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“ Learn to curse fate,” interposes Mrs. Daryl, with her merry la"gb. “ Not a. bit of it ! Not while I am here ! A governess it shall be, and the children, lieve me, will learn as much from her in one month as they do from you in six. We’ll get an old mafid, and make her very comfortable, r t in 1” P03 Butâ€"g” , . “ Not a. word. Do you think I could sit still, or go out riding, and know you were ruining your constitution with such scenes as I have,j t gone through? Tut! What do you tell» _e for? Come,” changing her tone agafiias 1f the subject was over and done with; forever, “I want you to show me the mafia. in the west wing. They are all out of order,Bill)' says : but that’s what I like, it gives one scope for one’s imagin- ation. It permits one to give the reins to one’s own taste in the matter of paint and 3‘ With so much‘fime on my hands,” per. sists Margery, “ I feel I can do nothing ‘better than teach the children andâ€"~" “ Quite as ifishoul'djoe witE-a. pretty girl,” interrupts Mrs. Daryl. quickly. “Ah ! experienpe has ta}1gl_1b me thatf’ “ You meanâ€"” “ I mean a governess.” “ You must not think of that,” cries Margery, coloring hotly. “ We must not put you to that expense. My time is my own ; I have literally pothing to do.” “So they have ;every one of them, be- cause they haven’t: prepared any. And from this hour out I fancy I know what we’ll do. Our tempers wouldn’t last through much of this sort of thingâ€"” rap- ping the lesson booksâ€"“so we’ll just pay ‘ome _poor soul to lose her temper for us.” “I suppo:e they ought to get through the lessons they have prepared,” begins Margery, doubtfully. “ Rn than kovra - nIrnvuy Ann A: {'an kn- Then in a moment the anger vanished. and she lifts her hands to her head, and breaks into a fit of the gayest, the most un- controllable laughter. - “ I wonder when I was in a. passion be- fore,” she says. “ How it relieves one. The worst of it is it doesn’t last long enough with me ; I don’t get the good out'of it. It evaporates before I’m done with it. Say, children wouldn’t you like a run? It’s a. most blessed afternoon. It’s a. positive sin to be in doors, I think. And as for Europe, I don’t quite see that I should cry over it, even if the Mediterranenn did sit on its, “ Good! Good !” cries Mrs. Daryl, indig- nantly. “ Then tell me, will you, why it is she will presist 1n bounding Europe on the north by the Mediterranean Sea? I warn you she is dangerous. She would turn the wo_rld upside down. “ May !” exclazms Margery, glancing re- proachfnlly at. the trembling culprit. Then some inward force compels her to defend the little sister who is staring at her im- ploringly with quivering lips. “ Usually she is a. very good child,” she sayg, holding out her hand to May. . Five, ten, twenty-I minutes go fly, with In truth, it is a very picturesque old only a. dismal sob or two, and a dull mono- mansion, though sadly out Of repair, With a tone, or perhaps a dismal blowing of the queer. dUSkY h?“ 0f huge dimensions. A nose to break their deep serenity. Then hall full of anc1ent cupboards and abig fire- suddenly, all at once as. it were, an awful Place where the traditionary 0X might disturbance takes place. Mrs. Billy has, have been roasted wholeâ€"almost. The without a moment’s warping, flung her mantel-piece rises to the very ceiling, which book into the fire-place, and has risen im- 13 vaulted, and both are 80 51801! With age petuously to her feet. Her fine eyes are that it is impossible at a first glance to pick flashing, her cheeks crimson. out and piece together properly the carving “ She ought to be killedâ€"that child !” on the former. she cries, pointing to the terrified May. Doors lead off this hall to right and left, “ She ought to be exterminated before the l and two long corridors Shrouded by moth- world is made aware of her. She has no ‘: eaten curtains are dimly suggested. Mrs. more brain than aâ€"a. fly." Billy is openly pleased with everything. “ M35: 1” exclaims Margery, glancing re- Standing on the top of the quaint staircase; proachfolly at the trembling culprit. Then as broad 83 it is shallow in the steps, she some inward force compels her to defend looks down into the gloom beneath her, and the little sister who is staring at her im- seems enraptured. Five, ten, twentS; minutes go by, with only a. dismal sob or two, and