1 B. P. BOHWEIER, THE OONSTITUTION-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. Editor and Proprtur. VOL. XLVI. MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 23. 1S92. NO. 49 IF I HAD KNOWN. F HARRIETT PKE3COTT SPOrrORD. if ! t.1 ttiouRht so soon she woulrl have died, Ht- ail. I hail iMen tnd -rer tn my speech. 1 h.i't a moment lingered at her side And held her e er she passed Deyotdl my reach If 1 baa cuought so soon she would bare died. Tint day she looked u j wfih her startled eyes. I.Ike some hurt creature wKere the wood met ileep ; With km-s I had sllllei: Ihme breaking sleln, W Ith klses closed tho9e eyelids into sleep That Ujy she looked up with her startled eyes. uli, ha1 1 known he would bate died so soon Love had not wa-ted on a oarren land . l ovo, like those rivers under torrid noon. Lost on the desert, p uiril out on the saint. '.ill, had I known she would bare died so soon! A COSTLY EARTflQUAKE. It was at Havre, during; tbe height of the eeason; the low tide serial was fly luff aud the usual crowd ft meo that oue always sees the bathing hour had ranged tlietuselvds along the edge of 1 Hie wooden walk from the oluster of bath houses to the water's edge to see the fair huthers trip in. I had seen It all a bundrel times at lent aitd knew hi scene by heart. The fat women satiated me, the thin onei reielled uie, the sands of this pebbly beach were never intended to be sat mi comfortably, and I was about to retreat to the t hade J corridors of Fras caii's well-known hosts ry, when M. le mual, a tall, robust, well-preserved compatriot, whom I had first met at the table d'hote a week ago, ap proached and took a seat beside me. lie was alone and naturally I re marked, scanning the crowd of hads bobbing about on the waves be fore us: "Madame, I presume. Is In the bath, monsleurr"' "Yes," replied he, pointing her out to me; behold her!" She was stan ling ert now, tha waves leaving to view a charming head, A Leautilul head, I should have sai l rich black hair, soft dark eyes, red Iids and transparent skin In short, an ideal and piquant bim e te, so pretty that 1 could not help telling the husband of my admiration. 'But," said I, "she surely cannot be French, monsieur; she looks too much like a Spanlsu woman." "So," he answered, "she la neither the' one nor the other," and then, without further preamble or hesitation, he began, and told me the following story: "It wai a Summer evening In the year 187 ," said h, "and I was sitting on the veramla of a chaimlug dwelling In the outskirts of the city of Caracas. Before me st retched a perspective of beautifully kept lawn ami shaded walks, while farther along, among the shady trees, shone the silvery gleam of a tiny lake, and f.ir off iu the distance the dazzling white of the Caracas houses against a background of sun and sombre mountains. "Hut It was not at Nature's painliug that I was gazing at that moment. I did not need to search the landscape for beauties t j chartn the eye when at my elde was seated what seem el to me then and st'll for she is now my wife, sir the loveliest woman that 1 bad ever set eyes on. 'To describe to yon the ardor w'th which 1 regarded the lustre of the dark hair, the gentle depths of the black eyes, the scarlet curves of the smiling lips and sylph-ltke Dgure is slT-ply Impos sible. Suffice It that 1 appreciated them so thoroughly that I had just proposed to her though it took the courage of a Napoleon to do it and was waiting breathlessly to receive my an swer. "She liked me, I knew, her father also, and I bad been a great deal at their bouse; but liking Is not lore, and whether Nina oe Latore loved me or not, the cool friendliness of ber manner, so tantalizing to a lover who fears bis doom ahead, ha1 hitherto prevented my finding cut. "You know of course, sir,' pursued M. le Qual, diverging a moment from the line of bis story, "bow frequent earthquakes are in that part of South America, esp.iclilly In summer, when they occur almost daily. At the day I peak of, every since early morning, the ground bad been shivering inwardly, while froifl time to time a low, deep rumble could be beard, like the mutter of distant thundar. "Like every one else, however, who lived In Caracas, I bad grown accis tamed to and In a measure indifferent to these constant neismlc disturbances, but now, even In the absorbing ln;erest of the subject that filled my thoughts, I could not help noticing how greatly of late these quaking tremors bad iu- "In fact, I had hardly finished my lov. r 's ple., when a huge porcelain vase at the foot of the steps was jostled from Its pedes' al and shivered to atoms and at the same Instant I was thrown Tiolently to the floor of the ba'coay. With a ha.