NAPHTHA LAUNCHES.
PETROLEUM’S RISE.
A TORPEDO SHOOTER’S STORY.
Its Rusincss Possibilities—The Cunning
Boats Are Used Chiefly as Auxiliaries
oi tile Largo Yachts—The Cost of an
Ordinary Twenty-five-Footer Per Hour.
DECOLl rE DRESS
4 Well Known Won i Condemns It in
Very Pointei language.
Tlio Things He Thought of During a
Flight Through the Air.
RAPID GROWTH
THE REMARKABLE
OF THIS NOVEL CRAFT.
THE
PITILESS PARENTS.
A CITY IN MINIATURE.
NEAR AND FAR.
The Curious and Remarkably Perfect At the Little End of Nowhere lived a single
Manufacture of a Retired Merchant.
little man;
CHILDREN MALTREATED BY CRUEL
STORY OF THE DISCOVERY AND
Alois Peteler, of New Dorp, S. L, a He had nobody for company but a little black
t anyhow as we
tan;
It
is
a
fact,
glosjj
Not every day does one meet with a
MOTHERS AND FATHERS.
former resident of the city of Heidel There and
GROWTH OF THE OIL FIELDS.
was not much to do there, as perhaps
men
have
never
may, that decent v
1
man who has been blown seventy-fivo
feet through the air and lived to tell of it,
but. such a man is John McCleary, who
lives in a comfortable home in Green
point with his wife and two children,
tnd drives a custom house truck down
town for a living. He was at lunch
near by when one of the steam-heating
explosions at the corner of Broadway I
and Fulton street took place, and so was
a reporter. The atmosphere was con-
flucive to explosive story telling, and
McCleary told of his experience to an
interested group, and produced a number
of newspaper clippings &. verify the ex
traordinary occurrence. One of them
was from the Eldred (Penn.) Eagle, and
it called McCleary the hero of the nitro
glycerine explosion at Haymaker, Pa.,
in 1880, and said that every stitch of
clothes had been stripped from his body
during his flight of seventy-five feet
through the air.
McCleary explained that he was what
is known as a torpedo shooter. In de
scribing his sensations he said: “When
the explosion took place I was probably
twenty feet from the stuff. I saw a
blinding flash as if the world had sud
denly taken fire. I knew that I made an
attempt to run from the derrick; I felt
that I had maybe a minute to live, and
I remember resolving to occupy that
minute in running. All at once it seemed
to me as though in the attempt I had
taken a fearful leap, and that I was going
down—down as one in a dream. I knew
intuitively that the explosion had taken
place, but I had not heard the report,
6trange to say. Everything looked blue,
and I began to wonder if the explosion
had killed me and if I was dead. I cal
culated how many others were dead. I
could hear their widows crying and I
witnessed their funerals. I suppose it
took me ten seconds to be thrown to
where I was found, but it seemed to be
ten years, and I had time to think of a
thousand different things.
“Finally I lost consciousness, and that
was when I struck the ground, I sup
pose. I was badly broken up, and finally
gave up ‘shooting’ wells for good and
came to New York. No, now that I
realize the great risk, the hazardous life,
the almost daily danger of death, I would
not go back to it again for a farm.”—
New York Times.
yhe Land on Which the First Well W m
Found Was Traded for a Cow—Many
Men Were Rained Before Fortunes Were
Made—Names of Some Early Wells.
dressed so indecently i our country and
our century as they o in fashionable
life today.
journal
Would that some j ^rprising
J
might take the morai
tuis sub
ject as a substitute
prize baby com-
petitions. We sfioyd
throw
down the gauntlet’10 the women of
America: “Defend
immoralities!
Speak up for yourself311 ^on can!” I
do not believe that tv° reputable women
in the land would dF® Publicly to de
fend the styles of
wblch now
disgrace our sex. we teme has more
than come for such aProtest against this
abomination as will
" omen to the
dust for shame. W11 3s t(? be sald?
Enter any fashionaff draYlng. room
and
look
yourselfl®
’ iaffies-thiffii
Think
of for
iff you
hig^om
berg, Germany, has built a perfect
you will suppose.
Some Horrible Instruments of Torture. “pocket edition” of the old German berg, For as he had no neighbors, he had neither
friends nor foes.
Cases of a Startling Nature Brought to in which he was born and raised. With
numerous
photographs,
drawings
and
And
so he fell to wondering, and wondered
Light by the Pennsylvania Society for
night and day:
plans of Heidelberg, aided by a thorough
the Protection of Children.
knowledge of his subject, Mr. Peteler “I wonder why the people live so very farj
away!
