THE BRIDGE BUILDERS.
We build a bridge of trust
From night to morn. '
A mystic arch of dreams
Till day is born.
We build a bridge of trust
From friend to friend.
And often break the span
We cannot mend.
We build a bridge of trust
From shore to shore.
And shadow figures steal across
At peace forevermore.
-Florence A. Hunroe In Detroit Free Press.
THE USE OF COCAINE.
Hone Trainers and Jockeys Find It Use
ful as at Bracer For Their Nag.
'Within a recent period cocaine has
come into rise on the race track as a
stimulant Horses that are worn and ex
hausted, or are uncertain as to speed and
endurance, are given 10 to 15 grains of
cocaine by the needle under the skin at
the time of starting, or a few moments
before.
The effects are very prominent, and a
veritable muscular delirium follows, in
which the horse displays unusual speed
and often unexpectedly wins the race.
This agitation continues, and the driver
has difficulty in "slowing down" the
horse after the race is over ; not unfre
queutly the horse will go half way round
again before he can be stopped. The ex
haustion which follows is not marked,
except in the great thirst and loss of ap
petite. Sometimes diarrhea and trem
bling follow. But good grooms give un
usual attention to rubbing and bathing
the legs in hot water and stimulants.
' The general effect on the horse is de
pression, from which he soon recovers,
but it is found essential to give cocaine
again to make sure of bis speed. The
action of cocaine grows more transient
as the use increases, and when a long
period of scoring follows before the race
begins drivers give a second dose secret
ly while in the saddle. Sometimes the
horse becomes delirious: and unmanage
able and leaves the track in a wild
frenzy, often killing the driver, or he
drops dead on the track from cocaine, al
though the cause is unknown to any but
the owner and driver. Some horses have
been given as high as 20 grains at a
time, but this is dangerous and only
given to worn out animals, who may by
this means win a race. It appears that
cocaine is only used in running races
and as a temporary stimulant for the
time. It is claimed that the flashing
eyes and trembling excitement of the
horse are strong evidence of the use of
cocaine. Cincinnati Enquirer.
Guiana's Tile Climate.
The climate of Guiana is not by any
means agreeable. Georgetown is within
six degrees of the equator, and the mer
cury generally lingers around 90 and
100 degrees. The land is also low and
marshy in places, so that fevers are
prevalent at all seasons of the year, and
a white man cannot live there unless he
takes extreme precaution to observe
certain essential rules. Negroes, on the
contrary, can live anywhere and break
the health rules laid down for the white
settlers. Yellow fever is an annual
plague in Georgetown, but the negro
population gives little thought to it, and
it is uncommon to hear of one of their
number taking it The coolies, who
compose about one-third the population,
are more susceptible to the poor climate
than the negroes, but are much hardier
than the whites. The coolies are a
lighter and more slender race than the
negroes, but they are industrious and
moderately faithful workers, while the
negroes are lazy and indolent.' The real
hard and difficult work in the fields
that requires muscle is performed by the
negroes, but the steady, continuous,
light work is allotted to the coolies.
The two races are naturally hostile,
more so than the Europeans and the na
tives. St Louis Globe-Demoorat
Lady Aberdeen is a constant attendant
on the sessions of the parliament in Ot
tawa. She occupies a place beside the
speaker in the house of commons. Dress
ed in purple velvet, she is a familiar
figure there. But though greatly inter
ested in the debates, as she must be,
"her excellency," as she is styled, while
intensely listening, is as unimpression
able and un encouraging a listener as can
well be imagined. She sits without any
change of countenance, no matter what
the subject discussed or how fervid the
oratory. ;
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MAN WITHOUT MERCY.
Brutal Gen. Weyler, Commander of
the Spanish Army In Cuba.
If current reports be true the most
cruel general that old Rome ever pro
duced was a mild, beneficent sort of
man compared to him w ho is terroriz
ing the Cubans. Weyler was sent to
end the revolution, and he is fcrying to
do it in a way which calls to mind the
atrocities perpetrated on the people by
Valmaseda during the ten years' war
In that unfortunate island. On April
CAPTAIN GNKAL WEYLER.
