'JHr':' "&' 16 A REVIEWOFJSPORTS. Growing Popularity of Football in the United States and in Other Countries. THE TALE AND PEINCETOK GAME. Mr. Kimick's Betirement From local Base ball and a Few of Eli Characteristics. THE GKIFFEf AND LlRKEf BiTTLB. Beams Why F. V. Elarin ani Peter Jackson Ehonla Fight as Soon as Tossibls. There is no doubt -whatever about the growing popularity of football. It is now one of the foremost outdoor sports in the world, and in the United States it is at pres ent commanding as much attention of sport ing writers as baseball does in summer. "Where the game is publicly disparaged, it is safe to say that thn disparagers know nothing about the details of the game, and by the way there are many fine sports con demned and slighted by writers who know nothing at all about them, and that is their only reason for opposition. For a long time ' nil the qualifications of our sporting editors have been a little knowledge cf baseball and & trotting race. Everything else has, as a rule, been ignored, or, to use a phrase, 'ihut out" by these editors. But the field 5e getting broader, and as a proof of this the Increased popularity of football need onry be cited. One great thing that has. favored football so far this season has been the weather. This has not only caused more fames, and ot a better quality than usual, but has caused a larger number of i people to see these .games than have ever visited football games in the history of the sport. But there is a pleasing feature connected with the increasing popularity of football. It is an indication that the purest kind of ; rport is developing. I mean amateur sport There may be rough features connected with the game, but none of us can question its honey.. Those who take part in it are t in it for the pure love of the game, and l they are spurred on to do their best only by the honest and' laudatory desire to down their opponents. Sports that are conducted on principles of this kind deserve support, snd particularly by those whose woTk it is daily to write about sporting matters for public reading. Professionalism in almost every branch has done so much harm in re cent years that we ought to be delighted to see amateurs coming to the front to sustain ' the popularity in our sports and pastimes. 'in football we find the very best kind of athletes, and by all means gentlemen of ed ucation and undoubted honesty. Princeton and Tale. Xext Thursday will be a great day among the patrons of football, as the earns of Tale and Princeton are to play their annual 'game then. Probably there "has never, in the history of football, ever been as many Feats sold'in advance as there has been for the Yale-Princeton game on Thanksgiving. Already it is estimated that fully 40,000 seats have been sold, and the purchasers re side in all parts of the country. Surely this Js proof, if anv were needed, of the popu larity of the game. And Pittsburg will be .wcllreprescnted at the contest, as hundreds of our citizens intend going to join the throng, llecarding the contest itself a lew words may be said. There in sure to be lots of betting on the result, with Yale a big favorite. "Were I going to invest on the game most assuredly I would be willing to bet substantial odds" on Yale, and I expect Yale to win with lots to spare. A chief element of the success of the "Yale team this season, and in all seasons, lor that matter, has been their energetic practice. The faithfulness of the players in practice, combined w ith the good work of the shrewd instructors, has made the Yale team work almost perfect. Tne team are r.ot only uncommonly powerful, but they are active and tricky. So much cannot be said of Princeton." The Princetons, it is true, have been in hard luck, more or less, but thev have not in anyway shown that their team of football players are anything like equal to the Yale team. "Where com parisons can be made this season they are heartily in favor of Yale, snd would lead one to think that the Princetons will have a "hard time of it indeed to score at all against the Yale team. True, the unexpected may happen. That is as likely in football as in anything else. The contest Thursday may be a poor on.e, and Princeton might win it. "More unlikely things have happened he lore; but I don't expect to see any such re sult. There w ill be plenty of enthusiasm whichever way it goes. The Local Football Flayers. During the week the East End Gyms have come to the trout again and in a way that cannot be misunderstood. The Gyms are certainlv a very lively lot of fellows in anything they undertake, and they are always ready to do business. They now claim the football championship of West ern Pennsylvania, and as far as titles of the kind go nowadays, I cannot very well see low the title can be withheld from them. Thev have beaten every team who have faced them, and their local rivals, the Three A's, decline to have anything to do with them, except borrow th'eir players. This, is sufficient in itself to leave no doubt as to the Gyms being the best football team in Western Pennsylvania, and this be ing so, I tail to see why the Gyms should not be styled our champions. If there is anything "worth having in the title the Gyivs should have it certainly. "But it is a pity that theThree A's and the Gyms hae not come together, and the indi cations arc they will not. If blame can be attached to anybody concerning the natter, it must be attached to the Three A's. There have been opportunities for a game between the two teams, and, as far as I have been able to judge, the Gyms have always been ready to embrace these chances and the Three A's have not. It is riot too late yet to have a contest between the teams; that is if the Three A's can get their best team to gether; but gettins their men together is one of the greatest difficulties the Three A's al ways have to contend with. Many of their members are not enthusiastic enough about the game, and they only play when they hae nothing else'to do. If they would all brace up and go into athletics with heart and soul they may make a mark, and if they do not they, "as a'club, will always be more ornamental thau.usefuL There is a way by which all the local clubs will be forced to meet each other, viz., to form a league. It is too late now to organize anything of the kind this season, but, by all means, arrange ments should be made to have a league next year. If there is one formed it will not only tend to make the game more popular, but'it proves to us how all our local teams compare one with another. 31 r. Nimick's Retirement. One of the baseball events of the week has been the absolute retirement of "W. A. 2imiek lrom baseball affairs. He has sold all of his stock to "W. a Temple and stepped behind the scene. Mr. XimrcK cannot make his departing bow from us x ithout arousing many feelings of regret. One by one those familiar faces who have on many occasions added a haloof pleasure to baseball surroundings are disappearing. "Within a very short time we have had two cf our most prominent magnates step quietly down, viz.: Mr. O'Neil and Mr. Timick. Both these gentlemen have been identified with local baseball in very troublesome times and b'oth hare made local baseball history. "Whatever their '.tit&ifflte ra ' J,i. J .' uie&'& -cislfHK9EiidSl(kbHBiie inMrMrBTii f tf MtMMliMftatfrwMMUW"H"Mwl"M gPgJfcalBBBByaBB"l""B"sl"MWMlMiHinnMEHBWgBBIMlBBj! " "" shortcomings may have been, they have left very prominent records behind him. It is not too much to say that W. A. Kimick was a much narder worker for base ball interests than the public generally be lieved. "While he had vast business con cerns to look after, he still devoted consid erable time to the interests of baseball, and it was his energy as much as anything else that caused Pittsburg to be transferred from the