a. dull mono- tone, or perhaps a dismal blowing of the nose to break their deep serenity. Then suddenly, all at once as. it were, an awful disturbance takes place. Mrs. Billy has, without a moment’s warning, flung her book ingo the fire-place, and has risen im- “ Oh, no! Indeed you mustn’t. You haven’t an idea. what a. worry it; is. Billy won’t like you to do it,” says Margery, anxiously. “Billy always likes just what I like.” “ You will hate it.” “ If I do, I’ll stop,” says Mrs. Billy, im- perturbably. And Margery,conquered,pass- 8‘ her over Blanche, and once more returns tojhe disturbed argument with qu. “ Here ! Give one of them to me,” she says briskly. “ To teach?” asks Meg, aghast. "To try and knock something into her brain. It’s the same thing, eh? But to judge by you I should say it was no mean task. Give me Blanche. I expect she knows considerably more than Ido, but with the helgpf a. bgok_ I’ll go in and win." “ Because. however 'poor they may be, they must not grow up altogether savages,” returns Margery with some sharpness. Her irritation has not arisen out of the presence of her sister-in-law, 'but is rather due to the extreme exhaustion born of a long and fruitlesa argument with the twins, who have obstinately declined to take to heart the fact that twelve and nine make twenty-one. Perhaps Mrs. Daryl, grasps the truth of the situation, because the amiability of her de- meanor is undiminished as she sinks into a chair by the table and settles herself, Paris- ian robe and all, to business. “Ah !” says Mrs. Daryl, surveying the hot cheeks of the three with evxdenb sur- prise. Blanche. it; appears to her, is full of tears; May just bereft. of them: Margery herselffzeems on the very brink of then}. u “ What on earth are S’ou doing it for 2” aska_Mrs. Dazjyl, slowly. _“T'eaching the children,” she answers, shorily- __ “ You here. Margery? Why, what are you doing?” asks she. She is dressed in a. pretty white gown of some soft warm ma. terial, the days being still a. little chilly, and is looking cool and fresh and radiant. Mar- gery, on the contrary, has a rather crushed appearance, and is distinctly warm and openly miserable. One day, toward the end of this first. eventful three weeks, she walks into the school-room rather aimlessly, to find Mar- gery_ there and the children.y As for Mrs. Billy, she is very well pleased with herself so far, and with her growing relations with them, and having no special designs in View, does not trouble herself to intent a._ny. She was as good as her word. By the next evening they have all learned to smile upon her, by the end of the third week they have all learned to positively court her so- ciety which l8 fresh to the last degree. Yet stilly they are a. little awkward with her, anda. little uncertain as to her ulterior de- signs ‘fortheir welfare. “ The (living up of a. single tear has more Of honest fame than shedding tear of gore." N CHAPTER III. g” OR, LOVE IS ALWAYS THE SAME. HIS HEIRESS; “Except its mistress,’ interrupts Mrs. Daryl, w1th a. little laugh. “That’s the E flaw in the present aesthetic run of thoughts iVVe an’t produce a. real chatelainé. We scan’t ring back a dame, severely Saxon, artistxcally pure, from the nauseous grave. {And all the high art- gowns m the world poem 1” cries Margery. Then ”she 0153st herself, and looks in a. puzzled way at her sister-in-law. “You who have such a fine appreciation of the really good, why do you disparage it ‘3" she asks slowly. “I thought of it an last night as a. thing just suited for you, as a retirementâ€"a. retreatâ€"a. pet place to receive your favorites. It was a. matter of covetousness to myself many a time, but you see it would be thrown away without its suitable adomments. Every- thing should be of its owu time.” _ “ Oh !” cries Mrs. Billy as she steps into it, with an admiration in her tone that leaves nothing to be desired. “What a. jolly little room.” She looks round her. “Quite a. mediaeval little affair. I!) is a. trifle too much for me I confess, but you" â€"glancing at Margery kindlyâ€"“ you like it, oh ‘3” “ Like it? _It is an ideaLthingâ€"a rugged “ Take care,” cries Margery suddenly, “a. step leads down into this room. It takes one unawares, as a. rule. But I want you to see this room of all others. The View from it is so perfect, and the wmdows so qua.igt_.”