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Gath on Galileo.
Not much improvement was made in the
way of mechanics upon Archimedes, who
died 212 B. C., until we come down to Galileo,
who got to the base of the laws of motion
about the year l038, or some time after
Massachusetts had been settled by the Puri-
tanS.
Galileo was born in 1:364 and died in 1642, a
few years before Charles 1 was executed in
England.
Galileo was not a. perfectly educated man.
His father was a musician and the son had
resolved to be a painter, but his father put
him into medicine. By loving to draw he
fell into the line of geometry and let medi-
cine go.
His first discovery was the isochronism of
the vibrations of the pendulum. and he used
this principle to count the pulse of patients,
and in the course of time applied it to clock-
work. He loved to read old Archimedes, and
from him got the idea of the hydrostatic bal-
ance, and of this he made a. description which
led to a mechanic named Ubaldi, of high de-
gree, becoming his friend.
He now wrote a. paper on the center of
gravity, which got him at the early age of
24 a professorship of mathematics at Pisa.
He was loaded with antagonism, and at once
attacked certain perverse and current views
of science. His severe language was followed
by hatred; and these enemies, once raised.
never let him go.—Cincinnati Enquirer.
Disappointed.
The true artist has an instinct for perfec-
tion, and as a necessary consequence is never
fully satisfied with his own work. Some-
times, however, he comes nearer to satisf ying
himself than to meeting the taste of his
patrons, especially if he is a painter of por-
traits.
A New York artist, who was in Charleston
on a pleasure trip, painted the portrait of a
little darky. She was encouraged to sit pa-
tiently by having seen a beautiful picture
which the same artist had made of the fair
haired daughter of one of me proudest houses
in Charleston, in whose service the young
darky’s mother was laundress.
Patiently she posed. and when the portrait
was completed the artist brought it round to
show it to its original. “Here you are, J aney, ”
he said.
Janey looked at her counterfeit present-
ment and burst into shrieks and bowls. She
ran from the room to pour her sorrows into
sympathiziug ears.
“0 Missey Grace!” she cried, "Missey
Grace, 1 never tink he would mek me look sol
I didn‘t tink Mr. Waller would do me so! He
tel: and mek me a orful little notty headed
nigger, an’ I fought I was jes’ a-go’m’ to be a
beautiful little yaller 'headed gal, with blue
eyes and a white face, jes’ like Missey Ger-
trudel”—Boston Herald.
Mountain Forests Prevent Floods.
A mountain forest has more functions than
most people have considered. It covers the
hills with a. vast mat or network of living
root fibers, and holds in place the ever ac-
cumulating mass of mold and decomposing
vegetable matter, which absorbs and retains
the water of the rainfall and the melting
snows. Such a forest is a. great sponge, which
receives all the water that falls on the moun-
tains, and allows it to escape gradually, so as
to maintain the steady flow of the rivers
which it feeds. A forest is thus a natural
reservoir for the storage and distribution of
the water which falls upon it; and it is far
more efiicienhas well as far more economical,
than any system of artificial storage reser-
VOirs that can be substituted for it. If the
forest is removed, this mighty sponge isde-
stroyed, and there is then nothing to perform
its function of holding back the water,which
will rush down in overwhelming floods and
torrents The first thing to be noted is that
the water will thus all run away at once, at
a time when but little of it is wanted, and
there will be little or none of it left for the
season when it is most needed. The rivers
which have been fed by the mountain springs
will soon be dry 9. great part of the year.—
Century.
Ameriean Autographs in India.
A correspondent, writing from India, says.-
Most Americans buy shawls in this part of
India, and after a sale is made the merchant
invariably demands that you write a reccm~
mendqtion for him in his note book. This he
shows to future travelers, and I find scat-
tered ever India the autographs of noted
Americans. At Delhi I found Grant’s auto-
graph, and the merchant, who had it under
a recommendation stating that his wares
were good, told me he had been offered one
hundred rupees for it, and that he would not
sell it for one hundred thousand rupees.
James Gordon Benn‘? states tha; n.» "finds a
certain man’s shawls good, and L: supposes
they are cheap,” and the merchant who owns
the book tells me that Bennett bought a
dozen cashmere shawls, saying he wanted to
use them for making undershirts. These
were of the kind called ring shawls, so fine
that you can pull a whole shawl through the
weddingring of a lady—Leslie’s Newspaper.
The Pig in 3 Tight Place.
