XV
Baptizing m Chinese Baby.
There is a pretty baby in Chinatown
who enjoys the proud distinction of hav
ing been baptized in a purplo velvet
brocaded dress imported . from Paris.
Her name is Sney Mey Lan. The bap
tismal name, Sney Mey, means crystal.
She is the daughter of Tom Yin Kim
Lan. a well known dealer in Chinese and
Japanese curios. ; The little one is ten
months old... Her handsome costume,
although "of" expensive European ma
terial, was made up in the Chinese con
volitional style for babies, that is, with
loose blouse and wide trousers.
Little Sney Mey was baptized on Sun
day in the Chinese Methodist mission by
the Rev. F. J. Masters, pastor of the
church of which Suey Mey's parents are
members. 'She has one sister, eight
years old, who was baptized somo time
ago. The number of Chinese babies who
have been christened in a style similar to
white babies is surprisingly large.
Chinese mothers who have adopted the
-Christian faith carry their babies to
ifhurch as early as possible, and Chinese
parents often take their children with
them to the communion table just as
booh as the little ones are old enough to
be taught. They are beautifully dressed,
often in rich silks, and 'the infant class
in the Chinese Sunday school locks liter
ally like a convention of oriental dolls
in all the colors of the rainbow. San
Francisco Chronicle.
Narrow find Broad Gavacea.
How many people remember the fa
mous "battle of the gauges?" The vic
tory of what was once known as the
"narrow 'gauge." but is how the stand
ard or national gauge, since narrower
. ones are not unknown, is -so absolute that
this is the last year of the existence of
Brunei's measurement for the Great
Western Railway company's permanent
way. For many years on that line the
broad gauge has been disappearing, and.
as announced la our report of 'the com
pany's half yearly meeting, the change
is to be complete by the 20th of May
next. The disappearing gauge, origi
nally adopted on the -Great Western
railway on Brunei's plans, is 7 feet,
The common gauge now roughly
called the 4-foot way, is really 4 ft. 8 in.
That is the difference between the rails,
the fractional measurement 'being, we
believe, explained by the fact that origi
nally tbe width of the rails together
made apaa additional 3J inches, and
gave a wheel track of exactly 5 feet to
suit the earlier locomotives and trains.
The heads of rails are now much broader,
varying ou the different lines from 2$ to
21 inches, or together from 5 to 5
inches. London .News.
A Bf an -of Narva,
A pretty exhibition was given by the
students of Springfield Medical college,
under the avtwpicee of the Young Men's
Christian association. - It was the resus
citation of a man who had been smoth
ered by aaoke. In a large hall had been
erected a wooden-structure, which was
filled with Soman candles, firecrackers
and other combustibles. In the midst
of all these the unfortunate had ' been
placed for -suffocation, and the building
fired. - , ' --; v.
Shortly afterward the victim of the
experiment was taken from the house of
smoke ia a thoroughly unconscious con
dition, fie was put through a process
of pumping and rubbing, and in the
course f thirty-minutes was again walk
ing around the hall This Mr. Taylor
thinks the -quickest process he has ever
seen for bringing to life a person who
has been smothered or one who was suf
focated from smoke. Richmond . Dis
patch.
A- Sen Use. for Tetooaoa.
The telephone is about to have a new
application, namely, that of foretelling
storms. A -new discovery has been made
as to one of the properties of tibia means
of transmitting sound. By placing two
iron bars at seven or - eight meters dis-'
' taace from each other, and then putting
them jn communication op one. aide by a
copper Wireioovered with rubber, and on
the other side with a telephone, a storm
can, it is said, be predicted at least twelve
hours ahead through a dead sound beard
in the receiver. y. ..
' According as the storm advances (ha
sound resembles the beating of hailstones
against the window. Every flash, of
lightning, and, of course, every clap of
maaaac tan aooompanies tbs storm pro
duces a shock similar to that of stone
east between the diaphragm and the in
strument. Cincinnati Commercial ;.Oa
xette. ' - . -'
. ";; : :SincfWr Colueldanc.
