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FREAKS OF LIGHTNING Nat fx lldfrilml Mct-lU Art loo aa aa Exalaatva. So mysterious and little under stood is electricity even now that it U so widely utilised tor mechani al purpose, that iu vagaries in nature excite the utmost interest. Tbe question recently discussed by Italian scientists, a to whether a bird could foe strm k by lightning seems to be answered iu the affirmative by the destruction of a whole i ock of wild geese on Apru .-0 last Twenty two of them. flying north over Casnovia. Mich., were slain by a bolt troin the sky. Such an entraordluary event would have been regarded a an ominous portent a century or two agu The action of lightning as an explos ve is a subject that haselicited special attention from the weather bureau of late i p to date no theory has been lound to account for it satisfactorily. On April ..0, a brick house at neokuk, Iowa, was struck aud as completely wrecked as if a bombshell had done the work One day earner a farm house near Kiowa. Kaa., the property of I. it. Streetcr, was completely ruined by a boit, the roof, doors, and windows lookiiiK as if they had beeu shot full of holes. At Bari.erton, Ohio, on June 1-, Is the dwellng of William Martin war literal!.- torn to fragments by a sim ilar agency. Inasmuch as 200 people are killed eve y year by lightni.ig in the I uited Mates special protection .or the per son is surely called for. One in genious scientist mentioned bv the i Philadelphia Times has d-vised an umbrella with small cop, er chains attached to the ends of the ribs. These are long enough to reach the ground. A thunder-storm coming up, they are loosened and permitted to dangle, while the owner of the contrivance walks along In perfect gecurity. Under such circumstances metal about one's body is dangerous for example, the wires in a lady's bonnet, but this peril may be over come by fastening similar chains or copper threads to the Iramework of the headgear. Though a bolt should destroy the bonnet, the electricity would spare the weaier and pass off into the ground. An instan e on re ord Is that or a lady who raised her arm to shut a window as rain be gan to fall on a summer's day. There was a sudden blaze of light and. though she was unharmed, her. gold bracelet disappeared so that no ves tige of it could be found. A sul phurous smell was observed in the air. This, scientific men say, Is quite usual when lightning strikes, being due to an excess of o one generated by the electricity. The atmosphere in its usual condit on contains one-teii-tboasandth part of o o.ie. When this proportion is increased incon venience is felt by men and animals. It das been suggested that some times persocs found dead after a stroke of lightning, though showing no marks of injury, may have been suffocated by o. on ' Lightning does occasionally strike twii e in the same place. A few years ago St Aloysius' Chu ch In Wash ng ton surlered. A Hash ran down the lightning rod to within twenty feet of the ground. Then it left the rod, passed tnrougn twenty lect of air space to a water pipe and broke awashstand. Six years later the same thing was repeated in every de tail, the eicctricly lear.ng the rod at the same point, jumping to the water pipe and srua-hirig to pieces the washstand, which had not been mended. The church of the Incar nation, in Washington, was also badly bit To prevent a repetition of the ac idem the- edifice was pro tected by a very elaliorate and costly system of rods. The most important rod, of tourse, p:otccts the steeple It ought to terminate in a sharp point, but the church authorities thought it more appropriate that it should be surmounted by a cross, on top of which was placed a rooster. Thus the usefulness of the defensive contrivance has been almost wholly destroyed, for so it stands at pres ent The introduction of lightning rods Id Roman Catholic countries was trongly opposed on religious ground-. Pious persons declared that the de vices were of the devil, an I called theiu ' heretic rods." It was a long time lefore thech rches would adopt them, though buildings of that de scription have al.