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Published every Monday morning at nine o’clock.

NEW YORK, MARCH 28, 1885.

 

“ baby-blue,” upon a “ crushed-raspberry ” rib-
bon, with suggestive “forget-me—nots” tangled
all among the letters, and remarked in a tone
suggestive of an interrogation mark inclosed in
brackets, “ my wife embroidered that for me,” or,
“ that is a piece of my Sister’s handiwork.” But
presently hat-bands became the rage. Ever

“ wife” and “ sister,” down to the maid-of—al -
work, took to embroidering hat-bands (or hiring

down to Galileo, Sir Isaac Newton, Herschel and
myself.”

[At this point the applause was deafening, and
three men fell over the stove in the rush to get
nearer the speaker.]

“ Again, ladies and gentlemen, we have gath—
ered on this classic 5 0t, not to indulge in idle
theorizing or vaporiiig iionentities, but to in-
vestigate the equinoxes in their accelerated vari-

question. If these huge farms are to be the rule
in Dakota and the grain region of the North-
west it will compel the farmers of the central
and lVestern States to abandon wheat-growing.

 

How Bullwhackers Manage.

How teams and wagon trains pass on danger-
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solemn declaration that she, herself, worked
it for him, and the entreaty that he would wear
it for her sake; or sent him one in a dear little
note, with the affirmation that if he cared a bit
for the writer he would use her ribbon as a con-

der of the Milky lVay and gaze with contempo-
rary and spontaneous awe on the planets whirl-
ing madly in their appointed orbits, the mighty
J u iter fiery Mars, uno, Vesta, Ceres Venus,
Pa 185, 2Uranus and the rest of the grand aggre-
gation of oblate spheroids, satellites, stars, com-

mim'n —camp. We were circling about a moun-
tain w en we met another train coming down.
The road was just a bit of ledge in the mountain-
side, and was plenty wide for one we. on, but
not uite wide enough for two. But 1‘. e mule-
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ter’s hat—band in his hat in lace of his wife’s,
nor could he endure to brea the former lady’s
heart by refusin to use her ribbon as a "con—
stant reminder of5 her friendship for him.” He
could not “ return with thanks ’ the dozen or so
given him by sisters and cousins without mortal-
ly offending each affectionate donor. He could
not wear them all at a time. that was certain;
and if he attempted to use them successively,
there being enough to last a lifetime, how was
he to decide upon the order of succession with-
out stirring up lasting feuds among his female
friends? It would not do to present them to any
lady to use in her “ crazy quilt,”for then his sin
would be sure to find him out, and the wrath of
all the offended donors visited upon his too much
hat—banded head. He could not choose to wear

[More applause; audience getting greatly in-
terested. Astronomy seems to hit them right
where they live.)

“ Now let us consider for a moment the great
Center of the Universe, in its right ascension, its
declination and its apogee. he ancients, in
their inex licable and preposterous ignorance,
supposed t e Sun was located only about a mile
and one-half distant from the earth, and that it
was pulled over each day from east to west by
an invisible wire. This was a synonymous de—
lusion, a sine qua non and an abstruse humbug,
and in this enlightened age everybody knows-—
at least I trust the majority of you do—that the
Sun is nearly ninety-five million miles distant
from the earth as the chicken-hawk flies; and
sometimes, when we wake up 011 a cold Winter

of the other. Then they started the mules up,
and pulled the hubs of one wagon right over the
hubs of the other. The inside wa on was tight
a ’in‘ the rocks, while the tires 0 the outside
w eels on t’other one were within half an inch
of the edge of the recipice. It did my heart
good to see those mu es pull. The whole six of
’em would squat a little, tighten themselves in
their collars, and pull gently, steadily together
—-s ier nor six men could have done it.
Why, those mules knew just what they were do-
ing, and they knew just as well as anybody that
if they gave a jerk and slipped a wheel over the
edge the whole concern, mules and all, would be
2,000 feet down the gorge in a jerk of a lainb’s
tail. Hub after hub and wagon after wagon the
work went on, and that’s the way we pass two

 

e him.

Gus. The character was a real one, but of course
the name was changed. As the author is constantly
writing for the HALF-DIME LIBRARY and the WEEva
your third query answers itself.

