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’ A Singing Mouse,
| A good deal of scepticism prevails
! among the ignorant as to the fact of
. there being singing mice; but having
. kept such a songster for four years, 1
| am in a position to speak with author
| ity. She was caught in a coal mine,
’ was broaght up in a “‘tommy bag” to
the surface, and handed over to me.
| thus commenced an acquaintance.
| which soon ripened into intimacy, and
| which was only terminated by her
i death. There was no doubt aboat
| her song; a pretty, bird-like warble,
| rising and falling alternately, and of
sufficient power to carry from the top
' to the bottom of the house when sll
. was qguiet. In appearance she was
' just an ordinary house mouse, with
- the usnal well-groomed coat, the usual
- ecascade of whiskers, the usmal beady
~black eyes, and an elegant tapering
tail, like the lest of her tribe. It was
- her song slone which singled her out
from the dumb millions of her fellows,
- and this song she poured out almost
- without intermission during her wak
ing hours. The speculations of the
learned have been exercised over this
- matter, and some have thought that
bronchitis, by narrowing the air pas
sages, produces a noisy wheezing,
- which enthusiastic admirers have dig
- mified as a song. Others, with greater
i probability, have suggested that every
- mouse is a singing mouse, but that on
{ account of the dullness of our ears we
culy hear the bass-voiced voocalists,
wile the shriller melodies of the great
majority are unnoticed. Every one
knows that the squeak of a bat is not
heard by every ome, and that one
party in a conversation on a country
walk may be almost deafened by a
chorus of bats while the other may
hear nothing of the noise. Certain it
is that dissection reveals nothing ab
aormal in the vocal apparatus of the
singing mouse, and doubtless a very
slight difference in the quality of the
vocal cords would result in a mouse
with a voice sufficiently bass to bring
the sound within the compass of our
hearing powers. —St. James’s Gazette,
Burglary is Now a Scienece,
The modern burglar is a scientist
and inventor in his way. Recently a
new era in safe breaking and other
branches of the 2racksman’s art has
opened, and the famous jimmy, so
long rampant on the successful burg
lar’s coat of arms, is to be superseded
by more convenient labor saving tools.
In Marseilles, France, the other day
& gang of ingenious cracksmen entered
# banker’s office armed with a steel
saw of the newest construction and a
handy little gas engine. There was
no need for the exercise of muscie,
nor was there any necessity for a good
strong wrist at the saw, as there was
at one time in the annals of famous
robberies.
The light engine was started, the
saw put in the proper place, and the
connections madpe. Seating themselves
serenely upon » couple of chairs near
at haud, thete modern burglars
wailched the true and rapid work ot
their appliances.
The big safe might have resisted for
hours the force of human hands, but
the saw, impelled by the engine, it
could not stand against. The stout
iron sa‘e promptly yielded up its con
tents of maay ihousands dollars’ worth
of gold and bonds. and in a quarter of
the time it wonld have taken to have
committed the robbery under the old
conditions the burzlars were well out
of tae building with their booty.
A new copper miniog field is to be
opened up aear Silver Cliff, in Custer
County, Colorado.
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Horrors or Modern Prisons, ’ Benefits of Aerated Waters,
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tle or no prison-made insanity, Pris- that the substitution of aerated waters
on doctors are keenly alive to the for ordinary drinking water is a great
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insanity is not sufficient to account | ators refers to cholera germs, and is
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Prison Committee some startling things | fi‘;’ Eli’rymp;e;:uttioz : ab’;fmtclfe Om:);s
from the convict’s point of view. The : |
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them. A man may be reported for | { R e .
knocking something over in his cell, .of great hygienic importance.
though 1t may be by pure accident.
The name for this offence is ““anneces
sary noise.” As the poor wretches
walk their weary round in the exe:cise
yard, one may fall out of step and
thus throw the others out. The first
offender or the last—any one, in fact,
on whom the warder’s eye happens to
fall—is liable to punishment for this
mischance.
In this way the convict gradually
acquires an expression that never
leaves him—the round-the-corner
glance of a being who dreads a tyrant
on the pounce. We wanta new How-
ard if the system is only half as bad as
it is said to be by those who have best
reason to know.—London News.
The Brake-landle Thermometer,
*‘This rain is about over,” said a
motorman on ore of the open cars
yesterday afternoon.
~ ‘““Are you a weather prophet?” was
asked.
“I think I am, as far as dry or wet
weather is concerned,” he replied.
*“I can tell whether we’ll have rain
within twenty-four hours or not.
“How am I able to do it? Well,
it’'s like this: When it's go
ing to rain the brakehandle be
comes sticky almost a day before.
The motorman will first notice it fully
swenty hours before the storm arrives.
You can just barely notice it then, but
the stickiness will increase until it
will be almost impossible to get a de
cent grip without tearing the flesh on
your hande. Now, on Friday night.
I began to feel that sticky business,
and I told a fellow who was on the
seat behind me that it was going to
rain. The sky was clear, and after he
glanced around he said that I was
away off. I said, ‘I don’t say it’s go
ing to rain right away, but it will be
fore this time to-morrow,” and it did.
Ob, there’s no going back on the brake
as a barometer.”
At this point in the motorman’s re
marks a passenger boarded the car.
The front seat was about filled, but
that did not matter. He wanted tc
talk with the motorman.
