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The Huron News-Record, 1892-06-08, Page 6is b .4 A • ' �tl Save Your Hair ' Y a timely use of 4yer'B IInIr Vigor, Title prepaxatime has no equal as e dressing. St leeeps the scalp clean, cool, awl llcaltsiyr and preserves the dolor, tininess, and beauty of the flair. tt 110,e.rapidl be.ciiuing bald and slaty.; .hut Atter tieing two or three bottles of Ayers Hair Vigor my hair grow thieic And glossy and the original color wits restored. —Melvin A,1drieb, Canaan Centro, " Some time ago o I lost all my hair in consequence otmeasles. After ;due v ieleg, no new growth appeared. I then used Ayer'e Hair Vigor and my hair grew Thick and Strong. It batt apparently come to stay. The Vigor is evidently a great aid to nature: —41.B. Williams, Flureaville, Texas. "1 have used flyer's Hair Vigor for the past four or five years land find it a most satisfactory dressing for the hair. It is all I could desire, being harmlesp causing the hair to retain its natural color, and requiring but a small 'quantity to render the hair easy to arrange."— Mrs. M. A. Bailey, 9 Charles street, Haverhill, Mass. " I have been using Ayer's Hair Vigor for several years, and believe that it has caused my hair to retain its natural color."—Mrs. H. S. Sing, Dealer in Dry Goode, &c., Bishopville, Md. Ayer9silair Vigor, Puma= BY Dr. J. G. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. gold by Druggists and Perfumers. The Huron News -Record iewe of ills, delatlt to hie wife, IUliou 8141414 Volut'u to rtglaudt he carried out his miasiQ , end haw ing gaup olloe, went, again. She was a very young woman, and vary beautiful, and Smith was irresistibly attracted. Her husband had been a scoundrel, and, atter a decent lapse of time, she in..ivied Smith. Fur the first four • years of their •narriage, they were so intensely }sappy that it is possible they prov- ed rather tiresome to their friends. About that time, Snaith began to Wes money and other artiulos ot value, and wee tidally able to trace the theft to the butler. The man vainly denied the charge, and, although none of the nliesiug valu- ables were found in his possession, he was dischargedvithout a char- acter. This mild measure was adopted because of the intercessions of my friend's wife. 'For some weeks Smith entertain- ed no doubt that he had fastened the burglariee on the proper party, but on returning home one evening he found his wife in the library. She had opened his desk by nteaus of a false key, and in her hands held a roll of notes. Guilt was depicted in every feature ; she cowered be- fore h m—she was abject in her cowardice.' $1,50 a Year—$1.25 in advance W'etiuesdaY, June stk. 1S1t,'L. HER HUSBAND'S VALET. Those who know lav friend Knollyo only casually are apt to set him down as a cynic, because at• 'times, his speech is slightly mor - daunt and he is giveu to ridiculing bravery and charity as madness ; but I know danger holds no dread for hilt, and have accidently hap- pened un some of his many good deeds. To rue he has always seem- ed a elan of unueeily lenient judg- ment, putting the hest construction .possible ou the evil actions of his fellows. 'If I am unrensonahly proud of my friendship with Kuollys, it is pardonable, for he is an experienc• ed loan of the world, who meet be nearing fifty, whereas I am not yet thirty. Ever since he saved my life. in India, at the imminent risk of his own, .re holds, he feels, a cer- tain amount of responsibility on my accon•nt, and I am ouly too ,willing to view the world under his tute- lege. L'et I am glad that my mother did not hear hint relate the story that spoiled Illy dinner, which was assu,redl'y a good one, since he ordered it. She nhaiutaius that Knoliye is xfretnely ul'isyinp'n'theti‘c and, prejudiced as she is, she would not have observed that, under his cold exterior, there lurked .a warm pity for his frim.' It had Leen arranged, during his ' :alert stay with ns, that iu two months I should j tin him in Lon don ; and the prospect of another delightful run through Europe with '1-itn made tne somewhat forgetful of the fact that it was his last night in the city. Ho hid rashly promised my cousin to visit his rose -gardens, and en that afternoon redeemed his word. When we mot at the club,, uoticod 'that Knollys appeared tired. He stood at the window, apart from other men, looking across at the plan, and did not at first notice me. 411ou1d 4\11.14, 11 I cried, aghast, sly loud tont) j; marked contrast to his low, unittlrr ed words. 