SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
~—Some kinds of jellyfish are said to
have over 10,000 mouths. Every pore
" is a mouth, through which nourish-
' ment is absorbed from the shrround-
ing water. -
——The last census shows that while in
20 years the increase of men in all in~
dustries has been 150 per cent., the in—
crease of women at work has been 1,500
per cent.
—-—The insect known as the water
boatman has a regular pair of oars,
his legs being used as such. He swims
on his back, as in that position there is
less resistance to his progress.
——An investigation has been made as
to the extent. of one of three large
troughs of coal recently found in New-
foundland, resulting in an ' estimate
that it contains 12,000,000 tons of su-
perior quality. The deposits are well
located fo1 moving the product when
mined, in being near the St. Lawrence
river and within a. Iew miles of the open
ocean.
—Prof. Virchow refuses to accept the
. missing link (pithecanthropus erectus)
reconstructed from fossil bones discov-
ered by Dr. Dubois in Java. The skull,
he says, is that of a. large gibbon: the
thigh bone may have belonged to a
man, but just as likely to an ape; the
teeth look like human teeth, but are
not identical with them, and there'is
nothing to show that all the bones be-
longed to one body.
—Hot waves are caused by low areas
appearing in the northwest and mov-
ing east and south, thus bringing about
warm winds from the south, and dis-
appearing as the development of high
areas in the north est. One of the ac—
companying phenomena of hot waves
was hot winds coming from the south-
west, their cause being somewhat ob-
scure. Dr. Frankenfield states that as
a rule they move in narrow belts, rang-
ing from 100 feet to half a mile in
width. No good cause can be assigned
for this, save, probably, local topog~
raphy.
,—P1eliminary statistics of the for-
eign trade of the United States for No
vember show a total value of exports
amounting to $87,249,746, an increase of
nearly $7,300,000 as compared with the
corresponding month of 1894. The im-
ports were valued at $63,343,759, an in-
crease of nearly $12,800,000 as com-
pared with November, 1894. The duty-
free goods showed an excess over the
dutiable goods for the month, whereas
in November of 1894 the excess was on
the other side. The exports showed an
excess of over $13,000,000 for the
month.
ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.
Remarkable Career of an Infant Left in
a Foundling Hospital.
One night in 1801 a little girl about
one yea-r old was deposited in the draw-
er of the foundling hospital at Brest.
She was dressed with much finery, and
a note attached to her skirts told that
her name was Solange, and that she
would be reclaimed by her father.
'When she was 12 years old she was
sent out into the- streets to sell flowers,
and her beauty and her modesty at-
tracted many people‘s good will; but
she grew weaker and weaker, and at
last died, or, at least, it was thought so.
According to French custom she was
buried in an open basket, and, as it was
winter and the soil was frozen, she was
laid into the grave covered only with a
thin layer of sand. During the night
she awoke, and, pushing the sand
away, crept out from the grave.
Not exactly understanding what had
taken place, she was not so very much
frightened; but in crossing the glade
between the cemetery and the fortifi-
cations, she was suddenly stopped by
the cry: “Qui vive?” and, as she did
not answer, the sentinel fired, and she
fell to the ground.
Brought into the guard house, her
wound was found to be very slight, and
she soon recovered. But her singular
history, and also her great beauty had
made so deep an impression on a young
lieutenant of the garrison—Kramer—
that he determined to be her protect-
or, and sent her to one of the most fash-'
ionable educational establishments in
Paris.
During the next few years Kramer
was much tossed about by the war;
but when, in 1818, he returned to Paris,
he found Solange a full—grown woman,
not only beautiful, but accomplished.
and spirited, with no more trace of in-
tellectual weakness or nervous fits. He
married her, and for several years the
couple lived happily in Paris.
Meanw hile investigations were made
concerning the girl left- in 1801 in the
foundling hospital at Brest, and, as
these in1estigations 11 ere made by the
Swedish ambassador, and in a some-
what ofiicial manner, they attracted
some attention.
Capt Kramer heard about the in-
quiry and sent a note to the ambassa-
dor, and a month later the ambassador
came in state to biing Mme. K1 amer a
formal acknowledgment from her fa-
ther, the former Marshal Bernadette,
afterward King Charles XIV. of Swed-
en.. Capt. Kramer and his wife went
immediately to Stockholm and were
ennobled. Their son some time ago
was appointed attache to the Swedish
legation in Paris—Pearson’s Weekly.
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A Virginia Frlcassee.
