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About The Medford mail. (Medford, Or.) 1893-1909 | View Entire Issue (March 10, 1892)
THE OLD, OLD STORY.- tt I had told her in the spring . Tie old. old story briefly, When the sparrow and robin began to sing And the plowing was over chiefly. But haste makes waste, and the story sweet. I reasoned, will keep through the sowing; Till I drop the corn and plant the wheat. And give them a chance for growing. Had I even told the tale of June. When the wind through the grass was blowing. instead of thinking it rather too soon. And waiting till after the mowing. Or had I hinted out under the stars That I knew a story Worth hearing. Lingering to pat up the pasture bars. Nor waited to do the shearing. Now the barn Is fall, and so Is the bin. Bnt I've grown wise without glory. Blnce love is the crop not gathered in. - For my neighbor told her the story. - A MEMOEABLE GAME Fifty years ago, in Mehemet Ali's time, Sulieraan Pasha, a naturalized Frenchman, was commander-in-chief of the EsrvDtian artillery, and universally acknowledged to be the best chess plaver in Cairo. As a soldier he stood in high favor with the court as well as with the people ; for in the war waged by the Sultan of Turkey against Mehemet Ali in 1839, the Egypt ians owed their victory in the .notable bat- u" or iNisib to the prompt decision and' strategy of Suleiman Pasha. The EsrvDt ian army had already taken.to flight, car rying its commander, the heroic Ibrahim Pasha, away with it, when suddenly, as if by magic, the battle took a favorable turn. changing the fleeing masses into pursu ers, who succeeded in completely van quishing the Turkish troops. This blow proved fatal to Mahmund, the unhappy ouitan.whose supreme power hitherto had been unquestioned. He took the loss of his brave army so much to heart that he uiea or grief barely a week afterward. When peace had succeeded war, Sulei man Pasha returned to the city of the caliphs to enjoy there his favorite pastime of chess. Punctually every afternoon he made his appearance in a cafe situated on the banks of the Nile, where, on the ter race, under the shade of mighty palm trees, a seat was specially reserved for' him, and there he fought a daily battle with the venerable Ulema, Reshid Aga. The field upon which the battle was fought was the sixty-four Hack and white squares of the chessboard, where ivory armies strove -with each other, each trying hard to decoy the other into some hidden trap. They only ceased when the evening twi light "descended, and when tho cry of the muezzin from the minaret of the mosque called the faithful to prayers, to resume it again the nest day, and to continue for weeks' and months until one of the com batants was defeated. But it was never the Pasha who was beaten, though Reshid Aga was not only highly considered on ac count of his great learning, but also far famed for his masterly playing of chess. Tfie two masters were generally sur rourfded by all the"best players of Cairo, who followed their moves with eager and attentive looks. One afternoon, while Suleiman Pasha was waiting for Reshid Aga,a stranger stepped up to him and addressed him, as follows: "Pasha, may I propose a game of chess to thee?" The persons who as usual had gathered round the latter were so much startled by this unexpected proposal that their chibouks nearly dropped from their grasp, while a gray-bearded Cadi was almost choked in the act of gulping down his Mocha, For who could be so daring as to venture to challenge the conquerer of Keshid Aga? i Suleiman Pasha, however, only casting a searching look upon the stranger, quiet ly replied : "I am at thy service. What is the stake thou art accustomed to play lor?" . ; For nothing the first time; for a great ' staka the next. But it is for thee. Pasha, to name the stake now." "A hundred ducats won't be too much, then?" Suleiman Pasha replied, again looking inquiringly at the stranger, whose face remained quite unmoved while he calmly took his place. The board was brought and lots were cast for colors; the Pasha drew black, the stranger white. A great crowd of enthusiastic spectators soon gathered round the players. After the first moves it was clear to all that they had a master player before them. The ivory figures seemed to grow into life in the hanis of the stranger; it was as if real soldiers moved on the white and black squares, blindly obeying the com mands of their leaders. Suleiman Pasha also soon became aware of the crushing power of his adversary; he felt as if the grip of an iron fist held him in bonds. In vain he tried to shake off his opponent; vain was his sacrifice of knight and castle; the stranger's power did not seem to weaken a bit. The Pasha sat in deep, ear nest thought ; opposite to him the stran ger, calm, but with a proud look, like the marble statue of a eommanaer-m-cniei. A gleam of joy spread suddenly over the Pasha's features; he saw the chance for a capitai move, and, quite excited, he placed his queen right in front of his opponent's queen. A murmur of discontent arose among the spectators; the game seemed lost for the Pasha; he must have over looked that his queen was left unprotected. The face of Reshid Aga, who also looked on, beamed with pleasure; at a glance he had thoroughly mastered the combination of his friend. The stranger took a much longer time to consider than usual before he slowly lifted his lean hand. "No doubt he will take the queen," the spectators whispered to each other. "Then he will be mate in eight moves." Reshid Aga said, gleefully rubbing his bands. " Then if he does not take her?" " Then he will lose his own." For a moment the stranger appeared undecided; but suddenly like lightning his hand descended on the board. Quietly and calmly he moved one of his pawns a square ahead. All looked surprised at each other, mut ... tering: " To lose the queen is losing the '3rV game!' while Suleiman Pasha, smiling triumphantly, removed the hostile queen from the board. The onlookers, who mostly sided with the Pasha, breathed as if they bad been relieved from a heavy load. In their opin ion the game was decided, for White mnld not hold out without the queen. Several of them were already on the point of withdrawing, when they were suddenly startled by the clear ringing voice of the Ktrantrer. who called out ; " Mate in twelve moves." Suleiman Pasha's looks grew dark the venule died on his lips. A change had sud denly overcast the featuresof Reshid Aga; nlmost beside himself, he jumped on a seat to follow the game from a more ele vated point, while the spectators, barely daring to draw breath, counted the moves as they followed each other. With masterly skill White now led his force into the field, encircling the hostile king in a powerful grasp and keeping him within an iron ring. At the tenth move the Pasha tried to break through the blockade by sacrificing his queen, but in vain. White declined to accept the sacri fice, "and moved his knight with " Check to the king." Eleventh move t The spec tators, whose excitement now reached fe- ho'ttt aaw that their Pasha, never be fore vanquished, would be checkmated the . Unlnitrinn'a kinir WflR Com- next liiuvc. ". ni withdraw into a corner, and with the twelfth move, as he predicted, the stranger pronounced "Checkmate!" A murmur of admiration was heard from the spectators, while the Pasha sat there with bent head, as if trying to search in his memory, when suddenly, as If a thought had flashed upon him, he turned upon the stranger. " Once already In my life " he said, "I have seen chess .