Daily News, Franklin, Johnson County, 23 November 1889 — Page 8

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THE SAFE DEPOSIT COMPANY.

MR. II. t. VAX TINE STATES ITS LSEJS AM NECESSITY.

riKP Whjwl ul Ntic-h it Coinpan)'. Tojfthfr With omplci#* I***«• ri|ilon of Thrlr Ur«l nntl.

The advantages of a safe deposit company to a city the size of Terre Haute are almost innumerable. Mr. H. C. Van Tine, the Pittsburg gentleman who has U-ett hen- for the past week for the pur}o*e of forming a company, was, after considerable reluctance, prevailed! upon by a New* reporter to give to the public a complete outline of the uses and neces•iii«"H of a safe deposit company together with a description of the vault which the company will use if he is successful forming one here. .Mr. Van Tine ha* made a canvass of the prominent business men of the eitv and hnls them almost unanimously in favor of the forming of a ra puny. The uses ef a safe deposit are many. There is scarcely a business man, or a family that has not article* of tnore or less value which they never know where to keep. The content* «»f (he boxes of a safe deposit vault are just mysterious to tht custodian of the vault as they are to outsider*. Nobody but the depositor has the slightest idea of what in kept in his lox, The articles which are taken to a wife deposit vault lor wife keeping consist of valuable paper*, jewelry, heirlooms, money and !erj thousand other things too numerous to mention, and in fact the bu!.k of the matter deposited remains a secret with

be depositors. In connection with the great vault are rooms, one for Indies and one for Kent*, to which the depositor* may retire to look over the contentK of their taxes. When a depositor enters the company* office he is identified by the custodian of the vault who goes in and opens one of the locks his tax. The depositor then enters and inserts his key in the other l»ek and (be door is opened. Inside the steel box which has just been opened is a tin box which tits the inside of the box and in this the depositor keeps his valuables. If he wishes to be private he takes out the tin box and retire* to one of the rooms provided for that purpose and when he has finished looking over his valuable* th* box is replaced, th« locks are securely fastened and he can go away and rest assured as to the safety of his goods. The Fidelity Title and Trust Company, of Pittsburg, of which Mr. Van Tine is a stockholder, has just completed a seven-story building in that city which is one of the finest structures in the I'nited States. In this is a vault like the one that will be put up here. It has b.tKMl boxes and weighs in the neighborhood of I,(KM),Oon pounds. The Pittsburg Dispatch of November 15 contains a lengthy and interesting article on the company, its new building and its remarkable vault.

The necessity of a wife deposit is evidenced by the fact that no less than a dozen of Terro Haute business men go to Indianapolis to a safe deposit vault to find a place for the safe keeping of their valuable pa|K»rs, etc. There are many, very many people who are afraid to dejKwut money in banks and these always patronize safe deposit companies. There is scarcely a society lady in this city who has not jewelry ami diamonds valued at *1,000 and upward. The greater part of these art* now depositee! in the banks, and a safe deposit company would relievo (lie banks of all of the worry and bother of this kind of work. The following is a description of the vault which will l»e med if the company is formed.

The vault is' built of solid charcoal iron, twelve inches thick and chilled to a depth of two inches. This chilled iron is impervious to drills. The safe is built of blocks of iron twenty inches long and sixteen inches wide of the thickness above stated. These blocks are tongued ami grooved and ground so as to tit so closely together as to form au airtight joint. No two of these joints come in the same place in other words, they art* broken joints. Two solid steel rods pass through each block, Thesidesof the vault are built up of these blocks with steel rods passing through them and securely bolted at both top and Jmttom. The reof is formed of "I beams winch lurnish supjw»rt for the blocks, and the blocks forming the roof are securely boltmi together in the center and dove tailed into the twain*. The door is an especially strong feature. There are thirty-six inches of metal at the door jam. The door is built of solid iron twelve inches thick and weighs from six to eight tons. It has no hinges, knobs or handles. It slitles back into a m^ess on rollers. When closed the door! strikes a bar and throws an automatic lock which shoots the bolts I to their proper places inside of the door. There is also a triple-time lock connected with it and when the hour arrives to I open the di»or, this draws the automatic talts back and the door may be ojvened provided one has the machinery with I which to often it. Phis works on the principle of the stem-winding watch. A nuhet is brought out from the. rollers and a s*cket made to work the ratchet, which requires a key to lit it as perfect.lv I as a Vale or any other form of perfected lock, When yon want to open the door ibis key is dropped into the socket and a wheel fits on the shoulder at the top by which the door is rolled hack. Without this key a burglar or a mob would be as j*owerUws as if the holts were not drawn.

