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Show PDECinCAIT Ol! i lAvji&siu 1 1 ULLUl the ASSOCIATION Threatened With Loss of Hearing, Smell and Sight From the Ravages of Catarrh. Pe-ru-na Cured Him. A GREAT many remedies to temporarily tempor-arily relieve catarrh have been devised from time to time, such as sprays, snuffs, creams and other local applications, but, as a rule, the medical profession has little or no enthusiasm in the treatment of catarrh. It is generally pronounced by them to be incurable. It therefore created a great sensation in medical circles when Dr. Hart man announced an-nounced that he had devised a compound which would cure catarrh permanently. The remedy was named Peruna and in a short time became known to thousands of catarrh sufferers north, south, east and west. Letters testifying to the fact that Peruna ia a radical cure for catarrh began to pour in from all directions. Thousands of such letters are on file in the office of The Peruna Medicine Co. Rev. E. Stubenvoll, Pella, Wis., writes : "I feel obliged to extend-you my personal thanks for my complete restoration. All through the inter I suffered from throat and lung trouble, but recovered my entire health by the use of your excellent remedy, Peruna." The following letter from a prominent gentleman of Los Angeles, is a case in point : Mr. J. W. Fuller, President of the Jewelers' Association of Los Angeles, Cal., has been in business in that city for seventeen seven-teen years out of the forty-five that he has been engaged in business. Concerning his experience with Peruua he says : ti urn i if ft wj xt rrm Mt . .ti jsj sj ,rzettXrtfj&jsirrt iiiuii WITH NERVES UNSTRUNG AND HEADS THAT ACHE WISE WOMEN BROMO - SELTZER TARE TRIAL BOTTLE lO CENTS. WESTERH SEEDS lis New Eighty-Page Illustrated Catalogue Free. Write To-day. BARTELDS 8 CO.. 1521 Fifteenth St.. Denver, Colorado. DRUNKENNESS CURED. Thousands of homes made happy every year by this treatment. Most thoroughly equipped institution in the west. Modern and up to date in every respect. Cures positively made For terms and literature, address .... THE KEELEY INSTITUTE, tOl BAST FIRST SOUTH ST.. SALT tAKI CITV. UTAH. A Painful Marriage Custom. The penalty among the Hottentots for widows who marry again is a somewhat severe one. It Is the rule among these people that, before so marrying, a widow must cut off the joint of a finger and present it to ho-r new husband on the wedding day. SOLID FACTS! ALL WEARERS Or THE ORIGINAL OYEJ? OILED CL0THHG (black on vcllomt) 5AY it is THE BEST IN THE WORLD AND SAY IT PMPHATICALLY? 10 r rewsa canabiah co.iu. ToaoNTo, cam. 9 n 7EAD1NG- IANOS EASILY LAaD pnor. J. OWfARl CT. Scott, nOADC V NEW DISCOVERY: gives I J fJ J I quick relief and cures worst emoes. Book of tesilmonlids snd 10 SAYS' treatment Jfk&Z. nr.BLH.eBXSB'BSOlia.Box&S.tiaata.Oa I'ililTCn Manager In every city, county, to If AN I CD handle best paying business known: legitimate: new: exelusiTe toutro:. Phoenix Co., V . 2Htn t New York. . Business Opportunity. Orestest chance of a life-time. Bon't mls it. Don't delay but write to-day lor particulars. par-ticulars. SMh Supply Co., Dep t B. Oaekaaaa, MwB. "ieef Thompsons Eye Water W. N. U.. Salt Lake-No. It. 19Q3. 5 CUBE! HHCIE All USE Ksit ( uuL'Q f-vrun. i mum In time, do a rr a OS .1 I zgvnii. I'M I CD of JEWELERS' " I Feel Like a Again.' ' " was troubled with catarrh of the bead for many years. It affected my sense of smell, bearing and sight I spent lots of money with doctors and the use of local applications to relieve me but to no purpose, until my atten Hon was called to the wonderful effects of Peruna. " must say that I met with most surprising and satisfactory results. Peruna took hold of the complaint and drove It entirely out of my system. "Although well along toward the allotted rpan of man's life I am pleased as a child over the results, and feel like a young man again." J. W. Fuller. - Such letters as the above are not used for publication except by the written permission per-mission of the writer. A pamphlet filled with such letters will be sent to any address free. This book should be read by all who doubt the curability of catarrh. If you do not receive prompt and satisfactory satis-factory results from the use of Peruna write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement state-ment of your case, and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. ' Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio. Africa's Many Languages. Africa has nearly 700 languages, and this fact presents great difficulties to missionaries. Mr. Wlnalow's Hoothtnfr Syrop." For children teething?, softens the gums, reduces In. Bammatloo, allays pain, cores wind colic SScabottla. WIFE OF MANY COLORS. Boston Journal Sees Advantages In Such a Possession. The Lady Chameleon is attracting