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BURGLAR PROOF.
HOW A JEWELLER GUARDS HIS
MANY TREASURES.
Safes Within Safes—All Enclosed in
Frail but Sensitive Cabinets
Alarm Bells and a Watchman.
Here are 200 feet of show cases, half
of them on each side of a long room. and
back of them are as many feet of up-
right cases stood agninst the wall k
the rear of the room are more cases, and
wherever there is room for them are
costly music* boxes, bronze statuottes,
and ether valuable articles of European
and American make. All the show cases
are full of jewelry and other articles
made of gold and silver. For twenty feet
near the front the cases hold nothing but
real diamonds and other precious stones,
for the place is a big jeweller's sales-
reom up town, where no imitation articles
are sold—nothing but real gold and sil-
ver and real stones.
“What do you do with your goods at
night?’ the reporter asked the propri-
etor.
“You'll find it easier to got them in
sponded.
“Bat you have some system of scour.
ing them. Tell me what it is, for tho
information of the publio—if it is no
secret.”
“There is no secret about it,” tho jew.
eller replied. “Do you see those three
cabinets, those black walnut cabinets.
against the east wall? We put every-
thing in those at night.”
“You trust to a black walnut cn
board all these cases of gold and
monds, do you, valued at
much?”
“If you take the entire lot,” Mr. Jowel-
ler laughed, “you can have it for $350.
000. But come behind the counter with
me and let me show von the cabinets.”
The jeweller |
of the cast side of the room, between
cases full of diamonds and costly stones
en the one hand and upright cases full of
silver teapots and trays and sugar bowls
n the other hand.
he said,
Pp
dia-
at about how
“Here,” when the cabinets
were reached, “is where we keep every.
thing at night, except such large articles
as would not go in. In our business it is
not the big things, but the little ones that
» valuable,”
hey were ordinary looking walnut
cabinets, each perhaps seven teet high
and five feet wide, and each with fol ling
doors, an upper and a lower panel in
each door. A boy might break them all
open with a hammer in one minute.
“But Mr. Jeweller threw open one of the
pairs of folding doors and disclosed
side an immense safe, that seemed to say.
**Come on, now, if you're a burglar: let's
see what vou can do!”
polished steel sort, with tremendous re.
sistance written all over it
“Theso arecalled bur
said the jeweler; ‘But
that no safe is burglar proof. Nothing
has been or can be made that cannot be
broken, and an expert burglar can
any safe in the world.
It was one of the
glar-proof safes,”
I need not tell vou
opon
However, I think
safe in New York. It is merely a ques
tion of time with a burglar, and these
safes are warranted to resist any attack,
except with explosives, for twelve hours.
There is not mach danger irom gunpow.
der ordynamite in such an exposed
and to operate with tools successfu
quires twelve honrs
As he spoke he opened the an fo doors
Three-fourths of the interior as divided
into shelves, all of the same heighth and
breadth. The other fourth was taken up
by another safe, ap; arently complete in
sell.
“There is where we keep our most val
unable goods, the diamonds and other very
costly the
tap the small iuner safe. “There
i# one of these inside of each of the large
safes, and each small safe is separate
and complete in itself, with its own sep-
arate combination. If a burglar man.
ages to roach the inside of one of the
Inrge safes he still has another safe to
open before he can get the most valuable
goods.”
*But what an immense labor it must
be to put all these goods in the safes
every night and take them out again
every morning,’ i
“Not so much as vou might think,”
Mr. Jeweller replied sof will show You
how it is done. Look at this showease.
You see the articles do not lie on the
bottom of the case, but on little shallow
velvei-lined trays. Those trays are made
to fit the showcase, three of them being
just the width of the case. The compart.
ments in the safes are made to socom.
moda‘e the trays, each compartment
holding two tiers of six trays each. So
before closing we have only to slide the
trays into the safes, and everything is
socured,”’
“Tha t is very convenient,’
acknowledged,
secure.’
