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THE (JUTE i \bfcll TIIK mi. A Itevy efa At Strawberry Hill, : Casa. in the old mining says, I had for a tentmate and partner a man named Kgbert Johnson. They say that opposite* attract It must have been so in this osae, for I wa* young and reckless while h* wa* past the middle age ana a quiet, conservative man. In those days few qneation* were aaked a* to where a nun hailed from or what h* hod previously been. We siezed him up for what he wa* then. I knew nothing ot Johnson except that he was a hard worker, even tempered, and ra- ther preferred solitude to company. He had three or four books among hi* baggage, aad those I learned after nis death, were work* too deep for the mind of the average miner lo grapple with. In a roundabout way I came lo under- stand that Johnson had queer idea* about death aad the future state, but he never discussed the matter openly. It was my own private belief that he was a little " off " in the head, and I aUo realized that I was not able to cope with his theories mentally. Although almost opposite iu our ideas, we got along first rate together and never had the (lighten approach to a quarrel. One Jane day my tentmate was killed by a premature blast, as many a miner bad been before. He wa* dead before any one reach ed him, bat we could all *e* how hi* death had bee* brought about. Next day wi KIRIBD n IK nnder the only tree on Strawberry Hill, s* our uamp bad beet) named, and in a week we had alaost ceased to remember him. No one knew whereto send his few tiaps and the lulls cash he had on hand, and the first were auctioned off and the second held for a claimant. John*** had been buried about four week* when the men who were working a claim at the edn of the hill on which his grave had been dog, accidentally eiplxlH several pounds of powder. N'o one ws* hart, bat a portion of the hill wa* torn away and the coffin unearthed and shattered. When we gathered around it we found It empty : I bad helped to lift the -lead man into it with my own hands, and I had nailed the covet down myself, but the body had disap- peared. There wasnt the slightest evidence that it had ever been put into the rough board coma. Where had it gone to T There were eighty four men of us in that camp, which ws* scores of mile* from civilization, and you oan imagine our wonder and con- sternation to find that body missing. We had the grave under our eyes, and no on* could say that it had been disturbed. It ws* no sue to speculate. There was the empty box, and no man could furnish a reasonable theory a* to where the body bad guae. The idea of body snatching was abaurd. There wa* no other camp wiihin twelve mile of as. Johnson had been dead twenty boar* when we buried him. We knocked of! work for the day and gathered in groups and talked it over, bat WHIN XIGHTiMVC the mystery wa* just a* deep or ever. Next day thirty mer packed up and left Straw berry Hist for new digging*. There wa* something so uncanny about the renrrection that no money ooald have hired them to re- main another night. I don't deny that those of us who remained fe't a bit nervou* aad uncomfortable, but we were doing fair ly well in our respective claims and were willing to n*k something by staying. We expected t*> ate Egbert Johuwn s ghoit talk abowt the caiap any night after that, bat, as night after night passed away and nothing occurred, we gradually cam* to drop the aibject aii>l feel more at our ease. It was, I believe, on the Hth of June that we buried Johnson. On the night of July Iti. close apon midnight, I suddenly awoke from a sound sleep. I was alone " in the tent, aid a* it wss a warm night the fiy at the door wa* tied back. Thi* permitted the full moon to light up the interior as bright a* day. I lay on my side, facing out and the tint object my eyes rested upon was the familiar form of Kgbert Johnson. H* sat on the box reading one of his books, and for a moment I f-irgot that he was dead and buried. He was dreesed in his working cloths*, as ou the day h* was killed, ana th* hand which held the book had en* tin ger wrapped np in a rag just a* I bad wrapped it three day* before hi* death to heal en t accidentally inflicted. I repeat that it wa* a full minute before it