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The cultivation of oysters promises to
ba as great an industry as that of can
ning tomatoes.
Some English periodicals criticiso
Stanley for a "sacrifice of dignity" in
lecturing in America. Tho "sacrifice"
lias its compensations.
I
The Chicago Timet alleges that it ha
cost Michigan $220,000, or $11,000
each, to graduate twenty young men
from her State milling- school at Hough
ton. Railroad statistics show that more
' peoplo are killed while walking on the
track thnu from any other cause, which
is an argument, thinks tho Mail and Ex
press, for euforcing tho laws forbidding
this practice.
The New Orleans Picayune observes:
"Though much is said about tho do
cadenco of Now England during the last
ton years tho population has increased
moro than during any other decade in
all its history."
Two hundred thousand dollar a ye ar
iro spent by the London (England)
.School Board In enforcing the atteudauco
of children. They are advised, by tho
Uoston iranterijit, to try the French
plan of gotting childien to school by
good lunches.
"If you aro going to kill a niau," says
an English surgeon of renown, "and
wnut to do it quickly and without suller
ing, hang him. If tho hangman knows
his business, the victim docs not feel at
much pain as if shot through the heart
or brain. It's all over in the tenth of a
second."
Tho discovery of tho full text of Aris
lottlo's "Treatise on the Constitution of
Athens" among a lot of Egyptian papy
rus recently receivod by tho British
Museum of London, hazards the San Fran
cisco Chronicle, will bo of great interest
to all classical scholars. Perhaps the next
lucky find will be tho lost books of
Llvy.
Great anxiety is felt in Switzerland
concerning the decadence of tlie watch
making Industry, which, uext to the textile-
industry, is tho mainstay of tho in
habitants of the country. The profits
rn dwindling down, as tho United
3tatca and England aro every year be
soming moro powerful rivals in this
field. The demand, too, for Swiss
watches is falling off considerably in cer
tain countries, notably in this country
and in Franco.
"Tho machinery now in use by the
life saving servico is about as perfect,"
asserts the Mail ami Express, "a; anything
well can bo. Tho crows of tho various
stations often perform the seemingly im
possible in their brave and well directed
efforts. Without their assistance and
tho means they have at their command
hundreds of 'lives would have been lost
on our coast during tho latter purt of
December. In view of the heroism shown
sud the severe physical labor required of
them, our life savers are not sufficiently
paid. Thcso men daily literally take
their lives in their hands, and we do not
sufficiently esteem their services."
Pennsylvania is takiug an important
- in r direction of better roads; a
in tho opinion of tho New
une, every State should take,
raveling has become so general
,'ect that tho com.nnn high
e laud are largely overlooked,
in is the vast bulk of traveling
orting done, after all, and
condition depend to an in
jxtcut the comfort and con
id prosperity of tho vast bulk
jplo. Tho improvement of
.ils is a topic that should staud
d tho head of the list in every
assembly, until we have
rsclves at least to an equality
juiuus of two thousand years
icoverics made by the Stato
tnissioner of New Jersey afford
of tho deleterious mixtures
drink in New York, there is
3d reason for ularm, con
few York A' at. According
tort, 218(1 samples of food,
dairy products were examined
year 1890, uud of that num
uples were found to be adul
Out of lit (5 samples of cream
lixty were within tho requirc
he law. More than a third of
is impure. Forty out of fifty
tee were bogus. Frauds were
canned Freuch peas, jellies,
olive oil. Iu ten l)tsof inua
., uot one was pure; pepper was an
abomination, aud of 110 sumples of drugs,
such as ate used iu every family, forty
four samples were adulterated. Figures
like the foregoing possess u lively interest
and if u simi'ar condition of the things
exist on thiv shie of the Hudson, tho
public would like to know the fuct, and
ma tho reigvdy promptly uppUvd'
LIFE,
Our life, our life Is like a narrow raft
Afloat upon the hungry sea)
Hereon ia but a little space,
And ail men, eager for a pla.es,
lo thrust each other in the tr-a(
And each man, eager for a place, "
Does thrust hi brother in tb aa.
Aud ao our life is wan with fears,
And so the sea is salt with tears.
Ab, well Is thee, thou art asleep I
Ah, well is thee, thou art asleep I
Our life, our life ia like a curious play,
Where each man hideth from himself.
"Let us ha open as the day,"
One mask does to tho other say,
When he would deeper hide hiuistlf.
"Let us be open as the day
That he may better hide himself.
And so tho world (roes round and round,
Until our life with rest i crowned.
