| Show Z JONATHAN AND JOHN should jonathan and john ran fall out the world would id stagg er from that boutt bout with john and jonathan as one the worlds great peace will have begun with th jonathan and john at war the hour hou r that havoc hungers tor for will strike in ruin of blood and tears tha rho world set back a thousand years with john and jonathan sworn to stand shoulder to shoulder det hand by hand justice and pece shall build their throne prom from tropic sea to frozen zone when jonathan and john forget the sear scar of an ancient wound to frat and smale to think of an ancient feud which the god of the nations turned to good when the bond of a common creed and speech e ec h and nn kindred d r binds them each to each and each in the others victories the pride of his own achievement sees seea how paltry a thing they both will know that grudge of 0 a hundred years ago ag how small that blemish of wrath and blame in the blazonry of their common tame fame charles G D roberts in the january century seasoning lumbar by electricity A new process is announced for seasoning wood by electrical action the timber to be treated is put into a quadrangular ran gular tank of liquid immersed to rather more than half balf its depth and an electric current applied through a metallic conductor so arranged as to distribute it throughout the area and it is stated that in a space of four minutes the sap begins to exude at the lower end of the wood in six hours it is all extracted the wood is then placed in another tank from which a septic solution is forced into the pores by an elec tro capillary method if says the builder this process has successful results at a cost which will not be commercially merci ally prohibitory it nay may prove of great importance nore equipment for baltimore ft ohio the improvements that have been made on the baltimore and ohio railroad during the past pnat two years have rendered it possible to operate cars of a heavier capacity than have been in use in the past part and the receivers h have ave just ordered from the pressed steel company of pittsburg 1000 steel co coal c cars r of a capacity of llad adach pou pounds a each these cars cam will be used for the seaboard trade and are expected to be in service during the early part of 1899 in addition to these cars the receivers have also ordered from the pittsburg locomotive works 50 60 more of the consolidated locomotives with anch cylinders advantages of the nicaragua canal captain writing in the january century of the advantages of the nicaragua canal summarizes some of them in this wise when the divide between the atla atlantic and the pacific is cut through part of the waters of the lake which for untold ages have flowed east cast to the caribbean sea will flow west to the pacific lake nicaragua covering as it does nearly square re miles becomes not only apart a part of the water route itself but a grand reservoir located exactly where it is most needed at the summit level thus it will be seen that while nature has not quite opened through nicaragua a complete water route to the pacific she has pome come very near to ft t in fact of all the routes forr for an canal that have received consideration it must be admitted that so much has already been accomplished by nature toward this end that the work which remains for man to do will be f far ar less than by any other route electrolysis of water ppe A curious state state of things was observed recently in observing the electrolysis tro lysis of water pipes in dayton ohio in which it was found that stones and pebbles near the pipes in some cases seem to have ben been b en electro plated with the metal of the pipes which one of the experts believe has never been observed before surprised the PAr Pra laas all the french papers are caught by the fact that the five jk american merican commissioners appeared in evening dress at the last nights session of the peace commission when W en the american delegation first arrived in paris the madrid papers spread throughout europe the report that its members were ill mannered ill dressed and without pers onil servants that in a word they looked like a company of personally conducted tourists ambassador mansons Mon sons recent reference to american diplomats ip komats had revived the french phrase shirt ls hirt sleeve diplomacy so that the co comme m m e il falat ap appearance barance of the americans I 1 can 9 in the f final na fac scene ene of the negotiations tic ns made quite an impression on the public mind the explanation la is found in the simple fact act that the commissioners had bad dressed not for the signing of the treaty but for a dinner party to which they were invited for or the same evening but that humdrum circumstance thus far has hag escaped the parisian newspapers he tall we offer one hundred dollars dollar reward for a any mae ease of catarrh that mat cannot bo be oared ed by hall cataro cum y F J CHENEY CO CX toledo a we the 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