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Counterfeit Th0us and Dollar Bills.

The United States Secret Service, at
Washington, is considerably annoyed
just at present regarding new counter
felt $1,000 bill, which is SO admirably
executed that half dozen specimens
have actually been passed on one bank:
It turned up for the first time only the
other day, in Boston, where a woman
went into the shop of Jordan, Marsh &c
Co., and purchased valuable shawl ten
dering in payment United States Treas
ury note for $1,000. The clerk took the
bill and kept the customer waiting sew
eral minutes for her change. When ne
returned with it she expressed anger, and
demanded to know what the matter had
been. The clerk owned that he had
stepped over to bank nearby to have
the bill tested, whereat the woman de-
clarcd that she would not take the
shawl, and founced out. Subsequently
she came back, said she had thought
better of it, took the shawl, paid for 1t
with $1,000 note, and went away with
her purchase and her change. All this
was very clever performance, for as a
matter of fact, the first bill offered was
a. perfectly good one, while the note
actually given in payment on the second
occasion was not the same at all, as the
clerk was intended to suppose, but a
forged imitation of like issue. Not only
is an unknown number of these danger
Gus counterfeits now in circulation, but
the plates are in existence somewhere,
ready to strike off millions in currency
of large denomination.-St. Louis GLOBE
DeD20crat
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The Musical Sense in Animals and Men.

The higher animals can also enjoy
music, as my house-cat shows, when she
comes at the playing of the piano to sit
by the player, and sometimes jumps into
her lap or on the keyboard of the in
strument. know of dog, too, in q
family in Berlin, which comes in in like
manner when there is music, often from
distant rooms, opening the door with his
paw. knew of another dog, usually
thoroughly domestic, which occasionally
played the vagabond for love of music.
Whenever the semi-anaual mass was
celebrated in the city he could not be
kept at the house. As soon as the So
called Bergknappen, which were accus-
toned to play at this time in the streets,
appeared, he would run away and follow
them from morning till evening.
Evidently neither cats nor dogs, nor
other animals that listen to human music,
were constituted for the appreciation of
it, for it is not of the slightest use to
them in the struggle for existence. More
over, they and their organs of hearing
were much older than man and his music.
Their power of appreciating music is
therefore an uncontcmplated side-faculty
of hearing apparatus which has become
on other grounds what we find it to be.
So it is, I believe, with man. He has
not acquired his musical hearing as such,
but has received a highly developed
organ of hearing by a process of selec-
ton, because it was necessary to him in
the selectirc process; and this organ of
hearing happens also to be adapted to
listening to music.-Popular Science,
MonthZy.
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Broad Acres in Australia.

Roman mobiles sometimes had whole
provinces for estates, but these arc almost
parallelcd in Australia, where immense
estates are numerous. They arc adrcr-
tised for sale in Melbourne paper. The
area of the first is 434 square miles, OF
which the rent is $16O5.37 only, and the
cattle on the pasture arc valued at S12.5O
each. The second comprises GAS square
miles, and the third 553 square miles.
All three are in Queensland. The first
lot is described as watercd by a river,
and having town ninety miles distant
on one side and $50 on the other. The
advantage of the second is that it lies be,
tween three towns, which are respectively
$50, 800 and $50 miles away, and the
third apparently most fortunately stu,
ated of all, is "within 100 miles Of q
railway"
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WORDS OF WISDOM.

