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Pasteur Studying Hydrophobia.

A writer in Paris publication says:
Biting dogs and bitten dogs fill the labora-
ory. Without reckoning the hundreds of
mad dogs that have died in the laboratory
Turing the last three years, there never oc-
,urs case of hydrophobia in Paris of which
Pasteur is not informed. Not long ago q
veterinary surgeon telegraphed him: cat
task at its height in poodle dog and bull
dog Come Pasteur invited me to accom-
pany him, and we started, carrying six rab-
bits with us in basket. The two dogs
were rabid to the last degree The bull dog
especially, an enormous creature, howled
and foamed in its cage. A bar of iron was
held out to him; he threw himself upon it,
and there was great difficulty in drawing it
away from his bloody fangs
s'One OF the rabbits was thensbrought
near the cage, and its dropping ear was al
lowed to pass through the bars. But, not
withssanding this provocation, the dog flung
himself down at the bottom of his cage and
refused to bite. Two youths then threw a
cord with slip-loop over the dog as lasso
is thrown The animal was caught and
drawn to the edge of the cage. There they
managed to get hold of him and secure his
jaws, and the dog, suffocating with fury,
his eyes blood-shot, and his body convulsed
with violent spasm, was extended upon
table and held motionless, while Pasteur,
leaning over his foaming head at tie dis
tance of finger breadth, sucked up into
narrow tube some drops of saliva. In the
basement of the veterinary surgeons house,
witnessing this formidable tete-a-tete, /
thought Pasteur grander than had ever
thought him before"
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MAKING SALT on SALT CAY.
Process Performed Wholly by Nature
Work of Wind and Sum.
C,,u Into

a Process Performed Wholly by Nature.
Work of Wind and Sum.
baltimore Sun Interview.l
s'The manufacture of salt at Turks island
and Salt. Cay" said Capt Chadwick, ''has
much of interest to one who has never seen
the process, which, by the way, is performed
wholly by nature the wind and the sun do
ing the work. The wind is preferable as an
agent AT Salt Cay, where loaded, there
is a salt pond of several acres in extent. It
is divided into numerous square spaces by
masonry two feet high Water is admitted
from the sea to reservoir, and its saline
density tested by a hydrometer. It is
usually 10 degrees. From the reservoir the
sea water is admitted into the brine pool,
which is about 98 degrees, but is reduced by
the admixture to about 60 degrees. 1t is
then run into the pools by small wheels like
those of a side-wheel steamer, placed on the
side of each pool and worked by hand Salt
makes in about six weeks.
SIN the process of granulation the sale
changes its color-first flesh and then chang
ing to beautiful pink The strain upon
the eyes is very great when looking into the
beds. When the crystal is formed on the
bottom the brine is pumped out by wheel.
The salt is then raked into heaps and put in
half-bushel bags to be loaded. The process
is going on continually, and there is always
plenty Of salt on hand The rainy season
began to set in about tine time / sailed, and
but little salt can be made while it lasts,
probably till next March The salt is piled
in heaps on the Cay, and rain has little ef
feet on it, but, of course, would reduce the
saline qualities of the still pools of brine.
The salt is used principally for beef pack
ing.
"Salt Cay belongs to Great Britain, and
has about 600 inhabitants, mostly colored.
The manufacture of salt is the principal
labor-giving interest, but many maintain
themselves making sflell-work, some speci-
mems of which are beautiful, There are
Baptist, Wesleyan and Church of England
churches ON the Cay. Cacti eight feet high
grows on the Cay, and is about the only
vegetation to be seen"
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RACHEL As AsLETTER-WRITER.

