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A vaudeville (rust hai just been or
ganized, but there is little reason to
hope that it will throw out any of the
old jokes.
•Tames Defoe's death In London re
moves the last male descendant of
Daniel Defoe. "Robinson Crusoe" is
now a classic unlinked with the pres
ent.
If fish Is a brain food then the resi
dents along tlie Nile should not be
short on brains. Not only are fish
plentiful in that river, but there are
2200 varieties.
England's coal supply, it is esti
mated, will be gone In 10G0. But a
mnjorl*"7 ot * the present generation of
Englishmen will be keeping warm
enough about that time not to worry
over the fact.
Australia does not propose that her
light shall bo hid under a bushel. The
lighthouse at Sydney is served by elec
tricity. with 180,000 candle power, and
the light itself can be seen for fifty
miles at sea.
Mr. Carnegie gave away $3,000,000
Inst year, and a large number of peo
ple would be tickled half to death if
his profits should not be sufficient to
make him feel like giving away more
than <sbout thirty cents during the
present year.
"Could France Invade England?" is
the title of a ponderous article In one
of the newspapers. "I see," said Wel
lington to one of his Irish officers at
tlie battle of Waterloo, "that some of
the French broke into your lines."
"Yes," answered the Irishman, "but
you never saw them get out."
"The boy without a playground is
the father of the ma" without a job,"
says Mr. Joseph Lee, of Boston. It is
a notable saying—almost as good as
Wellington's about Waterloo and the
Eton hoys. The playground is the best
possible kindergarten for Hie rough
and-tumble scramble of making a liv
i' . -the little Waterloo of individual
existence.
\\ hat explorer of royal blood ever
d.splayed more Indomitable energy and
dc; < rminatlon than the Italian Duke
of the Abruzzi? Not satisfied with the
fame already won in his effort to reach
the North Pole, he is now fired with
seal for discovery in the cold Annrc
tic, and has already begun his prepara
tions for a great expedition to the
south two years hence.
That there Is more smallpox in the
country than there has been for forty
years shows that it is less important
to determine whence it comes than to
take vigorous measures for its extirpa
tion. The means of prevention—lsola
tion and restriction—should be prompt
ly and thoro lghly resorted to every
where until it is finally wiped out, as
serts the Pittsburg Dispatch.
The information is vouchsafed by a
firm of fashionable tailors in London
that "every practical cutter and tailor
Who has hud anything to do with the
clergy all agree that they are particu
lar about their clothes." It is not un
likely that a well-cut coat might in
spire a better sermon than a suit of
rusty black. The consciousness of
being well groomed stimulates to ac
tivity some of the highest faculties of
the mind.
In consequence of the insufficiency o|
coaling stations for the Russian men-of
war the ministry of marine is having a
large steamer constructed for supply
ing the squadrons with coal. A first
payment of £50.000 lias been made on
account of the building of the vc?s;l,
which is tj have a displacement of 7,20 c
tons,
Thirty thousand people-in the United
States make their living from the grow
ing silk industry.
TRIUMPH.
My greatest triumph ha.s been won—
-1 ne'er shall do a fairer thing!
My rival prospered yesterday;
I heard of it and didn't siiuii
Him, fearing smiles that he might bring,
But from my heart 1 put away
The jealousy that had begun
To spring up there, and tried to see
The good in that which he had done—
To feel that all was earned which ho
Had gained—and 1 succeeded, too!
1 saw how that in passing ine
He had but won what was his due—
-1 choked down Hate and strove anew!
—S. E. Kiser, in the Chicago Times
lierald.
J THE PROMOTION of" j
J PATROLMAN WAGNER. J
9 A TRUE STOUT. if
A BY KAY ST A WARD BAKER. A
f 9
Wagner was so new to brass but
tons that he still ran to fires. There
are those In the police who do not run
after one year's experience; Wagner,
being ambitious, had been running
nearly three years, and nothing had
happened. Wagner is a gymnast as
well as a policeman, and he is as
proud of his big right arm—it feels
like a new hemp hawser —as he is of
his drab helmet.
On a night in April, some years ago,
Wagner was patrolling his beat in
Lexington avenue. New York, up as
far as Seventy-fourth street and back
again to Sixty-sixth street, a leisurely
tramp of half a mile,, although dull
from being familiar. A few minutes
after 2 o'clock in the morning, as
Wagner records in his little book, ho
saw a fire engine coming up the ave
nue with horses in full gallop. Iu the
daytime a fire engine is an incident;
at night it is an event. This engine
turned into Sixty-ninth street and
raced to the eastward.
