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THE FOREST REPUBLICAN
fa nblXh.4 Ti7 WtdaeuU;, ftj
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Parisian policemen nro being mount
ed on bicyelcs. The polico officials
nro bonnd to get thieves on tho run,
comments tho Hartford Journal.
In tlio opinion of an expert tbo nnb
Btitution of tho Itnlinn for tho Irish
man and tho Oermnu in laboring cir--chas
is the prirao oauso of tho falling
off in siinstroKp.
Thero aro ubont 08,000 postofficos
in tho United Stales. About 07,000
of them do not pay their running ex
poiincR. Tho profit of tho New York
postoflioo is 81,000,000 a year.
Tho Jopnnoso nro now making ten
nis rackets, and boiuo of them, tho
New York Lodger learns, aro imported
to tho United States. Tho workman
ship ii unoomtnouly fiuo, and all tho
materials look dnrablo. Eiiropoans in
Japuu Lave long played tenuis, and
the gamo originated a good donl nearer
. Japan than Europe It was tho Bad
minton brought to England by East
Indian travelers.
Tho nnt'onal guardsmen of Now
York will hereafter bo prosonted by
tho State with a haudsorao modal for
long sorvioo. Theso modale aro to bo
presented for a ecrvioo of thirty,
twenty-flvo, twenty, fifteen and ton
yoars, and aro dosiguod to bo manu
factured of eighteen karat solid gold,
flold and silver, silver and bronzo, and
broD7.o, according to tho incrcosod
years of nervico. Thero is no differ
enco ia tho design, excopt that tho
modal for thirty years is set with
brilliant.
' Iloat holidays havo now been estab
lished by law in tho publio schools of
Switzerland, and, in tho opinion of
tho New York Tribune, our education
al authorities might do worse than
tnko a hint from this enterprising and
progressive little republic, which for
.centuries has been famed for its en
lightenment and coramon-souso. Rec
ognizing tho well known fact that tho
brain cannot work properly when tho
Lout is excessive, tho childron are dis
missed from their tasks whenever tho
thermometer goes abovo a cortain
point. Wero this sonsiblo regulation
to bo adopted in this country stops
would havo to bo taken to safeguard
tho thermometers from being nefari
ously doctored by tho euterprisiug
American schoolboy.
Dr. Erwin F. Smith, of tho depart
ment of agriculture, described to tho
American Association for tho Advance
ment of Soionco tho other day an im
portant discovery that ho hag mado of
a post which has boen giving groat and
increasing trouble to tho watermelon
raisers of tho South. It is a fungus
growth, which attaoks tho viues nnder
tho ground, epeodily stopping np tho
minute water ducts of tho plant, and
causing it to wither away. Ho asserts
that this yoar tho South has lost many
thousands of dollars' worth of mulons
through tho ravages of this disoaso.
Dr. Smith does not suggest any remedy
for tho disease, but he thinks that a
pood deal might bo done for its exter
mination by burning the old vines.
He thinks that many farmer! are re
sponsible for its spread, as they aro
accustomed to gather up the old vines,
and allow them to rot on their com
post hoaps for munurc.
Tho Russian thistle, thnt has created
bo much disturbauco in the Dakota?
as to causa a bill to bo introduced in
Congress appropriating money for its
eradication, has mado its nppenranco
in Illinois, states tho Chicago Reoord,
and tho farmers are called upon to do
their utmost to eradicate the import
ed pest. Tho worst feature of tho
weed is tho great rapidity with which
its spreads over vast areas of territory,
tho scud being easily scattered by tho
wind. It is not a hard wood to deal
with if taken in time, for it is an au
nual plant, and if out before seeding
tho lat half of August it is eHoctu-
nlly destroyed. It is not so difficult
a weed to deal with as tho Canada
thiElle, whioh somas to tbrivo by ro
pca'.cd cutting. If tho Russian this
tle has secured a foothold in this
State, it is very likely to eproad fast
and far. Olico established in tho
highways and r.long railroad tracks, all
attempts to dislodge it will be of littlo
avail. The country highway Beom3 to
bo devoted to tho propagation of nox
ious wotd.", vhilo tho right of way of
a railroad company is not kept with
much idea of killing weeds. Tho Rus
sian thistle is eagerly eaten by Bhecp,
and, if cut when young, ia likod by
cattle. It is not a worse pest on a
farm than tho ox-eye daisy. But tho
farmers of Illinois have enough to
contend with without tha Russian
thistle being added to their burdens,
ttiid self-interest should prompt tboru
to a vigorous warfare against this new
ly arrived foreigner.
