The Brussels Post, 1890-9-5, Page 2TE Bit USSELS POST: Sum 5, 1890.
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CHAPTER III
In point of ertistic beauty and adieuy of
floral arrangement throughout Arlington
Street,
N. 281 eertainly bore away the
palm • for ;Sloe Dene, like most country
girls, hod a positive passion for flowers—a
gratieful fumy ,ho was fortunately in a posi-
tie» to gratify. Many an ceo:ious eye fell
upon that cool facade with its wealth of
glorious bloom 1 musty a darling of fashion
/mused as he :passed on his lietless way,
and forgot his bettineebook and other
mundane speculations, to wonder lazily who
Might some day be the fodunate map
to call that peace Opappointed =mien and
fits beautiful mietress his own, For Vera
Dees could have picked and chosen from
the best of them, and graced their ancestral
homes; but tow she was fivegrad-twenty ;
SO they came at Met to think it was hopeless,
and thet a heart of rumble pulsed languidly
in !1st beautiful bosom.
The hall -door stood invitingly open ; more,
perhaps,, in reality to catch the faint summer
breeze, for tbe afternoon was hot, and inside,
• the place looked cool, dim and deliciously in.
viting. On a table there lay a poir of long
gauntlets, threw earelesslyupona gold -
mounted riding -whip ; axid. coming down the
:aliellow steles, agaiust a background of
eathery fern aud. pale gleaming statutory,
'was Miss Dem herself. A stray gleam of
sunshine, streaming through a painted
'window, lighted up her face and dusky hair;
beantiful face, with creamy pallor, over•
laid by a roseate flush of health. The dark-
hrown eyes were somewhat large ; a trifle
herd, too, a stern aide of beauty might
have berm justified in saying the tall grace.
ful figure drawn up perhaps too proudly.
Vero Deno was, however, no blushing tie -
Inmate_ but a womanmv who knew lalpha-
bet of life from alpha to omega ; who was
fully eonscious of her power, and the value
oflterpeitionwell euough to discern between
honest admiration and studied flattery-, and
to gather up the scanty grains of truth with-
out mistaking chaff for gelatin cern. There
was no reflection of wietful memory on the
heiress's face as she rode slowly down the
street some time later, the cynosure of ad-
otirinLeyes. There was a rush aud glitter
'of carriages hurrying parkwards, as she rode
onher wayalone, bowingto one acquaintance
or another, and dividing her favours im-
partially.
eele beautiful face," murmerea a bronzed
soldierly -looking man to his companion as
they lounged listlessly against the rails of
the Row, watching the light tide of fashion
swooping by. "A perfect fate, wanting
only sod to make it peerless. Who is she,
Leslie?'
"Who is oho?" laughed the other. "Is it
possible you do not kuow eliss Dem ? But
. J. forgot you had been so long in India. You
remember old. Vavasour Done, of course, aud
his son, the poetical genius, who married
eomedeineve little counoT maiden, unknown
to Debrett or Burke, and who was cut off
-with the traditional shilling accordingly.
Yon eelel imagine the rest of the story ;
a life-long feud between father and son, end -
'keg, as it usually does, iu the parent's dying
awl ebeating condemeatien by an act of
lardy justice. That handsome girl is old
Due s heiress, a womau wait all Lonoton at
her feet, a quarter of a million in her own
eight, and never a heart in the whole of her
•perfect anatomy."
Wholly unconscious of this storiette, and
-apparently of the admiration she naturally
'excited, Miss Dene rode on down the Mile,
with many a shake of her shapely head as
one gloved hand after another beckoned her
to ran! alongside barouehe °email phaeton;
till at ength a slight crush brought her to a
• standstill. Almost in front of her was an
open sta,nhope, wherein was seated a deli-
cate fragile -looking lady, exquisitely dress-
ed, and apparently serenely indifferent to
the glances and smiles in her direction. By
liter eide set a child of six or seven, a dim-
inetive counterpart of herself, to her fair
. golden hair and melting pansy -blue eyes.
Vera would fain have pushed her way
through the crowd and passed on ; but the
child had seen her, and uttered her name
-with a cry of innocent delight ; and Vere,
like stony another who le credited with
swent of heart, had. a tender love for child-
ren.
"B eally, I owe Violet my grateful thanks,"
murmured the owner of the etanhope as Vera
ranged alongside. "Positively, I began to
tfear that you meant to cut me. I should
teever have forgiven my brother, if yon ha&
My dear child, I warned hint it was useless;
I did indeed. And now he says that his
heart is broken, and that he shall never be-
lieve a woman any more."
Vero looked down into the Marchioness of
Budingliam's fair detnure face with a little
smile.
"So Lord Beerhaven has been abusin
me?" she soid, "I am disappointed. I du
mot think he would have carried his woes
into the boudoir."
