Bandon recorder., August 27, 1903, Image 2

BANIHIN RE(ORI>EK.
IDEOGRAPHIC FIGURES.
Lsewe IB Enattsto T1»a« Was
Taawtet toy • ' tolsamsa.
That ws iiavs pari la lly atloptaal tn»
t'liliavaa* lu.-tlaol III *Mir arirtaii Ian
■■la«» waa a n.-w tliouaM to m* and
< mm * that I ■>>! fnxu tl«s proprietor of a
Park avanur ta'iiatry wiren. in th» nat
oral I'atX'aMan faahhto, I referred to
hla written language aa being very In
fvvtor.
"John," I «eld "why do your poot'h
use those chh'keu track» Inataud of
having an alpbahrt. aa rr have?’
“'A H C tun tuiH-h trouble.“ ba an
swered quickly. "Why, you uaa rbh'fc-
an track*. too. noinalliuaa."
"We don’t Uaa them.” I replied.
"Yes; you uaa them vary good. I
allow you." Than be dipped hla non-
venlent brush In th» Ink and mad» the
number "Ki” on a »beat of brown pa
per. "That until« of Street over there,”
bn timtlnuntl. pointing.
"You aay
’«•Igbty nine;' you don't write It with
’A It
That Chinee Ona mark la
one thing you aay 'Idea;' yea, Idea.
You don't put down 'n i n e'" mid iito’c
hla lirnah came Into line aifiilli “yon
put down H.‘ That's very good Chine«*
We ‘lo that all the tlim-."
“That la Idnogriipblc,” I nuggented.
“Yra. Kngllah liuve much Ideograph
Io. All tlgiir..« Ideographic. Hee?’ Ami
again he mo*1 hla bruali "You make
’ and •+,’ nnd you any 'minus.' 'plus.'
You don’t »poll with ‘A II ('.* That In a
mark for Idea—Ideographic. You make
•M’ awl say 'thoiiwnnd.* That Chtoese
way. Very good. I »ay, ‘How hot?
and you write *«+87*.’ All Chinese.
No ‘A It C,’ no many letter«, only
mark» and Idea A
“Fine way. EngH»h know Home fine
Chltwee way». 8<i*! '$,’
You know
them. Idea»! You »ay ideographic.
You make many Chine»» mark« -mark»
for »tars, for plant», for neasttres, for
weight» and sign* for hundred and
hundred many thing»; same a» Chi-
lie»». Good!”
I actually left that laundry wi»»r
than I entered It.—New York Herald.
A
* A DRAMATIC LAWYER.
■effective Climax That Heaulted In
Hettlna a Murderer Free.
Lacbaud, the great French advocate,
wan renowned for deliberate but telling
dramatic improvisation», as It were,
upon the original theme.
At one time, for Instance, he wa» de­
fending a murderer on Dec. 2-1. All
day long be haranaed witnesses, re­
calling them, causing delay after de­
lay before getting his Anal address to
the Jury. It was well on In the even­
ing before he commenced. Then sud­
denly, at the height of his passionate
appeals for the prisoner, the slow, sol­
emn bells of the cathedral next door
pealed for the midnight mass—the first
mass of Christmas morning. Lachand
stopped as if overwhelmed by a sud­
den warning.
"Do you hear?” he »aid solemnly
after a moment's silence, and hl» man­
ner conveyed that all his own glib
eloquence had been shattered by the
divine Interruption of Christ himself.
“The Redeemer comes to amend our
pitiable endeavors. Which of us would
dare now, on this great day of mercy
and forgiveness, to condemn another
human being and, above all, to con­
demn one whose culpability is more
than doubtful?”
The prisoner was acquitted without
the least difficulty, though bls death
sentence ten minutes before had lieen
regarded as certain. The actual sound
of the pealing liells had l>een too much
for nerves already strained to snap­
ping point by the fatigue of a long
day's sitting.
Hut nolmdy guessed, except the few
who knew tachaud intimately, that
he had been maneuvering from the
time the court opened in the morning
to get that one stirring effect. The
prisoner was a dead man without it
and saved as certainly if it eould be
brought off successfully.—Kansas City
Independent.
Simple Headache Cars.
Here is a headache cure that Is said
to be a marvelous remedy and to re­
lieve the sufferer when all else fails.
It is easy to make and easy to apply,
and It consists simply of black pepper
and camphor. Take a quantity of black
pepper and put It in a handkerchief.
Then fold the handkerchief over so
that the grains cannot fall out and
saturate the whole thing with cam­
phor. Bind this "plaster" on the head
and lie down. In a very few moments
the headache will be relieved and the
patient will be asleep. When the hand
kerchief becomes dry saturate again
with the camphor; that's all. People
who have tried everything else say
that this home remedy relieves them
quickest At any rate. It is worth try­
ing.
Gunpowder nnd Artillery.
There Is abundant evidence that the
origin of gunpowder and artillery goes
far back In the dim ages of the past.
