Highest of all in Leavening Power.Ltst U. 3. Gov't Report
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A WEALTHY BAREFOOT BOY.
A Pliyiiotan'a Sou Who Goes Stocklnglcs
Summer Md Winter.
The indignation of the passengers on
western Maryland railroad train was
somewhat unnecessarily excited near
Baltimore by the unusual spectacle of a
richly clad boy or are or six years,
Whose legs and f t were perfectly bare,
although the winter morning was a cold
one. ' The child was accompanied by his
mother and sister, both of whom were
richly dressed, and the sadden conclu
lion was formed by the passengers that
the family had spent so much money in
wraps, dresses and coverings for the bod
ies and shoulders of the elders that noth
ing bad been left wherewith to provide
a protection from the inclemency of the
weather for the boy's extremities. ' "
The appearance and conduct of the
three, which indicated culture, wealth
and, on the part of the mother, parental
solicitude for the welfare of her off
spring, and on the port of the boy per
fect content and comfort and apparent
obliviousness to the fact that his feet and
ankles were bare, hardly seemed to ac
cord with the hastily formed suspicion
' of the curious spectators. On inquiry it
was ascertained that the boy was the sou
of a prominent physician who had lost
one child after another with throat dis
eases until he hit upon the idea of turn
ing his children out barefooted, as chil
dren went before stockings and shoes,
which retain themoistureof the foot and
the moisture of the ground, were in
vented. The physician's experiment proved to
be a perfect success. The barefooted boy
was the picture of health. At Union
station he ran up the cold boards and k
covered bricks laughing and singing and
totally unaware of any discomfort. By
adopting the barefoot method the Mary
land physician has succeeded in raising a
family of healthy boys and girls. Win
ter and summer his children of both
sexes have gone shoeless and stocking
less. People look on with curiosity and
amazement, but the doctor is perfectly
satisfied with the results. , :
Indian mothers made their babies
hardy by plunging them in the ice cov
ered streams. Physicians of today say
. that the best remedy for cold feet is tu
plunge them into cold water. The
warmth, comfort and exhilaration which
come from the attraction of the blood to
the extremities exceed any physical de-
' light to be extracted from toasting one's
toes at the open tire, the register or the
steam radiator, tt seems to be Mother
Nature's way of teaching us that we
must endure before we enjoy and that
the greatest joy comes through endur
ance. Baltimore American.
HERE'S YOUR SNAKE STORY.
A Bicycler's Darin Bid With Two Rep
tiles Attached to HU Wheel.
A most peculiar and Interesting snake
story is told by a bicyclist who rode one of
the relays in the race across Ohio from
Sandusky to Portsmouth rucently. It will
bo remembered that tho entire distance of
814 miles was covered In 1DV hours, and
from this it will be seen that at no time
oould the speed have been slow.
Tho rider declares that while wheeling
at good gait be ranched the top of a long
lope which gradually dropped to the bed
- A Mechanical Malhentatieioau
An attempt has been made in a new me
chanical calculator to provide a means of
saving time for contractors, engineers, ma
chinists, surveyors and accountants in
fact, for all who have occasion to solve nu
merical problems. s
This device is a kind of slide rule, which
has, however, all its figures in a single
plane. It consists of a wooden base about
nine inches square and a quarter of an inch
thick, bound with nickel plated metal.
Within a circle eight inches in diameter
are a series of circular scales on the face of
. two metal plates, the inner plate revolving
sn a central huh. The inner circle is pro-
Tided with two nickel plated knobs, by
which it is revolved, while on the under
side of the board is a metal point by which
' the revolving of the outer plate or the
table or disk is facilitated.
Pivoted at the center is a lens which
magnifies the finer lines. The base of the
frame of the lens forms a notched edge to
bring t he required figures into line. A re
movable thumbscrew regulates the set of
the frame.
The inner set of scales, called the slide, ii
on a white ground, and the outer net, called
a rule, is on a green ground. Problems are
set and their solution effected by bringing
a mark of value that is on the scale of
one part to a Hne with a mark of value on
the scale of the other part, the revolution
of the slide within the rule rendering this
posxiula .t .
The inventor claims that the device
shows at a glance the squares, cubes and
the reciprocals of any numbers, obtains
proportions, directly and inversely, also
roots and powers, and when used in con
nection with tables of natural sines, tan
gents, etc., effects the solution of trigooo
metrical equations. Pitthtir Dispatch.