It hardly seems possible that a man began the foundation of his little city, They must find it inconvenient, 1 should think
—extremely so!
with the figure of an athlete and the and now, sitting on his front porch, he
strength of a Samson would deliberately can overlook the roofs of this town of For when they come here, they will have so
very
far to go!’*
Lilliput. and into the courtyard of, the
Naphtha launches appear to be estab
Very few people are cognizant even
lished facts, so far as the purposes for
in western Pennsylvania of the rapidity
which up to the present they have been
of development in the petroleum busi
strike a child of six years full in the face
designed are concerned. Few inven
ness from the time, thirty-seven years
with all the force of his brawny fist, and, great castle, so rich in romance, tradition At last he took a high resolve; he said: “I'll go
tions have been met with deeper preju
ago, when it was known as Seneca oil.
see
as
if to make it further deplorable, the and folklore. Every detail of the original Why and
dice against them and with quicker ac
Active operations began in 1858, when'
those misguided people live so far away
city
is
reproduced
with
the
fidelity
of
poor,
defenseless
little
creature,
his
own
from me!
ceptance at the sama time. At first
Col. Drake, of New Haven, was em
offspring. But such brutes exist, and the photographer. From the balcony it Perhaps it is their ignorance, and I can set
everybody was afraid that they ,would
ployed to sink an artesian well for Bis
them straight
is
easy
to
imagine
that
it
is
the
real
this
case
is
considered
a
mild
one
in
the
explode, for naphtha in its various uses
sell & Eveleth, who had leased the Titus
grow so very old that it will be
annals of pitiless deeds that come under city, only dwarfed by a distance of a Before too they
lias been on record as a terrible destroyer
ville oil springs in 1854 from Brewer,
late!“
few
miles.
the
notice
of
the
Pennsylvania
Society
Watson
&
Co.,
paying
them
$5,000
for
a
in cases of misapplication or improper
Looking over the battlements of the So he walked and walked and walked and
for the Protection of Children from
ninety-nine year lease.
treatment. The method, however, by
walked until he found a city.
miniature
houses one can see the turbu And to
Cruelty.
A few years before the land nad been
which naphtha is made to serve as a
the people he expressed his wonder-,
lent
waters
of
the
Neckar
hurrying
past
At
the
society
’
s
new
home
Mr.
Crew,
I
ment and pity.
fuel precludes any possibility of explo
traded to a man named Chase for a cow.
to
join
the
Rhine.
The
little
city
is
He
was
completely thunderstruck when some
the enthusiastic secretary and prime
At first Bissell & Eveleth had trenches of it!
sion. That, at least, is what the in
.
one chanced to say,
made
to
endure.
There
are
no
make
mover
in
all
the
good
work
done,
in
a
In
the
most
dec^
clty
ln
our
coun
-
'
dug,
which
filled
with
water
and
oil,
ventor and the manufacturers say, and
“ 'Tis you, my worthy little friend, who live so
far away!“
and this was pumped into vats. The try a lady repress sating what may be conversation yesterday unfolded experi shifts, no glue, pasteboard or carpet
experience thus far has confirmed their
tacks
—
everything
is
stone,
cement,
ences
such
as
would
appear
to
belong
to
one
of
the
“
best
”
well drilled by Drake struck oil at a deservedly called?
statement. That the yachting public
He went home pondering deeply: he said: “It
gravel,
brass
and
iron.
The
buildings
the
times
when
torture
was
a
recognized
depth of G9| feet. It September it families in the st: jte, herself a middle
generally has accepted this is evidenced
cannot be!
gloving matron, the mode of punishment for old and young, are upon a plateau of stonework, elevat That person is insane—'tis they that live so
pumped forty barrels a day, which sold aged, queenly, homj
by the fact that nearly 600 naphtha
far from me!
husband, the Some of the cases would put to blush ed from the ground four or five feet.
at 50 cents a gallon. It began to hurt wife of an affecti pnate
launches are now in use, and that man
’
But I’ll be patient with them, and perhaps
the coal oil distilleries which made oil mother of grown ' ions and daughters, even the most cruel practices of those The houses vary from one to five and a
ufacturers are crowded with orders
they'll learn, some day.
half feet in height, the tall towers run
from' shale and cannel coal.
months in advance.
wears her dress—I my pen shrinks olden days, and yet they are occurring ning up from seven to ten feet. Mr. That such a distance from my home must
this
high
bred
lady
|
daily
here
in
Philadelphia,
and
the
needs be far away!“
Operations spread down Oil creek, and from writing what
The inventor of the naphtha motor is
Peteler has reproduced with the greatest
—Margaret Vandegrift in St. Nicholas.
in December, 1859, a well was struck at does. This case, W ,jich
Mr. August W. Ofeldt. The launches
L- represents scores ' victims one and all. are children. To ■fidelity over 100 busts of the electoral
“'Knee',
because
the
'
the
parents
who
regard
the
treasures
in
the Buchanan farm, near Rouseville, but of others, is of imp«;
made under his invention, wherein
nc<
Styles in Wooden Legs«
of her ■ their homes as the "most priceless boon governors, which are used in decorating
it was a small
_ “ *• Harper states offender herself is s® unconscious
naphtha is the exclusive motive mar
™co
The demand for willow wood for
the
fronts
of
the
palaces.
Even
the
that
heaven
ever
bestowed.
