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TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCT. 3, 1894.
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REPUBLI
The rate of taxation Las nearly quad
rupled in Franco sinoo 1830.
. Tbo centre of population in now niid
way between Cincinnati and Indian
npolis.
The Slav has not turnod ont an in
dustrial or social success in tbo coke
regions, confesses tbo New York Tri
bune. .
President Harper says tbat bo en
tered upon bis dutios at Cbicago Uni
versity opposed to co-odncatiou, bay
ing great misgivings becauso of the
prosonce of the girls. He now de
, clares tbat tbo young women's depart
ment of tbe university is tbo only ono
that never gave him any trouble.
Tbe World' tunnels are estimated to
number about 1142, with a total longtb
of 514 miles. Tbere are about 1009
railroad tunnels, ninety canal tunnels,
forty oonduil tunnels, and twelve suba
nn nous tunnels, havinar an a?rrocrnta
length of about 800 miles, seventy
miles, eigbty-flyo miles, and nine miles
" respectively.
. Tbo University of Lille, France, Is
said to be tbe first institution of loom
ing on the Continent to add a depart
ment of journalism. Abbe Dr. Cootcn
Trill read lectures on tho great editors
of England aud Germany. Professor
Gaud will leoturo on the laws govern
ing tho press, and M. Taverincr, of
tho Paris "Uuiycrs," will sp?nk upon
tbo duties of newspaper men and tbo
way a paper is printed.
California, will pay dearly in tbe
end for tho bounty of $3 granted for
every coyote scalp presontod to the
State Treasurer, predicts tbe ' New
York Tribune, This bounty law was
passed to protect sheep, but it has
been costly. Last year over $500,000
was paid out, and this year it is esti
mated that $G50,000 will be needed to
satisfy tbe claims. As tbe coyotes livo
on jack-rabbits, tho slaughter of one
pest will simply lead to tho increase
of tho other.
. There are American ladios who have
moro valuable lace than any European
potentate. Tho laces of tho Astor
family are valued at $300,000, those
of the Vandorbilts at $500,000. More
lace, it is said, is bought- in Now York
than any other city in tbo world. The
Pope's lace treasures are said to be
worth $875,000, those of the Queen
of England '375,000 aud those of tho
Princess of Wales $250,000. Tba
Queen's wedding dress was trimmod
with a picoe of Honiton oosting $5000.
Maine has produced men of aston
ishing vigor and longevity, but none
more notable in this way than Dr,
Westbrook Farrer, of Biddeford, if
the stories told of him are true. He
is said to be a pbysioian in active
practice, though ninety-eight years
old, and, still more romarkablo, to be
in the habit of visitiug his patients
regularly on a bioyole. He attributes
his exceptional vigor at this advanoed
go to the use of wintergreon tea, of
which he is said to be an ardent advo
eate. '
Tho Province of Quebeo has a law
bestowing 100 acres of Government
land on every father of a family who
has twelve living children. Up to tho
present time 174,200 acres have been
given under this law. Not all of
these fathers, however, are satisfied
with tbe amount of this bounty, for
families of twenty children ere not
rare, and the fathers of these want a
proportionately higher reward. One
old gentloman, Paul Belanger, of
Iiiver da Loup, wants 300 acres in
recognition of his family of thirty-six
living children.
The Ban Franeisoo Chronicle re
marks: When Colonel Sellers in
"The Gilded Age" spoke of the im-
mouse sums of money ho proposed to
make by dispensing his eye water to
the orientals ho threw out a. hint
which inventors have been slow to act
upon. The conditions of life in the
Orient are very peonliar, and tbo peo
ple have oertnn wants which we in tho
Western world are hardly more than
aware of. Among thuso is some rem
edy against the cucroachmouts of
white ants. Those destructive insects
make life a burden to the Europeans
living in China and other oriental
countries. They oat everything made
of timber, and as a consequonoo it is
almost impossible to keep a bouse or
its adjuncts in repair. A correspon
dent suggests that the kuown fact that
these auts have an aversion to lime
may put some ingenious American on
to an idea which if properly worked
out would be a benefaction to people
living in the Orient, especially Euro
peans, who would pay liberally for
some practical remedy for the uui-tofiOe.
THE BUGLE CALL,
Have you beard (he troops a-marchlng?