The Hindoo code, compiled long lieforr
the Christian era, prohibited the mnk
lug of war with cannon and guns ot
any kind of firearm». Quintus Curtlus
Informs us that Alexander the Great
met with fire weapons in Asia and
Philostratus say« that Alexander's eon
quests were arrested by the use of gun
powder. It is also written that those
wise men who lived In the cities of the
Ganges “overthrew their enemies with
tempests and thunderbolts shot from
the walls."—Cassell's Magazine.
dales Perry's Escape From the Mob.
Jules Ferry had a narrow escape
from violence at the hands of the Paris
commune, to whom he was especially
odious He »Inded their pursuit through
a church, letting himself down in a
basket our of a rear window while the
mob was forcing the outer done. The
basket fell to the ground with a thud
and gave Its occupant a severe shaking
■p.
Pistol Worse Than Sword.
Damocles was viewing the suspend»,
sword.
"It doesn’t seem to trouble yon," ob­
served Dionysius.
“No,” returned his guest. “Now. if
it waa only a pistol you didn't know
Was loaded"—
Weakened by the mere thought, he
hastily turned to the butter for
strength.— New York Tribune.
I found a letter In U m query b»»a th»
■ Alter day and. owing to U m nature of
lit« quest»At, will make It the brgtutilng
of the column 11,1» week III place of
«tiding U m sul’jrtd with U m luterroga
lion mark. **l have town In love with
a young man, 1»tilled, and the soul of
gm»lit«as wheu I m I s soitrr, 1st* Ute re­
verse when he la drinking, a habit to
winch be la addicted. He promisee to
glee up drinking, and 1 know bae
really tried very bard to break binnrlf
of this terrible habit and will al tluwe
go lor io < ni U m without taking a drop of
anything, then suddenly, without the
«lightest warning, he forgets hla good
resolutions and hie promisee to in» and
falls again He says when we are mar­
ried he will find It easier to stop; that I
alone nan save him. 1 kuow my In­
fluence over him la g'»»l and that I can
keep him from Ibe demon of drink
longer than auytealy else.
I realise
what a wrack it will make of uty life If
1 marry him and he should i*r»t»t In
the habit of Intemperance, but what
sin I Iodo? If I don't marry him and
he should become a habitual drunkard
I will always feel that I am to blame;
that I should have encouraged and
done what I e.xtld to save him. Wl at
would you advise me to do, Polly?'*
You are In a world of trouble, Kdlth.
You think you see your duty plain and
that it calls you to make a sacrifice of
yourself. You are looklug almost wholly
on one »Ide of the queatlonr You uc-
doubtedly care a great deal for him and
you believe your life as well aa his will
tie u blank If you do not marry him,
and yet you confess that your life will
lie wrecked If he does not turn over a
new leaf. "Don’t marry a man to re­
form him,’’ says oue of our |»ieta, and
there 1» more truth tbau poetry .In the
advice. If Jack won't reform when he
i» trying hard to^win you, do you think
he is going to do it after you are his
wife? There may be a few rare in­
stances of such a desirable result, but
they are few and far between.
It is a
great risk to run. If Jack can break
himself of this habit that means only
unhappiness for you both, he will make
the effort of bi» life to do it now. He
knows full well that nothing else iu
life would bring you so much real hap­
piness or make the future »0 bright. If
you marry Jack to reform him, It will
not be many months until you can
aiiHwer that question, "Is marriage a
failure?" and It will not be iu the
negative unless your experience is
vastly different from that of most other
girls who have married a man to reform
him.
In Waremme, Belgium, a number of
young ladies have formed a society in
wbloh they have »oleiuuly vowed that
they will not marrv men who drink,
aud have signed a pledge to that effect.
Their society Is to be known as the
"Union of Bwallows,” the sole object of
which is to ward off undesirable suitor».
The mem tiers state that they are quite
as willing to marry as other girls, but
they vow that they will remain old
maids to the end of their days rather
than give their hands and hearts to
men who betray even a moderate liking
for strong liquor. As the members of
the Union of Nwallows are some of the
fairest daughters of Belgium it Is safe to
say that they will do more good and
more effective work by their mode of
striking intemperance a severe and last­
ing blow than Carrie Nation’s crusade
with her little hatchet has ever accom­
plished. The young men of Belgium
who have acquired a taste for strong
liquor know that they must turn a new
leaf and resolve one» and for ail to be
total alistalners to win the hand or even
a smile of acknowledgement from the
fair and much-sought member» of the
Union of Swallows. The girls will be
true to their resolve and never break
their vow which they have solemnly
pledged themselves to keep. They will
do more good in their quiet way for the
temperance cause than they have
dreamed of, besides Betting an exc-llent
example.
