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PLAIN THEOSOPHY. OLD-TIME PANTALOONS. WOELD'S PROGRESS. growth of the plant, and his calculations show that the difference between tdh.y and night is quite sufficient to ac- AS TAUGHT BY OLNEY H. RICHMOND OF CHICAGO.

AS INDICATED BY MOST RECENT DISCOVERIES. Something About the New Religion Which Is Attracting- Many Converts All Over the World "All Thing Are Destined" Its La nr. A Watch for Children That Multiplies the Time A New Bicycle Circles of Life Heat and tife Scientific Sport 1 with Gold. LNEY h. kich- mond is the grand mogul of the Ancient Order of the Magi, whose temple is in Chicago.

"The order," said Mr. Richmond the other day, 'teaches the religion of the stars, based on a CIVILIZING A KANGAROO. The Animal May Be Taught the Manly Art mt Self-Defense. After a good deal of pains a London trainer has succeeded in elevating a kangaroo up to the level of a prizefighter. The animal has been taught how to use its fists, if the term may be used, in the noble art of self -defense, says the New York World.

Under natural conditions the kangaroo is no mean boxer, but his method is peculiar, and, unless you are prepared for it, discouraging, for he usually lays out his unsuspecting antagonist in one round. He places his front paws gently almost lovingly upon the shoulders of his antagonist, and then proceeds to disembowel him with a sudden and energetic movement of one of his hind feet. Owing to the great length of these hind feet the kangaroo is able to do very effective service with them. The London trainer, however, has partially eliminated, the hind leg feature of the kangaroo's boxing, and has taught him how to employ his dukes. At times the animal forgets himself and absent-mindedly gives his sparring partner a jab in the stomach with one of his reai feet.

But he readily apologizes for the breech of pugilistic etiquitte and is forgiven. The ease with which this kangaroo has been made to learn how to box has encouraged eminent scientists to believe that there is yet hope that these animals may be reclaimed from the uncivilized state in which they ex- cuuns ior me cunerenees oi temperature required. Similar principles apply to the growth of animals. Nature gives nothing for nothing, and demands an exact equivalent for every expenditure of her energies, whether she is aiding man to drive an engine, causing an oak to grow, or building up the muscles of an athlete or the brain of a philosopher. And as far as her work upon our planet is concerned, the source of her supplies in all these cases is the sun.

Wealth from the Sea. Scientific journals in England speak approvingly of a new method of manufacturing caustic soda, chlorine and other chemical products directly from sea water with the aid of electricity. There is an immense saving of time, labor and material in the process. It is readily seen that man gets a fresh grasp on the hoarded treasures oi nature through such a discovery. Perhaps the most interesting suggestion made in connection with this new method of manufacturing chemicals is that of Science Gossip to the effect that electricity may yet enable us so to purify sea water as to fit it for drinking purposes.

One of the greatest terrors that confront the shipwrecked would be banished by such a discovery, provided that the electrical apparatus could be made portable enough to be taken off in a boat. A Watch That Multiplies. It is much more difficult for a child to learn its multiplication tables than all other branches of juvenile arithmetic. To help them out a Frenchman has invented a timepiece, which does not indicate the time of day, but serves to teach the multiplication tables. It is shaped like a watch and by Circles of Life.

The traveller among1 the islands of the tropics finds few more curiously interesting- sights than the coral reefs that surround them. The variety of color exhibited by the reefs where the living- corals abound is as wonderful and beautiful as that in a flower garden. But the eye of the naturalist detects beauties and points of interest that entirely escape the casual or careless visitor. For every circling reef is the home of a vast variety of living forms, which exhibit some of nature's most cunning handiwork in the adaptation of means, to ends. Among these curious inhabitants of the tropical water is, for instance, the Caput Medusae, an animal that bears a remarkable resemblance to a plant, and whose remote ancestors in the most ancient oceans of the earth contrived to prolong the existence of their kind by developing a means of keeping the water around them comparatively pure.

