Eugene City Guard.
I. L. CAMPBELL. rrearletor.
EUttENK CITV.
ORKGON
A woman liken to visit the bargain
counter and then OOtmt 'tt bargain.
The old empress dowager has sup
pressed nil the newspapers In China.
frtJica Isn't tho went after aJl.
Mark Twain says lie ha respect for
Satan because ho Is Uie spiritual head
of about four-fifths of the race.
Not only Is the sparrow plucky In
life, but Its acting as a substitute for
the reed bird shows It's also game aft
er death.
With respect to Kugland spreading
herself In South Africa, It would seem
the BOMI ure disposed to be rabid auti-eipuuslonlstH.
Probably one of the "extenuating
circumstances" In Capt. Urefus' case
was that the Judges had a strong sus
picion ho was Innocent
In b Western city tho other day a
farmer was robbed three times by
gangs of footpads. Can It be there's
also a highwayman trust?
Whales' teeth. It Is stated, are the
coinage of tho FIJI Islands. Very like
ly there, as elsewhere, the wives say
getting money from their husbands Is
like pulling teeth.
Emperor William says kingship Is
the only sure support for the preserva
tion of religion. The Kaiser talks very
much like a man who suspects that he
Is In danger of losing his Job.
Two heads may be better than one
as a rule, but minor statesmen can't be
Bade to MM that knoeklt'4 one of them
In la not the proper tiling when It
ernes to new candidate's barrel.
An association has been formed for
the purose of compelling employers
to pay women the same wages that
are paid to men for similar work.
There are uo women In the assocla
Hob.
A New England man Is suing to re
cover $3(SJ damages for the alienation
of his wife's affections. If the court
has any sense of the lltness of things
It will make him pay the other fellow
for winning her away.
It seems that the word "appendici
tis" la uot to be found In the most
ambitious of recent dictionaries pub
lished In Kugland. It looks from this
as If the complaint In question were
more or less coullued to themselves.
I'oor I. ii. the uoblo red man, has been
civilized at last, and dawn Is breaking
for the Indian. Fifty Osage savages
In Oklahoma have tiled petitions In
voluntary bankruptcy. The next step
will Iw to elopo with the futids of a
sat lugs bank.
It Is doubtless an Indiscretion for a
public man to say privately what
would cause trouble If spoken openly.
Hut the man who gives to the world
what has been said to him In private
confidence commits something more
than an Indiscretion, and little less
than a crime.
There Is such a thing us getting on
the right side of a tornado, the right
side being the north side. Tho rule
drafts! by meteorologists Is to fuce
the approaching cloud and then flee to
the right. Take refuge In a cellar or
cave, throw yourself on the ground
and citug to u stake or stump. This
Is the surest minus of escaping or sur
viving what as yet no human power
can mitigate or prevent
tirent Improvement In public roads Is
ure to atteud and follow the multipli
cation of automobiles. One writer pre
dicts that "before the end of USX), the
total mileage of macadam and usphult
will be Increased by fully 100 per cent."
More than $:t0O,Ouo,0OO la said to bo
pledged already to the manufacture of
this class of vehicles. Till the storage
battery Is perfected and cheapened, the
means of propulsion ure practically
limited to gas engines and petroleum
products.
The Jains of India agree with the
HuddbtNts lu disallowing those Hrnb
muulcal ceremonies which Involve tho
deal ruction of life. Being rigid veg
etarians, they tnke extreme palus not
to Injure any living creature. They may
drive a snake out of the house, but they
spare Its life. A rajah or prlMi of this
persunslou says: "We endeavor to
avoid even green vegetables, under the
Idea lhat cutting the plant may hurt It.
We would not needlessly pluck a leaf
from a tret-, lest the tree should possi
bly feel palu." Similar was the super
stition of a klndergartner, who taught
the children that when It was neces
sary to pull up garden woods, they
should be carefully replanted In some
other place!
According to Chambers' Journal M.
Juubert has solved the problem how
to pro. Ide a ihtsoii placed In a con
tlucd space with the practical means
of preparing a rosplrablo artificial air
i . :iry for life. The chemical sub
stance which he has discovered will
purify the vltlutcd air of Its carlsuilc
acid, Its watery vapor, and all the
other Impurities of exhalation, and will
also restore to him In exchange Just
the quantity of oxygen he requires.