-. ays been the great est sufferers from celestial Ore. on account of their tali steeples. Dur ing the last century a certain church in Gorinthla was struck so otten that cervices were discontlnuedduring tho summer months. It was hit four or Ave times a year on an average. In 1778 a rod was put on, and there was no further trouble. At Stratsund, In Fomeranla. a church was the scene of a very appalling occurence. On a Sunday, the building being full of people, a bail of tire entered and fell upon the altar, thereupon explod ing and doing great damage. Aa to the nature of phenomena of this tort science knows almost noth. log. Such globular tigbtning l seen oeite oiteo, dui nobody can guess how It is formed. All that can be Old la that it is electricity very high ly concentrated. Balls of lightning are sometimes seen rolling along the aarface or toe sea Occasionally they strike vessel. Aa a rule they burst violently with a load noise and dis astrous effect , . . To & OMw Itweec The ScleotMe American tell bow to keep cider tweet It says tbat pare, owset cider, that is arrested in tte process or fermentation before It tfcoae acetic acid, or even atoobol, U with carbon ia acid worked nut . . . .tik.ii l B in oi hi bhjb wiawiu never f aad give the foilowtaf tclea .Xbstbodof treatlotT ft to pre. He wee toe, VTUm Ce tax hariow matter, by testa Uttea are win? cesHertea into alcohol if a bent tube be in serted into the bung with the other end into a pail of water, to allow the carbolic acid gas evolved to pass ol w-.thout a imitting any air into the barrel, a beverage will be obtained that is fit tec-tar for the gods. A handy way is to fill your cask nesrly up to the wooden faucet when the cask is rolled so the bung is down. Get a common rubber tube and slip it over the end In the paiL Then tu n the plug so the interrior of the cask can Lae commune ation with the paiL After the water in the pail ceaes to bubble, bottle or 6tore your cider away. Xot Appreciated. A 1'etro. ter who sjient the night at a small stage town in Montana and received his bill after breakfat was more than surprised to find the amount il-i.-O. "Irovisioos must be pretty high out here?" he querie I as he counted out the money. "Wall, no I'urvishuns are both plenty and cheap," was the reply of the complacent landlord ' Then hired help must be very ex pensive':"' "Not nigh as expensive as last year." 'Maybe they charge a man $" for a bed out in this country:"' persisted the 1 etroiier in search of informa tii.n. 'That would be highway robbery, ' bhind y replied the landlord as he pocketed the cash. "Well, is this bill for three meals and lodging, then?" 'Great dogs! but what do you take me tnr.-" exclaimed mine host in great surprisa "Why, no. of course not!" aj"Iiut I had no eitra as I remem ber." "You didn't' Didn't you hear that row on the sidewalk?" "Yes, 1 heard a row " 'And wasn't a man shot right at the door?" i"Wby, 1 heard a shot but made no inquiries." "And hain't there two dead men lj In' along the barn fur you to look at as you go out?" "1 presume so, but what has all this to do with the size of my bill?" queried the Detrolter. Everything, sir! The toys knew you was a stranger toithe country and got up a row fur your benefit It's $u hotel bill and ?.50 fur the killln's, and if yo t are the man to kick on that 3 ou' t better head away fur home and a one-boss town!" Youthful Heroinrn. A few weeks ago the Ti ans ript re corded the award of a me al by the Massachusetts Humane So iety to a giil of 7 in Lynn who had saved from drowning another las of the same age. Rotable as the a Hon was, it is Interesting to hear tbat such inci dents are common, though they have not always commanded recognition from the Humane Hoc ety. A corres pondent to Essex sends us two items which show that the noblier quali ties of human nature may be de veloped, or, at least, manifested at a very eany age. About a year ago tome uoys were playing on the lailroad when an ex press train came along. The whistle was sounded and ail but one little fellow goto.'f in arnpie time, the one left beinz but 3 rears old, and, of course, unable to appreciate his dan ger, t oe of the lads, 10 years of age, jumped for his companion and pulled him away just as the pilot or the en gine brushed against his clothing. The engu.cer said, "When I saw the bigger boy jump for the smaller one 1 thought that there would b'. two Killed outr ght instead of one." On a recent winter day a boy of six tell through the ice. and another boy. aged lt, catching him by the collar, tried to pull him out, but he was not strong enough, so be called for another boy, a lad of but 8 years, and by his help they saved their com panion. They were aU in a peculiar ly leriious posit oh. and the wornler is that any of Uj threeescaped alive, yeE with the lodfilerence to danger characteristic of most boys when their sympathies are aroused, they spoke of the venture as though there