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Wednesday. Oct. 1 lth 1(41)3.
"THE OLD STAGE HORSE."
So M. C. Cameron has been again
kiot111nated for West Huron. From
whisperings. we learn that the notina•
,riot has been accepted in an indefinite
way. Mr. Cameron said that he ap-
•
peared before them (the Reformers) he•
''fore as the old "war horse," but NOW,
tell it not to TH E PEOPLE, he was bes
fore the conventio" as the old 'Oftage
horse." What he meant 1.1y this he
knows best himself. We learn front
the published proceedings that Mr.
Laurier was endorsed, Sir Oliver Mowe
at in general and Mr. Garrow-the local
candidate -in particular. The half-
hearted acceptance by the "old stage
horse" may be slummed up in vietore
for the Conservative Party. Mr.
Cameron's Ianguage,according to the re-
port printed in the oiii,:i.il paper of the
county, runs as follows :
"Mr. Cameron stated that when com-
ing to the meeting he had no intention
whatever of again being a candidate,
owing to infirmity of years, and for other
reasons, but the reception of his name
had been so warm and cordial and
generous, and the enthusiasm of the
gathering such that he felt constrained
to say that, if his health and private
affairs allowed, he would accept the
nomination when election time came
round."
This means, if it means anything,
that Mr. Cameron has been nominated,
but that he has not yet accepted .
(JURRENT TOPICS.
The people of Ontario aren't saying
b about it, because they know that
=Manitoba School question ie one
that will right itself. There will be
either no Separate schools or there will
be civil war, and there won't be ally
civil war. -Hamilton Ilerccld.
It is just as well to know that if a
person refuses to answer the questions
put to biro by an assessor in the discharge
of his duty, he is subject to a fine of
$20. This is a provision of the Assess
ment Aqt. In Hamilton an assessor,
Mr. Allan, had a- citizen, Alfred Pil-
key, hauled before a magistrate tor re-
fusing to tell what his income was.
The magistrate gave Alfred two days
to make up lila mind to divulge his in,
come, failing which he will pay over
$20.
The "blackguard" editor of the Sig
nal bas assumed a calm mood, but con•
tiuues to taunt the editor of this paper
with not writing what appears in the
_columns of THE NEWS RECORD. We
have learned in our twenty odd years
newspaper experience that the devil
can only be, fought with fier. Ttere
is only one writer on this paper, and
that person is the editor and owner.
The "American hired man" of the Sig
nal should not lose his temper becauee
THE NEWS -RECORD points out a moral
and decent course for him to pursue.
We don't expect to please our totem.
in doing so, but that will not deter us
from chastising or even branding filth -
mongers by their proper name.
ODD SAYINGS.
AN UNKIND INSINUATION.
Mrs. Fashionable Slowpay-Your
former servant girl wants me to hire,
bor. Is she honest and reliable 1
Dressmaker -I can't say. I have
'sent her to you with your bill five or
six times, but she has never brought
ine back my money.
BLASTS FROM THE RAM'S HORN.
There is gospel in the right kind of
a hand shake.
When you bury enmity, don't plant
any flowers on its grave.
What some people consider pru
neighbors call
nee is what their nei
d g
meanness.
You can't keep the devil out of your
home by putting a handson'e Bible on
the center•table.
You can count the times on your
fingers when you have heard another
talk to your satisfaction about him.
salt.
When the 8lpanlih>R>!teedle t<{leo4o,
When the well/seers are teasing on the hollow and
the hill,
Aad the golden -rod to budding, loud o' waiting like
Until
Frosty mornings have unfolded all its regimental
plumes,
There's a little Inter-regnum when the Spanish needle
blooms.
Now the nights are growing chilly and the mornings
cool and oalnt,
And the days are sweet and Bunny, tilled with nature's
pungent balm;
There's a rare intoxication in those aromatio fumes,
When the sunflower Is a•dying and thoSpaulah needle
blooms.
There's a mist upon the meadow in these dreamy
nutuntn•days,
And the world is bathed at evening in an nlethys•
tine haze.
There is joy in mere existence that the raptured soul
consumes,
When the goldenrod Is budding and the Spanish -
needle blooms.
Oh the tallow fields of autumn, they aro full of drift-
ing gold,
And 'tie there I seek for treasure like a cavalier of
old,
For the jewels of her sunsets -for her casket of per-
fumes -
For the priceless joy of living when the Spanish -
needle blooms,
-Albert Bigelow I'aine.
