NATURAL MIMICRY. '
Insect whonn Feature Strtclngljr ltrim
1)1 n Tlioise of Oilier Imects.
Sonic insects havo a deceptive resem
blance to members of tho vegetable
world, cither fortlio!iurpose of protect
ing themselves or for that of decoying
their prey. But a nioro wonderful sim
ulation is that of the features of other
insects. Thero is in Borneo a sand
wasp which is addicted to the habit of
devouring cricket.), but there is also a
species of cricket which exactly repro
duces the appearance of its enemy, so
that it can oven associate with it un
discovered. A species of mantis imi
tates the white ant. and mixing with
tho family, like one of its own members,
quietly devours a fat termite, from time
tto time. Plies often dwell as unbidden
tgucsts in the nests and hives of wild
honey-bees. Thoy aro belted and
bearded in tho self-sanio pattern as
tthcir unconscious hosts, but their larvto
pay for tho hospitality they steal by
devouring the young grubs of tho hivo.
Beetles often imitato hornets, sinco
tho latter aro insects to which birds in
search of animal food prefer to give a
very wide berth. Even tho mimicry of
stinging insects ' is sometimes per
formed ly innocent little creatures
quito destitute of any such means of
defence. A common insect, known in
England as tho devil's coach-horse,
throws up its tail in tho aggressive
fashion of a scorpion, wncn irritated,
but it has no hint of a sting-. In its
warlike attitude it is exceedingly alarm
ing, not only to boys and girls, but to
chickens and birds. Tho bumble-beo
Hies, which aro inoffensive littlo crea
tures, imitating tho wild bee, Hit about
and buzz angrily in tho .sunlight, quito
after the fashion of the insect thoy copy,
and gain an undeserved reputation of
.fierceness. Certain beetles have become
modified to rcscmblo wasps, even to tho
extent of lo.-ing their solid waists for
others pf ultra-fashionable slenderncss,
and others, which mimic bees, havo
acquired useless littlo tufts of hair on
their shanks, to represent tho pollcn
gathcring apparatus of tho tl uo bees.
A curious caso of imitation is that
of two species of Malayan orioles,
which aro almost exact counterparts
of two varieties of hoiioy-suckers. Tho
latter aro such fierce birds as to bo
avoided by all their feathered neighbors
and thus tho orioles find their own
deceptive plumage a great protection.
Youth' a Companion.
DOMESTIC SERVITUDE.
Tlio I)ltTroiic lltweii Tidy, Intelligent
(lirla mill Slovenly Nnliinenn.
Tho question of domestic servitude is
bocoming a very serious ono, and tho
housekeepers aro denouncing the
women sorvants, right and left. Lot
us suggest to them in good nature that
tho word "servant" is rather a harsli
term to apply to any ono in a republic'.
Wo do not believe that any ono is any
body's servant in this country. Cer
tainly the girl who does work in your
home, often well born, is no more "a
servant" than is the clerk in your store
or ollice. Of course thero are many
t'oarso and illiterate girls working in
3;itelns as "second helps," or oven as
seamstresses; but there are also many
estimable, refined girls, tho pride of in
telligent parents and tho best of peo
ple, who are doing tho saino kind of
work. And such girls aro often called
"servants" by snobs of both sexes,
who aro without a tithe of their real
gentility or actual refinement. Itistlie
shoddy habit of calling all girls who
work out "servants" that is largely to
blame for making such work so unpop
ular that the best of girls do not wish
to do it. Thoy know all too well that
thoughtless people class all such working-people
alike ranking the refined,
educated, well-bred girl with the coarse,
illiterate, ill-mannered, very boor of a
girl, and milking no distinction bet ween
them. Thoughtful people and fair
minded people" should think of these
things.
This brings us to what wa consider
tho great fault oT the people employing
such services. No difference is luado
botwoen good girls, good cooks, tidy
housekeepers, intelligent malingers and
their opposite "greenies," who know
nothing about cooking, slatterns, slov
ens ami nuisances. Tho girl who docs
her work well, neatly and economically
gets no more pay than the blockhead
who is a terror and a nuisance- from tho
time she comes into tho house till sho
goes out of it. Merit, competency, tidi
ness, decency, good manners, good nd
dress, intelligent interest in all work,
gets no better pay than incompetency,
slovenliness, ill appearance, wasteful
ness, heedlessness and carelessness.
