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In sections where large quantifies of potatoes are raised, some kind of a sorting apparatus is a necessity. The work of picking over potatoes is something that costs too much to bedone by hand, end yet pomioes classed into even sizes aiways 5e” better than uneven ions. In the great centres of commercial ymducbiou of Lhi' crop, asserting is always done by some sort ofa machine, which varies in the-different sections, but are almost always homemade. The tine herewith iilustmbed is in use by many potato planners. and is a simple and inexpensive aflair, and being adjustable )3 will be found more valuable than many other designs. The general form is usually made eight ieetin length fourteen inches wide at lhv; bottom, and eight inches at the top, the sides being six inches high, the whole supported upon four legs nailed to the sides. Six strips eight feet in length, three inches wide and one inch thick farm the bOtzom of the sorrer seen in the sketch. The strips, 3, are beveled to a sharp edge at the lower side, and the rest in Yâ€"shaped notches out into the supporting strip. r' By taking out or adding to the supporting strips and dividing the spaces, larger or smaller potatoes will pass into difleyent boxes placed along the length of the sorter, the larger ones being discharged at the low- er end, the form of the bottom strips pre- venting clogging. An incline of twenty inches in eight feet will prove about right, although the form of potatoes to be screen- ed will have much to do with this, a long tuber requiring a steeper incline than a round one. If the potaroes are to be placed. in the cellar one may shovel directly into the sorter. which should project from the cellar window. and when the tubers reach the cellar bottom they will be properly screened {or market or planting. This will prove as efiective as hand sorting, and incur but onevtenth oi the expense. Separating Cream. Butter madeirom cream in submerged cans has not that delicacy of flavor of but; tar from cream raised in open cans, and is readily detected by a critical observer. A method' is fast coming into use which is simple, inexpensive, a. saving of ice and labor, preserves the quality of the open can and saves time almost as Well as the mechanical separator, without the expense. The combined milk and water is drawn by a faucet from the bottom of the can till the cream appears, which is then drawn into aseparate veasel. As the cream is separated in less than three hours, the can or can used for the morning’s milk are ready to be used for the night’s milk ; s11 that need go into the house is the sweet cream,thus lightening the labor there. The diluted skim-milk is fed to the pigs, the costly butter {at extracted from it being replaced by the cheaper fat of corn meal, in such proportions as are needed to teed to growing or fattening stock. The milk, warm from the cow, is acrained into a can ml it is half full; then fill the can with cold water, which net-ates milk, and immediately reduces its temperature wabout 70‘ F., even in the warmest of weather. All the cream will rise to We surface in less than three hours. No time is lost, no labor required, nor expensive machinery to keep in repair when using the dilution process. As soon as the milk is mixed with water the sep- aration goes on naturally, while the farm- er is attending to otherduties. This quick, inexpensive process, requiring no ice even in the warmest weather, enables the farmer to convert hzs cream into butter at home without the expense of carrying or having it carried to acreamery. It also enables those farmers who are supplying the large markets to maintain a fair price for their milk. They can manufacture it into but- ter for a time and reduce the quantity of the milk sent to market till it will com~ wand 9. fair price. The farmers can con- trol the price oi milk if they wish, instead of the contractors dictating what they shall take. Any improvement in dairying that will cheaper: the cost of production will run up the profit, the same as an in- crease in the selling. Good pastures are an essential element in profitable dsirying. Without manure no good farming is poss- ible. Wintering Over. It is time that the stock intended to be wintered over should be selected out, so that the rest can be marketed as soon as possible. As it is necessary. in order to realize a fair profit, to rather push the growth and gain with hogs. it is of no advantage to winter over only those needed ior breeding, or that with good treatment W11] make a. satisfactory gain. Itis true that where bags can be given a good range, they Will live even during the winter on a comparatively small 'amount of food, and if living is all that is necessary, a consider- able number might be kept. But with hogs rather more than with any other class of stock it is very important, if the best profit is realized, to keep in a. good thrifty con- dition. If this is done during the winter it will be necessary to feed more or less, and feeding increases the cost. Unleae one is reasonably Well provided with a good shelter, so Lhat the hogs cm} be kept fairly comfortable without being obliged to feed too much grain to maiumm animal heat, the better plan, In a msjority of cases,will be to crowd the f: e! n ' during the lall, and get all of th» h r. exoe .t the A Servieeable Potato Sorter. DEVICE FOR ASSORTXSG POTATOES. THE FARM. .4.