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THE_ WINSLOW MAIL J. F. WALL AC E. EDITO* AND PBOPBIETOB. SATUJSDJIT, JANUARY 7, 1*99 UR. JOHNSON’S PALFREY. When He Wrote Abcat Eating: It He Did Not Mean That He Dined on Horse. Dr. Johnson in his journal mentions the interesting fact that lie had on a certain day had “palfrey for dinner.’’ says Notes and Queries. Now, these words have caused not a little trouble to the critics, and for this reason, that they know not what palfrey reall} - is. It has been suggested that palfrey is a clerical.error made by the doctor him self for pastry. But the doctor wrote so legibly, and there is so much difference between the words palfrey and pastry that this position is net at all tenable. Palfrey is defined in Johnson’s cele brated dictionary as “a small horse fit for ladies,” and some have thought that | the doctor (whose feats as a trencher man were notorious) may have broken a record on the day in question and dis pose of a small horse. All these ar.d otl r conjectures are wrong, and we v id proceed to give the correct expla nation. The word palfrey (sometimes pam fr-w hj--the interchange of I and m) still in ns among the rustics of Scot land and the norih of Ireland, and means young cabbages when they first coine to table in the spring, finch cab- j bages have not begun to “close,” or be- ; come sohd in the center. They are gen- j erally spoken of as “early pamfrey” and are considered a luxury. Dr. Johnson probably picked up the word from his ! old friend Bos web or from some other Scotch acquaintance. THE GRANDEES OF SPAIN. They Cannot Stand Aeccsesl of Snobbishness and Have Other Peculiarities. A writer for Blackwood’s Magazine is interested in the curious habits of the grandees of Spain. According to j this magazine, the Spanish nobility at j the capital cannot be accused cf being snobs, masters ar.d servants living to gether in a state of familiarity that the writer finds amazing. He says: | “One day at dinner mj r host. Marquis - j rer that when the conductor came to ! collect the fares on the train that morn- | ing he had refused to take his, saying ! that it was already paid. The marquis, looking about to find his friend, dis covered Manuel, his valet, on the plat form smiling and making signs to him that he had paid the master’s fare. Later the writer was crossing the At lantic on a Spanish steamer with a duke and his valet de chambre. Tliej- j both traveled first-class, ate at the same table and offered each other j cigars. Their staterooms were alike in every particular. Continuing, the ar ticle says, ihui there is nothing Span iards hold in such horror as reading, especially the women. Printed paper is intimately connected in their minds with the loss of the soul and eternal ; punishment.” HARDTACK FOR FOUR. Col. Roosevelt Was One of the Grate ful Recipients of the Sorry Sustenance. One rainy night in Cuba four rough j riders had gathered under a tree 'or ] shelter. They had had nothing to eat ( all day and were sympathizing with one another over their ill-fortune, sajs ] the New York Commercial Advertiser. , “It’s tough luck.” said one, “but we II , just have to grin and bear it. I am about starved all the same.” A trooper from one of the western companies happened to be passing the ] tree, and he heard the last remark. ! ] Going i>p to the speaker he slapped him , on the back and, opening his blouse, , ptilled out some hardtacks. “Sorry yer in sieh tough luck, pard,’’ ] he said. “I ran in a streak of luck to- , day and got ten hardtacks. Here, you take half of ’em.” “Thanks, old man.” was the grateful rejoinder. “I’ll only take four. I guess •that will do!” 1 ,As the westerner walked off the other t rough nder turned around and gave each of his companions a hardtack. The next morning the western man was surprised to receive a visit from Col. Ttoosevelt. and still more surprised 1 when the colonel thanked him for the ; 1 hardtack he had given him the night f before. ! c • j i JUDGE BY HEIGHT. j t I 7 That Is the Way Fare of Children Is Regulctial uu Guropesn , C Railways. , t • Nearly everyone knows that the rule ' ( on railway trains and other public eon- j 1 veyances which provides for the carry- i ing free of children under five years old, I and of charging half fares for those be- j ; tween the ages of five and twelve, often ' 1 results in statements from the parents ] which are as trying to a normal con st ence as the affidavits made by many tourists regarding dutiable goods among their belongings, says the New York Sun. Sometimes these answers result in unpleasant controversies between con ductors and passengers, but usually o national tact and good nature help along the adjustment without undue ■ friction. In parts of Europe they have away of fixing this matter so that no one has cause to quarrel about it. Instead of going by a child’s age, as to what rate of fare it shall pay. they go by size. The collector is provided with a five-foot rule, and he rates the chil dren by this. Any child under 24 inches in height travels free, while those who j measure between 24 inches and 51 j inches pay half fare. All who mens- 1 ure more than four feet three inches pay full fare. Pine Above the Arctic Circle. 