3 “<3 32 RA fe on AA RRA DS "A DREAM. Oh, it was but a dream I had ’ While tho mugician played— And here the sky and here the glad Old ocean kissed the glade. And here the laughing ripples ran, And here the roses grew That threw a kiss to every man . That voyaged with the crew. ‘Our silken satis in lazy folds Prooped in the breathless breeze, As o'er a field of marigolds “Our eyes swam o'er the geas, While here the eddies lisped and purled ‘Around the island’s rim, And np from out the underwold ‘We saw the mermen swim. “ And 1% was dawn"and middle day And midnight-—-for the moon On silver rounds across the bay Had ciimbed the skies of June, And here the glowing, glorious king ‘Of day ruled o'er the realm, With stars of midnight glittering About his diadem. The seagull recled on languid wing In circles round the mast; We heard the songs the sirens sing As we went sailing past. lr And up and down the golden sands A thousand fairy throngs Flurgz at ns from their flashing hands The echoes of their songs. g © —=James Whitcomb Riley. PRINTING BY TELEGRAPH. hd sls oh An Flos rieal Typewriter That Transmits Printed Characters. The printing telegraph, though a de- vice of carparatively recent develop- | ment, has Yon the subject of ceaseless investigation, and practical workers in | electricity have directed their whole at- | instances to the trans- | mission of messues and the recording | tention in some of them in plain ko man characters. Its advantages are simply those of an elentrical typewriter, by means of which ‘the message is printed in the presence | of the transmitting operator in page | farm, and a dupli¢ate of the same print- | ed at all the receiving stations on the | line, whether it bo a long ‘or short cir- cnit. A single transmissiom prints it simultanconsly in page form ready for the compositor’s case in all the nows- paper ofiices of many cities. I is said to differ materially from all other known means of telegrapiy in one essential particular. In it the impulses move the instruments, whereas in other systems the instruments move the im- pulse—that is to say, the transmitter of the message is caused te run by a sepa- rate power. No combination of elec- trical impulse or currents is employed. An even succession of dots or impulses, which operate the polarized relay arma- tare at the receiving Siationg pices the revolving type wheel in t® required position, whem the local mechanism causes the letter to be printed. The apparent impossibility of trans- mitting printed characters 500 or 1,000 . miles over a single wire at once presents itself to the mind, and it is overcome in this system, it is asserted, in a very simpie way. Each letter of the alphabet . is represented by a certain number of impulses, which revolve the type wheel to the required position, when the let- ters are struck by the local mallet. - Fourteen impulses represent the en- tire alphabet, making a complete revola- | tion of the type wheel, which may be - tmrned 200 revolutions per minute, thus securing vory rapid printing. Its advan- tage also is that of absolute secrecy as a | means of communication. The advan- tage of the printing telegraph for the transmission of news to the newspaper ~ offices is unquestionably a subject com- | manding attention on the part of pro- gressive proprietors. —Paper and Press. Too Much Machinery. journalism?’ asked an old joarnalist the other day. ah “It’s the typewriter. It destroys orig- inality. It gives to everything that is written a mechanical tooch. Therd’s ‘no style or individuality about anything composed on a typewriter. “You will find that the newspaper writers in all the larger offices use type- writers. The use of them has extended in many other directions. Mgr. Satolli has one. But wherever you find a man writing on ome aud composing as he writes you will find thas his work is - “gramped, mechanical, unimaginative, ‘without the slightest touch of fancy or vitality. : ‘iio nto the offices of the big dailies and yoa will find the young men Who make the papers seated at a typewriter, grinding out cchimms of. colorless, un- readable stuff for the paper. Youn can’: : ithe tarn out thought by machinery. #7 young men who write their maior for the press on typewriters never rise above the level of mediocrity. (Go into the comnosing roums of the big dailies, too, wand vou will find the. printers setting type by machinery. No style about that. It’s : riight, stiff, formal, unattractive, with ut any individuality. It takes the _ human touch to give the proper life and color to anything. There's too much . machinery. ’—Atlanta Constitution. Did you ever sce a geode, the ngly, . © greamy, yellow, rounded rock, which, .mpon being broken open, presents a per - "fect wilderness of diamondlike crystals? ‘They are oddities of the oddest kind, and are not too plentiful anywhere. The word ‘‘geode’’ means ‘‘earthform’’ and is applied to all hollow stones