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V 4 DIETETIC EXCESSES. How oni Cae-IIardened ralate li re. Tickled unit Soothed. In tho Sinclair IIouso restaurant tho other morning, a guest was waiting for his breakfast at a tablo next to a re porter's, lie pourod some Worcester shire sauce into a tumbler, added as much water, and drank itolT. Thou he dumped half tho contents of a full de canter of catsup on his plate and sop ped it up with his bread. When tho breakfast came the bread and catsup were all gone, so ho ordered a fresh supply of tho former, and soaked it in Worcestershire sauce to give it a flavor. "Ho does it overyday," said tho waiter, "but ho eats a $1.50 breakfast. So I guess the house does not loso any thing. There's a good many cheap customer thnt's nearly as bad, though. Ketchup is what thoy most y go for and they go for it so heavy that wo nevor have a bottle on the tablo and only bring it when it is asked for. Some are very fond of oil. I've seen a man dump a whoie cruet of oil Into his plato and soak ills bread in it and oat it. Anoth er one mixc? vinegar with his water and toaks his bread in it. About the only things they lot alone aro tho salt and popper. Mustard and horse-radish thoy eat by tho spoonful, and when cakes aro in season thoy1 11 tako a whole half-pint pitcher of sirup to a ton cent pinto of wheats or flannels. We've got ono customer who makes a drink for himself out of sirup, water and vinegar and drinks it before meal. Ho says it's good for his stom ach. I'd like to know what I1I3 stom ach's lined with." Tho physicians say that this craving for stimulating codi menta and odd compounds is duo to dis eases of tho stomach. Hard drinkora and dyspeptics are guilty of tho most extraordinary oxcossos of this charac ter. Cases aro cited of mon who make meals of! bread and mustard, and tho drinking of Worcestershire sauce is by no means uncommon. In Munich, whero enormous quantities of beor aro consumed, the hoaviest drinkers, who absorb quarts a day, aro constantly nib bling at raw turnips seasoned with salt and bread besmeared with mustard. The wine topers of France, Spain and Italy consume vast quantities of oil, aften drinking a glass of it between a number of stoups of wine, whoso intox icating effects it is supposod to offset. In many Italian drinKing-sho'S in this city a bowl of peanut or cotton-seed oil is kopt on tho bar, with a dish hoaped with cubes of sour bread made from damaged flour, by way of free luiicli. N. Y. News. 'LOCOED" HORSE. The Singular K fleet ot Kilting Cali fornia Weed. "Look out, that horso is locoed!" oried a driver, as a couplo of policemen stepped up to help got his team out of tho way of tho cablo cars, in front of the Flood building, on Market stroot. The hbrsd'pTungod Wildly and "struck savagely with his foro foot at every one within reach. "Yes. ho's locoed," assented another horseman, who went to his friend's assistance. Tho harness was partly removed, and tho horso was unhitched, but it was im possible to got him to move. Ifo would tlo nothing but stand on tils hind feet, and, using his liind fo it as pile-drivers, tJiecl to demolish all who enmo near him. at tho same time snapping right and loft like a vicious dog. Four more policomon hastened to tho spot, thinking that tho two or three thousand peoplo who had gathorod be tokened tho beginning of a mob, or Unit a glovo contest was going on in tho street. Although earnestly urged by the crowd to do so, none of tho pollco men ventured to tako hold of tho horse. "What do you mean by locoed?" de manded ono of tho bystanders, speak ing to tho driver. Tho driver said: "In soma portions of California a plant known as thouloco weed is common, and when horos or cattle got it in tliolr feet it drives them crazy. Sometimes thoy recover, but frequently thoy have to bo shot. Loco has been confused with wild parsnip by many, though thore is really no groat resemblance. Wild parsnip is simply poisonous and is dangorous only to tho animals that eat it. Loco, on the other hand, drives tho animals into a fronsy, and pooplo havo fre quently been killed by horses and cut tle when thus affected." Tho horso was finally crowded off tho track by driving a heavy truck against hlrn. Ho was then lassoed with strong ropes, and these being hitched to a dray, lie was dragged bodily to his stable. Tho cars wore stopped for sev eral minutes. When asked by a reporter whero lie supposed hif horse got tho loco weed, tho driver said lie supposed it was in some hay that was Hhlppod hero recent ly from a southern