Benorrac atc
Bellefonte, Pa., March Il, 1892
THE WORLD WOULD BE THE BET-
TER.
If men cared less for wealth and fame
And less for battlefields and glory;
If writ in human hearts a name
Seemed better than in song or story ;
If men instead ol nursing pride
Would learn to hate it and abhor it;
If more relied
On love to guide,
The world would be the better for it.
1f men were wise in little things—
Affecting less in all their dealings ; |
If hearts had fewer rusted strings
To isolate their kindred feelings; ;
1f men, when Wrong beats down the Right,
Would strike together to restore it;
If Right made Might
In every fight, |
The world would be the better for it.
—M. H. Cobb.
Tom Clarkson was not considered a
great actor by any one. He was a re-
liable man—always gave an intelligent
reading of any part he undertook, but
never seemed to create in his audience
that intensity of attention, that “creepy
. sensation up the back” which comes
to one when listening to an actor of
great talent or genius.
Tom was leading man at the old
Holborn theatre in Loudon some fifteen
years ago. That was before it was
burned down and when it was devoted
to the production of sensational melo-
‘dramas. I think it was then under
the management of Clarence Holt, but
am not sure of this,
Tom played heroes. He was a fine
looking, handsome fellow, and when he
enacted the part ofa Jack Tar, and
just as the Villian (with a capital V
please) was about to rush off with the
sweet heroine, weighing a hundred
and sixty pounds, after having
instructed his band to carry off the
treasure and murder the old “pari-
ents,” Tom always was sure of a tre-
mendous roar of applause from the
gallery by rushing down the stage
from some unexpected locality, shout-
ing: “Never! Unhand the girl, ruf
fian! Never shall it be said that a
a British sailor deserted his ship or
failed to rescue a pretty giri in dis-
tress.” Then he would go for the vil-
lian and beat him and his “dastardly
crew’’ off the stage.
Tom Clarkson was & married man
with one little daughter, a poor, deli-
cate little thing of six years, who wor-
shiped her father in a way sim-
ply rivaled by his own adoration.
There could not be many more com-
pletely aitached families, than Tom
Clarkson, his wife and little Sallie. It
was positively beautiful to see them
sometimes when at rehearsal Tom
would bring his little Sallie “to keep
her out of harm’s way,” as he said
“while the wife is doing the market-
ing. It was a question which loved
Sallie more, the father or the mother,
and it was pretty to notice how the
child endeavored to share her tavors
equally between them.
So sweet, too, were Sallie's ways and
so amiable and loving was she, and so
patient when all knew how she must
suffer at being unable to romp and
play like other children, for her mind
was as bright as a star, that every
member of the company down to the
meanest super and smallest stage hand
was in love witn her and ready to go to
the other end of London, or England
for that matter, for the sake of ‘Mr.
Clarkson’s Sallie.” “Our little Sallie”
most of them called her, for she seem-
ed to belong to them.
Two years ago, when in London, the
story was told me by a prominent actor
at the Adelphi, who had been a mem-
ber of the Holborn at the time Clark-
son was *‘in the lead.”
“We were going to produce a new
play that ni. ht,” he said, “and Tom
was in high feather, for he had a part
which suited and pleased him and he
thought his chance had come at last,
Something else excited pleasurable
feelings within his breast. He had ob-
tained a couple of dress circle tickets,
and his wife and our little Sallie were
to be in front to see the first perform-
ance.
“Tom came down to the theater in
great spirits. We all knew in a very
short time what was the matter. He
had all sorts of funnylike yarns to tell
about Sallie and her excitement and
delight at the idea of coming to see
father act. He told us fellows in the
dressing room how she had put her
little arms around his neck and had
insisted upon giving him the last kiss
before starting him off to work. ‘That’s
for good luck, father; don’t you wipe
that off. I'm coming to see you to-
night ; mind, you make a bit hit.” And
Tom langhed with delight as he imi-
tated the baby voice using the quaint
theatrical slang expressions.
“The play was a highly sensational
one, and Tom’s big voice and fine fig-
ure had plenty of opportunity to make
capital for themselves. This was al-
ways a source of great fun in the the-
ater, for we knew Tom to be the most
gentle hearted fellow that ever breath-
ed. As the saying goes, he wouldn't
have hurta fly. Why, he was tender
and kind as a woman, and a kinder
nurse never lived. I was only playing
‘walking on’ parts at the time, but he
had always a kind word, a gentle sug-
gestion of advice for me, and I had been
to his little home in Holloway several
times. He was like a big elder broth-
er to me. Little Sallie used to call me
her sweetheart.
