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 eese. out ahotttt *?d crawly 'â- ' take, th^ "'?* °ath. le birds «, ^ved his h^y their wing.' e then ^: stoniahment the ice and 1 surcounijg^ ' before, and overflow and ' up toward It their feet bome Were -i^g- Liter ' a cart and ion. ' evening call, sit up alit. I the toUow. to make $5 :n minutes?" ;rtainly I do, linutes, Bib- I- She told ou hold your 3- Thepreaorip ne beat remedj stints. For sale )st -soV atirr at whereby a from one to I and treatise H. Dixon 4 â- to, Canada, Dg a cham out of the h(i Saul!" came after I," answered 1 bench, and 3 and looked cur e t at one ps It neverfaila. where. A P. 166. FACTS fUtL- FOR FARMERS; jjjsni all wo so Tree Planting. uld be4he money ontlay, â- " "m nb'e the labfr r.qu'rad, to insura ijccDSi"' â-  ,.jticn a wealth of timbtr f.rtbe Y'Jj.jj^j of ^hich we have the land fq" ^jg and ghelt* r trees in even l^o"Sf„uate supply, that it is a jraat «='" to U3,amid allthe f( reib^e facta woB"/, V_„/,..i against the rite at which ""fAl'Scn irgoing on, tb^ ra has been CO ml ' gent ,. ii movement in favc r of 1 rse In Geraisny and Aua'ria, fir up- the number of 1 rasa «»• SSS"'"' l^f !» ta .h. b.^ o. «^ „;«i 4. " "*. °° **y dependent violent revo^uKon in ,« oX of M»jor Htrbert "" Wood of the on any nature. ^ISJ^^^H^" «»y8th»t -there la no of the ^^K* '°rr T^*^y «'«'*«r ^^'^rion fir? 1^;^^,"®** ArJ-CMpian Seas, and n- The other we find ci 1^ wr own continent SmSf ir*^*t^ *o^® opportunity to see for himaeJf that the Great Salt Lake of Utah P"lofhalf a century, T.nted has boine a good proportion to those P iir cut down, and it is c riain that ' f " 'V Italy and Eagland, also, Ir^e culti ':1X Jyv ceciMl. But h ra, with th( now, yetr by year. In is DCwpeD' ""â„¢trr:sdcimii;videijce which has coDie '^e coDsid. i-.-d a m^ rked feature of Am r- n character, we ui destroying cur £reat '•^infci-'stswith a rjpidity never befcri "aalled in any ctht 1 ctun' ry, and without "'k're ary mean vis to intrre their future j'owth. has formerly covered a vastly greater extMt cf surface than it does now^ ^^e teSSa ^^ v*" IK '^^" ^»^« left all alW^e flanks cf the Wahsatch Mountains, a? efeva" faouE of thirty to fifty feet and more aU.ve Its jrasent level, are a, plainly to be traced. X^ woK ^^l^'^kment. astate cf watTr which would flood a vast area, But these manifestations we take only in- cidentally for we know nothing of the amount of time involved in them. If can find, however, that the have been lilo'for Boilers thick, 6x3, 8x3 Laren, iun Sts., I' K FARM'S u ill Manitoba il:ii' tn unyper- .: SI. Toro!itn. IKILMPH- icf. No strain TTo\s on the â- fCfii.t of price, Tnronto. irTxg IN- tint's, with cor- tL'e of charge, 1 ' Emigratiou nnt. J Seeds, 'nt fi)r Evans' "'â-  c-atalogiie tc Mished. 1355. Treatment of Balky Horses. to' one ob rviug the inhuman traatment ,ften beito^^ed upon balky horses, will in- jf.e the fnllowiDg p r.-uasive m'easure ra- (ommended by the'Cri imantown Te'egraph. To thfse ramedies othi n may be added, but ti-epouEdis fufEciently cove red by these jjjBts to meet ail crdinsry cases of the sulks inhcriEs: A3 long as we can rsmember, this singu- lai fit of obstinacy in the hciie has been dis- (jssed, and all s( r;s of plans given fc r over- coming it. It must be remembered that fiiat will [rove a rjmedy ftr one hcrse will jotfci- anothi r. The riginal cause cf it is, (ioubtlesf, neglect, and ill treatment of the colt, or aiti V it has been I roken to harness. iometimes stoppint; a few moments will be iifficient to start the animal again of irs BWBEOOcrd. Kind wcrJs, patting, a hand- [ul cf hay r £ riss, an apple, era little black seppei put upon the tongue, will induce it 10 no ahead as if nothing had been the mat- 'i' Whipping, at all times, and especially n this case, is the wc rit rase rt. We have trjelves induced balky he ries to quietly iKrlby some of these means, and one was Btrely or lid of it by letting it stand until went on again of its own will. Some- imts the m{ n tu roing of the head and lett- Djthe animal look in a difi'erant direction. jbbing the nose, has answt red so has ying i st ring i aund the fe releg below the Dee and i jwing it rithe r tight. Various esirtsof this kind should be aaopted, but evt r fc roe. rtod French e; very styl- ipproved o( ured by SETOO. vro. OIL. It aoftena and le iiniah. AAt It on, Ont.j nion. LiINE N erpool, (ELFAST irs apply to ntreal, Qoe. tvet ting! »nto. cialty. Send OAN ites. â-  Fanne* t to me. nnto HAL her ELBCTBIC lo are eoB^ ST