Anger fatigues itself and courts de.
feat.
Chances are the first billets-doux oi
love.
Personal sacrifice is lauded, not emu.
lated.
Wrinkles are shadows of departed
pleasures.
To love is to admire with the heart; to
admire is 10 love with the mind.
Next to the virtue, the fun in this
Horld is what we least can spare.
Great hearts alone understand how
much glory there is in being good.
Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence
nor excess ever renders man happy.
Society is like atmospheric air, the
higher we go, the lighter it becomes.
The prayers of lover are more i'm
perious than the menaces of the whole
world.
Homely truths, like medicine, often
distress US, but that is part of the curative
process.
Above all things always speak the
truth; your word must be your bond
through life.
We swallow at one mouthful the lie
that flatters, and drink drop by drop the
truth that is bitter.
Honesty is of all things the most cum
ming, because it is the only thing that the
cunning do not forsee.
Undeserved praise is of double import;
we feel it is unmerited, and we feel ais o
that it might have been.
Safety is acute reaction. Pleasure,
like bubbles, floats on the surface; those
who drink deep imbibs bitterness.
Reputation is like the sensitive plant,
which bears undismayed the chilling
winters blast, but which withers at the
irst sign of human touch.
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"Lucy" said Olive to her sister, a few
months afterward, snow that we are go
ing to housekeeping, I want you to give
me one thing"
"Anything on earth that I can," said
Mrs. Jolliver. 81 was thinking of sill
yer service"
"Oh, Lucy, DEAR" said Olive, begin
ming to cry for very happiness, ''it's
only the butterfly quilt that want. The
dear old quilt. Harry says we can't
keep house without it, we both love it
So"
'I've rolled it up for you already" !"
said Mrs. Jolliver. "It seems to belong
to you, Olive"
And so to-day Olives last baby sits
upon the brilliant quilt, and tries, with
his chubby fingers, to pull therefrom the
butterflies and roses.-Ths Ledger.
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Curious Communication.

That curious thing which may be
called telepathic communication, and
which has been observed in India and
among our own Indians has had some
interesting illustrations in Mexico.
During the Franco German war the City
of Mexico walked up one morning to hear
from its servants, and in the market
places, and all over the streets from the
people of low degree, that great battle
had been fought, in which the French
were overwhelmed. A week elapsed be-
fore any direct word was received mean
while the rumor asserted itsslf with such
assurance that even the French colony
became distinctly depressed. And then
they got the news of Sedan.
Some years ago there was a great ris-
ing of Indians in Western Mexico, who
marched upon Guadalarja II, 900 strong.
There were but 5000 troups in the West
ern capital, under the command Of
Corona One afternoon about o'clock
the Indians, at point two and a half
days distant, fell into state of agita-
ton. They said that great battle had
been fought and the Indians defeated.
Yet the battle of the Mojonera did not
begin till noon of that day, and at 4
o'clock the Indians, IN tumultous fashion,
were still fleeing from the field.
During our Modoc war, so-called,
though our newspapers had pony ex-
presses and even carrier pigeons with the
troops at the Lava Beds, the Indians in
Lake County, Cal., 2O9 miles away re-.
ported from day to day the substance of
the actions hours before tho news
reached the telegraph station at Shasta.
Account for it2 Western civilization
isn't sup" to accounting for it.-Mv
York Sun.
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THE SONG OF THE SEA.

Their world was world of enchantment;
A wonder of luminous light
Came out with fiaring of carmine,
From all the black spaces of night;
The music of morn was as blithesome
And CHEEKY as music could be;
But all through the dawn and the daybreak
Imourned for the song of the sea.
They showed me the marvellous flowers
And fruits of their sun-5eatea lands;
They said, Here are vine-tangled valleys;
Forget ye the barren white sands;
For WEAKNESS unto the spirit
The dash Of the breakers must be;
So dwell ye beside our blue waters;
Forget the sad song of the sea-"
And wrapped me about in the sunlight,
On the marge of dimpling stream,
And there in a tangle of lilies,
wove ME wonderful dream;
And song from my dreamland went float
ing
Far up where the angels must be,
But deep in its under vibrations
heard the sweet song Of the sea.
With the dew in his locks all a-glitter,
The Prince of the Daytime lay dead;
For the silver.white lance Of the twilight
Smote off the gold crown from his head;
And the Princess of Night came to see him,
Her lights oil about him to hang;
And q nightingale screened in the thicket
His song to the slumberer sang.
And the stream from the tangle of lilies
Came winding its way through the sedge;
And silvery nocturne it rippled
Among the tall flags on its edge;
But its babble fain would have given,
For the sleep-wooing sea voices lull,
And the nightingale's song would have bar
tered
For the desolate cry of gull.
Their world was world Of encnantment;
And they laughed with the laughter Of
sccrn,
When turned me away from its beauty
In the light of the luminous morn;
But heard grand voice in the distance
Insistently calling to me,
And rose with jubilant spirit
: And followed the song of the sea.
Hattie Whitney, in BelforPs Magazine.
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Vessel Calked by q Fish.