TWO sonos
IT AtfD AWAY I TUB Wnll!f!Nt.
Tldo's at full ; tho wnvo breaks white
(Oh, up nml awnjr la tho morning) 1
Mao Is tho blown grass, rod Is the bolght ;
Wash with the sun tho sail shines white
(Ob, up and away In the morning),
YVldo Is the world In tho laughing sua
(Oht up ami away In the morning).
Work' to be done and woalth's to bo won
Ere a man turn home with the homing sun
(Oh, up and away In the morning).
Long Is tho heart's hopa, long as tho day
(Oh, up and sway In tho morning).
ITonrt hath Its will and hand hath its way
Till tho world rolls over and onds tho day
(Oh, up and away In tho morning).
It's home that wo toll for all dny long
(Oh, up and away la tho morning).
Hand on tho lino and buart In tho son?,
Tho labor of lovo will not soom long
(Ob, up and nway In tho morning).
home, noME in Tns evekixo.
When the crows fly In from soa
(Oh, home, home la tho evening),
My love In his bout comes back to ms,
Over the tumbling leagues of ?a
(Ob, homo, home In tho ovontng),'
And when tho sun drops over tho hill
(Oh, homo, homo in tho eronlng),
My bnppy oyos tboy tnko tholr All
Of watonlng my lovo as ho ollmbg tho hill
(Oh, borne, homo In tho evening).
And when the dow falls over the lanl
(Ob, home, homo In the evonlng),
I bold In my hand bis dearest bund,
Tho happiest woman In all tho lan J
(Ob, homo, borne In tho evening).
All day she sang by tho collage door
(Oh, homo, homo In tho evening) ;
At sundown came bis boat to tho shore
But bo to tho hoarthsldo comes no moro,
Home, home In tho evening.
Charles O. D. Itoberts, In tho Century.
KITTY'S ADVENTURE.
OOD-BY, donr."
"A sufo journey
and a pleasant
one.
Tho train began
to move. Miss
Kitty Belwhistlo
distributed a faro
woll series of nods
and smilos.
Sho felt quite
fond of tbo Chol
mondoloys, now
that sho was leav
ing them. Thoy
vprtl nnrrv tn lnan
"SV'Jn their guest un.'
doubtedly.
Their brother sorrowed also, but not
as ono without hope. Business of a
pressing nnturo was likely to take him
up to Loudon in tho course of a week
or bo.
Kitty, experienced hand that sho
was, had not spent three weeks nt
Northwitch Grango for nothing. Tho
understanding between herself and
tho heir of tho Northwich acres was
pretty definite, that young gentleman
llattered himself, inoy were almost,
if not exaotly, engaged.
Kitty had mado tho usual etipnla
tion.
If, within tho space of twelve
months from date, ubo met somebody
else eho liked better than dear Ohub-
biugton, all that had passed between
thorn was henceforth to be regarded as
on idle dream. If on tho other hand,
sho did not, then-
Kitty pulled up tho window nnd
sank back into her comfortablo corner
Beat. Tho first-class compartment
contained no other passenger than tho
charming young iudy in tho sealskin
coat and crimson-leatnerod toque wuo
consulted her complexion in the strip
of looking glass before sho full to
overhauling her bags and packages.
Tho journey was tedious, and would
bo certain to bo a cold ono upon this
keen, frosty January day.
But Kitty, who always was distin
guished by admirable forethought in
matters where her own well-being was
concerned, had got all her littlo com
forts around her.
'Eau do cologne? Yes, tho house
maid put it in. How stupid of Parker
to catch bronchitis! Of eourse, I was
obliged to leave her buhiud. If I had
insisted on her traveling sho would
have beon sure to incur a fresh chill
and die on mo out of spite.
"If anything in the shapj of an ad
venture could possibly present itsolf
in the courso of the humdrum sovon
hours' railway jonrnoy between Nor
wich nnd Liverpool, I should bo in
clined to wolcomo it, unless it camo in
tho form of a railway smash. Ugh)
Tho bare idea makes ono shudder.
"Let mo just peep at tho luncheou
basket. Tonguo and turkey sand
wiches, bard-boiled eggs nnd onchovy
ditto, abottlo of cold tea, half a pine
and a bag of maocaroous. IVrhaps
Chubby superintended tho arrange
ment! Poor Chubby 1"
And Kitty smiled a hcartloss littlo
smile at the remembrance of Chubby's
pink tinged noso and tearful eyes.
Then she opened a brand now railway
novel, "The Fang of tho Adder," and
immersed herself in the most thrilling
chapter of that electrical work :
"Forked nnl lurid flashes ot llKhtnloR
nbBonlly plnyod over tho uililulght awiro.