4, 1869, Valmaseda Issued a proplama
tion In which the following lines oc
curred: "Every man from the age of
15 upward found away from his habita
tion and who does not prove a justified
motive therefor will be shot." Weyler's
proclamation is as foul as was Val
maseda's, and if his outrageous policy
is pushed very far there are those high
in the councils of this nation who de
clare that the only end will be war be
tween the United States and Spain. It
is next to impossible to believe that in
this age of the world war should be eo
degraded as Weyler has degraded it.
He notified all Cubans to join the Span
ish ranks. He has decreed death for
Cubans sympathizing with the cause of
freedom, and declared trial by court
martial (another name for death) for
those who circulate news favorable to
the revolution and for those who shall
speak adversely of him or of his army.
His commanders have been given pow
er to execute prisopers as they see fit.
He has ordered the country people to
quit their homes and remove to places
designated by him. Indeed, he has
done unspeakable things In; Cuba.
General Gomez, on the contrary, has
treated captured Spaniards with every
leniency and has given many prisoners
their freedom unconditionally. It is
possible that Weyler's brutality will
cause a neversal of this policy and that
General Gomez will take to shooting
Spaniard for Cuban, a reprisal justifi
able under the circumstances, but to be
deplored beyond expression.
THE MANX CAT.
It Is Sightly Termed the Oddest of
the Whole Feline Order.
- The oddest of all felines is the Manx '
cat, which is, as its name Implies, a
native of the Isle of Man. One of its
peculiarities Is that it has no tail. Then,
it is much larger, stronger and fiercer
than the domestic cat. It has a bigger
head, its hair is coarser and thicker
THE MANX CAT.
and its hind legs, besides being larger,
are formed almost like those of a hare.
This cat, although making its home
among men, is still very shy, rejecting
all friendly advances and being very
apt to bite the hand that offers it a
caress. It exists for the most part' out
of doors and Is almost wholly self-supporting.
It is a fine hunter, not only
catching rats, but rabbits, hares and
birds as well.
In regard to its being tailless, a
writer states that the peculiarity, in all
probability, originated In some dis
ease of the caudal appendage, resulting
from the dampness of the soil and the
humidity of : the climate. The effect
of the disease was the rotting off of
the tail and in time, it is supposed, it
became hereditary.
As to the hind legs of the cat it la
thought they .became longer In obedi
ence to the requirements of the crea
ture's life, its home originally being
among the hills, to which it fled on the
approach of danger. Its long hind legs
enable it to easily run up high hills
While pursued by enemies.
Chinese Quail In Maryland.
Frank T. Redwood is interested in
the increase of wild fowl In this coun
try, and has an idea that Chinese quail
may be successfully introduced. A
friend brought him six of these birds
a year ago. They were liberated in
Talbot County, and flew off In the
woods as naturally as though in China.
But that was the last ever seen of
them. They have disappeared entire
ly, so far as Mr. Redwood or his friends
have been able to discover. Mr. Red
wood is still firm in his faith that this
species of bird will flourish in America,
and to this end has arranged to have
twenty pair brought over from China
and let loose In the woods of Maryland.
Baltimore American.
If a girl is pretty when she is yonng,
It ia a good sign that she will be ugly
when she Is old.
THE GIANTS OF OLD.
PREVIOUS AGES SUPPLY US WITH
ENORMOUS FOSSIL BONES.
Lizards Three Times the Size of the Lar
gest Elephant and m Turtle Whose Shell
spooked Like a Hnt Marine Giants and
the Kemarkable Fisted Lixard.
