THE DAILY IIE1UL0: T'LATTSMOnTfT. NERRASIv A. WEINTSiA V. FKimifART 20. 1-89.
YlIK HUMAN VOICE.
DIFFICULTY IN DESCRIBING THEM
- ALL SATISFACTORILY.
(ton pared to the of mu Organ Tli
4I1jrertn fcurkiu Dote. Stojm hikI
Their tne Vocul IVcuIlurltlcB of I'ro
iMloml A tor and Hpeaker.
The liumau voico is ont of those tan
talising thing which can never lie ade
qnately dewriled, anl yet which are
eronttiiitly tempting fieoplo to describe
kdi. The i-ts perupire in vain, and
the norelibte int a lonjf way after them,
hat nothing co:ue Hdquato to the sub
ject. Even the nniiial critics, whose
two of language is marked by an audacity
which the reti of the world tremble at,
do not succeed. Nevertheless there are
a few remarks which may le modestly
tirade on the outftkirts of the subject.
COM PA RED TO OROAS KTOI-a.
The human voico, in the first ilacc, is
not a eini)le inhtrnment, hut a very com
plicated organ, with a great variety of
etopH. You hear the glycerine stop, for
Instance, when a man U trying to sell a
horse ho "doesn't want to art with." or
is iersuadinga friend to invest in the 500
Woo Mary Janes ho "huniien to have
to spare."
TImjii man has another very useful
stop, the sucking dovo stop. When a
man's wife had to sit up for him he meets
her with the sucking dove btop full on;
yon would think as he comes along the
passage, humming a sahu tune in it,
that he Iwwl just descended from tliocoui
janj of an Innocent latnd of seraphim.
TM stnp is also made some Little use of
In busiivess. tlough the majority of men
hare not sufficient face to play it suc
oomfnlty. IVM cabby very often lias a
try at It. when he assures tho stranger
Jt IahhUxi, with tears in Ins eyes, that
flte proper fare ia tiro and sixixmcc; and
rite skill j rtacnnt waiter turns it on
vrhoa he aawuraa the doubtful guest that
&m wiae snppliod in actually what is
anicd on the list. Tliero ore also other
varieuk of masculine stop; such pa the
uiad bull stop, which comes into play
when the button's olf again or the meat's
underdone.
Ladies' voices po.-4sss most of tho ma
oalhio stops and a few others besides.
TUey. ItfworiT, mako a littlo different
ae of souui pf them. A lady, for in
stance, talks politics through the glycer
ic medium, and keep J he sledge ham
mor for hor domestic affairs, and for
training mankind in the way they should
gm. She never tises her 6ucking dovo
gbop iu matters of business, but keeps it
exclusively for affairs of u tender nature.
Jib the approach of any eligible man out
cvtaes tliis stop at once, and all she ii:u
to say to him has the seductive intona
tiemx of inoocent candor. An exclusively
feminine stop U tho woodpecker, sjx?
otilly designwl in those crises in the
fetoalo economy known familiarly as
. 1ing out of sorts. Tliis stop gives a
niiui, f I V - ' - - -
ne lady's voice, which is much admired
hy tho hearers, when they have acquired
a taste for it.
Another feminine stop, and a pecu
liarly beautiful one, is tho Minnehaha,
Ot jaugl'.mg wait r biup. fc !.. v i j
Jady who lsr:s it in her organ, but when
' jjie has. ciid plays ujn it, the hearer at
Oiuce imagines himself under u green
canopy by the side of a 6;arkling rill,
suad U he is not careful ho sits there and
forgot lus train. The Minnehaha js the
queen of all stops, but. unfortunately,
1ms a terrible habit of changing into the
woodpecker late in life.
PROFESSIONAL. VOICES.
