- y- '"‘’ a * fa îiww f POINT TO NOVEL IDEAS OF ME­ CHANICAL IMPORTANCE. The > the Unit » show the - rior to all others in purity and Statements by other manufacturers to the contrary have been declared, by the, official authorities falsifications of the official reforts. •V ’J/’ ' '. OF AN ENGAGED GIRLS' CLUB. - I , ' : ■ A HYPNOTIZING SERMON. t’ remarked the retired flat, for engaged girls that live in board- be to provide some private, perfectly «mid * entertain their sweethearts. Macs. Aa things are now. nearly gnarf •boapoko bachelor maid in New York dty is obliged to receive tho dourest fol- Frank Wilson attended the Hemenway Methodist church at Evanston Sunday night and fell asleep while the pratqr. Rev. C. E. Wilkinson, was preaching. He did not thoroughly awaken until Wednesday morning at. 8:80 o’clock. Dre. Palmar gad Gray worked over the Sunday night without avail. When Wil­ son awoke, aside from a alight weakness Wilson is about 28 years old and to a student la the Garrett Btbttaal Institute, Evanston. He to of slight build and of fair complexion, and of late haa been three or four other bachelor maids who complaining of not feeling well. He and are flatting it with her is anything but Harry Boyes, another student, went to church together. Shortly after the pas­ tor began speaking Wilson’s eyes closed, decided to renounce the pomps and vani­ and Ms head dropped on his companion’s ties of the girl bacbelot world I was liv­ shoulder. He was apparently sound ing in a boarding bouse. I leave yon to asleep. Boyes, knowing that Wijaou had imsgine the trials and tribulations that not been feeling well and thinking that Harry and I underwent during the peri- on account*« the exceeaive heatdn. the church he had become faint, did not at-, tempt to arouse him. After the congre­ precious evenings together except the gation bad passed out at the close of the service bo tried to awaken hto. compan- interruption at any moment ” “ ’By Jove, 1 can't stand thief cried no impression on the sleeper, and Dr. Harry one evening after a tortured half Palmer, who was present, advised that hour of decoroualy sitting on opposite Wilson bo curried out to the fresh air. He •This is worse than baden i’ll hire a drawing room for the purpose of nur courting would have had to be done aft- respect It’s dreadfully hard on sweet kaarta Yes, if some public spirited in- ■vidual wants to immortalise himself towheas bouse al! the betrothed young people that live in boarding bouses may boardtag bouse oouples'all over the city would rise up and call any such pbilan- According to an intelligent and ob- requires reeoli ng and heeling. If a shoe hardly bear resoling and heeling more of this knowledge and put inferior tenth* the apparently impossible feat of in­ creasing the reputation of their goods by using inferior materiel. It la certain, however, that reputable mannfacturen do not adopt this questionable policy.— Shoe and Leather Reporter A TKBBIBLB WU1TAHT, Unvl' tt«n- wko leuifv fe the osarli, at eOket of tra killer la this dira«»*. Parrara Inenr a wvtlln. 1.1«, m-MK-lae ia adaptad Vm ib« Inam-ik», reranr.« «uà ktlBtoesa ot ths as* B It is blghly . bvtirS.'iaL-------------- '.'¿ig,jjBfa,' H- pMa"» Nosh wake tbs Brrt vnyare o" tvilnr.bjr Oline MW Oraron Bloid SeriBer. T xt G srmka irritable and mieera- I like charity, covere MUHI» II, LIV CI, bowels. Wherever it is, it Is caused by the which Nature baa been unable to rid berertf at, unaided. ditions very heavy bodiea entirely 4*- tacbed from the earth, immereed in and free to nova in theatr, can be sustained there Indefinitely without any expendi­ ture of energy from within. Tbeae bodies may be entirely of mo- cbanical conatruction, but for the pres­ ent we will continue to conoider the character of the invisible support ot tho soaring bird and to study ita motions, though only as a pregnant instance of­ fered by nature, to show that a rational solution of the mechanical problem to poral ble. It la frequently suggested by those who know these facte only from books that there must be some quivering of the wings so rapid aa to eacape-obeer- vation- Those who do know them from observation are aware that - it to abso- The writer will not attempt any gen Dena, and opening his eyes said: "What's the matter? Where am IF. Then he oral description of his own observations, but as an illustration of what can some­ Seeing that the cue was of a aerions na­ times be teen will give a tingle one, to. ture, Dr. Palmer called a cab, and the whose exactness be can personally wit The common turkey bustard young man wne taken to Ma room at Dr. neas. (Catbartee aura) to ao plentiful around tinned to work over him. All Sunday the environs of Washington that there night Wilson’s respiration was low, but to rarely a time when some of them may not be aeen in the sky, gliding In curves feeble. He came out of his unconcious- pver some attractive point or—more rarely—amoving in nearly straight lines all right Neither Dr. Gray nor Dr.~ on rigid wings, if there be a moderate Palmer can give any explanation of Wil- wind. On the only occaalon when tbs son's long Bleep. They do not think that motion of one near at hand could be any serious results will follow.