“Tom was dreessed quickly that
evening and down oa the stage look-
ing through the peephole to see his
darlings arrive. It is not always so
very easy to distinguish people in the
front of the house from the stage,
though, and when the first act was
called Tom had not yet been able to
find them. He knew they were there,
though, and full of the feeling that he
was acting for their delight he did his |
very best.
“I never saw him act so well before,
The manager was heard to remark
that he ‘didn’t believe it was in him.’
We fellow actors knew all about it,
though, and when the applause came
at the end of the act, and Tom, nervous
and excited, stepped before the curtain,
he and we felt sure we could hear above
all the noise the clapping of a tiny pair
of handsin the dress circle. and a little
baby voice saying: ‘Look, mother!
There's father! Isn't he beantiful!
Oh I'm so happy!”
“By and by some of the rest of the
company began looking through the
peeephole for Tom's wife and child, but
no one could see them.
“Then as the play went on we no-
tized that Tom himself was getting
anxious. He had not been able to find
them either and he had begun to won-
der why they were not there and what
had become of them, Still hope had
not left him. He felt sure that some-
where in the vast auditorium a pair of
bright brown eyes were following his
every movement and he did his very
beat, though with a somewhat heavy
heart.
“He had a big change in dress to
make before the fifth act, and as he
had been on the stage up to the last
moment of the fourth he had very lit-
tle time to make it in. Therefore he
did not get time to take a last peep at
the auditorium. I think some kind
of a presentiment must have filled his
mind, for he seemed to have grown
careless and did not act with the same
Rpirit as heretofore. His thoughts
seemed anywhere but on the stage, and
every now and then we could hear him
heave a great sobbing sigh.
“The audience, however, had grown
lenient, Tom had caught their sym-
pathies in the earlier acts, and any-
thing he did was good enough now.
“The act was nearly over; Tom was
in the middle of his last speech when
we noticed a woman standing in the
wing with a note in her hand. It was
Mrs Clarkon’s servant girl,
“Almost hurrying through his
words, for Tom had caught sight of
her, too, we came to the ‘tag,’ the last
words of tne play. They were soen
spoken, and amid an outburst of ap-
plause the curtain came down. Scarce-
ly waiting for the roller to thump upon
the stage Tom rushed at the girl and
tore the note from her hands.
“I saw it afterward—this is how it
read :
“Tom, dear Tom, our darling has
fallen and hurt herself; come home
quickly.’
“Without waiting to change his
dress, without waiting to wash off the
grease paint and mascaro, in his stage
costume, wig and all, just as he was,
just as he had made the first and big-
geet success of his life, he rushed from
the stage pushing aside every one who
stood wondering in his way; with eyes
staring like a madman’s, all the terror
and grief that was eating at his heart
looking out from his face, he ran head-
long down the staircase and passage to
the stage door, crying : ‘Get me a cab !
For God's sake, a cab! Oh! my
God! my darling! my darling! be
quick! She may be dead!
“Just as he reached the threshold,
something seemed to give way. He
tripped and fell forward on his [face,
and a great gush of blood spurted from
his mouth and nose.
“They picked him up {so tenderly,
those supers and stage hands standing
round about, and carried him into the
doorkeeper’s room and sent for a doctor
But when the doctor came poor Tom
Clarkson was dead.
“Well, no, that is not the whole of
the story. The whole company sub-
scribed, and the manager gave a bene-
Gt for Mrs. Clarkson, and a nice little
sum was raised. We have never let
her be in want, besides Tom had al-
ways been a thrifty man. But the
most interesting part of this anticlimax
to me is yet to come. Sallie did not
die. We had good doctors tor her,
and she grew up straight and strong
and tall, and if you will come to the
Adelphi this evening you will see my
little wife make her debut on the
stage. We have been married eigh-
teen mouths.”
Jerry Simpsoun’'s Party.
He Thinks It Will Either Elect the President or
Throw the Election into the House.
‘WasHINGTON, Feb. 26.-—Representa-
tive Jerry Simpson returned this morn-
ing from the St.Louis Third Party Con-
vention. “It was a very much better
Convention,” he said this afternoon.
“than I had expected... We succeeded
remarkably well in harmomizing the
various prejudices and in making a short
platform.
