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MRS. GLADSTONE.
Something Abeat the Noble Wife of Kb
Stead's Graad OM afaa.
No woman lives a more useful lite
.than the wife of England's greatest
-man. Although seventy-six years old,
.Mrs. Gladstone has still sufficient
energy to reflect tho molto adopted by
per when only a little- girl: "If you
'-want a thing well done do it yourself."
Her father. Sir Richard Glynne,
Bart, of Hawarden Castle, was in the
habit of saying that evon as a child,
this pet daughter ovinced a remarka
ble talent for leadership; and subse
quent events havo proved that the
baronet's impression was correct.
While Mrs. Gladstone is in perfect
sympathy with her husband and ever
ready to be of service to him, yet she
is more interested in raising the mora
and social standard of those around
hor than in any thing else. For year
she has not only encountged horticul
ture and Horticulture among the cot
tagers in her neighborhood, but has
personally assisted in the selection cl
plants and the laying out of plats.
She has an abundance of tact and in
argument she is quite as logical as hei
husband. During a prolonged inter--view
with a particularly combative
-and unreasoning woman on one occa
sion her husband is said to have re
marked: "Well, now, this is rather
unprecedented, you know. My wife
usually talks over the most pertina
cious of them in less time than this.
But she'll beat." he added, laughingly,
-'for she never fails."
Being quite domestio in her tastes,
"Mrs. Gladstone is highly delighted to
find this talent among her friends.
In the selection of those this lady is
never influenced by tho accident of
birth, wealth or social position. Her
two requirements are moral worth and
brains. Thus the proudest homo in
England is always opon to professional
people.
In 18G2, during tho cotton famine,
3Irs. Gladstone worked night and day
to alleviate the misory. She estab
lished an Orphan's Homo at Clapham
in 1866. This afterwards became n
home for incurables.
Mrs. Gladstone's social, educational
and charitable project havo always
heen warmly seconded by her husband,
-who is more proud of his wife than of
any tiring olse in tho world, not ex
cepting his own honorable and brilliant
career.
The following story will illustrate
this lovely woman's great heart:
40. if I could only do something for
you!"' a poor singer whom Mrs. Glad
.' tone had been able to render a great
service once exclaimed.
That is easy, my dear," the lady
xesponded.
"Easy for me to bo of sorvico to you?"
the lady oxclaimod. the grateful tears
flowing down her cheeks.
"ies;by doing something for some
"body else. A kind word, a bit of prac
tical advice, a helping hand even if
there isn't much in it," Mrs. Gladstone
replied with a smile, "will always be
doing something for me. And more
than that my child, it will be doing
something for yourself and something
for God. London Letter.
THE STEWART MILLIONS.
Slow the Widow of the Dry floods King
Spent Her I. t Tears.
The moral about "the curse ef riches"
lias never been more forcibly painted
for the general public than in tho pro
cecdings to break the will of Mrs. A.
T. Stewart. When her husband died
the millionaire's wife, who had had but
little comfort and no happiness up to
-that timo, might havo reasonably
looked forward to somewhat of a royal
time during the rest of her four-score
years. But the poor old lady, desolate
and alone, found lifo as hard a burden
as ever. Her husband left her an es
tate of a dozen millions or more, yet
at the end of the first year sho found
herself in debt, and her indebtedness
.kept growing to the end of the chapter.
As she grew poorer the Hiltons grew
richer, and yet never for a moment did
they let her out of thoir grasp or from
"beneath their eyes. Tho testimony of
the old book-keeper tells a story of
:fact that outdoes any romance. He
says that the day A. T. Stewart
-died his confidential friend and
-adviser. Judge Hilton, went to the of
fice and examined his books, not wait
ing until the millionaire's flesh grew
cold. Then he took thirty per cent,
from the $10,000,000 or $12,000,000 at
which the dead man's share in the busi
ness was valued, and proceeded to sell
the latter to himself for $1,000,000 left
him as a legacy. But this $1,000,000
-was never paid to Mrs. Stewart; it was
'owed" to her, and meanwhile she was
"brought in debt for nearly all the
money she Wanted. Tho poor old lady
-was helpless; she had none but the
Hilton family within reach; and so she
drifted on through life, hampered for
money in the midst of wealth, and died
-a genteel pauper. Many a writer used
to speak of Mrs. Stewart's great riches
of her pioturo-galleryV her jewels,
her bric-a-brac and her 'laces and
women all over the land envied the
great millionaire's widow her independ
-ent position; and all the time the
-woman who lived under guard in her
white marble palace on Fifth avenue
might have been willing to exchange
places 'with the wife of a mechanic
-who pushed her baby-carriage past her
-windows, and who 'fired and did her
-own work in a hired teaomoat The
hearing'has no been a pleasant oae
for Judge, Hilton. It .has brought, out
what I have hinted heretofore in this
.correspondence and have (teen certain,
of for five years? Stewart was a cruel
jfcan to his' employes: u employe has
jngnally avenged bis cruelty. a.
