pone fi or pagel i) } Weight of Omar Atmosphere. Ii has been roughly lonlated that the weight of our atmosphere is about one ton to every sqnare foot of tha earth's surface; 25,000,000 tone per . gquare. mile, or 5, 000 6600( G00 060 tons on the total of 200 ( th's area, Agi, mecording to estimates of the authority above, a cubic mile of air weighs shom 10,000,000,000 pounds. This nase when electrified, or put in motion by other forces, develops cyclonic power equal to 4,000,000,000,000 “foot tous’ of energy. the tornado (cyclone) is usually so de- If you wish to know why structive, fignre on the fact that the | force of such storms is generally equiv alent to more than 2,000,000,000,000, 000 horsepower! The total horsepower | of all the engines now working in the | -world is only 49,000,000, and of all those in America, both locomotives and | stationary engines, only 7,500,000. | Compare 7,600,000 with 3,000,000,- | 000,000,000 and see how _insignificant | it looks! Is it any wonder that the cy _ clone, ‘‘the rushing demon of the air,’ leaves ruin and destruction in its path?’ —8t. Louis 5 Republic. “Poetry and. Maste. It must be remembered that scng is a combination of two arts, in which each - must exercise its own function and must respect the office of the other. In the ideal iyric, such as those of Heine and ‘Schumann, the poet draws an outline which the musician colors, and where ‘they are in perfect sympathy there will "be perfect unity of result. But if the one oes on to complete the picture, if he every nuance and every de- ffl, there is no collaboration possible, lor nothing is left to the other but com- plete subservience. There will never be an adequate setting of the ‘‘ Bugle Song”’ 10 ““The Princess, ’* not because the verse is too musical, for such a plea is a con- tradiction in terms, but because the is too full. What is the composer to do with such a consummate line 2s: Blow; baigle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, -dying—? Shall he follow the snagestion of the wards? He is but echoing the echoes. | Shall he disregard it? He has missed | the poet's meaning. The whole field has | been occupied already, and if he claim | “a share of the tillage he must take sta- | tion as a serf. —M: ac milk m's Magazine. 5 An Effective Lie. ~ A young French advocate in the conrse of bis address to the court flourished -. about bis hand in such a manner as to . show off a magnificent diamond ring. He was young, good locking and was pleading for a lady of quality who de- manded a separation from ler hushand. The hus! , who happened to be pres- ‘ent, interrupted him in the middle of a ‘period and turning to the judges ex- olaimed theatrically, ‘‘My lords, you Will agyesciste the zeal which M. X —— is displaying against me and the sin- ourity of bis argument when you are informed that the diamond - ring he wears is the very one that I placed on TS Bore of the day of that un- .jon he is so anxious to dissolve!’’ The - oourt was struck with astonishment and rose immediately. The cause was lost, _ and the advocate never had another. Tc add to the poignancy of the catastrophe, ~ the husband’s insinuation had no foun- dation whatever in fact. —8an Francisoc Argonaut. Wk Combination Wouldn't Work. Willie Garvin was always a good fel- low, and in due course of time he got maurriod, wa % good fellow should. He aoquired his growth long ago, not sowith hie family. Whenever he makes ‘his censms returns, he changes ghe fig- ures. Up to a year ago he had accumu- lated “one little, two little, three little Garyins’’ — three beautiful, blooming "sons. Each time without exception it was a boy. . Being a sohoolteacher and not wish. ing to get rusty in his addition, multi: plication, etc. , he occasionally edds one | _ to the list. The last addition came recently. A friend at once telegraphed : “Call him Lazarus on Scriptural authority. The Lord said, ‘Lazarus, come forth.’ ”’ The answer went back: ‘‘Suggestion §, but combination won't work. The boy is a girl."'