A
low ieal of t'uiuUer ruuiMod
ovorhua 1 as
ruulfn.i
a galno.l tht ciiurouyurJ. hboreacho I
Ilia louulv riBtln.f lilaoj of tlio ujuu whom
her heart had worjlupo 1, tbo man whom hor
re!t'.nt'es hau l had guMui to Ills torn,
"Old ho but know It, Cliurringtou Chlm
Win bitterly avenge 1.
"A3 (ob& thkkonat In his muMoross's
strangling throat urni sho sink forward
amid tbo luutted and tangled k'rus-j wbut
bupponedV
' A hai: J toucho 1 hor on tltashuuldor. A
voice gutd Iw !(!)"
"Kimpton, Kimpton I Changa 'ere
for Curbury r.nd Walsing."
Tho train f.lowe.1 and stopped, with
a jerk. Kitty chut the book and let
down tho window.
Something darkened tho carriage
door. A dark-faced, mustacbed, fur
coated stranger got in hurriedly. Ho
trampled on Miss Bel whistle's toes
and apologized floridly. His tone
offended her cars ; tho perf nine which
exhaled from his garments offended
a still moro sensitive perception.
Ho tromp'od on Kitty s toos again
so ho receivod into his arms a hoavy
bundle, tho helpless figure of another
man, and deposited it in a further
corner of tbo compartment, with evi
dent difficulty.
Another mnstnehod, scented and
fnr-coatod stranger followed and ent
himself down in tho scat immediately
opposite Miss Belwhistlo.
Kitty, in a state of freezing indif
ference to tho admiring manifestations
of her vis-a-vis, resumed her perusal
of "Tho Fang of tlio Adder."
Tho two mustacliod and fur-coated
individuals interchanged a scntonco
or two in an undertone aud then
settled down to their respective nows-
papers. Tho invalid luy back help
lessly in his corner, swaying from
sido to side with tho motion of tho
carriago.
Ho was small of stature and slight
of limb. Ho woro a grny-flappod
traveling cap, tied under the chin,
and a long gray ulster. From under
neath the edge of tho ulster peeped a
pair of tiny littlo feet in patent-leather
boots.
As much c! his profile as was visible
to Kitty's observatiou was perfectly
rogular and of a waxen delicacy. The
ungloved right hand, which rested
stillly on his knee, was small and
dazzingly white.
"Oh," exclaimed Miss Belwhistlo
involuntarily as tho express rounded
a curve and tho invalid lurched
violently to the right.
The mustacbed aud scented strang
ers looked ovor their newspapers.
Kittv had half risou from her seat.
"Anything wrong, miss?" inquired
No. 1 in ncconts of oily vulgarity.
Tho train stead 10 J; tho invalid loft
off wobbling. Kitty sank among her
mors and parcels.
"I I beg your pardon. I I was
afraid tho your friend was going to
faint." she breathed. To cover her
confusion she stopped for her book,
which lay sprawling on tho tloor.
"Tho young lady thought Mr,
Walker might bo feeling ill, Sig. Den'
zo," romarkod No. 2. "Tell him to
answer hisself if he'a got any manners
in him," the signor added, and looked
at tho invalid.
Immediately Mr. Walker spoko
in a nuecr, highly pitched voice,
which seemed to como from under tho
soat which ho occupied.
"I thank you, miss, for your kind
inquiries and beg to say I am quite
well."
Kitty began to regret tho exolaino-
tion of alarm into which sho had boen
betraved. Sho began to wonder bow
lonu it would bo before tho next 6top
page would afford her an opportunity
of exchanging to anotuor carriage,
This horrible pair wero evidently bent
upon improving tho occasion.
Rosenbanra offered hor a comio pa
per. Deo'ined with thanks.
Tho Bignor producod a silver flask
of cognao, which might nave con
tained about a quart, and audaciously
invited tho young lady to tost tho
aualitv of its contents. Declined
with thanks.
Upon which both the Bignor and
Mr. Rosenbaum applied themselves to
tho liquor with gseat good will. Thoy
produood hugo packages of sandwiches
and ate witu gusto ana witnoui ouer-
Ing tho invalid a share of their sup
lilies.
Kitty burnod with indignation and
was conscious of a yearning In tno ui
rection of her woll filled luncheon
basket, but dread of provoking the
oivilities of her companions staid
her. Sho would chaupro at the nsxt
station thev stopped at, and then-
Thank goodness an old town rising
out of tho Buowy landscape ! Tho
omptv noi-:o and bustle of a station
suoceedinar. She collected her lug
gage hastily J she peered anxiously out
of tho window Bsarehiug for a porter,
"By vour leave, miss, said tho odi
ous voice of Rosenbaum. He opened
tha door and jumped out upon tho
platform. Tho signor followed. Thoy
vanished, arm in arm, into tho refresh
went room.