The belief in a .race of giants was
once almost universal and held until
recent years. Even today large skeletons
when found are sometimes reported as
being those of giant human beings. This
was especially true of the period about
the tenth and eleventh' centuries, and
in the latter a most amazing discovery
was reported, which threw the scien
tific world of the time into great exoite
ment. It was said that the body of Pal
las, the son of Evander, had been dis
covered beneath the tomb of the emper
or Henry ILL The bones were enor
mous, and it is unnecessary to state,
proved to have belonged to a huge fossil
elephant. As late as the fifteenth cen
tury a war of words was waged over a
find of large bones, one party claiming
that they belonged to the giant Tento
bochus. In 1857 a giant was discovered
in Switzerland. The council of Lucerne
requested a learned scientific man, Pro
fessor Felix Plater of Basel, to report
upon it, and he not only announced the
bones as part of a human giant, but
made a complete restoration, showing
the man 20 feet high, which the proud
city adopted as an ancestor in the arms
of the commonwealth. The design and
some of the bones can still be seen in
the college of Jesuits at Lucerne. Un
fortunately for the theory and muoh to
the discomfiture of the people who had
raised to a high pinnacle this mighty
anoestor, it was found to be the remains
of an elephant
Nearly all the mastodon finds in this
country were attributed to giants, but
there is no evidence that a human giant
ever existed over 8 feet in height, and it
is extremely doubtful if this height was
ever attained. -
Giants other than human are very com
mon in all branches of the animal king
dom giants in every sense when com
pared to their pygmy representatives of
today. Some years ago some laborers in
the Senalik hills of India were engaged
upon a government work when they
came upon the remains of a turtle that
proved beyond question that these ani
mals had their giants in the days of old.
The shell which the men exposed might
have been used as a shelter for several
men, and at first, before its bony nature
was observed, it was thought by the na
tives to be a hut of some kind. Fortu
nately the bones were uninjured, and
they were taken out and removed to the
British museum, where a oomplete res
toration of the animal may be seen. The
length of the turtle was 10 feet, its
horizontal circumference 25 feet, and its
girth 15 feet, but it was estimated by
scientists that this was not an adult,
and that when fully grown this huge
creature would display a domelike back
8 or 9 feet high, giving a total length of
20 feet.
One of the common animals in equa
torial South America and in Central
America is the lizard, iguana, which at
tains a length of 4 or 5 feet and is con
sidered a large lizard, but it was a pyg
my when compared to an ancestor that
once. wandered over England and vari
ous portions of the world. A number of
years ago some workingmen were exca
vating and blasting in a quarry near
Maidstone, England, when some bones
were uncovered that caused profound
astonishment on the part of the finders.
The skeleton was perfect, and as it was
lifted out, bone by bone, their amaze
ment increased, and the news was spread
all over the country, attracting large
numbers of people. - When the bones
were placed Mn their proper position,
they were found to be the skeleton of a
gigantic lizard that when alive must
have been three times as balky as the
largest living elephant and stood upon
its hind legs like a kangaroo, tearing
down branches from the highest trees.
Such an animal was a slow mover and
sluggish and must have fallen an easy
prey to the human hunters, if they ex
isted. The marine giants were wen more
bizarre and remarkable than the land
forms. If we can imagine the little igu
ana lengthened out to 80 feet, its back
spines changed to broad finlike objects,
we form some idea of the appearance of
one of the small dinosaurs, Stegosaurus
ungulatus, one of the most uncanny and
remarkable creatures ever found. It is
called the plated lizard, and the best
skeleton was found on the eastern flank
of the Kooky Mountains. Some of the
plates with which this armored lizard
were protected were two or three feet
in diameter and the spines over two
, feet in length. From the fact that the
nina iimDs were tne largest, it is evi
dent that this strange creature could lift
itself up and sit like a kangaroo, rest
ing upon its powerful tail, whioh, with
its enormous spines, must have been a
terrible weapon.
A giant from America had a skull
that measured eight feet in length. Al
most over the eyes were two large horns,
! a third placed over the nose. The great
, length of the skull was given by a huge
' majuit na nwAil V. a uJft. A
long plates. The mouth of the tricera
tops was protected by a horny beak. In
life it must have presented a formid
able appearance, with a body olumsy
and low like that of a hippopotamus, a
long tail like an alligator's, its head
calling to mind the rhinoceros. This
monster was 25 feot in length and must j
"ave been one oi tne strangest animais
of its time. Philadelphia Press.