—Boston Budget. “Politeness No Use. The apologists of ‘the Spanish ad- miral who fired shot at the Carrie A. Lane, hauled her to and boarded her, ~ tell ns: *“The Spanish officers were very polite and made but a slight examina- tion,’’ It reminds one of the Irishman ‘and the bull. The bull chased him across the field, and just as Pat reached the fence he horned and tossed him, and Pat luckily alighted on the other side, The bull pawed the earth and bellowed. Pat looked at him and remarked, *‘ Yes, "be jabers, you're very perlite, bowin and scrapin aud ‘pologizin, but you did it a purpose, and you know it, you old! brute !"’—C hicago Inter Ocean. Due to Imagination. : ~ Bome writers of sea songs were poor | ~ «sailors. ‘'1'm oun the Sea! I'm on the Bea I” wrote Barry Cornwall as if Yife . on the ocean wave were a joy. song, for he was the sickest of sailors - and detested tho sea. “I had it from Mus. Proctor,’ says Santley, the singer, ‘‘w ho told me that | she used to tease him, humming a; strain of his jovial sca song as hoe lay, a very log, huddled in shawls and a tar- paulin, crossing the cliannel, with bare- ly ‘sufficient animation left to utter, ‘My dear, don’ tr 3 ; No place is tunpelod s0 much as the | rock of Gibraltar, where there are up- ward of 70 miles of underground pas- | sages. Sdtor ‘doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it lone=—Thomas Scott. Epping forest is the largest public ! recreation ground in the world. 5 AR EE Te pf Ya Buf it | was his imagination that wrote the When a man has Hot a gol reason And «i p he Jaa: # of morning dew, When baby fe from the bruke Dd prow] the thorny helges throngh, When on the yoeadow sweet with hay The white and early lar in And, grest and 4 Dor and pool, Blo wath the hreewe nf corain Thou, Vem sh alt rise To runw? ¢ : And open wide hv thy yes — Rowan Blevapes 1: 5 uth '® Companion CAPE cel Al BINOS, | A COLONY OF Sodr ¢ HAIRED PEOPLE It Is About LP Years Old aad at One Time It Nuglemed About Fifty Persons. The Story of €he Pittsleys and Their Physical Peealiwritics. . Since the appearance ¢f albino i in side shows esd dime museums the general public bes indulged in consid- erable speculasésm ae to where the man- cure their frizzy haired specimens. Al- though seldom met with sit other places, there ie at Cape Cod a settlement of these pink eyed and white haired peo- ‘ple. . For genersfons the Pittsley fam- ily, known ig fie section as the “white haired Pittsleys,”’ Lave been albina cropped ont, and added the haired Reynolds Cape Cod's hoeman curiosities, - Until quite recently a dezen or 15 FPittsley aibinos might half as many : ples ( f each otho* and gOrLotiines ander #he samo roof. Dut the fawilies in whidh there are ulbinos have most lonely Freetown 2 ‘areham, at the entrance to Spe La hé musentn aMino and the albino in real life have Wftle in common. The albino at homo is disappointing. His or her hair isn't erimped to tho muse- um limit. It oesm’t etand out a la Cir- cassian. the albino hair is dingy, becanse they don’t know any better, and if they did they probably wouldn't adopt the mod- ern methods of washing hair. The eyes of the albino in this region prove their alkimism beyond question. They are usually described as pink, like rabbits’ eyes. They are extremely weak to get a square look into the eye itself. When the eye is opened, the lid is lifted only for m second, and it takes a quick look to discover shat the pupil is dark red and sorrcunded with o lighter red ring, while the ball of the tye is pale rim of the eyelid. The effect would be thoronghly pink #' the cre remained at rest. It is almesd imposuyible to obtain a direct look iute the eve, because from the eye of the healthy albino red lights seem {0 dart, while the pupil quivers and dilate and | seins to NOTE TDCEAs- ingly, It is over a comtury and ah alf since the appearance of the first albino was recorded in the Pittsley tribe. Since that time probally more than 100 have been born bearimg this name or having mothers from shis family. At one time it is estimated that only a few Jess than 50 albinos were living within a radius of 25 miles. Barnum might here hgve held an albino congress if he had been able to engage all of these people with | the wonderful wive red pupils. It has| ‘always been ameng the legends of the | cruit his collection frora this locality, but today the peoud Pittuleys deny