: fl Successiui ii
Experiment li
Mr«. M—* loohe* for the twentieth
at ber watrh. and thro with a
<^> waited la tL» *-iBduv,
"H# prutttMsl to > hOMe at ( ,
e'rioc-k to dian»r she murmured. J
"**d It If Itv T:«. Am 1 to Imf dis
appointed evening after evening m !
this tMt«? Mom I sit down to ac- -
«ber solitary Meal. * th servant* to *
wo*4« at ar mt eyes? Only aix j
Months named! Kr* m the depth* of !
Mf htort I % 1*3 1 had never left my
father's tauM"*
limner * ftAUhed. then far into the
Bdfct tha heart broken wife awaited
the am^A of her hnshnnd.
At Mat »he heard his footsteps, and
AlMaot lireathlea* she rushed
to Meet hiM
/ ~W'hy la the world are yon not In
led. AnnieT" was his drat salutation
•»t teorge l*jm ould yo.i alarm
■e »r cant nervously from her lips
have been no worried “ And *he
burnt Into tears
Wipe year eyes. Annie, and Just
in-re 1 have aoMethtng to ssy to you.
When I Mamed you it * as because
I loved yon. and supposed yon loved
we.. I And 1 am Mlstaaen for no wife
who has a regard for her husband will
annoy l:n nrtth continual reproaches.
**1 shat attend mj club and my bun
sens generally, go oat when I plenar
and rant la when l feel disposed.
Now go to bed ’
Mu wile was thoroughly roused, sad
her fare nerved with indignation, and
she said: “Yov shall never again be
trow hied by My tears or fsjl'.flndiag
Love is a Myth, a ridiculous delusion. 1
and hereafter I shall follow your ex
a&f’«e—hf n woman at the world a»
yon are a Man of the world—and now '
gmd morning."
Annie hep! her word. The tender
fijfw*:oi of (CijtesiDfc give way to j
a wtM 1 *• * Mil Mptt.
a good
Jkfi >t^uu« Blager mad ptaaiat. what
amder tut ter mournf mac eougb'
after. tfi< that wUreter tU meat ad
mirer* flcriK to Ur ride.
>U preatded «rr Ur household
with r»<« mad dignity, but there «i
%m Bahaa Smg la Ur eoadort tower4c
Ur toiiict although cU mac.
arefml of
Jit*.
air coe.'oc mail ai«a>c po
Tt ;» ULi .or w*« anything tat
agreeable to Sir. XI He Uraau cud- |
tenly punctual ta his baste eegage
»«*■* »ii arid m !at* to i.caer. mad
cemed to m u tw w.a h<r old lore
wi|i hack.
aum mac exact about nrrj doitea
tic err*n*rme*t. and after tbece du- j
tie* mere fttttahod. without any word.
witUrew to Ur own boodolr or made
aai <4 a KMT p*r.| cicewher* lieorg*
tried to deoEtokab tui ley barrier, but
word* mere uaettsa The reply wu:
“Dew t annoy me with jour fault Bal
ing-*
Tbree laoatha pace*.! a this way. j
g-ern pa«a. N* .*ser b siaems
mt ptearare bad any (barm tor him.
baate Uf C oa la the e*ea teaor of Ur
way apparently waeoaoeioui of the
change la rU arrtrf o? Ur husband
“f oball atar: lor tU South Beat
week Ait.* " Cftid be one evening.
After cer ral me*ectual attempt* to
tagate Ur in coawaraatloa.
Her b.t.da dosed tightly ac U «aid
this. bat tU proud woman controlled
U'erif. a ad aot a muscle of Ur lac*
mowed ac cU replied:
Very »eiL b there aaytblag 1 can
gaf*
Xo.“ ie replied; -there I* aot blag
fur me to Jb bat to taawe taa*. 1 can
t eccr stay here mad U treated aa you
are treating a*e »ow. '
Eierytbihg wac coon ready, and
there oair remained tU good-by U
tareem the husband and wife.
"1 Am coinf bow Acute, will you
c't gjwe me use pleasant word" be
•aid.
Certainly," iw ropued, i *:*h
yoa tMMi fom» and » mf* return to
yoar home."
"Ten will writ* to si*. Annie?” tod
Li» Up t«iien4.
-Certainly. since yon desire it. with
* (Ml dial o( pteasorc
g| (Mires help me!“ mouned An
• ^ uUm> door dosed after him; *nJ.
krricU upo* her knees be
114> the CMt| |b* fwiirrd out her mhi!
Is paaaiosate ImmsUUoc* Oh h«»
M i:m btrk to me. My heart Is
tweaking Why did I let him go* Oh.