were nothiog remarkable about it Boston Transcript He Wanted an Kanier Way. "One of the best salesmen we have on the road, if not the very best" said a well-known wholesale dealer, "came to us ten years airo from the backwoods, and a greener fellow you never Haw. I met him the Urst time be came into the store, and gave him bis start He told me about the kind or country be lived in and its remoteness, and said he wanted to sell from house to house, but he didn't want to lie a common peddler. "'We can't give you a salary," said L 'but we wi,l allow you a com mission of 2"i per cent on all you aeli for casta.' " " '1 don't rightly understand this commission and i er cent business,' said he; scratching his bead, seem I ain't used to it but I'll tell you what I'll do; you ..ust agree to give tun i0 cents on everv dollar's worth I sell and I'll , undertake it; that's plato enough forany body to undorsUnd ' "1 let him go at that," laughed the merchant in conclusion, "and made It up to him at the end of the year by putting him on th8 road with a good salary, and permission to tell the story every time we 'ave him a . alse, and we gave him ene yester day, and I've told the story a good many time" Detroit Free 1'r s A crank Is one whose opinions ruo counter to your own. Yoo may be a crank to the man who is a crank to OEMiaALtT ipeaklef. rtme may be deftood aa a valo atteaipt to make to-awrrow remeaber yesterday. ROMAN SACRIFICES. Bted.Hatraa TtffUm Waal l la SpriBB to bnwHI Crop. We learn from Festus that the ; Romans sacrificed red-haired puppies in spring, in the belief tbat the crop would thus grow riie and ' ruddy; and there can be little doubt tbat these puppies, like the lamb sacrifice at Holme and King s Telgn ton, were a substitute for an original . human victim, Prof. Kainsey, the j great authority on Phrygian custom, believes tbat Attis was at first repre-! tented by a human victim, who "was . probably s!aio each year by a cruel death, just as the god himself died." and Mr. Eraser has shown tbat Attis i was essentially a god of vegetation, that one of bis epithets was "very fruitful." that he was addressed at "the reaped vellow ear of corn." and that the story of bis sufferings, death aud resurrect on was inter preted as the ripe grain wounded by the reaper, buried in the granary aod coming to life again when sown in the ground. Adonis, again, is one of these gods of vegetation, originally represented, no doubt, by a human victim. The famous Gardens of Adonis were baskets or pots tilled with earth in which wheat barley aud flowers were sown al the time when the women were mourning over th dead A'lonis. To this dai, in Sicily, at the approach of Easter, the women sow wheat lentils and canary seed in plates, which are kept in the dark and watered every two days. When j the plants snoot up "tne plates con taining them," says Mr. Fraser, "are placed on tbe sepulchres which, with effigies of the dead Ch ist are made up in Homan Catholic and Greek churches on Good rriday, just as the Gardens of Adonis were placed on tbe grave of the dead Adonis." Mr. Fraser has also po.nted out tbe mirks of a similar element in the worship of Osiris. He was a deity of vegeta tion, the first to teach men the use of corn, and bis annual festival l gan with the ploughing of the earth. In one of the chapels dedicated to Osiris In the great temple of Isis, at Pbllae, tbe dead body of Ostrls is represented with stalks of corn spr Dging from it and a priest Is watering tbe stalks from a pitcher. Mr. Fraaer suggests tbat the legend of the mangled remains of the god being scattered up and down the land ' may be a reminiscence of tbe custom ot slaying a human victim and distributing his flesh or scattering his ashes over tbe fields to fertilise them." Indeed, Manetbo tells us that the Egyptians used to burn their red-halied men and scatter their ashes with winnow ing tans. Fortnightly Keview. Catch Question. If a goose weighs ten pounds and a half its own weight, what is tbe weight of tbe go'je? Who has not. been tempted to reply on tbe instant fifteen pounds? the correct answer being, of coinse, twenty pounds. In deed, It is astonishing what a very simple query will sometimes catch a wise man napping. Even tbe follow ing have been known to succeed . How many days would it take to cut up a piece of cloth fifty yards long, one yard being cut oil every day? A snail climbing up a post twenty feet high ascends five leet every day and slips down four feet every night How long will the snail take to rearh the top of