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for SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. --The paper tree of the seas is speck's of xhe mulberry. Us mnei is delicate that a softacd pleasan: feeling cloth is made from it which the natives nse in making their "best Baits." It is also used in the manufacture of a very fine grade of paper A comoanv has been formed in Rio Janeiro, with "a capital of S5.000.000. to explore and develop the natural resources of the Amazon. Colonies are to te established and means provided for reaching a market for a region heretofore practically Record.

--A new kind of porcelain has. recently been made in Paris in the following manner: Asbestos is ground to a fine powder, freed from oxide of iron by means of sulphuric or hydrochloric acid, then made into a molded aid dried. It is then baked for seventeen or eighteen hours at a temperature of 1,200 degrees centigrade. --A new powder for coating the in- tenor of steel and other molds has been U-ely patented. It consists of asihcious rock'known as "Dinas" sil'ca stone, and contains98 percent, of silica.

1 percent. i aluminum, 0.5 per cent of oside of iron, and 0.5 per cent of lime It is ashed and calcined, then ground until is of the consistency of wheat flour. to the annual report of ihe American Iron and Steel associa- just issued, the make of steel rails, if all kinds, in the United States in 891 was 1.3CB.259 tons of 2,000 pounds, 3.013.18S tons in 1890, a falling iff of 640,929 tons, which accounts for "-reater part of the decline in the ake of pig iron in Mining Journal. --St. Johns, Newfoundland; Montreal Ottawa, Canada.

Portland, Oregon; 'emeswar, Hungary; Trieste, Austria, and Venice, Padua, Verona, Mantua, and Turin, Italy, are all situated between forty-five and forty-six degrees of north latitude. AVho would think of I putting Montreal and Ottawa in the I same latitude as Venice and Verona? --The cost of the tnnnel under the Thames, about four miles below London bridge, is to be $4,355,000. It is to be 1,300 feet in length and twenty-six feet in diameter, with the crown only eight feet below the bed of the river at its deepest part. The process of construction is to be almost like that of the Hudson river tunnel --The danger of eating beef from animals that have been affected by con- Bumptive diseases is strongly confirmed by the investigations of Galtier. a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences, who finds that the bacillus of tubercu- lous substances has great power of resisting heat and cold, and even the action of strong brine, such as that used preparation of corned beet --Laura Bridgman's brain upon examination shows that that remarkable woman probably had in infancy all of the senses which she afterward lacked, sight, hearing, smell and taste, together the power of speech.

Up to the time of her illnees at the age of two years, it is now apparent, the brain was normally developed, and thereafter grew Y. Tribune. --According to Prof. Budd, no fact is now better established than that wood ashes are the one thing needful on our soils for the production of a high grade of grapes. This, he adds, is not surprising in view of the statement made by chemists that a crop of four tons of grapes to the acre removes from the Boil forty pounds of potash, thirteen pounds of nitrogen, and twelve pounds of phosphoric acid.

--The report of the commissioner of patents for the last year shows that the total number of applications received by the office during the last calendar year, including mechanical applications, designs and reissues, was 40,552. The total number of patents granted, including mechanical patents, designs and reissues, was 23,244 The total number of registrations was 1,899. The total receipts were SI, total expenditures, $1,139,713.35, leaving a surplus of $231,582.43 to be turned into the treasury of the United States, making a total balance in the treasury to the credit of the patent fund of mm t'V me" nasr afcu mm th? street. -nn if i it! You go around -ixxr. vour great, iuriueniv.

i it wstsu 1 1 ice you'd died in tin i.Uvu. and wash the dirty When joa get that done, Til attend to your case --X. Y. Recorder. at once!" fee' cattle tua' ere not driven to the lowlands the snow set in are perishing from cold and starvation by hundreds, co'mmoa picture of electric belt that' The of the auimaK are terri- is lacking in this belt that 1 have shown ble.

