Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1890 — Page 3

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

•* - T -i nnuFßTifi. ~_j A lake steamer trust is forming. Memphis preachers don’t read Sunday papers. blizzard visited the northwest ' Monday. i L Ex-Senator Riddleberger, of Virginia, I died Friday. I Ex-Senator Riddleberger is said to be seriously sick. I Governor Fifer, of Illinois, is a sufferer from the grip. Ttvo masked tpen id Wyoming . robbed a mail coach of 1800. One cattleman in Washington has lost 2,000 head of cattle. Settlers are suffering in nineteen coupties of South Dakota. Six business-blocks at Utica, 111., were destroyed by fire Tuesday. There are no indications of a break in the lowa legislative dead lock. The “gold briek” swindle cost Clark Adams, of Covington. 0., $5,500. Miss Ella Gaston, of Barbour County, Alabama, has been converted to Judaism. Fire destroyed the Elliott Avenue Bap tist church at Springfield, 111., Sunday night Sing Sing Prison in New York will be moved across the river to the hills of JJlster county. • —" J -~ Twenty-five Chinese laborers passed through Pittsburg Tuesday en route to New York. The farms and houses of 340 persons werjj sold for taxes at Nicholas Ville, Ky., on Monday. ~ (Georgia observed Tuesday, the 20th, as a holiday, it being General Lee’s birthday

anniversary. Eight passenger trains are snowed in at Bates City, Ore. Three passengers died in the blockade. A natural gas explosion at Pittsburg Wednesday killed one man and injurred six other persons . A bill to allow women to prae tice law in the Virginia courts was reported adversely in the Virginia Legislature. The Kentucky State Senate passed the bill prohibiting the sale of cigarettes to boys under eighteen years of age. B. P. Hutchison (Old Hutch) has been robbed of from $.15,000 to $40,000 by a combine tion of his clerks, who are now in Canada.

Many farms in southern Illinois are almost submerged with water. Thousands of bushels of corn in that part of the State remain ungathered. A brewer who was expelled from the Chicago Union for not paying an assessment for the defense of the Anarchists, was awarded 1900 damages. The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania decided, Tuesday, that when a passenger fails to procure a ticket the railroad company may charge extra fare. Brice is charged with offering John H Thomas a Cabinet position in 1892 as an inducement to him to withdraw from the recent senatorial contest in Ohio. In many parts of the west the thermome ter fell from 10 to 36 degrees below zero Wednesday, the latter temperature being registered at Black River Falls. Wis, The whites and blacks of West Point, Ga., Saturday night, while under the influence of liquor, came in collision. Two black men were ki'led and one badly injured. No white man was seriously injured. James Fortner, the defaulting treasurer of Ripley county, Kansas, announces his intention of committing suicide in a novel manner. He prefers death, he says, to the punishment for his crime, and he has resolved to die of starvation. Robert Garrett, the great railroad magnate, who some time ago lost his mind, but who was believed to have recovered, is kept under strict surveillance. It is intimated that his wife’s family has an ulterior object in this surveillance. Henry A. Phillips, of New York, one of the pension reraters, declines to resign, though asked to do so, and writes a jaunty letter to Secretary Noble, who bounced him Tuesday and made W. H. Reynolds, of Pennsylvania, his successor. George McGuire, of Michigan City, has pleaded guilty to drunkenness four times within the past twelve months, and the third time the Mayor fined him and gave him thirty days’ imprisonment. After his release he again began dissipating, which led to his arrest, and the Mayor thereupon ! salted him sor thirty dayß, besides fine and costs of prosecution, to which was added disfranchisement for one year. The jurisdiction of the Mayor of Michigan City seems to be unlimited. Mrs. Edward M. Henderson killed herself in New York, Mondaj night, by throwing herself from the top of a building, because she could not procure honorable employment. In a note she left she said: “Women, who were so ignorant that I felt sorry for them, would not take me in their kitchens because 1 could not show'city references,’and I tried to explain that I never had to work before, but because I ~ was not bom and bred in the gutter, I presume I must starve. Such is life in charitable New York. There is help for all but the genteel poor, and they are the ones whos’ .ffer most; but I have the satisfaction of knowing that I have tried and would have done honest work, even to scrubbing. I could have got plenty of shady work. Widowers who advertise for housekeepers, and then gently insinuate that you add wifely duties to domestic ar rangements are very plenty in this city, but Ido not approve of. such economy. I have been so indignant that I would like to have shot off the top of their heads, the old fools." In his inaugural address sent to the New Jersey legislature Tuesday, Governor Leon Abbott comes out flat-looted in favor of boll at reform. He says that the best sentiment of the country in all the States demands ballot reform and honest elec-