Don't Judge by Appearances.
A one legged street beggar who, rain
or shine, sits every day with outstretched
band on the steps of a warehouse in a
down town cross street is quite a philos
opher in his way. He says that, so far
as his experience goes, little can be
judged regarding the benevolence of men
or women by their appearance. Some
times, he says, ho will see a man ap
proaching who seems to be the personi
fication of charity allied with opulence.
Tho beggar stretches forth his hand with
confidence, but withdraws it with disap
pointment. Then there hurries by a Me
, riustophelian looking creature, seedy
perhaps, with a cynical smile on his face,
who drops a quarter into the beseeching
palm. Among women, the beggar asserts,
the best dressed are seldom the most
charitable. There are exceptions to the
rule, of course, but the prevalent theory
that a street beggar can "size up" a pe
destrian by his appearance is erroneous.
New York World.
Vnwrtttea Laws of Society.
There are four principles of life, which
consist of good manners, politeness, cour
tesy, good breeding and savolr faire, and
happy is the man or woman who knows so
well these laws of good society that they
are a charm, a happiness and a boon to all
those who fall beneath the spell of these
admirable qualities, for the perfect marine
is the best letter of introduction. It is the
courtesy wo extend toward each other. It
is the passport of good breeding and tb
savoir faire that enables us to know what
to say and what to leave unsaid. It is th.
foundation of the respect we have for our
neighbors, our friends and ourselves. Good
Housekeeping. .,
Hon Eyes from Toe Huh Soap..
A physician writes: "I think tt cruel "Wi
allow the face and eyes to be washed over
with soap in the coarse and rough way in
which I have often seen tt done. - Some
nurses seem to takes sort of morbid delight
in its employment In this way. Even to s:i
adult, soup in the eyes is a very painful
ordeal to go through; in the end it in
variably product chronic, sometimes acute
ophthalmia.- In washing children's faces
sviibEwpusefinetlanuela sponge or the
S.iurtiu towel," . .
IT LAT tTCKLED ARIH'SD THK CIBCl'MKKR-
KNCK OF THH WHKKL.
of a stream. When near the bottom of
the hill, bis speed must have been nearly
a 5 mile gait. bile going at this speed
he discovered what he took to be a limb
lying across the road. As he came close
and when too late to turn out he discover
ed that the supposed limb was a snake
about 10 feet long, and just beyond was a
second reptile of nearly equal length. -
His wheel struck the nearer snake and
went over easily, but the reptile In some
way raised its head and struck savagely
at the shimmering spokes. The snake's
head passed between the spokes near the
hub. and the snake fastened ' Its fangs on
the spokes at the opposite side of the
wheel. '
The- effect of this was to slacken the
speed of the bicycle, and the rider was al
most thrown from his wheel by the sud
den stop, but maintained his seat an J
kept his machine going straight ahead. It
was remarkable that the knifelike revolu
tions of the spokes did not cut the snake
In two, but the long body of the snake
Was drawn within the wheel, and the cen
trifugal force threw It close to the felly,
where it lay curled around the circumfer
ence of the wheel and quite safe. -
The rider dared not stop fur fear of be
ing bitten and was afraid of Increasing
his speed lest the snake should slip from
the wheel, and becoming entangled throw
him to the ground, He noticed, however,
that his speed was becoming gradually
loss, but attributed this to the fact that
he was now going up hill and to the
weight of the reptile. But as he reached
the top of the hill ho heard a scraping and
hissing noise behind him and turned to
ascertain the cause. He was horrified to
see that the second and larger snake was
also caught In his bicycle and was holding
on oy its uui.
The wheelman now decided to increase
his speed In order to shake his second ene
my and strained every muscle to attain
higher, speed, but the dead weight of the
snake dragging in the dust behind proved
too much for bis already tried muscles.
With two miles to go before he met the
next relay he was In a quandary as to bow
he would escape, but glancing back he saw
that the snake had twined its tail around
the little step by which a rider mounts
bicycle.
Tho step was of the pattern called the
' rattrap'; becausaof its sharp teeth on
the upper ride. The wheelman, taking ia
the situation, reached back with his left
foot and brought the heel of his shoe down
forcibly upon the snake's tail, completely
severing it and causing the snake to drop
off.