Summer time, aud everybody is pack­
ing their furs and heavy wiuter gar­
ments away with a liberal supply of
moth balls and bringing out dainty and
becoming organdies and summer fabrics
for thelrouting. “ 'Vacation 1903’, that
you told us about, Polly, gotten out by
the California Northwestern Railway
Company, helped us out immensely,”
said a friend the other day. "We sent
for one and scanned its contents from
liegiutiing to end. Before we got it we
were iu a quandery where to go, and
then we were In almont as great a
dilemma to decide which one we wanted
of the many places that appealed to us.
Flnally we wrote the names of several
places on some slips of paper, placed
them I11 a hat and let the baby put her
chubby hand iu and draw for us. It
seemed as though she was in as great
a quandery as the rest, for the flrst time
she drew she grabbed the whole lot.
We weut up last week to look round and
we found the place just as represented.
There is going to tie quite a little colony
of us there, too, for we passed our
“Vacation 1903” round among a few
chosen friends with the result that they
are going to spend the next two months
in the sains vicinity. The beat part of
it is that the men of our party can spend
from Saturday evening to Monday
morning with us. Home of them, my
husband among the number, are going
to make the trip every day. To accom­
odate the summer guests to the country
the Northwestern Railway Company
has increased the service and put on
extra trains so that people coming from
all places on the road can get into the
city iu time for their business.
You
don’t know what a difference It has
mad» In our plans, for we shall remain
ate-ul lameMlong <m our vaoattera as
we llS‘<- ever ls-eu »14s to do l»hire, f< i
my bus'iaud would get »a i <»< i « whih - In
«Mir tag bouse all by himself that he
would call 11 m entire family to«MU«,
much to our disgust, and yet you <~uld
not Iilaine him. Il to simply beautiful
all along this road and the (fa oriel lit I to
retreat» for camper* all ai>H>g the line.
My huetsind to so stilb osteal««' that he
lias talked a number of hto frlemto into
taambig up lulu thto eeettom. He says It
makre him feel just Ila» a te»y again
and that bs lias not felt SO free from
«are and worry In year».
Il eeeme lo
I* Iu the very air, thto rejuvenating
frellng that takso possessi o n of every-
on». I ilou’t know what y«m would
call It, l>ut II to exhilarating and tnakts
you feel that you are glad you ar«
living In thto lieaulifdl world."
**< In all »Idea, or at least fn«m uewrly
sll the [«per», you hear that doleful
wall race »uield»," »ahi a lady the
other day at a luncheon. “My grand-
parents lied thirteen children, my own
patents had ten moiis and daughter»; 1
haven't heard that Mr. and Mrs.
lb»»Mivelt have that number tn their
credit, ami yet they have the money to
tie able to give their children the ad­
vantage» and opport 111111 lee In life that
inost parents rightly desire. Mr. >1 »sie-
velt, who started Ibis agitation, should
have Iwsn taken into the Latin, dago
and Bolish Jew quarter» of Hau Fran­
cisco, where the Isthlss are swarming
about the streets like ante. Dirty and
a» unkempt a» their |>aients are and
living in crowded, filthy apartments.
The parent« are a low class without
education and caring lor nothing else
but to live from hand to mouth, or
struggling to make the dollar that to
<i«A«r to their hearts. One cannot see
this surging mass of humanity without
feeling that It is a pity that there could
not have teen fewer children iu this
section to battle for a miserable exist­
ence. TbouHsnds of these undesirable
residents are pouring into the United
Htates through our widely-celebrated
o|>eu door, to till the undesirable jiart
of our cities and towns with a rabble
that i» more to be deplored than ap­
proved. Right here, Polly, you can say
for me that the Government bad belter
close our open door to the element that
is pouring into the United Htates and
thereby give our own American boys
and girl» a chance to make a living in
their own country."
BRIEF REVIEW.
Wonderful Engineering in Australia.
An unparalleled engineering feat has
recently been achieved in Australia of
immense value to the gold field», aav»
Collier’» Weekly. The Uonigardie sys­
tem is to Australia what the famous
Assiant name is to Egypt. The remark­
able feat of pumping 6,900,000 gallons
of water a day for a distance of 350
miles, from the Helena river to Kal-
goorlie, ba» been aciomplished by the
Euglish engineers, by means of a great
dam, ninety feet high, constructed
seross the Helena river twenty miles
from Perth. The reservoir capacity is
about 5,000,000,000,000 gallons. There
area number of auxiliary reservoirsand
pumping stations along the 30-inch
steel water main which ruus along the
railryad line to the gold Held»—the
'‘richest rquare mile of earth on the
globe”—near Kaigoorile. The only for­
eign etiterpiiee of equal importance is
the Himloa tunnel, the great burrow
which will makeHwitzerlandand Italy
next door neighbor». In a short time
POIImau train» will pa»a through the
Himplon Alpe in a few minutes, 7000
feel under the snow-covered diligence
road which Napoleon Bonaparte built
a hundred years ago, and which takes
about ten hour» to traverse In favorable
weather. This tremendous rat hole,
which passe» under Lake Aviuo. will
cost th« Jura-Himplon Railroad over
116,000,000.
BUOYANT MIDDLE AGE.
