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Entered at the North Platte (Nebraska) poatofflce as
second-class matter.
It is said that
Congressman
Meiklejohti has the field
asrainst
him in his race for the gubenatorial
nomination. ; This-may mean . the
success of some "dark ho!
!se.
M. A. Daugherty is being- put
forward as a delegate from the
aixcn district to tne national con
vention at St. "Louis. Matthew
is a representative republican, and
his friends will make a strong
fig-ht for him.
"Nine-tenths of all patriotic
Americans are in favor of granting
the Cubans belligerent rierhts, and
nearly as many tavor jrivihjr them
material aid. A struggling" peo
ple, fighting for their indepen
dence, naturally has the sympathy
of the people of this country.
"With all the experiments
that
have made with the cathode
rays
for photographing objects enclosed
in some receptacle the most satis
factory test has not yet been used
ir it succeeds in aisciosiny tnonev
in-the purse of the average country
ra j
editor the process may be said to
be a success.
The Iowa legislature has before
it a bill prepared by the banking
interests which is a blow aimed at
the express companies' money order
business. It requires the latter
corporations to have at'every office
$5,000 in legal tender money with
which to take up any paper that
may be issued by them.
The free silver wing of the demo
cracy of Iowa are preparing to in
gurate a presidential boom for
ex-Go v. Boies by having his candi
dacy endorsed at the Hawkey e
state convention. The principal
promoter of the scheme is the secre
tary of the democratic central com
mutee, wuo wuu uis roiiowing was
sat upon in last year's convention.
The republican state central com
mittee met at Lincoln Friday night
last and decided to hold two state
conventions. April 15th was
named as the date of holding the
convention to select delegates at
large to the national convention at
SVLouis. The date of the se.ond
convention, at which: state ofneers
will be nominated was not set, but
will probably be held about the
middle of July.
AN attempt was made to have
the state central committee en
dorse ex-senator Manderson as. Ne
braska's presidential preference.
but the scheme which was really in
the interest of Tom Reed, failed to
i 'carry. congressman Jiamer is
probably under obligations to
speaker Keed, but his attempts
to take the state away from Mc-
Kinley, when the latter is the, pre
ferred candidate of nine-tenths of
,tne ieDraska repuoiicans was an
exhibition of nerve and not. oos
A.
sessed by many. -
That re-action against McKin
ley, which some predicted, 'is not
yet visible to any alarming extent;
but to the contrary McKinley's
banners are being borne aloft in
I ' 1 1 W rCy t' A nnmi-m nX -1.1. a.
cvciy sccnuu ui luc coun
try. The great protectionist may
not be the choice of some of the po
litical leaders, but he is the pre
ferred candidate of the great mass
of republicans in the east, south.
wnicn win elapse until tne St. Louis
convention will only tend to increase
his popularity and his chances for
nomination.
-Senator Thurston's fame as an
orator was widespread throughout
the west before he was elected. The
knowledge ot that fact preceded
him to Washington, and it was
wondered by some people whether
its lustre would be dimmed when
it had to stand the crucial test in
the place where Clay and Calhoun
and Webster and many other great
orators had won lastinir laurels.
Senator Thurston has been heard
from in the councils of the nation.
tie win oe iieara rrom aeram. He
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has made a profound and lastinir
impression. Philadelphia Item.
Edison, in his experiments with
the Roentgen rays photography,
believes that he has accidentally
hit upon a process of hardening
aluminum that will make it a sub
stitute for steel in all the various
commercial uses of that metal, from
ships to bicycles. This means a
revolution in the iron works. In
happening to pick up one of the
aluminum discs used for the cathode
electrode in the course of his exper
iments, he tried to bend it, but
found that its nature had- entirely
changed and that it was as stiff as
steel.
A. HJ. Cady. or est. Paul, it is an-
nounced, has decidedto rbecome z
cindidate for .Hhecongressional
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chances are thaJlie will be, the sue
cesstul man. lie will make a very
stronsr candidate, as he is well
known, popular and well fitted for
the position., "With Cady as the re
publican candidate your uncle Sile
Hblcomb, if nominated by the pop
ulists, will meet his "Waterloo.
WANTING.
The new year has brought back the same old
blooms, tk
The daisies for the leas,
The bluebells sweet, and tho cowslips' plumes,
And the pale anemones,
And again with the golden fires of spring
Tho woods and grove3 are bright,
And the same old songs the blackbirds sing
In the apple orchards white.