Ah, well is theo, thou art asleep I
Ah, well is thee, thou art asleep I
The Path.
THE ROOM-MATES.
JlT JOI1H 11. RAYMOND.
ITonry Iladlcy and Johu Ashton lind
roomed together for six mouths, but had
never exchanged a word. There was no
quarrel between them; they wero not
deaf mutes; they were normal, overy-day
young men, and one, at least, longed
ardently to hear tho other's voice.
It came about in this way : Iladlcy was
reporter on the Neut-llcrald, whero he
had filled a certain round of dry-as-dust
assignments for years aud was not much
liked by his associates. lie bad a tend
ency to drudge; he wore faint "mutton
chop" sido-whiskers and turned up tho
bottoms of his trousers when it rained.
But he was really a capital fellow, and in
spite of his prosi'ac exterior he had a
littlo romance of his own. lie was en
gaged to bo married, and Alice Tyler
was a girl of whom any one might well
be proud. She was the niece of a friend
of Iladlcy 's, and when, hu proposed to
her, after a long, despairing courtship,
he was astounded to find himself ac
cepted. It seemed incredible that such
a perfect creaturo could ever be his own,
but after he had somewhat recovered
from his transports his practical nature
asserted itself, and he began to retrench
his expenses in preparation for tho event
Thus it was that he eventually answered
an advertisement for a room-mate.
It so happened that the other occupant
of the room was also a reporter, nlUiough
a very different stamp of man. John
Ashton was a meteoric genius. He was
a waif from dead and gone Bohemia.
His forte was the strange, the odd, and
the grotesque, and his startling and unlooked-for
strokes had gono far toward
making the Chronicle famous. In his field
ho was invaluable, and he had long since
killed his chance for promotion by merit
ing it too much.
The Heitt-lkrald, as everybody knows,
Is published iu the nfternoon, while the
Chronicle is a morniug daily, and Ilad
lcy, who had made his arrangements
through the landlady, was disappointed,
when he awoke early on tho first duy iu
his new quarters, to fiud thru his room
mate, who had let himself iu sometime
during the night, was then asleep iu the
littlo alcove opposite his own. lie had
promised himself much pleasure from
the society of a man whose work ho bo
much admired, but the pale, handsome
faco and slight form, relaxed iu tho lau
guor of deep sleep, prompted him to
dress as quietly as possible and slip out
without awakcuing tho other.
It turned out, to I (ml ley's infinite
chagrin, and probably to Ashton's secret
amusement, that this was no mere acci
dent. Tho former weut to work early
In the morning and his duties ended
when the big presses threw out the first
copy of the last editi-in, at about dusk.
Ashton, on the other hand, arose a littlo
after noon, lounged about until dark, aud
left his desk any time between one and
three o'clock at night. Consequently,
when ho reached the room he invariably
found Iladlcy asleep, and when he awoke
he was the ouly occupant. And vice
versa. Several things conspired to main
tain this fantastic relationship. Their
offices were remoto from one another.
Their work was essentially different. It
did not make common resorts or mutual
friends. So it easily chanced thut by
day they never met.
Such was the curious traiu of events
which had carried them through one
summer and into an autumn that brought
to Hadley many a miserable heartache.
A shadow had somehow fallen across. the
honest fellow's love affair. It was hard
ly to bo defined iu terms; that was the
worst of it it was so intangible; so dif
ficult to say just what was wrong. There
was a change iu Alice. She was silent;
she was distraught; her tears came and
went liko April rain. Yet sho protested
that nothing was amiss, and met his
well-meant questioning with an Impa
tience that surprised and frightened him;
for he did uot kuow very much of wo
men, and her asseverations souuded to
his ears liko confessions in disguise
Above all, he felt a cumbersome unfit
ness to cope with the situation. It was
like a plow-boy essaying to probo a sen
sitive wound, and at length ho feared to
speak lest he should precipitate some uu
known crisis.
Thus it was, when at dusk one autumn
day he walked from thj office to Alice's
homo to pay one of his customary visits.
It was an indolent eveuiug, suave with
the spell of Indian summer, aud through
the dreamy haze that wrapped tho city
even the hum of traffic souuded faint and
harmonious, like a choir of giant insects
at the approach of night. Ho f.ll into a
vague reverie as he walked on, aud when
ho stopped mechanically before the house
he did not ring at once, but sat down
upon a littlo bench just within the gate
and masked by lilac-bushes.