**Ah, but that is only the first step to.
ward docurity?’ the jeweller exclaimed.
“You have seen that the safes are as
strong as they can bo made, That is all
that steel can do for us. Now we call in
electricity to stand guard. Each safe is
connected by separafe wires with the
Burglar Alarm Company. If an explo.
sion or any other jar should move one of
them a sixteenth of an inch out of its
place, a boll would ring in the headquar.
ters of that company, and within ninet
seconds two policemen would be here,
anybody should turn the combination
knob a hair's breadth that would have
the same effect. I used to have the wires
‘run into my sleeping room, but I found
that two or three times a vear there
would be some trouble with orossing
wires, and 1 wonld be called out in a
hurry in the widdle of the night, and it
gave me too much worry,
wires connected with the Burglar Alarm
Company, aud now when I go home 1 do
‘mot give the goods another thought.”
Mr. Jowollor here closed the safe
and turned the little knob that
locks them.
We can lock or unlock them a hun-
times a day,” he continued, “bat
when we once lock them for the night,
ey are not opened again {ill next mom-
ig. When I sot the combination for the
night justbefore going home, I give an
eloetric signal to the burglar alaem people,
id that rnd the alarm is set, ft 1
articles,” jeweler continnod,
Tins
Pag
"the reporter
“and it secmns to be very
f
the safe myself after giving the signal,
there would be two policemen here in a
minute and a half, exactly the same as
though a burglar were at work. Now
do you think I can go home with an casy
mind?”
“Porfectly,” the reporter assented:
“your goods are certainly safe.”
“But that is only the second step to-
wards security,” Mr. Jeweller
‘*Let mo show you the third.”
nut cabinet. ¢
| “Tap one of those panels with your
| fingera. please,” ho said.
{| The sound that followed was muffled
| and heavy, entirely unlike the sound
| made by tapping a thin wooden panel,
| “These slight cabinets are not as do.
| fenceless as they look, the jeweller con-
tinued “Those panels aro mado of
| pasteboard, and other parts of the cab-
worth 810 each. I'he tecth are of an
excellent quality of ivory, from which |
trinkets are carved. Of late there has |
arrived a fashion of making the skin of |
the feet with the claws nttached, into |
jocket books and hand satchels. The |
eather has the great advantage of be.
It is
not of very good quality, but it serves as
Oil obs
tained from the fat, is supposed to have
Hundreds of thou-
sands of years ago thore were crocodiles
| have pasteboard within,”
i vAnd
asked.
‘Because pastoboard is a better non-
| conductor than wood. That panel you
in these days.
In the Yale of Cashmere,
No longer does the Vale of Cashmere
haunt the imagination of poetical read-
ers, for ‘Lalla Rookh” and Tom Moore
have little attraction for the present gene
Some visions, however, of the
marble palaces, the roses, and the float
| of pasteboard and two thicknesses of tin
| foil. First there is the outer pasteboard
| panel, which is stained and grained to
mitate walnut; then a layer of tin foil;
i
i
i
i
i
| u second layer of tin foil; and finally a
third sheet of pasteboard, which forms
| the back of the panel. The first sheet of
| tin foil is connected with the positive
pole of an electrie battery; the second
sheet of tin foil is connected with the
negative pole of a battery. With the
sheet of pastobourd between them, the
metallic sheets do not touch, nud there is
no circuit,
operate upon the cabinet, and run a
knife blade or a gimlet or anything alse
| through the panel, and the metallic tool,
touching both sheets of tin foil, instantly
completes the circuit, a bell rings in the
burglar alarm office, anl two policemen
Come, ns before."
“Is that all?” the reporter asked.
“No. not quite,” Mr. Jeweler smiling
ly replied. “Besides these little appli-
ances we have a faithful watchman in
the store all night. Part of his work is
to press a little electric batton eve ry half
hour from the time we lock the front door
at night till we open it in the morning.
