THK N E W BE R G GR A PH IC
A MAN OF M EMORY.
THE NAVAL “ SW EATBOX.”
Rev. Themes Throlkold, Who Knew the An Old Tima Method of Torturo That
Whole Bible by Heart.
Lincoln Aboliohod.
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Cigar Factory Readers.
Of the marty examples of prodi­
gious memories that nave been re­
corded from time to time/ none per­
haps have been so remarkable as thp
case of the Kev. Thomas Threlkeld,
who was a Presbyterian minister at
Rochdale, England, for twenty-
eight years and died there in April,
1800, at the age of sixty-seven.
Threlkeld’* memory first attract­
ed attention when he attended the
grammar school at Daventry, where
he began to make a close study of
the Bible. When a passage was re­
cited to him he could immediately
give it, chapter and verse, and, on
the other hand, if a chapter and
verse were given he could at onoe
repeat the passage.
Both at Daventry and Warrington,
where he went to finish his educa­
tion, his fellow students delighted
in putting his memory to the test,
and never once was it known to be
at fault.
In later years, says Mr. Frank
Hird in. “ Lancashire Stories,”
“Threlkeld was looked upon as a
living concordance to the Bible in
Rochdale and the neighborhood and
was constantly asked the most puz­
zling questions by his brother min­
isters, sometimes actually for the
information, but generally for mere
amusement. He was never known
to be wrong.”
Threlkeld’s powers of memory,
however, were not solely concerned
with theology. He was also a lin­
guist ■ and knew nine or ten lan­
guages, while dates were a passion
with him, no m atter how unimpor­
tant. His knowledge of historical
dates, of chronology, heraldry and
genealogy, was encyclopedic, and
one of his favorite amusements was
to go through the succession in the
episcopal sees and trace the pedi­
grees of families.
“In only one direction,” continues
Mr. Hird, “would this wonderful
memory seem to have been of direct
service. Threlkeld was one of the
managers of a fund for the benefit
of the widows of Presbyterian min­
isters and consequently was fre­
quently appealed to on circum­
stances connected with the lives of
dead ministers, and such was the
opinion of his memory th at if the
bdoks had been consulted and had
reported differently the error would
have been imputed to the secretary
and not to Mr. T.'s memory. This
was deemed infallible.”
P atents
Scientific American.
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tramp steam er Alum Chine in the low­
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er harbor, off Fort Carroll, exploded
instantly killing 30 men, w&unding
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and maiming three-score more, some
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Parfuma For tha Blind.
What Ha Fait Lika.
I t was the first time he had sung
in an Episcopal choir, and he felt
strangely out of place in the vest­
ments he wore. The other choris­
ters looked comfortable enough, but
the new one was sure he would trip
on the skirts of his cassock when
he went up the chancel steps, and
he knew that if he did not stop per­
spiring his clean linen cotta would
be sadly mussed. The opening
prayer had been intoned by the rec­
tor, and the singers were in line
waiting for the introduction to the
processional to be played, when one
of the basses whispered in the new
man’s ear:
“Yon’re a tenor, aren’t you ?”
“I suppose so,” he replied, “but I
feel like a twospot.”—New York
Times.
Workers in Havana cigar factories
are aristocrats of labor. Without a
mold or binder or any pattern to
j follow, each hand turns out fifty,
: seventy-five or 100 cigars a day, all
1 identical in shape, size and weight.
is prepared to transfer
Working by the piece and highly
paid, the cigarmaker insists on be­
your goods anywhere,
ing amused. His amusement takes
any place any time.
the form of being read to aloud. At
every cigar factory in Havana a
Prices Reasonable
reader, engaged and paid by the
hands themselves^ occupies a pulpit
Office phone Black 100, or
in the center of the room for some
hours every day, regaling his audi­
residence ( Black 123
phones Red 79
ence with newspapers and novels.
Early British Money.
Call up ( Red 80
Some of these readers receive as
Small ehaiffl was more common
much as $50 a week. — Chicago in Saxon days than at later periods
News.
in English history, for, while the
Normans coined nothing but silver,
Halping the Musician.
the
earlier Saxons were accustomed
OVER 68 YEARS*
At a political meeting an Irish­ to the use of brass in addition. The
E X P ER IEN C E
man watched closely the trombone number of things—not always met­
player in the band. Presently the als—of which British coins have
man laid down his instrument and been made is surprising. Julius
went out for awhile. Paddy in­ Caesar is said to have coined leather
vestigated and promptly pulled the money in Britain. James II. tried
horn to pieces.
TRADE M A RK S
pewter and gun metal, and some
The player returned. ‘‘Who’s antiquaries have thought that pieces
D esigns
C opyrights A c .
meddled mit my drombone ?” he of coal were once used as money.
lio n m ay
A nyone te n d in g a sk e tch an d description
her an
quickly asc e rta in o n r opinion free w hethe
roared.
inv ention i t _ probably /p p a aten
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“Oi did,” said Paddy. “Here
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specia l notice, w ith o u t ch arg e. In th e
pull it apart, an’ Oi did it in wan braise (live coal) at the present day.
m innt!”—Argonaut.