Odd FnTujo . ..w -.y of ZJners.
"Do you know," said a prominent
shipping man, who had been discussing
the St Paul disaster with a party of
friends, "that it is a rule with the big '
transatlantic steamship companies that
the wife of the captain shall not travel
in his ship? It's a fact. The company j
strongly prohibits its captains from tak-'
ing their wives aboard with them. The
supposition is that if . anything should
happen to the ship the captain, instead
of attending to his public duty, would
devote his attention mainly to the safe
ty of his wife. So that if the wife of a
captain wants to go abroad she must take
passage in some other vessel. This rule
also holds in many of the freight lines. " -
Philadelphia Record. '
Conjugal Felicities; i
"Mabel, I sometimes think yon only
married me for my money." i
"Those lucid intervals are enoourag-
ing." Harlem Life.
DR. SHRADY ON VENTILATION.
Soma Venerable Theories on This Sahjeet
That Have Been Exploded.
The effect of expired air upon animal
life is the Bub ject of an- interesting arti
cle in The Medical Record by Dr.
George F. Shrady, its editor. "We need
not," says Dr. Shrady, "emphasize the
evil effects of what is usually called bad
ventilation. It is perhaps true that
acute diseases are not to be traced to
the same, but it may be safely stated
that there is a distinct deterioration of
vital forces in those who are constantly
subjected to .the impure atmosphere of
badly ventilated rooms. The oause of
the sickening sensation whioh comes
over us upon entering an atmosphere
contaminated with many breaths or of
the gradual ' deterioration of the vital
forces which follows confinement in such
an atmosphere is not known. For a
number of years prior to 1888 the view
prevailed that the discomfort and dan
ger to health and life in badly ventilat
ed - rooms were largely due to organic
matters contained in the air expired,
and that .the increase in carbonio acid
due to respiration has but little effect in
producing the bad results. Recently,
however, several experimenters have
concluded that the organic matters in
the exhaled breath " are not harmful, at
least to animals." ;
Referring to recent experiments on
the subjeot, Dr. Shrady says : "The re
salts justify the conclusion that the dis
comfort felt in crowded, ill ventilated
rooms is not due to excessive carbonio
acid or to bacteria or in most cases
to dusts of any kind, but is in reality
due to excessive temperature and un
pleasant odors. ' 'Nothing in these ex
periments shows the cause of the un
pleasant, musty odor of an unventilated
room, and attention is called to the
curious fact that cases of fainting in
crowded rooms usually occur in women
and are connected, the authors think,
with defective respiratory action due
to tight lacing. Finally these investi
gations, the authors declare, go to prove
that some of the theories upon whioh
modern systems of ventilation are based
are either without foundation or doubt
ful, and that the ' problem of securing
comfort and health in inhabited rooms
requires the consideration of the best
methods of preventing or disposing of
dust of various kinds, of regulating
temperature and moisture and of carry
ing off poisonous gases derived from
heating and lighting apparatus rather
than of simply diluting the air to a cer
tain standard of proportion of carbonio
acid present."
Got Their XJ censes.
. There is an ancient law in Rhode Is
land, which, however, is almost forgot
ten, requiring clergymen to take out a
license before officiating at marriages.
The other day Father O'Hare and Mr.
Stewart, the Episcopal rector of Au
burn, went to the town clerk for this
license. At first the town clerk was
much puzzled what to do, as he had no
proper license blanks, but he finally got
over the difficulty, and the clergymen
departed. After they had got on a street
car they opened their licenses, and each
was horrified to find himself in the pos
session of a full fledged second class
liquor license, with power to run a
liquor shop subject to all the privileges
and penalties of the law. A closer in
spection of the lioense, however, showed
that the words "second class liquor li
cense," giving power to sell "malt.
spirituous and intoxicating liquors" at
retail or wholesale, had had a line
drawn through them, and instead oi
the words "to sell malt, spirituous and
intoxicating liquors" were interlined
the words "to perform marriages," and
so forth. i
Each clergyman made a wry face aa
he contemplated bis battered license,
and each silently vowed to exhibit it
only in case of dire peril of a $30 fine.