-te that great peril only in sp'res. I was on my feet again and turning to seek N.na to seize ber in my arms aud if possible to bear ber to place of safety. She was no longer beside me, and looking about roe, daz ed though I was, I could no longer see ber. "It was useless as well as madness to wait longer, and with difficulty keep ing my tooting on the rocking fljor I fled down the stagcering steps and from the dangerous neighborhood of the groaning house. To go far, how ever, on the tossing ground was impos sible; sick and dizzy, I was forced to my koee. The bouw behind me sway ed and swung from side to side; the chimneys cracked and toppled down on the roof; whole planks wrenobed by the strain, burst from their fastenings, leaving great boles In the walls; the stairs writhed and fell apart; the beams slid from their supports and crashed to the earth in a debi U of wrecked wood, glass, trie) s and plaster. "In less than a moment, it seems to me. the beautiful vl.U of an hour ago. was nduced to a heap ot dost and broken rni'blsh. All th s happened in less time than it takes to tell it, but a still more terrible seer. a remained to be enacted, for all of a sudden, with a re port like musketry the earth cracked open and the ruins were swallowed up In its depths. "At the st rue Instant there was a scream behind me in Nina's voice. 1 turne I, but altfl only in time to 369 the earth optn again where she lay and engulf my beloved as the ruins bad been. " 'God have mercv upon us!' I cried, aud sought on hands and knees to fight wy way towards tbe crevice that I be lieved had swallowed her, but now on every side great rents were coming and going, nearer and nearer each time to where 1 crouched, reckless and paralyz ed with desoalr, and then, before I bad time to realize the honor of It, and vita only a momentary vision of dense blackness before my eyea, I too was engulfed in the eartnl" AI. le 'Jnal paused to wipe bis damp brow, beaJeJ with sweat at the mie recollection of that hideous moment. "Monsieur," resumed he, presently, when he bad some a hat conquered his emotion, "if ever you have dreamed that you were buried alive, thea you have had a foretaste of tha leel'ug w ith which I once recovered consciousness. No hell could have been blacker than t"ie place where, on regaining my sense, I found myself, prone on my back, o crack or cranny permitted entrance to a single ray or G id's blessed light, an I to know the fuil torture o? eternal darkness you have only once to experi ence it. Tue deadly silence, too, of the 5lace was awrul; my breathlug sounded to me like tht hissing of a furnace. I could p'ainlv see my heart beat, and even, it seemed to m the blood surge through my veins. "When I tried to move, sharp pains shot through my whole body, but 1 soon found, to my joy, that I was oniy bruise i and no bones broken. Qjd knows why I was not killed, for tue floor of my p isou was of solid rock. "How lar ha 1 I ttllen? Wit! an ef fort, I diagged mys-lf to my feet, and tiklug a trinket hang to my watch chain, I hurled it with all my strength up into the darkness. It struck, but not before its foica was nearly spent. The last bope left me I was buried alive In a pit a pit more than a hun dred feet deep "Overcome by the anguish of my thoughts and the oppress'on of the pitchy darkness, I sank again to the ground and gave myself up to utter de pair. "After a while, an eternity in length , I determined to explore the extent of the cavern into which fate had plunged me and which was des'ined to be my grave. Perhaps, too, a sound that for a little while past had been gralually becoming audible to me had something to do with rousljg me to action. "This noise came from a distance, and to my heated fancy and sensitive ears, sounded like the wheezing of a subter ranein bellows. I cautiously moved forward and found the ground seemed to slope towards lb point whence the noise came; "Walkin? on slowly, with out stretched hand, groping, yoa may say, H was not very long before I struck against a wall of rock. Re rating my way, I came against another, equtlly solid. '"I am swallowed In a cleftl' thought I, shudderlngly, 'high, narrow, burrowing deeper and dpoper witii every Inch and leading Qjd knows where! to the bowels of the earth, perhaps!' Crushad by this discovery, for awhile I was powerless to advance a step, but then, as I had nothing to lose, I determined to make an effort to press on and leave no stone unturned that might set me at liberty. Creeping l'Ule by little down the stony gorge, I was at lust close to the point whence thosa panning puffs came. My heart beat line a hammer. . " 'It is a precipice,' I thought, 'and the wheezing sound the wind In its depths. Better be k'lled outr'ght than die a slow death of starvation "And I put out my foot expecting to encounter only space. lustead I stumbled over something soft and fell forward. Blindly 1 felt abiut me and my hand touched something warm a human faoe! "I felt again, running mv baud along tbe body as the blind explore, and made out a dres I Like a flash it dawned upon me. 'Kin, Nina'.' I cried aljud, my voice rolling and re verberating like the voice of a thou sand. ".She was not dead, either, for it was the sound of her breathing that I had taken for a wind la the subterranean depths or the smothered rushing of. a volcanic stream. I caught her hands 1 chafdd them In mine but It is use less, monsieur, to go over again those dragging moments ot agony when I workel over the half-dead body of my love, or those moments of mingled joy and tort ure when her returning con sciousness had to struggle with the fearful reality. "I told her as well as I could where we were anJ how we bad come there. To her piteous pleas fsreomfort I could only respond with a sorrowful silence or an equally piteous entreaty to her to be hopeful. "At that moment, sir bow strangely does the aspect of tbiags change as the wheel of life goesl we would both of ns have given tfn years of our lives to hve escaped from our living tomb. Now 1, at least, would not have es caped that experience. 