Evening Star Newspaper, August 18, 1883, Page 6

A Boncn of sweet peas is a favorite corsage Dongquet at present. Loxu S1Lk Gloves are worn with fall-dress evening toilets this summer. Rissows, laces and natural flowers are the or- naments that have taken the place of jewelry. Brack “Jersey” silk gloves are very useful wear, and so also are biack (raw) silk stockings. BLAck Tre evening dresses are looped and trimmed with bunches of red currants or of straw berries. Tue Newmarket hat of felt with iow crown and curied brim is worn in the country by ladies While riding horseback. ‘Tie Exattsn tashion of wearing light gray or arab riding habits in summer Is gradually being adopted in this country. ‘Tue AvtoMN styles in preparation show a very decided tendenev toward the use of fine all wool cs in checked tweeds, and heather mix- Ar Curren Fares the young lady attendants Wear red stockings with dow shoes, and red aproas trimmed with white lace, over gray or blue gowns. Corree-Coorep Laces are in great favor, and laces made of twine and interwoven with colored threads; these are used for summer cot- s. tons and line Seasipe Dresses whieh attract atteation are of red or blue twilled cotton trimmed with White lace and garnitured with loops, and ends of blagk velvet ribbon. TE and cream-colored dresses of Chinese J with Malines lace and brown or ns, are favorite summer costumes of of Wales. E LL. imitation laces are now made in several | widths, so that the deen flounce or covering for the tablier may match the narrow bordering for the skirt and kK of delicate cream colors. is bands, and a plastron of Turkish embroidery in dull colors, done in cross- stitches on canvas groundwork. Tak Laws Texsts BLovse is a gathered belted waist made of white or light cloth with ilor collar. It is worn with a tie and wide canvas belt. re again made with sleeves, ad of merely shoulder straps. A short d sleeve or a _pompadour sleeve frilled at the elbow is added to low eorsages. Jewebry is searcely worn at all at the sum- mer watering-places. The only pieces seen are long and fanciful pins and bracelets scarcely thicker than a cord, and these are confined to young ladies. Tveks are so fashionable that they are now applied to Jerseys, forming a pretty border, and being placed in a row down each side of the front. Panels of tucks trim the front and sides of silk and satin skirts. New Sorr Feut Hats are perforated under the trimming (which is composed of rich Indian silk) instead of on the top as formerly. They are used with tailor-made suits, but are some- what expensive, being imported. Roven straw walking hats imported from London by hatters are fashionable at the sea- le. They are trimmed with sea-gulls, grebe, shaded grebe, or other birds of the sea whose plumage ts not injured by moisture. Snernern’s Curck of black and white, both {m wool and silk, is a favorite fabric this summer i for traveling dresses. The accepted ulster is made of pongee or of Scotch cloth of quiet colors, and has a large pointed hood lined with bright plaid silk. Rea Laces are again worn, and elderly women are bringing to light all their treasures ay of Venetian rose point. Chantilly Brussels thread and antique guipure lac it is said that lace points and shawls are also to be revived. Vets are now rarely seen even with the | gmall bonnets. The few that appear are of orof dotted net for the street; mournia: eno louger oblizatory, even for those who assume deep mourning on the death of a relative. Fresca Di eRS announced velvet as a | leading fabric for the past summer, but the n thermometer said no, and the ther- eter won. The flo velvet basques and velvet trimmed wouleas will be fresh for the autumn, and will be only a fashion post- poned. SLEEVEL NEWMARKET Coats are worn by Enzlish womea when driving or traveling. A deep cape covers the arms, snd there are sleeves that can be hooked on at the arm-hole when Reeded. The hat wora with this is a soft flat- crowned cap made of cloth like that of the coat, With close rows of stitching all over it. The cloth for these garmeats comes in electric blues, fawns and grays and browns of soft and pleasing shades. A SiweLe, Heatturc. Scnoot Dress ror Gixis consists of a plaited woolen skirt attached to a lining waist, and an elastic Jersey bodice. Should this not be practicable, or tor an alternative, there is the princess polonaise, with apron front over a plain skirt with kilted flounce; or the whole dress mounted upon a complete lining. The only point of importance in the latter cases is to set the sleeve high, make the shoulder short, and give reoin for the top of the arm to work freely, and also for the elbow and lower arm to bend and move without threatening paralysis. Such a dress, worn with one underskirt and two layers of underclothing —one pure wool, the other cotton—solves the school problem: and a corded corset waist, to which the stocking suspenders are attached, supplies the continuation to the one underskirt, and neatly outlines, without compressing, the igure. —_—__~e-______ wi is the Germ-theory of Disease? Scourges of the human race and diseases are attributed by savages to the influence of evil spirits. Extremes often meet. What human intellizence suspected in its first dawn has been verified by human intelligence in its highest de- Yelopment. Again, we have come to the belief of evil spirits in disease, but these destroyers have now assumed a tangible