THE PACIfffi CABLE, America Sow lias Its Opportunity to Take a Hand in the Traffic Peneath the Seas. WASHING OUT WEAK STOMACHS. Shortsightedness Kot an Indication of In tellectual Activity, but Bather of Bad Schooling. A TWENTI-FOOn-HOUR CLOCK DIAL Compressed Leslie Being Urged u a KiteritI for Brakes on Bulrc&di. irEXrAEED rOBTHEDIEPATrn.i It is a somewhat sincular fact that the manufacture of submarine cables has from the first to the present day remained in English hands on English soil. "With but one or two trivial exceptions, tho cables of the world, which stretch a length of 120,000 nautical miles, have cost 8200,000,000, and arc watched over by a fine laying and re pairing fleet of 40 for steamers, are of Brit ish construction and of like ownership. The French manufacturers have lately become so jealous that they now propose to impose a heavy dutv on cables imported into the country, but it would also appear that this duty is directed against cables of American manufacture for land use, as an order has recently been secured by one of our leading companies for no fewer than CO cables of a well-known type for telegraphic use in Paris. In this class of work American skill and invention are pre-eminent, and it is there fore considered the more remarkable that in makine long submarine cables this country has no status at all, even the Government buying its short sea cables from abroad. A large trade is now being done in American land cables in Europe, and large sums ot English nioncv have just been invested in one of the most extensive insulated wire and cable factories on this continent. "What makes this matter of more than or dinary interest at this moment is the fact that the first great cable across the Pacific Ocean to Japan, China, Australasia and "Lands of Ind" must soon be laid. A Brit ish man-of-war reported a series of Pacific Eoundings last month, and the project is be ing thoroughly and lavorably discussed in cable circles in London. President Harri son has called upon Congress to do some thing to prevent the Pacihc mail steamers from forsaking San Francisco for "Vancou ver, and a like appeal will soon be in order as to the Pacific cable, the western landing of whitb within her territory will be of the utmost strategic importance to Great Britain. But with our immense and growing trade in the Pjcific, where already we exercise a protectorate over the Sandwich Islands and are acquiring tew responsibilities or oppor tunities dailv, it is of no less importance that the cable should land under the Stars and Stripes. This question is agitating American electrical engineers, who are pa triotic enough to believe that the cable should be made in America, be owned by American capital, and be operated by Americans. They say that since we have done practically nothing in all the great cable work in South America, and played but a subordinate part in the work that created the North Atlantic cable system, it is high time to pre-empt that which still awaits in the deep watera first gazed upon by the doughty old BHboan, Vasco Nunez. It has been suggested by one electrician that this cable laying would be the most creditaole and useful perform ance that could distinguish the Columbian quadri centennial. Systematic Study of Inventions. Edward P. Thompson, in a recent lecture on "How to Make Great Inventions," sug gests that classes for the development of the power of inventing should be estab lished in our various scientific colleges, so that instead of a large mass of knowledge being stored away, to be, perhaps, event ually forgotten, the systematic application of the principles the student is daily im bibing will have the effect of fixing them in his mind forever. Suppose, for instance, the exercise embraced the practical utilization of the electrical principle that selenium is a conductor of electricity when exposed to light, and a non-conductor of electricity when in the dark. One student might propose to solve the problem of rising with the sun. He would have an electric bell in circuit with an electric bat tery ana a piece of selenium, which would hang in the window. No current would pass iu the night because the selenium is in the dark, but it would pass and ring the bell when exposed to the light of the rising sun. Another student might snggest the wonderful invention of Elisha Gray, who employed this principle for transmitting sound. Still another student might propose to make a meter for measuring the amount of energy consumed by an incandescent lamp during each month by placing the se lenium near the lamp. While the lamp was burning away a local and small current would flow and operate clockwork; when the lamp was out, the clockwork would stop, or the current, while flowing, could operate any suitable meter. Such a discipline as this would be mani festly of the highest value. Mr. Thompson, alter describing the various methods of working adopted br different inventors, some of whom would ponder laboriously over a pro lem for years, while others would begin to experiment upon the very first con ception, building a machine forthwith, and then fiihting the difficulties, and afterward building improved machines, stated that he had recently visited the home of the in ventor of a "Put a nickel in the slot and have your photograph taken." The machine did all the work, being automatic from beginning to end of the process Al though marvelous to behold and apparently intricate, it was the result of the very first experiment, and it did its work not only well but every time. It took the inventor but two months to rednce the mental in vention to the physical; but to complete the mental invention, and to experiment with all the movements in the mind, assisted by pencil and paper, occupied the larger por tion of a year. Communicating With. Light Houses. Now that the subject ot submarine tele phone cables, and their future possibilities, is being so lreely discussed, it is interesting to know that the cable which has been laid by the pilot authorities in Finland, between Hanzo, the most bouthern point of Finland, and a light house two and one-half miles from the coast, for telephonic communica tion, is working perfectly. Catting the Diamond. The operation of cutting the diamond comprises three phases; splitting, shaving and polishing. All crystals possess the quality of easily cracking in certain di rections; in the diamond there are three principal and very distinct directions, without counting several secondary ones, and cleavers or splitters call these the "threads" of the stone. A good workman always knows where to find the thread, and this is bow he does it: The diamond to be cleaved is fixed in a convenient position at the end of a short stick by means of cment: then to another baton, and by the same process, is fastened a sharp diamond. Taking in bis right hand the baton bearing the sharp point, and in his left the one that holds the diamond to De cleaven, he rests them at the middle on a box which is firmly screwed down to his table, thus turning a sort of lever. He then rubs the two against each other, r in til the sharp stone has made a notch in th e other stone. He uses three blades, one aft er the other. "With the first he makes a groove, which with the second knife is regul arized, and with the third finished off in a spiirific manner. Then holding with his left band the baton on which is the stone to be split, and at the same time a steel knife, the edee of which is fixed in the "thread," be hits the knlle a clean blow ,with a small iron bar, and the diamond is separated e: cacti y at the point desired. This "cleavage!, " as it is called, is not always necessary; still, lapidaries have recourse to it when they wish to take lrom the crystal its defective particles, or to give it convenient shape for :fter operations! Novel Treatment for Dyspepsia. A simple and novel treatment for the cure of dyspepsia and cancer ol the stomach has lately been practiced by many prominent physicians. 