(laved in the manner in which thou hast Saved to-day. The masterly moves are pla.y to me. but I was unable to resist them. The game, however, which then played before my eyes was a dealVore beautiful even than to dat Guns of the heaviest calibre repre wnted the casUes, fleet cavalry were the h in nlace of the pawns well- Jtni?Ji Infantry formed the vanguard. And "SttE S ion the one side thundered SSJ?XS? to the other, the ground be 25. ourleet seemed to shake as if burn neaiu ou tnroWn from a volcano. .?At that time we stood opposed to an ,,f 150 000 men. a terrible number, thich led by the genius of a single man. threatened to crush us completely.' And wis man, whose genius made our brave soldiers take to flight, and whom it was impossible to withstand, was a son of the cold North. It was only to the reckless ness of Hafiz Pasha, the Turkish Commander-in-Chief, who envied the youthful genius, his brilliant success, and who. though fully warned, wildly pursued the Jgyptians, that we owed the victory of Nisib, which otherwise we never should have gained." The Pasha stopped, and casting a long and penetrating look on his adversary, suddenly cried out enthusiastically: " Stranger, thy incomparable play of to day recalls to my memory afresh the game of chess at Nisib and its skilful player. Only one man can play'like that, and that man is Col. Moltke !" 'Thou hast hit it. Pashn," the stran ger calmly replied. " My name is Moltke. This indeed was Count von Moltke. While a young man he went to tho East. and was in the service of Sultan Mahmouu from 183S to 1839. He was present at the battle of Is lsib, when, as above said, the Turkish commander-in-chief, jealous of the great abilities of the young soldier, refused to folldw Moltke's advice, and so lost the battle. Chambers Jounal. NIGHTS WIIH IHt COYOTES. LOBSTERS AND CRABS. EDISON'S GREATEST. The Desperate Straits of Two Men on trie Plains in Early D)i. A Earrv (Mo.) correspondent of the Kan sas City Times writes : Sitting around the stove at the railroad station one cold day, whiling awav the time telling stories of wild adventures, one old fellow I forget his name asked: "Did you ever see a covote?" Andatonceahalfdozenchorused: "Let's have it." " Well," he said, as he knocked the ashes from his pipe and tilled it from a huge twist of aromatic " long green." " it was in 1850. I had started early in the spring to the land of gold and glittering generalities, hard tack and bear meat, with three ox teams loaded with goods supposed to be suited to the mining trade, consisting of heavy boots, miners jackets, dried fruit, tobacco, cigars, cards and whiskey, and was pretty well loaded. At Forts Kearney and Laramie I disposed of some extra weight and at Salt Lake disposed of a lot of dry goods I had carried along to trade to the-Mormon merchants. After laying in a supply of flour at $25 a 100 and resting our stock we struck out over Thousand Springs valley to the head of Humboldt river, fol lowing it down to the 'Big Meadows.' where we made hay for our cattle and took in water, preparatory to crossing the great desert between the 'sinks' of Humboldt and Carson rivers. Finally we are in the midst of a trackless waste and water worth $1 a pint, dead mules and oxen enough to fence a lane clear across itrand a million dollars' worth of outfits scattered all the tot. not a mouthful of grub of any kind except what was in our wagons and with 10,000 coyotes howling and yelping worse than a legion of devils. The only living things to be seen were owls, prairie dogs, rattlesnakes and coyotes. "It was right in the middle of this wild, barren, sandy desert, surrounded by the whole coyote family, with one day's rations of grub and water, that we had to doume teams and leave one of our wagons while the others attempted to reach grass and water on the Carson that Morton and were left to guurd the last wagon. "After supper, which we were careful enough to have over before night, the music and dancing began. The owls screeched, snakes rattled, prairie dogs barked nd 10.000 coyotes set up their howl Nearer and nearer they oniue round and round they trotted awl we were forced to Dee to our wagon for safety. Under and around thev trotted, growling, whining and yelping, every one making the night more hideous bv seeming to mate a dozen of himself just to see how much of pande monium he could scare up. What a night! and still another we must stay. The first was bad enough, but on the second one the animals returned with reinforcements. They leaped upon the front of the wagons, which we had barricaded the best we could, and we had to fight them with our pistols and guns. and a desperate light it was. First one and then the other would punch them back. Morton killed one as it leaped into the front of the wagon, and as it fell back a dozen crabbed and devoured it in less time than I can tell it. This only made them ten times more ferocious and it be came a tight of life and death to both of us. One after another leaped at us, snapping. snarling and determined to have us for picnic supper. Morton had a foot snapped off, I hod a hand badly torn and was near ly stripped of clothing. Both our guns were brolcen and we were about to yieiu the fight when davlight broke up the game. They decamped. I bound up Mor ton's leg with some old rags and then fin ished our last ration and sat down to wait for the returning teams, upon which de pended our lives. At 10 o'clock they hove in sight and there was more rejoicing in that solitary wagon than I can tell. We made it safe through in due time. Morton finally went to Valparaiso and died. I gathered up a hundred thousand and here I am in a way station as ticket agent on the C.K.C.& T. railway. " Boy's it's over forty years since that awful night, but I shudder every time I think of it. The cold chills are running down my back now. Please pass that flask." A -fraly Polite Highwayman. " I was held up once in away that I ad mired. No force, no serious shock to the nervous system and no affected courtesy. I've been in a good many different coun tries and heard orread of oil the different methods, but for the quiet and quick transaction of business of that nature without any unnecessary trimmings, com mend me to the man who got my watch. "He was sauntering along the street ahead of me, quietly humming a tune. He wasn't keeping in the shadow of the buildings and he wasn't doing anything else that was suspicious. He was Just sauntering along with his arms folded on his breast. I was walking faster, and so I had to overtake and pass him. I passed him on the left that is, I started to pass him on that side. When I got even with him he said : "IsayT ' "It was said quietly and didn't even startle me. None of this absurd courtesy, nothing sensational in it. Of course I looked towards him and I saw the tip of a revolver resting on the crook of his left elbow. His arms were still folded, but I had an Idea that his right band was on the other end of the revolver. "'Just take