THE MARGE'S MARVELOUS DOABLE TURRET.
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During the recent sea test of the new United States battleship Kear
sarge, the purely American device of two-story turrets was first put to the
service tiring test with remarkable success. The figures given of the tre
mendous shooting power of this magnificent engiue of destruction are almost
inconceivable. The Kearsarge is now the most powerful warship in the
world. At a single broadside the guns of the ship threw a mass of ohilled
eteel from the rifles of her main battery aggregating 5750 pounds, with a
muzzle energy of foot tons. At each discharge of the four guns in the
double turrets 2700 pounds of projectiles were thrown out with a velocity of
3100 feet n second. The two twin turrets, one fore and the other aft, each
contain a pair of 8-inch rifles superimposed upon a pair of 13-inch guns. In
•casemate protection between these turrets are fourteen 5-inch rapid-fire
rifles, of which seven nre in each broadside.
iNewYork's
Rapid fraqsit System Zt
T Oreatest of City Tunnels.
Three years from now New York's
great underground rapid transit trunk
line will stand completed. From the
Postollice at Broadway and Barclay
street a New Yorker will go home to
dinner under Broadway, under Elm
street, under the Boulevard to Harlem
in fifteen minutes.
This will bo the "maiu line" of the
tiew rapid system. But this is not all.
From the "main line" another tun-
Haw THK OPERATION OF "TURNING THE
AK.JI" WILI4 HE CONDUCTED ON
BROADWAY.
nel road will branch oft' at Ninety
sixth street nad run across to the East
Hide and under the Harlem River to
Bronx Park.
Still another brauch road will start
from the main line at the Postoffice,
run under the East River and out into
the far suburbs of Brooklyn. The
maiu trunk line and the Bronx
division will cost $35,000,000 and will
bo built at once. The Brooklyn branch
roads will follow in time. It is the
greatest engineering feat of tho be
ginning of the new centuty.
The method of building tho new
line is interesting not only because of
These stations will be on either side
of the street, as in the case of the
present elevated stations, only passen
gers will go downstairs instead of up
to take tho trains. The passageways
leading down will be walled with white
enamel brick, and lighted by electricity
until it is almost as bright as day.
At the Chamber street station, where
TRANS-SECTION OF TUNNEL CYI.JNDER4 UNDER THE RIVER.
(he four-track system of express and
local tracks begins will be a commo
dious aad well arranged station. To
board a local train uptown ono will
Uko u car on the outer track. To take
tbe distance it traverses anil the fact
that it runs beneath crowded city
streets, but because it will include in
one part or another of its course al
most every form of underground
work. Although popularly known as
a tunnel, it will be constructed as a
tunnel proper through only a small
portion of its extent, and for another
small distance it will be a viaduct or
elevated structure. Throughout the
OBEAT TERMING
greater part of its coarse, however,
the new road will be built in an open
trench, which afterward will be covered
over and will form ft subway. Be
tween City Hall Park aud Kings
bridge and Bronx Park—the three
termini of the line—almost every form
of soil will be encountered. Sand
aud silt, mud aud water, coarse gravel
and solid rock must be removed.
Sewers, gas and electric mains and
street car tracks must be moved into
new positions, and the work must go
on with as little interruption to Ptreet
traffic as possible. Thus, it will be
seen, the problem before the contract
or is a complex one and the various
portions of it must be met with vari
ous solutions.
The accompanying illustrations will
give a precise notion of the relative
position of the tunnels to the streets
and rivers when completed. From the
City Hall, where the "underground"
will have its southern terminus iu a
great loop about the Postoffice, four
tracks will be laid directly under
Broadway, thus following the great
artery of business traffic north toward
the West Side suburb at Kings bridge,
while a branch from Ninety-sixth
street will extend under the Harlem
B.iver to tbe Bronx Park region. Theso
sections will thus be brought within
twenty or tweuty-flve minutes' ride to
the City Hall by express train. The
two central tracks are to be devoted
TRANS-SECTION OP FOUR-TRACK TUNNEL UNDER BROADWAY.
to through express trains, the outer
ones to local traffic. Stations will
occur at about the same frequency as
those of the present elevated railroad.
