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SPjf Irftnptot "fm R. C. DUNN, Publisher. Terms:2.00 per year in advance. rrrr HE Egyptians and Phoenicians arc joint cliamants for the honor of the invention of water craft. THERE is a lighthouse to every 14i miles of English coast, to. every 34 miles of Irish coast and one to every 39 miles of Scottish shore line. TESTING the big Krupp guns is said to be responsible for the cracking of every brick and stone house in Essen, the seat of the great armory. HE moth has a fur jacket and the butterfly none because the noctural of the moth require it. The diurnal movements of the butterfly do dot. THE largest and oldest chestnut tree in the world stands at the foot of Mount Etna. It is 213 feet in cir cumference, and is known to be at least 2,000 years old. IN England many of the peasantry still plant the house leek, "Jupiter's eard," on their house roofs as a pre ventive against thunder, lightning and evil spirits. THE New York Sun building is pro vided Twth the largest thermometer in existence. It has a dial plate 40 inches in diameter, so situated as to be plain view of passers-by. AT York, Pa., in the orchard of Simon Muchler, there is a tree that annually bears a crop of three differ ent kinds of fruit. Pears, peaches and appies. HE two greatest stamp collectors in the world are M. PhillippheFerrari, son of the great Duchesse de Galhera, and the Czar, whose collection ^is said by experts to be worth 3,000,000 francs. SALLEB MCALLISTER, a colored wo man of Springfield, Ky., is believed to be the largest woman now living. She measures 36% inchesover three feet around the arm, and weighs 632 pounds. A BERLIN chemist claims to have discovered the art of reproducing colors true to nature with the camera. If true, the discovery is one of the most important that has been made in the line of photography. r_m^ A MAID servant in Austria has lived in the service of the same family for 70 years and the emperor has just given her a medal. But what can be said for a family that has meekly red under servant girl despotism for three score vears and ten? THE king of Dahomey is not a Na poleon. He divided his army with a view to whipping the French twice, once vc\l\ each division, but the at tack of ibe first division resulted in its rout, and now the king is on the point of losing his capital and king dom at the same instant. JOHN M. KINGSLEY, of Lost Creek, K.y~ is 72 years old, and, according to Lim, was married for the sixth time just a year ago. He also asserts that he is the father of sixty-one chil dren, all but ten being alive, and all married. THE frizzled glass threads from Which cloth is woven are said to sur pass in fineness not only the finest cotton, but even the threads of the silk worm's cocoon, their softness and elastically being even greater than that of manufactured silk "lint." IN the limited space between Worth street and the battery, New York, where there are many large wholesale houses, it is stated that 15,000 wo men are employed as typewriters. A single typewriting machine company finds employment, through its variou? offices, for 10,000 women a year. IT is a high honor which has been conferred upon Huber A. Newton, professor of mathematics at Yale that of election to the Royal Philo sophical Society of London. Not over a dozen Americans have been similarly complimented. THE Chillian Government is goingto make an attempt to improve its fi nances and currency. It is in the Eu ropean market now seeking a loan of nine million iollars, and seems to be in a fair way f getting it through the Rothschilds. With this it proposes to pay off the floating debt incurred by Balmaceda i i the ciyil war and ac knowledged by tbs new Government This will permit it to contract the pa per circulation and improve the ex change. te^/,. k^ ^4^iMM v*,. f$fatfaLMM&ii$ki& THE WEEKL NEWSDIGEST. EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK IN A CONDENSED FORM. The Latest and Most Important News of the World, Culled From the Telegraph Re ports of the Press Associations. Thanksgiving Proclamation, President Harrison has issued the follow ing proclamation naming Nov. 24, as Thanksgiving day: Hie gilts ol God to our people during the past year have been so abundant and so tpecia that the spin of a devout thanksgiv ing awaits not a call, but only the uppoint nient ot a day when it may have a common expression. He has stayed the pestilence at our door. He has given us more love lor the iree civil institutions in the creation of which diieciing providence was so conspicuous He has