shape. Instead of | the mere passive, unwitting efforts with which we have hitherto resisted them, we now begin to fight them in their own domain with all the resources of our intellect. For they are no | longer invisible creatures of our own imagina- tion. but with that omnipotent instrament, the microscope, we can see and identify them as living beings, of dimensions on the present verze of visibility. The study of these minute foes constitutes the zerm-theory. This germ-theory of disease is rising to such importance in medical discussions that it can not be ignored by that part of the laity who aspire to a fair general information. For it has substituted a tangible reality for idle specula- tion and superstition eo current formerly In the branch of medical science treating of the causes of diseases. Formerly—that is, within a period scarcely over now—the first cause invoked to explain the origin of many diseases was the vague and much-abused bugbear ‘‘cold.”. When that failed. obscure chemical changes, of which no one knew anything definitely or “impurities of the blood,” a@ term of similar and convenience, were accused, while with regard to contagious diseases medical ignorance con- cealed itself by the invocation of a ‘genus epi- demicus.” The germ-theory, as tar as it is ap- | pore does away with all these obscurities. it points out the way to investigate the causes of disease with the same spirit of inquiry with which we investigate all other occurrences in nature. In the light of the germ-theory, disease is a struggle for existence between daria Ge ‘organisin and some parasite invading it, From this point of view, diseases become a part of the Darwinian program of nature.— Professor —_ in Poy Montdly Science for Septem- ——___—_-e-____ Butler's Eyes and Butler. From the Boston Herald, Auxust 8. Gov. Butler's eyes are somewhat remarkable. One of them, we are told, is near-sighted a2 the other is far-sighted. He puts one close to the page he reads, while with the other he can tell the time on a distant steeple. Without in- convenience, ifina theater, he can fasten one on the pit and the other on ‘the gailery, where his friends and admirers sit. His eyes are typi- cal ofthe man. We seein them great natural powers—telescopic and microscopic—but a lack f co-ordination. The result is @ blur. Every view is distorted. The sense of proportion is ‘want! That accounts for the follies into which the —— oo : falls when he is trying to is and displaying ting Ho never gets a true view He is a remarkable man as Insur- ance Commissioner Tarbox once,t ‘and elo- quently eaid, he is never a safeleader. His best hoid is as a misleader. any- | baskets of sp Baskets, ‘and Deliverice— What America Ought te Have. From the London News, July 28th. The most important of depots in London is of course St. Martin’sle-Grand. A general misap- prehension seems to have been occasioned by the work that has for some time past been go- ing on upon the top of the new postal building. This has nof, as seems generally supposed, any- thing to do with the parcels post. It is merely the extension that was contemplated as a futare necessity at a time when the building was erected and is required in order to afford ad- ditional accommodation for the staff of the new wemises. The only structural alterations or building additions that have been made in con- nection with the new service are upon the other side of the way. The old building, which had already been modified out of its original identity, has had to submit to further change. The public hall running through the center of the building was. if we remember aright, shut in and appropriated to the letter 8 ice about the time that the telegraphs were taken over by the department, and has ever since been devoted to the reception of letters posted by the public outside, and to the sorting ofthem within. This arrangement will not be materially disturbed, only that a counter for the Teception of parcels will take the place of the letter boxes hitherto opened in Foster Lane. The principal parcel counter will, however, be on the other side of the building—in the St. Martin’s-le-Grand front of the building, that is to say. There will be an office formed in that end of the building nearest St. Paul’s, and a doorway is now being opened up to be reached from the street by a kind of gangway formed across the space intervening between the out- side railings and the wall, a space which it is ntial to preserve on account of the sky- sto the basement apartments of the post office. From both these counters wooden shoots are to extend down into the basement, and all parcels received will be at once sent down to the floor, where a large staff of sorters will lie in wait for them. The staff are all there now, and so are the pareels—in effigy. and for some time past the work of el postage has been in diligent re- hearsal. Between theory and practice, as all the world knows, there is often a serious dif- ference. Little difficulties and hitches of one sort and another are pretty sure to crop up unexpectedly in the starting of any new mechanism of the kind which the post office is now setting up, and it might be disastrous if the public should to an unforseen extent bein to try their new machinery before something like smoothness had been secured in the work- ing of it. Large numbers of dummy parcels have therefore been made up. of as miscella- | neous and irregular a character