The inside measurement of the vault I

high. In this $paot about 1,000 boxw will lie arraupHt in ranging from Ive and a half iuchm in length by four

which the company contemplates puttaif crer, did not atop to ascertain their hw KXI0 feet and about eight feet

and a halt in height, which will rent for I Q? these shattering a paae in it A is to l*o»xe« sixuvu inches1* eplinters hit the faoe of the monarch $10 per annum in length bv twelve in height, which will rent for $40 {»er annum. The latter is the Sargent state which will be put in here* The $15 jH»r year boxes will be about] eight inchest tu length by five inches in hetght. AH of the boxw will be sixteen uniies deep and constructed of #teel admit three-quarter* of An inch thick.! ach depositor will have hi# own key,! but no one key will open any box. K*ch box hat t»rb key*. The otfcUsr key will be in the hand* of the custodian of the vault it will be readily «eeit Uiat uo imnoctor could haw acce«s to any box even if the owner lost the key, asd be* tween the s*eeuret«w in the steel boxes I inside the vault and the bBtgiar or mob at all points aw twelve !ttd*«i* of «ot'i4 metal chilled to the depth of two iorihwi absolutely beymd the power of the bur^-1 lar to drift within the time he could po#* #»bly have to work.

AX OLD BUFFALO HCST.

A Buffalo BniUr T*Ii» of Hi* Ljut Great I Hunt. The Hon. C. J. Jones, the veteran buffalo hunter of America, recently pasted through Denver on his way to his home in Garden City,Kan#., from Ogden. Utah, whore he recently ao!d a one-half interest in his buffalo herd in Kansas. He is the gentleman who originated the idea of raising the bftffalo for domestic purposes.

In an interview he gave the following interesting story regarding his early days as a hunter and hits pet hobby of domesticating this now almost excitinct race of bovines:

I began hunting the buffalo in 1871 at fifty cents apiece AH I did was to shoot them down for a company, which would take th' hides to Hayes City and Fort Wallace and sell them. They would split the hide down the belly, cutting the legs a little distance down. Then they cut the neck and slipped it back a little. Taking a loop in a rope, they would hitch one team of horses to the hide and one to the horns and whip the hide off in less time than it takes to tell it. "I have often killed from forty to sixty buffalo right in their tracks. I figured out a plan of my own to corral them on the prairie. 1 made an effort to get in front of the herd when they were traveling, so that they would como within twenty yaids of mo in passing by then shot die leader through the head and dropped her dead in her tracks. The leader was generally a cow. The old bulls were lazy and usually lagged be hind. The herd would fall back in the direction from which they came about one hundred yards, stopping to turn around and look for danger. In a few minutes one of the cows led out to go around on one side or the ether, and then 1 could drop her ad 1 did the first. They would again fall back a short distance and huddle up together cloeely.

