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Show WIKES NOT NEEDED. MARCONI SYSTEM EXPERIMENTS EXPERI-MENTS GET GOOD RESULTS. A pros the English Channel Sbipa Can 15e Warned of Danger by Electric Transmitter and Fogi Will Not Hare Any Farther Terror. (Special Letter.) Some experiments In the Marconi system or wireless telegraphy took place recently between Winereux, a village on the coast three miles north of Boulogne, ard the South Foreland, says St. James' Budget. A pole, 150 feet high, has been erected at Wime-reux, Wime-reux, and the necessary instruments have Leen placed in a small station. A pole of the same height has been erected hard by the South Foreland lighthouse, and the instruments are in one of the rooms. The distance from station to station is thirty miles. The tests were conducted, with the assent of the French government, under the personal supervision of Sig. Marconi. The tests proved highly satisfactory. They were conducted in the presence of delegates from the French war office of-fice and the French postoffice, who expressed ex-pressed themselves much gratified at THE MARCONI TELEGRAPH POLE AND ENGINE HOUSE AT THE SOLTH FORELAND LIGHTHOUSE. LIGHT-HOUSE. the excellent work of the system. The tests across the channel are likely to be carried on for some time. It will be observed that It is not merely across some thousand yards of sea, but from one side of the English channel to the other, that this astonishing aston-ishing invpntion has now made intelligible intel-ligible and continuous conversation possible. As was but natural, France opened the ball with one of those polite phraes so long associated with her diplomatic science, and England did not keep her waiting long for a reply; while Italy in the person of the inventor no doubt joined in this r.nreable international trio, and produced pro-duced a celestial harmony that may not inaptly be compared to the music of the spheres. Meanwhile the heavy cable underneath the waves, which cost $5,000 for every $50 expended by the new ethereal conductor, must have quivered with envious jealousy to see his once-admired prerogatives departing depart-ing from him. Puck, who could put a girdle round the earth so swiftly, is now forever banished to the limbo of the past, and Ariel has replaced him, murmuring ou: messages through the viewless air. The system by which the Marcori messages are sent is a difficult one for the nont-r' nical reader. A couple of digrams are of interest, together with ar extract from the explanation given at the Institution of Electrical En-: En-: peers some time ago. With reference refer-ence to the ship and lighthouse diagram dia-gram it was stated that "by means of reflectors you can project the waves in one almost parallel beam which will not affect any receiver placed out of its line of focus, whether the said receiver re-ceiver is or is not in line or syntony wi ll the oscillation transnitted. This would enaMe several forts or hilltops or Islands to immunicate with each other without any fear of the enemy tapping or interfering with the signals. sig-nals. " in experiments carried out over a distance of one and three-quarter miles, a very small movement of the transmitting reflector was sufficient to stop the signals at the receiving end, which could be obtained only within a space of fifty feet either way of what was believed to be the center of the beam of reflected radiations. There exists a most important case to which the reflector system is applicable namely, to enable ships to be warned DIAGRAM SHOWING METHOD OP CONNECTION BETWEEN SHIP AND LIGHTHOUSE, by lighthouses, lightships or other vessels, ves-sels, not only of their proximity of danger, but also of the direction from which the warning comes. Suppose a lighthouse, provided with a transmitter transmit-ter of electric waves (R). constantly giving a series of intermittent Impulses Im-pulses or flashes and a ship provided with a receiving apparatus (R) placed in the focal line of a reflector, it is plain that when the receiver is within range of the oscillator the bell will be rung only when the reflector, is directed di-rected toward the transmitter, and will not ring otherwise. "Should the reflector be revolved by clockwork or by hand, It will give warning only when occupying a certain cer-tain sector of the circle In which it revolves. re-volves. It is, therefore, easy for a ship In a fog to make out the exact direction of the station, where, by the conventional number of taps or rings, she will be able to discern either a dangerous point to be avoided or the port or harbor for which she is endeavoring en-deavoring to steer." The engine house at the South Foreland Fore-land lighthouse, where the wireless-telegraphy wireless-telegraphy demonstrations are , now taking place between that point and Wirereux, just to the east of Boulogne, is shown. In the foreground is the pole, from the top of which the electric current passes Into space, the wire, which is run up the pole, being connected con-nected with Marconi's Instruments In the small room. The height of the pol s increased in proportion to the distance dis-tance to be traversed. ., Ii r HP u7 v Horses for the German Army. Julius Goldschmldt, consul genera f the Unrced States in G-smany, con-:erning con-:erning the horses that are used by 1h German army, says: The following report con-wing lorses for the German army 1 based jn information received from officers md from an experienced vetsrinary surgeon who has for years superintended superin-tended the purchase of horses for one of the Germany army corps. The so-called so-called "remonte" horse market public and private, take place in the aionth3 of April to September in the parts of Germany where horses are plentiful, mostly in East and West Prussia, occasionally oc-casionally in Posen, Hanover, Hol-stein, Hol-stein, and Mecklenberg, and, rarely, in the Alsace and the Rhine provinces. Private remonte markets are allowed to horse breeders, who have for yeaas furniched a large and superior quota of animals for the army, and who can offer lots of from 20 to 80 good horses. Such private markets may even be held on the grounds of the horse breeders and occur mostly in East and West Prussia. In Lithuania Lith-uania proper there are more private than public markets. The buying is done by five army commissariats, consisting each of one p?siding officer, one to two assistant officers, one veterinary surgeon, and