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ALENTINE
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NEBRASKA
Three thiols are difficult to keep a
pecret to boar an injury patiently and
to spend leisure well
If you -wish to know how many
Criends you have get into oIice if you
to know how few you have gel
Into debt
The Sharon Pa Tribune gleefullj
Bays We had roast big ears for din-
ner Wednesday And yet they say
journalism has not substantial re
jvords
A cynic assures the New York Press
that whenever he eats boiled huekle
lerry pudding lie always dreams about
Betting married Thats no dream
-either its a nightmare
lie sincere with yourself whatever
4he temptation Say nothing to others
what you do not think and play no
tricks with your own mind Of all the
evil spirits abroad in the world insin
cerity is the most dangerous
The New York Journal has a new
department which it calls The Merry
Jesters This innovation will be re
ceived gratefully by the public Tho
other kind of jesters have monopolized
New York journalism long enough
A Kansas City burglar who broke in
to a saloon drank so much of the
whisky that he couldnt leave the
place and was captured The court
will have to discharge him however
If it is illegal to punish a man twice
for the same offense
The ice box as a moans of keeping
store men quiet while thieves loot their
places has become quite a common
thing but it was left for a Staten Isl
and butcher to use it to lock up a thief
who had attempted to rob him It is a
poor ice box whieh will not work both
ways
The Frovidence Journal says that a
prominent resident of that place re
ceived a severe scalp wound on the
head the other day Hell probably
get along all right A scalp wound on
the head always is loss dangerous than
a scalp wound anywhere else
It is announced that the Sultan of
-Morocco exhibited unusual activity iu
hunting down perpetrators of outrages
against American residents in Tangier
just as soon as two American
anchored in that port Probably
lie didnt suspect before that part of
the white squadron was Morocco
bound
The old adage that what is wealth ror
one man is poverty for anotlier is
shown by the story of a Parisian bank
er who died of grief when he lost all
2iis fortune but Sl000U thinking him
self in beggary while a pauper broth
er who inherited the sum at the others
death died of joy at finding himself
possessed of such riches Balzac would
iiave founded a novel on this incident
Just as the tiny rivulet on the mountain-side
which a pebble could divert
from its course may be the source of a
anlghty river flowing down and ming
ling with the great sea which in its
urn can wear away mountains so
come things in life and in character
rtvaich we deem scarcely worth notice
may be the very springs which shall
develop into mighty and irresistible
forces
ne fruit growers of California have
-begun to build canneries in order to
provide against a great waste of fruit
winch takts
place every year and
fflrhick is a dead lo3 except where the
surplus goes to fo d hogs Tins s a
wise move and one which the horticul
turists of other States might copv Mil
lions of fruit is wasted every vear in
many States by this carelessness
where a little capital judiciously invest
ed would pay well for the men who
furnished it
The method of voting in the French
Chamber of Deputies is unique The
members have white and blue cards
the former
signifying -yea
and the
latter nay When a member wishes
to be absent from the chamber he in
Btructs a colleague to vote for him and
the latter is allowed to do so The
other day when there were not more
han fifty members in the house a cor
tain measure was carried bv a vote of
391 to 112C There have been many at
temps to abolish the system of voting
fcy proxy but they have all failed Ij
reduces legislation to an absurdity
Owing to tho jealousy of the Czar it
4s said that the Kaisers desire to meet
President Faure on the occasion of the
Salters visit to St Petersburg has been
2affled No one but the Kaiser has the
slightest idea why he desired the meet
ing but It is a pity that the Czar has
prevented it It would have been in
teresting to know what the erratic
German monarch would have said and
ftone under those circumstances Of
fete he has done those things which
2id some to think that he might have
Sered the olive branch to the repre
sentative of his
peoples traditional en
emies but then again he might have
insulted him Perhaps it was not com
mercial jealousy but common wisdom
which actuated the Czar after all
Since June 11 of this year it has been
on offense for the women of Massa
chusetts to wear for purpose of dress
or ornament or to sell or have in their
jossession the bodies or feathers of any
