t I ABOCf CONSUMPTION. la Dcciarcd to Ea ft Contaioaa Dlsoaaa. Ivint Theory Jtratawal mlitlti lavaatlcatkow ! ThitawLgaa Frort- alma AfilMt Ceuc4 Can f He rh;i1!;bi f'rcT Mli-al so ciety las petitioned the board of heeitb of thnt to pat eorjsan.pt.oo ofthelaErontfce lit of coatjo ":! -a-s. srs tie Baltimore San. The' request has awaie&ed inter! in the ,!d ijaeftion of the eonta?iousne of. on.amition ar. i intiAentadlf on the peneral tubvect of Ufeetiin and cod .jjr;, Some of the disease wLich fit-la is heir to re contagions in everr nie of the word. A contact y,l yht that it Joe not even reach itin contact, trat merely with the air which roanrKix patients breathe, is anficient to ra.ise 6mailpox in man. So, t-o, tceciato contact that i to aay. the Jjsdlir? by the well of material touched by the tick ha i been pruve-1 to be the cause of many i-:--"- of tvnkh ervsipelas and tsarlet few may tw cited is exmp'.es. The prc-!scts of :rrtaia other diseases trphoid fever, f.,r example require to be taken into lb economy to become malefic-cut. .ktiil others, bach a piaaaers, Bt he introduce! into the blood current i. self before they are ilanjreroo. These facts hare been provi-d by lonf -vrration and are not to be dispated. A horvman treats a case of p lander p-ith r-rf,-ot security, provi.ied his akin is whole or is protected. A mrse ar a 1x::t ttays f-r hours in the room of the typhoid'patient and seffers do hurt. I'm older doctors, therefore, iet these diseases t one side as ia f . ctloas, but not contagions for it was ; :-ia:iy evioert that they were carried from patient to patient, not through Ue air, but through other, and to ti.eta unknown, means. The discoveries in bacU-rio'.ojry have setCed many questions, bnt have un settled many others which were tun-j-sed to bare been fixed forever. Artec? other things it has broken :oxn the barriers between contagious iuu inf..-;-tiou diseases. All the dis eases, which Lave been mentioned are tv,w believed to be caused by perms of evjretal origin, soaje of which are kso-K-xt, others of rrhich are only sus p:?'.ed. The ejrplana'.on of the bae-..-rMopa ss to the difference in their ;7et t on the human jrranism is i-im-p:y tlutt of the Bible. Nme jerms fall .a fro-:! gr.and and muHip'y. others on ?.i;;v pround and fail to prow, or tritiier at once. When a typhoid perm is breathed into the lung's it perishes jst as do the myriad of other perms which we daily treathe. It is far other wise if it is swallowed with the food T drink, and fiuds after mnninp tha fanntiet of the jaices of the stomach a suitable place for prowth in the intes tines. The prm prows and multiplies, :.nd trie ordinary phenomena of the disease result- This will pive a p"n- ral idi-a of the simple and apparently complete answer to many of the vexed oueatioas which pozzled the older doc tors. l"nfor:r.::r;tt-!y the practical diffi culties are not entirely removed by ti.e theoretical explanation, and espe risily is this true cf coDsr.T-ption. Even if it is granted that the cis-a al wars originates from a penn. and that this perm came from some previous rase of the disease, the fact that so mar.y escape where almost all are ex po sj shows that there must be other iactors than the perm alone which cause the disease, or at least aid in it fT"papation. So far these o'her !) are alm-.t unknown. That consumption was con'asrous was an old theory, and the pniaris recturies apo were in the habit of de st roving the beddinp and bclonpinps :f consumptives, and in some caws tven the houses in which they lived, f jr fear of the spreading of the plairne. That it is not rery actively contatriotis is proved sufficiently by the fact that the dwellers in cities are alive at all. for statistics prove that from cne-tentli tjone-tfthof all the deaths in larpe rlties are due directly or indirectly to the disease, and that consequently a :':mber of sufferers from the disease must be present in every lar-e paihcr irip of people. Except in the later stapes the palicLt is not ocCned to 1 is bed. lie minples in t'l the social -nd industrial avocations of life. Not infrequently he is '-the life of the f arty" or the "hardest worker of the ofiice." In the present state of society, r.t least, such men caaoot be con demned to a leper camp nor fent apainst their wills to a sanitarium, however excellent. The peneral fact that consumption is a disease which, under certain circniu Mances, may become contapious or in fectious, should be admitted. A suf ficient number of cay s are known svhere the carrying of the disease from the ill to the well is clearly proved to '.cmonstrate the pem-ra! truth that Consumption is sometimes cuntapii'tia. This should lead to the most scrup ulous care on the part not only of the physician but of the inteilipcnt pa tient to prevent the spread of the dis ease. But any attempt to prevent sm-U infection by quarantine repulalion n.ust almost neees-sardjr prove abor tive CATH OF A NOTED GIANT. 1 lit tainaiuaa Ctia&s. V ha Ws A at lu Itii ii.r IhI la Il.ciit. The fara-;:s t i.ir.cse piant, Chan?. " '. at lKHiraeirtout li. ljiklaD, N. : etiiljer .1. Thaiij bad b-on won several S::j)-s ia AajiTica, say Jiie New York lloraid. Ik-causc of a prevails? sjj i-r-.:iliMi amoi! tl-.e t hinese jM-.