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EUGENE CITY GUARD, LkCAHriKU, FreprleUr. EUGENE CITY. OREGON. Labuurhere's 1 no JI'jv. L of J'uuili. Here In a very ciHuh story of Henry Labouchere us au. Lton boy: It happenn that one day young Henry, having more money tlmn be knew want to do with, de termined instead or treating bit chums to do tbe "big toff" alone, lis accordingly d refuted himself with great care, and, (eel Ing a somewhat epicurean Robinson Cru- toe, tallied forth to the largest hotel lu Eton, engaged there a private room, and ordered '.he waiter to bring blm a bowl of punch. Tbe discreet waiter stared, but brought the liquor. It wa then the Etonian's turn to stare, and to wonder What on earth he should do with tbe buge bowlful of a fluid the Very odor of which made btm feel faint. At length hi eye lighting upon a good old fashioned cup board of antique oak, a brilliant idea truck him. He opened the door and poured the whole of the punch Into the basement of tbe cupboard. Then, after waiting a few minute to ice whether the obnoxious liquor would make Inroads upon tbe carpi-t, tbe pattern of which wa that of golden crowns 011 a regal blue ground, be rang tbe bell again, and on tbe waiter reapperiing our hern, in mill more author itative tonen, ordered another bowl. Mr. IiAbouchere declare that be will never forgot the expression of terrified amazement which came over the man'i countenance. Tbe aecond potation went the way of the lint, that U to aay, into the cupboard. Alexander the Groat, after hi victory over Darius, could not bave felt prouder than UiIh Eton boy when be called for tbe bill, disbursed half a sovereign for the punch and ten shillings more for tbe private parlor, tipped the waiter and swag- gered Into the street, fully perauaded that the eye of the whole Inn were upon blm, which, of course, lu liia exultant state of mind, were tantamount to those of all Europe. He took great care, however, never to go to that hotel again. London Cor. Aew lork World. Tbe General Begged file Pardon. A reporter wa scut at tbe lat moment to write up an Important theatrical per formance in New York. He hurried to the theater, but did not arrive until after the play bad begun. In getting to his place lie was forced to disturb General Sherman, who, with a lady, occupied seats next the aisle. The reporter begged the general's pardon, but the old soldier was evidently aunoyeu. lie said nothing, however, until after the curtain bad fallen on the flint act. Then he leaned over toward tbe reporter wun a irown aim saiu: "Young man, you ought to know that It Is a great annoyance to lie forced to stand np and let a person pass while the play is la progress. You should either get to your scut bcrore the curtain rises or stay away from the theater," The reporter flushed and answered quickly: "General, I am a newspaper man. I was ordered to come to this theuter tonight to report this performance. I came as quickly as I could after I received my orders, and I apologized for disturbing you when Icume lu. 1" ITere the general Interrupted blm. The old man's frown was gone, "I beg your pardon now," he said. "I didn't understand, You are perfectly in tbe right, sir. Always obey orders. Oln-y orders if you have to make a whole thea ter full of people get up and stand on their feet for an hour." Then the general held out his hand and hook the reMrter's heartily. They met several Union after that, and the distin guished warrior always had a smile and a pleasant greeting for tbe reporter who "obeyed orders." Youth's Companion. CAUSES OF EARTHQUAKES. A Long Free Tenancy, There Is a man lu business on Arch street and in the lower portion of that Important thoroughfare, where business properties are very valuable, who, while he does not own the building he occupies and has no friendly relations with the person who does own it, has paid no rent for eighteen years and him never been asked to do so during that long Interval of time. For the eighteen years In question the business man has la-en awaiting the appearance either of his landlord or the hitter's agent, and during that long period he ha paid the taxes on the building and kept It In thorough repair. His business has been a most prosperous one, and several rivals have felt tbe sting of bis ability to sail much closer to tbe wind than they do owing to his being relieved of the usual yoke of rent day. It Is not at all unllkoly that the nronortv will become his by right of undisputed possession at the expiration of twenty-one years, and It Is worth many thousands of dollars. Those who are conversant with tbe strange case bave come to the conclu sion that the owner bos long since been dead, and It i supposed thnt he was lost at sea. It is just such a case In real estate a not Infrequently occurs In the business of large and long established savings banks, which accumulate funds that are never called for by their owuera or their heirs. Philadelphia Record. A Practical Catli Iteglster. A cosh register has been Invented that Will be welcomed by storekeepers through out the country. Hy It a proprietor can It in bis room and tell exactly what the Oay's receipts at the store are. The cosh drawer is opened automatically by the ac tion of the lever which registers the sale. The drawer can be opened and change made without registering, but every time It Is opened a record is made of the foot. In other words, if the drawer Is opened imply to make change no record is made of a sale, but a record Is made that the drawer has been opened for the purpose of making change. A strong point of thelnveution is that there la no way of "beating" It. If any attempt is