awakened a deeper reverence lor law He has widened our philanthrophy by a call to succor the dis tress in other lands: He has blessed our schools, and is bringing forward a patriot ic and God-fearing generation to execute His great and benevolent designs for our country. Ho has given us great increase in material wealth and a wide diffusion of contentment and comfort in the homes ot our people He has given His grace to the sorrowing. "Wherefore. I, Benjamin Harrison, presi dent of the United States, do call upon all our people to observe, as we have been wont, .Thursday, the 24th day of this month of November, as a day of Thanks giving, to God for His mercies, and ofsupplication for His continued care and grace. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set mv hand, and caused the seal ofthe United States to be affixed. Done at thejcity Washington, this 4th day wfNovember, one thousand eight hun dred and ninety-two, and of the indepen dence of the United States the one hundred and seventeenth. BENJAMIN HARBISON, By the President: JOHI, W. FOSTKR, Secretary of State. The Capital. Gen. W. S Roseorans, register of the treasury, is quite ill. The public debt was decreased $195,430 in October. Attorney General Miller confirms a re port that he will soon retire from the cabi net. The civil service commission recom mends the criminal prosecution of Treas urer Thomas, of the New York Republican btate committee, lor soliciting campaign funds fiom government clerks. Record of Casualties. A severe storm rases on the great lakes, causing much damage to shipping. Sever al lives are lost. The recent northwestern gale caused great havoc to shipping and over $1,000,0J0 worth ot property was wrecked on the lakes. A terrible explosion tooK place in Pitts burg recently Mrs. Arthur Ormond and her two children and a daughter of Mrs. Hewett were lrightfully burned. While a funeral procession was crossing the bridge over Oil Creek, English, Ind., thebridgegave way and precipitated seven two-horse buggies into the creek, severely injuring Anthony Robertson and Thoina3 Rathbone. George Gates, while hunting near Union town, Pa., used a turkey call. A huntier named Dills fired into the bush where Gates was concealed, killing him. At Oliver Springs, Tenn., the house of Mrs. Lewis was completely destroyed by fire. A crowd of miners marched into town and openly set the bousee Mr. Lewis was very kind to th on fire soldiers. and that is given as the cause of the miners' deed. At Muskegon this side of the state was swept by a furious Northweststorm recently. Considerable damage to buildings about the city resulted. The schooner Nellie Hammond from Milwaukee loaded with 3.000 bushels of wheat was wrecked ajrainbt the piers while attempting to enter the harbor. Two ot the crew go* off in safety, but Capt. Louis Michaelson was drowned. People In Print. Mrs Langtry draw the designs for most of her theatrical costumes. Congressman Sherman Hoar of Massa chusetts is soon to wed Miss Mary D. But trick, an estimable young lady of Concord. James McCor.nick, of Seymour, Ind, who is reputed to be 109 years of age, claims to have talked with George Wash ington. Lieut. Frederick Schwatka, of arctic fame, dies suddenly at Portland, Or lrom the effects of an overdose of morphine. Mrs. Susan Shepherd, aged 103 years, probably the oldest person in the state, and who was st'll hale and hearty, met her death by her clothes catching fire at the home of her grandson in Bowling Green. Henry M. Cutting, of New York, well known in the financial world and in New York society, died very unexpectedly at Francis barracks, St. Augustine, Fia. Diego Xermines, a Spaniard more than 100 years of age, died at Phoenix, Arizona. He was a participant in all the Mexican revolutions since 1824, and at one time had a colonol's commission. After the treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo he was banished irom Mexico and spent the remainder of his uneventful life in Phoenix dying in a hovel. Sinful Doings. The Illinois Supreme court has rendered ft decision in the O'Sullivan case denying the application of the attorneys for anew trial. Dr. G. W. Kelly, ofJefferson County, Ga., is under arrest for throwing 'his daughter into a well and shooting his sister-in-law who sought to rescue the child. He is iu'- sane. George Moross, a stationary engineer, was shot and killed at Detroit by George Fredericks, a blacksmith. The tragedy was the result ol an old quarrel. At Corydon, Ind. Marshal W. G. Peath was shot and killed by Sheriff Clabe Scluck. Schuck was drunk and did the