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A New York judge has made a ruling tending to materially lessen the use ot expart handwriting testimony. This looks like a serious blow to a thriving American industry.

Mr. Carnegie says that all his air castles have been reallxede The various library buildings through the country which owe their existence to him are too substantial to be dismissed as air castles.

A strip ol ground four miles long and three miles wide on Cripple Creek. Colorado, yielded $20,000,000 In gold last year, or approximately a quarter of, the entire gold production of the United States, including Alaska.

An "educational journal." so-called, not long ago offered a prize for the suggestion that. In the opinion of the Journal, would be of greatest benefit to education and educators. Among the mady answers was the following: Sink all the educational Journals In the middle of the Atlantic ocean." The suggestion did not win the prize. The diaster at the Golden Gate reads more than one lesson. It marks the need of building all ships with watertight compartments, of some efficient lifeboat drill and service, and of the utmost vigilance ahd judgment .on the part of pilots. It emphasizes, too, another lesson, fundamental and paramount, to wit. the need of freeing all harbors and other navigable waters as far as possible from rocks and shoals and other dangerous obstacles. For It was after all. the rock that did the mlachlef. No fog. nor faulty construction, nor lack of boat drill would have destroyed the ship had not the fatal rock been there. In * recent Issue of the London Spectator a correspandefrt was unlucky enough to define a gentleman as one whose family bad been for three generations out of trade. This has called forth more protests than the editor of that Journal has apparently had room to insert, and some of them emphatically asked the attention of Edward VII to the definition, with the respectful request that he would In some way inlltnatc what he thought of it. The occasion for contrasted notions on the subject was not neglected. One humorous Interpretation of the old English notion of a gentleman—a man who owns land and does nothing—was given In the Irishman's definition of him as "a man who never did a band's turn for himself or anybody else." The burden of the protesu. however, was that the Importance of jndustry Is Ajow so vital that feudal notions on this topic must finally give way; In other words, thwi. business was as respectable' aa to own land. Bet it was thought necessary to get the king to say so, as any revised standard for English society would need the royal hallmark of ap- . provaL The practicability of irrigation on an extensive scale has been conclusively demonstrated. In the west more than $100,000,000 has already been thus invested under state and In- . dividual control and the lajjds so treated have Increased In value a hundred fold. The only things to consider are whether the work should be undertaken by the federal government on the large tracts of arid land belonging to the nation, whether these tracts should be turned over to the states within whose borders they lie on condition that they shall be watered, or whether the -whole project of irrigation should be Intrusted to private enterprise’ With what has been accomplished the question of Irrigation ft bound to command a yearly increasing degree of public attention from this time forward. In ita scope and Importance It Je a national question. thinks the New York Mall and Express. Ttes poMlbfUty—alreadyconceded—of reclaiming from the desert an area of territory large enough for an empire and compelling It to yield subsistence for 66.600.000 human -beings who shall thus be added to our 76.000.000 of American producers and consumers—this magnificent project 1s enough to stir the dullest

REVIYALS A BENEFIT. Dr. Talapte Draw* Lesson* From Famous Rcllfious Awakeningz. The Most Usclsl Christians Are Those Converted la Early Ule~Briatl*I the Maltitude laic Salcty.

(CoprTtefet IM.1

Washikotoh. D. C.—This discourse of Dr. Tahnags is moat pertinent at this tuna when a -widespread effort for reunooi awakening is being made; text. r S ' T h*J r ineloeed a great multitude of fishes, and tbrir net brake.” eowd 0 the“wgbt* bSm^what^fiahiS c f 11 h»ex. , Chrwt atepe on board the fishing amaek and tells the sailors to pull away from the beach and directs them again to sink the net. Sure enough, very aoen the net it fall of fishes, and the sailor, begin to haul in. So large a school of fishes was taken that the hardy men begin to look red in the face as they pull, and hardly have they begun to rejoice at their success when snap goes a thread of * net, and snap goes another thread there is danger not only of losing fish, but of losing the net. Without much care as to how much the boat tilts or how much water is splashed on deck the fishermen rush about gathering up the broken roeshea ol the net. Out yonder there is a ship dancing on the waves, and they hail it: "Ship ahoy! Bear down this way!” The ship cornea, and both boat*, both ftahing filled with Ibe floundering

a go up in”jhe

a the top of your naighook down hia chimney

Ah.”

