Car. Hni Branded on the. Bott. '
A yoong man who has just written a
successful play was leaning on his cane
in company with an actor an English
importation watching the passing show
on the Broadway side of the Morton
Bonne when, after a silence of several
minutes, the playwright said:
"Do yon see anything peculiar about
the Broadway car horses?"
"Nay. nayl Wonld'st try to guy me?"
said the actor.
"Look at their noofs and tell me if
they are not branded."
The actor sized the animals up, and a
reporter, who was standing near enough
to hear the conversation, did the same,
and discovered the number S69 on the
forward left foot of one of the horses.
The figures were about half an inch long
and had evidently been just burned into
the hoof.
Superintendent Newell of the Broad
way line, who was seen at his office in
the barns at Fiftieth street and Seventh
avenue later in the day, said in relation
to the reporter's question concerning the
branding of the hoofs of the horses:
'Yex, we have been doing this for some
time now The idea occurred to me sev
eral years ago. and we find it very satis
factory." '
" What was your object in branding
them?
-"Simply so keep track of what each
horse was doing. We keep the accounts
of each horse now the same as we do of
any man in our employ. It benefits us
in a thousand ways. We know just how
many days a horse works, how many
days it has been sick and, in short,
everything it does. It enables us to
keep such a minute knowledge of their
work that we know just what condition
they are in, and if they are not all right
we keep them in the barn."
"Couldn't you do that if you gave
them names instead of numbers?"
. "We have 3.000 horses in our employ,"
was the reply, "and there is a limit to
names, unless you go back into ancient
history. New York Advertiser.
Tho Dog on the Farm.
A farmer once told the Listener that
there was nothing in the world that
would keep crows out of a field of young
corn except a living man or good sized
boy with a gun. He had tried all man
ner of scarecrows that ever were in-
; vented, and hung strings about in all
sorts of ways, and the wise birds came
in and pulled np the corn just the same.
There was once a time, when people first
around a field would keep out crows
they thought it was a trap. But it took
the whole tribe only a year or two to
see through this device.
.. A dead crow hung np by the feet will
scare away some crows no doubt fe
males, of a superstitious turn of mind -but
it won't keep off the canny old
agnostics among them. A farmer whom
the Listener knows once had a shepherd
dog who, at the command "Go down
and keep the crows out of the cornfield,'
would take charge of the field and keep
away every bird of them effectually.
-Dogs, especially collies, might be trained
wi4j (reiiurui iiiua uutjr, Luuugu oc
casionally, no doubt, the crows . would
divide their forces and give the dog
more work than he could do. Few of
our farmers, by the way, realize the
amount of help in their work that they
can get out of a good dog. Boston Tran-
script.
The Secret of HI Power.
In a recent book of memoirs we find
this entertaining glimpse of Lord Nor
man by and his theory of the influence of
the splendors of masculine dress upon the
female sex; "Meeting him one day at
dinner at Fulham the subject of women's
appreciation of aristocratic simplicity
came up. The ladies of course de
clared that there was nothing they ad
mired so much. After listening for some
time. Lord Normanby said: '1 totally
disagree with you; I believe that women
have no appreciation of simplicity in
dress, nor in anything else. I believe
that the more a man bedizens himself
with velvet, satin, gold chains, rings on
his fingers and varnished boots, the more
they admire him
" "For example. f or seven years 1 carried
a cane which 1 felt was a degradation to
me. It was a brown cane: the poire
(upper part) was made entirely of tur
quoises: it was a most disreputable cane.
It was given to me So long as 1 car
ried that cane 1 was all powerful Every
- woman succumbed the moment she saw
that cane, they felt there was wealth,
splendor tc 1 lost it From that
hour my power ceased, and I have never
regained it.
Commend the Good Point.
There was a girl a few months ago
who seemed to be made a new person by
just changing her school, although the
school she left was. upon the whole, a
very good one. but her old teacher, a
strict and conscientious lady, could not
be at all indulgent toward the faults and
defects of this particular girl.