“ ‘OES. an many is usually an inches hes at the high, the nailed to in length, hick form ne sketch. rp edge at Vâ€"sliaped strip, 1" upporbing larger or diaerem he sorter, L the low- itrips pre- if twenty out right, be screen- ” Is the Most Gigantic Railway l'mler- taken Ever Planned. It is estimated that mhe great Siberian milWay, which for the peak three years has bean in progress, will C032« something like a couple of hundred million dollars. The Russian Government is punhing work on it with such energy that i: is probable that, before the end of his {century trains will be running from St, Petersburg through to Vladivostok on the Sea. of Japan. Six years is the limit for the time of construe. tion. The Czarewitch cut the first God at; Vladivostok on May 24th, 1891. The length of the railway when completed is to be 4,785 miies,or about twice as long as the Canad~ inn Pacific. 0n the eastern division trains are running from Valdivoatok well into the inberinr,and it is expected an have the entire linein operation before the end ofzhis year. The Western division isalso nearing com» breeding animals and uh for markez, in good sense any of the banner breeds for market at, any time a months old. To get. the however, It is very easeu mg be liberal, giving all up clean, in order 10 pm much asposmble. \Vibh in is very imporzam. in h condition as posmble wh andmhlle it. is not. alwa} to full maturity, yea it until the ammazs are in a good markebume condition. 12y selecting out raasonnbly early 3 much better Opportunity is nfloraed of feeding when the condm‘ona of growth are most favorable. It. is often the case that, with a. lime extra cure,apigcan be madeready for max-km. considerably earlier than would otherwise be the case, and with pigs. at this time,it,is often been to push the growth and market rather than to winter over,even if necesssry to push the growth consider- ably in order to secure the desired condi- (ion. pletion. On the middle secLion.Where the conditions are naturally the most, diflicult, and where work was begun last year, it is believed that construction will be finished by 1898, or two years earlier than the time originally set. The reason for this is that. by unilizmg river navigation, it is found thatrails can be laid from three difierent points atlthe same Lime. insteAd of from but one, as was as first supposed ; and also Lhat,most unexpectedly, local workmen prgve to be very abundant. 1 1 In 1822 Mr. Labouchere, a relative of the present ALP. of that, name, was a clerk in the bankingvhonse of Hope, of Amsterdam. One day he was sent by his patron to M r. Baring. the celebrated London banker, to negotiate a loan. He dlspiayed in the af» fair so much ability as w entirely win the eaveem and confidence of the English bank- 81‘. The: polinical and social efiecbs of this stupendous enterpriseâ€"which, indeed, is the most gigantic railey undertaking ever plannedâ€"Will be of tremendous moment. lbs effect on the Russian Governmenrin- self will be likely to be revolutionary. The great industrial development that will follow must be reflected in changes in the social and political fabric oi Russia, which stands sadly in need of Lhe civilizing in- fluences this vast enterprise will bring. In opening up vast regions for settlement and as fields for commercial and manufacturing enterprise, it. seems probable that the world's currents of migration will be turn- ed in new directions. It may, therefore, have a considerable efl'ect. upon the future 01 our own connmry. [low Bank Clerk Lalmuclnel’i‘ Obtained a Bride and u Partnership. k The Government proposes to spend large sums upon auxfiiary enterprises for the development of the natural resources of Siberia, which, .‘Jr. George Kennan has told us, are enormous. Branch lines are no he built. the rivers are to be improved, and steam navigation established from points intersected by the railway ; c010ni~ which is to be assisted, Iron works are to be encouraged, and scientific expeditions are to be organized for Lhorougb sLudy of the country. For these purposes, along the line of the first, diVision alone 14,000.