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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1897-8-6, Page 22 THE BRUSSELS POST. AUGUST 6, 1897 A DEAD RECKONING CHAPTER XIV. what tlature-was to travel by it to- night, which these desperadoes had de- termined on making their own. As a gleliuilmary step, the signalman atCin• dor Pit Junction was to b- seized, bound, nod gagged, his box taken pos- seselon of, and the telegraph wires out, A member of the gang who answered to the name of SLmicey, and who under- stood nderstood the mnnipuletion of points and signals, would =tall Mourne in the box, Then, when the train -tune up on its way to Cusnmerh'ays, passing the box at a speed of about twenty miles en 'hoar, by a reversal et the points it was to be turned by SlimlkeY on to the branoh leading to the collerles. As a matter cowuld bring his traofin tourse, a standrhodriver as speedoily as possible, and then would come the opportunity of the gang. It waswell knewei that, except at holiday tines, passengers and officials together by this train rarely mum/eared half a more people. It would be strange if half -a - dozen desperate men, armed with re- volvers could not eo fax intimidate the driver, the guard, and a few sleepy pas- sengers as to'hove the whole train at their mercy. Sive minutes would suf- fice to successfully achieve the object they had in view, after wbioh the train might go on. its way again as if noth- ing had happened. Such were the chief features of this audacious scheme, as gathered by Clara from Crafton's instructions to the others. Of course, eaoh man badknown beforehand what he was expected to do, and what passed at the cottage was merely a sort of finial rehearsal of the scene that was to follow. Crofton now looked at his watch and amaounced that it was time to start. The lanterns were extinguished, and the men filed silently out of the cot- tage, 'half of them talking one road and half another. Clara and Margery had but just time to draw their shawls over their heads and crouch on their knees amid the brushwood, when three of the men passed within as many yards of them. When all was silent again, they stood up. Never on omy previous co- rasion when danger threatened her husband had Clara telt so helpless as she did now. :What could she, one weak woman, do to confound the machina- tions of six armed and desperate men? "0. Margery," she cried, seizing both the gist's bands in the extremity of her distress, "there seems no help eith- er -10in st1" heaven or on earth, We are lost The faithful girl could only kiss with a sob tits hands that held her own. "'(What be they going to do, mistresst" she asked a moment or two later. She bonnet been able to see and hear what had passed in the cottage, as Clara had done. Varley'a Cottage, w,hiah place George Crofton and ibis confederates had fixed upon ifs their rendezvous, was a not of 111 repute for miles around, tend one which no inhabitant of the district woold willingly go near by day, m.uthr lose after dark. A grins tragedy cen- tred round the spat. Some quarter of a century previously the cottage had been the hoarse of 5ter alll ghmd-ke p- er, Valley by name, Himself specially obnoxious to the poach- ers of the district, One night be was shot dead on bis ower threshold and his cottage fired in two places. The crime was never brought home to may one, neither was the cottage ever re- built. But of all this neither Clore Brooke nor Margery, being newcomers in the neighborhood., knew anything, The elder woman hurried feverishly onward, the younger leading the way' Scarcely a. word passed between thele. Plresently they reachedthe stile d followed through which 15fargery hait, took d the two men, and crossing winding footway through the fields. They went swiftly aad silently, walk- ing hot on the path itself, but on the soft grass which bordered. it. Not it creature did they see or hear, and be- fore long he path begat to dip to a Hallow, then came some et t ly g patches of brushwood, end Prese they were in the spinney itself, with trees and a thick undergrowth on both sides of them. Margery led the way as by a sort of instinct, only pausing for a second now and again to listen. To Clara, the adventure, with its dank - mess, its silence, and its mystery, had all the complexion of a nightmare. Again and again she bad to ask her- self whether it were indeed a reality: "We axe