T THK COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURG. PA. oiiiniHi Boston Light Was First One Built on American Coast. ESTABLISHED IN YEAR 171? For Nearly Two Centuries Its Rays Have Guided Shipping to and From Port Was Burned and Struck by Lightning Elown Up by the British. The lighthouse at tbe entrance of "ston harbor was the first ono erect - i on tho American coast, or nearly a century after the first 't lenient of these shores by the Eng ;i. ami New York by tho Dutch, the ia that camu to America were . uliged at night to approach the coast ulih the utmost cam It .i because there were no lighthouses t guide them In to port. Boston light, the first lighthouse es tablished on the American coast, was begun in 1713. nnd finished the next year. It stood on Little Urewater is land, where the present Boston light also stands. Its cobI was about $11, BOO, and the bill was paid by the prov ince of Massachusetts bay. The first keeper of Boston light, With his wife and daujrhtr, was drowned two years after he took of fice, and Ben Franklin, 12 years of age, hawked through the streets a ballad on the catastrophe, printed by his brother, which in Franklin's own words, "sold prodigiously, though It was wretched stuff." The lighthouse was partly burned In 1751, probably from an exploding lamp, and it was also at different times Btruck by lightning. The lighthouse became an object of Concern to both sides In the war of Independence. In the summer of 1773, while the British fleet was In the har bor, a party of Americans from Mil ton, under Maj. Benjamin Tupper. went to the light, and set fire to tho tower. The fire destroyed the wood work of the lantern, and the glass. Admiral Samuel Graves In command of the fleet, sent a guard of 50 marines to the lighthouse. In September, 1775 the guard was attacked by a force of 300 men under Maj. Tupper, which killed 12 men and took the others of the guard prisoners, besides "several artisans" at work on tho lighthouse, and fired all the building on the island and demolished the upper part of the tower. By the time this was done the tide had fallen, and the Americans could not get away in their boats. The Brit 'sh observed their plight and sent a '!rty to attack them . One of tho ritish boats was sunk and several I the crew were lost. Maj. Tupper it away with the loss of one man iiled and three wounded. The Brit ili loss was 53 men killed or taken prisoners by the Americans. Wash ington thanked Maj. Tiyper and his men in general orders for their gal lant service at the light. When the British evacuated Boston tbvy did not leave the bay at once, but lingered to do as much damage as possible on the islands In the har bor. When finally they left the ports they sent boats to the lighthouse from the warship Renown, which took off a party of regulars then stationed there, and blew up the tower. This was the last hostile act of tho British before leaving for Halifax. The cost of maintaining the light was defrayed by a tax known as lighthouse dues, imposed on all ship ping, except coastwise, entering or leaving the port of Boston. In 1789 this tax was one shilling a ton on for eign vessels, and 2V6 pence on domes tic shipping. Boston light could properly be call ed "the" lighthouse for 44 years, or until a light was built at Sandy Hook. Other ports saw the value of a fixed and reliable guide to shipping, but progress was slow at best, in building lighthouses on a coast so long as that of the colonies, and as late as Aug. 7, 1789, when the United States took over tho title to the lighthouse in the varioiiH seaboard states, there were but eight, lights on the Atlantic coast, and none on the gulf. Boston Globe. Automobile Beginnings. How many persons remember that from ISI'.I to 1810 George Hancock's steam coaches ran at a profit between Paddington and the City? Is it re. allied generally that Gottlieb Daim ler, the true father of the petrol en gine, had worked in England as well ns in Germany before he patented, In 1S84 only, the Otto gas engine and fitted It In 188C to his bicycle, which may be regarded as the first motor car driveu by an explosion engine? From this date progress abroad was of remarkable rapidity, while in Eng land none was possible until in 189." Mr. Evelyn Ellis Imported a four horsepower Panhard and Sir David Salomons a Peugeot. There followed a modest demonstra tion at Tunbrldge Wells of theso two vehicles, a De Dion stenm car nnd a petrol bicycle, and then, after some agitation, the Light Locomotives Act of 1896. In fact, from a modern point of view, Gottlieb Daimler is tho parent of the infant motor car and Mr. Honry Chaplain is its sponsor In England. An Interesting example of the ma'y different practical uses which are like ly to be found for the X-rays is pro vided by the Ceylon pearl fisheries. By the application of the rays it Is now aid to be possible to tell wheth er an oyster contains a pearl or not, and those which are In a purely nor mal and healthy state are thrown un opened back Into the sea. By the adoption of this device, the depletion of the oyster bad is, of course, reduced very