one secretary. The horses purchased are generally three years old, In exceptional ex-ceptional cases four years. The former for-mer remain one year at the remonte depots before they are turned over to the regular service. There are no fixed rules as to the weight of the horses, and when horses are weighed in such places it is on account of scientific scien-tific food experiments or private interests. in-terests. Buit it is safe to say that full-breasted, full-breasted, compactly-built horses are used. They will average in weight about as follows: Artillery draft horses, 1.100 to 1,200 pounds, artillery saddle horses 900 pounds, cuirassier horses 1,000 to 1,100 pounds. Uhlan horses 900 to 1,000 pounds, hussar and dragon horses 800 to 900 pounds. The common run of horses for the line cavalry are bought at from $80 to $100, while the heavier horses for artillery ar-tillery run from $140 to $160, and the best horses, which are used for the Kurassier Garde regiments, are seldom bought under $200. This applies to the remonte commissariat's work. Officers, Of-ficers, as a rule, ride East Prussian horses. Those that can afford it buy English blooded stock at fancy prices. The best Prussian horse brings from $225 to $340. These are all however bought at an age of from 5 to 6 years and well trained, since the Prussian horse is hardiy fit for use before its sixth year is concluded. English and Irish horses, which are largely bought in Hamburg, are, owing to the richer nourishment they receive on their native na-tive pastures when young, fit for use at the age of four to five years, and are less nervous, shy and excitable than the Prussian horses. The Irish horse is the easiest to ride under all circumstances, the early wholesome nourishment giving it a calmer and more docile temper. I have reason to believe that under the name of Irish stock many American horses are sold in Hamburg, as the description given of them closely resembles that of the American horse. It would be well for the American horse breeders or horse dealers to correspond with large firms in Hamburg, such as the "English Stall" or the "Olde Stall." before entering en-tering largely in the shipping business. Alfalfa and Corn for Hogs The farmers of the corn belt can get a good pointer on pig feeding from the alfalfa belt. I have seen a pig that was farrowed Sept. 20, 1898, and raised on a ration two thirds of which wa3 alfalfa hay. which is as large as any pig I can find in the corn belt farrowed In June, July or August. The nuptials nup-tials of King Corn and Queen Alfalfa are announced to take place on my farm at an early date. The fourth cutting of alfalfa is the best hay for hogs in winter. This cutting is done late iu the fall and is raked immediately immedi-ately and shocked, thus curing without with-out very much sun. The leaves and all are saved in a succulent condition, thii3 making a feed that is relished by the pigs. Homestead. Why Fresh Bones Make Eggs. The different parts of ordinary market bones upon analysis were found to contain con-tain in abundance the ingredients which go to make up the growing chick, and in wonderfully close proportion, pro-portion, the different parts of the complete com-plete egg. The lean meat and gristle from the white of the egg, and about sixteen per cent of the yolk. The marrow mar-row and other fat on the bones supply sup-ply the remainder of the yolk. The lime phosphates in the bone yield all the necessary lime salts for the shell, and the requisite phosphates for the interior of the egg. A. C. Pickering, in Farm and Home. Deep Plowing Profitable. Land that Is plowed endures the drouths better than shallow plowed land, as there is a greater absorption of moisture. In other words, the deeper the soil is plowed the greater its capacity for holding water. To prevent loss of this moisture the top soil should be cultivated culti-vated so as to simply loosen it, which prevents evaporation and at the same time keeps the weeds down. The water In the soil escapes at the surface, and this should be prevented by a mulch of loose dirt over the surface, which Is effected by cultivation. Ex. Oleo Prosecutions In Pennsylvania. The butter trade of Philadelphia has taken up the prosecution of the oleo dealers, and have already secured evidence evi-dence of the violation of both the state and national law, and propose to push the suits to a conclusion. In the investigation in-vestigation fifty retail dealers have been found selling the stuff without even the formality of a government license. In every case they were selling sell-ing oleo as butter. Ex. Ash Is what Is left when the combustible com-bustible part of a feeding stuff is burned burn-ed away. It consists chiefly of lime, magnesia, potash, soda, iron, chlorin, and carbonic, sulphuric, and -phosphoric acids, and is used largely In making bones. Part of the ash constituents con-stituents of the food is stored up in the animal's body; the rest la voided In the urine and manure. Organic nitrogen is nitrogen In combination com-bination with other elements either as vegetable or animal matter. Th more valuable sources are dried blood. UriCU AAC.f . . iiAU, auu cotton seed meal. Brush the udder and surrounding parts and wipe them with a clean, damp cloth or sponge. There should be more brooms worn out in the poultry yard than there are. It is good to scatter air-slacked lime in the yards the evening after a rain. The windows of Persian houses, as a rule, are not visiDle from the stiW. Never excite the cows by abuse of any kind. JAPANESE SPANIELS. Tiny Mites That Are Worth Their Weight in Gold. The first duke of Marlborough presented pre-sented some of his Blenheims to the mikado of Japan of that period, and, curiously enough, the present duke's private secretary, Mr. Holdsworth, informed in-formed the writer that he had recently seen some of the descendants of these dogs, which had been brought over lately from Japan. They were strangely strange-ly altered, for they were dwarfed in size and far more like the Japanese spaniel in all save color. It is possible that the crossing of those Blenheims sent to the mikado with some of the native dogs has produced the Japanese spaniel so fashionable to-day. However Howev-er this may be, the Japanese spaniel is a dainty little mite, and is "the thing" to-day. His value increases as his weight decreases, provided, of course, that the points which fancy dictates are correct, and