The Typewriter.
lltn e lr a te d w e ek ly . I ju w e e t d r .
A I h a andsom
n d s o m e ely
ly tlla
e v o la
la llo
tio n o f a u a t y •<
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Inventors
were at work over fifty
n a r r ¡ ; f o u a r m o o n n th
th * . $ L S o ld by a ll n o w ed anlora.
8uoca«ded.
years ago endeavoring to make •
Gaddie— You flon’t seem to have typewriter that could answer the
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made a very satisfactory impression purposes for which the machines are
on Borem.
now used, but it was not until 1878
Cleverly— I tried very hard to that the device was so improved
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as to be made practicable. There
Gaddie— Well, hq told me you
E N O S E L L I S ! didn’t impress him as the man he were many machines constructed for
mechanical writing which were in
would care to associate with very
the main similar in principle to
General Contracting
much.
those in present use—that is, in the
Cleverly—Fine. * That's very sat­ nse of keys for manipulating mov­
I S e w e r & T ile W o r k ;
isfactory. It’s the verv impression
able type, but the difficulty waa in
a n d D eep W e lls
I wanted to make.—Philadelphia
retting the machines to work satis­
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On one of Lincoln’s trips to For­
tress Monroe on the steamer H a rt­
ford in 1SU3 his attention waB di-
rocteU to a narrow door, bound with
iron, the use .of which he was anx­
ious to learn.
“ What is this?” he asked.
“Oh, that is the ‘sweatbox,' waa
the reply. “I t is used for refractory
and insubordinate seamen. A man
in there is subjected to steam heat
and has very little ventilation. I t
generally brings him to terms very
quickly.”
Lincoln’s curiosity was aroused.
“This,” he said to himself, “is treat
ment to which thousands of Ameri
can seamen are probably subjected
every year. Let me try for myself
and see what it really is."
Taking off his hat, for he was sev­
eral inches over six feet in height,
he entered the inclosure, which he
found to be a little more than three
feet in length or width. He gave
orders that at a signal from himself
the door should be immediately
opened. I t was then closed and the
steam turned on.
He had been there hardly three
mi ñutes before the signal was given.
President Lincoln had experienced
enough of what was then regarded
as necessary punishment for Ameri­
can seamen. There was very little
ventilation, and the short exposure
to the Hot and humid air had almost
suffocated him.
Turning , to Secretary Welles of
the navy department the president
ordered that no such inclosure as
th e . “sweatbox” should ever after
that be allowed on any vessel flying
the American flag.
I t w«s not an .hour afterjthia or­
der had been given before every
sailor on every ship in Hampton
roads had heard of it. The effect
was most remarkable on the older
sailors, many of whom had them­
selves experienced the punishment
of the sweatbox. Some of them
wept from joy.
But the good results of this act
of President Lincoln were not con­
fined to the American navy. Great
Britain, France, Germany and other
European countries heard that the
sweatbox had been abolished in
America as inhuman. One and all
of these nations in turn fell • into
line, and today the sweatbox is not
to be found on any vessel flying the
flag of a civilized nation through­
out the world.—Washington Star.
Wall Proosrvsd.
"I told Miss Knox today,” said
he. “that the only word that prop­
erly described you was ‘peach.’ ”
"Indeed?" replied Miss Bute. ”1
suppose she said something ‘real
nice,’ as usual ?”
“ Well, she said: 1 suppose that
is the proper word. At any rats,
she looks well preserved.'”—Phila­
delphia Press.
NOVELS WITHOUT ENDINGS.
CHASE & LINTOJM
GRAVEL COMPANY
•lx Famous Storias to Whloh Doath
Wrote th* Word “ Fini*.’*
There are at^out six famous nov-
sis in the English language which
have only a beginning. Like the
grandfather’s clock, “they stop
short never to go again,” W au se
the author, when he had got so far,
laid down his pen and died before
he could take it up again.
The most famous of these is, of
course, "The Mystery of Edwin
'Drood,” which some critics think
would have been Dickena’ master­
piece had he lived to finish it. But
there it stands,, unfinished, and the
brain that conceived it carried to
the grave the solution of the mys­
tery, and a mystery it remains to
this day, in spite of countless efforts
to solve it.
Robert Louis Stevenson also left
an unfinished novel upon which he
was engaged when death ended his
labors. The novel was entitled “St.
Ives,” but happily there waa more
to go upon than in the case of “Ed­
win Drood,” and it is generally ad­
mitted that Sir Quiller-Couch made
one of the best attempts on record
to finish another man’s novel. He
proved quite the ideal man for the
job-
While everybody knows that
Dickens left a novel unfinished, few
know that his great rival, Thack­
eray, did the same thing. The nov­
elist had just started the Comhill
Magazine, of which the most promi­
nent feature was a novel from the
editor’s pen entitled “Denis Duval,”
which he was writing mouth by
month as the installment fell due.