Thereby he tells the burzlar alarm people |
that he is awake and on duty. If he I
sixty seconds beyond the half hour pass |
without pressing the button. the two po-
licemen come to soe w hat is the
ors |
|
NALIer
just as if
1 somebody had tampered with
the safes.’ : :
There were no more precautions, and
and the
inner regions of gold and
New York San.
the jeweler
from the
cious stones
reporter emerged
pre-
BIG SAURIANS.
Some Truths About Alligators Which
Grow in the United States.
“Did you ever see an alligator eateh
fli« asked a
wr
, of
naturalist a
“1 bave watched the perform.
wee by the hour.
& Star
ter.
ar I The saurian lies oa a
muddy bank in the sun, with his mouth
wide open. Winged insects, attracted
| the of the gather in
swarms upon its tongue, just as thoush
wore a sheet of fly paper. When a
sufficient number has collected jt
its jaws saddeniv.
by saliva beast,
14
is
closes
and with a gulp the
little torments have disappeared, afford-
}
at once hie
Yoa
¢ :
£ the
rove and an
heard, |
hat
ng Agreen
dare
srs the
ear, in
para
re
wt, althoueh
ave olten
little bird
mouth of the cro ile
order to pluck t} srtain
sites which the reptiles could
that is a
if
ad en
without f
wrefrom eo
not othe
wise get rid of.
it failed to
science for
be ognized as such by
a long time,
“Un many occasions | hare had oppor.
tunities of
OLROrs ,
ing
I'hey will eat meat in
iron wat
alligators in
any
Mar
suit of
shape,
times they mon
§
fowl to hshes, Some.
r
th
with
wmselves by their tails |
to the shore, mouths agape, and |
silently absorb shoals of mullet and other
comparatively small fry which pass aloog
through the jut a favorite
of theirs is to lie upon the surface of
the water and quietly gobble any ducks
or other animals that come within reach.
Their heads are so constructed that when
they are thus floating only their eves and
and the tip end of the nose are above the
shallows
way
and to see at the same
posing themselves to any extent.
and all is over with tho victim.
“Perhaps | have seemed to confuse the
alligator and the erocodile In fact,
there are two Kinds of erseodilos in the
United States the true ero odile and the
allicator. The former is very rare in-
dead, and it only ean be distinguished
from the latter by a differance in the
shape of the head. Alligators have been
| found in the rivers and estuaries as far
north as North Carolina, though not
within recent years, \
past hunters have sought them so per.
sistently and have slain them so reck.
| lessly
jextinet. At present their numbers in
| Florida and on the Gulf const are fow,
{ In the unexplored Everglades an! other
groat swamps of those regions they still
| survive in numbers, awaiting the crack
| of the sportsman’s rifle to anounce their
demise, Jrofiminarity to sending their
| hides nnd teeth to northern markets.
| ‘In times past and to this day, accord.
ing to current tradition, alligators have
| been credited wit 1being very ferocious;
| but the fact seems to be that thoy are
sluggish and timid. In South America
| the natives ofton wade into the water
| where they aro and pull them out
| by the tails. So it issaid, at all events,
| When winter approaches, they embed
thomseelves inthe mud of the shallows,
| where they bibemnate and lie dormant
| until spring. They breed in April and
May, when the fomale seoks a lier]
spot on a bank and constrvcts a small
mound of mud and other material, in
which she deposits her eggs, to the num-
ber of 100 or 200. First she lays upon
the ground astratum of mad and grass,
on which she deposits a layer of eggs;
on this she places another srratum of
grass and mud, then more eggs, and se
on. The eggs are hatched by the san,
assisted by the heat which the decom.
posing vegetable material generates, As
soon us hey nro hatched the infant alli-
gators scramble for the water.