"Porter." cried Miss Belwhistlo,
but no funotiouarv responded to her
call. Sho loaued out of the window,
Sno waved her muff. Sho called to
the porter aain without suooess.
Thero was a dull crash, a sickening
thud, behind her. Sho turnod. The
invalid Mr. Walker hal tumbled out
of his seat and lav prostrate on tho
floor. Boforo tho affrighted girl could
utter a scream for help tho express
moved on. Whore, whero were those
callous companions of tho sick man?
Doubtless Rosenbaum aud. tho siguor
had been left.
Sho raised tho head of tho insonsi
ble man. Ho was li-diter than she
had expected uud strangely, strangely
stiffen Sho opened his collar with a
shaking! hand.
Kho uot' out tho bottla of tea and
endeavored to pour a littlo down his
throat. UjoIcss. Tho rigid lips were
not to bo forced apart. Sho removed
the traveling cap and wet his fore
head and temples with cau do cologno,
He showed no signs of reviving. She
wined his face with her handkerchief
and oh, horror !
The faint color vanished from his
checks, his lips turned palo. Tho
sick man had been painted.
Sho lookod ot him moro closely,
The btraugo light blue eyes that main
taiued their horrible uuwiukiug stare.
tho deadly color of the f.ico aud tb
icy coldness of its contact struck
chill to her. Hho felt at his heart,
Not a beut ! Mr. Wulker was dead
dead!
Had his munlerers thoy must bo
his murderers painted tho doad face
with tho hues of life, doocivod ner
eye with roua and powder as they
ad doccivod hor cars with a vontrilo-
quial trick? Had they not made
good their escape, leaving thoir help
less dnpo alone alone with their
victim?
And at last tho cuprous Blackened
speed, jolted, stopped. Thoy wero at
Ely. She might scream now, and she
id.
"What's here? Oenllomcn ill,
miss? What do you say?
Thus the guard.
"Thero has been mnrdor hero," shu
Raid, looking out upon tho throng of
faces that surrounded tho carriage
door. "Telegrah to tho last stopping
aco. I can describe tho guilty
wretches who have done this awful
dcod. Ah, thero they are 1"
Hore they woro indood, the guilty
wretches. Dared thoy brazen it out?
Did they mean to deny all knowlodgo
of tbo dead man?
This is a seriouscharge, you know,
gentlemen. I must trouble you to
come along with mo."
With pleasure Mr. Polizeman,
said the signor, with horriblo light
ness. "But wo lojdt at thiscorpo morto
hero first, with your kind obligomont.
Why will pretty young ladies shriek
at everything? My good Rosenbaum,
you havo better tho English language
Please explain.
Rosenbaum drew a largo poster from
tho bulging pocket of his fur coot. Ho
gravely handed it to tho station-mas
ter. It boro this inscription :
TOrNIGIIT.
At tho Temple of Varieties, Ely.
Hurr ltosonbaum and HI?. Denr.o.
Tho Marvolous Conjurors and Vantrlloqulsts,
In Thoir UnpiralMed Entnrtulnmant,
In which tho ANIMATED DUAIUlf will also
tnko p-irt.
COME EARLY.
"This hero jointed wooden figure
with the wax faoe and hands," went
on Rosoubanm, "is tho dummy. Ho
usually travels in tho guard s van, but
tho c-uard oouldn't guarantee his reach
ing Ely in condition to appear before
tho public, having a lox-temer pup
in charge as was given to worrying.
So wo took him in the carriage with us,
At the last station we stopped at, mo
and tho signor, gets out for a drink,
and tho train having started sooner
than wo bargained for we whipped into
second-class compartment. Sorry
tho young lady has boen frightened.
Ain t you, eignor?
"Estremamente I said big. JJonzo.
Qontlowomau.
Mexican Skill With the Rope.
"The cowboys of NowMoxico, Texas,
and Arizona are all skilled in the art
of using the lasso," said Louis Ed'
wards, of Santa t o. "I nsod to be m
tho ranching lino mysolf, and once
thought I could throw a rope as
straight as any man living. But that
was beforo I mixed to any extent with
the Mexicans. As good as the Amen
can cowboys are, they can't hold I
candle to a Greaser when it oomes to
tho ropiuflr business. They can do
things with hemp that no otbor inor
tals can over hope to accomplish. As
tho Australian'stands out pre-ominently
in throwing the boomerang, bo does
tho ignorant son of the 'land of Qod
aud liberty exceed all other men in
this one accomplishment.
