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his palaces at Amber and moved to Jaipur,
and all the Inhabitants OF the city followed.
Except here and there house In Amber
occupied by hermit, the city is as silent
population as Pompei OF Herculaneum,
but those cities were emptied by volcanic
disaster, while this city OF AWber was va
Gated because Prince Joy Singh was told by
q Hlndoo priest that NO city should be In
habited more than 1000 years, and so tne
ruler ITO years ago moved out himself,
and all his people moved with him.
You visit Amber. on the back OF an ele-
phant. Permission obtained for your visit
the day before at Jaipur, an elephant is IN
waiting for you about six miles out to take
you up the sleeps to Amber. You pass
through the awfully quiet streets, all the
feet that trod them In the days OF their actiy-
ity kas.ss,< cone On The ,scs. Journey and the
voices of business and gayety that sounded
amid these abodes having long ago, uttered
their last syllable. You pass by a lake COW
sail IN their pleasure boats, but alligators
now have full possession, and you come to
the abandoned palace, which is an
enchantment. No more picturesque
place was ever chosen for the resi-
dencs OF q monarch. The fortress
above looks down upon this palace, and the
palace looks down upon q lake. This
mOQArCQl8l 8pOQo may nave QAQ 8ttrdCtiOuS
when It was the home Of royalty which have
vanished, but antiquity and the silence OF
many years and opportunity to tread where
once you would not have been permitted to
tread may be an addition quite equal to the
subtraction.
But what solemn and stupendous thing
is an abandoned cityl While many of the
peoples Of earth have no root for their head,
here Is whole city Of roofs rejected. The
sand Of the desert was sufficient excuse tor
the disappearance Of Heliopolts. and the
waters Of the Mediterranean Sea for the en-
gulfment of Tyre, and tie lava OF Mount
,5Vesuvius for the obliteration OF Hercu-
laneum. but for the sake Of nothing but a
superstitious whim the city Of Amber 1s
abandoned forever. Oh, wondrous India
The city of Amber is only one OF the marvels
which compel the uplifted hand OF surprise
fromithe dav you enter India until you
leave II. Its fora Is 80 damboyant, it's fauna
30 monstrous and savage, its ruins so sug-
gestive, its tdolatry 80 horrible, Its degrada-
tion 80 sickening, its mineralogy 80 brilliant,
its splendors 80 uplifting, its architecture SO
old, 80 grand, 80 educational, 80 multi
potent, that India will not be fully compre.
hended until science has made Its last e1-
pertinent, and exploration has ended Its last
Journey, and the library Of the worlds liter
ature has closed its last door, and Christian
ity has made its last achievement, and the
clock Of time has struck its last hour.
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grees. They are attached to wires,
which will Full out and shut off the
current if the utensil is knocked over.
Flat irons are 80 connected that when
the current is turned off the iron
cools.
Several residences in this city are
being fitted with electrical cooking
and heating apparatus. A prominent
hotel is using the current for part of
its cooking. Two of the biggest and
fastest OF the ocean greyhounds are
heated by it, and their owners are
contemplating its adoption in their
culinary departments. In one resi-
dence the cooking, heating and Light
ing are all done by the swift and tire
less current. It is Brooklyn house,
the home of ]. Foster Peabody, in
Monroe place, in which you can get
the best idea of the kitchen OF the
future. .s.'
"Oh, you want to find out about
the electricity" said the young lady
to whom the Press reporter was re-
ferred when he had made known his
errand. cit is delightful. But, OF
course, you want to see for yourself.
The cook is preparing dinper, but
electricity in the kitchen is her one
weakness, and I think she will tell you
something of it and let you look at
the utensils even at this rather lncon-
venient time"
A mingled aroma of roasting turkey,
boiling onions, turnips and cranberry
sauce was perceptible as followed my
guide toward the kitchen. We entered
a bright room, where, in place of the
range, is sort of big table, with
shelves behind and beneath, and at
one side a square board, upon which
are levers and thumbscrews. The
water in the tea kettle was bubbllng
merrily. There was nothing at oil
strange in the appearance OF these
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A Buiiet.PrOof Car.