The entrances will bo at the level of
JOIIN B. M'DONALD,
the street, consisting of neat iron aud
bronze framework, with glass roofs
covering the descending stairways,
an express train passengers will go
along an intermediate gallery, which
passes over tho out(-r local track, de
scending to the express tracks, which
are in the middle.
Eloctricity is to be the motive force
on the now proved and practical
"third-rail" plan. At frequent inter
vals ventilating flues are to be con
structed with powerful electric fans
to preserve a circulation of air. Later
on a branch tunnel is togo under
East River and ramify through the
great Borough of Brooklyn. One of
the most interesting and peculiar
parts of the underground system will
be where the East Side section will
go under the Harlem Biver. The
tracks will divide here and each will
go under the water in a separate cast
iron cylinder fifteen feet in diameter.
The circular passageways will look
like gigantic water pipes and will keep
the water of the river out quite as ef
fectually as genuine water pipes keep
water in.
John B. McDonald, who has under
taken this multi-million dollar con
tract and will be the directing head of
the great work, is a native of Ireland.
He was born in County Cork fifty-six
years ago and catne to this country
when he was fifteen years old.'
A Need Well Met.
German scientists are advocating
that physicians take practical lessons
in cooking, iu order that they shall
know the value of every kind of food
from a bygienio and medical stand
point.
Charlestown was settled in 1629 and
was annexed to Boston in 1873.
CROWN PRINCESS STEPHANIE WEDS.
She Formally Heroines Hid Wife of Count
Kleiner Lonyay.
Crown Priucess Stephanie of Aus
tria, despite the persistent prohibition
eof her father, King
Leopold of Bel
gium, was married
recently at Miramai
Castle, near Trieste,
to Count Elemet
Lonyay. By com
mand of Emperoi
Francis Joseph the
ceremony was strict
ly private. It w»f
« court chaplain, Bis-
Jfi hop Mayer, in pres
cuowN tbixccss. etice of eix wit-
STEPHANIE. ließS6st.
The Emperor, Stephanie s father
in-law, was not present, but his ma
jesty wired his congratulations. Im
mediately after the ceremony the im
perial flag of Austria-Hungary, which
has waved over the chateau, was
hauled town in token that the Crown
Priucess had ceased to be a member
of the house of Hapsburg.
The question of Stephanie's reten
tion of the title of royal highness, to
which she was
borr, is still unan-
swe re d. Her
father endeavored Sr
to stop the pay- ■&.
meut of his daugh
tor's 'appanage of W
50,000 francs
was settled on her
at the time of her
marriage with "Yfl
Crown Prince Ru- ■'] / " '
dolph of Austria, loxyay.
but in this bis majesty was not suc
cessful, because the nuptial contract
expressly provides that the annuity
shall coutinue during Stephanie's life
time.
The tragic death of her first hus
baud, who was slain by a disappointed
sweetheart of the beautiful Baroness
Vera, January 10, 1889, at an imperial
hunting lodge, near Vienna, caused
the retirement of Crowu Princess Ste
phanie for a time, but not beyond the
period of mourning prescribed by the
house rules. When she appeared in
public again she evinced a great dis
position for a'-uusemeut in aud out of
court circles. In this way she became
acquainted with Count Lonyay, u
Hungarian nobleman of considerable
wealth. He is a Protestant, a circum
stance which increased the dislike of
the Emperor of Austria of a union
which meant the withdrawal of the
Crown Princess from court functions,
at which she has been the uudisputel
ruler siuce the death of Empress
Elizabeth of Austria in September,
1898, under the poniard of the anar
chist Luchuni,nt Geneva, Switzerland.
Tun Tun: Will It Cure Leprosy?