- 000 rubles, or about $10,500,000, have been apggopritfited. . . ..M‘ p”. “Faith,” said stouchere one day to Baring, “your daughter is a charming creature. I wish 1 could persuade you to glvg‘rye her hand." -,\,:, g, Ir“ Young man, you are joking, for ser. iously you must allow that Miss Baring could never become the w‘xfe of a simpk clerk.” “But,” said Labouehere, “if I were in partnership with M r. Hope '1” “ Oh, that would be quite a different thing; that, would entirely make up for all deficiencies." Returned to Amsterdam, Lahouchere said to his patron :â€" “ Y on must take me into partnership." “My young friEDd, how can you think of much a. thing? It. is impossible. You are without fortune. and ”â€"â€"- ‘ Formified with these two promises Laban» chere returned to England and two months after married Alisa Baring, because Mr. Hope had promised to lake him imo part- nership, and he became alhed 1.0 the house of Hope on the strength of that promise of marriage. 7“But. if I become the son»in»law of Mr. Eating ‘.’>’ 77“}; that case the afiair would soon be settled, aqd ao‘yo‘u have my wolfd.” _ I “1am sarry to give you pain,’ she an- swered, “ but, it cannot be. Cease to think also“ me und find some other girl Who will makgyoy happy‘.’.’ ' u. -‘ 1 “Be mine, sweet. one,’ he implored as he knelt at her feet. “ Tfian‘a a. good idea," he said, as he arose and dusxed his \muser knees with his handkerchief; “ I was a fool not to think of it. before.” ‘ Then shejwas mad. Her Sorrow Changed to Anger. THE SiBERIAN RAILWAY. WON 0N PURE NERVE. :qu, sums _.. ...,V in order to push I ossible. With all c imporzam in have 1 as posmble when se it, is not always ad ,turity, yea it does a}: and mhe in“. pigs, ready good season. A good pig of Let‘ breeds can he made ready any time after they are five 1‘0 get. :he most one of them, very easeutia‘ Lb“ the feed- gwing all that they will eat -der to push the groth as mbXe when sent to market, or. always advisable to feed , ye: it does pay to feed a arein a good marketable all classes c in as good a rock Yellowstone Park contains an aflrea. of 3,575 square miles. AL 21 single bakery in Boston 10,000 pies are baked every day. Air-brakes on trolley cars, to prevent; aCcidean, has been suggested. Telegraph companies in Chicago think of suhgnituung girls for boys as messengers. Parrots are employed at some of the road road stations in Germany to call out the names of the town. A shower of frogs recently fell in Cambridge, Mass. They were about an inch in lenth, and quite liveJy. Although the Suez Canal is only eighty. eight, mfies long. it reduces the disumce from England to India, by sea, nearly 4,000. Snufied white doves,ior funeral emblems, are prepared in large numbers in Jersey City. Their bodies are sold to French The new rifle used by the Italian Army sends a bullet with such force that, it pene- trates a log of sand ash 2.0 a depth of five inches at a dismnce of three-quarters of a. mile. reanau “IDES. Last year 3,000,000,000 gallons of beer were drunk in Europe. Germany imbibed almost. half of it. In the United SKBWB, 800,000,000 gallons were consumed. An ice-cream denier in Eastport, Me.. is a bicycle rider. and wheels around the city with A big advertisement of his business on his wheel. He believes in advertising. In one week a condor has been known to entirely (jevour a caif, a sheep, and a. dog. "J ' - â€" Itofcen floats for half an hour in the air, describing large circles, withom moving a wing. Food should never be allowed to cool in copper cooking utensils. When fruit is re- moved hot from the vessels, the acids from the fruit. do not, combine with the copper to make a. poisonous compound. John O’Lnary, a gardener, of Soumh Nor- walk, Conn., book along drink from a garden hose, and in a few moments felt something queer in his stomach. He hnd swallowed a live frog. A physician re- lieved him. Several pupils of the Polyaechnic School, in Paris. were kept in after hours, but made their escape through a trap-door which led to the street Beware. Here they were lost, and wandered around 1' or twenty- four hours. A wise old farmer in Red Bank. N.J., has discovered a. certain preventive of hydrophobia. A mad dog rushed at him, with threatening fangs. The farmer dex- terously seized the dog by the throat; and choked him to death. Miss Carrie Blood, of Charlestown. W. Va. is a close student of natual history. To add to her store of intormah‘on on this subject she was attentiver studying the formation of a snapping-turtle, when ic bit, off the tip of her nose. when Voltaire began che study of the English language, and found that "ague" was pronounced, as twa syllables, and “ pla ue” as one. he said that he wished than half the English had the first disease and other half the other . An electric rat, has been invented by a. Broomyn man. Cats were in