~ BIOGRAPH NN MEDICINE. ay 1 SEW AID FOR DOCTORS IN STUDYING OBSCURE DISEASES, Iperations Performed by Famous Surgeons Also Shown by the Kinctoscope The lostrument Harnessed to the Tele: scope and the Microscope. New Results Obtained. Already an Institution in recording the notable scenes and occurrences of the world kinetoscope or moving ple- tures are becoming useful for sclentifie as well as for amusement purposes, In tospitals, particularly, the invention is finding application, declares the New York Sun. One hospital In New York is now adapting a machine to record minutely the actions of patients in epl feptic fits and similar affections, and many moving pictures have been taken from slowly, enabled afflicted Reproduced doctors are persons ataxia, gcreen, on the to laboratories, in Vienna, And the pictures taken showing operations being valuable instructors to medical stu. dents, this invention with tachment, or miecro-kine finding the greatest practical use, movement of all Kinds of when thus photographed make strik ing animated pictures, and the actions of healthy and diseased corpuscles easily distinguished when thrown upoa the screen and magnified thousands of times, pictures of blood, taken from time to time, show the improvement or decline in the con- dition of patients, It has just been found by one periment that X-ray photography, «0 valuable in hospitals, may derfully developed by the the microscope at toscope, is Such ex now be won use of the ble to take moving pictures with the penetrating light. He no function of the human body may not be shown in action by pletures, even the beating of th heart and blood circulation. to are exhilited now for alone, will likely useful instreciion lecture ditfienlty, so far, the early de graph. Is that these machines are at high pri and will oaly brought wi reach of public in work, be and but velopment of the phono held COR, thin the in provements bring demand for them. One of the novel subjects that be put on exhibition will minutely the growth and flowering of plants from the time of planting until in full bloom. as these a great sSOO0n show ial room is set aside in the new Botanieal Gardens at Bronx Park. In order to ghow the growth of a lily on the blogr growing bu ill tion in this re taken every about thirty der view, spec the screen series, aph cameras be arranged in posi wom and half hour contls days and nights. get a uniform light artificial HMamination employed, pictures whi the final picture showing of the Jily, and then its Though such results have been obtained, were with the necessary This work will be under of T. 8. McGregor, curator of the gar dens. Experiments of this kind, are being made to changes in scenery summer, ete. The experiments of Flammarion, the celebrated French astronomer, show the possibilities of the biograph for re- cording astronomical wonders. He has taken moving pictares which show moonrise, the Milky Way, lightning. shooting stars, sunrise and sunset, Professors of astronomy in Columbia College also realize the possibilities of the invention in their work and exper. imenters are improving extremely sen- sitive films necessary to take impres- sions of the weak astronomical rays of light. It is particularly the phe nomena of the heavens seen at inter. vals of many years—a strange eclipse, transit, or meteoric shower-—which men travel far to observe, and which astronomers hope to observe in photo graphic effects, making it possible for those at home to observe the heavenly wonders that few now have the op portunity of seeing. And as the microscope has been combined with the blograph, so also the astronomer's telescopic lenses are being combined, so that we may see distant movements invisible to the naked eye. Many of the moving pie tures of naval actions, which natural. ly could uot have been taken at close range, have resulted from the tele scople attachment. Captain John Finley, an expert on tornadoes, now in the American mete. orological service, has {aken some re markable moving pletures of lightning storms, and expects to get some pic tures of the approach of a Kansas tor nado. Anoiber new and novel exhibit is a brilliant display of fireworks, taken at night. While it bas hitherto been impossible to photograph fireworks, by the use of magnesium powder the blo. graph has faithfully recorded the shower and pinwheel effects of the most cortly pleces made, An adventurous operator in Europe devised the idea of taking pletures from the bottom of the car of a bal loon in motion, As it ascended rapidly successive pietures were taken strajght downward showing the spectators, then the surrounding hotses and trees, then roofs and country, fading rapidly ually in to for will Something be made the fading away previously not uniformity of light they from winter to until all that could be seen were dark patches on the earth, The blograph camera was made fo perform another remarkable feat, Placed on the topof a Brooklyn Bridge tower one clear day It was turned so as to take pletures