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FREELAND, PA., DECEMBER 25,1899. j
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington. December 22, 1899; '
Mr. McKinlej, the man who once I
blackguarded Mr. Cleveland for wor
shipping the golden calf and being the
enemy of silver, has completed the job
of jamming the gold-standard bill j
through the house. The program was !
carried out according to the advance
announcement, in every particular,
except that there were fewer Demo
cratic votes for the bill than had been
claimed by the Republicans. The bill
has now gone to the senato, where Mr.
McKinley can do no jamming, and
where this particular bill will be allow
ed to slumber in committee. But the,
lluance committee will report as a sub
stitute, a gold standard bill that is even
more objectionable than the house bill.
It is whispered in inside Republican
circles that the party leaders would not
he sorry if this session of congress
adjourn without final action Rn gold
standard legislation, because it wuuld
he easier to raise a big campaign fund
from the money kings, if the matter Is
left banging, by promising to complete
the job at next winter's session, than it
will be If the bill goes on the statue
book before the presidential campaign.
t t t
It Is admitted now by Quay's friends
that probably he will not be seated on
the certificate of appointment from the
governor of Pennsylvania. Quay has
relied upon the friendship of his cronlca
In the senate to stand by him at a
critical time, to reverse all precedents
and give him a seat, just because he Is
Quay. Thore is nothing like "senatorial
courtesy." But the constituents of
theße statesmen have boen heard from.
They want to know how It is a sonator
can be seated whom the legislature In a
long session refused to elect. These
petltitions are having effect. It Is in
sisted that il he Is scatod, the governer
of Utah will appoint Roborts, the polyg
amist, with similar credentials, and the
senate doesn't care to have a taste of
that unsavory case to add to Its troubles
present and prospective.
t t I
There was iota of behind the door
political work done by the committee
which succeeded in getting Philadelphia
chosen by the Republican national com
mittee, for next year's national conven
tion—June 19. Before the committee
met, it seemed practically certain that
Chicago would be chosen, and so it
would have been had not the Phil&del
phians made a combination by which
the southern members of the committee
were promised help to knock out the
scheme to reduce the representation of
the South in the national convention, in
return for votes for Philadelphia. The
combination won at both ends. Phila
delphia got the convention by one vote.
Committeeman Payne abandoned the
scheme to cut down the number of
"nigger" delegates to the convention,
because of the opposition to it.
X X X
The attempt of Nebraska Republicans
to prevent the seating of Souator Allen,
appointed by the governor to succeed
the late Senator-elect Hayward, on the
ground that as Mr. liayward never
qualified as a senator, his death caused
no vacancy that could be logally filled
by the governor, aroused nothing but
amusement in Washington. Thore will
be no opposition to the seating of Sen
ator Allen, because there is nothing
whatever upon which it could be based.
The geld standard Republicans would
like very much to find some way to keep
such a stalwart friend of silver out of
the senate, until the long financial de
bate, which will begin as soon after the
Christinas recess as the finance com
mittee reports its gold standard bill, is
over, but they know too much to butt
their heads against brick walls.
x x x
Representative Lent/., of Ohio, has
offered a resolution asking for an in
vestigation, by a special committee of
the house, of the charges growing out
of the interference of United States
troops in mining trouble in Idaho, in
defiance of and contrary to the federal
constitution, at the individual request
of the governor, when no riot or In
surrection existed, without consulting
the legislature or the local sheriff.
PLEASURE CALENDAR.
December 25. —Fair of Young Men's
C. T. A. B. Corps in Borner's building.
Admission, 5 cents.
Decembor 29.—Eleventh annual ball
of Tigers Athletic Club at Yannes'
opera house. Admission, 50 cents.
January I.—Second annual entertain
ment of Young People's Society Chris
tian Endeavor of St. John's Reformed
church at Grand opera house. Tickets,
JSS, 35 and 50 cents. '
PASSING AWAV.
How Printers Are Being Superceded
by Machinery.