Two dozeu specimens of the Vene
zuelan plant known as tua tua have
been sent from Washington to Hawaii
for the purpose of making a test ol its
alleged wonderful power as a cure for
leprosy. Tho plant will be tested at,
the leprosy hospital there, where the
1073 lepers will afford every facility
for a thorough trial. Surgeon D. A.
Carmiehaei, of the Marine Hospital,
has also sent half a dozen bottles of
the liquid preparation to Molokai, and
this will be use I for immediate tests,
while the plants will bo set out aud
cultivated, with the purpose of pro
viding nulimited fresh material for
further use.
Wonderful stories are current ill
Venezuela about the marvelous cura
tive properties of tua tua when applied
to leprosy, and the Government pby
THE TUA TUA PLANT OF VENEZUELA, SAID
TO POSSESS WONDERFUL CURATIVE
PROPERTIES IN- CASES Or LKTIIOSV.
sicians attach considerable importaneo
to the evidence given them. It is
proposed also to tost it iu the island
of Guam, that tiny spec of Pacific laud
that came to us with out- other Span
ish war acquisitions.
Com pre hen*! ve
On a tombstono ia an old Now Eur.
land oliurchyard there is au epitaph
which nevor fails to bring a smile to
the face of the reader:
"To the memory of Ann Sophia and
.Tulia Hattie, his two wives, this stone
is erected by the grateful widower,
Janles B. Rollins. They made home
pleasant."—Woman's Journal.
HOW TITLES ARE PLACED.
A Missouri River *eri-yiu<&n Explains Pit
Methods.
It is a rather difficult task to point
out the traits of manner and the "ear
marks" which entitle a mau to be dis
tinguished by such honorable appella
tions as "Judge," "Colonel," "Cap
tain," or one or tbe other titles be
stowed in every community upon its
various citizeus. And sometimes the
reasons are not a'ways complimentary
to tbe character of tbe wearer.
A tenderfoot was standing watch
ing a ferryman 011 tbe Missouri river,
which was not very wide at that par
ticular point, so that ho had frequent
opportunities lo converse with the
ferryman as he went back and forth
with his load. At one of tbe pauses
between loads the ferryman ligh'ed
his pipe and prepared to resume the
conversation interrupted by the last
trip.
"I notice," observed the tender
foot, "that you address each of yout
male passengers either as 'captain,'
'colonel' or 'general,' or some such
distinguished title. Now, is it a fael
that these gentlemen you have carried
over are all captains, colonels and sc
forth?"
"La.vs, 110," replied the ferryman,
laughing heartily.
"Tbe j," asked the tenderfoot, "how
do yon come to give all these titles to
these people?"
"Well, you see," said the ferry
man, "in this country people are not
all alike. There's sometbin' about
each of them that's ditiereut. Now,
a man of a certain style we call 'cap
tain,' then there's the style we call
'colonel,' and some's 'general.' See?"
His listener responded in tbe affirma
tive, though the various marks were not
distinct enough iu his mind to enable
him to "bran I" the passengjrs. Just
then an individual wearing a battered
silk hat of mauv years' vintage and
arrayed in a sleok Prince Albert coat,
hove in sight. One leg of his paut9
was in his boot while the other leg
was badly torn. His shirt front was
bespattered with tobacco juice, his
eyes were bleared. His nose fairly
blossomed.
"And what would you call him?"
asked the tenderfoot as the newcomer
approached.
"Oh," said the ferrymau; "that's
easy. We'd call him 'julge.' " —New
York Suu.
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.
The Ilussian form of salutation is
brief, consisting of the single word
"prascha l ," said to sound like a sneeze.
The Otaheite islander will twist the
and of the departing guest's rooe ami
then solemnly shake his own hand?
three times.
A curious test for deafness nas been
brought before tbe Paris Academy ol
Medicine by Dr. Bonnier. On apply
ing & tuning fork to the knee or other
part of the bouv structure, nothing is
beard by the suuud ear, but the note
is distiuctlv audible to au ear iu
which disease has be»uu.