in every direction of the compass, covering fifteen miles in every direction, In the few mo ments it takes to show these pictures on the screen, the spectators see 1 panorama covering something lke five hundred square miles. THRILLING WORK. Coupling an Engloe to a Fast Express Train While in Motion. “One of the most scientific picees of rallroad running I ever saw,” said John Rutgers, a former employe of the Pennsylvania Rallroad Company, who has now given up railroading and is engaged in business at Milwaukee, “used to be done on the ‘Pensy.” At that time they were running an hour and a half train from Philadelphia to this city, and as the present speed of tained ng en. The terrific speed together with the constant of anxiety throughout the run, told heavily on men's and after the train through a few times had to give It up. But to return the scientific work I started to tell of. To make such a schedule minute that could be saved was Princeton grade w it itable nerves, every counted. us © and always ne was long delay aud an ney ensued there. To stop and couple on dp matters for Pp more quired they tried when as the time necessary the st time Ie the grade. on the extra aneed, engine and the plan long the full to perfec was Kept up. beautiful of work 1 The extra engine would be run ning quietly along several miles from the grade. and when the ¢ Xpress came in sight the speed of the extra would be at once increased until it was great er than that of the « tle by little the engineer ind drop back tion as It pleces ns wns one of the ever neoming train would until amd train would come together as gently a feather floats to earth A man stationed the cowcatcher wottld « ouple ether and their united strength would whisk grade with scarce any wil. The grade forward engine would as on the two engines tog ain up the of the abatement Kn sur until it came to a and waiting would ran, and a mo would destina- scientific ward at top which was Into this It switch would then be closed, ment later fast speed open for it, the the express its way to its pretty and lized the attendant on It was a and If you ren a thrilling well to one as FORGOT BURIED WEALTH, by Its Old Pastor. and in on Park Chicago, on than in gold A veritable gold mine was fo the basement of the Immaculate Catholic Church, North and Schil afternoon, minutes nes upon which avenue ler street a recent less fuse and dirt was being taken The excitement attending the discov ory of the gold and or a time not only the school children, first made of the took part in the search, but the sisters in charge of the parish school and several brothers left their rooms and dug about in the pile of ground. The treasure, according to those ina position to know, was buried under the church in 1873, during the money panic by Father Patrick T. Butler, the present pastor of the church, and who is the oldest priest In point of service in that section of the country. When informed of the discovery of the gold coin Father Butler took possession of the money, claiming it as his, and an pouncing that he had buried it thers Years ago, It was during afternoon recess when the scholars poured into the schoolyard and commenced romping around the refuse which was being taken from the basement of the church that the wealth was discovered Father Butler was not at the parish house when the discovery was made but he returned when the work of car rying the money Into the schoolroom by the children was going on. His as tonishment knew no bounds when he beheld the large pile of glittering gold on the desk. He recalied having bur led the money shortly after the church had been erected. Later he explained that he had in herited the money from an brother, Dr Butler, in 1873, The money panic dur ing that year was at tite height, and believing the banks unsafe he buried the money 37.000) under the church, and long since had forgotten of its ex istence, The dates on the coins bear out hie statement, as all bear the date of years prior to 1873, N15 OS RA Making Allowances, “Do you admire Beethoven's mu sie?” naked the young maa whos hale in long and curls at the ends, On, yeu" answered the young woo wan, “Beethoven was all right for his day. You see, rag time hado't boon in. vented then v™ mine was intonse, wh the discovery the Half a million dollars in first-elnss securities would not represent the for tune made by the man who first thought of copper-tips to children's shoes, NEWS FOR THE FAIR SEX. NEWS OF INTEREST ON NUMER- ovUs FEMININE TOPICS. Attractive Alpaca Costumes ~A Return to False Hair Freshen Last Season's Lace Frock, ete., etc, Attractive Alpaca Cosfumas. Attractive and less coarse nnd more clinging and pli- able than those popular a year ago, tlthough these heavier weaves are stifl in favor with many women, mohair has a little velvet jacket bodice, turned bncek to show a blouse vest of handsome taffeta silk in tartan pat. terns, and geranium red. A matches the jacket In fabric, and are very close the arms, with flaring bell cuffs lined