0E3ERT8 Of AMERICA.
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U m predicted that d» boring» thrnogp
Khw Htraita ot lk>vcr will reveal U m iwnre,
usive coat bail
Mag um refnee of «C m ! warka, wOm
rom iron and redu«wd to powder,
to be a Tiluabit fntüuvr
MadicaJ «uUKXTty epn be fonnrt for U m
•dry tbat it ■ U m early naer wbo catena»
mama if umtv ba any in U m air
Florida prenuaes to barooM a large pro
car of opium Kixteeo plants will produre
ounce, and an acre at popyne» will yield
$l,0U0 worUkof optum.
Il bas been aacvrtained by careful exoeri
meota conducted by M Xoger that poison»
toae one-fifth of their toxic power when takao
into the ayveem by farting
An instrument called U m autograpbometer
baa lately been dervrd. which, when in uae.
indicates the topography and differences of
level at all plarea over wb»cb it paean
Japanese engineers
to ail opt a ry>-
tern of earthwork defenses protected by an
iron shield one fool id thiekoeas. and extend .
“You'd better grt back to your camp at
mg twenty-five feel each side of the gun. (
once,’’ said the paymaster. “Who pave
In China there are over 4W species of you permission to com* here, anyway?
plants used for food, and in the world jwoba Come now. get out. or I will call the guard
biy ten times that number Sawdust in Swe and have you placed under arrest. Git!” 1
den is used in bread and found digestible
Suiting the . action to the word the
A light, sibaous earth is found in France doughty payma«^«^* arose and proceeded to
——
and Germany, from which are made bricks •‘fire’’ the private.
“Hold on a minfo*; take your hands off!
that will float in water Such bneks are j
I
tell
you
I
mean
I «ay. I b long to
mentioned by Pliny, they were also made in*
the —th Connecticut? an<i I can afford to
Tuscany in the Eighteenth century
pay my regiment^ «f there’s no objection.
A Nuremburg inventqr ha* produced a., Something ought to be .lone, and I'm will
shoe sole cocn^paed of wire net overlaid with
r»oney. My name is
a substance resemblffig India rubber. These ing to advance fl“*
Elias Howe?’.
soles, which cost but half the price of leather,
This gave an entirely new aspect to the’
have been tested in the German army, and case, and PaymaoU*.’ Walker grew quite
found to be twice as durabla
deferential.
The man who stocxi before
A new double pointed nail to the invention him was the famous inventor of the sewing
of an ingenious woman. The points turn in machine He. could pay his regiment all
opposite directions. They are especially use their back pay;; be had the will, and he had
ful for invisible nailing in wood word. It is i the money too. Col. Walker thought an
simply two nails joined firmly, the sides of apology was demanded. The apology,was
the beads being placed-togetber
given and Elias received it with the air of
Professor Schmidt, <rf Gau university, has a man who had but little to forgive.
“Well, colonel.’’ said he.
when this
bit upon the plan of cutting off pieces of liv
ing sponge and planting them in a suitable j trouble is over I want you to step, .dowp to
place in the sea, as if they were willow twigs. New York sometime and see me.”
In this way be fias succeeded, at the end of j The “colonel’’ lived then in Vermont,
three years, in producing 4.000 sponges ai a and when the war was closed he managed
to find himself in New York.
He had
cost of $45 l
started a law office; that is to say, he helped
Dr Worms, of the Paris Academy of Medi
to occupy the office of a few friends of his.
cine, has ascertained that bees, anta and Business was not specially active. One day
wasps show a marked dislike to the new sac
Walker thought he would step in and see
charine. To the human palate there is no whether Elias Howe recalled the misadven
( difference in the taste between it and sugar
ture of the war.
Two years had then
It has been shown, however, that its use dis elapsed. Elias H<?we was there and his
turbs digestion.
memory was good,. They sat down together
Thoughtful of Others.
A physician of Philadelphia analyzed a and talked. Howe was /roy Massachusetts,
Tramp—Can you give me a plies to sleep, black japanned bat band worn by a patient | Walker from Verntfmf." The Howa^Machine
-uffewag from headache, and found it con- I | company had just been organized. Wal
m’am?