greatly. EUROPE OUR MARKET. Tho Wonderful Absorptive Power of Old Wold for American Products. In an article In World's Work on "What Europe Means to Us," J. D. Whclpley presents facts of tremen dous meaning to tho United States. Ho says: Always buying more than It sells, eating more than comes from its soil, lending more than It borrows, and lu every way apparently giving more than it takes, Europe's constantly in creasing population, wealth and power form a mystery, for they are the most wonderful and fascinating of all economic phenomena. The United States has a population of twenty-two to the square mile. In tho past one hundred years, Europo has sent 40,000,000 people to the United States and other new coun tries, and yet today has a population of 103 to the square mile, or nearly twice ns many as when this emigra tion began. In the meantime, wages have increased, wealth has piled up, trade has quadrupled, and the pur chasing power of the people of Eur ope has more than kept paco with all these advances. Even to estimate the animal do mestic exchanges of Europe is beyond the rench of intelligible figures. The foreign exchange is a quantity which can be determined with more or less accuracy, however, and its amount $11,000,000,000 annually conveys an Idea of the tide of commerce that flows through this heart of the world. The Imports of these eighteen coun tries amount to $8,000,000,000, tho ex ports to $r,,onn.ooo,noo, showing an ex cers of purchases over sales amount ing to $2,000,000,000. The Imports from abroad, meaning from countries other than European, are to supply European deficiencies, and these aro largely of food Rnd raw materials. About G3 per cent of the total ex ports from tho United States are of agricultural products, though much of this might be regarded as manufac tured goods becauso many agricul tural products are put through man ufacturing processes. Roughly speak ing, the An riean people sell $900, oon. noo worth cf such products a year to foreign buyers. Nearly 90 per cent goes to Europe, hence about four fifths of the American goods sent to Europe supply food and raw material. American products feed thp operatives in the European mills and factories who nre making goods for all tho world. They provision the foreign ships which carry the world's com merce, and keep down the cost of liv ing In Europe by supplementing the comparatively scanty supply of home grown foods. These agricultural pro ducts of America are now so neces sary to Europeans thnt they are ad mitted without perious restrictions to nearly nil European markets. ."Doubles" rf Public Men. Nearly every well known personage hps a double who, by careful dressing, docs his bert to keep up the flattering illusion. King Edward haa several, but the one with the strongest re semblnnce lives in the East End. The kaiser s double Is a tailor, King Oscar of Sweden's an inhabitant ot Lyons, the part of the county, by the way, from which the king's grand father originally crme: and King Leo pold of Belgium's is a pickpocket, who takes advantage of the likeness to practice his rascality upon smart crowds on public occasions. Leaving the crowned heals, Presi dent Loubct, it was shown the other day, has a double In Paris, while Pres ident Roosevelt's likeness Is a comic singer. M. Combes, tho French pre mier, Is the exact likeness of an old general of the empire, while M. Pe'.le tan, the French minister of marine, is doubled by a bookmaker and a cab driver. The Sketch. Sweetening Sugar. Ail sugar is not sweet, or rather sweet enough to come up to the re quired standard of sweetness, so some kinds must be sweetened artificially. There are many establishments where this process is carried on. A cone of sugar is placed over an apparatus apex downward, many little holes in the apparatus coming in contact with the point of the cone. A thick liquid is poured on the flat end of the cone and tbe machinery is set In motion. The holes become the mouths of the suction tubes and the sweetening liquid is drawn through the cone, giv ing it the necessary quality. Acquisition From Japan. Another beautiful foliage plant, an acquisition from Japan, Is the Aspid istra, not often met with, though for decoration it surpasses flowers more widely known. I have seen a large specimen plant of it at the residence of a lady on Edwards street. It is low growing, the broad leaves having the tendency to bend over when the pot becomes quite full of them. When too largo It Is good to divide the roots. It is generally thought not to flower, but it does, like the wild ginger, have Its blossoms concealed low near the ground. They are of a purplish color. Hartford Times. Vaccination Without a Scar. As a result of experiments made In some of the hospitals In Paris, it Is stated that vaccination performed un der a red light leaves no scar and causes less pain. The patient Is vac cinated in a room where the only light Is an Incandescent lamp with a red globe. Makes Bird of An Airship. J.' R. Dalmeida of St. Catherine's, Ont., has Invented an airship. It is constructed of bamboo, resembles a bird in shape, and has two