American Association to the "Na tional League. Mr. Nimick was such a painstaking worker that he was almost al ways assigned to the most important offices in the National League. But he was also a man of heroic policy, and I well remember how he went and secured 5,000 on his own responsibility to buy the services of Fred Dunlap. Mr. Kimick was by no means a timid man, but he was cautious, and base ball affairs were all the better for his cou sels. Gradually "the ball club is getting into the hands o'f new, if not "young" blood. As the veterans retire we'll see what the new people will do. There is opportunity enough to make baseball fame in Pittsburg and it our new people can justly merit that fame they will get it It is apparent that the "old timers are one by one getting wearied of baseball and I am surprised that they were not wearied of it long ago. Local Club Affairs. There is nothing going on in connection with the local ball club that has so far added any brightness to the prospects of next year. At the present time baseball interest is duller in Pittsburg than it has been for vears and as far as I am able to judge there is nothing ahead of ns to revive that interest- The latest addition to the club is Arthur Whitney, and the signing of him has been an awful disappointment to almost all the patrons of the club. "Whitney is, in some respects, a good player, but I ques tion very much whether he is any better now than he was when hero before. If he is not he will be no improvement to the team. The fact is that the team is being completed without an attractive feature about it "While it may be true that our team of next year, made up of "minors," cannot finish iny lower in the list than the "stars" of last season, it must not be forgotten that our team of last year had features about them that drew large crowds. It is safe to say that if a team, such as we are evidently going to have next year, were to start out and lose as manv games as did our stars, there would not be 300 people to a game. It is this feature that I want to point out "With our next year's team, such as we ex pect them to be, there will be no hurrah or enthusiasm to start with,because the patrons of the clnb, rightly or wrongly, are already convinced that the team is among the worst lot in the League. This is not my opinion; it is the opinion of almost every good patron of the club I have met and talked to. Well, with this indifference to start with, and a lew straight defeats of the team, I don t hesitate to say tnat tne ciud stock won't be worth 51 per share. I very frankly declare that the future of our club is anything but bright to me. That Mysterious Move. A dav or two ago a director of the local club told me that a very mysterious move was going on aibong the club directors and that it would be fully developed before next month. The director declined to say what the move was, but he intimated that the club would soon be in the hands of about three persons. I was also causually in formed that the 6tock alleged to have been sold by Mr. 0"Neil to Mr. Baldwin was no sale at all, and that Mr. Balwin is only keeping Mr. O'Xeil's stock for a short time. Mv inlormant went on to say that Mr. O'Xeil is just lying back, like the panther in the jungle, ready lor a spring, and that he will be one of the three men who are to own the entire club. The above goes for what it is worth, but it really seems to me as if something was "in the wind." If there is a movement on foot to put the club solelv into the hands of three people I trust it wilf succeed, and I will not be suprised if this result is reached. If all stories are true there are directors and stockholders who absolutely decline to put up another dollar for club purposes. This means that they must get out, and it is reasonable to think that two or three per sons will eventually buy the entire busi ness. If things are rightly managed there is no reason why Pittsburg should not be one of the most profitable baseball cities in the country. But it won't be profitable if something heroic is not done. The Merry War Goes On. Ther" are no signs of any cessation of hostilities between the League and Associa tion magnates. "While all are declaring for peace everybody is assuming the most meanacing attitude and as a result there teems to be less prospect of a settlement now than there ever was. So far as I am able to judge there was considerable hope centered in the li!-club scheme, but during the last few days that scheme has dropped into disfavor and there is nothing now talked of but fighting to a finish. Very well, let it go that way and we'll reach ah end by and by. It really does appear as if the Association magnates had become in flated with the notion that they are even something more than the people. The fact is, time will show that they have more than enough of difficulties among themselves without making trouble with the League. For a time the Association leaders talked loudly about "buying out;" that is they wanted the League to buy out this and that Association interest There is something, indeed, extremely funny about this buying out business. It is suggested at all times on the assumption that the League is a gi gantic bank with enough money to buy the earth, and that all that is needed is for the League to be asked to give this or that man $50,000 or S100.000 to step off the track. Why should the National League buy any body out? That's what I want to know. Certainly the conflict now going on between the two organizations is one that means a loss to both parties, but the National League has no more right to purchase peace than have the other people. J ust as sure as wo live the League will stand the storm, no matter how terrible it may be, and when next springtime comes the League will just be as strong as ever. Palo Alto's 5ew Iiecord. Most assuredly this has been one of the most remarkable years on record for ex traordinary trotting feats. For quite awhile every week has brought forth something sensational in the way of fast trotting, and once more we have a wonderful perform ance. A few days ago Palo Alto, the Cali fornia stallion, trotted a mile in the re markable time of 2:08? That clearly eclipses all previous stallion records, and the horse has justly earned the title of champion in his class. Only a year or two ago such a feat would have been deemed al most impossible by the vast majority of horsemen; in fact, the mark made by Palo Alto is the markltbat has been the "best on record" for years. The performance of this stallion suggests one thine particularly, viz., that it is unsafe to say that the two minute mark will not be reached shortly. With voungsters like Arion and Monbars and stallions like Palo Alto it dees seem as fMr. Bonner's prediction of a two-minuta ecord was going to be reached. The Bowling Tourney. Whatever may have been the expectations about the bowling contest inaugurated last Monday at Oakland, patrons of the ten pins feel satisfied now that the contest will be a success. I was prevented from visiting the inaugural games, but according to reports they were in all respects a great success. Certainly the scores showed'that the bowl ing was excellent, and it is no exaggeration to say that some of the contestants will be able to hold their own against anybody. Now that the sport or recreation has been introduced so thoroughly, it is to be hoped that we'll have more bowling. It is one of those games that anybody can take part in and interest themselves to their hearts' con tent Of course we all know how the Belle fields, to use a term, floored everything and everybody in the three opening games. That" team did wonderful work, but tbey have not won the cup yet by any means. The second series of games takesplace on the evening of the 30th inst, and itmay be that the other competing