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- - I - A NEW VIEW OF THE SAELARA. THESE ARE PRETTY BIG .
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�'F' . winter Green With VcMetation- Frogs are enormously plentiful in Aus- Property, Paupers, Ete.
, �_ - � . I The electrieal stamping machines, which Turkish slave markets.
_-L��, . A Famous Island of Greeca is severelv have been adopted in so many post office de. re- I Th 'S - Prof. Lumholtz. speaks of being
��,,� - The slave trade is the chief source of : e general idea of the � ahara, is, that it tr&li,.
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�___!__ - Shaken. partments, are capable of effectively stamp. cruits forthe Turkish harem. Allasser�ions is an immense plain of shifting sand, entire- greatly annoyed by them in the houses at London is so huge and many-sided that it
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�, jj� _1Z- ing 30,000 letters in an hour. The letters to the contrary notwithstanding, it still ly uninhabitable ; but although the region sheep ranches, where It not only on the floor, is beyond the comprehension ot mo -)t of us,
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. ., �_ many nouses wrecked an are placed upon their edges in a horizontal flourishes in the city of the sultan. The is the wildest of that immense belt Of but even ill the water jar, the batcachiaus and the difficulty of understanding it in
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v-, I � � pie Buried In the nuius-The Prison bopier, and carried, one at a time, between headquarters of the white slave traAe are in deserts which, intersected only by a few croaked merrily ane often so loudly a to many of its aspects is rende,ed all the
�__ , Root Fat,% upon the convicts -scores two feed rollers. After the rst separ tio , B I i q r r, which comprises a water courses, extends uninterruptedly from interfere with conversation." There one 8
�, ��_,, f! a a th ostane i ua, te greater -by the deficiencies in it statistics�
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4 ,,�Z_ I of FamilieA CampinX in the Fields- is thas effected a second set Of feeding number of small., narrow streets between the Atlantic Ocean to the east of Siberia. it species of frog, very big, which buries itself The cliaos of local government has hitherto
` � Xodies Found. rollers carry on the envelope to the inking Pera, Gal%ta, and Topliaue. The trade is supports a popula,tion, settled or nomadic, during, the dry season in the ground. Frogs prevenwd anythifig like a complete repre.
- wher conducted almost exclusivel by a tribe of- of a4out 3,500,000, the settled population of -this kind oon-tain much water, a fact sentauion of the conditions of its existence ;
� I A despatch from Athens says -The Isle rollers, e each letter is stamped singly, y
� - on to the eta 5 oases. We known to the natives, who dig them up in but since the establi-shment of the London
�7� - ren by an eaxth- and then passed eking table. Tch,rk,s ... known asTessirdehis. Families being distributed over 12
,-� - -_ and of Zante has been ellst .
'_�� ___ I te many busi- A register showA the number of envelopes generally work together. One brother, for understand by oases. every town Or City tile (rry season and quench their thirst by CountV Councit an attempt has been Blade
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`�l .- date and hour in the die example, stops at home and minds tire shop g6erally surrounded by a belt of vegetat squeezin the water out of them. The to coil' t and collate the required informa-
_1-:.1 - riess houses were wrecked, and the occu- concealed. The ion. �g ec
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.. ,__11 I e mu The various -may be white people sometimes resort to these frogs tion, and present it in some concrete and
--_�� pant,3 ran in their night clothes into th st be changed by hand. while the others go abroad and purchase As to the domestic vegetation it
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."�., 4 street. The roof of the prison fell in and rollers are run by belt ts, passing over di'Ter- and forward the raw material of the com- i reckoned at 20,000,000 palms aw-1 10,000,000 for water. They know the little mounds, intelligible form. In the second volume of
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-1' d. The guard ent sized pulleys, which are in turn connect- merce. Negotiations with purchasers are � fruit -bearing trees of other varieties. How- resembling mole holes, under which the statistics j
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_��,_ was doubled to prevent the'prisoners escap- ei by gearing to the axle of the actuatiDg conducted through the intermediary of Arab. ever, probably no more than one-three-hun- frogs lie hid, and dig them out. According enormous amount of material �as been
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-�-5 ing azd to suppress disorder consequen motor. brokers, who call regularly on their patrons I dredth of its whole surface is inhabited o to report such a frog contains about a wine, gathered together, .and, although the infor-
. ,�, upon the panic among them- The walls of to inquire if they are wauting mation is not complete, it is in a fair way
,-. __ I , TELEGRAPHING AT SEA. , anything in cultivated. . glassful of cleir, sweet water.
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L. ,, the prison which had baen sprang and The telephete, or sea -telegraphing instru- black eunuchs or white girlsL-just as Man- The most important of the trees growing The Australian farmers have many to become so,- and at no diatant date it
' cracked, were braced- The ho't'P'tal was ment, which has been placed at the die- chester commission agents drum for orders wild are the acacia Arabica, two species of enemies to fight against, besides those which should be possible to compare London with
:��, - shaken partly from its founda ions. All posal of the United States Government, and among merchants and shippers, and like tamarisk (T. gallica'and T. articulata), the have been imported into the country, like other cities in the various phases of its
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_�k5, . the floors settled and the roof Bank several the working of which will be shown at the them they are remunerated by percentage pistacia, the lotus (Zizypbus, jujuba), and a the rabbit. Large fruit-ebting bats do existence.
