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Ayi'AlNT OLD TOWN.
SALEM is always full of in-
TKnEST TO VISITORS.
JNpp lliitt IhiirnP Wrnlr tin" "scjrlrt
l.pllrr," I'hcrp Up MifTrrril tlm I'miK"
if I'liwrly. 1 Iipi-ii III. Aiitdjrupli.
Nm Urine IIIrIi l'rlrr..
(Salcin Letter.)
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e felt unite lost
when Utile Matin-
inoisollo Willi her
jl jL glbrnltars ii n d
Mlaek Jacks look i
her departuie. leav- ;
ng us standing on
old Main street In
Salem town. For '
want of something
bettor to do we
turned into an an-
lliltin furniture store which does a j
thriving business In these days when '
Ihc furnishings of our forefathers are
in hiieh deniand. Heie were mialnt j
roome. mid the little old lady who had i
charge of the place remarked that
Mton all the antique furniture would he
sold. m general Is the craving for ma
hogany of the last centur. As it is
many an nneestral liedslead has boon
shipped out of the historical town
which has reaped a generous revenue
from the sale of the household goods
of the early citizens. People do not
Kfrm at all averse to disposing of
these idles of other days: nor do they,
as a rule, ollng to them for old asso
ciation. Anions other curiosities exhibited
by the little old lady-who looked like
oiie of the characters in "The House of
Seven Gables" was a paper from the
old custom house, containing a num
ber of items and "O. K., Nnt'l Haw
thorne." The writer, It will be re
menibered was In the employ of Undo
Sam for about three years. The old
litilv wanted to sell the bit of paper.
We' inquired the price.
"Ten dollars."
Little did Mr. Hawtbrone ever dream
his hills, with "O. K.." would command
any such figure. When Tennyson re
ceived a pound a line for nome of Ills
later verses, the literary world thought
he was doing very well as a poetical
tradesman- hut here was $10 demand
ed for four words. Fortunately for
speculators in autographs Mr. Haw
thorne waR fairly Industrious during
those, three years and the supply of
"O. IC, Nut'l Hawthorne," will not give
out at once. If Hawthorne could only
have reaped a little of this profit short
ly after ho was turned out of olllce!
"The. Scarlet Letter" wan written to
keep the wolf from the door. Fields
i elates how subsequently he found
Hawthorne In Lenox, despondent and
hovering over a stove and finally pro
cured from him tho manuscript of that
Incomparable story. Resides these au
tographs there are many bits of paper
marked with a stencil, X. Hawthorne.
Hawthorne was after asked if he really
had tho 6carlet letter "A." and replied:
"Well, I did have it, but nun Sunday
the children got hold of It and burnt It
up."
Main street miwt ever Interest the
visitor. Hawthorne thus had his
"showmnn" expound concerning it:
"Tho white man's ax has never smit
ten a single tree; his footstep has
never crumpled a single one of the
withered leaves, which all tho nu
liimnBRlneo the flood have been harvest
ing beneath. Yet, nee! along through
the vista of Impending boughs there Is
already a faintly traced path, running
nearly east and west, as If a prophecy
of foreboding of tho future street had
Molen Into the heart of the solemn old
wood. Onward goes this hardly per
ceptible track, now nscendlng over a
natural ewell of land, now subsiding
gently Into a hollow; traversed hero
by a little streamlet, which glitters
llko a tmako through the gleam of sun
hhlne, and quickly hides Itself among
the underbrush, In its quest for tho
neighboring cove; and Impeded there
by the nniRsy corpse of n giant of the
forest, which had lived out its Incal
culable term of life, and been over
thrown by mere old nge, and lies burled
in tho new vegetation that Is born of
its decay. What footsteps can have
worn this half seen path? Hark! do wo
not hear them rustling softly over tho
leaven? Wo discern an Indian wom
ana majestic, and queenly woman, or
else her spectral Image does not repre
sent her truly for this Is tho great
.Rquaw Sachem, whoso rule with that
of her sons, extends from Mystic to
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HAWTHORNE'S MIRTJ1PLACE.
