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ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS
EVERYDAY LIFE,
OF
Quoer Facts and Thrilling Advens
tures Which Show That Truth Is
Stranger Than Fiction,
Tur little port of Taltal, Chile, is to
the fore with a curiosity which is ahead
of all others. This is a three-weeks-old
baby, whose right hand bears the imprint
of a human face. The face occupies
nearly the wholepalm, and is as clearly
outlined as if drawn on porcelain. It is
the countenance of a little child about
three years old lying asleep, with the
eyelashes drawn in fine dark lines on the
full cheeks. The mouth seems to be
slightly parted and the lips are delicately
tinted. The baby whose palm contains |
this singular portraiture is the child of
Garcia Meron, and Mrs, Meron declares |
that the face in the infant's palm is that |
of a little girl she lost about three months
before the baby's birth. Relatives and
intimate friends profess to be able to see
the strong resemblance to the dead child.
When the baby was first put in its |
mother’s arms she looked at 9 hands,
aad, with a loud ery, fainted away, but |
on coming to herself exhibited the little
crature's hands to the attendants, who |
saw at once the strange likeness to the |
dead ana gone sister, Mrs. Meron was |
at first much frightened over the singular
circumstance, but was at last convinced
that this strange portrait was sent to
comfort her. Physicians say, however, |
that the mother’s caress of the dead child
impressed the unborn infant, who merely |
repeated her mental pictures of the little |
girl as she last beheld it. The image on |
the palm was much clearer the first few |
days of the baby's life than now, and is
thought to be gradually fading away.
‘The family are very sensitive on the sub- |
ject, and have refused to show the child |
except to relatives and most intimate
friends.
‘“Ixpiax Jonux,” an aged Columbia |
River Indian, was recently committed to
the county poor farm near Portland, Ore. |
According to the testimony of pioneers
he is the oldest Indian in the Northwest,
his age being placed at mote than 125
years. Deputy District Attormey Hall,
who has been a resident of Portland |
thirty-five years, says that when he first
knew “Indian John,” he was reputed to
be at least 100. He was always a friend
of the white men. It is related that
when Dr. Whitman was murdered at
Walla Walla, and the Indians talked of |
attacking Portland, John was one of
those who left The Dalles, went to the
city, and warned the settlers to be pre. |
pared for a raid. John, whose mind is
still clear, relates the following story
“Many years before I became Chief of |
the Columbia River Indians, my tribe |
was saved from destruction in a remark- |
able manner. One day the Klickitats
came down into their lands and camped |
in a bottom under a vast, overhanging |
cliff near the Sandy bridge. My tribe
were few in number, but brave. They
would not fly and could not fight their
enemics, who were very numerous. So
during the night they appealed to the
Great Spirit to destroy their enemies,
and in answer to their prayers he felled
the rock, and the Klickitats were buried
beneath it. Not a man escaped.”
A story comes from San Francisco,
to the effect that the British ship Drum
craig on a recent voyage from that city
around the Horn, saw a vessel frozen up
in an iceberg. The weather was heavy
and foggy, and the Drunicraig was mak-
ing fair headway, when a slight accident |
compelled her to lie to. Suddenly out |
of the fog in front loomed up a huge
iceberg. Had it not been for the ac
cident the Drumcraig would have run
right on to the berg. As the damage on
the ship was being repaired the Iceberg
veered around and there was disclosed a
sight that struck terror into every heart,
On the berg, high above the water mark,
was a wooden bark of about 2000 tons. |
The we completely surrounded her hull |
up as high as her decks, and her masts
and rigging were hung with icicles
From her build it was evident that the
bark had been launched years ago. With
his glasses the captain made out two
bodies in the ship's shrouds. The crew
would have refused to make any inves.
tigation even had not the rough sea pre-
vented. So the derelict, frozen fast in
the iceberg, is probably sailing in|
southern polar seas
A curious specimen of the collapsed |
boom towns that are to be found in parts
of the West is Sullivan, some ten miles
from Denver, Col. It was started bythe |
promoters of the scheme of the Denver
Water Company to dam the subterranean
flow of Cherry creek and pump it into |
an enormous reservoir for the use of the
people of Denver. The work was an
engineering failure, and a financial one,
as many Eastern bondholders found out.