I Jove hint more than nil on earth’"
* Annie* Annie* My own precious
wiler** And the *e« moment the was
in her hnwbnnd » arm*
~ barling. 1 on* hat k tar mr hat
bos and overheard your ery. Let us
both he thankful”
And two bends, never again to be
ra ted In pride and dehance, were rev*
A
often
ray to
rill
r ffct
rwtj
di®« u'ty in en
frtends. Here Is
d an evening whu-b
l to old and
in sending out invitations re*
ich gue»t to come with his
securely bound up. Let no
When the hostess
then »he extends her left hand
them to write their names la
ik. The page
re the appearance of a 3
• first attempt to write,
may play her own left
ta and an eiuen
fe. making all her gestures
the left hand. The wenu must
smashing that will demand l
f a spoaa to add to the ask*
cf Urn left-hand com»ut:tjr. j
A TRUE "HEROESS.?
KU*w!*-tb >:»bin. Mndrnt Ht iliincJ Sch<H>L
Bwlas.
Notwithstanding the marvelous way
n which the deaf, dumb and blind are
now freed from the ignorance and
loneliness which were formerly the
greatest horrors of the silence and
darkness in which they must dwell,
the struggle they have to make to be,
at nearly as they may. like other peo
ple ran m\er be anything but difficult,
it * fin. hud touching to behold how
galk nt’y these c hildren of sorrow set
themselves to overcome their disad
vantages. as it is also to see w hat tire
Uaa patience and loving skill our hard
old world places tenderly at their ser
vice. There is probably no woman in
the l imed States for whom there is
felt so universally an affectionate re
spect and regard as for that simple,
sweet and modest young student.
Helen Keller: nor does the public ever
weary of lis'ening to new anecdotes of
others afflicted as she is—especially of
their progress on the thorny road to
knowledge One of these upfortunates
is Elizabeth Kobin. now a student at
the Perkins Institution for the Blind,
in Boston. Kingsley s “Greek Heroes”
fi>nred the basis of the reading lessons
of her class at the beginning of the
year. In the dit assion of the book.
Elizabeth gave prompt answers to
questions. She dec la red the difference
between a hero and a god to be this:
■*A aero Is half-powerful, whereas a
god s all-powerful.” Asked if she had
ever seen a hero, she icsponded quick
ly: "Edith la companion afflicted like
berae’ft is a hero because she is not
afraid of anything After a moment's
reflection, she added: "We might call
her a heroes*, hut she Isn't really a
hero ” The story of Elizaiietli's work
in arithmetic is one of alternate vic
tory and defeat. Her most serious de
ll. iecey lit* in the lack of power to
analyze problem* She spent a long
time over one difficult example, and
* her. a*k* d how she w as progressing,
replied “He la a Spaniard, but I
hope 10 conquer him." 1-ater she said:
1 have been asking the Spaniard all
sorts of questions, but he will not ;
answer me. My brains are heavy.
R* turning to the ta*k on the following
morning w h renewed zest, she gained
•h** victory. In the solution of one
long probl- m. requiring the use of
xary ciphers Elizabeth used all the
ciphers on her type-slate, and then
- u bet It i: led units. “I Imagined the ones
were ciphers.'* -he explained, “and it
was hard, and I was almost mixed.” j
U'livti at the cor- j
•Vet conclusion. She shares in gym- j
nasi’m work and games, and enjoys
them heartily. She is also a good j
dancer. She runs with great speed. J
md preferably alone. At one time she j
hurt her***!? severely by running into a I
wall, but her Spartan comment was j
only: **I would rather be bumped
• han not run *' That ts the spirit of a !
real keroe?*."—Youths' Companion.
DINING AT RACE HORSE SPEED.
tairrlraM %re (•l\rn to fast Katlng at
I heir Snrta! FnnrtkMU.
To realise how oar “upper ten”
scramble through existence one must
•ntrast their fidgety way of feeding
wr.th the bovine calm in which a Ger
man absorbs his nourishment ana the
hoars an Italian can pass over his
postprandial meal. An American din
ner party affords us *bis opportunity.
From oysters to fruit, dinners now are
a breathless steeplechase, during
which we take our viand hedges and
rfcamr-‘gne ditches a: a dead run, with
conversation pushed at much the same
speed. To be silent would be to im
ply that one was not having a good
t me. so we rattle and gobble on to
ward the finger bow! winning post,
only to find that rest is not there. As
the hot-tess pilots the ladies away to
the drawing-room she whispers to her
poute: ’ You won't smoke too long,
will you?" So we are mulct in the en
joyment of even that la*t resource of
weary humanity, the cigar, and are
h'istltd away from our smoke and cof
f.-e to find that our appearance is a
ligmal for a general move. One of the
older ladies rises; the next moment
the whole circle, like a flock of fright
ened birds, is up and off. crowding
each other in the hallway, calling for
their carriages and rattling the unfor
tunate servants who are attempting to
cloak and overshoe them. Bearing in
mind that the guests have come as
late as they dared without being abso
lutely uncivil, that the dinner has
been served as rapidly as was material
ly possible and that the circle broke
up a* soon as the meal had ended, one
asks one s self in wonder why, if
dinner is such a bore that it has to be
scrambled through, route que coute,
people continue to dine out?—Atlantic
Monthly.