. Quite a singular coincidence occurred
a few days since.. Some, tea years ago
while at mdzk sin. a ;.Now Jersey mine
haft. George Smith fell and found him
self confined maxwell 125 feet ifrom the
surface of the ground. He was finally
rescued froia bis nncomfortahle poaition
- by a -roaj4-which - was thravra Aidnv.
While relating the circumstance the
other day to hia room mate, he vwaa not
a little surprised to learn that this res
ewer of ten Mars ago; was nosve other
than bis present ; conpanlon.'-T-eeverly
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V J. Parker, t Liuooin Creekv tfruh
killed fourteen bear eleven full grown
jind three cubs ia one week's hunting
at ear his home two weeks ago. He
.bagged : five.: the first, day that he . was
.oat. Bears are exceedingly plentiful in
that section ' of the -state, and another
.hunter killed twelve bears there a monti)
rseago. Mr; Parker bold the record
' -A&wiss engineer, backed by . the Swiss
government, is just now seriously con
templating the construction of an under
ground railway , up Mount JuDgfrau to
its sumnut. ; It, will be completed, early
in ISJla u everything goes well. : ; .
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A dog, iear Hannibal, Mo. was bitten
a few days ago by a copperhead snake.
and was cured by, ammonia, .given in-
temaljy, and a mixture of ammonia and
carbolic soap applied to the wound.
It is not generally known that the new
ynobting .cap iisftfR-' adaptation of the.
German military cap, made famflir in
many portraits of Stanley.
Bis Prices for Literary "Work.
- It is announced that Mark Twain has
sold .the new novel which he has about
completed for $12,000, and this includes
only the serial rights, and it is also an"
nounced that he is to be paid $1,200
apiece for a number of letters ' from
Europe,
With the exception of the "Innocents
Abroad" and possibly "Roughing It," no
one of Mark Twain's novels has brought
him the sum of $12,000. The "Gilded
Age" yielded him nearly $75,000, but
that was because it was dramatized and
played by John T. Raymond.- : He told
me only a few weeks before he sailed
for Europe, that leaving the "Innocents
Abroad" out of the consideration, his
other books iu this country have brought
him only a fair return, and that his
largest profits had been" as a publisher
and as a maker of plays for the stage.
It is also announced that Mr. Howells
has sold the lights to a new novel for
serial publication for $10,000. That is
more money than Mr. Howells has re
ceived for any of his stories. Were it
not for the serial publication of .his
stories in the magazines he would not
be able to support himself with his pen.
Even the most popular of his recent
novels brought him royalties of less than
$1,200 for the sale of it in book form.
The largest sum ever paid for serial pub
lication of a novel was $15,000, which
the Bonners paid or are to pay Mrs.
Burnett for a new novel,, and even her
"Little Lord Fauntleroy" in book form
did not bring her any such sum as that.
New York Cor. Philadelphia Press.
The Urvp Test for Car Wheels.
The Pennsylvania Railroad company
has begun, to put its cast iron car wheels
to a very severe test. For each fifty
wheels which have been shipped or are
ready to ship, one wheel shall be taken
at random by the railroad company's in
spector either at the railroad company's
shops or at the wheel manufacturer's, as
the case may be and subjected to the
following test: The wheel shall be placed
flange downward on an anvil block
weighing 1,700 pounds, set on rubble ma
sonry two feet deep and having three
supports not more than five inches wide
for the wheel to rest upon. It shall be
struck centrally on the hub by a weight
of 140 pounds, falling from a height of
twelve feet.
Should the wheel break in two or more
pieces after eight blows or less the fifty
wheels represented by it will be reject
ed: if, however, the wheels stand eight
blows without breaking in two or more
pieces the fifty wheels will be accepted.
The wheel for test to be furnished by
the manufacturer in addition to the fifty
wheels ordered. Pittsburg Dispatch.