BxparbMOOtS by the French Admiralty
nave confirmed his assertions. Six to
right pounds of the new chemical will
Insure life to an adult for twenty-four
hours lu a dlvlug bell or submarine
boat
The homely but expressive maxim
f the sporting gent that " a sucker la
born every minute" dally receives ex
smpllllcatlon. together with the corol
lary fact that a large percentage of
the "suckers" attain maturity and ac
quire money out of which they may tie
swindled on uo other theory can we
explain the survival of the "Spanish
priest" sw indle which has been work
ed for many years and yet other years,
despite the fact that It has i.ceu ex
posed lo the newspapers times with
tut number. It continues to bob up.
and doubtless will continue te sepa
rate fouls from their money for yean
to come. KverylsMly should know ol
It yet If there be any reader who doel
not let us advise him to beware ol
letters purporting to come from I
Spanish priest, telling of great trens
ures to be found at such uud such l
place provided a small sum of mone)
be advaneid for necessary expenses
If he yield to the promptings of ava
rice he will never see the color of hh
money again. I.Ike the ghlnko tree
the Spanish priest nnd his burled treai
ure are uon existent. They Is long ti
the green goods nnd gold brick ordei
of architecture. The downy bird wll
none of them.
A curious Instance of tho went wan
drift of the country's population ap
pears In the latest report of the Pen
slon bureau. The official reports ol
the War Department for lWJl-'tlS show
that New York led In the number ol
troop furnshed; I ennsylvnula cam
second, nun Ohio third. The quotas ol
tho respective States In the ordei
nnmed were PIT.olT. 3M,107, and Ml),
h'0 men. On the pension list this or
der Is exactly reversed. Ohio has tb
most pensioners. Pennsylvania standi
next, and New York Is third. Then
aro 106,527 pensioners In Ohio, draw
Ing 15,4M,000; 104,1181 In Ponusylva
nla, drawing $12,470,"i5; and 87.627 Ii
New York, drawmg $12,003,854. 111!
nols stood fourth In the number ol
soldiers furnished, and It also standi
fourth In tho number of enslonera
though Indiana is fourth In the amount
received for pensions. These changei
may tie tracil entirely to natural ant
legitimate causes. It Is nothing agalus-
Ohio that It leads In the number of Iti
pensioners. If It ho usurped the placs
that apparently belonged to New Yorl
It It becnuse there has been a steady
drift gssstward of population since tin
war, and enough of the veterans oi
soldiers' widows have moved froir
Now York and Pennsylvania Into Ohl
to cause the change. The westward
movement of tho veterans explalni
why Kunsns has now twice as many
pensioners as It furnished soldiers.
From a published statement It ap
a i s that In eight Chicago high schools
the number of pupils eutered at the be
ginning of this school year was 5,500,
of whom 1,403 were boys and 4,007
were girls 2,004 more girls than boy a
or only four boys to every eleven girls
The Chicago Chronicle goes on to say
that It may bo stated as a partial com
pciiaallon for this excess of girls thai
the attendance of the Kngllsb high and
manual training school was 530 boyi
and young men and no girls. Hut re
garding the manual training as equlva
lent to the high school, we still have au
excess of 2,004 girls, or more than twic
as many girls as boys. This fact sug
gests the question whether the girls arc'
uot being educated away from thf
boys, so to speak, to a serious extent.
The boys nre taken from school at an
enrller nge than the girls and, It Is to be
presumed, set to work lu occupatloni
uot requiring Instruction In the high
school branches. Is It well that M
many of their sisters receive so much
more schooling? Do not the latter ac
quire tast.-s and ambitions and Ideas
of life untitling them for the relation of
mnrrUige with the less cultivated young
men? This Is not n quiwllou which can
be answered positively without much
more Information than Is conveyed by
the school statistics alone. It may be
that many more of the hoys than of the
girls pursue icclal studies after leav
ing school to qualify them for the work
In life which they undertake. If so,
these special studies may compensate
for tie-He pursued In the schools by the
girls and not by the boys. There Is
some reason to think, however, that
whatever compensation of this kind
there may bo It la njt effective In bring
ing nlsiut congenial relations between
the sexes later III life. It seems to be
the fact that celibacy Is on the Increase;
that the proportion of old bachelors nnd
old maids to the total population la
higher than formerly. And If It Is the
fact we may reasonably I,) for oue
cause of It In the unequal education of
the sexes In the public schools nnd the
consistent separation of those who
might otherwise be happily mated If
such Is the case there Is no obvious
remedy. The present course lu the mat
ter of education Is largely a matter of
parental choice, and liberty In this ro
s.iect cauuot be restricted. It Is a mat
ter for Individual Btudy and not for
State rcgulatlou.
