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Dm of the Mcntlaoop. Te llwmv;ow ia an aftmr somrthlnn Hkft a book cover with a beet of iilur tu plao nt ItMivx of tlie book The fact on which tbe instrument claims Its useful neu Is thnt when llm bony in brie of the head of any one ban reached maturity either tlu Inn of the. eye nor the are of tnoANiiPMiienl if the facile (wrjM-iiillcular undprgo rrn-iitlble ultenttlon Therefore obtain an authentic photo, tnken after a perviu h:t-i rcauilied mmiirity Score the. faoo of tha photo with parullol lines (hor izontal hiii perpendicular) Ht xuaI din tanco.i from oiicli other, using the exact moautiremuul of thn diameter of the Iris us a unit to regulate the dlstiinco each lino shall bo from the next Then take a photo same eUo as Urat of any ono claiming to bo tho original of the first aud ocoru ii. in a iiho miimior. uamg mo ma ui l. 1.. 1 1 1 . 1 its oyo as tho unit of its measurement. Put these two photos into the Idoiiti uoopo. ono on either "cover leaf" facing the shoot of glnss Draw the covers together until the reflections of tho two photos aro thrown on the glass In the sumo spot. Manipulate tho "covers" until the retleo tlon of a linn of ono photo Is blended with th reflection of the corresK)iiding line of tho other Then the reduction of every lino on one photo must full exactly on tho reflection of tho corresponding line of tho other iilioto If not according to thn firinciplo on which tho idontiscopo claims ts uso tho photos cannot bo of the same sitter Jlio Idontiscopo was exhibited at a pliotograplilo exhibition held at Uristol, and a reward of JU0 offered to any one who could disprove tho accuracy of It principle or produce two photos of differ' out Kilters which would exactly coincide with ono another Many attempts wero made to obtain this reward, but all have failed Photos of brothers so much alike that thoy could hardly be distinguished from ono another, when tested wore found to bo distinctly different lu slzo Tho fact remains that a photo of tho flabby foco of tho Australia butchor and one of tho aristocratic countenance of the real Ticliboruo boforo he loft home, although to tho eye almost as dissimilar as pos sible, when measured and compared by this simple and scientific llttlo invention, aro found to bo absolutely similar. E. N. Sabol In Detroit I'Yoe Press. Tim Women of Cuprl. They have a strange way In this llttlo place, I found, of betrothing tho girls .to the young men before tho latter leuvo tho town. As very few of them aro ablo to either read or write, long years pass by without a word from tho lovor or "spoza reaching the patient girl nt home. It la not a rare tiling to meet here young cou pler who wore cngngojl for ten, twclvo or oven fifteen years boforo fortune was sufficiently favorable to allow thm to marry Ono cannot soon got rich on thirty cents a day, and that is tho wages j of a man in Capri This Is, perhaps, tha reason why so many men Icavo tho Island, leaving tho women at home to take care of tho vineyards and olive groves It is a very picturesque sceno, tbeso women with their gaycoHtumcs, rich com plexions, bright, flashing eyes, at work In tho fields, or leading their flocks of goats up tho mountain sido to pasture. Their foot aro always bare, and become so hard that It Is simply wonderful what thoy can endiiro Thoy will walk over the roads covered with sharp, flinty stones, climb tho rugged mountain shies, and bo quite as comfortable as if walking on tho soft est carpet. In fact, for hardness, their foot resoluble those of the western girl, who, when told by her mother that there whs u red hot coal uuder her foot, drawled out, without moving an inch, "Which foot Is it uiidor. mummy?" Vot tho feet of thoso women aro by no moans mis shapeii. but. on tho contrary, are perfect models for an artist. Woman. Content of a Woman' llumlbas;. "What do you carry In that bug?" said tlin I ill' man to tho business woman. pointing to tho llttlo black handbag that (s lior Inseparable couip.iulou "I'll show you," said nho; and thenhc took out two handkerchiefs, ono for uso ami one for show, u lead pencil with tho point broken, a stick of gum, unchowed, a lump of gum, chewed, Goorgo William Curtis' editorial on Matthtvr Arnold's death, cut out of Harper's . kly; thro keys that don't fit anything In particular, one latch key that does fit, a Bond street library card, throo Daly's theatre seut coupons, a tiny box of face powder, throo capsules of quinine, five visiting cards, seven lettotu. five of them from ono man, spring suits cut out of the Sunday paper, a season ticket to tho American Art asso clatiou's prize exhibition, an unposted letter to her mother, throo rubber bands, throo poulul cards, a shoe buttouer den tiat'ti upiHilutiuuiit card, four hairplus, an uiiHlisliod muss agate, coral brooch with the pin broken off, half a mustard