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Unique Featirc i i.f '. Fi-norul Ob
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Bow Celtic Mounii " . rjM the De:d
Chatting uiul L. ur: Tt-Ill;i(r Arouad
the Corpse Tint I. iiMlltous llp
and Siivk ..itlu.
The oustom ef "wakinrr" the dead in
Ireland, Hays the London Spectator,
though by no means cxist inff in its
anoient glory and vigor, still obtains in
a modified and shorn form in many
oountry district. Jiripf.y A 'w.ribed, it
amounts to this thr.t tbo neighbors of
the deceased assemble and spend th'
night in tho room wiih the oorpsc.
chatting and telling ntor'.Pt'.; in th".
meanwhile, of cr:i'p, t:i!;'.:ij: "a hla:;t
av the pipe," and a drop :t "the crav
thure" to sustain tlinn during their
vigil. The conversation on saoh oc
casions naturally turrif., to a la.-g-e ex
tent, to the virtues of tho departed,
which are duly cmbollihed with all tho
natural eloquence of the speakers . Ko
one unfamiliar with Ireland oan at all
realize what a scer.o a "wal:o" pr esents'
and we propose to givo a sort of speci
men of the conversation which prevail?
on such an occasion.
"An ould follyer" is generally in a
seat of honor, closo by tho head of the
bed; she has been a nurse, perhaps, in
the family, and as she rocks hei: aged
body backward and forward she pour
forth with a mellifluous Southern
brogue, in a sad, wailing tone, a long
pieoe of delightfully discursive domes
tio history. "Ah, wisha, wishii. lave
me alone, the maslher was a grand man:
Thade Regan was the grand man; he
milked np to forty cows." (This implies
that he was a dairy-farmer whose stock
amounted to that number.) "Whore it's
meself remlmbers the day av his wed
din'; Lard Edward was at hotab at tho
time by the samo token, an' us he wint
by our cabin I heerd me mother to say:
'By gar, there's th i lard up!' , An! uhure
enough he was, for he was on this way to
Tim Hoolahan's, who was min iing thir
ty hogs for him. 'Turn thim c ut, Tim,
says the lard, 'turn thim out,' says he,
'for I want to choose out two av thim,'
says he. 'To bo shure, and why not,
your honor's glory, mo lard?' says Tim;
and, whin ho had thim out, the lard
makes chice av wan widout a tail, an' a
anoder widout an ear An' thl.n he say.s
to Tim, says he: 'Have thim two bastet
kilt,' says he, 'an' give thim to the
people that's comin' to Thade Eegan.'s
weddin',' says he, 'for their dinner,' says
he. Ah, wisha, deeling, bu1; the lard
was mighty fond av poor Thade; may
God be wid thim bothl An' don't I well
remimber the time that poor Thade, rest
his sowl, bought a farm near the red
bog an' how I attinded at the d inner that
same day."
At this juncture, another speaker,
thinking he should have an innings, of
fers the nurse a drink; and while she is
occupied with it he observes: "Wisha,
wenoch, it was the poor maiither that
wasfandav his marning drop; many's
the time he'd take mo wid him into Judy
Molan's little public, an' he'd say:
'Judy,' he'd say, 'give Nicholas some
thing to warm him, and take the could
out av his stumick this frasthy morning.'
An' by and by he'd say: 'Nicholas, man,
ron'tyehave a glass?' an' I 'd tell him
I had wan; but he'd say: 'Don't tell me;
you had not;' an' av coorse I 'd say: 'It
isn't for the likes av me to oontradict a
gintleman like your honor,' an' Judy
would All it up again." ,t
A driver cf a hoarse who was present
would add reflections whicli seemed to
him suitable to the occasion: "I tell ye's
all that I have been a driviing a hearse
man an' boy these twinty years an' more.
1 have druv' rich an' poor; fin' whin the
wind was an me back, the smell av them
both was just alike; an' I didn't like it
nather. And whin I comes across a man
who has two or three hundred pounds,
an' sees all his capers an' antics, I says
to meself: 'What agladiathuryeare;but
wait, mo boy, until I have ye in the
hearse, an' then yo'll be qu iet an' aisy
enough.' Shure I wanst dru-v a jedge to
the graveyard; an' I saw the yalla clay
shoveled down on him as wehl as another
an' he rotting wid money. God save
as!" This observation called forth a
general exclamation: "Well, Ned, ye're
i terror." The old nurse "a charred
tnd wrinkled piece of womanhood"
leing now refreshed, would ta ce up her
jarable again, and offer hersn. tff-box, or
ather her snutf, to every one present,
.'t was done in this way: holdin t the box
.n her right baud, she poured out some
)f its contents on tho palm of her left.