as possible, and all sorts of experiments in sorting, packing them into hampers. and making up mails have been in progress for months past. The sorting of both letters and parcels, the public may not. be aware, is a thing that hasto be taught as methodically as police work or military drill, and St. Martin’s-le-Grand has its regular “school” for the purpose, in which new hands are instructed and practised with cards ad- dressed to all sorts of places before they are permitted to have anything to do with letters. The sorting of parcels has been taught in the same way, but in addition to the sorting some practical experience has been afforded by actually making up parcel mails, and in fact doing everything that the actual service will require except the actual dispatch. For this work all the space that is at present thought to be necessary has been obtained by utilizing a lumber-room in the basement of the post office, and adding to this another large apart- ment, for which room has been excavated under the roadway at the Cheapside end of the building. This is really quite a large subter- ranean hall, and should any extension of apace be required there is still the possibility of further exeayations round in the rear of the building in the yard lying along Foster Lane. These underground premises are as_yet in con- siderable confusion, but they will shortly be cleared for action, and by Wednesday no doubt everything will be in apple-pie order. The par- cels, when sorted, will be packed into capacipus construction, some of which have been made by convicts and some by reg basket-makers, many of whom must lately had a busy time of it. underground premises of the post-office seem just now choked up with baskets of which. however, there are a great many more than there appear to be. They are made in three sizes, the largest of which may perhaps be two and ahaif feet long, twofeet wide, and two feet deep. ‘The second size just oes into this larger one, and there isa third size just fitting into the second, so that when these wicker recep- tacles are empty they may be packed away one within another. Thus every basket now seen in the passages and basement apartments in St. Martins-le-Grand may becounted as three. Bags are also provided in large numbers, and both bags and baskets are of course contrived to ad- mit of being readily sealed. For experimental purpose, a rough presentment of a distributing and collecting van has also been set up. It will be by these vans that parcels will be collected and delivered throughout London, and not by men on foot or by hand-carts. There is a specimen hand-cart on the premises here, but in London, at any rate, their use will be very limited—perhaps used only in the suburbs, and not there, probably, to any great extent. For conveying mails made up between the different depots, larger vans will be employed. At present it is thought that throughout London and the suburbs abont 130 or 140 collecting and delivering vans may be required—seventy or eighty in town, and the rest for the outlying districts. What the service may shortly re- quire it is of course impossible tor any one to say. The staff employed is as yet merely a pro- visional one. Some fresh hands have been taker on, but a good many old ones are being | employed to do extra work, and soto make a! shift until a little practical experience has been gained. We may add that at the moment of writing the times of collection and delivery have not been announced. It is believed. ho: ever, that there will be from three to five de. liveries and collections in the day—that is to say, three in some parts of the metropolitan districts and five in others. hav Only Ten Drugs Wanted. 1 From the British Quarterly Review. Several hints of no little signifleance may be gathered from current practice in answer to this interesting question. Treatment by drugs becomes more simpleand direct every year. In- stead of the wondrous mediey—an olla podrida —of drugs of former times, the modern pre- scription consists ofa single drug used with a single intention. The drug is not given for the vague reason that it hasbeen found “to do good,” but with a distinct aim to produce some definite physiological effect. The ‘materia medica are reduced to their essential forms, and active principles of definite strength and constitution and of minute proportions are used. in the place of the uncertain and buiky drag in its natural state. Doses are being reduced al- most to the vanishing point, and methods of e: hibiting them repeatedly come into notice which are more direct and exclusive in their application to the affected part than that which makes the stomach suffer for the offenses of every other part. All these facts may be said to show a general tendency toward the restric- tlon of the druz principle of treatment, to make it more simple and at the same time more di- Tect, and to free it from much of its nauseous- ness. This tendency also makes it more posi- tive and its tages more indubitable, but when the giving of the remedy is restricted to a definite physiological purpose, it may safely be said that the raison dete of the bulk of “the pharmacopcela has away. The restless y- and ubiquitous spirit of research which is abroad to-day has supplied a host of new reme- dies which get into books but not into practice. There are, panes @ bare dozen of cardinal drugs which make up the greater part of modern physic—the