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COUNTING DUST PARTICLES.
The Process Proves That the Notes Cause
the Focs and Mists

The Process Proves That the Notes Cause
the Fogs and Mists.
In K1louledge Dr. Mcpherson describes a
contrivance devised by Mr.. Jonu Aitken
for approximately counting the dust
particles in given volume of air. Thus
the bright notes dancing in the sunbeam,
hitherto assumed to Je beyond the power OF
computation, are brought within the range
Of human calculation. Mr.. Aitken's
processes confirm the accepted inference
that without dust there could be neither
fogs. mist nor rain. If two glass receivers,
the one filed with common air and the
other with filtered air, lie placed alongside
each other and Jet o. steam be introduced,
the first will become dense with fog while
the otner will remain clear.
The conclusion arrived at is that the par
ticles, though invisible, being Tree surfaces,
attract the cooling vap0r and in the shape of
fog assume a visible existence. Bv making
a mixture of ordinary and filtered air and
then introducing jet OF steam Mr.. Aitken
produced a shower OF mist particles, which
he counted as they iell on prepared silver
sur ace. An average being obtained, he
estimated each cubic inch of air to contain
1000, 900 particles. In the air Glasgow
he found Z. .000, 600, and in that of Edinburgh
4, 000, 900. Above Bunsen gas jet he found
4S9, 600, 900 OF psrticl, s. and in the air col
lected on a mountain side Large amount Of
eosmic dust,
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doctors that her health was delicate and one
lung was gone.
In the clairvoyaut state she foretold her
early death, aud disclosed the fact that her
ii was prolonged by Marston's mesmerIc
Influence, at great cost to hmself-that he
was forcing the current OF his lie into hers
letting his vitality 90 to make her strong,
transfuslng his life into her being, which, to
the wonder of the doctors, made her appear
well, when under like conditions others
would have been near unto death.
RESURRECTION SCENE.
AT last he gave out, and died suddenly of
heart failure. The next morning as they
were talking of him-what? She threw
open the door-thev all saw him standing as
if in life in the hall, and then the vision
slowly disappeared. And Edith finally
laded into her higher self, but promised to
visit her friend. quite o.ten in her spiritual
body.
ALI this is bosh to the many, but it gives
plain orm to the theorieso the theosophists,
and throws some light upon the Oriental
philosophy about which so many people are
curious. Madam Blavatsky has evidently
contempt for the tricks and tests of spirit
ualism. When asked if she was a medium
she replied: "No, thank you, L am
in better business. / know something of
the jugglery of psychology, but there is no
spirituality about it. Your Edison says he
will have vital telegraph so that we shall
speak IN New York and be heard in India
and no wires about it. But that was done
long ago in the East
A recent paper announces that theosophy
is becoming the fashionable religion among
cultivated people in Boston, New York and
other cities i'll the East 1t will somewhat
astonish the spiritual pastors of this city to
know that it is making progress here-a
course of lectures on this subject being in
contemplation by those interested in this
new fad in religious belize
BESSIE BRAMBLE.
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going to work any of them into this story.
will indicate the places where they occur
ard leave the rest to Imagination.
ENTER, THE PUNsTER.
"Come in, Bender" said Willard cheer
fully, "there's nobody here to be afraid OIL.