in- dignantly that Barnum ever had money | enough to engage even coe of them to pose in public. The arigin of she family is connect- ed with ¢me of the wickedest episodes of the early bistery of the new world. There is even a chanod that perhaps | some Pittsley was a relative or friend of the sweet wad pivus Evangeline. When the Inglish deported from the vales of Acad nentrais and s Penobscot aroused to Lonisiana, Free { town, which wes near the colony of | Plymouth, bad met been able to send its | full quota of men to the army. So in the distribntion of the French from Acadin 15 men , with sora: women and children, were left in Freotown, The bitterest ¢f all was the separation and | splitting up of families. The people “were filled with dejection, and the poor- | est of them apparently taiilt some rude | lodgos in’ the fere-ts and took no ‘car guage. They ware strangers im habit apd. manners. Men had bean separated] Cotton Plsmters’ Troubles, It may seem all gery well perhaps forthe i eotton piaiter to gas the Laeflt which ho | | hope $ to dedfive pom Yr’! cotton bag- ging by placing His psizhber's flax on th free list, bur be MM have the peor comfort | of knowing that ihe secures any advan tage it will be at #hie expense of farmers | engaged in agriculdural avoecations as hon-- Uorable and honest as his ove, The cotton plangor's trovible lies be WO! od | cheng ition bageing. It lies in over i: n, failure to rotaxy his crops for { batter vic 1d 8 and the poor baling of his pro- i duet, entailing re ons in price all along { the line until the cotton reaches the ruan- | afacturer, YED AND WHITE | agers of these feenk aggregations pro- | Wave bien found within scatiered lately and spread over the rts of tho conntry from In the natural Pittsley state! and almost closed so that it is difficult | pink and surrowsded with the pinkish | county that the great showman did re- | FY the families of French | cred them in almost. every teat FH the mouth of the! how they lived. None spoke their lan. | ta¥o and Fitzsimme “In Mexico?’ was asked | "No, girree,’’ said Brady emphatical- ly. ‘No Mexico in mine. There are oth. er pisces, many of them. There is a fight It was made by a thoraoghly re- sponsible man, who gnarantees to pull the fight off within 250 miles of Dallas. forfeit the entire amount in case his plans fall throngh. ”’ ya bett accept this offer?’ ot “He will fight, moreover, if he has to put up the purse himself. This man Fitzsimnions claims to be willing and will be pat to the test, fight between this pair before Nov, When questi med ‘ae to whether he would fight elsewhere tha in Dallas or | Joe Vendig. power to pull off the Hg can’t help believing, howgrrer, tha Fitveinm Nis iS acting nnfairly a bout th at referee. After | my appearance in Madison Square Gar- , den next Monday night 1 am going to) : . : : re] i y aud E > | frequently done 1a. a -vionrl ‘War, 18; | not of tae least consequence | who govern and control China ranst be | : . The Pastor Knocked the Sexton Over a Texas, and I shall certainly not com back until Fitz and I fight it out.” Speaking of Governor Cunlberson's call for an extra session of the Texas legislature, the champion said ke thought Dan Stewart knew more abont the situation down there than any one else. ‘‘l don't know snything about Stewart says it's all right, it's all right, and there is the end of it, 80 far as I am ooncerned.’’ With these words the shamipion retir- od for his evening meal, seemingly con- vinoed that Joe Vandig and Dan Stew- | art could match the entire legislature of Texas, and even go it one better if it came to a pinch. Bob Fitzsimmons’ party said that, notwithstanding the course of Governor Culberson in calling special action of the fight being brought off. Fitzsim- mons said : ‘that are perfectly familiar with the sit- nation and know what they are dding, change. NEW TIME LIMIT. Applications, “All inventors,’’ says Edward P. is dated April 15, 1893, it will affect cases as though the last official action | Consequently any | | claims rejected before April 15 must be | 000 oysters a year. The us were upon that date. i argued cr amended before Oct. 15. ““The cause of this regnlation is easi- | ly