wings, each 84 feet long. It is worked by levers moved by the operator's feet. Nw York World. ! I i SH 11 Making His Last Stand in the Far West. RAILROADS PUSHING HIM Wherever He Is Found He Is Still An Important Person Excite ment of His Arrival Little Nice, ties of Hit Profession Set Forth In a Graphio Manner. It Is only in Isolated regions of the West, where tho thing wo call civil ization has by chance neglected its duties, as the plowman leaves weedy patches In the corners of the field, that tho cowboy may still bo found unspoiled; and it is even a rarer for tune to encounter a stago driver whom readers of Bert Harte could recognize. What the homesteader and the bheepmnn have done to the one, the railroad has done to the other; and the sadness of hastening extinc tion hangs over them both. Here Is Estes Park--happy, unrail roaded land! tho coming of tho stage Is a daily happening, in which every inhabitant takes an interest so keenly personal that the event Itself, as well as the interest, becomes spec tacular. Toward 4:. 10 o'clock anxiety sits gaunt upon every countenance. Will the stage be late? Somebody who drove over Park Hill in tho morning said the roads were heavy. A freight er from Lyons was stuck for three hours on the other side of the pa38. Tho outlook grows gloomier every minute, and all eyes are strained with gazing at the dusty road toward the place where it disappears behind the shoulder of a hill. It needs no over fanciful Inclination to conceive, after listening to impatient exclama tions on all sides, that tbe continued tolerabllity of many lives, as well as the further existence of Estes Park as a habitable place, depends upon the arrival of that stage, with its pouches of mail. No one may know tho golden increments of expectancy who has not waited for a letter by stage. A boy (of course) perched precar iously on the roof of tho store first descries the stage whirling in its nimbus of dust around the promon tory. Upon his shout tne groups sud denly rearrange themselves and the relaxation of facial muscles presages new faith in the ultimate worth of human existence. Meanwhile the stage, In a kind of final fury of speed, careens grandly up the stretch of road, sweeps through the open space ordered by tho postmaster, makes an elated swing for position, and stops at the postoffice door with tho wheels within an inch of the steps, but never grazing them. To have scraped them would have been a humiliation from which the driver never could have recovered. The mall and the passengers out, the driver takes his tired team to the stable, and then loses no time return ing afoot to the postofiice, where, hav ing accepted one of many proffered cigars, he deigns to make Spartan-like replies to the volumes of questions and tentativo remarks timidly ad dressed to him. He is a good fellow at heart, tolerant of the common world, and willing at times to enter tain with speech as well as deeds. But today is not his day for loqua city. Down at Lyons, where the Bur lington ends he heard a bit of news that one of the proposed branch lines of the railroad now building will prob ably have Estes Tark for its terminus and his heart is filled with sadness. By and by the crowd, seeing his mood, leave him to his reflections, and the departing people, hurrying away by the four roads they came, leaving him leaning against a post, with tbe postmaster's woolly dog squatting at bis feet and looking sympathetically up in his face. The stage driver has let his cigar go out, and his eyes are fixed upon the west, where behind tho snowy range the sun Is tumbling into his world bed of rosewood inlaid with pearl and draped with cloud curtains of frail pink and tender yellow hues. But it Is not the sunset he sees. Behind Old Flat Top yonder, thirty miles away, are the grading camps of tho new railroad that Is climbing the Rockies on its way to the Pacific coast. And if he Is not thinking of them, the interlopers, it's quite too bad, and I am done with him. Ed frid A. Bingham. Estes Park. Col. Selling One's Wares. In parts of Switzerland the baker's wife carries round the bread in a sort of hamper, and she has not a fixed, immutable charge, but chaffers for a price with the customers. The old English word for this process was "cheaplng," which in many places In England has been corrupted into chip ping. Chipping Norton, for Instance, Is really Cheaplng Norton, or the place where goods were cheapened that Is, sold by chaffer. "Front Room" Crusade. An English educational society which declares that people ought to live In and use their "front rooms" has created a sensation. The London Express remarks: "Such a reckless suggestion Is calculated to undermine tho very foundations of lower middle clnss home life in this country," the front room being sacred to "company" over there. Old Maids' Paradise. Tho disproportion of the sexes Is still very great In some parts of Aus tralia. In West Australia, for exam ple, there are only 54,000 women In a population of 108,000. A fellow will often run Into debt nd then try to crawl out j CAN ANIMALS THINK? John Burroughs Contends That They