&wjj..ia,maMiMiwjjiaumAuiiRu.'a!nroTi
ft GALVESTON HERO REWARDED
To show Its tiiini''.itiun of his he
role rociie of forty -th ret person. dm
lug the Galveston Hoods, tlm people of
Texas have Riven .i gold modal to Ma
jor Lloyd K. I). Favllng of Kalatnnzio
The di'i'oratloiti whlih tost about
$500. lu of IS carat wild, solid. hand
somely designed and studded with
gems. The obverse side hems tin- coat
y of-arms of Texas, supported on a Doric
Maltese cross, with the Inscription.
For Bravery. Galveston, September.
1H00," encircling the .stnt emblem. On
the reverse side Is Inscribed. "Prcent
ed by Citizens of Texas to Major I.. It.
I;. Fayling. who rescued forty-tlnee
persons at the iril of his own life.
Placed In command under tnartt.il law,
his ability, cottrace and energy ivstor
d and tnalntulned law and order. Ills
work was the savins of the city."
Major Fayllng erved as Deputy
United Stntes marshal In Chicago dur
ing the strike In 1VM. rendering effec
tive service. In is'.). he entered the
.secret soivlre of the Cuban .Junta vv.th
the rank of lieutenant, but was toon
trac-ferml to the tlrliiR line and for
two years saw much bard lighting un
der General dome.. p.utlclpatliiR in
finally filibustering expeditions. He
w.i twiic captured by the Spania'.d'.
on.e being conlliied until he was physi
cally prostrated. Ill h alth compelled
him to resign and he left the Cuban
ainiy with the rank of captain and a
brewt ma lor. When the war with
Sji.iia broke out Major Kayling r.il-ed
tin !:tfcf company from Ohio at his own
(Ap.r.'r and offered it to the govern
mi.t. Ho was elected captain of hi.J
(oaipany, but saw no ngiuing. ,
At the time of the lloetl Major Fay- '
I ' r I'a.l been the southern agent of a ;
New York corporation with hcadqti.ir- .
frs ,:i Galveston. When O.Uwsttn
was placed under martial law lie be-
'cme its sole governor for the time.
1.. iut '
Of the forty-three persons whom Ma-
Jnr Inyllng personally rescued, all
weri saved by hard swimming or wad- ,
lag or.t i'lto the water. When the storm '
binNe Major l''ayllng hail gone down
to tin liCKCtl to get a view of the se.l.
As the hurricane increased In fury he
started to return to his office. He loiintl
tha: he had to swim anil wade in an ;
.ueiage of live feet of water, and was
kept busy dodging live wiies. It was
iniiwt Impossible to stand against the
v.:r.d Reaching his ollice he threw off
r Ins .lo.hlng. and putting on a bathing
.si.i; was ready for work.
n xcltlng episode of that night was
win n fifteen tramps ami negroes atray-
ed into a building in which the major
had p'.acctl some women and children ,
whom he had rescued. The gang '
planned to r.te.il the boat in which Ma
Jnr Payling purposed to convey the
refugees to a place of safety. Major
I'ayllng had u slx-shooii-r and a Win- i
lirstcr at hand ami plaied the gJiig
under arrest, stationing his servant
over them as a guard. Ho later did
good work In hunting out the ghouls
who were mutilating human bodies to '
. obtain Jewelry ami valuables, ami it
.ih at hit) orders that many of the.st:
were executed under lnattlal law.
THE MOTEL DETECTIVE.
IIU Ciller Itittr U Nl lliiullcic
Crime,
Int t.imrUIn; (iite.ts.