VITAI*' diseases «•: ABUSBS OB: Id compJJ Meat for Chickens. Ae do not think that we can be mistaken ttte belief that we should be ft r me re suc- esiul in the i aisicg of young chickens by iving them a great deal mere animal food ianwetiain the j lictice of doing, Cera mush, boiled potatoes, and similar obstarces gent rilly compose, as we all coiv, the principal food of young chickens; ct we can see no reason why these young JsbhoulJbe exceptions to the ordinary Qleofyourg brJs in general, which feed argely, indeed chiefly, on animal food rentlicse -which, when they are mature, emobtly on fruits and seeds, are fed when i:he 1 nests en we r.Tis, grubs, and insects, notice the old birds all day long busily la^ed in supplying their young with food, ctilways with animal food. In fact, it is T'.;! j that we have seen anything else. r' then, should chicks be an exception Ice I 'coff.mendations, almost without ex- •F"On, in on poult ly publications are to i'^n;f;e animal feed to our grown fowls if f -spect them to oive us more eggs, espe- ^•ym winter, -when they help themselves ' ::cne, That it i.s a great inducement to "cthem hynicie generously, we have Biany j lofs tu admit of any doubt. Be- «-' it IS claimed that animal food has "' advantages in the way of good health, \\ hy, ihen, let us ask again, should [ycnns thickens not be benefited with at ?: a modeiate supply of animal food? i^nicktn iais( vi know the £reat losses ayssu;!. red m the j.rowth of them, and It not lit; owing to a large extent to the •oldmg entirely of this strengthening •â- 'h:eh â- ? r,t so n-.uch benefit to the ma- -^Di-i? We, thcivfire, suggest to otr •"â- â€¢'1= to change the'r method of feeding â-  yoang chickens by giving them a due p'.ition of animal food, chopped up in 'Small yieces, and thus find out, each -or himsalf, whether it is not a very de- f'J tcmtit in 1 lising to maturity an add- sal number ot the chicks into strong, 'â- ay iov;h.-G„rmantoun Telegraph. Modern iuui:Aiicient RainfaL (iiscrgsiug i -;cf ntly the question 'â- iM we wt re in dange r of a peimanent "'easing leducticii of, our available 1'3W( r, a ijuestion of most vital impc r- ' we w( re fc iced to conclude that no •='P«nl was imminent, and that the scar- yot wat( r so troublesome fe r two e r^tbree past in Xew England and the adjac- Jates was mi lely local, and would be 'Jf:P"""y- It is however well worth on r 1°^ ^°°^ further, ^Ve may find to beheve that changes are in pro- •ed fl^*^ moving too slowly to be de- J^Jithmoneor two gene ritions. Our ,.g Z^â„¢^ '^^â- " *int comparatively a very ..;"' 0';ttheie aie reccrds to which we v'teii '^1" ^^°^ sevcril thousands, and Tief ' Q;tierent story from that which Ajdn""""' history seems to show. ice ti°° fefer in this to geological evi- re-'ri 7^11 that is by no m^ans to be is'cf th ^} ^^ manifest that vast fted »u ®^"h'a surface were forme rly :ly jj^"hwaterwhi5h has passed away a iiavf "^P°"ation. Changes in eleva- id tjj '^ised the contmenta and thus ' these "^^^^ ^^^^ 'I'to narrower limits, iasof er^^'^S®^ " ^^ difi'erent kind. â- :eiit to th 1 '.**^' °^^ their continued ° and Lr^ '^^'ative amount of evapora- te cett^j 'Pitation, ^^^ nothing can be "' sflch ^° that, in some instances at ' ^^ conh.??- ^^'® heen in steady pro- ^^ Terti. ' '°=® certainly the close "^Perf, ertiary j ., =-, this l!i:h"mii,ht ?. '=°.'"i«tent with steady contraction flaertuationa rO'lUstra?; °°^ many years each. r °' the A "f ;?"y "® sufficient. The I «iotee h*!. "P^*" ^^°^ the two ara r'^ldt aav. ":tu*^ ?°^) «'" °" °°«- ' â-  A tie desiccation which is we same changes -ostreaa within the time which we can measure by definite years, then these geologieal reccrds become to fta of immen le impcrtance. smce they show a peraiatence of eflects and causes that must certainly de- pend on natural laws, end may be expected therctereto continue in steady action new and f r all time to come. No matter what views we take of the or- igin of the human race, it is maaifest to all that the oldest of all indications to which we can refer, written, monumental, cr tra- diiional. are mostly grouped around the eastcrnhmita cf theMediteiran an Sea w th the countries to the northeast beyond. We look in the dim light of extreme antiquity to the regions around the Euphrates and the Tigris. The Assyrian Empire is to us the.embodiment of the very earliest days. I U power swayed all the Southwest of Asia, and it was because it had a thickly peopled domam. Dr. D. Fraas says; "The most fruitful land of antiquity was, as is