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COST. The reason for this Startling Reduction is that
we must have -room. Spring will soon he here and
rather than carry anything over we will sell at a sacri
fice. A Genuine Hargain for everybody.
NOTICE .1 FEW
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natural color to gray or faded hair; pre
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changing color; keeps It soft, pliant, lus
trous, and cause It to grow long and
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leaving the "hair harsh and brittle, as da
Other preparations.
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PROFITS
OF OUIl PRICES.
IVt iro Oui Iii?e on
AH-W.hjI lli nri. tta, tiii-st, ...
1 jn-:it-r iiiiirhains, -
Fine Caliui-n-s, in all odors, ...
Fine l'u.-linier's, in all -olors, ...
Fine All -Wool Cloth, in all eolors,
Fine ;iii!'h;iii, -
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Fine Fnll-aeheil .Mnlin, ....
Fine leaeliel tuiii L'nbleaeheil Cotton Flannel,
Fine l'.lne Calieo, -
A full line of l'.lankets, ....
A full line of Horse l'.lankets.
How Do You Like These Prices
F tie Floor Oil Cloth, 1 yard wMe,
l ine F'oor Oil Cloth, 1$ yards wiile,
Fine FliMr Oil Cloth, - yanls wide,
Fine Table Oil Cloth, assorted,
or Cl t h . fr in 4(e. up to 1 .t'5, the L st. Fine
have a line line of '1 1 links. the Cliea tst itnd
WEARING QUEUES IN CHINA.
It Is Merely the Prevailing; Style, ami Is
Not lcinaiideil liy Law.
'It is to the Tartars who conquered
China several centuries ago that we are
indebted for this much - discussed
iiueue." said Wiiitr Lock, a prominent
C hinaman, to a w riter for the l'ittsburgh
Dispatch. "You Urar a great deal
alKiut the laws of China relating to the
wearing of queues; how a Chinaman
cannot return to bis country without
his queue, and all that. Well.it is all
bosh. The wearing of a queue is no
more required by law than your gentle
men wearing whiskers. It is a custom
and a style, and a Chinaman realizes
some truth in the saying that yon
might as well be out of the earth as out
of style. A Chinaman retains his queue
simply Wcause if he should ever return
to his native land be would not care to
go about among hi friends and make
himself conspicuous by such a radical
departure from the style of so many
millions of people. Strange, too.
that the Chinaman should hold to hi.,
queue with such tenacity when it wa.-.
originally imposed upon him as a mark
of subjection. When the Tartars came
over and set a ruler on our throne they
decreed that every Chinaman shoule
wear a queue such as they did. f
.-nurse, thi.4 - as at lirst galling totbein
fur I In v could not ee or loiieh 1 hei.
plaiU-d bail without being reminded o
iheir conquest. Cut time heals al .
v.ou:nl. and it was not long be fon
liie Chinamen lK-j;aii to cbei isti tin
i iaiksof subjection as a good fashion
orst vie. This wa also t me a 1m 111 1 t he
M vie of tlrers the Chinamen now wear.
!t in the queue that a Chinaman
wears hi badge of mounting. W hen a
China mail's father or mother dies there
i!r.. sent to him. astoall the membeis id
the family, colored garters. These an
not garter: i;:. we understand. lnt soil
of rfbbons. white, green or blue, which
are plaited with the hair. White, green
and blue are the colors of mounting,
while the riblmn that is ordinarily
plaited in the queue i.s black. These
blue and green garters are worn in the
hair for one year after the death of a
parent."
FOREIGN NOTES.
A IloMK of rest for horses has been
started in England. Its object is t
take care of horses sulfcriitg frou
lameness, sores, or overwork until the
are tit to work again, the owner Winf.
supplied with a sound horse in the in
terval. Tliol'till the Campania did not In-at
the vast ward ocean record on a recent
trip to (Juecnstown. her mails were de
livered in London in six days ami six
hours front the time of her leaving New
York, twelve hours sooner than they
have ever been delivered lcfre.
Saint Tin 1mn, a Christian village on
the banks of the Congo, colonized by
negroes educated by the missionaries,
is the product of postal stamps. Over
10.iHM.iKMi used stamps were collected in
r.russcls, from the sales of which the
money needed was obtained. The Con
go state gave the land.