"My dear Diana, he 1104 done nothing of
Ike kind. Surely a man might be allowed
• to bewail his herd lot with his only sister.
Violet, my darling child, do be careful
how you arose the road."
This warning, addrensed to the diminutive
• little lady, who had succeeded unseen in
opening the cordage door came too late ffor
by this thne the volatile child had recognised
some beloved acquaintance over tlei way,
and indeed was already beyond the reach of
warning. Vere watched the somewhat
Inwardous passage breathlessly, then, satis-
fied thee her small favourite had made the
'dangerous journey in safety, turned to hor
companion again.
"1 have a genuine regard for Lord Bear -
leaven," raid she, speaking with an effort,
" too, great a regard to take advantage of
his friendship euder false pretences, I shall
mover forget, the kindness he OS00 did me in
the hour of my great tronfile, 1V111 you tell
him so, please ? Ana say that perhaps for the
present it will be well for us not to meet."
"tnv, that iS SO like both of you," Lady
Hurlingham oriea, .fire Meg horsdf in seine
little heat, 11/hy will you both persist in
making so serious 0, business of li feat anyrate
Fon might have some consideration for 115
more frivolous -infested mortals. Vere, if you
do not coma to my Jewel Ball on Thursday, I
—I—well, I will never speak to you again,"
'80 I am to be coerced, then, I am mor-
ally bound to he present gime tho Society
poem= have prometect thei world a sight of
the Vero diamonds ; besiaes which, 1 sunply
dare not incur your ladyship's clispleaure:"
" I wonder if you have to heart ee all,"
said the other. "Sotnethnes I almost doubt
it ;and the thnesI generally doubt it moat are
hrt modietelyefter those moments whonlhave
flettered myself that I really have begun to
doted symptoms of that organ. The roman.
110 0000 have been libelling again, Would
you like to hear the latest story ?"
" Yon stopped me for this, 1 presume.
Positively, you will not know it moment's:
peace till yon have told int, I am all Mien -
tion,"
"They aro saying you hove no hart, be-
traillSO 11 wes civet away long ago ; they say
there it/ a rustle lover somewhere in hob,
nails and gaiterswho won yeur, &Met ions,
awl is afraid to Speak since you became to
groat lady."
Vete tiitl not reply nt glatreo
Wit) her friend's eparkling mischievous face.
A tlemer tinge of odour limited the creamy
whitenese of melt and brow, like the pink
11011 01)011 a S110W3 1.0110.
"They do 100 too much honour," she re.
plied. "Such a Model of constancy ut this
world of ours would indeed be a pearl
amongst women. Pray, do they giVe a name
to this bashful Corydon of mine ?''
"Naturally, nothing buttraditional
the
second cousin, ma vivre, Really, 11 15 gain a
pretty romance—the struggling artistes
genius who is too prima to speak, now you
are in another sphere. Surely you are not
offended ?" •
In spite of her babyish affectations and
infantme innocence, mere mannerisms over- ,
lying a tender kindly heart, Helena, March. I
iouess of Hudingham, was not entirely
without an underlying vein of natural
shrewdness. She was clever enough to see
now that the innocentivolivected shaft of a
bow drawn at a volume had penetrated he.
tween the joints of Von's armour, in spite
of her reputatiou for being perhaps the most ;
invulnerable woman in Loudon,
" I am not offended," Vera answerea,
recovering her chill composure at length ;
"only such frivolity annoys one al tunes. I
What a lot of idle manilal poor wemaultind
has to endure !—What is that ?"
Gradually above the roll of carriages, the
clatter of hoofs, the subdued murmur of voices
and light laughtmentheder,sternerhumarose.
Porno down on thebreeze cameaistantsounde
of strife, end now and then a shriek in a wo-
man'esheilinotest it seemed to swellas if some
panic haastricken the heedless crowd farther
down the drive. Every face restlese and measy
with the sudden mosciousness of some cone
ing danger, was turned in the direction
whenee the evidence of trouble arose, ess 0.
carrip and pair of horses, coming along at
lightning speed, scattered pedestrians and
riders right and left, like a flock of helpless
sheep, In a wild medley of confusion.
As if by magic, a lane seemed to have
opened and coming along the open space tore
a pair of fiery chestnuts, dragging after
them in their fear and fright tonmil phaeton
as 11 11 had been match -wood. With a feel-
ing of relief, the helpless spectators noticed
that the vehicle was empty, save for its
driver, who, with bare bead and face white
as death,. essayed manfally to steer the mad-
denetlammals straight down the roadway, a
task remlerea doubly dangerous and difficult
from the crowded state of the Row, and the
inability of certain tyros to keep the ;oath
sufficiently dear.
