Bloomington Telephone, Volume 15, Bloomington, Monroe County, 22 September 1893 — Page 2

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A Great Scheme to Get Hie Clothes Mended. Brooklyn .Life "It's strange I can't get my wife to mend my clothes," remarked Mr, Bridie disgustedly. "I asked her to sew" the buttons on this vest this aborning, and she has never touched it You asked her?" observed Mr. Norris, with flight shrug of his

The

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es" vVfhat else should I do?5'

Yn haven't been married very long, aod perhaps you'll take. a ppint? er f rom me," remarked Mr! Norris, with a fatherly air. 'Never ask a woxran to mend anything; That's fatal." "Why, what do you mean?" t4Do asr I do. When I want to have a shirt mended, for instance, I take it in my hand and hunt up my wife. 'Where's that ragbag, Mrs. Norris? I demand fiercely. . ... I 44 4 What do your want the ragbag for?' she asks suspiciously. 44 4I want to throw this shirt away. Its all worn out,' I reply. f6-Let me see it," she demands. "But f put the garment behind my backr i& 'No, my. dear, there is no use of your attempting to -do anything with U. - It need&r-" . 4f 4Let me sec it,1 she reiterates. " 'But it's all worn out, I tel44 Now, Johi-you give me that shirt!' she says, in her most peremptory tones . 4 'I handover the garment. " 'Why, John Norris V she cries,with womunly triumph, 1 'This is a perfectly food shirt. Alt it needs is a ne.w neck band.' ?JAfcd the ciigi? are ragged, too, rwswe4frTOldly, ; .$

'An re wristbandsu1 and the bulton-holeis iar cnrkfd over, she adds. Sf 4 Well j never m ind what it needs I don't iul$94you shall oother with it You'H ;cjnly waste your time. You 11 ne4r get it to fit in the neck anyway," I throw in as a final clincher. 44 'That's just like your, extravagance,' she cries. I'm going to fix thaV shirt- The jdea of - throwing away a perfectly good garments 111 fix it so you-can never tell nhe diffeiv ence And she does. "That's the wa I get my clothes mended concluded Mr. Norris. 4 4 Just teJLl a woman sfa,e can't do anythig nd then stand aside and see Iwviuttlyit is done."

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Fcrestry Building and

sting Things to be

nere Dynamos an

&

in a trianguar space over the door

Many

ten

S Tip:

fuiihedhe firs? shelter for Adam in the garden of Eden and wood

was the first material for man's handiwork, so the forest and its leafy

inhabitants come in for a share of .One" mantel in the exhibit ' is of

honor in the Exposition. The for ; shishaim redwood, walnut, book

pct.rv hiiilHimrnTi th f ? ! wooa ana tcaK woou, ana was raised

represents the city of Mandalay with thtekiwifeaihis courtiers In the fogroiMd. Kjhe lowest tier shows the city 'malls with one of the seven Roofed geways. about which stand $he guardian ''Nats'' and other

BhvtholoMcal figures. On the tier

above'tfre carved the king's ministers, while above all are the king and his queens in the palace The carving was done in teak wood and has a strong odor of sandal oil. There are tables and mantels delicately carved in oriental designs. One mantel in the exhibit is of

chine in action may be approac hed by tne wearer of the most delicate watch with comparative safety. By iron-clad'' is meant an armature and fieUWii&rehrsu

ca irdjfr 'tirink or $rrmf . 35hi

s nok'lianc' iHg diiTnsi

ma-

of

to-

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from the ruins of Vi'ianegar, near

ras. The teak is u0 the shisham dates

back before the Christian era. The

mantel was designed by three Sikh carpenters, A arm an, Utam and Gopul, subjects of the Maharajah of Kapurthalia. Here also are slabs of

ebony from Indian forests, and dyes land tanninir substances used bv the

ways have aided. There are. blocks j Hindoos. A doorway of padouk of wood immense in size, , hewn in wood forms the entrance to the Britprimeval forests of South America 1 ish India exhibit. The wood in color and even the far-away shores of Bur- is between mahoganv and cherry.