-.ple Lis height was never mrasun-d, a they believed that death would imtm-- i:ately lolioor the measurement. Hat there are none wbo Iwivc obs-rved hira or wbo have stood ct beside l.im .v!o estimated fcis stature at les than nine fvt. Ili physical pnportions were very symmetrical and his strentrtli was bercr.!van. Iiavinp travelexland exhib ited ttror.pjiout the cirilied plobe he acqaircu and spoke wiih flaenry five different lanpnag-es Enplish, Ger man, French, Italiaa and Spanish. He was a ery rompacionable man and iieliphted to meet and converse with inieilipent laes and women. Chanp was bora in 1M7 ,t VTaang' Iluc, Bear I'ek in, China. His parents svho are still Evinp, are larje tea and :lfc prowcrs, and are Independent. There is not ainp in their constitution 1KT that t their progenitors to indi- aie the possibility of transmitting jripantie prop.rtions to their extraor dinary son. ' u the contrary, t"harp"s ivan-nts are about the averape eszo of hinese people, who are well kno-rn t-i be rather ander the ordinary s;ze. At bis birth there was nothinptoin-dk-ate lhat he was to prow to his pres ent stature, and up to the ape of nearly six years his beipht did not exeed most rhildrenof his ape. Aftera shirt illness he bepan to assume such pigan ic proportions that hU parents were nch alarmed at the prow th of their loj son. At the ape of tweiv he v3 eal to the heipht of his father -md th generality of the neiphborinp j'ople. TX phenomenon of bis beinp s tail as a raaa. and yet showinp all ile habits and actions of a child. s-anse4 him to become the wonder and astonishment of the neighborhood. At ttie sa:Ke time he suffered preat per ianal discomfort, for the men would HJt Associate with bim and the chil dren meld tiot play with him. At the apef Spkrtec he eommeaced to ex biUil hiaaxtlf in public Chaap was iiere in ivm. in 15, as4 in lsss. After tis last visit here he re turned to fcis native land to marry a 4 "bines beauty. It was his intention at that time to come back to Amwk- and to settle down in the west. U used ta wear a watch pivea bkn by Vueea Victoria which weiphed two pounds and a half, ami bad a chain tiine feet Ionp. which barely reached around his neck and down to Lis vest Ihicket- lie had a Lare stuck of iAiv r I jtt) J jewelry presented to him by royal .and other distinguished personapes. WAS PREPARED TO DIE. ret IVkee tsw Tuh Caasa Bis nom faliad to Coma Trsa. 6o3k tixe 6JXK, say tie Kw York Telepram, a certain fanner in ths mid dle of this aUte, as eccentric old fel low the neighbors said, had a vis ion Some bod v appeared to him, a spirit, s iobsrotiii cr what not, and informed iia that he h4 only a fe-e months jit. The da"s fixed was in Novem ber. The fanner took the matter very beriottslr, bnt he had no fears. He told hia'friend that he was about to depart, and bepaa to pet ready. lie paid all his debt, which is more than even death can induce every one to do, and offered bis farm utensils and his stock for sale. He wanted to clean thicps op handsomely, as every hon est man should do, and leave no en tanp'.ements behind him. Amonp oth er things to be disposed of were two cows, but as he wanted to live com fortably while he did live he concluded to hold on to those cows until the last moment. Oddly enooph, now that the time of his exit is close at hand, he has had an other vision. A new set of phosU or hobpob'.ins have appeared to him and informed him that arrangements have been made to allow him to stay in this wicked world a little lonper. He was rather relieved at the postponement of Lis funeral, but stiU felt a degree of cmlarrassm-nt.f or pretty nearly every thing he had, wagons, horses anil har nesses, rakes, hoc, axes, sunt cords of wood behind the house, had all been pot rid of. and the farm looked as thon?h it had jnst been abandoned. The old fallow is a b't riled, how ever. '-This vision busin.-ss." lie said the other day, -has ot me dear," and he has been beard to Use some rather stronp expressions about hobroblins in peneral and this particular hobgob lin that seems to have been piarinp a practical joke on him. He is specially plad that he didn't sell those ccari They are about all he has left, but they will serve as a nu cleus for the thiups he will have to bay in order to run the farm. V hen a stranper comes alon:? nowadays and sys he would like to take a peep at those cows with a view to purchase them, the farmer comes as close to pro fanity as a country church deacon ever pets, lie thinks the su tar words, but bites his tonpue and remarks that l;e hasn't iny cows for (-i.lc, but i thhikinp of buvinp a herd and roir..' into the dairy business The moral of this is that lwibpobiia are very useful creatures in their way; that w hen they tell you to pay your debts yea had better follow their ad vice, but if tlv.-y tell you vou are poinp to die you had Wtter take camomile tea and send for the doctor. At any rate, don't part with your cows. ELEPHANTINE LIFE. trj I tW Takra t FrT-it Its Wanton DrltnirthM. One of the pressinp questions of the day in Africa relates to the preserva tion of the elephant, which will be come extinct there at no distant date naiess means are taken to stop the in-tv-scriniinate slaughter cow poinp on. There has been a prevalent notion that the African elephant is inferior to his Indian cousin iu intellipnce and docil ity, but it d.ies r.ot seem to be founded on solid observation. It is tow pointed out that the Eomans and Carthapicians used the African beast to pood purpo-e. and Mr. V. L. Slater, of the Ior.don Z-x!opical sxxiety, declares that they have had African elephants in their par.icns for more than twenty years and have fo:nd them quite as inieili pent as those of the Asiatic species, aiihoupU perhaps not quite as do-iie. AycuBifmale African cow about f.mr te n years of ace is dailr enpapeddur ir.tr the snramer months in carry inp the children and other visitors alut the parden and there has never been an accident wilh him. Mr. Selater ex-pr-sses the opinion that the African elephant should be preserved as the proper beast of burden to open up the trade routes in the interior uf the Afri can continent, and sc-pest that a kbeddah of Indian elephants and their attendants be transported to the east African coast and that the Indian ele phants be f-et to work to capture and tame their African brethren. It i noted, moreover, that tlen. (iordon, jufct before the fall of Khartoum, wrote a letter in which he stronply advocated the domestication and use of the Afri can elephant. A FORTUNE EASILY MADE. How a Viceroy of India Mad Quarter of a Milltoa Dollars oa Kxchncftis The story which I pave last week of the viceroy who remitted home the whole of his salary at the privileged rate of 'Js C-d per mpee. reveals only a port ion of the possibilities thus opened op. says Labouchere in Indon Truth. I have tdnee heard it narrated of one recent viceroy tliat he first remitted home his salary at the above rate, mak inpout of his io.fxcj -J.os3. He then had the totai of a;7.0s3 remitted back ppain, makiiip on this transaction 17 pcr:X. or 4.5rJ0. The total profit on the two transactions was thus iC,C73 pe r annum, and on his sum, I am told, his lordship, leinp a nobleman of eco nomical habits pretty well lived. He was thus enabled to save an enormous sum, estimated from 00.0u0 to 73,000, durinp Lis tenure of office, and it is as ierted that at the end of his time he fv-mi'-ted the whole of this to Enpiand tt the privileged rate, makinp some thing between 4.