'This consists in washing out the stomach. A long flexible pipe is passed down the throat until, one end is in the stomach. The upper end has a funnel at tached into which hot water is poured until the stomach is filled. ?fhe funnel end of the pipe is then turned down until it is lower than the bottom of th 6 stomach, which is thus emptied as throuch a siphon. The hot water closes the blood vessels and reduces inflammation, and the relief is immediate. To Clean Silver Filigree. A ready mode of cleaning silver filigree is afforded by dipping it in a solution of cyanide of potassium. This, however, is a dangerous liquid to have much around, and a solution of hyposulphite of soda, which is perfectly harmless, will serve the purpose nearly as well. If it is a matter of absolute certainty that there is no metal but silver in the jewelry, it can be easily and effect ually cleaned by boiling it in sulphuric acid. Cure for a Plaguo of Insects. The wholesale destj uction of insects through the medium, of large floods of light from an electric -arc has long been the bobby of varions persons who have observed the number of moths and other insects which at certain times of the year' pay the penalty of their inability to with stand the fascination of the bright speck of fire produced by the incandescent car bons of the electric lamp. On the author ity of a very reputable European journal such an application has been recently made on an extensive scale and with most beneficial results. A cut in Ueoer Laud und Me.tr gives a des olate picture of a once beautiful park near Munich, Bavaria, the vegetation of which has been completely destroyed by the rav ages of a moth called the nun, on account of the peculiar black and white shading of its wings. The trees are all denuded of leaves, and stand gaunt and cheerless, a silent reproach to the inability of the inhabitants to cope with the scourge. It is said that all known devices were brought into requisition in the at temot to rout the enemy; fires were lighted, sheets of cotton cloth steeped in ad hesive glue were stretched from tree to tree; legions of children were enlisted as a caterpillar-packing army, but these and all other efforts were as but a drop in the bucket, against the sweeping onslaught of the in sects. At last the electric light was thought of. On the top o! a rough frame work a powerful search light was fixed, and under neath this was an exhaust fan operated by a motor leading to a kind of grinding mill. It is stated that the insects attracted by the intense light were drawn down in myriads to the rollers of the grinding mill. Electricity in Boots and Shoes. ' The use of an electric micrometer has been imported into the manufacture of boots and shoes. The function of this device is the sorting of pieces of leather according to their thickness, and their distribution in their respective receptacles. So accurately is this performed that the pieces in the various receptacles hardly vary one thousindth part of an inch in thickness. Besides the sorting of the pieces oi leather, the machine automatically records the number distributed. "When the appara tus is in operation all that is required of the attendant is to put the taps in a trough-like box. A follower is ad justed behind the taps, which keeps them in an upright position and maintains a con stant pressure as they are fed from the trough into two abutting flanges, the taps in return being fed from" the trough into the micrometer fingers, which pass successively Into position. The fingers, which are moved around by a ratchet movement, pause a short time over the receptacle for taps, and when one of them reaches a bin in which the tap should be dropped, the inner extension of the finger touches an electric contact, and the tap falls, from the jaws. The operation of the finger is made to actuate a connector which indicates the number of taps in every receptacle. Blowers for War Ships. An industry which promises to attain very considerable dimensions is the manu facture of the electric blower, which, started not many months ago, is now rapidly grow ing. This apparatus was primarily designed for use in dynamo and engine rooms of steamers and other places where the space is limited and where at the same time rapid and thorough ventilation is abso lutely necessary. Owing to the extreme compactness of the blower, it may be placed in the smallest room, and proves a most powerful exhaust. It was speedily seen that suck a device was Invaluable on war ships, and Its installation on the Baltimore was soon followed by Its adoption on nearly all the modern war ships of the United States "tfavy. Notlong ago the Italian JSavy ordered some ot these machines from an American firm, and it has now sent for another large consignment of the most powerful machines made. New Core for Goat. On the authority of the Maitn, of Paris, it is stated that Mr. Edison has discovered a new enrefor gout, which consists in the simul taneous use of litbine and electricity. Stopping Machinery. A most Ingenious application of electricity has been made to the machinery dealing with cotton in what is called the "sliver" form. A most important thing in connection with this process is that the frames must not be allowed to work, even for a moment, with one or more of the slivers broken, otherwise the connt of the yarn wonld become irregular, and to avoid all risk of this all manner of valuable and complicated appliances have been devised. The latest and most effective is an electric stop motion, and to such automatic perfection has this ma chine been brought that if one of the-delicate films should chance to bteak the frame would instantly stop dead. When the sliver is passing between the two iron rollers it necessarily keeps them apart, but when the cotton breaks they come together, and tbns an electric cir cuit Is completed, to which the current is sup plied by a small magneto-electric machine. Another equally simple motion is providing for stopping the frame when the can Is full. Speed in Ballway Travel. Prof. Thurston, in discussing the possibilities of speed in future railway travel, states as his conviction that where railways are carrying large numbers of passengers on short routes, as as on elevated roads where, if ever, we may reach enormously high speeds the electrlo mo tor, or some advance even on that latest marvel of invention and engineering, must come Into use. Heat, light and electricity will then con spire in that comrac revolution, which shall combine for us the speed of the bird, the com forts of home and the safety of a hermit's cell. And ti hat must come will come. Transmitting Pictures Electrically. Not many months ago a new system of send ing pictures by telegraph was described in the electrical journals. The principle of this pro cess was the division of tho picture to be sent Into squares, each square belnc numbered to correspond with a paper similarly prepared, and to be used at a distant point, to be drawn upon according to the direction sent from tho trans mitting station by the number communicated. While applicable to pictures bavintr only straight lines, this proce:s was not found feasi ble for the transmission ot portraits. For this purpose an Improved method has been sug gested, by which it Is claimed that an exact re production in chiaroscuro of the original THE photograph can be electrically transmitted to the receiving station. Aro Wo Losing Our Eyes? At a recent meeting of the British Medical Association, one of the subjects discussed by some of the most distinguished specialists in England was myopia, or short-sightedness. For men engaged in study or minute work there is some advantage in a slight decree or myopia, which in old age confers the privilege of read ing without glasses. It has been said that myopia is the companion of intellectual pro gress, but it is an unpleasant companion, not a friend. Even excessivo