well known, the region bordering on the Lower Euphrates and Tigris, and in particular that called in later timea Meaopotamia. But as Richter says, the land of great canals is now desert and barren, without settlement, and a dried up wildernessâ€" covered with a growth of the plants peculiar to a saline soil and all this where once was the 'garden of the world, ' " Mr. Blanford, chief of the India Geological Survey, writes of Persia: "From the accounts given by ancient writers, it appears highly probable that the population v ds much greater and the culti- vated land lar mere extensive 2,000 years ago tbau at present, and this may have been due to the country being more fertile, in consequence of the rain fall being greater." Captain Burton gays: "The once wealthy and commercial land of Midian has become a desolation among the nations; the area of some three thousand square miles, which thirty -one centuries ago could send into the field 135,000 swordsmen, is abandoned to a few hundreds â€" half peasants, half nomads." Once more, when the Israelites, in their ex- odus, came up on the east side of the Dead Ssa, the whole plain of Bashan waS swarm- ed with inhabitants. It was dotted over with walled towns, wdth intervals of but a very few miles in any case. The towns s ra there now, but where are the people? A few wandering Bedouins roam here and there, but the cities are "waste, without in- habitants. " The land is in no way able to support the population which three thous- and three hundred years ago lived in pros- perity. We may not deny that various causes have contributed to this decadence â€" moral, social, political, but the one which has been engaging our attention is of itself imptratiee. "Ichabod" has been written en ' the land, for its glory has departed with the rain. And 60 we might go on; the same truth is shown everywhere over Asia and Ecrjpe and the north of Africa. Bat we will look at only one other single line of evidence, and that shall be among the ancient people of America, We will come nearer in apace and probably nearer in time, though how much nearer we do not know. It ia well kno â- ^ n to all that in many parts of New Mexico and Arizona are found extended proofs of the former occupancy of that country by a people certainlj distinct from the Indians ot modern type. They have long since passed away; how long since we can only cenjecture. But their houses re- main â€" some of them single, some in vil.'ajfes and towns. .Some are iii the valleys, some en the mesas far above the valleys, while many are real cliff dwellings, recalling in their situations the homes of Edom. The one point which at present interests us as to these ruins is this: no one now can live where they were built, simply from the lack of water. Dr. Bessels, speaking of those along the Hoven Weep, fa)^: 'There ia no running water whatever during the greater part of the year." Mr. W. H. Jackson, describing those on the San Juan, states that "there is not a living stream throughout; this whole region." Capt. Simp- son, in his report to the Secretary of War. detailing those he saw along the Rio Chaca, says: "The country, as usual, on account doubtless, of constant drought, presented one wide expanse of barren waste." And yet over all that stretch of country was man- ifestly found long ago an abundant popula- tion. It is evident, therefore, that then ram fell in much larger amount than now; and. inasmuch as there is nothing to indicate any sudden change, it is reasonable to mfer that the change 1 as been gradual, and hence that it may be still in progress. One item ot interest is worth menticn'ng as being a collateral proof of such a condi- tion. Through all the region northward thenceâ€" New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, and Utahâ€" the tree growth (which is very limit- ed) gives one constantly the impression that it is alJout to come to an end. Ihe nut pines, for instance, all look old; there is scarcely such a thing as a young tree to be seen. The bare, ragged branches seem as though they might have battled the storms for hundreds of years, but could scarcely do it much longer, and then when they were gone there would be nothing left. All these facta apparently make one inf dication, and though any local dronghtB, even if pre ;raoted over several years, naay be of small moment, yet the evidence comes strongly to us that a gradual dewccation of the earth's surface is in progrea, "'^tha' this proceeds from causes not connected in any way with human agency, and of ooxtne not under human control. Arabi Pasha's Inllaenoe. A ccr.