A ranchman, coming uuo Boise He lit the fresh cigar and. after Cuy a few days ago, reported having taking a few puffs as a spirit-soother, I said. 'I was simply jolting--I see you smoke; have fresh cigar on my abruptness, and please explain what it is you have always seen in the THE MARKETS. UVK STOCK -Oaule Mieep Indisputable. Teacher (on the day before YVashmg- George Gazzam--Yes'm.

What?" "He's STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. HE COULDN'T BE Me Singled Out a little Man and Looking Tor Blood. DOWNED. Began "Boys," said the big man, as we drew closer about the tables in the Bast Si'le hotel, "if anybody wants to run against tlie frost he better tackle me." Nobody accepted the invitation. "I'll tell yovf right here, I am a fighter from way back.

I was paid yesterday, and I have been blowing in my stuff ever since." We all believed him. "Now there is a man at this table whoance said I was a coward," he went on. banging on the counter with his big fist, "I want to add that that man dies to-night right in his tracks." We all shuddered. "I'm on to him! It would be useless for him to dodge, for I'll get there just the same. If a certain little sawed-off, hump-backed, goggle-eyed, raw-boned man sitting over in the corner drinking eider, and trying to imagine that he is out of time--if he hears what I say it's time for him to slide out the back door!" Nobody slid.

"Fair warning! The little man drinking cider once'said I was no good. He said it when I was drunk, or I would have taken advantage of his infancy, then and there; but I've waited till I was perfectly calm and cool, like I am now, so that everyone will have fair play all around. Make ready there!" He snorted and pranced around, and tipged over two tables, making believe he needed so much elbow room. "Make ready there, you squint-eyed man with the cider; one, two 1" Just then the door flew open. "Ah, here yon are," gasped the boldly grabbing the hero by the ear, "I've been looking for you for an hour! 0, you brute; you will drink all the money I made washing clothes, will you! Well, you may be six feet high, but I'll tell you right here "I--I was just coming," he pleaded, squirming aronnd in his tracks.

"You were, were you?" she gasped, giving him a wicked lunge in the ribs. "Well, I think "I--I will never "Wo. I sruess not," she cried, clutching A Vlria Storm on Mr. F. F.

Tuekett and two guides- Christian Lauener and Ferdinand sensj--had beer, to the summit of Roche Melon, near Susa, and were on their way down when they were overtaken bv'a hail and thunder storm. They were not far from a little chapeL the annual resort of pious pilgrims during a certain part of August, and toward this they hastened. Blinded and staggering, thev reached the door, left their ice-axes outside, and darted in, thankful indeed to have a roof over their heads. But they did not stay long. Says Mr.

Tuckett: We were in the very central track and focus of the storm, and as we sa; crouched upon the floor, the ground and the building seemed to reel beneath the roar the detonations, and our heads almost to swim with the glare of the lightning. Opposite the door was the altar, on the step of which I seated myselt Im- seng tooii a place by my side, while Christian perched on our coil of rope with his back to the wall. A quarter of an hour may have passed when a flash of intense vividness seemed almost to dart through the window, and so affected Iinseng'fc nerves that he hastily quitted his seat and coiled himself up near Christian, remarking that "that was rather too close to be pleasant." Then came, four more really awful flashes, folio wed all bnt instantaneously by sharp, crackling thunder, which sounded like a volley of bullets against a metal target, and then a fifth with a slightly increased interval between it and the report I was just remarking that I thought the worst was over, when--crash! went everything, it seemed, all at once: No warning of the of flume, Swiftly like sudden deith it came If some one had struck me from behind on the bump of firmness with a sledge-hammer, or if we had been in the interior of a gigantic percussion shell, which an external blow had suddenly exploded, I fancy the sensation might have resembled that which I for the instant experienced. We were blinded, deafened, smothered and struck, all in a breath. The place seemed filled with fire, our ears rang with the report, fragments of what looked like incandescent matter rained "down upon us as though a meteorite had burst, and a suffocating sulphurous odor almost choked us For an instant we reeled as though stunned, but each sprang to his feet and instinctively made for the door.

