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THE AMERICAN 3 SUPERSTITIOUS MUSICIANS. lb Producer of st vmili II at Poms Fnnnr I rrju I tort. "Well. I U-lit've in conij siijns," Mid jolly I'narli" Warn 'r, when askod whether he, in particular, and musicians in p-nra'., w. re sii)ertjii tious. rnf'sMr Warner in his life time has been toiiu vie 1 vvhh all the famous mu-ioal oruni at ions of this country. He playtvl K Hat cornet with (iilmore's Uin 1. was W.lin!? vio lin in various cyurilinny orchestras, besides having ha i a Un exvri;nee with circus and iniitivl hands. "If mu.iii'ians are suttitiou8," said he. "It is Ivcause their deal ings with the how iieoplu have made them so. Take, for instance, the man with a yellow clarionet Ho couldn't get a joh even wlthabarn storminr outfit. I le.neml) t when I was a niiMiiU'r of 1 orepauh's eiivus band, when To ay Franks was the leader, Alexan ler Fischer, now solo clarionetist at McVicker's Chicago theater, was one of our men, and he joined with three yellow clarionets. "The other niemlK-rs were very much alarmed at this doleful occur rence and importuned Fischer upon every occasion to get rid of those box wood instruments. The circus per formers 'jot on' to the color of the clarionets, and came running to Leader Franks with ularni pictured on their countenances. " 'If the old man sees those clarionets,1 said Franks, -we'll all get discharged;' and he told Fisher to either buy instruments of another color or paint the ones he had black. Alexander, however, did not have money enough to make the requisite change and told the leader so. "Driven almost to distraction, Franks sent and bought three hand some buffet clarionets and hid them in hia music chest. He then told one of the canvas men to take Fischer's yellow clarionets and drive them in the ring bank for stakes. The man did as ho was directed, and the first thing that Alexander saw that night was his clarionets' mouthpieces and all leing driven into mother earth by lusty blows from a twenty-pound sledge. "Here, what are you doing with my clarionets?' he yelled; but the brawny circus attache paid no atten tion to him, but kept on until nothing more could be seen of the throe 'tuners' but their yellow bells. Fisch er hastened to Franks with tears in his eyes, but was instantly mollified when Tony placed in his hands the new black clarionets. "A yellow base viol is also consid ered the harbinger of bad luck. I re call one instance where a corpulent German engaged at a Louisville thea ter persisted in coming to work with a 'bull-fiddle' the color of a sunflower: Business at the house kept going from bad to worse, but the obstinato bass player continually refused to make a change inthe color of his instrument. "When the curtain went up one Friday night there were but five peo ple in the house, and the members of the orchestra decided that something must be done with that yellow fiddle. After the show they began arguing again with the German, but he re plied that it was all 'tam fool busi ness.' This so exasperated the men that they threw the German and his yellow bass from a second story win dow into the street below, and 'ho never came back.'" FAST STEAM LAUNCH. A Thamas I Iflttsura Iloat Said to He the Swiftest Sinn!: Host Afloat. The Hibernia, a small boat which plies on the river Thames, England, is 6aid by the New York Advertiser to be the fastest boat of its size afloat, and a trip in it is an experience. At ordinary sjieed the Hibernia lK'haves like an ordinary boat, cutting her way through the water and leaving a mod erate impression in the form of shore waves. With a slight touch of the regulator she leaps forward, and as the speed increases she gradually sinks a little by the stern, rises a little by the head, until at a certain speed the bow rises clean out of the water, and the boat Hies along at the top of it, throwing double wall of spray, be tween which she flies at a speed of about twenty-nine miles an hour with the stream and twenty-six and a quar ter miles against the stream. Some idea of the power of this boat may bo gathered from the following statement of dimensions and engine power: n'he length of the boat is 48 feet 8 inches over all; breadth, 7 feet 8J inches; draught 1 foot 4 inches, and depth of propeller below the water line 2 feet o inches. The boiler is of steel, locomotive pattern, with barrel five-sixteenths inch thick, ' quintuple riveted in longitudinal seamj. Th . engines are two-cylinder, both high pressure, 1 inch diameter, stroke ti