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.
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