Have No Such Power. Animals have keen perceptions keener in many respects than our own but they form no conceptions, have Do powers of comparing one thing; with another. They live entirely In and through their senses. To all that Inner world of refleollon, Imagination, comparison, reason, they are strang ers. They never return upon them selves in thought. They have sense memory, sense Intelligence, and they profit In many ways by experience, but they have not soul memory, or rational intelligence. All the funda mental emotions and appetites men and the lower animals share In com mon, such as fear, anger, love, hunger Jenlousy, cunning, pride, curiosity, play; but tho world of thought nd thought experience, and the emotions that go with it, belongs to man alone. It Is as If tho psychic world wore di vided Into two planes, one above the other the plane of sense and tho plane of spirit. In the plane of sense live tho lower animals, only now and then just breaking for a moment Into the higher plane, says John -tr-roughs In Harper's Magazine. In the world of sense man is Immersed al so; this Is his start and foundation; but he rises into the plane of rplrit, and here lives his proper life. He Is emancipated from sense In a way that beasts aro not. Peru Has High Railway. One of the most interesting trips af forded by the present transportation facilities of Peru is that over the Oro yo railroad, which now runs from Cal lao to the gold fields of Cerrd de Pas co. It Is considered one of tho won ders of the Peruvian world, and the original contract was taken by Mr. Meiggs at $27,000,000 in bonds at 79. It Is certainly the greatest feat of rail road engineering in either hemisphere and as a speclment of American en terprise and workmanship it suffers nothing by comparison. It was begun In 1870 and finished In 1876, and ad ditional work has since been done on It. Commencing in Callao, it ascends the narrow valley of tho Rimac, ris ing nearly 5,000 feet in tho first forty six miles. Thence it goes through the intricate gores of the Sierras till it tunnels the Andes at an altitude of 15.C45 feet, the highest point in the world where a piston rod Is moved by steam. The wonder Is doubled on remembering that the elevation is reachel in seventy-eight miles. One of the most re markable things in conneotion with this road is that between the coast and summit there is not an inch of down grade. The difficulties encoun tered in its construction were extreme landslides, falling bowlders, sor iche (or the dlillculty of breathing in high altitudes) and verrugas, a dis ease known only along the line of this road, characterized by a species of warts breaking out all over tho body and bleeding. About 8.000 workmen were engaged at ona time, and be tween 7,000 and 8,000 persons died or were killed In the construction of tho road. Engineering Magazine. Beware of These Flowers. It is claimed that the tulip Is a dangerous flower. Take a tulip of a deep crimson color and inhale it with profound Inspirations and it will be apt to make you lightheaded. You will say and do queer things dance, sing, fight, swear and so on. For two hours you will cut up in this way. Afterward you will be depressed. The poppy is another flower sup posed to be dangerous. A young wo man of a nervous temperament, if she lingers among a bed of popples, will grow drowsy, the same as If she had smoked a pipe or two of opium. In Asia Minor, where the opium manufacturers cultivate vast fields of popples, tourists Inspecting the beauti ful flowers often become altogether Incapacitated. They get bo sleepy they can hardly talk. They reel In their gait. In some cases they have to be put to bed. Kansas City Jour nal. Straw in Egyptian Brick. Tbe ancient Egyptians had a pro cess for making bricks which render ed them very hard yet easy to work. An American engineer, Mr. Acheson, thinks he has discovered their secret, says the Ijondon Globe. The Egyp tians used straw, and by boiling straw in water and mixing clay with it he found that It gave hard, shapely bricks that did not crack nor deform in baking. Analysis proved the effect due to tannin dissolved in water. Fur ther experiments showed that from H to 1 per cent of the tannin of com merce added to the resistance of the brick. The process also economizes water, and such bricks dried in the sun are even more solid than those of the kiln - Millions and the Mikado. The emperor's yearly expense of living is limited. For this purpose he draws $3,000,000 from the national treasury, writes Hosmer Whitfield In Success. He has got to pay out of It some 1,000 employes. The lady-ln-walting Is said to be paid $150 month ly. I have no doubt that even a washlng-gJrl is paid about $70. Japan Is a country where a laboring man's wages are not more than 60 cents daily. The chief cook of the Imperial palace is paid $200 a month. The Golden Mean. The motto of the Greeks was "Noth ing too much." An excess of courage Is orutallty. An excess of economy Is penurious ness. An excess of taste is preciosity. An excess of gentleness la timidity. An excess of confidence Is egotism. Who will show us