The Great Actress Fame in That Direc-
tion Not at all Deserved.
Paris Cor Chicago Tribune.I
The illustrious Rachel was not only the
most remarkable actress the world has seen,
but was-or was reputed to be-one of its
greatest letter-writers. Her correspond
ents We're many and her letters to them
numerous. When these letters were made
public the world wondered at her knowledge,
her observation, and her fine literary style
For she wrote on all topics-love, politics,
literature, art-and on all with equal facil-
ity. Her dictioh was elegant, and almost
faultless
But now the truth comes out She never
wrote one of them! Who did? M. Gre
mieux, the famous lawyer! He was her
scribe, her daily letter-writer! But he was
not her lover. No, the relations between
them were of a purely business character.
He wrote her letters for her and she paid
him for doing it, and paid him we'll In
deed, do not think she could have been in
love with him, for he was dwarf, and had
the ugliest face in all France. But then, it
will be asked, who wrote the many letters
which Rachel addressed to NJ Cremieux
himself?
They have also been made public, few
of them, and | have seen the originals of
them all There are many of them, and
they differ widely from those written by M.
Cremieux. They are badly scrawled and
blotted. The spelling is atrocious. The
grammar is marvel of badness Gould it be
that Rachel herself wrote these? No. Even
these are above her reach. History bushes
to record it; nevertheless the illustrious
tragedienne could not write at all, save to
make, perchance, a curious scrawl by cour-
tesy called her name. Rachel could just
manage to read that was all These letters,
then-let the truth be told-were written by
her maid, her feinme de chambre. She it
was who acted as scribe for the actress when
the great lawyer was not by. Alas! how
glory fades
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Travel Within a City.
Boston Transcript

The Travelling public of New York city
is estimated at $40, COO per annum OF these
about 103, ,00o, 900 were transported ON the
elevated railroads during the corporation
year just closed. The balance Travelled on
the surface railroads, two persons patroniz-
ing them for every one taking the ell trains.
These figures apply simply to travel within
the limits of New York city, and demon
strate the activity and growth of its
population.
The New York Evening Post, which has
been making a study of the subject, says
the facilities for moving these hundreds of
millions are painfully inadequate. The
trains Of the elevated roads are as crowded
as ever the horse cars were in the evil
days before rapid transit Horse cars, as in
times past, are packed with humanity
Omnibuses have disappeared from Broad
way, and the horse-car line ON that thor
oughfare is unable to satisfy the demands of.
the public The solution of the problem,
The Post believes is the building of four
track underground railroad similar to that
in operation in London After this has
been completed there viii be still business
enough left to pay good dividends ON the
stock of all the other transportion lines in
the city That accommodation stimulates
business is maxim accepted by all railroad
managers, and is illustrated in the expert
ence of New York of recent years
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Phases of Life ina Russia.

The Russian people meet death very philo-
sophically. Their resignation is remarkable
and beautiful, and they die with great
dignity Funeral ceremonies are marked
by much noise and ostentatious laTnenta-
tions; but marriages, although very
ceremonious, are noticeably quiet Very
little is expected of girls before they are
married, and they do little but carry water,
which they enjoy doing Their pals are
suspended from yokes over their shoulders,
and they generally have nice chance to
talk with the young men at the river.
In the winter the water is drawn from a
hole cut in the ice when the river is bap-
tized on January g. On st. Johns night in
June the girls and young men gather herbs
between9 and 12 O'Clock at night, and
weave them into wreaths, which are thrown
into the river at midnight. The pair whose
wreaths touch in the water are supposed to
be fated to marry; and they manage with
sticks always to bring the right wreaths to-
gether. During all this time they are not
supposed to speak, which is very hard for
girls-RuSsian girls
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The Printer and the Cat.
Detroit Free Press.l


A Printer who was Awakened at Mid
night by the voice Of Cat beneath his
Window, got out of Bed in Terrible Rage
and began Flinging Missiles of every De-
scription at the Prowling Feline
"By What Right do you thus Assault
meg' demanded the Cat, as he lodged the
Washbowl
Because your Yeowls keep me from
Sleep base Wretchl'' was the reply.
tsThen how Happens it that the other
Lodgers in the house have not taken your
Life long Since, for your Shores Shake the
Shingles ON the Roofs''
s'As to that said the Printer, as he flung
out the Wood-box, II want you to Under
stand that there is great Difference in
Sounds y
Moral-After the young lady has Banged
the Piano for two hours, ask her TO Bang
the Accordion.
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A Reporter Equal to the Occasion.