(Kj0 and i'y,(X.-J more on that tran;,actlou. A I'nltsx People. The enrions fact has been mentioned by ; Samuel Iaker that anejrobas never been known to tame an elephant in- any wild animal. The elephauls e mpl'H-fd by the ancient Carthapinians and Kotiinns were trained by Arabs and Ciirthapiniins. never by negroes. ir Samuel wa distressed l y the utter Jack of pet animals anion? the children in Africa: and he often offered rewards for youup clepliants, but neTcr suc ceeded iu j,-ctticp one alive. SHE TENDED STILL. treat a RTa oowr Diacovawd la taa Sort Carolina Moastain. For mac fears Eph Honeyeutt, of Mission. Stanley cotuity, has conducted a brandy distillery, and had a reputa tion throughout that country f- mak ing the best brandy to be had. says ttL Charlotte News. The distillery was always conducted in an orderly way, rhieh is rot the ease with all of them. The other day a revenue officer went down to th Htii to mark up the bran dy, and lo. ana btholdl a vooian waa attending to things. The officer in quired of the woman as to liouevcutt s whereabouts. "He's not here; does not stay here." replied the woman. 'Well, who runs the stiHT" "Why, I do. of course. I have been attending to it for these many days and can make just as pood brandy as Epb Honeyeutt can. Well, who are yon, and who doea thia distillery lelong to?" asked the officer in astonishment. "The whole thing, including myself, belongs i Ejih Honeyeutt, for I am his wife. I attend to things for him, be cause he has tha farm an4 other mat ters to look after." And then she went asottad to "chunk" up the tire and squeezed t Cancel strainer in the "doubling kfg to see If the "singling" were strong encugh. Brit tmar'a kUaetric Llc-af. An electric light of forty million ndie wwer almost surpasses cotn JTXyension. t this great mass of Ljl.t is tp issue from a lighthouse tower on I'enmarch point on ti .coast of Jlrittany. The beam will be seen twecty-tive miles before it strikes the horiron. and after that it will be re flected on tha tky for a distance of thirty-eight miles further. The Urges light on the coast of the United States can only be seen twentj-elght miles la cleaf weather, A MIGHTY MOOPw Appd&racso and CharacterlHtlcs of the SXtan of Morooca Tba Ewty Pay of staler !! fTka I al PresMtt Kacae4 la a Warlara watt Spaaaik CalonWta. Althocph Mnley. Hassan, the sul tan or chief cf Morocco, wields bnt a nominal authority over the Eiff tribes nen now at war witi t"-i Spaaisl colonial settlement at Melilla. on tN northern Mediterranean coast of Af rica, he is nevertheless the sovereipa of that repioa. and he will be held by Spain responsible for the consequences of the present warfare. Muley Uasnan is fifty-five years old. His demeanor is grave and majestic, as becomes a man knowing the impor tance of his doable character, as em peror and pontiff, and a successor to the prophet, of whom he is a descend ant. His dark eyes are larpe and ex pressive. His Moorish physiopnomy, adorned with a flowing black beard, in which are seen some white hairs, re Teals that in his Teins runs the blood of the nepro race nnited to that of the Arabs. He thows at the same time in his physical traits the evidence of an extraordinary firmness, mixed with a certain shadow of melancholy and las situde. He receives foreipn ministers and shows himself in public with fastidious solemnity, says the New York Trib une. One of the emperors serv ants holds over his head a large para sol to screen him from the rays of the sun. Others are busy fanning him, in order to chase away the files so abun dant iu that hot climate, and all look at their lord as if he were a pod rather than their bovereipn- Edmnnde Ami cu who saw Muley Hassan during a reception of the Italian embassy, de scribes him as follows; "A vestment as white as the snow covers him from head to foot; the tor Kan is covered by a high hood; the f-srt are bare and inclosed in yellow slippers. His horse is of hiph stature and very white, with preen reins and pold stirrups. All this whiteness and tie wide, floating vestments pave him a sacerdotal appearance, a royal grace fulness and amiable majesty, in accord with the very penile expression of his physiognomy."' ( Hi account of the intolerance pre vailing in the Moorish empire, the function of a religions chief is the most important of those which belong to the sultan. If he did not show ab solute respect for the Mussulman or thodoxy of thedoctrines of Mohammed, a revolution would soon turn him from the throne or travel compromise his sovereignty. Malcy Hassan observes therefore, rigorously all religious prac tices of the Moslem liturgy. Like all members of his court, he pets np at three o'clock a. m., in winter as well as in summer, to make the firt prayers. After that his chaplain reads bim some pares in the books of ltokhari, the famous Mussulman theologian, who is. in the opinion of all Moors, the best reiipior.s authority after Mohammed. The sultan and his ministers pive audiences between five and sis o'clock a. tn- and it is at such a matinal hour that he receives Europeans. The mid dle of the dav is piven to rest and sleep, business being resumed only at four or f.ve o'clock p. a., to stop si the hour cf the evening prsyer. When the sultan pets cp in the morn ing and when he has slept duriDg the "siesta" in the middle of the dav his women help him to dress. Their n u ra in r is verv considerable. Some people eftlrm that there are two thousand of them in each of the three capitals of the empire, which a-e fez. Mequine.