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courage of his own opinions. Admiral
llreif joined the Russian navy when a
boy. and rose to the; command of the
illu'dv Sea Hurt, which the czar re
viewed from time to time.
One line day his majosty expressed a
wish to enjoy a cruise in the flagship.
The admiral accordingly set sail, and
all went well until a sudden tempest
broke, to the great discomfort of the
imperial party.
The emperor entreated the admiral
to put back, but the wind was con
trary and the admiral could attempt
nothing of the sort. The emperor then
succumbed utterly to seasickness, and
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miral, "but I am master on board. You
inaytell his majesty that his commands
cannot be oboj'ed."
The ship was actually driven within
sitfht "f the Asiatic coast, but only
when the storm abated could -his auto
cratic majesty's orders be obeyed,
(tit finding himself f-afc on land, tl
czar bejrs.'ed the admiral's pardon foi
his impatience, and presented himwilh
the usual gold snnlr-box, bet with dia
monds and suitably inscribed.
l'eraonal Freaks ns to Coffins.
The late earl of Essex was buried in
a coffin of oak designed twelve years
ago by the deceased iiobh man himself,
who was a prominent member of the
Funeral Reform association, says the
Philadelphia Bulletin. It hud what is
called opeu trellis work" around itand
was filled with choice herbs and ever
greens. There have been many people
in recent yrars, some of tlx-m prominent
in other ways, who had their cufiius
made to order long before the approach
of death. Maybe the originator of the
fashion was Lord Nelson, who used to
keep standing upright in the cabin of
the Victory a coffin that an admirer had
present1 to him one pr'Viay fttiot
ViWft fl Iti !-!ev,t;iii ItiA t"fiil!p'
rVws'.nf' ! ! put t. ttil
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THE EARTH'S INTERIOR.
A rrench Scientist's New Theory on a
Mnch-Dlscussed Subject.
The question which is at present
more seriously exercising; physicists
and causing the most.marked divisions
of opinion among them is that of the
constitution of the earth's interior,
savs an exchnnpfe. Hv some we are
told that within the crust is raging a
liquid fire of gases; by others that the
fire is not gaseous, but merely incan
descent solid matter, while a third sec
tion contends that the center of the
earth is not in a molten state at all,
that what little heat still exists is
being rapidly radiated, and that ere
long the earth will be a solid rock
throughout.
The most recent contribution on the
subject is that made by Jf. Lateau to
the French academy of sciences. In
his judgment the phenomena of the
earth's crust are explained by regard
ing its interior as molten, but he as
sumes that a layer of gaseous matter
separates it from a portion of the crust
I'ormiug the continents, whereas the
. ea beds sink. This theory, M. Lateau
thinks, explains why volcanoes have
Mieeessively receded inland where the
sea has encroached, though it scarcely
supplies an explanation for the exist
ing marine volcanoes. The gradual
escape of gases imprisoned under high
pressure will, we are told, excel in
time the production of new supplies,
and when the pressure diminishes the
continents will fall in and a more or
less crateriform configuration of the
earth's surface will be the result. This
is the condition of the moon's surface
at the present time, and M. Lateau be
lieves its appearance is due to action
similar to thatwhich he supposes to be
in progress in the interior of this planet.
The phyf ical essentials of this theory
assume the crust of the globe to be
eighteen and one-half miles thick, the
pressure of gases six hundred ami fifty
atmosphere.-, their temperature nine
hundred degrees centigrade ami their
density nearly emml to that of water.
Whatever ntny be ihouglitof this view,
as a reasonable explanation it has the
merit of combining, j 1 v. a measure, the
two most prominent, theories on the
subject.
VOLCHlHUtb hi MUoriA,
More Than Two Score of Them Have
Been Active In the Present Century.
Recently 1 read an account of a bona
fide advertisement in a Scandinavian
paper of si upsndtivs v,oi .'anoes ft r sale
for about lour hundred Hollars, says a
writer in the Christian Advocate.
They are located in Iceland. . Alaska
might glut, tne mantev. In Tirls"it..4injUu
article if it were to put. all its stoek on
sale. The number which have been
active within one hundred years is va
riously estimated by the authorities I
have consulted as all the way from
forty-five to . sixty-one. More than
twelve have been active within twen
ty years and five at least within four
years.' Among the most larkable is
itogorlof, one hundred miles west of
Unalaska. This, about six hundred
feet high, together with the part of the
island from which it rises, has come
up out of the sea within a few years,
and constantly sends out steam and
smoke. Makushin, on Unalaska,
though snow-covered, pours out im
mense volumes of steam and milk
white smoke, visible on a clear day
nearly sixty miles at. sea. Akutan acts
like a geyser, pufliugat intervals of a
few seconds. Kliislmldiu. on ('unimak
island, a perfect cone 8.7M feet above
the sea, snow-covered, but washed by
the ocean at its base, striped down its
sidds with ashes a nil condensed smoke,
was still smoking.