lCnCagO NEWS
Seeing one of J. Fl. Haynie's Paris letters
in The Boston Herald carries one back to
the time when he did the sporting on The
Times of this city. Jim was continually
experimenting with his work, and at last
conceived the idea that he could get up q
graphic report of race by having short
hand notes taken of his remarks while the
horses were going about the track He got
a shorthand man and lugged him out to
Dexter park the next day The pair took
up good position, and the horses started
off. Haynie had considerable money up on
a certain horse, which began to fab behind
immediately after the start. Haynie began
to make comments upon the animals con-
duct in language which showed him to be on
intimate relations with the holy family.
The shorthand man was equal to the oc-
casion, however, and faithfully transferred
to his book everything Haynie said
AS the race progressed it began to be evil
dent to Haynie that his horse was going the
wrong way of the track, and his profanity
increased in proportion. Page after page
of the shorthand book was filed with the
forcible remarks of the indignant sporting
man, until at last the speaker wound up with
an impassioned apostrophe to the sun, moon,
stars, earth, the water under tn, earth, and
3conaemning to everlasting punishment the
entire equine race. As Haynie came under
the rhetorical wire the shorthand man was
neck and neck with him. They returned
to the Office, and the notes we're faithfully
Transcribed, but the city editor after ma
ture consideration decided that the article
was to steep even for The Times in its palm
lest dayS
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A Street Car at Sea.
Hyov-pavJs Maufh1v

There is lawyer in Boston who is in the
habit at times of addres ing individual jury
men when inattentive or restless, and some
times his argumentem ad hominem is effect
i've. Some time ago he was trying case
against street railway company, and there
was an old sailor on the jury who seemed to
give no heed to what either counsel said
The lawyer made his most eloquent appeals,
but all in vain. Finally he stopped in front
of the sailor and said ''Mr. Juryman, viii!
tell you just how this happened. TIE plain
tiff was in command OF the outward bounl
open car, AM stoe in her starboard chan
nels Along came the inward bound close
car, and just as their bows met she jumped
the track, sheered 10 port, and knocked the
plaintiff off anl ran over him. The sailor
was all attention after this version of the
affair, q Id joined in $1,000 verdict for the
injured man
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A UeaIthv Ol5 ,renor.

The veteran tenor, Tamberlik, is now CIV
ing series of concerts in Berlin. This,
strange to say, is the first public appearance
of the ''tenor of tenors," as Jules Janin
called him, in the German Capital, although
he had passed through it twenty five times
ON his way to ST. Petersburg. Tamberlik,
who is 65 years OF age, is described as man
of powerful frame In his own words he is
"a perfectly healthy fellow, Injured to hard
ship of every kind l can be twenty four
hours without food, and then sing with all
nv strength ~
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A Healthy Old Tenor.

The veteran tenor, Tamberlik, is now CIV
ing series of concerts in Berlin This,
strange to say, is the first public appearance
of the tenor OF tenors, as Jules Janin
called him, in the German Capital, although
be had passed through it twenty i've times
ON his way to St Petersburg. Tamherlik,
who is 65 years of age, is described as a man
of powerful frame In his own words he is
n perfectly healthy fellow, Injured to hard
slip OF every kiad can be twenty -four
Iso,ies without food, and then sing with all
flly strena til y
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I Waits View of Plenty.
TNov york HeraId

A little street waif was taken once to the
house of a great lady, and the childish eyes,
that had to- look so sharply after daily
bread, were dazzled by signs of splendor on
every hand. "Can you get anything you
wanta' asked the child of the mistress Of
mansion. s'Yes; think so," was the re-
ply. "Can YOU buy anything you'd
like TO hayes" The lady answered ''yes.
And the child, who was of a meditative turn
Of mind, looked at her half-pityingly and
said, wonderingly: 'Don't you find it
dullg;
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soUIRREL-AuNTiNo DOWN SOUTH.
a Paradise for lndolent Spnrtsmen in tl.a
st. Johns River Country.
Magnolia CF1a.) Ietterl