'You ares not eating,' remarked Knollysl as he reflectively regarded the bead that bad formed round the `dge of his glass; 'You ire astound• ed at my friend's motion, but he hint self did not question the wisdom of •iie course; perhaps it did not oeour to hint that he eo.uld err. Better, he thought, to cause himself one sharp pang than untold misery to the bitter end. In fact, he believed he was doing a very brave deed—to consign your chill{ to death is not such a tlruple )natter as it aright up. pear. When the mother learned what he had done, she was wilily iutdi;nant for an instant, then quiets 1y pleeed the child in his crib and stoically watched hie sufferings. Atidew het hall seemed quite right 'cul courageous in himself struck Smith as monstrous in the mother. Yui, are r.egleeting your filet. You 'She needed the money to save n brother,' I broke in authoritatively. 'No ; for she had no brother nor any near relative who might need hell,' Kn)llys said, as 11e set down hie glass. 'The 1111411 anxious to find sone excuse for her, suggested this ; but it was for no relative It. was for herself; yet she had wanted for nothing that money could buy or love devise. Ile aright not have conceived her sin to he ti•rgrant had she not permitted the servant to suffer in her stead. So far as it was possible, Smith ;lade restitu- tion to the loan ; but by her silence she had convicted herself of the most heinous of all transgressions in her husband's eyes. 'There was ane way only in which he could explain the matter to himself. He had never believed in kleptomania until then, but it was the one thing upon which his mind centred. And she confessed she had often felt im- pelled to take valuables for which she could Lave no possible need. '1 -Ie was a proud tnan and he was tortured by his discovery. He had regarded his wife, his child, and himself as being made of finer clay than the rest of mankind. His dis- illusion was complete. Tho day after site was unmasked she carne into a splendid inheritance, but Smith rigorously refused to pet mit the expenditure of any of it in the household. Ile dated not leave her for an instant, thinking the de. sire might come back to her. IIs sacrifieed his pride by telling the true ;state of affairs to her maid; a trusted servant, and together they kept vigilant guard over ber. It was the most insidious cruelty he could contrive—one that must have tvounded her sorely. She was never permitted to lose sight of her sins. He was inflexible in his course, keeping her always under his relentless eyes. My friend Smith thought himself, in those days, quite capable of accusing and ,judging his prisoner, and seeing that tho sentence was properly car- ried out. .When site seemed to forget for an instant her past error, Smith ever so gently turned the thumb screw. Ah, he really de- vised modes of exquisite forturo that she should properly expiate flet' crime. 'I suppose it was irksome,' I be- gan, 'for Torn can talk of nothing but his roses and his wife. You see they are renewing their hooey - 'neon. Their affairs looked very black for a time, but suddenly righted themselves, and their friends are suffering the consequences.' Knollys ceased to watch the wav- ering shadows of the trees and turn ed inquiringly, 'It was a misuuderstsnding,' I continued, as we walked out to din- ner ; 'Toon forgot that appearances are often misleading, and she was unable to furnish a satisfactory ex• planation of her Conduct. 'I conjectured something of the kind from what he told inc cotutng bade to the city, and it reminded me strongly of a little episode in the life of a friend of ;lino. Aud she, too, in some indofivable way— some turn of the head or trick of the voice—recalled lay friend's wife, The story alight interest you,' 'I am quite sure it would,' I re- turned, eagerly, for Iinollys is al- ways well worth hearing. it all happoni d sone years ago, but I think I remember the points quite well,' he commenced, smiling faintly; 'I am not SJ certain, how- ever, that I shall bo able to do the story justice, for I am not a clever r nconfeur, and you will probably R'armise the end lorg ere I have reached it. My friend—we might call him Smith—my friend Smith was able to be of some service to a man whom he met in a foreign land. The man met with a fatal accident, a few days later, and, together with the valet, Smith volunteered to burse him. The stranger, fooling he had a claim on Smith b ea ise of his first favor, burdened him with the pleasant task of bearing the Smith--tt great. deal trio touch, Let drink 10 lush early demise. 13e, Neve ate, it is what would please Hint best.' TWO FAMILIES BROKEN UI'. will find it—' 'But the mother 1' 1 reminded. The mother 1' echoed Kuollys, .