’
a
nd
whose
that
the
first
crude
oil
delivers*
jn
o
ther
respects
terial, are not now in his control, for he
offense, and so
burg was from the Albion well, on the aLc\
«I ?ncealed even’ thought is for the care and com coats-of-arms and quarterings over the artificial legs has grown immensely
sold his inventor’s interest in the patent.
ttle^ones, this society pecu entrances are plainly cut. The old man in recent years. The funny men on
Allegheny
river,,
owned
by
Phillips,
Frew
th. fort
dishonoru.
Mr. Ofeldt was born in Sweden about
'
takes pleasure in showing visitors a the stage talk glibly of cork legs, but
ty- liarly appeals,
& Co, This well made fifty barrels a right, no ras
fifty years ago, and he gained, his scien
.How a mother’s’* heart Will bleedrif fac-simile of the famous’Heidelberg tun. light willow limbs are more popular.
day. The oil sold at 30 cents a gallon, The ivornan is otES
nmnaculate.
tific and mechanical education there.
with the provision that the barrels be. £ How explain this etincal enigma? ; Are through accident or disease a little soiT - It is really 36 feet long and 25 high. English makers claim that the best
He came to this country twenty years
returned. The machinery, supplies and our ladies morally insane, or mentally? or daughter must fendure the pangs of The little model is 12 inches in length willow in the world is to be found
ago. It was while he was working with
men necessary to drill the well were Do they know what they are doing? And suffering, and if punishment must be in and about 8 inches high. In another along the banks of the small streams
gasoline that the idea of utilizing naphtha
shipped in the old canal packet Crystal if not, why not? How shall we charac- flicted it falls more heavily on the part of the grounds the sea water is let in their southern counties, and there
as a motive agent occurred to him. That
terize the too low corsage with some parents than on the little offenders. Yet in by pipes, and forms an artificial lake
Palace.
was ten years ago, and for five years he
are mothers, and fathers, too, who in which the tide rises and falls. Upon seems some ground for their conten
WHEN WELLS MULTIPLIED.
nothing for a sleeve? The lower bodice there
"
studied and experimented before he con
somehow
seem to have been given the a promontory which juts into the lake tion, although an immense quantity
In
1860
the
petroleum
trade
began
to
with
no
sleeve
at
all?
Nudity
covered
by
structed an engine that satisfied him.
children,
but
the love that comes with stands a model of the beautiful castle of of good willow wood is cut every
be
recognized
as
a
business
worth
some
transparency?
And
what
is
known
as
the
That engine is still in use in New York
thing more than curious mention, but V-back? They are below excuse, as they the first weak cry has never found a Hohen-Schwangen. Its towers are nearly year in this country. Statisticians
waters, and generally appears at events
its magnitude'had not impressed itself, are beyond explanation. What moral place in their hearts. To them they are 10 feet high, and with its cluster of say that over 1,000,000 English speak
where naphtha launches are likely to be.
ing men wear or walk on wooden
for the people rated production of crude mania blunts the sensibilities that ought a burden, a constant source of annoy buildings is picturesque and beautiful.
It is set up in a small black boat that
Mr. Peteler is a retired confectioner, legs, and this accounts for the enor
in gallons and not in barrels. There to fix the standards of a nation? What ance. and only fit to slave and toil, and
looks as if it might once have been a
were no oil exchanges to rouse public at dementia deters the “ever womanly” as their reward receive cuffs and kicks, with millions of dollars, thousands of mous trade in limbs of this kind.
rowboat,,and its name, painted in con
which he has put into his miniature
tention. Some big wells made their ap from “leading us on,” at- least so far that scars and bruises.
The old fashioned stump with an
spicuous white-letters, is “The Original
pearance, but not many. The Hamil- the simplest instinct of. feminine modesty
A CHAMBER OF HORRORS.
Heidelberg.—St. Louis Republic
iron tip on it is seldom seen now. It
No. l.V
In their new building the society has
ton-McClintock, two miles above Oil —that which covers nakedness—may
was a great success in its day, and
When J. A. Bostwick, Clement Gould,
It Lacked Life.
City, started off at sixty gallons a min- keep stroke with the moral development secured a long felt want. Supplied v(ith
John J. Amory, Edward V. Cary, and
with reasonable care and luck lasted
Almost every little community
ute, and was worth 22 cents a gallon at of the age? Let it be said that gay every convenience and many comforts it
others with capital took up the invention,
close on to a lifetime; but it was too
must
appear
a
veritable
haven
of
refuge
contains
at
least
one
person,
usually
the
wells.
The
Economites
began
to
•women always have dressed improperly.
they began m.f.fi.ig boats specially de
awkward and conspicuous, not to say
rake
in
shekels
at
Tidioute,
and
refineries
to
the
little
waifs
that
are
rescued
from
a .woman, who appears to take a
What of it? Is that any reason why they
signed Rir the naphtha engine, and even
began to spring up in various places. always should?—Elizabeth Stuart Phelps the streets or out of the clutches of the morbid pleasure in Attending fune noisy, to be popular. The modern
tually they acquired Mr. Ofeldt’s interest.
No Evidence to the Contrary.