A ter a short pause another cow might undertake to go around on the other side and invariably meet the same fate aa the other two. The herd after this was sure to form in a very close group uj»on the ground where they halted after the first shot, Buffalo retrace their step* only a short distance. "Now they had trouble on three sides and on their back track. I was free to shoot down as many as I wanted, provided I did not shoot too rapidly and alarm them. Whenever one attempted to lead away 1 made sure to kill it, and this taught ihe other* ihat. it was sure death to the leaders. "To be sure, it was cruel, but I could hear the crack of guns on every hand and 1 thought 1 would have my share. "1 began to realize that these animals would soon become extinct, and 1 turned my attention to saving the remnant. I began to save th» young to atone for my (daughter. In 1884 1 began to gather up calves, it was very difficult to raise them. At first 1 lost fifty per cent., but after a little experience 1 could save ninety per cent. I stocked my farm near Garden City with young onos as rapidly as I could gather them. At the close of 18H4 1 had raised only four, the next year seven and thu next year thirty-two, and so on until 1 bad a herd of nearly one hundred"—(.San Francisco Examiner.

A BKUTAL MOXA/tCOL

Chnractarlntic* of the Tertian Despot Who Wm Knighted by yu««n Victoria. One of the worst deeds Nusr-ed-Deen h&» been guilty of is tlie assassination of Hhahx&den Yussuf, an Afghan prince and pretender, who had sought refuge in the shah's court during the wars with his native bouatry. The shah caused him to be stabbed to death by one of his body servants while taking the air in the garden behind the psdace. The murder wai done no close by that the shah even heard the victim scream and call for aid. When the assassin, red-handed, reported the detwi done, the shah coolly said: "From what I heard I think the young man must have passed some uncomfortable momenta."

That the shah can bo cru«l is also proved by the fate that overtook a sergeant who had. during a panic that had sebted the Persian army at the seige of M09bed, rallied a small force around him and led these against the Turcomans, while the generals ran away, and who had thus snatched victory out of the jaws of defeat. The man was after-w-jird cruelly mutilated and degraded as having boon too forward and suspiciously rash. Another soldier who by a similar deed of bravery had saved a whole Persian camp from being slaugh* t&red in their steep by the Turcomans! was put to death for a like reason.

Just before the shah Lost visit to Eu» rope a regiment whose native district in Mas&nderan had been greatly damaged by floods asked to be given permission to rebuild the hous&s and till the fields because their wives and aged paronte£could not manage the work unaided. They t#t up the justice of their claims in a petition and gave this to a man high in the favor of the shah, a bribes being,of course, paid him. Nothing came of it, though. Then a delegation, deputed by their comraues, waited for tho shah at the roadside the day ho west out to the shrine of Shah*

&a-l*h Abdul Axecm to pray for a safe s^d prosperous journey. The shah, how-

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auta, but drove ou rapidly p%st ibem, lu their grief a&d disappointment some of Uxofi) threw pebbles after the carriages

ftad cut him slightly. Tue whole regv least all the men that could b« found—were mutilated or put to death, ttranglod, bcheadod, wailed up alive ot 0* ucified.

"Horn* Sawyer, of St Lake,who i» ac&ad far and naar aa a reliable and ludahitigabla guide, reoootlf mad* one of the m«ct remarkahlft «hota on record. WhU* watching on Cat pond, about four ttiku from Baker'% ipofteeii rendearem at Buck mmtntaie,

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to water a short dtstaac* from him. and •Moee." waiting for an opportunity whan the animals were on a l*ae with aiao, absolutely *ent a bullet from hit

TERRE HAUTE DAILY NF

Henry G. Burleigh Entrapped. ,5

A story is told in the corridors of the Delavan which is "on" Henry G. Burleigh of Whitehall. He was seated on a sofa not long ago talking with Railroad Commissioner Baker, when a well-dressed young man stepped up to the telegraph desk and began writing a dispatch. "See here. Burleigh," remarked Mr. Baker, suddenly, "I want to make a little bet with you."

The surrounding politicians pricked up their ears. ""What about?" asked the Whitehall wizard curiously. "About a sure thing, of cours?." TO the reply. "Do you see tliat young man at the telegraph desk and the little sealskin gloves besdde him? I want to bet you that he walks off when he has finished hi-* business and forgets to take those gloves."

Nonsense." was the sage rejoinder. "He wouldn't forget anything so valuable.