Marching, mnrohlng,
O my soul, to bear tho bugle and the long
roll of the drum I
In the hill and down the valley, I ean hear
. bis (tap among them.
Before you ane hi. soarlot ooat, I'll know
my love has come.
"I oan see the troops a-mnrohtng,
Slowly, slowly.
As they near, the pnle loaves tremble at
the coming of that band i
tbere Is neither sound nor footfall, nolthor
buglo-blnst nordrum-oall,
A silent host they paw from sight Into a
silent land."
Nny, I hear the bugle culling,
Calling, calling,
O tho footsteps of my soldier, I can count
them ns (hoy fall i
Ultimo mine to the echo, over hill and
over vnlloy,
I am mnrohlng. marching ever, to that nn
soon bugle's call I
Mary Stewart Cutting.
A KOREAN REBEL'S FATE.
DV CYRUS O. ADAMS.
KOREAN of noble
birth, long prom
inent in publio life
at home, stepped
from the Yoko
liama steamer in
March last to the
wharf at Shanghai
and a few minutes
after lay dead in
the street, the vio
tira of an assassin.
A fellow country'
man who had in
duced him to eo to
ttlianguai, bastened ostensibly to greet
him, and they had hardly exchanged
a word before the false friend stabbed
the newcomer to tbe heart. Tho crime
was a political murder, planned in the
court of Korea, connived at by the
Chinese authorities, and the story
throws a curions light upon the meth
ods and practices still in vogue in
oriental society. The victim was Kim
Ok Kinn, who, ten years ago, headed
nn unsuccessful revolutionary attempt
at Sooul, the capital of Korea. From
the day he failed he had been followed
by emissaries of the Korean eonrt,
bent first upon his extradition to the
home from which he bad fled, and
finally, equipped with instructions to
kill him, and to carry out this meri
torious sorvico to their country in
such a way as to save the court from
any appearance of complicity.
When the deed was done last March,
it was evident that China and Korea
had a perfect understanding in the
matter. The murderer was not
dragged off to tho Shanghai lock-np,
liko a oommon malefactor. On the
contrary, be was treated with respect
ful consideration, as soon as his name
and that of his victim were made
known. lie not only went free, but he
was permitted to buy tickets for one
passenger and one coffin to Korea,
and ho departed for home with the
body of his victim and the distinction
due to n man who had rendered a
publio 6orvice. In the capital of
Korea the assassin was honored as no
ordinary patriot. The body of the
murdered man was divided into eight
parts, and one part was sent to each
of the provinces of the kingdom to be
exposed to view on the publio high
ways. This much of the tragedy has been
published. It is believed, however,
that the extraordinary story which
bad this bloody termination has not
been retold, and it is well worth re
lating in connection with the crime
that has closed tho chapter. It was
told in October, 1886, when the Jap
anese newspapers were alluding in
every issue to the lively correspond
ence between the Governments of
Japan, China nnd Korea, concerning
Kim aud the attempts of bis enemies
to kill him; and he himself appeared
in print with tho evidence of the plots
agaiust his life, which were the basis
of bis appeal to the Government of
Japan for protection.
One night noar the end of Decem
ber, 1884, a number of the highest
officials of Korea gathered at a ban
quet in the new postoffioe building in
BeouL A servant suddenly opened
the door and cried that the house was
about to be attacked. The men at the
tables fled into tbe darkness, only to
find that enemies surrounded them.
Some of them were killed on the spot,
and others were severely wounded.
Then the mob and its leaders rushed
to the palace to secure the person of
the King. By this time news of the
uprising had spread through the city,
aud the guard' of the legation had
hastened to the palace to add their
strength to the King's bodyguard.
The rebels, who were attempting noth
ing less than the destruction of every
leading official of the Government,
beseiged the building, but the pluck
and discipline of the Japanese kept
them at bay. Then the Chinese troops,
hearing that the Japanese were inter
fering unwarrantably in one of the
internal commotions of Korea, marched
from their camp outside the city and
gavo battle to tho Japanese at the pal
ace, but tbe latter ld their own
throughout the ni u the morn
ing it was founu w the King had
fled, and the Japanese had to fight
their way to the coast, where they
were protected by their warships.
Tho rebellion was soon put dowu,
China and Japan patched up their
misunderstanding aud the matter
ended.