( hliMr llutior to an .% merimii.
Tb» I rnted States legation at Pekin,
China has seat to the Essex institute
of Massachusetts, an attested copy of
the imperial edict, making a demigod
I of General Freuerick Townsend Ward
. of Bate*. who was killed In the service
of t'hina. General Ward was the crea
tor of the Chinese army, afterward
« tmn.anded by “Chinese" Gordon. The
dornrtent referred to is authenticated
I with the seals of the Chinese and Arn
; rrtt jtt governments and is believed to
be the only copy in the original Chi
nese to be found in this country, as
the state department at Washington
has only an English translation
j thereof.
Sir William VfaeCormac, the pres
j Idem of the Royal College of Surgeons,
is an indefatigable worker. Often,
to save time when studying in his
laboratory, he used to have a light
luncheon served there. Once his as
sistants heard him sigh heavily, and
looking up. saw the doctor glaring at
two glass receptacles on his table.
What is the matter, doctor?" asked
t'jmot t.trdra for tonaamptivea,
One of the pretty features of a
dense neighborhood in the heart of
New York is a roof garden belonging
to a hospital for consumptives. The
windows from the merWs sitting rooms
reach to the floor, so thaMhe sufferers
can walk out to the roof, and they
spend much of their tiipe tending,
watering and pruning the plants.
Hooater wttlr Two ApprOdicc*.
An Indianapolis man. opeimted upon
recently for appendicitis, wasKound to
have two appendices.
h-irnllllr Indlffrmtrr.
THE CODLING MOTH.
the greatest enemy of the
APPLE GROWER.
CauMng a Yearly Lons of Folly S25,
000.000—A Destructive Insect Very
Seldom Seen Because It Works Only
at Night.
According to Prof. Forbes, the em
inent entomologist, who has made
careful experiments and observations
regarding the subject, cne-half of the
apple crop of Illinois is annually de
stroyed by the apple worm, the cater
pillar of the codling moth, involving a
less each year to the farmers and fruit
growers of the state of more than $2,
375,000. The annual destruction to the
apple crop by this pest and consequent
loss to the farmers in the country at
large is estimated to be $25,000.000—
and yet. according to Prof. Sllnger
land, the entomologist of Cornell Uni
veristy at Ithacu. N. Y., not one fruit
grower in ten ever saw a codling moth
although it is busy at work every sea
son in their orchards by the tens of
thousands, and moths of almost every
other kind are a familiar sight to the
farmer and fruit grower. The reason
for this is that the codling moth does
not have the universal habit of other
moths, that of being attracted by a
light or flame at night, and it so com
pletely secretes itself during the day
that the most violent disturbance of
its retreats rarely causes it to take
wing or to emerge from its hiding
places about the orchard trees, the
rough, scaly bark of which it so close
ly resembles that even if one were
resting on the exterior of the bark of
the tree it would defy the sharpest
eyes to detect it. A flaming torch
placed at night under every tree in
an orchard would fail to draw a single
codling moth from its work of egg
laying in the trees, although its nu
merous varieties of cousins would be
hastening from all directions to meet
destruction in the fascinating blaze.
The codling moth emerges from its
cocoon about ten days after the apple
blossoms have fallen from the trees in
the spring, by which time the young
fruit is grown sufficiently for the
moth's purpose. The cocoons are be
neath the scaly bark on the apple
tree trunks. The meth, which is
about half an inch long, comes out at
night, and at once begins depositing
its eggs. A codling moth's egg is
tidi, auu uu 'i iuau a Milan
pin head. So small is It, and almost
imperceptible on the apple, that al
though the codling moth has been
Known to naturalists nearly three cen
turies, it was only four years ago tha:
its eggs were positively identified and
described. The moth places but one
egg on an apple. If one codling moth
finds that another one has already de
posited an egg on an apple it does not
leave one of its own there, but seeks
unpreempted fruit. Each moth lays
from eighty to 100 eggs. The egg
hatches a tiny worm at the end of
ten days, always at night. The worm
at once crawls to the blossom end of
the apple, enters the cavity there, and
tunnels Its way to the core, where it
feasts and fattens on the heart of the
apple, and tunnels its way to the sur
face at the end of a month, emerging
a plump, pink worm, three-quarters
of an inch long, always coming out at
night. It makes its way without de
lay to the trunk of the tree, where it
spins about itself its silken cocoon
beneath a sheltering scale of baric,
and remains there in hiding until it in
turn develops into a moth, to continue
the perpetuation of its pestiferous
kind.