_ “ Wéll, it shall have it,” ans avers Mrs. Daryl. “ It is worthy of all care and con- sideration.” She turns. and they continue their way, peering into this room, peeping into that, to find them all dilapidated and shorn of decorations of all sorts, the finances of the last two generations having been found very insufficient when applied to the keeping up of so large a house. The Daryls for the past two centuries had apparently taken for their motto, “ Love and the world well lost,” their beautiful wives bringing nothing but their fair faces and a stainless ancestry to the empty coffers of their hus- bands. It had not been Billy’s fault that he had been false to the creed of his ancestors. He had loved, and had wooed and won his sweetheart when she was without a penny in the world ; and does not, because he 'could not, love her a whit the more to-day in that she is an heiress to a rather fabulous extent. “It wants considerably more than a. touch,” sags Margery, who after all 13 ac- customed to the beauty of it, and is not car- ried away by its charms. To her the chairs, the antlers, the tables are all only so much lumber; and, indeed, the entire furniture throughout the house is old, not- to say crumbly. “It only. wants a. word here, a. touch there,” she murmurs, casting a. glance full of artistic appreciation around. “A prince migiit be proud of such a ball as that. ” “ Only there isn’t-anything so decent as a spirits,” returns Margery. foilowing her swiftly. “ A cell, isn’t it? It is just the sort of rambling old tenement that should possess a gentleman with his head tucked well beneath his arm. But, alas! he has neyer turned up. Mean of him, I call it.” “ Now come and show me the uninhabit- ed parts, the rooms where the ghosts walk,” she says gany, springing up the beautiful old staircase two steps at. a. time. Mrs. Billy, having given voice to this medicated assurance,draws back,and, prov- identially in time, supports herself against the ancient book-case that for generations has shown itself proof against the severest onslaughts. This enables her to receive the shock of two small bodies flung convulsive- ly and without warning upon her breast, with at least a. show of valor. “ 0h 2” gasps May, hysterically, clinging to her, “ wasn’t it a. good thing for us that. yog _rr_1gr_ried_Billy?” She tEaré herself awa from theUgrateful twins, seizes Margery’s wrist, and with her escapes into the cqoler hall outside. ' “ Flight, howéver ignominious, means 1H9“! " gasps. Mrs. _Billy, “_so hege goes 1”_ _ They rise from their seats. Simultane- ously, involuntarily. they clasp hands. They draw near. “Is it true?” cry they in one breath. “As true as that you are both the very prettiest pair of dunces !” “Get on your feet, you two,” she com- mands gayly, “and pick me a bunch of daffodils for my room. And I’ll tell you what,” beckoning them closer to her, “from this day they shall have a. whole month of pure and lovely idleness whilst I took north and south and east and west for the dragon I am preparing for you.” She laughs‘ so pleasantly at this threat that the twins catch the infection of her mirth, and laugh too, and are indeed so :12.- lighted with her and the promised emanci- pation from the hated studies that their equanimity 15 quite restored. Can she, does she mean it? A month, mind you. A whole long splendid month of delicious idle~ ness, with nothing on earth to do but to hunt at will the wily butterfly ! Oh ! what an angel in disguise their enemy has be- come. “ Pondering on he children still '3” she says smiling. Then she glances back over her shoulder at the twins. who were sitting disconsolately in their seats, chilled by the consciousness of having signally disgraced themselves in the late encounter. “ Too rfiuch geography, grammar, and sums, and far too much gratitude,” thinks she s_wift_ly. She slips her arm through Margery’s, and the girl goes with her a step or two, There is indeed no gainsaying her. Then all at; once Margery stops as if to argue the point anew, and Mrs. Daryl, glancing at her, sees thaeher eyes are full of unshed tears. i Nearly 1,000 children are born yearly in. ' London workhousea. I Luuuuvu ULuuS valuing nu uuuuuy. “‘35,, 7": “ Eh? oh, no ! of course not in that stray. But it was all like a fairy tale, wa's‘iiW‘Ht; now '2 The night, it was finally settled} and. my claim to the money established "b‘éyond a. doubt, I laughed in my bed I’ehinjtell you when I thought of how