tions. The system which he stronglv commends provides for the registration of every voter; absolute secrecy of the ballot, an exclusively official ballot, with a pro. hibitio'i of tne use of any other; the setting aside aside of an election in any precinct whenever the courts shall be satisfied that the electors for any reason have been d curl rod «.f a fair opportunity to express their choice at the ballot box; the Mfht of romipation by petition; a limitaUn of tbs amount which may be legally

r | spent in or for any election, and declaring the,election void should this amount be ! exceeded by any candidate or any person acting for nr in.hifrfeeh&ifi the pubiierttkm |by every candidate of an itemized statement under oath of all money’s expended | at such election by him or with bis knowl- i edge, and a failure so to do rendering the «election void. INFLUENZA NOTES. I Three fatal eases of grippe are reported from Fort Wayne. A rapid swelling of the tongue, which chokes its victim to death, is a peculiarity , of “la grippe” reported from Chicago. FOREIGN. French t a mdiaus favor annexation to the United states. Portuguese merchants have resolved to boycott English, goods. An alien labor bill was introduced Wednesday in the Canadian Parliament Camille Doubs, a French explorer, was murdered in the Sahara desert by his guides. Four thousand merchants of Lisbon * paraded the.streets Monday night, shouting ' “war to England.” ) Cholera is raging with frightful viru lence in Mesopotami. Already there have been 3,000 deaths from the disease. ETnglish residents of Portugal have been j compelled to forswear the country and become naturalized citizens of Portugal. For several days past Captain O’Shea 1 has been in receipt of letters of anonymous origin threatening his life in the event of the continuance of his prosecution of Mr. ' Parnell as co-respondent with Mrs. O’Shea , in his suit for divorce.

The Portuguese Geographical Society,-of-) Lisbon, Tuesday gave a reception to Mr. 1 Loring, the United States minister. Mr. j Loring was introduced to the members j of the association by the president. Mr. i Loring was given an enthusiastic ova- j tion. . I Counterfeiting on a gigantic scale, it is ' stated, has been carried on on the Mexican 1 side of the Rio Grande, of American 1 money. It is charged that in the past two j years $5,000,000 of the counterfeit has been | floated. There may be no truth in the re- i port. v 1 The French Chambers of Deputies held j a warm debate Monday over the rights of | French fishermen in Newfoundland waters, j A protest was made against the exclusion i of French fishermen from those waters. The i debate grew so warm and personal that the | Boulangist members left the Chambers in a' I body. i

DEADLY GAS EXPLOSION.

Six People Killed and Many Injure ] a' Columbus, Ohio. An explosion of natural eras occurred iu the double residence of Michael Bowel's and John Marriott at Columbus, Ohio Friday afternoon, by which six persons were instantly killed, several fatally injured, and at least twenty-five bodily injured. The cause of the calamity was an accumulation of gas in the house referred to. Leading past this house is one of the mains. The pipes had leaked and the explosive fluid had found its way through fissures in the ground to the cellar. It became ignited in some unknown manner, and exploded with terrific force, wrecking the building,and filling the uir with dobris. Mrs. Marriott was blown out of the house,* and a man named Goulding, who was stand ing near the structure, was blown across the street. Mrs. Marriott was carried across the street and into the residence of William James, a book-keeper for the book firm of Glock & Beck. Dr. Wissinger, a prominent physician, was called to attend her injuries. The house where the injured lay was soon crowded with people attracted by, the accident, and it was soon necessary to close the doors, that no more might enter. Little knew those scores of: spectators huddled around the sufferer that they were standing in a death trap which was then on the verge of carrying them into eternity. Suddenly the air was rent by a tremendous explosion, which made the earth quake, and filled the air with flying timber, bricks and debris of all kinds. Darkness ensued, and then a death-like stillness reigned for a few moments. It was broken by shrieks and death groans. The house in which lay the powerless f r n of Mrs. Marriott had been ; blown to atoms and its occupants buried ! beneath the wreck.