clubs will show up in stronger force than on the last occa sion. Certainly both the Linden and East End teams 'will practice more since their THE defeat than they did before it I may also add that the attendance at the first games showed that bowling is a sport in which ladies and gentlemen of the highest classes in the country are interested. About Pugilistic Matters, There has been one event of note in pugi listic circles during the week, viz., the battle between Jimmy Larkin and Johnny Griffin for the feather-weight championship of America. Last week I overlooked the contest I had intended to Bay a few words in advance about it, and to record my opin ion that Griffin would be the winner. But I certainly did not expect that he would finish Larkin so speedily. For some time it has been my opinion that Larkin is not by anv means as good as he used to be, and his efforts against Griffin Thursday evening proved this completely. Larkin really made such a poor stand against the Brain tree fighter that we can scarcely form an opinion as to Griffin's abilities. That he is' a "first rater" there is no doubt, and he has a method of fighting that is very effective. He is not only a clever little fellow, but he is so vigorous that he allows an opponent no rest It was simply these tactics that enabled him to down a verv handy man likA Larkin in such short order. He forced matters -with Larkin in the first round so terrifically that at the end of the round Larkin was at "his mercy. The next affair among the little fellows will be between Plimmer, the Englishman, and "Spider" Kelly. The betting at pres ent is 100 to $80 on Kelly, but I fail to see why there should be one cent of odds on the Harlem man. If Kelly defeats Plimmer, he will know he has had a baftle, and if my information is anvthing like correct, I don't think he will'defeat Plimmer at alt Undoubtedly the battle will be of more gen eral interest than the contest between Larkin andJGriffin. Jack McAuliflVs 'Plans. Jack McAuliffe has been telling the Chi cago reporters that while he is perfectly willine to fight either Jimmy Carroll or Billy Myer, n8 does not think he is called upon to challenge either of them. He claims that he is champion and that they should, tnerefore. challenge him. That is perfectly right, as far as custom jjoes, but it might be better for McAuliffe if he were to decline to meet anybody. Were he to fight Carroll again the chances are he wouldbe defeated, because from now on McAuliffe will gradually become less effective as a pngilist He declares that he will sail for England shortly to fight either Dick Burge or Jem Carney. It is a pity that McAuliffe did not make this resolve long ago, but proba bly he was not so much in need of money then as he is now. His chances of success in England now are not by far so good as they would have been a few years ago. Certainly he is a good man yet, but he is not the stayer he was. and a man must stay who wants to defeat Carney. It may be that Austin Gibbons and McAuliffe are in England together. It K. Fox will be home shortly and he will dispose of the stake monev in his possession relative to the Gibbons and McAuliffe battle. I fail to see why the entire money should not be paid over to McAuliffe. He won it beyond all doubt A s soon as that matter is settled it is likely that both McAuliffe and Gibbons will leave for England. Slavin and Jackson. It seems probable that a battle between F. P. Slavin and Peter Jackson will take place before the former and John L. Sulli van meet An arrangement of this kind would be satisfactory to all, and to nobody more than Sullivan." The truth is, there is some reason for Sullivan's demanding that Slavin and Jackson fight before either of them tackle him. Both Slavin and Jack son claim the championship of Australia, and by all means they should settle as to who is the better man between them before either of them fight Sullivan. There are many conflicting opinions re garding the comparative merits of Jackson and Slavin. We have all been told how Slavin ran away from Jackson, etc Well, it matters not to me how much superior Jackson may have been to Slavin in the pas , I am decidedly of the opinion that Slavin would defeat the colored man quite handily now. lteally I don't think it would require Slavin 45 minutes to defeat Jackson. If these two men were to fight here there would be intense interest in the affair, and if Slavin could not defeat Jack son he would have no more show against Sullivan than the latter would have in lift ing the pyramids. ' The Irish Champion. Peter Maher is still traveling round and creating good impressions regarding his abilities as a boxer and fighter. While he has not secured any match contest yet, I don't think that his manager, Billy Madden, will mourn .the fact, because Maher is get ting any amount of advertising. It is in some respects a pity that Corbett will not fight him, and it is just as much of a pity that Maher declines to fight Kilrain. If Corbett persists in refusing to fight Maher the latter might arrange to fight Chosynoki, who probably is now a harder man to beat than Corbett But after all it may be that Maher and his manager do not want a fight, but only want to talk about one. Pringle. THE MANNERS' SAKE PLECK. rWBITTZN FOB THE DISPATCH. J The hero of the following poem la, and has been for many years, a prominent Pitts burg attorney, who, having met with much merited success In life, is doubtless pre pared to smile over the disappointment of his boyhood here related. Though a long time since, I shall never forget A time when the Methodist Conference met. And the preachers came pouring In town by the score, With their elders and deacons a hundred or more. On occasions like this, as was always the case, A committee of prominent folks of the place Was appointed to see that the guests were received And to know that their temporal wants were re lieved. In the households of faith which the visitors shel tered. I recill how the goodwlres and kitchen maids bkiltercd. Bobbing shelves of. each cellar and pantry and closet For the savory morsels they used to deposit. On the big dining table, so temptingly spread. The brow n basted turkey, white slices of bread. And puddings and pickles and cake and preserves. Fruit, butters and jellies the thought of It serves To drive me to hunger. I used to think then No wonder these Methodists hollow amenl 'Tiswell worth tbelr while to be fighting the sin ners When their stomachs are. stayed with such elegant dinners. Now. one devout sister, who never would dodga Anv datv, was given Ave preachers to lodge, in the heat of debate the good brethren strove. But the slster1 strife uine o'er the heat of tht store. And when winding-up day dawned at last It round her preparing a sumptuous repast. As she basted her turkcy.her hopeful stood by, A lad of eight summers, whoseulld. hungry ey Viewed the bird with delight, yit with feelings of dread. ' For he earnestly turned to his mamma and saldi Now, mamma, I s'pose that I'll have to wait; Won't you please keep a piece of that off of the plate!1 Just one little piece a drumstick or wing I'm alrald those preachers will eat the whole thing. 