Chinese Parental Authority
A remarkable event has occurred at
Talng klang pu. A man by the name
of King had a mm who made his falher
and mother "lose face" be. a use of the
wild, rakish life he led. lie gambled,
loafed, smoked opium, etc. If he stole,
his father would be taken to the ya
men and the whole family would suf
fer for the son's villainy, and the vital
question was. How could the family b
protected? At last they arrived at the
conclusion that the omy way to protect
the father and mother was to take ex
treme measures with the son, which
they did with a vengeance. The fa
ther and uncle took hliu out among
the graves, followed by a curious
crowd of neighbors nnd friends, nnd.
putting a rope around his nock, each
relative pulled on the end, and the sou
was put beyond ruining the family lu
this world. North China Herald.
A Ito.lem Wire-Walker.
There Is a rat lu Memphis which
give a slack wire exhibition every
evttiUug. He gives his iierforuianco
at nhout the same time each evening,
and he generally has quite a crowd out
to see hint. The rodent crosses Front
street every evening about 7:30, walk
ing on a telegraph wire. He has done
the trick fifty times or more, and seems
perfectly at home on the high wire.
Women as Sailors.
Women sailors are employed In Pen
mark. NorwAV nnd Finland, and the?
nre often found to be moat excellent
and delightful uiarluera
Irgtnla Itadlehe.
In the vicinity of Norfolk. Va., about
1.500 acres la devoted to the culture
of radlahe.
GREAT SHIP OCEANIC.
I.ATEST OF MON8TER ATLANTIC
STEAMSHIPS
Kvolatloa la Naval Construction
Mm r Launch of th Plrsl Ocsaolc -lli.ro
i of Transatlantic Maritime
Development of lbs Centnry.
The new steamship Oceanic of the
White Star Line haa broken all marl
time records and her appearance on
the Atlantic marks an epoch In the
history of ocean steamship building.
The advent couiineuioraU a develop
ment of upward of eighty yea re. The
Oceanic Is the largest steamship In the
world, larger even than that fabled
fullure. the llrcnl Kaatern. The enor
mous dluieuslous of the Oceanic ap
ptal to the imagination. She Is an un
precedented feat In engineering, but
aside from this her appointments are
on a scale of magnificence made possi
ble only by her size. This Is concealed
largely by her graceful Hue. 'Hie Great
Baileill. with Iiit great height above
the iratOf line and her enormous paddle
boxes, looked more than her size, while
lu the Oceanic the lung, trim forecastle
deck and poop turtlebuck deck and the
central urruugeuient of the deckhouses,
ull tend to relieve her of the appear
ance of mere bulk. The Great Kastem's
length was 001 feet. The Oceanic' Is
704 feet. The former's light draught
was 15 feet; the later' Is 22 feet. The
respective displacement are 11,844
tons and 12,500 tons, aud when laden
It Is estimated that the Oceanic will
weigh 28,000 tone, as against the Great
Kastem's 25,000 ton. The Oceanic Is
well able to steam 23,400 knot at crul
Ing speed (twelve knots an hour) with
out coaling, or about the earth' girdle.
Her saloon Is 80 feet by 04 feet and 0
feet high, with a dome lu the center
of great beauty. Some of the state-
rapttal wbtcb bad been Inverted in the
Collin line was transferred to the Iu-
in. m Hue, for year one of the most sue
ceful, and It subsequently became the
American line.
The Scotia, the lart paddle-wheel
steamer built for the Canard line, was
the first to make the passage In less
than nine days, her time being 8 day
3 hour In 18U3. The City of Brussels
of the lutnan line brought It under
eight day In 1800, with a record of 7
days 22 hours and 3 minutes. The seven-day
limit waa reduced by the Alaska
of the Gulon line, which crossed In 0
days 22 hours lu 1683. The City of
Paris of the Ionian line, afterward the
Paris of the American line, reduced It
uinler six days, making the westward
passage In 5 days 10 hours and 18 min
ute In 1k.sk. The Lucaula of the
t'unard line holds the present record of
5 days 7 hours and 23 minutes.
The Southampton record la held by
the big Kaiser Wllhelm dr Grosse of
the North German Lloyd Hue. which re
duced the westward time to 5 days 18
hours and 15 minute on her last voy
age to this port, which ended last week.
She covered 3,040 knots at an average
speed of 22.08 knots in hour.
Hut the present day ship nuit look to
her laurel, for the blgnea of the
Oceanic proclaim her speed. Certainly
great things may be expected from her
powerful engines.
THE BOER LANGUAGE.