intellectuality, when accompanied by myopia, does not compensate for the inability to Bea the details of landscape, the shapes and movements of living creatures, architectural beauties, and the facial expression of our friends. There is no doubt that myopia is Increasing. While the children of short-sighted persons are not often born with myopia they aro very liable to it at early age. Myopia reacts upon itself. The more a child at school stoops over bis book the moro myopic he becomes, and consequently he stoops still moro, until the shape of the eye ball Is so changed that it is impossible to use both eyes for distinct vision. It was for some time thought that the large increase in this affection was peculiar to tbo schools ot Germany, but recent statis tics show that in England, France and America the poroentage ot myopes is exceedingly large. M. Drolais. of Pans, who has made this sub ject a special study, asserts that the hygienic defects in the schools bad light, wans of space, improper desks and stools are the secret of this lamentable Increase in short-sightedness. It can scarcely be doubted that with our pres ent school systems, the bad light, unsuitable furniture and long hours of study, with no in telligent supervision over the pupils and school bouses, we must before long become a nation of myopes. Leather Brako Shoes. A compauy has been formed in New South Wdles for tho pnroose ot exploiting the manu facture of railway brake shoes from com pressed leather. Waste leather scraps aro steeped in a solution and subjected to a hy draulic pressure to mold them to any desired shape. The leather shoo is said to possess dis tinct aavantaces over that of Iron, with su perior efficiency In every way. The .leather shoe weighs 4 ponnds against 1 pounds for iron, and it will wear three times as long. More than this. It has a greater coefficient of friction, so that 40 pounds air pressure is as effective as 70 pounds with iron brake shoes. There is one pre-eminent benefit which the introduction of a leather brake shoe would confer on communi ties which are subjected to the necessary evil ot the elevated railroads. They would thus be spared the dangerous shower of iron particles, which now injure so many eyes. An attempt has already been made to remedy this serious source of danger by the use of compressed pa per. This, However, was found to be impracti cable. It is earnestly to be hoped that the new shoe will stand tne test of practical work. Protection for Retailers. A novel Idea has been presented to the En glish trade to meet the competition from man ufacturers who have stores for retailing their own foods. It is proposed to form a company, with a capital stock of 5100,000. This company will pay cash for tho goods, which will be re sold to shareholders at invoice prices, plus a charge ot 6 per cent to cover expenses. The object of the company is that the shareholders, who are retailers, will be able to bny all classes of goods at the lowest wholesale prices for cash, without reference to the qnantlty bought. Bv this plan of co operative buying, it is figured that a great saving can be made over the regular way of buying in small lots by retailers, who lose the trade discounts and other items, which it is estimated make a total of . about 15 per cent. The multiple shop competition is said to be bearing heavily on the small retailers, and some plan of this kind n necessary if they are not to be crowded out. The idea is an excellent one, but whether it can be made a practical success or not remains to be seen. Twenty-Four Hoar Clock Dials. A 21-hour clock dial has been adopted on all the Indian State railways. The periphery of the dial is divided into minute sections as in ordinary clocks and watches; the hour is indi cated by a small figure on a small conspicuous plate or disk above the center of the dial so that the necessity for more than one hand is obviated. Artificial Rubies. Abont three years ago two French chemists succeeded in producing rubles artificially. The crystals obtained, however, were small, and since then tho inventors have been occupied with tbo problem of increasing the size of the rubie3 obtained. To this end considerable changes have been made In their methods of operating. Instead of using pure alumina, as formerly, alumina alkallmsea by potassium carbonate is employed. This addition of an al kali does not alter the purity of the crystals obtained, while it facilitates their regular for mation. In the original experiments tbo op eration was completed in 24 hours, but the re action is now extended over several months, with the result of obtaining much larger crystal'. As much as seven ponnd weight of rubies is said to hare been obtained at a single operation. Although the crystals are still rela tively small, they aro sufficiently large to mount, which was not the case in the first es says of the inventors. The Ideal in Photography. Catharine Weed Barnes, in a recent paper, advocated the maintenance of high ideals in photographic work, and showed the legitimate lines on which such work should be followed. Miss Weed argued that a fancy photograph is not a portrait any more than a fancy painting, and the the photographer in this work Is just as much at liberty as the painter to carry out his artistic taste. But, while he can not make such decided alteration in his model as the painter, he is entitled to use any and every means in bis power to make his picture a success. A painter often alters entire features in a face, or decidedly changes the figure, and that is considered perfectly legitimate. In purely fancy work the photographer should be permitted the same privilege without question, but with portraits pUro and simple, the likeness should be thought of first; that is the main thing. Cement Improved by Salt Water. An important series of experiments has been earned ont to determine the effect of salt water on cement. Tho results are somewhat revolu tionary in their tendency, since they appear to show conclusively that instead of being harm ful, neutral or variable in its effect on cement, salt water is positively con ducive to tbo strenctU of all ce ments, with the exception, perhaps, of one or two special brands of minor Importance. In every case where sea water was used a corre sponding test with fresh water was made. In the salt water tests sea water was used both for mixing the cement and covering the briquettes while in water. Each series of tests was made as nearly as possible nnder the same condi tions. The results proved that in every instance, save one, cement used with salt water is much the stronger. The establishment of this fact will certainly prove a boon to engi neers working along the seashore, as they can use salt water by preference, instead of avoid ing its use, as has heretofore been the custom. If the results attained are eventually received with confidence by engineers, it is qnlte possi ble that salt may be added to cement mortar on important works not adjacent to sea water. Emulsifying Ollfbr Painting. A well-known manufacturer claims that the only proper way of making a ready-mixed paint in which there is a considerable portion of white lead and zinc white present, to keep indefinitely, is to emulsify the oil. This pre vents the chemical action which the painter knows as "fatting," that is, prevents the form ation of that particular' kind of lead soap which will not dry. A Station Indicator. The device for indicating the names of sta tions in Buch a manner that passengers on rail way cars can at all times be saved any anxiety as to their whereabouts, which was put on trial on varions lines some time ago, has shown It self so well adapted for Its pnrpose that Its gen eral adaption in every passenger car on the Grand Trunk system, both In the United States and Canada, has been decided upon. A nicely finished frame of polished wood, at both ends of the car, contains a num ber of thin iron plates, painted