Hundreds of spectators who lined the sidewalks wore knocked violently down ! by the shock, and lay powerless. Then, to ' cap the climax, a team of spirited horses I attached to one of the fire department lad- : der trucks became frenzied at the explo- | sion, and dashed away into the crowd, carrying death in their wake. They ran over and injured scores of people. A beautiful little babe was knocked from its mother’s arms, aud, falling beneath the merciless wheels of the vehicle, was 1 crushed to death. ' - As soon as the maddened steeds had dis appeared in the darkness many of the spectators and firemen, who had been un injured by either of the horrors turned tlieir attention to the digging out of the persons buried beneath the ruins of «he house. Guided by the cries and moans of the mangled and dying, men groped' in the darkness, pulling out u dead body, a mauglod, yet living form there, and conveying them to resting places. Groups of men, women and children gathered around the prostrate forms, and bloodcurdling shrieks made the awful scene more revolting as ! Mends recognized friends in the injured or dead, parents found their mutilated* children, and vice versa. It required several hours to remove all the dead and injured from the ruins. A band of eight hundred Indians on S. Peter’s reserve, a few miles out of Winnipeg.is being rapidly wiped out. The Indian are’afflicted with la grippe in its most severe form, and being without proper - medial attendance, the redskins quickly succumb 1 o the malady. In most cases it has developed into lung diseases, to which ! they are subject Seventy-five per cent of them are down with it and if speedy action is not taken by the authorities to send physicians, few will auryive. The Indians have never before been iT malady df this description, and have no idea bow to treat it

AROUND THE WORLD.

Mi** Kellie Bly, of the X. T. World. At——rearptaxiie thjrnrsb Mias Nellie Bly is on her way east from the Pacific slope, homeward bound from a trip arbund the world in an attempt to beat Jules Verne’s “Trip around the World in 80 days.” She reached San Francisco in 70 days, and will probably reach New York, completing the trip in 76 or 77' days, with no extraordinary delays overland. She went by rail to London, and then across the English channel from Dover to Calais* going from there to Amiens to see Jules Verne. She came back to Calais and caught the regular Indian mail train through France and Italy to Brindisi, on the heel of the boot of Italy. Thenoe she sailed across the Mediterranean sea to Port Said, at the mouth of the Suez canal. From there She sailed through the canal, and down the Red sea to Aden, on the Arabian coast, and thence through the gulf of Aden and across the Indian ocean to Colombo, Ceylon. From Colombo she went across the Sea of Bengal to Singapore, and the Malay peninsula, and from there through the China sea to Hong Kong, on the Chinese coast; from Hong Kong through the Formosa channel to Yokohama on the eastern side of Japan, and thenoe directly across the Pacific to San Francisco. • ■ Nellie Bly made this remarkable tour with no other baggage than a small band satchel. She left New York with but one .gown, and that upon her back. In the satchel were necessary changes of clothing, five copies of the New York World of that date, and £SOO in Bank of England