This is only one among a multitude of wonderful little animals to b( found in such places. It is hardly a matter of wonder, then, that the great barrier of coral reefs that runs for twelve hundred miles around Australia has been recently de Fabricated in Forty Hours After the Shearing1 of the Sheep. Late in the afternoon of one of the last days of May in the year '76, when I Mrs. Eunice Locke Richards was a few months short of 15 years old, notice came to Townsend, where my father used to live, that fifteen soldiers were wanted. The training band was instantly called out and my brother that was next older than I was one that was selected.

He did not return till late at night, when we were all in bed. When I rose in the morning I found my mother in tears, who informed me that my brother John was to march next day after to-morrow at sunrise. My father was in Boston in the Massachusetts assembly. "Mother said that though John was supplied with summer clothes he must suffer for winter garments. There was at this time no stores and no articles to be had, except such as each family could make itself.

The sight of mother's tears always brought all the bidden strength of body and mind into action. I instantly asked what garment was needed. She replied, 'Oh, if that is said -'we will weave and spin him a pair before he said mother, 'the wool is on the sheep's back, and the sheep are in the pasture.1 "I immediately turned to a younger brother and bade him take the salt dish and call them to the yard. "Mother replied: 'Poor child, there are no sheap sheers within three miles and a half. 'I have some small shears at the said I.

'But you can't spin and weave it in so short a 'I am certain we can, "How canyou weave it? There is-a long web of linen in the "By this time the sound of the sheep made me quicken my steps toward the yard. I requested my sister to bring the wheel and cards while I went for the wool. I went to the yard with my" brother and secured a white sheep, from which' I sheared with my loom shears half enough for a web. We then let her go with the rest of her fleece. I sent the wool with my little sister, and Luther ran for a black sheep and held her while I cut wool off for my filling and half the warp, and then we allowed her to go with the remaining coarse part of the fleece.

"The rest of the narrative the writer would abridge by saying that the wool thus obtained was duly carded, spun, washed, sized and dried. THE FACTS IN THE CASE. Sary and the Babfc Had a Stronger poll Than Glory. "I hear a good many stories," remarked the veteran to the old soldier club, "about heroic deed3 and things like that that took place in war times, especially about soldiers that would rather be killed than tell a lie, or something of that sort, and they mostly remind me of one that happened down in Virginia. A private in one of the Virginia regiments had got into some kind of a scrape, I dis-remember just what, but something serious, because he was going to bo shot for it.

They gave him a week of grace, and after the sentence he asked the general in command if he couldn't go home and see his wife and babies that lived about twenty, five miles away in the mountains-Says he to the general: Ther ain't nothin' in the world, ginerl, but Sary and the babies ferine now, since I've done this thing, an' "I'm willin' to die, but I want to go to and see them ez if I wuz on a furlough, and tell 'em that I'm goin on a scout across the river, an' I jest come to let 'em know that I mightn't ever come back ag'in an' say good-bye to 'em. Sary sets a heap of store by me, and she tells the boys that they must grow up to be good men like ther daddy is. It 'ud break Sary's heart ef she knowed what wuz goin to happen to me an' ginerl, don't you think killin' me is enough egsamplo without killin' Sary, too, an' leavin them babies to starve in the mountains? Ef you don't think it is. ginerl, you kin shoot me now and let the same bullet go through Sary's heart. I'll come back, ginerl, shore; only for God's sake let me go home and make it all right with Sary an the "Well, the general had mercy, and he told the soldier he could go and he'd trust to his honor, and besides, the whole army was watching him.

So the soldier left camp on parole and went to his home, and on the last day of the week, in the morning bright and early, of the day ho was to ba shot; "By gravy," interrupted the corporal on the soap box, "he came back, and, of course, the general didn't let a man like that be put to death?" The veteran looked at the corporal severely for the interruption. "As I was sayin'," he resumed, "on the last day of the week, in the morning, bright and early, on the day he was to be shot, he didn't come back, nor the next day, nor the day after, nor any time that anybody ever heard of," and this time the veteran grinned at the corporal on the soap box and called for another story. A HAPPY FAMILY. scribed as "a perfect Eldorado" for the turning the top screw, as if to wind up the watch, there appear in three little round holes at. the top of the dial the figures 2 times 2 makes four.

