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At Aan ‘ ae eee —-_ —_—_ atm it VO Ve wee? hm” ~ = Aan ——. . Se8998 SEs 283 88 & 03 | a fe aa , : » 4 “ oS SCIENCE UP TO DATE. LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN IN- DUSTRIAL FIELDS. : ea the New War Monitor Puritan and Her Strength in War--Could Destroy ® Fleet of Warships in Very Short Order —Noter of Progress. NLIKE their an- cestors of a quarter of a century ago, our present house wrens no longer af- j fect the forest's sol- itude and quiet, but seek the hum and stir of busy life, where man is the principal actor. Here they glean their daily fare, and here they build their rude but cosy “nests, Easy to please, almost any cavity suits them for shelter and the accommodation of their callow brood. Tree-hollows were once in great demand, but nowadays a pref- erence for boxes, which are provided by man for their use, is plainly manifest. When these are not at hand, some of the birdsdo not hesitate to accept dis- carded tomato c&ns, perforated gourds and like conveniences. Once a pair of wrens made use of a cast-off hat, which had been perforated and nailed to the side of a shed. An- other couple, espying the sleeve of a mower’s coat hanging near a window in a barn, took up quarters within its capacious hollow. The pocket of an old broken-down carriage served as a home for another party, and right pleasantly was spent tae summer in its comfort- able embraces. But a more interesting case I am now about to relate. Three or four seasons ago, near the village of Thornbury a nest of the house wren was found in a sheave of a derrick, Its ma- texjals were bits of sticks and feathers, such as birds are always known to use. It is the peculiar situation of the nest, however, that excites one’s astonish- ment. A sheave, let me explain, is a wheel in a fixed or. moveable block over which a rope passes. In the case in ‘point, the mest was placed in a sta- tionary block in the space just over the sheave, but the materials of which it was composed were 580 skillfully ar- ranged so as not to interfere with the free motion of the wheel, In the ac- compying eut the position of the nest is shown by the dotted line c. The en- trance is on the side of the block fac- ing the rope. The opposite side, with less danger to life or limb. might have been used, but a preference was shown for the other. Why this was so, re- / mained for some time an unsolved problem. But when the birds were seen to alight upon the rope at 4, ride down to b, and pass thus to the rest, the reason became apparent. Never THE MONITOR PURITAN. The monitor Puritan, which has just been made ready for the sea, is cap- able of sinking a whole fleet of foreign war-ships in a few hours. The accom- did linnet enjoy the swaying twig with half the zest that these eccentric little creatures did their ride down the rope. A hundred times.a day, when necessity demanded, and the weather was favor- able, they treated themselves to this novel pleasure, the rope moving all the while at the speed of thirty-five feet a second. Six days out of seven, from niorning till dusk, they had the bene- fit of this strange conveyance, and noth- ing was ever known to disturb their peace and contentment. In course of time a family. of happy, rollicking chil- dren was raised, and the nest in the derrick deserted. May Capture More Satellites. The opinion is attributed to some as- tronomers that it is possible for the earth, under’ certain circumstances, to capture as satellites some of the roving meteoric bodies known to be so numer- out in space, instead of bringing them to the gurface as aerolites, and that, as these bodies are too small to be seen— a mass of 100 tons being invisible at 300 or 1,000 miles when brightly light- ed—the earth may be attended by hun- dreds of invisible moons. Sir J, Her- schel is cited as even of the opinion that they may be large enough to be visible for brief intervals when beyond: the earth’s shadow, and Sir John Lubbock has actually supplied formula for cal- oulating the distance from observations of this kind. M. Petit, also, director of the observatory at Toulouse, is qttoted as having been led by observation and calgulation to conclude that the earth is attended by at least one meteoric may drink the contents of the glass and chew the almond at your leisure. ascents ea its orbit being 5,000 miles trom earth’s surface, the tiny moon revoly- ing round the earth in three hours and twenty minutes. Swallowing Fire. You have all heard, perhaps, of the trick by which an amateur juggler eats a lighted candle right before the eyes of the spectators. It seemsa somewhat wonderful feat, but it is simple enough’ when explained. The piece of candle is made of an apple neatly pared and timmed, and the wick consists of a bit of almond, which burns on account of the oil that is in it. Here igs a trick that is better than that, however. It is nothing less than swallowing a night- lamp, wick and all, together with the oil in which it floats, The night light is cut out of an almond, a little pointed bit of it serving as a wick, while the oil is well imitated by what is known. as “white wine,” which you may choose of as yellow a tint as possible. Having allowed the light to burn a little while, give the glags 4 shake*which will send the light to the bottom, extinguishing aaoe it and cooling it instantly. Thea you A House in a Bottle. A few years ago the writer saw @ genuine curiosity which had been made by a little blind box Chicago. It was nothing more or le than a miniature house, made up of forty odd pieces of wood, which was placed on the inside of a very common looking four-ounce medicine bottle. The general verdict of all who examined the wonder was that it would puzzle a man with two good eyes, to put the pieces in the: bot- tle. to say notHing of the task of glu- ing them together so as to make them resemble a house. Latest at Niagara. The latest news concerning the big powerhouse at Niagara Falls is that the current has been turned into the heat- | ers there. There are fifty heaters in panying cut shows her at full speed. As she sinks the enemy 4 powerful ex- plosive is emitted, the force of which sends the other to the bottom instantly the building. They will be used to heat the buildings, and, besides, experiments will be made with them to determine the utility of electricity for heating purposes, A careful study will be made of it by experts, and from time to time improvements will be made, Visitors are now admitted to the gallery of the plant during the early hours of the evening, and from this point the scene is a brilliant one. Numbers of people visit the gallery ‘and are delighted with what they see. e Salmon Egas for Europe. Several large consignments of sal- mon eggs have lately been sent from this country to Europe. Last week 4 crate of 50,000 eggs was shipped from the United States fishery at Baird, Cal., to Ireland, and another crate, con‘ain- ing 25,000 eggs, was shipped from the same place to Germany. \targe Fire Engines. ' What are claimed to be the largest fire engines in the world are the two built recently in London. One is capa- ble of throwing 1,400, the other ¥,800 to 2,000 gallons of water per minute. The machines weigh three and one-half tons each, and can be readily drawn a! full gallop by four horses. The Hygienic Treadle. The peculiar treading motion of working a sewing machine is very tir- ing, and a new treadle for machines of this character has been brought out in England. It is known as the hygienic treadle, » sone of cogalderable eons bout ' twenty-six times nearer than the moou |” HE had just grad »wated at. Wellesley and he had left with a bachelor’s degree some three years ago one of our leading univer- sities. They were both young. Perhaps she had stil some of the girl’s romantic nature in her and per- haps he was not entirely tree of a boy's hopefulness and enthusiasm for life. But each had a strong foundation of good common sense and earnest, up- right purpose. Both Alice Hartwell and Ned Mor- gan intended to accomplish something in life and with each other they were in no wise reticent as to what they should demand of the world. They had been friends from youth and when the girl’s return renewed that friendship in all its intensity. the gossips had much to say of a long set- tied matrimonial understanding. But.the young people laughed idea to scorn. It was the subject of conversation one August afternoon as they sat to- gether in the cooling shade of the vines of the Hartwell porch. “The very idea,” laughed Ned; “these old people here haven’t any idea he- yond. marrying and dying; can’t they understand that there are some other the | tor your own gebdcen—ee pe iriema | would, talk, but do j.be really ay contingencies of these?” latighing, “and they would deem it rank heresy to hear you say 80. remember that Blanktown has its code man to do when he fikes a girl.” existence beside _“Of course not,” answered Alice, also You must of rules and proprieties, as changeless Ned?” . as the laws of the Medes and Persians.” “Angry? Ob, no; what havé I got to. be angry at? It’s nothing to me.” “There is only one thing for a young “There is’ only ome thing for a girl to do because she is.a girl,” laughed Alice. “The very idea of you and me being lovers,” went on @\ed, “when we have been playmates, , chums, companions, from the mud pie period.” “The-idea,” echoed Alice; “why, there conldn’t possibly be any romance about. such @ thing.” “Familiarity kills. romance,* you know.” He sald it as if he were utter- ing one of the foundation truths of the ages. And she. acquiesced with: “of course.” “These people here,” he continued in an oracular tone, “eannot appreciate the beauty of a perfect friendship ex- isting between man and woman, they can.only conceive of such friendly rela- tion degenerating into’ an affair of kissés, tears and sentiment.” “But we shall give them an example of something different, shall we not, Ned?” “Yes, of a perfect friendship, where sex shall not be consiered, where one shall be the confidant, the critic and the inspiration of the other.” “How glorious it will be, Ned; what a help we may be to each other, We shall be such friends as Hannah More THROW THAT FOLLY INTO A FEL- LOW’S FACE. and