“Alligator leather is ming dearer
nowidays on account of increasing
rarity of tho animals. Goud hides are
i
us on reading the accounts sent home of
the state visit of Lord and Lady Lans-
downe to that city and their reception by
the maharajah in his state barge, accom-
panied by all his ministers. It was about
two hours after noon that the scarlet-clad
rowers of the barge bearing the vice-
regal party were deseried rounding a
wide swoep of the river, and slowly the
long procession of state houseboats
ture in the bright sunshine, with a set-
:
i
i
of snow-capped mountains. After the
officials had been presented to the vice.
roy the procession went on its way
amidst the firing of salutes, the sounds
of military music and ihe quaintly pie-
turesque houses lining the banks, which
presented an “unbroken sea of torbaned
bends,” The whole population seemed
to have turned out, and the broad river,
u Me wea are
the lofty hills beyond the Lake-i-Suliman,
lit up by the glow of the evening sun.
The procession reached the residency at
5.15, the landing of the ¥
the signal for the firing of another royal
London News.
icoroy being
Bog Butter,
wimens of
in Irish
discovered during
Numer JS
are to be
which w
1
contury |
bog butter
“i
soon the Museums
re the past
y
peasants
3 engaged
Some of
them from
depths of ten, fifteen and even cightoen
the f the ground,
rubble antiquity must be allot.
angina
peat wore or
feet below surface o
od to the finds, although no abselute
exists by which the averagoe
oe aol
increase
Examp] Hs
of this butter woigh as much as thi
and forty pounds and upwards, and are
identified, by the numerous hairs of red-
may be cilealated
dish color, as being the product of the
The found packed in
lowed and in maossos
Ww butter is
ool
of irregular form. The latter are
ly surrounded with a laver of moss, and
3 YORsria 0
i
}
i
isunl
at times have an additional covering
linen cloth,
butter in
water would
of
he obicot of this hi ga
fe object of thus burving
immersing it ia bog
appear to be its prescrva-
reamstances and in districts
where salt could not be procared. Chem
demonstrates the
poat or
tion under ¢
ical examination still
$
O35
presence
from o
common salt
those oily acids obtainable
rdinary butter, and the absence of
This is characteristic, for
in the County Cork, ba
without the sabsequent
he prac tice
[ass « into oblis
tion
the
emploved it as an
¥
»
er is still mado
addition of salt.
! urving it
even the tradi.
descendants of
has long
1)
is forgotten by the
former vears have
ordinary and familiar
Boston Transcript.
race who mast in
procecding.
Pretty Winter Ornaments,
A pretty mants pie ce ornament may
be obtained by suspending an acorn, by
a piece of thread tied around it. within
half an inch of the surface
some walter contained in i
tumbler, or r. and allowing
to remain undisturbed for several
weeks. It burst open, and
small roots will seek the water: a straight
of
vase,
it
|nuoe
will soon
| glossy
green leaves, will shoot upward and pre.
sent a very pleasing appearance, Chest.
nut trees may be grown in the same
manner, but their leaves are pot so boau-
tiful as those of the oak. The water
should be changed once a month, taking
care to supply water of the same
warmth; bits of charcoal adled to it
will prevent the water from souring. 1f
the little loaves turn yellow, ald one
drop of ammonia int» the atensil which
holds the water, and they will renew
Another pretty ornament is made by
wotting a sponge and sprinkling it with
The sponge should be rofreshed with |
water daily, so as to be kept moist. In
no few days the seeds will germinate, and
the sponge will soon be covered with |
masses of green foliage. {Detroit Free
Press.
A Hospital for Dogs.
To complete its list of varied attrac.
tions Chicagy now has a hospital and
boarding house for dogs—not the
moungrels and curs that haunt the alleys,
but the high-bred aristooratie St. Ber.
nards, simpering and fuzzy poodles,
bright, intelligent Manchester spaniels
and fox-terriors,
L. F. Whitman is wardon of the insti.
tution and his wife is nesistant, Mr,
Whitman is a veteran writer for the
sportsman journal and has given the
greater part of Lis life to a study of the
different breeds of dog, and tho peouliari-
ties of onch. A few years ago he opened
a store on Wabash avenue for the supply
of foods and medicines to kennels, but
his business increased so rapidly that the
hospital was a result. Only a fow days
ngo he took possession of the six-room
house on Fifty sixth stroet, }
The first floor is divided into stalls for
‘the use of the dogs. The warden and
his wife occupy the second floor, At
t there are forty animals being
foarded and doctored. The animals are
7aluod all the way from $800. ~(Ch cagn
News, ; ; ;
AN INDIAN SCHOOL.