made to tamper with it the bell rings. Furthermore, the hell rings when ever anything gets out of order sud con tinues to do so until the fault has been attended so. No money can lie taken from the drawer without detection. The device Is worked electrically and the battery which supplies tbe current will lust six teen months without recharging, which can be done at slight expeuae. New York Telegram. i Where Kprlng Is Welcome. From all accounts Manitoba must lie on of the most delightful s)toU to be In the springtime. At that period It Is said thousands of prarie lurks there salute the day by bursting all together iutoasplendid explosion of song, pouring out their rich, strong voice from every little height and perch, singing with all their might. They ing all day, and at night Joyous v ball the moon. Philadelphia Ledger. Are They Vruiuori Through the Shrink g of tbe Surface of In Ulobef Without d Tibt the consensus of Judg ment among physicists it that earthquakes result from the shrinkage of tbe surface of the earth from tbe ceaseless dissipation of it beat Into the cold of spare. A this loss of beat progress strains are inaugu rated throughout the surface of tbe earth, and on account of that surface being of un equal strength there arrives a moment when a breakage of a portion of tbe sur face takes place along tbe weakest portion thereof. Every miner is familiar with tbe "fuulls" which he encounters In tbe line of bis drift, and rnrely can he tell whether the contiliiiniiou of his vein is above or be low him when he comes to a bare wall at the abrupt end of bis vein. It Is well known to geologists that tbe faults are of extraordinary depths, as shown in the region cut through by the canyon of the Colorado, The phenomena attending these great disruptions are weakly exhibited in the earthquakes of today, when small disloca tions occasion comparatively great results, in the great earthquakes In Japan, nota bly in that of 1M, and In great earth quakes along the Andean coast of South America, there have been relatively small changes of surface that have exhibited but little change of the surface of the earth. Nor has there been any exhibition of forces in these earthquakes that cannot be explained on the theory of tbe rupture of s relatively very small area of the earth's surface. In the great earthquake of Krakatoa. a few years since, there was an unusual ex hibition of explosive forces accompanying the disruption of the surface, when vol canic agencies blew up half of a high ns ky islet ami left a great depression be low the surface or the water. There bin been no such other exhibition in modern times, for the material of the islet and the submarine material was projected Into the higher atmosphere In very minute particles, and gave rise to the extraordi nary exhibition of the beautiful red skies visible near sunset. This matter was car ried around the whole earth in tba higher atmosphere. 'Ihe mechanical theory of heat will read ily explain how a great disruption of tbe earth's surface may prisluce all tbe phe nomena of volcanic action when the condi tions of the material and the extent of tbe rupture are invariable, imagine what must have been the Intensity of hcut de veloped when faults of one mile deep were formed, ami the terrible friction of two surfaces of such great extent were In volved. We ran only approach the sub- ccthythe mathematics of the theory of heat, and certainly not by any experience. Along this coast the lines of runt lire of the weak parts of the earth's crust are shown In the depression of the plateau of the 1'aclllc oeeau bed and the parallelism of at least four lines of coast mountains ml tbe great backbone of the Hlerra Ne vada aud Cascade range. And these lines and the closely adjacent country must be t he seat of seismic changes, as the earth gradually limes its heat. We have the vlilence clearly before us that along the line of rupture of these ranges there have H'en many overflows of lava forming the basaltic layers vlsibleln tbe Sierra Nevada In certain bs alities, and especially In the many overflows along the northern part of ine inscaue range. me uyiinmicni meory accounts for these resultant exhibitions, ami it Is easy to Imagine that there must have been many other concomitant ex hi til lions of electrical and volcanic forces, lu the great chain of tho Aleutian islands, where so many ex unci ami active volcanoes exist, everr earthquake along this weak line in the earth's surface is accompanied by renewed llvlty in the living volcaiKH-s. audit mar be safely assumed that all the phenomena may lie traceu to the contraction and rup ture of some part of the surface or crust from the ceaseless but slow nsiling of our planet. Professor George Davidson lu San i'runclsco Examiner. VASHIX(JTOX WOMEN. I SOME WHO ARE CELEBRATED FOR BEAUTY AND TALENT. veritable flower of a girl, with a rose's ten der, beatific influence. She bas eyes like great velvet pansies, purple or bronxe or a ueep claret color, It is Impossible to tell which, and she bass cheek like ivory, with Just tbe faintest reflection of a flush upon It. b The Home Life of l.otla How Mrs. E. I). K. M. Hiiuthworth Lives llaudewu Mrs. Ilavls, llranllful May Cuyler, En tertaining MUe Walthall. (Copyright, 12, by American Press Associa tion.) Beauty's empire extends from one end f the civilized world to tbe other, and her tule is as despotic as It Is popular. She is Die only sovereign whose yoke men will ingly bear and whose arbitrary edicts they She is more In demand than any girl In Washington. No fashionable function. from those in the White House down the official scale until the homes of private citizens