comfortable; I could make my Billy.” ': “ Then ‘1” ;~ , , “ Then we got married. I quittcd forever the shade. I rushed headlong into th'e'su‘ni shine. Billy and I dawdled about a good deal in Paris and Brussels, but the first glimpse of home I had ever had in my life was on the night that I arrived here." in‘ voluntarily, at this, Margery wincesrbut evidently there is no arriere pensee in Mrs. Billy’s conversation. “ You were a continu- ation of the sunshine that had come to me with Billy. This old house, all of you, everything seems blended into one sweet satisfactory whole. I couldn’t bear to be in an empty house. To confess a truth to you,” says Mrs. Daryl, bending forward, “ I lov noise? Taken all that to heart ‘2” ‘ “ Yes, all,” replies Margery earnestly. “ Then it only remains for you to take me there, too 3” says .Mrs. Billy smiling. Margery, driven to a sudden impulse, turns to her and flings her arms around her. “ N oh so very enormous,” says M eg. £113in1 ing and pointingr menacingly to thgfi-flltt‘lg x roopfiod toing tolkjng so fluently. “5,1 “Monotohy is the worst of all miseries to some natures. They were not absolutely un- kind. but I felt ‘ cribb’d cabin’d’ every mo- ment of my day. Oh. ' the horrible readings aloud to that old man until my throat was sore ! the eternal windings of the old wom- an ’s skelns ! I wonder I never gave way to my inner promptings- that I abstained from murder or suicide; I was almost at the end of my patience. [ can tell you, when Billy came upon the scene. Well, you know all that. And he loved me at once, somehow: all in moment as it was just as I loved him." “That is the true way." “ Yesâ€"isn’t it? What a nice girl you are Margery ! And I hadn’t a single half- penny then, so he must have meant all he said, eh? I like to dwell on that; it makes me feel right do wn proud, somehow; but you mustn’t mind me. Then the old general died and someone found out that I was his nearest of skinâ€"kinâ€" What is it? And all at once I became not only an heiress, but an enormous one.” HenThere. now, how very provoking! I’vo left the__przyyer books at home. Sheâ€"Well; (fear, never mind, but do tell me is my bonnet straight? 10v 9‘)" a. “Don’t you get itinto your silly old nod- dle,” says Mrs. Billy, who takes no thought for her language, “that I’m making sacrifices l for my husband’s people or anything of that l sort. It would be a downright fraud if you 1 brought your mind to that. I’m delighted, 3 glad, thankful to have you all here. Taken ; that in, eh? Delighted, see? I have been so :long left alone, with only two old frowzy people to stare at day after dayâ€"fossils who were always on the very brink, but who would’nt go into itâ€"that the sound of the laughter that comes from all you girls and boys is, I consider, grand ; the very sweet- est music. Taken all that in? Why, that’s right.” “ Butâ€"to he never alone with Billyâ€"” “There isn’ta ‘but’ in the whole of it. I defy you to find one, my good child,” interrupts this energetic young woman, promptly. “If you think I’m the sort to be miserable unless my husband is in my sight all day or I in his you’ve made a mis- take, that’s all. I’m not of the 'sickly sentimental order, by any means. Yes,” glancing swiftly at Margery, “ You know that Ilove Billy with all my heart and soul, eh?” “Yes,”gravely. “I know it.” “I should, you know. He rescued me from a very slough of despond. He was the first bright thing I had come in contact with. I can tell you I rubbed myself against him vigorously, and sparks was the. result ! He was charming to me, he treated me as though I were really a young girl, and not a mere beast of burdenâ€" a sort of superior upper servan tâ€"a being a. degree better than M artha in that I did not displace my 11’s, and could sit in a drawing-room without 1 looking awkward. He came. He loved l me; poor dependent, as I was. And he is one of you! Do I not owe you love for his j “ Your life was miserable ‘2” asks Margery, bengiipg eagerly tpward her._ __ She seats herself with very rash prompt- ness upon a. moth-devoured seat in one of the windows, and pulls the girl down beside her. There is secret nobility about this seat in that though it, trotters to its fall, it makes one last, etl'ort and manages to keep erect for still another half hour. How could it ugset so charming a. cargo? __ " Look hére' : If you only knew "’ inter- poses Mrs. Billyt “An inc'umbrance, a. worry, being of no moment at all in the life that is just begin. ning for you. Yet it seems as thquh you had made up your mind to usâ€"toâ€"” h [An]. L--- - ‘r: n-.. -..1.. I-..