Agawam. That red chief who stalks
by her sldo Is Wappacowet, her second
husband, the priest and magician,
whoso Incantation nhall hereafter nf
frlght tho pale-faced (settlers with griz
zly phantoms, dancing and shrieking
n the woods, at midnight. Hut great-y-!r
would bo tho nffrlght of tho Indian
( hrcronmncer ir, mirrored in tho pool
Jjot water at. his feet, no could catch a
j'i. .i li.it In I'llmnsn nf the nnniulnv mnr.
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els wlilcii me wnno man is iicotincu
nehlevo; If ho could see, as In n
reom, the stone front of the stately
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hall wh'ii will east Ids shadow over
this vci Fpot: If he could be aware
that the future edifice will contain a
noble imitUMim where, among countless,
curiosities of earth and sen, a few In
dian arrow-beads shall be treasured up
as memorials of u rtanlshed ruie."
The crank was out of order and tho
showman added:
"Alas! my kind and gentle audience,
,ou know not the extent of your mis
fortune. The scenes to come were far
better than the past. And would yon:
Inteiest have deepened as. passing out
of the cold shadow of antiquity, In
my long and weary course, 1 should
arrive within the limits of man's mem
ory, and, leading you at last Into tlu
sunshine of the present, should give n
rellex of the very life that Is Hitting
past us! Then, too. 1 had ex
pended a Mist deal of light and bril
liancy on a representation of the street
In Its whole length, from Mufioin's
Corner downward, on the night of the
gran.il Illumination for (Jon. Taylor's
triumph. Lastly, I should have given
the crank one other turn and have
brought out the future, showing you
who tdiall walk the main street tomov
row."
HEVOLT OF THE HAUSFMAU.
Not it (iiiiiil linn. rl.i'pppr for All llrr
llnnlciry.
Germany Is not a rich country nnu
only a very little observation Is need
ed to see that the Incomes of the pro
fessional and mercantile classes aro
much smaller than in Knglaud and that
the German women are theroforo
obliged to devote a great part of their
time and thought to household work
Bays the Nineteenth Century. And
Just for this very reason that the wo
men's mindri aro absorbed In details
German housekeeping Is both unscien
tific and inartistic and, although It en
tirely occupies the hausfraii, It seldom
attains even Its own uncomfortable
standard. In this vicious circle, where
want of system takes up the time which
should be devoted to developing sys
tem, It In very hard for a German wo
man to leave her narrow household In
terests and to educate and develop her
own individuality. All the more honor
Is due, therefore, to those few thought
ful women who have conceived and led
.i movement that, though lacking the
great and powerful Inspiration of a new
conception of life, has undoubtedly
done a great deal to overcome German
prejudices and to widen GcrinaM ldea
about women.
These women have not been aristo
crats, for aristocratic women In Ger
many have never, like the brilliant
lenders of French and English society,
taken any Interest In politics or Influ
enced leading politicians. The prevent
impress Is entirely absorbed In her
children, her dress, the formal etiquette
of German court society anil the work
of endowing and building churches.
The Empress Frederick undoubtedly
takes an Interest in the woman's move
ment, but her time of power was too
short for her to do much more thnn
help to establish elementary technical
schoolH for girls. Tho women of the
nobility have charitable Interests which
chiefly take the form of extravagantly
arranged bazars or concerts; and
though they have some societies fot
helping the poor and the sick, the hard
working committee of the English
aristocratic woman Is unknown to
them.
Their daughters have loss freedom
than girls of the upper classes In Eng
land and arc not expected to take any
Interest In public affairs and It Is very
difficult for them to get time and op
portunity to carry on thorough studies
at home. Tho "revolted daughter"
who leaves home to work Is nltuost un
known, as the universities are practi
cally closed to women, and nursing H
not, as In Englnnd, a common occupa
tion for ladles. Sometimes in later
life, when a girl has not succeeded In
marrying and If she does not wish tc
lend the "drone nnd dressing-gown
life," as one of them describes It, she
becomes a deaconess, but she has even
less independence under the strictly or
gauized guardianship of the churct
than in her own home.