nearly there now, mum," said Margery presently tn• a whisper. "Ifo you wait Mere among the trees, while T creep forward and try and find out whit tbey be about." So saying the girl stole forward, and was at once lost to view. The young wife waited with a heart that beat high and anxiously. The moments seemed terribly long till Mar- gery argery returned, although in reality she was not more than three or four min- utes. Clara trembled so mucor that she could not sp-elb. s ;'Thgag's Por gf 'gin oozy ,num," said the girl, "l could see them quite plain through the creak in the shutter, and, from what I could make out, there's more to come. 0 mistress, !wouldn't go near 'em. id I was you; they're a des- perate ,tad lot, and if they found you there, nobody can tell what might hap - • 0.d b. truth, Clara might Well hesitate and it was only the thought that some mew and unforeseen danger might pos- sibly at that very moment be closing ,, like a net round the husband she loved so devotedly that nerved her to the task she bad set herself to do. "Marg- ery," the said after a brief silence, "where you can go with safety I can surely go. I must see and listen to these men far myself -Note, attend to this. Sbould I be, discovered by them, or should anytbing happen to me, you will fly as for year life and warn your master." "I understands, mum, never fear," was the girl's earnest response. Then the two crept together through titre trees, almost as silent as the shad- ows of which they seemed to form a Part, and presently Clara found her- self wader the walls of the ruined cot- tage. Margery guided her to where a rickety shutter still guarded a small square window. from whaeh, however, the glass had long eine disappeared, Through a chink in this, the interior of the room, such as it was, was plainly disnegnible., Two old,.fas!bicted lant- erns threw a dim weird light over the scene. the £ace•ot Croftes on. ht beforective- tak- be that same faite nt hof. pe bad all aloit ng lliing- eyed in her breast that Margery bad been mistaken, ,3ut it that were so, the hope at once flied out. George Crofton himself was before leer. that was the only one, of the party y was seated, and his seat comsusted of nothing more than a pile o£ loose brirllcs, with part of the stone shelf of the mantel -piece laid across them. Hewes smoking, as were also two of the oth- ers nod seemed deep in thought. The rest of the party were utter strang- ers to Clara; they talked in low tones among themselves, end, moon to her surprise, she saw that cue of them was in the garb of it clerg,Vmmnn. Scarcely had 19Irs. Brooke noted these things, when e. lone whistle sounded from somewhere outside. Crofton sprang to his feet, cued all were in- stantly no the alert. The whistle was answered by another tram within, and then one a lantern.. Clara and cottage sang cry sank noiselessly crack into the und- ergrowtle of bush and bramble by which the cottage on three sides was surrounded. When, two or theca reiterates later, acne ventured to resume 'her post of observation at the wvindow, she found that rho party inside had been ang- mented by two freslr arrivals, The Men. had now gemmed. themselves round Crofton. in various attitudes of atten- tion, listening to the instructions he was evidently impressio upon them, Whatever the abteets of g this strange company might be, there could be lit- tle doubt that George Crofton was the leader of it. One man who bent for- ward a little, brad made an ear -trumpet e of Ibis hand, and itmight be for his benefit that Crofton now pitched his voice in a (higher key than he hail pre- viously done. Clara hardly breathed as rile strained her senses to, anon the words that fell from its haps EWhat the heard grainy ly paeeing the, plot together in her own mind les Crofton issued his final orate to the mere was enough to bland*the heart may The train to Clummerheys treasure --Clore could not matte out of of any woman with ,terror and wee ter b eitberto done, lest else shouldl be seen by any caf the gang, who were doubt- less sCOlewlmere near at hand. The limo eat this pointput up was bounded prelay 0e Wooden fencing to vonL the straying of cattle, close to whieh,,00 Me field -side, grew a thin straggling baaha drew dge, Under the ehelter of thishedgo Clara now stole softly and caetieusll3' Onward, with eyes and ears preteriv- diturally' obtearer rho alertwithout, beiStnepg