the post? A wise man having a window one yaid high and one yard wide, requir ing more light, enlarged his window to twice its former size, yet the win dow was st 11 only one yard high and one yard wide. How was this do;iev This a catch question in geometry, as the preceding were catch questions in arithmetic. The window was diamond-shaped at first and was aitcr wards made square. As to trie two former, perhaps It is scarcely necessary seriously to point out tbat tbe answer to the first Is not fifty das, but forty-nine; and to the second, not twenty days, but sixteen since the snail who gains one foot each day for fifteen days, climbs on the sixteenth day to the top of the pole and there remain - A man walks around a pole, on the top of which is a monkey. As the man n oves, the monkey turns on the top of the pole so as stllj to keep face to face" with the man. (juery: hen tbe man has gone around the pole, has he, or has he not gone around the monkey? The answer which will occur at first sight to most persons Is that the man has not gone around the monkey sine he has nev r leen behind it The correct answer, however, as de cided by Knowledge In the pages of which this momentous question ha has tiecn argued. Is that the man has gone around the monkey In going around tbe pole. Maple Flooring. Among the noteworthy features of recent lumber trade development Is tbe rapidly Increasing demand for maole flooring. Iiuurovement In the metbol of manufacture has kept pace with tbe growth in demand for p oduct; or perhaps it Is more exact to say that tbe recognition of uiapie flooring has been forced on tbe atten tion of consumers by the enterprise of manufaclu ers in turning out a perfected product and urging It on public attention. A few years ago all tbe maple flooring used was worked out on orders by a few plan ing mill The hardwood dealers carried maple strips in their ards and had them dressed and matched when they happened to receive an order for flooring. . Now great manu factories have been estaolishe I - for the sole purpose of producing maple flooring. Exact, strong, and swift machinery boa been inveoted to work out ths stuff. Tbe boring machine baa rendered nailing easy, aod now comes tbe end-aiatcblM lavtoUoo, Maple Mooring ha come to 1 re garded as the thing Indispensable In most public buildings and is used largely in private dwellings. Such an extent has the demand reached tbat the larger dealers are obliged to make contracts for millions of feet far In advance of requirement the same as is d ne with pine or any other wood of extensive ale any con sumption in the building trades and manufacturiug. Railway Accident in Britain. The British Boird of Trade has Is- sued its report of the railroad acci dents which occurred In the United Kingdom in 18y;. One thousand and eleven persons were killed and 4, luy iniured dur.ng the year, a decrease of 1 1 v and 376 respectively as com pared with the figures of 192. Of those killed loii were passengers but only seventeen were the victims f accident to trains, rolling stock, or permanent way, tbe remainder hav ing succumbed to accidents from other causes; -itiO of the victims were railway servants, and of these only ten suffered from mishaps to trains or permanent way. o less thaa flfiy-rJve persons apart from pas sengers and servants, were killed at level crossings, aud the trespassers and suicld s who perished on the railways numbered 3.u. Other fatal accidents not classified num tiered thirty. Of passengers injured In va ious ways there were 1,-21, while of companies' or contractors' servants there were no less than 2, GUI. The complement of tbe list o; injured Is made up of persons passing over level crossings, trespassers and would-be suicides. This list o,' fatal and other accidents, however, is by no means complete, for In addlt on eighty per sons were killed and 4, CM7 injured upon the premises of the various companies though not in connection with the movement of vehicles on the railways. These accidents in cluded kicks from horses, falls of bales or packages of goods, falls irctn scaffolding, etc.; thu-the total num ber of personal accidents reported during the year amounted to 1,091 persons killed aod f, 7 wt Injured. It Didn't Work. I was standing before tbe stamp window at a surburban postorlice the other day, waiting for a woman to get through, that I might invest half a dollar In carmine chromos of our country's paternal. The woman who nad the attention of tbe clerk, had a package upon which two of the adhesive portraits mentioned