"A Mexican will chase a steer at full
speed, and while he guides his bronco
with one hand, whirl his rope with
tho other, and it isn't once in a thou
sand times that tho noose Will fail to
catch just whore tho rider meant,
favorite trick with them is to stick
lot of long-handled knives in the
ground close together within tho limits
of a narrow circle, and bet with out
eiders that they can ride past at raoe
horso speed nnd pick up any one of
the knives designated with a' rope.
They aro good marksmen with the ritle,
too, but in this regard the cowboys
are fully their peers." Washington
Post.
E'.iKllslimeu Grow Taller,
Francis Galton has collected some
interesting facts in regard to the ef
fect of athletics and improved physi
cal condition during the last forty
years on tho physique of tho middle
classes.
Mr. Galton gives instructive evi
dence of tho amelioration of the upper
middle class. When he was an under
graduate at Cambridge, from 1810 to
1811, although but live feet nine and
three-fourths inchos in height, he was
taller than tho majority of his fellows.
In addressing them ho habituelly
lowered his eyes, and if in a crowd ho
would readily boo over tho heads of
the people.
Writing in lo'Jd he states that he no
longer possesses theso advantages.
Altered social conditions, in his
opinion, havo helped to improve tho
bodily powers aud address ol his class ;
such conditions, for instance, ai moro
wholesoiro and abundant food, better
cooking, warmer clothiug, moderation
in the use of uloohol, bettor ventilated
sleeping rooms, moro chauge through
vacations, and, lastly, moro healthy
lives led by womon in their girlhood.
St. Louis Globo-Demoorat.
A Vase ot Uuld.
Tho Department of Grock an3
Rjinuu Antiquities, British Museum,
h'lsquike recently secured by purehasj
one of the choieest examples of aucient
art in solid gold whioh even that grout
collection possesses. It ia a vase of
this metal in its purest condition,
without sculptures, measuring nearly
eight inches in height, about four
inches in diuinoter, and in shape most
liko a police when deprived of its
bundles. It is of Roman origin, per
haps of the period of Augustus. An
inscription on the bottom of the vessel
indicates thut its weight nearly cor
responds to two pouud troy of the
modern scale. It was lately found by
a sponge diver in the sea oft tho Islaud
of Suinos, ual may be all that remains
of a wreck wr-ich occurred thero
nearly 11000 years ago. Tho Atho-uuuuw.
SCIENTIFIC AM) INDUSTRIAL,
A flv'a cfror will hatch in twelvo
Lours.
Entomologists estimate that 10, 003,-
000 species of insects exist.
Thero is harmony nul discord in
tho combination of odor-", 113 thera i 1
in mnsio.
Carriages propelled by eloctricitr
derived from a etorago battery nro
common in Berlin.
Aluminum felloes in bicycles are cx-
pocted soon as an improvement on
wood in both lightness an 1 Btr jngth.
Willie Jones, of Girardvillo. Penu.,
having lost his shin bones by blou I
poisoning, has been supplied by a sur
geon with now ones ot iudia rubber.
Dr. Biggs, of tho Now York Board
of Health, who has been in Europe in
vestigating Dr. Koch's now treatment
for dphtheria, says that it is an abso
lute cure if applied in time.
The phylloxera, or tho vine pest, i:i
making suoh ravages in the sherry
wine districts of Spain that the Gov
ernment has appropriated $100,00j
for the extermination of tho disease.
Tho utility of the mosquito is bo-
yond qnestion. It is born in tLo
ewamps, and feeds upou animal aud
vegetable matter, which, if allowed to
decompose, would fill tho nir with
poisonous gases.
Tho vital principle is presarved in
seeds and eggs, fruits and vegetable
during cold weather, because thay
have a heat of their own. Tho tem
perature of an egg or apple, down to
the freezing point, is always sjvral
degrees jibove that of th-j surroua linj
air.
The Japanese are really a very pro
gressive people. Tho Schoul of Soi
once at Yokohama is remarkably thor
ough. Ono of tho naval officials, Ya
mana, has succeoded in produeiu a
new Bteel, at tho Tanaka Government
factory, which is provon to bj a most
remarkable metal. Tho Government
has adopted it.
A living specimen of tho largest an I
most deadly snake known has boon
added to . tho Zoological Gardens ol
London. It grows twelvo to fourteen
feet in length, and is hooded like tho
cobra. It occurs in India, Burma
nnd in tho East Indian archipelago,
living in forests aud jungles and rsa l
ily climbing trees.
