The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, July 26, 1893, Image 1

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YtlLUME 2.
IlEYXOLDSVILliK, PKNX'A., WEDNESDAY JULY 20, 1893.
NUMBER 11.
BUITATA KOl.llr'.STKll & riTTrf
Hl'UiiM RAILWAY.
The short line between I tiiHoW KIJwiiy,
Ilradford. HnliK'i i n, HulValo, Koehester.
Mnirtmi FoIIm (mil points In the upper "II
rciiloii.
ln nnd utter .Tunc 4th, Isrei, passen
ger trains will nrriveiind ilep"" from Full
Creek station, .dally, except ."iiniliiy, nn fol
low: 7tOO A. M.-Atnidford Aciionimndiitlon lor
point NorrJi licmemi Jiill creek anil
llrndford. 7:1.1 ii. m. mixed trnln fur
I'liiixoiitiimvy. ,. .,
10:OA.M.- llMtlalonnd Horlicstel mull- Pr
llroekwnvvlUe. HIlnilv,.lohiionliiiiif,Mt.
.lewett. Itriulford. Cnliinwrii. Hiiffnlo and
Kochcter: -o?mirtlnK t .loliiisoiilnli-
with I". E. I In il, for Wllco.x, Kane,
W arren, Coitv iiml KiV.
10:A A. t. A-.iommodiitlim For DuKols,
fykes, Hln H'Mi mill I'mijuejiuwiicy.
0:8(lr. St.- Ilrwlfnnl Accrnmodntlon- l or
llcechtree, Unn-kwnvvlll, Kllnionl, Cnr
nioii, Klilvwvjr, Johnsonlimv, Ml. .lewett
nnd Hnidford.
:5:10 I'. M. MisflFor HiiTViIh, Kykes, ttkt
Kun, 1'iiiixsiifcnwney niid-to iiMon.
P.M. AivitoHiiodiitloii-frVn- ImlloKrlig
Hun and l'un-muwiicy.
rth'iO A. M.-Hundnv trnln-4rr llrockwuy
vllle, Kldirwiijv nnd .lolinstniliui'V.
6:1.1 P.M. Kunda v train For J'ulloK Hyken,
HlB Knn nnd rmixiitiiwneflr.
Thousand mile tickets in. wo cent pnr
mill', (food for piMwiiti' hetwiKni nil Minimi,
t. H. Mr ntvkis. Attent, Falls crock, Pn.
.J. 11. llAlllir.TT. E. C. l.ftJ'KY,
General Siipt. (len. Is. Airent
llrndford Ite. Koitiostor N. 1 .
AJLLKGH UN Y rALLKY RAIIAVA Y
COMPANY ommoni'lnp- Sunday
..Time 1H. 1KH2. LonMJiiule a)ivtston.
KAKTWAItD.
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10 Mil
11 U1
WKXTWAHD.
Nn.2No.llNn.ia I (ill I 110
A. M.
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Ciriini
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P. M.
Train dolly exwpt Sutiiliiy.
riAVID MoC'AUUU, Ora'i. Si it.,
I'lllNliiirit, I'll.
JAS. P. AMiF.RSUX.OrN'i.. Pakh. Ait
PlltHliurv, Pn
pENXSYLVAXIA RAILROAD.
IN EPFKCT MAY 21,
Plillndi'lpliln & Eric Kiillnmd llvli.lon Tlmu
Tulili'. TruliiH li-iivi' Ihlflw.Hul.
KASTWAHK
: A M Trnln 8. dully xi'rpl Hummy for
miliiirv, llnrrlMhuty mid tntrni'dliiti hiii
tIoiih, nrrlrliiK nt Plilhldi-lpiillt tl:.i0 P. M.,
New York, P. M. ; lliilliiiiom, H:4.i p. M.;
Wnililntrton, 8:l:i p. m. Pullman Parlor rur
from VlllliiniHMirt' mid ptiMMm;ir foiii'lioH
from Kano to Philadelphia.
' H::m 1". M. Trnln , dally cxi-ctpt Hiinday for
HiirrlHburir nnd liitcrmorllato Nlntloim, nr
HvIiik ut Plillad(lphlu4:ilU A. M.; Ni w Vurk,
7:10 A. M. Tliroui!li roarh from IIiiIIoIh to
Wllllnmsport. Piillmmi Hlrrplujf I'lin from
HnrrlMliiirir lo Phllndiilplilii and New York,
l'lilliulolphln pnxHciiiirrH i-hii rumulii In
f4lfciMr undlMturlHd until 7:00 A. M.