Divide a tow] into eight pieces, washv
well, put int-0a stewpan and cover with
boiling water; season with a teaspoon
salt, a little pepper, a good bouquet of
parsley, four cloves ands blade of
mace. Let it coil 20 minutes. Pass
the stock through a sieve into a basin;
take out the pieces of fowl, trim nicely,
then put into another stewpan two
ounces of butter, with which mix a
good spoonful of flour. Moisten with
stock, put in the pieces of fowl, stir
occasionally until boiling, sk1m well,
add onions to taste. Let simmer until
the onions are tender, when add a gill
of cream with which you have mixed
the. yolks of two eggs; stir in quickly
over the fire, but do not let it boil; take
‘out the pieces, dress in pyramid upon
. the dusk and serve—St. Louis Republic.
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THE BLENHEIM SPANIEL. I.
Most Lovable of the Four-Footed Pets of
Womanklnd.
Of all the pets of womankind, babies
alone excepted, there is nothing 11101e
lovable than the tiny Blenheim spaniel,
says an exchange.
Why this breed of dogs have the
name of the palace of the duke of Marl-
borough no onc seems to know. The
story goes, however, that the first duke
had the breed, and that, 011 -a friend’s
requesting a puppy, he refused to part
with one, but, at the same time, .took
two or three blind whelps and threw
them to tame eagles.
But in the year 1800 his grace, the
duke of 1\Ia1lborough, 11 as reputed to
possess the smallest and best breed
of cockers (w oodcock spaniels) in I31 it-
ain. hey 11 ere invai 1.1ny red and
white, with very long ears, short noses,
and black eyes. They 11 ere evidently
the ancestoi s of the pi esent I’lcnheims,
which are still bred by the keepeis of
the lodges at Blenheim and some of the
inhabitants of Woodstock.
But there is little doubt that they
have been crossed with the pug to give
them the very short snub noses which
they now possess. Moreover, the breed
has become. very delicate and difficult
to rear. They suffer from brain dis-
ease, and are more likely than any other
dog to die in puppyhood. “Idstone,”
the celebrated writer 011 dogs, remem-
bers the time when the Blenheims were
mainly bred in the vicinity of the pal-
ace. He suggests as a probable orig-
inal of the Blenheim the Japanese toy
spaniel. The surmise seems very prob-
able.
HOW LIGHTNING KILLS.
It Is the “Up Stroke" That Is Always
the Most Fatal.
A new theory as to how lightning
kills, but one which may well be held
in abey ance until a clearer solution of
it» can be presented, is just now being
urged by the scientists, says the St.
Louis Republic. According to this
new-fangled idea, a person is never
“struck” by lightning at all—that is,
in the general sense of the word quoted.
The new theory is the result of deduc-
tions that have been made along the
following lines: All life is electric. In
the human body the stomach is the
generator and the brain the battery.
When a person is killed by lightning
he is not “struck” at all, but dies be-
cause of a sudden loss of electric power
which had been impelling his physical
engine. The loss of this vital fluid, if
such it may be called, is brought about
in this manner: A thunderstorm is
passing over. It is charged with posi-
tive electricity and the earth beneath
is charged negatively. The human
electric battery is bet-ween. If the
cloud is charged heavily enough it saps
the negati1e elect1icity f1 cm the em th,
using the human being as a conductor,
and finally leav es him lifeless by taking
,his electr1city w ith that f1 om the earth.
This theory is in line with that which
originated a few years ago and which
was to the effect that it was the “up
stroke” that kills.
POTATOES WERE EXPENSIVE.
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Big Bills Follow a Husband’s Scheme to
Hide Cost of Cigars.
One of the funniest things that have
occurred in Joliet du1 inrr the present
year, say s the Joliet (Ill.) Republican,
was the mishap ofa gentleman 11 ho
formerly lived on the west 5 de, but is
now a resident of the city, and whose
‘w 1fe ran the st01e bill and looked after
the household expenses He 11 as in the
habit, by agi eement w ith his gr ocer, of
ha1ing his cigars and occasionally
goods that were not exactly cigars
charged up as potatoes. One evil day
his wife took her pencil and began to
reckon up the accounts. She finally
found that the family had eaten over
hree car loads of potatoes in lr‘ss than
a year, and she just didn’t believe that
he account was correct. The smoker
and the smoker’s grocer were between
the upper and the nether millstone for
several days, and it was doubtful who
would be pulverized the finest, but
finally an explanation was made the t
mollified the wife, 'even if it didn’t
satisfy her as to the correctness of the
grocer’s charge for potatoes.
Can’t See the Jake.
Here is the serious manner in which
a big London daily and a sedate London
magistrate treated an old—time Ameri-
can joke: “A strange society was
brought to light during the hearing of
a case before the Thames magistrate.
