GAPE MAY HERALD. AH IWPIUWOBIIT WKLV. PublUdMl Bv*ry 5*tnrd«y Maralni «t 50o WMblaston Street, iy. N. J.

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Yannontfa'a la*t aold having dri%en them out of business. Yarmouth for a century was the centre of the Entfleh North a«f fishing industry and its fishing fleet numbered over 400 vessels. While a thunder storm was in progress the other day a Maryland farmer procured a lightning rod and. attaching it to his head, went out into a field, declaring that his highest ambition in life was to be struck by lightning. The lightning obliged him. This establishes the electric fluid as a foolkiller of the first rank.

The latest thing in c rare postage stamp tru not affect the great pub!

combines is a st. This will lie, but it will come home to thousands of collectors whose fad is the accumulation of stamps If ( it increases the difficulties

will be a blessing in disguise, for the genuine sump fiend is never happier than when he is carrying on a hard chase after a coveted Issue. The other day Justice Dooley of Chicago Imposed a fine of $15 on a Mr. Ixissick because tne latter thm .charged by his wife with haring walke^backward about the house and witL having refused to have his hair or beard cut for six months. It is interesting to note that the complaining wife paid the fine. That a Chicago man's house Is his castle appears to be a fiction, since he is subject to fine for walking backward inside its t-alls. It is appalling to think of the penalty if h* should sUnd on his head, as every man is supposed to have a right to do in Prom London comes with almost picturesque variations the^famillar story of final discovery of the ideal steam turbine engine—this time a marvel which uses but one-third the steam required by the latest improved piston engines, and scarcely half the steam turbine adopted for British torpedo boat destroyers. The rotary steam engine has been long in coming, chiefly because inventive genius for over' a century has been directed toward and exhausted in the perfection of -the more familiar and more tractable types the essentUl integers of which are cylinder, valve, piston ^nd crank. Should the steam turblpe become a commercial actuality It would find the field power quite ready for its High speed and e the keynote to which modernCmachln-

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A curious case Is reported ftv Sharon. Pa., which goes to -show that

extremely valuable. Three boys ate some berries which looked like wild grapes, and in a short time wire seized with convulsions and died. The action . of the poison was so much like that of strychnine that a worthy farmer was accused of putting that drug into cider to punish the boys for stealing IL For : Innately for the fanner, he had not h*ught any poison to kill bugs on bU crops, and so escaped a serious time, for nothing comd be proved against him. Local physicians sent specimens of the berries found in the boys’

moon seed. In hi* report be,said: "The plant is the moon seed—appropriately so called from the form of the seed within tne pulp—and botanlcally ' closely related to the well-known poisonous drug coccolus Indiras of the pharmacists. The action of the poison is said to be similar ar.d zjaoet the same as strycnnlne. The

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THE SABBATH SCHOOL

hide." Abraham waa the • friend" of Qod, and “communication of aecreta i« one at the • pedal privileges of friendship." The way to know the divine purpose* about thia present evil world ia not to be mixed up with it in iU scheme* and specua ^er^thh^' •Thmgwhich^ d^Wh^h I purpose doing, or am about to do. God Ere i^st ssfrmSS nation and wrath. The right hand of the would be blessed in the Messiah — T ktSThim'?™ dealiny. "Wifl command his c

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took courage — into larger virion* of God’a 32. “Bnt this once.” Abraham’s intercesrion was limited because the interceasor wa* but a man; it did not reach the need. He gaid, I will speak yet but this God wsa not able to give, for there was an gtSxsLar^'Sstfi:

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According to * government publication. the cocoa bean from which chocolate is manufactured is produced in 1U finest form In the republic of Venezuela, though various otbrr parte of Central and South America grow and export large quantities. Two crops of the bean are gathered each year, and grinding up the beans into a meal and then adding sugar and arrowroot, with the necessary fiavot—generally vanilla or cinnamon. The mass Is then lutf^nar'whlch^lt^U ron*tato^ohte of the proper shape.

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ae of a fish acting as a letter tarrier comes from Reyjavlk. in Iceland. On Aoril 28 of last year a certain Cept. Christiansen of the steamship 1-auVa received an Important letter from the sheriff of Vestermann while the ship was lying at the Utter port ' Having perused the missive the captain threw it carelessly overboard, and hia astonishment may be well imagined when, on the 16th of the following month the Identical communication. Boiled and disfigured, was handed to him by the consul of Reyjavlk. to which pUce it had actually traveled in the stomach of a Urge codfish and had been extricated from Uie same by a local fisherman. Seeine that Vestermann lies some 180 miles from Reyjavlk. the letter must have traveled that distance between April 29 and May IS, the piscine postman consuming Just over two weeks in its submarine Jour-

fore this of fish undertaking the carriage of letters. Some 16 years ago a whale, which war stranded on the south coast of France, was found, upon being cut open, to contain a mail bag. wherein there reposed many hundreds of letters. The’bag in question formed part of a collection which was being conveyed to Gaudaloupe by a wrecked vessel and the letters, though somewhat dingy, were In a perfect state of preservation. They were at once sent on to their destination, each letter being marked on the outside. “Delayed through shipwreck" no mention. of course, being made of the extraordinary incident which had occurred since the missive* were posted. Rather amusing was the following: A young Udy. walking on Brighton pier, dropped into the sea by accident, a rather tender communication, addressed to the man of h*r choice. She forgot the incident completely, but was reminded of the same in a rather abrupt fashion by the receipt one morning some three months later of a letter from her sweetheart, informing her that the missive had been posted to him from Boulogne by a fisherman of that town. It seemed that the latter bad found the note in thejnterior of a huge mackerel, and that, being acquainted with English, he had entered into the humor of the situation, and had without delay posted the communication to its proper owner. Never, perhaps, has a love letter beti? conveyed by a more peculiar postman. A dolphin found off the coast of Sicily was the conveyor of a letter from a French gentleman addressed to his wife In Paris. Evidently the writer had allowed the note to fall overboard while Journeying on his yacht in the Mediterranean, but the letter reached the lady In due course, though some six months intervened between its date and Us receipt.—Tit-

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Is there any quarter of the globe

left to explore, apart from the iroiar

regions? The answer i* yea. “ the diverse wanderings of 1

travelers.

