II ADD ABOUT THE METROPOLIS
Sleeping in the Parks Rather Hard on
These Piaces—Not Exactly the Be
ginning of Socialism.
NEW YORK—The metropolis is fairly along
in its outdoor period of the year, and whether any
considerable proportion of 4,000,000 people live
outdoors or in is a matter of great pictorial
significance. The aspect of the city changes won
derfully.
Also the outdoor period brings with it many
problems. The department of health sits up
night over new questions—they are always new,
old as they are. Those having a care for street
encumbrances are hard pressed. Officials assigned
to prevent the crowding of fire-escapes with
things that fire-escapes were not built to hold are
on their rounds of inspection. Possibly more laws
are broken in summer than in winter, and more
officials are out of town or are tired in sum
mer man at outer times.
New Yoi-k police justices continue in an increasing degree to temper the
wind to the shorn lamb. Hucksters, peddlers and beggars are leniently dealt
with.
Just now the police are much puzzled by the new ruling of Magistrate
Crane and others. The other day a man was arrested for sleeping in the park
and for being definitely disrespectful to the grass and bushes. The magis
trate discharged hint.
"The parks belong to the people,” he said.
This scene has been repeated. Last summer in the height of the worst
hot .spell New York ever had the rules as to public places were temporarily
suspended. Possibly they will never again be as rigid as they were. The
thousands of people who took up their beds and went to sleep in Central
park found It a pleasant experience, though it was said by the commissioner
to he rough on the park.
This year those who may choose to sleep in the park, or in minor squares,
are not likely to be severely puuished for doing so, nor is there likely to be
a very severe discrimination between those who leave a room to try the park
grass and those who are simply tramps and have no other place. If it comes
to the pinch the new socialistic spirit may give the tramp particular benefit
of the doubt.
A TELEPHONE SYSTEM THAT WILL HAVE NO “LEAKS.”
i ne ngnt over tne teiepnone question, one
that is costing both the holders of the present
system and the advocates of the new one a
great deal of money by way of advertising, is still
on and seems a good way from settlement. It is
the same contest that has been taken up in many
parts of the country.
After all New York is very conservative—to
put the case mildly. A new thing is not certain
of having its first chance in the metropolis. Most
of its experiments are with "sure things."
Speaking of telephone reminds me of the new
switchboard which is likely to be revolutionary,
since it will accomplish no less a feat than shut
ting the telephone out of the conversation.
In the new switchboard wires and plugs are
so arranged that wnen the operator has connected the subscriber with the
number he wants the conversation is to be heard by the two parties in inter
est and by them only, if the telephone girl sought to listen she raus* break
the connection.
The value of this secret telephone system in the case of big institutions
in Wall street and out of Wall street, which have their own “Central,” will
be apparent. Neither the central office nor the local switchboard central is
taken into any secrets. Thus a message may be inviolate in its secrecy be
yond either the present telephone system or the telegraph system, both of
which are notoriously subject to “leaks."
THE GAS TRUST WITH TEARS IN ITS EYES
Just at this moment the public is more excited
over the gas fight than over the telephone fight.
The situation might look to an inhabitant of Mars,
for instance, as funny as a comic opera—though
whether a comic opera in Mars is really funny
neither H. E. Wells nor Prof. Lowell has yet told
us. Here is the legislature fixing 80 cents a thou
sand feet as the price of New York gas. Here is
the gas trust protesting that .his is confiscation,
unconstitutional, ruinous and other things. Here
is the gas trust in court with tears in its eyes
after the privilege of collecting the full dollar and
holding the 20 cents safely in cold storage for the
consumer in case the final appeal shall show that
the legislature really had the r;ght to fix the price
of gas at 80 cents. Then here are two of the
uuewug uj uata up nuu wouy cuuub^i auyuilt* WHO Snail reillSe
to pay more than SO cents, or who shall be ill-treated by the removal of a
meter.
There is another trouble; There are thousands of quarter-in-the-s!ot
meters in New York. You put in a quarter and the light wavers and leaves
you when a quarters worth is gone. Now, the meters have been figured foi
dollar gas. How is the gas company to be forced to change these meters
which call for no gas bills and leave all figuring out of the matter, except the
figuring of the wheels inside?
This is a burning question.
-This,” said a sad New Yorker yesterday, “is the real beginning of social
ism.”