1 A curiosity recently exhibited at Stockholm was a section four feet in diameter from a pine tree which grew CO to 70 miles north of the arctic circle. An In«1 nstnons Volcano. The most active volcano in the world is Mount Sangay. 17.190 feet high, situ ated on the eastern chain of the Ant.es. • South America. It has been in constant eruption since 1723. A CONSUMPTION CUItE The Great Crusade Is Now Under Way in England. Eminent Medical Men Have Adopted a New Means of Combating the Life-Destroying Disease. There have been consumption cures without number. Some have come in bottles and were easy to take. Others were in the form cf medicated air. which the patient inhaled. Again the cure was by inoculation. But for rea sons as varied as the cures themselves, all have failed. The climatic healing has proved a success in almost every instance where the victim cf tuberculosis could be in : riuced to make the change in time. Un j fortunately one of the mental phenom ena of consumption is the patient’s-be ! lief concerning himself, or herself. Not in one case out of one hundred can they be- made to understand their dan ; ger in time. The cure by climate, how ever. has one serious drawback, name -I,\ . expense. A movement is new on foot in Eng land to establish a cure that will be within the reach of even the most mod est income. Physicians long ago rec ognized that consumption was not nee- j essarily fatal. They have also known | that those threatened, or indeed al- i | ready in the first stages, could cure | I themselves if they would but persist i j in the following out of a few simple | rules of life. The new cure, which will be pro- j moted by an association cf physicians j : and philanthropic laymen in England, j will follow these rules in operations, j The society is to be called “The Na- j ficnal Crusade Against Consumption I Society.” It is no visionary scheme. This is shown by the fact that the most emi nent medical men in Great Britain are interested in the movement and wi.i | be present at the first formal meeting of the society in October, at which the j prince of Wales will preside. The society will have an organiza- j j tion not unlike that of a mutual life j ! insurance company; that is, as many j , subscribers as possible will be secured, i ! The membership fee will be fi\e dollars i I a year. Small as this sum is, it will, it j J is anticipated, more than suffice, as | * many persons will become members j i who will never have occasion to call | upon the society for aid. while for “25 I one may become a life member. The organization will conduct its : crusade in accordance with what the J most recent study of consumption has i brought to light. To begin with, it will | combat the idea that the disease is nec- j essarily inherited. This may be one of j the reasons of its spread, but con- > trary to the genera! belief it is far , from being the most common. Another point on which the society ! will lay special stress is the danger j from that unique device, the modern ! fiat. It is argued that the flat is one cf j the most fruitful sources cf tubercu- 1 losis because of the insufficient light- j and air allowed. Thus the flat aud the disease-infected dwelling house, or the house that is too thickly shaded, will be two of the fust objects of attack. This cure by education, as it may be j called, is, however, only one of the pur- | poses cf the society. The subscription money, it is ex pected, will mark a figure that will , make it possible to build a number of j retreats for those actually in the grip j of consumption. These retreats will be in no sense hospitals. The houses will be small, detached cottages, with ample veran das, so arranged that while still per mitting the free acces's of air and sun- j light, they can yet be shut off from winds and draughts. The patients will live entirely in the open air. Their j bedrooms will be without carpels, rugs.' < or curtains at the windows. The win- | dows will be protected by an arrange ment of shades that will allow of their < being constantly open, no matter from i what quarter the wind may blow. j 1 There are certain atmospheres, how- ! ever, which the patients will be guard- 1 eel against—when it is damp or when 1 raw winds are blowing. The air will ! be “dried out” before it is-admitted to ■' them—a matter that can be easily ac complished by a simple mechanical de- | vice. 1 These retreats will be established in the south of England, where the cli mate is admirably suited to the needs of consumptives, amt where the soil is l 1 dry and sandy —a point cf the utmost 1 importance, by the way—and where ‘ there is an abundance of sunshine the 1 year round. 1 Medicine will play no part in the ( cure. Diet and exercise will be the { two weapons in active use. A simple > course of physical training, with fre- , quent baths, will be persisted in. Troper breathing will be taught, for j not one person in 500 breaths correct ly, and a proper use of the lungs in this j respect does more to keep up a good i bodily condition than anything else.