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Show - ' rs; T I 4 , 4 ITH WELL DRESSED MEN (Ayr $kfj 'tifj zriic ,i, 7Cs." said Man-ft-r John J. Murdoch of Calc ago, "1 'Once t In the late .... .had. been klklto JhJfWktkJhe south, with a company which had the m to go broke at Selma, Ala By methoda which it might he to recount tny partner and I worked our way over to St. Ixmla. We arrived In the Mtsscrart metropolis with 5 cents as our joint cap!- taf- - In My partner had been reared the town of Troy. N. Y and the first day In St Louis he ran across a professional swimmer who bad been a schoolmate of his in Troy. The swimmer had been working In a 8t. Louis natatnrluni, but had been discharged thfi day before we got to town. He bad a total capital of 0 cents, which, after due consideration, be put Into the common pool. He also hsd a partner, who had no money at all. as The four of us lived as long possible on the money in band. Then matters became desperate. We bad tried to get work of aonie kind, but had failed utterly. Finally we held a sesalon at which the following scheme was evolved: The grocers of St. Louis had arranged for s grand excursion on the river. It was agreed, after a long discussion, that we should raise as much money as possible, buy tickets on the steamboat, and start on the When the boat was a excursion. good distance out from land my partner waa to give a last despairing wail hnd Jump overboard. The professional swimmer, who was to he on the upper deck, waa to throw off his cost snd vest, unloosen his shoes, and leap overboard to the rescue at the cry of 'Man overboard. My partner waa a good swimmer, so w figured that nobody Involved waa running much risk. "When the professional had beaten fny partner Into submission in the water and a boat had put out from tha steamer to complete the rescue we had arranged that 1 who at that time ran strongly to silk hats and red neckties should take off my silk hat, drop the cash we had left into It, and collect ns much money as I could among the paaaengers for the ostensible benefit of the heroic rescuer. . We managed to raise IS, and spent - ;7"rT I)"- '! -- S rH jIJ3SU-V- C . J - W.t When Fathsr Spears for ''r afta. learned what waa the matter. The at hi heel minute the professional swimmer AnMe sotagaln way doan uauu the crl k .board his . unAnpn dragged, .partner, fKtke jut jrtr t r who hsd been holding his clothes, He drope hie haekel on the ice came staggering down to the spot. An cute a b! round hole "Here's your clothes, BUI, said Then ehovee hie great big eel spear them the inebriated partner, throwing Hitched to a twelve-lopole, down on the deck. "Murdoch's got a An then he abs It In the mud. fw lc. than more not hatful of money already and I'm tired AnSometimes eel out will come a mo-focarrying em around. no the. be. 'Somebody 'who waa wtse "enough an Jab, to get on to the scheme heard tha Then pa will Jab an poke walk around the hole, remark and be successfully pumped A An face. emits upon hie grtexled the drunken man till he gathered the Contentment In hie soul. whole yarn. Then he spread tha An by an by he II give a yank. Whenever one he feels. Until hes filled hie banket full Uj frosen coated eela. An father eaye he pltlee them Ea cant go out an' apear A meal uv vlttlee threw the les In, -- Like we can do down here. eeia. He s out Mystery of Lost Sounds eminent scientist noticing the sounds In which way mysterious sometimes are lost to apace recently undertook an Intel eating experiment in s balloon. He found that while till within talking distance of earth all sound of the human voice was quenched to tbe mere Indistinguishable hum of the human hive. Eqaally lost waa the striking of eloekt and ringing of bells, but a dog's bark rang out clearly. So, also, the bellow of s cow far out in some field would pens trate above the babel of a busy tows, while screeching of railway whistles pierced the sky up to three miles and, gathered to from vast areas, often reached an Intensity positively painful. The etrangest of all acoustic phenomena is the unaccountable silenr which sometimes ensues when sound is to be expected. In many cases it has been proved that, speaking liter ally, tbe lost sounds Issuing from s point on a aeacoast were not extinguished, for they were heard distinct ly farther out at sea. Heavy salutes, unbeard by people within twenty or thirty miles have been plainly aud ible at a much greater distance, and this apparently not to a direction favored by the wind. The scientist who conducted the balloon expert ment offers the theory that condl tions of the aerial currents rather than the direction of the wind are phenomena, responsible-Through a certain upper stratum, measured by many hundred g1 of feet, An v Asleep Under tha Straw. tory of our put up Job and the crowd which bad been contributing began to clamor for our blood. They took tbs hat away from me and rati me into that dark hole. The rest of our crowd