' Chased by a Bear.
a xxazeiton man, Williams oy name.
will be more careful in the future what
he strikes at with his whip when in the
woods. The other day while riding
horseback along a mountain road he saw
in the bushes close at hand what he took
to be a black dog.. As be passed he
struck it a blow and the next moment
he was horrified te discover that it was
a bear. Bruin immediately started in
pursuit. ' and although he . lashed his
horse the steep hill was against him, and
the bear soon was close-enough to make
a jump and fasten iiis claws in the back
of the buggy, v
-' - Williams gave him a push that com
pelled him to drop to the ground, but
before he reached the top of the hill the
bear . succeeded in getting a foothold
again, only to be again dislodged. When
the summit of the mountain was reached
and Williams' horse had level ground
before him Bruin waslef t behind. Phil
adelphia Ledger...,
i Prince SiglsmoiMrls Sarcophagus.
A small, sarcophagus has just been
added to those in the chapel at Potts
dam, where the Emperor Frederick and
his iwo little sons are boried. It is that
of Prince Sigismund, for which the Em
press Frederick herself has drawn the
design. ' : The I sarcophagus, r inside of
which the little purple Tlvet coffin- has
been placed, is of white marble, and by
its side the figure of the mother, also in
marble, is sitting with ibsr dead child in
her isms.' 1,-t -
A medallion portrait. of Prince Sigis
. mund, lying on a crahion, has its place
on the lid of the saroopbagus, the front
f wbich bears the inscription: i'Here
rests - in God, Frank iFxiedrich igis
mund. Prince of Prussia, the beloved
child of Crown Prince iFriedrich WH-.
helm and of- the Crown (Princess Victo
ria. Bonn Sept. 15, 1964; died June 18,
186$. 'Blessed are the (pure in. heart,
for they shall see God.' raU Mall Ga
me tte. - - ' ' -- .- '
1A. Hon STaeanmart
The fiahexsmen of Kittezy were sur
prised, on going out to their weirs the
other ? Jnoroiog, to fiiid t.di occupied
by a injrse ;.tuackeTel edghing ; 1,500
pound, ' espeeially'as T the tm-p had
been shut .close. The eurmise is
that in his : wanderings . be. was at
tracted to 4 the -weirs by tiie snackerel
in it, and, finding no way of ingress, on
the high i tide jusnped over the netting.
The point. n -rtereapture bun without
tearing jthe seine er nettings srliich was
finally accomplished, after a four' Jiours'
bard straggle, byrthe aid of a harpoon.
"He was towed out to sea and set adrift
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John G. Whittier as so modest that
his niece, who is preparing a biography
of him, has found it .ery difficult to ob
tain any Aid from him in her work. - Hit
strength is gradually failing, and he is
forced to give np the long walks which
he formerly took. ; .
. Balzac's house and the grounds about
it in Paris have been purchased by the
.Baroness Rothschild, who intends to pull
down the house and add the grounds to
those already surrounding her fine resi
dence on the Rue .Berry er.
The new city hall of Philadelphia will
be the tallest building on the continent,
excepting only the Washington monu
menti f Ji will be two inches more than
547 feet in height, and will cover an area
of four and a half acres.
A Salt Against Ike Brooklyn Bridge.
In a short time the 'most important
damage suit that has ever been brought
against the Brooklyn" bridge will be
tried. It is for $1,000,000. and will in
volve some ' nice " points of . law.J 7 A
Franco-American inventor named Du
Bois is bringing the suit, ; He claims
that in sinking the caissons of the bridge
certain patents belonging to him were,
infringed upon, and that without the use
of his inventions 'the-bridge could not
have been successfully built. - So iui-'
portant does District Attorney Clarke
consider the case, and of such - grave
moment to the interests of the two cit
ies, that at his request the services of a
well known patent lawyer have been
secured as counsel, and he has al
ready received from the bridge $1,000 as
a retaining fee. '
. There is an interesting story told of
Bridge Secretary Henry Beam in con
nection with the sinking of these cais-i
sons.' He ays . that it was at first in
tended by the bridge engineers to sink a
regular coffer dam, and on this place the
big piles that snpport the bridge struc
ture, but that William C. Kingsley op
posed this plan, giving as his reasons for
so. doing that no ordinary coffer dam
would hold in the fierce currents of -the
East river. Then it was that the sink--,
ing of the aissons was decided upon.
