Bloomington Telephone, Volume 15, Bloomington, Monroe County, 30 June 1893 — Page 2

THE TELEPHONE.

Br Walter Bkadfuts.

THE WORLD'S FAIR.

BLOOMINGTON

INDIANA

A NOVEL. INVENTION.

You May Carry Your Own Typewriter In Your Pocket. A pocket typewriter is shortly to bo offered to the British public, says tha Patent Office Record. Typewriting instruments now in the market are of considerable size and weight at least a person could scarcely think of carrying one about with him regularly. The one under notice is not inexpensive, but is so small that it may be carried in the waist pocket The retail ptic will be under 10 abiHins; it measures 3 inches by 3 inches and weighs about four ounces. Though so small it is not a mere toy. The inventer claims for it that it will turn out better work and be found more useful than larger and more expensive machines. With reference to its construction, till that can bo seen when superficially examined is a disk about the size df the face of a gentleman's watch, in which the type is fixed, and one or two smalt rollers. It will print a line from an inch to t; yard long e nd paper of any size or thickness can be used. Anyone can use it though, as in the case of other instruments, practice is required to enable the oferator to write quickly. Another advantage is that by means of duplicate types the writer can be used. for different languages. Patents have been obtained for most of the countries in Europft as weil as for America Canada, and Australia. Plots tat Stalwart Athletics. The old Puritanical idea that holiness was only to be attained by mortifying the flesh and that he who would 'be eminent in science, letters or philosophy must blanch his cheek and furrow his brow by excessive burning of the midnight oil to the utter exclusion of all laws governing his physical condition is, happily, exploded. In this year of grace 1889, it is a generally admitted fact that he who would do the greatest amount of brain work must keep his physical system in the best condition and that the developement of brawn and muscle may go hand in hand with the developement of moral culculture. Stagg the great Yale pitcher and Gilt the captain of their foot ball eleven are both divinity students. Many of the best athletes in the country oarsmen, foot-racers, boxers, base ball players have received their lirst training in college or Y. M. C. A gymnasiums. In th'S connection it may be interesting' to cote that the Kansas City Y. M. C. A. hns the finest and best equipped gymnasium in the city and one of the finest west of New York. A regular instructor, Mr. Paul C. Phillips, is in charge and the classes consist of over 300 men and about ISO ladies who go through a regular course of training. Frank P. Clark in Kansas City Referee. Rot Sews to The Old Mm. Uncle Abimelech Barnes regard? himself as dreadfully abused by his wiTe, Aunt Amanda, who scolds him more or less, doubtless with good reason. The other day Aunt Amanda complained of being ill, and sent Uncle Abimelech for the doctor. The physician arrived, felt Aunt Amanda's pulse, an d told her to show her tongue. "limP said the doctor, shaking his bead. "A pretty bad tongue, Mrs. Barnes: a very bad tongue. Uncle Abimelech wriggled a little at this, and presently managed to get t he physician a little to one side. "Look a-here, doctor,11 he said, in a whisper, 'that don't prove nothin' at alL She's had the wust kind of a tongue ever since we was married!'1

The Wonderful Contrasts The Hunter's Cabin The Midway Flaisanoe. The Fair is the place for contrasts. The crowd is nearly always thickest is the narrow strip of ground between the Transportation building and the lagoon. But two minutes' walk will take one to a spot that is almost completely isolated from the urrounding Fair. On the south end of the wooded island in the lagoon is a low building hidden among the trees. It is approached by a narrow pathway, which most people pass without noticing. This building is a favorite resort of New Yorkers It is the World's Fair exhibit of the Boone and Crocket Club, but is generally known as the ''Hunters Cabin." It is a typical home of a hunter or a club of hunters on a large scale. Such a house might lookout of place on a street of the Fair, next to one of the big buildings, but here on the island it is decidedly appropriate, for it is in the center of a miniature forest. The cabin contains only one room and has log walls and board roof. Small places for windows are cut in the logs. At one end is a large open fireplace. Over it is a rude wooden mantel, the central adornment of which is the skull of a grizzly bear. On the floor are tanned skins of bears, elk, moose, panthers

and other big game. Scattered about

e.AAio ,j,q iot.o ,.;fl was ransacked ares ago by thieves

OUUUIOO, infill K'UOOUO. 1 11K O. OUUl , . . V "J ,1 mv , 1 . . J 4. i u i u j in sei.rch or gold. the plunderers cruns and cartridge belts, luk horns .. ? . - .. j