The new teacher bore with them easily,
and thus soon discovered the good quali
ties hitherto concealed. From being
LVUniAUbl (CIPXUVtSU. LUt3 111 1UUUU UKT"
-aelf valued, liked. . commended, and it
made a new girl of her. Like the man
of Frederick Douglass, whose boots were
blacked, she felt that she mns avoid her
disagreeable ways.
Almost any observant and experienced
teacher can eall to mind similar in
stances, where the acquisition of a
' reasonable self love seemed to lift an an
pleasing character oat of the mire of
low propensities and offensive habits.
' Youth's Companion.
Au Orchestra of Five Hnudred.
Five hundred wan the strength of the
orchestra on the occasion of the Handel
festival at the Crystal Palace at Syden
ham in 1888. The festival is held at the
paliii-e triennially The first festival in
commemoration of this composer was
held in Westminster Abbey on the 26th
of May. 1784. on which occasion 2G& per
son composed the chorus, while the or
chestra uumbered 245 performers In
' 1888 the chorus consisted of 3.000 voices
and the performers in the orchestra unm
beredViOO. -London Tit-Bits
CLEVER PARIS ROGUES.
METHODS ADOPTED BY FRENCH
THIEVES TO SECURE BOOTY.
Crooks That Act with Surpassing; Skill
. and Canning: The Success Which At
tends Their Efforts Is Dae to Their
Wonderful Tact Some Examples.
Unless some means can be found fox
counteracting the ingenuity of the Paris
swindler it seems clear that the French
capital will quite outdo London and
New York as the favorite home of tha
chevalier d'industrie.
That the Paris thieves have earned
their reputation may be inferred from
the fact that their slang is among the
most rich in words and phraseology.
Lie bonjourier, for instance, is the man
who knocks at your door early in the
morning, and if he hears no reply will
come in and take the toquante, or "tick
er,'' or whatever else he can find upon
your table and mantelshelf. Watches,
however, may be stolen at all hours by
the bonjourier, and this is only one of
his devices to gain possession of your
property. A very good story is told at
his own expense by one of our judges.
He was trying a case in which a witness
swore that he could not fix the exact
time of a particular event because he
had left his watch at home-accidentally. '
The counsel was rather skeptical about
this, whereupon the judge said: "There
is nothing unusual in that. Why, only
this morning I left my watch on the
dressing table and did not recollect it
till, before entering the court, I wanted
to find out the time." When the judge
got home he found that a messenger had
visited the house, mentioned the judge's
f orgetf ulness, described where the watch
was and asked for it to take to the own
er. Then, the judge remembered what
he had said in open court.
THE SNUFFBOX THICK.
The sans chagrin, or "griefless one,"
goes into a shop and has brought out be
fore him a quantity of different articles.
He then feigns epilepsy, and with the
aid of a bit of soap he foams at the
mouth. He has for accomplices a learned
JEsculapius, who comes in, accompanied
by a friend. During the fit of epilepsy
the friend and the .Esculapius are ran
sacking the till or otherwise earning
their livelihood.
The coup de la tabatiere, or snuffbox
trick, is still occasionally resorted to,
but that ingenious race of traders, the
French female shopkeepers, are exceed
ingly suspicious of gentlemen who are
addicted .to the practice of "taking a
pinch" in their presence. One of them
has recently been victimized in an ar
tistic style by a swindler of this sort. He
was accoutered in garments suitable to
the age and character of a person devot
ed to snuffing, and had all the appear
ance of having attained at least his six
tieth year. He called for watches and
chains and spoke incidentally of his
granddaughter, for whom he purposed
on a future occasion to buy a wedding
present at the same shop. He then se
lected one of the watches and. one of the
chains not a very costly one put them
on and inspected himself in the looking
glass at the other end of the shop.
Returning to the counter he expressed
his satisfaction to the jnerchande, and
taking out his snuffbox further testified
to his feelings of gratification by indulg
ing in a good pinch. While the box was
in his hands it seemed polite to offer it
to the lady, who did not, however, hap
pen to be an admirer of the brown dust.
She had hardly declined the offer when
the whole contents of the box were
thrown in her eyes, and before she could
recover from the shock the would be sex
agenarian was careering along the street
at a pace which would have done honor
to a Paris gamin or street boy.
