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the rocky core of this pyramid of Zimbabye!
There are, here and there, n number OF
larger stones inserted in the walls or in the
ground, which recall Druidical remains.
Some which project like beams eight or ten
feet from the wall were probably intended
to support gallery, and on one OF these
Mr.. Baines, who followed in the steps Of
Herr Mauch, espied mysterious fgures-!oz-
enges and zigzags cut in the stone.
1t is most interesting to compare the ruins
in Zimbabye with some similar features OF
another set of ruins now described, we be-
lieye, for the first time, which the company's
pioneers have come upon on the banks OF
the Lundi River-ruins showing the same
circularity OF plan. the same skill in handi-
craft, the same curious ornamentation OF
part only of the wall, and the same or even
more remarkable indications of an ancient
quest for gold. Mr. +. e. Hartman, another
member Of the pioneer column, writes about
them as follows: 1.-The building, which,
from the look of the stones and trees grow
ing within 1t, is apparently very ancient, is
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in some ruins on the Lnndi River. AT
Zimbabye this strip runs at height OF about
twenty feet from the base, along portion
only of. the wall--this limitation, too, being
characteristic. The favored portion amounts
to about third of the Whole circuit.
So much for the outside. Now to enter
the building. This is done on the eastern
side by means of narrow gap, which the
rounded-off stones show to have been reg
ular doorway. The visitor is then con-
fronted with yet another decentralization,
the space between the two walls resembling
a great moat. On the side marked by the
entrance and the ornamental course the pas
sage widens out so as to contain the most i'm
posing feature of all. This is great conf
cal shaped tower or keep, 80 feet high Tor
five feet higher than the walD and Is feet in
diameter at the base, built of the same
granite blocks and consisting simply OF
solid mass Of masonry Close at the base OF
this stands a similar baby tower, or altar,
about six feet in diameter and originally
eight feet high. The mysterious architectural
group, pitched close against the entrance. is
completed by ruined square chamber with
traces of blocked-up entrance at its
further end. What was the purpose of this
dark tower, We wonder In form it recalls
the round towers of Ireland, the "brochs"
of Scotland, the towers of refuge in Persia.
But in its strange Solidity it suggests rather
that strange within of ancient tyranny for
piling something that would Sandstone
impregnable mass that would outlaSt the
ages We cannot tell. But what secrets,
what treasures, may there not be built into
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Tie polite eye.
NEW GAME WITH LETTERS.

Simple Enough for Children and Diff
cult Enough for ay-Beards.
A new game, which affords great deal OF
amusement to many people, and also imparts
considerable instruction to the young IN the
formation of words, is played in the follow
ing manner with the letters of the alphabet:
Half dozen sets of all the letters OF the
alphabet are provided, each letter on
small piece OF pasteboard or wood. One
player then gathers all the letters before
him on the table, as at cards. The player
who has all the letters then turns them
face downward and proceeds to deal them
out one by one, to the others. beginning with
the player sitting at his right hand and con-
tinuing around the table In order.
AS he deals letter out he turns its face
up, SO that all may see that it is "n' for in
stance. The next player gets an So" sup
pose, and he quickly sees that his letter
joined to the ''n'' received by the first player,
will form the word mo-" He announces
that fact and claims the IN" on the table in
front Of him and must leave il there undis-
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from seventeen to twenty hours in making
il. The time is occasionally increased by in
suffcency of water at the Liverpool bar.
But by the mail service via Dublin and
Holyhead the time between Queenstown
and Dublin, col miles farther than Liver
pool. is only nineteen hours. so it is possible
for a mail to be delivered in Lon
don before the steamer which brought
It 10 Queenstown has entered the
Mersey. The service is by train to Cork
and Dublin; thence by channel steamers
across the Irish Sea to Holyhead, on the
Welsh coast, and from Holyhead to the
metropolis by fast trains, which cover the
distance, go miles. in hours and 40
minutes. In coming to AmeriG the steam
ers wait at Queenstown for the mail leaving
London in the evening of the day on which
they sail from Liverpool. If one left the
latter port at noon Saturday, she would be
in Queenstown early Sunday morning, and
would anchor there until the arrival of the
train which left London nine hours after she
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AN OHM'S TRUE MEASURE.
The Value OF the Electric Unit Scientif


