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WILDAT FOR THE FUTURE. There will be enough to sat during the next forty years at least if the conclusions of Prof. M. A. Carleton, of the Unitol States Department of Agriculture, are justified. Of
tinction interval" depends on the proportion of carbon in the iron or steal. It is 100 dog, to 150 g for purs iron, 95-deg..to 145 deg, for 0.2 per cent carbon steel Steel having 1.3 por) coat, of earbon does not show the peculiarity.
PEAT WOOD.
THE CAREER OF COUNT TOLSTOY.
An artificial wood patented in England the 1,900,947,000 acres constituting the total by S. J. Davies and J. Rowell is made land area of the United States, the farms from 75 per cont. of peat moss, 10 of starch, 10 occupied 839,591,774 nores in 1900, and should of glug and 5 of formaldehyde, carbolic scid or exceed 1,300,000,000 acres in 1950, when the tannic noid, Boiling water is added to the glue, isproved farm pres should be 760,000,000 starch, ote, and the peat moss is worked into The area in wheat-which has averaged the mixture to form a thick paste, which can be 5.2 per cent for several decades should be 6 melded or formed under heavy pressure inle"a per cent, by 1950, or a total of about 80,000,000 great variety of articles. The composition, Bores. At 20 bushels per acre, 6 bnahole bein claimed to be a satisfactory and useful substituto allowed as the increase in yield, this ares would for wood and other substances, has some advant- produce 1,600,000,000 bushels of whout. One ages over natural wood. prediction is that the United States will have a population of 200,000,000 in 1950), and if this should be realized and the per capita consump tion of wheat should increase from the present
We quoled, says the Times, an interest- 6 bushels to 8 bushels, than the country can
Count by juat supply its own wheat. It is extremely iming description of the
ominent Russian "`writer: Everything in probable, howarer, that either population or Tolstoy's character, he said, attains titanio Adrinker he absorbed consumption will reach the high point_named, proportions To the 900,000,000 bushels estimated as the fantastic quantities of liquor. As a gambler increase in United States yield may be added he terrified his paters by the boldness of
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A BREATHING SECORDER.
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every one by his prodigious nativity in sport DA weli ая in literature." And in his old age he astonished the world still by his fierce and irreconcilable quarrel with it, after it had given to him all that any man could hope for. He was coble and rich all happily married, one of the most famona men in Europe, and an artist whose powers seemed to have no Jimit. Yet be he could not be contented with all these gifts. of fertane, not even with the practice of hia n Whatever he did seems to havo beon
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an 18-inch copper ring, which is placed around experimen like a child from oue game to
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and be another, us if he had only a blind desire for novels of our age; but his childhood was lasting experience of all kinds. He wrote the grastest even while its wrote them. He had not yet settled down to the business of his life. Indeed, he always had a hatred of all kinds of which turned him at last against the of art, as of science. He could no more give his life up to Hterature than to profligacy or fighting or farming or sport. His art iter was only a kind of talking about bis experience: and it seemed to be-free from the usual egotism of such talk, because bia ENGLAND'S CURIOUS RESERVOIRS dan there were so many men comprehended is The so-called "dow ponds" of the "down" own oburacier, and because he was more inter-
esteil
in life than in himself. The peoiliar or grassy uplande, of the South of England of his art is the result of the long are still an interesting problem. They are all duration of his childhood. Up to middle age artificial, some of them, modern, but others elder und beyond ho took in knowledge and experience of all kinds disinterestedly, like a child And he | than the knowledge of man, and they may sup wrote about it all just as disinterested, en
ply the hilltop with an abundance of water while there is a childish simplicity ovan in War and
aud the lowland is parched with drowth. They rany Peace in spite of its subtlety depth.
Some men come to full consciousness. BO bo 30 to 75 feet in diameter, the depth of water An
as they come to it at all, quite early in life, and being not more than three or four foet.
they usually come to it without much tranbie impervious bottom is necessary to the dew-pond, or sffort of soul. Circumstances force as ond and usually consists of a layer of paddled in life upon them, and they accept it without chalk or olay over which is spread a layer of much questioning. But no end in life was Perhaps it would forced upon Count-Tolstoy. rabble, with straw between or below the two have been batter for him, or at least for extent layers, A carront theory is that this heat in his happiness, if he had been to some
As it was, he sulated bottom condenses the invisible moisture: subject to the struge for life
had to find an end in life for himself; and he of the air inta dew, sthat keeps the cool basis found it and came to full consciousness, not by filled. It appears that this view is not uni- the pressure of circumstances, but through versal, however, for in some localities the ponds orisis in his own mind and soul He has to d have been known as "slond-pends," fog-ponds," us how this crisis came upon him, and how it or "mist-panda." Ameng meteorologists, the grew within him, unprovoked by external events, as if it were a part of his own natural opinion has been expressed thatrain alone may fill growth. When it came, he ceased to care for the basins, although their position on summits random experience and blind experiment in does not admit of scamulation by drainags, life. At last his childhood was over, and he found an end, which was less than the salvation After extensive observations on behalf of the of his own real and of the whole world. This Royal Society. Edward A. Martin conolades that much of the water is supplied by the sea- fegs or mists that are common in Sussex and Kent and carry heavy lads of moisters, Places especially exposed to these foge seem to bare been preferred for the ponds,
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How the heart is affected by different kinds of work is not known, but the engineer at least "appears to be peculiarly liable to heart trouble. at the This terminates fatally in his case average age of 60, These conclusions are reached by a British statistician from study of the annual report of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, which bus'a membership of more than 100,000, and publishes mortality tables showing 214 deaths from affections of Was the heart in eash 1,000, but only 98 from preamsala, 93 from bronchitis and 91 from old age,
"My purpose holds To sail beyond the-Sunset, and the bathe Of all the western atara, 'nutil I die. It may be that the Gulfs will wash us down; It may be we shall touch the Hippy Isles." But so. The last lina we have quoted is quite applicable to Tolstoy and its inapplicability shows us all the difference between him and any philosopher of the ancient world, whose to Eve that he might attain peace in this life, Christianity, inel. with its further hopes, has had this tereable effect upon the greatest men, whatever their beliefs may be, that they will not sven attempt to reconcile themselves to this life, but look for salvation through the pursuit of an im possible ideal Christianity itself has often been reproached for the impossibility of its ideals. It esu answer that they are impossible just bocanso they are ideals; and they are ideals.
Tolety,
He knows because this life is not the end. The same answer can be made by that he, will not touch the Happy Isles on this side of the grave, and he dous act pretend to show other men the way to them. Happi- DOGS, he would say, is rot the tout sither in youth or age. There is no test except the com- A new mixing matoriai patented in German mande which a I's soal lays upon bím ; and is prepared as a powder, and is a mixture of 50 these he must learn to recognize by being them. If he disobeys them they will coase; and
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A new German method of decorating metallic objects consista in applying a paste containing powder of a more enelly malted metal, with reducing agent, and a liquid boiling below the melting point of the powder. Just onough heat is then applied to cause the metallic coating to fuse and adhere, Metals of varied colour may bo applied.
IMPROVED BIZING,
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