conjectured. The well known Berlin- | er telephone patent application was | fol ding before the office for about 14 | : years. Many other applications for pat- | ents have been allowed to lag two years [at a time after each official decision, | and afterward the patent wonld have its full term of 17 years, whereby the | inventor was thought to obtain practi | cally protection for a longer term than | J was intended by the statutes “The same new rile also provides that if ie six montis expire and an other six months and another and so on, then before the expiration of five vears tha anventor may be i show cause why the cis rapidly prosecuted Offers to Po Marvelous Things, Norman } ! f markahle board of Cony rel ] into a 12 incl one-third greater : miglern steel Ho also inch smc jus; TOInNVe La aye iia, {3} cinch rifle hy the sama m Finally he offered t 11 t steel high power 16 inch rifle whic ' some peculiarity of construction not dis. closed, would increase tn tensile stringth with every shot fired Mr. W Jad - asked an allotment of funds for the purpose of bringing to completion and test his first pamed proposition. The board took the ques. | tion under consideration. —Exchange. And what is more, he agrees to put up | °° da the money in advance, and is willing to | 0ficials who enoour ill, gladly,”’ was the reply. f | eager to try conclusions with Jim. He | I'm not a mil- | : : oh | i lionaire, bnt I'll bet $2,500 that there is | PAUICD f¢1t here over the Ku-Chag g mas- | ‘hey have i temarried, and, althongh | a clannish in the extreme, yeers ago took | 15 a the farily #id a man named Rey- polds, in whose c¢®ildren the peculiarity | “white to the litle asmy of | and poopde the state of Texas, Jim Corbett said: | “It all depends on Dun Stewart and | Iv will do anytiying ip my © the governor or the legislature. If Dan the legislature, they had no doubt about for the fight are in the hands of men | { where recognized. and I do rot think that they wonld have | gone as far as they have. if they had not been certain of their ground.”’'—Ex-| Only Six Months Yor Prosecuting Pateat | cannot carry them ‘ Thompson, ‘patent solicitar of New | ex : York, ‘who have been depending upon | having two years in which to prosecuts their applications before the United | | States patent office can now have only | six months, and, because the new rule |? : I l in the Iaie des C { not only in Canada, bot al t and the United States. Tha wm : of pre toctinn for the ovster ish be pers 17 40k a. ty tear . : % WV! wt 8 a | standing offer of a $20,000 purse fer the terior distri a wl i | viceroys Wis mandaring are yeurning | This legen shonld not be tang?! ht th semi- gavages by the knocking de ks +f vil lages, but it should | y atered. to | of these gnilty sconndrels shonld be cap- | tured and promptly exeented, And t wonldn't he a bed idea to snatch the gay young emperor from hs throne aod hold him as a hostage while { the corrupt © ficials wera being captarcd | and sepasated from their heads. Ome can have no idea ¢f the depth of the indig- | sacres. ‘This is a missienary oomntry, here, without regard té na-| : { over the question of his power to shout $ Even those y ticnality, are filled with rescntment ot approve ¢f mis i age an Av ing at the | | slanghter of the missionaries. Every one | in helping to establish the traditional Rien war inv those ron & Hiswinibol Ri Wwore ll RO 13! IE NOY EIT ae ies guaranaqg { Hi Rsl{PAres . 4 " ¥ magic 1G BnlTer With she } » 3 fnem ve price for a miss 1 i Yu kgs we 2 vv vied Fh mw ta IRR ALTER YT COI Ire f ith, 8% 18 reached. Will the government of the United States distinguish itself by taking the a great opening, and the occasion is a mighty one. But our peaceful, pastoral government is not in the habit of ‘‘ris- ing to rhe wecasion.’’ When English Protestaats were once denied the right of worship in Rome, there was a Crom- well, who cond notify the auguost pon- tiff that unless he changed his pclicy he would hear the thunder of the Ircpsid: = at the gates of the Vatican. And the policy was changed. Can the goveru- ment of the United States, back. d 17 the Christian nations whose missionary citizens are also sl aghtered to make Mongolinn holidags, se ‘nd a threat to out its demands. Its {ecblenoss is every: | mandarias thronghont the filth. disease Ignorencs, disloyalty and decries from Peking a: ne lougar heeded, than the tmgerial yoy ernment is about ar its end. : r ment which éan malic pxist. —dohn A. Cockerill in New Yo Herald. Oyster Far: iE One of the largest waild 3 berog estalilae formed Quebee comp tains 470 acres, of sul of the breeding and {ote at Carleton has. been company by the government. mouth a dam oor sluice gates is bee ton The Canadian salt oysters know Malpecqaes are now greatly let } 80 ¥ das ¥ fy J rosnltoe The Hoalery firowiesy wel keep awa Fo the wler) wlery room’ —l.aura E. Rich hards in St. Nickolas, 3 is mathing. FTo chop off the heads of a at of rim. must prevail ~—F surth Estate. "T 48 men | lead in this itaportani raatier? ihere is. Protectant Episcopal church, in Ford- | 18 years old, and Charles, 6 years old, 11 it? Ir 1s said on | - Peking vihich will be listened to and re- | | spected? Yea But wi ! entral government of | “I understand that the arrangements | behalf ¢f the central gov Boon : China that today it is apable to carry | i school roomy as much as she pleased. The vicercys sand the, smpire an | precis«ly as they pleags aud snap their fingers wt Peking. Yacapacity, debt, | Lrevoluticmary spirit murk the China ot i today. if th ’ An ' praidid her. To drown his voice she sat iF we ar pt 4 IT VBS FiVED AS went to St. Lous Fterests of Mr. Palitzar's paper, whose | ;. | traditional character Editor Jones has | been charged with changing, and whose 1 principles the sarge accuser, The World, said he bad abandoned. The startling ramor is bandied abont that Colonel Dillan went to St. Louis for tha purpose of changing catchers in the game going on between The World office and The Post-Dispatch. Colonel Dillon's 88 Louis experienos character of The Post-Dispatch and lay- ing the foundation of its ie it was conceded, made him a fit represent. ative of Joseph Pulitzer in the dilemma Romor was right for once, as shown by bditor Jones’ action in going to law for free silver Wn opposition to Propirie | ter Palitzer's aiffering views, The BEWRTADPST War iz bo rid tH : courts fail 1 to ia A ! ag { hon aon G1 fissmd to la 1p a bul when there are twn honses.at heads it wonkd esern A > + Fan a “ Hat he stn FOUGHT IN A CHURCH, Pew. Rector Charles J. Holt of St. James’ bam, N. Y., bas two children, Andry, who, it is said, have been making a playroom of the church edificé on days when there are no services Sexton Henry Howarth, who, with his wife, cleans the church, recently complained to the rector that his chil- dren and their friends had littered the Sunday school room with peanut shells, grape skins and other refase. The clergyman, #0 the sexton do- clares, did nothing to stop the littering. | Recently the sexton and his wife found i Miss Andrey and the little boy playing | | in the Sunday school room and put them | out. The girl was indignant, maintain- | ing that she bad the right, as the minis | ter’'s daughter, t¢ play In the Sunday | After putting out the children the | sexton and his wife went up into the | church and began cleaning there. They soon heard a nose down stairs : The sexton went down and found that | the gir: had opened a window and | jumped in. © He ordered her out ane d np | | down at tha piano and banged as hard ‘as she conld. This incensed the sexton, | and he picked her up and carried bord i oat beadily.. She went cryin ® to ber father, saving | that (he sexton ad struck her. The ree I tor went into the charch and asked the sexton if he bad stroek Awdry. The i sexton ‘|ald “If she said I Hoth her, she lied.’ “Me Holt says ao thought the sexton | sad that he, the clergyman, lied. Ii» | struck out, and the sexton tumbled over | | whether or not the sexton should be re- { .! instated. They were unable to agree and | wa | it when it arrived, The wateh, a¢ i And the college woman isnot o iy: | exacting in her standards of man : but nader less Bi! SSUYE- 10 accw ot | what i falls beline her standard than the aver | age woman, because she can better sun- port and occupy herself alome. As =» matter of fact, ‘mthappy marriszes are virtually unknown among college fom: | en. —~Milicent W. Shinn in Century. the back of a pew. Asthe gexton got up and started for the clergyman Mrs Howarth appearxl. She persuaded th angry men not to fight in church. Then the clergyman discharged the sexton. The vestrymen had a secret meeting ‘to investigate the trouble and decide ill meet again. —New We wk Sun. Honses In Deviand in Washington. “A few months ago there were ast 6 000 Renses with for remy’ 8 m this ety. Today it 14 eof tf Ternse tom Delivaved { delivered, ‘as a sheer hon nya & for gl - ter and it opens not its month.’ . { pan at F “ge h yanticr assume these fellow | get rich the with other people lots “Por Croker can't that he can sign his had to write that =ign clusively for the use wonld have to give in. Grant is also an ignorant man. I wrote his messages No doubt he now gineerely believes fBat be is a literary maa. Such fellows. swollen with official rank, soon imogihe they possess ail the sco mplshmebinof educated men, And the mystery to me is that it continues to decsive Cauca men! They asvome that thevean d Tr # property, the patrons i something, and for that assumed pyo- erty, votes, they sell the voters and An mediately start to got rich. Rouses, she y . : Sioa $1 3 in $e §¥ 3 - . 4 bles, blacks of Henses, God aly kes - & : Egan ie “wy Tap oy Ley have @0 53 fie ¥ ran was odd ‘ Eek a priest ¢ Looe cain, in Belvion. ay £08 man oe m Dan O'Connell's stand Ts int: Tove Wikk nrding to the Coekran version ( is ranuing his stable in Earope on veles, like Buffalo Bill's exported Indians, all hig—Cody's Crokers! Gentlemen, wu see the EY x t b . A from the Sixih ward. Tae ncrse whish takes this prize was lately 6,000 of Mr. Croker's subjects. Run, Flyer! Catch him, ye shivering, naked Man- hattans! Cody-Croker are on the tax?!’ «Gath in Cincinnati Enquirer. a A LONG LOST WATCH. Gemeral Shelby Has Hopes of Receiving It . Aftee any Years. = General Jo Shelby received some wel- come News resently, which he made known to friends. He is of the opinion that the news will ultimately resuls in his securing again the gold watch flat was once his father's and was stolew in 1848 at Lexington, hY. In 1548 General shelby, who was then but a yourg man, was employes at Lexington by Colonel Samuel Juckesn. He slept in a room over the buses | howse apd was the owner of a fue geld. ‘waich that h.@ basen carried § or meiny years br his father. At: the death of the elder Ela hy i was prea a to Genenal Shelby hy hie moiber One worn im in Iwas Stolen frog RIE FOOBY BY 0S i thief. and no trace of io was dis oa, and the watch was given up as lost. That was in 1520, dnd {na that fine antil a fer dave ssono tidings hod ewe come to him «¢ : the watch, Some dys 1a letter from a gene Orchard, W. Va, in ago he receive whieh he said he was in poscassien abe watch, and Lad seen for Sane (Lee ‘which contained Gon +ral Shelby 's nase. and he had anderstood it was his prep - erty at one time, and ‘he wrote to lesen if he was still ative, and, if 801, whesher he eared to have the timepiece retarséd The letter awakened emotions aad memories that had slombered for nearly half a century, aud General Shelby de- came possessed ¢ cf a deep desire 10 Meo tho watch agsin and Lave if in his pes- session, He said he wonld see that werd was sent to the man to forward the tch and name a suitable reward sor watches were vi. wd as that fine, Was i a sapericr one in every respect. — Nin sas City Joranal Ghser ved I deearas fre "4 A 3 3 | erard ide Marriages Anvmg Colle» Women 3nt the bent fowa) ] rigge may lessen the of my riage, 1: 1% nx 5.3 as, bat the «old woman, for y marriage will do as well as letters: “It srry tracriiinary Warrew a harny divias 3. 0 Dn ri. My ex lb n a effort of dives io have often see det lay my sufferings a In connection with this wine Sylvester write 4 Tew YOars ago 18 oom. oui: “'Saized by a sudden attack of Tis, x the aecess of nocturoal fever 1 felt s itself in my afd the problem of the ke ntiffeation of the discriminant of the cabe with that a! the square. —Cesare Lumbroso iu Cems Ese May have Hess tO my composi hrone nit : tary. Fs ey we i i A Coram a mach A en
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