j notes, besides her railroad and steamer j tickets for the entire journey. Miss Bly | arrived at Calais in ample time to take the 1 Brindisi mall train. This train, commonly [ called the Indian mail, is one of the famous , trains of the world. She arrived at Brindisi on time and took the steamer Victoria, I ‘ ; of the Peninsular and Oriental line, from that point. She left Brindisi on the mornI ingof Nov. 25, crossed the Mediterranean, 1 and sailed through the Suez canal, arriving at Ismaila Nov. 28. From Ismaila her I journey Lay through the Red sea. Across I the Arabian sea the Victoria sped with its ' plucky little passenger, and arrived at Colombo, on the island of Ceylon, Dec. 8. 1 Here the world’s globe-girdler left the j Victoria to take another steamer for Hong Kong. She was two days ahead of her ® itinerary, but was obliged to spend these I two days in Ceylon. I Dec. 18 Nellie Bly, after passing through ' the straits of Malacca, was at Singapore, * half-way round the world. Her eight--1 days’ ride through the Indian ocean car--1 ried her over the ruins of cities buried for long centuries beneath its tossing floods. She reihained in the P. & O. steamer, which estopped at Singapore only long enough to permit the mails and its cargo ! to be handled, and Dec 24, Christmas eve, I reached Hong Kong, on the southwest ; coast of China. She had her Christmas dinner in the Chinese city. The first available means of transportai tion across the Pacific ocean was the fast ! steamer Oceanic, of the Occidental & Oriental line. This steamer was scheduled to leave Hong Konn for San Francisco Dec. 28, and that day Nellie Bly bade adieu to the Celestial Empire. Five days later she was at Yokohama, Japan, where she arrived Jan. 2. The Oceanic carries Japanese and Chinese mails to the United States. It had to wait until Jan. 7at Yo kahoma for mail. This made another five days’ delay. At daylight on Tuesday the Oceanic arrived in San Francisco. A special train started with her inynediately for the coast. In contrast with this trip a Miss Brisj land started around the world on a similar errand, leaving New York nine hours later ! than Miss Bly, and going west instead of ! east as did Miss Bly. Miss Brisland is now on the Atlantic from England, and ! will probably not arrive as soon as will Miss Bly. •

BOOMERS ON THE BORDER.

another Oklahoma to Signal the Preai dent’s Message. A special from Pierre, S. Dak., says: Hundreds of boomers of this city, who are anxiously awaiting news of the President’s proclamation, opening the Sioux aeservation, have completely organised for a ooncentrated movement to occupy the land the minute the wires bring word from Washington. South Pierre boomers have ' reorganized and will again try to occupy j the town site. Fort Pierre citizens i are making preparations to guard l against them. They have called for further enforcements of troops from i Fort Sully, and it is understood two more companies will be stationed there at once to protect settlers on the mile square aud preserve order when the rush begins. A number of officers of the Nort h western Road came up Monday and spent the afternoon looking over the “mile square." This survey, taken together with the recent notice from Marvin Hughitt that the Northwestern claimed the “mile square,” according to Government treaty, gives color to the belief that the company is now arranging to take possession of the entire town site immediately upon the issue of the proclamation. Black Tomahawk, the Indian pre-empter of the same land, has completed his residence and now claims that he will enforce his rights with all the Sioux nation, if necessary. Houses are going up like magic, and Indian police and troops have hard work to keep people who are allowed at Fort Pierre from constantly encroaching over the lines.

PERISHED IN A BLIZZARD.

Ten Persons and Thousands of Cattle and Sheep Frozen to Death in Waanington. At least ten hnman beings and thousands of cattle and sheep perished in a blizzard which began with the year and raged over Washington for a week. ports from the Colville reservation are to the effect that cattle are dying by bund-, redi from starvation and thirst, and that j the ground is covered with over two feet of j snow on the level, and in some places is' drifted mountain high. The keeper of the stage station twelve miles from , Alma started to walk to town last Thursday, and Sunday his body was found on the prairie only a mile from his home, frozen stiff. The mail carrier at Wild Goose Creek per“SShfißlrvSPfe storm. Cattlemen estimate that they will lose one half of their herds this season.

THE NEGRO QUESTION.