1 should then never have known those bitter-sweet boars when my love and I, buried together and with death staring ns in the face, were arawn together by the strongest tie hurnmity knows the bonds of a common adversity. "Whei at last, on my pemaasion, Nina sought to move, she fell back helpless with a loud cry of pain; she had sitrainel ber ankle and could not stir without agony. Nothing could be done but to lie there where she had fallen. "How long we rem lined thus I d net know. - II anger and thirst came in' time, two new troubles added to the rest. Though we could not lose our selves In sleep, still our minds were tortured with waking dreams, horrible to think of now. The strain, In truth, was so hideously cruel, that X'na, at times, grew delirio is, tassel and writhed regardless of the pain she gave herself aud filled the darkness with her heartrending cries. "Then again peace would return and she would cling to my hand for human companionship slmplv to feel that some one was Bear. As 1 say, how long this lasted, I do not know, but, suddenly, after an eternal torture, a shiver struck brusquely through walls and floor, fol lowed by another and still anotbe-, accompanied at first by a faint rumble that died away in the echoing b jwels of the earth. "But soon the rumble grew to a roar, the roar to thunder. The noi?e was deafening. The rocky ground heaved like the ocean. It was my turn now to lose my reason. I knew not what I did, tut Nina tells me that I seized her' In my arms, that in a frenzy of desDairing love I covered her face, her bauds with kisses, crying aloud wildly: " 'If die we must, Nina, we can at least die togetberl You ate mine, trine forever low I Not even death Itself can pait us!" "Proportlnately as I lost my senses Nina baame cairn, besought me to re gain my composure and pleaded with me to think only of tbe next world 30 near- . "But heaven ordered otherwise. In the midst of the tumultuous tossing of the earth the roof or our carera sud- dtnrj split in twain, Uttln la to Wind- in? a glare of light that even with our eyes closed our eyeballs felt as if pierced witn red-hot Vn;ves. E.ther this was the signal for q'liet again or tbe dying throe of tbe giant chained in those rock-ribbed vitals the rumbling died away, tne sicken' ng quaking ceased. " W hen we at bust dared to open our eyes and look at each other we found ourselves in a riftot comparatively shallow depth. The second earthquake had 1 e?n our savior an 1 forced up the bed of the sult-rrauean gorge that im prisoned us perhaps eighty teet,''. "But how did you get out then?" cried I, shiveriug with interest, as if I myself had been the vlctin of this ter rible catastrophe. "With no troutde at all, mousteur," Mine, le Q lal responded, who had long since come fro.n the water and now ad vanced from the shelter of her bath bouse, "the Caracas people drew us out with ropes, yoa know. They bad run, as usual, to the earthquake ground to give what belpthey could, anl the rest was easy." "My poor little girl!" murmured ber husband ten terly, as he tliew her to his side, "you speak of It lightly, but iiit earthquake Cost you dearly home and father at a blow, v. ith only a husband to balance the l ss." "Exactly," she answered, laughing lightly aud pulling him to his f.-et with the roguish abandon of a happy child, "a husband too infatuated to mind the fact that owing to that selr-same earthquake his goddS limps!" ' SPAIN'S NEW MINISTER. ' leoor Henry Uupuy de Lome aad His Lone Dlplomatlo Career, Henry Dupuy de Lome, the new Spanish Minister to this country, comes of a distinguished ancestry, and has already, at the age of 41, achieved a renowned reputation. His family Is French, bis ancestry dating back to Hugo Raimundo Dupuy, who served with Godefsoy de Bouillon, and one mm V DUPLY l)B LOM1 of whose many estates wlis that of L'Ome, which was ndded to the family name. Senordc? Lome studied In the famous co'irgiof Barcelona, and subsequently pursued the study of law. Entering a diplomatic career, he was employed the Spanish State Department Inl8'j9, and in 1872 was made third secretary in tbe Ministry of State. In the following year he was attached to the Spanish legation In Japan; In 1373 was sent to Bros sels; In 1877 became Secretary of Legation at Montevideo; In lw0 was advanced to the .Secretaryship of Legation at Buenos Ay res, and was for a time charge d'affaires. In June, 1831, he became Secretary of Legation at Tarla, and in October of the year following became First Secretary of Legation in Washington. At the time or the suicide of the minister, Senor Barcft, he was charge d'affaires, and his services were largely appreciated in connection with the adjustment of the filibuster troubles. In 1894 he was transferred to Berlin a.) First Secretary; in 1SS6 he was the Spanish delegate to the International CcDgrees for the consideration of commerc'al questions of importance. In the