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During the past few months the TRI BUNE has dealt yery leniently with those who are indebted to it for subscriptions, etc., but we now earnestly request such of our patrons who owe us money to do all they can in paying their bills. News papers have felt the financial stringency as much as any one else, and a prompt remittance of a part or the whole of the amounts due to publishers will infuse life and confidence in business of every kind. It is seldom we use our columns for the purpose of dunning subscribers, and we hope this notice will be sufficient to remind those in arrears that we want what is due us as soon as possible. The bill of each debtor is small, hut the ag gregate makes a considerably sum—an amount that is needed at once. Cigarette smoking among women is on the increase in England. Among the latest to adopt the prac tice are, it is said, Princess Maude of Wales and her aunt, Princess Louise, Marchioness of Lome. It is given as a notable fact that a tobacconist whose shop is nearest to Marlborough House asserted that the major por tion of his cigarette customers be longs to the fair sex. As a result of the successful plioto graphic experiments recently made at! the height of a mile above Philadel phia an English paper suggests that to each army corps there should be attached a staff of photographers. It points out that more effective work can be done upon the reconnaissance with the camera than with the sketch hook and that the staff could readily be made a part of the engineers. Thero is a diptheritic scourge in 1 lied Wing, Minn., which has reached its present distressing extent through a peculiar social condition. Under a city law all diptheritic cases are com pelled to be removed to the Municipi 1 hospital. Instead of reporting all such cases a number of physicians in Red Wing, it is alleged, have been suppressing those which havo occured in prominent families. Visits of out siders to these homes has resulted in the diseaf e becoming epidemic and scores of deaths are reported. The explanation of the edict issued somo time ago by China forbidding the importation of machinery lies in the fact that Li Hung Chang and a number of other Chinese officials are about to start cotton spinning mills in Shanghai, and do not care to bo the victims of over-production. Under natural conditions China would he J our market for such machinery; but between Gearyism and McKinleyism America's rightful market has been circumscribed in many quarters as by a Chinese wall. — Phila. Record. Miss Carrie Lane Chapman says that more than half of the women who own property in Dakota are graduates of eastern colleges. There is, she says, a little south of the Crow Creek reservation a section of women, every one of whom is a bonafide far mer. She says: "The fields are plow ed and crops gathered by women. One of the most intellectual and re fined women of the settlement is a breeder of fine horses. She has no hired men. All the help are women. Among these women are graduates of universities. Among them are old maids, young maids and widows." The meeting in New York last Thursday of the officials connected with the American Itailway Associa tion to discuss the best method of preventing disaters that result in the loss of life and limb on the rail is proof that tho warning given by the large number of casualties this year has not passed unheeded. The 260 deaths and the 811 persons injured during the ten months of 1893 show that some important element of safety is lacking to American travel. As 181 roads are represented in tho as sociation, it is evident that its action will have an important bearing upon the security from danger of the 600,- 000,000 passengers carried annually by the railroads in this country. Subscribe for the TRIBUNE. NEAT COLONIAL HOME. 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I The entire house is piped for gas and furnace and wired for an electric bell. The shingles on the roof will be of | 'he extra Star A Star kind, painted 'j—r-.f t ~Z-T I r—| ja_ CJ ij I I n n 'OX XL* L i PLAN OF HKCOXI) FLOOR. two coats yellow ochre. The chimneys are to be of yellow-pressed brick capped with smooth sandstones. All floors, including veranda and porch, will be double, with tar paper between them. No fini: hod i'oor is to belaid until all plastering is done. All doors will have five panels running across the doors. All glass is to be American double thick. All windows will be hung with weights and pulleys. Hi" ov, ' m ' r will furnish art glass, shelf hardware, mantels and batlirooir fixtures. UKOROK A . W. IVINTZ. Nlglit tlio Ti11,,, „[ Growth. A scientific writer says that night is .lie time which nature utilizes for the growth of plants and animal:.; children grow more rapidly during tin, nWht. In the daytime the system is Ucpthusy disposing of the wastes conscipiunt on