are reached, seems complete with out this much sought after young creature. She Is pre-eminent among the belles of tbe capital. Mrs. E.D.E. N. Southworth, that Inde fatigable novelist, who has perpetrated more works of fiction than any other woman on record, has lived for forty years inner quaint little abode, "Prospect cot tage," that hangs so perilously over the J'otomac, like an eyrie. She Is a feeble old lady, with snowy hair and big white caps, and kind and gracious are her ways. "Yes, I've written seventy novels, my dear," she said, "and I'm busy on another now. It wa the exigency of dire poverty In my youtb that forced me to resort to my iien for my daily bread, even before I knew had any talent for writing. My phenom enal success was as great a surprise to my self as to the public." In tbe quaint little parlor ore many specimens of the old lady's handiwork in her youthful days. Tin-re are prim geo- metric baskets of wax flower under tall glass cases; chair bottoms representing 7' A BABE'S EOOTPIilXTS two smapt uttu YOUNGSTERS. SIMILARITY OF THE SOLE OF INFANT'S FOOT AND PALM. AN The Itage for Andirons. Andirons play an lniMirtant part In the current rage for antiques, and the manu facturers ore turning out by cheap proc esses an enormous iiuiiiImt of andirons modeled on early patterns. The cheapest are of cast Iron, but they please nolxjdy with taste and knowledge, except when they are massive and of artistic design. Tbe art of spinning brass lias made It pos sible for workers to pnsluce all kinds of brur.cn articles, Including andirons, at very low rates. Tbe cheap andirons of spun and sheet brass are distinguished easily from the true antiques, which were made of cast brass, and often in highly ornate Uesigns, ripuu nrnss articles are produced by submitting thin brass to high pres sure. Spun brass balls, such as are used for tho cap pieces of andirons, are made lu two hemispheres and screwed or soldered to gether. The shafts of cheap andirons are made often of spun brass or of brass tub lug. In all the earlier and Irons similar parts were cast. In some of the modern andirons cast brass and spun brass are combined. Extremely elaborate modern andirons imitate the Italian style of tbe Thirteenth and Fourteenth centuries. They are massive, with figures. Other massive, and tdahorate andirons imitate the French styles of the Seventeenth cen tury, New York Sun, LOTTA. submit to without question. Beauty Is a power by Itself and of itself, but when It is allied to talent and a woman is the posses sor the combination is simply irresistible, and there are none who are not anxious to do it homage. For women of talent, the city of Wash ington seems to have a strange fascination. Perhaps they imagine that the air which thesolons of the nation breathe must be (or shoo el be) thoroughly impregnated with inspiration. However that may Is?, many women whose Intellect have made their name household words have homes In the nation's capital, and do all of their literary work there, while stage favorites for some reason or other seem to select Washington as an excellent place for re-ciijM-Mtlng after seasons of hard work. With women of great personal charms the case Is different only in that it Is as natural for them to go to Washington as it is for the needle to point to the pole. There's Iil ta, for example, the gnyand enchanting little sou brette who Is believed by many to be the wealthiest woman on the stage. She has been lying "perdu" in Washington for many mouths, and her professional Identity has been subordi nated to her social personality while she is "resting up." "Miss Lotta," as this dainty little wo man elects to be called, Ignoring utterly on her visiting card her rightful patrony mic of "Crabtree," has been living quietly with her relatives, the Darrances, on Four teenth street for sometime. With her Is her mother, a small woman, with silver hair, pulled high in an elaborate coiffure. She wears picturesque little tea gowns and gesticulates in a very Frenchy manner. "Mother" is the Idol of IxMta's heart, and her temporary retirement from the stage Is said to lie due to the precarious condi tion or Sirs. Crabtree's health. "Didn't you hear the front dmir shut thenr" said llttlo l-otta anxiously tome during a recent visit to her. "That's wm ml 4mt? A Sick Boy. Teamster roor little fellowl I wonder Who he la. He is sick. Friend-How do you know that boy Is sickf Teamster He waited on the sidewalk for ths team to pJLss instead of crossing la front -of us, Good News. Hand Dunes In tlmconjr. One of the most Interesting and remark able of tbe many regions for the observa tion of sand dunes lies 1 tween Dordcaux and Uuyoiiuc, In Gascoiiy. The sea here throws every year upon the beach, alonir a Hue of 100 miles lu length, some 4,000,000 cubic yards of sand. The prevailing westerly winds continue picking np the surface particles from the westward side, v. bill them over to the In ward slope, where (hcyuru again deixwit- ed, and the entire ridge by this means alone moves gradually Inward. In the course of years there has thus leen formed a complex system of dunes, all approxi mately parallel with the const and with one another, anil of ail nltitudiw up to'JoO ieot. i nese are marching steadily Inward at a rate of imm three to six feet a year, whole villages having sometimes been torn down to prevent burial and rebuilt at a distance. Goldtbwaite's Geographical .UflgfUMUV. Tho Current In the Mersey. The current over tbe Mersey bar since the extensive dredging operations has beeu found to Increase, much to the surprise of a number of the engineers engaged iu the work, who had thought that if tbe