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tt'�� - World's Fair, is well spoken of by experts on sales. � few whose leaves furnish todder for cattle- much damage to the orchards, and it is no The total population of the County of
with difficultyp half is generally pleasant sight for the industrious agricul* Londor, April 6, 1891, was 4,231,431, the
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.,� ing, and were induced, who have examined it. The instrument The rendezvous of these gentry is a coffee The luxarmace of many oases
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.M �� consists of a series of wires and electrical house in the Bo'stanchi quarter, the entry to contrast�ed with the barrenness of the desert. turist to see devouring swarms of these so- increase of ten years being 397,237, 01' 10. -
,��--: - the patients to another part of ibe town. connections ogerated by a keyboard, by - which is strictly forbidden to all save follow- But, however barren be the rugged waste in called flying foxes advancin on his crops Of 36 per cent. Tile number of inhabited
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P7W Two hours later the which 106 incandescent lights are controlled ers of the prophet. To obtain trustworthy 1 summer, so rich is its soil that the day fOl- an evening. Wild dogs were forinerly very houses was 557.134, an increase on 1881, of
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", - and made to produce the signals of the information as to current price is naturally ng a wild grass is observed grow- numerous, but thEy did so much damage 68,249, or 13.96 per cent.
__ and the prison became so unsafe that many Morse alphabet. Th -j wires number over in these circumstances attended with some 'he depressions, but that that they were destroyed without mercy. The tota.1 expenditure on the local govern-
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� prison.erg were removed. The people, in a � frail " ation ith the On large plantations a man is kep ment of London in the year 1899,-'90 -as
I'll, � - - P..i, he 0000, and occupy a space of only 11 by 12 difficulty, but approxim. itely, and as nearly s..sbi get f to_ which springs up w - t whose
- - ed from the houses and crowded t inches. The dots of the telegraph quarters as can i3e ascertained, they areas follows: e . day is scorched by the sun sole work is to lay out poison for them. ;E10,726,000, or as mtieh as an Australian
I �,�.., streets and marketplace. Scores of families - , However, the general One of the greatest annoyances in certain , io.. 9d. per
�. -1 are represented by two illuminated lamps, A white boy in good health, from 8 to 14 shine of to -morrow. olony. This was equal to �E2
1� - - left the town to camp in the fields on the ears old, costs $8 to $10; if he has any ac- surface of the Sahara, so parched and fiery parts of Australia is the poisonous nettle or head of population, which was met by-
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-�. Many dead bodies have been found in the dashes by twelve illarninated lamps. The quirement, such, for instance, green on all " stinging prep. " Per H(ad.
�, lilventor claims that 32 candle-power lamps edge of cookery or other housework, he will places uncovered by arid sand after the first its beautiful beart-shaped leaves are only
1�_ ruins, and a hundred or more are reported ' _ . 0 7 10
,_ � can be seen at a distance Of ten to fifteen _�ommand twice as much. autumnal rainfall. It preserves its green put in motion they cause one to sneeze. Sundry receipts ........ ......
�i "I to have been injured severely. It has been ., . k girl under 10 years old may be had for aspect during all the winter, and from that They are covered with nettle-, on both sides Imperial taxation ............ '.... 0 5 10
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��,L4 impossible to get further details. The METER $4, while a maiden between 12 and 16, es- verdure the redouins, those traditional and a sting from them Ives great Rain. Rates in London .................. 1 16 4
F Government has sent out troops with tents A NOVEL ELECTRIC , - pecially if she can read or write and strum shepherds of the desert, derive their one Horses wounded by them roll as if mad from
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F . __ and provisions for the relief of the home. A somewhat original scheme for record- a little on the zitter, is worth $4,000. A means of life, the food for their numerous pain, and if they do not at once receive The rates were levi-d upon & ratable
� . less. . ing the supply of current to the customers ternale slave of exceptional beauty, youngi herds of,cattle, tile only thing which that attention they will in this way kill them- value of F,31,586,000, so that the amount
. . per 91 was 6s 9d, but the ratepayer only
I., ., Zante is the Italian name for the island of central stations has been proposed by white, and a virgin -the style most in vogue immense waste affords to humanity. selves. paid 4s 10d of this amount. Tile central
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11-. which is still known to the Greeks by its Prof. Garnett, The method are blondes with black eyes -fetches from In May the burning sun scorches the rates fall equally upon all the parishes, but
1, ancient name, Zakinthos. It lies off the Scott meter system. It is proposed to de- $5,000 to $7,500. For a very choice speci- wild grass, rain no IODger enriches' the -
?, - north-west coast of the Peloponuesus, is a vise an automatic control over the central men, with a smattering of French and able Foil, and as a result the Bedouins are com- England's Coal Supply. the rates for parish purposes are very un
I- . I ,equal ranging frOrn 38 9,`I�d down to Is Id.