fixed stars of the firmament of medicine, around which a multitude of in- ferior lights revolve in various subordinate re- lations. Or, according toa saying which has been put into the mouth of a number of emi- nent physicians: “When I was young I had twenty drugs for every disease; now I am old I have twenty diseases for every drug.” And probably there are not half a dozen drags the utility of which has not been effectively chal- lenged. Of this Larter er ae two or three specific drugs will, for all t! can be seen at pect always retain their place. Their worth is too real and pogitiye to he neclected. how- ever unsat! ry it may be to science to pre- scribe them more or less in the dark. But the orthodox array of ammunition of the Zsculap- fus of the period is gradually passing away, and will soon pape remain only as seductive drops, whifls, and 1@ prescription earners of ly life to special ecient adap! tions of the old Greek elements, fire, air, earth, water. And in a sense which will be true in that inner truth which saw of old, wounded and exhausted man down upon the bosom of his mother earth will arise from refreshed. her embrace like a giant e Gold mines in the Samons Wilderness, Spott- lvanis ag syl ey, ‘a, are belng worked, It is ¥ eB on: Searcher After Leet Valuabies. ‘From the New York Sun. “T have been sent for very often in my time,” said an elderly detective, ‘‘to search for money concealed by eccentric people. There was more of this hiding away ot cash forty years ago than there is now, owing probably to the duubtful character of some of the old savings banks. ‘Still there is more of it now than most people suppose, and whenever a bank breaks the tea~ pots and old’ stockings come into use again. Then, too, there are persons who have a delight in concealing money in sucha way that they can ‘get a sight at it now and then or at the place in which it is concealed. “What is my method of search? Well, I can hardly say; in detective work set methods are only‘too apt to defeat the ends for which they are put‘in operation. Our proceedings depend wholly upon circumstances. The character, habits, and surroundings of the concealer have to be considered. A knowledge of human na- ture and an aptitude for perceiving the sig- nificance of certain classes of facts are espe- cially needed. “For Instance: 1 was once sent for to find the money of a man over in New Jersey who had died suddenly and left no visible trace of his wealth. The family had made a careful. sys- tematic search before I arrived. I learned that he was not miserly. and inferred that he had not used any of those complicated methods of concealment which are one ot the miser’s chief characteristics. I found that his business took him frequently from home, and that he had for- merly been a sailor. I asked what room he usu- ally slept in, and they said, ‘all over the house, ' adding that they had fuily examined every place in which he had ever been known to be. I asked about his clothing. *- ‘Oh, the oldest possible kihd,” said hts wife. “We couldn't get him to wear anything decent.” “ May I see it?” « -Why,we have been allthrough it with knit- ting needies, and my girls have ripped up the linings everywhere, but we found nothing, and gave the old things away.’ - “I insisted, of course, upon seeing the clothes. You see, sir, I reasoned in this way: The man was not a miser, and, therefore, had used no extraordinary means of concealment; and he constantly made short journeys from home, so I judged that he carried his money upon his person. You may set it down as a general rule that most men who conceal money like to have it as near them as possible. The fact that he did not desire to sleep in any particular room showed that the money was not hidden in a room. It was either in his clothing or buried in the cellar, a favorite place tor hiding money. But he had been a sailor. Now, it is characteristic of a sailor not to conceal money oa shipboard; the risks from fire and water are too great. This feeling would be likely to continue after he had settled down ashore. Then, too. a sailor is in the habit ot carrying his pay with him. 80, you see, there were good reasons for my guess. Well, some one brought the clothes in at last, and very shabby-looking they were. I went over them without success until my eye caught the binding. ‘He always kept them well bound,’ said his wife; ‘sailors are good sewers,’ The binding was wide, but we soon had it off, and there we found, folded lengthwise and’ pro- tected with olted silk, four 1,000 bonds. A systematic search is often not as good asa shrewd guess by an experienced person. “Yes, there are men whoconceal wealth away from their homes. Criminals almost always do it. Middle-aged countrymen will do it, but when they get old they are almost sure to hide it near the spot where they pass most of their time. “Some fifteen years ago I went up to a farm house in Orange county, at the request of the heirs, to look for money. The deceased had had no striking characteristics for my purpose, and, after trying several linesof search for three days I grew doubtful. His riding saddle had been ripped open, his boctheels knocked off for dia- monds, his’ soles split up and his upholstery pulled to pieces. Bricks had been taken out, the hearth torn up, and the wainscotings pulled down. Even the backboards of picture-frames had been taken out, and the boys had dug around the roots of every tree in the orchard, but still no money had been found. The reward was too large to be lost, but I was nearly at my wits’ end. Finally I asked for a horse and zon. T wanted to drive about a bit and settle mind, As I rode off, the brother of the deceased said, ‘You'll find the farm well laid off, he surveyed it himself.’ “Those words kept coming to my mind. The man hadn't concealed the money in the house, that was evident; nor in the barn, for he scl- dom went there. Why should he use the roots of trees or stones if he knew how to survey? The thought came like a flash. ‘Where was the old gentleman in the habit of sitting?’ I ‘Oh, he almost always sat by that win- ” said the brother, but we've pulled every- thing to pieces around there.’ ‘Sit down just ashe did.’ he man sat down. ‘In which di- rection was he most apt to look?’ ‘Nowhere in particular; out of the window generally.’ ‘Toward the barn? ‘No, this way.’ I fol- lowed the look. It was in the line of an old. used-up pump. ‘Which way did he walk when he went out to the field?’ ‘Over to the ae and then made a bee line for the pond?’ hese answers had a certain significance. Men like to have the place of concealnent in sight, and it is well known that they will often walk over money they have buried to see that the sod is undisturbed. Ihad the pump taken up and excavations made—no money. The pump was replaced. I entered the room once more and stood by the window. Suddenly 1 saw a faint but peculiar looking mark on the sill; it was a surveyor's point. I ‘lined’ it up to the pump, measured out to the exact center of the line, and the digging began. A two-inch steam was struck ata depth ot four teet. The end was plugged; I took home a 500 bill that night. “I had a curious case two years ago. A wealthy man had been attacked with partial paralysis, and his speech and the greater part of his memory had left him. He wrote out the question, ‘where did I put my mgney? The amount was large, $32,000 in bond, which he had been about to take toa safe deposit build- ing. The heirs were wild. [ stopped all the tearing up and cushion-pricking business, for tie man was not a ‘concealer, though it was supposed by the doctors that he had felt’ the attack coming on and had put the money in some out-of-the-way place. Just how or in what spot in his library he had fallen could not be made out. After a day’s reflection my partner and I had to conclude that he had been robbed. Two courses were open to us; we could make sudden arrests without any real evidence, always a hateful coarse for a good de- tective to take, or we must find the exact spot where the man fell, and ‘line’ up from that. The doctors helped us here: ‘You had better exam- ine the gentleman's body,’ they said. We did so, and found a long horizontal mark on the hip, and blue marks on the kneeand elbow. He had fallen sidewise over an object not over sixteen inches high, and having a narrow, rounded edge of metal, for aniron mark was found on the clothing. Every piece of furniture in the house was inspected, but to no purpose. The heirs apparent were in despair. But my partner and I vegan to be hopeful. In detective work, whenever you come upon some detall that seems utterly inexplicable, that is the thin; which of all others must be explained: aud you feel, moreover, that in solying the diffi- culty you will come nearer in some unknown way to your puint. We took all night to think the matter over, Then my partuer sald, ‘How about the cellar? That’s where the household metal 1s.’ They all laughed. ‘He hasn’t been there in a year,’ they sald. We went down. My partner glanced ein, ‘around, and then gave me a look that I can almost feel running through my nerves to this day. He had discov- ered some common household articles which had not been used since the family had been searching the fire-places. He was, in fact, look- ing over a lot of coal hods. ‘There is our me- talllc edge,’ he said. He turned the hods over carefully, and from out a mass of waste paper there rolled at last the @82,000 worth of bonds. The paralytic had fallen‘over the hod, and the money had asopped into it among his waste Papers. Before the general search was made all ‘rubbish’ had_been taken to the cellar. Our friends had sought too deeply for what they had supposed to be concealed money, and had ly neglected the science of the obvious. Some detectives do precisely the same thing. ee and I divided $5,000 between us night. “Yes, they hide money in queer enough places. Ihave found it in the covers of old family Bibles, behind mirrors, in the bored-ont legs of chairs, behind cupboards nalled tightly to the walis, in false ceilings, balusters, pincushions, in the lining of old hata, in ol BLOVes, and bron: images, In vases, with the toms covered in- side with rege’ of paris, in black bottles weighted with mercury and marked poison, in canes, shoes and vest linings, in tomato cans — Sse in sohapire ates with wall paper, in all sorts of bedd uphol- ‘and In almost every conceivable is the best “ worthless rubbish. Aq hour later one of the heirs, a girl of six years, was seated on the floor i a pile of bank notes, to which she had vainlyattempted to call her mother’s attentiom oneccount of their pretty ictures. “That ‘concealer’ wagtthe only really deep one Tever knew. Th@ladypaid a high compliment to the gentleman’s acuteness when she re- marked: ‘Why, no one would ever havethought of looking up there for money.’ ” ———$_-++___$__ Climbing the Air. Richard Jefferies, in St, James’ Gazette. Two hawks come oyer the trees, and, ap- proaching each other, rise higher into the air. They wheel about for a little without any ap- parent design, still rising, when one ceases to beat the air with his wings, stretches them to their full length, and seems to lean aside. His impetus carries him forward and upward, at the same time in a circle,something like a skater on one foot. Revolving round acenter, he rises in a’ spiral, perhaps a hundred yards across, screw- ing upward, and at each turn ascending half the diameter of the spiral. When he begins this it appears perfectly natural, and nothing more than would necesserily result if the wings were held outstretched and one edge of the plane slightly elevated. The impulse of vious flight, the beat of strong pinions, and the swing und rush of the bird evidently suffice for two or three, possibly for tour or five, winding movements. But the time comes when I begin to be puzzled at thecontinuation of this strange upward movement. But whatever my specu- lations about the exhaustion of original im- petus, the pull of gravitation, and the rest of it, up goes the hawk, round and round like a woo pecker climbing a tree; only the hawk has nothing tangible into which to stick his claws and to rest his tail against. Those winding circles must surely cease; his own weight alone must stop them, and those wide wings out- stretched must check him. Instead of which, the hawk rises as easily as at first, and without the slightest effort—no beat of wing or flutter, without even @#slip or jerk, easily round and round. His companion ‘does the same, often, perhaps always, revolving the opposite way, 80 as to face the first. It is a fascinating motion to watch. The graceful, sweeping curl holds the eye; it is a line of beauty, and draws the glance up into the heights of the air. The darker upper part of one is usually visible at the same time as the lighter under part of the other, and as the dark wheels again the sunlight gleams on the breast and under-wing. Sometimes they take regular curves, ascending in an equal degree with each; each curve representing an equal height gained perpendicuiarly. Sometimes they sweep round in wide circle scarcely ascending at all. Again, suddenly one will shoot up almost per- pendicularly,immediately followed by the other. Then they will resume the regular ascent. Up, like the woodpecker round a tree, till now the level of the rainy seud which hurries over in wet weather has long been past; up till to the eye it looks as if they must soon attain to the flecks of white cloud in the sugny sky to day. They are in reality far from that elevation; but their true height is none the Jess wonderful. Rest- ing on the sward, I have watched them go up like this through a lovely morning at most sphere till they seemed about to actually enter the blue, till they were smatler In appearance than larksat their highest ascent, till the head had to be thrown right back to see them. This last circumstance shows how perpendicularly they ascend. winding round a line drawn straight y are+ hardly visible, except whgn the under-wing and breast passes and gleams in the light. All this is accomplished with outstretched wings held at full length, without flap, or beat, or any apparent renewalof the original impetus. If you take a flat stone and throw it so that it will spin, it will go some way straight.then rise, turn aside, describe a half-circle and fall. If the impetus kept in it, would soar like the hawk, but this does not happen. A boomerang acts much in the same manner, only more per- fectly; yet, however forcibly thrown, the vis soon diesout ofa boomerang. A skater gets up his utmost speed, suddenly stands on one foot, and describes several circles; but in two comes to a standstill, unless he or works his skate, and so renews the impulse. Evenat his best he only goes round, and does not raise his weight an inch from the ice. The friction of the air soon causes the ve- locity of a bullet shot froma rifle to decrease, and the pull of g ation after a short distance drags ball driven by an extra faets are duly considered, it will soon be apparent what a remarkable feat soaring really is. The hawk does not ascend in a spiral, but every now and then revolves in a circle—a flat circle—and suddenly shoots up with renewed rapidity. Whether this be merely sportive wantonness or whether it is a neces- sity isimpossible to determine; but tome It does not appear as if the hawk did it from_ necessity. It has more the appearance of variation, Just as you or I might walk fast at one moment and slowly at anotier, now this side of the street and nowthe other. A shifting of the plane of the wings would, however, in all probability give some impetus; the question is, would it be snfficient? [have seen hawks go up In sunny and lovely weather—in fact they seem to prefer still, calm weather; but, considering the height to which they attain, no one can positively as- sert that they do or do not utilizea current. If they do, they may be said to sail (a hewk’s wings are technically his sails) round half the circle with the wind fair and behind, and then gmeet itthe other halfof the turn, using the im- petus they have gained to surmount the breeze asthey breast it. Granting this mechanical as- sistance, it still remains a wonderful teat, since the nicest adjustment