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EBENSBURG, PA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1S95.
NUMBER 3S.
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Constipation
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all harsh an.l drastic ' purgatives, th
tendency of which is to weaken the)
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Moses Grenier, Lowell, Mass.
' I have nsel Ayer's Pills, for liver
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L. Smith, Utica, N. Y.
" I suffered from constipation which
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THE TOWER OF BABEL.
To Bo Reproduced In Miniature
for the Atlanta Pair.
'e-tuM of the Coming Exposltlom That
WU1 Be Interesting; and Instructive
to Tlaltora of All Ages
and Calllnfra.
The Smithsonian Institution is pre
paring a miniature model of the Tower
of Uabe 1 for the exposition of Atlanta.
It will be in all resteets, so far as pos
sible, a faithful reproduction of the
famous original. The latter was the
greatest of the many magnificent tem
ples of Habvlon, being one hundred and
forty feet high. That does not seem
much compared with the Washington
monument, but people in those days
were not accustomed to tall structures,
and the ancient capital of Assyria was
situated in the midst of a vast plain,
where there were no natural elevations
to serve for comparison. The model
in question, says the Washington Star,
wi'l Ik" rive feet eight inches square on
the first story. When it is stated that
the first story of the actual Tower of
Ilabei was seventy-two feet square, a
notion will be given of the proxrtion.
The original building was constructed
in diminishing stories, each one being
a smaller square than that beneath.
This was a common style of architect
ure in Assyria, and from it evolved the
Egyptian pyramid. The stories for the
model are square wioden frames of dif
ferent sizes, so made that they may be
superposed one upon another. These
frames, after being put together, will
be faced on the outside with a veneer
of plaster of paris, which will imitate
the sun-dried bricks of which the tower
was composed.
The building of the model is under
the charge of Dr. Palmer. The work,
however, is Superintended by Ir. Cyrus
Adler, who has made an exhaustive
study of the historic Tower of UaWl.
Mechanically speaking, the most diffi
cult part of the job is the casting of the
plaster of paris that is to imitate the
bricks. Every brick on the exterior of
the structure is represented and this is
accomplished by making a single mold,
in which the little bricks are labori
ously indicated. From this mold many
easts are made, and so the whole sur
face is covered. ' The Babylonians had
no stone, and so they were obliged to
employ for all their buildings such sun
dried bricks. They did not under
stand the use of molds for the purptise.
Naturally, structures of such material
soon crumbled and did not last very
long.
The Tower of Babel stood upon an
elevated platform of earth six hundred
feet square. This was surmounted
and retained by a wall of -bricks ten
feet high. Both platform and wall
will be represented in the model, which
will be qnite an imposing affair when
finished. The stories will be painted
in different colors, to imitate the orig
inal building, according to descriptions
given of it in Assyrian literature. The
first story was black, in honor of
Saturn; the second story of orange, for
Jupiter; the third story red, for Mars;
the fourth story covered with plates of
gold, for the snn; the fifth story white,
lor Venus; the sixth story dark blue,
for Mercury, and the seventh story
covered with plates of silver, in honor
of the moon.
The old Babylonians were worship
ers of the sun, and knew a lot aliont
astronomy. The Tower of Babel was
an observatory from which the priests
grazed upon the stars in the heavens,
drawing portents from thein, pre
sumably for sale at so much a portent.
The model will have no windows, for it
is not known whether or not the orig
inal edifice possessed any. NoImnIv, ar.
yet, has lieen able to discover how the
houses of the Assyrians were lighted.
It may be that all the light required
for this mighty temple was admitted
from the top, which was presumably
open to the sky. The stairs were on
the outside, and not on the inside of
the building. They also will be shown.
In fact, no detail will be omitted that
may help to give a notion of the exact
appearance of this wonderful edifice of
antiquity.
CURIOUS TREES.
Heveral That Are Valuable, Oljfantlc and
Historic.
The largest orange tree in the south
is a gigantic specimen which grows out
of the rich soil in Terre Bonne parish,
1 Louisiana. It is fifty feet hig-h aud fif
teen feet in circumference at the base.
Its yield has often been ten thousand
oranges per season.