The above remarks are inspired by or
dinary private voice3. . A more extended
Tiew of the subject may lx obtained
from professional voices. The former
play on ono organ of many stops, but the
Fatter have the run of a great variety of
different instruments, natural and artifi
cial. The fctage, to which one looks for
fhe ideal cf what the spoken voice
houlJ be. supplies us with some cliarm
ing examples. Ona especially beautiful
stage voice u that usually described a$
'bird like." The bird voico is especially
affected by the young and innocent dra
tnatia raaiden, whose pride is to remind
"you oi all thy sweet songsters of the
grove in turn. While she is heart free,
' fijka bops in a cheerful manner round the
ecene, and emits little chirps, something
lite a healthy sparrow devoid of rare.-
k"jvhen the inevitable young man makcp
jtiis appearance, she puts on the swallow
and begins to twitter continuously; and
when ho arrives at bis declaration she
Sinks into liis arms with the true night
ingale gurgle r.nd ends a pathctlo scene
with a cadence of "jug-jug-jug." Then
when thing3 get a little mixed and he is
thought to be faithless and to have taken
money from the till, she comes out
strong as a pee-wit," and shrieks faintly :
over her blasted hopes, much as that !
nlaintive bird does over a wormiest
jnoor. Hy and by there is a prospect oi
things coming right, and 6he drops the
pee-wit for t!ie csnary.
Wlicn she gets a Utter from him you
hear sounds as' though a canary were
fondling a fresh root of gioundsej, pnd
when all Is explained and he arrives
with the marriage license by tho 5 p. m.
train, there is no more nightingale, and
the curtain comes down on a final "jug,
The well trained jeuno premiere rune
the gamut of the whole ornithological
tribe, and the experienced playgoer can
tell " what the "situation" U from the
bird she is representing, even though he
is too poor to pay for a place where ho
can see anything.
In the public meeting you hear tho
turkey gobbling in explanation of the
object of the gathering, the . bray of, the
ass in moving the first resolution, and
th duck quacking in support, while
there follow the calf bleating an amend
ment, the cow lowing to "order," and
the clucking of a multitude o! liens car
rying something simultaneously. It is,
of course, for the evolutionist to say
why assemblages of speakers imitate so
closely the voices ot arumals, Dut tie ,
should not overlook tho fact. London
Standard.
Hub the teakettle with kerosene and
vtV-s trta a dry flannel cloth; . "
HOW VAN l L. LA GROWS.
Two MrtliotU :f Pr-:irlng l!ie I'ods fur
fr Market -The Vluiit.
Vanilla lclongi to tho orchid family
and i a sarmentoso plant furnished with
thick. fMcng, glaucous green leaves.
The ino sometiiiH 3 attains a height of
forty-!ive f ?t. It Ix-gins U lar tho
third year ofter plantiu;; ami continues
U-ating thirty years, luxch vino annu
ally produces from forty to fifty-five
capsules or seed Kds, which are gath.
ered before reaching coii)lete maturity
between April and June.
For one .method of preparation they
are gathered after they have lost their
green tint, and are then excised to the
sun in woolen sheets which have pre
viously been thoroughly heated. They
are then put into ltoxes covered with a
cloth, ami are again heated in tho sun,
twelve or fifteen hours, after which they
should assume a coffee color. If this is
not obtained they inu.-t bo covered and
again exposed, the whole process lasting
alxmt two months, after which they are
packed securely, fifty each, in tin boxes.
I 3 the second method about a thou
sand jmmIs are tied together and plunged
it!t loiling water to bleach them, after
hich they are excised to the sun. and
then coated with-oil or wrapped in oiled
cotton to prevent thein from bursting
During the drying process the pods ex
ude n sticky liipiid, which is expedited
by gentle pressure two or three times a
day. I'y thi i process the pod loses alxmt
a fjuarter of iU n initial size. The best
tjuality pds are st ven to nine inches
in length, and large in projortion, and
INissess in greater abundance tho char
acteristic and agreeable icrfume which
gives vanilla its value.
The vine ia sometimes covered with a
silvery ellloreseenee producing an essen
tial Kilt similar to that found in tho pod,
and this is diffused 011 the outside of the
capsule. It i. called vanilla rime, and is
iii great demand in the Ilordeaux market.