9:;ifl P. M. Trnln 4, dally for Huiiliiiry. Hurrlx-
liiirirnud Inturniodlaiu hIiiIIouh, nriivlmt at
Plilladt'liilila, li:.Vl a. m.; New York, ll:MI
A. M.; Iliiltlmorv, U:20 a. m.; Washington, 7:M)
A.M. Piillmaii I'ltrH and paHiuiiiKiir roiirhon
from Kill-mid WlllliunHpi.it to I'hllitdi'lphla.
PimHonircfH In Hlci'por for Hiilttmoiv nnd
WashluKtou will lie triinsfi'rrvd Into Vnli
luuton h1ouimi at IIiiitIhIiui'u.
WESTWAHII.
7::ii A. M. Tniln 1, dally fiximpt Htinday for
KKiifway, iMinoiH, tanrnionir nnu iniiir
nioillatu HtatloiiH. I.oaviw KklKWiiy nt 11:00
P. M. for Erlu.
11:50 A. M. Truln , dally for Erlo and Inter
mediate polntK.
27 P. M. Train 11, dally cxi'i'pt Hunday fur
lvani and InliM'nu'dlalt nIuiIoiim.
fllltol'lill . THAINH Foil DHTFTWOOn
FHUM THE EAST AND SOUTH.
IIAIN 11 Icuvch Philadi'liihla N-..VI a. m.
WiiHliltuitoii, T.iio a. M. ; lialtlniom, H:4a A. m.
WIlkoHliurru, 10:15 A.M.; dally exi-vpt Sun
(lay. nrrlvliiK uMM'iftwiHHl nt ll:S7 p. u. with
I'lillmiin Parlor cur from Phlladi'lplilu to
VlllluniHiuirt.
rKAlN aiiMiveHNew York at 8 p. m.i Plillu-
uoipiim, ii::u p.m. i nuHiunktion. ni.iu.ni.;
Halllniori), 11:40 p. m. dally urrlvliin ut
liriftwiMKl at H'.iV) u. in. Pullman Klct'pluK
car from IMilladcliililu to Erie and from
Washington nnd Hultlmore to WtlllaiimHirt
uiul through ptiHhuuei-eoaeliuH from Pliilu
delphln to Erie und llultlmuru to Wlllluunt-
llMiri. ana to iiuiioiH.
HtAIN 1 leaves Uenovo ut 6:10 u. m., dally
ifxeept Huuduy, urrlvlnK at HrlftwiKid 7:11.1
. Win.
JOHXSOXBURG RAILUOAD.
(Uuily oxiiept Suuduy.)
TiAIN 111 leave UldKway at 11:40 a. m.i John-
Iniliiim at U:.V) a. rn., arriving ut Clermont
I Hi:4r. a. m.
AIN l leuvmi t'lerniont ut 1D:M u. m. ur
lyliix ut .lohtiKouliuri; ut 11:40 u. in. and
IdKwuy utll:Su. in.
TIDGWAY & CLEARFIELD R. R.
DAILY EYCEPT SUNDAY.
BOrrilWAUD. NOllTHWAHD.
I
1', A.M. STATIONS.
A.M. P.M.
U 40 Klditway 1 M) V IX)
0 48 iNlitud Uun ISO blil
II ta Mill lluvuu 110 H4II
10 02 (Jroyland 1 (Ml eilii
10 10 HhorlHMlllH 12 Ml I) M)
10 UJ HluuUiH'k 12 .M 1)23
10 17 Vineyard Hun 12 92 112:1
20 20 tlarriur 12 AO 2l
10U2 HriK'kwayvlUti 12118 HOtl
10 42 MeMltiu Summit 12X0 Iili7
10 IH tliirvivn Hun 12 SH iV!
10 .Vi Falls Crunk 12 20 K 4ft
11U3 HuUolH 12 1 6 JO
THAIN8 LEAVE BtDOWAY.
fiiHtward. Westward.
,H, 7:17 a. m. Train d, 11 :H4 tt. m.
ill II. 1:45 D. m. Truln 1. U:00 d. in.
Ax i, 7:1x3 p. m. Truln ll, 6:26 p. ni.
