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An ex-presidept id in demand, an speaker or an ex-spen! comes next as a rule, and senator representatives are invited to spn the order of thelr nsefulpess a dozen efforts hy other men, th they may be more logical apd elo The candidate himself, when an on tor. will draw greater crowds than auy body else, but If he Is wise be the national committee arrange his itin erary and schedule. Headquariers are always overrun with volunteers Tor the stump; the star, or man with tation, walls to be lavited er Most of the lesser men are laborers for hire, but others arg ambitious to mule a reputation as a stepping stone fo jx litical office, and some are inten earnest and eager to be useful) to thelr party. The commitice the expenses of spellbinders, unk they insist on paying thelr own was whieh is unusual. Some of the orators receive haopdsome thelr services and travel Home Magazine. rep HIRE il Sete national ied stilts fn in siite Senntorial Repartee, Once In the senate climber John Ingalls was directing some remarks 1 Senator Hoar of Massachusetis { other senator from that Mi Dawes, havigg come In while Mr lu galls was speaking. thought the wor were meant for his ear. and =o rupting, be asked logalls if be recting the remarks at him. The all senator turned slowly around, for Mr Dawes sat behind him, and then, w delicious Intonation, but an instant wit, he said, “1 was directing my marks to the successor of Charles Sum per and not to the successor of Danio) Webster.” The repartee has become traditional, and the utterance was at once placed alongside of that reply of Conkilug to Senator Thurman, which Is also tra siate, ra Conkling was speaking. and Thor the senator alm bis remarks at be constantly turns to me?” Mr. Conkling, with delicious gravity, bowing to Thurman, with whom he was very friendly, sald: “When | to the senator, 1 turn as the Mussul man turns to Meccan; | turn as 1 would turn to the common law of England~ the world’s thost copious fount of ju risprudence.” tie when ee ut When LI Hung Chang Grinoed. Once during a dry season in China the vicervy, Earl Li Hung Chang, call ed on the American minister, Mr. Con ger, and spoke of the weather. “Yes,” sald Mr. Conger, “it sects to be dry everywhere. It Is dry io my 1 read in ove of our pa pers the other day that in many places rain” “What!” sald the earl. “Do your peo ple pray to thelr God for rain?’ “Oh, yes,” sald the minister, “they often pray for rain.” “And does thelr God send It they pray for It?” asked the earl “Yes, sometimes thelr prayers are an swered, and sometimes they are not.” “All the same like Chinese juss, bey 7° said the carl, with a z=in and a chuckle. ————— when Bound fo Mave Order, “My husband Is just too ridiculous for anything.” “Why so?” “Why, he staid at home last night was sitting ou a chav in the corner, & black snake whip in one hand and a re Bun. ru, et ant ELECTRIC SCIENCE, Feature of Great Importance at ‘he Pan-American, Electricity and electrical applinnces are to receive such attention to make this one feature of the Pan American Exposition the greatest ny of development. In addition to the spe ncular uses of electricity in Hluminat ing bulldings, towers, courts and foun tains there will be very Important dem onstrations of the applieation of the force to many new purposes. Among them will be wireless telegraphy, the X rays, the electromobile, telegraphy to and from moving tralps by inde tion, the Improvements in the eleetrie light and felephone., The wonderful labor sa¥ing qualities of electricity have revolutionized the production of many articles of merchandise within the past decade. This plinse of ployment of the electric d will f a most pleasant study for thos are interested | the sciences, and su om rm who newest of the ch a study as will ouly be possible nt the Exposition. The de- velopment of electrie power will be 1. lustrated in a comprehens yn Ler Teddy Didn't See It, Teddy Vanderchump came down to the elub the other night with a great problem weighing on his mind. fug up to the boys, he sald: “If 1 stand on my bead, the blood all fushes to my head, doesn’t it?” No one ventured to contradict him. “Now,” he centinued triumphantly, “when I stand on my feet why don't the blood all rush Into my feet?” “Because,” replied Hostetter McGin- nis, “your feet are not empty.’ The boys all laughed, but Vander chump sald he didn't see any joke. Com- The “Pleket.”™ The picket was generally inflicted on cavalry and artillerymen and was a singularly brutal bit of torture, A long post, near which stood a driven Into the ground. The deli was ordered the 3 81001, 1" n fo mount stool, in the post Ligh as it could be wrist. A stump the heigh with Its end cut to a re point, was also driven stretohed, t of the six into the close to the post, taken away ing to rest . and the sufferer had noth- Lis bare feet upon bu the stamp, “which, though it did not usu- ally break skin” Captain Grose, “put him in great torture, ouly means of relief being by his weight wrist, which soon can very well believe when he makes the addition that a man was not infrequently left to stand in this position for half an bour, alk though the orthodox period of endur ance was 15 minotes. —London Graphic. the GAYS his resting he pain of One his on became intolerable.” Lim, especially Marconi Objected. There was a little dinner once given to Wiliam Marconi, of which one incl- dent is still remembered by some of the | guests. An oratorical member of the company, growing enthusiastic over a toast to the Inventor of wireless teleg- raphy, made this climax to his perora- tion: “Gentlemen, 1 give you Marconi, the Franklin, the Faraday and the Helmholtz of Italy.” ‘bad been drunk, the : the action of the preceding speaker in In 1881 the isles of Ischia and Scio losing about 4,000 to 5,000 people. chia was again visited in 1853, but did not get off as easily as before, coming missing. The great calamity of the nineteenth century was the great con- {to have killed not less than 120,000 per- | SECHLER & COMPANY, BELLEFORTF, PA. 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