-espondent of the London fifemdoni wntes that journal from Snakim Ihwe referred to the fact that the felUba are not wUhng soldiers. I fear it must be accepted that their hearU jra still with ArabTand the anti-forcigner movement of which he was the champion. Immediately after Arabia trial thtra can be no doubt that in Jfigypt the British had earned some ponu- lanty. We had saved the nationaliBt lead- era and hundrads of their foUowers from death and banuhment. While the Irjak- ment promised to Arabi in Ceylon seemed gmerous m the extreme compared to that which the Khedive, U loft to himself, would speedily have accorded, this popularl ity and sympathy of the national ts seemed a hopeful sign for the success of the task we had undertaken in Egypt. But some- how we seem to have lost all that good wiU which the French said we had won through mtngue and gold more than by straight policy. We have estranged the Naticnal- ista in some mysterious manner, and, on the other hand, have not made ourselves very popular with those who surround the Khedive. The other day I saw and con- versed with Arabi in Ceylcn. I found him much changed. Instead of the cheerful contentment which he manifested when he firat landed in the island, he had grown morose and sulky. No attention is paid to him by the government officials of the colony. He ia allowed to do aa he likes and see whom he likes, and he sees few Eng- lishmen compared with the number of for- eigners who call upon him. Prom every Mesaageries steamer that puta m at Colom- bo, dozena of Frenchmen go to pay the exile a visit, even the saloon stewards be- ing admitted, and with all these, of course, the theme of conversation is condolence with At ibi and his lot, and abuse of Eng- land and her selfish policy. And Arabi himself does not in any means talk in so friendly a manner now of England and her work in Egypt as he used to do after the trial. All this, perhaps, would matter little, were it not that Arabi ia unrestricted in his correspondence, and he is consequent- ly. I happen to know, in communication with his former friends in Egypt. He is well posted up in everything tbat is going on in that country and it is a pity that his influence should be caralessly allowed to mitigate aga'nat us. when with a little good management it might easily have been turn- ed the other way. One has only to talk to the Egyptian cfficers and soldiers here about A rabi to see that that influence even now counts for something. When I tell them that I saw their late leadsr only a short time ago, their faces brighten up as they eagerly ask for information concerm'ng him. THE RED SUNSETS. No Correct Explanation of tbe Pbeno* mena yet Given. No recent phenomena has more puzzled aatronomers than the remarkable appear- ance of the atmosphere as observed after sunaet and before aunrise during the laat five months. These brilliant glows have been seen in ail parts of the habitable world. They were firat noticed on the 28 th of Au- gust, and they may still be seen, both morn- ing and evening, when the atmosphere is favorable. It is well known, in fact, that on any clear day the matter by which tbe appearance ia produced may be aeen around the sun. extending to a distance of twenty or thirty degrees. The phenomena have been ascribed 1. To watery vapcr in the atmosphere. 2 To meteeric matter through wtiich the earth has been supposed to be passing and .3 To the volcanic eruptions of Java and Alaska. The first conjecture has been discovered by the spectroscope. The second may be said to be rendered extremely improbable by the long continuance of the glows. The earth crosses the meteoric streams of Au- gust and November in a few days at most, but the present phenomena have already lasted more than five months. The volcanic hypothesis ia received with most favor, and we must either accept it or admit that the true explanation rem iins yet to be discover- ed. In the last numbt r of Sidereal Messen- ger, I have briefly stated some objections to this theory, as follows â€" "No similar re- sults â€" at least to any great extent â€" had been known to follow volcanic eruptions. If the matter started from Java on the 26 th of August, its rates of motion through the atmosphere till its appearance in Brazil was 100 miles an hour. Or, if we assume that the appearance in South America was de- rived from the Alaska outburst, we have the additional improbability that results of a character before unknown following