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WORK OF CONGRESS
tHE WEEKS DOINGS IN SENATE
AND HOUSE
A Comprehensive Digest of the Pro
ceedings in the Legislative Cham
bers at Washington Matters that
Concern the People
Lawmakers at Labor
Opponents of the bankruptcy bill which
passed the Hou S2 Saturday afternoon by
a decisive majority the vote being 157
yeas to 81 nays were not confined to
either of the grert political parties or any
section State delegations were divided
as to the propriety of such a bill and the
members of the Illinois delegation were
by no means favorably disposed toward
the measure Representatives Connolly
Hitt and Lorimer voted for the bill while
Messrs Burrell Cannon Downing Graff
Marsh Smith and Wood were recorded in
opposition What is true of the Illinois
delegation applies with equal force to the
other State delegations and Democrats
Populists and Republicans at last found
a proposition on which they could agree
and vote accordingly All the Populists
voted against the bill Baker Kan Bell
t Colo Kem Newlands Suford and
Strowd N C The Bailey substitute
Ito the bill providing for voluntary bank
ruptcy was defeated 89 to 120 The
ate passed the naval appropriation bill
hAn amendment for building three torpedo
boats on th Pacific coast was agreed to
The Chandler amendment providing for
twenty torpedo boats was defeated 23 to
39
The Senate passed Monday in debate of
ithe resolution for bond investigation
ignoring the river and harbor bill The
jHouse discussed Senate amendments to
ithe naval appropriation bill Quite a
number of bills were passed during the
day mostly of minor importance Among
them were bills for the protection of
yacht owners and shipbuilders to author
ize the construction of a bridge across the
Illinois river at Grafton 111 to create a
new division of the eastern judiciary dis
trict of Texas to pension Gen Joseph R
West at the rate of 50 per month and to
authorize South Dakota to select the
Fort Scully military reservation as part
of the lands granted to that State
The opponents of four battle ships sus
tained defeat in the House Tuesday on
the proposition to accept the Senate
amendment to the naval appropriation
bill reducing th3 number to two Sena
tor Hill added another day the fifth
in opposition to the bond resolution in the
Senate Some progress was made on the
river and harbor bill by taking it up in
the morning hour The only changes
made were those restoring the authoriza
tion of contracts of 1403000 for Sa
bine Pass Tex and 9S7000 for Savan
nah Ga harbor A large number of pen
sion bills were passed
The Senate again put in a day Wed
nesday debating the subject of investiga
tion of recent bond issues The House
served notice on the Senate and the coun
try that it had transacted its business
and was ready for the final adjournment
The report on the contested election case
of Thompson versus Shaw from the Third
North Carolina District which was unan
imously in favor of the sitting member
was adopted A bill granting the widow
of Secretary Gresham a pension of 100
per month was passed
By a vote of 51 tc 6 the Senate Thurs
day inaugurated an investigation to be
conducted by the Senate Committee on
Finance into the facts and circumstances
connected with the sale of United States
bonds by the Secretary of the Treasury
during the last three years In addition
to some minor business the bill was pass
ed extending the time for building a rail
road by the Dennison and Northern Rail
way Company through the Indian terri
tory Also the bill to send to the Court
of Appeals the case of book agents of the
Methodist Episcopal Church south
The House Friday voted to give each
member 100 a month for recess clerk
hire A bill was passed to appropriate
5000 for the deportation of the Cana
dian refugee Cree Indians from the State
of Montana There are about 500 of
these Indians They have been in Mon
tana since the close of the Riel rebellion
The pension bills favorably acted upon
at the last Friday night session were
taken up and passed The river and har
bor bill was completed in the Senate with
the exception of the item for a deep sea
harbor on the Pacific coast A bill was
passed authorizing the Sioux City and
Omaha Railroad Company to construct
a railway through the Omaha and Win
nebago reservation in Thurston County
Nebraska Both houses adjourned until
Monday
Big Electrical Plant
Mariposa County California is to
hare the third largest electrical power
developing and distributing plant In the
United States The largest is at Niag
ara the next is at Folsom in Califor
nia and the third is to be constructed
at the Horseshoe Bend on the Merced
River The location is near the center
of a mining district having at least 100
mines that are sufficiently prospected
to use cheap power At the driest sea
son of the year the power company
calculates upon 1S00 horse power and
during eight months in the year they
expect water enough to generate 3500
horse power The price the company
proposes to charge its consumers is 5
per horse power a month
Etiquette of Introductions
Two ladies can shake hands on being
Introduced It is considered good form
Young women when introduced to
young men should not offer to shake
hands
When an introduction is given the
name should be pronounced in a clear