activity, but while asleep the system is free to extend its operations lieyond the mere replacing of worn-out parti cles, hence the rapid growth. This is why invalids need so much rest anil sleep. Weight of tho Atmosphere. The utmosphere weighs about a ton to every square foot of the earth's sur face, 25,000,000 tons per square mile, or 5,000,000,000,000,000 tons on the total of 200,000,000 square miles- SPORTS AND PASTIMES. THE patronage of bicycle riders is nowadays no inconsiderable part of tho custom of country hotels in districts where the roads are good. Miss Don, the best of Englishwomen tennis players, won the west of Eng land championship when she was only fifteen years old. A REGULAR funeral service was held several days ago over the remains of the crack race horse Prince Deceiver at Latonia, Ky., who was then buried in the center of a large field and a liaudsomo headstone erected over the grave. MONTE CARLO seems to have pros pered tills year more than it ever has done. The shares arc now worth five times their original value, and plans are being made for increasing opera tions. There were nine suicides last year on the premises. TIIKRE is a movement in Canada for having a national park created in the Nepigon country in order that the trout fishing may bo eternally perpetu ated. The movers hope to see five miles of tho Nepigon river north of Lake Superior set apart and guarded and the river kept stocked with fish. "THE rest nowhere," a vigorous bit of exaggeration in popular use at Iho race tracks the world over, was first uttered by a sporting Irishman, Capt. O'Kelly, at Epsom, May 8, 1709, when Eclipse distanced tho field. "Eclipse first, the rest nowhere," was the cap tain's terse description of the race. MODERN TITLES. AN English bishop is properly ad dressed as "my lord." SEIGNEUR was the title originally given to the ruler of a district. ENGLAND has twenty-seven dukes, Scotland seven, Ireland two. BISHOPS have mode experimental use of nearly all the titles in existence. THERE are in England, according to Lodge, only seven peers of the blood royal. BAIIONS are styled Right Honorable Lord , and addressed as "my lord." ALL members of the families of peers have their titles of honor, varying with rank. A DUKE is styled his grace, the duke of , and addressed as "my lord, duke or your grace." THERE are five orders of nobility in England—the duke, marquis, earl, vis count and baron. "YOUR HONOR" is now devoted to judges. English judges are addressed as "your lordship." THE race of baroness was created by James I. in 1011, and is found only in Great Britain. IN formal letters to a duke it is eti quette to begin: "My lord duke, may it please your grace."—Globe-Democrat. GIVEN WITHOUT NAMES. A WOMAN in Tanner, W. Va., gave birth to her twenty-ninth child a few days ago. AN Italian committed suicide at Santa Rosa, Cal., recently because he had no education. THE happiest negro in Wisconsin dwells in Madison, no parades the streets, exhibiting a bullfrog with three eyes—one in the center of its head. A FARMER at Stanberry, Mo., has enough simple faith in mankind to ad vertise in the local newspaper for the recovery of a ten-gallon keg of black berry brandy, which ho lost out of his wagon on the highway. AN Omaha policeman has been sus pended for neglect of duty, bfit never was policeman, probably, ever before suspended for neglect under circumstances. As he pleads, he entered a church, and, becoming inter ested in the services, remained too long. SCRIPTURE NOTES. THE shortest names mentioned in the Bible are Ai, Ar, Ed, Og, No, On, So, Ur and Uz. TIIE following words are to be found but once in the Bible: Ash, atonement, immortal, millions and reverend. THE word "its" is not to be found in the first edition of the King James ver sion, 1011, but has been substituted for "his" in the edition of 1053. STEPHEN LANOTON, archbishop of Canterbury, first divided the Bible into chapters and verses, this about the close of the twelfth century. THE quotation, "He shall be called Nazarene," used by Matthew in the last verse of his second chapter, Is not to be found in the Old Testament. THE total number of capital letters in the whole Bible is 100,990; of small caps, 0,897, and of lower case, 8,452,593; grand total of letters, including one JE, 8,500,481. EDUCATIONAL NOTES. Tint first professorship of history w as established at Oxford in 1724. SPAIN, in 1885, had 31,880 schools, 30,000 teachers and 1,843,000 attendance. THE United States has 115 medical schools, regular, eclectic and homeo pathic. THE total income from all sources of the American colleges In 1801 was 310 - 801,918. TIIE first town school in this country was opened for business in Hartford Conn., in 1042. Tint most celebrated rabbinical schools wore those of Jamnia, taught by Gameliol, of Tiberias, Alexandria, Babylon and Jerusalem. RECENT INVENTIONS. A STEAM bicycle has made