Tho Icohinio scientist, Th. Thorod
Bsen, is at prosont engaged iu a very
interesting scries of geological obser
vations on his nativo island, for which
ho has recoivod gonerou3 Government
support. Tho special object of his
study is the sands and glaciers iu tho
district of Austur-Skaptafell and tho
great glacier ' Vatnajokull, ia the
southeastern part of Iceland.
A French electrical journal, iu re
ply to an offer of an award of $ 10,003
by tho French Government to tho in
ventor of a simpl'j and sure method of
determining fraud in the production
of alcoholio liquors, suggest? that a
knowledge of tho eloctrical conduc
tivity with that of tha density might
be a sufficient moans, if tho liquors be
brought to tho temperature of molt
ing ico.
A Peacock's Little (Same.
Sol. Stophan has made a disoovsry
tip at tho Zoo. The big peacoak has
for several weeks made a practice of
going every afternoon to the entr.iuoj
gate and parading back aud forth
across tho path for half an hour. This
action occasioned no remark for a
time, but after awhile it was noticod
that the fowl came resularly at 4
o'clock and at no other hour, and al
ways remained about half uu hour,
after which it would walk away and
go about the lawus as usual till the
following oftornoon. For the past
week a watoh has boon kopt on it, and
at last the secret is discovered. Near
the gate is a glass door, lending to a
cellar in the hillside, aud about 4
o'clock tho light falls on tho door so
that the peacock cau soo himself at iu
a mirror when ho walks past. Ho evi
dently takes great delight in looking
at himself. The strange part of tho
affair is that be should know just when
to come, as tho reflection is clear uud
distinct only about half an hour after
4 o'clock. Cincinnati Times-Star.
. A Street Car Hearse.
Ono of tho Sau Francisco railway
Companies has constructed au electric
funeral car for tho Han Matao Ceme
tery. Tho car is named Cypress L iwu.
It is thirty feet in length and is
divided into two compartments, the
forward twenty foot iu leugth and tha
rear ten foot. Tho former is richly
upholstered, tapestried nu I carpoto I,
and twelve plush seats are arranged to
seat twenty-four persons. Iu tho roar,
or funeral compurtmeut, seats on eueli
sido, capable of seating twenty, nro ar
ranged for rclutivos and near friend,
aud in tho centre is the bier on which
the casket stands. As Sau Fraueisoo
has an extensive system of electric
railways tho car can bo employed
throughout tho city, and will, to some
extent, it ia expected, supersede the
uso of hearaea and carriages for fu
nerals. Tho. cost of buildiug it wp.i
about 82003. Philadelphia Record.
Cold Water It Best.
Ico water ia said to be oue of tho
deadliest foei of tho American pcoplj,
and its temptation ii especially in
li, lions in the daya ol numiuur. Au
excellent substitute for real ieod
water, or water made of icy tempera
turo by containing ice, is a pitcher or
caraffo of water which baa stood for
some hours in tho refrigerator. Tha
water is then cold enough to be very
agroeable, more so than at tlio paralys
ing temperature of ico itself; uue has
a pleasing consciousness of bygionu
virtue in drinking it aud it has the
added excellence of saving both trouble
aud ico iu its preparation. Rochester
Pc-ut-Express,
MODERN COAST DEFENSE.
AN IMPREGNABLE SYSTEM OB
SEABOARD FORTIFICATIONS.
What Would Happen If s Hostile
Kleot Should Attack New York-
Hunger Areas' In the Harbor.
WHAT with pneumatic dy
namite fines, ten and
twelve-inch steel rides,
twelve-inch steel mortars,
automatic gnn-lifts that play with
great fifty-two ton cannon as if they
wero toys, and all the other recent im
provements in coast defense, tho day
is near when New York City will be
protected from danger of invasion by
Boaby an impregnable system of forti
fications. When that day comes the
artilleryman's fun will bo over, for
promiscuous target practice is hardly
possible with big guns whoso lifo is
less than fifty round, while each Bhot
costs $1000. And should an enomy's
flccet attack New York, he will have
still lens fun, for then he will be stuck
away under a bomb-proof, where he
won't know whether he scored a hit or
a miss, because he won't bco what he's
shooting at.
Although not new, this will proba
bly seem to the pnblio the most inter
esting phase of the development of
modern ordnance. There is no exag
geration in it, either. When tho pro
posed system of fortifications is fin
ished, should thero ever be an attack
from the Bea only a few dozen officers
and men would bo whore they could
see the attacking fleet at all. Almost
all officers and men would be below
bomb-proofs, in concrete, steel-lined
gnn-lifts or deep in vaulted mortar
pits.