8 4 PHEVOST,
STATIONS. No. I. Vn.5. No. II.
A. M. r. M. A. M.
Knd rlank 10 4.V 4 so
Lnwmvihnm 10 A" J K
New Hlhliliini II Mi IS ft 1J
Onk UWxi! II a i Si 'ttiii
MuywvUle II 4ii 4 41 Ii in
fnuimvlllo ... IS 0" '' 1 4T
Hrookvlilc. IS 2.1 SO II OT
Hi ll IS ;il i 2 II IH
Fuller is 4-i ea ii s."
Hcyuokkvllle.. 1 no 8.17 41'
l'uu.-i.u.t 1 Ik 7 M v:
Fulls 1-iwk 13 !U 7 00
DuIIoIh 1 :d 7 X. 7 10
riulwilu 1 4T 7 J 7 SJ
Wntcrtwn .... I .vi MOO 7 Si
IVnnvlii 2(fi h oo 7 41
Tyler 2 II s Pi 7 .rl
Xifcn I'Mier 2 ii M 2 VI
Henosett 2 42 H 44 m
Unint 2SI H Vi Nil
Driftwood 1I2 fl Si Hit
P.M. P. M.lA. M.I
J. K. WOOD,
Ueu. 1'ium. Ag't.
Uou. Muuager.
DAI 8 GONE. BY.
Dh, the Any Ron byl Oh, the dnyt rnn hyl'
rh dTT1" 1 'ho oixhnnl, nnd the pathway
trmnifh Die rye:
rhe chlmipof the nibln.niul the whiotloof the
nuntl
it he piped nrrofle the mentfowe nwoot M any
niKhtlnirnle,
rhcn the hlnnm w-n on tho clnwir, and tlie
bins In the xky.
nnd my happy henrt brimmed ovrr, In tho
dnye (tone by.
!n tho dnye irone by, wkn my nnkrt feet were
tripped
By the 'hnneyftnekleVtanKlrn, where the wnter
lillee dipped,
and the rtpplo of the river lipped the nuin
nines the brink
Where the plneld eyed nnd laity ifneted cattle
enme to drink.
and the tilting unite etoodlearleuet the tra-
ant'e wnywnnl err.
and the eplnnhlnfnf rthe wlmmeT.ma thedayr
gone by.
Dh, the days Rnne byl Oh, the daye snne byl
fhe mnnle of the Innghing lip, the lnaterof the
eye.
rhe chllddsh faith 4a fnirlrt, and Alnddin'a
masle rlnir.
rhe simple, soul rcpoMng, glad bollef In every.
thine
When life wae like ntory, holdlni neither
aoniMr elicn.
In the oldea, golden glory of the day Rone by.
Jamel W hltcomb Klley.
BOYIIOODTJtADlTlOXS
HOW SCIENCE HAS RUTHLESSLY
PLAYED HOB WITH TWEM.
Even the Horsehair ftnaiio ! Hofrrd by
h Tfnturallat to He Ilnmung Still
rilnglngt Thnt IlellrT and rientliiB
Pretty Good Argument.
Sotenoe plarg hob wit a the fun trndi
tions of rnrnl BchooUviy dnya. How
mnny ugly 'bnt nspfnl tonils hare bm-ti
left (n nndiBtnrbed possepsion of gnr
den bed because to handle thern was
but t cover yonr hands with warts und
to kill them ironld force your cows to
let down bloody milk? What boy would
hare crashed m cricket, assured as ho
was that its mate would come at ni-lit
and avenge its death by eating up that
rash boy's clothes? What man lives .
day who, as a rustic lad, has not hel l
the stilted daddy-long-legs prisoner try
one hairlike shank and informed tlv
globular insect that unless it forthwith
pointed out tho way in which U,o
lost cows had gone instant dett'i
awaited it, and whnn did daddy-longlegs
fail to raise one slender leg and in
dicate, according to boyish belief, the
direction the straying kine had p;or.e?
And the devil's darning needle, that bi::
eyed thing that lived and prowled for
nothing else than to sew your ears uji.
and the magio eel skin tied round your
leg, or neck, or arm, to keep the cramps
away when you went in swimming, and
the snake that swallowed its young, nr1
greatest of all, that vivified hair from a
horse's tail, wriggling and gyrating in
the roadside mud puddle, the horsehair
snake.