In the midst of the turmoil and confusion'
there arose another cry, a shout of fear and
=heeded expostulation, for, crossing the
roadway smilingly, without the semblance
of a fear, came a little child, bearing in her I
hand a bunch of roses ; a little gb1, with
sunny golden curls and lug:long bios eyes,
standing like a butterfly before a sweeping
avalanche. There was another shout, and
again the tiny passenger failed to note her
auger as nearer and nearer came the horses,
till through the now: paralyzed, helpless
crowd burst the figure of a man, who, with-
out a moment's hesitation, sprang forward ,
and =milt the chila just es the pole of the '
carriage threatheed to strike tsr to the
ground. There was no longer time for not
escape, a fact of which the heroic stranger
oras perfectly aware ; and grasping the laugh-
ing maiden with one powerful arm, with the
other lie made a grab for the off -horse's head,
and chug to the bridle with the bulldog tenac-
ity of aespair. For to moment the animals,
checked in their heaalong career, swerved
to the right ; there was to crashing sound of
broken panels, and to moment later child,
rescuer, horses, and driver lay in an ince-
triceble struggling confusion.
For a second or two there followed& dread
intense silence, as emelt butterfly of fashion
contemplated in faseinated horror the strug-
gling mass; then, before the nearest could
interfere, it was seen that the strangev had
risen to his feet, his garment soiled and
stained, and a stream of ruddy crimsonslow.
ly trickling down hie face. Juth for to brief
instant he reeled fi.om very faintness, till,
dashing the blinding blood from his eyes,
he stooped 'swiftly, atd at the imminent
risk of his brains, drew the now thorough-
ly frightened child right from under those
terrible hoofs, and taking her in his arms,
staggered rather than walked to a seat.
Meanwhile, Lady Huteingtoe, beside her-
self with grief and terror, the lady of
fashion merged for the moment into the
mother, had descended from her carriage,
her face pale and haggard, and hurriedwith
Vote to the seat where the stranger reclin-
e& It was no tints for oeretnony or class
distinction. 11 ith a gesture motherly and
natural, toff she had beenmoulded of mean-
er clay, she snatched little Violet front the
arms still mechanioally holding bet, with a
great gush of thankfulness to find that,
with the exception of the fright, not one
single hair of that golden head had been in-
jured.
By this time tho crowd had sufficiently
recovered from the threatened realization of
suailen death, and, with regained wit, suffi-
cient society veneer to murmur the usuel
polite condolences and congratulations to
the now elated mother. Still the rescuer sat,
his face buried in his hands, a whirling,
maddening pain in his head, and a Mist be-
fore his eyes as if the world had sullenly
lost its sunshine. Vero, with tears in her
' oyes and a tremble in her voice, pushed her
way through the too sympathetic crush end
ioid her hand gently on the sufferer s arm.
'I ton afraid you aro eerie she Raid. 'Cu X
do anything for you ?.
Winchester, for he it, was looked up
vaguely, the words coming to his ears like
the roar of the see singing in a dream,
O dream which was not all from the
land of visions. Ho -wondered dreamily
whore he had heard thot voice before.
With an effort he looked up again. For tho
first time in five years their oyes met in the
full light of day.
She know Mtn now, recognized him in to
utomont. llut it WWI scarcely the sates Win.
ohester who had restored her lost ornament
O fortnight ago. Tho old Ashby reiment
had disappeared, giving place to a neat atilt,
Hitch as no gentleman hail been &shamed to
wear, Minion days' stonily work, inspired
by
to worthy object, had met on equal reward.
It was no liner Wincheeter tho outcast,
that Vere was addressing, but Winchester
the gentleman, and in his heart he rejoiced
tied it was so.
IV a moment they wore no longer
the centre of s, glittering host of fah-
bit,f their thonghts together tto.a gono back
, to the vanished pad, as they looked into
each other's eyes, neither daring to tense to
words,
"Jeek," said Vero itt length—Vack, is it
really your
, "Yes, dear, 11 10 X," Winchester respond-
ed faintly. "You did not expeet to react
me like this if—you over expectea to meet
me at all,"
.1)0 you think I forget, ILA— as ;same pee -
pie do ? You did not always judge Ma 50
harS111V. HOW 00(11a We 11111(11 beltOr hoW
COUI0 fuel more proed of you then I do at
flue moment?
Genteelly ;the erowd fell bode There
was not muoh mischief done after ell ; noth-
ing that a 01011108.1.111311 and a little Werel
water would not rectify, Besides, Miss
lone seemed te, know the duel me, and
from oue or tem expressions, meth upper.
ently prefer to be left alone.
Winchester's answering smile had no trace
of itt, aecustomeo bitterness. After all,
there WM something in Lite 8of1 music of
Vere'e tones a charm in the reckless aban-
dimmed of eulf which fell npon his troub-
led heart like balm in Gilead. There was
something sweet also in the consciousness
that ite bad played the man so recently in
her sight, under the very eyes whose bright-
ness alone ho had only valued. There was
o stimulurt 11 -Of th all the ton'es in the plate-
mecopwia.
