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A Somewhat Puzzling Question.

Will some kind soul inform us why it
is that all the people who go to theatres
don't some time, by accident, take it
into their heads to 60 on the same night2
Why is it that in the course of week it
often happens that the house is just
evenly filled every nightG Why is it that
the receipts of whole week do not vary
more than ten or twelve, and seldom
more than fifty, dollars on the night2 In
city like New York or London piece
often has run of six months or year,
with full houses all the time, but very
very few, if any, turned away. How is
it that audiences of just such a particu-
lar size will distribute themselves over
such = large period2 What law is it that
regulates the attendance at the theatres
and makes the audiences almost uniformi
There CAM be an understanding among
the people as to who viii go and who will
not. The size Of the audience is in one
sense purely accidental, and the puzzle is,
how series of accidents can be Of SC
uniform a character. Why is it that
some time everybody doesn't conclude to
go Monday night, or Wednesday night,
or some other particular time? Is there
any reason why an accident of that kind
shonld not happen? and yet it never does
happen. 1t must be by some unseen, un-
known, mystic influence that the theatre
goers of a community apportion them
selves TO the various nights of the week,
so that the attendance shall be about the
came each night. But that is an expla
ration which does not satisfactorily an
uwer the question.-National Republican
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The Nicaragua Canal.

Accounts from the Nicaragua canal
expedition report that the photographic
corps have already begun their labors at
the west side of Lake Nicaragua. Two
routes are suggested from the lake to the
sea, on the eastern side, which diverge
at point about twenty-five miles from
the lake, one route being through the
rock and difficult in its engineering, but
seven miles shorter than the easier line
which runs below. A thorough explo-
ration to determine the advantages and
disadvantages Of the two routes will be
made.
The adventures of that noted explorer,
Alan Quatermain, are recalled by some
descriptions, reported by correspondents
accompanying the expedition, of tribe
of white Indians dwelling at the head
waters of the Rio Frio, and of the sharks
which infest the waters of Lake Mica
ragua-a singular facti This inland lake
on the table land overlooking the Pacific
lessons the necessary distance of canal
excavation by nearly fifty miles, and it
is to be hoped that the sharks will be ex-
terminated or disappear when the canal
is completed; but perhaps lake water
sharks are not as voracious as the sea
faring monsters Of the same family
Demorest's Monthly.
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Origin of the Lockiav.

Science is gradually alternating us from
the animals who had been our friends.
NJ. Pasteur's theories, exceedingly inter-
esting and valuable, nevertheless created
line of cleavage between man and dog,
and now NJ. Verneuil is trying to do the
same thing between man and horse. NJ.
Verneuil is firm believer in the micrpbe
theory. and if you show him the disease
he will do his best to show you the mi
crobe. Latterly he has taken up lockjaw
as a subject, and what he has to say upon
it will strike the unlearned with surprise
certainly, perhaps also with consterna-
ton. 1t seems the disease is at once
virulent and contagious, and that it
comes to man almost entirely from horses.
M. Verneuil has his facts and his statis-
tics to hand. Coachmen and stable boys.
grooms and helpers-these are the classes
among whom the disease is most COM
mon. A bite of horse is a very general
cause, but something less than a bite will
give lockjaw to a likely subject Among
horses themselves it RACES like an epi-
demic. All horse proprietors who have
in their stables patient from tetanus are
warned to isolate him from man and
beast, and if he dies to bury him with
scrupulous care. If only the microbe
could be discovered, NJ. Verneuil would
stamp out the disease. He has not found
it yet, but he is full of hope ard full of
enthusiasm. Mall Budget
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NO. 25.


The favorite method of paying for
board is to organize an eating club. The
process is simple. At the beginning of a
year a man goes around among his class
mates and secures eight or ten who agree
to take their meals together. He then
goes to some iandlady and agrees to fur
nish her with an eating club of students.
He agrees furthermore to relieve her
from all pecunary responsibility by col
lecting at the end of each week from the
men the money for their board and hand
ing it over to her. In return for this she
agrees to furnish him with his board. 1t
is bene icial to the student, because the
members of the club, knowing that he is
in Strengthened circumstances, are always
willing to help him by paying regularly
and promptly.
Every class has in it four or five mon-
itors, whose duty it is to record the alb
sence or tardiness of students at recita-
tions or morning prayers A monitor
receives $50 year from the faculty.
The same amount is paid each year to
the man who rings the college bell. OF
late years the college press has been a
fruitful source of revenue TO its editors.
The Literary Magazine pays to each ed
itor from $40 to $3.50 year. The
financial editor receives from $3.50 to
$3.50. The News pays to each senior ed
itor from $3.50 TO $275, and the financial
editor receives from $325 to $3.50. The
Record and Courant ought to pay to each
senior ea'tovs $3.50 yearly. but oftens-
through poor management, barely covers
expenses. The Yale Banner clears TO the
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Jumped Over Her Head.

