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ae aSJetliof Employed ..oc Abutlnjf it NnWauce. Wcute I'rtxlnct Wablojf .h Common lilrarboautA. -igo ns it may Koem, alx"t all of our ,n u.l baking wxla is olAained irli ,Iy from our common table Bait. Not .Jistantlm;; tlie fnot Hint lurgo quantities Jtiwxo compounds occur in many parts of tho earth, it bus Ih.-ii foun.l moro profitable ami more lesirnllo to manufacture them, trwn .though the pnioetifl is n long awl com plicated on", rathrr than to ni'-reiy mino und urify mat'-rinU. Anions tho more im oriaiit .-nl;ti" wbeiv I li- y art found native may In? !in;:it:ijfii t!i n-.l:i lakes of Kypt nri'l Central Afiici, tho Ixjidorsof tho Ca I'lafi and mm, in ."al foi'iiiri, lluiico and many j.rirts f South America. Tho n iTudo coming f rom the dillcrout places coos under various name. osTro Jsa, Natron, L'rao, A:c Another source of supply li tbo ashes of m-a. weed." arid of plant growing on tho coast. The be.l weeds arc collected by tho inhabi tants, drii-d, burned and tlio ashes treated with water, lixiviated, as is teo-huicuily ternx-d. The water is then boiled down or concentrated, when tho soda crystallizes out. Though tho yield of soda from a given quan tity (( sea weed is very small, it lieing buid that it takes twenty-four tons of dried weeds to niak'j .'A to 10 pounds of soil a, etill there ro a great many ieop)o engagyl in tho bui ncsti; ut ono time over &),t0) peoplo in tho Orkney i.-lauds alono followed it for a livelihood. Of course, there are n few other substances obtained at the same time which somewhat increaso tbo income, but tho Krxla is tho main ono. Tho soda from this soureo also has several names, among tho moro common of which are Barilla, Sal Bola Sx!a and Varec J ii a sjsvially constructed fuma-e well warmed oil of vitriol or sulphuric acid is added in certain prortions to heated com mon salt. A violent action takes place and inimeris1 quantities of an curved ingly suffo cating gas are given ofT. When tho reaction lias ecasil t ho misluro is shoveled or raked into another part of tho furnace, where it is heated to a much higher temperature. More of t hcsanio fvs ' now given olfand tho sultlunci! foi ine.i ;:i t lie mixing of the acid and sait, clieuiiv-aliy known as bisulphato of nofla, is converted into tho normal pulphat of sod, or, us it is commonly called, Lilau Lcr's salti This is tho "salt cake" of the fac tory hands. For a long time tho pas giver oir was a soureo of great troublo. It is very rotable in water forming mururlic acid, and it is from this soureo that we obtain the acid found in commerce. Xow, at first the gal was allowed to escape directly into tho atmo rihcro from tho factory chimneys and uniting with tho watery vapor fell as a rain of muri atic acid, killing all vegetation within a long distance, and c-fon tho fish in tho neighboring streams. Thus many fertile parts of the fountry wore converted into barren wastes. continued until a law was jaised com pelling t'ro manufacturer? to abate tho nui sance, whirh was accomplished by passing tho pas through "scrubbers. B These are high towers filled with coke, over which water is kept constantly trickling. Tho water ab sorbs the pas end thus tho difliculty is over come. Tl:e risidtiir.; liquid (crude muriatic acid) is largely ut-d in making bleaching jowder, and is really u bout tho only source of profit now to tho soda manufacturers. We Lave hero n very good illustration of tbu fact that a substa-ir-u which is regarded as t waste product end thrown away often turns tut talm iu'tu valual.'.o than the main sub Sauces ousht to bo obtained when its com position has leo!i determined and a use found for it. How well do wo feo this same fact demonstrated in t':e enso of tho manufacture t'f common i!a;i?:iii(ii:r.-:; pas. A few years go men were paid for carting away waste inaterial v. bicli today produces sveril time. tLe amount of protit that all tho coke and pss toget her pay. Hut to po on with our firoces: tho "salt rako is r.i'.tcd with chalk or marble and -oal, tlx rnixriire is put ir.to what is known i.s n reverbcratory furi:::co and fused. The t-nlphato of b;.i cenverted into tho car I oi:ate f.f s-.nl.i, a'.J t hfcli-irk into thoosysul hido of ca!ci':p5. T'.ie mixture of thc.o two Milptancr which has a dark color duo to tho presence? somo Kivl-ron'st'tl coal, is called 'black i..-:U,n whi t-:.-t procc-.