-. ard Morocco. Ent ainc.nallthefcwivos the one who is really the favorite and the tirit in the heart of the emperor is Circassian of marvelous and fascinat ing beauty, who is thirty years old and v, ho has succeeded in nominating Muley Hassan, thanks to her talents, smartness and high culture. She has a European education, speaks French and Spanish, and aspires to make her son Abdelazis the successor of th pres ent emperor. TO LIFT NAPLES. Aa Italian Kalaeer Would C-uutroet aa aJovated EaUvay lliera. If the scheme elaborated bv an Ital ian engineer for the construction of an elevated railway in Naples is car ried into execution Italy will, accord ing to the Electrical Ileview, possess cne of the most remarkable structures in the world. As far as length is con cerned the projected line is not oi preat importance, but the boldness of the idea and its originality are strik ing. Let the uraginz.tioo conceive the hilly portion of a town connected by means of viaducts and towers, wilh that part lying at a low level, and the substance r.f A. Arena's project will then be readily understood. The hand some and populous part of Naples, radiating irom Via Iloma. has only coinmunlcalion with the Corso Vi. torio Emmaauelc, the San Martin hill, and the at a still higher level; new liione del Vomero by means of narrow, tortuous streets, many o: them being impracth-able for carriage trariic. It is between these two ex treme localities that the proposed ele vated railway is to form a connection. The line is to be carried.on two metal lic viaducts, each divided so as to form a double ucy, one tor the operation of electric cars and the other for pedev irians. A raa-sonry tower 525 feet hig-i is to be built in the Via Roma, an i from this the first viaduct, 1,160 fivt long,. i iij be carried to the Corso Vit lorto Kt:iuaiiude. where it will termi nate in th.! base of a metallic tow. r 400 feet in bright The second vi.. duct, CO'J feet long and branching ont of this tower sotne dlstapce below th summit, will pass over the San Mar tino hid and end in the ground level at the new Dione del Vomero. The via lueti will be carried on pyraniidieat metallic toners having masonry foun dations; and the masonry tower at the beginning of ;te first viaduct and the metallic tower, connecting th two viaducts, will each be provided with staircases and capacious lifts for conveying passengers up and down. ras-npers entering the cars at either end of the line wiil not be compelled to change their seats on arriving at th: metallic tower, as the cars wiil be au tomatically placed on the lifts for as eeoding or descending from the high est viaduct, when the ears will con tinue thoir way to either terminus Generating stations will be provided at each terminus for prodacing current for lighting and power pnyposas. The undertaking, a concession for which has been granted, would provide i splcfidid view of the whole of Naples. TUa Oaadlr Kojara Dmit , party of cattlemen out on the Mor Jave desert recently came across the trad of two men and two burros. The aimless, algzag course of the trail showed that tbosa who had made it were lost and the cattlemen at once set out to find them. Here and there along the palh Liken by the wanderers holes of from t'iree to five feet In depth had been dug in the dry sands. I-ate in the evening the cattlemen came upon a young man lying under a mes nitc bash, beside a hole dug six feet iu ttfQ sand, murmuring in delirium and af the point of death. He had bee a without water more than three days and bad Jain down to die. A mile further frtt they overtook an old man. who, delirious, ar Cfaviing on bands and knees toward a pool i,f brackish water, beside which stood the two bur ros. The burros, being released when he gave np, had fonnd their way to water, and the old man had followed them In a last despairing burst of strength. The i.o men were miners, wbo had lost thetr'way a week before. Both men recovered after a ftjy .days of care at the ranch, but mummified corpses and bleached bones oftca met with in the desert tell of many travelers whose similar experiences have had no such hacD end: Mr. ENGLISH THE WORLD SPEECH. Tba Car ' tha G-nerml Stady of tat CoanJae; In an article on the importance cf istrodBclng irto the schools the sta-iy of a universal language lYVe'U-prache) which recently appeared in the Pre as sise he Jahrbuecher Dr. Schroer advo cates making the study of English ob lijtTf, not Beecs&arily to the exclu sion of the c'assjcal tongues, but at least in conjunction with them. -This" he says, "is not a question of taatc or rivalry between the "moderns' bs' the "ancients;' it is simply a his-turv-1 r.eeessity." The learned pro fessor properly condemns all attempts however scientific, to e.