CHOICE MISCELLANY MEW SHORT STORIES FACTS IN FEW LINES
It Itaille»
WHto Vastto Is
Mar«»te arf « see t b H bss .
Ttoes» I'r*•■«•■»<« e IM«».
Thuussuds of predirsi iMtaiers
Half a «.-»ntury ago a tusn ot forty
CU«1M be ■l«ei« to »l«ow Itos «alue of liu
gvs was regarded aluwst «Merly, aud a
pr»»»l «artetlss of corn. F« iMtiu,-».
one southern llttnoto f»riu«r ux>r» pro
lo have toau Her« rut tosraeif adrift
grveeive tbau lhe rest «SS I ih I imo I to
from all ties blndtag her to ber youth
sra-ure enough Improved »d to plant
und lo assuiue tbe ■iqiearan«'» »1x1 «>»
•ai a<-r<>» as a r»BUlt of bts study of
IMirtiueat <rf a staid, »»ernplary tuatHHi
<«>m la tbs Illinois <’«»liege of Agri« nt
AU thia baa «-hanged in a partiruiarly
tur» These
ucros outylelded ail of
interesting way. <«f wbkb tbe promt
lb» other tfe-bl» <■« bi» farm mors than
ueut feature la a »eeuilng ,'«>ntra<1i«-
thirty l>uet>ela per a«Te, and so far as
tlon If tbe tbr*->- year <>l«i «blN of lo
««»uld I»- determined Ut» flebl» of that
lay la aa knowing aa waa tbe »lx year
«mitre asetkMi yteMml slxrot thirty
<4<l of half a n nttiry ago and the ten
taialiel» per »• re
Till» Im reaao In
year-uM boy of tmtay Is In many ro-
yield meant a total gain of about
ape« ta quite aa murte 4 man as waa bls
O.i sat luMbela. wbk-li represented a
yraudfather at eighteen, ooe might nat­
cash value of about
that sea
urally expect that tn due gradation tbe
MR As this Increase did not represent
tiwHlern uiltklle aged man ahoilkl lie old
an Im-ressed ««st of pnetm-lhm. the
beyiiud hto years. Hut eu>-b la not tbe
gain was pure profit In aitolber rose
case.
a fanner In ivntral I Him 4« I ices me In
Middle age. so far from hurrying on
terested in Improved e»«d corn through
Into senility, an far ev«m from »landing
tie» at-hnol of <urn judging In tbe Illi
•till, would seem actually to bars
noie Agrli ultural college II» secured
stiqiped hoi kward and man bed along
enough see«l grown by a <wn breedaw
able of youth. Ttiere to a jauutlnes«. a
tn plant eighty seres. As a result I m
buoyancy, an elasticity, at»»ut Hie mul
raised almost twenty lire bushels more
die age of today at wbh'h our father»
per acre on thia fir bl than where tbe
would Imre shaken tbelr beads a« un
ordinary aeexl waa planted, t'osino
seemly. Tlx* gulf wbh'h on«-» separated
politali.
th* middle agwl |>arvut from hla chil­
dren baa lieen Riled up. The .urlnln
which shrouded tbe niliMIe aged man
generally from tbe ey«m of youth and
which «mused him to be regarded with
r«*»|ie<'t If imt with awe has been lifted,
and In olmlleni'e to the »anie Influences
which have nuule the achoolniawter the
friend of the arh<»ilte>.v and the regt­
mental officer aiiiKMit the comrade of
Ida mon the uihtlle agtxl man of ttxlay
Is never »0 liiipi»' «a wheu working or
playing upon an equality and actually
In connection wl|h youth.
Aa with men ao It 1« with women.
Hoclal at»tl»tl< li<ie tell ua that the age
nt which wotnei are conaldered most
eligible for niatrliige has te-en very
notably advancdl of late years, and
we know that tie lament of many a
matchmaking niffnnia in that the moat
dreaded rivals ol her darling are not
to be found ao quch among the girls
of her own age tn ntnong women who
not many years ago would have been
relegnted to the tanks of hopeless old
tnnldenliood. Tig fact that the middle
aged lady of todly Is much younger in
milliner and tastw Is of course not the
only reason forithi», but It is among
the most potentJ-London Spectator.
That Ha4 Mev«r Qe»»«'«* to Him.
When Lafaydte visited Ixiudoun
county he was entertained with the
other eminent 'guests by President
Monroe at Oak Hill. Leesburg, too,
tbe historic towi)nlne miles from Mon­
roe’s country se|t, «««orded him hon­
ors on that oceitdon. and at a dinner
at that town Jifin Quincy Adams de­
livered a famous toast to tbe surviving
patriot« of the Revolution, who, lie
said, were like the sibylline leaves—
the fewer they became the more pre­
cious they were.
On the return to Oak HUI another of
Monroe's guests said to Mr. Adams:
"Excuse the Impertinence, but would
you not tell me That inspired tbe beau­
tiful sentiment of your toast today?"