Its Pronunciation le Kaey When Dutch
Tonsae Ie Understood.
The language of the Boers of South
Africa la grammatlcaLly the language
of the people of Holla jd. They speak
Dutch as their forefathers In Holland
spoke It and -; ak It now. They are
called Boers because that Is a Dutch
word which describes them. It means
a farmer, nnd agriculture Is the main
pursuit of the peuce-lovtug compatriots
of Oom Puul. A knowledge of Dutch
would supply an explanation of tne
Pretoria, the caDltal of the South Af
rican republic, is named In honor of Its
first President, Pretorlu. who led the
Dutch In the great trek, or Journey, out
of Cape Colony sixty year ago and Into
the Transvaal to escape the dominion
of England. Johannesburg Is easily
translated luto English, as Johnstown.
The term "Afrikander" Is used to des
ignate the Dutch from the other white
people of South Africa.
Value of s Laugh.
The value of a good-natured laugh
may be rated low by some people, but
many writers have attested Its worth
In uo measured terms.
It Is not surprising that the merry
Charles Lamb should have sold, "A
laugh is worth a hundred groans lu
unj market;" but from the lips of the
somber Cariyi one is scarcely prepar
ed to hear, "No man who has once
heartily and wholly laughed can be al
together or Irreclulmnbly bad."
It was Douglaa Jerrold who boldly
stated that "What was talked of as tne
golden chain of Jove was nothing but
a succession of laughs, a cbromutlc
scale of merriment reaching from
earth to Olympus."
"I am persuaded," wrote Lawrence
Su-rno, "that every time a man uillet
-but much more so when he laughs
It add something to hi fragment ot
life."
Last of all come the verdict of Dr
Holmes, given with l is own tabaltobU
humor: "The riotous tumult of a laugh,
I take It, Is the mob lnw of the fea
tures, and propriety the magistrate
who reails the riot act"
Feeding the Baby.
The care of babies Is never a sine
cure, as many of our readers can tes
tify, aud the ordinary difficulties of the
cuse sometimes assume extraordlnarj
proportion.
An English lady In India was recent
ly worried about the falling health of
her Infant. The milk was suspected
aud the doctor ordered that the child
THE FIRST AND THE LATEST OF QREAT ATLANTIC STEAMSHIPS.
The Oceanic, the monster Iron teuuihlp, on her maiden voyge to New York, and the great Britln. the firt Iron
steamship to cross the Atlantic, 1R45.
People often say, "The doctor aays,"
so an so, as though that settled It A
doctor know very little more than the
rest of ua
There are very few men who have
bulla and very few who don't havs
trouble with their kin. The story of
Job should be revised
rooms ure 13 feet U Inches by 0 feet and
the vessel surpasses the wildest concep
tions of Jules Verne's "Floating City."
Her speed ou her trial trip was twenty
three knots.
The main saloon will accommodate
850 pusengers at one silting. There Is
accommodation for 410 llrst clue , 3l
second-class and I.ihh) third class pas
sengers. Besides the transients, I
vessel will carry 300 lu the crew, nnd
when tilled, In the season, she will have
ou Uinrd 2,1ini souls. I'scd as a trans
port the Oceanic could accommodate an
army of 10,000 men.
The tlrst steamship to cross the At
lantic wns the Savannah, uu American
ship built at Corlears Hook, oil the Kast
Hirer, and launched Aug. 22, IMS. She
was originally built for a sailing packet
between New York and Liverpool, but
was purchased before completion by
William Scarborough & Co., of Suvuu
nnh nnd tltted with machinery.
The paddle wheel were so construct
ed as to fold up aud lie stored ou deck
In stormy wenther; I he wheel was In
closed In canvas held In place by Iron
rims. Her model was considered tine
aud her passenger accommodation
were thought elegant.
She weut to Savannah in 1S10 and
left that port for Liverpool May 20,
1811. She arrived In twenty-lwo days,
having used her engine for fourteen
dtiys. She then went to St. Peters
burg, returning to Savannah lu Novem
ber, 1810. Her machinery was after
wards taken out and she was convert
ed Into n sailing packet. She ran some
time bttWtea New York and Savannah,
B nelly running ashore ou Umg Island.
She was of IW Ions burden.
The tlrst ship to cross the Atlantic
prepell.sl all the way by steam was the
Koyal William, a Canadian boat, built
In 1S33. Within the uext decade the
tlrst Irou trans Atlantic steamship wns
launched lu Knglaud. This was the
Great Britain, the forcruuuo-r of the
Great Eastern, nnd designed by the
same engineer, Brunei. This ship was
provided with a screw propeller and
crossed the sen in tlftccn days at an
average speed of nine knots au hour.