A fl'Klol'.H instance of how phrases
are spread by school books is shown in
the last number of Dr. Murray's dic
tionary. Xo earlier authority could le
found for the term "Hlack Death, " de
scribing the plague that devastated
Europe in the fourteenth century, than
Mrs. Markham's celebrated histories
for young persons, which first appeared
in lSli. . m
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FORMER PRICES, $5.00,
Huts ft-oni .rlc. to 1.50 fctr the
llest you ever saw. Ccuie one
IS MAN LOPSIDED?
The Subject Itlsruasetl from Variety of
'. uteres! Inir Standpoint.
Man at best is an ungainly animal.
His head is an irregular spheroid, his
eyes art? not alike or of equu1 etliciency;
one shoulder i.s higher thau its neigh
bor, one hand and one foot is larger
than it corresjxmding organ. Despite
the fact that the shape, size and color
of the ear differs more widely in indi
viduals than any other organ of the
human body, says the Albany Times
Union, they are probably more alike
on the same head than any other of the
twin organs. If one ear is delicate in
fdtade. the other will be the same; if
one looks like a dried fig or a conch
hell, the other is likewise so. With
the eyes, however, matters are differ
ent. One eye is nearly always more
open than its friend over the bridge,
while in many cases people, while ap
parently looking with both eyes, only
use one, and makers of firearms, in
making guns to order, carefully allow
for the right or left sightedness of the
sportsman for whom they cater. Uroad
ly sjH'aking, women are more often
left sighted than men, and, when they
do happeu to le right sighted they are
so in less degree thau the sterner sex.
The reason why the left shoulder is
frequently further from mother earth
than the right lies in the fact that
while writing most men rest the left
elltow on the table, while in the case of
porters loads are carried on the right
shoulder. With an able-bodied man
there i.s very little difference in the
length of the limbs, but the hands and
feet are usually widely different in the
matter of size. The right hand is the
bigger, while, curiouslj- enough, the
left foot covers the greater amount of
ground.
Ladies have a certain unreasoning
sense of satisfaction when they say that
they wear lives in gloves, because, if
this is a fact, then the human hand
has grown snuiller within the last twen
ty or thirty years, which state of affairs,
however, may be questioned when the
glovcmakers tell their story. Gloves
are all marked half a size smaller than
they really ought to be, which is the
fatal result of the habit in which the
ladies indulge of almost invariably ask
ing for gloves a size smaller than they
can comfortably wear. The left leg is
better developed than theother male car
ricr.on account of the fact that we stand
habitually on the left foot, and mount a
bicycle or a horse and kick a man while
balancing tin the left leg. Most men
jump chiefly off the left leg. Lateral
curvature of the spine occurs more fre
quently to he left than to the right, in
dicating that the bxly in sitting is
thrown more to the left than to right.
This leads to the remark that nothing
is more injurious, for the young es-jH-cially.
than to sit for any length of
lime in one position.
C'anvasDack st Fraud.
Geese and ducks are more favored by
the Germans than the Americans,
not one in a hundred has ever eaten
canvasback thick, it is a cherished
American tradition that it is the great
est of all table delicacies. Well, it's a
fraud. To get the boasted flavor of
the '"wild celery on which it feeds it
must Ik ettoked h.lf-raw ami is gener
ally as tough as a boiled owl. With the
exception of the little "blue-winged
teal," no duck that swims can surpass
a well-fed, well-cooked puddle, such as
you can buy in our market for ten
cents a pound. Canvasback is now fifty
cents a pound.
A WIFE AS A MASCOT.
The Arte of a Woman Against the
Skill of a Gambler.
How at Mexican Cattleman Recovered
Ills Mouey In a Losing; Game of
Monte anil ( leaned Out
the Dealer.
'It was in the state of Sinaloa, in
Mexico, where I was in the employ of
an American dealer as a collector of
bird skins." said Thorn Lougee. a tax
idermist, to the New York Sun man,
"that 1 saw the charms of lovely wom
an exerted in rivalry to a gambler's
skill, and they won, as they always
should. I was staying at the time in a
little city called Tuxatapau, ami I
strolled into the princqial gambling
place one evening to watch the players
at monte. There was a single large
low room, with a bar at one end and
tables ranged alxmt the wall for gam
bling. The place was lighted by can
dles, and was half-tilled with Mexican
charros, with here aud there an Ameri
can mining man or some native visitor
from the capital city in London-made
-.lothes.
