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Show is of ebony and gold. It strikes the Quarters, halves and hours. In Mrs. IteKlnley's room is a clock whirl has, been running without the slightest ln-- t QUEER AND CURIOUS THINGS termisslon for nearly thirty years. The AND EVENTS. clock at the foot of the stairs leading up to the presidents office is the one that the public generally sees. It is White IIobm Clock loins of Than It has to be wound but once a month. Are fimow end Hava H Uterine It keeps time today as accurately as of Ilaa Coaqaaat when first made. Mepoleon'e Htraag Italia. "What is known as the Lincoln of Antiquity clock, purchased when President Lincoln was in the white house, is an obTho llrokao Heart. ject of Interest in the red room, and rather modern in construction, of the (An Old Favorite.) Nov lock my chamber door, father. 'regulator' pattern, arid is very reliable. And aay you left me eleeplng; "The clock in Private Secretary PorBut never tell my ter's room is admired for its cathedral Of all thla bitter weeping. gong rather than anything else, but No earthly Bleep can eaae my a mart. Or even awhile reprieve it; It is a good clock and has so proven For therea a pang at my young heart Itself for the ten or fifteen years V That never more can leave itl has been there." Oh. let me llo, and veep my fill Oer wounda that heal can never. Antiquity of Holla. And oh, kind heaven! were It thy will. To cloae my eyea for ever. Before the time of bells various inFor how can mald'a alfectlona dear struments were used to summon conRecall her love unahakenf maiden bear of gregations to worship. In Egypt they can heart Or how To know that heart foraakenl are said to have followed a Jewish custom in using a trumpet. In some OrOh, why ahould vowa ao fondly made, iental churches a kind of rattle gave Be broken ere the morrow the signal. In monasteries monks To one who loved aa never maid Loved In thla world of aorrowl took it In turn to go round the cells, The look of acorn I cannot brave, calling the inmates to their devotions , Nor pltya eye more dreary. by' knocking with a hammer, which A quiet Bleep within the grave was called the "awakening instrula all for which I weary I ment." Bells of one kind or another dear Tarrowa mountalna Farewell, of very great antiquity, arq, however, green. having been used in religious cereAnd banka of broom ao yellow Too happy haa thla boaom been monies by many of the ancient nations . Within your arbora mellow. as a means of honoring their gods and That happineaa la fled for ay. summoning them to the feasts. For And all la dark deapondlng example, the feast of Osiris and Isis Save In tho opening gatea of day. And the dear home beyond theml was always announced by bells. Pliny llogg. says that bells were in use long before his time, being called "Tin tin nebula. Napoleon's Strange Flan of Conquest. The use of small bells (nolae) in Engof Malmesbury, A German historian is said to have land, says William be traced back far as the fifth as may discovered Napoleon's original plans for the invasion of Great Britain In century, and it is clear from Bede that ), the year 1789, and accident wills it even those of the larger kind as such Bounded and in the air that this discovery was made at the same time that the French agitation called a numerous congregation to difor a submarine tunnel connecting vine service, were employed in EngFrance (via Spain), with her African land as early as the year 680, being that in which the Abbot Hilda died. possessions is renewed. One hundred years ago Napoleon Juatleu for tha Wires. was still General Bonaparte. He had humbled Italy, and had captured the "You can stand by now for a whole pope; free Switzerland was a vassal lot of gags in the newspapers about of France. Then the general set out the bum cigars, the unsmokable pipes, to be lord of the sea. and the delirium tremens neckties He decided to tow an army over bought by wives as Christmas presents to the British coast on great floating for their husbands," said a department forts, with large bodies of troops lined clerk whose specialty is puncturing up in battle order. They were then to current fallacies to his own satisfacfight their way ashore, and land on tion. "It's about time this particuthe coast without resort to lighters. lar brand of Christmas humor were The troops were to march ashore in shelved.. I've made a careful canvass the order of their regiments, preceded on the subject, and I have ascertained. after questioning all the men I nd backed up by the artillery. It will be remembered that Napoleon know, that the Christmas cigars purhas often declared that he would have chased by women for their husbands been as great an admiral as he was a are generally about five times as good general with half a chance. "But," he as the husbands are used to; that added, "the French are useless as sail- the Christmas present pipes assay ors. They are too fussy, too excitable. three times as high as the ordinary At sea one needs a calm mlpd, quiet pipes bought by the husbands. I've got one myself that my wife bought fortitude, and energy." To many on this side of the Atlantic, for me a Christmas present three years the words "engine house," marked on ago, and its as sweet as a nut at the moment; and, finally, that Napoleon's plans, are of peculiar in- the present