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About The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 12, 1889)
o SAGE'S PENURlOUSNESS. A. 1'rrr Anrntotes 1 1 1 in t rn t In sr III Cloe. ne In Money Mattr. Probably there are som Jtorie9 cur rent tip in Troy, whore Kussell Sago peonies from, that have not reached New York, but the New York ones have been rehearsed over and over again, and it Sis only just to the old man to say that in these frequent rehearsals they have gradually become exaggerated out of 11 resemblance to the truth, lie is genial and kindly enough, but, so far a his economical eccentricities are concerned, there is so much truth to bo told that n.body need depart from it in order to bo picturesque. His busi ness relations with various clothiers in -the city have doubtless given rise to many anecdotes, and even his Wall Mreet dealings. Wash Connor tells . how he was getting through a side street one day in the summer time in company with Mr. Sage on his way to the pier of the Iron Steamboat Com pany, when Mr. Sage's eagle eye was attra'-ted by the sight of some light cummer vests in the window of a small tailor shop, very conspicuously and at tructively labeled one dollar each. The eyes of the old gentleman with $d0,000. 000 twinkled with excitement, and he disappeared inside the shop, and when he overtook Mr. Connor again at tho pier ho had two of the vests with. him. 4tn tl had left a two-dollar bill in the Alitor shop referred to. Ho used to ileal a great deal with a popular priced clothier on Broadway, who kept an attractive assortment of $4 pants and coats and vests, which eoW from $10 to $15 for a combination. And he probably would have been dealing with him yet if a serious acci dent had not happened something after the following fashion: After one pur chase that Mr. Sage made there he found that tho trousers were rather long, and that, in consequence, they would wear out much sooner than they had atiy business to do. With the pru dence end thrift, therefore, which characterized him, ho recurred to an older pair for immediate use and jent the bran-new ones back to the shop with instructions to have them short ened. When ho sent them back, how ever, he sent back with them $10 or MS in $1 bills in what, is usually known as the pistol pocket, and curiously jnougli, did not discover his loss until he had reached home that evening,, long after the clothing store, of course, had put up its shutters, and any possi bility of getting at tho proprietors was gone. Next morning, however, bright s.nd early, ho was on the ground, and having explained the circumstances, the clerk made inquiry, and discovered that the workman into whose hands the trousers had been put had, of course, found tho money in question, and promptly and honestly turned it over to tho foreman. Mr. Sago was naturally very profuse in his thanks, and on leaving the store left 50 cents on the counter as a reward for the workman who had found tho $45. Tho clothiers thought that tho re ward was not sulliciotit, and somehow or other couldn't overcome the inclina tion to fall into line with dozens and dozens of people who have told stories about Mr. Sage. With a singular lack of consideration for an old time cus tomer they made an advertisement out of tho story and paid for tho advertise ment, and it stirred the old gentleman up considerably. Tho privilege brokers down in his ortico said that they couldn't do any business with him for two or three days ho was so crabbed and cross-grained. They couldn't get him to make a bid, a put or call on paper of any kind whatever, but, of course, in a few days he forgot all about it. In tho meantime ho explained several times to news paper men, who were in tho habit of coming into his office, that he thought tho reward entirely sufficient. Ho contended that he had not lost the money in tho street. It was in a pair of trousers which ho had left with a reputable clothier, and oven if ho had not been at the clothier's store bright and early tho next morning to claim his property he was entitled to believe that when the trousers came homo niter being shortened that the forty live dollars would be found exactly in the place where ho had left them. It was certainly a rallior novel and in genious view of tho circumstances, and perhaps after all tho old gentleman was right. Boston Herald. Uncongenial Room-Mates. ' It was late in the evening and the leepy passengers on the steamboat and retired to their respective berths. A. tremendous noise, as of heavy bodies oelng flung recklessly about, was