- it lf is tech ideally known as "baiiin,." Tha "black ash" is then di--?v! veil i.j water and allowed to stand so tha: some of tho impurities and tho coal can settle This solution after care ful decanCation is ov-porated to drync-ssand tho resr.lt '.n 5 y-AUl lvteil to rclncss. Soda ash or crtido carlr"pat-j of s1 is tho result, and it is from this Miljstri'i.-o that oar wash ii:e ati-1 baking sodas aru diro..'tly mails. Too'-taiu Ba-liia;,' srxli tho eod;t nsh it dis eolveii :n be: water un:. the water V.-.7. not dissolve any morn n:;d tho solution allowed to stand uutli all iUo soL l imparities have settled to tha bott im. Tho clear liquid is thn carefully drawn off into very shallow Iron pans so t'.ict a lrvre sunaco may be ex posed to tho c-r and thj evaporation, of water go on more rapidly. Tho refined carbonate of soda gradually crystallizes, but forming large masses. These masses of crystals ere now collected, and a'tr tho adhering h'quid has been drained from them they are packed In barrels and sent into commerce r s wash ing soda, la this conthtxm they contain over CO per cent, of water, bence when ono Nys ten pounds of washing soda ho pays for f pounds of water and but four pounds cf ko baking soda they dissolve tbo soda water and let it stand and settle, wasning s-da, but it is further Altering t through" layers of i boua black. The oda is then jt and drained. After drain ound into a coarse powder and .o cakes baving ticks running khotn. These cakes aro placed op ied shelves in specially constructed it rooms, wheck have a capacity of en tons of soda. Aijer the room has led the door is closed and locked and i acid gas, formed by burning coal, '-a by means of a blower. The soda this atmosphere for from three raontii, at the end of which time Sod enough of the pas to change bonate to Uio bicarbonate of ter is our baking soda, The tied and the cakes taken out. j ken into halves and the f rcsb led by an expert, who judges "nco to what grade the pieces . ting over, the cakes ara put ' resembling a coffeo raU Tounfl to a coarse powder mveyed to other mill, "ue. It is then packe 1 ont into the market. rts is of bJL a." T ia that n a prominent J has purchased in j, dated 171C, for . , - s Tlo gathering of buffalo bones has ugain becotiM a business at Manitoba. Chicago recently ordered 850 carloads. Tlio English Volapuk dictionary which i.s to bo issued this year will be the first of its kind either in this countryfir in England. People in Alaska at this time of the year can Eeo to read without artificial liht from 2 o'cloc k in the morning untd 1 1 at night. A Boston professor who has married a distinguibhed senior classic presented his bride for a wedding gift with tho works of Plato, Sophocles and Dante. Tho Oregon Alpine club will anchor a copj?r box to the very aiex of Mount Hood. It is to lo a dejMXitory of record to all making tlie ascent. There is a coichman ut Saratoga who is attracting a great deal of attention by his wonderful resemblance to tho pictures of the first Duke of Wellington. Rarely has such a harvest been known in Ru.sbia as that of the present year. Tho granaries are already filled to over flowing, and farmers aro puzzled to know what to do with the surplus. At an English diruicr party tho table was covered with a white satin cloth, on which were placed large sacks of white satin tied with 6ilver cords, from which a wealth of white flowers 6eemed to be tumbling. A cynic at a summer hotel finds amuse ment in the number of broken cushes. I le says he expects to hear at least one terrific crash of crockery every day in tho dining room, and during a visit of three weeks he has not been disap pointed. Pennsylvania ha3 some girls worth having. In the lraying season a gentle raan during a short drive counted nine young women driving two-horso mowers, and seventeen managing horse rakes. Tho colossal statue of John Marshall, who is reputed the first discoverer of gold in California, represents him as a back woodsman, holding a nugget in his right hand, whilo his left hand points down ward. Tlie statue will stand on Marshall hill in Eldorado county, where Marshall first found gold. A Philadelphia boy, who was anxious to follow in the footsteps of Buffalo Bill, lassoed a lady in the 6treets tho other day and was held in $500 bail for his future good behavior. Tlie little fellow prac ticed on the hydrant for several days be fore ho tried his hand as a public per former. At Portsdown Hill, England, an ex tremely curious graveyard relic was re cently found. It was a human skeleton in a good state of preservation, which was buried in the chalky soil of the local ity in tho second century. The skeleton was