floundering

inch bell

Ah. says some one. "how ranch better it would have been if they bad staid on shore and fished with a book and line and taken one at a time instead of haring this great excitement and the boat almost npaet and the net broken and having to call for^help and getting sopping The church is the boat, the gospel ia » net. society ia the sea. and a great .•rival is a whole school brought in at one aweep of the net. I have admiration for that man who goes out with a book and line to fish. 1 admire the way be unwind, the reel and adjusts the bait and drops the hook in a quiet place on a still afternoon and here catches one and there one, but I like also a big boat and •wifi oars and stout mils and. a staff breeze and a great multitude of souls brought—so great a multitude that yon have to get help to draw it ashore, straining the net to the utmost until it breaks here and there, letting a few escape, but bringing the great multitude into eternal

safety.

In other words, Tbs great work l. with 1000 people joining — one day, and it will close with fdrty or

u m a h UE

, and if

broken, then they take — knives and slit the net. “They inclosed a past multitude of fishes, and the net It ia sometime* opposed to revivals of religion that those who come into the church at such times do not bold ont. 'At long as there is a gale of blessing they

—-» _ — r , are those who are brought in under groat awakenings, and they bold out. Who are the prominent men in the United Bit toe in chtntbm, in prayer — o.i.w.,u

I have noticed that those who are brought into the kingdom of God through revivals have more persistence and more determination in the Christian life than those who come in under a low yrtats of religion. People born in an icehouse may lire, but they will never get over the cold they caught in the icehouse. A cannon ball depends upon the impulse with which it starts for how far it shall go and how swiftly, and the greater the revival force with which a soul ia started the more far-reaching and farresounding will be the execution. But it ia sometime*, objected to revivals that there is to much excitement that people mistake hysteria for'religion. We admit that in every revival of religion there is cither a suppressed or a demonstrated excitement. Indeed, if a map can go out of a state of condemnation into a state of acceptance with God or see other, go without any Station °1 soul he is in an unhealthy, morbid state

and is as repulsive and absurd si a man'

who should boast be saw a child snatched - ' ’ hores’s hoots apd^felt

house oh fire and and death and and beaVen for

out from under a bon no agitation, or saw a ' fourth J ~ '

Salvation from

into life and pe-, — is snob a tremendous thing that if a tells me be can look on it without any agitation I doubt hia Christianity. The fact ia that aometiaei excitement is the most important possible thing. In case of resuscitation from drowning or freezing, the one idea is to excite animation. Before oenverBon we are dead. It ia the bugiacs. of.the church to revive, arouse, awaken, resuscitate, startle into

Excitement is bad or good, to what it makes us do. If it m that which A* bad, it is bad « but if it 'make* us agitated about oar •terns] welfare, if it mike, us p-ajyif »t make us attend upon Christian service, if it make na cry unto God for mercy, then it soma times said that during revivals of religion great multitudes of children and young people are brought into the church, ana they do pot know what they are about. It has Wen my observation that the earlier people come into the kingdom of Ghd the more useful they are. Robert Hall.tbe prince of preacher., was converted at twelve years of age. It is likely he knew what he tree about. Matthew Henry, the commentator, who than any man of his century for [ the interest in the study of the

of see: Isabella Graham, immortal in the Christian church, was converted st ten years of age; Dr. Watts, whose hymns will be sung all down the ages, was converted at nine years of age; Jonathan Edwards, perhaps the mightiest intellect that the American pulpit ever produced, was converted at seven yeezs of age. and

FMilS'S.’SiX* Thai is a mistake aa long as eternity. If daring a revival two persona present themselves sa candidates for the thurch, and the one is ten years of age Sn giJ ,irsriS^’3S"^i

wrong direction to correct; the child has only ten year, in the wrong direction to correct. Four timet ten-are forty. Four sr^-srs. ess. Sf (fid ul into tbs church at ton years of age than *!£'£?&,. ******* connected, with certain men who fosto — People who in tkis’day do not like i revert he le:a have not words to their admiration for the revival-

reason is yon go on tbi . *■ " *■ and look down hia chimney — — hia fire, and of course you 3S,7~'S^£ k 1bf , &" u K. Si

KY-'arssgjaaaJia the holiness of their lives make me think Uer would not have bad anything to do with that which wa. ephemera!. Ob, it

is easy, to talk again.t revivals.