heard n one of the forward statorooms. min gled with loud, variegated and un tudled profanity. Presently the door flow opon and a shapeless nnd dts uoveled object benring some resem iinnri to a man was fired nut into the uain saloon of tho stoaraer with great violence. "Captain," yelled the man who still pnminnd in tho stateroom as he thrust lis head out and glared savagely about aim, your clerk made u misuiKo wiien so put that man ana mo in me Mime berth. He's one of tho leaning rascals n ttm Suirar Trust and I'm the inventor f a patent lemon-squeezer!" Chicago w Tribune. But few plants will thrive on u wot oil. A good drain Is somotiines bet ter than manure. The wnrtnest day f itimmer can not Impart sufficient heat to plants on a wet soil. m m A Now Humpshlte parson marries lis patrons In thin fashion: "You Uke this woman for a wife? You take-this .man for n husband f Married. Two iollttrs." HE ENDURING HOME. According to "Oath," Personality Is Ifot to lie Pound In the City. It is city property which is n perish able thing, nnd not property in the country. Hardly a house, which is preserved, which has historical or pious reminiscences remains in any of our cities. The John Hancock house of Boston had to go at last; tho old South Church might as well be torn down as to bo what it is, a kind of pod dllng bazar. Tho Hamilton House in Now York barely escaped sacrifice by being turned over to a church. But country houses are generally found where they stood when tho mau of his tory put them up. You never could find Shakespeare's house in London if ho evor had owned one there. The bard of nature returned to his cattle market town and thoro ac quired and altered ono of tho best resi dences, and to this day it stands evi dence which, like the old man's tomb, pulverizes tho smnll beings who would get a day's fame by explaining Shakes peare away. I have always noticed that when 1 went to hunt up tho evi dences of men of celebrity I found them nearly perfect in the country and hard ly over recoverable In tho city. If you want to see whoro John Jay lived so much longer than hi 3 contemporaries, go to his farm at Bodford, forty miles abovo New York City. If you sock for DeWItt Clinton's roof tree, do not ask where it Is in New York, but go out to Maspoth, In Long Island, and there, close to tho big ooni etorios and oil refinories, stands exactly as it was tho statesman's home, where no doubt he had more self-respect than in all his political victories. Ho died very young for such a man, occupying tho office of Governor, which is a seat of nettles. You will find Oliver Perry's birth-place still standing among the rocks and sand-hills in llhodo Island. Mou who only lived in towns loft no more foot-prints than are to bo found upon the brick pavements. Hence the ever recurring desire not merely to ouy a place in Iho country, but to build ono and see it molded to ono's own images. Garfield had a houso at Mentor, which will probably stand for two hundred years, in some of its parts, oven though fire should consume most of it. Ho said that in order to work off tho men tal fatigue of Congress ho had to go back and pitch hay upon the wagon as he did when a boy. You can locato Garfield for tho next sovoral centuries by his country home, but whoro can you locate Chester A. Arthur, who al ways lived in a town, and whoso houso merits a glanco on Lexington avenue, New York, being indistinguishable from thousands of othors, having not ono feature that is distinctive or ornamental about it. But Ml. Vernon ronmins all that we can put our hands on of Washington, except his old buckskin breeches. Posterity hp had not; tho painters liko Stuart sublimated tho man to their conception of what tho public expected; but when you go to ML Vernon you have only to fill up a chair with a living man somewhat worn out in tho goneral service, you can smoll him. handle him and criticize him. You can not say, "In this closet ho kept his whisky; hero ho turned and expressed a suspi cion to tho servant that somebody had been tampering with the whisky. Uhis flro place ho poked up with that old shovel. Hero on the porch ho sat of evenings and heard tho chatter of some French or Gorman traveler, who expected before ho went to bed. at tho risk of his eyo-slght. to put down every thing that Washington grunted and assented to, or if ho tilted back his chair and crossed his egs." Gathin Cincinnati Enquirer. A CHARITABLE FAMILY. What the Vandorbllts Hare Done for the 1'oor and Needy. Tho Vandorbilts aro always most wiso and munificent in their charities. The