which are filled with crystallized matter. When broken open, some are found to be. | the Chinese women, but how much ruore "CARE OF THE FEET. |_ More Civil Lawsuits Here Than In Any | Value of the Thousands of Tons of Cos) st THE CRAMPED AND TORTURED FOOT ‘NO LONGER THE IDEAL. Views of a Celebrated Anatomist— The Im- portance of Wearing the Right Kind of Shoes— Something About Corns and How to Treat Them. ; ” Very {ow geem to realize the impor. tance of giving the feet proper attention in order to secure better health as well as. general comfort. the modern age there are still so mn otherwise sensible women who are will ing to maim and cripple their feet and guffer tortures for the sake of ghoes just a little too small, cr which are, as they imagine falsely, pretty more fashionable. We gee the f the cramping process upon the foot of St AT Wearing 1 i V inexcusable it is for women of this en- lightened country. j In former times it. has been the fash- ion for shoes to be made with high heels, narrow, pointed toes and all goris | of extravagant shapes eontrary to case and comfore, and as too many people have felt it ineambent upon them to -tiful foot, considered from the anatom- i : { realize the importance of care in select: “Do yon know the curse of modern such shoes saon become unshipely from i Old leat! full of pure looking, clear water. Oth; _ ers appear to be full of yellow or brown paint, while a third class are filled with - what appears to be a very fair quality of tar. . No odds what the filling of the cavity may be composed of, the sides are always studded with crystals. Should the filling be yellow the crystals are likely to be of the same color, but by far the greater portion of them are as clear as ice or diamonds. —St. Louis Republic. The New York town of Bolivar has _. gtreots lighted free of expense by acom- pany which furnishes the illuminant as a payment for the privilege of doing business in the corporation. A lie is often told without saying a word, by putting the rotten apples in the bottom of the basket.—Ram’s Horn. discomfort, the probable deformities in bow to the demands of the tyrant fash: ion, no matter how unreasonable her demands, the result has been for sue- ceeding generations untold suffering in the ~ corns, bunions and deformities, until now itis comparative: ly rare to see, except among savage na tions, a perfect, well shaped foot. Bat a more seusible fashion allows the wear- ing of various styles of sensible shoes that are adapted to the ears and oom- fort of the wearer, with thick soles, wide, low heels and plenty of room for free expansion of the toes and muscles, and tl:e pumerons corns, which are not ‘only ciceedingly painfal, but often seri- ous affairs, are gradually disappearing form ather from the feet of the sensible ones and | the ideal foot is no longer the cramped and tortured feot. he The celebrated anatomist, Professor Hyrti of Vienna university, opened one of his lecturss to his class with the sin- gular question, ‘* Which is the most beau ical standpoint?’ and then continued: “It is remarkable that there are so many divergent opimions on this subject. ‘While the sons of men lock upon a stall, slender and graceful foot, a lady’s foot, as an ideal one, the anatomist ut- terly rejects it as beautiful, and only the large, long and broad foot is the ideal one in his eyes. Even the greatest classic writers of antiquity, Horace, Ca- tallus, and others, who had great appre- cidtion of the feminine beauty, never: mentioned in the descriptions of their beloved—and, as is well known, they had many—their small feet. “The people belonging to the Celiic race have small feet; the Hindoos es- pecially have such feet and hands that they may be envied by many European countesses. The native troops of the English army in India possess in Eng- | land their own armory where peculiar kinds of weapons are constructed for them, and the sword hilts made for them are mmch too small for us to grasp with ease. The greatest beauties of Eu- rope, the Italians, have really long and broad fest.” : : But even if we do not care to be con- vinced that the ideal foot is the foot that is long and broad, we can certainly ing shoes of the pwoper size for comfort as well as beauty. The foot never looks pretty in a shoe too small for it, and gndue pressure, giving anything but a pretty appearance. Eoin On the other hand, wa should not fall It is almost inecon- | ceivable that in our civilized nation in | : F for the last ten years as a fair average, | there are 1,250,000 lawsnits bronght | England every yer, | 1,400,000 “1 {| many and i States. or | ily of | { found in the fact that the conditions of litigation vary exceedingly. | especially those arising from dispntes city in the southern hemisphere.” into the error of buying shoes too large. | These are quite as apt to cause corns as | small ones by rubbing certain parts of § the foot. If any