distinct tone
It is bad form to introduce on the
street or any place of amusement
Introductions should not be given
either at home or in society unless per
mission is asked
In the introduction of elderly people
the younger should be introduced to the
elder not the reverse
A hostess should always extend her
hand to a stranger when brought to her
house for the first time
j At a dinner party the hostess intro
duces the lady to the gentleman who is
to take her in to dinner
CARING FOR SOILED CURRENCY
Banks Handle It Carefully for Fear of
Lobs Upon Its Face Value
Bank notes are clearer than they used
to be It is the policy of the New
York banks to send their soiled notes
to the United States Treasury to be
destroyed as soon as a sufficient num
ber accumulates to justify it Banks
in the West send on whole batches of
soiled New York notes to their corre
spondent banks In this city and the
bank that receives them sorts them out
and sends them round each little batch
to the banks by which theywere issued
These sorted notes are then sent to the
treasury to be destroyed and others
issued in their place New York is
thus a sort of depot for soiled and dam
aged notes of its own issue The print
ing process for bank notes has been so
developed of late years that the gov
ernment has adopted this policy of fre
quently destroying soiled notes and re
issuing good ones
The Bank of England never lets a
note go out the second time Its low
est notes are for 5 so that the loss per
pound Is comparatively small in thus
destroying little used notes Some in
deed come into the bank as fresh in
appearance as when they were issued
A note coming in is marked for destruc
tion and laid away for a time Mean
while the name and address of the pre
senter are taken along with the num
ber of the note in order that theremay
be some clew in case such a note is re
ported as stolen
It is not suspected how Important an
element in a banks profit on circulation
is the destruction and loss of notes in
the hands of holders This was much
larger in days when reissues were less
frequent than now The larger the
amount a bank may issue the greater
the loss In the hands of the people A
bank of this city that abandoned its
circulation before the opening of the
civil -war yet has many thousands of its
own notes out They were outlawed
years ago though 3000 of them pre
sented about ten yeans ago were fully
Identified and redeemed The whole
Issue of the bank was only about 250
000
Although the average life of a Bank
of England note is said to be but five
days and one seldom encounters a
soiled Bank of England note In London
those notes circulate for years in the
colonies for they are taken abroad by
travelers and are current almost every
where They circulate along with our
notes in the regions bordering British
Guiana There are Scotch and Irish
banks of issue emitting small notes
and these notes are often greasy and
worn since they are not regularly de
stroyed when they reach the home
bank Canadian bank notes are cur
rent along our northern border and
they are sufficiently like our own being
in dollar denominations to deceive
those not accustomed to make the dis
tinction They are often kept long in
circulation on the border and are oc
occaslonally worked off on the visiting
New Yorker who finds them uncurrent
in this city and must exchange at a
discount New York Sun
Marble Making
The example furnished by nature In
fiie production of marble from chalk
by water the latter percolating grad
ually and steadily through the chalky
deposits dissolving the chalk particle
by particle and crystallizing lit moun
tain pressure affecting its characteris
nte solidity it is now found may be
the basis of accomplishing similar re
sults by a resort to chemical proo
esses
Slices of chalk are for this purpose
dipped dnto a color bath staining ihera
with -tints -that will imitate any kind
of marble known the same mineral
stains answering this end as are em
ployed in nature
For instance to produce the appear
ance of the well known and popular
verde antique am oxide of copper appli
cation is resorted to and in a similao
manner green pink black and other
colorings are obtained The slices after
this are placed in another bafch where
tihey are hardened and crystallized
coming out to fill intents and purposes
real marble
Service
We ail in one way or another serva
our fellow men but there is a vast
difference between one who does lihis
only Incidentally and one who has the
conscious purpose of doing so and who
directs his life accordingly This aim
demands not diffuseness as may at
first appear but concentration It does
not chiefly tend to a series of desultory
efforts to do one and another person
good a chance may afford opportunity
but rather in a persistent effort to do
the one thing for which we may be
best fitted as perfectly as possible It
is a purpose which all may share and
one wMch can most truly unite aU
classes
Rope
A cork core floating rope has been
designed The inventor cMms that his
floating rope of one inch in thickness
will stand a strain of more than 1000
pounds The rope consists of a core
of small round corks about three
quarters of an inch long placed end
to end round which is a braided net
work of cotton fcwiine This is sur
rounded by another layer of strong