"Why," replied Mr. Adams. “It was
suggested this morning by the picture
of the sibyl that bings in the hall of
the Oak Hill mansion.”
“How strange," remarked the less
brilliant guest, “I have looked at that
picture many times during the past
year» and that thought never occurred
to me.”—Leslie’s Monthly.
CtoewlsB Dry Rlee.
“A strange way of testing the inno­
cence of an accused person Is employed
In India,” said a Philadelphia mer­
chant who lately returmsl from Mad­
ras. "They haul the man up and give
him a mouthful of dry rice to chew. I
don’t suppose you ever chewed dry
rlee? Well, It Is hard work. It takes a
deni of chewing to get it masticated
into a glutinous mass like gum, and
that is the condition Unit the accus«»! Is
required to get it into within ten min­
utes. If you are calm and not afraid
you succeed, but if you are nervous and
scared you fail, for it seems that fear
ha» a strong effect upon the salivary
glands. It prevents them from secret­
ing saliva. The mouth of a badly fright­
ened person Is always dry as a bone.
It requires a tremendous flow of salivn
to chew dry rice, and therefore the
«cared prisoner inevitably falls In thia
A Mising Donation.
test. It isn’t of courae a test employ«*d
Au interesting story of a missing in the court« of the big towns. It be­
American donatlou and the fouuding longs to the interior, less enlightened
of a pension fund w«» told recently in villages.”
the annual report of the Printers* Pen­
Reptile» That Walk Ereet.
sion Corporation, »ays the London
Lizards of several sorts can walk
Chronicle. When a young man, Ben­ and run easily on their bind legs. Tbe
jamin Frauklin came to Loudon to buy Australian water lizard, which is three
material for his printing office at New or four feet In length, keep« quite erect
York, hut meeting disappointments he when traversing long distances on
worked for a time at a baud press as a land. It is found in the nelghliorhood
Journeyman. In after years, when a of river banks, and passes much of its
time in shallow water.
public man, be again came to England
The frilled lizard of Queensland also
and identified the hand press. Finally travels on Its hind legs on level ground,
it came into the possession of Robert k«*eplng the frill folded when running.
Harrild, who In 1841, offered It to the When attack«>d it expands this fold of
United Htates on condition that a dona­ »kin, which stands out like a ruff at
tion wa» »ent to tie Printer»’ Pension right anglts) round the neck, giving It
Hociety. The press is now with the a most formidable aspect, ao that «logs
PhiliHophical IJoctety of Philadelphia, that attack and kill larger lizards will
often ivtreat before a frilled lizard at
but the donation has not yet arrived.
bay.
On its way to America tile press waa
There Is also a tree lizard In Austra­
exhibited at Liverpool for some time, lia that moves in a similar way. Al)
and llie money so raised formed the nu­ these species walk on all fours when
cleus with which the Franklin pension merely moving about or going short
distances.
was founded.
IkllSreB Do Lie.
The bulk of tbe cranberries of this
Do children He? Yes; constantly,
country come from the part of Eastern
persistently and universally, says tbe
Ma»»achusett3 which lies near Cape Kindergarten Magazine. A child does
Oxi.
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not tell the tfuth because he could not.
Deal out klnduess in small crumbs He does not know the truth, and his
approximation to tbe truth is very
and it will tie more highly appreciated
much vaguer than ours. And there are
thau If you give it in chunks.
certain qualities of his mind which
make It inevitable that he should per­
A Chicago n»n has shown by court vert the truth. In tbe flrst place, truth
records that one-fourth of the divorces is synonymous with knowledge. He
are caused by tbe wife’s bad cooking.
do«*» not know what truth Is. In the
sewud place (and it Is the Mine with
They have a machiue now that wiU. us), children gradually approximate
Ikk aud seal fifteen thousand envelopes the truth. They have their Meas of
truth. In the third place, the child's
an hour. ________ ______
Imagination drives him often to tell
You must be grwxl aud also good for what is not true.
something. You can shut yourself up
in a cave and be good.
Life’s lBr*rteM.
“Llie,** said tbe tobacconist to the
Home men loan a penny for the pur­ wooden Indian. “Is for most people a
continuous process of getting used to
pose of borrowing a dollar.
things that they haven't been expect-
Ing.” Syracuse Herald.
In India tbe men do tbe washing.
A Sweat Ceaxpllaaeat.
On one oc<-a«lon ns Mme. Melba wna
coming out of ber room In n New
York hotel after some hours’ practice
a lady who was staying on the same
floor approached her and said: “Par­
don me. madam, but I think you will
be touched at bearing what my little
boy said jnst now. He Is lying In l>ed
recovering from an Illness, and when
you began to sing he held up Ids little
hand and murmured, ’Hush, mumniie.
dear; birdie singing? ”
An ingenuous compliment the Aus­
tralian nightingale fully appreciated.