The narcotic calm of tho scene and
hour had lulled him iuto serenity, and
night fell unmarked, until, at length, a
familiar voice broke in upon his inedita
tioiis. Ho recognized it on tho iustunt
as Alice's, but it was mingled with
deeper tones that w ero unfamiliar to him.
Although no words had yet detached
themselves front the taugle of sound, it
seemed to him that dno voice was utglng
and one remonstrating. Presently they
came nearer and stopped by tho gate.
"Oh, I cannot I I cannot I" somo one
cried. It was Alice s voice, and although
there was not a jot of the spy in Hadley 's
nature, something in the intonation held
him spell-bound.
"Hut why not?" said the other voice,
a melodious baritone low, persuasive,
thrilling. "But why notT It was a con
ditionai promise; the conditions have
changed and that is - "
"No; it is not that," broke in the
girl. She was speaking quietly, but a
pathctbic little quaver ran through her
words. "Oh, can't you understand I He
is honest and true, and I could not break
his heart 1
A moisture sprang on Hadlcy's fore
head nnd very slowly he opened and
closed his hands. There was pause, and
then tho pleasant baritone again :
"Are there no rivers in Damascus?
What of my heart, Alice?" Hadley
heard no more. Something seemed to
suffocato him. His breath went no
further than than his throat, and the
dusky web of lilac-branches danced in
black and shapeless phantasmagoria be
fore his eyes. He was dimly conscious
of a patter of feet, a wave of perfume,
and gush of yellow light as the hall door
clashed open and shut, and then he knew
he was alone again.
Alone I A hideous sense of loss, and
bitter, hopeless desolation, such as he had
never felt and never dreamed of, over
whelmed him. He did not think; he did
not dare to think. He staggered to his
feet, oponed the gate and passed out.
To run away, to elude this thing as if
it was some sentient, palpable pursuer,
was the first impulse that possessed him,
and he hurried on, blindly, stumblingly,
ho cared not where. How far he walked
thus he had no means of knowing, but
when he stopped it was on a thronging
thoroughfare, before tho window a great
emporium, aquiver with electric lights.
He drow a long breath and pulled him
self together. An illuminated dial that
punctured the gloom of the upper air
marked after midnight, and a faintness
began to assail him, a deadly reaction
that turned his knees to water. The
careless, alien crowd jarred on him, the
barbaric spendor of tho windows smote
upon his brain ; he wanted to bo alone,
aud prescutly he saw tho open doorway
of a cufo and entered.
A lew people sat at tables here and
there, and on ono hand were tho cur
tained doorways of a row of little rooms
or stalls. He walked instinctively
toward ouo of thcso and drew the
drapery aside. A man within, who was
musing, apparently, over a bottlo aud a
half-catcu meal, t led at the sound,
and tho room-mute .ooked one another
in the faco.'
Ashton was the first to recover him
self, and sprang up with outstretched
hand.
"Why, my dear fellow !" he exclaimed,
"Am I indebted to insomnia for this
pleasure?"
Hadley took his hand absently, but
did not ut once reply. What was there
about that voice, with its plausible, vi
brating timbre, that thrilled him so?
"I have been a little troubled," he
said, hesitatingly, "aud tried to walk
it oil."
"Ha! And came in here, I daro say,
to drown it in drink, as the proverb
goes. My word for it, trouble is tho
thirstiest thing on earth. I tried to
drown a small sorr .v in driuk once, and
wheu I was under the table there was tho
sorrow, sober as a judge. But I'll tell
you something, Hadley, it won't stand
feeding. Tho proper thing to drown
sorrow in is mutij.i chops and fried po
tatoes. Suppose we put it to the touch.
Waiter I"
"Hold!" said Hadley, who burned to
stopthis badinage, "I am not hungry
uot in the least. Let me sit down a mo
ment and think."
Ho sank into a vacant chair and gazed
at the other with a sudden, haggard in
tcntness. A thought had just occurred
to his distracted mind. Why was not
this man, so bright, so versatile, so self
contained, so en rupport with tho great
world aud its usages why was not ho the
very man of all men to give him counsel
in this predicament?
"Ashton," he said, "I am in distress.
Will you give me your advice?"
Ashton smiled griiniy
"You have come to a good shop for
advice." ho said. "My wholo life is
more or less a warning. However, if I
can be of any service to you, blaze away.
Out with it, my boy !"
But Hadley did not fiud the story so
easy to tell.
" am engaged to be married," he
said, at length.
"Ho! ho!" cried Ashton. "I forsee
a stern paient with a prejudice against
literary characters." Then something
in the other's face checked him, and he
dropped his tone of levity. "Forgive
me," he said, gently. "What is this
trouble of yours? You need not men
tion the lady's namo, of course. Make
it a hypothetical case."