caiiy Explained.
The vexed question of the proper value
and definition of the electric unit OF resist
ance, the ohm, was taken up at the Leeds
meeting of the British Association for the
Advancement of Science, recently in session.
According to a cable dispatch to the Electro
cal World il was recommended that the
ohm be defined by the resistance of mer-
curry column of one square millimeter sec
tiOri. 1863 centimeterS long and at g c., in
stead of the column Jog centimeters long
adopted at the international Conference in
1854 Professors Rowland and Barker under
took to refer this recommendation to the
United States Government, while NJ. Mas
cart and Mr.. Preece respectively will present
1t to the French aud English autorities.
Electricians will be gratiiied that such
suggestion should come from the organiza-
ton which just quarter OF century ago
first placed the unit of electric resistance on
scientific basis. Certain discrepancies
were then discovered by which the
unit had been given a value slightly too
small Experiments proceeded upon the
recommendations then made, but no for
NAL action was attempted until 1881, at the
Paris Convention of the International Con-
gress of Electricians. The result of this ae-
tion was that the Congress of 1884 reports
were made of calculations to determine value
by six life ent methods.
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gentle slope, large "kopje." or knoll, n
couple of hundred yards away. being also
crowned with a sort of fort, composed of
huge masses OF granite. From this eleva-
ton, which is occupied by one of the Ma
shona tribes, under chief called Moghabi,
magnificent view is gained.
The main ruins on the slope below con-
sist of massive circular walls, sometimes
arranged in concentrlc rings. and a main
building of the same form but of no less
than eighty yards diameter, in which walls
loftier and more massive inclose the most
interesting feature of ala large, solid,
conical tower. The whole is built without
mortar, in regular and neatly dressed
courses, of uniform pieces Of granite about
twice the size of a modern brick-very hard.
greenisl-blaek in color, and giving me-
tallic ring when struck. Rough crucibes
and mortars have been found in the neigh
borhOod. and other signs that the smelling
of gold was the business which brought into
the barbarous heart OF the Dark Continent
the highly civilized and wel-equipped peo-
pie which castelated itself in these once
mighty fortresseS.
In the sketches received from Mr.. Bau-
mann. the first gives general view of the
circular main building. of which Mr.. Bau-
mann gives the following account: Judged
by the eye it is about eighty yards in di-
ameter. The thick jungle by which it is
surrounded, and the many tropical creepers
and thorny plants with which it is over
grown within, render it difficult to force
ones way to close examination, even
among the big trees which fill the lnclosure.
For the diameter therefore, we must need S
trust to the eye, having but short space
of time at our disposal for our trip away
from the camp. The dimensions of the
wall, however, l can give you pretty
exactly. BY scrambllng to the top and
dropping a tape line over its eastern face
we found it to be thirty feet high. with an
average thickness of eighteen feet at the
base, iapering to about eight feet along the
irregularly broken top. The work of disin-
tegration is being slowly carried on by
burrowing and clinging plants. but in this
dry, clear climate the granite blocks show
not trace of decay Strangely free even
from moses or lichens, they look as if they
had stood here for ages, and could stand
for ages more
The next feature which was noticed was
curious strip of ornamentation, similar to
work which is also found in other ruins
about the country-notably the "herring
bone" course in wall Tati. and the frleze
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VAST AND RICH
MASHONALAND.
Dec upied by a Fierce But Inter.
esting Race Of Savages.
Searching for the Real King solomon's Mines
Relics Of Bygone People Who Sought
for Gold in South Africa.
KANuAsHoNALAND is a vast and rio

MlASHONALAN is a vast and rich
AAE5 possession. The Matabele are a
A%Ay fierce and interesting race of say
ages. and the name of gold is now, as ever,
talisman to conjure with. But what an
added luster the expedition of the British
South Africa Company gains when the
scene OF its labors is identified with the
Land of Ophir and the object of its search
with the real King Solomon's Mines! And
whether that particular Identification of the
remains which strew this barbarOus country
be well founded OF not. here the remains
are-ancient. massive, mysterious-cont
ing in startling fashion with the primitive
barbarians who dwell about them and with
the jungly wildness of surrounding nature.
Each stone in them is, as it were, a mute
challenge, petrifed inquiry; and the curl
osity aroused in 1871 by the descriptions of
the German traveller Mauch. whom the
learned world half suspected of romanciDg,
will receive keen stimulus from the &C
counts in which the pioneers of the char
tered company confirm and ampliiy his OBJ
servationS.
To begin with the most important ex
ample yet discovered-the ruins of Zinl-
babye, Zimbaai. or Mazimbeoe, as it may
be variously spelled Situated on the edge
of the great Mashonaland plateau. they are
scattered to an immense distance over a
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STATIONERY JOKES