chan nel was dccciicd the current would be more sluggish. New Y ork Times. MISS COt:i!TENAT WALTHALL, upon their surface impossible fuchsias and morning glories in gay glass beads, cro cheted "tidies" and knitted rugs. Mrs. Southworth is essentially a "home body, and doe not care for the glitter of society Ihe heautiiul woman who has In-t eaming nil things before her in the Wash ington ms-ial world is Miss May Cuyler, New Jersey, who with her handsome young mother has been dispensing sumptu ous hospitality from their luxurious home on U street. Miss Cuyler Is dazzlingly beautiful to look upon, her physical charms exceeding those of any other girl in tblsfui and fashionable capital city. She bas a tine physique, the coloring of a Hebe and fe tures well nigh faultless. Mis Cuyler's fat her was the lute Captain James Wayne Cuyler, U. S. A. He was native of the District of Columbia and married Miss Holten, one of tbe belles of Wisconsin, who was a girl of surpassing Dcauty. .Mrs. cuyler, who has a pretty homo in Morristow n, N. J., is very proud of her beautiful daughter, who ro closely rescmiiles her. She has traveled censic erably with her In Europe, and Miss May's education has beeu received nrin cipally on the Continent, particularly In runs, miss l uyier has a rich, full voice, which she has cultivated under the best masters of the world. She is a great fa vorite in Washington society no less on account or her charming manners than be- cuusc of her great beauty and numerous. accomplishments. A woman whose beauty is thnt of pnr pose and whose charms are born of no bilityof character and craco of heart that notable creature, Miss Clara Marton, whose name is known wherever suffering is to tie relieved and whose deeds of kind ness have canonized her wherever the in fluence of the "Kcd Cross" organization is felt. She lives in very modest quarters in ashingtouand lulairs assiduously The handsomest senatorial woman of the nation is Mrs. Anna Agnew Davis, wife of Senator Cushman K. Davis, of Minnesota. She is a charming creature iu her early A painter arrest! In Litchfield, Coon., while at work, walked along quietly for low minnies, when be suddenly turned and dallied his paiut brush Into the J aheriff eye. lie then escaped. Ik ! aheriiZ 1 badlr Injured, j A Had llreak. Wllherby-I made the mlstakeof my life tuts morning, i tola my wife I didu t like ber new gowu. Plsnkiugton What, was she angry? Witherby Oh, no, it wasn't that, but he want another one. CJoak lteview. I'naaltulty. Young Authoress (rvadinu MS. aloud) But perhajw I weary yout EutliusiiUiticFrioud Oh, no; 1 long to hwir the end of your story. Borvd lYifinl (with equal fervor) So do I -Knte Field'. Washington. A Charming Tribute. Tap," uid little girl who bad been jetting a great many satisfactory answers to a great many qnretions. "what' the use of our having a dic tionary In the house while you art here? Ilarper'i Batar, MAT rVTLKIt mother going out, I'm sure, anil yet ! begged her not to, the weather Is so threat ening and she's so frail; but," with a re signed shake of her red-brown head, "mother Is very willful sometimes." "Don't you know, dear," said this same Miss Charlotte Crabtree to me the other day, "for all my frolicsome ways behind tbe footllghts.there's much more of tragedy than of comedy In my composition? You should see me Just before the curtain gws up. There's an atmosphere of solemnity in my very presence then. Instinctlvelv all demonstrations of levity ccuse when I come tiiu the stage, even before my ad monitory "hhl" and I enter Into mv hov- denlsh role In the mood of a tragedy queen." Lotta Is the renter of an admiring co- terlo ol friends in Washington. She is quite an adept with the mandolin and is quite fond of giving Informal little tnusi cales at her home. When asked whether she Intended to return to the stage, she re plied! "I'm reading a play now on an- proval. I don't even know Its author. though. It's called 'The Little Runaway,' and iu it I am cast for six different charac ters. I may apcar In it in tbe autumn." Uitta Is an enthusiastic spiritualist. Another famous woman, Mrs. Frances Hodgson Uumett, may be said to he a Wasblngtouinn. She has a luxurious home on Massachusi tts avenue, which she occupies with her distinguished husband and handsome son. Dr. Uumett, whose modest sbinule Is disported iu one of the stately windows of his residence, Is one of the most eminent oculists In America. The story goes that he is kept in dire marital subjection by his brilliant wife, but stories will "go," and who takes the time to give them credence! It was Dr. Uumett who many years ago rescued Frances Hodgson from direst pov erty and olrscnrlty ic a little Tennessee community by making ber bis wife. He wa her neighbor, and the alliance was deemed a condescension on the part of the struggling young physician. Hut "times change," and now Dr. Uumett, even as distinguished as he is, is lapsing gradually luto the capacity simply of "Mrs. Uur nett's husband." In the sumptuous meditpvslesque hall way of Mr, llcnnett's home, a trifle stuffy perhaps with a plethora of rugs, Turkish hangings, coats of mail, orieulal Idols and rutins ad infinitum, hangs an en graving which depict a scene of "Little Urn! Kauntleroy," the figure shown being Cedric, the grandfather ami ihe dog. Contrary to the popular Idea, It was his brother ijouel who died in Kuropc aud not the original of "Little Lord Faufitle roy," w ho is Vivian, and a very alive and sturdy boy he Is too. This same Vivian is quite a Journalist in embryo, publishing a tiny paper in the basement of bis father's house. He calls his Journal The Moon. Mr. Uumett has no