country. S.Mt Fran cisco Examiner. It is no novelty to find vegotarlans capable of long endurance of muscular exertion. In India, whuro the prevail ing rollgion forbids the oatlrtg of Hush food, it is a constant subject of wonder and remark from all newly arrived English or Americans what extra ordinary strength and tenacity of mm lo Is shown by the runners and porters inure, who live on rice, and but littlo oven of that. At High Kulgu, near Stamford, Conn., thoro is a wife who is tho j mother of fourteen children, all living, , and none of them twins. All but two 1 live at home, and those two, catching the scarlet furor, went homo to be nurtod. Thoy guvo it to tho olhsr dozen, anil tho whole fourteen we 10 tick at on en. and medicine had to be nixud 111 pile lira ur.d bread paus. THE LIMEKILN CLUB. Frldent (lardner Formally KineM Urinl. der ,T. X. Canlft. Ar' Brudder ,L X. Caniff in do halt to-night?" blandly inquired the Presi dent as tho meeting opened with thi mercury in tUe thermometer touching the figures 99. "Yes sah." was the prompt reply of Brother CanltT as lie roe up. "Step ills way. please. 1 want to hev a few words of conversashun wid you. How long since you jlned to dis club?" "Two y'ar?. sah." "F.xaetly. 'Bout three weeks arler you jined I called at your house an' warned you to quit loatln1 around sa loons." "Y-yos, sah." "A leetle later I had to warn ye dnt ye inus' pay yor debts." "Yes." "Still furder on 1 was fo'ceil to tell ye dat you didn't own de airth. as you seemed to believe, au' dat if you didn't get down to work you'd h'ur stiuthiu drap." "Yos." " 'Bout every two month';. IV.e had to talk wid you on dis matter or on dat, an' I'zo finally got tired of it. Two weeks ago you went home drunk an' broke de stove wid au axe. 1 tole ye nex' day dat'de climax wasn't fur off, an' now she's heah. You were drunk ugin las' nite." "I'xts sorry. sab." "It ar' too late. I reckon Cain was sorry artor lie killed Abel, but bein' sorry didn' help de ease any. Brother CanitT, your name has been' erased from our books as a member, an1 you kin take your hat an' depart. You ar' no longer a member of dis club. Brother CanitT stood like one stunned for a moment, and then sank down in a heap on the floor. The committee on cold storage were quietly ordered to remove tho remains, ami when CanitY recovered his senses. ho was lying on a pile of tin-scraps in the alley, with a cold wave from Lake Huron stealing up his spinal column. AN OWNER VANTK1. ii nas oeon a year una a naif since the last attempt was made to destroy Paradise Hall, and tho janitor hud passed from a state of mental anxiety to serene repose, when lie was rudely awakened rriday afternoon by the discovery that human hvenas were again on the trail. Sometime between eunosuay anu rriuay access was gained to the hall by means of the sky-light 111 the roof, and probably by two or more fiends in human form. Their great object was to destroy the records and the museum; but as they passed down tho hallway and turned to the right they encountered bear- trap No 1. Its jaws wore wide open and hungry. The villain in the lead must havo fairly stepped into it. and he had the closest call of his life. As the jaws started to close lie made a spring.' and so close was his escape that he left one of his boot-hoels between tho jagged teeth. The incident 11c doubt frightened the villains away at once, as nothing was disturbed. "Dis olub will offer a reward of fifty dollars fur do arrest of de pusson who left' dat heel behind." said Brother fiardnor, "an' if ho ar' caught we will do our best to make him feel sorrowful fur de nex' ten y'ars of his life. I hev ordered 1110' b'ar-traps, an' by to-mor-rer noon dar will be fo'teen of em guardin1 dis hall. Fur do safety of sieh members as desiali to visit de library, a map will bo issued, wid de locoshun of ebery trap indicated by a black ami blue spot." Detroit Free Press. A FINANCIAL TALK. Upon What the Valuation of Furin I.andt Mioulil He Hated. Upon what should the valuation of farm lands bo based? Farmers have usually priced their farms as much on tho ground of arbitrary preference and choice as upon almost any other con sideration. Of course productiveness, proximity to market. Improvements, etc., have figured to some extent in this valuation; yet after all farms can not be said to havo been valued in tho same way that other productive prop erty is rated in the market. The time has come, however, when farmers are beginning to look at this matter in a different light. Tho farmer is now more of a business man than he lias