same year he became the rep resentative of Spain In Montevideo, where his services commanded wide commendation. After serving for a time as chief of the section of com merce and consulates in the Spanish Ministry he has now been made Min ister at Washington. Thus be has for twenty years been continuously engaged in the diplomatic service 0 his country. WOKB.Y IN A GIRL'S LIFE. Truly, the first necessity now is to teach a girl to approach her work, physical or rrcntal, in a moral, healthy way to accomplish what she has to do naturally, usiq ODiy the force re quired to gain her point; not worrying all the time she studies for fear tbe les son will not be learned; not feeling rushed from morning to night for feur her work will not lie done; Dot going abont with a bnrden of unnecessary J anxiety, a morbid fear of her teachers, and a general atmuae toward me which means strain, and constant strain. A glance forward intensities tbe gravity of the case. Such habits, once developed in a girl who is fitting herself to tench, are strongly felt by her pupils when she takes tbe position of a teacher. The nervons strain is reflected lack and forth from teacher to pnpil, aud is thus forcing itself on the notice of others, and proving day by day more clearly what is the great est physical need. Tnose who have observed this ten dency are wont to say, "Give the girls plenty of exercise, plenty of fresh air; see that they sleep aud eat well, and this greatest need will be supplied without thought." If the unhealthy condition we have noted was just making its ap pearance, the remedy would be suffi cient. Avit is, such a remedy suffices in a few cases, in most CHses partially, bat in some not at all. Tbe habit has stood sow through too many gener ations to be overcome without a dis tinct recognition of the loss of power, and a strong realization of the need of regaining this power. In-teed, so great ahold on tbe commnnity has this want of quiet and easy activity in study and in play, that it is not rare to find yoong girls who belie vo the abnor mal to be tbe mtural life, and tbe other unnatural. An one girl told me once, in perfect good faith, "I keep well on eieitenarut, but it tires me ter ribly to carry a pitcher of water np stairs." This I know is an extreme instance, and yet not so uncommon a? I wish it were. .4. P. Call. ' Some Interesting experiments In submarine lighting have ben made at Toulon, France. An electric lump was lowered in the roadstetd, and illumin ated tbe sea-bed unl the wa'r around It to a distance of more than I DO feet. ' ' ; ABOUT RED HAIR. It Has Loin Been Held In U-Bepute, an M Indicating1 VUlalny. For cetfLorles the popular notions throughout Europe associated hair of this unlucky color with villainy, un tjutworthiness and deceit. In Henry Rebel's "Collection of Proverbs," pub lished In 1512, occurs the following: "Proud arc the short, untrustworthy the red-haired." An old French proverb, which Is known to be over live hundred years old, says: "Salute a red-haired man or a bearded woman at thirty feet off with thiee stones in thy fists to de fend thee if ueed be." In very early times all pictures ok Judas, Christ's betrayer, were shown with great shocks of red hair falling down well ou the shoulders. This and the fact that tbe Judas in the "Miracle Plays" was provided with a red hirsute worked the superstitious people of the middle ages up to such a degree that It was actually unsafe for a red-hal eJ person to appear In company. Seeing that things were comiDg to a serious pa?8, writers of all classes began to rebuke and de nounce "the senseless prejudice against those of lively colored hair." Cyrano de Bergerac, in his "States and ilmp.res of the Sun," boldly praised and glorified the despised color in the following words: "A brave head, covered with red hair, is nothing else but the sun in the midst of his rays, yet many speak i'l of it because few have the honor to be so. " The adjective, "Judas-colored hair,' anl many similar allusions are often met with in writings of the older authors. In "As You Like It," Rosalind 6ays of Orlando, "His very hair is of that dissembling color,"" to which Celia replies, "Something browner than Judas'." Dryden in wrltiug of Jacob Ton son, a publisher w hom he thoroughly despised, says: He has leering looks, bull-faced aud freck led (air. Two left legs aud Judns-colored hair. Hundreds of other citations to thlb popular prejudice could be given, but the above are sufficient to prove that the red-haired person's position was not an enviable one In the year? t'one by, Republic. No SUrer Wanted. A gentleman who last winter vis isted iu the Seuth relates that upon one occasion he went with some friends to a colored service. At tlu close of the sermon a contribution was taken up, and as the plate wa passed to him he dropjied Into it a half dollar, meaning this to do foi the whole party. The colored deacon who was passing the plate regarded it an instant with a stupefied air, and then said, in a hoarse whisper; "Take out dat ar silberl" "I-iti't it enough?" the gcntlemsu asked, much amused. "Lor' bless ye," responded the dea con, "we don't put silver inter dis yei plate. Dat old nigger preacher get so puffed up dat we uns