It would appear, says the Kansas
| City Star, that the sort of printing as
It was first discovered and understood
s to disappear, that art not being the
making of impressions on paper, but
the use of movable type. That was
) [he process that Faust, Gutenburg and
the rest discovered, and when there
rre no longer types to set. then there
will no longer he any printing in its
jriginal sense, nor for that mutter any
printers.
The day draws near. T.'to machines
-as all of the different contrivances
that do the work that printers former
ly did are called —increase in perfec
tion. They do most of the labor now
in what were compos ng looms, and
before long they will do it ail. Then
we shall have a new art and a new
' irtisan.
| It will not be the first time some-
I thing of the kind has happened. Whole
trades and their implement have dis
appeared. How long is it since you
have seen a man In a field of grain,
with a sickle or even a cradle? There
■ was such a man once, and he was
I ailed a reaper. He cut the grain be
j fore and after Boaz. for thousands of
i years, backward and forward; then he
disappeared. When the word reaper
) is used now it applies not to a man.
hut to a machine. So the. word printer
will be applied some day. And then,
too, where Is Humphrey with his flail?
| Clone to the goodly land. Humphrey
IPO longer wields a flail. He is now
I a thrasher. He is one of a small party
who runs a thrashing machine. The
printer will go where the human reap
ers and thrashers have gone.
With the pussiug of the art of print
ing and artist will disappear a very
ancient calling and one that retained
Its original features from antiquity till
yesterday. Scarcely any ether of the
middle age arts has so kept its first
nomenclature. Caxtou. the first Eng
lish printer, set up his office in a
chapel of Westminster abbey, and cer
tuln meetings of printers Is called to
this day a chapel. Many other names
and customs are as old. Many things
in connection with the art of printing,
for example, presses, changed through
the ages, but the arrangement of mov
able types are carried on exactly in
the same manner as at first until a re
cent period, when came the machine.
Now we shall have a new language,
for a new art, and the talk of printers
for 400 years will be heard no more
than the phraseology of the old-time
alchemists and astrologists whose oc
cupation has gone.
Why He Was Ncvous.
The merchant uttered a sharp ex
clamation and sank hack Into his
chair. A telegram fell from his shak
ing hand. His eyes were wide, his
face white and beads of perspiration
stood on his brow. The men in the
outer office whispered among them
selves.
"Touch of heart disease?" asked
one.
"No; the old man can't take up a
note," said another. We fellows will
have to be looking for another place."
"Get to work—he's coming up
again."
The merchant wiped his brow,
fetched a despairing sigh, picked up
the paper from the floor, frowned and
stamped his foot, as if to summon all
his resolution, placed the telegram on
his desk, and forced himself to read
the bitter message. This was it:
"Dearest Jantes —PltafO send the
waist for my gros grain suit at once.
You will remember the one, as it has
revers on the fromage and chain
stitched biases on the hack. It is in
the lower trunk in the cupboard be
side the back room, under vour winter
overcoat. If not there it must be in
the sealed box on the third shelf in
the front room cupboard. If you don't
find it there it must he sonte\#ere
else. The trunk keys are in the sec
ond wardrobe drawer unless they
were put on the chiffonier; and I
think the keys are in a vase on one
of the mantels. Pack the waist so as
not to wrinkle It; and, oh, James,
please do not swear."—Tit-Bits.
Took His Arm Off.
"Your worship," said the wily solici
tor, who was defending the stalwart
prisoners in the dock, "you cannot pos
you convict him I will tell you why.
ing. I submit, sir. with all deference,
that neither morally nor legally can
you convict him. I will tell you why.
Mr. Sikes, here, as the evidence clear
ly proves, did not break into any
house at all. He found the parlor win
dow open, as the witnesses admit, and
all he done was to put in his right
arm and remove some important arti
cles. Now, sir, Mr. Sikes's arm is not
he himself, and I fail to see how you
can punish the whole individual by
an offense committed by only one of
his limbs."