The sad New Yorker forgot that the rate of car fare is fixed by law. that
many commodities are priced by the legislature; that hours of labor, age oi
laborers, hours of sleep, the treatment of children, the day of worship and
i vast number of other things are determined by statute. So that If this is
jocialism it isn't quite the beginning of it.
THE ATHLETIC EVIL AND EXERCISE FOR THE WORKING GIRL.
nmie I\ew noru: nas neen whooping it up for
Martin Sheridan, the mighty cop who hurled the
discus to victory at the Olympic games, and for
some of his fellow members of the American team
—a large number of them Irish, by the way—some
of the a'hletic incidents at Vasaar and other girls’
colleges have been provoking discussion here, espe
cially in view.of the remarks on athletics for girls
made by Mayor Van Dyck, principal of the Wood
ward high school, Cincinnati, O. Vassar has
never regarded bloomers as improper, in fact it
i*ad begun to appear that no one remained would
condemn the “gym” costume so often commented
upon as an ideal costume for women, leaving ath
letics out of the question. The pretest comes from
Mount Holyoke, from Smith, from Wellesley, that
< ntuxjicic iiut a uau ntuuciu, ii_tn. ouiiie ui me cieveres* athletic girls
are some of the cleverest students.
Naturally the girl students themselves are ready to protest. Martha
Gardiner, of Vassar, for example, insists that her healthy interest in athletics
heiped rather than hindered her with her studies, that she broke the hurdle
record without losing flesh or “points.” The same is true if Dorothy Clarke
who broke the record in the running high jump.
Only a few girls, as only a few men, have the opportunity for specializ
ing in athletics, but all alike are interested in a kind of life very different
from that led by the average wage-earning girl in the metropolis.
Who will suggest a really practicable remedy?
THE PARKHTTRST CHTJRCH, OLD—NEW.
Anouier isew York landmark is to go and
wjfl begin going in a few days. It will be a’little
harder to recognize Madison Square without the
old Madison Square Presbyterian church, bettei
known to New Yorkers and to sightseers as
Parkhurst’s church. The valuable corner occu
pied by the edihce in which so many pungent
words have been spoken by the American" Isaiah
was wanted by the Metropolitan Life Insurance
company whose stately building occupies all the
remainder of the block. By an arrangement with
the church society the company built a new
church on the opposite corner, facing the square
as does the old church.
This new church, now complete, is a remark
able example of the modern tendency in churct
au.uuci.iaic. xc in a. wmjpiuuj return to tne Greet*
temple stylo, without spire, turret or tower. A beautiful series of column'
occupy the Fourth avenue front.
Dr. Parkhurst himself has sailed for Europe and his pulpit is now occu
pied by his assistant. Rev. Dr. Montgomery. Dr. Parkhurst, after a briei
sojourn in Wales, will go to his summer home in Switzerland. He is accom
panied by Mrs. Parkhurst.
The 'doctor's departure coincides with the announcement of a new vici
crusade for this city. There was a time when this energetic preacher was is
the forefront of any such movement that was really to accomplish something
OWEN LANGDON.
HORSE AND HORSELESS.
-——
The Animal and the Auto Each Bo
the Other an Occasional Good
Turn.
A farmer in Cadiz. Ind., recently
jacked up his automobile to serve in
lieu of a broken engine in the shelling
of corn and cutting of fodder for his
live stock and horses. The latter par
took of their share of the feed with
out showing any hard feeling toward
their deadly rival, the auto.
One man who has been touring the
,:ounrty says that the horses have ac
cepted the automobile more gracefully
than the farmers have.
He tells the story of an automobil
ist who met an elderly couple driving
a skittish horse which decidely object
ed to passing the unknown vehicle
The driver of the car stopped to offer
his aid, but the man declined it with
the remark:
“If you'll lead my old woman by, I
guess the hoss and I can make it all
fight.”
Another horse and horseles yarn
:omes from a man in Oregon. He
;ays:
“When I bought my car, I marveled
that the company could sell it for
{1,550. Now I marvel that they could
;ell it at any price. Marveling is the
cheapest part of the proposition, I
Ind.
"My particular marvel out In my
jarn reminds me of the man who built
so much stone fence in one day that
AUSTRIAN’S DISCOVERY.
Vienna Physician Learns a Way
to Watch Movements of Diges
tive Organs.
