, Chnrlestown, Mass." Mr. i Bennett was a cadet on tbe I'nlted States warship F.nterprlse. Tbe letter , ; reached Clin rlestowtt, May SI, ns shown , ' bv the postmark. Bennett bnd gone, so tbe missive waa torwnrded to 1 ratal ' gar Siiunre, Ixindon, England, In care : of U. V. Kteveua. Unltwl patch agent. Tbo London . dated June 8. Prom here states ills-1 postmark Is ; warded down the Mediterranean to Tangier, Morocco. Tangier waa n-nch-ed Juno 17. It waa addressed In care of tho I'lilled States Consulate. The i Consul, In tbe absence of positive In j formation, thought It would lie a safe 1 guess to scud that letter back to Bos ton. Tbo stx-ond trip across tbe Atlan . tic wns nindo In good time. Prom here I It was sent to the starting point. New j Bedford, reaching tlint point somo time In September, the date not being on tbe envelope. Taking a fresh start. It was aent hack across tbe Atlantic, this time to Mnlnga, Spain. From here It traveled back again to Charlestown navy-yard, thence to Boston, being ad dressed to No, 43 West Newton street I By this time tbe face of tbe envelope was so thoroughly covered with ad dresses and stumps, to sny nothing of nostmnrks, that there was no space left. ! Tbe bnck wns also covered with two or three layers of postmarks. At the Inst Boston address some one thought of trying Chicago, so the final address was written over a lot of postmarks on the back. "TOO Monndnock Bldg., Chicago." This Is the offlco address of Iteo's father, who Is the Western man ager of the Street Hallway Journal. Iteo happened to Ie in tho city on a THlt t0 ,,,, purpntB, and tho letter wos g( jngt delivered ' INSECT LOOKS LIKE A STICK. Ita Appearance Knoblca It to Escape Manifold Danger. Unique among the Insect creation are the stick Insects, which bare tbe pecu liar gift of making people believe, thst they are Inaulmnto objects. This In- ! oct. according to the New York World, H commonly mot with In the high, dry, jP0w grass of Nyassalnud, lu South Africa. When It Is In repose, with Its legs stretched closely against Ita back, It Is difficult to believe that It Is not a dry twig. It Is necessary to touch It In order to flud that It la alive. The In sects smaller and weaker than Itself which do this are eaten as a reward for their Inquiring spirit. Tbe twig Insect undoubtedly lives by Its sbnpe, which helps to provldu It with food at a minimum of exertion. It enables It to eocene from nil sorts nf uungers. uttier suitnsis witn a taste for Insect food seldom detect It owing to Ita twig-like appearance. Moreover, It Is hardly worth their while to trott ble about such an elusive animal. Hut no animal seems born to enjoy this life without worries and enemies. It ap pears that there is a curious and largo toad that makes a spcclnlty of finding twig Insects. This toad would rather hunt twig insects than eat tbe Juiciest and most easily caught green files. Many of them are very large. Rnmo foutb American ones are four Inches In length. They are usually very pugnn clous, fighting much among themselves. A fight usually ends Id one of tha cum' batsnts losing hla head. The victor eats tbe remains. 'Orphens an 1 Eurydloe." If. SI8 Ti' klr Frederick Lelghton's picture. Maa Overboard. The presence of mind of a certain well known actor was always very re markable, but was never put to so se vera a test ss on tbe following occasion While actina the nart of a pirate chief he waa being conveyed In a vessel across tbe stage with his band of brigands on dock boside him. One of the supers, whose duty it wss to work the waves uuder large shoots of rauze, was so unfortunate as to put hi head through the gauze and to appear standing In tbe middle or tne mimio . hnfnra the full view of tbe audience. Tbe actor on tbe vessel, without los ins his nresence of mind, called out, "A man overboard I" and the astonished , sunor wss hauled upon dock by tbe pi rates amid tba applause of the specta - ,mma.-Zi l. was a nart of tbs j "7 7 Sn.tn. ' j play. London Spectator. MAoxirun viiw or Tng stick ixar.CT. I ' ; V, ijP'""M,i 1 "Til FIRE PLACE, U t j The PmallcatTownon Karth CoatalDa Two lloiiaca, Fire Place, at tho extreme eastern end uf Long Island, N. Y., Is a village uf two houses and eight Inhabitants. It Is the smallest village In the world nd tho ono with the oddest history. Opposite the village and across three find a lin If miles of water Is Cnrdiiior's Ixliuid, the first place to be settled by nu Kugllshmnn within tho limits of New York Slate. Tbo Island was the first manorial estate n this country, find was purchased by I.lou Cardlner In PklU. I.lneul descendants of Lion tSitrdlner have continued to own the lalntid and to mnlntnin a borne there even to the present time. How soon nftcr gettlnir the Island the Gnrdlnera tH'gnu to tvnllzo the convenience of get ting to New York (where the Dutch were settled) by means of crossing to 1 UVi.i-.al"" -ysaa.y-j riT, "L T'i'Z.