“Is the rain all over?” was his
query.
- “Pretty near,” answered the elec
tricity pusher.
“Well, I'm glad of that. Do you
know,” continued the latest arrival,
*“I place more confidence in a motor
man’s prediction than Ido in those
made by the weather signal man?”
The motorman blushed becomingly.
—Albany (N. Y.) Argus.
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Increasing Value ol Whalebone,
Whalebone promises to becone one
of the most valuable commodities of
‘commerce, and before the next century
is very old it may become as highly
priced as gold. It may then be the
‘means of settling forever the mono
metallist and bimetallist controversies
by abolishing both, and making the
substitution of a whalebone currency
possible, for there is no chance of an
oversupply of that article, and it is
quite evident that it can not be imi
tated. Numegous attempts have been
made to simulate it, but none has been
saccessful. Not very many years ago
whalebone could be purchased for $2OOO
n ton. At the end of last season the
price was $lO,OOO, To-day it is about
$ll,OOO, and it may be higher still,
for the Greenland fishing this summer
has not proved an immense success.
At this price an old family ginzham,
of which whalebone ribs were gener
ally about half an inch square, wounld
prove a very handsome legacy, much
more valaable than a gold-mounted
but steelribbed umbrella of the pres
ent day. A collestion of the old ar
ticles might form a small fortune.—
London lelegraph.
An English Boon.
The New World is not the only
place where mushroom towns spring
up. In England several considerable
cities have been created by new rail
roads.
Of these Crewe is perhaps the most
notable. Fifty yeais ago it was an
insignificant and unprogressive village
with about a couple of hundred ir
habitants. To-day it is an important
and thriving town with a population
of some thirty thousand. What may
fairly be called its creation was en
tirely due to the London and North
western Railway Company, whose
works cover about thirty acres and
employ from seven %o eight thousand
artisans.
Another remarkable instance is that
of Barry, in Glamoraanshire. As late
as 1866 it was the habitation of a few
fisher families numbering some fifty
souls. The construction of a railway
and dock was then commenced for the
purpose of the conveyance and ship
ment of coal from the Rhondda Valiey.
Barry is now a town of 25,000 inhabi
tants, with municipal gas and water
works, and all modern improvements,
—New York Journal.
DROP A TPOSTAI. CARD TO
Thick Moss Hides the Gold,
W. Sam Clark, an old resident of
Alameda County, California, who went
to Alaska several months ago in search
of a fortune, made a tour of that coun
try, and has sent a report to his
' friends. He tells of the great suffer
‘ing among the men, and how they long
to come home. “‘I wounld not encour
age any one to come to Alaska this
year,” says Mr. Clark. “‘This land of
glaciers has its surface rubbed and
scoured and its golden seed scattered
until evrey stream and brook wiil show
‘color’—hence the cry that all Alaska
is gold, and the metal is to be found
from the grass roots down, but not in
quantities that will pay to work, ex
cept in a few localities. When the
quartz veins of the country are found
and the gold belt discovered and
marked on the maps, then it will be
time enough for men from ecivilized
parts to come and locate their small
twenty acres in this vast land. 'The
moss blanket, in places several feet
thick, will hide for years to come from
the prying eye of the miner its golden
culor. There is room for all, but gold
for few.”—Los Angeles (Cal.) Herald.
A DPoriable Bieycle,
- The ““pocket bieyele” is not a toy
or plaything, but a full-sized machine,
with pneumatiec tire, regulation handle
bar, brake of latest pattern, ball bear
ings, and the thousand and one things
that go to make up a high grale ma
chine. It is full size, and can be un
screwed, taken apart and folded up.
It looks like a seemingly hopeless
task for any one but a skilled mechanic
to put a bicycle together, but the
‘““pocket bicycle” 18 said to be so sim
ple that any one can master the pro
cess after once seeing it dome. The
fastening springs and tiny bolts are,
for the most part, so deftly fitted into
the frame work as to be unnoticeable
to the casual observer. They are,
however, made of the finest tempered
steel, strengthening instead of weak
ening the machine.
Kashmir Sheep.
A traveler through Kashmir recently
found in practice therea novel methol
of putting fodder up for winter use.
The countiry lies in a valley among the
Himalayas. The chief industry of the
people consists in raising fine wool
and in making this intc fabries which
have carried the name of the couatry
all over the world.
‘*‘A curious custom in some places,”
he eays, ‘“is that of hanging quanti
ties of hay up among the branches of
trees. Why it was done was more
than I could guess, till my guide in
formed me that in winter the snow
lies five or six yards in depth, and that
the supplies of hay, which now look
only as if they were meant for giraffes,
are then easily reached by the flocks
of sheep which abound there.”
A New Lamp,
A new lamp which has been invent
el by an Ita'ian will, if all that is said
of it be true, bring joy to the heart of
the housewife. The lamp, which is
deciared to be no heavier than one of
the ordinary kiand, generates its own
ges. The cost, however, is only one
fifth that of ordivary gas, while the
illumination ie as bright as that of an
electric lump and much whiter, A
single lamp floods a large room with
light, and as, in additiop, it 1s clean
and odorless, one cannot wonder that
both the electric light and the gas
companies dread its rivalry. Bat un
fortunately the promises of inventors
are not always carried out to the let
ter.,—Pittsburg Dispatch.
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