Woman—You can sleep in the barn it you rained three grains of one of the feed salts. ker was appointed its attorney. With an
From this case ba concludes that many bead office in every city, town, and hamlet in the
ilka
Tramp—Couldn't you give me a bed in the < aches are often due to the absorption of the civilized world, no wonder the Howe Ma
bouse? rm a heavy sleeper myself, ma'am, lead in the hat band
chine company was the foundation of Wal
and 1 wouldn’t feel right if 1 should keep you
Supervising Inspector Lubbock, of San ker’s fortune.—St. Paul Dispatch.
waiting for breakfast. —The Epoch.
Francisco, having reported to the treasury
A Charming Girl She -Was.
rëpartïhént that petroleum to not safe fuel j
Where It Is Stored.
for large boi 1ère, has been instructed by Sec
“I had a little experience once,’’ said the
“Is there any such thing as law in this retary FaiacMld to withdraw all permits young analytical philosbpher.
“Yjpu don’t seem to have kept it,’’ said
country 1 should like to know?” said an irate heretofore given for its use except in the
individual as he rushed into the prosecuting case of small steam launches.
his friend.
“I had a strange experience once,” he
attorney’s office.
In drilling glass, stick a piece of stiff clay
“You know I'm passionately
“Yes. of course there is,” was the reply.
or putty on the part where you wish to make went on.
fond
of music, I weDt to a musicale in
“ Whereabouts r
the bole. Make a hole in the putty the size
“Just glance through that copy of the Re vou waut the bole, reaching to the glass, of New York some years ago. and after some
vised Statutes over there.”—Merchant Trav course. Into this hole pour a little molten austere classical performance a young,
eler.
lead, when, unless.it to very thick glass, the pretty, blue eyed girl sat down at the piano
piece will immediately drop out.— Trades- and sang. She had a pensive far away,
Calm Advice.
dreamy look in her eyes, and her whole
man.
Enraged Husband-Maria, I can endure
soul seemed to go into the ballad she sang.
Both
In
China
and
Japan
soapstone
has
this existence no longer. I am going to blow
She had one of thé most glorious voices
long been largely
_ _ used for _ protecting struc I ever beard. It touched my nature and I
my brains out!
Wife «calmly)—Don’t attempt it, John. turcs built of soft stone and’ other materials never was eso deeply entranced.
I made
You have never had any success in firing at •»pecially liable to atmospheric influences, it her acquaintance, and by a little deft
has
been
found
that
powdered
soapstone
in
small targets.—Chicago Tribune.
maneuvering I obtained an invitation to
the form of paint has preserved obelisks call upon her. I did so. She was alone to
formed
of
stone
for
hundreds
of
years
which
A Terrible Threat.
receive me.
would, unprotected, have long ago crumbled
“She was a silent, shy, reserved girl, with
’ “Then you absolutely refuse to marry me?” away., For the inside painting of steel and
little to say, but she was perfectly charm
said he.
r
iron ships it is found to be excellent It has ing. We had little conversation before she
“1 do,” wa« the young lady’s flrm reply.
.«Have ft (.ara< Miss Kajones," said the qo inti-fouling quality, but is anti-corrosive. went to the piano and began to sing. She
A writer in The Economiste Français esti sang everything I asked her, and I could
young man. with a dangerous glitter in his
•ye, “consider the matter well I am the nates the total loss to France from the rav not restrain myself from little, tender
She took
publisher of an elite directory that is almost ages of the phylloxera since 1875, when this pressures and loving glances.
scourge of the French vineyards first made them all kindly and even reciprocated
ready for the press.”—Chicago Tribune.
its appearance, at the enormous sum of IQ, I them. It was a case of love at first sight,
«0,000,000 of francs, or about £400,000,000. and I fell yadly into it. She seemed as
A Valuable Instrument.
This estimate is based upon French official
A New York man owns,a piano which cost statistics giving the aggregate area of vine deeply affected, and later, when*I took her
$46.000..4t is not stated what makes it sc yards destroyed in the country at about 2.500, in my arms and pressed my lips to hers,
valuable, but probably it refuses to give »00acres; ahd on the assumption that, in ad our spirits seemed to meet It was very se
I went off in the very seventh
forth a sound when struck before 7 a. m. or iition to the acreage of vines thus utterly de» rious.
after 9 p. m., or when the.neighbors next stroyed, the extent of vineyards more or less heaven of bliss. This was the ideal of my
dreams.
The love of my life had come at
door have the windows open.—Norristown infected with the phylloxera amounts to
last.