une has the misfortune. to fall into this mistake, it can be reme- 4 died to a great extent by inserting a soft | wad of cotton batting in the toe of tb | shoe or in the part that robs ag#in: | the foot, : The same cara is necessary in buying shoes #8 in buying gloves. They will last much longerand have a better ap- pearance when made of new, good skins ser or kid is not soft and elastic and Cues not easily shape itself to the t..t or the hand. This isnot only a matter of comfort, but of ecomomy. In this, as in many other things, ‘‘the best is the cheapest,’” and as few women, or men either, for that matter, are good judges of leather it will be wise to buy only of houest, experienced dealers, in | whom we can confide, for we cannot afford risks in a matter where so much is involved. An uncomfortable shoe ia really a very serious matter when we take into consideration the pain and | the way of corns and bunions, the wear on the nervous system and the unpleas- ant consequences of our irritable tem- pers because of personal discomfort. It scarcely seems necessary to speak of the importance of frequent bathing of the feet and paring of the nails, and yet many are surprisingly careless i this respect. Corns are s.nply compose. of a great pumber of layers of cuticle; or scarf skin, one above another, each succassive layer being larger than the preceding, so that thre whole assumes the form of a grain of Indian corn; hence its pame. This is constantly press. ing its point upon the tender flesh when the shoe presses or rubs against it, and as this cuticle is easily dissolved tea great extent by the warm water and scap we can see that bathing is the most ready and harmless remedy as well as preventive. — Exchange. Columbia River. The Columbia river was first ealled the Oregano, the Bpanish name for the wild sage tl growson its banks. Whit- ney says that the Spanish name was Ore- jon, ‘*big ear’’ or ‘‘ore that hath large ears,’’ an allusion to the custom of the Indians in that region of stretching their ears by boring them and crowding them | lay claim to possessing within 100,009 pass Buenos Ayres, and in North Amer - that there are tailors and fashion plates | with ornaments. - WE ARE GREAT LITIGANTS. Other @onntry In the World, A man of ingenious mind and appar | ently ample leisare has gone to the tronble of fizuring out the number of | lawsuits brought in each country in a year, and hie has reached the conclusion that the United States is a better coun: try for uttorneys and counselors than any other civilzed land under the sun. He figures as lawsuits civil actions only, taking into no account proceedings of a criminal character brought by the pub- lie authorities against individuals, He has nsortnined that, taking the figures in 150,000 in France, ),000 . in Ger- the United in Italy 5,500,000 - 1n It is not to bo in” red from this that the people of one country are much more prone to litigation than are the people of another, but the explanation is to be to law in England is very expensive bnsi- ness, for it entails outlays in the form of costs and expenses so large that many of the courts are practically cldked to persons of modest means, and a. bona litigaticn nunsuccessfully . pu: ta | often in bankruptcy. In Fu Lhe pumber of lawsuits is kept down through the general practice of ‘‘arbitration,” as many as 100,000 cases in a year, Going over waged, being settled by this agency without cnercnscest to either party. In Germany i great majority of cases are petty ones, involving a small amount of money and due, many of them, to cus toms or usages which are not sufiiciently defined to be, in all cases, similarly un- derstood by both parties to an agree- ment, This is especially the case in the farming districts of Germany, and there aro many legal disputes in the manu- facturing districts too. ; : The number of cases credited to the | United States seems enonenous, but it | is probably accurate. There are, for ex-{ ample, 11 district courts for the disposal 3 yw : > » x - i of civil cases in New York city. Ju one | of these courts, by recent report, the number of actions brought in a year was shown to be 9,100. These courts bave befcre them each year, on,the average, 75,000 cases. The cases brotght in the state courts of New York amount in a year to about 150,000, and of those brought in the federal courts New York furnishes a very large number. Taking the whole country through, it is seen that the average nuinber of cases per thonzand of population is in the neigh: borhood of 75 to 85. The number of lawyers in the United States is material- ly larger than in any other country in the world, and the amounts in dispute here are much greater than elsewhere —New York San. 1 ne BUENOS AYRES. Argentine's Capital Is the Queen of the Southern Hemisphere. The omniscient Whitaker, under the] heading '‘British Poles In Avs tralasia,’’ states that Melbourne, with its