While the boom lasted thousands of men
were employed, buildings sprang up like
mushrooms, prices of corner lots soared,
and there was even a bitter post office
fight. A year and a half ago operations
stopped, there was an exodus of specula-
tors, tradesmen and laborers, the post
office was shut up, and Sullivan's great-
ness was a thing of the past. Among
the acres of building materials, sand.
stone, trusses, pipes, boiler stacks and
plates, ete., abandoned when the crash
came, the coyote sometimes picks his
way now, and he is the only guest at the
mammoth hotel that was once the sight
of the place. :
Aut. tue doctors in Bucks County,
Penn,, are puzzled over the case of little
five-year-old Justis Storck, whose eyes
seem a law to themsel'n's, One day the
boy is crossed-eyed, while the next his
Syes are perfectly straight, and this cu-
ous alternation hss been going on for
years. The nonplused doctors eall it a
case of intermittent strabismus probably
the only one on record —and, despairing
of caring it, will soon give the su
of the Medico -Chirurgical hospital in
Philadelphia an opportunity to study
the matter, as the of the afflicted
hoy has decided to send him to that in-
stitution for treatment. One day the
little fellow's right eye squints, on the
me ae han the oft Brnight
comes affected, and so on the year round.
There is another peculiar feature of the
ease. When the right eye looks squint
the child can bring it into the cotrect
the good optic, but as soon as the hand
is re Loved the affected orb again seeks
the inner corner of the eye.
Pa rers cultivate what is called the
‘innocence of the eye,” trying io sce
nature simply as forms and colors, ns a
child sees it, without reference to what
reason and experience may teach them,
No two of them sec exactly the same
way. One painter in New York says
that he is astonished to find how gray
everything is—even sky and foliage.
Another finds the streets full of reds and
urples. A younger artist says: ‘When
began to paint, everything seemed to
me dark. The longer I look at nature
the more light I find in it. My great
trouble now is to get my pictures as
light as nature scems to my eye. [I find
more yellow in the landscape than I used
to. But, after all, these things are sub-
5
an Apache Indian that is pzaculiar,’
Judge Porter of Arizona.
thirty for murder.
with one exception, the Indian would
occurrence. In the exception I have
mentioned the Apache afterward told
me that he wanted to tell the truth, but
Axprew Fammcmino of Fallarsburg,
Mich., owned a tame dove that was a
favorite pet of his wife's until a child
was born to them,
Mrs. Fairchild and appeared to be very
jealous of the baby,
work left the baby alone in the room for
some time, until she was attracted by
its crying. Ruoning into the room she
eves, one of which was so badly injured
that the sight is entirely ruined.
A rEw weeks ago, an English lady
was obliged to pay four pounds (twenty
dollars) as damages for having given a
good “character” to a servant whom she
knew to be unfaithful, Her written
recommendation of the servant enabled
the latter to get a place which she could
not have in] without ihe recom
mendation, and in which she proved un-
employed her; and it was on the proof
of these facts that the damages were ad-
judged by the court.
Tee American hen is a busy and use.
ful fowl. There are 125,000,000 of
them, and they lav every year 6,000,000.
000) In Waterloo there is
which is an expert in catching rats,
teases them a while
them. The
egEs.
It
and then releases
owner of this remarkable
the second time within reach of its claws,
A report comes from a Peansylvania
town of a fastidious hen that refused to
Master,
Ax Illinois man recently tried to dug
a well and found a river. That is, he
bored a well on his farm to a depth of
77 feet, when suddenly the entire bottom
feil out, carrying all but about five feet
of the walls witn it, At the bottom of
the deep hole thus formed could be seen
a swift-rushing stream. All efforts to
rushing current carrying away everything
thrown into it,
Ose of the most remarkable sights
witnessed on the face of the globe is
afforded by the subterranean lakes of
Sinoia, in Zambesia, in Central Africa,
Lionel Decle, the French explorer, has
returned from there and reports that the
water is of the deepest indigo dye, and
that the azure grotto of Capri can in
nowise compare with the beautiful color
of these wonderful lakes,
A
Neb.