7'.1 part politically of the district of Elis, and or governing clockwork which would make to play a few airs on the piano, a rich arna- and sell the "Iron," in a carefully prepared article, 4
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m.k. is the most important of the Ionian islands. the duration of the registering gusts of teur has been known to pay as much as greater part of their cattle, with which points out that although a quarter of a cen- London are the following items .
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$13,500. But, as may be supposed, the de. they supply the ,markets of Morocco, tury has g -ne by since Professor Stanley
k� t� rV cept about 2,000 Jews. The eastern part of put at the time. Thus more or less would
Lf Brand for articles of this description has Algeria, Tanis, Tripoli, and many of Jevons predicted that the coal supply Of Railways ...................... EI,S82,000
-11 cv the island is a fruitful plain, while the west- be charged at different times, according to e allen ce he halcyon time of Europe. � England would be exhausted at no distant Gas and electric light. mains ..... 735,000
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1, - ernpzrtismountainous. Accordingto-tbe the load on the station. gr a"y I 10 d ofuse expenditures. water date, there are no symptoms of the near Water mai 446, 000
4- coul not be pe a s an r The strong saline quality of the - ins .... I ...........
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I ��,,,above despatch, a phenomenon frequently meter subjected to this system d Black slaves, who are brought principally found underground, the presence'of fossils apprcach of such a calamity. On the con Hydraulic, telegraph, and other
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- p,bserved in earthquake -regions has been re- expected to register Board of Trade units, from Africa, are either sold direct by the and shells belonging to strictly marine trary, recent discoveries seem to put the
I PiFes and wires .............. 23,000
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. peated, that is, the soft alluvial regions nor would it afford any fair indication of
-__ � importers to the proprietors of harems or families, the character of the tertiary strate, fulfillment of the prediction at a remoter Land ........ � .............. ''.. 66,000
.", have suffered more severely from the earth- the energy actually consumed. as any con- dealers, two� of whom have extensive pri- and the flatness and sandiness of the soil period than ever. It says: 11 The past year I __
�_�_ quakesthan tberocky mountainous districts. surner, by turning on several lights at once,
11 11 vaie marts in Stamboul. These two gener- are str(pg evidence for the theory that the has been by no means barren in this respect. Total ....................... ;0,102�000
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I'll, I I , I I The island has -only a single stream, and could alter the price considerably for all his ally keep on hand 100 to 220 each. There Sahara was formerly the bottom of an in- -Early in the year it was announced that The following is an estimate of London's
� Lauffers, for lack -of good drinking water. neighbors on the same circuit. are also depots -in Scutari and in several land, -sea, borings for miuerals in Northamptonshire
- , I ,11 In many placei are found evidences of . ELECTRICITY IN AGRICULTURE. villages on the Bosphorous. A strong, Its confoWa,ti$ . n is convex in the center� had resulted in proving the exi;tence of contribution to imperial taxation : Pcr "t.
� -1 . subterranean fires, and the island is free An electrical journal calls attention to black slave sells for about $100; a black rising *uff`4,000 feet above the soa and valuable seams of coal, apparently an ex- -
� `�- nd London .............. 9 9,300,000 - 23.45
� �L, quently shaken by earthquakes. Herodor,us the limited extent to which the possibilities maiden, $75 to $90. slopitgnorthw,trdly and soutbwardly in a tension of the great Midland coal field, a
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�k mentions the island as a sort of asphalt, e bar- covering a wide area. About the same time The rest of.England....30,366,000
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� of electrical application to agriculture are The Turks themselves see no more wrong ge'n,tle gradiant, All its confines �r
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i.,�� . which is still collected in the southwest taken advantage of by farmers,and suggests in slavery tham-in polygamy. Itispermitte(di red by mountains or prominent lands, and after some weeks spent in boring for coal at
� Y_1_ part. - I 7 a ot on its level averages 1,000 feet higher than the. Barmoor Clough, near Chapel -en -le -Frith, Total ............. E39,666,000 - 100-00
that a series of articles should be written by their religion; and enjoys the s rk, i
;__ - The Capital, Zante, which has just suffer- and distributed throughout the agricultural of ancient custom ; it is inseparably asso- Outlying seas; whence we conjectured that a seam over one foot in thickness was found Thus for imperial and local purposes com-
- fid, in the waters, closed on all sides, stagnated at a depth of forty-eight yards. Then again,
� ed so severely, has over 165,000 inhabitants, bined London pays in taxation approximate-
� districts of the country showing how easily ciated with their social habits, a
� and is the seat of a Greek Archbishop and ly Y.17,000,000. The inland revenue returns
1-1 and how profitably the electric motor could spite of all the protests of the Christian until its midmost crust heaved up, when as the result of sinking operations which
I of a Roman Catholic Bishop. It lies on the a in progress for two years at the
,� I be applied to homestead and farm work. A powers, will endure as long as� the Osmali they flowed off southward through the bad bee i show that the total incomes enrned in
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- bit of a stream somewhere near (providing rule in Stamboul. But let us do one just1c Niger to Timbuctoo, and northward through Xinneil Coal and Coke Company's Snab Pit, London amount to F,123,513,000, so that
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� __�, . the it has a fall), with & small turbine and theunspe-tkable. He treats his slaves well. the Gulf of Gabes. The now dried-up Boluess, the smithy, or lowest seam of coal, the burden of taxition amounts to 14 per
-I- Venetians centuries'ago. The town has a at a cent. The balance of the loans outstanding
'_.` dynamo, should supply, besides liglits, the He not rarely marries them, and many a Wad Massaura, whose bed forms an unin- was -reached in first-class condition
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-, ,'� 6 safe harbor with a lighthouse and quaran- risen to the high- terrupted channel through almost the en- depth of nearly 200 fathoms. Then we had at the end of 1891 was 947,032,000.