it easy.' he added, " So 1 sauutered along with him and at his suggestion transferred my watch and money to his pockets. Then be said : " ' Go on and don't look back.' "And I went on and didn't lookback, but I have always considered him a man who could do a job with neatness and de spatch and without unnecessary trouble and excitement. That wouldn't have hurt a man with heart disease." Chicago Tri bone. An Ague siatesman. Wt) have heard of Congressmen driven up a tree, as it were, but seldom of their own accord. The rare sight of one delib erately climbing up a tree was afforded Some Facts About t!io Creatures That Carry Their Jam at Arm's Length. '! O ice upon a Urn ," said an expet t in matters crustacean, " there were crabs and lobsters in xistence for which tho modem fisherman would have gone a-bunting with the most approved wea pons and caution. For example, in times antediluvian there was o lobster whio'i had a body eight feet long and could stretch twelve feet with i s for midable arms. Positive knowlo ige oi this giant of lorg npo is conveyed by geological resenrcn. It must have con taii e I meat e ough to Tiake salad for a regiment ol soldiers. In those days of long ago everything grew to enor mous dimensions, whether animal or vegetable. Frogs were big and aolive enough to 1-op at one hon Iroin the Treasury building to the Capitol, and other creatures particularly tho9 of a destructive sort, were in proportion. "Only a few little specimens ar- left to illustrate the giant crustacean forms of that ancient epoch. It is known how crabs and lobsters are ha'chod from eggs, resembling upon birth nothing so much as tho anlni.ileu'iB shown by the microscope in a drop of ditch wtter. They are as unlike the shellfish they pre to become in mature life as a grub is unlike a butterfly. In the case ol the crab the egg Clusters are attached be neath the animal after extiuMon, while with the lobster they become fastened to the tall, which by its funning motion. increases the stream of oxygenated air through and among the ova. From the eggs of the lobster are hatcued creatures not in tho least re sembling their rwr.nt little fellows that swim with lea.her-1 ke locomotive organs near tho surface of the water, j At the end of six weeks they develop legs, unless, as is highly probable, they have prev ously been devoured by fishes or othr enemies, becoming thereupon small lobst-rs of familiar shape. Having reached this stage o growth, the younu lobsters he -oiii" walk ng annuals, and. sinking to the bottom, iiniue.liuteiy seek hiding places to protect them from their foes. 'The first experiments in the adapta tion of knowledge on this subject to the artificial propagation of lobsters were made simply in glass jars with sea water that was changed daily. Even under these primitive conditions the newly hatched fry thrived and grew to be of some size and healthy. Any one who desires to rear lobsters by hand can accomplish the purpose most quickly by keeping the spawu-bearlug f -males in suitable ponds or tanks until the young come out. In raising the animals on a large scale, however, it wouhl be best to separate the eggs from the lob ster and spread them uyon trays, allow ing the water to percolate among them. as is done with salmon eggs. "There is no reason apparent, where fore the same success should not be ob tained with lobsters as has been achieved with salmon, which have been made to swarm once more by myri ads in streams depopulated by im prudent fishing. Already the lobsters on the North Atlantic coast are rapidly vanish ng and unless measures are soon taken for supply ng their place Dy arti ficial propagation, there will be none left. Apparently, however, it will be entirely practicable to turn out upon the depleted grounds many mil; ion 3 of young lobsters y -arly as soon as proper plants for this object have been estab lished. One thing in favor of lobster raising, as to cheapness, is that tbey prefer !ood t hat is partly decoropo-ed. and the waste food of the tonus, now thrown -tway.micht oemost usefully em ployed by the lobster hatcheries. S ale fish is esteemed by lobsters an especial delicacy. "For the purpose of a lobster farm rocky ground should becboosea. because that Is their natural haunt and tiiere they find suitable places to hide. Inas much as they do not walk alrond very much, but are addicted rather to ad nit a home and keep it. except when mak ing excursions in search of food, the water farmer who ' sows the pasture lands of the sea with a crop of lobsters onthePaeifl: coast, an I the efforts so far made to carry tbem across tho con tinent lor transplantation have failed chiefly because the creatures have died on tne way. " T ere are u a iy curious points about crabs and lobsters. Every one of either gnus is provided witti a big claw for crushing aud a small claw adapted by- its state for cutting as scissors do. W.tb tuese two claws they tear the food tbey capture into fragments and feed themselves literally 'irom hand to mouth.' But there Is every reason to suppose that the claws lire lnten led auite as much for fighting as for eating purposes, inasmuch as such powerlul hands are not needed for devourlug the soft food they prefer. Crabs particularly are fighting animals; iu fact, they will fight anything. I nave seen a crab, in confl ct with a lobster, catch t:ie latter over the fore par; of the head, where the shell is the hardest, and crush it in by one effoi-t. And It rather bears out my idea that the claws of these crea tures are particularly weapons of war ; that the moment one ol tbem receives severe injury in a claw it drops it off by voluntary amputation, severing its con nection witn the body at the suoulder by' an act of its own will. It seems to me probable that it the claw was necessary for feeding nature would rather seek to cure an injury to It than let the animal disenrd it altogether. "Thespe.'ies of crab which Is most conspicuously a fighter Is the hermit crab. Its first Idea of Independent life is to eat a harmless whelk and occupy its shell. Its next notion is to give battle to every crab of tho same persu islon as itself that it comes across. Altogether hermit crabs are undoubtedly the most quarrelsome creatures in existence." Washington star. HIS WONDERFUL NEW MACHINE CALLED THE KINETOGHAPH. It Will Rvpi-otliiro tho See mis, Volt-tvi and Movement of an Opera In Your Parlor PhotograpHs Taken at th.it Rnto of Forcy-SIx a Seen ml. position. "I liavo a iniiohluo projected," replied Edison, " but tho details nro not perfected yet. My Intention is to havo such a happy combination of electricity and photography that a man can sit in his own parlor and seo reprod need on n screen the forms of tho players in an opera pro duced on a distant stage, and as ho sees their movements ho will hoar the sound ot their voices as they talk or sing or laugh. When the machino Is perfected, which it will be long before it can bo exhibited at the fair, each littlo muscle of the singer's face will bo Bern to work, his faciid ex pression with Its every chiiiuro will bo ex actly reproduced, and tho stride and posi tions will bo natural und will vary as go those of tho person himself. "That is only one part of what the ma chino will do. To tho sporting fraternity I can say that before long