with the plaid. sleeves to A Return to False Hair. An ern of false hair seems to be upon us, ir to judge by the present displays in the leading hairdressers’ windows. Such an array of fringes and pompadour pads and puffs and long curls and wavy switches and what pot we have not had since the days of that terrible fact, the water fall. Young girls affect the Newport coil, or figure eight coll curl, and right pompadour with ligh doomed and the dignifie revived, i fancy one is i and single long The inge is is to be and dawney becom it Is, t curling fr dd part With it the low oil a Tre the net of chenille, a as it Is pamed What Pleases a Woman. She 1) KOS to De tM 13 told so She loved ai likes sot noble, honorable man to be thoughtful of } kind and of her well notice of siderate When a quiet ated. A word often the tion, Nhe be ret wel and of pral f more Gi Oar dnpensate i than nara of aod worry and wants her st her bh ipport usband not membering ghtful often thou brings than a new ents like tl Come, Nhe likes i= good to that bes lide honsehol likes not in names heart, mere She but pet publ Hire The Three-Qaarter Length Problem. The never the that Brace ing reformed OLes are fort is fault of the three it causes Knees and STH TWO, The the three-quarter cont which gain pepularity na ir eu count nbersomeness the fact every wor f them, of ax far ful enough to wear and arable some the newest quite ns CONoert $ he skirts ’ renders matter. up ment any better th the poor skirt up the microbes not able she looks smart coats do aw ay woes, as tf! in many Inst alr weight, and lined with China stead of satin. An interlining nel makes them as warm heavy covert clothing, but add much fo the weight Pour rngth ith a long tics fo while the irt cannot fjuartes dress ak with three ah wu One, uh] conti sweep wearer has the consolation of fix ling comfort Kpowledge that io repay her. The new of de of light cloths or the soothing with some thowe ey are ma Ances, novet summer silk in. of flan the 101 a8 are does The Maltrested Store Clerks “The Feputation which some large stores get for being disobliging to their customers or a. uncivil clerks could in the majority of cases be traced directly back to the shoppers themselves,” writes Edward Bok. “Systemless Shopping.” in the Ladies Home Journal. “I make no claim of perfection for the clerks who stand behind the counters of our great stores where women shop. They are only common mortals, full of faults, Dut considering what they are called upon of thoughtless women, the wonder is that they are so civil and obliging. If the truth could be known it would be found that they suffer than they inflict suffering. If the roll | could be ealled of hard-working, inno- | cent girle who have lost their positions | because of ill-founded complaints made | by ‘influential’ customers whose ac. counts the firm could not afford to lose, it would be a roll of disgrace to Ameri can shoppers, counter are human-—although from the | actions of some women we might be. Heve otherwise~human In their fanits, but also in thelr finef feelings, Very often they represent better families, better breeding, than that which is re- vealed to them from the other side of the counter.” Freshen Last Season's Lace Frock. The lace and the jet-ombroldered gowns of this winter are as far re. moved ns the poles from those robes which were sold by the hundreds of thousands at the end of last season, at prices which made them possible for the multitude, The lace gown of the moment ix, In many cases, composed of nt lens than three kinds of lace, one whose faintly yellow tone and filmy loveliness has for contrast the guipure. like thickness and string-colored shade of the second, while the introduction of cobwebby black Chantilly lace com- pletes the effect, and possibly, too, trails of flowers, embroidered massed jet pallettes, will decorate one or other of the laces. Bo It Is with | the jet-embroldered gowns, which dis | play some curiously vovel effects in | radiating serolls, their glitter being In { almost every [of little net frills at the hem, edged | ribbon, and : spoon or fan { with black velvet baby sweeping out into a shaped train, A smart dressmaker offers this hint to the possessor of one of Inst season's { hand-cmbroidered gowns, She says it {enn be brought up to date by having a { the shouldiers and tied loosely in front { of the decolletage, the long ends reach {ing to the waist, and just a pink rose or two nestling in the misty folds, while the skirt ean be provided with these bordering frills, More beautiful, perhaps, than fashion of late years are this wi EOWns black velvet, lace insertion {and jet embroidery. One pict | frock of this description is in pri i style, wilst in the most artful way, in contrast with the velvet below a bond sllmness is the ngure, where it is most inter's of uresgue Deess so that and . given to nbove becoming. Exercse and Fresh Air. day In an a dim distances To in all office who the problem of exercise is The and from her work make