Thn Ilrimnu Why.
An amusing article In a contempo
rary explains or professes to explain
tho reason why Engllfihmcn so often
capturo richly endowed American girls
for wives. "Tho fomalo mind," says
the writer of this article, who Is her
self a daughter of the United States,
"loves a mystery, and hero Is the whole
secret of tho constant capture of the
American girl by the enemy. Snob
hery, eyes dazzled by a coronet and fa
miliar Intercourse with crown Jewels
are not tho final explanation; for titles
aro few and American girls are mar
rying Englishmen every day." The
American man, It appears, nover comes
up to tho Ideal Rtandard which the
American woman keeps always before
her, for ho has llttlo or no romance In
hin disposition. Tho Indy who makcti
theso assertions follows thorn up by
saying that sho "calculated tho other
day that she had known some fifty
American men more or lews Intimately
and that she had never had bo much
as a passing acquaintance with ono
whoso soul had passed tho embryonic
stage." She thinks thnt tho American
never lived who could not ho read
through and through after n short ac
quaintance by a clever womnn, where
as It would tako several lifetimes to
understand an Englishman. Tho En
glishman, of conrso, may have nothing
In him to understand, hut tho rvaerve
nnd mystery In which ho wrnps Uls
empty mind aro Irresistibly attrantH'o
to tho American woman, so much sa
that "every EngllBlimon that settlea In
tho United States could have a dozen
wives If all tho stntcs were Utnhs."
New York Recorder.
THKATKIlONWHKKIiS.
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PLACli TO PLACK,
'Inn Hip I'luy lliimr I Arrunijoil I
Ik Citrrlril mi inn Cur. Milrh .rr
rnrr nifil Into t'innilrt TliiMtrr
St.E "-.IIIhr.
Nil now It I the
portable theatei:
lleieufler you can
see " Hamlet. "
"Tannhauser" or
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you live In Uilcu
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New York Journal,
and all that without lifting a font out
of your own town. That Is, on can
If the plant of Albert Ulersadt. of New
York, are pushed through to the suc
cessful end that he now anticipates.
And this wonder will not be per
formed by any complicated and sitper
sclentlfle magnetic Idea, or by a series
of tclenhones or delicate contrivances
of the electric age. but by the ver !
simple and easily understood process '
ol running the theater building ironi
one city to another. And this Is to I
be dune as e:inllv as a wauoii is moved. '
On its Journeying from place to place
this portable theater more nearly ie
setublcs an ordinary box cjir than any
thing else.
It Is proposed by the Inventor to
make the Interior arrangements of this
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THE THEATEU
railway theater as flue, although neces
sarily on a smaller scale, av any play
house In the country. At first glance
this changing appears to be a work of
no little difficulty, but, :t a matter or
fact, It Is very easy. The entire me
chanism is placed in one end of the
car, and occupies very little room. My
a peculiar arrangement of double sides
and an extensible roof the car can
ho made twice, or even three times Its
ordinary width and height. The ex
tra walls, or sides, can be folded up
and when In transit occupy a very
small place In the car. The stage can
he similarly folded out of the way,
while the scenery and stage properties
are handled in the tjiimc fashion. It Is
necessary that two cars be used to
mnke a complete railway theater, and
when the company arrives at the town
where they are billed, both cars are
sidetracked on a double set of rails,
which aro carried for the purpose.
These rails differ In no way from the
ordinary car rails, except that they are
laid twice the distance apart that ordi
nary tracks are laid. After the lulls
arc laid, the two ears are run out on
them side by side, hut almost the
Inngth of an ordinary box car apart.