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A MISTAKEN NOTION.
The Obligation DaeFrem the Klaeteeat
Ceattuy to the Elghteeatfc.
There is always to be heard and
read, under one form or another of ex
pression, a great deal of indulgence in
mutual congratulation as to this nine
teenth century of ours, and all of its
accomplishments, its tremendous intel
lectual force, its wonderful achieve
ments, while we speak and think of it
as though the nineteenth century were
something that has suddenly wheeled
out of space, unrelated to any thing
that had gone before, wheeled out as
the new burning star in the northern
crown did, as something integral with
out any debt to the past. But in reali
ty the nineteenth century has no such
separate and individual existence; it is
the last length of tho growing stem,
and if the life and juice of the stem
have run into it more freely, so that it
blossoms more generously, it is tho
other lengths nearer the root that havo
conducted to it that life and juice; and
thus much that has come to perfection
in the nineteenth century is indeed but
the completed force of the eighteenth,
and even of others that havo preceded
that. Hod not Franklin, a hundred
years or so earlier, sent his kite into tho
air, would Morse have sent speech in
viewless fire through the air, would Bell
have carried a whisper after it around
tho earth, and the various electricians
have kindled their electric lights rc
fulgont at midnight as tho moons of the
tropics? If Watts hod not watched his
tea-kottle lid tremble and -dance and
lift with the steam beneath it, would
the prodigious motive powers that
move the commerce of the world have
ever been brought into being? Every
thing in life is the result of something
that has gone before it. We havo no
actual right to attribute any great doing j get rid of the sap by steeping and boil
to ourselves; we are like tho sons of j mg in solutions of caustic soda, sulphu-
rich men whoso money has been made
for them, deserving or undeserving.
ana wno are only reqmrea to lei u no
at interest in order to receive income;
we are simply tho heirs of "all ages in
the foremost files of time."
It is not so flattering to our vanity to
acknowledge our debt to those that
havo preceded us, those for whom pos
sibly we entertain some indifferent dis
dain, as, like Mr. Bounderby, to imagino
nd proclaim oursolvos self-made. But
it is interesting, now and then, to get
a glimpse of the truth, and to under
stand, ,iot only as a truism as respects
the passage of time, but as a fact re-
specting the work, discovery and gen
eral greatness of this era, that there
never would have been any nineteenth
cntury if also there had not already
been an eighteenth Hibernianism
though tho statement may be. Great
thoughts have their fruits in great
deeds; tho eighteenth century was full
of great thoughts that have come to
fruit in tho nineteenth.
In all this wo have our reckoning to
cost up. We fancy that the emancipa-
tion from much that is sordid or be-
littUng. if not degrading, is duo
solely to tho influences of to-day; rather
it due. we shall find, to the action
ef to-day; the influences were started
long ago. The man who walks tho
street to-day, educated, comfortable,
and at large liberty in. the matter of
property, labor and movement, would
never havo been so if the germ of tho
idea hod not stirred far back in tho
dark, and undergoing all the con-
1itiAna rt iriwMffih n1 nrkf J"ts1it wm
erty from her, against being held
under compulsion as a piece of prop
erty herself, against many of the in
justices and inequalities to which very
largely through want of observation
and thought, she was then subjected,
the woman of the nineteenth century
would still be where her predecessor
was when tho first idea of discontent
remonstrated within her that discon
tent that grew to open rebellion, and
received its reward long after she who
first held it was dust and ashes.