It's to long since 1 lent YOU those 81 that
I've forgotten all about them"
"You are quite too t**S, as usual, VIII
liard,' said Bender. "Good morning, Mr.
Durgin, 4 *ttS**r'
"Shut up, Bender" said Durgin, ''or I'll
make picture of you being run over by a
horse car. I'd have done it anyway, only L
didn't care to raise false hopes in those VINO
know you"
1--WE shan't see your name in the papers
so often now, Fielding" said Bender, turn
ing TO me.
"Why not?" asked, wearily, percelving
that my turn had come. -,
Because the BE b-l season is over,
he replied, with a chuckle. 1 threw tour
bound volumes of Rarper's Weekly at him;
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edge. I.al~ays imagine that his nose is a
silver plate with piece of mortuary poetry
Oh il.
Good morning, Mr.. Fielding" said he,
''do you suffer much with dyspepsia"
"No," said I. He looked so disappointed
that l felt as If 1t was unkind of me to have
a good digestion. Then he frightened up
"Perhaps you NAV have it soon," said he.
sit attacks long, thin, bilious looking peo-
pie very suddenly, sometimes"
81 will do my BEST" said L, humbly.
"Why do you ask?''
''I am n great sufferer myself" he replied,
with a sigh. "a friend has just recon-
mended remedy to me. He says it is a
sure cure in some cases, while others die in
horrible agony. am looking Tor a man
whose symptoms are similar to mine. Do
you ever feel a sort Of"
A CHANGE OF SENTIMENT.
Never replied frmly,"I can eat 80
cent table d'hotewith North Caralino claret,
and not even feel remorse."
None OF your family afflicted"
"NO; my wife eats her own cooking
three times a dav while 1 lunch down
town."
He sank into his chair and began q
open batch of contributed jokes. By and
by heard him swear.
Jhese ieil0WS nave no souls, ne NUT
tered; "here are ten jokes and every one OF
them deals with dyspepsia, as if that were a
subject of mirth.
He put his hand upon his stomach and
resumed work, with a yroan. 1 was Just
touching up that subject myself, and began
TO feel mean. Just then Durgin entered.
He is another jolly fellow. He draws
humorous illustrations. An editor sends
him jokes, and he makes pictures to go with
them. He looks good deal like Willard,
and they hate each other because of the re-
semblance.
THE ARTISTS IDEA.
"Fielding," said he, ignoring Willard
altogether, what do you think of funny
picture representing an entire family being
run over by a street car? Don't you think
you could write few pleasant lines to 60
underneath iI?''
Willard groaned.
You'd better apply to George Washing
ton ChIlds," said 1; she's in that line OF
business"
There's good humorous suggestion in
it." he persisted. 'I've dreamed OF it all
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and the cheesemite and the scorpion. all of
which belo e TO the spider family. But the
true spiders are known by the joining of the
two upper seements, the thorax and head
being united.
The pretty, marvellous webs are spun from
abdominal glands through small apertures.
The fluid hardens in its passage sufficiently
to be woven into threads to resist the st,ug-
giles of the captured prey. The lorms of
these webs vary, but some spiders do not
catch their victims in the net; they pounce
upon them cat fashion. The large house
spider Is we'll known to all. The garden
spider is seen in the illustration, where is
also depicted scorpion. The water spider
is frequent inmate of an aquarium, and
the bubble of air he takes down with him to
breathe serves as means of living while he
is seeking his aquatic prey.
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PRIEST AND THE PRESS.
Exciting Scene in an Irish Church Caused
by a Reporters Presence.

