Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 19 October 1897 — Page 3

PREACHES STOEIES.

HUMOROUS INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF MINISTERS.

Episcopalian's Only Experience With Immersion—The Methodist Preacher and the Fishing? Boy—The Morblefaead Divine and the Fierce Boll.

An Episcopalian clergyman, now dead, Used to relate an experience he once bad, fcrhich convulsed bis congregation with laughter ppd nea$ly broke up his services [or .the clay.

was the rector of a church

ln: Connecfifiut.' Ode day as the time for the annual visitation of the bisllop -fres approaching, and he was preparing: a class for confirmation, Wwas sent for to visit a woman who detired to talk with him on the subject of baptism.

The woman, who was very stout, weighing somewhere in the neighborhood of 300 pounds, informed him that she bad long been attraoted toward the Episcopal church, but had refrained from uniting with it because she had strong convictions In regard to baptism and felt that she Dught to be immersed.

The minister told her that, although the church believed pouring or sprinkling to be valid baptism, it did not prohibit Immersion, though, as it was a son iphat Inconvenient method, it was not often

He-pointed out the difficulties in the way, saying that be had no fount in the ohuroh large enough for such a purpose, and that there was no river or beach in the vicinity. In reply she suggested that fee obtain permission to use the Baptist church, which had a large baptistry under the pulpit platform. This ho consented to do, though with much misgiving. The consent of the Baptist brethren was readily obtained.

The next Sunday Episcopal services were held in the Baptist church. At the proper time in the service the candidate for baptism went forward, and, with the minister, went down into the baptistry. All went well until it came time for the immersion. Then the minister for tho first time realized his Inexperience in adminis terlng that form of baptism. When he attempted to immerse the woman, his foot slipped, and they both went under the water together.

He hastily sorambled to his feet, but, to his consterntion and horror, found, when ho attempted to raise the woman, that she could not be moved. There she lay like so many pounds of lead flounderng in- the water and screaming for dear life. In vain ho tugged and pulled. She could not be even started.

Finally several mfen in the congregation went to the assistance of the minister, and by their united efforts succeeded in bringing the frightened women to her feet. The men were wot to the skin, having been obliged to go into the baptistry. The congregation struggled with its pentup laughter, but finally it burst forth in a roar which could not be suppressed. The services were continued with great difficulty, and the minister drew along breath of relief wheD they were ended.

Boys in church, as Is well known, are not infrequently the cause of great annoyance to clergymen. Some years ago a Methodist minister was delivering a sermon with a good deal of earnestness when his attention was attracted to a boy in the gallery. The youngster was leaning over tho rail and apparently lowering something attached to a cord, which he occaBionally pulled up, when he would throw it over again with more gusto than ever. Do what he would the preacher could not keep his eyes off that boy. I Shifting his position in the pulpit slightly, he had a better opportunity to see what was going on and observed that an old gentleman in a pew under the gallery had fallen asleep and waa, sitting

with his head baok and his mouth wide open. Seeing this, the boy had attached a cork to r\ string and was endeavoring to lower it into the old man's mouth. He came near succeeding several times, and ns tho oork gently swayed to and fro it occasionally tickled the sleeper's nose. At such thni ho would stir a little uneasll" and brusit it away with his hand, to th*. evident delight of the grinning youngster. Tho whole scene was 60 exceedingly comical that the minister came near laughing outright. At length he was obliged to beckon tb the sexton and request him to put an end to tha boy's fishing for the day or else send him somewhere else to do it.

An uncomfortable experience which befell Parson Bartlett, a Unitarian minister, some years ago, used to be related by his clerical brethron with a good deal of glee. The parson had been invited to exchange pulpits with a oleigyman in Salem, and it being a delightful Sunday in the spring the parson walked across the fields from his home in Marblehead, starting early enough in the morning to be on time when the hour for service arrived. The congregation assembled at the usual time, but no minister appeared. Minutes passed into a half hour, and from that into an hour, and it began to be apparent that there would be no services that morning. Just as tho congregation was about to disperse the parson arrived. He was covered with mud from head to feet. His coat was torn, his hat battered, and a telltale streak on his shirt front exposed his darling vice of ohewing tobacco.