leaf, a nloca of paper with quotations from Mmo Llavntsliy on theosophy written on it, u wunple of yellow ribbon to bo matched, a card photograph of another girl and u puree containing one throe cent piece and a postage stump Now Vork Graphic. Tim Kiniillpoi In Moilro. There Is one peculiarity about tho Mex Icon people which I do not recollect over having seen lu print, and that is their tit tor disregard of tho dismiss so dreaded by Americans smallH)x I havo been 111 Ihirungo several years, aud It Is quite common there to see children In an ad vaucod stugo of thn disease playing ou tho Btroota with porfoctly healthy children Tu say that I wtui astounded but faintly expresses my feelings when I first went to that country but I soon learned that tho disease was considered an especlul dispensation of Providence for tho clean tdng uwuy of tho wickedness of humanity, and thoso who pass through It aro couai'd ered as among the purified. Sinullox Is not nearly so virulent In Mexico as wo havo It In this country, and thoro Is no such a thing as vaccination thiught of by native Mexican. I could novor And any vaccino vims there, and had to scud to tho Slates for It Atnerl cant, take tho precaution of vucclnatlug, aud I can cull to mind but ono fatal cum outside of natives during my stay lu Mox ico that ono u young I.ugllsh officer who foil a victim to tho disease a short tlmo after arriving In the country If there Is such a place as attest house In Mifxlco I uovor hoard nt It tilol. Democrat. A 8trunu llrrndltury 1'eciMiai Tho dukoof Hlmonelia, an Italian noble man, who Is making a name as a musical composer, is tho descendant of a long lino of dukos who havo a btruugo peculiarity They havo lot black hair, and Just above the forehead a while tuft Th)s thoy had for a long series of yours, until tlio lather of the present duko was born some sixty yuara ago lie hud a thick, curly head of Lruwu hair, without a particle of white, and with him It wus suppohod thoro was aw end of tho special murk, Uut bis sou U a tall, handsome man, with a head of black hair, and ho has exactly tho same white tuft. Now Orleans 'limes Demo VIEWING THE RED PLANET. linnlUllcw About (h "Caaliavla la Ma,. ml Ttiolr liulldcrm. People who riui obtain the privilege of look I Hit ' Mar tiimugb the Lick tol rcom! should tiot neglt the opportunity Several years have elafwwj since this re niarkuble planet could U soen to such ad vantage as at present, and It will be three years beloro w bav an equal chance again It has certainly never been exaiu Hied before thniugh a tclcMCope of such fxiwcr u the monster refractor ou .Mount lamlltou It may be Interesting to lovers of as tronomy to know that tlie eminent French astronomer. M Pcrrotln. is engaged in a in i mi to study of Mara, and that his dls- rt....,.m .miflnn tlmcu ftf M Krh I D nOfl 1 II ' ( )n everT particular It soeras actually i true that tlie loiuritudinai stripes wnicn circle round the planet are bodies of water, which must. accordltiK to all laws of probability be artificial No one ever saw or conceived a system of parallel rivers from 1.000 to 2.000 miles long and straight as plumb lines Everything Is possible, of course, but such Btraight rivers It Is Imjrosslble to reconcile with tho principles of cosmogony as wo under stand them Chi this pls.net, at all events, nature abhors a straight line, aiid by analogy it should do no in Mars ct. if these bodies of water are canals, as SchlnpHrilli believed and Perrotln sooms hardly to doubt, what uioustrous work they must be They are from fifty to e,,fliy mtes wi(0 pBUcy tM8 iaboc 0f Hlmrin.r . r-Ar.nl thn tlmo It ninst have taken and the number o' workmen It must have employed Tho pyramids of Etrvnt aro triflinc in comparison Tha Suez canal Is 107 feet wide at the surface, aud tho Nicaragua somewhat wider Our canals on this ono horse globe are con Biderud long wlmn they reach 100 miles In length Tho Panama canal will bo loss than sixty miles long Tho canals of Mars reach a length of 2.000 miles say as far as from Iforo to Omaha What a traffic thoro must botosuptwrt such onterprisosl On tho waterways of China travelers de scribe tho Incessant ebb and flow of multitudinous crowds, but to roqulro canals of such dimensions as we havo do scribed, the movement of traffic In Mars must bo for more prodigious In fact, thoy imply a population which almost ttaggors Leliof. considering that tho volume of the planet is only one-sixth that of the earth, the diameter being 4,100 miles as against 8.000 miles, thoy warrant tho wildest conjectures as to the density with which It may bo peopled. What manner of man lives in Mars, If thoro bo men tliero, has ill ways boon a favorablo topic of speculation Tho law of gravitation tells us that ho may bo fourteen foot high not such a son of Anak as the inhabitant of tho astorolds, but still one who would reo-ard the Rolirian