PANIC.
No one knew exactly how it cane
about that Fred Cusack was always es-
teemed a man of more than average
courage, and yet that was certainly the
opinion held by the majority of his
friends, including some not likely to be
imposed on by bounce or braggadocio.
He was not a man given to that general
and indiscriminate rowdiness which pos-
sesses many whose natural ardor is re-
pressed by polite conventions; though he
occasionallygot into trouble in the street,
he was never, in consequence, escorted
to a police station; and if he did ac-
knowledge a certain liking fur boxing, no
one had ever seen him with the gloves
on. Nor had he ever shown any signs of
an adventurous spirit. He had entered
his father's engineering business and
stayed there without complaint; he never
had the gold or diamond or colonial
fever; instead of going berserk, he
evidently preferred a frock coat and
patent leathers. But in spite of this he
was credited with a courage out the
common. It arose and invested him like
a myth.
Cusack was certainly a hansome man,
and at 29 looked a very fair specimen of
the best of the upper middle classes. He
awas bright and strong; los shoulders
were broad; he walked well. His walk
might have accounted for his reputation;
there was a solidity about it that made
most get out of his way. And in spite of
it all Fred Cusack had very serious
doubts if the had any courage at all. It
had' never been tested.
For some reason not easy to discover
he was more popular with young men
titan young women. Perhaps his bean
ing gave the more cautious marriage
candidates an uneasy notion of his
fickleness; he might love and ride away.
His one fairly intimate friend or the
other sex was a Mrs. Emerson, whose
husband was sleeping partner in the firm
of Cusack et Co.. and spent most of his
time in his club, the Junior Carlton;
having heen,a hard worker up to 40, lie
proposed.to take his ease when he mar-
ried nt that age. He was 52 and his wife
was 28 or 29.
T11ere,was, oddly enough, very little
scandal about the obvious intimacy be-
tween Fred Cusack and Mrs. Emerson;
the very people whose ardor in taking
away others' reputations robbed them of
their own left her untouched in the
social mud slinging which gives half
society its sole virtuous and intellectual
amusement. For she was a sweet
tempered, calm and dignified woman,
whom every one Liked not too well to
assail. It is only our most intimate
friends who really know us sufficieutly
to do much harm.
Yet Fred Cusack and Mrs. Emerson
were always together in society. If she
and Emerson turned up at any of the
social Turkish baths known as "at
homes" Cusack was sure to Le there as
well. Not infrequently he brought her;
sometimes, though of course rarely, he
took her away. But he was her in-
variable companion at the theatre, of
which she was most passionately fond.
Emerson never went. The ouly actors
be could endure were dead; the modern
development both of play and perfortn-
ance sickened his judgment, which was
that of the last century. .There is always
one part of a man's intellectual equip
meat obviously inferior to the rest; one
domain at least in which he permits
prejudice to reign supreme.
But Mrs. Emerson was catholic in iter
enjoyment of all, London could afford
her of theatrical display ; her liking for
farcical comedy, curious in so grave a
woman, did not prevent her going thrice
to some tragedy. Her taste in Shake-
speare made no impossible bar to her
reveling in the absurdities of melodrama.
Everything was possible to her want of
true criticism ; and. whether Cusack
enjoyed all this or not, he went with
her. It might have been that what the
theatre was to her she was to him.
Fred's elder brother, Tom, a barrister
of some reputation and the author of a
book on conveyancing, was not wholly
assured of the wisdom of this permitted
friendship, and on more than one occa-
sion remonstrated with Fred, but with
no other result than a temporary es-
trangement. Once or twice he hinted
the same thing to Emerson himself, and
was, of course, laughed at. Yet Emer-
son showed a little temper.
"If I told Fred what you've been hint-
ing at, Cusack, he would knock you
down ; and, if you do it again -perhaps
I shall." Though Emerson said this with
a smile, Tom Cusack swore softly to
himself that all his brothers migh pro-
voke business for all the lawyers in the
Divorce Court before he would say any-
thing more, and he kept his word.
One day late in February Mrs. Emer-
son sent a note to Cusack. "I have two
dress circle ti;leets for the Independent
Theatre. You had better come and dine
here. Harry is dining at his club with
your brother and young Gower. My
two aunts will be here. -Yours, E. E."