In his early days, John Gilbert played for
several seasons in New Orleans. Some of his
journeys there were made on flatboats down
the Mississippi. “On one occasion,” he told
me, “we got stuck in the mud—not an un-
usual occurrence—hard by a small town. All
the company was on board and the manager
thought we might make a. little money by
giving a performance. He found a barn
raised on posts about a foot above the muddy
lowlands, and there we played, parting ofi’
one end with sheets and curtains for the
stage. In the middle of the performance
most unearthly cries rose from right under
our feet. We tried to continue, but the cries
drowued our voices. Then some of the audi-
ence sallied out to see what Was the matter.
They found a pig had got wedged in under
the floor. It was half an hour before the
brute could be hauled out. I am‘ told that
town has now two fine opera houses. ”/-New
York Tribune.
Ushers' Bobbing.
Ushers in many of the most prominent
theatres in this city have a new and clever
device for victimizing theatre goers. If they
hold coupons for particularly desirable seats
the usher on going down the aisle will sub-
stitute coupons for inferior chairs, frequently
without the knowledge of the purchaser. If
people are not already occupying the stolen
seats they are waiting in the lobby, and when
the employe receives his consideration are
promptly satisfied. This practice is spread-
ing, but occasionally one of the forward fel-
lows is caught in the act, a turn of affairs
which does not worry the offenders in the
least. The fees which ushers receive in this
manner and for selling unpurchased seats are
enormous. in one of the smallest houses in
town at which a strong attraction was run-
ning during the past season one young man
made from $10 to $20 per night—New York
‘ Evening Sun.
In Norfolk there was a belief among the
peasantry that if a young woman on list
hearing the'cuckoo took oi! her shoe, she
would find in it a hair of 'the same color as
that on the head of her future husband. Cor-
nishmen regard itasof good omen if they
hear the first cry of “cuckoo" in the right
If first heard in the left-bad.
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A Brave Lady.
A lady well known in Plainfield (N. J.)
society, who has a great aversion to a public
use of her name, is gifted with an amount of
heroism, plucky and calculating courage quite
beyond that of most men. At two difierent
times last summer she had occasion to exer-
cise this trait of her character. She was
visiting in Wheeling, WV. Va, when the first
occurred.
A little child, not more than three years
old, was playing in a narrow alleyway, and
was seated upon the stone pavement. Turn-
ing suddenly from the street came a large,
heavy truck, to which were attached large
Norman horses. The driver did not see the
child until too late, when, suddenly pulling
up the horses, he struck the great iron gate
that stood open at the alley entrance. The
gate, torn from its hinges, tottering, fell to-
ward the helpless child, now threatened with
danger.
This little Plainfield woman was passing
at the time. In horror she saw the child’s
danger from the now plunging horses and
falling gate. Quicker than it takes to read
it she sprang from the sidewalk to where the
child, affrighted, sat, and, grasping it,
dragged it away just as the sharp iron pick-
ets caught her own skirt, tearing it, but
not injuring her. And she did not faint or
tremble, either, but simply pinned up her
skirt and hastened home, more concerned at
her disheveled appearance than at anything
else.
A little later in the season, while on a
short visit to a New Jersey seaside resort, a
cry of fire was raised in the hotel where she
was staying. It was in the afternoon, and
this little Plainfield lady was taking a. nap.
The fire alarm awakened her, and going to
the hall she found it filled with smoke. She
heard the wailing cry of a child’s voice com-
ing from a room near by. With not a
thought of danger she groped her way along
the floor where the smoke was least suffocat-
ing, and made her way into the room whence
came the child’s voice. It was here that the
fire was, and the little one had fallen upon
the floor in its efforts to grone out of reach
of harm. Half smothered she rescued the
child. Thefire was soon put out, but the
little lady took chances just the same as
though the danger had been more pressing
and greater. ——I\'-ew York Press.
Husband and \Vlf‘e.
If you see a lady and gentleman disagree up-
on trifling occasions, or correcting each other
in company, you may be assured that they
have tied the Inatrilmmial noose. If you see a
silent pair in a car or stage lolling carelessly,
one at each window without seeming to know
they have 'a companion, the sign is infallible.
If you see a lady drop her glove, and a gen-
tleman by the side of her kindly telling her
to pick it up, you need not hesitate in form-
ing an opinion; or .
If you meet a couple in the fields, the gen-
tleman twenty yards in advance of the lady,
who, perhaps, is getting over a stile with dif-
ficulty, or picking her way through a muddy
patch; or
If you see a lady whose beauty and accom-
plishments attract the attention of every gen—
tleman in the room but one, you Can have no
difficulty in determining their relationship
to each other—the one is her husband.
If you see a gentleman particularly cour-
teous, obliging and good natured, relaxing
into smiles, saying sharp things. and toying
with every pretty woman in the roomyex-
cept one, to whom he appears particularly
cold and formal, and is unreasonably cross—
who that one is nobody can beat a loss to
discover. .