had been affixed, and she de-ired to learn if thov were sufficient to carry the package on its way. Tbe clerk weighed th-; parcel and asked if it was a newspaper. "Yes," replied the wuinan, "a ;iewbpajer with a pair of mittens inside," "That makes it merchandise," said the clerk, "It will require four cents more." "I'll not pay it!" she exclaimed. The clerk simply smiled. Meantime tbe woman fished out four luo e stamps. "There Is no writing In It is there?" asked the clerk. "Only a short note," says the woman, as she gently laid the i-tumps upon her tongue, gum side down. "O, then it will be letter postage," said the clerk, "six teen cejits" "I'll not pay it," ejaculated the woman, grabbing the parcel and starting tor the door with an air of outraged innocence. It, was a case of Ignorance merely. No wrong was in tended and it was fool ish, therefore, to get angry at her self. Arkansaw Traveler. A Giant Walnut Ijttg. . - .... -- .. The large walnut log from Leaven worth Diunty, Kan., which at traded so much attention at the World's Fair, will be converted into furniture by a company that b lught It from the Kansas commissioners, ........ l. 'P .... I ti.. i saj's uiu 4 iui ue. tuau. Aiie log tne x i to be. man. me log whs cut from a tree growing in Tongan oxie Township, it cost 4200 to get the log out of the woods. The com missioners paid I'iOU for It for World's Fair purposes and sold It at tbe close of the hxpositlju for 1,200. Tbe tree from which tho log was cut was the monarch of i u r, v ! e- Leaveuworiu county, ueing seventy- Ave feet high. Are a stance rrom he ground & the jt Umb was foTtf -seven feet. Eichisive of the Jog, the tree yielded two car-loads of lumber. VThe log was tlfteei feet long, seventy-two Inches in diame ter at the top and eighty-four inches at the butt It weighed 4 0,000 pounds and contained 3,500 feet, board measu e. People not ac quainted In Kansas who visited the Fair could not understand bow such a giant grew In that State. The tree, t-clentlsts say, was 71 years old when Columbus discovered Amer ica. It was stated to lie tbe largest tree of its species in the United Mates. Hi Pint Was Better Than a round. Old sayings are nearly always truthful, but they must be applied with due discretion, as a woman iu a llttie store "down tbe been" discov ered to ber sorrow. An old darkey called one mo nlng to purchase a pound of shot; tbe storekeeper llng out, bis wire attempted to serve the customer. She could not find tbe weights, lut being a good house keeper, she remembered an old say ing of frequent use in cookerj "a pint's as good as a pound the wo Id over." In her dilemma she quoted that saying to the darkey, asking If be would lie satisfied to take a pint for a pound. The da key with wide awake cunning, snapped at the chance, got his shot paid for It and hurried out or the store. The wo man couldn't account for tbe sudden harry of his departure until sbe w th pride related to her husband ber bappy idea enabling her to get along without weights. Philadelphia Call. Thi beat work need evmaooa credit ot look for SWISS OPINION OF AMERICA. Laaa ot Ntrang EitraaM, Noaacnalral rrldo and KeeaU-M mtmrf Oettia. A well known Swiss writer, who visited tbe World's Fair and was then forced to remain here for sometime on account of Illness, ha ,'oined the long list or foreigners for whom "America" has been a favorite sub ject for dissertat.ons." In a recent issue of the Neue Zuricher eltung, one of the iuot famous hwiss jour nals, under the headline, "What Is America?" he wrote: "America is Is a land compared with which Eu rope Is only a peninsul the Fnlted States form a country compared with which tbe Kuropean kingdom are pygmies. America is the land of un measured distances and dimens ons; the land of dollars and electricity; the land where the prairies are more extensive, the rivers mightier, tbe waterfalls deeper, the bridges longer, the 1 ghtning excesses faster, the catastrophes more ter ible than In any other country in the world It is the land where in a single railroad accident aud one occurs every few da s more people lose their lives than in Kurope in a whole year. It Is the land where the houses are higher, the '.allbinls' more Dumerous, the rich richer, the poor poorer, the the millions greater, the thieves more daring, the murderer- more shaiiie-le-s, the educated fewer, the teeth more generally false, the lorsets nar rower, the diseases more deadly, cor ruption more general, the summers warmer, the winters colder, the fires hotter, the ice thicker, time