CANAL IS 2,500 YEARS OLD. A NEGRO AND STEAMBOAT.
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At Least the Corinthian Was Under
Biver Man's Beason for Believing
Colored Man Good Roustabout
Superior to Whites.
Contemplation as Long
Ago as That.
LOVE DIES.
Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox says there
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when "the thrill goes out of the hand
clasp and the kiss at times, and it is then
that husband and wife may be susceptible
to other magnetic personalities." The rea-f.-ir
this condition of affairs is often the
fault of the husband, but how often is it
not due to the wife's nervousness ana lrn
taniiitv due to some trouble with the or
gans peculiarly feminine the wife under
such circumstances teeis langum aua spir
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PILES OF TOY TRUMPETS.
Tbe Oreat Variety Manufactured
Now-a-days for the Holi
day Trade.
"Among the many articles now
produced in celluloid," said a tor
dealer to a New York Bun man,
"are children's toy trumpets.
"Toy trumpets of celluloid are
made in a score or more of styles,
including the familiar straight
trumjets and truznpets fashioned
like French horns.
"You didn't know there were so
many styles of toy trumpets, al
together? You thought a toy
trumpet was just 11 toy trumpet'?
"Why,, toy trumpets, including
those of brass, and those of tin
and taking into account the dif
ferent sizes and shapes and man
ner of finish and of ornamenta
tion, in which they are turned out,
are made in 500 styles.
"You see a small boy walking
along the street Mowing a penny
trumpet the day after Christmas
and you think you've seen all there
is to be seen in toy trumpets.
But if you were to look through
the stork of a big importer of toys
you would find when you came to
where the toy trumpet sample
were displayed more toy trumpets
than you had ever dreamed of, lit
erally hundreds of them; and of
all these toy trumpets no two are
alike.
"You see, the toy trumpet is an
article of universal sale. At a cer
tain aire in his life every child
must have a toy trumpet, and so
the number of them sold every
year is enormous. The toy manu
facturers try, of course, as hard
to produce novelties and attract
ive goods in this line a in othr
lines, for the toy tnmj. t trade is
something worth cultivating.
"And now, as you have seen,
there has been added to the ma
terial of which this ancient toy is
made the peculiarly modern ma
terial of celluloid, making the as
sortment in which these noise
makers are produced more varied
now than ever. Oh. ves, there's
something in toy trumpets."
"Speaking of canals," said the
engineer who had been talking
about Panama, "a very interest
ing canal, and one not much heard
of, is that connected with the gulf
of Corinth and the gulf of Aegina
in Creece.
"It's some older than any we
have in the western hemisphere,
also, for IVriander. tyrant of
Corinth, proposed to cut through
the isthmus as long asro as 600
years before Christ. Superstition
stopped him, however.
"Julius Caesar and Caligula
took it up again when Rome had
hold of Greece, but it was too
much for them. Then came Nero
and he went at it with vigor, but
the work stopped when he died.
"Others kept pounding away
at it for the next several hundred
years, but it was not until 1881
that real work of the 2sero en
ergy was put upon it. Then Gen.
Turr, aide-de-camp to Victor Em
manuel of Italy, organized 'a com
pany and worked on till the raon
ey gave out in 1890, the chief ob
stacle being some kind of flint
which dynamite couldn't break.
"About ? 10,000,000 was spent
up to 1800, and then Mr. Syngro
took hold, organized a new com
pany, with $905,000 working cap
ital, and finished the job in 1893.
It is only about four miles long
but it is 69 feet wide at the but
torn, about 80 feet wide at water
line, 26 feet and three inches
deep in water, and it is cut nearlj
all the way through solid rock.
rising at some points for 269 feet
above the canal.
"It is like a canyon, and ships do
not take kindly to it, the entrance
being bad, a strong wind blowing
through it as through a great air
shaft, and there is at times a
strong reverse current.