Then begins the actual transformation
of the two box cars Into a complete
theater. The sides of the cars aro low
ered outward and downward, the two
sides nearest each other meet lug and
forming the center of the floor of the
theater. The roof of the two cars Is
raised to an angle, making a steep
pitched roof above the flooring between
the two cars. A portion of the outer
sides of the cars falls outward and
downward, whllo another, a double por
tion, Is raised at a right angft to the
wing floor, making the outer wall of
the theater. A portion of the double
roof swings over and outward, meeting
the upright wallri and forming a roof
on either side of tho steep. Blopeil cen
ter. Glass skylights, which when no:
in use tan be folded up out of the
way, are .set in spaces left for thorn In
the roof and sides, and the framework
of the theater Ib cmipleto. From the
confer of the roof proper of one of
tho cars rises a conical tower con
structed so thnt it can he closed oi
extended in much the name manner us
a telescope Is drawn out. This serves
tho double purpose of ornament and
ventilation. From the roof of the op
posdtc car rise gla-s boxes which sink
down one within the other, Into tho
car when tho theater Is transformed
for trnvolhiK tiunioaoH. The stnee Is
1 sot up beneath the high oloplug roof
1 between the two cars and like overy
! thing else about this portable theater.
' can bo folded up uud securely packed
i within the box cars when not In use.
Folding chairs, furnish scam for the
audience, and there is an unobstructed
view of tho stage from all parts of the
htructure, owing to tho fact that there
are no pillars or supports larger than
a Htoel chain or slender Iron rod to In
terfero with the view. Immediately
nfter tho porfumance, tho thttter, with
all Its furnishings, can within a very
short time bo taken apart, or more
properly folded together and securely
packed for shipment within Itself, u
it were.
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FtvNCINC. WITH t.l IIUNO CIIANO
I'tir Stntp.iiitn I.IipiI In Si'cnimtff n
I inn.
LI Hung, i bang paid a long visit
yesterday morning to the Credit L
(iiina'i and M. Maaret. the dlteitoi'
genei'il. bad hN know ledge of the
bank scveiel t.ied, hos the Pails
Dally Mess-ctigei. Then was no sin
gle detail In any department of the
bank about wlilcii the Chinese euoy
il'd no: ai'k questions. The whole per
Miiiucl of Hie establishment had been
-Oatloned In the hall for Inspection and
after rex lew lag them LI Hung passed
on to the Miotig-ioniiis. at which he
was grc.itl iinick. There Is room
for four mini, lids of homW here'" wa
his comment .ifier looking around. On
being shewn otic of tlu bonds of the
Chinese loan the envoy examined It
with great interest for some time and
finally askci leae to keep it as a
souvenir of his visit. This was ex
plained to film mil the conversation
being carried on through Interpreteri'i
to be ImuhhMIiIi'. sii he nodded grave
ly and returned the paper. Then came
some extremely delicate eoinersatlon,
which must hae seerel taxed M.
Maaiet's licncs and tact The Chi
nese ambassador said that his govern w
1'ient deslied lo negotiate a large loan,
but wanted to do It direct with a bank
without the intervevntlon of govern
meut officials Could the Credit l.y
onmila umleiiake tills? M. Muz.irct
assenting and promising modeiate
terms, LI Hung Chang asked If busi
ness could be begun at once; but to
tills the director demurred. He want
ed a formal statement of the offer and
its terms. Li Hung Cluing exprehbed
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astonishment at the amount of se
curity requlioil from China for the
money lout to her.
"Do you demand such guarantees
from Russia ?" ho asked.
"Iliissluii credit is so well known,''
pleaded M. Mazaiel.
"You Iiiim no confidence in us?"
"We have every confidence ill Chi
nese lie, III ourselves." was the diplo
matic n ply "Hut we could not ploill
Ise i hat ilic confidence would bo shared
by the people from whom we should
obtain the money."
The visit lasted for an hour and
hair.
SiinikiMl and llei.il liar llihlr.
It was at a country luncheon parly
lately and they got on the subject of
smoking among women. Opinions
Milled gioatly. "If I should find my
self," said one digiillled-lnoking ma
Iron, bristling with Indignation, "at
any social gathering whom the women
were smoking I tdiotild leave at once.
Wo want no .lardiu Muhlllc matiuors
In our drawing-rooms." "1 know a
salut," said her neighbor, "a woman
whoso lire Is devoted to doing good,
who is in i In north but not or It, and
she actually smoker big, rat cigars.
