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Lightn1ng-Rods

It is a general impression that the
chief value of lightning-rods is to shield
buildings from harm by conducting
electricity from the clouds to the earth.
Even intelligent people are often sur
prlsed when told that the rods secure
safety by allowing the electricity to es-
cape which gathers on the roofs and
sides of buildings. But the cases where
the electricity goes upward from the
earth to the air, largely outnumber those
in which the current sets in the DID,
posite direction.
The processis a very simple one. The
electric equilibrium in the air is dis
turbed, and one kind of electricity gath
ers in greatforce on the earthward sur
face of the clouds. This at once disturbs
the equilibrium OF the earth, and attracts
the opposite kind of electricity to the
earth's surface. When the tension be-
comes too great-or the mutual affinity
becomes Observation-Disclosures leaps
either from the clouds to the earth, or
reversely, and for the moment the eaui-
hbrium of both at that point is restored.
But if conducting points, such as
ll~ghtning-rods present, are numerous
enough to dissipate steadily the force
gathered on the earth's surface, there
will be no sudden leap, and no lightning
shock. In the famous experiment Of
Franklin with his kite, if the lightning
from the cloud had run down the string
to the key, thebold experimcnter would
have suffered the penalty of death for
his rashness. But it was only the cleo
trlclty OF the kite and the string, decom-
posed by the attraction Of the electricity
in the cloud, that escaped by the key,
and therefore the shock was a light one.
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and 300 long at the top, and but 20 or
80 across ct the bottom. 1t has some
times surface water; but, as / saw it,
there wa nothing but mud and filth in
1t. 1t seems to be a receptacle for
nelghborhood city waste, and was any
thing but an attractive sight.
The pools of Gihen are simply reser-
voirs in the valley of Hinlrom, made by
excavating the earth and running a dam
across below, fer the storage of the wa
ter, like q reservoir in the mining re-
gions Of California.
From the Mount of Olives one gets
the most general view of Jerusalem that
can be had from any n point. From
the minaret of the mosque, which stands
on the summit / could see and trace
very distinctly the great natural outlines
OF the city. I am standing lao feet
above the city at its highest point.
Right below my feet is the valley Of the
Keydron, running nearly due south.
Above its steep northern bank rises the
massive and high city wall. just over
the wall is Mount Moriah, the temple
area, on the left-hand eastern corner
OF which is the broad and spacious
mosque, Ell Aksa, on the central
and western portion the grand impos-
ing mosque, "The Dome of the
Rock" known o. the Mosque of
Omar. Beyond the temple area is
the depression which was once a deep
ravine, running nearly south, called the
Tyropoean. Above this to the north
west rises Mount Zion--quite a high
and steep eminence-from which to any
other part Of TIE city within the walls,
Is a very ~perceptible descent. Except
the large area of the temple, which
covers about one-siSth Of the whole city,
within the walls, the rest is one COM
pact, undul"ting mass of buildings, hav-
ing winding or irregular seams between
them here and there, marking the sup
posed course of streets, and broken, here
and there, by domes and minerets and
towers, and the imposing roofs of
churches. 1 see it all under my eye,
over on the hill side yonder. It is a
stirring spectacle; not altogether beau
tiful, not wholly sad. It is q spectacle
whose deepest interest is limited by two
facts. Christ looking upon it and Christ
weeping over it. But as I turn rornd
and look in the other direction, my
emotions are less mingled. There is
only the wildness and majesty and
beauty of nature. 1 look down into
the deep valley Of the Jordan, 1900
feet below me, and see the Dead Sea
stretching out now as a mirror of glass,
and on the other side the dark noun
tains Of Moab and Mount Nebo, and
close to me on the sonth the green
fields oil Judah covered with flowers.
No other sight have I seen Of such
mingled and contrasting interest in my
life as from the top of the Mount Of
Olives 1. E. D.
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cess of seed should be used, thinning
out the extra plants after they are up.
DR.. H. PaarAa, State Veterinarian
of Illinois, weflssays that the periodical
epidemic alarms" do great injury to
cattle interests, and he reminds those
who start such reports that "the pluro-
pneumonia scare of q few years ago was
the cause of England placing an embar-
go upon u beef"
There is a strong feeling in various
portions of the United States in favor
of the total abolition of fences. 1t is
stated that the cost of the maintenance
of fences annually in this country is not
far short of $50, 900 900, a pretty snug
sum if it might be saved to the farmers.
1t is estimated that there are 100000
miles of fencing in all in this nation.
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Would Not Drink.

