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Ae£CENT AElRICA. ppoued 'to Have Bean Atlantla, a Power)l Lmpire. senis to as gytan Legen theI St., t'*Cetlenut ITra E fnuled Ia the Pee by a r ouvuslto '" wvtaIn eatitled 'The Lest At S Ht"'by tlate late ir Daniel Wilson. gWdkk*nt- ahe university of Toronto. an interesting stutiy is made of the legen s which sagjest that America was known.D the ancients In two of i Plato's dialogue, the Timneus and, Critis. It is related that Solon, .the; great Athenian law-giver, during a visit he made to Sals. in Egypt. some thirty-4or hundred years ago. wms In formed by the priesta of the former. aeistt*ce, west of the strait of Gibral tar, of an island continent in the At lmatie oean. says the Baltimore Sun. This continent. Atlantis, the seat of a powerful empir.. a..ording to the story. was engulied4 in the sea by some eonvulsioa of nature, with the result, of course. of dcstrt ying itshundreds of idtics and mil!ikna of inhabitants Al ready In `t4on.a time the destruction of Atlantis was described as remote event, ".hite with age." las this legend a .boses-f fact? It annc t be accepted s a whole, It ap. P because the Atlantic, in the opin ue t geolelista. has been substatal '·I what it is for many millions of years Geoigy t.howa evidences of local up ' ev.asfa.b) none of the snamergenee of extensive continental areas Sir Dea iel acordingly feels compelled to reJct r t sil of Atlantis M a detail of t" lia tl vehted to ·Account for the essation of intercourse with it. The boyof thesory he is disposedtoe so '' s tiasdh waw"Amecgie, w coe Theta ttnler E gyptisus had ed d . their period ofeadventuroe .rped .There are many . nu.. m. of Egyptian domination " i i. 'hei ·lp si.ed th At lantic. vhitin* England for tin and ex ploring t t of Aftika towaud and beyoand' et equateqr in eereh of gold Their vre.E4 might readily have been t and Central Aeicca. aI the s .J tag5D0 of our era Pedro Alvare de '" .L&ithe Port*Sse nadmiral, while Pailing southward along the west coast of Africa. was earried .iy the eqpterial eprrent so far out of his course tLst he accidentally diglqrered unlt What befell the Portuguese admiral -.in 10 y, Sir DlW S al thinks, have a "lEygptian admirals thousands - .4LJa bezir.e, gypt when first re ..isat tp as in htstcry was already far in itsa eline Its people had 1toil Siapelled themc t their od toS their aeqtsiitioa if not the flat of tho ·erient empires " ' Ilel efram that the ancient iti>dMi ea of the Orient frequently , frade en frutoat the Atlantic, " t~re . of Pba h-NSdcho, 611 :1" d .. t thet dlottsh Lagypti saritime erterprise. a Phoenicia Sest S imployed to erenumnavigate Africa o racs cthe ladiah oeban ba the ets arerad she .ape, as Vasso de hasit did late' in 1471 Enteerpris has ** ye.. m-ity periods of expanason and contra tion. There are, it is E,. ticos that the discover of within th r eed ot .. at f the w ih f Athean snd became a legend. Evidences of Egyptian inaterourse with It are to be sought. accortintV tbe author. asmeag ..Z ained .cities .f Central TAMla sIt i evidebees yethe forutbi "*t would not," he says. "in any degret arprise me to learn of the discovery of SgemdalePb oenitean or iCer inacrip ".i ersw pe oard o( A yri n gr . fbd - dr abhetls Jof tehi esebhant i of ye 'that had nowiledg4 of Sbent rasebred among tips . tilt unsaplored treasures of the bMeared pm t of MoonerS or the ah. ruais of Centr i America. Sch ,.