It will be possi ble to apply this system to prize lights and boxing exhibitions. The whole scene. with tho comments of tho spectators, the talk of the seconds, tho noise of the blows anil so on. will be faithfully transferred." When the interview was published hero a couple,, of weeks ago people laughed ngain-nnd said Edison had been having fun with a Chicago reporter. Yesterday morning a Sun reporter found Mr. Edison at the laboratory and showed him a copy of the Chicago interview. Edison read it and laugircd. " Yes, it is true." he said. " You can sit In your parlor and hok nt a big screen ami seo Chaunoey Depew come out just as if he was introducing Stanley nt the Metro politan opera house. He will walk up to the front of tho stage nnd bow and smile and take a drink of water and start off with his oration. Every time your eyes seo him open his mouth your ears will hear what he says, that Is if he says any thing. - awhilo ago to print pictures of an object In motion, but. it would not work fast enough. It produced nn imperfect and jerky motion, like this," und he illustrated by raising his arm In a scries of short jerks to his shoulder. "Ilowdid 1 Und out that forty-six photo graphs must be taken every second? Well, I've been experimenting with this thing for a long time. Now l'vo got it. That is, I've got tho germ, or bnso principle. When you get your bnso principle right then its only a question of time, and a matter of details about completing the machino. The details can all lw worked out after you get tho germs. Come upstairs aud seo tho germ work. Koran up stairs with the step of a boy and easily headed tho procession to the spot where tho "germ" was expected to prove that the reproduction of motion by photography was an established fact. It is a question which part of the kineto graph Edison himself regards as tho greatest part of his invention, tho ar rangement for taking the photographs or the contrivance for reproducing them. It was tho reproducing contrivance which he showed to tho reKrtor as the " germ." To outward appearuiico tho " germ " Is nothing but a pine box, which looks very much as if it might havo been originally intended as n packing case for shoes or boots. It nood on end in front of a lathe, and the oien top was nearest to tho lathe. In the upper end was cut a hole about an inch in diameter, aud in this hole was set a lens. On tho bottom of tho box was arranged o series of wheels and spin dles. A role of gelatine dim was placed on a spindle on one slilo of tho bottom. Tho end of tho gelntino strip was then carried over one of tho wheels anil past the lens in the hole ill the top of tho box to another spindle on tho other side of the box Inittoin and fastened. A small lelt ran from the lathe to tho shaft, on which was set the spindle, to which the end of the gelatine linn was fastened. When tho tor was turned on the roll of gelatine strip was transferred from the first spin dle to the second, and iu the transfer imssed. under tho lens. Tho photographs on tho slip came out perfect! v. As the " germ " was worked fast or slow tho re production showed a pure motion or ser ies of jerks. When It was run at tho highest speed tho reporter saw a young fellow waving his hands and touch ing his hat. Sometimes he laughed or shook his head or twisted his body and wriggled around. The slip could be seen to lie iu rapid motion, but the llgtire was always in front of the lens, tossing his arms and shaking his head and latiguiug. Every motion was natural and perfect and it needi-d but the projecting lens and the larger screen to seo the whole llgure ac curately produced, and to be able todistiri gulsh every feature and to recognize the action of all the museli's of the face. N. Y. Sun. A Mllllontlre Punki-Steerer. I object to millionaires nvigrpiiirading. They will do it. Jay tlould. the last time he declined to con verse with me on the platform of Iiih private car. wore a shabby and shiny coat that most, of his employees would decline coiit'Mipttiously. ihit Jay Gould usually litis n hedge of servitors about him who mako known his dignity betimes. A friendly l'ittsliuiger warned me on my arrival to ki"ep an eye open for btinko- steoi-ors. who hcsuifl were rat her numerous. It has Immmi my experience that bv some subtle instinct the hunko-stccrcr beeins to bo able to identify a newspaper man, nc mutter how guileless his iippem-iiiice, anil 1 ho'd but did not expect, to lo tackled by one of 1 Ik- gold brick and lottery ticket gentlemen. That very afternoon, as I emerged fiom an interview with u hotel clerk, tin erect, elderly man with gray hair ami a nicely I rimmed mustache, walk-dup to me anil, just touching his hut jmliU-ly, addressed me as " Mr. Stephens. 1 liehcve. He looked so thoroughly respectable, al beit, his cloth. were a trille rusty, that I was oil' my guard and simply replied that my name was not Stephens. " Excuse me, sir !" replied the old gentle man. " 1 look you for uu old friend's son, your name is !" lie was so iwilite aud so veuerable lX)k jrlo-wera va a irineier. In 1888 Mr. John W. Kelly discovered on the northeast coast of Alaska, emptying Into the Arctic Ocean, just above Cape Lis burne, a new river, which has been named the Pitmegea Biver. The river and its narrow valley are very winding, and the natives say they can ascend it for a dis tance of forty miles. This stream has not previously appeared on the charts. Mr. Kelly ascended tho river for a distance of twenty-live miles, where he found a large glacier, emptying into the river. The glacier faces southward and receives the full benelit of the sunlight during the short polar summer. Gales have deposited on the glacier particles of soil and seeds of plants to a a depth of from four inches to a foot. The snowfall of winter soon vanishes before the June sun. Then vegetation on the glacier is warmed into life, aud in a re markably short time the brown crust of soil is covered with a robe of green and with bright flowers, such as buttercups, dandelions, daffodils, and yellow poppies. There are also some hardy grasses, whose roots penetrate the light covering of soil. A few arctic willows are also seen, but they grow only a foot iu length aud trail along the ground. Such a sjiectacle is not often witnessed in the arctic regions. This mass of green. diversified by the brilliant colors of arctic lug thai I ni-verthoughtof ciilidcn.-emeii flowers, has only scanty depth of soil to or their tricks, ami I gave him mv name. 1 flourish in, and covers, like a carpet or a II.. ..i-.l,i,.iv,-.l for ..ml.it,,. tint iIh. : brilliant rolje, the great ice mass on which take and went awav. As helisaiiB-ared iu 1 the soil rests. During the summer the ice LA GRIPPE, Or Influenza, Pneumonia, Cough?, Colds and all Throai and Lung Trouliips Cored in Less Time with R HALL'S Pulmonary Balsam. the crowd, it struck me that 1 had lieeu in cautious, but I forgot all alxuit the old man in the exciu-ment of u hunt for a trunk which an enterprising expressman had carried away. The cpiso-lc came back to mc vividly when a very wcll-dnsed young man, with a good deal of showy jewelry, engagi-d me iu conversation an hour or two Inter, and In-fore knew it had dij-4-overod what town 1 hatli-it from, and w:is airing his oe- front melts away, leaving the protruding soil above it like the eaves of a house. When it protrudes Uxj far for the strength of the grass roots, it topples over into the river. X. Y. Sun. Mean llotrl ( ur,t "The meanest man I have ever come across in my hotel career was a woman," was the paradoxical remark of V. Ij. Gar rison of the Grand I'liion. "She came THAN WITH ANY OTHER REMEDY. PRICE 5Q CENTS. J. R. GATES CO.. Prcfs. 