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Puzzled and wondering, Burns followed him into the room where Josephine crouch- ed upon the matting in the same attitude as that jn which they had left her. She took the necklace he held out, and Greville watched her closely as she replied: “ It belongs to ’Miramis." “ When did you see it last 2" “ Last night, I think, when she came to my window.” “ Ah !” cried Greville. “ She came to your window? When “ ll; was when I Went up to bed “ Why ?â€"Tell me the truth.” “ I am telling you the truth, said the girl coldly. “ She often comes to my win- dow of a. night. It is nonsense; but she thinks she is a wise woman, and she makes me tell her my troubles, and promises me that, they shall all depart.” “ Josephine, 1115' child,” said Greville so sharply that, the girl started up and looked st~h_im wil_dly‘. “ Whgse isAbhip ?_"_ that my broubly should not last." “ You foolish girl I” cried the captain angrily “I believe you innocent, child ; but ibis through you that, this horror has been causec .” “ lâ€"Iâ€"don’t understand." “Then I will not explainâ€"Bums, come hear “ Huh 1” said Gre‘ville sharpely; “ and you told her of your trouble last night ‘3” Josephine was silent for a few moments. “ Why do you not speak, girl ‘2” said Gre- ville sternly. “ 1 was thinking,” said Josephine slowly. “ I was in so much trouble that. I hardly know what I said. She told me. though. Greville looked from one to the other curi- ously, and then walked to the window, and stood there thinking whether there was any- thing he could do to help he guest. Aghe left the bedside: Renee let her head sink again in despair, for she could gather no hope from the face before her, and once more a. terrible silence fell upon the group; while Burns, after looking intently at the pain-drawn countenance of his friend, crossed on tiptoe to speak to Greville, who was leaning out of the window, and seemed to be trying to reach something below him amongst the flowers which covered the top of the veranda and climbed up round the jalgusies. ~ The next moment he was standing up- right examining a. kind of Chaplet or neck~ lace formed of the bright red seeds of the snake-wood. “ That? Yes. I have seen our nurse, ’Miramis. wearingit constantly. Why ‘2” “ The creeper is broken and torn down about the window." said Greville hurriedly; “and the person who did it seems to have dropped the necklace on the veranda top. What should vou saw it meant?" “ Some one must have climbed out.” “ 0r climbed up," said Greville excitedly. -â€"“Come down with me. We can do no- thing here.” 7 with me.” The young man gazed at him wondering- ly, and then fOIIOWed him out into the gar- den where the rough palm stem which sup- ported the veranda. beneath Manton’s win- dow showed traces such as would have been made by one who had climbed up. The piece of trunk was rugged with the great dry footsmlks of the old palm-leaves, which had been left, so as to form a support to the creeper that had been planted to run up, so that an ascent was easy enough, but not without disturbing the clustering stems and leefage of a beautiful Bougainvillea which was in several places broken and torn away. ‘ Manton madé no 'answer but, a smile, which told all ; and the captain wiped the clamlny‘dew frpm his _temples.__ _ " Some time toward morning, I thinkâ€" or was it morning '2" said the sufferer faint- ly. “ I don’t. think I touched it in the night, and yet I seem to fancy I heard the glasisujke again}? the vessel." “ Have you seen this before '2” he whisper- ed 00 Burns. “There i sharply. “ this Rosy? CHAPTER XIII. Burnt: bent. down and tried to raise Josc~ phine to her feet, that he might lead her to a. chair; but she yesistefi. He turnied and walked slowvly to the Hoar, to stand there with his back to them, wait- ing; and Burns followed almost directly, to turn before he passed out, and meet Jose- philne’s eyes fixed upon his with a. grateful loo (. “It is impossible, Captain Greville," he said in a quick angry whisper, as they apâ€" proached Manton’s room ; but his host, made no reply, merely going on before him with bowed head and a look of agony in his coun- tenance which seemed to have aged him by ten years. They entered the room very gently ; but Renee heard them, and started up to look piteoualy .in her father's eyes ; while Manton opened his, and gazed from one to the other questioningly, as if asking for“ help and relief. H Gréville felt, his head and hands, and