It was the famous Cunard Hue which
first established a regular trans Atlan
tic service with regular dates of de
parture. The Britannia, the tlrst of the
four ships, left Liverpool on her maid
en trip on July 4. 1840, and reached
Boston on July IP. The Cunard Line
made such Inroads on the business of
the American packet that OOsgTMaV,
Unpolled by the clamor of American pa
triotlsm. granted a suitably to K. K.
Collins, of New York, for an American
Hue be! wean this port and Liverpool
The new VOM ill were swifter and more
elegant than the Cunurdvrs, and, like
the sailing ships of the old Collins line,
won many laurels. The Cuuard vessels
slopped calling at Halifax, but in spite
of this were easily beaten by their
American competitor. The Pacific, of
the new line, made the (issange from
New York to Liverpool In less thnn ton
days, her time In May, 1851, being 0
day 20 hour and It) tuluutc. The
Mil year the Atlantic crossed In l days
hours and IS minutes. The line, how
ever, wound up with disaster The
Arctic was sunk by a collision In 1854
aud went down with 540 soul. The
rai-iflc left Liverpool the next year and
was never heard from. The American
odd-looklug words that are used now
.ind then lu the news reports from the
sturdy little republic. It would also
enable one lo pronounce these words as
they should be enunciated.
Dutch dlpthongs are no: given the
same souuds as their equivalents In
lOngliah. The double "o" for Instance
In Dutch has the same souud as "o" In
Koine, while the dlpthotig "oe" Is pro
nounced by the Dutch as we pronounce
"oo" in lioot. The English pronuncia
tion of these two dlpthongs Is the re
verse of Hint given them by those w ho
speak Dutch. And "ou" has the sound
of "ow" lu owl. The souud of "ul" is
nearly like that of the Kngllsh "oy" In
boy. The Dutch double "an" In the
same as the English "a" in war. As
there I uo "y" In Dutch Its place is tak
en by "IJ," which Is sounded as "y" In
defy.
If one, therefore, would pronounce
Oom Paul properly he would say It as
If It were spelled "Oma Fowl." The
family name of Gen. .lo ib Tt would for
the same reason be pronounced as If It
were spe'.lcd "Yowbert." The word
Boer Is pronounced by the Afrikander
as If It were of two syllables; the tlrst
long and the second short, thus: "Boo
er." The plural Is not "Boers." It is
"ltoeren." and It Is pronounced "Boo
er eli," because the final "n" Is slurred.
Here nre some of the Dutch words
thnt nre oftenest In print In connection
with the news of the Transvaal ntid
their pronunciation and meaning:
Ulneiul mte'.n i bloom-fun -tluei Flower
f. 'lunula.
Boei B00-erl Farmer
lluiteiilauiter itMjr-ttQ-ioul ri Fereliiuer
liiiiKh r ibubrkeri I'ltlien
lliirsjerreaji ibuhr k.-r r It) CI Ul ilp
li..... a-M iuubr-kr vokt) I'lllieu
an diory.
Joukherr iycok haeei. Member of the Volks
r i .a gentleman.
Oera i naif I t'liele
senate
senator
.Sftiatf b uei'
.Margin; cjgf
stat
ih.li
Itlllllt
Unit Jnii w iriib.la hnr.'l
Itnailbuls iraUd-husj
Hand irahat ,
Suit latahtl
Staatkua.Ki ,aiaht knhn del Politic
Sttra,l .stabta rabJi ...Council ot State
smu laoui .
Stf miner ittf nmrrl . . .
i .... i nious rsbh ,
Tr. k ur.Tki
Tiekken urerk f ni . . .
Trvkpaard itnvkimhrdi
I It inyti
I It I n.ler inri-ont-rl
fltr
. . . .Voter; elector
. . .Circular valley
.Draught: Journey
to ilrsw; to traiel
Draft horse
out. ' at of
Fore . . r
T V. coit- gaier
at irabh vilify
VaderlauaslioMe , ft t ter lontiYeef ie). Love
.. .. i l1"'' country; patriotism.
SfflJfii,.' , FI-L open lsn,1,
J e, l ieer '(fell harel liem-rsl; oorumii,lsat
Jf .tsachter ifeli vod-teri Rural guard
Volkaraad .fnlks rahJl Lower House of
t sagreaa
VoolTesrl ir.ire-rekt) reelila,i nrlHi.,..,
ve i b 1 1 muif ua ling i Bl
nioriWWIM ult vol t.TS
of the while water.
i rout)
rsiu:. r
.Margin
be fed w ith asses' milk. The lady spoke
to a native officer of the district, and
receiving a satisfactory reply drove
with a man-servant to the station
where the ass was to be In waiting.