particular affinity for the Intu viewer. She shuns htm a she would the plague. Of all the many petticoated creature In Washington who nrovoke national admlra. lion, and adulation almost, none can wrest ANSA ACXKW DAVIS, twenties, with flattering, caressing, cordial way that fascinate. Her neck and amis are superb. Added to these material charms is the fact that lovely Mrs. Duvis nas a history which always excites in terest, She entertains with charming hospitality nt her cozy home on Khode Island nvetme, D.visr Fitzhuuh. Coliiinhiis Day In Spain. The Bureau of the American republics Is Informed that tbe Argentine government has Issued orders for the corvette Argen tina, the best vessel in the navy of the re public, to prepare for a cruise to Europe for tbe purpose of participating in the ceremonies at the port of Palos, Spain, on the 3d of August next lu commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the departure i i ominous on tits voyage to the New World. In view of the condition of its treasury the Argentine government will t ike no further part in the Columbian celebration in Spam, but desires at least to pay appropriate honors to the name of i olum bus. InvMtlfailons Show That the Toting Yout II a Characteristics That Are Pre hensile The Sold of Monkeys' Feet. Interesting Ohsersatluiis. Bret Harte's miner, who, after bis in terview with tbe babe whose advent bad been a matter of such interest to tbe occu pants of Koariug Camp, held up his finger sud remarked, "He wrastled with it," is Sow cited by the learned in science as having expressed a significant biological truth. Tbe singular clinging power of an infant's fingers must have been observed by any one who ha been subjected to that species of violence. The babe can have no use for any such strength, and this excess of power is said by the evolutionists to be a quality which tbe race acquired when it lived among the branches of trees, and ho not yet lost. Dr. lyouis Robinson has published an account of some experiments which be bad made upon this subject. These experi ments were made iu the case of more than sixty children, all of whom were under a month old, and ut least half of whom bad beeu less than one hour in the world. With two exceptions ull of these babies were able to hold onto a finger or a stick three quarters of an Inch iu diameter by their hands, banging as if from a horizontal bar, and sustaining the whole weight of their Isxlies for ut least teu seconds. The same writer has contributed to The Nineteenth Century an article on the foot of a baby, with the Intention of showing that its characteristics are prehensile. He says that there are two classes of feet, those which are used only for progression aud those which have more complex functions. In the first class come all the bested animals. The construction of the foot in this class is simple, as its functions are simple, it has to sustain the weight of the animal, and Is therefore very robust, a characteristic for which man has found an iirtillcial substitute in the boot. Among feet of the second kind would be those of cats, for instance, which have, besides the power of locomotion, claws with which to climb. The apes, by reason of the very complex functions and construction of the foot, would have a sjhH-ial claim to lie put in this class. Climbing with claws is simply walking, with the added power to drive the claws into the bark. Hut the feet of a monkey in the branches of a tree running awuy from a cat or a snake bave much more dillicult und complicated offices to perform. The foot of a monkey must be prepared to seize at almost any angle a branch of a tree with a lirm grasp ?r in an instant to clasp a spray of line twigs and cling to them. Now, although the foot of man Is at present used only for locomotion, it has tbe same complicated system of muscles that t lie hand ha. It has indeed the same muscles, there being only one muscle in the hand, a small one with no attachment to the bone, for which there is not a corre sponding muscle iu tbe foot. Hut how is it that these muscles, which are for the mast part useless, remaiu a part of the human aiintomy t The answer of the evo lutionist is that nnv part of the animal economy which hHS Income Inbred remains after It has ceased to be useful, unless It should bo Injurious, and the human foot is said not to be injurious. Hut the feet of very young infunts have a resemblance to those of monkeys which adult feet do not have. In the first place, the toes of babies are more easily moved than those of adults. The great toe is shorter than the second and third, and Is separated from the other toes by a wide In terval. A very young baby often holds his foot very like a list, the four outer toes being bent downward and showing a dis tinct knuckle on the other upper side, and tbe great toe being bent and turned in ward across the sole. When the foot is in this position the great and little toes ap proach under the others, and Dr. Robinson has seen one baby in whom they very near ly touched. Any slight irritation of the skin of the sole of the foot will cause the Infant to close the toes as if to graso the object which has caused the irritation. Moreover, a close examination of the sole of an infant's foot shows that it contains mes Just like those of the Dnlm of the hand. When the toes are leiit downward these In-come creases, showing the natural folding places of the Integument, when the act of grasping takes place. Dr. Robinson has examined these lines on the feet of a very large number of infants, first taking photographs of the feet and later (which he found much letter) Impressions of the nfants' feet on