We are all of us greatly in tho habit
of looking down from our scornful
height of to-day upon the past as some
thing buried in mists of ignorance, and
slothful with want of effort. It might
bettor become us to think of what the
past has done for us, step by step, and
day after day, till all that it hod not we
have in full measure. The same habit
leads us to despise even our own past
as individuals, as if never till now had
we attainod wisdom, forgetting all
about the fact that the despising indi
vidual has no more claim upon the de
sirable future than it has upon this
valued present or the disdained past.
We are not of those who in their
scorn, or affected scorn, of the present
usually only a dissatisfaction with
with the duties brought to them by the
present make a fetich of the past and
fall down and worship it. But it seemi
to us that the present will be only the
nobler for regarding the claims to re
spect belonging to the past, will be the
less injuriously puffed up in its own
conceit always a hindrance like any
other form of pufflness and will be the
fitter to help that future to which in its
tarn it is so soon itself to play the part
of the past Harper's Bazar.
The earth is prolific and appears
as if it would produce crops under any
circumstances. And yet it is very
exacting. If all of the other con
ditions for a profitable crop of corn,
potatoes, or other plants are fulfilled
in the soil, except if potash be de
ficient, the crop will.be a failure. Sup
ply the potash' and tho crops will be
abundant. Iowa State Register
It has been shown by experience
that a pier digests a larger percentage'
Vol grain, converting it into animal in
crease, than a steer, cow or sheen,
u...u..o w B.n w, ,u ... r, .,. , aiea xn aew jersey rop several years,
into the open light. If in her heart but stopped recently because it was
the woman of the eighteenth century not foxina possible to obtain the re
had not rebelled against ignorance, I quired four tons of straw per day to
against the withholding of her prop- ; keep it running, though $24 per ton
AMERICAN LINENS.
A Braach of MaaaCtctare That Might Be
Developed la ThU Ceaatrjr.
It is a mistake to supposo that there
is any radical difference between the
flax fibers grown in different countries.
The variations in result depend not on
original quality, but on the treatment
of the material. The ftbers produced
in this country aro equally fine with
those grown in Belgium and Ireland,
and the length is tho same in each case.
The ultimate fibers are only about two
inches long. They are lapped or shin
gled upon each other in tho process of
growth, forming long, hair-like fila
ments which have often been mistaken
lor the fibers themselves. The coarser
the flax the" more firmly are these fila
ments cemented together by glutinous
matter, requiring a greater amount of
effort in the separation. That is, the
process of retting may be so conducted
J as to render the product from different
j countries and
the yield of different
years precisely equal in quality and
equally well adapted to the manufact
ure of linen. Furthermore, the long
sought "cottonized flax" is nothing else
than the short fibers separated mechan
ically from their gummy blending into
filaments. It has also been ascertained
that the formation of fiber in the plant
begins about two inches above the root,
so that pulling the stalk out of the
ground confers no advantage that may
not be gained by cutting off the stem
just above the surface of the soil.
After removing tho seed the retting
process is employed for the purpose of
getting rid of tho sap. This involves
fermentation, after which the straw
must be thoroughly washed and dried.
The fiber is now combined only with
'boon," which is removed by breaking
and scutching. The modern efforts to
ric acid or other chemical reagents
have failed, as it is found that these
j chemicals, and even the operation of
j boiling, destroy tho strength and lustor
j which form what is called in Ireland
j ..the nature of the fiber." Those pro-
, ses take out natural oil, the result
beimr that the material will not snin-.
The process of retting may be correctly
I and expeditiously performed by keep
ing the steeping tanks in a warm build
ing, in which a uniform temperature
is maintained by the use of steam.
This obviates the peculiarities due to
climate, if any there be, the steam
1 making an artificial climate, which can
be obtained equally well here as in
Western Europe.
It is true that the Courtrai and other
j high-priced flax are grown only in cer
tain localities and retted in waters tno
peculiar qualities of which aro sup-
J nosed to eive them their superior rich
an(i giog3y appearance. But if the air
-m this country were simply to produce
at first an article equal to the poorest
j that is imported it would surely pay
j weu. That poorest stuff, used chiefly
! f0P the making of twines, sells readily
: Bt eh?ht cents Der nound in New York.
which is equal to nearly two cents per
pound for the stalk, as a ton of the
. plant wiU q not far rom five hun.
hundred pounds of good flax fiber.