To her amazement there, tied to a
post, all ready to lie milked, stood n
huge she lienr. It seems that In the
native dialect, the words ass and lnar
are so nearly nllke as to be scarcely
distinguishable In the mouth of a Eu-
roiH-an.
A variation of the milk problem was
presented to F. G. Jackson, the Arctic
explorer, when he found und adopted
the lnrunt cub of a polar bear. There
seemed DO wuy to feed the poor little
Is'iist until Mr. Jackson hit upon the
following ingenious method:
Taking n bit of songe, he covered
It with chamois leather nnd fastened ltj
to a rublier tube which had previously'
been Inserted lu a (Kittle. Fixed Into
the cork of this Isittle was a piece of
glass tubing through which air might
Is- blown to make the milk ruu freely.
The cub took to the bottle like any
other baby, and sucked away In most
ravenous fashion, with a contented
look uiHin her face, as If the last of her
troubles were ended.
Clear Cut.
The Bev. F. W. Greenstreet fur
nlsehs the London Spectutor with an
amusing epitaph.
When he was curate of Tetbury,
Gloucestershire. In the fifties, the par
ish church contained, and no doubl
stIU contains, a marble slab near th
west door tnicrtbM as follows:
"In a vault underneath lie several of
the Snutiderses, lnte of this parish.
Particulars the last day will disclose.
Amen."
An Original One.
A sign over a negro cabin In Liberty
County reads:
I Tenches Folks to Heed in Kite an
do Aggers in their heads.
Atlanta Constitution.
An Aid to Vision.
"I suppose a DOtWCll aids vision."
' Yes; It helps people to see through
the man who weans It." Detroit Jour-
nul.
A man who can be fooled the same
way four times Is a fool.
Is -A
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ASTONISH YOU.
men. in ciump. To prffc,.... r"
tUnl tree, after othel f
tried In vain, a solution
used, and the ground ii Hm
watered with u .. ...... roul .
-' mm n. .
Rnonsih Two-Cent Btsmps Issued In
the Year 1HU3 to Keach More than
Once and a Uslf Around the Earth
at the tquutor.
i ii.se Sam's printing office has an
enormous output of postage stamps
during a year. A gentleman long con
nected with the service has collected a
mass of statistics rogurdlng the issue
which Is simply paralyzing, lie soys
that the number of V.-ceut stamps Is
sued during ISPS was about 2,500,000,
000. Such a number obviously Is be
youd the grasp of the human mind, but
perhaps the matter may be made more
clear by putting it otherwise.
An ordlnnry 7,-ceut stamp Is exactly
oue Inch long. From this fact, by a
little calculation. It Is easy to discover
that the number of stamps of this de
nomination Isirued in li0, placed end
to end, would extend a distance consid
erably exceeding 30,000 miles. In other
words, they would make a continuous
strip of stamps, each one adorned with
the head of thij futlier of bis country,
stretching In a beltmore than once and
a half around the equator.
Of course, though the 2 cent stamps
are those principally used, there are
others. Enough s-cent postage stamps
have been Issued. during the year 1SP8
to stretch from New York city by way
of Europe aud Asia to Bombay, India,
If similarly arranged In one strip. All
other stamps as to production and sales
are of minor Importance, comparative
ly speaking, but It la Interesting to
know that abnost exactly one mile of
$1 stamps wsyre manufactured for the
demund of 18U8. Of $5 stamps the
production was equivalent to a little
more than half n furloug, or about one
nfteentb of a mile.
Now, If all the postage stamps print
ed by the United States Government In
1808 were placed one on top another
ns nearly as might be without putting
them under pressure, how high do you
suppose the pile of them would be?
There Is no use guessing, you would
never get It nearly right, unless you
went to work to calculate It for your
self. The 3,500,000,000 stamps of all
denominations printed the current year
the statement Is of course approxi
matewould tower to an elevation of
twenty-one miles. This Is more than
three times the height of the highest
mountain In the world Mount Everost
In the Himalayas. If the same number
of stamps was piled up In the form of
the ordinary sheets of 100 each It fol
lows that the, stack would be over a
Of th of f. mile high.