Ilo would have spoken again, but he was
sutffiring still from to great rush of pain and
giddieess, as if the whole universe was slip-
ping into space. Ducetly after, the feeling
passed =my, and he was himself onto more.
By this time Lady Hurffigham had driven
away, while some one, more thoeghtful than
the rest, had remained to place his cordage
at 'Vinchester s disposal.
" This gentleman ma friend of yours, Miss
Dem ?" he asked. "Allow me to suggest that
your groom takes your horn, and that you
drive likewise. 100 will pardon my sister's
apparent heedlessness, but you see Violet is
en only child, and--"
Vero looked gratefully into Lord Bearhey-
effis grave, handsome face, and extended her
hand in an impulse of gratitude. The meet -
ting she had so much &ceded was made
smooth and pleasant by his kindly cour-
tesy.
"1 might have expected this front you,"
she answered warmly. " Believe me, I am
deeply obliged. Mr. Winchester is not only
o friend, but a relation."
Lord Bearhaven gave Jack a hatiel-grip
whichsaid more than the mostearefully chits.
en words. But whet an effort this magnanim-
ity cost him, only Vera, who saw that he had
heard everything, alone could tell.
"I am forgiven, then?" asked Winohester
as they drove ,along Oxford Street. " Well,
it is worth playing the poor part I have play-
ed to -day to hear that. Vore, Vere, what
O sorry self-opinionated fool I have been !
Do you know that for the last week I have
been screwing up my courage to the stick-
ing -point ? But whenever I found myself
near you, my pluck failed."
" You do not desevve to he spoken to,"
Vero replied, her cheeks aflame, her eyes
laden with unshed triers, though the thrill-
ing tenderness dime voice robbed the words
of their sting, "How dare you venture to
treat me as if I should be ashamed of my
old friends?"
Up to this point, Winthester had scarce-
ly dared to analyse his sensations. Now that
all the impenetrable barriers of restraint
were broken down between them, ho found
himself talking in the old familiar si rate,
and wondering of the last five years was
merely a phantasm of his own creation.
"And Chris," Vero NInItured at length,
though Gm question hadlong been trembling
on her tongee, "do yen over hear enything
of him ?"
inchester told her everything, disguis-
ing nothffig except the part of good Samar.
'ten he himself had played towards the um
fortunate Ashton. It must ban been an
interesting conversation, for Vere's face as
she listened grew very soft and tender, her
eyes sweet and lumiuous. When at length
the end of Arlington Street was reached,
Winchester stopped the coachman, and in-
sisted upon alighting, a step which Vere
vehemently opposed.
"You are coming home with me," she
said. "Have you any idea who you will
San waiting there to welcome you ?"
"Not the slightest ; unless you have
persuaded—hut that is impossible. Still,
you most have a ohaperon of some sort. Is
it possible that you have our dear old Aunt
Lucy at Arlington Street ?"
" Not only possible, but an actual fact.
Como; you cannot refuse now,
Winchester hesitated for a moment, then,
with a sudden impulse, complied. Of all his
relations, the "Aunt Lucy" in question Was
th0 only one who kept a green spot in his re.
collectiou. A few moments later he passed a
welcome guest through the veryponals outs
side which so short to tints before he stood a
wretched outcast and useless wombat of so-
ciety.
TWO hours later, when he dracended the
steps again, with a bright eager look of ex-
ultation on his face, a servant loitering in
the hall 014W and wondered if it was the same
man whom his Inistress had brought home so
recently. He liegered for a moment, for a
few parting words with Vero.
"$o that is settled," he said ; "and 11
you should feol afraid"—
"Afraid. I" she echoed scornfully. "I shall
not be afraid."
"I do not think you will. Now, remember
you have promised. And above all things,
Lord Deaths von must know everything.'
"I promise," elle answered. "If I could
only me Chris" --
"Bat yen can't do anything of the kind—
for the present, at least. You must hove
perfoot faith hi me."
"1 lueve," Vero replied, looking into his
glowing oyes. "Had I not always?'
(To DS COMP/MM.)
No Use for Rim -to Go to Heaven,
"Look yah, yell 'Restate ; yoit events to be
O good boy, yah tne ? So's when you die
yoh kin go ter glohry an' pies, on er gol'n
harp,"
"Tara' no uso," said the boy in a dis-
couraged tone.
"Why tot?'
"Kase 1 keen' trloy on do Itahp. Ef dey'd
gib Ine er mouf organ 011 to benjo I moat git
along."
iia Lesson in Adipose,
"Mamma," said Master Harry, "how fat
Amelia has grown I"
" Yes," replied his mamme, "but don't ray
'fat,' dear, say "
Al the dilater table next day Harry was
asked if he would take any fel meat, "No,
thank you," said Harry, " I'll take 801103
St011t."
