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 A Miner's Eloquent Prayer- At a rectnt: mfetinjs of ite iisdenis of Poca'iontas Va the sceue o£ the t«-rntle mine ds taster, Pster S nith, whoae brother wa3 a victiai, tsk^d perml'sioa to pt^yi which beiog accomed he artsi, and dtffiag his bat, made a toachinK appeal. Tne men ontside the bailding also sxod uncovered and, with the ram b(a:iug on their heads, 1 st*ned while the rough miner prayed. God Almighty, we ask that yon will give us some comfort in this hour of afflic- tion. We priyyou to let us have back the bodies of our poor ralativo and not to re- fuse Ds the chance of burying them, Lord God Almighty, put out the fires aad help us so that we can give back the bodies to that earth 'rjm which we came. Help us, 80 our action tc-night may be wise and that we may not be reckless or do things which the law don't allow, O Graat God, let your pity come to the s j here poor widows and children who have no man to get them I raad. Lat this great and rich country give a few dollars, so tta' we will not see them ttatv- ing; pray, God, don't let them go down un- der iheir 1 roubles. If some poor fellow down below is yet alive, God, kill him quick or show rs how to help him. In the name of a merciful Jesus we beseech you to show pity on th;'s town and help us bear the burden you have given us to bear. God help us and teach us to live our life so we die in peace when our time comes to die. If, as some siy, the dead go to purgatory, then we pray you be merciful to our dead. Let their agony in this deadly mine help to square their ac30unt. God help and com- fort all in Pocahontas, fur the sweet sike of Jesus Christ. Amen. During the invocation the crying of the women, at first almost inaudible, rose in unison, until the volume nearly drowned the speaker's voice. As he sat down tears were flowing fromevejy eye, and great con- fusion prevailed, as several of the women completely lost self-control. The "keen- ing" of the Irish women mingled with the frenzied lamentation of the colored women. The scene was distressing in the extreme to the few stranijfra who witneisid it. m â€" m A Chinese Notion. The Chinese, so faraacan be learned from history, are the oldest nation on the earth. They era, to ts of extreme modern ideas, a strange people, and some of thrir ways and fancit s are not to be explained. The mcs' piinstaking gchclor-j and antiquarians ap- pear to have failed, in many pr;icular3, to d-'s30ver the motives that actuate the indi- viduals of this jrahistcrlc race. Yet, doubt- less, ttie ceremonies that we see them going through in mining camps on the Pacific cobs' are all, to them, as full of meaaing as the rites of modern raligion are to the be- lievers in Chrstianity. Tne Chinese, in some respects, are not unlike the army of the erchodox in the church militant, who believe ina p.r-'onal life of the present hu- man frame m the woili beyond. The Chi- nese custom of decapitating their enemies slain in the war is explained by the s'ate- ment that they believe that the appearance of ape) son m the spirit wcrld without a head is prima-facie evidence of having com- mitted some crime, and panishment is awarded accordingly. Hence, the horrible mutilation which tookplaL^ on the evacua- tion of Shanghai by the Ta pings, when the imperial cffioei s gave orders for the decapi- tation of eveay rebel body; and even tne coffios containing the remans of prominent rebel leadeis were broken op^n and dis- honored to ins u-; their punishment hereaf- ter Hence, a'si, the aLxiety displayed by the frieno's of officers who lest their heais during the rebeiiion to recover them and stitch them on to the bodies again, rs much as £l'.Vo having been piid by the cffi^jers of The inp irial army for the head of a friend. â€" Eureka (Sev.) Senth-e' Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada. Tne annual mesting of mis company was held on the l,3:h. ol March. The statements there submitted and the report of the pro- ceedings cannot but be very gr;\tifying to all the friends of the company. The Sun was incorporated in 1S65, but cnly issued its lirst policy in May, 1S7L Its progress since then, both in siza and solidity, ba^ been bteady and satisfactory on the list of the ten CLinadian Life Gompinies it now stands third. In 1S71 it received life applications for S400.000 In 1S74 for §600, GO J In 1878 for SI, GOO. COO and in 1SS3 for over §2.300,- 000. In 1871 the amount of life assurance in force was .