But science has stepped in and solemn
ly and seriously said that these are all'
myths. It is a shattering of idols, hut I
fear that to science must be granted all
it denies about them, except as to inn Ices
wallowing their young. I have been an
open mouthed and wide eyed witnesw of
that interesting trick too often to let
even profound scientists stand up and
declare that it isn't so.
I hold out a little, too, for the horse
hair snake, for I have in my mind a cer
tain vagrant horsehair that I once put in
an oyster keg filled with rainwater, and
either that horsehair in the course of a
few weeks took on the semblance of life
and form of a horsehair snake and kept
it up all season in a bottle to which 1
transferred it, or else it disappeared, and
the germ of what we supposed was a
horsehair snake happened to lie in the
water and developed thore. I have al
ways insisted that I made a horsehair
snake. I have heard many veracious
persons declare that they have done the
same thing,
"But you are all wrong," says Nich
olas Pike, the naturalist. "The horso'i:tir
snake, or hairworm, is the Gorliua
aquations, and it is common in most
fresh water ponds and rivulets. Though
no larger around than a coarse cottnn
thread, they have two mouths, one on
each side of the head. They lay scores
and sometimes thousands of eggs. The
eggs are deposited in strings, like a
chain, on the sides of shallow ponds or
creekB, and they are greedily swallowed
by various aquatio insects. Then from
the time the egg is hatched the first part
of the worm's nutriment is spent as a
parasite, absorbing nutriment from the
body of its unlucky host. The largo
water beetles are subject to these para
sites. They have been found in a crick
et They are graceful swimmers, bnt
when taken from the water they twist
themselves into such an intricate knot
that it is almost impossible to unloose
it They are called Gordius from this,
the Oordian knot
"I have no doubt that one reason why
the idea of the horsehair snake has been
propagated is from ignorant persons
who have had various inseots in clear
water watching them for study or curi
osity. Knowing that thoy put in only
certain live creatures, and some day
finding these live worms, they were as
tonished. The chances are that the
worms were developed from a pot beetle
that in its native pond made a feast on
some ova of the Gordius, to be paid
dearly for later when these batched."
But there was no pet beetle or any
other insect in my keg of rainwater.
The horsehair went away, and the snake
or worm appeared. I don't believe the
horsehair ever swallowed any Gordius
ova, I can't imagine any reason why a
horsehair should turn into a snake or
worm when kept in the water, bnt why
not n horse's hair as well as a cow's hnir
or a deer's hnir? Science hnd bettnr not
toll any of the few old settlers of worth
orn Pennsylvania or any other locality
wbero the pioneers were fi-cuontIy their
own tanners (that cow's hair and -deer's
hair will not turn into worms nndr cer
tain conditions or science will get a
black eye. In the pioneer days, when a
settler wanted leather for boots or shoes,
it was not an uncommon thing for him
to make a vat by hollowing out pine
log, and using wood ashes instead of lime
in removing the hair. When the hide
was taken out of the vat it wonld be
placed in a crwk to soak out the alkali.
1 have more than once heard the sons
of such pioneers tell of finding carious
worms swimming about these hides
where they were lying in quiet pools.
These worms were aliout twe inches
long, somewhat thicker than .cow's
hair, and always in various stages of de
velopment from the hair as it esme off
the hide, some being for a part of their
length simrity hair, while the vest was
the living worm, white and set iitrans
parent. Borne would be still fast to the
hide, but wiggling to get loose, when
they -would swim about with a hair for a
tail. These worms were never seen ex
cept in the pools with the hides, either
cow or deer. The more I think of these
well Authenticated cow hnir woruns the
more I am inclined to defy scleitne and
hold nt for (the horsehair worm. New
York Hun
nogqnrto fines.
Every summer the question about how
to deal with mosquitoes or mosquito
bites is presented by tunny correspond
ents. Perhaps the fallowing counsel on
the subject fromn Massachusetts paper
may be useful:
The best antidote for the bite of a
mosquito undoubtedly is ammonia weak
ened with a little water or salt and wa
ter. Some people go so fur as to press
the poison out of the bite with some
small metal instrument like the point of
a watch key before Applying the anti
dote. This prevents the painful swell
ing that sometimes occurs. As in othei
cases, "one man's meat is another man',
poison," and th same remedy will not
apply to oil individuals. Some find cam
phor most eflienctons, and salt and wa
Ler will not avail. Ammonia, however,
aeeins to be generally successful as a
neutralizer of the mosquito poison.