In other words, they used a coffer dasnr
not in the regular fashion, but upside
down. And now the wooden box rests
on a bed of rock forty feet below the
bottom of the river.
Mr. Beam says that Mr. Kingsley
would have been the last man in the
world to have allowed the invention of
another man to be used in the con
struction of the bridge without paying
him for it, and that if Du Bois' patents
were infringed upon it was by accident
and because the bridge engineers did riot
know that that style of coffer dam had
been patented.- Brooklyn Eagle.
Haraau Discontent.
A rich man of Boston has one son. He
led him about, he instructed him, he
kept him as the apple of his eye. The
son became of age this summer: The
father has no other occupation save that
of nursing his income, and as he is a
man of sense- and. liberal views he told
his son that he must not stand idle, yet
left to him the choice of business or pro
fession. At the same time he wrote pri
vately to twenty-four friends and ac
quaintances asking their ' advice in the
matter. The twenty-four were, promi
nent each in his own calling.. , ., ' i ; .
And each replied in turn, -complaining
of his business and advising the father to
seek elsewhere for the future prosperity
of the young man. The law was crowd
ed, journalism brought but little money,
banking was an uncertain prop, and "so
on throughout , the catalogue. The fa-;
ther is still undecided, the boy is idle;
and all. because no one of the; twenty
four is contented with his lot, while he
admires the fortunes of other men. Bos
ton Post. :: .-..J-;-
Xew Lunar Crater.
A careful examination of a i photo
graphic negative of the moon " recently
obtained .. by means of the Lick -telescope
revealed the picture of a most
important lunar crater whose existence
had never been " suspected previously.,
The explanation lies in the fact that the
human eye ilfemot so constituted, that
steady gazing will bring out the minuter
details of the object looked at; on, .the
contrary, the eye grows tired and details
are lost.. Not so the photographic plate,
however; the effect of a constant pour
ing in of rays of light into the camera
has a cumulative effect.
The longer the exposure under suitable
circumstances, the greater the display
of detail in the result . So in this case,
the "photographic eye of science" takes
cognizance of a crater on the moon's
surface that has never been, and in all
probability never will be, seen by human
eyes. New York Recorder.
Over Three Tears In a Mattress.
In July, 1888, Captain Joseph Lowe,
of York, filled his bed with grass, Which
he had cut for that purpose.- Soon after
Mrs. Lowe thought she felt something
moving under her side, of the. bed, but
the captain told her it was imagination.
Captain Lowe was afterward sick and
laid, upon that side of the bed, when he
felt the same motion. ' " In April,' -1889, he
died, but not until Tuesday of last week
was the bed opened and emptied, when
out. came a, Uye healthy, but ; terrible
hungry turtle. : He was- ravenous, and
would snap at anything offered him, it
is said. The straw or. hay for two feet
across was "chewed very .fine." York
(Me.) Conrant.:. . : - 'i ... ..?.'-;.; .....
..': : .-r. ' A Kaw Instrument.
. A scientific instrument has been gotten
np by Professor Bigelow which is called
the aurora' inclinometer. ' By extensive
researches he has found that the same
law which underlies the working of elec
tricity and magnetism is operating on
the sun. and that sunlight is a magnetic
field in which the magnetized earth i ro
tates as does the armature of a dynamo.
The instrument will- be sent to AlttaVa
where it will be used in the study of the
aurora, as it is there seen in tbs best con
ditions. New York Times. .
.:.A Traveled Baby. ,
There was in this city recently oh. a
visit a baby only about nine months old
which has seen more traveling than
commonly falls to the lot -of most older
people. . .it was . born near Chicago and
has since been to the City of Mexico,
thence to Massachusetts, then to Port
land, Me., and return, and is now living
in Ma'ynard. At that ; rate most Of the
world will be. familiar ground -in fifty
years. Marlboro Enterprise. 'J . ' i:
' Hill Paid After. Many V
A young man in the employ of . Emer
son Hall over a quarter of a century ago
contracted a little bill with Dr. H. C
Newell. It slipped his mind at the. time
and he always thought : it paid nntil a
few days ago. when he accidentally came
across a bill . from the doctor dated
twenty-six years ago. He at once paid
it. ; Such honesty is indeed worth notic
ing. St. Johusbury VVt.) Caledonian.'