I was flattered, too, to win this
Herald.
about 500,000 acres; making thus together thing of beauty at first meeting.
A day
3.000,000 acrea
or two after I met the lady who had intro
The Shiftless Swiss.
duced
me
to
her.
“
What
a
charming
girl
Omaha Councilman (traveling in Europe)
she is!” said I. “Yes,” she said, “she
—What’s them bluffst
CURIOU3 THINGS OF LIFE.
sings charmingly, but isn’t it a pity she’s
Native—Those, sir, are the Alps.
An altogether unprincipled thief in Macon, not quite right in her hea^'”—San Fran
“HumphI They need grading badly.”—
cisco Chronicle.
Ga., stole crape from the door of a bouse.
Omaha World.
William 8herwood, of Baltimore, Md.. will
It is well to remember that too much blu
Trouble In the Neighborhood.
spend one year in prison for stealing a Bible.
ing renders clotbee yellow after a time. In
At Tilton, Ills., there was a man who lived experienced or careless servants think the
out doors under an umbrella all last winter, more bluing in the water the better for the
even when the.thermometer touched 22 degs. wash, and it is a difficult matter to convince
below zero.
them that the clothes will look far better if
A queer flower which grows in Yucatan is Only a small quantity is used.
the manito (little hand) of the guarumo. - It
is in the exact shape qf the human hand,
If. when obliged to be en your feet all
with four fingers, thumb, nails and knuckles day, you change your shoes several times for
all complete.
a fresh pair, you will be astonished bow
Miss Kate Bishop, an actress in Australia, much it will rest the tired feet, for no two
wears a silver bracelet on the left arm night shoes press the foot in the same part.
and day Her only sister locked it there be
Turpentine mixed with carbolic acid and
Visitor (to Mrs. McMolligen. bruised and fore she sailed for America to get married.
battered)—You are not looking very well The ship went down with all hand^ and the ♦ kept in open vessels about the room will, it
is said, greatly lessen the risk of contagion
this morning, Mrs. McMolligen.
key is with the drowned girL
in scarlet fever, diphtheria and kindred dis-
Mrs. McMolligen—No, mum, but hiven
A remarkable case is recited from Michi
rest yer sowl, me leddy, wait till ye say Mrs. gaa Three years ago M iss Hattie Cotton, of
Conn Kelly in the shanty beyant.—Judge.
Constantine, lost her voice and surgical
Nice tablecloths and napkins should not
treatment for its restoration was of no avaiL be allowed to become much soiled, so that
She went to western Iowa and her voice re they will require vigorous rubbing with soap
turned. Going back to Michigan, her voice or in hot water.
weignt of Statesmen.
again failed This experience has been re
Nearly al) of the United Butcs senators pealed three times. Miss Cotton's voice fail
are large men, their average weigh; run Mug mg at home, but coming out strong id low
cloee to 180 pounds. Their entire weight ac
cording to a statistical correepondeat, is
Quite a DlflDerence.
nearly 14,000 pounds.—New York Evening
World.
Citizen (to small boy outside the Polo
grounds)—Are the New Yorks playing ball
Chicken Thief (to detective)—Hens, horri to-day. sonny I
I
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ble shadow, hens I—Boston Commercial.
Small Boy (witheringly)—Naw, dey ain't
playin’ ball. dey jest thinks dey’re playin’
baH.—New York Sun,
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A de*rt b generally considered M a
barren waste of sand; probably on ac-
oouut of our familiarity with dpscriptipna
of the sandy deserts of Egypt.
The
American deeerU, haweuy, are flat mud
plains, the beds of ancient fakes, and are
but seldom covered with drifting sand.
During the dry season, when not a drop
of rain falls on their surfaces for four,
five or even six’months at a time, they be
come dry and hard, and broken in every
direction by intersecting shrinkage cracks.
At such times they bear a striking reeem
bianco to some of the old Roman pave
ments made of small blocks of cream
I colored marble.
When in this condition one may ride
ovoprthem without leaving more than a
* faint impression of the horse’s hoofs on
i their smooth, glossy surfaces. In the
i stillness of night—and no one can appre-
i elate the stillness of a desert until he lias
’ «dept alone with only the boundless plain
about him—the hoof beats of a galloping
! horse ring out as on the pavements of a
city. As the summer's sun dries the
desert mul, the salts that the waters
bring to the surface in solution dke loft
behind, and gradually accumulate until
tlwy are several inches thick, and make
the deserts appear as if covered with
snow. This*illusion is especially marked
when one traverses the deserts by moon
light.