417 SAN SO ME ST- SAS FKAHCISCO. A. Zellerbach 4 Sons, PAPER WAREHOUSE, 619-21 Clay Street. FORCE IN THINKING. A Prnoa Can Tliroa -h The Irian Shamrock. In Irclin-1 only one shamrock Is known. It is an lndlgeneous species ol clover, whi,:h trails along the ground among the grass in meadows. The tre foil leaves are not more man one-iounn the size of the smallest clover I have seen iu America, and are pure green in color, without anv of the brown shad ing of white and pink clovers. Tho creeping stem is bard and fibrous, and Is difficult io dislodge from the enrtb. Oa St. Patrick's Day the true shamrock has to te searched out among the grass, for. though comparatively p entlful at that season. It grows close - to the irround. Lalerit beurs a tiny "whltey- brown" blossom. The Information that ohainrakh is the Arabic for treloll may be of service to tnose Interested In tue oHdn o the Irlsn race. ine worn couid havo been introduced by the Mi lesians, or it may lurnish an argument in support of the contention that one of the o-t ten tribes ol i-raei seitieu in Ire an which has I e-n revived by the i iibiicntion of a rco-nt book. Notes uod Quel ies. The Lnaon IVaa-Loul on film. "Remember boys," said the teacher, who helnir still new at tho business, knew not the neighbors of Congressman Milllken last what else to say to make an impression, week. He wanted the top of Ms fruit trees that In tho bright lexicon oi youtn mere s cut. So, with all the energy ol getting nn appropriation bill, he climbed the tree and wielded the tools as vigorously as Tom Reed flourished the gavel. Congressman Milliken is a tpyical Maine man of the self-made stamp. Be tell with great pride that his mother is still the possessor of a set of dishes which he purchased for her -when only twelve years of age with money he earned cutting hoop-poles. Belfast (Me.) Age. A Pair or Fool. Tne man who rocks the boat Is cut oft the same piece as the man who didn't no such word as fail." After a few minutes a boy from Boston raised ins uanu. v. on, what Is it, Socrates?" asked the teacher. "I was merely going to suggest," re plied the youngster, as he cleaned his spec tacles with bis hankorchief, " that if such '.b the case it would be advisable to write to the publishers of that lexicon and call their attention to the omission." Montreal Star. Agalnat the Electric Light. The London Queen speaks with some In terest of the general introduction of elec trfenl lifrhta In homes, but draws attention know It was loaded. The latter gets In J to tbat singular affliction somewhat slm his work of killing off the human family i iial a sunstroke which has been known all the year around, but the former can to be produced by a powerful electrlo only accomplish his mission during the uht. This, howover, is only one reason summer season. He starts In early, I whv electricity is not destrablo In the though, and keeps It up uqtU the ice be gins to form, unless, as sometimes fortu nately happens, he falls himself a victim to bis own foolhardiness. In this case, however, his place is quickly supplied, as the class Is never all drowned. The law does not seem to be able to reach him, and he Is beyond the ordinary rules ol common sense. He is one of the obnox ious products that help to spoil the home. The chief -objection to It lies In the nature of the light itself. It Is too' glaring, and all tho objections that are urged auroinst gas may be urged against it in the home. It is not a pleasant light to read by. It la mechanical aud Inartistic for home use, thought suitable pro-eml-nently for lighting . public places, halls, theatres and drysroods stores, where it is desirable to have the strongest pleasures of summer. Indianapolis News. llKllt we caa nnd. N. Y. Tribune, nrE KIXKTOCIRAI'II. A. rnnncU C Klnc'.-crai'h. B. rhonocraph. P. KlectrU- Unu-ry. "Just the same wav with an opera. You watch the screen and see a picture of Hie stage, full size. Marie Jausen comes out and sings ' and the band will play a charm ing waltzing minuet.' and then she dance around and the audience applauds. May be DeWoif Hopper comes iu and cracks a joke, or Digby lieli wakes up from his twenty-nve years sleep and as Its 11 tne ew lorks nave won a game yet. " How do you expect to do all that, Mr. Edison?" "If It is desired to reproduce an opera or a play I will get the company to give a dress rehearsal for me. I place Kick of the orchestra on a table a compound machine j consisting of a phonograph and a kineie-j graph, with a capacity of thirty minutes' continuous work. The orchestra plays, j tho curtain rises and the opera N'gins. Both machines work simultaneously, one recording sound and the -ther taking photographs, recording motion at the rate of forty-six peotographs p'r fiwDil. Af terward the photographic strip Is devel oped and replaced in the machine, a pro jecting lens ts substituted for tho photo graphic iens and the reproducing pan of the phonograph is adju-ted. Then, by means of a calcium light, the effect is re produced lifesize on a white curtain, repro ducing to the audience the original sceue with all itssoumls and all the motions of the actors exactly as in the original scene. The phonograph which Mr. Kdtson will use In bis compound motion and sound re producer will be an improvement on the phonographs now in common use. He said yesterday that he bad mm- In us- atout 500 phonographs of which he was taking constant observations. The result of all these observations he will emUxly in the I Improved phonograph to le used with the kinetograph. The kinetograph is nothing more nor less than a photograph camera arranged In a new way to do new worK. Its name implies Its use. The name is derived from the Greek words meaning " to move" and " to write." and the machine literally f ir nishes a complete record of all the motions made before it- It photographs action. As Edison says: "The kinetograph does for the eye what the phonograph docs for the ear." In this small box camera Sir. Edison places a roll of gelatine film nUmt three fourths or an Inch wide and of any length desired. The Interior of the camera Is of course arranged on a plan similar to that on which tho ordluary roll cameras are made. The gelatine strip Is unrolled from one spindle and rerolled from another, and In passing from tho llrst spindle to the second is carried before the lens of the camera. The shutters of the camera nre arranged to be worked by the shaft at tached to the cvllnder of the phonograph. This shaft also works the s piniiles which carry tho rolls of film. The mechanism of this camera Is so ar ranged that when tho shutters open the spindles stop and the gelatine lilm is fixed before the lens. Jn less man tne torty- sixthpartof a second the photograph Is taken, the shutters snap, the spindles turn and tho gelatine slip moves on for a new photograph. The arrangement Is so com plcto that forty-six perfect