then bent lower over him. “ Still in so much pajl} ‘2” he whigpered, -‘ “No,” said Manton, after a. few minutes' panac, during which he had struggled hard to bear a. terrible paroxysm of painâ€"“no; I did not touch it in the night. I am sure it was morning. ” "He is wrong," said Burns in a. whisper to Greville. “I distinctly heard him touch thg bottle and glass.” to examine the some of this has Here is a piece broken right off. There was a l “ Nc." she said in a low passionate voice; “ you have not cast me down. It, is he who has done this." “7‘ Greville sternly. “ It, is I who have done this, by my charge ; and it, is I who should raise you up, and humble ngelf to yqu, cyildlput not yetâ€"not yet.” “ Can’tâ€"can’t. you do svSmething ‘3" came in aboarse whisper. a “Yes; in thve night," said Burns quickly. “I heard Yolk". “ I am doing £0methmg," said the captain " but we must; wait. When did you drink that, water ‘2” “ \Vhah are you going to do ?” said [(135, who was startled by the fierce look his companion’s eyes. “Do, boy? What would you do to the )tile you have fosteredâ€"to the half~savage :ature you have fed and tended for years. mn it has turned and stung you to the 1:5? Hum It ant and crush it.â€"Ah l” \V l he turned 790m the veranda. mf- are you going to do ?” who Will's §tartled by the flare BY GEORGE MANVILLE FENN. leplied Greville, as he bent is no doubt here,” said Btu-us ‘b‘ome one has climbed up by SUNSTRU GK- creeper _: “ and look been clumsily thrust tucked in that has ’ said Josephine slowly. trouble that. I hardly She to.ld n_1_e, though, setlool: in Gre ville’s down here ; back. u 611 Greville whispered to Burns to stay where he was while he went; back to the room where Josephine was seated alone; and ten minutes passed before he returned, to sign to the young man to follow him to the bedroom, where to all appearance, the minutes of Manton's life were drawing to a. close. After a short stav, they lefb the room once more and went out; into the garden. “ I cannot bear it, Burns,” cried Greville in agony. “ It will kill her too. I must do something. ” “It was a lie,” he saidâ€"“ I ought to have knownâ€"a beggarly, transparent invention ; but it tricked me for the time." “ I do not understand you, sir.” “ That black scoundel. Brutus : she sent him with that tale to put me ofi' the Scent. She has not left the island, but is hiding in the woods. “But the man"â€" “I tell you they will all lie, and invent childish stories to save one another from punishment. I know them by heart. Come to the plainlation again. I’ll have the truth from them, or"â€"â€"â€" he added after a. pause, ” it is not the first Such a. creature is not fit be live.” He hurried Burns on to the densely wood- ed part where the cottages of the blacks were clustered. As they approached one of the best of the cottages, superior to the rest, and with the garden better kept, Gre- viHe uttered an ejaculation. “ I might have known," he said. “ I was mad not to have had it destroyed.” " VVhatâ€"what it it !” cried Burns. “There it is,” said Greville bitterly, as he pointed to a good«sized tree rising behind the cottageâ€"“ the machineel.” He stopped short, with his brow rugged and teeth sec, thinking intently. Then, with a. look of rage, be turned suddenly upon his companion. Burns looked eagerly at the tree with its small apple-like fruit. “ A deadly Euphorbia, teeming with vir- ulent poison.” He was about a. black woman 0 of the cottages ster. “ Where is Semiramis 7" said Greville clooly. “ Don’t know, Massah. Think she go to de house. " “No: We have come from there. She is hiding." He went on, followed by Burns. “ I have been a father to these people,” said Greville angrilv, “and yet there is no one I can trust. That women lies to me at ongg. They say anything to escape blame.” At that moment a. low, deepmouthed bny~ ing rose from beyond the house. “Ah! ' said Greville, “he never lies! Come quickly. Now I shall know the truth.” Bums followed him as he hurried to the far side of the house, where Renee’s great heavy-chested Cuban bloodhound was chain- ed, and which now rose up on its hind-logs and pawed and fought to get at its master. “B116 Eurely you are not going to hunt the woman, sir, with that, savage beash?” “ I am not going to hunt a. woman, sir, but a. vile murderer. You need not be alarmed : a word from me is enough to re- strain that dog. ” “Down, Nep.’