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Mr. Popp of Vieena is experimenting as
te the 'dynamic poseibilities of compressed
efeir, .It will be easy to speek of the Popp
21111 when that weapon is perfected,
The Russian Government We decided
Oat the children of Poliell workingmen and
peasants shall be educated eatirely in the
Russien tongue mid no other.
.1+1. Pasteur disclaims possession of any of
'the varioas microbes that have been report.
ed as undermining his system. He 'wasat a.reeent meeting of the Academie des
Sciences, apparently in the best of heeith.
In the new Maine town of Bumfordralls,
-where not even a log hut steed a year ago,
a$10,000 residence is building, and 700 men
are at work even mills and other structures.
During the year 1892 thus far, the amen t
of Mount Blanc, once considered among
the rarest of achievements, litte‘been sue-
vessfully accomplislied by dos Germans,
four Americans, three Frenchmen, end two
.EnglIshmen.
Hamburg comteinplatos holding an exhi.
-bition in 1897 or 181.-8. Several million
marks have been gusranteed already nit
the enterprise,. Whether the exhibition
will be national or international in 04090
has not been decided.
A eonnty correspondent in Moine recently
?sent this cheerful bit of newe to his peper
e' Brooks is at last provided with a nice
hearse, and our citizens can now be convey-
ed to their graves in decent shape. This is
something that has long been needed here.
M. Deibler, the notedFrenth executioner
who guillotined Ravahhol, as he has all other
condemned mu:levers In France for many
years, has been turned out of his house by
his scared who is very meek afraia
the Anarchiets will blow up his property
and M. Deibler at them
sae cline.
A queer accident befell a Portland fieher-
Man me day recently. He lied hooked a
swordfish and neglected to haul tautthe
lino. The fish feeling the slack, turned end
made straight for the dory, driving his
-sword througb the bottom of the boat aud
striking the fisherman in the foot. The
mord glanced on the bone of the heel, but
the man wits so hadly injured that the
-vessel to which he belonged was compelled
to stop fishing to carry him to Portland.
Cornfield Peint lightship, No. 52, which
recently smiled from Halifax for New York,
is the first of four vessels of her class to be
built at Bay City, Mich., for the United
States _Goveroment. The second will be
along pretty mon, and the others will arrive
on the coast during the coming autumn.
No. 52 is capable of steaming eight knots
an hour, carries eleatrie lights, and will be
stationed off Cornfield Shoal, Long Island
Sound. She is the first steam lightship to
be used in America.
The centenary of the French republic is
to be kept on Sept. 9.2. There is to be a
grand military spectacle on the large plaze
m front of the Invalides and a gorgeous
historical paeettut. The latter will start
from the 13astile and finish at the Place de
la Concorde. The chariots used in this
procession will in the evening be placed at
street corners, and there used as open-air
theatres, where patriotic pieces will be per-
formed.
.A. man went into a grocery at Belfast,
Me., the other day, ordered 510 worth of
goods, and laid doevn a cart -wheel dollar
in payment therefore. " Hold on, this isn't
right 1" yelled the shopkeeper as the cus-
tomer started off. " Oh, yes, that's all
right," respondel the man. " I've got per-
mission from the Judge to pay ten °erns on
the dollar." He had recently settled in
insolvency upon the ten per cent. basis and
expected to continue that method indefin.
itely.
Up, to a few months ago Jacob T meek
an old man of 97 years, residing in Berke-
ley county, W, Va., was the possessor of a
snow-white head of hair, But in recent
months a gradual metamorphosis has been
taking place in this respect It began with
the appearance of a few hairs of en intense-
ly black color, whioh residing
became
more numerous until, at the present time,
very few white hairs can be seen in his head,
Mr. Lauck and his neighbors alike are at a
complete loss to account for the unexpect.
ea renewal of a youthful hue in looks once
silvered.
The Mayor of St. Johns, N. F., has re-
ceived a letter from a Maine farmer who
says that he has heard of the great fire in
-that eity, and, desiring to aid some sufferer,
would be glad to give a suitable woman a
good home. He would employ her ab good
wages until they became well acqueinted,
and then, if agreeable, would marry her.
The women inust be between 25 and 35
F0000 of age of light complexion, pod
character andweigh from 150 to 175 pounds.
The farmer is in earnest, but tee question
ler the woman to consider is whether he
wants a wife or a drudge,
THE HANGING TERROR OF I0E.
reeeessor Forers Explimation of the Ito
cent Avalanche Itt the Savoy Alps.