Exciting Scene in an Irish Church Caused
by Reporters Presence.
While Rev. Canon Hegarty, parish prizes
of Glanmire, County Cork, was preaching
last Sunday, says cablegram to the New
York Herald, he warmly protested against
the publication of his sermons in the news.
papers. At this point Young woman stood
up, and, approaching the altar, called atten-
ton to the fact that note taker was in the
chapel. Canon Hegarty calculated, "God
bless you, my child" and turning to the
press representative, said: "How dare you
come here taking down what 1 say behind
my backP
The greatest excitement followed in the
congregation, and all eyes were directed at
the reporter, who said: 'I am in the most
public part of the church"
Canon Hegarty rejoined: "This Is not
public place You have no right here.
There is an end to all confidence in priest
of a congregation if newspaper reporters can
come into the chapel like this" Then, de-
scerding the steps OF the altar to the rails,
Canon Hegarty demanded the reporters
notebook The reporter exhibiting no signs
of compliance. the Canon asked the congre-
CATION to snatch the reporters notebook. A
policeman was then called on to put the
scribe out, but the latter held his ground.
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FLYING TO THE LANTERN.
Thousands of Birds Commit Suicide at the
Fire Island Lighthouse.

Fire Island Lighthouse.
Chambers Journal
The keeper of the Lighthouse on Fire
Island. which is generally. the first land
seen by vessels from Europe bound for New
York, has made an interesting statement
with reference to the number of birds which
commit involuntary suicide against his
lantern and his lenses. The thick lenses
are Clipped in places by the ducks and
geese striking them with their heavy bills,
alter fiying through the glass (one-eighth OF
an inch thick) which covers the outside Of
the lantern.
Frequently. he says, he has found one or
more ducks or geese flying about in the
lantern chamber, wounded with the cut
glass, and sprinkling lenses and floor with
their blood. As many as go dead ducks
have been picked up on the ground about
the base of the lighthouse on single morn
ing; and sometime more than hundred
birds of various kinds have been found;
while the large metal ball which crowns the
lighthouse has been bent and nearly twisted
from its position by hocks of wild geese
coming against it.
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CATCHING CROOKED MAIL MEN.
Distinction Between Testing Honesty and
Tempting to Dishonesty.

Distinction Between Testing Honesty and
Tempting to Dishonesty.
st. Louis Glooe-Democrat.l
Nearly every time a letter carrier or
mail clerk is detected in an act of dis
honesty, the papers<<say he was eau ght by
means of decoy letters. This is entirely an
error, or at least msapplication OF terms
ior no one in the department dares send q
decoy letter S-arough the mail. A decoy
letter is one which tempts man to dis
honesty, and it was formerly employed in
this way:
A man would be suspected and a letter
containing coin would be placed so as to
come under his handling, the idea being
that il he was dishonest he would not be
able to resist the temptatioiE OF stealing the
letter and its contents. The department now
regards temptation o. this kind as an offense
by the tempter, and the test letters used by
the detectives are just like ordinary letters,
with nothing at all to tempt the suspected
clerk.
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PICTURES OF CROOKS,

The Detective Camera That Turks Behind
Button on the Vest.
The detective camera has proved to be Of
great service to the police officials, and may
well be regarded with uneasiuess by crimi-
mails, for it has already played important
parts in their trials. One Of the most in
genious styles OF detective cameras is known
as the "vesI camera" This camera con-
sists Of false vest, in which one of the false
buttons forms the neck OF the lens. The
pictures taken by the vest cameras, though
small. are sometimes surprisingly good,
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A PARTING SHOT.

A PARTING SHOT.
ri regard this as fattery," said Bender,
crawling out from under the magazines.
'By the way, Fielding, I've got good
story that YOU can have. / can't use it
mysel', and I'll let you have it for dollar
and throw in an autograph of Pocahontas. !"
whats it about?" l asked, and then
went on working, and tried not to hear.
But l couldn't help catching something
about the census, whereat l ventured to re-
monstrate on the ground that anybody who
sprung census Joke at this late day was
almost certain to have justice done him.
He wouldn't stop, however but persisted in
telling me o, a man who mixed up the
enumerator, the dumb waiter and ther-
mometer in a way susceptible of infinite
puns if he only had time TO work them out
Bender" said Durgin, Il want you and
Willard to pose Tor me minute. I'm going
to draw picture of the most disagreeable
man in the world throwing the biggest in
Iernal nuisance in the world out OF seventh
story window. How do you like the idea?"
CLEARING. THE ROOM.
'I like it first rate said Willard, and
he threw Bender out into the hall. "lf you
didn't catch my attitudes that time, Durgin,
I'll go through it again with vou."
81 don't allow any knock-kneed dyspeptic
editor of bow-legged and bilious .unny
column to talk that way to me, exclaimed
the artist. with fire in his eve.
They tackled and wrestle,A. and whether
Durgin threw Willard out or Willard
threw Durgin, really couldn't say, but at
any rate they both followed Bender and I
heard them humping down the stairs.
Then L locked the door on the whole mob,
and or the first time in some moons enjoyed
a cheerful atmosphere.
HOWARD FIELDING.
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Sweat Bands for Hats

A great Improvement in the better style of
hats Tor this all and winter is in the sweat
bands. There has been a craze East in
favor of sanitary wool, which has had the
effect Of largely banishing the hard leather
hat band and replacing it with a soft one.
which takes up moisture without hardening.
The new band is very comfortable.
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DISCOUNTS wANAMAKER
An Address That American Postmssters
Would Hardly Tackle.