cotton twine braided in heavy strands
which is about a quarter of an inch
thick
The Brute
Mrs Witherby I will have to put
four extra plates at the table to night
My sister and her three children are
coming
Witherby No you wont Three will
be enough Truth
Love is a good deal like vaccination
it seldom affects the subject seriously
more than once
NOTES ON EDUCATION
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO PU
PIL AND TEACHER
The Severity of Punishment Should
Not Be Arbitrary or Governed by
the Teachers Temper What a Boys
Manner la Worth Notea
The Degree of Punishment
The degree or severity of punishment
should not be arbitrary or governed by
the teachers temper Every kind of
offense should not only have its proper
kind of punishment but every grade of
the offense should also have its proper
degree of penalty to be inflicted The
teacher should be governed by the fol
lowing principles In determining the de
gree of punishment
The Degree of Puniuhment Depends
Upon the Nature of the Offense Slight
offenses or those of o nature jiot likely
to Interfere with tlje welfare of the
school or the teacher need but slight
punishment while those of a more se
rious character and likely to lead to
greater violations of the school disci
pline should be met promptly with pun
nshment of greater severity
The Degree of Punishment Depends
Upon the Motive of the Offender
Many seeming offenses are not meant
by the pupils as offenses at all and
therefore need simply a caution and no
punishment whatever In a school of
fifty children the teacher must expect
considerable life and no little noise but
he must not think that every act of
thoughtlessness on the part of the chil
dren Is meant to interfere with either
his discipline or his comfort Such of
fenses are without motive and in any
well regulated school they must be ex
pected as surely as we should expect
lambs to frisk or birds to sing The
teacher wTho would punish them with
severity would prove himself utterly
unfit to have charge of children and ut
terly incompetent to fill the post of
teacher
On the other hand the offense may be
committed with the purpose of annoy
ing the teacher breaking up the good
order of the school injuring other pu
pils or some equally malicious purpose
In every such case punishment is neces
sary and the severity must be deter
mined not only by the motive but also
by the magnitude and importance of
the offense
The Degree of Punishment Depends
Upon the Frequency of Repetition
The teacher is sometimes unable to de
termine the motive which actuates a
child in committing an offense for the
first time but when the offense is fre
quently repeated the question is not so
difficult to solve The first offense
therefore unless the motive is clearly
understood should not be punished so
severely as the same offense when sub
sequently repeated The more frequent
the repetition also the more severe in
general should be the penalty
The Degree of Punishment Depends
n the Difficulty of Detection The pun
Ishmeut in every case ought to be gov
erned to some extent by the difficulty
which the teacher experiences in detect
ing the offender Conspiracies in school
are always more difficult to detect than
open violations of law They are also
more dangerous to school discipline
and the punishment visited upon those
who not only commit the offense but
who also seek to hide it and their con
nection with it should necessarily be
more severe than if no effort were made
to screen themselves and baffle the
teacher in his efforts at detection
The Degree of Punishment Depends
on the Age and the Sex of the Offender
A moderate degree of punishment to
a hardy well developed youth might
prove a great cruelty if inflicted upon
a small child or a tender girl In gen
eral it will be found that mild corporal
punishment is much more effective with
small children than with older pupils
to the latter an appeal to their sense of
honor a reproof deprivation of privi
leges or placing them where they can
not communicate with their associates
is the most effective punishment I
doubt if girls particularly those be
yond the age of 12 ever should be sub
jected to corporal punishment They
may be corrected in other ways much
less dangerous and the wise teacher
will refrain from administering to them
any bodily punishment the result of
which may be lifelong injury
The Degree of Punishment Depends
on the Temperament of the Offender
The temperament of children differ as
widely as their physical organization
and no teacher can reach all by the
same method of procedure The chol
eric and the sanguine cannot be gov
erned in the same manner as we would
govern the lethargic and the phleg
matic A nervous sensitive child re
quires different discipline from that
which we would apply to one of a dull
plodding lethargic disposition The
degree of punishment as well as the
kind must vary according to the vary
ing temperaments To one whose sense
of honor is keen and who is character
ized by great nervous energy a word of
reproof is of more consequence than a
sound administering of corporal pun
ishment to one of an opposite tempera
ment It is the dull plodding work
horse that needs the spur as an incen
tive and not the lithe limbed keen
eyed Arabian courser Raubs School
Management
A Boys Manner