The principal' actor in this furious
outbreak, and the instigator of all the
assassination, was Kim ok Kiuu, who
bad held tho highest otlice in Korea,
and was jealous of tho preponderance
iu the King's councils of the members
f the Min family. The Queen, a wo
tutftt. of strong character, belongs to
this family, and through bor in
fluence, it has been the predominating
power and has controlled all the prin
cipal offices. It is the opposition to
this family, led by tho King's own
father, that has stirred up the recent
insurrection. In 1884, the leader of
this opposition was Kim Ok Kinn, and
be hoped, after murdering bis leading
rivals, to seize power for himsolf and
his adherents. Failing in his plans
he flod with some of bis fellow con
spirators to Tokio, Japan. Then bo
gan tho efforts of Korea, abetted by
China, to induce Japan to givo tbo
arch rebel up, and failing in this, to
assassinate him among his protectors.
A Korean mission was despatched to
Japan in a Chinese man-of-war to de
mand the extradition of Kim and bis
followers. Thoy wore assisted in their
efforts by the Chinese representatives
at Tokio and, it is aid, by La liung
Chang, tbe great viceroy of (Jhi-Jji.
Many -reeks wore spent in the negoti
ations, but Japan was firm in her re
fusal. She took the ground that she
had no extradition treaty with Korea;
furthermore, she alleged, that tho
crimes for which the fugitives were
wanted to answer in Korea were of a
political nature, and it was against
the law of nations to surrender politi
cal offenders. So the mission went
home defeated. Kim and four of his
associates lived for a while in peace at
lokio. Three of his comrades, doubt
ing the ability of Japan to withstand
the pressnro, II oil to San 1' rancisoo.
Had Kim respected his asylum it is
barely possible that he might have
lived there securely for the rest of his
davs. But in the following year,
188o, there was another plot to over
turn the Korean Government, and
there was evidence that Kim, the dar
ing, restless and designing politician,
was at the bottom of it. Demands for
his extrdition were at once renewed.
China and Korea both asserted that as
long as Kim remained in Japan he
would bo able to create disturbances
in his nativo land. Japan remained
firm in her refusal, giving as her only
reason that political offenders were
never extradited in Western countries,
and if the Eastern nations desired to
be treated as equals by those of the
West, they must learn to act npon the
same prinoiples. JNo further attempt
to socure the extradition of Kim was
mado, but Korea at onoe began to take
measures to effect the removal of this
troublesome person by other pro
cesses.
Three futile expedients for the as
sassination of Kim were attcmptod in
the following year, and were described
in the public prints, as far as the de
tails were known, late in 1SSG. The
instrument in the most interesting of
these attempts appeared in Japan in
tho person of Chi, an official in the
Sooul war department. In Kim's
palmy days Chi had been an ardent
disciple of the advanced views of that
astute politician, but he was now faith
fully serving a Government composed
of Kim's enemies. He traveled quiet
ly to Japan, acd took lodgings in an
ordinary inn in Tokio. On May 2,
18S8, he wrote to Kim, protesting that
their old friendship still continued on
his part, that he deeply sympathized
with Kim in his misfortunes and exile,
and requested an interview. Tbe old
assassin was too sharp for the young
ono, however, and Kim bluntly re
fused to see him. At the same time
ho directed his friends to worm their
way into Chi's confidenoe, and one of
thorn did so with considerable skill.
He told Chi that the exiles were
tired of their life in Japan, sorely re'
gretted their folly, and longed to be
baek in Korea. Kim wis the cause of
their presont plight. He had deceived
them, and they all hated him for it.
Would Chi intercede for them with
the King and the Government I They
would cheerfully seize Kim and carry
him off if they could. Nay, they had
become so embittered by bis conduct
that they would kill him, if ridding
the country of him would be the means
of making their peace with their sov
ereign. Kim was very wary, bnt no
one could lull his suspicions to sloop
as his companions could, and thoy
would do anything to show tho sin
cerity of their repentance.