READER. We do not care to give names and know
nothing of the “company ” or “ institute."—Your
penmanship is rather crude as yet. You evidently
have a free m0vement of the hand. and therefore
only need practice With a good set of copy-books to
perfect your chirograph y.

Jso. L. R. Indium is reckoned the most valuable
of all metals, viz.: $2,520.00 per ound avoirdupois.
Vanadium is next, $2,500; then the others in the or-
der in which you name them to' iridium, which is
worth $317.44. All these metals are found chiefiv in
ithe Ural Mountain mines in connection with plat-

num.

the most valuable, for in practical value they morning and find the thermometer down to trains on the same track out \Vest.” m‘lll'n‘zf Ch'MgO‘lon‘gid ESSEZLZSR‘Ffligfifl,’ disriiifgéf
We,» Everybody ig now. talking of Egypt_the differed little and each was a,“labor of love” thirty—seven degrees below zero, we are led to writing is now so popular that it, would be we” to
57/ ,. .

Nile—Khartouni—El Mahdi—the Soudan—all as
associated with the

Chivalrous and Martyred Gordon

in whose strange life and tragic death Reality
is the wildest Romance. In the story, starting
in our next issue, by one of our most delightful
writers, viz:

The White Sheik.

,

The Scouts of the Desert,
BY CHARLES MORRIS,

we are given vivid pictures of desert life and
desert denizens, all in connection with Gordon’s
Daring Ride across the Nubian Desert to take
command at Khartdum. The great commander
is, therefore, a central figure and leading char-
acter in the most novel, interesting, and excit-
ing story, in which an

Irrepressible American Boy

and a hardy old American sailor are the “ he-
roes.” These two penetrate to Khartoum, on a
desperate mission, and their acts and adventures
form the main chapter interest of the capital
narrative. All the elements of wild life in the
Soudan and the Desert are brought into full re-
lief; and while, as a story, “The White Sheik”
will be enticing to all classes, the incidental
value of the work as a perfect picture of

Arab, Nubian and Egyptian.
Pierce Bedouin and Moslem,

will win from the readers of BEADLE‘S “'EEKLY
a hearty “ Thank you!"

 

The Wide-Alan: Papers.

Hat-Bands.

HAS the hat-band epidemic spread to your 10-
cality, and have you been the recipient of a dozen
or so? Is there a blue one embroidered in pea-
green “ From filary Eliza "and a purple one
worked in orange “ From Harriet Jane, ’ and a
pink one done in lavender “ From Sarah Ann,”
and as many more as you have oung-lady rela-
tives and friends? And if so, w at, in the name
of sweet charity, do you do with them all? And
how did you decide which one to wear in your
hat? For these are questions of such moment
and solemnity that many a young man, whose
unhappy fate it is to be loved too numerously,
has been reduced to the verge of distraction in
his attempts to settle them satisfactorily to him-
self and in such a manner as to give satisfaction
to his gentle friends.

Of course you understand that the hat—bands
referred to are those little strips of ribbon, gay]
embroidered with the gentleman’s initials, whic
it has been the fashion and the furor, of late,
for young women to resent to their male
friends; and that these ecorative and initialed
ribbons are designed to be fastened inside the
crown of the recipient’s hat, to insure his unfail-
ing discovery and identification of his head—gear.
N 0W it may readily be seen that under certain
circumstances these hat-bands may be of great
service to their owners; for there are times when
a man is unusually blessed if he is able to readi-
ly reco nize his own property in the matter of
hats. or instance, when he has backed out of
a crowded parlor in a way which he feels to
have been the acme of manner, and most im-
pressive upon his fair hostess’s heart and crush-
ing to the hopes of his assembled rivals, he might
be piously t ankful if spared the mortification
of trying on all the hats in the rack, as if en-
deavoring to select the best one, within view of
certain watchful eyes in the parlor; and then,
having decided upon one being obliged to re-
turn, after walking a block, and explain to
the incredulous servant that he has “taken the
wron hat, byamistakef’ and of removing Mr.
Fitz ones’s c peau from his head just as Mr.
Fitz-J ones audiny wonders what has become of
it. Then, too, it is secretly, but perhaps ma-
liciously (?) rumored that there are occasional

times when men “have a head on” them: this

not. I take it, in contradistinction to any assump-
tion that masculine creatures are in the habit of
wandering about in a decapitated condition like
the famous “ Headless Horseman,” but mere y as
an intimation that at these “occasional times”
their heads are in some way peculiarly promi-
nent. If this prominence consists in a temporary
enlargement and elevation of that portion of the
body, as has been mysteriously hinted to some of
the uninitiated, a man may be truly grateful if
his hat, which under such circumstances he
might not be able to identify even by “ the eter-
nal fitness ” of it, is plainly abeled within.