What my companions' ideas were I can not tell; mine were few and simple --I had been struck-, or was being struck, or both; the roof would be down upon us in another moment; inside was death, outside our only safety. Out into the blinding hail we plunged, dazed and almost stupefied, into the nearest shed. For the next few minutes the lightning continued to play about us in so awful a manner that we were in no mood calmly to investigate the nature and extent of our injuries, iinseng held his head between his hands and rolled it about in so daft a manner, that 1 thought his brain might have been affected. For my own pait I was conscious of a good deal of pain in the region of the right instep, while one of Christian's hands were bleeding, and he was holding both his thighs as if in suffering. As the storm drew off toward the Mont Cenis, we had time to ta'ke stock of our condition Imseng let go his head, declared that his thighs were getting better, and the mischief in my foot proved to be nothing but a flesh wound.

My hat, indeed, was knocked in, my pockets were filled with stones and plaster, and my heart, it may be, was somewhat nearer my mouth than usual, but otherwise we could congratulate ourselves, with deep thankfulness, on a marvelous escape from sei ious harm. The lightning, we found, had first struck the iron cross outside the chapel, had smashed in the roof, and in the course of its work inside, had overturned the iron cross and wooden candlesticks only three feet from the back of my Companion. a i he explained; 'Why, in every picture I ever saw of an electric belt it showed of needles like sticking out in every di! rection from all around the belt--and 1 don't see any needles sticking out from this one you are showing me "In the language of the street--'1 fell What my beautifully intelfieent visitor supposed was a representation i of needles sticking out from all points seen dead in hollows a-uJ lienressionv where thev had taken refuge Torn the bitter cold On one r.iuch SCW horses were unable to find food for nearly two They were on a rangv and could not be reached for sin et al When found they had eaten each other's manes and i U) W11EAT-- Ciigratkil CORN' -NO. i MiMd MEW YORK, tho host ami 4 btlv on i POKK- Mess NVw csUTti elern i rcaim ISv fiENGH FEMALE CONVICTS. BulN of the belt was, of course, a representa- tiori of electricity emanating therefrom.

I am now circulating a petition praying riots are the city council to double the number of night Tribune. --An Observing Friend. job you have now is i soft snap, isn'tit?" "Nothing at all to do, have you?" "Well--er --not much." "Good pay, too?" "Very fair How do you happen to know so much about my job!" "i notice you stick to it." MISCELLANEOUS. --Getting wonder why they are paving this street Rubbage-'-They probably intend to put sewer down as soon as the paving is calls on Miss Plainface every night I don't see how he can court her, even if the had a pile of money--she is so homely" Me- Cutely turns the gas out." --Boston News. --A Wife's.

Wool-- "Eupec tells me wife worked a new scheme on him yesterday" Van was that?" gave him a piece of her mind and then bound him over to keep the Y. Herald. By the passage of what is known as the Vandever bill by the legislature of California, the Sequoia Park Forest and Homer Park Forest have been saved from speculators. In the tract saved are what are known as the Fresno Big trees, including among them the Gen. Grant, said to be forty feet in diameter.

--Large families are very common among the factory population of Lewiston, Me. Henry McCraw has raised nineteen children, of whom thirteen now living. The mother is. a AN The HE DIDN'T SEE THE NEEDLES. The Singular Oeliuiuu of a Cui- tou6r.

"Occasionally I find that the ignorance displayed by some persons is their most interesting characteristic," a Madison street druggist was overheard to remark. "One of that kind came into the store the other day and asked me to show him an electric belt. I did so. After looking it all over he said: 'Is that all of 'Yes, I replied. 'Do you miss said he, hesitatingly, 'fact is I never saw an electric belt before in my life, but I've seen lots of pictures of 'em, for you can't pick up a daily paper without seeing a cut of an electric belt, and, too.

they usually have a naked man inside of them, but I 'Well, I interrupted, 'you didn't expect me to show you an electric belt with a naked man inside of it- did are healthy woman of forty-tin ee. Aoei Gaudette has raised nineteen children, of whom fourteen are living, the youngest eleven years of age and the eldest thirty-three. --According to the Boston Transcript, the Mercantile Publishing Company of Chicago will soon have a new building which will resemble the book that it publishes. The front of the building will be curved like the back of the "Register" when standing on a bookshelf. At the tenth and eleventh stories windows will be cut in the shape of the letters spelling Mercantile Register.