Ic has no foot hills, and its precipi
tous slopes fail into the great Pacific
ocean on the. south and Jlering sea on
the north, liiliott says: "It is wholly
safe to say that Shishaldin is the most
beautiful peak of vast altitude upon
the North American continent."
1'avlof, on the Alaska peninsula, sends
out from the side huge clouds of pitch
black smoke hot enough to melt two
feet of snowfall in a few minutes. It
puffs at intervals like a locomotive.
Ilnamna. on the shore of Cook's inlet,
is l'.:.0ii6 feet i)i;,'h, and constantly
Rends out ashes nttd smoke of brim
stone. In iw Mount St. Augustine,
150 miles north of Kadiak island, was
active, and. according to the i.flicial re
port of (rov. Km:ip, "covered the
decks of ships hundreds of miles at.
sea with nslies." In !'! fa jt. Letimin
was sent, to 'he i-!midiif the I-'our
Mountains, v.e-t of ( rntitik. to explore
a cave said to e.-mtaiti mummies (of
which he broiiiflii sevemoeti bodies,
now in different museums). While tm
this trip he discovered on Kagamil
island a vul-jauie in jimtaiii of low
altitude, from which issued jets of
sulphurous steum, smoke and noxious
gases of such horrible stench as to
compel him to stand off from shore.
Mount St. Klias sent out smoke and
vapor in 1830, and in 147, when "the
earthquake occurred which shook the
whole Sitka region, flame and ashes
came from its summit."
FRANK CONFESSION.
Sir Waller Scott's Waverlev Novels of
Vacation fleertlng.
Robert Chambers, publisher, one
night appeared at his club, after a short
absence, and there delighted at least
one member .1. C. Jeaffreson by a
delieiously frank expression of opinion,
says Youth's Companion. Jeaffreson
began the conversation by asking:
"What hare you been doing since I
saw you last'.'"
"I have joost beeu spending the time
in Scotland with my aiu people, and
for iny diversion I have b.-eu leading
yet again Scott's novels. I v. tut de
liberately through the whole lot o'
them. What do you think of a mon o'
ray years spending the greater part of
the long holidays in sic a way?"
"It was in that way that I first made
acquaintance with the Waverley nov
els," was the enthusiastic reply, "in a
broiling ),it summ&r and autumn. Uow
you miisi have enjoyed yuureoti'."
W;-!. ,v ,!. I ni.tin shv," rAturnci
. ;- 4l . . ''' : T "t-.' rvez i.f ! !
do . it i,ic room to make sure of not be
ing heard by any brother Scotsman,
and continued:
"I caunu say I enjoyed the buiks so
much as 1 did in my younger time. I
would not say it aloud in Adinbro, but
weel you believe me when I say that
Sir Walter isn't what be used to be to
me? To tale yon the truth," he added,
lowering his voice almost to a whisper,
"to tale you the truth, I found him
rather prosy! Ay, but dinna be laugh
ing, or the lads there will be asking
what I said to you. 1 1 is the truth that
I tale you; I moost confacu I fund him
at times a leetle nrnsvi'1
VISITORS AT WASHINGTON.
Bow Strangers Tour Into the National
Capital rrom Everywhere.
The national capital is the Mecca of
sight-seers and they flock in hundreds
to this city at all times of the year,
says a writer in the llrooklyn Eagle.
They come singly, in couples and
squads of from a dozen to a hundred.