And the dawns ore bright and the eves are fair
As o'er in the days of, old,
And the fragrant hawthorn scent3 the air,
And the gorso is of burnished gold,
And the wind has come o'er the southern seas
Prom shores whero the nereids play,
And as of old do the brigand bees
On their clover blossoms stray.
There's an amber sea in the faroff west,
where tho hills and the sunset meet,
And tho hymn of tho throstle by its nest
Is tender and clear and sweet.
And I wait and watch, as in days of yore,
By tho ivied trysting tree,
But, ah, never, never, never more
Can my sweetheart come to mo!
Chambers' Journal.
THE BED LANTERN.
"Oh, pshaw, pop 1 What made you get
a red one?"
"Why, my Bon, I thought a red lan
tern would tickle you to death."
"Naw, " returned Jimmy, contemptu
ously. ' ' I wanted one with a green light.
They're twice as nice."
"Well, now, that's strange," said
John Saunders, looking at his boy's
disappointed face. "When I was a
youngster, I liked anything if 'twas red
a red wagon, sled, top. As long as
there was some red about it I thought
'twas stylish and first class. "
"Red is so common," said Jimmy,
with great airs.
"Go 'long;' said the father. "Aren't
yen ashamed, sir? That's the Bort of airs
you learn from playing with boys that
have money at least their fathers have.
Red common. Well, so am I common ;
so's your ma, and, for the matter of
that, so are you, too, I reckon. Don't
forgot that, Jimmy. You're the son of a'
laboring man. Don't try to ape folks
who are better off in this world."
Jimmy Saunders picked up the de
spised lantern and went out to the barn
with it. His father had just returned
from the town with a few purchases for
the family and among them this lantern,
which was not up to Jimmy's ideas of
lanterns. He wanted one with a bright
green light and nickel trimmings like
the one used at Mr. Somers' stables.
Charlie Somers said they were much
nicer tnan red lanterns, whicli were
common looking and only used by rail
road men. And what Charlie Somers
said was law to Jimmy Saunders.
Charlie lived in Chicago during the
winter and only spent his vacations out
in Indiana "on his father's handsome
country place. So, of course, being the
son of a rich man and a dweller in the
cities, his word had a great weight with
the boy who had never been farther
away from the farm than to the neigh
boring town of Dexter.
Mr. Saunders' farm lay next to the
railroad, which wound like, a great shin
ing serpent through the woods, the deep
cut beyond the creek and across the
swamp and on to Chicago, that wonder
ful city of which Jimmy never tired of
hearing Charlie's descriptions.
But just now there was trouble in the
great city mobs and strikes and confu
sion and chaos almost. Every day the
boys could hear Mr. Somers speak of the
state of affairs to the gentlemen who
were visiting him, and all agreed that
there were to bo terrible times unless
the city was declared under martial law.
And as the days went on and rumors
of fires and killing and destruction float
ed out through the quiet countryside
Charlie and Jimmy both became greatly
interested in the news and plied their
fathers with questions about the great
strike.
"What did you hear in town today,
father?" asked Jimmy, having recovered
from his vexation over the red lantern,
as his father was unharnessing Zebedee,
the old gray horse.
"There's all sorts of news the worst
goings on in Chicago over you heard of,"
answered his father. "And Dexter, too,
is full of a crowd that's threatening to
burn the depot. They've overturned a
lot of freight cars and upset things gen
erally around the station. Iheardlolks
saying that soldiers are coming from
New York some time tonight to re-enforce
the troops in Chicago, and they
were making threats that they shouldn't
get farther than Dexter. I dunno,"
gloomily shaking his head, "I dunno
what's going t6 happen, but I tell you
one thing I'm glad wo don't live in
Chicago, my son."
Jimmy secretly wished they did, so
that he might see some of these exciting
scenes, but as they didn't he tried to
content himself by going to the Somers
country place, half a mile up the road,"
to play tag with Charlie in pursuance
of an engagement made early that morn
ing. When he went into the house to ask
for his playmate, who was not outside
as usual, he found an excited little
group standing about the telephone in
the hall and Mr. Somers listening in
tently to the unseen messenger.