His manner is worth a hundred
thousand dollars to him That is
what one of the chief men of the na
tion said lately about a boy It
wouldnt be worth so much to one
who meant to be a farmer or had no
opportunities but to a young college
student with ambitions it Is worth at
least a hundred
The boy was a distant relative of
the man and had been brought up by
careful parents in a far off city Among
other things he had been taught to be
friendly and to think of other persons
before himself The boy was on a
visit in the town where the man lived
They met oh the street and the young
er recognized the elder promptly went
to his side and spoke to him in his
cordial happy yet respectful way Of
course the man was pleased and knew
that anybody would have been pleased
The sentence above was the outcome
of it A little later the boy came into
the room just as the man was strug
gling into his overcoat The boy hur
ried to him pulled it up by the collar
and drew down the wrinkled coat un
derneath He would have done it for
any man the haughtiest or the poor
est
The boy has not been in society a
great deal He has not learned ortho
dox selfishness He positively cant
be easy at the table until his neigh
bors are waited on a chair is a tor
ture if he thinks anybody else is less
comfortably seated He wouldnt in
terrupt to let loose the wittiest or most
timely remark ever thought of He
may learn to do so some day after
he has earned his hundred thousand
but It is doubtful The expression of
his kindness may become conformed
to popular usage modified refined but
the spirit which prompts the expres
sion will only grow with his years
Do not misunderstand boys You
may be truly unselfish and yet not
have this boys prize you may wish
to do things for others and yet feel
that you do not know how The only
way to learn is to try to hesitate for
no feeling of bashfulness or awkward
ness but to put into direct and in
stantaneous practice whatever kind
helpful thoughts occur to you Con
gregationallst
Make Geography Interesting
In teaching your little girl geography
try to make it something more than a
dry list of names to be learned by rote
Take her imaginary voyages and jour
neys from one country to another Tell
her something of the manners and cus
toms of the people and anything you
can learn yourself about the lives of the
children Describe to her how the Swiss
boys herd their cattle under the shad
ow of the Alps and the Esquimaux
are made daring by being thrown into
the Icy water in their strange fur gar
ments Tell her of the stunted lb es of
the pit boys in the coal mines and of
the German girls who learn to use their
five knitting needles almost as soon as
they can hold them Books of travel
will furnish you with many interesting
incidents which you can turn to ac
count Geography will not be a weari
some task to her Her mothers wis
dom can make the first steps attrac
tive Ladies Home Journal
How Teachers Should Talk
It is necessary for a teacher to talk a
great deal and to talk so as to be
heard and understood But in order to
be heard and understood it is not nec
essary to talk loudly much less to
snap and scream as Is the custom with
too many teachers especially those
who are impatient nervous or irritable
who are obliged to work in a noisy
room or with a rebellious class of chil
dren
The secret of talking easily and intel
ligibly in a large or noisy room is to fill
the lungs fully and to refill them at
every pause to speak slowly to speak
with careful articulations and to make
all effort at the waist This last is the
important matter and can be accom
plished only by those who can fill the
lower part of the lungs and usa the
muscles of the diaphragm
Notes
There are 451 universities and col
leges in the United States of which
310 are co educational
Harvard has the largest attendance
of any college in America and the
University of Paris of any college in
the world
The Yale faculty state that some
time will elapse before the new Bil
lings professorship of 70000 in En
glish literature is filled
The ladies of Fort Worth Texas
have organized a kindergarten asso
ciation with Miss Eliza Whitmore as
president and Mrs William Capps sec
retary
The school board of Omaha has sued
Henry Bolin late treasurer of the city
and his bondsmen for 32533 which
it is alleged the school department lost
through him
The State normal school of Ken
tucky for colored persons asked of the
Legislature an additional grant of
3000 for the purposeof enlarging its
agricultural department
The senate of Cambridge University
by a vote of 1S6 to 171 has re elected
the proposition to appoint a commit
tee to consider the question of con
ferring degrees upon women
A bill has been introduced Into the
Senate by Senator Charles Davis to
forbid the practice of vivisection in
the public schools of New York It also
forbids the exhibition of any animal
upon which vivisection has been prac
ticed
Superintendent Skinner of the New
York State Department of Instruction
has prepared and had introduced in
the Legislature of that State a bill re
pealing the law of 1894 which com
pelled the public schools to give In
struction on the nature and effects of
alcoholic drinks and narcotics
Up to a short time ago it was po
larly believed that the highest habita
tion of man on the globe was to be