elty is dotted with admirable monu ments to their generosity and discre tion. Thore is down-town, among the poorer classes, a handsome building which contains a free circulating li brary given by George Vanderbllt, tho student of the family, whose own pri vate library is one of the most spleu did in this country. Upon Madison avenue is a beautiful club-house with library, gymnasium and lecture rooms for the young men employed in tho New York Central railroad, given by Cornelius Vander bllt. the president of the road. Still further up town is tho mater nity hospital given by Mrs. Sloan, an other one of the Vanderbllt daughters; and now comes the new monument In the shape of the now lodging-houso for the Christian young women. Besides those special institutions, their gifts to hospitals, asylums, orphanage), homes and churches lit as legion, and they have a private almoner who looks into and relieves special cases of dislres which come to their notice, and who at Christmas time has put into her hands a liberal contribu tion from each member of the family which she dispenses in hrislinns gifts to tho poor. Jl li calculated Unit tho VauderbllU have within the lust twenty years glveu away considerably over $1,000,000 in charity, a largo portion of It having gone to Vanderbllt University at Nash ville, Tonu . nt which the young moa of tho South of narrow mean havo been enabled to get an education. They huvo leeii very generous In tholr gifts to tho South and indeed, Mrs. Willie K. is a Southern woman herself by birth and is disposed to look favor ably upou application from that quarter.-N. Y. Sua. COUNTING.OUT RHYMES. Good illustration of the Evolution Theory f Modern Science. The best known is: 'Onery. twon ry ilickery, davy, lliillubotic, rmrkalionc, tencry, n.iry, JMiL'iim. (lamliim. merry come tlno. Ilmiit)U-ih, bundled)', twenty-nln Or-T out!" Sonuwhire about one hundred il lifer ent variations and versions of this rhy tns alone are given. Tho following is ono of several version-, from Aborden, Scotland: 'Knery. twury. Me ,ery, tayvfn. Halabii, friii-ker. 'en orelayven. l'eoti. im.i. motkv il.ui, Feeulutn '.i.lol.im. twenty-one." Front a wor. on tho Gypsies by Mr. Chas. (!. Lolaud wo have n specimen of a gypsy magic spell, it is as follows: "Kkkeri, akulri, vou k ilr-an, Filllslii. ftlllslti, Nicholas ju'n, Klrl, Unit. Irtslim.ui. Stlnl. stnnl, buck " This, on comparison, will bo found to bo almost identical with tho first exam ple wo have given of a counting-out rhyme; "ekkeri. akairl'' being tho equivalent in Romany for "Onery, twoory." Another very familiar form is that commencing "Eony. mcony." etc. Thts is a great favorite among American children, the commonest ver sion being: ' Eeeny, meeiiy. mlny. mo. Catch a ntwr by the too; If he ho'.lers, let him co. Kviiy, meetiy, miny, uio." This example gives evident proof of adaption to American ideas; but tho pieliininary and concluding "Eenv, moony" nre of obvious Gorman or Dutch origin. Such as: "Ene, teiic, mone, met, Pastor, lone, bono, strel, Kne, fune, herke. bcrke, WerJ Wei? Wo Wa! (N Clermnny.) Sonioof thotransinogrifications of words at e very interesting, the "Pastor, lone" of tho Gorman rhymo given abovo wo find in Cornwall as"Busci, lorn,'1 while in America it is changed into "Pestu lony," "Pisky larry," "Barcelona,'1 "Pennsylvania," "Butter lather,'1 "Tus calona,11 etc. Ono of tho most amusing transitions is in connection with the rhyme: "One Is Mil, two Is all. zick Is all zan, llobtall mitiuv-Koat. tittle, tall, tan; Huruin. scariim, Virgin Mjrv, Singleum, snngltium. Jolly, oh. buck ' Hero we have a very good illustration' of tho evolution tlioory of niodorn scientists. The first form of "bobtail nanny-goat" changes to "bobtail billy goat," "bobtail dominickor.'1 "bob tail vinegar." and at last, through course of timo nnd altered conditions of oxistonco, the despised "bobtail nanny goat" ultimately develops into tho highly respectable form of "Baptist minister!" A curious and exceedingly interesting example comos from Now England thus: "Aln, lulu, fetbory. in; Arte, slatur, rtehbery, dlolc; Alntic. tulutic. felhertle. bumplt; Aln bumplt, (aln bumplt. free-kit!" And this last is Welsh. Chambers' Journal. A SWEET SONGSTER. The True Merit of '.he Hlurklilrd Described by n I. over r Nut ore. A delightful songster is the black bird, and. being common, is most likely familiar with you. though, rather shy and retiring, it is not so often seen as you nvght expec. Even in winter it keeps at a distance, and you must bo very quiet or it will not pluex up