The reptile hissed and started In pur
suit, but the bicycle was easily kept in
the lead. A farmer came along, and be
ing attacked iy the snake killed it. .The
bicyclist a short distance farther on fin
lshed his run. Arming himself with
club, he examined his wheel and found
that the other snake was dead, and not
only that, but it was literally cut into
small bits. Tho centrifugal force had been
so great that it had forced the body of the
snake deeper and deeper into the apex of
spokes, and the reptile was cut into
chunks and had to be removed bit by bit
To Look for Symmes' Hole. .
In response to an advertisement in a
Cincinnati newspaper asking for volun
teers to leave next June on an arctic ex
pedition Lieutenant W. H. Bradbury, of
the Champion City Uuards, Springfield.
O., received a note from A. Symmes. of
Louisville, a relative of the late JrJhn
Cleves Symmes, of Symmes' hole fame.
stating tuat the expedition wonld be ab
sent two years. "A vessel," Mr. Symmes
says, "will take us to Greenland, and
then we are to go in sleds with dogs as
far as the snow lasts and then on foot.
We go with no other purpose than to fol
low the wild animals back to Symsonia.
whence they come every spring and re
turn every falL No one has ever fol
lowed them to their home, but we will
Where they go we can follow, and a new
world is to be found that will immortal
ize the finders." Cor. Chicago Times.
Two Passenger on tbe Ocean.
On a recent trip of the City of Paris a
demure little person stitched on some
plain sewing the way over. In another
part of the ship a quiet gentlemanly
young man occupied himself with "Lit
tle Don-it." The seamstress was Mist
Maud Branscombe, whose photograph
first revealed the possibility of photo
graphic ' distinction. The gentlemanly
reader was Burge, the lightweight prize
Bghter, who has come over here to try
conclusions with Mr. McAuliffe. New
York Evening Sua
Only a Few of Them Loft.
The sloop Wasp, now receiving repairs
on Morgan's ways at New London,
Conn., is probably one of the oldest
boats afloat In 1813 she gained a de
cisive victory over the British brig
Frolic, and later in the war she captured
the sloop-of-war Reindeer. There is
some talk of exhibiting the Wasp at the
world s fair.
DIAMOND SMUGGLING.
the Ease With Which rreelon SUim of
Large Value May Bo Concealrd.
One of tho simplest devices for smug
gling diamonds is that ot the hollow
heeled shoe. It is asserted that boots
and shoes constructed so as to leave ,
mall vacant space in the heels are easily
obtained in Europe, mid they are espe
cially manufactured for the purpose of
supplying smugglers with a means for
soaping detection,
. The porous plaster has often served as
means of secreting diamonds, Wheu
it is understood that 10,000 worth of
diamonds or more can easily be inclosed
in paper parcel about aa wide as this
column, 14 inches high and about
quarter of an inch thick, it is easy to
ompreheud that such a package can be
kept securely iu place by means of an
Innocent but highly serviceable porous
plaster.
One of the most ingenious methods
ever employed was the use of a cake of
soap, wherein a number of diamonds
had been imbedded. It is highly proba
ble that this plan wonld have proved
successful had it not beeu that the offi
cers of the government had received iu
formation that the suspected person had
diamonds with him and searched his ef
fects so thoroughly that they examined
even the gem studded block of soap.
The wife of this smuggler helped her
spouse, and her plan was not less ingen
ious than that of her husband. Her bat
was ornamented with bunches of grapes,
which under ordinary circumstances
wonld only have awakened the envy of
other wearers or bonnets. Within the
grapes were diamonds and fancy stones
of great value.
Anot her smuggler was especially pro
vided by Providence with a smuggling
doviee in the shape of a heavy covering
of thick, bushy hair, which he arranged
so that it stood up from his forehead
like an impenetrable bush. Within this
mass of heavy hair he deposited a good
ly stock of diamonds and succeeded for
a time in escaping the vigilance of the
custom house officials.
As these schemes have become known
to the custom house authorities the in
genuity of smugglers has been more se
verely taxed. A recent discovery dis
closed the following elaborate plan.
which succeeded a great many times be
fore it was discovered: -
Two smugglers operated in partner
ship. The first crossed the ocean and be
fore leaving the wharf reserved a return
berth for a certain date. The date and
the number of the berth were at once
cabled to his accomplice in America.