â€"-d3wn, NVepV’ he cried; and the dog crouched at once while his chain Wasjlipped from his collar. > Hé thrust; opén tHe (100‘? of the Acabin and entered. “ Not here,” he said fiercely. “ But she shall be found. They will try and hide her.” “ From love '2" “ From hate. There is note. black on the island who will not help her ; for few: that she should work some spellâ€"in other words, drug food or the water, out of revenge." “ Her confession of her guilt," said the captain Slowly. “ Then you will have her followed and punished for the crime ?" said Burns. “ If he diesâ€"yes, If I save himâ€"no. The chances are that I should never have her found. The woman has the reputation of being a follower of Obeah ; and. as I have told you, such as she are supposed to bring death to tkose who are their enemies, and the people fear them. No: we shall never see her more.” Burns was silent; and at a. word, the dog bounded before them on their way back to the woman‘s cabin, about which several _\v0men were grouped as they approached ; but dog: Creville laughed bitterly. “ Xon see," he said. “ One would think 1 hunted my people with this houndâ€"Here, Nep! In with you boy l” He strode right into the cabin, and after a. few moments’ consideration, snatched up a. gown lying on the bed. “ Here, boy, here !” he cried, shaking the cotton dress; and the dog made a plunge, buried his head in it, snuffed up other articles of attire “hich lay about as if their owner hadjust made a. change ; and the (log tore at them seized them in his powerful jaws, and shook and turned them ovengrowling and snufllmg about. “ Tint will do nowâ€"steady !" Greville took a. leather thong from his pocket, fastened it to the dog’s collar and led him to the door. “ Now, hep:i5_a. “ you will soon see.” The (log tried to bound off, but settled down directly with its nose close to the ground. and led them in and out to one Tof the cottages, where a. woman within set up “ Oh ’ss, massah, all de troof. ’Mimmis gone right away.” ” Ah !â€"rmd why '3" ” ’Cause a buckra nmssah very ill." “ That will do. Go !” said Greville ; and the man who was trembling in every limb, hurried away. all fled 13 ho‘rror at thé sight of tllé CHAPTER XIV. to enter the garden, when ame toward them from one with a curious shrinking a wild cry; but the dog «me out agaL: dir- ectly, and made for another, threading the narrow pathway quickly, and dashing through the low doorway at once. “Bah I” cried Grevxllc ; “ that’s good.” The dog ran round the room, came out, and, 11038 down, made straight for the plan- tation, where a group of labourers stood to watch them approach ; and as the dog paid no heed to them,bubwent on along a. narrow path by a patch of cane-ground, they one by one left their work and followed at a. dis- “ Another proof,” said Greville in a. 10W voice; “ they tell me plainly that she has taken to the forest. They will follow us to see her takenâ€"Look at Nep.” Burns was already watching the sagacious beast. which was straining hard at the thong as, with nose down, he followed a narrow winding track right in among the trees beyond the captain’s clearings ; and, forgetting the heat in his excitement, Burns hurried on behind in the dark overgrown track. one which was rarely used. “ Where does this lead to '2” said Burns at last. “No, I thmk not,"sa.id Burns, whosecm< ed to be enducd with fresh strength. For the next hour neither spoke, but with the dog tugging silently at the throng, followed the path in and out among the trees, till, all at once a large roughly thatched hut blocked further progress, the path going in under the low doorway, and Burns‘s heart leapb to his mouth as the dog uttered agrowl and bounded upon something dimly seen in the windowless shelter at the farther end. “ Huh !" ejaculated Grewille as the dog seized what proved to be a gaily coloured handkerchief. “ We are on the right track. â€"Good dog !” he continued, patting the animal and taking the kerchief from his jaws.