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the impulses are received upon the
strings OF another instrument in harmony
with the first the notes may be trans
mitted. The notes may represent
the letters of the alphabet and
each operator can send three
times as many messages an hour
as by the ordinary Morse transmitter
The working capacity of the line can
thus be enormously increased without
interruption By Wheatstone's auto
matte instrument 10000 words an hour
have been transmitted, or over six solid
miniOn columns of the Chicago Tribune
One column of the Tribune. or 800
woras, has frequently been sent between
Washington and New York in one min
ute. This seems almost fabulous, but it
is fact for all that.
In addition 10 this messages from Bos-
ton and other Eastern cities to San Fran
cisco are now transmitted by automatic
repeaters, instead of operators, saving
an enormous sum and insuring greater
accuracy. Eight years ago comparative
ly little use was made of the telegraph.
Now the business is already great and
the rush at night has caused the estab-
lishmept of half rates. With all these
vast improvements in the apparatus and
powers of the telegraph there has come
an enormous reduction in the cost of
transmitting dispatches This is mat
ter of course. In 1857 it cost the West
ern Union Telegraph Company 81 600,
600 TO send 5000, 900 messages; in 1874 it
cost So 1855 600 to send 10000. 900
messages 300 per cent. increase of bust
ness with less than 10 per cent increase
of expenses.
1t would naturally be supposed that
the charges had been lowered in some
thing like proportion to these wonderful
hgures, but, unfortunately though there
has been slight average reduction, the
rates from New York to Pittsburgh Gin
cinnati, Chicago, New Haven, Spring
teld and other large cities are actually
higher than they were in 1867 Between
Chicago and New York, for message of
ten words, the sender is taxed 81 Is
twelve and half cents word. Com
pare this with the rates in Great Britain
From Lands End, IN Cornwall. to Kirk
wall, in Scotland, a distance of 700 miles.
| Geographic dispatch of twenty words
costs one shilling. From Cork, in Ire
land, to London, Edinburgh, Norwich,
York, anywhere, the samoa trifle over
one cent a word Ten years ago the tele-
graph was more used in the United States
than any other country in proportion to
population; now rates have been reduced
in Europe and the use of the telegraph
has increased. Experience shows that
high rates limit the growth of business
| and increase the cost, for the expenses
increase on each telegram as the num-
Der diminishes, while both at home and
abroad it is a settled axiom that when
ever the rates have been uniformly re-
duced so per cent. at one time the bust
| ness has increased 100 per cent, while
the expenses have increased but so per
cent.-Chicdgo Tribune.
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Wasted ElOquence.

The Baltimore Bulletin has the follow
| ing: Some years ago young lawyer
OF Baltimore struggling for recognition
In his profession, and achieving nc very
| rspld or brilliant success in it, had a
case fall into his hands that promised a
| pretty good fee. A gentlemans pocket
had been picked of a watch. and the thief
was in Jail enjoying an excellent prospect
of protracted term in the penitentiary,
| the evidence connecting him with the
crime being very complete The LAWYER
we might as well say who it was at
| once and be done with it-Mr. John l..
Thomas, called on mis- incarcerated client
and had a talk with him Did YOU steal
the watch?' Well, no, not exactly. You
| see L was in the crowd that did it, and it
was passed to me. But I'll tell YOU
what, Mr.. Thomas, if you'll get me of
I'll give you this watch in addition to
the hundred dollar retainer you have
| already Mr.. Thomas looked at the
watch and found it a splendid piece,
worth $500 easy. 1t would appear that
Iowsontown had gained a reputation
even in those days, for Mr.. Thomas
first step was to change the venue to that
county The case came mp in due sea-
son, and the prisoner, the counsel, the
hand. Somehow or other the chief
prosecuting witness, upon whose evil
dence rs the loser of the watch the
prisoners fate depended while waiting
Tor the court to reach the easel, got TO
drinking Towsontown whisky. We
ourselves have done some public
service in calling attention to
this dangerous compound, but it
would seem that its qualities were not
then known rs they are now. At any
rate, when the witness got on the stand
and Mr.. Thomas got al him he was so
mixed that 1t was only out of Christian
charity that Mr.. Thomas was induced to
refrain from making him prove that he
had stolen his own watch himself. Tie
eulprlt was discharged from custody and
he handed Mr.. Thomas the promised
watch and an extra 800 besides The
emotions of the late prisoner ard his
friends found vent in the Smedlev House
In the appropriate apartment, and Mr.