iti iMmnoasilile the woman cult one to solve ta it practically for hier to dot excepting from her door t a wintic mn or all day, the cal office though great deal Indo strength withou luncheon she mending It woman One se 1 her goes 10 het ng not ater her color than she and fresh ie is being and hard WO nanny Heston 11d sa Ehe went Ww the pros talked who liked turb the bo 80 sO 00 arders all leaving a long lane «1 the length of t she moved the trunks close to i wall, between rafters at Ole wm pulleys, purch and filed weight Anece a lead wis Indi gymns of £1.00 was called t howe fasten Two an clubs ade fod, pleted the n and ber IMI Was fl 8 oost orning she than rs uayal, and id to } if earlier * and 1:e5y “i EE which OUnTe full 0 open windows Was Two min pulling at each set oa minnt practice wi an clubs, and four ming iking up and down the the trunks with taking deep, of weights, indi to wi tween ties #teadsy fw on’ ten devoted bse swinging SPA long, regular breathes, beginning to sirides, woves an excellent the fay’ 8 work At night, = time, there are a few arm-and-shoulder move ments to be gone through for neck and throat development. Altogether not more than fifteen minutes a day are jspent in (he exercise. And the wo { man who has adopted this simple regi- men feels that it has been of great ser vice fo her. New York ost. t : 3% if there simp! ©" NEW FASHION FANCIES. Sable is first choice for fur collars The of furs in greatest outflow gnarinents, Some of the newest toques of fur are of moderate size and bise lace and handsome gold buckles, Iu street costumes furs appear collars, the straight or medic, (of coats and boleros, {of tunics or jupons, The new velvet collars are cut high | | under the ears and embroidered In a pattern with steel beads, | three inch fringe of the beads falls about the peck from the foot of the { collar, i {A pew pearl necklace is of {wisted | strands, forming a rope of pearls, which is looped about the neck in the | sare fashion, and the ends are finish. { ed with a sort of pearl {assel The latest string ties are of stitched taffeta with fringed ends caught in a sort of tassel effect. The very dainty girl puts a little sachet powder of her favorite perfume in the ends of her ties, Silks and satins are now being made bearing the applique designs, An elp- gant piece of old rose satin is seat. tered over wiih white butterflies so deftly wrought that a few yards away they seem bits of lace appliqued by hand. A recent bride was attired in a demi. trained gown of ivory-white ladies’ cloth of fine texture, It was trimmed with an elaborate pattern of white velvet with white plumes, and a large diamond buckle. The newest black and white gowns He {are those in brocaded putierns over | checked taffeta of very rich quality, also In matelnsse silks and satins, and in plain or flowered stripes, both wide and narrow, in silk and satin slterante i ly. Have you seen the little umbrella purse? It is a very couvenlent novelty, fof leather, round iu shape and fasten ing securely with a clasp, Fasteped by a short chain the handle, it Is easily at on 4 rainy (day and ix just large enough to hold | carfare penndes for “wuxtras,” | eirysanthemum for buttonhole, to got your ROPEMAKERS OF TONDO, Crispo, the Hunchback, Is the Joliest Dae in the Philippines. OF all the ropemakers of Tondo, In the Philippines, there 18 none so happy snd Jolly hunchback. His laugh Is so hearty that it can be heard from one end or wirling strands to other, and sometimes that is a full eighth of a mile. Every day when there iz seen with fellows twirling the reel aid fee ling the Wi as Crispo, the the the rain he Hons no is his ities hie is I pa lengthening rand full strand larger to the he begins off pon All the ming a8 tune, tunes the Ar reed] is again the atiother plaza, and ag ri po lives chivalrous days stories of the ghost boats on the bay kK 4 storm upon the Ropemaking is an May work ve, but * POD IN : rected nl ti § y ty 0 Keep This yd tangling the cobs slowly the if 3 they in there are tangles is the snarl twelve Opera- On ole i= hard work strand man front of th with their sirands, tors are om separate fora front are wo and vad to the other, machinery going until the (wo ropes te. When all done the rope the size of a Bie Comp = finished object is a vlothes line, IT a larger rope is to be made the op- eration repeated with many strands ax desired, according te the thickness of the rope wanted, The | process is the same, but cones with { larger grooves are used. In fact, as i long as the hemp holds out the opera- | tors can splice and splice mdefinitely, | The rope Is rolled up in great coils when it is finished for shipment, and | is then wrapped in coarse cloth manu: | factored from the same fiber.