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Show Martyr Chiefs of Russia. iNvevnoN. of on Atom. How Urge is aa atom? "Perhaps tb simplest though not the moot exact wap of arriving at a rough estt-mat-e of tbo size of atoma la bp mesa-rintbo thickness of a . 11m, where tt la as tbla as possible Just before It bursts," saps a writer, "Such a lira, if composed of atoma, must be something like a pebble wall. Now, a pebble wail would sot stand If It were not several pebbles thick, and if we had reason to suppose that tt was about a doxen pebbles thick we could easllp make an estimate of the else of a pebble bp measuring the thickness of the wall. That Is the ease with the thinnest region of a soap-Bin- . It Is found to have a eery defl-nit- s and uniform thickness. It la the thinnest thing known, and bp refined optical means Its tbtcknesa can be tccuratelp measured.' It must contain aot leu thaa something like a doxen atoms in Its thickness, and pet It la of aa snip about the Inch la thickness bp direct measurement; so tbst tbs diameter of en atom comes out between one and one of an inch. In other words, from about 200,000,000 to 00,000,000 nf atoms can lie edge to edge la a linear Inch." g aoap-babbl- twentp-milUont- , o h Automatic Compass. If. Helt, a french Inventor, has de- vised a new type of compass, which fa of aa automatio nature. The direction of the compass bp this arrangement la automatlcallp registered minute bp minute, so that bp consulting the chart the sblpa officers can ascertain the route traversed at anp . time during the passage. The com-pu- s card, lastaad of baring at its center aa agate resting on a fixed steel point, la fixed on a steel pivot which rests on a fixed agate. The Utter Is Immersed !a a drop of mercury. which serves to conduct the current of electricity that makes the registering of the movements of the apparatus possible. i A Domestic Mpatcry. Teacher wee explaining the mesa tag of the word recuperate. "Now, Willie," she said, "If pour father worked bard all dap be would be tired end all worn out, wouldn't her "Tesm." "Then when night comes and tic work U over for the dap, what doet ha dor "Tbet'n what ma wants to know." Brotherly Leva. "Marie, what do you want for n birthday present "A piano. "And you, Donald, what do you r wantr "I want an automobile, so as to be able to get out of the wap quickly when Marie begins to pUp." No Cause for Alarm. "Such conduct," said the teacher to rebellious pupil, "will eventually bring your fathers gray hairs la nor row to tha grave." "Dont you believe It," replied the Incorrigible youngster. "The governor weara a wig. See? Information Wanted. "Are you going to merry that naval captain T" askad Margie of her grown ap eiater. "Yen, dear," waa the reply. "And it he should die," continued Margie, "will you wear seaweeds end be a mermaid widow?" Ply Pishing. tbe handle. A smell projection In tbe handle p reverts tbe bars from swinging too far forward, bnt tends to bold the grate always la the position here shown. Tbe patentee la Ell Shupe, of Wia. Ha-du- e, - - Pending Habits of Salmon, "Why do salmon take a fly?" asks Horace O. Hutchison In bis new book on fishing. "This is a question often asked, tbe more so as scientists tell us that salmon do not feed In fresh water a statement which, however, cannot be acre; ted by anglers. This is not a scientific treatise on the subject, but wc may fairly ask scientists when we see salmon caught with worm, prawn or mlrnow (which they often take Into their gullets as a trout will do), what they are doing with them there? That salmon are rarely caught with anything in their stomachs Is quite true, but tt may be that tt Is only the hungry firirwhlch take a C y or a bait, and those whose atomaths are empty. Or tt may be that tbe salmons power of ejecting food Is so great In tbe struggle to free himself that be ejects everything In bis stomach. Well, then, w by does ha take a fly? Is tt from curiosity? Tha fact of catching him with natural bait. Which be Is attempting to swallow, Is conclusive evidence that be does feed 111 fresh water." Sawdust Ships. Sawdust lendv itself to msny usee, not least of which seems to be tbe making of the new petrollmlte. er Stone wood, which Is interesting shipbuilders in England. France and Germany. This material la a mixture of sawdust with certain minerals, formed Into slabs under hydraulic pressure, and Its special claims srs noninflammability and freedom from lipperlness when wet It makea decks safe to walk upon and partition! that do not burn. 