flashed upon me that Johnson ws* a dead man. and then 1 uttered a yell which aroused hall the amp and rolled or] my bunk and rushed out doors. la three or four minute* I hod thirty men around me making inquiries, but I wa* o upeet that 1 could only point to th* teat and whisper Johnson's name. The crowd waved forward and investigated. The man I *aw had disappeared, aad I was unmercifully guyed for having an attack of nightman*. I>id I *ee Johnson ' Was I really awake? I would have sworn to it a do/en times over, and yet not a man in th* camp believed my UUnient*. The adult reader won't ; only here snd there will any one be found to ad mit that it might possibly have been so. There ha* never been a doubt in my mind, however, and it will at least interest you to learn w hat happened nsxl day. We wtre dulling into Strawberry Hill again, and it was my turn at the heading. I was detain- ed riflc'-u minutes at the tent to sharpen tools, and a miner named Jackson took my place temporarily. He had not been at work live minutes when t.iere was a fall of rock and HC <S i-Kl 4IIXDTO I'KATII. Hi* fate would have been n me hail I been on time. Did Johnson come to warn me Some of the minors l>elir\ed >>, and some till declared that I had seen nothing, 1 was undecided, but leaned toward thu be- lief that his visit h.id something to do with my etcape. A month later, as soon a* I could do so without excitiiui ridicnlo, 1 left the diggings and went to IUM Kagle liulch, fifty awuy. There were about seventy men on the ground, and I was a stranger to nil. I staked out a claim, put up my lent, aud was soon a resident of Ihe liulch. One night about the middle of September, having gone to bed earlier than usual on account ot not feeling well, 1 was aroused at exactly half an hour after midnight l>y some one speak- ing my name. 1 say I heard * voice call me by name, but 1 can't offer you any proof. You will say 1 thought 1 iliil. as one who Is aroused cannot tell just what sound dis- turbed his slmnl-e'. I will l.-t il gout thai. The in*ts\nt I opened my eyes I saw Kgbert Johnson. In this case my l>;:ii' t.ic-.-d the door and the fly of th* tent was down. the interior ws* dark. Where the light cams from I shall not attempt to dia- cos* ; there was a light, however a light strong enough lo enable me to see the face and Dirun of my old teutmala. 1 saw him lost as plainly as I ever saw n living human , being, but only for a few seconds). Then he I faded away aad was gone, and though ter i ribly rattled I had not cried out. After a few minate*, when I could get | sora of my nerve back, I got up and dress- I ed aad walked oat. There was a light in , the tent next to mine on the right, bat all i others were dark. I walkeddown tothecreek, thirty rods away, and had just reached it 1 when there came s sudden flash and a ter- rtno report, aud I th night the whole dig- ging* had been blown skyward. It wa* a powder explosion iu the tent next to mine, where 1 had seen the light. Six tent* were swept away by that terrific blast, and four ! men were killed and i:x others more or lee* ; injured. Of the two men in the tent with the powder w found only fragments. It is my arm belief that Kgbert Johnson appear ed that night to warn n.e ol the danger i which menaced. You will smile in pity, even though at mid-night to-night THE MYSTEE101S TAPPIXi:. of A " death tick " in the wainscoting will j shake yoor nerve aad give you unpleasant T Vi.i * ma r L i runt raetatrrsBky laveke*] la skew Ike Besaaa Creature Bow w 4* Is. Mr. Edward Muybridge of the I'mvenity of Pennsylvania, whose study of animal locomotion and volume on that subject made him famous a tew years ago, ha* set himself to a new task. He believes that he i* on the right track towards the cu'uirurtion ol a working flying machine, and with the sup- port of such men as Kdison, Sir John Lub- bock, Von Helmholu, Sir W ilium Thomp on, and others, is prepared to push forward hi* investigation*. By these scientific men the flying machine, in it* perfected state, ha* long beeu regarded a* a certainty of tke future. But a flying machine to be perfect, these men and among them Kdison especially consider, must sail a swiftly a* a bird flies, and must answer to iu helm as easily and with a* much