During the long, hot days of sum
mer, when the dome of blue is above
the deserts without a cloud, the strange
delusive mirage transforms the land
scape beyond all recognition, and makes
it appear |oufold more strange and
weird than it is in reality. At such times
bright clear lakes, with rippling surface»
and willow fringed banks, allure the un
wary traveler, and would lead him to de
struct ioti should he believe them real
The mountains around the desert are sis'
deformed by the mirage and made to as
sume the most extravagant and fantasti
shapes.
During hot summer days the monotoir
of the desert is varied by dust columns,
formed by small whirlwinds, which some
times reach such magnitudes as to lx
decidedly uncomfortable to the travele
who chances to be in their path. Man;
times these columns are 2,000 o
3,000 feet in height, and have ai
approximate diameter of from thirty t<
fifty feet. The fact that they are hollow
whirling colums of dust is indicated, evei
from a distance, by their spiral appearano
and by a light line in the center of each
These bending and swaying columns mov
ing here and there across the desert land
scape, impart a novel feature to the plain
and call to mind the genii of Arabian tulet-
Such in brief are the deserts of the\ fa
west during the arid season. In winte
they change and become impassable mu(
plains.—Israel C. Russell .In Over lane
Monthly.
Emma Abbot on “Artistic Sense.”
“Can you define the artistic sense 'to
which you referred?”
“Ah, there is the thing. That' is what
no opera singer can get on without. T<
define it would be to define art itself, h
includes taste and a thousand other thing?
which are indefinable. You' know th«
best of everything is indefinaible. Bui
what is the useof defining it? The persot
who has the artistic sense knows what it
is without a definition and the person whe
has it not can not understand any defini
tion_of it. The person who has it in the
greatest degree Jjecomes the , greatest
artist, the roundest and most symmet
rical. Michael Angelo had it, and there
fore he was a great painter, a great poet,
a great sculptor and a great architect. Il
be had a voice he would have been a great
singer. Adelaide Neilson had it, and
therefore was a great actress. Nature
gave her about the ugliest pair of hands 1
ever saw on a woman, but it gave to hei
also the artistic sense to learn so to use
those hands as to make them seem to look
perfectly beautiful. If I were to attempt
a brief definition of this sense I should say
it is that in us wnich prompts us to make
beautiful everything with which we have
to do. The opera singer must have a
beautiful voice, beautiful manners, beau
tiful costumes, beautiful stage settings,
and she must have the artistic sense to
know what constitutes these.”—Chicago
Times Interview.
Th. compw.tlwl, Ueta
In th. north frigid ¿O,’T
of explnnntton, but lhe
sLU-ncy b.Cw«.n lt
farther «outh ta not
In the former ernw
-emiomi when the
ind nutamn—the
of winter belng^unf,,^
fact, I have wen a
and Angtut I wa. in .J«*«
■ here were a numbe- .f „
winter of which I conM naT**»
The Eakimo plainly
season, of »now storrj.1^ •
different names for t>. '
«now..
During the winter th-,
winds, which carry th,
drifting pack»,bo thdt . C* '
out in such a gale
eight that hewn» |* ,’2^
norm; but. neverthel^..
and although drift, h»-« j?*«*
here and there, this ¡Ul, ¿2*»
from the ridges an<i mm-J1
average depth is the »■«aeuC 1
ttil«, too, the natives hSv, «
will Inform you that M tk*
ature and that tin- ¿T '
no snow^fili,.
In
*
servatlons have been
many year, by Danish nwtenmL!'
Dr. Rink, the best
region, says that "in northmZl,*
amount of snow anmi.il, ¿7*
fetiortothat of son.:,
tais law seems to be ¿enpr.1?
‘?.e '■e“vie,t f,dl of »-low IT2*'
frigid no more than '« th« ¿5’
but somewliere between th, ..
Frederick Schwutka
( r<MMilnC the RM||dy
I stood at a corner on Main ■*.
other day and watched the peonk
their way across the mutkhS
you ever notice ho*
done by different people.