‘... m :-¢...., “ I was just-thinking,” the words coming from her slowly, “that there are few wom- en who could have come as a. mistress to a. strange house and have adopted an uncon- scionable number of useless people in the syveet spirit that you have done ‘3” cries the glrl, coming more into the sunlight and spreading out her hands as if in protest. “ Au :“Ai‘mlxmn-nnn ........ 1.‘2___ A: _- “Well? Wm" don’t. you speak, eh?a}1d Why do you look at; me like that, Wlth sug‘h_solem_n eye}? , ~ . “ eh ‘3” Some thought grofing withuf the n1i_1}$of_Marggry renders her dumbh There is something re rarkably éheery in the‘wfiiyflshe has ot_ saying that-{requqnt A sort of a. snuggery where tfiey might kpock around at; will, and no one have the right to s_cold them for untidypgss, _eh? “ A Philistine; you mean. In some ways, yes. Exaggeration, don’t you see, is odious to me.” Here she laughs gayly in unison with her companion. “ Tell you what, Meg,” she says, “ this room shall be yours. I’ll have it done up for you, and yOu shall choose every stick for yourself. You are Miss Daryl, you see, and proper respect must be showu you. The school-room will do for the children well enough. It is comfortable, and there is something quaint about the tables and chairs, and the very ink-stains of it. But the boys should have a: den of their own. Of their very own, eh? don’t s_eem to me to do it. One can see the nineteenth century training all through the puf-f‘s'alnd wigs, and_pensjv9_ poses. :’_ - “You aFe' a. sEeptic,"'sa.ys Margery, lavshieg-M, At a. Church Door. (TO BE CONTINUED.) g: “ fli iii ‘1 mm} ’ ' "'0 'ewflrfl' ' . '. . . . care as'a='man"e {gage-£15: aceticlapphsneeafosswmginstall-memes; ,w L s1 - h: theofficersof a ship when it. enters Wit?" primer .3 Stg‘LQu‘is‘ébtttire ‘ - x . ,, , , .... . w" ,~ â€". En slow,'de unu'Eaignl ‘o-f ai-tem'perature‘so ’l0w“as to indicate the bag ' ' W - ' it of an iceber . The solution of I:1:(ij.s:r;1)ti-lo’ollrem‘may.Lpossilgly be facilitated _by the publicationflftheideas of an electrician as to the lines on which’such an-einven tion might «Well: be ‘based; ‘ The poles of a key'an said, ‘ Here, here lth class 2 Get a hustle on you ‘ thatb ke St. Louis all up. ‘ rawlh ding ’ Memphis for a 1‘ we we terribly sore); and to , u galvanic battery mightbe connected by -‘“%°‘3'ilffi°eth““*°°”‘d ““‘r Wires forming two circuits, , one, much 713113? er than the ether._ , ‘A properly constructs zed; ‘ thermometer could: E hapless-ll “so; as to be submerged by the water, Whlqhntifllgg the en' ines of the ship are in‘moti‘on’) is c n- ' f‘orm' ashogter electrie<»;mifihtbe l Ziiteand cggegéd' to the tube of the ther- l mometer, so that when the temperature of l the sea. water passing in contact with it is at l or above a predetermined “danger line,” the ! mercury therein will be in contact with the ends of the wire and complete the circuit. When the temperature of the water causes the mercury in the tube to fall below the “danger line,” or, in other words, so low as to break the contact, the electric current will have topass over the longer circuit, and in so doing may be made to ring an alarm ‘ hell on the bridge or any other part of the ship, as may be desired. Unless the cur- rent is then switched oh“ by the oflicer of ‘ the ship the bell will continue to ring until I the ship passes into water of a temperature .. flarlriéiiy. itinua yssmg‘from “file'fsfea'iir'itif the"? 115‘ ‘~ -: 7 ‘for th sp pose 'oxwinden‘sm‘g stash. may. (1:.- ma‘de 'feel-' like a“ muffs! {won th Derby. Exsaw‘fiiex {longs 0. He doesn’tsyeara I'n'éyifi'pii his‘pantfi‘in‘ his" 1)ng " ’ry fa} from being a'diideys sl‘ r . "- ~..