Chi listened seriously to these things,
but was quite non-committal. It took
some weeks for confidence to beget
confidence. At last ho convinced him
self of the sincerity of the exile. Then
Chi confided to him that he had been
sent to Japan by the King for the ex
press purpose of killing him, and that
he would pay a sum equivalent to
$5000 to anyone who would give him
effective assistance in carrying out
this bloody task. Kim's envoy at once
became very circumspect. It was a
perilous affair, he said. Ho was will
ing to do the work, but suppose, for
instance, that Chi had never received
a commission from the King, then any
oue killing Kim would be seized by
the Japanese, and would be repudia
ted by the Koreans. Chi was ablo to
soothe these suspicions. He first pro
duced a large Korean dagger, which,
he said, had been given to him by the
King for the purpose of slaying Kim,
and finally bo exhibited this mandate,
to which the royal seal was actually
attached :
'We hereby commission you to
cross the sea aud apprehend the rebel,
to accomplish which object you shall
have full power to act according to
circuinutauces, using duo caution not
to make fruitless attempts."
On the same day, tho supposod con
spirator also secured in writing from
tho unsuspecting Chi a promise to pay
him $5000 for his service, and on the
next day Kim, armed with these docu
ments, which he laid before the Japa
ueio Government, demanded protec
tion. A demand for an explanation
was at once telegraphed to Seoul, and,
of course, all knowledge of the plot
was st once repudiated by the Korean
Government. These proceedings may
seem almost incredible to us, but we
ciunut apply our rales of morality to
Korea, Kim was a leading statesman
of tho country, and if not an assassin
himself, he had inspired assassination.
According to Korean ethics it was not
improper for his enemies to remove
him by the knifo or bullot, political
methods that have neon employed more
than once in tho East in this genera
tion. Japan now decided that Kim was a
heavy load to carry, and he wai or
dered to leave the country by June
27. Kim, however, had other views.
When the police went to see him at
tho expiration of tho timo, he fled to
the French embassy and appealed for
protection. He was, however, turned
over to the authorities, and his forc
ible removal from the country was or
dered on the ground that his presence
tended "to endanger the peace, tran
quility and external safety of the em
pire." Whot to do with him, though,
was a knotty problem. Japan wished
to insure his safety. If he was sent to
China he would bo killed. Russia
would not harbor him. San FranciBCO
was proposed, but Kim was without
means, and it was feared that he
would btarvo there in a land of plenty,
unloss tho Amoricans took very kindly
to him. It was finally dooided that it
was not desirable, for his own sake, to
turn him loose upon the world. Japan
has a little group of islets in the Pa
cific, the Bonin Islands, which at that
time were uninhabited save by a few
retired pirates and runaway sailors.
So Kim was sent to those far-away
sunny islands to be supported by the
Japanese Government. For some years
he contemplated the mutability of for
tuuo in this retreat, but at lost, just as the
littlo islands wero beginning to blos
som under the nurture of the Japan
ese farmers who had gone to them, the
Government listened to Kim's piteous
appeal and took him baek to Japan.
The fact was not generally known, but
it had not escaped the observation of
Korea's agents.
In his retirement and obsonrity Kim,
on an evil day, made the acquaintance
of a fellow countryman. The man ap
peared to be of very little importance.
He did not thrust himself upon Kim's
notioe nor appear at all anxious to
cultivate his acquaintance. He was
an agent of the court of Korea, but
Kim seems never to have suspected it.
For weeks and months he would never
go near the man he iutended to mur
der. He was carrying on a legiti
mate business in Japan, and
was so slow, discreet and pa
tient in promoting tho real
purpose of his sojeurn there that his
conduct excited no comment. Very
little is really known of his acquaint
ance with Kim. What he proposed
to do was to murder the man on
friendly soil where he would not be
called to account for the crime, and
he bided his time. At lost his oppor
tunity came.. Kim had a claim for a
considerable sum of money in South
China. His pretended friend under
took to negotiate for the settlement of
this claim. Ho knew that ho had
completely deceived the old man when
he went to Shanghai to prepare for
the donouoment. His dagger was ready
for the victim whose perfect confi
dence he had won. His plans were
cunningly oonceived. The problem
was to get Kim to Shanghai though he
seemed to bo doing everything in his
power to make it unnecessary for Kim
to make the journey. He reported at
last, that it would be positizely nec
essary for Kim to go to the Chiuese
port to sign doouments that would not
or could not be sent to him. He knew
very well that Kim would not consult
anyone with regard to a visit to China,
and he assured his dupe that there was
not a particle of danger. He could
travel in disguise, transact his busi
ness in a few hours and return to
Japan, in perfect safety . by the next
boat.