Senator Ingalls Belles** That Oppression i— — win ii—ii in m Senator Ingalls, ostensibly in reply to Senator Butler’s negro emigration proposition, delivered a speech in the Senate, Thursday, on the negro question in the South. We make extracts from the address: The race to which we belong is the most arrogant and rapacious, the most exolusive and indomitable in history.. It is the Conquering and unconquerable race, through which alone man has taken possession of the physical ana moral world. To our race humanity is indebted for religion, for literature, for civilization. It has a genius for conquest, for politics, for jurisprudence and for administration. The home and» the family are its contributions to society. Individualism, fraternity, liberty and equality have been its contributions to the state. All other races have been its enemies and its victims. This is not the time, nor is it .the occasion, to consider the profoundly interesting question of the unity of races. It. is sufficient to say .that, either by instinct or design, the Caucasian race, at every step of its progress from barbarism to enlightenment, has refused to mingle its blood, or to assimilate with the two other great human families—the Mongolian and the African—and has persistently rejected adult?ration.” Under the shield of the American government, he stud, every faitn had found its shelter, every creed a sanctuary, every wrong a redress. It had resisted the rancor of party spirit, the violence of faction, the perils of foreign immigration, the collisions of civil war and the Jealous menace of foreign and hostile, nations. He quoted from Mr. John Bright’s speeeh (during the civil war,) in which Mr. Bright said: “I see another and a brighter vision before my gaze. It may be a vision, but I cherish it. I see one vast confederation stretching from the frozen north to the glowing south, and from the wild Dillows of the Atlantic to the calmer waters of the Pacifio main;

and I see one people, one. language, one law and one faithand all over that wide continent the home of freedom and arefuge. for the oppressed of every race and every climate.” Mr. Ingalls proceeded: “On the threshold of our second, century we are confronnted with the most formidable and portentious problem ever submitted to a free people for solution—complex, unprecedented —involving social, moral and political considerations, party supremacy, and in the estimation of many, though not to my own, the existence of our system of government- Its solution will demand all the resources and statesmanship of the future, to prevent a crisis that may become a catastrophe. It should be approached with candor, with solemnity,witn patriotic purposes, with fearless scrutiny, without subterfuge and without reserve. He said the census reports had been manipulated to hide the exact figures as to 'the negro’s strength in the United States; that before the end of the century thei-e would be 15,000,000 negroes in this country. He spoke of the negro’s fidelity to his master during the war and said gratitude for this should have protected him from ill-treatment since. The negroes, he said, adhered to the party of Lincoln and Grant and by so doing stuck by their friends. Then he charged that at the recent elections in Jack Son, Miss., the negroes were practically disfranchised. Then he said the wrongs of the negro had all come from the idea that his race is inferior to the white and to the negro’s disfranchisment the North had consented. The npgroes have been abandoned to their fate. “There are undoubtedly some thoughtful men in the South,” he said, “who apprehend coming events and would willingly relinquish the right to representation if the States could be permitted to impose the race condition upon suffrage. But this is impossible. I warn those who are perpetrating these wrongs upon the suffrage that the North and the West and the Northwest will not consent to have their institutions, their industries, their wealth and their civilization changed, modified or destroyed by a government resting upon deliberate and habitual suppression of the colored vote or any other vote, by foroe or by fraud. Sooner or later there will be armed collision between the races. The South is

