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A Patent Trap for Tapeworms.

A gentleman at Reading, who lately
returned from a visit to Washington,
speaks of many curious things he saw in
the patent office. Two of them, he says,
are particularly worthy of note. Tie
first is a small, hollow cone of gold,
shaped like n capsule, at the bottom Of
which is a slide from which pro ects
something in the nature of a fish-hook.
at the top is an eye, to which is fas stoned
a silken cord. 1t is intended as a trap
for tapeworms. The hook is baited with
something to tempt the appetite of the
worm and the capsule swallowed. AS
soon as his wormship bites, The slide
closes and fastens him, the apparatus is
drawn up by the fisher at the other end,
and there you are.-Chicago Herald.
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COUNTLESS MICROSCOPIC PLANTS.
How the Life Currents Often Become
Stocked Will, Parnsifes

How the Life Currents Often Become
Stocked with Parasites.
One of the great facts of the outer
world is the perpetual circulation of
water, and the absolute dependence on
it of every living thing. This water
passes up from the vast invisible ocean
below to the yaster invisible ocean above,
thence down in showers and back in
rivers, brooks and rilIs to whence it came.
So the whole animate world is equally
dependent on an analogous circulation of
blood from the heart, through large
streams and microscopic, to every point
of the body, and back again to the ever
heaving heart through similar streams or
rills. This blood is the water of life to
the body, containing within itself, in due
proportion, all the elements of the latter
for its upbuilding, with power to rid itself
of all water matter and renew itself per-
petually. Yet, as the ocean and rivers
support life of their own in the fishes
that swarm them, and in the plants that
grow on their beds, so, in some sort, it Is
with the circulating vital fluid. Count
less microscopic plants live, multiply and
die within its endless succession, without
disturbing the health of the body; while
others may from time to time gain adj
mittance, bringing disease with them.
Even the former, it is now believed, may
lose their harmless character in certain
morbid changes of the blood. The great
life currents may also become stocked"
AS we say of rivers and lakes-with
microscopic animals.
Says DIR. Cobbold, F. R. s.: "There is
no class of creatures, from the mollusk
upward, in which parasites may not be
found in the organs of circulation"
True hsematozoa blood animals) have
been found circulating in the blood of
frogs and fishes, and even in the heart of
the former. DIR, Manson dissected some
thirty to forty magpies. and in every in
stance found quantities of them. The
hearts of cetacea (of the whale species),
seals and dogs, are sometimes found
stuffed with worms.
One-third of the parish dogs of India
are believed to contain hematozoa; and
so, according to Cobbold, do 80 per cent.
of all the adult horses of Europe, and
probably every fullgrown ass in Great
Britain. One-third of the natives of
Egypt are similarly affected. Whether
the health shall be injured by them de-
ponds mainly on their number, and the
general condition of the health other
wise.
1t is singular fact that some of these
h9matozoa live in the circulating blood
during the waking hours, and retire to
the tissues during sleep.-Youth's Com
panion.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-07-22

The Methods of lightning Caricature."
The lightning caricaturists" one oc-
casionally sees upon the stage, all resort
TO more or less trickery. You see, to
draw cartoon rapidly and well requires
a perfectly steady hand and mistaken
nerves. No man is sure of either before
an audience, and the caricaturists realize
that single false line would mean a
failure. Consequently they do a little
taking" Mast picks out the main lines
with pin, and is guided by the little
holes, invisible to the audience. Others
lightly sketch their outlines with a solu-
ton of gum arabic, which is made visible
to the artist by the reflection of the glare
of the foot-lights. The most common
way, however, is to do the tracing with
a mixture of soap-suds and. Canada bal
sam, with drop or two ofSsome fixed
oil. This leaves an invisible but sticky
line. When the artist goes to work be-
fore the audience he holds in his hand Il
rag, on which crayon dust has been rub
bed. This dust catches on the outline
and really produces the mark that is APP
parently produced by the stick of crayon
held in the fingers. 1t is impossible for
a person even standing by the side of the
artist to detect the secret of the pro-
cess.-Prof. Harrison in Globe-Democrat
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An Used for DIilitnry Purposes.

