Decatur Democrat, Volume 39, Number 20, Decatur, Adams County, 2 August 1895 — Page 5

®h® DECATUR, IND. W. BLACKBPBK, . . . Fmwn, Woman may laugh In her sleeve more comfortably than ever, but she cannot look over her shoulder any more. The one-legged bicyclist has appeared on Kansas City's streets. He seems to be much more at home on his wheel than on bls "pins.** Mrs. P. T. Barnum says that she "doesn’t think she will marry just yet’’ But it will not be denied that she has a pretty good show. Emperor William was astonished by the superiority of the American men-of-war at Kiel. William himself might have built a better navy If be had had Cramps. ■ The St Louis Post-Dispatch takes one of its morning contemporaries to task for alluding to a book published In 1819 as a new one. Well, almost any book is new in St Louis. The esteemed Toledo Blade says editorially: “This finding of bodies of murdered men and women in Toledo is becoming too common.’* Still we don’t think they should be overlooked. A Denver woman has started a paper called the Kiss, and a Pennsylvanian has started another called the Kick. The former will probably take the best but the latter will be the most elevating. > Mayor Pingree, of Detroit, may be a crank, but he certainly moves things. He has given his constituents a 3-cent street car fare and no other city in America can equal It. Score another point for the peacbblow mayor. It is possible that the African prince who is going to Central Africa with a dozen Cblcagoese may sell them to the cannibals. The fact that the Government meat Inspectors have not passed on them is no assurance of their safety, k Rufus Waterhouse, of New York, left KOO, OOO to establish a ward for conEumptlves in St Luke’s Hospital in that Bty. The penniless victims of pulmo■ary disease will offer fervent thanks■vlngs for the dead man's thoughtful ■kd truly philanthropic bequest La'X W. Foster’s private secretary the Order of ‘the Double Dragon, dr. Foster himself has asked for a noney order for SIOO,OOO. Mr. Foster’s mmmerclal Instinct leads him to place a low estimate on dragons, single or double. A special dispatch says that “George Adams, of Beaver Dam Brook, Pa., caught an albino trout yesterday which was eight Inches long, with scales of k silvery hue, white eyes with blue >uplls, transparent fins and flesh of a leep salmon color.” Later advices how that Mr. Adams used no bait but ucb as the average angler carries in-a ask. “The Infanta dined,” says the headne over an item of telegraph. Probbly she did. May it not reasonably >e concluded that previous to this imkortant achievement she had breakisted and lunched, and that thereafter he slept undisturbed by nightmare nd unaware that her gustatory feat ad been flashed to the waiting westm world. Kiew in Russia is a grain center and tas adopted a curious system of contacts for future delivery of grain. If he price advances five copecks beyond he price agreed upon the advance goes o the buyer. The next five copecks advance goes to the seller. The advance, if any, over this is divided beween buyer and seller. We presume he purpose of this arrangement is enIrely commendable; but it remains to »e seen how it will work out in pracIce. It is not too much to say that in the course of twelve months any one of the [metropolitan dallies publishes more good literature and more matter of [practical importance and usefulness [than any half dozen magazines in the Country. Their improvement in this frespect is one of the wonders of the Keriod, and one of the notable gains of Kvlllzation. They have made themftelves indispensable, not by providing ■eople with a convenient way to waste Rime, but by presenting an abundance Ik the best obtainable information upK all subjects. WWblle the man condemned to death H>wls lustily for respite, and the man who seems to be In a position to enjoy Ke world blows out his brains, disKsslon of the question whether or not Ke is worth living keeps up its accusKmed gait, with disputants apparently Kd. Now a Philadelphia girl of fourKn complicates the situation by hangKt herself because she wanted a shirt : Jsst and did not get it. If life with a i Krt waist is worth clinging to, while s Kvoid of a shirt waisf it becomes someI Bing to be cast away, the adjustment ■fthe problem is oven more delicate i K® ha(i been su pp° Becl - I Kne of the leaders of the new woman I Ksade says that she Is "riding to sufI Kge on a bicycle.” The wheel Is Baking a revolution in the feminine Kid in more ways than one. A valuKe tip comes from El Paso, Tex. A Kcial dispatch from that point says