The disaster by which the Savoyard vil-
lage of St. Gervaes-les Baths, on the direct
road from Geneva to Chamouni and Mote
Blanc, and the menu villages of Favet
and Biorimy, in the valley of the River
Ames, have suffered so terribly, turns out
to be one of the most remarkable in the
long series of avalanches that make the
human history of the Alps so thrilling and
thpainful. It seems, by the cart:fel and
ementifie study which Prof. F. A. Forel,
of Merges has made, that a high glacier on
the Teteteltouesee, so called, at an altitude
of more than 10,000 feet, let fall a glacial
masts of more than 35,000,000 cubic feet
down a height of at least 3,000 feet; that
this enormous mass of ice and rock disen-
gaged so much heat by its fall as to molt
as well as pulverize the glacier -fragment,
which was further melted by contact, with
• the warm surfaces and substances it en.
countered on its way, was thus converted
into viscous mud, and, in that form, rush.
ed suddenly down on the unlucky villages.
Who result was shocking, Prof. Forel
thus deseribes ib
The Molten mw
ass aft fluid enough to slip
down a slope of ton feet in a hundred ; It
was dense enough to overthrow every-
thing in its passage, I estimate that
it event about, half an hour, perhaps a little
more, in reaching the Arve, from the point
of its fail, In a, few minutes everything had
gone by and there rentained only a coating
of mud, covering all the ruins with its in -
footed and 71000118slime, In this enormous
fall from SO great a height, extending hoof.
=tally more then eight miles, I find the
Mose gigantic,. example I know of a gimlet
avalanche. Altalonehes of 7,000 foot fall,
extending four and a half miles, have been
known. But all other % are of 1811011 smaller
elimmeions. The eordition of tho muddy
channel, in Which the eubstemee rem, shows
thab it was a viecolle and not a fluid Mos;
eeeeseseeaseeeese,
for, alongside of heapa of mud, width 1
saw drying Bowls, flowers were to be seen,
only front two to four Limbos off, mil nes of
wheat Butt had net been wee nor Boiled by
the mud. Again, in the houses flooded but
not destroyed —in a house at Bionuey, for
instanee, nsed for a school, tlio flow! WWI
weaved with inud, but a few Mlles higher
up the scholars' desks were not moiled by
dirty water, the walls were dry, &c. Now,
dirty water in order to deposit a layer of
mud 12 Mhos thick, must hoe been 0 or 8
feet deep ; but here the sheet of water did
not much rise above the med, as I saw it,
throe days after it had been deposited.
What adds to the singulavity of this dis-
aster is that no such avalatiehe bas been
known to occer in that region, nor was this
huge and dietant glacier at all dreaded by
those who lived near it). Prof. Forel says :
Neither at St. Gervais, nor at Bionuay,
did any one know of any such calamity be.
fore ; but it is likely that this glacier did
detath a few avalanches each year, only, be-
ing small, they did not reach the villages."
In the three villages more than 150 per-
sons seem to have been deetroyed. The
houses that remain are mostly uninhabit-
able. Where the son has not been swept
away the crops are cliched up with a thick
leyer of meth The small animals have per-
ished. "Happy are the famines," 'says one
writer, " that have been annihilated with
all thae they possess." The question is
now raised whether the disaster could not
have been prevented, Prof Forel says :
We know that the glaciers of the Mont
Blangr
c oup are no present all inereasin
a ;
and I find in this event a mournful itInstra.
Bon of a report addressed by me lase spring
to the Government of the Clinton Valais, in
which I set forth that all the catastrophes
of the high Alps are due to an advance of
some Omar, I also called npon the au.
thoritees of that canton to have their,
TIIE :BRUSSELS POST.
Szrr, 2, 1892,
WHO THREW THE STONES.
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Seine queer Ila 11Po ulnae lu the ruins wean
014 Town' 130 Indio,
Between the towns of Mysore and Colin.
batore, India, and on the left bank ef
stream called the tionholley, are the ruins
of three or four large villages, The mond
one west) of the fmathills of the Mysore
range of mountains is velle1 Gerrow, and
innifl the general desolation are the nuns of
what was once is great temple. Tbeee vil,
lages aro only three or four out of handreds
to be found in the great empire, Now and
then their 'denary Km be traced back to
Soule terrible plague which depopulated
them in a meal:, and again the detiolation
is due to war between tribes and faction,
As a rule, no native will lapprorteh ono of
these ruins, and no attempt is ever made to
rebuild the towns.
In 18118, wbile I Was at the village of
Bheete, about Okay miles from Garrovv,
the Government sent a commission of three
officials to survey and inspect the village
with a Vitw of restoring it by offering to re.
build the temple and give free decals to all
settlers, I was invited by the commission
to go along, and this appearing; a splendid
opportunity for an extended inspection of
the historic: reins I glad ly accepted, Includ.
ing servants there were twelve of us in the
party. On arriving at a small villuge called
el man, six miles east of the village we
ineant to survey, we were told of some
strange things that had lately happened,
It WAS declared that spirits had taken pos-
session of the ruins. Strange lights had
been seen flitting itliont at night., and a hun-
ter whose ardor had led hun in among
the rules had heard the sound of stenos
behig moved and had been
PELTED WITH noses.