"It is an interesting trip
through the canal, and it saves 123
miles of very rough water and 20
hours of time; but so far skippers
prefer to go through the jieninsula
rather than through the car
though with some changes wTCMs
will be made it is believed
canal will become of general nse
as soon as a few ships begin to use
it and remove the prejudice now
existing against it."
"The suggestion came out of St.
Louis the other day that white
labor had replaced the negro on
the wharf and that after long
service the black roustabout was
about to enter upon the decline of
his sway," said an old river man,
according to the New Orleans
Times-Democrat. "All of which,
I may add, I accept with a grain of
salt, as the saying goes. Some
how I can never think of the suc
cessful and really valuable rousta
bout as anything but a black man.
"The negro seems to have been
born to the calling. He is, as a
rule, fond of the steamboat, and
naturally takes to steamboat
work. He has always hovered
around the river. Of course, you
will find negroes back in the hills
and scattered around in the higher
altitudes, but the vast majority
jf them you will find quartered
in the lowlands of the country, and
on the rivers, where he can hear
the flutter of steamboat wheels,
rhere is one other fact to be men
tioned in connection with the ne
gro's peculiar fitness for steam-
boating.
"Did you ever hear the steam
boat mate talking to the 'rous-
ters' say, for instance, when the
boat was a little late in pulling
ut and during the busy season?
Ilast not, eh? Well, there is some
thing in store for you, something
und and forceful, and something
that will force you to run the
tramut of the emotions. The point
is that the negro is stimulated
md urged on to quicker work by
this kind of talk. Profanity is an
?ssential in the mate's calling,
rhe negro needs it. I was just
wondering if the white man would
ever get used to it. Maybe so, but
I have my doubts about it."
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Queen Mary 'a Harp.
The harp of Mary, Queen of
Scots, has been bought by the So
ciety of Antiquaries of Scotland
for $4,500.
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SCOURGE Of THE AMAZON.
Dread Moequltoea Render People
Along the Or eat Hirer miser
able at All Times.
It ! not a pleasure to live in the wild
regions along the banks of the River
Amazon. The Indians of that region
ill suffer martyrdom from the mos
juitoes. Nobody In eren the worst
mosquito regions of the United State
can imagine what the mosquitoes of
the Amazon region are like. They
actually drive the Indians, hardened
as they are, from their villages at
times. The people drag their women
and children Into woods and uplands
on such occasions, fleeing in headlong
terror, and they do not venture back
to their homes until daylight.
Smudges and other similar means
for fighting the pest are of no use in
the Amazon country when the mosqui
toes sally forth for a "night out."
They appear then in such hordes that
the masses foroe themselves through
smoke and even fire.
WRhio a day or two it will b pos
sible for a patient in the Methodit
hospital in Philadelphia to talk from
their beds with relatives or friends
ou-tslde of the institution, and to re
ceive message directly from those
who, for various reasons, might be de
barred from calling in person.
This will be accomplished by the in
stallation of a new telephone system
connecting eah building, ward and
priTate room in the hospital. When
the system is in use, a patient whose
condition does not prohibit his par
ticipating the benefit of the scheme
may converse freely with anyone who
is in touch with a telephone, either
in the city or at points hundreds of
miles away.
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and has been made under his per-
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All Counterfeits, Imitations and Just-as-g-ood" are but
Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of
Infants and Children Experience against Experiment
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This effect of the steel band or hood
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Justice In the British possessions cm
Lhe west coast of Africa is peculiar at
times. A writer in a London publication
tells the story of a couple of officials
Brown and Jonea who one night were
cycling home from the club without
lights and were pounced upon by a zeal
ous policeman. Summoned btfere the
districtcommiseloner's court, they found
themselves the only persons competent
to try the case. So Rrown sat upon Jones
and fined him five shillings, adding a
few remarks as to the danger of neglect
ing a salutary regulation. Then Jones
ascended the bench, smarting, and, hav
ing addressed Brown ki terms that
would have fitted a murderer, said that
he was determined to put a stop to such
pernicious practices and imposed a fine
of ten shillings.
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