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A QUEER EXPERIMENT.
Fbtogriililii the Mplaa of a Drap. (
Mrrctiry
ProL Worthington baa oeen studying
a rurlous phenomenon for twenty
yean says Knowledge. The splash of
a drop occurs in the twinkling of as
eye yet It it an exquisitely regulated
phenomenon and one that ery happily
lllwtratea tone of Ihe fundamental
properties of the fluid. The problem
that Prof. Worthington has succeeded
la solving U to let a drop of definite
alse fall from a fixed Ight In . ar
atlve darkness onto a surface and to 11
lumlaate it by a flash of exceedingly
short duration at any desired stage, io
aa to exclude all the stages previous
Bad snbseauent to those thus selected.
The many Illustrations ia this volu.ue
testify to the accuracy and beauty of
his work. The curious results of a
'plash ef a drop of mercury from .v
height ef three laches upon a smoot.i
glass plate are particularly lnterestins.
Very aoea after the first moment of im
pact miaute rays are shot out In all di
rections on the surface with marvelous
regularity. From the ends of the rays
droplets ef 1! uld split ofT. The liquid
aaheldee la t e middle ard soon after
ward lews lata a ring. The ring then
dlrides la such a manner as to join
p the rays la pairs. Thereafter the
whole ceatracU till the liquid rises in
the center, so as to form the beginning
af the rebound of the drop from the
plate. Immediately the drops at the
eeatral mass rises in a column, which
Jawt falls, itself to break into drops.
He photographed bo fewer than thirty
Kcceeaive stages of the splash within
the twentieth of a second, so that the
average interval between them was
about the six-hundredth of a second.
Remarkable are the splashes of water
drops falllag about sixteen inches into
milk, bat more beautiful are the dome
forms whea the height Is fifty-two
laches.
'CHANCE."
Y A TURN OF THE HEAD.
Hto Wife aad the The iter fca
Uot HU Dinner.
A city official, who supposes the epi
sode la a cleae family secret, arranged
with his wife to meet her at the office
last Friday sight at 7 o'clock, says the
New York Herald. They were then to
have dlBBer at a hotel, and attend the
theater. He waa prompt, but his wife
had aot yet arrived, so he patiently
waited oa the sidewalk with his eyes
ea the dear that she might net come
without his knowledge. He paced back
a' forth, reading the bulletins, ob
aervlBg Jhe direction of the wind and
leekiag at the clock as It marked the
paastag miautes; bat he saw all who
catered the building. He heard a loud
chasgiag c gongs, as a fire agian
dashed dewa 6th aveaue, and turned
Ms head far aot mere than five seconds
,te leak after it His wife was only a
lew miautes late, a sac hurried from
a Broadway car aad rushed Into the
sate, during the five seconds his head
waataraed. She had aot aeea him, aad
waa pleased to thiak that he would be
the oae to he blamed for being late, as
she sat dewa to wait his comiag. He
caatlaaed to wait aad pace, aa the
clack ticked of the miautes. Eight
o'clock was Bear and he became very
lmpatleaL aa he realised that It meant
to either miss dlaaer or the first act of
the play. Whea 8 o'clock was passed
he saw aaether act slip away. In a
few mtaatea more he had given up the
theater, aad feared for the dinner. In
aaether tea miautes all ef the iCV9
were changed, aad he determined to
to home. She waa ulee discouraged
aad harried to the street to take a
aerthhoaad cable car. They met, aad
well; the theater waa given ap, but
they had a dlaaer aad each premised
Io aay aethiag about It
,; OFFICE BO.Y'S
''A Befeaaer-ThBt" Might .Make HIM
Naaaleaa of Cigarettes.
Oae of the big stock brokers dowa
towa has aa office boy who promises
to become a genuine Napoleon of
finance whea he grows up, says the
New York Mail and Express. Wall
street office boys are about as ehrewd
aad wide-awake youngsters as can be
found, but for Ihe moment the one In
question bears the palm. He has dis
covered how to get something, and lots
of It for nothing.
A package came through the mall for
his employer this morning. The broker,
after opening It tossed It to the boy.
It proved to be an advertisement from
a cigarette company and contained a
package of tre cigarettes, samples of
a new brand, and a postal card ad
dressed to the company. The accom
panying circular stated that the com
pany had decided to introduce the
bread la this way and requested the
recipient to write on the back of the
postal card the names and addressee of
five friends who smokd cigarettes and
mall It Cigarettes would be sent to
them aad it didn't take the boy long
to guess that each of the five recipi
ents would be asked to send In five new
names. This was an endless chain
scheme with a vengeance, the youth
decided, aad offered up a most brilliant
prospect for him.
He promptly grasped te opportun
ity. First, he filled In his own name
with the office address; next another
name with his own home address In
Brooklyn, aad then thire names he
managed to Invent with the same
street number address as his firm's.
This dose, he mailed the card and left
word with the Janitor that If any let
ters or packages came addressed to
the three individuals for whom he had
Invented names they were to be deliv
ered to him In the office.
At this point he was assured of twenty-five
cigarettes, and he began to fig
ure out the method by which he would
obtain the 125 cigarettes that would re
sult later from the first batch. When
last seen he had not made up his mind
whether to make use of Bome of his
oasce boy friends as consignees. He
did aot want to give the scheme away,
yet he could aot exactly see how he
could carry on such a wholesale busi
ness as promised to result without as
sistants. He waa murm ing: "Five
times five Is twenty-five five times
twenty-five is 125 five times 125 is
25 five times 625 Is" when the
bookkeeper sang out to him to start in
aad deliver stocks.