• wearily. '"`tion progress ton rupi,lly, Sutieh was able to discuss from his mind the idea that he had been in— strt"unntal in bringing about the little fellow's detail, for it would have been impossible fur the plrysi• 01811 to reach the hens,, before the child expired. The mother, how- ever, tint nut reason with so much (i (8wt', and, after the death of her child, failed visibly. In this in stuuce physicians were called iu, but what they might have been able to do for the child they could riot do for the mother. It is true she could nothave found life very joyous, but her dc.ct01' agreed that they lead never before seen any ono r.o deterut hied to escape front this world, There was no illness—orale a grow ing birr^uidn,-88, a gradual l.uLting by of the saafleet tasks, and a want of will to recover. If eV('r a woman flied of. a broken heart, it was. wy friend's wife.' 'Did she give no explanation of 1)' '80111 uct 1' 1 demanded, leaniug ou the table heavily. Knollys was looking at something beyond me, and did not hear ate until I had reiterated lily question. `Do• you not believe she was a 'cleptomaniac 1 The explanation did not come from her, but front an- other quarter,' he finally proceeded. 'She was delirious for nearly; a week before her death. In her lucid mo- ments, she would ask the date, then strive to recollect bon,*tlitg that elusively evaded her. She was 0011- tiuu:.11y murmuring about some stoney ,that was to. he sent to some ane—whotu, they could not deternt; Me. Smith had been with her all the day, and, towards evening, feel- ing he'must be alontefor a while to give vent to him Misery, went to the library. The morning's mail was awaiting him. The topmost letter was addressed to her in a man's unfamiliar band, •1Ie tore it open, filled with insatle jealousy. 'No, she did not rebel ; she drear- ily accepted the penalty of her mise step. ..t first she lived in deadly fear lest lie should send her away from him ; but when she found it was part of his plan 10 be with her constantly, she seemed content. She could not, rather would not, grow accustomed to the thought that she had forfeited Smith's love. During the first few days she hover- ed around him, hoping to lure rotes expression of pardon from him, some word of love. Never forget• ting that she born his name, he treated her with a cold civility that was more frightful to her than would have been an exhibition of brute force. Ire was disciplining himself all the while in r'pressing his feelings, for, es you have per- haps suspected, he •loved, her as passionately as ever, "JAW ALLAN 01' MOO 11t1AL, ELOPES . iVIT1t Mlis. I:IEIIDtttT. Two tnembere of Montieul's best and wealthiest society have eloped, leaving behind in the one came a borrowing wife mud in the( other a broken hearted husband. Mr. John S. Allan, inure commonly known ae "Jack" Allatt, the eldest son andjbeir to Andrew A. Allah, one of the ptrtners in the Allan (loyal Mail (Steamship Line, has gone in company with the wife of Mr. IL Y. Hebden, who is pro- wiueutly uouneuted with the Bank of Montreal. D'ir. Allan leaves behind hien a beautiful wife, about thirty years old, and five young children. MVlrs- 1leteleu blaaves a husband, 11 baby. two years old, and two boys ten and twelve years of age. 'All, of course, you perceive from whom it was. You are iu the same position as the novel -reader, who knowing both sides of the story, is aware of the end long before the hero or heroine have lived it out. Unfortunately. Smith knew only pia portion of the tale. The missive purported to conte from her first husband, whom Smith had helped hors but whom she believed to be still alive, and cautioned her to fors, ward his monthly allowance at once, or ho would be under the painful necessity of declaring himself to Stnitts without delay. It was a pity he had not done so long before, AH Smith would have recognized the valet. Does it not sewn alt wether impossible. that she shoulc have been incredulous 1 So, you ee, the mystery, which Smith had 1 elieved to be no mystery, was cleared with- out her speaking, but n little too late, for, while Swith was rending the letter, sh0 passed away, leaving him in a maze of maddening reflec- tions. He has lead a long while to appreciate the bitter pathos of the incident, and sometimes ponders on the problem of whether she would have confessed had he not suggested to her the excuse of lttlptomania. Knowing, the simplicity of le�er morals, im comprehends the atrugg there must have been while the buts ler was suffering for her. I think Smith would lave pardoned her for taking the money to buy the man, so that be should not make himself known ; even her own silence, had he been conscious it was done that she tnieht not be separated from (him. Her love for Smith was the one passion of her life, and she paid for it dearly.' 'Poor woman !' I murmured, tritely: Knollys raised his head, his lips parted in a shadowy smile. 