Crude sold in this city at 60 cents a gal in Forum.
inhuman monsters they call father and rals. She goes whether or not she wooden leg is more costly, but it is
The inventor says that there is still room
A young Catholic priest, shortly after lon.
mother;
was intimate or even acquainted much more comfortable, and many
for improvement in the engine, and that beginning his labors in his first parish,
Women’s Ways.
a man who is compelled to walk by
Royalty
to
land
owners,
now
ranging
In
a
room
set
apart
for
the
purpose
is
he proposes some day to bring out one received a visit from one of the older from one-eighth to one-fourth delivered
with the deceased person. It is
Women have their own ways of keep
that will open a new era in pleasure navi fathers. Anxious to show the progress in pipe lines, then ranged from one- ing their consciences clear and their a collection of straps, whips, bludgeons, enough for her that there is to be a the aid of one can give pointers in
grace and deportment to others more
gation, and possibly lead the way to the he had made he called up a class in cate fourth to three-fourths, and the oil was minds freed from all uncharitableness. knives and chains, an asortment worthy funeral
of a chamber of horrors, yet each one
blessed by fortune.—St. Louis Globe-
use of naphtha in larger marine enter chism for questioning.
Such
a
woman
lives
in
a
little
Con
One
woman
when
she
encounters
a
dis
furnished' to the land owner in iron
has been taken from the hands of some
prises.
“Biddy Maloney,” he began, “stand hooped barrels, which ranged in price agreeable person goes off into a corner fiend in human form, and bears a history necticut town. She ^s known to all Democrat.
At present naphtha launches are used up.”
from $2.50 to $3.25 each. This arrange and' counts off on her fingers the agree that seems almost improbable in this her neighbors as Aunt Hetty. In
She Wore a Liberty Gown.
almost exclusively as yachts, though
A slip of a girl, with blue eyes and ment bankrupted some operators in 1862,’ able people she knows. This she does city of homes. A heavy chain, thirty most respects she is like a good many
Among the young girls who gathered
there are ferries here and there' over brown freckles, arose in her place.
when the price of crude dropped to 10 not in effect, but literally as she might inches long and weighing from four to other harmless and well meaning
Celia Thaxter, the authoress, at
which passengers are carried on them,
“What, Biddy,” said the young father, cents a barrel, and they allowed many tell her beads, and she keeps on doing it six pounds, With links strong enough to people, but those who know her well about
the seashore was one who wore the most
and some of the larger steam yachts “is meant by the howly state of matri thousands of barrels to flow into Oil until the image of the disagreeable one
secure some wild beast, was taken from 6ay that she counts that week as lost extraordinary gowns. They were from
have abandoned steam-launches for mony?”
is effaced.
around the neck of a frail little boy, in which there has been no funeral the famous shop in London kept by Lib
naphtha boats as tenders. People who' “Shure,” began Biddy glibly, “ ’tis a creek and down the Allegheny river. As
Another woman in the presence of an whose case had been reported to the to attend.
Ingalls might say, their irides
erty, and were of ihe soft India silk, of
are not familiar with them are often as-. sayson of tormint upon which the soul Senator
dreams of wealth were speedily unusually annoying circumstance was society by outsiders, who heard the
She had just returned from one the subdued, neutral tint, so much affected
tonished to see a trim little boat, with a inters to fit it fer the blissid state to cent
observed
to
unhook
and
rehook
her
dissipated. In September three-quarters
child's cries at the torture inflicted.
other day looking rather downcast, by high art damoisels of the lily and the
bright brass funnel in the extreme stern, come.”
of the oil in barrels furnished by the gown. The rehooking miscarried sev-
His little sister, frightened at the ter when a neighbor met her.
asphodel type.
scooting speedily about, emitting a rapid,
“Och!” cried the questioner, angry and operators was paid for the lease of a lot eral times to her great impatience, She rible
punishment, attempted to. escape
The clinging diaphonous drapery was
sputtering cough, but showing no sign mortified: “to the foot of the class wid seventy-five feet front at Titusville.
“
Been
to
the
funeral.
Aunt
Hetty?
”
was asked why then had she unbooked by crawling under the table. The in
also
a concoction of Liberty, who not
whatever of smoke or cinders. The fun ye, Biddy Maloney. It’s the m’aning of
“Yes, I went.”
In 1861 the greatest wells ever struck it. Her answer was that hooks and eyes human father ceased from beating the
only imports the silks, but has them
nel is apparently all there is to the en purgatory ye’re afther givin'.”
