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X 1' 4 h SALISBURY HAS A SAY MAKES A 8PBBOH TO THE NON CONFORMIST UNION. As ft ItHlK of 1'nller Vtn ire Hip llntlrn Ailmnilrt of the Monriiu Doctrlnr, n rrrildriit Mnnrcie Umlirtol HH Crow ley rivaled by UrMillimmt Vote. ItO.VDON, Feb. 1. 'ill banquet tit the Nonconformist union nt Urn hotel 1 Metropole last night wni ill ocneelon of an address by the Marquis at Sails bory.wtimo minister ami oratory of -ratftie for foreign nffftirs. , 'Jlie lord chancellor, Lord George Hamilton, MOrwinry of state for 1ml in Itr. Itltehte, president of the board of trade, nnd other members of the gov ernment, were ulso guests of tlit mm- olollon. (owl Salisbury ut lha opening of hi speech refered to the resent Trnns Ytfal orlsls ne throwing buld light unon what might inpieii If home rule granted to Ireland. Ai soon nit Uim TruiMvaal was in troi.ble, he point td out, it applied to foreign powers, in tend of going to Kngiana for support In the eourto of hi remnrke he until with regnrd to Venosuolni "I have tieen upheld m the denouncer of the Monroe doctrine. As a mutter of fact, .although the Monroe dostriuo is no (iKi't of Internntlnnnl law, my dispatch to Mr. Olnwr, the secretary of state of toe Hulled States, supported it as u ttnV of policy in tint slrongost nml most distinct terms. Hut when I Mut ed In that dispatch nml relternte now that as i rule of jKjlloy we lire the on tire ndroontes of the Monroo dootrlno, we menu the Monroo doctrine ns Pres ident Monroe understood D, (Cheers.) In that tame you will not II nil nny more convinced supiwrters than wo are." Lord SnlUbury thon turned abruptly to the Armenian question and ho re-IH-ouohed the religions comtnuultleii Willi laboring under n inlstuko when they supposed that Knglund had bound berelf to succor the Armenians, which menus to go to wnr with the sultan In J2tdrto force him to govern the Ai WWHKft well. Criiwlt'r Mfuteil. Wasi.inoio.v, Feb. 1. The house pasted n hill yesterdny granting the UtrinUan hmleuvor society the use of tome of tlio government reservations in Washington during their meeting liere next suinmur. Mr. Jonklns, llunuhllcnn, Wisconsin, called up the elections uommltteu ro. port on tlio contest of Itoranthnl, Ho publltmn. vh. Crowley, from tlio tonth 1 exits district. Ho oxnlninod thnt Mr. lhHonthnl had duolilud not to avail liltiiKilf of tlio courtesy of an hour's speech granted Thursday. Accord lugly, unanimous roiort in Crowley's tutor wits niloptod wltitout dabnte or division. Mr. Dvuns (Hop.) of Kentucky, who wut at one time n coiniuleetuner of hV4WUl.. i eveittio, roported from tlio committee on way and means a hill to amend taction K226 of the revised stat utes so us to oxtoud tho exemptions theroln allowed dealer In brand loi dis tilled from prunes, applies nnd gin poo to iirnnaioe msiuiMi torn iieai'K. iilno' anplee, oranges and berrlen. 'J'hu bill has been recommended Jy the coininl loner of internal revenue, and wa miMed. A reMlutlou wan adopted on motion Of Mr. Ootlier, Kopuhllonu, of MU Mturi, uiUhorUlug the prealdeut to up point John T. Itvuu, John I,. MorrL and Cltetter Wells,, naval oudetn, aa ietiint englneor In the nary; ulto on motion of Air. Drown, llepubllcnu, of Tenueatee to change the time for hold ing the (llttrlct antl olrnult uourte In ttte ottalern uiittrlot of Tcnuesee. 'ITjb hnue theh went Into the com Utittee of the whole (Mr. i'ayne of New York In the chair) and took up the VWffVHiWI WWII Mt l'lIIVWI VUtKIII bin appropriation hill. 'ilte aununl elToi t of Mr. DeArinond (Item.) of MiMoutl wu made to com (Wt Ui DUtrlet of Columbia to bear nil the expetMB of the dUtrlet eororn- ment, hut figure were ndduued to jiruve Umt Uie value of the govern- tnent property in the (list riot exceed, od that of prlrnte Individuals by over $T.UU0.U0O. 