w. Byrd Page, the slim and handsome
young Philadelphia beau and champion
amateur high jumper, was at fashion
able party the other evening. He was in
evening dress at this small assemblage,
and of course they talked to him about
his agility.
81 don't believe you do it without
springs in the heels of your shoes, or
some trick like that" said bantering
maiden, but seemingly half in earnest
"You don't really mean to say that you
could jump clear over a mans head
without mechanical aid of some sort?"
''Oh. but he does" interposed parti-
san of the athlete, land if you will stand
still where you are l am sure he will
jump over you."
The girl in question was probably no
more than five feet two or three inches
in height, and yet none of US supposed
that Mr.. Page in his ordinary attire
would undertake to clear the top of her
coiffure, although his record is #. in.
He accepted the challenge, however, and
we all stood aside except the one girl.
She held rigidly upright posture. as
though preferring to have her hair
kicked off by the jumpers failure
than by favoring his feat by crouching in
the least. Page took start a. the ex-
treme rear of the long parlor, ran nimbly
forward, sprang into the air just before
reaching the human hurdle, went over
her head without a touch and struck
lightly on his feet. How was that for a
parlor incident?-New York Sun.
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AdaDtability of Trained Mechanics

1t is a notable fact, and one, too, not
generally known, that some of the 'sbest
all-around" mechanics. e., those who
can turn their hands to all kinds of gen.
eral machine work-are men who learned
their business in small shops, where all
sorts and all classes of work are done.
An ingenious, thinking man placed in
such shop has the best possible chance
to develop all the talent there is in him.
The hundred and one odd jobs required
to be done will cause him to devise ways
and means, and ''to think" and in these
ways he will grow to be man fertile in
resources, dexterous in touch, and ready
for nearly any kind of work which may
come along.
Now mark the difference: A man
trained in large shop, with its score or
more of departments, learns or works
through, as a rule, one, two or three diff
ferent departments, of course becoming
an expert in the several branches; but
should occasion arise for him to do some
particular work of which he has but a
slight knowledge, he is out of his lati-
tude, and makes poor progress, simply
because he has not done all kinds of
work; while the man trained in the small
shop can adapt his hand to almost any
thing which turns up.-Industrial
World.
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Into an oculist's shop on Union square
IA score or more of prominent men are
sometimes seen TO enter on a single
morning. Preachers, lawyers, doctors
and writers make up by far the larger
proportion of the number. Few of them
reach 30 without feeling the need of arti-
fetal eyes. Actors preserve their sight
remarkably well. Leading men are
rarely seen to wear eyeglasses. Merchants
whose bookkeeping is done for them by
employees get along well enough to 80
and 60 years of age with their own eyes.
The bookkeepers buy the spectacles. Tho
oculist says it is the haste of modern life,
worry, disease and carelessness that build
up and maintain his trade. When from
any of these reasons the human eye fails
to accommodate itself TO distances, its
focus has to be heightened or shortened,
like that of an opera glass. New York
World
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Military Education in Germany.

Military education is very thorough.
There are nine military schools in the en-
pire, at Potsdam, Kuhn, Wahlstadt,
Bensberg Ploen, Oranienstein, LIGHTER
field, Dresden and Munich. Seven, it will
be seen, are in Prussia, Six of these re-
ceive pupils at 10 to 10 years of age, who
terminate their studies at the last three.
Their experience after examination il
varied according to their standing. The
best are admitted to the corps of officers
without further formality. The rest have
to pursue tlier studies further, and
finally have to be examined by the Off
GERS of the regiment as to character,
social position, etc. There is q higher
school at Berlin, called the War academy,
to which are admitted only lieutenants
and captains who have served three Years.
There are other schools for artillery,
craftsmanship rifle and artillery, rid
ing, gymnastics, medicine and surgery as
relates TO war, and veterinary practices.
Railroads and railroad stations are in
charge of commissions which are eX-
pected to keep them in condition for
mobilization at any moment. Berlin Cor.
San Francisco Chronicle.
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Streets of st. Petersburg,

The streets of st. Petersburg are wider
than those of any city in the world.
More than one-third of the area is in the
streets, and most of them are 200 feet
between the building lines Endless
almost are the open spaces and squares,
treeless and unturfed, surrounded by
houses gauged upon the same scale as
the streets. In one place you can walk
half an hour and pass only three palaces,
and it is common for a single residence
or palace to occupy the whole front of a
long block.-William Eleroy Curtis in
Chicago News
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A Prophecy Of the Present.