The cleaning or scutching is performed
to-day in the same crude manner as
ages ago, twenty-five pounds of clean
flax being an ordinary day's work.
A machino that would clean twenty
times as mucn was successfully oner-
v w a
was willingly paid for it. Yet many
thousands of tons of straw are each
year burned, though a man with two
horses and a harvester and binder
could easily cut ten acres per day elose
enough to the ground for the purposes
of the manufacturer, against half an
acre, which is the stint of a worker
who pulls the stock up by hand in Eu
rope. There would seem to be no good rea
son why the flax industry should not
be developed in this country as suc
cessfully as that of cotton was several
years ago. Nothing but ignorance
stands in the way of making American
linens equal to all ordinary require
ments and effecting a vast increase in
the value of tho products of Western
sou. Chicago Tribune.
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Physiology of Pleasure.
The question has often been asked
as to what constitutes tho greatest
pleasure, and who is the happiest man,
but it is obviously one that does not
admit of solution. The intensity of
the pleasurable sensation is a matter
of temperament and surroundings, but,
cacteris paribus, the happiest man is
he who possesses the greatest sensibil
ity, the most powerful imagination,
the strongest will and the least number
of prejudices. The men are rare who
can, by an effort of the will, arrest the
oscillations of sorrow and allow only
osrds of pleasure to vibrate. Pleasure
is the mode of sensation, never the
sensation itself, and it is not a para
dox, but an incontmble physiological
truth, to say that no pleasure exists
which is essentially or necessarily a
pleasure. The ideal of perfection in
humanity would be to efface pain from
the list of sensations, and to give all
men the maximum number of pleas
ures. All the rest, as the philosopher
aid, is but dream and vapor. Medical
Press.
An Unreliable Young Man
Father You have given up your
position again, I see.
SonYes, father.
That's the third or fourth time thif
year you have left your position. 1
dont think you would stick to your
business if you did nothing but sell fly
paper;" Ttxa$ Sifting
HUNTING WILD BOARS.
A tSarmese Sport Which is Daageroas aa
Well as Exciting.
Wild boars were reported to us by a
neighboring farmer as having been
seen in a large patch of canes by tho
river. As these wild hogs do a great
deal of damage to the growing crops,
the farmers are always prompt in
letting the white hunters know when
ever the pests make their appearance.
So off we started for the fray very
early one morning before sunrise, this
being tho correct time to enjoy the
sport. The beaters were previously
sent forward to surround tho brake.
We were mounted on tats, diminutive
but stout ponies, which are far better
suited for this sport than horses are.
Our weapons of offense consisted of
light yet strong, well-balauced lances
or spears, ranging from five feet up
ward in length, made out of bamboos
or lancewood. which latter somewhat
resembles ash in general toughness.
These spears are fitted with steel heads
ground to a sharp point, not barbed.
A keen-bladed hunting-knife, to ad
minister the coup de grace if necessary,
completed our outfit. Most of these
knives camo from India, where very
line cutlery is made, the steel being
finely tempered and flexible. I pos
sessed an invaluable one, which I had
Drought from Afghanistan, captured
from a hill ehief during one of the
wars in that country. A criffin. as a
now arrival is called in India, has to
tako several lessons in the use and
management of this boar-spear, when
mounted, before he can-venture to take
part in the danger and excitement of
pig-sticking. It is a hazardous sport at
the best, but doubly so for a new-comer.
When we reached the place, which was
just beyond one side of the brake where
the boars were lying perdu, we ordered
tho beaters to go ahead. They formed
a semi-circular line around three sides
of the brake a few paces only from
each other, then proceeded slowly
through the canes, the circle gradually
straightening, beating sticks together,
and shouting. The boars, alarmed, ran
out of their concealment by the only
way opon, which was the side where
their mounted enemies awaited their
coming. When the tusked monsters
appeared each cavalier selected his
boar, and rode with couched spear full
at him. If the boar was missed, or only
slightly wounded, he in turn became
tho assailant, and it required much skill
in horsemanship to avoid the savage
onslaught. He will, with one vigorous
push, rip up your pony's belly, perhaps
mangling one of your legs with his
tusks, which are quite as dangerous
weapons against you as your spear is
to him. Tho whole secret of successful
pig-sticking lies in the knack and prac
ticed adroitness with which the boar is
manipulated. You must not gallop at
the boar full tilt with spear held firm;
you would not be able to stand the shock.