contributed a rare and unique dis

play to the Fair. The ancient Egytians had a curious custom of representing the countenances of their det.d at the head of the mum my. In the ages before Grecian art invaded the land of the Nile it was customary to make a plastic head, sometimes of stuff similar to that of which t ie Fair buildings are constructed, but these casts were not always good likenesses. The Egyptians continued the old practice long after the Greeks and the Romans had swept over their country, but modified it by substituting portraits for the molded figures. The portrait was painted on a thin panel of wood. This was laid over the face of the mummy, and the outer bandages of the shroud were wrapped over the edges o! wood, thus holding it in place. The effect of a mummy of this sort was that of a person looking out from an opening in the swathirgs of the dead figure. This enabled relatives of the deceased to view the remains and enjoy the melancholy pleasure of looking on the reproduced features of the departed one. A few mummies of this kind were found years ago near Memphis and Throes, but it is only in recent years that large numbers have been discovered at Hawara and Rubaijat in the province of Faijum, a section that formerly had a large Greek popnla :ion. The pictures which Theodore Graf is now exhibiting at old Vienna came from Rubaijat. and most o: them date back to a period between 850 and 200 B. C. The

guns and cartridge belts. Elk horns

and other spoils of the chase are

fastened on the walls. It looks prim-

destroyed coffins ana mummies and threw awav the pictures. These

WucuuuWWii3. TT ui 1 V were buried in the dry sand, which tivebutitis very comfortable for 1)reser,ed their coi0rs for the aoei-

uere are woouen oenenes ana ouier & j discovererof these nine seats over which furs are thrown, ( teentb.century d

TIIE HUNTEK S CABIN.

and in hot -neither it is the coolest plact ii-side of the World s Fair :

ground'-. The outside of the building so v or s as much of the frontier as does the inside. A pair of antlers are over the doorway and an oldfashioned ' prairie schooner," or em-

grant w-gon. stands near by. Theo-i

dore Roosevelt is the leading spirit in the Boone and Crocket Club.

Tk 8U aggie ffer Employment. It is curious how the most dangerous trades are overrun by applicants lor work. The electric-light companies never find difficulty in securing all the linemen that they want, in spite of the fact that the dangers of their business have been so thoroughly exploited by the newspapers and by recent event. Workmen in the wallpaper factories frequently joke over the tradition of their trade that a man's life is usually shortened at least ten years by his work. The same thing is true of the men w ho handle leather papers and whose lungs become coated with the dust arising from them. In certain factories the air is ladeu with tiny brass filings, which also hasten the approach of death.

A New Wriakte. Paint from potatoes is a new wrinkle in the arts and sciences. Kuh lo w's T rade Re vie w elves ihe manner of preparation. Boil a kilo of peeled potatoes in water; after mashing dilute with water and pass through a tine sieve. Add two kilos of Spanish white diluted with four kilos of water, and the result will be a beautiful milkwhite. Different colors can be effected by the addition of different ochres a.nd minerals. Apply with a brush. It adheres to plaster and wood very well, will not peel, and, best c! all is cheap.

Practical Iljpaottsm. In one of the law courts of Helsingborg Sweden, a queer case of hypnotism teas puzxled the judges. A young medical student brought suit agaimit a practicing physician in the town for haring hypnotized him several times against his will, with the result that his nervous system was injured and his mad somewhat enfeebled. Several witnesses appeared for the plaintiff, and to the astonishment of the court they all appeared to be crazy, and gave the most contradictory and astonishing testimony. Hereupon a medical gentleman came upon the stand and still further astounded the court with the announcement that his confrere, the defendant, had hpynotized the witnesses and made them say just whatever he liked. Finally the court adjourned the case and appointed a commission to see if the entire crowd were not, crazy.

MUMMY AND PORTRAIT. which was formed in New York city three years ago for the preservation of the large game of the United States, and especially of the Yellowstone Park. A reproduction of the famous Bayeux tapestry ornaments the eastern corridor of the Woman's Building. While it is by no means beautiful, the original has a varied and interesting history. It is supposed to have been the work of Matilda, the wife of Wiiiiam the Conqueror, al-'

though other authorities insist that J it was made by the women of Bayeux I

for Odo, half-brother of . William, Bishop of Bayeux. It was preserved in the cathedral of the town until the French revolution. In 1106 it narrowly escaped burning, It 1652 it was saved from the pillage of the Calvinists, and in 1792 a priest rescued it from the unhallowed hands of the French soldiery, who wished to cut it up to protect their guns. In 1813 it was exhibited in the Musee Napoleon. The tapestry is 230 feet 91 inches long by 19j inches wide. There are represented in it 620 per

sons, 180 horses, o50 other animals, 1 and various implements of war. : Latin inscriptions tell the story the tapestry sets forth, whk,.. is a full history of Harrold. the last of the Saxon kings, and William the Con- j queror. One of the most conspicuous points made is of the Mora, the largest of William's fleet of 600 sails, which vessel was the gift of Matilda , to her husband. It is not likely that old Mr. Ptolemy, of Egypt, intended to make an exhibit at the Columbian Kxposi- ; tion, but one of his graveyarcitt has 1