CARLISLE, PENN.
How the Work of School and Shop
Is Arranged Boys and Girls Who
Find Employment on Farms.
Twelve years ago Captain R. R. Pratt,
tenth cavalry, was detailed to take about
eighty Indinn children from the west to
the old post at Carlisle, Penn., and or.
ganize a school, That was the start.
‘The institution has grown steadily and is
still under the care of Captain Pratt, ans
superintendent, who is under the direc.
tion of the commissioner of Indian af.
fairs. Ho is the only army officer on
duty there und is aided by a large staff
of teachers und matrons. There is a
diseiplinarian, Mr. Campbell, who has
charge of the boys, nnd an assistant dis-
ciplinarian, Mr. Wolf, a young Carlisle
man, who recently graduated from a
military institute in New York. Mr.
Standing is assistant
There is au office force, a physician, n
matron in charge of the little boys, an-
other, with two assistants, in charge of
the girls’ quarters, and a corps of teach-
crs, headol by Miss Fisher, the princi-
pal. Nearly all of them live bn the
grounds, forming a pleasant community,
A large campus is inclosed by the girls’
quarters on the north, the houses of the
superintendent and his assistant and the
office on the cast, the school building and
the teachers’ quarters on the south and
the school dining hall on the west. Trees
of great age g half,
and at the edge of grove stands a
neat band pavilion for summer evening
concerts. Between and the
walk is a fin roe
drilling purposes.
The 340 boys are orzanized into a bat
talion of five companies«, with Indians for
Dennison Wheelock, a f
blooded Oneida, is major. Four of the
exmpanics are composed of the
boys and the other one of
row | western
v
rir
1
: Tr
tf
‘wtreteh of
east
i for
sward §
officers. ull-
oO
large
hundred
little follows. who are quartered together
They have
i very woil in the
one
under the eare of a matron
dri
po arms, but thoy
foot movements
All the pupils of the school are uni.
i
ght
and
formed, the bovs ina} gravish blu
and
blue
with red trimmings.
the girls in navy
felt hats at this
« loanks
Fhe mai
ourse, is done in the
are effectively |
that fors the
it sfnad
arracks th
inal
nent caps;
fimt
aug long blige
blue dresses
fox s00
the institution,
#
1 Worg of
rooms, whit
m0]
“
part of
fnry Hrs ago
iat
sign
wavs both inside and
It is a well-de vith stair.
he walls,
he re are twelve lar
nished
Washington:
a. far.
ge ¢l i
ns well ns any wn in
an office for » principal
1a larg
chapel or assembly ro m in the centre of
Miss Fishe Fi. 8 music rr an *
the second floor that will seat fully six
hundred pron)
ie
I'he are twelve o 1
HOTEe are twelve «¢
all
r
Assen ony
time, th in ree of a teach
Acations of the pupils
3 » COaUsed DY the varioty
onditions in the West, render
it imoracti i
cording to their ages
* fod
the pu
it of
ton oocur
next to a great,
Aoie to grade DLs fic.
ana
that a Littl of ten sits
| There is a cholr of about thirty or
| thirty-five voioes, led by one of the ma~
| trons and accompan ed by a teacher on
the piano snd Dennison Wheelock on
| the cornet, The leading soprano is alittle
Pueblo girl, who wears glosses, whoss
voice hus an excellent rauge though
somewhat sinall power.
The foot ball and base ball teams
compete with thoso of the town at fre-
{quent intervals, and there is always a
{ great deal of uncertainty as to the re-
salts. A few years ngo some of the
boys played Incrosse, the native Indian
game of ball, but it did not grow in favor
in competition with base ball and so it
died out. This presents an odd spectu-
cle of evolution.