shooting without provocation. T. A. Gleason a New Orleans cotton buyer, is under arrest charmed with secur ing $15,000 from the Whitney National Bank on forged cotton press receipts. Charles Harrison and Henry Parker quarreled over a plug of tobacco at Adamv boro, lnI and Harrison struck Parker on the head with a stone, from which injury he died. H. Rogers confined in jail at Lexing ton, Neb., on a charge ot horse stealing, attempted to escape. Deputy Sheriff Lam ma shot Rogers through the heart. John Gerco and Peter Carbaugh, of South McAllister, I. T, quarreled over the ownership ol some coal, and Gerco' shot ai Killed Carbaugh. The badly decomposed body ol Mrs. J. Johnson and her fifteen-year-old son Gus lave were lou i it fie i home S.wi Fran cisco NP II K-rt^*fH, ojdrttime and'as the family was in destitute circum stances it is believed to be a case of double suicide. Ernst Voss, who stole 2,000,000 mrke from a savings bank at Vetden* Germany, in 1884, was recently found dead in his room in Hoboken, N. J, Voss was a dir ector of the bank which he robbed* His theft wrecked it. Mrs. William Root, who could not dance, became jealous of her husband, who was a fine waltzer and frequently attended balls. When she put up his lunch she placed crushed glass in his sandwiches. An emetic saved his hie. The couple live at Elisabeth, N. J. Dorsey Joodin of Timminsville, S. C, deliberately beat his seven-year-old daugh ter *o death with a large leather strap, having an iron buckle on the end, in twenty minutes, and then picking the little one up hurled her to the floor. She died shortly afterwards. Goodin is in jail, and may be lynched. The Foreign Budget. By the collision of a train with am engine near Liverpool, Eng., three persons were killed and fifty injured. Anton Whitman killed Rosa Sewald, aged 16, in Vienna, with a bludgeon be cause she refused to marry him. The Belgian steamer Caucase, which sail ed from Philadelphia October 5 for Seville, Spain, has run ashore near Seville. The bodies of the people drowned by the loss of the steamship Roumania were buried at Obidos, near the scene of the wreck. Lady Randolph Churchill has recovered from her illness so much that the physi cians have ceased to issue daily birlletins. Henry B. Ryder, formerly United States consul at Copenhagen, is sentenced to eight een months at hard labor for theft, fraud and perjury, The Mexican supreme military council has confirmed the death sentence passed up on Col. Nievez Hernandez, who was charg ed with treason In failing to capture Garza, the revolutionist. A panic occurred in the church of the village of Vina^ora Austria upon the rais ing of a false alarm that the tower was col lapsing In the mad struggle to get out twenty-five persons were trampled to death. The London Observer announces that it has learned on the best authority that at the last cabinet meeting it was definitely decided not to retire from Uganda. Rioting occurs in Granada, Spain, be cause the queen failed to visit the town af ter preparations to receive her had been made. Cardinal Lavigrie, who hag been ailing tor some time, is reported to have become suddenly worse. His physicans consider his condition critical. Floods have occurred in the lowlands and fens of Lincoln, Essex and the midlands in England. In Licolnshire people are going about from place to placein boats. A railway accident occurred near Thirsk, in Yorkshire, England, by which ten per sons were killed and a large number injured. The express train which leaves Edinburgh every evening for London was running at full speed as it approached Thirsk, when it ran into a heavily-Liden goods train. The cars took fire and the bodies were m sinerated. The accident was due to a signal man being asleep. He has been suspended from duty pending an investigation. Labor. The great strike of teamsters, loaders and warehousemen of New Orleans, which was to have taken place, has been declaied off, pending negotiations. The Schuylkill Coal exchange, in calcu lating the wages and hours of the miners of the Schuylkill region for the last half of October and thefirstThalfoT"Noveniber, has fixed the rate at 8 per cent above the $2.50 basis. This is an advance of 2 per cant over last month's wages. About the Railroads. The Davenport, Iowa & Dakota was sold at auction to the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern for $620,000, to satisfy a judg ment for that amount held by the Farmers' Loan & Trust Company of New York. It is reported that William M. Burgard, penercl agent of the Chicago & Northwest ern in Buffalo, is to be