couldn't libe wid him noway." The argument was too convincing to he resisted, especially as by this time the whole congregation wer watching the colloiuy between the deacon and the stranger, and the gen tleman hastily exchanged a handful of pennies for the silver piece. Tht deacon passed on, smiling, with the air of a man who had skilfully brought the church bark past a dan gerous rapid, while the visitors ex changed secret glances indicative rather of amusement than devotbn. The Laughing riant. A curious plant grows in Arab'., .called the laughing plant. It is ol moderate size, with bright yellow flowers and soft, velvety seed pods, each of which contiins two or three seeds, resembling black beans. The natives frequently dry the seeds and reduce them to powder. It Is said that a dose of this powder produces a similar effect to that of laughing gas. It causes the most sober person to dance, shout and laugh in an ex tremely boisterous manner, and to run about doing the most ridicu lous things for an interval of half an hour or more. "As the effects of the powder wear off," says the World's Progress, "exhaustion sets in, and the person falls into a deep sleep. When he awakes several hours later, he has not the slightest recollection of anything he did while under the influence of The drug." the Did Mot Forget. Everybody is famllar with the sto ry of Queen Victoria and the old peasant women with tile umbrella. Ex-Mayor Smith of Philadelphia, had an experience of somewhat similai nature with the conditions reversed. He loaned his umbrella to an old wman on crutches who was hobbling along in the rain, and a friend witli him at the time intimated that the parachute was as good as lost, but Col. Smith expressed his faith In her henesty. A 6hort time ago the aged borrow er received a heavy award from the spoliation claims committee, and her first act was to send the ex Mayor a magnificent gold-headed silk umbrella. New York World. The Word "Fur." "Fur" is a word well understood and so is "father." Outwardly ob served there is very litt'e in common between them. Inwardly considered they are related closelv both mean ing protect-on both from the Aryan root-word pa, to protect, V) feed, tc cherish. Th -ought its paternity fur has many sister words, such ss posse, hospital, hotel, fodder, papa, pope, despot, panic, pantry, palace, pastor, potent, and many more. A slight knowledge of letter changes that ttouie from varying pronunciation in different languages makes the rela tionship perfectly clear. Davenport Democrat-Gazette. A novel case of poisoning haJ Imh-h i-eporled In one of the Ki-rlin host ilal A common n etal thimble, which wi found to have small spots of verdigris inside, caused the poisoning through a small scratch on the end of the linger. Near the summit of the Ca3ctde range, east of Roseburg, Orgon, were recently found porphyry baul lers that so closely resembled watermelon in ilse, shape and color that it. would pazzle tin expert to tell tha difference without putting hit bands on them. LIGHT TO THE BLIND.' HOW THEY ARE TAUGHT TC READ IN JOWA. Hooks and Msps Through Whieh They Ac quire Knowledge Quick or Perception, They Make Excellent Musicians and Are Handy at Fane; Work. An Interesting Institution. s Vinton is the seat of the Iowa College for the Blind, a most inter esting institution supported by the Mate. During a recent visit to it the writer learned many things per taining to its management, and the class of afflicted people whom it is in wided to aid and educate. The Iowa school was opened April 4, 153, at Iowa City. In August, J3ti2, it was removed to its present site. The ttrst principal, through whose exertions the institution was founded, was Samuel Baton, a blind man, graduate of the institution at Columbus, Ohio. The school is sup ported by three classes of appropria tions: First, $10,000 per annum for salaries of ollicers and teachers; sec find, $40 per quarter for each pupil enrolled this is called the current, expense or living fund; third, special appropriations for furniture, building purposes, etc. Students from other States and Territories may be admitted on payment of $218 yearly. The law ' states in sub stance that every blind person of school age and every person of age with sight so defective that he can not obtain an education in the public schools is entitled to Instruction in the college for the blind. This liber ality admits three classes of pupil COLLEGE FOR First, the blind; second, the partial blind, or those who would not attend the public schools under any con sideration; third. th defective sight td, or tho- whose vision, is almost normal, but who would become blind by the visual strain necessary in schools for the sighted. The law also states that the township secretaries shall report to their county superin tendents the names of all blind per sons in their respective townships, and that the county superintendents shall report such names to the prin cipal of the college for the blind. Theoretically the law is perfect; pra ticaily it is of very little value. Not 10 per cent, of the young blind are reported to the college through this channel. Six trustees, appointed for a term of four years by the Legis lature of the State, have