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LORDLY LACKEYS.

WASTEFUL MINING METHODS.

DRAMATIC FRENCHMEN.

Eton FaRs WTio Are Forced to Walt Upon the Older Students.

Fifty-Five Per Cent, of the Coal tu the

lied. Kenderecl Cuavatlable.

While other plans of coal mining have been proposed, writes II. M. Chance in an article on “The Anthracite Coal Industry” in the Engineering Magazine, the old method of working by parallel

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The Art of Cooking Acquire.1 In an Unplea»ant Manner In the Ota Educational InHtttuttona

of Knglaud.

Most people contemplating a debate in the house of lords from the gallery would !>e surprised to hear that a goodly proportion of the grave and reverend seigniors engaged in settling affairs of state on the very steps of the throne were adepts at frizzling the toothsome sausage and cooking the homelike “bloater.” Yet so it is. according to the Boston Herald, for nearly half of the peers of England are old Etonians, and one of the oldest institutions still cherished under the shadow of the distant spires

and antique towers sacred to the memo- _

ry of King Henry’s shade is that of before mining on a large scale can be “fagging.” The first and second day of | commenced. Conservative estimates every term,when the wholeschool has re- j place the quantity of coal lost by being

turned, a sort of slave market is held in each house, at which the upper boys

In the Heat nr Hattie They !>•

Thing, with a Flourish.

For another hour or more my neighbors, the communists, who had been reinforced, gave pause to the Versail!ist effort to descend the Boulevard Haussmau, and were holding their own

breasts, separated by regular pillars df' ^gaihst the * .••rsai.7isf tit.’ from

coni, is sun almost £Qtti>dKialiy used. That great waste results from this method is admitted by all. In working thin beds the pillars can be removed, or at least a large portion of the coal they contain can be taken out after the rooms have been worked to the limit, but this can be done to very limited extent in thick seams. By adopting modifications in the long-wall system, or combined long-wall and refilling systems. a much larger percentage of coal in tile thicker seams could be recovered, but such systems would perhaps increase the post per ton, and they require a large preliminary outlay in deadwork

W. a.OVERSTRKET 0. F. OVERSTREET OVEF,STREET & OVERSTREET, DENTIST®. Special attention Kiven to nreierviiur the natural t«*cth. Office in Williamson Block, oi*r» »it» First National Bank. Ninlley A N«ff. A-TXO I<rv K’VW >Y r r LAW Office ui’ etaixF in Ceil Ural National Back Boll M:-g South Side. Public Squwe. (Jreeueac-' 1. Ind- PratUeein all flio Courts of the State | Mtd ••Bolt batlneii.

have the privilege of choosing from among the lower boys their own particular “fag" for the next three months or so. In some houses where the lower boys—that is, boys who have not reached the fifth form—are numerous, an upper boy may have two such servitors for his own exclusive use. The duties of an Eton fag are many. The fag is responsible for getting his master out of bed in time for early morning school. A dangerous and thankless task to pet form on a big boy who is a hard sleeper and free with his fists and quick at throwing shoes when once awakened. School over, the fag lias to prepare his master’s breakfast. He lays the cloth, makes the tea and toast —woe betide him if the latter be burned or cut too thick—boils the eggs and fries any extra luxutyes in the way of bacon and sausages his master may send him to purchase in the town. The same round of duty has to be gone through again at supper time. But fagging at meals is by no means the only service which the lower boy has to render. He has to scrape the mud off his master’s football boots, to put his clothes away after cricket or running with the beagles, and take notes to other boys in other houses. Mr. Gladstone was somewhat lucky in his fagging at Eton, as he fagged for his elder brother Thomas, and naturally got let down easier than if lie had been apportioned to some strange boy. The marquis of Blunford and his brother. Lord Randolph Churchill, had the reputation of being incorrigibly idle fags, but when they chose to exert themselves they were excellent cooks, and os such were much in request. It is equally difficult to imagine the dignified Lord Chief Justice Coleridge making toast and boiling eggs for his “master,” but tradition has it that he was a most ex-

emplary fag.

In addition to their regular daily work for their own master, the lower boys have to fag in a desultory way for any upper boy who may want him during the day. The headmaster’s birch does not inflict such wounds as the vigorously applied toasting fork of an incensed fagmaster. The most tedious of all kinds of fagging is to hove to sit and read out the “crib” or translation to a number of upper boys preparing their Virgil or Thucydides. This duty combines all the irksomeness of a school lesson with the disadvantage of learning nothing in return for it. When a lower boy has neglected his work and his fagmaster is not an advocate of corporal punishment a common form of “correction” is to send the offender up to “Layton's”—a famous confectioner in Windsor—to fetch a penny bun during his playtime. The length of the walk spoils the erring fag’s chance of playing football or otherwise amusing himself in that particular playtime, and he has to prove that he has really been to Windsor and back by bringing the bun in one of “Layton’s” bags. Sharp boys have been known to obtain a regular stock of these bags from “Layton’s” on some pretext or other, and on the next occasion they were sent for the penny bun to purchase that comestible at one of the “sock shops” in college and envelop it in the wrapper as evidence of a journey that had not been undertaken.