As for curious and defective addresses.
here Is specimen. One trustiul correspond
ent at Ludlow addressed letter thus
ITO the gentleman who looked at a house
near CleObury Mortimer a little time ago,
Bilston, Stafordshire, and lett it 10 the
department to discover this particular indi-
vidual in town OF $4,000 inhabitants.
Within our days of the arrival Of the com.
munication the department succeeded in
finding the gentleman, presumably by ad-
vertisement in the local paper, and duly de-
livered the letter.
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RELIC OF ROMAN CONQUEST.

Monument in England That Was Set Up
Over Thousand Years Ago.
An interesting discovery has recently
been made on Winsford Hill, near Dulver-
ton, Exmoor. 1t consists of an inscribed
stone, thought by Prof. John Rhys to date
from the fifth or sixth century. The stone
is 3 feet inches high. IA inches broad and
7 inches thick. standing much out
of the perpendicular. Inc top
has been much fractured, but the
Inscription, "Caraaci epvs," is still legibie.
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THE SPIDER FAMILY.

Scorpions, Ticks and Cheesemites All Be-
long in the Same Glass.
There are many families of arachnida
beside the well-known garden and house
spiders. The sea spiders, though classed
with the arachnida, are sometimes placed
among the crustacea. We have the stick. I"
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In A JOKE FOUNDRY.
Fielding surrounds Himself With a
Cheerful Atmosphere.
THREE FUNNY FELLOWS IMPORTED
Is an Inspiration and Elected as a Bore Of
Big Proportions.
IMAGINATION VERSUS THE REALITY
WRITTEN FOR THE p1spArcH.I


IA man in you business, said my friend,
the artist, should be surrounded by more
cheerful atmosphere when he works."
81 don't wonder that you speak of it, "
said /. Nobody can come into this office
without being struck by the atmosphere, and
it's as solid as club when all my tenants
are at home. The Kentucky Colonel has an
heirloom pipe in which he smokes disinte-
grated West Virginia 'stogies;' the real es-
tate man raises his own tobacco on Staten
Island, and the agent burns Egyptian cigar
cites, which smell like an interior grade OF
mummy and are assessed as rags at the Gus
tom House. All these togethersmake an at
mosphere which, as you say, is not cheer ul.
1t is not SO favorable to work as 1t is to tu-
berculosis."
Then be told me that it wasn't the air he
meant, but the psychic status, the fine in-
fueuce OF surroundings, the inspiration of
companiouslSp. louked about me sadly,
and admitted that L lacked some OF those
things.
FUNNY FELLOWS WANTED.
sYou ought TO have some jolly fellows in
here" said he. "Get some men in the hu-
morous line, and every one of you will in
spire the others. Just I'LL the place up with
mIrth and laughter"
You're right" said I, slapping him on
the back "I'I turn this shop into regu-
lar joke foundry 1 can 6nd the men. Hal
ha! Let us be merry! I'll have this crowd
fired bv next Monday, and you send round
half dozen of the FUNNIEST men you know.
Tell 'em it isn't rent that want; it's jovial
company"
~
The foregoing is supposed to be Act 1.
An interval of six days elapses between
Acts 1 and II. The jolly fellows have
moved in. had never met any of them be-
fore. They all come late in the morning
and look as ii they hadn't slept well.
MEETING THE FUNNY FELLOWS.
At $50 o'clock am there alone. Enter
Willard, editor of funny column. He is
tall and thin, and his lace is shaped like
coffin-broad, high cheek bones, narrow
forehead, and lantern7jaw with a beveled
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The Presidential LETTER

The letter "a occurs in the name of eyery
President OF the United States except Tyler.
This seems to point to Alger on the Repub.
licau side and Cleveland on the Democratic
for 1892 Quay or Blaine would fill the
bill, bnt Mckinley wouldn't.
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and probably stands Tor "Carataci nepvs," ("
or Nepos, the kinsman or descendant Car
actacus-Caratacus being the approved read
ing Of that name. Possibly, therefore, this
stone marks the last resting place OF one OF
the clan OF the great Caradoc, or Caracta-
Gus. who so long opposed the Roman legions.
This discovery has caused some excitement
in archaeological circles. 1t is regarded, by
no mean authority, as tone OF the most i'm
portant monuments on Southwestern En-
gland"
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A Few Reasons Why St. Patrick. Pill. Are
PODular.