The prohibition and woman’s sufirage
questions were too much for us to carry
at this time. Nearly every State in the
Union was represented at the Conven-
tion. On the 4th of July, when we
hold our National Convention to nomi-
nate candidates for President and Vice
President, every State will be repre-
sented.
“We shall put a strong ticket in the
field, and believe we shall carry not less
than four States, Kansas, Nebraska,
South Dakota, and Minnesota.
“We will throw the election in the
House if we do not elect the President
ourselves. The labor organizations will
be with us, and we shall poll a very
large vote. In the South we shall draw
from the Democrats, but in the North
and West more largely from the Repub-
licans, so ‘that it will about even up the
losses between the two old parties.”
As to the candidates Mr, Simpson
said that he thought General Weaver,
of Towa, would be nominated for the
Presidency ; that it would certainly be
either Weaver or Donnelly.
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and all that, butthe peculiar merit of
Hood’s Sarsaparilla cannot be equalled,
Therefore have nothing to do with sub-
stitutes and insist upon having Hood’s
Sarsaparilla, the best blood purifier and
building-up medicine.
——Rly’s Cream Balm is worth its
weight in gold asa cure for catarrh.
One bottle cured me. S. A. Lovell,
Franklin, Pa.
The Brain During Sleep.
A Psychologist’ Explanation of Good and] Bad
Dreams.
“What dreams are made of is not
difficult to determine,’ said a psycholo-
gist in Washington one day recently.
“They are composed of the memory
pictures which are stored away in the
brain from birth until death. In sleep
on¢ wonders amid scenes which are the
shadows of actual views and landscapes
beheld at one time or another in wak-
ing moments. The sights one witnesses
and the people who move and have
their ghost-like being in that mysterious
world of fancy form a sort of phantas-
magoria, amid which the dreamer goes
about, some times observing with in-
tense interest or wonder and at other
times engaging in conversations. It is
all the refiection of the waking life that
is past, although occasionally combina-
tions of old impressions give rise to new
and original thoughts. Not a few great
ideas of invention have sprung from
visions of the night.
‘The operations of the brain in sleep
afford to the psycho-physicist a most in-
teresting subject of study. Apparently
one always dreams while asleep, because
the brain can never stop thinking; but
dream life, being merely a reflection of
actual waking existence, is naturally
shadowy and less vivid. The land-
scapes seen are usually viewed in a sort
of twilight; faces of persons are in most
cases blurred and indistinct. Now and
then, in my own dreams, I take up
something to read, like a newspaper ar-
ticle, and I find myself very much an-
noyed at experiencing great difficulty in
pursuing thesubject matter simply be-
cause I am unable to make it up with
sufficient rapidity as I go along.
“It the mechanical part of the brain
which is active during sleep. At all
events, the intelligence does not seem to
be awake. The faculty which we call
judgment is off duty, and hence one
does not see the absurdity of many
dreams. Nevertheless, one -certainly
does not lack a conception of the hu-
morous under such conditions. I my-
selt have many a time been roused from
slumber by my own laughter at some
ridiculous occurrence. My belief is
that we frequently take part in very in-
teresting conversations while dreaming,
and the extraordinary part of it is that
we are obliged to perform both parts in
such a dialogue, or even more when a
greater number than two people are
speaking, although that is rare. All
these things are purely speculative ques-
tions, because in the nature of things we
= secure few reliable data on the sub-
ect,
“Study of the phenomena of dreams
can be best performed when one is in
that curious state between sleeping and
waking that is apt to arrive in the morn-
ing before one gets out of bed. One
realizes then very often that one is
dreaming and while doing so observes
with interest whatever goes on. The
trouble is that the very exertion of this
conscious attention is apt to wake one
up. Often have I felt the utmost anx-
iety lest I should awake before I had
finished a particularly pleasant or amus-
ing dream, but the task of trying to
stay asleep under such circumstances is
a very difficult one.
“Upon waking up after a night's
sleep one usually has the impression of
a very brief time passed since he went
to bed. This may be simply forthe rea-
som that the comparatively dim and
shadowy dream events have not left any
vivid impressions upon the memory.
For all we can tell, it may be that the
doings of our sleeping moments seem
during their progress to occupy an ex-
tended period. In exceptional cases
persons have imagined during a compar-
atively brief sleep that they had lived
for years. De Quiucy, the celebrated
opium eater, tells how in a single night
he passed whole centuries shut up in-
side of Egyptian tombs in company
with clammy crocodiles and in other
equally unpleasant situations. ]
“I have no doubt that in what we
call ‘bad’ drcams we often undergo a
great deal of very intense suffering.