Science, which is fast unveiling all
mysteries, has now succeeded in de
termining by actual observation the
movements and qualities of the diges
tive organs a subject hitherto limited
to chemical experiments and the test
tube. This latest discovery of the
Austrian doctors, which is really a
peep into the stomach, is the result of
long and patient experiment in the
Rontgen laboratory of the Vienna gen
eral hospital. The method adopted is
quite simple, writes a Vienna corre
spondent of the Pall Mall Gazette.
After a moderate meal the patient
swallows a tiny capsule made of gold
beaters’ skin and filled with bismuth
powder. He is then exposed to the
X rays, and the photograph obtained
shows in the abdominal cavity a sharp
ly defined intensely black cruciform
speck. This is the bismuth capsule,
which is neither soluble nor petrable
by the X rays. A second exposure
takes place six or seven hours later,
and in the mean time the stomach has
exerted its digestive powers upon the
bismuth capsule. If the same speck
appears in the second picture it shows
that the stomach has not been able to
digest the capsule, but if it is no
longer visible it indicates that diges
tion has already taken place, as the
capsule must have been dissolved by
HEAD OF RUSSIAN UPPER HOUSE.
The council of the Russian empire, or upper house of the imperial douma
elected Count Saisky president.
t took him two days to walk bark to
where he began. My car will take me
—sometimes—so far from home in two
tours that it takes the rest of the day
for me to drive home with a provi
dentially hired horse.
his mother’s Teaching.
Didn't Believe in Capital Punishment
for a Good and Sufficient
Reason.
A southern judge tells of the disquali
fication of a juryman who came before
him. The case was a capital one, and
the lanky backwoodsman declared de
termined opposition to capital punish
ment. Looleing at him sternly and in
somewhat suggestive of wrath, the
judge asked the fellow if he did not
think there were conditions so extra
ardinary as to warrant the hanging of
the offender. He said he did not be
lieve anything could make him assent
to such a verdict.
“But will your honor let me ex
plain?" said the disqualified citizen.
“I’d like to give the court my rea
sons."
“I don’t wish to hear any explana
tion from you. Go and sit down.”
“Excuse me, judge, but you must
near my reason."
“Well, then, give it. and go along
with you.”
"The reason I am opposed to capital
punishment, your honor, is that my old
mammy taught me it were a'sin to kill
anything that wasn’t fltten to eat.”
Big Bag.
Eva—Catharine used to be quite a
nimrod.
Edna—Ah, indeed! Did she ever bag
any big game?
“I should say so. Her husband
weighs 318 pounds.”—Chicago Daily
News.
the gastric juicps before the bismuth
could be distributed in the stomach.
The doctors declare that the length of
time required for the dissolving of the
■ capsule gives clear and valuable evi
dence not only as to the time required
for the dissolving of the capsule gives
clear and valuable evidence not only
as to tile quickness of the patient's di
gestion, but also as regards the quali
ties of the gastric juices. It is be
lieved that these experiments will ba
very valuable for determining the ef
fect of various medicaments and thera
peutic methods upon the digestive or
gans.
Talent in the Rough.
Frith, the English painter, tells this
story of a fellow artist: “Huskison
| was an extraordinarily clever fellow,
: who died quite young. He used to
| paint imaginative pictures, fairies and
that sort of thing. He was entirely
uneducated. At a big dinner party at
Cneltenham I heard Lord Northwick
ask him all down the length of the
table who bought his last picture.
Was it a dealer? ‘No, my lord,,' said
Huskison, 'it were a gent.’ ”
“Scotch” in "Commons.”
There is always a bountiful supply
j of Scotch whiskey provided for the
British house of commons. There are
| S70 members and the huge vat which
I holds their whiskey contains 80o gai
I ions, specially distilled for them. The
contents of the vat are never permit
| ted to fall below a certain level. It is
j refilled two or three times during
I every parliamentary session.
No Possibility of Mistake.
Gladys—How did Flossie Skimmer
horn’s linen shower turn out?
j May belle—it was a complete failure.
I a nasty little drizzle kept nearly
! everybody from going.—Chicago Trib
j une.
HAYMAKING UNDER EYE OF LAW.
An assessor of tithes must value every crop in Macedonia before it is
taken from the fleld, and often the crops are allowed to rot as they stand
before the official comes round, and the peasant thus loses the result of his
year’s labors. Occasionally the tithe collectors take a soldier to protect them,
and to »ee that none of the crop is secretly sold or hidden before it has been
val ued
Wii'iston's Heart Trouble
BY S. E. XISER.