Thomas, feeling 10 certain extent re-
sponsible for their safe return to Balti.
more. hired an omnibus and all drove
into town in a condition of great happi-
ness. Mr.. Thomas went home quite
pleased with the days work Well,
john said one of the family, made a
big fee to-day, didn't yous' oh, yes,
repiied Mr.. Thomas, smiling and putting
MS hand in his vest pocket. \ shadow
of doubt overspread his countenance :;
II deepened into positive alarm, and then
with look of blank dismay and disgust
he sank into chair. While coming in
the bus his rascslly client had relieved
him of both watch and fee. Several
years afterward, when Mr.. Thomas had
made name in the profession and had
become Prosecuting Attorney, he saw
among the batch of new Cases in the
Criminal Court the very fellow who had
served him such trick The man saw
him, his countenance fell, and he plead
guilty on the spot and got ten years
across the Falls. But you should hear
Mr.. Thomas tell this story himself"
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What Rats Are Good For.

OF what use is the rat to man. Well,
not very much that we know of; yet q
few items NAV be mentioned Probably
we must not attach much Importance to
the alleged prophetic power of the rat
that if he gnaws persons clothes, that
person will speedily die; that if he sud
denly quits house, the house Will very
shortly be burned down; that if he de
serts a ship, the ships in a sinking state.
4 mill al PEBBLES was suddenly deserted
by a whole colony of rats, about twenty
years ago: two hours afterWafd the mill
was burned down. But it must be said
that the logic is very weak which proves,
from these facts, the possession of any
prophetic power by Mr. Rat. We have
evidence that he has sometimes been
made useful as an X. E or an r. A
James, in his Military Dictionary,
says: " Rats are sometimes used
in military operations, particular
ly in enterprises for the pur-
pose of setting fire to gunpowder. On
these occasions q lighted match is tied
to the tail of the animal. Marshal Nau-
ban recommends. therefore, that the
walls OF powder magazines should be
N ide very thick, and the passages for
light and air so narrow as not TO admit
rats. We do not know whether a cruel
sport can be called useful employ
ment of rats; but an account is given
OF strange proceeding at Rome.
4 large number of rats were dipped in
spirits of turpentine, set on fire, and
made to rush down an open flight OF
steps near the Vatican they reached
the bottom as masses of charred flesh.
amid the shouts of the populaCe. Rats
are worth three shillngs a dozen to
furnish a supply to those brutal am
billions in which Tat-killing terriers
show their power. Rats are also caught
for the value of the skins. There is a
firm IN Paris which buys the skins for
this purpose. The fur is dressed into a
very good substitute for beaver, while
the pelt or membrane is dressed into
leather so fine, elastic and close as to be
used for the thumbs of the best gloves
II anyone believes that rats are not used
for human food he must change his
opinion. In Paris the chitfoniers or bone
grubbers eat them. Gypsies eat such
rats as are caught in stacks and barns,
and are less strong in flavor and odor
than those that feed omnivorously In
China split rats are bought as a dainty
An English surgeon of some note had
them cooked for his own eating In a
man of-war, where the rats made havoc
with the biscuit, the sailors had n regu-
lar battle and brought down numbers of
them; Jack made rat-pie, baked it and
liked it. At The siege of Malta the
French garrison, when famished, offered
as much as dollar a head for rats, o.
two dollars if barn-fed During the
siege of Paris, in the late Franco German
war, many tasted rat who had never
tasted it before-AU the Year Round.
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Burglars Rights.

CERTAIN practical questions concerning
the duties and iui1nunities of citizens IN
protecting life and property from the
depredauons of professional criminals
have been discussed in connection with
the recent prompt and admirable admin.
istration of justice upon the two burglars
whose lives paid the forfeit of their
crime when discovered plundering Judge
Van brunts house at Bay Ridge, Long
Island. In connection Herewith letter
of inquiry was addressed to Mr.. Charles
oConor, in which the queries were pro-
pounded as TO whether there is "a law
on the statute books in regard to the
challenging of burglar by his in
tended victim before firing on him, even
when in the act of plundering his goods,"
and whether the law would Justify a
person in firing on and killing a burglar
simply on seeing him endeavoring to eff
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feet ar entrance ilto his house at night'"

feet ar entrance into his house at night"
Mr.. O'Conor replies as follows:
- see no present occasion for consid-
ering the technical questions stated.