good specimens weighing about two pounds will fetch 80 to 100. A dog weighing less than three pounds is a good one, and of this class Hon. Mrs. McLaren Morrison, who is very fond of her Japs, has several lovely love-ly specimens. The head should be broad and well-rounded, the nose as short as possible, eyes large and liquid, the carriage lively, the tail carried closely over the back in a fan-like curl, and the weight as little as possible. possi-ble. Color and markings form a great feature in the value of a Jap. The coat should be thick, soft as silk and long, pearly white, with black splotches. The ears and cheeks must be black, the black coming down to the base of the nose and going under the eyes. The lower part of the cheek and chin must be white, and a blaze of white must extend from the back of the head over the forehead to just above the base of the nose. In Japan this blaze is termed the "V," and in the center of this "V" on the top of the head should be a black spot of about the size of a shilling. In Japan these little atoms are carried in their owner's sleeves, but whether the sleeves have been enlarged to carry the dog or the latter dwarfed to fit the sleeve, tradition does not say. Lady Probyn has an almost perfect specimen of this dainty dog, and the Countess of Warwick, Lady Algernon Gordon-Lenox, Lady De Ramsey, and Lady Burton are also great lovers of this charming little pet. Cassell's Magazine. 3,000,000,000 BUSHELS WHEAT The Amount Required to Feed the World for a Year. While the world thanks to the fields of North America has probably grown in 1998-9 the greatest crop of wheat ever harvested as one result of the depletion of American herds and the devotion of an otherwise impossible impossi-ble ten million acres to wheat production, pro-duction, says Self-Culture, yet we must not lose sight of the fact that, while the year's harvest probably exceeds the great world crop of 1834 by some 15,-000,000 15,-000,000 bushels, requirements hav.3 increased in-creased by more than 100,0000,000 bushels, bush-els, and that the product of the harvest har-vest of 1898-9 was drawn ipon a month earlier than usual, in order to ek? oul defective supplies from the harvest of 1S97-8 that is, while the world harvest of 1898-9 appears to be some 50,000,000 bushels greater than the greatest preceding pre-ceding one, yet it is defective by reason rea-son of a great increase in requirements require-ments since 1894, as well as by the fact that it must meet the needs of thirteen instead of twelve months. Basing an estimate of requirements for the 1898-9 harvest upon the known increase in-crease of population and the consumption consump-tion of recent years, as indicated by estimates, mostly official, of production in such years, the "bread-eating" populations pop-ulations of European lineage inhabiting inhabit-ing Europe, the United States, Canada, Australasia, Argentina, Uruguay, Chili, South Africa, Siberia, and the whites of the island and tropical colonies of Europe will need some 2,360,0000,000 bushels of wheat, plus the 160,000,000 or more bushels required to cover the thirteenth month. Accepting the highest high-est reputable estimate of the outturn of the 1898-9 harvest in the regions named and adding 40,000,000 bushels of possible imports from southern Asia and northern Africa, the available supply sup-ply aggregates 2,380,000,000 bushels. Granting that these estimates are approximately ap-proximately correct, it will 1 e necessary neces-sary to make anticipatory drafts upon the harvest of 1899 for about 140,000,-000 140,000,-000 bushels, showing that even with the largest outturns the accumulation of reserves to tide over such defective harvests as that of 1897 is no longer possible, the power to make such accumulations ac-cumulations having disappeared in the absence of acreage increases proportioned propor-tioned to the increase of the consuming consum-ing populations. .Skim Milk Made I'seful. A new use has been discovered for mi'.K, and fortunately it is skim milk-that milk-that is this time in request. It is wanted want-ed to make sizing, to be used by paper manufacturers in the glazing of paper of a fine quality. Heretofore, for the accomplishing of this purpose, a superior su-perior grade of glue with other ingredients in-gredients has been used. It is claimed that a much better and cheaper sizing siz-ing can be obtained from skim milk. To prepare the milk it is put into a vat, treated with chemicals, and until curd is formed, the curd being then washed, pressed and ground fine, after af-ter which it is put into a large drying dry-ing kiln, where it is dried in about 12 hours, and is put in bags ready for shipment. Cuban Women In Mourning:. Harper Bazar: If there is one sight more pitiful in Cuba than any other, it is the women in black. Frequent as they are in Havana, where perhaps in some remote part of the city they even venture to hold out their hands to you as you pass women of refined appearance, too the women in widow's wid-ow's weeds are the commonest sight in the small towns and cities. It is hard to tell where they got their mourning garments. It is no exaggeration exag-geration to say that of a dozen women on a street in any Cuban village nine will be in mourning. And their faces sad with grief and thin with hunger, even months after war had ceased! For One In His Position.' Clerk "If you please, sir, I shall have to ask you to excuse me for the rest of the day. I have just heard of er an addition to my family." Employer Em-ployer "Is that so, Penfold? What is it boy or girl?" Clerk "Well, sir, the fact is er (somewhat embarrassed) embar-rassed) "it's two boys." Employer "Twins, eh? Young man, I'm afraid you are putting on too many heirs." Tit-Bits. A Buddhist temple has been opened in the museum of the University .of Pennsylvania. Pro?. Maxwell Sommer-ville Sommer-ville spent nearly tix yarj in collecting collect-ing material for it. ON EYE OF WEDDING. SUMMONED FROM THE SIDE OF HIS BRIDE-TO-BE. Foal Flay la Feared Was a Private Detective and It Is Thought Criminals May Have Made Way wi h Him A Sad Case. S On 59 Thirty-seventh street, Brooklyn, Brook-lyn, hangs a sign "To Let," and a van came and took all the carpets and furniture fur-niture and pictures to a storage wa.e-house wa.e-house it was the end of the romance of pretty Jennie Gustafson, who was to have been a bride. Her husband-to-be, Detective William Andersen, has been spirited