cour age to come for your crumbs. You nover sen a Hock of blackbirds, for it chooses to hop ab ut alono or in company with his wife. Now and again it will start up lrom the hushes and un dergrowth as ;oii puss through the wood and give ,'oti a sight of its hand some burnished plumage, which is of tho deepost blue .. Its bill, which i- lung and slender, is of a bright orange color. The lion blackbird . is among ,the humblest of wives, her co.it being a sober dark brown, without a patch of color; oven her bill is the .same, being light brown, and her feel, are of tho darkest, gray. But she is a pretty bird nevertheless, and quite worthy of her handsome partner. You may find the blackbird's nest in almost any secluded spot, in a tree, in tho hedge, aiming the roots of some for est monarch, a hole in u rock or wall, and, on one occasion, I found one lodged on the summits of three stout poles which were leaned against tho walls of an outhouse. I snid tho blackbird was a delightful songster, and so it is. To hear its. melodious wjtrblings after a summer shower, when the leaves glitter with tho raindrops in tho rays of the setting sun. and the fragrance of wild flowers borne on the whispering zephyrs is '.vnfled down the glade, it a treat for any lover of naluro. 1 think the blackbird sings the sweet est after rain. Us notes seem to tell of refreshing moisture falling on thirsty flower and parched leaves, of dew drops nestling in cowslip cups, and of gentle plushes dripping from the eaves .ol tho low roof1 of the tiny woodland COltHgrtC. Mary llowltl, who loved birds and flower and the country, says of its song: "Ills notes are solemn and flow ing. He slugs deliriously In rain, even during a thunder-storm, with the light ning flashing around him," He is fond of cherries, and, alas! is often shot while pecking nt the tempt ing cluster.". But he repays us for all these petty pilfering, for his food con sists largely of snails, worms, slugs mid large insects. So that I do not sea why ho is begrudged a bunch of cherries or i ripe, luscious plum, when he above repnj s tho uauiuge by devouring such iii-bt as these. Leeds (Mug.) Mer- i sury. , A iiihii of Portland, Ore., drew Il.tlOO out of m bank and started out with the intention of spending the whole bofote doing any more work.. lis had spont whou h was hlled for jrutikontirts . A BOSTON ROMANCE. IToir I.OTcly Waldnnla Shattered Her .td mlrerjs Mentut I'erspe elite. "Will this this disappointment eventuate in any modification of your ; plans for the future. Osgoodson?" said tho young girl, softly, as she wiped her , spectacles, replaced them with caro, , and looked through them in a regret- j fill, sympathizing, almost tender man-1 nor at the downcast youth. "My plans?" ho replied, drearily. "What are plans to me? Who poly-' phonizes to me of plans? Tho answer you , have just given mo reduces to irreme diable chaos every nascent inchoative , design projected by tho stereopticou of earnest purpose on tho screen of mental receptivity." i A shadow of pain flitted across the brow of the young woman. From . where she stood, on the inside of a gate in the roar of one of Boston's noblest mansions, she loo.ml out over the Com mon, whoro light-hearted but mature I children wore plnying in tho decorous, thoughtful, cultured manner peculiar to the Boston child, and a feeling of pity for tho young man who stood on tho other side of the gate and leaned despondently on tho post stirred her soul. "Surely. Osgoodson." she said. . "there aro other" "Waldonia l'iold-James!" ho ex claimed, impetuously, "to the limn who has cherished in his bosom for years the image of ono who is to him j the Ideal and embodiment of all that is , subjectively congenial and luctaphysl- j cally apropos, as It were, tho crushing forovor of his hope of being regarded j reciprocally by tho living, breathing reality of his cherlshod eidolnti shatters his mental perspective and obliterates every sotnblanco of the horizon that once bounded his speculative firma ment.'1 "While that may bo indisputable, Osgoodson," rejoined the young wo man, "thoro aro other aspects in which wo should view the subject. Tho stations in life wo both occupy are humble. In the sclolistic and fallacious judgment of tho world, but there is no reason why tho outcome of this nus- 'itided preference of yours should lead you recklessly to abandon yourcalling. It is true that I shall remain in this family, in tho faithful performance of tho duties that devolve upon me. but you will become accustomed in timo. 1 trust, to tho daily sight of one