"l'laying was slack, except at one ta
ble, w here a Mexican cattleman from
up-country, in full cltarro costume of
sombrero with silver braid, jacket,
wide pantaloons with a row of big sil
ver disks running down the outer sides
ami bright ivory-handled revolvers at
his belt, was dropping his money at
monte. Tne dealer sat at the center of
the kidney -shaped table, with high
heaps of silver dollars at his elbow,
while the players sat round the outer
circumference. The cattleman was
sharp ami watchful, so that the dealer
had no opportunity to do tricks, but the
regular odds of the game caused the
stranger to lose slowly, until, with an
exclamation, he announced himself
broke and rose from his seat.
"'Hut I have three hundred dollars
at the hotel, he said; "if you care to
wait, I will go for it, aud perhaps leave
that with you.'
" 'At the senor's pleasure, responded
the dealer, showing his white teeth in
an affable smile beneath his black mus
tache. "The cattleman went out and the
game went languidly on until in ten
minutes he returned carrying in his
hand a bag of Mexican dollars. Ik
was accompanied by his wife, a pretty
little dark-eyed SjMinish creature, in
Dowered silk ball tlress and mantilla.
At sight of her the dealer instantly
sprang up to offer her a seat, but she
cttquettishly declined the attention and.
sauntering carelessly along. jitmiH-d
upon an unoccupied end of the table
with one leg curled under her anil the
other, displaying a daintily Ixiotcd fot,
swinging toward the floor.
"ller husband seated himself oppo
site the dealer and the game proceeded.
As the stacks of silver dollars passed to
aud fro. this time with no particular
advantage in luck to either side, the
woman, apparently becoming more and
more interested, leaned forward with
the palm of her hand on the tahle
eagerly watching the game. Her man
ner was frank and engaging, but from
where I stood I could see that her eyes
were dividing the attention of the
dealer, who perceptibly was losing in
terest in the game aud displaying
less of the dexterity that in the begin
ning had characterized his handling of
the cards.
"At last the ranchman was winning,
and the canvas bag in which he had
brought his three hundred dollars stake
was full to overflowing and triple rows
of dollar stacks lay at bis right hand.
All other play was suspended as the
spectators crowded altout the table to
watch with breathless excitement the
game, which now was running as high
as one hundred dollars on the turn of a
card. The conversation in the room
was decorous, and none present failed
in due manifestation of respect to the
presence ttf the pretty little dark wom
an perched on the table, who was well
known in Tuxatapan as the wife of the
gaming caballero with the ivory-handled
revolvers. From my posit ioii near
the wall, a little in the rear of the ta
ble. I noticed that as in her intense in
terest in the game she leaned toward
the dealer her mantilla upon the side
next him was slipping from her shoul
der, which she Wing of Spanish nativ
ity was a very charming piece of liv
ing statuary. Mechanically the dealer
lifted from Itetween bis feet a bag front
which he counted out two hundred dol
lars to pay the "cattleman's last win
ning. Without a word the latter added
this to his stake already on the table,
making four hundred dollars to be lost
or won. As the dealer shuffled the
cards the mantilla fell front her head
and shoulder, and she gathered it almut
her with a half-startled, half-coquettish
look ttf dismay as he turned the decid
ing card without looking at it.
'I will again!" said the ranchman,
and he ln-gau to pile the dollars again
tin the cards.
"The dealer reached down to the can
vas bag ami emptied it in counting out
four hum-red dollars. Then he passed
the bag across the table to his op
ponent. "The game is ended! The bank is
broke! Let me congratulate the senor
on his got! fortune. he said, smiling
but behind the smile was the silent
anger of a man who realized how he
had been defeated, but must hold his
peace.
"Without a word the cattleman
swept the silver dollars on the table
into the bag and passed it to a wild
looking vaquero w ho was standing le
hind him. Ten dollars he passed to the
bartender to be expended in treating
the crowd. The little woman, her eyes
dancing with triumph, liopjtcd down
from the table, ami then, with her lean
ing affectionately on his arm. the cat
tleman bowed to the dealer and the
spectators, said: 'Uuenos noches, sen
ors, and passed out of the room into
the street, followed by his cow -boy at
tendant, carrying the two canvas bags,
in which were over fifteen hundred
dollars."
Few Saints In New F.ne;land.
Saints cut only a small figure in the
geographical names of New England.