Several men were charged with stealing
a watch from a sailor and were all dis-
charged except Alexander Fullerton, on
whom were found a post office savings
bank book for £ 49 and a card of mem-
bership with a curious title. It bore the
following inscription: ‘National Liars’
association. Having been a member of
the above association, and finding you a
bigger liar than myself, I must con-
gratulate you on relieving me of this
card.’ It must be gratifying to the East
End community, as well as a tribute to
Fullerton’s own abilities, that he found
no one worthy of relieving him of the
card. The magistrate remanded him
for inquiries.”
A Double-Action Joke.
Dumas fils tells of a double-acting joke
which he played on Meissonier, who
was a botanist in his hours of leisure.
The famous dramatist sent him a papier
containing the dried roe of a herring,
telling him that it was the seed of a
very rare plant. “How are the seeds
coming on?" he asked the great paint-
er the next time he saw him.' “Oh,
beautifully; I have planted them in
a circle.” And he took the astonished
joker to a corner of the garden where
the heads of young herrings were just
peeping out.
Big Arrowhead.
An interesting relic was discovered
near San Bernardino, Cal., recently.
It is an immense sculptured arrowhead,
four feet four inches long, and weighing
more than 200 pounds. It is of bluish
granite, and shaped in perfect imita-
tion of the smaller arrowheads fre-
quently in that region.
RGTTED HER SPINE. '
Singular Misfortune '01 an Indiana Girl
Who Had Swallowcd a Pin.
A large number of physicians who
were acquainted with the case of Verla,
the 12-year-old daughter of Frank
Chrisman, a prominent business man of
Middletown, near Muncie, Ind., were
unanimous in saying that it was the
most, peculiar case of the kind 011 rec-
ord, says the Cincinnati Enquirer. This
girl died at her home the other evening
after terrible suffering for four years.
When at the age of six years she swal-
lowed a pin. She did not suffer any
from the effects, but-her frightened
parents summoneda physician, who in-
formed them that it was an impossi-
bility to remove the pin, but that it
would soon work out at some portion of
the body. Two years later she com-
menced suffering with pains in her
back, and it soon became necessary
that she remain in bed. A physician
was called, but could not explain the
cause of the pain. Other physicians
were called and the cause was explained
one day when they discovered the point
of the pin protruding through her back
just below the shoulder blades. The
physicians removed the pin and from
that time until her death her suifering
was continual. The pin having worked
its way through the spinal column,
caused a separation of the suture con-
necting the vertebrae, which immedi-
ately commenced to decay. A hump
formed on her back and assumed large
proportions. After her death an ex—
amination was made which revealed
that the spinal column had entirely
rotted in twain, four of the ver—
tebrae being completely gone. The
ribs were, of course, disconnected and
were floating.
SLAIN BY AMBITION.
The Sad Story Behind a Suicide That Has
startled Vienna.
There is an interest-in", story under-
neath a little dispatch from Vienna, to
the effect that the aged Field Marshal"
Lieut. Gustav von Dunst-Adelsheim,
one of Austria’s most distinguished vet-
eran soldiers, had committed suicide
after killing his wife, says the Pitts-
burgh Chronicle—Telegraph. This fine
old soldier was married to a Baroness
A‘bele, a lady almost 25 years younger
than himself. She was known in V i-
enna as a stylish and ambitious woman.
According to her own station in life,
and in the high military rank of her
husband, she maintained a fashionable
home, keeping full pace with the nobil-
ity. She was enabled to do so, as her
husband drew a yearly salary of 14,000
Austrian ilorins (about $6,000), and the
couple moreover were childless.
But when the general retired from
the army his revenues dropped down to
$1,800, for the pensions paid the Aus-
trian army officers are extremely small.
The bar oness could not paIt 11ith lu .-
u1 ies and social ambition, and the fond
old genei a1 yielded to her demands and
kept up his costly residence in Vienna,
instead ofgoing to some cheaper place.
The general speculated to increase his
revenue. He failed, being heavily in
debt. The gallant soldier, who had
faced the enemies of his empire and
country in more than a dozen battles,
could not bear the thought of seeing
his, name disgraced, and resolved to die.
His wife also preferred death to social
ruin, and so they ended the struggle
with a revolver.
HEADSMAN OF NAPLES.
Death in Exile of a Man \Vho Had Taken
Blany Lives.
On the little island of Ustica, 40 miles
from Palermo, Italy, there died the
other day a man who was for years the
terror of the people of Naples and the
kngdom of the Two Sicilies. He was
Gaetano Impellizzeri, once the heads-
man under Ferdinand II. of Naples.
The useless executions attributed to.
lmpellizzeri, says the New York Trib-
une, are'countless, and with the cruelty
which he showed led to his denuncia-
tion by Mr. Gladstone 40 years ago in
the philippics which the statesman di-
rected against Ferdinand. The execu-
tions were only in part public; it was
the executions in secret—usually at
night—which gave the man his pow e1.