,::--, motors for washing, churning, milk separ- man born in bondage has a
___ - tine station and many churches. ating, cider presses, as well as heat for est offices of the state. tire Sahara from Twat to Timbuctoo, where the announcement of the discovery of Jan. 1, 1891, the vaupers numbered 112,-
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- iroi - once it probably joined the Niger, seems to rich vein of coal between Dungannon and 547, and the cost of pauperism was in 1889-
- The for -bidden City, of Thibet, . to this hypothesis, as it appears Cookstown, in Ireland. Later on a rich '90 J;2.34-0,00 , the cost of each pauper being
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- The well-known explorer of Thibet, engineers should study bouse-warming, -The day is not far off when we will get perfectly logical that thatrivet drained the vein of coal was discovered at Eccleshill, �e2l. 16s, Id.
�� . last remaining water., near Derwen. The coal seam is of very fine The number of persons committed fot
F, - �._ W. Rockhill, has returned home. The news pumping and dairy requirements, with a heat and power without the intervention .
� will surprise many geographers, whose lat-. view to making those arrangements a dig- and assistance of fire," says Civil En-ineer The physical configuration of the general quality and twenty-eight inches thick. An trial during 1889-'90 was 2,906, while 109,-
� : - 0 fill many divers,fied excellent seam of bituminous coal was also 748 were convicted summarily. The habit-
� est information, received in December, was tinct branch of their profession. The ten- ' rface exhibits also "
9' ay i Marston McGrath. -The solution will come -n to the police, not com-
�, that in April last Mr, Rockhill was in dency to specialize is growing every d in I features. Raised mountain regions, rocky discovered on the acclivity of the hill near ual offenders know
6.�_ - northeastern Thibet, pushing his way to- the various departments of electrical work, when we get electricity direct from coal hills of granite, sandstone, limestone, or the Blaengwl nfi Railway Station on the mitted during the year, numbered 2,392.
ward Lhasa, the goal of his ambition. He and no branch of electrical work offers just without the loss of any part of the wonder- ,-p ravines, breaking into huge Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway. 'Ihere The total represents a percentage of 2. " to
ful energy that there is in the fuel. Inever gypsum ; de, '
hoped to be able to travel with a party of now more promise than its application to knew fully the value of coal as a pnwer-pro- cliffs ; va,st depressions of land and broad is.also a remarkable development in coa,l the whole population. The cost of the
Mongols as far as Tengrinor, a lofty lake agricultural purposes. It has been stated, valleys forming temporaxy lakes when rain mining going on in South and Wesr, York- police was 91,799,000, or 915 12s 9d. per
r---/ - ised that if ducer until I saw it exemplified on a recent is abundant; immense barren plains of shire, where numerous important pits are bead of the incriminated class. Industrial
I _,�, among themountains north of Lhasa. The and the statement is well a4v " trip across the Atlantic in the steamer Ma-
�.�. Mongals refused to go to Lhasa, as the any electrical house would make for exhibi- jestic. The vessel carried 2,400 tons of coal, sandy, pebbly, or hard soil, intersected by either in course of being sunk or are about scho"Is cost E20.6.12.