paper, borne of these im pressions show very distinct lines which the writer says correspond closely to the lines which in palmistry are the "line of the heart," the "line of head" and the line of life." These lines disappear almost as snnn a the children begin to walk. Tbev can scarcely lie seen ut fourteen months, and are only present in a few cases after the in fant has reached two years. In adults no trace is to Is? seen of them when the foot is at rest, and only the faintest indications when the toes are bent to the utmost. here is no analogous case anions the oth. er animals of bundlike lines existing on the feet in infancy and disapiK-aring later. Hut do the lines which Dr. Robinson has found on the leet of newborn Infants exist on the feet of monkeys? The lines on a ahys foot are bandlike, and Indicate a prehensile utility, and a monkey's feet are course prehensile, but are the lines ntical? Tbe writer admits that he has met with some difficulty in pursuing his researches regarding monkeys' feet. monk. eys objecting strenuously. .Moreover, the lines timer greatly iu the different faml- es of monkeys. Hut it was found that the higher the ape the more do its foot- ues resemble those of a newborn infant. these investigations tending to confirm the evolutionist's theory of the origin and his tory oi man. .ew Xork Times. They Fljht, ! Their Inprs and Divide the Proceeds. What the small boy who haunts City Hall park docs not know about the Ins and outs of human nature Is hardly wdrtl) knowing ut all. Ho understand among a great muny other valuable things that the elderly and well to do citizen generally likes to nee a fight, and afterward, regretting his ridding to brutal longing for scenes of gore, is ready to make uineniLi in some way or other, This fact received a practical demonstra tion a day or two no. Two newsboys, dirty, ragged and shrewd, us is usually the case with the urchins in the park, stationed themselves where homeward bound Brooklyuitea would be sure to see them. I hese were not of a size. One was plump, the other was a weazened bit of humanity, but he understood his business thoroughly. They played their farce neatly and very much in this fashion: The larger boy bears down upon the other, cuffs hnn, uses disgraceful lan guage and tears his papers. The at tacked youth drops the papers and re turns the compliments verbal und pugi listic. There is a clinch and the small boy goes down. By this time several Brooklynites have halted and a little crowd has collected. Then the battle is renewed. The youngsters seem to strike out viciously, but few of their blows tell. Again the smaller boy goes down. lie comes up pluckily again and once more he is worsted. He squeezes a tear or two from his eyes, picks up his torn papers and begins to wail, His stock in trade is ruined, and he must go supperless to bed. Two or three bystanders put their hands in their pockets. They have been entertained in rather a disreputable way, and remorse suggests atonement in the way of help ing the youngster out of his troubles. In no time his stock is disposed of, and he isn t asked to make change. A park A NEWSPAPER IM990 NO EDITORS OR BE REQUIRED PRINTER3 win IN THE FUTURE. New Automatically Put In Typ, Dl . I. - I L .... Will Simply Have to Tell Th,,,0j7 to Machines, Which Will Do tl( j The new machines of The Post I,,...-1 been put iii position, and huv. J. . themselves a success. Hy their ;!i Post is now printed without tbe uu. , printer. The new machines are tu i.... tion of Mr. Heuruw, who has devoted Ion years of study to the subject, hlu vl laliors were at last crowned with iuccm.4 There are four of these machines i.l ..g position, ond they are sufficient to print " f iirlv p,lper tlle "izo "f Tbe IJst ln alut flvZ ?' ' hours. Two of these machines are kn. as "telegraph machines," and the other two are called "copyphone" machine. It will lie noticed that the cumin,.. not set in the same type as the bodv ni .u article, as by means of an Ingeniou, con trivance in the new invention the settine of headlines has been amply provided for Tbe telegraph machines are so called U. cause they are lilted to set the tel..,,..i T. rs which appears in The Pmt Vi' telegraph wire which brings the press dj. patches ends In nn electric switchboard. This switcblxinrd is connected with th machine by means of eighty wires, nn. i... each of the characters ou the keyboard. As the dots and dashes are sent over the wire they nre received by a small miuliiI1 resembling a graphopbone, called a t..u. grapbone, which controls the small wire connected with the keyboard. This telegraphone Is constructed much on the order of s music box cylinder. As it revolves the dots and dashes are raised upon its surface a continuous roll of tin. foil by means of an ingenious nneumaii. apparatus. When these raised portions of iue nun ace are orongui agaiust the proper key it completes tbe circuit, and a nnitri is dropped into position. Tbe typesetting machine is very similur to the .Mergan- inaie eras regards the setting of lines the distribution of the matrices after n,. policeman, attracted by the sight of the l''e is cast. When the line of type is ready crowd, is approaching, and the little fel- for t,le P"Pl'r il ls dropped into one of the low, pocketing his gains, slides away. His antagonist has already disappeared. There are two scenes in the last act, One is on the steps of the bridge. Two or three men are taking a look at the newspapers they have just bought from the urchin. The inspection is not all that might be wished in its results. The papers are two or three days old. The other scene is in a cheap restaurant not far from the