Having purchased his diamonds, in due
time he returned to this country in ac
cordance with the instructions previous
ly cabled. No amount of examination
resulted in finding any diamonds upon
his person. Meanwhile, however, his
partner had secured the same berth.
When the day for sailing came, part
ner No. 2, accompanied by his family,
entered the cabin and extracted from a
secure hiding place several parcels of
diamonds left there by his accomplice.
These he handed to his tearful family,
who after bidding him goodby left the
steamer unsuspected and brought the
diamonds into the market It took a long
time to discover this scheme. Jewel
ers' Weekly.
Be Carrie an Alarm Olsek.
"How long dors tt take to get t One
Hundred end Twenty-fifth streetr"' In
quired a tall, thin man with a pink beard
and a silk hut three sixes too large for him
as he staggered Into an "L" train. He had
been trying to paint the town the color of
his heard.
We make about four miles on hour in
the crowded part of the day. We'd ought
to be there in alxnit fifty minutes if no ac
cident happens, but there generally ia one
every night along about now," said the
conductor. ' .
"Safe to eall It an hourf" asked the tall
ktan.
"Unite safe."
Tlierennon the nluk paiwetiirer drew from
a big box an enormous alarm clock and be
gan to wind It up. He carefully adjusted
t he alarm end of it, put the clock ou the
floor of the ear and coiling himself up in a
cross seat so that his legs encumbered the
l isle went to sleep.
It wits just one hour after this when a
terrible clanglug began. . It sounded like a
lire gong with a lit. Passengers sprang to
their feet In alarm, only to see their pink
whiskered fellow calmly awaks, stoop over,
pick up tho cluck, which was still bussing
like mad, and put It In his pocket He
smiled happily as he tucked out of the win
dow and saw that the train had just passed
One Hundred and Sixteenth street, and
presently he rose to leave.
"It beats going past your station bands
down," he said. "It causes a little com
motion now and then, but It always wakes
me up, and that's what I bought tt for.
I'm an overworked man and don't get
much simp, and seeing as there's twins up
at the house au hour and a half's dose in
the train a day Isn't to bo sneezed at
"I tried the alarm clock in church once
bo's I'd wake iu time to leave. It was
meant to save the ushers the trouble of
waking pie, but they preferred tho trouble
-to the noise of tho clock. Of course that
was largely their business."
The clock was still tingling In his ulster
pocket as he left the train, tho carload of
passengers following him with their eyes."
New York Herald. .
SI Xjiitirj
Dropplug a Hall 639 Feet. .
A few years ago In 1884, I believe sev
eral well known baseball players attempted
the impossible feat of catching and holding
a regulation Spauldlng dropped from the
top of Washington monument Tho experi
ment was tried by Trott, Hlnes, Baker,
Snyder and several lesser lights in the
fraternity, but none of them succeeded in
holding it or even materially checking Its
progress to the ground. The men named
above were all experts at their trades, but
it is evident that they gave their sports
more attention than they dul their "philos
ophy" during their school days, otherwise
they would have known that a body
dropped from such a height would be trav
eling with a speed of 187 feet per second at
the time of its contact with the earth.
The reason why no living man oould
catch and hold a ball traveling with such
velocity is plain enough by making eouie
hasty comparisons. The greatest distance
a ball has ever been thrown was 135 yards 1
toot and one-half Inch; tho longest "bit" on
record is a few i richer, over 300 yards. Inthis
last instance the ball was sent Into the air
at an angle of 45 degs. Now, mind this:
Allowing the same bail to have been hit la
the same direction, at the same sngle, with
sufficient force to give It the velocity at the
starting point that it would acquire in foil
ing from a height of 5M feet it would have
gone 544 yards instead of a bare fraction
over 200 yards. And then, even think of
trying to catch a ball the instant it leaves
tho bat on a yards' trip! Ouch I St
Louis Kcpubllc
. On Pike's Peak.
"The officer iu charge of the United
States signal service station on the top
of Pike's peak has rather a lonesome
time of it, especially in winter," said
Major C P. Leonard of Colorado. "He
lives in a low, flat building made of
stone, which is anchored and bolted to
the granite bowlders. During the winter
months he has no connection whatever
with the-rest of the world, as it is im
possible for a human being to ascend to
his station and just as impossible for
him to go down.
