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The Oregon Scout Jones & Chancey Publishers. UNION, OREGON. A PROPHECY. Mjr littlo plrl with eyes no blue Ami such ben Itching tressoH, And lips so soft and rosy, too, Tlmt smllo nt my caresses. Bo kind you nrc so kxh1 and pure With not n soul to linto you. That, darling, I am wry suro Vour huppiofct years unnlt you. For, though you're sitting on my knoo, A tiny win.ionie mnidio, Tia plain that somo day you will bo A ery sweet old lady. Indies' Homo Journal. OlfutAr In it Itrmiiltviiy Cur. It might not have been strange in these iay8 of myopic misery, but tho passen gers in a Broadway car smiled a little and thought it was funny when they looked about to find thai every one of the nine passengers (four men, tlireo women, a young girl and a boy) was wearing spectacles. And theim man in middle lifo came in, and everybody watched him -wliilo lie drew his newspaper from his lu ill? uiuw ui iivw wjra i tiffin .no lKXjkct, took out h s spectacle cafee, put on his spectacles with deliberate enrcand looked all about nun to nnd every pair of eyes in the car smiling at liiin from behind like disks of glistening glass. Everybody looked just a littlo more amused than before, and when tho con ductor came in to collec t his fares, with a pair of gold rimmed glasses perched up on his nose, the young girl looked at tho "boy and giggled, the boy smiled broadly Lack, while the old gentleman called out with a Boythorn roar: "Bless my soul! "We're all in tho saino basketl" New York Evening .Sun. Tiro lliintiin Millionaire. A couplo of Boston millionaires whom I know, Sears and Gray, livoinonoof tho suburbs of Boston and used to drive in together. There is a toll gate on tho road which they travel. One morning they started in earlier than usual. They had learned that there was a largo cargo of sugar to bo sold by the underwriter. It was a big deal, and .Scars and Gray concluded that they had tho insido truck of the deal. When they reached the toll gnto Sears said: "Gray, you must pay the toll today." "I won't do it," Gray replied. "I paid for baiting (feeding) the horse yesterday, and 1 won't pay the toll today." "Well, I won't," said Sears. They kept tip this cross firo for sonio minutes, and failing to agree, Scars turned the horse around and drove back liome, Gray going with him. They dis covered when it was too late that if they had gono into the city they would have mado, 100.000 in that deal. Chicago Times. A llri'iitlilnu KxerclMi. To expand the lungs: Go into the open air, stand erect, throwback the head and shoulders, and draw in the air through tho nostrils us much as possible. After having thus filled tho lungs through the nostrils, raise your arms, mid, while thoy are extended, suck in the) air. When you have thus forced the arms backward with the chest open, change tho process by which you drew in your breath till tholungsarociupticd. Go through this process several times a day and it will enlarge tho chest, give tho lungs better play, and servo very much to ward oil consumption. Chris tian Union. A Itaru Hullo Dlneiivered. Near Patras a sarcophagus has been discovered richly sculptured. The bas relief represents a wild boar hunt, in -which are seen tho huntsmen divided into two groups, seven of them being -without lieiird and one bearded. This last is in the net of stopping a boar, run ning at full speed, and has his foot on tho snout. The rest are pressing for ward to slay the animal with hatchets and nrrowB. The work is highly fin ished and of the Roman period, but very probably copied from unoriginal of Hel lenic workmanship. Insido the sarco phagus it skeleton was found. Chicago Herald. Tiio (Jiieeii'n IIati:L'e. Among tho Impedimenta with which tho Queen started on her continental tour may bo mentioned three coachmen, nino grooms, eight horses, one donkey, three carriages, seventy-twotrunks, three Kjiechil beds, a special cooking stove, vino, two tloctors, ono surgeon, one sur geon accoucheur for tho Princess Bea trice, three ladies in waiting, nine women servants, one lord, two equerries and seven dogs. London Letter. Shakespeare is well appreciated by tho higher educated natives in India, and last year a large number of his plays were published iu tho vernacular, "As ous and sensitive. Schopenhauer exceeds You Liko It" and "Tho Winter's Tale" , almost all lovers of quiet in tho extra vu were translated into Tamil and Telciru ganco of his denunciation of noise, lie for Madras; "Tho Taming of the Shrew" came out in the Punjab, and "Hamlet," "Much Ado About Nothing" and "Tho Comedy of Errors" were great favorites iu tho northwest provinces. London firo department statistics show thutalthough theatre fires have increased jrreatly in number, they are far less dam aging than formerly, owing to tho ini provements in tho apparatus for sup pressing them. Tho same statistics show thut tho death rate from fires iu Ixindou lias fullun from MS in 1887 to 10 in 18S0. This is also laid to tho iui-rovcd uu jiaratua. Tho tablo ujmn which Priueo Bismarck signed tho preliminaries of jkmco with Thiers at Versailles iu February, 1871, was tho only souvenir of tho campaigu which thu Iron Chancellor I wo back tu Germany with him. Ho paid tho Vcr haillca landlord twoiitv-four franca for it. ' Pearls are carefully taken out by tho , Ushers and sold to wholesale merchant j in Bombay. The diirervucu in tho price ' jwld to tho original pearl lUhtr and tlmt j jiaid by an American lady to her jswder (iu Broadway or the Ituo do la Pau I . utuouuts to about 60 uur cent. not morts. 1 SELF EXTINGUISHMENT OF FIRES.J Automatic SprinUlcitt A Tlntmltli'ii V.x pcrlenci Several Curlou.i I list mice. The ipparatus which is most promptly used U cases of burning buildings, and also with the least eilicacy, i3 the human voice, notwithstanding tho historical fact that blowing has accomplished nothing since tho days of Jericho. Yet thcro are numerous instances where fires havo been extinguished through causes connected with their origin, and so completely out sido of precedenco that they tervo as in btiinces of the happening of tho unex pected. In this connection we do not, refer to the fires uxtinguiihed by auto matic sprinklers, where tho result is clearly what has been expected to happen. Notwithstanding the fact that when a firo occurs on property protected by auto matic sprinklers, those prescntavail them selves of all tho means of graco in tho shape of tho usual lire apparatus at hand, yet there are numerous instances where fires have occurred at night or in rooms vacant Jit the time, where tho fact lias been made known only by water per colating throii;;h tho floors, or the sound of the automatic tire alarms, or from tho sprinklers which havo already come into active ojieratioii, tne lire Having caueu down means for self extinguishment. But the instances which wo havo in mind are those where the means of ex- , . . 1 7'Kla , 7 , , J ho well know,, Mtl.edrn ! but Mmgrn Boston, where a fire, caused by sponta neons ignition in a storeroom, melted tho lead water pipes, and the water issuing from them extinguished tho fire. A sim ilar instance happened in a building in Market street, Philadelphia. Soniu sheet metal pails were returned by the pur , ci,asor t0 ft tinsmith in Chester, Pa., with the complaint that they were not tightly made. Tho manufacturer resoldered them, and in order to test his work filled them with water and hung them upon hooks at tho ceiling. Wliilo tho men were at dinner during tho noon hour, a fire heated tho upper part of the room so that the bails connecting tho handles to tho pails becanio unsoldered, and the dropping of tho pails of water dashed out tho lire. Somo wasto left upon tho top of a steam pump at Wntertown, Mass., blazed from spontaneous ignition, and this in turn set lire to tho lagging around the bteam cylinders and the feed pipe, where it melted tho soldered attach ments of a continuous automatic oiler. The steam from the feed pipo was dis charged through tho small tubes formerly leading to the oiler, and extinguished tho fire. There have been numerous in stances of fires wliich havo ceased for want of air. During tho war of tho re bellion attempts were made to burn New York city, tis tho result of a conspiracy, fires being started in several hotels; but in order to prevent prematura detection tho culprits closed uptherooinsso tightly that tho fires were smothered. At a hotel in Woonsocket the steam pipes caused a firo in the spaces in the walls of the building, which was extinguished for want of air to support combustion. The time of tho fire is unknown, as its occur rence was i t discovered