'Note how we differ. I should say, 'Poor man.' Site is in a place of peace,' 'I am glad 1 am not acquainted with your friend Smith,' I observed, trying to slake off tate gloom of Knollys' story. 'He must he a very sombre companion. Do you are much of 101)11' The world knows nothing of his history ; he does not wear his heart on his sleeve. It is only to rte that he confesses bow dull be finds life Yes, I see a great deal of my friend 'She devoted herself exclusively to the child, who had become a source of coustaut agony t0 Smith. If he took a fruit or sweetmeat that had been forbidden hila, it became to Smith's fevered imagination evid- ence that he had inherited the mother's weakness; in other days it would have seemed the childs lov- able fault. 'The child slept in the mother's apartments, and Smith was about to retire one night when his wife came in hurriedly bidding him send im- mediately for their phyeician, for their little one was choking. Smith went baclt with her, and after seeing the child, left the room—she thought to send for the, family •physician. Site used the simple remedies that had formerly proved effectual, but without avail. Sho reified her eyes to Smith in agonies ing appeal, but he made no move. ;lent, At length he told her that he had not summoned a -physician, believing it bettor that the child ire � a11 et Mrs. Hel 1 n a• Pie. Alt tri 1 bout two years ago. Mrs. 1-Iehden went to Montreal from Chicago with her husband, who was then teepee. tor. of the Bank of Montreal. Her attractive face, retitled matoers awl good ftiurily readily gained her an entrance to select social eireles iu which the Allem; moved. Dlr. 1lebdeu installed Lis „wile in a beautiful home on Sherbrooke, the most fashionable street of the city, and there she entertained sumptuous• ly. Allan, who is fami,lially called "Jack," seems to have been smitten with Mrs. Hebden frau the first and from the (lay they utet the two buuause devoted friends. They walk ed, drove and thtlktd together, and frequently were seen in due anoth- er's company at the opera and theatre. So often did they appear itt public titin tongues began to wag, std unfavorable comments on their intimacy were freely uttered. Unmindful, apparently oblivious of the criticisms they prut'oked, the couple continued to see each other in public and in private. Onp night, however, Mr. Allan and the woman he seemed to admire most attended an amateur performance of the "Yeoman of the Guard," at the Acacleniy of Music. They occupied a box, with curtain drawn. Their presence and peculiar behaviour were soon discovered, and produced aacandal. Mrs. Allan is said to have been the tirst to break with her husbatd. He having repeatedly broken pledges to her thati!he would have nothing more to do with Mrs. Hebden, Mrs. Alien finally informed hint that she could trust hiot 10 longer and' that they must part. She soon after sold all her possession and with ber chil- dren Bailed fur Eungland. Allan was then flee, and hie attentions to Mrs. Hebden because more marked. In April Mr. Hebden made arruigeuleut8 to remove to New York to act as, joint manager of the New York branch of the l3atk of Montreal. It was intended that he would go on May 1, while Mrs. Hebden and the children were to follow Wednesdey next. Hebden reached New York according to his pians, It seems that on the Satur- day evening previous a cab called at the Hebden resideuce, Mrs. Iiehden got into it and was driven away. She has not since been 80811 in the city. The day before three of her trunks were taken away, about the same hour that four trunks belonging to her ;('ice; Miss Ash • force, were sent altoaed at Alsa r steamer bound •for England. Mrs, 1181,den left a letter addressed to her husband, the contents of which have not been revealed, Young ,Allan 'is the heir to his father's estate, and his escapade has been a great shock to the old gentle !van. Allan has been known as a "high flyer" for years, and has thrown up a salary of 30,000 a year as manager of the Allan Line Montreal office. A year or two ago he became infatuated with a former London barmaid named Itae. She three -tined when the break came to pnl>lish compromising letters, but suppressed diem for a consideration. `AIr. Hebden, who is Ca well-built mare of soldierly appearance, is the son of the late Rev. Dr. James I-leb den, who was rector of the Church of the Ascension in Hamilton, Ont. ario. His mother and sisters live in that city. He was educated in England and became au officer in the English army. He left the ser- vice and went with the Bank of Montreal 1 7 years ago. He is an excellent business mart and his pro— 'notion has been rapid. His wife was a Miss Patterson, whom he tnet and married in Engs land. Information was telegraphed to Hebden Monday