Tatar Passport Needed ta Kassla.
Yoa cannot eater or leave a city or
towa In Russia without reporting your
self to the police like a ticket-of-leaye
man. You are forbidden to extend 'the
hospitality of your roof to your friend
or neighbor for a single night without
first informing the police of your In
tentions and sending them your guest's
passport Whether you are a Russian
,er a foreigner you can no more spend
a aight la a hotel or change your lodg
lags even for twenty-four hours with
out sending them your passport than
you can bespeak rooms In the Winter
Palace. Nay. whether you are a Rus
sian subject or a foreigner, you cannot
possibly subsist a week without a pass
port which Is such an essential part
of yoar being that Russian lawyers
have aet inappropriately defined a man
as aa animal composed of three parts
a body, a soul and a passport This
passport yoa must have renewed once
a year, aniens you are a noble or an
honorary citlaea, aad the process is as
tedious aad painful as moulting is to
birds.
PARADlSb FOR CRIMINALS.
Live la the Open Air la Coaaparatlve
Freedom
A correspondent writing from Italy
gives some Interesting details of the
treatment of prisoners on various
Italian Islands he visited while on a
trip in the Mediterranean, says Lon
don Tld-Blta. Each of these islands
contains several hundred prisoners,
who are locked up every night at sun
set released at daybreak and locked
up again from midday uatll 2 o'clock.
During the night no prisoner ,ls al
lowed to be absent under aay circum
stances, but at midday those who work
on farms at a distance from the prison
are allowed to remain out by special
permission of the director. During
these free hours the prisoners can go
anywhere thy like on the Island and
can engage In any work offered them
by the townspeople or farmers. Any
Infraction of the rules of ordinary life
around them or of their prison Is pun
ished by - ualon In special cells.
The government furnishes physicians
and medicines, a summer and winter
suit of clothes to each prisoner every
year and allows him flvepeace daily in
money for his food and other neces
saries of life. Danger of escape Is pre
vented by a squad of soldiers one to
every ten criminals and a swift-sailing
felucca, manned by marines. On
account of the cheaoness of labor the
islands are so highly cultivated aa to
resemble gardens. The correspondent
adds: "Aa for the prisoners, the open
air makes them the healthiest of any
criminals I have ever seen. There is
no sign in their faces and bodies of
that prison blight which strikes every
visitor to ordinary Jails."
China Hare Ears.
The Gate City, which arrived here
on Monday from Savannah, Is the first
steamer going out of this port to be
equipped with an aurophoce, the new
device for enabling the lookout to de
termine the direction of sounds at
sea. The aurophone was tried on the
way up, but little could be told about
its utility owing to Its being placed in
a poor position. It consists of a brass
box, which fits over the mast and
which has projecting from each end a
broad-mouthed funnel. From this box,
close to the funnels, two tubes like or
dinary speaking tubes lead down the
mast and through the main deck to
the deck below. Inside of the box
there is acomplex arrangement of dia
phragm and sounding boards so
placed ta.it a sound will enter only one
of the tubes when It 13 passing through
the funnel on the opposite side of the
box. On the lower deck Is an arrange
ment like an engine-room indicator, by
which the box above may be turned
around the mast, and directly under
the indicator is a tell-tale compass.
The man bew places the tubes to his
ears, where they are held in place
by a cap. Unless the funnels above are
pointing directly toward the sound
which he wishes to locate he will hear
it only faintly and in one ear, because
one of the funnels being turned from
the sound the tube opposite does not
operate. He then turns the indicator
In the direction irom which the sound
appears to come, and when the funnel
is pointing directly at the sound it
passes through the funnel and out ot
the other, putting both tubes in opera
tion, and the operator hears the sound
distinctly and in both ears at once.
He then glances at the Indicator aad
the point on the tell-tale at which It
rests gives the exact bearing of the
sound. Boston Transcript.
Llahralas aad Tree.
Cedar and fig trees are rarely struck
by lightning. The beech, the larch, the
fir and the chestnut also seem to be pe
culiarly obnoxious to the "bolts of
love." There are trees, however, which
appear to attract rather than to repel
the lightning flash. The trees general
ly enumerated In the category of those
which the lightning Is most apt to
strike are the oak, the yew, the elm
Jnd th T,ombartly poolar.
BENKE. the popular tailor baa
moved to 121 N 12th; for first cites work
Mnd low rates give him a call.
Queen Victoria." Ladies' Favorite
Her Majfty'a Perfume, it the mont
asting and perfect Perfutce. Ak
ggt the Druggut,'' for n sample.
MERKftR EXCUIKE MTKHUI BIN
LINCOLN, NEB.
f M.RAYMOND,
President.
S.H.BDBNHAM.
Cashier.
A.J. SAWYER
Viceo President
D. G. WING
Aitnt Cashier
CAPITAL, $250,000 SURPLUS $25 000
Olrectors-1. M. Raymond, S. H. Burnbaro
O. O.Dawes. A. J. Sawjer. Lewis Gregory
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DENTIST,
Porcelain Fillings, Crown and BriJge
Work a Specialty.
ROOMS 17, 18, 19, BURR BLOCK
SECOND FLOOR.
Lincoln Nebraska
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face bleach, face tonic, hair tonic, etct
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Every purchaser of
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will receive a cou
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to apply on future
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