They are abundant upon the maps of
most of the southern states save Vir
ginia and the Carol inas, and they are
to be found scattered over the rest of
the country in three or four different
languages.
KEEPING OLU AG t. AT BAY.
Vegetarian Argument with Illustrations
Which Appeal to All.
A iew years ago an Italian bacteriol
ogist proclaimed that he had discovered
the "germ of old age." The idea was
scouted by all scientific men, but there
may lte something m it after all. At
any rate, says Modern Medicine, there
seems to be gttod ground for believing
that germs, if not a specific germ, are
at least one of the most iuqtortaut in
fluences which bring on old age. It
has long leen known that the ptomains
or toxic substances produced by mi
croltes are capable of setting up various
degenerative processes. Degenerative
changes in the joints, the liver, the
kidneys and other organs, have been
directly traced to this cause. The
writer has for some time held the opin
ion that the degenerative changes inci
dent to advancing age are due to the
same cause; namely, the toxins ab
sorltcd from the alimentary canal.
These toxins are constantly present in
greater or less quantity, according to
the extent to which fermentative and
putrefactive processes prevail in the
btoinach and intestines. These pn
esses depend first, upon the integrity
tjf the digestive prttcess. in the indi
vidual, and, secondly, upon the char
acter of the substances introduced into
the alimentary canal as fttod.
These considerations suggest at once
the thought while all human beings
must necessarily le constantly subject
to the influence of toxic substances
generated in their own alimeutary
canal, and consequently must grow old
and succumb sooner or later to the de
generative process of old age, these
processes may Ik- greatly accelerated
by subsisting upon a diet which favors
the pnxluct ion of toxic substances in
the alimentary canal.
1 f this theory is correct we should ex
ited to find the greatest longevity
among those animals and tho.-; men
who subsist tin the simplest and purest
diet, other conditions Iteing equal. It
would le impossible to find a sharper
contrast than that which exists in this
respect Wtween carnivorous and vege
tarian animals. Contrast, for example,
the dog w hich growsohl, becomes rheu
matic and infirm in eight or ten years,
with the donkey, w ho lives a useful life
to forty or fifty years, and the elephant,
which is still active and useful at one
hundred years. The same is true among
men. The greatest numttcr of jtersons
who now live alntve one hundred years
of age are to be found among Kussiau
peasants, who rarely taste meat. These
people have been practical vegetarians
for so many centuries perhaps from
the earliest ages that anatomists have
noted a distinct difference in the length
ttf their alimentary canals as compared
with those of the flesh-eating Germans,
whose ancestors were cannibals. Uheu
inatism in its protean forms is one of
the most constant and distressing dis-.
orders of old aire. The relation be
tween English roast beef :ind the front
and rheumatism, which prevail so ex
tensively among Englishmen, was clear
ly pointed out by that distinguished
physician and essayist, .1. Milner
Fothergill. The alntve considerations,
if not considered absolutely conclusive,
are worthy of thought.
SHE GOT GOOD MONEY.
How a Neat Trick Wa Turned on a Street
far Conductor.
A woman gave a conductor on a
Ravenswttod electric car a quarter and
received in change two silver dimes.
"Here, here!" said the passenger,
"this coin has been tilled and I'd like
to have a good one."
"That's gttod money," retorted the
nickel snatcher, with a look that
showed he had expected just such an
outcome. "I took it for gotnl stuff, and
you'll have to do the same."
The woman tlropjted the defective
piece of money into her purse, says the
Chicago Ti ibtine, muttering something
inaudible, but al lowing. -i look to spread
over her countenance that indicated
trouble ahead for that conductor. Aud
there was. When he got off and ran
ahead to see that the Milwaukee track
was clear, his victim removed her big
woolen fascinator, pulled off hex im
mense cloak, turned it inside out. made
a muff of it; and changed her seat to
the other end of the car.
"Fare." said the conductor, opening
the dttor with a bang. He had failed to
see through the transformation and
took the passenger with her cloak on
her lap as a sure enough newcomer. Iy
this time the passengers had all taken
in the situation. Every eye was on the
little woman as she fished out the
identical silver dime which she had
been forced to take.
"Can't take that, madam. Company
requires me to turn iu good money."
"O. but you told me only a moment
ago that it was good money and now I
want you to make it goid or I'll under
take to get you a long lay off. I'll take
the names of any two of these men who
have seen you give that tome as good
money and then within five lnim tes re
fuse it as bad. Come, now, giw iuv? a
good coin and do it quick."