It was he who executed in {-‘an 11:111—
cisco place, Naples, the Calabi 11:11 Age-
silas Milanoque, who 011 December 9.
1856, had made a bayonet thrust at
l-Eirg Ferdinand IL, and patriots 1'11—
nuinerable became his victims.
When Garibaldi entered Naples in
September, 1860, the excited pond-11cc~
11. cut in search of the 11.1th hffltlS‘iiji‘J‘.
but he cared much for his own life, al-
though he thought little of that 01"
others, and escaped with his wife.
L11te1 he 11 as imprisoned 011 the island
of Ustica, where he became an 013101.
of the fort built 1n those day s to protec.
the island against pirates. He 11 as iii
receipt of a pension of five dollars a
month—much more than he dese1ved.
He was 81 years old at the time of his
death. ,. -
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"A GRIM AMUSEMENT.
Torture Self-Indicted While Playing.” a
‘ ‘ .1 , Curious Game.
A custom of the Abyssinian braves is
described by Pearson’s Weekly. The
girls themselves play an active part
there. When young people are gath-
ered for amusement, one of them will
begin peeling a straw of green millet,
which is full of pith. -
Her lover’ s blood runs cold, probably,
but he must smile or own himself a
craven. When she has cut the pith in-
to bits an inch long, he stretches out
his bare arm. The example set, every
girl who respects herself and has a lov-
er follows it.
The young men form a circle with
arms extended. Blithely, then, with
many a jest, doubtless, the maidens ar-
range their bits of pit-11 upright in some
fanciful design on the bare flesh, and
set them alight. They are nearly an
inch thick, and they burn very slowly,
but the hapless youth must stand and
smile as well as he can till the blood of
the seared flesh extinguishes them.
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THE EVENING GAZETTE
THE MUTUAL LIFE
l1 SUBANCE CO. '
OF NEW YORK. ' . _
1111311121111) 121. McCURDY President.
311181 111 eYearndingDec.31.lflQi.
Assets, . $221,213,721 33
Liabilities . I ' 194,347,157 58
Surplus . . . $26,866,563 75
$48,597,430 51
$23,126,728 45
Total Income . .
Total Paid Policy-holders in 1895, .
Insurance and Annuities in force, . . $899, 074,453 78
Not gain in 1895 ' . $61,647,645 36
NOTE— Insurance merely mr tcen, ls discarded from this Statement as wholly mlsleadlng, and only insurance
actually issued and paid for in cash ls Included.
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I have carefully examined the fmegoing Statement and find the same to be correct.
. CHARLES A. PRELLER, Auditor.
From the Surplus a dividend will be apportioned as usual.
111111111111 Examining Committee.
0111111 ul 1111 Mutual Life Insurance company of New Yorx,
,. February 11,1896.
At a meeting of the Board of Trustees of this Company, held on the 18th day of
December last, the undersigned were'appointcd a. Committee to examine the annual
Statement for the year-ending December 31st, 1895, and to verify the same by com-'
parison with the assets of the Company.
The Committee have carefully performed the duty assigned to them, and hereby
certify that the Statement is in all particulars correct and that the assets specified
therein are in possession of the Company.
In making this certificate the Committee bear testimony to the high character of
the investments (f the Company and express their approval of the system, order and
accuracy with which the accounts and vouchers have been kept, and the business in
general transacted.
H. 0. Von Post,
' Charles R. Henderson,
James C. Holden,
Robert Clyphant,
'Wm. P. Dixon,
J. H. Herrick.
Committee
ROBERT A. GRANNIS, Vice-President.
WALTER R. GILLETTE, General Manager. .
HENRY E. DUNCAN. Jr., Cor. Seoy.
ALBERT KLAMROTH, Asst. Secy’.
ISAAC F. LLOYD, Second Vice-President,
WILLIAM J. EASTON, Secretary,
FREDERIC CROMWELL, Treasurer.
JAMES TIMPSON, 2d Asst. Tress
EDWARD P. HOLDEN, Asst. Cashier,
TOHN A. FONDA, Assistant Treasurer.
WILLIAM P. SANDS, Cashier
EMORY MoCLINTOCK LL.D., F, I. A., Actuary._
JOHN TATLOCK, J 11., Asst. Actuary. WM. W. RICHARDS, Comptroller.
CHARLES A. PRELLER, Auditor, HENRY S. BROWN, Asst. Comp.
JOHN C. ELLIOTT, Superintendent of Domestic Agencies,
EDWARD LYMAN SHORT, Gen. Solicitor.
MEDICAL DIRECTORS
ELIAS J. MARSH, M. D. GRANVILLE M. WHITE, M. D.
GUSTAVUS S. WINSTON, M. D.
.1le w Nioions, «
New Haven, General Agt. for State of Connecticut.
A. n”. CAMP,
Local Agent.
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