Wiliston was a busy man and ha
had all the life insurance he was able
to carry. For such a man it is exas
perating to be bothered day after day
by insurance solicitors. There was
one man in particular who made it
hard for Wiliston to be patient. This
man had once stopped a runaway
horse and thus perhaps saved Wilis
ton’s wife’s aunt from being killed.
He had not risked his life by leaping
in front of the horse and grasping the
bit, the truth being that he had stood
in the street and waved an umbrella
at the runaway steed, thus causing
the animal to turn and break its neck
by colliding with a tree. Wiliston’s
wife’s uncle had been compelled to
pay $60 to the liveryman from whom
the horse had been hired, but the
Wilistons felt that the insurance man
had perhaps saved their aunt's life,
and it was, of course, impossible for
Wiliston to be curt with the hero
when he came around to solicit busi
ness.
Wiliston explained frankly that lie
had all the insurance he wanted, but,
as everyone who has ever had to deal
with an insurance solicitor knows,
that kind of an explanation is use
less. It merely gives the solicitor a
chance to continue the argument by
asking for permission to convince you
that you cannot understand how much
insurance you want and that you don’t
know how much you can afford to
carry.
Well, Wiliston had been pestered by
this Mr. Hossford until he felt like
offering a premium to anyone who
could suggest a plan whereby he
might get rid of the nuisance with
out seeming to be rude or ungrateful.
It was at about this time that the
Wilistons were invited to dinner at
the home of one of their neighbors.
When Wiliston had taken his place
at the table he saw his plate begin
to rise and fall in an uncanny man
ner. At first he • bought the earth
must be quaking, but, steadying him
self, he found that only the plate was
heaving and rocking, so the earth
quake theory had to be abandoned.
Before he had called the attention of
anybody else to the queer actions of
the plate he happened to look at hi3
host, and then he knew that some
kind of a joke was being played on
him. Later he found that a flexible
bulb attached to a slender rubber tube
and operated by the playful gentle
man at the head of the table had
caused the bobbing of the plate. It
was then that Wiliston had an in
spiration. He borrowed the rubber
contrivance from his friend and took
it to his office. In the course of two
or three days Mr. Hossford, the in
surance man. called again to explain
the admirable provisions of -. new
policy that his company had just be
gun to issue. After listening patient
ly for awhile, Wiliston said:
“Yes, I can see that this is a grand,
good policy and I'd like to have it.
but the fact is that I couldn't ge‘ it
if I wanted it. I’ve been concealing
something from you that I suppose
I ought to have told you long ago
Your company wouldn’t accept me as
a risk.’’
Hossford would not be convinced.
He wanted to know whether either ol
Wiliston’s parents had died of con
sumption and when he was told that
neither of them had he declared that
there would he no trouble about se
curing a policy.
“You have been accepted by several
other companies,” he said; “j-ou have
a fine physique and with such a fam
ily history as yours there is no rea
son in the world why any company
should turn yon down.”
"Weil, you bring your doctor around
here.” Wiliston replied, “and if he
says I’m all right I’ll take out one of
these new $.">,000 policies.”
The doctor and Hossford came
around late in the afternoon and Wil
iston at once signified his willingness
to undergo an examination.
“I don’t think." he said, addressing
the physician, “that it will be neces
sary for me to take off my clothes
My trouble is of such a nature that
you will easily be able to detect it
Just put your oar against my left side
doctor, and tell me what you think ol
my case."
-An, neu, mill win uo to o?
gin with if you wish it so,” the doctor
answered, as he turned back the flap
of Wiliston’s coat and bent to place
his ear against the subject's chest.
Half a second later he straightened I
up suddenly, with a troubled look
upon his countenance.
“Ah! H'm!" he said; “this is ex
traordinary; jus*, let me listen to that
again.”
He didn't listen long. When he
straightened up the second time he
shook his head dubiously and gave
Wiliston a look of pity.
“Tell me the worst, doctor.” the
afflicted man said. “I will try to bear
it. Do you think there is anything
the matter with my heart?”
“I am sorry to say that there is,”
the doctor admitted. “To be candkl
with you. Mr. Wilifson. it’s very se
rious. I would advise you to have all
your business affairs so arranged that
your family would be as well taken
care of as possible in case of your
sudden death, and don't under any cir
cumstances run to catch cars or wa’k
upstairs or do anything requiring the
least exertion. I tell you this because
you have asked me to speak plainly.”