Hor iliiuuhters disapprove or tho habit
and she lately docs It In public, but
ono day wlieu thcic was a house party
staying at her place over Sunday one
or the giiostn left the rest, who were
silting on the bench, and went Into
tin, house ror a wrap, anil there,
plaeldly reading the bible, with a rrag
i .tut llivana between her lips, was tho
Hiwot-fiiccd old lady enjoying tho peace
and quiet of tho Sunday evening af
ter her own fachlon." Phlladelph!
Times.
Mr. Unmet! it. a Tull.rr.
Mrs. Francos Hodgson llurnelt gavo
the Londoners a glimpse of tho Amer
ican nuthotcHs In a new aspect that of
a witty after-dinner speaker -tho Lon
don Journals being mil or praise or her
speech at the dinner given her by tho
Authors' Club. Tho Chionlcle, Indeed,
says that her remarks were so good
that "all question or hor sex was for
gotten for the moment." The Chron
icle, however, regrets tho "lamentablo
taste" which led her to wear a plumo
of algret feathers in her hair. Mrs.
Iliirnott, while she lived in New York,
was never accused of good tasto in
dross, and another Tennesseo authorotis
appeared at n reception hero In a hluo
bonnet, green costume, nnd purplt
gloves! Each had been familiar from
childhood with the weird tints of tho
TennesBoo mountains, and that, pu
haps, might ho their excuse.
(.out In DiiuUnd.
Ono-iwelfth or tho population of
England tiiiffors from gout. A Merlin
physician, Dr. Fohlanor, saya that this
malady is often duo to tho excessive
use of moat.
lUr.llj.
Ah tho population of the world
avoragttj 109 women to every 100 men,
there Is no excuse for any such thins
as an old bachelor or a widower,
(VHU FOR LOCKJAW.
RtiMAHKAULU: CASE OF ICHNUSY
NEIOliCKlif! OF NliW YOKK.
I I'tiilrriMiIni; nlllnlii I rcutiiiriit
III. .Iiiw. rri -M riiinh 1 hut
I lipy Cuiilil Nut llr 1'iirrnl A furl.
pi EW YOU If Speclnl
to Chicago Pally
News: Ernest Nel
docker, who wiih
brought to the
Mirroring from look
Jaw, Is recovering,
lie Is tin first pa
tient to be treated
with antitoxin for
public Institution In
&
lockjaw In any
this country.
The scrum injected Into his. circula
tion Is the 11 tt t antitoxin for tetanim
over cultivated In the t'nltod States.
Neldeckor Is only 15 years old. lie Is
an Ignorant boy, and his case presents
some remarkable peciillarllleu. li felt
111 last Tuesday ami remained at home
Instead of going to work. Wednesday
ho complained or severe pains In his
bead and neck.
Hla muscles began to stiffen uud bo
come set Thursday. Mj afternoon ho
was unable to swallow. That evening
ho was taken to the hospital by bis
parents. The surgeon mxiii saw that
tie had a bid ciiko of lockjaw. His
Jaws wore set and rigid and his teeth
could not bo forced apart. No woiiik.,
either Incised or punctured, could bo
found on him. Ills parentu could not
account for his condition.
Tho doctors determined to treat hint
with the new antitoxin remedy for
tetanus, and Injections will be repeated
at Intervals of twelve hours until the
treatment Is ended. Tho first Injection
was given early Friday morning.
Twenty cubic centimeters of the fluid
wore Injected Into his veins. He was
then very low.
He rallied perceptibly during the day
and was much Inipioved when a sim
ilar Injection was administered at
night. Dr. Hollly, tho hoiist iiuigeuu
at Porilham, thinks there Is u ohuitco
or saving tho boy's life, although the
treatment v.is u begun until the dis
ease had progressed very far. Al
though this Is the II rut case or the sort
treated with tho serum In a public
hospital In this country, other cases
of lockjaw are said to have boon cured
with It in private practice. Additional
interest is lent to the Pordham hospit
al case by tin fact that the antitoxin
serum used is tho first cultivated in
this country.