There is the lady who pane«,
arily in dismay, then gather» J
with one han«l and dnlr.Uiy nicb
striving to step where some
brogan has left its imprint, but fa
cause the brogan took such long
Then comes the Well dreaaed L
never deforms his shapely feet
shoes. He glances down at
ished boots, mutters an imp»— h Z
the street commissioner, and waft!
on his heels, maintaining bb balaa
difficulty and losing his temper alto
The old resident who la used tot
of thing, and who would not feel l
with a clean pavement in thespriiw
does not permit the muddy «i
delay him, but with a skill, bond
experience, takes advantage of even
jeering dry spot that the pavement?
and doesn’t get very muddy afieral
But the inan who produced th ■
est impression upon me, the man i
you wil| nt once recognize, waitk
whose unpolished boots and in«M
to dirt enab'ed him to disregard th
This man sets his foot down likei
driver, or yanks it through the liqig
like a snow plow and liberally ba
everybody and everything withini
of five yards. You have met him;
body has met him. He baasplMb
with mud; he has splashed everyb
He should be abated as a publ
sance.—Kansas City Journal
Americans in England.
Americans cannot understand t|
nabit, almost universal with oar
)f wearing costly clothing, of
iuxuriqs (unusual with Europeans
those of assured fortune), such m I
bedrooms, unlimited gas and i
great variety of food at every n
best seats at the theatres, const
bi ng instead of walking, etc.,
4.hem to be looked upouasrickid
whose efforts to reduce expenses,
retain all the comforts, must be
frowned down, as unworthy genii,
ladies. On the other hand, if ov
pay on the guinea scale without’
mur, they are treated with the n
exaggerated deference which the la
lish yield to their social superion.
fortunately, that is the one 1
—so dear to the English “d
themselves!—which our people ( mi
care nothirig about. Sometimes th
vility is offensive to Americani-
Logan in Kansas City Journal.
____________ I— s
Destroying Weeds With Tttwl
Where such plants as dock, pls
dandelion are growiug in law», I
be effectually destroyed by the
tion of oil of vitrol. The vitrei i
in an old. bottle with awirean
neck to hold it by, so as to keep ■
gers from the liquid. A stick long
and thin enough , to go into the L
the only other necessary; the stick
be slightly' cut at the end to allot
holding the vitrol better. One
An Excellent Recommendation.
vitrol off the eud of the stick drop
•‘Could you direct me to some restaurant?” the center of the weed should d
“Yes, sir; go up the street two blocks and at once; one dip ought to destroy
you’ll find the best place in town."
tour weeds_________ _
“Best in town? Really?”
We hear a gooJ deal about to» '
“Yes, sir. 1 board there myself.”
and inhumanity of landlords who I
“Is that a recommendation C
let
flats to people with families of I
“1 should say so. Tm the owner of the es
but after all there may be anottar
tablishment.”—Nebraska State Journal
the story. In a house agent's offles L
to an argument between the agent m
man who wanted to rent a flat (ns
Retiring to Primitive Simplicity.
Ouspensky, a popular Russian writer, re It was a flat that I happened toJ*
quiet
house, filled with nice
cently found a river steamboat in the Cau
casus piloted by a youth of 47, who, al the argument was going on, •uwCJ*
though he was possessed of remarkable in agent came in on some
tellectual qualities, had abruptly aban- when he saw the woman beckoned »»
donedr his studies for manual toil, with agent away from her, whispered
intent to put Count Tolstoi’s doctrines into to him and went off. 'lbs
practice.
Many Russian families—people get her lease and went away is MP
of standing and education—are taking geon. The agent said to tns;
“That is a sample of the p*op"*J
their children from school abandoning the
delusions of so-called civilization, and retir to the papers about landlords wto
flats
to ¡*ople with families. fr®*
ing into remote country districts, where
they propose to realize some vague ideal of was just in. rented hpr a flak
primitive simplicity. This strange move in it yet, but must move by the
ment is * vigorously supported by Count six roomed flat, and in it she
Tolstoi. The count divides each day into live, with their two Uusbands. **
four periods separated from one another by dren, three cats and two big dogM
a meal, and he indulges in hard labor and also board two young clerks to**
in literary work alternately. He has thix their .husbands. One of the r*
become accomplished in bootmaking, ex kitchen, so that these
pert in wood splitting and a very decent to mention the menagwie. are s«w^
agricultural laborer. Whenever he visits Ing hi five rooms, in • n*pV\Z|
his estates he assists his farm hands in where their uoise and dirt m**• .
plowing, sowing, and getting in the crops. non nuisancer "-Alfred in