Cusack received this letter just as he
was dressing to dine with an old college
chum, and he promptly wired to put him
off. When that was done he drove down
to Chelsea and made himself very agree-
able to Mrs. Emerson's aunts, who were
not Much older than herself. At 8.15
they left the house and went to the
theatre in the brougham. They drove
through Pall Mall. Cusack looked at
his watch as they passed the club.
"They are just sitting down now," ho
said.
"How was it you didn't go ?" asked
Mrs, Emerson.
"I told Eniorson. I was dining with
I-Iinton, and so I was."
Airs. Emerson frowned and bit her lip.
"Yet you are going to the theatre with
me. It ryas very foolish of you not to
bay yon e, uld not come."
"X obeli see hIrflereon at tIle Club Irv;
night and explain it,"
Airs. Fmel'son looked worried.
"Why, 1 wrote to him this afternoon.
saying i was probably going with you
to the Independent."
"1 don't see that it matters very
much," was Cusack's answer, and a mo-
ment later they drew up at the theatre
door.
At 10 o'clock Emerson, Tom Cusaok
and Gower (who was an architect) were
in the club billiard room.
"Why didn't Fred come this evening,
Cusack ?" asked the younger man sud-
denly.
Emerson answered him. "He is at
the theatre with my wife,"
"Which theatre?" asked Tom in sur-
prise. "I thought he was dining with
Ilinton."
"Fell through, I suppose?" said Emer-
son, carelessly. "At the Independent, I
believe,"
"Beastly hole 1" said Gower.
"Cloud acting, though," put in Toni.
"What nonsense you talk !" said
Emerson. "Good acting, indeed ! There
isn't any nowaday. You should have
aeon—"
"Yes, I know," broke in Cusack, "a
dozen men and women you never saw
yourself, or, if you dict,. it was when
you were a boy, and the romance of
youth is over their dear perfee-
tlolns."
Emerson laughed, but turned to
Gower,
"Why is the Independent a beastly
hole, G.'IV(r?"
"Arumitectually it is a disgrace, s'ruc-
tuially it is dangerous. Bad as it was to
begin with, it is now old. and has all the
vices that conte with age. If it ever
catches on lire--" •
"As it will, of course," said Emerson.
"Women lose their beauty, mom die,
theatres are burned."
"Don't women die then?" cried Tom.
Emerson turned on him with a twinkle
iu itis eye.
"They are immortal when they get
ugly. Nothing will persuade them to
go."
"If it ever catches on fire, why, may I
be outside!" finished Gower, and then,
as the last red ball suddenly disappeared
from the table, Cusack pocketed the
coins and put his cue iu its case. They
sat down to drink whisky.
Presently there came a roar down the
street which they could hear where they
sat, and which every Londoner knows.
"A fire!" said Gower, and the others
nodded.
"What are the odds that it isn't the
Indepa d n ?" asked Gower.
"•Tei1 thousand to one, at least," said
Emerson. "No, more, as we have been
talking about it," And they sat still.
Presently a man they knew put his
head into the room.
"Bullyt fire," said he, "but a bad job.
It's at the Independent."
The three mem sprang to their feet,
and two glasses fell on the floor with a
crash,
•My wife's there!" said Elverson, with
a face the color of half blanched grass.
And he ran out of the room. The other
followed hien. Gower was the only one
who took his hat,and he nearly lost sight
of his friends in consequence. For they
were running,and already getting into a
hansom when he came out. As the cab
went on he sprang upon the step and
held on like a cabman's --buck."
''All right, cabman; friends of nine!"
he shouted, and the man whipped his
horse furiously. He.weut into the Hay-
market like a madman, and nearly ran
over a policeman who roared to lhini to
stop. The order was not obeyed. At the
corner the crowd was alriaily so dense
that the cabman had to pull up, and he
was instantly pounced on by the police-
man, who had jumped into a cab and
followed.
"Never mind," said Emerson, furious-
ly; "come to the club to-morrov,and I'll
pay the fine."
And he and Cusack were lost in a mo-
ment.
"Let us through. for God's sake 1" he
said in a strained voice; "my wife is in
the theatre."
"You couldn't get through if you were
ten men, gentlemen," said a policeman
close to them, and Cusack suddenly
taught Emerson by the collar and drew
him back out of the crowd.
"In another minute we should have
been stuck there all night," he said.
