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PARADISE FOR CRIMINALS.
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A correspondent writing from Italy
Rives some Interesting details of the
treatment of prisoners on various
Italian islands ho visited while on a
trip In the Mediterranean, says Lon
don Tid-BIts. 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 until 2 o'clock.
During tho night no prisoner Is al
lowed to be absent under any circum
Etanccs, but at midday those who work
on farms at a distance from the prison
ero allowed to remain out by special
permission of the director. During
these free hours the prisoners can go
nnywhero 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 lifo
around them or of their prison is pun
ished by f "uslon In ppecial cells.
The government furnishes physicians
and medicines, a summer and winter
cult of clothpq tn each prisoner every
year and allcvs him fivepence dally In
money for his food and other neces
saries of life. Danger of escape is pre
vented by a squad of Foldlers one to
every ten criminals and a swift-sailing
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
no sign in their faces and bodies of
that prison blight which strikes every
visitor to ordinary jails."
Fhlnv Havn Kim.
The Gate City, which arrived here
on Monday from Savannah, is the flrat
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
Bea. Tha 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
tho deck below. Inside of the box
there Is a complex arrangement of dia
phragms and sounding boards so
pfccod tjt a sound will enter only one
of the tubes when it Is passing through
f-hc 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 bo turned
around the mast, and directly under
the indicator is a tell-tale compass.
The man bctow 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 fr-JnUy and in one car, because
one of the funnels being turned from
the sound tho tube opposite does not
operate. He then turns the Indicator
to the direction from which the sound
fippears 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 and
the point on the tell-tale at which it
rests gives the exact bearing of the
pound. Boston Transcript.
I.lslilnln and 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
Jove." 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 nin
ftrike are the oak, the yew, the elm
lf'1 til" T n ln-'i. "--Hr
Won III Itct.
A bewlldercd-looklng farmer stood
in the center of Haymarket square
Thursday looking at the trolley wire.
The electric car came along and
slowed up. They rang the bell ard
shouted at him and ordered him to
move. He still kept looking at tho
wire and making inarticulate sounds
with his lips.
"Get off the earth, you Jersey calf!"
shouted tho motorman.
The old man was fairly bumped by
tho slow-moving car before he moved.
Then ho jumped and said: "I did it,
by thunder! Where's my money?"
He looked around cautiously and
then he said: "You seen a red-faced
feller with a white mustache waxed?
I want him. He bet me ?5 I couldn't
look at that ere wire three minutes and
count 200. I'vo done it"
"Did you put up the money?"
"Sure," was the reply.
"Ding-dong." went the bell. Lewis
ton Journal.
Canon City coal at tho Whitebreasi
Coal and Lime Co.
AFRICA, ENGLAND. GERMANY.
Latter Wants tho Forcut In the lUiln
of tlm Upps. Con en
The object of Germany at the present
moment is to connect her eastern and
Eouthwestern African possessions, saya
the Quarterly Review. To do this sho
desires to possess the forest in tho
basin of the Upper Congo a region
which Is rich in copper. If she could
obtain this territory from the Congo
Etate and a narrow strip of land from
Portugal she would realize her aim:
and if she gets possession of the forest3
on the Lualaba and the Katanga cop
per mines her colonies may become to
her a great source of wealth. England
should definitely make up her mind as
to the attitude she will assume toward
this policy. If she opposes It Germany
vill become a persistent enemy. On
v"ae other hand, if she supports it Ger
many should agree not in any way to
Interfere with England south of the
Zambesi and support her heartily in
Egypt. The increase of German pros
perity at home is also an advantag
to us. As Germany becomes richer she
will become a better customer and less
jealous of the political position. Tho
wages of German artisans must go up
and consequently Germany will be les3
able to undersell us in the open mar
kets of the world. We have now come
to a state of things as regards tho
German empire when we must either
come to terms with it or drift inttt a
position which will certainly lead o
danger. The Germans, if they are tc
maintain their possesisons beyond the
tea, must either be sure of the friend
ship and good will of England or eLi
they will endeavor to break down her
power on the ocean. Since the begin
ning of this year every corner of the
fmpire has rung with the most violent
denunciations of this country. The
newspapers, with the almost solitary
exception of the Wcser Zeltung, have
given expression to feelings of bitter
hostility. Organs of opinion usually
tre most opposed have vied with
each other in their violence of lan
guage. This ill feeling to Great Brit
ain, as we have said, has not been a
growth of recent times. It Is now
strengthened by a growing conviction
that the position of England in the
world is undesen-ed, artificial and
cannot be maintained if it is seriously
menaced. This view has been fostered
by distinguished historians and men of
letters, who exercise a powerful influ
ence on the youth of the country, on
the guides of public opinion, on writers
in the principal periodicals and jour
nals who indirectly shape the policy ot
the cheap newspaper, which is the gos
pel of toe village inn.