An engine in full steam leaves be
hind a broad, bright pathway of
burning cinders. Wagner followed
this path, and it led him straight to
the edge of th - park. Smoke was al
ready rising in a dim, gray cloud
above a brownstono bouse. It needed
a keen eye at that hour of the night,
to see the building was on fire. In
the middle of the street two scantily
clad men were gesticulating oddly
and pointing upward.
On a narrow ledge that ran just
below a fourth-story window stood a
girl in a white wrapper. She was
crouching, with her hands feeling out
along the smooth brick wall and over
the edge of the steep mansard roof.
She had crept from the open window,
and the smoke was now reaching out
behind her along the wall. It was
about 50 feet down to the stone steps
of the areaway, and the ledge was not
as wide as a man's two hands.
As Wagner came up, he saw the
girl look down as if intending to
jump.
"Wait!" he shouted. "I'll help you!"
Then he ran up the steps of the ad
joining building, and when the door
was opened he dashed up four flights
of stairs and ran into a front room.
The window was already open. Two
men were leaning out and holding the
end of a knotted sheet. The ledge ran
only the width of the burning build
ing; consequently, although the girl
was near the end of it, she was still
separated from the men by more than
five feet of bare brick wall; and she
was two feet below them. They were
dangling the sheet ineffectually in
her direction and shouting:
"Take hold! take hold!"
The girl made feeble passes at the
sheet, but she could not catch it; if
she had caught it. they would, with the
best possible intentions, have dragged
her from the lodge, and she would
have been dashed to death on the
flagging below. She was silent and
all but dazed.
Wagner leaned out of the window,
his right hand clutching the casing
and his left extended in her direction.
He called to her to jump.
She glanced down at the gathering
crowd in the street, and clutched
again at the smooth wall. Wagner
knew that the frantic advice of the
men below, the hissing of the engines
and ail the other din of the fire were
fast unnerving her.
Fitzgerald, a fireman, now came up
the stairs two stops at a time. When
Wagner saw him he said, "Hold on to
my leg."
Then ho straddled the sill, with his
right leg in and his left one out. Fitz
gerald and one of the citizens grasped
his ankle and braced their feet against
the sill.
Then Wagner leaned forward, with
his left, foot pushing on the wall below
the window until he stood straight out
in mid-air as stiff and firm as the
hickory shaft of a hoisting crane. He
did not once look below lilm, or count
on the chances of falling. He was
facing the girl; slowly he swung to
ward her.
"Here, reach out!" ho shouted.
Rut nh" did not hear him. She was
trying blindly to turn on the ledge,
feeling that escape In this direction
was cut off. She was groping for the
window that she had come through,
not knowing that the room was now in
flames from floor to ceiling. Just as
Hho faced about, a sudden gush of fire
drove the glass outward from the sash
es and <hot half a hundred feet in air.
The girl shrank back before the heat,
looked down, wavered, and then de
liberately stepped from the ledge.
Her hands were thrown out above her,
and those below turned away in hor
ror.
But. Wagner had thrown himself
violently forward. As the girl shot
; past him ho grasped her arm near the
elbow with his right hand. At tho
sudden checking of the fall her right
arm slipped swiftly through his fin
gers, Irit at her wrist he held her
with a grip of steel. His own body
was bene heavily downward; his leg,
held by the two men within the win
dow, was violently wrenched over on
tho sharp stone sill and drawn down
with a snap as the girl's body was
stopped short in its flight at the
length of his arm. And there the two
hung, the man holding by one leg,
with his head down and his back to
the wall, and the girl dangling by one
hand far below him. She was a dead
weight of 130 pounds.
For a moment Wagner did not
move; what with tho pain in his leg,
the wrench of his arm and the blood
in his head, he was convinced that he
must let her fall. But his wavering
lasted only a second. By sheer
strength he lifted her up until he
could grasp her arm with his left
hand. And then again he lifted, every
straining lurch cutting into the leg
which Fitzgerald and the citizen still
hold with grim determination.
The girl was limn and scantily
clothed; ho could not get a firm hold,
and yet and by sheer strength
he succeeded in getting his hands
under her arms. Then again he lifted,
pushing her up across his body, until
one of the men above, reaching down,
could grasp her arm. Then they
pulled her in, unconscious and more
dead than alive.