promoted to the position ot assistant general freight agent. The shipment of grain and stock from the Northwest this season have taxed the full carrying capacity of the transcontinen tal railroads. There has fortunately been no blockade, bur^every freight car has been called into lequisition. The Columbus, Hocking Valley & To ledo and the Columbii", Shawnee & Hock ing have given notice of their intention to withdraw from the Ohio Coal Traffic as sociation Dec. 31. This action is alleged to be due to the secret rate cuttinp, in which the two roads claim to have been getting the worst of it. It is believed in railroad circles that the withdrawal wilj seriously affect freight rates. Gossip of the Sports. Pudge Heffelfinger is playing football with the All Chicago eleven. The Yale-Princeton foot ball game on Thanksgiving will be played on the grounds of the Manhattan Athletic club in Harlem, N. Y. Iroquois, a stallion belonging to Gen. W. H. Jackson of Nashville, is the leading sire of the year, his get having won nearly $17,- 000.* "Pudge" Heffelfinger and "House" Jane way, the two giant guards who played for years on rival college foot ball teams, are now in the same line on the All Chicago eleven and are the best of friends. General News. Arizona has produced $3,000,000 in gold, $2,200,000 in silver and $4,500,000 in copper during the year. A company has been organized to mine the sulphurs in the crater of the volcanoes of Popocatapetl, which is said to be in a quiescent state. An Automatic telephone connection system is in Micres'.fiil operation at La Porte, li (I. The serv.cej ot operators are dispensol wi li. The world'* fair directors will declare that the fair should bo kept open Sundays, and will inagurate a movement for the re peal by cogre of the Sunday-cloning clause of the law. Leland J. Webb, formerly national com mander-in-chief of the Sons of Veterans, was declared insane at Topeka, Kan., and sent to the asylum. It is said that the morphine habit is the cause of his insanity He attempted to commit suicide by tshoot ing him-seli, but the wound was hot se rious. While exploring the territory of the cliff dwellers' territory in Arizona, Frank Con roy, of Brooklyn, fell over a cliff and was attacked and killed by eagles. His com panion, J. B. Barkelow, has reached Ogden, Utah, i- fal'J*"f\J$ Thirty Chinese passengers on thcTTorth ern Pacific steamship Zambesio were re fused passports at Port Townsend because their certifi ates did not have photographs at ached as'law requires. They were bound lor Portland, Or. ',jC, a,-A.aff JfHEY^FLY SOIJTHWAED. A* TAKES THE BIRDS FOR TEXT, fih Lessons That Mankind May Learn From ThemWherein Birds of the Air Have More Sagacity Than Man. BROOKLYN, N. Y., Special.The flutter of bright colored leaves which every wind blows from the trees in the avenues around the Tabernacle, re minded the thousands who entered its doors that winter was approach ing. Dr. Talniage, turned the impres sion to account in his sermon, which was on the text, Jeremiah viii., 7: "Theatorkinthe Heaven knoweth her appointed time and the turtle dove, and the crane, and the swallow ob serve the time of their coming but my people know not the judgment of the Lord. When God had set fast a beautiful thought, he plants it in a tree. When he would put it afloat, he fashions it into a fish. When he would have it glide the air, he moulds it into a bird. My text speaks of fourbfrds of a beau tiful instinctthe stork, of such strong affection that it is allowed familiarly to come, in Holland and Germany, and build its nest over the doorway, the sweet dispo sitioned turtle dove, mingling in color white, and black and brown, and ashen, and chestnut the crane, with voice like the clang of a trumpet the swallow, swift as a dart shot out of the bow of heaven, tailing, mounting, skimming, sailingfour birds started by the prophet 25 centuries ago, yet flying on through the ages, with rous ing truth under glossy wing and the clutch of stout claw. I suppose it may have been this very season of the yearautumnand the prophet out of doors, thinking of the impenitence of the people of his day, hears a GREAT CRY OVERHEAD. Now, you know it is no easy thing for one with ordinary delicacy of eye sight to look into deep blue of the noonday heaven but the prophet looks up, and there are flocks of storks, and turtle doves, and cranes, and swallows drawn out in long lines for flight southward. As is their hab it, the cranes had arranged themselves into two lines making an angle, a wedge splitting the air with wild veloc ity, the old cranes, with