He had a bad bruise on the shoulder to
prove the Ifttter statement. While the
glamere inspected, 811100 all or them were most intelligent natives of India are full of
begimaing to grow and move forward. The 1 snperstition, the common villagers and
eintonal cutine'l attended to L110 re. fanners are so thoroughly iinbuctl with it
quest, and gave the matter in charge tu the I that signs and dreams guide most of their
Inspecter of Forests. I did not expect, i dily trausections. The commission was
however, a confirmation so speedy of my headed hl y an Englishman named Grant of
fears, But could this calamity have been the civil service. The second was a Mr.
forseeu, and would it have been possible for
an intelligent supervision to have given
notice, to those in danger In the present
cam I think not ; under other conditions it
wonld be possible. 13ut here no one, as I
think, could have suspected o danger so re.
mate and yet so awful.
It seems that the particular glacier res-
ponsible for this accident is not that of
13ionnay, naa est to St. Gervais, but 01111000
formid ale one higher up, beyond the little
tillage of Honehes, the first in the vale of
Chamouni, not far from which, but still
higher up, under the rocky peaks of the
Tetee-Roueees, in the best region for the
chamois hunter, was this haugiug terror,
known chiefly by these hunters, which sud-
denly slipped from its perch, slid down a
declivity 01 70 feet in the hundred, paysed
to the right of the glacier of Bionnity, and
then, .following a ravine of the mountain
torreete, fell upon the ill-fated vintages
which became its prey. Few could have
guessed that such would have been its
course, even had they known its situation
or its condition,
lt, should be added that the villages des-
troyed, although in French territory, are
bur a few miles from the border of the
Swies canton of Valais, which lies on the
headwaters of the Rhone and the elopes of
the Mont Blanc range.
Lady Henry Grosvenor.
England can certainly boast a good many
women of affairs, and Ledy Henry Grosve-
nor is one of them The principal affair
which Lady Henry carries upon her shoul-
ders juse at present is the needlework see.
lion of the British exhibit at the Colombian
Exposition, of which department she has
undeetaken the control. The inference that
Lady Henry's specialey is needlework is a
correct one,and she hopes to 110V0 represent-
ed at Chicago in oonnection with her de-
partment her school of needlework which
she has founded and carried on daring the
last t4 years upon the Wemyss estate in
Dumterline. The idea of this school is to
give to the women of remote country dis-
triets as good an opportunity of beaming
skillful end finished needlewomen as they
would have in London. The pupils in this
school are regularly apprenticed, and whea
their course of training is completed, a sit-
uation is readily open to them, or else they
are given paid employment at the school.
Lady Henry Grosvenor is also noted as a
most attecessful gardener and one of her
favorite projects, which she hopes some day
to make a reality is a School of Horticulture
for women. From a center in which needle.
work has been made RS much of a fine art
as it has in England, much may be expected
of Lady Henry's exhibit. She announces
to her country women that all specimens
must be sent to her before October 1st, and
that a preliminary exhibit of the work ace
teemed for Chicago will be made in London
in Februsay. One hard fact in regard to
which these prospective exhibitors are pro-
testing is that when they may wish to dis-
pose of their handiwork in this oountey,
the tariff laws will enforoe a duty of GO per
cent.
Incentives to Exploration.
Every yeer the hunt for the precious
metals and the shining stones grows sharp-
er, ellen the plateau of Thibet and the
further isles of the Eastern Archipelago are
almost the only likely places where the
agents of European firms are not inquiring,
and prospecting, area of unknown territory
is dilligently examined, there may be solid
returns. The emerald seekers of Emador
know the 901115 51 its mountains better than
geographers, and the hunters for gold will
make known every ravine of the vast
region between Cape Colony and Lake
Nyassa.
Every year the demand for wood drives
importers into more distant forests, while
the enthusiasts of beady and ornithology
are ransacking regione into which it was
recently supposed to be death to enter.