* prl~ y would s arcely be more Rar • tW." g than that of the Punic bosads S ed. at Cort. the most westerly Island of the A~'res Yet it woiuld furnish a mbstantial buds for the egend of At .la~is Tbam is nothing improebable in the ides that it rests on some histori bls In wbluthte fall of an Iberia or other aggresive power in the wesmr Mediemrrman rhas mingled with other and -eqtay wague wriitlons of late eu'rse with a vast contiinent lying be fond the pillars of Bercues" Thq epeeuatiok aIs ato tmetive one ad adds interessto the studyod the antiql" .ies of Central America &N ODD PROFESSION. *et* 1asm.. Ae wame e by ltsag aste Anartis Is mees. Iw women shopperin their rua o largans 9tep to think of the 'ae bw of thlngs that ma losint by that t amy of bargain huters y Pushim aad plingat eachotLier as they do in their attempt. to Iget ear o faa is a aommoo oceurrnce asr The manager of a big store on Sith ef wome who do nothing else lbet p Meamad led ats shoppe r Most of these women, he says, m e.a. onaly make small purshseste i t, se rad aEagmsrnl ~usYe sd r,:;- - U- THIS EARTH OF OURSL I e Aseeus *a t. the t Rs aees s ao Geologists have ascertained that the rate at which erosion takes place can 1 be meastred; by applying their seale.to a the sedimentaryjrocks they have formed I a hypothesis as to the time which has t elapsed hirme euirin began. 1 The stratified rocks attain an average - thickness of 100,CI feet. The material i of we they consist w all washed down hroa high planes, deposited and t left to stratity. ly the Inspection of c river banks it is found that in places a the surface of the land which has been eirred lown as sedimedt in rivers has . been reduced at the rate of a foot in c 99 years, while in other places. where a the ad was more - stubborn or lee s flexible, it had taken 6,800 years to I lower the surface one foot. .The do- I posit must be equal to the denudation. t We nad that while some of the sedl- 1 mentary romks hbve grown a foot in T0 a years others have taken 6,800 years to rise that height. Thus the period of I the thatras required- to build up 100. . 000 feet of sedimentary rock has varied 1 according to locality from 78.000,000 1 to 680,000,000 years. It follows that the active work of creation lasted for a eycle intermediate between these two a gnres The cycle varied witi endless I succeession of periods of disturbanoe by volcabal force and glacial action, sad a the frequent submersion of dry land, , alt :rting with the emerging of coat- I neats out of the seas. 'hese my bave retarded the growth of sedimentary rocks, but they cannot have accelerated 1 A study of fossils teaches the steady I uniformity iith which the work of em e ation proceeded. Since man began to a observe there has been no change in th a formsof arlal ad vegetable ie. A iew species have disappeared-not one new pecies ha Pe evelve. Net only do we iad the a .nd esrde ancient Egypt as depiceted on monuments which are probably. 6,00 or 10,00 years old identiael with those which are found to bat 'eoun trdaY., b shells which ipabited our e befoe tht ice age ad grew lu an ocean whose bed ov m • the Rocky mountains are precisely the am apecies that are found in the bay of Monterey and the waters of the :Chssapeqke. It is evideat that there Tias'beenno essential change in the con ditions of life siace these animals and these vegetables were frst created, yet how vast the s rtet period which we esn assign to gap tha divides us from that remeot cp ch! " A LAWYER'S STORY. he BeadW mo0he dads by a Teleg raser. A party of newspaper men and law ,yer were dlscnasing amusing typo graphical errors, whe' a 'veteran New SorltsaMterpy tIold of a peculiar mis take a bha cove uader his notace, maaddi3 a teiraphSt erstar. "~, wa a youg msn at that time," sa the lawyer. "'d d a small omice acroes the hall fro> a sauessful attor aep wLease inawhile befriended me. ny I was itting in my offiee with mfle en the htable sad chair tilted back. wsatlig fre clients and dreaming' of a sweet girl known to me as Ella, whabi bem the sweetheart of my col lege days the -year before. I was startled floes my reverie by a boy with a meassge dited to we. It was faie my friend aemre t e way ad dated Chi cago, but its contents made my bratin whirL With telegraphic vity it maid: 'Ella is sweet. Don't9lq Take it1 up ad t.t i' I visles the y r s pea r apl, sad may first nM wede a t? elitrh asleep or