TRULY A FRIEND IN NEED.
The following is a true story which
happened to me and an artist friend of
mine. At 11 o'clock p. m. we were
about leaving a small house in one of
the avenues radiating from the Arc-de-Triomphe,
where we had spent the even
ing. Unfortunately, however, the con
cierge-cordon was broken and he could
not find the key. It was impossible for
us to get out by the door or for those of
the tenants of the house who were
abroad to get in. The concierge begged
a tenant on the ground floor to let us
get out toy one of his windows and we
promised to go after a locksmith.
All the shops were shut, however, and
none of the locksmiths in the quarter
would take the trouble to answer when
we rang the belL Under the circum
stances the proper thing to do was to
hail a policeman, but never a sergeant
de ville could we find, though we went
.a long way down each of the avenues in
turn. Failing to find an officer we asked
where was the nearest police station.
The one in the Tomes quarter had been
shut up for a couple of hours, the one at
Batignolles the same, and at a third we
were simply sent about our business.
It was now 1 o'clock in the mornin.
and ajong line of benighted tenants was
drawn up before the fast closed door.
We their would be deliverers were be
ginning to lose courage when a very sus
picious looking individual there were a
good many of that sort about stumbled
against us. My friend the artist, who
had all his wits about him, stopped the
man quietly, and taking on! hu hat said,
"I beg your pardon, sir, bat you don't
happen to have a jimmy and a set of
skeleton keys in your pocket?" The man
looked at both ' of us suspiciously for a
moment and then whispered, "Is it to
crack a crib The painter briefly ex
plained the difficulty and the service re
quired. "All right," said the mysterious one,
"but clear off the crowd. I don't want
to give free lessons."
We returned to the house, announced
that a locksmith had been found, and
begged the benighted ones to give him a
wide berth. They let him pass, the lock
was picked in the twinkling of an eye
and the night prowler was overwhelmed
with thanks. 1 wanted te give him
forty cents for his trouble, but drawing
himself up he with . much dignity ex
claimed, "No, sir. not among pals."
New York Herald.
Ammonia as a 3Iotive Power.
A most successful test has been made
of the use of ammonia as a motive power
to displace steam. The test was the first i
that has ever been made on a marine en
gine, and the trial was most satisfactory.
An ammonia engine plant has been fitted
out on the tug E. W. Hartley, which
made a trip up and down the river, sub
jecting the new scheme to a 'practical
test. Its workings are novel and inter
esting, not only to the mechanical and
scientific circles, but also to the laymen
of the industrial world.
An ordinary engine can be converted
into an ammonia engine simply by the
addition of a "generator," which is much
like a boiler. Steam is used simply for
the purposes of heating the aqua am
monia in the generator. The heated am
monia expels a gas, leaving a weak solu
tion of ammonia in the bottom of this
boilerlike affair. When, by raising the
temperature of the ammonia, sufficient
power is generated, the throttle valve is
opened and the gas passes into the cylin
der of the engine and propels the piston
rod in every way the same as steam.
It is here exhausted the same as steam,
but at this point the gas is cooled and
conducted back to the generator. Be
fore it reaches the latter vessel it is car
ried by a "spray coil" to a point where
the gas comes in contact with the am
monia solution which has been rejected
from the generator, and here the solu
tion is recharged by absorption and by
the natural affinity existing between
water and ammonia.
By this means the same body of am
monia is used constantly, exhausting
itself only to be recharged with new life
and to be returned to the generator. The
same is true of the water used. The
steam in the generator imparts its heat
to the ammonia and is thereby condensed
and carried back to the boiler to be used
again. In the ammonia engine there is
absolutely no waste. Philadelphia Rec
ord.
A Xarrow Escape.
One morning as the accommodation
rushed into Macoupin station, Macoupin
county, on the Chicago and Alton, the
engineer saw at a distance what he sup
posed was a white dog on the track, but
when nearly on it what was his horror to
discover that it was a little child about
four years old playing in the center of
the track. Reversing his engine and put
ting on the airbrakes, he endeavored to
stop in time to save the little one. In the
meantime the child, who was apparently
down on its hands and knees, looked up
and saw the huge monster almost upon it.