-nstnict an arliSciat world speech, l'ke Vwlapuk. In bis opinion a language which pos sesses neither literature, historical de velopment nor linguistic relations can never serve as a medium of general communication, for the res-son that no one will take the trouble to acquire it inertly as a 'tool of trade," until it be comes universal; therefore it can never become universal Such attempts how ever, are not only aimless, because they can never obtain the peneral con sent of mankind, bot they are needless for there already exists a universal language L e., a language which, by its spread over the whole earth and by the ease with which it may be learned, has gained such a long step in advance that neither natural nor arti ficial means can deprive it of its as sured position as the future medium of international intercourse. And this language is the English. lrof. Schroer is careful to warn his readers not to get their aim too high, for to learn to speak and write fluently and correctly a language which holds so high a place in the scale of culture and refinement as the English is diS calt. but for the average man this is not necessary, for even the average Englishman has but a limited com mand of his mother tongue, and the daily intercourse of life requires but a small and easily acquired Tocabuiary This is true of every language, but the absence of puzzling genders and inflec tions and synthical forms renders the English easy in comparison with others "The English lanpuape, con cludes Prof. Schroer. "is the world speech, and will, to all appearance, be come more and more so every year. During the present century the Eng lish-speaking population of the world has increased fire-fold, from possibly twenty-five million at its beginning to at least one hundred and twenty-five million. No other language has ever been so rapidly developed, no fact in civil history is more significant than this In every quarter of the world English is the conquering tongue. The wide spread of the Hrit- ish colonial svstem, the marvelous growth of the United States and the facility with which it absorbs every foreipn element bear witness to this great fact, and onr cousins in Germany are of too practical a turn of mind to be jealous or forgetful of it A DOUBLE BASS CLUB. Scheme to avoid Laec'BC tka Big Boll Fidiilra Aroaod. A po'd-laced person pot on a crowded Prooklvn trolley car and hung a bass drum over the brake-handle, says the New York World. The car lurched and the man next to him stepped on the gold-laced person's toes and, being thus introduced, began a conversation about the drum. "Heap of bother carrying a drum around, isn t it "Yes, but not so much as a double bass, one of these big bass fiddles you knowbull fiddles. "Are they much trouble?" "Well, they are this much trouble, that they won't let you get on a car in lirooklyn with one. In New i ork von have to get a permit to carry one, just the same as if it was a concealed weapon. Once, here in Brooklyn, I'd have to take a earriapefor it Hut now I belong to a double bats club. "Have pretty pood times I snnnose' You' pet together and fesnoke and have some beer and play solos on your doable bases The pold-laeed man looked down and laughed silently. Well, it is kind of funny to think of a lot of men sit ting around and playing solos about two octaves below the singing voice. oniaf! ooruf . "No," said he af ter a bit "All the feiloTS that play the double bass be long to this club and pay two dollars a year dues. They have a lot of insti-n ments and every place they have to po to play there is a chtset containing a bass to which only members of the ;labs have keys There is a book ia the closet and every time a fellow uses the bass he marks down his name They have thorn ia all the halls and theaters, end in the summer time on all the barges and excursion steamers The two dollars from each member poes for repairs" So that's the reason why yon can't remember having seen a double bass on the street cars no matter how hard yon try. Onyrhopbasy. M. Bcrillon, a French doctor, who has been directing his attention for some time past to the study of nail bit inp, or, as he calls It, onychophagy, finds that habit or disease extremely common. In a pnblie school in Paris, says the London Times out of 20.1 pu pils examined during the month of April last, siity-three.that is to say, nearly one-rourth, were addicted to biting their finger nails Curiously enough, results vary greatly in differ ent districts and in different schools in the T-amc districts It seems that pirls are u.ore given to the habit than bovs In one jprls school in the deartment cf Vo:ice eleven ont of twenty-one were confirmed nail biters In anoth er girls' school the proportion was siaty-onc ont of 207 pupils and of tlior si-ty-ona fifteen were fonnd to be in tha habit of biting the nails of both hi.aiV, and the others of bi'ing culy those of one hand. M. Herulon recog nises that urrrousness has much to do with the btbit andh'! proposes to cure it by irieaus cf "suggestion. ' Lec-UlaOva lotellisenre. The intelligence of a member of the Kentucky legislature has at times been called into question, but it U hardly fair to that distinguished body of statesmen to have any doubt on this subject In testimony whereof is this: Two newspapermen reporting the pro ceedings at Frankfort were disputing over the spelling of a member's name. "By George," contended one, "I tell you it is spelled with an a." "I'll bet yon a dollar it is an e," in sisted the other. "I know better and we'll leave It to bim." The other gave a long whi .tie. ''Leave It to him, nothing," he ex claimed; "he doesn't know how to spell his name, and I've seen hira run his tongue out four inches trying to write It" Trnpnttrt ol Sa;U Turrt:. For twenty years tha S iss Eoxeru- mcnt has been making obseivatians through Its forestry stations on tha temperature of the air. of the trees and the soli In the forests These observa tions show that the temperature in tha forests is aluay below the tempera ture outside. The temperature also varies according to the trees com posing the forests. A beech forest Is always cooler than a forest of larch. As to the trunks of the trees they are always cooler than the surrounding air. Itegarding the temperature of the soil, ft is found that in the forest the iehj-ralure is invariably below that of fiie alT- Outside the forest the soil is always warmer than the air in sum mer and colder in winter. PtRUaawtit of Matrietara. Some tri1es of North American In dians punished matricides by hanging them by their hands to the limits of a tree at a height jast mfficiect to per mit the wolves to reach them from the ground. Tb( y were then 1 f 1 to bo eaten alive, - THE ISLAND OF HAYTL Dasolaiion of a Cue Wealthy aai A 3tloa That la la capable ef lf-Coa crmaest