Men who devote their lives TO house
breaking and theft as an occupation can
hardly be said TO have any rights which
others are bound to respect. Their
habitual pursuit justly condemns them
to outlawry. At least such is their con-
dition while prowling in the nighttime
within or around the dwellings of their
intended victims. When, in the attempt
TO execute felonious enterprise, they
happen TO be slain by the family whom
they are seeking to plumber, public jus
tice will institute no fastidious scrutiny.
No one will inquire whether all the
forms or ceremonies were observed
which some ancient law iver or mod
ern enactment for that case made and
provided may have discreetly sug-
gested, whatever may be the strict law
applicable to the case; and, what
ever exact duty might enjoin,
no magistrate will commit the
slayer to prison, no grand jury will indict
them nor will any District Attorney pros
ecute or petit jury convict. If, indeed,
any one in this line of official authorities
could be found to act adversely the
next in succession would be apt to repu-
date his dOings, or if a concurrence Of
the whole could be imagined, ending in
a conviction, it is very certain that no
Governor would hesitate an instant in
| awarding to the accused safe deliver
I anCc by his dispensing power
The Van Brunts were justified in
| point Of morals Their race-the Hol-
| land Dutch of New York-rarely fail to
meet with appropriate action any emer-
geDcy appealing to honor and bravery.
! Let US not enter into any nice criticisms
upon the manner of their achievement
it was just and beneficial; applause Is
their due. AL honest men viii accord
it frankly and in unstinted measure"
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USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

To MAKE butter from foaming cream
take a kettle of " alter and heat it TO 100
deg Fair. Then set your crock of cream
in the water and let ii remain until il
has a temperature of 90 deg, stirring it
occasionally while warming Then put
it into the churn and churn it.-Prairie
Farmer.
A GOOD washing compound may be
made thus: One pound soda ash, one
half pound stone lime (unslacked), six
quarts water. Boil one hour and half,
let it settle and turn into jugs for use.
Put the clothes into tub of cold water
over night In the morning put four
pals of water into the boiler and one
pint of soap and one-half pint of fluid
let this come to boil. Wiring out the
clothes from the tub; put them in the
boiler; boil onehalf hour, and then
rinse we'll in an abundance of water
Exchange.
PURE soft water is the best of ali blood
purifiers. 1t dissolves almost every i'm
purity that may find its way into the
blood and passes it off through the skin,
lungs and kidneys, thus washing out the
blood without any irritation in passing
through the system and without those
chemical changes and deposits which
are likely to arise from the action of
drugs. Why then use doubtful dan
gerous and often injurious drugs for pu-
| pleasant, and far more effectual water
| may be had without money and without
price, Science Of Health.
To PREVENT INGRowING TOE NAILS
This very painful disease of the great
toes may be obviated by the very simple
expedient of trimming the nails perfect
| ly square like the edge of a chisel or
| plane bit, being careful never to leave
any ragged edges, and let them grow
hong. When thus trimmed snd Kept so,
the edges grow square and smooth and
cannot infame and tester. This COM
plant is frequently so severe that suf-
ferers have had their toe nails taken out
| by the roots while under the influence of
chloroform.
! POTATOES are a standard article of food
on most tables, but they are often so
badly cooked that they are neither pala-
table nor wholesome. AS a breakfast
| dish they are excellent. We like them
| prepared thus: Select the smaller ones
| leaving the larger ones for dinner-scrape
off the skins OF new potatoes, put them
| into cold water for ten minutes, have
water boiling, and cook them twenty
minutes; pour off the water and add a
cup Of milk or cream, and thicken it with
a little -four and butter rubbed together
Butter never floats on the surface when
mixed with -four thus, nor does the -four
trouble you with Jumps. 1t is just as
well, however, to leave out the butter,
mixing the -four with a little cream
| Prairie Farmer
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No UNCERTAIN SoUND-When a man
discovers a great truth it is his duty to
proclaim it to his fellow-man The use
of DR.. WALKERS VINEGAR BITTERs can
not be too strongly recommended to the
invalid public. TO those who have tried
it nothing need be said-their experience
is their proof, pure and positive as Holy
Writ. To those who have not tried it
these truths cannot be too often repeated.