Tiny as the codling moth's egg is
there is a fly so small that it can de
posit as many as four of its own eggs
in a single egg of the moth. The
fly's eggs hatch worms that devour the
moth's enibrj o in the egg. and thus
hosts of the ravenous insects are de
stroyed before they have begun active
life. Other parasitic enemies of the
caterpillar make way with untold
numbers of the insects at that stage of
their existence, and night birds de
stroy myriads of the moths. Vast
numbers of the cocoons are uncovered
end their contents devoured by wood
peckers and other insectivorous birds,
but enough come to maturity to levy
on the farmers of the country a boun
ty of $25,000,000 a year to keep them in
board and lodging. Nothing but spray
ing the trees with a solution of Paris
green has any effect decreasing the
annual loss in crop, and in checking
Ihe ravages of the pest and this spray
ing the farmer, as a rule, resolutely
persists in not doing.
High Explosives for War.
Melinite as a high explosive is not
considered by the Russians equal to
pyroxyline. and in future the latter
is to be used. In addition to the heavy
projectiles 130.000 light shrapnel were
made. Melinite shells for eleven-inch
guns have not been found satisfactory,
and It is uncertain whether their con
struction will be continued. More than
$500,000 has been spent on setting up
a press on the principle of Ergardt, by
which working at full pressure 200.000
shrapnel for three-inch quick-firing
guns can be turned out every year.
The Zlatoustovski manufactory turns
out on an average 30.000 projectiles in
a year, but it is intended this year, in
order to expedite matters, that this
manufactory shall cast only the pro
jectiles which will be worked up at
Satkinskom manufactory.
Glucow'a Profitable Street Railways.
Some interesting figures have been
published showing the growth of the
Glasgow tramway undertaking since
it was taken over by the corporation.
It is only five years and a half since
the town council acquired the tram
ways, and during that period the week
ly drawings have risen from $19,000 to
between $40,000 and $45,000. In the
first year of the corporation manage
ment the tramways carried 60,000,000
passengers. I^ast year they carried
119,000.000 passengers; or, in other
words, they carried the whole popula
tion of Glasgow three times in a
week.
Amrrloao Rights In Klondike.
The Americans in the Klondike hare
exactly the same rights and privileges
and pay the same taxes as Caxa
dUL
MINING CLAIM
For Mastodon Bones Flletl by a Califor
nia Prospector.
Los Angeles (Cal.) correspondence
New York Sun: One of the most re
markable mining claims ever filed ha3
recently come to light In Los Angeles.
A well-known attorney has on his ta
ble some parts of enormous tusks of
mastodons, literally a bunch of three,
found by a client in Death Valley;
and It was on the bones of this animal
that the claim was filed. Death Valley
is a well-known depression In the
eastern and central part of California.
In winter it is not a particularly at
tractive region, but In summer it is
several degrees more disagreeable than
almost any other spot on earth. The
beat which is radiated from the Rocky
mountains here is unbearable, and in
midsummer tbe vast sunken pit is thf4
home of the sand storm, and given
over to the elemental terrors. Mil
lions 'of years ago this region, in all
probability, was covered with a forest
growth and was frequented by large
and powerful mastodons. The valley
offers few inducements to any but the
owners of borax mines and gold, sliver
and copper prospectors. It so happened
that one of the latter entered the val
ley late during the present season and
wandered through the mountains look
ing for treasure or signs, w’hen he
stumbled upon some curious bones. In
vestigation showed that they were
merely the indications of others be
neath the surface, which had not been
washed away, and a little work re
sulted in uncovering some enormous
lusks, which could belong only to an
animal of the elephant family. Fur
ther investigations showed that in
some way three gigantic elephants had
died and been covered up here. It was
impossible to take them out without
appliances, and as the prospector did
not wish to remain there, he adopted
the ingenious expedient of taking out
a miner’s claim and having it filed
with all due ceremony, bringing one
of the tusks to Los Angeles to exhibit.
The excavations made showed that the
remains of three mastodons were lying
together undisturbed where they had
fallen ages ago. The three mastodons
thus staked out will soon be taken out.
bone by bone, and mounted; and if
they prove to he peifect will be as
valuable as a good big nugget.
SHIPS WITH AIR JACKETS.
They Reduce Friction and Render
(ireatrr Speed Possible.