~“ Seek her, then.” The dog made a, plunge forward through is screened opening at the back out. into the forest again ;hut the path had ceased. There were, though faintly visible, footsteps on the moist earth, and the scent was stron enough for the dog to go on as rapidly as he could, with the shade growing less deep, the trees more open, and it was evident now that they were ascending a steep slope, but diagonally. and good horse, showing a. lot of the Mor- gan. His dam was a. gamey little French- Canadian mare, a great driver, and quite fast for that pan-t of the country. This Mus- grove, who raised Dot, was aseafaring man, and left his stock in charge of his friends. Tllls mare was old when she was bred, and was afterwards turned out in a. back pasture to live or die. Late in the fall, when they went out to look for her, they 3 found her lying dead, with a. colt, perhaps four days old, sucking one of her ears. The brother of this Musgrove, a boy twelve or fourteen years old, took the little colt under his arm, carried him home and fed him on cows milk until his brother re- “(She 58.5 made for the mountain,” said Grgville quigtly. It was quite dark when they reached the plantation house ; and upon Greville hurry- ing to the sick chamber, he found that there had been apparently but little change. Man- ton was gazing with a. fixed stare in Renee’s eyes, too much prostrated now to be able to struggle against the paroxy‘sms. But as Greville approached, he read hopeful Signs in his patient/s face ; and a couple of hours later, he drew a. long deep breath, and whispered words in Renee’s car which made her start to her feet, fling her arms about her father’s neck, and burst into an hysteri- cal fit; of weeping, just as a low wailing chorus came, through the open window from the dlrection of the cabins of the blacks which was answered by a mournful howl and the rattle of a. chain. “To a. kind of meeting-house in the forest. I never interfere with them in this. Itis of no use. Tired ‘2” Few words {vere spoken in their breath less ascent. but from time to time the scent. seemed so fresh, and the dog tugged so that Greville grew excited. “ Kecpa lookout forward," he said. “We must be near her now. I want to run her down before she can reach the woods again.” VG reville uttered a cry of satisfaction as he drew Burus‘s attention to a. curl of smoke rising up some iittle distance ahead. “ There she is,” he whispered.â€"â€"“ Quiet, Nep !â€"She has not heard us. Keep level with me now," he continued ; “ and as soon as we are close up, seize her. I'll hold the dog.” It was a time of breathless interest as they drew nearer the softly rising vapour which betrayed the woman's halting-place, and, making every effort not to tread on the loose stones which promised to rattle benâ€" heath their feet, they gained the mouth of a. hollow, out of which the smoke rose ; but to their surprise, the dog turned off to their left, and suddenly threw up its head, whim ed angrily, and snapped eta. tiny curl of smoke which rose from between its feet. “ Sulphur ‘." cried Greville. “ Pah 1" Burns had already stepped aside, for he had inhaled the choking fumes which they could now see were escaping from cracks in the loose volcanic soil, upon which the vapour was being condensed in a pale yellow cfliorescence. “ I thought we had run her down," said Greville. “ Proofs that the old volcano is not quite heathâ€"(Jo on then, boy. \Ve shall overtake her soon. She must have been here aforn, perhaps to fetch sulphur or to perform some mumbo~Jumbo tricks to frighten the weak fools.” For the dog was tugging to get, on, and, after dragging them in anilout amongst the huge vesiculuted masses of pumice, bare of vegetation and glistening in the sunshine, it suddenly made a dash downward for abouL a. hundred feet, turned in at a. broad cavernous rift in the mountain side,and then drew back, threw up its head, and uttered a. deep-mouthed bay. “Run to earth ! " cried Greville excitedly. “In with you, Bums, and bring her out. No,she is my servant. Hold the dog. I'll go.’ Burns, with his hearb beating heavily, thrust his hand beneath Nep’s collar, and held him fast. This rift led intoquite a. little cavern, whose interior was lit; up by the sun ; and there, not twenty feet from them, lay the figure of the black woman, apparently sleepng after her Loilsome climb. Greville pressed forward into the cavern, and stag el'ed back. choking violently. “ Gem heavens !” he ejaculated. “I could not breathe. Burns ‘.-»â€"chat woman l He said no more, but turned his head to the sharply blowing breeze, took a. deep in< halation. and {hen plunged into the cave, add staggered out; dragging after him the body of the wretched woman, till he was a. few yards from the opening, where he low- ei'ed her softly down. “ Dead? gasped Burns. “ Yes. There must have been a. fresh es- cape offunics,”sa.idGreVille slowly. “There hasnot been a. cloud about; the crater for months. Poor foolish wretch ! She must ave staggered in there, worn out, to lie down and rest, and been overcome.