"Oh, no!" said Hadley, "I can con
fide iu you. She is the best girl iu the
world. Her name is Alice Tyler."
Ashton was leaning over the table
toying with a glass, but at the words he
rose involuntarily aud fixed his eyes upon
the other with strange aud challenging
regard. Hadley paused for a momeut
with a dim and troubled conscience thut
he hud touched some hidden spring;
but ouly for a momeut, and then, slowly
and incoherently, he told his story.
Ashton sank back as he proceeded and
heard him in silenco to the end.
"Do you know this maul" he asked,
when it was done.
"No," replied Hadley, gloomily.
"What does it matter whu he is?"
Ashton did uot reply ; ho seemed lost
in thought.
"Hadley," he demanded, suddenly,
"do you really intend to marry this girl?
But pshaw?" he continued, "you am too
honest to be a trill it. And this fellow
why, a thousand to ono he is amusing
himself looking for a new seusation, aud
has no more uso for a wife than he would
have for a bishopric. You must have
saved sumo money, huve you not"'
"Yes," said Hadley, tatter Surp. sedl
"I have a few thousand dollars in bank."
"Well," sighed Ashton, "this is a
world of fact, but we can t all grasp it
Some rued are made1 for homes and some
re not. I might have ten times you?
income, and the last chapter would find
me a vagabond. I tell you, Hadley, you
have no real rival. This is a shadow
that has already passed, and shadows
loave no trace."
"What shall I do?" ha asked.
"Do? Why, do nothing. For heaven's
sako don t distress the girl with questions.
I tell you this belongs to the past. For
get it. Bury it. Act as if nothing had
happened, and all will come right in the
end. If I were you I would make it con
venient to be away foi a few days. She
will miss you, depend upon it, and you
can begin. where you left oil. Can t you
arrange to go away?"
"I think so," said nadley. "When
had I best go?''
"Qo to-morrow. You will come back
a now man and find her eager to welcome
you."
Hadley reflected a moment.
"I will take your advice," he said.
When he returned home, at the closo
of the week, from a brief visit to a neigh
boring city, he mounted tho stairs with
an eager step, but paused, perplexed, in
the open door. The room wns dismantled
of much of its furniture, and looked baro
and unfamiliar. He entered, almost
timidly, and read this legend, chalked
upon the looking-glass:
KEEP WHAT TRAPS OK
MINE YOU FIND. HAVE
MIGRATED. OONE WEHT.
GOOD-BYE. GOOD LUCK)
TO YOU. t. A.
"It was an extraordinary thing," he
used to say in after times, when he and
Alice were happily mated. "Here was a
brilliant, successful man, with tho world
before him, one might say, who pulls up
stakes all of a sudden, goes out West,
goes to the dogs, nnd inside a year winds
up in a dance-hall fight with a bullet
through his head. No, I can't say why
he did it; he never mentioned it to me,
although wo roomed together over six
months." Frank Leslie's.
Frozen 000 Feet Deep.
For many years scientists have been
perplexed over the phenomenon of a cor
tain well at Yakutsk, Siberia. As long
ago as 162S a Russian merchant began to
sink this noted well, ani after working
on it three years gave it'up as a bad job,
having at that time sunk it to a depth of
thirty feet without getting through tho
frozen-ground. Ho communicated these
facts to the Russian Academy of Scienco,
who Bent men to take charge of the dig
ging operation at the wonderful well.
These scientific gentlemen toiled away at
their work for several years, but at last
abandoned it when a depth of 'J82 feet
had been reached with the "iarth still
frozen as hard as a rock. In 1844 the
academy had the temperature of the soil
at the sides of tho well taken at various
depth. From the data thus obtained
they came to the startling conclusion that
the ground was frozen to a depth exceed
ing tiOO feet. Although it is known to
meteorologists that the pole of the low
est known temperature is in that region
of Siberia, it is conceded that not even
that rigorous climate could forco frost to
such a great depth below the surface.
After figuriug ou the subject for over a
quarter of century geologists have at last
come to tho conclusion that the great
frozen valley of tho Lena Itiver was de
posited, frozen just as it is found to-day,
during the great grinding up era of the
glaciul epoch. Chicago llcrald.
Marvelous Piece of Mechanism.
Another marvelous piece of mechan
ism has recently been exhibited in Paris.