Kim's cunning bad apparently do
serted him, and he went unsuspect
ingly to the cruel death prepared for
him. The Japanese Government did
not know he was out of the country
until the news came- that he had been
butchered on Chinese soil. They made
some effort to investigate the matter,
but finally decided that Japan had no
jurisdiction, as Kim was a foreigner
murdered on foroigu soil. So the
chapter ends. Kim died as he had
made others die. Ho became the vic
tim of political methods that he had
used with considerable effect upon his
rivals; and the manner of his taking
off shows how stealthily and persis
tently some Governments of the Orient
are still capable of plying the arts of
the assassin iu the pursuit of their
enemies. Detroit Free Press.
An Interesting People.
Interesting information is given by
a French traveler in China of the Mau
tzu, a people who occupy all tho ter
ritory between Cukia proper and
Thibet. The feudal system prevails
among these mountaineers, who are
divided up into more than eighty small
States. Lamaisiu is the religion pro
fessed by tho majority. The lau
guagos of these States, which are more
Thibetan than Chiuese, differ very
much one from another. The Mau
tzu are fairly well made and strong.
They do not wear a que like the Chi
nese, aud dress iu coarse woolou fab
rics, which they make for themselves.
The men wear a shirt with a collar,
aud the womeu wear dresses consist
ing ol body aud skirt, two styles un
known iu China, aud reminding one
of European fashions. Their houses,
too, built of stone, have usually oue
or two stories above the ground, the
latter being always occupied by cattle,
upon which they ehiufly depend. The
animals reared by tho Ma i-tzu are tho
horse, the horned aud the horulesi
yak, two species of cow, sheop with
long, spiral horns, aud the goat, one
variety of which has four horns. The
pigs, dogr, cats aud fowls which are
bred there are identical with those
found iu the rest of China. ltouheatur
Post-Express,
SCIENTIFIC ASD ISDUSrRlAL.
A flash of lightning oqnals 12,000
horse power.
The mouth of the starfish is exactly
in the centre.
Tho wrist contains eight bones, tho
palm five and tho fingers fourteen.
During digestion tho flow of blood
to tho stomach is increased tenfold.
The principles of rainfall were first
correctly sot forth by Dalton iu 1787.
In proportion to tho weight of tho
body, woman's hair is longer than
man's.
Enamel of the teeth contains over
ninety-five per cent, of calcareous
matter.
Four-tenths of the working ex
penses of an electrio light plant are
for coal.
In London, according to Halley,
there was no total eclipse of the sun
between 1140 and 1715.
Soap babbles are round because
every part of their surface is equally
pressed by the atmosphere.
The heart ordinarily beats about
seventy times a minute, and throws
about two ouncos of blood at each con
traction. The chemical composition of tho
epidermis of the heel is nearly the
same as that of tho matter of nails,
horns and hoofs.
The song of wild birds is usually a
sucoession of three or four note3 con
tinued dining tho same interval,
mostly without interruption.
It is so hot at Massowah, Abyssinia,
that when the northwest wind blows
from the desert tho thermometer
sometimes registers 1G0 dogrees.
In tests last year in the German
town of Dessau it was shown that
cooking by wood and coal costs a little
more than twice that done with gas.
Of the mineral spangolite only two
specimens are known to exist. One
was taken from Cornwall, England,
and the other is near Tombstone,
Arizona.
The hair has a life of its own apart
from that which animates the human
body. This accounts for the growth
of hair on the dead long after their
interment.
A mechanical fluid is the recent in
vention of an American engineer. It
is a mass of hard steel balls of two
sizes, one-eighth and one-fourth of an
inch in diameter, respectively. Under
pressure this mass flows and transmits
pressure in all directions like a fluid.
The device is calculated for use wher
ever fluid pressure is desired without
leakage, and it has already been em
ployed for tightening the brasses of
connecting rods, a pocket at the sido
being filled with the balls and pressure
applied with a set screw.
The Worcester (England) munici
pality will utilize its plant, put in for
supplying electricity for lighting, to
run electrio motors for pumping pur
poses at its waterworks, instead of
employing steam, as originally in
tended. There will be two thirty-horse-power
alternate current motors
having a guaranteed efficiency of
ninety per cent., working pumps
capable of delivering 10,000 gallons
of water per hour to an elevation of
300 feet through three milos of ten
inch pipe.