Invention is now at work to circum-
gent the daring train robbers in the
West, the latest step in this direction
being bullet proof car.
It is supplied with cages designed ia
be opened only from the outside, by a
station master, which are provided for
the safe and the more valuable parcels,
and the arrangement. is such that if
the robbers succeed in entering the
car they will be exposed to the fire OF
the messenger from bullet-proot
compartment in each end of the car,
the messenger being also able to shoot
along the sides Of the car to protect
the engineer or to prevent burglars
and robbers from making an entry.
The car has double floor and dou-
BILE roof, and at each end is messen-
GERS compartment, from which he
may shoot along the side of the car
from outwardly-swinging sections pro.
vided with portfolios, or through port
holes in its end. At opposite sides Of
the car, adjoining each messengers
compartment, are strongly-formed
barred compartments or cages, for the
reception of safes, etc., each cage be-
ing reached by a door opening into
the body portion of the car, and q
passageway is left on one side of each
cage from the messengers room to the
central portion of the car. This pas
sageway is designed to be closed at
each end by doors carried on the ends
of q platform pivoted between the
floors, the doors thus being stimuli
taneously opened and closed, and the
arrangement being such that robber
gaining access to the centre Of the car
is liable to be shut in there or in the
passagevay by the messenger, the lat.
ter taking refuge in one of the end
compartments, where he may fire
through the portfolios in the door
upon the robber thus imprisoned.
The psssageway is also closed by an
intermediate door having lock on
the side next to the messengers room.
The construction is designed to be
very simple and substantial, and yet
not very expensive Boston Herald.
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Oueer Tides of Hollow.

The tides of Hollow are, according
to Consul Parker, of Kiungchow, aa
hopeless a puzzle as ever. Though
the customs authorities have now four
years records, there is absolutely no
rule to be deduced therefrom. The
tides outside the spit are regular
enough, but those inside elude the
wit of man to account for, and the
level of the water outside is positively
said to be often several feet above that
inside. There is tidal creek near the
Consul's house, over which he can
rarely walk during the day in summer,
but he had walked over it every day
but two at p. m. during the past two
months-close of last year and begin.
ming of this-a fact which of itself
renders the inner tide question mex
plicable.
Perhaps the best explanation is that
of q Chinese naval commander, who
says that, owing to the conformation
of the spit, it is impossible for ths
water to flow into the mouth of the
creek when the northeast wind blows
and the tide is rising. That would
appear to explain why, during the day,
the winter tides are almost invariably
low inside the spit, while during the
night, when the wind usually drops,
they have an average height. Per-
haps also the blowing of the wind from
the southwest direction explains why,
during the typhoons of the end of
September and the beginning OF Oc-
tober, Hollow WAS completely under
water, and the tides were four feet
above the highest ordinary mark; but
the Consul is not able to say from
what direction the wind was actually
blowing when the floods took place
it appeared to blow from all quarters.
Indian Engineer.
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poIsoNERs-aENYnAL.

{ A thirteen-year-old boy In New York City
was given O glass OF whisky by woman,
and soon after drinking it, tell In drunken
stupor and was carried in hfeless state tc
a hospital, where after vigorous treatment
by tho surgeons he recovered so as 10 be
taken home to his parents. Our children
are being poisoned by the wholesale. One
glass OF the poison Is deadly. John Wesley,
in referring TO the dealers in alcoholic bever-
ages, said:
s All who sell them In the common way to
any that will buy are poisoners-general.
wholesale; neither does their eye pity nor
spare. They drive them to hell like sheep.
and what Is their gain2 Is 1t not the blood
Of these men2-National Temperance Advo-
nafn - - - IL
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LEZOV COMMITTEE QUITS
THE INVESTIGATION OF NEW
YORK'S POLICE ENDS,