The colors of these pictures are scarcely dimmed, and they give an excellent idea of portrait pain tin sr before the Christian era. Some c'f them are purely Egyptian in their phy3 ognomies, while others indicate d strain of the Greek. Quite a number, judging from the jewelry and the badges of office, "must have represented persons of the ruling class. Meissonicr and George Ebers have found in one of them a striking likeness to the portrait of Cleopatra as pres?rved on ancient coins. A portrait of a young man has a lock of hair back of the ear like an inverted interrogation point, and Ebers, the Egyptologist, who is better known in America as the author of "Uarda." and other historical novels with scenes on the Nile, says only membersof the royal family were permitted to wear such a lock. This pan il also has on its back an inscription. sHd to be in Phoenician of the third or fourth century before Christ. It has been translated as Baal-adar, whizh means ;'Baal helgs," or "Baal disposes." The portrait of one mati shows the subject wearing a golden wreath and a scarf like ribbon. On the left breist is shown a gold button. which leads some scientists to believe that the original was a priest of Isis. Thf.re is in the collection one porjra t of a girl, whose neck and ear jewels and rich purple dress, with blaok, gold edged shoulder stripes indicate a family of exalted position. Thus each one has peculiarities of the ancient life of Egypt, and the collection, taken in connection with its history, is one of the most curi-

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visitor for many days. In a careless stroll through this great international promenade, many features entertain the curious. The following is a plan of the place showing the relative positions of the villages:

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one op ptolemy's nobles. ojs in the Fair. It is accompanied by a fine specimen of a mummy, w hich is perfect in itsswathiugs and has at its head the portrait of a woman, showing how the panels were secured by the bandage.

The "Midway" at the Fair, as it is familiarly called, is undoubtedl v the l.iost unique and interesting pleas ure-waik in the world. It is a thoroughfare of ever-shifting scenes and over-rccuring incidents. Within its precincts enough of interest can be lound to engage the attention of a

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THE MIDWAY PLAISANCE. Parade grounds. West Pont cadets. Cigar pavilion. Captive balloon park, Laplund village. Chinese village. Dahomey village. Chinese theater. Austrian village. Volcano of Kilauea. Cigar pavilion. Theater. St. Peter's. Algeria and Tunis. Ferris wheel. Cairo street. Moorish palace and restaurant. German village. Turkish village. .Japanese village. Bernese Alps. Japan bazar. Natatorium, Libbv glass works. South Sea island village. International Costume Co, Vienna glass works. New England home. Irish village. Hagerrback animal show. PEOPLE.

The Norwegian explorer. iJrNansen. who is soon to start on another expedition to the North Pole, has been preparing himself for coming hardships by sleeping as often as possible during the winter in a tent on his place near Christiana. Ex-Senator Wade Hampton, now United States railroad commissioner, is in San Francisco, whither he has gone on a journey of inspection of the Pacific roads. He has with him a party of about a dozen people, ineluding his two daughters. He will go from San Francisco to Tacoma, and from there begin an examination eastward of the Northern Pacific. , In modeling the horse for his equestrian statue of General Grant for the Union League Club, of Brooklyn, the sculptor, William Ordway Partridge, has had casts made from a living charger kept at his country home in Milton, Mass.. where he is at work. It is believed to be the first time that casts of a horse have ever been taken ffcr such a purpose. Mr. von Muuim. formerly of the German legation at Washington, but since transferred to Bucharest and then to Rome, is a zealous amateur photographer. Among the pictnres carried awav bv him as mementoes of his Washington sojourn was a collection of portraits of nearlj' every girl prominent in Washington society for the last half dozen years. The venerable Robert C. Winthrop, who, everything considered, is the most distinguished citizen of Massachusetts, is one of the summer cottagers at Nahant. Commenting on the fine old man's sprightliness at eighty-four a Boston journal says. ' The man who takes the hand of Mr. Winthrop to-day takes the hand that William WTordsworth grasped, that was shaken by Samuel Rogers, and that found its way with acceptance into the hands of the Duke of Wellington. Of what other American can the same be said?" A rather amusing story is told of Charles Gervais, a great French cheese merchant, who recently died in Paris full of years and honors and wealth. M. Gervais was a self-made man and no scholar. Last year he stood for some municipal post in the department of Seine Inferieure, and, in the course of his campaign, read a speech composed for him by a journalist of Rouen, beginning as follows: ;As a candidate for this important office comma fully understanding your wants I come to solicit your votes full stop." The scribe had writen down the stops as a guide to elocution, but poor M. Gervais conscientiously delivered it as part of his speech. A Boston jeweler who had occasion at times to manufacture jewels for Mr. Booth, to be worn in different characters, says he was extremely conscientious in having them made not only of the best material, but as near as possible historically correct. In having a costly crown of gold and precious stones mace for the character of Richard III. he sent to kondon to get the correct design: so in the jewels for the character of Richelieu he took great pains to consult the best authorities. It did not satisfy him to be told that the real could not be distinguished from the imitation on the stage, hence he bought the costliest laces and materials for his costumes.