Yes, it is clear that a plainly initialed hat-band
inside a man’s hat may be, at times. a perfect
god-send to him. True, it would not be wise for
him to use it when making calls sub rosd ,' or if
he is in the habit of supplying himself with the
newest styles in headgc ar from private hall-
ways or restaurant racks, instead of the coun—
ters of a hatter. But if he is an honest, virtuous,
exemplary young man, with only an occasional
tendency to the enlargement of the head pre-
viously mentioned, there really seems to exist no
reason why he should not hail the gift of an in-
itialed hat-band with delight, and wear it with a
good conscience and a sense of comfort. .

IVith such a spirit, no doubt, and With such
feelings the very earliest recipients of hat-bands
received the gay bits of embr01dery and pasted
them to the crowns of their hats. Happy mor—

 

and “ a token of affection ;” nor the prettiest, for
between buff embroidered in blue, and cardinal
worked With gold, and shrimp—pink done in pea-
cock~green, and initials intertwined with forget—
me-nots, and wheat ears, and daisies, all wrought
with Heminway, or Corticelli, or Florence em-
broidery silk, there really was so little
choice! And if he was unmarried, it pos-
itively would never do to wear Miss A.‘s
gift when calling on Miss B., or Miss B.’s
gift when calling upon either Miss A. or Miss
C. It is said that some politic youths changed
the hat—band they wore with each call they
made: but that they never failed, sooner or later,
to betray their guile by getting mixed as to the
relations of colors and donors, and warnin
thanking “ the pretty heiress” for the “beauti-
ful and cherished” yellow ribbon embroidered
by her hated rival. Naturally this awkward
mistake knocked their aspirations concerning the
heiress “ higher than Mr. Gilroy’s kite.”
Altogether the dilemmas into which men have
been thrown by this epidemic of hat-band eni-
broidery, are something harrowing to ponder
upon: but the little gifts are so easy to do and
cost so little that the feminine frenzy for making
them cannot be put down all in a minute. No
doubt the rage for donating them has by this
time permeated the remotest regions of our
countr ; and many a heretofore happy youth
has fal en a victim to the sorrows the rccipiency
of these delightful gifts entails. But if any man
among the sufferers has discovered a satisfactory
way of disposing of a superfluity of such dona-
tions. and a satisfactory way of deciding upon
their respective merits and claims, his name will
be inscribed prominently upon the roll of famous
philanthropists, when he shall consent to disclose
the discovery to now sorely afflicted humanity.
BELLE BRIGHT.

Happy-Goggle Papers.

My First and Last Lecture.

NOW that the usual imported English lecturer,
in a bob-tailed coat, eye-glasses, soup-plate hat,
and pants that fit him too previously in spots,
is stalking abroad like a blighting pestilence
through the land. I am reminded (I don‘t know
why, but I am) of the time when I entered the
lecture arena, for one consecutive performance
only, out at Charleston Four Corners, in the
lVestern part of the State, where I was born and
"' brung up,” as the natives out there express it.

I was considerably younger then than I am
now, and probably knew more, at least I thought
I did, and there wasn‘t any job too big for me to
tackle, from teaching school to running a “ log-
gi'ngJ bee ” or engineering a town meeting.

T e people in that section of the country had
got woke up on the subject of astronomy, and
they had engaged the noted savant, Professor
Erastus Skyrocket (I believe that was the name)
to come and deliver his celebrated lecture on
“ The IVonders of the Solar System as Viewed
Through the Infallible Telescope of Star—eyed
Science.”