standing upon a volcano.” The South is sitting on the safety valve. They are breeding innumerable John Browns and , Nat Turners. Already mutterings of discontent by hostile organizations are heard. The use of the torch and the dagger is advised, I deplore it; but, as God is my judge I say that no other people on the face of the earth have ever submitted to the wrongs and injustice which have been for twenty-five years put upon the colored men of the South without revolution and blood. Mr. Tngaiiis went on to warn the South of the natural consequences of its course to ward the colored people. “Despotism,” he said, “makes Nihilists. Injustice is the great manufactory of dynamite. A man who is a thief robs himself. An adulterer pollutes himself. A murderer inflicts a deeper wound on himself than that which slays his victim. The South in Imposing chains on the African race, lays heavier manacles on itself than those with which ft burdens the helpless slave; and those who are denying to American citizens the privileges oi freedom should remember that there is nothing so unprofitable as injustice, and that God is an unrelenting creditor. Silent it may be, tardy and slow it may be; but inexorable and relentness. . Behind the wrong doer stalks the menaoing specter vengeance and of retribution.” He went onto say that race antagonism I applied only to the colored man in the | South when he desired to vote the Republican ticket. If the colored men there were all Democrats the race question I would be over. “Four solutions of the problem,” be said, “had been suggested—emigration, extermination, absorption and disfranchisement—but there was still a fifth solution, which had never been tried: and that solution was, justice. I appeal to the South,” he exclaimed, “to try the experiment of justice! Stack your guns. Open your ballot boxes. Register your voters, black and white. And if, after the experiment has been fairly and honestly tried, it appears that the African race is incapable of civilization —if it appears that the complexion burnt upon him by an Indian sun is Incompatible with freedom—l will pledge myself to consult with you about some measure of solving the race problem; but until then nothing can be done. The citizenship of the negro must be absolutely recognized. His right to vote must be admitted and the ballots that he casts must be honestly counted. These are the essential preliminaries —the conditions precedent to any consideration of the ulterior and fundamental questions of race supremacy or race equality in the United States, North or South. Those who freed the slaves ask nothing more; they will be content with nothing less. The experiment must be fairly tried. This is the starting' point and this is tue goal. The longer it is deferred the greater will be the exasperation and the more doubtful ; the final result.” {

DEATH OF ADAM FOREPAUGH.

Adam Forepaugh, the veteran circus manager, died at Philadelphia, Thursday. He was attacked '& week or two ago with the prevailing influenza epidemic, which developed into pneumonia. Mr. r’orepaugh was originally a butcher, but many years ago hfe embarked in * the„circus business, in which he was very successful, getting together a most extensive circus *.,0 menagerie, with whiob 'ho amassed a fortune which i» estimated at more than $1,000,000- He was a large real estate owner. Mr. Forepaugh was sixty-eight yW of ago.—rto twwton » audaua, Adam, Jr., who Will su-ojcd U» ius ;u m ense circus property. T , ( t ■ ki'' . ”

MADE TO BE LOOKED AT.

Herein We are Told How Mirrors aral Manufactured. A Long sad Tedious Prccaas Requiring Oreat Skill—Experts Generally Tarnished by j France—Leveling, Polishing and Silvering s Plate of Glass. If all the people who buy -beveled j mirrors knew what an enormous amount of grinding toil it takes to trim off and polish these edges they , would not wonder that the beveled plates are so much more costly thau the plain. A plate of glass, to be beveled, has to pass through the hands of eight or ten experienced workmen. Ordinarily it occupies the time of each of them for half an hour or more. The fancy shaped plates require even a longer time. The silvering process by which the glasses are prepared as j mirrors adds four or five more workmen to the list. The old mercury process of making mirrors has almost entirely gone~out of date. However, the silvering method is hardly perfected as yet. The big mirror factories employ, as a rule, about 125 men and boys in each. The men are mostly Frenchmen, wherlearned the business-in the big glass factories of France. Most of them educate their sons to the same trade, and make it almost a French monopoly. Most of the plate glass, if indeed not all, that is made into mirrors in thiß country is imported from France. The American glass is but