••Come, lets go round and get where
most of the police are; by a soverign,
perhaps we can get there."
"And what good?" said Emerson.
As they came round to the other street,
the crowd was just as thick. But a fire
engine came through, parting it, d,nd
Emerson sprang at it behind and held
on. Cusack followed him,
"Five pounds if you'll get us through
to the front," said Emerson, desperately.
And the two firemen behind caught
them up.
Even as they got to the theatre front,
the fiercest flames seemed to have been
beaten down and only heavier smoke
poured out of the upper windows. The
engines were playing through them, and
three throbbing lines of hose ran into the
main entrance, for the men had got 10.
The road was flooded, so that the pave-
ment seemed Almost clean; into the run-
ning water came flying embers that
hissed as they full. Outside the cordon
of police were many who had escaped
from the fire. Some were torn and
bleeding; some women were but half
clothed; men stood and sobbed; and be-
hind, again, the thick crowd moaned like
a sea; the white uplifted faces were as
spindrift, as beaten foam. When a fire-
man showed at the upper windows they
sheered; when they saw him against a
spurt of re -arisen flame they whimpered
curiously.
As the two men stood there thrust
against a wall, obvious in evening dress
that was soiled and torn, Cusack turned
and looked at Emerson. His face was
working at one moment and rigid at an-
other ; the blood from his bitten lower
lip ran in a thin band down his shirt
front like some decorative -ribbon ; it
blackened on his chin like an imperial.
"They are getting it under -getting it
under," said he at last piteously.
"Cusack I Cusack 1 do you think -oh,
God I what do you think?"
Ho waited for no answer, for the
theatre was getting blacker and blacker.
From one point of view the building
was saved. It could, doubtless, be re-
stored without being pulled down. And
in a month the people and theauthorities
would forget what it had done.
They begun to bring out the bodies,
and now neither Emerson, no. nor Cu-
sack. could be restrained. Fortunately
for them, as they tried to break through
the line, the inspector who hurried there
knew Emerson well.
"Wills," said Emerson, "let me and
my friend through on some excuse. My
wife's in this - devilish hole, and his
brother. If you do, come to my club
to -morrow and ask for what you like."
"Come," Said the inspector auddenly,
and they ran across the road. Others
uriostrie;i to foliose and tvt re repulsed, Angry
sense,
"'Who are those ghat.you have let in
then 1" screamed a man without a coat,
".They own the theatre." s lid the
policeman, lyiug with all due prompt-
ness.
"•If I'd known that. I'd have killed one
of them," said the roan its he was thrust
back.
'1'a.ere two dozen bodies hitt out al-
ready hi the hideous vestibule, and
Emerson 1'ttu to them one i,y one.
There were fifteen women and the
fest then, alt iu evening dress that waft
blackened, torn, and water bodde t, But
neater among, the men or 11 o 11011 did
they find Cus:c : , n 1 Me , E:uersuu.
Ealersuu seized '1'o a by Intl a: ru.
'Perhaps they didn't go ! Perim11's
they escaped ! Perhaps they are alive !"
lie peered into each mewl face again,
:,nil then into others fluff were laid in
the dre:tdl'ul rows.
"Where slid they sit ? Do you know?"
asked Cusack,
•'I don't," said Emerson ; ''but she.
liked the dress circle best."
And he tried to go ul:atanrs. HO totter-
ed as he went ; the rent.,i')iug smoke
made him cough.
-•\Ve snail find there up hero," he said
a1guin. "Together -or they will have
escaped !"
1'Itey :vent up into the dress circle,
stick was dimly lighted with three tire
lanterns. Euterson caught ono of the
men by the arm.
"Are there any more bodies her !" he
asked Tsar-o'y. ••NI.t 11)1111', sir," said
the man. who was as black as his hoots
with fifth, and set the ,1.1)15%1•01' Em rso11
groaned agll111, 'The3' st ntified over at
111a11'5 body in the :second row. C'eetek
pulled lith out by the shoulders and
dropped him again stied Ile saw 0
heard. "Here's a lady. sir," said the
fireman, and Enlersot knelt down by
her. It was a girl of seventeen who
seemed asleep.