The most of the inhabitants of that region
didn’t know whether the Solar System was lo-
cated in New Jersey or Connecticut, but that
made no particular difference. They were bound
to hear that lecture, even if it cost them fifteen
cents apiece. So Professor Skyrocket was duly
engaged, the evening was appointed when the
scientific feast would be spread before the hun—
gry multitude; and when the date arrived I, in
company with two or three other young fellows,
was sent to the railroad station, some miles dis—
tant, to meet the long-haired apostle of science
and drive him to the hall where the audience
was anxiously waiting for the perfomance to be-

in.

g When we reached the station we found a tele-
gram for the Charleston Four Corners lecture
committee, announcing that the professor had
been unavoidably delayed by an accident to the
train, and adding that he probably would not
get through in time to deliver his lecture.

Here was a pretty go! Up at the Corners was
an audience comdposed of at least fift or sixty
grown people an twice as many chi dren, not
to mention half a dozen dogs, tpatiently wearing
out the seats in anticipation o the promised sci-
entific re , and nary a professor to be had.

When went back there and broke the news
to the expectant crowd I knew it would cause a.
good deal of gloom and disappointment. I felt
bad about it. It worried me amazingly. I
hated to see the thirsty crowds disperse to their
homes with their longings unsatisfied.

In this emergency a happy thought struck me.
Why not personate Professor Skyrocket myself,
and ladle out science to the people, instead of al-
lowing them to go away disappointed? I could
not bear to 0 back and tell them the treat must
be s neg. I knew just how bad they would
feel.)0 t didn’t seem right to blast their happi-
ness in that way, so I told the boys if they would
drive to the nearest hotel, and give me just fif-
teen mi'nutes to rig up, I woul metamorphose
myself into the character of Professor Erastus
Skyrocket and ride out to the Corners with them
and lecture the people on astronomy.

The plan was agreed to with arush, and in less
than half an hour everything was in ship-sha
for the daring enterprise, and we were on t e
way to the Corners. ‘ I flatter myself that I
made a very respectable—looking professor, even
if I do say it myself. My own grandmother
wouldn’t have recognized me under the fiowin
wig, huge spectacles, false whiskers, long-tail
coat and other 'scientific accessories to my
toilet. ,

When I entered the hall I was instantly ‘es-
corted to the lecture desk with all the obsequi—
ousness due to a superior bein . The chairman
arose and duly introduced rofessor Erastus
Skyrocket to the audience (the most of whom
would have knoWii me at sight in my every-da
clothes), and I pompously strutted forWar ,
struck an attitude and began:

“ FRIENDS, ROMANS, COUNTRYMENéé-excuse
me—er—I mean, ladies and gentlemen, fel—
low—students in the flOWery paths of Solar
science, we have met here to-night to wrestle
for a few fleeting moments with the mighty
truths, the indigenous propositions, the wonder—

 

infer that it has suddenly drifted off a billion
miles or so further. This, however, isamistake.
In reality the Sun is nearest the earth in winter,
but owing to the mutation of the earth’s axis,
and the spherical form of its conjugated sur-
face— By the way, right at this point let me ask in
thunder tones, breathes there within the sound
of my voice a man so dead to all the elementar
instincts of astronomical research as to still at;
here to the obsolete, exorbitant and disastrous
theory that the earth is flat like an old-fashioned
pancake-griddle and has a rim erected at great
expense around the edge to kee the people from
slidin off into space? If so, lget him raise his
right and and demonstrate his whereabouts or
forever after hold his ce!”

One old farmer held up his hand. It was Dea-
con Jones. I had known him from infancy—
that is from my infancy.

“ So you believe the world is 'flat, do you?” I
asked, sarcastically.

“ Yes,‘sir; I know it, rfessor. If it wa’n’t
flat, the squashes an’ pungan would all roll off i”
was the confident reply, at which some of the
audience laughed, while the rest looked at the
old farmer in open—mouthed wonder at his au-
dacity in s king.

