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V aiN—————1"g— s 4H ibw- Semi-W cckly. Published Wednesdays and Saturdays. RANDALL & HODEEN, Publishers. Tim »thy Kelly. e mvieted of parti cipation iu the Phujuix murder was hanged at Kilnuiinhani jail la®4 Fri day. He is the fifth. "A millstone and the human heart are driven ever round: If they haVe nothing else to »rind they must them selves le ground." The Pennsylvania legislature has passed a bill prohibiting speculation in theater tickets. This is a measuie which leading managers as well as the public would be glad to have I a general law. Ai'tei- u hard tight in the Illinois legislature the Harper High license Mil has lieeomc a law. This is a state measure, which will be iu force in Chicago as well as elsewhere, and its practical effects will be watched with interest. The minimum charge for a license to sell beer is fixed at .iloO, and that for the sale of distil'ed liquors is $$00 which figures may be increased by local authorities^ if they wish. It is admitted, even by liquor sellers, to be a strong measure and one which will accomplish the purpose for which it was framed. Merrick in ids never ending speech in tlie star route trial has said a few good things. On last Friday in refer ring to I'tigcrs-oll's peroration in which he nailed lien toll down in his coffin with seven nails, etc., Merrick said he V'ould also do some burying. He would '".try I)r.*t«y alongside iierdell, and his fclio\v-eo ispirutors should be mourners over them. He would erect an arch, one end resting on the grave of Dorsev, the other end on that of Iierdell, and i n the keystone should l»e written the epitaph: They were delightful and lovely in their lives, and iu death were not separated." And if, notwithstanding counsel's prayers, Gabr el, when he passes over those graves, should blow, and corrupt and buried Dorsey should arise an im mortal spirit and come into that last grand court, before the Great Searcher of Hearts, before whom we must appear, and the Great Searcher would ask him, Were you not iu the flesh known as Stephen W. Dorsey?" the spirit WDuld answer: "I don't remember!" This was greeted by a furious burst of laughter, and even Ingersoll is said to have been consider ably demoralized. Misplaced Confidence. The failure of the Bank of Breck enridge presents some aspects fully as regretable as those involved in the suspension of the Bank of Herman. The former was the depository of the funds of Wilkin county, the same as the latter was for Grant county, only that the bondsmen of the proprietors of the Bank of Brekenridge have not misplaced their confidence in the in tegrity of its proprietors and the sta bility of the institution to the extent of more than one-half the amount which has gone the way of all the earth through the medium of C. F. Washburn. If there "is any one thing that stamps a man with the brand of perfidy, it is the involving of his backers, as it wt*r', iu financial com plications into which they entered with 110 other motive than a spirit of accommodation, and without the slightest probability of gaiu. The business men of this village who signed the bonds to this county with C. F. Washburn where his business friends, though some were his uncom promising political enemies at that time said b-.mds were signed and deliv ered. While sum- of them questioned the beneficence of his political princi ples and methu b, there were none who doubted that Id possessed the first principles of business and moral in tegrity. Was that confidence so gen erously reposen, unj stlv bestowed Tn the light of the subsequent develop ments and the high financial and po lital standing of some of C. F. Wash burn's relative*, we are not prepared to answer this question iu the ne gitive. From a few circumstances which have been recently brought to our notice, we are inclined to the opinion that C. F. Washburn has pursued methods in the management of his trust and his business dealings with his relatives who have been furnishing him with financial sinews in the past, which will not bear (he closest scrutiny. Home of these will no doubt be ventilated in the court.** in a manner a like i nph a^ant to Mr. Washburn and s mi of his illustrious connections. We are not desirous to gee ('. F. Washburn pushed to the wall' and still hope that he, himself, and those who are m-st vitilly in terested in preserving the good name of one of the most honored families in the United States, will "take the bull by the horns" and resolutely set about clearing up the prefidious features of the failure of the Bank of Herman. If it is not done, C. F. "Washburn will find this community a rather warm place in which to live, and his name forever clouded with the record of transactions in con nection with his banking venture at this place, which his natural cunning and innate suavity will be powerless to overcome.