'i'he rlwir ttnnlly ruled th nmendment oat on a nolut of order. At A o'clock a reeae wn tnkon until 8 o'clock, the evening mmIoi! to be de voted to the consideration of private peasiou mils. lUilk Ouilmlr hulclilM. ItfMIR. K. V., lob. 1. Cashier Qeorge DHrimwl of the Fort Stanwlok Kwtlonal hnnk Is a snlehle and the mak It closed pemllnr nn sxmwIhnIIou Of 1U Hdeire ordered by the board of directors. Mr. llarnard hail been tulwitig atnee Vodnetdity foreiHwu. On that tiny Um teller of the bunk, l'atrie, wont telo the.jirlvnte offioe of ttte coafaler aw mm w hlmi 'Mr. llHt iiainl, I mm the bank exam iner will be here In a day or so." Mr. Itaraurd Immediately left his nesK. wuiRed out oi the uhnk ami up (0 Ut fourth story of the building, lie nMt Into a room used to store old checks, books, imjtert, etc., and tying a rone to me floor gnou fastened the Uur. ond around his neck and tlte hi. dlaljpiw are that he then iwesd lits Kiieee ugainst mo uoor una died of tragution. i'ur DU. City of Mexico dlspntolu I'rosldent l)la on his arrival from tht gulf eoust -wits met nt the vera (Jruc railway sta tlon bjr an vnormous crowd, whoe en UiOJl&sm overflowed in domniiitrutloiu cf rejoicing, the president being cheered esHtlnuousty as he alighted froHi the train. Tills city was Illuminated ut night and the principal etllHves deco rated. There is a warm feeling toward the H'eeldent, largely on account of the vigorous policy he has undrtkcn with in the last few mouths. 1'ubllc sutl meet is stroug for hit re-electloa. MentRunlrr' Hwlnft Off, Ai.HANr, Ore., Fob. 1. Tho orltn for which IJoyd Montgomery suffsred the death ttetinlty yesterdny was tho murder of his father ami mother nnd Daniel McKeerchcr, on a farm near llrownsvllle. Ore.. Nov. 10 Inst. . The motive for the terrible orlmo was Inexplicable nml young Mont gomery streiiuoiicly deniml Ills gulll but finally tiuido n confession, itesnhl lie nnu his father had lwen quarreling nml the father shiped his face nml told him to go and chnp Mime wom1. "lhls made mo wi nniry," unta young Montgomery, "thnt 1 did not know what f was doing. 1 went Into the house, got father s rllle nml onmo to the kltohen door. Father ami Mc Kcercher were standing by the fenco talking, nml mother was In the yard. I snot father urst, and tinu motiisr McKeurohar stnrtwl to run toward tli house, whan 1 shot nt him but missed hlin. I fired ugaln and ho foil, jusl as he wns entering the door. Mother wns running from me when I shot her. I don t know why I did It. I Just im- gun shooting nml kept on until I killed them nil. I had no Idea of killing nny of them until I grew so nngry, and then I did not know what I was doing until it wns nil ovor." will Viito TH'IMjr. Wajuiixotos', Feb. 1. 'Hie final voto on the lwind silver bill will Iw taken In the Hcnnto ut'.' o'clock to-day, an agree ment jo that elTuut having Iwen reached yesterday. This brings to a conclu sion the dobeto covering many Uayx. Tho agreement oamo rather unnx ioote11y nt '.ho c'oso of Mr. Vilas' spoeoh. Ho had talked for throe hours nnd wni alxjut to lw followed by Mr. Unto when Mr. Chnndler pi-eclpltated the question of u tlnal voto by stating that he would nsk unanimous consent for n recess until 7sil0 o'clock. Mr. Harris of TunuotHee put tho vot ing proposition In morn dcllulte form by asking that tho argroemont cover n recess front 1 until 7:110 o'clock to. ulgut, n further recess until 11 a. in., then tho llvo-mlnute ruin of dnlmte to apply, except to Mr. Morrill, tho von o ruble head of the llunnce committee, and llnnlly a vote on the hill nnd all amonumonls at 2 o clock. The proskllng oilier declared tlio unanimous agreement to lie in force. Aside from this tho day was given to speeches on the jicnJlng hill. Mrilriiii Nutrl. Mux ico Citv, Fob. 1. 