In preparing tho fluid used, tho first
stop was to obtain a quantity or blond
from the body or a patient suffering
from a hud ease of lockjaw. Sumo or
this was Injected Into the veins or a
horse.
Tho bacilli, or germs, from tho '..-
man victim of tetauiiH multiplied with
marvelous rapidity In tho horse's blood
and his muscles became stiffened as a
result of the disease. Within a few
(layn the Indications of tetanus began
to disappear. The proceKs was re
pealed until the Injections had no ap
preciable effect upon tho horse. Then
ho was said to hn Immunized from
tctnnus. When this state was reached
serum wiih separated from his blood,
and this serum Is now used as antitoxin
to save young Neldeoker's life.
(.'liHtpatra.
Where does Cleopatra's body rest?
Scarcely a layman who would not an
swer, "Why, in Egypt!" After her
cajoleries, her wiles, hor life or Intense,
ir not very exalted, loveti, Cleopatra
was laid In one or tho loveliest tombs
that have ever boon fashioned by tho
baud of man. Hut what a change L'.OOO
years has brought about! Today an ug
ly mummy, with an emblematic bunch
of decayed wheat and a coarse comb
tied to Its head -u more roll of tightly
swathed dust lies crumbling In a hid
eous glass case at tho Mrltlsh Museum,
It Is Cleopatra, tho onco groat queen,
a Veiuiri In charm, beauty and love.
"To what base uses may we not?" etc.
St. Paul's.
To AM Mip llllml.
Following In the lino of experiments
.'otiductod by a Russian scientist, Mr.
It. A. Reunion, superintendent of tho
printing office of the Perkins School
for the Mliuil In Moston, has devised an
apparatus by which ho claims the blind
can actually see. This dovloo acts on
principle of varying the strength or an
electric current by means of selenium
substitute for an eye. This element,
It Is well known, varies In electrical
resistance with tho amount of light
falling upon It, and thus varies the cur
rent in strength In any circuit of which
It forms a part. A llttlo practice read
ily enables n blind person, It Is claimed,
to substitute tho sense of touch for
that of sight, and lo distinguish tho
approach of persons or large conspic
uous objects by Its aid.
JUplit (irnerntlun.
A French scientist, M. Ragonnaeu,
ays ho has duplicated tho Hindoo trick
ot growing a plant rrom seed In thirty
mliiuto.s. The Hindoo use earth from
anthills, that Is saturated with formic
hold and greatly stimulates the germi
nation of tho seed. My Infusing antB
in boiling wnter, acid as strong as vin
egar can bo obtained, M, Ragouniinii
has nchloved the best results by using
earth moistened with a solution of
fi.000 parts of water to ono of acid.
Iloriu IlltpUceil Uj i:Utrliltjr.
It has boon estimated thnt electric
railways have ulready displaced 1,100,
000 car hoities. This Is probably leas
than tho actual number.
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OIIOWSY STATESMEN.
Siinir lit tin- NiiImIiIfh III ltrlll.li I'nlltirtl
t.lff I'iiiiiI lit it Nui.
The occasion of making one's maid
en speech Is hardly the time one
would export a iHglHlatoi to select for
giving vent to a yawn. It Is neverthe
less on record that some thirty years
ago, when the present duke of Devon
shire, then Lord lluitlngtnu, was mak
ing his maiden speech In the house of
commons, ho xlslbly awuei, sas ta"
Pittsburg Dispatch, ami Mr. Dltv.'ncll.
whoso keen eye noted the ticciitrcnce.
Is accredited with having made the
remark that "u man who can yawn In
the midst of his maiden speech Is capa
ble of rising to the highest position
In the house."
Since his transference to the upp.T
house the noble duke has prohj.';)
found even more facilities than coun
cil In the commons for dozing.
Mr. Gladstone used to ho a frequent
offender In the same dlrictlon. The
grand old man was often lost to all
consciousness or what was going on
around him and cl marvelous to re
late, nfter quietly nodding away
thtougli a portion of a debate, ho would
wake up, deliver himself of a big, long
yawn and then make a speech which
for lucidity ami power of argument
would Horn to Imply that ho had heard
every word that had boon spoken
throughout the debate.