photographs are taken In one second. "The trouble with all attempts hereto fore made to reproduce aetiou and motion by photographs," said Edison, " was that the photographs could not bo taken iu se ries with sufficient rapidity to catch ac curately the motion It was desired to re produce. Hemment, tho man ho photo graphs running horses In tho thousandth part of oue second, had tho Idea, but he failed because be could tako only half a dozen photographs at a tlmo. All these photographs, if reproduced in a series, would havo shown a jerky and Imiierfect motion. My Idea was to tako a series of Instantaneous photographs of motions sc rapidly that iu the reproduction tho pho tographic representatives become resolved Into a pure motion, instead of a jeriis of Jerks. The kinetograph takes a series of fortv-six photographs in one second ami keens un as long us desired. It starts. moves, stops, uncloses the shutter, takes a photograph, closes tho sniitier, anu starts on. fortv-six tlmos a second. The result when ronrixlueed Is a puro motion, To Illustrate what ho had to say. Mr. Ellison took ono of the rolls of gelatin 111 in which had lieen through tho kinetograph and showed it to tho reporter. On It was chotogranhed one of tho boys In his lab oratory. Tho photographs were about half an Inch square and wore taken in tho Him at intervals of about ono Inch, lnoy represented tho boy In tho act of taking off his hat and bowing. Between tho llrst view and tho last of tho series tho com nlole motion of removing the hat and mnk lug tho bow was clearly discernible, but between any two consecutive views there was no apparent chango Iu tho position of tho boy's arm or head. In the llrst view the hov'a hand was at his side, gradually It was raised toward his head, and his head Inclined forward. Thon tho hat was removed and tho bow completed, after which tho hat was replaced. " To reproduce perfectly a complete rec ord of puro motion," continued Mr. Edi son, " it is necessary that tho photography should be takon at the rato of forty-six" por second. Any smaller number would show irregularities and a break In the motion. There was machine niado ipitiintauce with 1'illi-lnirg and its -ople, bere many years ago with her daughter, including two police judges, by the way, 1 They were swells. They had just arrived wit ha great show of fricndliiicn. Before i from Euroix;, and thev talked of nothing but Princesses and Duki-s. A carnage came for them every day and bjok them to things got really interesting I was called away, mid I never had the chance to li cover the character of the bejewelled young man who had such a love for Pittsburg. 1 suspect'-d the old man. however, of having preiivd the way for the other fellow, and for several days 1 watched him and pri vately divided that he was a hoary-headi-d sharjx-r of the most dangerous kind. It was a Western friend who gave me my next surprise. lie was talking to me when an old man I took f-r a hunko-stccrcr iass,Hl us. and I tentatively v.-nt.-d my suspicions. My Western friend laughed heartily. I shall have to Ml M that" said he; " I guess he's never Uen ii.-cus.-d of bunko yet. He doesn't look much like a man worth $".i"Ui or "'i.i.iio. either. I'll ud mit. but everyU-ly in Mime-iiiN.Iis knows that's a!.ut the size of d M 's pile." Hot Springs for. Pittsburg Hispuuh. Think a Hole an 1 it r ti Iloanl. A writer In an electrical journal has pro posal to measure thought by means of the heat developed within the brain acting upon a thermopile. The proposition was received In some quarters witli consider able scepticism. The thing, however, can easily be done. Not long ago. a celebrated electrician stated that he could "think a hole through an inch board." and by con necting a drill so that it could be actuated by tho current produced he actually did it. A. K Dolbear. writing on tl.is subject, says that the experiment, far from being new or impracticable, was carried out in ll::s country more than twentv years ago by I'r. Eombard. Harvard College. A thermopile was connected with a delicate astatic galvanometer, and a person se-lect.-d for tho test. The individual was placed in a reclining posture, and the thermopile touch.-s his head. A certain p'.ace was found where temperature changes In the sKuil were more quickly apparent than elsewhere, and the instru ment was fixed at that place. S long as the subject remained mentally passive the galvanometer needle remained quietly at zero, but as soon as a word was sjHicen to attract his attention, the needle would at once lK deflected, though no muscle bad moved. It is now proposed to measure the rela tive strengths of various mental efforts, as for instance, working out problems in mental arithmetic or geometry, reading English. I-itin. German, or any otl-.er lan guage, in all of which processes It will I easy to ascertain by tr movements of the needle the respective degree of effort made by the person experimented upon. In ttiis connection it may be mentioned that Charles Dickens remarked that the mental effort Involved In learning shorthand was equal to that of learning several Ian guagis?. This humorous i-lea can now N put to an exact test. Pittsburg Despatch. Krt-4-xln:; Out the tnla. The inhabitants of cold climates have little idea of the fierceness of the conflict which has l.-en carried on from time im memorial U-tween man aud the ant tribe. and can hardly appreciate the exiraor dinarv capacity shown by thise tireless in sects in thcirdepn-dations upon the human ra.-e. In the tropics no satisfactory remedy has yet ,vn tl.-vis.sl by which the balance of advantage, always largely in favor of the ant as against man. can be overcome, and the ihsicfufi, -ant-looking ins.vt. by force of Dutul.-ts. industry, ami persevereuce, is master of the situation. Even in more teuii-rate regions, like some :arls of our Southern Stat'-s.ants are; iroubestme enemi.-s. and the suggestion made in the NovemU-r issue of itie Tropi cal Agriculturist, pul-'.i-tusi at Colombo, in Ceylon, may U-worth trying in some parts of this country- The suggestion is. that ants may l frozen out of existence by means of a cask of the freezing mixture us.-d by engints-rs in excavating in quick sauds fixed over the entrance of the n.-st, the other .-utrancs being dos.! with ciay. with a tuU placed in the h-Se also well lvick-d with ciay. The pressure fr.uu the head of .iqu;d woucl.it is claimed. le suf ficient to drive the freezing mixture down into the fait best r-----sss of the ant's gal leries, which would alme-l instantly be come lined w.th solid ice. or. at all events, would be made so cold that no ant. how. ever tenacious of life it might be, could not long survive the expisuiv. These freezing mixtures are not very ex pensive, ami. iv. our contemporary sug gests, it is possible that the progrsss of science has h-re achieved a victory in the inter-st of man for which so many genera tions liave contended in vain. Garden aud rY-rvst- Central Park. I hey never ate a meal in our house, in the first pla-e, as they said. because they could not put up with Ameri can cooking, aud iu the second, because they wer always dining either with the Astnrs or Vanderbilts. One day a servant complaiu-d to me that she scented broil! mutton in their rooms. I scoul-d the idea but a w.s-k or so after the perfume of fri.nl onions tilled the corridors. When the ladii-s hail gone out for their drive I in-spii-t.il the rooms and discovered a frying pan in a corner. 