Suddenly he died, and the serial
was but half finished. Happily, how­
ever, Ifaeijareful Thackeray had left
full notes for the development of
the story, which was finished by
Frederick Greenwood.
Who has not read “Pride and
Prejudice” and “Sense and Sensi­
bility,” the productions of a quiet,
consumptive little woman named
Jane Austen? The white scourge
carried her off when she was in the
midst of another masterpiece, en­
titled “The Watsons,” which was
found in her desk after her death.
What the world lost when Char­
lotte Bronte died, after a brief year
of married life, who can say? It
certainly missed a nameless novel
which the gifted author of “Jane
Eyre” had started. But so little
had she done of it that none of her
successors in fiction has had the te­
merity to attem pt even to finish it,
and it is likely ever to remain an in­
teresting fragment.
In this respect it may be compar­
ed to another unfinished work, Ed­
gar Allan Poe’s weird story, “The
Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym.”
Who could finish that story? It is
doubtful whether Poe himself could,
for he lived eleven years after it
was first published in its frag­
mentary condition. — Philadelphia
Ledger.
“A characteristic common to most
presents given to the blind is per­
fumery,” said an asylum worker
“They fairly reek with it. The in­
mates of the home I visit received
holiday presents by the wholesale.
They were of every description and
came from diverse quarters. Some
had been made by the donors, some
had been bought, but all smelled of
the sachet bag. People who would
shrink from a scent bag attached to
Luck In Diaguioa.
a present for anybody else literally
“Don’t
tell me after this,” said
>our perfume on gifts to the sight-
Mrs.
Medford
as she put her paper
ess. Their intention is most kindly.
aside,
“that
there’s
nothing in luck.”
Somehow they fancy that what the
,
“Who’s
been
having
luck now?”
eye lacks the nose must make up
her husband asked.
for, and on goes the perfume.—
The Caldwells. Burglars broke
New York Times.
into their house last night.”
Oh! I thought from the way
Going Too Far.
you
spoke somebody had been hav­
A well known publisher had just
ing
a
streak of good luck.”
rejected a novel. The mortified
“I
t
was good luck. It gave Mrs.
author called to see the unfeeling
Caldwell a chance to tell the re­
man at his office about it.
“I think you are making a grave porter that more than $500 worth
mistake.” the author said. “This of silver was taken. They never
book of mine is sensational. And had $50 worth of silver in their
don’t you know, sir, th at all the best lives.”—Chicago Record-Herald.
sellers have been sensational of
Troublaa of an Amataur.
late?”
I
thought
you had gone to rais­
“That may be true,” the publish­
ing
bees,”
said
the man from the
er answered coolly, “but surely it
city.
“I
don’t
see
any sign of them
is going too far when you so murder
around here.”
the English tongue as to make three
“I had half a dozen colonies of
or four sensations on every page.”
the
finest bees I could get,” answer­
— Washington Star.
ed the suburbanite, “and a whole
library on bee raising, but they
Har Turn.
swarmed
one day, and while I was
All day two-year-old Priscilla had
looking
through
my books to find
been trying to get one or the other
out
what
was
the
proper
thing to do
parent to take an active part in her
play, says Harper’s Magazine, only when bees swarmed the blamed
to be told again and again, "Fa­ things flew away, and I ’ve never
seen ’em since.”—Chicago Tribune.
ther’s busy,” or “Mother's busy.”
Accordingly she resigned herself
Man Ara Not Vain.
to solitary occupation with her
They were talking of the vanity
Noah's ark, and when toward 5
o’clock her mother manifested an of women and one of the few ladies
interest in the baby by inviting her present undertook a defense. "Of
upstairs to tyed Priscilla shook her course,” she said, "I admit that wo­
head and declared, with a mischie­ men are vain and men are not.
vous twinkle, “Stairs busy, night­ Why,” she added, with a glance
around, “the necktie of the hand­
gown busy.”
somest man in the room is even now
up the back of his collar.” And
Wanted tha Whole Thing.
A minister in a Highland parish then she smiled, for every man
found on arriving at church one resent had put his hand up be-
ind his neck!
Snnday that only one worshiper had
braved the elements. Mounting the
Har Raoitatlon.
pulpit stairs, the minister looked
‘T
u
t
some
spirit into it, child,”
down on John, who was more noted
shouted
the
father,
who is an actor.
for his gruff outspokenness than
Make some gestures. What is she
his piety, and said:
reciting, anyhow?” he demanded of
"Will I give von the sermon in lie wife.
Gaelic or in English P”
"She won’t need any gestures
"Gi's baith,” gruffly answered
with
this,” retorted the latter. "She
Jo h n ; “ye're weel paid for't.*—
is
reciting
the multiplication table.”
Dundee Advertiser.
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