After that, they lifted Wagner and
drew him across the sill. They
thought his leg was broken, but after
a moment Wagner took the girl in his
arms and carried hcv down four
flights of stairs to the ambulance.
When Wagner reported for duty the
next evening, the sergeant read an
order from the chief of police requir
ing his immediate presence at head
quarters. Wagner went with tremb
ling not yet having awakened to his
deed. The secretary of police seemed
to know him and greeted him familiar
ly: so did the men of the central de
tail. Wagner thought it odd. At the
midnight roll-call, the chief brought
Wagner out and shook him by the
hand before them all. Then he con
ferred upon him the two gold chev
rons of a roundsman. Never before
in the department had courage won
promotion so promptly.—Youth's Com
panion.
fi WOMAN'S FXPEDIENT.
Clever Scheme lo Kimble s Prigonor to
Cut His Way Out of .Jail.
"Whenever I see that particular
brand of canned peaches," said a New
Orleans grocer, indicating a row of
tins 011 Uie top shelf, "I am reminded
of something very queer that hap
pened here several years ago. One
day in the summer of '96, if I remem
bcr rightly, a refined looking woman
of about 30, dressed in deep mourn
ing. came into the store and bought
a couple of cans of California peaches
of tho brand I have just pointed out.
She had a cab and took them with her,
and I thought no more of the incident
until she returned next day, carrying
the tins in her hand. "I have a sick
brother at ," she said, naming a
small town in Alabama, and was in
tending to send him these peaches,
with a bundle of other things, yester
day. But, on second thought, I be
lieve I will buy a few more delicacies
and get you to ship them separately.
There was nothing peculiar about the
request and I assured her I would be
glad to attend to the matter. She or
dered four or five dollars' worth of
different articles—jellies, olives, mar
malade and so on—paid the bill and
gave me her-brother's name, directing
the things to be sent to him in care
of captain somebody or other, at tho
Alabama town which she mentioned
before. As soon as she left, I got out
a box and began to pack up the con
signment; but as soon as 1 came' to
the poach"s 1 noticed that t he two cans
which she had returned were both
slightly 'blown,' as wo call it in the
trade. In other words, the tops bulg
ed outward a trifle, indicating that a
little fermentation had been going on.
Not wishing to send a sick man any
thing but the best, I set them aside
and put in two fresh cans from the
shelf. The box was shipped by the
first express.
"Nearly six months after this epi
sode," continued the grocer, with
twinkling eyes, "we were cleaning
out our old stock and ran across those
two cans of peache3. I picked up one
of them carelessly, and, my hand be
ing wet, a piece of the label came- off.
You may Imagine my surprise to see
a lot of small saws soldered to the
side of the tin, and on further exami
nation wo found that they completely
encircled the can. and that the other
was in exactly the same condition.
At that 1 began to have a faint ink
ling of the truth and lost no time mak
ing a few inquiries. I found that the
Alabama captain was the sheriff of
his county and the Invalid brother had
been one of his official guests. He
was a burglar and had since been sent
to prison for ten years. The scheme
was pretty shrewd. In the first place,
the sheriff would not be apt to be
suspicious of a package of goods com
ing direct from a reputable business
house, and, even if he opened the cans
before giving them to the prisoner,
there would be nothing wrong inside.
The crook must have been bitterly
disappointed when he examined the
substitutes that I sent. The saws, as
we afterward found out, were highly
tempered aad could cut stell bar like
yellow pine. Who was the woman in
black, did you ask? I have no idea;
probably a sister, or wife, or sweet
heart. 1 never laid eyes on her after
ward."—The New Orleans Times
democrat.
EYESIGHT OE SAVAGES.
NO DOUBT THAT IT IS SUPERIOR TO
THAT OF CIVIL IZ _D MEN.
But Whether the Superiority 1 lunntn
or tlie JteHiilt of Training Under H
Wider Horizon IN Another Tiling—Dif
ferences Are Mot All on One Side.
That, men who can see well will
learn to shoot better than men who do
not see well is a fact so patent that
we do not wonder Sir Redvers Bul
ler's remark about the superior eye
sight of the Boers attracted public at
tention. He thinks, it is said, that the
Boer has the "eyesight of a savage,"
and sees two miles further than the
Englishman, and of course that fact,
if it is proved, furnishes sufficient ex
planation of many British mishap 3 in
the South African campaign, and ac
counts for losses of life which might
otherwise be attributed to a reckles3
disregard of necessary precautions.