"Perfect panic there tonight," he said
as ne dropped tne repeater. "Troops
fired into the mob this afternoon ; killed
half a dozen people; fires everywhere.;
wrecking going on and re-enforcements
coming from 2Tew York tonight"
"Hello, Jim," said Charlie, coming
forward. "Come on. Let's play strike.
You be a freight car, and I'll be astrik-
Q1 rTA ma-.t-n-mr. -r, "
This new game was followed awhile,
and then Charlie's fertile brain suggest
ed another scheme. "You. be a train full
of soldiers coming from New York, and
I'll be the mob arid stop you."
So Jimmy, with many a toot and
snort and "chug chug," .rushed here
ani there among the shrubbery, playing
he was a train, while Charlie piled
sticks on the track and flagged the train
and Stopped it with a smart green lan
tern from the stable until both boys
were tired out. The sun had long js ince
set, and the darkness was coming on
fast "I raustjjo home, " suddenly cried
i ., -Highest of ail in Leavening
4 jk SBv
Absolutely pure
Jimmy, r "Gracious I I didn't know it
was so. late. Mother will bo awfully
worried.'
"Well, ho sure and come over tomor
row," cried Charlie after him, "and
we'll play strike again. "
"All right," answered Jimmy as he
went whistling down the road.
As he came near" tho road Jimmy
heard a strange sound. It was like the
distant snarl and roar of the animate he
remembered in the one circus he had at
tended in his life. He stopped for a mo
ment to listen. The noise rose and died
on the evening air, and mingled with it
rose another sound liko the clink of in
struments against steel.
"That sounds as if somebody was
hammering on the track," ho said as he
listened. But he was late and so hurried
on toward home.
As ho neared the gate his mother
came running down the walk, her apron
over her head. "Jimmy," she cried hys
terically, "where is your father?"
"I don't know," answered the boy.
staring in dismay at his mother, who
was pale and trembling.
"Oh, my child," sho screamed,
"there's something wrong. Your father
went over an hour ago clown into the
woods to find tho stray lambs, and he
never stays so late, and 10 or 15 min
utes ago a crowd of yelling, cursing men
swept.by hero like a cyclone and down
into the woods, and father's there,- xJSd
maybe they've killed him."
"Hold on, mother,' 1 cried Jimmy.
"Don't take on so. I'll run down to the
edge of the woods and see what's up.
Father's all right. What would they
hurt him for, I'd like to know?"
Though he spoke so stoutly, the boy
was frightened, but he ran as fast as he
could toward the woods. He remember
ed tho noise he had heard at the track
and suddenly it rushed over him what
it meant. "They're sympathizers of the
strikers," he whispered as he tore across
the field,, "and they're tearing up the
track, I'll bet." '
When he reached the woods, he stole
along as cautiously as possible toward
the din and uproar, which every mo
ment grew louder. Suddenly ho saw
them.
There were 50 at least, bareheaded,
raceed, uryine up the track with crow
bars a frightful sight to alonely little
boy creeping among the trees. The. stray
lambs, huddled together under a tree,
were bleating in a frightened, helpless
way. Jimmy felt sure his father must
be near them, so, creeping on hands and
knees now, the boy crawled slowly along
and suddenly saw his father tied to a
tree, watching the rioters completing
their work, of destruction. As Jimmy
saw his father Mr. Saunders, turning
his head, saw his son.
Jimmy sas not 10 feet away from
his father, while the mob was at least
40 feet away from both.
"Jimmy," murmured his father,
"run, my boy, run! Tho New York
special with soldiers! Run up the road
and signal it! Nevermind me, but save
the train."
With a half sob the boy crept back
through the tall grass to the edge of the
forest and then darted across the field
toward the farmhouse like an arrow.
His mother mot him. "Don't stop me,
mother, " ho gasped. "Father's alive,
but tho strikers have got him. You run
to Mr. Somers' for help. I'm going to
signal the special. " Signal the special !
Suddenly he stopped. What with? How
could, he, a little boy, stop a train before
it reached the cut yonder? Ah, the red
lantern, the despised, cemmou thing he
had sneered at that very day.
Two minutes latnr this towheaded,
freckled faced young hero was flying up
the track, his red lantern lighted, his
bare feet spurning the earth, panting,
stumbling, sobbing, falling, up again
and on, on. ,
A low rumble broke on his ear. The
rails began singing under his feet. "It5s
coming!" he shrieked, and putting all
his remaining strength, into this last,
effort he dashed on a few rods farther.