fit the birds which are commonly used
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for the adornment of womens hats
Like many other laws passed this year
by the various State Legislatures the
existence of the law was unknown to
most people and the stated intention
of the police commissioners of Boston
to enforce this new blue law has
spread consternation among the mil
liners and their customers The law
was put on the statute books at the in
stance of some society for the preven
tion of somethingorother and is on a
par with the prohibition of Mother
llubbards which was tried a wbilo
ago
Although it but remotely concerns ns
of the inland it seems as though the
existence of two separate sets of regu
lations for the government of vessels at
sea one put in force by this count ry
and the other by Great Britain would
result surely hi confusion and acci
dents On the first day of Tuly
new regulations went into opera
tion respecting the rule of the road
at sea by the two countries Some of
these rules meair vastly different
things hi the different codes and there
ds no way for mariners to distinguish
between them Life at sea is hazard
ous under the best circumstances and
it seems little less than criminal to
mix such rules as existed before in a
way that they may be mistaken and
accidents result
The introduction of electricity iuio
the uses of everyday life has brought
the electric fan for cooling apartments
during the summer At first the price
of these was so great that only large
concerns could afford them Then too
electric power was not so common
Now there are few Hat buildings which
are not supplied
withllynamos and ap
pliances for electric lighting The
price of the fans is only about half
what it was and offices small restau
rants stores and private apartments
are now cooled by this process But
the cost is still larger than it should be
and when the fans can be had for 10
or less there will be a much larger
number in use It may be that the
apartment house of the future will
have its cooling apparatus just as it
now has its heating plant and by am
monia rooms may be kept cool no mat
ter what the weather is on the out
side
The reports of the damage done by
the storms and floods in Central and
Southern France have been so brief
and meager in details that few persons
have appreciated the extent of the dis
aster So much of the country has been
cut off and rendered inaccessible that
only unofficial estimates can be made
It is known however that at least 300
lives have been lost and that thou
sands have been made nomeless while
the amount of property destroyed is
placed at a conservative valuation at
40 millions of dollars In one place
alone the town of on
a small island in the Kiver Save 2M
houses were carried away by the flood
The suffering of the people who have
lost their all in this calamity will be
intense for a time but the French re
cuperate rapidly and will not long re-
main depressed It is much to be feared
when the waters subside somewhat
and admit of closer examination of the
the affected districts that the loss of
life will prove to have been underesti
mated The storm came on the people
without a warning and they were help
less before its furv
There is a great deal of sound sense
fn the argument against our national
sin of extravagance by a Japanese
whom Robert P Porter met in that
country lately Mr Porter was stay
ing at a Japanese hotel living as usual
iu apartments on the American plan
He paid what was equivalent to 277t
a day in our money His Japanese
friend stayed in the same hotel but in
the Japanese quarters paying but 7i
sm or about 40 cents a day Tlie
Oriental said to him T am just as
happy and comfortable as you are To
be sure you have tables and chairs and
waslistands and pitchers and a bed-
stead and a sofa I have nothing of the
sort A nice clean tatami mat and a
quilt is a good enough bed for me Then
you jive so much more trouble at your
meals with your tables and your
chairs and crockery glassware knives
and forks spoons mustard and pepper
pots My meals are served in my room
by a pretty maid who kneels before me
while I eat and chats and makes her
self interesting looking after my every
want at the same time Then you cart
a lot of unnecessary baggage around
The hotel furnishes me with a nice
clean night robe and I can buy a tooth
brush for a sen or so You Americans
make too much effort to live There is
no doubt that we clutter our lives with
alleged necessities or luxuries which
are in reality nothing of the sort Our
daily living has reached enormous ex
penses by our continually increasing
vvants which are merely extrava
rgances not at all necessarv
Badly 3lixeu
At a country station a little child
owing to the rush of a crowd of trip