South America la now the least .known of all the continents. It has much larger areas than Africa which have never been visited by white men. Most of the cities along the coast of South America were settled In tho

Yet for nearly 300' years vuere has been not much organized attempt to explore the interior. The first expedition sent out by a South American government vrcu in 1175. Many of these countries arc without exact maps of their own territory. Most cf phe maps In use havebeen mad* by explorers from Europe or North America. The greater part of the immense tract of land in the middle of the conUnent from Venezuela to Chile has no*, yet reached the roughest pioneer state of settlement. A considerable part of Colombia Is still wholly unknown. Ths severaljAtlantft states, even as far north ss Uruguay, have many blank rectiens on their maps. Tho Gnlanat. ex^pt for a strip along the

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The condition of affairs in Brazil is

in the northern part of Brazil which have never been crossed, as far aa is known, by any white man. These, then, are the field* which travelers have yet to explore.—Lon-

A knavish-looking feltow was cncc charged before a magistrate with steal ing a pair of trouser*. The evidence against him not being strong enougii

The accused, however, to the surprise of everybody, remained in the Jock. Thinking he coula not hear or did not understand the magistrate's decision. the lawyer who had beta defend tag him told him he was at liberty to go about his business. If he had any The man. however, shook his head slightly, but did not move. “You art discharged, why don’t you got” ask*i the lawyer. By this time the court was nearly empty, and the accused, leaning tor ward, whispered to his defender: -I can’t leave the dock till all the witnesses against me are gone." “Why?” asked the man of law. . “Beoause of the trousers,” answered the other. -Doa't you understand?” "Most certainly I do not!” said the solicitor. "What about the troq**rar

SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

Canada this summ.-r. need hold no terrors fer •the Individual de.oted to buttermilk. Unlimited indulgence In that wholesale beverage is said to be a cure for dread dlKcaae. During the recent Ashuntee campaign the megaphone waa tried by the British officers for.givlng orders, slneo the columns traversing through the African bush wer eso long that it wan impossible to convey orders in the usual way; The experiment was unjungle and the winding paths prevented the sound from traveling. An instrument railed the gradometer has been designed to enable the occupants of any vehicle to determine at a glance every Inequality of the ground over which they are traveling. The new instrument may by attached to the side of the seat of any vehicle. or to the top tube of a bicycle, and the grade the vehicle is ascending or descending ran be seen in an instant. The InBtrumeat consists of a nickel-plated casing six Inches long, containing a curved glass tube filled with spirits, leaving a small bubble, which acts the same as a spirit lyvel. The farmers in South Lincolnshire. England, have -been suffering from a plague of Insects cslled the mustard bug. which devours the white mustard crops. Severs! farmers have had acres of valuable crops destroyed by this pest, and have been uaabie to discover an efficacious remedy. They ha-. e now resolved .upon a curious expedient. Flocks of chic ksneaermfwy ps-dient. Flocks of chickens are turned into the white mustard fields, and since the bug is somewhat of a delicacy to the fowl, it Is anticipated that the pest will be overcome and that the crops so far untouched will be saved. The glucoside of the beech tree has recently been studied by M. Tailieur. whose experiments can be summarized as follows: The shoot of the beech tree contains a glucoside and a diastase which, under the action of water, give rise to the methysallcylic ether and to the glucose assimililated by the plant. This reaction is localized in the bypocotyl ayis * little above the summit of the root, and does not take place in the'seed or in the mature snoot. The formation of this methylEuccessful. however, because the thick salicylic ether is thus characteristic of the genninative period of the beech

Mr. Stanley B. Hutt a volunteer with the British army In the Boer war. states that the Orange River colony and the Traasvaal abound in prehistoric remains, which are probably of paleolithic origin, The heavy rains and nature of the country make it very favorable for archaeological research, and he believes that a systematic ex-, amination would lead to very important finds. During his marches he managed to make quite a collection, but was forced to part with most of it. because of the army regulations regarding weight of kit. The ''worked” stones are of various sizes, although apparently, more or less uniform in each locality, and occur in many places scattered about the surface. They are especially numerous in certain of the dried river beds.

R. C. Mack, who has been a puttie to the scientific and sporting worlds for a number of years, is in the city and will mystify any man of muscle who believes himself capable of lifting a .few pounds. A few pounds is the real weight of the mystery, and yet all the champion strong men of vaudeville and arena fame have tried In vain to lift him from the floor. There is something about Mack which cannot be explained by ordinary rules of gravitation or muscular force. Stood upon a pair of scales he barely registers 125. but at his will he can become so attached to the'platform of the scales that five men cannot budge him. - He has traveled all over the country and experts in 11fting.from a msSTWho succeskfufty lifted

tempted in rata .to lift him. Different scientists advance their theories for the strange power which

which is of as much -mystery to him ns it is to *U others. Virchow. _ the celebrated Berlin savant, rays that it is nerve force while' Charcot the French hypnotist, says that It is a control of the occufar forces. Be it what may. he has It and goes about

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