must be necessary to get the impetussufficient to carry the birds over the resistance. They do not drift, or very little, My own impression is that a hawkcan soar in a perfectly stiil atmosphere, If there is awind he uses it; ‘bat its quite as much an impediment asanaid. If there is no wind he goes up with the greater ease and to the greater height, and will of choice soar ina calm. The spectacle of a weight—for, of course, the hawk has an ap- reciable weight—apparently lifting itself in the fice of gravitation and overcoming friction, is avery striking one. When an autumn leat parts on a still day from the twig it often ro- tates and travels some distance from the tree. falling reluctantly and with pauses and delays inthe air. It is conceivable that if the leaf were animated and could guide its rotation, it might retard its fall for a considerable period of time, or even rise higher than the tree. Daring Rescue by & Coast Guardsman. From the London Telegraph. Last evening, at Perranporth, near Truro, the driver of a wagonette party wandering on the beach tound his retreat cut off by the tide. He essayed to climb the cliffs, but when half way up he found progress impossible and descent cer- tainly fatal, The ledge on which he was sup- ported would only.give space for one foot, and the ground to which he clung above was loose and crumbling. For sowe hours he endured this suspense, when the, visitors descried him from above. The news spread and a crowd con- gregated, but none dared venture along the flight ledge by which alone ‘the man could be approached. To have thrown a rope would have been useless, for the effort to catch it would certainly have caused the poor fellow to fall. 4 A coast guardsman named Regan volunteered to be let down 100 feet over the face of the cliff, and while he descended the excitement was quickened tenfold. The man below could only hold out a little longer, and the least disturb- ance of the earth aroundshim would inevitably cause his destruction. In breathless eagerness the spectators saw the one man near the other. By a sudden effort the coast man the man he endeavored to save with a sudden and stro! grip, and they swing off the ledge together. ‘then ee was not at an end; but a descent was safely effected toa ledge below, whence access to the summit ‘was gradually gained. The ra were too overcome to cheer, but they did what was better—collected a good round sum for the gallant coast guardsman. Strange Conduct of the Sunflower. ‘From the Hartford (Conn.) Courant, August 11, The sunflower is something of a mystery, and its relations to the sun may be more intimate than the poetic legends make it. Two years ago ‘whap the “vellow day” threw its lurid light on Si ghe'world and imparted to the flowers, the None of the susceptible to its influence. ‘fected in ‘Af there is one question, says the Pall Mall Gazette, on which the prejudices on both sides are 80 strong that argument seems useless if not impossible, tt is that of so-called “supernatural” phenomena. The “Society for Physical Re- search,” however, pursues its course without dismay, as isshown by the interesting volume of its Proceedings just published by Messrs. Trub- ner. The investigators themselves do not claim the highest scientific value for any downright ghosts that they have yet discovered; andit must certainly be owned that, if these are fair speci- mens, the semt-authentic ghost of Psychical Research is vastly inferior in suggestiveness and mystery to our dear, gruesome old friend of the Christmas fireside. But there are com- pensation in other parts of the volume. It is, indeed, one of the merits of the Society that it has shown how unnecessary so.vulgar and hack- neyed a thing as a ghost is to produce that sense of eerieness which is the principal attraction of “supernatural” phenomena. Isolated appa- ritions, especially when they portend some great calamity, are really far more impressive than your regular, unsnubbable, old-established ghost, who never leads to anything, and who, like the “lady in grey” of one of the haunted- house stories in this volume, comes at last to be regarded.as a matter of course by the very tam- ily she is enyaged in hunting. How far more appalling is the following specimen apparition, which is vouched for by a friend of some of the Researchers: “My mother married, at avery early age, without the consent of her parents. My grand- mother vowed that she would never see her daughter again. A few months after her mar- riage my mother was awakened at about 2a. m. by aloud knocking at the door. To her great surprise my father did not wake. The knocking was resumed: my mother spoke to my father, but, as he still slept, she ot up, opened the window, and looked out, when, to her amaze- ment, she saw her mother, in full court dress, standing on the step and looking up at her. My mother called to her, but. my grandmother, frowning and shaking her head disappeared. At this moment my father awoke, and my mother told him what had happened. He went to the window, but saw noth- ing. My mother was sure that my grandmother, even at that late hour, had come to forgive her, and entreated my father to let her in. He went down and opened the door, but nobody was there. He assured my mother that she had beem dreaming, and she at last believed that it was so. The next morning the servants were questioned, but they had heard nothing, and the matter wasdismissed from