—Herman Herald. GENERALITIES* •*$!MH'tybody waiting on you ?M mM a polite dry goods clerk to a young lady from the country. "Yes, sir," replied the blushing damsel "that's my fellow outside he wouldn't come itt the store." An exchange says that a Bismarck man, who is learning to play the eernet, has picked up brick enough «*n the front yard, and on the balcony where he sits to practice, to lay a pave ment all around his house, and hopes to be able to build a brick house this summer if the neighbors don't all move out of the ward. A teacher defining a transitive verb f»one that expresses an aetion which is "passed over" from the doer, gave for illustration, "the dog wags his fen-.I?"*?1 "j '*V a Cou.itry 'tail." "Whereupon a youngster arose of dried leaves or a corresponding with the criticism "Please ma'am the quantity of tVe^h one*—?m«» given hut. action don't pass over it stays in the Mr. 8. A. din-o^ud iasl dog,' Ho* ton Trauscript. admission info the Union as a State, FAliM NOTES. W. S. J. in (f'ntfcmen*ays: I believe that it is eminently proper •o trust to the auioial's instinctive appetite lor salt. W certainly have no means of knowing hc amount oi salt that the animal would require, but we know that the quantity they g-t in their natural state is very small, heing only that which is held chemically in grasses, and what they obtain at their "licks," When we mix it wiiii the food, they are compelled to eat the salt whether they rtqitir" it or not. When they do not require it, there will be more or less danger done tn the digestive functions, I have observed much, and have had a great deal of ex perience in salting animals, but i ne ver have seen the slightest injury from allowing them free access once every twenty lour hours, provided they have not been deprived of it previously, as in that case they may take too much. Farm* r.-' wives, read this. During the first six months of 1S.S2 there were nearly million dzcn eg^s, lien eggs,, n o.Mrleh or other fancy egg-, but lien eggs, imported into the I'nit ed States. Now, as a matter of fact, the wives of ur fanners, mechanics an 1 country ministers ought to go into the egg b-isiuess so thoroughly and s successfully that they can have all the fresh eggs they want iu their own fam ilies, and have enough to supply all the bankers, nitM'c'namsand otherfam ilies in the land, and expoi'a the «u"} |us product to the "down trodden" na tives of Europe. The idea of a people with all our open country going to France or Belgium for eggs to go with our morning toast and codec. We shall buy a coop of hens and start the reform at once. No eggs with social ism or Irish agriarianism in thern for our breakfast. Tarilf'or no tariff, Am erica must raise her own eggs. Farmers Review. I think if a greater profit is antici pated from keeping such extraordina ry butter-producing cows, it wili by found illusory. Kven if we cast aside the greater risk of death from milk fever and some other diseases, and the extra labor and care to assiduously look after such animals, I am of the opinion that a herd of cows yielding over ten to thirteen pounds of butter per week during the best of the season, or 330 to 4o0 pounds per annum, would be found more profitable, in the long run, than a herd yielding much more than this and est chilly if it doubled, as some breeders of Jerseys are now straining their utmost to ac complish. For one, instead of favoring, I wish to lift up my voice against producing twenty pounds of butter or more per week and it would be still better, in my opinion, to limit the quantity to fourteen pouuds j»er week as the ut most that a cow should make. To ob tain a larger product than this, as a general rule, I will say, she has to be highly stimulated with extra food, which throws the poor animal into a feverish state, and renders her milk and the butter made from it more or less unhealthy, Furthermore, it is no torious that the larger the butter pro duct the more liable the cow is to be attacked by the very dangerous disease of mi Iff fever. Many complain that onious do not keep. The trouble is in keeping them too warm. The onion is a bulb—a plant at rest—and the least warmth starts it iuto activity. It is much better that onions should remain frozen through the winter, provided they can thaw gradually, than to be put into cellar or other warm place where their vegetative powers will be aroused. Tf put in large heaps onions will be sure to spoil but spread in thin layers and covered with hay or straw, so that if frozen the thawing will be gradual, they will keep well through the winter. It is the custom with onion growers to get their crop to market as soon as possible. If they were to provide proper storage they would realize much more from them when sent to market later in the season.