The spear would probably be shivered
into splinters or broken off short in your
hand, and you roughly hurled from your
saddle on to the earth, where the in
furiated hog would soon gore you to
death. You must be careful on strik
ing the boar dexterously to withdraw
the spear by a quick turn of the wrist
as you gallop on. A skillful hunter
will, with one well-aimed thrust, pierce
the boar's heart, killing him instantly.
We managed to kill the whole drove,
numbering seven, that morning, with
out any casualty to ourselves. The
tusks are very handsome and are made
into a variety of articles, 'such as hilts
of daggers, handles of hunting and
carving knives, paper knives, ink
stands, and candlesticks inlaid with
silver. The workers in ivory carve
with much good tasto and execution,
the figures especially being well done
and lifelike. It is interesting to watch
these men at work; they squat on their
hams, curving their limbs around and
holding the ivory between their feet,
using their toes, which are long and
flexible, as fingers. Thus their hands
are left free to use in the actual work
of carving. Thoy take a long time to
carve any work of special importance.
A fine set of ivory chessmen, carved in
character, each one a finished repre
sentative of tho piece, often takes over
a year to complete. Some handsome
sets have even taken longer. But time
with Orientals is not valued. The
workman is making his living and put
ing in his alloted span of existence
upon earth, and that is all he cares for.
Charles Aubrey, in San Francisco
Chronicle.
Copperas as a Fertiliser.'
Favorable reports from France re
garding copperas as a fertilizer have
caused considerable inquiry of late.
Coperas has been recommended from
abroad as a valuable dressing for
different crops. It is claimed that
copperas prevents mildew, and a very
weak solution destroys moss, etc, the
spores of mildew. An explanation of
the favorable effect of copperas is that
it increases the power of the plant for
assimilation; there is a large percent
age of fiber and nitrogen, but the in
creased crops are not due to a supply
of sulphuric acid by the copperas, as
super-p.osphates containing an abun
dance oi the acid proved to have lew
J effect. One of the Connecticut station
bulletins cites an instance where cop
peras was used as an experiment in
this country on corn with good results.
The chemist of the station, while ap
proving of more experiments in this
direction, does not believe that cop
peras, will be found generally helpful.
He points out that it will be injurious
to plants when applied in too large
quantities, but that it may be found of
advantage on rich garden land that
has had an abundance of other fertilizer
material for many years. The general
belief in this country is that eopperae
aa .fertilizer has little if any value.
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PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.
" A nasturtium three yeare old, with
a spread of twenty-five feet and a con
tinual shoV of blossoms, is ropsttew In
a Boston conservatory.
"Let bygones be bygones" is no
sort of a motto for a woman. She
would turn her head around to took
after a stylish bonnet if it broke her
neck. Burlington Free Press.
A young wife con be a good
housekeeper without bothering to
polish up the spare change in her hus
band's pocket every time she cleans up
tho rest of the silver in the house.
Somervillc Journal.
"Hello, Jones, where aro you go
ing?" "Getting ready to develop my
gold mine." "What machinery do you
choose?" "None. I'll lake my wife
along. She'll bo sure to find the
pockets if there aro any."
Vihe only man who was ever known
to keep a cash account of his private
expenses straight for a year died tho
year afterwards, and the doctors said
his death was caused by mental over
work. Journal of Education.
"Nearly all the words that begin
with s-l-i are unpleasant ones," ex
plained a teacher to her class. "Can
any one of you think of an example?"
"I can." shouted a small urchin, hold
ing up his hand, "slipper."
"Tho story from Indiana that a boy
had found a nest of gold and silver
coin while "grubbing" will be accepted
with caution by other boys whoso
fathers have patches of ground to
"grub." Nashville American.
The sweetest of sweet girl grad
uates blooms only for one season. The
society belle fights for her place year
after year, and knows so many bald
headed old fellows she can keep in tow
that she makes the way of the debu
tante difficult.