'"There is one more in the front row,"
said Cusack, and they went to the front
• row on .the prompt side. This W0111:11
had not fallen doivll ; site was leaning
with her amts ut) the cushioned rail
above the stalls ; her face was on her
hands ; she seemed as though site were
alive or asleep or, perhaps, in the utter
abandonment of grief. And as they
went toward iter L•'•110r8o11 5011)0 1 and
stopped subbing, and then itis face be-
came hard and sot.
"•if it is nut this ono—" lie said
aloud. But he did not speak again in
teat voice. Fur it was that one. And
situ was alone. Cusack snatched the
lautertl from the firehutu's hand and
looked anent tete' flour, but Itis brother
was not there.
••You have taken some from here," he
said furiously.
"No, sir," said the fireman, starting;
"not one, 1'il swear. • I was the first in
here, and this lady was by L•ereelf."
Emerson straightened himself np in
the sett next his dead wife,
"The cur!" he said, 001. Cusack
looked as a man does when he is struck
and' knows he cannot return the blow,
fur it was his disgrace as well. He
looked at the dead woman and the hot
tears of bitter shame ran down his
blackened cheeks, -, staking hint look
ludicrous. Was it fancy or not teat he
s:tw through them? Was not that look
upon the beautiful deal face ono of
fear? Why was it not utterly calm as
that yuuug girl's or writhed into fixed
rigid anguiih as some he haul seen down
be:ow? The dead woman was herself
ashamed -but not of herself; and her
face told w•it11 w11111 hcrrur and disprut•
that did not regard death she had laid
her head upon her de,erted hands,
feeling that all her life had been for
nothing and that it was well to did.
And Emerson ruse up with his wife in
Ili; arias. Though he was not a strong
man -bough he had gone through
enough to have !nude a strong ratan
1101)1 -he carried her as he had onto
carried her dead child and he ,went
downstairs steadily.
up.
"What are you going to do ?" said
Cusack when they had reached the bot-
tom, As ho was about to answer EmersonEmersonettlnibled, and 'Tut cutight hint. 'Then
be laid the body down and covered the
with his handkerchief. He ruse
-
"She can stay Isere till I return,Cusack.
Lam going to see your brother."
-"What are 3011 going to do?" asked
Cusack, in a monotonous voice.
"Nothing, but I should like to look at
hitt. Comte." And they went through
the crowd, which a heavy rain had tiliu-
tted. They took a cab and drove fast to
Fred's rooms in' Duke street. . Emerson
leaped from the cab and knocked light-
ly at the door. It was even then but a
little after 11, and the servant answered
quickly. -
le Mr. Cusack at home ?" sake.)
Emerson in a constrained voice. For
one moment his brother's heart stopped
beating.
"I think he came in just now, sir."
ill
"We wgo up," said ToIn. "1 amt his
brother."
'When they entered the lighted hall the
girl stared in stupefaction at their ap•
pearance. But they took no notice of
her. Cusack stepped in front.
Fred's rooms were on the first floor;
his bedroom opened from the sitting
room. Both rooms were lighted and the
first room's door was ajar. 'foot enter-
ed it quickly and Emerson fo,lowed him.
'They looked and saw Fred standing in
front of the big looking glass. His face,
much more awful than any dead face
they had seen that night, paralyzed
them, and they stayed there staring.
"In his hand," muttered Emerson,
"Nothing," said Toni, "nothing."
And Fred saw them. Emerson made
a spring forward and Tont caught hien
round the waist and held hint. There
was a gurgling cry and Fred Cusack fell
upon the floor heavily.
* • • •
"I would have stopped him," said Ern -
018 -10 I was his brother," said Ton. -
Morley Roberts, in Illustrated Loudon
News.
Mfrs. Annie Helant,
A Vassar debutante who met Mrs.
Annie Besant for tho, t time a few
days ago describes her tents: "I was
quite astonished to meet so beautiful a
woman. I had thought intellectual
women must necessarily be perfect
crows in appearance. But Mrs. Besant
is a decidedly lovely creature. When I
appeared before her two gentle brown
eyes smiled on me; brown hair of pre -
mc hue rippled waves ri I d in
pre-
cisely the sante e
over her pretty neck; her mouth was
arch and bright. yet sweet, and site wel-
comed me just as one young girl might
speak to another." Vassar teachers had
better be on the watch. If all the
young girls catch the disease like this a
Moody and Sankey convention will bo
needed to bring them back to their
Christian senses.