Tb»
Aiorfhau uae» IJH pin«
• year
A perwa cas iww ga fruta Maw Y«*rt
1ty ta Saattla. oa l*ua*< « mmm I. la fuui
lays
Atotrt*. Ireta»4 has derided to re-
Maae ttos ringing of U m «wfrw belt
sightly
Yratnar has by far th« most teaura of
»«el »«inshlae nt auf toae ta th« Bril
I ■ I•
There are six raasto rx>aa<u*ted with
11W riiaUM«, »hk-b eltead allnffethet
'»♦ toiles
Tbe ntunlwr af y»rsnax etu|>1»y«d to
the mining uf «-«ml In k.«isteml suit
Wales 1» •».»ol
Tbe K>»*«ti get «ramen t to r x iaatder
Ing the advisability of Ititralurlrq nut
vrrael n«»r«iki»
A Cblraga iwresl feud «vMapaay r«-
really ordered fifty tons af Ink for «ae
In printing Ito packages
In the last decnate the Im-reae* to
wraith was one-serenlh greater than
the Im-reaM of papula thra.
The ratio« Rilmirra of tbe south
used last year AM.115 hales, slnaat as
n-iM’li as the New Knglaad mills.
No case of smallpox has been found
In ■ revaii lnatnl |xr»x> for years In
(’hl<-ag<>, says the commissioner of
health.
Karthquak«*» bare been felt as far
■■part aa tbe island of l>omlnk'a. West
Indies, and Aquila, Italy. Yrsuvlus Is
In rrupttoo
Professor Cslnratte of IJIIe, France,
pays snake c»libers 10 cents each for
the riper» for the prodwtton of bls
antivenom serum
Tl«e world's average dally production
of «*iectrolytic «tipper Is aliout 833 short
tons, of which Nfl.fi per cent la suppll«*d
l>y the United Htates.
The con»tim|iti<m of mineral waters
In the United Htates has b«*en ItH-reased
enormously until It now sggregat«*«
*I8.(XM).I)00 worth per annum.
Hteps were taken recently toward
forming In Paris a Canadian <-bauilM*i
of commerce to extend commercial re­
lations lietween France and Canada.
“All over the world." said Dr. II. T.
Buleatrode a few days ago at tbe Col­
lege of Hurgeous In tandon. “there II
now a market! decrease In tubereulo
sis.”
Machinery has ta*en ordered for ths
Argentine Iiepubllc to turn out 256
tons a week of molaacult, tbe new cat­
tle food from tnolaHses an«! sugar can*
liber.
In commemoration of tbe Thirty
Years' war the battle field of Lutzen,
where King Gustav Adolf of Sweden
met Ills death, la to be turned into a
public park.
Armour A Co. expect to make an an
nual saving of filOU.OOU by establishing
wire lews telegraph communication be-
tween their Chicago office and western
branch houses.
Anomalous electric conditions hold
at the foot of Niagara falls. The Im­
pact of the water upon tbe rocks gives
the water a positive and the spray a
negative charge.
A great ship’s boiler furnace from
Hwanaea was recently on view In tbe
private roadway by the law courts In
tandon as “evidence” In a case heard
before Justice Walton.
Tbe commercial relations of tbe Al­
banians are principally with Venice.
The Turkish government gives the Ital­
ians the right to maintain post offices
In tbe cities of Albania, and Albania
lias Import and export agents in Italy
and a bank in Venice.
The shipping of about 000.000 boxes
of lemons to eastern markets from
California has caused a serious depres­
sion in tbe lemon producing areas
along tbe M«*dlterranean, especially in
Sicily, whence the United States ini-
l»»rt trade has fallen from $4.000,000 to
$3.000,000 worth a year.
The largest apartment house in the
world la the Ansonia, which Is Just
completed at Seventy-second street and
Broadway, New York. It is seventeen
stories high, provides for 1,800 persons
and has sixteen elevators. The build­
ing cost $4,000,000, and rents range
from $500 for a single room to $1,000
for a double suit.
In a gorge of rock little more than
200 feet wide tbe United 8tat«*s gov­
ernment has decided to construct a
<lam of solid masonry, tbe first under
he Hansborongh-Newlands act, at the
("onto basin site, that will create In the
valleys of the upper Salt river and
l'onto creek tbe largest artificial lake
In the world. It will Irrigate 200,000
acres.
Official tests of tbe new army rifle
were made at tbe United States bar­
racks. Columbus, O. The rifle is said
to be greatly superior to the Krag-Jor
gensen, being lighter, having a higher
velocity and greater accuracy. It Is a
magazine gun. live cartridges being
carried in a clip. Tbe bayonet Is round,
fits under the barrel and is released by
a spring.
One may gev an appreciation of the
magnitude of the St. tauls world's fair
by comparison. The Centennial expo­
sition covered 236 acres, tbe last I'arlt
exposition 336, tbe Columbian exposi­
tion at Chicago 633. while that at St.
tauls will cover 1,180 acres. The total
cost of the Columbian exposition, tbe
greatest the world has ever seen, was
$27.250,000. That of the St. Loula fair
will be $40.000,000, this exclusive of
state appropriations.