until sometime afterward, when in the progress of some alteration to tho building tho facts were made apparent. It may be interesting to know that in this instance tho steam heating service was ordinarily used at a pressure of about four pounds to tho square inch during the coldest weather, and that thosal'ety valve was so arranged that the pressure could norcr exceed ten pounds. A spark of btatio electricity proceeding from a belt ignited leaking gas, and this in turn set cotton on fire, which operated the automa tic sprinklers tiud extinguished it. An at tempt was made to destroy a block of now dwellings at Brookline, Mass., before tho buildings were entirely finished. Some people, alarmed by tho smoke which was seen in each division of tho structure, rushed in to save doors and portable fixtures, when it was noticed that tho fires did not appear to gain any headway, and when the smoke had en tirely died away, it was found that the incendiary had placed lighted candles in sawdust and other inflammable material in drawers and closets, but with such limited supplies of air that combustion could not be supported ami tho fires Ih catno smothered. Kngineering. Tho Ih'iiiincliitlcpii of Noise. "I can lear the heat very well, "said a student forced to spend a summer in the city, "but I cannot endure tho noise." Possibly ho did not stop to consider that, iu making such a declaration, ho placed himself in illustrious comjiany. Thomas Carlylo "could not abide" a noise, espe cially that of the morning crowing of cocks. Wullenstein. accustomed as ho was to the din of battle, had an uncon. (pieniblo dread of the barking of dogs, and oven tho clatter of tho largo spurs fashionable iu his day. In order to in sure quiet, ho engaged twelve patrols to make regular circuits about his houso night and day. Neither Julius Cusar nor tho philoso pher, Kant, could tolerate tho crowing of joor chanticleer, who, indeed, seems to have very fow friends among tho studi declares that the amount which a man can bear with easo is iu inverse ratio to hid mental power. "If 1 hear a dog barking for hours on tho threshold of a house," ho writes, "I know well enough what kind of brains I may expect from its inhabitant. " Youth's Companion. The Victim of fright. Tho Oriental legend that represents cholera meeting tho traveler tlying from tho scourge, nud telling him tlmt the majority of tho dead were tho victims of fright, not of thu plague, seems to apply to thu yellow fever tea re iu tho United States. If the same number of people who die in New York iu u tinglo season of pneumonia, consumption, or avoidable accidents, fell victims to yellow fover or any other epidemic, thu city would bo emptied of inhabitants, and pauio nud consternation would prevail, Tho beam oroatod eaum s much mora tufferuig and disturbance tiuui tho dlseaso itsoir. Hence iu romo bouthern countries whero it ii oudomio it attracts no more notico limn most of the other evils that nfllict thu human family. Courage is ono of tho best of inediciuw. Ouco a Week, HIS MANNER OF GAIT. Man' Thought nnil Chnracler Revealed by 1IU Walk Tho Troubled. Would you read a man's thoughts? Obscrvo his gait; study his walk. A famous philosopher approached by a per son whom ho had never met before, shouted out: "Speak, that I may sea you." It was through tho voice only that tho beauty of a person could bo seen by him. If ho had desired to form an accurate estimate of the mind ho would no doubt have cried: "Walk, that I may judge of you." A man may conceal his true character by his tongue ho may bo able to make it wag in a way wliich will deceive, but his legs will betray him. A thief can no more walk liko an honost man than a camel can go through tho oyo of a needle; a melancholy man cannpt possibly put on tho gait of tho soldier, and Caliban never walked liko Ariel. Thcro is fine walking which indicates self posses sion; uprightness walks with case and freedom; tho student has tho slow nnd musing pace; the tradesman tho quick, nervous movement, while tho laborer has tho hard and heavy tread. A keen ob server once remarked that duplicity al ways skulks; so it docs. In liko man ner, the thief ' invariably sneaks; ehamo has a sidelong carriage, but honesty puts its feet into Excelsior's boots nnd marches to an "onward" measure. You will havo no difficulty in