.SCIENCE MISCELLANY,
The largest vesle,:tl t•aleulu+ on record,
weighing 25 ounces 11111.1 measuring 22
trellis in greatest' lt'tt th, was recently
taken front a► ptuieltt in an Eeyptiaut
hospital. Complete recovery sus fol-
lowed by death front kiduey disease in a
few months.
Water , to I
1 1 r 1 xarntl. Us.
Silhterrttllea,l "11101.4 111 tittles exert an
ener.y deng"rous to the people 1-thoveq'
Prussian totem ul' S:::u1viM•nuth hale
hail a narrow e,c:tp.' 11 alt tie -tractions
by the uvtvfiow caused in deepening an
artesian well, mel a Gvvnau ''riser, C.
Falkeuhorst, navitiolls legendary end
his price, instances In thiel the water
has been made to ruse tvit't :treat force
from wells and springetn•eat.titthe influ-
ence of ea.rtl.qu Ices, A ut ire common
danger results from toe furhn.ttem of
cavities in certain 5t:atta u1' toe emelt by
the dissolvine out of soluble silts- s-
peci illy centime' ,alt, i'ari.ouate of halt.
and gyspnni. Iii: ('buff lhas cstlnuu• 11 ins.
that the little 1 aver 1' ,,ler, nt'ur 1'.uler-
burn,al,stracts fr"nn to earth 270 pound!
of carbonate of Mu- leer minute, and
Lorenz sprint in Lid:erbed brings up an-
kually 8,('00,000 pounds of gypsum.
TIIe surface nbute ground that i, heitti;
honeycombed is an unsafe pales to live.
Sudden collapses 111 the Karst uu,un
touts often bury tunny ini a ,it,nts 111,1
in the North l:: i In ui plains large an as
sometimes 1'a!1 iu, funning depreseious
which till w -i111 water and b cool.. lake;.
Pavers and 111118, sun the other Land,
sometimes ttisa1pe it t1,i111g't tale 11 aur-
al or ut'utical formation of upetoeg, be.
neath theft. 'l'ite lakes near E.el-ben,
not far from Sagan i Ice num are l,vly
smiting, and tlu-ir w'aeurs are drnia:lac
into the A)anstietl copper mines, threat-
ening the ('xi, encs ui rut iu.1ths;ry cm.
ploying 18,000 miners,
Submarine 1'1i o togra phs.
Pictures of the sea -bottom linen been
taken under varices coo i.iuns by M.
Louis Bouta11. Tile c,11111111, arranged
for several exposures and prutectell by a
metal box wak gtuss w-indoes, is mount-
ed on a e (sighted stand, and in d: ep
water is adjusted i a (fiver. In (heel',
of one or two yard; negatives were 01 -
mined by dirt et sunlight iu about 10
titillates, and .11 si:t ol• seven yank the
time of exposure •. :1,1 110 minutes. Nega-
tives were, ..cured during a ,101')11 by
'litmus of a flash -light.
R'leet.rlolt? I. Not Life.
These are conclusions of 3lr. II. New-
/mut 'Lawrence
ow-
/mut'Laiyrence : (1) All the thous., nil and
one changes which take place in the
structure of the living Lode-, be they dee
to the never -ceasing and involuntary
pl'ocese of Illeta i 1ll;lll, or to the exercise
of function, or to the effort of will, par-
take of the nature of chemical change.
(2) All chemical changes are FICCOM-
panied by electm-icol manifestation. (3)
Without chemical chane and inter-
change, life does not appear to exist.
(4) Therefore, lite ii always accompanied
by the generation of electricity. (5)
Electrical energy, however, is not the
immediate source of the vitality of the
body.
Value of Baud., sad Finger.. •
The comparative value of the hands
and fingers has been estimated in a scale
supplied by the Miners' Unions and
Miners' Insurance Companies of Ger-
many. The loss of both hands is reckou-
ed as 0 depreciation in working cap;.city
of 100 per cent.; of the right hand, 70 to
80 per cent.; left ban(, 00 to i0 per cent.;
thumb, 20 to 110 per cent.; right fore-
finger, 14 to 18 per cent.; left 1'utefinger,
8 to 18.5 per cent ; third linger, the least
iu value, 7 to 9 per cent.; little finger, 0
to 12 per cent. The range in percen-
tages is due to the difference in occupa-
tions.
Cholera Carried by Food.