by step tb' ed by a sight ora sound, till atdistenurth site raced the box with its lighted w'an dow where it stood on the opposite side of the line. Them with a heart, the Pulsing of which sounded Mice a low drunami:ng in her ears, she parted the bushes and peered themegb. Polo :a moment or two a mist rimmed her eyes and all she could discern was that there was some one inside the bolo :Chen the mist cleared away, and she Baty that the man standing there with one hand resting on a lever was not husband, but the man Slinkey, whose sinister face she had seen through the broken shutter. Gerald was nowhere to be seen. She had come too late! To Be Continued. "They are going to seize and bind your master, and then they are going to stop and rob the train. 0 Margery„ if there was but same way by which dile train could be warmed in time! Mink, think; is these nothing we can do4 fli\Vhy, o cauis'e there is, mum," an- swered the girl with one of her uncan- ny chuckles. "Yon just let me run home as fast as my legs,ll carry me and get three or four singles-thene. things, you know, tbat Muster Geril used to fasten on the rails when the fasten tbed in winter. I !know how to fog m. 'cos T watched Muster Gari1 do it one day when I took him soma to the box. Then I'll take the short cut across the fields to where the line turns sharp round tnore'n half a mile away from the box, and I'll fix the singles there. -But what ami I to tell the driver, mum, when be stops the train 0" Tell him there are half -a -dozen men with revolvers wait are going to stop and robt he train, just beyond your master's box. After that, he will know what it will be best to do." She could have fining her arms around Margery's neck and kissed her, such a weight had the girl's words lifted off her heart. e attacked and robbed; some great THE AGE OF THE EARTH. OPINION OF LORD KELVIN, THE E11I- INENT SAVANT. The Enelll Das only neon Ilabflnble n,r Thirty Hinton Yeats - Mosel -me Events Whirl' Are Susceptible to Proof: Mint we know exactly how old the earth is, for ,Lord Kelvin, the eminent British savant, has, after the calcula- tion of years, revolted the definite con- clusion that this terrestrial sphere has been such for 30,000,000 years. This is not the chimerical assertion of theorist, but the result of long and laborious study by perhaps the man best qualifi- ed of all to make an authoritative statement to humanity. It Is of the utmost importance to geologists, many of whom have doubt- ed whether there was any data on which a definite calculation could be based. This doubt Lord Kelvin has re- moved, and he gives absolute events of different ,periods of the world's history which he states are perfectly suscept- ible to proof sutfl,aient to eatisfy the most carping critic. 1 • , Lord 111elvim has just issued a for- mal statement in the matter which out- lines his belief and the reasons there- for. lo support of his statement that there must have been a definite !be- ginning of the world just as surelyas there will be a definite end, he re- ferred to his refutation of the doctrine of uniformity in geology, with its ac- companying proof that if heat had been unliormly conducted out of the earth at its ,present yearly rate the globe twenty million years ago would have Keen a molten, a not a gaseous mass. RELATION OF MOTION AND AGE. "But whet about porn Muster Geri, mum 1" urged Margery. Ah, what indeed1 Clara shivered as though an ioy wind lied struck her. She had not failed to notice that her hus- band had never bean mentioned by tame by Crofton, who had spoken of pia to the others as though be were an utter stranger. Could it be possible he was unaware that Gerald filled the eosin= of signalman at Cinder Pit Junction? It was possible, but by no means probable; but in that faint chance lay bar only hope of her hus- band's safety. In that case, should he and Crofton not encounter eaoh other the rest of the gang would merely re- gard Gerald in the light of an ordinary railway servant; and altiough he might chance to be assailed and mal- treated by them, that tvould he but a inkiar evil in comparison with the oth- er, and one wbioh an hour or two at the most would set right. These thoughts passed through bar mind far more rapidly flint she could have given them utterance im wards. Tha only question now was, had she time to warn hies buslxand before the attack took plane? 