inches, revolutions about 750 per minute up to 1,050 revolutions per minute when doing the highest speed. The pro .eller has three blades Ci hammered double shear steel, with carefully prepared surface and knife edge, keyed in a wrought steel boss and accurately balanced. The en gines are of small dimensions, except in the wearing and hard working parts, and h the dimensions are very large, and at first glance dispro portionately strong. Every detail has been most care fully designed, and carried out with equally careful workmanship and ex cellent finish. The boat was built chiefly for umpire work at regattas and coaching university crews, and has run over 3,!i00 miles without the touch of a spanner. "A human life," said the senti mental young man, "ia a poem tragic, comic, sentimental, as the case may bo." "Yes," sighed Misa Passeigh, "and so , many of us are rejected manuscripts." SUMMERTIME IN GREENLAND. Prediction That lh Vr.t.r. Hill Yt He I'lace of l opul r lt-sirt- During the hummer n. oaths the temperature usually riiies from 35 to 65 degrees, sax a wri cr in Home and Country, and on m days the heat is such that ou miht 1 par doned for believing t' a! the burning rays shining down ii on the traveler, are those of a tropical sun. The val leys are carpeted with a mantle of green, the srrass in many places grow ing knee high, while dandelions, pop pies, saxifrage, and other wild (lowers are found in profusion and the air is full of insect lift'. Marino birds und garishly colored butterllies dart hither and thither, while the less pleasing mosquito amply demonstrates thai arctic existence does not impair its fiendish persistency or rapacious ap'tite. The iiiht air resounds with the eonfus ! voices of the feath ered tribe, which range from the quick twitter of the swallow to the hoarse qtiouck quonck" of the eider duck Snow is only visible on the high elevations. Indeed, there is the "brawling brook," or "babbling brook," if you please, the leaping mountain torrent, and all tho other ac cessories prescriU'd by ets ani art ists to complete a b -itutiful panorama,. The picture is more striking ou ac count of its bol I contrasts. Forbid ding black clilTs an 1 lofty rock-riblied mountains rear their stately hea Is far above tho verdant valleys, while fur beyond, the green sea is softly caress ing some tall icebergs that are glisten ing in the sun like fantastic fairy pal aces. To-day we travel to liermuda or across tho ocean to Switzerland in search of health or pleasure. Why not go to Greenland? ltmay bo a rash prediction, but 1 feel confident that before many years have passed the north will lecome a favjred if not popular summer resort. Then the man of business, the student, the art ist and their wives and daughters as well, instead of going for the summer to some place they are well acquainted with, such as insipid watering places or tho corresponding fashionable sea side resorts, will set sail for Green land, the new Eldorado of nature's gifts. POOR MARKSMANSHIP. Firing In liotb Army and Navy Lett Ao cumte 1 han Formerly. The training of navy artillerists has, in recent years, been given a good deal of attention, and no end of pow der and shot has been ex penned in target practice designed to serve a more telling purpose in actual war fare should the occasion present it self. It would seem, therefore, that the floating equipments of naval pow ers of to day ought to give good ac counts of themselves in point of marksmanship if called into action, though, according to Cassier's Maga zine, it would be presumptuous to un dertake to foreshadow possible re sults. If, on the other hand, past experi ence counts for anything, there would seem to have been a notable deciine in accuracy in naval gunnery, growing with successive improvements in naval architecture and naval armament. It was estimated some years ago from data furnished by target practice at sea, that a heavy gun must bo dis charged fifty times to make one effective hit. The old smoothbores were credited with killing a man by the discharge of tho gun's weight in shot; in oiner words, three tons of 82 pouuder shot are required for the purpose. Actual service tests with modern high-power guns, however guns weighing twelve tons has, within the past ten or twelve years, shown that it took about sixteen tons of projectiles to accomplish the same thing. It is interesting to note from what statistics are available that the introduction of rilled muskets into the armies has had a somewhat sim- ' ilar result. Tho