But both blessed the ingenuity of the
official that could transform a document
whioh portends so much evil for the
race, according to their views, into an
instrument with power to give such
happiness. New York Tribune.
A SOCIETY ITEM. -
A Striking; Object Treason In the Ethics of
Nomenclature.
It was at the Emerald ball, and the
young Eociety reporter sharpened her
wits and her pencils, that full and satis
factory description of each costume
might be presented. Surrounding her
were those most desirous of seeing their
names and gowns in print, and in the
crowd stood a shopgirl, gowned in
flimsy pink cheesecloth of indescribable
cut v. ; . . .....
. When her turn came for inspection,
it was with a hopeless eye that the re
porter surveyed the toilet The artful
question, however, was asked, as usual :
"And your name and gown?"
"Miss Matilda Jenkins, attired in
pink erepon and . diamonds, " was the
studied and prompt reply.
"Pink crepon," wrote the newspaper
woman, delighted with the new and ele
gant name for cheesecloth, but her pen
cil refused to add "and diamonds"
until her quick eyes had discovered on
the girl's collar a tiny rhinestone as big
as a pinhead. Then "and diamonds"
went down in the notebook as proudly
as if announcing tiaras and stomachers
of purest luster.
The next day all. the girls behind a
notion counter exclaimed enviously over
a well worn newspaper clipping which
read, "Miss Matilda Jenkins, attired in
pink crepon and diamonds," and when
the society reporter glanced over the
printed words she felt never a pang as
to the- accuracy of the information she
had given to the public. New York
Times. -
PI am an tine.
A very attractive ornamental art of
recent introduction is, as stated, the pro
duction .of an imitation beadwork on
fabrics of various kinds by means of
what is known as glass powder, or
"diamantine," the result being patterns
which present an appearance similar to
that exhibited by glass beads on close or
open meshed fabrics. The. method of
operation in carrying out this idea is
said to be simple that is, the fabrio is
coated by means .of molding boards with
resinous substances, composed of, say,
60 parts of guaiacnm and 80 parts of
shellac, dissolved in 100 parts of alco
hol, 10 parts of glycerin being added to
the solution under continuous stirring.
After the composition has been carefully
distributed over the surface of the fab
rio the glass powder is strewn on it
and firmly pressed by repeated rolling,
eta, the glass powder being prepared by
thorough pulverizing or pounding, and
may be of any or many colors.-
FROM GOAT TO BOAT.
Even the festive goat in this vernal sea
son has his field sport on the common with
a tin can or the but of a log. From the
sport of the goat in the spring to the varied
sports of early and late summer, what a
world of amusement and what a
scene of muscular activity. In all these,
ever so helpful, from the bat in the ball
field to the oar of the Boat and the clatter
of the tart, there comes in a large amount
of penalty in the shape of serious sprains
and troublesome bruises, but no man is a
good athlete, nor does he develop well from
such exercises without his full share of
both. It is a good thing, therefore, that
there is provided something which, if al
ways kept ready, is always ready to cure
Srompily these sadden and painful mis
aps. St. Jacobs Oil, without question,
E asses among all sportsmen as the thing to
ave, par excellence, in all kinds of sports.
It bas gained its -best reputation from its
best cures of this nature, and the man who
would enjoy freely the summer sports
would be almost foolish not to keep a bot
tle about him.
Jioks Would you call Brobson a fool? Fil
kins Well, hardiy; but I think he know the
least on the most subjects of dv man ol my ac
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body. Read
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down stairs without clasping my hand
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a burden. Hood's Sarsaparilla does far
more than advertised. After taking one
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- JLondon In 1705.
M. Grosley, who visited London in
1765, notes that the old pious salutation
of any one who sneezed, whioh still pre
vailed in bis own country, bad been
abolished in England by the use of snuff.