The air jacket for ships is the latest
thing out. It is the invention of a
Scotchman, and. it is claimed, greatly
reduces the "skin friction” and as a
consequence enables a higher speed to
be attained. The "aspirator,” as the
machine is called which supplies the
air, is described as being self-acting
and without any moving parts. It is a
V-shaped air channel, which passes
down the vessel's stem as far as the
keel, and in most cases goes a certain
distance along the keel. This chan
nel may be either Inside or outside the
vessel, and is provided with certain
j protected openings or ports construct
ed in such a way that the water rush
ing past them produces a minus pres
sure within them and consequently
draws out a continuous stream of air,
which, passing along the submerged
surface of the ship, cuts off the imme
diate contact w’ith the water, and,
therefore, the water friction. It is the
claim of the inventor that by means of
his process a steamer makes her voy
age in a continuous air jacket. The
air, of course, ultimately rises to the
surface of the water, but if the ship
be going at a fair degree of speed she
will pass her whole length through the
air current before it escapes. It is
said that in the experiments made
with steamships on the Tay there was
an increase of speed amounting to
from 21 to 2G per cent of the ordinary
speed of the ship, and it was noted
that the greater percentage of increase
wras in ships that had the greater
speed to begin with.—Chicago Chron
icle.
The Wounded iu Hattie
An army loses far more of its
strength through its wounded than
through its killed. There are four or
five wounded to one killed, and the
dead men give no trouble, while the
wounded require an immense number
of non-combatants to attend them. A
great many of the wounded return to
duty; but, as a rule, more than half of
them take no further part in the war.
Probably the same thing is occurring
out in Africa now as occurred in pre
vious wars, for the effects of the new
weapons do not seem to differ greatly
from those of the old. In that case
it is easy to calculate what generals
lose by having so many men wounded.
If they fight a battle In which 100 are
killed and wounded, the probabilities
are that twenty would die on the field,
twelve of the wounded would die later
on, twenty-one would be invalided
home, while forty-seven would return,
cured, to duty. These are the averages
for big battles in which there are sev
eral thousand casualties.
Ca lyle a Kapld Feeder.
One day at dinner a gentleman—
moved, it may be. by the sight of Mr.
Gladstone's eonseientious mastication
of his food, for the great statesman
v>as not one to eat in haste and repent
at leisure—remarked what a victim to
dyspepsia Carlyle had been. “Yes.’*
said Mr. Gladstone, “he smoked too
much. I have been told that he ate
quantities of sodden gingerbread and
he was a rapid feeder. I lunched with
him one day and he tumbled his food
into his stomach. It was like postins
letters.” After a slight pause, Mr.
Gladstone added: “Carlyle did not
seem to use his jaws, except to talk!"1
Fist Fight Amid Ball-to.
During the fight at Colenso there
occurred a truly Irish Incident. The
gallant Dubltns, In an attack on the
enemy’s left flank, paused at a spot for
cover and also In order to regain their
breath. Here two of the soldiers had
a dispute, and before one could say
Jack Robinson they were on thair feet
banging their fists Into each other's
facfj .Vwlth tremendous vehemence
/]J~11*«llets whistled by their ears
^ th%/duat at their tfteh
had won the DdV
and went tat the
THE SIOUX GHOST DANCE
Indians Give Up Looking for
a Messiah.
Ghost dancing among the Sioux In
dians, which led to such fierce battles
with the whites in years gone by, has
died out and the noble red man no
longer looks for the coming of a Mes
siah who would bring dead Indians to
life, reincarnate the buffalo and deer
and effectually dispose of the white
population of the earth. Ghost danc
ing, according to one who has made
this custom a study, is nothing more
nor less than an adaptation of the
frenzy dances of the whirling der
vishes of Turkey and Egypt, an exer
cise undertaken for the purpose of
placing the physical being in a state
of exaltation wherein the spirit gains
intimate communion with the dead
and with the Messiah. It is a curious
fact, attested by the better educated
Indians, that the idea of an Indian
Messiah was an adoption of the Chris
tian idea of the Savior,doubtless trace
able to the teachings of the early mis
sionaries. The expected advent of an
Indian Messiah has been among the
traditions of the Indians of North Am
erica almost from the beginning of
their contact with the whites, and
when the failure of crops in 1889 and
1890 left the Indians without the sub
sistence upon which they depended—
the government failed to furnish all
of the supplies demanded—their minds
naturally turned to the thoughts of the
Messiah’s advent.
In the summer of 1890 the idea be
came widespread and was followed
soon after by the announcement that
the Messiah had actually come. Twen
ty miles from the Pine Ridge agency
about 2,000 Indians gathered, many of
them belonging to the band of the
famous old medicine man. Sitting Bull.