An explanation was in order and was given. While the parson was sauntering loisuroly along, enjoying the bracing morning air and the picturesque views, thinking now and then of the points in his sermon, he heard a bellowing behind him, and, looking around, saw a belligerent bull, with his nostrils dilated and his tall in the air, rushing directly for him. The parson ran for a wall nenr by and Jumped into the next field. Hut the bull was not to be eluded In that way. He was over as soon as his clerical victim. The parson jumped over the wall again into the field ho had left, but the bull was there before he was. In this way thoy kept up the jumping and running, fi'.-st over one wall, then over another, until by scaling a fence the parson reached the open road. The bull was thus brought to a standstill and ran off snorting defiance. Parson Bartlett, exhausted with his unwonted exertion, bruised and sore in every limb, made his way as best he could to Salem. —Boston Globe.

HEROINE OF THE TELEGRAPH.

Bow a French Girl Outwitted the Germans Daring the War of 1S70. In the Fronco-Germau war of 1870 the Uhlans In particular played havoc with the French wires. On arriving at a village they would ride up to the telegraph ©ffioe. cut the connections and carry off the apparatus or else employ it to deoeive the enemy. They were outwitted, howtver, on ono occasion, and by a woman.

Mile. Juliette Dodu, a girl of 18, was director of the telegraph station at Pithifiers, where she iived with her mother, Vhen the Prussians entered the town. They took possession of the station, and, turning out the t\y women, confined them to their dwellSg on a higher floor, It happened that the wire from the office In running to the pole on She roof passed by the door of the girl's room, and sho

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Mile. Dodu and her mother, were both nested, and th WW discovered.

fore a court martial and speedily condemned to death, but the sentence had to be confirmed by the commander of the corps d'armee, Prince Frederick Charles, who, having spoken with Mile. Dodu on several occasions, desired her to be produced. He inquired her motive in committing so grave a breach of What are the "Jaws of war." The girl replied, Je suis Francaise" (lam a Frenchwoman).

The prince confirmed the sentence, bnt, happily, before it was executed the news of the armistice arrived and saved her life. In 1878 the telegraphic heroine was in charge of the postoffioo at Montreuil, near Vincennes, and the 18th of August she was decorated with the legion of honor by Marshal MacMabon, president of the republic.—Philadelphia Times.

DATE AND DISASTER.

An Old Rhyming Prophecy Which Mi—ei Its Mark Only Once. The old rhyming prophecy tells us that

In every future ye»T of our Lordfe *,^.?.-: When the stun of the figures is twenty-five Some warlike nation will draw the sword.

But peaceful nations in peace will thrive. One thousand eight hundred and eightyeight was the fifth year of modern times in which the aggregate of the figures was 25, and it was the first in the series which extends over a period of nearly 200 years, in which the predictions of the prophet were not literally fulfilled.

In 1699 Russia, Poland and Denmark formed the alliance against Sweden, which inaugurated the great war which ended in tho disastrous defeat of Charles XII at Poltava.

The year 1789 is one of the dark dates in the annals of time because of its being the year in which the Flinch revolution broke out and raged until after the reign of terror."

The year 1798 witnessed the famous campaign of Napoleon into Egypt and the formation of the second European coalition ngalnst France.

The next date upon which the sum total of the figures in the date aggregated 25 was 1879, and in that year Great Britain's troops invaded Afghanistan, leaving behind them a monstrous trail of blood.

One thousand eight hundred and eightyoight, the fifth in this series of combination date oddities, did not witness any formal declaration of war, but it was one of the most disastrous of modern times as far as shipwrecks, mine accident, railway disasters and general mishaps are concerned.

One thousand eight hundred and ninetyseven will be another date in which the combined figures aggregate 25, and there cannot possibly be but three others of the same kind between that time and the opening of'the 2099.

Bound as Giotto's O.

Giotto was a famous painter, sculptor and architect of the latter part of the thirteenth century. He was a son of a poor shepherd, but the attention of the great masror, Cimabue, having been attracted to the boy by a drawing the lad had made on a fragment of Blate, the young artist's fame spread rspidly throughout southern Europe. In .those days it was customary for the popes to send for the noted men of their realm, more for the purpose of gratifying their desires to see suoh oelebrities than anything else. Giotto was no exception to the rule. No sooner had the young Tuscan become famous than Pope Boniface VIII Invited him to Florence. When young Giotto arrived at the gates of the pope's private grounds, according to the account, the guard halted him and in quired concerning bis mission.