away, and after two weeks hoping against hope, she has given up waiting. Andersen was born in Copenhagen thirty-two years ago, and, after spending half his youth in roaming the world over, settled down here. Chance led him across the den cf a bold gang of counterfeiters, and he notified the United States government, govern-ment, with the pleasing results that they were all run to earth, and he had gained a reputation. This got him plenty of work as detective and he made New York his home. Three years ago he met winsome Jennie Gustafson, the young governess in the home of a Manhattan railway magnate, mag-nate, to whose house he had been summoned sum-moned on a detective case. They fell in love and a year ago became engaged. en-gaged. Threatening letters from criminals crim-inals he had unearthed did not disturb them. War came on and Andersen's adventuresome spirit led him to enlist. He served all through the trying days at Chickamauga with the Ninth New York, but when it was all over there was pretty Jennie to greet him as he came marching home so proudly with a corporal's chevrons on his arms. The young man went to live at 107 Sands street, Brooklyn, and he soon had plenty to do. So the wedding preparations prep-arations went merrily on. The two had heaps of fun buying the furniture for their new home. They spent hours deciding on curtains, carpets, and decorations. dec-orations. The day before the wedding they met for the last time. "We'll be happy after all these months tomorrow," whispered the bride-to-be. "We will, sweetheart," but the entrance en-trance of a messenger with a telegram stopped the love-making. "Meet me at Third avenue and One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street, Harlem, Har-lem, at 2 o'clock," read the dispatch. It was signed "Leighton." "It's all rirrht." said Andersen. "I'll have to hurry away, dear." Since then not a sign of him has been seen. All his effects remained at his old boarding place just as he had left them; no one came to give any orders or-ders about his new home, and the bridegroom did not appear as he should for the wedding day. His sweetheart is now ill with nervous prostration and hysteria at her home. She fears some of his enemies have made away with him. Andersen is 32 years old, 5 feet 10 inches in height, of slim build, light hair, sandy mustache, and wore a blue top ' jat, with velvet collar, black coat and vest, gray-striped gray-striped trousers, white fedora hat, with black band, black laced shoes, gold watch and chain with K. of P. charm, and a gold and enameled ring with the letter A. in diamonds. BOY ON SANTIAGO BATTLE. All He Knows About It Up to the Present Pres-ent Writing. The boy had been asked to write a composition on the naval battle of Santiago, San-tiago, says the Cleveland Plain Dealer. This is the painful result: "Samsun steemed up a waze an' then Cervery come out. He sed 'I gess I'le make a run for it. So he crackt on all sale an' came a burstin' thru the narrer place where Hobsun sinkt the Merrymack, an' he stered clost to shore In hopts to git away. Sly seen him a comin' an' he signuled to the other ships an' they all went fer Cervery like a thousand of brick. She swunged the Bruklyn round an' let 'em have it with both barls from the wurd go. An' pritty soon all the Spanush ships went down plunk like as tho' they had holes bord in 'em. Then when Sly an' the rest of the captains was wipin' thare forrids an' lettin' the guns cool off, up steems Admiral Samsun. 'Hello, sez Sly, pleasantly, 'where you bin all this while?' But Samsun wuz out of sorts. 'It looks to me,' he sez, bitturly, 'as If you think you wuz the hole thin?.' But Sly he only lafs. 'Oh, I don't kno',' he sez. an' winks at the captins, 'I gess there's glorie enuff to go round.' But Samsun was offul bilyus. 'If you obayed orders,' he sez, 'this disgrays-ful disgrays-ful think woodn't hav' happened.' Then Sly didn't say no more coz he saw how bilyus Samsun wuz. An' the Cervery ships bein' sunk for good an' all tha couldn't try it over again, an' that's all I kno' about it up to the present writ-in" writ-in" THE CZAR'S REVOLVER. He Is Always Prepared for the Expected Assassin. Ever since the assassination of Czar Alexander II. the young emperor of Russia, it is said, has carried about with him a small revolver which was given to him by his mother, the dowager dow-ager empress of Russia, who exacted the promise that whenever he was away from the royal palace he would carry It with him. Since he has been traveling in Europe the emperor has kept the revolver ever by hi3 bedside, the Idea haunting him, as it haunted his mother and still haunts his young wife, that whenever the fatal assassin appears (as appear he will, ihey all firmly believe), he will be as swift and determined as was the "patriot" who blew up his grandfather, surrounded sur-rounded as he was by his trusty guards and hundreds of police. When driving, the emperor has his revolver, always loaded in its six chambers, in a pocket of his carriage, just near his right hand. Pittsburg Dispatch. A Test of Character. The greatest test of character is to be found in what is common rather than extraordinary. It is easier for the soldier to be faithful in the rush of battle, when sustained by a catching catch-ing enthusiasm, than to maintain a high tone of consistent principle under the many trials of daily drill. Dr. Macleod. Even at l-.ast. "Seems to me I've seen your face before," said the judge, peering through his spectacles. "Yes, yer honor, you have," replied the prisoner. "I am the professor who gives the young lady next door to you lessons on the piano." "Six years!" came from the judge quickly. Tid-Bits. In 1880 it was estimated that there were 650,000 princes and other hereditary heredi-tary nobles In Russia, and since then the number has increased. JOHN BROWN. When He Didn't Know Whether to Spare Lives or Not. Some time In the '50s my husband spoke to me of a very remarkable mcin, of whom, he said, I should be sure to hear sooner or later, writes Julia Ward Howe In Atlantic Monthly. This man, Dr. Howe said, seemed to intend to devote de-vote his life to the redemption of the colored race from slavery, even as Christ had willingly offered His life for the salvation of mankind. It was enjoined upon me that I should not mention to any one this confidential communication, and to make sure that I should not I allowed the whole matter mat-ter to pass out