They are from all sections of the coun
try and represent all classes of socie
ty. The spoony newly married
couple, the well-to-do farmer who has
harvested his crops and is enjoying the
fruits of his summer's labor, and ex
cursionists from different parts of the
country journey to Washington with
the convening of each congress. They
take in the old historical houses, gov
ernment buildings and monuments
and visit the home of Washington and
the Arlington cemetery. But by far
the most interesting object to them if,
the capital building. Here they de
vote the most of their tifne and atten
tion and roam at will through the ro
tunda, statuary hall and into the gal
leries of the house and senate. Their
chief delight, however, is to go upon
the floor of the senate and sit in the
seats that were occupied by the illus
trious Clay, Webster, lienton and oth
er renowned orators long since num
bered among the great majority, and
to recline for a moment of bliss in the
vice president's chair. A majority of
these visitors soem possessed with a
mania for collecting souvenirs, and are
ever on the lookout for something to
carry away as a memento. Not an ob
ject that is portable escapes their dep
redating hands; they clip tassels from
the costly damask portieres; chip bits
of marble from tho walls and pillars:
take knobs from doors, and one fiend
a short time ago had the audacity to
cut a piece as large as the crown of 8
hat from the center of the twelve hun
dred-dollar Smyrna rug that covers the
floor of the marble room of the sen
ate. Anything in the way of pens.
nencils and even inkstands that is
regarded as common property and as
such are appropriated by the rapacious
relic hunters.
MASCULINE AFFECTATIONS.
The Idiotic Stare, the Walking: Stick, Kven-lnft-
Tie and Nonchalance.
It is said on excellent authority that
the idiotic stare is still in favor among
the exotic youth of swelldom, and any
fashionable young man who cannot
learn how to abstract every atom of
expression from the countenanco and
look on vacancy with an expression of
imbecility, cannot belong to the select
coterie or hold rank in the inner cir
cles. There are other important matters
which must be carefully committed if
one desires to be in the van of fashion.
The first of these relates to tho walk
ing stick, and this involves perhaps the
most serious responsibility. For the
stick must be left at home when going
to business, to church, or to make
calls. The reason of the latter by-law
is that in the language of the stick, to
call upon a young lady while carrying
a cane, Implies that the caller is on
sunicicntly intimate terms to look in
on her casually any time. What finer
subtlety than this is to be found in the
intricacies of feminine etiquette!
Then there is a fixed and immutable
law governing the carrying of the cane.
The correct style is to hold it at an
angle of forty-five degrees, with the
ferrule uppermost and forward. Of
course, this is the sort of thing no man
could possibly discover for himself, for
tile unsophisticated would naturally
carry his slick with the point to the
ground and in so doing stand revealed
as unitiated in the supreme refinement
of etiquette.
No man with a particle of self-re
spect would wear a made-up evening
tie, atid as some men find it quite im
possible to learn to tie the bow them
selves there has sprung up a new in
dustry for women. A young woman in
Loudon has taken up the unique call
ing of going from house to house tying
the neckgenr of distraught bachelors
who cannot do it for themselves. The
custom will probably be introduced on
this side along with the other Knglish
quirks. Let no man in his conceit as
sume that when l'&ndora opened her
casket women monopolized all the
vanity.
liesides it isn't good form to be so
critical. A nonchalant benevolence,
superior and patronizing, is the latest
mode, and it is not good form tu be
caustic or pessimistic any more.
'TWAS
M tiOOD STORY.
That la
When It Was Applied to Some
Other Fellow.
The Texas congressman usually has
a shrewd perception of humor, re
marks the Washington I'06t. The del
egation has a corner on half the good
stories going, and can lay claim to sev
eral which have got away. A corre
snondent backed the dean of the dele
gation up in a corner the other day
and told the following tale:
"A friend of mine," said the corre
spondcnl, "caine up from Tenas wheu
the session opened, and as he expected
to be here some time he looked around
for a moderate-priced room, which he
located in a nice neighborhood. A
motherly old Vady showed him the
room, which pleased him very much
As he was about (o leave the room she
asked him where he was from.
" 'From Texas, madam,'
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We have it at home.'
" 'Yes, but I have had a good deal of
trouble with Texans about gas, and it
doesn't do any harm to show you Turn
it on so, and turn it oft this way.
Don't try to blow it out.'
'Hut, madam, protested my friend,
'you needn't go to all that trouble. If it
will relievo your mind any, I lived in
Chicago for six months before coming
here.'
'You did, eh? Well, I want you to
understand that this is a respectable
house, and I won't have any poker
playing or drinking and carousing up
here.' "
"Haw, haw!" laughed tho congress
man, "that is one of the best stories I
ever heard," and his sides shook with
laughter.
"liut," said the correspondent, "the
boys are. sending that story out to-night
and saying that you are the Texan."
"The deuce you say. Well, that is a
pretty low-down sort of a yarn to spin
on anybody," grnmbled the congress,
man.
AN ANCIENT PEOPLE.
ltelles of a Prehistoric Usee Found In
Kusalan Kxc vat lone.