Because they never disappoiut
Because they produce pleasant cathartic
effect.
Because they not only physic, but cleanse
the whole system and regulate the liver and
bowels.
For sale at 25 cents q box BY druggists.
WSu
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ADVENTURES OF A NIGHT.

A week later a chance meeting with the
detective in lower Broadway ELECTED the
TACT that on the night in question ''the case''
had soon escaped from the two friends. 1t
then took the horse cars, changed into
Twensy-third street, connected with the
East Side ferry, crossed to Brooklyn, went
into an all-night house and took drink
and cigar, got on the elevated going south,
changed TOR the shore line steam surface
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A TRAGEDY OF LOVE.

But the book concludes with what out
siders will consider q most doleful tragedy.
although Spiritualists will look upon it as
sweet transition to the land of spirits. II
turns out that, although Marston loves
Edith, and she would find her souls mate in
him, yet the fates, or the spirits, were against
it. She became engaged to another man.
About this time it was discovered by the
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-09-14

The initlatory degree was conferred upon
Messrs. j. G. Simpson. j. G. Anderson, and Daniel
degree. which will be conferred at the next
meeting. Mr.. Walter S. Wrenn made applica-
tiOn for membership, and he. with Messrs w. u.
Watson and X. H. Chase, will be present at the
next meeting to receive the initiatory degree.
ent and praised the members for their efforts.
The meeting was enlivened by the singing by
Bro. James =; Taylor of an original song, en-
applauded that he rendered in his peculiar
plantive style the Adventures of Mickey
Bradigan's Pup" Among the visitors were Past
Master Whitlock, of Lafayette Lodge No. :, of
Baltimore, and Past Masters Fuse and Neikirk,
and Worthy Master Tebbs. of Goodwill Lodge
No. IA.
A paper published in the interest of the order
will make its appearance some time during the
fall, and will be called the /. o. NJ. Meas. The
first copy will contain brief history of Column
bia Lodge No. l and n roll of its members.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-09-14
Independent Order Mechanics.

Goodwill Lodge No. IA held Its regular meeting
Tuesday night at their hall, Thirty second and
N streets northwest, with good attendance,
Worthy Master Tebbs in the chair. Vice Grand
Architect II. b. Wilson was present.
Anchor Lodge held its regular meeting Mon
day evening, with Worthy Master A f. Lipphard
IN the chair There was good attendance and a
few visitors. The trip paid to Mechanics Lodge,
OF baltimore, on the 9th, was pleasantly dis
cussed. Anchor Lodge wants to know what has
become OF +. g. A. George G. Wilson.
Columbia Lodge No. l held an interesting
meeting Tuesday evening last with a full at
tendance of officers. Bros. f. w. Loveless and
". Nj. Ball were reported sick. Bro. John w.
Nolan died of consumption Monday, and was
buried by the lodge Wednesday. He leaves a
widow and one child. The following members
have been appointed to make arrangements for
an entertainment during the fall: p. e. A. Jo-
seph Acton, p. M. William Il. Courtney, p. NJ. j.
w. kidwell, W. NJ M. w. PLACER, and j. M. Ezra
Iroth; The following applications for member
ship have been Initiated recently: George A.
Prather, Martin Schmidt, James II. Thomas, John
Q. Kramer, Theodore Thomas, Sedwick Hynson,
Robert IL. Arnold, John M. Carol, BenjaLiin M.
Mundel, and Charles King. AT the next meeting
there Will be organized what will be known at
the Heart and Hand Helpers, whose object will
be 10 give semi-annual entertainments and eX-
eurslons Tor the purpose of raising funds for new
paraphernalia.
Lafayette Lodge No. 13 held its regular ses
sion Thursday evening. 1t was very interesting
The Dark Continent crossed by a real balloon