When I was a little boy I was much
afflicted with them, and I finally be-
came so accustomed to them that I came
to realize their unreality in my sleep.
Then I did not mind them any longer,
and, being of an imaginative turn of
mind, cultivated them with a view to
making them as horrible as possible.
I got so at length that with me going
to bed was almost as entertaining as go-
ing to a circus, inasmuch as I could con-
jure up more wonderful spectacles than
were ever offered to the public by Bar-
num or Ferepangh. A curious point
about my own dreams 1s that, although
I am certainly a person of most moral
and proper behavior in my waking mo-
ments, I am addicted while asleep to
committing the most astonishing impro-
prieties.
“A person who suffers habitually
from nightmares is apt to be a cause of
distress to other people as well as to
himself. Once upon a time I was mak-
ing a visit at the house of some friend
in Perth Amboy, N. Y. In the middle
of the night IT was aroused from a sound
sleep by most appalling yells of murder
and robbers. Jumping out of bed I
started to the rescue, but was unable to
find the door of the room. Perhaps you
have been lost in a strange room at
night. The room I occupied was not
very big, but I spent ten minutes in
trying to find my way out of it, and
without success. No match was at
hand. Finally, having heard no more
shrieks, I made up my mind that if
their had been a tragedy it was all over
by this time, and despairing of discover-
ingia way out of my apartment, I went
to bed and. asleeep again. The next
morning I learned at the breakfast ta-
ble that my host had merely had one of
the bad dreams to which he was accus-
tomed. Insuch a case, I think, that a
guest ought to be warned beforehand.”
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'——Red shoes for children are to be a
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Preachers and Public Speakers, |
|
The Victims of Catarrh of the Pharynr.—Elo-
quent Divines. Able Politicians, Eminent Schol-
ors and Professional Singers Made Voiceless.— |
Extracts From a Lecture Delivered by Dr. S. f
B. Hartman at the Surgical Hotel, Columbus, '
Ohio. |
An ordinary sore throat, by frequent
recurrence, is apt to become chronic, so
that the throat continues to be sore near-
ly all the time. This form of sore
throat is known in medical literature as
Fellicular Pharyngitis. It is caused by
excessive use of the voice, by confine-
ment in close rooms in bad air, by un-
due exposure to cold, or by over indul-
gence in smoking, but more frequently
by catarch and diphtheria. The symp-
toms are frequen: hawking, especially in
the morning, expelling from the throat
with great difficulty stringy mucous,
which produces gagging, and even vom-
iting at times. There is a raw, sore
feeling in the throat, and when the
slightest cold is taken, the throat be-
comes inflamed and swollen. Instead
of the smooth, pinkish look that the
throat has in health, it looks angry, red
and uneven, with occasional patches of
white mucous adhering to it. It is sure
to make much speaking, singing or
laughing painful, and the voice will
slowly grow weaker. Nothing is surer
than if this is ailowed to go unchecked
it will finally involve the larynx, and
the voice will be seriously ipjured. It
is also certain that unless something is
is done to stop it, the disease will usual-
ly extend down the bronzhial tubes to
the lungs.
Follicular Pharyngitis is the special
bane of public speakers and singers, also
people whose nervous system is depress-
ed by organic disease of any kind. Peo-
ple who, for any reason, are much con-
fined to close rooms, are very liable to
thisdisease. Anyoneafllicted by this trou-
ble is not only leading a miserable life,
but the inflamed state of the throat ren-
ders him especially liable to acute disease
of the throat, such as diphtheria and
quinsy.
For this trouble in any stage Peruna
is the pink of perfection. If Peruna
were always used before the lungs be-
came affected it would not fail to cure a
single case. Numerous cases that have
used gargles, wet packs, external and
internal applications of all sorts, with-
out avail, find immediate relief and cure
by using Peruna. The fame of Peruna
in all mucous inflamations is such that
niany doctors and druggists not only
prescribe it, but use it as their own fam-
ily medicine. As soon as its use in such
cases is begun, the phlegm loses its
sticky, stringy character, and becomes
at first more abundant. but easily expec-
torated. The quantity grows gradually
less, until, after several weeks’ use of
Peruna, it ceases altogether. The in-
flamed mucous surfaces and eniarged
tollicles show immediate immediate im-
provement, and rapidly regain their na-
tural appearance, by taking Peruna,
without the use of any gargle or appli-
cation whatever.