Balloons, pigeons, bicycles, and dogs
are all TO be used for military purposes.
The employment of balloons in our civil
war is well known, and European ma
tons have generally established a ball
loon corps. Carrier pigeons are regl-
larry trained by the German, French, and
other armies. In the recent Austrian
maneuvers it is said that scouts mounted
on bicycles and tricycles outdid cavalry
In endurance, and now the cycle is
formally adopted in the Austrian mill
tary establishment. Finally, in Han
over dogs are being trained TO acc onl-
pany sentries on their beats.-Exchange
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A substitute Round for soap,

A substitute for soap is found in the
espinosilla or "thorn plant" of Mexico,
SO christened because on touching it a
sensation is felt similar to that which a
plant covered with thorns would pro
duce. The Aztecs, lacking soap, agitated
a bough of the espinosilla in the water
and it produced lather with which they
washed, using the plant as a scrub-brush.
Even to-day it is used by women as a
hair preservative, having extraordinary
powers in that direction. But its most
useful application is medicinal to fight
fever, as it is an excellent diaphoretic.-
Excban0a
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How Letters of Coincidence Were written.


How often does not the lion owe a
great deal to the mouse, or, to put it in
another way, how frequently do not
great men take credit for ideas originat-
ing in little mems brains? The death of
Gen. Grant is still an event remembered
by all. 1t may be recollected that fol-
lowing close upon the receipt of the news
in London, letters of sympathy were
cabled from Gladstone, Bright, Irving
and Matthew Arnold. To the American
and the English public it seemed that
each of these four men was simultane-
ously struck with the same benevolent
project; and they duly received the re-
fiected honor of their act. But they were
mere puppets, worked by an enterprising
reporter, at whose prompting they wrote.
This journalist had no easy task before
him. His original scheme included the
obtaining of similar effusion from Lord
Salisbury, but he was thwarted by the
marquis hall-door keeper in Arlington
street, great, burly man, with sublime
indifference to the power of the press,
and an inveterate hatred of every scribe;
in fact, grand turnkey. Again at John
Bright's house the venerable statesman
IN a neat gave peTeLnpbOIJ OAuSAS " A4Ao
man not to bring up the reporters card,
averring that he had not been Inter
viewed" for nine years. However the
right honorable gentleman changed his
mind and indited the desired letter.
Mr.. Gladstone at the time was out of
office and at home, enveloped in bundle
of hearthrugs and wrappings which had
that appearance. The sentinel at the
door was a cheeky private secretary who
took upon himself to refuse communion
ton with the ex-premier. The rebuffed
journalist sadly wendell his way home
ward disappointed, but on the road met
Mrs. Gladstone in carriage, which he
hastily stopped. He explained his busi-
ness and was asked by the lady to return.
Much to the private secretary's chargin
the reporter handed Mrs. Gladstone out
of her brougham and was conducted by
her to the grand old man, who, immedi-
ately perceiving the opportunity, scrib-
bled the letter which in due course ap-
Feared on both sides of the Atlantic
London Cor. Philadelphia Press.
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Chlna's Troublesoms Hoangho River.

The Hoangho river in China is more
troublesome than our erratic Mississippi.
Nine instances are ON record of its max
ing a complete change of course. 1t has
moved its mouth from south to north
over degrees of latitude, leaving
many sandy wastes and shallow lakes
where populous plains had existed. En-
gineers have been much interested in the
question whether these disastrous over
flows and changes of the river bed can
be checked. They have been convinced
for some years of the feasibility of keep
ing the rivers erratic tendencies within
limits, and in the course of human pro-
gress ~China's sorrow" may some day be
robbed of its terrors. Foreign Letter.
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Possessor OF Carlyle,. wutIng-Table.