neckties given as Christmas presterest. Fulton, the American Inventor, to ents husbands by their wives are, steamlaunched his first experimental in nine cases out of fen, the acme of boat on the Seine in 1803, but his contaste and Judgment in selection. Nevnection with the French government I this especial brand ertheless, dates from 1797, when he offered his of Joke willsuppose on outliving its truth, go submarine torpedo boat to France. as so many others da" Falling in this, he turned his attention drawto steam navigation. From his Queer Derlee for Gambling. ings, it would seem that Napoleon "The queerest gambling device that meant to try steam navigation with his I ever saw was a check perforator," ferries one hundred years ago. No doubt Napoleon used Fulton's said J. H. Irons of the United States office to a Pittsburg News plans, but there was still another marshals man. went into a down-tow- n "I bank American Inventor at his. service not noon to serve the at hour ago long of Connecticut who built John Fitch, the first unsuccessful sidewheelers in a paper on the president There was 1788 to 1790, and three years later a board meeting on in a back room. I went to Paris to sell improved plans noticed all of the clerks in a bunch for steam navigation to the French playing some game, and I went over to see what it was. They had one government of those revolving check perforators were built in ferries Bonaparte's with numbers on it from 0 to 9. One Brest, in Cherbourg, and in Boulogne, man was spinning and actin' as bankbut when Napoleon Inspected them, in while the others were laying bets er, newin his the of faith the spring 1798, on numbers. the They were operatfangled marine monsters wavered. He ing on the old sysabandoned the proposed invasion of tem. I so deeply Interested that I got on and Instead started the British Isles forgot all about the paper I had to his famous expedition to Egypt serve until there was a sudden scattering of the group and a disappearWhlll House Clock. ance of the perforator and the cash "The clocks in the white house," re- on the hoard. I turned and saw the to a president When he entered the bankmarked an official Washington Star reporter, "are by no ing room every clerk was busy at hlr means the most uninteresting things desk." about the house, though but little has ever appeared about them in the newsA Danes la a Churrh. papers. 8trange as it may appear, but According to a very one of the old clocks is of American custom a dance takes place yearly on manufacture, though all that have been the 1st of May in the parish church of purchased of late years are. The one Musgrave, in Westmoreland, in connecclock referred to was made in New tion with the custom of rush bearing. York and was purchased when James Twelve young maidens of Brough (apMonroe was president. It is one of proved by the Vicar), assemble on the the permanent fixtures in the green 1st of May at 10 o'clock in the mornroom and has been there ever since it ing at the foot of Brough bridge, their was purchased. As a timepiece It com- white dresses decorated with flowers, pares favorably with any of the forei- and a garland on their heads in the gn-made clocks, though it was made shape of a crown, formed of rushes, at a time when America was not as with flowers entwined on the outside. famous for its timepieces as it is now. Accompanied by a band the maidens The most interesting clock there, of proceed through the fields to Muscourse, from its history is the clock in grave, about a mile distant, the band g the blue parlor, which was once the playing and the dancing: property of Napoleon Bonaparte, who On reaching the church the are led up the north aisle and hang presented It to General Lafayette, and the latter presented it to General up their garlands on the side walls, Washington. The frame of it is made there to remain until the next year. of alabaster and French gilt bronze. The gospel is read by the clergyman. IN TIIE ODD CORNER. atep-muth- er . 1 (cam-panae- wheel-of-fortu- clock-wind- ne er rush-bearin- rush-beare- rs Aa Economical Ball. Chief Engineer W. T. Manning of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad has Invented a new rail that experts say has many points of Interest to railroad owners, the principal one being its economical feature. It is well known that rails wear rapidly on curves and where these are .short and traffic heavy, the cost of renewal is very large. Manning has evolved a section, which, he aaserts, will reduce the cost 37 per cent per ton per year. He adds materially to the life of the rail by placing additional metal in the head and on the side upon which the wear comes. The new rail will be given a thorough test on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, tha receivers having ordered 1,000 tons from the Carnegie Steel Co. The Pittsburg ft Western has also ordered 600 tons. Ha Knew Hen City Editor Here, this won't da New Reporter What's the matter 7 City Editor In your account of the you wedding apeak of the groom leading the bride to the altar. New Reporter Yes. Thats a common bit of metaphor. City Editor I know it, but it won't do in this case. I used to go with that girl myself, and if anybody ever leads her anywhere it will have to he while she is walking in her sleep. Cleveland Leader. 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