Hoisted by Her Own Petard,
When Yalo athletics were in Now
York, piior to their departure for Ox
ford, a well-known Brooklyn society
woman gave them a dinner. It is part
of the creed of these young men never
to express surprise at any joke at
their expense. This their hostess
knew. She was determined to oompel
a departure from this law and con
ceived her plan with tbat objoct in
view. The women of the party had
been notified, but were bound over to
silence, until some comment should
be made by tbe broadclothed guests.
At au exquisitely appointed table tho
party sat down. The butlers first
served coffee, liquors and candies.
Next came ices. Then salads. Talk
flowed on brilliantly and easily. Evi
dently there was no stupidity ou tho
part of the servants in serving thus
contrary to established etiquctto, for
the hostess remained unconoernod.
So did the Yalo men.
The reversed dinner went through
its courses without hitch or jar, until
after the soup aud just before tho
clams were served. Then tho Yalo
men asked to be excused. Tho host
ess acqniosod with a broad touoh of
wondor on her faoo. In ten minutes
tho team filed back into tho diuiug
room, each with his "swallow-tail" ou
"hind part before," Thoy had done
honor to tho reversed dinner. The
surface of uuconoorn was brokou dowu.
The hostess was hoisted by her own
petard, but the table rnug with ap
plause. Argonaut.
Cockroncho With Kix-luc'i Win?.
When the transportation company's
barges brought tios for the trolley
bore thoy also brought some Southern
cockroaches that dwarf tho local speci
mens. Tbe tios come from North Car
olina and Georgia, where thos fiuut
oookronohes aro abundant. Thoy arc
about two inches long, uud whou thoir
wings aro spread out iu flying they
measuro nearly six iuuhos across. Thoy
aro harmless aud look something 1 1 k u
a bootlo when their wiu's an ilr.iwu
iu. Hartford (Conn.) Courant.
Smallest llil'J Known,
The fly cater of Cuba is tho smallest
bird know to ornithologists. It iu
about ono-third tho sizo of tho hum
ming bird. In tho year 1592 llesaca
Espisioto, a man of fabulous woalt.'i,
caused 7000 of those birds to be caught
with nets and mado into a pot pie,
which he ate at one sitting, aud even
then ho complained of beiug huury.
Espieioto was a ttiun of most capricious
ppgtite.
BIBLES FOR THE BLIND.
FIRST EDITION EVER PRINTED lit
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The Book Is In KIcven Volumes
Kach better Represented by a Dif
ferent Number of Raised Dots.
TnE only Biblo published in
the point alphabet to bo used
by the blind has lately been
printed in Louisville. It con
sists of 18:1'J pages, is in cloven vol
umes and was turned out by tho
American Printing nonso for tho
Blind, an annex of tho Kentucky In
stitute for the Blind, The eleven em
ployes of tho printing house wcro en
gaged on the work for about ten
months, and on May 7, 1894, just a
little over a year after the work was
bogun, the first shipment to tho
American Bible Society at New York
was made.
Of course this is not tho only Biblo
that can be read by the blind Those
thus afflicted have beon reading a Bi
ble for forty years, but it was pub
lished in what is known as tho liua
alphabet.
The line alphabet is mvlo up of tho
Roman letters enlarged and raiso 1 on
the leaves of the book, so that the
blind reader may know them by fol
lowing their outline with his fingers.
Every school child can road a boo't
printed in that way. But with tho
Now York point alphabet each letter
is represented by a different number
of raised dots arranged in a fixed posi
tion. Strange to say, this 88331
method is the easier to learn, anl ii
always taught before the liuo motho L
That any sort of a Biblo for tha
blind came out at all is due to a bj
qnest of $40,000 mado to tho Araariciti
Bible Society by a wealthy wotmu o.f
New York City. It was ma lo a per
manent fund for printing Bibloj for
the blind. The four girls who do tho
typesetting began thoir part of tho
work April 23, 1853. As soon as on 3
page was set up it was carried into tin
molding room and an impression
taken. The page was then ready to
be cast. It was carried down sUirs
and placed in tho stereotypiu; mi
chine. A thin coat of tin foil was thja
laid over the mold and a light pouriu j
of metal mado, so as to melt tho tiu
foil into the mold. Another pouring
was then made to fill in the blank
spaces betwoen lines aud re-enforoa
the back. A piece of ordinary roof
er's tin the size of tho page was then
laid over the back of the thfu metal
impression, and another light pouriar
made to make the two adhere. Wtieu
this had cooled off tho workiniu hi I a
true copy of the page on a very light,
flexible plate of stereotype. All tin
rest of tho 1030 pagos were tr:ated in
the same way, and on January 24,
1894, the day the last page was set up,
the last plate was also completed.