picking out the student. Who has not, wliilo strolling in the public garden or walking along some of tho few thoroughfares not yet blocked by commerce, noticed tho man with arms behind and eyes fastened fixedly before him, neither looking to tho right nor to tho left, but with slow and steady step passing silently onward? Per haps you ask yourself, "What can that man bo out for; ho neither sees nor hears anything that is happening around him; wliat-GOod does a walk do him?" The student's air, his gait, his every notion will iudicato that he is thinking that there is something ho is endeavoring to grasp; ho walks liko a man seeking a pearl which he feels ho will certainly sooner or later find. He has a confident gait. Noto the air of him who is troubled. Iiestles3 nature quick.' nervous step; not attempting to seek anything; not striving to noto the beauties of tho universe of God, or tho handiwork of man, but on tho contrary endeavoring to shako off somo dreaded monster wliich appears to follow him; a hidden power wliich seems to speak to him as to tlmt other wanderer, bidding him "niovo on," and ho walks hurriedly, seeing nothing, hearing nothing. Ho is oppressed by a horrible nightmare whoso name is sorrow. Sorrow and stillness in such a caso aro synon ymous terms, and exercise is tho only untidote. It is tho easiest thing in tho world to noto that a man is in trouble by his gait; indeed, ho betrays it to that extent that dogs have b:en known to bark at such persons, as if divining that they were at war with mankind. If a man is vexed ho walks to get over his madness, and if you observe him sharply you will notice that, not having tho object of his anger to kick, ho viciously kicks up tho gravel or tries to chip oir pieces of tho pave ment with his boots. How can you tell a wicked man? Tho wicked lleo when no man pursueth. If a man has doiiQ anything for which his conscience accuses him, his impulse is to fly, to get away from tho scene of his crime and to put spaco between himself and that still, small voice. IIo will bo in a hurry, and there will bo neither po etry nor harmony iu his step. After men quit this earth they are sometimes forced to walk, in order to expiato somo of their offenses. D. J. McGrath in Boston Globe. A I.lst of Health SiiKKestlonx. Tho hot pastry and iced drinks of this country havo much to do with tho thin ness of its people. Disordered digestion in adults is often tho outcome of being compelled or in duced to eat rich food in childhood. Up to middle life most people arc care less regarding their physical condition, henco persons who ought to livo long lives havo their days curtailed. Tho time to pay strict attention to the bodily health is during tho vigorous portion of life. It ia quito a common practise to dose infants with teas, oils and sweetened waters when any real or imaginary ill is upon them. In some cases it is necessary to re-enforce the natural supply of nour ishment, but where possible, nature's fount should bo rched on chiefly. For those who hurry to nnd from their meals soup is recommended as a prepara tory agent for the reception of solid food. For a man to hurt ..nlly rush to his meals and gulp down meat, vegetables and pie, witlwmt" a short pause of rest for the stomach, is nearly akin to suicide. Toasting bread destroys tho yeatt germs and converts the starch into a soluble Biibstanco which is incapable of fermen tation. Dry toast will not sour the stomach nor produce any discomfort, and is, therefore, more agreeable to a weak digestion than any other bread. A stooping position, maintained for any length of time, tends more to under initio tiio health than is supposed. An erect j)osit ion should bo observed, whether sitting, standing or lying. To sit with tho body leaning forward on tho stom ach or to ono side, with tho heels ele vated on u h vel with the hands, is not only in bad taste, but exceedingly detri mental to health; it cramps the stomach, presses the vital organs, interrupts the free motion of the chest and enfeebles tho functions of tho abdominal and tho racic organs, and, iu fact, unbalances tho wholo muscular bystem. Household. lCmhi-ohlcry In Men'n Dreiu. It Is probable that embroidery will boou play a prominent juirt in men's dress. Thus far it lias only shown itself in connection with dress vests, which are