"Snow is hia only water supply, and
even in the heat of summer there is al
ways enough within a few feet of his
door to furnish all the water needed.
His official duties are light, requiring
only an occasional inspection of the in
struments. The rest of the time he oc
cupies in reading and viewing the sur
rounding country through his telescope.
On a clear day the houses of Colorado
Springs, 20 miles away, are plainly vis
ible,, and during the summer he can see
men walking around the town in their
shirt sleeves and ladies clothed in white
dresses, while he is perched up among
the clonus, with snow piled around on
all sides." St Louis Globe-Democrat.
A Similarity la Drees.
I had an Interesting chat the other day
with a bright clerk In the department of
state, and It is not remiss to note that
brightness is by no means locking In that
Important department The clerk In ques
tion was deploring the fact that there ap
peared to tie no likelihood of a change in
the style of men's evening dress, and that
the chances for butler, host and guest to be
generally mistaken, one for tho other, were
as strong as ever. The clerk bod several
important suggestions to make that would
prove valuable to any tailor, and the artist
who would consent to carry out these sug
gestions might immortalize or forever de
throne himself. Without discussing bis
most entertaining treatise on dress reform,
I am irresistibly reminded of an event that
transpired at one of our crowded recept ions.
Around the supper table were gathered
the usual throng, with that unmistakable
and picturesque look of famine that char
acterizes the followers of on afternoon tea
or the habitue of a boarding house. One of
the guests, the son ot a diplomat of wide
fame, was approached by a young man and
peremptorily ordered to "get a gloss of
punch." It was beautiful to witness the
look of dismay on the face of the young
man when there came the calm retort.
"How extraordinary! I was on the point of
asking you tho some thing." All this goes
to show that my friend, the bright young
clerk, is correct in bis pUn of reform.
Washington News.
SHE HAS A LOGICAL MIND.
Dr. Mary IMtman Jaoobl Is Therefor aa
Effective Cnauiploa ot Warsaw's Right.
"A small, (lark, unobtrusive woman of
Bil years, ulwnye robed In funeral black
Known n manners
mora brusque
than suave," Is
the discrlptlon a
oloso observer
iilvos of Dr. Mary
i'utnain Jaoobl,
the famous wom
an physician, Khe
boa long been
woman's best
known representa
tive in the medical
world, and not
long ago she mads
a masterful plea
pn. mary p. JACOB!, for woman suf
frage, that was without doubt one of tho
tost remarkable speeches over made by a
woman.
This great speech was delivered before
the ctmxMtiititmul convention of the state
ot Now York and attracted widespread at
tention. It was an erudite, logical and
dignified argument There was nothing
hysterical about it and one of its prlnol
pal charms was the fact that It was not
abusive a divided fault of many pleas for
woman suffmgo.
Mary Putnam Jaoobl was born In Lou
don Aug. HI, 184S, and Is a daughter of
Ueorge P. Putnom, tho American publish
sr. Korly In II to she eamo to the United
States, studied In tho Woman's Modloal
college In Philadelphia and later was tho
llrst woman graduate ot the New York
College of Pharmacy. Hut hor ambition
was by no means snllsfled. She went to
Paris In ltiflM, applied to the dean of the
Medical College of France for permission
to take the examination and was refused
on tho ground that such a thing was un
precedonted In the history of the Instltu
tlon.
To Mary Put mini, however, the foot
that a thing had never beeu done was no
argument why it should not be done, and
with- tho aid of United States Nlnlste
Wnshburno she was admitted to the col
lego, from which she was graduated with
high honors In 1ST I, receiving for her
valedictory thesis a silver medal. During
theslcgvof Paris she bewune aequalntud
with the horrors of war and correspondod
for tho rew lork Medical Journal.
In 1 87a she married Dr. A bmhaiii Jaoobl,
a German political refugee, who had locat
ed In New York and won high rank in the
medical fraternity. Three children were
the fruit of their union. Dr. A. Jaoobl
headed tho American delegation to the re
cent International mcdleal congress In
Homo. Ills talented wife Is the author of
several valuable mcdleal works, bos
largo practice of her own in New York and
Is one of the foremost chninplons of equal
rights for women among her sex.