commanding call bidding them onward, while the towns, and the cities, and the conti nents slid under them. The prophet, almost blinded from looking into the dazzling heavens, stoops down and be gins to think how much superior the birds are in sagacity about their sale ty than men about theirs and he puts his hand upon the pen and begins to write: "The stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming but my people know not the judgment of the Lord." I propose, so far as God may help me, this morning, carrying out the idea of the text, to show that birds of the air have MORE SAGACITY THAN MEN. And I begin by particularizing and saying that they mingle music- with their work. The most serious under taking of a bird's life is this annual travel from the Hudson to the Ama zon, from the Thames to the Nile. Naturalists tell us that they arrive there thin, and weary, and plumage ruffled, and yet they go singing all the way the ground, th*e lower line of the mus.c, the sky, the upper line of the music, themselves, the notes scattered up and down between. I suppose their song gives elasticity to their wing, and helps on with tlie journey, dwindling a thousand miles into four hundred. Would God that we were as wise as they in mingling Christian song with our every day work! I be lieve there is such a thing as taking the pitch of Christain devotion in the morning, and keeping it all the day. I think we might take some of the dullest, heaviest, most disagreeable work of our life, and set it to the tune of "Antioch" or "Mount Pisgah." It is a good sign when you hear a workman whistle. It is a better sign when you hear him hum a roundelay. It is a still better sign when you hear him sing the words of Isaac Watts or Charles Wesley. A yiolin chorded and strung, if something accidentally strike it, makes music, and I suppose there is such a thing as having our hearts so attuned by divine grace, that even the rough collisions of life will make a heavenly vibration. I do not believe that the power of Chris tian song has yet been fully tried. I believe that it you could roll the "Old Hundred" doxology through Wall street it would put an end to ANY FINANCIAL DISTURBANCE! IJbelieve that the discords, and the sorrows ard the sins ot the world are to be swept out by heaven born hal lelujahs. Some one asked Haydn, the celebrated musician, why he always composed such cheerful music. "Why," he said, "I can't do other wise. When I think of God my soul is so full of joy that the notes leap and dance from my pen." I wish we might all exult melodiously before the Lord. With God for our Father and Christ for our Savior, and heaven for our home, and angels for future compan ions, and eternity for a lifetime, we should strike all the notes of joy. Going through the wilderness of this world let us remember that we are on tl way to the summary clime of heaven, and from the migratory pop ulations flying through this autumnal air learn always to keep singing. The church of God never will be a triumphant church until it becomes a singing church. I go further and remark that the birds of the air are wiser than we, in the fact that, in their migration, they fly very high. During the summer, when they are in the fields they often come within reach of the gun but when they start for the annual flight Southward, they take their places and go str. i ht as an arrow to the mark. The longest rifle that was ever brought to shoulder cannot reach them. Would to God that we were as wjse as the atoik and crane in OURffUTGHXHEAVENWARD. We fly so low that we are within easy range of the world, the flesh and the devil. We are brought down by temp tations that ought not to come within a mile of reaching us. You tell me that Paul went up to the tip top of the Alps of Christain attainment. We go out and we con quer our temptations by the grace of God, and lie down. On the morrow, those temptations rally themselves and attack us, and by the grace of God, we defeat them again but, stay ing all the time in the old encampment, we have the same old battles to fight over. Why not whip out our temp tations, and then forward march, making one raid through the enemy's country, stopping not until we break ranks after the last victory. Do, my brethren, let us have some novelty of combat, at any rate, by changing, by going on, by making advancement, trading off cur stale prayers about sins we ought to have quit long ago, going on toward a higher state of Christain character, and routing out sins that we have never thought of yet. The fact is, if the Church of God if we, as