Dr. Johnson, or Chateaubiand and Mme, Recamier, Paula and Jerome.” And so they talked and planned,while the old people said: “What an exam- ple of beautiful devotion that is; there can’t be any mistake there; they have known each other from childhood,” Well, Ned went to work and Alice went to work, Ned plugging away at the law and she entering the schools as a°’teacher, for neither was-rich. And their friendship did prove help- | ful to each other, for he was an ardent student and she was a stern critic. And they were confidants. Théy could be so frank with each other, because their friendship was secure on account of the pérfect understanding between them. It was because of the perfection and ease of this undefstanding that he came to her when his heart first began to lean toward Mary Mason. “] know that you will taik to me with perfect honesty, Alice,” he said. “I don’t believe I really love Mary Mason as the world looks on love, but then she is a good, sensible girl; the match would be a good one and helpful in a worldly sense, and as for love, well, love will come with association.” “Of. course,” said Alice; “of course, but, Ned, do you think that just her particular cast of mind would suit you? She seems 560 terribly Gpractical, you know, Ned. She doesn’t seem to have those soft, womanly qualities that it seems to me a man _,would like. I wouldn’t discourage you for an instant, strong, indeed! him, by all means.” advise each other, you know.” do? What I mean is that I don’t think enough for you; and I don’t believe ith hb ' “Well, that is it,” said Ned, stroking his bare ‘chin; that’s it; for the life of me I don’t know.” ; “Well, Ned,” said Alice, “ if I were you I wouldn’t do anything rash. You might regret it all your life and your friends would feel for you, tee.” “A man’s got to be mighty careful,” said Ned; “mighty careful.”~~ “Yes, he has,” said Alice, and then for some wnaccounjable reason ~she went home and cried herself|to asleep. But that's just like «a ‘woman, you Know. Nothing came after this te interrupt the smoothness of their relations until one day in the’ vacation period, when Alice came to Ned for advice. ‘ “T have found teaching hard and tire- some, Ned,” she said. “And, after all, the little home trials that a woman overcomes are her best conquests. I have no desire to go back to the scirool- room, and I have a chance to make a home for myself. Henry Armstrong has asked me to'marry him. You know. he is a kind-hearted man, Ned, and he ts settled and well fixed. His store is -paying him well and his wife ought to be a happy woman; don’t you think so? He can give me so many pleas- ures that it would be so hard for me to earn by my own efforts. Tell me what do you‘think about it, Ned?” “Why, Alice,” said the young Man, “a fad no idea that you were so merce- nary.” “l’m not, Ned—” “You're not, the idea!” “But, Ned—” “Oh, don’t talk to me. Henry Arm- But marry him; marry are you “Why, you're not angry, “But we are friends, and we were to “Well, isn’t that what I'm going to wuat Henry Armstrong is half good you love him, either.” “T don’t know that I didn’t love Mary Mason, least, you said so.” “Oh, that’s right, throw that folly into my face.” “Why, don’t you think a person ought ever to marry?” do, but you either—at | think you would | On at. iz a Neaeee et that the penguinbaby is very fat an looks as though he might be extremely good for eating, but if yow e gee father and mother penguin i ; you would find them uncommonly thin. The care of the baby has so their minds and the trouble of finding enouglr fish for three to eat, that all superfiuous flesh for the time has van- ished. Baby penguin has a curious nest, softly and safely among her warm feathers and even moves slowly and with great gravity over the cliffs, carry~ ing the egg, while father penguin goes fishing. Mother penguin looks ae fat during this time as the baby does now, but whem the egg is hatched she goes From Young Wed: “You will worn upon The mother tucks the egg away fishing, too, and soon grows as thin as father penguin himself. You notice the funny little wings just beginning to start on-baby's shoulders. Well, mother and father penguin have longer ones, but they are stil! more’ like’ fims than wings. Nearly al? the time is spent in the water and fins are more useful’ to them than. wings; when on land these little half wings are used! as legs, and the birds are often mistaken for quad- rupeds as they run oven the ground They do not seem to be troubled with insomnia. When asleep they cam be kicked several feet and never even wake up. There is a variety called the jackass penguin, from, its habit of, throwing back its head and’ making a leud, strange noise that seunds like the braying of that animal. The king penguins have regular towns, where every inch of ground is measured: off in squares for nests. The young birds are arranged im a certaim locality, the molting birds in. another, and the clean birds quite apart from all these. So strictly are they al? divided that if a moulting bird should aceidentalky stray near the clean birds it would be in- stantly put out. Im the Falkland is- Jands and