of my thoughts. It may have been a year or more later that Dr. Howe said to me: "Do you remember re-member that man of whom I spoke to you, the one who wished to be a savior for the negro race?" I replied in the affirmative. "That man," said the doctor, doc-tor, "will call here this afternoon. You will receive him. His name is John Brown." Thus admonished, I watched for the visitor and prepared to admit him myself when he should ring at the door. This took place at our home In South Boston, where it was not at all infra dig. for me to open my own door. At the expected time I heard the bell ring and, on answering it, beheld a middle-aged, middle-sized man, with hair and beard of amber color streaked with gray. He looked a puritan of the puritans forceful, concentrated and self-contained. We had a brief interview, of which I only remember my great gratification at meeting one of whom I had so good an account. I will only mention men-tion here that he had much to do with the successful contest which kept slavery out of the territory of Kansas. He was a leading chief in the border warfare which swept back the pro-slavery pro-slavery Immigration attempted by some of the wild spirits of Missouri. I remember of him one humorous anecdote related to me by my husband. On one occasion, during the border war, he had taken several prisoners, and among them a certain judge. Brown was always a man of prayer. On this occasion, feeling quite uncertain uncer-tain as to whether he ought to spare the lives of the prisoners, he retired into a thicket near at hand and besought be-sought the Lord long and fervently to inspire him with the right determination. deter-mination. The judge, overhearing this petition, was so much amused at it that, in spite of the gravity of his own position, he laughed aloud. "Judge ," cried John Brown, "if you mock at my prayers, I shall know what to do with you without asking the Almighty." ARTIFICIAL. Indigo from Coal Tar Threatens to Drive Out Natural Product. Washington Correspondence Chicago Journal: In these days of advanced chemistry almost anything can be made out of coal tar. One who reads the miracles which are being performed perform-ed along this line is prepared to believe be-lieve that in a few days, or weeks, or months, the announcement will come that the scientific gentlemen can transform trans-form a lump of tar into a loaf of bread like mother used to make. In the dye world the petroleum products have wrought a revolution, and the latest achievement the manufacture of indigo indi-go by the synthetical process is in the act of striking down a vast industry. The culture of vegetable Indigo has for years been one of the principal occupations occu-pations and sources of revenue in India In-dia and Java. Last year, in consequence conse-quence of the competition of the artificial arti-ficial product, the export of indigo from those countries fell off more than 34 per cent. And this in spite of the fact that the new discovery was made only three years ago and is hardly yet entirely perfected. The chief factory for the manufacture of the artificial indigo in-digo is at Ludwigschafen, Germany. The product of this factory is admitted admit-ted to be 9 per cent more pure than the purest natural product, and it can be made so much more cheaply that competition seems to be out of the question. Consequently the raisers of indigo are getting ready to go out of business. In Bengal the indigo forecast fore-cast of last year was for an area nearly 10 per cent less than the average; in the northwestern provinces and Oudah it was 37 per cent below the average, in Punjab 33 per cent les3 than the small area of last year; in Madras it was much less than half the average. The indigo growers are despondent, and hesitate to embark their capital in the production of a commodity which is threatened with being displaced by the synthetically prepared artificial dye. A Nice Thing of Napoleon. On the day of Waterloo it was late before Napoleon left his quarters. About noon he came down from his quarters to take a horse. The equerry having gone off to snatch a hasty meal, the duty of helping the emperor on horseback fell to a youth named Gu-din. Gu-din. The lad had had no experience in this line, and gave the little Cor-sican Cor-sican such a vigorous hoist that he nearly rolled off on the other side. Napoleon Na-poleon called him a little fool and rode away in a fury, Gudin very "down in the mouth," following him some way behind. By-and-bye the youth saw the staff officers open to right and left, and Napoleon came riding back. Laying his hand kindly on the boy's shoulder he said, "My child, when you help a man of my size to mount, do so gently." Fifty-seven years afterwards, as Gudin, now grown a gray general, related the Incident, his eyes filled with tears at the memory of Napoleon's thinking at such a moment of the wounded feelings of the young man. Daily Recipe. Chicken Salad Boil a good-sized chicken until tender. Remove the meat from the bones, rejecting ail skin and gristle. Cut into dice and add to it one-third as much chopped celery cel-ery as you have chicken meat. Cover with a dressing made of two table-spoonfuls table-spoonfuls of vinegar and one of olive oil, with a very little mustard and pepper pep-per and salt to taste. Stir well together to-gether and let stand and marinate for an hour or two; then pour over it a mayonnaise sauce; toss with a 3ilver fork till well mixed. Pour the remainder remain-der of the dressing over the salad; garnish with blanched celery leaves or hearts of lettuce. If with latter mix Just before serving. , Hunhand Gets No Share. In the Philippines, after death, unless un-less a wife has executed a deed in her husband's favor, under a lawyer's eye. the property goes to her children and blood relations, but none to her husband. hus-band. Special Rates. "Do yon make special rates to bridal parties?" asked the Innocent looking bridegroom. "Yes," replied the honest hotel clerk. "We always charge 'em double rates." Ohio State Journal. MUSIC OF ELECTRICITY. Professor Thon-pson Plays a Tana and Sounds a Nt-vel Whistle. Prof. Elihu Thompson, the electrician, electri-cian, gave a lecrre on "Electricity at High Pressures" before the New York Electrical society. He began by explaining ex-plaining some of the earliest known electrical phenomena in modern terms. The charges produced by contact and friction upon metal and rubber plates and