â€"'â€"Let us get back, and send the people to fetch her down. -~Look ‘.” Ten minutes later Greville and Burns were toiling down the mountain, the latter beginning Lefeelan exhaustion against which he could hardly fight. Semiramis had been borne down from the mountain, and was bemg carried to her hut. $841061 The spring that he was eight years old I took him to St. John, N.B. and entered him in a. free for all on the Torryburu track. There were seven starters. Dot got the word fully 40 yards behind the pole horse. yet he distanced the whole lot of them in the firstheut. The judges claimed that he had a. “ peculiar gait,” and ruled him out, for which the people drove the judges from the stand and broke up the day’s sports. We never got Dot’s winnings nor the money we bet in the pools, amounting to over $2,000. All the New Brunswick horsemen left the track. The morning after the race thirteen horses were loaded on the cars and sent home. The intention of their owners as expressed was never to take horses to that cutthroat track, and they never did to my knowledge. I took little Dot to Boston, and after showing a. fast mile there sold him to the late Wesley P. Belch. He trotted in many races the following summer, and his peculiar gait was never questioned. He never was sent for a. record, but a. 2.90 clip was an easy thing for him. He was right up to the shoulders of winners in 2.24. Mr. Balch sold Dot to Budd Doble, and a few weeks after he was burned to death in Philadephia, when Doble lost seventeen horses. Dot’e weight was only 670 pounds in con- not change her name." Two years after she was Commander Manton’s wife; and the captain accompan- ied her and her young husband back to England, where he had elected to end his days. For the time had came when the dreamy plantation life had begun to pal], and he had found a successor in Burns, who quitted the service upon wresbing a. long withheld'promise from Josephine that she would be his wife. Ten years had passed away before the young people met again, and it was in answer to a question that Josephine said : “ I was a. foolish girl, and knew no better then T“nee. Yes, I loved him dearly. Then in a. minute my love was turned to hate, and I told that, wretched woman, as I told her all my troubles then. Yes, I hated him; but I would sooner have died than caused him pom, and if he hadâ€"There, say no more, dear ; we are sisters and the past is dead.” THE END. gan. His dam was a. meey little French- Canadian mare, a great driver, and quite fast for that, pan-t of the country. This Mus- gmve, who raised Dot, was aseafaring man, and left his stock in charge of his friends. Thls mare was old wh’en she was bred, and was afterwards turned out in a. back pasture t0 live or die. Late in the fall, when they went out to look for her, they found her lying dead, with a._ colt, perhaps parting came. not change he Dot, 2.33 1-4, was bred on the farm of John Mnsgrove. Northwest Arm, Cape Bre- ton, N.S., His sire was a. horse called Lord Nelson, by Bellfounder Morgan, 8. very fast and good horse, showing a. lot of the Mor- fed him on cows milk until his brother re- turned from his voyage. Upon seeing the colt the sailor ordered the boy to kill it, telling him the colt was so small it would never be worth a. dollar. On the day of the race crowds went to see the trot, not expecting, of course, that the little sheep, as he was called, would make any show with the cmck trotters of Sidney. The betting was slow, 10 to 1 against the sheep, with but few takers. The sailor invested all his summer savings at those odds, and bet his silver watch and gilt chain against 5510, then got in and drove the colt himself the first two heats, and was beaten in both. He then called the boy, who had been a. silent spectator, and whose eyes were filled with tesrs by the unfair treat- ment of his little pet, and told him to get in and drive the colt. The boy cheerfully mounted the old pung runners, and as soon as the word was given for the third heat called on the colt, which responded gamely, shot to the front, won the heat with east and almost shut out the crack trotter. Dot won the next two heats without any trouble which ended the race. The sailor gave the boy $50, and after that the little colt was called Dot, and was the boss of the road. Dot was often subjected to harsh treat- ment and severe hardships when the sailor was at home. He was finally sold to a drunken coal-cutter, who often let the little fellow stand