Vanilla is used in perfumery and jn
flavoring confectionery ami cordials. It
is supiosed to posse-is powers similar to
valerian, while it is much more grateful.
Its production in Keuniwu has increased
in the past forty years from a few
pounds to nearjy il million, and that
colony is now the principal rival and
oij pet itor of Mexico. Tho total im'iort
Pinto France rose, from aln.ut 200,000
pounds in IPSO to about 200,000 in 188G,
but the annual import fluctuates con
siderably. London Times.
Insulting Proprieties.
Since I was 10 years old there aro a
few things that Jive always made me
mad, and one was to ask me, tho niimito
I mentioned approvingly a man's name,
whether ho was married or not. What
earthly difference did it make? And an
other was to have a man change his tone
and manner to 1110 when Jio got married.
Mr. ISrownell talks about tho man find
ing tho woman treating him differently
when he marries. I assure him that is
not half as asinine as when the man who
has known me since I was as high as tho
table and called me Mollie all my life be
gins to address me a "Miss Hawn" the
minute he gets a wife. What did he
mean by calling me Mollie at all ever, if
it was something that controverses the
right j of his wife'.' I was not engaged to
him: he wa3 not my lover. I thought we
were the simplest, matter-of-courso old
friends. But, lo! it seems there was
something else in it according to his
view, and now I have a right to bo in
sulted over the past, it seems to me. I'd
get a divorce from a man I married that
acted liko that. New Votk "Graphic.
Sho Made It IMndlus;.
"Barling Bessie," said Sir. Hoover lo
hu lady typewriter, "will you marry me?
Since you have come, like a gleam of
sunshine, to gladden my existence I have
lived pn the-radiant light of your ethereal
presence, and pasionately'Vrs-T-
'Pleaso speak a little slower, Mr.
Hoover," said the fair typewriter, inter
rupting him, while her fingers continued
to lly over the keys of her machine.
" 'Ethereal presence passioitely.'
Now J cm ready to proceed."
"Great Kcott. Miss Caramel !" exclaimed
her employer, "you aro not taking down
my offer of marriage oa that infernal
typewriter, aro you';"
"A proposal!" shrieked Miss Caramel.
"Why, so it is. I didn't notice. I thought
you were dictating. Forgive me, dear
Wiiiiam; I am yours, And now. since I
have made this foolish Lluuder. please
fign this papf1". an'J I wul keep it 03 a
memento."
The marriage took place according to
contract. Chicago News.
.b0lUhiu5 n Nuisance.
The railroads of Germany are u.idcr
the control of the government, and it
seems that the practice of giving and
accepting gratqitie3 has led to so r.iany
abuses that it has been determined to
put a-stop to it. The "royal railway ad
ministration has accordingly notified all
I employes that they will net be allowed
I to accept the smallest gratuity or favor
cf any description upon penalty of tum
mary dismissal. Prosecution is also
threatened against those who may offer
gratuities to railway employes. A long
suffering traveling public will rise; up
and call the government blessed for this
putting an end to one of the most un
pleasant features of continental rraveL
The example would seem a good ono to
follow' elsewhere. San Francisco Chron
icle Woes of a Country Editor.
When a man is trvincr to run a countrv
nnner w ith an armv press and a hatful
of tvpc em seventeen paid-up subscrip-
tioas; when lie is compelleu to suprnns.'i
around on tho outside of his Lusiness to
make a living by begging, borrowing or
stealing; when he is out of heart, hope,
friends and money, in debt, in love and
in the iniddis of a railroad rumpus that
will not come to a focun; who:i he has
j nothing in the past but remembrance of
i frnJitrrv- n.1 nnttimT in the future but
faji,,- nothing in the future but
Tkins 0f ,9 poorhouse well, under
such circumstances, he is in confounded
poor shape to assume a virtue that he
ha't Eot. fr W thft tesn't feel.