more precious, the men mure nervous than In any country in our pastoral Europe. It is the land where the old men are younger and tho young men older, the negros blacker, the whites more yellow, than in any other pla a. It is the land ot Im measurable natural wealth. In short It Is the land of extraordinary con trasts, of strange extremes of non sensical pride, of reckle-s money hunting, of senseless era e for gain the land of the colossal and the pyra midal of course, in the opinion of Americans. How many have gone fiom our peaceful home to the land of false h pes to seek riches fortune, and better life, and have licen lost either in the gutters of the great cities or the sands of the prairies? How many have been glud, when poor and deserted and broken in heart and soul, to sail ba k to their native land?" Carppeauici Cheek, The sculptor Carpeaux was always a Bohemian, and geuerally absent minded. Ii.vlted once to the Tull eries by Emperor Napoleon the Third and the Empress Eugenie, he pulled out bis pipe after dinner, tilled it, and. Discovering tbat he had no matches took a scrap of paper, climbed on a cbalr, and lighted the pipe from the great chanriel er above ti.e table. "You don't mind smok ing, do you, ma'am?" he said to tho Empress. He on e accepted from a rich patron afi order Co make a sculp tured group representing the Cyclops l'olpyhemus crushing the youth Acis under a rock. Ca peaux had no sooner accepted the commission than he regretted It, for the subject bad no fasinations whatever for bira He put tbe matter olf aga n an 1 again, but was urgently pressed to begin It by his patron. At last, one day, Carpeaux took the Impatient patron to bis studio and showed him a gieat, rough block of uniformed clay. "There is your group," said the sculptor. "My group? Where? ny, this is tne ruck." "in.it's all very well, but where is Acis?" "L'nder tbe rock crushed quite out of slgfit, of course." "But whe e Is rolyphemus." ",,h. he? Whv, do ' you think he would rerua n anywhere ' i I-,,.., ,!.... .. .u..- 111.- alaiut after he had done a thing like that?" This was as far as the class! cal "group" ever got. One ConHolatlon, The London newspapers used to make a distinction between a simple notice of a death, for which they jchargedjvs sjmings, ajid . a brjej seven and Thomas Hume called a the olllce of a morning journal ond'slleutiy placed upon the counter the announcement of ho death of a f lend, together with five shillings. The clerk la tic d at the pii er, tossed It one side, arid said, gruilly, "seven and six!" "I have frequently," answered Hume, "had occasion to publish these simple noti es, and 1 have never lie fore been charged mure than five shillings." ".Simple:" repeated the clerk, with out looking up; 'there's an added line, 'universally beloved ana deeply regretted:' isn't there? Seven and six," Hume produced the additional half crown and laid It deliberately by the others, observing in the most solemn tone, "Congratulate yourself, sir, tbat this Is an expense which your executors will never be put to." A CiocHt Me From Maine. Fncle Dan Gammon of Canton, Me, says he caught a fox, thought he bad killed It and was Just nicking tbe ears off the pelt, when he stopped to look at a tire to the wood sly Monsieur Keynard, who wasn't dead at all, just slipped on bis skin and got away. Of course, this is W per cent Gammon, but It goes as a pretty good Maine lie Too Keallatle. Visitor And how did my little pet like tbe theater? Little Girl Not very much. The actors didn't act as If the. was just actio'; tbey acted as If it was all so an' tbat made me uncomfortable. "Why." "1 felt Just as If I was pee kin' through a kevhole into somebody else's bouse." Good New AS TO RAILS. 'CKfctr iisvi" Alfcetapt at KijHalnliiff a Carina rbwwia aa olrtr(! on KatlroaiU I' u lets there are counteracting In fi.ieoces, tue natural teiideucy of rails is to "creep" downward, oiy ing the well-known law of gravity. If, However, the grade be too slight to give much eiiect to thi law, and, in fact so slight as to ret.uIrA the use of steam in the handling of descending trains this natural ten dency may be minimised, aud, in deed, overcome and reversed by a con- slant draft of loads iu the direction ot its desotut tays tbe Charleston News and Courier. Heavy loads pulling (onslautlyin one direction have a tendency to drive the rail In the opposite direction. hou'd it be neces-arv. however, to appiy tbe brakes the rail Is driven in the di rection of the moving train. On a perfectly level track the rail