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�"f,,_ beds of former rivers ; large tracks of sand to be sunk, and other colliery extensions In the schools'of the metropolis the pupils
� I �� I Thibetans are still determined to keep all tion a thorough and complete homeAead and it used up 290 tons a, day to mainta,in a numbered in 1890-'91 652,331 ; che total
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1� foreigners out of the holy city. He heard installation, where everything was do by hills, rising to considerable proportions, are beiUg made, which, when completed,
- I qj�_ speed of about twenty-three miles an hour. n a a cost of the Board schools was;CI,960,000, of
1. that. the interdict now extends even to electricity from top to bottom, and throw This seems like an awful lor, of coal, doesn't form the ch%racter of the face of the will largely increase the prese t o tp t of
�. foreign goods, which are rigidly excluded tire saine open to the public, it would be not it? But the Majestic is a big boa,t, 582 feet Sahara. the South Yorkshire coalfield." which ;EI,272,000 was thrown on i local
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.,__,� from Thibet. He seems therefore to again only a profitable investment for the firm,
,_,�__ have met the defeat that so many yearar has � but -would be far more effective in educat- long, and it requires an expenditure of 18,- so distinctly scattered throughout the dead Windfalls. The death rate in London in IS91 was
I� � 000 horse -power to drive it at top -speed
waste of the Sahara, are unconnected by any
- overtaken all explorers bound for Lhasa. ing the general public than any number of through the water. Figure the thing out, In 1888 a lady named Burch, then liv;ng 21.4 per 1000 of the population, which coni-
lk I road or any regular means of communica- wns,
lt� - � Mr. Rockbill's, first j-3urney with Lhasa -exhibits of single appliances. though, and you will see that N, pounds of . in Kensington, went like a thousand otherst pares favorably with other large to
W_ as its goal was undertaken in 1889, when he I A VALUABLE ELECTRICAL SA-FETY SYST&M. coal, which is less than a good handful, fur- t1on, and are only visited by caravans to see the fine ladies pass on their way to Liverpool rising as high as 27 per LnOO.
,,�. . - hoped by pushing rapidly along the main three or four times a year. Each is a little ' ., without
The application of electricity to safety nishes one horse power for one hour, and one attend a drawing room at Buckingham. The open spaces in Londor
�,: road from China to the capital to attain the world in itself, like an island in- the midst Palace. While gazing at t1le show, which, reckonirg the disused burial grounds, ex-
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L`112 - devices in banks ,and other buildings has horse -power represents the lifting to a height of a trackless sea. They axe generally situ- tend to5,449 acres. Besides there are open
1-f - , . city. He had only fairly entered the coun f one foot of 300 pounds, so that your 136 though not democratic, is an exceedingly
V- - I try when his troubles with the Thibetan reached a dearee of efficiency that issimply O 2 ated in a depression of land or valley where pretty one she noticed ar old gentleman faint spaces on its borders which bring up the
marvelous. "in a safety deposit vault in P011n4s of coal lifts 300 pounds one foot, and
W1_ - � lamas began. At one place the people were . sustains it for one hour. Or take this illus- water may be more easily procured by and confused with the pressure of the total of parks accessible to Londoners to
Rk forbidden to buy anything from him, to sell Boston the electrical devices employed con. natural or,artificial means. In the winter .
R . tration. It would require 100,000 galley crowd, which, being composed of English- 9-2,000 acres. '
- I , - him anything, or to serve as his guides. sist of a triplicate system of relays, record- running streams are filled and, if rain has men, pronoun Discerning The fires in the me*ropolis in 1891 1111111-
.__� , slaves rowing night and day to carry the ced him drunk.
- . iug instruments, test boards and time . � been somewhat abundant, even small lakes
1�_ Along the road he camped away from all Majestic at a speed of twenty-three miles an with better insight that be was not drunk, bered 2,892, of which 193 were serious. The
- .. villages and L%maseries, trusting himself stamps. One instrument is placed irr the -power into 100, - are formed round the oa.sis, which, however but very ill, Miss Burch led him to a seat, lives lost numbered 61, 31 of these having
I only ;ith the black tent people, who were vault itself, another in the Superintendent's hour. Dividing 18,0110 horse like nearly all the rivers of the Sahara, may
.1 - I � . � - 000 galleyslaves, we find that over 1�, pounds But found him somewhere a gla,ss of water, and been taken out alive. The total cost of tile
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- extremely kind. At another place the office, and the third at the police head ' .
�� t quarters of the city. .These three sets of of coal represents the work for one hour of be crossed dry shod in summer. in a few minutes restored his scattered brigade was E120,7123, or 61 pence per head
_. I lamas wished to turn him and his party on work in unison or independ- about six rowers. Of course, there wouldn't 11 necessity is the mother of invention," and energies. Ile thanked lier warmly, asked of the population. The fire insurance com-
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_,�. - of the town before he hid fairly entered it. instruments ese oases of the desert prove Property was
t . be.roorn for the placing of more than 400 the people of th her name, and departed -to be heard of panies contributed E27,196.
011 If he had been dressed in European costume en tly as necessity demands,and in the latter ob,rs on the Majestic, and ten bushels of coal in their system of water -works that, al- , no more till a few days ago, when a solicitor insured for no less a sum than E806,000,03 j.
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V ;' - ther sets are quiescent. The though isolated from the world, they are .
I_-_- ,_ I he would undoubtedly have been turned case the two o would do an equal amount of work, while called to inform Miss Burch that the old I
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,_ back much earlier on his journey, but be doors of the various vaults, storerooms not without ingenuity. They provide for . Postal Damages in Enziand.