the 'Windy City' had driven my friend insane. But there was the meessenger boy. so I read the telegram upide d~sideways, and eey I d- el t, and the light naily dawned on m& I took up a courst alean dar. There It. was 'Ella vs Sweet,' and my friend was named as the de frudant's attorney." SGROWTH OF THE HAIR. te a rstds o.r me. The tauenee of diet upon the growth of hair s tle subject of a paper in which, according to the Washington star, the .wrter my. Several eases of Sshedding of hair after lifluena hasom-n trmed my opinen that diet hasu much to do with the prodnetion and with the ears of sympatheti opel. Ilair cotaomlis are per renat. of ralphr, road its ash twenty per eentk of silloon and ten per cent. of iron and manganse. SSolqtlma o beet (or, rather, part of SIt), stkbh y lixtures and even mlk. Swhich constitute the diot of patients with tafluenas had other ferers, cannet ? supply these elementsl, and a~Lhy t the adtht end falimng out of hair remIt. The color .and strength of hair tI young mammals Is not attained so ksag uas milk lthe sole food. Astodrugsa, lron has prompt ilene. The foods whi.h mQtshd anly eoatala the above-amed elemets are the various alumemalda and the oat, the Lash t Ie - Irla yiedig tweatl-two per esa I Ihae b tsm led a dietary largely Seompalled of oatmeal md brown bread dto ; pmote the growth of hair. id was pie I. c~~~st and salggish capllary circulation. Those races of men who consume moat mes are the Smost hirmate. . It is told i an aEnglish reliious our al tat ar ergymas seeatly oldctatd a faora r.therelqsgyma. elag aseos . to Itow what mparsemi he bhad sde, Sb aeked the eleri "Was my di y eceriu pi ed a too tlFh a krEy I; lqpe I did not sheot over th heada Of .. the ppl" "o, y di't do that I - • r." "W us a sit.ble theme?" -ed d the de Uam. "Yea, It was hbo *.glat. "Wa Itt gesieng" "Na but I4 was leug emuqgh." "I u •rt h e,+',: r . . be .... ~~i 5.rdb ECHO RIVER. Pe • eelses slist •1 n esw rb * setream. One of the famous curiosities df the Mammoth cave Is the Eehoriver, a body had of water estimated to be some three tra fourths of a milein length, and from Ia i rety to two hundred feet in breadth. thi I1 depth at ordinary times is from tea lar to forty feet. Dr. U1. C. Hoveyi In a -l. paper read before the American Ge.- am graphical society, gives a vivid desrip- Sw tion of the peculiar acoustic qualities of the vault by which the river is th archeld. Last summer, in rompany with a gg a party of four persons, no others. being sti San the river at the times we tried the w" effect of rocking the boat as violently th as we dared to do, also striking the sur- do I se of ie eater with our paddle, and in4 in other waysmaking as much agita th tion of the body@f the stream as pos- be ble, and then awaiting the result in ft ) sleance.- tb I timed the concert thus erestd, ma hi I found its duration to be exactly half a a hoar. *rst came sounds like the tink- hi I lng of silver bells. Then larger sad th ) heavier bells took up the melody as the Swaves sought out the cavities in the ve Swalls. Thelit wasas if all chlmes f Sall cathedrals had conspired to raise a sp º tempest of sweet sounds. For a moment therewasutter silenes, I soon broken by low mutterings, ghstly he whipers, sudden shrieks, as If of men b in agony. Then silence agsal We fa s were about to speak, when the guide a r motioned to us to remain quiet; when, w I lot as from some dep reems, hitherto th 1 forgotten, eame a tpq tnder and pro- w f found; after which, like tle mem Sries, all the mellow ystrious as sounds that had gone befoe were so d-4 Sawakened, until the hall ,et; again a P with the wndrous harmoIy. to Si. 8TRANor ADOPTIONS. Tho we-ebsa Se fe Masmseal stiest rm Am els. I lately mat some deds who had - with them a little dog called "Vie" which had adopted the family of a eat ina the bore, and while In po session would not let the matlhr come naw her kitter. es an writer in