were served in tbe same way. "Once in the early j70s, aaya Mr. Murdoch. "I was a member of a lib tie theatrical barn storming company which waa playing the little towns in New York sad At Granville, Pa., our Pennsylvania. manager 'jumped' tbe town with tbe total proceeds, amounting to $8 or flO, leaving us to get forward as best we could. I finally was sent ahead to Jamestown, Pa., to see what arrangements could be made to show there. By telling a sad story of our misfortunes and enlarging on tbe dramatic abilities of the company I finally perauaded tbe school committee to allow us the use of the school-hous- e on condition that they should hare the first money taken in from tbw.asle.f'f . tickets,--The- hotelkeeper was' also persuaded to take bis chances on getting his money after tbe performance went betk to Granville and by pawn tog two silver watches we raised enough money to hire a farmer to drive the company over to Jamestown to a bobsled. I remember that he first put a big feather-beinto the led box. On that tbe members of the company knelt down on either side and on top of us all straw was heaped oa until nothing could he seen but here and there the top of a cap or bonnet At any rate I went to sleep five minutes after we started out and never have I enjoyed a more peaceful and restful sleep than on that fourteen mile drive with the thermometer fifteen degrees below aero. 1 had made arrangements to Jamestown for the daughter of the town blacksmith, n girl named Mur-phto. furnish ihe music on a new piano the first to tho town, which her father had Just bought for her. On arriving at Jamestown with the company I soon learned that there was a bitter feeling existing because another girl, who had always played for dramatic companies on the So we been overlooked. to two with nights, play arranged Miss Murphy as the orchestra on the first night and the melodeon girl on the second night. As a result we had two huge 'houses and I got well started on my first experience as a theatrical manager. "At that time tbe Better class ot melo-deon.h- .for-thes- atmtt .hA-ta- j otw UiAv-- U4 strong and biting, and dead oppossd to the main broad current. .The copious commingling of dry, colder air with the warmer and molster Find the scientist maintains, was necetsar-ll- y an opaque sound barrier, nd when allowance Is made for casual but powerful there would seem no difficulty to accounting tor fickleness In the travel of sound. Oriental Paper-Makin- g. the matter of making and using paper w- - are not to line with the Chinese and other Asiatics, who not only make the flneet paper to the world, In but apply It to all sorts of uses, mak- ing window panel," fans, umbrellas, sandals and even cloaks and other garments of It The art of making .paper from mulberry bast la said to have been Invented In China to the second century bamboo shoots, B. C. Afterward straw, grass and other materials were also used. The manufacture spread t to the adjacent countries. Tbe Arabs learned It to Samarcaad, and their learned men carefully kept secret the process by which they made paper for their own use. The crusades made Europe acquainted with the art, andjhe, first paper mill to Germany dates from the twelfth century. To this day the process of to the east la simple and apparently crude, the fibres being torn apart with the fingers and the palp pressed to some such primitive contrivance as the one here illustrated g paper-makin- RatoofRats. A very strange phenomenon has occurred to Algeria, to the distritf spectacular dir Into the river, round about Bougie, during the pa"Instantly the paaaengers were all a cyclone, which wrought ssage of rail to crowded the attention. They much damage. The natives who hid and - watched every motion, The come to to the town relate that durtg swimmer reached my partner In a the atom there was a regular hail of to heat moments and few pretended rats and mice. The story, on the him over the head so that he might ot it, appears Improbable, but fie The captain be safely handled. witnesses who testify to its truth e ' boat stopped the steamer, and a so numerous that some amount if pulled off for the rescue. As soon credence must be attached to it It la as the two conspirators were pulled stated that the rodents fell to such was Into the boat It my turn to come great quantity that during the qua-to the front I climbed up on to ter ot an hour that, the phenomena the railing, took off my silk hat all the fields were infest. lasted threw the last three dollars we had Some of the rats and mice were fount Into it and called upon the passen- . Impaled on the pointed stakes gets to contribute liberally to a fund ployed to separate one piece of lam fur tbe hero who had risked his life from another. The question natq. to rescue the stranger. The re Playing the Piano, aposse was Instantaneous. Almost companies playing the email towns ally arises: Where did the anting come frqmf srarybody put In something, and