a Paradise for 1ndolent Spnrtsmen in the
st. Johns River Country.
Magnolia (Fla) letter.
Get small sailboat, with scull lock at
the stern Choose day ON which there is
little wind. Take along an obedient darky
boy. Sail to the mouth of the creek, calcu-
lating to get there about the middle of the
afternoon, and if the breeze is favorable run
up the creek a mile or two under sail Then
down sail, take your seat in the bow with
q light but strengthening double -breech-
loading gun in Your hands, and bag of
cartridges loaded with No. shot at your
side Let the darky have the paddle. Tell
him to scull noiselessly under the over
hanging branches of the nut trees and keep
his eyes and cars open fer squirrels
Noiseiessly the boat will advance till you
or the darky boy-probably the darky boy
can hear the bark of a squirrel up ahead,
on hear him cutting at nut, or detect
the swish of boughs as he leaps from branch
to branch, or see the nimble little fellow
running along a limb He does not hear
the boat, for it makes not the slightest noise
Nine times in ten you can get a fair crack
at him. The No. 4 shot are large enough to
bring him down, even though twigs inter
vene The darky boy will scull up and
take him from the water while you are put
ting in another shell. II the air be still,
squirrels will be plentiful all along the bank,
and there will be no trouble about getting
sufficient mess
Meanwhile the hunter unused to the
Florida creeks will see many things of
interest. Great blue herons, flying noise
lessly from the swamp and disappearing
amid the darkness of the foliage far ahead;
turkey buzzards, scraping their wings
against dead branches in their laundering
flight; brown swarms of wild honey-bees,
buzZing around knot-holes in the hollow
trunks of cypress trees which they have
stored with honey; milk-white cranes, sit
ting meditatively on projecting snags; owls
as big as bushel baskets, sitting out in the
glare on the tops of dead trees and blinking
painfully; turtles of the size of a small dry
goods box, tumbling from snags into the
water as gracefully as a dry goods box
would tumble, and alligators, quick to illus
trate the proverbial ease of rolling off from
log
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Cincinnati Times-Star.l

OF all the men in Cincinnati, the brokers
are the most interested in the war in Eu-
rope. They follow the news Of battles and
of diplomatic complications with rare eager
ness, and they show familiarity with the
situation which Is surprising Of course it
is q matter OF business with many of thera,
for it is an assured fact that am European
war win advance the price of wheat and
provisions, whlie foreign securities win go
down in an inverse ratio.
Some tI them even receive dispatches
from New York about the situation, while
others coafine themselves to eagerly watch
ing the afternoon newspapers All'of them
want wsr, though they are almost unani-
mously OF the opinion that there win be M
genuine war until next sprsng
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Peculiar Presidential Habits.

In receiving visitors the president has Pc
culiar habits in the management OF his arms
and hands When he is pleased or con-
tented to listen he holds his hands about six
inches apart, with the back part of his hand
against his coat. The fingers generally are
quiet; but if they begin to work or contract
he is growing tired. Then he viii shift
from one foot to the other If the man
bores him the arms gradually come forward.
The move is gradual, but if the infiiction
continues the hands fall to the side-thun1bs
in. II still the visitor presists in staying
the arms go out and the thumbs beat against
his side. Then is the time for disappearing
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eRILl-lANTs.. .

Great is the goosequiIl say we all: Anoeni
oonletlmes the spade is mightier than the
pen;
1t shows where Babel's tarraced walls o.. ra
raised,
The slabs that cracked when Nimrod,s
palace blazed,
Unearths Mycena, rediscovers Troy.
1[Holmes.
Queneh the timber's fallen embers,
Quench the red leaves in December's
Hoary rhine and chilly spray
But the hearth shall kindle clearer,
Household welcomes sound sincerer.
Heart to loving heart draw nearer.
Whittier.
Out in the misty moonlight
The first snowfakes see,
As they frolic among the leafess
Limbs of the apple tree
Family they seem to whisper,
As round. the .boughs they wing,
We are the ghosts of the blossoms
That died in the early spring.
-[R. K. Munkityrick.
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Peculiar Presidential Habits.
[Chicago Herald.