,,___. .� � I stre,&t entrances, gratings under the si:ie the 100,000 galley slaves, if they averaged the;r streams subterianean beds, which are gentleman had bequeathed her the immense -
:: - I . wore Thibetan dress, spoke nothing but 150 pounds each, would be five times as much 'fed over with flat stones and covered reward for such a service of E 150,000. It was recently announced in the London
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, �_ " . . Chinese and Thibetan, and during the en- walk, etc., are all so connected electrically as the 1,740 tons of coal required by the roo That story -if it is true, which we see no GaZette that the Postmaster General would,
, �` --- i- that it is impossible for any person to effect with sand, which absorbs the sun's rays
___�,� tirejoarnev never used any European art ajestic for a six days' trip." reason to doubt -is the most striking in- on certain conditions, pay as much as $250
- I �. - an entrance without giving an alarm, and M and keeps the water from evaporating.
. .1� 7___ __ Ole$ of dress or food. He I ived as the peo - - stance we can remember of the true and by way of compensation for mishaps to a
��:.�:_. I ::� - ple did, on tsamba and tea. He was coin- the movements of every official in the place Geography of the Moon. The depth at which water is found var perfect windfall which all men, it is said, registered packet or parcel. Ten years ago
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.� I ��11 - . -- peW--d atlast to turn back, and made his are, recorded, so that every po ibi ity of . ies considerably. The subterranean sheet is expect in their hearts, but which so rarely the postoffice paid nothing whatever for the
_,_�__�::,. - I dispute or shirking of responsibility si Sir Robert Ball is reported to have said in generally found at a depth of five to fifteen .
_. �__ _ av down the Yangtse river to the coast. occurs to any one. Stories of unexpected most article it
��� _. "4_ . - lw w � grievous damage to any
t'z-�!�,_Z.__t2ll �,.�. Since Father Hue and Gabet visited Lhasa obviated. To illustrate the wonderful per- his lecture on the moon that the geography feet, and the artesian wells touch water at fortunes, of course, are as common as black carried . ; while for the loss of an article it
`�_-_,� I is fection of this system, the following record of our Satellite w,ts better known eveon than I observed in berries. Somebody is always making or gave no more than $10, and that only when
,_. . in 1846 no white -man has set foot in th - from 100 to 150 feet deep.
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i� I 1-- -At the deeper the artesian wells finding or inheriting a heap of money which the article was registered. At the present
- 1�1� I , famous centre of Buddhism. 1he city was for one night between 4 p. in. and 9 a. in. thatoitheearth. There was no'single spot general th
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I . next day is given : "Vaults closed," 11 Door on tile moon the size of an ordinary parish in were the less saline was the water. Will C
_�' the goal of Prejevalsky's ambition, but lie seems to himself -almost to have come from day the compensation for registered articles
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. _,-, was turned back on three of his expeditions to Milk street closed," " President left," E,gland that had not been fully photo- the Sahara at some future time be fertilized? the cloudg. Worthless shares become of all kinds sent by inland post runs as high
�, - while still far from the forbidden gates. On 11 Mats taken up," "Door closed," 11 Door graphed and observed. Of course, this re- It may be if the proposed Transsabara, rail. valuable, as happened to more than one man as $250, and applies to damage as well as
one occasion the authorities of Lhasa tbreat. under reading room closed," 11 Carpenter -mark �an only relate to the side of the moon road be constructed and if the process of in the history of Devon great consols. A loss; while in the case of parcels certain
- . ened him with violence; again the failure went out,' "Armed watchman came on which is always turned towardus. Nearly irrigation by artesian wells inaugurated by workingman discovers a rich mine, as Mr. moderate compensation is given even wit h-
_. - of his supplies compelled him to retreat, and duty," -Superintendent left," "Another one-half of her surface has never been seen the French in the northern part Continues Graham did in Sontli Australia ; - or a rela- out registration. It was, indeed, the
- on the third expedition he was attacked by armed watchman went off duty," "Ice taken by mortal eye, and never will be unless the to be successful. Besides vast tracts may tive, from whom nothing was expected, -
A - - intrusion in," I 'Washwoman came on duty," "Watch- -luDar globe should be tilted by collision with be wooded with natural forests, for inany parcels post that led the Postmaster Gener
. . suddenly heaps everything on the kinsman
� - I the Thibetans, who resented his
- . 1. man caine or. day duty," "Night watchman 0 ther- - al to establish the present system of com-
,. I upon their soil. a comet or some such erratic body. trees and plants are indigenous to the clim who bored him least, as occurred la,st year
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:Z7 I Mr. Carey, the English explorer, also tried left tire office," I I Door under reading room wise it is a fact that photography has done ate. And, as a matter of course, the wider within our own knowledge in a sou,bern pensation. Before the postoffice carried
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Zy - in vain to reach 1hasa. The French ex- opened,'", Office boy came on duty, ,.Nail more for the earth's attendant than for the and denser the forest area coi,nty. Only last week a pauper hi a a ftiw watches and -articles of jeweli y, were
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-1 �� - I nt of t ordinarily sent by post. A certain amount