The duties of n bond detective are
not arduous, and his greatest value to
the guchtH Is as a cicerone. He Is sup
post tl to know the city thoroughly, to
be an authority on the theaters and to
lie able to direct mun who want to
gamble to places where they can Hud
"square gnnies." One hotel detective
who was discharged not long ago was
Bald to have marie nearly $10,000 a
year In tips from guests and conimls
hIoiis from Rambling houses. He was
able to do the latter many a R"1
turn, nnd thoy showed their appruela
' tlon for his work by paying him lib
erally. Nominally he was engaged by
the proprietor of the hotel to preserve
order, but in reality ho was expected
to make hlinsolf generally usoful to
visitors. Ho must know where to pilot
m-tf a rTgMj' ..... ..,
"NT WfflJ)wiiMlMl:OAl. PRESENTED TO J
? i'ihii inflttlh w wwww i w, MMJM
pirt'fs on slumming expeditions, ami
l lie more weird tale he can tell them
about the phi.es to which he takes
them the larger will lie his tips. A de
le, the employed by one Broadway
hotel for many years became unite as
well known as the hotel Itself, lie was
an authority on boxing, and the last
word about any big contest was not
"aid until he chose to express his opin
ion. He was also the stakeholder III
many big bets. New York Sun.
"I'rtiitllntlnn" -A Miilcl N.iTrltr.
The evheine badness of tlie words
UMially selected by musicians to write
tunei aiound has often been a mutter
for sarcastic comment The musicians
have defended themselves by saying
that the words are of the very small
est Importance. bee.iu.se In nine cases
out of ten no one hears them, Sing
eis, so long as they brine, out their
notes ideally, have the smallest regard
for the unfornui.it" writer of the
poem. Hut this sort of feud between
verse writers and musicians, Is about
to be done away with, so It is pro
claimed by the minor poets of "young
Ireland." who promise n consequent
boom In Irish verse. The theory Is
that Irish poetry, minor or major, re
quires musical accompaniment to rIvo
it Its fall llavor, but when the music
r'ses to the dignity of a tune the poet
iy becomes too subordinate. Hence a
,.w species of inm-l.- his been specially
luvtnted to accompany Irish vorse. and
a ionversii2ione nas neen ueiti ai which
some of the new music has been per
formed. It Is call oil cautllatiug. and
consists of a long-drawn moaning,
which Is something between a chant
and a monotone, ami the melancholy
of the music Is saitl to lie beyond any
tliinu ever heard before. Though it
conies forwaid as a new mode, cautl
latiug Is In reality as old as the Greeks,
with the difference that while Greek
music went by certain fixed rules, can
tilatlng Is l"ft to the sweet will of the
musicians.--London Globe.
Mini Wlm Ctitlivr Spruco Cum,
There are many strange occupation:
by which persons gain a living, and
one of these is that of gathering chew
ing gum. There are a few men In
Maine who follow this vocation an 1
make a good livelihood out of it. Of
course, what they gather is spruce
glllll. anil lliey pass me greater pari
()f .j,. tlm, jn n,,, lonely woods. It
Is not necessary to say that their lives
are most monotonous. The gum pick
er, as he Is railed, carries vlth him
an outfit of several poles and knives,
a pair or two of snow.dioes. a small
dog. a couple of blankets and a pair
of climbers like those used by tele
graph linemen. In October he Roes
Into the woods to study the spriuo
growth, lie travels alone and seeks
out the places where storms have in
jured the trees, for the wounded
branches aie the ones that furnish
the laigest supply of gum. lie can go
up a Riant spruce tree like a cat and
gather all the gum there almost be
fore you know It. He is an expert
workman. A professional gum hunter
can make fiom $:! to ?S a day when
he strikes a really good gum country.
Ho works all winter and in the spring
I he leaves his lonely haunts in tno
I woods, anil with his bags and bas
of spruce gum hastens to the nearest
city to ticll his harvest Chicago Iteo-ord-Heralil.
Urntlnc n ATalunrhri.
One of the most exciting Alpine ad
ventures on record was Mr. Tuekott'H
race with an avalanche on the. Klgor
Glacier In 1871. Jin was ascendlnR tho
glacier with two friends and a guide.