In cases of sore throat. bronchitis and
consumption, where cough isa promin-
ent symption, it is better to add two
ounces of rock candy to each bottle be-
fore using ; then take according to di-
rections on the bottles. In casesof dys-
pepsia and diseases of the abdominal
cavity and pelvic organg, the directions
on the bottle are sufficient. Cases of
chronic catarrh in the head, throat,
bronchial tubes, stomach and pelvic or-
gans,of ten, fifteen, or twenty years
standing, are constantly being cured by
the use of Peruna. It has come to be a
well established fact that Peruna will
cure catarrh in any stage or variety
where the case is not complicated by
any organic disease.
A valuable pamphlet of thirty-two
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any address by The Peruna Drug Man-
ufacturing Co., of Columbus, Ohio.
This book should be in every household,
as it contains a great deal of reliable in-
formation as to the cure and prevention
of all catarrhal and kindred diseases.
——A well posted man of letters is
credited with saying that Mus. Humph-
ry Ward received $100,000 for the man-
uscript of her new book “David
Grieve’ This seems'a large sum to
pay for the rights and royalties of a sin-
gle book, and likely the publishers will
thing it an enormous sum before they
are through with it for some who has
read the novel says that it simply dem -
onstrates the impossibility of repeating
a popular success in the literary world.
To be the author of a popular hit’ is
undoubt.dly an advantage, since it
heightens a writer's commercial value
in the eyes of publishers and editors,
and insures a certain sale for his subse-
quent work. But, onthe other band,
it is likewise a disadvantage, In Mrs.
Ward’s casa the public expected another
“Robert Elsmere,” and it has not re-
ceived it. Hence, there is a disappoint-
ment. The Standard is set by the first :
it suffers by the second. The great pub-
lic at large does not stop to consider
that a success such as ‘Robert Elsmere’
is made by an author only once in a
life time, and that few writers repeat
their great success. I do not wonder
that Lew Wallace feels a trepidation
toward launching his new novel. ¢Ben
Hur’ did wonders for General Wal-
lace’s literary reputation, but it has also
set a difficult standard for his next book.
Mrs. Burnett might write juvenile stor-
ies by the ream, but she will never re-
peat the success of ‘Little Lord Faun-
tleroy.” Elizabeth Stuart Phelps has
written scores of short stories, bat none
have come within hailing distance of
the “The Madonna of the Tubs.”
Thomas Nelson Page has never done
anytbing so good as ‘Marse Chan,”
nor can Frank Stockton probably ever
write a short story which will arouse
such public interest as did “The Lady
or the Tiger ?”” And there are scores of
other instances which conld be brought
forth to demonstrate the difficulty of re:
peating a great literary success. A sin-
gle book has often carried an author
through an entire literary career, and
this can well be if he is careful not to !
show the public that he has given it his
best at the very beginning—a fact la-
mentably forced upon one in the writ-
ings of many an author to-day. A lit-
erary reputation made upon a single
piece of work is a precarious one, and
only a few know how te husband and
nourish it.
Dr. Scudder Accused.
A Son of the Famous Clergyman in Custody on
the Charge of Murdering His Mother-in Law.
Cuiacco, March 3.—Dr. Henry M.
Scudder, a prominent physician, son of
Rev. Dr. Martin Henry Scudder, a
former pastor of Plymouth Church, is
under arrest at his home on Grand
Boulevard, charged with murdering
his mother-in law, Mrs. F. H. Dunton,
to get possession of an estate of the
value of $100,000. The warrant was
issued and the arrest was very quietly
made yesterday alternoon.
The prisoner was ill when the war-
rant was served, and the shock produc-
ed a collapse that compelled him to
take to bed, where three policemen are |
now standing guard. Thestory of this
alleged crime is a narrative with all
the elements of a powerful melodrama.
Dr. Scudder recently married in this
city an adopted daughter of Mr and
Mrs. F. H. Dunton. Mr. Dunton is
the proprietor of the Spiritof The Turf,
a weekly paper, and he it was who
swore to the information againet Dr.
Scudder.