the L,~ don Spectator. The kittens wers te" is a vqy tall basket, and "Viec would take them on by oe and then a carry tewinto the rden and watch Sover them, carrying tem back in the b sapu way after a time, at other times lying contentedly with them in the basket. Of course, "Vie" had to be forcibly removed when the adopted family required their mother's atten tion for their sstenance. I also have met a friend who saw a hen hawk, which was in a cage, motherin ayoung ! starling. Three young, unfledged t starlings were given the hawk to eat. She ate two and then brooded the other and ti'oli the utmost care of It. 'nhap- t pily the young starling died, and from that moment the hawk would touch no £ fond,. but died herself in a few days. The same friend was on a mountain one n day whol a sheep came up to him and aanieatakably begged him to follow her. going just in front and continually b looking around to see if he was follow ing. The sheep led him at last to some rocks, where he found a lamb fast wedged in between two pieces of rock. a c ws able to liberate the lamb. to the evident joy of the mother. I myself i once saw a cat "'broodlpgl and taking cae of a very sa:all chicken, which, it basket pear the fire. It managed to get I out of tle basket and hopped up near Fr the est which immediately adopted It SHOES IN JAPAN. SThy Are Made eot straw far See Mens a . N 'uE Rev.. I In the land of the Mikado, if nowhere a else on earth, menad beast wesaraho .straw. One would hatrmllu not Il . that straw would make very good shoes to be wran even by man, and wora, to, in the most gingerly fashion. Cer tanlaly they would not be very durable e to the averageboy, who cans the et h brief weeks a How then ma It beexpetedthat thy I st alt WellU. they dct they wear at Sas fst aad have to be replaced so often h that anyone goig for a long drive will · hawtoeary sboutacartoaedof them r along. no often do the homes' shoes Sha4 e eto aehamgedtha th people ave semetodo s a peatty regular Ipter vals when on a trip, and distane hasI teeetobe meaeed by theImgth of d t of shoes will l lathe pr the entry, one does at trsavel o many mies, et so msay ets of shoes. When you skahaativelhow t. r rt ht to sy given pla e e trieply I.1 ,o ma tsay t abshm. We do know I that aqch i tohe fact btpobablywh te hors ee dm with their ed shoS Y SAO HABl OF IXEROISL " sme ma cr* < e *s Nay e It sme em st l.1 l withot eercise. I am one of them, l says the editor of London Truth, be. r. em I never ell lat theeg Sabit of exerelse when a yom i nas.*] h Natmrally a person whopesesbisyouth t In violent exercise ands later on that She annot do without it. The hlt.te aseadly aequired as thtot drakldger opium aoking, and, ma ac red a -Ireet beomes a ealate too t e 1 et hhisitl. *j st people, however, at far ts6 mee.and then often S e mslves I I inam.ded, if they do ot 'work e I an artieiial appetite. I remember Ib. I Bright once expltaed this homs U. I : ed, the void which Is ereated owing to tli arllel di'tensio pe Serm ed being hagu7. Gradualy ws 4 hen thewmr f food. and gtpm - "tbnlt the amemat ot bseo n-t them. A HOTIL INCIDENT. Sbhe Tunes~ls W* Ws ltbsm r ,a 4 S"The most singular thing that ever y happened to me at a hotel." said the r traveling membr of the elub, aecoed a lug to the Detroit Free Press, "was i. this 1 was stopping over night at a a large hotel in Chicago, and retiring a -late 4 left word to be called in the t . morning. r tendpd getting up in tiM 8 for a late breakfast. s "I was awakened by a knocking at i the door of the room next tosine, ysterous whisperings and orders P a given in a sppressen volae.:I lay c g still, wondering what time i~ was, ad r whether I should get up rot, when y there came a load aeket agaieta. ay - door, and a sound of the transom e d ing. I sat up-my bed being close by r the 4oor-in time to see a mll boy w . baking inover the trausom.e Hl fsaieagth, he held by his hands tbeptlzped