Where the Gorgeousness Was.
" Your elms doesn't Mom to be partion-
larly attractive this year," remarked to visi-
tor.
"No,". replied tho manager ; "bot you
ought to 055 0133 advance advertising car:"
Cruel,
Mrs. Cumin) (at the breakfast table)—
George, / wish you would remind roo—
f:inns° (interrupting) -,-Ah, you begin to
realise that your' mind is about gone, do
you?
BLBOTRIOAL.
All internment which oan hardly he look'
oil upon with a kindly eye by impended
wateinton and other employees, It part of
whose ditty it le to place themselves Oh
rowed at stated ti111011, is the emengrepli.
This device, by the aid of dee-trio currents;
presents et a pre7e1e1eemitte1l time a clear
apace of paper for 'signatures at an oPoning
in a suitelde desk, awl at the end of the
time of grace allowed moves it past the
opening. The telleffile and teneoheeking
systonte hitherto used, owing to the fact
that the neensery sigma aro nude by elec.
tvie currents set In motion by alum, or Plugs;
or preen buttons, are to a certain extenb in-
efficient, as they allow of the possibility of
a false register being numle while the elm
ployee is absent, The insumgraph, bow-
men, by making ton autograph at a partiou•
lar moment of time necessary, minimmee the
possibility of fraud.
One of the most beeutifta sighte in the
world Arill soon he seen in Lelia, The me-
parallelea beauty of the Taj Mahal will be
made visible at night, and still Nether ideal-
ized by oleotrio light illumination. Within
the eext month powerful are lights will be
placed in each of the frontininards, on each
of the book minarets, and on tho Musjid
end Jawab. The effect, will be toll the more
striking from the fact that the main building
will have no light stationed upon it, so that
the points mentioned will be thrown into
magnificent relief.
--
In reference to a recent suggestion that
en electrical trieyele W011111 /MVO a large
sphere of usefulness, the seperintendent of
ton oleetrie light station writes t "1 have
often wished for an electrical tricyole, as I
could make it very useful for Imp inspec-
tors on street circuits, and reptile° a deice.
tive laum on very short notice." Ile also
states that he could make an elect, ical tri-
cycle to earry two persons thet would be of
the greatest service in hunting breaks, end
he preferable in many ways to the horse
and hack which are now necessary on a
long street circuit for expeditious aud
effective repairs.
An enthusiastic entomologist is readying
daily from the local lineman the moths which
find their way into the arc beep globe in an
adjacent street duringthe night. Birds are
fearlessly building their nests in the hoode
of the lamps, and we are told thee an elec-
tric light superintendent in Nashville receiv-
a unique preseut from a colored workman in
the form of a sack full of honey bees. The
swarm was found in the hood of an electric
lamp, where it had settled the day before.
-. --
A singular wrinkle, which will be appre-
ciated by electricians, is given 111 an Austen -
Han electrical journal. A. correspondent de-
scribes the visit of the electric inspector to
his station, and says that after a battery
which had got out of order had been fixed
up, tho inspectoe asked for a little sugar,
After some denittr the apparently queer re-
quest was granola. Tho impeder then be-
gan to wash his heeds in the usual way with
soap and water, but after rubbing on the
soap he acldea the sttgar, and a good lather
was immedietely produced. Ile said this
mos an excellent plan when working with
magnesia or copper solutions, and complete-
ly prevented the disagreeable dry feeling ex-
perienced ie lottery work. The °ponder
coufirmea this, having found that, after
washing, the handaeame out clean and soft.
The atorage lottery is destined to play such
an important part in the future of electric
traction that any addition to the resources
whielt will increase its efficiency is worthy
of notice. The desideratum in the storage
battery is reduced weight and increased de.
livery, and the problem is being now attack-
ed with a determination and enthusiasm
whioh, judging from the progress made in
the last two years, will soon establish the
storage battery on a firm commercial basis.
One of the pioneers in this work, as well as
one of the first authorities in the comdry on
the subject, is a o. Maillome, one of the
results of whose experience has just been
given to the public in a new application of
the eccumulattes A common source of in-
convenience and difficulty in eleotrie light-
ing and power circuits is the variation in
load, which may in con instead jump from
nothing to the fral rapacity of the machines.
This praduces not only a very undesirable
fluctuation in the oleetroonotive force, but
also sudden anti severe strains in the engine,
dynamo, and entire machinery, by which the
COat of repairs is materially increased. Mr.
Mailloux's device consists of a novel appli-
cation of the storage battery for theme -pose
of lessoning the load of the dynamos by nem
foreleg them at the proper time from the
battery. The invention is 05 ingenious 11.0
it is useful, and it is likely to be hugely and
promptly adopted.