Mrs. Dunton died on Sunday, Feb-
urary 21. She had been for several
years suffering from an abdominal w-
mor, but when the remains were ex-
amined by Dr. Leavitt and her hus-
band several deep incised wounds on
the scalp were discovered. These were
sufficient to have caused death. The
two men came tothe conclusion that
Mrs, Danton had been murdered, but
they kept the secret until yesterday.
Dr. Scudder was in Mrs Dunton’s
room almost continually for several
weeks before her death. At 9 o’clock
on the morning of February 21 she was
up and dressed, and was apparently re-
covering rapidly. She summoned a
servant and sent for her breakfast. At
this moment it is alleged the tragedy
was enacted.
A witness whose identity has not
been discovered says that Dr. Scudder
took something about a foot long from
his overcoat pocket and stepped toward
Mrs. Dunton, who was out of the wit-
ness’ range of vision. A piercing
scream from the sick woman followed.
The observer saw Mrs. Dunton fall on
the floor. The physician stooped over
her and rained blows on her head with
the weapons he bad taken from his
pocket.
When Mrs, Dunton screamed, every-
one in the house ran to the room, the
first arrival being Mr. Dunton, whom
Dr, Scudder gently pushed back, assur-
ing him that he was too ill to see his
wife. To the rest of the family he said
that Mrs Dunton had fallen down
three times and struck her head against
the furniture.
When they arrived Mrs. Dunton was
on her face bleeding profusely from
several wounds. She was only partly
conscious, and said nothing that was
intelligible before she died. Dr. Scud-
der and others started out for physi-
cians.
When they returned they made an
examination of Mrs. Danton’s scalp
and found five or more wounds, ohe of
which fractured the skull. The funer-
al was managed by Dr. Scudder, who
had the body removed to Janesville,
Wis., and buried
The character of the wounds first
aroused the suspicions of Mr. Dunton.
Then the witness of the crime, who is
said to have been intimidated, told his
story, and the police were put in pos-
session of the facts,
——
The B. & O. South-western Limited.
On November 20th, the B. & O. R. R.
placed in service on its South-western
Limited Express train running to Cin-
cinnati and St. Louis an entirely new
equipment, built expressly for this train
by the famous Pullman Company.
The new cars embracea 11 the features
that have rendered the Royal Blue Line
trains so universally popular, and in-
clude the safety vestibule, steam heat,
Pintsch gas hight, and anti-telescoping
device, and convenient toilet accessories
for men and women. The Royal Blue
Line train leaving Philadelphia at 11.85
a. m. makes direct connection with the
Sovth-western Limited at Baltimore,
where coach passengers change cars.
The sleeping cars run through from
New York and Philadelphia to Cincin-
nati and St. Louis without change, ar-
riving at Cincinnati next morning at
7.45 and St. Louis next evening at
6 25. 3t.
Retribution Coming.
“Well, little what’s
name ?’’
“Shadrack Nebuchadnezzer Jones.”
“Who gave you that name ?”’
“I don’t know. But yer bet cher life
if I ind out, when I gets me growth
they’ll be sorry for it.
boy, your
— “Did I hear you say that you
once-saw a red-headed Indian ?”’
Yes.”
“Well, can you explain the phenome-
non ?”’
‘Certainly ; he was bald.”
——There are 400 widows of Confed-
erate soldiers on tha Georgia State pen-
sion list. This pension fund entails on
Georgia an annual tax of $400,000.
—— Ex-Senator Ingalls has refused an
offer of $10,000 a vear to become the ed-
itor of & new local afternoon newspaper
at Kangas City.
—- Chili has declined altogether to
participate in the World’s Fair at Chi-
cago, on the plea that she cannot af:
ford it. ; ;
——Pennsylvania’s $5,000,000 appro-
riation this year for schools, is the
argest of any State in the Union.
——“The beefeater’” shape will be a
novelty in next summer’s straw hats for
girls.
——Hemstitched towels are fine and
long.
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Interesting Odds and Ends.
Scraps Picked Up Here and There Which Con
tain Worlds of Inform tion for All.
Women work on French railroads.
Paris dishes are washed automati-
cally.
France announces incombustible
shoes.
Norwav has a waterproof paper
church.
Great Britian has 202,300 acres of or-
chards.
Gas engines of 60 horse power are
now made.
per is steadily growing. :
The force of the ocean waves is used
in L'rance to lift granite.
_ There are 382 miles of street railway
in operation in Philadelphia.
In Queensland a sound and well brok-
en horse can be bought for $5.