in Patagonia these birds abound. They are also very numerous in certain islands of the southern’ Pa-~ cific ocean. On some of them 30,000 or 40,000 are constantly landing er going to Bea. Bhe Left. ‘ She was very pretty and very wel dressed. When she boarded the train at 14th street she began to make in- “Of course, but you want to marry some person who is congenial.” “Well, I thought—” “Yes, you thought. A woman like you, Alice, needs somebody to think for her,” and this lord of creation stalked away in high dudgeon. As he went into the gate at home that night, and Rover came frisking to meet him, he gave him a kick that sent the dog howling away-——just like a man, you know. He wrote a letter that night; and posted it and Alice received it by the first mail next morning. It ran thus: “Miss Hartwell: Your actions are entirely beyond explanation. The heart of a man is fiot to be played with. But I hope you will marry Henry Arm- strong and be happy. It doesn’t matter what becomes of me, Your neglected lover, Ned.” Alice read it-and laughed and cried in turns over the words. Two hours after its receipt Ned fol- lowed it in person, with a. highly in- jured air. And she, because she was a very soft little person, ran to meet him with -a glad face. “Oh, Ned,” she cried, “I never did want to marry Henry Armstong, at all. But you said we could only be friends, and mutual crities, and—Ned, a girl wants to be loved.” For the moment he forgot his fine ideas and he cried with‘a tremulous voice: “If you'll just stick to me, Alice, I'll love you well enough.” “Then, Ned, our friendship is all past.” “Can't a man and his wife be friends?” She laughed. “And for a critic?” best critic is his wife.” And the wiseacres said: beautiful? Knew each other wm their love.” An Unusual Occurrence. day, but each unknown to the other around one side of brought the bird down. pened. A Valuable Coin. Fred T, McDonald, a druggist of Ken nett square, Philadelphia, has just sold an old copper coin for $200. The coin is very rare. It is of the date of 1783, and on one side has the bust of Wash ington and the words and Liberty” and on the other “On cent.” Rein . Ned,.and you know, I'm talking only his store for its face value, one cent “Oh, after all,” he sald, “a man’s “Wasn't it from childhood, and not a break, not a ripple A fox and a hunter together stalked a partridge near Tyson, Vt., the other The bird alighted in an apple tree be hind a barn and the hunter tiptoed the barn. and But as the bird dropped, the fox, coming,around the other side of the barn, seized it and was off with his dinner before the hunter could appreciate what had hap-/ to famous Bretons in Brittany. Ad “Washington He took the coin in trade at quiries of the guard. A gray-haired old gentleman on the opposite side of the car courteously begged leave to | tell her where to go. A young Man next to him begged his leave to differ and to suggest that the lady had better follow another route. A laboring map corrected him and there was a lively squabble by the time the train reached 8th street. The lady had blushed and begged pardon through it all, Dut the men had each contended that his was the only proper method of reaching the point. The train rolled out of 8th street and the old gentleman re- marked pompously, with a wave of his hand: “J assure you, madam—— And at his sudden pause al) the men turned to look and found that the lady had fied at 8th . street—New Yort World She Kemembered Him. A little romance of the war was ap- propriately rounded out at Harlem Courthouse, Ky., a few days ago. In 1862 a fine young fellow of 17, named Jesse Baker, a confederate, was wound- ed in a skirmish near that place, and was left by his command at a mountain cabin owned by John Calleen, a bush- whacker, who was helping the yan- kees. John and his wife were absent, and only their 13-year-old daughter, Nannie, was at home, She cared for the wounded boy, nursed him through a three months’ sickness, and fell in love with him during that time. But Baker went pway, forgot Nannie, and at the close*of the war married another girl. His wife died. A little while ago he moved to Harlem county, where he discovered his _benefactress, Nannie, and fousd she was a widow, A few days ago they were married. Cleck Needed Winding. A jeweler of Tuscola, Mich., says that during the past year one o’clock has been brought to him seven times for ropair, and each time all that was wrong with it was that it needed. wind- ing. Each time he explained the cause to the owner, but after a few weeks, or sometimes months, the clock. >| being neglected, would stop, the owner would shake it, blow in it and then take it to the jeweler, who would astonish him by winding it and handing back. Breton Statues. Three statues are about to be erected Ploermel, known for its “pardon,” it is Dr. Guerin, who introduced the trama- fusion of blood into modern who will be honored; at Les iE is General Le Flo, Thiers’ min war, and at Dinan the gueselin, whose memory Deronlede have revived, is to be rep- resented on horseback. The mo a monument to Reman at not been raised. : 6 ¥ ns a fr) WS ie a an he as ti a 4