found in a Buddhist convent In Thibet
where twenty one monks devote their
lives to the adoration of Buddha at an
altitude of some sixteen thousand feet
above sea level It has been estab
lished lately however that a colony of
mine laborers exploiting for a London
firm the tin and bismuth mines on Mt
Chorolque in the Bolivian Province of
Chichos are living in a settlement more
than seventeen thousand feed above
tidewater
Each British soldier costs his country
5320 every year
Patents are issued by sixty four gov
ernments in the world
French tradesmen in New York have
organized a French chamber 6 com
merce
A dramatic college for ladles Is short
ly to be started in one of the suburbs of
London
The largest Krupp guns have a
range of seventeen miles and fire two
shots a minute
During the Franco Prussian war the
cost to the French nation of each
Prussian killed was 20000
At the present moment out of the
seventy one members of the Irish na
tionalist party ten are Protestants
The shipbuilding concern of Sir W
G Armstrong Co limited of Glas
gow will establish a plant in Japan
A white buzzard was lately shot in
Texas having on its neck a bell mark
ed 18G0 and Ralls County Mis
souri
Kangaroos are such a plague in Aus
tralia that the government pays a
bounty of S pence for each animal that
is killed
The Boston Park Commissioners it
is alleged will permit the sale of beer
and light wines in the pubUc parks
this summer
A grandniece of General Israel Put
nam Mrs Lucy L Deckery died in
Bangor Me a few days ago at the
age of S9 years
Exports of copper pyrites from Spain
last year fell off nearly 37000 tons as
compared with 1S94 the figures being
504407 tons and 541320 tons respec
tively
The Supreme Court of New York has
decided that a surgeon making an
autopsy without the permission of the
relatives of the deceased is liable to be
sued for damages
The bank statistics of Ireland for
1895 are the most satisfactory ever re
corded and show that Ireland has but
to be let alone to attain a thoroughly
sound economic condition
There Is a 5-year-old girl in Detroit
who plays on the piano and composes
pieces She wakes up the family be
fore breakfast and often arouses them
in the middle of the night
The statue of Lord Byron which has
just been unveiled by King George at
Athens represents the poet advancing
with outstretched arms to meet Greece
who holds out to him a laurel crown
It is understood that the government
of New Zealand will introduce a meas
ure for the exclusion of consumptive
persons on the same lines as that deal
ing with small pox making masters of
ships liable
One of the new schemes for passen
ger transportation In New York is to
make one fare good from the upper
end of the city to the eastern limits of
Brooklyn including passage across the
East River bridge
Physical strength is highly rated in
Switzerland In several cantons the
customs still prevails of holding wrest
ling matches The champions taking
part in these athletic sports belong to
the most diverse ranks in the social
scale
Tesla says it is unnecessary to con
struct a geometrical figure to attract
the attention of the inhabitants of
Mars It is possible now to generate
artificial thunder and lightning and
great electric sparks with a gap of
a mile
The ruby in the center of the Maltese
cross on top of the British crown is the
stone that was given to the Black
Prince by King Pedro of Castile after
the battle of Nejara Henry V of
England wore it in his helmet at the
battle of Aglncourt
Whereas reads a notice printed in
the Biddeford Me Journal my hus
band Amas has left my bed and board
without any cause I Caution all wimin
taking up with him as I am the third
one that he has broughte to distraction
to my knolidge
St Petersburg is excited over the
horse whipping of Prince Mestchersky
director of the Grashdanin by two sons
of an official who felt insulted by an
article In the newspaper The young
men say they whipped the prince but
he says that he turned them out of his
house without being struck
The dromedary parcel post service in
the German territories of Southwest
ern Africa has given better results than
were expected The dromedaries are
adapted to the climate are not affected
by the prevalent cattle diseases are
not made footsore in stony regions and
do not suffer extreme thirst when de
prived of water for a week
In an obituary notice printed in a
Kansas City paper of the late deputy
warden of the Missouri State Peni
tentiary who had held the office more
than forty years appears the undoubt
edly well intentioned statement that
Probably no man in Missouri enjoys
a wider acquaintance among the pub
lic men over the entire State
The origin of railways is traced to a
contrivance for simplifying the transit
of coal from the English mines to the
places of shipment The Invention con
sisted of a double parallel line of wood
en beams or trams fixed to the ground
and furnished with flanges to prevent
the wheels of the cars from slipping
aside The motive power was fur
nished by horses The date at which
these roads were first used is set down
as between 1602 and 1649
A book elevator at the new Pratt
library in Brooklyn and which goes
up and down by electricity is one of
the new labor saving devices maCe pos
sible by thie faithful fluid It is nota