They believed the Indian millennium
would come with the next spring,
when the new grass appeared. Sol
diers were hurried from all parts of
the country. They herded the Indians
into their agencies and pursued the
wandering bands of fanatics into the
Band I^ands, and there proved to them
that their ghost shirt was only painted
muslin and incapable of turning the
bullet of the white man. The ghost
dance was held for six days and
nights at the beginning of every new
moon, by command of the Messiah.
Month after month in 1S50 the dance
was kept up. By the influence of the
agents and the Indian police, backed
by the soldiers, all of the Indians, ex
cept the Sioux, were brought under
control. The Sioux were numerous
and defiant. They refused to quit
dancing and treated the agents’ or
ders with contempt. The collision
came at Wounded Knee creek on Dec.
29. Several companies of soldiers had
surprised and captured Big Foot’s
band, the leaders of the deviltry of
the times. They were lined up while
a search of their tepees was made for
arms. This proved fruitless and a per
sonal search was ordered. The first
detachment of searchers was shot
down by the Indians, who had their
guns concealed beneath their blankets
and ghost shirts. There were 140
bucks and 250 women and children in
the band. The signal for hostilities
was given by the medicine man grab
bing a handful of earth and flinging it
above his head. The soldiers were of
Custer’s old command and soon ral
lied. The Indians retreated to their
tepees after they had lost 52 men. Be
fore the battle ended 116 Indians, in
cluding Big Foot and 60 or 70 women
and children, hiding in the tepees,
were killed. The soldiers had 25 kill
ed. The demonstration of the worth
lessness of the ghost shirt as armor
had a powerful effect upon the other
dancing Indians, and they sullenly
submitted after weeks of protest. The
ghost dance belief died hard, however.
So alluringly did the Messiah idea
present the future to the simple
minded braves that they were loath to
give it up. The following year ghost
dancing was again started, but was
soon stopped by the Indian police. Pe
riodically since then have the follow
ers of the craze sought to revive this
dance, but each time it was sternly re
pressed. The end came last year, when
only a score of the believers in all
the Sioux could be got together. Then
and then only was it finally aban
doned.
Bible for Prisoners.
A precedent has been established by
the grand jury, which will probably be
followed by members of that body who
succeeded the incumbents, says the
Indianapolis News. In the statutes
of 1879 a provision is made that at ev
ery session of the grand jury the mem
ber shall visit the county workhouse
and jail. Any defects in the manage
ment, or discrepancies in the accounts
of the officials, are to be reported to
the judge of the Criminal Court. Rec
ommendations tending to add to the
comfort of the prisoners are to be
submitted to and considered by them.
This section has never been closely
observed, it is said. In the report
made by the grand jury, yesterday,
there was a recommendation that the
prisoners of each institution be fur
nished a Bible. The county officials
have received notice from one of the
local charity organizations that the
Bibles can be had without cost to the
county.
Pish Knew the Professor.
Dr. Samuel Dixon, the president of
the Pennsylvania Academy of Natural
Sciences, in Philadelphia, has a large
aquarium containing goldfish and ma
rine creatures which he is in the habit
of feeding every morning. During the
winter he wore dark-colored clothing,
and as soon as he approached the glass
tank all the fish came to surface of
the water looking for crumbs. Chang
ing his clothing to light-colored fabrics
the first of May, the fish failed to rec
ognize him. and went without food for
two days. At last, however^Jthey be
gan to recognize his
proached the aquariu
the surface-*—•**,»‘*
hand
tender
had ord
to pi
and allow*
f''
J
one of the youngsters. “Nothing in
particular,” was the reply, “only I am
uncertain whether I drank the beef
tea or that compound I have been
working on.”
BET ON SURE THING.
Traveler Knew I? Accident Occurred
Wager Would Be Off.
“Speaking of railroad accidents,”
said a veteran commercial traveler at
the Cosmopolitan yesterday to a New
Orleans Times-Dcmocrat reporter, “I
am reminded of a curious experience
and incidentally of the most incor
rigible gambler I ever met in my life.
I was going west over the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe some years ago,
and one of my fellow passengers in
the Pullman was a race horse man
from Louisville. He was an interest
ing fellow and a good story teller, but
his conversation was marred by his
habit of leading everything up to a
proposition to make a wager. Every
statement he mode was clinched by an
offer to back it with money, and final
ly the thing became rather tiresome,
and I made seme excuse for avoiding
his society. Our sections in the sleep
er happened to be directly opposite,
and that night w’e were sitting on the
edge of our respective lower berih3
preparing to retire when all of a sud
den the whole car was shaken by a
series of swift and heavy concussions.
