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 States sends' four iron I-, United 1^ month'"' ' -aoable of doing the work of being Introduced in the l^est shaving ever machine is made by a luot-" â€" forty-two' •f ievenwen feet long, and of wide, t-hi'kno*"' 'or* -U goon aboand with cotton AQtonio paper, which ereC^ion of a mill at Jt of §30,000. ;;;;t3awdu»t, mixed with Im- r»i" .. -.i.- ornamentation Jeiss .ays a San rei icles the " "^roiolded into ""' and is 28 handsome and "'S'thtn^'=='"«'i wood. â-  ' of very fine steel wire to make ^^- of L worth aboa. $4 this ""£"17000 springs, worth $7,000. i !^l articles may thui be p'ated with P V the pieces in a aolation of six •iV^te of copper and six grams of tin dissolved in one liter of edness beyond that of ordinary men. to estabhsh himself as a ierSnt oir trader in Venice. The stMni^rTwho* n«ne was Tebaldo, be«me(1SS^J2fS the daughter of an atodent 'teuse w»S affianced to another. He denuuiS^ hand in m«ru»ge, and wasof coarse reject- «d. Enrasre*' at this, he studied httw to haa been discovered by which iTLiV be saturated with a certain that i^ '3 possible to place a flcwer S n^on a block of marble and then Minacy slabs bearing the impnnt f".«P. fit to have the block sawed In- "JhTproc^ss is called "Eadolithy." ., mill waste is carbon zed in kUnU ,*' In heaps, at Boxholm, Sweden. charcoal thuj produced does well, mixed with some charcoal made 'ra-aral wood, for forge fires, but is I ,, well adapted fur blast furnaces. loued with opsu heaps, klbas have |^-an'a2'"8 f 1 'Wer working cost, of Mie'd'tho chsrcal being cleaner [Jetirom dmt, and. of more easily Lcted carbou ziion, the weather not Jtmg i- eood drc proof cem-nt can be formed fl.ingi 1^*^ P*'"'^*' i^'y-'^rauiic lime 20 z Sii.d -5. parr.d, sskl ammoniac "a of viatgiir to make a A aimii^r "cemein; couaists nf iron s 180 p:\rt3, liii.^ 45 p.iri.B, and cam- Mi; 5 p?.fts, c'.iiv«r.ed into a paste stri'ng vinegar, as in the former re- In'eitber oi-B rha cemeEt afoer it Ip'ied Bhoaid oj drU.d si jwjy, and must irfecdy firm hefore It is eu'-- IB, quar ir::-, aua eno ejected to 1 improved lead headed nail for use otuiit; on c 'rru^^jated iron roofs haa Ita appear ince in the maikafc. The of :hB nail is rouud and aoflS^Iently a; the p.ijut to eutisr the wood read- Hid may 03 drweu lioma in the usual The head thttens under the blows b hammer, or -i punch may be used ii will give It a conical head. The |o{ the head comesi ia contact with the tiroQ in Bucb a way ai to lessen the |ce of leaking. iereare no hod carriers in Germany. i are passed from h \nd to hand. Tiie ' up tbe brick'ayers are, the more ire required to tc ss the bricks. Two i) a story is about the average, with thmrre to lead from the froat of the fn? tc the plaoo where the bricks are Oiie uiay sOiHejmes see three loathe rouud, eight on the front eb'iilairg; and five on the top; msk- iteen men, through whose hands bnck p'jsed befuie It reached ita lofdeaduation. Pi:t8bars;h writer makes the asser- at in fif-y yeara, c r perhaps in half ume, c^al will not be carried from lines t â-  its place of destination in I but only its actual heat energy will ip'jrtad, and that by wire, a process says, can be accomplished by â- titg the coal into heat, the heat in- fion, and the motion into electricity; ge battery at Cincinnati would take |M fast as generated at the mines, m this battery it could be taken [onvettid back into motion and heat, iged into light. [meins of electricity the most attrac- ather surfaces are mw completely The leather which it is desired utate it first weU cKanedand coated graphite, as in electro- plating a P« article. It is then covered in a f bath, the taiik of which is large ja to easily receive a.skin of any s5z3, »ino-eltcjio machine generating a wcunent fornishes the elec-riclty. »Pper IS deposited upon the coated « of the hide 10 a thickness of one- iitiito one-eighth of an inch. The PM formed reproduces,but revera- ^«7 mark and minute vein of the ' " ^°.*\a print taken from it ia an I " °' the origin J in every detail. f«t of Ancient and modern Times. 