$400 000 in 1874, §1,700 000 in 1S7S. §3.300,000; and in 1883, nearly 87,000,000. Its annual income is now nearly §300 000, or nearly §1,C00 for every working day in tihe year. Its resources amount to nearly §1,200,000. As was pointed out at the aonual meeting, if the same rate of progress is kept up dur- ing the next ten years as has prevailed in the past the income will tnen sraount to Irom one and a quarter to one and a half millions and the assets to about four mil- lions. This prospect is by no means a vis- ionary one. Toe Company has reached the stage at which it can hardly fail to make rapid progress. There is a grand future opening out before it, and the offiaers can hope to see the day when it will rack as one o:' the largest and most powerful financial institutions in the country. A perusal of the accounts will show how strong and pros- perous its condition is. It will be seen that the amount of new life business, the amount of new accident business, the assurances in force, both life and accident, the inoome and the assets, are all larger than in any pre- ceding year in the Company's history. â€" Insurance Society, Montreal, Humors of the London Strand. At any time the humors of the Strand about eleven o'clock at night are well worthy of study, though the observer most need be serenely indiiter««nt to his nonay, aad of oourse his life. He must be careless of his watch, afiect a supreme disregard for the regiment of touts, and be ready to embrace a norae as if he were living with the Honyhn- hums. For excitement a char g a of Ostnaa's Aral 8 is nothing to it. The investment of a shiUirg may further procure him much pleisare. He may bay a printed photograph of any of the reigning beauties for a penny, find a wife for another, a choicely painted match-box, or a gay button- hole, on the same terms. Bat there is no ead to the prospect. These attractions were enhanced last night, when news gentlemen anxious to earn an honest oopp«r were crying out " Resignation of Mr. Gladstone " and illam- inatisg their text with lights of all colors from "the psany box oi dynamite," the latest plaything of the street, which will foster a g)dd, healthy tone in the breasts of our street Arabs, dynamitards in embryo. In fact, it is lively in the Strand at 11 p.m. â€"Pall Mall Gazitte. jjfoiSnMC THE "RUSTLER" OF THE LEYAST How the Monrmourtsmenl Takes, In Smyrna, tlie place of the Xex*n Cowbey. Everyone who has lived any Wg'ih ef time at Smyrna knows tka; an.oi g ooe Greek p palation of the town there s a class of luffians, heroes of the knife, who g by the name of " moarmcurismeni." They may be compursd with the de*paradoes of Califor- nia and Texas in everytiarg save in courage. Tm 83 parsons enjoy the admiration of the society to which they belong swagger and bluster, with the rtpatation of having mur- dered a certain number of their itlljw- creatures, compesa their stock in trade. Taey extort money by threats of ssjassina- tion, and some of them have risen so high in the world as to keep brilliant saloons and caft-chantantx on thts aristocratic quay. Two of these swelli were pointed out to me as having sx»red respectively fifteen and twenty murders When a Mourmourismenos dies, or gjt killed in a drunken brawl, he is buried wito more pomp than if he were a public benefactor. The immunity from pmisument shich the S3 worthies enjoy is due to the fact that each of them hts a certain number of protectors among the uppar clifs of La- vaacine society. When uo is in want of money, or gets iato troutla with the police, he applies to Tchelebi Dick or Tcnelebi Tom, nis patrons, who ara ever ready to help him with their purses or their infl uenee. The familiarity suts's";uig between the Smyrna rough and membiri of the uppir cLsaes is a symptom of the unhealthy moral couiition into which the Levantine society of that town, for many ganeratioos virtually deprived of intercourse with the civil zad world, has gradually drifted. The patrons of the Mourmourismenos are generally to be found among the "young men about town," the local jeunesse doree, by whom it is con- sidered a legitimate object of ambition to be on good terms with some well-known cut- throat. Among his own class the latter is aa object of respect and veneration, so that it is no matter of surprise