After a few minutes' chafling the let was made, and the surrounding group drew nearer to watch the result. Mr. Burleigh looked sceptical and Mr. Baker contented.

Finally, the stranger buttoned up his coat and turned to go. but he lefi the gloves.

Hold on, shouted Mr. Burleigh after the retreating stranger, ou have forgotten—— "Sit down. Burleigh. said Mr. Baker calmly, "sit down: those1 are my gloves.

Then the watching multitude smiled a moist, odorous smile, and the bet was paid.—[Albany Kxoress.

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Superior In Any Other VcgetHblr Kilter.

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In speaking of the plant, one of the I^andreths said that it would thrive in any of the cot (on-producing staler, and that once established it would remain twenty years without replanting. The fiber is contained in the skin of the bark, the interior wood matter being worthless Tlie plant'produces straight stems from five to ten feet in height, according to the soil and latitude. It Wars leaves about the sixe of a man's hand, green on top and silvery beneath. Mr. l,nndreths' crop was planted lately from cuttings brought from China.

A NAgMCIO.U* op.

A rather unusual ease of a policeman's sagacity is told by a gentleman of central Missouri, says the St. l^juis Republic: »Snie years ago Colonel William F. Sw itzler of Columbia, in company with an old gentleman of Howard county, and a St. I»ui8 physician, were in the city together, witnessing some exhibition. During the jerformanre a lady spectator exclaimed: "I am robbed!"' To present the thief from dropping the purse into another's pocket. Colonel Switulcr exclaimed: "Hold your pockets!"1 A policeman standing near by immmediately and energetically ordered all the men in the immediate locality iostand in line. Walking around the line twice he began at the gentleman from How ard and said "You are a carpenter to the next,4*You are a literary man to the next, "You are a doctor corning to the next man he said You are the thief, aod search* ing him he found the pnr*e„ A*ked by one of the gentlemen how he could designate a man's calling the officer said: "Tine doctor there has caustic on his finer*: the carpenter has cuts on his hands the literary man has ink on hb fingers the thief has hand* which show no evidence of good work of any kind,"

In England tlie Baptists are divided into two serta, known as the General and r»rt»cnNr Baptfel*. These two were once Se apart, but for yearn have been drawing closer together, insomuch that movement now on foot to unite them

At W the girt say* -I will be happy. At 40 ihe woman say*, "I might have been happy.* At 60 we know there BO such thing as happine** and begin to pray we may HcJ it on aotu* oiher

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TERRE HAUTE DAILY NEWS,'SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1889.—SUPPLEMENT. rfem

seed farm at

Bloomsdale, above Bristol, are now being cultivated three acres of a species of Chinese plant, which it is lelieved mavin time produce a revolution in Ameri-.-aii textile industry. The plant is known as ramee.and after it has been decorticated, degunimed, and bleached, it is mid to produce a iiler sujuuior to any other vegetable liler. and occupying a midway position between flax and silk.

Twenty years ago the l,andreths raised an experimental crop of the plant with eminent success, but so many difficulties lay in the way of its manufacture that it was not continued. Now, however, (here is reason to believe that machinery has lieen discovered that will render its production entirely practicable.

A company has recently been formed to develope and manufacture machinery that shall properly decorticate the plant. The invention of Philadelphia!!, whose name is withheld, patented a dozen years ago. is now for the first time }eii!g put in tangable form, and within a month the company hoj»es to have the machine complete and tested, the l^andreths" crop furnishing material for the test.

The value of (.his plant has' been long appreciated in various parts of the world, but lack of proper machinery has prevented its extensive use. In China the filx'r is worked by hand, which is naturally an expensive habit. This fiber is used in large quantities in France and Belgium, where it is woven info a large range of materials, Mich as imitation linen, tapestry, twine carpet, and ihe like. Many machines have been invented in Europe, and several on this side of the water, for (he purpose of decortication. but they have lieen so far unsuccessful. The British government has had a standing offer of £7,000 for the past ten years for a satisfactory machine of this nature, and the French government through its department of agriculture has offered Hfi.000 francs.