Sir James Stephens is proud to possess
Carlyles writing-table, and thus relates
how it came to him: "Blr. Carlyle" he
says, asked me to be his executor, and
some little time after 1 had accepted that
duty asked me, in his drawing-room, TO
choose one of the articles of furniture or
pictures contained in it, to keep as n me-
mortal of him. ! chose the table-or
rather desk-in question, partly because
it was of hardly any intrinsic value-it
was valued for probate at 2 pounds ster-
ling-and partly because it is of rather
peculiar make, and had for many years
been associated with him in my mind.
He told me he was glad 1 had chosen it;
that it was remarkably solid and well
made; and that he had written all of his
books on it except Schiller. Detroit
Free Press
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Tbo DIstribution of Deafness.

Deafness appears to be exceptionally
prevalent in Kennebec county, Maine,
and in Martha's Vineyard. A recent sci
entific investigation Of the matter shows
that in both districts there is abundant
evidence of heredity and especially Of
atavism. In the families affected there
were also found blindness, insanity, idi-
ocy, and deformity, and in some cases a
long history Of consanguineal marriages.
In Martha's Vineyard the distribution Of
deafness comedies with that Of certain
soils, and its eastern boundary is also the
typhoid fever line.-Chicago Times.
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Rather Vague Notions About AmerIc

Rather Vague Notions About America.
Strange as it may appear, the best
classes in England would appear to have
rather vague ideas about America.
Some Americans may have equally
vague ideas about England. An Ameri-
can relates that he was once travelling in
England, and he was staying for week
at large country house, which was, as
usual at that season, full of guests, in
vited, like himself. 1t was an old estate,
and had the usual display of oaks, which
are SO handsome and picturesque feat
ure of English country parks. He was
walking through the park one day with
a naughty, aristocratic lady.
%Have you any trees in America n she
suddenly asked him. He was too much
taken aback to speak for moment, and
before he could reply she broke in:
~Why, what a silly question I've asked
you! OF course you haven't any trees.
The country isn't old enough. San
Francisco Chronicle.
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II is a curious fact unknown TO the vast
majority Of people that the first silk hat
was made about fifty years ago, that
like so many other articles which are
common and Of every day use, it was OF
Chinese origin. The story runs that a
French sea captain on the coast OF China,
desiring to have his shabby beaver hat
replaced by a new one, took it ashore,
and as they had not the material, they
mazda him a silk one instead. This Il ap-
pears happened in 1882, and he carried
the hat 10 Paris that same year. Here
II was Immediately copied and in a few
years became a regular style.--Boston
Commercial Bulletin.
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The salt Lielssy of India.

There are weeds that can be eaten by
people in distress. but salt is indispensa-
bic to make them bearable. Salt is,
however, a government monopoly and a
costly article to the poor East Indians.
England sells for from $15 to $50 salt
whose cost value is 81. Next to water,
salt is a necessity of Indian diet. Many
used to make "earth salt" by washing
saline earth found on the surface, and to
boil their food in the liquid. For this
they were punished. They stole out in
the night to lick it up from the earth in
the dark, and then the police destroyed the
salt ticks. Chicago Herald.
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The credit of the United States has
lately passed that of England, as it long
since passed that of every other civilized
country, and now stands at the head of
the list. United States per cents. now
command 1877 1-2 in London, the highest
point ever reached, putting them far
above any bonds in the world, as at this
figure they pay only 2 1-2 per cent. if
held until maturity.-Chicago Herald.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-07-22

The newest Atlanta drink is milk
shake You get it at the soda fountains.
The mixer of cooling beverages pours out
a glass of sweet milk, puts in a spoonful
of crushed ice, puts in a mixture Of un-
known ingredients, draws bit Of any
desired syrup, shakes the milk in TIN
can like a bartender mixes lemonade,
sprinlles little nutmeg on the foaming
milk, sets it out for You, and you pay .
cents.-Atianta Constitution.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-07-22

But what is long life worth, ques-
ton, as mere physical lingering, care
and burden, even if a dear one to
others? Is it not far better to live act
lively and theoretically, to generate suffi-
cient intellectual energy to wear out the
physical in due time and then pass to
the next higher condition of existence,
rather than to waste years in species
of living death here? With a higher
and more enlightened civilization we
shall probably come to prize life for its
quality rather than for its quantity
Lillian Writings Letter.
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Gronnded IIchtnInc-Itod Conncctionr.