evor beon before, and ho is making an effort to rate his lands 011 the basis of what they will produce and the divi dends they will nfford rather than upon what havo heretofore been the chief considerations. To illustrate: A farm of 100 acres which in a term of years can be made to produce a net Income of $600 pro lit would naturally, in business circles, bo rated as worth $100 per aero, and the market price of tho laud would fluctuate above and below that figure according as this income could be in creased or was reduced On this basis, which is coining more and more to figure in the market, a great deal of change in local estimates of real estate would probably In- miide. Many dis tricts in which farms have heretofore been selling at high figures could hardly sustain tin-It high position, if lands were to be valued according to their production. This basis of valuation probably linn more to do with the present depression in real vtntu than any thing else. It is simply a question of how much can be gotten out of a given iiive-tmciil in farm laiuU. Tho iiiioslmonl will stand about so much, and 110 more: and values are rated hccoi dlnt'ly. What ever els may figure in determining the pi'io at which a given farm IN. the ruling consideration hereafter will the ability ut roHlhui dividends upon the In ct ,n.-'it. --National Stockman. a drop of Water. ? Other Traveler Journey Can Com' pare with Those Made by It, "It has been moro than two hundred yoars since I passed along hero tho first time, was the astonishing statement of a stranger who had beeu. paddling down hlte river, and who stopped in tho shade of the old covered bridge at Washington street. "There were no bridges over tho stream then, and no reporters here to Interview me. In fact, there is littlo here to remind mo of my first trip. This stream has drawn into its bed like a turtle into its shell since my early days. It used to swell out through all these lowlands. There was no bottom to the water and you couldn't see across it when 1 was a boy. 1 Ate you sure this is tlie same stream?" "There can't be any mistake about it. I never err in these matters. The course of streams do not change even if they shrink from rivers to brooks. I speut several days iu this latitude before, and for a wholo week was laid up ugainst a biir hill which stood out of tho water north of here (now Crown Hill." "How often do you make these tours?" "Irregularly. I am always on tho go, but I can't control my course en tirely. I belong to axroving, restless, irrepressible and almost indestructible race. Ono year I am in Australia. Anothor I am up on tho Andes moun tains, now 1 am upon HudsonBay; anon in Yucatan. My periods of rest are few, yet I nevor tiro. Sometimes I am cut off from many of my tribe, but If I can't reach them ono wny I do another. My favorite routes aro down tho courses 0 rivers. I never travel over land, and if 1 loso my way or get off into n pond or slough that has no connection with living waters, I bide my time with tho frog and snake-feeders." "You mean that you stay with them until a freshet comes, which enables you to sail out into the waterways?'1 "No. Sometimes that is tho case, but if I get tired of waiting, and be come weary of my companions, I shake tho mud off my feet, put away terres trial shape and form, fade, into the in visible, and, rising high in the air, 3eek friends and congeninl climes." "Who are you, that you do these things?" ' "I am a drop of water. Now you can understand why I am old without be ing gray; how it is that I travel con stantly by stream or air, range over the wido creation, and, sometimes by chance, as fluid or vapor, make second and even third trips to the same place. But I must bo away. I am billed to play a part in a cloud-burst in Cuba on the eleventh of this month." And tho shining drop ran along a drowsy fisherman's line and dropped off on to a black bass' back and was lost among a million fellow travelers. Indianapolis News. A NEW PRESERVATIVE. I'roTliIoni Treated by a Novel Sulphur Fumigating l'rocen. A remarkable discovery has lately been made which promises to revolu tionize the provision business. At the present time it is impossiblo to ship eggs to Southern points, milk to any place more than two days1 journey dis tance, and some of tho most delicious frame must be eaten in Cho vicinity whero it is killed. The most skillful refrigerator produced serves only to preserve meat and vegetables for a brief period, and leaves them when taken from the freezing chambers in such a condition that they must bo cooked at