The artist made the matter plain, but the guard was not satisfied with the explanation, frequently Interrupting Giotto's explanatory remarks with, "I know he must be a much larger and distinguished looking person than yourself," and: "Giotto is a famous painter. By your walk I would take ^ou to be a shepherd." Finally, upon demanding evidence of the artist's skill, the latter stooped and traced a perfect O in tho dust of the path with his finger. Any one who has ever attempted the feat of drawing a perfect circle '"vfpd" well knows how difficult it is. is needless to add that tho artist was with Ushered into the presenoe of the me pontiff, and that since that time

Vnder than Giotto's O" has been a favorite hyperbole to indicate ''impossible perfection."—St. Louis Republio.

Screens In Chlaa.

Screens are to be seen everywhere in the Dragon Empire. They are carved of teakwood and handsomely painted with various figures and devices. In (some parts of China bedsteads similar to our own are used. They are ourlously carved, with drawers underneath and shelves for hold ing toilet necessities, all of which are hid den out of sight by drawers which look like a beautiful screen.

The rooms in the different suits of apartments are separated one from another by the carved wooden scroll work for which the Chinese are famous. It is usually dark and gives a very rich and handsome appearance to the whole, interior, which is dull and dark—owing to tho want of windows—until the myriads of lanterns are lighted. The carving is sometimes gilded, and sometimes the wood Is left in a state of nature with a high polish. Doorways are often half filled in with it. Again, a low, deep frieze is seen all around the room. The women's apartments partcularly are decorated with the carved work. Whatever can be imagined as contributing to pleasure and the support of luxury is to be found in the secluded quarters devoted to the women.—Philadelphia Times.

Wolseley's Opinion of the Chinese. It was Lord Wolseley who regarded the Chinese as the greatest race in the world. His opinion was formed about 1860, when he was in China, and he never renounced it. He said to a representative of Tho Strand Magazine: "The Chinese people possess all the elements of being a great people. Thoy have courage, physical power and absoluto contempt for death. Today in that country soldiering is looked down upon. Only the 'failures in life' enter tho army. Let a Bismarck or a Napoleon rise up among them, and in two generations they would be the. greatest nation and conquering power in the world. They only need a leader. Give them progress, and thoy will conquer. Three hundred years ago they were the head of tho world, but their growth was stunted. China wants a modern roan with modern ambiuions. Let their leader come, and they must revive again. "—Brooklyn Eagle.

Queen Margherlta.

The tendency to enjbonpoint which

CANNOT BE BLAMED FOR MARCH AND SEPTEMBER STORMS.

A Fine Old Theory Upset by Weather Experts—Equinoctial Period Does Not Brine Wind and Bain—'Observation^

Prove the Falsity of the Old Tradition*

The recent stormy weather has strengthened the general belief that storms may be expected about Sept. 21 and March 21. It has long been accepted as a fact thrvt storms are certain'to accompany the equinoctial period. Farmers itfflry seasons always say, "Wait till the equinox, and we're, sure to have rain.'" This relief was mentioned the other day to Professor Hazen, official forecaster of the weather bureau at Washington, who proceeded to nfcl' this traditidbto the tree of exploded theories from whose branches the tattered remnants of many another time honored fallacy wave. "This matter of so called equinoctial storms has been thoroughly investigated, said Professor Hazen, "and so far as it concerns the occurrence of any unusual number of storms on March 21 and Sept. 21 there is nothing whatever to support the popular theory. The trouble with the people who insist that equinoctial storms area fact is that you oannot hold them down to any particular date. Of course there are only two days in the year to which the term equinox applies, March 21 and Sept. 21, but the defenders of tho equinox traditions want a latitude of three or four days or a week on either side of the 21st of these months. "As a matter of fact, the term equinoctial cannot properly be applied to any storm that does not occur on the 21st.

Then, too, they refuse to agree on what shall constitute a storm. The wind velocity and amount of preciphmion constitute a storm only when they exceed certain limits, but the man who has been brought up on the'equinoctial storm' theory wants to be allowed to attribute everything that may occur on the 21st of September or March, from a sailing breeze to a hurricane and passing shower to a cloudburst, to the equinox."

This matter has been investigated very thoroughly in England by Professor R. H. Soott of London and by the weather bureau in the United States. The results of the investigations mado in the United States are compiled in a recent report of Professor Hazen. The investigation here covered the entire country and took into consideration every element' going to make stormy conditions. This belief in equinoctial storms is fairly woll grounded in tho minds of many intelligent persons, who believe that storms are influenced, if not generated, by the seeming passage of the sun across the equator. Some go still further and derive what they consider a logical connection between storms on our earth and the equinoctial points of the planets.