What object is it to n girl to be compe
tent or to do well; tho girl who is just
tho other way gofs just as much as sho
docs. It is so man) dollars alike to tho
good and the bad, the excellent and tho
trashy, the diisirablo girls and tho mil
sauces. Boston Budget.
Writing of tho Derailed.
Tho manuscripts of neuropaths a
word wide enough to include tho slight
nnd tho severe disturbances of mental
B.inlty present certnin typical charac
teristics. They abound in italicised
words; in exclamation points and punct
uations after almost ovory word; in fro
quont use of capitals;' in various sizes
of writing, particularly much very
largo writing; and tho like. It is not
often that such pcoplo havo the oppor
tunity of going to print and converting
tho compositor to their peculiar system
of typography. M. lttchot prints a fow
specimen pages of such an author, and
counts twolvo different kinds of letters
In flovonteim Hues, besides the usual
capitals, exclamation points, and so on,
in groat abundance. All this is signifi
cant of an excited, prancing statu of
mind, closely nlliod to delirium -and
mania. Science.
THE AMERICAN MASTIFF.
An Knclluli View on tlio Chnrnctcrlntlc
I'olnlH or Till Noble Dor.
The American mastiff, as it exists to
day, is an artificial brled, whoso char
acteristics are maintained only by the
most careful breeding. There is there
fore opportunity for tho greatest di
versity of appearance, nil depending
as it docs on tho selection and crossing
of various strains of blood. This di
versity shows itself frequently in the
matter of size. Tlio minimum height
allowed by the English Mastiff Club is
twenty-seven inches. Tho maximum
height of the.lirecd is said to be thirty
four inches, but a height greater than
thirty-one or thirty-two inches is sel
dom attained. Tho height should be
produced by depth of body, and. not by
length of leg. Massiveness of frame
should bo the first consideration, stat
lire the second. Yet for 'many years
the one idoa of the American breeder
was to obtain height. To get this
he seemed willing to sacrifice every
characteristic of the breed, introducing
crosses of mongrel blood that have
proved most unfortunate in their ef
fects, all tho time ignoring tho fact
that great height, though desirable, is
not an essential characteristic of tho
mastiff. This seems one of the most
difficult things for the trio to learn. It
is not desired that these statements
should be taken as a declaration in fa
vor of small size in the mastiff. The
aim of tho breeder should bo toward
the largest dog that can be produced
without a sacrifice of that most valua
ble attribute which the breeder calls
type of character. A mastiff twenty
seven inches high should weigh one
hundred and twenty pounds, and ono
thirty-two inches high should weigh
one hundred and eighty pounds.
Tho head is the great point. The
choice lies between a dog with a head
like Hero III., or a dog with u head
like l'haraoh. Both typos have in this
country thoir'adniirers and advocates.
Wo believe that there has never been
any authoritative declaration on the
question by any of tho American ken
nel clubs, but wo quote an extract from
tho points of tlio mastiff as declared
by the English Mastiff Club:
"Head very massive and short, with
great breadth and depth of skull and
squareness of inu..le. Expression
lowering. Forehead broad, Hat and
wrinkled. Muzzle short, truncated,
deep and broad, not taporing toward
the nose. Jaws very wide."
It is claimed by sonio that a dog of
great size and perfect formation, with
such a head as that above described, is
contrary to the laws of nature, and
can not bo produced. This assertion is
based on certain scientific analogies,
and on the fact that so many of the
broad, short-headed mastiffs are either
small in size or weak in legs. Tlio lat
ter tletect, Doing peculiarly prevalent
in heavy mastiffs, leads to the impres
sion that tho mastiff is naturally a
slow, unwieldy animal; but this is not
true. Strength and agility should be
united in him, and from the present
stand-point there seems to bo no good
reason why a mastiff with a typical
head and of large size should not be
produced as strong and agile as a cer
tain English specimen which was
known to bo able to seize in his jaws
tho carcass of a full-grown sheep and
leap with it over an average stone
wall.