six feet in length, and in its left hand were found twenty-two Roman coins. A remarkable funeral took place at Binghamton. Dr. "Wheaton, an old and iniluential citizen, a believer in the dogma of "good cheer," died, after hav ing directed that no outward signs of mourning be assumed at his funeral. Accordingly the friends of the family, when they met at the appointed hour, were astonished to find the widow and daughters of the deceased attired in tho purest white and wearing bouquets of llowers. The corpse lay on a sofa cov ered by a many colored robe, and was not removed to the coffin until the last moment. A few days ago a fly flew into the ear of John Lord, who lives near Athens, Ga. He got the insect out almost im mediately and thought no moro about it until he was awakened in the night by a violent itching in the ear. The itching became a pain, and that increased until tho man was almost crazy. He sought a doctor, who, with conbideablo difliculty, brought out eleven well developed and very active maggots, which had liatched from tho eggs laid by that fly during its brief 6tay in Mr. Lord's ear. The Deposed King of Samoa, King Malietoa, who was infamously betrayed and deposed from the Samoan throne last year by the Germans, is now a prisoner at Cameroons, Africa. He writes to a friend: "In the good provi douco of Gcd I tun well, and the young men r.lo who have come here with me. There are three of them. Alesana and Aisake, of Apia, and Tali, tha son Of I'omare, who was with us in old times at Malua. This country is very hot, like Samoa. Cccoanuts are plentiful, and aL-o bread fruits and bananas. Here, however, fever is prevalent, and jt does not agree with us. The governor is kind to us in the way of food. "We have bread, and tea, and rice, and bananas also as our food. Nothing has been said to mo as to the time we are to remain here, or as to when we may re turn to our own land in Samoa. The governor, however, has sai4 that my brother and I are to remain hero at Cam eroons, but Aisake and Tali are soon to return to Samoa. I keep at a distance from all spirit drinking. "We do not go aboufe at liight. When it geta dark we go into our house and s4t there. Wo are afraid to go about this place at jught." Foreign Letter. Character of a- School. A school never ought to depend fc its character on the exceptional excellence or success of a few of its masters. If it does, these few reputations may become cloak3 for a vast amount of poor work, and the character of. the school, as a Echool, is a eliam. without any element of fixity in it. The ordinary arrange ments should have a strong tendency, at least, to insure sound work, from the lowest to the highest class. George R. Parkin in The Century. Gladstone's fvivat library. Gladstone's private library contains 15,000 volumes, and the venerable states man can lay his hand on any one book of them at a minute's notice. "I have cot a single book that I am not on In timate terms wivh," Jsew York Prass. With all her natural modesty, woman has less b&Ehfulness than man - Uncle Esek. - T1TE FAN IN JAPAN. DETAILS OF THE PROCESS OF DE SIGNING AND MANUFACTURING. A Great Variety of Colors Applied -by Mraus of ltlocks of Cherry Wood I'an for Gentlemen of Taste The Tan's Mauy Vbc Etiquette. Among the scenes of unique interest which arrest the eye of the traveler in Japan one finds ouo's self well repaid for a visit to the fan makers. Few of thotte who visit the curios shops to purchase these gaudy trifles have any idea of tho meaning of their pict uresque demons or tho method by which they are made. Yet this handicraft does really more to odvertiso Japan thun any other manufacture. Funs are made by thousands of independent laborers, centralized capital and labor for tho manufacture of works of art and handicraft being as yet little known in Japan. The principal workers in this trade are found in Tokio, Kioto, Nagoya and Fukui. We have have watched tho operation from beginning to end the splitting of bamboo, the cutting and pastiugof delicate rice paper by tho girls, the artistic, dainty picturing, tho finishing and packing. They are some times inscribed with classic quotations, Ioetry, statistical tables, ahnaunc lore, maps, pictures of noted places and congratulations. Often theso are made to depict life, customs, architecture in Europe, or even Yokohama, that city being the immediate link between tho Japanese and foreigners. Thus are the fans in the household, of which there aro many, made to educate tho family. Tho design for tlie pictures on un