tthat Miss Remle Londonderry, of BoaJ ton, who has been visiting Texas friends, recently decided to make a bicycle tour throughout the West She says she has already received 150 offers k of marriage and presents worth $1,500. And there you are! Oh, ye disconsolate , spinsters of one-sided Massachusetts, B - buy a wheel and ride into matrimony. T Come to the bounding West and round up a husband on your wheel. , Under the heading, <“A Disagreeable s Experience,” a paper makes record of 1 the kissing of a young lady by a J>urglar. Such analysis of human feeling is not properly part of journalism. As--5 Burning the experience referred to to be * that of the young lady, who knows that i it was disagreeable? But possibly it was the burglar’s experience, the analyst having seen the young lady, in r which case the verdict is most ungal- ■ lant The Important matter cannot t well be decided by the principals, for I the burglar absented himself with his lips still honeyed, and the young woman would be bound in all modesty to 1 say the experience was disagreeable, 1 even while cherishing the joy of it and hoping for another osculatory burglar. The statement of Mark Twain made under oath in proceedings in court that he is practically penniless will occasion universal regret Few writers have given so much pleasure to so large a 1 circle of readers. It was supposed that his literary labors had brought him a generous fortune, which, now that he is approaching old age, would have given him the opportunity to rest and enjoy the reward of his toil. This proves not to be the case, but, undaunted by the situation, the genial humorist is going to work again, and, in addition to his writing, proposes to make a lecture tour. If every one whom he has cheeped and delighted with his sunny, clean, and inspiriting humor will attend the lectures there need be little doubt Mark Twain will soon recoup himself. Why do thousands of bicyclists “scorch” along with gloom on their handsome faces? Why do they look preoccupied and sad? Why are they never seen to smile except when coasting with legs held proudly In the air? Is It right that a smiling bicyclist should be as rare as a dead mule? We suppose that the gloomy bicyclist is a relic of the days when bicyclists were few and much stared at When a man is much stared at he is self-conscious, and when he is self-conscious he prefers to wear a gloomy expression. Man believes foolishly that a gloomy expresWhy they HWT wAnlrl anUla Wntlld tIA TTIOTA I woniu buhw ine 'Biostsw cheerful and the bicyclists would be better men. Besides; they would be healthier. Even Schopenhauer the Gloomy said, “Cheerfulness is the very flower of health.” If bicyclists wish to be healthy, flowers they must be cheerful. What Is said here of gloom among bicyclists applies exclusively to male bicyclists. When the wheelwoman has mastered her wheel she always smiles —unless she thinks her hat isn’t on straight During a recent debate in the French Chamber it was observed that several socialist deputies had in their hands copies of a Judicial order which, legally, should have been kept secret The event excited much indignation, and angry inquiries were made regarding the faithless official who had thus betrayed his trust. No one seemed to know who was responsible for the leak, but a few days later the socialist leader, M. Jaures, publicly declared that his party was in the way of getting secret Intelligence from every department of the Government He went so far as to affirm that he and his followers had a perfect understanding with the police, and complacently referred to several police reports on suspected anarchist and socialist meetings, which had been thoughtfully submitted to the socialists themselves before being transmitted to the Government Various prefects throughout the republic, under strict orders from Paris to keep an eye on the socialists and report their incendiary: harangues, had quietly gone, M. Jaures said, to the very agitators whom it was' their duty to restrain, and begged to be allowed to help along in the overthrow of the present social regime. Doubtless there Is some exaggeration about this, i as the socialists would be glad to have , it understood that the public service i is completely honeycombed by their , sympathizers and adherents; but the es- : tablished facts are serious enough to de- ' mand prompt action by the Govern- ; ment ~ > Thought It Was a Wife Market. ’ Orrin Holt, a robust Canadian farmer, called at the mayor’s office yesterday, and, saying he wished to get married, was directed to the marriage bureau, where he repeated his desire to ’ Mr. Van Pelt. “Bring in the lady,” said Mr. Van ‘ Pelt c “I thought you bad them here,” said ‘ Mr. Holt In Surprise. Mr. Holt then explained that he had read about Mayor Strong’s perform- ’ ance of marriage performances. “I thought” added he, “that you had ‘ girls who wanted to get married wsit--5 Ing here. I want a good-looking, heal- ‘ thy, nice tempered New York girl, and I can support her In good shape.”—New } York Herald. t ... , -..." 3 Appeals to the Public. 1 In London there is a street collection • for one benevolent institution or an--1 other on almost every Saturday ip the 5 year. t Half the wickedness in the world Ig a gossip started by good people.