During the year 1898 the number of
special delivery stamps sold was about
5,200,000. It Is only reasonable to sup
pose that the average Journey of the
special delivery messenger Is half a
mile. Indeed, that Is an absurd under
estimate, but let It go at that. On this
assumption the total distance traveled
for special delivery In 1808 was about
2.025,000 miles. That Is a very consid
erable space to traverse, as may be re
alized when It Is considered that n
messenger boy In order to accomplish
the total distance would have to go
about 1,100 times around the world, or
five times to the moon and back.
It appears from figures furnished by
the Postofflce Department thnt the nv-
erage person In Massachusetts, Includ
ing men, women and children, spends
$2.30 on postnge per annum. New York
comes second with an expenditure of
$2.27 and the District of Columbia
third with $2.10. Colorado is fourth
with $1.(13 and Connecticut Is fifth with
$1.80. The States ranking lowest in
this regard arc South Carolina, with 23
cents per capita; Mississippi, with 34
cents; Alabama, with 35 cents; Arkan
sas, with 37 cents, aud North Caro
lina, with 41 cents.
aud the branches, srkks.
daily drenched. This treat"'
lleeeasfnl Tl, ..... """lit
ered, ant
. ... ., ... .....I s t 111 S
ro. I. Kill .11111 I IHHIIIU... . I
since shown the sltas
... .sal n.
wniteness In it leave,
a by no mentis urn,',. ..... , . '
the otherw ise dark grc, i..,
dou Standard. "JH
LAW AS IkJTcrnn I
-je.jsnrrip.Tjrj
jsonee tnat an unenmet
will be restored and holding
toi, i. , t i . . ii... n ... ..
held, lu Tlsdell va H.
Fire Insurance Coiniii.r.v m '
L. R. A. 705. Insufficient to Mt'T
obligation of on insurer to rw
premium as a condition of Qw J
policy. t
a.. .
iuc uuiy oi an operator or m J
of a coal mine to employ 4 J
t.iln,, Iwtiia luilnn I . . tilfll
'"h imposed e -
held, lu Williams vs. Thackw i " '
C.
to
, - AuacaSffjaej
Company (W. Va.), 40 L bTm
be fully performed h n,. . 85
ment of such a mine boat,
latter' negligence the operate,
Is held not to be liable.
A "standard guaranty ttMiLm
per cent. Insurance," stxalJTr"
face of a policy of Ore It!,
held to Cutler v. IbiyrS-!!
Company (Coun.) 41 L. a Ha?
effectual to inpersede a proW,
I""" B"a" w.' void lu case of otw
insurance at east u l.n .k w
,.ir . , : r. . . ""iwrji
";" more man ni nee mm .
niue oi me property.
insurance on Illerr inrwll.. k. .
an I fiml hod,,...,., , '
o " " . i.i o.s. b ue ri hi aia .
i r i'n .-in, i. ... .
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. .. TT permit required kU
'"em. is upheld. In Erb rs r-.
man -American Insurance Compm
uowaj, HJ x.. It. A. M.1 oi.. m.
claim that It was void as against pnbb
policy. With this case Is a revwof
the authorities on thli sonievbit
unique question of the validity of knur,
ance on property Illegally used.
A FUTURE KING.
Prince Kdward of York, Grandson of
the Prince of Wale.
"Prince Edward of York, Our King to
Be," Is the subject of an article lu the
Ladles' Healin, and concerning him
there are one or two amusing stories
told. The royal nursery, It seems, is
uot without skirmishes between the
two young princes, who are evenly
matched In the matter of spirit Prince
Edward makes the most of his slight
seniority, but Prince Albert has no
Idea of accepting the place of younger
sou when It Is a question of riding a
rocking-horse. One day the Duchess of
York was quite shocked on entering
the nursery to find the two young
princes "having it oat" in proper style,
aud was about to have them punished,
but the Duke said: "Oh, let them right
it out; they will be the better men for
It."
It Is customary for the roynl children
to kiss the Queen's hand, not her
cheek. But Prince Edward objected to
this arrangement and declined to fall
In with It. One day he heard two of the
servants speaking about "her majes
ty." "1 know who 'her majesty' Is,"
said Prince Edward; "It's 'granny.' "
"And who was the naughty little
Prince who would not kiss his gran
ny's hand?" "It was I," said Prince
Edward, unabashed, "and I am not go
ing to kiss granny's hand." Now. of
course, lielng 5 years old. and consider
ing himself quite a big boy. Prince Ed
ward kisses the Queen's hand In the
most approved fashion, and doffs his
cap quite prettily when In her majes
ty's presence.
An Albino Tree.