park. Two boys who have but just now been engaged in seeming ly desperate combat are seated sociably at the same table. " We 11 go some pie, too, Jimmy, remarks the smaller. "1 tell yer, that's the greatest racket I ever worked on the suckers." New York Times. Too Much Money for a Picture. Meissouier's picture of Napoleon in 1814, only BO inches by 20, has just been sold for '34,000, the highest price ever given for the work of a living artist, The art world naturally exults over this solid proof of appreciation; but we won der whether it redly benefits by these prices even in a pecuniary sense. We suspect not. It is found in the literary world that an overpowering demand for a single book arrest3 the stile of books in general, the reservoir of cash for buying books being in any one year a fixed quantity. If that economic rule extends to art, M. Meissonier's phenomenal tri umph just prevents thirty-four artists from receiving 1,000 apiece. That may be good or bad for art we are not decid ingbut it limits sadly the number of art producers, among whom might be found, if we may in the teeth of the market suggest so audacious a possibil ity, even M. Meissonier's suerior. That the huge price will help M. Meissonier to paint still better is an assumption re futed by all art history. Spectator. German Government In Africa. German territory in East Africa is placed already under a most careful sys tem of administration. Zanzibar is the headquarters for the imperial commis sioner, JIaj. Wissman, and the main staff, while each coast station is under charge of a commanding officer, respon sible for both the political and military mangement. These officials send an elab orate report monthly to headquarter, while, at the same interval, the commis sioner visits each station for a personal inspection. Four steamers, with whale boats, gigs and smaller vessels, keep np a regular service for passengers and mans between the various stations and Zanzibar. The military forces comprise ait omcers, i.i'uo Soudanese troops and 500 Zulu aud Arkari soldiers, besides n body of Somalia for police duty, and are aivuieu into two corps, for duty respect ively in the north and south, each in charge of a sub-commander. Hospitals are estaoiisnea at I'angani and Baga- uiuyo. r.xcuange. Mr. M'anainiiker'a Life Insurance. John Wanamaker curries it Tort nod ine insurance. ,o man in the world (probably no two men) support such t number of policies as he. It is otiita m tain that he must have politic in neariv every company in tho world. Onlv three companies will risk as much as $100,000 in a numan life, and those are in New iork. This amount of life insurance must cost Mr. Wanamaker betweeu fcWO.OOO ana iuu.ihw per j ear. but it is a good in vestment if a man enguces m siu-h. large transactions as be, lsr.ui. if it enters into his business standing it gives those he deal with certain knowledge that when he dies there will be money to carry on the business. Chatter. Why Mr. CL.Uion I'm roatsl. Do you know why U is that the Hon. illiam E. Gladstone invariably uses Uki humble postal card for the purposes of vurreeiK.mieiuv: it 1 because he is the father of the postal card in Great Britain, lie made a long and hard hattl in Klectrle Launches. An English company has sixteen pleas ure inuncues prying on me Thames, all worked by electricity, and charging sta tions bave been built at various points on the bank of the river, so that if a pleasure party is delayed or chooses to extend It excursion, all it has to do is to put into the bank and recharge its batteries. The large fleet of electric launches now on the i names include many private boats. New lorn telegram. At the Masked Hall. Male Dancer I know who you are, my air partner: Female Ditto Who am I then, prayf Maie uitto Uh, I am quite positive; I recognise you by those lovely white pearly teeth. Female Ditto Why, I only got them this morning, na: hit-sx-ifeublasen. A Good ltuior Strap, Few persons know how excellent a razor strop is the human band or arm. If a razor is in fairly good condition and not in need of the oil stone it may soon be wneiteu to a tone edge on the palm oi me nana or tne inner side the forearm. The latter is best if it is free of hair, as it frequently is. for it presents a whetting surface quite as long an me oruinary razor strop. The fat portion of the palm, between the little nnger and the wrist, however, makes au excellent strop. The process of strop ping a razor on the forearm appears a bit alarming to the looker on, though mere is utue danger mat a skillful man wm ao nimself harm. New York Sun. The horse's intelligence has been bo marked by every nation, ancient and modern, that he has always been taken as a symbol of the human intellect or understanding. Hence in the mythology of all nations he has been used as a svm- out ui me intellectual principle. The harbor of New Haven, England. prraeuui au excellent example of the ex tensive nse of plastic unset rnnr-rt this material having been almost exclu sively useu in the construction of that massive breakwater. Moral: lta tat Them. One great drawback to life at Pittsburg is the fact that you cant tell whether you bar peppered your egg or not until you have tasted it Time. the palm froin rmtr.n. u-.i,v.n it.. lovriy auopuM daughter of tbe dlstln- , ' "ulT"on, ana now lie use jrulshed and pleturvsqu senator from Mi-' ll mor ,han "J twenty other men ia UssippL h I a "wiueome we thing,", public life to prove hi faith in it utility a fresh and pretty a an auule blossoin-a Eugene Field's Letter. An Honest Man. Claude Did you ever cheat at cardst Iticbard X. 1 am near sighted. The Epoefi. Children Cry tor It. A milk Uiake-Weaning the baby.