Capt. Pratt's appropriations and ae-
comodations are sufficient to provide for
only about 550 pupils, but he has man-
aged to take nearly BOO in altogether by
building up his system of farm employ.
ment. It was started several years ago,
and has become so successful and so
widely known that he ix constantly in re-
ceipt of letters from well-to-do people
all over Pennsylvania
ing states usking for a reliable Indian
boy or girl. When such a letter comes
he first makes inquiries by correspond.
elce as to the character of the applicant
and then he picks out a worthy pupil
whom he thinks would be satisfactory
and offers him the place,
he receive a refusal. The
are not very large, but as the bovs and
girls have earned
money at all, they are eager for the op
portunity.
Seldom does
WHRZes offered
seldom before any
in
paid, but the pupil is assured of a com
fortable home, his board
and a chance to attend =
as twelve dollars a mouth
paid to an Indian girl.
ire taken direetly into
In some cases nothing
clothes
As hi
sometim
and ’
hoo] rh
is ©“
hese Pp pile
the farmers’ families and work and asso.
ciate with theirchildren. It is estimat i
that the ei
i
i
Zing a flue spread
y
Vaiue
hy the
and the
Ac
i for the dare
among iw Indians is
There is a form of contract whe:
pupil agrees to go # the farm
+
{
armer makes known er.
tain period is usually i
the
mouths, but in many cases |
tion of agreomen ont
grow so fond
to
or
many
return
farms
great
into white soci
At; tth
i
4 a
girs off on farms
ITORenN iri
a total «
are going and co
the
the
ning
greatest care |
records to Keg
INCrensd :
4 Werk
farmers to (
Ve are made by the
ing not oniv a
ct, but al
coount
ke Bd
.
summary of tl cond
a statemen Nis moneys
but very fow cases the oo
he §
Hine,
11 * m
excelent i ariner
Ol Rohe ra;
her nr
the institution: one quite near
where m a ft
the ¢
other about
" !
where the general
®
two farms !
atl hand,
he cows are ki pt, and
three
miles
for the school
does not depend
the !
» a fund
rations
aging
distant,
are raised,
wholly g ent for
of the school. as ho has
spon, built up b
SUD.
table individunis ton
same progress. This is especially true
1: 43
in th
which the
far
Phere is an instance of
Mis Bre
more ready the
a iad
the lower grades and his father in 8 rovnn
two we nd The
, after he had been at Carlisle a
ear, sent for the boy
The English
means of objects and lip motions
years are usually allowed a pupil to get
hold of the English that is supposed to
be required of a citizen. and in the menn.
time every effort is made to break up the
habit of The
means employed is a regulation that
forms half of Carlisle's dialogue.
aan
mm
Og
years anced
Im
m
hy
Two
language
is taught
the aboriginal tongue,
milf There
are but two commandments that are in.
sisted upon. One Thou shalt not
speak Indian; and the other Thou shalt
not use tobacco, These offenses are re.
garded as equally enormous,
Most of the sh pe that form the in.
dustrial part of the plant are located in
a large one-storied building built
threo sides of a square in the rear of the
boys’ quarters, forming the extreme
northern boundary of the establishment.
There are five of them here, where the
boys are trained to be tailors, tinners,
cobblers, carpenters and harness makers.
The industrial classes of tho girls are
placed in the dining hall building and are
in,
aon
goods for home consumption.
establishment are on the second floor;
the school kitchen is used for the classes
in cooking, while the girls are given
courses in the laundry and ironing room.
bakery. with two student apprentices as
ussistants,
Journeymen printers are turned ont
from the school printing office, which is
located in a large and well-lighted room
over the boiler plant. Here n couple of
dozen boys set type und manage the
the school as well as a little weekly news
shoet called The Helper, and a monthly
review entitled The Redman,
Small wages are paid in the shops, so
ns fo remove cause for complaint that
the pupiis are forced to do the labor of
the stitution, as well as to afford some
incentive for varnest work. The com.
pensations range from six to twelve
oents for each half-day’s attendance in
the shops. The money is put to the
eredit of the pupils in the school bank.