We both realized instantly what had
happened. The train had jumped the
track and was at that moment bump
ing its way over the ties preliminary
to heaven only knew what kind of a
plunge. We were at that time in a
part of Kansas that is full of ravines
and gullies and short bridges are of
frequent occurrence. That disquieting
fact flashed into our minds simultane
ously. "Bet y’ a hundred we’re on a
trestle!’ yelled the Louisville man
above the pounding of the wheel*
‘Take y’!’ I yelled back, and with that
the coach gave a sickening lurch and
rolled completely over. When I ex
tricated my self from a broken win
dow I found we had stopped on level
ground, and while everybody was more
cr less cut and bruised no one was
killed. I encountered my Kentucky
friend wandering about the wreck aril
he promptly handed me a $100 bill.
‘What made you take me up so quick?’
he asked. 'Because if we had been on
a trestle we would all have been kill
ed,’ I replied, ‘and you couldn’t have
collected the bet. I stood to win. but
not to lose.’ 'That’s so,’ he said, re
gretfully. ‘Next time this happens I’ll
take the other end.’ ”
NAMES FROM CELEBRITIES.
Manner in Which tlic Memory ot Noted
Persons Is Kept Alive.
As soon as a man or woman be
comes famous, something or other—
generally an article of dress—is sure
to be named after him or her. Usu
ally the new word sinks into oblivion
with the celebrity who inspired it, but
not always. Wellington boots con
tinue to be worn, although some peo
ple prefer to call them bluchers, after
the iron duke's great rival and friend.
Gladstone bags, which superseded the
old carpet variety in the ’60s. are as
popular as ever. The brougham, was
called after Lord Brougham, one time
chancellor of England, who first dis
carded for it the old, lumbering hack
ney coach, whilst the victoria, of
course, received its title out of com
pliment to England's queen. “None of
your blarney,” on the other hand, can
be clearly traced to one Cormack Ma
carthv, who was lord of Blarney cas
tle in 1602. The fortress was besieged
by Gen. Carew, with an overwhelming
force, but the wily and soft-spoken
Irishman literally talked him into
raising the siege. The boycott is an
even more striking example of an
Irish celebrity-derived phrase. Al
though now a recognized English
word and incorporated as such in all
the best dictionaries, it only came into
being in 1SS1, in which year Capt.
Boycott, an unpopular Irish landlord,
was ostracised by order of the Land
league. Neither is it always necessary
for an individual to be exactly famous
in order to originate a word or a
phrase. It is sufficient to get one’s
self to be talked about to be notori
ous. Mrs. Amelia Bloomer was of no
■particular consequence even in her
own locality, while the black maria,
which dail conveys prisoners from the
metropolitan police courts to the jails,
and vice versa, derives its quaint nick
name from a certain Maria Lee, a bur
ly negress, who kept a sailor's board
ing-house in Boston. She was a wom
an of such great size and strength
that the unruly stood in dread of her,
and when the constables required help
it was a common thing to send for
black Maria, who soon collared the
refractory and led them to the lockup.
Filiaust Steam By-Product Saved.
In the business of manufacturing
electricity for public supply, where
steam power is used, the only available
by-product is exhaust steam. This
steam contains much of the heat of the]
furnaces which are fired to produce i. i
when it is discharged into the air. I
is entirely available for steam-hrat- j
ing purposes. In certain towns in the
western states, notably in Wisconsin I
and Minnesota, where the winters are j
long and severe, the electric ligJt sta
tions have iaid systems of underground
pipes and have supplied ste..m heat
and hot water to citizens through
them. Th experiment has been an
unqualified success.
Lacked fnllcicnt Boodle.
“So you were defeated for the sena
torship?” “Yes.” “How did it hap
pen?” “Oh, it was a pure case of for
getfulness. I had my plans all made,
but when I got to the capitol, just be
fore the voting began, I found I’d
forgotten my check book, and I hadn’t
more than $15,000 or $20,000 in my
>ocket.”—Chicago Evening Post.
Sure Preventive.
Id chap, there’ll be
collisions after this
y, you don’t say!
take off the last car on all
no more
—” Old
” "Yee.
t
FIND PLENTY OF ADVENTUR
Central America Affords a Fine Fit
for Men of Roving Habits.
There is as much exciting adventuj
in Central America as in any oth<
region on the globe, says an Amei
lean who had an experience there,
once went there and opened up a stoi i
in a small town. My stock consist*
chiefly of whisky and cartridges
which were the two articles most i
demand in that part of the countr;
but I also carried small side lines t
tobacco, sardines and fancy percai
shirts. One day a big nigger came int
the store, smoked what was left <
the tobacco, ate the last six boxes c
sardines and put on all the fancy per
cale shirts—one on top of the othei
Then he introduced himself as Gei
Tomasso Somebodyorother, and tol
me to charge the bill to the army c
liberation. While we were arguin
about the matter a detachment of gov
ernment troops came up looking fo
my colored friend, and blew the rod
off the store with a small shell from
mountain howitzer. The general wen*
one way and I went the other, but w
both got caught, and the commandan
promptly put me under arrest for bar ]
boring a notorious rebel. I was takei
before the magistrate, and, in order tc
square himself with the authorities
Tomasso turned state's evidence and!
swore that I was the head and front!
of the revolution. The scoundrel had
on all my percale shirts at the time
he was giving his evidence, and I was
so mad I couldn’t talk coherently.