to the oor. As galned , his loet he turned towarl the bed mid, a seeing me itt up eelnd looking at - Lho lgavevU. thatmaadamybloo a thrill. a "'Open theoor,' ossmaaesd a man's at voloeon the Ote . ie. if '.s's al 1-lwe' yeled the boy, a sprawling on the oor to hmet tr rore m a, "I thought everybody was crazy as I w p heard athe nol outside, sad, anlok a Ing may door. I aed what was the at _e iea 'bte hall w asail ot har ber Smaids, bell boys and porters, all ao a, whom o took totheir bheels as sons as o they mer me, and ran as it possessed D- with demons. - "The landlord and s of the eum s w m esan p toexplin mtses; wdeoh they S quid te mtanigly. It was a slight is mistake, that was all; thq bad ai 4 takens my room for the one altdoor, where a m han d ied himself is previou snght They Led looked ba - itrersoa, sad seehatbe was dead, _ but when the boy ame p with a ste O ladder to climb in sad oaloek the dea Sth-sp wl helped him late barkolb " istake. That was a·U." o Ho L , FISH. h ao o~hatsi a Wbele au. .ethes! A party of youag me who- were em Sm asking exewrsion a the Ohio river some yease ago wese joined by a eo centrie man, skilled as a sherman, w its. t as w"Barefoeted. a Sam." He was a good cook. snd made Sbilmif tagefl Ie. a many wsa that a his .eesace, ouh1th aulwted, -was r P tolerated by the amateur mportsal. e SOne morning two members o the i kparty returnd teauwp wit!,heir ap- tl p.tites well sharpened for bresakfas, a and were greeted enthusiastically by a third man, who sadl: "You just come a along anl seo the finest aked perch yo y ever likl eyes ea." . They hurried to the table, but am w M only a rick of bones. from which every u fiber of msat had been takeE aem wa d Snowhere to be sym. When be reLaraud t I no coren.pt s were made upon the cia- M rcustsane but in the afternonu. whe t the company were loaangng a the m blank. Sam drawled out: - , SId dll he to have all thellshT I co t eat, jest oeast ales had a asssene 7, SPete Folnst ketohed that Wt reatsh, be three yrs back." L S"Sam, resaeked em os the gIunp . dryly,"I tLoghI YUa had uti tai faI w mess this morning. 7U t r h weighed a about ten pounds. Ive beetisormed." b"O , sye," repled a s.,.rtLa no sign of embarrassment em his placid eas tenaee, "I ate that but what I mean as s reelo, rega'Isr tf Ste comsaes pis'-red on this to markable statement in absolute hnes Ia , for es e mo aese, tleatist the man who had caught the per1cIm aealated.: "Well, I a.aI" pad nothing more was srad. said.___ COMPETITION AVOIDED. . Sabp to Vr..** Was ýiane t a l :semB Sna France two shops selling the ef Sthing are not allowed te eist within a Sertain area. In prbavloeethisalbese he of oompetitlenmaterially inrerasse the 1I , price, but, says a woman who has large eprieo in housekeepngl .I y Rane, yoru taxes are less, ad o Shave In rtneanlea streeta good s 0 * conasnt *ater anppL ad -rfe t Ssewerage. In addition, by virt o i ill state persio, yen never reotlve 1 e short weightor iferior goOds.- Thr I ais no quptity so ll that tP grocer I e ll moe It Andin dint thlsnd , ra ideliverlngIt he is as ssrupualouyl o ramo unts. The buteher is te o*'s he ibied and will trim the meat sad teish aot eat the bones with eare 1 · is dear. Good $hek Pog Irem [ , thirty-seven centa to Oty esrtes a my pemad. Fs e z pensi rht r poultry is and -ned mmd 4 s gas a94 gas stoves are esme by i the gas compeanea for this upop 4 - jesa dea, owing to the high 1lan. I th hisemily wake anwleusfor aeolr. S whias seooepthere about 'them. 