'ttcient Greeks ptc liquor be reverged. Profoundly skilled in the mechamcai arts, he aUowed himself no rest untU he had invented the most f ormid- able weapon which conld be imagbed This was a key of large size, the handle of which was bo constructed that it could be turned round with littled;ffiealty when turned, it discovered a spring, whfeh, on pressure, launched from the other end • needle or lancet of such subtle fineness thtA It entered into the flesh and buried Itself thete without leaving external trace. Te- baldo waited hi disguise at the door of the church m which the maiden whom he loved was about to receive the nuptial benedic- tion. The assassin sent the slender steel unperceived into the breast of the bride- groom. The wounded man had no nu- picion of Injury, but, seized with a sud- den and sharp pain in the midst of the ceremony, he fainted, and wa- carried to his house amid the lamentations of the bridal party. Vain was all the skill of the physiaiaiMJ, who could not discover the cause of this strange iHnees and in a few days he died. Tebaldo again demanded the hand of the maiden from her parents, and received a second refusal. They, too, perishea miserably in a few days. The alarm which these deaths â€" which appear- ed -almost miraculous â€" occasioned excited the utmost vigilance of the mi^istratcs and when, on close examination of the bodies, the small instrument was found in the gangrened flesh, terror was univer- sal every one feared for his own life. The maiden thus cruelly orphaned had passed the first months of her mourning in a convent, when Tebaldo, hoping to bend her to his will, entreated to speak with her at the grate. The face of the foreigner had been ever displeasing to her but since the death of all those most dear to her it had become quite odious, and her reply was most decidedly in the negative. Tebaldo, beyond himself with rage, at- tempted to wound her through the grate, and succeeded. The obscurity of tJie place prevented hij movement being ob- ssryed. On her return to her room, the maiden felt a pain in her breast, and, un- covering it, she found it spotted with a single drop of blood. The pain increasad the surgeons who hastened to her assist- anceâ€" taught, by the past â€" wasted no time in conjecture, but, cutting deep into the wounded part, extract -d the needle before any mortal miischief had commenced, and saved the life of the young lady. The State inquisition used every means to dis- cover the hand which dealt these insidious and irresistible blows. The visit of Tebaldo to the convent causad suspicion to fall heavily upon him. His house was care- fully searched, the infamous invention discovered, and be perished on the gibbet. tlw^ who W enjoyed h« vm eapsdallj that ofAiqerica. [^ li is dal%htf«fne«ife|o he^bl makeoaloHlatiwpi be dinfipointedj^ when one haa promiMdhuMeiif a picnic, itlatmetbaithetanpentare of Penia u very warm in summer, bat the nativea do not seem to adadit, while tiie HUa^ pajais seek wfng5»J»i*eill«B^aHt0|oS of the mountains. Nine mileSfrom-Khenm u a^ group rf diarmiBg^vDiana, «ver five. thousMd feetabo^ e^'iei; anSbn^-aiou- Mnd three hundr^El feet %)ove Teheran Directly behmd these villages soars the range eaUed the Shiau»n, o»Ligh| (rf^Per^ A, to the great helghl^lErSi^oi^' sand feet. Neari^ aU «umm«#1f|'ai^^-erownea inth snow, which melting, flows down to the garden below. In winter, this range 18 white to the phuns. As one walks the streets of Teheran, he can see this mag- nificent range rising above the roofs of the city. A little east is Demavend, the great mountain of Persia. It is a regular oone, twenty thousand feet high, looking like a mighty pyramid. When illumin- ated by the setting sun, the snows of Demavend take a lovdy rose lint. After one has lived at Teheran a few months he becomes very much attached to this grand old peak, and learns to look for it when- ever he leaves the house. The climate of Persia naturally makes hfa there an out-of-door existence. In the cool weather the people may put on furs or woollen outer coverings, but work is still performed in the opt n air as in sum- mer. The chops are shallow and entirely open, the customer generally standing in the street to make his purchases. The carpenter who his planing a beard allows it to project into the street if too large for the shop. The tea-houses are all open to the pub- lic, and even the schools are exposed like the shops, often with shops on each side. The boys sit on their hetsla in rows and repeat the lesson after the master, appa- rently undisturbed by the habbub going on around them. The barbers' shops are likewise entirely open. One of the most common sights in the streets cf Teheran is a man seated on the pavement against a wall while a barber shaves the crown of his head. ap.d Romans used t bebg uoknown to nor tea, nor chocolate ^eD?"