Tha Koltna Ara BluodtlUnir Trrsnu aad ibo Paapla llata Wait Meav Not the least interesting fcatnre of the place is the barracks where is quartered a portion of Uippolyte" val iant army, says a Hayti correspondent of the Providence JoornaL The only attempt at nnlforra is a suit of blue overalls generally in the last stage of dilapidation, and a cap ornamented with red. yellow or blue braid, accord ing to the fancy of the wearer. Some few have shoes or straw slippers but the majority are barefooted. Tbey are armed, however, with fairly good muskets and many of them carry ugly looking knives I saw larpe num bers of the "soldiers" on the plaza, or public square, some playing at dice or cards some talking, other sleeping and all lary, dirty and ragged. This plaza, which was originally well laid out and which actually boasted an an cient fountain in the center, was lit tered with refuse, rooted np by hogs and filthy with house offal and dung. The ancient paved walks which origin ally traversed it were badly broken and the loose stones were wildly scat tered by the hogs Vatside of the town and as far as tha eye can reach extends a hilly country covered with forest In a Jong tramp through this CMintry we taw no cul tivated land. Anuyet this land is said to be extremely fertile and to yield large ly any tropical product that is planted upon it From an examination of an outcropping U- Jge of rock I decided that the soil was cnderlaid with lime stone, and such a soil is nearly always rijh. Hut the richness of this islaud is wasted. For even the old plantations which were well set with coflee, oravsges and cocoannts are grown np to tropical forest and yield next to nothing. Eight in the midst of a jungle of wild trees and bushes I found traces of an old orange and mango grove, in dicated by the remains of straight rows ia which these trees were origi nally planted. And with the decline and ruin of the plantations has de clined everything ia connection with then. Even the old carriage roads which originally traversed the island and formed a channel for conveying the produce f t" -. ,rt are cow only bridle paths being completely over grown with forest and bnshc-s And this is Hayti. the Hispaniola of Colum bus the pride and plory of the great admiral! For it wiil be rememliered that, after examining the other lsrge i:JanLs cf the We t Indies Columbus decided that this one was the richest and bet And later, when under French rule, it was one of the fairest and wealthiest spots in the civilized world. The whole republic, in fact is a gigantic farce. No nation has ever shown itself more utter ly ineapa1 le of Eelf-government than the black republic. Ia some eighty years of Haytian in lependen e there Lave been more than ninety revolutions The children, with a few exceptions gro-.v tip in absolute igno rance, and with a deep, inborn hatred of the white man. The rulers ore bloodthirsty tyrants and the country has degenerated into a tropical wilder ness GREAT ENGINEERING FEAT. IIrl;ht of a Chimney Iarreaard Without Stopping Factory Work. A remarkable feat has been recently accomplished at the Kotisecour spin ning works at Nancy, says In ...':3 and Iron, namely.incrcasing the height of a chimney about one hundred feet high by about thirty fi-t without step ping the work for a single day. Owing to the power being increased, the existing chimney did not have suf ficient draught for the existing num ber of boilers and one of two altera' tions had to be faced either to build a newchimney alongside the old one, or to increase the height of the latter. Augustus Bartling, of Uernberg (An- halt), offered to increase the height of the old chimney without interfering with th. work of the mills . Aided ty another man, whose agil ity and nerve were equal to his own, Mr. ltartling fixed a series of light steel ladders to the chimnev bv means of iron hooks driven in between the courses of the bricks, erected a pulley at the top of the chimney and a flight of scaffolding all round, and then hav ing lowered the cornice surmounting the chimney, they built on to the top a the rate of about four to five feet per da. 1 ha whole work occupied eight days end was perfectly successful. Whilj this Is the first chimney dealt with in this manner in France, Mr. Bartling states that he has carried out similar operations in Germany, at the chemical at Thane, and at the works at the Mul house Gas company. An Old-Time Opeaa Fire. It is a fact not generally known that the L nited States government label placed on t very box of imported cigars sold la this country bears a fine steel plate engraving t f the steamer CJty of t a -iiinton, a sister ship to the ill fated City of Hoston, and noted in her day us en ocean flyer. In the year 1--G1 the City of Washington, then ply ing between New ork and Liverpool, covered the passage to the westward, in January, in fourteen days fifteen hours; April, twelve days twenty-one hour;; Jlay, thirteen days twenty-ono honrs; July,, thirteen days August thirteen days; September, thirteen d;:ys twenty hours nd December, fifteen days ten hours In December, the made the trip from Sandy ilook to Queenstown in what was then the remarkably fast time of nine days tiinctcen hours and thirty seconds The City of London made several passages to the castTvard in 16C3 and 1(S in less than eleven days HE WARMED UP. Tba Bank Praaldcnt Lost That Cntll Feelinc; Verr Suddenly. A well-known .contractor walked into a bank In this city the other da to eash a check for forty dollars says the Washington Post The paying teller looked at te check a few minutes then counted out four hundred dollars and handed it to the contractor, who, although he noticed the error, said not a word, but rolled np the bills and wadded them down into his pocket ThU happened in the morning, and about two o'clock the same afternoon. before the officials of the bank had an opportunity to discover the error, the contractor walked into the office of the president