When it is considered that equinoxes are based on wholly imaginary points in the sky, or the intersections of two imaginary lines, the equator and the path of the sun, no adequate reason appears for any donsequent effect upon the weather of this earth. The day is lengthening when March 21 comes around and the night is lengthening when Sept. 21 arrives.

These conditions are directly contrary to each other and present no reason for supposing that they produce similar effects When the days are increasing in length about 2}4 minutes daily from December to June and decreasing proportionately from June to December, no adequate reason appears as to why the advent of any particular day in this progression should break the chains of Boreas and his brother winds or throw wide the floodgates of heaven.

In the absence of any apparent reason for regularly recurring storms at the equinoctial periods investigations were made to ascertain whether there was such a recurring storm period. Professor Scott, after an examination of the English records for 14 years, found that out of 45 storms in March not one occurred on the 21st and out of 18 storms in September only one fell on the 21st, so in 14 years there was only one rightly so called equinoctial storm in Great Britain. In the United States an elaborate series of observations, extending from St. Paul to New Orleans and New York to San Francisco, were made. The period examined was 16 years. The general results are thus summarized in Professor Hazen's report:

Wind was lower before and after the March equinox than at it. During the September equinox there is a tendency to decrease of wind on the 21st. At the autumn equinox there is nearly the minimum amount of rain for the month. For March the maximum number of storms fall on the 8th, the next highest number on the 21st. In September the highest number of storms occurred on the 9th and almost the minimum for the whole month on the 21st.

distresses Queen Margherita is probably due to her fondness for Italian cookery, with its oils,' spioes and pastry. She is especially fond of cakes fried in oil, spa ghetti with cheese and olives, and when there are no foreigners present at the royal board the national cookery is always in tho ascendant, and garlic and onions literally "rule tho roast."—Rome Letter.

Time's Corners.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces and which most men throw away,

idea of tapping the Prussian but whioh nevertheless will make at the messages. She had contrived to keep a end of it no small deduction from the lietelegraph Instrument, and by means of a tie life of man.—Exchange derivation from the wire was ablo to carry •ut her purpose Important telegrams were thus obtained and secretly communicated to the subprefectof the town, who conveyed then# across the Prussian linco to the French commander.

Easily Supplied-

Brownbigge (to waitress, who has handed him a newspaper)—Ain't yer got nothink comic* I likes to 'ave somethink I funny to look at while I'm a-heatin.

Mile. Dodu and her mother, were wnn tiri—London .rrested. and the proo^of^eirsftiU were.

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Connected with Professor Hazen's report is a very graphic and complete series of charts, shown by curves on divided and numbered surfaces the relative force of winds, amount of precipitation and pressure and other more technical features. If a confirmed believer could see the line of storms for September as shown by the reoords of 16 years and observe how smooth p.Tvi straight it runs over all the dates he is accustomed to conneot with furious rainstorms, he might bo induced to pack this theory away with tho practice of bleeding patients suffering from weakness and refusing ice to those down with fevor. —Washington Post..

HOW MANY PLANTS!

What the Naturalists Tell Us About the Number of SpeciesThe number of different kinds of plants that are to be found on the surface of the globe has long been a disputed question. The history of the efforts to determine it is a curious one. Those efforts hegau In 890 B. C. with Theophrastus, who enumerated 500 kinds of plants. This may be presumed to represent ajl that were then known. The botanical klMwledge of King Solomon had, then, comparatively narrow limits, evqn though he discoursed on all the plants from the cedar of Lebanon to the hyssop on the wall. Pliny—A. D. 79 increased the number to,double that named by Theophrastus.

In the beginning of the seventeenth century the number had increased to 8,000. The second edition of Linn«us' great book included no more than 8,800. Willdenow, up to 1807, had detected 17,457 species of flowering plants. From this period the increase in the number of known species is very rapid, as a result of the stimulus given to botany by Linnssus and his successors, so that, at the beginning of the present oentury Robert Brown had estimated the flowering plants at 87,000 and Humboldt all plants, flowering and nonflowering, at 44,000.