The "tallow tree" of China has a
pith from one inch to two feet in di
ameter, according to the size of the
tree, which is composed pt a greasy
wax, which is so highly volatile that
it often catches fire spontaneously,
consuming the tree to the very ends of
its roots.
The largest oak tree now left stand
ing in England is "Cowthorp's oak,"
which is seventy-eight feet in circum
ference at the ground. The oldest tree
in
Britain is -Parliamentary oau.
Clinstone park, London, which is
Vnown to be fifteen hundred years old.
in
The largest apple tree in New York
Ntate is said to le one stau.ling near
the town of Wilson. It was planted in
the year 1H1 5, and it is on record that
it once yielded thirty-thr ee barrels of
apples in a single season.
There are four hundred and thirteen
species of trees found growing within
the limits of the United States. The
curiosity of the whole lot is the black
Iroi.wood. of Florida, which is thirty
per cent, heavier than water. Well
dried black ironwoixl will sink in water
almost as quickly as will a liar of lead.
The "life tree" of Jamaica is harder
to kill than any other species of wood
growth known to arboriculturists. It
continues to grow and thrive for
months after being uprooted and ex
posed to the sun.
Clearly FrorML
Forty years since, "Porte Crayon"
was down on Alltemarle sound, and
told a native that there were men with
mouths eight inches wide. The native
declared that was a fish story; Porte re
proved him for his incredulity, and
pointed out that deductions from known
facts proved this statement. "We
know," he said, "that oysters must le
eaten whole; we know that there are
oysters eight inches across the minor
dimension; therefore, there must be
mouths eight inches wide to take them
in, or the beautiful chain of harmony in
the universe in broken."
NEW GAMBLING WRINKLE.
How Some Jolly Fellows Seek to Moo the
4ot(lefia of Fortune.
There is new form of gambling much
affected in clubs and barrooms nowa
days that even the board of trade will
find it hard to put a stop to, says the
Washington Post. Everyone is familiar
with the electric fans which in the past
few years have proved such a 1rk.ii in
torrid weather. They are shaped like
a propeller and have four, five or six
blades and are incased in wire cages
with large apertures. By touching a
lever at the" back the machine can be
started or stopped at will, aud while in
motion the velocity is something' tre
mendous. Some wide-awake genius
not long ago conceived the idea that
the electric fan could lie utilized as an
excellent means of wooing the goddess
of -fort une and put the suggestion into
operation in this wise: A six-bladed
fan was stopped and each of
its blades marked with a num
ber. Then six slips of paper were
marked with similar numliers and
six jolly fellows drew a slip apiece.
The number on the slip corresponded
to the number on one of the blades and
it was decided that the blade that was
nearest the jierpeudicular wire at the
bottom of the cage covering the fan
vhen the latter stopped revolving
sh mid win the pot. . The latter con
sisted of six dollars, put up equally by
the ha) f-dozen players. Then the fun'
began. The lever would lie turned on
and as quiclaly off and the fan would
revolve like lightning, slow down and
stop in half a minute. There was no
."kitty" to be fed as in poker, no per
centage of split, as in faro, aud no rake
off for the house, as in other gamws. It
was a pure luck affair and the heaviest
loser was not more than five dollars
out at the end of an hour's whirling,
while the excitement had been as in
tense as the most devoted gambler
could desire. Next day each one of the
six introduced the electric fan to his
friends in its new guise as a spinning
jenny aud now the game has spread
all over town. The interest in it is
heightened a good deal by having a
blank blade, .vhich when it stops at
the winning wire constitutes a jack
pot and necessitates the players put
ting up an extra stake, just as in
poker So from a one dollar ante in
brokers' offices to whirling for coppers
by district messengers the electric fan
is being brought into requisition with
general hilarity.
THE LARGEST LENS.
The Splendid Achievement of an Amer
ican Manufacturer.