The Hermitage is a famous building
in St. Petersburg, in which the relics
of I'eter the (treat are preserved. In
it there is also kept what is called the
Kerteh collection.,
Six centuries before Christ, the
Greeds founded colonies on the shores
of the Hlack sea. They united with
the native Scythians, and Scythian
rulers were generally placed over the
colonies.
Outside the gates of the modern
town of Kertch there are rows of
tombs and mounds. In the year 1880,
the Russian government began to care
fully examine these tombs, the objects
found there remains of the ancient
colonies being taken to St. Peters
burg and placed in the hermitage.
Iu 1831, a mound was openea cancel
by i the Tartars "The Hillock of the
Ilrave," and in a room of hewn stone
the remains of a Scythian king were
found, together with those of his wife,
his war horse and servant. Ins gold
en crown and ornaments were there
untouched.
Even the sarcophagus of carved cy
press wood, in which his body was laid,
emams undecayod, and the carving
and gilt figures upon It are still sharp
and beautiful.
It seems incredible that a substance
so frail should have endured for more
than two thousand years uninjured.
The gold bars of his shield, the sil
vcr staves of his heralds, the collar of
twisted gold wire, are to be seen, be
sides many other articles found in his
tomb, although a large number wcro
stolen Bt the time of the discovery.
Hut still more interesting and beau
tiful were the contents of a tomb dis
covered in 1WM1, of a priestess of Ceres,
with all her rich ornaments, and theso
were all preserved.
Most exquisite they are. the gold
chains, buttons, bracelets, necklaces,
equal the best workmanship of Venice
or Florence at the present day. the
golden plates from her headdress are
of respousse work of perfect beauty,
AN ODD
TIMEPIECE.
Chariot
Clock of the
China.
Emperor of
One of the most wonderful time
keepers known to the horologtst was
made in London about one nunnrca
years ago and sent by the president of
the East India company as a gift to
the emperor of China. The case, says
the New Orleans Times-Democrat, was
made in the form of a chariot, in
which was seated the figure of a worn
an. This figure was of pure Ivory and
gold and sat with her right hand rest
ing upon a tiny clock fastened to tn
side of the vehicle. A part of th
wheels which kept track of the fligh
of time were hidden in the body of a
tiny bird, which had seemingly jus
alighted upon the lady's finger. Above
was a canopy so arranged as to conceal
a silver bell. This bell was fitted with
a miniature hammer of the same metal
and, although it appeared to have no
connection with the clock, regularl
struck the hours, and could be mad
to repeat by touching a diamond but
ton on tiie ladv's bodice. In the char
iot at the ivory lady's feet there was
golden figure of a dog, and above and
in front were two birds, apparently
Hying before the chariot. This beau
ti ful ornament was made almost en
tirely of gold and was elaborately
decorated with precious stones.
A Qneer Chinese Superstition.
The Chinese have a remarkable su
perstition about the Chu river, which
is the local name on the border for the
Chiating,
A considerable trade in
drugs
which
is borne along this river, for
a special class of boats, coin-
posed of very light boards fastened
with wooden nails, is built. Hie na
tives say that the magnetic attraction
of the bed of the river is so strong that
were ordinary boats used the Irou nails
would be pulled out. Along the river
batik ll 4U It untied iu piiuiltive fash
ion, tai from th g;slogloal avldanca
it is believed that the ore is very rich.
v-fcUi .'! l.lS
The niale quail, or "Hob White," de
serves honorable mention among galli
naceous birds because he Is particular
ly good to hi'j wif! He always helps
s-r to httt'-b hei -,-.ja, grid if anything
(', !ii i !'-:') 1 tit'u tb wh'da.
''tj oil Sei. Thu It-(('! ' ida i-li
mt.i. r !.. t- 'i I rr ,(,i-.te.l I,.
WEEKLY WO. 60S. I
SEMI-WEEKLY NO. 277.1
Latest U. S. Gov't Report
'endire in his. "Life Histories of North
meriean Birds." He says: "In.lune,
.o'8tf, w hile I was on a visit to Dr. J. M.
Pickett, of Cedarville, Ala., he informed
me of having seen a male Hob White
incubating. He had visited the nest
at various times on different days, and
ways found the male bird on the
nest. lslimg to be an eye-witness ot
so interesting a sight, I rode several
mihs with the doctor to the nest.