—Chicago studied in a very high wind, the author Herald. _________________ waa croesing the long aqueduct bridge over the Potomac in an usually violent SUCCESSOR TO DE GIERS. November gale, the velocity of the wind being probably over 85 milea an hour. About one-third of tho distance from The appointment of Prince Lobanoff- the right bank of the river, and imme­ Rostovskl to the ministry of foreign affaire diately over the right parapet of the In the Ruseinn government instead of ' - M. de Staal,whose bridge, at a height of not over 20 yarda, fl rot waa one of tbeae bussarda, which, for name sent out in con­ aome object which waa not evident, nection with the choee to keep over thia apot, where the place, la Broken of gale, undisturbed by any surface irreg as a decidedly an- with unchecked violence, in thia aerial ti-Engltab, anti- torrent, and apparently indifferent to French inovAnent it, the bird bung, gliding - in the usual on the part of the manner of its species, round sod round, Prince Lobanoff la in a email oval curve, whose major axis a little prat 60 and —which seemed toward the wind—waa bra long been not longer than twice ita height from the water. The bird Waa therefore at all timea in done view. He swung For the last 11 LOBAXorr rosto vasi. ^„hehe.repre- around repeatedly, rising and falling at Vienna. slightly in its course, while keeping, as •^'"^¡7 ■ WHOM, on ohé level and over the same Before that for a abort time Honed in London, before that was attach­ place, moving with a alight swaying, ed to the ministry of the interior et BL both in front and lateral direction, but Petersburg and yet previous to that waa in such an effortlem way aa suggested a Russian minister st Constantinople. laxy yielding of itaelf to the rocking of aome invisible wave. ' It may be asserted that there waa not polities of »he continent, and Mo senti­ only no flap of the wing, but no* the ments will be understood when to to stated that be considers Vienna the ideel center quiver of a wing feather visible to the ot diplomacy. He la. In luort, a stout ad­ cleeest scrutiny during the considerable vocate of ths triple ailtance of Russia, time the bird waa under obaervatioa. Germany and Austria and to understood and during which tho gale continued. to have been somewhat out of favor during A record of thia time was not kept, the reign of the late car because he could but it at any rate lasted until the not or would not conceal hto opinion that writer, chilled by tho cold blast, gave Russia'* persecution of Bulgaria was up watching and moved nway, leaving stupid and the "flirtation” with the re­ public of France filled with danger. It to the bird still floating about at the same predicted that the coming few months height in the torrent of air, in nearly will witness such a "love feast of katoere" the same circle and with* the anmo aa- aa bat not taken place since 1875, and pect of indolent repose. that the object of 1* all will bo to crush If the wind to such a body as it to the growing popular movemont in each of commonly supposed to be, it to abeo- lutely impossible that the sustentation could have taken place in a borixontal elent . family—he borate openly that It is Is derived from an eariyancestor who was surnamed Loben beeanae of hie high fore­ head and Kostovski from the old town of Rostov. where the Lobanoffswere for gee erations reigning prince«. Lobanoff's appointment will be pleasing st Rome, for ho to particularly persona ally to convey to the pope the intelligence that the osar bad breathed his last 1. 111 and none would be offered in thia con­ traction by the writer were be not satia- fled that it involvea muchtnora than an ornithological problem, and that it points to novel conclusions of mechan- leal and utilitarian importance. They are paradoxical at flrat sight, since they with all the horrible yet that the ability to soar Ie tn some way connected with the presence of the wind became to the writer as certain aa any fact of observation could be, and at first the difficulty of reconciling ench facte—to him undoubted—with accept­ ed law* of motion aeemed quite Inao persblo.—Profeecor Langley. Mr. Wheeler—1 snppoee the great and mysterious Robert has many ad mirera in Boston. Miss Emerson? An Albany couple have received a sil­ ver medal for their baby because it did er—even the beans go through n course of Browning before they come to the Jeremiah D. Robertson of 822 Clinton /able.—P. A 8. & Co. Bulletin. . the World’s fair and took the baby along. They occupied bertha in a sleeping car, and the baby endured the jolting with- the blood. L-Waltor. Hawas United Statss con­ sul at Tamatavo, mabdyto. Bat they think er any “It -- W . --- regolatoti d«r the Harriaoa are liable a* this eraaon, can be promptly cured by apply .ng SL Jacobs Oil to the pain apo*. ______________ i French oourt au- the khxlvxlux prlsonmsnt. France to doing her best to steal Madagas- •ar from the Hovas, and her action analnot Waller aeems to be a case where »here may •be two colored gentlemen in the wood pita. Ono of thorn is Waller, and the other to the fact that »be enterprising Afro-Amor- loan has received very valuable land eon- oesslons from the Hora government, much to the dtopleuureef France, which to sx- erctalng a protectorate ri et armto over Madagascar and claims tbst shs bas ax- cluilve control over the foreign affairs of the Hovsa Waller waa shrewd enough to get control of about »>0 square miles of land covered with India robber trace and other valuable