where to draw tbe line? Everybody'! Magazine. II Mini; ! Giant Task Accomplished in the American Caravansary, j EXPENSIVE UNDERTAKING Much Silver, China and Linen, Owing to Breakage or Theft, Must Bo Replaced Carpets .Renewed. Army of Cleaners Required. Costa Nearly $50,000. Fifty thousand dollars In cold cash and three months of incessant work by a thousand people aro required to accomplish the greatest house clean ing In the world. The woman who Is driven to the verge of nervous pros tration by her semiannual bout with tho powers of dust and moths' in a, smnll house or apartment would prob ably stand aghast at the task ot a hotel manager who must clean and refurnish his hotel, and yet be ready to receive the travelers who may ap pear at this Inopportune time. The housewife who discovers that one of her precious spoons has been stolen by a dishonest maid, or some of her finest dishes have been nicked, sheds a few futile tears. The man ager of a hotel loses thousands of dollars every year in silverware and table furnishings, which are taken, not by help, but by guests of the house, who carry them off a's souve- j nirs. Spoons, forks, salt-shakers, small In dividual breakfast castors, tete-a-tete sugar bowls, creamers, after-dinner coffee cups and saucers, all these fall prey to the tourist who thinks it is clever to carry away hotel souvenirs and the proprietor of the hotel has come to regard It Is another avenue of expenditure. The American public which can af ford to stop at a high-priced hotel has gone luxury mad, nnd carpets must bo thick and velvety under foot, so there Is no turning of the economical ingrain. The carpets must be dis posed of either by selling to smaller hotels or private parties, or through auction rooms. Tho replenishing of linen costs $10, oon a year, and as much moro Is re quired to purchase new china Rnd sil ver service. New furniture and car pets, together with the wages paid to help, will bring the cost up to $50,000. The house cleaning force Is called In about the middle of June and works until the middle of September, which presumably Is a slack season for hotels In large cities. The hotel has its own upholstering, carpenter and mattress shops. Carpets are sent out to bo cleaned, but are resewn and laid by the hotel force. The rooms are torn up in sections, bo that some parts of the house are always ready for guests. The decora tions, papering ami oiling of the wood work are done by contract. The fur niture is removed to tho cabinetmak ers' shop in the basement, where it Is all done over. Tho mattresses are recovered or filled, according to the need, and pillows are treated in the same way. Curtains are taken to a different de partment, whero expert darners take them in hand, which accounts for the long life of a real good lace curtain, as, if properly handled, they will wear several seasons. Tapestry hang ings and oriental rugs are treated the same way. In the meantime the managers of the hotels have gone on their annual jaunts to Europe, or to some moun tain resort, the famous chef is off on his yacht for a brief respite from the onerous duties of catering to million aire appetites, and midsummer finds the heads of the various departments, such as the housekeeper, the head of the linen room and the steward, left to carry the house cleaning to a suc cessful and satisfactory Issue. The floating population of such a ho tel Is equal to that of a Bmall city. Even In midsummer, with houseclean ing at Its height, pilgrims for. pleas ure who are stopping en route tn New York bring this population up to a thousand souls. In midwinter it is increased to 1,500, and some Idea of tho services demanded by rich travel ers can be Imagined when it 1b learn ed thnt 1400 servants are required to cater to the needs of the 15000 guests. Let the woman who has hysterics because her husband brings home a guest during the house-cleaning days ponder on the duties of tho hotel housokeeper and decide that she has no corner on trouble. Washington Star. Origin of the "Best Man." The barbaric bridegroom secured his mate by one of two methods capture or chase. Wooing was a form of glrl-steallng. According to the for mer method, the groom Btarted on the warpath with some chosen companion. This may be the origin of tbe "best man" who knows! The best man and the wooer had to go In full uni form and armor, for in those strenu ous times the father-in-law and mother-in-law either succeeded in putting the wooer out of the way the first) time he called, or else he made away with the daughter took to the woods! or the plains, as the case might be, with spears, boomerangs, Jagged flints' and arrows showering after the re treating party, as we now throw slip pers. Respect to Hamlet's Memory. A railway Is about to be constructed near Elsiuore, which will run across the spot traditionally believed to be tho grave of Hamlet. Numerous signed protests against the projected rail way have been addressed to the for ernment. CIGARETTE SELLING 8Y8T. How Each Customer la Automatically Supplied With Favorite Bland. Writing of the application of sys tem to large