left in the ground as pillars at forty per cent, of the quantity originally

present.

church of the Trinity and the barricade on the rise of the Rue Lafayette, writes Archibald Forbes in the Century. The house at the right hand corner of the Rue de hi Cbaussee d’Antin and the Rue Lafayette—the house whose projecting gable was my shelter—had caught fire, to my disquietude and discomfort; but before the fire should seriously trouble mo the impending crisis would probably be over. Furious and more furious waxed the tiring all around. About the opera house it was especially fierce. 1 had glimpses of fighting at close quarters in the open space before its rear front, and I could discern men shuffling along behind the tow parapet of its roof. They carried packs, but I could not see their breeches, and was not therefore wholly certain that they were Versaillists. A woman had joined me in ray position

The cost of mining and preparing behind the gable — a woman who coal for the market varies widely be- seemed to have a charmed life. Over tween different collieries. V lien the and over again she walked out into the coal is wet ami contains much bony coal fire, looked deliberately about her, and or slate, the cost of preparation is large- oame back to recount to me witli ex1> increased. I erhaps one dollar and cited volubility the particulars of what forty cents to one dollar and ninety she had seen. ' She was convinced the

cents per ton may fairly be taken as the average range in cost of production and preparation. This is exclusive of royalty, which averages from thirty cents to forty cents per ton. Enormous quantities of water are pumped from some of the mines, some of them rais- | ing between one million and two

million gallons daily.

In addition to the coal lost in pillars ' left to support the roof, a considerable j portion is lost by becoming mixed with ' the “gob" or refuse left in the mine;

soldiers on the roof were Versaillists; yet, as I pointed out to her. thedrapeau rouge still waved above the statue on the summit of the lofty building. The people of the hotel in our rear clearly shared her belief. Gathered timidly in the porte cochere, they were crying “Bravo!” and clapping their hands, because they hoped and believed the Ver-

saillists were winning.

The woman )vas right; they were ^ crsaillist liudsmen whom we saw on the parapet of the opera house. There

some is reduced to dust by blasting and , was ti cheer; the people of the hotel ran handling, still more waste is made by | out into the fire, waving handkerchiefs crushing, screening and handling in the and clapping their hands. The tribreaker, and the rejected slate always ' color was waving above the hither

has more or less coal adhering to it I

which is lost in the waste dump. Less than forty-five per cent, of the coal contained in the thicker beds is sent to market, the balance being wasted.

NEW NOMENCLATURE. Work of the I'nlted Stairs l*oar<t on Geographic Names. The United States board on geographic names has made its report, and if its spelling of the names of familiar localities near Detroit and Michigan is a fair example, those who were educated in the grammar schools of this city may expect to have their knowledge turned endwise into a useless incumbrance, says the Detroit Free 1’ress. Grosse Pointe is now Grossepoint; St. Mary’s river drops the apostrophe, lilt?’wisc Sackett’s Harbor and all other names in which the apostrophe has hitherto been used; Conner's Greek is now Conners Creek Flat; Boone, in Wexford county, is spelled Boon; the Duck islands are now known as Duck island; Greene drops the “e." The board says spelling and pronunciation that, is sanctioned by local usage should be adopted, and then proceeds to do just the opposite. It lays down the following rules: “It is desirable to avoid the use of the words city and town as parts of names. “In the case of names consisting of more than one word, it is desirable to combine them into one word. “The use of hyphens in connecting parts of names should be discontinued. “Names ending in ‘borough’ should be abbreviated to ‘boro.’ “In names ending in ‘burgh,’the final ‘h’ should be dropped. “The possessive form should be avoided whenever it can be done without destroying the euphony of the name or changing its descriptive application.” But Uncle Sam and his employes are theonly ones who will pay any attention to this sort of word and letter juggling, for tlie changes are to appear only in government publications. The board was composed of ten men, graduates of West I’oint and Annapolis, ami they have rigged up a list of changes in nomenclature that will astonish everybody ami hurt nobody.

11 ilia Worn Dovru bj Wind. Attention has lately been directed by scientific writers to the fact that the shapes of permanent hills are altered, sometimes to a considerable extent, by the blowing of the wind against them, this being especially true in those cases where the hills are partly composed of some form of rock that readily disintegrates under the influence of the weather; that is, the crumbling rock is blown away, leaving the more solid rock behind and often in curious forms. It is well known that the famous sirocco, or the southwesterly wind, that blows across the Mediterranean sea from Africa, has been largely influential in shaping and molding hills and valleys. It is asserted, too, that an extensive bay on the east coast of the island of Malta owes its origin and extent to the agency of the sirocco, which blows directly into it. The rapid changes from uumpuesa to dryness, characteristic of the sirocco, and the crystalization of the salt it deposits upon the rocks are reckoned among the powers of destruction possessed by this

wind.

Ghosts In Imila.