On the prairies of the Northwest the
| crow is looked upon as a bird of ill~
omen.
Hot Springs, S. D., will soon be sup-
plied with coal from the mines in ‘hat
vicinity.
Electricity last year took 28,681
horses out of street car service in this
country.
An old lady of Stonington, Conn., is
said to have slept 21,000 consecutive
nights in one house.
Two railroad cars are now being com-
pleted in California which were made
from the trunk of one tree.
The Tennessee Onyx Company is de-
veloping an onyx quarry near Anderson-
ville, in Anderson county, Tenn.
Two dogs were recently arrested in
New York for following people in the
streets, and two more for fighting.
In 1800 Philadelphia had nearly 10,
000 more population than New York,
The figures were 70,228 and 60,489.
It is estimated that Americans aver-
age twenty-nine railroad trips annually,
or ten more than the average Briton.
‘The feast of Purim will be celebrated
with unusual fervor this year by the
Jewish community in the United States.
A new industry has been started in
California, which consists of making su-
gar from the sap of the sugar pine tree.
An idea of the size of the Vatician
may be gained by the statement that
there are no fewer than 4422 rooms in
it.
The largest. electrical plant in the
West is at the Poorman mines. Idaho,
which saves its company $30,000 a
year.
Out of I00 Indian students returned
from Hampton Institute, Virginia, to
the reservation only two have been fail-
ures.
_ The largest steam shovel in the world
is at work digging phosphate out of the
Th at John’s Island, near Charleston
S.C.
The Druids held many plants sacred,
as, for instance, vervian, selago. mistle-
toe, ard, among trees, the oak and the
rowan.
The Pope, it is said, intends in hig
will to leave funds for the foundation in
Rome of a grand universal scientific in-
stitute,
Because of the low price of cotton,
a farmer in Coffee county, Georgia,
burned his crop of itand then commit-
ted suicide.
The total wages in Great Britain for
1890 was £48,000,000 or an average of
only £55,108 per capita for the whole
number employed,
world of sports to-day.
The goods exported from Alaska last
year amounted to $1,000,000 more than
States for the territory.
An aged Jewess, who was the widow -
ofa rabbi and the mother of three rab-
bis,died in Indianapolis a few days ago.
Her name was Mrs. Messenger.
The total number of immigrants land-
ed at the port of Baltimore in February
was 1,464, an increase of 604, over the
record for the same period of 1891.
while held in a more or less vertical posi-
tion, the rod will become magnetic.
coarsest. Number of hairs to the
blonde head, 140,000; on the black,
103,000; brown, 100,000 ; red, about
90,000.
The time of building the first iron
tradition that as far back as 1787 an
iron vessel was used on the Severn
River.
At a Catholic Convent in Fort Bert-
hold, N. D., all the sisters, including
the spiritual director is a priest of Mo-
hawk descent.
A pine tiee in Pennsylvania recently
scaled 8,033 feet of lumber. It made
17 sawlogs, 12 and 16 feet in length,
inches in diameter.
It is said that if the earth’s atmos-
phere extended to a height of 700 miles
the sun’s heat and rays could never
penetrate it, and we would freeze to
death while wrapped in darkness black-
er than the blackest midnight.
Judging from the number of charters
construction of railroads, it is estimated
that upward of 7,600 miles of new track
will be added to the total mileage of the
country this year.
A gentleman of many years exper-
ience in China says that the right word
is “Pidgin” not “Pidgeon” English.
“Pidgin’’ is the Chinese pronounciation
of these Chinese poris that this peculiar
dialect is used.
Dr. Talmage’s Brooklyn tabernacle is
to be sold to satisfy a mechanic's lean of
$562,218.59, obtained by C. W. Willis.
The building cost $400,000 and Willis.
was the contractor. It was thought
that money would be raised to pay it,
but the trustees of the church failed to
| get it, and the tabernacle will have to be
‘disposed of. Linstead of building better
| than he knew he builded better than he
! can pay.
The foreign demand for American pa-
It is reported that the Harpers are -
about to start a high class sporting
weekly to reflect what is best in the.
the price paid Russia by the United.
It is claimed that if a steel,rod be giv- -
en a number of raps on a solid substance -
Blonde hair is the finest, and red is the -
ship is a matter of dispute, but there isa .
the mother Superior are Indians, and .
and the top end of the butt log was 58 .
taken out in the different States for the -
of ‘““business’’ and it is in the “business