'Hie federal census, which Is now complete, shows a poiwulntlon of 1 '-, t'.'.0o7. The City of Mexico has :ilHl0ltA, (iuadalnjam S!i,7'.'0, ruelila U1.U17, San Mils ro tosl (1U,(170. l'aehucii.VJ.lHO, Monterey ffj,80f, Murlda ilDJUL', Zuoatecas 10, OliU. Durniigo i'.MOfi. The KMt(illl(!o authmitles proiiOM to oinploy wnmou In minor positions In tho postal Horvlco. Typhus fever has apjxinrcd in 1'tiebla with a uumlHir of fatal cases, but no deaths among tho foreign population. i lie leduinl teleirranlis were .venter. day HulMtniiHtlully uompletcil by Uio oiicniug oi a new liuu from leliunnte )teu to Aonpulco. livery Importiiiit ikjiiii in too republic is now comprised in the federal network, and ninny largo places can Ihj oommuulautod with liy four or live route. Tim federal telegraphs are absolutely dlvoroed from imlltlcs, civil service rules being strictly applied. Hullaliiirj- llliimli ri'd. Imlou dlspntch: The Itlght Hon. John Mot ley, chief secretary fur Ire land In the late ltosebery ami tllud stono IUmiiiI oahluots, speaking at Ar. hronth, Scotland, wild that Uird Salis bury blundered In questioning the Mon roe dootrlno to which America Is stren uously attached. He added that If ever there was n ense for arbitration It was the Yeuestielau boundary dispute. A Prl.iiiirr Hulrlilra, Maiiiaka, Ark., Feb. 1 T. l. Wil liams, the white man who killed n harmloes old negro near hore, wns lodged in Jail at this plnco 'lliurftlay night, and when the Jailor wont into the cull room yesterday morning ha found Williams dead. The prisoner had committed Hiilolil- by taking mor phine. Wllltamns' orlmo was wanton and uproYokod, and lie fwirtsl lyiu-hlng. ltuliliril iiri Ihim. Troy dispatch: Two express oars on n West Hhoro train, one bouud fur Troy and the other for llostou, are re ported to have been robbed of valuable inereandlse while en route from Wash ington. Tl officials here admit that the ear was robbed, hut refuse to give Kirtleulsre. AIhImiiiii HIwiIIiiiu. W.wiii.voto.v, Feb. 1. Senator Chumllcr made an elTort lietore tliu senate elections committee yesterdny to hs.re tlie nommittee take up the resolution for Uie Invertlgatlon of the Alatwma eleeUoas, but objections were made ami the matter went over. Tn Hml Mr. lluunl. WASIIixaTox. Feb. 1 'Hie senate oommltte on privileges nnd elections have decided to rejiort In faror of seat ing Mr. DujHjut (Hep.) as senator from Delaware, 'llie oomiulttee divided on strict party Hues, being live for to four ugulnst. llpp.tlln llfrliirucllr. Washing dltimlolit The house eora mlttee on merchant - 'urine and lUher iee lms agreed to reiiei t a bill repeal. Ing the roelproelty provleionof the Jaw authorising the Imposition of u tonnage tux. Ottit. Tultle AttB"rl. l'ortTownHd dispatch: Cajit Fran cis Tut tie has been assigned to the command of the revenue cutter Dear, vice Henley, under court inartlal to San Francisco. THE BANNER OYER ME. ty7 T was on Alright, sunshiny morning In Mar, ISA!, that Nstbsn II r r a" t hadn his mother i fsrowsli. and went cut from the little horns where he had lHn so letidoflr reared and slislt rred, to endure the trials and ham ships of tho camp, the mnrch and tho hattlnflold. He wm n Imnilsoms, Intelligent youth, a inorv boy, ImvlHg Just piseeil his eighteenth birthday, nnd as he wns all that was left to his wldowrd moth er, It was not at nil strange that she RAve him up so reluctantly. A year hflforn. when tho first call for volun- tecra roused tho sliimhorlng patriot Ism In hearts nit over the north. Nntltnn hnd been anxious to offer his services, hut his mothsr hnd refused her con sent, with tho promise, however, that If ho would wnll until he was eighteen her