Grounded Lightning-ROd Connections.
Now is a good time TO make sure Of
lightning-rod connections, and especially
that they are well grounded. The great
majority of rods now erected are de-
ficient in their ground connections, and
consequently are practically useless. This
is the reason of 50 many instances Of
damage, even when buildings have rods.
In general, the rod is simply stuck down
two or three feet deep into dry earth,
which is about the same as if the lower
end of the roo were inclosed in a bottle;
such rods are fatally defective. The only
chance for safety is with good ground
connection. The risk of damage is less
without n rod than with one badly con-
nected with the earth.--Chicago News.
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cu,ious Magnetic clock.

A new French clock contains a novel
application of the magnet. The clock ap-
pears like tamborine with circle Of
flowers painted ON its parchment head.
Around the circle crawl two bees, the
larger requiring twelve hours to COM
plete the circuit, while the smaller makes
it every hour. The flowers represent
four divisions, and the bees, which are OF
iron, are moved by two magnets, car
ried Just under the membrane, by the
clock work inside the tamborine.-Ar-
kansAw Traveller.
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Tley Both Tried to swear

The Rev. Mr.. B., of Oregon, has
two little boys. Matthew and Johnny,
who have been duly instructed as to
the exceeding wickedness of swearing.
But the seed seems to have fallen on
stcney ground, for, as their father was
getting an armful of wood, he overheard
on the other side of the woodpiIe, the
following conversation:
"Oh, Johnny" said Matthew, in q
coaXing. but somewhat awe-struck tone,
less swear"
LESS :" cried little Johnny courage
oIEsly.
There was a pause, during which
Matthew appeared to be considering how
to do it. Then he called out in furious
accents: Il swear"
Tho do l." piped Johnny.
Free Press.
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The old notion that wine improves by
age It seems is a humbug. One Winllel-
man, German chemist, has been ex-
perimenUing on the subject, and says
there is an age at which all wines, in
Guiding the very best, cease be whole
some. He ordered some wines of the
famous Bremen Rathskeller, Rudes-
heimer Rose, 1862, and Hocheimer
Apostel, 1926, highly recommended for
their medicinal value, and found that
they were deficient in natural glycerine'
and contained as much acid as the cheapes
new wines in poor seasons, go that they
We're positively injurious to health
Detroit Free Press.
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The Landed Property of England.

The landed property of England COW
ers re, 900, 600 acres. 1t is worth $780,
100000, and yields an annual rent,
independent of mines, of $3.50, 600, 900.
One-fourth of this territory, exclusive of
that held by the owners of less than
an acre, is in the hands of 1000 proprie-
tors, and a second fourth is owned by
$500 others; so that half of the entire
country is held by :, 400 individuals. The
population is $4,000, 900. The peers, not
GOO in number, own more than one-fifth
of the kingdom; they possess 100000
acres of land, worth s., 900, coo, 600, with
an annual rental of $G6, 900, 900.
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Largest Theatre in the world.

new opera house in Paris. 1t covers
nearly three acres OF ground; its cubic
mass is A. 2S7. 900 feet; it cost about 1OO,-
coo, 600 francs.
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seaI. I'D snn Frnncisoo Rnr,

Further out along the bay you come to
the now famous "Cliff House" and Seal
Rock" at the waters brink of the old
Pacific at the mouth of the harbor. The
Cliff house is a large frame structure
built out over the brink on the edge of
the high rocky cliff overlooking the great
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-07-22
HOW society Ladies Keen Posted

Society ladies of Boston are so much
enerossed in their social duties that they
have no time to read. SO they employ
ladies of intelligence to give up one day
in the week to post them as to news,
literature, books, etc.--Inter Ocean.
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Our supplv of Public Land.

At the present time in the United
States there are remaining about 200, 600,
GOO acres of public land for the use of tie
coming generations of men. During the
last fiscal year 20,113,663 acres were
swept off the list Of the free lands.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-07-22
Europe's Proportion OF Forest.