Whether you used the snuff r not, it
vas considered unlucky and uncivil to
efuse to take a pinch of it.
Among the lower classes "wal es" are
itill very prevalent; beggars hav 3 their
wn "wakes," and even little cl ildren
ire "waked." A wako is quite s n ex
pensive ceremony to a poor, struj. gling
vorking-man or tradesman; but ht feels
;hat be would loss caste without hold
jig it, and he has not tho moral cm rage
a break through the custom. Thi ex
penses of a wake in the "strong" fr.rm
.ng class are a very serious item, indeed.
The Roman Catholic clergy nowadays
generally or universally discourag 9 this
justom; but it is so deeply rootea that
ts eradication must be a question of
iime.
Interesting Exhibits.
Philadelphia will draw on Indepen
dence hall for some of the exhibits
which are to represent the state at the
world's fair. It has been decided by
the committee in charge that the art
icles that were used by the continental
congress, and which are now in the
east room of the hall, including the
dealt, chairs and pictures of the sign
ers of the declaration of independence,
shall be sent to Chicago. The commit
tee also wants to borrow the statue of
William Penn, in order to set it up in
front of the state building. Citizens oi
Philadelphia are offering some of their
pictures for the art gallery. Among
these are Giaeomelli's fine painting,
"ine festival of the Brides of Venice."
and the mosaic picture known as "The
Discovery of the Remains of St. Mar
cus. It contains over one million
pieces, and seven years were spent in
the composition.
ui.ii.j-1. 1 riiOXiJUIiA FIl Y.
A Picture of Mont Blano Taken
from a Distance of Eight Miles.
Tha Marvelous Outcome of Four Months'
Experimenting of a Noted Swiss
scientist A Delicate and Dif
ficult Process.
A truly marvelous development m
camera work is what has been termed
telephotography, whereby pictures of
distant objects can be made with the
same clearness and sharpness of detail
as if they were close at hand. But to
secure a successful picture by this
process many difficulties have usu
ally to be contended with, and accord
ing to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat it
is comparatively seldom that the most
favorable conditions occur. The main
difficulty is the presence in the air of
minute particles of dust. In large
towns, and even in their neighbor
hood, the air is filled with an incon
ceivable quantity of such particles,
and the result is a grayness of the at
mosphere, which, on the photographic
negative, blurs the outline of remote
objects. Where these conditions ob
tain it is possible to procure a good
proof only in the morning after a noc
turnal shower has cleared the air.
Such is the nbeorlient power of dusty
air that all attempts at taking long
distance photographs in the vicinity
of Paris, where much experiment
ing was done, resulted unsatisfac
torily beyond a range of thirty-two
hundred yards, even when the occasion
was apparently propitious. In the
neighborhood of the sea and of the
mountains, where the air is much
purer, photographs can be made at
much greater distances; but here a
single obstacle presents itself in the
unequal density of the various strata
of air. Especially in hot weather, cer
tain beds of air, heated by the rays of
the sun, will be actuated by an up
ward movement and this imparts a
trembling appearance to the land
scape. The presence of rivers or
marshes, or land much exposed to the
solar rays, is likely to give rise to ver
tical currents of vapor of great absorp
tive power. Again the humid vapors
of the atmosphere clothe far distance
with a bluish haze, which confuses the
lines of tiie picture nnd obscures the
effects of light und shade. This is rem
edied by employing orthochromatic
lenses and a yellow glass to neutralize
the blue tint. The camera must be
absolutely still, the mostminute vibra
tion being multiplied indefinitely and
causing hopeless confusion in the neg
ative. It will thus be seen that telephotog
raphy is both a difficult and a deli
cate process. A most remarkable illus
tration of its possibilities has been
achieved by M. Kois'onnas. of Geneva,
in a photograph of Mont Blanc, taken
at a distance of eight and one-half
miles. The proof has been published
by M. Fourtier, who also shows, in
order to suggest more strongly the
wonderful nature of the achievement,
the size the picture would be if
taken by an ordinary object glass.
The latter measures nine and one
sixteenth inches by three-eighths
inches, and the telephotograph is five
and three-fourths inches by three and
three-fourth inches. The lines of the
massive, far-off mountain stand out in
bold relief, and the details of the in
terviewing country are distinctly
shown. Such a picture, however, is
not made without almost unlimited
pains and perseverance. It cost M.