Since th« year 1900 pneumonia has
claimed mose than one-eighth of all the
victims of the “grisly reaper” ta Chi­
cago, one-third more than consumption
and 44 per cent more than all the other
contagious and Infectious diseases com­
bined, Including diphtheria, erysipelas.
Influenza, measles, puerperal fever,
scarlet fever, smallpox, typhoid fever
and whooping cough, tbe total of
which deaths was 4.480 as compared
with a total of 6,500 deaths from pc«u-
tnonla.
Where lavsattsa la Weesssaey.
“Have you made any Improvements
In your invention?”
“I have." answered the enterprising
scientist. “One of my aaaistants has
just discovered a new way to put stock
on tbe market.”—Washington Star.
Ttos R»pe«t«4.
Ernie—So Mabel and Jack eloped?
Helen—Yeo; and they did Jnst what I
thought they would do.
Erole—Wrote home for forgiveness?
Helen-No; wrote home for money —
A nc «rars.
A Lltsrallst.
Wealthy Cltlsen—But I said distinct­
ly In my advertisement that I wanted
“a reliable colored coachman.” and you
ar« a red faced Iriabman.
Applicant—But, sure, sor, isn't red a«
reliable a color as black?
'
When I was young It was tbe fash
too to bleed folks fer different com­
plaints, but they say now that It was
a big mistake; tbe doctors still bleed,
but they lance tbe pocket Instead o’ tbe
Veins. -"The Substitute.”
« tosaas
PrsBl.
Aa tairrsstiHg stury to rseaHed of a
i»*e»{>a|>«r .<*rreej»HM>«-iil »bo «-»la«* lo
Ws»tilBat«iB froua Pittsburg a *«rt or
su ysars ago. its worksd for a bsws
|Mp«r whieb was v«ry bltlsr in Its <te
nunvtallu« ut spectsl prlvltogea to cur
pnttHi« *-»(*«<lally to transportation
cuu>|H>ataa liter be ksd taren tests a
Isirt tin«« be rtMaged hto asrvtc» sad
bm ««aptoysd by a very csaaervaitv»
»«»»paper He then taegsn fumi*lilna
aa entirely different kind of >««rrs
■pond«ncs
Gas of bls old frtenda paid him a vta
tt from Pittsburg aad after war« cea
gralutellon» as to tbe profrastoasl
progress U* was making offered this
obaervatior
“T om . I certainly am delighted to see
you getting »long ao w«ll Hut I must
aay that I nilas those rib roasting dis
patebes you lined to Are In aliout tbe
rallrraMts. What to tbe matter? Ar*
you kislng your nerve?”
Tom chewed his «igar reflectively fm
a monwnt and then prodm-ed a fat
pm'kethook. front which ha extracted a
dozen annuel passes over various rail­
roads
After eiblbltlng them be
drawl«*d:
“Jim, ao far aa I am concerned the
Married In Her FellleeaL
railroads ran have the rotunda of tbe
In order to live up to lu-r vow to he capital for a roundhouse "—Washing
married In white Mrs. Martha Gordon ton Poet.
nf Frankfort, Imi., took off her dreaa
skirt and was married In her white
Treatment Fee Teo Meeh Talk.
petllcost.
Henry Harris wna ths
The Irak* of Argyll tells this story
bridegroom.
of Winston Churchill, which shows
The couple were tnnrrlnl In the that th* talent for talk developed
county clerk'« office by J net lie of the young In th* author ami member of
Iteac« William Canipliell. Just before parliament:
the ceremony the bride rlix’t asked
Home vi'»r» ago he vlsltml Harrow
Uouttty Clerk Hmltli if there wa» a nnd. noticing a hoy running aroitn«l
room convenient where she could ar­
range her toilet. Mr. Smith dlrect«*d
her Into n private room, and then the
SRHemhled guests waited
Presently the door oftened, and the
briil«* appeared. The squire, a white
te anted officili!, gnsped nini turne«l red
about the ears, for the lady came for­
ward with her white petticoat the
moat prominent portion of her troun-
sean.
“I «ahi I’d be married In white, nnd
I will. Proceed with the ceremo ,”
she »aid.
After the ceremony the bride retired
to the room and again donm*d her
skirt.—Indianapolis News.
Triampbaat Schoolboys.
A few days ago the venerable king
of Denmark received a letter purport­
ing to come from four lads, scholars of
a school at Flakkenhjerg. It was »bort,
clear and sen»ational and ran as fol­
lows: “To King Christian In Copenha­
gen: We are four boys of the Flakken-
bjerg seminary who have been flogge«l
by a teacher with a »teel wire rope.