By turn-ing the screw again 2 times 4 makes 8. appears, and so on all the way through the tables. The numbers are printed on a pasteboard disk inside the case, and ar- knowledge of astronomy, geology, mathematics and other sciences. It is a scientific religion which accepts nothing as a fact until proven, and every proposition we make is susceptible of mathematical demonstration and proof. I not only believe in a hereafter and heaven, but have absolute proof of a life to come and know exactly what it is; this religion is Christianity, with the absurdities of a bodily resurrection, a material heaven and an endless hell left "out.

It is theosopy, with the wild and untenable speculations of dreamers omitted. It is spiritualism of the highest type, with the false commnnications and ignorant teachings of unadvanced beings on the other side ignored. It is science, which does not place a limit on The temple is an oblong room of large dimensions, fitted up very much like a Masonic lodge. On entering the mystic temple the visitor beholds a miniature representation of the solar system, which is in a more comprehensible and tangible shape than he has ever before seen. Suspended from the ceiling of the hall from end to end are heavenly bodies, tilted at various angles to the plane of the ecliptic, thus illustrating their polarities, while at the same time various satelites revolve around the primaries.

Mr. Richmond has over 200 "mysteries" which can be exhibited as proof of occult knowledge. Among many other things he can delineate a person's horoscope and tell him things that he has forgotten, or is yet to know, the day he was born, giving year, month and hour from his astral number, which is contained in books which he has made through eighteen years of labor. "Every person born in the world," continued Mr. Richmond, "has a planet which especially rules over him, and which during his span on earth, with other bodies of the solar system, plays an important part in shaping his life.

Each person, male or female, has an individual number drawn from the value of this overruling star in these scientific calculations, and this number is the basis for many of the mathematical wonders. Many of these mysteries can be mastered and elucidated by novices. These facts are not the work of spirits, psychology or hocus pocus, but simple magic, based on the laws of astronomy as understood at the present time, aided by the ancient methods." Among other signs and symbols with which the temple is decorated were noticed the different figures to be found on ordinary playing cards, more or less familiar to all. In the delightful game of whist it frequently "happens" that one particular suit THF KANGAROO CIVILIZED. ist in Australia.

It is probable that at the expiration of the engagement of the kangarco mentioned here he will be sent to his native land as a missionary, and will teach the other kangaroos how an enlightened civilization conducts itself. A loom was found a few doors off, the web 'got in' and was woven, the naturalist. The shallow waters covering it teem with representatives of almost every group of marine life, and the exhibition of animal forms and colors equally surprises and delights the beholder. In the deeper waters beyond the reef the forms of" life are comparatively rare, but as the bottom shelves upward the little animals become more abundant. Yet they cannot approach too close to the surface, because they must be constantly submerged in order to thrive.

The situation of these myriads, ringing the islands of the sea with their living circles, recalls that of man himself, whose habitation is limited in a somewhat similar way. He cannot go down into the great ocean deeps and he cannot dwell in the thin atmosphere of the highest mountains, but although infinite space expands above him, he is confined within a range of a few thousand feet down and up. A New Bicycle. Here is a queer bicycle. The system of differential gears provided in the wheel shown in the illustration is' designed to enable it to be run very easily at an ordinary rate of speed, or to be run slowly and with great power, or very rapidly, as desired.