The Clarks have accomplished what
has long been regarded as an impossi
ble thing, and tme which no European
manufacturer of lenses could be induced
to attempt. This is the making of a jer
fect h-ns of more than three feet across
the face. No one but this American
manufacturer ever thonght of exceed
ing the twenty -six-inch lenses which
are in use at several observatories on
lioth continents, one at the naval ol
servatory at Washington, through
which Mr. Hall discovered the long
sought satellites of Mars and many
double stars. The higliest power was
supposed to be reached when the Lick
telescope in California was put up with
a thirty-six-inch lens. The difficulties to
be met in the production of a perfectly
clear lens of great size are so many that
the European observers who have
wanted anything above the twenty-six-inch
lens have had to take the reflect
ing telescope, which has a concave mir
ror. It requires, of course, a much
larger reflecting telescope to get the
same amount of light and the same
magnitude of object.
The making of this forty-one and a
half-inch lens, says the New York Com
mercial Advertiser, is regarded as the
crowning work of Mr. Alvan Clark's
life. It is probable no larger lens will
ever be made. Under existing condi
tions a larger telescope than the
Yerkes the telescope of the Chicago
university observatory for which the
lens is made would lie of no great
value. To increase the magnifying
power is at the same time to Increase
the obstructions to clear vision. When
the object is magnified the atmospheric
agitation is increased to such a degree
that distinctness is virtually sacrificed
when the object glass is larger than
forty -one and a half-inches. It is
doubtful if the Yerkes will be 8113
more useful than the Lick. Some day
it may be possible to remove the ob
stacles to clearness in the ease of a
powerful lens, though the only reason
for suggesting it is that Prof. Tyndall
was able to construct a glass by which
the blue of the atmosphere was dissi
pated in looking through a deep sace.
If the Yerkes glass answers expecta
tions it will enable an experienced ob
server to catch occasional glimpses of
the Mars canals, which, though drawn
firmly on the Vatican maps, are vague
and wavering and almost imaginary
through any. glass. They can be seen
at all only by the trained observer.
The great telescope will lie most useful
in the study of double stars, which is
now a matter of special interest to
mauy observers.
Vanished New Hampshire Forests.
In New Hampshire, originally, two
great belts of white pine occupied the
valleys of the Merrimac and Connecti
cut which contained some of the finest
timber in New England. This mag
nificent forest has long since disap
peared, a few scattered remnants only
remaining. Specimens have been
known which were more than two
hundred feet high aud six or eight feet
in diameter. As the w hite pine seeds
very freely, the site f the ancient for
est is indicated by many tracts of vig
orous saplings, which in thirty years
are available to cut for pail and fish
barrel staves, box boards and awen for
small building timber. Springing up,
as it does, on so many worn out aud
abandoned farms, it has made industry
and wealth possible to many parts of
the state which otherwise would have
been wholly deserted. It is estimated
that southern New Hampshire contrib
utes at least twenty:five million feet
of dimension timlier each year for
small frames for houses and barns in
that section, thus displacing that much
spruce framing timber.
Ancient Cartoona.
The ancients enjoyed cartoons just
as we do. and lniked satirical fun at
each other by pictures. The walls of
Pompeii when dug up were covered in
many cases with chalk cartoons of local
happenings and with scenes from comic
plays. .
A TOUCH OF KINDNESS.
The Tramp's Humane Inipaise Hi-ought
Hint No Krward.
He sat slouchingly upon the end of
the park bench, his head hanging list
lessly over his breast, says the New
York World. There was -complete de
jection in his attitude. An old hat re
sembling a piece of "culls" in a rag
shop lay on the ground, where it had
fallen from his head. On one foot was
an old felt slipper and on the other an
old riding lioot, with the top cut off.
His trousers and coat Were of a dull,
mottled gray that comes from hard
wear and dust.
Twice he had been moved on by the
'sparrow cop" aud he had made his
way to a liench that was secluded and
shaded by a tree. He had gone to
sleep.
In the tree the sparrows hopped and
twittered in the shade of the foliage.
Suddenly through the branches came
twisting a tiny featherling, striving
hard to make its tender wings bear up
the weight of its liody. It failed and
fell on the graveled walk at the old
tramp's feet, stunned and breathing
with difficulty. Something caused the
tramp to open his eyes and they lit on
the little sparrow. He looked at it
stupidly for a minute, then, drawing
his hand across his forehead, he leaned
over and picked it U" tenderly. He
gazed at it in a wonuring- way and
then glanced up at the branches of the
tree, where the mother bird fluttered
aud chirruped in fright.
