The Fairfield News and Herald, 1881-11-02

Recently a paper by M. W. deFon- j pe ielie /was read before the Balloon So- pi iety, an which the author described the T< ppearance of comet "b," 1881, as seen st v him at midnight-, from the car of a in alloon. The brilliancy of the light TJ hich the comet showed when the bd- cc )on reached a height of more than one cc lousand metres, increased in a very si irgo proportion, notwithstanding the in ."ansparency of the atmosphere. So sp ir as conld be judged of similar changes ar ithoufc the assistance of optical instru- cc lents/ it seemed that the brilliancy had cc icreased abont half beyond its normal rilliancy as seen from the earth. The j lil was a little longer than seen from be earth, but most remarkable was the lanner in which it terminated, for it ^ ras cut off straight, as if a line were W( rawn over i: horizontally with a ruler. ^ "his singular circumstance made M. de i ' 'on vie lie think that the phenomenon _ light be terminated by a fleecy cloud. "he appearance of the tail was as if proneed by legions of large stones travel- , og in the planetary space independently w f the comet and having no other con- < lection with it than that of being tem(orarilv lighted by the rays which its P-1 tmosphere had caused to deviate, more tj. ?less, from their natural route. These n) of romnants of worlds would

&H1 ^UlU^ IU pa J, CkUU j\J v* AMtx VV T> - - -, When you are through, you rise and prepa> to get out. The waiter stops, you>Vih an obsequious smile in which there is much determination, and remarks: " The waiter !*' You are made to understand that he expects a shilling. You give it to him. Getting to your room you wan6 a pitcher of wat er. A servant brings it, and waits until you give him a sixpence. You take a drink?if you do drink?I know this from seeing other victims?you pay for the drink, and the servant who brings it to you expects aad manages to get threepence. The boy who cleans your boots wants sixpence; the chambermaid who sweeps yoar room wants a shilling; the boy who goes down to see if you have any J.ette.'s?wants sixpence:, and..-"frer naming for all this you get war bill. TTr-~: derstand you have already paid exorbitant prices for each and every bit of service you have received, but, nevertheless, there in your bill is an item. ' attendance four days, eight shillings." You pay it without a murmur externally, and hope you are done with it. Not so. As you leave the hotel, there stands the entire retinue of servants?the boots, the chambermaid, the bar-man, the bellboy bellboyall - all bellboyall with their hands extended, and - : .?

)i uis uau^uters arts piuuuico ui u?.w. I , Prior to the adoption of fruit diet, Mrs. j ^ tiindeand two or three of the children j lad been "ailing" for years. The j jij reporter suggested to Mr. Hinde that j people could not live on such food in a f. ;old climate, therefore he could not exDect the world ever to adopt the prin- s< iiples he advocates. He admitted that n countries of cold and damp climate .! ood of a more warming nature is re- 1 quired, but he thought an improvement n night be made even in such places. a Southern California, however, is just 11 he place for a fruit diet, as its warm, P Iry atmosphere renders the use .of ^ leating food unneccessary, while its 2; ine climate is adopted to the .cultiva- ^ - ' * " T ntere sting Facts Concerning Tfood-; ^ Pulp. . j Until recent years only a few varieties if wood were used in.making wood- ic >ulp. The poplar was early liked for u: his purpose on account of its clear ai rhite fibre and the ease with which it m ould be converted into pnlp. Spruce it ias been considerably used of late, and I lemlock makes a good quality ot pulp, tl l large number of factories have been hi staolished for the making of wood w >ulp alone, and there are good reasons I uj ifo TViOTlTlfoMTlTO CVATT!^ VlQ nftOTI I 1 ll

includes mumps, measles, typhus and typhoid. The longest period is forty days. "Tipping." J It; commences the moment you leave the dock at New York. You have paid a very large sum for your passage, enough'to*entitle you to every comfort that money can buy. Bat there seis upon you immediately a horde of bloctd-, suckers, who^neser. will, let go till?^QgW h.lij ttimr wr-aa?JL.ilH.1||Hi* i . There is a sovereign to the man who ^ makes your bed; there is the chamber- X-j? maid, there is the table steward, the smoking-room steward, the deck steward; there are collections for asyluais . : in Liverpool; there are collections for the man who attends to the purser's m room, where a select few are treated to a little refreshment at five in the afternoon; there are fees for showing the' machinery of the vessel; there are 4< tips" for the Lord knows what Then there is the English hotel. JixflT contract for your room for so much a V; day?and the sum is always a round \j^ne?and it is explained to you that you -Jay order your meals from a bill of ^ fare, the price of each dish being set down opposite its name. Very good, you say to yourself, I know now what I ? ?nnn -fall fn TTHTIT.