of the bank. "Is this bank responsible for the errors of its clerksThc asked the pres ident "If it can be proved that any of our clerks have erred." replied the presi dent in a very chilly manner, "we will make the correction." "Well, nolody saw this error made but myself," continued the contractor. and my word ought to be sufficient proof, I think. " 'I am sorry, sir," said the bank pres ident "but we shall have to have ad ditional proof. We require this In order to protect ourselves; that Is alL" Very weli, air," replied the con. tractor, rising to leave. "I am sorry 1 cannot furnish what you demand. The error I referred to was the payment of four hundred dollars for a check that called for only forty dollars; bnt as no one saw me receive the extra three hundred and sixty dollars I suppose yon will not want to correct the mis take:. Good day, sir." "Hold on! Come backr shouted the bank president who by this tiros wm very wide-a wake to the abyss to which he had been led. The matter was soon adjusted satis factorily, and now when any person reports an error at that bank the first Question asked is: "In whose favor?" A FLKAMASTSVSmnE it ia stir f jt yon wt-eo yo-j U.T i.r Um i x-waaai.: 1 lets if vou vmr toe tCT cn-'C-iT liver pUi, t-Z I.jii-v, tco, yoi. i fr- yt-MS a g'lOd U-L-V. spe i..v ali-a ;t m s-i-.ir-"' '"' Unv" as rail-vl taej bus tct'v effective. Utter tama t-ais eo-ah tha s15?"" toe bwt in liver pilia bonce, Pkswoat IVika". If v-xi ara trouuW wtta JviiJ'-'jn. 1 or.stitte. Bil irorass IVwua Htssoacfaw. and a hau-irei and ona u.s waiea HJ cpna Bliw tie livi-r. trB Dr. rVrces Pei!eC. its tneas piiM yoa rjt nt oniy tempurary reiitf LaS a poli- nwr , iuc w nm.iratre4 to aivo satisfac tion or jour n-.om.-y at ra fctroed. For fat popU wbo suffer from indi-sttiou. tor fcufct eat-ars and tush bTerstbosa b keri ara sl-i'h, toa pill is what is moat aeedeo. Take PU dinner. CURTIS K. GROVE, SOMERSET. PA rXiISS !XiGE3 CASSiaGEo SPRING WAG05S. BTCK WAGOX" 7 EASTDm 5D WKSTT.SV5 WOkS Tirnwiyt as Skjti Sk Painting Done os Short Tixn work is BJKJe oul M TlamtQiii SnttatA IFana. rA the Bat bxm mat Mrei, 8ubuasdai Contracted, Xe&Uy Fialahed, s& Warrants to five -tataf action. Scspioy Csly Firs: Class Tarznss 'v.-airilig Ot Ad Kilid ill Llllt lioox Ot bort Vatic er!r RF. S11VT3L wl ll Work Warranted mi mud titmiTi- m -l. uiU Lmn. Knco V 3B-WTS .Hi, fumi -art "'" 4aF th P'.s 't CURTIS K. GROVE. af iMin Houaa in r. A. H. HUSTON. Undertaker and tmbalmer. A. GOOD HEiYRSE and thing pertaining to fairerajs Jura teed Somerset, Pa. 91-in lOCl DOLLARS fl.&U PER MONTH In Your Own Locality mad? essily and honorably, without capi tal, during your spare hours. Any man, woman, boy, orpirl can do the work h.-.nd-ily, without experience. T-Iin:r ua-liecess-iry. Nothing like It for money makinjever oaV-red Ixfore. Our workers always prosier. No time wasted ia leaminz the hiisiness. We teach you in a niuht how to u-eecd from the rt hour. You can malio a tri.l without ex pense to yourself. We start you. furnish evt-rythins neeiled to earrv on the bcsl- ; sueressfui'y, and puarantee yon a a: nst ianure u you out joiiow mr simple, plain instructions. Header, if you are in ne J of ready money, and want to know ail aho'it the best paying business before the puidic, send lis your address, and we wi'.l mail vou a doca j incut giving you ail the particulars. TRUE & CO., Box 400, Augusta, Maine. CONDENStL- TIME TABLES. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Somerset and Cambria Branch SOUTHWARD. Jvkr.Artr Jf'iiJ E.-vrm. Roe k wood t 5) a. m., li.mersei 10. -lorcsloan t V. ilonrrrsviiie Jotwtowu. b:ik. JohttHan XiH Crjrrm. Rock wood am.. nxrrKrl 1:1 siuyttown l:ia, Hauvvrari.ie 1:57, J'jblis:owo zJt) p. ci. J'JtOrm AcrtmmodrjUj Rockvood 6-20 p bl, Smer-t fc:4-t p. m., i"tfrewa T:I1 p m.. HouverkUiia l ii p. bl. joaoaOwn a; 15 p. ra Smdi.y Accomm&iLji'jn aUa?kaoud li bS a m aoioenet, SOtTHWABD MiH Johcatmrn 7:40 a m., HooverwriUe tJX trtiiye-loau a-iu, gumcnel n il, Rutkwood ai. Eiprat Jcihrstoim !fc p. m.. H.wersrflie 4.1S. storeclown t-M. Suziieistt ix-l. Ua kaood &.. &nrfcv Oru'y Jihrslowu fi.c'Oa. m., HooveTsriTle 9 6 a. m,, a:oTr:oa y t) a eomeiset 10.1 a m , Euikabutl lu i a m. S!r.y Afwnwuyla.'ic Somerset 5:01 p. kockaooaxu p Dsily. JJEXX SYLVASIA RAILROAD. ECHrOCXK IN EFFECT DEC 18, lOi EASTERN STANDARD TIME DISTANCE AND FARE. Mile. Fare. JohnOwnto Alumna.. II 14 Htmurt 5 1 1 Phti.;j.i.- ' B airsnUe lut ' Oranrrx, 2T 27 a Jt 7s 1 41 " fie ri 2 M Baiiimorv WarUlcKion 7 6.". 7 COXDEXSED SCBKntXC Train, arrive and depart from tha atatiaa at jwiawwa aa iuuw : WESTWARD. Poothweateru Ezpraa. Weaiera Espnsau .. . Johunown An-mmoUatioa- i.3 a. trt a. Exrec 9.0 a. m l i; a m Partfl Eip! Way Paakcnjrcr. . 3..Ua Mail . Mian :.V a n JuiiiMnara Eicpraa .. fast , .,, 4a.DV EASTWARD. Kerrtone Extre"i.. . 5:ts a m Sa shore Exrts . S 40 a. at . -4 a. m liarTFtar Accoaiac-lUn.. I sit Exprr-f . A uyua Zt re. . . l15a. U-W p. Mail Excrtsa . 4 )l p. m . 7 f p. m JntiiiM.a a ta-wnmodition Phi ia-leipbi. . ' . 7 16 p. r aM Line 10: p.H For rate, mart. Ac an la T i kM kwrrt ar ai. dree.Tb. E. f.AW.U, U0 HAh Ave- nw r-.u-hanrh. i'a. a M. 1'KaVne.T. J. R. WOOD. wbi Manager. Gen'l ra. Agt XotJin?On Fariinvill Sheridan's Condition Powder! KEEPS YOUR CHICKEN3 Stroag and Healthy ; Praventa all Diaeaa. Cra4 ft Moulting Urn. tit, , asacl: rta mil a Oay. u4Vf uaMnt:M SrHY a mrry-Te. "(JM arc, M f4 u w-T io pfrm r p m a on, -i i 1 im i . 1L. n. mNaNimirppara.L UW X M 1ft. a. J aatil. ,i at .i amrr- .iana aramid. L,",1'at'"T'" Tn illr PatMsrat-u Im. L a .)HA a U. Cuioaa iu Jl, aoaaea, llaaa I ' I r A ICS LVd Uhl mm It is to Your Interest TO BUY YGCR Drugs and Medicines OF J. H. SHYDER. rcCaCvaoK to Biesecker k Snyder. Son bat the purest and best kept in ttewk. and waen Drugs beioaie inert by rtano nr. aa eenain of thea do. we d troy them, rather lb an iro pose cn our cisronera 'ou ran depend 00 bavin; yoa PRESCPJPuGNS 4 FAMILY RKEIPTS b)rf. an it, -ai- ur pno arr aa ant arther BrsKlasa houj anl -tiany otic!a miieh ltiw I rw-rpl t hiirtuct ii u. ii,..at Ihib. and nave piven aa a ianr h arr uf tbeiT patronage and 'iall iil eint'ni: xo&rr ?rm th a-- rn asui (t thtw rtw. not fiin.'"4 IlaJ nun teiait J PITTING TKITSSE.S SPECTACLES AND EYE-GUSSES in great variety ; a fall set of Test LemaL Come in and Lave your eyt& eiA.