suburbs, contained on Dec, 31, 1894, an estimated population of 444,833 in- habitants, ‘being the mast populous We have alwys understood Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Ayres to be also in the southern hemisphere, and, oddly enough, Whitaker himself gives larger figures for both of these cities than for Mel bourne. The remark. is probably obpe that has been at some time true and has been carried on from year to year. In any case, the results of the census establish incontestably the claim of Buenos Ayres to be the greatest city of South America and of the southern hemisphere. With allowance for imper: fections in the execution of the census, inseparable from the way in which it was carried out, the figure 655,053 may | be taken as practically correet, and no | other city in this half of the warld eon + asd of this number of inhabitants The population of Duenos Ayres 18) thus larger than that of any city of the | United Kingiom, except London and | Glasgow. It is considerably larger than that of Liverpool or Birmingham, and | it is only about 50,000 less than the combined populations of Manchester and Salford. Of the great cities of Europe only Paris, Berlin, Vienna, St. Peters- | burg, Constantinople and Moscow sur ica anly New York, Brooklyn, Chicago and Philadelphia. Onur city is the second city of the Latin world, sugpassing Mad- rid, Naples and Rome in Europe and Rio Janeiro, Santiago, Lima and Mex- jco in the new world. The rate of growth is no less remarkable than the | actual size, for in the last eight years Buenos Ayres has increased about 50 per cent.—Buenos Ayres Review. New York's River Tunnel. There is a big hole under North river. Some day it will be a tunnel connect- ing this city and Hoboken. No work has been done for four years, but the owners of the hole are now trying to raise money in London to complete their tunnel before a bridge can be built over North river. Only 1,230 feet remain to connect the two holes bored from either shore, each of which is now full of wa- ter. This water bas simply soaked through since work was abandoned on the death of the principal backer. So far $3,000,000 has been poured into the hole, and only $500,000 will be required | Make Clothing For Dogs. lanl many Enropeim ports yards of the ‘of the long | are perforations or leepholes, - | which It is well known that there are den- tists in London and in Paris whose | specialty it is to fit lapdogs with a set of | false tenth. It now appears from a Pa- risian monthly magazine of fashions for dogs. The list of garments includes raackintoshes, Jaeger vests, comforters and respirators, side pockets with a lace handkerchief inside, fur collars, small silk umbrellas, which dogs are taught to | carry over the head. —Chicago Tribune. FORTUNE IN BLACK DIAMONDS. Perth and South Amboy. Thousands of tons of coal are shipped from the ports of Perth and South ..m- boy, at the wenth of the Raritan river, every month. It is loaded in vessels for all points along the Atlantic =seablard The coal docks of the Lehigh Valley railroad at Perth Amboy aye the world. The ducks of the Px vania A Amboy BEAriy us acity, In ing guch imnewns ong the Jargest an rey ls railr are 1 of ane of the mist ablescine problems for the Hiro ing ston sider a loss of revenue for a ear mail several days at a given point 6+. ive te done to facilitate the ny movemeanol ; ‘he loaded and empty. For anumber of years loaded cars were kept standing in the stor 3 Penveylvania railroad at South Amboy? At times the com; for want of cars to the mines. T solved about t! i Iv yr1A28 ir weeks at a time ny was embarres transsport the coal from » diffienliy was finally cea years ago. In place ing of loaded cars mav nov be seen ir. mense piles of cos “When a train arrives from the mines, the various kins of coal are sorted out and the cars dr led to the proper side track for unloading. to each side track stands a large derrick with a movable boom extending diagon- ally into the air about %0 feet. To this boom is attache. a large traveling belt, on which are fastened lirge buckets, The belt is opératid In close proxitnity tea by a small steam engine in charge of the man who manipulates’ 3 As tha coal drops fron the t in the carit falls intot on the elevator belt and end of the swinging boom, where it is dropped Pa the cénter of the pile and dis- 1 ibuted by gravity, The coal remeins in tes piles until at. is required for ship: rat: then it is loaded in cars and trans- erred to the docks. The immense piles of coal vsvally «ntain from 10,000 to 12,600 tons each, cd are worth from $40,000 to 50,000, sording to the. market value of the al It is frequently the case that there y 12 of these piles of coal m the stor- y yard, representing a value of from 10,000 to $600,000. It was discovered ently that the coal rusted while in so piles. This did not detract from y buming qualities, but affected the ling value. To prevent this canvas cars were made at a cost of $1,000 ~h.. When the piles of coal are all ered, the storage yard resqmbles a 20 circus. The sight of such an im- nse quantity of coal is viewed with as onishment by strangers, although the re.