volcanic eruptions in opposite hemispheres at nearly the same time. Again, what force could have maintained thia volcanic matter at ao great an elevation during a period of several months " In short, no explinatiou yet offered is free from serious difficulties. Preaching and Practice. "See here, Mr, Blank, what are you going out tonight for " asked Mrs. B. with a threatening look, „ • "Big political meeting to-night, explam- ed Mr, B,, apologetically, "Political meeting, eh?" echoed Mrs. B, "You have been going to political meetings every night for five weeks, and if it had not been for me you would have worn your boots to bed every time." "But just think how nice it would be it I should get nominated for something Think of the loads of money I could rake in, and the nice furniture and new clothes and seal- skin sacques and â€" " -ni i. "That will do." interrupted Mrs. Blank; "I have heard that story before. You made a speech last night at a ward meeting. I see." "Yes," responded Mr. B., with pardonable ""AJid I see by the two or three Imes no- tice of it in the newspaper that the bnrJbn of your remarks was the offise should s^fe the man and not the man the offi*. Now, [you jast take off that overcoat «tt| sit doOT. and if any office comes along aaf knocks I win let it in," A Burlington mother has miriciiloasV cured her yonn« hopeful of smoking by the layiog on ox hands. LAV6HLET8. A Tsteran was relating his exploits to a «owd of boys^ and mentinned haviax been m five engagements. 'That's nothing." broke in a Uttle feUow, "My sister Sjrah's been engaged eleven times." Little Willie has been summarily correct- ed by his mother for repeated acts of nanghtinees. The punishment being over, "Papa." he sobs, in tones of angnish, "how eonld you marry such an ill-tempered wo- man as mamma?" ♦•You see," said a lawyer, in summing up a case where one party bad sued the other on a transaction on coal, "the coal should have gone to the buyer." "Not so," said the jadge, " it should have gone to the cel- lar." "There are various keys," said a young man to another, " such as sul key. bal-key. and ris-key. bat the only key to jour heart is Sukey," "It may be so," replied the other, "but I defy anything to reach your heart but whis-key." A rich old bachelor was dying. Saveral female cousins as old as himself came to nurse him, in hope of being remembered in his will. The first question usually asked in the morning by one of these couaina was, ".\re yeony waur?" A more kindly in- quiry would have baen. "Areyeony bst- terr* ']What do you think of my article oi the political situation?" icejaired Fendersem, "Everbody I have heard speak of it," re- plied Fogg, "praises it very highly." "Do they?" said Fenderson eagerly. "Whom have you heard speak of it?" "Nobody but yourself," said Fogg carelessly. Sir Robert Peel told a story of a man who gave waraing to his master that he must leave his place. •"Well, J jhn," raid the master. "I ani sorry you are going to leave me; what are your causes of discontent?" "Well," said John, " I don't wish to be un- reasonable, bat I want three things, sir more wages, less work, and I should like to have the keys of the wine cellar." An impatient vVelshman called to his wife:â€" "Come Come 1 Isn't breakfast ready 7 I've had nothing since yesterday, end to-morrow /will ba the third day I" This is eqaal^to the call of the stirring housewife, who aroused her maid at four o'clock with â€" ' Come, Mary get up 1 Here 'tis Monday morning; to-morrow is Tuesday; and next day's Wednesdayâ€" half the week gone, and nothing done yet!" A gentleman who had been allured by the announcement of a quiet country hotel, came down the morning after his arrival and made complaint that his boots bad been outside his door all night and until eight o'clock that morning, aid nobody had touched them. The landlcri, who. in his shirtsleeves, was tipped back in a chair and picking his tooth with a knife, beamingly remarked â€" "Law me, ye miglit have left yer purse out there all night, and nobody would have touched it. Honest critters down here. I tell ye. " They tell a capital story in the Temple of ex Chief Baron Pollock, that one who wish- ed him to resign waited on him, and hinted it, suggesting ic for hia own sake, entirely with a view te the prolongation of his own valued life, c. The old man arose, and said, with his grim, dry gravity. "Will you eiance with me?" The guest stood aghast as the Lord Chief Baron, who prided himself particularly upon hia legs, began to caper about