As Hossford and the physician were
leaving, the solicitor turned to Wilis
ton and, putting out a hand, said:
“I’m mighty sorry, not that I care
anything specially about losing the
chance to write you a policy, but as
a friend. Be careful not to do th;
things the doctor has warned you
against."
“Thanks, old man. Good-by, and if
we never meet again, remember that
I have thoroughly appreciated your
kindness.”
When he was alone again Wiliston
pulled out of his shirt sleeve a slen
der rubber tube tnat had a flexible
bulb at each esd, and then sighed a
long, long sigh of glad relief.—Chicago
Record-Herald.
Whistle for Digestion.
‘‘Whistling for half an hour aftei
meals.” says a well-known womaj
whistler, “is the best possible aid to dfc
gestion.”
BEAR ESCAPES FROM PARK ZOO
AND LUNCHES ON GIRL’S GOWN
Young Bruin Causes a Panic Among the Crowds—
Delicate Feminine Lingerie to His Liking—Re
captured After Thrilling Chase.
Chicago.—Billy, the lord of the Ma
lay bear family at Lincoln park, broke
from his cage one Sunday afternoon
recently and after causing a panic
among the hundreds of men, women
and children that crowded the animal
houses fed on the skirt worn by Miss
Emma Boyer, daughter of an Evans
ton justice of the peace.
Billy possessed an appetite that was
little short of marvelous. He wasn’t
content when he had finished the low
er ruffle nor was he satisfied when he
had devoured the first flounce. But
he kept on and on until it seemed
Miss Boyer would be lucky if she
escaped wTith a waist.
And Billy proved he could eat while
an a dead run. It mustn't be imag
ined that Miss Boyer wras standing
there inviting the bear to feed on
her garments. Neither was she strok
ing the fur of his back. But she was
running as rapidly as she could and
Billy was compelled to trot at a
lively rate to keep up.
Miss Lillian Cobsy, cousin of Miss
Boyer, was more fortunate. When
she saw the animal she threw up her
hands, yelled and fainted. And the
bear, thinking her an inanimate ob
ject, sniffed and chased Miss Boyer
some more.
There were exciting scenes in the
park during the afternoon. Billy
never would take a red ribbon for
amiability. He is shrewd for a bear,
,as was proved by the manner of his
escape.
Louis Sclxlenker, assistant animal
keeper, fed the beasts at noon. The
feeding of the bears is quite an event
in the animal house and the throng
of men, women and children surround
ed the cage when the Malays received
their food. And that gave Billy the
opportunity of proving that bears be
long in the class with the sellers of
green goods. He slunk to the left of
the door as the animal keeper came
up. Schlenker tossed the food to the
right and as his hand entered the
cage the bear leaped upon it. He
dug his claws into the keeper's wrist
and followed with his teeth. Schlen
ker hastily withdrew his arm and
as he did so the bear leaped from the
cage.
Pandemonium reigned. Women
caught their children in their arms
and ran to the door. But he was a
courageous little beast and he growled
a few times and the people fell apart
in their endeavor to give him room
for passage.
Then the bear caught sight of Miss '
Boyer and her new spring gown.
Miss Boyer is willing to admit that
she doesn't possess as much curiosity
as she did. for it was her eagerness
that led her into trouble. When she
saw the men and women falling over
one another in their efforts to secure
running room she rushed to the en
trance of the animal house.
“Help!” shrieked Miss Boyer, and
turned to run.
“Assistance!” shrieked Miss Cosby,
and fainted.
By this time Miss Boyer was run
ning. Her course led her through sev
eral bushes of shrubbery, but she
didn’t mind if she could but shake
WORKMAN MADE MANIAC ~!
BY AWFUL EXPERIENCE
Trapped in Underground Tunnel, He
Faces Death for Three Hours_
F.aves When Rescued.
Milwaukee. Wis— Imprisoned in the
third compartment of the city water
company’s Knapp street tunnel, under
the Milwaukee river, with water
slowly pouring in through a gap above
his head and filling the lock in which
he stood. John Slater, a laborer, faced
death for nearly three hours the other
I
TUB WATER ROSE ALMOST TO HIS
SHOULDERS.
morning until rescued by tlii heroic
work of Capts. Peter Lancaster and
Harris G. Giddings, of the Milwaukee
fire department.
With six companions Slater was
caught while working in the tunnel at
11 o'clock in the morning, when a
sandpocket above the tunnel gave way,
leaving a gaping hole through which
water poured upon them. All but
Slater escaped. In turning he fell on
the slimy bottom of the tunnel.