1 saw also that the gas fixtures boil someattachmeiits from which I concluded that the two iitricians were otvustoiu'-d to do their own cooking. It was all very well so long as they coulinul themselves to broiling mutton chois, but I drew the line at onions aud they had to leave. N. Y. Continent. Xh-JT Changed totu Two brothers went into a restaurant the other dav to dine. It was dark when they came out again, and both of them when they got to the elevated station steps stopped. " Hang it," said one, twisting his arm uncomfortably. "I got some one's coat. I'll have to go back and change it." I " Hold on." said the other brother; " I got I into the wrong coat. too. I'll go back with ; you and get my coat." So they started i back. When they came Into the lighted rooms for the second time, one brother i said to the other: "Come, get out of here j right away before any one sees us. You have on mv cast and I have on yours, and neither of us had sense enough to think of 1 that when we were at the elevated sta- j tion." Now both brothers solemnly de- i Clare that they had not drunk too much wine at their dinner. X. Y. Tribue, i PKIirrEBS BCPPUZS A 8PKULTT TCURE FITS! VEbn I ssjr cam I d nut meu merely to atop tbesa for a time and then har thexa retirn axain. I meu rxdiccJ core. I Iut xe vl th J mom of FITS. KPI X.KPSY or FALLING blCKXCSS a hlm-lao? stody. I warrant mj tr-mody to cere the wares Became otbers h"e f-cd u no row for not now feeerring a, cere. Send at ooee for a treatise and a Free Bottie of mj infallible remedf. (aire Express and Post Office. IT. C. KOOT, M. C, 193 Pearl St N. Y. Tower? Iroprowd 5L1CKER i? Guaranteed I, Absolutely Watet JoftWooleo "Of WatCll Outl Collar. fcatfcr A X TOWER. MFR BOSTON. MASS AO. Stdcers have beside the Fish Brand Tt AS(JUt on every Coat As the ear Is a very delicate organ, and should be treated with great caution, about the only safe way to wash it is with water, and only as far as a towel wrapped around the linger can reach. Mary Leppers of Minnin, Austria, was iis'teii of murdering her hus band and a band of masked men went to her home, poured coal oil over her and burned her to death. Count Tolstoi, who has been reliev ing sufferers iu the famine-strieken districts of Russia, has been ordered baok to his estate by the czar on ac count of a letter published in England over his name, but which he denies writing. CHILLED PLOWS, For Orchard and Vineyard. &?nd for our new Cats, loeae. jfendoQ thai paper. S. F. BAKER & HAMILTON, sacto Abjnt Con- 11-1 1 . The M seen on a eow's neek l"ks like a very ordinary article, but in rea it y it is different I rem any other kind of U:l iu use. and is made especially (or the pur rose. There nre several thousand so;d annually in this country, and ninety per eeni. If not mere of them, are ma.:e at i t'olbnsville. where the industry ha as-suni.-d rpiile Important pr.p .rtions. ship ments of cow-belis jroinjr to Mexico and Canada, an I even mueh moie distant points. The demand from Western ranches used to be very larjro. and it is still heavy, for not only is there a Uvl-rarrier or two in mit herds, but there is alinist always a reliable. slow-soinK old mare in a horse or mule herd, her hvr.tiou l-einir indicated at an Immense di-tanee by the bell, and the presence of the younger animals around lier f elmr assured. The eow-lell lias a covering of c-pxr. and ued to lie ipiile an exien-ive article, but of late years improvements lu machinery and redured cost of materia! have brought the price down to about a fourth of t se old standard. Tnero Is little sale In large towns now to what there used toN bef.re stock laws were so rigidly enforced, bu Louis tiiobo Democrat. In Taniilrn. The Arab shop is a mere Nx in the wall without any win.tows. neither d-es it loar anv name or n iniST. Tne shop door is ra:-Mt so'ne .:itan,.' higher than the smet. anil when t:iis is ojeu in the morn ing the m.-rt-hanl j:ir.rts in and skua's down on a cushion within e;isy distance of his go.ls. Here he attends to his cust luei. w ho stand outside in tiie street and examines his wares. The notary and scrilv sit in an open place and their client are attended to in public. We have never heard wnat a law yer s b-es are lor a consultation in tins country, but we know a charge is ma:e for drawing up public d,ouiuents. sucti sum depondinii mo the character of the work nHpiiivd to 1 done. Justbv is delivered by the tJovernor in Ihe cate. s it was iu olden tim.-s. We do not mean by this that juslh-e is administered as we understand it Iu Kngland. No; it is earned out after the Mmrish fashion, bribery forming the chief feature. Tangiers is the nearest town toKuropeof all the Moorish ports, aud certainly the roost inirant. It was once under the Crown of Portugal, nftonvard that of Kngland; but iO years ago it was abandoned to the Moors, and has remained ill their hands ever since, leaving no trace of Christian occupation. It has no archi tectural adornment worth a jvissiujj uo tice. lUaekwo.!' Magazine. CONSUMPTION. JOE POSIEILJ THE TAILOR MAXB5 THE BEST CLOTHES Ei THE ST ATE tt 25 PER CENT LESS THAN ANY OTHER HOUSE- I saw a pastti rrsedr for the abo dnease: by hs ns tboosasds of cxm of tbe vorot kad and of loec Tv.rng hare bn cared. Iadewd to stroac is T faith ta it rc-j. izxai i w m a two botti fsee. wua a VALCARLK TKEATISK on thad-toasy saf trrtt who v.'d tMfthetr Kxprwal P. O. addme T- A. Slocam. 31. 1S3 PraH St.. N. V. '.tflhfiiiNo Charge to Join. Ihr Hrlr of h- ! onapartc. : Prince Victor is tnensv-: ine years old. ; He lia fie statue of h.s f.tt er. Prince j Napoleon, and I e is sup-ibiy ban isoiue. j His heal is imp-si".r; Koman strength j and Frecoii in eileet are expressed iu his ; countenance, lue contours are lull anu ample toward in ti e loner mislakaWv t e jieat n-ph-w of tne great Napoleon. The eve is kindly, but of a crave and ti m expression. His mein is also q-.ii : and grave, and his gait i - slow and i. ti.c.i ive of t.ioug it'ulnes. He rarelv i:e-l it is s. U-iiy. T. e : . ck is s ioit and pow erful and the mi. u !: br.kid. His voice Is clear but l.e I-a s little. London P-aily News. !$nT$in!!rti:a$20 ' rA5TS v&i tea 0 I . . FINE TAILORING ! AT MODERATE PBICES j WF.uks for Seif-MMsnrrornt ! and Samples of Cloth wnl fry for all oruera. 203 Montgomery, 724 Market, If 10 k 1112 MarkttSL. S.4-V FRAyCISCO. Uoattarsorac thing lor nothing. Se that voa irrt va;-jc for vaibe. We do a Rcoeral merchandise business, carry a very larcr stock, and ol snpffcy all your warns promptly and carelu;ly. Adcress tor 'price list. Smiths Cash Store, 4io-lS Front Street, San Franosco, CaL ul il.-s. ami w. e t lie uoe so. , t,t , t-t' xrn-rTrrrvr B. TTiTtrVT . ; pi.rtivr.j JiUl iill x 10111 laTOETEBS AND PEaLES? LS BOOK. NEWS, WRITING AND WRAPPING F A F E R CARD STOCK. STRAW ASD BDTDERS' BOARD, Patent Machine-made Ba&. 