—Purdy's Fruit Recorder. SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY. In the treatment of persons appar ently drvd from drowning or chlo roforming fhe placing of the body is one of tht*-first considerations. Vari ous positions have been advocated by medical men, such as those of resting horizontally on the face, on the side, on the back, alternately prone and supine, inverted, sitting up, bent for ward and bent backward. Dr. Eben Watson, of the Glasgow Royal Infirm ary, ha* lately objected to the plan of inversion, as he finds it to be injuri ous, and recommends a supine and horizontal position. Dr. Henry R. Silvester, of londou, has made some experiments which appear to teach that inverting the body has no advan tages to offset its danger but he con tends from the results of his experi ence that the most suitable position is that of reclining on the back, the hotly inclining a little from the feet upward, the shoulders and head slightly raised and supported on a firm cushion. This position, he says, is favorable for the relief of congestion of the heart and head, while both sides ofthechest are free to expand, and such condi tions afford the best chance of restora tion from apparent death. Tn Ireland the leaves of the common mullein Virbaacuni fhapsm) are pop ularly supposed to be useful in.cases of consumption, and Dr. F. J. B. Quinlan's observations lead him to conclude that they really tend to in crease the weight of patients suffering from the disease in its early stages, while they greatly relieve phthisical cough. The remedy is administered by boiling the leaves in milk—in the proportion of a pint of milk to an ounce At*i it mi i Hf» fm year that t!.c emtoutii in- uu- i The editor of the Key West Denio- known in he u o. tlnve erat is said to le only 40 it.ches high miles fro ml he oi Ant and weighs but pounds. When rim, Ireland, a I thnigh^vei^ abuiiuanl the man with a club e mea iu to in- on the mainland- Fr«fc|M «H' -poised lerview "the chap who wrote that to be pretty well »ii»ir.iuu«l ihrou^h artiele" the editor of the Democrat out the gloln*, but .dr. 11. W. Lett crawls into his paste-pet and puils cites evidence proving thai ihey were down the lid.—Kx. not known in Ireland until about two it is proposed to change the name hundred years ago, wh u l)r. (aiithers, of Washington Territory' upon her a fellow of Trinity Col.ege, Du'oiiu, in troduced s .me frog's spawn from to Tahoma. This name is an Indian England, bveu in the nud-lle oi the word, n eaidng "almost to lieaveu," and was given by the Indians to Mount Ii .nier on account of the great height of that mountain, which is 14, 000 feet above ihe level of the s a. last centu-y frogs w rj exhibited as curiosities iu the north of Ireland. Ferns, of which several thousand species have been dese it'ed, formed a very imp rtant part of the earth's vegetation iu eurly ge dogieal ages, as is apparent from retinitis b:ought to light iu the coal fields They now grow all over the worl I, but especially iu the warm and moist clima'es. In the Antilles they comprise about one tenth of the vegetation in Oceanica, one-fourth or one-fifth in 8.. Helena, one-third in Juan Fernandez, one half and in Kngh nd, one-thirty-fifth. By a new method of application, Moiis. Bert has safely used protoxide of nitrogen—or "laughing gas"—to obtain prolonged anaothesia, a dog having been kept insensible for half an hour. Moiis. Bert's plan is to cause anaesthesia first with the pure pro toxide then to give a mixture of the protoxide and oxygen, which restores to the blood its necessary oxygen and In this way both return to conscious tie-s aail danger of asphyxia are ob viated. A mask and .vo ru'iber bags are all the apparatus needed. A man is "dea I drunk," according to Savants of this Paris Biological So.'icty, when the fluid which circu lates in his arteries and veins contains one part of alcohal to one hundred and ninety- five parts of blood. Should the proportion become one part of alcohol to one hundred of blood, death must eusue. In ordinary case. the drinker loses consciousness before so great a proportion of alcohol has eutered the circulation, but the fatal dose is sometimes taken when a large quantity of alcoholic liquor is swal lowed quickly. Dr. Diebenberg has found that the germination process of many plants requires the presence of iinie in the soil, and that the seedlings die with out it. There are some plants, how ever, which freely germinate when it is not present. It is known that the cinchona trees do not require lime, and it is suggested that the frequent failure in Jamaica of the seedlings may perhaps le due to the absence from the soil of some more essential ingredient. During the four months of August to November last temperature records were kept at Markla, iu tlie Siberian province of Yakutsk, by Moiis. Pav ioff, an exile. Ilis report sho.vs that winter approaches with great rapidity in those latitudes. Oa August I the thermometer rose at one o'clock I*. M. to about tt,s degrees Fahrenheit, and reached "7 to U8 degrees- during the second half of the month. The first frost came in September, and in the first days of October the thermometer sank—at seven A. M.—as low as from 11degre 's above zero to four below and as lo w a.