1t is certain vegetable specific which
aids faltering nature against the tri-
umphs of dyspepsia, bilious disorders of
every kind malarious fevers, constipa-
ton of the bowels, liver complaint,
Spring and Fall debility, etc, etc. 1t
costs but little and can always be at
hand. 1t is the poor mans friend 1t
saves doctors bill and the time lost
in riding five, ten, or twenty miles after
him; besides being free from all the
poisonous indictments of the pharma-
copeia. 1t will not stimulate you to-day
to leave you weaker tomorrow. Its
benefits are permanent. IS
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sorbed every drop Of water in their
crops. The birds will then be in an
uneasy, restless and feverish condition
Perhaps ten or twelve hours must elspse
before the suffering creatures can have
access to water. When the morning
does dawn their fountain of water is
frozen up, perhaps, or they must eat
snow, or their owner has failed to provide
supply of the luscious beverage.
Hence arrangement of the hens egg
producing functions is sure to follow
such treatment, so that the abundant
secretion in the ovarium will be entirely
arrested. By injudicious management
hens often become so dyspeptic that they
cannot macerate and digest a sufficient
quantity of grain in the course of
| week TO form an egg. The range
of many flocks is often where
they cannot find a single grain of
coarse sand or fine gravel. Conse-
quently large portion of their food
must pass through the gizzsrd without
being crushed. Hence it will not be
digested. Every domestic fowl and the
birds of the air are provided with mini
allure gristmills in the form OF gravel
stones within the gizzard for the pur
pose of crushing the hard pieces of food
The gravel stones soon pass away and
the birds must have others or they can
not macerate their rough food Thou
sands of poulterers never think it neces-
sary to provide gravel for their hens
Then, as the birds fail to produce eggs
they administer dose of pepper and
other obnoxious condiments When an
editor is weary and hungry it would just
be as sensible to supply him with dry
crust of stale bread blackened with pep
per to enable him to write something
spicy, witty or useful as to feed dys
peptic hen food literally peppered for
| the purpose of superinducing laying
| habit. A laying hen is little labora-
| tory. Eggs are composed largely of al
bnmen and water If all the conditions
| are not exactly right for extracting the
albumen from their feed an egg cannot
be produced. An analytical chemist can
| not perform certain experiments without
| Just such degree of heat and certain
materials and the proper condition and
| quantity. Neither can a hen lay eggs
unless she has generous supply of suit
able feed and water at the desired mo-
ment IN addition to a proper degree of
heat. In order to induce hens to Law
| eggs in cold weather all the foregoing
| suggestions must be needed; the wrong
| things should be avoided, and the right
things must be done at the proper time
The writer's hens-except those that
are now molting-have laid eggs every
day all the fall and they still continue to
roll out the eggs the 18th of December.
" r Herald
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\ Widow i'm Luck.

AN Allegheny lady. Mrs. Lauinger,
sent clock to Terheyden's establish
ment on Smithtield street, last Tuesday,
TO be cleaned and repaired. On taking
the clock apart Mr.. Philip Roos, The
young man who does the repairing for
the establishment, discovered a roll of
greenoacks carefully rolled up in yellow
paper and secreted in an offset in the
bottom of the clock. The roll was taken
out and carefully counted, and Thurs
day, when Mrs. L. called to see if the
clock was cleaned, she was asked whether
she had ever put any money in the bot
tom of the clock She replied that she
had lost one bill some time since. hut
knew nothing of any money having been
placed in the clock On being further
INTERCEPTED she gave a correct descrip-
ton OF the clock. As the husband of
the lady died some five years ago. three
days after the purchase of the clock, il is
thought the deceased deposited the
money there. The clock was purchased
of Mr.. Terheyden, and as that gentle
man makes no claim that there was any
money there when ne sold it. the widow
Laulngcr Is the person to whom the
money rightfully belongs. and ii will be
accordingly handed over to her when
she calls for the clock Mr.. T. did not
state that there was nearly S2OO." but
simply that there was a considerable
amount" and for aught anvbodv outside
the Jewelry store knows the widow may
be anywhere from s.. 600 20 500. 900 rich
er by the Pittsburgh lP1l
Commercial
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DURING the chilly weather of late
autumn and amid the pelting storms
and rigors of our Northern winters
everything is adverse to the production
of eggs. During the latter part of the
growing season and the former part of
winter hens are melting. During this
process Tor disease, as some poulterers
term moltingl fowls seldom lay eggs,
even when all their surroundings favor
the production of eggs. In most in
stances the apartments of fowls are too
intentionally cold. After your hens
have retired to their roosts for q cold
night thrust your fingers among their
feathers and observe how they all shiver
with the cold Hens will not produce
eggs unless they can be kept comfortably
warm, especially during the long and
cold nights of winter Another reason
why hens will not lay eggs in cold
weather is, they are supplied with de-
fciency of suitable food and drink At
the proper time. For example, your
fowls are fed generously with hard grain
late in the afternoon After the lapse
of few hours the dry grain has alb
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The Wonders Of the Telegraph.