'Why. Tom," ald his mamma, "yon shouldn't tdlk so. Preachers are good-mannered men you must know. And If lor no more than mere manners' sake They w ill leave one piece and that you can take." At length the Conference rose and adjonrnad. And the- five stalwart preachers to dluner returned. As the besslon that morning had been rather long They all came with appetites heartv and strong. At a word lrom the hostess they sat at the board. And one R od old saint offered thanks to the Lord; And then, v. 1th a genuluc Methodist zeal, Tbey got down to work on a good square meat AMth astonishing swiltncsa the things disap peared. Plate after plate was replenished and cleared. And as Tom, hanging back a few rods In the rear, Saw how matters were moving, his heart sank in fear. For the isl tors plunged in religious debate, (julte forgot to keep score of the turkey they And the dish It was hoped would yield something for all In circling the board grew alarmlnglv small; In fact, meat and dressing had dwindled away Until just bare one drumstick remained on the tray. And somehow It happened that moment a guest. With a fondness lor turkey exceeding the rest. Beached over and lorked this Sast Joint of the fowl Then behind htm arose a most deafening howl. Twas the grief-stricken Tom, and so loud did he bawl He was likely to scatter the wits of them alt. And his poor, frightened mamma, in pouring the tea. Nearly scalded thecals from a good brother's knee; Then she quickly rushed to him "What is it, my He blubbered, "Oh. mamma, now, that's Just too bad. , . There goes your old manners' sake piece, don't you see? I told yon they would eat op that turkey from me." L- Cbawfokd. Wathisbubq, Not, 1. PITTSBURG- D1SPAT0H, THE CLEANEST CITY. Paris Is Swept and Scrubbed With the Greatest Care Each Day. A MODEL CITY DEPARTMENT. The People Assist in the Laudable Efforts to Keep Pure. HOW THE M0BM0US WORK IS DONE rCOEBISrOKDKNCB OF THE DISrATCH.l Paeis, November 10. WEEPING day is every day in Paris. The city is one of the most thoroughly swept In the world. To go over the walks and pavements is no small matter. Paris covers 19, 605 acres and 4, 477 are in pub lic streets or gar dens. Of this space 3,890.5 acres must be swept and dusted.' It looks like a task for Hercules, but so well is this department of the mu nicipal housekeeping organized that the work is done with ease and speed. To begin with, the city is divided into two grand divisions, each of which is subdi vided into ten nrondissements. A chief engineer directs the cleaning of each grand division. As one of these embraces the busiest centers of traffic and the largest markets, its work is heavier than that of the other. Its chief, accordingly, has five assistant engineers. The other has three. Between them the two divisions employ 296 overseers. Some 3,200 men, women and children constitute the working force. This force is divided into brigades of 20 or 25, each member of which has his particular beat, his special work, his peculiar tool. A Kecord o'f Every Broom. Depots conveniently located contain the supplies. They are under the care of an engineer, who keeps a record of the goings and comings of each tool. No broom in all the service whose history is not written in I M3iiV EtfifSTTcwju, 1 rm Ta. iz.'ssrsrr m.m ' irSU-ri"-" w tsrWi-r v & n t- fr.vyn h ' V The One-Borte Sweeper. the big .book! In these depots will be fourd the favorite sweeping machine of Paris, a revolving brush, mounted obliquely on a cart drawn by one horse instead of by two, as in Pittsburg. The brush sweeps a track six feet wide, leaving the dirt heaped in a line on the side. It will cover an acre and a half in an hour, and takes the place of 100 men. The first cost of the machine is 5200. It takes about 540 a year to keep it in repair and 514 to buy a new broom. The brush lasts from 140 to 150 hours. B sides these large machines the depots are furnished with a bewildering array of brooms. Birch twigs and American rushes are the favorite materials t street brooms. They are so common in Paris that one would not be far amiss in adding them to the citv's coat of arms. But there are other articles than brooms. There are rakes, forks, awk ward wheelbarrows and huge dust pans, ladders, tubs and rubber scrapers and a variety of disinfectants. One who will loiter about the streets of Paris a little before 4 o'clock in the morning will see lines of the street cleaning machines each followed by a workman with a broom or rubber rake. He will see also motley brigades of men, women and chil dren, tools in hand. They are not picked up, irregular laborers such as too often form the street cleaning service in American cities, but a well drilled and systematically organized body. Wages and Treatment of Employes. Part of them work ordinarilly only until 11 o'clock in the morning, others are em ployed from 4 A. M. to 4 p. M. The men among the sweepers earn from 6J to 7J cents an hour, the women and children from 5 to 6 cents. t The road laborers, who do a variety of work, earn from 521 to 524 a month. All members of the force must de posit a month in the savings bank, to be withdrawn when they leave the service, and all must join a mutual aid society. The machines operate in the squares and avenues. Frequently to go together, one following the other. Behind them walks a hand sw eeper who looks after the dirt which escapes the machine and collects into piles that are heaped at the sides by the brushes. While this is going on in the large places of the city; the narrow streets and alleys and the sidewalks are under the hand of the sweepers and scrubbers. In two hours and a half from the beginning of the work, all Paris has been swept, or if muddy, cleaned with water and a scrubbing brush except it may be the impasses, or "blind alleys," and certain short passages." Here the inhabitants do their own sweep ing. The operation is finished much more quickly in Paris than in any other large European city. In London the service lasts the 24 hours through. In Berlin the sweep ing begins at 11:30 at night and must be fin ished by 8 in the morning. In Brussels the hours are from 9 o'clock in the evening until 7 in the morning. Gathering; Up the Sweepln-a. As the brigades finish their work the ringing of the bells of the trombereaux (garbage carts) is heard. These come to collect the sweepings and the dust and waste from Parisian households. The eitv requires that all the waste paper, ashes. CUliUdij icmac, itif vv ui uxi Buns Do gathered each day in each house and depos- lieu m a reucpiui-ie luiuisucu uy me Clean ing service. The receptacle must be placed on the sidewalk in the morning before the passage of the cart. These great zine recep tacles heaped with dirt and bearing in huge black letters the name of the street and the number of the house to which they belong, are an unpleasant but not an uninteresting feature of the "morning promenade. They are not so striking here as in Lyons where they are painted green and bear their street and number in black on a blue ground. But they have associations. And is it not for "associations" that we come to Europe? Over these receptacles and their contents no little legislation has been done by Paris. As early as 1388 the inhabitants of the city, who were obliged to do their own street sweeping, were ordered to litt and dispose of the dirt In 1608 the proprietor who failed to bring out the refuse o his house when the tombereau bell sounded was fined six livres. But theofficers and the people did not live up to the law. The scraps, in stead of being Drought out for the cart, were dumped on the walk in frbnt of the honse, usually at night. The collecting service as not confined to hours, and frequently r I B ill J h-v-v ""t li t j'.'