objection should not stand In his wny. I.lho hundreds of ollion, she thought tho bloody strife would cense long before the yonr was over, and whon sho gave that promise sho had llttts fear that she would over be called upon to redeem It Uut her word had always been ns cood na her bond, nnd when Nnthnn had como again to her on his olehteonth birthday, seeking her permission to lay his llfo a snorMoo upon his country's altar, with a brcnK ing hoart sho tohrhlm to ro, nnd when nt sight of her crlef he boenn to wavtr alio assured him thnt her blesatug would go with him. Nathan Inherited his pntrlotlsm as won as his sturdy Now Unglnnd pnn clplos, for out In tho llttlo old-fash lonod cravoynrd on the hill thcro al ready slept three generations of soldier ancestors. Ills own father had been with Taylor at Iluona Vlstn during tho Moxlenn war In 1817. and tils ttrnnd father hnd given his life In helping to win I'erry'a victory upon Ike Brio in the strife of 1812. A generation oarller his nroat-Krandfather had followed Waalilngton through tho olght yoara of revolutionary struggles, and now. as mo desoondnnt of such Illustrious yeo inon, Nnthnn dnred not turn his back on tho call of his country no. not even if his patriotism should bo sonlod with his blood. "I understand nil tills; I understand Just how you foot on this subject," sobbod his tnothor. clinging to him, nftor ho hnd onumornted somo of tho hrnvo deeds of his forefathers. docds which must not bo dimmed by tlio cownrdloe of tho only one left to licon the nnnio stainless. "Yos, I un derstand everything, but that doos not uuiko tho parting less bitter," she add cd. "You are all I have, and In giving you up I surrender everything, every thing." "You will still hnvo God loft, mothor, ond ho Is nioro and hotter thnn the host of earthly friends," romon slrntcd Nathan. "You know ho says 'Nevertheless I am continually with thee.' Can't you take him at l:N word and sny, "ri:.u hast holdon mo by thy right hand. Thou shnlt guldo me with thy counsel, and afterwards recelvo mo to glory?' " "Yos, yos, 1 hnvo no right to com HIS CO.MUADR HAD 8UI5N HIM YbXAt, plnln," nnswered his mother. "I think I can trust him for myself, but I, oh, how can I emliiro to think of you, my baby, being compelled to undergo miofi hardships aa army lire necessltntes?" "it will not be compulsion, mothsr, dear," argued Nathan. "All I du or bear will be done or borne willingly, and 'tis sweet and glorious to die for one's country. And. then, mother, do not forget that I will he kept In the hal low of God's hand, and that his 'ban ner over irs wilt be lore.' " For more than a year Nathan's let ters eame regularly, bright, ekeery let ters, telling only the happy side of army life, and thm with his regiment he went Into the bnjtle or Gettysburg, but three days' later, when the roll was celled Nathan's name was among the 900 that did not respond. A comrade had seen him fall, shot In the head, and aa his name never appeared In any beeplUl list er among prleenera par oled or exchanged, the supposition be Miiis a reality in the minds of his friends that ho occupied ono of the un known graves so hastily dug on the field at tho close of the second day s fight Accepting this belief, his moth er mourned htm as dead, and as the years went by she continued to grieve over her loss, lamenting sorely that sho had been denied oven the pleasure of oaring for his grave. lnstad of softening her, her nnlletlon seemed te eauio her to grow hard and selfish, and every year nlio lived more and more to herself, shunning her neighbors and refusing all their well menat sympathy and klndneus. Regardless of tier press ing new), sho steadily refused te ap ply fer the penslen whlau rightly be longed to her. "It Is blood tueney," she Insisted, "bleed money, and do you think I eould use sueb the price of my bey'o life!" Uut Instead ot uylng from the wound received in his head. Nathan had been tarried to a hosnlial where for months flEfnvS . . 