= ±2 io W)—and ew i "S— degrees below zero during the s i-cnJ half of the mont ii. Iu N veml»er the temperature did not rise higher than 24 degrees below zero, and occasion ally sank to o5 and oS belo .v. Modern medical science is gaininga foothold in China. Miss Howard, an American physician, having been called upon to treat the mother and the wife of the Chinese Viceroy, Li Hung Chang, has become very famous among aristocratic Chinese ladies, w ho now flock to consult her. It is also said that the Emperor of China has arranged to educate a number ol youths in European medicine and surgery in Hindustan colleges. COlUtliSl'OV DEACE. Eldorado. We are still alive In Eldorado tho' at the time you so kindly enquired arter our health we were so nearly worked to dentil, as to be unable car. dkly to say "Yes or No" to the query. And then the weather has been so very cold it took us all our spare time to keep warm. Instead of winter lin gering iu the lap of spring it seems to have fairly sat down upon it and nipped it out of ex'steuc.'. Crops are not promising as well as the early spring' would lead us to expect. Present in dications for oats aredecidedly poor in comparison with last year. Wheat and barley look we!l. Corn i* had a hard tussle wj'li the o »ld b.ii is peep ing thro'. Gardea stuff has just got a good hold and at present tlijire is a gentle rain falling which will help greatly. The Minnesota Farming and Lum bering Assosicatioa are seeding about 300 acres to flax on Sec. 15. What used to be knowu as the Corning Farm. It is the only one of all the big farms of Eldorado which has bravely fought, and conquered the graceful Sun flower, and fragrant "Rosin Weed," and is now in a high state of cultivation. This proves that "perseverance gain the meed and patience wins the race." Thj ne w- school house Is completed with the exception of furniture, which it is to be hoped will arrive at an early date. The South Side scholars are rather at a disadvantage, as the present build ing. (That is wher school is being taught now.) Is not mveniently ac cessible to all. New York Times The in the Ohio platform in regard to the tariff favors a "tariff system wh'ch will provide a revenue for th- govern ment and at the sane time will pro tectAmerican producers and American labor," and it denounces "the Demo cratic doctrine of 'a tariff for revenue only:" it also declares that "the wool tariff of 18 !7 should be rttptort'd at the first possible opportunity." We pre sume that this is a fair statement of the views of the Republican* of Ohio, but it is not adapted to win Vote, as a more moderate declaration might have done. THE FAILURE OF SCIENCE, A Smithing Crltiemm 0./ Gall Hamilton. [From the North American Keview.) Never again lot this generation, at least, hear one whimper from science, .•-.unst religion. Iu the long w..rfun ic iigion has often chosen her groan wiih stupidity, selected her weftp ai with iguorauce, and wielded hor with passionate feebleness but shenLV made so pitiful a display and sofuti! i u use of her resources as science umde over the death-bed of President 'd When the question is of nebulsa, of at oms, of the rock's growth and the earth's age, of the spirit's substance, of life's origin, of the infinite in space, the ii» oioeivable in time, the unknowable iu eternity—science has it all her own way. We cannot bridge the cluisw between mind and matter. No man hath seen God at any time to prove Him the Cre ator. From the grave no being has arisen to our eyes, and from the stars no voice comes to our ears to dispute what ever the wise men may say. But here was solid ground for science to stmd on and demonstrate her power. She had nothing to do with the romote, with the past, with abstractions. Before her eyes, under her hand, lay a human soul in sore strait—a human life hunted into the valley of the shadow of death, longing to come out again into the sun shine of the fair and open day. The whole nation, the whole world shared in the longing. Whatever love and wealth could proffer was ready to the hand of science. Everything that gratitude could inspire, everything that ambition could desire, lay in wait to reward the man who should conduct the august sufferer back through the gates of life. And science accepted the trust man fully. The most celebrated and the most accomplished brought to that darkened chamber their highest knowl edge with ever renewed and unwearying effort. The railroad and tho telegraph were put under their control. No cost hindered any experiment or curtailed any care. The nation stood behind, not only permitting, but urging every expenditure of brains and money, to the same end, urged their own self interest, patriotism and humanity. Day and night they ceased not to work and watch, and the result was—failure, ab lute, thorough, undisputed failure—fail ure so minute and complete that only its terrible gravity kept it from being ridiculous, and not even its terrible gravity could keep it from being gro tesque. Science can spin the world back be tween her thumb and finger a billion years, and we go spinning with it be cause we cannot help ourselves. Science can locate the soul in the grayish mat ter of the brain, and we submit because we cannot dig deeper than that grayish matter to search for a deeper soul. But when science comes into a practical realm, where we can prove or disprove her accuracy, her keenest scent for truth, her finest touch of skill is to grope till the man is dead and then find the bullet in a wash-bowl. Nescience could do that. What availed science to