That Were CuIied From the Columns of
the American Stationer.
Young Man-Let me have ten quires of
the best superintendent foolscap. three
bottles Of the best writing fluid, dozen
blotters. couple of gold pens. three pen
wipers, steel eraser, an ink-rubber, and a
box OF brass paper-faSteners.
Clerk-All right, sir. Going to write
book?
Y. M.-Yes.
Cerk-May INQUIRE upon what subjectP
Y. M-Oh. haven't thought of that yet
want to write book, so | thought I'd bay
the necessary stationery. which is the most
important part of the undertaking.
HE had HIM THERE.
Agitator ION woman's rights i claim that
the rights of both sexes should be equal. In
whatever field woman has entered she has
eQualed and often surpassed the men who
had heretofore exclusively occupied IT, In
what, repeat, i'll what branch Of industry,
what profession. what art has she not dis
played her equality?
Chairman-There is young man in yon-
der corLer who evidently desires to say
something.
Agitator-Well, young man, do you wish
to reiute what say? Speak!
Young Mani only wanted to ask If
woman can sharpen lead pencil as well as
a man.
DATES HER ANCESTRY FROM ADAM
Mrs. Dearborn Street of Chicago)-I want
you TO emboSS my coat-0f-arms on my note
paper and envelopes.
Clerk-All right, madam. What does your
cGat-of-arms consist of?
Mrs. d. SWAT does 1t consist of?
Gracious, you are wonderful statonerl
It's your business to know what will make
a good cOatOf-armS.
Clerk-Oh, yes. sometimes we do. How
would q hog RAMPANT a shield TpDrnSHnt-
ing dollar do?
Mrs. d. S.-Oh, lovely!
A CHANGE OF CIRCUMSTANCES.
Mrs. Lonely Widder--I brought you three
weeks ago number Of books to have en-
crossed upon their first blank pages, From
my hush nd. my first and only love" Have
you finished the work?
Artist lave been i'll and am sorry to
say that | have not yet commenced the
work. But will
Mrs. l.. W.-AlI the better; as you have
not begun the work, substitute From my
first husband, Charles Wdder."
COLOR PREJUDICE.
Bagley-The animosity between the
whites and the negroes i'll the South still ex-
lists in spite Of all the literature that has been
written and the speeches spoken.
Gazley-I think you are mistaken there.
Bagley-1 know I'm not Why there's in
Americas, Ga, a white man, stationer,
CoGENT REASONING.
Popinjay-Have you received a notice
from the club for payment of arrears?
Ponsonby-Yes but | note that it is writ
with an electric pen, which means that many
notices must have been written, and that
many members are in arrears. That being
so don't see why should be the first to
pay up.
FIRST OVER ALL COMPETITORS.
First Merchant suppose you know my
inks received the first prize at the exposi-
ton?
Second Merchant haven't been reading
the papers lately Who were your comp til
tors?
First Merchant-Well, was the only one
who exhibited, but many intended to do so.
THE EDGE WAS TAKEN OFF.
Maid Ito aesthetic mistress)- mall
am is broke in French?
Madam-Casse.
Maid-Oh. yes! Well, think your Royal
Worcester ceDterpiece is casse
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ney. The town Is busy village, devoted 70
making cloth. but Barney Castle, once
ruin. The alleged power of the Barney
stone to endow any one kissing it with a
special gift of soft and inSinuatng speech"
is familiar; but as it is necessary to be
hung head first from the top of the tumbling
castle to reach the stone set in the wall a
genuine OSCILLATION is rarely enjoyed. If
there is time visit to Glengariff and Kill
larney is very pleasant. The region
abounds in natural beauties, all enhanced
by history, tradition and poetry. There
are lakes and mountains, hills and valleys,
fertility and barrenness, green lanes and
railroad is taken to Bantry. little town on
q bay breaking in seven miles from the
Glengarff is at the head of the
bay, among the mountains. From height
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THE ROSES FALL.