mah and Japan. -America has come 'and in the beauty of the grain is

theern part of the grounds, is t&v" in Mad built of wood, and is filled with ! vears old , and

wuuus. it is wuyuen una ll is ;. wooded. ? Wood was the primitive material ior building and still possesses qualities which science and in veqtipn have not superseded but in some

in for a good part of the forestry ex

hibit and California with her big trees leads her fortv-three sister

V

States. The woody northwestern J

States show that their forests have not all been hewn down. Huge blocks, one side beautifully polished, with the oiher side still in the rude

s

more perfect than either.

On the south porch of the forestry

(building is a mahogany log 81 feet

long and 42 inches square, the largest

slab of mahogany in the world. It was brought from the mahogany forests of Mexico. Oregon's lumber men have built a

in$s of jordfc. wh.irh. f$in aiv,uuh etfted inagnet, describe a jml-civclc 1'

reaching ovt ten or hfteeivxfeet. , A dynamo having a fiftrseslioe magnet and there are a good many of this pattern in both Electricity and Machinery Hall is particularly bad in its effect on watches. A straight magnet is equally fatal to timepieces brought within the influence of its lines of magnetic force. Ia-best illustrate the point by saying that, from a solid r'.ng. if such could toe used for in armature for a dynamo, there would bo no danger because the lines of force would closely follow the ring Ona. traight bar they describe a circle because they must go somewhere in order to get back 4'a) the other pole of the armature. Thus, the more intense the stray field the gaeater the danger. This reminds me that the most astonished man I ever saw was a workman who was parsing bv one of the enormous dynamos in Machinery Hall shortly after they were put in operation. He had a dinner pai! in his hand, but it was suddenly jerked away from him by an invisible force, and quicker than his dazed eyes could trace its flight it was sucked up against the dynamo. "How does a magnetized watch act?" "It simply fails to record correct time. It runs 'crazy:' sometimes fast and again slow, butulwavs in an erratic and unreliable manner.

A ROYAL

DRUM

TWrtyS?hree Intoxicated Kings

Rev. Dr. Talmagc preached at Brooklyn, last Sunday. Subject: "The Uattlc Ours." Text: T Kings xx, 27. "And the children of Israel

WOIiLD'S WOliDEKS.

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St Loow Globe-Drmocrat There are 258000 -; vanetfes of insects. Some butterflies lay over 200, 00C The first paper makers, vere the wasps. - The average height of the elephant is aine-fet. Tortoises liave been knowii to live 300 ears: f y " Geese in migrating often travel 6,000 miies.The strongest fortress in the world is Gibraltar. The Nile has a fall of only six inches in 1,000 miles. :?J There are 2.754 languages and dialects now spoken. There are forty-eighidrIetie9 of the common fly. " 4 ' v A single tobacco plant will produce 360,000 seeds. The largest cave is the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky The largest mammoth': tusk yet discovered was sixteen feet. At ihe equator the average annual rainfali is 100 inches; At the equator the limit of perpetual snow1 is 14.700 feet. T The speed of the falcon often exceeds 150 miles an hour. : - The most beautiful palace in the world is the Alhambra An ocean racer burns about $13,000 worth of coal every trip. In Northern Siberia the ground is frozen to a depth of 600 feet. The shark cannot seize his prey without turning on his back. The tail of- the beaver gave the hint for the trowel of Xhe mason. The .will-o'-the-wisp U caused by the deca of vegetable matte?. A teaispoonfui of microbes contains over 4,000,000 individuals, Tkie earth receives only, one twobiilionthr of the heat of the sun. a rjZl The greatest depth of the ocean as far as sounded is 25,720 feet! ;

A C&refnl M&au Old Titephist had jufi taken his seat iit & Wooodward i avenue car when he suddenly arose with a look of pain on his face. "What's th matter of the old codger now?" aAkad Bilks of Jilks. "Must have. sat down on his pocket book," tra th rfeply. "But what made Mm get up In such a hurry?" "Afraid he would break a dollar, I guess." ;