-Benton (Ky.) f ribune.
Cornelius Irlce. the Tacorua detective,
whoso work among the opium smugglers
of l'ugtt sound Is well known, can stand
on Market street in tho rain longer, and
tell loncer. more probable and more in
teresting stories tlian any man in San
Francisco.
"Iid von ever hoar that I had serve
my ti.ne in the chain gang?" ho inquired
rn Detective Handler one uav last week,
"No? Weil. Fil give it to you po that 30
will ret it straight. It was when these
men vero running iu bo much of thoir
opium all around the sound that I finally
located some of tho workers at a little
landingalwut twenty miles from Tacoma,
whero there are about a dozen houses,
My wife was there at tho time visiting
friends, but I did not have time to ap
prise her of my coming. I made myself
up as the seediest kind of a tramp, and
f;oted it into this littlo place just at
dusk, and nearly tho first lK-rson I met
was my wife. I forgot aljout my dis
guise and the effect it might have upon
r her; so I braced up, and, taking her by
the arm, said, 'Hello, mv dear!
" When sho gave a jump and screamed
I thought 1 had simply startled her by
sneaking suddenly when rho wasn t ex
teeting it, so I started to take her arm
r.gain, nnd bless mo if she didn t go up
tho street screaming at every step.
Alxmt that time tho constable grablxd
1110 for insulting ladies on the street, but
when my wife declined to appear and
prosecute they put an additional charge
of vagrancy against mo and locked me
un in a little 'calalxxDse. Next day
was found guilty and sentenced to eight
days 111 the chain gang with no alterna
live, and I didn't dare let tho official
know who I was, lxcause I had reason
to believe they were concerned in the
smuggling ojierations. I sweated it out
breaking rock on the road. But I got
even, the uistiee of the ixace and con
stable aro pegging shoes in tho territorial
prison now lor smuggling, ban rrau
cisco Examiner.
"A Man" In Capsule.
The problem of being able to "see a
man" during tho play without being
obliged to walk 011 the toes of hair
dozen gentlemen, and, perchance, on the
dretsjeg of several ladies, jiasbeeij solved.
Those to whom tho drink in the entract
is an essential part of their enjoyment of
a performance can now, without leaving
their seats, indulge 111 their lioations. A
clever Boston chemist has struck on the
idea of bavins: whisky handy and other
strong lhjuorsput up in gelatine capsules
like those used in administering nause
ous medicines, only considerably larger.
The capsules are- colored so as to resem
ble large hot house graphs They are
easily broken m the mouth and the con
tents swallowed witnout attracting at
tention. The capsules are sold in boxes
containing a dozen each. Tho box is of
convenient size for tho jxx-ket, and the
quantity or liquor contained in the cap
sules surlicient tomaketheordmary man
feel comfortably happy by the time the
curtain falls on the last act.
The idea is not altogether an original
one. About two years ago similar cap
sules were sold in all the leading drug
stores in this city, but instead of being
celatine tlio capsule was of very thin
rubber. It was noon found that the rub
ber conveyed the reverso oi a pleasant
taste to the liquors, and tney rapidly
went out of fashion. The new gelatine
capsule imparts no flavor whatever to
1110 liquor, ami ic promises soon 10 uw
come a boon to the gentleman seated in
tho middle of a row of orchestra chairs,
and to earn for its inventor the gratitude
cf the ladies, whose plaints pyer their
ruined dresses and crushed Mats lately
filled so many columns in the papers.
rsew ork Graphic,
An Old Youn Man.
Ono of tho pleasant t old young men
of Washington is Harvey M. Watterson,
tho father of Henry Watterson. Imagine
to yourself a tall and 6lightly built man,
with a large head of gray hair, a white
beard falling pyer lily chest, and a pair
of tho brighest and kindest blue eyes you
will find anywhere. Imagine this man
10 bo 73 years pld. but pt the eaine time
to moo about with as firm a step as
though ho was but 00. Listen to his voice,
and it comes forth in 6trong chest tones.