The roses fall from the stalk and die;
to my love must say. "Go0d-by."
Farewell, thou dear one.
Farewell. thou sweet one,
Hearts love mine.
The ynoon, all white looks down from above
As white as the moon are thy cheeks, my love.
Farewell, thou dear one,
Farewell, thou sweet one,
Hearts love mine.
The dew is falling on mountain and plain:
The tears drip down our cheeks like rain.
Farewell, thou dear one,
Farewell, thou sweet one,
Hearts love mine.
The roses again will bloom red on the tree.
And 1t may be. my love, I'll come back TO thee.
Then farewell. thou dear one,
Farewell, thou sweet one,
Hearts love mine. EMMA NJ. PHELPS.
Ne,o Yofk, November, 1890.
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You may tell OF the beautiful morning,
OF scenes so transcendently fair,
When the sunbeams kiss the bright dew drops
That glitter like diamonds rare.
You can tell me of brlght-plumed songsters
Who welcome the dawn of the day.
With a chorus of joy aud gladness,
AS the rises high on his way.
Ills true that those moments so feeting,
When everything seems newborn,
Are bright with hopes fading whispers.
In the sweet sunny hours Of the morn.
But sweeter to meis the twilight,
When the heat of the MONDAY is past.
And the sun, decked in azure and purple,
Mid the waves sinks 10 slumber at last
In the calm. holy hush Of the evening,
AS listen think can hear
The music of golden harps floating
On the breeze, enchanting my ear.
At this hour often sit musing
As think of the shadows and lights
On the page OF our life that is painted,
And how quickly those shadows take flight.
Yes. thou art my choice, gentle evening.
Not to others SO bright nor SO gay;
But to me more holy and soothing
Is evening, the close OF tine day.
November, 1880. Mp. W.
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MY VISION.

Sad and weary. lonely hearted,
Knelt l down one night to pray.
When 1t seemed. in one bright moment,
All thi ngs earthly passed away.
Then before my dazzled vision
Passed figure wondrous fair,
Whose serene. majestic presence
Told me that my Lord was there.
Not word my lips could murm UT,
Nothing sweet nor loving say:
Only q strange desire possessed me
At his feet to rest Away.
Down lie gazed In love upon me
With those eyes diyinely mild,
And then he said, 20 learn to follow
In my steps Of anguish, child.
&" II at times thy cross seems heavy.
And thy burden weigh thee down,
Think, wait In heaven for thee.
At the end to bless and crown"
Smiled he then, and faded from me;
But as long as life shall last
Never from my hearts sweet memories
Shall my blessed vision pass.
NJ. f. REGAs
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A Successful Counterfeit.

Our rations while in Richmond we esti-
mated at two to four ounces OF beef and six
to eight ounces Of good wheat bread. To
supplement this we made counterfeit green
backs, which we We're sometimes able to
pass on unsuspecting guards. Once by cut
ting out the figures from a ten-ccnt scrip
and with little blood gluing this over the
figure in a dollar greenback, myself aud
three comrades bought with this bogus ten
dollar bill ninety loaves of good bread and
federacy that l made full meal.-Novem-
Der Century.
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land there instead of completing the voyage.
Dreferring TO 70 on by rail, says a writer in
the st. Louis Giobe-Democrat The first bit
Of land sighted by beat from the United
States is Crookhaven. This is simply
station where the vessel is spoken and her
safe arrival is telegraphed over the world.
From this point to Queenstown is about
eighty miles. with but little to see but high
and broken cliffs as a coast line. At
the entrance to Queenstown Harbor
is a bold promontory called Roehes
Point. Here the mails and passengers not
going to Liverpool are transferred to ten
steamers leave the mails nere and when
bound out take on the English mails The
distance from Queenstown to Liverpool is
24O miles, and the steamers usually take
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GOOD-BY, OLD HOME.

A soSG.l
Farewell. old home.
From thee roam
In sadness and in woe:
No friends leave
Behind TO grieve
For here no friends know.
The stranger watches at the gate,
AS forth from thee l roam.
To face alone my cruel fate.
Good-by, old homel
,horus -Good-by. good-by. good-by, old home.
The hot tears start. and throbs my heart
With anguish as thus depart;
Good-by. Old hOmei
When last turned
From thee, burned
For honor and renOwn:
My heart light,
My hopes were bright,
But now those homes have flown.
My parents in yon church-yard lie,
And from their graves come
To look my last on thee and sigh.
Good-by, old home!-Chorus.
Midst battles jar
In lands afar,
How oft thought OF home
And those dear
Who'd greet me here
When | should cease TO roam;
And dreaming e'er of mutual Bliss
flew or oceans foam,
To nnd my hopes all end in this
Good-Oy, old homel-Chorus.
Oldhome, good-byI
From thee fly;
Thy scenes cannot bear
TO look upon,
For they are gone
who could those feelings share.
My heart can never more be gay;
ARD from their graves come,
To look my last ON thee and say:
Good-by. old home Chorus.
MARCUS A. STEWART.
San Jose (CalI. October, 1890.
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Ndrrow and elongated.

are notifications, blends or compounds of
these three forms. There are some eyes
which present in the contour portions of
each of these forms. Exaggeration of any
one OF these forms is a carcature of what
such individual form represents. Take the
eye that is exaggerated in size. That
eye denotes an unreliable gabbler.
that is a person who loves TO talk just
to hear himself, no matter whether he
is talking sense or not. That denotes
that the person possessing such an eye
is not capable of receiving accurate impress
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TO MORLEY ASHTON.