The woma got a good dime.
A Mixed I'rlnrelet.
Among the hardest things which the
infant Prince Edward of the royal
house of England, the little son of the
duke of York and heir expectant to the
throne, will have to straighten out
when be is older is his relationship to
his own father and mother. It consti
tutes a problem such as is seldom found
outside of princely houses. It i.s cer
tain, however, that he is the third
cousin of his father and also the second
cousin of his mother. This makes his
relationship to himself somewhere be
tween that of a third and fourth cousin.
He is, as it were, his own double-third
coukin a relationship which will doubt
less take some time for him to compre
hend. IJoth his father and mother are
descended from George 1 1 1, of England.
George lll.'s son Adolphus. duke of
Cambridge, had a daughter Mary, who
married the duke of Teck, aud became
the mother of Princess May, who mar
ried the duke of York; and the duke of
York's father, prince of Wales, is the
great-grandson of the same King
George HI.
Komana and .-arthaelniana.
At the battle of Thrasymene Itetween
the Romans and Carthaginians there
were sixty-five thousand men engaged.
The Homans were taken by surprise
and defeated with great slajghter.
The total number of men killed on ttoth
sides was seventeen thousand, or altout
twenty-seven per cent, of the number
engaged iu the conflict-
DISEASES OF THE NY ILL.
Some
Strange Manifestations of
Mental Aberration.
Persons tVho Wish to I to the Simplest
Acta of Kveryday Life Are Stopped by
Fall ins Will Power a Man W no
Couldn't I'ut on Ills (oat.
IVrsons who are interested in the cu
rious side of human nature should look
into the work of the French doctor and
scientist Uilnit on the diseases of the
human will, where are to Ik found some
extraordinary instances of men and
women losing their owers of volition in
regard to certain acts while they keep
fully active and healthy in all others.
Eschewing all research as to first
causes Kilxtt takes volition as a form of
activity ami studies it in a purely ath
ological sense. That strange power in
us which every day says "1 will." that
tower which "summons. sUsH-ntlsordis-
misses, as anotner 1-rcucltman. Kcnou
vier. defines it; that force in us ami be
hind us which, iu its ultimate possibili
ties, can hardly Ik limited, is shown in
this work to 1- subject to the strangest
diseases and to Ik; modified in the most
peculiar manner.
There are some persons, says the Chi
cago Times, ami they enter into all the
daily circle of life. v. hose wills are so
soft and pliant that they need the
strength of another will to le joined
to theirs before they can act. This
common phase of a weak w ill i.s accen
tuated in disease to a degree hardly
deemed possible by the nonohservant.
1'crsoiis suffering from this form of
diseased volition can will themselves
according to the dictates of reason.
They can feel a desire to act. but thev
cannot make a move toward that end.
They are jtowerless to translate that
desire into an act.
Esq u iro 1 mentions in this instance
the case of a magistrate highly distin
guished for his learning ami his towers
as a sjteaker. who was seized with mo
nomania in consequence of certain
troubles of the utiud. He regained his
reavtii. but would not go into the world
again, though he acknowledged him
self to Ik in the wrong in in it doing so.
W hen advised to travel or to attend to
bis uiuch-iieglected affairs he would
say:
"I know that I ought to do so. but I
ant unable. Your advice is very gttod.
and I w ish I could follow it. it is cer
tain that I have no will save not to will,
for 1 have my reason uniiiqiairvd. I
know what I ought to do. but strength
fails me w hen I ought to act."
The ease of the magistrate, however,
is hardly as strange as that recorded
by I'rof. J. H. Il.-nnett of a man who
could not carry out what he w ished to
jK-rform. even to the simplest acts of
daily life.
Often, on endeavoring to undress,
this man was two hours In-fore he could
get his coat off. .Ml his in. ntul facul
ties were K-rfe-t. but his w ill w as im
tuircd. Once he ordered a glass of
water. When the servaut brought it
he was utterly unable to lake it off the
tray, though he was most anxious todo
so. The servant waited half an hour
In-fore him. at the end of which time
the man overcame the dilliculty, seized
the glass and drank down its contents.
He deserilK-d his feelings afterwards
"as if another H-rsou had taken posses
sion of his w ill."