“
She
wasn
’
t
a
particular
friend
of
were
the
most
disagreeable
things
ever
were brought in on Oil creek. One in
made up into such frocks as the “Maid
gine. boiler or coal bin, if the term may
But here the old priest interposed with Butler county, on the Marshall farm, invented. One always began to hook boy and turned his .attention to the little yours, was she?”
of Astotal,” or, further back, a Greek
be used.
a quizzical smile. “Not too fast, me some years ago made a larger flow at the them in the middle, and the chances girl. He dragged her out by the arm,
“Oh, no; I never spoke to her in my Hebe might have worn. One of the sea
then holding her by the ankles he
If one could look down at the bottom young brother," he said restrainingly—■
but it did not hold out long. The were ten to one th)it you linked the thumped her head up and down on the life.”
shore habitues returned from the Isle of
of the boat, beside the base of the fun “not. too fast. Fer aught you and I outset,
wrong pair. Buhflus you did not know
“I thought she might be a friend, Shoals and was catechized regarding the
nel. one would see several small wheels know to thé conthrary the gurrul may breaking out of the rebellion and conse ^mtilyouwCTeskjjfcthfbugh and one floor until the child became unconscious.
quent
panic
prostrated
petroleum
b
usi-
When the officers of the society arrived • you looked so sad oyer it.”
high art girl.
in a complex arrangement, a gauge, a be perfectly right.”—Harper’s Magazine.
ness in-the early part of the year, but a §TOT'’came out fi^l'ii'!*So with that, at the house it was discovered that the
“Well, truth is, I couldn’t seem to
“I think her dresses are horrid,” she
pump handle, and on a bar running
and
the
strain
upon
your
fingers,
you
revival of the industry took place dur
child's wrists and ankles were broken enjoy it, somehow. I don’t know just chanced to comment.
across the bout four cocks. That is all
Feminine Qualities in Great Men.
ing the summer as the prospect began to were naturally exasperated, and as they and she had to be at once removed to what the trouble was, but there
“How can you think so?” queried the
one could make out of it unless one were
Furthermore, I believe that in the
stay at home. “Why, they are Liberty
an expert mechanic, and all one would highest minds a certain intermixture of grow for increased uses for oil. In were only hooks and eyes it didn’t much the hospital.
didn't
seem
to
be
no
life
to
it
”
—
AN INHUMAN MOTHER.
gowns.”
need to know about it in order to run this feminine element of intuition with August there were 800 wells between matter what you said. With the chance
Youth’s Companion.
Another case in which a woman and
“Well,” retorted the girl, “if that is
the boat, except that the supply tank of the masculine element of pure reason is Oil City and Titusville. In September to free your mind other, disagreeable
things
seemed
almost
pleasant.
‘Liberty’ give me death."—Exchange.
a mother figures is one of the most
naphtha is under the forward deck, con always present. Great wits jump; that the Phillips No. 2, on the Tarr farm, was
Entertainment by Telephone«
It will be observed that it occurred to heartless instances on record. A long,
nected by pipes with the gauge, pump is to say, they are essentially intuitive. struck. Its first day’s production was
In this country the Long Distance
A Philanthropic Duchess.
and cocks. The celebrated inducement They see at a glance what plodders taike 4,000 barrels. The Empire was also flow neither of these women, who were both cruel knjfe elicited the history, and for i Telephone company makes a special
religious,
to
fall
on
their
knees
and
ask
ing
2,500
a
day.
The
oil
was
so
plenty
Themost conspicuous toilet at the last
cool, hard hearted indifference it has no feature of giving concerts and enter
set forth by another concern might be years and years to arrive at. There is in
modified by the naphtha launch manu all genius, however virile, a certain un that wells were plugged, when they in the old fashioned way to be delivered equal. A woman with her three chil- | tainments by telephone to large gath state ball at Buckingham palace was
worn by the duchess of Leinster. It wa3
facturers into “You turn the knob and dercurrent of the best feminine charac could be thus restrained, but many from anger and ill feeling. This was dren. living in one of the worst sections
we do the rest.” The amateur heeds teristics. I am thinking now not merely thousands of barrels were allowed to run not •because they distrusted the efficacy down town, reveled in all sorts of vice erings in towns wheijd the long dis her night to wear diamonds, and sho
only to know what will be the effect of of the Raphael^, the Shelleys and the into the creek, and the Allegheny river of this method, but simply because they and wickedness and regarded her little tance service is introduced for the fairly glittered in them. She wore dia
turning each cock and when to pump in Mendelssohns, but also even of the New was covered with oil for many miles be hadn’t at the moment, and seldom had, ones as obstacles standing in her way. I I first time. These entertainments are mond epaulets, a diamond corselet, coils
the time or place. Also, both being sci Of a very excitable and ungovernable generally conducted from the head of lightly mounted diamonds among the
order to be captain, crew, stoker, en tons, the Gladstones and the Edisons. low Franklin.
entific minded the one knew that in disposition at all times, she was, when office in New York, from which office laces of her wondrous gown, a diamond
GROWTH IN 1862.
gineer and pilot of his launch, for steer They have in them something of the
The Woodford well on the Tarr farm thought as in physics two beings cannot under the influence of drink, a veritable í some of the numbers in the pro tiara, diamond bracelets, a diamond
ing also may be done at the engine, so womanly, though not of the womanish.
was struck in December and made 3,000 occupy the same space at the same time, fury, and had frequently beaten them gramme will be provided. Perhaps necklace and more diamond brooches
simple is the task of looking after it.