ranuen living near Grand sland,
caught one of his legs in the rear wheel,
He saved himself from serious injury by
grasping the spokes of the wheel #0 as
to keep it from revolving, and sliding
wire fence,
Passgxcrns on a train over the Pis.
the Bangor
Aroostook Railroad in Maine, one day
recently saw an exciting race between a
deer and the train. The animal was a
buek, and ran alongside the train for a
mile or more in a woods road above
Finally, when the train crossed
the road, the deer disappeared into the
woods,
A vouse man in Wrentham, Mass,
his been finding amusement in mailing
postage stamps and sending greetings
He isdelighted
ceived acknowledgements from the czar
of Russia, the king of Greece and a fow
others,
Tie 20,000,000 men of the United
States are wearing an average of twenty
buttons each, making 400,000,000
buttons for all, estimated to weigh
3,000,000 pounds,
Treasures of Anclent History.
The contents of that wonderful treas-
ury of antique records discovered in
1887 by a nt woman near the ruins
of the ancient Arsinoc of Upper Egypt
have now been laid before the bll6 In
Maj. Conder's work on the “Tel Amarna
Tablets,” comprising a translation of the
text, with introduction and notes, says
the London 7ablet. Inscribed on clay
tablets, su uently baked into brick,
and win n a be ihe ancient
language of Syria, in cuneiform charac-
ters, we have here nothing less than a
series of dispatches sent to the ian
proiciad of ttary Kings af Camas,
ploring assistance st various in-
vasions, The most g are the
letter from the king of Jerusalem and
other chiefs of vn Palastine, for
in them we can trace the dismay and
alarm created by the advance of Joshua
and the Hebrews, called “Abirl,” and
“People of the Desert,” A vei} wriking
ge occurs in one of the dis gatches
fugitiva monarch. shnerentle
! after the battle of Ajalon, in which,
seeking as it were to apologize {or his
defeat, he speaks of the leaders of the
enemy af “‘sorcerers,” doubtless in alla-
sion to the miracles of Joshua, The
date of the Exodus is also shifted back
to that assumed by earlier biblical ex-
yonents, while the contrary theory of
Jr. Brugsch, too hastily accepted as
conclusively established, is overthrown.
AROUND THE HOUSE.
will keep mice away.
To purify a room of unpleasant odors,
burn vinegar, rosin or sugar,
Just before retiring at night pour into
{ your clogged pipe just enough liquid
soda lye to fill the “ trap,” or bent part
of the pipe. Be sure that no water runs
into it until next morning. During the
night the lye will convert all the offal
into soft soap, and the first current of
water in the morning will wash it away
and clear the pipe clean as new,
CreaniNeG rag CELLAR. —In no part of
{ the house is it so important that the
{ cleaning be thoroughly done as in the
cellar, writes Maria Parloa in the April
Ladies Home Journal, Not a corner
i should be slighted, Begin with the fur.
i nace, Have the registers closed in every
room. Remove all the cinders and
ashes and clean out all the flues and
Ppipes. Many housckeepers have the
| pipes removed, but the smoke-pipe is
| really the only one that it is necessary to
i take down. This pipe is liable to rust,
because of the moisture it gathers from
the chimney: nevertheless, if there
no way of heating and drying the house
during a cold, damp period in summer
except by building a fire in the furnace,
it would be cheaper to renew this smoke
pipe every few years than run the risk
of having the family made ill from re.
ceiving a chill. While the men are in the
house to clean the furnace it would be
economy to have them clean the flues
| the range and also the chimneys. Open
| the cellar windows, to bring everything
into the light. Have the coal bins
cleaned. Brush everything free frow
dust. Now sweep the ceiling and walls
as well as the floor. Brush the walls
once more. Wash the windows and any
closets, shelves or tables there may be
in the cellar. Now have walls
white.washed., Before the various ar
ticles stored in the cellar are put back
in place, brush them again
i floor once more
be
i
in
the
Sweep the
.