He drew the bench a little closer to
the tree and climbed upon it. That
put him within reach of a lower limb.
He laid the little bird carefully on a
forked branch and, with a strength
surprising in one so feeble, he drew
himself up and sat on the limb. Above
him, within reach, he saw a nest. It
was tipped over so that he could see in
it two downy bits of birds like the one
he had. He gently placed the bird he
carried in the nest, let himself down
to the ground, drew the bench back to
its original place and turned to go just
as a "gray coat" called out to him:
"Come, now, get on. You've been
around here long enough!"
DANGER IN THE USE OF SLANG.
Eaportenee In Itrooklyn Shows Peril In
the Word "Rata."
A new illustration of the dangerous
confusion that often is created by the
prevalence of slang is furnished, says
the Brooklyn Times, by an incident re
ported in this morning's news. A pro
fessional rat catcher went to a fashion
aide club the other evening, and at
midnight he had bagged fifty rats.
With the fifty living rats in a bag for
this professional scorns to kill any
rats on the premises he left the fash
ionable club and started home. Then
appeared an unknown policeman, who
said: "Where are you going?" "None
of your business," answered the rat
catcher. "So that's your swag," said
the policeman, sarcastically, tapping
the bag with his club. "Nary swag,"
said the rat catcher. "What have you
in the bag, then?" Here we come to
the first crisis of the story, for the
reply was "Rats." The policeman
then punched the professional for
what he, perhaps reasonably, regard
ed as his impertinence. Moreover, he
grabbed the bag and thrust in his in
quiring, official hand. Here comes the
second crisis of the story, for at least
seven rats grabbed that hand. The
policeman yelled, and shook off the
rats, and. the other forty-three leaping
from the bag, the street was soon full
of rats. The poor policeman, with
rats to the right of him. and rats to the
left of him and rats in an indefinite
vista before and behind him, tied into
the night.
This is not the first time that slang
has indirectly created confusion in the
world. The rat catcher had no sus
picion that, the policeman would take
his explanation amiss. This is the
trouble. The slang that creates dis
aster is generally used unwittingly.
May the present picturesque warning
be heeded.
A VALUABLE PfctftfLE.
The Accidental ood Fortune of a Hun
ter In India.
Precious stones are still numerous in
certain districts of India, anil occasion
ally a fine gem is found by a sports
man or traveler. A young English of
ficer, returning from an unsuccessful
hunt on the estate of a petty chief,
picked up a stone which lay in his
path, and idly threw it against a rock.
It broke in a dozen pieces and out fell
a brilliant pebble. The Englishman
picked it up. looked at it, and was
about to throw it away, but changed
his mind. "I'll keep it," said he. "as
a memento of a day's hunt when I
didn't shoot so much as a rat." Some
days later, in Bombay, while having his
watch repaired, he showed the stone
to the jeweler, and asked its worth.
"I'll give you twenty pounds for it,"
said the jeweler, after a careful exami
nation. Had he offered -a shilling he
might have been told to take the stone
aud keep the shilling, but the offer of
twenty pounds aroused the officer's
suspicions, so he responded, with a
laugh: "I dare say you would give me
that aud a trifle more, but I'm going
to take it to England." He did so, and
sold his "pebble" in London for $15,000.
A WONDERFUL AUTOMATON.
It Took Ita Inventor Twenty-Seven Yours
to liulld It.
In the year 1770 the most wonderful
automaton that has ever been con
structed was exhibited at Exeter ex
change, London. This automatic
wonder represented a country gentle
man's house, and was of such intricate
and elaborate construction that no one
disputed the claim of the exhibitor
when he declared that he had worked
twenty-seven years in perfecting it. It
showed the regulation English country
house, with parks, gardens, cascades
temples, bridges, etc., besides over one
hundred appropriately clad human
figures in the gardens, on the bridges
chopping wood, and at various building
operations. In the park were several
deers moving naturally about and four
horses and a coach following the me
andering road. Besides the above the
figures of Ikjvs were seen fishing from
the bridges, while a boat load of ladies
and gentlemen regularly rowed across
an enlargement in the brook, much to
the consternation of the natural-looking
figures of geese and ducks which
were paddling about in the water. The
whole of these animate and inanimate
figures were inclosed in a space only
four and a half feet square.