—Harry A. Armstrong. is as The Sapply of White Oak Givieg Out. The supply of white oak timber ip this country, used extensively and al most exclusively for shipbuilding of | the most durable kind is becoming ex. | hausted. A report received at the | Navy Department from an expert who | is investigating the subject says the | material in Obio has become scarce, i and no timber of equal quality is to be | found in any other Btate. Kvery year, | he gays, from 1,000,000 to 1,500,000 feet | of this timber Is shipped to Quebee, | and thence to Liverpool, where it is used by British shipbuilders. It is the general opinion that within ten years there will be no available white oak timber in Ohio. The naval construct org say this presents a seiwus situa. tion, although it is not so calamitous as it would be were ours not now a steel navy, Bill, we use the white oak in the construction of small boats, and o> a limited extent in the decking of warships, w A — Enthsuiasm Evervwhere, “1 suppose the war Lero received a warm welcome when he returped to hig native town? “Gosh! yes, stranger. Why, bhamed car window even shared in the welcome,” “How wns that?” -» “Why, It was the first one ta fall on his nec and catel bis hand.” <Chlea- go News, THE SAMOAN { SETTLEMENT, Somethlog About the Islands That Been Parcelled Out Of the Samoan Islands Germany gets the lon's ghare, Savall, with an area of GO9 square miles, and Upolu, with an area of 340 square miles, with fi combiped po prskati fun of about 20,000, The area of Tutuila is only 54 square and Its population 3,750. The area of the Tonga Islands 4s 374 square miles, the population 17,500, in- cluding 250 foreigners, wostly British, The chief interest of the United States in the Samoan Archipelago was the preservation of our rights in the harbor of Page-pago, a lease of which was secured tous by the treaty of 187K, This did not gis any absolute prop- erty in the island, as it was provided that it was to remain in force for ten years from aud was then ter- minable 1 twelve months’ notice 3 By a slmilar treaty the vear 9, the German Govern to the establishment Baluafata Harbor, and in the same Eritain acquired the right staldish a naval on he Have nud * Us ie dats by either i ment had a right of 8 ms in tl year Great al station in je ixland of 1 polo to ¢ station shores of a San to be here British Gov- not appying Balunfata, ¢ harbor of Pago ied by arbor Apia or the ites as a Bamon. Wea the States, } 4 { longit ridian of i a, W hich FPARD, and {foo fuila and the Oloosinga, Tut harbor 11d on In Savail that SOARS + period from the north is dangerous, or ships nil ai + i8 no first- ' Saluafata, very it of of Apia in the Mjuire 10 ake pest of a island of harbors like harbor and roch vessels cuuses ig the ix a dex Pp ti 1 « I £0 se Out we the other isl is general 1y Con the finest har. Its entrance » wide, with val experts ie entrance,” the in- examined its open extends 3.000 and, to 11,000 carrying sound home to six fath. which skirt the 200 foot 200 feet at low who, at 1d ation “we 1 which ile went, nt a breadth of SBOTeast o Le head « £ the bay hieen fat the rom i120 while reefs &hor to water.” to the United ¥ made with Maunga, Samoan tribes at © Sie aii almost awash Pago-pago was ceded Mates by a trea t » chief man of the * tithe An officer of Adams, the place, Sort is 2a magnificent from coming any admirable station for cali for a line of steamers from America to Australia, and a valuable conling place for men- of -war cruising in the Pacific Ocean. It can be re adily fortified, and might be made a stronghold for our cruisers in case of war. 1t dominates the Routh Pacific, and naturally gravitates to- ward the United States. On the occa- sion of the formal hoisting of the American flag te denote the acquisition the harbor. &c¢., more than 500 na- tives from all the contiguous islands assembled and witnessed the lonposing ceremony ratifying the concession of the splendid port above described.” United Slates bh took possession the time: “The land-locked har- dangerous winds quarter. It is an steamer wrote at secluded from of Oom Paul's Door-Plate. John G. Thomas of Chicago is prob- ably the only man in the Northwest who bas ever sold any merchandise to Oom Paul Kruger, president of the Boer Republic. In conversation he sald: “1 owned a glass door plate man- ufactory a few years ago. A year ago last July I got an order from him and forwarded it by mail to his address. It was about fifteen inches long and six inches wide, and on it, in plain, gold letters, was the inscription: ‘Paul Kruger, Staats President.’ 1 have no doubt that the plate is now doing duty on hie front door, and that If the gov- erzment goes under it will be found among the assets,” Milwaukee Sentl- nel, incredulous, A country rector was showing a par ty of his parishioners over the rectory, when they came to a small room full of curios. Pointing to an armiet of dull gold, the clergyman remarked: “That ornament was found in u tomb in Mexico, Central America. The Muh was probably a thousand years An old fellow standing by fidgeted, scratched his head, and then re marked: *'Souse me, ur: they must ‘ave ‘ad yer. America wasn't. discovered six hundred year ago let sione & thous.
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