Rushing water closed the heavy iron
door of the diaphragm and he wa3
locked within before he could arise.
When assistance was first called the
fire department wa3 summoned. As
soon as he reached the scene Capt.
Lancaster descended to the bottom of
the shaft, where he was soon joined
by Capt. Giddings and Assistant Chief
Lawrence Hanlon. After repeated at
tempts the two captains succeeded in
forcing open the door and shortly after
1:15 o’clock Slater was dragged out
more dead than alive.
During the terrible ordeal Slater
| the bear. But she couldn’t. For the
; first flounce had convinced Billy that
garment was made of the material he
wanted. He reached for a flounce.
Men fleet of foot and with stout
hearts were willing to come to her
assistance, but when they arrived she
was several yards ahead and increas
ing the distance. Some people may
have an impression that a bear is a
cumbersome animal and unwieldy.
Miss Boyer, however, has no such im
pression of a bear. She admits she
isn’t qualified to speak as to his grace
fulness, but she is positive he is a
most agile beast, and she is just as
certain she wouldn't have had enough
of that dress to serve as a souvenir
if the assistant trainer had not be
thought himself of a trick he learned
while a cowboy in the west.
In those days Schlenker was looked
upon as the best wdelder of a lasso in
Montana. He secured a rope, made
BILLY WAS MAKING A MEAL OP
HER DRESS.
a noose and started in pursuit. Billy
had devoured four flounces and as
many ruffles and had two of each
within sight when Schlenker thrdw
the rope. It became taut and Billy's
idea of freedom was dashed to. the
earth.
His return was ignominious. He was
still angry enough to fight, so the
keeper and willing men by the score
dragged him across the park. They
pushed him into the cage and he was
compelled to receive the contemptuous
glances of his mate.
Miss Boyer’s condition was not
greatly improved, however, for her
escort had been left behind in the
chase and he carried the car fare.
Miss Cosby was just recovering from
her unconscious condition and the
Evanston young lady thought her
plight a sad one. And she was exceed
ingly happy when the young man ar
rived and she and her friend could
board a car for Evanston.
The bears did not suffer from the
attention they received during the re
mainder of the afternoon.
lost his mind, raving like a maniac.
When he was brought to the surface,
he was blue and numbed from expo
sure to the cold water, which had
risen nearly to his shoulders during
the three hours’ battle. Staring wild
ly and muttering unintelligibly, he
was hurried to the emergency hospi
tal, where it is believed that he will
recover without serious results.
FIRST OF THE CHAUFFEURS
Were Men Who in Fantastic Garb
Terrorized the Buralites
of France.
cnauneurs existed long before there
were automobiles.
History tells us that along about the
year 1795 there sprang up in France,
principally in the eastern and central
regions, fantastically dressed men with
their faces blackened with soot and
their eyes carefully concealed, who
gained admittance to farmhouses and
other isolated dwellings at night and
committed all kinds of depredations
and outrages.
They had an outrageous habit espe
cially, from which they obtained the
name that posterity has preserved for
them. They first garoted their vic
tims, and dragged them in front of a
great fire, where they burned the soles
of their feet. Then they demanded of
them where their money and jewels
were concealed. Such interrogatories
could scarcely be resisted.
It is from this that is derived the
appellation of chauffeur, which once
so terrified old ladies, but which at
present evokes in us only cheerful and
pleasing thoughts of automobiiism and
of voyages and excursions at 25 and 30
miles an hour, in which there is noth
ing but the roads and paved streets
that are scorched.
Iowa Baby Is a Chameleon.
Des Moines, la.—A baby who
changes color three times every 24
hours is a curiosity in Des Moines,
The strange child is Eli Rami, the 14
months-old son of Count Natho. who
married an American girl in Quincy.
111., three years ago. When the little
fellow awakens at sunrise he is a
pretty, pink, fair-complexioned boy;
at noon he changes color, and within
an hour he is of the dark ginger color
of his princely ancestor. At night he
becomes an alabaster white. The mix
ture of blood is said to be accountable
for the strange phenomenon.
Electric Generators.
In two decades the capacity of elec
tric generators has increased more
than a hundredfold, while they pro
duce power with four times the former
efficiency. The largest generator of
20 years ago was the 100 kilowat dyna
mo, belted to a 150-horsepower en
gine, but dynamos now being built
have a maximum capacity of 12,000
kilowats.