A man said to Mr. Dawson: ■ "I like your sermons very much, but the alter

meeting. 1 despine. When tbs t

guated." "Well," reason is you go oi

bora house and 1 to_ examine hia fire, and " ;^get the amoke i in _yo

and

sets;' may be a sin again.t the Holy Ghoat, and you know the Bible aays that a sin against the Holy Ghoat shall never be forgiven neither in this world nor the world to come. Now; if you are a painter, and I speak against your pictures, do I nbt speak against you? It you are an architect and I apeak against a building vou put up, do I not apeak against vou? If a revival be the work of the Holy Ghost and I speak against that revival, do I not speak againrt the Holy Ghost? And whoso apeakelh again.t the Holy Ghost, toys the Bible, he shall never be forgiven neither in this world nor in the world to come. I think »o me time, people have made a fatal mistake in this di-

rection.

Many of yrfu know the history of Aaron Burr. H^ was one of the most brilliant men of his day. I suppose this country never produced a stronger intellect. He was capable of doing anrtbing good and prat for hia country or for the church of God bad he been rightly disposed, but hit name is associated with treason again.t the United State, government, which he tried to overthrow, and with libertinSn and immorality. Do you know whsre Aaron Burr started on the downward road? It was when he was in college apd he became anxious about hia soul and was about to put himself under the influences of a revival, and a minister of religion said: “Don't go there. Aaron; don't go there. That's s place of wildfire and great excitement. No religion about that. Don't go there.’' He tarried away. And who ia responsible for his ruin for this world and bis everlasting ruin in the world to come? Was it the minister who warned him against that revival? When I apeak of excitement in revivals. I do not mean temporary derangement of the nerves, I do not mean the absurd things of which we have read as transpiring sometimes in the church of Christ, but 1 mean an intelligent, townee, all abrorbing agitation of body, mind and soul in^lha work of spiritual escape and spiritNow I come to the real, gennina cans* of objection 'to revivals—that is, the coldness of the objector. It is tb* secret and hidden but unmistakable cause in every case, a low state of religion in the heart. Wide awake, consecrated, useful .Christiana are never afraid of revivals. It it the spiritually dead who are afraid of haring their sepulcher molested. Tbs chief agents of the devil during a great awakening are always unconverted pro-

fessors of religion.

As soon aa Christ's work begin i they begin to gossip against it and take a pail of water and try to put out this spark of religious influence, and they try to put out another spark. Do they succeed? Aa wall when Chicago was on fire might some one have gone out with a garden water pot trying to extinguish it. The difficulty ia that when a revival begin.^ in a ebnreh it

pS

have donsed ont anxious soul with of cold water there are 500 other anxious

touls on fire.

Oh, how much better it would be to lay hold of the chariot of Christ's gospel and help pull it on rather than fling ourselves in front of the wheels, trying to block their progress. We will not stop 'be ghariot, but we ouraelm will M

round to powder.

Aroused pujpitc will make aroused >ewi; pulpits aflame will make pewa flame. Everybody believes in a re rival in trade, everybody likes a revival in literature, everybody likes a revival in art ygt a great multitude cannot understand a revival in matters of religion. Depend upon it, where you find a man antagonistic to revivals, whether be be in pulpit or pew, he needs to be regenerated by

the grace of God.

prove to a demonstration that •evivala thii world will never ted and that in 100 or 300 pears

without-revivals Christianity-will be practically extinct. {t ia a matter of astounding arithmetic. In each of our modern generations there are at least 32,000,000 children.' Now add 32,000 000 to the world's population and then h»ve only 100,000 or 300,000 converted every year, and how long before the world will be laved?

Never—absolutely never!