old-time muskets, it I is said, killed a man by firing at him I his own weight in lead bullets, but the modern rifle in tho hands of the aver age soldier, so it has been figured out, does not effect a fatality until it has discharged twice the man's weight in lead. Both here, as well as in naval shooting, therefore, there has been shown to be an important demand for greater skill and care. Whether this has been met in any measure, fu ture hostilities only will tell. The Difficulty. Dramatic Author Mr. Manager may I venture to ask whether my three-act play has Imen accepted? Manager Well, you see, the throe members of the reading committee have gone through it. and they have come to the conclusion that one act will have to bo struck out. Author Oh! there is no difficulty about that; it is not so bad after all. Manager No, but unfortunately each of the members wants to strike out a different act! I:e V ant I articular. "Sir," remarked the rich father to the suitor, "after the investigations I have made into your character I can not give you my daughter Emma." "All right," answered the persist ent suitor, "than how about one of the others. "' Fiieirende Biaetter. I-ot LaareU. First Express Train Robber Say, this here paper says detectives have been sent out after us. Second Robber, disgustedly Oh, pshaw! Now they'll get all the credit for the beautiful escape we made. Chicago Record. A Delightful t hange. "Well, Jennie," said ons actress to another, "how do you like your new part?" "Oh, for goodness' sake," exclaimed Jennie, "don't let us talk shop." "All right," said the other, "let us talk shopping." New York Press. GOWNS COST flOO EACH. Those Wora on Official Ocraaloa by Jus tire of th Supreme Court. A justice jiays as much for his ro'w of office as he would pay for a Tt ry handsome suit of clothing, says the Washington Star. There is a fixed price for the gown a price w hich doe not vary with the fluctuations in the duties ou silk. One woman has made all the justices' gowns for forty years, and her invariable pi ice for one is tioo. i.iko mo tailors wno make a Secialty of outfits for officers of the army and navy, she knows just hat ar the requirements of a justice's gown and all her customer has to lo con cerned about is its lit. The gown must set well across the shoulders. and it should reach from tho neck to the heels; but it should not drag on the floor. I say floor, In-causo, except on inauguration day, the justice does not wear his gown out of doors. When he attends an official dinner or reception at the White house, he wears tho garb of everyday life; even when he calls on the president on the opening day of the court's session, ho goes in tho clothes he would wear at tho break fast table. If you visited one of the justices ut his home of an evening you would find a pleasant, rather off hand man, in a frock coat, with none of the solemnity of manner that cloaks the justices when they are on tho bench. Tho supremo court justices are by no means unapproachable 1M ... . . iney are, in iacl, considered very jolly after-dinner companions and they are in great demand in social Washington. Tho justice wears his rolxs only when the supremo court, as a body, is participating in some official ceremony. He may go gowned to a funeral, if it is an official funeral. He wears it. as ine inauguration ot a president, but ordinarily he puts it on in tho robing room in the morning and takes it oil hi tho robing-room at dusk. Ho does not wear it even in the consulting-room, so there is very little wear and tear on it, and one robe will outlast several suits of clothing. According to the technical descrip tion of it, the judge's robe is made of large, straight widths of silk. It is three and a quarter yards wide at the bottom. It has a narrow hem around the bottom and a broad hem down the front. It is guagod at the top to a yoke, which is short on the shoulders and forms a deep scallop at the back. The flowing sleeves are a yard and a quarter wide and reach to the wrist. A justice usually accepts his first gown without question; but as he grows a little older on the bench he is as fussy about the fit of the garment as a young woman with her first ball dress. Having donned their robes with the aid of the old attendants and they are old enough to be con spicuous even in this city of long ser vicethe justices, at a few minutes before noon, cross the hall to the ante-room of the court. Tho transit of the justices is a matter of daily in terest and wonder to tho visitors at the capitol. It