if he generally manages to defy the police. Nor is it to be disbelieved that in a society where the pro- fessional assassin finds such ettectual en- couragement and support, the Greek brigand has no difSaulty in obtaining secret informa- tion and assistance in time of need. â€" Levant Herald. Brutal Soldiers in Tonquin. More disagreeable to notice than this un- wholesome tippling is the conduct of the soldiers towards the townspeople. The Anamese have regained sufficient confidence to come back to their houses, or to come back and build new houses where the old ones have been swept away, but 't'^y have no love for their conquerors. I* is no great wonder. Tkn first thing ono sees in one of the comparatively nariow cross streets is a huge Turco swaggering down the middle of the way, twirling a vicious-looking stick. The women scuttle indoors the men squeeza themsalves as near the walls as they c«n the children salaam reverential 'y, and can hardly get out the usual "Bon jour, capitaine" fer terror. A little further on we come upon a coujla of marine fusUeers, one of whom takes umbrage at the animat- ed tone in which an old woman is conducting a bargain. With a kick of the foot he scatters her tray and little pile of cash over length and breadth of the street, and his companions laugh boisterously at the poor creatuie's misery. Even the officers, as they stroll along, relieve their ennui by playful cuts of the cane on the buttocks of passers- by. The Anamese is a cringirg, pitiful creature at the best of times, but he has still a little Si If-respect, and he scowls as much as he dares under such treatment. It is not wonderfi-1, therefi rj, that when he finds a solitary E.iropean he jDceeds to wreak his venguiiue up m him aud wipes out a store of l)ng pan;upgrieveanceg. TheTonquinese is a veiy diffrfreut maa from the timid in- habitant of Cochin China, and it will re- quire many years and a strong m 1 ary oc- cupation before the country is brougitto anything like a paaceable state. The Suicide of Scorpions. In the volume published last year, the title of which is the "Lion and the San," by Dr. Willis, for fifteen years medical officer in Persia under the Overland Tele- gripb company, is the following narrative " A story was told me by the late Dc. Faver- gren, a S«rede in Persian employ, who had been tw.^nty-fave years in Shiraz, to the eS'ect that scorpions, when they see no chance of escape, commit suicide and he told me that when one was surrounded by a circle of live coals, it ran round three times, and then stung itself to death. I did not credit this, supposing that the insect was probably scorched, and so died, I hap- pened one day to catch an enormous scor- pion of the black variety. In Persia there are only two kinds â€" black, and light green, or greenish yellow the black variety being supposed to be much the more venomous. The full-grown scorpions generally are from two to three inches long I have seen one five inches when extended from the tip of the claws to the sting, but he was pheno- menal. The one I caught was very large, and to try the accuracy of what I supposed to be a popular superstition I prepared in my courtyard a circle of live charcoal a yard in diameter. I cooled the bricks with water so that the scorpion could not be scorched, and tilted him from the finger-glass in which he was imprisoned unhurt, into the centre of the open space he ran rapidly round the circle three times, cams back to the centre, tarnad up his tail (where the sting is) and deliberately by three blows stabbed or stung himself in the head he was dead in an instant. Of this curious scene I was an eye-witness, and I have seen it rapeated by a friend in exactly the same way since, on my telling the thing, and with exactly the same result. Fur the trath of this statement I am prepared to vooch.' What the preceding carious experiment lacks by way of evidence one may well be at a loss to an iwer. The mental condition of the lower creation have within them several ca|ioas problems yet unsolved beyond those so nicel/ settled for us in modern pliloso- phy. A Marathon amatear who wrots to the manager of the Madison Square Theatra to know if thera was an opening on the stage therjftr a yoong actor, received a ripply that there were saveral openings in the staite there, and if he wooid come on he would drop him throngh one of them with plsasnre. POPULAR