Garfield She never treated or touched the wound which the bullet made and which she was summoned to -heaL She naver even found it. She made two ghastly wounds herself, and for eighty days she clawed at them. The bullet which the surgeons could not find nature carefully encysted. The bullet-wound which they never touched nature safely and silently healed. Surgical science is reduced to the pit iful claim that she alone kept Garfield alive for eighty days. This is a suicidal self-relegation to the improvable. Rout ed on the tangible field of fact, she flees to the cloud-land of speculation, -and again throws up intrenchments. Nescience has precisely the same right and the same reason to speculate take a man in perfect health, and give him into the control of surgeons, un wounded, and let them make two such wounds as Garfield suffered at his sur geons' hands, and let them bore into those wounds every day as Garfield's wounds were bored into—sometimes with seven different catheters of differ ent sizes at a single dressing—and let them feed the man as Garfield was fed, and furnish him with the malarious air that Garfield breathed, and sequester him as Garfy^d was sequestered, and not one man in 10,000 would survive the horror of it for eighty days Savans, how dare you, in your limit less ignorance and impotence, tamper with our hope of immortality You are ms unable as the clown or the clod to iisoover the secret of physical life. With what shadow of reason shall you presume to annihilate spiritual life because its se cret eludes you The coarsest fanatic iv ho can see God only on a tipping table doe3 not display so monumental a fa'mty as you, who can only touch mor tality with your elbows, and would ab negate immortality because you cannot clutch it in your fists. Groping for trath at the bottom of a well you would b'ot out the sun from the heavens, be ^ause you can only see the faint glimmer of the stars 1 MAN HOLDJJfQ SIS OW1T. it is generally admitted that civiliza tion hasimproved thehorse. The ancient world never possessed a horse which could compete with the American trot ter or the English racer. But some per sons think that tho modern man has, through civilization, physically degene rated from the ancient man. The Lon don Spectator, however, says that there is not the slightest evidence that m*" was ever bigger, stronger or more en during, under the same condition of feed and climate, than he is now." In proof that man is holding his own in size, there is the positive evidence that modern. Egyptians are as big as the ^mummies who were conquerors in their days. But there has been a growth in size. Modern Englishmen are bigger than their ancestors. There is not in existence 1,000 coats of armor which an English regiment can put on. Very few moderns can use ancient swords, because the hilts are too small for their hands." These fact* aeon Hfcsonab)& For physical condition depends upon food, clothing and shelter. The modern man is hotter fed, better clothed and better housed than was the ancient man. Whv should the modern not have been •i advanced in physical growth by his bet ter physical conditions The most civilized and luxurious that ever existed—the European royal caste, is physically as big, as healthy and as powerful as any people of whom wo have any account that science can Hcoept." English acrobats can perform any feat which is recorded of Greek Athletes. Corniehmen could strangle with their hands any race of savages, id there is not a barbarous tribe of wh eh 1,000 men similarly armed could defeat an equal number of Englishmen, AiU' ricans or Germans. It is doubtful if any Greek, Roman German swimmer could have crossed the English channel from Dover to alnis, as did Capt. Webb, 4 FIFTH AVENUE PICTURE. Tiained pugs now sit at milady's win do'v with a bow of bright-colored rib i on at their necks, and it is easy to see ih it they regard themselves as a very superior kind of dog. While you gaze nt the petted beast you have alBO a aUiHj to* admire the fine design of piiladjj'a lace curtains, which, as a mat kr of course, originally belonged to the Em pre -s Eugenie, and were picked up while we were iu Europe last summer," —Xeu York Mail. Tub letters of Benjamin Constant to uhrme Recamier, which have just been published in Pans, are full of frantic s ntimentatity. This man, approaching ."0, \uvtj to the •s'pirifuclle lady that he had been crying all night" because she did not cire for him career, ambi tion, study, intellect, diversion, all nave disappeared. I am no longer any thing more tha* a poor creature who loves you." He that once did you a kindness will be more ready to do you another than he w.iorn you yourself have obliged.