all night at the tavern door in cold winter weather without a. stitch of covering. At daylight he would run the little fellow seven miles to his home. When I got Dot he was a. sorry-looking pony to a. casual observer, but he carried me home, 200 miles, on a saddle in four and it half days, and trotted in 22.30 for me on the ice in less than threemonths after I bought him. But the convalescence waspne long dream of happiness, from which he seemed to be rudely awakened one day by the return of the ship and the call back to duty. “ Yes,” said Greville, as the time for parting came. “ Some day, if Renee does The boy begged to have the life of the little on’phan spared and finally got permis. sion to put him in a. pen with aflock of sheep, Where he often gave the colt a. part of his Own crust; of bread and sometimes got him»: plate of pogridge left]. over fr‘om The following winter the boy got an old pam- of pang runners and fitted no a sled. He also made a harness from a. few old straps and ends of rope and began driving the little fellow, Whose speed at once aura.ch his brother’s attention and pleased him so much that he gob a genuine harness made. One day towards spring the sailor went into Sidney, got on a. racket, commenced to blow event the little colb’s speed, and finally made a match for $100 a. side against the creek hotter of the town, best three in five, mile heats. ' the bl-cakfést table. In the spring the lit- tle colt wandered of)" with the sheep, sum- mered with them, followed them to the barn in the tall, wintered with them, and ran with them the next summer. The next morning dawned with Mantou plunged in a. deep sleep, which lasted for nearly twentyâ€"four hours, and from this he awoke weak once more as a child. Dot’e weight; was only ditiou. He was toaled in American Breeder. “ You won’t suit me at an," as the man said to the tailor who refined him credit. London pays its gas companies annually £4,400,000 for a. commodity which costs to produce only £3,100,030, thus giving the monopolies a elem-profit of £1,300,000. A small ('amadlnn Trotter. CHAPTER. XV. in 1§61.â€"G. W. S ed moderate capacity containing but a. small quantity nf liquid, and with the ad- vantage of the ingredients of the solutions, as he states, being very cheap. According to statements by those practi- cally engaged in the industry, the manufac- ture of glass bottles by machinery appears to possess some decided advantages over the ordinary method, even with the appli- ances and processes thus far developed. Gathering the glass metal in the usual man- ner, it is allowed to run from the rod into» an iron cup, which holds the quantity re- quired for making the bottle, when a hol- low iron plunger at the bottom of the cup is pushed up through the mass and the cap reserved, leaving the glass in a. plastic con- dition suspended from the hollow plunger, through which air is admitted. The cup, which is hin ed, is now removed, and the movemento a. level admits a. small quantity of air ; the bulb is then flattened atthe bot- tom and dropped into the mould, which lat- ter is at once closed and the air applied, this movement completing the bottle: which is taken in hot to the annealing oven. The oft-discussed problem of a substitute for dynamos in electric lighting by provid- ing a. cheap. inodorous, inoffensive electria battery, capable of ‘ supplying sufficient light for domestic uses, is again claimed to be solved by M. Poudroux of Paris. By his new battery he claims the ability to empltfl a great; surface of zinc in a. cell of the desir‘ German engineers are of the opinion that quite a success has been achieved by the re- cent establishment at Offenbach of a system of pipes for the transmission of power by compressed air, the laying down of the pipes having been commenced about a year ago, and the work being consummated in the face of many difficulties. The total length of pipes thus laid amounted to 7,760 yards, of which 1,702 consisted of pipe one foot in diameter, 1,710 yards of eight inches dia‘ meter, and 4,347 yards of four inches dia- meter. The pipes were laid about one and one-half feet below the footpath, the con- nections of the pipes being made by means of India rubber, according to the method pursued for similar work in Paris, and valves are provided for shutting off the air from separate lengths of pipe. On the in- itial trial of the system. made by the engi- neering authorities of the town and by the Boiler Inspection Association, it appeared that there was a loss amounting to 0.11 of an atmosphere in seven and one-half hours, that‘is, 0.39 of a. cubic metre per hour kilo- metre, a. loss equalling 13 per cent. on the (la.in output, the power transmitted being, on an average, 500 horse powerâ€"a. very fa- vorable showing. One of the most notable mechanical achi- evements of late is the great pulley which has been placed in the mill of the \Villiman- tic, Conn., Manufacturing Company, for transmitting power from the mammoth en- gine of that plant. This pulley weighs seventy tons, is twenty-eight feet in die.