with the name ot stations in the order in which the train passes through them. As each station is passed, the conductor pushes a lever on the Indicator, a gong sounds and the previous plate drops, expressing the words: "The next sta tion is ." This is repeated after every sta tion, so that a passenger has only to look at the indicator to discover at any time the name ot the town or city which the train Is approach ing. Very Likely. New York Sun.J From Kansas, the mighty mother of alii ances, comes news of the formation of a Grand Lodge of the Knights of Reciprocity, the Plumed Knights of Reciprocity, we suppose. They Slight bo Inoculated, "sew YorkPress.2 The baccillus of lockjaw Is said to have been discovered, bat It is the lockjaw that the country wants given to the. unending speech makers in Congress. PITTSBURG - DISPATOH CHRISTMAS THOUGHT Message of the Angel Tbat Came Nineteen Hundred Years Ago TO THE WATCHIKG SHEPHERDS. No Greater Event Has Been Announced In the History oi the World. IT MEANS SALTATION FOB THE EACE "Unto yon is born this day a Savior." That was the message of the angel, as out of the shining glory of the Lord he came, above the fields'of Bethlehem, where shep herds watched their flocks. That was the good tidings of great Joy, so strange, so wonderful, so filled with blessing and hap piness unspeakable, that when the angel uttered it suddeuly there stood beside him a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God and saying, "Glory to God in the Highest, and on earth peace, good will towards men." That is what the psalms and authors say. That is what Christmas means. He who was born on Christmas Day came into this world to save us. He did and does save every man who puts his hands in his, and gives him his heart. We want to think about that this morning. We know it so well, that we are in danger of not Knowinc it at all. We want to think about it; and really get it into our hearts and lives, if we can, more than ever before. it's a family day. We want to leave behind us for a little while all the other associations which gather about the day. There is the joy in all our hearts of love one for another. There are our homes, with Christmas gifts in them and Christmas cheer. Christmas is the great day of the family, and most rightly and blessedly so. Bat let us put all that out of our minds for a little space and think just about this. Let us remember that Christ was born tbat Ho might save us. You know what need there was in the world for Christ's help, when He came. You know what sort of world it was, with re ligion almost dead, and morality very little better. How black the sky was all around that shining of celestial light where the an gels stood a black sky with only a scattered company of stars to give light In it. That was how the black world closed in about the manger in the Bethlehem stable. There lay the Christ-child, and all about was the world lying in darkness. There was light there where the holy child lay upon the bosom of the virgin mother. The light which lighteth every man which com 'h into this world was there; but oh I how dark it was everywhere else dark with ig norance of God, dark with unbelief, dark with paiu, dark with sin, with only here and there a good man like a star. And out of this darkness Christ came to save us. The world is better now than it was on that first Christmas day, and yet it is a pretty dark world.even now. All our hearts, I am afraid, have dark corners in them. All our lives, I know, have experiences of pain in them. There is a good deal of sin still in the world, and sorrow beyond anybody's measuring. THE TE OUGHT OF GOOD FRIDAY. Now thero is one part of the Christian doctrine which we call the atonement. I would say that it is the very central and es sential part. It includes all else which anyone can teach about how we may be saved. It comes into our thoughts most emphatically at another time of the Chris tian year than this. It centers about the death of Christ This revelation of the bearing of Christ's death upon our sins is very difficult to understand. Indeed it is so difficult that, seen after pretty nearly 1,900 yearsof study, men have not really got any further than just the simple fact. Christ died to save us from our sins. That we know. And beyond that we know abso lutely nothing. Not a single theory which ventures its commentary upon this fact sat isfies us. This, I say, is the part of the Christian truth about 'salvation which cen ters about Good Friday, and adds its empha sis to the joy of Easter. That is not the whole of the Christian truth about salvation. That is not the part ofit which comes into our hearts at Christ mas. We remember to-day how He who died at last to save us from our sins was born, and taking our nature upon Him lived our human life, to save us from our sins, to give us guidance in our temptations, to give' us consolation in our sorrows. Christ saved us not only by His death but by His life. It is significant, indeed, that Christ came as a little child into the world. Think how infinitely that widens out tun application of His example! At every step along the way, we may ask ourselves, How would Christ have met this difficulty, or en countered this temptation, or improved this opportunity? From childhood up Christ's life is lived beside our own. THE EXAMPLE OF A LIFE. .That is one of the things that we want. We want somebody to show ns how. We' want somebody to go abead before us and give us guidance and the inspiration of his example. We all recognize the help we get from good men and women who live beside us, in whose eyes a light dwells which brightens the lives of all who see it, whose lips speak wisdom, whose character uplifts our character. These good people are the saviorsof their friends. He who was born on this day was and is the Savior of the world. He is just that which we see in th saints and heroes of our commoi lives magnified and multiplied in finitely. It does help a man in the face of spiritual danger to think about the purity and truth of Christ. It does give a man courage to bear misunderstanding, to re member how Christ was misunderstood. It does uplift us, it does ennoble us, it does save us, to think of Him. Sometimes it aU seems dark about us; we look up and there is no such light in the sky as the Bethlehem shepherds saw; we listen for some revelation out of heaven, and the sky, which echoed with angelic voices 1,900 years ago, is dumb. We want to know what the truth is. And so many people clamor this, and so many that, and everywhere are questions without any answers, that we wonder if there really is any truth anywhere, or if we can ever find out what it is. We are tempted to take the easy way ol the Apostles and sav, "I know not." And then we turn to Christ. We go to Him as the wise men went, confessing tbat we are not wise men at all, but that He is wise, and say to Him we bring,our doubts and out darkness and ask Him to give us light. TO BE THE LIGHT. And that is what Christ came into this world for to be the light There is no truth which we need to know, but He will tell us. There is no question to which we really need to have an answer, but He will answer it for us. He who on Christmas Day took up our life and began to live it, was the Master. In spiritual things, in knowledge of God. in knowledge of the heart of man, insight into heaven, He was the Master. What He said, He spoke out of a mind and heart before which we can but bow in reverence. What He spoke is true, be cause He spoke it. .He who knew so much more about these things than the most ot us can ever know, said so. It is enough. And so we come to Him, if we can only trust Him that much, and He who saves us from sin, saves us from the darkness of doubt. And so it is in sotrow. We cannot all be glad even on Christmas Day. Christmas comes, and men and women are in want,and in the pain of sickness, and in the grief of loneliness just as at other times. Christ did not tell us-why. But He did tell us that God, our Heavenly Father, whoorderethall things iu heaven ana earth, who knows the end lrom the beginning, and can distinguish as we cannot between the better and the worse.. Christ did,tell us that, God, whp knows what is best, does what u best al- .f JtVtiilitfi&ih!