During our Civil War the President qf le United States made proclamation for

" of you remember

universe it dons

75,000 troops. Some of you remet the big stir. But the Kin* of the unit to-day asks for I’00,000,OOO rot than are enliated. and we wan

softly, imperceptibly, no excitet Ji by one. . Yon are a dry goods merchant on a large scale, and 1 am a merchant on a small scale, and I come to you and want to hpy a thousand yards o( doth. Do yon say: ‘Thank you. IT! sell you a thousand yards of cloth, but I'll sel] you twenty yards to-day and twanty tomorrow, and twenty tbs next day, and if it takes me six months I’D sell you the whole thousand yards; yon will want as long as that to examine the gsede, and I'll want as long as that to examine the credit, and, besides, that, a thousand yards of doth are too much to sell all at oncer’ No, you do not say that. You take me into the counting room, and in ten minutes the whole transaction ia consummated. The fact ia, we cannot afford to be fools in any-

thing but religion.

That vary merchant who on Saturday afternoon sold me the thousand yards of cloth at one stroke the next Sabbath in chunk will stroke hia beard and wonder whether it would not be better for a thousand souls to come straggling along for ton yean instead of bolting in at 09a

service.

We talk a good deal about the good times that are coming and about the world’s redemption. How long before they will come? There ia a man who aays 600 yean; here is a man who says 200 years; here ia tome one more confident who am in fifty years. What, fifty year*? Do you propose to let two generations psss off the stage before the world issr&lt years m . should walk the length ,0!

all

length

those walks yon ton that you t

find ont psrhy? All dead

aged yon 1

In other words, if you postpone the redemption of this world for fifty yearn it. We Brest pray and toil and hare the

and women^now in middle lilt part. WMld brio, uollur.' It *om)d Uk.

ten years. By a calculation ia compound SffgSggl

h of thi whole earth

r d ^?’£ b s% , S*t

ia not saved ia tha b# the fault of tha

S'&i'si

THE SABBATH SCHOOL International Leaaon Comments For

March JI.

Review ol the First Quarter, I salt!, UR, M2Golden Text. He la Despised and Rejected ol Men. Isaiah UR. J-Summary ol

the Twelve Lessons.

Introduction.—tne lessons uus quarter embrace but six days in the lift ol Christ; from Saturday evening, April 1, when He was anointed by Mary at Simon'a house, to Friday afternoon, April 7, when died on the close and was buried by

' and atirring- —

— Simon s bouse, Viday afternoon, April 7, when He on the nose and was buried by Joseph. But what great and stirring evanto have occurred in that short space of time! Leaaon L Topic: Hmionng Christ. Place: Bethany. It la six day* before the Passover, and Jesus U at the house of Simon, the leper. While sitting at meat Mary anoints the bead and feet of Christ, using a pound of very precious ointment, valued at about $50. The disciples are indignant, anu think it should have been sold and given to the poor. Jesus re-

bukes them, and cos very highly. Judas Jesus lor thirtr pieces 2. Topic; Christ annt Place: Jerusalem. Jesus pie* journeying toward _

disciples sent to Bcthphage to aeeure a coll; tb* colt is brought to Jesus; the disciples spread their sarments on the animal ana set Jetus thereon; the prophecy in Zech. 0: • is fulfilled; a great multitude shout "Hosanna!" and spread garments and strew branches in the way; Jesus

betray thirty piece* of silver, or $10-96. lie: Christ announced aa King.

i and Hia diam-

Jerua '

3. Topic: of the Gen I

cw branches in the

the temple; children ipic: Christ confirming the faith itilea. Place: Jerusalem. The

Greeks at the Passover desire to see Jesus. Andrew and Philip tell Jesus; Jesus teaches the people; tells of Hi* death and the glory to follow. As a grain of wheat must die before it bears fruit, so Christ must die in order to save the world. Christ ia troubled in soul; God spake from heaven. 4. Topic: The great commandment. Place: Jeruaalem. Jesus still in the temple. The Herodiana, Sadducces and Pharisees ask Him hard questions, testing Him. All are silenced. The peat commandment ia given by Christ. We should love God supremely. Bin, the world and the self life must all be renounced. We should love our neighbor. Christ questions the Pharisees: How ia. Christ both the son of David and also David's Lord? 5. Topic: The duty of watching. Place: Moqnt of Olives. The subjects of Christ’s kingdom are likened to ten virgins. Christ ia the Bridegroom, and the oU represent* the grace of God. The foolish virgin* had the lamp of profession, but lacked oiltrue spiritual file. They endeavored to make good their preparation at the last moment, bnt It was too late. The wise are the true Christians who not only had a^proftssicn, but the lore of God ih the 6- Topic: The duty and reward of faithfulnern. Place: Mount of Olive*. The talent* are riven and the master takes hia journey. Two servanU make a large gain, the' third buriea hi* talent. The mcatcr’a return, though delayed, ia certain. 60 Ghriat will surely come again. Two tarant* come to their master and brii* the talents given them and as many more. They are commended and rewarded. The idle servant has no increase, hot hard saymga and excuses. He is cast into outer