"Very well, sir," said the cautious
Solomon of the bench. 1 have heard
of a similar defense before to day, so
I find the prisoner's arm guilty and
sentence it to six months' imprison
ment. The gentleman himself can ac
company it or not, as he chooses. Mr.
Clerk, read the sentence."
Then Mr. Sikes smiled a fourteen
inch smile, and the plan of the defense
became apparent as he quietly pro
ceeded to unscrew his guilty cork arm
and leave it in the custody of the
court.—Tit-Bits.
Our next census will show a poula
tion of about seventy ruiMlons, says
the Ladles' Home Journal. To com
plete this count within the required
thirty days about fifty thousand cen
sus enumerators will bo employed. It
will he necessary for them to count at
the rate of two and a half million peo
ple per day, or even faster. The pop
ulation of all cities and towns of over
eight thousand must be enumerated
within the period of two weeks.
John Sleeper Clarke, the former
American comedian who ranked with
such men as Joseph JefTerson and
John E. Owens in his days and died
In England recently, enjoyed the
rather odd distinction prior to htg re
tirement of being an American who
was better known In England than in
his native land. He accumulated a
fortune acroas the water and died
quite wealthy.
Less than two per cent, of ail the
men in Amerioa own "full-dress suits "
and fully seven-eighths of cur Ameri
can families have their dinners at
aeon.—Edward Bok.
The Fact Dispenser.
The number of Buddhists is comput
ed to be 48fi.000.00l).
lu Italy (iOO.OOO people find employ
ment in raising silkworms.
A lifeboat costs about $0.50 a week
to maintain.
There is one horse for every twenty
persons In England.
Parchment used on the best banjos is
made from wolf shin.
It Is estimated that one crow will de
stroy 700,000 insects every year.
About one German woman in every
twenty-seven works in a factory.
There Is not a city in the world that
consumes as many frog legs as New
York.
There are only 100,000 Britishers in
ludla—one to every 3.000 of the popula
tion.
At a meeting of the British cabinet
no official record of uuy kind is kept
of the proceedings.
The newest billiard hulls are made
of cast steel. They are tint same weight
as ivory aud cost $2 each.
In Berlin the pawnshop is a royal
aud philanthropic institution. Any
profit that is made is spent on charity.
For more titan five years there has
been a scarcity of rain in Arabia.
lu London there is nearly an hour
less daylight at midsummer than in
Glasgow.
In Belgium a new fuel has been in
vented, called 'vesuvc," made of peat
and resin.
The number of Spanish now in the
Philippines is less than at any time
during the lasl fifty years.
Women have, as a rule, according to
Sir Erasmus Wilson, much coarser hair
than men.
It is tile popular belief that a holly
hush planted near a dwelling protects
the house front lightning.
The black jaguar of Genital America
will attack a man by night or day
whom he finds lying down.
Queen Victoria pays over $1 a pound
for liar lea. which is bought at a small
shop in tin- West Etui of Londou.
Paymasters and coiumlssuriat offi
(dais of the German army receive spe
cial traiulag In examining the quality
of food supplied t* tlte army.
The copper production of the United
Olt the curreul year was the
. I ever recorded in a single year.
Ttie wool on the back of n sheep Is
a Mtttheiti't barometer. The curlier
We weol the finer will be the weather.
JgpUpise workmen are obliged to
their caps and hacks an In
•friptltj* statlqg their business aud
IhMT employer's name.
tin* worm has turned. An invention
hga t)0n completed by which the loug
(Unoting (jrug store directory can only
1% Consulted by dropping a penny In
a slot.
Pfeedom. a paper published iu the
rVttpptfiea has an oditoriul calling for
tfte arrest of bicycle "scorchers."
The Chicago University had a total
srollnent lost year of 2,959 students,
Q Its enrollment for the regular
tool year of nine mouths was 1,942.
Fhe wild horse of Arabia will not ari
i a tame horse among them, while
the Wild h 01*808 of South America en
•Wavor to decoy domesticated horses
from their masters nud seem eager to
welcome thorn.