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CONCEDING WOMEft.

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Fenimore Cooper's mother was of Swedish extraction, and de cended from the Swedish settlers erf Deleware.

A Bengal girl who has just entered her 10th year, will appear as a candidate at the next matriculation examination of the Calcutta university. She is the daughter of a gentleman serving in a distinguished capacity in a native State.

Mrs. Mai iou L. Morgan of Shu Tieh, Shansi. North China, is endeavoring to start in that country a home for infant girls. Her appeal has already roused the interest of many child-lovers, but more fuuds are needed before the home can even be started.

Some years ajjo a daughter of Harriet Beacher Stowe gave Mrs. Francis Hodgson Burnett a thin gold ring set with a single moonstone ^moonstones are acounted as "lucky" stones), and shortly afterward she made her first success in the field of literature, where she had labored in vain. She laughingly attributed her success to the moonstone, and since then the ring has never left her finger, and she declares it never will.

Perhaps the most ridiculous thing about Ouida's appearance is her air of assuming juvenility. On the day that 1 saw her she wore a skirt that showed half an inch of white hose, above a pair of funny little congress-top gaiters, such as one occasionally sees in the prints of 1850. The skirt was perfectly round like a cheese-cake. Abve the waist was a jacket with two odd little tails lehind. and imbued with a wonderful collection of incongruous colors*

There is a new establishment in Ixmdon where an ingenious French woman sells stands of everlasting tropical flowers. which, having beenVubmitted to a chemical process are unfading. The flowers are rather gorgeous, of course, as they are all exolios. They are made up into screens, with ornaments, and in stands, several feet high. Some of these are decorated with foreign birds. Utdy Charies Beresford has bought five stands of tlieae flowers for her house.

In one of the fashionable linen shops of New York the liooks of the firm contain the names of thousands of women who have their handkerchiefs made to order. Samples of lace, linen, batiste, ami fine muslins are shown to customers who. if they wish, can have the work'of several patterns reproduced in each dainty napkin. For $0. you can have a laceedgenl. web-like, square of linen lawn Jit for an heirloom. Among the names of the linen register are: Mrs. B. Harri-on. Mrs. J. B. McKee. Mrs. William Belknap. Mrs. George Gould, Mrs. Grover Cleve and. Mrs. Henry Clews. Mrs. John A. Logan and Lillian Russell.

A lady sends the following: t» the Saunterer: "I entered a Winter street store a short time since with a friend and the latter made a trifling purchase, tendering in exchange, as she supposed a single crisp hank note, which she jMissed to the salesman without unfold ing it He soon returned and said

Excuse me, but I would like to give you a word of advice. Never pass a bill without unfolding it.' and he returned to her the bill she had given him, when she saw that another was folded within it. 'Such mistakes' he continued, 'are frequent, and are often discovered when it is too late to rectify them. They occur oftencst when bills are new, as they then thinner and smoother."'

METEOROLOGICAL

(treat Britain has an insular climate with a low barometer, which is relaxing to the human frame. It has been well said Ihat in a heavy atmosphere the elephant would Income a corn para lively active animal, while in rarified air he would l**coine duli and heavy.

The temperature of the republic of Columbia varies considerably. In the low lands it in equal to that of our Southern States, while in the uplands you have a temperature of from 55 to 70 degrees the whole year round. The change in tho temperature lietween day and night does not exceed 10 degrees.

The coldest region in the United States is the stretch of country «n the northern border from the Minnesota lakes to the western line of Dakota. At Pembina, which lies near the forty-ninth parallel, the lowest tempeature recorded in the great storm of the winter of 1878, was 56 degrees below zero. This is believed to be the lowest temperature reached in the United State*.

In America atmospheric pressureaverr»g»i higher than in England. The climate is continental, with more exhilerating sunlight and more of the element of cold, which, within certain limits, is adjudged by ail physiologist* to be a jmwerful tonic and a therapeutic agent of much value: in fact the chief characteristic of our climate is the exceas of it* nervestimulating properties, which, in the colder part* of our country, tend to exhaust overworked, ill-fed, ill-clad and anaemic people.