Says Travel: Tho glacier sloped (some
what steeply, and on the upper part,
above tho climbers, u mass of loose,
freshly fallen snow had collected. Sud
denly the travelers heard a thundering
noise, and poroelved u lingo mass of
snow and ice sliding down toward
them They cutiltl onl try to reach
thn iii 1 ti l ! ..l.l.. ,t 1 !, .tlii.tliiM
hoping to do so before the avalanche !
should sweep them away Through the
knee-deep snow they ran for their
lives. '1 remember." said Mr. Tuckett,
"being struck with the Idea that It
seemed as If the avalanche were sure
of Its prey, and wished to play with
us for awhile. At one moment It let
us Imagine that wo had Ruined on It;
ami the next, with mere wantonness of
vindictive power, it suddenly rolled
out a vast volume of grinding blocks
and whirling snow and rragnients of
Ice. a fiozen cloud, swept over us,, en
tirely concealing us from one another.
Hut still we were untouched, and still
we ran. Another half second, ami the
mist parted. There lay the body of the
i
monster, whose head was still career- j
liiR n way at llRhtniiiR speetl tar ivinvv
us, motionless, rigid, harmless."
Youth's Companion.
Drop Srn Sprrlmctiv
Kven in the duplet;, the temperature
of the water at the bottom of the ocean
Is only about II) deRiees Fahrenheit,
ami it does not vary at all from sum
mer to winter, says Pearson's MaRii
zlne. It follows, then, that the abys
sal llshes. thoiiRh resltliiiR In theuelRh
borhood of the equator, are accustom
ed to an Arctic climate, ami. IicIiir Mid
denly exposed to a warm atmosphere,
they quickly decompose. Thus It Is
very tlltllcult to preserve them, and, In
order to accomplish this, the tanks of
spirits Into which they aie put are
surrounded with ice, while the more
delicate Inveitebrato .specimens are
placed in n cold room while absorbliiR
tke alcohol. The llRhes are injected
with alcohol by means of a hypodermic
syrliiRe. untl so likewise are laiRe
shrimps and crabs. Deep-sea stnr
llshes, sea urchins, and small corals are
11 is I soaked in alcohol and then dried;
laiRe corals ate sprayed with alcohol
and packed In salt; Jellytlshes uie
hardened In a solution of picric acid,
wrapped In cheesecloth untl kept In
strotiR alcohol.
'Ilirnn rrinlilrnt-.' Wlilowt.
Three presidents' willows are living.
Mrs. (Jrant makes her home in Wash
ington; Mrs. Harrison lives In ludluu
npolls, ami Mrs. (.artlcld at Mentor.
O. Huthanairs niece and Arthur's rls
ter. both prominent in Washington
during the administration of those
president!, still survive.
Killed In HpanUli lt.ill-l'IcliU-
About 5,000 horses are annually
killed in Spain in bull lights. At
these contests from 1.000 to 1 ,200 bulls
uro annually saerilleed.
Already nearly 510,000.000 has been
Invested In electric undertakings In the
Argentina Kepublle.
NEW UMBRELLA PLATE
The advantage of having an um
brella market! with one's own name
and address will bo conceded by any
one, but there are few persons who are
systematic enough to go to the trouble
of havliiR this done. A scheme has
Just been devised by a resilient of this
city by which nny person who can
handle a pen Is qualified to mark his
own umbrella, says the Philadelphia
Record. It consists of a double ring of
metal, one placed inside the other ami
designed to be fitted around the ban-
A IMIILADULPHIAN'S INVKNTION.
dlo of the umbrella by tho manufac
turer. The outer ring Is In two sec
tions, one hinged, but held 'normally
closed by means of a catch. Tho out
sldo of this Is stamped "please open"
and when this direction Is compiled
with the name ami address of tho own
er Is revealed with an announcement
that u reward will be paid for its re
turn. The name and address Is wrltton on
a gummed paper label and pasted on
the inside of the hinged portion. In
case of any change lu the address It Is
a simple matter to remove tho old la
bel and insert a new one. The pies
onco of this device is not only a
means of recovering the umbrella
should It become lost, but lu case of
(incident It offers a means of identifi
cation. This Idea has also been made'
iiho of In the manufacture of key-ring
Identifiers, the only difference being
that for this purpose they are made
smaller.
Ifeitfljj
K0r
NATIVE PLANTS OF HAWAII.
l"crsW l'n tins t'tliniKlnl Mippl) of
liir .A ImtiiUiit Siinilubi iiimI.