-': {“3} A Momentous Que§l Miss Softheartâ€"“ What in so sad Mr lVagg? I have no have looked very gloomy of 12 Waggâ€"“ Well, I’ll admit i subject that has worried me for some time.” Miss Softheartâ€"“Could I h way (3” VVaggâ€"“ Well, I don’t i know.” Miss Softheartâ€"“ But Mr might tell me what it is.” W'aggâ€"“ Well, Miss Softln I can’t for the life of me see such a beautiful place that nc to leave it, what in the wort wings for.” A New York electrical journal some time ago told of an incident that occurred in the fitting up of a new office building near the New York end of the Brooklyn bridge. The engineer of the building wished to wire the ofiices throughout for the electric light in addition to the gas~pipes on which the conservative proprietor insisted. But all his arguments were in vain, and the ap- parently useless extravagance of electric wiring was obstinately vetoed. Suddenly, however, a. happy thought struck the vener- able owner : “ Why,” he said, “if the- wires carry electricity can’t you make them carry gas, too?” A counterpart of this story is now told of a shipyard carpenter, a. native of Troon, on the coast of Ayrshire, Scotland. When the contract for lighting the first three steamers fitted with electric light at the Troon ship yard was completed, this man formed one of a social party gathered to treat the electricians who had made the installation and otherwise celebrate the event. In a. burst of candor and comrade- ship he was overheard saying to one of the wiremen : “Man, Peter, efter workin’ wi’ you on they boats, I believe I could put in the electric licht mysel’, but there’s only ae thing that bates me.” “Aye, what is that :2” said his interested companion, will- i'xi‘fg' fipihehpigumif i‘t lay in his power. “It’s this” an: d nnfifin‘nfihoo you get the ile Man} he wires !” ‘ ‘ , U my! «te'z {33.713153 ~4-9fi- 33:25:35 $333322; .2 ~5;.:'!,4N WWW PINEEfii-J‘ (tuna: :- 7,24 gamma; hfiflcihwmmdhithataain. excieflfnt jamming no‘m ,qfi'ers;. itself $4.39 electrlcal inventors for"devisiiig‘ in auto; One of the greatest difliculties that the photographer has to contend with is the preservation of the natural expression of the sitter for the period of exposure. Not- withstanding that this period ,has been greatly shortened in various ways, particu- larly by the adoption of the magnesium light in photographic practice, nervousness plays such a. large part in the temperament of the great majority of those who are anxious to hand down their presentments to posterity that the operator has often found the interval even too prolonged for the accomplishment of his perfect work. This diflieulty has been overcome by Herr Haag, in Stuttgart, by means of a change , in the management of the magnesium light. l Herr Haag has made some lightning cart- ridges, which cause a tremendous develop- ment of light, and are set alight in one-tenth of a second by means of electricity. It is said that the so-called “natural photo- graphs ” taken by this process preserve the mental expression and momentary play of the features with extraordinary clearness and exactitude. It appears that for its suc- cessful operation this apparently simple method requires much skill and practice, and the “ natural photographs ”are at pres- ent made only by a single photographer in Berlin, and are still very expensive. An ingenious form of electric safety lamp is now made for use in dangerous mines, powder magazines and all places where an accidental breakage of the glass bulb might lead to an explosion. In order to entirely eliminate the chance of any such danger the inventor has inclosed the lamp proper in an absolutely air-proof lantern, the peculi- arity of his device being the means of switching the light on and off. The wires are attached to terminals on the base of the lantern, and underneath the lamp socket there isa small pair cf bellows which make the necessary Contact on being slight- ly inflated. On the cap of the lantern is an air valve to which a rubber pear-shaped syringe can be attached. On compressing this the bellows become distended and switch the light on. Should the lantern fall and be broken, the escape of the com- pressed air releases the switch and instant- ly cuts off the current. Moreover, should the interior lamp happen to be broken, the superfluous air fills up the vacuum, and the same effect takes place. AN ELECTRIC HORN. A. electric horn has been devised to take the place of electric bells or gongs, more especially on ships where an alternating current of electricity is available. The ap- paratus is based upon the principle of the .telephone receiver, and consists, in its sim- plest form, of a disk of sheet-iron placed in front of one of the poles of an electro mag- net, the coil of which is arranged to take an alternating current of 100 volts, with a current of a given number of alternations, the pitch of the note is constant, no matter what the diameter or thickness of