attention in Paris. She is a young Roumanian, Marga Cerbus by name, whose coloring is determined by her emotions. Anxiety turns her green; 6he is pink when joyful; violet when afraid and black when angry. The Boston Journal can see how such a woman would be a never-failing joy as a wife. Her husband would never be in doubt as to the precise nature of her mental condition. And then there might come a mildly polygamous feeling feel-ing to a husband having a white wife, a colored wife and a red wife on different dif-ferent days. "Yet Miss Cerbus will, no doubt, marry a man that. Is color blind, and therefore unappreciatlve ; such is the irony of life." Piso's Cure is the best medicine we ever used for all affections or the throat and lungs. WM. O. Endsi.st, Vanburcn, Ind.. Feb. 10, 1900. Origin of Monroe Doctoring. Monroe had just paid his physician $500 for curing a cold. Thereupon he laid in a supply of quinine, blankets and whisky, thus founding the great system of Monroe doctoring which has made America so healthy that the other powers tremble. Ask Your Dealer For . Allen's Foot-Eaae. A powder. It rests the feet. Cures Corua, Bunions, 8wollen.Sore,Hot,CaUous,AchiDg:, Sweating Feet and Ingrowing NaiU. Ailen'a Foot-Ease makes new or tight hoes easy. At all Druggist4 and Shoe stores, 25 cents. Accept Ac-cept no substitute Sample mailed Frbb. Address Allen S. Olswted. LeRoy, N. Y. Much Railroad Property Condemned. Local inspectors of the Wheeling division of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad rail-road have condemned 2,500 box cars, flats, etc., as lightwught or light capacity. ca-pacity. The condemned cars will be uurned and the iron sold as scrap. CANNON TELLS GOOD STORY. Appropriate Saying Recalled at a Washington Dinner. X number of speakers made short addresses at the dinner which Secretary Secre-tary Root recently gave to members of the military affairs committee. Congressman Cannon was present, but he escaped Mr. Root's eye until everybody every-body else had talked. Then he was called upon and said the occasion reminded re-minded him of a revival meeting be once attended in Illinois. "A lot of deacons and other hefty persons addressed ad-dressed the assemblage and then a reformed gambler was called upon tc testify, continued Mr. Cannon, "and this is what he said : "Brethren and sisters, I have sat here and listened tc the great men tell of their experiences. experi-ences. The elder has spoken and the minister and the deacon and now you call on me, only a poor ninkum-slinkum. ninkum-slinkum. That's me," said "Uncle Joe," sitting down. MIGHT HAVE BEEN WORSE. Irishman's Philosophic Comment on the Los cf His Legs. Gov. Odell of New York, tells this story of a New burg parson well known for the extremely optimistic view he takes of other men's misfortunes. One day this hopeful divine was called In tol administer spiritual comfort to an Irishman who was lying in the emergency emer-gency hospital at Fishkill Landing. The poor fellow had lost both legs in an accident in a stone quarry, and was taking what the saintly doctor considered con-sidered an Impassioned view of bis prospects. "Come, my good man," said the parson, cheerfully, "it's the loss of a pair of legs, to be sure. L but It's cot so bad as It might be." "Shure, I dunno but you're rolght," replied the fellow glumly. "Twould have been a dom sight worse if I'd been a chorus girl." ., " - Protection for Animals. Mimicry among butterflies, moths and other insects would be comic were it not a matter of liie or death. Not a few moths have at the hinder ends of their wings a black mark and two or more tails resembling the horns of their own heads. A veteran in warfare not seldom has these portions por-tions missing a proof of the value in having saved hi3 life. Thus the lizard's liz-ard's brittle tail, which, first attracting attract-ing the enemy, comes off - at his touch, lets his would-be . prey escape. When at bay crabs distract the enemy by throwing off their claws and lobsters lob-sters do the trick yet more neatly by seizing the enemy with a claw and then throwing off limb and enemy. Thus the bushy tail of the squirrel ia accounted for there is a chance of escaping the enemy minus a mouthful mouth-ful of fur. JUNE TINT BUTTER COLOR makes top of the market butter. For and Against. Several days before the last election one of the Democratic candidates was -standing in the corridor of a Reading. Pa., hotel, when a well-known character, charac-ter, a rabid old Republican, came along and greeted him effusively. The latter was an impecunious fellow, and. It seems, had been befriended on several sev-eral occasions by the other, of whose friendship. In fact, he was inclined to boasL The greeting in this Instance Uwas the prelude to the request of a didate, "that when you want money you come to me, but