Sluco the beginning of this century
no fewer than fifty-two volcanic isl
and* hate arisen out of the sea. Nine
teen have disappeared and ten ure now
inljjbited.
Mvjfltaches among women are com
moner at the present time than they
UMO to be. In Constantinople and
plflkdrid one woman out of every ten
hlio a distinct mustache.
A French scientist has made some
plants "artificially Alpine" by keeping
them in an ice box all night and ex
posing them to the full action of the
Ittii during the day.
It la stated on German authority that
2,060,000 glass eyes are made every
year lh Germany aud Switzerland,
while one French house manufactures
tfOfyoOo annually.
It is difficult to purchase a wildcat
skin worth stuffing in Newfoundland,
a the hunter cuts off the snout in or
der to prove his claim to the bounty
offered for the destruction of these
pests.
One million and a half of men work
iu the coal mines of the world. Of
these Great Britain lias 585,000, United
States 300,000, Germany 285.000, Bel
glum 100,000, Russia 44.000. The
world's miners of metal number 4,000,-
000.
A smokeless coal is promised very
shortly. It is made of 08 per cent, of
coal dust and 7 per cent, of tar and
caustic lime. The latter mixture forms
a bright-burning gas. and thus pre
vents the generation of smoke.
The latest thing in company promot
ing comes from Paris, where a dog's
cemetery has been Heated with a capi
tal of £14,000. The promoters are
ladies.
The results of recent drilling iu Born
eo have caused many persons to think
that Borneo will prove to be the rich
est petroleum field in the world.
Napoleon Ill.'s last dwelling place
and the scene of his death. Camden
House. Chiselhurst. has been destroyed,
and, with its beautiful grounds, is to
serve as a golf links.
Gambling in France is said to have
reached yuch proportions that the gov
ernment has begun to study the ques
tion seriously. It Is estimated that
half of the suicides in Puris are due
to losses at the races.
Iu proportion to population. North
Berwick is said to be the wealthiest
town in Scotland. It lias an annual
value of real property per inhabitant
of about S6O.
A new way of blasting rock is to
place u cartridge of water in a shot
hole and convert it into steam iustaut
ly by electricity. This method is espe
cially apllcable in coal mines.
Among the political workers who se
cured the election of Senator Lucius
Baker, of Kansas, was his daughter,
Miss Lucieu Baker, a. Vassar graduate,
who was an active supporter of her
father.
The Filipinos copy after the Spanish
and English in the matter of dress, as
far as their means will permit. This
may procure for them the desired coat
and trousers, while shoes aud hats will
be of the native style.
A Bath (England) gardener, fifty
three years old. was found by the cor
oner to have swallowed twenty small
bottles of medicine whole, rubber corks
and all. They were beyond his power
of digestion and peritonitis set In.
A favorite dish with the Eskimo is
an Ice cream made of seal oil, Into
thu aauxj noonln. . -
SHOPLIFTING.
Ways That Are Dark And Trick* That
Are Vain.
There i* no Beotton of criminals that
displays such varied ingenuity as
shoplifters, said a clever detective
who has had a long experience of the
fraternity: and I can assure you that
many of them might give lessons In
cunning to the most artful Chinee.
Shoplifting 1b a science that appeals
largely to women. Their sex. to a
certain extent, disarms suspicion,
especially when, as is usual, they are
elegantly dressed, and do their shop
ping in a well-appointed brougham.
Their dress give* them unlimited
scope for the concealment of small
articles; and again, the game is so
comparatively free from risk, for if
they are caught red-handed, as a rule
it simply means an awkward inter
view with the proprietor, and pay
ment for the goods appropriated.
You see, it does not pay a fashion
able shopkeeper to give his house a
bad reputation as a haunt of thieves;
and, further, many of the lady-lifters
are women with some standing in so
ciety, who are either kleptomaniacs,
or who cannot resist the sudden temp
tation of annexing a pretty thing with
out payment.