The girls get no wages oxeept as wait.
resses in the dining rooms.
A vory creditable band of about
twenty plecss furnishes music for the
school on all occasions. It is at present
lod by a bright young Oneida named
Dennison Wheelock, who has finished
his course at Carlisle and is now attend.
ing law lectures at the Dickinson College.
He has recently securod a full set of new
silver instruments, and by and pa.
Saat work fine wan to all his com.
nto the production of some very
Droeliont music, ae
{mn the last
the region abo
frig into
it San Francisguito Bay,
on the Gulf coast, he saw ia i lvnxes
i wildoats « nough fo stoc
In one Canon
. the
started
nenagerie,
Ww hie 4 |
Dirros 1
tor
half a wile from
them come tearing down ahead of him as
ifthe Old N was after them,
and they dashed on own toward camp,
He kn w that some
f ed them, and althon
went in the hoy
CX himsold
wad o £
wii asl na
Eells
AE
3
av
gh unbarme l
on f getting a
glims we
Wien he had
farther had
table rock Was
full-grown mountain lions not more than
sixty feet abead of him, and they seemod
to have seen him first and wore looking
{straight at him. Mr. Gaskill remembers
gone a hundred yards
climbed onto a large
astonished to see four
and
i
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NOTES AND COMMENTS.
Ix an address delivered at the Chicago
Auditorium under the auspices ef the
Chicago Press Club, Dr. Leslie E.
sleohol habit, made clear why he so stead-
wublic property,
wit it would soon
srocess instead of o
eure; that it vols be used by lquor
dealers themselves to brace their patrons
up after a protracted spree, only to get
into condition for another debaoch
Under such elrcumstances, the doctor
said, to give his cure to the public would
4
Everyrmisa curious found nowadays
is, of course, destined 10 be exhibited
at the World's Fair, and this is the case
with the medal that was recently dug up
on an island in the Columbia River by
Dr. N. G. Blalock of Walla Walla. He
and Clark expedition which wus present.
Walla Walla Indians by the explorers.
On one side is a facsimile of the head of
Thomas Jefferson, around which, in a cir-
1.8. A. D. 1801.” On
i
the other is a tomahawk crossed
a pipe, and below are a pair of
clasped hands with the inscription,
President of the |
side
ever a man's did, but he doesn't remem-
ber all the minute details of his return to
the camp —only he got there muy pronto,
{ He and his partner took riflos and went
after the lions, but they bad gone. That
night the barros were tied unusually se.
cure, but their occasional snorts and
wild animals were after meat. A blaze.
Ling fire kept them at a distance.
Mr Gaskill states that the Mexicans
and Indians living on that part of the
peninsala are in mortal dread of meeting
n lion, as the beasts are in a constantly
famished condition, and have been known
to follow men for hours, awaiting a favor.
able opportunity to pounce upon them.
{Lower California.
Seale Jewelry in Florida.
The fish-scale jewelry which appears
to be peculiar to Florida, and especially
to Jacksonville and St. Augustine, is ox-
tremely pretty. It is made of the sone
of the base, which are scraped and
cleaned until they assume a fine opaque
white. The scales are then folded into
the shape of flower petals and are put
together and mounted with silver
wire,
Flowers aro the favorite devioe, al
and placed against the plush bac
of a panel. The prettiest of all are
the sprays of flowers in the purest and
daintiest of white, the veining of leaves
and petais formad by silver wire, and
with pearls for the heart of the flower,
These are used for co ornaments
and for the hair. Single Howors, goner.
ally pansies, in their natural colors, are
nsed for lace pins, and several
ones together often form the top of a
high tortoise shell comb. Sweet pea,
single and double, white and Pirie
and
ti English daisy fa
= and nal are
carried
violets, and even the delicate,
a
rt away by touriste as 3
a tip 10 Florida — ie "Circular.