11he gang were cal their way already; could she overtake them„ pass them women, and reach the signal -box before they did? The chance was a desperate ono, but she must attempt it -no other course was open to ber. "Come 1" she said; graspiem Margery by the hand. Let us hurry -let ns hasten! While yea go nod fix the sig- nals I will go and warn your master, reply pray ,heaven I may not be too lata 1" I� ith seetecely a ward more they sped swiftly back along the starlit rheas; but when they reached the stile, Clara said: Is there no nearer way to the signal -box than going round to it by the highroad l" "There's e way through the fields, Mat outs off a bug corner, I've walked it oast; but I duano, mum, as you could and it in the dark,' WILL THERE BE T�UTINY 1 POSSIBILITY OF TERRIBLE 'TIMES IN INDIA AGAIN. • r �o 'tide Situation Becoming Prolllle of Trus hie for the Motherland -An finnan ollleer's tydalen,. Writing from London to the New York IVfnil and Express, "Astor" says: It was the mixture of caw fat in the wradrpings of the cartridges somewhere about 1857 that brought on the terrible Indian mutiny tealoh nearly lost Eng- land its vast empire in the Orient; the invasion of the Zenana by authorities desirous of stamping out eholerethreat- ena to bring about a seeondi mutiny. The forty years of instruction, of civili- zation and of general acquirement which the natives of ladle, have attain- ed sines the bagpipes of the Idighland- ars sang the song of rescue le the be- sieged residents of ;unknow would make another rebellion in India a far more formidable revolt than the first, It is tbe Brahmin element in the vast population which is supposed to he specially disaffected at this moment. '!'here are hundreds of Hindoos, who have been carefully educated in Eng- land, preatdming sedition among their countrymen, slowly but surely fanning the fires of bathed against the white oppressor. These men have been re- garded in England as Indian gentle- men they were received cordially at the universities, and in many cases the ex- pense of their studies assisted out of the funds of the Indian Government. They were made welcome in London so- ciety, and even, as In the ease of two members, permitted to enter the Eng- lish Rouse of Cbmrnons. The idea was also instilled into them that on their return to India they would find similar facilities for enter- ing the Indian military and civil ser- vices as their fellow English subjects. They soon disoovered, however, that in India the Englishmen reserve every- thing, except a few insignificant posts, for themselves, and tbe Anglicized I -lin - does found that their English educa- tion was of next to no advantage to them. cRiR'BE•LLION AT WORK. Discontentad with iheirposition, they soon became firebrands, and as there is little, if any, censorshiai of the na- tive press, they naturally tura their energies toward obtaining the widest dissemination of their disloyal views. The men who conquesod India for the English and kept the vast empire for so many years cowed in the deepest submission, insisted that masterful upper hand could only be sustained by steadfastly regaa'ding the native as an inferior being and by allowing him to Another argument against the huge lengths of time required by the older geologists is sought from the eon- stantly diminishing velocity of the earth's rotation, owing to the tides. It is shown that a thousand million years ago the earth was revolving faster than at present, and consequently that the centrifugal force was greater. If the globe had become oonsolidated when travelling at this faster rate, it would have possessed greater obiateness, and the length of its equatorial radius would have been six and a half kilo- metres more than at present. To judge by the properties of racks and by under- ground temperatures, the date of the solidification of the earth was most probably twenty or thirty million years age. The origin of the atmosphere is then discussed. At flue time of solidification there could have been no free oxygen so tar as can be seen, and nor chemical reaction by which it could beliberated. reaction by which it could be liberated. Vegetable life and ennlaght must have come into eleyptb ,lepers our atmo- sphere in the course of is few (hundred or thousand years, DEPTHS OF, THE OO:I AN. A serious geolbg'tcal question is the mode of production of tbe ocean depths and the eminences of the