when election oay comes you will vote for my opponent?" op-ponent?" "Well, you see," the other said, after a pause, "politically I'm opposed op-posed to you, financially I'm your friend. Admiral Dewey's Pet Dog. Admiral Dewey's pet dog, "Admiral Dewey," has just landed in San Francisco Fran-cisco from the Orient. Many picturer of the admiral have been printed, showing the. little white dog standing by his side. D. L. Smith, a business man of Yokohama, now owns the dog. Changes on. the Northwestern. President Marvin Hugbitt of the Chicago and Northwestern recently announced' that his company has purchased pur-chased and entered into possession of the Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri valley railroad in Nebraska. Wyom ing and South Dakota, and that it will 1 be operated hereafter as the Nebraska and Wyoming division of the Northwestern North-western system. Following this notice announcement was made by General Manager Gardner Gard-ner of the appointment of C. A. Cairns as general passenger agent of the Chicago and Northwestern, with headquarters at Chicago. Mr. Cairns has been assistant general passenger agent of the Northwestern since 1892, and for several years prior to that was assistant general passenger passen-ger agent of the Chicago Great West-e.n. West-e.n. He has been in railway service since 1878, commencing as a messenger messen-ger in the president and treasurer's office of the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati Cin-cinnati and Indianapolis railroad. G. F. Bid well, who has been the general manager of the Fremont. Elk-horn Elk-horn and Missouri Valley, is appointed manager of the Nebraska and Wyoming Wyom-ing division, including the line from California Junction to Fremont, with offices at Omaha. J. A. Kuhn, formerly form-erly general freight agent of the Elk-horn, Elk-horn, is made assistant general freight and passenger agent of the Northwestern North-western at Omaha. W. H. Jones is made division freight agent, and J. W. Munn division passenger agent at Omaha. Lord Roberts' Magnificent Sword. - A citizen who has just returned from a trip in Europe says that the sword presented to Admiral Dewey is a beauty, but that in the matter of downright gorgeousness it is rather a poor second to that given to Lord Roberts by the city of Portsmouth recently. re-cently. The American, who has examined ex-amined both weapons, says that the one owned by the little English soldier sol-dier is probably the costliest thing of its kind in the world. The hand-made blade is of English steel inscribed with all the engagements in which Lord Roberts has taken part. The grip fc of gold and carved ivory, the guard of solid gold ornamented with rubies, dia-mands dia-mands and sapphires; and the scabbard scab-bard is splendidly decorted. Spoiled Gaines' Oratory. . John Wesley Gaines' latest attempt at ratory was made the other even-ins even-ins while the house was tired after a long parliamentary tangle over the claims bilL Everybody was cross and hungry when the Tennessee congressman congress-man jumped up with what he said was a parliamentary Inquiry. Said he: "What I wish to know is how it comes that in this year or grace, 1902, we' "As usual. interrupted Congressman Con-gressman Olmsted, "the gentleman is a year behind. Move we adjourn." And adjourn they did without finding out what Gaines wanted to say. Best Way to Memorize. To economize time in memorizing a poem it should be read as a whole; that te, entirely through each time. Tests made in psychological laboratories labora-tories show that to memorise one verse at a time takes pne-fourth longer. TO VORKIilG GIRLS L FREE MEDICAL ADVICE Every working; grirl who is not well is cordially invited to writ to Mrs. Pinltham, Lynn, Mass for advice; it is freely given, and has restored thousands to health. Hiss Paine'a Experience. "I want to thank you for what you' have done for me, and recommend I-ydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to all girls whose work keeps them standing on their feet in the store. The doctor said I must stop work ; he did not seem to realize that a girl cannot afford to stop working. work-ing. My back ached, my appetite was poor. I could not sleep, and menstruation menstrua-tion was scanty and very painful. One day when suffering I commenced to take Eydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Vege-table Compound, and found that it helped me. I continued its use, and soon found that my menstrual period were - free from pain and natural ;' everyone is surprised at the change in me, and I am well, and cannot be too grateful for what you have done for, me." Miss Jahkt Paiwst, 530 West 135th St., New York City. fsooo forfttt If artqittml of abooo lottmr proving fnwMMii ctu mot fr produemd. Take no substitute, for it Is L,ydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound that cures. Power of Birds. What tremendous power an eagle exerts when carrying away a lamb that weighs, say, sixty pounds or over! If you take the weight of the bird altogether, al-together, 76 pounds, then it appears that an eagle can develop more than two horse-power, and must put a strain of over 1,100 pounds on the muscles of the wings. - Stats of Ohio, City or Toledo, ( Lucas Coomtt, f Frank J. Che-net makes oath that he Is the senior partner of the firm ot P. J. Cheney 4Ca, doing business In the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for eaeh and every ease of Catarrh that cannot M cured by the use ot Hall's Catarrh Cure. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed In ray presence, this 0th day ot December, A. D. 188& rear i A W. GLEASON. tSBAL. Notary Public Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acta directly on the blood ana mucous sunt nf tha awafrm Konrl fnr tfuet.imnnilLlH- free. F. J. CHENEY CO., Toledo, X Soid by Druggists, 7ftc Hall's Family Pills are the best. Milliners vs. Birds. Following a raid on millinery stores in Toledo the milliners have held an indignation meeting and will make a test of the law prohibiting the use of the wings and bodies of birds for hat decorations. Fortunately, public sentiment sen-timent ia with the birds these days.1 -'i y uue eupiiig. pipe i tuu- To Cure a Cold in One aT.ArJsit A lirefuml Tomb of Jeremy Bentham, In University college, London, singular object that is preserved fully in a remote gallery inside a glass case, which, again, is contained in a huge wooden cupboard, the doors of which are locked and the keys in safe custody. The relic which ia thus so zealously guarded is described in some notes on the history of the college as the "skeleton" of Jeremy Bentham, "clad in the garments in which he lived," while his head only Is stated to have been 'mummified." It has always been understood that Bentham's body was embalmed, and in that case it cannot be his mere skeleton which is repoBing there under un-der lock and key. A Call for Action. A New England senator's fair constituent, con-stituent, with a pension claim, is reported re-ported to have written to him in the following fashion: "This beautiful government, for which . my husband gave his health and for which we lost our home, requires a good wife and mother months and years to keep swearing and swearing to even her marriage and .other things too numerous numer-ous to mention. I wish the whole pension pen-sion department was obliged to go, as I do, without their overcoats or decent underclothes. I wish I held the reins., to keep their rightful pay from them until they we.- purple as any old damson." dam-son." Jay Cooke as a Farmer. Jay Cooke, the veteran financier, owns several farms, and It is his prids to set before his guests at Ogonta food that he raises himself. " The milk, the butter, the eggs, the tomatoes, the mushrooms, the meat, the bread, the fruit, the nuts all come, as a rule, from his own farms or hothouses, and very fine specimens they are. A favorite favor-ite dessert with the famous financier is baked apples the apples that his farms produce being extremely fine ones. ASKING QUESTIONS. An Inquiry Changed a Man's Whole Life. When you get a man to recognise that his bad feelings come from Improper Im-proper food and that he can get well by using scientific food, the battle is half won. One of New York's business men says: "I was troubled for a long time, with Indigestion, headache, and stomach trouble, and had taken various medi ctnes, but with no good results. I con eluded to see how a change of food would affect me. I never cared partio ularly for cereals of any kind, but ate meat and pastry continually and drank coffee. "I found on inquiring that Grape-Nuts Grape-Nuts were highly spoken of, and decided de-cided to give them a trial. To say I was surprised at the result would not begin to do Justice to my feelings. My headaches left me, my brain became clearer and active, my attacks of indigestion indi-gestion grew fewer and fewer until they ceased entirely, and where 1 once went home tired, fagged out and indisposed in-disposed to any exertion whatever, I now found a different state of affairs. "My color was good, my muscles strong and firm and fully equal to anything I asked of them, instead of soft and flabby. I live two miles from my business and walk it daily back and forth, . if the weather permits. per-mits. I am 55 years old and feel as well and strong as when I was 30, and can ride 70 miles a day on a bicycle without feeling any bad results." Name given by th.e Postum Co., Battle Bat-tle Creek, Micb, POPULAR A Simple Typewriter. In cheap and simple typewriters it has Heretofore been unusual in printing print-ing a character to perform three distinct dis-tinct operations to find