Boissounas four months of experi
menting before he could determine on
the best place and the best time at
which to take it. For the benefit of
those who may have to tread wearily
over the same ground, he tells the
condition that obtained at the event
ful moment. It was six o'clock in the
evening, about twenty minutes before
the sun sank beliind the mountains.
From experience he found that this
was the most favorable moment to ob
tain a linrmonioufl proof, and the dis
tinctness of outline and details in the
clouds was greatly increased from the
fact that they were tinged first with a
pale yellow and then with orange.
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now about 870,000,000, is all the time
diminishing. They are mostly in the
hands of small holders. With the reg
istered bonds it is quite different.
They are rich men's property par ex
cellence. At present about i'JOO,000,000
worth of them are held by pVivate in
dividuals. Of this great sum 887,000,
000, or not far from one-half,
are owned by 1,000 persons.
whose holdings average 880,000. The
names of these fortunate individuals
are kept secret by the treasury.
Some of the fortunes possessed in this
shape are enormous. Some of the
greatest belong to the Vanderbilts.
Old William H. Vanderbilt had 845,000,
000 in registered bonds at one time.
New Granada ink Plant.
r There is a plant in New Granadi
known as the "ink plant," the juice o
which serves, without the least prepara
tion, as ink. The writing at first appearf
red, but in a few hours assumes a deep
black hue. Several sheets of manuscript
written with this natural ink, becamr
soaked with sea water on their journey
to Europe, but when dried the writing
was found to be still perfectly clear.
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"A FRIDAY BAUtL.
When the English Fishmonger Begins to
Bawl Language Lovers Take a Day Oft".
There is considerable slang and good
oatured charting among the buyers and
sellers in the London Billingsgate, but
une is not overwhelmed by that torrent
of foul language he has been taught to
expect from his associations with the
word. The best time to visit the mar
ket is on Friday morning. The wooden,
barn-looking square where the fish is
sold is crowded soon after six o'clock
with shiny cord jackets and greasy caps.
Everybody comes to Billingsgate in
his worst clothes, and nobody knows
the length of time a coat can be worn
until he has been to a fish sale. Over
the hum of voices are heard the shouts
j of salesmen, who, with white aprons,
peering above the heads of tne moo,
stand on the tables roaring out their
prices. All are bawling together
talciimen and hucksters of provisions,
hardware and newspapers till the
place becomes a perfect Babel of com
petition. St. Winifred's WelL
One of the most copious springs in
Sreat Britain is the famed St. Wini
fred's well, near the town of Holywell,
in Flintshire. The well is an oblong
square, about twelve feet by seven, and
its water, say the people of the district,
lias never been known to freeze. This
latter assertion may be true, as, be
sides containing a fair percentage of
mineral matters that lowers its frees
iug point, the well is inside a beautiful
jhapel, which was erected over it by
Sueen Margaret, the mother of Henry
VII. The water thrown up is not less
than eighty-four hogsheads every min
ute, and the quantity appears to vary
very little either in drought or after the
heaviest rain, showing doubtless that
its primitive sources are numerous and
widely distributed. St. Winifred's' has
been the object of many pilgrimages.
Interesting Experiments."
An uptown man having nothing else
to do thought he would try an experi
ment, t"ys the Philadelphia Record, so
he turned the hands of a clock in his
room the full twenty-four hours of a
lay and found it took, with moderate
movement, one minute of time to ac
complish that task. He then made a
jaleulation of how long it would take
him to turn off the full measure of a
man's life, which, according to the
Scriptures, is "three score years and
ten," and found that it would take sev
enteen and one-half days to turn the
hands of the clock to represent seventy
THE GREAT OCEAN CURRENTS
Singular Facts About These Llttlt
r Understood Streams.
All the superficial parts of the west
ern Atlantic, except the portion of itf
area next the coast of America, are per
vaded by a slow movement which setf
the water toward the poles, says Prof.