The abuse of opium prtluees a some
what similar condition. De Quincey
says: "The opium eater loses none of
his moral sensibilities or aspirations,
lie wishes and longs as earnestly as
ever to realize w hat he Ik-Hcvcs to lie
possible and feels to Ik exacted by duty.
Hut his intellectual apprehension of
what is Mtssible infinitely outruns its
tower, not of execution only, but even
the tower to attempt."
Another curious instance quoted by
Dr. Lilliod of Nancy is that of a man
who was greatly frightened at thirty
years of age by certaiu civic tumults in
which he, unfortunately. In-camo in
volved. Thereafter, though he retained
perfectly his mental balance, he would
not remain alone, either tin the street
or in his cliamlK-r, but was always ac
companied. If he went nut it was im
possible for him to return alone.
"Whenever he went out alone, which
he rarely did. he would soon halt on
the street and there remain indefinite
ly, neither going on or turning back,
unless some tine letl him.
"He seemed to have a will, but it was
that of those around him. Whenever
the attempt was made to overcome this
resistance of the man he would fall into
t i.-vo t."
There are dozens of persons who
every year take refuge in asylums lie
cause they are- tormented all the time
with the impulse to kill those who are
tlear to them.
"Sometimes," says Uilnrt. "fixed ideas
of a character frivolous or unreason
able find lodgment in the mind, which,
though it deems them absurd, is pow
erless to prevent them from passing
into acts."
Westphal tells of a man who was
haunted by the thought that he might
terchaiice commit to writing that he
had I -ecu guilty of some crime and
lose the paper. "lie accordingly care
fully preserves every bit of paper he
finds and even picks them up on the
street and examines them. He knows
it i.s folly, but he is powerless to dis
miss it.
Lesion of the brain will sometimes
cause loss of will. A man who had re
ceived a violent blow which destmyed
tart of the frontal convolutions lost all
will power. When an operation was
performed and the pressure of the
skull on the lira in was removed he
completely recovered.
Prices a Century A(o.
One hundred years ago lKef sold in
New York city at 3'd. to 34 d. a pound;
mutton. "t:Vl; veal. fiV to 5--;d.; live
pigs, i'd.; butter. Is. l-d.; new milk.
3'd. to 341. a quart: chickens, lud. to
Is.; hay. JC-i 5s. to i'-' K'-s. 3d. a ton;
wheat. .Is. T'jti. a bushel; barley, 3s.
1 ",'d.; corn. 2s. 04'd.; rye, 3s.l.V'd.; -tats.
Is. H'jtl. The average yield of wheat
per acre in the state then was 12 bush
els: .f corn, bushels and of buck w heat
15 bushels.
Interesting Statistics.
States with the greatest tonnage of
all descriptions are: New York, 1,343,
bti5 gross tons: Michigan, 430,317; Mas
sachusetts, 3ii.ssl; Maine, 327,053;
Ohio, 32T,5!"l; California. 315.310; Penn
sylvania, 3U2.C15; Maryland, 145.11.
STEPS ON RAILWAY CARS. I
An Authority Thinks They Are I seless
and Should He Abolished.
When the first primitive railway was
built in this country, says the Railway
Age, somebody thought it would le
cheaper and handier to attach steps so
that passengers could get tin or off
whenever the train might accommodat
ingly stop, without the trouble of
draw ing up to a platform, and the fash
ion once started has lieen followed un
til now there are in the I'nited States
not far from thirty-five thousand cars,
tassengcr, Itaggage, mail and express,
which are dragging around four
times as many one hundred and forty
thttusand sets of steps that are costly
to build and maintain, are a constant
source of danger, discomfort and delay,
and serve no purpose that could not
much iK-tter be accomplished by hav
ing station platforms at a level with
the platformsof the cars. The elevated
railways in New York first demon
strated the Heedlessness of stes for
cars on the American dan of having
end doors, as had from the first iw-cu
demonstrated on all European railw ays
where the dttors open at the side. The
Illinois Central Railway company had
the enterprise to extend the principle
of no steps to surface roads by build
ing special cars and high station
platforms for its world's fair train
service, with the result of han
dling great numit-rs of tassengers
with extraordinary celerity and safety,
and the same pntgressive management
is now preparing to altolish the use of
car steps in itsextensive suburliau train
service by elevating its station plat
forms. It has had the principle in
highly successful ote ration for nearly
a year m its express suburliau service, in
which are used ordinary day coaches,
the steps having lieen removed and the
platforms widened out. and if it were
building new cars for that service it
w-ould build them without steps. For
remote stations on its local service
w here it is not yet ready to provide
new station platforms it adopts the
simple device of having trap doors over
the steps, which can le thrown back
where the steps are to lie used an ex
pedient that would facilitate the grad
ual adoption of the high station plat
form principle on all roads, allowing
them to apply it at first only at the
princital stations.