A description of the native plants of
the Hawaiian Islands t.s contained In a
bulletin In course of preparation by the
department of ngilcultuic. (if the.-e. It
U said, the most liuport.int are the
woods of the Island. They served to
make the enormous canoes In which
lves crossed from Inland to ls-
land of the i;roup, and occasionally
made vovages to other Islands In the
South Parltlc Others were used for
outriggers and masts, Idols were carve
from soft as well as the hard
woods. The hardest woods furnished
the mallets for beating kup.i cloih.
These mallets were elaborately carved
and of a different pattern on each
fence. They were used 111 such a man
lier as to stamp the pattern upon th-'
cloth, From the forists came the bark,
leave and liber out of which It.ip.i
cloth, mats, MshliiR lines, nets. etc..
were made, l'roni the various trees
came the dyes which they used In col-
orliiR the kapa cloth, and In tattooing
their sMiis. The materia meiiica or
the kahunas, or native doctors, wu
gathoreil exclusively from the forests
and Ileitis. The Islands once abounded
In sandalwood, but the great demand
for this wootl in Canton. China, fu In
cense and for the manufacture of fancy
articles caii-cd a trade which quickly
destroyed the forests of this tree, lle
tween 1SI0 and IS'.'.", this trade In san
dalwood was at Its helRht, mid while
It lusted broiiRht Rival wealth to the
kltiRs ami chiefs In Rims, uuiiuuiiitlou.
liquors, boats anil small ships, which
they received In exchange. It hrouRht
from six to ten cents per pound. It
was the II ist export that attracted com
merce to the Island. So Rival was the
destruction of these trees that It was
found necessary to lay a "tabu" on the
few reinalniiiR ones. A Rieat many
sandal trees have since sprung up lu
the inlands, but nowhere In such quan
tities as to Justify a revival of the
trade. After the sandalwood was ex
hausted there was exported to China
a false sandalwood, called by the na
tives nalo. The wood ami roots of this
tree, when dried, possess a fragrance
MroiiRly resembling that or the sandal
wood. It has also Rood hulldiiiR ami ex
cellent burnliiR qualities, and Is used
fop torches in tishiiiR. The ohla-ha Is a
durable timber, and Is used for rail
road ties ami post.s. while kela Is a
very hard wood, closely reseinblliiR
ebony. For fence posts the wood of
the niamame is said to lie the most
durable, while It Is also a Rood lire-
wood. The halepepe was once used by
the natives, who carved their Idols out
of noft wootl. So. also was used the
wood of lehiia. the most Reuerally pre
vallliiR tree on the Islands. It U very
hard. Is a Rood buiblliiR material, and
the best of fuels. - ChlcaRO News.
CHASING WHALES IN PACIFIC.
lllj I'Uli W liiclliiixl ti lto riimlllar ml
Mnrrjr.
Tin- coast of southern California Is
protected, to a certain extent, by the
Islands off shore. The group begins at
Santa Hnrbara with San Miguel; then
comes Santa Hosa, Santa Cruz, Arni
ca pa, ami further out to kpii, thirty
miles. San Nicholas. The next follow
ing south are Santa Barbara, Santa
Cntallna. San Clement, and then with
a break of seventy miles to the Coroiia
does. These Islands are almost parallel
to the roast range and constitute vir
tually an out-to-.seu coast raiiRP of
mountains, which, lu all probability,
were thrust up at the time tho coast
was formed, leaving a deep depression
between them ami the mainland. This
region of extremely deep water U a
famous roadway for whales, several
kinds being found here feeding upon
the vast schools of Jelly fishes which
are nearly always present. The whale
most common Is the California gray,
which goes every year to the shallows
of the gulf of California to give birth
to It young, then moving north along
the California coast In what is virtu
ally a great procession. At this time
the channel Is the sporting ground for
the luiRe unlnials. ami nearly every
steamer that ciosses slRhts a school,
the scene forming one of the attract Ions
of the trip, as the whales, far from be
ing wild or timid, sometimes evince a
I playful mood, or. Incited by curiosity.