The main frame has an upwardly curved backbone extending from front to rear, and the driving axle is journaled in hangers depending from opposite sides of the frame, says "the Scientific American. On the is a double sprocket wheel of small diameter, a chain from which turns over a small wheel on the hub of the rear wheel, while another chain extending forward from the same wheel drives a small wheel on the hub of a fiy wheel. The periphery of the fly wheel also has a chain connecting with a small sprocket wheel on the hub of the rear wheel, and the latter wheel has likewise a sprocket chain connection with a sprocket wheel of intermediate size produced on the fly wheel. This gear arrangement allows for three changes of one rate for cloth prepared, cut and made two or three hours before the brother's departure, that is to say, in forty hours from the commencement, without help from any modern improvement. Greenfield, Gazette.

SHEEP IN ENGLAND. A MULTIPLYING WATCH. ranged in three concentric circles, giving all the tables of multiplication. Scientific Sport with Gold. The experiments of the chemist when they relate to the precious metal gold possess a peculiar interest, which recalls the mad search of the alchemists for some means of turning baser metals into the magic yellowstone.

The chem The Finest of All Are the Dainty, Pretty-Featured South Downs. The naturalist who is not too proud to know the-history of the domesticated animals which are now as native to the soil as any of the ancient wild races could name any district in which he found himself by a glance at the sheep upon the hills, says the Spectator. Not even the cattle exhibit such marked differences as are to be found in the flocks which a century of careful selection has fitted to thrive best in the varied soils of England. The big Leicester sheep, with long gray wool and white faces, are as different from the "Cots-wolds" as a Newfoundland from a white poodle. In the "Cotswolds" will be found the original of the "baa-lamb" of the nursery.

These sheep are tall, with white wool in locks, and with tufts upon the head and forehead. The Lincolnshire sheep are more like those of Leicester, but heavier in the fleece, coarser Some Immense Triphammers. The sightseer always takes a lively interest in viewing the gigantic triphammers used in the great iron and steel works at Pittsburg, as well as in watching the results of their titanic blows. The Pittsburg "pounders," although as large or larger than anything in the hammer line to be found in the United States, are but pigmies when compared with those used in the great iron works and gun foundries of Europe. At the Terni works in Italy there is a hammer weighing fifty tons.

It was cast in 1S73 and is said to have taken ninety days to cool sufficiently to admit of its being set in position. Alexandrovski, Russia, rolling mills have two sixty -ton hammers in constant operation, and the Creusote works in France have five fifty-ton hammers and one eighty tons. This last was cast in 1877 and works above an anvil which weighs 1G0 tons, exclusive of the "block." The Cockerill works in Belgium boast of a 100-ton hammer, but Krupp's gun works in Essen, Germany, "goes them one better" with one weighing 150 tons. This last hammer is the largest now in use. Must Provide for 200.000,000.

That there are children now born who will live long enough to see the people of the United States number from 150,000,000 to 200,000,000, says Erastus Wiman in the current number of the Engineering Magazine, is a consideration that should have great weight in contemplating the conditions that now are beginning to prevail. If in ten years just closed the population has increased at a rate nearly 25 per cent, and we now start out with fifty years at the same rate of progression will bring the population up to very nearly 00, But, eveh if the same rate 2s not maintained, the enormous growth will have consequences of a character that should be considered with special reference to enlarged territory and widened area of opportunity. There is hardly anything more certain under the sun than this growth, and. its certainty should deeply impress every one who thinks at all with the importance of making preparations for an increase so momentous. How They Kept Away the Cholera by Reins' Merry Around Home.

"Doctors in the cholera season prescribe other things besides medicine," said Billy Mcintosh to a sober looking set of travelers who sat in a row on the benches of the hotel, and smiled on a Globe-Democrat reporter, "and our old family physician used to say in 1849 that the best preventive was a cheerful disposition and a merry way of looking at things. With this thing in view my father provided himself with a pet coon and a little fice dog. coon had his hole in the trunk of an old apple tree which stood in front of the long porch or gallery where the family gathered after meals. Carlo, the dog, was never averse to a fight with the coon and used to stand at the roots of the tree and bark his challenge up at the hole. The coon was sly.