-idents of South Amboy are so nocus- tomed to it that they never give it a sec- ond thought, —New York Telegram. alevator the 3 Gut ie * 2 ‘ ie hoe iets iscarvied tothe AN ANCIENT BLOCKHOUSE. The Bouquet Redoubt the Only One In Existence. Here in Pennsylvania we find what is not in existence in the east or south -—one of the original blockhouses built before the Revolution and still in a per- fect state of preservation. All the others Pitt are things of the past, but the re- doubt of Colonel Bouquet stands today | as it stood 130 years ago. To the Pitts- burg chapter of the Daughters of the Revolution we are indebted for its res- toration. It has been owned by them since 1888. Until that year the old redeubt of Bouquet, as it is called, was | occupied as a tenan$ house, and ‘within its walls was born Pirtsburg’s local his- torian, the laté Neville B. Craige, Esq. Down on ‘‘the point,’’ om a narrow, dirty little street called Fort street, sur- rounded by tumbledown buildings near- ly as old as itself, is a little fivo sided building of stone and brick erected by Colonel Bouquet in 1784 as a defense against the Indians. The lower story is of stone and the upper of brick. tir the defenders could fire with comparative safety from the enemy. Why this redoubt was erceted. has been a query to us, as but a short dis- tance away stood Fort Pitt, a w consrderail magnitude and arectiom cost the colony of Virginia, a the English g £80, 30, but the redoubt was built, as a stone sleh over the door with le 17 Coll. Bouquet,’ testifies. — Chiladelphi. Tames. : I in wwernmenr, the nd, 1H Munich Street Lamps. The method adopted in Munich for lighting street lamps from the ousside without opening the lamp has proved quite satisfactory, the results, us enu- mevated, being to economize in flashlight gas, to enable the lamps to be lit in a storm, to shut off the main stoperock, to light Welsbach lamps without explosion, and to prevent the casting of shadows. As described, the main pipe cornmun! cates with a kindling pipe, which. ag one end comes to the outside of the lantern and at the other goes to the burnyr--this kindling pipe being bored w:th fine holes, which make a row of flying fidmes leading from the outside to the burmer; the main pipe and its connec tions, with the stopcock, are divided so ps to enable gas to be supplied vo the kindling pipe and burner, and then the burner alone. The lighting is done with the ordinary rod lamp, provide with an aperture at its end which rn ceives the lower end of the kindling gabe. When the lamplighter's pole is slipped into position, wind has no effect on the kiudiing operation. —New York Sun. i A Broad Hint. : * They were seated in the parlor con- versing on the uncertainty of lire. She—The future is a vast; unfathom- able,mystery to us, isn't it? He—Yes; all we know have to go some time. - Voice From the Library—It would guip the convenience of this household if you'd muke it a little sooner than that. —Richmond Dispatch. is that we -pisher to a reporter. Take, for instance, en WOT cite mining company were desirous of efforts | in other directions were tried, \ delegation of the miners in New York | city anf discuss the situation. 18¢ ar 21 1 i ’ : : : have disappeared. Forts Duquesne and | 0 "0 01 prgieniest miners in the region ugh | af | whose | “fare yon not aware that were I to vote my permission, go ahead. CURTAINS. Er TMEATER Costly Draperies That Are Used In Some of the London Theaters. Few have any idea of the mopey | spent by the managers of London thea- | ters’ in procuring the curtain which hides the stage from public view, re- marked a well known theatrical fur- 8 the glorious curtain at Sir Heary Irv- ing’s theater, the Lyceam. That car-, tain, if it.cost a penny, cost at least | 1,000 guineas, I 2m told that 1,000 yards of beautiful 1! <d red plush were | nsed to make it compli te, and for it Sir! Henry Irving is indebted to the Baron- | ess Burdett-Contts . who stans vers Aa generonsly mude him a present of the curtain ibate to his artistic gen- | ius. : A very expensive enrtain is that used ut the Prince of Wales’ try street; now occupied by Mr Arthur Roberts. Its cost was abont £600, It 18 mada of boiler plate, is ‘entirely fire- | 848 Qa i! theater, Coven- proof and weighs no-less than six tons. | No fire can get from the stage to the anditorium or vice yérsa, as the top and | bottom of the enrtain respectively rest | against and upon a solid wall of brick I believe this, as well as other! enrtains of the same kind, was the in- vention of Mr. C. J. Phipps, the theat- | rical architect, Perhaps the most beautiful theater curtain in London--where the finest curtains in the world