The Sensational Closing Session-Su-
perintendent Byrnes On the Stand
Sends His Resignation to the
Mayor-The Sources Of His For.
tune-Adjournment Sine Die.
The Lexow Senatorial Committee has
closed its Investigation of the Police De-
partment Of New York City. Police Super
Inrestspt Byrnes, tho head OF the Depart
ment, wasfhe> chief witness of the last day,
and, as the climaiot his testimony, the fols
lowing letter was made public; 1t came q
an absolute surprise 10 the Senators, to Mr..
Goff and to the audience that packed the
court room 70 lis utmost capacity:
POLICE .HRApouARrxRs.
800 Mulberry street.
NEW YORK CRY, December 18, 1884 u
Colonel W. L. Strong: ~ ~,
Dear sir-I appreciate as fully as any man
can the trem mendous responsibility that VIII
come upon you when you assume the duties
of Mayor and undertake the reform Of the
various departments OF the city government.
I desire not to be On obstacle or an embar-
rasssment to you In anything that you may
propose to do with the Police Department.
On the contrary, wish to aid you In any
way that can. . - I8si s :
I assume that you are now considering
what action you ought to take at the outset
of your administration and what legislation
will be required to make such action practi-
cal. " =.
I therefore now place In you hands my re-
quest to be retired from the post OF Superin-
tendent, to be used by you or not at any
time after the 1st Of January, US you see fit.
And let me further say that you may be
entirely free to command my services, adj
Vice and information at any time in regard
to the affairs Of the Police Department, with
which have been so long connected. Your
obedient servant, THOMAS BYRNEs.
Superintendent Byrnes in his testimony
admitted that the present condition OF the
Police Department OF New York City Is bad,
and that 1t is practically impossible to better
It under the existing form OF organization.
He concluded his testimony by saying that
he had been twice on the point OF resigning
from the position Of Superintendent, but
that he would not allow himself to be forced
out, He felt no hesitation now In ANNOUNCE
Ing that he sent his resignation to Mayor
Strong two weeks ago. ~.
The Superintendent declared that even
without the Intervention Of DR.. Parkhurst
and his society or the Lexow Committee, he
himself would have collected BY this time
fully three-ifths Of the evidence 3of police
corruption that now stands publicly re-
corded. He declared that his wealth
amounts to $3.50, 200, and defled any one to
show that he bad come by one dollar of 1t
dishonesty. The bulk OF his fortune, he
said, had been made through investments
managed for him by prominent f1nanciers,
principally Jay Gould, Tor whom he had
done fayors.
p The testimony OF Byrnes was in marked
contrast with that Of Police Inspector Alex
ander 8. Williams who was on the stand
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It Is not the last drink that makes the
drunkard, but the first.
When starting for Zion don't stop TO take
parting drink, or you may lose your
ticket
Putting screen In the saloon door Is the
DEVILS confession that he is ashamed OF the
business.
The W. G. T. Q. OF Little Falls, New
York, makes a speciality Of cottage prayer
meetings.
The National Temperance League OF Great
Britain has inaugurated universal pledge
signing crusade.
II we would all throw more Of our weight
against the whisky business our prayers IN
church would weigh more.
The vital statistics OF Germany show that
wine merchants, inn keepers and retail
venders OF spirits have high death rate,
especially after thirty years OF age, when ols-
eases OF the kidneys are very common.
A New York doctor says he has examined
the men who work in o large brewery ana
found that it Is the custom OF those who have
free access to the beer to drink keg day.
Alarmed at the ravages of strong drink
the Belgian Government has ordered the
display In all schoolrooms OF printed
placard setting forth the injurious effect OF
alcohol.
II could destroy tomorrow the desire
for strong drink in the people of England
what changes should we see We should
see our taxes reduced by millions sterling.
We should see our jails and warehouses
empty. We should see more lives saved In
twelve months than are consumed In a
century OF bitter and savage war.-Ioseph
Chamberlain. -
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REFORMING pRuNSARps.

John B. Cough used to say that nothing
but thu grace OF God can thoroughly redeem
the drunkard. or himself he was wont to
assert, "The grace of God has not removed
my appetite for drink, but 1t has given me
the power to overcome that Appellee
Nothing which effects the bodily nature
alone can have more than 3 certain degree
OF efficiency. A man treateo merely rs an
animal is likely to return to his wallowing.
The hope OF success lies i'd tr eating him us
one created in the image of Goo and making
the appeal and applying the pre- sure TO his
God-Viyen facultjpa ..l..
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oREArEsr souRcE on Eyn.

Wine e the source OF the greatest evils
among. communities. Il causes diseases,
quaErsls, sethion, idieness. aversion tolabor.
and family disorders. Il IL q species Of
poison that causes madness II does NOT
make man die, but 1t degrades him into a
brute. Men may preserve their health AMI
vigor without wine; with wine theyrun the
risk OF losing their health and running their
morals s-Fenelon *,
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TEMPERANCE.