? herefore produce tiie same effect as lust lighted by a ray of sun admitted ^ nto a dark room through a crevice. M. ^ te Fonvillo dwelt upon this theory at ' ome length, and insisted that it was to ^ his cause'that the zodiacal light was in , ill. probability to be attributed. He a ,lso insisted that astronomical investijations should include ballooning. Amount or Paper Used. p If the amount of paper consumed by b . nation has any bearing upon the tl question of enlightenment; and civi- si ization, England and the United States ake the lead of the world. England produces annually 180,000 tons, and lses about five kilogrammes (about ^ ?leven pounds) for each unit of its a copulation. The United States pro- Sj luces 207.0C0 tons and consumes lire n rilogrammc-s per head. Germany pro- a' luces 203,GOU tons and consumes 4.76 0 kilogrammes; and France produces j] 132,000 and consnmes 3.G3 kilogrammes, r The consumption of paper in other a countries is in the following order; a. Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, Aus- t( :ria, Italy, Sweden, Portugal. Switzer- a [and uses 4 51 kilogrammes per head s md Portugal 1.80 kilogrammes, Austria c 1 nrom i. TfnW Sfl ?

JOlULUtU iJ ail I JL/VXl u (TVU JU ? v. knocked this one flat, and can't unpry it np again?" " Can't nnpry it np again! " ejaculated Mrs. Spoopendyke, in a very gentle voice, handing him another nail. "Can't unpry it np again !" Well, if that ain't grammar! " " Oh, ain't it ?" said Mr. SpoopenI dyke, with a most horrific smile. " Of j conrse it ain't, yon old female seminary j with a cracked bell in yonr cupalo ! Am II going to school to yon, or am I driv| ing nails? " | "Well, dear, sighed Mrs. .Spoop^ndyte, "you're snrely not driving nails." "No, yon cac just bet, I'm not drivin' nails, and yon can bet I ain't ! a-going to try to drive no more nails j neither! And yon can bet," continued j Mr. Spoopendyke, with still densifyiDg 1 intensity, and a war-dance flourish as he I leaped to the floor, " and yon can just ! bet your high muck-a-muck, if you'll ' set that measly old chromo of yours on the side-table, I'll throw this dodgasted thing so far throngh it that it won't get back in a century ! "?Brooklyn Engle.

L U1Q MAU4 WAMt. vw . tents, his horse going twenty miles 2 hour; and as it was sore agaiast it will that I engaged in such antics, was with nnfeigned satisfaction that witnessed occasional catastrophes in ie shape of some gallant Khan, srse, armament and all come down ith a crash in attempting to clear an lusaally wide mud patch, and get np te reverse of pleased with himself, at these people take a pride in showg their stoicism, like iNorth American idians, and the man who had come ' grief was the first to initiate a fresh ampede. It wanted but an hour of sunset as e drew near Makdumkuii Khan's resent residence ; for it i3 not his per- j anent abode. He lives with iiis ' >unger brother, Y^ussuf Khan. ; The Khans had ridden on before, and I dismounted at the entrance to the yelling cama forward to receive me. 1 hey were dressed in the usual Turcoan robes of the upper class?a long nic of coarse crimson silk reaching ! ;arly to the ankle, and with a narrow imbined stripe of black and yellow. : bis was girt at the waist, rather high 1 > TTMfk wMnminATIC CftCiVl nf I 1

to dircct mo to cur friend." " I am sorry to say I know no more ! than you do," Lord Loring replied, j " Rom ayne's present address is a secret! confided to his bankers and to no one j else. I will give you their names if you i wish to write to him." Major Hynd hesitated. *'I am not! quite sure that it would be discreet to j write to him under the circumstances." i Lady Loring could no longer keep silence. " Is it posssible, Major Hynd, to tell us what the circumstances are?" she asked. " I am almost as old a friend of Komayne as my husband?and I am very anxious about him." The major looked embarrassed. ''I can scarccly answer your ladyship," he said, " without reviving painful recollections?" Lady Loring's impatience interrupted i the major's apologies. "Do you mean the duel ?" she inquired. Lord Loring interposed: " I "should tell you, Major Hynd, that Lady Loring is as well informed as I am of what happened at Boulogne, and of the deplor -