If a dog of short head and massive
size can not be produced, it would seem
that we must be contented with a dog
of smaller size than usually thought de
sirable, or else abandon the mastiff and
construct anew dog in his place. For,
many years ago, before the days of the
EnglisiiMaxt ill CI ub.Cuvier.inost careful
of naturalists, wrote that the character
istics of the mastiff were "shortness of
upper jaw, projection of lower jaw be
yond the upper, causing the teeth to be
undershot, height of forehead, depth
ami breadth of muzzle and massiveness
of head."
Of the three colors which character
ize the mastllf, tlio red, tho briudlo and
the fawn, the last seems to bo rogardod
in America, as well as in England,
with by far the most favor. When that
grand briudlo Ilford Cromwell was first
exhibited in this country, it was
thought that lie would turn tho fashion
toward his color; but such was not tho
case, and if one may judge by the show
bench ho has not been used much as a
sire. Vet, apart from his color, this
dog is one of the best, and in the minds
of some judges tho best mastiff in this
country. However, the briudlo has its
admirers. It has been a fashionable
color in tlio bulldog, and is
highly prized in those gigantic Ger
mans, the Ulmordogs, and thoro seems
to bo no real objection to it in the mas
tiff. Several of the most famous speci
mens of tlio breed havo boon of this
color. The red is tlio least desirable
color, and it is quito rare. Wo call to
mind only one specimen in recent
shows, anil that a very indifferent ani
mal. Ono attraction in tlio fawn-color
is tho sharp and effective contrast pro
duced with the donso black mark and
oars. The black mark renders essen
tial the dark mastiff oyo tho oyo,
where it is light in color, giving the
dog's face an implrasaut, almost sin
ister, expression. 'Charles C. Marshall,
in Harper's Magazine.
"Now, Job," said Mrs. Shuttle,
"those trousers nro altogether too big
for tho boy. Tlioy'll havo to bo
changed." "No, thoy won't. They're
all right. I bought 'cur where thoy
advertise 'boys' clothing to play in.-'
Thoy aro just big enough for him to
play in without going out of doors.
They're so roomy." Hattford Post.
Frowning minister Who made.
the world in six ilaysP" Frlghtoned
Hoy "Please, sir; I dldu'L"
THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE.
Tho Vnt Intent of tlio Cr.ar' Dominion
In Kure nntl Atn.
The Empire of the Czar is so vast in
it extent that it bewilders the mind to
attempt to form a picture of it. Sweep
ing from the Whtto Sea, tho Polar
Ocean, at tho north of Europe, cast
ward to the Sea of Japan and the
waters of America, where sho lias
ceded to the United States a domain in
tho Now World larger than France;
embracing the vast realm of Siberia;
bordering upon China on the south,
.ind touching Afghanistan at the gate
of India; Hanking Persia, and hover
ing like a dark cloud over the whole oi
tho Turkish Empire, while on the ex
treme west she faces Germany, Ausj
tria and the new kingdom of Botiman
ia, Russia presents, in one compact
mass, a territory such as no earthly
monarch lias ever before ruled over.
To the people of the narrowed king
doms of Europe, who watch jealously
every movement of Kussia, the Empire
is grand, mysterious and fearful. They
know its more than eighty million
people include many strange races, all
of whom seem willing to serve their
Emperor. He has at his command a
standing army of more than six hun
dred thousand men, and could call un
der arms two million soldiers. The
vastnessaiid mystery of the Empire
make it even more formidable than do
the figures which represent its armed
men.
Tho distant camps of the primitive
Aryans, who still worship tho sacred
lire; the Iranians and their ancient
enemies, the barbarous Turanians, at
peace at last under the Hag of a foreign
master; Tartars of every ort, faithful
in their allegiance to their white mas
ter; Georgians, Circassians and Arme
nians; rude Sifnioyedes, people like
Esquimaux in tho extreme north;
troops upon troops of Cossacks, the
organized "cowboys" of Kussia; and
then tlio great mass of European Rus
sians, with tho Lapps and Finns, and
myriads of Jews; all those diverse
peoples belonging, with all their goods
and their very lives, to ono man, and
one only, tlio Great White Czar all
these make up aTiigue but formidable
whole.