But we do not quite understand the
deduction so generally drawn from Sir
Redvers' statement that savaye eye
sight is naturally better than the eye
sight of civilized men. Why should
it be better? There is no difference
of structure in the eyeball, and the
difference in health is rather in favor
of the civilized man. The latter no
doubt very often loses something of
the keenness of his sight from much
reading and the use of artificial light,
but Tommy Atkins Is no philosopher,
reads little more than the savage, and
burns no midnight oil.
The truth is the Boer, like the sav
age, habitually trains his eye, as the
sailor does, to look into the far dis
tance, and acquires from that train
ing. and the habit of close attention to
all signs of movement on the part of
his quarry, a power of quick percep
tion which seems to thoso without it
almost miraculous. He sees game or
an enemy minutes before Tommy can,
just as the sailor sees a sail or a
smoke minutes before a landsman
can, but there is no difference of ori
ginal or natural powers. Tommy
could be trained. If we took sufficient
trouble to train him and allowed suffi
cient time, just as well as the Boer,
and very often is trained when he Is a
gamekeeper, or in any other way de
pendent upon the aeutoness of his
sight. Let any one who doubts this
just take a walk with an ornitholo
gist, and remark what the latter sees,
and at what distance, when compared
with himself.
The matter is of some interest, not
only because the ifl-ivate soldier has to
be taught to shoot as well as any ene
my, but because it bears upon the
very large question whether civiliza
tion necessarily diminishes the phy
sical powers of the average human be
ing. If it does, that is a great draw
back to civilization, because it pre
cludes the hope of man ever develop
ing a kind of aristocracy with the
powers of both body and mind in
creased to a point far beyond present
experience. That is the dream, the
rather lofty dream as it seems to us,
of the dons who foster athletics as
well as reading in their pupils; but if
the reading spoils physical as much
as it develops mental power, that is
a dream impossible of realization.
But does study necessarily have the
effect of spoiling sinews? That it
does so is a very natural idea, because
the savage seems so much more agile,
and is, besides, trained by his mode of
life, which the civilized man is not;
but we do not know that there is any
solid evidence for the notion.
The "big, black, bounding beggar,"
as Rud.vard Kipling called him, can
outrun the citizen, or outwalk hint in
a long march, or throw him in a wres
tle for life, but the trained runner will
outstrip the savage, the gamekeeper
will walk with him till he drops from
fatigue, and the Cumberland wrestler
will like nothing better than to throw
him over his head. The whole differ
ence is that the savage Is always, from
the habits of his life, in a condition
which the citizen only roaches after
weeks of careful training have re
stored him to the full exercise of his
natural powers. Just give a savage
who has never been accustomed to
carry weight, say a red Indian of the
North American forest the weight to
carry under which the British soldier
habitually marches, and see which of
them will give out first, though the
savage has even then the advantage of
having whlked every day to his full
power all his life. If it were not so,
man as an animal would differ from all
other animals, for it is notorious that
no wild horse can keep pace with a
racer and no wild dog can escape a
hound. The Kanaka, it is true, of th
South Seas, can usually swim much
farther than any civilized man, bu
then what civilized man passes half
his life in swimming in water just
warm enough to give his lungs fail
play?
There is, we admit, one faculty in
which the savage appears hopelessly
to distance his rival. He retains, or
appears to retain, tho superior sense
of smell, which belongs to so many
animals, or perhaps, in different de
grees, to ail, detecting, for example,
the odor of water or of land from a
great distance; but then smell is the
one sense which the civilized man, it
may be from an instinct of self-de
fence, never cultivates at all, but per
mits to die unused. It is of course
possible thnt in a clear, dry air like
that of South Africa the eye acquires
a certain keennos which is wanting
to the eye used for generations to a
humid atmosphere; but that, if it. oc
curs. is not duo to any defect imposed
by the conditions of civilization. It is
more like the extra thickness of skuil
which enables the negro to resist the
direct rays of an African sun without
discomposure or brain disease.