once or spoiled. If a timo shall come when the farmorunay send his eggs or milk or other produce to Brazil or the antipodes, and Chesa peake reed birds sent to London and Paris, the value of such commodities will be tremendously enhanced, and overy cornor of tho world will bo bene fited by tho change. A Chicago man claims that ho has found a preparation which will do just this for tho producer of foods. Hav ing in mind tho indeflnito preservation of human bodies in tho shnpo of mum mies, he has called his production tho "Egyptian Food Preservative." This is a patonted article nnd con sists of a powder made up of fivo or six Ingredients, among which aro sulphur and cinnamon. This powder, when ignited, smolders slowly and gives out a dense, heavy smoke that sinks at onco to tho bottom of tho room. Tho process of applying it to any subject is simple. If it bo a steak, or a gallon of oysters, or a roast, or any other sub stance whatever, it is placed iu tho bottom compartment of an ordinary re frigerator which has boon made air tight by lining it with rubber. Tho powder is placed upon a porforatod shelf in tho under part of tho box and ignited, Tho box is then closed and not opened until tho powder is burned out. This may tako half an hour, and it only censes to smolder when tho oxygen contained in tho box has been exhausted. After that tho subject of tho process is found to bo unimpaired iu appear ance and quality, nnd rendered per manently sound and wholesome. In the ease of meat and vegetables, It does not matter whether thoy havo beeu cooked or not before being subjected to the process. Tho result is tho same. Even milk, when thus treated, will Ktund indefinitely without souring and without losing any of its nourishing qualities. Kggs that have been treated are found to have lost pimply tho vital oleinent- that is, if placed under n hen they will not hutch. A number of eggs that had been thiiH treated nnd placed under u hen wore left with Iter for twenty-oiio days, after which thoy wero taken a why and cooked and found to be entlrelj wln.lciome. - Clilcuo Herald, the dog'S exaltation. quotation Showing That ire Wat In For mer Time .Much Heaplted. A correspondent of a Boston paper has given much study to tho subjoct of tho dog, and dlsoustes thus learnedly on that much potted animal: Tho faeh lon of parading tho dog belongs to tho world of to-day. It is supposedly an English fashion, therefore to be imita ted. But how different in England! In vast domains where grooms nnd lackeys look after them thoy aro ad mitted to the master's hearth on occa sions and attend him out of doors. But one must go out of doors to see the dogs as well as the horses. Ani mal do not live on equal terms in Lon don with men or women. In what well-bred Loudon house does a bull dog live with a family? With this it is like many other foreign fashions which wo endeavor to imitate, but only in part, without regard to tho condi tion, circumstance, or social bearing of the case. A house that one has to enter by way of a dog is not an agree able one. Ho is not wholly odorless in a room. This is not his fault, but it is a reason why ho should not be thrust upon one's society. It is the attitude and nltltudo given him by man to .which I object: ergo, it is man that offends mo man who is dog bitten. 1 confess I shnro somothiugiof the Jewish repugnanco to the dog when I see him lifted so entirely out of his natural element and made to play 30 important a part alongside of man. But considered only in the light of good breeding, is it not a serious of fonso to this when the dog is permitted a social position which nature novor designed him for? I alludo to persons so blinded by their dog-lovo that thoy hesitate not to call at a friend's houso in company with tho animal, and hesi tate not to walk him into another's drawing-room. Could want of con sideration and ill-breeding go beyond this? In our Boston Athotuuuin, among tho printed rules framed and hanging on the wall, is 0110 to tho effect that "no dogs aro allowed inside tho li brary." Yet day after day visitors enter hore with all sorts of dog pots,, from tho huge mastiff to tho terrier! It is curious to observe how directly derogatory to the dog aro tho teach ings of tho Old and New Testaments, therefore it is comfortablo to reflect if one does not share tho worship given by man to the dog that at least tho sympathy of Holy Writ is with him. For oxample: By the Jowish law wo know tho dog was declared unclean and was very much despised. Tho most offonsivo expression they could use was to