In my c aracter of professor it became my
painful duty to annihilate Jones. Said I:

“ Ladies and gentlemen, I am not only amazed,
but absolutely astounded to learn that the shape
of the globe on which we exist is regulated by
the movements of the sg‘uash crop, as our friend
has just announced. 'hen the wise astrono-
mers of ancient Greece lonia 0 announced that
the earth was a spherical y revolving diur-
nally on its axis, little did they ima ine that in
the enlightened nineteenth century a ald-headed
agriculturist out at Charleston Four Corners,
N. Y., would rise up in the ten-pin alley of Sci-
ence and bowl down their pet theory with a
a umpkinl Little did they imag—”

ut that was as far as I got. Just then there

was a commotion around the door, and the real
Professor Skyrocket, who had managed to get
there at last, came bustling up the aisle with a
big roll of manuscript under his arm. I saw it
would probably create comment to have two of
us occupying t e rostrum at the. same time, so
while the professor was coming up one aisle I
earnestly scooth down the other. The audience
realized that they had been trifled with before I
reached the door. and they upset half the
benches in a grand rush to get hold of my per—
son. But I was too sudden for them, and I got
out without receiving any greater damage
than the loss of my false wig and one tail of my
coat.
The lecture committee called on me the next
day and informed me that after hearing the pro-
fessor they were sorry I hadn’t kept on, as his
style of handling the subject did not seem to be
as lucid and all-satisfying as mine. They apolo-
ized for the loss of my coat-tail and offered me
ty cents to come down to the lecture hall the
next night and finish my astronomical discourse,
but I declined.
Over-ripe eggs and decayed vegetables were
so plentiful around there that I didn’t think it
would be safe to try the experiment a second
time. Yours retrospectively
OAH N UFF.

 

A Mexican Pyramid.

FRESH proofs are reported tOOhave been dis-
covered of the existence of an ancient civiliza—
tion in Mexico. In Sonora, about sixty miles
southeast of the town of Madeleine, some ex-
plorers have found in the heart of a vir in for~
est a 'd which is four thousan three
hundred and fifty feet round the base, and seven
hundred and fifty feet high—that is to say, near-
1 double the size of the great pyramid of
gheops. From the base to the summit there is a
roadway on which vehicles can travel round the
vast erection in a spiral. The outside walls are
built of granite blocks carefully tooled and bed-
ded. A little further off is a hillock, with hun-
dreds of caverns or chambers cut in it from five
feetto fifteen feet wide, and ten feet to fifteen
feet long. They have no windows, and are en-
tered by the roof. The walls are covered with
hierogl bios and curious pictures with the
feet and ds of men. Stone utensils have also
been found there. Who the builders of these
ancient monuments were is still unsettled, but
according to El Liberal, they robably belong
to Mayos, who formerly inha ited Sonora, and
were a different race from the Indians, having
blue eyes, a white skin, and blonde hair.

 

The Dalrymple Farm.

How a huge farm of 32,000 acres of land ac—
tually under tillage is mana ed, and what it is
made to produce, is thus exp ined b Dalrym-

le, the owner. The farm is in D ota, near
gasselton. The owner says:

“ We had the past year 32,000 acres in wheat
and 2,000 acres (enough to feed the stock) in oats.
Nine successive crops have been raised OK this
land, and our wheat averaged fourteen, fifteen,
and sixteen bushels to the acre. This year we
will begin to summer fallow, lettin about 3,000
acres lie idle each season till it has a had a rest.
We expect that after the summer fallowing the
yield will be from twenty to twenty-five bushels
per acre.

“ The 34,000 acres are divided into three farms
of nearly equal size. For each of these there is
a head-quarters, with a superintendent, book-
keeper, foreman, agent and other officers. These
farms are again divided into sections of 2,000
acres each, under a division foreman, who car-
rics out the orders from head-quarters, trans-
mitted to him by telephone. Each division has
its boarding—house, with men cooks. In the
spring seeding about 500 men are employed. and
during the harvest about 1,000. In the fall all
the hands are discharged except squiCient to at-
tend to the 400 or 500 orses and mules through
the winter. At each head-quarters there is a
store, upon which the cooks make requiSition for
all provisions. The whole thing is so systemized
that we can tell to a cent the cost of a meal’s
victuals for a man and the cost of seeding, reap—
ing or lowing an acre of ound. We shi all
our wheat to Duluth, an thence to Bu alo,

 

Wild Horses.