The Plannimans of our day number whole
tribes, and they are penetrating every-
where, exactly like their old prototypes, in-
learch of spoil. Nothing stops the (toter.
ors foe gain, and another party will follow
them yet, rot longing for minerals or new
drugs, but foe great estates, Austrelhe
was not explored for exploration's sake, but
to find lands fie to support, great herds ; and
so will Africa, be, and the Eastern Arehipel-
ago. The competition for great fortunes
grows bitterly sharp, and this is a road on
which adventures need only daring, a cam.
tain capacity for command, and a resolve
to explore snob aft was displayed in Hew
South Wales by tho Wentworth% who,
twice benten by tho mountains, went on a
third time to h000me great nobles in the
Southern world,
/n the lottery of life there aro more prizes
drawe than blank, and to ono misfortune
there are fifty advantages. Despondency
is the most unpreliteble feeling a mat oan
indulge WittTo,linage,
Artwell of the same beencii, and the Blade
eft. Martha who was a civil engineer,
With them as monetary and clerk, was a
yourig man meted Thomason.
Lietle at)entien was paid to the stories of
the villagers, and next day we moved over
and camped in a grove on the stream, about
half a mile above the head of the desolated
town. The site was oovered with shrubs
0111 grass 0111 vines, and here and there
were groves of yourig trees. No tigers had
been seen in that neighborhood for years,
but the place looked like a paradise for
panthers, wolves, hyenas, mid serpents.
The town had extended along the bank of
the stream for a, mile and a half. That
evening, while we were settling down in
our new quarters, a number of stones from
some unseen a,settilants were suddenly
thrown Witil great force at one of the
natives who had strayed beyoud the limits
of the cainp, hitting him on the head and
rendering him insensible for several min u cos
The missiles came from a thicket between
us and the first ruins of the town, and
after we had loceted the direction we fired
a volley from our gene and put an end to
the disturbance. The netive servants were
thrown into a state of great consternation,
believing and arguing that our preseme had
offended the spirits keeping guard over the
ruins, and but for Mr. Grant's threats the
crowd would have bolted and left us.
"I think I mune into this business," he
explained to us after the servants had been
quieted down. " These ruins have either
been taken possession of by a band of rob-
bers or there is a party here hunting for
treasure. In either case our presence ism.
desirable, and that demonstration was to
drive us away. We'll try to make it a bad
job for them, whoever they are."
The explanation was a reasonable one, and
when I asked the gentleman if a ruin as old
as this ever yielded up treasure he replied:
"Bless you, yeslIt has been my luck to be
'iu' on two jobs as old as this. If a tribal
war depopulated this town, then more or
less treasure was Lulden away because it
could not be carried off. If a plague ap.
peered, then those who hurried away thought
ouly of sewing theirliyes, and took litele or
nothing with them. Somewhere in or about
that temple we are pretty sure of finding a
plant worth picking up."
He was still talking vvhen.queer lights ap.
peered at intervals among the shrubbery,
and
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were heard from among the ruins. The na.
Byes fell (keen and covered their heads With
cloths, too frightened to even ory out, but
the Commissioner calmly continued :
" You have been wondering how it came
about that such treasures were left) ,undis.
tubed so long. Here is the explanation at
hand : Such survivors as knew of its exis-
tence feared to return. No native of India
would give an Englishman a, pointer on
treasure. We have gathered in plenty of
loot since the mutiny, but never with their
assistance. They call it robbing the dead.
If the party there are aftee treasure they
belong to some clan up among the moun-
tains. They rob each other's ruins, but
never their own.
By and by the lights disappeared and
silence reigned over the ruins end we turn-
ed in again. Soon after daylight came one
of the natives, who had now recovered a
portion of his natural courage, inspected
the shrubbery and found plenty of evidence
that it had been occupied. by mon during
the night, Some of the stones thrown at
us were found to have been freshly broken
from large blocks.
" a gong 01 treasure hunters for sure,"
said the Commissioner after this last proof
had been sitbmitted, "and it is quite need-
less to caution you that eve mutat he very
careful. No one must enter the shrubbery
alone, and we must be constantly ready for
an attack. They are doubtless Sholage, men
from the hills, and they will stick at noth-
ing."
"But, wby not send down to Bheete, for a
detachment of soldiers ?" I asked.
",And so give away our ' find ' in case
there is one ? We are not quite so green
as that. The Government must Ilan its
share, of course but we want no further
division, I thinIc we are strong enough to
rout ann out, and we will begin business
right away."
After breakfeat the five of us moved
down on the head of the village, leaving
the comp in charge of the natives. As soon
0.8 WO got among the ruins We found it
tough work to gee along, lb had been a
very substantial town. There being plenty
of buildieg stone at hand, inert) or lose of it
had been used hi evory house, It must
have taken an earthquake to fling the
blocks about in such Q.:Muslim. Here find
there a piece of Wall wo.s standing, but In
most oases overyehing had fallen in a eon.
fused heap. The diffioulty of climbing
eve the blocks Wag added to by the vege-
tation, and wherever tho sun beat clown on
a stone we were
Komi To FOND A SPEMINT,
sunning himself. We wore heading fee the
walla of tho temple, but after an hoer's
tvork We had not advancecl everhelf e,18110.