There came a great white light glow- j
ing at him like an angry eye, nearer j
and nearer, larger, brighten Would j
they ever eee him as he stood there,
desperately gripping his red lantern and
swinging it with
both his tired little
arms?
At last ! The
engine gave a scream.
"I see you, Jimmy J" it seemed to cry to
the poor child. Then a shiver ran
through the long train. It groaned and
stopped, the engiuo panting and sighing,
at the feet of James Saunders, hero.
Do you suppose, if Jimmy lives to be
100 years old, he will ever forget that
moment the shouts, the questions, the
excitement.the soldiers crowding around
him, tho glistening bayonets, the praise,
the thanks, all the pride of the instant
as he knew that he, a little prairie lad,
had saved the special laden with Uncle
Sam's troops? Advance.
The First X.os Cabin In Kentucky.
The flourishing little city of Harrpds
burg, the county seat of Mercer county,
Ky,, was tho scene in the latter part of
the last century of sOme very exciting
episodes in the history of the early set
tlers in tho young state. -On June 10,
1774, Captain James Harrod of Virginia,
who had brought a party of settlers to
tho new country, laid off a town sito at
Big Spring Camp.whero they had erected
the first cabin, ever built in Kentucky.
They allotted to each man a half acre
lot and a ten acre out lot. The town's
first name was Harrodstown, but later
this Was changed to Harrodshnrg. A
clearing was made in the east-end of
the town boundary, and here it was that
John Harmau planted and raised the
first corn that was "known to have been
grown in tho state. Only a few weeks
after this auspicious beginning of the
town's promoters four of Harrod's men
Were ambushed by Indians. Jared Cow
an was killed. The other men escaped,
only one of them beinginjured. Louis
ville Post - j
1 Absent-minded.
Waiter What shall I'ge't for you?
Professor (absentminded, reading the
till of fare) I am busy now ; ask me
Iffcer dinner. Eliogende Blatter.
Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report
Baking
Powder
The iictum or Reading Desk.
Lecturns, or reading desks, came into
use at an early date. There is frequent
mention of them in ancient writings
and representations of them in ancient
vignettes. They were placed in the cen
ter of choirs in large ecclesiastical build
ings as early as the seventh century, and
the choristers wero arranged in rows on
tho right and left of them. They are of
various forms, but tho eagle is intro
duced in a very large number. With out
spread wings and mounted on a stem at.
a convenient height for a reader, this
grand bird, from an early date, was
made to serve the purpose of supporting
the framework on which tho largo and
heavy volumes used in the services were
placed. There was. probably, some ref
erence in the thoughts of those who first
used them to the fact that tho eagle
soared to the most elevated regions, and,
therefore, in a fanciful way, would be
likely to carry the words of the readers
or choristers nearer to heaven than they
might otherwise ascend.
In some instances the inclined frame
work on the back of the bird was made
to accommodate two books, one above
tho other, and furnished with movable
brackets to light the reader. Frequently
tho eagle is represented standing on an
orb, and sometimes on a dragon, and
tno case or me stem on which it is
placed is often raised on lions. A more
simple form, without the introduction
of the eagle, consists of an inclined
book board raised to a conveuient heigh
on a stem. Next to this are examples
that have two slanting book boards
which meet at their upper edges like a
roof, and thero aro others with clever
groupings of four desks or book boards.
These are generally made of oak orsomo
other hard wood. They nearly all turn
on pivots, and some of them are enrich
ed with much carving. Sometimes the
eagle is of wood and the framework o:
iron, m the handsomest examples, base,
stem, bird and book beard are of polished
brass. Chambers Journal.
Hamlet and Hysteria.
Hamlet learns from Horatio and his
companions of the apparition of his fa
ther's spirit. His prophetic soul already
presages foul play, and through the
darkness of his suspicions now rises the
blood reel sun of revenge. Up to this
point Hamlet has been a perfectly sane
and rational young man. In the meet
ing with tho ghost, again, there is noth
ing abnormal in his attitude he is over
come with awe on beholding his father's
spirit in arms, and is prepared to follow
him regardless of perils. In the second
ghost scene Hamlet is .overwhelmed
with grief and indignation on learning
of the infamy by which his father met
his death. To tho actor this is a scene of
intense and prolonged excitement, more
exhausting, because pent up, than per-
'haps any other passage in the whole
play.