compare a man to a dead dog. Christ excludes dogs, sorcorors and Idolaters from tho kingdom of Heaven. How about tho idolatry of a dog? The name was sometimes put for 0110 who had lost all modesty. St. Paul calls the false apostles dogs. "Be ware of dogs." "Is thy servant a dog?" "Mydaring from tho pow.er of tho dog.11 "10 shall cast it to tho dogs." "Not bring price of a dog into tho house." "Tho dog shall eat Jozebol.1' "For dogs havo compased mo.11 And ono might multiply texts of this sort and nowhere find in tho, Bible any thing different to offset this denuncia tion of tho dog. Shylock, being 11 Jew, mado use of tho dog to express his ha tred of his enemies, but throughout Shakespeare wo llnd the dog employed to express contempt of porsons, such as: "Blasphemous, uncharitable dog." "But you'll lie like dogs." "No moro pity in him than a dog,11 "But that sad dog that brings mo. toed." "Stay, dog, for thou shalt hear mo." "A plagilo upon him, dog!" "Ho's a very dog to tho common alty." "Away, inhuman dog." "You false Danish dogs." "A semblance that very dogs dis dained. 11 "Dog-henrted daughters." But enough of quotations in which, nevertheless, I tako some comfort, find ing that when friends flout mo with their dogs I havo Holy Writ and Shakespeare to Btay by me. No Small Cups In Chicago. Several gentlemen who havo visited Now York told us some timo ago that in polite socioty in that city thoro ob tains u pretty fashion of sorving coffeo In miniature cups aftor-dlnnor coffeo it is called, as wo recollect. It la deemed vulgar to serve coffeo in largo cups, because when a gentleman foods ho should prefer to food delicately and not out of a trough. Wo onco asked Prof. Fishbladdor why it was that smnll coffees hudii't boon Introduced in Chicago society and he said that it was bocaiiso thoy wore regarded dan gerous. I. seems that tho Calumet Club years ago did Import a lot of thoso miniature cups with a view to utilizing them for after-dinner coffee. But at tho very start thoro befol an accident that drove tho innovation out of favor. One of tho wealthiest and anise influential members of the club, while endeavoring to make away with his usual after-dinner coffee, swallowed tho cup, and for weeks his lifo was de spaired of. Ever since then In tho best Chicago society tho regulation coffeo uup has been tho size of a sltz bath. Chicago Nows. -Seo that lady nuttfiiL' on her gloves," said a Frenchman, discussing national peculiarities witti an Ainurl an friend. "Do you know thnt's tho first means of recognizing an American udy on Ihostreotsof Paris? We would A.i soon think of buttoning up our vasts or putting 011 rnir tlet after leaving the d')r for a walk, In Paris, Many and many a time havo wo picked out Amur U'v.b hi Paris by that li;u. , HOGSHEADS OP WINE. Frioee llm Now a II life llarret Which ltlval the Tun of llrldt-lberi;. The great tun of Heidelberg in to be deposed from its proud supremacy ovor all other wine casks. Thore Is on tho road to Paris a hugo barrel (sent by the peoplo of Epernny) which will compel the colossus of Heidelberg to take, in future, a soeondnry place. Tho cask was naturally declined as freight by tho railways, for tho obvious reason that it could not pass under th 'lr "arches. However its triumphal jour ney through France, dragged by twelve yoke of oxen and mounted on a lordly wain, was iu better keeping with the object It is to servo than any more pro saic mode of dispatching it to the grand exhibition which this overgrown ves sel Is intended to grace, and a 11 appre ciable portion of which it will un doubtedly till. The good Uquw with which It is to bo consecrated will fol low by a more commercial route. Kpornay is understood to be tho dis trict which tho tun is to advertise in an especial degree. But K,uruiiy. with its vast cellarage hewn out of the limestone rock, is the headquarter of a number of famous firms, each of which would feel that It had suffered irretrievable disgrace if a drop of its precious vintage wore mingled with tho less noble blood of Its neighbor's grapes. How, then, are thoy to agree on the contents of the groat tun which thoy have sent to Paris? Franco has hitherto regarded tho hugo tun at Heidelberg with mingled feelings of envy and regret. It ap peared to the vino-growers of tho Gl rondo and the Cote d'Or that to eouso crate such a gigantic vessel to tho sour julco of the Khinoland wan a degrada tion of mechanical art from the func tions which it was intended to perforin. The present tun is comparatively mod ern. Even tho ono which Thomas Coryat describes