A few days ago schooner Charleston
lumber laden, came in here leaking con-
siderable. After engaging berth on
the marine railway the leak suddenly
stoppcd, but the Captain concluded to
haul on, as he had engaged the berth.
When the vessel was docked 1t was ols-
covered that there was quite hole IN
tbe cardboard scam, and founder had
been sucked in and stopped the Leak
Portland (Ae.) Press.
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himself robbed forever of love and of
fair repute, and ,=ho had returned to
find both awaiting him, through the
means of that patchwork quilt, with its
butterflies and Towering boughs and
roses. |
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London is overrun with what it Is
pleased to call ''piano recitalers," and
the musical agents have declined for the
present to make any new engagements
Eith celebrities.
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didst hiss thy Lord away-Christ comes now
to give thee sight, to give thee q home, to
give thee heaven. With more than Som
tags generosity He comes to meet your need.
With more than Sontag's music BE comes
to plead for thy deliverance.
, 1890-03-06
An ENCiTING RUN.
4 Denver Fnvinc"r's Race with "a
cloud hurst


George Davis is one OF the oldest and
best engineers In beaver. lie com.
mcnced IN ls7U ON the old Denver Ia
cihc, and was firing for Ed liUskin- uu
old No. 30 when the engine brought the
first passenger train 10 Denver I'm 1870.
In 1872 he was given charge of an en-
gine and continued TN active service ON
that line until recently, when, owing tu
sickness, he was Obliged to lay on bat
the company approciating his valuable
services, has him employed IN the Union
depot examining train hands "a, to their
knowledge of train rules and duties
George had the reputation OF being one
OF the fastest runners on thc ruad and
ON one occasion, when pulling President
Adams' car q speed Indicator IN ihp car
indicated seventy miles an hour for a
short distance, but George thinks tho
fastest time he ever made was on the
afternoon OF July -, 1915. whom he ran
u race with flood IN Sand creek and
beat 1t by Just seventy seconds. Georpc
can tell tho story best, however
1T was during the time wc were hay.
ing so many Hoods, and the bridge over
sand creek had been washed out a irw
over the sand In the bottom of thCrfcpk
which was always dry except when
there was a flood"
I'VE were an hour late that afternoon.
and when We reached Eaton, forty aiuht
miles from Denver, We were lust lkiuo
water Ut the tank when u. B. keplrr
who was the agent at that place then.
came running out to mc with message,
which road
=" Make all possible haste to Denver.
Water coming down sand creek
The mes iagc was signed by Colonial
Fisher, the superintendent, ana | knew
II meant get there, and tho wnV
lammed that old machine going over tho
track that afternoon was "a caution. W.
had no air brakes in those dnys. and
had six stops tu make, but were only
| siNty-four minutes from SAND creek,
when we ronchcd the bank of tbt
creek II was nearly dusk, but | could
SEQ 1hc water coming only u irw rods
above, ionning and roaring, u solid wnIl
six feet high full ol tlmIors and wrocl.
age from the knusa, Pacific bridg, a
few miles above, and thought at nrst
] would not clmncc 10, but lust AS 1 yy,,
about TO blow for brakes | caught siyhi
of Colonel Fisher ON the other ,iG.
waving his hat to me to come on sn
pulled her wide open ami we plunged
down IN the hole and wrigglad up th,
other side Just severity seconds bcior,
the water struck tue track and wiped Al
ut OF existence with u roar.
~ stopped as quick rs could after ~,
got over, and IL you ever saw n delighted
set ol passengers they were there. YoU
soc, they didn't know any thing abouI
II until We were down in the creek bot
tom, when they saw The water comm,
Scared Wei, you can bet they were
, 1890-03-06
wAsnINGroS's FUTURE.
The Commerce of the Pacific Is Her
Richest Card.