Mr. Chamboiialti ami Sir William
llarroiirt often appear to be fast asleep,
but it Is doubtful If either or them
ever really loses touch of what Is go
ing on.
Tho habit or tilting tho hat well
over tho eyes ami sitting with bowed
head and legs crossed one over the
other Is ono which appears lo find
much fnvor with a large number of
members In each succeeding house of
commons, but It will always bo a moot
point whether they really go to sleep
or "make believe to," nrt children say.
At all events It Is noticeable that they
never seem at loss for a word or sen
tence when the time conies for them to
rise up In their places.
Putting all others out of the ques
tion, however, the champion sleeper
of tho house Is Sir Richard Temple,
who goon to uloep at all times and un
der all Horts ' condltlonsat tltnis ho
appears to bo anxious to ward off tin
fooling or Mimnolency which Is obvi
ously obtaining tc mastery over him
Mut the clTort Is alt in vain ami his
head will Insist mi railing upon his
breast.
How- his hat over remains upon his
bond, seeing the dlsocutory HWervod
and strange movements tho latter as
Mimes from time to time, Is a matter
of wonderment.
COUNT ZEPPELIN'S BALLOON.
Up Claim. It .MII lltii'lii l!i for
Vti'fk ut ll 'II in r.
Count Zeppelin, a cavalry officer, who
became famous at the beginning or tho
war of INTO Iiiim for live vcars lieen oc
cupied with the subject of iiivrlal navi
gation, (lo has invented a means ol
treating the pores or the silk stuff unsil
In the making of thu balloon so that It
will hold the gas for mouths. Ills car
is very firmly attached to the balloon
with the propeller In front and steering
gear behind. Tho motor is of alumin
um with a i! to 10 per cent copper alloy
The balloon can rise to n height ot
about 1,200 yards, and carry it weight
of nearly two tons, and If necessary re
main seven and n half days In the air.
Tho expansion of the gas by warmth
Is met by conducting what may bo call
ed the overflow Into a reserved space,
so that the balloon cannot hurst, and
yet loses no gas.
Ascent and descent are effected with
out throwing out ballast or loss of gas.
Tho advantages of Count Zeppoliu'
balloon have been fully acknowledged
by the Prussian military authorities.
They reckon tho maximum speed at
tainable to be five meters per second
(say eleven miles an hour), but the In
ventor claims at least twelve meters pet
second. The count Is convinced that hi
balloon, If practically carried out, will
be able to travel for woeka at n speed
of about sixty miles per day hearing a
fairly heavy weight, and would ho ol
the greatest Importance In times holV
of peace and war.
An tvlrrtrlti Launch,
The novel combination or nuphtha
and electricity Is to bo made in a
launch ror the yacht Iroquois. Th
yacht's naphtha launch will ho fltte.l
with n special dynamo that can readily
bo aiilppcd aboard nnd connected to
the anglno. When the launch Is not In
use during tho day nnd lying at the
boat boom tho dynamo will be put on
hoard and connected and the engine
started up, the wheel revolving In the
water. Tho electric current will bo
used to charge tho storage batteries
that supply the electric lights with
which tho yacht Is fitted throughout.
When the dynamo Is not In use It wll
bo stowed below on tho yacht,
llpfiillir llrarlnc.
"A striking lllustrntlon or tho m
flucb:o or fatigue upon the nervous
syfltat," says Modem Medicine, "Is af
forded by an experiment conducted by
an Italian physician somo months ago.
Twenty-four bicycle riders who had
ridden thirty-two miles In two hours
and a quarter were examined with ref
erence to their hearing, and It wna in
nearly every Instnnco round to bo de
fective. After two hours' rest tho hear
ing had become normal In most of
thorn."
Up Hill.
"Oh, Edgar, darling, here is a caso
of a woman who was struck dumb by
lightning. Do you supposo her htia
bund would lovo her still?" "Certnlt
ly, my dear; he would bo a freak It ha
dian't." Detroit Free Press.
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