IVE referred last week to the killing off of
wild horses by ranchmen in Wyoming—an item
that, no doubt, astonished many of our readers.
We may nOW su plement what was then stated
by adding that t e range or run of these “ unfet-
tered steeds of the plains,” at the present time,
extends from Texas to the southern Dakota line.
They are more numerous in northern Colorado,
Wyoming, and western Nebraska than any-
where else on the plains. On the Re ublican
river, on the divide between the Sout Platte
and the Lodge Pole and the North Platte, and
as far east as the heads of the Loup and Dismal
rivers the horses range at will. Five or six
years ago they could be found on the divide be—
tween Sidney and Sterling in bunches of fifty or
seventy-five, but now a bunch of twenty-five is
conSidered large. Sometimes there is more than
one stallion in a band, but one of them is always
acknowledged as chief, winning this distinction
by many hard-fought battles with his rivals.
One bunch of eleven horses recently seen near
Sidney was entirely composed of stallions, but
this is explained on the theory that they were
probably driven out of various herds when
young and gradually herded to ether as old buf-
falo bulls are in the habit of oing. From the

 

horse-ranch of M. E. Post, about fifteen miles
north of Cheyenne, nearly 200 mares have wan-
dered away, and it is believed that at least one-
half of them have joined the wild horses.

The wild horses are compact little animals,
weighing from 500 to 1,100 unds. The major-
ity of them weigh about 8 pounds and stand
about fourteen hands high. In color they are
usually brown, sorrel, or bay. A gray is sel-
dom seen, unless it is a horse that has strayed
away from civilization. Their tails grow long,
fr uently dragging the ground, but their manes
aiedlike those of other horses, and not flowing to
the knees as they are represented in some books.
The eye, probably from being constantly on the
watch, is larger than the eye of the domestic
horse, and even when tamed the eye remains a
distinctive mark of the horse‘s origin. “'ild
horses, when captured and trained, are superior
to any other horse of the same size. Many of
them are used by the cowboys, and others are
broken to harness and driven as carriage horses.
being entirely trustworthy.

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Science and Industry.

 

THE American filachi'm'st gives the number of
locomotives belonginng American railroads at
29,227. Reckoning t e life of a locomotive at
twenty—five years, there should be 1,109 of them
constructed annually in order to maintain the
stock.. A car wheel lasts about eight years; we
are usin 10,000,000 of them, and produce 1,250.-
000 year y.
TEE Drug News notes an important discovery,
by which aluminum may be produced in unlim-
ited quantities at $1.25 per pound, or one-twelfth
of the price now quoted. The discovery was
made by Wm. Ih‘ishmuth, of Philadelphia, a pn-
ll of Wohler, the discoverer of the metal itself.
Kin Frishmuth is said to have devoted twenty—
eight years to this end.

ONE of the most remarkable oils yet discov-
ered is that found in the Arago oil-basin in Wy-
oming Territory. In a shaft put down on the
east Side of Bath Creek to a depth of twelve feet,

oil flows in of exceptionally high specific grav—
ity. It is, when first exposed, of a brownish col—

or, and can be cut with a knife like soft butter.

It gradually turns black on exposure. It has

little odor when it first comes from the shaft,

though what escapes on the south side of the ad-

joining ridge has a slight pungency, which it

loses on exposure.

LAST year over a million and a half of cats

were kil ed for their skins which have become

valuable as fur lining. 6 industry of cat-
skin collecting is of very recent growth. If
within so short a cc of time the casual de-
struction for their ides of a few stray cats had
assumed the respectable dimensions of solid traf—
fic estimated in round numbers at hundreds of
thousands of skins, what will it be a decade
hence? About the superiorit of the cats’ skins
over rabbit, rat, or squirre —skins there is no
question. The cost of production, too, cannot
be called excessive, seeing that each skin is stol-
en, and the whole original outlay is one stout
stick for dispatching puss and a sack to carry
her home in, while the total working e uses
are the wear and tear of shoeleather in tramp-
ing the streets for prey.