If you see an old couple jarring, checking
and thwarting each other, in differing opin-
ion before the opinion is expressed, eternally
anticipating and breaking the thread of each
other’s discourse, yet using kind words, like
\ honey bubles floating in vinegar, which are
soon overwhelmed by a preponderence of the
fluid, they are to all intents man and wife—-
it is impossible to be mistaken.
The rules above quoted are laid down as
infallible in just interpretation; they may
be resorted to with confidence, they are
based upon unerring principles, and deducted
from every day experience—Atlanta Con-
stitution.
The Favorite Times for Suicide.
Statistics show that the months in which
the fewest suicides occur are October and
November, while the greatest number occur
in April, May and June. July and Septem-
ber also have a goodly share, the latter pos-
sessing a peculiar fascination for women.
This refutes the old idea that suicides occur
most frequently in (la-nip and gloomy weath-
er, for the months just mentionedas being
the most prolific are certainly those in which
the skies look brightest and the earth is fair-
est. Another remarkable fact in this con-
nection is that the progressive increase and
decrease in the number of suicides coincide
with the lengthening and shortening of the
days, and, as M. Guerry has shown, not only
the seasons of the year, but the days of the
month and of the week, and even the hours
of the day, exert an influence, the constancy
of which cannot be mistaken.
As a result of his elaborate research he
found that the greatest number of suicides
among men occurred during the first ten days
of the month, and from Monday to Thursday
of the week. This is accounted for by re
membering that the majority of workingmen
receive their wages either on the first of the
month or the last of the week, and that ,“pay,_
day” is often followed by dissipation, de-
bauchery and re‘morse.’ Oet'tingen completed
this interesting observation by showing that
the larger number of . suicides among women
take place during the last half of the week,
when they are most apt to feel the effects or
man’s prodigality and wrongdoing. In re-
gard to the hours of the day, we know, from
Brien-e de Boismont’s examination of 1,993
cases of suicide in Paris, that the maximum
number occurred between 6 a. m. and noon,
and thereafter regularly declined, reaching
the minimum at the hour- before sunrise.—
Charles IV. Pilgrim, M. D., in Popular Sci-
ence Monthly.
How It Was Settled.
The novel fact that Gen. George L. Becker
was once elected to congress, but was beaten
out of his seat by a game of seven-up, is prob-
ably known by very few at the present time.
It was in the fall of 1857. The territory of
Minnesota had just been organized, prepara-
tory to admission as a state the following
year, and three men were elected to the lower
house of congress, to Wit: George L. Becker,
of St. Paul, James M. Cavanaugh, of Chat-
field, and W. W. Phelps, of Red Wing, all
Democrats. When the census of the terri-
tory was taken for the benefit of congress it
turned out that the new state would be en-
titled to only two members of the lower
house. There were three very much discon-
certed young men, for they were brimming
with life and ambition, and neither of them
relished the idea. of giving up the captured
prize. However, after a siege of contriving
and bickering, in which neither gained a
point over the other, young Becker laughing-
ly suggested that they decide the matter by a.
three handed game of seven-up. The other
two jumped at the proposition, and in less
than two hours proved to Mr. Becker that he
had made a. very bad suggestion for his own
interests. Becker accepted the defeat grace-
fully, but was unable to restrain a feeling of
contempt for the hands the other fellows
played—St. Paul Pioneer Prom.
SHORTEST AND LONGEST.
The longest day is in June, they say:
The shortest in December.
They di-l not come to me that way:
The shortest I remember
You came a day with me to stay,
And filled my heart with laughter:
The longest day (you were away)
The very next day after. -
-George Birdseye.
A Young Lady.
She was a. pretty young lady. very charm-
ingly dressed and personally particularly
attractive. She was out at the park the other
day and she got on a. crowded car. She had
a seat and several men were _ standing up.
There came on to the car an old lady very
poorly dressed. She looked frail and seemed
tired. She looked around. Several very
elegant dudes were seated around, but no-
body made any movement to give up his
place. Seeing this, the young lady of whom
I spoke got up and gave the old lady her seat
and stood up beside a dude decked in the very
latest fashion plate style, who took a calm
look at her and-kept his seat. Then a man
sitting beyond him in the Open car. who had
just noticed her, got up, walked over the
dude’s knees and invited the young lady to
take his seat. About all the dude expressed
was an annoyance at being disturbed. This
is not very much of a story, it is not a very
dramatic situation, but it somehow means a
great deal—San Francisco Chronicle.
Hardness of Wood.
' he relative hardness of woods is calcu-
la by the hickory, which is the toughest.