traveled in big red wagons, usually an dollars set silver three horses or from large aiy farmers hiring their Result of Lightning 8troke. example which was quickly followed. livery men along tbe route. Not long" On the night of May 2 a storm pa, By the time the boat with the rescu-- er ago than 1SS5 t remember meeting ed over Gaithersburg, Md.. the lltf. lug party on board reached the an actor w bo was still running a red a'eimer I had over a hundred dol-- , wagon show through the central part nlng striking a large red oak tree th stood about thirty feet from a vaeaq tars in the hat and ! had only begun. of Iowa." house. A large slab was torn fro Out of tbe corner of my eye I saw one side and was broken into sk the two dripping figures pulled up Carried Bullet Long Tima. and hundreds of smal oa board. Then something happened. Abraham Eisier, recently admitted large pieces ones, tome thrown a distance of forty Somebody hit me, tbe silk hat, with into the Buda IVsth workhouse On pieceNtwelve feet long Wa content, was polled out of my has far fifty four years carried yards went entirely orertSe house; on. hands, and I was hustled Into a dark a bullet in bis head which he received struck a large tree near by, and th and cramped little bole. while fighting In Vie Austrian heaviest, ten feet long and weigh !C 1 and la fragments "PreenUy i - , - - . . . (alma-house- ), - It 1 true that there is very little variation to men's dress and that the masculine mind is ant rather to do as others do than to affect any decided originality. The Suburban for one of the last provided occasion gatherings- of society 'before the watering place season. A month ago at Morris Park and at the Brooklyn Handicap men were still in Bpring Tht "Taximeter Cab. .ow they are beginning to attire. Public automobiles in operated Berlin run at the same tariff as the exhibit their summer clothes. Adrian Jr , droschkles, which go by horse power is tall Iselto, and thin that ia, about seventy-fivcents an and his mestacbe hour. Like most of the Berlin public ve- and hair are gray. hicles and those of other German He ia wearing a gray suit in the cities, It Is equipped with a taximeter. This device to a clock whose small very much on the speed Is accelerated by an odometer attached to the axle of the cab. The style ot Mr. Vanrevolutions of the wheels mark ths derbilts. The coat, distance traveled, and according to however, ia made th.a distance you pay for the use of more in the new outaway style, and your cab. The clocks face ia divided Into preference is shown for the tall, one hundred spaces, representing straight pfennigs. The minimum face la fifty collar andstanding black pfennigs, and the clock hand starts Mr. at the fifty pfennig mark. When you Uelln wears a have traveled a distance which acstraw hat with black band. sat to the legal schedule is cording Jack" follansbee hag a very neat chargeable at fifty pfennigs the clock flannel ault of dark gray, with a hand jumps to fifty-fivsnd It condarker running through It The stripe tinues to move as the wheels revolve. If your cab stands still the hand still coat is the cutaway. Mr. Foll&nsbee wears the flat brimmed straw hat. goes, but at a slower rate of speed. William K. Vanwore a derbilt Costly Nest For a Rat Panama at From a double handful of tattered the races on the day pieces of green paper Major J. F. Finof the Suburban. to ney, the bead of the It is very large and New York, (s trying to determine is a genuine and whether the government owes the papers owner a fortune or nothing at very expensive hat. Mr. Vanderall. bilt baa quite a The fragments are all that la left of a hidden store of greenbacks p r e f e r e n ce for which V. H. Lavlgne of Riverside, N. The sack gray. be suit which J., found the other day to a barn wore on that Sathe bad Just bought. He waa looking over the building wheu a big rat urday waa the coat jumped across his feet. He found the breasted. hole it had come out ot and looked single Mr. Vanderbilt Into it To his amazement he saw a sears the large pile of bills flattened out against the sides of the hole, as though the turndown collar and the narrat had been nesting on them. He row knotted black reached to and pulled them out, but they fell to pieces In his fingers. m v p(er" - F.' C61W Mr.' Lavlgne- - brought the pteeds- - ifi Major Finney for redemption. Ha wore a very dark, almost black flanthinks" they are worth about $5,000. nel ault, with a greenish stripe. The nr-'l- s ever,' " that the coat was made to cutaway style. possible, money la too badly torn to be worth - The .very extraordinary costume of E. Berry Wall has been described. In anything. detail and effect It was the moat red ' markable thing seen at tbe clubhouse. Sheep. In the Camaroon district of Africa The cloth from which the ault was are thousands of remarkable sheep, made ia one which la exhibited freand the Germans who have settled quently In tailors there say that they are