are to be seen— aré those at the Lvoeums, to which I have referred, the Palace Theater of | Varieties, and. the Savey.. The Palace curtain is a real work of art, and Mr, D'Osly Carte must have lavished a small fortune opon its make. It isa beautiful dream of gold and varions oth- ar colored sills, and something like 600 square yards of silk wese used in its manufacture. Iam told that the director of tha Paris Opera was slwest thonder- struck when, daring Mr. Carta's prodne. ! tion of “Ivanhoe,” he saw the curtain | for the first time. The Savoy curtain must have cost £300 if a penny, its mupesbal being of the finest gold plush. Another expen- give curtain was that booght by Mr. Charles Wyndham for the Criserion. It cost over £120, being made by Maple. Most of the other Londewm houses, and probably all the countwy shesters, con- tent themselves with the old fashioned curtain of canvas, somelmunes with a scene and sometimes witis initation cur- tains painted npon it. The cost of these varies of course, and may ran from £20 to £200, according to the amount of work put into them and she artist en- gaged to paint the scene.—London Tit- Bits. ] ————————— THEY WON THE RAISE. The Directors Were Satisfied That Their Claim Was Just. Once when the miners of a big anthra- receiving ‘increased pay an effort was made to induce the local officials in the mining country to make such repre- gentations to the president of the com- pany as would produce the desired ef- fect. This was unavailing, however, and he directors offered to meet until a A dozen were selected as delegates—great rugged men, who would certainly make a fa vorable impréssion. The men met the officials and stated their case, which was that at the prevailing rate of wages they could hardiy get enough to eat. The matter was held wnder advise- | ment, and the conferenes adjourned to | luncheon. Then came the Most amazing | display of appetites thee has ever been | seen before or since, and the colored | waiters turued pale as they saw a dish | intended for the entire party retained by one man, who speedily made away with the contents. Each man seemed as | ravenous as shough he had not eaten for i § { { i | a week, and the caterer was at his wits’ | In both | ends to provide for them ail. th | At last, when every portion had been | eaten and all seemed inclined for more, | | the door mat. It never seems to enter a giant whose native phwe was South Wales cried out: ‘Dent you wary about no more fancy shisgs. Bring us | a cheese, and. we'll make out all right.’ A cheese was procured, asd she directors | gazed with awe as iv Sp ly disap- | peared. As the last erumibs were disap- | pearing the officials held a hprried con- sultation, and after awit president announced : ‘Gentlemen, we have dectd- | ed to concede your claims to an advance | of 10 per cent, for we amp certain that | at present vou can scarcely get enough ! to eit. Nothing but ¢his pleasurable | meeting could so fally bave convinced | us of your needs.’” The delegates have | not yet wearied of tellihg of the amas- | ing display of gluttony which they al- | lege was preconcerted for fhe express purpose of creating the #mpression that it produced. —Philadelphia Inquirer. Market Quotations. “Sir,” said the indignant alderman, for your measure [ would be exposed to the condemnation of all the good eiti- ens in my ward? And that sort of thing,”” he added, lowerimg his voice, “somes pretty high, you mow. ''—Indi- yaapolis Journal. : Tha Modern Daughter. “T wish to ask yonr permission to pay my addresses to your daughter,’ said the old fashioned y man. “All righ 1," sid the od gentleman. “If T can io t her permission bo give you "—dianapo- lis Journal. : The man who does not overcome ennui | by occupying himself sogm tries to fly from it by mtemperance. The idle man is almost necessarily wieions. i ism ——— Some one says thas, alshough it a sad to see family relics sold at avetion, the | most painful thing and bammer is | generally ona’s thumb mail. ee a ke ee — The soand of a bed whieh can heard - 45, 200 fest in the water can heard only 4568 feet in the air. - 5 | big swallows of it would be a pe i benefit to nine bathers out of ten. | is quinine nor calomel. dentally swallowed a big gulp of water and then rushed off to get a drink of whisky to wash the taste out of his mouth, a saccessful medical practiticier, who had witnessed the performace, said : ‘‘That man is either a green’: mn or a fool. Otherwise he wonld have 1ak- en merely a sip of lemonade and allow- ed the sea water to do its work. : ‘As a matter of fact, one of the n.ost beneficialfeatures of a sea bath is the =ilt | ipadvertently swallowed by bathers. It. i is a wonderful tonic for the liver, sfom- ach and kidneys. In many cases it will | cure bilionsness where all drag presara- : tions have failed. It is peculianly ¢ “of ive in ordinary cases of indigestion dis. i ordered stomach and insomnia and has been known to produce excellent re alts in many cases of dyspepsia... Sea v.ter | is full of tonic and sedative prope. ies - | t won't hurt anybody. - Two or (hree itive It | isn’t palatable or tempting, but neither “You never see an old sailor + jo is hilious, dyspeptic or a vietim of ir ~om- { nia, and why? For the resson tt an ocean of good medicine spreads ail «hout his ship, and he doses himself cop ously with it whenever his phy¥ical me han- ism becomes the least bit derange ll” —— | Philadelphia Times. 