The Press., 1884-06-05

A GIANT.-The pot cover dances an( rattles, and Carlo does not know what td make of 1t.
 Kitty, too, watches it with round, wide open eyes. Does she think there Is { mouse in the pot, that will hop ont by and by?
 Carlo and Kitty don't know anything about steam, that strong giant, stronger than any giant you ever read about Tn sto " books. Once upon time boy watch ed dancing tea kettle cover, just as Carlo and Kitty watch the dancing pot cover.
 ''What is it. that lifts tea kettle cover and makes ii dance 80 ?" he thought.
 And he did not stop his thinking there out great deal about steam what won. derful forca 1t is what mighty things il can do.
 That doy's name was James Watt, aud David Neal, famous artist, has painted 8 picture of him.
 Did you ever try to count the things that steam does
 How l. drives the steam cirs across the land how it sends the great ste .mboats up and down the broad rivers, and across the wide ocean to distant lands how it drives ths machinery in great fac.ori s and mills.
 Yes, steam is strong giant; danger ous giant, too, if not managed rightly Hartley 1aytoT, in Little Men and Wo- men.
 WHAT IT AMOUNTS To.-Assuming that Mr. Vanderbilts wealth reaches the sum of $250, ,000, ,OO0 (and some estimates place it at $500, 900, ,O0O), some curious resul s can be figured out. It is equal, for l. stance, to 5000 times his own weight in gold Tu one dollar bank bills it would form a band entirely around the earth. It would lay foot-path in silver dollars ten inches wide from the mouth of the Ohio to the northern line of the state of Illinois, or a continuous line of ten dollar gold pieces from Cairo to Chicago. Rep resented in silver coin it would load twe;;- ty freight trains of twenty cars each, each car carrying twenty tons :; and represe It. ed in silver dollars piled one upon another it would form a stack 790 miles high. The same dollars laid edge to edge would form line long enough to encircle the six great states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and Missouri Should Mir. Vanderbilts life be prolonged forty years he could not exhaust his fortune dur ing that time unless he "got away" vii $17, ,124 every twenty four hours $713 in hour, or about $12 minute. His fortune is absolutely inexhaustible.
 N. Y. Sun: A good story is told oi Dr. K, who is the physician in charge of the female wards of one of our best know n charitable institutions. One evening, about o'clock, Mary, a new Irish servant girl, knocked at his door, saying, Doe ther, the head nurse wants you to come down to supper" The doctor, swelling in his pride of superiority over the nurses, sent the Irish girl to an unnamed place. Half an hour later the head nurse came to his room, looking very serious. "Doctor," she said, "No. 8 is very bad, indeed i; l think you ought to see her at once. :" "Why did you not let me know before ?' was the reply. "Why, Doetor," said the nurse, "I sent you word by Mary half an hour ago." ''The feol, said the doctor, ''she told me to come down to supper "Why," said the nurse. "I sent you word to come down to eight" An inquiry mad. the whole thing clear; Mary thought it more polite to say ''Come down to sup per" than to say, ''Come down to ate."