^°""'^°'CJalen tells n»d never seen butter but once fUie tl ^nmW nf """ Ignorant of the "uC 1 " '^P'**^ spices, as ctoS' *^®' g^ger, Jamaica ^^^^^J"""' French^ beans, *^CJT^" spimiach, no^ 'P"'»to^TrvS"'^P°""P'^^' "â- ""o" but. I"""'5^°*«^e" f'*^ce5,vi„r ^^^ contrary, they story of a Cihost. Yordac narrates in his memoirs that during a visit to Italy he was in the town of Plaiaance, and went to pass a night at an hostelry, in which the landlord's moth- er died the preceding evening. The land- lord having sent one of hid servante to fetch some linen from the room of the deceased, the valet shrieked on his return that he had seen his mistress, and that she had come back and was now lying on her b?d. A less chicken hearted servant was sent, but he returned with the same tele. The master of the lodging-house then went himself, accompanied by a val- et, to ascertain the truthfulness of their si»temente. Whenever he oame down- stetrs he cried to his lodgers, "Tes, gen- tlemen, it is my poor mother, Stephana Hdmna but I have nob had the courage to go and speak to her. " Vordao then took a torch, and motioning to a ohnroh- man that was present, said â€" ' Let us go, monsieur." 'l wish very much," replied the clergyman, "provided yon go first. Then the whole household wanted to join the party. When they entered the cham- ber and polled aside the curtains, Vordae saw the form of an old woman, black and wrinkled, with i^e hair done up very neatly, and that pot on the most ludicrous faces. When the landlord drew near to see if it was in very deed his mother, Me said, " Yes, It is my poor mother." The valete all declared die same thing. Said Yordac then to the ecclesiastic, **ron are a priest go and speak to her." The priest advanced to question the dead, and at the same tioae threw some holy water on its face. The ghost feeling itadf some- what moistened, leaped on the clergy- man's shoulders and bit him, at sight of which everybody fled. Daring the seaffla with the priest Vordao saw the head-dress tumble down, when, lo I the ghost became suddenly transformed into a veritable monkey.â€" [From Foreign literatare. The Red Sea. The origin of the name of the Bird Sea must perplex every new-comer, who, pissing from the exquisitely clear green waters of the Suf z Canal (the aquamarine of shallow sea- water above a bed of white sand) finds himself floating on the beau- tiful deep blue of the gu'J. While pond- ering over this question I htard with ex- ceeding interest the solution offered by two naval officers, who separately told me that in some of the broiling sammer days when not a breath stirred the sultry air or rippled the oily surface of the water, they had noticed a reddish scam gathered in places, and had little doubt that to some such simple cause the name was doe. Various other sailors less observant than these laughed at the notion and vow^ed that in all their longer experience such a thing had never been seen. It was the old storyâ€" "eyes" and "no eyes." It was therefore with infinite pleasure tha 1 1 stumbled on a passage in the writings of Moquin Tandon, in which he states that the Bed Sea was S9 called from the pre- valence of a minute bright red plant, so small that in one squa*e Insh 25,000,000 plante find room to hve. He qooies a passage from Ehrenberg. who tells us how he saw from Tor, near Mount Sinai, t^e whole bay of which that village is the port, red as blood, the open sea keeping its ordinary coloor. The wavelete euried to the shore during the heat of the day a purple mucilaginous matter, and left it upon the sand, so that in about half an hour the whole bay was surrounded by a red fringe, which, on examination, proved to consist of myraids of tiny bundles of fibres, about onetweltth of an inch long â€" namely, the red trichodesmium; the water in whldi the floated was qaito pure. attomej at Helena, .