ordinary flat fan is first drawn on thin paper, then pasted on a block of cherry wood and en graved; afterward printed from this by lay ing tho fan pajer on the block and pressing smoothly. Japanese books have been printed in this way for centuries prior to the late changes in tho empire. Tho variet3' of colors are put on with not infrequently as many as twenty blocks. Often the picture papers have the choicest of perfumes laid between them before being pasted on the frame, then finished with ivory handles, inlaid and gold lacquered. FOR GENTLEMEN OF TASTE. Gentlemen of luxurious tastes have largo collections of these refreshing trifles, with autograph inscriptions and pictures from celebrated artists. A very dainty custom in vogue is to exchange fans as wo do photo graphs. We, as foreigners, are supposed to do things upside down. In this country the large, flat fans are for tho use of gentlemen, but in Japan it would be a diro breach of etiquette, as these are used exclusively by women. Tho gentleman always carries a folding fan in his girdle or bosom, usually elegantly decorated. If he is a scholar or author, when he invites hi3 literary friends to his houso they must go prepared to in scribe this dainty bit of refreshment offered them on arrival. A rack of silver hooks, or a tubular fan holder is found in every house of the least pretention. Japan uses the fan for a great variety of purposes; made of stout paper to winnow grain, for dust pans and charcoal fire blow ers; of waterproof paper for dipping in water and as a vaporizer, for producing ex tra coolness to tho face. There are double winged fans for the juggler, who makes a butterfly of paper flutter up the edge of a sword, for the judges at wrestling matches and for tho daucing girl, who makes her fan a part of her own graceful motion and classic pose. In charming grace of manner the Japanese are unequalod, and secret though decorous love is often expressed in artistic use of the fan till consummated by openly avowed attachment. As tokens of good feeling and polite atten tion Americans are not infrequently tho re cipients of costly fans from their Japanese friends. On a certain special occasion, ac companying an invitation to dinner, tied with daintiest silk corn on perfumed paper, was a tray of confections and sponge cake iu a lacquered box of exquisite make and a case cf three rare, painted fans, each tied in silk napkins. On leaving the empire, a family with whom delightful relations had been estab lished, sent as a parting gift a beautiful gold lacquered cabinet, in one of the drawers of which was found a number of perfumed fans of elegant manufacture, which will be lifelong keepsake. iu niemcry of the aesthetic Japanese. -Ifalon H. S. Thompson in Good Housekeeping. RuatU'i Stalwart Soldiers. TLe Cossacks ere closely connected with Muscovite history. They conquered Siberia and kept the Turks in check iu the south ; they crossed the St. Gothard under SouvarofT and entered Paris with Platoff ; they excited the admiration of Napoleon I, and later on, la tho last war, they crossed the Balkans, led by Gen. Gourko, and performed wonders of valor and recklessness. As a reward for their glorious services this heroic population enjoys special privileges. Jn 1S7D the Cos sack were declared proprietors of tho lands they had cultivated and the Black Count try" became their fatherland. The Cossack is a soldier at 17 and wears the uniform till he is 50. lie is ever in readiness to obey any order, to start as an escort on a reconnois sance or as the bearer of dispatches. When he returns to his bom a he tills the land, raises cattle, breeds horses, works salt mines, or fishes. The steppes of the Don are the hunter's Eldorado. Stalwart, strong, active and abstemious, the only exception to the Cossack's frugality is his inordinate passion for tho alcohol he calls vodki, of which b6 imbibes enormous quantities. Their Cossack capital. Novo Tcherkask, situated at the entrance of a broad, deep valley, resembles a chess board with straight avenues intersecting it of such unusual width that whole regiments can easily maneuver between the rows of houses. The nobility entertain during the winter, and even the modern improvements of tram cars and telephones have been introduced. The country is a mine of glory, wealth and power for Russia, and the Cossacks are her best soldiers. The Emperor A'exander draws all his cavalry from the territory of the Ukraine. "iL de S." in New York Sun. J'Send for Kelly." "Send for Kelly," was an expression that