Ladles of this class are novices In
the art, and are readily detected. A
common practice with them is to slip
any small article from the counter in
to their umbrellas when the assist
ant's back is turnpd. If detected, it
is the simplest of accidents, and the
culprit apologizes prettily, and re
stores the article.
One lady, who bad quite a long and
successful career at counter-stealing,
was always accompanied by a little
girl, ostensibly her daughter, carrying
a large doll. The mother, who was
young and pretty, and faultlessly
dressed, would hold the doll while she
was being served (a very natural and
prudent act with a valuable doll which
the child might drpp at any moment);
and when the assistant's attention was
withdrawn she would slip into the hol
low interior of the doll any small
article, from a battle of scent to en
article of Jewelry that might be ly
ing near her.
Of course, nearly all city firms em
ploy women detectives, smartly dress
ed and of ladv-llke appearance, who
mix with the crowd of purchasers, and
have a very keen eye Indeed for these
peculations.
The tricks of the male shoplifter are
much more varied and subtle than
those of his female rival. A very
common practice la to carry a stick or
umbrella with a hollow receptacle at
the top. A spring releases the silver
or gold mounted top; the stolen
article, which must naturally be small
as it is valuable, is slipped into the
padded hollow, and the top sprung
back again into position.
A very skilful thief made a hiding
place of the hollow part of an artificial
forearm into which he could palm an
article with lightning rapidity. One
of the latest devlcqe Is to wear a glove
with a pocket or a series of pockets In
the palm; and while examining small
articles of Jewelry, rings, brooches,
gold pendants, and so on, to slip one
or more Into the concealed pocket by
a practised movement of the fingers.
Another trick ia to carry some ad
hesive substance in the palm of the
gloves, and by carelessly resting the
palm on an article of Jewelry to re
move it. The opportunities for ex
ercising these tricks while the assist
ant's back Is turned, or while he Is
attending to another customer, are
many.
But much shop lifting Is done with
the help of a confederate, who strolls
in casually while number one Is mak
ing his purchases. One or two valu
able articles are handed to the second
customer, who is apparently quite a
stranger to number one; and if the
latter is suspected and searched, of
course, nothing It found in his pos
session. Of till robberies, with smear
ed and hook-ended sticks, of false
alarms which draw the shopkeeper in
pursuit of imaginary thieves, leaving
the real pilferer free to do his work,
and of the hundred and one other artl
flees, it would require almost a volume
to speak.
THE STAGE.
A Mirror of Fashion Where Correot
Costumes Are Seen.
The stage continues to form the
mirror of, fashion. One scarcely need
take In a fashion paper if one pays
constant visits to the theatre. There
one can study all the varieties of la
mode and the latest and newest de
signs. Each play seems to have its
own specialty in dress, its favorite
color and its favoitte dressmaker.
Possibly spectators never give a
thought to the fact tbat these constant
changes of costume form no inconsld
erable portion of the fatigue incurred
by an actress in a long and heavy
part. Dress cannot be slurred over
now. Gowns must be laced and but
toned up. gloves, shoes, hats, petti
coats be worn to mutch. It was differ
ent in the good eld days when ac
tresses shuffled one gown over another
and fastened them lightly with a but
ton. The Japanese costume is one of
the most Intricate. The real Japanese
lady wears three gowns, one over the
other, a small portion of each show
ing at the neck, the gowns being artis
tically shaded, say from pale pink to
deepest rose, or ;rom violet to sky
blue. The chemise, too. match, and a
special touch of deep, contrastlve
color is given by the waistband.
A Dog Burled in Btyle.
Fanny, a .Newfoundland dog that
died in New York the other day, lied
a satin-lined coffin with a bunch of
lilies of the valley and forget-me-not*
on her breasit. In the home of her mis
tress, a widow, In Twenty-fourth strot.
The widow jyept tiitterly until the ef
ternoou, and then hud her pet re
moved to a carriage, in which It wns
taken to a railway station and thence
to the animal cemetery nt liartsdnlc.
The bereaved widow will have a monu
ment erected over the grave of the dog.