Talk lo him and he will tell you that he
feel younger as the years grow older, and
that ho hopes to last for many years yet.
Said Mr. Wutieisun once In" response
to a question:
"The first rign of a man's failing facul
tics ij seen in his voice. I can go fci tht
street and speak in such tones as can be
heard 000 yards away. I . spend my
winters in Washington and my summers
r:t Louisville, and while there f look over
tho exchanges In the newspaper office
and scan about fifty papers, a day. I am
glad that I am p.llve, and I feel that my
good health at this ago is duo to temper
ance and in not allowing mvself to be
worried about anything. I am very
careful of my eating, and I have not had
three unhappy hours from vony Jn my
whelo life, When I have stubbed my
too I hayo not cursed tho universe be
cause cf my carelessness, but thardced tht
Lord that I did not break my neck."
Chicago Herald.
And lie Still Hits nope.
"I have been shipwrecked, been, baked
ia a railroad accident; and fired out of a
foundry window by a boiler explosion.
I was chot in the neck at Gettysburg,
suffered starvation in Libby prison, fell
overboard from a transport 'off Charles
ton, and left four of my fingers in the
mouth of a shark. I had my right arm
broken in two places in a New York riot,
and 6tood on a barrel with a halter round
ray neck in a southern town at the out
break of the great rebellion from sunrise
to sunset. I was buried under the ruins
of a building in San Francisco during bd
earthquake and. dug cut after fifty hours
of imprisonment. I have been shot at
three, times, twice by lunatics and once
by a highwayman. I was buried two
clays by a ga3 explosion in a mine, and
narrowly escaped lynching last year in
Arizona,; through mistaken identity.
And though I "am over 50, and hare
nearly lost the use of my right leg, have
just had, as I understand, all my prop
erty, on which there was no Insurance,
destroyed by fire in a western town; and
the doctor in New York to whom I went
last week for an examination cssures me
that I will soon be ridden from rheu
matism; nevertheless, he added cheer
fully, whilo I undoubtedly hare pet
some obstacles in the past, r still refuse
to believe that luck is against me."
Daylight Land,
Onecf Milan Obrenoviteh's latest In
decencies was to appoint M. Christian
minister to Berlin. He Is the shameless
husband cf that particular one cf King
Milan's concubines whom that monarcu
attempted to force Queen NatU- to Jdss
in public and treat with honor." jsLs
your paramour yourself," replied the
t,ueen, and divorce followed.
"IHfc CriAtiMS OF NEW YORK.
A Crapltlo Ueucriptloo of Metropolitan
Life, with 1 Host rations.
"You see, it is this way," aalcl the
New York man as he was walking
along the street talking to a friend
from out of town. "New Yorkers
won't have anything but the best of
everything'. This being- the metropolis
of the western continent, we aro put
iu a position where we can have our
nick of everything, and yod can well
believe that wo take the best every
time. You will notice this," he went
on as they just managed to get out of
the way of a truck team on a crossing,
got punched in the backs with the pole
of a furniture van, heard tho
driver of an ico wagon swearing
at them and were well spat
tered with tho six inches of
mud 011 the pavement by a hack team
being driven twelve miles an hour:
"you will notice this tho longer you
stay here. Little annoyances that you
have been accustomed to having to
submit lo you will see regulated in
New York. We reason like this," he
went on as he dodged around a couple
of garbage- barrels and a brick jell
from the sixth story of a new build
ing and cut a notch out of his hat
brim; "our idea is this: that if wo de
mand the best and slick to it, we will
get it. Of coui-se, now in your town,
a country village, you have some
rural advantages that wo can't have,
but then we nave numberless other
advantages that you can know noth
ing of. New York," hu ran 011, us his
foot slipped on a banana peeling and
a policeman threatened to arrest him
for being drunk, and a grocery wagon
horse took a bito out of liis coat sleeve,
"New York leads in everything jn this
country. It is not, of course, London
or Paris, but we manage things better
here.