with a certain youthful vivacity. Seeing his visitor atanding surprised, he capered up to him, and said, "Well, if you won't dance with me, will you box with me?" and with that he squared up to him, and half in jest half in earnest, fairly boxed him out of the room. The old Caief Baro-- had no more visitors anxiously inquiring after hia health and suggesting his recirement. Be Somebody. Robert J. Burdette. the facetious editor of the Burlington Hawkeye, has been lec- turing to large audiences in different; parts of the country, and in his amusing style he imparts to the rising generation aome whole- some advice. The following is from one of his lectures â€" "Ba somebody on your own account, my son. and don't try to get a'ong on the re- putation of your ancestors. ^Nobody knows and nobody cares who Adam's grandfather was. and there is not a man living who can tell the name of Brigham Young's mother- in-law." The lecturer urged upon hia hearera the neeeaaity of keeping up with the every day proceasion, and not pulling back in the harness. Hard wurk was never known to kill men it was the fun that men had in the ititervals that killed them. The fact was, mos;t people had yet to lesra what fun really was. A man might go to Europe and spend a million dollars, and then recall the fact that he had had a great deal more fun at a picnic twenty years ago that cost him just 65 cents. Tbe theory that the world owed every man a living was false. The world owed a man nothing. There was a living in the world for every man, however, provided that the man was willing to work for it. If he did not work for it. somebcKiy else would earn it, aad the lazy man would 'get left.' There were greater opportuni- ties for workers out West than in Eaitern cities, but men who went out West to grow up with that country must do their own growing. There is no browsing allowed in the vigorous West. An energetic man may go out into the far West, and in two or three years possess himself of a bigger house, a bigger yard, a bigger bam, and a bigger mortgage than he could obtain by ten yean' work in the East, All young men ought to mirry, and no young man ought to envy old men or rich men. In conclusion, Mr. Bardette said that a man should do well whatever he was given to do. and not despise drudgery. Looking oat for Lorne. It is understood to be the wish of the Queen that the Marquis of Lorae should be •ailed to the House of Lords by one of his faUier's minor titles, and tbat this will be done shortly after the opening of Parliament. It is said that Her Majesty^ object in this is to prepare the way lor the a[q;»9intment of Lord Lt;rae aithec as Yioeroy of India oar as Lord lieatemnt of Inland. In the one casetiManaaal inoome is $500,000, and in the other, f 100.000. SNOWED UP. .r«iir Days « a KoAy Kosatala Tralau Chsries Willis, a ^swnger on a train which was snowed under near Osier, was in Denver recently. In conversation with a repcrtcr he detailed hia experience. "We left Silverton last Sanday," he said. "A heavy snow storm was falling, but it wasn't very oold. When we got to Dara-i^ it com- menced snowing hard. It 80fmed to fall in flakes as )»g as your band. We had to plow tl rough the stuff for sevwal miles, and made headway like a ship against the wind. Abone three miles from Gait r we stopped, and thert we remained forever three days. We made the best of it we could. The women were half scared to death, and one of them want- ed to get out and walk. Her husband told her she could go if she wanted to, but after taking a survey she concluded to remain where she was. Lunch baskets were soon emptied, and a raid was made on the ex- press oar. There was little in it,' but what there was was confiscated by Tuesday night. Some parties came to us from Osier on snow shoes, and were kept busy afte r that pack- ing provisions until the road was cleared. We bad to melt snow for water, and didn't go unwashed if we did go without a change of clothing. If our quarters had not been so narrow and confined, we would have had an exce'lent time, avd tried to have one any. how, if we did but partially succeed. "At last, on Tueslay afternoon, we got an opening, bat had a hard time of it until we passed Toltec gorge. I suppose there are several millions of tons of snow in that pass alone. When we reached Sallitteitwas comparativelv easy traveling, aid thence on we had no difficulty. 