giant as a remarkable dwarf Possibly tho enormous pubUc works on Mars may bo explained ou tho theory that theso tall fellows can work in proportion to their stature that ono citizen of Mars can shovel as much dirt as two and a half den Izcns of this world Whothor tho grans of Mars is rod, as tho old astronomers averred, modern telo scones havo failed to decide It Is very difficult to determine colors when an ob icct Ions collects 80,000 times as much light as normally enters the human oyo. But tho speculative astronomer is safo lu asserting his belief that Martian cabbages aro of the color of our boot roots, as no ono can dlsprovo tho absertiou. San Francisco Call CoftVn Slaking In Venerneliu What 1 saw of tho procoss of making coffco requires no elaborate, carefully considered description The following plain and unstilted cook book, English, will s u til co to tnitiato tho careful, nalus taking hoiiBowifo in tho mystery of how to mako a cup of coffoo Oel your Veno xtiela coffee the fattest, roundest, heavl est beans roast enough of them to servo for tho making of as many largo cupful as there are to bo drinkers I toast tho beans, do not burn brown, do not blacken them, bmy them whtlo hot In a mortar with a pes tel. do not grind them In any kind of a patented or unpatented laboi saving and coffee spoiling machine what soever Crushing does not, and grinding does, cause tho coffee to part with some of Its aroma Tie tlio grains thus crushed to about the slzo of 11 ax seed In a bug of thick white tlaunol, so thick that no dirt or dust, if any there bo In the coffee, may escape through the interstices of tho cloth Take a plain earthen pot, fill It with water aud sot it ou tlie fire till It Is hot. very hot, and tho wator has been boiling a minute or two Throw out thn water, put in tho bag, lot the cof?fo steam a few minutes, tho lid of tho pot closely fitting, and allowing no escape of aroma Carefully lift tho cover. our In boiling wator enough to mako ono third of a cup of coffoo for each prospective drinker and ono third of a cup for tho pot Lot the bag of coffee boll three minutes, tho lid of tho pot still ou, letting tho steam escape as littlo as possible. lu throo minutes tho time It takes to boll an egg tho coffoo Is ready Pour out ono third of this black, strong, hair lifting essence, dilute It with twlco the aiiautity of boiled milk milk of tho An uluslau cow; sweeten it with papolon, natural Venezuelan sugar crystals, and you will bo prepared to enjoy the delights tlmt oxclted mo to two cups and a half that morning John, Hans, Jean Juan gave mo a Spanish lesson while taking my ordor for dosayuno lu tho hotel of blessed memory Ui tho sweet valo of Caracas. Cor. Now York Times. Diamond Mining In South Africa. The diauioudlforous soil Is quarried out below by Kallrs and deposited In great Iron buckets which run ou standing wire ropes, aud are hauled up by steuiu to tho receiving boxes on tho brink of tho mine. Everywhere is activity aud bustle, aud a loud hum comes up out of tho vast hole from 8.000 to 4.000 human beings engaged at work below Tho men themselves look llko so many (lies as thoy dig away at tho blue soli, und tho thousands of wire ropes extending from every claim to tho de positing boxes round tho edgo havo tho unpearunco of a huge spiders wob, whllo tlio buckets itorpotuallv descending empty and ascending full might well represent tho giant spiders Every thirteen or fourteen Kafirs at work In tho mluo havo a white overseer, to prevent us much as possible that wholesale robborv which goes ou among thoui Ono would think they would tlnd It rathor hurd to steal, and still more difficult to conccid a diamond on their uaked persons under tho eye of tho over beer: but. despite all precautions, they do steal a vast number of stones, picking thorn up und currying them uwuy (n their mouths or between their toes. Tho largest dlumouds ore usually unearthed lu tho mines before tho mull Is washed, and an overseer must keep his even well open, for ho cannot bo sure of the honesty or wiv one of his "boya, Qlobe-Dotuo-crat Book Review STILL ANOTHER. 5 COMPL TO EVERY READER OF THIS PAPER! Wii Tnt to liicrn our circulation T-ry Ururlr ilurlni; llm nMt Mt inonttin to doillilo II, If .os llIo. 'In a'-complNIi this wo nHit tlio co operation "I our irent HiitixrrlbriH hihI ri-lr. if cm-li ono of our rMit trvlem woitlil h!ui o for ihojh wt i'crir. mir I'lrc'iiUMon would lie doiiljlcil, nOotiif. Hut wo know tlmt It will tik an extrai-rilliiHry ltitm'mt nt to lirlnir out lh miitoil rforN of nrpry oil" of our ireniit ul:rlliri wo ulinll imvo In iimkn a lilitli lilil VI, wa Mm ainliltiou.i und niiiloim to Motililo our circulation, nnJ, or Rieulal atrnugeruciit with one of tho lead I iik' "i WIMilny lioimits wo urn enabled to mako you An Offor Remarkable for Its Liberality. 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