continents. Many 'phenomena are dumbtless due to strain on cooling, but that does not 510 - lord a sul:ficient explanation in this case. uLord Kelvin thinks the cause is Lo be Lound in change of density, by crystallization. Perhaps the strongest argument against unlimited geological time is afforded by consideration of the heat of the sun, which, according to the most recent researches and cor- rections, may have illuminated the earth for somewhere about twenty Mil- lion years. Professor Poulton wanted time to find invertebrate ancestors for the vertebrates on the Cambrian rocks, and Professor Perry had attempted to re- lieve biologists of the burden put upon them by plhystaists, and once more pro- vide them with an endless "bank of time" on which to draw. But the latest geological estimate of the time requir- ed for the formation of all strata Bence the beginning of the Cambrian rocks was seventeen million years, and he can sounder be described as merely a mal- icious physicist, trying to Duro the as- pirations of the biologists, when bo says that this earth could not have been a habitable globe for more that tbirty million years. "I muse try," answered Clara, desp-. srately. Every second was precious. The near rut un question was through a scoancl stile somewhat farther on, At this point, after a few last words, the two parted, anti going a separate way. Clara's way led through mire fields; hut the track wee so faint that she was utterly unable to distinguish it and had to trust to her vague lona knowledge tent she was gating in the right direction. In a little while she surmounted a rising ground, and then to her utter dismay, she saw, from 'the the position of the signal lamps in the valley below, that she had wandered a full quarter of a mile too fat to the right a£ them. It was athousand chmances 1 o one now that Crofton a bis crew woad be there before her. Anguish lent wings to her feet, and. she few' down the 50100 like a creature pstrsued by this :Furies. She couldsee' the lighted Windlove of the signalenote tanning' in tine distance, (I faint yellow hire. The ndXt tbihtg she knew was that the 'had reached the boundary of the l.itno, but at a point atilt mate distance;: iron the box It now became needful to exercise more caution that she had MEASURING THE EARTH. A t,lgantle 6vheute Intutgari,lral to Antsal Wish the Obji'd'l. P1•eparatloas are under way in ,Lon- don for the most gigantic undertaking ie the way of a survey. ever attempt- ed. 1t is proposed to measure theeearth. Now, it only needs a glance at one of the humble imitations of this terrest- rial sghore be leo that it is. one light task. It involves the expenditure of millions. It means continuous scientific research for a period the length of which no one can tell. Scientific men are considering the plan with the deepest interest. It is a strange fact that the mor- the problem of the formation of the earth isstudied by moans the more is the ballet that the earth is not round credited. This iney seam like a ridiculous statement, but such authorities as Professor A. Fowler, on me the leading members of the Royal Astronomical Society, is firmly of this belief, and he repre- sents a host of others of equal aroma nend'ie. The longest aro at present known is 80 degrees and 32 minutes. The south- ern termination of this aro, which means one of these linea you see drawn in a semi-tairelo on areap, is Staro- Nekrassowka, in Latitude 45 degrees 20 minutes 2.8 seconds. This termination is marked by a pyramid of cast iron, which rests on a cube seven feet (wide, livening an inscription shelving what the monument really is, The northern- most limit of this aro is at Ilammerfest In Norway. Another monument is there. The column and pedestal are of granite, and at the top, on a bronze base, is a (terrestrial globe of cop- per, bearing the following inscrip- tion;- The northern termination of the arc of meridian of 25 degrees 20 minutes from the Arctic Ocean to the River Danube, through Norway, Sweden and Russia, Which, according to the orders of His Majesty King Oscar I. and the Emperors Alexander I. and Nicholas I.. and by uninterrupted labors from 1810 to 1852, was measured by the geometers of the three nations." When the present aro was completed it was celebrated as the conclusion of the gneatest undertaking of the sort ever carried to completion. Therefore how much greater is the present