A singular phenomenon is reeordea on the
authority of a German scientific paper. Ib
is steted that one arming in a stearin° and
eeresin factory in Italy some vtots of white
eeresin, -which is to paraffin° obtained from
ozokerite, were cooling down, and when
they had nearly, become solid the eleotric
light that illumined the room went out.
TM omen immediately become luminuus
whenever it was touched, and if the liond
was brought near, hong sparks of needy two
inches wen obtained. This eon -meltable
luminosity is said to have lasted over half
an hoer.
An invention which is designed to be of
07)00101 1150 in 1411001' storms, fogs, and oases
of color fa:Maness is an atelible electric sig.
nal, which was tried in this city It= wools
with most skisfactory results. When ono
train is on a block of track protooteil by
the contrivance and another enters, a warn.
pg. is given to the engineer of the on coming
tram in the shape of tt flat iron disk of
blight red color, and the ringing at the same
timo of a gong. These operations are effect-
ed by an electric current along a wire, ono
end of which is at rachea to tho bedy of the
locomotive and the other to tho first truck
of tho first ear. The circuit is made es the
locomotive wheals touch ono at &mope-
tleed point and the cm. wheels another,
A new phonograph has been devised in
cerre
te
Ciermaey. The sorted WIPIOS aro re 1 1 .n
wavy linos on to strip of paper or on smoked
glass, As the paper niovos along, &straight
lino is drawn HA, a short &stance from the
evavy line. The two lines aro Oxen enlarged
and mole metallic, or, in other words, com
ductore of eicetrioity. The reproduction is
effected by laying a Ono platinum wire across
the lines and moving it along in a position
perpendicular to the streight or base lino,
As current from a battery is made to pass
mai the record lien to the platinum wire
ana auto telephone is in circuit, it will be
soon that as the wire is rubbed along over
the paper, the length of wive included be.
two= the lines, and oonsequentle the re.
eidetic° of tho circuit, will vary. Tin
original sound is thus reprodueed itt thn
telephone, l'here Acorns no immediate him»,
hood of this histrumont coming et to sedum
rivalry with tho Edisonphonograph.
Another Mangey which is clestined short.
ly 10 bo sane.' to its yore. depths by tho
advent althe electric motor is that of tho
bootblack. The rivet blow at what will
moon be regarded as the ancient praatice of
shining, by hand has been dealt in Chicago,
where electrical bleefislog machinee ere
how et work on the streets, The outfit is of
the simplest deseription; A small motor is
ooneditied in a box beneath the foot rest of
the bootblack's chair 010 flexible shaft with
one end attached to the armature spindle
has the other fitted with a revolving polisli.
fig brush. .Lho only .other element in the
outfit is 0 smsll nosh button, snii when this
is touchea tho brash 'mins round tot a 14110141
that laughs to sewn the deftest hand that
ever gave the exultant finish to the morning
toilet,
An ingenious instrument calle,1 the tele -
cone is 110W used to contr.l auy individual
signal et any desired paint on to main leo
circuit. It entobles 0 signal to be exhibited
at nay point, without interfering in tuty way
with any other signals on the same circuit.
It is worked by the otelinavy transmittiug
key, toed the:Morse alphabet is usetl. The in -
stemma can be advantageuusly used on tele.
phone lines, patrol systems, kola for mealy
purposes.
A novel use for the elect:do motor is 00.
ported from Altoona, where a motor,worked
fan is employed in a melt where books art,
kept in order, to preserve them from the
effect of clamp, •
The prices paid for Lorrain recent invem
lions are such aa to give encouragement to
those plucky and undaunted inventors who
aro still struggling to mature and formulate
their idea, 'Major Makin received for his
range -finder 8, 1 75,000 and $500,000 has been
paid for the Brennen torpeao.
One of the most buolicial ways of purify.
ing rooms itt whiehe the atmosph ire is es.
peciallyliable to vitiationes to produce ozone
by electrical sparks, and the practice has
been olro>tgly recommended by the highest
medical aut teethes. 1 he delightful fresh-
ness and vigor which is perceptible in the
air after a sevies of sparks from ton ordinary
influence machine is a proof of the salutary
naul refreshing influence produced. A
physician in Philadelphia has taken a eery
WISC step in the introduction of a small
electric machine for the production of ozone.
It is in to compact form, operated by a small
battery, and can be conveniently carried.
There is said to be a large demand for the
machine for purifying the deli rooms of
private putionts.
Tho great importance of telegrephy Fan
be clearly seen from stetisttes lately publish-
ed. It is shown that there are 2,000,000
miles of loud lines existing, valued. at
$210,000,000. The cables liclonging to
Governments are 13,1 78 miles long, and are
valuell at $20,000,000. The cable computes
have 107,000 miles of cable, eostitig $1.80,-
000,000, and have & total capital of effieffiffi,
000. 'ffito gross expenditure on land lutes
and cables has been over $500,000,000. All
this has been created during the last fifty
years, and most of the submarine cable por.
lion during the last twenty -eve years.