Failing Eyes,
"I think the eye power of the present
generation of civilized men must have
deteriorated a good deal," said an ocu
list to me the other day. "I am called
upon to examine so many young persons
nowadays whose eyes show no symp
toms of disease or strabismus, but are
simply unable to do tho ordinary amount
or work required of schoolboys, school
girls, oollcgo students or moderate read
ers without showing symptoms of over
work. "This weakness seems to be constitu
tional, and glasses are required which
loHscn the miMculnr strain on tho eyes
only. Iu spite of the invention of the
typewriter, which bos relieved the eye
of so much work, the state of things is
almost equally as prevalent in business
circles as among students. " New York
Herald.
BRACK TBS NKRTKS.
JUSTLY KlffABDKO,
The California Midwinter International
Exposition has given first award, Gold
Modal, fur Garden, Field and Flower Souls,
snd Horticultural Requisites; first swsid,
Gold Medal, for Bweet Pea Hoods, superior
auality and largest variety t llrst award,
old Medal, for 61 wee t I'ea Blossom; first
award, Gold Modal, for Ornamental and
Dovurallvs Plants (111 all ossus the highest
wards In thosedopsrtmsntsl to the Huusot
Seed and Plant Co. of San Kratiolsoo.
This house also receive l a Gold Modal
from the World's Columbian imposition
of IWKi at Ohieago, Although in business
representative and loading depot on tbsi '"''
Paoillo Coast for the supply of everything '"
requireu tor tno r arm. uarur.ii or uranaru.
Weak All Over
Rot weather always has a wsakenlns. Am.
bllltstlng ett'ect, wpeciallv When the blood
Is thin and impure and the system poorly
nourished, liy taking Hood's BarsaparUla
Srs-parilla
Hood's
I Cures
trans lb wjll be sf
iinnsrioa one
tho who a I
Invigorated,
Pantile whotska
sir almost always surorlsril slths wntulur
00 l insets. Oat Hood's.
nuiiiitu lor 1II rami, uarunii wr viuuhiu.
and have Justly earned the awards (ranted
mora
Hood'a Pllla are snfo, hsrmlnx.niir.
Tho qsotlni of HhsMr la the Hensto ro-
biiiius uio country iiisi msro is a (real u
done In Congress for llioslrioal fifed.
Dot Baasssiina wove fultsa: no dust, as noil.
TT Gsxmsa for breakfast.
V) TRAVEL 7
Hodstivos snd opiates won'l do tt Th w ner
vines do not make tlx nerves itroair.an-l Islllns
to do litis, fall shoit of nrodoelne the aaunllsl
ol their qulolatle visor. A ad while In extreme
esses-sml these only-ol nervous Irritation
sch drugs rasy bo sdvlssble, their frequent its
Is htghlt p-ejudlnlal to lb delicate organism
noun which tbev set. snd In order to ren
their quieting eireet Inonssrd and dangerous
dotes eventually beooroo norwusry. HosMtler's
s omsca Hitters Is an elm-lent substitute for
inch pernicious dregs. II quiets the nerves hj
brselng, toning, ttrengthsnlng Ihem. Tho ou.
uecuon ooiween weakness of Ino nervous sys
tem and that of the orgsns of digestion Is a
strong snd svmnsihetia link. Th nittrs be
imparting s healthful itnpulM to the digestive
snd assimilating fnnotloni promotes I hroughoat
me waviesjreivm s vigor in wnica me nerves
come in lor s isrge sbsre. use the ulttars In
msisris, coustipauon, bilious snd kidney
trouble. '
The bOV Who nil all th m.lnm ha aa
whether they are green or old, is what we call s
IMiuetasiug urcain.
AHgOLUTJC MKKIT.
On Parade.
It was great day in the driving park,
and there had never been a finer display
of wealth on wheels seen in that local
ity, and a man had come out to see what
it all meant It was plain he had never
seen a carriage parade before. After a
bit he turned to one of the great mass of
spectators.
"What is it?" he inquired, nodding
toward the gorgeous pageant
It s a carnage parade of our most
fashionable classes, was the reply.
"On," said the man, "it s a kind of
a parade of the unemployed, is it?"
The other one looked curiously at the
man. -
"That's all right, " said the man. as if
he knew what he was talking about, and
le walked away. Detroit Free Press.