512 and 516 SAcnunentSx. San Francisco. Experience or .io lorn The biirk Guy C. Cess, with a eariro of foOO.mw worth of tea. dnpcd anchor here forty-four days from Yokohama and Ion: overdue, savs t!.o Sim Fiauctsc. Kx.uu- iner. The voya ;o was very rou-h. Sue lias 14 .Ti packages of tea for Cidcato. Captain Wi liam Xlaliette tells a story of ono of the most rem irkat'le ivcurreuees since the time of Jonah, the propaet. When llfieon days out. Tom Hiskalskl.n Japanese sailor, duriiu; a iralo, mounted to the topsail to reef It. , lurch of tho vessel Ptlirew him headland ln!o the sea, and ho was scon to suddenly disappear. T ie life boat wn put out hut when .t was return inc to the vessel a whale was seen to rise to the surface. They then suspected what had become of the sailor, and tho whale seemetl to be In irrent uistress. Suddenly, after a violent convulsion. lliskaiski was t ,rown from the whales mouth, ami a crest of a wavo landed him upon the deck of the Uoss. Ho was uncon scious anil Imilly Injured. Careful nursinc brought him around, and ho Is now in a normal vo.'idilion. Captain Malletlo vouches for the truth of tuis story. Struck the Coinbtnutlon. A curious contretemps somewhat dls- turled the equanimity of preacher and j coiiKrejraiioii at St. Michael's. Folkestone, Knuland. a little while nRX. Iheorpan in that church is provided with kettledrums, which are brought into action by the or- franist pressing against an electric knob tlxed to t he Kick ol Ins scat. 1 lus arrange ment was not explained to a strange or- .Tniiit who had no sooner leaned taick to hear the sermon eomforlaolv tnan a ' strange tipnvir began in the recesses of the instrument. Looking up in astonish ment, the un-iusHVting artist only pressed the knob the harder, and faster and more furious became the action of the drums. This went on for a considerable time, till somebody with presoneo of miud rushed up aud explained the secret. M P IT! tine Horn "Power. When men llr-d Ix-gin to lwmo familiar with the met mis of measuring mechani cal power, they often speculate on whoro the breed of horses is to lie round win can koi-p at work raising 3:1,000 pounds one foot per minute, or tho equivalent. which Is inoro familiar to somo mechan ics, of r.iising :i pounds 100 feet por minulo. Min-o 311.000 pounds raised one foot per minute Is cal e.l ono horse power, It Is natural Unit people should tlun'c the engineers who csiahlishcd that unit of nicasiircmet based it on what horses could really do. ltnl tho borso that can do this work does not exist. Tho horso power unit was established by James .Watt about a century ago, nnd tho ligures wero lixed lu a curious way. ntt round that the average horse of his district could raise 22.000 pounds ono foot per minute. At that tlmo Watt was employed in tho manufacture of engines, nnd customers were so hard to find that all kinds of arti ficial inducements wore necessary to in duce nowor users to buy steam engines. As a niothod ot eneom aging thorn Watt offered to sell engines reckotilug 33,000 foot pounds to a horse power. And thus lie was t ho means of giving a false uult to one of the most Important measurements in the world. Kidor and Driver. Proving Mr. Darwln't Theory. "Vti brutes have a language?" nskod tho president of the Millville Literary Circle at a recent meeting. ' Oo they?" repli.il tho secretary; you ought to hear my huslsuid when ho loses his collar-button. N. 1. luvordor. Wtlrrc KlcU Turn to Stone. The character of t ie soil in ami around Rapid City. S. lias a peculiar .m l in ir velous property, a wonderful character istic which completely controverts the Piblical injunction. "Dust thou art, and to dust thou shalt return." For the last titty yearsthe "Pad Lands." lying sevonty-tive miles to the southeast of the little city above mentioned, has been tho wonderland of America, it being a locality unequaled in the world as a re ceptacle for ixnrefaetions of animals ot both the land and water kiud. Put the wonders of the "liad Lands" are equalled in ono respect at least, by the mineral saturated soil at Rapid City. True, petrfactions of remote geological ages are not found in such profusiou at Rapid Citv as they are farther South, but what is couallv as wonderful, human bodies which have reposed but a short j PETALUMA jlCUBATQR CO,, -time in the soil of those South Dakoteau hills are transformed into statues of stoue as hard as t he hardest marble. Put few of these last resting places haw been disturbed, and those only when friends thought it absolutely necessary: however, in each case the same peculiar ity was exhibited. St. Louis Republe. If In any bast ness not p&ylnc you drep In and bur an Improved IVtalunia lncuba or. MORE MONEY Can be made raising Chickens than In any other businessforthe capital invested. A bcauurul lUu-ttrare! Catalogue .4 Incuba tors. Brooders and all kind Chicken Fix ings Free- A cent- for Manns I tone cutter. Neeessitv Clover Colter. " and every thing required by poultry raisers. PETALUKJU CAL. onha Misfortune. A Sunday school teacher not a thousand miles from a certain church In Detroit, has a wife with a rich fa" h r, who Is a very convenient article to go housekeeping on. Not manv Sundays ago heasko.l the worst bov In his class what ho know about the Boo-.l. "Tho Johnstown Hood?" queried the boy. "No. no," In a vexed ton.; "I mean Noah's flood." "Flood of what?" asked tho boy. "Water, of course." "Oh-h," Mii.l tho boy in doubtful ac knowledgment of his information. "Yes; Noah's Hood wheu ho lived for forty days on water." "Nothing but water?" queried tho boy, wonderingly. "1 hat's all It was water everywhere." "And ho lived on It all that tlmo?" "Yes." "Well, old Ue.n'1 dldu't havo auy rich father-in-law, did he?" On the folio tin .' S ibbath tho boy occu pied a place in a class of older scholars. Detroit Free l'ro-s. MASTIFF pLUG CU7 HU l.vrcauout Mr. Bingo " I met a poll to ticket- agent to-dav. Sirs. Rlngo " Where was ho?" Mr. Bingo "In a dime museum.' 1 HplugJcutI i i Z-i HEIGHT OF POPULARITY. If you are willing to pay a few cents more for a strictly purr. Smoking Tobacco, buy the Mas tiff cut plug, racked m patent canvas pouc' S, which retain the: moisture and flavor of the to bacco. 4.8. Paoa Tobacco Co., Richmond, Virginia PRINTERS ! ro n? KNOW What the new Seut-Sp vcino Typs Is? It not. do vourselves a cahk! turn by wrlune to hawks SHATTVCi. S Washiustou St.. San Kranciseo. tor a Sieciuien tfe-ofc. it saves x per eenu m cniiatlon, and is pertecUon lu lace and JusU- ncaiiou. 10 Various Kipreums tor lnjg uuUttN. The measures of long distances have varied widely at uuTercut times and with different nations, to say nothing of the comparisons used in different sections of our country. For instance : Tho Jews say, irom Dan to Beer- sheba." The Persians sav, "from Medini to Mecca." The English say, " from Land's End to Johu O'Uroat's." The Yaukce says, "from Maine to Texas." The Southerner says, " from Florida to Alaska." The Sucker and Hoosier say," from the great lakes to the gulf." The South American says, "from the Isthmus to the Horn." In Louisiana they say, "from New Orleans to Pittsburgh." In California the common expression Is " from Altaville to Pilot Knob." Chicago Globe. A house in which Daniel Webster lived for several years in Waslungton, but which of late has been used for law offices, was advertised for sale at auction for non payment of some small claim, but proceed ings were checked by an injunction. In the back yard ot this place there is still standing a linden tree planted by the saga of Marshfleld in 1850.