-Lynn Item. Not Enough I Get a tqaare XeeJ. A round sum a penny. Lowell Courier. The poor of Paris know how tn a little money in a way that approaches the genteel At the tables ia front of the cafes they sip their cheap red wine with the air of persons of leisure. No opening could be discoTered through which an enormous beetle came to be inclosed in a solid log of wood which was discovered in a ship's hold in Portsmouth. Old books are not forged. It ha been tned, but the deception is sure to U dia ered. The old paper and old type can not U made now. slots of an endless chaiu, and is carried to w nai, is Known as tne maker up." Under the old order of things from nn. to four men were required to do this work. The "Kenraw" does away with them all. Near the turn ln the chain is a piece of mechanism consisting of eight arms fash ioned something like a windmill. Tlie arms are provided with an attachment at the end, which takes the line from th. chain nnd places it in its proper position in the column. When the operator reaches the end of an article he makes a oeculinr signal (. . -. .), and the machine places a brass rule on the chain instead of a type line. The end of a column being reached, the truck which holds the page being made up ls automatically shifted and presents a new column. The "trucks" are of iron with a heavy sheet of copper on the top of them, and work upon a slide by means nf an electric current. The pnge being full of type and readv tn be stereotyped, the circuit is automatical!! completed and the truck Is slid forward, while an empty one replaces it by the same movement. The full truck Is carried to the "locking up apparatus, where a pressure is applied to it iu order to make each of the lines rest upon the copper. At the same time the clumps at the sides aud bottom of it are tightened in order to keep the lines iu ua upright position. .Again it moves forward. this time to a matrix niakimr machina. Here a sheet of dry prepared naner ia placed upon the "form" and a heavy ores- sure is brought to bear upon it. The face of the type is impressed in tho paper, and tne matrix is complete. As the truck passes on, an arm takes the matrix from the form and cotivevs it to tbe "casting box." The truck is then carried to the "dimm ing machiue," which takes the type lines, rules, etc., from it and conveys them to a table, where they are assorted. This is done by means of slots. The dash rules being thinner than the lines droo out first . and are returned to their places in the original machine, while the metal lines drop upon a broad web belt and are carried back to the melting boxes. The truck is cleaned by means of a series of brushes, under w hich It passes as it goes back to be ugain filled, the rules separating the columns being placed in position by the making-up apparatus. After the matrix has been taken from the form of type it passes through a trim ming machine, and is then placed in posi tion in the "casting box." This is raised and receives the molten metal necessary by means of a chute from the melting pot. The completed plate is then removed by means of tin arm, which conveys it to an other endless belt. This belt leads to the pressroom, and when the plate reaches the press another arm takes it and places it iu position on the cylinder of tbe press, where it is secured by means of automatic clamps. When all the pages have been thus placed iu position an electric circuit is completed and the press starts, the paper being a vontinuous roll and the working of it much like that of the old Goes press which The Post operated in Wi. The "copyphone" machines are operated like the telegraph machines, with tbe ex ception of the manner of preparing the matter to be set on them. Instead of writing out his copy theeditor or the reporter speaks into a "copyphone," which is also the invention of Mr. Renraw. This "copyphone" has a keyboard upon it so contrived that the necessary punctua tions, points and capital letters may Im properly produced upon the cylinder. The article being finished, it is removed from the copyphone by the editor and placed in a pneumatic tube. This tills) conducts it to a switchboard arranged on the same principle as that of the tele graph machine. The matter then fakes the same course os the telegraphic news. 1 he press is provided with a mailing ap paratus which wraps the papers and stamps the proper addresses upon them ready for mailing. They are then dropped into a chute which conveys them to a pneu matic tube connected with the postoflice. At the postotBce they are received into mail sacks so constructed that they close when full and are automatically conveyed to the scales, where they are delivered to the mail authorities. It will thus be seen that the Houston Daily Post of this, the 30th day of May. of the year of our Lord 11CJ0, is printed with the aid of three men iu the mechanical de partment. One of them attends to the typesetting machines aud sees that they are kept in order, another is stationed in the stereotyping department to attend to that part of tbe machinery and the third man corrects the mailing list, overlooks the press and delivers pajiers to tbe car riers and nevrsbovs. llouston Pout. Mar so, xm. Great Exportation. Mrs. Tiptop Why in the world did yon allow your daughter to engage her self to Mr. Churchmouse? He hasn't a cent. Mrs. Highnp No, not ret: but think of his prospects. Mrs. T. Prospects? Why. there are ten lives between him and the family fortune, and they are all strong, healthy yonng men. Mrs. LL Yes; bnt none of them can get from LU home to his business with out creasing Broadwav. New York Weekly.