by the primitive electrophorus were, he said, of low potential, or voltage, volt-age, un 11 the two substances in contact con-tact were separated. The work done in separating them was the first method known of raising potential or increasing increas-ing the voltage of aa electrical charge, and the charges obtained by rubbing a stick of amber, or on the electrophorus, which give a spark of from one-half to three-quarters of an Inch, have pressures pres-sures of fron 10,000 to 20,000 volts. He mentioned here that the voltage of a charge or current had in itself little to do with its d. .'olj character, which depended rathti- on the amount of the charge or current and its manner of being received by the body. While 40,000 or 5,,U00 volts might not be at all dangerous under certain " inditions, 110 volts, the current ordinarily used for an incandescent lamp, might kill under others. Prof. Thompson mentioned men-tioned his own artificial production of a 64-inch spark and Prof. Trowb.idge's spark of 70 inches as representing pressures pres-sures of from 1,000,000 to 3,000,000 volts approximately, and spoke of the estimated esti-mated pressure producing lightning as ranging between a few millions and 50,000,000 to 100,000,000 volts. He then explained the theory and operation of several static generators and current transformers. The last transformer shown was a special form of induction coil operated without a condenser, the current being broken by a platinum anode in the generator. With this he produced a discharge of so high frequency fre-quency that the train of sparks, which assumed a coiled form, produced a high musical note. The discharge, he said, had too high a voltage to be used for the production of X rays, unless modified modi-fied by the introduction of resistance coils in the circuit. He had a series of these, which were thrown into connection connec-tion by a multi-point switch, and he played a tune on the apparatus by its means. He also showed an electrical whistle, which consisted of a special electro-magnet, the vibration of whose armature was tuned by the switch to correspond with the pitch of a common wooden box in which the magnet was placed. The sound was similar to that of a deep-toned steam whistle. In closing the lecture Prof. Thompson spoke of the increasing tendency to ascribe many meteoric and astronomical astronom-ical phenomena, including aurorae, comet tails and nebulae, to electrical conditions. New York Sun. A VERY GULLIBLE CHRISTIAN. Somewhere in England is printed a sheet known as the Christian World, which is a very gullible Christian indeed. in-deed. There are in this world several varieties va-rieties of Christians, some of which are purely commercial, others concerned more about their neighbors' affairs than their own, and a fair percentage of God-fearing people who recognize that they will have quite enough to do in straightening up their own irregularities irregu-larities before the last bugle call Is sounded. To one of the first two classes the Christian World evidently belongs, for it either does not possess the faculty facul-ty of telling the truth, or else it is very easily imposed upon. Some kind friend in the British metropolis me-tropolis has sent us a number of clippings clip-pings from this journal, one of which refers to i,he visit in England of a wide-awake negro who is "out for the stuff," and who has a sixpenny pamphlet pam-phlet to dispose of to such kindly souls as may desire to purchase it. This man, in an interview, among other things, has this to say of the negro in the south: "Women and girls are whipped in a nude state by men in the presence of men and boys. Of course, there is immorality. Children are born and grow up in the prisons, and know no other home. Some of the states make a regular thing of breeding people, just as in the old slavery days. This Is especially es-pecially the case in Georgia, Florida and Texas." Of course, it is unnecessary either to answer such a paragraph as this or to pay serious attention to a newspaper which is capable of giving it currency. Every clergyman in Georgia, without one single exception, whether he be white or black, knows that the statement state-ment that "some of the states (Georgia being one) make a regular thing of breeding people," is unutterably false. As this quotation is of like character with the other statements made, we are sure that no sensible man will ask for a refutation of them. Atlanta Constitution. Consti-tution. He Knew What He Wanted. He was a little darkey on a Virginia farm, says the New Orleans Item, and, of course, he was very fond of sweets. There was a young lady also on the plantation who always took It upon herself to correct any mistakes of speech which she heard him make. Now, our little darky wanted some molasses one day up at the farmhouse kitchen, and he plainly said: "Please, ma'am, can I have some "lasses?" "Jonas," said she, severely, "you should say 'molasses, not ' 'lasses.' " "How kin I say mo' 'lasses when I ain't had none yit?" whined Jonas. And since then she lets Jonas alone. Dorothy's Answer. It was evening time in one of the London hospitals, and the nurse on duty was giving the little ones their last meal for the day. All save one were patiently waiting for their turn to be served, the one in question being be-ing a little, rosy-cheeked convalescent, who was calling lustily for her portion. por-tion. "Aren't you just a little impatient, im-patient, Dorothy?" inquired the kindly kind-ly nurse, with just a tinge of correction correc-tion in her tone. "No, I'm not!" retorted re-torted Dorothy promptly, "I'm a little she patient!" Answers. Pare Water a Poison. A scientist of Bome standing asserts that chemically pure water is poison to the human stomach, upsetting some hitherto accepted theories regarding distilled water by the argument that in distillation the water loses sundry salts that it greedily abstracts from the animal tissues when it is swallowed, swallow-ed, thus constituting a protoplasmic poison. Emllio Borgiotti, an Italian horticulturist, horti-culturist, has succeeded in making violets vio-lets two and a half inches across, with 100 petals. IN THE ODD CORKER. QUEER AND CURIOUS THINGS AND EVENTS. Me City f Malolos Facts About the Lt Capital of the Philippine Insurgents Insur-gents Ad Australian Puzzle Solved The Nawab of Bahawalpar. r The Chinook. Chere comes to my heart this morning On the western breeze's