I have sometimes'asked myself, with
that second consciousness of the actor,
whether thus to waste one's vital force
could have any compensating effect upon.
the audience, foivBam let's- eyes aro fixed
on tho ghost, his face is averted from
the public, and probably tho actor's ex
citement is lest upon tiiem, but never
theless conclude that it is necessary for
the actpr to undergo this strain of self
excitation in order to reach that coudi-J
tion of- hysteria which overcomes Ham
let after theghesfs departure. Here,
again,Samlet, it seems to me, behaves
just as any highly-wrought young man
would behave cn hearing of the terrible
fate which had befallen a beloved -father.
He is all on fire to sweep to his
revenge with wings as swift as medita
tion or tho thoughts of love. Butthe firo
is too fierce it perforce burns itself
out. And here the actor should make
clear to tho audienco that physical ex
haustion prevents Hamlet from carrying
out the impulse of hi3 mind the weak
ened physical machine is, as it were,
unequal to respond. tu the promptings of
the mind. Beerbohm Tree in Fort
nightly Review.
Extravagant Tonng Britons.
My ! What somo of these young men
spend on their clothes! You would open
your eyes if you saw some of the things
got ready for them ! Fancy a pink silk
nightshirt, with roses embroidered on
tho chest. Others have openworked
fronts, and one that ma and I saw was
trimmed with lace on which forgctme
nots were embroidored. Lace fronts to
evening socks aro another item. Snch
extravagance as they indulge in must
make them conceited creatures. There's
my young man. Ma and I and Emmio
and Susie went for 5 o'clock tea to his
rooms the other day, and when wo went
into his sleeping room to settle our hats
and wash our haud3 we found the dress
ing tablea mass of gold and silver and
turquoise. He had his monogram in dia
monds on tho tortoise shell backs of his
brushes. A gold box of lovely workman
ship held his ring3, and a perfectly ex
quisite old carved ivory casket was hung
on the wall for n medicine chest I'm
nfrniri T shall hnvn some trouble in
breakingnhat young man in. He has
spoiled himself, and the annoying part !
of it is that he has given himself much
handsomer things than he has ever giv
en me: It will take me years to make :
him see things in a proper light. Lon
don Truth.
The Turkish "Way.
The late M Carnot, president of the
French republic, died from a stroke of
apoplexy 1 Nobody ever heard of that
except tho subjects of the sultan and
this is explained a3 follows in La Jeuno
Turquie, a bimonthly periodical printed
in Paris by the Young or Liberal Turks:
"Everybcdyhas known the criminal at
tempt Which cut off the life of M. Car
not. But as soon as the news reached
Constantinople the papers were ordered
not to mention it Still, as the sultan
was made to understand that it was im
possible to conceal a fact like that of tho
death of the regretted president of the
French republic, Abdul JUamid, answer
ed, 'Let them say that he died from
i.poplexy.' He feared that the event
might suggest to one of his subjects the
;dea of imitating Caeeria"
j. A Dancer In Kurdistan.
' The performers had already drawn
themselves up in line when I arrived,
and a minute later the shrill notes of
the pipe gave the signal for tho dancing
to commence. Some score of young
men and women stood shoulder to shoul-
der, clasping hands, the line forming a
crescent. At the given signal, the clap
ping of his hands by a youth who stood
in front of the semicircle of performers,
the dance commenced, the entire line of
men and women stepping slowly for
ward and then back again, each pace
being taken a little to the right, so that
a rotating movement was given to the
string of dancers. As the music quick
ened so did the pace, and at eachitep
tho body from the waist upward was
bent forward and drawn back. Nor were
the steps themselves the same, for the
youth who.gaje them time ran up and
down thelinef clapping his hands and
singing and shouting directions arid
changes.
The principal feature of the dance
seemed to be the bringing down of 'tho
right foot smartly upon the ground at
intervals, when, hand in hand, the
wholo company remained with their
bodies bent for a second or two, to spring
back into position again at a fresh blow
of tho pipes. Meanwhile the slow rotat
ing movement was maintained, eo that
the entire body was circling round the
musicians. What laughter and fun
there were ! Meu and girls giving them
selves up to tho enjoyment of their na
tional dance, which, graceful and exhil
arating, bore no trace of the sensual
movements which usually mark the art
of dancing in the east Blackwood's
Magazine.