that his wife was about to go off with Jack Allan. Mr. Hebden was thundeestruck when he learned the sacs news. He came to Montreal to—day, ane% found that Mrs. I-iehtlen had run away from her home and her children, and that she had been gone about four days. Nobody could tell what had become of her. Ile returned to New York on Friday with his child• ren. BEAUTY. .en Elev n, nut very Short and to the Point. "13ceuey is only skin deep." WItats the reuse in that say ng ? Whet good w slid it flu a pertain to bb beautiful--say,for an inch in depth? Fie wouldn't know it unless he was skinned. Moreover, beauty is not to be meesut'etl with a poalcet rule ; it is an indefinite sort of quality that ;weds a new definition each time it is found. "What is belenty ?" asked a belle of her circle of all - wirers. "What all women thick they pos- aess," answered the cynic. "Ask your mirror," said the Frenchman. But the philosopher replied : "It is that which every lover sees its his sweetheart whether she possesses it or not," He was right. How many tunes we have said, while pasg- ing a homely woman, "What on earth dirt Mr. X --e— ever see in leer? She's as home- ly as a rail tence." Not to him, though. We know how it is ourselves. When we were young and susceptible we mit a girl whose appears ee made us very sick. She was short, and we liked tall girls. Her mouth was of the pie order, while the rose- bud variety had always taken our fancy. Lastly, she had a lisp that sounded like an escape -valve. 'Well we don't know how it happened! but we fell in love with her, and all her imperfections iinmediately vanished. We toned that her head just reached the right place on our ehculder, so her height, or "lowth," was all right. Then, her pastry trioublt enabled us to kiss without knoekiug noses. That's one awful bother with straw- berry lips. As for the lisp, we thought it the cutest thing in the world, and tried to cultivate one ourself, but our employer 'asked if we had been buying some new mis- fit teeth, and wo desisted. \Ve don't believe that every one thinks himself handsome, but we do believe that every one wishes to be. Theophrastus called beauty "a silent cheat," and Thoocri• tea says it is "a serpent covered with flow- ers," We don't recall the personal appear- ances of these gentlerneu, hut we are willing to wager a large sum that their pictures never graced a photographic showcase. Homely persons are always saying that beauty is a snare, just because they can't share any of it themselves. One peculiarity of extremely beautiful or handsome persons is that they are seldom noted for anything except their looks. Who ever thinks ofrbcauty of feature, or lack of it, in connection with \Vashingtou or Lin- coln ? (1 don't care to give examples of the women.) The minds that guide the progress of the world make their owners far superior to any physical charms. 'That's where we come in. We wouldn't be handsome for anything. `' R ,'r IS A DYNAMO ? • THg QUESTION AN.r,WERaD iN ,A SCIENTIFIC WAY.i • An (mentons Process tont Ok alnln1 , Cel - tubae and Oxalic Acid from Vegotalnle vibres Contained in Wooer—A ectutnp for Scientifically Inclined People There.aro no doubt quite a few Inen.rune ning electric light and power machinery successfully, who are at yea as to the mea- ner in which each part of the dynamo per- forate its reguir d duty, and also the Nile - tent. which once art bears to the other, and Clow and why it produces an eloatric car. rent for either supplying electric lighting by means of the lamps, or power by means. of motors. The perpose of this article, then, is to make such au explanatious as it is hoped will be the meaner of enlightening 1'i them in this particular. For this purpose there has been selected the plain Gramma ring armature machine ; by Gramme ring is meant a type or pattern of one of the, original dynamos built Boma 12 years ago by M. Gramme, of Paris, and which con- sisted of two electro -magnets, whose poles or extremities face each other, -and between which is revolved a ring, consisting of either fine iron wires wound around a ease iron spider or frame, or laminas (pryers) of sheet iron clamped together in the same position, and bolted to the spider or frame, this ring then being wound with insulated copper wire of proper size, for the current and voltage required, ii a diametrically opposite direction. to that occupied bythe iron wire or laminas attached to the spider. This brings us to just what that armature has to ac- complish in the part it plays ; it is a well known . fact that when a wire is passed over the face of a magnet, that a current is produced or generated in that wire, and as the armature in the above case is uoth• ins more or less than a succession of