DEFECTIVE GOVERNMENT
There la an Absence of Uniform
ity In Our State Laws.
Wide Differences and Conflicts Met ween
the Codes of the Various States
Some I'otnta oa Which
They Differ.
One of the most serious defects in our
mode of government is the absence of
a uniform system of laws. The laws of
the United States are, of course, su
preme in every state, but the subjects
with which they deal are strictly
limited by the federal constitution, and
everything which lies ouside is within
the jurisdiction of the several states.
Acts permitted by local laws or toler
ated by local sentiment may be of such
a character as seriously to complicate
the relatious of the United States with
other governments, and yet may be
wholly beyond the control of the gen
eral government. The attack upon
Italians in New Orleans in 1SU1 and
many anti-Chinese riots in western
states are instances in point, says the
Youth's Companion.
Each of the forty-four ttates has its
own code of laws, to which at every
session of its legislature large additions
are made. There are wide differences
and conflicts among the laws. Business
practices which are permissible in
some states are forbidden in others.
Offenses which are visited with heavy
penalties in one state ane not punished
at all in another state adjoining; and
sometimes a house which happens to lie
crossed by a state line is in request,
liecause certain acts which would lie
illegal at one end of it are legal at the
other.
Marriage and divorce laws vary
widely. Marriage relations forbidden
in one state may be entered into under
the more lax laws of another, and the
parties to them may resume their resi
dence in the state from which they
-came. A husband may desert his wife,
and after living a short time in another
state procure a divorce, and sometimes
it is possible to conceal knowledge of
the proceedings from her until the de
cree of divorce has been granted.
There. are no means of reconciling
these conflicting and contradictory pro
visions of law except by agreement
among the states. An attempt has
been made in this direction through the
appointment by the several states of
commissioners who meet in annual conference-to
consider measures for pro
moting uniform laws. New York took
the initiative in 1MK), and other states
have followed its example. Probably
thirty states will lie represented at the
conference in Saratoga, this month.
The conference has no powers be
yond discussion and recommendation.
It recommends no law until it has lieen
approved with absolute unanimity at
two meetings. Business forms were
first considered. A uniform law for
the acknowledgment and execut ion of
ileeds was adopted; then one prcscrili
iug the form of a seal; then statutes as
to wills and their probate.
Legislation as to the weights of the
bushel or barrel was next considered.
There are now variations which pro
mote confusion aud fraud: for example,
a bushel of oats is thirty pounds in New
Jersey and thirty-two pounds in New
York. The conference has recom
mended the aliolition of days of grace;
proosed a code concerning bills, notes
and checks; and considered other ques
tions of business law.
All the states appointing commission
ers expressly directed them to deal with
marriage and divorce. Touching the
first, the conference has recommended
that some ceremony, or formality, or
written evidence, signed by lioth
parents and attested by one or more
witnesses, be required in all marriages;
and that stringent provision lie made
for their immediate record, however
solemnized or entered into.
Regarding divorce, it was hopeless to
seek agreement concerning causes and
methods, but the conference recom
mended that no divorce be granted un
less the defendant is domiciled or has
been domiciled within the state where
the action is brought, or has lieen per
sonally served with process within the
state. This would put an end to the
stealthy procuring of divorces in other
states than that in which the parties
reside.
Few as have lieen the recommenda
tions of the conference, those that have
been adopted by state legislatures have
lieen fewer. The work of securing uni
formity in state laws must lie slow aud
difficult, and partial at the best; but as
the reasonableness of it comes to be
understood, the commissioners will lie
reinforced by a strong public sentiment.
THE LATEST NOVELTIES.
Am'mintm pens possess all the desir
able qualities of steel pens, with tlie
additional advantage that they do not
corrode.
The latest use for tin foil is to pat it
down on gas fixtures in barrooms. It
looks shiny and pretty when it is fresh,
and it keeps off the flies.