useful domes- windows. It la a tic animals. large gray shepThere are two species, one being herd pl&id check, black and white and the other white reminding one of and yellowish brown, and they all dif- the fer from the ordinary aheep In the Paisley shawl. fact that they are covered with short The trousers smooth batr instead of with wool, the were extremely rams being the only ones among wide, but tapered them which have, a thick fleece at the ankle. They around the neck. were turned up A few of these animals were re- several Inches to cently imported Into Germany, and display white are not attracting much attention and highly pata w-there. varnished patent leather hoots. Estate For Orphans Benefit. But the crowning The will of Dr. George W. Ramsay, glory of the get-u- p waa a dust coat of who died to Washington, Pa., a few reddish Havana brown, an extraordidays ago, la one of the most remarknary shade for suiting. able documents of the kind ever placThe coat waa made aa a modified ed on record. A valuable landed es- Weller, such as Phiz has delineated tate ia held to trust for his grand- in the old editions of Pickwick." niece. At her death the estate reverts There were wide, flaring skirts and to the corporation of Washington great pocket with flaps. county, Pennsylvania, to be held in - A colored shirt, collar, trust in - perpetuity for all indigent aright red carnation-cue- d the red tie, orphans under 14 years of age who shading Into purple. . are descended from the father of the The smallest of testator. After 200 years all orphans dinky" brown derby hats,, such as born In the county of the age named one associates with tbe appearance of are to become beneficiaries under Mr. Chevalier In the Coster Serethis - provision, the same as literal nade," completed the outfit It waa to descendants. The estate will undoubt keeping with the races, and when the ediy .be very.. valuable In. HQL cool breezes began to Wow; Mr. Wall looked very comfortable. Cat Fad Its Mistress One very remarkable costume was Mrs. 8. H. Love of Oral Oaks. Notworn by one of the Hempstead men. toway county. Vs, vouches for this It was of deep story of animal Intelligence and devivid brown. The Mrs. and of wife Love the is votion, coat was a cub a Baptist minister. away, with wide For some time she has been In very exirts and pocket to realHer cat seemed poor health. A very flap. ize her condition and aemed also to mall, narrow-brimme- d decide that something must be done straw about It. Instinct taught the animal hat and a red tie that something to tempt the appetite with waa of first importance, so she turncollar were worn. ed her attention In this direction. Hamilton Carey Almost every day sinte that time wore n very dark a or has cat brought the partridge gray flannel, the young rabbif and laid it at the feet coat cut square of her mistress and coming well over the hips, yel - Nod Made Will Lsgat. low nankeen waistIn decided Church has Surrogate coat, dark tie, the contest over the will of Mrs Virand ginia Wilde to Brooklyn, that a nod straw hat. of tha head was sufficient to dispose S I d n e y- - Smith Wllcle left a small of an estate. Mrs. waa In gray check, estate to her daughter, and her eon black When tbe will contested ths will. and was executed she was suffering from straw hat - with a throat affection, Which made it diffiblack b&nu. cult for her to apeak. When the will canary-colore- d kid glove la anThe to accordance with was prepared one of the fads of the summer, what the executor believed were her other are made with one butwishes tnd was read to her, she nod- Thesenotgloves and are rather a ton clasp ded her asent to Its provisions and smart go very well with gray signed It, the executor guiding her aml blue.They and even with brown, and hand. New York American. 1 fotyr-in-han- sub-treasu- d four-in-han- , , Parti-Colore- - d four-ln-ban- . i are much better adapted for general outing than the gray- - suede so long ia favor. At the Suburban nearly every other man wore these gloves. Reginald Vanderbilt, blue flannel, with a dark stripe, sack coat, three button single breasted, all around col tie, lar, dark green four straw, with black band. . - V. . .. Gates was In a yellowish brown suit, alin ecru ia o a t shade, Panama bat, and dark four tie. Harry Pay n wore Whitney blue serge, dark with plain, flat- brimmed straw het The long semi froca. soml cutaway coat has not taken The majority of men are wearing a apee'ea of - coat, single or double breasted which Is made on the lires of the old pea jacket. It is cut square, is not as snug, In fact it is and has nore cloth almost tne length of a Norfolk jacket, without, of course, the belt and the pleats. William C. Whitney has a dust coat of warm Hat ana brown. He only wears this when the air becomes quite chilly. His suit at the Handiwas black cap cheviot, doub'e breasted coat, cut to the fashion of a long pea jacket, d e Pa seems contented with hie lot. An