The work of printing was then be
gun. The loaves are necessarily very
heavy, and, of oourso, can be printed
only one side. Four sheets, or page),
were printed at a time. When thi
pages were ready for binding six of
them were grouped together au 1
stitched with wire. Tho insida edg
of each s9xto is bound by a cloth-lino I
card-board guard. This is mlo 1103
essary by the thioknesi of tha loivei
and the constant hindling by thj rod
der. When those sextos are bowa I to
gether they make a volume varying iu
thscknessof from three to four inches.
The New Testament is include 1 in
three volumes, the Old iu eight.
The whale work of printing the first
set of this Bible cost just $1)0). The
cost of biadinj is $1 a volume. The
interest on the bequest nearly half a
century ago has growu so tint the
books can ba sold to the blind at loss
than the cost of the binding. The
whole set is sold at $7, and tho New
Testament alono can bo secured for $5
los,$. These Bibles are beiug sont out
to all the schools for the bliud in the
oouutry through the American Biblo
Association.
Mining and Milling Yellow Ochre.
"A very important Georgia in
dustry that has sprung up in the last
few years is the mining and milling of
yellow ochre as carried ou at deters
ville," said Captain B. M. Hall, tlu
well-known mining engineer. "Like
most new industries, it made a small
beginning aud the product ha 1 a vory
limited market. But its superior
quality soon gained for it an eaer
demaud at a high juice. It is now
sold at Cartersville for $10 to $1S per
tou, while the standard Pennsylvania
ochres ssll for less than half thatpricj
in Philadelphia. Tho Cartersville
ochre, account of its great purity,
is essentially a metallic paint, wliilo
the ordinary oehres of commcrcj arj
tuerely clays staiuo l with iron oxide.
Its beautiful greenish ycllo.v c jlor
and its high per vent, of iron make it
peculiarly valuable as an ingredient
in the manufacture of linoleum. A
large proportion of tho Cartersville
product is Mhipped to Europe. Two
new mines are boiujr opened aud put
iu operation that will greatly increase
tho output. Oue of these belougi t J
William B. Shaffer, of Peuusylvauh,
and the other to T. II. Jones, of Car
tersville. 1 cau say from a person il
examination of these properties that
their operutiuu will udd largely to th
material wealth of Georgia. " Atlanta
Constitution.
A Colonel at Tell
Tho third sou of the Emperor Will
iam, Adalbert Ferdinand, cjleltr itj I
his tenth birthday, by hU fonuilou
trauco at Berliu, into th) im.ieriil
army, tho youugster iu knickerbock
ers bocomiug a Colonel of the famous
Uhlau lUgiiuout. Tho entrance was
marked by ceremonies of considera
ble pomp, aud at night the re.-;imjiit
had a grand bauquet iu celebration of
the evonU Nsw York Advertnter.
MY SERENADE.
I have a envnller.
it dusk ho drnwoth noar
To wait outsldo my wicket.
I hear him draw hla bow f
Ho playeth soft nnd low, ,.
Hid Id the mnple thicket. y
Tim listening leaves nro stirred
The dreaming flowers have benrii
His strain from out the shadow.
Tho brond moon, whltu nnd still,
Climbcth tho dusky hill ;
The mists d.mce In the meadow.
My faithful ravnller,
At dusk ho drnwotli no.ir
To wait outsldo my wiokct. t
I hear him draw his how j
Ho playoth soft nnd low,
My droamy littlo cricket.
-Dorothy Dean, In Kato Field's Washington.
HUMOR OF THE BAY.