^.^^^^^ooLvarsatlon on the C^adlan insaneo ua[tion, Mr. Eutnua sud I know Loak RielwelL J[a wtathe leader of the Bed river iniinniiiluHln 1872, and wmsgniliy of mo^|y|ra#ras and inhuman erimea ev^ perpnrat«[ by man. Add to the tortures of tha inquisition every agony that devillsk Ingenoity ooold suggest or invent, and you may |»t a faint idea of the manner in i^cb BM treated the on- ifpttopate oaptirea w)^e fell into /his hands. In November, 1882, Blel i^MTi Migaged ia soling whis^ eight ^^ten mQes Tnstdeof th?low^ bordw of tteClackfeet reservation. ELeiprotmed theilquor in Fort Benton, and, failing to pi^'lus bills, and being unable to secure My^nore credit, he transferred his valo- able custom to Helena. Here his credit Allifmnoat, and when 6* A. Broedwas the partner and agent of Wilder, of St. Paul, told him he oonld be credited no more, Biel said: 'All right, Meester Broadwater, hot I woold like to meet yoo ont on ze perarie,' thus conveying a deli- cate sugeestion of the herei^r. Bid was shortly after indhitod forseUing mm to the Indians, and when brought to trial refused to answer any qiiestions frankly, stating that he refused oeoause he did not care to criminate himself. Daring the trial a juror asked Biel if he was not the man who incited the Bad river insurrec- tion in 1872. •Sair,' replied Blel with great dignity, *I sm za man who attempt- ed to introduce republican institutions in zat country.' A no other witnesses conld be procured, Biel was i quitted, although there was no doubt in the world as to his guilt. He was indicted at Benton for election frauds at Bocky Point in the spring of 1883, and, being unable to pro- cure bail, was Imprisoned in jail for two or three months. Then he succeeded in securing bandsmen in the peraons of William H. Hunt, the son of the ex-sec- retary of thA navy, and then collector of the port uf Fort Benton, and Thomas Cummings, a former collector. After being released he went up into Manitoba, and judging from recent evente it is evi- dent tlmt he was engaged inlaying his plans for the present insurrection. He retnrned to Fort Benton and was tried, but as the people around Bocky Point led nomadic lives it was impossible to obtain any witnesses save Biel's half-breed wife and brother in-law. Of course he was not convicte i. " Blel is a magnificently handsome mac. He has a superb figure, standing over six feet ia height. His beard is long and silky and coal black, and he has melting Italian eyes, as soft as a woman's. If his beard was lighter he wculd be the image of Guide's Christ. He is a rank coward, and is absolutely devoid of the conn^e cuch a man should have. He was in very bad odor with the half-breads aronnd Fort Benton and Helena, and one day in the fall of 1882 he went to Gov. Bodkin and begged that official to make him a deputy marshal. He said his life was in danger, and he woold live in daily dread if it was not protected by cffioial sanction. Hia request was very properly rafosed. The Cost of Anslo-Russiaii War. On the wc herb, oxtongue, the l»Pin. They liked the ^^^ild the aormcuse. ' Btigu^ Quench not the A young man uked a lady of Ua af- fections, the otiier evening, how ehe liked the look of his new standing collar. After critically surveying him and the collar, she replied "Very nice, indeed. It looks like a whitewashed fence aronnd a lunatic aiylooi." A strmnger In Austin met Unde/Moee and asked him: "Where does Odonel Yeiger redde ' " He ^Ube «* dar on Aairtin.ye»ne â- o««w*»«^' "T^ " the number of the Bomb I ' « Huh Ton finds the number on de do». Don t yer know how ter read yit " At a time when loose statemanta as to the magnitude of tha issaes at staka in an Anglo Boasian contest are so general, it may be useful to recall some of the statis- tics of the last war in which Bassis took part. From the crossing of the Danube in June, 1877, until February, 1878, the Bu'slan loss in killed and wounded was 89.304. The cost of that listle war in money was equally frightful. The c-ffi lial report of the total ezpenaea was 902,000,- 000, rubles, averaging 32,200,000 mcmth- ly. The silver ruble is equal to about 80 cents, bet the rubles current