1 was glad when we reached Pueblo. It was like getting into Paradise after having been in the frozen circle so graphically described by Dante but I think if Dante lad. ever been snow- bound for four days he could have improved upon his description," An Electrical Exposition in Phil' adelphia* Some time during the coming fall, Phil^ adelphia will hold what it is hoped will be the most important exhibition of electrical machines and methods so far convened any- where. Some very novel and startling events will mark this display of electrical power. It is proposed to place an electric light of 100,000 candle power in the bed of the Schuylkill River. This is to show how torpedoes and other warlike instruments can be detected before they do damage by ex- ploding. The developments of electrical science as applied to daily necessities are simply marvelous. A vast industry has thus been created in the last few years in- volving tens of millions of dollars. ' It has so far been found impossible to procure trained experts to supoly the demand for electrical machinery. In the classification adopted the different groups will consist of: First, apparatus for the production of elec- tricity second, electric conductors third, measurements fourth, applications of elec- tricity, under which there are two aubdiviai- ona, apparatus of small power and those of large power fifth, terrestrial physics sixDh, historical apparatus, and seventh, educational and biographical. The section devoted to measurements is probably one of the most interesting te scientista and the least known to the public of any ef the ex- hibits. A nonderful Bell. The temples at Kroto, Japan, savs a cor- respondent of the Philadelphia Press, hn mainly of interest on account of their bell, which swings in a monster wooden belfry half way up the hillside, back cf the build- ings proper. Tais bell is a huge bronzicup with nearly perpendicuar tides and a flat crown, and, like all other Japanese bells, is sounded by means of a huge beam kept in place by ropes, but, when occasion requires, brought again 3t the rim of the bell with great force. It r quires twelve coolies to manipulate this beam. Formerly it was only rung once a year, but now it may be heard two or three times every month. It is one of the greatest wonders in Japan. It is 18 feet high, 9 and a half inches thick, 9 feet in diameter, and weighs nearly 74 tons It was cast in a monster mould in the year 1633, As the bell was cast with the rim up the gold entering into its composition â€" com- puted to be 1,500 pounds â€" sunk to the crown. It has a magnificent tone, and when atruck by the opeu pilm the vibrations iliay be heard at a distance of one hundred yards. Leap Year Festivities. The season of leap year parties ia upon ual and the feelings with which these anomalous festivities are regarded by their votaries probably vary as widely as do their viewa of theology. There ara those to whom there ia alwaya a certain aavor of vulgarity about a leap year party, but those who ara less faa- tidioua the strongest sensation ii that of strangeness and an emotion of topsy-turvi- neaa. The unfortunate damsels who are entrapped into acting as escort to one of these gatherings generally emerge from the trying ordeal with a new sbuse of the weighty nature of the masculine duties, and, as a irule. find one experience quite sufficient for four years. It is amusing, moraover, to note how few people have the imagination or observation necessary to change places socially with one of the opposite sex, and satisfaotcrily to act the part. What seems at firat thought the easiest of undertakings, in reality requires no inconsiderable shara of histrionic poweri. It is usually safe for either lady or gentleman to set out for a leap year dance with the preliminary wager that before the evening is over both will have made half a dozen palpable and unde- niable blundera in their respective roles, and such book-making will be found success- ful beyond all pracedents in betting. "Mike," said a prieat to his servant, "if the Protestant minister calls to-day. re- member I do not wish to see him don't say I'm not at home, for that would be a lie. but give him an evasive answer." "Oak. I will." said Mike. "Well. Mike." said the priest inl the eveniag, "did ihe minister m^?" "Faix, he did, your riverence, ' ' 'What an- swer did you give him?" "I gave him an evasive answer, as yonr riverence towld me." "But what did yon say to him?" "Why, yonr riverence, he asked m^was yer at home, and I towld him, was hii grand- mother a donkey." -i-" 1] il ' "II t â-  ». "i -i i 1 -I' .tr^^ m I ' â-  i ' • ..1' â- fii (M t' .4,:^ --â€" -^»^ igiiji.