Oh! Morley, dear, it's very nice
To thusly love your sister.
think great deal more of you
For saying how you missed her.
My sympathies were with you
From the very very start,
Cause thought some heartless hoyden
Was about to break your heart
enyied her those kisses
At the gaze and at the door,
Not thinking at the time
That they were brotheriy and chaste.
CTwas very sisterly of her
And brotherly of you,
But one can't help a-thinkirg
Ii was something of a waste).
And as ! read and read and read
OF how you loved her so,
My heart began TO ache for you,
My tears began to ilow
Now Morley, take my kind advice
q know you've sadly missed herl.
Go waste your love aud leisure hours
On some one else's sister. g. NJ.
San Franctsc0. NoU. 6, 1890.
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LA ROSEE.
A LEGEND OF A TEAR.

Translated from the French OF Henri Murger.
The sylphe who battles the flowers with dew
A lily saw one morn.
And loving It, upon 1t poured
Her store till all was gone.
Thus, she an humble flower forgot
Half dead and bruised, which lay
Upon the earth with wounded leaves,
The hailstorm's sport and prey.
Seeking the shadowy glens and peace.
With lingering step and head bowed low.
A trav'lcr passed along the road
And sorrow caused his tears to flow:
And as he bent meath dropping boughs.
Thinking Of her he loved too well
(For love yet lived within his hearD
His tears upon the flower fell
That humble flower which almost dead
And withered meath the lily lay,
When 10! 1t lifted up its head
Aud wore once more its colors gay.
lldmedd, Cal, Nou. 3, 1890. ANELEH.
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Chinese Alligators.

Two examples OF the Chinese alligator
have just reached the geological gardens.
hibted here alive. The alligator is SO dis
tiBctly an American animal that the proof,
so recently as 1879 of the species in China
was extremely interesting. Nevertheless,
tue Chinese classics contained numerous
references to the creature, and even pic
lures, which could be easily recognized as
being meant for a crocodile of some sort.
1t is 10 be hoped that the specimens the
zoo will bear out the notion of the extreme
longevity of the reptile. Its name is APP
parently used in certain parts of China in
the same sense as Methusaleh in this coun-
try. Marco Polo wrote about this animal,
and recommended its gall as an excellent
remedy for the bite OF mad dog and for
various other complaints, so that 1t seems to
have been the medieval equivalent of some
of our much advertised remedies Of the pres
ent day. Curiously enough the beast is even
now made use OF in Chinese Medicines
London Daily News.
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Others declare that man has an honest
eye, or dishonest eye, or treacherous
eve, or daringeye-and, in fact, says the
Philadelphia Record, it is well known that
the mental grade of person can generally
be indicated by his eye.
In book entitled Practical and Scien-
tiic Physiognomy" it is explained that there
are three general forms of the eye as it APP
pears between the slit or opening of the lid.
These are Large and round. narrow ana
elongated, and oblique. All the other forms
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above the scene is one of sterile and tawny
colored spendor. The water spreading out
to its gates is encircled by savage noun
tains; the rocks are bare and brown: the
sky is cold. But getting down to lower
level there is an elastic turf springiDg
under the foot, a SQUAD of many rills
which gush out from between the rocks
and delightful mildness Of the air. The
very hedges, as dense as the hawthorn
of English fields, are compact masses of
blossom. and the vines Chamber up above
every stone. There are several houses and
a couple of hotels, and so genial is the eli
mate that they are occupied the whole year
through. The three lakes OF Killarney are
in long valley among the mountains forty
miles beyond. The road promises nothing
but what is bleak and wild, but once there
the pasture and woodland open up beautiful
beyond words to tell. 1t is hard to decide
where to stop. Days can b. passed in con-
tinuing the jaunt. for there are the Ache
rontic pools, sweet lnnisfallen, Ross Castle,