never wants for male; ma Cue when he ain't ' - - ot v -' about seventy pounds, struck against the closed shutters of a window, broke through shutters, sash and glass, tarrying all away, tore a large hole to the ceiling, then crashed Into window frame on the opposite side J. The timber. dolpg the . room, damage was d "stump piece," and had pijn of root to it, the ground endhaving struck the house first. To this it was thrown upward at an angle of about thirty five, degrees, as the hole in the celling shows. This eeips to prove that the lightning passed Upaard from the earth to the clouds and not in the other direction. - -- - d at Ed- an hn When pork an lamb an An other mean run ahorl. An there aln t nothin l the hour To eat uv any rl Then dad wilt n hi eel iwar out -- v.aovetvSaJL He Lsapsd Into the River, $ for four tickets for the excursion. - Ths miaute the-boleft the dock they commenced aelllng beer. The barroom occupied moat of one of the decks, and everybody In sight helped himself, paying or not for what he gut about as he pleased. As a result of this freedom the partner of the professional swimmer, Who had been on short rations for several weeks, drank more than waa good for him. as we afterwards learned to our l row. FUully tha steamer reached a place in the river where we thought it t Fv to spring our great scheme. My t irtner Jumped Into the water, .pad the maa on the lookout raised - the cry of Man overboard. At the word the professional swimmer, who waa located on the upper deck, threw off his coat and jrest kicked off .his 'shoes, leaving all his" clothes In charge of his partner, and made a i r d and a black Frederick tie. Geb-har-d wore a dark gray suit, sack, almost the shade of London smoke, dark red tie, and flat brimmed straw hat. The four-l- band does not lose a n whit of ita popularity, summer advances, the bow ties will again come into fashion, but it is more than probable that these will be reserved for evening or dress, the colors as always, in this instance, being white or black. New York Times. semi-evenin- g Two Good Irish Bulls. The Philadelphia Times gives two of Irish bulls. Dr. good Bamplee O'Hague, health officer at Minneapolis, when recently to Philadelphia at a gathering of medical men, became engaged to a discussion of the dangers resulting from impure drinking water., jns c j? he the said, Why, typhoid fever bacilli call for the most diligent attention if the health of a community Is to be conserved. They are so small, gentlemen, that a handful of them could- - be placed on the point of a - needle! Still another bull la contributed by reader, says he overheard a street car argument between two Celts the other day concerning the Spiritualistic leanings of the late Ferdinand J. Dreer. Well," said one, he moight have e been a bit foolish an belaved in an the lolke, but he knew enough to have himself An do yes be thlnkln that's a good thlngt asked his opponent Why, man I do that! Whin yes is yez can have the ashes pdt in a little tin box an carry em around in your vist pocket wid yez. ban-she- A Baa Horse Caught Among the curiosities gathered at sea by tbe mate of the schooner Me-roIn port from Port Tampa, was a specimen of a sea horse, which be found to a bunch of sea grass he pulled on board while the Merom waa to the Gulf of Mexico, says the Balt) more Sun. The fish is about 4 inches long, and has a head and neck shaped like those of a horse. The mate kept tbe fish alive in tea water for two days, but it then died. It waa preserved by drying to the sun. The sea horse is rarely caught The mate' of the Merom said it was the first he had ever seen. Dictionary makers apeak of the sea horse aa a. fish with a head like those of a horse and. the hinder paxta. .Uke those - of a fish." Tbe Nereids were said to have used aha horses as riding steeds, and Neptune to hare employed them for drawing his chariot There la nothing fabulous about the fish that arrived here. There are now two specimens of tbe tea horse to Baltimore. -- 4 Still Active. Though close upon 70 year of age Mr. Baring-Gould- , the author of more uooka than any living Englishman, Is y as .upright as he was thirty years ago. He attributes thls erect-nes-s to. his Invariable custom bt writing at a high desk in a standing position. Mr. Gould always writes with a quin pen, and hie manuscript Is not beloved by printers. As a relaxation from literary work Mr. Gould, like the late Mr. Gladstone, often spends a couple of hours chopping down trees. Baring-Goul- d to-da- Midweek Holiday Planned. u Merchants to Spokane, Wash, are considering a midweek half hoUdiy. The midweek half holiday is already an institution in some parts ot Eng, bakland; butchers loaf one ers another and candlestick-maker- s another," and to on through half-day- half-da- all y the shopkeeping professions. Mo-chant- and laboring men have the Saturday half holiday, working half an hour extra on other evenings to obtain it jj M fjM FMfUA |