In one word, the man of genius is com
It takes five minutes to get Up ‘ ‘steam,” prehensively human. As he always re barrels a day. This well ruined the and so pried out one. thought with an with heavy clubs, bludgeons of wood in the New York office there will be a and buckles than the dazzled beholder
to use another misnomer, on a naphtha sults from a convergence of many fine Phillips No. 2, and in turn, was ruined. other; while the other, by simply trans with protruding nails, and, in fact, any string band, a quartet,¿a cornet soloist could count. And yet this woman does
launch. Then all that is necessary is to stocks upon a single point, so also, it The water was not cased off in those muting her angry force from an incor thing she could lay her hands on, until and an elocutionist. The artistic en not live for dress alone. It is related to
work the pump a stroke or two, apply a seems to me, he often results from a days, and when the tubing was drawn poreal offense to hooks and eyes, had their bodies and faces were in the most deavors of these performers will be her credit that at Maynooth, Ireland,
she has established an industrial school
match to an opening in the surface of union or convergence of male and female •at the Phillips the Woodford began flow the relief of its expenditure without its fearful condition.
varied by switching on a line to a the
ing b. s. The same trouble developed at sin.—New York Evening Sun.
Not content with this, she turned ater where some popular comic opera for women and girls, where the pupils
the funnel, turn a cock, and let her go. qualities.—Grant Allen in Forum.
that time on the upper end of the Blood
are taught various industries. The
them out in the streets one bitter win- |
From that time the launch will go con
Such a Romantic, Affair.
farm. It is said the boring of the Wood
ter’s day insufficiently clad, and too ter- j is being performed, or to the hou'se of duchess herself at times teaches a class
tinuously for fifty hours. Then the sup
Heart Failare, So Called.
She was a convalescent from la grippe, ror stricken to attempt to return. Neigh- i some favorite singer who has prom in the institution, and the verdict is
ply will be exhausted, and the forward
“Heart failure” is interpreted at the ford well was instigated by pure hog-
gery.
with
intent
to
ruin
ihe
Phillips
and
as she leaned back in the depths of hors saw them and warned her that ised . to sing
- a song at a certain hour. In that she ought to cover herself with
tank will have to be replenished. The health office as meaning heart disease.
engine may be stopped at any instant by Dr. McShane, assistant health commis No. 2. The attempt was successful, but her easy chair she played With the roses unless she speedily gave them shelter ttiis manner a large audience at some diamonds if she wants to.—Exchange.
shutting off the supply of naphtha, sioner, who is acting health commission it didn’t pay the owners of the Wood in her lap, which had been brought her complaint would be made against her. I town 200 or 300 miles from New York
A Sort of Digital Depression.
which is equivalent to turning^rat a gas er in the absence of Dr. Rohe, says that ford. The Coquette was also one of the by the first caller she had been able to Owing to this threat she took them in, is treated to a fin de sieclo variety efi-
Did you ever notice when -a man
jet, and the* engineer may go home .at heart failure is no disease itself, but a old time spouters of great renown. She receive, and smiled over some stories he but only to vent redoubled fury on the ' tertainment that only electricity can
smites his thumb with a hammer while
once, with no cleaning up to do and no result of a disease, and simply means was owned by Dr. Egbert, who now does i was telling her of a summer at—well, already half dead children. That night' provide. —Electricity.
putting down a carpet under wifely
’ll only say at a certain fashionable one little chap, worn out with the trials
fires to rake down.
“died for want of breath.” Heart dis business at 96 Fourth avenue, this city. we
supervision and criticism how quickly
The year 1862 was more memorable watering place on Narragansett bay. of his lot and exhausted by lack of food
Ants Like Human Beings.
These launches are from eighteen to ease itself, the doctor says, is an indefi
he thrusts the bruised and throbbing
fifty-three feet long. The draught varies nite term as well as heart failure, for for trade agitation regarding oil than “One of the beauties whom I used to see and ill treatment, fell into a sleep only
It has been ascertained beyond a member into hi? ready mouth? People
from eighteen to thirty-eight inches. Six there are many kinds of disease of the for large wells. The market in this at the casino,” said he, “was a young to be rudely awakened by heavy blows doubt that in Texas and South Amer
to ten persons may be carried safely in heart. There are no medical works country broke down this year, though a married belle about twenty-three or because he breathed too loud. The final ica, as well as in southern Europe, think it is because the application is
the smallest boats. The most popular which give heart failure as the cause of gallon of refined cost in this city as much four, 1 should think, and her husband act which brought her before the magis India and Africa, there are ants soothing. But no; it is an involuntary
style of launch is the twenty-five-footer, death, as the term simply means a fail as a barrel of crude does today. The was about sixty, and it was great fun trate was that of stabbing her little girl . which not only have a military or- movement, same as winking. The man
in which there is room for twenty passen ure of the vital powers from whatever cost of hauling was immense, and pipe watching them. There was such a good because she asked for a piece of sugar. | ' ganizatioty and wage systematic war cannot help it. Nature knows what the
man would be apt to say under the cir
story, bona fide truth it was, too, about
On being brought up for examination
gers. It costs fifteen cents an hour for. may be the cause. The term heart fail line projects began to take shape.