The truth is, we believe, that civil
fzed man when cultivated up to a cer
tain point acquire* a latent spita
against civilization, as essentially
based upon a system of rather weari
some restrictions. He longß for mora
freedom, or, as he calls it, simplicity
of life, and, being half inclined to
revert to savagery, wishes to credit
the savage with all the attractiveness
ho can. So strong was this feeling in
the last century that the "state of na
ture," which is really the state of tho
brutes, was represented through an
entire literature as worthy of admir-v
tion. Serious thinkers, iu France es
pecially, actually believed in tho
"noble" savage, and even in some in
stances ventured to paint him as the
"geltlest" of human beings. He is, as
a matter of fact, neither gentle nor
noble. Allowing, of course, for a very
few individual exceptions, he is more
capricious, revengeful, listful, and
cruel than the lowest of the civilized
tribes, with the addtion of a callous
ness like that of Fiji King Thakom
bau, who used to launch his new war
boat 3 by running them to the water
over the bodies of his slaves, whom
the weight of the boats disembowelled
as they pnssed. He is usually treacher
ous, partly, it may be, from incapacity
for continuous thought, and always
greedy, while he is almost without ex
ception more inclined to drunkenness
than the least abstinent of the civil*
ized races.—London Spectator.
A RACE FOR A MINEc
A Midwinter DIIMII to I.ocute Iho T.
Hour Mine.
"An exciting race for a mine took
place in February, 1896. For many
years it had been known that the Col*
ville Indian reservation was rich in
minerals, and prospectors had slipped!
in. eluding the vigilance of the Indian
police, to explore the mountains in
northern Washiiffeton. But long be
fore white men had entered the In
dians knew that the top of a low
mountain near the nation's border
liife was covered with bright blue
stones, so gaudy that many were car
ried off and placed in the wigwams.
The prospectors knew that these gay
stones betokened the existence of cop
per veins, and many a hungry eyo
was cost at that rock-strewn patch of
ground before the government lifted
the ban that kept out paleface in
truders.
"But congress passed a law opening
part of the reservation to mineral lo
cation.
"Waiting for the president to sign
the formal proclamation, two parties
quietly entered the forbidden territory
and camped alongside the promising
vein. At Marcus, the nearest tele
graph station, two young meq waited
with tense nerves for the first tick
that would tell that the president had
signed the proclamation. It was a
cold, gray winter day, and the snow
was piled high. Late in the afternoon
the word came, and there was a simul
taneous dash for the horses that were
waiting outside. Then the race began.
Plunging through drifts, tumbling
down declines, toiling desperately up
steep hills and bounding at full speed
over the level stretches, those two
horses bore their riders. Sometimes
one was ahead and sometimes the
other. The sun disappeared and the
hurrying pair blundered along through
the deepening twilight, and then in
the light of the stars reflected by the
glistening snow. Spurs were plunged
so deep that flecks of blood stained
the snow. Almost side by side they
scrambled up the mountain. The yells
of the riders were heard in the dis
tance by the rival watchers, who did
not wait a further hint, but drove the
stakes that were to locate tho La
Flour mine.
"Then followed wordy disputes, fist
fights and the flourishing of Winches
ters, but before the mine was chris
tened with blood, one party concluded
to withdraw and fight its battle in
the courts."—Eugene B. Palmer, in
Ainslee's Magazine.
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.
In bread-making on an expensive
scale less than a third of the time is
now taken. One thousand pounds of
dough for biscuits is rolled, cut and
prepared for baking in three hours
and 54 minutes, as against 54 hours
by hand.
There is in Paris a hotel which has
4000 employes. The smallest kettle
in its kitchen contains 100 quarts and
the largest 500. Each of 50 roasting
pans is big enough for 300 cutlet 3.
Every dish for halting potatoes holds
223 pounds. When omelets are on the
bill of fare 7330 eggs are used at once.
For cooking alone 00 cooks and 100
assistants are always at the ranges.
At a gathering of old folks in the
town of Claremont. Mass., the othpr
day, the chairman called upon all
present who were over 70 years of
age to arise, and 72 responded. Ho
then B.sVed all those who were over
80 tc btand up, and there were 12 who
had passed that limit. A similar call
for all over the age of 90 brought four
members of the gathering to their
feet.
Three weights not long ago found
on the site of the ancient Forum at
Rome supply an accurate record of
the Roman standard for two centuries
before our era. Tho weights, which
are of dark green marble with bronze
-andies, represent respectively 20< 30
nd 100 Roman pounds, and show that
the ancient Latin pound was exactly
325 grammes, or a little less than
three-quarters of a pound avoirdupois.
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
The fuse wire used in electric light
ing systems and trolley cars is a com
position of lead and bismuth. The
proportions are varied somewhat to
liter the hardness of the wire.