A Learned Irishwoman.
Actonian Prize of one hundrod
guineas has been awarded to Miss Agnes
M. Clerke by the managers of the London
Royal Institution, for her works on as
tronomy, as illustrative of the ‘wisdom
and beneficence of the Almighty.” Un
like most prizes, the Actonian is awarded
7. when she was informed that at the
preceding afternoon, it had been con
ferred upon her. Oddly enough, Sir
James Crichton Broome, M. D., who has
said and written so much on the inferior
brain-powe. of the sex, presided on this
really interesting occasion, It is a
triumph for all women, and especially the
Irish women and Catholics: Mins
Agnes Clerke is of purely Irish descent,
was born near Skibbereen, and is a
devout member of the Catholic Church.
Her father, though Irish, held a legal ap-
| pointment in Eoglapd, asd for this
reason his family have for many
years made their home
don. Miss Agnes Clerke,
ever, has been a great traveler, «
assed some years of her early girlhood
in Italy. Later, after she bad made as
tronomy her special study, she made a
| voyage to Cape Town, on the invitation
of the head of the Observatory there
{ and yet more recently she has been to
the extreme North asd to Russia, in
order to enlarge her experience Save
| for these occasional absences, Miss Agnes
Clerke lives with her mother and sister
in a charming house in Radcliffe square,
and is of too home-loving a disposition
to thoroughly enjoy her travels,
She has had several most pressing
| offers of professorships, lectureships, and
{ the like, in American observatories, but
has never felt the least inclination to
“emancipate” herself. She is, indeed,
{ the most modest and retiring woman in
{the world, and it was long before her
| friends connected her with any achieve.
i ment more intellectual than music, in
| which she and her sister are both exeeed-
tingly accomplished. Miss Agnes Clerke
| was chosen by the Women's Committee
{ of the Chicago Exhibition to select the
scientific books written by women--a
wit for which she was admirably fitted
oth by her scientific and literary knowl-
edge and her extremely just and
gentle character, Miss Clerke has the
fluent pen, characteristic of her nation,
and her “History of Astronomy” can be
read with pleasure by persons quite
ignorant of the subject.
i
sor
The “Barometer Well,”
In the town of Great Valley, in Catta.
raugus County, New York, there is an
interesting curiosity locally known as the
isting Well.” It is located on the
Wesley Flint farm, and was dug about
fifty years ago. When the well had been
sunk to a depth of about forty feet with.
out striking the coveted vein of water old
man Flint and everbody else declared
the venture a flat failure. A few weeks
or months later some member of the Flint
family noticed that occasionally there
would be a strong current of air rushing
int) the well for some hours in succes.
sion, and that it would again be belched
forth for a corresponding of time,
By way of safer she well was cov.
ered with a large rock. This rock
had a drill hole through it about an inch
in diameter, and through this opening the
alr would ebb and flow unceasingly.
Finally & whistle was fitted to the open-
ing and the whole contrivance has ever
since been relied upon as an securate
neighborhood barometer, In settled
weather the whistle is silent, An ag
proaching storm is heralded by the whist
ns tha air rushes out to mingle with the
atmosphere, As clear weather approach.
os the air is
wail o wb
RiFaman “ma
FOI THF LADIES.
RAINBOW DRESS,
A rocent order in this city was for a
winbow dress which was exceedingly
pretty. The ground was of soft gray
bards of ribbon, following the colors of
the rainbow. The very full puffed
dlgeves were also ribbon trimmed, and a
arge gray fan was shaded in the same
The beauty of this dress was that
The waist had a trimming of
This rain-drop effect was very good in-
deed,
the whole outfit,
A FEMALE MUSICAL DOCTOR.
cess of Wales, who holds the title in a
Doctor Patterson is a native of County
She is a voung and
handsome woman of brilliant
Her career has been an
tionally promising one. When but four.
teen years of age, Miss Patterson wus
proficient in the Italian, Latin, French
and Greek languages. She had previ.