TUT: JAPASnSKK TEliPtE OX THK WOODKI) ISLAND.

state, with the bark on, cedars, j house in the space allotted to them

pmes, ashes, oaks and their hardy ; out of thirty-five varieties of native brethren together hold up the roof! woods ona block from a tide-land of the building and serve as columns spruce tree which stood 16 feet in

for the support of the: porticos all diameter at the butt, was 1305 feet

about the building.

high and 300 vears old The block

Each State of the wooded belt has on exhibition was cut 25 feet from

furnished three tall trees of their native kinds which stand together in the rows of columns. West Virginia lias given her American linden

arbor vitse and tulip maple; Iowa her I

nacKoerry,. sneuDartf nicKory ana slippery elm; Maine from her thick forests has sent the pitch pine, large-toothed aspen and eastern hemlock; New Mexico from her mountain sides has given the bull pine, white birch and walnut; the white oak, white ash and chestnut trees take up New Jersey's- place in the row: Washington, not long ago all a forests helps to xiphoid the roof with a monster canoe cedar, an alder tree and a western t larch; Missouri bears her burden on a

short-leaf pine, a mucker hickory ;

and a bald cypress cut from her forests. Nebraska furnishes a spruce

the butt and is 0 feet d inches In di

ameter. Among the huge logs in the building is a Douglass fir saw log from Washington which is 24 feet long, n fact in diameter and contains 7,400 feet of lumber. The largest plank in the world was cut from a California redwood tree in Humboldt county, aud is 16 feet 5 inches long. 12 feet 9 inches wide and 5 inches thick. It is highly polished. Cuba and Trinidad have large displays of native woods.

DYNAMOS AND WATCHES. Chicago Herald. The dynamos do a lot of damage. They ruin by magnetization a good many valuable watches. Since the Exposition opened more than one costly timepiece has been carried :n-

tree ar d oaks, and California has a ' to Electricity Building a thing of redwood tree, a sugar pine and a j beauty aud usefulness, and alter hemlock to do duty for her. The j even a brief stay, has been brought buckeve tree is Ohio's own. On the t out a total wreck so far as its time-

homely buckeye is tacked a

sifirn

keeping qualities are concerned.

which reads "sescalus g!abre," but t The disturbing element works noise-

the loyai Ohioafl . prefers the com-; lessly, but in a most insiduous man-

mon "buckeve."

i ner. Whenever a dvnamo is run-

. Rows of polished woods, all la- j niug,an invisible quantity. known a-i beled, occasionally arranged into ; the magnetic fluid, is reaching out

some semblance of order and some-! after hair springs and once theclectimes used as the material for a pa- j trie demon has fastened its fantrs on

the delicate bit of coiled steel the latter is worthless as a regulating medium. A magnetized watch, like a dead man, tells no tales. There are methods of demagnetizing, but it is only partially effective. The best method, if Tou wear an expen

sive watch, is h

! when tnev are

electrical expert was asked as to the probable number of watches ; which had been ruined in the Exposition grounds by being brought in- ; to dose proximity to active dynamos.

it wouia oe impassion to approximate the damage."' he replied, ''but I have no doubt that it has been considerable. And it is strange that in this day of general informa-

i tion people are not bet ter posted on

the evil effects of inspecting these powerful dynamos at too close range. The damage is done before they know it.:'