— t Philadelphia Press. j] PHILIPPINE TRADE NOTES. , There is blit one raiircad in the Phil ippines, from Manila to Dagupin, a dis- I tance of 123 miles. The United States trade with the islands during 1597 amounted to $4,- k 383,710 imports and $94,597 exports. The increase shown curing the ' mouth of February of the present year 1 in the customs of Manila, compared 1 with that in the same period cf 1897, I amounts to $07,940.40. During 1597 there was an increase in the exports of hemp from the Philip- 1 pines to the United States of 133,890 ! bales, while to Great Britain there was | a decrease cf 22,348 hales. According to the report of the Brit- < ish foreign office, the total imports into the Philippine islands in 1896 were val ued at $10,031,250 au«d the exports ( $20,175,000. About 13 per cent, of the ; imports came from Spain. Os the total exports of li°nip from 1 the Philippines for ten years ended 1597, 41 per cent, went to the United States. During the same years the Philippines exported 1,582.904 tons of i sugar, of wljich 875,150 tons went to < the United States, 606,391 tons to Great I Britain and 41,362 tons to continental i Europe. ■.'-ju' _»n I 4 wg)r t*.— t- 1 ——r DOESN’T LISE SUFFRAGE. i i. Woman Soys it Reminds Her of Driving When She Was a Child. Two women were discussing - the question of women casting votes equally with men. One was rather young and pretty, with an air Mint I spoke plainly of her always having | her own way. The other was middle j aged, comely and genial. Said the young one: “There is no use talking, women will never have equal suffrage as long as they persist in staying at home as they do. Why don’t they get out and register? The men have given them the chance of voting for ! school trustees and one thing leads to another. What they ought to do is to call a great rally and embrace the priv iiges they have offered them. It is a great thing to deal in the affairs of the state, even if they are merely educa tional. I voted.” “Men always put in good school trustees.” said the elder woman. “And I helped them do it.” “The ‘privileges’ allotted woman in the matter of voting in this slate re mind me of when T was a little girl and lived on the farm. My father used to take rne with him to town whenever he went, because T was fond of the horses and cried if he left me at home. And I ; thought I ought to be allowed to dr-ve. j so lie humored me by letting me take j hold of the ends of the lines and cluck ■ to the horses, deriving as much joy j from it as if his strong hands were not j guiding and directing the horses ahead of mine. But T thought I was driving and making things go my way. That is ■ what women voting for school trus i tees reminds me of.” And the young woman did not snv a j «'ord, for there was nothing to be said. SHE RAN OVER TAR PAFER. Anti the Nocturnal Bicyclist Thought It Was a Hole in the Pavement. The girls were talking about bicycle i riding and telling of the accidents that had befallen them. When it came Miss : Flit's turn, she painfully changed her : position on the easy chair and said: “In the five years I have been riding i a wheel I never was seriously hurt until ; a week ago and I suppose you girls will say I wasn't hurt then. I was going j home from a friend's house when my j light went out. It was only three | blocks to my home and as the road was ; good all the way and policemen are | scarce in that neighborhood I thought | the rest of the distance could be | scorched in safety, and away I flew. It | was on Washington avenue, where the ; shade trees are so thick that the por tions of the road between the lamp ; posts are in deep shadow. “Bending over the handle bars, I was j making it hum when right under my front wheel I .saw a horrible black hole. | There was not lime to turn out; I could : only brace every muscle and take ! chances on landing all in a heap. Well, i I was the worst demoralized heap you ; ever saw and 1 wobbled along nearly a ! block before my nerves would permit me to go back and examine that hole. “When 1 did I found it was nothing tut a ragged piece of black paper lying on the perfectly smooth roadway. But. it gave me the worst jolt I ever received and it hurts me yet.” . ST \MPS OF 13,000 KINDS. Many of Them Are Only Gotten Up to Annoy Enthusiastic Collectors. The largest postage stamp ever is sued measures four inches by two inches, and was the old United States five-cent stamp for packages of news papers. The quarter-shilling stamp of Meck lenburg-Sclnverin, issued in 1536. is the I smallest postage stamp ever issued, be- I ing less than one-fourth the size of the j ordinary stamp, says Tit-Bits. There are 13,CC0 different kinds of postage stamps issued in the various countries of the world. Some of these are made only for collectors by coun tries wishing to make money easily. The French colony of Obcek, for in- j stance, issued no fewer than 200 varie ties; this overdone philatelic spot being i administered by a governor and