'tJ. and Months he lar hovering betireea uio ana iui At last lie was given IMCK to life, but rjnlles of the fair alttto pf heslili to which he waa re- siereu, no wns net himself. It rottld net be sold that wss Insane, but to him All the past was like a dream. He bed o distinct r rrol irr lien at his early home, and could net recall even his wit nam' or tell te what reejl;nent he ueiongeil. Tho mirgeoua thought that In time 111 memory of the past wenld be restored to him. but It was net, nnd not knowing where te send htm, ne remained in the hospital aa a nurse until the close of the war. Then, in eampany with n hospital friend, he drifted to the far Wsat. where by dili gence ho surreeded In acquiring a amnll property and making for hlmsoll " Heme. Gradually, aa tho years went uy. glimpses of the happy past ramr buck to him. Visions nf the little vluo-etsd New Knaland home torment ed him by their obscurity, nnd of the inomer who watched him through in fancy there onmo nu Indistinct remem brance.. Hefore he loft the hospital he had regained some of his lost knowl edge of books, but In nil his study nnd rending of tinners he never oamo across nnythlng that suggested n possible so- iiiiinn or the mystery surrounding his onrly life, until, ono autumn day, fif teen yonrs nftor the close of tho wnr. while reading his dally Dlble losson, he came across his parting words to his mother, "ills banner over mo Is love." In nn Instant, llko n flnsh ot light from heaven, that farewell scene on the porch of the old homo returned to him. Ho remomborod his mother's and face nnd her words that collwl forth his declaration, "Ills banner over mo Is love." Her nnmo nnd his own seemed now familiar to him, nnd n few momonts' thought linked thnt sceno In his llfo with those of his child hood and his entry Into tho army In such a way ns to glvo him n full plot- u ro of the pnst up until tho time ho nan been wounded In battle. Ho senrce ly dnred to hope that his mothor had survived all these eighteen yonrs ot suspense, but anxious to know the worst, ho hastily prepared for n visit to the Itnst, and In tees than twenty four hours was hurrying ns fast as tho train could carry him towards the ris ing sun. It wns oarly In the morning of Thanksgiving day when ho reached tho llttlo hamlet whero all his boyhood days hnd boon spent A few words ot Inquiry nt the station gladdoncd his hoart with tho nssurnnoo thnt his mother was yet alive. Uut whon ho reached tho little cottage whoro sh still dwelt ho found It much mor dlfllcult to oonvlnco hor thnt tho gray hnlrod man who stood heforo her wni the rosy-cheokod boy who eighteen yearn before hnd gone awny looking so young and handsomo In his milt ot blue, After rolntlng his long, and experi ence, ho said In his old boyish volco: "Mothor, I am your loving, warm honrtod Nnthnn yet, your boy given back from n worso condition thnn denth, but In nil those yonrs God's banner ovor mo has been lovo, nnd it wna Ills lovo thnt directed me to tho passage In His word, my fnrcwoll words to you, nnd through that banner ovor mo opened up tho dark recesses of my mind to tho admission of tho light for which i had long boon praying." "Nevertheless, continually, thou art with me," repeated his mother, no longer In doubt concerning this son, who had been lost, but was now found. "Truly ills banner over you has bosn lovo. All these years I have been fighting against Him. I would hnvo been thankful even for the certainty of your death. In Ills grna( love ho has denied me the grave for which I was