A ROMANCE FROM AFRICA.
The Mory of n Trc inre tngenloui and
Miv He Trne.
Englishmen arc pedatory creatures,
and the London papers do not hesnato
to express annoyance because the expe
ditionary force recently sent against
King Prenipeh found at Coomassie
only a meager number of gold orna
ments, and hollow ones at that, says
the New York Times. The value of tho
loot taken from the royal "ralace" was
only about 2,000 and made a poor
showing when exhibited In London, as
compared with the results of pre "ous
raids. Now a correspondent writing
from Accra tells a story which if true
a very largo "jf" will make tho
British officers wish they had not left
the AEhantl capital quite so soon. Ho
says: "Soiza years ago a slave gill of
surpassing beauty of the Ashantl type
beln entendu had the mistortune to
attract the fickle fancy of a chief,
whose head wife tolerated no rivalry.
To reproach a husband Is generally
useless: in Coomassie it is dnnge-ous.
The lady, wise in her generation, fore
bore to risk her head, but sent for tho
executioner and caused the ears and
lips of the too fascinating maiden to bo
removed, rendering her such an object
as can only be seen in savage king
doms. History does not say if the ex
pedient answered the purpose of re
storing the chief's wandering affections
to their rightful owner, but the slave
girl developed, not unnaturally, into
a woman with an undying thirst
for revenge. Lately she sought an
audience with the governor, and
she informed him that the real
treasure of the Ashantis lies buried
some fifty feet below the soil, in a dis
used shaft of a mine near Coomassie,
and readily undertook to point out the
spot Digging is being vigorously car
ried on, already more than a fourth ot
the depth has been cleared, and should
the treasure amount to anything like
the rumored value, the cost of the ex
pedition will be fully defrayed, making
the Ashanti war a record one. as not
only bloodless, but free of cosL"
IIM Ilrotlier ItvenRP.
We are all more or less familiar with
that exasperating class of individuals
who seem to feel that the simple com
mon sense of the world Is centered in
themselves and that the rest of us ar
in need of guidance and direction in
the simplest duties of life.
Mr. B was a young man of this
class. He was always painfully pro
fuse in details regarding anything ho
wished done. He had a parrot, of
which he was excessively fond, and
when he was about to go abroad for a
few months, leaving his bird behind,
he bored and exasperated his family
and friends with sensM'-ss details re
garding the care of tho parrot and his
last words, screeched from the deck of
the steamer that bore him away, were:
"Hi, Jim!"
"What?" shouted the brother on the
pier.
"Look out for my pirrot!" came
faintly over the water.
As if this was not enough he had no
sooner reached Liverpool tbaa re sent
the fo.lowlng cablegram to his brother,
who had assumeJ the charge of the par
rot: "Be sure and feci my parrot."
On receipt of this ih" irfuriated
brother cabled back at his brother's ex
pense: "I have fed her but she i3 hungry
again What shall I do next?" Har
per's Magazine.
An Ancient ANlter IIox.
A curious box war recently found
amid the ruins of Pompeii. The box
was marble or alaba.Uer, about two
inches square and closely sealed. When
opened, it was found to be full of
pomatum, or grease, hard but very
r'ragrant. The smell resembled some
what that of roses, but was much
more fragrant.
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