precision as doe* a shiy They hold that there is but one method of con- struet.on that will secure thi* result : that is to model the machine after the wings of a bird or of an insect. But they re- ccgnize the almost insurmountable difficulty of imitating a bird's wing, with it* numer- ous complicated revolution* and it* bun- thought*. I have no argument : your smite* I dred* of feathers, each of which pertorm* ' will not clear up the mystery ur illusion, or ' whatever you choose to call it. No one at the Gulch knew of my visitor, | and you may be sore 1 did not spread the I information. While I felt that in one sense ' my old tentmate had constituted himself I my protector, the idea ot being watched i over by a spirit took away my nerve and anally induced me to quit the country. I went to an eastern State and engaged in other business, and it wa* two years before I I saw Kgbert loho-on ag.ua. I was visit- 1 ing friends at a farmhouse in Ohio, and it I wa* summer time. I occupied a bedroom off the parlor, and the night of which I write wa* a .-lose and sultry one. This time ' I wa* more certain of the cause of my awak- ening. Aa ouuide blind m my bedroom window wa* swinging to and fro and giving forth a creaking sound. The curtain* was tip andtheaash blind move. raised, aad 1 could see the The evening had been without a breath of air, but now I felt the wind and wonder 1 ed if a storm was at hand. I hat) been awake at least rive minutes, when i SCPDKMLT saw (By old tentmale in the room. He stood facing me, hi* right hand resting on footboard of the bed, and he was dre the a certain function. They also recognize that. alt'iough as yet they have only a theoretical knowledge of the flight of insect*, an insect'* wing pre- sent* about the one thousandth pert of the difficulty of imitation in th bird's. For this reason scientist* feel that a knowledge of the aerial navigation of insects will be the greats** leap forward that has yet been made toward the proper construc- tion of the flying machine. They also feel that this knowledge can only be obtain*! through photography, aid that the only man who is capable of conducting th deli- cate and precise instantaneous exposures that the work will require i* a* ha* been evinced by this world renomed "Animal Locomotion," Mr. Muybridge, Mr. Muybridge who ha* recently returned from an extended K.uropean tour regMh with oouiderable approval the wisbe* of huscientific friend*, tie i* willingto under- take the project, which he calk a " a stndy of the aerial and terrestrial locomotion of insect*." and so stated last night, at hi* re- silience. " The knowledge that nn;ht b* gleaned from the .tudy of insect* I mean, ofcoune. from a study of their aerial locomotion," he a(B~sereasa n Winter. Amsterdam under frost is not lacking in pictureaqueaes*. How should that be when on* knows tliat there are about as many canals a* street* to the city T It ws* very diverting to see the little boy* and girl* skating lo school and colliding wttn aggre- ive butcher boys having neat tray sou their head*. The ro*y color of the cheeks of the Amsterdam young ladia* a* they, too. sped up and down the more (elect canals swept and furnished with chairs for their sweet service) also proved a feature of attraction I had hardly dared t* hope for. I grieve from the heart to add that, a* a rule, the chief charm uf these damsel* consisted in their youth and the dexterity with which they moved their feet These Utter might have been smaller, but they wen, no doubt, de- I signed not to put out of countenance the ir | regular no*e* and very large ears which seem a characteristic of Dutch maidens and Buu-h mairon alike. I imagine, however, that their hearts are built to the standard of their bodies, which ma} well atone for any external deficiency of homeliness. The famou* harbor of the capital was. of course, clogged " to the rimes." Looking over it* spacious waterway, whether toward the Xuy.ler Zee or Xaandani. the prevalent stillness of the big steamers which studded it was very remarkable. Seme of them snorted now and then, a* if to proclaim their disgust with the frost, bat it wu futile re- bellion. The icy wind ws* adding decimal* of an inch to the thickness of the harbor's jacket every minute. It