The dread of ghosts, so well known to all countries, is common in the abori- | gines of India to an unusual degree; the , same may be said of their Aryan con- j querors and the lower classes of Moham- j medans. All Indian ghosts are supposed to be mischievous, and some of ' them bitterly malicious. The only | moans employed to appease the rancor of these unlaid spirits is to build shrines , for them and to make them offerings, j such os a fowl, a pig, and on grand oc- [ casions a buffalo. Any severe illness, 1 and more especially any epidemic dis-

A Tlme*ServInir Do*.

A resident of Westchester, Pa., is authority for the following “dog story,” as it was recited to him by a soldier: “Troop F of the Sixtli cavalry owned a dog which accompanied it on every trip. At the battle of Wounded Knee some time ago the animal was abandoned and was found in a snowdrift by a sergeant of I troop, who took it away and cared for it. The animal could not be persuaded to return to its former owners anti remained with the sergeant. <^iic day the sergeant was reduced to the ranks for sotu. 1 breach of discipline. From that day forth the dog would have nothing whatever to do with him and took up its quarters in another tent. It could never again be persuaded to return to the sergeant, evidently considering a reduced man as far beneath its

notice.”

portico. The red flag waved still on the farther elevation. “A ladder! a ladder to reach it!" was the excited cry from the group behind me; but for the moment no ladder was procurable. As we waited, there darted down the boulevard to the corner of the Rue Halevy a little grig of a fellow in red breeches—one of the old French linesmen breed. lie was all alone, ami appeared to enjoy the loneliness as he took up Uis post behind a tree and fired his first shot at a communard dodging about the intersection of the Rue Taitbout. When is a Frenchman not dramatic? He fired with an air; he fired again with a flourish, and was greeted with cheering and hand-clap-ping from the “gallery” behind me, to which the little fellow was playing. Then he beckoned us back dramatically, for his next shot was to be sped up the Rue Lafayette at a little knot of communists who, from a fragment of shelter at the intersection of the Rue Labile, were taking him for their target. Then he faced about and waved his comrades on with exaggerated gestures which recalled those one sees in a blood-and-thunder melodrama, the communist bullets all the while cutting the bark and branches of the tree which was his cover. Ah! he was down! Well, he had enjoyed his ila-sh of recklessness. The woman by my side and I darted across and carried him in. We might have spared ourselves the trouble and risk; he was dead, with a bullet

through his head.

1’rlmltlve Gihibltinti of Faith. In the little village of Egmanting, in Bavaria, a curious nocturnal expedition took place. A few minutes after midnight there suddenly appeared in the village a party of one hundred and fifty armed men, mostly peasant proprietors, driving, apparently, some imaginary specters before them. Presently every man discharged his firearms. Many of the inhabitants who were indoors, behind strong barriers, trembled at the thought of the carnage that must have ensued. Then a specially appointed person recited the record of the deadly sins by way of exorcising the spirits of evil supposed to be hovering about. As a rule nobody dared venture out; but one more bold than his fellows did open his doors and expostulated against such an unwarrantable disturbance of the night. But the firing party heeded him not. This ceremony of exercising the evil spirits from the village continued for an hour. And as suddenly as the party had arrived so suddenly did they disperse. There was a strong smell of powder in the air, but not a trace of brimstone.

A Hue;** Freight 1 ar.

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freight car ever built w’as turned out at Altoona, Pa., a few days ago. It is to carry the one hundred anti twenty-four-ton cannon Krupp is making for exhibition at Chicago from Baltimore to Chicago. The car is practically two cars, with eight pairs of wheels each, jointed together and made into one by an iron bridge. Another car of almost equal size is building to transport two sixty-five-ton guns and a big piece of

armor plate over the same route.

Houmh of NVro.

The most famous of ancient houses was the Golden house, erected by Nero. Its whole interior is said to have been covered with gold and gems, it was adorned with the finest paintings and statues that the world could furnish, it

Hard to IMrane.

A Scotch paper tolls of a farmer’s wife who has a great deal of trouble with her servants. The other day one of them came to her to say: “Madam, I fear I shall not be able to work much longer. I think I am going blind.” “Why, how is that? You seem to get along pretty well with your work.” "Yes; but I can no longer see any meat on my plate at dinner.” The farmer’s wife understood, and the next day the servants were served with very large and very thin pieces of meat. “How

' • '.-.n —U. a.v»E.", Cqg. gjrI e rqlatmed; “my right haa

come back I can see better than ever.” “How is that, Bella?” "Why, at this moment,” replied Bella, “I can see the

plate through the meat.”

Tliouglit They Were lilrde.

The most laughable thing I have seen lately was the discovery of a new kind of game by a lively young setter dog. It was in a large dry goods s' re where cash i« sent to the desk in little boxes, whirring along on slender rails, says Kate Field's Washington. The dog was following his pretty mistress sedately enough, when he heard the sound and saw the swift flight of the cash box. He thought it was a bird, and tore up and down the aisles after it, scattering the crowd and amusing everybody in sight. As he would not be convinced

e^rsuch'aTsmilJpoxOT choit-ra'.is at- I ha<1 tri l jh ‘ P ,,rticos a mile in len K th ilnd V hi s delusion, he had to be removed

,.t certain 1 a circular banquet hall which perpetu-1 forcibly from what he probably thought

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