IN A NUTSHELL

People would not die so fast if th»y didn't live so lat.

Tlie corset is a paradox. It come* to aftfav. and yet goes to waist. The husband who "smtlos" too often will never have a *mitiog ife.

Figures that won lie—Those that are wen in modern bathing suits. Judging from the many attractions in the dime mtrsetum, it is easy to believe that this is a freak country.

It hatt been observed that the man with the fewewt faili tlie man tm*t tolerant of tboa* of his neighbor*

Mao wanes Itttle here below, but what he does want he want* badlv. and. when he can't get H, he realizes what want tt.

Collecting silver spoon# a oew cnute, but a father dangerous one, for your hewt or Km hotel waiter may have his eye ot» row.

Good inteatioa* do not justify acta that are productive of annoyance. He who starts mil to play the trombone at midnight to pieue his neighbors isn't always |,.l|eiiefac»or....«f,..his rac«...

Prosperous Chinese Io«!tor."-'.o: A celebrity among the Chinese of San Francisco is their great doctor, Li Po Tai, says the New York Medical Times. He has been in this country nearly thirty years, and has a larger income from his profession than any white practitioner in this city. His patients all come to the office when able, and Li Po Tai sits up, habited in gorgeous silk and brocades, in a little den of an office near the plaza, and feels pulses all day long. The patients are mostly white people, who come to him after a varied round of their own physicians, or at the instigation of some resurrected and enthusiastic patients. Li Po Tai rests the patients' elbows on a blue silk cushion and proceeds to feel their right pulse with his tliree-hooked and long-clawed fingers. He feels the right pulse to ascertain the condition of brain, stomach, and kidneys, and then grasjis the left w-ri.st to find out about the heart, liver, and lungs. Although he knows practically nothing of anatomy as our physicians know it, he makes a wonderful diagnosis of a case. He charges $10 a week for bis services, including his medicines, and patients either come to his office and drink the tissanes or take packages of mysterious stuff home and make their own hot drinks. Li Po Tai has many notions that puzzle ami interest his patients. He treats them to a severe course of antidotes for nuine poisoning if they confess to ever having eaten a deadly drug. He next commands them not to eat shellfish or uncooked fruit, to let alone poultry, fried meats, eggs, watery vegetables, all liquors, and everything sour. For these thirty years Li Po Tai has made his patients drink hot water. Dyspepsia, cancers, and tumors are his specialties. His income from his profession is estimated at more than $(.000 per month.

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I I S IS I IS O

Kipcrionrrs of tlie T*ine« Old Days of '•». Colonel Mike Bran 11 igan. the celebrated guide and hackman of K1 Paso, Texas, is on a visit to San Francisco, Mr. Brannigan said to a reporter of the Examiner: "1 have come back to San Francisco for the purpose of swing st me of my old friends of the Argonaut days or 1849 that is, as many of them as are alive. 1 can tell yon some interesting things about early times in this city. I owned and drove the first hack that ever rumbled over the streets of San Francisco. In 1851 I got $50 a night to drive Catherine Hayes, the famous singer, and her mother between the Kazette House and Maguire's theatre, which was then situated on Washington street, between Montgomery and Kearney. 1 also got the same sum from several others at the time for the same trip. Those were good old days, and 1. as well, I sup|Kse, as very many others, would wish to see them back again. 1 saw $1,200 paid for a box in Maguire's theatre on the opening night of Catherine Hayes'season. A Limerick butcher at Sacramento paid $1,300 for a box when she went to the capital city to sing. Dollars in those days were more plentiful than nickles are now. When the mail steamers would arrive 1 have seen a gambler give a man an ounce of dust (that is $16) for his plaoe in the long line of anxious people waiting their turn outside the post-ofliee. which was then at the corner of Brenham place and Clay street. Then you would have to pay $12 a dozen for articles to be laundered, and men used to throw soiled undeclothiug away and buy new articles rather than pay for washing. 1 remember when l^otta Crabtree first appeared in this city. She used to play a banjo and dance jigs at Gilbert's Melodeon, at the corner of Kearney and Clay streets, and got $6 a week. I think that was in 1854 or 1865. She went.to Virginia Cit}' in 1860, and made a hit. Twenty dollar gold pieces were showered on the stage for her benefit. My charges then as a hack-driver were $50 a day and all the expenses paid. 1 would like to see that stat? of things again, and we would have less com-