Estimating that at 100, we get for pignut
hickory, 86; white oak. 84; white ash, 77; ap-
ple tree. 70; red oak, 69; white beech, 65;
black walnut, 65; black birch, 62; yellow and
black oak, 60; hard maple, 56; white elm, 58;
red cedar, 56; cherry, 55; yellow pine, 53:
chestnut, 52; yellow poplar, 51; butternut
and white birch, 43, and white pine, 35. Ac-
cording to this formula, woods possessing a
degree of hardness equal to only about 40 per
cent. or less than that of hickory, should not
be classed as hard woods. Such woods are,
however, limited in quantity, and are not of
sufficient importance to justifya classifica-
tiou, and the trade will continue to construe
hard wood to mean everything except white
pine—New York Telegram
, The Busy Beetle.
‘A curious result of the work of a species of
beetle was recently discovered in a house in
Portland. Where two matched boards came
together in the sheathing of a room, the
rounded rib, about the size of a lead pencil,
for a length of two feet and a half, had been
replaced with what looked like a porous mass
of fine sawdust, which was by some means so
held together as to assume the exact shape of
the original wood. Investigation with a. pen-
knife, at one end of this, revealed a small
tunnel under the surface, filled with the some
fine dust and about three inches long, at the
end of which was a small and very activ:
black beetle, busily engaged in literally eat
ing his way through life, with an inexhaustl
ble supply of food in front. The ant is ac
the only bug model of industry.-—Lewistc
Journal.
Not One of Them.
“Good morning, ma’ain—good morningl"
he saluted as be met a little women face to
face at the Central market.
“Good morning,” she humbly replied.
“Well, have you concluded toaccept my
proposal i”
“I—I don’t know what you mean, sir.”
“Why, didn‘t I propose marriage to you
last week and give you five days to think it
over?"
“No, sir.
it is.”
“Hal Excuse me. I thought you were one
of them. Well, no harm done. Mistakes
will happen, you know. Good morning. "-
Detroit Free Press.
I’ve been married ten years as
Four Requirements for a Painter.
“There are four things for a painter,"
Corot was wont to say. “'I‘heoe are—Form,
which he gets through drawing; color, which
results from truth to values; sentiment.
which is born of the received impression;
and finally the execution, the rendering of
the whole. As to myself, I think I have sen-
timent; that is, a little poetry in the soul
which leads me to see, or to complete what 1
see, in a certain way. But i have not al-
ways color, and possess only imperfect ele-
ments of the power to draw. In execution 1
also fail sometimes—which is the reason why
I labor harder than ever, little though some
people may imagine it. ”-The Century.
Simple Remedies.
A Yankee colonel, who had spent several
years in the south, was one day telling a
friend, a surgeon, of a kind of illness which
once attacked the men of his regiment.
“It was a fever common in the low, not
country where we were marching,” said he.
“People down there call it the ‘broken bone
fever.’ When a. man has it he feels as if
every bone in his body had been broken.”
“There is a very simple, old fashioned rem-
edy that I should recommend for such a case,"
said the surgeon, with a twinkle in his eye.
“What’s that?" asked the colonel.
“Boneset. ”—Youtb’s Companion.
A Very Good Cat.
- John B. Mudd, of this city, has a wonder-
ful cat. He assists in the care of a brood of
chickens. During the day he is often seen
scratching up insects for them, which they
appreciate, and bringing them mice, which
they refuse to eat. At night the cat and the
old hen divide the honor of hovering them.
He is alsoon good terms with the other hens,
and especially with the old cockerel, and
strokes his sides against them in the most
familiar way He passes nearly all of his
time with the poultry, and they seem to love
his companionship—Memphis IMO.) Register.
The Delinquent Subscriber.
We are torn again with grief because 1.. A.
Underwood has left Weston owing us some
$6. 50. The postmaster there explains. “ Where-
abouts unknown,” but Underwood can’t run
away from himself and the consciousness that
the man who deliberately beats a friend out
of an honest obligation isa mean cuss. He
may be Underwood or under the daisies, but
his reputation will follow him and give him
away as surely as the odor of a skunk—Lud-
low Wm Tribune.
. Stock Exchange.
Granger- Hello. mister! Is this the stock
exchanged
Manager—Yes.
Granger Wal, I’ve got a shoot out here 1
kinder thought I’d like to swap of for a
young calf or mebbe a coarse wool sheep
or-—-
(Granger floored byalead inkstandJ—Bur-
lington Free Press
Why It Was Awful.
"Mary," said Miss Ponsonby to her maid,
“you must really never again allow Fido to
get on my bed. '
“I've done my bestto break him of the
habit, ma’am.” she replied, “for it’s awful."
“I should say it was awful," returned Miss
Pousonby. "l just found a bedbng on the
poor little thing. "-Tho Epoch. ,
Norwalk Chronicler