wires. lying side by Bide around the entire ring, which ring is revolved between the, faces of the poles of the magnet, it will readily be seen that as they pass along the face of the magnets a curtent is continuously pros duced therein, which current will flow in either a positive or negative direction, ac- cordingly as either the positive or negative pole is being passed by the wire or wires. Every one of these wires that are passing in front of the magnet being titter all only a continuous winding around the iron vitro or lamina, it also follows that each one of the windings is collecting, as it were, a certain amount of current from such mag- nets, and as this current mustrhave an out- let to produce a commercial , product, the segmenta of the commutator with the brushes bearing thereon are so arranged that as these wires one after the other are about to p888 Out of the magnet's influence, they make contact with the proper seg. mentand take the discharge from the wires to the line. The fields or magnets spoken of above, are simply a mass of iron, either cast, or wrought, or laminated, wound with in- sulated copper wire, through which is pass- ed continuously a small part (or all) of the current that is being generated by the armature as explained above; this then produces an electro -magnet, or in other words charges the iron of the field magnets with magnetism to saturation, Or peau 1y so, in consequence of which we have the wires means notbousaud milreis and Is expressed of the armature which are revolving in on paper 1,ObO$. The par value of the front of it charged with a current, as ex- plained in the first part of this article. The next question front one who is not posted would be, "why{u4d wherefore does it cause a current to" lie" generated in the Friendship, armature ?" to which it can be. answered- - "Iu the village where 1 live," says a supply because there is a magnetic circuit molter in the Spectator, "1 was iu the habit established from pole to pole through. the of visiting two poor, infirm old women, one intervening air space, which for convenience inhabiting the single downstairs room, the sake is called the passage of lines of force— other occupying the garret above her. Each invisible to be sure, but nevertheless known kept a jealous ward as to whether 1 be- to exist—these lines always taking a ditec- stowed more tea or sixpence on the other tion from positive pole to negative pole, the and each was sure to tell me every ill trait cutting of which by the wires of the arnea- she could hear ot the other. One day the ture being then the cause of the cur - old lady who lived upstairs thanking the rent produced in those wires. 'These lines effusively for my visit, said, 'You're the of force would take an extended rotary only laxly ever conies ncetr me, 0' only path, or to be more explicit, a widely sep- friend I have, That one,' pointing down• crated one, were it not that the iron wire wards, 'lts hopes of friends,' adding hastily, or lamina of the armature has such an at - lest I should be too favorably impressed by traction for them, that they are cotcentrat- that circumstance, 'and there's not wan of ed or bunched, and brought into close rela- them but hates her.' I thought to myself tion with one another, the result of which that such a description of friendship may is that the copper wire of the armature has sometimes apply to higher circles than that the advantage of being able to cut through of my poor old friends."nearly all of them ; we say nearly a11, be- cause it is a well known fact that some dy- namos are so constructed that their pole Siberia signifies "thirsty," projections are so close together that there Sicily is "rho country of grapes." is more or less ot a leakage of magnetic Caledonia means "a high' hill.", current from pole to polo that should and Asia signifies "in the middle," from the otherwise would pass through the anmaturo fact that ancient geographers place it be- and do service in increased current at the tw•een Europe and Africa, brushes. From the brushes the current Italy signifies "country of pitch," from passes to the fine. Of course there are dif- its yielding great quantities of black purl. fereut windings and arrangement of area I-Iihernia is "utmost" or "last habits- ture wire than those spoken of above+• but tion," for beyond this to the westward the the principle governing all of them is about Phcrnicians never extended their voyages. the saute, be Ole dynamo an arc or an in - Britain is "the country of tin," great csndescent, an alternator, or a gell'era 111, quantities being found in it. The Greeks be it either for 10 volts or 5,000, or 1.100 called it ,Albion, which signifies arise ampere, or 1,000 amperes, "white" or "high," from the whiteness of The electric magnet spoken of above is a its shores or the high rook on the western plass of iron tu•ouud welch is placed spools coast.