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I'lesidont Grover Cleveland
Vice-President Ad.ai Stevenson
Becetary of State . . . Waller (J. GreBliam
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' Commissioners Peter Brenner
J. M. Baker.
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A Kefrlgrrutui- '1 j,ut Apparently Wulk4
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death by the recent Hoods and cyclones
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days ago how a ni."ii was lifted from a
wagon ami deposited with great care
on the top of n barbed fence. When
the cyclone visited Wellington, Kan.,
a young woman was writing a. letter in
the second story of her father's house
and a moment ail-r the storm broke
she was standing in the school yard,
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came sailing through the airandalight
ed near by. lie In. I sought shelter in
a restaurant ijuiir'.')- of u. mile away,
but had been pi k. I ep and carried off
and finally l"po:-!l"il without injury
near tbe youiv; iiv'.y. Ili fore the storm
a refrigerator filie I with three dozen
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rived by express 1 i:ct morning, and
meat, butter, v. !;!s, etc., rested
quietly in the diion'j-rooin up stairs.
After the storm the refrigerator, up
right and without anything inside
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The Noisy Steam Launch Gives Place to
Crult That Moves Without Ulrt,
Smoke or Annoyance Kleetrlclty Ap
plied us a. Propelling Power.
The quiet English lake of Windemere.
which nestles among the hills of tbe
lake country, has seen great changes
since the days not so very long ago
when a single little pueketbout served
for nearly all the tratiic there was upon
it. The great Christopher North used
not infrequently to steer that packet-
boat himself, and Harriet Martmeau
tells bow striking a figure he made as
he sat in it "with all the wild turbu
lence of his nature subdued into repose
by the quiet iniluence of the peaceful
scene, bitting motionless, with his
hand on the tiller, in the presence of
journeymen nnd market-women, his
eye apparently looking beyond every
thing into nothing, and his mouth
closed above his beard as if he never
meant to speak again, he was quite as
impressive and immortal as he could
have been to tbe students of bis moral
philosophy class or the comrades of his
jovial hours."
Now, however, says the Chicago
Tribune, the calm waters of Windemere
have become the highway of many
thousands of tourists, and particularly
of crowds of work people, escaping for
a short interval of pleasure from the
busy towns of Lancashire.
The day that a steamer first sailed on
the lake, to the no small wonder of
many of the older peasants, was the be
ginning of a new era for Windemere,
and the summer of the present year,
when the first electric boat moved
swiftly and silently over its waters, is
the beginning of another as full of
meaning to American lake dwellers as
to English, it may be.
It is not inappropriate, for many rea
sons, that the beginning of the restora
tion of comparative quiet at Windemere
should proceed from the lake that lies
in "Esthwaite's peaceful vale," so close
ly connected with Wordsworth's boy
hood. It is the stream that flows from
this lake that supplies the electric
power for the new boats. On this
stream, just where it enters Winde
mere, is a picturesquely situated bob
bin mill, driven by water power. This
mill bad been partly burned down, but
the company which is working the elec
tric boats found the mill driving ma
chinery intact, and had little to do but
plant its dynamo in the large room
where bobbins used to be turned, fix its
wires and then run off as much electric
power as it mi;ht need. The wet dock
for the boats nt Causey mill and the
charging station on the Jirowness side
of the lake, where steam power is avail
able in ease of drought, interrupting the
supply of water power from Esthwaito
lake, are shown in the uceompunying
illustrations.
The first experiment in applying elec
tric power to the navigation of the lake
has been made with lour boats (each
forty feet in length and carrying thirty
persons) built, on good lines, of steel,
by a (Ihisjrow firm. Nothing can be
simpler or more effective) than the ar
rangements for the management of
these boats, unless an improvement
might bo made by placing tne ma
chinery for regulating the power and
for steering in the bows. Vibration is
said to bo reduced to a minimum, and
dirt, Kinoke. nnd noise, forever banished.
The vessel pin.ses through the water
with a motion which is said to be al
most too quiet, gliding silently along in
a fashion which is almost weird, as if
the craft were endowed with some
strange, inj -.lenous life of its own.
INDIAN CAVAL'iYMEN.
They Obey Orders Ilvtter Than White Sol
dlerg and lichave Very Well.
There is a company of cavalry at Fori
Niobrara commanded by Lieut. Dravo.
of which be is very proud, says the
Omaha World-Herald. "The 21st day oi
April," said the officer, "I completed tht
enlistment of the fifty-five Indians ir
my company. An Indian is more easily
enlisted into the cavalry because he if
allowed a horse." "His own pony?'
"No; he must lie mounted on a horse as
other cavalry soldiers are." "Do yov.
find it difficult to discipline the In
dians?" "Not at all. They obey or
ders better than the white men, and
you see the improvement iu them. The
comparison between the Indian sol
dier and their relatives at the agency
is most favorable to the soldier. An In
dian, while he is not round-shouldered,
leans forward and bends his knees, but
six months 'setting-up' drill has
changed all this materially. Ten of my
men are from the. Carlisle school at
Pennsylvania, and the junior corporal
is a son of the famous Two Strikes. We
have a school iu the garrison, and they
are at present learning the alphabet.