Unless that is stopp«*«! It will kindle a
Are." The misHive was unsigned. Usu­
ally anonymous letters are tossed Into
the waste paper basket. But In this
case the monarch held that an Inquiry
ought to be made, so he sent the letter
to ths minister of Justice nnd Instruct­
ed him to have the mntter thoroughly
Investigated. This was duly done, and
the facts which came to light con­
firmed th« extraordinary allegation of
the unnamed scholars. One of the
masters, overzenlous In applying the
rod, had used the unacademlz«*d steel
wire rope In the hope of making a
deeper Impression on his backward or
wayward pupils. Once the fact was
established he was dismissed on the
spot.—London Telegraph.
She Kaew WoiueB.
Flossie, who is doing her flrst year in
school, albeit she is a.very bright child,
came in the other evening aud began
catechising her mother.
“Mamma,” she inquired, "is there
anybody in history nam«*d Timon
Tyde?”
“I’ve heard of such a name as Ti­
mon,” ventured the mother doubtfully.
“Was Timon a man or a woman?”
“A man, if I remember correctly.”
“I guess that must be the same one,
then.”
By this time the mother was quite
curious.
“Why do you think so «¿hen you
know so little about It?” she queried.
“Well,” responded Flossie, with con-
fldonee, “the teacher said today that
Timon Tyde waits for no man, and I
didn't think It could be a woman.”
Msorfland’» NleffBra.
The Huka falls—the Niagara of Ma-
oriland-which the New Zealand gov­
ernment has an Idea of turning to ac­
count for the generation of electric
power, are on one of the head reaches
of the Waikato river, a few miles from
where the great stream flows out of
take Taupo, take Taupo lies very
high above sea level, and tbe Waikato
has Its beginning through a narrow
cha»m in the rocky wall of tbe lake.
Flowing out through this passage, the
enormous mass of water Is whirled at
last over tbe huge precipice at Iluka,
and the falls form one of the grandest
sights In New Zealand. On tlie report
of an expert the Wellington govern­
ment expects to get electric [lower
enough from the Iluka falls to supply
the whole of the north Island for ull
purposes.
ExptasalloB of Advaaee la Pries.
Cod liver oil has lately been quoted
ut a price nearly three times aa high
as it commanded a year ago. Tbe ex­
planation of the advance is that prac­
tically the entire supply of the oil used
for medicinal purposes comes from the
Norway fisheries, and the cod hnve
been destroyed or driven from their
feeding grounds by predatory seals,
tat 11a not Judge the seals too harshly.
Perhaps they needed a nutritive stim­
ulant. And anyway they have given
tbe American rod a One chance to
prove that he Is good for something
besides fish ballH.
Ttos Cost st Reffleet.
"I need a vacation badly, but I can’t
take It now,” said Dr. I’rics-Price.
“Many of my patients are in such con­
dition that I can't afford to leave them.
They need constant nursing."
“Ah. yea,” replied th* man who
knew. “I guess there are certain pa­
tients who. If you quit them, get well
th«* first thing you know."—Catholic
Htandatd and Times.
Many people buy everything on cred­
it and never ask the price until they go
to pay. Then there la a klck.-
“WB ItXKB HIM HUN THBKE TIMBH ABOUND
TUB 0B1CKBT T1BLD."
the cricket field by lilmself, naked
what he was doing It for.
“That's Lord Randolph Churchill's
son, and whenever be talks too much
we make him run three times around
the cricket field."—New York Tribune.
Doesn’t Appreciate Ast.
The sculpture representing Kansas
in a group at the St. Louis exposition
is a half nude woman with otte arm
thrown over the neck of a bull. "The
woman,” comments that high art critic,
the Atchison Globe, “has no clothes on
except a drapery acrosa her knees and
a handkerchief wound around ber fore­
head. The former might be a bath
robe, but the latter looks as though
she had Just finished dusting and sat
dowu to rest. But she has a sickle In
one hand, and Kansas women don't
use slcktes to dust with. And there la
the bull. Bulls are not that tame. If It
had been a row on ber feet, with a
milking bucket under ber. It would
bave been more like. The woman’a
feet are bare except for a pair of Ban­
dais. Our women don’t hang around
fierce bulls in such attire, but, on thé
contrary, run from them.
“If the artist insists upon a bull, then
he should have a full dressed woman
holding up her skirts and running for
dear life for a fence.
“We don’t understand art. We are
glad when we see what la to represent
Kansas that we don't”
A Rebel Wife.
Barnstorming Thespians who occa­
sionally have to dodge substantial ex­
pressions of displeasure of audiences
will sympathize with the claim of a
veteran who recently reached tbe pen­
sion bureau. It is a story of domestic
Infelicity and opens up a field of venge­
ance for those who keep In touch with
poultry products. Tbe claim Is made
In a letter that indicates a lack of fa­
miliarity with the three B's. and It
contains this brief, succinct proposi­
tion from tbe battle scarred servitor of
his country:
“I got blood poison by belnge hltt
with a hens «g wen I cam bak from the
front. The eg was not good wen yon
send my penshun 1 want the Deed
made sos my wife cant get none of It—
she throde the eg. She war n rebel.”—
Washington Cor. New York Tribune