soon strung my mustache with icicle* when I essayed to speed toward Zaandam. that celebrated vil- lage where Peter the Great put on the mas- querade of a mechanic. It brought tears into the eye* to skate against the w ind in the direction of Zaan- dam ; and though the distance i* but seven mile*, an hour was none too much for iu The low banks of the river were simply no pro- tection. It* regiment* ot windmill* might, had they oevn amaased, had served a* a tine, if limited, stockade. But set along the reedy shores one by one, like sentinels, they were only haunting irrita' ions. The Out of Sorts Describes ; 1~ Ung preuuar to nstinssi o( 4yv peptic tendency, or fiie4 by .banco a rltoaate. won or life. The stcaiaafe t* ool at order. UK head ache- or does oat (eel right, The Nerves "m strained to tlMir utmost, the minil { eontsBe>'. sad irritable. Tim coauiUon And u excellent eon-rein-- in Hjod'i Samps; nil*. mch. by IU resulabaf ml tunas; powers toon Restores Harmony to the _ ystem. and gives IhatatreagUi of mind. nerve*, and tx>dy, which makes one tet-i well Hood's Sarsaparilla Sold by an drnnpn*. |l . ,.x (or (3. rwpir.-.i ,nlj bj C. 1. HUOU A CO . ApoUiFcane*. Lowell. Mai IOO Doses One Dollar ! a Wemlerm t asa*v A horrible discovery had beD mad* in ihi mountains of Sooth Dakota, about ten mile* from the border, which indicate* that a party of loit people have been driven to the dire extremity of feeding upon each other In a deep canon, where the camp wasahel tered from the >u>rm, there were fonskd the remain* of a camp, and at the tire, in the ashes, were several bone* and piece* of a hu- man b-_ dy which had been oooked anil partly eaten. There had evidently been five or six in the party ami three of them had been killed to furnish food for the olhfs. for there were throe) skulls found. sn.1 from iheir sue it a evident that all of them wore thu* of women or children, fur they were much (mailer than the skull of a man. The bone* of the leg! and arm* were found, and to one leg bone there was (till a quantity of cooked tiesh hanging. The survivor* had evidently whirl of their sails seemed to get at the 'got some other meat ami lelt the uudevour- bram by way of the salt wind, and to make ed part of the la*t victim in the fire, with the tnteition of burning it up, out the lire was put out by a itwm and discovery thus one'* idea* and thought* whirl in sympathy. { the same a* when I last saw him. If all the world was to ttll * that I was asleep. oi that 1 didn't actually see him, it would nuke no difference to me. I kaow that he ' stood there looking at me, every feature a* lifelike a* the day before he was killed, and j so why should I jrgue the case ? For one long minute I looked full into hi* face, say- J to myself that be must be a living man. I wa* not unnei ved. and should have spoken isad ! said, "would be of incalculable value to the m:uiv renowned gentlemen who now are dc\nti.,< liieir attention to the dying ma- c k iue. that I am right in this assertion baa been attested by even scientist wit'i whom I have conversed. Edison ha* told m* that he firmly believes a perfect Hying machine some nay will be invented, and that he also believes the wing of a fly i* the model upon which that machine will be con- structed. Lubbock and Helmholtz and Brahma* laMeare ! laeUa The last common characteristic lo be not- iced by the traveller among the Indian* i* their subjection to Brahman influence. The people of India may speak different language*, they may belong tn different race*, thev may even have different forms of religion, but all. except the Mohammedan* Me. It i* believed the party originally consul ed of two men. twe women, snd a bov, and that they passed through thu place last fall on 'heir way to the \\>t. If such was tae oa*e the men have sacrificed their compan- ions in the attempt at nelf-preservation sod are now alive. It is understood that the authorities of South Dakota will make Langiey of Johns Honk. in University. Ray Lankester, and Sir William Thompson a group of name* that are probably the most renowned m the scientific circles of to-day hsreMr. Kdison 's opinion, and unite with to him had he not suddenly disappeared. \\ hat followed wa* recorded in the news- papers. I got out of bed, pulled