White bi.ackkekries were a curi
osity brought into Ainericus, (la., by a
farmer. They were identical with the
ordinary blacklierry in form and flavor.
A sign put in the Philadelphia trol
ley cars a few days ago .requests pas
sengers to "remain seated until the
car stops, and then got off in the direc
tion the car is moving."
A newspaper has just been started
in Loudon, which is printed on a postal
card. The first number has four illus
trations, a comic tragedy, a few jokes
and puzzles and some advertisements.
A Topeka. newspaper alleges that
preparations are making in that town
for a wedding at which the bride will
wear bloomers. She is said to be an
exceedingly emancipated type of the
new woman.
Hurled Him I lee p.
The lieadle in a rural district in
Perthshire had liecome too feeble to
perform his duties as minister's man
and grave digger, anil had to get
an assistant. The two did not agree
well, but after a few months Sandy,
the leadle, died, and Tain mas had to
perform the last service for his late
partner. The minister strolled up to
Tammas while he was giving jthe fin
ishing touches to the grave, and casu
ally remarked: "Have you put Sandy
weel down, Tammas?" "I hev that,
sir," said Tammas, very decidedly.
"Sandy may get up, but he'll be among
the hindmost."
MYSTERY OF A MAINE ISLAND.
A Hermit EnRllahman Who Ended His
Misery hy Cutting Ilia Throat.
"Some years ago, up at North Haven
island, on the Maine coast," said a New
Yorker, according to the Sun of that
city, "I came across a mystery that
haunts me still. A bare rocky point
juts out into the sea on one side of the
island, and the first year that I visited
the place there was a rude cabin on the
rock. Having gone out there from cu
riosity one day, I found a man in
shameful rags trying out the oil from
the refuse from a fish-canning factory.
When I came to examine the man his
appearance astonished me. He was an
extremely handsome, well-made Eng
lishman of forty or thereabouts. His
hands, soiled with the material he
worked in, were small and well shaped.
When I tried to draw him into conver
sation he at first answered in monosylla
bles, and was almost sulky in his reserve.
He gradually thawed, however, and I
found that he spoke rare and lieautiful
English, that of a well-read and well
bred man. Glancing into the door of
his cabin, I could see perhaps a score of
well-thumbed volumes in library binding-.
His reserve was such that I could
not ask him about himself, but I left
the island deeply interested in him.
"1 turned up at North Haven the
next year.and one of the earliest things
I did was to go out to the point in
search of my acquaintance. The rock
was bare again, and there was no trace
of him and his cottage. I asked aliout
him of some persons I met on the island,
and here is what I learned: He had
come to the place mysteriously some
years before, having lieen dropped by
a schooner. He found work at the fish
cannery, but later quit the place, built
his cabin on the rn-k. supplied himself
w-ith food chiefly by fishing, and ob
tained from the factory the privilege of
trying oil from the refuse. From the
product he obtained a 1 ittle ready money
for tobacco and other luxuries. At
some time between my two visits -his
cabin was discovered to be on fire late
one night, and, hurrt-ing down, his
neighlnirs saw him amid the flames
dead, with his throat cut. The fire had
so seized upon the hut that his body
could not be removed until it was nearly
consumed. He was buried and no so
lution of the mystery was discovered.
Life had evidently liecome insupport
able to him, and he had taken the way
of suicide as the easiest one out of mis
ery." AN AMERICAN TRAIT.
Whatever I Done Is with AU the Knarjty
Foeaesaed.
When E. S. Martin, in his comments
on "This Busy World." described w ith
accuracy that intensity of energy and
excess of zeal which overtrained the
Cornell crew and led to their inglorious
defeat, he pointed, says Harper's
Weekly,- to a trait of American char
acter which must be estimated and
understood by anyone who undertakes
to set forth the existing conditions of
American life and development. As
Mr. Martin truthfully says: "It has
lieen said of politics in tnis country that
it is war. In the intensity of business
comix-tit ion there seems to lie a grow
ing sentiment that business is war."
This merely means that the American
pushes every principle to its ultimate
logical conclusion, but this is one of the
keynotes of American character.