pers was pushed over in front of an
out going train Quick as a flesh a
workingman jumped into the four foot
way threw the child on the platform
and scrambled up himself but scarce
ly quick enough as the engine in pass
ing rolled him over on the platform
Several people hastened at once to
his succor but he rose uninjured and
with a face expressive of extreme con
cern drew out of his pocket a colored
handkerchief containing his days
victuals which he cursorily examined
and then ruefully exclaimed
Confound it Just my luck
What is the matter inquired the
crowd
Why Ive broken two eggs and a
rhubarb pie and its all mixed up with
my tea and sugar Answers
ECLIPSE OF THE SUN
MOON PARTIALLY OBSCURES
OLD SOL
Event Visible in the United States
With Smoked Glass the Fiery Cres
cent and Lamar Shadow Could Be
Seen
Sun in a Shadow
On Thursday between the hours of S
and 10 a in central standard time the
moon in the course of her monthly round
of the heavens passed directly between
the earth and the sun The consequence
was an eclipse of the sun which has vis
ible throughout the United States in
Mexico the West Indies Central Amer
ica the northern half of South America
over a good portion of the Atlantic ocean
and on the west coast of Africa
To observers within the districts bound
ed by an imaginary line drawn from the
central part of New Mexico to Tampico
and thence to Havana the Windward
Islands and Lake St Roquo the outer
edges of the sun assumed the appearance
f a ring of fire To the fact that tl
moon appeared smaller than the sun w
due the lack of totality in the celinse as
viewed from the earth though to the
putative inhabitants of some of the other
planets the eclipse may easily have been
total On this sphere there was however
no region of total eclipse And even in
he Central American districts from which
the annular band could best be seen the
fiery ring lasted for only a few minutes
At Washington and across the whole of
the United States at points in about the
same latitude as Washington S degrees
r0 minutes exactly one half of the suu s
face the lower half was veiled
An eclipse of the sun is a quite differ
ent affair irom an eclipse of the moon A
lunar eclipse is caused by the passing of
the moon through the earths shadow It
is visible from every point on the earths
surface from which the moon itself is vis
ible at the tjme that is over one entire
hemisphere of the earth Furthermore a
lunar eclipse whether total or partial pre
sents one and the
same
appearance to ev
ery observer no matter where he is
nod v bother in Boston or San Fran-
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cisco or Bio Janeiro just as the shadow
of a tree cast upon a house appears the
same from whatever point of view it is
looked at A solar eclipse is caused by
the passage of the moon between us and
the sun To see it one must be so situat
ed that the range is right just as to see
a distant house exactly behind some near
object as a tree one must so stand that
the tree is exactly in line with him and
the house If he moves from this line to
the right or the left the tree changes its
position with reference to the house and
when he has moved to a eertain distance
it ceases altogether to range with the
house In ilie case of a solar eclipse the
sun is the distant house the moon is the
tree
Since this moon is a comparatively small
body only about 2000 miles in diameter
while the diameter of the earth is noarb
S000 miles there is upon the earth ample
room for getting off of the range a hen
the earth is passing the sun Thus to
an observer situated Thursday anywhere
on the twenty live mile line above lo
cated sav at Havana the moon anncarcd
to pass diieclly across the suns face
its center moving along the line marked
on the diagiam Moons Path in the di
rection indicated by the arrow One cir
cumstance only prevented the cclipe from
being total for that observer and this was
that the moon being at very nearly her
irreatest distance from the earth her an-
parent size was at its least and showed
less than that of the sim
For an observer at Washington the
range was different To him the moons
center appeared to pass along the line
marked A 13 so that its upper limb ju t
reached the suns center An observer
in about latitude id was still farther olf
of the range To him the moon could it
be seen would have seemed to move along
the line CI Its upper edge would have
just graxed the lower edge of the sun in
passing and there would have been no
eclipse Much less could there be an
eclipse for an observer still farther north
Away back iu ISO the last total eclipse
of the sun which was visible in this part
of the country took place Since then
however there have been several total
eclipses Ahich were visible from other