Axuricax doctors should know, lest
they should get to trouble, that an
American diploma in medicine doers not
entitle to call himself a doctor in
England. An American doctor tried it
recently, and was prosecuted for the of.
nvicted. On an appeal be.
the Lord Chief Justice of
England expressed the opinion that with-
in the meaning of the law of England our
in had falsely represented him-
M. D., had falsely pretended
- medicine. having “only
Lord Cole.
His appeal was disinissed and he
the pleasure of paying in-
he treasury of the ( the sun of
ins for
aus
fonse and co
ing taken,
Contry
Beil as an
oct
ad or of
an American
ridge,
wiil now have
fot
¥
which in America he has a legal ri
to be
uegree, said
Jueen
using in England a title to
ork
ma.
is a humorous pl ase fo the war
i arrow in Illinois. lis
f course, the small boy,
i He has adopted
ation every known
a shotgun to a
ling to a brickbat:
if 8 nuis.
Bird
Rr i
destruct le
The citizens of
n that their business
is pursuing,
ning
ton compin
interrupted and their domestic
oi ked by the « nstant fuss;
ris. Moreover they say it
to walk the streets many j
bird .shot
fnemy.
peace
is
POEIRONS
in-
The
been wounded by
for the common
of conservatories aud j ate houses
1 suffered. Unpopular as
the opinion in general that
Bounty passe] in a
f misguided zeal. Meanwhile, the
ibiquitous as
ran
the
is,
{
Jill was
row seems to be as
mand
Puget 8
steamboat racing
States, and great
the boats that ply
Facoma. The Hud-
of Ringston, which
her and is now
vand fleet, bas been easily
by the now racing
best of them at present are
Victorian snd the Fiver, both of
pellers with power-
gin Now and then the word
ind that there is to be a rare, and
the demand for tickets forthwith becomes
tremendou All k=
with people of the rival ¢
Tux Columbia River and
have
walers
the
f the Unite
5 v x nl FS Ped ow
#& the rival fmnong
become
0
tween attle and
son steamer, Uity
was nn fast craft in Gay
s of the S«
anced
i he
h are screw pro
®
Zoos TO
crowded
the boats
out from their wharves, and the
There are no snags to be
water is smooth and deep, and
I'mo years
» de are
ties
byoet
in begins
ared the
t Lime is always made.
age the between the cities took
many hours; the time has now been re-
duced toone hour and fifteen minutes
¢
as
ivy
ii
:
Mosr experienced railroad men feel
that the possibilities of steam practice
are nearly reached, und that much great-
er speed is not practicable. A maximum
of 90 miles an bour, with a running
speed of 60 to 70, is all that can be
hoped for under the very best conditions.
The limitations are numerous. and are
well-known to all engineers. The Scien.
tific American says that tho maximum
speed of which a locomotive is capable
has not been materially increased in a
number yoars. The schedule time
has been shortened, principally by re-
ducing gradients, straightening curves,
filling up ravines, and replacing wooden
structures by permanent ones of iron or
of
switches, improved methods of signaling,
Fire switch aud signal sys-
tem, the abolition of level crossings; in
fact, by improvements in detail and
management, which permit a higher
speed on a more extended section of
road, because of greater safoty and the
greater degree of confidence inspired in
the engine-driver.
Tax causes of the breaking down of
the governmental machinery for tho dis-
tribution of the relief fund in Russia are
doubtless to be found in the curraption
of some officials and the ineficiency of
many more. ‘There is a popular im.
pression that the administrative systems
of despotisms are more simple, more di-
rect and more effective than those of free
The trath is, that despotisms
breed administrative systems so full of
Jobbery and corruption and inefficiency
This was the case with the old
Bourbon monarchy in France, and is the
Sin with the Russian Government
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