There aro some very good peoplo
who love to tell bad news. Barn's
Horn,
Tho world owes a man a living, but
ho must go after it. Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Love abhors a crowd, but docs not
want to bo left entirely alono. Gal
veston News.
If you notice, the fellow who pays
his way is the ono who weighs his pay,
Buffalo Courier.
A growler is a man who would much
rather sleep in a cyclone than in an
ordinary draft. Galveston News.
When men speak of a woman, tho
first question, and frequently tho last,
is "Is she pretty?" Itam'B Horn.
A setting hen is quito anxious as to
tho outcome of her mission ; she
broods over it constantly. Lowell
Courier.
Ajbout tho only martyrs for con
science's sake that we have in modern
times are our baseball umpires. Dal
las News.
A "forelady" advertises for work.
We hope she is accustomed to the
management of "sales-gentlemen."
Ch'cago Post.
He "I love yon. I know that I am
not all that I ought to bo " She
"Yes, everybody has told me that."
New York World.
A head-lino in a contemporary
reads, "On to Chicago!" Tho coun
try has been on to Chicago for somo
time. Kingston Frooman.
Mother "Tommie, I am going to
spank you. Do yon know what for?"
Tommie (indignantly) "Yes. You
want to ease your own feelings by
hurting uiino." Harper's Bazar.
Stranger "What price do yon set
on that red cow of yours?" Mr. Hai
cedo "See here, mister, uir you a as
sessor, or has she been run over by
the railroad?" Indianapolis Journal.
The Judge "I should think you
would be sorry for having so forgotten
yoursolf as to throw a plate at your
wife." Tho Prisoner (penitently)
"I am, your honor ; that plate cost
ten cents." Buffalo Couriei.
"I don't seo tho least uso of this
tool enso bcinjr put on my bicycle."
He "Why, in case of an accident,
you'd have something to work with."
"Oh, yon absurd man ; dou't I always
have hair-pius with me?" Chicago
Inter-Occuu.
New I'so for .Natural (Jan.
The possibilities of natural gas evi
dently have not yet been exhausted;
The latest use which would seem to
have been found for it is the making
of ice, tho idea being to simply expand
the gas from its usually high initial
pressure down to or near that of tho
atmosphere, nature having done all
the preliminary work of compression
and cooling, making the gas ready to
absorb heat from its surround in-js im
mediately upon being released from
coutiumeut, All that would be neces
sary would brf suitable coils or cham
bers iuto which the gaB could he- al
lowed to expand. It has been calcu
lated out quite plausibly, in fact, that
with an ordinary gas well, furnishing
2,500,000 eubio feet per day, some
thing like fifty tons of ice could be
turued out daily at au expeusj of
about fifty ceuts u tou. The gas
lotes nothing but its pressure, retain
ing all its calorific value, and hence,
all its virtue for rolling mill an 1 glass
works uso, for heating brick, lime aud
pottery kilns, and the endless number
of other furnaces to which it is adapted.
In a certain way, therefore, tho gas
may bo regarded as affording some
thing for nothing a desideratum to
which many in this world aro con
stantly looking forward. St. Louis
Star-Sayings.
Ittisshni O.'llcluls ti'iir Turtle Dove?.
Most people regard the turtle dovo
as an ideally innocent creature, but
the lUnsian Minister of War evidoutly
looks upon it as u positive dauger to
tho stability of tho Czar's dom iins. A
lady prestidigitator from the Folies
Berguro, iu Paris, was traveling to St.
Petersburg to fulfil an engagement iu
that city. Along with her she cirried
a number of turtle doves for profes
sional purposes, but ou reai.jiug tho
llussian frontier t'uese wero toized iu
virtue of tho War Ministers order
really aimed ut tho suppression of car
rier pigeons prohibiting tho intro
duction of any kin I of pigeon ou uuy
pretext whatever. Prayer uud ex
postulations wero iu vuiu, but it is
pleasing t think tint tho general
couimau laut of tho town gallantly
uudertook to take goo I care of the
birds until their owner should re
cross the frontier. Westminster tU
zetto. The "Lump IlirJ."
Some peoplo oall tho t;orir.y petrel
the "lamp bird." It is so oily that tho
fishermen of St. Kikla stick a wick iu
tho mouth of a dead spuciuieu, lyht it
and it bums for au hour. New Yo.c
Advertiser.