parts of the United States The most
notable of ihese was tho eclipse of 1S7S
It was observed from the neighborhood
of Denver and was fruitful of seionlilio
results Far more frequent are partial
eclipses the area which these cover being
very wide A total eclipse is a rare oc
currence and it is not often that the
shadows from two of them are receded by
the same locality in a hundred years
MICHIGAN CITY FIRE
One Man Killed and Five Families
Made Homeless
One nan burned to death in a horrible
manner another suffering from severe
burns several overcome by the fumes of
naphtha and heat a property loss of 70
000 an entire block of buildings in ashes
and live families homeless Those are the
features of a lire which Wednesday
threatened Michigan City Ind with de
struction and resulted in a call upon the
Chicago hro department for assistance
An explosion in the Michigan City Sash
and Door Companys plant resulted in
the fire which was subdued only by the
persistent efforts of every able bodied citi
zen For a time it looked as if the entire
city was to bo sacriliotvl The lire was
beyond control the wind high the volun
teer firemen unable to make any impres
sion upon the llames which burned hose
and apparatus and pushed their way to
ward business houses and residences A
call for assistance telegraphed to Ham
mond Ind was answered unfavorably
by the officials of that place who replied l
that they could not spare any of their ap
paratus A message to Chicago for help
brought an immediate response from
Chief Swcnie who started engine com
panies 40 42 and 1 in charge of Assistant
Chief Campion on a gallop to the quick
ly prepared special of the Michigan Cen
tral The engines and hose carts wore
loaded the track cleared for a rapid run
and everything made ready when word
came that the fire was under control
The fire originated in an underground
vault in the basement of the Michigan
City Sash and Door Company used as a
storage loom for gasoline shellac
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WHERE THE FIRE STARTED
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tha and benzine William Bauman and
Herman Lukow went into the vault for
the purpose of filling a can with naphtha
to be used m the factory Lukow carried
i lighted lantern and Bauman was draw
the oil when the lantern exploded
tting lire to the oil just drawn In an
instant the place was a mass of flame
The fluids stored in the vault became ig
nited explosion followed explosion and
the entire building was on fire before the
employes realized what had happened
Fellow woikincn dragged Lukow to a
place of safety but the heat being too in
tense to pcimit re entrance and Bauman
was left to his fate
PANIC ON A STEAMER
Boat Cambria Collides with a Raft of
Lojrs in Lake Huron
The side wheel steamer Cambria doing
passenger business between Detroit
Windsor and Sault Ste Marie and along
the Canadian shore of Lake Huron was
wrecked at an early hour Wednesday
morning on the Canadian shore of Lake
Huron near the mouth of St Clair river
and is a total loss She had nearly 100
passengers on board most of them on a
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APPEARAXCE OF THEECLIPSE AT ITS BEST
Lake Huron in the face of a howling gale
from the northwest against the protesta
tions of the passengers When out about
twelve miles the captain decided to run
back and was within about three miles
of Fort Cratiot when the boat struck a
raft of logs in tow of the tug Vigilant
The shock threw the passengers out of
their berths and in an instant women and
children in scant attire were rushing fran
tically about while men became alarmed
J no passengers were assured by the offi
cers however that everything was all
rigid and every one took time to get fully
dressed and await developments
In trying lo extricate herself tho boat
lost her rudder leaving her at the mercy
of tho waves and amid thousands of logs
that wore continually pounding her sides
Shortly alteiward one of her wheels was
also broken by striking a log and she
was left in an entirely helpless condition
almost in midlake in total darkness The
vessel their began to drift toward the
Canadian shore and after half an hour
tho boat struck tho beach hard and
reenr u over io one side with the waves
breaking over her Tho captain refused
to lauiK h any boats until daybreak Soon
after daybreak all passengers wore taken
off in safety women and children first be
ing taken ashore followed by the men
and lastly by the crow The wrecked ves
sel was valued at 17000 and insured for
ML dOO She was built iu 1877 ami re
built in Lv Si
THE TERRIBLE SWEDE DYING
Noted Cyclist is It osl rated After a
Loiiti Dintaiicc Contest
John Lawson the terrible Swede