of great musical ability, and when fifteen
music, from which she
lué time with high honors,
Subsequently she became the conductor
and musical director of the Dublin
Doctor Patterson has
written many sonys and cantatas of great
merit and has i
medals in ognition
She was graduated from
universit as bachelor
bachelor of arts in 183%
ated of music
Irish academy in 1880
i
pretty poetry
union
wen the recipient of silver
of her ability,
the Royal Irish
of music and
and was gradu.
the Royal
she has written
and many able
Chicago Herald,
red
v
doctor
ns at
some
music
very
al © MBA YS,
HANDSOME
The stout
a handsome appearance, will wear, sug
rests the New York World,
mtterns or plain weave, hair
wall of color, draperies
nd trimmings, if at all, put on in vertical
if she wants to look trim Tight
sleeves and gloves give the arms the out
lines of a ham nod the hands the appear
ance of abbreviated head-cheeses,
A bulky woman should never wear
white, not even at night, and in her will
I¥ STOUT.
woman who wants to make
cither seed
stripes in
tones slraigat
gra
ince, Dassementerie,
high shoulders, curled feathers or 8 low
style of hair dressing.
Lot her wear her hair on the very tip
top of her head, to increase her altitude;
let her wear a high comb or hair orns
ment, quills ian her bonnet, high but
broad heels, and a trained skirt
same obiect; let her avoid jewels, per.
fumes, cosmetics, and bright colors to
Sue has no business with
decollets bodices,
ve clothes
becomes great people.
¥
Is THE
The hoop-skirts of our grandmothers
were not only unsightly objects to be
hold, but owing to their great weight
they were often injurious as an article
of dress
vogue they were made of heavy steel
CRINOLINE INJURIOUS
upon the waist But subsequently they
were improved so that their weight was
But even at their best
sround the waist. They cannot be sup-
is required around the
This led to bands, which became
woman was considered the ideal of per
fection
is concerned. The crinoline
material is heavy and stiff, and it sets
Be
Wear
which can
it a burden for one to travel
through our streets on windy days.
chance of eatching cold is much greater
with the crinoline than with any other
fashion that has been in vogue for many
years. — Yankee Blade.
DBUSTSESS JIAIRTS FOR GIRLS,
accurately and knowing to a cent just
what she does with her money, whether
she has ten cents or $10 to expend on
An allow-
that every sum spent should be set down
with unfailing regularity. In black and
white one notes how much more quickly
it goes and ust what foolish little
nothings have lured it from our pockets.
Without setting down each item, it is
ten chances to one that you will con-
clude you must have lost some money
when you can not see how that #10 bill
went when you only bought such a few
things. The neat little figures are a
nuine restraint, besides instilling a
abit and system that will be of great
value if ever fortune smiles and a great
estate comes to your hands, and still
greatas if economy is a necessity and the
ollar has to be forced into doing duty
for two.
Unless the accounts are kept accu-
rately, and the cash made to balance
every evening, you had better not at.
Bmp any book-keeping at all, for slip.
phy Be 4 are worse than none, and
only confuse everyth rather than
help matters. If anything is worth
doing at all it is worth doing well, and
there is nothing so productive of future
good as the t of looking carefully
out for ‘he pennies when school days are
the only and the allowance of
opin
a clear
womanhood ih & Siar Knowledge of
where hier money goos and what she has
to show for it, —| Baltimore Herald,
WOMEN AS ARCHITECTS
On the interesting subject of female
architects the Real Estate Record says:
is the latest from New York, and a
writer there claims that there are few
occupations to-day that promise more
favorable resul:s to the
those of the architect and builder As
the woman manages the household, it
seems only natural that she should seck
ling; indeed, it is evident that this is
her legitimate province, A few women
{ of architecture and others are
ting. This is as it should be, and it is
not too much to hope that before long
we shall see better arranged and more
{ comfortable houses than those in which
many of us are now forced to live,
There are thousands of points in build-
| ing that the man, who has no practical
i realization of the inconvenience of cer
{ tain things, never
| as for the amount of fruit and provisions
| philosophers, At
rational, sensible homes,
{and success her efforts. When to
| theoretical knowledge she adds the
practical information gained only by
experience, let us hope that we will find
houses where comfort is not sacrificed to
a bit of architectural effect, where con-
venience of more importance than
| of comfortable,
to
is
arranged that one-eighth to seven-eighths
of a width of carpet in every room need
not go to waste on account of a fault in
adjusting the dimensions of the apart
meant. Every fraction in the measure of
4 room means just much added ex.