CHIOKENS HOME HOME TO ROOST. . 1 yen may take the world as It comes and goes. And you will be sure to find 1 That Fate will square the account'she owes. Whoever comes outbehlnd; ■ And all things bad that a man has done, By whatsoever Induced, Return at last to him, one by one. As the chickens come home to roost. I You may scrape and toil and pinch and save, While your hoarded wealth expands, Till the cold, dark shadow of the grave * Is nearing your life’s last sands; You will have your balance struck some night, And you'll find your hoard reduced; You’ll view your life in another light When the chickens come home to roost. Sow as you will, there’s a time to reap. For the good and bad as well; And conscience, whether we wake or sleep, Is either a heaven or hell. And every wrong will find its place, And every passion loosed Drifts back and meets you face to face— When the chickens Come home to roost. Whether you’re over or under the sod, , The result will be the same; You cannot escape the hand of God, You must bear your.sin and shame. No matter what’s carved on a marble slab, When the items are all produced. You’ll find that St. Peter was keeping “tab," And that chickens come home to roost. —Philadelphia Ledger. THE ROW’S BRBVL It was at the taking of Rangoon. From the Irawaddi the crashing batteries of a dozen steam frigates had leveled the stockades on the river side. Black masses of naked, smokestained Burmese, exposed at their guns, or in shallow trenches, when the teak walls fell or were burned down, were mowed down like grass by a hailstorm of grape. Our artillery was landing. The 18th Royal Irish were already in the breaches and at the water gate. The Burmese dropped their cumbrous shields and lances and dhars and fled, yelling, back toward the great pagoda. Those wild Irish, possessed of the same devil that dashed and slashed and stabbed and hacked and hurrahed in the Enniskilleners at Waterloo, went off in one regiment for of the almost frantic officers, who, weak and hoarse with ineffectual efforts to check their mad command, were forced to follow at last, all chasing the bubble reputation together—one regiment at the heels of 10,000 panic stricken savages I One of the glorious fellows of the crack 18th in this tempestuous hur-ly-burly was Fallon, the adjutant. He was the equipped model of a gentleman and a soldier, according to the standard of his proud regiment; a jovial boon companion, generous comrade, fast friend, frank and fearless enemy; in sport a child, in taste a scholar, impetuous in fight, pitiful in victory. As his disordered party charged, shouting, up the broad Dagan road, between the long lines of the inner blockade, over bamboo bridges thrown across trenches, and past grim gigantic idols and poonghee houses fantastically carved, the adjutant, who had lingered behind the rest, striving to the last, in his habitual devotion to discipline, to restrain the men, happened to be in the rear of all. “How now?” jestingly cried Clark, an English ensign of the adjutant’s mess, who was running jusb before him, “our plucky Fallon at the back of us all I This is bad enough for me, old fellow, who have my medals to win; but it will never do for you, with those red ribbons to answer for.” “I am doing my best, Clark, my boy,” Fallon replied, “and shall be up with that crazy sergeant presently. You know lam good for a short brush of footrace; fast running is one of my accomplishments —thanks to my by bog trotting education and the practice Lord Gough gave us.” Hardly were the. words done ringing in his comrade’s ears when the gallant Fallon, the pride of his corps, received in his generous breast a dozen musket bails as he sprang up the brojd staircase oi the Golden Dagon Pagoda—first of them all, and quite alone. He fell on his face, stone dead, on the stairs, sword in hand, and smiling. When all was over, and his regiment held the post of honor on the very throne of the Boodh, they gave him a soldier’s most distinguished obsequies, burying him in a grove of talipot trees., behind a poonghee house t>f the most grotesque architecture, and just outside of what were afterward the Sepoy lines of the Eightieth. His faithful orderly planted a rude cross at his grave’s head and set an English white rose there. An American missionary gave it to him. In Calcutta, Norah Fallon—beautiful, accomplished, witty, altogether radiant with rare charms of mind and person —waited with her young child for news from her soldier husband, who bad her heart in his keeping Within the stockades of Rangoon. When they told her he was dead; she fell, uttering only a sharp cry, and lay as one dead for many days. But when she awoke to the consciousness of hpr profound bereavement, and her eternal widowhood, she shed not a tear nor spoke a word, but took her