In tearing down an old building al
McKeesport, Pa, some workmen discov.
cred in the chimney a pint flask Of
whisky and tin box, containing g
prophecy written in 1888. This singular
writing was prediction that in thirty.
five years Gn 1879 slavery would have
ceased to exist. The writer added: "Mer
will communicate from beach to beach
of ocean easier than indite a letter. The
tallow candle of today will not even be
used to grease the boots. Men will touch
the wall as Moses touched the rock fol
water, and light will dispel the darkness
Prohibition will be battle cry, with
temperance a formidable enemy. The
flask Of spirits which place herewith
will rise in the midst of a conflict which
will claim it as one Of the principals. p
Demorest's Monthly.
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Growth of the Finger Nails.

The growth of the nails is more rapid
in children than in adults, and slowest
in the aged. 1t goes on more rapidly in
summer than in winter, so that the same
nail that is renewed in 132 days in win
ter, requires only 11G in summer. The
increase for the nails of the right hanH is
more rapid than the left; it also differs
for the different fingers, and in order
corresponding with the length ef the
finger. 1t is most rapid for the middle
finger; nearly equal for the two either
side of this; slower for the little finger,
and slowest for the thumb.-New York
Commercial Advertiser.
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LEFT DESOLATE.

little while, you tell me, but a little while,
And shall be where my beloved are;
And with your eyes all large with faith, you say,
"Thy dear ones have not jouneyed very far"
mot very far" say it DER and DER,
Till on mine ear mine own voice strangely falls,
Like some mechanic utterance that repeats
A meaningless refrain to empty walls.
mo very far" but measured by my grief,
A distance measureless as my despair,
When from the dreams that give them back to me,
Iwake to find that they have journeyed there.
mot very far" All me. the spirit has
Had its conjectures since the first man slept:
But, oh the heart, it knoweth its own loss,
And death is death, as twas when Rachel wept!
Chambers Journal
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An EngDshman's Advice.

81 notice." said his lordship, ''that
you have an extraordinary number of
',eople in America with bad teeth and
poor eyes, and 1 read that there are
more dentists and oculists in the United
States than in all the rest of the world.
You drink iced water with hot food, and
this spoils your teeth. You strain your
sight by reading fine print at the wrong
time, and that ruins your eyes. Avoid
such habits, take care Of your eyes and
teeth, and half of your dentists and
oculists will soon be able to join the
pioneers of Dakota in stopping these
blizzards." And his lordship took n
pinch of snuif.-New York Sun.
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Until young writer has got used to
the novelty of seeing his thoughts in
print, and can judge their value more
reasonably than a beginner ever can
judge the value of his first printed essay,
he will do best to keep his authorship
from the knowledge of the public, and
let people attribute his verses to Holmes
or Tennyson, and his prose to Black or
Howells, if they will. When he has
gained some confidence and some expe-
rience, and can look upon his writing
simply as matter Of business, then il is
time enough for him to fix upon his sig
nature, and publish it, at the beginning
or the end Of his immortal essays, to an
eager and expectant world.-William III.
| Hills i'm The Writer.
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Rear Admiral Colomb, writing in allu-
sion to a recent disastrous collision in the
channel, calls attention to the present
very defective methods of signaling at
sea, and points out how impossible it
often is for one ship to ascertain the in
tentions of another. He mentions one
thing, which is not generally Known
namely, that the board of trade forbids
the mercantile marine TO use that system
of speech by signal which has been for a
long time common to every navy in the
world. He also pleads for some signal
which will not only attract attention to
Distress" but will also indicate to some
extent the nature of that Distress
Chambers Journal.
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Naxu Form, nf Cuifar

A Kalamazoo young man thinks GER
tain experiments he has been conducting
will lead to a revival of the gentle art of
guitar playing. He first constructed one
with nine strings, and it proved such an
improvement ON the old form of instru-
ment that he is now at work on one that
is designed for twelve strings, and with
which he anticipates very charming re-
suits can be attained. Chicago Times.
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The direct conversion of heat into cleo
trio work is a problem that continues to
tax the ingenuity of the electricians.
What seems to be the most promising at
tempt at solution yet made is a new
thermo-magnetic generator and motor
devised by NJ. Menges, of The Hague.
Like the recent pyro-magnetic dynamo
of Edison, it depends on the fact that the
magnetic metals lose their magnetic
power when heated. 1t claims several
important advantages, however, the chief
being that the necessary alterations of
heating and cooling are given automatic
ally, and that the cores OF the armature
coils are relieved from changes of tenn
perature. e.-Arkansaw Traveller.
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Thackeray took up his manuscript time
after time to touch and retouch till his
fastidious taste was satisfied. After his
death his friends found some sheets Of
manuscript in his pocket book scored and
underscored twenty times over. The
world is not SO foolish as some sloppy
writers appear to think, and appreciates
care and finish. AS rule, the work
that lives deserves to live. The slap dash
81 le may last Tor n time, through tho
e. naertul 81! tf puiing, bat it soon dies
.-t.-L London Ss.cicty.
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Making Over Muskrats' Fur.