NDER the startling caption THE Des-
poi of To DaN,' Oh and NeIc for January
aeNotes several pages to review of the
mervels of telegraphy, and the rapid i'm
Irovement made in the past few years in
the art OF transmitting messages over
the wire and as the science has now be
come one of the essential elements of
our modern civilization it is subject
which mus interest every man, woman
and child in the United States.
Ii Is well known that many years ago
German savan discovered that two
messages could be transmitted stimuli
taneously over the same wire. II was
long time before this wonderful discovery
was turned to practical account, but to
an American, Mr.. Stearns, belongs the
credit OF having overcome the natural
difficulties in the way. and, both in this
country and in Great Britain, Stearns'
duplex instrument is in use, by which
two messages may be sent in opposite
directions more rapidly than one can be
transmitted singly. This was a grand
discovery, and one TO which the public
not unnaturallv looked as the commence
ment OF Il new era, not in the science OF
telegraphy alone, but in that still more
complex science of economy. In other
words. the long suffering public, reason
ing upon the reduced cost of transmit
ting messages, looked to reduction in
the charges of the telegraph companies
How they were disappointed is matter
of history
Still further experiments made within
the past six months have deyeloped the
astounding fact in natural magic that
four messages can be sent over single
wire as readily as two and that through
messages and local ones can be sent
without interfering with one another
over the same wire. While, for instance
messages are being simultaneously ex.
changed between Boston and New York
two more can be sent on the same wire
between Boston and Worcester: two be
tween Worcester and Springfield and
two between Springfield and New Haven
or New ! ork, making in all eight sepa-
rate and distinct messages crossing and
recrosslng on one wire at the same mo-
ment OF time!
The reader is more or less familiar
with the story of telegraphing music.
This is no mere fight of fancy but an
actual fact. If the wave of sound pro-
ceeding from the human voice or some
wind or stringed instrument is made TO
strike upon a resonant surface like the
head or drum the vibrations may be
made to open and close an electric cir
cult or the strings of an instrument NAV
be made to perform the same service IF
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Youths Department.
RATTLE-TC-BANG
BY JosETaIsE POLLARD

BY yosEraIsE POLLARD.
In doors or out. il was all the same
Rattle-te-bang was the Way thA. he came:
Now az the front door and now at the Scck
If il don't open quick, give il whscki
Yes there's knocker; but don I you suppose
He must be buey with fingers and toes.
Long before freedom it's banner unfurled
He has been making noise in the world,
Out Of the bed be will go with q thump,
Making onr hearts and the furniture jump:
Everything into confusion he sends
Silence and he are not very good friends
How he delights in the poker and tongsl
Close by an anvil is where he belongs:
There. in the midi. of the cletter and clang
He could 90 on with his rattle-te- bang.
Girls may be taught TO be gentle and quiet,
They have no fancy for rumpus or riot;
But for The esr-spiitting, racketing noise,
/ m very sure that boys wouldn I be boys.
Seeding away AT the terrible din.
Nobody thinks OF the struggle within.
Nobody knows how ashamed the boy feels
Dragging old rattle-te- bang at his heels.
Maybe he'll learn TO be quiet and kind
When on ME manners ne settles his mind,
Though just at present so deaf to hsrangue,
And wholly devoted TO rattle-te- bang!
". Y. I4ReDeHdsTtf,