HE TOOK THE ROOM, A Bright Young Man Taken by Surprise Hetains His Presence

of Mind. Detroit Free Press. The kuowall voung man from a sprightly country town stepped up to the register in a Detroit hotel, and put down his name, about- the same time the porter put down his satchel. "I understand," he said with a great air, ''that this is the swellest hotel in town." "That's its reputation, M replied the clerk with meekness. "Very good. That's what I'm looking for. Now. can I get a room here?r' t;Certainly. What kind of a room do you wish?" The guest looked hurt. ''The best you have in the house, of course The clerk bowed acquiescence. "John." he said to the porter, "take the gentleman's satchel to No. 12." "By the way1 inquired the gentlemau with an indifferent air, "how much a day will it be?'1 "Twenty-five dollars' said . the clerk with a little smile. "W-what?" gasped the guest, losing for the instant his balance: "Twenty-five dollars, ' the clerk repeated slowly. The young man took a brace on himself quick. "Can I have it as long as T please at that price?" he inquired with no much coolness that the clerk was staggered and "lost his smile. "Certainly sir he responded with his former meekness. "Well, I'll take it for just half a second; make out my bill and give me a room higher iu the house and lower in the price' and the clerk was so pleased in the way he came

down off his perch that he let him have a $2 room for half the money.

The late Thomas .Parker, of iVa&ingtoa. became so attached to a caiijf ttiie had

carried-for years tnat ho hDUISV'i b

him all anrln? his UlnessfhMfcrd

exDressea a vrisa mat toe lavoruo stu-

buried w.'Ui him. His wife ijfcfc camp Mfc the case buins put in cftitt. V

CARVED DOORWAY. lUUTiSH INDIAN KKO ; now vilion. make up the interior of the forestry ' building. British India, Japan and Siam, the South and Central American republic's and France and Germany among the European governments have contributed exhibitions to the display. Teak is the wood of India most universally. used. In Europe teak is used for the woodwork tl iron ships and war ships and in India for the construction of houses. The South Arcot and Nelore districts furnish the greatest supply of teak. There is a carved doorway in the forestry building which is a marvel of the wood narver's art. It was executed by a famous Mandalay carver, jVIang Shevi paiiag, and required years of labor. The detail work is elaborate. The work jvas done . under the direction of the conservator of the forests of the e&stern circle of upper TCurmah Am bvihim exhibited. The

y$$( hootnefal, outtihe and design of the

Mrw$ ita tome as those used

lauiaeraajes anq&in cuirerent paz'ts of Mandalay palabee. The door is

A Mean Man St. Louis Glebe Democrat. "The meanest man I know of lives in Kansas," said Dr. Asa Doolittle. a member of the traveling fraternity

o examine dynamos Mw a, Lue uuiu neiiaimtfr not running An vrth a co hundred thousand I is

v:ie was taKen suaueniy ui, ana ne came to town to consult me about her case. I told him that I could not irescribe intelligently without seeing the patient, but he declined to incur the expense of a visit. 1 charged him one dollar for the prescription, and he spent h'Uf an hour trying to beat me down to ninety cents. He made me write the prescription in English, tlnm bouirht the drugs and compounded it hims df to save the apothecary's fee. One of the ingredients was capsicum. Tie thought he had some at home, but was mistaken, aud had to come back to town, a distance of four miles for it. "By the time he had succeeded in saving about twenty cents and wasting two dollars' worth of time his wife was dead and the medicine a loss on his hands. That so wore on him that he fell ill. He took the medicine prepared for his wife, but that only aggravated his malady. When he finally recovered he sued me for $10,000, and was beaten and had to pay costs. He then wont before the grand jury and tried to have me indicted for malpractice'

KNTRANCE TO THE IJKA.IMAN AUCTION. 4 'Just how do dynamos affect watches?" lIu the first place it is a mistake to suppose all dynamos have a disastrous effect upou watches. Jt depends entirely on the construction of the machine, In what is known as the iron-clad' dynamos the strength of the magnetic held is re-

has

How Cynics ai-o-MaUe. Texas Sittings. .Urown Seen Smith lately? Jones Yes. What a change

come over him ! "Change?" ''Yes, he has becone a regular cvuic." "Cynic?" ikYes. lie lias no faith iu humanity. Speaks bitterly of the entire human race' "Hu! Who refused him a loan?''