the letter, see that the parts were brought accurately to the proper position and then to impress im-press the character on the paper, this last portion of the work being often done with the other hand than the one which adjusts the mechanism. In the drawing is presented a machine for which the inventor William H. Young of Athens, Ga, claims great simplicity of action, in that the sense ( Operates by the Sense of Touch. ot touch may be more fully utilized than is possible with most machines of this character. This machine has the type on spring fingers, and all the fingers are secured to the bar, which slides on a horizontal horizon-tal rod. To print the proper character it is only necessary to insert the finger fin-ger in the wire bale which lies above the flat plate on which the letters of the alphabet are embossed, printed or countersunk; move the bale along until un-til the finger is in line with the letter desired, and depress the plate. A spring tongue on the plate transmits the motion to the type finger, which is forced downward until It strikes the ribbon overlying tho paper. At each depression of the plate a rachet feed moyes the paper forward to the next space. It is the sliding of the wire bale back and forth to insert the finger in the proper character which brings the type finger beneath the tongue for printing, and as there is no adjustment adjust-ment of the mechanism in addition to this movement the machine : could probably be worked by a blind man, if the selecting characters were embossed em-bossed on the plate. Water Curtains for Fire Protection. The principle of the so-called water curtain which was proposed quite a number of years ago for fire protection protec-tion in theaters, being intended to cut off the auditorium from the stage, has of late been applied in many instances for ordinary building protection the arrangement being such as to cause water to fall in a sheet either all around a structure or down one side or several sides of it. In the case of one large public building, of which particulars have recently been given, m I. t etaal tro OT main a 1 a ? rt : x the ton of the structure, iinon Aad stone table formed by the the coping. through perforations prop- . jo 41 'a substantial sheet of water a, is iVq 4 cornice to pavement, around the id care-V)unc or any imperiled portion of the (Vtj cfM .ng. The arrangement of the system of piping is said to be such as to permit of operating in prescribed sections, and additional relays of smaller pipe are placed in position above windows and doors in order to complete the curtaining of these points in the most serviceable manner, 6hould the curtain in the main be broken by wind impinging against the build'ng or through some other cause. - New Life-Saving Device. A new fire apparatus, the invention of a German, was tested recently at Pittsburg, Pa., with marked success. It consists of a telescope ladder, capable capa-ble of being extended to a length of eighty-five feet, and worked by means of compressed air. The ladder is attached at-tached to a heavy truck carrying an air tank. The ladder can be directed at a particular window or other place in a burning building that It can possibly pos-sibly reach. A fireman lashed to the end of the ladder is shot up with it, and rescued persons need not clamber down as the ladder can be quickly lowered with them on it. For Use in the Kitchen. Alfred Anderson of Frazee, Minn., has undertaken to catch the bad odors of the kitchen and pass them up the chimney, instead of allowing them to permeate all parts of the house. His invention consists of a metallic hood, suspended above the stove and having an entrance directly into the pipe which leads to the chimney. Each cooking pot is provided with a cover having a tube extending from cne side, Stove Hood for Kitchen Use. through which the vapors are passed directly into the hood. Should the boiling up of the contents of the pot elevate the cover the resulting puff of steam is also drawn into the hood by means of draft conduits arranged around the Interior of the hood, the suction of air into the conduits being stimulated by the steam rising to the chimney through the tubes in the covers cov-ers of the pots. Wonderful Meat Preservative. The ships of the Russian navy are now carrying meat for use on board that is preserved by-a process which is said to keep it in good condition as long as seven, years. The invention is that of Dr. F. T. Schidlovsky, who Injects a compound through the heart to the aorta, so that all the blood in the slaughtered animal's body is replaced re-placed by the preservative fluid. . The carcass is divided arjd packed in tinned iron boxes and strewn slightly with salt Thus prepared, it is said, to retain for a long time and under tryirjg conditions its cutriticus and digestible di-gestible qualities. Scrae