on my trousers, and went into the parlor and look ed oat of a west window facing the road. I r had just made out that a black thunder | him in urging me to make a study of Ihe j cloud covered the tky when there casne a locomotion of mascta apon the same system j blinding dash, aad I fell to the floor. Half I adopted in my Animal Locomotion." an hour later, when I had been revived, I | "I have already elucidated to the world learned what had occurred. A thunderbolt the bird'* flight, and shown how complicat had struck a ring staff en tae roof, run ed a matter it is. Now an inaect, it i* well ' down the cornice to an iroa belt, and then known, oan fly falter than a bird, although glancing off had penetiaN-d into the bed- the manner of it* flight ia not known, but room. Picture* were r!un< down, vases merely guessed at. \etgueseesarenotal- dashed to pieces, and the <|uilts on the bed | ways to very inaccurate, and we are pretty j hadbeen tired. Kvery one of the family ; certain already of one moot important fact, had been shocked, but I got the Heaviest | which U, that in an insect's flight there is I dose, anil did not fully recover from it for ' no lost motion. The action of a bird's I six month*. Did Egbert Johnson conSe to ' wings, ou the other hand, may be compared warn m* of my danger T You smile again, ' to a man rowing a boat: he of course, in his i bat we will not argue. | recovery from every stroke loses an immense You remember the awful railroad disaster amount of muton, and so does a bird in it* at Ashtabula, O. I shonld have been a ! recovery from the downward flap of its pa*senger on that train but for a singular | wing. The fly's wing, however, presents a occurrence. I sat iu a depot only a few perfectly plain surface, and, in it* upward mile* from Ashtabula, trunk checked aid as well as it* downward vibrations, assuU ticket bought aud waiting for that fain, in the work oi propulsion: th* fly's wing, There were eight or ten of us in the waiting acliou may thus be c mipnrud to that of a I room Opposite me, on the other side of . man sculling a boat: there, also, no useless ' "German i Syrup A Cough and Croup Medicine. the room, were two women and a The women were converting and the man " Now." continued Mr. Muybridge, the reading a newspaper. From his appearance advantage of modelling a machine after a ng th.it in its action lose* not one iota of , motion, rather thin after a wing half of 1 took him fora commercial traveller. One reason why 1 came to lo->k him over j was because I happened to notice that he whose exertion is a dead loss, can very casi- had lot two linger* from Ins left hand. I l y be seen. But this is uot the only ad van - They were the seoond and third fingers. [ u,,,. .\ fly's wing is bat a flat surface, and and I wondered how he could have injured | it* action, so far as is known, is in but two them without injuring either the fore or th* | direction*, upward and downward. Bat i little linger. The second finger II M> rtra.1 M:M T IIKH at the first joint, snd the thiid bird's wing, \waide* being covered with a myriad of feathers, each of which, as 1 said ha* it* own particular function, in its and Sikhs, who in, W.I arenm uninfluenced, 'searching investigation and see if they can seem lo have admitted the supremacy of the ^nd out the survivor* of the terrible deed. Brahman*. Why did that man bow to ^^""^* - ^ *^ you in that way?" 1 asked an Indian lawyer with whom I wa* walking at Allahabad, a* a stranger prostrated himself bsfore him. ' He sees I am a Brahman, " wa* the answer. " Why ha* this fin* room been built." we aaked in Bombay, a* amid some squalid huts we found a good stone bmldii.g. "It u," we were told. " that one hundred Brahman* may be daily fed." " Why are ihere many idler* abuut Benares *" is thei|ueeti< every one aaksand the ao*wer is. They i are Brahman* who are fed l>y the pilgrim*: " { and when enqume* go more deeply, and it ; is asked, " Why dos education not reach ' the msssiu ?" " Why are superstition* so 1 stros)g?" those who know moat reply that I it i* because the Brahman* are afraid lest education should deetroy their influence. The je-.