.'iiTK'ia u TfV fni U Til w SUNDAY, NOVEMBER the dirt lay out all day. This state of things could not endure forever. In 1846 the order came that household garbage must be put into receptacles and not brought out until the cart canie., The order was not executed. A part of Paris rose in revolt. It e volt of the KS FIclcera. The chiffoniers rag pickers it was, who threatened riot. There were thousands of them in the city. They had sprung from the untidy heaps on the sidewalks as vermin always do from neglected rubbish. All night long they infested the streets, lanterns in hand, picking with forked stick from the debris bclore the doors every scrap of paper or cloth, every bit of charcoal or glass which could be reused A Paris Water Cart. many of them were regularly licensed by the city. Their industry was organized in a rough way. The strong among them hired the weak, the young, the old, and took their cleanings. There were depots into which the rags were carried for systematic sorting. There was a "bourse" where the market price of bones, of broken pottery, of half-burned charcoal, was watched with all the intentness with which the broker watches wheat, oil, stocks on 'Change. There were rich loads occasionally, a silver spoon, a jewel, an old silk gown. There were periods of depression. There were harvest times house-cleaning and moving day. Therfe were tragedies, too. Men have been known to commit murder over the division of a basket of rags. The order to keep the receptacles in the house until the passing of the tombereaux would destroy in an instant this great in dustry. The city dared not do it. The farbage continued to be left on the walks, ut 25 years afterward, in spite of the rag pickers", the law went into execution. The collecting of the dirt is done by contract. The contractors furnished their own wagons, horses, drivers and a part of their tools. The same company furnishes horses for sweeping machines and the watering carts. The city is divided into itineraries, each cart having its own. Early in the morning 5,000 or 6,000 of them come from stations near or without the walls. At the rendez vous the outfit is joined by two workmen furnished by the city and the round is begun. Passing up the street one person throws into tne cart tne heaps left by the sweeper, another empties the receptacles, a third stationed in the cart sorts the rubbish, putting paper into one bag, rags into another, bones into another. They amass a quantity ot stuff in spite of the rag pickers who have preceded them. This sorting is important since the profits of the contractor depend largely upon what he can make from the debris ne collects. Tl hat Becomes of the Itefose. The greatest quantity is sold as a fertil izer, though it is not so valuable as when the city was swept less carefully, when the sewer system was poorer, and when there was a larger unpaved surface. The price of garbage at Paris varies from 10 to 15 cents for square meter, and in 1888 the Paris con tractors had 939,906 square meters to dis pose of. Following the carts are always persons who brush to the side of the pavement the fine dirt left in lifting the sweepings and in emptying the receptacles. The street is now ready for i(s finishing touches the washing of the sides' As the pavements are elevated in the middle while the side walks are about three inches higher than the side of the street there is a bed for a healthy stream of water. The sweepers who appears after the passing of the cart opens a water spout. The stream which gushes from it flows to the first sewer mouth. The sweeper follows this stream scrubbing its bed vigorously. The water flows until it is perfectly clear. Bith sides of every street in Paris are treated in this way every day. In the centers of traffic and on the public squares extra care is taken, but entirely at the expense of the city. Two or three times a day sweepers pass over them with brooms and wheel bar rows and the sides are washed as necessary. In rainy weather the rubber scraper and the hose are constantly in use on the best and busiest thoroughfares. Not that these places are kept clean on rainy days. Far from it. They are slippery and sticky to a frightful degree, but they are certainly much more tolerable than are corresponding parts of American cities with which I am familiar unless it may be the best streets of Washington. Cleaning; TJp the Slarkets. There is a special service for the markets included in the street cleaning department. The enormous amount of animal and vege table matter brought into Paris leaves a quantity of .detritus appalling when it comes to be handled. Ail refuse from the tails is thrown into the paved alleys of the markets. Early each morning all this is pitched into piles, the birch broom is ap plied, then comes the more thorough sweep ing machine. When the dirt has been col lected and the stalls cleaned, the hose is turned on while the rush broom scrubs the length and breadth of the alleys. Then comes a flushing with water treated with a disinfectant. As a finish the rubber scraper wipes off the water ilnd takes awav any particles which may have escaped before. This vigorous treatment is repeated twice a day in those parts of the market where or ganic refuse is considerable. The cellars under themarkets are, of course, suspicious places. They are cleaned twice a day at least, and quantities of disinfectants used. The watering of the streets is under the cleaning department The watering carts are on the same general principle as those common in America, though smaller and most awkward to foreign ei es. Small hand carts are also used, and in the gardens and along the "swell" drives, where extra care is taken, a snakelike jointed hose mounted on little wheels is employed. The sweep ers do the watering after their morning rounds. Experiments have been made at Paris with deliquescent salts, but they have been found less satisfactory than water. Their cost is greater, tbey do not freshen the air, they do not prevent dust, and they absorb much moisture from the atmosphere. All this coats dearly. In 1888 the cleaning of the Paris streets amounted to 51,315,900. This expense is borne by the French Gov ernment, by the Department of the Seine, and by a sweeping tax. In 1888 the Gov ernment and the Department paid 5780.000 for repairing and cleaning the streets of the city; the sweeping tax of that year was 55i3,334 4U. Still Boom for Improvement. The service, good as it is, is not perfect The awkward, open tombereaux, which in fest Pans from 6 to 10 in the morning and later in the vicinity of the markets, are un sightly and disgusting. Closed carts, sueh as are used in Berlin, of lighter weight and greater capacity would certainly be an im provement The depots to which the de tritus is carried are too near the walls for the comfort and the health of adjacent parts of the city. The receptacles which belong to the city ought 'to be covered, and it is a question whether disinfecting them three tames a month is sufficient for perfect purity. A serious abuse of the receptacles oceurs in the households of the poor. They are not carried out regularly, but left in the houses sometimes for several; days. A careful people goes a long way toward making a clean ci'y. Ida M. Takbell. Without a drawback is Salvation Oil, the greatest cure on earth for pain. Price 25 cent. '- - . A Mil I r . '".. i ."-"- .. - ' IJ&- i J v. 'mmEmJb.i.Zjr', 'A T. j ,-.. I , . - t .