the minds of my parents till the evening, when they heard that my grandmother had been, in court dress, at a ball the night before—I think at Kensington Palace. but of this I am not sure—that feeling unwell, she had returned home, and, after about an hour's illness, had died at 2 a. m. She had not mentioned my mother’s name during her short Illness.” There are a dozen stories as good or better than this. They are of a familiar pattern, but the society has madeastrongcollectior, and has classified them with much care. We have only room for one other, of a rather less common, if sito less tragic, and indeed almost humorous ype: n July 8, 1882, my wife went to London to have an operation (which we both believed to be a slight one) performed on her eyes by the late Mr. Critchett. The appointment was for 1:30. and, knowing from long previous experience the close sympathy of our minds, about that time I, at Brighton, got rather fidgety, and was much relieved—and perhaps a little surprised and disappointed—at not feeling any decided sensation which I could construe as sympa- thetic. Taking it, therefore, for granted that all was well, I went out at 2:45 to conduct my concert at the aquarium, expecting to find there atelegram, as had been arranged, to say that all was well. On my way I stopped, aa usual, to compare my watch with the big clock outside Lawson’s, the clockmaker’s. At that instant I felt my eyes flooded with water, just as when a chill wind es one a sudden cold in the eyes, though it was a hot, still summer's day. The affection was so unusual and startling that my attention could not but be strongly directed to it; yet, the time being then eleven minutes to three, I was sure it could have nothing to do with my wite’s operation, and as it continued for some little time, thought I must have taken cold. However, it passed off, and the concert imme- diately afterwards put it out of my mind. At 4:10 I received a telegram from my wife, ‘All well over. A great success;’ and this quite took away ull anxiety. But on going to town in the evening I found her ina terrible state of nery- ous prostration; and it appeared that the opera- tion, though marvellously successful, had been of avery severe character. Quite accidentally it came out that it was not till that my wife entered the operating-room, and that the oper- ation commenced, after the due administration of an anesthetic, at about ten minutes to three, as near as we could calculate.” But, perhaps, the most interesting and cer- tainly the most novel portion of the “Proceed- i is that which deals with the latest experi- ments of the soclety im what they call “Thought Transterence.” Thé “Agent” and ‘‘Percipient” in this case—to use the technical terms of the new science—were two gentlemen living at Brighton, whose minds seem to be peculiarly sympathetic. The manner in which the experi- ments were generally conducted consisted in blindfolding Mr. S., the “‘percipient,” while some color, number, word or figure was ubexpectedly presented to Mr. B., the “agent,” the nature of which Mr. S.was then asked to guess. The “agent” during some of these trials held the “percip- ient’s” hand, but in other instances they were completely separated from one another. Some of these experiments would seem to show that it is more agreeable to be a “‘percipient” than an “agent” on these occasions; at any rate, when, in the simple languaze of the report, “pains” are being “experimented on.” Thus, for in- stance, one test consisted ‘‘in pinching or other- wise hurting” the “agent,” while the ‘“perci- pient” was asked to say which part of his alter ego was being hurt, an attempt in which he seems to have been uniformly successful; dis- criminating with the nicest sympathy between a pull af the hair of his friend’s head and a twitch of the lobe of his ear. But the most curious of all these experiments was the figure test, the manner of which is thus described by the inves- tigators: “One of us, completely out of sight of S.. drew some figure at random, the figure being of such a character that its shape could not be easily conveyed in words; this was done in or- der to meet the assumption that some code— such as the Morse alphabet—was used by S. and B. The figure drawn by us was then shown to B. for a few moments—S. being seated all the time with his back to us and blindfolded, in a distant part of the same room, and subsequently in an adjoining room. B. looked at the figure drawn; then held S.’s hand for a while; then re- leased it. After being released, S. MSclaed re- mained blindfolded) drew the impression of a figure which he received. It was generall about as like the original as a child’s lindfola drawing of a pig is like a pig; that isto say, it was a scrawl, but recognizable as intended to represent the original figure. In no case was there the smallest possibility that 8. could have seen the original figure, and in no case did B. touch 8S. even in the slightest manner, while the figure was being drawn.” A Slight Mistake. From the Detroit Post and Tribune. She was a thin, narrow, dark-visaged woman with “specs” on, and she carried a package of tracklets and leaflets which she scattered broad- cast among the sinners in the Cass avenue car on which she rode. When only one or two of the pamphlets were lett man got in. He was on his way to the depot, a countryman going home evidently. 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