the disk may be, since the latter is obliged to vibrate at the same rate. The timbre and intensity of the sound, however, can be made to vary in a number of ways. In order to obtain an intense sound with a small amount of current, the diaphragm, or disk, must strike, whilst vibrating, the iron core, or some other body. In this apparatus there is no break in the current, as occurs in the ordinary electric bell, and the sound is therefore continuous. A NE\Y SAFETY LAMP FOR MINERS. ELECT RICITY IN PHOTOGRAPHY. NEWS OF ELECTRICITY- LIG HT AND DARKNESS. i “Everyman in the office left his desk and. (1‘; \gather ryd round t e ‘ j’ay to see what he‘ "‘" ’Was :10 gwith t teiectrrc eycibige. wen, ‘ figs, 11 was rig t on;€he,.wo dfayd. was uttui 1t down 1 thegi'etu E late! u ever saw, even-(crossing is t’s,. Rattan his? 8 andfunctuutmg with” much": i.- ’ care as a man edrtifig j’clé pbg‘fbr ‘ rat ’1. 1‘} 'p'rihterLé” Sti' Louis‘gqt tire By; add”. ty and; ; -,,' {began slow down. Ediébn opened the ' key an said,‘ Here, here! this 12 no primer class! Get aimstie on you 1’ Well, sir, that b ke St. Louis all up He had been ‘ raw '1) ding’ Memphis for a long time, and we We terribly sore andto have a man imam flice thoatponld walk all met him “made feel like a“ man- w‘hosmiior hit]: if] {won th Der_by. F. saw theifiwfizahl' ' k'ey'ézn class 2 that’b ‘ rawih we w‘e ins out: 4 made 11 “ At the end of the line was an operator who was chain lightning and knew it. Edi- son had hardly got seated before St. Louis responded and St Louis started in on along report, and he pumped it in like a. house afire. Edison threw his leg over the arm of his chair, leisurely transferred a wad of spruce gum from his pocket to his mouth, picked up a pen, examined it critically, and started in, about 200 words behind. He didn’t stay there long, though. St. Louis let out another link of speed, and still an. other, and the instrument on Edison’s table hummed like an old-style Singer sewing machine. “ I was an operator in the Memphis ofice when Thomas A. Edison applied to the manager for a position,” said A. G. Rock- feller, a member of the Reminiscence Club, St. Louis. “ He came walking into the office one morning looking like a veritable hayleed. He wore a hickory shirt, 9. pair of butternut pants tucked into the tops of boots a size too large and guiltless of black- ing. ‘ Where’s the boss?’ was his query as he glanced round the office. No one re- plied at once and be repeated the question. The manager asked what he could do for him, and the future-great proceeded to strike him for a job. Business was rush- ing and the ofice was two men short; so almost any kind of a. lightning sling- er was welcome. He was assigned to a desk and a fussillade of winks went the rounds of the omce, for the ‘ jay ’ was put on the St Louis wire, the hardest in the office. A Momentous Quefitisé's‘ * Miss Softheartâ€"“ What makes you look so sad Mr ‘Vagg? I have noticed that you have looked very gloomy of late.” Waggâ€"“ Well, I’ll admit that there is a. subject that has worried me a. great deal for some time.” Miss Softheartâ€" “Could I help you in any wav ‘3" During the year 1892 17,296 vessels arriv- ed at the port of New York. In this num- ; ber are included onlysteamers, ships, berks brigs and schooners. Of this total 8,705 were coastwise vessels. Of the remaining 5,383 vessels were from foreign ports. Great Britain heads the list with 2,638; America. comes next with a. total of 1,228, and Germany is third on the list with 561. In 1891 the number of vessels of this class was 17,271. . Burgess McLuckie, of Homestead fame , says : “ Over $270,000 worth of material has been dumped into the river which has been spoiled in experimenting in making ingots, and over $1,000,000 worth of ma.