PROFESSOR E. F. RITCHEL, of Bridgeport, has
invented a poisonous air bomb, which he claims
will revolutionize all modern warfare. The
gases introduced into the bomb are several times
compressed and impregnated with isons, which
make them uickly fatal to any hving creature
breathin t em. When exploded the lies
close to t e ground. I’Vith one of them he killed
twenty rats in an inclosure recently. In battle
the bombs will be hurled from a mortar. The
inventor thus describes the effects of what he
calls his humane system of warfare: “The bomb
explodes, and the air within a radius of one hun-
dred feet becomes charged with silent death.
You cannot fight it; you cannot destroy this si-
lent life-destroying enemy. What is the result?
Whyz the men can stay and asphyxiate, but you
will find that they won’t. They will run away
in a beaten and deinoralized condition, and this
is one of the best points about the device.”

THE sudden and remarkable wth of the
roller-skating pastime has crea a constantly—
increasing demand for a certain size of boxwood
for rollers, and where eighteen months ago a ton
of three-inch wood brought 830, it is now impos—
sible to buy a ton for $120. The price has trebled
in less than a year. At the present rate of con-
sumption the world will be practically exhausted
of its boxwood in less than twelve months, 1111—
less some ually cheap and durable substitute is
found to ta e its place. Boxwood grows in Per—
sia and Turkey, is of very slow growth, and in
its native country stringent timber laws restrict
the depletion of the growing trees. Roller-skate
manufacturers have tried rubber, celluloid, vul-
canized fibers and compressed paper as a substi-

 

learn that. A stenogra her whois skillful and rapid
can always obtain emp oyment: but it requires per—
sistent and patient study and practice to become an
expertstenographer.

J. R. S. A Winchesteris made expressly for hunt-
ing, with adjustable sights whose use any dealer
will explain. It is lighter than the army Winches-
ter.—A novice woul have a tough time living by
hunting and trapping in Montana Game there is
yet plenty, but the pursuit of it for pelts only pa 3
old hunters—Your hight and weight are up to t e
full average for a boy of seventeen.

STANLEY R. says: “ What is the difference between
a cathedral, a church, and a minster?" A cathedral
is the principal church in a diocese, so called be-
cause it has in it the willed/a, the bishop's official
chair or throne. So if there were twenty churches
in a certain diocese only one, the principal one,
would be a cathedral. A minsrer is a cathedral
church. Also, it means the church ofa monastery,
or a church to which a monastery has bee‘n attached.

T. P. If you asked the young lady to go on the
sleighing-party with you, and she accepted your in-
vitation and went. it was exceedingly rude for her to
go home with a diflerent escort, unless you had by
rudeness or insult rendered yourself obnoxious to
her. if you are innocent of offending her, she cer-
tainly deserves your anger, and you should treat
her with the most formal politeness. or ignore her
altogether. until she makes some explanation of her
conduct, or offers some apology for it, to you, per-
sonally.

NELSON B. Edmlind Hoyle was an Englishman
who lived from 1672 to 1769. He wrote on games,
and his writings have remained a standard author~
it , ever since, in regard to most games of cards.
Tl’ius the expression, “According to Hoyle,” means
according to the highest authority. “ Hoyle‘s
Games ” are sold. in paper covers, for 50 cents: his
rules for playing whist, however, are now almost
entirely superseded by what is known as the “short
method ” or the rules of a writer on whist named
Pole. All good whist players play according to Pole
or to Hoyle.

INTERESTED ONE. According to the researches of
scientists, married people live longer than single
ones, and rich people longer than poor ones. Rich
men live on an average forty-two years, but the
poor only thirty years. The average duration of
life in all civilized countries is greater now than at
any anterior period—The great ages to which cer—
tain Bible characters were said to have lived were
not made up of years like ours, Containing 365 days,
but of years counted from one full moon to another.
Thus a man said to have lived a thousand years
would really have been but between eighty and
ninety years old at his death.

SUBSCRIBER. 1. The Brooklyn Theater fire occurred
on a 'l'uesday night. December 5th, 1876. It broke
out about 11:17? it. Kate Claxton (now Mrs. Charles
Stevenson) was playing there in the " Two Orphans.”
The “other Orp an” was Maude Harrison. 2. The
sentence “ Medecin, ué7‘is-toi [of-meme" is the
French for our fami lar saying, “Physician, cure
thyself.” 3. Slippery elm is the inner bark of the
“ red elm " tree, so called on account of the color of
its buds. It is smaller than thecommon elm. but
has prettier leaves. Elm bark is used in tanning,
dyeing, and refining sugar; and the mucilaginous
inner bark of the red elm is much used in medicine.