It is an eight-day clock, which chimes
the quarters, plays sixteen tunes, play
ing three tuues every hour, or at any in
terval required, by simply touching a
spring. The hands go as follows: One
ouco a minute, one ouco an hour, one
once a week, one once a month and one
ouce a year. It shows the moon's age,
rising and setting of the sun, the timo
of high aud low tide, besides showiug
half ebb and half flood. A curious de
vice represents the water, showing ships
at high-water tide as it they were iu
motion ; and, as it recedes, leaves them
high aud dry ou the suuds. The clock
shows the hour of the day, the day of
the week, the day of the month and the
month of the year. The mechanism is
so arranged as to make its own pro
visions for long aud short mouths. It
also shows the signs of tlie zodiac and
difference between sun nnd railroad time
for every day iu the year. Button Tran
script.
Uniting- Alumiuum With Glass.
Bradford McGregor, the mechanical
expert of Cincinnati, Ohio, has succeeded
after numerous expcrimeuU iu uniting
aluminum with glass, and he claims to
be the first who has done so. A large
piece of aluminum w'th a glass tube in
the centre was turned in his lathe aud it
was impossiblo to detect tho slightest
flaw or joint where they camo together.
In fact, it appears as one solid mass.
Heretofore, no metal could bo made to
unite with glass iu which the contrac
tion and expansion were the same, and
it is claimed this will create a revolution
in the way of reducing the cost of incan
descent lights as it will take tho place of
platiuum, which costs $.'120 a pound,
while the new discovery will not cost $10.
JScia Orleans 1 lines-Democrat.
The Wonderful "Cliaugoublo Flower."
During the summer of 1 81(0 the bot
anists made a wouderful discovery in
I ehuantepec, Mexico, having established
the fuct beyond a doubt thut tho native
"hiuta" has a flower that changes its
color three or more times each day when
the weather is favoruble. In the morn
ing it is white; at noon it lias changed
to a deep red; ut night it is blue, it is
even claimed that some individual trees
of this species huve a flower that
changes to many intermediate hues dur
ing the uight. There are only two
hours out of the twenty lour, from 11
A. M. to 1 v. M., that tois rarity gives
out a perfume. St. Luu.it Kzpubli
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Deposits of mica have been discovered
in the northern part of South Australia.
A company with 12,000,000 capital
has been formed to work a nickel mine
in Orcgod.
Lead ia the United State amounted to
187,000 tons of 2000 pounds, or a little
less than in 1880.
Of spelter 68,000 tons were produced
in the United States in 18SJ0, an increase
of fifteen per cent.
A patent has been taken out in France
for an electric furnace for the rapid in
cineration of human remains.
Dr. Ludwig Schreincr, of Stuttgart,
Germany, has brought forward a new
bleaching ngont, which ho calls ozonin.
The production of copper in the
United States in 1890 amounted to 278,
610,000 pounds, far exceeding any
previous record.
An English company is working a
silver mine in Bolivia which yields more
tuiiii three hundred and sixty Dunces to
the ton, while specimens of almost pure
silver aro met with.
It has been determined that as far as
the danger to ships' compasses from
magnetic leakage from the dynamo is
concerned, it is equally the same whether
the ship is double or singled wired.
A brilliant black varnish for iron as
well as for some other substances can be
made by stirring up ivory in shellac
varnish. The article to be varnished
should be coated when the material is
applied.
A telegraph operator in Cheyenne,
Wyoming, has invented an electric ma
chino, to be applied to street cars, for
Indicating the numbers of business houses
and the names of streets while the car is
in motion.
Collais, a little villogo near Nismcs,
France, has its streets lighted by a 1600
light dynamo driven by a small water
fall, and during the day the current is
used to drive tho pumps for the village
water supply.
Statistics collected abroad show that
for short distances, as 1000 yards, wire
cables furnish tho most efficient means
of transmitting power, but for greater
distances, as 5000 yards, electricity is by
far the least wasteful of all methods.
The Dairy Association of Kiel, Ger
many, has offered a prize of $750 for an
improved method of determining tho
amount of futty matter in new milk,
skimmed milk and buttermilk without
the use of a chemical balance, the results
to bo as accurate as those obtained by
the gravimetric process.
The newly discovered deposits of
nickel and chrome ores near Franken
stein, in Silesia, are turning out to be
very rich. Horr Krupp has ordered tho
immediate delivery of 100 tons of nickel
ore, twenty tons of which havo already
been dispatched from the mine. He
offered $400,000 for these mines.