almost iu variably "creeps" in the o poslte direction from the movement of tbe heaviest aud most constant traOlc, except at points where ills custom ary to shut off and apply the brakes at wh ch the "creep" is in the same direction. On roads hav. ing grades which change abruptly t from ascen iing to descending grades " over the crown of a bill, it often hap pens that the rails "creep" up grade on both sides of the crown, and this is especially true where long, heavy trains are run, as the heavy pull Ing of the engine after it has passed the crown, going dewn grade, cause It to drive the rail upward oo the pne side, while the rear of the train has somewhat tbe tendency to pull, or at least to hold, the rail on tbe opposite ascent One rail often "creeps" faster than the other; this is uot confined to tbe east ra 1 or the west rail, the north or the south. It Is due to a variety of causes and to none jerhaps more than to tbe fact that there is a difference, and often a peculiarity, in humanity. There is In railroad parlance what is known as a "line" and a '-gauge" rail; In nine cases out of ten the "1 ne" rail gets the most attention from the foreman In charge: and in addition, two men are usually selected to "keep up" the bolts on joints one ol which Is generally the most trusted man in the 'gang" The other woiks under him; almost invariably this trusted man gets on the "line" rail, and thus ft wlil be seen that the joints and bolts are kept in bet ter shape on the one rail than on tbe other, and are therefore more capa. ble of resisting the tendency to creep" This habit among track men of adopting a pet rail is one ol the peculiarities of human naturoi barbers have somewhat the same pe culiarity they lather and rub, shave and powder one side of a man's face until human endurance rebels against tbe injustice. - - ...T' lllrtl That Corn and Go. There are iome birds that depend almost entirely for th ir food on light-winged summer Hies that love the sunshine These the economy of our cold season does not provide Jor. Th tree-creepers and tbe tits Insectivorous In their propensities, are content to seek food in the crevices of bark and up and down the branches of old trees In the cracks of walls anrl in and out among the stones and bricks of old buij dings fiecrihi, p'ro'blng, pecking at the creatures that h.i e thought to get salely th ough the cold weather by hiding. Not so our migrant singers. Many of them, like tbe swallows, eat only such thinks as they can catch In their swift flight open-mouthed through the air; these are few and far between in th raw an'j cold at tuosphere of "winter here. Swift and swallow, nightingale aid c uckoo, warbler flycatcher, wh n hat, wheat ear, blackcap, and wrynecg all the merry troupe of strolling a ngers, must follow Liie s n and tne creatures that dance in tbe sunbeams to land! that are warm in the w titer. Theluuvgmjihjsbis Jhjlt "JI11 Mi J if n o V r 1 1 qPITnTut u rii ri al piompied by the abundance or the scarcity of certain kinds or food among the varied stores our land aJTords. The nomadic wanderings") our reside'ot b rds are also foraging exiK-ditlons. Only in the spring and early summer are any birds able to find theood they require In a partic ular ne ghborhood. . Then in-ect lift abounds and round about the nest ing place enough and to spare Is to be found both for the busy parent birds and the Insatiable chicks and squabs. Jiut in the autumn and winter there is, strictly speaking, nr) such thing as a stat ionary population ol blids iu any place. All turn gypsies then, and bithe. and thither wend their restless way. eluding the famine of a frost here, the dearth ol a snowstorm there, or tbe buffeting of storm winds, by continually mov ing onward. told, Not Iced, T-a. Those who do not like to use Ice at prodigally as some do In beverages and yet like 'told tea," will find that they can have It without tbe Ice If you have no ice at all, put the amount or tea required In a pitcher In the morning aod pour over It only enough water to cover It: let It stand for th.ee o f ur hours and you will Snd that all tho flavor is extracted from the leaves. When you w.sh to serve, jiour fresh water, as cold as can lie obtained, upon the tea, and you will have a delightful glass of tea, with none of the bitterness ot boiled" tea about It and suitlclentir cold itoston J'ostj Tn it wounds of tin mar be healed, but their scars will always remain painful to the touch. Evrhy man has both a natural and constitutional rlgbt to establish bis wb labor union. THEORY