>lid will lay fresh flowers upon It us
ftcn as she can spare the time. Grief
ukes many forms, an>J Is suffered from
dl kinds of object* in u big community
ike tbat.
Russia could put In the Held 155,000
cavalry to the 122,000 of Germany and
Austria-Hungary combined.
The Worklngman.
American woolen mills employ 36.108
I women.
I Cleveland I* to have an underground
trolley.
Cleveland high school teachers earn
SBOO a year.
Area of world's coal fields, 471,800
square miles.
Opal mining is one of the latest Aus
tralian mineral Industries.
Washington electrical workers struck
for (3 a day and eight hours.
It is snid that some of the sheep
farms in Australia are as large as the
whole of England.
I No one in Switzerland Is allowed to
import yellow phosphorous fur matches,
but only for scientific or medical pur
j poses.
Willie Canada's tax on Chinese immi
gration is to be Increased, Japanese are
| to lie permitted to eonie in free only
i for lmperlnl reasons.
| There has been a considerable In
crease In the wages of iron molders all
, over the United States. In genet al, the
Increase lias reached 10 per ceut.
The employes of the Glassport cork
works, McKeeeport, Pn., get $1.54 per
day for eleven hours. They formerly
received $1.50 a day for twelve hours.
An agreement lias been reached be
tween representatives of the Washlng
t< n breweries anil thill* employes\vh ch
establishes a uniform work day of ten
hours in the local breweries and raises
flic scale of wages of nil brewery work
ers from 5 to 211 per cent.
Worcester iron molders recently pre
sented s demand for a minimum wage
of $3 a day and the abolition of piece
work, and succeeded In obtaining an
agreement with five of the eleven
foundries of Worcester, gaining every
point except the pay, which they com
promised on at $2.75 minimum.
A working miner In u coal pit In Sep
tember, 1890. a master of arts of Lon
don University in Juiie, 1890. That Is
the remarkable record of Thomas Iteee.
M. A., who has Juat been appointed to
a professorship at Brecon college, one
of the leading theological institutions
In tlie principality.
The Illinois Central is constructing a
freight car yard at New Orleans wbTeh
will have twenty eight miles of track
and will hold 3.1100 ears. The yard Is
being so arranged that cars can be dis
tributed froui the receiving point to
any oilier point by gravity. This will
save an enormous expense for switch
ing cars in.
The railroad coal mine* In the Pitts
burg district are tielng operated to
their fullest capacity. Operators in
some parts of the field are complaining
of a scarcity of cars nnd alao a lack of
men One of the largest operators hi
the district said that from present Indi
cations the tonnage to the northwest
shipped over the lakes this season will
reach 0,000,000 tons. The shipments
last season amounted to about 4,500,-
000.
The Poet.
The earth was rolled In white when
Bees
Sprang from her little cot.
And, running to the window, stood
As rooted to tlie spot.
At breakfast time the child wes found
Still gazing nt the snow,
For all the world like some white bud
That had forgot to blow.
When told 'twas time to dress, and hid
Her sleeping gown to doff.
She said: "Use waitln' for ze earf
To take its nighty off!"
Good night, my eaie ami sorrow!
Good-night. If not good-bye;
Till the breaking of the morrow.
At my feet your fardels lie.
Good night, my care and sorrow!
I am launching on tlie deep;
And, still the dawning morrow.
Shall sail tlie sea of sleep.
Good night, my caie and sorrow!
Good-night perhaps, good-bye!
For I may wake tomorrow
Beneath another sky.
Good-night, all t ales and sorrows!
Welcome, my Ixiat-Hke lied!
None of my many tomorrows.
This one night is overhead!
—Harper's Bazar.
A sleet, a snow,
A maid, a beau.
A hireling and a greelitig.
.A slide, a fall.
A hump, a squall,
A sidewalk for n seating;
A rise, a kiss,
A blushing miss.
A flown, a street, a tripping,
pop, a ring.
A lore by spring.
A May-day bride a tripping.