come near the steamer, affording the
passengers H near view of the largest
of living animals. This social disposi
tion lisiH resulted in several encounters
between the whales ami vessels, In
which the former have always come
off secontl-bes't. Some years ago u
steamer on the dip from San Pedro to
San I'rnnelsco struck some body, sup
posed to bo a log. Several of the men
were thrown to the deck; the wheel
turned over so violently that the
helmsman was thrown down and the
steamer for the moment came to a
standstill. All hands were called, the
pumps sounded, and as the mate ran
uft he saw a large whale lashing the
water (ustern. The vessel bad struck it
directly back of the right paddle ami
evidently crushed It down, rising over
it. This whale drifted Into Santa Cntn
llna some days later, nnd was towed
Into one of the little bays of the coast,
where It was cut up by the fishermen.
--Chicago News.
Anmiir Soldi hi- I'roprrty.
A citizen of Owosso. Mich., put up
n torrlblo howl to City Assessor Lave
rock, claiming that his property was
nsttessetl at an extravagantly high fig
ure. Ho wound up by declaring that. If
Mr. Laverock could sell the property ut
the valuation named the city official
named could have a commission of -per
cent. In less than two hours Mr.
Laverock had sold a lino residence and
two business blocks. Then the tax
l'yor backed water, but tho assessor
declares he will have his commission,
which amounts to ?lf)0, even If he h:v
to sue for it.
OK HUN OK ASPHALT.
WHERE IT IS OBTAINED AND
ITS COMMERCIAL USE.
OpurnllniK il (imin.ir.i mill Trlnlilittl -Siiiiim
nf m N.ilo.l KmrIihh Wliurti
tlirrrr.'iil ClnxliM nf .tiplmtt Ar Fomiil
An Aipli.ilt Mmititnln,
The dispnt" between two rival
American corporations over the pos
session ot nil asphalt lake In Veiie
7iio!a has caused especbil Interest lu
what an asphalt lake Is like ami how
iisphall Is mined and shipped to mar
ket. sphalt, or asphaltum. is the
solid form if bitumen. Bitumen is a
generic term which Is applied to a va
riety of substances, causing from
natural gas. naphtha, petroleum and
mineral tar to asphalt. The asphaln
of different localities vary greatly in
loiuposlilou. as Is shown by their
chemical lentioiis. Ne.nly all are
amorphous and have the general up
pearame of pitch, melting at about
the tempe'-ature of bolting v.ater. As
phalt, it Is thought by scientists, has
resulted from the hardening of the
maltha ami petroleum elements,
through oxygenation ami evaporation.
One of the most Intereatlng iisphalt
beds in the world Is the pl.ch lake In
the slate of Herniuile.. Veneuelu. This
valuable deposit was unknown to
American capitalists until 1SSS, when
an American engineer. Ambrose How
ard Carner. received a title to the prop
erty from the Venezuelan government.
This he sold to the New York alitl
Herniuile:'. company, which Is closely
allied to the so-called asphalt trust, of
which Gen. 1'. V. Greene Is piesltleut.
The several square miles which are
Included in the concession obtained
have, lu the last thirteen years, been
steadily Improved. The company bus
cleared' the Matuiin river to naviga
tion, so that deep sea crnft from all
quarters of the globe can run In frcen
the Caribbean sea. past the British
possessions of Trinidad Island, and In
land to the docks of the company at
Guanoco. The town of Guauoco Is tho
liver terminus of the Herniuile. com
pany'! railroad. Here are hundreds
of native Venezuelans, working under
the eye of an American superinten
dent. The raw asphalt Is brought from
the lake, five miles distant, on lint
cars, ami shoveled Into the holds of
the vessels. At Guanoco this opera
tion Is much simpler than at Trinidad,
where tighter are necessary because
of the long shelving beach of the har
bor. The railroad follows an old In
dian trail, which led rrom the liver to
the shores or the pitch lake. The sur
face of the lake Is so hard that for
some distance from the shore It sup
ports the weight of a loaded train.