According to the Paris Gaulois, M.
Arboin, the liewly-eleuted deputy fot
Troves, is literally incapable of sit
ting iu the F. eucli Chan her, although
legally elected, lie is so extremely
corpulent that none of the seats
allotted to the deputies is large enough
for hi in, and one will have to be espe
chilly made to measure.
111 Seoul, Ko 'en, a liell is rung at
sunset, and when the golden orb has
sunk beneath tbe hori/.ou every man
must be safely housed. If a mau should
be found in the street after that time
he ik liable to the punishment of a
Hogging; b-it oddly enough, women
are allowed togo about as usual, vis
iting their friends or strolling übou (
according to their pleasure.
Very young lambs are as like a?
peas iu a pod to everything, except
the noses of their mothers. A hun
dred ewes at pasturo, with lambs of
the same size, will make 110 mistake
about their children, that is, if the
children have once be -u accepted as
their own. >-'o;netiuies it happens
that for uo visible reasou a ewe re
jects her lamb an I cannot be induced
to own it. If she has twins she may
>wu one and re ect tbe other.
One of the most difficult and pecti
liar surgical operations ever attempted
iu Maryland was successfully per
formed at St. Jo-eph's hospital in Bal
timore, when Professor Louis McLane
Tiflany, assisted by Dr. C'ary Gable
aud other surgeons of the hospita l ,
removed from the head of Chas. <J.
Barker a steel chisel four and one
half iuehes loug, one inch wide and
one-quarter of an in<h thick. The
operation lasted only a littlo over halt
an hour, aud tbei e are good chance
)i the man's recovery.
Sir William Wtilroud, the chief uii.i
isterial whip, is a mysterious function
ary, who lias many duties, but his
rh'.ef one is to watch the attendance
in the House so as to know whether, it
* division comes, he will have enough
men to give tbe government a major
ity. There is a big corps of attend
ants and clerks in tbe inner lobby of
the House. Each has a list of the
members of tbe House, each ticks oft
a member as he goes iu or leaves, and
acts as a sort of living barometer, as
it wee. And from theso the chief
ministerial whip is able to tell tbe
temperature of the House.
Sliowiirr Offtlie House.
'Thio is our library."
"What a lovo'y 100.11. But where
are the books?"
"Oh, Harry hates to liava people
■some in when he's reading, so I make
him keep them iu a back room up
|ta.;r3."
FOR THE HOUSIWIVES.
Cliieken
Stew an entire chicken ;tiae the white
meat (or a salad. Grind the remain
tier Hue, season with small teaspoon
ftil of salt, fonr shakes of pepper, a
tablespoouful of good sauce; add a
slice of bread soaked in tepid water
and squeezed dry. Bind with a beaten
egg and a tablespoonful of melted
bniter. Shape like croquettes, roll in
fionr, egg anil crumb and fry in deep
boiling fat. Drain and serve with
chicken gravy.
CoI« iluw.
out oue-linlf of a medium head o)
cabbage tine; heat two tablespoonful?
of vinegar in a double boiler. Beal
two eggs, and add to them one-half a
a <uo of cream and a level teaspoon
till of butter. Add the mixture to the
boiling vinegar. Cook until it boils.
Season with one half of a saitspoon
fill ea"li of pepper and salt. Poui
over the cabbage and stand in a coo)
place. One-half of a cup of cream
whipped stiff and able.l after it i*
cold is a great improvement.
For a Good Cup of Tea.
"A perfect cup of tea can never ba
made in a tin teapot," says a dem
onstrator for a te.i house. "Scald the
earthen teapot the tirst thing you do.
Measure out the tea, ail a half tea
spoonful for each cup of boiling wa
ter. Have fresh water that has come
to a boil for the tirst time. Put the
tea in a cloth strainer and pour on the
bubbling, boiling water. Cover close
ly with a tea cosey, and let the tea
biew on the back of the range or at
the table from three to live minute-".