There is nothing which the enslaved
drunkard will not 90 to get his liquor.
Sometimes, however, the spectacle of
n who has lost all his will and his
fine feelings, and who has degraded
himself below the level Of the brutes,
makes other men who are on the road
to the same degradation pause and re-
feet.
"No, I won't drink with you to-day.
boys" said adrummer to several COM
panions, as they settled down in the
smoking-car and passed the bottle.
"The fact is. boys, I have quit drink
ing; l have sworn Off"
He was greeted with shouts of laugh
ter by the jolly crowd around him;
they put the bottle under his nose and
indulged in many Jokes at his expense,
but he refused to drink, and was rath-
er serious about it.
whats the matter with you, old
boy" sang out one. "If you've quit
drinking, something's up; tell US what
it is"
well, boys, I will. though I know
you'll laugh at me. But Tltell you all
the same. 1 have been a hard drinking
man all my life, ever since I was mar
ried, as you all know; 1 love whiskey,-
it's as sweet in my mouth as sugar
and God only knows how I'll quit it.
For seven years not a day has passed
over my head that l didn't have at least
one drink. But / am done.
Yesterday I was in Chicago. Down
on South Clark Street a customer of
mine keeps a pawn-shop in connection
with his other business. I called on
him, and while l was there young
man of not more than twenty-five, wear
ing threadbare clothes, and looking as
hard as if he hadn't seen q sober day
for a month, came in with q little pack
age in his hand.
"Tremblingly he wrapped it, and
handed the article to the pawnbroker,
saying, Give me ten cents And, boys,
what do you suppose it was? A pair
of baby's shoes, little things with the
buttons only a trife soiled, as if they
had been worn once or twice.
"sWllere did you get these?" asked
the pawnbroker.
"'Got 'em at home, replied the man,
who had an intelligent face and the
manner of a gentleman despite his sad
condition. 'My-my wife bought them
for our baby. Give me ten cents for
'em; l want a drink
"sYou had better take these shoes
back to your wife. The baby will need
them, !" said the pawnbroker.
"'No, s-she won't, because she's
dead. She's lying at home now; died
last night
CAS- he said this the poor fellow broke
down, bowed his head on the showcase,
and cried like a child. Boys" said the
drummer, "you can laugh if you please,
but IL have a baby Of my own at home,
and / swear I'll never drink another
drop" Then he got up and went into
another car. His companions glanced
at each other in silence. No one laughed;
the bottle disappeared, and o each
was sitting in o seat by himself reading
a newspaper.
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Helpful Hints.

Cracked earthenware should never
be used for cooking purposes.
If you wish to retain the color in
strawberries do not allow them to come
in contact with pewter or tin.
A tea made of lettuce leaves has been
recommended for wakefnlness.
Equal parts of chloroform and alco-
hol will remove paint spots from cot
ton goods.
To test jelly drop a little On q glass
Of ice water; if it falls to the bottom
Immediately the Jelly is done.
When roasting a large and fat loin OF
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Watering Plants.

Yes, during o dry spell, you may
water your tomato, egg, pepper and
other plants tonight and tomorrow
night they will appear as thirsty and
the ground about them as dry as ever.
But in the morning after watering, if
you stir the soil a little, aud mulch the
plants with some rank manure, salt hay,
lawn-mowings, or other come-at-able
material, the earth will retain the mois-
ture you gave it, the plants will be
much benefited, and you vii not have
to water oftener than once aweek where
before you had to do so every even
ing. In the case of young stuff, as let
tuce, beets, and radishes in rows, give
them lots of water in the evening, and
run O long-toothed iron rake between
the rows in the morning, and they will
respond most ch%eerfully to your indul-
UenCe. |
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mutton cover it with a paper during the
EARLIER stages Of its roasting, to obviate
%scorching.
When fruit must be scalded to arrest
fermentation it should be boiled for sew
eral minutes.
A little powdered resin sprinkled on to
q cut is preventive Of Inflammation;
wrap q thin cloth around the finger and
wet it with water frequently.
Borax should be used with ~glycerine
to prevent its darkening the skin and
making it over-sensitive.
DIR. Rasori recommends the use of a
tuning fork in the treatment of neural
gic pains, the instrument to be applied
while vibrating, v the course of the
painful nerve.
One small red pepper or a few pieces
of charcoal placed in the kettle where
ham, cabbage, ETC., are boiling, will
tend to diminish the odors proceeding
therefrom.
To remove tan and sunburn, cold
cream, mutton tallow and lemon juice
may be used; for freckles, apply the
latter with a camel's hair brush.
Samples of material used to color
coffee were recently tested in Brooklyn,
N. Y, and found to contain ~silesia,
chrome orange, yellow ochre, Venetian
red, charcoal, French chalk and gum
arabic. The board of health found
enough arsenic in each cup Of coffee to
make a full medicinal dose.
Blotting paper, satuated with q solu-
ton of oxalic acid and dried, will absorb
the ink of a blot and also the blot itself
if the ink is unmixed with indigo or
anime color. Writing can be made
legible again by adding f~errocyanide Of
potassium or gallo acid.
DIR. Hall, in his Journal of Health,
says: "The essential, the fundamen-
tai, the all controlling agency in the
arrest of any case of consumptive dis
ease, and return to reasonable health
for any considerable time, is an active,
courageous and hopeful outdoor life,
in all weathers and in any latitude, with
some rousing motive, other thar regain
ing the health, reckoning them on, to
do and to dare.
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ssqusls Of Disease.