Progressing still further in 1890 De Candolle estimated that at least 58,000 were known. It was found that the number of speoles preserved in the herbarium at the Jardta dea Plantes was estimated at tbe sense figure, aad that the oolleetion of M. Delessert contained 86.000 species in 1847, although Dr. Lindley bad estimated in 1186 that all the plants in the world might be inolaied in that auaofae*.

Humboldt entered npoava series of ealcalaticms at*qt this to «b«w that all these eeUi*»te« fell short of tbe swasher that might be supposed to eorirt. "Swh considerations,1 writes, "see* verify the anrimt asytji offtbe fend-Avesta, tht the erecting ef yfefjbeval lows eellad taroi ISO,COO vegetable farms Aran the sacred blood of the hnU."

In 1845 R- B. Hinds luMaintsri tfco phe-

TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS. TUESDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 19.1397 IN CONSTANT PERIL. EQUINOX NOT GUILT?

00$ species. The next estimate we meet with it in Henfwy in 1867, 213,000, bnt to 1856 De Candolle had by another process of re 5'^iog come to the conclusion that the ttr&i'couki not be less than 875,000 for flowering plants.

At the present time the very lovflsst estimate of authentic species of oryptogamia cannot be less than 600,000, and they probably exoeed that number. Here, then, we have an approximate idea of what may be regarded as a very low estimate of the cumber of species of plants scattered over the faoe of the earth. If we feel oonfldenoe in asserting that there are not less than 600,000 distinct and different species of vegetable organisms, including land and water, it is because it has been proved that the number is even in excess of that.—Philadelphia Times.

jA PRINCE'S DINNER.

Description of a Formal Feast In Marlborough House. Dinner begins at 8:45 p. m. and lasts for 1 hour and 10 minutes. Rapid service is insisted upon, yet guests will notice that four or five waiters only are allowed to onter tho dining room, which is, however, some distance from the kitchen. Celerity and dispatch are obtained by the employment of a small army of assistants stationed behind the soenee, in the service room and kitchen.

If we take a peep Into the kitchen, we Bhall find that gas is exclusively used for all culinary purposes. There is a gas grill and a roast Bpit, and special metal frames are fitted to the entree dishes while they are being garnished. From the kitchen leads the larder, which is exceedingly neat. The refrigerator is a large room, with ice at the top, the iced water running down the sides.

During dinner soft and low mu3io is played. The menu cards are soverely plain, with a narrow gold border and a royal crest. They are printed in French, and the courses are divided into a first and second service. Turtle—genuino, of course is put into a silver dish and a "bisque' soup in a china plate. A similar alternation is observablo in the first course, a fillot of trout, garnished, being upon an oval entree dish, and soles served on a rice "soucle" upon a china plate. Guests are not expected to partake of both kinds of flsh. "Cotelettes de volailles" and "chaud froids" follow, and then come the haunches of venison in large metal dishes and saddles of mutton, which are served upon silver plates. Both the lamb and venison are carved in the service room.

With these roasts vegetables are handed round in deep dishes, which stand in the center, having three divisions for "saute" potatoes. French beans and cauliflower. After the joints to each guest is handed a "sorbet" of champagne—a description of ice contained in a large glass of an exceedingly delicate shade of green. These sorbets are brought up from the kitchen by girls, and the glasses are placcd upon ohina plates with silver spoons.—Cassell Saturday Journal.

TAKING A NEW START IN LIFE.

Sufferers From Stagnation Advised to Try Parting Their Hair In the Middle. "I have taken anew start in life," says Mr Gratebar, "and I have found it much easier than might have been imagined. My oldest daughter, who is a very bright, a very sprightly and I mignt add a very attractive young woman had for

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time told me that I was old fashioned and slow. She said that If I would wear pointed 6hoes and high collars and fashionable ties and part my hair in the middle! wouldn't be a bad looking man. "How I looked as a result of these changes it might not be modest for me to say, but as to another and very remarkable effeot proceeding from them I may testify. iiit t. "With the old blunt shoes and comfortable low collars and string neckties and with the old way of parting the hair, low down on one side, I seemed to put off an Incrustation of old habits and to step up out of a deep rut, up to a level where men were hustling about in great shape, and with my pointed 6boes and high collars and hair parted in the middle I was one of them, once more infused with the idea of keeping up with tho procession, of keeping step to the music of active life. "And I don't hesitate to say that it

trained to find a moral in everything, animate and inanimate. Mr. Hearn, in his "Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan," gives a few, specimens of the moral ideas evoked from the native students by subjects for English composition. One boy thus wrote on "Mosquitoes:" "On summer nights we hear the sound of faint voices, and little things come and Btingour bodies very violently. We call them ka—in English 'mosquitoes. I think tho sting is useful for us, because if we begin to sleep the ka shall come and sting us, uttering a small voice. Then we shall be bringed back to study by the