its appear ance in Germ any. A TOPER A man claims to have discov ered a liquid which will turn negroes into white men. A MACIIIXE for making mortar has been for some months in successful operation in Philadelphia. A FOUR-SEATED bicycle has been made by 11. J. Vora Scheldt, of Buffalo, N. Y. On ifcihe takes his three chil dren out riding, one seated behind him, and two in front. RULES OF WHIST. I'riucip!s of the Delightful Dame Set t Rhyme to AHBl*t Memory. I forward a set of memory rhymes, intended to be of assistance as a little mild relaxation after study or work. It is from I)r. Pole's "Theory of the Modern Scientific Game of Whist:" If you the modern gamo of wMst would know, From this great princlplo its precepts flow: Treat your own hand as to your partner's Joined, And play, notonealono, but both combined. Your first load make your partner understand What is tho chief component of your hand: And hence there is necessity tho strongest That your first lead bo from your suit that's longest In this with ace and king, lead king, thon aoo; With king and queen, king also has first place; With ace, queen, knave, lead ace and then the queen; With ace, four small ones, ace should 11 rat be With queen, knave, ten, you let the queen pre cede; In other case, you the lowest, lead. Ere you return your friend's your own suit play: But trumps you must return without delay. When you return your partner's lead, tako pains To lead him back the boat your hand contains. If you receive not more than three at first; If you had more, you may roturn tho worst. But if you hold the master card, you're bound In mos* cases to play it second round. Whene'er you want a lead, 'tis seldom wrong To lead up to the weak or through the strong. If second hand, your lowest should be played, Unless you mean "trump signal" to bo made; Or if you've king and queen, or ace and king, Then one of these will be the proper thing. Mind well the rules for trumps, you'll often need them; When you hold five 'tis always right to lead them; Or If tho lead won't come in timo to you, Then signal to your partner so to do. Watch also for your partner's trump request, To which, with less than four, play out your best To load through honors turned up is bad play, Unless you want tho trump suit cleared away. When second hand a doubtful trick you see, Don't trump It if you hold more trumps than throe; But having three or loss trump fearlessly. When weak in trumps yourself, don't foro© your friend; But always force tho adverse strong trump hand. For sequencos, stern ctistom has decreed, The lowest you must play if you don't load. When you discard, weak suits you ought to choose, For strong ones aro too valuable to losa QUEER COUNTING DEVICE. The Chiiupu Still Used by Peruvian and Bolivian Indians. The chirapu is a reckoning' device still employed in some remote parts of I'eru and Bolivia. It consists principal ly of a certain number of cords tied to gether at one of their extremities and along which slide small perforated balls. The cords are of different col ors and the balls are made of the shells of various fruits. These balls can be strung all at the same time upon all the cords or upon a certain number only. The Indian thus has a means of creating for himself categories of jux taposed numbers corresponding in our processes to as many columns as there are cords in the apparatus. If, as it happens, moreover, the native calcu | THE CJHIMPU. lator decides that the balls strung a single time shall represent units, that those through which two cords pass shall equal tens, etc., he will be able to represent any numbers whatever. He will figure, for example, as in Mr. Ber's drawing, the figure 4,460 by stringing 0 balls on one cord, 5 on two cords, 4on three cords and 4 on four cords. The little instrument once tied at the lower extremity, as it was pre viously at the upper, will indefinitely preserve the quadruple numbers which will have been confided to it. SCIENTIFIC NOTES. TUB breaking weight of one foot of cast iron one inch square is 5,781 pounds; the breaking weight of a piece of hickory of the same dimensions is 270 pounds. A MONSTER gas well has been drilled near Frankton, Ind. The gas rushed upward with such violence that it blew out eight hundred feet of tubing. BARON LIKDIO, the German chemist, says that as much flour as will lie on the point of a table knife contains as much nutritive constituents as eight pints of the best beer mado. DEW is the greatest respecter of col ors. To prove this take pieces of glass or boards and paint them red, yellow, green and black. Expose them at night, and you will find that the yollow will be covered with moisture, that the green will be damp, but the red and black will be left perfectly dry. SCIENTISTS say that if the bed of the Pacific ocean could be seen, it would disclose to view several mountains with truncated tops scattered over