N. S. Shaler in Scribner's. This current
is due to the Gulf stream, which, emerg
ing from the tropics as a deep, narrow,
wift moving tide, skirts the southern
coast of the United States, grad uallj
widens like an opened fan, dimini shin'r,
in depth and losing its velocity as i
comes toward the Arctic circle. Al
though the speed of its northward
going is here slight, it has sufficient en
ergy to push back the floe-ice which
may be driven southwardly by the
winds, and thus limit its excursions to
the American shore. Setting out into
the Atlantic from Davis strait there is
I however, a strong stream of Arctic
I water, which, in part, slips under th
Gulf stream tide, and in part flows on
the surface of the sea next the Labra
dor coast. In the southward-setting
current the floe-ice drifts with a speed
of about a mile an hour down the Amer
ican shore until it attains the mouth of
the St. Lawrence. The Labrador cur
rent, as this southward-moving water is
called, would, but for certain accidents
of geography, send this floe-ice much
farther to the southward than it now
does. If Newfoundland and Nova
Scotia should disappear, so that there
I could be a nearly straight shore from
I Greenland to Massachusetts bay, it is
likely that these floes would in large
quantities attain to the coast of New
England, and give to the shore lands of
that part of the continent the subarctic
and inhospitable climate of the islands
of the eastern St. Lawrence. This
shore-current bears few true icebergs
with the floe-ice, for the reason that
these greater ice-islands are formed to
. gether on the Greenland shores, and.
pressed to the eastward by the prevail
ing winds, do not come into that super
facial, shore-skirting. Labrador current.
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THE WESTERN PEDAGOOirii.
We are in receipt of the May Dumber
of our state school paper. It exceed
any of the former numbers ic valua.
Tbe paper tbis month oontaius many
new and valuable features. The illus
trated series on tbe schools of the Btate
is introduced by a paper on tbe Friends
Polytechnic Institute at Salem, Oregon.
These papers oannot fail to be of great
value both to the sohools nu 1 to the
public.
There are also several fine articles
by our beet writers and tbe departments
"Current Evenls,""Saturday Thoughts,"
"Educational News" "The Oracle
Answers, Correspondents," etc, eaoh
oontain much valuable reading for
teachers or parents. The magazine
haB abont 50 pages of matter, well
printed and arranged. We pronounoe
tbe Western Pedagogue the best educa
tional monthly on the eosst.
Everyone of our readers should have
the paper it they are at all interested
in education. No teacher school direc
tor or stndent can get along well with
out it. We will receive eubsoript.ons
at this office. Price only $1.00 a year.
When desired we will send the Western
Pedagogue and Gazette one year to one
address for 83.00. Call and examine
sample oopies. Teaohers, directors and
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G. A. R. NOTICE.
We take tbis opportunity of informing
our subscribers that the new commis
sioner of pensions has been apoointed
He isan old soldier, and we believe
that soldiers and their heirs will re
oeive justice at his hands. We do not
anticipate that there will be any radical
changes in the administration of pension
affairs under the new regime.
We would advise, however, that V. 8,
soldiers, sailors and their heirs, take
steps to make application at once, if
they have not already done so, in order
to seoure the benefit of the early filing
ot their claims in case there should be
any future pension legislation. Buoh
legislation is seldom retroactive. There
fore it is of great importance that ap
plications be filed in tbe department at
the earliest possible date.
If tbe U. S. soldiers, sailors, or their
widows, children or parents desire in
formation iu regard to pension matters,
they should write to the Press Claims
Company, at Washington, D. 0., and
they will prepare and send tbe necessary
application, if they find tbem entitled
under the numerous laws enacted for
their benefit. Address
PKESS CLAIMS COMPANY,
John Weddebbubn, Managing Attor
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tf.
HIS FATHER WAITED. "Wr
Bat He Finally Succeeded 111 Reaching
the Presence of His Son.
The boat was pulled by a couple ot
boys and was headed for the White
Squadron, says the New York Com
mercial Advertiser. It was about the
hour when the gentle gurgle from a
five-gallon milk can, as its contents are
scooped out into pails, resembles the
melody of "The Old Oaken Bucket."
In the sternsheets sat a living picture
of "your Uncle Reuben." The swasb
from his coat tails hid a clean-cut trail
through the blue waters, and his
whiskers were filled with salt.
Swiftly the boat swept by the Chica
go, Newark and Boston, but was almost
swamped by the old man's efforts to
"gee" alongside the Concord.
The marine on duty ordered the boat
to keep away, giving as his authority
the general order that no visitors were
to be allowed aboard. The old man
carefully laid a big piece of tobacco on
the gangway grating and said:
"Young man, you want to make
bee line for that big fellow in the white
panties with a sword on his port quar
ter. You tell him his father is getting
his constitution ruined waiting to see
him, and if there are any fences in the
way I advise you to climb them un
less you want to hear from old New
Hampshire."
In less than fifteen minutes the old
man took possession of the entire ward
room, and the officers were proud of
their guest.
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