To another pupil was assigned the botan

(Japanese peony) for a composition, and cago Record, be wrote:, "The botan is largo and beautiful to see, but it has a disagreeable smell. This should make us remember that what is only outwardly beautiful in human society should not attract us. To be attraoted by beauty only may lead us into fearful and fatal misfortune."

made of great value, by the practice olir-

rigation during the drought season, which

is tho chief oausc of the crop failures and

about as easy as to pick up gold nugget

FRIGVTFUL RISK INVOLVED IN THE DUTIES OF POSTAL CLERKS.

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parting the hair in the middle that did it. I could have worn unmoved the pointed toesv the high collars and the new fashioned ties, but not so the hair parted in the middle. That I fplt I must live up to. It would never do for me to part my hair In {^ie middle and then not make good my righfc to wear It so. '.'To all middle aged sufferers from stagnation I would say, Try parting your hair in the middle."—New York Sun.

Japanese Moralising.

Dangerous Position of Postal Cars—Sot« From a Superintendent's Report.

The unprecedented fatalities attending accidents to postal clerks on railway trains while in the discharge of their duties if made the subject of a report by F. D. Norton, superintendent of railway mail service, with headquarters in St. •Louis. This report has just been sent in. It shows the largest number of deaths in a single division In the history of the railway mail service. Nine deaths—*flve at one time and in one car—within the last three months will be shown to have taken place.

In recent years the authorities have been furnishing the percentage of killed and injured to the number of accidents which took place. In 1896 there were 495 accidents. Five fatalities resulted, and there were 112 clerks injured. That showed a decrease of two accident®, of two clerks killed and of 66 clerks injured. The per cent of clerks killed and injured was only 1.50 as compared with 2.62 in 1805, 2.20 In 1884, 2.90 In 1893, 2.76 in 1892 and 2.70 in 1891.

The figures given above represent all the casuallties and deaths of a whole year in all of the 11 divisions of railway mr.il service in the United States, while the nine deaths referred to which took place this year occurred in one division, comprising the states of Missouri, Kansas and Colorado, Indian Territory and Oklahoma, and all within three ^months. In some of the instances the poor fellows wore ground among splintered timbers and lay under the wreckage of a whole train. Others were burned to a charred mass which to the nearest and dearest were unrecognizable. No wonder that such a grewsomc three months' record has caused a shudder to shake the stout frames of 7,500 olerks, who today are handling the mail matter for 70,000,000 people.

The accident in which the deaths took place occurred on the Wabash road in Missouri, the Santa Fe in Kansas and the Denver and Rio Grande in Colorado. The first of these oasualties occurred on the St. Louis, Moberly and Kansas City railway postofflce on the night of June S36 near Missouri City. A flood had washed out a trestle. The engine passed over, but the postal car was precipitated to the bottom of the creek and the whole train pitchcd down on tog of it, crushing the car to kindling wood and killing five clerks instantly.

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on the streets of Chicago. there are many farms in Maine that could be very much improved in this way, and, if there is no available supply of water from river or lake, there are few farms wher® windmills could not raise all the moisture needed from springs or deep wells.—Lewiston Journal.

sharp lookout foraro lights while pqshing

their steal rods through the air. Of oourse this only applies when the current is on, and when it is, if the umbrella rod comes in contact with the lamp, thereto a strong probability that the holder will h« very badly shocked, if not seriously injured. —New ^ork Tribune.

Ioeeaventaace of Kojalty. announcement that the qneen goes to Niee this spring has firown l^e town into a oomnotioB, and the rents of villas for the eeMon to the •^Shhoibeed have advanced per cent- As an illustration of tbe way to whfeh wf^ty Is compelled to pay through the noee lor everything 1 mayrnaattoa that the Villa Cinies has been let

the queen tor just double the

raxt&l wJttda itfeCohed last year.—London Cgota.

The Santa Fe wreck was of more recent occurrenco. Two of tho clerks lost then lives in a terrific head end collision near Emporia, and this was followed closely by the disaster at New Castle, Col^ This also was a collision.