Horace "I say, David, how old do
you suppose Miss Jones is? Her aunt
says she is only twenty-one." David
(who knows a little of business) "Aw,
yes, Horace, marked down (rom thirty
three; to be disposed of at a bargain,
don't you see." Life.
Gwendolen (in shadjr path)
"Won't you take my hand here.
George?" George "No; somebody'll
see us and think we're pretty love-sick
for a married couple." Gwendolen
(coaxingly) "They won't think we're
married at all; they'll think we're only
engaged." Harper's Bazar.
"John, dear, what would you do
if I were to die?" Husband "Don't
speak of such a thing. I would be des
perate." Wife "Do you think you
would marry again?" Husband "Well,
n no; I don't think I would be as des
perate as all that." Epoch.
"Don't you think that the majority
of people aro a little off?" "A majori
ty? Why, bless your heart, every
body's craey, Oore or less, and has
been from the beginning with the pos
sible exception of Adam, and I rather
suspect there was an hereditary taint
in his blood. Boston Transcript.
The man who casts the vote f tho
whole rolling-mill the fellow who agree!
to deliver a precinct at the proper time,
the chap who carries the ward around
in his vest pocket, the great man who
controls the county, is now standing on
the street corner where he may bo
seen of men. Take notice of him, my
son, and watch him well when he is
counted by and by. You will then
observe that he aggregates one vote,
and you won't have to bid high to get
that one. Burdette.
How to Make Iced Tea,
Iced tea is constantly growing in
favor, and is now considered a standard
beverage in many homes. Some enter
prising grocers also furnish a trial cup
to their patrons, and in this way sam
ple their teas. The question was oneo
asked us. "How is iced tea made?"
and while some of our readers may
smile at tne question, yet we assure
them there's nothing very ridiculous
in it. To be sure it is only to drop a
piece of ice into a goblet of tea and the
thing is done. But then, the tea itself!
It isn't every one who knows how to
make that tea, and to them this hint
will not be unprofitable. Put the tea
in an earthen or agate-ware pot and
set on the back of the stovo where the
pot and contents will get thoroughly
warm; then pour on water that has
been freshly boiled, and boiling thor
oughly at the time; let it stand on the
back of the stove for fifteen minutes,
by which time the tea will be perfectly
drawn. If you desire the tea to bo
perfect and to remain so, separate tho
liquid from the leaves by pouring it
off into another vessel. If your inten
tion is to spoil it, you have only to
boil it, and let it remain with the
leaves in the pot Table Talk.
Sudden Loss of Memory
Sudden forgetfulness is not an un
usual thing in the pulpit. Aubrey, the
antiquary, says that wnen no was a
freshman at college he heard Dr. San
derson, Bishop of Lincoln, well known
for his work, "Nine Cases of Con
science," break down in the middle of
the Lord's Prayer. Even the great
French preacher Massillon once stopped
in the middle of a sermon from a de
fect of memory; and Massillon him
self recorded that the same thing hap
pened through excess of apprehension
to two other preachers whom he went
to hear in different parts of the same
day. Another French preacher stopped
in the middle of a sermon and was un
able to proceed. The pause was, how
ever, got over ingeniously. "Friends,"
said he, "I had forgot to say that a
person much afflicted is recommended
to your Immediate prayers." He meant
himself. He fell on his knees, and be
fore he rose he had recovered the
thread of his discourse, which he con
cluded without his want of memory
sing preceived. Chambmt' JtmmuL
MISCELLANEOUS.
Baste slag, tho refus of
steel
works wnen freed from l
and ra-
duced to powder, proves to
, vu-
. able fertilizer.
j "Do they miss me at lutme?" i3
the favorite song of the Burliigtonian
whose wife aid grown up daughters
are fond of pegging plates and ichunk
of coal at himX-Burlington Free Brest.
Sumo laborious statistician figures
it out that in oath minute in the United
States, night aid day, all the year
round, twenty-foi
barrels of beer have
to go down 12,01
throats, and 4.830
e come to bin.!
bushels of groin h;
William Penn, Vhen laying out the
city of Philadelphidin 1682, is said to
have modeled it on adesign of ancient
Babylon, and expressed a desire that
Philadelphia should lb a "green coun
try town, which would never be burnt
up and always wholesome."