CRAZES. some or the Cnrtoiui Ideas of Inv«Ud»- Dnnklng CaUs Blood •â-  a Cure for Consumptionâ€" THo Mod- Batbs, Sand BatbB.and Bine-Giasa Cores. "'Pcpalar crazes.' did you ask abotit, ' Wistheacs^erof a well-known physiolsii made to a qutstion propoanded by a leie ammr*prter. yesttroay. •There are maay Kinds of peculiar crazes, and simeofthe methocs paople take to keep free from du- esse, cr rather try to, are simply absura. Take, for instance, the man who goes the year round with a pair of saa-bej.u8 tied about his neck, as a preventive to diseas s of a contagious nature,. Some wear beats some com. some horse-ohestnuts. aad st.ll others a plain piece of ribbon, all of which are more cases of suparstiiion. There ar« many who, when safiferbg from a cold, will wrap a wet sock, which they have worn during the day. about their necks, and re- tire for the night. Otheis wear a dry sock, and still othets a piece of cloth stturated with 1 amp- oil. In the country it is a s cand- ard remedy to wear a piece of salt pork about one's neck when suifering from a sore throat. This, by the way, is a good reme- dy. Some mhale the smoke from burniDg cherry wood, and others the smoke from oak chips in an open fire-place, 1.8 a cure for a cold in the head and nostrils. There are a great many persons who believe that when one gets thorough drenching with rain, or receives wet feet, that they should not has- ten to their homes and put on dry clothes, but instead they should let the wet clothing dry upon them, as by so doing they believe they will never take cold. " The 'hot wa'er cure' which a jiounts to a craze in poiats inythe east, where no break- fast is considered dpmplete without the ad- dition of a cup of hos water, to 'rinse and stimulate the stomach,' is the Utest of along list of odd cures It is believed by a great many that to take a driok of this kind be- fore each meal, or even a single drink on arfsng each morning, will cure the worst possible case of dysp°piia. Speaking of odd cures and fashions, a few of them may be recounted. Less than ten years agj, a Parisian physician of some note prescribed for a patient suffaring from a pilmonary complaint a cup of iresh calf's blood after breakfast, another at noon, and one just be- fore supper. The queer remedy proved efficacious The patient improved under it rapidly, and finally became a well and hearty p?rs n. A statement of the case was read by the mercurial, excitable, and curios ity-loving Parisians, and started • lucereat in the blood-cure that in a very short tiine spread among all claajes and became a ve-ri- Uble craze. Every persOQ in any way troubled with weak lungs became a convert. The slaugater-hons 8 la the suburbs of Paris were thronged every morning with crowds made up oi all ranks, who actually fought to procure blood of the dying ani- maid. Tnere were delicate women and men, old and young, who came,some in their carriages, attended by their s rvants, and some who feebly crept along alone. The most delicately organized persons and the coarsest were on a common level, and it ap- pears that the uninvitiDg-looking fluid was sarved impartially by brawny-hauded butch- ers. The g-eat majority manifested no re- pngnaace u drinking the fluid, and with a great many a taste for it was developad that ran into a craving. It acted much like rum oa many, and even fowli were killed by some wbo were unable to get blood at the slaugher-housas. The demand was great, and at some places the blood was sold at high prices, each slaughter-house haviog a large run of customers, who would reach the 'pen' where the killing was going on as early as 5 a.m. Meanwhile a hot discarskn went on in medical circie-a over the merits of the cure. Many celebrated physicians were dragged into argument, and were ta- ken to see cured patients. The burden of professional opinion was against the cure, pronouncing it nonsecs'cal and ptositively in- jurious rather than helpful. This craze reached its limit in a few weeks, to the grief of the butchers, who had reaped a golden harvest. " The mud found at a certain spa in Ger- many, a few years ago. was discovered to p- sees 3 remarkable medical properties. It was intensely black, pasty, thick, odorifer- ous mud, but thousands of persons hasten- ed from all parts of Europe to bathe in it. To bathe in it was simply to be buried in it for an hour or two, and then to spend