A disease is often followed by other
disoases,--one n more,-resulted di-
rectly or Indirectly from the first sick
ness. Sometimes these come from ths
debility that caused the first dis
ease, whereby inherited or 9th 81 ten
denotes gain power to develop them
selves.
Thus malaria, . fever, d%iphtheria, or
even . severe cold, may give rise to
consumption-which might otherwise
have been delayed for years, or. per-
haps with care, wholly escaped.
Sometimes these secondary diseases
due more directly to the primary dis
ease, They then caused either by the
destructive effects Of the first sickness.
at different points Of the system; OF by
the clogging Of the eliminating organs
with great quantities OF debris; or by
inflammation Of these organs through
the stress put on them by the excessive
work Of eliminat ion. It is to these SCI
quels of disease that physicians apply
the word "sequelB.n They are often
more dangerous than the original dis
ease.
One OF the familiar %seauela, of
measles is inflammation Of the eyes,
sometimes Of a very persistent kind.
Another is consumption.
A frequent sequela of diphtheria
is paralysis, which may last for a
year or more. That of typhoid fever
is sometimes q congested condition
of the bowels-the latter not fully
healing from the ulcers that charac-
terize the fever. The patient should
not therefore dismiss the doctor too
soon.
One Of the sequalw of scarlet fever is
rheumatism. And as the latter often
gives rise to heart-complaint and pleu-
risy, SO these last are also among the
sequele OF scarlet fever. They may
come on either during the progress of tho
disease, or during convalescence. They
may even be overlooked at the time, to
reveal themselves-especially heart
complaint-perhaps years later.
Still another sequela is kidney COM
plant, chronic or acute,-and varying
from slight Inflammation up to bright's
disease. Al child may have had a mild
attack Of scarlet fever and be wholly
over it, apparently doing well, yet
suddenly die from total inaction of the
kidneys.
The ablest physician may not be able
to prevent such a result. But he, and
he o1Nuo 20 o,yoro ~ kbo b;JJox sron1r,
and any thoughtful person can see that il
is vastly safer to let him pilot the case
Youths Companion.
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MI. Francis T. King, President Of
the Trustees Of the John Hopkins Hos
pital in Baltimore, though possessing
only o comfortable fortune, has twice
refused to accept 9 salary of$4, 900. Be-
sides filing the above position, he is o
member Of the Hopkins University
Board, and in these two capacities he is.
by the consent of his colleagues, the
man ager of the endowment funds of ST.
100000. In prison relief societies, in
the Society for the prevention Of Cruel
ty to Animals, in the Children's Pro-
lection Society, in the Maryland House
of Refuge, and in q half dozen more as
.sociations Of 9 philanthropic nature he is
looked to for the control Of the finances,
and yet he refuses all compensation. He
lisa Quaker Of the strictest sect.
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The Day of Lavish Expense Gone
From the San Francisco Bulletin.


From the San Francisco Bulletin.
1t was formerly expected that a Cali
fornian would pay more for everything
he wanted to eat or wear, for his amuse-
ments, and ever for his religion, than
was paid in any other part of the coun-
try. That theory was nursed when il
was supposed that a pioneer would
scorn to work in the mines for less than
an ounce of gold a day. The pick and
pan have well nigh disappeared. Here
and there a high strike is made. But
for the most part the Californian has
come down to very sober ways Of maxi
ing money, if indeed he makes n at
all. Yet V e now his name recorded
on h books of any hotel in an eastern
city carries with it a hint that he will
stand top prices. C%alifornians learned
the art OF living extensively in the early
history of the state, because money was
easily obtained and there seemed to be
no limit to the fortunes which it was
possible to acquire. There was NOT
much art in all this. The prodigal ex-
pend!ture OF money still goes on in a
restricted way. But for the most part.
lavish personal expenditure has result.
ed III this state in many radical revers-
es. 1t is the old story repeated, n
our think in a more pathetic way.
There was no art in this reckless expen-
diture. The real art has been born of
necessity. In o gross and plethoric
way a great deal can be got out Of life
when there is no limit to expenditure
Rich, coarse, and vulgar Americans are
known all over Europe. 1t is not cred
liable to the country that they are bet
ter known than people of refinement
and unobtrusive ways.
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Wine.