1 : * What's In a Word? If any of eur readers, in looking over articles on electric railways in the Ger- man langoagze, should come across the word strassenbahnwagenuntergestelle, they need not be alarmed or discouraged nor be afraid to use it in goed sociefy. - | Instead of getting at the subject direct- | Iv, as is done in Bnglish) this single word relates quite a little story—a sort of riddle of which. youn are expected to - guess the unswer. The story is briefly as follows: In about the middle of the i word we find that the object referred to has some connection with a car, and, retuming to the beginning, it appears that tis car is intended to run on ras (a8 cars usually do, by the way); that these riils are in the streets of a city, and that the car is supported on some structure. Near the end it is explained that this supporting structure is below, and not above, the car, and, finally, it is added that it refers to the apparatus in general and mot to any ove form in | particular. With the aid of this descrip- tion it will not be difficult to guess cor- rectly that the German writer would have said trucks instead had he been privileged to use the English language. It seeins to ns that this verbal machine is sorsewhat overcompounded — Eleo- trical World. Ses Calling Servants With a Pele. A quaint practice exists at the bishep of London's palace at Fulham, and this consists in what appears to be a time honored custom of waking up the epis- oopal domestics by means of a long pole At Fulham the palace lodge keeper has a regular morning duty to perform in arousing certain of the servants at suo- cessive hours, beginning st about half ‘past 5. The pole he uses is not employ- ed, however, like the old church *‘rous- ing staves,’ which came in handy in churches in the case of inattentive or dozing members of the congregation to bring them to a proper sense of their position. The venerable man is provided with a slender rod some 15 feet in length, and with this he raps on the antique chsements of the servants’ bed- rooms in the quadrangle within the massive wooden gates of the large west- ern archway, and be continues his at- tenticn until the sleeper gives a more or less grateful answer. —Montreal Star. When She Hides the Key. It is a singular instance of the sim- plicity of the average mind to watch the entire good faith in which the coun- try housekeeper, when she takes ber walls abroad and locks up her house, | hides the key for its discovery by any ‘other member of the family. As a mat- ter of course, she tucks it away under her dear, unworldly head that every other woman in the place does precisely | the same thing, and perhaps every other woman in every other suburban town. She never sééms to think that that is one place that any student of her | human nature who had burglarious in- | tentions would seek entrance to the house by simply lifting the door mat. He would be sure to find the key ready for him there. —Philadelphia Press. — pred damm ‘The Cest of the Atlantic Cable. Running an Atlantio cable seems to be an expensive business, From an arti- cle on the Comm woial Cable company’s station at Hazel Hill, N.S. , in The Wind- sor Magazine we learn - that the cables average $1,250 per mile, and the ex- | penses of executive management amount to about $50,000 per sunum. Repairing expeditions are ruinous; $175,000 was sunk in one expedition that failed. The repairing ship costs $300,000, and often ' absorbs $2,500 per month to maintain her ready for sea at a moment's notice. The landing rights in France oost this company $40,000 and three months’ tedious negotiations. The company got similar facilities in Englanfl for §5 and a pclite letter to the board of trade. Hadn't Thought of That. Several nights ago a well known phy- sician bought a package of peanuts from | a Main street peddler, and while the man was measuring out his purchase the doctor drew a cigar from his pocket and proceeded to light it. - The peddler looked at him with a sor- rowful expression on his face. “They | don’t smoke in heaven,’’ he said. No," answered the doctor, ‘‘neither do they sell peanuts.’’—Buffalo Cou- rier. : ; A Correction. Mistress—If I catch the coachman kissing you again, you will lose your place. Maid—He wasn't kissing me again, mura. It was the first time when you saw him. —Detroit Free Press. ;
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