The position of the postal car on a train has much to do with the fatalities which occur on railway postoffioes. It is always next to the engine, and in case of such accidents as those which have been described the clerks have little or no chance for their lives. In case there is a warning blast from the engineer there is no such opportunity as that furnished the regular trainmen to jump. In most of the present style of cars ingress and egress are had through aside door, to and from which a difficult olimb is rendered necessary. To jump from such a car one must pitch straight out at right angles, incurring greater risk of death than he would to remain in the car. Most of tho clerks take their ohances and stick to the car. The trainman may run down on the last step on the car platform, from whioh he may look ahead for a place to land if he is given any warning at all.

From some of the postal cars now in use a clerk cannot emerge while the train is in motion save at a side door. On the outside of the car between the side door and the end platform a foot jSlate three inches wide is bolted. A hand rail bolted near the top of the car. There are none but side doors in the postal apart' ment, and no one can get out or in the apartment while the train is moving unless he walks on the plate and holds on to the hand rail while the train is spinning along perhaps at the rate of 40 miles an hour. ,,

Much has been written of the

Grand Island got out of his oar to get a pot of ooffee at a lunch counter. The train started suddenly and in climbing up the side into the door his foot slipped, skinning the fore part of his leg from ankle t€ knee. The man was laid up for a month and ho lost his time. The department held he had no business to be running aftex coffee.

If a soldier is shot and wounded by Indians on the plains, he gets a pension, but if one of the postal class of government servants, who is required to knoW more and to commit to memory more informa tion than a doctor or lawyer, meets an ac cident while in the discharge of his duty he may whistle for all ho may get,—Chi

RUSSIA'S RULER'S RICHES.

Rothschild Among European Sovereigns Is the Czar. The Emperor Paul, whose reign was certainly not one of the most brilliant, was nevertheless one of the greatest benefactors of tho dynasty. He not only settled the order of succession on a permanent basis, but also endowed his posterity

Irrigation of New England Farms. The Irrigation Age suggests that a large I flje^aterial means of maintaining proportion of the so called abandoned

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low values for these placgs, and also re- grand dukes and grand duchesses not marks, "To find an abamloned farm in ^e direct lino of succession, while the the irrigated valleys of the west would be

aside a vast amount

property, under the name of tho

ppBnages, for the sole benefit of

goverei?n and

wlth their

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the heir apparent, together

respective families, were to be

out of tho

f^ds of the state.

These appanages of the Russian imperial family now cover the enormous total area In different sections of Russia of 21,000,000 acres, an extent of land larger by 2 000,000 acres than the whole of Scotland. This total includes 15,000,000 acres of wood and forest, producing yearly more t.han 5,000,000 rubles. The total annual

Warning. I the imperial appanages now

AnelMtrical expertsays: "Ihaveaword Loaches 80,000,000 rubles, or more than of advice to give people who oarry steel rod £2 qoo,000, and, with no fewer than 46 umbrellas wet days. They must keep a

mem

bers of the Imperial family to sup-

the

expenditure at present amounts

to a yearly average of over 6,000,000 rubles In 1891 It was over 6,000,000 rubles. The appanages are quite separate ana distinot from extensive private property, and from crown or state domains, administered by the mfeiBter of agriculture, and they do not contribute toward the annual expenditure of the imperial court,

Kine Men From One Division Have Mel ammlTti ing] far as can be ascertained, Death Daring the Past Three Month*

to abottt

£1,000,000, nor toward providing

dowries for Imperial grand duchesses. Before the emancipation of the serfs the appanages* possessed over 800,000 peasants, who pah* annually in land and poll taxes for the benefit of the imperial family nearly 8,000,000 rubles and during 68 years, up to their liberation, altogether 119,000,000 rubles, or £18,500,000. The department of imperial appanages has since bocome the largest landed proprietor, th« largest agriculturist and the largest win# producer In the empire. Its industrial entcrprises In timber, sugar, cotton and other products ace rapidly developing on a .proportionately large 6C*ie. During a oentury of «uistenca it has furnished th* collateral branches cf the imperial hous«. with altogether 236,000,000 rubles, and as the imperial progeny continues to in crease a litfge reserve fund is employed la preparing to meet their ever growing demands.—London Times.

Maakets.