'or Obs spt toV e5er.0U La A New York opticita. was relating s to aparty of friends the eher day eme of the peculiar fetee of his trade. I) "You would be sarprisat he "ab yes the lrge number- of ioonotive ae o gineera and aremen who hove lass up eyes Of nosw., an eaglsereold not tr, hod a place ema sa irusl sa hour if Be the fast. that he had a glas eqy ad. was known to Ms saWrrio oea'rs 'to C saseqntly -ea-ethat Masefhatd a. eae le .my soare to buy a new gp. at aeaetiu sfr hols 'ins ma in4hee &sh ltyV~I m ipa ~amI I qu ptt- p.6 On. A smbserlI~~bar, i -Glemewill li, sendso te Micltis e Ameri as for identicatian a white threeadlike tataoee whle.he sttes !d1 to the earth in laurg quantities dure a rin na September 5. A sample of the ma terabm sarecly been Ioewsfde4 by apother peros to the aspithsoplan io stituton sad was thence leit to Dr. Oih4 ?Iati., of the depeltuteat age baslt.e, s..c na.. tha fllows.f ea part: 'The sample of a white mnbdoase which feit, lare quantiss in aInew 1il, Fla.pbja beeahanadcd me Iq the botanist of tie decpartmient fo . eami "This very latcrestin material is without doubt a prodact of the pihalng glands of a spider, ot rather Ehoasmbd at The hebemla reagencles pvre it is not a vegetable matter, bat animal, and the fact that strands can be dimolved almost inflitely Into mant threads, and farther, the great length of the strands, hundreds of yards, eanes the infereme that only a spler esam mponufacte It. "**The speeles of this spler Is ashoows t to me, bM it is nt impeobable that. it might be a NSphla, a very large rb' weaver, which abonmds in the Mntheras part of the tntte States sad the West ladiek .'*The yoyng piders of many genaea avail theTves of their aning rrtie at great distance. Sould moisten t weidweairoghe -.at Sc beeos ieo bheango Sea i the October sad ovnmber,1 -I . Disone .s~ ta this I A DWIOFIULT PSA'r 'Aes case a #ta tatue sesg St d'ber s uudat Fee 1 A fe w year 8-la-tai: K I, 1 r Thposiat eag dwed from the top of Wahnn' s- t rwell-known bomep d 1 alte - - monument, s 3lays the St. Lo tehI SThe tzperkmeat.was trid ab Tet% nela Dber, sydestdr nsra. lesse Slights the raternity, bat dome of r them meuoedded in holdtg it or even - materipiy checking ttepr g to the g loud. The men named above wee all experts at their tdea, bt It is evi h dent that they gave their spots morea eaat io thn th did their philos Sphyu din their achoo diy, ot'rwise f they would have known that a -bdy, Sdropped from eaeh a heoigt would be d travelir g wt a speed of IST fet per Ssmmem at the time of its ountat wIhb the earth. The r'eseu why o living a saoid eateh and aold a ba.l travel ing with seeMh veLty in plat enough by makinag some hasty e'wnurtsoas SThe greate.st a ea ball has eur Sbeesn * fhoww is W ft sattend 1 linh. The leaset "bit" on Mrcad ha few Inches over yards. In thisle Ilateaee elml was sett tats the ale have been hit is the amue diectioi at Sthe sa aegis, with weemesoree to £ gile it e beielyhr a starti a -post that It would oqbqe isw fallig I in taillag farot a height il s feet s wodd ,ve ge.e 0 yarss imrted of Sbanr fractos over seads. Aad the. Sheve tlak of tying to Latah ball the m Istiteltelseaed the bst a yards' e. Id o.mehl s tpy wopder that the boes let the bell dlip through their Se gers wheo it wed onShe "hon stretch" ! after bavig slens frest theapes or tfe meral to the tlather of msey a, eT t ase ereas h a sa od ao I re, dost wMl M mM Ofl S* Elwinsi u e Ue * equimrh aS m lJwCon ma7p9 th abe ass a at enIans alptM ih aggall I se w4 w aaw sen es e, ly wemid ens rhe TlMet tieand asetslasin th 5 t s eH I at 4tdeathiyrleem," ng eatta swa a tlmeasly. pat the horme bt- O th m ~ U*me en ea dre. w aeorateme wergs ti. Os eorvth eas sessde in sn livin p aqrvatly emmtir m aheherawmi y. eatd pa 1'twt hi~mes enem fo woodsswegive la hurtm a It wae l em 7a56 stsl eroIenl in. satp y a "elk a .his le Itwe amowLiqe.te Bthesime *2 ~LrLeM'W __'t* 4 *TEN$AM f TT*' A woekl. :newsprrpI pub Ihaled at .sT.. , JfS J. I,.4~ ° t " SH, OFFICIAL JOUTRNAL OF * (i TB4, • .c a : . In . . j* Board of School Sttrs --A ~~-4'l. Fi s. Iscp~.ed lor d L i n g *Iv e bou o ' St~e prisrh, it is an "kocilUui '4VERTi8ERS fudu fo r Ir '-B who dtesire ath~e u b~1 el thiso a¢tion." "' ;oin prqi pte i 11 ever8 VeWta phe as apth IT isto thel bu t p.iorst· tate .4 t na k eta ar ***e Pari** I *' - - In