WHERE THERE'S DRINK THERE'S DANCER.
Write 1t on the lqnor store, "
Write it on the prison door,
Write 1t on the gin shop fine,
Write, aye, write this truthful line,
"Where there's drink there's danger"
Write it on the workhouse gate,
Write it on the school-boy's slate,
Write it on tho copybook,
That the young may al 1t look,
"Where there's drink there's danger
Write it on the churchyard mound.
Where the drink-slain dead are found,
Write it on the gallows high,
Write 1t for all pussers-5y,
~ Where there's drink there's danger"
on our ships that sail,
61E by steam AMI gale,
III An.letters-plaln.
o(p2st the main,
''ss5 kathere's danger"
write ssese,.
! Proving with resistfG u
here there's drink tRaf5 b dan &aIs7 tzs4
5--John @. Newton, In Cathode Standard
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ELECTRIC COOKING.
THE OLD-TIME KITCHEN TO BE
REPLACED BY ELECTRICITY.
Cooking, Washing, Heating and
Lighting Will Be Done by Eiec-
sric Currents-Devices Already
p In Use in Some Houses.
r TOUsEKEEPERs have not

OUSEKEEPERS have not
M generally recognized and
welcomed the electric cur
rent as yet because they are
not well acquainted with this stranger,
who enters the house 80 stealthily and
will do everything-with such won
derful efficiency. But electricity's s
merits as a domestic servant are be-
coming better known every day, says
the New York Press.
'1t won't be long," says woman
who has cooked with it since the ap-
!paratus was first invented, s'before
& fR&aNrrent will be universally used in
paration of food, and then
3as become q real art. The
kiifksl ia 1p ~ asroom of delightful,
even lsis nj It'll iAtments, and the
mistress a & kill be the
cook. y sss
The realizsts
erpancipated kitcAS @
tho ashes and slo
ea- $sf coal has been
somes4., -s Aeulty - SfI
objections On n.-s,.s "a Aof danger oi'
fire from the heated utensils.
Inventors have ~recently perfected
devices, however, which minimize the
chances of fire. Ali utensils likely to
grow very hot in use are incasea in
slate or NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Of
heat. These stands are not necessary
for tea kettles and coffee pots, whose
temperature never rises above 212 de-
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TIE papier-mache ceiling Of the Assem-
bly, Chamber at Albany, N. T., which Yves
put up to replace the cracked stone ceiling
IN 1883 at q cost Of $270. 900, Is gradually
crumbliaS away and Is full Of holes.
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Atlanta Is Growing Big.

The new City Directory aives the .popuia.-
tIon Of Atlanta, Ga, as 1885, 6H. This count
was obtained by a house-to-house canvass
The city's population ten years ago was 5S,-
857. II hns doubled In decade.
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BUSINESS VIEW OF MODERN DRINKING.


A writer who is discussing the question of
drinking and total abstinence from prac-
itical business point Of view, ignoring the
moral and sentimental side, says: Lie in
surance companies find the moderate drink
er more dangerous risk and his mortality
greater, hence refuse to insure him at ordi-
nary rates, or Mt all. Mercantile agencies
find that business conducted by moderate
drinkers Is more precarious and followed BY
a greater number Of failures, hence rate such
firms low as 10 responsibility. Railroad
companies find that accidents and losses In
crease under the care Of moderate drinkers /;
the income and stability OF the road are d.
minished compared with the same service by
total ahstainers. Capital everywhere dis
covers by figures and statistics, which have
no other meaning, that under the care and
control ofmoderate or excessive drinkers the
losses, perils and risks oi business are in
creased. Health Magazine.
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TREATMENT OF DISEASE WITHOUT ALCOHOL.


