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PARADISE FOR CRIMINALS.
IJvs In the Open Air la Comparative
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-Bits. Each of these islands
contains several hundred prisoners,
who are locked up every night at sun
et, released at daybreak and locked
up again from midday until 2 o'clock.
During the night no prisoner is al
lowed to be absent under any 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 they 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 'usion in special cells.
The government furnishes physicians
and medicines, a summer and winter
suit of clothe to each prisoner every
year and allows him flvepence daily in
money for his food and other neces
saries of life. Danger of escape Is pre
vented by a r.quad of soldiers one to
every ten criminals and a swlft-sall-lng
felucca, manned by marines. On
account of the cheapness of labor the
islands are so highly cultivated as to
resemble gardens The correspondent
adds: "As for the prisoners, the open
air makes them the healthiest of any
criminals I have ever seen. There Is
so sign in their faces and bodies of
that prison blight which strikes every
visitor to ordinary Jails."
Shins Hare Ears.
The Gate City, which arrived here
en Monday from Savannah, is the first
steamer going out of this port to be
equipped with an aurophone, 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
Us utility owing to its being placed In
a poor position. It consists of a brats
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 a complex arrangement of dia
phragms and sounding boards so
placed th.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 thp box above may be turned
around the mast, and directly under
the Indicator is a tell-tale compass.
The man beiiw 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 frJntly and in one ear, becauEe
one of the funnels being turned from
the sound the tube opposite does not
operate. He then turns the indicator
In the direction from which the sound
appears to come, and when the funnel
Is pointing directly at the sound it
passes through the funnel and out of
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 and
the point on the tell-tale at which it
rests gives the exact bearing of the
round. Boston Transcript
Lightning and Tree.
Cedar and fig trees are rarely struck
by lightning. The beech, the larch, the
!r 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
tnd the Lorabwdy ponlar.
Trail or Mtn.
It is astonishing how the children
pick up slang. No matter how select
tfcejneigaborbood nor how careful the
parents, the bywords of the street are
gnn m riron when least expected from
tnfantlle lips. A aay or two ago a
4-year-old daughter of East End par
ents was being escorted along East
Prospect street by her doting papa
when they met a little buy of the samo
age escorted by his papa. Botli papas
were well acquainted and they stopped
to chat for a moment or two.
"Who is this little boy, .Mabel?"
asked the first papa.
"It's Edward," promptly answered
Miss Mabel.
"And who 1b this with Edward?"
continued the first papa, as he pointed
to the second.
"That's Edward's old man," said
Miss Mabel. Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Try I.
A curious and slightly known fact is
that it is impossible to move the eye
while looking at its reflection in a mir
ror. The eye is the most movable part
of the face, yet if you try to look at It
and move it a thousandth part of an
inch you will be balked in your pur
pose. The moment you endeavor to
perceive the motion of the eye it be
comes fixed. That is why a person's ex
pression as he sees himself in the glass
is entirely different from the one by
which his friends recognize him.
Sensible Conttnncn.
Mr. Crlmsonbeak When Constance
was younger she used to ride a wheel
and I tell you she'd take nobody's dust
Mrs. Crlmsonbeak You don't say
so?
"Yes, but now she has reached the
marrying age she's willing to take al
most anybody's." Yonkers Statesman.
"Jus' fink Lige, dem freaks
OFFICE BOY'S "CHANCE."
A Scheme That Might Make Hlu a
Napoleon of Cigarettes.
One of the big stock brokers down
town has an office boy who promises
to become a genuine Napoleon of
finance when he grows up, says the
New York Mail and Express. Wall
street office boys are about as 6hrewd
and wide-awake youngsters as can be
found, but for the 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 mail 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 five 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
brand in this way and requested the
recipient to write on the back of the
postal card the names and addresses of
five friends who smokd cigarettes and
mall it Cigarettes would be sent to
them and 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, and offered up a most brilliant
prospect for him.
He promptly grasped t-e opportun
ity. First, he filled in h.s own name
with the office address: next another
name with his own home addre3s in
Brooklyn, and then thre names he
managed to Invent with the same
street number address as Ms nrms.
This done, 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 some of his
office boy friends as consignees. He
did not want to give the scheme away,
yet he could not exactly see how he
could carry on such a wholesale busi
ness as promised to result without as
sistants. He was murm-'-lng: "Five
times five Is twenty-five five times
twenty-five 1b 125 five times 125 Is
625 five times 625 Is" when the
bookkeeper sung out to him to start in
and deliver stocks.
Year Passport Needed In Kumla.
You cannot enter or leave a city or
town in Russia without reporting your
self to the police like a ticket-of-leave
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
or a foreigner you can no more spend
a night in a hotel or change your lodg
ings 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
'P2 subject or a foreisner. you cannot
is what dev calls Africans.
possibly subsist a week wunout a pass
port, which is such an essential part
of your being that Russian lawyers
have not inappropriately defined a man
as an animal composed of three parts
a body, a soul and a passport This
passport you must have renewed once
a year, unless you are a noble or an
honorary citizen, and the process is as
tedious and painful as moulting is to
birds.
Extraordinary lirlnfcs.
Of the many extraordinary drinks
regularly consumed the blood of live
horses may be considered the most bo.
Marco Polo and Carplni were the first
to tell the world of the practice of the
Tartars and Mongols opening the vein
in their horses' necks, taking a drink
and closing the wound again. As far
as can be seen this has been the prac
tice from time immemorial. There is
a wine habitually consumed in China
which is made from the flesh of Iambs
reduced to paste with milk or bruised
into pulp with rice and then fermented.
It is extremely strong and nutritious
and powerfully stimulating to the
physical organism. The Laplanders
drink a great deal of smoked snow
water and one of the national drinks
of the Tonquinese Is arrack flavored
with chickens' blood. The list would
scarcely be complete without the men
tion of absinthe, which may be called
the national spirituous drink of
France. It is a horrible compound of
alcohol, anise, coriander, fennel, worm
wood, indigo and sulphate of copper.
It is strong, nasty and a moral and
physical poison.
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NOTICE.
First publication August 29.
William F. Onlev, defendant, will
take notice that on the 18th dav of
April, 1896, Stull Bros., the plaintiffs
herein, filed their petition in the district
court of Lancaster county, Nebraska,
against 6aid defendant, the object and
prayer of which are to foreclose a cer
tain mortgage executed by William F.
Onley (single) to George Thompson.and
by him duly 6oId and assigned to Stull
Bros., plaintiffs, upon lot eix(C), in block
eighteen (18), Mills' Second addition to
University Place, in Lancaster county,
Nebraska, to secure the payment of one
certain promisory note, with interest
coupons attached, said note dated Sep.
tember 1, 1892, for the sum of $500, due
and payable one year from date thereof.
Said note was not paid when the same
became due, nor any part thereof, nor
has said note or any part thereof been
collected and paid; there is now due on
said notes, coupons and mortgage the
sum of SG00, for which sum, with inter
est from September, 1, 1894, at 10 per
cent per annum, plaintiffs pray for a
decree that defendants be required to
pay the same, or that said premises may
be sold to satisfy the amount found due.
You are required to answer said peti
tion on or before Monday, the 5th day
of October, 189G.
C. C. FlNSUUR(5,
Attorney for Plaintiff.
Dated August 29, 1896.
Sept 19
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