is the signal for a raid a very subdued, dignified raid on the door of the courtroom, where a doorkeeM'r sits, solemnly manipulating the swinging door with a cord. Only so many people are admitted to the courtroom, and the number is small. There are but a few rows of benches outside the inclosure reserved for the members of the bar. No crodwing of tho courtroom is permitted. An ( mpoirtlhle House. The man and his wife called on th architect, and the architect was glad to see them, for business was ex tremely dull. "We want you to build a house for us," said tho man by way of introduc tion. "Thanks," bowed the architect, "I shall be only too glad to do so, and I am quite sure that I can give entire satisfaction." "Well, you ought to," remarked the lady, "we don't want much." "What kind of a house did you wish?" inquired the architect. "We want a good plain one of about eight rooms," explained the man, and we will leave the design to you. All we exeet is that when you have finished it will suit my wife and my self. I mean on the inside; we are not so particular about the outside." The architect heaved a deep sigh. "I'm very sorry," he said, "but you will have to go to some other archi tect We can't design an impossible house in this office.'' Detroit F'ree I'ress. A Deep-Laid Srheme. "Yours is a perplexing case," said the oculist. "You call red 'purple' and referred to Nile green as 'Turkey red.'" "Yes." replied the visitor, with a contented smile. "I guess I was born that way." "It's the most aggravated case of color-blindness I ever encountered in my professional experience. "That's it. I want jvou to write me out a statement to that effect. Never mind what the fee is. You see, my wife has a lot of samples she wants matched, and she'll ask mo to take the job some time next week, sure." And then the oculist had his suspicions. Washington Star. Dowd'I roildn Bachelor of Core. In Corea every unmarried man is considered a boy. though he should live to be 100. No matter what his ago he follows in position the young, est of the married men, despite the fact, perhaps, of having lived long enough to be their father. For I urpo.e of Comparison. Early rising is a great thing," said the enthusiastic man; "a great thing." "Yes," responded the sluggard. "It makes you appreciate tho chance for a nap in the morning when you get it." MANNA EATERS. Th l'eile of Arabia anil From Tenia Maka II From Isniirht Uramhaa. In some of the 1 astern countries, uotulily Arabia ami IVr-m. a manna answering dowdy to that mentioned in the scriptures is still naturally pro duced in some considerable quantity, says Good lluiisfko -ping. It comes from the tender 1 uucac of the tama risk, and is k now n to the I'ei nians by the name of "tamarisk honey." It consists ot tear-Ilk. 1 drops, which ex ude in cousequenec of Um puneture of an insect during ti e months of June and July, in the cool of the morning it is found solidified, and the congealed tears may lo shaken from the limbs. That, in fact, is one of the met hods of gathering manna. Herodotus alludes to the same nut.'it iious product, to that there is no doubt it has lieen known in those regions from tho ear liest ages. It is easy to see how it might bo produced in wonderful quan tities without any speriul manifesta tion of the siiHTtiaturaI. It is a sweetish substance, pleasant to the taste and highly nutritive. Soiiio students of the bible have sup posed the manna there mentioned to have Ixicn a fungus growth; but while the explanation would be a natural one, tho modification which it would require is an unnecessary one. There are numerous interesting things, nevertheless, about tho various kinds of fungi, which modern exjiertmenta tion has decided to be edible; and not only that, but highly palatable and nutritive. What country boy of an imaginative nature but has frolicked in mlmio warfare with imaginary foes, getting the smoke for his artil lery and Infantry from tho numerous "puffballs which a convenient pas ture afforded, while his own lung power furnished tho "crash and roar and cheer" for the inspiring contest! Yet science has demonstrated that those very puffballs were once good to sat in fact, capable of furnishing the most dainty nourishment. When you have read your paper send it to some friend in some remote corner in some county in the state, and ask him to pass It around among his neighbors. Also rt quest him to send for sample copies, and add his name to our list for one year. 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