In receiving visitors the president has pc
culiar habits in the management of his arms
and hands When he is pleased or con-
tented to listen he holds his hands about six
inches apart, with the back part of his hand
against his coat The fingers generally are
quiet; but if they begin to work or contract
he is growing tired. Then he will shift
from one foot to the other IL the man
bores him the arms gradually come forward.
The move is gradual, but if the infiction
continues the hands fall to the side-thunlbs
in. If still the visitor presists in staying
the arms go out and the thumbs beat against
his side. Then is the time for disappearing
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Is ''The" Superfiuous Article?
JPhiIadelphia I,ef1oerl

A discussion carried on in The American
Bookmaker concerning superfuities in print
ing, points to economies in time that would
be secured by dropping the article ''the. !"
1t has been estimated that if all of the
sthe'sn in one esition of The London Times
were placed together they would I'LL eight
columns of that paper, and that months,
possibly, of every voluninous writer's Life
must be Givsn to spell 'ng out the definite
article
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Is ''The" Superfiuous Article:
IPhiladelphia Ledger.l

A discussion carried on in The American
Bookmaker concerning superfuities in print
ing, points to economies in time that would
be secured by dropping the article ''the'
It has been estimated that if all of the
"the's'' in cne edition of The London Times
were placed together they would fill eight
eoIuaans of that paper, and that months,
possibly, of every voluminous writer's life
must be given TO spelling out the definite
srfic3a
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An Unfortunate Man.
IPittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.

IFItIsUuFg CIITUHIcIe' IVIEgfapHI
''Well, Ethalinda De Wigs, | don't ses
how you could go and engage yourself to that
old Slimpkins. Why, he hasn't tooth in
his head" exclaimed Miss Wigs dearest
friend when she heard of the engagement
Well, DEAR" was the reply, ''you mustn't
be too hard on him on th1.t account, for he
was born that way"
ssWas hes | didn't know that, or I
wouldn't have said anything about it, y was
the sympathetic response
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An Unfortunate Man.
lPittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.

ITIltsUuTg CII1UHIcIe ItIessrt tIs5I.1
"Well, Ethalinda De Wigs, don't see
how you could go and engage yourself to that
old Slimpkins. Why, he hasn't tooth in
his head" exclaimed Miss Wigs dearest
friend when she heard of the engagement.
s.Well, DEAR" was the reply, ''you mustn't
be too hard on him ON thas- account, for he
was born that way"
"Was he? I didn't know that, or
wouldn't have said anything about it, was
the svmpathetic response.
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Electricity Has Its Dangers.
lChicnyo Herald

A few days ago a heated lamp chimney
In New York elevated railway car snapped
into twenty pieces or more, which fell upon
the seats below Fortunately there was but
one passenger within range of them, and no
damage was done. Not many months ago,
at the Union League clubs ladies' reception,
piece of carbon, heated to a white heat
and about as large as pea, fell upon the
white silk dress of lady guest who was
walking beneath the electric light Had it
fallen a second sooner it would have burned
her shoulders frightfully Electricity has
its dangers as well as advantages.
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Affected Their Reputation.

Ono OF the largest manufacturers Of
gloves il. England recently issued circular
to the fashionable dealers in London point
ing out that the habit of attempting to wear
gloves too small has grown to such an ex-
tent thak it ha, seriously affected the rep.l-
tation Of the flctory. and urging the deal
ers to exercise their influence against this
expensive manifestation Of vanity.
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Spoiled I,y Education.

You have no .idea how many men are
spoiled by what Ii called education. For
the most part colleges are places where peb-
bles are polished and diamonds are dimrned.
If Shakespeare had graduated Mt Oxford, he
might have been qui3bling attorney or u
hypo.ritieal parson
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Unique Presidential Chairs.

Old Seth Kinman, the famous California
hunter, who presented unique chairs to
Presidents Buchanan, Lincoln, johnson aud
Hayes, will next spring honor President
Cleveland in similar manner The chair is
made OF elkhorns, and is curiously and
elaborately constructed
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The Influence OF Time.

Brother Smith lwho intends to give a
window to the church in memory Of his
wife)-I think, Mr.. Goodman, that if the
matter were suggested to Brother Brown.
he too, might want to do som thing of the
nd.
Minister liab ousl Pos sibly. but yo,i
see. my dear friend. that while yous wife is
only recently deid, Brother Browns wife
dieG over year age
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UNIQUE Presidential Chairs.

Old Seth Kinman. the famous California
hunter. who presented unique chairs to
Presidents Buchanan, Lincoln, johnson and
Haves. viii next spring honor President
Cleveland in a similar manner The chair is
made of eIlhorns, and is curiously and
eIaboratalv constructed.