embroidered with a degree of elabora tion depending upon tho tasto and thu ocketl)ook of tho wearer. Tho coming fall will, however, witness tho introduc tion of embroidery upon coats, vests nnd trousers. Thus far none of theso gar ments have been made up in America, but tho material has boon mado for them, nud oonsidomblo quantities of West of England cloths have been sent to Paris to Ik embroidered to tho order of leading Now York toilers, in po.tt.inii for vost, coat and trousers, Pittsburg Bulletin. THE GROWTH OF CLOCKS. ANCIENTS SCORED THE HOURS WITH WATER TIMEPIECES. Marvelou Development of the Clock In ilimtrj In Tlil Country Some I'HiiKitin Old CIoekH Hint lime, KxUteil for Hun dred of Yejirt l'A Terrr. The dropping of water through n small j hole iu a jar was used by the Greeks and ! Romans as the rough measure of time, 1 the water being either measured in the jar from wliich it (lowed or else by means of a floating piece of wood in a reeeix ing jar. Occasionally some very wealthy j ancient Greek or Roman had a clepsydra that sounded a musical noto at intervals 1 of an hour. The story of King Alfred and his twelve j candles, each of which burned for exact-' Iy two hours, is well known. The hour , ! glass is also of early date. We read that 1 in the early history of New York tiio I l soldiers used hour glasses when defend-' ing the city in order that they should ; know at what time to mount guard. At what iroriod in the world's history sun dials came into use it is impossible 1 even to conjecture. The Chaldeans were accustomed to hang a bead in a hollow hemisphere in such position that the ' shadow thrown by the bead would point ' directly to the hour, which was marked on the inner side of the hemisphere. ' The old clock on the eastern end of 1 Fanetiil hall, Boston, was formerly a dial. OLD IIOKOLOHU, The word horologe (horologia) means 1 limit telll.l flllfl ll-fiu 111 vul'l- rifirll- fitima ' applied to any machine for telling the 1 hours. Previous to the discovery of the pendulum these were very unreliable af- 1 fairs. The striking parts, however, of those erected iu Canterbury cathedral in 1292. and at Westminster in 1288, and many other places at these early dates, ' are still in use. The earliest known description of a 1 genuine horologe is that of ono sent by t tho sultan of Egypt in 1202 to the Einpe- I ror I-rederick II. "It resembled a celes tial globe, in which the sun, moon and planets moved, being impelled by weights and wheels, so that they pointed out tlie hour, day and night with certainty." A horologe from Dover Castlo was on exhibition some years ago iu London. It bore the date 1J1I8, and was exhibited in good going condition. THE FATlir.lt OK CLOCK MAKING. Eli Terry was tho father of tho clock making industry in this country. Witli no implements but a jackknifo and saw ho made the first clock at Terryville, Litchfield county. He began the business in 170;!. In the year 1800 he employ ed two young men to help him. The works of his clocks were now cut out several dozen at a time, owing to the business becoming rapidly enlarged. They were afterward put together. Mr. Terry, when he had a small stock of clocks ready, would make a trip to what was then called "tho new country," just across the lower Hudson, and sell the clocks for about 25 each, this price being for the movement alone. In 1807 Mr. Terry fitted up a mill with machinery and took a largo contract to make clocks for Waterhury capitalists. In 1808 ho began the works of o00 clocks nt once. Previous to this time tho wheels had been marked out with square and compass and the teeth cut with a very fine saw. Mr. Terry made tho patterns nnd managed tho business, but left his workmen to do tho mechanical parts and went himself from house to house to peddle clocks. He often carried back to Terryville salt pork and farm produce iu payment for his timepieces. At that time Mr. Terry was poor, but twenty-five years later he was worth $200,000. INCUKASU OF TIIK BUSINESS. The business was sold out iu 1810 to Seth Thomas and Silas Hoadloy, two of Mr. Terry's leading mechanics, and Mr. Terry devoted himself to inventions and improvements. Other concerns tprang up about this time, and the price of clocks was reduced from $25 to $10 and $5. The great family of Yankee clock peddlers grew out of the competition of