11Ir, Grant oalled a halt, and we Were Sitting
on the huge blocks of stone in a gentle
about fifty feet across when something very
queer happened. The foliage was dense
enough to throw the glade into a shadow
approaching twilight. Oar ears wore end.
donly saluted wit II groans and moans, as
of mine perm] in deep distress, and while
we were looking about end et each other a
fignre came out of the thicket on the 0011 111
side anti slow!), floated across the glade, It,
looked like a littulatt figure, though draped
011,1 muilled, and though it passed over the
grunted et about an ordinary height, the
motion was that of floating along instead of
walking, lb wasn't over twenty feet from
us, and when it disappeared into the thiaket
on the other side the ale was heavy with a
striinge perfume.
"It's tiothing but a trick to means off."
whispered Grant., eaten, the figure had dis-
appeared, " If it comes agaln, everybody
open fire on iv,"
We waited 111 nervous silence for five or
six minutes, when the apparition appeared
again, peeceded by the same distressiug
noises. It was scarcely clear of the bushes
when we opened fire, each one of us with a
revolver. It floated along as before and at
the same paoo, and we got in three shots
apieee before the smoke obscured it.
" We've riddled one of them, anyhow 1"
chuckled Gawk as we waited for the smoke
to clear; but a minute later, when it had
floated away, the figure 0508 not to be seen,
We had fired point blank at, a distance of
eighteen or twenty feet, and it was abetted
to suppose that all fifteen bullets had missed.
" And how do you account for that?" I
asked, as I felt ms hair trying to climb up.
"It's ono of thenr conjuring tricks," an-
swered the engineer, "and was pretty well
worked. PPG seen stranger things than
that, We had better get out of this at
onee ?"
We were hardly off the blocks before a
rock weighing at least twenty pounds crash-
ed flown through the tree tops mai fell where
we heel been sitting. Pen neconds earlier
would Mixt) resulted in one death nt
least. As we made our way along I asked
the engineer how such a rock could have
been heaved into the air to fail with such
exactness, but he could not explain. In.
stead of pushing.to the temple we now made
our way to the right to get out of the ruins,
and soon were on the open plain.
"The temple is our objective point," ex-
plained Mr. (liana "and its no use pushing
through those reins to get there. We'll go
down opposite and then strike in. Now look
at that will You 1'
About 100.feet away from ns and agile in
000 000050 was a bushy -topped tree about
thirty feet high. There was only a light
air stirring, and yet the top of the tree was
waving to and fro as 11 111 a heavy gale. We
slowly advanced until we stood at the foot
of the tree. I had expected to see a native
up there, bitt nothing whatever was in sight.
While we steed there the tree continued its
antics, and none of us was sharp enough to
solve the mystery.
"It's just a trick to scare us off," said Mr.
Grant, and e ell see more of 'em before
we're through. How they do these things
I can't pretend to say, tut they are clone far
effect and would frighten a native out of
his senses. We must push &long and not
mind them."
Opposite the ruins of the temple wo en-
tered the thicket again, Mr. Grant leading,
and the rest following in Indian file. We
had not advanced a hundred feet when we
}MAUD BOBS AND MOANS
from both sides of us, aud me would have
sworn that a dozen women vvere wandering
about in distress. The sounds appeared
quite close to us, but yet we could not • de-
tect the presence of a human being. All of
a sudden, as wo continued to push ahead,
the thicket echoed such screme and shrieks
that my knees gave out and I han to clutch
a limb to support mo. I expected to be rid.
iculed for my OS hibit, but the others came
to a halt with serious faces and the engineer
aaid;
"I'm blessed if the sounds don't give me
a chill, though I know it's all a blooming
trick of the gang to keep us out. There
mnst be a lot of the fellows in there. "
"And I'm thinking it would be a wise
thing to send for more help," added Mr.
Grant. "Good Lord I but see that 1"
A block of stone which seemed to be four
feet long, a foot thick, and three feet wide
was lying in the grass within four feet of us
as we stood in a group. This block sndclenly
stood on end, rose into the air fully six feet,
end then fell to the earth with 14 jar which
made things tremble. I tell you simply
what five of us saw or thought we saw.
What sort of jugglery it was I don't pre-
tend to say, but it was jugglery of some
sort, of course. Directly after the stone
fell four or five large pieues of rook came
crashing about our ears, and no one hes-
itated to beat a speedy retreat.
'10) not running from their tricks, "
said Grant as we headed for camp, "but
Pm satisfied they are a large party and
desperate fellows. They are probably
strong enough to wipe es out and I'll have
up a company of soldiers to beat, the cover."