eight ! functionaries and the capital being a j village of huts, The credit of originating that method • of stamp issues belongs to the secre- j tary of an engraving company, who ; bound himself for a period of ten years j to supply yearly, free cf charge, post- i age stamps to the different govern- ! meets of South and Central America j on condition that each yearly serie., j differs in design, and any surplus stock ! at the end of the year belong to the 1 company, which also retains the dies and plates for the production of re prints. Tobacco Plant as a Floral Emblem. There is one flower, says a writer in a Condon paper, which has apparently eeen overlooked by Americans in their | search for a suitable floral emblem, ! which, 1 think, is worthy cf their at tuition. I refer to that cf the tobacco plant (nicctiana) in its many varieties. It is handsome; the plant is, 1 believe, indigenous to America, and its im portance as the solace of the human race is indisputable. Electric Hnnillelmrs. The cyclist can new take a course of electric treatment on his machine, says Invention. A new handlebar has been brought ont which has metallic grips connected with a small generator mounted cn one of the wheels. !n an other form of the same device shoes are provided with contact plates. If the force of the enrrent depends upon the , speed the wheels are rotating, this may ; be a satisfactory device to discourage J scorching. Three Brave Irishmen. The three greatest living British sol diers are from the green island. Lord Wolseley was born in Ireland. Lord Boberts. of Candahar. w as born in India of Irish parentage; Lord Kitchener, of Khartoum, was born in good okl County Kerry in 1850 and was baptized at Ag havoija. ShootiniT Throngb Glass. A musket ball may be fired through a pane of glass, making a hole the size of the ball, without cracking the glass. If the glass be suspended by a thread it will make no difference, and the thread will not even vibrate- I SHOES FOR “SISTERS.” f They Are Mstle Very Plain and With out Regard to ••Right” or “Left” Feet. : The world, the flesh and the devil 3 are the chief customers of shoe manu • facturers. And a pretty restless, cril i leal crowd of customers they are. For : them,makers cf lasts rack their brains for change and novelty of style; and tanners draw the colors cf the rain bow to their leathers, using all kinds ■ of glazes and finishes, to tempt puz zled buyers to try their wares. There is a class cf shoe buyers, how ever, sweet-faced, patient, minister ■ ing angels on earth, vrbo, in their self > abnegation, require specially plain and i austere shoes, reflective of their quiet lives and restrained feelings. Nurses, i sisters of charity, old ladies and wem ■ en who have renounced the world form a body of people for whom spe cial shoes are made. I These shoes, as a rule, are of black 1 glazed kid, plain uppers unadorned with patent tips or any signs Os van ity. The soles are of oak leather, very flexible and fairly thick. No in sole is used, but a little filling, so as to avoid any squeaking. The side stays are strictly simple, and the lin ings are virgin white. The soles are not “rights” and “lefts;” they are all of the same shape, so that the shoes, which are roomy and large, .in be worn on either foot. This is a valuable accom modation for nurses, who are liable to be suddenly aroused to attend sick patients. These “comfort” shoes are ail that is claimed for them, and are equally popular among those who attend the sick or devote themselves to charity or religion. j A bright salesman connected with this class of goods said: “We sell di rect to jobbers, whose men visit city retailers. The retailer, usually one i who has been long established in busi ! ness, will call at a convent or similar I place. The lady superior gives him a list of the shoes needed, so that it is not necessary to interview the sis ters themselves. It is a curious busi ness, and one that is not easily mas ■ tered. Our people have been making these easy shoes for years, ar.d know exactly what is wanted. Sometimes , jobbers desiring to sell our lines in j struct us to brighten the slices up j a little with patent leather trimmings ;or colored linings. We explain that I the slices cannot be made too p nly, j and that style or ornamentation would ! be frowned on by the gentle class for I whom they were intended. “These shoes, having fairly thick ! soles, can be used indoors or c;: the streets. They are unusually easy and : noiseless. Winter shoes contain an ! insole of felt, which is clamp proof, i Many retailers carry them in stock, as there are lots of old ladies in 1 he world anxious for ease before elegance in ! footwear.” And the plain, homely shoes con ! firmed to rest, apparently in prim | silence, on the shelves of the mami j facturer’s sample-room, on which were | higheuts and lovveuts, tans and patent j leathers, in wide variety of gay man ipulation. But there seemed some thing almost eloquent about those black, round-toed shoes for good women, whose lives are altars cf duty and silent monuments of all that is I pure and good.