businesses, Atherton Brownolt says In World's Work: Sys tems have been devised, by which, with the aid of a single clerk, a more minute and accurate record can be kept of a great business house thaa. could bo kept by a largo force of accountants. A good example of a perfect system Is the one used by a firm of clgarctto makers who have a private trade, for they make their goods to order for Individual custom ers. The characteristic feature of their business Is that they mix the tobac co to suit each Individual customer'! taste. They must havo direct com munication with their patrons, and these patrons buy as few as 500 cig arettes at a time. To get their trade Is easy; to hold It Is more difficult. On their files, they carry a memoran dum of the tastes of perhaps 2,000 smokers and the formula of the mix ture which suits everyone best, to gether with a design of his crest or monogram, which he desires stamped In his wrappers. Every customer!' dally consumption Is noted and by the automatic operation of their system, his name comes to the front a week before he may he reasonably expected to have exhausted his last order. S nicely has this system been adjusted, that recently, during a spell of cs tremely humid weather, when orders could not be filled, every customer found his wants supplied, during this period of waiting, from a stock kept on hand for the purpose. We All Eat Too Much. As tho result of his exhaustive ex periments with a sqund ot United States soldiers doing heavy gymnast- . uui work under restricted diet. Prof, Chittenden, of Yale, concludes that most people eat too much. Tho men were worked hard in gym nasium and gained steadily and great ly in strength while they were being fed far less than the average diet. They were called the "Starvation Squad," but their photographs take at tho close of the experiment do not look like those of starving men, rather like those of competent gymnasts. Says Prof. Chittenden In his recently published "Physiological Economy is Nutrition:" "Our results Jus tify tho conviction that tho minimal protied requirements of tho health man under ordinary conditions of life aro far below the generally accepted dietary standards, and far below the amounts called for by the acquired tastes of tho generality of mankind. The amount of proteld or albuminous food needed daily for the actual phys iological wants of the body is not more than one-half of the protoid food ordinarily consumed by the average man. Body-weight (when once ad justed to tho new level.) health, strength, mental and physical vigor end endurance can be maintained wlln lit least, one-half of the proteld food ordinarily consumed." Proteids are the chemical elements that most people get by a meat diet, through beans, peas and some other vegetables are also strong In proteld. Eat l'ss meat is the practical equiv alent of Prof. Chittenden's advice. It has been noticed by amateur mountaineers that Adirondack guide and Swiss mountain men eat less solid food than tho average Wall street broker, who does little phys ical labor. Learning French. I recently visited the most famous international institute in Switzerland, writes "N. R. C." In the London MafL and was enabled to witness the whole system by which splendid linguists are turned out As soon as the boy arrives he Is tott that he must speak French, and oa every occasion he speaks his mother tongue he is given a certain number of "lines" to write out. These are usually In French and German. Take French as an example. Say the pupil Is English, and does aot know a word of French. He Is shows) a huge illustrated map with all kinds of animals, trees' and common objects In colors. The master will point tt an animal, the boy is told the Frenck for It, and In a very short time he knows the name of every object cm the map. The whole time he is be ing spoken to in French and getting accustomed to the sound. One little chap Informed me that he was English. He spoke French anal German with great fluency, and he had a fair smattering of Italian. "How long have you had this youngster?" I asked the head master. "Oh, he's only been with us a year and a half; but come and look at his written work." This youngster's French and Gee man were excellent and his Italian fair. Coins a New Word. An Ohio man wrote to Elmer Do ver, secretary of the Republican na tional committee, claiming to have done great work for Roosevelt in the campaign, and asking for a Job. He said he would like to be "chief cus pldorian" of the Treasury Department Mr. Dover wrote in reply: "I regret to Inform you that there Is no suck position as chief cuspldortan ot th Treasury Department, although I think there might very well be. Un fortunately, however, while you have coined a word, I cannot coin the Job," Prof. Korn of Munich has present a report to the Bavarian Academy off Sciences stating that he has perfected a system for transmitting photo graphs, sketches and facsimiles of sig natures over ordinary telegraph wires. Any photograph, he says, can be transmitted over a wire 1,000 miles long (n twenty minutes.
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