— Franklin. A DEADLY COMETL The Probability of a Conflagration in the tiun lhat May Bum All Life Off the Earth. The idea that the comet of 1880 may be identical, not only with that of 1843, but with that of 1C68, the period having been reduced from 175 years to thirty seven, was suggested at the Astronomi cal Society in April, 1880, by Mr. Marth, a mathematician of great skill, and well known for the zeal with which he at tacks problems relating to the move ments of the satellites of Saturn and Mars. He says "Supposing the comet of 1843 is the sama as that of 1668, it would not be v- ry wonderful that it should reappear after thirty-seven years, instead of 175 ye^rs. The velocity of a body moving in the solar system depends simply on its distance from the sun, and on the p. iiod of revolution. If the velocity is reduced by a resisting medium, there w J1 be a reduction of the period, and there is nothing whatever unreasonable iu the supposition that, however weak the corona may be, its resistance would have a very great effect upon the mo tion of the comet which rushes through it so that I should not be at all sur prised if it should turn out that the comet of 1880 is the same as the comet of 18i3 and that of 1668, and that its revolution has been so much affected that possibly it may return in, say, be ven teen years." Now, if this theory of 'the comet of 1860 be the true one, we are somewhat more nearly interested in the matter than we are in most theories respecting comets. If already the comet experi ences such resistance in passing through the corona when at its nearest to the sun that its period undergoes a marked diminution, the effect must of necessity be increased at each return, and after a few, possibly one or two, circuits the comet will be absorbed by the bun. It will be remembered that Sir Isaac Newton recognized the possibility that it might happen to a comet, having such a 1 orbit as that of the comet of 1680 (generally known as Newton's comet), and that he had considered the conse quences might be full of danger to this earth. Yet he only dwelt on the danger arising, as he judged, from the addition of so much fuel to the solar fires. We now know that the real danger lies, not from the absorption of so much matter as may exist in a comet's head and nu cleus, but from the conversion of the momentum of the swiftly-rushing mass of the comet into heat, the thermal equivalent of its mechanical energy. I have for my own part been long of opinion that the periodical increase of such stars as Mira (the Wonderful star) in the Whale, and Eta, of the Argo, is due to the motion of some large comet, followed by a meteoric rain about these two stars. I have indicated fully in my "Pleasant Ways in Science the reasons which induce me to believe that the outburst of the so-called "new star" in the Northern Crown in 1866 is to be similarly explained. Without saying that I consider there is absolute danger of a similar outburst in the case of our own sun when the comet of 1843 shall be absorbed by him (a result which will, in my opinion, most certainly take place), I will go so far as to express my belief that if ever the day is to come when the heavens shall dissolve in fervent heat," the cause of the catastro phe will be the downfall of some great comet on the sun. I believe the passage even of the head of a comet over the earth would do lit tle harm, for the simple reason that the velocity with which the meteoric masses forming the head would travel at the earth's distance from the sun would be too small to lead to nnv very mischiev ous result. If the shower of meteoric masses were very dense, the meteors themselves being of the larger sort, and so able to break their way through the earth's atmosphere, the shower might kill a few of the earth's inhabitants, or even mauy hundreds. But there would be no widespread destruction of life. It would be altogether otherwise, believe, if a comet of the larger sort fell into or were absorbed by the sun. The danger wonld be in the sun's own weight, not in, the comet or its attend ant train. The bodies forming the head, nucleus and train of the comet would fall in immense numbers, with enor mous velocity, and each with mighty ffinmontiutt i fiery surface, Aj Possibly (in my opinion probably) their most destructive work would be ac complished below that surface, under the still more stupendous attractive en ergy of that smaller, because more con densed, orb within which 1 take to be the true ruling center of the solar »y«» tem. It might well lie that the effects thus produced would be but transient. In a few weeks, fpossibly in a few days, or even hours, the sun, excited for a while to intense heat and splendor, would re sume his usual temperature, his usual luster.—Richard A. Proctor's Familiar Science Studies. TROUBLES OF A SOCIETY REPORTER. I say," said the reporter, I don't know whether this is right." Don't know whether what is right f* demanded the city editor. "This wedding. I went there to night and they gave me a heap of rot about their frocks, but I don't know whether it comes out straight or not. Now, here is Mrs. I've got her in a panier silk, trimmed a la gross grain, with black point-lace underskirt and box-plaited hair. Does that sound nat ural "Who sent you to a wedding?" asked the city editor, contemptuously. Don't you know that gross grain is a color That was a gross-grain, box-plaited dress, trimmed a la black point lace, and her hair was combed en pannier. You ought to know better than to get things mixed that way. Who