A messeuger was at once despetehed to
Bheeta, which is a military post, but it was
three days bolero the soldiers camo up.
There wore ninety of them, and though we
had heard nothing further from the treasure
hunters while waiting we felt sure they
were still among the ruins. The troops
entered from three different direceions,
having orders to shoot down anything they
sighted, but the whole place was beaten up
and only one native fonnd, lie was lying
among the ruins of the temple with a
broken leg. He was a Sholegn, from the
hills and after having boon carried to camp
and his injuries attended to he talked freely.
The party had numbered fifty men, and had
been working for two weeks when we ap-
peared. The leader had been 1811 0! the ex.
astenee of a cavern under the mine of the
temple, and they had laboured hard in their
effotts to seoure it. As we afterward saw for
ourselves they had moved at least a thou-
sand tone of debris before opening the cav-
ern. Their appliances were of the rudest
sort, and everything; had been accomplish.
el by main strength: During the period of
their labors five of the party had died of
snake bites and two had been killed in
rnovihg the blothe. The cavern was found
the day before the soldiers came, and in
op.ening it this native had boon hurt. His
fnencie bad deliberately abandoned Jinn,
but lie bore them no grudge, On the con.
teary, loS was highly aratified to know that
the treasure had escaped the English. When
asked res to les value his eyes sparkled arid
lie answered :
"Sahib, there wen naillions 1 Over thirty
men had each a heavy load made ready to
(wry when I fainted aWity. lb woUld have
made a hundred Englishmen Bolt for life
We found the room to be a cavern eight)
foot: long, six broad, and ton high, It had
been Wept clean. The wetly() mid it Wee
nearly fell of gold and silver and plate and
jewelry. /f so, the gross value was a bre.
mentions big slum, and the fellows must
have made two or three trips to oarry every.
thing away.
A stereo may find him Whom a Beeman ilk%
—[George Herbert.
The lower down in the pit, the brighter
shine the elan in the thy,
PLANT PESTS, THE ROYAL "SOVEREIGN,"
•
Their Pletutre4Shout Ilallit 011 the Walls
of Every School.
In an article enti tied "Pestiferous Plants, --
to the Popular Science Monthly, Prof. B.
A Heisted says; "The Mot is patent thet
weeds aro everywhere present, anti 1 he best
means ought to be taken te resist their
greater prevalence. In this warfare against
them there is no weapon equal tea thorough
knowledge of the Metny—that is, en un.
derstanding of their nature, their motile& of
propagation and dissemination of the seeds.
knowledge is immix more highly am
preciated in Europe than here.
" In Germany, fur example, they have
wall -maps upon wbiell the leading weeds
are repmeented. Hung as them are upon
the schoolroom walle, a °Mid, simply from
daily seeing these lifelike colored drawing
of the various pests, will learn their appear-
ance and names. Some such method of in.
struction is needed in this country, by
which the children who are soon to bo our
farmers mid gardeners mey beoome familiar
with the troublesome weeds even in advance
of their advent, that the proper means may
be taken at once for meeting aud destroying
them. Editors of agrioulteral papers and
professors in agricultural colleges yearly re-
ceive many interesting letters nakiug for the
shnplest kind of information concerning
many common weeds, tints showing the
general lack of knowledge upon this import-
ant subject.
Satisfactory Trial Trio 00 ihe Latest A441.
Ilion to the Beret Nu Yr—A Mending
remelts.
The 4014 trial -trip of II.M.S., "Royal
Sovereign," the largest war vessel in the
world, took place recently with many of the
officers of the English navy on board, The
ship was tested after being completely
coaled, with all her main and auxiliary
&enamel' te 18 place, and therefore
practically ready. for sea. As compared
're ith the heaviest ironclads et Prance
and Italy the "Royal Sovereign " far ex.
oeede in displaoement and speed any of the
vessels belonging to these nations, and .111
the opinion of the leading foreign engineer-
ing authorities is a marvel of marine con-
struction and engineering.
This recent addition to the naval force of
Great Britain wits oonstruoted at Poets.
mouth and is 380 feet in length, 75 feet in
breadth, and of a displacement of 14150
toes. Like all the battle ships of the
present day, there are twin screws with t wo
sots of main engines. They were designed
to indicate 9009 horse -power with natural
draught, and 1 8,000 indicated horse-powee
with Rimed draught, There are in elation
powerful hydraulic machinery foe working
thegun platforms, and duplicate sets of
" To put a 111019 01 a dozen of the moot de. engines for handling the barbettes,
structive weeds itpon the wells of every lle armament coneists of four 67 -ton
ft great endeetaking ; but, if it were done! pleced fore and aft ; ten of the new 0.inch
113e-ineh guna, mounted in two barbettes,
country schoolhouse m the United States is
mere would be the better fable to early 00, 3.poun
on quick -firing guns, and twenty-five a -pound.