Cholera is usually traced to impure
water, but a few Casey have been record-
ed in which it was carried ey food, such
as Milk. fruit, salad, and even bread and
putter. Recent experiments show that
the cholera bacilli may survive as much
as 13 or 13 days oil some vegetables. but
that they are very sensitive to acid. and
are usually destroyed in nue to six hours
on slices of fruit.
Good for the (:as Companies.
It has been pointed out that the un-
usually hot weather in England -favored
the go s companies, With 1) men rise of
some 20 degrees Fahr, the gas expanded
nearly four per cent, -a gain to tile
companies of 1000 cubic feet in every
25,000.
Accurate Doierml,, 11 un of hardness.
A new apparatus for testing tits com-
parative hardness of different materials.
is in use in the Royal Ueseerch Labora-
tory in Berlin. A conical diamond point.
with an angle of 90 degrees, is era.wn
under constant pressure aoa.ss 0 smoot)1
or polished face of the substance to be
tested, and the hardness is estimated by
micrometric measurements of the tt idtlt.
of the scratch. The following are speci-
men results expressed in arbitrary units,
which are of the lines ; Ljeail, 168 ;. tin,.
23.1 ; copper, 398 ; zinc, 426 ; nickel, 557;
soft steel, 765 ; glass, 1355 ; hard steel,
1375.
Socrol.
The new substance known as pa.rse-
phenetal carbamide, or sucrol, has been.
especially recommended as at delicious
sweetening for use by diabetics, dyspep•
tics, 01 fat people. An investigatfun by
Dr. Henry Paschkis snows that the sub-
stance has no influence lei the circula-
tion, respiration, digest.on or mervoiat
system in general. Its sweetening
power is 200 tunes that of sucar. tiucrul
dissolves in 50 parts of hot water or 8011
pacts of colli water, but is best used id.
the form of line crystals because the
powder does not 111Oitltey1 quickly.
Science Notes.
Compressed air transnissiolt of power
is practical tip to at. least 20 miles, ac-
cording to Prof, Unwin. Ten thousand
horse -power can be transmitted 30 utiles
in a 30 -inch main at 132.3 pounds 1.01
square inch. wits a loss of presanre of
only 12 per cent, 'l'lae efficiency is 59 to
73 ;net• cent. if the air is reale:need, and
40 to 50 per cent. if 1t is used cold,
That the disease germs which affect
animals may prove injurious to planus
also is the view of a French physician,
Dr. Charm. The tnicro organism can-
not readily penetrate thenvelope•s 01'
leaves, but on entering 1116 circulatory
system they may set up morbid physio•
logical phenomena in both animals and
(darts.
The•American consul nt Liege, Bel-
gium, stales that for every horse at least
two dogs ani aeel' in harness in the
streets of that city. Tito butcher, the
baker, the groom., the expressman, all
drire doge. The team draught of the
dogs is 600 tonncle, end he steps emelt
more quickly than the hose.
r3ng'ATfI'a OfirMri5;,
ia(Pnre' M11aetx 01000/MM OW Iloldg t44ut
WOE tet 11 Mt,
T:u Irt' urs unquestional ly few chairs'
in the home of ueat•Iy every reader teat
could not be made. 11111tH nlut•e usafu1 tl'-
uiteu a new seat. In many }duces this
kind of work Is not done, mud a really
good chair has to be sent to the attio or
have its defects covered ley a cushion •
-
The teak oflusting in a new seat will
not In. found hard to do if the directions
are sdrietly followed.
First eat the old canes from the chair
with a sharp knife (save this to look a1),
and bee that all the holes are clear front
dirt and brukest canes. 'rho') commence
by wetting, the cartes in a pail of water.
Nuw put the first cane in the twiddle
Z-3-4 -1"
hole marked 1 to t 1e diagram (there are
generally 18 holes at the hack and 22 in
frsnt of a common dining-rcont chair);
in the diagram, each line represents a
cane, so there aro two canes in each
hole. Put the first cane in No. 1, and
have a peg of some kind ready to put in
the hole to fasten ; then brim it over
and put it into No. 2, poll tight and
drive another Peg. Then briree it up on
the under side through No. 6, then front
No. 6 to No, a, then from No. 5, under,
to No. 4, all the time pulling tight and
driving; peg.;; from No. 4 over to No. 3,
then under to No, 7, then from No. 7 to
No. 8. One need only haibe a fete pegs,
as all but the last one that has been
driven in can be pulsed out after this is
done. Count off the holes on the other
side; in the diagram there are 19. Com-
mencing at No. 10. and start ars at No. 1.