in Baas'a then depredated nearly one-third. Dar- ing the war this paper currency swelled from 711^600,000 to 1,164,000,000 roUes, and loan followed loan. Still the lesson of peaoe doea not seem tohave been learn- ed. Under another sce^ burden killing taxes and virtual bsnkroptey mast follow peiaee whatever the issue of the straggle, and ttii not impossible that even if absol- atism be vietorioaa in the field it may meet its death b^ow iat hom\ At least thatisthe viewof ki^UUer Htrtmann, who, spelling in the nam» of the nihilists, is reparted to luva nld that daring the war tha teiforists wosdd ba qvkft. eonfi- dent in the belief that the aeqael ef tte war, irhoevec4MmqaeiB, vlll bejtlieeBdiofl of the line of eius. nitl* mhfdi ^.-.iM^SU^m ^m M Hints to Hunters* The hunting sesson is now apon us, and a few hinta and suggestions to the gentlemen who go out in the afternoons and make life insecure in the suburbs, may not be out of place. In fact, by paying attention to our suggestions, they may tave themselves a great deal of trouble and expense. As a general thing, the domestic animals that are to be found in the vicinity of large cities belong to farm- ers. When the amateur Nimrod makes the mistake of shooting some of these harmless and useful animals, such as cows ducks, mules, geese, dogs, eto... the own- ners becma excited and chasia the Nim- rods with fence rails. Some of the farm- ers, while laboring under a fit of exas- peration, may do personal injury to some of the aforesaid hunters, unless the latter promptly pay for the loss of the domestic animals. In order to avoid the compllaa- tions that may result, we propose to give a few simple directions that may be of great nae to the aforesaid amateur Nim- rods. A deer is a quadruped, and may be distinguished from the mule by the fact that he is not seen as much as the mule ia he is not so frequent;, as iti were. Tha deer has horns upon his head, which adornment we seek in vain on the mule. Because both the mule and the buck are in the }uhit of showing tha same end to the hunter, it must not be supposed that they are Identical. The deer does not wear shoes like the mule, nor has it the fine baritone voice of the latter. The cow may be distinguished from the nck by the fact that t£e latter Is not bruided and has a much stronger tail. Another rign by oiiiohthe oow may be Ai^^ngnimhaH ftom the door Is that the oow gives milk andbutter. Tlie rabbit has much loiM;er ears than the oat. Whenever a rabmt is sem In a tree, or up on a bam, or walking on a f enee. It is sure to be a eat. The bomrd maybe distingnlBhed from the turkey by the way of flyg the boi- ard flying modi Ugher than tiie tarlc^. Th«re Is a fine oi twenty-five dollars for mistaking a bnoard f jr a to^ey- If yon are fined twenty-five dollars, yoa have duyt a baaourd. If yoa dicot «t doeks near a lioiue, ana they fl/ away, tiitfyare not tame dodo, and tis» Janner eannot make yoa p^ for theau Paste tUs m your AiA when yon §0 ovt hunting. i; ;5 The Aaecr*s Keaim. Bawol Pindi hetwrcn the A^eer and the Vioeaoy of India wee not the greet saooe« ^^warwmuMmly beMevedtobe when it toolplaoe. There is, aaa resaltof Um A w me r' ii obvloas anwiUtngness to admit a 5?** Hiy Into MU. territoif, a dispcd- tioAto»Uanie tatH'ta^ not carrying out the terms of the oontraot upon which he receives an annual aabsi^. This is, we think,, antiralir nnrra^nsble. „ The aabd- dy is a mere retaining fee, and it is neces- sary to pay it because the Ameer must get money from somewhere. Unless he re- edves it from Great Britain he will take It from Bustiaâ€" this much is quite certain It s a mistkke to regard him as a Sover- eign of one complete, homogeneous State supported by the taxation ot the country. It b always more or less cf a mysttry hOw Oriental potentates live unless they have power enough toplonder thdr subjscto right and left and this myst»ry is all the greater in the cue of Abdur Bahman, because he Is merely the head of a single tribe which has succeeded in assertfasg Ito supreoiaoy over the other tribes of Af- ghanistan. Herat and !