7 boy and went aboard a troop chip that sailed on the morrow for Rangoon. j Oh the voyage still she spoke hot, nor ever wept; the silence of her sorrow had something sacred, almost e awful about it, that commended a delicacy of consideration, was a sort of worship, from the rudest about her. Arrived at Rangoon, no sooner bad the ship dropped anchor off the King’s wharf than Norah sent her chaprassey, her Hindoo errand--1 goer, with a note to General Godwin, commanding the company’s forces in Burmah. “The wife of Maurice i Fallon, adjutant in the Eighteenth of her Majesty’s Royal Irish, wouk e be permitted to see her husband’s grave; she awaits the expression of the General's wishes on board the Mahannddy.” She waited long. At last the answer came: "It was with unfeigned sorrow that Lieut.-Gen. Godwin found him- ( self constrained, by the exigencies of his position, to refuse the widow of one of his best officers, wnose loss was felt by the whole Anglo-Indian army, the sad privilege of visiting the spot where his comrades consigned him to a brave soldier's grave. But the General’s footing in Rangoon was precarious, hourly appreprehensions of attack by a strong body of the enemy were entertained. » “It was known that a Burmah chief was approaching with a numerous and well armed force, and had . already arrived in the neighborhood of Kemmendine. Therefore, for the present, the Lieutenant-General must forbid the landing of his countrywoman from the shipping on any pretext. He hoped to be forgiven by the dear lady, whose grief he humbly asked to be permitted to share; but in this case he was not left in the exercise of the least discretion. Such were the regulations.” When Norah Fallon had read these lines she retired to her cabin in silence, and was not seen again that day. On the next she was observed in frequent and eager conference, in whispered Hindoostanee, with an old and faithful bearer, gray bearded, and of grave and dignified demeanor, who had long been in the confidence of her husband—indeed, a sort of humble, but fatherly guardian to the young, inexperienced, and perhaps imprudent pair, who with their darling between them were all in all to each other, and heedless of all beside. The old Hindoo had formerly lived several years at Prome, whither he had gone in the capacity of bearer to with tolerable fluency. . : I There were many “friendly” Burmese at Rangoon at this time, deserters from Dallah, shrewd fellows who had foreseen safety in British ascendancy, and, being mostly fishermen, had offered themselves for “Inglee” muskets for the nonce, with a sharp eye to profitable nets thereafter. Indeed, not a few of these calculating traitors had taken to their old trade already, and were busily plying the moles and hooks from crazy canoes at the mouth of Kemmendine Creek. It was not long before some of them, hailed by old Buxsoo, the bearer, came alongside with, as he said, fish for the Mem Sahib, his mistress. On these occasions he conversed with them in Burmese, and whoever watched narrowly the astonished and anxious faces of the fishermen must have observed that neither the freshness nor the price of their finny prizes formed any part of the discussion. It was a. dark night, no moon and a cloudy sky; all hands had gon© below and “turned in” some hours since. The officer of the deck, night glass in hand, paced the “bridge, - ' or leaned over the rail and watched the lights ashore, while the quartermaster patrolled the gangways. But these were not alone on deck ; on the bull ring of the aftar gun the pale and tearless widow sat, still as a shadow, and peered through the darkness shoreward to where the Eighteenth’s lights gleamed from the Golden Dragon. Such was her nightly wont, and officers and men i had become so accustomed to it that i she sometimes sat there till after midnight, unheeded and forgotten The young officer still chased with his eyes the restiess lights, and dreamed dreams the while of home and of a sweetheart; the gruff old quartermaster paced up and down, . and thought of prize money and the i “old woman.” Neither had eye nor i thought for the poor lady, they 1 were so used to her lonesome ways, d’ye see. else they might have found i something unusual in the anxiety witlvwhich she watched a singular ■ object in the water astern—only an > empty canoe drifting toward the » ship! Not drifting either; for now I that I point them out to you, you t can see two black heads, with long > hair twisted in a barbaric knot be- • hind, peering warily above the water ; in front of the boat which seems to t follow them. r The love-lorn youngster, or the J gruff old quartermaster on prize ) money intent, did look toward the r bull ring a little later, and saw nothing; the lady wai gone. Whither? - To her cabin? No; she could not r have passed them unobserved. But 1 that was easy to decide; her light I still burned; her state room was - open and unoccupied. Where, then, - was she? Good heavens! It could • not be; and yet it must—poor lady I b Poor baby 1 They gave the alarm; 1 they roused the ship; » gun was t fired; a search was made, in vain, s Alas 1 it must be so. “She has gone 1 to join her husband.” t True 1 but not that way, gruff old r quartermaster’s mate. Stop think-