Chicagos favorite long distance rider is
lying in Baltimore Two weeks ago in
Baltimore he rude in a race in which he
was pitted against a cowboy The dis
tance was twenty live miles and the cow
boy changed ponies at tho end of every
JOHN IAWS0N
mile Lawson rode a plucky race consid
ering the conditions of the contest and
finished with a terrific spurt on the home
stretch 1 ho next day he was prostrated
and has not been able to rise from his bed
since
John Larson was born in Sweden May
15 1S71 Hi commenced riding in 1891
and did his best work in long distance
events He was noted for his terrific
sfTurts v Inch repeatedly won him a vic
tory from seeming sure defeat Because
of his pi wers as a winner iu desperate
contests he earned the title which he has
borne ever since that of the terrible
Swede
TO THRILL THE PARISIANS
Pattees Wheel Throws Ferris Inven
tion in the Shade
A dovice which is intended to eclipse
the Ferris wheel of Chicago as an en
gineering feat combine the joys of a
shoot the chutes and a scenic rail
way and give pleasure seekers and
novelty hunters something to talk
about is what Herbert 1attee offers to
the management of the Paris Worlds
Fair of 1000 Pattees wheel is expect
ed to be the mechanical marvel of the
groat exposition leaving both the Fer
ris wheel and the Eiffel tower far in
the rear The inventor is a young actor
resident in Washington who has been
connected with various companies and
THE 1ATTEE WHEEL
who puts iu bis spare time giving nlav
to his inventive genius He intends
starting for Paris in a few days to lay
before the authorities the scheme of his
wheel which lie has little doubt will
be adopted
The device consists of a gigantic
wheel 200 feet in height and with a
steel frame composed of a network of
braces Its structural detail and the
towers which support it look not unlike
the Ferris wheel The great difference
is that instead of having cars suspend
ed between the the two outer rims or
the periphery of the wheel this space
is inclosed and laid with stout flooring
giving the whole theappearanceof a gi
gantic bicycle wheel with a broad flat
tire Upon this fioor and in the inside
of the wheel is a great trough with
sides rising three feet above the bottom
and in this trough are laid stout steel
tracks Cars rest upon these tracks
and the object of the invention is to
cause these vehicles filled Avith people
to be carried up a certain distance into
the air by the wheel then shot down
the incline with a speed of the wind
and up the other side by the force of
the momentum
The wheel begins to revolve from left
to right and the car is carried up about
seventy feet to a point one third the
distance from the bottom to the top of
tne wiieei The car is gripped to the
tracks with lateral arms spreading out
on each side and clamping themselves
tightly to the tracks and trough by the
turning of a lever in the hands of a
motorman When the cars have reach
ed the height of seventy feet the motor
man releases the lateral arms and the
vehicle shoots down the incline at a i
rific rate of speed and up the other side
the wheel stopping during the descent
There is a pond of water in the inside
troughs which Hows around at the low
est level it can find and is consequently
always at the bottom of the wheel As
the boat like vehicle descends it dashes
through the water
reproducing the
sen
sation experienced in shooting the
chutes and surrounding the people
with a shower of spray whk h does not
wet them because it is lnn iod --
from the car At night when the wheel
is surrounded by thousauds of colored
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electric lights the effect of this many
tinted spray will be most effective
To add to the novelty of the ride Pat
tee will arranire a tunnel evtomlinr imlf
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way around the whsej This will be j
dimly lighted to give the appearance of
stars and the cars will shoot into its
black cavernous mouth and half way
through the tunnel Another turn of
the wheel is made and the car shoots
through the tunnel and out to the un
impleted portion of the wheel
Indian Languages
Like the buffalo the Indian lan
guage will soon be lost forever ex
plained a gentleman who under the
auspices of the Smithsonian has de
voted a number of years to the study
and preservation of the Indian lan
guage It was thought that tne In
dian language could be preserved by
the aid of the phonograph and grapho
phone and parties were sent out to
many Indian tribes to have them talk
into the apparatus and thus secure a
record of the Indian tongue
It was found however that but
few Indians of the present day and
they were the older ones could talk a
pure tongue More than one half of
the Indians now on the reservations