While the Introduction of portable flr» arms into Europe is of comparatively r» cent date, their use was frequent amorj the Mohammedans of eastern Asia at very early period. La Brocquiere, »*h! made a journey to Jerusalem in the middie of the fifteenth oentury, and who truv- ... eled extensively in the east, mentions tb« -vfiring of small arquebuses aft the great festivals in Damascus.

The first nse of mu6ke4s In Europe wai at the siege of JRhege in 1591 by tbe Span' ish soldiers. These arms were so extremely heavy that they oould not be used with* out a rest. They were provided with jnatohlocks, and were effective at a consid« erable distance. While on the maroh th soldiers themselves carried only the ammunition and the rests, and boys, bearing the muskets, followed after, like oaddies..,^.^^ on a golf oourse.

Loading these cumbersome arms was a^.j slow operation. They were clumsy and.'^ awkward to handle, the ball and powderf were carried separately, and the prepara-j|g. tion and adjustment of the match took longtime. "Before long, however, improvements be-"-,-./-_•? gantobemade. The guns became llghtes^: in construction, and Che soldiers oarried^.. their ammunition in broad shoulder belt&I^j...^? called bandeliers, to whioh were suspended^ a number of little leather oovered woodemi eaeh of whioh held a charge of §i,:J§

oases, powder.

it.

called

accident insurance companies in w^icb postal clerks insure. Few of them afford relief to clerks in hundreds of injuries. A train may strike a reverse curve and throw a clerk against an iron rack, caus' ing an injury that will lay him up for a month. The injury "cannot be seen,' however, and the company may allow nc indemnity.

A postal clerk reoeives little consideration from the department in case he gets

I hurt, Tf" to iw opinion tho riUnU

composition, that the pupils had been be avoided. Not long since a clerk a

A pouoh, in whioh the bullets -. .^:

were carried loose, and a priming horn^yA*' hung at the side of the soldier. V$s As late as the time of Charles I mosketi^ ^v with rests were sttll in use, and it was no('*V-£ until the beginning of the eighteenth cen-£v tury that firelocks were successfully emr-' ployed.—Harper's Round Table. .,

The Big Brother.

Children early learn to adopt tbe manners and the speech of tho elder brother) tbe small boy is educated by the ono who is at college or in business much mow than by his governess or his tutor. Said a wise observer once: "If only you can gel your eldest son well started, if be

A Slight Dsawbaek.

Snodgrass—The world has a place tor everybody. Micawber—Yes the only trouble la there's generally somebody else in ItLondon Answers. 1

H3e Natural Error.

"What do you think of the new woHOHfc, Mr. Marloyf" "I detest the bold, shrieking creature, Miss Stubbs. How much sweeter and more lovable is the gentle and retiring old woman like you, whose"— "Sirl" "Whose—ehf Ob, Lord!"—New York Recorder.

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ly, truthful and of high principles, th8 others in tbe family follow right on in the same direction. The judiolous father will take great pains with his oldest boy."

In a neighborhood or a sohool the large boys influence social opinion and set the fashion for the-rest. Always there is some larger boy whom the little lad greatly admires, who is his model, whose smile or whose frown makes or unmakes his happiness. The big brother does not know it, but he is in this changeful world the one personage whose scepter never totters, whose popularity never wanes and who never goes out of fashion.

To his sisters he has the opportunity of showing chivalry, kindness and the deference of the stronger to the weaker. To the baby of the household be is little short of a king. The big brother, bless bis heart, when he is a nioe, obliging, affectionate and generous fellow, is as important a member of society as any one who can be mentioned.

If, as sometimes happens, he is oitber a bully or a ooward, then he is more contemptible than he would be if be had been born in a less fortunate order In the family, for he has, so to speak, broken faith with all that was expeoted of him.—Harper's Bazar.

What la a Gentleman?

The old story about the French marqulw who opined that the Almighty would think twice before damning a gentleman of quality, doubtless finds an echo in all genuinely "armigerous" bosoms, but there is another tale in Evelyn's diary which puts what I believe to be the English position as pointedly as the other does that of the ancient regime: "Maroh 10 1682.—V. told a friend of mine who accompanied him to the gallows and gave him some advice that ho did not value aying of a rush and hoped and believed God would deal with hfan like a gentleman"— i. e., with courtesy and consideration. Everybody would admit that breeding has not a little to do with gentle instincts, bnt three generations may be trusted to do as much as SO.—Cornhill Magazine.

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