—Hide and Leather. | A NEW CHARM-STRING. _- - | It Differs from Etc OLI One With the Duttons end Is More lu terestiuK. The up-to-date girl has a “charm string.” Surely, you remember that i long string of buttons of every im j aginable size, color and design that I your old maid aunt, say, used to keep j hanging over a picture in her room, j Her “charm string,” she called it | Ma’m’selle Quatre-vingt-dix-huit has | one nearly like it. The difference lies i in that while aunty was content with any button, provided cnl3 - it was un like all the others she had, Miss Ninety - eight will have only buttons that mean something. The army button hatpin she finds is common; the navy bntto.i shirt waist studs are no longer unique, but it isn’t every girl that can collect I enough buttons to string. The up-to date girl is proud of her string. | She lias a button from the coat ! ! grandfather wore on his wedding day. ; | a button from Uncle‘Jack’s confed ; crate uniform, army buttons, navy buttons, American, English, French. ; Italian. j She has militia buttons, she has col- \ ' lege fraternity buttons, she has a j Loyal Legion button, she has the but | ton that a foreign chevalier wore in his lapel, she has campaign buttons. She has a button from the Nashville exposition and one from Omaha. She has a button that adorned the coat of I somebody on a certain important oc | casion. She has. in short, the latest fad, and if you saj - , “Button, button, who has the button?” she will be only ' too happy to answer, “I.” ' The girl who hasn’t the button eol- : lecting fad has a mania for gathering ; what she calls —you know she has just j been graduated—“bellurainaia.” That j is to sav, she collects all the various ! small patriotic devices the war has I called forth Flag pins, flag ties, a flag i parasol, cuff buttons and spoons with ! the flag on them, bonbon boxes in the ’ shape of drums, prints of war scenes | —I couldn't begin to tel! you all the things “belluminaia” means. It means, j and it’s one of its chief meanings, the spending of an inconscionable lot of j money for things that have no use, but ! it’s a hobby that isn’t expensive. I’d like to hear about it.—Washington Post. i 1 Divorce in Canada. In Canada the man or woman who ] wants to sever !be bonds cf matrimony must go before the Dominion parlia- j rr.ent. when the committee on divorce 1 in the senate takes up the case and goes ( over the details very thoroughly, and . if. in the opinion of the committee, the t testimony warrants the granting of a ; divorce the report to that effect is made, c ar.d both houses eoneur in a bill giving j the required relief. t i Od.l Name for a Mile. A Burman mile is about equal in 1 length to two English miles. The word for “mile” in Burmese means “to sit” j land a mile is the distance that a man goes before he considers it necessary to ; sit down. j: ! * i ONE VICTIM OF VESUVIUS. An American Who Lost His Life tn the Barning ISlacnt&iu Fifty Veers Agro. There came near being a tragedy on Mount Vesuvius recently, when several ladies ventured too near the crater and were all but swept away by streams of molten lava which poured i from the mountain. This fact recalls j the sad death nearly 50 years ago of ( Mr. Charles Carroll Bayard, of Bela- | ware, who had many relatives in Mary- • land and was widely known in this i state. The accident which cost Mr. Bayard I his life happened in ISSO. lie was an officer in the navy and, arriving at | j Naples, a party of naval officers and j others was made up to visit the crater ! i of Vesuvius, which was then semi- j | active. Among those with him was | the late Charles Tucker Carrcll, of Bal timoi e, father of Mr. J. Howell Carroll, now United Stateseonsul at Cadiz. Mr, Bayard was the brother of the late Biehard B. Bayard, father of Mr. Bich ard 11. Bayard, of Baltimore, and a rel ative of the late Thomas F. Bayard. The party nad reached the summit of the mountain, when suddenly there ] was a shower of red-hot stones thrown j high in the air. All hands lock to their ; heels, and a few moments laterd-ecov ! ored that Mr. Bayard was lying cn the 1 ! ground behind them. One of the heavy ! stores had struck him on the arm, making a frightful wound. lie was taken back to Naples and gh en the tenderest nursing, but he died, and his j body is buried there, his tomb having been suitably marked io later years. A strange thing about the accident was the fact that Mr. Bayard was loath to make the trip which ended in his death. lie had a presentiment that he ought not to go, and even in the car riage on the way to the mountain top he caused the vehicle to be stopped and declared that lie would get out and walk back to Naples. His companions remonstrated with him and tried to convince him that his presentiment was' i■ a, a foolish fancy, and he finally consented to accompany the party. When he was.'hurt none of his friends i had the slightest idea that he was fa i tally injured and believed that he would be well in a few weeks. Not so with him, though. “Lou may ampu tate my arm,” he said, “or do anything J you like, but you cannot save my life. I lam going to die. I felt it when I started for the mountain, and now that this has happened I am convinced that nothing can save me.” He was right. lie lingered for about ten days and then death came.