laints about capitalists and the like. was a capitalist in the old days, and if only a few of the wealthiest exist

now

1 don't know why they

ought to be blamed. We all had a chance to become millionaires, and if we did not it can't !e helped, and there is no use repining."

tVh»l Inn* Slmvn Mmm. Do you know what a clo*e shave means? 1 never did until I looked the other day through a microscope at a face which had been treated to this luxurious process. Why, the entire skin resembled a piece of raw beef. To make the face perfectly smooth requires not only the removal of the hair, but also portion of the cuticle, and a close shave means the removal of a layer of skin all around. The blood vessels thus exposed are not visible to the eye, but under the microecojw? each little quivering mouth holding a minute blood drop protests against sueh treatment Tlie nerve tips are also uncovered, and the pores are also left unprotected, which makes the skin tender and unhealthy. This sudden exposure of the inner layer of the skin renders a person liable to have colds, hoarseness, and sore throat.—{Medical Classics.

Ciirloun Ks peri mmt.

t)r. F. R. Tetamore, assistant surgeon of the Fourteenth regiment, and who is curator In the Long Island hospital, has performed a enrious operation in the nature of an experiment Disease had deprived Mm. C. Hoffman, of 39 Maujer street, Brooklyn, of the bone that formed the bridge of her noee. A cavity marked at its lower extremity by the shrunken nostrils supplied the place of the once prominent noee.

Dr. Tetamore raised the sunken skin that once covered the woman's nose and divided it lengthwise. From a live chicken the surgeon removed the breastbone, leaving on the tender cartilaginous filament aud periosteum. These latter be sewed to the fie. of the nose and over the bone be drew a portion of the periosteum cut from the forehead of the woman. Tlie breastbone of the fowl furnished the nose. Two months will show tin reuult gf Uie w^jwaeflt, Dr* Tttamore tty*.

PEOPLE PARAGRAPHS.

M. Massenet recently received rel wreaths from some admirers ir. many and the discriminating cus. officer taxed them as medicinal hei

The Hon. Milan Obrenovitch. ex-l_ of Servia, tenderly and touchinglyif* clares that his wife was "too font IF row, and that was why he tried toSQnCD vorce her. YnUor

Inventor Edison 16-vear-old da\ is said to be almost UKvrvelously br^j She is described as a

fair

musicis

good draughtsman, and she speaks languages. The late ex-Governor Dewey, of cousin, left with his will a slct t? which he traced his ancestry back 1663, when Thomas Due arrive in M-4 achusetts from Dover, Euglaud.

Saui Jones delivered a sermon ret in Virginia in which Vvsaid: "Join Beptist was the bravest type of Chri I know of. He jumped on llero\J pawed his feathers out

Henry Cabot Lodge expressed the q% ion at a Boston club dinner, that the^ thing in politics more unwholesome spoils is cunt. Even the place liuJE'1 '*C, who can't get at them will agree \\1V

him. Cardinal Gibbons not only fa vol's tai punishment, but thinks* there is

tirely too much leniency in the ti* ment of murderers, altogether too

jHpe.