entire con trol of the institution. They appoint the principal and other officers and are responsible to the Legislature. Tbe grounds surrounding the school comprise forty acres; twenty In pasture, ten In meadow and ten reserved for play aDd ornamental grounds. No more healthy or agree able location can be found in Iowa. The college building is about three hundred feet long by fifty wide. It Is four stories in height, heated by steam and reasonably well adapted for Its office. It is built of stone, roofed with slate, supplied in every part with hot and cold water and con tains large, airy halls and rooms. Four iron stairways lead fTbrn top to bottom, giving outlet to every part of the building. Provisions against fire are so complete that the whole house could !e flooded in a few min utes A watchman visits all parts of the institution every hour during the night. . The school was established In or der that the citizens of the Svate might have for their blind children the same advantages afforded by the public schools. It is supported by tax, as the public schools are sup ported by tax. It is in fact a public boarding school, and is not and never can be a college, as its name indicates. Age for admission is not limited. Children of 6 years are here, and adults of any age may be admitted to the shops. The question which takes precedence of all others relating to candidates for admission is: Can the College for the Blind be of benefit to the applicant? The main character istic of the school is coeducation of the blind and sighted. The present enrollment is 1S4. Of this number 36 ber cent, are blind, 51 per cent, are partially blind and 13 per cent, have defective sight. Blind and sighted are educated together in per fect harmony with the best results Damp Walls. A wall that is inclined to be damp may be made impervious to moisture by applying a varnish of one part shellac to two of naphtha. Thedi; agreeable odor soon departs, and it Is ready to be papered as soon as dry. Churning. It Is now conceded by experts In dairy matters that from twenty to forty minutes, churning produces the best results In butter both for quan tity and quality. A spray of pure o'l of turpentine, mixed with one per cect of lavender oil. Is said to have an astonishing effect In purirying the air of living rooms.thq action being attributed to the ozar 'ormed. The Central Pacific Railroad has son? monster engines in n3e on the western end of Its route those made at the Sacramento shops In 1883. Each ot these gigantic locomotives weighs, exclusive of tender, 123,000 pounds, CHINESE LAUNDRY MYSTERIES. 4m Man AppearAAbl to Do Anf Con. reliable Amount t Work. "Curious things about Chinese laun dries the Chinese laundry, whether the working force is one or many, re fuse no work, t.ad it is always finished at the time specified." This remark was made by a well-known club man during a conversation with some friends a few weeks ago when the conversation had drifted to shirts. There were some fifteen gentlemen present, according to the New York World, and some one of the party suggested that it would be good fun for the crowd- to look up all their laundry for- that week, personally descend one at a-time on some soli tary Celestial and engulf him with custom unexpected. A solitary Chinese laundryman wai nard to find. But after some search there was found In a basement one who sprinkled clothes through his teeth. All that day a long line of customers dropped down and in, each loaded down with his washing for the week. It could be seen that tbe exile from the Flowery Kingdom had already a very large business connection in the neighborhood. But he said no word at tbe influx of new custom, but took the packages one by one, tore bis paper checks in two, handed a half to the customer and blandly re marked, "Slateday," and resumed his Ironing. He seemed unconscious of the fact that the place was crowded 0 that moving around was difficult with tire accumulation of new work. And promptly Saturday afternoon It was ail done. A watch had been set upon the place, and though the t 9 THE BLIND. gaslight gleamed day and night Until the week's end, no other hand save his own had rubbed a wristband or polished a collar. And the clubman said, "I told you so." and took the dinner that a friend was foolish enough to bet the other way. But there is another curious fact about the sa-ne class of citizens. No matter how many Chinamen are at work in the laundry they never seem engaged in anything save Ironing. No mortal eye has e'er beheld a Chi naman over the tub in the beginning, or tying up the neat packages of snowy linen at the end, and yet the work Is always finished at tbe time stated, nothing missing and neatly done, and every one of them is iron ng still. The American laundry boasts ot steam washers that washr 100 dozen pieces at a time, rotating machines to dry. starching machines to starch, and ironing machines to iron. Many people believe that the Chinaman does not believe in machinery, that be scorns its use. But such is not tbe case. Chinese laundrymeu can not get laundry machinery for either love, or money. Each piece sold is with the solemn promise that it shall not fall into the hands of the Chinese "ompetltor. The