plan, for it contemplates the measurement of an arc of 105 degrees. The probabilities are that the carry- ing out of the latest plan will net take nearly a century and a half. The knowledge tvhioh is already ours with o celerate action. have as little knowledge as possible ot English affair -4. To this day the old English officer treats the natives only with tolesanrae, and nothing disgusts him more than the present custom of giving him minor commissions in the army, admitting them at English uni- versities, and !conferring on their princes ,the same honours and decora- tions as are given to the princes 00 European blood. royal. TO BE INDEPENDENT. "It stands to reason," said an Indian offkser mow in London, who was dis- cussing tens matter with me, that sooner or later my country will throw off the yoke of the English. aniere may be several unsuccessful attempts, simply because we Indians are not a nation, but a number of nations clust- ered together, 13ut we are learning a good deal, i'dsa'n']m to our contact with Europe, and we are discovering in par- ticular the possibilities of federation. Oen princes have enormous treasure; one soldiers, the Englishmen them- selves admit, are part of the finest material composing the present army of the British empire. Is it likely that we shell rest content with perpetual goveromemt at the hands of a, aaoe of teen who are opposed to us in colour, in religion and fn every possible and domestic observance? I, myself," be continued, "know that I con speak freely to you, and that you will understand that I realize the Mot that I am an officer of the Queen, and that I may appear to be talking sedition against the flag Ihave sworn to defend. Do not mistake me. I am contented with my lot, and find no diSficuity, in enjoying, the friend- ship of Emgltahmen, but it can't last. There will be several. aboxtivo at- tempts, no doubt. Insurrections will break out here and break out there, and be promptly subdued, and then soddenly the fire will leap up in every direction and it will be Inaba for the Indian. I tell yaw, six, the inarah of science alone will enable tie to secure w hat, after ali, ns indelibly written on theheart of every man in Riindoostan, no matter whether he worship the sun, or kisses the foot of Buddha, or prostrates himself hetero the throne oe Allah, and that is -independence." RAD SOME TASTE. Antique Schoolma'am-What is the matter, Johnny 8 Little Johnny Squauoh, sobbingly, -- Some of the -boo -boo -big boys made me kuk-kiss it little gul-girl out on the pup -pup -playgrounds Antique Schoolma'am- That was shameful! The next time they at- tempt to make year' kiss agybody come right to Ino! Johnny, hesitatingly .-If, if it's all the same to you, ma'am, I -I believe I'd rather kiss the little girl. CONSTITUTION OBJECTIONS, Six months, said the judge. Yerroner, said the gentleman in th'e frezzited Coat; I object to that 'there sentence cos constitutional grounds: What is the matter with it, Jam? asked the judge, It comes sender the cruel and unusual limit, see. No, I don't see. W -11y saebbe it ain't particularly cru - e1, but it is unusual. You( okays Were roe 90 days before.. PLANTING 5;000,000 EtataBI 1t 'TREES, i FROM THE RAM'S BORN. THE ELECTRIC CYCLE NOW SOMETHING FOR THE LAZY MAN TO. THINK ABOUT, starts a,,I Slops Aasiil' and Travels at a 'i'reme,Qotts Speed --A Now Turk lure n - ter leas 11 Novel 1laehtae. An invention bits been patented by a. New York man wan= makes the un- usual combination of the eleotrio spark clod eithiee naph4.ha, petroleum or gaso- lise. Time union of the two elements is accomplished by placing a battery on. top of the tank containing whichever fluid may be preferred of the three mentioned, The former is connected by, the neeessarSS wires with the motive apparatus, so that the electricity may cause the. necessary explosion which produces an impelling force whenever it is desired Battery and supply tank are located bank of and just under the saddle of the bicycle. The bicycle issuppliedwitb; the usual chain and spuocket wheels, one. of the, latter being attached to the Pedal spindle, and rho second sprookee. wheel to the axle of the bicycle et one side of the rear traction wheel. At the end of the =aft opposite the sprocket wheel is attached a pbnion. adapted to gear with the driving pin- ion. This is jouanalled to a stud that. forms part of the easing that sur- rounds