A Maine fur dealer saws that it is as
tonishing the uses to which muslSrats'
fur are put. The skins are taken at the
city establishments, clipped, colored and
put into such shape that they very closely
resemble otter, and, if not sold for that,
are at least represented to be much bet
ter than they really are. The fur is
never sold for what it really is, but is
fixed up to look like something finer and
charged for accordingly.-Chicago Her.
aid
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Remedy for Nose Bleed.

Introduce into the nostril, for a con
siderable distance upward, a piece of fint
sponge, cut to the size and shape neces
sary to enable it to enter without diff
Guilty, previously soaked in lemon juice
or vinegar and water. The patient is tt
be kept lying on the face for length O.
time, with the sponge in place. This i
the procedure employed by NJ. Sireders
for controlling nose bleed in typhoid fevel
patients.-Medical Digest.
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GARNERED PARAGRAPHS.

A South Carolina newspaper says that
there is an old negro in Jonesboro who
has been married nine times and has had
1T children.
A Germans translation of Zola's novel,
''La Terre," has been seized by the DO
lice. They were afraid it would soil the
morals Of the young.
A French engineer, M. j. P. ALBERT,
has recently invented an improved key
which simplifes and renders lasting the
tuning Of the stringed instruments.
Every member of the Blake family, at
Canton, O., who has died in the last
twenty years has dreamed of falling into
a well about two weeks before death
came.
San Francisco is to have O crematory.
A company has been formed which owns
valuable lot, and next month work
will be begun upon the furnace and
chapel.
Pullman has invented palace street
cars with reversible seats and central
aisle as in passenger coaches, and pro-
POoOo W uPIOlotSI lllcLl llk6 Tie VeStlDul0
cars and make smoking rooms.
Omaha Is very happy over the de-
cision of the Methodists to hold their
next quadrennial general conference in
that city. '.By that time" says The
World, s'Omaha will have a population
Of over 200, 900, and perhaps quarter of
million. By that time she will have
become the largest meat packing center
in the world"
A portion Of petrified tree was dis
covered in solid sandstone rock quarry
at GAINESVILLE, o., the other day. The
other tree is about the thickness of tele-
graph pole, has well defined bark and
roots. 1t was found while blasting, or
immediately after blast, fully sixty feet
below the top Of the hill, and was in
solid rock. Over it is the earth forma-
ton, then a species of shale, then lime
stone strata, followed by conglomera-
ton of stone, then some forty feet of solid
sandstone, near the bottom of which is
the petrifed tree.
The birds of the Florida coasts are fast
disappearing before the guns Of the
pAuAuO uuuttIS. lucT0 Is al 0SDeClll
scarcity of the great American egret,
the snowy heron, the Louisiana hen, the
reddish egret, Wards heron and the little
blue heron. Birds that were common at
Fort Ogden year and half ago are no
more to be met with. The last dry sea-
son has enabled the merciless plume
hunter of the border to penetrate dry
shod into the former impenetrable re-
treat of the birds.
The Methodist church at st. Johns
bury, Vt, had debt of sos and the
pastor wanted it removed. So a few
Sundays ago when the congregation
went to church they saw behind the pull
pit a big blackboard, on which was
drawn a mountain. The mountain was
divided into apparent geological strata,
and each stratum was marked according
to size with ''$1," ''$3," and SO
on up to $50. The pastor said that he
wanted to see the mountain of debt
wiped out, and as subscriptions were an
nounced from the congregation the cor
responding figures and sections were
wiped from the board; and in twenty
five minutes the whole mountain had
disappeared and there was $50 to spare.
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New Insects Discovered.

About 1000 species of insects, on an
average, have been discovered yearly
during the last century. One is almost
excusable for thinking that the work of
creation is still in progress.-Ch Chicago
News
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The QuaIify of Mont

Professors Henry and SanLorn have
both shown that the quality of pork may
be greatly changed and improved by
iudicious and intelligent feeding. With
out doubt beef and mutton may be i'm
proved in like manner by like feeding
| Boston Budget
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An English philanthropist says there
are no fewer than $1,000 gypsy children
in England, of whom not more than
per cent. are able to read and write.
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Men may say of marriage and women
what they please, they will renounce
neither the one nor the other-Fon-
tenelle.
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We can forgive freely, if we want to,
but the will to forget is not so much at
our disposal.
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1t requires good deal of aptitude to
amlse n child.
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Italian counts have gone out Of fashion as
husbands of American girls, having been sup
nlantad hv Russian princes