Where there are large quantities of the
mosquitoes and no reason for their ap
pearance is apparent it is well to look
about the premises for something which
attracts them. An uncovered barrel ol
rainwater will bring them in hordes,
and damp places and stagnant pools are
pots where they delight to congregate.
Cholern In Meeea.
Not often in the holy but unclean city
of Mecca has the cholera been more de
structive than it is this year. The deaths
from it, as stated in such reports as can
be procured, range from 500 to 700 a day,
without taking account of the mortality
along the ways leading to the city. The
cases must be numbered by the thou
sand. We suppose that a large propor
tion of the victims must be pilgrims, for
the settled population of the place is but
little over 40,000. The number of pil
grims this year, especially from India
and Persia, has been inordinately large.
The ordinary sanitary laws are disre
garded in Mecca as in other cities of the
Mohammedan world. Anything like
scientific treatment of the cholera is un
known. The fatalistic believers regard
a visitation of it as the decree of Allah.
They are willing that it shall bring them
death, if they but dio within view of the
holy city or on the way thereto, as para
dise is assured them. The cholera was
in Mecca lost year. It is almost ns con
stant there as it is in the delta of ths
Ganges. It ofton rages fiercely there
without approaching any part of Eu
rope. New York Sun.
Profits on t.lttle Keek Clams.
Despite the prevailing depression in
many lines of business, one industry in
this section employs a large number of
hands and is running overtime. It is
that of gathering the delicious bivalves
about the size of a silver dollar known
as Little Neck clBms. The catch in this
vicinity avorages nearly 100 barrels
week, for which wholesale dealers in
New York pay $8 to $10 a barrel.
There are usually about 8,500 clamz
in a barrel, but sometimes when they
are running unusually small there may
be 6,000. When a New Yorker enters a
"swell" restaurant and pays 40 cents for
seven or eight of those little bivalves, it
can readily be seen that a barrel con
taining 8,500. nnd costing about $10, will
yield the proprietor something like 200.
There is a market for Little Nocks all
the year round, but it is difficult to
catch them during the winter months.
Norwalk (Conn.) Cor. New York Times.
Didn't Hear of the War.
Edie Hickam, an old negress, is the
plaintiff in perhaps the most remarka
ble case ever tried in the courts of tlfis
county. She is an ex-slave and brought
suit against her master, Joseph Hickam
or this county, for 13 a month wages
a family domestio for 84 years, during
which time she cluims to have been kept
in Ignorance of her emancipatida The
suit was instituted here in 1889 for
$1,400 and resulted in a judgment in
her favor for $700. Defendant opifcalcd
to the Kansas fjity court of appeals.
which remanded the case to the circuit
court of the county, which now renders
a decision for the defendant ' A motion
(or a new trial baa been filed, Boone-
Tille Cor. St Louis Chronicle.
NEW GREEN GOOD3 METHODS.
Dimmed In feminine Attire, tho Hwlmller
Litres Ills Vlr.tlniH.
Accompanied by Police: C'otixtiihle Irv
ing and a friend, a g'Oitli'timn whoso ac
cent afforded indisptitublo evidence I lint
heisofGermnn extawtion walked into
the detective office last night and there
related a most remarkable exfifimro
which, he stated, had befallen him. His
name Is Frank Hohlbein, he is the rep-
renentatlve of a tan linrk company, liud
in the register of tlie Red Lion hotel lie
ha given his addreos as Dashwood, Out.
His business has taken him all over tins
country and the adjoining reemblie, and
he has only recently returned from the
outhern state.
His story to the detectives is to the
ffect that on Saturday evening, having
nothing to do, he paid a visit to the
xnusee on Yonge street When the per
formance was over, he came out to the
street and was bout to return to his
hotel when he noticed a very plump,
rather handsome young lady, who ap
pears to have had power enough to
charm him away from his origir.ul in
tention to go home. Neither seems to
have objected to the other's company,
and, to make a long story short, the twe
trolled away up the street arm In arm.
Hohlbein is a stranger in the city, hits no
knowledge at all of its geography,mii 1 4
therefore unable to now describe, except
in very general terms, the route followed
by him and his companion, but it is
sufficient to know that at length they
reached the outside of a house which
.the ludy informed him was her home.