--
Recent investigatione by Capt. .7, P. :
Maclear Move brought out some mew audilnpI
ot tbaitgitftt
iiiltsr c i,c‘orc
f t ol
Me:mining a number of trees which had
been steak by lightning, he found that
those which were struck before the falling
of rafts were shattered, evhile those which
were streak after the rain began were
sitnply scored, and had the bark mare or
less blown off. These phenomena paint to
the fact that during Vain every tract is ion-
duoting electricity. Other copaiderattons
&eliding the issue me the position of the
cloud, the amount of foliage on the tree, Its
conditions of moisten, and its conueotion
with Ginning water.
Acme of considerable interest to electrical
engineers is now pending in England, Three
of the engineers of it local electric lighting
company were summoned by a barrister for
(tentage to trees by wires. .At an earlyper-
iod difficulty had existed with the trees, and
severed poles had been shifted in consequence
of the owners giving notice that they would
not allow the trees to be cut. The present
action arose out of the damage alleged to be
done to trees dedieeted to the public in the
avenue outside the complainant's grounds,
and over which he claimed aights. The
question is being argued on points of law,
it being regarded as a test case, and impor-
tant interests bsiiig involved. It is main.
tamed that the froehold extends to tee
middle of the road, although the sovereign
and subjects have rights to pass. ,
Phosphorio Religion,
•well known merchant of Louisville,
Ky„ has a son who is a very wild young
man. He seldom comes home before mid-
night and frequent y wears a heavy jag as
the result of his conviviality. His oompan.
ions make his room a sort of sobering up
station and two or three of them "roll in
nearly overy night. The old gentleman was
011111 of the boys in his young days aud,
while he is now to very pious Lula proper
head of it cultured household, he cannot en-
tirely forget his early indisoratiou or steel
his heron nand the boy who is going the
old man's gait. Still he felt it incumbent
on Mtn to check the youth's career and so
he devised a plan to frighten him. He got
stiok of phosphorus end wrote on the lean
opposite the boy's bad: "Prepare to meet
thy God." Tho letters were, of muse,
visible only in the dark and the old nem
was cavernt th have the room es ell lighted
when hie son rams home the next night
pvetty well loaded, as usura. He and a com-.
panion turned in with the gas turned op
full, ana 80011 they were sound &deep.
Then the old man went hi and put out 1 ho
light. Ho then made 10110105 sufficient to
wake the boy out of his drunken sleep, mil
as he sat up ill bed his eyes caught the
handwriting on the wall. With 0100011111 he
epraeg out of bed, ited stidtmg a fight, he
began au examination of the wall, but, it was
blank in Gm light. The gas burned alt
eight, and the next mornieg the young 111101
Wan very quiet and solemu. The old gentle.
man erased tho warning from the wall, and
to plensca to know when hie boy is at night.
Tho father says that he learned of the trick
from a prominent peculiar of the city, who
was frIghteuecl me of hie naeghtinees bil
this way,
Drove Nails into His Head,
Thomas Wielters, a tradesman osteblishod
at Eastbourne, 11118/10X, 1111S 11186 (181/0»i$11011
OS =CUM' wifild. Some time ago he made
ourious attempt cot suicide by driving four
levee 1l0.111 i111.1 hill head with co hammer.
fney pneetraterl into hie Mein 1,0 the extent
171,1700 teofies, end wore witharown with
Teat In the amazemeet of the
.. tore \\ 1.421,../ inki cmnplefely recoveree
ewe s tee, to ; ..;0 irtsiness as mai,
MB BOBBIES _OF THB EQUATOR,
A. Tribe In Central Africa Whirl* Collerht
11114117 Toll From I'i'uyCIIcre.
No tribe in equatorial Afvica bears such
an evil reputation as the Wagoge of Ugogo.
They are the groat robbers of the Con-
tinent, but, for the first time sine° explorms
made them known, they have this year suf.
fund severely at the hands of white teen.
fithebitleg a great, lutlf-mterile plain, whore
there 11111 111/ shady ;pewee here and there
to mitigote the flume heat of the sun, Where
SOUVUUS 01 100tialld water supply are low and
far between, and all controlled by the mer -
dine naives, travellers from Zanzibar have
fctezefilpiedito tu's time to the present day been
o
submit to the extortionate de -
muds of the Wargo, Spoke almost des -
;mired of gettng ammo their Miliaria tiles
ef territory with any of Ilia trade goods.
Every dozen »tilos or so 0 fresh chief turned
up with ruinous demands for hong°, and he
could be passed only at to most extortionate
mice atm. honor of haggling.