It is no wonder that the statesmen ot
Europe have Russia seldom out of
mind, and that thoy sometimes attrib
ute to her the strangest and darkest
purposes, some of them tho most un
likely for her to entertain. The Nation
whoso people are most jealous of the
power of Russia is tho English, for it
looks upon the Czar as the greatest if
not tho only danger to its possessions
in India. But Russia lias another rival
in Austria-Hungary, for tho interests
of tlio two Nations in tlio countries
wlnoli nave neon trom timo to tune
sliced oft' tlio Turkish Empire -ire con
stantly clashing. Toward Germany
Russia is friendly, and tho German
Government seeks to maintain tlio best
of relations with tlio Czar; but there is
jealousy between tho two countries
tlio two greatest and most command
ing powers in Europe. The people of
Franco aro most friendly toward Rus
sia, because they see the rivalry with
Germany, and they have a p id verb: "M
next-door neighbor is my enemy, but
my next-door neighbor but one is mt
natural friend, because he is tho enein
of my enemy."
The power of peace or war lies in the
hands of Alexander 111., Emporor n!
Russia, but he is not likely to exercise
it lightly. Although he is an absolute
monarch, he could not govern long
against tho wisli of his people. His
power is not limited by a parliament,
but ho feels none the less the influence
of the thought of the people, and no
absolute sovereign was probably over
more in sympathy with tlio inclina
tions of bis people than Alexander III.
Thoy desire peace, and it is probable
that ho also, desires it. But ho is a
warlike monarch, and the Russian
people have become used to war, so
that it is almost a second nature to
thorn. A small event may precipitate
a great conflict. Youth's Companion.
Adulterated Spices.
Tho chemists of the Department of
Agriculture, under direction of Com
missioner Column, havo been for some
time engaged in investigating the ex
tent ami manner of adulterating the
groceries in common use, commencing
witn spices and condiments. Of twenty
samples of ground cloves examined
only two were pure; tho others had
suffered tho extraction of their essen
tial oils and had been polluted by tjie
addition of clove stems, allspice and
husks of various kinds. Of eight sam
ples of cayenne pepper only one was
pure Of ten samples of mustard none
wore pure, unchanged mustard; tho
others contained quantities of wheat
flour, which made it necessary to add
tumerio acid to' restore the mustard
color. A specimen of pepper sent
from Baltimore to a man who had an
army contract was found to bo spuri
ous. Cayenno pepyor, black popper
husks and mustard hulls wore used to
give flavor and pungency, while
"body" was supplied by ground beans
and rice, and color by charcoal. Two
samples of white popper out of tivo
wore pure, two samples of mace out of
livo were pure, and of tlireo samples of
nutmeg examined all wore pure.
Boston Budget.
Blgsby "Oh, dearl I don't be
lieve I got ihreo hours' sloop out of
twenty-four now." Dumpscy "Yos.
Insomnia is a torrlblo infliotion."
Blgsby "That may be, but it don't
compare with a" baby." Burlington
Free Press.
Sovon-tonths of tho dry portion of
corn is pure starch, and starch forms
about four-fifths of all human food.
THE COST Oe HONEY.
An AptcnlturlU' I'latnt About tlio I'rnllt
of CommUMnn Men nnil Itetiiller.
How can wo receive a fair compen
sation for our honoj' products? 'lids
is no doubt tho most serious quest ion
of tlio da', to our business. Certainly,
wo say, if wo can not find an outlet for
our honey at a fair remuneration,
there is no use in continuing to pro
duce it. For years wo havo labored to
reduce bee-keeping to a science, and
now that wo have attained tlio long
sought goal, must wo lay down our
smoker and enter some other occupa
tion that will oiler a bettor field for
our labor? I say, not As wo have
fought all difficulties in tho past, and
overcome them; let us. light this ono
in tlio future. We can certainly over
come it, if we go at it "with a long
pull, a strong pull, and a pull alto
gether." Let us seo in tho first place, where
and with whom tho trouble lies, and
then we shall have some foundation
on which to lay our plans.
Honey,. in one sense, is a luxury, but
why is it? Certainly not because there
is not enough produced to render it a
staple, for tons of it lie in tlio markets
of our largo cities from one year's end
to another. It is not under-production
which renders it a luxury, but the ex
orbitant prico asked for it by tlio retail
or. It has Leon- urged by many that
the trouble lies with tlio middleman.