Ceneral Daniel Butterliohl who recly saw in Norway the ship of the ®rs ings, that has been excavated and sot ujnt

says it is of hlack oak, about seventy-h\*

feet in length, and in lines quite, equa, Brlgbl Lo anything constructed in these days, cohirar Mrs, Crawford, the well-known Par dome#' corresiondent ot the Loudon Daily MevjUr^Pi and Mr. Labouchere's Truth, is the onUlpla® lady member of the Cobden club, a.b® Hem one of the most prominent characters ot

contemporary Parisian history. I'luc .Johnny Kennard, a bootblack aged i^or0 4 Dorm tho h! about three years ago, and has lux®*no *a leating his way about the country oveiilOi!/ since, lie has visited nearly every 1 arginrilv»T? city in the country. 'llorutii

years, arrived in San Francisco last woe "oil the huin|K'rs. He left Chicaj

M. Zola is right when he says that the|Ncw real secret^of President Caruot's popu-tod larity is that he goes everywhere, uttend-./tcoraa all ceremonies, talc his trade to heart, repu and attempts to prove that, as in the case^k 8u of kings, exactitude is the politeness of^B^w a president of a republic.

Mr. Gladstone luw just had a bust of ^M him made by a young Irish sculptor, luml who says that when she first saw him'/n. she did not recognize him because llis^e nn shirt collar was just like other rnen*«, way That is, at any rate, what The Pall Mall «jrork Gazette says, only it puts it that shy

"sculpted him, Mrs. Todd,tho wife of tho Amherst as- biesi tronomer who has gone to Africa to ob Jad serve the eidipse, helped her husband \Cal wonderfully 111 his preparation, yho read every book concerning the coast to

which the expedition is going, aud read *j to him selected passages daily. She also 2 worked up formulas and details of geography for him.

The Japanese minister to America» Ho Mr. MutHii. has ju.it, received the decoration of the Order of the Crown, conferred ujKjn him by Ihe emperor in recognit ion of his recent conclusion of a treaty with Mexico and other services for tho st«te. Mr. Mutsu had previously been decorated by the emperor with tho j, Order of Iht' Rising Sun. The order /nei wits inclosed iri the hollow of a bamboo nfte stick, a method which prevails in Japan. Mr. ^lutwu is not a nobleman, but be*longs to a claw in Japan analogous lo jr^1 that of the gentry in England. It is oxceedingly rare that the order which ho j, has received are bestowed upon any but the nobility, and they indicate that be is 2 held in the highest repute at home.

The largest bell to the world, is the great bell of Moscow, at tho foot of the Kermlin, 3t» circumference at the bottom is nearly sixty-eight feet and its height is twenty-one feet. It* weight has been computed to be 443,772 pounds.

The largest library is the BibKotheque Nationale in Paris, founded by lx»uis XIV. It contains 1 400,000 volumes, 300,000 pamphlets, 175,000 manuscripts. 800,000 maps and charts, and ISO,000 coins and medals* Hie collection of engraving* exceed* 1,300,000, contained iu some 10,000 voituam,

A cast-«teel gun weighing 125 tons has been shipped to Mesatrs, Krupp from, Hamburg for Orowitadt The odiber of the gun is 11^ inches, the barrel is forty feet long, its greatest diameter being feet. The range of the gun is over eleven mites, and it will fire two shots per minute, each shc4 costing lietween £250 and nui

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Minnie Wallace Walkup, tried at Eni[oria, Ivan., lor poisouu her hutduud, obtained a pension becau of his services in tlie ariuv. Theresw Youi something right funuy about this if yvoaffcrs think about it. is nov

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The largest empire in the world is tliat |Il of Great Britain. The most extensive cavern is the Mammoth cave in Edmonson county, Ken- f"' tucky.

The Chinese wall is tlie largest wall iu 4 the world. It was built by the first em« Jh* peror of the Tain dynasty, about 220 IS. 4_C., as a protection against the Tartars.

Tlie largetit body of fresh water on the "V* globe is lake Superior. It in iOO miles long, 160 miles wide at its greatest breadth, and has an area of 82f(i00squf'^ miles.

The largest suspension bridge in tha world is the one between Brooklyn and New York. Tlie length of the main span is 1,595 feet, and 0 inches. The entire length of tlie bridge is 0,989 feet.

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