was sometimes used by the late Gen. Sheri dan when he was provoked into impatience by the discovery of soma extraordinary act of foolishness on the part of an ovcrzealous or idiotic person. "Kelly" is the name in the trcay for "the fool killer," and the tradition is that when "Kelly" was sent for and let loose he would cause fearful slaughter in the ranks of the blunderers and stupid people, on whose account his services were invoked, singling out his victims with an unerring in telligence and dispatching them without quarter. Washington Cor, Jew York Times. The season waaes; we soon shall se For whom the pennant was designed, And happy will the umpire be Who tfcea all re himself shall find. Bones jpgmrfcr. A BIG SNAKE STORY. A Reptile as Cnlqne a the) Sea Serpent The I'orpolite Sntike. I, alone, one day in June, was fishing on the banks of tho bayou Yucatan, under the sbadii of an oak, iu north Louisiana, having left my nail bout several hundred yards from me, in order to escape the hot sun. I had hardly i-eated in)self conveniently when a dark object was seen approaching on the surface of tho water. At iirt I thought it was an alligator, but on closer observation discovered it to be an enormous creeping H-r-ioiit. When this huge monster was within a few yards of the sjvot w hero I was scaled I gathered some stones ubout the size of goose eggs and struck him eleven times, a:id, strange to relate, the blows did not appear to worry him to any great degree, as ho never once left the surfoco of tho water, but continued unconcernedly ut a slow pace up stream. I immediately left my rod and reel and hastily scanqiered to my boat. It was only a question of several minutes before I was in midstream in hot pursuit of this object, which was soon overtaken. When within close proximity I noticed it to bo blind and apparently harmless. Fearing, however, nu attack, I seized my rifle, and, taking uini ut its head, fired. The bullet lodged in the col lar bone and broke his neck. There was a slight movement of the tail, a little slashing of the water, and all was over, the monster floating down stream. Curious to learn tho species of this peculiar reptile, a mado a lasso from a .stout rope which I had iu my boat and threw it around its body, tnus enabling me to tow it ashore. A critical examination developed the fact that I had captured a monster snake never before seen by me. It had a hend resent' if hi": a long funnel shaped bv; :., io Uiiy be.ng similar to small kegs joined together. What made matters more queer, each keg had a bunghole (some of the bungs being on top and some on the sides). Iluuling tho tail o:i the bank (which was by no means an easy task), out of curiosity to learn the contents of tho kegs, I opened one of the bungholes by means of a jackknife, and found it to contain a very fine purified oil. Just at this juncture my uucle. who is an old fisherman and has been a member of tho city council, came up, and the minute his eyes fell on the captive, with frantic gesticu lations ho exclaimed that I had captured a valuable porpoise snake, seldom seeu in these waters. The oil in the kegs I found to be pure, un adulterated porpoise oil. I had twelve forty nine gallon oil barrels sent to tho bank and filled them all. Tho oil was shipped to the most extensive watch making establishment in this country, and brought a handsome sum. By way of explanation, I would say that this snake obtains the oil by plunghig its sharp head into the sido of the porpoise and drains every drop of' oil from its body. The snake had fifty-three kegs and was sixty-nine feet long. I still have jossessioii of the kegs and bungs (the head having decayed), which I 'prize. Should any one doubt the veracity of this statement, I can exhibit tho kegs and bungs. New Orleans Picayune. Clearing u Railroad Wreck. A gentleman tells me that he has seen one of the most extraordinary pieces of executive dispatch in his life. "I was coming down the Hudson River road," ho said, '"two or three days ego, when the train was stopped by a wreck near Hudson. A freight train had been thrown off the track. Tho engine was lying imbedded in a hole, one car was ly ing across the track; another had lost its trucks and was flat on tho track, and the tender of the locomotive was also deeply im bedded. We had waited there an hour and a half or two hours, and twenty trains had been stopped. They had yanked one of the cars up on jack screws, as if to run trucks under it, and then get it out of the way. It looked as if we were going to stay until