Tap AND JOHN. Young dogs should be fed on
milk, bread, and potatoes until they are well grown.
\\ hen they are six months old, they may be ‘ven
a h/Ile cooked meat once a day. Give them p enty
of clean water, clean beds and feed them at regu-
lar hours, only.—California was admitted to the
Union as a. State on September 9. 1850.—Fecit is a
Latin word. It means “ he made it or executed it."
Now you know what it signifies when on see it on
a picture, after the artist’s name.— f the whole
population on the (fiche. it is estimated that 90,000
die daily, about 3,7 every hour, and 60 every min-
ute; so there occurs a death for every second of
line.

V. B.. Richmond. Musk is not a perfume obtained
from flowers at all, but from an animal. the musk-
deer. a hornless deer which is a native of Thibet and
Ne an], and the mountains of Central and Eastern
ASia. It is a reddish-brown substance, about the
consistency of bone when fresh: and every male
deer has apouch ful of it. As it dries it becomes
brown and dusty.. It has a pungent, slightly bitter
taste, and is used in medicine. As an odor it is in-
tensely powerful and enduring. It is no longer
used by people of good taste, a strong perfumes
being considered vul ar. Only such delicate odors
as heliotrope and vio ets are used about the person,
and those sparingly.

“THREE BALIS.” The sign of three gilt balls,
USed by pawnbrokers. ori hated in this way: In
1229 a company of Italian nkers opened in Lon~
don, England, a loan shop for the relief of tempo-
rary distress. They were called Lombards. because
they were from Lombardy; and the greatest of them
were of the celebrated and princely house of the
Medici of Florence._ TheSe bore on their shield

ills, (gilded,) in alluswn to the professional origin
from whence they had derived the name of Medici.
whence the armorial bearing of these famous Lom-
bards came to be used by their agents, and changed,
in time, to the pills enla ed to balls, which sign
has been used by money- enders or pawnbrokers

ever since. A pawnbroker‘s shop is often called a
Lombard, or a Lombard’house;,and the street in
London in which the Lombard merchants first took
up their residence is named after them—Lombard
street. This street is occupied by banks and the
money-market: and to speak of Lombard street in
ageneral way is to refer to the moneyed interests
of London.

CHRIS. TUTTLE asks: “Will ou explain to three
boys the difference between a urricane, a tornado,
andacyclone? In our dictionary it gives a hurri-
cane and a. tornado as synonyms; but nowadays we
don‘t hear of either 0 these, but just about cy-
clones.” A hurricane is a violent storm character-
ized by the extreme fury of the wind and its sudden
changes. A. hurricane is genera” accompanied b
rain, and often—in the East and Rest Indies-wit
intense displays of thunder and lightning. When
these hurricanes occur in the Pacific ocean, the
China sea, or the northern portion of the Indian
ocean, they are called 1 hoons. Hurricanes are
most numerousbetween t e parallels of twenty-five
to thirty—five degrees. north latitude. and the me-
ridians forty degrees and one hundred degrees west
of Greenwich.—\\‘hena hurricaneoccurson land itis
called a tornado, thence the use of the words as syn-
onyms. Tornadoes—violent storms of wind, rain,
thunder, and lightning—are generally of short dura-
tion and small breadth. You see hurricane, tornado,
and typhoon are all used as synonyms, yet each has
a slightly different application; and so typhoon is
sometimes used interchangeably with stmcon or 81'.-
moom, the hot. dry, destructive wind that occasion-
ally blows in Arabia, and Syria. and other countries
where there are vast sandy deserts: also called the
smniel. , A clone differs from all these other wind
storms in t at it is entirely rotary—a whirlwind.
its circuit, too. is generally very extended—usually
from two hundred to three hundred miles in diame-
ter, and sometimes more than one thousand miles.
The wind moves in immense whirls, at the same
time sweeping onward over the surface of the coun-
try. The central point of a cyclom or whirlwind is
calm, and this moves forward from two to forty
miles an hour. These storms originate outside the
equatorial belt between the tropics and move to-
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