. ____ - i But to achieve a p�aceful settleme sum which be probably could not have Im of coin was sent by registered post, and to
_ ,. grinor, only about two days' journey from :: Superintendent came, " "Vault opened-" fact that the only things which a an can
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- I'- � the capital. Here he was met by the an- Door opeiled for busi predict with certainty down accurately on a slate, but which had provide against the occasional abstraction
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�, . horities of Lhasa, who would not permit I happen on the ephere he inhabits, put the a stop to the depredations of the Arab
�, . t __ ' Veen earned in Australia by a relative who of the small sums so sent, a possible in-
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__ _�. , demnity of $10 was provided. ft was n
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�� . glad to sell him hor'ses and yaks to expedite THROUGH THE TUNNEL. _�__ � colonization, who live in the desert waste
�__��,,� his departure. One Russian expedition Begging in pois. like tigers in their dens, considering it as intended to encourage the sending of la:ge
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11 , --.7, since Petjevalsky's last journey has b6leo From Windsor to Sarnia. There are 10,000 individuals in Paris who their traditionaJ property, their safeguard " compensation was kept low. -But with the
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I" _� I __.T,, �,� I - reach the mysterious city. amd natur,al refuge against the Northern in. The Carrier Birds set towork ina British
I � I tried in vain to introduction of the parcel post the Post-
- -.,-. , . A new arrangement has been in make a living by nothing but begging. Six Election. I
�,_"_, I We should b3 entirely ignorant of what ade with vaders. , r of goods,
.,___ 1� has been going on in the sacred city for the Grand Trunk by which the Wabash thousand beggars live in about 410 lodging The establishment of a rapid means of Carrier pigeons played interesting parts master Gene al became a carrier
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.�,� freight will be again -diverted from 'Wind- houses, scattered over the city ; 4,000 sleep transport to replace the slow " ship of the and, coming thus into competition
� : �,_,�;� . many years if the Indian government had � wine shops, -or in the open air, and about in the newspaper work of the recent elections common carriers who were held responsible
L�; . ,-agbt through the St. Clair tun. At desert," as the natives term the camel, is
I � . . not from time to time sent native Indians sor and bro
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� � s- aristocracy of the begging coin- in Great Britain. Important c4ndidates in for dan-age, it, became nece,-sary to consider
� �-��7:� 1 - 300 Of the the first step to be taken. A Transsahara
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- ��t, I 1 7 to travel in Thibet. Some of them have nel. It is claimed that the present arrange out of the wa ry districts, poorly pro- the question of compensation.
- 11� -_ - munitYlive in private apartments or houses,
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I.- ____.� . :�� made long sojourns in Lhasa, where they' ment will be more satisfactory to the Wa. - railway is the only factor by which we can vided with Yte=hic facilities, as Mr.
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", - _"3�* , � A giant stinslia(f ir tours by newspaper men Sensible Cows.
�; � �_ evotees. Bonvolot more handling their freight, The present pro- , This medium will give a formidable impulse
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- , ,_. - _ .- , . - - plor . - tlined, is as follows : '-West present for the Sultan of Morocco, his just to commerce. companied in the rier pigeons. The report- ALinty-11 Yuu are very fond of meat
."��� , . . -, I I approached the city than 'any ex ersince gramme,- as on The stick, provided with car , 5,
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�'. . Lbound Wabashfreight will be takentbrough been completed at Berb . Mr. Gladstone had a aren't you.
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.!�&-I�� - L�L� I - It is understoad that Mr. Rockhill has n4j,.- the tunnel from the Canada side by Gra,nd I -I pigeon man" with them. When Little Niece-" Yes, indeedy, if its lean I
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� �, �, and trains be. - IL 0 8 e oes
� __-_� I ' abandoned his ambition to reach Lhasa. He Trunk crews, the locomotives
��,�c.,��, , _�_ - - Mr. Gladstone delivered speeches fr in hi Wher d meat grow? "
1��__'��L' ��_�___�, . outside of the parasol is of lor ght .green I .
� �_-�� - - __�. --I--- 'L � hopes before long to make his third attern t. ing pulled through by the tunnel engines ; to address and stamp envelopes on the back tire reporters wrote their reports on 11 It comes from cattle."
. "�3- __ - _��_,L' - - , . - silk,with a heavy gold fringe round it.while With the direction vritten�across the folds, carriage
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" _�4?��"_ - ��':'_' : upon the forbidden city. - The prospects 910 ;i Chicago and Grand Trunk railway crew � - thin tissue sheets, 11 flimsy," and passed -Cows? "
_�.- ��_�,lzc�-_-�_'_- . I the inside is lined with pale,straw colour. the letter cannot be opened by an un L
_::,� 1, I brigjit� bnt'Xr. Rockhills per. will then man the trains -land take them to . I in the pigeon man. The sheets were 11 Yes."
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I- _,�i . % 1, - 11 I - .- t, able him to accomplish _ East bounafreight trains'will be A novel way Of illuminating a tunnel has authorised person withoul 9 �e pigeons'legs by rubber bands I I And do they have to be killed so that I
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I __ . t �_- what he and other eiplorers have failed to manned by Chicago an and the birds set free. The birds perform cam have meat 9 "
, �, L' L ' -_ I from many electric lamps 16 feet very difficult.