- meter, and has a. face nine feet across ; it is cast in twelve sections, each section carry- ing 3 spoke and a. segment of the rim, the latter being backed in its casting by what) is technically known as rib work, in appear- ance resembling a series of heavy iron panelling. Including the hub pieces, there are twenty‘six parts to the wheel. The spokes alone weigh 36,000 pounds, the rim alone 96,000. and the bolting together of the sections is by a. series of 180 2% and 21 bolts. The power from the great engine is distributed from this pulley by three belts, one about 49 inches wide and two of 24 in- ches width each ; the wheel makes 60 revo- lutions per minute, the surface travelling exactly one mile in that space of time. The shaft which this prodigious pulley hangs upon is some '21 feet in length, including the disks at e1ther end, and of itseli presents the enormous weight of 27 tons. A much-needed invention has lately been brought to notice in London and received the commendation of the press. It consists of a. Simple and inexpensive device for auto- matically shutting off the gas when it has been blown out instead of being turned off in the usual way. The principle upon which this mechanism is based is the expansion and contraction of a. metallic loop made of German silver and steel, which is adjusted very close to the gas flame. One end of the loop is free, while the other is secured to the fixture; a valve containing the gas is attached to the free end, and, when the gas is burning, the valve is open and the gas freely escapes. If, however, the gas is blown out, the property of the loop is quickly to cool and contract. and the valve will shut off the gas. The device is said to iespond promptly to the change in tempera- ture. Tho discovery of late, by some foreign chemists, that nickel combines with carbon monoxide to form a. nickel-carbon oxide, promises, it is thought, to be useful in con‘ nection with the development of nickel plating. At that time the experimenters failed to obtain any similar compound of carbon monoxide with another metal, ibis stated, but. considering it strange that nickel should be the only metal capable of entering into combination with this particu- lar gas, investigation was continuedâ€"more especially with iron, and under very varied conditionswresulting finally in demonstrat- ing the fact that iron is volatizable, although apparently in very small quantities, in a. current of carbonic oxide. According to the account given by the experimenters, and published in the 01mm [Cal Journal brief- ly, they volatilized some finely divided iron in a. current of carbonic oxide at ordinary tamperatures, the deposits given all the known reaction of iron in remarkably bril~ lianl‘, colors. The exhibition at Glasgow, Scotland, of Mr. Mills’s new method of propulsion for marine craft has been extensively described, and would appear not dissimilar in its main feature to what had previously been propos- ed in this country. The plan consists in the placing of the propeller at the bow in- stead of the stern of the ship, this change from the usual construction being made by the inventor in view of what he regards as two legitimate considerationsâ€"first, that the revolution of the screw propeller in its. ordinary position at the stern of the vessel produces a. vacuum, which must be filled by the inrushing water ere the ship obeys the forward impulse, and second. that the water at the how ofthc ship offers resistance to its movement. Concluding, therefore, that the propeller should be placed at the how, the plan in this .case is that the shaft is carriéd through the bow, bearing a conical propeller with a. diameter nearly as great as the beam of the ship. The outside of the cone consists of webs projecting at right angles to the surface, and arranged in a spiral, the action being thus a. boring an tion. NOTES ON SCIENCE AVID INDUSTRY}