&Lar& "-'Mfr"" IsllBlftMilMiWsisBflssMB rsssWiMBilH !p1 . ?" V WPW-IHgWB JBiitsMMsMilsriKfmsMMBlBMWrB WEWiFsTOflagSgMigiWWi-ly MFftsHHSBSn3hjBBiflWM.Mfffff SXLSTDAX, DECEMBER ways, and loves us everyone infinitely more than we can know. Christ told us Christ, the Master, told us that God cares, that God loves. And that truth, if we can only get hold of it, and keep our bold firm upon it that truth gives us just the comfort that we need. We go to Christ in trouble, and He helps us always. That is what a Savior is for to help people, and to help them every day, and in every kind of trouble. That is how Christ saves us. NOBODY LEFT OUT. "Unto you is born a Saviour." It was to the shepherds that the angel said it, as it he would teach us that no man is so lonely, so obscure, so ignorant, so poor, but tbat Christ who was born this day was born for him. By and by came the wise men from the East, as if to tell us that no man is so rich, so wise, so noble, so mighty, but that the Christmas message is for him too. Unto yon is born a Saviour. Nobody is left out unless he leaves him self out. He who took our nature upon Him, and out of heaven for our isake came to earth, and took up His bard life, with the cross at the end of it out of all that is bad in us, or mean, or low, or selfish, or un brotherly, He will save us; out of the darkness of all our doabtings He will lead us; out of the blackness of our pro foundest sorrow she will make the Christmas light to shine. "Unto you is horn this dav in the citvof David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord." Geoeoe Hodges. THE BELLAMY KITCHEN. An Experiment at Evanston, Ind., Not Working Satisfactorily. t Philadelphia Telegraph. The Evanston Co-operative Housekeeping Association, upon which the eyes ot thousands have been turned with keen Interest, awaiting the outcome of the scheme to solve the servant girl problem, a dispatch from Chicago says, is already in tronble. During Its brief experi ence of two weeks the books of the concern show a shortage of $2,000. Many of the stock holders became dissatisfied with the way Harry 3J. Gran, the manager, was running things, and his resignation has been accepted. The association has been condncted too ex travagantly for the amount iSl a week per per son) chanted for the meals. Mr. Grau now says the project will be a failure, and will go under before many weeks. Seven dollars a week Is what persons who know claim as the lowest rate at which the elaborate meals pro vided under the present regime can be served. The association was incorporated with a capital stock of $5,000 a few months since, and served its first meal at luncheon Monday, De cember 8, to over 60 prominent families. The plan which has been in operation until this time is about as follows: The bills of fare are sent round 24 hours in advance of the meal ordered, and the order blank is sent back at once. The meal prepared is then placed into a contrivance which is kept warm by hot water and is sub-divided into compartments for the various edibles. These are distributed In a wagon at the residences of the subscribers. Bread is furnished each morning freshly baked, and milk, cream and fruit are delivered daily. Each week the lady of the house makes a requisition for butter, coffee, tea. cocoa, sugar, pepper and salt, which are prepared at home. The ladies are still enthusiastic, and declare that they will not allow the scheme to fall through, i A CAVE DEEP HT'THE EABTH. Knives and the Remains of a Prehistoric Race Found In it. News comes from Bed Cliff,Col.,of a wonder ful discovery made there of a number of relics of some prehistoric race, and an ancient sepulchre in the most peculiar place, which it would appear had never been visited by man kind in any age. The men were dicgtng with picks and shovels in virgin soil, when suddenly, as one of the men struck a blow with his pick, It al most flew from his hands, and by the light of their candles they saw a small aperture in the earth, which was quickly widened suffi ciently to admit the body of a man.. Alight was thrus into the opening, and as far as its rays could reach only space was discernible, and a musty smell came from the place tbat bad been closed for so long a time probably ages. A stepladder was proenred, and a descent was made to the bottom of the cave, where more surprises awaited the miners, who were now thoroughly aroused over the new sights, the like of which they bad never seen before. Superintendent Conners and John Songer pressed forward In the natural opening, and they had worked but a snort time before their pick encountered a bard metallic substance in the soft soil. Investigation proved it to be a knife, about 12 Inches long, of hardened copper, with an oval handle, and a small portion of the point broken oil. As their investigations were prosecuted far ther, the petrified hones ot animals and the re mains of men of some prehistoric race were found. The most mysterious part of this wonderful discovery is that it was found in virgin ground, 400 feet beneath tne surface, and with no ap parent outlet. How it came there is a question tbat cannot be answered. ABUSING THE STOMACH. The Country Men Use Themselves Much Better Than Those of Cities. New York Press. One reason why city people are so much more afflicted with illness than country people, said a leading physician yesterday, is because of the difference in their habits ot eating. Your countryman eats a hearty breakfast before 7 in the morning. He eats a hearty dinner at noon. At 6 o'clock he takes a light supper, rests for a couple of hours or more and goes to bed to sleep and recuperate. There is nothing like sleep to give renewed energy to the physical man. Your city man gels bis breakfast at 8 tj 9 o'clock. It is a heavy breakfasr, but he eats light because his head is generally heavy. If he has been late in getting up be bolts his food and rushes off to his office, with bis stomach struggling to get the best of the chunks of stuff ho has flung in to it. At 12 or 1 o'clock he bolts a lunch meats, pastry and fruits and liquor in such conglom eration as to make his poor stomach howl with ansuisu. Then at G o'clock he eats an enormous course dinner, washes It down with two or three kinds of wine, coffee and liquors. He has no time to rest afterward, but rushes off to the theater, and when he leaves the theater he sits down to a midnigbt supper tbat drives his poor stomach wild again. He rolls into bed at lor 2 o'clock and wonders why he cannot sleep. There are a few old-fashioned men in New York who still insist on the country habit of eating dinner in the midule of the day and snpper at 6. I know some of them, and they havn't an ache or a pain. But the other fellows are troubled with headaches, kidney troubles, liver difficul ties and all sorts of disorders. GIVE NAME AND ADDBESS. Druggists Might Save Lives by Insisting on This Simple Precaution. be. Louis Globe-Democrat. J (Said a St, Louis druggist: You ask me why I inquired yonr address when writing out the prescription for yonr cough. The reason will at once commend itself to every sensiblo mind, and is simply this: There have been cases in numerable wherellves might have been saved had the number of tho residence of the party tor whom the prescription was put up been known to tho druggist. For, as we all know, mistakes are made even In tho most reliable drug stores through the carelessness of clerks. Not long aeo a druggist found, on returning from supper, that a bottle of strychnine was on the counter and asked the reason wby. The clerk replied tbat he bad just been putting up a prescriptionand was horrified when he found that he had made use of strychnine In stead of some less harmful drug mentioned in the prescription. The frightened young fellow did not even know the name of the person who had come in for it, or for whom it was in tended, and after hours of search on tbo part of the distracted drnggist, the unfortunate vic tim was at last traced to his borne, but too late, for the first dose bad killed him, Tbat is why I place the name of the patient both on the prescription for the druggist and on the stub left In my prescription book. New Orleans has just shipped herlnrgest cargo of cotton. It amounted to 12,250 bales, valued at about 612,000, and was carried away by the steamer British Queen. The largest cargo of cotton tbat has ever left a United States port consisted of 13,700 bale-, which was taken out of Norfolk, Va., in March. 