Inception of Fish Hatching.
During the middle ages, and through
out tho period of the European predomi
nance of tho church of Rome, the neces
sity of providing a proper supply of fish
for use on Fridays and during Lent did
much to create a species of fish culture.
That this did not extend to fish hatch
ing, but stopped short at inclosing and
regulating the supply of iresh water
fishes, seems to us probable. At the
same time, tho Romans were at leasts
acquainted with the securing of oyster
spat, and from this to the artificial
hatching of fish ova does not seem a very
long step or one that may not really
have been taken. The probability is,
however, that tho cost of such artificial
Jy.produced fish would have been far; be
yond the purses of the multitude, and
the wealthy had viviers and ponds in
which they kept their own fish for their
own use.
The extent to which they have gone
may be judged by tho system' -in-use
among tho monks of the monasteries and
the great seigneurs of the continent,
which was also introduced into this
country, probably by the Normans orig
inally. The absence of proper conveys
ances for the supply of sea fish to the
inland parts of the country made it im
perative' for the various proprietors to
mef their own necessities. In doing so
they did hot fail to discover that certain
fishes required a particular kind of
"cultch" upon which to fix their spawn.
As the supply of this material was an
acknowledged necessity this may be
considered : tho first step toward fish
hatching. Scottish Review.
The Ways of the FijianB.
The national character of Fiji find3
its best expressiou in the songs once
common among the natives, but now,
under Christian influences, almost ob
solete. These songs, or mekkes, as they
are called, generally recount the story
of some ancient hero, of some military
campaign or naval expedition, or per
haps of a peaceful fishing excursion.
They are generally sung of evening3
by the men onjy, who assemble for the
purpose in one of their long, low huts.
Here they sit in solemn state on, mata,
laid upon tho. ground, the only light be-i
ing that of a smoky fire in. ono end. Ac-
cording to Major AbercTombip, an eye-
witness )f ?'the ceremony ,one man be-:
gins the chant alone; a second soon"-
joins him, then a few more, rill finally
all present have taken it up, accompa
nying the wild music by much panto
mime and earnest gesticulation. The
time is beaten upon a wooden drum by.
on of their number, and is occasionally
accentuated by a general clapping of the
hands. After a certain climax has been
reached the niusic stops quite abruptly
with one loud clap. Popular Scieuce
Monthly.
Ingenuity a la Dortielaise.
At Bordeaux recently a wine mer
chant, whose business success was about
in keeping with tho bad quality of his
wares, decided-on a bold stroise. livery
day ho assiduously sought out a com
plete list of deaths of tho well to do in
the town, and also the date and hour of
the funeral. He then wrote a letter to
tho deceased, thanking him for the or
der ho had received, and at the very
hour that the relatives were assembled
at the house for tho funeral his dray
arrived with a quantity of wines, and
spirits. The bill Was always paid, ho
one suspecting that he" was being made
the victim of an ingenious trick and
quite convinced . that the dead relative
had given the order. Qalignani Mes-
Interpreting the Koran.
The Koran is at tho same time a reli
gious and political code. AH Mussul
mans admit it to be so, and it cannot be'
expected therefore that, since their reli
gion is connected with their national
policy, they will not make use of the
former to carry out tho latter. Their
policy may be briefly defined namely,
the maintenance of their faith in its
purity by exclusiveness and isolation,
the emancipation of the countries which
have fallen under Christian rule, the
extermination of tho, infidel nations and
races who by refusing to pay tribute for
the redemption of their blood are pro
nou'eed by the prophet to be in a stattf.
of open rebellion against the law and
consequently deserving of death, s En-f :
lightened and tolerant Mohammedans
will endeavor to palliate these precepts
by quotations from the Koran and -Hadis
(traditions), but they are not tho less
cherished creed, the conscientious belief
of upward off 00,000,000 Mohamme
daus English Consular Reports.
Telegraphing.
An expert telegrapher says, "Between
New York and Philadelphia, over a
7't
poppur wire weighing 300 pounds
the mile, 3,000 words pers, minute can
i i i .
do recoraeu, ana wim a copper wire or -850
pounds to the mile 1,000 wdrd3 per.,
minute can be carried from New Yorki
to Chicago."