It is bard for them, too, but they
are very much in earnest and learn
readily. I promised thcin when they
enlisted that they should be as fully
equipped as the white soldiers, and I
have just returned from a nine days'
trip around the reservation in which
they proved my words good to their
relatives and friends," "How did you
induce them to cut their hair?" "It is
funny about that. I told them that they
could have no uniforms until thev were
Baking
Powder
Clean and their hair cut. This was Sat
urday. If they were ready they could
don their uniform; Monday morning.
Sunday the whole dcy was spent in
bathing, six Lt a time, und Monday
morning the entire company reported,
clean and with lu.ir cut. They wish sin
cerely to learn the while man's way,
and, as I said before, are the most
earnest worken, imiifrinable." "Do you
trust them with Ueoholic drinks?"
"They have the privileges of the can
teen, as the si.hilers have, and you could
count the disorderlies upon the fingers
of one hand." "V,'h::t have they done
with their wivef ? ' "rive of them have
their wive:; .vill. 1Vrx The Indian mar
riage is easily dissolved, however, and
t m.mbci oi wives have been left be
Liuu." NEGROES IN BARBADOES.
They Die Rapidly of Consumption Euro
peans Safe From the Disease.
In Barbadoes the chief enemy of the
black race is consumption, of which
many of them die, though it is practi
cally unknown there among Europeans.
The cause is simply that all negroes,
without exception, hermetically seal up
their huts at night, partly from fear of
mysterious ghosts or "duppies," partly
to keep out mosquitoes, and partly
again because they wish to keep out
cold. For, strange as it may appear,
the naturalized West Indian negro shiv
ers in a temperature of seventy-four de
grees, and, on the rare occasions in win
ter when the thermometer falls to sev
enty degrees, he is blue with cold and
fclmost incapacitated for work. No
doubt he is warm enough in his hut at
night, with every shutter closed and
every chink and cranny stuffed with
rags, but nature avenges herself for
this exclusion of her purifying oxygen
by colds and coughs. The negro has
quack remedies and balsams by the
dozen for these, but All The Year
Round says they do. not save him f tom
the tubercle that soon forms in his
lungs and eats his life away.
After all, he is a little missed; he has
had a short life and pleasant one. His
relatives will feel a pride in covering
themselves with crape, of color almost
as black as their own complexions, for
crape is "de rigueur" among the ncgress
es of Harbadoes. He will probably
leave after him six or seven children,
mostly illegitimate, since the black la
dies have strong objections to the bond
of matrimony. Hut here th question
of pounds, shillings and pence does not
intrude itself as it does at home. It
costs so little to bring up a black baby
that there is really no reason whatever
for its parents to consider its future.
When it grows up, an hour's work or so
a day will keep it in food and clothes.
So, in the streets of Bridgetown, tb
happy little black imps swarm like flies,
and the island has the densest popula
tion per square mile of any place in the
known world that is, if what they say
about Chinese statistics be true.
MAMMOTHS OF SIBERIA.
Froaen When They Died, Their Doues
Now Cover the Vutl Plains.
In his book on "The Mammoth and
the Flood," Mr. Iloworth advances s
new theory with regard to the remain!
of mammoths and other large animals
in the soil of Siberia. All over thii
great plain, wherever the ground is
frozen hard, are found mammoths and
other animals preserved very fresh, sc
that the wolves and hears can feed upon
their remains.
These mammoths have been found
from the eastern border clear to the
Obi river. They have been found undei
conditions which make it certain thai
they could not have lived unless the sur
roundings and climate bad, at the time
they existed, been entirely different
from the present conditions. The re
mains of the plants on which they feed
are also found, and southern contempo
rary shells are discovered with the re
mains, pointing to climatic condition!
which no longer exist.
Mr. Iloworth believes that this pla
teau is one of the most recent feature!
in the known physical geography of the
world, and that its rapid elevation
caused the tremendous change of cli
mate which has enabled the bodies o)
great beasts to be preserved intact at
we find them, lie says that unlesi
these animals had been frozen immedi
ately after they died, anil remained
frozen to this day, they would certain
ly have decayed and disappeared. A
single Siberian slimmer snn would have
destroyed them completely. It is known
that further east the bones of great an
imals have been found seventeen thou
sand feet alxive the sea under condi
tions which Falconer declared to be ab
solutely incompatible with their mod
of life.
The Compass Plant. . .
On the western prairie is found what
is called the compass plant, which is of
great value to travelers. The lonn
leaves at the base of its stem are placed,
not flat, as in plants generally, but in
a vertical position, and present their
edges north and south. The peculiar
propensity of the plant is attributed tc
fact that both surfaces of its leaves dis
play an equal receptivity for ligM
(whereas the upper surfaces of the
leaves of most plants are more sensi
tive to light than the lower); the leaves
thus assume a vertical position, and
point north and south. Travelers on
dark nights are said to feel the edges of
the leaves to ascertain the point of th
compass.