cf it wes toyed recently at the end of a six waawaBi ssssaat sa-M avarjaVMi aa -sai aaaassMVBHiMaaBaB SCIENCE months' voyage in the tropins, during which the temperature of t.he ship's stores rose to 100 degrees, to be without with-out perceptible deterioration and it is said that other samples which were found to have retained their principal qualities. The preservative solution is, of course, harmless, or said to be, to the human stomach. A New Blow Off Valve. A new blow off valve that will be of Interest to steam engineers is made in the form of a split piston nicely fitted to a cylindrical chamber in the valve body. When the piston is screwed down to the bottom to close the valve, an interior wedge expands the piston so that it fits the chamber absolutely tight. In opening the valve the first movement oi the screw releases re-leases the expanding power of the wedge on the piston, and afterwards raises the piston, giving a full straightway straight-way opening." This valve does not depend upon the pressure of the boiler to make it tight, nor does it stick when open or closed. Revolving Tooth Brush. ' The dentist will tell you that it Is of vital importance in cleaning the teeth that the brush be moved toward the edge of the teeth Instead of toward the gums, as the improper use of the brush will cause the gums to recede from the teeth and expose the roots to the action of decaying acids and other detrimental matter. The new brush shown in the accompanying drawing has been designed with a view to meeting this demand for movement in a single direction, having a mechanism which prevents backward rotation when the handles are relaxed for giving giv-ing a fresh impetus to the brush. As will be seen, the handle is designed to. contract in the hand, and is expanded ex-panded again by the V-shaped spring at the ends. The shaft which carries the circular brush has a toothed wheel at the opposite end, and a reversible rack bar is attached to . the upper handle to rotate the shft as the handles are contracted. This rack bar can be shifted to either Bide of the shaft to move the brush in opposite oppo-site direction, and as a ratchet is located lo-cated inside the gear wheel to transmit trans-mit the motion to the shaft to 9 latter remains motionless while the rack bar is moving backward. With a little lit-tle practice the operator can produce a rapid rotation of the bristles in the proper direction on either side of the face, cleaning the teeth much more Bristles Move Only In One Direction. rapidly and effectively than with the old style brush. The Inventor is Homer Poling of Curtain, W. Va. Pressure of Light Waves. Nichols and Hull made, before the late meeting of the American Astronomical Astro-nomical Society, a demonstration of the pressure of light waves. The apparatus ap-paratus was an hour glass vacuum tube which contained some carbon sponge dust of particles only one or two microns in diameter, the chamber cham-ber ' having been very carefully exhausted ex-hausted to as high a vacuum as possible. pos-sible. When the dust was allowed to fall from the upper to the lower chamber cham-ber in a powerful arc-light beam the larger particles were seen to fall vertically, ver-tically, while the finer ones fell out of plumb and away from the light. The angle of deviation was stated to be about that to be expected on the radiant radi-ant push hypothesis. Temperature of Furna. The temperature of a furnace may be determined by means of a small carbon filament incandescant lamp, fitted inside a telescope mounted on a tripod some distance from the furnace, fur-nace, and pointed at an aperture, says Electricity. When no current is passing pass-ing through the filament it appears as a olack line against the background of white-hot firebrick. Aa more current is sent through, the filament becomes brighter, until when it attains the same color as the glowing furnace It is invisible. By a further increase in current it becomes visible again The value of the current is read on an Instrument, In-strument, and a comparison with a table gives the corresponding furnace temperature. Unbreakable Glass. A German named Louis Kauffeld, has invented a new kind of glass which will neither crack nor break. It may be chilling in Ice-cold water and then placed on a blazing lamp without any resulting injury. A lamp-glass lamp-glass made of this marvellous material, mater-ial, remarks a contemporary, may, in cases of emergency, be used in place of a hammer to drive in nails, or put down oilcloth, or break coals, or even as a life-preserver, it makes no difference dif-ference to the lamp-glass, which remains re-mains uninjured. Water placed on a vessel made of this glass can be quickly quick-ly brought ta boil. Fin Brakes. Fin brakes for a steamer are said to have given satisfaction on the Canadian Ca-nadian