After Ibis is securely pegged at No. 10,
weave it under and over the four canes
already in place, to the other side mark-
ed No.. 11, thea draw it through to No.
12,weave back to No 13,under to No. 10,
then weave to 11, and fasten with a peg.
The next thing to do is to follow the di-
rections given for No. 1, 4. 5, 8 snit No.
2, 3, (1,. 7. 'Then the directions for No.
10-, 13, 11, 12. All the rest of the can-
ing is done in the same way until all
.the holes are tilled. Be careful and
weave evenly and draw the canes tight.
After haviug finished weaving back and
forth, take a smiliar chair, or the old
seat taken out, and see how the cross
canes are woven. One can understand
this better by looking at an old seat or
another chair,thatl by a printed explana-
tion. Do all ruuing one way first, then
the other.
,Tho char can now be considered done,
except the binding off. Notice that
aroma' the chair there is a cane laid, to
give a finish :u111 to cover up the holes.
Take a cane long slough to go around,
commence at the corner marked A and
put the cane- through the hole, and put
in a peg and lay it smoothly along over
the holes. Take another cane, and put
it on the outside of the cane that forms
the binding, and then bring it over the
binding and in at the sante hole, through
to the under side. Run it along to the
next hole, and proceed as before ; so on
until the corner is reached. Draw the
cane down through, have a small peg
just large enough to fit in (perhaps the
old one may have been saved), then
bring the cane back so that when the
small peg to keep it in place is driven in,
it is ready to commence the front and
the peg is all concealed. Proceed on the
front as at the side, and finish all corners
the same.
How liaison Took Up Electricity.
"Now that you have left electricity,
hots did you first come to enter it 7"
"I will tell. It was by a peculiar in-
cident. I was selling papers on a train
running out of Detroit. The news of
the great battle of Shiloh. Sixty thou-
sand killed and wounded, carne in one
night, I knew the telegraph operator
at Detroit and I went to hint and made
a trade.
I promised him Harper's Monthly and
The N.ew York Tribune regularly if he
wouldsend out little dispatches along the
Lino and have then posted up publicly.
Then I went to The Fress Press and took
400 copies. That emptied my treasury.
I wanted 200 more. They sent me up
-to. the editor. It was Wilbur Storey, a
dark -looking man. I managed to get up
to hicedesk and stake a strong plea. He
listened and then yelle t out, 'Give this
arab 200.' I took 600 papers out. I was
taken off my feet when we reached the
first little station. The depot was crowd-
ed with men wanting papers. The next
•statiert it was worse, and I raised the
price of the papers to 10 cents. At the
third station there was a mob and I
sold out with papers going at 25 cents a
piece.
Well, do you know, that episode
impressed are that telegraphy was a
great thing, and I went into it. Tele-
graphy led to electricity." -Chicago In.
ter -Ocean.
Plucky Lieut. Perry,
The favorable news from Lieut. Perry
is gratifying to every person who ad-
mires pluck and perservance. Even those
who can see , no possible good arising
from Arctic explorations, looking at the
subject from a practical standpoint, feel
a thrill of pleasure in reading of the
safety of this little band of scientific ad-
venturers.
Lieut. Perry might be disappointing to
some people who night chance to meet
him. He lacks the element of mystery, •
of exclusiveness and romance. He
would seem to somea commonplace sort,
of man without a vivid imagination. But
the absence of those elements in his..
mental makeupconstitutes the difference
between a brave, serious, modest gen-
tleman and the showy, artificial make-.
believe.
Lieut. Petry is as unostentatious as he.
is sincere, as modest a3 hie is brave.
•
Difficulties that would dishearten most
men serve only to whet his appetite, for
progress. Itis retnarkable journey- on '
foot over many hundreds of miles of
Greenland's ice cape, with but one•eom-
panion and his dogs, illustrates the fear-
lessness of the man, and his modest re-
cital of the adventures during his entire
stay in the north illustrate his unassum-
ing character. -Boston Journal..
Oriental Jewelry,
Bracelets in enamels are very Oriental
in character. The enameling is usually
only on one side; the other is enriched
with gems. In most Oriental jewelry it
may bo observed that while the two
sides balance they are rarely repeated.-.
Jewelers' Circular,