pitched before thorn like two Hocks of kids;" With thirty-three kings drunk in one tent this chapter opens. They were allies plotting for the overthrow of : the Lord's Israel. You know that if a lion roar a flock of kids will shiver and huddle together. One lion could conquer a thousand kids. The battle opens. There are a great multitude of Syrians under G-en. Ben-hadad, strong as lions. The Israelites are few and weak, like two little (locks of kids. Who beat? The lion, of course. Oh, no; the kids, for it all depends whether God is on the side of the lion or the kids. After the battle 100,000 Syrians lay dead on the field, and 27.000 attempting to fly, came along by a great wall, which toppled and crushed them to death. Which was the stronger weapon great Goliath's sword or little David's sling? David bad five smooth stones from the brook. He only used one in striking down Goliath. He

(had a surplus of ammunition; he had

enough to take down four more giants if they had appeared in the way. It all depends upon whether God is on the side of the shepherd ooy or on the side of the giant. I go through the court rooms of the country. Wherever I find a judge's bench or a clerk's desk I find a bible. By what other book would thev take solemn oath? What is very apt to be among the brides presents? The bible. What is very apt to be put in the trunk of the voung man when he starts for city life? The bible. Voltaire predicted that the bible during the nineteenth sentury would become an obsolete book. Well, we are pretty near through the nineteenth century; the Dible is not obsolete yet. There is aot much prospect of its becoming obsolete, but I have to tell you that that room the very room in which Voltaire wrote that prediction some time ago was crowded from the 3oor to the ceiling with bibles for Switzerland. Suppose the Congress )f the United States should pass a .aw that no bibles should be printed in the United States. If there are thirty million grown nen and women in the country then shere would be thirty million people irmed against such a law. But supDose the Congress of the United states should pass a law that Ma:auley's history or Charles Reade:s lovels should not be read. Could jrou get half as large an army or the !ourth of as large an army? ilBut,r say those who are antagonistic, "Christianity is falling back ;rom the fact that the church is not is much respected as it used lo be and .s not as induential, I reply to ithat with the statistic that one denomination the methodist church according to a statistic given me by me of their bishops, dedicates on an average a new church every lay of the year. Three aundred and sixty-live new churches in one denomination in a

pear, and over a thousand churches built every year in

country. Does that look as though she church were failing in its power ind were becoming a worn-out initiation? Around which institu

tion in our communities gather the most ardent affections? the post- : jflice, the hotel, the court house, she citv hall or the churches? But our antagonists go on and ay that Christianity is falling back,in the fact that infidelity is bolder iow and more blatant than it ever tvas. I denv the statement. Infiielity is not near so bold now as it jvas in the days of our fathers and grandfathers. There were times in this country when men who were r ypenly and above board infidel and j antagonistic to Christianity could :

reelected to high office. Now let some man wish a high position in the State proclaim himself the foe Df Christianity and an iuiidel, how aiany States of the Union will he jarry; how many counties; how cnany wards in Brooklyn? Not one. Do you suppose such things could fe enacted now as were enacted in the days of Robespierre, when a shameless woman was elected to be EToddcss. and she was carried on a

men who talk very wisely wto know but very little, and that just as soon as a young scientist finds out the differ jlrv vveffiTthe feelers of a wast) fflid Se bfifrns of a beetle he