whom you mistakenly lookod upon as tho ar biter of your happiness, and tranquility ill come to you.' "I misunderstood you, Waldonia." said tho young man. "When you asked me it this deciMiin of yours would make any change in my plans for the future 1 imagined you alluded to my entertaining a preference for any otlior young lady. 1 shall niiiKo no change In my occupation. Waldonia, ho add ed, dejectedly, as ho turned to go. ". expect to drive this milk wagon all summer, ujuat.thek same.1' Tribune. Chicago PERFECT HOSPITALITY. It t'onnluli in Kliidlnc Out What a flueit I.Ikes lies! to Do. "Your friend, Mrs. Amos, Is charm ing, isn't she? 1 said no lady to anoth er. Charming, indeed." was tho cordial reply. "1 am very fond of her. ' And yet you never stay at her house when you come to the city. She .spoke about it the other day, and seem ed quite hurt." "Well, to tell the truth, 1 havon't time to go to Mrs. Amos' when I como to town on a shopping, expedition;" was tho reply. "You know sho has a way of arranging every body's affairs for them, and though she does it from tho bgst of motives, I find it very distract ing." Tho accusation was literally true. If one proposes leaving Mrs. Ames1 house at a cerialu time, she inquires. "But why must you go now?" Because I want to tako tho throe forty train." Instantly her time table is prodticod, and she proves to you, beyond tho shadow of a doubt, that you could take an express train at four, and reach your destination only three minutes later. You may bo able to convince her that you would father take tho slower train and thus stop at Hemlook Point, for a word with Cousin John, but you have. only switched her temporarily to a side track, for sho presently resumes: 'And if you tuke tho three-forty you needn t start now. J only allow my nelf twenty minutes to get to the sta tion, and you could do It in twelve So you needn't go for ten minutes yet." II doesn't seam worth while to ex plain that you like to be leisurely; that you wetii t to buy some oranges at the stuud on one corner, and look Into the windows of the Chinese laundry on an other. Vou merely resign your brief bit of foolish pleasuring, und allow her to settle your affairs as she pleases. So "capable" Ik h)io that no point seems worth contesting, ami you chat with her until she bundle), you out of doors, with a hearty "Good-bye!" and then run for your train, to arrive at the station, hot, dusty and anxious. There Is such a thing as being loo hospitable. The perfect host is he or bh who studios to Und out what a guest likes best to do. and help, hliu to do that, without suggesting that some thing else Is better. It is well to have your advice and practical help always ready, and "on tap,11 us It were, but Ihoy should never be obtruslvolj of fered. Youth 1 Companion. A stout woman of Mnhouy City, Pa., spanked a grocer with her shoo be cause hho thought he had overcharged her boy for pot herbs. The court fined her six cents, la addltlou U Uis thirty I 'lollors cost. TAKING THE CENSUS. A rompnrUoii Hot wren the l!ti;ll an4 Ainrriciin Methods. The Knglish method of taking n na tional census is to preparo evory do tall of tho work In ndvnnce; districts accurately defined and minutely sub divided, papers printed so fully as to leave but a few easily ascertained blanks to till, and competent enumer ators selected and instructed so that each can traverse his entire districts and fill its blanks completely in a sin gle day. This method avoids all chance of repetition by extending a second or thin! day's work into ono before it, and reduces tho chances of inaccuracy by leaving so few entries to bo iniulc that an enumerator famil iar with his district, as it is intended every one should be, can hardly omit any resident consciously. Tho prob ability of omissions by this method is less than the probability of repetitions by any other, and the chance of ono enumerator trenching on the district of another and making an undue en largement, is reduced to tho stun Host measure possible to litimnn fallibility. Wo don't say that this method would bo best in a big area sparsely popu lated, whore the omissions or errors of ono dav could bo detected and cor rected the next, but it is certainly the host in a dense population, and might bo adopted here In taking tho census of cities and towns and closely set tled sites of country communities. At least it might bo worth trying in the census of cities and larger towns. Our census is notoriously defective. Not ono has yet been taken that couldn't be spotted all over with errors of more or