He was given to understand that to sa
lute a snuff taker in these circumstances
was like complimenting him on the col
or of the hair of his wig. This color, by
the way, he announces in another place,
is usually brown, being chosen as least
affected by the mud and dirt of the
streets. This ingenuous explanation, like
his statement that Pope was not buried
in Westminster abbey because he was a
Catholic, and that Queen Anne in St
Paul's churchyard wears a hoop, seems
to suggest that some of his obliging in
formants must occasionally, in eight
eenth century parlance, have treated M.
Grosley to a "bite." But, in saying
that his chapter of clubs is disappoint
ing, it must not be forgotten that he
visited one very remarkable specimen of
this all popular Georgian institution
the society of "Robin fioodians," at
whose freethinking discussi6ns Fielding
pokes rather cumbrous fun in the Coven t
Garden Journal. Longman's Maga
zine. -
"Do yon know," said Representativ
Aldrich of Chicago, "meeting General
Greely recently reminds me of a day at
the World's fair, when we all stood
with open mouth wonderment and in
terest, looking upon that scene, so graph
ically illustrated, of Greely and his lit
tle band of . surviving explorers strug
gling with death and worse. At the
same time we were listening with sad
ness to the eloquent recital which was
given to groups of visitors every few
moments by the attendant, when sud
denly, during a pause in- the proceed
ings, an old granger that was his ap
pearance broke out feelingly, 'I alius
thought it was a shame 'that Greely
wa'n't elected president and said so to
the Grant crowd to hum at the time. ' "
Washington Post "
Mother uwue, iiuu, ny are yon
so naughty to-day, just when auntie is
paying us a visit? Fritz 'Cause auntie
told me that if I was a good boy she
would elng for us this evening. Hu
morlstlsche Blatter.
. Most people thresh over the same
straw too much.
gth, vigor
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WHAT MAKES THE PIANO RATTLE?
Queer Causes Found by the Toner Things
In the Instrument.
Piano tuners are sometimes called
upon to "tune" gas fixtures as well as
pianos. Frequently the owner of a fine
upright "grand" enters a vigorous oom
plaint because "that piano rattles so."
Then the piano tuner packs his few tools
and some extra glue and parts of the
"action" into his long, slender valise
and proceeds to feel the pulse, pound
the chest, examine the tongue and over
haul the internal economy of the of
fending piano. His experienced ear
tells him that .the piano is all right
His intimate knowledge of the mechan
ism and make up of the piano assures
him that nothing is the matter with the
instrument, and he says so. '
"But the piano does rattle," insists
the owner. "Now, listen when I tonch
this key." And, sure enough, a decid
ed buzz and jingle are heard.
"It is not in the piano," replies the
tuner, and he touches the key again and
again, at the same time glancing
around the room. "There it is," he
says at last, "pointing to the glass
globejaround the gas jet "There is the
rattler," and the irritating noise is si
lenced when be removes the glass globe.
This is a common experience of piano
tuners. Certain notes in the piano vi- ,
brate in harmony with a gas fixture, a
picture frame, a china plaque hung
against the wall or the brio-a-brao which
commonly litters the top of the sensi
tive instrument and the innocent piano,
is blamed for the discordant jangle.
Pins, bnttons and other things foreign
to the piano which find their way into
the instrument set up complaints and
harsh cries when certain keys are
struck, and recently a piano tuner in
Evanston, searching for the "rattle,"
found and restored to the young woman
who used the instrument her upper set
of false teeth, which had disappeared
mysteriously the week before.
Besides coins, buttons, pins and
toothpicks, the piano tuner's salvage in
cludes hairpins, pocketknives, paper
cutters, manicure instruments, knitting
needles, matches, jewelry, nails, taoks,
bits of glass, pieces of picture wire,
buckles, collar buttons, sleeve buttons,
rings and even money which had been
placed in the case for safe keeping and
then forgotten. Chicago Chronicle.
Where we cannot invent we may at
least imprqye. We may give somewhat
of novelty to that which was old, con
densation to that which was diffuse,
perspicuity to that which was obscure
and currency to that which was recon
dite. Colton.
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As mercury will surely destroy the sense of
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