tho manufacturers, and with two or three clocks in their saddle bags thoy started of course, does better than this, by add out to the south and the then far west. ing $200; but even with this addition, Tho business was revolutionized in 181 1 none of these salaries appear precisely by an invention of Mr. Terry a shelf extravagant, or tondmit of much luxury clock of wood, which superseded the old i in living, and salaries tire rarely in- fashioned hangup clock. I his clock was patented and called the "pillar scroll top case. .nr. Terry soiti ins patent to &etu Thomas for $1,000. Their incomes were nt this time from $10,000 to $20,000 a year each. And together they mado about 7,000 clocks yearly. Shortly afterward Mr. Terry retired, nnd, together with his sons, began tho manufacture of locks and iron castings. None of tho family is now in the . clock business. In 1859 tho elder Seth Thomas died, nnd his elder son succeeded him. Mr. Thomas became secretary of the Seth Thomas Clock company when it was or I ganized. Ho died in April, 18S8. Tho present treasurer of the company is his onlv son, Seth E. Thomas. i There are several tower clocks in Now York none of which strike tho hours. It was at one time usual to demand in a tower clock a variation of not more than n minute a month. One in Independence Uall has averaged variation of less than a second a month. At llolyoke, Mass., tho variation has not exceeded two sec onds a iiioiuli. In making a sale now ten seconds a month must be guaranteed, William Gregory Hodsou in Sau Fran- cisco Chronicle. Caro of Oie. Teeth. A child's teeth should bo confided to tho care of a dentist while they are mak ing their appearance. If the dentist is properly versed in his profession hu makes a rvcord of the child's physical tendencies as well as thu btate of its den tition, and to the noiua hs adds from time to time such variations as aresignifl cam; then he w:nds for the child once a month or once a year, according to its ueeus, ami s uuw um 10 uov huji i best teeth that are poiible to the little one's constitution or physical conditiou. New York Journal. , i LIFE IN FAR AWAY TIBET. Thing In Tlmt Strange. Lund n Ilepr M-nteil by tlie I,iitet Kxplnrer. "The people of Tibet have the funniest way of making tea you ever heard of," said Lieut. Rockhill, that far away coun try's most recent explorer. "To begin with, the tea they use comes from west ern China in the shape of bricks, which j are pressed into such convenient shape for carrying overland. All sorts of teas ' are made into bricks for purposes of transportation aer .i.-i. it being very well uii lciTitixMl ly iiiiiiiiiseurs in the herb tout a sea trip spoils it. But the t'i imported into Tibet is of very poor quality as a rule. There is in it as much weight of twigs as of leaves. "Having pounded a portion of the brick tea in some sort of mortar, the Tibetan housewife puts it in a large cop per vessel and there permits it to boil over a lire made from dry manure. The resulting solution she pours into a queer looking wooden churn through a coarse willow basket tlmt serves as a strainer. To the liquid iu the churn, before pro ceeding further, she adds a portion of butter and some salt. The mixture is then churned up in ordinary fashion, and, when it is thoroughly mixed, is poured into a teapot of bronze. From the teapot it ir dispensed into tho little cup shaped vessels which each Tibetan carries with him or her. "The cup shaped vessel I refer to is usually of wood, sometimes lined with silver. Tibetans ennilov it not onlv as 1 their sole drinking utensil, but also as a dish for solid food. What they consume mainly its a substantial diet is parched , barley. When a gentleman of Tibet feels i hungry he sits down and, taking from a ' leather pouch a jwirtion of barley, he mixes a little water with it, and. stirring I it up into a dough, eats it in that shape. I Thus hunger is satisfied, and he goes on I his way lejoicing. In what we call tho p.'