the habit. of having nocturnal picnics in his yard. He made his electric ran move slowly around the place, and as each car pounced upon it, the cat, was shocked to death. Miss Grace Cohee, of Newbern, Ind., to play a pracm'ca) joke upon a visxbor at her house, Mr. Con Beck,‘arrayed herself as a host, and confronted him in the dark. He grad mo pistol shots at her, and bush bu]- lets emered her body, and a fatal result is feared. It. has been proved that the monkeys of the mountain regions of China aetuaily make pottery. and use the jars to store wine of their own manufncmre. The wine is squeezed from mountain berries in the summer, and used no a beverage in the winter, when the water is frozen. If the Prince of Wales (orgeta to make a birthday present to each of his near relu- livea, he is soon remindedof his negligence. No Wonder he is bald, for their birthdays come often. He has seventeen brothers-in- law, sixteen uncles, fifty-seven cousins, and fifty-eight. nephews and mecca. John Mel-kerb, of Morrismwn, N. J., discharged a. gun in a hornet’s nest. The hornet-a dashed at him, and he took Ieiuge in a cluster of bushes Infested by a lot, of bees. The bees and hornets attacked him so vxciously that, soon his eyes were closed and his face was swelled to twice its natur- al size. Bees are being trained as letter carriers by an English farmer. A bee is when a- way from home, a letter printed by microplmbography is gummed to his little back, and he is thrOWu into the air. Home he goes. like a carrier pigeon; and the chie! advantage he enjoys over his big brother is that he cannot be seen in time of war, or, if seen. could not. very well be shot. Work of the British Post omce. According to the British Postmaster Genersl’s fortieth annual report, issued as a Parliamentary paper, the total number of letters, post cards, book packets, circu- lars, samples, newspapers, 'and parcels de- livered in the United Kingdom during the yenr ended March 313:; is estimated at 2,- 853,534,000, M) average 0‘ over 74 to each person, and an increase of nearly ‘25 per cent. compared with the previous year. The estimated totaX revenue for the year was “0,734,885 in the postal department, and £2,579,200 in the telegraph depart- ment. The total expenditure was £10,511,- 476, of which £7,757,423 had refer nce to the Postal Department, and £2,754, ‘23 to the telegraph Department. Doctvorâ€"“ So your husband is ailing aggjn‘i" ~.. .. n ~,1 7 Dr V V . , . Mrs. S):mpurseâ€"-“ Yes: It's msomnm now. He can’t, sleep a wink.” “ Ah, 1’11 soon cure him of that.” ” Yes, I am sure you can.” “Thanks for your confidence. He is worried aboubfiomenhing, I presume." "Indeed he is. p30r ‘mar. He lies awake all night wondering how he is ever going to pay your last bill.” ITEMS OF INTEREST. Easy to Cure huh». Claude Meeker, Unimd States Consul at, Bradford, England, has sent to rhe State Department a report upon the attempts that are now being made to manufacture artificial silk. His report contains some very interesting points upon the progrea made. He says that a. company is now being promoted in Bradford for the manu- facture of artificial silk. Patents have beenmaken- out in the Unit/ed'States, and in is proposed to establish a. company for the purpose of selling rights. The inventor o! the process is Dr. Frederich Lehner, of Zurich, Switzerland. “At the office of the Company,” says Mr. Meeker, “there is shown daily the ‘ spinning frame ’ in operation, and one can see the liquid contents of a pot on Lop of the frame turned instantaneously before his eyes into what appears a pure silken yarn or thread.” The Consul gives the followmg descrip. tion of the process of manufacture: “ All vegetable fibres may, by a Lresimenc by acids and alkalies, be reduced so what; in the commerce of chemistry is knDWn as cellulose. Cellulose is, indeed, made from wood pulp, the mine from cotton, jute and other spinning industries, etc., for 3 var- iety of commercial purposes. And it is this material which is the basis of artificial silk. By direct combination with nitric acid it is converted into nitrate, and if a small quantity of sulphuric acid be also added, the latter combines with she waver, and, muse a. well understood chemiCul phrase, ‘aplits ofi‘.’ The highest A Swlaa the Inventor of [he l’nwosu which Takes the Silk Worm'u Place. are explosives, and are insoluble in alcohol ether. The pyroxyllne nitrate, or lowar nitrates, are less explosive and are soluble in alcohol ether. Ordinary pyroxyline dis- solved in alcohol ether is gelatinousin char- acber,buf. wanting in viscosicy. A solution con\a.ioing,sa.y, more than seven per cent. of cellulose is, however, {:00 gelatinous to be readily workable. It is at this point. where Dr. Lehner’s special Lrentmentoi the pyroxy- line comes in. By the addition of diluted sulphuric acid to the alcohol ether he breaks down the nitrate into bodies of difierenb physical character, but at we same chemi» cal character. and Consequently is able to obtain a. twelve per cent. solution which is perfectly fluid and workable under the sim- p lest conditions. “The process of the preparation oi this‘ fluid is a purely chemical one. It is in the. subsequent treatment of this fluid and its conversion into a textile fibre that the main interest centres, from an industrial point of view. This process is shown in operation upon a machine which is a modification of the ordinary flyer spinning frame. The fluid, a. muddy, yellowish substance, is‘ contained in a glass jar, from which it is‘ conveyed through pipes to a smell row of small bentglsss tubes, eaCh having an ex. ‘ tremely fine nozzle or orifice. These tubes are arranged in a shallow trough of water, the orifice being beneath the water level. As the fluid leaves the nozzle the water re- moves sixty per cent. of the solvent, and the fluid immediately coagulates. and is drawn off in a remarkably fine filament of brilliant lustre and, when dry, of great tenacity. Half a dozen such filaments ure gathered together and spun precisely as silk or wool is spun, only without the drafting arrangement, and ate speed in accordance with the twist required. In passing through the spinning frame it rapidly dries and becomes quite solid, and in the process of drying the remainder of the solvent is removed. The yarn on the spools is practically except by microscopic or chemical exsmina- tion. It is. howaver, in this condition, when perfectly dry" a highly inflammable substance, and it therefore requires to go through a third processâ€"that of denitra- tionâ€"in which by a well-known treatment by ammonium sulphide the nitrate acid is extracted, after which, when the yarn is again dried, it is practically non«inflamm~ able It is, indeed. less inflammable than cotton or rhea. Chemically, the yarn when dsuitratei approximates very closely to silk itself. The lustrous character of the meter- ial depends upon its transparency and its cylindrical construction. The yarn can be spun to any thicknesa of count, and athread, it is claimed, is of even diameter through- out. unbroken, and it may be produced of unlimited length. Indeed, once the spin- ning frame is properly started and given a continuous supply of the cellulose nitrate, the operation of spinning is practically automatic and may be continued indefin ately. “ Samples of yarn, furniture fringes and braids, brocaded silk haudkerchiefs. pou- gees, gimpa, sewing silk. etc" dved in a great variety of shades, were inspected and handled by many gentlemen Well able to animate their commercial vslue. and the general opinion as to the trillmnce of the effects produced was {wot-able. The arti- ficial silk materials will stand washing and ironing without losing their lustre or with- out any. impeil‘menn of their colors. "It, should be Hated that the manufac- turers and textile experts of Bradford have ‘ no confidence in the usefulness and practic- ability of the new prccess. It was offered to the Manningham Silk Mills (Lister & Co.,) the largest, silk manufnccory in Eng- land, before in Was introduced to the general public, but. they declined m recog- nize its utility. I have questioned a dozen others whoseexperiencein the cradeougha to make their opimous valuable.a.nd they have, withouc exception, slated their beliet than the invention would not prove a success." He was so self-conceited that he didn’t. know there was a little i in the alphabet, and yet he was sweet on a girl, He Lhoughb u, would be all right, and tried to put, his arm around her. He waa mlstvaken. 1‘01), excuee me,” he said, “I aeh." 7 "Well, she replied sharply, “if you did its Lhe first time I've heard of it.” INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM TEAM SILK, NITRATES 0F CELLULOS’E ARTIFICIAL SILK Something Unusual. forgot my WHAT UNGLE SM 18 AT. ITEMS OF INTEREST A}? BUSY YANKEE. Neighborly Interest in Ills nounsâ€"DIM! It" or Home“! and nlrth Gathered l‘rom Ills Daily Record. The largest zobacco warehouse in the world is at Louisville. Ky. The railroads of the United Stated-have presen$ debts amounting to $\1,000,000. A syndicate of capitalists is to build a $1,000,000 theatre near the corner of Mou- roe and Clark esteem, Chicago. There are 13,000,000 men of military age m the Unitad Staten. A sufferer from asthma at Glendale, Pm, has not slept in a. bed for 10 years. E. P. Bickell, of Cincinnati, became a raving maniac while on a. twin near Dray- con, Ohio, and was subdued only after a» desperate struggle. At the rate at which Texan timber is be- ing cut 1he supply will last only 15 years. Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher was 82 yea-rs old Sunday. She is enjoying fairly good health. The business of sweet corn canning has oflate developed anew industry in the dairy districts of New York. The teachers of Junction City, Kansas, have been forbidden by the 100k) education- a! board to attend more than one dance per week The United States Government has cut down the appropriation for the Port Or- chard dry dock on Puget; Sound from $86.- 000 to $45,000. According to the Society for the Preven- tion of Cruehy to Animals there has been but. one mad dog in New York Cny for twentyeizht years. A new church-’tbe American Catholic churchâ€"has been organized in the States. The most of these secedcrs from the Roman Catholics are Poles. Thirty-five years ago Mrs. Milton Steven son, of Georgetown, Ky, ran a piece 0 broken glass inLo her hand. Last week (hm glass was taken out. at, the elbow. ‘ A Tevas newspaper says that Mr. m d Mrs. Milton A. Baker, “possibly tl e wealthiest Degrees in Texas," are now ma - iuga tour of the principal cities of 1e 01d\Vor1d. ners. Tenn.,shriuks once a month from 80 to 110 pounds and remains in that condition for a. week, after which he regains his orifi- nnl weight. It is said that 5. man at Heming’s Cl?!“ ,Thomas A. Garfield, the only broLher of the assassinated preside“, is living on a» farm 16 miles from Grand Rapids. Mrs. George W. Childs, widow of the Philadelphm editor, has arranged for the- building of the palatial mansion in Wash- ingmn. Miss Frances E. Willard suggests aChrisâ€" tian theabre-one conducted in a way that religious papers could advernse and recom- mend. The New Jersey society of Cincinnati devotes the income of a. fund of $30,000 for the markmg of places in than state mad historic by the war of the revolution. The Rev. Dr. Edward Beecher, Henry Ward’s eldest. brother, celefirated bis 9135 birthday anniversary Monday. Captain Kent, a. pioneer and wealthy, citizen of Omaha, has been declared insané and removed to an asylum. He won the promoter of many of Omaha’s public build~ tags and palm. An old album of smmps collected thirty years ago in Savannah and recennly dis- covered by an heir of the collector, has re- vealed a number of valuable issuesfiome of them worth $1,500. The United States Credit. System Com- pany of Newark, N. J., which insure ier- chants against, bad debts, is in the ban 9 of I receiver. its espital having recently been impaired m the extent of $200300. Price Uoldby, who lives near Trimble, Tenn, was under a. tree which was struck by lightning. When he recovered cou- sciouaness his skin was as black as a. negro’a and has been so ever since, but, otherwise he was uninjured. At Greenwood, 1nd,, the women starved out the only saloon in the place by opening an ice cream parlor next, door and operating it so as to make a chance to shake hands with every male acquaintance who passed it on his way after a drink. The house in which Liudley Murray. the famous gmmmarian of early American days. was born is still standing about: twelve miles south of Harrisburg, Pa. It. is Baome~ whan pretentious log-house, with three rooms and a sleeping loft. In Massachusetts the experiment. of tax- iug bicycles is proving a. failure. Near] half the wheels are owned by minors, wh are enbiLIed by law to $1.000 exemptio . In Boston, which has 15,000 wheels, 11 attempt. will be made to levy the tax. In Jetferson County, Wisconsin, the i - troduction of dairying has been follow d by an increase in the value of farm [mde from $16 to $60 per acre and in a reduct on m the number of mortgaged homesie du from sixty to seventy per cent. of the tufted. Kencucky, lefc only one request. whe he died. That was to be buned in his ilk- lined broadcloth coat. His maiden sister, with whom he had lived many 3; am‘ wouldn't allow the tequesb to be comglied wiLh. 'r ¢ Alexander S. Blaine, of Simpson mighty, The capitol at, \\ ashington has cost Tore than $30,000,000. It covers three uan a half acres, the dome is 307 feet high and 135 in diameter. and is exceeded in size imly by St. Pewr’s in Rome, St. Paul’s in Lon- don. the Invalides in Paris and St. Isa‘finc's in St. Petersburg. ,’ Mrs. Lucinda Bradley. 3. colored worrfan, died at Benmnv'xlle, Ohio. recently, In, \khe age of 93. She has been A. slave, belonging to Henry Clay, until shu wns nine ytmrs old, when Clay anld her. After various transfers she was bought by William Brad- ley In 1859,who took her to Auams Countv, Ohio. where they lived as man and wife. (,incinnati’s fire department has adopted an innovation in the way of a portable tele- phone which is carried to all fires and connection made with wires running to the departmen‘; headquarters. This enables the chief or the marshal in command to keep in constant. communication with the hendquuxers of fin organlzmion. THE