ble that ventilation for the volumes
is not forgotten books being very sensi
tive to the dry heat of the old style
library and of many house libraries
Even the fine old and stanch bindings
which they used to make In Philadel
phia fifty years ago crack and dry up in
furnace heat
Among the wise English laws is ons
that permits miners of each colliery to
select once in three months two from
their number whose duty it is to in
spect the workings as a check upon the
inspectors and fire bosses paid by the
operators The recommendations of
these Inspectors must be promptly at
tended to under severe penalties As a
result of this law mine accidents have
diminished greatly in number and the
health of the miners has been improved
by attaining better sanitary conditions
Thought It Was a Hornet
A country store is the scene of many
curious happenings One of these oc
curred In a small village in the upper
part of old Dutchess County The
clerk was a bright smart active coun
try lad who was equal to all emergen
cies He found that a certain denizen
of the place named Jake Brown al
ways found a convenient sitting on the
counter in the farther part of the store
near the cracker barrel and that when
the clerks eyes were not upon him- the
old mans position allowed him to pilfer
a number of biscuits The clerk soon
grew tired of this and he arranged a
good sized needle with a spring in a
hole in the counter under the oilcloth
with a long string which could be
pulled at any point in the store
One extremely hot day in June the
old man entered the store and took
his position as usual on top of the coun
ter near the cracker barrel The clerk
was apparently engaged with a cus
tomer but had his eye on old Jake
and when he was reaching for the
crackers the string was pulled Jake
went up in the air landing on his feet
in the middle of the store He felt for
the object of attack he wearing only
overalls Not being rewarded in his
search he mounted the counter the
second time and was about to make
another attempt at cracker raising
when he felt another thrust which lift
ed him in the air again He started for
the attic above the store
His prolonged absence caused the
clerk to go up to the attic where he
found it as hot as an oven to see what
was going on He found the old man
distracted and nearly disrobed in the
middle of the floor shaking his overalls
furiously The sight was laughable
The clerk asked him what was the mat
ter He replied
This morning while mowing in the
meadow I struck a hornets nest and
one of the pesky things has crawled up
the leg of my overalls and has struck
me twice and Im hunting for it
The clerk wore a smile Philadelphia
Times
An Editors Memories
There was a time when newspaper
men in New York and Washington
contributed not a little to public en
tertainment by the savage way in
which they pitched into each other
That doughty combatant James Wat
son Webb was grand master in this
kind of strife Back in tihe thirties the
liability to be challenged tempered but
did not restrain the virulence of news
paper abuse and it flourished uncheck
ed in the early days of the New York
Herald when ilhe entire press of the
city combined to put down this daring
and successful aspirant for public
favor
In Hudsons History of Journalisrr
in the United States may be found a
collection of the choice epithets hurled
at the elder Bennett in 1840 by Park
Benjamin in the Signal by Judge Noah
in the Evening Star and by James
Watson Webb in the Courier and En
quirer These have not been surpassed
before or since Besides them Gree
leys little villian characterization of
Raymond in 1853 and after sounds
tame The last eminent professor of
the cut-and-thrust method of dealing
with his brethren of the press was Jen
nings of the Times He found I think
a genuine delight In it and one of the
pastimes of the New York editors
of twenty five years ago was to goad
this redoubtable swashbuckler into
paragraphic fury He gave as a rule
as good as he got
But it may be doubted whether his
animadversions on the table manners
and the condition of the finger nails of
the editor of an evening contemporary
had precisely the effect intended The
victim was not sensitive to that kind
of criticism and it made
ing readers grieve Forum
A Dangerous Habit
Sleeping and dreaming in a barbers
chair lost a man the tip of his nose in
San Francisco the other day The
man dropped into the barber shop to
get a shave and as his face was being
lathered fell asleep The barber con
tinued to shave his sleeping customer
gently Suddenly the sleeper struck
out right and left with his fists pre
sumably at some dreamland foe His
right fist struck the razor and drove its
keen blade through the end of his nose
This awakened him with a start and
after a hasty explanation the man pick
ed up the piece of his nose and ran to
the city and county hospital The sur
geon stitched the piece of nose on whera
It belonged and there is a fair show
of its growing In place or more or less
in place New York Sun
Excursion to the Arctics
An English pleasure excursion to th
Arctic regions on the plan of the Miran
da trip is announced for next summer
The vessel will be the steam yacht
Blencathra which has been used bj
Gapt Wiggins in his Siberian expedi
tions It will visit Iceland Greenland
and Hudsons Bay