� _I " , -. -,, � _- "' L-, - achieve. . . . ,way ,crews from Dettoit to the tunnel sta. the light on Friday ed excellent service in carrying the matter I I Yes."
' - - _ ". -1, � � - 1 �', i I . - _1 � -1 - I 7-. 11 tiou. on the L American side of the river, above the raili to the sides of the tunnel, At the Old Bailey, London, i to neighboring cities or telegraph centres, "I didn't know that, but I guess the
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_ I I " - "--, - - - - �� , w � - _. � � where a Grand Trunk crew, will -take charge, wher& it is again r e in the Essex Regi- as they had been trained. On several occa- Cows does, 'cause they aGt awful mad when
,____�11 � - � I locofiaoe t 'and agreeable light. The trains Haley, aged 24, privat days the birds
I - � �_ --- ` is) Ives and tra!n� being Pulled thorugh a sof on fine, warm
I � - I 4;1 I t &�dge that of H&WIRU , wasn't t L tically turn the current on and off in ment, was charged with burglary by enter. sions, however, I comes around." I
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. , I . - _ enough ; oun, Wednesday, Thomas ing a watch and other articles, And Smut as His Fatient.
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I- ,. - " c - --his g=dmother left all her , ,enter, residing nes,r Chepstow, with ma y carried had to be left out Old Doctor -'You look quite well to -day
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The o
,,�,.Ite.,6,1, inv,e
whicil L 'o _ "
or clepsydr&. Am
various modifica
were in use. One
simple, con8is"i "
ated into t-,velve
the bottom an op
water Qscaped in
course of the -.e
clianc--d annost
n
simplicity of tile
ed by the (iescrl
Eastern caliph
the Emperor Cha
(i It was of bro
" inlaA wilh go
k 3 d I
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& p,.,o,,1.a','-u
suc�_�essively on a
their touch, ,Vvilde
picturesque evol
stroLe returned i
The hour-gl�.
to the close of the
ways employed tc
chronometers. T
sense only dates
and vvm invent4acl
Gerbc:, who ha
among the Nloor
o
year., " I his life b
This ,earned friar
re�ally one o� the
tions -un escape
nevert�ieless, his,
a Ion.,, time after
rudimunt�Lry. In
Saracen .n echani
superior to anv b
Cal,((,
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About 113-26, an
England, inventek
some foi,Ly year.� 1
the hours wa�
Abbey. But iL
piece-. were er'- ,
�
. to go ", ,;c,,,,,pl
till be, ,
.orc tile en a
a Paris workman.
clock which cast e
geriiu� into the s
France rapid!,,, to
ta-ined her absoi
manufacturing -. b
I
.
Improvements, t
from perfect, evei
One of the best e
period iLl preserve
of Paris. Clock rn-
tinct profession
tury : before that
the bl&cksmith, h
the most skilfull
public clocks, whi
of the fourmenth
of great cities, w
constructed that,
modern French ,
move3 with mor
have been troubles
it was necessary
during the coursme
all the same, kill
ties and cit�zens
possession. Befo
ended the promine
�tfl each other il
.
'WON -D
of which those of
still to be seen a
those cities. Thes
miration of Europ
Stra,sburg could v
,
heaAs in rivalrv.
whiell ranked arr�o
medi��vad German
13-52, ha,d to wait
altered to the com.
remains a nia,rve1ji
been once again re
ly speaking, made
town, who devote
During the sixte
though many beau
mained such valua
were considered fit
in their description
gossiping old chrom
outside of palaces
Some of the most g
ioned belonIff, how
oan lay claim W th
which were at fi
very small scale.
all sorts of odd sh
the form of ships
as well as the rno
� workmanship. Ti
find of alarm clock
tury, and there is
when it struck, is
candle and kindled
teenth century," w
ity, I I a great c , nan
made of clocks, an
tion occurred in t E
Watches,which beg
�
were
&F(rARDED
&ad were ostenta
belt. Clock-mikc
attached officers to
. in the reign of L:
privilege of having
royal palace. and -
free admission to
In 161-17, a disting
Rolland, named Hi
vrorld by producing
9 concep-,ton which
the.whole theory os
�he seventeenth ,�e
Were the rule, ot
they were ,o� let
6 e
th backs were o 11
been tLe Case when 1
. I
principal ornaments
- jo In the eighteenth�
geous clocks ever sf
for royal palaces,
France. A clock iv
palace of N-ersaillef
silver and eased in i
I
�eaves, flowers au�
with open-work orr
I ed by a royal crc
square pedestal of
other in the shape (
fully ornamented ai
Cupids holding a gi,
I
Louis %_ N': gave ,
_'
clock which some
scribes : "In frorit
herd and his dog, - �
a golden twig 'from
cherries: this-stan�
. composed of lea,v
bronze. The hourf
I dial, which is cr,
Ba achus. "'
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