18S8. The weight of the bales in that cargo fell consider ably short of those comprising the cargo of the British Queen, hence tbe actual difference be tween the two cargoes was less than appears by tbe actual count of bales. s Two hunters were paddling a canoe on Poke' Moonshine Lake, Me., one night recently, when one of them, in the dark, thought be saw a rock abead. His companion In the mern, who bad been warned to sheer out. exclaimed that it was soinothlng alive, anil, gntsplnjr Ins rifle, tired two shuts ana kllltil a flue buck which was quickly towed ashore. jybany Argut: Calvin B. Bnce was present at the Beform banquet last evening. Fine re former, thatman Bricet 28, 1890. RAMBLES IN LIMA. The Senators Now Sit Where Once Heretics Were Tortured. COJiGKESS MEETS IN ST. MASK'S. One of the Novelties of the City Is the Milk Supply Trade. COWS THRIVE ON THE HOUSE TOPS IconnrsroirDENCE or the disfatch.! Lima, Peru, Nov. 23. The Peruvian Senate chamber and hall ot Congress is the old council room of.the Inquisition, and in the very place where the presiding officer sits, an inoffensive looking little gentleman with a claw-hammer coat and hair parted in the middle, tbe stern, black-gowned Inquisi tors used to pronounce their awful sentences upon trembling victims. To reach the 300-year-old building we cross the Plaza de Bolivar, in which many "heretics" (Which name included all who were at variance with the reigning powers, temporal as well as spiritual), were burned to death, and where thousands of merely suspected men and women have been pub licly scourged. This plaza contains a nota ble statue, one of the two of three the Chil ian army left to Lima out of the many fine works of art that once adorned it, represent ing Simon Bolivar, the liberator, seated on a plunging stead in an impossible attitude, something like the equestrian statue of Gen eral Jackson, in tbe United States capital. WHERE THE CONGBESS SITS. The National Congress holds its sessions in the long, narrow and Bomewhat dim and dingy apartment tbat for three centuries was the chapel of St. Mark's University, tbe very oldest temple ot learning in the Western World, which the i'Liberal" gov ernment confiscated from the church in 1860. Spectators are penned in a very nar row gallery, high up above the heads of the representatives, and the latter are ranged like so many tolerably well-behaved school boys, all around three walls of the room, in two rows of chairs without desks. Near the center of the fourth side is placed a Jour table; at one end of it sits the presid ing officer, and at the other a tall cross is fixed, upon which the Congressmen are re quired to swear that they will support the constitution. Between the crucifix and "Senor Presidente" are a number of clerks and reporters, and among them a few are scribbling away in shorthand, as indus triously as do their cousins in Washington. Whenever a formal speech is to be made, the orator mounts a little platform, which has a sort of pulpit desk upon itr- but ordi nary debates are participated in by members from their respective chtirs, who seldom take the trouble to rise while speaking. FOUNDING OF THE OLD COLLEGE. The most interesting thiDgs about this place pertain to the tar-away past. One remembers that this college was founded 69 years before the Puritan fathers sodght our northern shores. The first steps toward it were made by the authorities of Lima as early as 1650, when they dispatched Tray Tomas de San Martin (who afterwards be came the Bishop of Chuquisaca), in com pany with Pedro de la Gasca, one of the first Governors of Peru, over to Spain to apply for erection of a clerical temple of learning in tbe new country. The Emperor Charles Y. and his wise mother, Juana, not only granted the desired decree but con ceded to the University, which they ordered to be established at Lima, all tbe preroga tives enjoyed by that of Salamanca. Pope Pius Y. confirmed its erection by an especial bull, and tbe learned Dr. Don Gasper de Meuesis became its first rector. Still the university, so nobly begun, was without a suitable building or even a site lor its foundation until the year 1574. when a piece of gronnd was purchased for it, near the parish church of San Marcelo, and hence the college derived its name "San Marcus." The site, however, was found to be inconveniently distant from the center of the city; so it was sold, another purchased near the palace of the Inquisition and the present building completed about 314 years ago. RELICS OF OLDEN TIMES. It consists of a great courtyard sur rounded by cloisters, on the walls of which queer frescoes are painted, supposed to represent the arts and sciences. Doors lead from the cloisters into the various lecture rooms and into the great ball of the Univer sity, where still hang the portraits of the most learned men of Peru's earlier davs. The first lull-fledged "D. D" who w'as graduated here was Don Domingo de San Tomas, a Spanish Dominican, who after ward attained great local celebrity, whose ugly countenance may still be seen in tbe great hall. The first graduate born in Peru was Don Juan de Balboa, professor of the Quicbua language and canon of the Lima Cathedral. The cultivation of literature during the time of the viceroys, though confined by a jealous priesthood within the narrowest pos sible limits, made considerable progress and wa3 advanced by several men of learning and ability, sprung from the noblest families of Spain. Perhaps the most scholarly of all the vice kings was Senor Don Antonio de Mendoza, a grandson of the Marquis de Santillana, the renowned poet and warrior of the Court of John II., who claimed the Cid as the founder of his family. But Don Antonio died in 1551, after a very brief en joyment of his power, and before he had much time to do more than lend his mighty influence toward the establishment of this University. PEOGEES3 IN FINE ARTS. Since Peru's independence from Spain and the general emancipation of tbe minds of her people, poetry, painting and music have received great attention from the imaginative but somewhat frivolous youth of tbe country. But the truth is that the modern society of Lima is too dissipated and artificial to afford very promising soil for the growth of extraordinary genius iu any direction. The beneficent institutions of Lima, though not numerous, are certainly very creditable. Prominent among them is the "Sociedad de BeOeficencia," which was established in the year 1825, and has the general guardianship and supervision of all the public charities. It also has the direc tion of the bull ring, the cock pit and the lottery, from which popular amusements it derives a considerable share of its revenue. Private individuals frequently subscribe to it generous sums; matrons occasionally get up a swell "charity ball," much as the same thing is managed in the United States and other parts of the world, and sometimes the belles and beaux of the city give a grand concert for its benefit, principally with the music of mandolins and guitars, in which they excel. THE FEMALE MILK PEDDLEK. ' Here comes one of the sights of Lima, a female milk peddler, who sits astride her mule, with a bare foot and a tin can dang ling on each side of the saddle. These "milk men" in petticoats neither toot a horn nor ring a bell as do their northern broth ers; but riding from bouse to house, they, stop at the door oi each customer and give a peculiar shrill little scream, which the serv ants instantly recognize. The quart meas ure of this one is a gourd, just ns it grew, except th it a hole has been cut in one side and the seeds scraped out; but whether na ture made it the exact size to contain what the. law recognizes as a quart, weneed not trouble ourselves to inquire, it the customers do pot Indeed, that lorm of measurement is not so much in vogue here for liquids as 'by the gourdful, or, still more commonly by the bottleful. Manufactured tinware is dear, and the people are poor, but everybody drinks wine, consequently gUss bottles', such as or dinarily contain claret, aud hold perhaps three pints or thereabouts, abound. Many dealers have a fixed price on milk and other fluids for the "bottleful" and the "gourdful," rh,o wouldJte puzzled to know what it ought to bring by the quart or pint. . 