The popular notion that there arc
scarcely any forests in Europe is errone-
Gus. The proportion Of land covered
there by trees is 20 per cent, Of which
Sweden, Norway and Russia furnish the
greater part, Chicago journal.
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smnll-Pox Cure Ton ConsumptIon.

DR.. Davy, of Ohio, reports a curious
case of advanced consumption wherein
the patient was attacked with smallpox.
On recovering from this acute attack all
lung trouble was gone and he continued
well
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cloth Id Wool and Peat

A factory has recently been established
in Switzerland in which a very durable
cloth is made out of a mixture of wool
and peat fiber.
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Negro superstition in trinidad.

Negroes who believe in witchcraft are
taught tothink that if they inform ON any
one who practices it their fingers and
toes will drop off and they viii pine
away and die. A number of witnesses
who were compelled to testify against a
native wizard in Trinidad became i'll
through fright, and several actually died.
Chicago Herald.
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First Printing Done in America.

The first printing done in America was
in the City of Mexico in 1899. The
second press was put in Lima, Peru, and
the third in Cambridge, Mass, in 1884,
Exchange.
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Rabbit destruction is being carried on
with great success in Australia by means
of phosphorized oats.
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You can't learn too much, but you
can half learn too much.-Merchani
Traveller.
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England owns 25,OOO,OOO fowls, and
1000, 600, 900 eggs were imported in 1885.
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How CambrOnne Was Taken Prisoner.

The story of the Old Guard at Water
loo is told after a new fashion in the
"reminiscences" of the Rev. G. A. VIII
kinson, lately published in England.
Chaplain Wilkinson met in Hanover
Gen. Halkett, who took prisoner Cam
bronze, the commander of the Guard.
"The common story was that Cam
bronze, surrounded by the English cav
airy, and summoned to surrender, an
swered: 'Da Garde meurt mais ne Sc
rend pas The old general, to use his
own language, said that was id hum
bug" The fact as l remember the story,
was this: 1t is well known that, at the end
of the day, our Guards, with whom was
brigaded some of the German legion,
were lying down, half concealed, only a
few hundred yards from the French, be-
fore the last charge, when the duke of
Wellington, or, as some now affirm, Lord
Seaton, said, up, Guards, and at
them"
Cambronne was some way in front of
his troops, accommodating on foot. Hal
kett determined to make dash at him.
He set spurs to his famous English
hunter, and made believe that he was
run away with. One of our officers had
really been run away with, short time
before, right into the French cavalry
lines, and had been taken prisoner. No
doubt the enemy thought Halkett was
run away with, for nobody shot at him.
They thought they would have him
safely without powder. The ruse sue
ceeded. Halkett came up with Cam
bronze close to the French lines, seized
him by the aiguillette, turned that side
to the French, so that they dared not
shoot for fear of hitting their general,
and SO brought his foe, at a round gallop
the grand general who had the credit
of saying, La Garde meurt mails ne Sc
rend pas'-pufing, and blowing, and
shaking back to his own hnes.-The Ar
oonaOt.
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The Method of southern Pronunciation

me meInOd OF southern pronunciation.
Many of us still cling to the old myth
about the inability of the average north
er1ier to speak good English, but we are
gradually giving it up. We have learned
that some localities in this country were
settled by immigrants from certain Eng
lish counties and that the peculiarities Of
speech brought from the mother coun-
try have been handed down from father
to son. Some of the oldest and most
uncouth provincialisms, both northern
and southern, are accounted for in this
way. Then, we have no definite standard
TO go by, no one dictionary, no one city
to lay down the law of pronunciation.
Even the opinion of Fowler, expressed
in his universal grammar, that the best
English pronunciation is to be found in
Maryland must be taken with some
grains of allowance. 1t is plain that tho
northern brogue or twang, or whatever
it is, has the upper hand at present. In
company with Boston baked beans it is
gradually permeating every nook and
corner of the south The rising genera
ton in Atlanta and the rising generation
in Boston talk alike.-Atlanta Constitu-
ton.