little used for fine work, for generally it will not take necessary polish. The first operation in beveling a ■plate of glass is one that is known as “roughing,” and is done by workmen called “roughers.” This is done by (grinding the plate with the aid of sand (and water on a rapidly revolving iron plate. Great skill is necessary to make the bevel the same width on the four sides of a piece of glass and to keep the line straight on each separate side. The small sized plates are easily handled but the large ones are placed on a big table and moved over the iron grinder as a saw log is shoved back and fourth when being sawed. Nearly the whole process of beveling, roughing, smoothing, polishing, etc., is carried on with revolving wheels. The “emeriers” are the next after the “roughers” in the work. They do the first of the smoothing and even up any little defects that may have been unnoticed by the others. They do their grinding on a flat iron wheel, but they use a very fine emery powder instead of sand. Polishing is the next thing in order after the smoothing has been finished. This in done on what is called a “white wheel,” though why it should have that name is hard to explain, for Hriß as black and dirty as the rest Pumice stone is used with this wheel to induce a high polish, and it is usually supplied by a little French boy, whose business seems to be to keep everything as wet and sloppy as possible. Thejnext work in the polishing process is done on a felt wheel and with the aid of a French powder-like arrangement known as “rouge.” This rouge is a soft, floury sort of substance, and brings a very bright, shiny polish. - After the bevel has been cat, smoothed and polished, another set of workmen goto work at polishing the surface. The rear surface lequires a very high polish that it may receive silver solution. The slightest defect would be noticeable in the reflection and would make the glass pr.ictically worthless as a mirror. The glass on passing from the beveling rooms goes to an examiner, whose sharp eye detects many a little blemish that would not be noticed by any one untrained in the business. He marks each defect with a soap line and sets some of his assistants at work to wipe it out The surfaces are polished both on felt wheels and with blocks of the same

material. .Sometimes the plate contains a deep scratch that c mnot be removed in the ordinary way. It is then necessary to make what the polishers call a “ducie.” This requires a piece of glass, some wet sand and rouge and a great deal of muscle. The polish has to be removed, the scratch ground out and then the plate is rubbed out and then the scratch is rubbed back to its original smoothness and polish. If the “ducie” is not well made it leaves a hollow on the plate which can bo easily noticed when the silver is put on the back. When the glass has passed the inspection of the examiner it Is sent into the silvering rooms. Here it is thoroughly washed and scrubbed with a fine brush, and then laid out on one of the big iron tables that make the place look like a billiard room. These tables are warmed by steam, which also aids in drying the glass. Then the silver j solution is passed over them. It runs j over the surface evenly in every direction, and stops abruptly at the edges, j where it is as thick as in the- center, j The solution is poured out of a big j earthern pitcher, and looks more like Water than like anything else. The j plates are left on the Iron tables till j the silver “forms,” and then all the foreign matter is' run off by tipping the plate up on edge. The silver becomes of a dark color in the forming, | and when it is thoroughly dried It is 1 painted to preserve its smooth surface, j Before the silver hardens it is moved I into a room sp carefully ceiled and battened as to exclude all particles of flying dust. The room is kept closed coustantly till the hardening takes place, for during that time the silver surface is extremely sensitive. The least jar or speck of dust, or even the ! breath of a person talking above it, i would cause a blemish that would in- , jure the glass. The plates are usually left in this room over night and then ; painted, when they are ready for use.

But He Won't Go.

A publication interested in coloaiz- 'j ing the blacks of America in Liberia says that no resident of that country ever has a cold, sore throat, t hillblains or rheumatism. This is a big advantage over the United States, but no inducement for the colored man to leave. -The Liberian watermelon a» JSLjBtSZS larger than a quart bowl ana is ai tasteless as a pumpkin.

A STRANGE LAND.