- m . . " . jl V. M 22, 189L TEE WEDDING WINE. Temperance Lesson to Be Learned from the Feast at Cana. RESTBICTION THE BEST POLICY. Drunkenness, Not Drinking, Is the Sin Eecognized hy the Bible. PDEB LIQU0B IS OUR SALTATION IWTUTTEN TOR THE DISPATCH.l "And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, they have no wine." Such a piece of information, whispered at a wedding to a Christian min ister to-day, would probably bring a re sponse of satisfaction. The Christian min ister would be heartily glad that there was a scarcity of wine. He wonld rejoice to have a wine famine fall upon the whole country. To have no wine anywhere would seem to him to be one of the essentials of the millenium. It is evident, however, that Jesns had no thought of prohibition. The answer which He gave to this appeal shows that He had no wish to banish wine out of Cana in Galilee. Not only is it evident that Jesus was not a preacher of prohibition, but it is quite as plain that He was not Himself a practicer of total abstinence. "The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous and a wine bibber." Christ quotes this complaint not to criticize it.but to show how impossible it is to please everybody. He compares His own manner of life with that of John the Baptist "John," He says, "came neither eatine nor drinking." Did they like that any better? No; they say, "He hath a deviL" The value of this for our present purpose lies in the Contrast Between Christ and John. John was an ascetic. He kept out of the world altogether. He had no part in the life of his time except as a stern preacher against the evils of it Especially, he be longed to one of the numerous total ab stinence societies of his day. Jesus was in full sympathy with everything that was good in human life, lived in cities, rejoiced in companionship, sat at men's tables, and never joined any of those associations which exacted a pledge of total abstinence. On the contrary, so far as the drinking of wine was concerned, not only did He pro vide the wine for that festivity in Cana, not only was He known and seen by the people to drink wine, but He set the drinking of wine as a symbolio act in that sacrament which summed up the blessed meaning of His life. Ever since then, Christian peo ple, in the most sacred rite of religion, have tasted wine. And this was real wine. It was the fermented jnice of the grape. It was a liquor with which it was possible to become intoxicated; as people actually did at Corinth. No other idea about it is sanc tioned by scriptural scholarship. Truth in the Bleht Religion. My subject to-day is the Christian Doe trine of Temperance. There is only one good foundation for a doctrine, and that is the foundation of the actual truth. That is the final test of the Christianity of any doc trine; is it true? Nothing that is cot trt'e is Christian. It has sometimes been the position of religious teachers that what ever is desirable is true; that the real test of a doctrine is its influence over the peo ple. If it appears to promote sobriety and quietness, if it promises to further the pur poses which the teachers have at heart, then it is true. That depends, however, upon the essential meaning of religion. If religion is a contrivance "for keeping people in orderly subjection, then whatever is de sirable is religion. But if religion is an attempt to learn the will of God and teach it, and to get the commandments of God obeyed, and to meas ure the life of man by the standard of God, then the supreme Undesirable is falsehood. Truth alone has place in right religion. Example of the Savior. Accordingly, I set the example of Christ at the beginning of all study of the doc trine of temperance. The lite of Christ is the revelation of the mind of God. After all the centuries of moral progress, we still go back to Him for the absolute ideal of right living. Every reform that has ever been proposed has prospered just in propor tion as it voiced His spirit He is still a long way ahead of the wisest and the best. To get His life realized in the hearts of men is the sup-eme hope of the future. It has been found invariably that His wav of look ingat things is therightway, andthatevery other view which is broader than that, or narrower than that, is wrong. This is the testimony of experience. A yonng man at a theological seminary declared the other day that if he could he assured that the wine at Cana was real wine he would no longer, be a follower of Christ Between the judgment of Jesus Chnst"and the judgment of a young man in a theologi cal seminary it is not very difficult to choose. Established by Eighteen Centuries. A good many people turned back and walked no more with Him, differing from Him in one way or another when He was here. And a great many people since have refused to accept His example or His doc trine, and have gone their own way, think ing their own opinion wiser than His. And all these mistaken people have fallen into inevitable confusion. Christ is the truth. Eighteen Christtan centuries prqve that sufficiently. The wisest man will do well to think a good while before he. disagrees with Jesus Christ Jesus has , been right always. He will be right always. Only those who stand with Him are right Now, we want to promote temperance. All decent people are agreed in that. We want to put down intemperance, ana to keep it down. We believe that drunken ness is of the devil. We recognize the fear- xui curse oi it. we see piainiy enouga that it is the mother of degradation and crime, that it is the enemy of the home, that it is the menace of manhood. We are earnest for reform. But we want to be on the side of a reform that will reform. We want to stand upon a principle that has truthunder.it Drluklng as a Sin. It may perhaps seem to us that some other doctrine might be more desirable, might be stronger, might have a more powerful influence over the people. If drinking had been set among the forbidden things in the Ten Commandments, if it had been inveighed against in the Sermon on the Mount, if it had been classed among the deadly sins and threatened with everlasting damnation, we might have been able to scare more people out of it. But nothing will ever permanently prevail in this world except the truth. And truth in ethics, truth about morality, truth about temper ance, is to be discovered iu the life and words of Jesus Christ And Jesus Christ, as we have seen, had no desire for prohibition, did not practice total abstinence, did not look on drinking as a sin. No plan of reformation which represents drinking as a sin, which teaches total abstinence as the universal rnle for man, and tries 'to secure absolute prohibi tion, can possiblv succeed. There is no use attempting it It is against the right judg ment of intelligent people. It is against human nature. "It is against the example of Jesus Christ Beactlon tforao Than the Evil. The result of such an attempt, like the result ffeverv other extreme, is reaction. The lost end of a community which pro ceeds upon these mistaken and unsanctioned principles is worse than the first. How to get rid of drunkenness is the great problem. We all want to get it answered. We cannot afford to lose time and waste strength over nny answer that will not work. And uni versal prohibition and compulsory total ab stinence will not work. Drinking is no more essentially a sin than eating. Every body ought to know that. But drunkenness is sin. "Be not drunk i with, wine, wherein is excess." "Letuswallc iiuuesuy as In the day UOI in iiohjik aim drunkenness." "Know ye not that the un righteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God nor drunkards?" The word of God is plain and strong aeainst all drunkards. Probably more would have been said, and "tronjreryet, Jf they hadknown the sort of drunkenness that we know. They had a Kreat deal of drunkenness, no doubt, but it was different from that wliicn appears at Jl'o Police courts. The drink was wine, the "ffh wino of those Southern countries, wbich is still drunk like water. Didn't Know Modem Tjqaorf. It was as different from the fierce liquors of the Xorth as vinegar is different from nitric acid. It degraded men. but it did not make them violent. It stole away their senses, but it did not make tbem maniacs. It was the mother of sensuality, but not of crime. It was pernicious, but it was not a poison. There fs no comparison between tliatweddins wine at Cana made by the word of Christ and th adulterated distilla tions of to-day brewed by the devil. Ao doubt one of the great causes of tho shameful intomperance of this cor.ntrv Is the impurity of liquor. If adulteration could be prohibited that wonld be a prohibi tion indeed. If the juices or tho fruits or tho eartli could be brought to men sweet and clean, pure and unpolsoned,tUere would bo a reformation. The traveler sees no drunkenness in Enrone. And yet he sees al most universal drinking. It is not drinklne