individuals, made rapid advancement in the Christian life, these stereotypedjprayers we have been making for ten or fifteen years would be as inappropriate to us as the shoes, and the hats, and the coats we wore ten or fifteen year ago. Oh for a higher flight in the Christian life, the stork and the crane in their migration. TEACHING US THE LESSON! Again, I remark, that the birds of the air are wiser than we, because they know when to start. Oh that we were as wise about the best time to start for God and heaven!' We say, "Wait until it is a little later in the season of mercy. Wait until some of those green leaves of hope are dried up and have been scattered. Wait until next year." After awhile we start, and it is too late, and we perish in the way when God's wrath is kindled but a little. There are, yo know, exceptional cases where birds have j,w staited too late, and in the moraine I KrtQ+u odi you have found them dead on thS snow. And there are those who have and Christ. They last sickness. Some of you have felt the pinching th mntto^ frost of sm. You are nptlippy. i I S & look into your faces, and I know you are not happy. Tnere are voices within your soul that will not be sil enced, telling you that you are sin ners, and that without the pardon of God you are undone forever. What are you going to do, my friends, with the accumulated transgressions of this liletime? Will you stand still and let the avalanche tumble over you? Oh, that you would go away in to the warm HEART OE GOD'S MERCY, Another frost is bidding you away it is the frost of sorrow. Where do you live now? "Oh," you say, "I have moved." Why did you move? You say, "I don't want as large a house now as formerly." Why do you not want as large a house? '"My family is not so large." Where have they gone to? "Eternity!" Your mind goes back through that last sickness and through the almost supernatural effort to save life, and through those prayers that seemed unavailing, and through tnat kiss which received no response because the lips were lifeless, and I hear the bells tolling, and I hear the hearts breakingwhile I speak I hear them break. A heart! Another heart! Alone! alone! alone! This world, which in vour girlhood and boyhood was sunshine, is cold now, and oh! weary dove, you fly around this world as though you would like to stay, when the winds and the frost and the blackening clouds would bid you away into the heart of AN ALL-COMFORTING GOD. Oh.Ihave noticed again ana againwhat a botch this world makes of it when it tries to comfort a soul in trouble! It says, "Don't cry!" How can we help crying when the heart's treasures are scattered, and father is gone, and mother is gone, and companions are gone, and the child is gone, and every thing seems gone? It is no comfort to tell a man not to cry. The world comes up and says, "Oh, it is only the see that sweet face again? Away with your heartlessnes*, oh world! But come, Jesus, and tell us that when the tears fall they fall into God's bottle that the dear bodies of our loved ones shall rise radiant in the resurrection and all the breakings down here shall be lifted up there," and "they shall hunger no more, neither thirst no more, neither shall the sun light on them nor any heat, for the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall lead them to living fountains of water, and God shall wipe all tears from their eyes." Self-helo In Case of Fire, As a house is never attacked by fire at the top and bottom at once, if there is a safe and ready exit at both top and bottom very little danger to life is to be feared. It is important that all| e.\i should be to known as tojbe easily found, by day or night, bjr (keep all doors shut as far as possible *If a room is full of smoke, keep low crawl, because smoke and not it both rise, leaving the floor compn a tively clear. body of your loved one that you have and helpless. Little woman! Little put in the ground!" But there is no humbug."St. Louis Republic. comfort in that. That body is prec ious. Shall we never put our hand in that hand again, and shall we never THIS IS HAPPINESS. W 1 Some Definitions Sent to an Enjt- Some time ago the London Tit-Bits offered a prize for the best definition of "Happiness." The following defini-1 tion was adjudged the best and re ceived the prize. Wanting nothing and knowing it.: Among the best definitions in were the following: The mental sunshine of content. A "will-o'-the-wisp" which eludes us even when we grasp it. Excelsior! The ever-retreating sum mit on the hill of our ambition. The prize at the top of a greasy pole, which