der and machine guns. The pro.
the next find succeeding generationa of far
tho work of extermination. mom is it jectiles for the large guns, weigh 1 250
large number of fanners' clubs throughout .F,°unda, and the loading is done by hydrae -
the country, and a.great deal might be done .° P°"" e'llit'IY• A prominent feature is
by hanging a weed chart upon the walls of . the high speed at which every item of the .
these halls, where farmers gathee from tame •nmehinery ie designed to work, mid the
to time for mutual improvement and a bet- consequent swiftness of fire that is obtained.
ter understanding of OW Ways and moms of . The turning engines, foe example, ere fifty
a more profitable agriculture, ;per centmore powerful than theta in other
"Weeds have been neglected in more I ves'els' and the breech mechanism, ammo -
070015 than ono, end just so far as they are talon lifts mid rummers all work with
overlooked and left to themselves the great- enhanced rapidity, It is expected that
or will be the curse. As we look over the there will be no difficulty in maintaining
premium lists of our thousands of county a firs from each barbette ot two rounds
end State fairs we seldom see a prize offer- every two minutes. The G -inch rapid -firing
ed for the best collection of weeds. Itseems guns are of an improved design, and were
incompatible with our fituees of things to specially bnilt to use the new anummition,
have a good colleetion ofanything thet is !cordite. The 07 -ton guns nre each 30 feet
bad, and yet the fact reinains that there is long.
no class of plants about which. an increase Daring the three hours'run the vessel made
a speed of 184 knots, the collected mean in.
of knowledge is more imperative than these
(Heated herse.power being 13,312 or 312
same ugly weeds. A few dollars expended f
bring together lists of plant pests, the ox. The regulation called for a full power
above the contract,.
in awards by each fair association would ;
1 trial for four hews, but: during the last
hibition of which would not only surprise,
hour the tube ends began to leak, end the
but greatly instruct those who see them. It
is not less important for the Meiners of any i teats were brought to a close. The damage
did not prevent; tho gunnery trials, which
district to know of the arrival of a new
were
weed than of the advent of a new fruit or eminently satisfactory.
grain."
Were this our only clay,
Did not our yesterday's and morrows give
To hope and memory their interplay,
Row should we boar to llvo
Not merely what we are,
Bull what we were and what wo are to be,
:Rake 00000 life—the far days each a star,
The near days nebultn.
At once would love forget
Its keen pursuits and coy delays of bliss,
And its delioious pangs of fond regret,
Were there no day but this.
And who, to win tt friend,
Would to the secrets of Ids hears invite
fellowship that should begin and end
Between a night and night?
Golden Thoughts for Every Day.
Monday—How terrible after all is the
problem which here confronts us, how ter-
rible the words of one who says (*morning
wealthy and laxuriousLondon, "Hymn stay
long enough in the squalid rookeries of the
East End to realize its full terror, yoa will
never smile again," Sad indeed is the con-
dition of the million to whom life is an un-
remitting battle for the very means of ex-
istence. Hence the sorrowful wisdom of
one who writes: "The battle of life is not
the same thingfor one who has to fight for
the very elements of material existence as
it is for him whose sickness lies in excess
of good fortune, and the root of whose aor-
row is in the absence of desire and conse-
quent want of endeavor. If it is an ill work
Who, too, would p01050 to prate
or insult, or remember slight or seorn, to argue with a hungry mau, it is a worso
Who would this night lio down to sleep with to give him the shadowy consolations of
hate, sentiment as a solace for his woes. The
Were there to be no morni needy knife -grinder had the truest wisdom
Who would take heed to wrong
'ro misery's complaint or pitys call , on his side when he preferred a valid six-
Ippee to the drops of compassion trembling
'
The long wail of the weak against, , the strong, on the eyelids of the friend of humanity.—
It Olio one day were all 1
alth with shamTuesday—
e, [Silas Horner.
And whet were we
el this day were the last?
Give the past unto the wind; •
Tho vanity of office, pride of caste, An before us lies the 07107,The winy sparkle of the bubble fame,
All before us is thedity,
Ay, what wore all days worth, Night and darkness aro behind.
Ware there no looking backward or beforo— Edon with its angels bold,
Love and flowers and coolest sea,
It every human life that drops to earth Is less an ancient; story told
Were lost tor averment Than lagloevingprophocy.
711 tile sp
But each. day is a link aitaperfect ai
, r,
Of days that pass ana never pass awne,; Innocence trom sottish care
10 the passions tame and kind,
For minor?, and hope—to live, to think— The real Edon wo shell-11nd.
Eno 1 is our only day.