pense in carpeting, and every angle and
curve means just so much slashing and
cutting, all of which renders the carpet
useless for any other than the room to
h it fitted. This
{the gieatest importance to those who
{rent houses, and frequent movement
| means an outlay for floor covering that
is a serions drain upon moderate purses,
A great deal of room in the moderate
house is wasted angles and corners
that might ized as « and
cupboards, This, too, will be the mis
sion the woman architect to reform,
to a certain extent at and to
the house. wife some of the conveniences
of which no maa can fully realize the
need
80
i whic is
in
be util insets
of
jeast, give
FASHION XNOTEs,
New silks are not very characteristic
this season,
Rough materials for day gowns are in
considerable variety,
| The shapes of carriage parasols are
changed to a rounder dimension.
Silk and other blouses are more popu-
lar than ever, and also more fanciful,
Tricolored
ing ends, are
trimming.
In brocades, May lilies arranged in
bunches, flutings, palms and thisties are
successful.
bows, with sharp upstand
among stylish forms of hat
{ white crepon, with insertions of
baby ribbon.
Some new dresses of
camel's hair are trimmed with
black satin ribbon
A novelty
spotted colored tulle, draped over silk
of the same color,
A French conceit in gauze is an un-
dulated azure silk tissue, sprinkled with
fine, irregular spots.
green
woolly-looking
ruffies of
The use of lace for trimming will con.
| stantly increase from this time on
throughout the summer
The capes of velvet with narrow fur
bordering are quite a feature of the
present season's fashions,
| A dainty evening wrap is of ivory
molleton cloth, with warmly quilted
lining of pale saimon-pink
Very old coins are set in rims of gold
{and worn as pins, Whoever has an an.
tique silver piece may make this ase of
{it
Rival factions in Paris are contending
{ as millinery trimming, with odds for the
flowers,
Vivid scarlet blouses are shown which
| are to be worn with black beaded zouaves,
| haviny Jace epaulettes and bows on the
| should es,
A few white satin parasols are shown
from the steeple.
Round yokes of galloon, with wide,
round corsets, also of galloon, are worn
| with dresses of cashmere and other thia
{ woolen materials,
one more to the front. They are of
shot and brocade ribbon, and tie beneath
the chin in the old fashion,
Ostrich boas will certainly be worn
both curled, or, as the French call them,
rase-~that is, close shaved and uncurled,
These taper toward the points,
The new corduroy silks come in Por.
sian and Algerian stripes and in pretty
tricolors—-green, gold and English rose
and various other bright combinations,
The fashionable purple known as
eminence is by no means a universally
becoming color, and women who have
not really good complexions should shun
it,
“Cre lisse” is one of the materials
which bid fair to become favorite this
ape, RE ape
Meate tits b t by
yard already pleated.
An exceed smart little ish
hat of black fons | a wide ke
fashion,
trols’ tails tied together with
aguives) of wieux rose velvet trim the
downgeras, Now, however, it is the ma-
terial of which the kmars girl's dinner
dress is made. Frequently one sees ig
trimmed with green,
Long stemmed flowers in high quiver-
ing clusters, and in contrast, many flat
wreaths of brier roses, hawthorn, gers
| plums, ete.,w=are on new French hats, |
| Grasses, thorny stems and pussy-willow
| sprays are arranged in novel ways,
A pretty way to utilize the skirts of
{Ince dresses of which one has become
jtired is to have them made over into
{little Russian tea jackets, with a lace
skirt portion about half a yard deep
| gathered and added to the lower edge
| of the waist which belonged to the dress
when it was new,
Broad sashes, also ribbons of all
widths, are to be worn as much as ever,
Many rows of velvet ribbon are used for
trimming dresses, {ibbon trims in the
same way. A new recently ex.
hibited showed rows upon rows of
ribbon, or of bias velvet three inches in
| width, which came up to within a quar
| ter of a yard of the waist,
Lown
FIFTY THOUSAND A DAY.