"In the old countries," he continued,
as he dodged a bobtail car that already
had blKu 011 its wheels, jumped ten
feet to 0110 side as the can on an elec
tric subway bleiy otY with a loud re
port, and stood and waited for a pro
cession of ten trucks to pass, each one
of which spattered two quarts of mud
as it went over a loose place in the
pavement; "over there tho people
haven't got the energy they have here
and they don't demand the best like
we do, and so they don't get it. Now
with us," he went on, as ho rubbed an
elevated railroad cinder deeper into
his eye and felt hot water running
down his back from tho same source,
and went up the dirty and crowded
steps, and tho ticket seller refused to
take a good quarter because it was a
iiltlo worn, and the ticket chopper
accused him of only dropping, in one
ticket, and the guard slammed the
gale in their faces and swore at Taem
a couple of times; "with us we pride
ourselves on leading in everything in
this country, and havo that reputation
and so have to keep it up,
"This plevaled road," he continue,
as tho next guard yelled "step lively
there 1" and they crowded into a car
and hung on to each other because
there were already two men and one
woman suspended from each strap;
"this road is something you won't find
anywhere else. Instead of emNvling
along hi street cars or paying exor
bitant hack fares we have this to carry
us back and forth at a rapid rate. As
I said. New Yorkers demand and cx;t 1
tho best. We" here tho train 7-an
into another one, and th Car ahead
fell into tho strep r,,,,, ii,;.,,!
stood on end. "Sit still right where
you are on tho window," shouted the
New Yorker from where he lay on the
roor wiin rour men on him ; "keep per
fectly still; tho coroner will bo hei-e
inside of ten minutes.. We have the
best system of coroner service in the
world nothing but the best satisfies
us, you know. Breathe easy and lianr
on you'll never want to live any
where else after trvmsr New York for
two weeks Now York Tribune.
Treating Consumption.
A new method of treating tubercu
losis, or consumption of the lungs, has
been proposed by M. Ilaller. It con
sists in inhaling dry uir heated to the
temperature of from 250 degs. to 275
degs. Fahrenheit, the theory being th.'it
at this temperature the bacillae
which ai-e supposed to produce the dis
ease are destroyed. Old experiments
have shown that there is no difficulty
in inhaling air at theso temperatures,
but it seems more than doubtf. I
whether the effect will be in the leA; t
degree advantageous. Another aid
more rational novelty in tho treatment
is that described by Dettweiler cs r
use at tho Folkenstein sanatorium.
The essence of this method is that the
patients are required - to live perria-
nently in the pien air, to sleep there.
even if the temperature fall as low cs
14 degs. Fahrenheit. Thus perfectly
pure air is secured vathout the bivuk
in the conditions which occurs when
patients live out of doors in the lay
time, but are housed at night The
patients are said to become fond of the
treatment, and the recoveries arc
naced at 25 rer cent of the cases
treated. New York Sp-.11,
Edison Explains Friction.
A gentleman who thoueht ho knew
a thing or two about electricity, and
was uomg nis oesi 10 convince iunson
that ho did, advanced a theory about
how electricity was produced. "Oh,
fudge," said Ldison. "Do vou want
to know how electricity ia produced?
Whv. bv friction of conrs. It (Hh
off a wheel as it goes round. What
makes it fly offl Why. the resistance
of the air. All tho electricity in the
air is caused by friction produced by
the atmosphere as the earth turns
round. When you get higher up
there is no electricity, because there is
noinpuon. iiusourg xames.
To Cool Journal
Quite an ingenious war of cooling a
burnal that cannot be stopped. Rays a
mechanical paper, is to lianir & short
endless belt on the shaft next the box.
and let the lower part of it run in cold
water. Tho turning cf the sliait car
ries tho belt slowly around,' bringing
fresh cold water continually in con
tact with the heated shaft, and with
out spilling or spattering o drop oi tho
water. Leslie's Newrer. -
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