As one looks over the surface, of this
great deposit ho at first sees nothlnit
or a striking or unusual nature. Ho
views only u black plain, resembling
anthracite coal, or flint, upon which
aro groups of natives working with
picks and shovels, Closer examina
tion, however, shows that portions of
the surface arp soft like tar. where the
asphalt Ih sticky and bubhllnR. As
phalt is distinguishable from anthra
cite not only by Its form, but becauss
It Is soluble lu bisulphide of carbon
and benzole. These pitch oools resem
ble somowhat the hot springs of tlt
Yellowstone region. They slowly cool,
and become hardened after many
years. As ut Trinidad, they vary In
depth. Some of them have never been
fully sounded, ami are thought by the
natives to extend Into the bowels of
the earth. The asphalt which Is mined
at Herniuile. lake Is more or less
hardened, anil Is obtained with some
tlllllculty. as It retains the sun's heat
to a trying degree. Tho Herniude. com
pany, after years of experiment, has
succeeded lu putting on the market as
phalt which will neither crack from
cold nor melt under the burning sun.
About ti decade ago vehicles were like
ly to cut Into asphalt pavements In
the summer months. By chemical
treatment this has been obviated In
all tlio newer paveineiit.s, even In hot
countries, where It fully le.dsts the
sun's heat, ami at the same time re
tains Its durability and elasticity. As
phalt Is used largely In the manufac
ture of cements. It is mixed with a
petroleum residue to render It plastic,
and Is then tempered with ono-seventh
Its weight of sand. It also forms oif.i
of the most durable waterproof mater
ials known. For moling purposes It
is mixed, while hot, with fine gravel,
or Is absorbed iy thick rolls of felt pa
per. Asphalt is found m many coun
tries. In Vera Cruz, .Mexico, near the
village of Moloasau, is a mountain
largely composed of asphalt. The de
posits at Seyssel, France, and at Val
tie Travels, Switzerland, consist of
limestone impregnated with bitumi
nous matter, which, when heated,
crumbles to a powder. After it ha
been pounded Into molds ami is cooled
It resembles the original rock. Ovor
1.000 miles of the streets of Paris have
been supplied from these two locali
ties. New York Tribune.
I.lclilil l.iiip In Oriliiinl.
Last season William lteese. owner of
a large apple orchard near Bean lak,
.Mo.,sustalueicoiinldernble loss through
ravages of insects among his fruit.
This year, in addition to spraying ills
dvis, he will place fifty lighted lamps
In different parts of 'the orchard nt
night, depending on a practical demon
stration of the nioth-and-llaino theory.
Mill V'ti .MIropriiiitiMl.
The male wasp Is said by some nat
uralists to perform no work whatever,
vvhllo others asKirt that the males are
the scavengers of the community,
keeping tho nests cloun and carrying
out the bodies of tho dead.
I ..
TRAMPS AVOID MT. CAnBOLL.
TliU .lull it Terror In lltiliiivt Unrig
Oit-r it I'rnrlpli'C
No hobo who has ever visii.il tlm
town of Mount Carroll, 111., has been
known to vendue within a mile of It
again. This fact Is owing to the lo
cation rather than to the condition of
the town Jail. Once a tramp catchm
sight of It he would no sooner linger
within Its shadow than would a crow
light upon (he made-up figure lu
cornllelil. Indeed, tho contrlvnncn Ih
Hindi) to Korve the put pose of it tramp
scare. The Wandering Willie who for
a single night has lodged In the Mount
tii t oil Jail has called away with hint
siitlltienl tenors to keep him out of
the county dining the remainder of his
wandering life. It comes nearer being
a calaboo.se In the clouds than any
earthly bsstlle. Mount Carroll Is high,
but the Jail Is several pegs higher.
round the town winds the Wnukarusa
I liver. One may step aside from a main
Rtreet ami look- down a sheer descent
of several hundred feet Into tho lazy
idream One of (lit1 streets ended at
the brink of this steep bank. The city
fathers thought It would he a good
Idea to blockade the avenue by erect'
lug a town building on the edge ol
the Jugged palisade. It would not only
servo to keep careless people from
pitching over the blink, but could Im
used as a Jail, lu which trivial offend
ers could lie held. It ho happened,
however, tha' the structure was nimlo
to block up the premises of a citizen
The big box-like affair presented a
broadside to the til Una's front door.