-ret of the Brahman * power it is difficult to discover. In ea: ly days they . were at once the teacher* and the noblos of j the race, created, it is said, from the hea-l ; of liod, while soldier* and workers were i created from hw hands and i -tsi. A* teach r in other land*, they became more eager for ritual than for truth, as other noble* in oth*r laces and. more concern ed for rights lhaa for dune*. They enforc- ed, therefore in the name of religion, that ritual which gave tiiemaelvea the foremost place, and they more and more adapted the ritual to the taste* of the people. Their own being the highest caste, and men being lovers of inequality, caste ha* received re- ligiou* sanction, and it is an offense against liod Ic take even a cup of cold water from the hand ef one of a lower cast*. I'rvasioii being *trun^, marriage is made for every man a religion* duty, and wo* to the father whose daughter is at marriageable age tnd i* not mart led. " I shall t" to hell," said to me one father, using a term which he thought wjuld lie familiar to my mind. " il 'my daughter is not married before she is 14. {Nineteenth Century. 1 V" ' ' '*>" *" f "' H""' "- ** < ! *.?.? c . k ,:?* . i ^lT t ::_f h ^r imeJ V '*** .-,pi:c.ti < ,My imi- odd thing, too, and having nothing to do I but wait 1 -peculated over it. While the nwn was prrhaps sixteen feet away from I me, h* sat so that the light fell full n i him. sud 1 could notice every lui I face and every detail of hi* drees. The train was due in seven minute*, as I , ,, m . I saw liy glancing at th* clock, when the I stranger with the newspaper suddenly van- ished, and in his place, hi* hand* empty and reeling on bin knee*, sat Kgbert John- | sou. He was looking full at me, and for a few seconds 1 had 1:0 mole doubt that he For children >. medi- cine should be abso- lutely reliable. A mother must be able to pin her faith to it as to her Bible. It must contain nothing violent, uncertain, or ddngerou*. It must be standard in material and manufacture. It most be plain and simple to admin- ister; easy and pleasant to take. The child must like it. It must be prompt in action, giving immedi- ate relief, as - children^' {roubles come quick, grow fast, and end fatally or otherwise in a very short time. It must not only relieve quick but bring them aroiuid quick, as children chafe and fret aad spoil their constirutions under long con- finement. It must do iu work in moderate Joaes. A large quantity of medicine in a child is not desira- ble. It must not interfere with the child's spirits, appetite or general health. These things suit old as well as young folks, and make Bo- schee's German Syrap the favorite family wa* alive than I had of my own identity. Not to (trenglhen my case, but to add to the mystery a bit further, I will relate lliat a* 1 sat there looking at my old partner, I who had been Iniriid > ear* before ou St raw- berry Hill, both woin -n turi:pil iu a startled way and then moved along a litt'e. V on will lay in this case, a* in :vll others, that 1 did not see what I believe 1 saw. I have no prcofs to offer that I did : you have none IK offer that I did nut. 1 sat light After th* perfect living machine ha* been constructed," he continue- 1, " the question ' "P*" 1 rvmain* as to the sort of power with wliuh ' * I to run it. This, however, i* a question thai call beoatily solved, electricity, the gas en .. or a dynamite engine working on the le principle .n* the gas engine, all being irotae power* that could be readily utilized. Mr. ^'uybndge concluded with the state- ment that while he would gladly, undertake the demonstration of the insects flight that ha* been suggested to him. He could not un.ltrtake it upon his own responsibility Ho intimated, however, that in a short lime the scheme would be takrn up either by some young university that encourage* original research or l>y some weaKhy indi- vidual. UenlUa la Aaalralla. A few years ago Matthew Arnold, writ ing to me on the subject of th* future of I . . a I V 1 * " "wj-x* we i nia tuiuiO U* there willi my eyes hxe.l n p.