There we found Hob White faithfully
warming his treasures, out not into life;
the eggs were never hatched. Dr.
iekett frequently went to the nest
until long after the period of incuba
tion had elapsed, and linding that the
eggs would not hatch, he destroyed
them, to prevent the useless occupa-
lon of the nest by the male. 1 he fe
male had probably been deatl some
hours before the male found the nest
serted; hence the eggs cooled and
would not hutch,"
FROM FtftM TO BARROOM.
Tne Joerney sod Gradual Increase In Price
of a Bushel or Corn.
Illinois is the great corn state and
Teoria is the center of its most prolific
belt. Peoria is a great grain market
and especially for corn. Vast quanti
ties of the golden grain are shipped
uato that city for general distribution
and loaded into its mammoth eleva
tors by the hundreds of thousands of
bushels. A great deal of corn is shipped
from Peoria, but a vast quantity is
used there. There is more corn used
in Peoria than in any three cities in
the union, even though theso cities bo
New York, Philadelphia and Chicago.
The reason Is obvious, says the Peoria
Herald. Peoria is not only the center
of the great distilling interests, but
there are located two of the greatest
sugar houses in the country. Down
the capacious maws of the great dis
tilleries are poured every day 20,000
bushels of corn. The sugar houses
use from 5,000 to 10,000 bushels more
each day in the year. To supply the
constant demand the product of 1,000
ouies of rich oovu lands is aany snipped
into Peoria for home consumption.
Aside from these there are fully 5,000
bushels used daily for other purposes.
So that it is safe to estimate that fully
9,000,000 bushels of corn are used in
that city annually for manufacturing
and other purposes. The greater part
of this is manufactured luto spirits.
It is wonderful to consider the
changes made by a bushel of corn in
its transition from the owner s crib to
the glass of the consumer. Jhese
changes are various and far-reaching.
They are other than financial. Hut
consider simply the mere element of
value. Corn was sold the other day in
Peoria for 85 cents per bushel. It camo
all the way from Nebraska, perhaps,
where it brought but 25 cents, in
transit two dealers received a commis
sion of 1 cent each. The railroad com
pany received 8 cents for its freight
and other charges. The distiller paid
85 cents. lie took and converted it
into four and a half gallons of finished
spirits and fed one of his steers on the
refuse. The distiller sold the spirits to
local dealer for $5.13, of which Lncle
Sam received 84.05 as a tax on the spir
its, leaving a balance to the distiller of
72 cents after he had paid 85 cents for
his corn. The spirits, after being well
watered and compounded, are sold at a
profit by the compounder and rectilier
to the dealer, who sells out at 15 cents
a drink. The four and one-half gal
lons have swelled to nine, and before
it gets through it swells many a head
and also the revenue of the city where
its lines may be cast. So that, in its
travels from the Nebraska crib to the
Chicago saloon, that bushel of corn
has increased in value from 25 cents to
many dollars, and with its constant
running mates has furnished employ
ment to at least to fifty men or morn
and has contributed to both the nation
al and municipal revenues. Such
magic there is iu the juice of the golden
corn. Of the juice of that one bushel
of corn, at least 100 persons have im
bibed, from the pious old lady who
took it for "la grippe" to the jolly old
toper who hjok tt lor "tne ttgnt.
To resume, that bushel of corn was
thus scattered on tho highways of busi
ness and pleasure: Farmer, 25 cents;
railroads, Hs cents; commission men, 2
cents; distillers, 72 cents, 72 cents;
feeder, 10 cents; L'nele Sam, $4.05;
compounder and rectifier, 25 cents; re
tail dealer, $10; city, 88. The con
sumer got whatever was left in the
spirits, each according to his strength
or weakness
What Women Have Gnlned.
Mrs. Lucy Stone, in enumerating at a
woman's club the gains she had herself
seen accomplished, mentioned the right
to free speech, the right to education,
the rin-ht to all occupations and profes
sions and a very great amelioration in
the lawB. She contrasted the old time,
when an irate man at a Massachusetts
town meeting had said: "lhe public
money to educate shes! Never!" with
the present when the great universities
of Chicago, Yale and Johns Uopkins are
opened to women, besides their owu
school!. lid fulh-ve
A s.F.EB is the stiletto of conversa
tion. Kisd words are the music of the
world. .
Great minds have wills; feeble ones
have wishes.
Tub manner of giving shows the
character of tho giver rae.ro than tho
gift itself.
Siscebitt, deep, greii. eenuiufi sin
cerity, is the fl.istcha.fi-' - '' ' f all
njen in any wn' hero;,-
Baking
Poivdes