sever- al hours in a tub of water to get rid of the reminiscence. The bath is described as be- ing pleaeaat, and its curative effacts, in cases of rheumatism, gout, and other dis- eases, are well attested. The mud was ana- lyzed, and was fotmd to possess active pro- perties, magnetic and chemical. The mud haths have had their day, and are now vis- ited by only a few travelling invalids, whom the remedy does not frighten. Similar to the mud bath is the sand bath, of which Joaquin Miller relates a tragic story. A party of explorers were crossing the sandy deserts, carrying six of their comrades, ill of a peculiar disease. The sand bath was pro- posed to them. They all assented, and were buried in the sand, their heads alone being above ground. In this position they were left, chatting with each other, their com- rades having retired for the night in a tent close by, and not the least noise was heard, la the morning they were horrified to find that wolves had visited the camp, and eaten off each sick man's head level with the ground. "The blue-glass cure is too fresh in the pnbhc mind to need more than passing men- tion. Of the thousands and hundreds of thousaads of early believers that the health- giving and strengthening principles of the sunlight might be largely increased by pass- ing rats through blue glass, .there are thoue- ands yet remaining. " Tke sun-bath cure, the fish-oil Cure for consunption the bimple diet cure for all kinds of ailments the celery cure for ner- vousness, and many others were the begin ning, more or less, of a craze. The best principle of each is now included in every wise physician's array of remedies. There have been cures for corpulence that found armies of followers, as was attested in By- ron' time, when every man who laid claim to be considered a man of fashion was thin and pale, in marked contrast to the well- rounded, comfortable-looking,modem young " Providence Telegram, PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. About the Qoeenâ€"DeLesseps -Emperor WnUamâ€" President Geeryâ€" Priuee Bismarckâ€" and otlier Great, People. Lord Lrno is going to make an atteo^pt to introduce the whitefi*h of the C inadian lakes into »everal rivers and lochd in the west of Scotlan I. Qaeen Victoria has developed qaite a pae- siou for letter writing;. Ooe of her latest fpistolwy achievements takes the form of Condolence with the Khedive of Egypt on tae lojs of hid mother. Lord Bute will give a priza of £500 for the best setting of music to the "Alceti8"_of Euripides. Lord Bute has also offered £50, through the National Eistflddfod CJonimittee, for its translation into Welsh. Mr. Matthew Arnold does not seem to have profited by his elocation lessons in the United States. On the occasion of his first lecture in England, after his return home, we learn from the London Truth that when- ever he wished "to be particularly impress- ive he was perfectly inaudible." DeLssseps b a devoted horseman, and may he seen daily golloping through the Bois de Boulogne with his eight children by his sec- ond marriage, boys and girls, mounted on ponies, in national costumec, their hair streaming on the wind, their large collars turned over their shoulders, and their caps Hanging over their backs â€" a little tribe, with thick dark hair and comp'exions, round their white-haired chief, Dr. Gibbons in the Pacific Medical and Surgical Journal cites a case of hypochon- dria in which a farmer imagined his nose to be a bundle of hay. He took great care not to go near a horse or cow lest his hay nose should be destroyed. Men are more likely than women, says the Doctor, to have hy ponchondria, though women have hysteria oftener than men. The diseases are close ly allied in their origin and nature. Prof. Clelland of Glasgow University said in a re.ient lecture en terminal forms of life that man was "a terminus," anatomical evi- dence showed he had reached the limit of development in vertebrate life. Hence it was in the Isst degree improbable that in the future there would be a progression in the construction of the human body that would give birth to greater intelligence than was possessed by the sages of antiquity. •Among the presents received by the Em- peror William on his birthday was a superb nervice of Sevres porcelain bearing the in- scription "Fi^m France." As the gift was anonymous, there has been a good deal of speculation as to tVe