forests, and ra these are d» sired by the French colonists there seems good ground for st least a suspicion that the action against Waller to inspired by the wish to rob him of his concession. Waller was born a slave tn Missouri in 1850. When the war beaan, he was con­ fiscated by Federal troopa and waa eent to Iowa, where be received a common echool education and became a lawyer. Ho began tito practice of hie profeesion in Leavenworth 18 yeara ago. He toon re­ moved to Topeka, where he started a news­ paper and became prominently Identified with politics. He was the first colored member of the Kansas Republican stale central committee and waa chosen to the was the only Afro-American presidential takes place, and that the birds sustain ' pointed to state offices. themselves on pinions which arc quite i February, 1891, when he waa ap rigid and motion Iras, «rept for . rock- ; ingor balancing movement, involving „.. . Myhlra in^lnwu City. Hto in- the Blind asylum In Kansas City. His In- little energy. . dorsementa for the consulship were excel To the writer, who has himself been lent, end he wra credited with being a attracted from bla earliest years to the lawyer of considerable ability. He served mystery which has surrounded this no­ as consul until Feb. 88, 1898, when he tion of the soaring bird, it baa been a was relieved by the present consul. Since subject of continual surprise that it has he retired to private life be has been very active aa a business man, and it to wtid attracted ao little attention from. phy- that his concession from the Hova govern- sicisto. That nearly inert bodiea, ment was granted under more reasonable weighing from five to ten and even conditions than were ever before obtained more pounda. and many hundred timea by a foreigner. , denser than the kir, should be visibly, suspended in It above onr heada, some- THE PUBLIC BUILDING BOSS. timee for bouts at a time, and without falling-this, it might seem, is, without misuse of language, to be called a phys­ William Martin Aiken, tbs new supsr- waa immediately taken outside and given ical miracle, and yet the fact that vUlng architect of the treasury depart those wboae province it to to investigate a vigorous rubbing and restoratives sd- ment, is a member of the well known nature have hitherto seldom thought it Aiken family of South Carolina, but bra ministered. deserving attention is “perhaps the for breakfast. T hat uno la a It baa long beenobaerved that certain xpecieeof birds maintain themselves in­ definitely in the air by soaring, without any flapping ot the wing or any motion other thann alight rocking of the body, and thia although the body in queation la many hundred timea denser than the air in which it aeema to float with an undulating movement aa on the wow of an invisible stream. No satiafactury mechanical explana- Unitad States la jus* nc eonsplouous position b« he has been appointed has attracted a great deal of attention of late owing to the fact that the American Institute of Architects having (or Its object the abolition ot the architectural department under control of the searetaxy of the treaeuzy- TheAHhk. toots of the country generally believe that the department to a radically wsong and pernicious government sd junot, but then Aiken to a man well fitted for the impor- tant position. Mr. Aiken was born In Charleston about 40 years ago, and for several generations hto family has bran prominent In tbs so­ cial and political life of the Palmetto Stats. The town of Aiken, 8. C., was nsmed aft­ er his grandfather’s brother, and Hon. D. G. Aiken, who entered the Forty-eighth congress and served four terms, to hto un­ cle. Hto family to also related to the Ald- M mm the brat thing yoa ean find while Epicureanism sen be found on tbs North- Western L'mitod. It to the hsndsomrat train in all the Naw Northwest and every coach to nothing more nor toes than a body be ahoeld refnahad Ind improved and I did not have that tirad M* Hood’s Sarsaparilla Makes Pure Blood. G.». STAYER Í GO. îrr-mm a W. M. Mead, General Agent, Portland, Or. j or F. G. gavage. Traveling Freight and Passenger Agent. iilui BBWABB OB OINTBBMTS MOB OA- TABMB THAT COMTAIN MBBCOBV, to ________ PORTLAND. OREGON & Vd. sad 4. 4/ Qt». tifati, N. r. CATARRH lystem when entering It through the mu­ cous surfaces. 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AIKO. riches, one of whom—Judge James AM- riob—presided over the historic Barnwell courthouse meeting that preceded the at­ tack upon Fort Hu inter. Mr. Aiken studied architecture In the Massachusetts Institute of Technology un­ der the celebrated H. H. Richardaon and bears the reputation of having been one of hto best puptla About seven years ago be located In Cincinnati, where be displayed rare taste and skill In designing the Brice Scientific school sttacbed to Miami univer­ sity, In remodeling the old Christ church and In planning other Important ctrue- tures that called for the exercise of ability of a high order. Mr. Aiken was one of 88 applicants tag the *4,500 place he bra won and was in- doreod by ( nited States Senator Brice and numerous other Influential persons. His duties will oomprise Hi« cere of 150 public buildings that have been or are be­ ing constructed throughout the country Fttl T MALARIA WELL-KNOWN BEER romito, OB. 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