Iu the histoiy of railroads it is to bo
recorded that the Revere Beach & Lynn
Railroad, of Massachusetts, is running a
train without n bell cord aud that tho
nicr.n3 of communication between con
ductor and engineer is entirely arranged
by a code of signals passing over an elec
tric cable. The entire road is equipped
with this signal which works perfectly,
mid the coda of signals which can bo
transmitted is only limited by tho intel
ligence of the conductor and engineer.
Every locomotive has power and
weight to spare when its train is in mo
tion, but is frequently unable to start
the same train from a condition of rest.
The difficult point is in the adhesion of
the wheels to tho rails. To prevent tho
wheels from slipping sand is used, but a
more modern and effective method of in
creasing tho traction is to pass a current
of electricity from tho driving-wheels to
the rails. A Baltimore and Ohio loco
motive has been fitted up with apparutus
of this kind.
"Chainlng-up" the Hudson.
In 1778 a great chain was stretched
across the Hudson River at West Point,
N. Y., to preveut the passage of British
vessels. Lossing, in his "Field Book ol
the Revolution," gives a very interes ia j
account of this work, of which we ca i
quote only the leading facts. The irou
of which this chain was constructed was
wrought from ore of equal purts from tho
Sterling and Long mines, in Orange
County. The chain was manufactured
by Peter Towusend, of Chester, at tho
Sterling Iron Works, in the same county,
which were situated about twenty-iivo
miles back of West Point, "it is
buoyed up," says Dr. Timelier, writing
in 1780, "by very large logs, about six
teen feet loug, poiulcd ut the ends, to
lessen their opposition to the force of tho
current at flood aud ebb tides. The logs
were placed at short distances from each
other, the chain carried over them and
made fast to each by staples. There uro
also a number of anchors dropped at
proper distances, with cables made fast
to the chain to give it greater stability."
Tho total weight of this chain was ISO
tons. Mr. Lossing visited West Point
iu 1818 uud saw a portion of this famous
chain, and ho tells us thut "there aro
twelve links, two devices and a portion
of a link remaining. The links, some of
which ure iu the museum at West Point,
sre made of iron bars, two and a half
inches square, and average iu length a
little over two feet and weigh about 100
pounds each." Scientific American.
A .Mammoth Tree.
There is an enormous tree iu the Ocmul
gee Itiver swamp, near Abbeville, that
rivals the famous giants of tho Cali
fornia forest. The tree is of the tupclo
gum variety, aud towers above the sur
rounding forest of immense oaks. It is
evidently of great age, and doubtless
was inhabited ty the Indians iu the pre
historic age of this country. The treo
is hollow ut the huso with an aperture
largo enough to admit a tall man. Tho
hollow extends upward for a distance of
fifteen feet, uffordiug space enough for
two stories. The hollow at the base is
twelve feet iu diameter. AUxusUU (,(.)
2 '"'
A MONSTER BATTLE SHIP.
fitdW Otfa NAVY WILL BE REPBE
8ENTED AT 1KB WORLD S FAIB.
A nig Structure to be Made In Imita
tion of One of the New Coast Lino
Vesnols,
One of the striking features of "The
World's Columbian Exposition" will bo
the naval exhibit, a part of which will
be the structure itself, which to all out
ward appearance will represent the new
coast Hue battle ships now being con
structed at Philadelphia and San Fran
cisco, after tho design of the bureau of
construction.
The battle ship of 1803 will be erected
on piling on the lake front in the north
east corner of Jackson Park, Chicago,
and being surrounded by water will have
the appearance of bciug moored to a
wharf. It is to have all the fittings that
belong to the actual ship, such as guns,
turrets, torpedo tubes, torpedo nets and
booms, with boats, anchors, chain ca
bles, davits, awnings, deck fittings, etc.,
together with all appliances for working
the same. Officers, seamen, mechanics
and marines will be dotailed by the Navy
Department during the exposition and
the discipline and mode of life on our
naval vessels will bo completely shown.
The dimensions will be those of the
actual battlo ship: Length, 348 feet,
and width amidships, sixty-nine feet
three inches, tapering to a point at the
bow and stern. From the water line to
the top of the main deck, twelve feet, on
top and in the central position of which
is a superstructure eight feet high, with
a hammock berthing resting on the same
seven feet high, and above these will be
the bridge, chart house and the boats.
The structure will, as stated before, rest
on piles as a foundation. The berth deck,
or main exhibit floor, will bo composed
of thick planks laid upon the foundation
on top of which fhore is to be a substan
tial layer of brick concrete. The sides
of the hull are to be mado of brick,
stopped to give contour, over which there
will be a filling of gravel concrete thickly
coated with cement. The ends, or stem
and stern, are to be "shaped" with iron
plates. On the inside of the wall and
over the concrete on the berth deck there
will be a coating of cement, thus making
the exhibition hall firo proof and free
from moisture.