With some hesitation he accepted un in
vitation to enter and was ushered Inlo
a room furnished In a very ordinary
twny and containing, he noticed, a type
writer. ' He was offered some ale. lr.it
having declined to drink the lady drank
eome for him.
After some pleasant chatting his com
panion stepped back, nnd rnisint; her
hand lifted off her hat nnd wig, nnd to
his intense amazement Hohlbein sew
that he was in the presence not of
woman, but of a man. Another twist ot
the wrist, and the man bad removed it
jacket, waist and skirt, and there he
stood a young man in ordinary mule
ttire.
Hohlbein was at a loss to account foi
this very strange metamorphosis mui
grasped a revolver which he c inico
with him, determined to defend himself
should the occasion rise. The stra ta r.
however, requested him to be calm itml
at bis ease, as no harm would come to
him. He then produced some samples
of bills, which he handed to Hohlbein
with tho request that the latter express
an opinion as to what they were.
"Green goodsl" said Hohlbein.
"Right you arel" said the stranger,
and he then and there offered him nil he
wanted for 25 cents for each dollar's
worth.
"How much money have you?" he
asked Hohlbein. The hitter produced
his purse and showed his companion
that there was nothing in it but some
small change scarcely worth mention
ing. This seemed to exasperate the oc
cupant of the room, and with rather
strong language he opened a door lead
ing to the back yard and promptly
evicted his guest. Hohlbein said he
walked a long distance before he could
find a street, and when he at last did so
he hastened to his hotel. In the morn
ing he related his experience to a friend,
and the two interviewed Constable Irv
ing, who went with them to the dotective
office.
The story is such a queer affair that it
is diffionlt to come to any conclusion re
garding it The man who tells it is said
to be an honest, truthful and sober man,
and those who know him place reliance
on his word. Toronto Mail.
Strange Gods of Ignorant People.
There is a sect in Orissa, in the Bengal
presidency, who worship Queen Victoria
as their chief divinity. Colonel Graham
discovered that her majesty was also an
object of worship in the temple of the
Phodonga-Lama, at Tumlong, in Thibet.
A sect in the Punjab worshiped a deity
whom they called Nikkal Sen. This
Nikkal Sen was no other than the re
doubted General Nicholson, and nothing
that tho general could do or say dumped
the enthusiasm of his adorers. M. du
Chaillu tells that some of the African
savages looked upon him as a superior
being, and the South Sea islanders wor
shiped Captain Cook as a deity. Even
when tlioy hod killed him and cut him
into small pieces the inhabitants of Owhy
hee fully expected him to reappear and
frequently asked what he wonld do to
them on his return. Lander, in his Niger
expedition, says that in most African
towns and villages he was treated as a,
demigod. Lord John Lawrence has been
worshiped among the Sikhs in northwest
India. Boston Globe,
Lived oil Clk and Eagle Meat.
Four lruutera were snowbound in ths
mountains at tho headwaters of the
Wynoochee rivor, Washington, for five
weeks during February and port ot
March. When the storm which snowed
them up qame, they exhausted their stock
of provisions and had killed 11 elk.
They lost their game and wore three
days without food when they killed an
eagle. Later thoy found an elk power
less in the deep snow. They lived on
elk and eagle alone for over a month.
The snow was 8 to IB feet deep, and they
could not make any progress through it.
Eventually they reached a doserted camp
and found, an ax with which they split
wood and made rude snpwjihoos, by
means of which they' got back to civilization,
lying maenin.
An extraordinary kind of flying ma
chine has been designed by Horatio Phil
lips of Harrow, Lngland. In appear
ance it might be compared to a long
board on which are a pair of window
blinds, so mounted that the shutters are
nearly flat. The frame Is boat shaped in
plan, 25 feet long and 8 feet wide. It is
supported on three small wheels and
carries a small compound engine work
ing a screw propeller 8 feet in diameter.
The sustainer, or wings, consist of a
number of wooden blades or slats
mounted one above the other in a steel
frame. Each slat is 10 feet long and 1)
inches wide, the combined surface of all
the slats being 140 square feet The
frame is placed in a vertical position and
arranged transversely to the line of mo
tion. The weight of the whole machine in
working order is 860 pounds. It could
not, of course, be allowed to soar away
unfettered, as it is too small to carry any
person to guide its flight It is therefore
attached to a pillar by means of wires
which confine its flight to a circular path
828 feet in circumference. When it is
desired to operate the machine, steam is
turned on and the propeller set to work.