else did you get How was the bride dressed 7* I've got her all right," replied the reporter. "She wore a white bouffant with a Princess of tulle veil the under skirt cut dccollete around the bottom, and trimmed with a basque at the si 'es." "That's better," said the city editor, encouragingly. That sounds some thing like it. How was her hair Her hair was shirred," replied the reporter. "Shirred at the sides and corsaged on top." "I don't believe that's rights" ob served the city editor. "Read that again." "It was corsaged at the sides and shirreil on top," said the reporter, re ferring to his notes. Of course," smiled the city editor. "It makes all the difference in the world. You never saw a woman with her hair corsaged on top in your life." —Louisville Courier-Journal. VACCINE POINTS. There are several places in differ? nt parts of the United States where tlit-re are stables or farms where a business is made of supplying the market, so to speak, with "vaccine points." Th re is such a place in Chicago, a farm at Fond du Lac, Wis., another place at Cleveland, Ohio, also at Chambersbnrg, Pa., and Chelsea, Mass. When a per son starts to prepare a number of a-: mals, he inoculates the first heifer with cow-pox, and then he transfers it from that heifer to the others he desires to use. The best and healthiest hoifers are selected for this operation these heif- rs are generally Herefords and Devon?. The operation does not injure them ai all, and after they recover they are quite as well fitted for the farm or dairy as if they had never been inoc ulated. The vaccine points" are taken from the udders of the heifers, and i cities like Chicago these "points" arc seld at 10 cents each, wholesale. J: may be interesting to add that not man years ago it was feared the genuine cow pox was lost but it was discovered hy French scientist in France, and now no apprehension is felt, as there are so many places in the United States alone where its preservation is weli guarded ASTRONOMICAL PROGRESS. Like the land of the sea, the stars of heaven have ever been used as effective symbols of number, and the improve ments in the method of our observation have added fresh force to our original impressions. We now know that our earth is but a fraction of one out of at least 75,000,000 worlds. But this is not all. In addition to the luminous heav enly bodies, we can not doubt that there are countless others, invisible to us from their greater distance, smaller size, or feebler light indeed, we know that there are many dark bodies which now emit no light, or comparatively little. Thus, in the case of Procyon, the exist ence of an invisible body is proved by the movement of the visible star. Again, I may refer to the curious phe nomena presented by Algol, a bright star in the head of Medusa. This star shines without change for two days and thirteen hours then, in three hours and a half, dwindles from a star of the second to one of the fourth magnitude and then, in another three and a half hours, reassumes its original brilliancy. These changes seem certainly to indi cate the presence of an opaque body, which intercepts at regular intervals a part of the light emitted by Algol. Thus the floor of heaven is not only thick inlaid with patines of bright gold," but studded also with extinct stars once, probably, as brilliant as out own sun, but now dead and cold, aa Helmholtz tells us that our own sun will be, some 17,000,000 years hence. The connection of astronomy with the history of our planet has been a subject of speculations and research during a great part of the half-century of our ex istence. Sir Charles Lyell devoted some of the opening chapters of his great work to the subject. Haughton has brought his powers to bear on the sub ject of secular changes in climate, and Croll's contributions to the same sub" ject are of great interest. Last, but not least, I must not omit to make men tion of the series of massive memories (I am happy to say, not yet nearly ter* minated) by George Darwin on tidal friction, and the influence of tidal action on the evolution of the solar system. I may perhaps, just mention, as regards telescopes, that the largest reflector, in 1830, was Sir W. Herschel's, of four feet the largest at present being Lord Rosse's, of six feet as regards refracf tors the largest then had a diameter o« eleven and a quarter inches, while you*, fellow-townsman, Cooke, carried th^ size to twenty-five inches, and Mr* Grubb, of Dublin, has just successfully completed one of twenty-seven inches for the observatory of Vienna. It is re-? markable that the two largest telescope# in the world should both be Kih.— Popular &'cienoe Monthly. s 4 TW1HE *X1M» Good & Brisb ine Are now Prepared to receive their many Customers at their 3STEl'W STORE! Cor .Atlantic Ave. and 5th S£ A Full Assortment in the Following Lines will be kept Constantly on Hand.: Hardware! irtaqleand Ian«',v Boots and Shoes, Flour and Fee«fc Hard and Soft Coal, Jiili Mi HARYESTIN Gr MACHINERY CONSISTING OF Wi. DEEMS 5/6,1 & 8 foot cut HARVESTERS i BINDERS Tinware! 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