night, and wo began to think about finding a steamboat or buggy or something to get on to New York, when all at once an engine and wreck ing car heaved in sight, liefore tho engine had come to a stop -we could hear tho roadninster's voice ring out, giving his orders before he had seen tho sit uation. He seemed to be as familiar with everything on the spot as if ho had been there all night. There was an engine off at some distance, but doing nothing. He called out to tho engineer to come up and make fast to the buried locomotive. In half a minute the en giue was attached and pulling to get the other out of the hole, and at the second effort the great mass of iron came up suddenly, and was hauled out of the road. "Pass that rope over the top of that car, and make fast to the tree younder," he cried. It was done. -Now 500 of you lay hold of that rope," he shouted. The entire little army, under the inspiration of that voice, lay hold of the rope, using tho treo for a purchase, and they pulled tho car across tho track square and out of tho way by main strength. "Come on here with that engine," he cries again, "make fast to this trucu." With an other tremendous pull the whole thing came out ot the ground like a tree by the roots, and wa3 rushed off. "Now start that first traiu," cried the mu. ' Iu less than two min utes from the time of his arrival, what looked to be a week's job was out of the way, and tho passengers went on. New York Letter. A Child's Solo In Church. An interesting incident was the first ap pearance in public of a young singer who holds a responsible position as soprano in one of the leading choirs of the city. Before the young lady was more than S or 4 years old she accompanied her mother to church, and to her the singing was by far the most im portant part of the service. The child's voice was pleasing, being much admired by those of the congregation who heard her. On one occasion the minister announced the hymn which is usually sung to the tune "Green field." The little singer felt that she wa3 familiar- with this tune and could do justice to the hymn. As the first stanza was sung the child's voice ascended above the others, and many in the congregation stopped singing to listen to the young singer. When the second stanza was begun tho few who took up the air with the choir stopped singing, and as the choir continued with the regular words of th hymn the child took up a solo, which was heard all over the little church. In clear tones she sang "Go Tell Aunt Nabby," etc., a song adapted to "Greenfield," the familiar tane. Troy Times. 1'ariV Educated Beffr. There is in Paris, a current story has it, an educated beggar in the person of a young man formerly a pupil of the Ecole Normale, whose modus operandi is as follows: He cozies up to the terrace of a cafe, and ad dressing himself to the most intelligent look ing man present, invites him to ask any his torical question he can think pf, any date of French " history, from the earliest to th present time, saying, "I will answer at once," He generally fulfills bis promise with remarkable alacrity ,'and with equal sagacity passes around the bat. Chicago Herald. f Ljue Now la tho time for EopuU. political doctrine among tbo paopl j, atw . eubscrlblng for THE DAIL Y INTEu Which la a reliable, active, and ablo exponent of Ropu. trlnos. A3 A NEWSPAPER It is unexcolled by any PUL It has been FORC3INO TO THE FRONT rapidly In tho last t. tho lseuo BETWEEN PROTECTION AND FRES TRADE b nent, It baa had A RE3ULAR BOOM. Th3 caujo U apparet- OCEA N la the only RELIABLE PROTECTION Published In Chicago, and PROTECTION 13 NgWTIIE Rjv ISSUE, Every f rlond of trua Republicanism ought to help swell tL-, growth. Why should a Republican aid tho onemy by iwitronlzlng FREE-TL. NEWSPAPERS, and thu3 dlssomlnatlng false political doctrino3 ? Mow i the time to tutiserlbe a ml to induce other to do the tame thing. Subscribe throush your newedoa lor or potitraaotor, or Bond dlroct. cial rates offered lor tho campaign. Samplo copidd Bont on roquoat. f THE INTER OCEAN, Chicago. I. 2? 33 33 ZLi 3XE .A. 2NT,i DKALKIt IX -AND ALL HOUSEHOLD GOODS. -LATEST WOTDOW KEl'T CONSTANTLY ON HAND. SIXTH STREET, LET. MAIN AND -DEALERS IN Frine Staple and -llc.nlduarters Fruits and Oranges1, Lemon.-:, Iiauans Canned Fruits PRICES LOW. 2ain Strost Jo.VATlIAil XI ATT. JW AaPBEfAW CITY MEAT IOTA PORK PACKERS and peai.kks ix RUTTER AND EGG'S. BEEF, PORK, 3lL"JT0i ANi) VEAL. THE BEST THE MARKET AFFORDS ALWAYS ON HAND. 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