Dabbed a Visionary.
The probability that vehicles driven
by steam would be the future means of
transportation on land was very well
foreseen 20 years before the last century
closed by Oliver Evans of Philadelphia,
the inventor of the high pressure steam
engine. As early as 1786 he petitioned
English Prisons for Debtors.
The Marsbalsea, wtyh which Charles
Dickens' early youth was so painfully
familiar, and which, although it is only just
mentioned in "Pickwick," he afterward
described fully in "David Copperfield" and
"Little Dorrit," has fared worse than the
flet t, for so many alterations .' ve taken
place in the neighborhood in which it was
situated that Its exact site is now open to
identification. It ceased to be used as
prison in 1849 and appears to have been al
most as difficult to dispose of ss the Fleet
itself, for a considerable portion of the
building remained standing as late as 1850,
when Charles Dickens, then engaged on
"Little Dorrit,'' went to look for it. But
except that it stood somewhere to the
northward of St George's church In the
Borough High street, very little is known
of it now. .
Whitecross Street prisonfamous for
Nell Gwynne's bequest, through hereon,
the Duke of St Albans, of twenty pounds
a year to release poor debtors from prison
lived rather longer, but went the way of it
ill omened companions many years ago.
The King's Bench prison ceased to be a
place for the Incarceration of debtors some
where about 18110. English Illustrated Magazine.
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Rxpeiienoe teaches tho sgricultarlst th hard
oat thing lo raise on th fsrat is the money lo
too bkwakii, aioo.
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"AMD
Marriage by Captor In Isra
W read in Genesis zzxi, 26, that when
Jacob hod secretly made off with bis wives
iibjk suueu away unaware to me ana car-
CVERE EXP0SURK
Often results In colds, fevers, rheumatism.
MurolKia and kindred derangement. We
do not1'oatch cold " if w or in good ootidi
tfan. If the liver is active, and tb system
to consequence doing itsduty, we live to full
health and so joy life "rain or shins. " To
Residents of the state of Washington
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exclusive right to use his inventions for
road Wagons to be propelled by steam.
The word locomotive had not then come
into una This privilege was denied, but
the Maryland legislature granted the
right for 14 years. There appeared at
one time good prospects of Evans obtain
ing the necessary financial support t
apply his steam engine to the propulsion
of boats and road wagons, bnt some
cautious capitalist of that day deter
mined to have B. H. Latrobe, an accom
plished architect and engineer, report
upon the schemes that Evans was advo
cating. Latrobe reported strongly
against the steam engine, saying that
the inventor was a visionary. This re.
port rained Evans' career and deprived
America of the benefits of the steam en
gine in transportation for two genera
tions longer.
By a curious irony of fate the son of
this same Latrobe performed important
ried away my daughters ss captives taken
with the sword f" From which it is evi
dent that the practice of carrying off wom
en by force was not unknown.
In Number uxi we read that the Israel
ites having defeated Midian saved 82.009
virgins as booty. They hod at first spared
all the women as spoil, which shows that it
was quite usual to do so, but on this occs-
Thav
tb whole system regulated in a perfectly
natural way. If w do not fl happy, If w
worry and grumble. If we or mat-bid, If th
days seem dreary and lone, If the weather Is
umu, u nunp go awry, it is in liver wl
is at fault. It is generally " tortjid."
th liver which
v " torpid." A
common ens way is to take Dr. Pierce's
Pleasant Pellet. We generally at too much,
toka insufficient exercise, by means of which
Our tissue-chanares hennma IndnUnt mnA in.
complete. B rnmfortable you ars com-
ion Hoses induced them to murder all ?' when well. You'll b well when you
i l j i , . . I nave issen " fieusuit Fei eta
uLfw vvuu iron uia , 11 ui iim. . 1 1 r mt-i ... i . . - . .
Ellis in Popular Science Monthly. .
have taken
Ho Constipation follows tbeir us. Put
up sealed in glass always fresh and re
served.
pose, wrapped
box.
Th Gra Christina" Prorerb.
Statistics have upset another old nmr.
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The figures for the last SO yean In Eng
land prove that a cold winter is unhealthy
a.uu a jiiuu iriuior neaitny. A not sum
mer Is always unhealthy and a cold sum
mer healthy.
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