source from which it has emanated. Meanwhile, it is affirmed that the German Eropercr has been greatly touched by it, and that he never wearied of showing this particular present ly the visi- tors who called to offer their congratulations on his natal day. The College of Cardina's now includes the greatest genius and first divine among Eng- lish speaking Roman Catholics, Cirdinal Newman, and in Cardinal Hergentother, who was appointed in the s ame year, it has secured the {greatest German historian ex- cept DoUinger, Hayuald again, Arjhbishop of Coloeea, and Prince Forstenbnrg, Arch- bishop of Olmntz. are also regarded as men of much mark. Haynald is considered next to StrcBsmayes the abUst speaker and most adroit logician in the Cjunoil. The Pr.sident of the French republic sent some little time ago to theFrenco Ambassa- dor of Constantinop'e three handsome cime- ters made in evact imitation of the much- priz^-d Damascus blades, for pnsantation to the Saltan's three sons. An oriental poten- tate receiving a pres-nt from such a quarter would probably have preferred some pro- duct ot European art to a counterfeii, of what he can get better at home. "If you wanted to make an Englishman a present," says a French paper, criticising M. Grevy's gift, "you would not offer Lim a dozen of pale ale, an article of Sheffield cutlery, or a coat made by Poole." It has sometimes been brought against Bismarck that he does not believe in "rest- ing on Sunday," and that he is rarely seen at church. This, Dr. Busch, his biogra- pher, says, is partly due to the ^reat amount of work that presses upon him, "There is so many a must in my life that the wou'd can rarely be considered," Bismarck writes to his sister, and to the author he i-emarks that the day ought to be six or seven hours longer for him. Another reason ror not go- ing to chorchjjs gives in a letter to a cleri- cal friend: "With regsr i to going to church, it is ince rrect to say that I never enter a churah. 1 willingly admit that I might go more frequently, but it is not so much from want of time as f^ r consideration of my health that I do not go, espt-cially in winter. To those who feel themselves call- ed to be my judges in th's respect I will with pleasure give ftr-her information about the subject." Sooi-ity in London is somewhat amused and very much s aida'.ized at the daring robbery of Dr. Bill Run nussell's wedding presents. Every one knows that the cele- brated war correspondeat was mairled some weeks ago in Paris to a char.niog Italian la- dy. Prasents poured in on the popular couple on the auspicious occasion. Tnese wedding gifts, of the ra'ue at least of $5,000, we ra lef t during the honeymoon in the safe- keepiag of a frienl re s ding in Eaton f qusr i, London. One day shortly after a porte-, wearing the badges of his respectable trado up n cap and collar, rolled a cart to this lady's doer and erplained that be was fent by Dr. aid Mrs. Rassall for the boxes in her charge. AUs f -r ucs isp-cting womanhood! The lady gave up every bit of pr .perty en- trusted to her by the bride and bridegroom A day ir two eaued without me- s igo. Raafon oi the s leu ceâ€" they had not reached Eoplaad. Toe plav s ble porter wi s a thief. man. "My dear," said Mr Mnckleham to his wife,"thoee hams I bought the other day are b« badly spoiled they cannot be eaten," "What a p-.ty," his wife replied. "Guew we'd better send them oat to the oharitv hospitfcL" ' Some one his djsovrrad that "G sV ia surearinz. meaning ' My Lord," and was nsad by E'lotin his Ind ai B ble. Mr. Eliot IS to be commended for not ts.ng a stronger expletive whUe engaged on that work. II Miything -s calculated to make a man in- dulge m swearwords, it is writing a book in the Indian laugua^. I took Zuleika out to Dr. Carvers WUd Wtst show one afternoon. She gszsd in mmgledtr-p-dationand admiration as the Doctcr did some of hs btsi rifle ahootine and then turning to me with a fine enthusi- ^tfi°'^u"'v^"""' «5l^«i, inni roS?t-he StV"' ' '"' *« *« «'• SCIESTIFIC GOSSIP. Lady S:emens has pregeaUda 1 the bb ary of tb« Ut« S â- â€¢ WiUi "^1 to the Puysical Society, L mdoa*^ ^* S'r W. Thouv^o' is to deliver ic on "MoWular Dymmios" at Hopkins Uuivemuy aurnc th» « ofne:XtO,tober. 