When and How the Crisp Bank of
England Notes Are Made,
i In a picturesque Hampshire nook in
{the valley of the River Test stands a
busy mill, from which is produced that
paper whose crispness is music to the
human ear all world Since
1719 this Leverstoke mill has been busy
in the manufacture of the Bank of Eng
land note paper, and at the present time
! about 50,000 of the coveted crisp pieces
of paper are made there daily,
To a careless observer there
| appear to be much difference
Bask of England note
and one of those which were
he aver,
does not
Aa
of the present day
i ,
first issued
nleenth
Detween
toward the end of the
but when into
found that the present note is,
gards the quality of the paper and the
excellence of the engraved writing,
much more remarkable production.
The fact is, the Bank of England and
forgers of false notes have been ruoning
a moe--the bank to turn out a note
which defies the power of the forger to
imitate it, and those pi
keen-witted gentry
the bank
The no in use are most elabor.
ately maosufactured bits of paper. The
paper itself is remarkable in many ways;
none other has that peculiar feel of crisp
ness and toughness, while the eve (when it
has satisfied may
dwell with admiration on the paper's re
markable whiteness thinness and
transparency are guards against two onoce
popular modes of forgery: The washiog
; out of the printing by means of turpen
tine, and erasure with the
The wire mark, or water mark, is an-
other precaution against counterfeiting,
and is produced in the paper while it is
in a state of pulp. In the old manafa«
ture of bank notes this water mark was
caused by an immense number of wires
(over 2,000) stitched and sewn together;
now it is engraved in a steel-faced die,
which is afterward hardened and is then
used as a punch to stamp the pattern cut
of plates of sheet brass, The shading of
the letters of this water mark enormously
| increases the difficulty of imitation.
The paper is made entirely from pieces
of new linen and cotton, and the tough
| ness of it can be roughly guessed from
the fact that a single bank note will,
when unsized, support a weight of thirty
six pounds, while when sized you may
lift fifty-six pounds with it,
Few people would imagine
Bank of England note was not
| same thickness all through. ti
{ though. The paper is thicker in the le
hand corner, to enable it to take a better
iand sharper impression of the vignette
there, and §t is also considerably
| thicker in the dark shadows of the
centre letters, and under the figures at
the ends.
Counterfeit notes are invariably of only
one thickness throughout
| The printing is done from clectrotypes,
the figure of Britannia being the design
{of Maclise, the late Roval Academician.
Even the printing ink is of special
make, and is manufactured at the bask.
Comparing a genuine with a forged note
one observes that the print on the latter
| is generally bluish or brown. On the
real note it is a velvety black
The chief ingredients used in making
(the ink are linseed oil and the charred
husks and some other portions of Rhe-
{ nish grapes.
| The notes are printed at the rate of
3.000 an bour at Napier's steam press,
and the bank issues 9,000,000 of them a
| year, representing about £300,000, 000
in hard cash. [London Answers,
BOY C05)
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Odd Freaks of Collectors,
A Jersey City man devotes himsel! to
the collection of doorknobs, old and new,
sod claims a museum numbering over
| 3,00) samples,
Nebraska boaste proudly of a col
lector who gathers Jocks of the hair
shaved from the heads of noted erim-
inals when they enter the penitentiary,
labeling and indexing them with great
care,
Philadelphia is the abiding place of a
collector of cast-off horseshoes, who will
risk his neck to secure a prize in the
street, and whose house is decorated with
them in all sizes, shapes and degrees of
dilapidation,
Boston can produce a collector whose
specialty is old bricks, each having been
secured from some historical local edi-
fice while it was being demolished, and
being tag with a resume of
tory of the building from which it wes
obtained.
A New Orleans iz a collector of
Aafapios, is believed to have a
granulated product of every
tation in the State, some being
plantation 3s 3 interest,