boat Eureka, 103 feet long with 12 feet draft, 250 tons. Amidships on each side are vertical fins or flaps 3xl0 feet made of -Inch boiler plate. The fins are hinged, and when they swing open are cushioned by water cushion cylinders, four for each fin. . From a 11-knot speed the boat was stopped with great suddenness upon openins the fins, and by using one fin was "turned in its own length when going at full speed." - Natural Colored Silk. Recent experiments in France have shown that the yellow and green col' ors possessed by the silk spun by certain caternillars are due rr rnlor- f ing matter derived from the food, and passed through the blocd of the spinners. spin-ners. By impregnating leaves with artificial colors the experimenters caused some species of caterpillars to produce silk of bright orange-yellow and fine rose hues. By the aid of the spectroscope the presence and nature of colored pigments in the blood of the little animals was established. Before bread is cut for thin sandwiches sand-wiches it should be buttered. In a little town situated in the heart of the Rock Mountains there dwelt a community of Individuals who delved for gold and other valuables in the daytime, and at night sat around in the various places of resort, exchanging lies, or devising schemes to get rid of their hard-earned gold without receiving a quid pro quo. In plain language Kokomo .was a mining town. A murder was committed one day, and the murderer was caught red-handed, red-handed, or, rather, he caught himself, him-self, for he did not try to escape, actually sending a messenger for the sheriff, while he guarded the corpus delicti himself. It was well toward evening, and the thermometer had taken a sudden fancy to drop twenty degrees below zero. There was absolutely no way of escape for a criminal, and when the sheriff escorted his prisoner to the jail he did not worry about the insecurity in-security of that structure. "Jim," quoth he to his prisoner, "I hain't got no key, an' can't lock you up, but it's my duty to put you in Jail, for If I don't somebody will accuse ac-cuse me of bein bribed, besides it's thunderin' cold, Jim. Tell you what you do, Jim, if you git too cold, come over to Sample's, where I'll be, an' warm up." Saying which he shut the door on the prisoner, who did not appear to be much worried over the situation, but apparently he became cold or lone-Bome lone-Bome for later on that evening he left the narrow precincts of his prison, quits unconcernedly, and started ou. to find his friend the sheriff and get warmed up. The sheriff at that particular time was enjoying a game of billiards at Sample's saloon, with the judge of the court, the clerk and about twenty prominent citizens, standing, or sitting sit-ting around a red-hot, big-bellied stove, watching the game. The sheriff sher-iff had massed the balls in a corner of the table, and was about to make a shot when he felt his arm touched. Turning instantly, he saw his prisoner prison-er with an anxious look on his face. "Well, Jim," said he, putting down his cue, "wnat is it?" "Nothing much," replied Jim, "thought I'd come, over and warm up. But say. Bill, if you'd made that shot, you'd a missed. Give me the cue and 11 run the string out." The others consenting, Jim took the cue and not only run the game 'So I stooped down Out, but made a string of about a hundred hun-dred over. Everybody at that quit the game and gathered about the hot stove to discuss the man who had handled a cue in that fashion, all agreeing that he ought to possess some redeeming trait, although he had Just killed Bill Jackson. The judge, after ordering hot whiskies for the crowd, set the pace for Jim to tell about it. "Thar ain't much to tell, Judge," said Jim, "but I don't allow it war my fault. Bill Jackson has alius had it in fur me. I alius seemed to be gittin' in his way, an' the more I tried to 'keep away from him, the more I ran agin him. I never seemed to git along nohowr I was alius the under dog. Bill declared I was his hoodoo. He said I was a nightmare, an' it made him shiver only to see me around. He swore he would kill me if I didn't keep out of his way, an every time he come across me on the DOESN'T RAIL AT RAILROADS. Senator Pardons Much, Remembering What Father Endured. There is a senator in the General Assembly who always declines to complain com-plain at the irregularities of railroad schedules, or to sigh for the future day of trains always on time. That senator is R. J. Wilson, who was president pres-ident of the last senate. He has been in the senate for fourteen years, twelve of them consecutively. The reason that Mr. Wilson never complains of late trains is that his father, the Hon. A. M. Wilson, .who is still living, was a member of the Arkansas Ar-kansas Senate before the day of railroads, rail-roads, and his stories of