L'o a certain extent this is true, but it
lies more witli the middlc-mcu than
with tho middlc-mriM for, strange as
it may seem, there nro two, three, and
in many cases four men between the
producer and the consumer. Take two
or three men away, and tho result
would be encouraging, for they must
all live, and, what is more, they do
live, and at our expense. There is no
alternative the middlemen must go.
I speak more particularly of the coin
mission men than I do of the jobber,
for at present it seems that the jobber
is a necessary post, but the commission
men aro one of the evils that wo must
get out of the way.
Now for the greatest evil of them all,
to my muni (and I have made the mat
ter a thorough study) the retailor.
Ho it is that by small degrees is fast
robbing us of our well-earned bread
and butter, and is gradually undermin
ing our industry. Still, in justice to
him, I might say, I know it iu very
natural for people to want largo profits,
but with honey the retailer stands in
his own light, as well as blowing ours
almost out. Let us say, for example,
that the retailer goes to the jobber and
buys a first grade white comb honey
for twelve or thirteen cents per pound.
Ho takes it to his storo and immediate
ly puts a placard on it which bears tlio
following: "New clover 'lonoy only
twenty-live cents per pound." Ah!
"There's tho rub." There, friends, is
the sign that makes honey a luxury
and robs the producer of . his
hard-earned living. Here is the re
tailer making a clear ono hundred per
cent, on every pound of our lionev ho'
handles. Now poor pcoplo who lovo
honey can not afford to pay twenty
five cents per pound for it, and the
wealthy class can not consume enough
to empty our markets. What then, is
the result? There seems to be only
ono answer it is a luxurv, and the
poor can not afford to buy it.
Now suppose t his same dealer should,
instead of putting twenty-live cents on
the glowing placard, put fifteen cents
and thus be satisfied with two cents
profit on each pound; what would be
the result? Why, he would sell fifty
pounds where he only sold ono at the
former price, and this is wliero 1 claim
ho stands in his own light. For tut
that price the poor people would con
sumo it by tho carload, for it would
then be just half tho price of butter,
anil is cortaiuly better for children
than butter.
How, then can wo overcome this ol
staele? There are several ways, but
wo must have tho united efforts of the
bee-keepers. Thoro could be a stock
company formed for the sole purpose
of handling honey. Let the stock
bo hold by the bee-keepers, and
tho company run in their inter
ests entirely. There is a honey
company abroad, and I leaun that it
has met with unqualified success. It
would bo well in this cao to follow in
tlio stops of our English brothron and
protect our interests. 1 would say,
have tho stock shares very low, so that
the smallest producer could bo a stock
holder, and thus a company of this
kind in New York could command
every pound of honoy that was sout to
that eitv. What is more, thov could
establish agencies in other cities, and
it would bo but a matter of time before
tho bco-koepers would bo protootod in
ovory sense.
Again, thoy might uulto on a stand
ard prico for which thoy would soli
their honoy and put labels on ovory
box, with tlio prico plainly printed,
telling tho public to pay no more than
tlio box prico. Then wo should havo
tlio public's watchful oyo to help us.
There nro many ways to romedy this
evil, and the subject is a broad one. I
trust that our boo-keopers will wake up
and consider this question of protec
tion, IT. B. Treadwell, in Country
Gentleman.
A Buffalo lady had a curious ex
perience in travoling in Now York
lately. It was a stormy night, and a
high wind was blowing in fiorco gusts.
In passing from ono car to another a
suddon blast wrapped hor skirts around
tho brake, and in frocing hersolf tho
cloth was badly ront. Tlio pockot of
tlio dress was torn off, and hor pocket
book, containing money, tickets, keys
and chocks, sailed off into the black
night. Chicago 3mcs.
BOWSER AS A GARDENER.
Mr. Downer Tell Vhr I" l'tantntloa
Va a Howling Failure.
"Well, I'm going to have a garden
this spring," announced Mr. Bowsci
as he entered tho house tho other day
"You you can't mean it?"
"Mrs. Bowser, when I say I'm going
to have a garden I don't want to b
understood as meaning that I'm going
to havo a brickyard."