wing The chant of the crazy Chinook. The drunken demon of spring: . j v "My home Is the broad Pacific; J But youth cannot bide at home, t spread my wings for a frolic . And flew o'er the ocean's foam. "I kissed the tops of the ranges And severed the Ice King's chain; I whispered of pleasant valleys And the waters wakened again. "I raced them down tha mountains. Barring bouldrs aside we'd fling; t called to the sleeping streamlets, 'Come, dance with the devil of spring!' "They came with a rush and gurgle. They came with a leap and dash, With the roar of distant thunder. With the speed of the lightning flash. "Down we raced through the gorges. Melting the ice and snow, And filled to Its overflowing The Yellowstone below. . ' "The river itself grew drunken. Mad with Chinook champagne; It burst the bridges man builded Though steel, they were rent in twain. "It played with the sleeping children They will never waken more; It tossed strong men on its billows And left them, still, on the shore. "There's nothing that can withstand us. As abroad together we fly. Abroad on our springtime frolic, The snow of the hills and I. "For I am the harlequin ohinook. And, tho' soft as the zephyr's wing. When I kiss the mountain ranges I'm the mischievous Imp of spring." Detroit People. City of Malolos Malolos is located In the province of Bulacan. This is one of the smallest but richest province in tha archipelago. archipel-ago. It Is bounded on the east by Neuvra Eclja, on the south by Manila, on the west by tha bay and province of Pampanga and on the nortk by the province of Pampanga. The area is 965 square miles and the population is 230,000. In this province are in the neighborhood neighbor-hood of twenty-five cities, all but one of which, according to the Bangor Commercial, have a population of over 5,000, and the population of some of which runs up as high as 20,000. In fact, the province is so thickly settled that all these cities may be said to be but slightly separated divisions of one great city. The capital of the province of Bulacan, Bula-can, with a population of 13,186. It Is situated 22 miles from Manila, has a church, town hall and about 2,000 stone houses. Angat, with a population of 8,000, is situated 19 miles from Bulacan; Bula-can; Bailuag, with a population of 14,- 122, is situated 13 miles from Bulacan; Barasoaln, with a population of 9,675, is situated six miles from Bulacan; Bigaa, with a population of 8,120, is situated three and one-half miles from Bulacan; Bocaue, with a population of 10,345, is situated four and one-half miles from Bulacan; Bustos, with a population of 7,025, is situated two miles from Bulacan; Calumoslt, -with a population of 15,072, is situated 11 miles from Bulacan; Guiginto, with a population of 5,115, is situated two miles from Bulacan; Hagonoy, with a population of 20,120, is situated 20 miles from Bulacan. Malolos has a population of 14,599, and is situated six miles from Bula can; Marilao, with a population of 5,-075, 5,-075, is situated eight miles from Bula can; Meicauayan, with a population of 8,119, is situated eleven miles from Bulacan; Norzagary, with a population of 5,035, is situated sixteen miles from Bulacan; Obando, with a population of 7,948, is situated seven miles from Bulacan; Paombong, with a population of 10,297, is situated eight miles from Bulacan; Polo, with a population of 7,549, is situated seven miles from Bulacan; Bul-acan; Qulnga, with a population of 8,-854, 8,-854, is situated seven miles from Bulacan; Bula-can; San Ildefonso, with a population of 6,601, is situated nineteen miles from Bulacan; San Jose, with a population of 2,297, is situated sixteen miles from Bulacan; Sap Miguel de Mayumo, with a population of 20,460, is situated twenty-five miles from Bulacan; San Rafael, with a population of 8,469, is situated twelve miles from Bulacan; Santa Isabel, with a population of 8,125, is situated six miles from Bulacan; Bula-can; Santa Maria de Pandi, with a population of 10,508, is situated eight miles from Bulacan; Pulilan, with a population of 10,058, is situated eight miles from Bulacan. An Australian Puzzle Solved. A traveler in Australia, Mr. J. Gar-nier, Gar-nier, has lately solved a problem that has puzzled many people who know the country and the natives. It has been a difficulty to foreigners to understand un-derstand how the natives of some parts of the island-continent live without water, for there seems to be no natural nat-ural supply. The general explanation has been that they had to depend upon the water that collects once or twice a year in the hollows of rocks. As the water there found seemed quite inadequate, inad-equate, the explanation was unsatisfactory. unsatis-factory. Mr. Gamier questioned prospectors, pros-pectors, and negroes that knew a little English, but none of them could throw any light on the subject. At last a missionary put him in communication with a native who was able to explain ex-plain the mystery. He told the traveler travel-er of the existence in that country of a tree the roots of which were impregnated impreg-nated with fresh water. These roots spread out near the surface of the ground, and can be easily prised up with a pointed stick. From theme the natives abtain their supply of water. They carry the roots along with them on a journey, and in very dry seasons camp in the regions where the trees are most abundant. Although this tree grows In rocky places, its leaves are extremely green. The wood is soft compared with that of other trees of the country. It bears large greenish flowers, the fruit of the size of a small wild cherry. The important part of the tree, however, Is Its root. The root consists of a succession of nodosities, sometimes of the size of a large ear of corn. The blacks first drink the water from these, and then eat them. In taste they resemble a radish. At a Halwmmidu RtflvaL A writer in the Cornhill Magazine gives an interesting description of a Mohammedan revival. After picturing various sights and incidents of the gathering, he proceeds: "First, a number of carpenter's nadls, at least three inches long, were handed to the steward and a demure little man stepped forward. He did not belong to the athletic and savage type of the majority; he was quiet and domestic; a maa whom one in Europe would have ascribed to the class of email shopkeepers; but he bad a look of ealm contentment a conviction of fiiTtM jeace in his soul, which contracted