The main and superstructure decks
will have a crown of six inches in sixty
nine foct. The dock plank will be
yellow pine six inches wide .and two
inches thick, the scams of which will be
calked. The main deck beams will be
steel, and iron tube pillars are to be used
to further support the beams. Gutters
shaped with galvanized iron aro carried
around the boundary of the decks, from
which numerous conductors carry the
water that may fall on the deck down
to scuppers close to tho water line.
The turrets aud redoubts for tho eight
inch and thirteenth-inch guns are to bo
made up of cement on metal lathing
fastened to a wood framing and are to
havo all the ingenious appliances for
operating them.
A thirteen inch gun is forty-four feet
long and weighs, with its carriage
(technically termed its "mount"), 115J
tons. The transportation and placing of
so much weight upon a structure such as
is describjJ beitiif impracticable, tho
difficulty of showing what the real battlo
ship carries has been overcome by build
lLg the gun of cement over n wooden
tube to be rilled and fitted with breech
plug complete, the finish of tho cement
to be such as to give it the appearance
of nu actual gun. The eight-inch guns
are to he made up in the same manner as
the thirteen-inch guns, with two excep
tions, which will be bona tide steel guns
and mounts, but all the six-inch guns,
six-pounders, ouo-pouuders, g.itlings and
torpedo guns, with all their mechanism,
are to be furnished by the Government
direct from the naval guu factories. Tho
exterior of tlie entire structure will be
painted iu accordance with the nuvy
regulations so us to give it the exact ap
pearance of a vessel of war. It is thought
thut the resemblance will be so close .as
to pass undetected except by u skilled
expert.
The entrance to tho vessel will bo from
the pier ut the foot of Fifty-ninth street.
Tho eutrauce will be ou tho main deck,
thence down companion or hatchways, to
the berth deck, where a spacious room,
tho wholo length uud width of the vessel,
is to bo filled with the naval exhibits.
Tho entrance at tho pier will have a
register turnstile to record the uumherof
visits. The exit will be from unother
point of tho structure. The superstiuc
tuie will show the cabins, state rooms,
mess rooms, galley aud fittings, mess
tables for crew, lockers, etc., ulso tha
method in which officers and enlisted
men live according to tho rules of the
navy. It will present, it is said, a con
vincing proof of tho statement that the
sailors of the United States 'nuvy uro the
best paid, tho best fed uud the best
treated uicu of uuy navy ia tho world.
On the superstructure deck and bridge
will be shown the uiunuer in which tho
rapid-fire gnus, search lights, boats, etc..
are haudled. On the berth deck will bo
shown tho various fittings pertaining to
the hull, machinery, orduuurc, etc., iu
short, the thousand anil one things thut
go to make up the outfit of a ship of war.
Eeuch burcnu will have un officer uud
Cher repre.eutatives iu control of its
special exhibit, aud tho hydrogiahie
office, intelligence office aud Nuv.il
Academy will bo ulso represented. The
traditional costumes of the sailors of the
nuvy from 177.i to!81Swillbo showu
by junitors dressed iu those costumes.
These men will ho speei illy engaged for
this purpose, uud about bix iu number
will huve charge of the. rooms containing
revolutionary aud other relics of the old
uuvy. Ou the starboard side of the ship
will be shown the torpedo protection net,
stretched the entire length of the ves.-el.
Steam launches and cutters will ride at
the booms and ull the outwurd appearance
of a real ship of war be imitated
Wuihimjtoit titttr.
Muiue's hay crop of the past
was estimated ut 1,300,000 tons.
vasoa
SOME THINGS LOVE HE,
, All within and all without mo
Feel a melancholy thrill;
And tha darkness hangs about me.
I
Oh, bow still;
To my feet the river glideth
Through the shadow, sullen, dark;
On the stream the white moon ridetb.
Like a barque
And the linden leans above me.
Till I thtnk some things there ba
In this dreary world that love me,
Even me!
Dentl buds are blooming near me; v
Shedding sweetest breath around; '.
Countless voices rtae, to cheer me, V
From the ground;
And the lone bird comes I hear it
In the tall and windy pina t
Pour the sadness of its spirit ,-'- H
Into mine;
There it swings and sings above mo,
Till I think soma" things there b
In this dreary world that love me,
Even me!