loss magnitude by persons familiar with the sections reported. In tho aggregate probably ono class of error? has measurably balanced an other and left a total very nearly ac curate, but this is a mutter of con jecture, and must bo taken on trust. By law the official enumeration is final. Dispute it as wo may, it is tho only legal basis of Congressional and legis lative action, and must bo taken as it conies from tho officers. That, however, does not exclude a well-grounded apprehension that if entirely accurate it might cause a change of legal provisions at times. In any event, it can't bo made too ac curate, and if tho Knglish would in sure greater accuracy at ono point or another, occasionally that method should be tried, oven at tho hazard of working on two systems instond of ono. In tho long run It would cost less than tho present schomo of enumeration, which continues tho work over several days, and altogether keeps some 10,000 men employed for forty or sixty dnys. Bottor 200,000 counters for ono or twodaya than 10,000 for two weoks. It is true that our census is far moro comploto and minute in detail than that of F.n gland or any other European country, but the subdlvlsion'of districts and in crease of enumerators would provide fully for all that we expect of our most elaborate census, und still allow it all to bo dono in ono day or two. In a population of Gfi.OOO.OOO a force of enumerators of '200.000 would givo ono to about every II'.'O inhabitants, men, women and children, or ono to about ovcry sixty-live heads of families, which would certainly not bo an un manageable number to seo and got de tails from in ono day. An effort to apply this method in our cities might demonstrate its practicability as well as its superior accuracy, and bo worth tho timo and cost of making. Indian apolis News. Putting a Burglar to 'Flight. Keen, bright and plucky is Miss Jennie Androws, who lives at Kansas City. Mo., with tho family of A. W. Armour, as a companion for Mrs. Armour. Miss Andrews was surprised one night, after dismissing her com pany at the door and going to hor room, to find tho latter occupied. A big burglar hud boon busy, and tho result of his work was npparont in a pile of jewelry that lay on a rug on tho floor, Sho, of courso, could not hope to capt ure htm. Mrs. Armour's norvos woro woak and sho dared not scream and arouse tho household, as tho shock would possibly prove fatal to tho in valid, so she determined in an instant to scare off the thief and save the valuables. Quietly rotroating sho so cured a revolver, and tlien walking boldly to tho room surprised Mr. Burg' lnr by lovoliug the revolver at his head and tolling him to drop a neck lace he hud just taken from a bureau drawer and to leave the room in stnntor. Ho did not stop to argue tho question, nor to pick up tho booty he had secured In the other rooms ran sacked by him, but went down stairs at a bound and out of a window with out raising tho sash, and wus followed by a bullet from tho front door by tho bravo defender. Cl:ngO'4.rlbuno. Your Picture on a Stamp. The latest fad in photography is the portrait stump. This unique dovlco Is a miniature photograph on a pieco of paper tho size of it postage stamp. It is gummed on the buck sido und Is used in a varioty of ways. In writing to absent friends tho portrait is pasted ut tho head of the letter or in place of the signature. The stumps are also used on birthday and wedding curds, programmes of cntortnlnmonts, and in autograph albums. Business-men who are anxious for notoriety use the stamp on tho outside of lottors. The Idea is English, and tho photograph stamps have been In use on the other side for sovoral years. 1 hoy ure now being Introduced la this country. The cost of tho photograph is so low that m large sale Is expected. r, X. MalL SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. An eminent microscoplst. finds that renuine honey can bo readily distin rulshed from manufactured honey by the microscope, as tho former has few ar no sugar cystals. A man in Australia has discovered, i process by which ho can season iivshly cut Australian lumber in less ban so von days. This seems hardly -redlblcj as heretofore it lias required overal years. Steam is ono of tho ijiencies employed. Tests made with much caro show that the addition of a fraction of ono I er cent, of aluminum greatly improves the quality of cast iron, rendering cast ings more solid and free from blow holes, removing tho tendency to chill, increasing the strength, elasticity, and fluidity of the metal, and decreasing