--W. R. Close, a Bangor genius who has invented a successful automatic fog bell, announces that he has patented an improved lime kiln which will effect a saving of 75 per cent, in the amount of fuel used over those now in use at Rockland. He proposes to utilize the vast amount of heat which now escapes from the kiln chimneys in generating steam for heating and manufacturing purposes --It has often puzzled the uninitiated to give a reason why musicians tune their instruments in public, and not before they enter the orchestra If they tuned their instruments before entering the theater or concert room the temperature is veiy apt to be different in the place of performance and therefore the instruments would not be in tune. A piano that is in tune in a cold room would set out of tune if the room were suddenly heated --When the grandfather of John W.

Wise, of Con way Spungs. Kansas, died, ten years ago, liis death was so sudden, that he did not have time to inform his heirs regarding the hiding place of his wealth He bad no in banks, and therefore preferred to hold his own money. There was a prolonged hunt for the old man's treasure, but without success, until the other day, when John found it in a nail keg, buried In an obscure corner of the farm. The keg contained VJO.OOO in gold com --One of the most prominent railroad men of Pennsylvania was Christian Long, of Shippensburg, who recently an estate of He commenced life by peddhn? clocks, one of which, it is said, he frequently traded for Cumberland Valley Railroad stock, at a time when the company threatened with bankruptcy. Some of his shares, whu-h were so ntimeions that he found himself a position to dictate to the board of directors, cost him as low as twenty-five cents each.

--Appropriately Immortalized --The the most impressive thing I saw Japan was an idol." An was it The was the figure of a woman, seated, and resting her chin in the palm of her right hand Couldn't find out what she had, done to be so immortalized." Another Auditor know. The Japanese are a wise people, and thev erected that idol as expressing their reverence for a woman that can hold her own jaw "--Pitts- i burgh Bulletin. --Atone of the Parisian theaters there was a performance of "Cleopatra." It chanced that the heorine part was wretchedly performed, aivrf when she was about to commit snicHe. with the aid of the historic asp. the audience seemed to think that it was about time for the Egyptian coquette to close her career.

occaiion the asp was an ingenious mechanical contrivance, and as Cleopatra raised it to her bosom, the touching of a spring caused it to extend its forked tongue and threateningly hiss. A hush of silence fell over tho Marryinr Thfjr ContlDernenl 111 French female prisoners and con- treated with inure kindness, on the whole, than persons of their class iu England Then- matrons aud wardresses aro Augustine nuns, whos.e rule, though firm, is gentler, laore merciful and more steadfastly equitable than that of lavwomen could be. The female convicts ara allowed the same privilege as the men in the matter ol earning money and buying things at the canteen; those of them who are yonuij also enjoy a privilege not granted to female convicts in oilier countries--that of having husbands provided for them by the these husbands must be convicts. Every mouths a notice is circulated in the female pe'niten- tiaries, culling upon all women who feel mipded to go out to New Caledonia and be married, to make an application to that effect through tho governor. Elderly women arc always very prompt in making such applications, but they are not entertained The matrimonial candidates must be young and exempt from physical infirmities Girls under long sentences readily catch at this method of escaping from the intolerable tedium of prison i and the pretty ones are certain to be put on the governor's list, no matter how frightful m.ty lv be the crimes for which they have been sentenced The only moral quahtleu tion requisite is to have passed at leasi twoyetirs in the penitentiary.