It has made 1J turns around the track
without any of the wheels touching
ground at a speed of 40 miles an hour,
and this with enough dead load to bring
the total weight up to 885 pounds. This
is equal to lifting a load of about Si
pounds per square foot of sustainer sur
face when nil the conditions are taken
into account New York Telegram.
A "Cooling Off" Process at the Shore.
The Bowery Is the favorite lair of the
representative professional nnd business
men of Coney Island and the mecca of
all the "jays," as the visitors are termed
who come down frpm the city to "cool
off." Close observation of the habits of
these "jays" reveals the fact that the
popular method of "cooling off" is to
pound with a large mallet in a vain at
tempt to register some impossible num
ber on a dial overhead, to blow into a
"lung tester" until one is black in the
face, to mount a yellow wooden giraffe
nnd be swung around a "carousal" to
the musio of a bronze steam organ, to
drink bad beer and to listen to nil the
unpopular aim sung by yellow haired si
rens with the sea fog air in their throats.
I had seen several thousand citizens
engaged in this J'cooling off" process,
which, by the way, frequently landed its
votaries in whnt is known bs tho "cool
er," before it occurred to me to inquire
what mesmeric power led them to act in
this manner. My researches brought
me face to face with the representative
Coney Island business and professional
mon the worst band of fakirs that the
world has ever seen. New York Cor.
Boston Herald.
Unostentatious Charity.
William C. Todd of Atkinson, N. H.,
is a philanthropist wiso in his giving.
The Boston Public Library Is $50,000 rich
er for his generosity, and his largess is
to be invested so as to secure a perma
nent annual income of $3,000 to be ex
pended in maintaining a newspaper read
ing room in which papers from every
largo city in tho world will be found. If
it did not require a struggle to overcomo
the temptation to found some weak in
stitution bearing his name instead of
burying his gift in a great organization
already established, Mr. Todd is a man
of loss than avorngo vanity. It wonld be
hard to find an investment in the direc
tion of popular education likely to bo
more beneficial than this one. A read
ing room makes littlo show. It is influ
ential nevertheless. Now York Tribune.
Canada's New Governor General
Canada is to have a now governor gen
eral in the person of Lord Aberdeen, one
of the most brilliant and rising of the
younger statesmen of Great Britain, Ho
will be ably seconded by Lady Aberdeen,
described by The Woman's Herald of
London as one of the half dozen famous
women of tho world one who believes
in women as an active force in politics.
"We should work side by Bide, men nnd
women, each endeavoring to accomplish
something, and thus make the world a
little bettor than we found it" Canada
stands with maple loaves in her hands to
extend the heartiest of welcomes to the
Earl and Countess of Aberdeen. Wives
and Daughters.
"By the Wish of nls Wife."
It is generally belioved that the money
which the Duke of Portland wins at rac
ing is given to charity, according to the
direction of the duchess, and the duke,
not content with this, seems determined
to hand down to postority a tribute to
her wholesome influence. In the center
gablo of the now fine almshouses lately
erected on his Welbeck estato for the
widows of those employed on it there is
a stone with an engraved inscription
setting forth that the buildings were
"erected by the sixth Duke of Portland
by the wish of his wife.' " Thereafter
follow tho names of the successful race
horseB and their victories. London Tit
Bits. Death of "Mother Shlpton."
Mother Shlpton is dead, or at any rate
the real author of her famous prophecies
is no more. In other words, the book
selling world has to deplore the loss of
Mr. Charles Hindley, who long ago con
fessed to the innocent imposture. He
wrote a good deal in one way or another,
Eartly to the press and partly in books,
ut Mother Shipton was his most fa
mous achievement. He died at Brigh
ton, where he used to carry on the busi
ness of a bookseller. London Globe,
Memories of 1871.
On the Inst week in May each year the
French socialists are accustomed to eel
tbrato the "bloody week," which wit
nessed tho downfall of the Paris cor
mnne in 1871, the killing of 25,000 of f
Inhabitants and t1-- -riling of rrt,
others. As early If' . under tu tt
ershlp of GambM-'-u. . the rnodor
Republicans, a rti ' amnesty
voted, with only if- ; stxexcepttt,..
to the participants ot tiiecommnnc. i
Is significant also that many of the ran
nicipal regulations which the commu
nlsts demanded were afterward granted
by the chamber of deputies.