and this is the case with all of the
younger Indians converse in English
It is not good English but it is the
kind they speak a kind of pigeon En-
glish I had the work of securing soma
Cherokee talk and in doing so talked
with a dozen or more leading Chero
kees
They admitted to me tnat they lid
not know one Cherokee who eouIcHr
speak pure Cherokee They said it was
with the greatest diflicuiiy that they
could get the boys and girl- to speak
in their native tongue tit all or to learn
even the commonest Avoids or phrases
I arranged with a half dozen Chero
kees however and secured fhjr ser
vices to talk into the machines and
have thus got some pretty good Chero
kee but I know that it is very imper
fect Indian language
A few of the Sioux Indians talk pret
ty well but it is a mixture In less
than twenty years I do not think there
will be an Indian in this country who
can talk his native tongue pure As
far as the Indian children are con
cerned they use six English words
where they use one Indian word The
machines of the day will record the
language if it is talked into Lhem but
the difficulty is to get Indians who can
talk with the necessary degtev of ac
curacy Washington star
HES AN ARTISTIC PRINTER
Louis II Orr Now Printer Lanrcato
of the United States
Louis II Orr of Xew York who has
been elected printer laureate by the
typographical craft in ti United
States is one of the most arwtic print
ers on this side of the Atlantic The
wearer of the bays was to be chosen by
vote and Mr Orr avus tin Miocessful
one He received i7S0 votes aid Ilcsdy
O Shepard of Chicago was a close s
ond with nLO J votes 13 P was
a close third with SlTT vot s The oth
er candidates were far behind Mr Orr
is a natural printer He inherited his
love for the types and drew from his
father a love of the artistic This feel
ing is seen in the very beautiful speci
mens of printing art which Mr Orr has
turned out from his shop in NVw York
He began life with a thorough educa
tion in the printing otlice and learned
every detail of the trade II- became
a rapid and accurate typosrrr a skill
ful pressman and acquired rii keenest
appreciation of the artistic u the get-
iocis ir oii
ting together of his work When tfe
days of his
apprenticeship came to an
end he set out on his wanderings and
entered the employ of a big envelope
concern in Springfield Mass Later he
set up in business for himself in the
Massachusetts city but it was not until
he opened his shop in New York that
he took his place beside those great
printers who have done most to lift the
trade into the realms of arc In his so
cial and private relations Mr Orr is
amiability itself Loving open air exer
cise his devotion to healthful sports
was shown in his unopposed election as
a governor of the New York Athletic
Club
The Wile in Kusia
This is a curious custom you Amer
icans have of referring to your wives
by their husbands names observed
xlanvoek Kaplon an intelligent Rus
sian traveler I suppose the Ameri
can holds his wife in as high esteem as
the Russian holds his but if at home
I should speak of my better half aSi
Mrs Kaplon my friends would at oncej
conclude that my domestic relations
were not as pleasant as they should be
and that I was thinking of a leirnl kptI
aration When I first heard
can speak of his wife as Mrs Jones for
example I felt almost like presuming
on my acquaintance by intruding into
his private affairs and asking him
what the trouble was at home Yet
I soon learned that the custom was
universal over here but still I cannot
got used to it My wife is the plain
blunt way I speak in Russia of the
lady who I suppose I would have to
call Mrs Kaplon in polite societv in
America In some of the more fash
ionable circles of St Petersburg this
American social custom has been
adoptedthough I was told bv a promi
nent government official
not long ago
that the Czar disapproved of it St
Louis Republic
What a Banshee Looks Like
There is absolutely no proof what
ever that any person has ever n n
banshee the most noted spirit of Irish
folk lore yet we have portraits of both
the friendly and unfriendly bandie
The former kind is represented as be
ing a young and beautiful female The
face is spirituelle
with hair eve and
complexion ranging from the bionde to
the brunette type She floats in the air
raising her voice softly and melodious-
ly to the sad refrain that gives
warn
ing of the death to occur The
un
friendly banshees are as repulsive a
the other kinds are attractive It in
still a woman but old wrinkled and
wicked with all evidence of beanrv
good feeling and kindliness
gone from
her face We give these few Zn 1Z
ars so that our readers miy Low
a
banshee when they see it
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