"But you remember last year?"
"Certainly, I remember last year
What of it? I set out to make a gar
den, and you and tlio dog and the
neighbors' liens, and a hailstorm and
the bugs, beat mo out of it."
"Well, of course, you will do as you
think best, but I'm sorry to seo the
yard all torn up for nothing."
"That's just like you! No matter
what enterprise Uiave on hand you al
ways try to discourage mo. You aro
a nice help-meet, you are! I might as
well fold my hands and sit down and
wait for the poor house. I shall begin
on the garden to-morrow."
A year ago lie came rushing into the
house one spring day with some seeds
which some one had given him, and
announced that he was going to have
a garden. Most of our back yard is in
the shade, and no ono of sense would
expect any thing to grow there,, but
Mr. Bowser had it spaded up and made
into beds, and ids enthusiasm was won
derful. "Don't want a garden, eh!" he
chuckled, as he brought mo to the
back door to survey tho beds. "Doesn't
this remind you of old times on tlio
farm?"
"Y-c-s, but I'm afraid the soil will be
too cold."
"Oh, you are! Perhaps you have
been reading up on soils, and are pro
paring a series of articles for some
agricultural paper! You can go and
attend to your rick-rack."
"But you can warm the soil by run
ning steam pipes under it, and 1 don't
thiuk the cost would bo 6ver fifteen
hundred dollars!"
If I hadn't shut tho door I think Mr.
Bowser would have hurled the spade at
me in his sudden anger, but after a
few minutes spent in reflection he be
gan measuring back and forth and
sticking stakes, and lie afterwards ac
knowledged to mo in a burst of confi
dence that ho intended to try hot
bricks at five feet apart. He made a
list of the stuff he put into tho ground.
There were pumpkin, squash, cucum
ber, watermelon, cantelope and turnip
seeds, and he put in some seed onions,
made a bed for lettuce, and his work
was done for tho time. He had broken
three pairs of suspenders beyond re
pair, spoiled two pairs of pantaloons,
ripped tlireo shirts down the back and
lost a twenty-dollar gold piece in the
dirt, but he was happy and enthusias
tic. "Just think, Mrs. Bowser!" lie ex
claimed as lie waved his hand over his
garden, "of walking out and culling
your own vegetables, grown on your
own land, and covered with the dows
fresh from Heaven!"
"And covered with our own worms
and bugs, I suppose?"
"There you are! You'd die if you
couldn't say something moan! 1 used to
wonder why some families didn't get
along better, but now 1 see through
the mystery."
Has any tiling sprouted yet?"
"None of your business! Don't you
dare to look over my garden! If I
raise fifty thousand lig, luscious mel
ons, vou shan't even have a piece of
rindf" '
The next week ho brought home two
dozen tomato plants and set them out.
While he was down town 1 went out to
look at them, and when he returned I
asked him if lie was certain they were
tomato plants.
"Am 1 certain that 1 am alive at this
moment!" ho roared. "Perhaps I have
traveled this country from Maine to
Texas to he taken in by a fanner!"
"Well, I hope they'll turn out to bo
tomato plants, but thov look to mo
like."
"Bosh' Most any thing looks queer
to a cross-eyed woman!"
L am satisfied that Mr. Bowser
used seeds enough on that garden to
plant it five deep. WJiatever he could
hear of he got, and whatever he
brought homo wont into tlio ground
before ho could rest. His tomato
plants didn't do well. They got liver
complaint and turned yollow, and they
got malaria anil shivered all day long
and one afternoon ho brought a friend
up to seo what ailed them.
"Bowser, that's a potato-stalk or I'm
a fool!"
"No!"
"Woll it is, and you might as well
pull up and throw tho others away!"
I hoard it all, but never let on. In
Juno sonio of the things began to
sprdut, ami our garden was tho talk of
the neighborhood. Thoro wore wheat,
oats, lettuce, barley, clover, onions,
broom-corn, water-melons, pig-weeds
nnd boots all coming up together, and
men hung ovor tho fenco nnd laughed
till they cried. Mr. Bowser treated
the subject with suoh a loftj air that I
asked no questions, but ono day when
I had boon ovor to mother's I returned
to find the garden gone and the sods
restored.