Seventeen years ago to few bleak men
were leurying from Central Africa to Zan -
dime On the southern shores of Lake
Bangwoolo, a thousand miles away, they had
determined, if pomade, to carry out a very
ham:does undertaking. They had followed
the fortunes ol David Livingetente for years,
and when they found their great master
dead fit his humble hut they resolved to
bury his heart in the savage continent he
had loved SO well and restore his body to
his friends. There were times on that long
jemmy when they hardly hoped ever to
reach the coast, but after many navrow es-
capes they reached Zanzibar with theiv
preview freight, and later they received the
thanks of thti 'British people, and, itt addle
Lion, eulistantial rewards.
While on that memorable journey theyop-
proached the largo emietry 0111111 Ugeigo,
whose eastern boundary is less than three
hundred miles from the Indian Ocean. Tipsy
eouilier midi the Wagogo superstition
that dire evils ovoula befall their land if a
human body were OttrriOd through the country
The paety mid not eyed Ugogo, for they
knew no other i.onte to the coast except the
caravan road from the great lakes, If they
were detected with a, human body in their
possession, attempting to pees through Ugo-
go, they knew they would bo put to death.
They made up the package containing the
body so that it resembled as matey asi pos.
sible a bundle of merchandise, Then they
prepared several other bundles exactly like
1111> appearance and weight, and in the long
tramp through Ugogo, when the chiefs in.
sisted upon knowing what they had in their
brindles, ono or another of the packages was
opened to satisf • the public: curiosity. The
important bund e -teas not opened.
Every employee has had bitter experience,
110110 of them hue crossed Ugogo save at
a enst ef many hmulreas 11 dollars, Any
attempt to advance without paying hongo
woula he simply to count destruction, and
no white man mail this year has piloted
1111POSS the country a force se fficiently. Armes
to bid defiance to the black -mailers. As
toll colleeters these natives have a unique
distinetien, for in no ether mut a Africa
has any tribe been fouod that considers it
in so tavern a meastem ite duty and privilege
to rob white travellers.
This is the cionntry where Mein Pasha has
bad hie first eerioue troubles with 010 native
tribes of Africa. He wae lcumon in the
region of the upper Nile as a Ma» of peace,
and though he had several hard fights with
the Mahdists and their negro allies, he won
hie asecedioney over the tribes of his prose
ince by gentler argue:ate than musketry
and canuon, Dr. Pam», returning from
Victoria Nyanza, fought his way through
Veep, end now Emin has inflicted further
p llltbOitlltOi>t 51110)1 (Ito 'tilLi‘t:ftlieriol:!;111:111111ta
11)00, ut ilio starch 10 been fighting the Vagogo. A despatch from
Zanzibar says he hes defeatca them with
great daughter, using his Maxim gun
against them, and he has seized 1,200 of
their cattle.
There is no doubt that the fights Peters
and lemin have had with these savages grew
out of their refusal to disburse a small for-
tune buying the right, of way through the
=entry. It is to be hoped that further
lessons of the sort will not be required th
free the route to Tanganyika of the greatest
obstacle that has over impeded it, rt is eve
dent tlmt Ole Germans have deoided to
establish a new order of things in ITgogo.
Nature's Feast,
Dame Nature dons her sweephigoap
And then takee out her brooms,
And 0, she raises such a dust
As she swoops her spacious rooms 1
She brushes fields and hillsides
And the leafy forest floor,
The city streets, the country lanes,
The rooks anl sandy shore.
She swings her broom, the brisk March
wind,
And sometimes lifts it high
To sweep with strong and vtgorotte strokes
The clouds from out tho sky.
She scrubs and scouts her house throughout
Until 'Us sweet and dean,
And then she hangs her draperies
And hays her rugs of green,
She freshens up the rugged vines,
She makes the wayindes fair,
Site adds it bit of color here
A patch of brightens there.
She flings her perfumes all about,
She gads tho rosy east
Anil sends a thousand minstrels out
To bid us to her feast.
Such eveloonto gives she to het guests
Theet children love to stay
Within the house so often cleaned
In this good old.fashioned. way.
AN.NA M. PYATT,
Terrible Condition of the Soudan,
The reports renivea in Cairo from the
frontier as to the coetlition of affairs in the
Dervish country are eloplortoble. Each
doeortor or refugee confirms the 01 0>33 given
by his predecessor. Famine end sickness
oppear to be ravaging the ovitolo dished from
Dongola to Khartoum. An Arab inet.chent
who has Derived from Omdurmen describes
the situation as' follows :—"0)0 my way
from the south I was horrified to the the
terrible state of tho country through which
I poosol Vbilags aftov villtoge petodiralty
anode& the inhabitants booing fled
through want of food or in order to escape
being compelled to join the Mahal's forces,"
By Any Other Name,
"Before 1 engage board with you, Mrs,
mill, I wish to ask olio question,"
"Yeo, sir,"
"How often do yott servo hash?"
" Never, sir,"
"Never?"
" never. Pot bros,kfast every morn,
nig we have my Justly celebrated ore,
queues,"