-- tJfT SMALLEST TOW!f 0! RARTU. Iong Island nnd going overland Is not known, but It was long ago. Return ing, they would build a fire on the lxnich, as a signal, and the boat would yn brought bnck across the run unci for them. The plnco where the boats land ed and tho fires built, whleb soon begun to be called the Fire Place, was where the channel la narrowest. When, a century after the first Oardl nor came, a bouse wns built at tbe Ixmg Island landing, It was described aa tM'liig at Fire Plnco. A second bouse was put up. and It. too, was know aa being at Fire Plnce. The name baa clung to the two houses, both of which are still there, ever since, and It Is thus shown on tbe maps. Nor are the ori gin of the name and the Infinitesimal size of the vlllngo tho only curious points In regard to the plnce. It was a ninn named Miller, who built the first house at Fire Place, and a man named 'nrxoin who built the second. It Is Snniuel D. Miller, a lineal descendant of tbe first Miller, who now Uvea in tho Miller home, and It Is William H. arsons, a lineal descendant of the flrvt Parsons, who Uvea In tho Parsoua home. : More thon this, the ancient custom of tiro building assigned to Gardiner's Island fs still kept up. Ashes and charred wood from a recent fire may nearly always be found on tho beach. The Island contains over 3.000 acres. much of It hilly and wooded. A atock fnrin Is maintained there, and wuj diHsr nre preserved. PALACE OF FINANCE. t Monetary Mart Which Waa Recently' Dedicated In New York City. Tho new clearing house recently dedl-. catiHl lu New York city Is a veritable pnluce of marble and gold. The trndl-i tlounl uotloii of the grim, atcrn bouse ; of business la utterly exploded In this superb pile, which more rcsemoies onto Ityuiiittne marvel of decoration, nn.l architecture than a place for the excliuiigo of mere money. The build-, Intr is situated unfortunately ror tue dlNidny of Its great external beauty. It was put tip on a site on the north alile of Cednr street, between Wall and, Nushuu streets. Cedar street, while convenient In location for the purpose to which the building Is to be devoted, la a dark, narrow thoroughfare, and hence the approaches to the splendid structure aro 111 lighted and much of Ita gorgeousness Is lost In tbla way. Hut once within Its walls thero Is no lack of material for admiration from the most squeamish ot critics. Two of the trig apartments within are of espe: rial Interest nud beauty. These art the library and board room. The bank prpaldeiits will meet In a room of gen uine splendor. There Is a golden cell Ing. laid In panels, with large cornices aurportrd by marbU pllnstera. The doorways and windows are rrnmea with Hlcnnn marble, which Is the most exiM-tislve of Hint mnterlnl to be found.' The mottled markings are softly blend-j ed and tbe surfaces polished like mlr-1 rora. A throne of oriental magnificence has beon built for the President High above his bend will arise a massive panel of marble. Tbe bankers will oc cupy great leather chairs of slse suffi cient for two men. Nearby tho boara- room Is tbe library. Ita walls are of mahogany. Its celling auperbly frea- coed, and at one side Is a huge mahog any mantel, exquisitely corved and beautifully decorated In gold, Tnese hew vonK n.iAnifto norsg. rooms are on the second floor surround Insr a central room In which the clerks and cashiers win work, me muming, except tho ground floor, will be oc cupied exclusively by tho clearing house. The Interentiugruminiscencesof Q. J. Jlolyoke, recently issued, give some facta showitig that English journals were not slwsys as free from scurrility as they aro now. The London Times, for instance, which then had not adopt ed the rnle of excluding "poetry," once published some verses on O'Counell be ginning "Slime condensed of Irish bog. liar, traitor, demagogue." The same journnl also spoke of Its neighbor, Tbe Morning Cbroniole. as "tbat squirt of filthy wstcr," and Tbe Morning Cbroniole referred to Tbe Morning Post aa U "slop pall of corruption." . l?a ftfl ?.sHU$i4 1