A FAMOUS CODFISH.
An Emhlem In the Masachusetts State
stouse for liver a Century.
The famous codfish w hich hangs from
the base of the dome iu the Massachu
setts statchousc. and inside the old
room in which the representatives used
to meet, will Ik absent from the chain-1-cr
in the new extension which they
are soon to occupy. Just why this em
blem, which has always attracted the
notice of visitors aud sometimes moved
them to ridicule, should Ik ignored iu
the transferof movables from one rtn.in
to the other is not explained, and. ac
cording to the New- York IVist, it is
even said that the ctnltish is doomt-d to
figure iu a museum, presumably his
torical. The following account of its
origiu is given: "In lstu; Charles W.
Palfrey, editor of the Salem Register,
and a member ttf the house for several
years, undertook to fat her all the facts
that could lie learned altout the placing
of the figure in the cbamWr. After
extensive research he found much con
cerning the fish which, luckily, had
teen preserved. It was by Mr. Pal
frey's efforts that the actual facts were
got from the records of the great ami
general court, and while many links
are missing, the chain is nearly com
plete, tin Wednesday, March 17. 17-4,
John Rowe, a nicmlK-r from Intstoii.
moved permission to hang the codfish
iu the house as a memorial to the im
portance of the codfishery to the wel
fare of the state. The motion pre
vailed, and shortly after the emblem
was placed in position, and there it has
remained undisturtied through all the
vicissitudes of the years w hich have in
tervened. Once it was tainted, but it
has never been taken down from the
iron rtttl by which it i.s held in position.
Mr. Rowe, who presented the figure to
the commonwealth, was a well-known
citizen of Iioston and a eouspicuous
patriot, being associated with Samuel
Adams. James Otis. John Hancock and
other leaders of the H-riod. He was in
terested in commerce and was an ex
tensive property owner along the water
front. Rowe's wharf and contiguous
territory Wing among his possessions.
He died on February 17, IT-?."
NEWSPAPER WAIFS.
Yol'Ntt IlrsHAMi "Are my eggs
done yet. darling?" His llride (in
tears) "Oh. Jack! I have Imiled them
for an hour aud a half and they are not
soft yet." Puck.
Tkachkh (explaining that the earth
is round i 'Tommy, what country on
the plolte is China underneath.'" Tom
my (who reads the nevvsiajHrsi -"Japan!"
Chicago Record.
"Do kai.thv Americans have fam
ily plate?" asked the visitor from
abroad. "N no." rcpl ied t he man w ho
hates to lie outdone, "but some of tln-iu
have armor-plate." Washington -star.
"Tai.K is cheap." observed the mtn
who Ik-Hcvcs in proverbs. -"Humph!"
replied the man who dKsn"t. ""That
remark shows that you never hired a
lawyer or rented a telephone." Wash
ington Star.
First Mkan Man "Have you a
cigar?" Second Mean Man ""Yes. but
only one. ami I want to smoke myself."
"Well. I have one. tm. And they
smiled and smoked and each respected
the other. Life.
Why They Separated.
The late Iird tlrford was one of the
most aristocratic ornaments of the
liritLsh peerage and the follow ing ac
count of his seiaration from Lady Or
ford. as told by Truth, is aeeordinglv
interesting: ".!oth explained to me
the reason. It was all alHiut a sugar
basin. Shortly after their marriage.
according1 to Lord Orford, her ladyship
came down to breakfast without hav
ing washed her hands aud took some
lumps of sugar out of the Kiwi with
her tinger-i. on which he requested her
in future either to wash her hands or t
use the sugar-tongs. According to laly
Orford his lordship-objected to her tak
ing so many lutups of sugar for her
tea."
Something long desired has at length
been achieved by a distiller in Lexing
ton, Ky. It is whisky without odor.
Now a man may indulge in a dram or
two without making his breath the
btruneat thing about him.