seeking, but Instead has given ma baolt my bay. "For yeare I liavo not observod Thanksgiving, because I folt 1 had nothing to bo thankful for, hut to-day we will go up to God's house to glvo thanks together; to give thanks for the banuor ut lovo that has been over us all these yonrs." "And It will be over us until tho end," returned Nathan. "Yos, thank God, for my unansworod prayer," roplled the old mother. "God Is lovo, now and ovormoro." (JIlSIIBJUll HU MVOt, A bright and Interesting youngster got this oft within n day or two: "Mamma, you know that pretty purse I waa going to buy you wltli the mon ey I tared up for Christmas. Well, I love Aunt Jane so utueh I am going to give It to liar." MISSINO LINKH. ". Taaradlke, Me., .la distinctly ahead ni an up-to-date town. A new street has beau named Illeemer street William llurbank, an 81-year-old r. Ideut ot Thompsonvllle, Conn., was fa tally Injured recently while wasting down a hill In that plaee. In Man Francisco a 17-year-old hus band recently obtained an absolute di vorce from his 16-year-old wife. Ho waa employed aa a messenger bey. Statistics prove that nearly two-thirds of the letters oarrled by the postal ser vice of tho world arc written, sent to and read by Hngllsh-speaklng people. There are 1JO0 different species ot snakes In tho world. Out ot all that vast number Unglnnd has only tour speelos and only ono ot those Is poison ous. Thomas Yonokow of Shamokln, Ia who has bean formally separated from his wife fifteen time In twenty-nlnf years, has at Inst boon dtvoreed fro: her. A German authority states that fror the mouth to tho source ot the llliln 7SS oastlea, formerly tho hemes of -var like ehleft. are to bt found overlook Ing Its waters. A woman who has made her luld ap pesraneo at Newcastle, Ungland. po lice court, was sentenced recently by tn miglitrates u one month's luipilsuc maul for drunken wind in SCIENCE UP TO DATE. LATDBT nBPOrtTS OF INVEN TIONS and Disoovnmns. Coma NotM About lli lllrrrli. A t'npu lr I'slUey ltngir from Knlurnt (! An AlfUiutilon Mlnnii l)lno for Itnloor Alituiwuient, T Is by no means an accurate tost ot tho running powers ot a wheel to turn the maehlno upside down nnd sec how long tho wheels will spin without stop ping. An expetl says that a whcol that will not run nny great length at time under these elrodmstancoa may prove oxseedlngly satisfactory on tho road. Of course, It Is Important that tho adjustment be accurate, but tho mero fact of so many revolutions Is not specially significant. A whcol fitted with a very light racing tiro will not rovolvo as tong as one fitted with a heavy roadster. Borao of tho forcoa which oppose tho revolutions ot tho whtol nro lucroasod by tho weight ot the rider In tho saddle, others aro not. Of two machines, tho back whool may revolvo moro freoly In ono than in tho other. One may bo retarded by somo friction In the hub-boarlnga, tho other may have some ot the gearing coming slightly In contact with tho spokos. In tho latter case tho weight of tho rider will mnko very llttlo difference, so llttlo Indeed thai It will not bo noticed In ordinary riding, but nny friction In tho tynrlngs Is obviously greatly Incronsod by tho rider's weight. This is n matter of great Importance, and Is, In fact, ono ot tho principal causce of hard work, and la oven moro taxing than a machine ot much groator weight A I'npttUr I'iiIUcj-. There Is a widespread impression nmong medleal men and tho public nt largo thnt there Is little or no dnngor at tending the removal ot tho tonsils, and Instruments for this purpose are found in tho possosston ot almost avery prac titioner In the land. An eminent sur geon declares that removing tho tonsils Is on oporntlon attended with ngroat doal of risk. One reason for this seems