8«'»«b«t2) Pure linseed- il, an expert oW a bright a-uber cole r Icrua, J' les when flowing from the oin xa.2' ^^^ and mild, and has the mneil i,f 0* poultice. " lai It is thought probable, snvs the E that the Goverumeut of V,ccon peat the oflfar of a high premium ,*'" binedraaper snl thrasaing-mi^ci,," ' to Australian reqairemeLts. Acesording to Prof. Wanklya th facture of gai from limed coal i, ' ""' has of the NllU sulphur c«J as it reduces the amount ot pounds to tbrae grain i in id; l cubic foet, and increases the yield ot* monia and tar by the abolition of th 1 purifiers. ' ' M. C. Decharne has psrfcrmedn«. ' periments showing that XjdiIi's el l chemical nogs may be imitated by m'" of a continuous stream of water a lino .^ a cylindrical tuble vertically ou ,4 horiz tal piece of black glas-j moi'stensd all Kt Ptolemy's Manuthias iw regarded bv ' A. Grandiditr. after an examination aitij maps of the Middle Ages, as identical Madagascar, aad he believer that the lil was known to the Greek and Arabseo, phers long befora its rediscovery bythePjl tuguese in 15J0. Tabulated results of 25 D experiments wi; 42 distinct explosive compounds were liahed in March by MM. Berthelot Vieille, of the Academy of Sciences Pa5! bearmg ou the amount of pressure de'velow, at the moment of explosion, the temperatoj produced, and the specifij heate of gases, especially those of the compoMil ones, at various temperatures. To obviate "kinks" in submarine tei graph cables, and consequently la these important means of communicstii less liable to break when subjected to strain, Messrs. Trott and Hamilton h,\ adopted the expedient of making each nate layer of sheating across each other Thus if the inner sheating of hemp his right-hand "lay," care is taken tnt ti lay of the next sheating shall ba left-hand, ed. A clock at Brussels has been going eight months and has not required to wound up since it was first set agoing, M fact, the sun dc^s the winding of this tint. piece. A ehaft exposed to the sun canBsl an up-draught of air which sets a fan in m tion. The fan actuates mechanism whicil raises the weight of the clock until r, reaches the top, and then puts on a brakt on the fan until the weight has gone don a little, when the fan is again liberated anil proceeds to act as before. 1 he natives of the Chiloe Islands nait use of a curious natural barometer, to whicii, from ite having been first noticed by tbe Captain of an Italian corvette, the name " Birometre Araucano " has been 'givei This novel weather guide is the shell of 1 crab, one of the Anomura, probably cf the genus Lithodea. It is peculiarly sensitive to atmospheric changes. It has a color nearly white in dry weather, but as soon as we weather approaches small red spots jare exhibited, varying in number and intensit; with the amount of moisture in the atmo' phere. In the rainy season it is completely red. Herr .Johann Bielenberg, of Caemnitz, ignites silicious earths and rocks such a! argillaceous porphyrite, slate, sandstone, and clay, and even mud from rivers and the sea, and then subjects to them to traatmeat with sulphurous acid. Tnese materials thus acted upon attain in combinatioG with lime hydraulic properties resembling those oi the Trass, Ptzzolane, and Santorine earths. Before being burned the silicious substance- are mixed with coal, and during the prO' cess of ignition are acted upon by the su' phurous acid produced from sulphar, whicli IS, together with coal, contained in pipe placed in the draught-holes of the furnace, Gunpowder mills owned by W. H. Wake- field Co., Gatebeck, near Kendal, Eat- land, are now lighted by electricity, an^ they are the first works of the kind to emplov the new method of illuaiination. Tiie works are about two miles in length, each danger- ous building being about 2 JO yards from itt neighbor, and thts dynamo-electric machine is p^aied about the centre. B»re wiif' conduct the cur.