1 .. i Youf would hardly be able to guess where some of the cows are kept tbat furnish the milk of the city; not all of them, but a few. No where else than on tbe tops of suburban houses! As tbe roo's are perlectly flat, the common people utilize them forall manner of purposes, notably for heneries, pigsties, dog kennels, gardens where flowers and veg etables grow in boxes; laundries, and even barn yards. COWS ON THE HOOFS. A recent writer on thir subject says: "Iu many cases a Lima cow spends all her days on the roof of her owner's residence, having been taken up when a calf and brought down at the end of her life as a fresh beef. In tbe meantime she is fed on alfalfa, tropi cal clover, -and the slops from the kitchen. Chicken coops are still more common on tbe roofs of dwellings, and in the thickly popu lated portions of the town, your neighbor's cocks waken you at daylight with re minders of Saint Peter." Going to the central market, we find it Is as spacious and convenient as any in New York or aoy other Northern city. Theprin cipal dealers have stalls, but the mass of venders, who are women of lowest degree, sauatall dav upon the pavement at the edge of tbe galleries, or on the grouud in the open spaces, with their fruit, or fish, or vegetables or whatever it may be, heaped up in flat baskets, or on mats spread before theci, in small piles called montones. Each monton has a fixed price, which never varies, what ever the fluctuations of the market; but the rise and fall of the commodity is marked by the size of the monton, a littles more or less, as the case may be, for the same amount of money. As do their confreres in other parts of the world, they chatter like magpies with one another and with their customers, perhaps nursing their babes the while, or performing other less pleasing maternal duties. NEWSPAPERS OF PERU. There are four daily papers published In Lima, besides several periodicals devoted to society' matters and general literature. Most prominent among the latter is a finely illustrated and well conducted weekly, called El Peru Illustrado, owned and pub lished by Mr. Peter Bacigalupi, who is by all odds the most enterprising North Amer ican it has ever been my fortune to meet. As he is a very prominent character in Lima, and his career illustrates what for eign brains and energy may accomplish among these slow-going Peruvians, I went one day to interview him. So busy a man as Mr. Bacigalupi, flying here, there, every where, attending to his dozens of "irons" tbat are all in the fire at once, it is no easy matter to find him; or when found, to pin him down to conversation. But persever ance accomplished it, and here is the result: He was born iu New York City in 1855, and consequently is now 35 years old. Though he never went to school' alter the age of 13, he speaks French, Spanish, Ger man, Italian and English equally welL When 13 years old he was employed by the New York Equitable Life Insurance Com pany in some humble capacity where he re mained six years. Then he drifted to Cal ifornia and at tbe age of 22 married a young lady in Oakland. Less than a year "later, after a breezy tiff with his mother-in-law, he left in haste and'sailed for South Amer ica. Landing at Callao early in April, 1878, he had exactly ?4 left in his pocket; and that was stolen before night AN EYE FOR THE DOLLAR He found employment immediately and before many months became the confidential clerk of Mr. E. D. Adams, a prominent merchant of Lima, formerly from the United States. Mr. Adams was so accommo dating as to die soon afterward. leaving Mr. Bacigalupi in charge of the business; and within the year he married his late employ er's widow, a Peruvian lady who then bad five children. They now have a beau tiful home; and the number of olive branches has increased to nine. In 1881 the old place of business was de stroyed by fire.bnt nowise disheartened, Mr. Bacigalupi set up again in a better location and since then the amount of his sales has been something phenomenal. His goods are mostly from the United States and com prise the greatest conglomeration ever collected under one roof, i or instance, he nas a large siock ot dooes ana stationery, drngs, soaps, lamps, clocks, silverware, jew elry, sewing machines, typewriters, photo graphic outfits, agricultural implements; in short, almost everything imaginable except dress goods. Ht introduced tbe first tele phones into Peru and they are now in gen eral use. He also introduced the first ama teur photographic outfits. BUILT AN OPERA HOUSE, During the late war Mr. Bacigalupi pur chased two vessels, one of American make called "Young America,"the other English, named "Union," and fitted them up as men of war. Through their agency and by the help of the "Monitor" he managed to make another fortune in coal and pickled pork. Last year he built an opera honse on the spot where the old theater was burned. It is capable of seating 2,000 persons, and it is one of the neatest, daintiest and most com plete little theaters on the coutinent Its builder loves to boast that he put it up in 60 days, exploring 75 workmen, and personally superintending the useot every inch of 150, 000 leet of lumber. Mr. Bacigalupi's main business, however, the others being mere outgrowths and side issues, is that of a printer and lithographer. In his establish ment ten Gordon presses, two large Campe presses, and a lithographic press, all moved by the only gas in Lima, are kept constantly going. His "Peru Illustrado" has been a great hit. The other newspapers of Lima are edited with considerable ability, and con tain telegraphic news from all parts of the world, besides choice selections and the effusions in prose and poetry of local literary lights; bnt their editors ha've a grandiose and flowery style, in wide, ifnot ludicrous contrast to the terse, plain-spoken ways of American journalism. Most of the papers make their first appearance upon the streets about 10 o'clock at night, and their names are yelled out by the newsboys with all the vigor of New York gamins. Late in the morning carriers deliver the same edition to regular subscribers. As an index to the state of trade, it may be mentioned that the newspapers have about two pages of ads to one of reading matter; but .am told that the rates are very jow and :!ie merchants require editors "to trade out" the amounts. Fannie B. Ward. High Cheek Bodes. Pretty cheeks are a rare finishing touch, an otherwise handsome face being often spoiled by high cheek bones and thin or flabby cheeks, says the Metropolitan. The high cheek bones can scarcely be softened unless the cheeks are made firm and plump. Contrivances worn in the mouth for filling out the cheeks have been resorted to, but scarcely without great discomfort; and