Year: 1878




London will soon damage the surface of
Cleopatras' needle. The Luxer obelisk
erected in the Palace de la Concorde in
Paris in 1885, is some S,4OO years old,
having stood with another still larger
one before the great temple of Thebes.
The stone is syenite granite, of brown,
ish red color. Thirty-six years exposure
TO the atmosphere of Paris has affected
the stone more than the same number of
centuries exposure to the purer air of
Egypt.


HOBART pAsHA has acquired no more
glory in the recent war than Cape Cod
fisherman. He might have sailed into the
Baltic and bombarded Cronstadt or st.
Petersburg, and wreathed his brow with
laurels or his tomb with immortelles.
He did not do it. Although a sailor, he
took no advantage of the food-tide in
the affairs of men that leads to fortune.
Neither history nor tradition will hand
his name down to posterity as the Osman
of the sea. Ichabod," in the bent Turk
ish script, will be inscribed upon his
frontlet.


The poisonous property of pork or
other meat brines when fed to pigs is
known to many, and years ago, was
mentioned by the veterinarian Yourtt
The Rural New Yorker, referring to the
subject, says quite large number of
cases are on record in which some have
died in consequence of small quantity
of brine having been mixed with their
feed, under the impression that it would
answer the same purpose, and be equally
as beneficial as tbe admixture of a small
quantity of salt; and where one case has
proved fatal, there are scores in which
pigs have suffered more or less severely.


DURING the battles in which The Paris
commune expired, there were taken with
arms in their hands six hundred and
fifty children of sixteen and less, two
hundred and thirty-seven of sixteen, one
hundred and twenty.six of fourteen,
forty.seven of thirteen, twenty-one of
twelve, eleven of eleven, four of ten, one
of eight, and one of seven. About l2,-
500 gamins had taken part in the insur-
rection. Eighty.seven were brought to
trial, of whom sixty.ive were found
guilty. Thirty-six Of them had been
known to the police. Thirty-six of them
were sent to houses of reformation and
nine only were condemned.


PROF DMAN, of Brown university,
gives his opinion on the hell question as
follows: Z" affirm that there is no war.
rant whatever for erecting the bold,
literal dogma of everlasting punishment
into an article of the Christian faith
that grievous wrong is done when any
who shrink from accepting il are ex,
cluded from the communion of Christian
people, and that the religious body which
insists on this as an essential test will
inevitably bar from its ministry many
of the most faithful and the most con.
scientious of the present generation
Those who affirm it affirm what Jesus
himself made no part of his direct and
explicit teaching; and where he was
silent we we'll may pause"


A WRITER in Nature says that by
combining the telephone with the kinese-
graph he can produce talking picture
which will move and gesticulate as
man does when he is earnestly engaged
in speaking. This he proposes to do by
taking instantaneous photographs of the
speaker at intervals of quarter or half
a second, and these, after fixing, are to
be placed one below another on a strip
ofribbon or paper wound from one cylin-
der to another. As each picture passes
before the eye it is to be lighted up by
an electric spark, and the man will thus
be presented to us at successive moments,
while the recording phonograph speaks
the words which the man uttered. 1t
may be years before producing the form,
motion, and natural voice Of the original
Who dare say now that the time will
not come when whole dramas will be
produced ad hbitum from actual per.
formances, with such fidelity that they
can not be distinguished from the origi.
nal
The Maxwell family's recent adven.
ture, near Fort Bozeman, was like an
incident in dime novel. They mum.
bered six men and two women, and were
travelling in wagon, on their way to
border settlement. Seeing the ap-
proach of band Of hostile savages. they
decided to select favorable position in
wnicn to defend themselves, and soon
found spot that was bounded on two
sides BY deep, wide gorge. They hastily
built barricads Of the wagons, stones,


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