-ent on poles ani trees hav- ing insulators to S*an incandescent lamp' each building having four to eight of them, Toe lights are inclosed in specia'ly designed copptr reflectors, enameled white ou the in- side, with tight-fitting plate-glass front?, which prcjeot the light through tight-fitting bermeticaily-seaJei windows into the ic- terior of the buildings. M. Widdeman insulates metal wires in this way He prepares a bath of plambate of potash by dissolving 10 grammes ot litharge in a litre of water, in which 2W grammes of caustic potash hai been added. Having permitted the solution to rest, he decants it, anl the- bath is ready for use. The wire to be covered wilh the insulating skin or flim is connected to the positive pcla of the battery, and a piece of platinnm is attached lo the negative pole. Both the wire and the platinum ara then plunged m the bath, when metallic lead in a very finely divided state is precipitated at the negative pole, snl peroxide o( lead on the wire, causing it to a»ume all the colors of tl"' sptcarum, but a browriih black tint ind" c ates the highest degree of insulation by this prjoess. A paper on distant vision has been sub- mitted to the Riyal Society, Edinburgh, n/ Dr. Maddox. It states tnat he finds th»t accommodation for a distant object in tb* case of most persona is na'urally connected with a slight convergence of the optiJ a^** so that the inttroeption cf the optic axes n nearer than the object looked at, At » certain distance, different in different p«f sons, and probably varying in the samepef' stn from time to time, the optic axea natuf' ally converge at the distance focused ff^' When a nearer object is looked at the po'" of intersection of the optic axes is beyo"" the object. In ordinary vision these din-'" enoes between the distance of convergen' and accommodation are not observed, ' cauae the effort for single vision esm overcomes them And forces the optic »x* into the poeitiod oorfesponding to the f^ commodation. 4, the Bri*^^ " *** ^-Etc, et. ..eoiatioa Bociety joston- Che l»*fA 'British Museu 'S« There tre 160 m W'^^; twenty more mil. '•*^"nl»ted that about 01 ^^'^vtrsent into that,. '"u Texas Courier- Recor, "^uat a certain elderly ' ** Vrbit of chewing p The occasions o?tbem does not appear â- *iS^vou haveancranj "J/jacksonofatine •^^'ufwltt'^SL.rit; j;f.£the'doctor, "c -^ have said an orange. ' to a grlat numbe, teSToSow'^l'** "^^th Wed with stone, and th Kifatiection are either ^«JS by that beverage. lL easy to find organ -ST. tf^Sr methods uf prep: â- "n:i;^p-'nt,toest. IfaTyco'^^^*^""""""' hedis-^*®" An elderly EcgMsiman buyirg quic*** irate pi^^Bg new â- whole nun Iver an and m iCroiutmenr for vheu '*,ion however, they "Culebytbedrug, ,dinthe purchaser r, l^d that he died. iccordiEg to the Directory lue Great Britams2o0.ib. f; London. V'^J^^.^n 206 in ScotUnd, 2 4o0 e£ abroad, and 2 493 a Sy, the Indian medical mercantile marine. Dr Grcss is quoted ir CliiAcal Record as sayirg Jnetratedbyaball the fsanexceedirglybadon- kown that the braiQ can corsiderableextentwi future ithi for ope is a graat cranial cavity. ThefoUowirg notts of delivirad in Dublin are n Speaking on the much quistion, the Fpsaker s: is overrun by alsentee la; a msgnificent peroration, tub on which he was "I tell you the cup ot c is oveiflowirg; aye, am It is just one mile betw Mich., and the Canadi yet mail oommunicatic points occupied ten a a; on the American side jj crtssts to Windsor, -w Canadian mails, and 1 Canadian route back to the Canadian office thi the time it started. A curious fete is to b the btginnitg of May. snpprstd there is a visi Rome to Pon pan tt games, chariot races, number of shops will b would have appsared the second day there w a funeral, with their r third day sre p.-om and a gladiatorial fete. The Polish new spapi states that there i^ at faculty of tbe Univtrs year's student, nan whcss ega is 60 yeai third-yei»r student of the University of \N part in the then Pol exiled to Siberia, an in accordance with t manifesto of last year other Pacs, was alio rope. Anew fsshion has Parisian daawirg roo rwe, in rt spars a to ai dansanle, ihey are yourg lady who giy each ps'.son, and iusi: be attached to the hx Jnan or the cors?ge oi man is then txpictec who wears a nosega speck to his own, s the customary saii partner for the rest oompnlsory coup'irg ized, favors many in naaking, and affords the display of spite thetic psisMs togetl In support cf a popular meeting in home leEsans shoul children under 10 stated that in the 1 kydrocephalus at l creased 20 per cent. i put be attribu pressure. He als bli IB had increae nearly 50 per cent, this could be attril tie begged the Sc Ust, by forced atuc •nig^t be given to powerfully increai "wvwis disorder. Ia France ther 5»vigable rivers i In the year 1852 t river navigable tueiaoiessBm th u^(8 and in that w» increase has â- Â»Â«â€¢ expanse, th« 1882 «p to the ye •70.000,000. whi aaaeme of M. de **•** of comrauni tQMbar sum of $5 want, Thts in 1 *W8 liu been S'WBttty of goodi «tt««Kd 4,000