that makes men drunkaids.it is what they drink. John Calvin, in Geneva, allowed the saloons to be kept open. But every man must shy a grace before he drank, and what he drank was good. The Selfishness of the Drunkard. There is no need of extending comment to make clear why no drunkard shall have a part in the kingdom or heaven. Selfishness and Christianity cannot very well go to gether. One must crowd the other out. Tho man wno is most unlike Christ of any man that breathes is he who, instead or making life better and happier for those who" live w ith him. makes it dreadfnl. A drunkard i likely to be the most selfish and the most cruel of all human beings. Deliberately, for the gratification of his own gross, beastly appetites, he throws away his opportunities, wrecks lib manhood, impoverishen lib family, "breaks tho hearts of his friends, turns hb home into a hell. Those who do not know him despise him; those who do know bim wish he were dead. Tho evil of drink is probably the worst foe that tho cause of righteousness has. It is a commonplace that three-fourths of the crime which has to be punished by the State Is committed by people who are pnsbed on by this fonl spirit of drink. The saloon and, the police station arc near neighbors. The IJquor Baslness Xot KespectabTe. The only decent thing about this traffic is its sense of shame. It hides itself behind closed doors, needs a screen between itself and the street, is afraid of the light But there in secret it is every day getting bold of more young men than the church is, and turning tbem into dangerous citizens. Vi'o read of the horrors of the Rnssbn prisons, but the saloon keepertias a greater burden of broken hearts to answer for than the Czar. - ow, what shall we do? We have two kinds of responsibility in this matter, one public and the other private, as citizens and as Christians. It is our duty as citizens to help on all sucb legislative reformation as seems best calculated to defend the State from the danger of an army or drunkard?. Absolute prohibition i neither a natural nor a possible defence. The next thing is re striction. We have seen iu this city how the liquor traffic, under the control of law and by the wise administration of righteous judges, can be held in check. Toachin; the Saloonkeepers Cupidity. A system of high license, which shall make it a matter of money for a saloonkeeper to keep an orderly saloon, which shall shut up the lowest places, which shall ensure the ob servance of the law about Sunday closing and sale to minors and habitual drunkards, offers the best way of reformation which has yet been tried. Wo ought to support that system, and resist every diminishing of it, aud encourage every endeavor to make it better. The proportion of one saloon to every 600 inhabitants is n good standard. I wish that all the saloon keepers could be converted. 1 believe that a Christian sa loon keeper might be the mo3t useful man In the community. Tho saloon is the poor man's club, and the saloon keeper b the president of that brotherhood. It he had a sense or Christian responsibility, if he sold only what was absolutely free from poison, and sold it only to the right people, and pro vided decent entertainments along: with it, and put out his band to help every poor fel low whom be saw going Clown, instead of giving nim a push, I would not have him change his occupation. A Christian saloon might do as much good in the neighborhood as a Christian church. A Matter of Individual Conscience. As for our duty in the matter or our own conduct that must be left to every man's conscience. Christ teaches total abstinence In the case of every man that needs it. "If thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off and cast them from thee." The word "of fend" here means "to cause to stumble." It is a good thing to have a hand or a foot, but lifo is better than either. One of the plain duties of a Christian is to give up even the good for the sake of the better. Drinking is not a sin, but we are taught everv day by fearful example how easily it may lead into dreadful sin. Whoever finds tliat drinking hurts him, dim's his sight, clouds his mind, sensualizes him, leads him into unprofitable companionship, makes him neglect his business or his prayers, makes mm even a iittie asnamea to iook into tne faco of his mother or lib wife, must stop. He must stop, orelso go on. He must Stop now or he cannot stop at all. Xo man has anv business to play with an appetite for drink. The good coachman, in the .old story, was not the one who could drive within two inches of the edge, but the one who kept aw ay as far as he possibly could. The Inflaeccj Upon Others. And wo have not only ourselves to think of; we have need every day to remember our responsibility for our example. Christ says that whoever sets a stumbling block In his brother's way, "it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea." "It must needs ba that offences come, out woo to that man by whom tho offence Cometh." It is not a sin to drink, but it is a sin to set temptation in anybody's path. Upon him shall lie the fearful responsibility of a shipwrecked soul who persuades a weak will into the way of evil. Woe to him who puts the cup to his neighbor's unwilling lips. Iu these ptksent days, with the evils of in temperance so close about us, with the dangers of drinking so accentuated by the conditions of society, ic is a serious tulng, indeed, tosetcven wine upon a public tabic. There are times, as someone says, when it is well to have every uiasterless dog shot, for fear of hydrophobia: while in general, we have no autii,athy to dogs. There are peculiar circumstances wbicn make total aostinence comoieauamc Some Measures of Reform. A ereat deal can be done by the influence of Christian public opinion. There wonld be far less drinking if men were only prop erly ashamed to drink too much as they are to eat too much, and if the declination of a glass or wine wetcas natural a thing as the declination of a second piece of bread. There would be les3 drinking if the young women ofsociety showed more plainly what they think about young men who drink. It ought not to be necessary, but it is, that 83 out of every 100 marriages, in which the bridegroom has been known to bo in the habit of getting drunk, even at rare inter vals, end in lailure, in protracted and unut terable nibery. Such a marriage is the most hazardous of experiments. There wouldbe less drinking it men had tho decency to abolish the treatirg habit, perhaps the most disgusting custom of respectable people w hicu the astonished angels see. Here is the sum of the whore matter. Drinking is not a sin; drunkenness b sin. Very much as eating is not a sin, but gluttony is sin. The guilt lies in excess. Prohibition, as a public policy, cannot be maintained either on grounds of Holy Scripture or of practical expediency. It will not work. Better than prohibition is restriction. Total abstinence, as a private rulo or life, b not to be made compulsory. To drink or not to drink is a part of per sonal liberty; it innst be left to every man's conscience. In view, however, ot the pres ent temptations to intemperance, of the temporary evil conditions in which we live, of the frightful dangers of excess, of the solemn lesponsibility for bad example, tho safest rule for any man to follow Is not to drink at alL Ueoege Howes. The Bobber of To-Day. Absolutely pure rubber is now something more easily imagined than found. Ordinary black rubber, whieh is hard to the touch, contains a considerable quantity of lead in various forms, while the white rubber and eraser will disclose on analysis quite a large percentage of zinc, ltubber that is trans parent is frequently prepared with gun cotton. It is difficult U imagine which of these three ingredients is the most ob jectionable, and people who have a habit of chewing rubber need not be surprised if very unpleasant feeling result KAPID TRANSIT COST. Carefully Prepared Data Show the Electric System Ahead. HEILMABN PLAN TOR-RAILROADS, A Substitute for Butter and Another for the See's Product. PBEYKTEG BURSTING OF" PIPES rWKtTTES FOB THE DISPATCH. Some Instructive data on the cost of elee trio railways have been collected by 3. S Badger, of the Edison Company. 