} 3 i k $ 2 2 § 2 ner of Bow the telephone came rented way told hy Dr. Alexan- Beit during his Attendance | | Dr. Bell's father, and expert sn was go | 4 dorlepn a a A he us i Po His fathdr had Jectured evstem had come to the knowledge of a ton and of the prominent educators in thse | that city, and in 1871 the board of adn- eation invited Dr. Bell fo soe what he could de in the Boyton Hehool For the Ho scoepted the invitation and | De in practice there with gresc success, and It was intro duced in ona nstitation alter another vw duced cu seu ho Dr. Boil did not at thit time believes t was possible for deaf thes to ander wh b looking st the month of The mechanism of mesch as, bo thought too omnplicated for therelore set to work to in: | which would repre Er it wae spokes | ® # pidtare of the vibeations | A He commimend hisexper. hich, by moins of 8 viorat- | bed on a piece of this tect vison that may | wes . veto a Se eas Foe thy 0 | sary to produce ali the wounds, Farther consideration convinced him that he v | could wot only sind any number of mo- iwical tones mimultsneotsly, but sounds | of any kind His familisrity with the | | sonopunios to 20 so, and in every in matare of speech bad to ghis him that | stunct whers ihe map. examined waa | the term “quality of sun means | x of | really a chord of different musical tones in having different intessities, and be hence .snsed by | could conceive bow a sound of any kind that men pti {ch women | whatever, «ven words, might be trans sen | mitted if 4 these reeds conld be | sla | moved in fro. of an elietro magnet in have never know is a see | 1he resultant way in which the air is a bor blind Whose futher was | moved when a wound is ottersd. His ; lexpeviments in vibrations had tanght ; of color age randly bim the form od the sound waves The A i 23 on bupontie that’s | problem was to make & mass of steel {vibrate in the way the air does The | problem was in his mind at the time he was making the experiments with the Durnan ear, before described. The thourht saddens strock him that thers was a great disproportion in bir's dream is one | MAM betweyn the bones of the ear and of th marvel of sep. In the work en- | the membrane that eur ited them, “The F of M {that these boned were, wel uvely to the | {ive Why, then, er 1 Bot the piece of liron or steel bo moved by asuiching ¥ to a heavier and stifiy membrane, of the present telephone. firm. The prob om wos wives It will thos be scen that the telephone was the mault of twe : ne of Fur women’s de to disband. ‘We coulda’s girl who would on aa chairman | and "Philadelphia X oith American. in this eo t d in this way the the deaf and domb institations in Bos | : pay : hich ri fart of the troops "a tiered or ment there has cost, and this | satails no end of complicated bookkeep- log. India, for instance, pays for the cloth fog of ik own troops, and aleo for the poiforms of the men which England sends there The latter item is about 1 $875,000 annaaily. On the other had, {when a regiment comes home from Ine 1 dia, that country has to be paid back {the fall value of the clothes they wear, The government sells old ard worn. out artichis to the secondpand dealers, who, by the way, usgal ascumulate fortones ip i» short time The value of | osstofl clidthes so dinposed of is about as | $140,000 pearly. The scraps remaining | io | After the oniforms have been cat oud | sia | A180 bring » matter of $80,000 snnual- | ~ | 17. In all the sothorities receive back about $1,100,000, thus redugnf the 10 the to tal cost of clothing the army 1 $5,000,000 & year. : 3 The beat quality of everything is need iin the nmmsefactore of spiforme In fact, it is said they are too good for du- rable wear. A buge factory in Pimlico, London, takes a large share of the fur nishings, but vast quantities of foot and head gear ave hought ready made. Boots and lepgiigw, for example, cost $1,164, 000 and heddresses £150,000, The thousands of miles of fannel, linen, calico, cloth, velvet, ete, the millions ¢f bottons the tony of cotton wool, the hitlions of yarde of sewing _sotton, tht are made info smart tanios, tidy tronsirs and warm shirts cost $3, £25,000. The wages paid for making these op an over $6,000 a week. Some of the enlnries paid for this branch are | excellent for England. The inspector of slothing slosives $6,000 and bis assist. ants $2,750 apiece, and so on down the log list, Frat all this vast expense in probably muith less (han the anposl ootiay that Fragee or Germany makes for keeping tx jholdien smart in appearatios in times of peace. ln Germany, for example, ev ery man in the army is mid fo have four complete mits of military clothiog. —New York Journal aoe A ZOOLOGICAL DIVERSION. As Eiephat That Used to Play » Clover Trick on Yisitors The elephant at the Jardin des iris used fo play his visit | thought oft ‘bus by an animal of much | “08° imteiligenci Za bouas opaned upon ui | inclosure palled He | inclosure, and, not seeing. @im in i, | 2 i wonld watch in expectation thut be ‘would sooty iswoe from the house. But | while they were gazing about a copicos | | sprinkling of water would fall wpon | OF Jover | them, and | Indies and gentlemen, with | 1 their five lounets and costs, would ron | *0% for shelter under the trees, locking opi d hs Tati coining. os’ It scored, | he [48 Awiewitd Juyat the Sick that he + In the conrm of time bis | ions tha vo or wean To ri | : ot from his trunk the spectators would | possible “1 | take flight, at which he appeared ex- | oeedingly delighted, getting up ws fast | “V7 as he could to see the bustle be had | I had nothing to do, sud it seomed as if | | everything in my life was before me in| those few swoonda. 