the reeolvi,g cylinder secured to the shaft of the rear wheel. It is be this cyclinder that the pockets are lo- cated -In the outer section -which re- ceive a charge of vapour that causes. the wheel to revolve, The God who remembers the sparrow can mover forget His child. A sterotyped prayer never takes the chill out of it cold prayer meeting. Unfriendly kindred are the greatest strangers and often he worst foes. Chelan n benevolence sees the bare feet of a little elrild across the ocean. If God answered all prayers, the sky would always be raining fire some- where. What an immense amount of laziness there is going on by the name of poor health. This weary and heavy laden have a standing invitation to go to Christ and find rest. Pointing to tine bypocrites in the =each, will not make your own sin - Wog any safer. • T lis moat who does thea shouting is often willing to let somebody else do all the work. The man who h'as to look dismal when he feels happy ought to pray e. good deal before be starts for chorale. There is too mluoli shouting being done in church by people who don't wveigih an ounce for the Lord. anywhere else. The world (has but little to hope from flus man to whom the golden age of the past is more inspiring than the golden opportunity of t'lya now. WEIRD FUNERAL. fereinenlea Attending the Bartel ofu Mgr - malt Priest. Nothing could bo weirder than the curious ceremonies attending the bur- ial of a Barman priest, or, as, he is called in his -win dreaany . couutxy, "phoongyee." The funeral does not take place un- til three months after death, the corpse having been meanwhile preserved in honey, and placed in a box -like cof- fin of many miens and extraordiniry ornamentations, Toward noon the !pulsing pause of this droning day le broken by a Imre of far -away incan- tations which rise and fall drowsily, and one knows that flue Martel service is oing forward, Tho coffin hos bleen raised to the top ot a huge gilded bamboo erection, and. is being swung monotononaly to and fro on the bare shoulders of 40 or 50 Burmans. The chapniting never ceases, not the queer gliding backward end dot- wUntil sunset the iimiaawtations 'beat away on the stilly ail( without ,pause. Then, the coffin. ie shot off. that lbemboo entoten ant( the fthneral pyre, and as the rkd sun sinks time ere ole theta is set iliglit. 1.1..;1011a FIREPROOF DIABIESL A dortodr residing in the East End of London, bas disontred a solution which renders clothing absolutely fireproof. By this discovery,'ihe says, ' the ap- palling loss of life, n babies by being burned will be min.inized." The form- ula represents a pr, :cription of 5 per Dent alum and 5 per Bent phosphate of ammonia, which rent. rs the substance absolutely noninflami..sble. ,A11 that is necessaryis to steep the clothing in this solution, and the tissues so treat- ed will resist the flames, even 1f they bone previously bean rubbed t; :th gun Powder. 515111 VAPORIZER. Tee vaporizer hats an inlet in its• upper portion partially closed by a pin. resting upon a distributor that holds, the fluid wbloh comes from the tank. to be vaporized. Beneath this ephere there is a cup shaped receptacle which. holds any euperfluous fuel and pre- vents it from being drawn into the cylinder through 'too tube. There aro apertures in this tube welch receive a supply of coldair, and this mixes with, flue hot ear discharged from the slur Mr apertures of the second cylindex before it is carried into the vaporizer. By this mca.ns the vaporization of the substance used as fuel is largely in- creased. So fur as the electric battery iscon- cerned, it is the inventor's idea that. at will be easier to replace, it on top of the supply tank:, but that is not im- perative, as it can be secured to any other point of the wheel 'which may, be dreamed desirable. Wires lead from ton two pales of the battery tato the cylinder, through insulating plugs, and are run into the cylinder to such a position that thio points are very near. together- so tear iu fact, that an aro is farmed, and a spark produced Ny, either making or breaking the current. The circuit is alternately brblceu and. completed by the forward and back- ward movements et a oircuit making plate, which. is attached to a • piston rod et a piston witbit the first cylinder referred to. This plate is in- sulated Pram the rod upon Which! itis mounted by the use at ordinary insu- lating !material. Now as to the operation, of the ma- chine. The stopcocid of the pipe lead- ing from the tank is turn= on suffi- ciently to allow a small stream ot the fuel to flow into the vaporizer. Owing to the smell inlet being vernally eke- ed,t be fuel flows very slowly, diffuses itself oyes: the surface of the spherical distributor, and then vaporizes. Then the bicycle is started, the rider pedal- ling in the ordinary fashion until the necessary rotary motion >s imparted to the sprocket wheel and thence to tone cylinder and pinion. ROW TO OPER,AATB. GRAVE -ROBBER'S DIARY. A gruesome publication is "The Diary of a. Resurrectionist," a genuine docu- ment now painted for the first time in London. The diary wee icert by Jos- eph Naples, a member of the principal gang that swpplted the Lend( .n hos�ppl- tais with srdblects, coil runs tram Noe yeomen 1011, to Decemlor, 1812. It tells What they did night by night, where they went, where they got drunk, -tenet luck they had, to whoin they sold the bodies, and t. hat profit they made, The original is in the Royal College of Surgeons, FAITH. Earle end heard his father say that deg days would begin tine next day. Accordingly the next morning he seated himself on the front door steps. Ween he 'head been theme more then an hour his mother eskod what the trouble was. Nothing, was the reply; I'm just waiting for this dogs to come along. I want to get is Newfoundland. ELSIE MISUJNDtERSTOOD, Wo fell into a discussion; of ilio wo- man sulffrage question and kindred things, at the table, the womenefollt, as usual, declaring it was a shame they weren't allowed. to vote, but that they wouldn't if they could. Five -year -cad Elsie listened with' a psuzeta expression on her face; but her question showed that elle bad at least caught the drift ot the remarks: Nen en I ddioa y p cave can papas no mem- ma,, 11! INED. ' Paw, asked the little boy, what is a brain wonder 5 A. brain worker, mid rho old man, Man a an wino has to spend all his sal- ary in dressing up to tae position he heids, , 7. 1 . TiIs imposts centinuvus movement to the piston centauined within the arse cylinder, and the piston moves beck and forth, alternately taking in a suppla. of vapor and discharging the same, Just as soon as the inward stroke of the piston is completed and the 'supply ofvapor in the cylinder exhausted into the second cylinder, an electrical cone tact results. This Gauen! the produce tion of a spark within the second cy- linder ex--plodiug the vaner. The expansive force thus obtained is exerted upon 388 driving cylinder through the medium of one of the pockets. This pocket is then exhausted through rho pips, and. theme 'througle. the openings to the pipe back into the vaporizer. 7:hs bot air in transit dram the pocket of the cylindermixes with the supply of cold aur weiole is drawn, Ln through the open_ top of the pipe. This mixture or not and cold aur, assists in the vapnorization of the fuel that has flowed into the vaporizer from the tank, and thus a continuous supply of vapor dor the first cylindex is maintained. This makes it plain to Ile seen that. by the means described a continuous rotary motion is supplied to lite cylin- der and thence to the evaeel of the bicycle, In this way en even and if cleaned, terrific, speed can he main- tained untU the supply of vaporizable material is exhausted or the machine is stopped by the rider. The cyclist can stop, at his dliseretioa, and in just the same way as if there, were no ;motor attaolument to his wheel. THE POWER OF CANNON. La Nature contains a short note int Which the hors. power of a cannon is calculated. An Italian cannon of 100 tons, with a charge of 550 pounds of powder anti a shot weighing about 2,. 000 emends, will give an initial velocity of 528 meters per mama; the length of time during which the power acts is lass than 100th of a second, from wbioh' it follows that the horse power develop- ed is about 17,000,000. The, writer adds that after about 100 shots the cannon is pull out of service, and its total active lite is therefore only one Second. Irl large modern cannon the horse -power, runs as high as 24,000,000. If the writer had Carried -mut these calculations still farther, he weals/ have found that, after all, this 24,000,000 horse power docs not represent a largo amount of anergy, ars it emend be just sufficient to run thirty -rine incandescent lanhps for! only