in his "Crudities1' was not the first of tho sorios, which, as a matter of fact, was begun in 1313, when it was made to contain twenty one pipes of wine. Wlion Coryat camo to Heidelberg lu 1008 tho cask he do scribes was only seventeen yoars old. It had been begun lu 1689 and finished In 1591. As history records that anoth er tun was made in 1604 to hold 000 hogsheads and was destroyed by tho French In 1088, the 0110 which Is at present inoldering away In unhoiiored emptiness must bo the fourth of Its race. It was begun in 1751, and In its height of twenty-four foot and length of thirty six the groat tun is, as Long fellow has put it. "next to tho Alhain bra of (iranada, tho most magnificent ruin of tho middle ages.11 Nevertheless, the famo of tho Holdol berg cask is somewhat undesorvod. The tun Is really much smaller than many beer vats iu British breweries, which attract no crowd of gaping tour ists and are not described iu volumes of ninoteeiith-contury travel. For in stance, there is in one great English brewery a cask which Is said to bo ca pable of holding twtco as much as tho Heidelberg tun. At any rate, this vat measures ill! feet lu diameter at the top, or 113 feel iu circumference, and is 40 feet iu height. London Standard. A CHAPTER OF JEWS. One That l Full ol Itoth Information and Kugirmtlon. Miss Potter's chapter on the Jews h ftiwt London strikes a wholly different note. It tells us of a class well capa ble of making its way in the world and of adapting itself to tho con ditions under which industrial success is to bo attained. Tho Jowh of East London form a distinct community, numbering from 00,000 to 70,000, ol whom 30,000 wero born abroad, while of the remainder at least 0110 half am of foreign parentage. Tho Jews are a picked race. Per secution has weeded out tho inapt and incompetent, .and has sharpened the wits of the rest into what Miss Pottet terms an instrument for grasping by mental agility tho good things with held from thorn by brute forco. It I thus that tho old promise to tho Jewish peoplo has been ful filled in these latter days: "Thou shalt drive out nations mightlor than thyself, and shalt tako their laud as an inheritance." Of social morality among the immigrant Jews Miss Pot ter can find no trace. Thoy aro a law abiding peoplo; thoy koop tho peace; thoy pay their debts; thoy abide by tholr contracts; but this is the measure of tho obligations which thoy acknowl edge to the socioty in which they live. Tho struggle for existence and welfare for themselves and their families marks the limit of their interests and tho conduct which conduces to success in it tho limit of their social duties. Wo huvo tho picture of the race ol bruin workers competing with a class of manual laborers, and getting the best of it and steadily rising iu the world. The lesson which it points is on the folly and mischief of Indiscriminate charitable relief. Tho Jew lias booti sharpened by suffering. Kindness might have made liim a better man, hut would havo left him without the offeiisivo'aud defensive arts which are tho great Inheritance of his race. In discriminate charity kindness it In not to bo railed -has a twofold evil in fluence. It weakens and it degrades. It unfits its recipients for earning their own living and it deprives them of the wish to do so. Mr. Booth's volume I tells us, among other things, how large a part of the misery of East Loudon has been due to this cause. London Times. . When a pretty girl turns her head to look at a young mini 011 tho street it Js almost sure to turn his head com pletely, ltiiightiiutuu Republican. T THE EIFFEL TOWER. Some Interesting Facta Concerning That) and Other Tail Structure!. William A. Eddy, in writing of tha Eiffel Tower in tho Atlantic Monthly, gives some Interesting fncts regard ing the limitations upon thoorection of high structures of masonry by reason 0 the great weight of tho mass of ma terial. Ho says: "Aside from tho question of outlay or serious dllllculty in the construction of any kind of material to such an altitude, there are questions of pres sure and danger that daunt experienced, engineers. M. (J. Eiffel, constructor of some of tho greatest works In Franco, notably tho trestlowork viaduct at Onvablt, 407 feet high, concluded that the building of such a tower had not Ihhmi attempted iu ancient tlmos, so far as known, because iron then lacked tho lightness, strength and adaptability seen in modern work. Tho enormous weight of masonry In so great a mass would not only Imperil by Its tremend ous pressure tho courses of stone I near the ground, but would causo un irregular settling of tho foundations,, as in tho ' well-known instance of tho leaning tower of Pisa. In modern work a pressure of sixty-six pounds for each square contimotor (two-fifths of an inch on each sldo-) is considered dangorous. It Is estimated that fifty five pounds in this proportion is too extremo for safety, although, owing to peeuliarltes of construction, this has been exceeded in somo of tho following instances, cited by Mr. Nnvior: Pillars of the domo of tho Invallilos, Pari 2JV5 pound Pillar of St. Peter's. Homo 3fl.0s Plllnrs of St. I'niil'o. London 4I.T0 Co'umnsof St. Paul, Koine 4.'1.