II should be forgotten that
the ancient wines were all Of them
quite different from our modern wines.
They are simply the product Of fer
m%antation, like ou homemade currant
wine or cider. OF course, they con-
tanned alcohol and could intoxicate. If
taken in sufficient quantity. Hence q
drunkard was one who "tarried long at
the wine."
They might have different names,
from their age, their color, their taste,
their weight, the locality of their pro-
duction, or as mixed with honey, or
with myrrh, or as made from dried
grapes, or as being simple, unchanged
grape-juice, or the latter as boiled
down. But with the exception OF
the last three, which contained no
alcohol, the other wines contained very
little, the strongest Of all only twelve
per cent.
Our modern wines-the wines of
commemorate strengthened by the
addition Of distilled alcohol. Few OF
our wine-bibbers would care to drink
wine which had not thus been "rein-
forced. Port is made to contain
twenty-four per cent, and sherry
twenty-seven. AS the strongest French
brandy contains only fifty five per cent,
one needs only to double his draught
of the latter to secure the full effect of
brandy.
But this is not all. The alcohol some
times employed is amylic alcohol. This
gives it q soft, fruity taste. But the
effect On the system is exceedingly in
furious.
It is eliminated from the body with
great difficulty. Hence it accumulates
in the system, rendering the blood heavy
and tar-like. After a fit of intoxication
from it, it may take two or three days
for the normal temperature to be re-
| stored.
Some wines are treated with lime to
n~eutralize their acidity, and thus they
introduce into the body an excess OF
salts of lime. Some have not ceased
to ferment, and the process is completed
in the stomach, thus producing dyspep-
STA. Others are charged with volatile
substances to- impart what is called
bouquet; ]" others are "beaded"-by the
addition of . mixture made from oil OF
sweet almonds and sulphnric acid,
rubbed together with loaf sugar.
All these additions are injurious, es-
pecially when long continued, Further,
most of our vines are now not the fruit
of the vine in any sense, but of the
chemists laboratory.-Youth's Com,
panion.
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land, who, perhaps, loved him more be
cause they know him better. A pineat
his feet, through which the gentle
breezes seem to sigh, and q small chip
Of marble ten inches high, planted at
his head, Nth this inscription on its
face, g. r.. WHEAT, LA. is all that marks
the last resting place of this remarka-
bic man.
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The Norwich Comm Bulletin says
Of a widower of that place, who q short
time ago married his seventh wife,
that "be waived the customary tour
and buckled down to his daily calling
as if he had become convinced that life
is to real and earnest in it's sunset for
any display of foolishness."
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Secretary Lincoln of the war depart
ment has been changing several old
heads of bureaux. When asked if this
was right he replied: II think so. You
IAN hardly ever pick up an old piece Of
board without you find bugs under it,"
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The term Of Hon. William A. Newell as gov
ernor Of Washington Territory having expired,
he has been appointed inspector of Indian af-
fairs, in place Of Gen Howard, resigned.
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Captain McAndrews, q mar Of ninety.

three years, whose home is in Sumter,
s. O., has caught the walking fever, and
has started to walk from that town all
ske way to Boston.
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Mrs. Langtry, the Jersey Lily has
invested another sl5, 900 in New York
real estate.
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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-08-30
A MunnEK AND suIcInE.

ST. LOUIS, Aug. 20.-Additional in
formation from O'Fallon, ILL.,, gives
the following facts regarding the terri
BILE tragedy enacted there yesterday,
very brief mention Of which was made
In these dispatches last night.
About o'clock yesterday afternoon
Mrs. Rica Granuler was found in the
smoke-hsnse on the premises Of her
son-in-law, John A. Lehman, with her
throat cut from ear to ear, but not yet
dead. There seemed TO be no motive
for the deed. but two hours later II was
discovered that the sequence Of the
crime was still more horrible and
CHASTITY. Mira. CARNAGE, "a highly re-
spectacle widow lady, was found Iy-
ing murdered In her garden adjoining
her residence, half mile from
town. Her head and face were dread
fully beaten and q blood stained pike
or iron bar was lying near. Asst WAS
known that Mrs Granther enter
tanned bad feeling toward Mrs. Car.
mace, 1t was suspected that there wis
NOR . than q mere coincidence between
the murder and the attempted suicide.
ON being questioned, Mrs. Granther
copfessed that she had killed Mrs.
Carmaco. but II is not yet known why
she committed the deed. An inquest
is now progressing, and 1t Is expected
that sll'ths facts will be brought out
Mrs. Graather died between 0 and 10
O'Clock las. night without making any
confession, but the carrier
has three Letters written by