shrinkage. Tho different woods for charcoal may be estimated as to value by this rule- Of tho oaks 100 parts will yield ill parts charcoal, beech '-'l. apple, olm nntl white pine -M. birch -M. maple 22, willow 18. poplar 20, hard plno 22J. I'ho charcoal used for gunpowder is inado from willow and alder. Experiments again inado in Lon- Ion with earbo-dynamlte. ono of tho latest explosives, would soom to show that it possesses some important ad vantages over ordinary dynamite. among others that of considerably greater power, and tho generation of much less noxious vapor when ex ploded in confined placos. It is com posed of nltro-glycorlno absorbed by ten parts of a variety of carbon, and is lalmed to bo entirely unaffected by water. A feat of much scientific interest. if not of Immediate commercial valuo. Is tho recent production of chemical sugar by Fischer and Tafcl, in tho laboratory of tho University of Wurz- burg. Glycerine was used as tho start ing point in tho experiments. After decomposition and treatment with va rious reagents, a colorless sirup was obtained, which, unlike saccharine, appears to bo a genuine sugar, acting in every rcspoot liko ordinary natural sugar except in being incapablo of ro tating a beam of polarized light. A now translucent substanco in tended as a substitute for glass has boon adopted In London. It possesses such a degree of pliancy that it may bo bent backwurd and forward like leather and bo subjected to very considerable tensile strain with impunity; it is alas almost ns translucent as glass and f a pleasing amber color, varying in shade from a very light goldon to palo brown. Tho basis of tho material Is a web ot lino iron wire with warp and wef threads about ono-twolfth inch apart, this being inclosed liko a fly in amber, in a sheet of translucont varnish of which the base is linseed oil. -Hollow brick, it Is said, are coming into moro gonoral use in eastern, cities, and quite a number of largo buildings have boon built with thorn. They crush at ilO.OOO pounds, or about tho pressure which tho host solid brick will stand. They are made 8x8x12. with walls one Inch thick. It is claimed that they cost one-third less than the regular form, making walls proof against lire, moisture and frost, boing warm in winter and cool in. summer. I'liey require a peculiar clay in thoir manufacture, ono that will not shrink when dried or burned. Tho brick axe set on thoir ends, thus making a wall hollow from top to bottom. ABOUT SUNDAY WORK. The Question Considered from a Htrlollj rhynlologlcal htanilpolnt. Tho question of Sunday work haa, ot course, a moral sldo, and It is that sido- whlch most strongly influences many who uro striving to lossen tho evil. Physiologists are universally agreed that men need, for puroly physiological reasons, one day's rcstoutof the seven. There is plenty of evidence upon thta question, all pointing in tho same direction, and tho conclusion Is Inevit able that tho almost unlvorsal desire ot workmen for rest on Sunday, anu their strong objection to working con tinuously every day, is the result of a. natural physiological law, which, like- all other laws of tho kind, can not be- violated without some one having to suffer tho penalty. Thero is goott reason for believing that many rail road ucoidents uro directly traceable to physical and mental exhaustion of train-men caused by the strain or severe nnd exacting duties, performed1 without relaxation for u period of time beyond that which is allowed by na ture. And in the case of street rail way employes, who are required U work from twelve to slxteon hour every day, Sundays Included, It in probable that society suffers, and will suffer, a largo share of the penalty. For tho presence in the community ot a considerable body of men to whost. civilization means utmost, if not quite, nothing, upon whom society has im posed burdens utmost Intolerable anil infinitely heavier tbau ure imposed by. nature us a condition of living we nay that tho presence of a body of mum living under such conditions is it menace and a danger to republican in stitutions. American Machinist. Struck Him as About Ris;ht Little girt (reading newspaper arti cle In relation to Hoi ry M. Stanley) During his march across this portion, of the Dark Coutiiiuit he uppears to huvo inourrod the gieaUtst prevarica tions Mother (looking over her shoutdarj' -Haven't you made a mistake, Ethel? I think the word Is piivationu. Fattier (who has lis doubts aboul.. Stanley) Don't intevrupt hor, Maria. Pievnrlcatlons is the right word. G( on- Ethel. -OUl,.Ugo WiUuu