inspto prooe the Almignty

gqiSabtftjnt tallang about culture

frh iwerc fbelled c-u-l-c-h-a-r

it makes me sick to see tnese literary fops going down the street with a copy of Darwin under one arm and a case of transfixed grasshoppers and butterflies ..wider -the other arm, talking about" theTsufvival of the fittest," and Hpjdey's "protoplasm, and the ''nebular hypothesis1 and talking to us common men as though we were fools. s If they agreed in their theories And came up with solid front against Christianity, I Bay perhaps they might make some impression, but they Aq rot aree. Darwin, ch&rges upon Laraarck, Wallace upob Copfe, Herschel even charged upon Ferguson. They do not agree upon the gradation of the species; they do not agree upon embryology. What do they agree about? Even mathematicians do not agree. Taylor's logarithms are found to have faults in them. The French metric system has wrong caicula tions. Talk about exact sciences! They are inexact. As fgyr as with my little knowledge I have been able to explore the only exact Science is Christianity. There is nothing under which you can so appropriately write, "Quad erat demonstrandum." But my subject shall no longer be defensive it must be aggressive, I must show you that instead of Christianity falling back it is on the march and that the coming religion of the world is to be the religion of the Lord Jesus Christ ten thousand times intensified. It is to take possession of everything of all laws, all manners, all customs, ail nations. It is going to be so mighty compared with what it has been so much more mighty that it will seem almost like a new religion. Go back a few years when there was not a decent paper in the United States that had not a discussion on the doctrine of eivernal punishment. Small wits made merry, I know, but there was not an intelligent man in the United States that, as a result of the controversy in regard to eternal punishment, did not ask himself the question, ".What is to be my eternal destiny?" And so some years ago, when Tyndall offered his prayer guage there was not a secular paper in the United States that did not discuss the question, "Does God'ever answer prayer? May the creature impress the Creator?" Besides that, you must have no tieed if you have talked on these great themes that they are finding out that while science is grand in secular directions, they can not ive any comfort to a souHn trouble. Talking with men on steamboats and in rail cars, I find they are coming back to the comfort of the gospel. They say, ''Somehow human science doesn't comfort me when I have any trouble, and I must try something else." And they are trying the gospel. Take your scientific consolation to that mother who has just lost her child. Apply the doctrine of the "Survival of the Fittest tell her

; that her child died because its life j was not worth as much as the life of ! one that lived. Try that, if you dare. Go to that dying man with j your transcendental phraseology and

new i tell him he ought to have confidence this I in thf trrpit, ''tn he' and thft pvpr-

lasting "now1 and the eternal "what is it?" and go on with your consolation and see if he is comforted.

:x Wuuv' uu nave got au tl

irou;rh

witn your consolation, n me poor atilicted soul is not utterly crazed, I will send out the plainest Christian from my church, and with one-half hour prayer and the reading of the

scripture promises, the tears will be ! staid, and the consolation and the I joy in that house will be like the i calmness of an Indian summer sun- ; set. There will be glory flooding j the house from floor to cuoola. Oh, ; people are finding out themselves I and they all have trouoles they

hnd that philosophy and science do

jjolden chair to a cathedral, and the ; not help when there is a dead babe

people ooweu uown to ner as to a , ; the house. Tney are coming back divine being and burned incense be- j to our glorious old-fashioned symnatore her she to take the place of ; thetic religion. the Bible, and of Christianity, and I - f 4ii T.l AlmicrhtvV Anrf whilA ' Traveled Incog.

Mrs, Carlisle is said to have one of the finest teams in Washington.

that ceremony was going on in the cathedral, in the chapels and in the corridors adjoining the cathedral scenes of drunkenness and debauchery and obscenity were enacted such as the world had never seen. Could such a thing as that transpire now? No, sir. The police would swoop on it, whether in Paris or New York. Infidelity is not half as bold now as it used to be. Do you suppose that this Bible theory about the origin of life is going to be overthrown by men who have different theories fifty different theories about the origin of life? And when Agassiz comes out arid puts both feet on the doctrine of

evolution aud says in regard to many

New York Weekly. First American Have a good time abroad? Seeond American Fine. I traveled incog. Went where I pleased and escaped the vulgar curiosity o! the gaping crowd. ' Eh? How did you travel?" ' Incognito, I said. I didn't let Vm know I was a rich American. Just pretended I wasn't anybody. bt a common English lord

Out of Politics. New York Weekly. Foreigh Visitor You h.aYfi.ftillQBb ous country here, and fairly revel in the blessings of freedoiji, suppose. Mr. Crossroads Wal as to that, we don't take much interest in poli-

scientists, 4I notice that these young tics up ourVwa. . The,postffl4eMiu

naturalists are adopting as the the

ories in science things that have not

passed under observation1 Agassis

saw what we all see that there are widow have it.

half pay expense, st -all 4kre& f i

triotieally agreed to retire from the

political held and. let a . soldier'