- chinery has been destroyed by this unskill- ed labor. This is a. great deal of money for even a. Carnegie to lose. Besides this he has lost all the big jobs given him by the Government. and his old men are getting them out in other mills. As another re- sult of his trouble Mr. Carnegie has given up his space at the World’s Fair.” Miss Softheartâ€"“Could I in way (3” VVaggâ€"“ Well, I don’t. I: know.” Miss Softhearbâ€"“ But Mn might tell ;r_x§_what it is.” '1', V'Vaggâ€"“Well, Miss Sci I can’t for the life of me: such a beautiful place tha to leave it. what, in tho m wings for. During the last twenty years the area of land in England under the plow has dimin- ished by very nearly 2,000,000 acres, or over 14 per cent. The amount of arable land in Wales has diminished 21 per cent. in the same period. In Scotland. on the con- trary, it has increaeed by 78,000 acres. Four hundred years ago the annual pro- duction of pig iron amounted to 60,000 tons, and France produced one-nmth of It, more than any other country. Now the annual output is about 30,000,000 tons, and France contributed only one-fifteenth of 1t. The United States produced more than one- fourth of the whole amount. c There are 45,000 union bricklayers in the United States and Canada. Union men say there are only 4, 000 non union men in both countries. They have $283, 000 in the treas- ury. Union carpenters have sent $4,000 to Homestead. Chicago building trades want convict-cut marble abolished. New England has gained 500 union car- penters in a month. A Detroit dealer was fined $25 for using a. counterfeit of the union cigar label. A law making fifty-eight hours a. week’s work is before the Rhode Island legislature. Bufl'alo has an anti-monopoly league and the first assault will be made on the tele- PhBPe company- - .. n.5- ‘ The eighlt-haur day is in efi'ect for carpen: ters in forty-seven cities, and nine hours I; the rule for union men in 400 towns. Washington prohibits the sale of cigar- ettes. There are forty-six hodcarrier unions. Boston bakers will abolish Sunday work. Cincinnati bricklayers want eight hours. There are said to be 20,000 union hnkers. Chicago has 2,030 brotherhood engineers. Cincinnati has twenty union barber shops. New Zealand K. of L. will fly co-opera- tion. iill céase to ring. high enough to cguse the menu m we thermometer to use and restore con- tinuity of thefihorter circuit, when the 1'31! Chicago gasfitters want $4 a. day. Buffalo is offered one dollar gas. “IN THE INDUSTRIAL WORLD. a. tle doesn’ t wear a lyckg shirt .. his panté- m 1113 b§5Â¥},"l§u he 'i‘s ’ L‘from being adlid deyét mâ€"Hizm'w! I. i am, When BdisOn was Young. aautiful place tl‘k’u no one will want it, what in the w orld will we need P, ” andpuncmaging whh'g'g mu°53"‘7' ‘ .- .' ‘esirtifim'de‘ F 'pbgefegg way}: ; .5 'Lqfi‘éqt'tire ffiyigqqmy arm;- -. r: (3on 713353903, Opene d. the' i. .15: ‘ Here, here ! this is no primer hustip or: you 1’ Well, sir. to cause the menu know, I don’t -. Wagg, you 33x3}: It is reported for some time a couver and Ne been agitating a Government. a vets failed m‘lm Jinnah ‘9? 313:; he Two men, 33.1 to have read ed Stuart lake lam men may turn { Braden, the ‘mi: Senator Sanf the Hamilton 1 representative Congress of Ce in C hicago dun miwee. All a meat and the L against the see The Montrea conferred the c' Charles Chiniq of Woodstockq Muir, of Haiti It is rumour: vate secretary gaged in conne question, will Queen’s Birthd Cook, the I been confined i for some weeks has almost com soon be diSchal The Nova Assembly pas: Woman 8 Sufi? teen to ninetec The will of 3 don, Ont-., abo: tasted by his (1 sion. Mr. Bin C. McFie Co favour of Hr. J that, establisme named Fitzhen lawyer, agains1 {or unlau l at the former m g ed in asking qq Mrs. Catheri age, an inman dustry. St. Th¢ window at than and received 1: about two hour On Wednesd: man found Mr. lying senseless Ottawa, and co he was drunk 1 station, where] Yesterday mom was suffering i: so much valuah his recovery w: The Commej resumed basin Baron Ho: Ireland. has i importation 0: Ireland. The shat-dial railway will b! May 10th. Ti as to the expe stock. "vii-11' now be} that they are public meeting A British'cx ing under F re: beard sixty c napped from French protect In reply 10 Commons yeet‘ tax-y Buton su providing for a islands was sti The situatio: the strikers, a dicstvion the 81 its struggle to k :xam an apex Signatures a petition to th for the clemen John R. Arno} The negotiat ment between employers in 03, and hostili ‘ The Newtod failure this eel expected to yi fourth of last l Delegates l camps of the V at London, 3:14 of the order id 1 The Canadil‘ and locate the! between Alasli left Ottawa fol Friday was of the murder A young E mined suicide ing a. dose of] The Trades ilton has pass Opening the n bury on Sand The revenuc Vancouver, B4 cs compared v mg month 13.31 The New pssed a resol‘ (ion, and urgi to pass a peck fonn'yag a wh‘ The revenu the nine mom surplus of $5, Prominent Board of Tm. Then: was 3;. ‘-1.)l‘idd,