1 felt absolusely sure | oansed. ==Fittsbury Dispateh. Most Wheels Are Overniled. So many bicyclists have been observed suffering from clogged chains that a word of wdvico may with propriety be repeated: Oil the ohain——nothing is More necensary, but be sure not 10 have '} js wet. Each link should be thoroughly lubricated, and then the chain shoald be | rubbed der. No amount of mbbing, it should be remenibered, can remove the oil from the parts between the links where it in needed, and not a particle of oil is required on the exterior surface Tha dries that ie the better, The oil, ol, picks up aed holds dust and advices iow to all oiling. If so much ia put in the bearings that some overs flows and it is pot wiped off, dost will gather at the spot, and even io the best made bearings some of it will almost certainly work into the balls and make trombis. And even if it does not get so far the bunches of dust so secumnlated detract from the appearance of an other wise well groomed machine and render the cleaning after a run twice as dit. enlt as it need be. The fact is that more wheels are overoiled than saderoiled “Carrying & canary,’ as the ‘wheel. men’ oall riding with a dry bearing a screecies, i® pot half so common as ' a dust buried bearing. Of course, of the two, the laiter is preferable, but vo rid- er need have sither. —New York Post The colliir bands on the Dew QUWDS pul to him as it was on the afternoon | the wreck 1 speak of coourred. Axl sid | befare, he was transferred to wm freight | 3 but even there he was timid | are ane of ibe special points of decors tion, and frills of some sort are invaria- biy set in on the edge to stand up sround she neck, commenciog a little distance ajmurt on either side of the front They are made of knife plsited silk, ribbap, lace or chiffon, ami coe | very effective trimming is lace in yan. ke points, outlined with a tiny roche £ colored 1ibbon and gathered into the reck Piain velvet vollars, with plait Ings of ribbons set in fan shape at the back, are very pretty, sud collars made of bina folds of Ligh ve “st or satin, with narrow, black, pearl vw ged ribbon | gpdging each fold, are wnother fancy. — 14 | New York Sun. Bat it in an unwritten law with met of | $5 the great railroad Som pas jes this the = man who i» injured in in their srvice | shall be placed in some here | Bo may obtain his liveli j Thus it may happen hat whin you or tall in conversation with the man whe |__| I wax Sapreamd 14 Thy wooden Jog which ho used, sud as the Empire | dusbed by bi Jocked Wp Bad sid a Oe ais Jt eter 1 ale ; but I nm quite coutant to remain here | in my Jittle nottage and tend tomy flag- | { sarvica » load of respoosibility on his shonld have bee able to bold my nerve | * for nny owen fast trips. That Suished | mun for thit work,” | man who was running that eugine the| ™ day I wan Jiurt escaped with hardly s| scratch, but he never coold keop his od the afternoon the smash 1 wide gly to the friction. The same Since then I have been constantly em: to make his runs on time to the tick, | and if he bm't an time be has got to go | Democrat | with s smaller salnre attuched 0 it ging rather than have the position of the rian who holds the throttie on that big engine which jost whinesd by bare | You rosy think it & soap fo fit there | ad ride over the country st the rate of «eile a inate, but I tell you the man shwonilders which I would not what on pine and which the average man knows There someting attractive abot x | paflvond life to the man who (nie on: tors it The railroad companies ravely | give up a rolinkle, faithful mus He may become maimed and onfit for the | i most remuderstive positions snd be forced to accept some hunibler ples very Little aboot | know something of | ie it, for I was fireman some yams Ngo on | sie of the ‘ast engines and lost soy log | 0 it ap ace fint between here and Al-| pany, Bar il 1 had come out of that ao- | 8 cident as esond as you are I never] a Then if 8 man Mes been host ina 0 railroad actident it makes bim scary of that kind of work, does IP" asked | 4 the reporter. “You bet iv docs, ’’ answernd the switchman with emphasis, ‘sod don's | jot amy one fool you that it dosen't. The of ro timo np the way he did before thst and Sully wan put on # Sight wile whero the running was & great deal was flowing in the bre mt and in tas, | containing & pond, in which be would | TE hal ve orgs he way ck: "| 1ay iment under the water, concealing SYey gary of hinvempt the very end | Sn that woold | 3 Nix eyes fixed on the track | shea. : “(All a8 onos be Jumped 0 his foot Li ud reveiewsd the loves and saciaiited ip i I wan going to die. Strange ss it may] | seem, the thought did not seem borrible | to me. A whole Jot of the slang say- | ings, such av, ‘You are learning to fire hers in this workd so a to be prepared for the next,” and ‘You won't mind a Hw hot job over there,’ and a number of | —o= those stale things which & Sanam bas | 12 @ = to take, cane into my head, and even in a humorous sort of way tht 1 had made a good start here below, Or bere | above, as 1 might say. The jiext mor | ment I was thinking of my wile and ehildren—yes, and of mother, ton, who | had been dead » nunber of years A man always thisks of his mother ut such | io that awlal position ix oosareesd to me Ls a time. But I don’t think I had a par | wit : ticle of fear of death. The lash thing | that was of wy mind wis the question, Who was to blame for the aenident?, And that ii be Inst I remembr. . When! sune to my senses, I was | * in & hospital and wad mines a leg ployed one way and another by the rail- rod compuny, but 1 never she ane of the fast traing go by withoot thinking | of that wreok. The engineer mirsoulous | ly escaped with searvely a bruime, but it} finished him for that kind of work. He was always seeing enginos ahand of him | after that, und I have heard that more | than oncw be hus slowed ap bin train iv | ‘order not to collide with an imaginary | engine, which I haves no doubt wai as and finally left the road altgetiner. “You oan put is down ax a pretty | sure thing that when an enginver has | been in an nocident once be ix mious s | good share of the perve which it takes sooner or later," — Rochester and Chronicis. eH NB NHS SR FN YIDGWAY AND CLEARFTELD B. 3. Cr owRERRTe gpenaEaR a5
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