darkness.

7. Topic: Christ our Passover. Place: Jerusalem. It was Thursday; Jesus sent Peter and John to Jerusalem to prepare

•upper; they found a Urn ~they made ready; In

•at at the t '

•oi* airoipjc*;,nc 10Id them th them should betray Him; they

xys;

evening j disciples;.

them should betray Him; they were sorrowfnl and every one asked, “Lord, is it ir Jeans said it would have been better for that man never to have been born; He then told Judas that He was the one; Judas left; Jesus eats Hia last supper

with the remaining eleven.

■8. Topic: The sufferings of Christ. Plato: Gethaeroane. Jesus and eleven disciples enter the garden; eight are left near the entrance; Peter, James and John go with Him into the garden. Jesus agonizes in Prayer; His sweat it like Wood; He prays for strength; an angel is sent; three time* He asks HU disciples to watch jrith Him; three times He finds them *leeping.

We should watch and pray.

9. Topic: The arrest of Christ. Place: Gcthsemane. It was in the middle of the night; Judas and a band of Roman soldiers came to arrest Jesus; they have torches and weapon*. What a picture ia Judas of a fallen human being! For years he had listened to the teaching, of his Divine M ** t * r ; •*«“ t,ie multitude* fed, aea calmld, and the dead raUed. He could not help but know that Jesus was the Son of God: and yet, for a few palL-y pieces of silver he enters the quiet retreet of the Saviour and covert HU fare with Waaea as a sign to t^e officers that He U the one they are seeking. What hypocrisy! To what depth* can a fallen man descend! Jesus shows Himself to them; they fall backwarda to the ground; Jems asks that HU disciples be permitted to go their way; Peter cuts off the servant'! ear; Jesus teUs Peter to put up hU eweed, and heal* the ear; Jeens arrested, bound

and taken away.

10. Topic: The accusations

Christ. Hare: The palace of <

Jesua is sent from Annas to CaUpbas

Jdgh priest; Peter fallows afar off ana

onr; the Sanhedrin false witnesses are with difficnlto; at

it He said He could deand build it in three ‘ ' asks Him

Caiapha*.

is the

r

. . — - found with ^fficaJty; last two testify that He said He could •troy Abe temple and build it in tl

trs: fs SbSS'i^rsS-"S;, H s ie; CaUphaa rent hU clothes; Jesus is

condemned to death. \

_ If- Topic: Pilate seeking to release Jeens. Place: Pilate'* judgment ball. Jreua la taken to Pilate, the governor, who investigates the charges and find* them false; Jeans U rent to Herod, who finds no fault with Christ. Pilate calls the people together and desires to release Chnat; they demand that He be crucified; ^S^^-^JUrelrere; they

0^

three times Pilate urge* HU release; demand the release of Barabbas, a derer; Pflato yield.; waahto hU l ' 12. Topic: Closing scene* in

earthly fie. Flaw .Mount Calvary.

Opiet « th* cross; touched by the

1 Christ’s

railed on Jesus the, other confessed hU «ns and asked to be remembered in with a loud voire and died; the centurion's tostamony; Joseph begged the body of Jens; wrapped It in Uaee and laid It ia • n*w sepulchre.