* Johnson education in Australia, prophesied that the while the tram thundered up, took on the rich class would nd their children to Kng- i other )>*< ugei s, and w<nt rs way to i:-ect a teml'lo fate. Win .1 tin- uinililc of the trucks ha:l died awny in the distance Kgbert Johnson faded cut of the exi.tenee as a June fog vanishes before the summer un and 1 wa* all alone in i In roam. Will become agnin * And when ami where? * l!eiM ' -mer. " You >!"i.'t mean lo sav yoa call ihii lia\oi-U-*s stuff oxtail soup, waiter'" Waiter Yes sir ' lieiit.m u> - Then take out and let the ox dip hu tail in it two or tlitee more times '" " l>" y 'U l-clicve m a third puty ""asked old l>innnick, (referring to the political situation,) of Ins dwg'.tcr'i tvin, as all three KAt in the pallor. "Well,' r. . the you::.; in. in, :i-i!.i'. n->l called to iii- cusa pulilic*. ' 1 wo'iMn'i hi\e though' of , yo'i 10 ri-li'e: I' 1 !' -i:i c \ou mention it, M. IMminicU, I will sy that it in the gen- eral belief il: l lv, j or* company." land. Nothing of th* sort is happening. I The first generation, from which he pro- bably argued, has tet no abiding fashion, r'euerainl fewer rich Australians will be found at Klou aud Rugby, and Oxford and famhridge. A batt.h of travelling scholar j ships may enable a few university pet* to I realite (or not) something of what Kutupenn ' culture has to teach them. But the average ' temper of Australians more aad more shows itself either ignorantly indifferently or hos- tile to the outer world. The well-to-do " Australian native " is beginning to get touchy about hi* nationality and to reoent importations ' twin "foreign" laud* while the rich people have not the wit* to see the difference between a good education and a bail. Ten years ago the Old Country, or Home. Now tt is "home," or more aar- easttoally. " 'ome. " Th* invertM comma* m.tks all th* difference, and the dropped " h contain* a, dec* contempt. t Travel* r . j.i. !. Sunmierside, P. K. 1.. Oct. 10, H nintf used St. Jacobs Oil for a badly sprained knee. I can testify to its pecularily curative properties, as lea* than on* bottle completely oured the sprain." (<eoK<:K tiREi i.. Traveler for J. C. Ayer4Co. "That wa.|nite a little joke of mine," ho said with enthusiasm just after h* had exerted himself with a bon mot. "Ihd you e* it "" '* Oh, ye*. ' she answered wearily, 1 saw it last week in the paper.' For welding wrought iron a < -ennui chemist proposes a powder consisliug of M percent. <>f Wax and'JR percent, nech ot sal ammoniac anil water. This mint ure is boiled, heiii at the <uune t inie .ontmuously stirred until il is reduced to a stur nuss. whi.'h in then held over a fire uiitil it be come* hard. When cold the mixture is well pulverized and assimilated with one- third part of rust-free wrought iron tilings The pieces to be welded are tint dovetailed, or otherwise connected : the welding parts are then heated to redneea. and the powder strewn over them and allowed to liquefy over the fire. Only very light blow* are needed to make a perfect conjunction of the pi. Ta<- leaden aa*l >rtfcw<-l,-ri Ballreae] [7.e following item* of information show at a glance the jtreat magnitude ol lhi*cum mervial undertaking. I'apr il. t'l"l."UU. "<n> : revenue per annum, i I I . VSU.IX U ; ex peuditurc. per annum. t'li.'.'-N.iHIO ; number of penons employe.! by company, lio.nn 1 . nuinberofpnoa>eiiiployed:nlocoaio(ivede paitnisnt. I*. 001) : miles opeiaU-d ou, -'.7" : 'engines owned, 2,920. carriages owned, , tl.UOO : wagon* owned, VT.OOO ; carls, I.Xi; . i horse*, .1..VN) ; steam!iiDS, 'Ji : passenger* I carried annu.xlly. iJ.XOUO.iW : weight of | tickets issued annually, "' tons : tons of {goods aud minerals carried annual!- 500,1100 ; number of stations. SOO : s^ml cabins. I. "xtl ; signal levers in use. .'!-'. i . signal lamp* lighted every night, i .' value of work doiio a: I'rewe for \.irtuni> i dep.rtmant!. I'S.'-'.itKi : n.Kc.i^e per .\n- num, 6I.4I7.4. 1 *;! : fuel consumed. I , I J'1.8 1 -' ; tons ; water used. * . J'f! HHifns : number f special tiain run pesseiHTv "<.' W : goods. I.VVXV Q-ewe provide* for the whole line. All the lv 1 " 1 ii'en m the locomotn.- <l<-|>art- ment re under the locomotive Miperin- tendcut : of then* about IO.OUU at> driven. firemen, cleaners, and mech.ni, s .it tin vari- ous stesm sheds cu the line. W S I WITHOUT AN EQUAL. TJACOBSOII cu " es 4J*r*~ ^ J | RHEUMATISM. V| NEURALGIA. LUMBAGO, SCIATICA, Sprains, Bruises, Bums, Swellings. THE CHARLES A. VOCEUER COMPANY, Baltimore, Md. Canadian Depot: TORONTO, OUT.