-un.ed. So charp for ezami aation. and arenr!6.Vnt ar- Tin aiiii jou Oom aid o Btctfai: JOHN N. SNYDER. Jacob D. Swank, YS Irhmakrr and Jeweler, Xext door west of Lciheraa Char a Somerset, Pa. I am now prepared to sup ply the public with clocks, watches and jewelry of all description?, a? cheap as the cheapest. REPAIUIXG -A. SPEC1.VL.TY. All work guaranteed. Look at my stock before making; yoar pmr chasea. JORDAN L HINCHMAN. iC'ioajs of ai! fety i-s. a-i rveryf tjir? ? ? irt;n!p) to a rst o'sls l-oiw ii t or- ar.J b; witR ,if-rMi a' i.'t-M: i'c-jrt-s (VI JOBBAS & HINCHMAN. 77' -272 Mam ?tr-f Johnstown, Pa. GOOD LIQUORS ! and Cbap Liters Bj caliia al ti" Old tjacor Stajre. Ia 300 Hi m St, and 106 CHatoa t, Johnstown, Pa, all kinds of tha Chot-teet Lj-ioora In market can be baai. i my ui4 cuv-uuera iui u a itJ know a (act. and tu all 'ihers craTiiuitiC prarjf arUl be f-lrcn. Is n't (br-grt that I ktsrp 03 band he grralct Tiria'.r of Liq 10m, lie elktsc brasaia asi! at U.e a est prica. P. S. FISHER. HARDWARE ! HARDYARE ! I am now prvnansJ io avorooi!t tSe nnb- licwua auy act eaerTUiina in the Kar-Jware line br lb a'l-i!tion rs?cn:!5 milf to my former larxe 4ck. I krr alt ktad4 M arucli-a ia aar laiicaadmy pneta e-a'lcaaje ti-iiit li'joa. i! voa want a rm. a rt-vclver. a k r a aaw. a f:miet. an aarr. a bicyr ie. a pair h Hur ts, arr. ba. ... h. 1-? ate-., haxse bitieu, or anything Use m hardnaTe at lowest pnees ca.1 on nse. Herman Bantley, Clinton St, Johnstown, Pa wavt uraLTM Tvr ttytaj aturr r iw oarra. P) TI,5CVi I SIC ?i TK-T Cares tbnnAnds annnkllrof LXrrrCma p'ainta, Billoatness. Jannd.ce, Prsptv aiit, Cocstipatfoa, Malaria. J'c-re Ilia reilt from an TnhealthyUrerthanany othercanse. Why n(T,-r wrhen yoa can be cured? Dr. Ssnfnrd'a LiT-r Ir.TiRor atr ia ft r'i-a'l f--;'T rf "dn. vera B:;i t;cisf . ill ar voc. CAVEATS. TBADaT Hl.irl. DniCat aa-raai-ra corrsicHTs. teJ -n 1 aai For luf' natation and frw Haaduxk wnw to alt J C 4 Bk ai.at. Mw vKj MtO arrary pavtma tak'a o-it l y la bisihi bt.ar tMpotaueaf aiautaoe f ivaa irae of aaawsaaiLaa rienttfic amcwan VuraO. kplaDatulir llluatraiaai. o irtu-riaa maa 1VX111I ba wtthnoa It. ffat'r axon a yaaa-1 klWala Bauatba. A'tdnaa MINN A I Q I'L al inn ra s 3i. htonwu. Xtn f !xk Ulj. IMrOBTAXT TO ADTXSTISKKS. TtlirTfaa ett fhm asmintrv annrsaaM I a Cm.I U Ewaintrtoo'a County beat LL-u. Shrew 4 01 wfiich caa be had of Jietning-too na, of Sew York k PSiulrj. BUGGIES st I Prica f.&L4S CAials A iaJUIla.wwaw.a aa.l-kaan.4. M l"f 1 aj.J ? af fpttmy : oatarat A L t - -V ta lat aacxaa. raVasoatwi.Ta. my a K.d Can . a kai (o Ajr -hw Haneaa. M al tnr. ara a r a J) J 'I 7 Tmaa " f.: pr..lM. ra-r M :a Hartaiaaaaaaa fwaa, aljrwaa aaddla, tk m-X t riaa r.f. RIMT ACtkTCe. VJ t to It Lavrraaaa av, Claclaaaul, 0 4 Scientific Aaiericaa r eei im nr SCHMIDT 5 The Largest and Most Comp!ea i X Wine Liquor and Cigar Hou! Ml THE UNITED STATES. 1 DISTILLER AND JOBBER OF j Fine Whiskfe3. tcco H l C3-- W. SCHIIID'j IMPORTER OF Wiaes, Li023 sua Oigajj? SG& aSD 7 FIFTH ArESCE, PITTSJSrpn, Pi. all orders X lllli U- f - Ck- i JAMES B. H0LDERBAUM, Somerset, Pij KrLfsinger & Kurtz, Berlin, Ta. and P. J. Corer Jt Son, Meier;iale,?i': EEMEMBER "Thicjcs Jr-tie well acl w::b a care, exempt thenj.Hvts fra IT ILL PAY YOU To BCT Toca Tlemorial Work WM. F. SHAFFER, SOMERSET. PE-VyAn iacufttarerof ao4 iea.er u. iootma Wvk jarmaVd cm sort Sonet, ax ill Coio wn io am iu laaa. Agent JortU WH1ZX BSoyZM ftno? tn osyd at MOSTMEVT WOiwK aixi fi?si1 11 u uieir .nterv-t tocail a( mj vh?p w h-.-a a proper uwt.. w-li t K-i en tnvm. aJ-scra tot &M'ZT'znleri i A tear. caW tkIF t'tii LOW I IcTiie atu-naa-w as o- white Bronze. Or Pur Zino Monument InirndtHi oy REV. W. a R!N'. a. a leti'1i l3jprrT.rm?oi is the point of MATKRIaL AND tS'r-TK( 1TIC1S. and which la dc.ad tn ba tTe rupniar M-nnTaact fur our c&anaftah. 'T naw tW-t!1a III A CAU. WM. F SHIFFEK. Louther s Main Street, FidsHcdsl Dmg Stcrs is Rapidly Escczniig ate Favcrits TTith Pe:pls h Ssarch. cf FRESH AHD PURE DRUGS, Medicines, Dye Stuffs, Sponges, Truw, Supporters, Toilet Articles, Perfumes, Xt. mi DOCTOa GITK3 PES30SA.L ATTIVTI05 TO TS1 COiLFOZfUjVf'i CT LoilliBr's Frescriiitionsi Family Beceiits srzatcarx bsisq taxzx to c-e SPECTACLES, And a Full Line of Optical Goods aJVays oa hand. From sach large a5ortaient all caa be suited. THE FffiEST BBAHDS OF CIGABS Always on hand. It is always a pleasure to display our soed to intending purchasers, whether they bay frora us or elsewhere. J. M. LOUTHER. M. D. MAIN STBEET .... SOMEBSET. PA Somerset Lumber Yard ELlAS CUNNINGHAM. ktajrrraCTaxk ajia Diajjm ara Wbouuj jtn narLxs o LUMBB ANP BUILPINp MATERIALS Hard and Sclt Woods oax. roPLAK, (jrorNos, Ficirrs. ash. WAunrr, Fxooanto. iasb sta:s raoa, CHFKRT. TIlLOWmi, 8HI5GLI3. DOOSS BALrSTIM. CHESTSTT, WHTTI PIXS, I ATH. BLIXI. 5Ia fJ A Saoem Una of ail rdea of Lombcr and BoiMlnf Jfatenal asd Rcofin k'P ;a aUo, ean tambh anrthlcf la tte line of our buaiaaa to order with raaaooab pnataptnaaa. each as Bracketa, OOd-atxcd work, ate. ELIAS CTJlSTaSTTaSTGHAI Ofiice and Yard Opposite S.&C. R.R. Station, Somerset BUILD TAG OUR I New Stove, -TH- MACIC i CI N DERELLi IS ; A'HAT YGU W;r? -IT WILL- ; HOLD FI-, : OVER MgV AND WILL PROVE A WARM FRU IN ' Cold Weather,' COME I And See ;! Sold and I Guaranteed i! 4 A- I J t - . ' - aw.. f" V - aaaaaaaatWaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Over 500 Beautiful I ' MPyiceU- I? 1 r.w.-,- Designs. vr. Drug Store, Somerset, Pa. oslt r&zss ad pi&s amicus EYE-GIVSSES, atoruirn'ri -in II
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