It was fun to watch its tactics. He didn't like the bluff of the dog, and every day or two would drop down and take a tumble with him. His best hold was both paws around Carlo's neck and it was hard to shake him off. "The antics of those two got a little tame finally and a big Newfoundland pup was admitted to the front yard. He was a lazy, good-natured fellow and would allow almost any liberty the coon, fice, cat or chicken might take with him.

All those were encouraged to get together and be friendly with one another. After the dinner hour I have seen the big fellow lie on his side the sun pretending to be asleep, with a chicken or two on top of his body, two kittens and the coon between his legs, all serene and happy until a young boy of the family turned the hose on the pile. Thj3 happy family gave us all no end of Inn, and in the long, hot, sultry days, while the tar barrel was burning at the corners of the streets and people gathered in glum groups iu the stores and hotels and reported under breath who was dead and who were dying, our little household was beguiled of its fears, and no doubt saved the dreaded visitation. ist of to-day does not waste his nights upon any such bootless labor, but the results he attains are sometimes, from a scientific point of view, as interesting almost as would have been the success of the alchemist of old. Recently a curious compound of gold and cadmium has been obtained in England.

Cadmium, it will be remembered, is a rare metal found in zinc ores, and chemically closely resembling zinc. When heated in the air it takes fire, and is reduced to a brown powder, or oxide. To produce the compound mentioned, gold and cadmium are placed in a tube frora which the air has been exhausted. The quantity of cadmium is three or four that of gold. "When the two are heated and then shaken together as they melt, there comes a rapid change.

The gold suddenly glows brilliantly, and the combination of the metals is at that moment effected. The heating is continued for several hous until all the surplus of cadmium has distilled off. The final result is a compound metallic mass, about two? thirds of which is gold. It is light silver-gray in color, and and more fitted for life in the marshes. They have, perhaps, the most intelligent faces of any sheep but the refined South Downs.

We noticed a Lincoln ewe endeavoring to open a sack of cakes by putting her foot into the mouth and drawing out the contents as it lay on the ground in the next pen. Romney marsh has its own breed of sheep. something like the Lincolns. But of all the flocks of England the South Downs must win the palm. Their short-clipped and delicate wool is felted together like moss.

The hand sinks into it with difficulty. The form is beautiful and rounded. breaks easily with a crystalline fract and, though apparently so finely built, their weight is great. INTERIOR OP THE TEMPLE. with turn trump time after time, while one or two of the players will hold most of the best cards.

This, Mr. Richmond claims, is not chance or luck, but that the cards are governed by law and the players whe are apparently having bad luck are simply subiects of the law and their ruling card is not in the ascendancy at this time. The same person at the same time would be unlucky in other pursuits. Suppose he is unlucky in diamonds; just at this time he would also be unlucky in his pecuniary affairs. The close yellow-gray fleece fits over the head like a cap, disclosing the face and nose, covered with short gray hair not wool.

The features ure. When hot nitric or hydrochloric acid is poured upon it the gold resumes its original state and purity, while the cadmium passes into solution in the acid. It is this protean readiness to change their color, their attributes and their relations under proper conditions, and to resume their own character with magical suddenness when the conditions are altered again and makes the chemical elements so ceaselessly interesting to every inquiring mind. And it has frequently happened that experiments of this kind, whose results were simply curious, have led up to others of great practical importance to mankind. are extremely dainty ana the movements of the mouth, as the sheep nibbles its fragrant supper of trefoil and clover, resemble those of some delicate foreign Temperature of Nasturtiums.

An experimenter has discovered that nasturtiums will live and flourish, but bloom sparingly, in a sunny apartment, where the temperature at night falls sometimes to or below the freezing point. It has been found, however, that those neutral tinted nasturtiums, a comparatively recent triumph in floriculture, not only need more water than the ordinary nasturtium, but also are much more sen sitive to cold. One such plant was destroyed in a temperature that had no visible injurious effect upon nastur tiums bearing blossoms of brighter THE SEW BICYCLE. slow driving over hilly and difficult -roads, one for moderate work, and one lor driving as fast as possible, in each case the main sprocket wheel serving as a fly wheel and assisting in keeping tip a constant and steady motion. PIne-Trees on Volcanoes.