.easures of the tabic the Tibetan takes ; no stock whatever. There never was a j typical Asiatic yet who cared anything , about amusement in the ordinary sense of the word, lie doesn't go to the theatre ! there is no such institution in the land I of the lamas. Nor does he indulge in any I other rational enjoyment of civilization, I though he does not scorn what might bo I called the primary vices. "Tibet is a very cold country, but its I inhabitants do not warm themselves by tho consumption of fuel. When the weather is chilly they simply puton more clothes in proportion as the mercury might fall, if there was a therinometerto register the temperature by. Their gar ments consist mainly for each individual of a voluminous cloak, with sleeves and a high collar, under wliich a shirt is sometimes worn. Boots, with soles of raw hide and uppers of cloth and cotton, aro made for them in China. For rainy days a circular cape of felt is provided. "The gun used by a Tibetan has a long fork attached to it, which is stuck iu the ground for use as a rest for the weapon. i Xaturallv the deadly instrument is of primitive pattern, intended to be set off with a priming, and the native wears at tached to his belt ii number of little brass cones, each of them containing an exact load of gunpowder. Those people of tho country who live on the great ele vated plains or steppes dwell in black tents; but the villagers reside usually in two story stone houses, the lower story being given up to a stable for the cattle. Not all of Tibet, as is popularly supposed, is actually subject to China. Tho coun try is divided up, politically speaking, into many tribes, and not a few of these tribes are governed bv chiefs who owe no allegiance to anybody not even to I the Chinese emperor." Washington i Star. i Chuicli SniKers' Salaries. j A woman with a good contralto voico i will begin tit an annual salary of $200, which, if she is successful, may rise to j an average of $!100. There are two ; churches iu Philadelphia. I believe. ' which pay their contraltos $100; but this, in cities outside of Boston, which aver-, age about $200 higher, is unusual. And even a genuine alto that rarest of thincs in these davs will command but , from $1500 to $100 per annum. The Hub, creased. Should a rival church make an offer for a voice, if tho first church is desirous of retaining it. the rival's price is overbid and the voice retained. But this is the only reason of wliich I have any knowledge for increasing salaries. Ladies' Home Journal. The riiriiiutlmi ul the I '.nr. The ear is worth studying from an an atomical jwint of view. Beginning with the outer fold or ridge, called the helix, which forms the outline, the ear is coin posed of thin cartillage and integument. Tho next prominent ridgo is the nntl helix, which somo people havo very large- Iv developed, hut in n well tormeu tar projects very little beyond the helix. The littlo knob that projects from tho foot of mo antineiix is caneu me auiuragus.aim tho corresponding knob on tho other side the tragus. Tho deep well iu tho center of the ear, tho concha, 6o termed from its shell liko form, plays tho most im portant part iu reflecting the vibrations into the inner ear; in fact, all these pro jections nnd depressions are of import ance to our hearing and play their own parts in convoying tho undulations of sound to the drum of tho ear. Pall Mall Gazette. An Automatic Chc llourtl. Some of the monasteries of Italy and Franco sent curious inventions to the Paris exposition. A certain monastery in Brittany, Franco, contributed a pl.un looking mahogany tablo, with nn inl.n l chess board on its surface. The inventor or any one who desires, sets thu pU for a game and sius alone on one .ul.-..f tho board. He plays cautiously, and tn opposite vm move automatically, an quite frwiueutlv ooiuu out the victor, nn odds how scieuUttcaUv tl player plus. Thoro is no uiechanUiw appaiiit bitMtli tho table top. which seems to be a solid mahogany board. Philadelphia Review. Teinpernt'ite, :f 1'imil nnil IrlnU. Professor rtTelmr.nn. of Rostock, pub lishes his conclusions, drawn from ex perimental researches by himself and others, on the effects of food and drink ut different temperatures. In brief, these are: 1. A temperature of food and drink which approaches that of the blood is niot healthful. For nurslings such temperature is essential. 'J. For quenching the thir.t the best tempera ture is from 50 to ON degs. Farenheit. ;!. Very hut or very cold food or drink f health has a damaging effect, which h increased just in proportion to the rapid itv with which the hot or cold sulistnnce is taken. 