—Balti more Sun. CALIFORNIA’S BARLEY CROP. It is Lorger Tlian Tliat of Any Other State-—Pacific Const Hop and Grape Growing. While the Pacific coast wine yield is not up to expectation® this year, there has been a large crop of bariej and a very considerable product of hops in California. Oregon and Wash ington. The production of barley in the United States has increased from 44,000,C00 bushels in 1888 and CS.CCO.COO in 1800 to G0,000,0C0 this year. The business of malting kept pace with the rapid development of brewing, and one of the results of the enlarged demand has been the establishment of many malt houses and the discontinuance of mailing by brewers. At the present time comparatively few brewers malt , their own barley, it being more profit able to buy of tie maltster. The central and northern counties of New York had formerly a monopoly of hops, but Washington and Oregon are now in the field. By the census of 1890 W ashington ranked second among the states of the country in the prod uct of hops, California third and Ore gon fourth. In the total amount of its barley product California ranks not only at the head of the states, but pro duces in a year about one-fourth of the barley product of the whole country. It is estimated that the total hop crop of Washington state this season will j be between 27.000 and 30,C00 bales. The | picking is finished, and much of the ' crop has already been sold on the basis of 10 to 12 cents per pound. According to the secretary of the , Winemakers’ corporation of Califor ' nia the vintage this year will be one of the smallest in the recent history of the state. The yield of dry wires will be in the neighborhood of 8.C00,- OCO gallons, as against 27,000.000 gal lons last year. Sweet wines will show about one-half the production of a year ago.—N. Y. Sun. EYE LANGUAGE. A More Truthful Exponent of tlse Inward Thoughts Thau the , Tong; tie. No part of the human countenance ] engages our attention so frequently ! j as the eyes. When face to face in con versation, we do not look at the lips !, —although, as a rule, the attention, is j i very quickly taken by any movement —but at the eyes of the person with J whom we are speaking. So much is this the case that the habit of many deaf people of watching the mouth al ways strikes us as peculiar. In fact, ] one usually feels that there is a sense < of incompleteness in the association of mind with mind by means of con- i versation if there is not a continual 1 interchange of glances making a kind of running commentary on the words j spoken. The same may be said of or- f dinary greetings when two people shake hands. Unless there is at the { same moment a meeting of friendly j looks the ceremony loses much of its r meaning. j Now, why is there this continual meeting of eyes accompanying all - kinds of human intercourse? Partly, { no doubt, it is attributable to cer- j > tain habits of comparatively recent j. date. The ej’e, “the window of the scui,” is a more truthful exponent of , the inward thoughts than the tongue, and seeing that speech is very fre- ’ quently used not to tell the thoughts but to conceal them, we look to the j eye for confirmation or the reverse of what cur ears are taking in.— Louis Itobinson, in Appletons’ Popu lar Science Monthly. f J h Population of tlie Earth. j At the present rate of increase the population of the earth will double it self in 2GO years. I SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. j The Wyoming wool clip this year weighed 14,000,000 pounds, j The tongue of a full-grown whale measures 20 set t in length. Bangor manufacturers are sending canoes'of birch and canvas to Palestine, Japan, India and China, j Exports of cottonseed products for ( the first five months of this year far j exceed those cf the 12 moruhs of 18G6. j In the French quarries of St. Triphon. ! • stone Is sawed with steel wire cables ! moistened with wet sand, and passing | in an endless rope over a series of pul j leys. j Last year the United States export- ; I?d 3CC locomotives, valued at about $3,- j • 00C.CCO, sewing machines to the value j ' cf $2,500,000, and typewriters worth sl,- 500,000. It is said that the sales of looking glasses in the United States amount to about S3,CCO,CCO a year, and that the In dustry gives employment to more than 2,000 persens. Cats can smell even during sleep. When a piece of meat is placed immedi ately in front of a Sleeping cat’s nose j the nostrils begin to work as the scent j is received, and an instant later the cat will wake up. The longest plant in the world is the seaweed. One tropical and subtropical ! variety is known which, when ii reaches 1 its full development, is at least GCO feet in length. Seaweed receives its nour ishment from the air and mineral mat ter held in solution in the sea water. | Some cast-iron cannon balls were re cently