"Bloody week" began on Sunday, May
21, when the Versailles troops entered
Paris by a breach in the fortification
wall which the national guards had neg
lected to defend. They came in by theJV
Bois de Boulogne, and terrible street
fights continued daily until on the fol
lowing Sunday, May 28, Marshal Mc
Mahon was in full possession of the city
and declared the commune at an end.
On May 28 the Versailles troops cap
tured the Central Market halls and
threatened General Bergeret, who was
stationed at the Tuileries. He was
forced to retiro, blowing up and burning
the Tuileries ns he left, bnt managed to
save the Louvre, '"bich some of his if
lowers wished I ' to destroy. T
fighting was mw'r done by nation
guardsmen agRi-sr. heavy odds and
suited in fearfu' lii.ughter; hence w
week has obtained its name. New Toi '.i
Herald.
The Deucnn's Reputation Is Safe
Lawyer French, who represents Pitts
field id the legislature, passed around
the other day among his fellow solons a
card which he found on his table upon
returning to his law office. He had left '
the card bearing two words "Return
soon." During his absence a client had
written underneath it, "This Is a d d
lie." A second visitor to the office dur
ing the interval had been a worthy dea
con who had called to see Mr. French on
church business, nnd apparently not
noticing the hingnngo already Inscribed
had added his own message and signed
his nnnie. Fortunately Mr. French was
able to distinguish between the two
hnnd writings, nnd the deacon's standing
remains secure. Springfield (Moss.)
Homestead.
Lord Sherbrooko.
Lowe said that when he was minister
f education n parent wonld sometime
consult him about sending his son to
public school. His invariable ansc
was: "My advi'e" T)Udbe not to i
him to a public t ; ..(. But if yon "
bound to send'. a. your own put; '
school tuke Iii . i "j as soon as futf
ble." I think it Talleyrand who
said of the English public schools, "Elle
sont les meillmircB du mondo, mats elles
out detestablesl" London Spectator.
How He Saved Them.
When Captain Dutton of the Servia
gave orders to go ahead at full speed
after the collision with the McCallum,
he probably thought of the experience of
the Trave abont a year ago, when her
bows cut sheer through a vessel which
she struck on the ocean, and suffered
scarcely any damage. But he bullded
hotter than he knew. By his action he
succeeded in saving every soul but one
on board the ship which he ran down.
The story of the suspension of the Mo
Culluin on the prow of tire Servia long
enough to enable her crew to be rescued
reads like a page from a romance. New
York Tribune.
where Discipline Is Essential.
It seems to us that wo have this year
an inordinate number of reports of riot
ous and obstreperous conduct on the
part of students in institutions of learn
ing, especially in colleges and academies,
and even in seminaries for young wom
en. Making due allowance for youthful
frivolity, we take occasion to say that at
all hazards order must be preserved
among the students and discipline' en
forced by the faculty of all educational
institutions. When students are suf
fered to override the rules set np by the
faculty, it is to their own disadvantage;
when professors fail to apply these
rules, it is evidence of their incompeten
cy! when an institution gots a name for
disordcrlineos, it is on the road to ruin.
Now York Sun.
Can This Be Tract
"No, sir, I'll not pay 85 cents for
small sandwich and 50 cents more' -service.
Th mply highway
bery," said n "i ork man to the
prietorof aC!..:-- restaurant
"That, sir, ' y mlt to compan
with a highw.'. - U."
"Yes, yon lire right. If theroiwe
any highway robbers, I would certajinl
beg their pardon." Texas if tings.
World's Fair Expenses For One Day.
A Chicago man gives this schedule of
prices for seeing the fair on 60 cents a day :
Cottago Orovo avenue car, round trip io
Admission fia
Milk nt milk exhibit Free
Frcsli rolls at yeast exhibit .....Free
Butturail orackersat butter exhibit free
Total ; m
A man said to bo 75 years old has en
tored as a student at Princeton collcgo.
Ho had all his life been irnbuod with a
dosire to have a college education, and
a legacy hus at last placed him iu a posi
tion to obtain one.
Spain was a republlo for nearly two
years (1808-70) under the presidency bt
Einillo Castelar, but royalty was revived.
Castolar has just announced his retire
ment from publio life.