James K. Murdoch, the Klocutionist, and "Sheridan's Itide." Columbus (O.J Jourral. James E. Murdoch, a once famous tragedian and teacher of elocution, died in Cincinnati, where he had long made his ty)me, in the eightythird year of his age. The veteran Murdoch has long been a noted figure in Cincinnati. Before the war he was engaged in farming near Lebanon, afterward removing to Cincinnati, where, with tne exception of a few years spent in Philadelphia, he ever afterward made his home. He was born in Philadelphia in 1811, and early learned the trade of bookbinder, but at the age of nineteen made his first stage appearance at the Arch-street theater as Frederick in Kotzebue's play of ' Lover s Vows," afterward acting for many yearsi in most of the principal cities of the United States. In 1840 he was stage manager of the Chestnut street theater, Philadelphia, but soon began a series of lectures on Shakespeare and to teach elocution. In 1856 he appeared in London at the Haymarket with considerable success. During the war Murdoch nursed sick and wounded soldiers in the Union hospitals, gave readings

from the poems-of Thomas Buchanan Read and others for the benefit of the sanitary commission, and became a volunteer aide on the staff of Gen. Roseerans. But it was in connection with Thomas Buchanan Read's great war lyric, ' 'Sheridan's Ride," that James E. Murdoch became famous. The poem was written by Read in Cincinnati just after the hero of Winchester made his great ride down the Shenandoah valley. A fair for the benefit of the United States sanitary commission was in progress at the old Pike Opera House, and Murdoch had volunteered to give gne of his readings as an additional attraction to the entertainment. He saw Read and importuned him to write a poem on the Sheridan episode in honor of the event. Read after a time consented, and repairing to his studio soon produced the immortal war lyric. When the evening arrived the building was jammed from floor to ceiling with people eager to hear the effort of Read, and when Murdoch, advancing to the front of the stage, began in that rich, full, velvety tone that his friends will always remember and cherish: "Up f rem tlie South at breaU of day. Bringing to Winchester fresh dismay. The affrighted air with a shudder bore. Like a herald in haste, to the chieftain's door, rhe terrible grumble and rumble und roar, rolling the battle was on once more. And Sheridan twenty miles away." the great audience began to cheer and the interior of the building echoed with the shouts of the assembled people, whose patriotic instincts were stirred by the recital. Then, as Murdoch, warming to his work, followed: "But there is a road from Winchester town, A good, rr ad highway leading down: And then, through the flash of the morning light. A steed as black as the steeds of night Was seen to pass as with eagle flight. As if he lenew the icrrib e need. He st re-: :hed away with the utmost cel: Hills roiie and fell but his heart was gay, With Sheridan tllteen miles away. Then it was that the audience became almost wild with enthusiasm, and as the matchless reader described the flight of the horse and rider down to the legions of Early at Winchester the scene nearly beggared description. Upon reaching the concluding verse, beginning: "Hurrah, hurrah for Sheridan: Hurrah, hurrah, for horse and uian:" the people rose en masse and cheered and wept and gave way to their almost uncontrolled feelings. The poem made both Read and Murdoch famous in a single night, and in the years afterward the latter seldom gave a reading in which he did not incorporate 4 'Sheridan's Ride." This he did not of his own volition, but his audiences demanded that he repeat the great poem that made the blood leap in the veins of the great audience in Pike's opera house on that historic night. DR. GALLIPE'S MICROBES.