creased. Popular Health Magazine.
TREATMENT OF DISEASE WITHOUT ALCOHOL.
Sir B. ". Richardson, II. D., in the MedIl-
cal Pioneer, gives review OF medical prac:
tice In the wards OF the London Temperance
Hospital for the last two years, covering 500
cases. These have been treated without
alcohol, and will compare favorably with the
treatment in other hospitals. We make the
following extract from his review:
"Having no prejudice against alcohol as
medicine, and having no desire TO oreatne a
word that leans improperly on one Side or
the other-having no object In. view but to
collect facts derived from natural observa-
ton, have questioned myself seriously
whether there was single case ending
fatally that could have been benefted-shall
I say snyed-by the administration Of alco-
hol? Unhesitatingly and unconscientiously
believe there was not. When. was accus-
toned to prescribe alcohol l should have
prescribed 1t in every one Of the fatal cases
mot, in all probability, with the expecta-,
ton that they would have recovered under
its use as necessity, but from habit, an!
from 80 ingrained an idea that Its employ
ment was such necessity, that II they had
died in large numbers I should still have be-
lieyed that its administration was right. In
like manner, and for some reasons, should
have administered alcohol largely In the
sixty per cent OF cases that recovered, and
in the twenty-four per cent. OF cases that
were relieved and II any OF these had died
I should not for q moment have assumed
that alcohol had anything to do with the
death. should also have been sure to have
believed that in overy instance where alco-
hol was given II had assisted the recovery
q belief which we now see had no actual
foundation, since recovery without alcohol
was certainly as good and In many instances
better.
"It has been admitted to me by some who
have seen the practice that they are aston.
ished at the results, at the same time they
think that alcohol. having certain pbysi-
oloeical properties, II Is an extreme prac-
tice TO omit it altogether in tho treatment OF
disease as havs done. why not say they,
why not use it exceptionally and in lis
proper placer My answer may be con-
densed as follows: This grand experiment
is crucial, and must not be interfered with
by fear or empty faith. Nov that my eyes
are open do not gee the proper place Tor
alcohol 1t is true I do not object to alcohol
"a a medicine. if its value as q medicine can
b, precisely defined: but to one who is seek
ing knowledge as apart from mere faith it
holds a peculiar position. II 1t be admitted
as a necessity once, why not admit 1t twice,
three times any number Of timesp An III
be admitted In that way, what else could be
inferred except that we are unable TO 30
without TIA false inability that woul :
have DESTROYED the whole value OF ths in
quiry and left alcohol triumphant. It Was
necessary, therefore, to withhold It ato-
eether, until 1t was shown that the sick were
injured by the act, danger that did not
transpire.'
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booming battery, and the voices at the diff
ierent stations made me think heard the
loud cheer Of the British at the taking OF
the Cashmere gate, and as we rolled over
bridges the battles before Delhi seemed
going on, and as we went through dark tun-
nels seemed to see thetomb OF Humayun in
which the King OF Delhi was hidden, and In
nv dreams saw Lieutenant Kenny OF
the artillery throwing shells which were
handed to him, their fuses burning, and
Campbell and Reid and Hope Grant covered
with blood, and Nicholson falling while ral-
lying on the wan his wsverinR troops. and
saw dead regiment fallen across dead regl-
ment, and heard the rataplan OF the hoofs
Of Hodgson's horse, an d the dash OF the
Bengal artillery, and the storming by the i'm
mortal fourth column, and the rougher the
Indian railway became and the darker the
night grew the more the scenes that I
had been studying at Delhi came on me Ike
an incubus. But the morning began to look
through the window of our jolting railcar,
and the sunlight poured In on my pillow,
and in my dreams saw the bright colors of
the English flag hoisted over Delhi, where
the green banner Of the Moslem had waved,
and the voices Of the wounded and dying
seemed to be exchanged for the voices that
welcomed soldiers home again.
And as the morning light got brighter and
brighter, and In my dream l mistook the
bells at station for church bell hanging
In minaret, where Mohammedan priest
had mumbled his call to prayer, seemed to
hear a chant, whether by human or angelic
voices In my dream could not tell. but 1t
was q Oh ant about "peace and good will to
men," And as the speed OF the rail- train
slackened the motion of the car became
80 easy as we rolled along the track that
It seemed to me that all the distress
and controversy and jolting and wars Of the
world had ceased, and in, my dream l
thought Wa had come to the time when 'the
ransomed OF the Lord shall return and come
to Zion with songs and everlasting Joy upon
their heads, and sorrow and signing shall
fee away"
Halt here at what you have never seen be-
fore, a depopulated city, the city OF Amber,
India
The strange fact Is that ruler abandone