the hardships of travel in the olden time have imbued im-bued his son with the more practical Idea that it is better to have a bad train than no train afall. Mr. Wilson, Sr., was a member of the Senate from Washington county in 1848, twelve years a'ter Arkansas was given statehood. There were no means of travel then (esrpt in a few stage lines between principal points) but horseback, Washington county Is street, not thinking of him at all, h just up an' fought me an I alius got "Well, this evenin. along late in the afternoon, he run into me as I was turnin a corner, an' he Bwore I did it a-purpose, but how could I? Then Bill says: 'Damn you, I've got you now where thar ain't nobody looking an' I'll just kill you an' feel easier.' With that be draws his gun and says: 'Say your prayers, if you've got any, afore you git sent over the range whar you'll never come back to bother me. I didn't keer much about whether I was dead or alive, but just at that moment I felt as If I wanted to live, so I stooped down without thinkin an picked up a rock that happened to be layin thar, an' dashed it at him. I didn't have no gun npr anything else about me, an I had no thought to kill Bill. I jusi threw the rock for luck, an it happened hap-pened to slam him In the face. That's all thar is to it, judge." "Jim, was Bill dead when you left him?" asked the judge. "I don't know, judge," answered Jim. "He fell down when the rock struck him ; that's all I know about iL I ain't no doctor, but I opine he was unconscious or he'd a shoL" "I suggest that we visit the res gestae," said the clerk of the court. "Second the motion." said a town councilman. "Let's take suthln hot first; it's on me. What you goin to have, Jim?" In a few minutes the party returned to their former position around the hot stove, and after quiet was restored, re-stored, the judge spoke: "Mr. Sheriff, open court." This having been done In the usual fashion, with the preliminary command, com-mand, "Hats off, gentlemen; court's is session," the clerk called the case of "the people gainst James Burley, charged with the murder of William Jackson." A jury of twelve was then Impaneled Impan-eled and the defendant interposing no objection the prosecuting attorney examined witnesses, who testified to the finding of the corpus delicti and the defendant's admissions. Jim repeated his story, and volunteers vol-unteers on his behalf testified that a careful examination of the res gestae disclosed the fact that a big rock lay beside the dead man, and that in his hand was a gun, on the trigger of which was still pressed a frozen finger, fin-ger, one cartridge of said gun being empty that is to say, the one upon which the hammer had fallen when the trigger was pulled. Joe Bowers, a policeman and a former for-mer cow puncher trom Arizona, after qualifying aa an expert, testified that Bill Jackson must have been ready with his gun before the rock was thrown, for the reason that the gun without thinking.' -w-vs 1 A rinirA ViAAn r)sont, " V v A CZ. V 3 UrjCli til A1 11 - l.ll CHS stooping to pick up a rocsrrifi the ground. That it was impssible to tell whether Bill Jackson was killed by the rocc thrown by the prisoner or whether he had frozen to deatr while lying unconscious after he felL Further, that, in his opinion, it was a special dispensation of Providence that Bill Jackson was to die before Jim Burley, and that it was a mere accident, if not a clear case of self cefense. The testimony having all been adduced, ad-duced, the judge charged the Jury, who returned a verdict of "not guilty" without leaving their seats. After shaking hands with the prisoner pris-oner and congratulating him upon his acquittal, arrangements were made to bury Bill Jackson, and the judge and sheriff resumed their interrupted game of billiards, with Jim Burley as referee. Dupont Vicars in Chicago Record-Herald. about 200 miles from Little Rock, lying about midway between Fort Smith an the Missouri line, and bordering oa the Territory. When Mr. Wilson, the elder, canu to Little Rock to aid In framing sonu or the early laws of the state, he rodi horseback the entire distance, the trip requiring six days. He swam rivers riv-ers where there was no ferry and orten picked his way through almost impassable mountain ranges. Now, when the present senator thinks about saving something unpleasant of the railroads he thinks twice the second time of his -father's experience in the torties. Little Reck (Ark.) Gazette. , Market Price of Liquid Air. The current market price cf liquid air in Berlin, where accompany has-been has-been formed forits production and sale, is 36 cents per" litre, or nearly one and three-quarter pints. As Others See Us. Simkins "Bilkins is a man who always al-ways sticl s to tre truth," Timkins-"Yes. I've noticed that he never lets any of it escape him." ti-. |