From Missouri Exchange
The future Of the new state of Wasil-
lngton lies in China, Japan and COrea.
Its present is assured. The newest civil
i1ation in the world gazes across the
Pacific into the face of the oldest and
offers its trade for the richest of an en-
plre Toward the setting sun the people Of
Washington look for their future wealth.
Tho Asistic coast imports yearly 500
90, ,OOo of goods, and the greatest part of
this trade Is now absorbed by England.
But natural laws will make this traffic
drift to our Pacific coast. The
saving in distance is alone
ntics buy canned goods, cheap
cotton, -four. meat, lumber, agricultural
implements and other mechanical de
vices. These are the things In which
America deiies competition, and these
are the things that Tacoma aud Seattle
tile two great ports of Washington, ex-
poet to send across the Pacific.
isa tremendous bid that this now
state is making for q market which not
only England, nut all Europe will strur
glc against losing. II Washington sue.
ceods. the gain will he that of the whole
United Sintes. New EurlsAd and Penn.
sylyanin are as much Interested in her
success Ms are tile West and North.
west. The richness of the prize may In.
volve unimngined complications, not
only with Europe, but with Asia, in
such way us to alter materially Our
present diplomatic relations. In truth
,hcre seems more future history OF in.
ternational concerns wrapped IN in the
confines oil this American Mediterran-
can Puget sound than anyone dare
guess at.
But it will be long before Western
Washington becomesR country OF crops.
Tho timber that covers it win give its
people their chief means of support for
nous. A Washington humber.
man sent to San Francisco last
year BEEN twenty-fpur inches
thick and 15b feet long. The beam was
originally TO- feet long, but 1t had to be
cut ON account of trouble in trnnsporta-
ton. There is n vessel In Puget sound
l22 feet long, built OF timbcrs running
from stem 10 stern, and not ono spliccd,
Spnrs for shipyards on the clyde are cut
here. Masts arc sent to England. France,
North Africa and spanish and Southern
America. 1t il said that during the
forest fires of the past summer, enough
timber has been burned in Washington
to pay oil half the national debt Yet
this gigantic loss was not felt. even In
crcnsing the value of what was left.
Washington claims to have 2O,OO0,OOJ
acr.s of timber land.
Int lumber ~ not the sole wealth OF
Washington. The snbstructurc OF the
country /. coal formation already prot.
itnbly worked i'll between fifteen and
twenty places. some of the coal is so
fine and hard NJ TO he called anthracite.
some oft Is bituminous and some 4,
clnssed as Ignite. Some Of these Goals
will coke admirably, which means that
Il is almost worth It's weight In gold in
smultcrs. Large bodies of iron ore are
found in the Cascade mountains. In
Tastetn Washington II is claimed tLnt
tho wheat and corn producing soil if
rich and abundant. Win natural re.
sources such ns these, the new state oi
Washington regards itself as rich In Its
own right. without regard to the future
oil its comniercs.
, 1890-03-06
SHE!

Written for the REVIEW by W. scorl
At play, TO- night, 1 had a hand OF
queens,
"a spangled knave was page to one of
them).
| shut the players out before the scenes,
And looked the beauties DER to Find
my gem.
In ermine sat the woman with the club,
a female Janizary with no love
In eye, or lip; but, on the doughty cub,
The knaye, she bent her eye from. far
above
Not thou, th on Cleopntrine beauty. Mol
For /, no Anthony, but more the Jack,
Must bo thy knaye, and ever come and
go
To do thy high bchest like any black
a widows somber weeds. with golden
doves
And ivy sprays inwrought, about her
arms
Fall down and writhe about her feet.
Her loves
Are dead and buried. All her queenly
charms
Are drowned in melancholy. She, the
queen
OF spades and biers, and all that
fright
About the mystery of death. "Serene
And sad, but lovely face, not just to-
night
"Thou beauty like an evening star"
said,
"Sly liver is too sound; my appetite
Too indiscriminately fierce to wcd
My spiritual moRitress tonight"
My eye arises to the diamond red;
Its dazzling color, like fever flame,
Can not eclipse the beauty OF the head
That keeps her eye upon It IN this
game.
Alas no fortune can | match with thine
l scarcely nave outrun the wolf to-day
| would thy face aud fortune all were
mine;
But while 1 plead, thou look'st the
other way.
But heart | have, as wurm and full a;
this
That swells beside thy matchless
check,
o Queen Of Love and Hearts of wedded
bliss.
Thy equal Il well married be, this
week
Her eye, so eloquent, her regal heck,
Hcr lips disposed as II To- sny. ~ love,
Her perfect hand that so soon shall
deck
With ring ofvirgin gold. are far above.
The vulgar club, tho grucsome spade, oil
gay
But soulless gem of brightly shining
earth,
thus allowed my loyal heart to stray
Across to her who gave my passion
birth.
Her bosom, like the tropic waye-"O
sayl
You staring iigure-head with eyes like
hubs;
, 1890-03-06