the only reasonable way of accomplishing the desired result is to take on more flesh and to study carefully the dressing of tbe hair. In some instances, however, there will be a superfluity of flesh where it is not wanted, while tbe cheeks persist in remaining thin. A firm, round cheek, with a slight dimple showing with every smile, is a most at tractive charm, and the sister ot a young gentleman who bad a pencil accidentally thrust through one cheek in boyhood, leav ing an indention that was quite a natural looking dimple, was wont to remark that she really wished it had happened to her, as she would have thrust a pencil through the other cheek and felt abundantly repaid by her increase of beauty. But her enthusiasm did not reach the point of decorating both cheeks herself. Bathing the cheeks two or three times a day with weak ammonia water in which a small piece of alum has been dissolved tends to make tbe flesh firm and smooth. The com mon practice of pressing one cheek into tho pillow while sleeping is very injurious te beauty of outline, and it also produces wrinkles. Trinidad's Future. Trinidad, Co!., is on the eve of an era of great proiperitv. Its wonderful natural re sources in coal, cokr, iron, silica, limestone, cement, tire clay, etc., are attracting the at tention of capital. For further information address Trinidad Land and .Improvement Company, Trinidad, Col, sa PICTUKES OF STABS. flow the Dome of the Heavens is Ee produced on the Plates. LONG EXPOSURES AilE REQUIRED, The Telescope Most Move to Compensate for the Earth's llotion. ST0EIES IBOUT LICK OBSEBTAT0EI Prof. James E. Keeler, who is connected with the Lick Observatory in California, gave an interesting lecture at tbe rooms of tbe Camera Club in New York the other evening upon astronomical photography. He said that astronomical photography pre sented fewdifficulties, and that more knowl edge of astronomy was required than of photography by the observer; in other words, that the ratio between the two was about three parts of astronomy to one part of photography. If, however, a photographer should at tempt to photograph a star he would find that his image wonld be blurred, owing to the movement of the object during the ex posure, therefore it was necessary that the instrument must be kept in motion in keep ing with the motion of the star, and the ap paratus for photographing star, therefore, adjusted to meet 'these difficulties. Tbe usual method of keeping the star on the plate in photographing was by moving the telescope, bnt owing to the size of the in strument at the Lick Observatory this was impossible, as the telescope weighed seven tons. The plan adopted, therefore, was to make tbe plate movable by means of turn ing screws. SOMETHING ABOUT THE PROCESS. When the photographer wished to do some of his work the thing first to be done was to move the big telescope so that a lens could be capped over tbe end. It is necessary to put on a different lens for photographic pur poses and it happens that a different focus is obtained in the big telescope. The dry plate is therefore placed iu the tube nine feet from the eye piece, a hole having been cut in it for that purpose. A seed-26-plate is used and for development the ordinary pyro and potash. The developer is used very weak and plenty of time given to bring ont the imag?. When the plate is developed the operator has to go it in a blind sort of fashion, as the smaller star images will not appear till the develop ing work is done. Smaller stars than can be seen with the naked eye are located on the dry plate and brought out by development This is ow ing to the fact that the effect to the eye iu looking at a star is immediate aud the light seen as sharp as is possible, but when the rays are directed on a plate the light is cumulative and increases on the image till enough light is gained to fix the star, and of conrse on development it is brought out clearly. The clear air at Mount Hamilton makes it more desirable for the use3 of pho tographv, and many pictures are taken there. They are mostly small stars, how ever, and the photographs are made for the purpose of measurements. PHOTOGRAPHING THE PLANETS. The photographs of the planets are mors difficult to secure, owing to the refraction in the atmosphere. Some fairly good pic tures have, however, been made of Jup iter and Saturn, and this winter pic tures of Mars will be taken. Prof. Keeler showed pictures of the planets and the moon, as well as drawings to illus trate the difference between tbe two. The outer ring of Saturn, which was not dis covered till the big Lick telescope was turned on the planet, does not show in the photograph. The pictures of the Milky Way, which Pfof. Keeler has iu his collec tion of lantern, slides, are most excellent, and are tbe best ever taken. The hundreds of stars shown on tbe picture are none of them visible to tbe naked eye. Tbe photographs or the planet Jupiter showed plainly tbe different positions of the spots and bands on the surface of the planet, which demonstrate that they are constantly changing, and that probably the surface ot Jupiter is a mass of changing matter. IT'S TEET TEDIOUS WOEK. It is a well-known fact tbat better photos are obtained through the smaller telescopes than through the big ones. Photographing stars, especially the small ones, is tedious work, as in some cases the exposure must last for several hours. During all that time tbe plate or telescope must be moved so that the image of the star will conticne in one place. The exposure for a star of tbe six teenth magnitnde is two hours, and only one at a time can be secured unless tbe stars happen to be of the same magnitude, so that getting clusters is particularly long and tedious in its operation. In procuring the photographic star pict ures, often what is known as the trailing process is followed, that is, tbe plate is ex posed to tbe star, and then no attempt is made to fix the image in one place, but it passes along over the plate, making a trail. A number of trails can, of course, be got on one plate, and then studied out andmeas ured afterward. LENGTH OF THE EXPOSURE. The exposures for planets are short that of a sun spot taken in Paris was about as lightning-like as possible, the shutter being attached to the strongest kind of a spring. Tne exposure for the moon takes about a quarter of a second, and that for Jupiter about fonr seconds. People who visit the Lick Observatory often ask very remarkable questions in re gard to the telescope as well as to the meth ods of photographing the stars. The cover ing of the observatory is made of three-inch steel plates, and, of course, is arranged so that a plate can be moved to allow the telescope to point to. any part of the heav ens. A visitor who happened into the ob servatory when all the plates were closed asked most earnestly if the steel plates were transparent A frequent question asked in regard to star photographing is it a flash light is not used to make the exposure. There is an old saying that intelligent men are the first to lose their wits when entering an astronomical ohservatory and seem to forget the simplest laws. Many eases of this have been noticed at the Liok institu tion. Stop at the Hollenden, iu Cleveland. American and European plans. su MADAME A. RUPFERT Complexion Specialist lime. A. Rupperrs world-renownsd face bleach Is the only face tonio in tho worli" which positively removes freckles, moth patches, blackheads, pimples, birthmarks, eczema and all blemishes of tbe skin, and when applied rirnot lio observed by anyone. The face bleach mn only be had at my branch office. Ne. 83 Fifth avenue. Hamilton building; rooms i 2u3 and 3H, Pittsburg, or sent to an j address on ' receipt of price. Sold at S2 per bottleor three bottles, usually reanlred to clear tbe eomnlax. , Ion, S5. Send 4 cents postage for full parttenlars. ocU-flo MHE. A. BTJPPSTv Sr L
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