American laundry Journals ind there are five or six of them keep up the crusade. The Chinaman is quick enough to see the advautage Improved machinery would give him, but there is n& Chinese laundry In all this land that has as much as a starch machine, save one solitary exception, duly chronicled in the laundry trade capers. A Chinamen on Nineteenth street, near Third avenue, Birmingham, Ala., has an old-style collar and cuff. Iron, the motive power of which is jupplied by an aged but muscular negro, who industriously turns the handle, while the almond-eyed pro prietor of the place gazes at the work ings of the gas-heated rollers with complacent pride. For he Is the oniy Chinaman in this country, so far as known, who has a machine to assist hiin in his work. Where he got it is 1 mysteiy the laundry papers are still trying to solve. In Book Binding. Yet another application has beet, found for metal, which is now being ubtituted for cardboard In book tlnding. " This novelty is known as the "British Pellisfort" binding, and it consists In the use of thin sheet tnetal for covers. The metal Is spe :iaily prepared, and the cover may be bent and straightened again without perceptible damage. The metal is, f course, covered with the leather usually employed in book binding, md the finished book presents no iifference in appearance e atept in the greater thiuness of the cover. Automatic Seattle. An ingenious man has Invented atk lutomatic coalscuttle, which, on the pressure ot a pedal, shoots a lump of :oal Into the fire. Fence. All wire fences are made visible to tock by attaching scrap tin to tha lop wire. A good use for waste product. There are men with natures si. small that, if there It anything la transmigration, they will probably; appear as microbes. Doctors' bills are often tared by. reading advertisements. Try it. Read the announcements of advertisers up. on each tge of this paper, .-.t ! HUMOROUS SELECTIONS, i GATHERED BY OUR PATENTED REAPER. okee of Preachers. Lawyers. foetors, and Editors Some of Them Very Dry and Others Somewhat Joioy They Will A 11 Digestion tr Perused .After Meals Do Not Read Thens L'pon m fetkupt Btomsoa, Diamond Cut Diamond, She Are you reallv engaged tc her His Lordship Yaas. I tried to make ner think lwas proposing with out really proposing, don't vou know just to find out what she'd say. She What did she say? nis Lordship Funny thing b Jove she made me think I was pro posing. Life. This Is Success in Traveling. Friend Did you enjoy your sojourn In Europe? Eelic Hunter Enjoy it? I should say so. I cut some gold fringe frqm the emperor's throne in Berlin, hooked a door-knob from the Vatican, broke an ear off an old statue In Italj and chipped off a piece of Shakes peare's tomb. I wouldn't take tl,000 for 'em. Puck. Too Cnanlmoas. Husband Your Jealovsy of thai woman is wholly unreasonable. haven't seen her for a month. Wife I happen to know that you write to her every day though. Husband Humph! I'm merely de clining her invitations. Judge. Rastus What yo' doin- now, Claude? Claude I'se runnln' a coal bu si less. Kastus Wholesale or retail? Claude Bofe. Some gits it by do quart, an' some by de peck! Truth. Not Very Flattering. Duruley Miss Ethel paid me such a ridiculous compliment, dontcher Itnow. Miss Sweet Indeed! What did sht say? Dumley That Homer could not have seen a more heroic figure than myself. Miss Sweet That's so. Homer wat Mind. Judge. Spirited Fishing. Little Girl Papa, what's In those bottles? Papa That's the bait Little Girl Well, don't they have trouble to keep the bait on their hooks? Papa No, The trouble is to keej. their hooka off the bait Smith, Gray &Co.'s Monthly. An Attack ot Conscience, Coal Dealer We'll have to stoD mixing slate and 3 -ones and old iron Mid things with our coal. Yardman Phwat's the matter, or? Coal Dealer The stuff won't burn, nd one ton lasts a customer all winter. New York Weekly. Exactly tho Beversa. Clubsou Is Spongely much given to drink? Treatly Quite the reverse. Clubson WhatI a total abstainer? Treatly No; much drink is given o Spongely. Puck. Sold. Bangs What is the matter with your face? Fangs Oh. I got into a scrar. Bangs Who did it? Fangs The barber. Exchange, A Serious Offense. Justice (in surprise) What's the charge, officer? McGlathery (new member ot tha force) Fer reslstln' an officer, yer Anner. Ot troied t' flirt wid her all th' way from Twinty-sicond Strate down to Union Square an' she resisted nie ivery attintion. Puck- Ho Place lor Her. Deck-Hand You're on the wrong side of the ferryboat, this Is tne 'men's cabin." Mra Maloney An'tbat'sthe "wim mln's" over there. Where do the ladies be after going? Life. It Affected Both Alike. Miss Bleecker We have had such a Ion walk, I almost gave out Miss Emerson (of Boston) I, too, f approached tbe verge of making an external presentation. Judge. A wKLi.