Sacramento, Cal., is virtually a city
without laws. In a truk a few days
ago the fact was b roughs out that tho
ordinances now used wen never or
dered or accepted by the Citr Trustees,
or appeared, as required by Yaw. in any
newspaper, and there is no record te
show that they were adopte
Uncouth Young Man "Jlay I kiss
you. Miss Jones?" Miss Jono) (indig
nantly) "What do you mean, sir?"
U. Y. M. (surprised) "Don't you
know what a kiss is yet? Wll. you
are the funniest girl I ever saw. Guess
you'd bettor study the dictionary
awhile. Good evening." Tokcb Bee.
"Well, James," said tho chiropo
dist, "we must keep up with the tiiaee.
Look at this new sign." "Capifcil!"
exclaimed the assistant. "That Will
surely catch tho public." Then he
went out and tacked up a surn that
read: "Corns Removed Wbilo You
Wait." Detroit Free Press.
According to the Engineering and
Mining Journal, it-n Panama Canal uses
about 100,000 tons of coal a year, and
buys almost exclusively the best so
called "smokeless" YlTelsh coal. Ow
ing to the great number of engines at
work on some sections of the canal and
the heavy atmosphere, the "smoke
nuisance" is very great, and the use of
anthracite has been suggested.
A nine-year-old girl, spending tho
summer in a country boarding-house,
was a favorite with her fellow-boarders
on account of her beauty and spright-
liness. One of them was so devoted
that his attentions became annoying to
her. One day she said to her mother,
'Do you think Mr. Brown ought to call
me a puny devil?" "Why, no. my dear,
of course not. But are you sure ho
did?" "He called me an imp; and I
looked in the dictionary to see what it
meant, and it said a 'puny devL' "
Home Life. T
A true story of tho perplexity of a
graduate of the Boston English High
School over a word that ho found oc
curring with vexatious frequency in the
foot-notes of a work that he read re
cently: "Do you know," he asked,
"who Ibid, the author, was? I've been
reading a book that has lots of ex
tracts from his writings in it, and I
I can't find his name in any encyclo
pedia." The young man was told that
He was a relative or the distinguished
author. Anon, who has written some of
the most beautiful things in the En
glish language. Boston Transcript.
A lawyer living in a town near
Waterbury Conn., states a fact which
well illustrates the thrift and frugality
which characterize many of the old
families which have not been touched
by modern extravagance and love of
display. In that town three estates
have been settled within a few months
aggregating property to tho amount of
$700,000, and yet he says if all the
household furniture of those three
families hod been sold at the best pos
sible price the amount received for it
would not have amounted at the out
side to over $300. It is too often the
habit now to have thousand-dollar
furnishings for hundred-dollar estates.
A POWERFUL MAGNET.
The Almost laeredlble Force Necessary te
Overcome Its Attraction.
A most interesting electrical experi
ment has recently been made at tho
engineering station of the United
States army at Willetfs Point, L. I.,
by Major W. R. King, of the Engineer
Corps, by which he transformed two
fifteen-inch Rodman guns, weighing
60,000 pounds each, into an immense
electro-magnet. The guns were placed
sido by side, and joined at the breech
by a number of pieces of railroad iron.
The guns were then wrapt separately
by fine insulated copper wire, over
eight miles of it being used. The wire
used was an old torpedo cable consist
of forty small insulated wires bound
together into a cable of about three
eighths of an inch in diameter. The
electricity was obtained from a twenty
arc light Weston dynamo.
A number of experiments were made
with this most powerful magnet, and it
was found that a force of 20,600 pounds
was necessary to overcome the mag- '
net's attraction and draw the arma
ture from it. A string of four fifteen
inch shells, weighing 320 pounds eaoh
was suspended from one of the gunsI
was discovered in the course oXthea
periments that there was a point in the
bore of the guns, and seven and one
half inches from the muzzle, where the
magnet repelled instead of attracting.
Small pieces of iron were propelled
from it with force, while a shell placed
at that point was rolled slowly out of
the gun until it dropped from the muz
zle and was caught by the attracting
force at the month of the gun
It is thought that the power of the
magnet would have been greatly in
creased if more wire had been used in
the wrapping and if more railroad iron
had been need in connecting the guna
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