p Ing about her; have ears and brains i- for your duty. What was that shot on shore? And, bark now! an- . other, and another, and another! the .1 alarm is given in the British lines; it the sentries have discharged their a pieces and run in I See! the place is g all ablaze with lights; every ponghee t house is illuminated; you can discern the great porch of the Golden r Dagon,..with its griffin warders, from e here. They are beating to arms; the trumpet sounds the “assembly.” What could that first and solitary shot have been? ’ Ah! my nautical friends, while your sapient pates were busy guess- > ing, that pair of barbaric black heads . have drifted under the stern again, s and the same canoe has drifted with f them—nor empty this time; for, look g again, and you will see that her light !s no longer burning, and her stateroom door is closed, though the window is open; and—yes, you do hear her breathing. Waitl spare your heads the guessing; it will all be j cleared up one day. Wait till you f dare to ask Norah Fallon why she dares to make so much of that with- ( ered white rose. ' General Godwin’s next dispatch to ’ the Governor General contained a curious passage: “On the night of ’ the 15th the cantdnments were thrown into disorder by a false r alarm, caused by the mysterious dis- ’ charge of a pistol in the talipot grove, which inclosed the grave of the 1 late Adjutant Fallon, who fell glo- ’ riously in the attack on the Dagon , Pagoda; the spot is close to the sepoy lines of H. M. Eightieth. My men maintained good order, answering the assembly call with remarkable celerity and in complete equipment. At daybreak a sepoy of Major Ainslie’s picket found a dead boa of great size, and evidently just killed, lying across young Fallon's grave; also, suspended to the cross by a ribbon, a gold locket containing two locks of hair—a lady’s and a child’s; and fastened to the cross by a short Burmese poiniard through the paper the inclosure, marked “X.” Inclosure X contained the following: “There are no ‘Regulations’ for the heart of an Irish soldier’s wife.” Origin of Street Lighting. The custom of lighting the streets dates back to remote antiquity. In the cities of Greece the streets were lighted after a fashion by means of very old fashioned lamps suspended or set in sockets in prominent positions. Similar plans were followed Rome and in the Egyptian cities, or the’ ritost part" ptimlnVb" Ylf T form. Many of them were made of skulls of animals or of sea shells of a convenient size and shape. The general principal of these lamps was copied in the stone cups and boxes used in later years. The lights at best were very inadequate, and it was customary for those who ventured on the streets at night to carry blazing torches. Crime of all sorts flourished under such a system. It was not uncommon in ancient Rome to find a number of dead and mangled bodies lying about the streets every morning. The lamps used m this period were exquisitely decorated, but for several centuries not a single improvement was made to increase the light. The lamps were made usually of bronze and covered with figures in bas relief, taken from mythology or from subjects of daily life. Corns on Horses* Feet. A common cause for lameness among horses is corns, and they may be growing for several months before they give evidences of their existence. Horseshoers closely watch the feet of the horses they shoe for evidences of these disturbers, and are often able to get rid of them before they have done much injury. Corns on a horse’s hoofs usually form just above the heel and where the hair joins the hoof. They then grow down into the hoof as the hoof itself grows, and about the first knowledge the horseshoer has of their existence is when he pares the hoof and uncovers the corn. It is often the case that they have festered while in the hoof, ‘ftnd when an incision<is made a large sized hole is found. In some establishments ointment is used for the cure of corns, but in others it is considered best to protect them from gravel and stones, and permit them to grow out with the hoof and be cut off with it. The shoes on Arabian horses, which are required to go long distances in the hot sand, are solid pieces of iron, an opening being left ouly for the frog. They are fastened to the hoof with unsightly looking nails, and altogether are cumbersome affairs, yet they serve the purpose of protection to the hoof. Found a Boulder of Silver. I ■ ' One of the largest silver nuggets 1 on record was found about four miles i from Peach Springs, Arizona, recently. ■ Two prospectors, William Tucker ' and John Doyle, on their way from > Death Valley to the Colorado River, > discovered a boulder weighing seve--5 ral hundred pounds and composed ' of nearly pure silver. The value of . the find is placed at about SIO,OOO. I A watchmaker of Chicago is the ; owner of a clock the works of which 3 are in the inside of an ordinary wine . bottle, and the dial is set obliquely J on the top of the bottle. Thereis quite a mystery attached to this curosity. 1 Several years ago it floated to the - shors from Lake Michigan,