cessfully accomplished. For this purpose he employed human saliva, from which, after aa experiment lasting over five yeafs, he obtained hundreds of little stones. These artificial productions are in ali respect absolutely identical with ttop stones found in the various organs of the human body. The microbes which produce them can be isolated and cultivated. Tuberculous diseases can be successfully treated by inducing a process by which the tubercles become hard and gravelly. The opinion expressed at the sitting of the Academy was that Dr. Graiippe's investigations and discoveries nad thrown a powerful light upon the origin, prevention and cure of the most agonizing diseases known to modern medicine. "MOLLY" THE JOKJ5B

One of the Most Curious of All Modern Medical Discoveries. Paris Letter to London Telegraph . Among all the painful diseases to which human flesh is heir the most agonizing are, without doubt, those which arise from the formation of gravel and stone, the origin and proper treatment of which have been heretofore a matter of mere conjecture. During yesterday's sitting of the Academy of Sciences a most interesting report was sent in by Dr. iiallipe, which throws considerable light on the subject. This savant has devoted over eight years to continuous investigations, the results of which may be briefly summarized as follows: All stones found in the human body contain microbes of a peculiar kind. These mici'obes are the authors of that chemical decomposition which results in a calcareous deposit. Our organs, even when in a perfectly healthy condition, frequently contain large numbers of such parasites, which, however, produce no deleterious effects so long as the humors of the body are in a normal state; but once we are attacked by disease the robian manifestations, as he calls them, set to work to produce the deposit which develops into gravel and stone. The most curious portion of Dr. Galipps's report is his account of how he proved his theory by experiment, and having set microbes the task of producing little stones had the grim satisfaction to see it suc-

An Intelligent Goat that Could Take a Jolte and Get Even. Forest &nd Stream. A mountain goat that I once kept in confinement was about asetmning as the average street arab, and, had he lived to maturity and kept on acquiring knowledge, the chances are I would have had to move out and give him the ranch. He usually followed me on short excursions into the woods, and generally kept right at my heels JlSut on one occasion he lagged behind, and although I called him several times, he paid no heed. I finally walked back to see what he was interested in, and found him busy feeding oil some moss that grew at the roots of a fir tree; so I left him and continued my tramp. But after I had fofe

A PRACTICAL JEST.

away a short distance the thought

occurred to me to hide and see how.

he would act; so I slipped into a hollow stump close by the trail and awaited the result. Presently I heard him coming bounding along the trail, and after he had passed I stuck out my head to watch him. When he got about twenty feet beyond me he stopped and commenced looking around, and the comical expression of his face as he scanned every object that bore any resemblance to a human being caused mej to burst out laughing, when hf turned and saw me. Then he commenced to sulk and would not go any) further, so I had to return home. The next day he followed me, as usual, but in the midst of some thick brush and down timber I got interested in a bird that I was foilovrinjr

j up, and forgot the goat, and when I

came to look for him he was gone. Walking back tt where I 'last saw him I called, but no 4 'Billy" came in. sight. Then I commenced a diligent search, and presently I caught sight of something white beneath a brush heap. Stooping down and looking in I saw the little brute curled up in a heap, and not a move could I get out of him. Reaching in, 1 caught him bv the leg and pulled him out, and gave him a good cuffing on both sides of the head. But he did not mind it a bit, and seemed to enjoy the joke immensely, capering about in his usual manner all the way home, as if he would say: 4You hid from me, yesterday, and I hid from you today, and honors are even," A Poor Man . Detroit Free Press. The peripatetic walked into the country editor's office with a woebegone look. The editor was busy crediting subscriber with a cord of wood on account. 4 Can you give a poor man a quar ter?" appealed the tramp. "What's your name?" inquired the editor. ' William Jones." "Well, Mr. Jones, my nam; is Muggins, and I want tc say to you in reply to yours just received that I car -., at times, give a poor man a quarter, and, Mr. Jones, I do; but his name is Muggins. Good" morn-, ing, Mr. Jones, " and the editor went on with his work. An lntellgent Machine St. Louis Globo-Democrat The world is full of ingenious machines, but one of the clevexst inventions ever passed by the Patent Office is the machine for sticking, common pins in the papers in which they are sold. The contrivance brings up the pins in rows, draws the paper into position, crimps it in two lines, then, at a single push, passes the pins through the paper

chini? almost seems to think as it works, and to examine the paper to sec if it is properly folded before pushing the pins into place. Gave Him a Cold. New Yorit Weekly. Doctor How did you tike such a cold'1 Chappie I don't know, weally. I haven't stirred from the fire for a week, don't you know. But, bah Jove, now I wemember! Yesterday awfternoon me man wead me an artide in the papah about Peary's pwepawations foh hia next AWic expedition.