3Ir. Badger has devoted considerable timo to a compari son between electric, cable and horse trac tion, based on the actual records of 23 elec tric roads, 45 horse roads and 10 cable road'). Including nil the expenses and the Inter est on cost of plant, the cost per passenger carried amounted on the electric roads to 4.53 cents, on the horse railroads to 4.93 cents and on the cable to 4.77 cents. The distribn tion of expenses over the various parts of tho system b also Interesting. Taking the average of the 22 trolley roads above mentioned, the mean expenses per car mile was almost exactly 11 cents; by far the larg est Item of expenditure was the transporta tion expense proper, including wages of conductors and motormen; this amounted to very nearly 5 cents per car mile, while the cost of power was but 196, including fuel, wages, oil, waste and other supplies. The repairs per car mile avcraced IS cents. The latest accounts of tbeHeilmann sys tem of electric traction have not fully borno out the prombe with which the sys tem was heralded, althongn some exceed ingly good work is being done on the lines of the French State Itailway. The smooth ness of motion, the absence of vibration and the facility of starting, are all points which characterize this modo of traction. If added to these advantages, economy and greater speed could be demonstrated, the extreme importance of tho invention would he manifest. 31. Hcilmann, It will be re membered, set himself the problem of ap plying this method of traction for ordinary long-distance railways without changing the present permanent way. to any appre ciable extent. The solution proposed by II. Heilmann consists in the daring scheme of carrying along with the train itseUits own electric station encines, boiler and dynamo and distributing the energy so generated to the various axles by mears of directlv Beared electric motors. The power for the tram will thus be generated along the ronte, as is the case with 'the present loco motives, but with the additional benefits of speed, economy and so-fety, that can be ob tained from the use of electrical means of traction- Cost of Fogs in I'ittsbnrg. The cost to the city of London when the normal haziness of atmosphere develops into fog amounts to quite a formidable figure. If a dense fog covered the whole of London, and lasted all day, the additional amount of gas consumed wonld be 30 000,000 cubic feet; but since so extensive a foz ai this probably never exists, and certainly never lasts all day, the actual amount con sumed may be correctly reckoned at 25,000,- 000 cubic feet. If the cost of this be calcu lated at 60 cents per 1,000 cubic feet, which is a little below the actual cost, it amounts to 15,625. But it is not the single days of dense 1 ok that measure the extra, amount and cost ofartiflcial light used on account of fos; it b rather the continually occurring dull days and local transitory fotts which demand an' extra supply of cas, and as this is often 5,000,000 to 15,000 COO cubic feet in a day, the total cost by the end of the winter is consid erable. Those who have not seen a London fog can have no idea of its dark brown color and stifling consistency. This Is somewhat amusingly suggested in an article on tho subject in an English scientific journal. The writer, after inculcating tho necessity of securing improved combustion of fuel, sug gests altering the form of fuel used in Ene land. and adopting gas ana coke. He adds: "The soot and tarry matter will then be donn away with; the question of sulphuric acid in the air would remain, but our fogs wonld at least be white." All of which b interesting to Pittsburg. The Dental Engine. Electricity b now being so extensively utilized In the practice of dentistry that many of the old-time devices are being en tirely superseded. The first to go has been the foot power on which the dentist forme' ly relied to work hb dental engine. With theelectrio motor properly adjusted to the engine, the most fatizning operation can now be worked through with ease. One of the best known methods of excavating sen sitive dentine with a minimum of pain is bV the use of a very sharp burr run at a high speed. With the electric motor a speed of 2,000 to 5,000 revolutions per minute can be easily obtained. Dentists living in towns or cities where a supply of electric power can not be obtained from a central power sta tion have to resort to the use ot batteries. Many improvements have been made in the construction and durability of galvania cells, and batteries can now be obtained that will supply for a month or more, without any further attention than the addition of a little water occasionally, all the power re quired in operating a dental engine. New Substitute for Butter. A Fronch substitute for butter b being In troduced in England. It b said to be both economical and wholesome. Its basis b the fat obtained from freshly slaughtered cattle, which is first converted Into oleomargarine. The process consists In flr3t reducing the fat to small pieces of uniform size, and then melting it at a temperature of 60 degrees centigrade. Byachauge of temperature It is reduced to a crystalline condition. The product now consists of oleo and stearine, the former of which, alter separation, b placed in churns with certain proportions of new milk and oil and some pure butter, and subjected to 10 minutes' cburnln-r. It is then cooled in iced water and placed in mixing machines, where it b salted and thoroughly incorporated before final packing Into boxes and baskets lor the trade. The product is said to be a marked improvement on any artificial butter yec produced. Prevent the Bursting of Pipes. As winter approaches any Information that will lessen the plumbing bills b wel come. An English' correspondent gives a very simple means of preventing pipes bursting from frost. A cup-shaped air chamber is attached to a piece of pipe, which can be coupled at both ends with the pipe to be protected. The air chamber U separated from the water flowing in the pipes by means of a rubber diaphragm. In case the water in the pipe freezes, the ex pansion of the water, Instead of finding an outlet by bursting the pipe, simply causes the diaphragm to yield, thus compressing the air cushion within the cup. It b said that pipes so protected will have immunity from bursting during the severest frost. Fainting: TJve Wires Bed. A novel recommendation originates with the Electric Commission for the District of Columbia. The commission proposes that all high tension wires that may be con sidered dangerous to life shall be painted red, and shall thus become a con stant warning signal to all persons and at all times. Floating Hospitals for Surgical Work. In these days or antiseptic surgery the aim of the surgeon b to destroy all germs so that no suppuration can occur in the wound. A prominent surgeon now suggests that a locality should be chosen for operations where germs do not exist. A vessel anchored ten miles out at sea would offer the moil favorable locality. A New Artificial Honey. An artificial honey, which b said to be likely to become a formidable rival of the natural product, is being made in Germany. It consists of water, sugar, a small quantity or mineral salts and a free acid. The resem blance b increased by incorporating into the product the scent of flowers. 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