It is asserted that the electric fur
nace has been adapted to glass manu
facture. The raw materials arc fed
through a funnel to an electric arc in
the highest part of the furnace. After
being reduced to a molten condition
I it is successively passed between two
j other electric arcs lower down in the
I furnace, finally issuing in a purified
I condition.
Drs. Mactayden and Rowland In
their experiments on the influence of
low temperatures on bacteria have
found that though a certain degree of
heat is destructive to bacteria they
flourish vigorously and show no alter
ation in their appearance after being
subjected to the very low temperatures
attained by the use of liquid air and
liquid hydrogen, even though exposed
to them for a week. The selection of
l micro-organisms experimented on in
cluded germs of typhoid, cholera and
diphtheria.
An Interesting exploration of Lake
Tanganyika and the country north of
it, finished recently, revealed the fact
that while certain sea mollusks are
found in the lake, it the the only one
of all the large African lakes in which
such phenomena are observed. This
lake in only a short distance, some 80
miles, from the great Congo basin,
much of which, without doubt, was
once covered by the sea. The halolim
nic fauna appeared to extend into the
Congo valley, and it is believed that
the lake at one time extended consid
erably to tho west. Lake Nyassa, on
the other hand, has every character
istic of a fresh water lake, and the geo
logical fauna does not indicate that
this lake is of any great age.
The discovery has just been made
that camphor, known only as a vege
table product, or made synthetically,
is produced by a small worm-like crea
ture known as a diplopod with the
scientific name of polyzoninium rosal
bium. The animal is found In this
country, and by careful examination it
has been found that the substance
which gives the odor of camphor is a
milky fluid which is exuded from the
dorsal pores. This fluid, in addition to
possessing the odor of camphor, has a
similar taste. Enough of tho camphor
has not as yet been obtained for chem
ical analysis, but it is considered a
physiological substitute for the prussic
acid secreted as a means of defense by
a species of myriapod.
The changing of certain growing
flowers from red to blue on applying
alum, etc., to the roots of tho plants
has been long known; but it has re
matned for the late systematic re
searches of Minyoshi, a Japanese bot
anist, to open up remarkable new pos
sibilities of coloration by the florist.
Tho experimenter prepared watery ex
tracts of 73 different flowers of lilac,
purple and red colors, and of a num
ber of red leaves, treating these solu
tions In turn with acids, alkalies and
salts. What seemed to be the same
coloring matter in different solutions
gave greatly varying results. In most
case 3 alum turned lilac to blue, pink
or deeper lilac; hydrochloric acid
changed lilac or pale red to deep red,
seldom producinglilac.green or brown;
and caustic potash changed lilac to
green, or sometimes yellow. In prac
tice these color transformations should
follow tho application of tho chemicals
to the plant roots, of course in ex
tremely weak solutions.
VALUE OF TELEPHONE NUMBERS.
Munv forma 1 ':iy Heavy Mileage Hates to
Old " Hello" Anurous.
"Telephone numbers have an actual
money value." said an officer of the
telephone company. "The assertion
has a strange sound, but if you think
for a moment of the advantage a busi
ness house derives from having its
location well known, the thing seems
only natural.
"In the course of time people's
minds begin to associate a firm with
Its telephone number, and if, when
they start to call up an old friend,
they find masquerading under a now
number, it is as much of a shock as if
they had called at a houße with whom
they were in the habit of doing busi
ness and found it had moved away.
It all comes under the legal head of
' good-will," a very elusive commodity,
hut one which has its market value.
"So much is this fact appreciated
by some of our old patrons that they
are willing to pay heavy mileage, if
they move away from the neighbor
hood of their exchange, in order to
retain their old telephone address.
Many important houses have followed
the northward trend of business in
the last few years, and there are sev
eral caEes of a firm's office address
being In the up town district, while its
telephone number remains so and so
Cortlandt or Broad The firm's line to
the exchange may be several miles
long."—New York Mail and Express.
Knaainn Bella.
The manufcture of bells has for cen
turies Seen carried on in Russia. On
account of the immense number of
churches throughout the empire, the,
demand for bells has always been
great. As far back as 1653 the cele
brated bell, called "Tyar Kolokol," was
made. It is the largest bell in the
world, being 18 feet in diameter and
19 feet high. No less than 17V tons of
ccppcr were used in it 3 manufacture.