LABOR AND tXDUSTRY.

tnple. mixed, ire iroi Chicago clerks demand Sunday dosing of store*.

paperhangers conceded 15 1

MUSIC FOR HAND-ORGANS-What th* organs Cost and Whirs th* Moasy Is Mads. There Is a little shop on Elizabeth atreet, the owner of which baa a factory In Brooklyn, where most of the new hand organs are turned out. and the old ones repaired, and ibis Is the season when times are busiest. "For hand organs," aald the head of the shop, "seem never to get too old to be used. They can be patched and patched again, and passed from band to hand and from town to town, until every part of them has been renewed over and over again. The voyages and adventures of a band-organ are aa varied as those of a tramp steamer. They take In every side of life, from the beginning,, in the swell quarters of the metropolU, to the end. knocking around the country In company with a monkey and bis owner.” The choice of the music for the handorgan lies with the manufacturers. The publishers of songs send him the

facturer uses those which be thinks are the most popular. The particular tunes which are chosen Yor any one Instrument, though, depends on the quarter of the city through which lies tbe beat of the man wbo turns the crack. Every city organ-grinder has a definite beat, and covers a certain round of streets more or less regularly .every day. If the beat lies through the German or Italian quarter, then German or Italian national characteristic airs arc added to the repertoire of the organ.

Fifties (and this is the beet beat in New York, for if the man gets anything at all there he gets a good deal, and the pay for “moving on" Is higher than elsewhere), some opera airs and a "romance'' are used. In the Bowery region It is rag-ume and waltzes that

bring In the most money.

‘Tf a mac will tell ns the beat he wants to travel. In the city or out. up the Harlem, back In tbe state, or anywhere In the whole country,” said the maker of the organs, "we'll give him the proper set of tunes to fit his trip. Hand-organs are. kept more up y^date now than in old times, and the Sirs In the barrel of an Instrument

can be changed easily enough the popular taste, though, of cot without any expense."

There are about 300 licenses Issued In New York City, mostly to Italians, and that Is a conservative estimate of the number of performers on the streets. Tbe work of this particular variety of cigale gives the He to the proverb, for two men on a good beat will make as much as $1.60 apiece a day. or ever more in the best months. August and September are tbe Jest months for tbe city, and for the country too. though In that part of the world any summer month is a profitable one for the organ grinders. The factory, of course. Is busiest Just now, getting ready for tbe summer season, and-organs are not cheap. A good will cost as much as $200, though the price varies a good deal, according to the quaUty of the Instrument, ‘mere are organs made with additional Instruments. such as drums and cymbals, and these are .more expensive. Some of them are made with arrangements for turning the crank mechanically. One kind in particular, which Is a good deal used by women wbo want to have their bands free to do a tambour-

THE GREAT NILE OAM. letpenaar* of lb* Work That Has JaaS tWn^t laUhrd at Assanaa. From tbe agee of tbe dynasties of shepherd kings and Phsroahs a “low Nile" or a "high Nile" baa meant dearth or plenty In Egypt. In proportion as the river spread Its fertilizing waters In flood times along Its banks the crop of the season was assured. If for one or more years In succession lu volume fell short famine stared the

people in tbe face.

Imperial Rome depended largely on the granaries of Egypt for the daily bread of her populace, but In her great constructive days she failed to Insure the constancy of supplies in grain and other products of Egypt's noil which

t course.

is confidently anticipated by the approaching regulation of tbe rise and

fall of the ancient river.

Just two years have passed since the foundation stones of the great Nile dam at Assouan was laid. It was bedded on a high portion of solid rock and was placed by the Duke -of Connaught. Across tne river, a mile broad i there, the maaslve wall has been steadily built up of ashlar granite, weldj lug together the rocks which form the | dangerous first cataract. The length I of the dam U about 6000 feet. Ks strength bad to be designed to bold In reserve for purposes of Irrigation a

great mas* of'water.

When the river is in flood its waters will gush through the massive sluice

thus formed is full and ready to be distributed by channels over the agricultural land on either side. When the water is most wanted in August and April for the crops of corn, sugar, cotton and rice the supply In the lower river will be Increased from the reservolrAnd thus a fairly even supply of water will be afforded throughout the year. A canal with numerous locks Is to be constructed to give passage to the Nile steamers and other

traffic.