—New York Ledger. of insulated copper wire, 'cid through which is passed a current of electricity, either from a dynamo or a battery, vehicle current snakes the iron magnetic, but only as long as there is current passing through the wire ; the Moment' the circuit is dis- continued the magnetism in the w'il'e ceases, fence the name .eletro-magnet, meaning a magnet produced, by an electric eurteut only. The pules of a magnet is that part of the iron whose ends project through the spools of copper wire, so than some dymnliOS have two poles, others more, and its in the -case of alternating current dynamos, some have quite a number, they being then known as multipolar (ninny poles) machines. The commutator of a dynamo is that part of a machine on which the brushes bear for the 'purpose of collecting the current, and is, as in the above dynamo, composed of flat pieces of copper known as segments, which are built together in the form of a dru i, and are clamped closely together around fhe shaft of the machine, being well insulated between each piece or segment by a layer of mica or some other non-conduc- tor.—Electrical. News. Hard on Bookkeepers, "What a hard time of it," says a corre- spondent, "Brazilian bookkeepers must 1 ave, with the long line of figures which -t'epreseut the ordinary co]noierctal transac- tions of a banking or mercantile house. For example, rt real, the unit of the mone- tary system, is written 0.5001• and is equal to the value of one -twentieth of the United States cent. There is no such coin in cir- culation, the smallest being 10 reis. 'There is a copper coin of 40 reis, and a nickel coin of 100 reis, and another of 200 reis. Next comes the paper money in notes of 1,000 reis, called milreis. There are two milreis, 5, 10, 20, 30, 50 and 100, to a maximum of 500 milreis, numerically expressed this way : 500$000. Then there is an imagi- nary denomination named a conte, which paper tnilreis is equal to about 54 cents, American money ; but of course it varies with the times. `tennine or 010 World Ntuues. VIrtnes of Politico Stone. Pumice stone is 00 hest think in the world to take the stain off ono's lands, _When ink or any other stain gets on the fingers its removal is sometimes a matter of many days, but with a bit of pumice it may be rubbed off in a moment, and no out would ever know that it had ever heel there. To be sure the rubbing must b, pretty hard, and there is danger, of course of rubbing off a little more cuticle than oat can conveniently spare, but if this point it watched the toilet table has no more valu. able accessory. Tito Bicycle in Africa, The bicycle has been introduced into Central Africa. Two Englishmen arrived at Tabora a few weeks ago with two of the latest improved bicycles. They had travel- ed a huge part of the way from the coast, more than 300 utiles, on the machines, and they say they worked finely along the welt trodden native paths. Parable Fence Posts. Mulberry wood, the Doylestown, Pa., Intelligencer asserts, is the most durable material of which to make fence posts, It tells of a farm near Strode's mill, Chester County, fenced with this material ninety-five years ago, the posts being still in goo ,con - clition. They now support their sixteenth set of rails. Better Unsaid, Friend (after tea)—your little wife is e brilliantly -handsome woman. 1 should think you'd be jealous of her. Host (confi- dentiafly)—To tell the truth, Simpkins, I am. I never invite anybody here that any sane woman would take a fancy to. Cor -opt. School-teacher—Toddy, what is one of the most important duties of the governor of a state 1 use of the se araC . acid (Niters for the Teddy Wm reads the uewF?Tapers)—Tottreattnene 1811.08 wood. 1 run for president, ma am. An Ingenious Process. According to .the . Bulletin Fabrique 'Papier, en ingenious process for obtaining cellulose and oxalic acid froth the vege- table fibres contained in wood has been in- vented by M. Liefcbete. It consists in re- acting on wood with dilute nitrtcs Acid, in, the presence of sulphuric acid, separating the intermediate product from the acid liquor, which contains in solution the oxalic acid formed, and subjecting the' itttermedi. ate product to a further treatment, for the purpose of removing the remaining incrust - rag matters from the cellulose. Itt'the management of the acidliijuid, the plan pursued is to set it aside an subsequently subject it to a process for recovering the oxalic acid. The latter, dissolved in the weak nitric acid. can be obtained direct in the crystalline form by r4peatedly malting -441'41)s