If the tea is to stand for some time
remove the strainer with the tea leaves,
else the fragraut. aroma is wasted aui 1
the tannin extracte I.
Krult Salmi*.
It is a fancy of the hour to serve as
salads the pulp of various fleshy
fruits, including apples, oranges anil
bananas, and in their season fleshy
fruits like apriots or peat lies and
cherries. These fruits are now mixed
with bleached lettuce or celery stalks,
cut in bits and mixed with may on
liaise dressing. The combination is
peculiar, and the taste for these salads
i must be cultivated. They are, how
j ever, wholesome additions to the din-
I ner table at this season, when fruit
acids are demanded by health, and
I they oti'er a chance in salads. When
! orange pulp is used, choose a subacid
j and grate in a little of the red-yellow
peel to give piquancy. It is a fash
ionable fancy to serve such salads in
chilled ia<es made of the fruit lind on
a bod of bleached lettuce or celery
leaves. Chill the rinds of bright,
fresh looking bananas or of oranges
by le iviug them, after emptying them
of the fruit pulp, iu a tin pail set in
cracked ice and salt for about one
hour. These chilled rinds are also
i used to pack fruit ices iu. When
| served as a mould for salads, a part of
i the rind is turned back to show it.
j When use 1 as a case for an ice the
piece of rind turned back to remove the
| fruit pulp and packed in the ice in its
i place is again turned into place and
I tiel down with a tiny Xo 1 ribbon,
i and the fruit so prepared is kept in a
i tin freezer can or a pail packed in ice
! and salt until it is needed. Oranees
I and bananas are the fruits generally
| chosen to serve in this way.
IIou<t«>lio1il Hint*
j Gold frames may be cleaned by wip
| ing with a cloth dipped in sweet oil.
If you have to iron silk, place a
j pie eof cheese cloth over it, and iron
: on that.
Quaint 1 'ttie china-topped corks are
to be had lor use in a bottle alter it is
j opeued.
A piece of rare beefsteak left over
from breakfast makes and excellent
sandwich tilling for the lunch basket
if sliced thin or chopped very tine and
seasoned with salt and pepper.
Knitting wool can be made a fast
color by soaking it iu a stroug solu
tion of salt and water, taking it out
after a few minutes' immersion and
hanging to dry in the open air.
A novelty in the stove line is one
made of tiles in the old Dutch fashion,
for gas. This is intended primarily
for tiled bath rcoius, but is quite ar
tistic enough for any room witli whose
color scheme it would harmonize.
If you do up your own shirt waists
you will Cud a shirt waist board a
convenience. Ou such a board the
V~eves may be ironed without leaving
crV, It should be covered with
at le\ ~ thicknesses of flannel and
then Wi.u ' white cotton.
Iu 'ns it is well to
remember that in.i that grow un
der ground, such as >eets, potatoes,
onions and turnips, should be cooke.l
covered closely, while all greeu vege
tables, ldse cabbages, should be un
covered to keep the odor good.
When your umbrella is wet stand it
with the handle down so that the
drippings may not rust the framework,
and when you are ready to put the
umbrella away carefully wipe the han
dle, go over the silk part with a soft,
dry cloth, and satisfy yourself that it
is quite dry.
It is well worth remembering that
when brasses have been brightly pol
ished they may be brushed over with
a little brass lacquer or shellac, that
may be procured at any paint shop.
In this way the tine coudition of the
b HSS may be preserved for sometime,
thus obviating much laborious work.
A point too often lost sight of eveu
by experienced housekeepers is that
in using sour milk the proportion of
soda should be lessened as the acidity
of the milk iucreases. Nowly soured
milk which is thick requires a level
t 'aspoouful of soda to each pint of
milk, wlr'le thiu and quite sour inilk
needs but a saltspoonful of soda to a
j'iut.