It may lie a good trait or a bad one,
but it is essentially and exclusively an
American trait. It is probably the out
come of those conditions of freedom
under which we struggle and conquer
or fall, but it exists in no other country.
In this country alone has the principle
of business competition lieen pushed to
its utmost. Then, when the limit of
competition has lieen reached, a
struggle equally fierce has developed
the principle of combination, and pools,
and trusts, and syndicates, aud traffic
agreements have shifted the scene and
scale and scope of the contest.
The principle extends alike to great
things and to small ones. We play the
game for all there is in it, whether the
game lie politics or poker, railroad
management or college athletics. It
may wear us out, but it does not let us
rust out. It may interfere with our
growth in sweetness and light, but it
is not a trait of weaklings and deca
dents. Above all it is evolution, the
development of natural causes lying
down deep at the roots of our national
life. It is a movement we have entered
on, to which we are fully committed,
and which we could not check if we
would.
AILING JUST A LITTLE.
The Ladlea Took No Further Interest In
the lnfant'i. Ileal: h.
She had a seat in a Michigan avenue
car, with a baby in her lap. all bundled
up in an old shawl, says the Ix-troit
Free Press. A woman next to her with
two small children seemed to have con
siderable curiosity about that baby,
and, after trying several times to get a
sight of its face, she said:
"Haven't you got your child bundled
up a gHsl deal for this weather?"
"But I have to keep him warm.
ma am, was the reply.
"For what reason?"
"The doctor told me to."
"Then the poor little thing; is ailing?"
"Just a little ailing, ma'am just a
little. He's got measles with the mumps
atop of it. but the doctor says he's
growing "
No one heard the rest of her words.
There were four or five mothers and six
or seven children in the car and there
wasa stampede which took them all out
and evorvbdy else as well. When the
car rolled on again the woman with the
baby looked at the conductor inquir
ingly and asked:
"Has anything broke down or blown
up or run off the track to scare em all
out?"
To Manufacture CJIasa 11 pe.
A new method of manufacturing glass
pipe has lieen discovered which prom
ises to revolutionize that iudustry. It
has hitherto lieen found impossible to
mold large glass tulies of any great
length because the glass would -cool
while runniug into the mold, an.l the
structure of the tube was not homo
geneous. The new method consists of
using a mold with a movable pistou.
The piston is just enough smaller than
the outer shell of the mold to allow
for the thickness of the tulie to lie
made. The piston is placed the l it torn
of the mold and as the molten glass is
poured in the piston is forced upward
by hydraulic pressure. Pipes are made
by this process in sections six feet long
and are used for sewers and water pipes.
SMOKEJACKS AND CAPS.
An Increaaln- Number Coming Into View
I'pon the City's Houaetopa.
"It seems to me." said a New York
citizen recently, "that there is a very
striking increase in the nutnlier of
chimneypots and smoke jacks and
smokeeaps visible in the city. The
chimneypots are mostly of the con
ventional form, like a slightly tapering
cine with the top cut off; the smoke
jacks and caps are of various heights
and styles. I suppose the object of all
these things is to improve the draught
of the chimney. I don't know w hy we
should have more of them now than
we used to, whether it is on account of
some difference in the construction of
our chimneys, which makes thein nec
essary; whether we are not satisfied
with a draught that would have satis
fied us years ago, and want the chim
ney to draw better as we want and ex
pect to have everything better nowa
days; or whether the construction in
these days of many higher buildings
has made such changes in the air cur
rents and atmospheric conditions gen
erally as materially to affect the
draught of many chimneys; but I know
there are more chimney pots.
"This last idea aUmt the breaking1
up of the air currents an.l that sort of
thing seemed at first to account in some
measure for the greater numlierof the.
newer ehimneyiots; but when I come
to think of it I rcmemWr that in Ixm
ilon ridingalong a viaduct on trains g.
ing in or out of the city, I looked down
on I should say hundreds of thousands
of chimneypots in districts where hun
dreds of acres were covered with small
houses of unvarying uniformity iu
height. There wasn't any deflect ion of
currents here, but I doubt if there was
a chimney without its chimneypot, a
thick -stubble of chimneypots, an.l a
mast fascinating sight it was, too. and a
fascinatingthought tothink of the myri
ads of people that dwelt lieneath them.