Every one who admires trees must be interested in the result of Professor Ueilprin's studies of the pines that clothe the slopes of the great volcanic mountains of Mexico. These huge peaks seem to have pierced their way upward through a mantle of pine forest, which clings to their sides up to a height of nearly three miles and three-quarters. The vertical range of the pine in Mexico is remarkable. It is found among the sun-loving palm-trees at the foot of the mountains, and it stands defiant of the cold close to the perpetual snows that cover their summits. Heat and Life.

We often speak of our bodies as machines or engines working upon principles similar to those employed in mechanics. The idea that the food we cat resembles in its action the fuel supplied to a furnace is familiar, and yet one can hardly avoid a little start of surprise upon finding the laws of heat-engines soberly applied to explain the growth of plant and animal life. This has recently been done by Mr. J. Parker before the Philosophical Society in London.

He points out, for instance, that the increase of available energy resulting from the building up of a plant out of inorganic materials can only be explained, in accordance with thermo-dynaruic laws, by differences oi. temperature durint the rodent. Their heads are far prettier than those of deer almost as refined as that of the gazelle. These sheep undergo an elaborate toilet every morning. Clipping them art in which few exceL Their coats are hues.

trimmed, brushed and damped, and Boston's Good Example. Boston notions are numberless and. Very apt to be good. In that city notices in English, French, German and Swedish are hung in the Waiting rooms of the railway stations and pier sheds warning young girl a against strangers and stating at what hours a matron who will be recognizable by her prescribed badge may be found to give all needed information and advice. In the same city, which is peculiarly the home and originating place of practical charities, a second good scheme is that of the Young Traveler's Aid society.

Under its auspices matrons meet the chief trains, both incoming and outgoing, and aid by suggestions or information the traveler who needs it. A country girl, a foreigner, a mother wrestling with an unwieldy family of slippery children, particularly if she is a stranger in a strange land these and similar helpless and distracted wayfarers are righted, received and sent on their way rejoicing. pressed flat with a setting board and finally tinted for the day. The Hampshires, black-faced 'and Roman-nosed, are also rouged. Wants Damages.

A suit for damages has been brought by Lester Bennett, mail carrier on the star route between Weston arid Nor walk, Conn. Bennett declares that Lire One Day at a Time. "Live one day at a time, my dear, said an elderly woman to a young one, who was wrinkling her forehead over her cares: "there is always time and strength for to-day; wait till to-morrow becomes to-day before you take up No Cobblers Nowaday. There is no sense in calling a shoemaker of modern times a cobbler. The nearest thing to a cobbler to-day is the custom-made man who confines his attention exclusively to that one branch.

Machinery for making shoes in great quantities and in sections is of comparative recent 'date, and prior to its adoption the shoemaker or cobbler did the entire business, from taking the measure to collecting the money. In small towns and villages he literally performed the entire process himself, having insufficient trade to justify the employment of an assistant, and in larger cities he superintended the work from beginning to end himself. The labor-saving vonders of the times have practically swept this man out of the field, and there are few members of the trade who are really cobblers ever since the first snowfall the hieh- way between Weston and the Hurl but Street postoffiee in Wilton has been History of Mankind. The late M. de Quatref ages, the French ethnologist.

ssaid all mankind came from a central mass in Northern Asia, and that there were three fundamental types black, white and yellow. These three types scattered over the world and intermingled, forming, in course of time, seventy-two distinct races of human beings. blocked with snow, and he has had to travel nearly four miles out of his way every day, being thus put to extra expense, and delay having resulted loth its burdens. I was almost about 50 years old before I discovered this secret, arid I am growing younger every month in it use." Which passing word in these days of many absorbing occupations is one that many women will do well to write on a card and stick up in the mirrors of the dressing tables. United States mails, lie has notltte.a the selectmen, but the hae nvglrad to break out the roads..