The selected candidates have to siifn euita'je- inents promising to marry convicts and to settle in New Caledonia the remain der of their lives On these conditions, government transports them, gives them a decent outfit aud a ticket-of- leave when they land at Noumea Their marriages are arranged for them by the governor of the colony, who has a selection of convicts ready for them to choose from: and each girl may consult her own fancy within certain limits, for the proportion of marriageable men to women is about three to one. Of course, if the girl positively declares that none of the aspirant bridegrooms submitted to her inspection have met with her approval, the governor can only shrug his shoul ders in the usual French way. It ha 1 happened more than once that pretty girls have been wooed by warders, free settlers, or time-expired soldiers am sailors, instead of by convicts. In Biiuh cases the governor can assent to a mar riage only on condition that the femalr convict's free lover shall place himsel in the position of a ticket-of-leave in.ti and undertake never to leave the col ony Love works wonders, and then is no instance on record of a man liav ing refused to comply with these con ditions when once he has fallen in love Boston Co.urier. l.uv Cmiroirv hu Ill 00 I TS I -M 4 Hi i (V) i 6 10 UKOOM COKN isurl it LARD -SIPW Snier GKAiN- Whwu.

Corn, No Oais. No 3 Niv a 10 1 4 Ml 4 48 UUT' SU 4 9U i a oo 00 la 00 Frm'iip I. lib i df--! 00 ua U) 1.0 CATTUK i i IVuiH stud Indian- HOOS-Kan tuOiokv Hun Mixtd l.railt-. OMAHA OVrTI.K-- Common lo Kurn'y Kit-lit rt IUK.S I IlKlsVO Vi'nl rahes llOCiS SUKKI' m'TTKH- MM- I KklSVS Live nTATOl 1'1'1J i I'l'l, 1 tin, Huuio A1111 LOt'li A 1 WlllHT I'Ol 11 Oatn RW -Tlmothv Clover JUAN 00 10 4 WO 4 Oil 4 00 4 in 4 00 i iiu A Wi 4 TU 4 tjj '1 40 4 lil 75 "BAKER PERFECT," ahuut ohoap 1 am iho muiH'nms cheap im-hut- i of tho "llaktv IVvftTt Ki'iwuiltor that an ar- lu-le to i at I'd a i much to it that other niaiw- faetiuvr-" ami ik-ak-r- are jcaUnN of its and it is i a an ai'know ledjroiiKMit on thoir part that it is tho lio.st i to imitate it. That i i i are () nianv i i to i i a "lUker Perfect Hut a Did you evei I am ot a i "jirM ifie Ume the -Baker IVrfoetf Ha! Ha! Well, then, jusi and look at it and inquire the price and come and laufi'h ith Konieiu- her are the only anthotixed linker IVrt'oet" and it now for a i and exery spool has the "Trade mark" 1 Mumped on in led i in the hevvaro! of the a Mld FABLC.

th JHOP KKBl) -I'oi IAY-Loose Hilled I1DKS- tjiwn Clltl "'J rAiii.ow i No a In i iVoon I HUH earn il 1 lit rl ii NTi I (Hi tl ill 111 IHl IU I' IHl I "ill All Magic Liniment! HEADACHE POWDERS! oyons Tula of tho DorvUh mid i i i A Dervtsh journeyed forth to teach mankind tile uselessness of riches, lie was scantily clothed muthe filthiest of rags; his head was bare, and on his feet were fragments of sandals About his neck hung u. leathern scrip with a handful of dates On the edge of the desert he met a Walking Delegate who was on his way to Mecca to order a strike among the non-union hadji having been permitted to kiss the holy Kaaba. "Hello, old the Delegate "Where do you buy your garments? You look like a Ipcked-out tramp "I am dressed," answered the Dervish, "as befats my vocation and am in all respects equipped for any emergency. No blight of fortune can cast me down or impede my "So?" Replied the Delegate; "Suppose 1 were to confiscate that bag of grub?" "i have been inured tojiunger from my youtli up and seldom is the thought of food uppermost in my inind. Besides it is the Fast of Ramadam and it it, not hi wlul to eat." 'The stones of the desert are bharp; if I were to take away your sandals? 1 "Behold!" and the Dci'vmh-uncoyered a foot and exhibited a sole as tough and leathery as that of a camel suppose 1 were to strip those rags from your back?" "Sun and simoon have scorched my back for seventy years, and it mattern little whether it be covered or not.