Features of Australia Plowerl Without Odor—No Shade. Australia fa a country in which nature has established conditions unknown elsewhere, says the Boston Jour- ■ BaL-and where civilization must adapt itself to surroundings whieh it find* novel and strange It is a country full of absurdities "in animal, vegetable, and human life. Its native rabe, it point of intelligence and development of resources, is far below even the cave-dwellers juuLthe people of the stone age of Europe. Its animals perpetuate types which disappeared from every other part of the glooe some millions of years ago. Its trees and plants are representative of specie* found elsewhere only in ch.ilk and coal measures. Hardly anything here has the character and quality of its relations in otherlands. Although the trees and , ftowers-are chiefly those of the temperate zone, the birds are. for the most part, ol the tropics, and flash the gorgeous colors of the parrot and the cockatoo through the dull foliage ol sadtoned eucalyptus. The birds have no song, and such notes as they possess seem like wierd echoes from a period when, reptiles were assuming wings and filling the tree tops with a strange jargon, before heard only in the swamps and fens. The flowers have no scent, while the leaves of every tree are fuil of odor. The trees casi no shade, since every le if is set at edge against the sun, and their leaves, but their baric* which stripping off in loDg scales, expose the naked wood beneath, and adds to the ghostly effect which the forest already holds in the pallid hues of its foliage. The contour of the country is of one that is but newly risen from the waves. Its thousands and,thousands of square miles, level as a table and set witn no other growth than the gray eucalyptus, looks like the uplifted bed of some great sea and is as monotonous is the unrelieved expanse itself. Here and there are low hills, which show in their sides and in the country about them the evidences of ancient lava flows. Elsewhere are piled up masses of bowlders, which show the long-ago courses of glaciers over the face of the land. Everything seems prehistoric, hoary with age, and forgotten. To the traveler from other lands an impression comes that he is visiting a country which had eeased in its development long years ago.

Health Hints.

Don’t contradict your wife. Don’t tell a man he is a stranger to the truth because he happens to be smaller than yourself. Errors of this kind have been known to be disastrous. Never go to bed with cold or damp fee t. Leave them beside the kitchen fire, where they will be handy to put on in the morning. It is bad to lean your back against anything cold, particularly when it is an icy pavement, upon which your vertebral arrangement has caromed with a jolt that shakes the buttons off your coat Always eat your breakfast before beginning your journey. If you haven’t any breakfast, don’t journey. After violent putting up the stove or nailing down carpets—never ride around town in an open carriage. Iff is better to walk. It is also cheaper. When hoarse speak as little as possible. If you are not hoarse, it won’t do you any harm to keep your mouth shut, too. Don’t light the fire with kerosene. Let the hiredgirl do it She hasn’t any wife and children. You have. Don’t roam around the houae in your bare feet at the dead of night trying to pick up stray tacks. Men have teen known to dislocate their jaw through this bad practice. When you see a man put the lighted end of a cigar in his mouth, don’t ask him if it is hot enough. Serious injury has often resulted from this habit.—Philadelphia Inquirer.

With Head to the North.

The superstitious belief that human beings should sleep with their heads toward the north is now believed to be based upon a scientific principle. The French academy oi sciences has made experiments upon the body of a guillotined man, which go to prove that each human body is in itself an electric battery, one electrode being represented by the bead and the other by the feet The body of the subject upon which experiments were made was taken immediately after death and placed on a pivot free to move in any direction. After some vacillation the head portion turned toward the north, the pivot-board then remaining stationary. One of the professors turned it half way around, but it soon regained a position with the head-piece to the north, and the same results were repeatedly obtained until organic movement ceased.—St Louis Republic.

American Quinine.

Adolph Sutro is trying the experiment of raising cinchona trees at his grounds above the Cliff house. It is from the bark of about a dozen varieties of this tree that quinine is extracted, and if they will thrive in this climate the trees will become very valuable- Moreover, the cinchona is a very showy tree and highly ornamental, some of them growing to a height of eighty feet The enormous medicinal consumption of the bark of the cinchona has caused tbejtree to be extensively cultivated in India and Java. It grows in high altitudes in NewGreo4u t Ecuador, Peru, aod Bolivia, where ; there is a great deal of moisture -It has teen tried with success in Australia and Mr. .Sutro thinks some of the varieties will grow here, where there | is a moisture in the atmosphere all the year found. —San Francisco Examiner.

About Rats.

Perhaps you think that a rat is a repulsive animal, and unworthy of notice. You are mistaken. A rat is easily t mod and very intelligent and playful, much more so than its natural enemy, the cat. The reason they are detested is because they are so numerous and have such great appetites. D they were searoe, people would hunt lor them and train them for petia. —Ex.