Terrified, the little one did the best it
could. Instead of attempting to rise and
run it crouched down flat and hid its
head close to the ground. The engine
and one car passed over it before the
train was stepped, and on taking the
child out it was found that with the ex
ception of three fingers of one hand be
ing cut off at the ends it was otherwise
uninjured. The engineer, Barker, was
so unstrung by the accident that he re
tired to a car while his fireman was- run
ning the train as it passed through
Brighton. Hillsboro (HI.) Journal.
Hail Knocks a Mule's Eye Out.
It is a very ordinary thing to hear of
hailstones breaking window glass and
stripping trees and plants, but it isn't
every hailstone that can knock out a
mule's eye. A colored man named Ed
Johnson, who farms about five miles
north of the city, was in town with a
lot of produce. His wagon was drawn
by a mule, and one of the mule's eyes
was knocked out. A stream of water
constantly trickling from the socket in
dicated that the injury was of recent oc
currence. Johnson said that one day
the eye was knocked out by a hailstone.
He was plowing in a field when a sudden
storm came up. He unhitched the mule
so as to hurry to shelter and gave the
bridle rein a jerk. The mule threw up
its head, and as it did so a big hailstone
plunked it in the eye and destroyed the
eyeball. Charlotte (N. C.) News.
A Strong; Electric Shock.
A startling electrical display occurred
in front of a store on Pearl street, Al
bany, one evening. A boy caught hold
of the iron hoisting bar of the awning
and tried to raise himsolf up in order to
look into the window. There is an elec
tric light in front, and the iron frame of
the awning became connected with it.
In an instant flashes of electricity flew
out of the boy's feet with detonations
like a pack of crackers. He was com
pletely charged with the fluid and could
not let go his hold. A bystander caught
hold of him and pulled him away, but
in doing so received a shock himself and
was knocked into the street. The boy
was dazed and stunned, but was soon
restored, and walked to his home appar
ently uninjured. . The voltage which
passed through him was about 2,500.
Chicago Herald.
The Tallest 5Tan In Illinois Dead.
John Loliman, the tellest man in the
state, died in Tazewell county recently
after a brief sickntss, aged seventy-five
years. Mr. Lohman was raised in North
Carolina, and "had to stand on his toes
to see(the 6un shine over the great rnlla
there in the morning." This is what he
used to tell inquisitive people who asked
what made him so tall, he being 6 ft. 9 in.
in his stockings. Carthage (Ills.) Record.
A Close Call.
Thirty-six freight cars passed over five-year-old
Eddie Quinther at East Buffalo,
bat, strange to say, his only injury is a
slight cut on the head. . He was standing
on the track and was struck by the train,
which was drawn by a switch eugine. It
having noVowcatcher, he was pushed be
neath the standing board and lay in the
center of the track while the entire train
passed over him. Buffalo Times.
A Dear Bite.
An attempt was recently made at San
Francisco to smuggle $50,000 worth of
opium through the custom house, con
cealed inside of bananas. A custom
house officer saw a particularly finelook
ing bunch and thought . he would try
one, when he . discovered, at tho first
bite, the trick that put $25,000 into his
pocket. Jornal do Comercio.
A New Bailroad Joint.' -
A piece of metal, weighing about forty
pounds; that looked like a nickel plated
section of a railroad track; has been ex
hibited in Pittsburg. It is a model of
the Roulson railroad joint. The patent
joint consists of three pieces, a solid
heavy bottom plate and two sides plated
with lugs or flanges fitting into slots in
the plate and locking under the projec
tions of the T rail. It is claimed to be
a perfect self locking joint, and for all
temporary occasions is safe enough, but
when put in permanently there are two
bolts passing through the rails and the
side plates.
The joint is expected to take the place
of the splice bars in use on most of the
roads at present. It is claimed for the
new joint that it not only makes the rail
60 per cent, stronger at the joint than
at any other place, but also that it will
prove cheaper than the old splice, as
there is less metal used in pieces. The
splice bars are made of iron, but the new
joints are of soft steel. New York Tele
gram. Birds Are Like Human Beings.