is continually slipping" from one's grasp. The only thing a man continues to search for after he has found it. The bull's-eye on the target at which BL the human race are shooting. The goal erected for the human race, which few reach, being too heavily handicapped. A wayside flower growing only by the path of duty. A bright and beautiful butterfly which many chase but few capture. The interest we receive from capital invested in good works. The birthright of contentment. A treasure which we search for far and wide, though ofttimes it is lying at our feet. The summer weather of the mind. The dancing of the heart to its own music. HOUSEBOAT1NG ON LAND. An English Pastime Which May Be Transplanted to America. "Caravaning," like "houseboating," is a recreation |indigenous to the English soil. A caravan is a sort of houseboat on wheels, a fashionable and moderized gypsy cabin, or an im proved photographer's car. Ifc is drawn by horses, ani develop spee somethinpgr between a canal- tran vd oyjl ^cordingas exes a a nn um th perished half way between the world the steeds before it. It is not dis waited until the ber and going qualities of tance, however, but time that a car avan is looked toto annihilate, so Strength of 1 every inmate of the house. If the clothes you have on catch fire, a blanket, rug, or some such woollen ar ticle should be quickly and tightly wrapped round you. Air is thus ex cluded, and the fire goes out. A small fire in a room can often be put out in the same way, in preference to pouring water on it. In case of fire, 1 3* ^onJary ne vehicle, is filled with a carefully, selected company^ of picnickers, rambles along a lovely country road until some sweet retreat is encounter ed, when it stops, and there you are for as long as you want to be and sometimes longer. In the carvan you may eat, sleep, but not live that you must do out of doors. If it should rain you may ex ist within its^shelter, if you can, till the sun shines again. When every body is tired of the sweet retreat and one of the thorns of caravaning is that there is a chance of your get ting tired of it before everybodythe party moves on like the snail, with its house upon its back. There is talk of introducing this pastime over herebfet it seems hardly suited to the lively American temperament.New York Times. Those Helpless Little Women. "Don't you worry about the little woman! Just analyze her a bit be fore you waste any great amount of sympathy upon her. That baby mouth wasn't made in vain. Ever see one of those little women stand up in a street car, or carry her own parcels home, or get in or out of a carriage without having half a dozen men run to assist her? And all just because she is a little woman, and has that helpless, imploring look, as if she couldn't stand the least bit of trouble in the world. And every man she meets feels sorry for her, and is ready to extend his sympathv and assistance. I've watched herI've made a study of her tricks and her ways. She just looks at a man out of those appealing eyes, and he would walk over red-hot plowshares to as sist her. When I am born aga'n I want to be one of those meek, help less, sorrowful-eyed little women, and be helped to all of the good things of life because I look so small, andsweet Hands Sexes. In the Two To determine how the average strength of the hands of men and women compares, French ingenuity some time ago devised a special in strument, on which the palm of the hand is placed, and the greatest do wn ward pressure which the individual can give it is exercised upon it, the force thus produced being recorded by clockwork mechanism. In a test in cluding some fifty robust men and the same number of healthy women, both belonging to the middle class of so ciety, witli ages varying from twenty five to forty-five years, the strongest man of the company was able to pro duce with his right hand a pressure equivalent to eighty five kilograms, or about one hundred and seventy five pounds, and the weakest to forty i kilograms, the average being fifty-six. The force of the strongest woman of the fifty who were selected amounted to only forty-four kilogram, and that of the weakest to sixteen, while the average was thirty-three kilograms. Breathing: of Insects, Insects generally breathe through special pores in various parts of their body, and if these pores are closed by oil they are suffocated. Anyone may test this by dropping sweet oil on the thorax or back of a wasp it very soon dies. For this reason oil has been' found one of the best things to use forx the destruction ol insects** ^V^i ^S^