The teamsters and their friends in the their engagement.. He called at her she expressed no regret for what she fare, but also keep slaves and carry cumstances, and so she has provided
the power necessary to run a boat of this ure is used of late years because the d«x:-
on agricultural pursuits. Nineteen him with a stopper and has ordained
size.
tors have nothing else to say, and in oil country were a powerful party, and home one evening and offered his heart, had done, but said she hoped the child
A curious use to which naphtha, en many instances it is assigned as a cause they opposed the pipe line proposition, hand and fortune in correct style. worJd die, as it would only take fifteen species of ante with these habits that whenever he hits his thumb hard
gines have been put recently is as auxil
and sojne lines were destroyed in places Pretty Miss Bud said she ‘must ask
to bury her, and she would be have been already discovered .and enough to hurt—and it doesn’t take very
iaries to sailboats. There are five or six when a physician has not made a proper and there Were riots. Congress proposed mamma^s^^^^^5^jÓ»^pedflsp«tairs to dollars
through-with
“the brat.”—Philadelphia their modes of life more or less fully much to nearly kill. a man when he is
diagnosis
of
a
case.
—
Baltimore
Sun.
yachts on the sound, yawl rigged, that;
to lay a tax of five cents a gallon on mamma, who foOT her that every girl Times.
i described. Indeed, nearly all the in- doing something he doesn’t want to—by
nave naphtha engines and screw wheels.
did-not. get_s’<ich a chance as that, and of
crude,
more
than
twice
what
it
sells
for
Cities
of
Russia.
stitutions and gradations of culture a sort of interlocking system the thumb
They are so constructed that the wheel
Not tlio Spoiling.
In 1885 there were throughout the now, and ten cents a gallon on refined, course she was to Accept him.
does not impede the progress of the boat,
and civilization which the human flies into his mouth and stops him up. so
“Down she went, picturing tl'.i ardent A solid young fellow who had been writ race has passed through, and of that he can’t say anything. Some men
and the power may be turned on, when immense empire of Russia, with a total and meetings of producers were held to
once started, at an instant's notice. The population of 108,787,235, only thirty-six protest. Titusville was then the center lover awaiting her return with anxious, tag a letter with a pencil got up from his which we find survivals among the whom you and 1 know should be pro*
vided with an extra thumb which they
utility of this device is apparent in case towns containing more than 50,000 in for the producers. The cost of sending throbbing heart and found the old gen Beat in the Erie depot for a stroll around,
of calms, when the engine will send the habitants, and only thirteen with more a barrel of oil to New York was $7.45, tleman comfortably asleep in the big leaving his unfinished letter on the' seat. different tribes of men, exist also might carry about in their hand all the
boat along at six miles an hour. The than 100,000. The latter, in descending and steamboats charged $2 a barrel for gest armchair, while an occasional snore A man came in, took the seat to wait for among ante.—Atlantic Monthly.
time it wasn’t in active use. It would
his train and in an absent way picked up
engine is also used in putting about, this
be a great thing, wouldn't it?—Robert
bringing it from Oil City to Pittsburg. attested to the depth of his slumbers.”
maneuver being accomplished with re order, were: St. Petersburg (861,303), Crude ranged in price this year from 10 “I hope she didn’t wake the. poor old the missive. Ho held it, in his hands when
The Right Color of a Pipe.
J. Burdette in Ladies' Home Journal.
the young man returned and said:
markable celerity when the power is ap Moscow (753,469), Warsaw (454,298),
Colonel Wagstaff, of New York
plied. The speed of ordinary naphtha Odessa (240,000), Kiza (176,332), Khar- cents in January to $2.25 per barrel in thing up,” said the convalescent, when “That’s my letter, mister.”
An Anecdote of Washington.
city, has a valuable pipe on whose
launches is about seven miles an hour khov (171,426), Kiev (165,561), Kazan December at wells. Some people were she got her breath again after her laugh. “Well, you can have it," was the reply.
It was while plunging through the
bowl is carved the head of an Ara
with a four-horse power engine. Some (139,015), Saratov (122,829), Tashkend ruined and others made colossal fortunes “Oh, yes she did. ; Catch her losing that “Did you read it?”
launches with six-horse power engines (121,410), Kichenev (120,074), Lodz (113,- thereby, but the Standard hadn’t been chancel She woMs him up and told him “N—o. That is, I glanced over a few bian. The colonel has used the ut “leaden rain and iron hail,” at the battle
have made a recorded speed of ten stat 413) and Vilna (102,845).—Exchange.
born, and the surplus was only 100,000 it was all right ana. she’d have him.!’— lines of it, and noticed that hardly a word most care in coloring the pipe, and of Monmouth that Washington’s horse
was spelled correctly.”
ute miles an hour.. The speed might be
bands in October.—Pittsburg Dispatch. Boston Saturday Gazette.
stopped smoking it as soon as it had was shot under him. The chief coolly
“It- is a letter to my girl.”
increased by putting in engines of greater
Thunderstorms.
acquired the beautiful chestnut stepped from the prostrate charger, and
“
Yes.