1. The use of very hot and cold suMances. following or alternating, is injurious to the teeth. But the taking; of cold water le-ens the injurious action of extremely hot sulistanees upon the stomach. .! Cold food and drink lessen the bodily temperature, whether it be normal or febrile. 0. Cold fluids lessen the irritability and raise the tone of tho stomach. 7. Hot fixxl and drinks stim ulate the stomach more than cold. But after repented use they lessen the tone of the digestive tract 'and cause congestion and dp(iMa. This condition has been observed after the so called "hot water cure." Hot drinks tend to lessen bron chial irritation, and this is one cause, po-ibly. of the success in some cases of the hot water treatment of consumption. Chicago News. lliuv lii Deiiiimiiel lie 11 Watch. Magnetism is assuming the same ntlo with the watch repairer that malaria plays in medical practice i. e.. as a cover for ignorance. When you take your watch back to the ninn you have just paid for cleaning it with the state ment that it gains or loses live minutes a day and generally doesn't mind its helm, he looks wise, says it has been magnetized, and charges you another and a bigger fee for removing the "hoodoo.'' Almost any one can demagnetize his own watch. Lay it down on a table, with open dial face upward, and make a diagram of the polarity (whether north or south) at each hour number on the dial, and whether weak or strong this by means of a small pocket compass or needle, remembering that the north polo of the compass is rebelled by the north pole iu the watch and attracted by tho south pole, and vice versa. Take the point of the strongest magnetism first and wave several times at a short dis tance in front of each pole tho like polo of a small bar magnet. This will tend to neutralize the first polarity by induc tion of an opposite one, and thus by a little practice first one point of magnet ism in tiie watch after another may bo neutralized, using iu compass each timo as a test. Chicago News. Scleiien of thn I.rnln. Paul Broca's discover that tho brain is a congeries of organs, each having its special function, is being confirmed by Liter researches. Professor Mathias Duval has had the opportunity of determining by the post mortem examination of eleven persons who, during life, had been accidentally deprived of the faculty of speech or the memory of words or certain letters of the alphabet that the faculties of speech and memory of words reside in the second and third convolutions of the brain. In each Ciise examined there had been injury or disease of these convolu tions, destroying their functions. Com paring Gambetta's brain with that of the late Dr. Bertillon, an eminent statistician, Duval and Chudzinsky found that in the brain of the former the third or "Broca's convolution" as thespeech center is now called is extremely developed, while in Bertillon 's it is reduced to its most simple expression. Gainbetta was active and loquacious; Bertillon reticent and retir ing tho oratorical qualities of the two men were diametrically opjosite, and this result is now seen to bo duo to the physical conformation of their respective brains. Chicago News. When Doctors DllJ'er. Tho archbishop of York has issued a prayer asking God "to remove this great trial which Thou has sent us" i. e., the smallpox epidemic. On this Dr. Dallinger, of Sheffield, who is an einineut man of science as well as a divine, says: "I will yield to no man in reverenco for true prayer; Uit I will tell you with out flinching that I cannot and will not pray for the removal of tho smnllpox scourge. It would bo a mockery of God. Let us do our best, nnd then in baffled agony cry to God for help. But hero wo havo not helped ourselves, nnd how daro we ask tho Almighty to help us? Let us do our duty, act up to our knowledge, and as surely as the smallpox curse camo ninong us by physical laws broken, so it will depart from us if we seo to it that physical laws aro obeved." London Truth. , Our JIulo Tvaile. The largest, x-rlzet for tho purchase nnd tale cf luv.les is St. Louis, where the trade reaches CCUO.COO a year. Atlanta comes next with a trade of $2000,00Q. Chicago Herald. VEGETABLE PANACEA PREPARED FROM ROOTS 8c HERBS, r wn ins- bunk ur AND ALL OTHER DISEASES ARISING FROM A DISORDERED STATEcfTHE STOMACH OR AN inactive: liver. TOR SALE BY ALU DRUGGISTS & GENERAL DEALERS