it. These mountains would be perfectly bare at their base, and all around their tops they would be covered with beautiful vegetation of coral polypi. llow WATER, commonly called sap, necessary to thfe life of a tree, passes from the roots to the topmost leaf and evaporates is a problem not yet solved by botanists. It is known that the ascent is made chiefly in cavities in the sapwood only, the lieartwood and bark serving other purposes. That is the extent of our knowledge of the matter EXTINCT MONSTERS. Bones of Wonderful Slse Discovered In South Australia. The greatest discovery of fossil re mains ever made in any part of the southern hemisphere has just taken place in one of tho most barren and forbidding localities in the northeast of South Australia. The animals, whose remains are included in this great discovery, are principally of the extinct species, the diprotodon, a species' of marsupial closely allied to the Australian kangaroo. In most re spects, however, the diprotodon, dur ing its terrestrial existence, bore rath er a resemblance to the hippopotamus than to any form of life now existent in the lands of the antipodes. Besides the bones of these animals there have been found some remains of the gigan tic bird, dinornis, now extinct. No fewer than eighty diprotodons are represented by the bones already unearthed, and it is evident from the close proximity of the localities where the chief collections have been mado that the struggle for existence must have been particularly severe at the time when so many creatures of the same species were driven to take ref uge in one spot. The most probable theory in regard to this great collection of fossil re mains would, thcreforo, seem to be that when the race was becoming near ly extinct some great drought drove all the animals of the surrounding terri -6KU1.1. OF DIPROTODON, TIIRKE FEET LONG. Tory to seek for refuge in the only place where water was to be found. This theory appears all the more feasi ble owing to the fact that certain springs of nearly fresh water are found near the lake, and these would obvi ously form the rallying point for all sorts of animals during a great drought. The skull of the diprotodon meas ures, in some specimens, over 8 feet long, and the length of the animal, when set up, will be fully 10 feet. The bones of the tail are so short that it is probable the animal had, in life, no perceptible tail, being, in this respect, remarkably unlike most of the mar supials now existent in Australia. NEW ARTIFICIAL FUEL. Produced by the Admixture of White Powder with foul Dust. Additional tests of a satisfactory character have been made of a new artificial fuel produced by the admix ture of a white dry powder with coal dust in certain proportions. Pitch is the combining medium almost uni versally employed for utilizing coal waste, but it involves certain practic al objections in storage and use which, it is claimed, are overcome by the new process. The composition of the powder employed in this case is not made known, but it is said to con sist of two natural substances, both of which are plentiful and inexpensive, and do not give out noxious fumes In combustion nor exert any deleterious iniluences whatever upon the boiler plates or flues. Tests show that, as compared with anthracite coal, the blocks made of this material are of de cided value when used in a boiler fur nace. That is, it was found that the total horse power developed by the boiler with the anthracite coal in its natural condition was 808.1, while with blocks of the new material it was 500.0—this computing twenty pounds of water per hour, according to the rule, as equal to 1 indicated horse power; reckoning, however, fifteen pounds of water per hour as equal to 1 indicated horse power, as is customary with tho best triple expansion en gines, the total horse power developed with the bricks was 078, against 401 with tho natural coal. NEW PREPARED PAPER. ♦fby ItH Inventor linn Boon Refuted a German Patent. The Droguisten Zeitung is responsi ble for the statement that in Germany a. patent has been refused, and the manufacture and sale have been pro hibited, of a paper so prepared that any ink writing upon its surface could be erased by the simple application of a moist sponge. The paper was made of the ordinary ingredients, with the addition of asbestos and parchment glue. The paper pulp, after rolling, was immersed for a short time (from six to thirty-five seconds, according to the thickness of the paper to be pro pared from it) in concentrated sul phuric acid at 20 degrees, diluted with 10 to 15 per cent, of water. It was then pressed between glass rollers, passed successively through water, ammonia solution, and a second time through water, strongly pressed be tween rollers and dried on felt rollers, and, finally, on polished and heated metal rollers. 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