”
Ono of Few.
horse power, but this would add so con
As
a
result
of
experiment
and
re
brown so highly prized by the having received from the hands of an
“
Girl
I
’
m
going
to
marry.
”
Bjonee—Do you see that man aeross
siderably to the expense that the manu
French Fancies.
orderly a fresh horse, ready
search,
Mr.
William
Marriott,
of
the
“
Yes.
”
smoker. Curiously enough the color attendant
the street? I tell you he is a public bene
facturers have not as yet deemed it ad
They recognize American celebrities
caparisoned, he turned to the sable body
“And I don’t care a cocked hat about the
visable to construct such boats.—New English Meterological society, Claims factor.
in Paris after a truly French fashion. spelling. What I want to impress on that is a very natural one bo far as an servant who followed him close through
Bjenks—How so?
York Sun.
that thunderstorns are not of an
is concerneu.
concerned. yoionei
Colonel w
Wagstaff
invent something at which noth girl is luv, 1—u—v, and lots of it, for there’s Arab is
agsuui all dangers, and without the presence of
Bjones—He keeps still when he hasn’t ¡ They
erratic nature, as generally supposed.
ing
imaginable
could
persuade
the
ce
sixty
acres
of
land
and
a
sawmill
behind
IS
a
well
known
collector
of
pipes, Of whose ebon visage a picture of Wash
At the Paris exposition a medal was He describes them as consisting of anything to say.—Somerville Journal.
lebrity to look twice, and then the; her.”—New York Sun.
which he has about fifty.—Collector. ington and his family would not be
awarded The Teacher, a journal first is-‘ “atmospheric whirls’’ following laws
call it by his name and are happy
complete, and quietly said*
Explained.
sued three years ago by Miss Mary R..
For instance, thfe Buffalo necklet and
Au Invocation.
Mrs. Gibbs’ Annual Charity.
“Here, Billy, take the saddle from
Hargrove, a teacher in the public schools^ similar to those of other cyclonic dis “I gave McWatty notice to vacate my bracelet, named lor Hon. William F.
Jack
—
May
I
ask
you
to
smile
upon
the
Mrs. T. R. Gibbs, a resident of New
that dead horse and look out for it.”
and then 22 years of age. This young’ turbances. —London Public Opinion. premises four months ago, and he hasn’t Cody, are narrow bands of gold,
jockey
with
the
red
cap?
Ilabie* Have No Passion,
port and a lover of little people, gives a
gone yet,” exclaimed an angry landlord.
And then he dashed away to direct the
publisher lias not only ceased to teach,I
Jessie—Why?
“It’s no wonder he requires so long to whence dependí fringes of crystals July fete every year to which every
Babies don’t cry for the sake of
planting of Oswald’s battery.
but has transferred the business of her’
Jack
—
Because
that
smile
of
Vours
is
the
vaguely
and
sweptly
called
“
Mexican
move,” replied Gazlay; “he’s a chess
small boy and girl in the city is wel
“Golly!” exclaimed old Billy, as he
magazine to other hands, having her' crying, or to make others uncomfort player.”—Harper’s Bazar.
i stones” by the Parisians. Then there come. At the last fete the poor little most winning thing I know of, and I’ve
time wholly employed in editorial duties. able. They know no such ■ thing as
is the Edison trunk, a fat little box ones were entertained in a pink and big money on that horse.—Pittsburg Bul related the incident to one of the family
on his return home, “who ebber «lid see
letin.
________ .______
I passibn, and hence cannot <ny from1
with a carved cover strapped down
A Poor Man.
such a man as Mas’r Washington? Who’d
Kind Treatment.
anger. A baby cannot swear, scold,! “What does your husband do now?” ia- with ribbons, and; with big rosettes set ! white tent big enough to cover a circus,
A good book and a good woman are
“How did the wind treat you?” asked a pout or vent his displeasure by box-' quired the parson.
on wheresoever a rosette will cling, < at which many society ladies assisted. excellent things for those who know how ebber ’a' thought ob dat saddle but him?
flower of the field as a leaf fluttered to the 1 ing some one’s ears, kicking the dog' I “Well,” answered the heart broken wife, and filled with sugar plums, about as There were music, recitations and games,
to appreciate their value. There are I 1 tell ye, nu*;’r remembers eberyt’ing—
ground.
in any such antics which ' “¥
3
a doze? ^erent papers and ‘ suggestive of Edison as a palm tree and each youngster received a small men, however, who judge of both from eb’ryt’ing down to de bery littlest,”—
“Oh, very well. Just blew me off,” an ! 1 or indulging
< flag, a big seed cake, a box of ice cream
° 6 ,
tries to make money in their guessing con- i would be.—Boston transcript.
swered the leaf.-—New York Herald.
so reheve an adult’s pent up feelings. toatB
■ ; New York Ledger.
' and a box of candies.—Newport Letter. th% beauty of their covering. _