-Btxows divine, in his wise old age, once took a newly married pair aside and said: "I want to give I you tbls advice, my children don't try to be bappy. Happiness Is a shy 1 nymph, and if you chase her you will never cath her, but just go quietly ou.and do yonr duty, and she w.l come to you." As late as 1773 women rode" astride. ii tffS I'A BlilEF. A Pullman coach costs 130.000. England has a 125 year-old grape vine. The helmet ot Richard L wetghea 5 pounds. Th" pulley-drawn cross-bow had a rai'ge of forty rods. rrov ctlng enilnes were first In vented by the GreeKS. Mixed ch iin an l rVe armor wa used from 1:500 t 14o0. lAtna en bla ls were famous all over the world B. O 500. The Chinese Holy Land Is India, the iia'ive lau.l of Bud .h. An Iii'li ;i p, ll-i man has Invented a process for "aging." violin?. Tl:e first cllver coin w is made by Plndon. King of Anus, 69 B. C. Gold mines about Nevada City are the deepest and richest In the world. m Daniel W.iser, of Pottslowo, Penn., to win a wager, ate a dozen angle worms. Cross-lowmen were always attend ed by shield bearer-', who proteo.ed them in actiou. Married couples in Norway are privileged to ride ou rai roads at a fara and a half. The Greek and Raman ships ot largest slzs hat two towers tilled with arcners and catapaults. The linen manufactured yearly In England could be wrap, ed round the aith seven times. Gas was Gr?t made from C3al by Clayton Ii 17S9 and first used for 11 'umination in 1792. An old man iu St. Louis, who had been hiccoughing at half-minute Inter vals for two days, wes stopped by hypnotism. At a public entertaiiment In Paris a young man was hypnotized. Two days elapsed before be was restored to riontciousness, la EnJicott's day in Salem, Mas., an oflender was sentenced to have hU long hair slictd from his head. The Chinese, Japanese, Malays, Siamese, JNtw Zeilauders and North American Indian are all but beard- IfcSB. There are only two congregations of Ai meuians n this country one at Worcf-ster, Ma.NS., and tne other at boboken, N. J. A 300-pound sea bass was caught the other day in Sin D'.ego, Cal., Bay. It took four men to get the fish into a oat. Death by the sword Is inflicted it China, Turkey and ltj-oia. Decapita tion by li'oc-k and ai", is the death penalty in Brunswick, Germany. .Among 20 i.OOO.OOJ of the world 'a population lavery 91 ill exists. John F. S - .ne of De lham Centre, M iss., has a bor-e that ihsws tobacco. Wneu its driver t.tKes a cue the ani 'ual wauli oue also. No bird can fly backward without turning. The diagon fly, however, can lo this, and can outstrip the swallow n spied. Allen Milton Browning, or Hunt ingdon, W. "Va , has been married six time?, tins l.een the father of slxty seven children and is now only 63 years old. There is a suifice of COOO acres it Silesia, PiUssih, winch is usually dry, but which eveiy thirty years Oils with water in same uukuswn way and be comes a lake. The prefix "O" b9rore so many names of IrUh leaders is an abbrevia t on ot the word ogtia. meaning grand child. O'Connor, therefore, means grandchild of Connor. Bees are said to hava such an an tipathy to dark colored objects tbat black chickens hive teo stung to death, wh.le white ones of tbe sama brood were untouched. As a result of the widespread u-' or macaroni in Italy, tbe peaants of that counti y consume more flour than than the peasants of any other land. A flume forty-five miles long is to be constructed from the headw aters of tbe ban Juan river to IVliasky, a station on the Mountain Railroad, near t'resoo. Cab Brass pins have been In use fot nearly eleven huidred yens. Tbey were fi-gt imported iuto England by Catherine of Aragon, the wife ot Uenry VIIL In one of tbe Canary islands then is a tree or the Inure! lamily that rains down occiish-nary In the early morn ing quite a copious slower ot tears ot water from its tutte 1 foil -ge. The longe-t pontoon bridge evet built was C"Hstructeil by Company F. FUU-eiith New Votk V!U'it-r. across the ChlCKhh' mlny, when McClellao withdrew from llarr's in Lauding. Even to this day certain co r.munl tles ot Budil'nst? and Mohammedans pray by l tie hour be.'i.re their favorite plant or (lower. 1 1 I:i li t tliis species of worship Stems to be mjst preva lent. The First Maine heavy artl'lery regv iment loa mi re men killed and died Of wounds than any other Federal regi ment duri'ig the war, tbe percentage being 18 7. The Second Wisconsin came nt-x , wltu 17 per cent., ai d tbe One buntlre'l anil fortieth Pennsylvania next with 10 4 per te t. Mrs. John A. Lou an- has undertaken to raise one mil ion dollars lrom the women of the United States for the American University, the National in stitution iounded bv tbe Methodists of Wtmhjngton. Mrs. Logan's plan is to organize the ouien lato State, con f resMonal, district and local leagues, these leagues to co r .entte with ber in raising the money to aid in this (treat ei'terpnt-e. Women students will be admitted to all the privileges of the tn'veuty on equal terms with men. A boiling tea-lceit e does its beat to whistle like a steam eniiue. a New Yor.K dentist has te;n sued for pulling the wrong tooth, and, what Is more, the patient refuses to pay for. the molar which was ex tracted, though th'? job was well and speedily d-ne. Dentists must arrange e pull with the courts. TrtE advocates of cremation ary, taking adrant;ige of the cholera pi gue where it exists, and the scare where the scourge is drculed, to urge their method of disposingof the dead because of the thoroughness with which It destroys disease germs ot very kind, - - J , S
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