Canaries, like human beings, vary
very much in character, some cocks be
ing so indifferent and idle that they will
let the hen do all the work of building
and rearing, while they themselves sit
and plume their feathers. Others,
again, are perfect gentlemen in their
manners, waiting on the hen with a
quiet courtesy, and seeing that all she
requires . is at once brought to her.
Again, the hens vary in disposition,
some hens behaving in . quiet, modest
way, attending to their young ones with
regularity, while others are m a con
stant state of chatter with their hus
bands, pecking and arguing with them
every time they go near. Thus we see
that these little birds have their tiffs
and domestic quarrels, not unlike our
selves. Chambers' Jonrnal.
Vegetarians in History.
It is evident from Arrian and Porphyry
that vegetarian orders of men were well
known in their time, and that they were
found in India m the time of Alexan
dria. They existed in different orders
long before the time of Jesus in Egypt,
Syria, etc., and were known by the
names of Essemans, EssenneeS, Esyans,
Coenobites and Faithists, etc., and those
on Mount Carmel, of whom Elijah, the
prophet, was the chief rabbi, described
by Pliny, were known as Carmelites.
Whatever the name the principles were
all the same all were vegetarian.
The Masonic order had its origin in
these ancient brotherhoods without
doubt. All the Masonic emblems of to
day were known to these brotherhoods,
so also their passwords. Dr. Tanner in
Kansas City Times.
American railroads support 3,000,000 per
sons. SICK
Head
Ac hes.
Sick-headaches are the outward indications ol
derangements of the stomach and bowels. As
Joy- Vegetable Sarsapsrilla is the only bowel
regelating preparation of Sarsaparilla, it is seen
v.-Iiy It- is the only appropriate Sarsaparilla in
slt-lMioadaches. It is not only appropriate; His
hu absolute cure. After a course .of it an occa
sional ilose at intervals will forever after prevent
returu.
link M. Cos, of 735 Turk Street, Sau Francisco,
writes: "I have been troubled -with attacks of
sick-benilaclic for the last three years from one to
three times a week. Some time ago I bought two
liuttleHof Joy's Vegetable SarsapariUa and have
only hud mil! attack since and that was on the
secoiiil day after I began using it."
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tfuy O Sarsaparilla
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THE DALLES, OREGON.
A Revelation.
Few people know that tha
bright bluish-green color of
the ordinary tew exposed In
the windows is not the nat
ural color. Unpleasant as the
fact may be, it is nevertheless
artificial; mineral coloring
matter being used for this
purpose. The effect is two
fold. It not only makes the
tea a bright, shiny green, but also permits the
mae of " off-color " and worthless teas, which,
once under the green cloak, are readily
worked off as a good quality of tea.
An eminent authority writes on this sub
ject: "The manipulation of poor teas, to give
them a'flner appearance, is carried on exten
sively. Green teas, being in this country
. especially popular, are produced to meet the
demand by coloring rhca;er black kinds by
: glazing or facing with Prussian blue, tumeric,
gypsum, and iudigo. Thi method it to gen
eral that very HUle genuine uncotortd green tea
ie offered for tale."
It was the knowledge of this condition of
affairs that prompted the placing of Beech's
Tea before the public It is absolutely pure
- and without color. Did you ever see any
genuine nncolored Japan tea? Ak your
grocer to open a package of Beech's, and yon
will see it, and probably for the very first
time. It will be found in color to be just be
tween the artificial green tea that you have
been accustomed to and the black teas.
It draws a delightful canary color, and is so
fragrant that it will be a revelation to tea
drinkers. Its purity makes it also more
economical than the artificial teas, for lent
of it is required per cup. Sold only in pound
packages bearing this trade-mark: .
BEEG
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it for you, Price 60o per pound. For tale at
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we ask that you give it a fair trial, and
if satisfied with its course a generous
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The
four pages of six columns each, will be
issued every evening, except Sunday,
and will be delivered in the city, or sent
by mail for the moderate sum of fifty
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Its Objects
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city, and adjacent country, to assist in
developing our industries, in extending
and opening up new channels for our
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of our object and course, be formed from
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THE WEEKLY,
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June 19th, 1891.
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