It was so near that an Imprisoned to
bacco fiend could from an open whi
tlow expectorate over the stoop floor.
The town was threatened with a dam
age sell If It did not take the thing
away forthwith. There was only tiling
to do, ami that was to move the Jail
over the precipice and set It on Htllts
About fifty feel below Is a locky letlgi
fifteen feet wide. A framework ol
props was set on this ledge ami thh
was surmounted by the window grated
box. l'roni one of the windows to ths
muddy Wnukarusa Is a dovvnlock cap
able of appalling the heart of tin
most hardened hobo lu the land. II
is a constant fear that the high winds
which have a habit of prevailing In
Mount Carroll, will move the sttue
dire from Its equilibrium and toppl.
It over Into the abyss. The Hlmsy
contrivance, set up then on pegs, look
as though a single blast of Old Boreal
wouiii unsettle n, op, worse still, a
twister take It up and whirl It oft
the earth. The unique excuse for a
Jul) and lis terrifying location bin
served tho town well. Until the ex
pected takoH place and the shaky box
tumbles down the til IT, no ohscrvitiR
rambling Unfits will risk being shut
up In It for a single night. Philadel
phia Times.
OROCERS SELLINQ WATER.
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Itfliiulroi ClicniU'iil Annljrilt
to Hull
Fmtlilluu llrooklyii Taite.
If the Brooklyn water famine con
tinues much longer, reasonably puri
till n king water will cost more in that
borough than beer. I'eoplo who can
afford to have long bought their drink
ing water In bottles ami demijohns
ami tho trade in this commodity U
Increasing every day. Person's whe
have drunk all their lives from a well
or a faucet as nature Intended would
be ama.cd at the different orders, gen
era and spntieH or water found in
Brooklyn. No matter If you talc
water l'roni an old farm well ami send
It to the Brooklyn market, you must
have a chemical analysis to print on
your labels. It may be full of regen
erating materials, or It may even con
tain those rare ami valuable constit
uents, hydrogen ami oxygen. What
ever It has or is must appear on it
bottle or demijohn, because It has Inen
so long since Brooklyn has drunk
plain water thai, the article would Im
apt to be looked upon with suspicion
A few mouths ngo distilled water al
five gallons for ."0 cents scorned tj
answer every need. Double-dlstlllo.l
j water followed at the same price. But
as time passed tastes became mon
I fastidious. Now at the grocer's at
tention la called to something with a
i very choice chemical analysis label at
I 1.1 cents a gallon, or to a rare Jersey
vintage lu handsome, patent-riibbor-corked
bottles at two quarts for 20
cents. These are merely two sample)
out of tho multitude which Brooklyn
druggists and groccra are offering
The last-named. It will ho seen, coau
no more than beer. It is already a
burning question lu Brooklyn whether
its hitherto fortunate and happy citi
zens are to be driven to drink. Chi
cago Journal.
Illiii'k W'nliiiit Is llUuiimrlnc
Very little black walnut Is now U
be found In Ohio, though lu plnnwn
clays settlers found their chief u
tleavor In clearing dense foiests mad
up chiefly of this wood. One of th
few walnut groves In Ohio has Just
been sold for export. Many an old barn
In tho buckeye state lias flouring aiu
mangers made of this wood.
".SiTllnrUnil of Amnrlt'.i."
New Hampshire very early lu Iti
history was denonilnnt'Jd the "Switz
erland of America," on account of in
mountainous character and the hardy
! ImIUm of Its people. It has ulso been
called the "Granite State," from tlu
abiiuduuce of that uilueinl within IU
boundaries.
SIilp Under lit Turin Itlrv.
Northwestern Iowa has begun ship
ping choice butter to Porto Jilco, Thi
firnt roiulgnnuuit left Sioux City a fiw
days ago. being &eut from a very hirgj
creamery.
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