"Wasn't it a succoss, darling?" I
askod that evening.
"Wasn't what a succoss?"
"Tho garden, of course."
"Could a garden bo a success with
people throwing hot water and hair-oil
bottles and old shoos at ovory sprout
that showed its head above ground?
Mrs. Bowser, you wore malioiously de
termined that I should not havo a gar
den, and you've triumphed for the
hour, but boware! It's a long road
that haa no turn!" Detroit Free Prets.
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. i
Ono of the industries of tho boys
and girls atLowville, N. Y., is the gath
ering of spruce gum. A great many
make over fivo dollars a day.
The hop crop last year was about
95,000 tons, while the estimated con
sumption is 81,000 tons, leaving a sur
plus of 10.000 tons. Yet, as the hop
crop is sometimes very uncertain, prices
may go up again before tho close of
1887, Cleveland Leader.
In a recent lecture before the Royal
Society of Edinburgh John Murray, of
the Challenger expedition, said lie be
lieved that, taking its sizo into consid
eration, there was no country in tho
world with a better record of scientific
work or a greater mass of scientific lit
erature than Scotland during tho past
twenty year's. Chicago Timet.
There is not so much need of sand
paper in the manufacture of furniture
and all cabinet work nowadays, as tho
machinery used turns out very perfect
work. It is estimated by ono of tho
largest manufacturers of sand-paper in
the country that not more than seventy
per cent, of the amount of last year's
business will be done this year. Boston
Budget. ( 'i
A vexing and unsettled question in
physiology is, "Why aro not tho walls
of stomach and intestines themselves di
gested by their own fluids?" Because
these tissues are living, was tho answer
of John Hunter in 1772, but Dr. J. W.
Warren has just disproved this expla
nation by digesting the legs of living
frogs in artificial gastric juice Spring
field Times.
Mr. Stephen Salisbury, of Worces
ter, Mass., lias just given to tho Tech
nical Institute of that city .$100,000, to
be used in the erection and equipment
of a building for laboratories for me
chanical, physical and chemical science
as a memorial to his father, tho lato
Stephen Salisbury, who for a great
many years was president and chiof
patron of the institute Chicago Trib
une. The invention of a new optical glas3
is said to bo creating a sensation in tho
German scientific world. Tlio glass,
owing to its great refractory power,
promises to bo of marked influence in
practical optics, inasmuch as it will ad
mit of the production of lenses of short
focal width, such as it has hitherto been
impossible to obtain. For microscopic
photography it will bo of tho greatest
importance. Public Opinion.
At a meeting of tlio Physiological
Society of Berlin it was given as a fact
that when tho boo has filled his cell and
has completed tho lid a drop of formic
acid, obtained from tho poison bag con
nected with the sting, is added to tho
honey b' perforating the lid with the
sting. This formic acid preserves honey
and every other sugar solution from
fermentation. Most of the insects that
have a stinging apparatus similar to
that of tho bee aro collectors and
storers of honey, so the sting lias a
double function it is a weapon and a
pickle. Footers Health Monthly.
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PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.
California raisin growers expect to
make an average of $100 an acre this
season.
The old saying, "Worili. not
wealth," means that you can't buy any
thing of Worth unless you have wealth.
"Mr. and Mrs. Bullion called this
afternoon, sor." "Too bad; and wo
were out. Did they leave any mes
sage?" "Yes, sor: ho said, 'Good,
good; tell him I'm so sorry he were not
at home.' "
He (at dinner) "May I assist you
to tho cheese. Miss Vassar?" Miss
Vassar (just graduated) "Thanks, noj
I am very comfortable whore 1 am.
But vou may assist tho cheese to mo, if
you will!" Pttrt:
A Division of Labor. He "Where
are you going, my pretty maid?" She
"Pin going a-inilking, sir" (she said).
He "Can I not help you, my pretty
maid?" She "You can work tlio
pump-handle, sir" (she said). Puck.
The tallest man in tho world is
supposed to bo an Austrian named
Winkelmeier, twenty-two years of age.
His height is eight feet and three inches,
being a foot moro than that of Chang,
the Chinese giant. Chlcaqo Advance.
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