Down there, where nothing can bo
seen except the hugo breech blocks of
tho great guns and the complicated
machinery for moving them, the can
non wil bo loaded, aimod, raised over
tho steel plated parapet oud fired, and
not a mau will know what he fired at
or whether the Bhot did any exectt'
tion. The method by which this is ac
complished is much more simple than
would be expected from this state
ment. It is this :
The United States Engineer Corps
has carefully plotted out on a map all
the channels and deep-water basins
and holes around New York, aud then
the map has been covered with little
squares, each of which is numbered,
Each snuare represents the "danger
area" to a shin ; that is, a shot fired
anywhere in that square would hit a
vessel stationed there. Now suppose
all the different forts have their mor
tar batteries, gun-lifts, etc., which have
boen designed for them, and an invad
ing fleet is sighted approaohing Sandy
Hook. At once every gun's company
13 told off to its station.
Tho officer in command of eaoh gun
has a table giving the numbers of the
squares, and opposite each number
telling him just what elevation and
what lateral direction ho must give his
caunon in order to got tho range. Each
gun is connected by telegraph with an
observation tower, in which are tha
officers commanding operations to-
gethor with signalmen and other as
sistants. They aro all provided with
rouge-finders ond glasses, and the map
with the numbered squares is sproau
out before them.
As soon as the positions of the ships
can be fixed, ono of the officers begins
to plot the oourse of the vessels on the
chart. Finally, eav ono of the ships
passes into square No. 27, and it is de
cided to nre at her wnen sue geis i"o
Ron aro No. 28.
"Tick, tick," says the telegraph to
all the grim, hidden men behind the
grim, hidden guns.
"Train cruus on saaare No. 28,
Around swimr the truns. and tho of-
floors elevate or depress them by aid
of level and azimuth. AU is ready.
The observers ia the towers have
soon the doomed ship steam into square
28. "Ready I" says the telegraph. Up
crocs the great twelve-inch gun on its
disappearing carriage. Up flies the
ten-inch rifle on its big gun lift. Tho
dynamite guns ond the mortars don't
move. They aro already trainea on
the square booauso thoy nro at a groat
uncle. Tho shin passes into the
snuare. "Fire 1" ticks the telegraph.
With a crash that shakos the earth
flames burst from a dozon different
points and tho next iustaut a quarter
of a hundred projootiles fall on the
ship. Tho gnus drop back behind
their parapets and tho deafened,
powder-bloekenod men clean them
quickly and load aguiu. They havo
nothing else to do. Thoy cauuot tell
what effect their fire has had. Thoy
have seen nothing. Thoy cau hear
nothing uuloss shells lroiu the ships
fall on their gun pits and tear up the
earth above them, trying to get at
thorn.
This is no mere theory. It has
beeu proved iu praotioo that with the
accuracy now absolutely attained by
tho modern breech-loading, all-steel,
rifled cannon and tho all-veel, rifled
mortars, shot after shot can be dropped
into a space less than that oooupied by
a modern ocean steamship.
Tho mortars will bo placed in bat
teries of sixteeu, contesting of groups
of four, aud tho aggrogute weight of
the shells, if the sixteen be fired at
onee, would bo 10,000 pounds, besides
being filled with explosive charges.
At a test at a range of five and a
half miles, ten oonseoutive shots all
fell within a space 105 1-8 yards long
and 8 J yards wide, about tho same
space as that occupied by an ocean
steamship. Thus, if an entire mortar
battery, a twelvo-iuoh oud a ten-inch
gun, wore oil fired together (naturally
uot o likely cireuiustauoe) ) 1,801
pounds of steel would fall iu ono
square. No battle-ship afloat would
be oblo to withstand this terrific
assault. New York World.
Seeds 2000 years
tnuwu to sprout.
old havo baeu
ADVERTISE RIGHT ALONO.
When trndo Is flush, nnd with a rush
Tnrgo ordprs lo you pomp,
"You'll find It wise to advprtlsp,'
And kepp thlns on tho "hum."
Whentradol poor don't elosctho door
The rulp is still tho same :
'Vou'lt find It wise to advertise,"
And therpl'y win fresh fame.
Indeed 'tis Inn whato'er ; ou do,
This Ii tho safest plan,
"You'll lin I it wiso to advortlso"
For then yon load the van.
Henry Slorrill Warren.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
High society is often simply low so
ciety in fiuo raiment. Albany Argus.
St. Louis now having a depot, trains
will probably stop thero for way pas
sengers. Chicago Mail.
Teacher "What is discretion?"