Much Interest has been caused lately
by the appearance of a horse chestnut
tree In the Thlergarten. The numerous
branches around the lower part of the
trunk have a pure white foliage, such
as Is seen on trees growing in dark
places, where no chlorophyll can de
velop on account of want of light The
same whiteness of the leaves Is also
noticeable lu a few of the neighboring
branches through the crown to the
top. People are often putaled as to the
cause of the pecularlty. and many
strange explanations are sometimes
given. The singular appearance of the
tree has been noticed regularly for
some years. This particular tree. It
sfems. had been attacked hv
of caterpillars and other creatures of
me same species, and the foliage had
already been destroyed, but still mass
es of caterpillars continued to crawl up
aud down the truuk, aud anally clung
A Polish schoolmaster, Btcepanlk bj
name, claims to have invented an elec
trical device which utilizes betm of
light to explode bombshell. Helitlio
alleged to have perfected an lustra
ment by means of which objects at i
ennaldernhle distance ran lie seen tint
ed with their natural colors.
x-...... I . I. ....... .1 1 . .. ,, . ... I,.,..
i.p.r ........ n. 111. rill on. I k
' I Oi. HI II !. . .... 11.. , U
spite of the attempted explanation a1
such phenomena in some nopuUrboikj
on science. Prof. N. S. Shaler up k
Is Inclined to disbelieve In the uu
ence of these luminous appwiMa
lie nns sunned swamps tot wnj
years, but has never seen a wlll-o'-f.
wisp, and he suggests that .-:
about moving lights risible is
swamps may be due to suhjectlnl
presslous Induced by gazing Into to
ness.
Following an Idea first develop!;
Oermauy, pictures have recentljl
printed in this country which, I
viewed through spectacles, appt
stereoscopic relief. The object plct
Is first photographed from two p
like an ordinary stereoscopic M
Then the two pictures are nrlntrfl
two complementary colors, nearly I
. . " - ' 1' V. ,. -I.auill
""I V U . II, V, t-. 1M).11!U,. . HI p.. ...... -
tti. i view In,' ciu.ef ,i , ..-s nr.. aiso ,if :
plementnry colors corresponding,
those used In the printing, and w
the picture Ib seen through these gla
ee, It stnnds forth with a startling
pearanec of solidity.
A writer In Forest and Stream o
. . . .i.i.i. i. '
serines a victory wuku oaw f.i-
over a rattlesnake by the Insaassal
of a prairie-dog village in tie hlUa
Territory, 'ihe ugly Invader crawled
into one of the dog-holes, whereupon
fifteen or twenty dogs gathered about
the place, nnd began to push dirt Into
the hole. The snake stuck bis head IJ
through the dirt, nnd the dogs took
flight; but the moment tne nc "
thev flocked abott
It ngaln. and this time pushed In
dirt so rapidly that the rattler was-
foctlvely entrapped. Then tne e
tamped the dirt down hard with am
r ...... k. annVatt.
noses, nnd left tne sna
As Is well known to bouuiWj. w
not so well known to tne n
lie, the white powdery costing on NM
leaves aud fruits is W
and is called "bloom" ln. tecvh.n'rf
works on botany. Its W"
celved some attention. .
having made It the object of ome .W
ies In his later years. In a ffnl
tier of the Laboratory Bulletin otuwr
lln College Is a short paper oy
Roberta Bey nobis, giving the n
of a series of experiments
inai wncn me uiwm nf
the epidermis the transp.no-
ter is greatly Increased. ,
of agave utnhensls the loss was
two and one-half times a.
the leaf which was without Me
from that with the bloom, it .
served also rnai ou u.i
ference between tt leaves w
. , .t-o. an tim. uu.-
r inn nn ir uau o,
a
TCBSJ
l... .tirrornneo In the case 01 1
loavos than wnen oiu uu.e
. .... a.
"" T. : ,.t a p"1
SrJTam it c-
uaav SHHsasv" , . . ,,
makes use of a tooi. - , y
analngous to Uie ipw ,0 ,
man. Spielers naie rW
nails for ancbora.-Sclent.flc Antra-
.. .billed.
Women Students
w..,un .indents at the I"'""1"
.... n nai n lowed to
. . . . flie r i.lihs-
tin u in ui , . In M
girl students who persisted In
this were expelled.
1 ' '. I,.!.. -nril
OneoftheplUfulthlnn
Is the value a sen.."- sri
upon an InvltaUon to a seustle"
clal affair.
h-i "nni"-
. a ,.f tne sn""" .
A goou ... , Htf
Ineut" people, are pro""
Inga