recovered from the sea near Brest. They had been under water for over 100 years. They could be cut with j a knife, a great part of the iron having disappeared. Exposed to the air, the interior became quite hot. of course los ing the heat in a short time, after the j oxygen of the air had ceased to act upon it. CONSUMPTION. From Tuberculosis There Are Nearly 430 Heaths a Day- in the Vniteil States. The bacillus of tuberculosis finds. ! indeed, the most favorable conditions 1 for its existence in the squalor of : crowded slums, in the foul atmosphere j of dusty workshops, in close courts j I and alleys, and in damp, dark dwellings ■ where the sunlight never penetrates and where there is no throt gh ventila tion. But it may thrive also in places where sanitary science has done its best. Even in this present age cf sani tary grace consumption works fright ful havoc among mankind, destroying far more lives than typhoid fever, diphtheria, scarlatina, measles, small pox. cholera and all other epidemic scourges put together. In a report on tuberculosis recently presented to the Academic de Medecine by a committee appointed to study the question the j number of deaths caused in France j every year by tuberculosis is given as i 150,C00'. It is computed that, taking all forms | of tuberculosis together, one-fourth ' of each generation in France is at- ; tacked and one-sixlh is killed by it. ; According to a high authority. Prof. Yon Leyden, of Berlin, the mortality from consumption alone in the whole of Europe is not less that 1.000.0C0 a year. The annual mortality in the j United States from tuberculosis in it; I various forms is 163,500, or nearly 45C i a day. These figures represent only j the actual destruction cf life caused j by this terrible scourge. Who can es- | timate the amount of suffering for which it is responsible besides? It is | needless to speak of the expense which ! it entails not only on individuals, but | on the community.—Fortnightly Be- | view. ANIMAL BENEVOLENCE. \n Instance Which Shows That I)ucsb Beasts Can Be as Ivintl as Bleu. A herd of wild Asian buffaloes will charge any foe, even a tiger, to save the life of one of their number who has been wounded. Elephants, baboons and other ani mals will do the same thing in a wild state. On the other hand, monkeys have been known to fall upon one of their number who is ill and drown him. possi bly as an act of mercy. Similarly, wolves destroy one of the pack which becomes helpless. If an otter is trapped his brother ot ters will run around him all night showing the utmost concern. A writer in the London Specta*or states that he has seen sparrows in groups discussing and lamenting when one of their number had fallen inlo a i trap. Next day when a robin was caught the sparrows paid no attention. He adds that he had seen a big pig try to help a smaller one through a hole in the fence paling by pulling at its heath St. John tells of a Highland shepherd whose cat brought him some edible bird nearly every day in the year. THE STAGE AND STAGE FOLK Theatrical posters must have the ap proval cf a committee of the city coun cil in Hartford. Planquette, who wrote “The Chimes cf Normandy,” has been made a mem ber of the Legion of Honor. Adelaide Bistori, now 76 years old, is to enact several of her most famous characters at the Turin exhibition. William Gillette and Conan Doyle are writing a drama to be called “Sher lock Ilolrnes,” which will be the next new play, it is said, in which Mr. Gil lette will appear. ' 4 Mrs. “Billy” Birch, widow of the min strel, is said to be in such poverty to day that she lives in a tenement in ' New York without the ordinary neces saries of life. Tom Thumb’s widow is on the stage again. She is now the wife of Count Magri, an Italian dwarf, whose broth- ; or is also little, and the three are mem- ' bers of a liliputian company in Lon- 1 don. From Munich comes the news of the I production at the Eesidenz theater j e cf a piece in three acts, entitled “Jo- j ‘ hanna.” This is from the pen of j _ Bjorne-Bjornson, son of Bjornsterne- j ‘ Ciornson. It is his maiden dramatic ef fort, and would seem, from all ac- j' counts, to have achieved an immediate . , 1 1 and great success. I Vv 01 LI) BELOinCj TO LiS Norti Pacific Elands That Would Welcome Old Glory. Lesser Groups That Are SUagovcrsfa fcy tlic Spaniards—Constantly at War with Troops from Maaiia. It America decides to retain the Philippines, even temporarily, there ore three other lesser groups cf , islands in the North Pacific which | are misgoverned from Manila, whose 1 population will hail with joy the j eight of the stars and stripes dying oi'.ce more in their har bors and upon their shores. There are the Carolines, the Pelews and the Marianas or Eadrones. The Caroline archipelago is a vast cluster of fer tile islands, some high and moun tainous, some Icw-lvJsg sandy atolls, densely clothed wi A. cocoa palms, ex tending from the Peiew group in the west to Strong’s island in the east. : Spain has always claimed the sover i eignty of the group for the past three centuries, but lias never