Still, I think I would have been dis
charged if it hadn't leaked out that l
had a couple of barrels of whisky ini
the store. When the magistrate heart
ihat he ordered me locked up and con
fiscated my property for the use of th<
department. The American consul go;
me out eventually, and I came horn*
in the steerage of a banana steamer/
I
DOESN’T KNOW RIGHT HAND.
Woman Finds It Difficult to DUilnguial
Right from I<cft.
In some little things of life womei
are absurdly ignorant, says the Chica
go Chronicle:
“I saw by a paper last week that a
colored woman was excluded from tes
tifying in court because she didn't!
know her right hand from her left,
and was, therefore, esteemed too ig
norant for her evidence to be of any
value,” said an observant Chicago man
yesterday. ‘‘Now, do you know I don't
believe one woman out of six knows
her right hand from her left without
stopping to consider the matter. I was
standing in the foyer of a theater the
other day at a matinee watching the
audience, mostly feminine, as it passed
in. Well, each maid handed her
check to the usher and he called out.
First door to the right,’ or ‘Second
door to the left,' as the case might be.
With hardly an exception those girls
turned in the wrong direction; then
they'd pause to consider, exclaim,
‘Were going the wrong way,’ and
skurry back again. This happened so
often that I spoke to the user about it.
‘They always do it,’ he replied, laconi
cally. ‘I usually point so they’ll know
the way, but I’ve neglected to do that
today. They’re all right if they stop
to think, but they never do think.’
I myself know an intelligent young
woman who has to make a little mo
tion as if she were writing with both
hands before she can determine the
right one. and she declares that all her
acquaintances are affected in like man
ner. so. perhaps, this is a general femi
nine failing, and the colored witnerf
was unjustly excluded.”
,
The yueen’s Numerous Progeny.
Queen Victoria's family, include)
the infant prince, born to the P1®
and Duchess of York recently an<
counting in addition to her ir^esty
only children, grandchildrr an^
great-grandchildren living, nr num
bers seventy-four, as follow' Queen,
one; sons and daughters liv^> seven;
grandchildren, thirty-twc great
grandchildren, thirty-four.*be Prince
of Wales’ own family relatively
small—four children (c*‘ son aTKl
three daughters) and e grandchild
ren (three grandsons a* taree grand
daughters). The line direct *ucces
sion to the throne cornues »nbr«ken
in Queen, Prince ofva',es’ Qf
York and the sons*^ the ^uke of
York. Their birthdi* and tbeir ages
are as follow’s: Q,en* birthday. May
24, aged eighty; Fnce °* ^aIes* No
vember 9, fifty-eht: Duke of ^°rkj
June 3, thirty-fe* * Prince Edward of
York, June 23. f6
Crown Jewels.
On the nig1 of the 16th of SePtem
ber 1792 tY Garde Meuble in Paris,
where* the fOWn Jewels of the *allen
monarchy *ere stored‘ was broken
open andrifled of its Priceless con
tents MJt of these, including the fa
mous “-cgent” diamond, now at the
Louvre were, thanks to an anonymous
Comn>"ication- found in a ditch near
:he (lamps Elvsees. but it was not till
t\vere years later when a man who
wa, on trial for forgery confessed to
b*ng concerned in the robbery that
ue mystery of their disappearance
i-as solved. Another regalia robbery
cas that of the crown of Holland,
chieh in 1829 was carried off by bur
sars, who having kept it intact for
wo years disposed of some of the
tones in America. These were found
Lt Brooklyn, and recovered, the re
nainder being eventually discovered
n Belgium.
/
Tie Haversack, a War Paper.
Mr. Chas. Meinhart. living in Peters
burg. Ind., who was drummer in the
Twenty-seventh Indiana volunteers,
has in his possession a copy of the
Haversack, a little four-column paper,
printed on one side, and published in
the camp of the Twenty-seventh, with
an outfit captured in Berryville, Va.
Journalism Good Training.
Senator Baker, of Kansas, says he
started his son, E. Burgoyne Baker, in
newspaper work because he believes
journalism is the best of training for
any young man, no matter whether he
Intends to keep it up or to go into some
other profession. _
Pew English Travelers In France.
The Paris, Lyon and Mediterranean
railroad reports a loss of 560,000 in
traffic from the diminution of English
travel in Frances