Bad Boy "Oittin' over th' fence first
when ye call 'nother feller named."
Puck.
A soldier in summer camp making
love to a pretty girl shows the pleas
anter side of a court martial. Phila
delphia Times.
Tho Opposite: Jone3 (facetiously)
"Got a wife ot last, eh?" Smith (sol
emnly) "No, my wife got a husband
at last 1" Voguo.
Amy "How can I influence Charlie
to propose?" Mablo "Get some ono
to tell him you'd bo sure to reject
him." Detroit Free Press.
"It's nil np with mo," groaned Sky
lite as he sank on tho eighth stairway.-,
endeavoring to reach his flat after a
hard day's labor. Boston Courier,
Little drops of water
Hprinkle l Into Btoeki
Lmvo the gentlo lamhlet
Quito berjlt of rosks.
1'utladolp'jla Liff.
The reason why people who soo what
they think ore ghosts never grapplo
with them is that they know it is dan
gerous to hug a delusion. Boston
Transcript.
Love for the sea ia felt whon ono
leans over the rail of a ship, looking
out over the doop bluo ocean, feoliu
ready to givo up everything for it.
Texas Siftings.
"Thoy say Sphoftloy was badly hit
by that handsome Misa Phlirtom the
other night." "I'm not surprised. I
saw her throw her eyes at him several
times." Buffalo Courier.
Von Pelt "Aro yon a believer in
tho theory that ono should marry a
wifo his opposite iu tcmporamoni?"
Enpeo "Don't bother about that;
they 're all opposite enough." Puck,
I rnthcr think I'm gotting old
I feel It In my bons ;
Aud girls who called me Uncle Bo')
Mow call me Mister Jones I
Hurpor's Batsir.
A girl is perfectly justified in look
ing with suspicion ou a young man
who tries to convince her that diamond
rings are no longer fashionable for en
gagement purposes. Merchant Trav
eler.
Judge "You say your boy wai
kept ia the house nights and read
books. What books?" Father (of tho
youthful accused) " 'The Boy Ban
dits of Bomboy' series." Boston
Transcript.
"Conductor," said the weary oom.
mntor, "I wish yon would open this
window for mo." "Oh, yon do, d'j
you?" returned tho conductor. "Dj
you take me for a 'strong maa?'
Harper's Bazar.
Maude "Oh, he wrote mo a lovely
poem. It began, 'When you would
know why men go mad, go gazo into
your mirror' " Bertha "What bosh I
You're not so ugly as all that." Pear
son's Weekly.
Wifo "Tho doctor says I will gnia
ton or fifteen pounds if I go away for
a month. Cau't I go, dear?" Hus
band "Not muoh I Why, not ono of
vour gowns would fit you thou. "
Kew York Herald.
Wylio (talking over collego days)
"And whatever became of Duller, tha
ouly follow in tho class who was al
ways at the foot ?" Do Bigs-s "Pro
fessional ehlropo list, the last I heard."
Buffalo Courier.
Second Husband "You needn't
gTowl because I don't work. All your
first husband did wan t whittle."
Weary Wife "Yes; but I always
found onouh shaviuw after hi) got
through to build tho fire iu tho morn
ing." Syraonso Post.
"And w hat's your rcasou for increas
ing tho servaut's wages, pray?" her
friend asked. "Booauso my husband
couiplaiued tint ray dress nnd millin
ery bills oqualod tho household ex
penses, nnd I want to show they do
not." Fliogendo Bbtuttcr.
"Did you divide your apples with
Freddie?'1 Robbie "No; I give 'em
nil to him." "Did mama's generous
little boy enjoy seeing his friend eat
them moro thuu having them him
self V Robbie "Yea; mobbe he'll
get sick an' then I can borr.iw his bi
cycle." Chicago Iater-Oocau.
A Record Breakiu? Turtle,
A turtlo weighing between 803 ami
1000 pound, seven feet loug, six feet
wide and two feel laid:, was receutly
caught uonr Baltimore. The head wus
two feet in circumference, aud a man
could got his head iu the turtle's
mouth. Its 11m were as loug as a
man's urm and u foot v.-ida. It wai
ciught in a net, and hal to bo raised
out of tho uet nnd ou tl.o thoro with
a black aud tackle. It required fif
teen niiuutos nnd a crowd of uiou to
get tho turtle ou tho boat. When
tho monster was taken off tha tdeamer
it required six men t turn it on a
truck. It di.l ou ''to boat from in
juries received iu boiu hoi ted out of
the seine. The Maryland Academy of
Sciences will have tlio big bheil
mounted. Mew York Advertiser.