to bo that In cutting thcro Is danger of approaching noar tho largo arteries, or, ot all ovonts, tapping smnll volns that mny causo alarming hemorrhage. Thin physician gives nn account at tho romovnl of tho tonsils from tho throat of n boy, when ho wns obliged to hold tho parts with his fingers for several hours to nrrost tho homorrhago that threatened tho boy'a llfo. Having no appliances at hand for chocking tho homorrhago, which was ontlroly unlooked-for, ho canto very near losing tils pntlont Tho gonoral practitioner is warned against too freo use of theso Instruments Indeod, l Is as well to be very wary in cutting tho tonsils at all, ana not to operate upon them unloss It Is absolutely nocossary, and then only remove a sufllclont surfnuo to rollovo tho mechanical obstruction caused by their enlargement i. Dnnser frnm Natural flaw Tho soli In tho coal roglons ot Indi ana and some of tho adjacent statos Is so pormeated with gas that It Is dan gerous to start a flro out ot doors, or to throw a lighted mnteh or cigar into nny depression In tho earth. Decently nn excavation was. begun for n building, nnd having boon undlsturbod for n dny or two, somo workmen, aa thoy roturncd to their labor, throw a lighted match Into tho ditch. An oxploslon Immodl ntoly followed, and through n email fis sure In tho oarth oamo n little Jot of natural gas. It Is thought by many exports that the supply of natural gna will last but a few years longer; indeed, eonsldorlng the prodigal wasto of it on its own ground, the wonder is that It has lasted so long. Tor I minor I'uii. Horo Is n slmplo nnd easily contrived moans of hnvlng somo Indoor fun. Tho accompanying illustration almost tolls toe story without a verbal explanation. Put a lighted eande en a table and en the will opposite taek a sheet ot whlto paper. Dstwesn the candle and the paper plaee a big book or a piece ot sard board, so that the paper may be dark. The effect wilt be better If the specta tors sit between the table and tho wall, or at least so that the table Is In the rear, cither directly so or on ono sldo. Now, plaee a mirror at the edge of the tablo so that It will refloat tho light from the oandle upon the paper on the wall, and if you hold before tho mir ror fsney or grotesquo Ogurca of any kind, an Image ot them will be thrown upon the paper. If tho figures bo ot the Jumping Jack order, their evolu tions will prove to bo quite amusing. A t-arg Tunnel. The largest tunnel ever built the undir-water section of the Dlsekwall Tunnel, under tho Thames has Just toon finished. It Is twonty-sevtn feet in diameter and one mile in length, and connects Poplar on the north side ot the river with Greenwich on Ut 1 south. Nearly four thousand fort of tM tunnel had to be driven by compressed air. The ancuraey of tho survey and the dangers of the work may be Im agined frnm tho atnioment of the en gineers that while driving the shield under the river bed thero were, at one time, but five feet and two Inches of earth between the top of the tunnel nnd the water. Mo great was tlis danger ot the water bursting through that large quantities of clay were dumped tuto toe river over the thinnest ens Is. IlUftrle ItnlUtln llrninU Mr. retry of New York has derlsed and patented olectrlo-llghted bulletin boards, which ore need with great suc cess. Tho bulletins are made of ground glass, mounted In frames, In front of which are set parallel glass plates ono eighth ot nn Inch apart Tho letters are ot metal, enameled black, and nro fastened by means ot n spring on tho back, which Is thrust Into tho otto eighth Inch slot between th" parallel glass plntos. Electric lights behind tho wblto glass project the letters with wonderful clearness nt night, and no weather can blur them. Alr-Cnililnn