done any thing in the way cf colonization. From the year 1885 the Spaniards have had a bad time in the Carolines. The natives l ate them, ar.d many bloody engage ments have been fought in which the Spanish troops (Manila natives led by Spanish officers) have come off badly. One or more gunboats-were constantly cruising around Ponape (the largest island of the group) firing shells at the native villages, but only one shell in ten would explode. Whenever troops were sent into the interior the natixes would pick them off as long as their ammunition lasted, then they | would rush in on them with 18-inch butcher knives and make short work cf the survivors. Sometimes when the gunboats were passing under the high wooded bluffs of Jakcits harbor the natives would assail them by hurl ( :ng showers of stones upon their j decks, and a full head of steam was necessary to escape the onslaught. The native troops are continually de serting, taking their arms with them, and the Caroline islanders have many hundreds of Remingtons now in their | possession. As far as authority over | the natives goes, thi Spanish occupa tion of the Caroline islands is a farce. The Pelews and the Marianas are in the same condition, and their occupa tion by another power would be a blessing to the unfortunate, perse cuted inhabitants. In all three groups there are some splendid har bors, and if America holds onto noth ing else but Port San Luis d’Apra at Guam, and Lele harbor, in the Caro lines, she will secure two excellent naval stations. In the Carolines there, are, besides the fine harbors of Lele on Strong’s island and Jakoits in. j Ponape, many others in various parts !cf the group, such as Yak and Bub. j which would form excellent coaling stations. Lele and Coquille harbors j on Strong’s island (Kusale) were in | former years much visited by the ships of the American whaling fleet, and the i island itself is one of the richest and most fertile in the North Pacific. The old fort at SanLnisd’Apra,whoso garrison surrendered to the Chari-c --town, is a remnant of the old Spanish • half-fort half-castle style of erection j that is still to be met with- in the East | Indian archipelago. The walls arc cf | great thickness, but one six-inch shell I would lay the whole structure level j with the dust. In 1374 there were about 12 guns in position, come of ! ‘hem showing dates lCfifi, 1G72, etc., and the commandant, and liis garrison | of 40 soldiers were almost as antique. For more than a year he had received no letters or instructions from the then captain-general at Manila, and for two years no pay. In 1872 when the notorious Capt. “Bully” Hayes and his ! . 1 - • , piratical associate, Capt. Bc-n. Peese, tisiled Guam, the governor quarreled "'ith them and trained the guns cf tlie fort upon their brig. This so enraged Hayes that he wrote a letter to the governor, and threatened to send a boat’s crew ashore and pull the place down. The principal product of the place is copra (dried cocoanut), of which large quantities are still made, though since the Spanish occupation the output has materially decreased, Exclusive of the Spanish garrisons, there are not at the present time more than 50 other Europeans in the Caro lines; these are Englishmen. Amer > lean and German traders.—Pall Mai! Gazette. Scotch Railed Beef. Trim off the thin end of a large flank steak weighing as near three ! pounds as possible, and lightly score i ’he meat on both sides. Mix together half a teaspeonful of pepper, a scant lablespoonful of salt, a quarter of a tea spoonful of ground cloves, a table spoonful of sugar a teaspoonful of sum mer savory and three tablespoonfuls of vinegar Rub well into the meat, roil it up and fie with wide tapes. The next day lay the roll in a stew pan. partially cover with boiling water and simmer for three hours. Brown a heaped tablespoonful of dripping in a saucepan, add two tablespoonfuls of flour and brown again. Stir into this the water in which the meat is cooking and, when thickened and smooth, sea son to taste, pour over the meat and simmer an hour longer. Serve.hot or cold.—N. Y. Ledger. Cauliflower with Tomato Snnce. Boil or steam the cauliflower until tender. In another dish prepare a sauce with a pint of strained stewed tomatoes heated to boiling, thickened with a tablespoonful of flour rubbed smooth in a little water, and sailed to taste. When the cauliflower is ten der, dish, and pour over it Ihe hot rnato sauce. If preferred, a table spoonful of thick sweet cream may be added to the sauce before using.—Good Health. Compressed Floor. Much interest is taken by the army and navy authorities in a new method of preserving flour by means cf com pression. With hydraulic pressure ap paratus the flour is squeezed into the form of bricks, and experiments are reported to have shown that the* pres sure destroys all form cf larval life, thus preserving the flour from the rav ages of insects, while it is equally se cure from mold. Three hundred pounds of compressed flour occupy the same space nr, 100 pounds of flour in the ordii} ry state. —Philadelphia Press.