—gfarper's:Magazine. Wednesday.—It is not enough to I'm 13,
---- inan ; the responsibilities of manhood must
Glycerine in the House, be discharged. The foot mutt do the foot's
work, and leave tho eye to look after its.
This useful substance is almost exclusive. own nosiness. A flower is useful, though
ly.,, used extetnally by hOuse'wire's• 16 it does not grow fruit. Gladly I proclaim
moistens and softens the skin, and, when the usefulness of beauty. A flower has
properly diluted, both prevents and cures many a time opened the very heavens to
the painful u,nd unsightly eraake know as my aching heart. It has spoken to me of
" °Imps" on the hands. We have seen it, purity and simplicity, of frailty, mortality,
alley the excessive thirst of a fiver when and dependenee. Was it useless because
nothing. else afield do 80. Two or three it, gave nye neither corn nor wine 1 Truly
drops gfven to baby will ofteli toll its not. It did its work, and, no angel could
stomach.ache, if wind be the :muse.
It do more—[Joseph Parker.
will often soothe an irritable cough by Thursday—It will greatly benefit you te
moistening the dryness of the throat which take the Bible and familiarize yourself with'
gives rise to it. It is the 'nest efficient its teachings regarding man s relation to
means at our command for the prevention his fellow man. The Bibles throughout
of beasoree. M. Cattilion (hued by ex. mailifests the tenderest solicitude for the
poriments that internally it increased the
welfare of humanity and especially of those
lelinetite and promoted nuerition. It hes who are in tronble bemuse of oppression
been foetid to be excellentas an enema hi and wrong. I know the Bible is a divine
treating constipation. But if snots uses are book because it is so humane, There is no
made of it, it must be mire and wholly un- other book so packed and satureted with
adulterated. Another use may be fielded, sympathy for wronged humanity as the
which is not generally known. When you Bible, It is radioal and revolutionary in
are about to seat fruit -jars, drop in half a its teachings. Ib blazes hot with wrath
.dozen drops of glycerine and it will help in againsb those who defraed the toiler of his
the keeping, and prevedt mould from pith- just wages. The Bible is the mast advanced
ering on the top. If you want to show socialistio book on the question of work '
your husband a little attention, place a and wage% If I were an unbelieving so.
your
at his hand of equal parts of glycerine eialist or secularist having thegood of he.
and bay rum, for the use after his morning mangey ai
t heart I would Stand n the open •
shave, and he will rise up mnd bless you. market place, where men congregate and
This, I know, for I have tried it and can teaoh its burning truths of the multitudes.
recommend it. Glycerine is also excellent —Ray Temple.
for rubbing into shoes as a preventive of
wet feet, ae well as to soften the leather and Friday—
While with careless conme the sun
keep it in good condition. Hosted throu li the former year.
Many souls thelo' race have run,
riNover MOM 00 11100t1I8 hero;
. .
Finding Your Mission.
They have done with till below;
To find your miesion you have but to be Wo is tittle longer waft.
faithful wherever God puts you for the But how little,nono men Item.
present. The bumbler things He gives in —Pane Watts,
the earlier years are for your training, that Saturday—lb is perfectly poesible for la
you may be ready at leugth for the larger man not a professed student, and who only.
and particular service for which you were gives to reading the leisure hours of a.busi.
born. Do these manor, Immbler things noes life, to acquire such a general know- :
well, end they will prove steps in the stairs ledge of the law of 'totem and the fade of
up to the loftier heights where your " mis. history that every groat advance Melo in
sion" even's. To spurn these plainer duties either department shall be to hien moat 111,
and tasks an(l to neglect them is to miss telligible and interesting, and he inay be.
your mission itself in the end, for there is sides have among his famtlier friends many
no way to it butt by time ladderdrounds of 0 departed worthy whose memory is ern,
oommonplace things which you distain, balmed in the paps of memoir or hie -
You must, build your own ladder day by graphy. All this is ours for the asking, All
clay in tho common fidelities, , this we than ask for if only it be our happy
, fortune to love for ite own mho the bendy
True riches do not consist in the thiege and knowledge to bo gathered from bootee:
that the world can give, bat in the things And if this bo our fortune, the world inay be
that the devil can not take away. kind or 'unkind, it may seem to .us to be -
hastening 011 the 071038 01 enlightenment end
imminent) millonninmt or ib
There aro people in every church tvl 6
stop believing the Bible the minute they Pr°g"" t° 0011
may weigh us down with the sense of mato
look at a dollar.
blo difficulty and irremediable wrong ; but
A revival may alWays be hied by any evhatever else it may be so long as wo have
ohurch that IS willing to give up the world good health arid a good library, ib oat hardo
to get it. ly be clull.-IA, tt,' Balfour,
)