Stumpk. Tho Illustrations herewith roproaont nn Improvement lately Introduced wheroby tno rubber stamp Is mado moro valuable by being batter adapted to print plainly on uneven surfoees. It consists ot tho Interposition ot nn nlr cushion, aa shown In tho Illustration, tho cushion being Just elastic enough to Insuro, with ordinary usage, a good Impression on nuy surfaee, olthor un- oven or yielding. Tho cushions will not loso shapo or resiliency, as they are formal by ml nuio colls which do not connect with ono another, and tho cushion Is mount ed on hnndsomoly nickeled motal plates. Thero aro no pores to fill up with Ink and dirt, or compartments to puncture A Bpieiljr Locomotive. Elcctrlo locomotlvo No. 2, tho latest oloctrlc glnnt put on tho Baltimore Dolt railroad, added new laurels on Monday night to tho notoworthy performance of locomotlvo No. 1. No, 2 haulo twon ty.olght londod cars, two "doad" en gines and n cabooio, a total weight of about 1,400 tons, through tho tunnel at tho rato ot twenty-thrco miles an hour. A stop was mado In tho tunnel, ond with all drawbars stretched tho start was again mado without a slip ot tho wheel. In doing thin and accelerating tho train up to tho spcod ot twenty mites ah hour a drawbar pull ot C8,G30 pounds wns oxertod, frith this tro mondous strain tho engineers say tho least Jerk would havo snapped n coup ling pin and broken tho train nrmrt. From ono ot tho locomotlvos on thT reap ond of th? train, whero a Jorky motion would bo folt tho greatest, an entire nbsenco of such n Jar was noted. During tho work an Input ot 4,100 amperes at a prcesuro ot COO volts was measured. Tho test Is regarded as tho sovorost yet attempted by such a loco, motive "tH""' Tlie Hot VTIaili nt tlie ItocUlei. y Rclontlnts are ot the opinion that hot, dry winds that blow ovor tho eastern slopo ot the Hooky Mountains depend upon tho presence of slow-moving, low pressure areas In that region, nnd thanco eastward, aocompanlcd by rela tively high prossuro over tho Pacific ocean off tho coast ot Oregon. It is bo lloycd that air In heated In Its sudden passage from tho summit of tho Ilocklos to tho prairies bolow. " Tutett In I'hotosraptiy. A curious eterlmont In photog raphy was recently mado In Dngland. A man was mado to look steadily at n postago stamp on a black oard for n mtnuto; tho room was then darkened, a sensitive photographic plate put In plnco ot tho card, and tho man looked nt It steadily for twenty minutes. Tho plate was developed and showed two distinct Images ot tho stamp. Ingle ltogors, ono of the thrco wltnosses of this fact, Is unable to decide whether tho photograph Is one of tho Image pro jected ou tho man's retina or whether it is a ease ot thought transference A Novel Fire lUrope, A novel form ot fire escape, the In vention of M. Deruttl, was tried lately In Paris before members of the town eeunell and the Are denartinent. It consists of a hollow tube placed along the ctvnleo of a building or the lowor part ot a balcony railing. Inside which runs a small wheel, which onn move from ano end ot tho house front to the other. A light wlro ladder or an Iron cage Attached to a rope passing ovor tho block furnishes the means for de scent The apparatus can also bo used for workmen, like painters, employed on tho outside ot houses. A llydraulle Ufa Itont. A new bydraullo propelled lifeboat has recently been constructed In Ung lnnd that meets all tho requirement of the National Lifeboat Institution. Water is admitted by means ot a large seoop, and Is foreed out by a strong pump ot very simple design. A speed of OU knots was made on the trial course, and its Coat was stepped and reversed In fifteen seconds. It is stated that butter contains forty times as many microbes as oleamarg & lea.