And now," continued the Dervish. ''Shut your bread-winner and let me talk. You think your equipment perfect, but you are not rigged for a long distance race. A little accident by the way will rattle you Hee me prove it!" grasping his stafli he executed a flourish and with one swift, clean, horizontal stroke he hit, tin plug hat in the middle knocked it a shapeless thing upon the With a look of anguish the Delegate picked up the wreck The top was pone, the sides were caved in and the brim was 1 cut across and hung dangling from the 'BLACKBERRY CQRDIKLI MMfaGMMryte. FOR SALE.

A hccund-li'iiid All wood order UlUdQUMflTEO WITH THE GEOflHAPHY OFTHIB OOUIITIIY WILL ODTAN MUCH VALUABLE INfORMATIOH TOM A STUDY OF THIS WP OF Tlir We the only of ihr FnubanlfK scales and a i Tho Victor scales me now by ihe F.mbnnliS people, nnd hnvi- biien gn-at- ly nupioved nnd now the worn! lirfil scale on lilts markol The Hnirb.uiKs, without question, are the hast Wo alno have the ngnuey for Balvaniied Iron A I PUMP I It i not nH mid rot, nor ae- i i i it. wcijihh i one- hull 1 pound to Hi" foot, and doen nor i i at winked. i i i i longer. I t'lin lie a oul nnd put in where a roof is over oiMern. It in to handle and doe.s not iill'od a i wood i It he used i your present eui'b, cliiiin mid lixtureH an wood i See, i Do you winit ti i i It' eoi'wj and let UH show you Ihe BUTLSR.

hi 00 nnd Mroke; 10, 1 double jLToared; foot i i i Beared tire ninde ii: Steel Solid 'lower-. Steel i i Wood Solid mid Wood i i We a added' new department to our I i va-on in way of I They beeoilie Mich a lllld iwiful a i a over I i i i i world, and i a almo-t, i by Ihe a i Iriido we Inive concluded i of all i i a i The i 10, I'J wheel in made foot HMJile and I -I foot 10, nnd 14 The varlouw of i in a full ic nos elt of oui "'No, sir; I the call- er, his face reddening with indignation, I house, and a spectator in the orchestra 'and if you catch up everybody with audibly remarked: "That asp expresses such an inference that they're that ig- i my opinion." norant I wonder your place isn't in the --This winter in southern Idaho is sheriffs hands long ago for lack of i reported to be the severest since 1870. The hills are covered with from said the Dervish, "your i power is gone from you, for what is '4 Walking Delegate without plug hat? Oh, BismiHah! Oh Marshaltah; Ob, and. brandishing he drove the Delegate forth? Aad i the burning Syrian ttf ber IB the sky, the vanishing over the line of the horizon, gate ahead, with the Werfkfc second about two ju Truth, The DlWCt to tiom CHICAGO, HOCIt ISLAND, JMVKJSPOIIT, BBS COUHOIfc BLUFFS, A A tlVCOMr, WATJCRTOWS, 8IODX FALLS. MINMKAFOMS.

ST. PAWL, ft JOSEPH, ATCHMOX. MCAVEKWOKTH, CITy, TOPKKA, DEHVKft, PUEBM) Ctelr OWI It mt from CHICAGO. ifif)GE CJJTY CHICAGO, WICHITA SOLID TOTfttfU EXHHH tttit of Til Own MOIfJM, OOLS, Via The Albert Lea Route, behind, to rc- (torn cumiwrnome 55 fio tMfaW rcwdnief. It the Amei- hal wrigited Jew than 45 pounds, and its toting tunning haveconvincwi the this side of the 'Atlantic that they must bnitd liKhter to Satisfy thr It has revolutionized the American wheel and i who proclaim th'-rn far to any wheH have mounted Krnwm- i ber we will have all weights smt of and can lurnitli you almost -ny you want.

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