I WORLIPK LKGI»LATURES. t • Differences In the Apportionment of Members. • The recently elected Italian Chamber of j Deputies consists of 634 members. The , present German Reichstag consists of 303 members. The next House of Represen--1 tatives at Washington, exclusive of Territ lorial Delegates, will consist of 356 mem-f bers. The English Parliament consists o • 690 members, including those elected in Ireland and Scotland as well as those elected in England. Os these members 465 are chosen from English constituencies. ' 103 from Irish, 72 from Scotch, and 30 • from Welsh. The French Chamber of • Deputies consists of 622 members. It appears from these figures that ali though popular control over the choice of representatives is most general in the i United States, the lower House of Congress is a smaller body than the popular branch of the Legislature of Great Britain, Germany, France, or Italy. The Belgian Parliament, prior to the extension of universal suffrage and the adoption of the multiple system of voting, consisted of 124 members, tbe number varying according to tbe number of qualified electors in each district. The Hungarian House of Mag. nates consists of 785 members, and the Hungarian House of Representatives of 445. The Dutch Parliament is constructed on the basis of one deputy for every 45,000 of population. The representation of all the Swiss cantons in tbe National Council is 135. In the choice of representatives few European governments conform with tbe American plan of selecting representatives on the basis of the number of voters only. In England, for instance, where the right of suffrage has been extended to tbe point of being almost universal, or manhood suffrage, as it is called in the United States, nine university districts continue to have representations as such, and the divisional lines of parliamentary districts are such that the representation is unequal, being largest proportionately in the country and smallest in the urban districts. The basis ot representation in the United States has varied greatly from time to time. The ratio of representation per population was 30,000 under the first apportionment. It rose gradually under successive apportionments until 1843, when it was put at 70,000. In 1853 it jumped to 92,000 and in 1863 to 127,000. From that figure it grew gradually until 1883, when it was 151,000. Ths present basis of representation is materially higher—l73,9ol. Congress fixes the number of members which each State shall have, but the subsequent subdivisions, based on the preceeding national census, is made by tbe Stale Legislature. The rule of equality of division is not very well preserved, though an effort to follow it is shown generally. The First Congressional district of Texas bas a population of 120,000; the Second Congressionol district o! Texas has a population of 210,000. WThat is a flagrant and exceptional inequality. Nevada has a representative in Congress w by Congressman Quigg- The Fourth dis- • trict of Pennsylvania, one of the strongest Republican districts of the country r lfcd by tbe last census a population of 209,000. Ohio had only one district with more than 21'0,000 inhabitants. Twelve of the thirteen districts of Massachusetts have 170,000 population or a fraction more. KAISER WILL DRIVE ZEBRAS Trained In South Africa and Now Being Tested by an Expert. The Kaiser William has received from a Boer firm in the Transvaal a consignment of three zebras that have been broken in for carriage use and are said to be reliable if driven abreast. His majesty intends to use the team before the Russian troika, a carriage built for three horses harnessed together. The troika was given him by tbe late emperor of Russia, and in trying to drive the fiery horses of the steppes with his own royal hands, or rather his band (for his left hand is no use to hint in handling the ribbons), the kaiser came near getting killed once or twice. Several of bis catchmen were injured and one killed in runaway accidents with the troika horses. The zebra team will be thoroughly tested before his majesty attempts to handle it. The animals are now installed in tbe royal mews at the Neuss palais, and are exercised daily by an expert driver in the ground. They seem to go quiet, but the fact that two grooms on fleet horses follow in thqir tracks proves that accidents are anticipated, and that the driver is not willing to sacrifice his life the sake of his master’s whim. The zebras are graceful, slight of build, and nearly of the size of Trakehnen horses from the celebrated royal stud which the emperor usually drives. Their bodies are white, striped with numerous brownish black bands. Three sets of russet and red morocco harness for each are being manufactured. «■ If expectations are realized the emperor intends .to use the team upon his frequent travels between Potsdam and Berlin instead of the four Hungarian “Juckers” now employed by him. Bicycles Hurting the Railroads. The passenger earnings of many roads are not only being cut into locally by the trolley lines, but by the bicycles. Since the warmer weather set in people living out a few miles from their places of business, who have been patronizing the suburban trains, now ride the bicycle. Where there are cities but a few miles apart the passenger men say that between the electric roads and the cycle competition their local earnings are showing marked decrease. A passenger official Who has just returned from Boston states that within a radius of eight to ten miles hundreds now come in on bicycles on pleasant mornings and return ip the evening in the same manner, and hundreds more find the electric car quite an attraction, so that altogether the Boston steam roads are losing quite heavily on this particular portion of their incomes. He says that Boston passenger men told him that trains that were formerly crowded are now only fairly well filled, and in some instances a number of trains run for suburban business have been taken off, and thoa kept on are hauling fewer coaches.