In following down the Rio Grandc
on an enlarged map we flnd many
streams entering into II in It's upper
coursc. In going down a little
farther, reaching the san Luis val
ley, they ARE found to suddenly give
out on the north side, and, few
miles farther down, ON the southern
side also. The principal streams OF
the valley, the Rio Grundo excepted,
come in full force down the
mountain, flow freely OH, and ter
inmate I'm u marsh on II small lake
on the sand. The beds of those
which should empty into the Rio
Grande arc there, but there IL no
water In them. Similar streams are
common all over the southwest,
and the various streams show all
the different stages, rom those
which really go somewhere all the
time, and those which, alive and
iull of water above always fail to
reach the stream to which they are
headed below.
zone time" says the writer, ~
had the curiosity to examine the
stream at the point where 1t was
lost. II was the Rio Hondo, Just
south of santa Fe. We had crossed
1t lower down, and, though the ra-
vine was seventy.flvc or 100 feet
deep, we found 1t perfectly dry. We
followed up its south bank for n
mile or two until we struck the
foothills, and there we found II II
bright, rippling stream, leaping
down from ledge to ledge, very
picturesque, with some scattered
trees along the banks, and so broad
that IL WAS not easy to pass over II,
leaping from stone to stone, and re-
main dry shod. From here my
friend drove back to the crossing,
and | walked down to -ee where and
how stream could lose it
self with such IA volume of
water and path marked out for
it. As 1 followed IL down
1t ran on merrily in the midst
of little valley, no more than six
or eight rods wide, along which were
pretty meadows alternating with
clumps of bushes. II passed through
the various incidents of "a stream
here u little fall, there II rapid over
thickly set stones, II little further on
II pool. There seemed to be nothing
unusual In 1t, when suddenly | no
tlced that the little valley widencd
to double its previous width, the bed
became more sandy, and the stream
was spread over a greater space. 1t
was evidently going under, and,
within twenty rods ofwhoro i no.
ticed the first change, the running
water had entirely disappeared. The
bed of the stream was damp for
twenty wards or so more;
then for considerable distance /
could get water by digging "a few
inches: then that indication failed,
and beyond the stream the bed was
entirely dry.D
All snch streams do not thus ter
inmate i'm the middle of their bed.
andin n .,nalI ahni
, 1890-03-06

Chansonotte.
fst. George Bestl
! loved woman far to see,
! loved her truly once, but she
sleeps In the cold, cold ground-ah me !
II she died heart.broko I've forgot;
Loved her then--I love her not;
Time that brings change has changes
brought.
She may have slept ten years or so;
How long-i faith do not know;
All this was in the long ago
One day the funeral bells did toll;
heard n priestly hymn Of dole
And there's an end-God rest her soul
, 1890-03-06

Mrs. Moore, the wife of the poet,
was noted for horbcneyolcucc to the
poor In the vicinity Of their country
residence. ON one OCCASION guest
observed; "I take It for granted
that no one Is dying In our neigh.
borhoud, or we should not Toe favored
with Mrs. MoOrc's compauy,h