&H " 1'illan ot tha tower of St. Merrt, luris tM.)tt Pillars of the dome ot the Pantheon, Part. fr'l.M " Mr. Navlor includes an estimate of 99.25 pounds for tho church of Toussaut a Angers, which is in ruins, and so not a convincing example. It thus appears that tho resistance In some daring structures is from 33 to -impounds and only rises to nearly 65 in two instances. M. Eiffel cites tho Wash ington monument, which, in its sim plicity and boldPMsa, ho considers re markable. In M. Navlor's ostlmatos given for tho greatest foats of archi tectural engineering in tho old world, tl'.is huge obelisk stands, high on tho list of wonderful structures, tho pros sure at Its base amounting to 68. 35 pounds In tho proportion above given. With the exception of tho Eiffel tower. It Is easily a bolder undertaking than, any other of its khid known in tha world, becauso It stands upon a rela tively small baso with no sldo support, with a weight upon its foundations ol 45,000 tons. This Immonso square shaft, about flfty-flvo foot on a side, served as an illustration of tho danger of attempting to carry masonry to a greater height than boforo achieved. Fortunately tho foundation settled evenly, but to prevent probablo demoli tion, the baso was reconstructed and filled in with concrete. Meantlmo'tha structure began to loan to an extent that caused great uneasiness, and, finally, the suspension of tho work. Tho reconstruction was begun in 1848. and in 18.11, when it reached a height of 1.V-' feet, its dangorous condition be came somewhat marked. Its originally intended nltltudo of GOO feet was thea reduced to 600. In 1880, after great difficulties tho baso had boon widened and the foundation enlarged and deep ened. Work was thon recommenced and tho masonry continued upward at. the rate of about 100 feot yearly, until tho topmost stone was laid Docomber 6, 1881." Tho monument is 555 feet high. ROUMANIAN LAOUTARI. Mmlo that U Krer Weirder Than Tha the Hungarian Tslgann. An interesting; feature of tho exhibi tion will be tho laoutari or gypsy musi cians whom tho Roumanian committee has brought to Paris. A few ovenlnjfs ago they delighted a select company afc a soireo glvoiuby MmoEdouard Horve, the wifo of tho well known Orloanlst journalist, and Inst night thoy oarned golden opinions at a private perform ance to which thoy treated a party ol very competent judges at the head quarters of a leading Parisian nowapa per. The band Is composed of about a score of members, not ono of whom can read a note of music; yet tho btyle in which thoy playod a variety of thol. native airs, throwing In Vlonnos waltzes and scraps of operatic music perfectly charmed tholr hearers. Vio lins and stringed instruments of tha jslther type predominate in tlieso gypsy bauds, but the piece do resistance Is a species of pan-pipes, in tho manipula tion of which thoy aro remarkably pro ficient. Hungarian t.igans havo al ready performed both here und in loti don, but tho appearance of these Rou manian laoutari is a now departure which will bo highly appreciated by visitors to Urn exhibition, whero thoy aro to play overy afternoon and even ing. It is from tholr earliest childhood, oven boforo thoy can speak distinctly, that these musicians begin to l,c infla ted by their progenitors Into tho mys teries of tholr art, tho talent being he reditary in curUln famlllos, iu their native country they aro in high re quest lu tho cafe-gardens on u sum mer's evening; at fairs, and 011 festive occasions like weddings, though they also figure at funerals. Tho niuslo ol the Hoiimaula laoutari is more wlurd than that of the Hungarian Ulgaas, and Is probably heard to the host ad vantage among tho mountains of Tran sylvania, tho minstrels of tho hills be ing less affected by surrounding Intlu uncos than tholr brethren of tho plains. Loudon Telegraph. Strange that when tho dyapeptiu U forced to give up his du.ssoru he but gets hU dosorlr Hotel Mull.