Now the moon hath floated to me,
On the stream I see it sway,
Swinging, boat-like, as 't would woo ma
Far away
And the stars bend from the mure,
I could reach them where I lie.
And they whisper all the pleasure (
Of the sky. '.
There they bang and smile above mo,
TUl I think some things there be,
In the very heavens that love me,
Even mel
T. B. Read, in Analostan Magazine. '
IIUXOR OF TUE DAY.
There is a vast difference between liv
ng simply and simply living. St. Joteph
Wewt.
Boldiers sec a great deal of private life,
ut they don't enjoy it. Pitltburg Det
fatch. The only man contented with his lot
ccupies it in the cemetery. Indianapolis
Journal.
When it is an advantage to ttade posts,
very army officer is ready to become a
post'trader. Texat Siftinys.
Experience has established the foct
that lawsuits are more 'wearing on a man
lhan any other. Boston Courier.
Bho "What would you like being a
naval man for a birthday gift?" Ha
"A littlo smack." Drake's Magazine.
If smokeless powder is followed by
gunless bullets, wnis of the futuro will
he made easy. Neie Orleans Picayune.
The teacher whacked the boy, one day,
Who disobeyed the rule.
Tho scholars did not laugh or play
To Bee that lamm in school.
Harvard Lampoon.
The man who spends much time in
trying to please his enemies is one of the
most foolish of spendthrifts. SoinerviUe
Journal.
St. Agedore "I think Miss Maze is a
perfect poem." De Mascus ,lI know
It. At least she's a-vcrso to me." St.
Joseph Newt.
Miss Burdy "Yes, I will bo yours on
ono condition." Jack Junior "That's
all right. I entered Yalo with six."
Yale lltcord.
Mike "Why do them falso eyes be
made of glass", now?" Pat "Shure,
au' how else could they say throo 'em,yo
thick-head?" Yale Jiecord.
After oue girl has given you the sack
and another the mitten, it is time to give
up trying to gain your suit on tho instal
ment plau. Halifax Critic.
Ililow "Look look here, Bloobum
per, I wouldn't be a fool if I were you."
Bloobumper "No; if you were me you
wouldn't bo a fool." Epoch.
"Pa, what is un auction!"" "An auc
tion, my son, isn place whero a man pays
nn exorbitant price for something he
don't want uud can't use." Epocii.
Life drives us till we're out of bn-ath
With striving, beging, giving.
We huve to work ourselvos to death
Thut we may gut a living.
Chieayo sf
"Suggest a motto for my new business
venture, will you. Miss Agnes?" "What
is the business?" "A dairy farm."
"Then suppose you tuke'let well nluuo'."
The Joter.
Quericus "How does your frkud ex
pect to derive auy benefit from being
elected an honorary member of the foot
bull team?" Prettiwit "He's a doctor."
Chicago Neu.
Wibblo "Yes, I believe in the office
seeking tho man." Wabble "I notice
that it usually has to seek the boy. At
leatt that is the case iu my office."
Iinlidiiiijo'is Journal.
A l ook agent he came insi !;
lie stuck to the nmn hko e,lue,
ut. spite of ull hints uud uU and winks,
.Nover lott till he got threw.
Chicatjo Globe.
Giles "I'm glad I let that fellow have
the small loan. He seemed overwhelmed
with gratitude uud said ho could never
repay me." Merritt "That was strange.
Ho told you tho truth." Chicago Utws.
"You uro the light of my life," she
said to him us she told him good night
at tho front door. "Put out that light," '
growled her father at the head of tho
stairs, uud the trout door slummed.
Washington Star.
"Let us see, a cynic is a man who is
tired of the world, is he not?" the jouug- .
language student asked. "No, no, my
chihl," replied the knowing tutor. "A
cynic is a man of whom tho world is
tiled." Miltcauhe Sentinel.
Tlii i'1'liinUt sees hut llu roses uf life,
'i'ht thorus meet tho psunt's view,
but the sjiimMo iiiiiu with an eye to the
lucts
Notes an I know hnw to han lltt the two. ' '
l'nltntrihia Veens.
"I seo that in the preface of your
book you say that it is written to till a
long felt want. What do you meun by
thatf" "Why, I've been needing a
fquaieiucal for the laM eighteen mouth.
Don't you cull that a loug-fclt waulf
Chieagu JS'ttm.
The United Stales Government holds
in its vaults u greater amount of gold
uud silver than any other Government in
tlie world. It is the direct custodian oi
$:i,6lW,miO in gold coiu and Lais and
018,000,000 iu silver,
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