^ndahar are so purely tribal in their organisation that they have reaUy notMog to do with Ca- bal and ita ruler. The Ameer goveme these two places in the sense that they do not fight against him, but of real aothor- ity he has none. Tbere is no such thing indeed as an Afglum race, for the people consbt portly bt Aryans and partly of Mongolo-Tartars. The Aryans again are divided into the Ga^cha branch, hihabit- ing the northern and southern slopes of tho Hindoo Kooeh; and the Iranic branch, which is to be found in C^ibul, Herat, and Belooohlstan. Tie Mongolo-Tartars inhabit the Northern Highlands between Bimian and Herat and Afghan Turkestan. Altogether there are no lea-i than twenty three tribes wh'ch are, by a convenient fiction supposi'd to owe ailegiaoce to the Ameer, but only four of th. m have the slightest political piwer. The Uabepis in Afghan Turkeetan are one of these four but tho fact that they are practically iden- tical with their kinsmen of the adjolnrng Khanates of Bokhara and Khiva ihowB in some degree how immensely £iffi:ult it- will be to delimit a frond* r *hera nature has placed none, and wh ?re peculiarities of race and type supply littie or no assist- tance. The Ameer is, for purposes of in- ternal defenca,^the nominal chit f of the Durania, the Ghllzls, the iVazlris, the Afrldis, the Mongols, the Momands, and Jusufziis but as each of these tribes forms a complete little State in itself, and as he has not j et tried the experiment of getting them to combine for a common objr'c'-, such a9 the repression 1 f a Bussian attack, Abdur Rahman is naturally enough unwilling to put the fragile bond -of co- hesion he has established to too severe a strain. • -.- â-  .*.. If. alter the frontier has been delimit- ed Busaia again teara up a sacred cove- nant, aa ahe probably will do, and if after tearing it up ahe succeeds in gainiag pos- session of Herat, Bridsh troopn must be enabled to seiz) and to hold K^vndahar. It la a very open qaestion whather it would not be worth while, from a com- mercial aa well as from a military point of view, to complete the railroad to this city. The inhabitants t ake a con alderable quantity of British goods and textile fab- rics, and they could send ns in return far greater quantities than they now do of wool, tobacco, silk, and druga. An army advancing from Herat towards India would have to crack this very hard nut of Kandahar and as the inhabitants are far from being averse to the British, it may "e found the simplest thing to do to treat this city and not Herat aa t*^e first point which will beheld against Bassiawith all the strength of the British Empire. There are hoste of questions connected with the future of Afghanistan which will have to be considered and disposed of the moment the northern frontier is delimited and for that reason it is a good thing to know that before many weeks are over both Sir P. Lumsden and Mr. Condie Stephen will be in London to assist the Govern- ment wi:h their advice. MI RTfl FOK MINISTER?. A Pennsylvania minister thinks giria ought to be watoheL If he would run oat and stand in the vestibule of his own church after-service he would change hia mini. "Papa, do yon think our preacher writes his own sermons?" "1 have no reason to doubt it, my son why should you?" "Why, 'pears to me that if h» wrote 'em he'd know «iough about 'em to take his eyes off the paper once in awhile when he reads." There is a clergyman In Mandiestor, N. H., who never allows himself or uiy of his family to attend a churdi enter- tainment without paying for admission. There should be a big demand for this psstor from churches all over the coontiy, and the larger his family the more prcM iug should be the deaumd. "Was there there sadi an anfor- tunato man as I f ' sighed Parson Textual " here I have been at work all the week on a sermon upsn the horton of war and the hlesBings of peace; and naw, ae- cordingto the latest adviose there is to be no war after all, and I've had all my la- bor for nothing 1 Was ever anything mof» disooaragiog.' Voggâ€"How Is yoar adn'ster now f I uiderstand that he has been qdte HL Brown â€" 1111 I should say so. There one time he was not ezpeoted to Bvo from day to day. He hasb't prosnhed for ox months. FesK â€" Ah I Then he hi h«» proving ll'm gbdto heir H; 1^ to i*. .:â-  ..,^4 ^M*?'.; ft3aial4»f -I li IT i u i Ml m t mi riUllilHaaiftiiriilia •UMiiililliaeMiiiia