Commercially, tbe value of the dam to Egypt lu the future can hardly bo estimated. lu Immediate effect, according to the E^ptian government's engineer, will be to bring under cultivation 600,000 additional acres of land. This Js In addition to putting certain districts and levels oeyondtheordlnary . risks of flood and drought. An area of 5.000,000 acres, now in fair cultivation will be converted Into land of the first efficiency In crop producing qualities. Over the whole area Sir William Garstlu, the secretary of state for public works, believes the value of summer crops will be Increased by as much as $30 an acre. Egypt's resources for

Ine act while the piuslc is going one. Is run by a spring, which is wound up by two or three vigorous turns of the handle before each tune.—New York

Post

TO MAKE LENSES LIKE EYES.

Problem of tbe Photographer — Stereo.

"A curious popular delusion about photography," remarked the proprietor of a big Broadway stadlo, "Is that

roirying ourselves to discover a

method of color work; for—this year s Illustrated Nature-books to the contrary, notwithstanding—kt hasn't been discovered yet. Now, very few of us waste any thought on that at all. When the process Is originated. It will come from some scientific laboratory.

"FradMy, we arc all after the

‘stereoscope effect' We want to make the lenses 'see double.', like the eyes, you know, so that the object photographed- may stand out as it does In real vision. Our constantly having to limit ourselves to ‘seeing black and white,’ may keep us from thinking overmuch on tbe potentialities of color; but the unified stereoscope, ‘perspective In photography'—well, we can't help feeling thatr ought to be within the range of practical optics. Certainly, there are as many cranks pestering ns with lu discovery as there are perpetual-motion Inventers enrolled In the books of the Patent Office. When It does come, though, it will call for another Col. Sellars to

reckon up the "millions In It.’ "And, speaking of tho stereoscope,

do you know that the sale of that dear old standby of the front parlor whatnot has really never fallen off? There are still several firms making the ancient yellow-mounted views of Niagara the Yellowstone, snd the Battlefield of Gettysburg. No blasphemous present-day scoffing has touched them. More curious than that too. a young friend of mine, .who travels for a photosupply house, has Just discovered In, a little, back-country Ohio town an old fellow who la still making the genuine and original daguerreotype. He la potting that gentle old rose-tint on the; cheeks. Is gliding the ladles' brooches and earrings, and la framing hia little art-works in their Inseparable satinlined leather-cases."—New Yerk Post

growing corn and cotton will thus be Immensely enhanced and are likely to bring her forward as a competitor lu

the world's iparkets.

From the engineering point of view the stupendous nature of the undertaking will be realized from the effect it will have of creating practically a lake 144 miles long Impounding more than 1,000.000.000 tons of water. At some periods of the year, it is said 900.000 tons a minute will gush through the sluices. The dam will raise the river about 65 feet above Its ustial previous leveL It Is broad enough for a carriage road to run along its top. Nowhere else In the Nile valley, says Sir Benjamin Baker, who has carried out the work, were to be found such advantages of site, sound rock, numerous Islands and shallows in which to work. Tbe openings of the sluices are to be lined with cast Iron one and one-half Inches thick, so as to effectually guard against the destruction from the constant Impact of large volumes of water at high velocity. The width of the base of the dam has been made such that the pressure on the solid granite masonry will be less than that on any of the other great, dams of the

world.—Baltimore Sun.

Th* !>*/• of HI* Books.

“The day of big books has gone by.**

remarked a New Orleans dealer the

other evening. 1.

cent fine publications. "Up to a few

. speaking of some re-

ard works were either folioe or something almost as large. There's a beautiful set of Dickens, for Instance, printed In 1886. The Illustrations alone cost fully $60,000 and It represented high-water mark In mechanical excellence at that period. But look at the size of the volumes! .They are almost

the other way, and the majority of the really fine books that are being published arc small and light. The usual cover measurement Is from 6x7 to 6x8 Inches, and most of the standard novels are coming out !n that else. One

reason why big books have gone out

may strike you at first blush

as rather foolish, but I'm assured of lu

of favor n

Importance by publishers who have made the trade a lifetime study. The big book cafrt be read in bed. H'a too heavy to be held when one la In a reclining position, while the small compact volume can be handled as easily as a magazine. The great, maasive folios of the old time* made nice ornament* for the center table and came In handy for the' younger chil-

dren to alt on at t

it table, but tp really s Job for an athlete"

Democrat.

As Csnal. "Ah. I hear your lawyer won your

“Whatr “The-lawyer got that, too.' 1 —Ohio"