—G. Henri Hogurt.
One came and told me suddenly.
"Your friend H dead! Lust year she
went,"
But mauy years my friend bad spent
In life's wide wastes, apart from me.
And lately I hail felt ber near,
And walked as If by soft winds
fniiued.
Had felt the touching of her band,
Had known slie held me close and dear.
And swift I learned that being dead
Meant rather being free to live.
And free to seek me, free to give,
And so my heart waa comforted.
—Hurler's Magazine.
He never loved anil lot.
He never sighed In vain
To stand on heights that only thone
Tlie goils love may attain.
He envied not the rich.
Nor coveted their gold;-
His bottle lay beside lilm-he
Was only two weeks old.
The Kai Dash.
A hard worker—Tlie Iron worker.
A pair of rubbers— Two bootblacks.
A blowliorn—A lias* horn player.
Visits the Interior—The stomach
pump.
A man's full name—Bum.
Tied with a double twist—The nup
tial knot.
Hard on China—The careless servant.
Have great displacement powers—
[lettering Jams.
Catchwords—"Htop thief."
Hard to coun-t0u,000,000,000,<)00,-
000,000.
Turn over many new leaves—The
bookbinder.
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DOCK Ing Horses.
Dorking horses took its rise in the
dark (lays when bull and bear baiting
were honored by a place in the cate- j
gory of sport rightly now relegated by
law to the catalogue of outrage. This i
custom of docking was once generally I
applied to English roadsters hunters
and harness horses. The only useful
purpose it ever served was in the Pen
insula war when English dragoons
could be most easily distinguished
from French by their cocktails. It fell
into disuse with the decline of road
coaches, and we owe its unwelcome
revival to their partial disfiguring; it
inflicts needless suffering upon brood
mares and horses turned out to grass,
depriving them of their natural de
fense against flies, besides the severe
phln and shock caused by the opera
tion itself. It should be discouraged
in every possible way by influential
persons, by those who lead the fash
ion in such things, and agricultural
societies should be moved to refuse
prizes to exhibits which have under
gone this mutilation.
A Fish Wheel,
A curious fishing wheel is used on
the Columbia River, near Portland,
Ore. It is fixed near the bank of the
river, a place being selected where the
river is most rapid. The wheel con
sists of three receivers. These are en
closed on three sides by wire netting,
a'nd. as the wheel revolves by moans
of the current, each receiver is sub
merged beneath the water, and scoops
up the salmon as they jump in the
rapids.
Costly Canals.
Canals, and particularly ship canals, I
are costly undertakings. The Suez
Canal cost $100,000,000, the Manches
ter ship canal $00,000,000, the North
Spa canal $37,500,000, the north Hol
land and the Corinth canals $15,000,-
000 each, while the partly completed {
Panama canal iiaß swallowed up over
$250,000,000.
Unique Mine.
The iron mine at Bell Island. New
foundland. which is the principal prop
erty of the company, is said to hp one
of the most unique fa the worl t is
an open deposit of ore. 300 feet hie,
and three miles long, and all the labor
required is to blast It with dynamite,
and shovel it into cars.
Siamese Superstition.
The Siamese have so strong a sup
erstition against even numbers that
they will have none of them. The
number of rooms in a house, of win
dows or doors in a room, even of the
rungs on a ladder, must always he
odd.
Bull Fights in Paris.
Paris is to have its bull fights to
add to the excitement of its populace.
The arena, however, will not he with
in the city walls, but at Engien, which
s some 12 minutes* journey by train.
Artificial Paving Blocks.
The newest artificial paving blocks
to be adopted in Germany are made
by combining coal tar, sulphur and
chlorate of lime.
The Memory.
Scientists have discovered that the
memory Is stronger in Simmer than
In winter. Among the worst foes of
the memory are too much food, too
much physical exercise, and, strange
ly enough, too much education.
A Load of Fans.
It is no unusual thing for a vessel
plying between Japan and London to
carry 1,000,000 fans as a single item
of its cargo.
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