"Our chimneypots have not yet by
any means attain.nl that striking ef
fect. They are still greatly scattered;
but, with the smoke jacks and the
sinokecaps, they are now sufficiently
numerous to add to the citj- a feature
of pictures.jueness.'
SPORTS AND PASTIMES.
Two lU'XDEEIi ASH FIFTV pounds of
flesh is what Dr. W. . Grace carries
from one wicket to another every time
he makes a run.
The Maine mackerel fleet has had
lia.l luck this year. The Portland
seiners took but 5.0tl barrels of fish, as
against Jrt.Ooo last year.
Two big sturgeons, one weighing 2O0
pounds and the other 150 jxiun.ls. were
caught at tine haul of the net by a
fisherman at Pultneyville. N. Y.. lately.
Bakox Hi risen, the Jewish million
aire, has just leased the shooting on the
estate of Cardinal Vaszary, prince
primate of Hungary, which extends
over 77.IMKI acres.
A r.EM'iNK mountain trout measur
ing 20? inches long and weighing 9
pounds was caught near Iurango, Col.,
a few days ago. It was caught with a
seven ounce rod and a No. C hook.
An English captain named Burke,
serving in Bengal, W ho went liear hunt
ing in the mountains lately, was at
tacked by a lieast he had wounded. His
servant went to his rescue, when the
boar carried them lioth over the side of
a precipice a thousand feet deep.
LAUGHS.
Jaspar "Currv is the architect of
his own fortune, is he not?" Jumpuppe
"Yes; and when he built it he did not
provide it -with any exit." I'ui-k.
IlF.yiiFscAT IX Pace. Over the
grave of the cannibal king they in
scrilied w ith trenchant" pen this epi
taph: "Write me as one who loved his
fellow men." Life,
In the F.Mi. Driver of "Bus (to con
ductor, whom he has called upi "Jim,
the ol' pent liehind's just fell hoffl"
Conductor "All right. Bill. 'E'spaid 'is
fare." Tit-Bits.
A Distinction. "Are abbreviations
proper?" asked the young woman.
"It depends. replied her mother, "on
which you have reference to the Eng
lish language or a bicycle costume.
Washington Star.
She "I'm afraid that it is not me that
you're after, but that it is my money
you want." He "How foolish in you
to say that. You know very well I
can't get your money without first get
ting you." Boston Transcript.
FOREIGNERS IN THE CITIES.
In Cincinnati and Milwaukee about
sixty-nine per ceut. of all foreign pop
ulation are of German birth.
Over one-fourth of the entire popula
tion in New York was born either in
Ireland or in Germany..
New York city contains one-fifth of
all the Bussians in this country and
one-fourth of all the Italians.
It is said that in the Italian colonies
of New York there are hundreds of
persons w ho speak no English.
Ciiicaoo has only twenty per cent, of
its population of native birth, the rest
lieing foreigners or their children.
Milwaukee Is really a foreign city,
only thirteen per cent, of its popula
tion lieing native born American pa
rentage. MANUFACTURING PRODUCTS.
Color a no has 17,007 employes in its
factories, making1 annually a product
valued at t '-!,4SO,-05.
In Arkansas 15,y72 persons are em
ployed in manufacturing who turn out
a product of a-.22.CYJ.179.
California has S3.042 employed in its
manufactories, turning out an annual
product of 13.4(13,996.
The factories of Missouri employ
H::.1.H9 hands, the annual output being
valued at $324.5'.1.99S.
Nkvaiia has r.20 persons, said to lie
engaged in manufacturing, and thir
annual product is l,I0.iio3.
OCR immigrants from Italy, Bohemia,
Hungary and Russia rarely engage in
any line of manufacture.
Iowa Laikea DlaappeaLrini.
There is no longer doubt as to the
gradual disappearance of the smaller
lakes in northwestern Iowa. It is only
of late that the phenomenon has at
tracted general attention, and but re
oeutly have people liecome interested
iu the preservation of these natural
bodies of water. Whether anything;
can lie done to check the process effect
ing; their extinction Is a problem worthy
of serious consideration.
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