yrlth the purblind excitement of the fathers. He stood quite still, held hta I ad back, and swallowed three of the U rge iron nails, heads and all, aa they wre put Into his mouth one after another by the steward. Then ho re tired, and two men came in with burnous full of prickly pear leaves. The prickly pear as one sees it in the south of Europe is a sufficiently formidable for-midable plant, but in North Africa It grows to far larger proportions the leaves, or rather the flat leaf-like stems, grow to nearly twice the else that they do even in Sicily, and the prickles are proportionately large and stubborn. Moreover, the prickle Is slightly poisonous and leaves a fester ing wound. Consequently it seemed not the least miraculous event of the ser vice when a dancer, stripped to the waist, and taking a huge prickly pear leaf In each hand, proceeded to rub them all over his naked body and shaven head, using them as one might use a cloth. There could be no doubt that he pressed them against hie skin with all his might, and in the fury with which he did it, tore leaf after leaf in pieces and took fresh ones from the heap. Sometimes he would seise one leaf with both hands and scrub it backward and forwards over his bare scalp, and finally eat the leaf with all its deadly prickles. Scored and scratched as his body must have been in every direction, there was scarcely a trace of blood. The Nawab of Bhwlpor. Except on special occasions, the nawab dresses In white muslin trousers, trous-ers, very wide and baggy, silk or cloth coat and waistcoat, and silk and gold turban. His pockets are numerous, and their contents surprising. It is a common thing for him to wear two or three watches, and very beautiful ones they are. This does not astonish any one so much as the fact that he possesses no less than 1,700 watches of all descriptions, and is constantly purchasing others. He has also some remarkably fine jewels. His crown weighs nine pounds, and is a mass of diamonds set in silver, with a row of very large pear-shaped pearls as pendants pen-dants around the base. He has a sword, the jeweled scabbard and hilt of which are valued at $500,000. He wears some extraordinary rubies and uncut emeralds attached to chains of rubles and pearls that he wears as a necklace. He has also a set of fifteen uncut rubies as large as the largest of the emeralds. They are historic gems, with the names of the Mogul emperors engraved upon them. Thejr are very Irregular In shape, and measure meas-ure fully one and a half Inohes In diameter. di-ameter. He is never without a pocketful ot gold mohurs and rupees. A gold mo-hur mo-hur Is a coin that Is not in circulation as money, but it is a custom among native princes to present these coins to friends and to receive them as presents pres-ents on certain ceremonial occasions. It is of pure gold, and varies in sise and value from twenty to fifty rupee. A rupee is a sliver coin about the else of a fifty-cent piece, but according to the present rate of exchange 1b worth about 25 cents. Ranting Tigers In Persia. The people ot different countries have different ways of hunting the tiger. Traps, pitfalls, spring-guns and nets are called into play. The Chinese are said to employ the mirror to lead the animal into a trap. The tiger's curiosity is excited when he sees his image in the glass, and he Immediately proceeds to investigate the mystery. The Persian manner of conducting the hunt as this is described in Chambers' Cham-bers' Journal, is more sportsmanlike. A spherical, strongly woven bamboo cage, with Intervals of a few inob.ee between the bars, is erected In some spot near the haunts of the tiger. The cage is firmly and securely picketed to the ground. Inside, a man provided with several sharp and powerful stabbing stab-bing spears, or with a keen and pointed point-ed sword, takes his post at night, with a dog or a goat as his companion. Then he wraps himself in his blanket and goes to sleep. In due time the tiger makes his appearance, ap-pearance, the man is waked by hie four-footed companion, and after snuffing snuf-fing and prowling around the cage to find an entrance, the tiger rears against the walls. The man Instantly takes advantage of the brute's unprotected position, and with a resolute stroke of the spear or the sword puts him to death. Washing Day In Madrid. Ten thousand women souse and beat the linen of Madrid in the scant waters of the Manzanars every day. Not an article of clothing is elsewhere washed. No other than these Manzanares lav-enderas lav-enderas are permitted to labor aa laundresses, laun-dresses, and for three miles up and down the stream they work In groups. Each lavendera brings her own hug roll of bread, and perhaps a bit oi cheese; and just before noon they breakfast in great wooden sheds on salt fish, potatoes and coffee, with s measure of red wine, duplicating this meal as a dinner at four in the afternoon. after-noon. They eat like animals, and the moment their food Is disposed of the tinkle of the guitar is heard, and any kindly disposed passer may dance with them until the thirty minutes allowed them for food and amusement have expired. ex-pired. On these occasions everyons dances, girls of 18 and women of 80, and the scenes along Manzanares arf very picturesque and interesting. Fascinated Sea Fish. The Pince of Monaco, describing hi researches among the inhabitants oi the deep sea, says that many sailor, wrecked on the Atlantic who have perished per-ished of hunger might have saved themselves if they had possessed sim. pie fishing apparatus and known how to use it. Various kinds of sea fish, according to the prince, are strangely fascinated by any foreign object, such as a log or a boat, floating above them, They will accompany such an object in large numbers for days at a time, occasionally oc-casionally being lured in this way entirely across the ocean. He therefore there-fore suggests that all the principal boats of a ship should be permanently provided with fish lines and books and a fish spear, to be utilized in cae9 th crew or passengers are cast away af sea. KuphemUtlo. Hicks "Wonder why Blixon wai fired from his place on the Comet?" Dicks "In the first place, how do yo know he was fired? He doesn't say so.' Hicks "Notsln so many word, but it amounts to that. He told me that he severed his relations with th paper." Boston Transcript. Great Britain makes $20,000,000 a-year a-year profit out of Its postoffleea. |