No bath should be taken while the pa
tient is weary from labor or excitement.
Rest is then indicated. But if the tired
feeling is due to' chronic or long con
tinued conditions, the bath is not there
by con traindicated, . ; ; . .
fl. K Wells, of Imlay City, Mich., J
irho enlisted -in a Michigan regiment
and was captured during the war, has
aot Bhaved since he left Andersonville
prison. ' His beard is now 5 feet 9 incites
in length.
Jules Verne has a son, Michsi, who ia
developing a talent for wri&ng stories
very much in his father's "highly imag
inative style.
'omen,
' The comi-.iou ufilictio-os of women arc Exk-heo.ii-nclic,
ii:0ig-:tiou a::d iu.-rvo;:s troubles. Tlioy
arUu l.irscly from f-tcmii-jU disorde. As Joy'a
Vccstablo Farsaiaril!a Is tho ouljr towel reiju
lati:?s litvparatloj, yoa con sco why it ia mora
effeciivo llitui any other Eoraaparilla in those
troubles. It is dally relieving hundreds.' The
a:-tio:i i:t mild, direct and effectived. We have
scores of letters from grateful women.
Wo refer to a few: .
Xervous debility, lira. J. Barron, 142 .Tib. t, S. F.
Nervons debility, Mrs. Fred. Loy; 327 Ellis St., S.F.
General debility, Mrs. Belden, 610 Mason fit, S.F,
Nervous debility, Mrs. J. Lamphere, 735 Turk St,
Nervons Oebility, Miss R.
XU, S. F.
r.oscnblura. 232 17th
Stomneli troubles, Mrs. It. L. Wbeaton, 701 Post
'tit.fS.I'.'
Bick headaches, Mrs. M. B. Price, 16 Prospect
Pluce, S. F.
Sick headaches, Mrs. M. Fowler, 827 Ellis St,S.F.
Indigestion. Mrs. C. D. Stuart, J221- Mission 8U,
Coustipation, Mrs. C. Melvin, 126 Kearny St, S.F.
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ths window Is sot the nat-
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: matter being: ased : for, this:.
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tea bright, sbiny green, bmt also xraiits the
-aa of " offotor? and worthaM tear, which.
one under 'tb' Teenr cloak, ' ar readily:
worked off as s good quality ol Ua.
An etniaeat ' authority writes on this sub-
eot: TbamaniiHilatioBof poor team.to girft
: tbaot sissr appearanca, is carried a cxtaa-
sivsly.iMJieeiLess, being in . thia f ountry,
' aapaetaliy. popalar, era produced , to meat tha
- demand hy coloring cheaper .Week, kinds bj;
glaaing or facing witsrprnssian blae, tumeric,,
gypsum, and indigo. TMw meUuti it se pr
roJ tKat ry tittle oenyiint untvlefed gre tea
. offered for ai." :ir ,T '
; U was the knowledga of this condition of ;
- aflkira teat prompted tha placing of Bwf ;
Tea. before the pablie. . It la absolutely par '
and, without, .colop. . pid yoa eret see .any i
genuine ajocolored Japan tea? , Ask yoor
grocer open a paekagcAf Beech's, and yea !
will, see it,; and: probably for the very first '
. time. , It win be found in color to fee just be- ;
: tweau the artificial green tea. that, you have '
-. been accustomed to and the black teas. .
It draws a delightful canary color, and ia so '
fragrant that it will be a revelation to tea-
- drinkers. . its purity makes it also more
economical than the artificial teas, for les
; of it is required per cup. 'Sold only in pound
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to wm its way to public lavor by ener
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we ask that you give it a fair trial, and
Z I? j a t i i . .
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will be to advertise th a
The
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city, and adjacent country, to assist in
developing pur industries, in extending
and opening up new channels for our
trade, in securing an open river, and in
helping.THE DALLES to take her prop
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