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I wrote It Kot Deed, but Gone Before, and its B low In the paper." The Doctors Scrawls. Druggist But I advertised for a prescription clerk. Yon ssy yonvs bad no experience In tbe drug busi- ness? Applicant No, but Im just tbe mas for you. My specialty has been Egyp tology, and I'm great at deciphering hieroglyphics. Subscribe Now COALVILLE TIMES And get all (he local and county news ONLY $1.50 A YEAR BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM in the COUNTY Our Office la Veil Equipped lo de All Kinds of f JOB WORK and can glee you good service on short notice. Prices TT just Right' ts THE Coalville Times O Uee-entse- -- ... FOR THE O asites." Proepekt Then as to tbe grown-uworkmen. man The who thus "lifted the dagToo Gonerwus. continued Alexeyev, "tre They, If he did not Wiggins likes to bear hlmsuL ger," wss the man "stir a citys re- driven tnto tbe most miserable existafterward widely ence. Seventeen hours 4 volt," talk." work n day known In as "Yea," answered tbo sarcastic per In New Europe as aa litterateur, and and hardly 40 kopeks (25 cents) for'it England lecturer, under son; "It wouldnt bo so bad if hi horrible! And while the necessipseudonym of "Stepniak"tba Its of life are so didnt Insist on trying to share tH the ties dear, one has to proman on the whom, occasion of bis luxury pf bis conversation with sonw visit to Boston In of this scanty w ages for ones out vide 1893, that acuta and one else." family and bis paying of taxes." Tbe prisoner went on to complain Why He Objected. of the practical serfdom under which a. the workmen were compelled to exist punished for daring to read books, exiled to Siberia for daring to ask for an Increase of wages. The presiding Judge, who had grown more and more nervous during Alexeyevs speech. Orally ordered him to stop. But the prisoner raised his voice yet higher in eulogy of the young revolutionist. They alone." be cried, "have stretched out their brotherly hands to us. They alone have responded to all the groans of the peasant, wailing under the yoke of despotism. And they alone will march with us all tha time until tbe workmen will lift up bis sinTbe Lady But. my poor man. yon Here tbe weaver raised ewy arm" must surely object to the company yon and, despite tbe courts defirst his .STEPNIAK meet In the station cells mand for "Silence! shouted at the KRAVCHINSKY. Gritty George I do, mum. Dare of bla voice, "And tbe yoke oT deswas a couple of rich chauffeurs locked careful judge of men, Phillips BrooH top potism, supported by the soldiers baynp for tost driving lest sight, an delf did not disdain to visit onets, will fly to shivers I" soft talk mads me sick. Philadel- friend. For this speech, which created treStepniak lost his life as tha phia Bulletin. mendous feeling in Russia, . being of a railroad accident many times clandestinely published peseonal memories of Pacta In tha Case. republished. Alexeyev waa exiled and Spence Watson, tbe member of hi "But wasnt yon brought up to Yakutsk province of Siberia for the to said: ."He aa one of work?" asked tbe kind lady who bad liament, After bis prison period bad ten years. rare mta whose personal influence staked tbe tramp to a handout h expired be became a "free colonist." and from communion "Dats wot 1 wut. lady," replied tbe magnetic, Ills end was hardly less tragic than hobo. "De las time I wus brought us whom you never come away nnsT thst of tbe exile who committed suide Judge put me lev work fer ten fled. Hie was a mind capable of kT: cide or goes mad be waa murdered acute and profound thought ThS$ days." , by the Yakut savages. -- oi OOOOOOOOOOOOO.OOOOOOOOOOOPO fellow-workme- ! Toasts Both Sides, tratlon. It has many advantngan and la a very simple and convenient uten alt Tbe toaster proper la similar to those now in use and Is pivotally attached to two parallel barn. Tbeae bare are again pivotally fastened to was coupled with this mind body ot ' powerful build, admirably disciplined. He was strong, true, single-minde; that relate to the history and prog- earnest for the truth, wherever It may ress of the revolutionary movement. lead. When the news reached tbla The Oxer's government expressly for- country that" Mme. Slglda bad su bids the publication of news relating combed beneath tha cruelties and Into political conspiracies, attempts at dignities she bad suffered, Stepniak assassination and trials of revolution- suffered terribly. I then saw tbe ists. Some of the most important In- great man who bad been tbe moving cidents of thin description have been spirit of tbe great terrorist movent' compressed by tbe Russian papers tbe war of revenge against the opInto mere local Items; even foreign pressors by tbo oppressed tbe stern, correspondents. In order to send off bold, determined avenger of tbo wrong their news, -- have been compelled to done by brutal power. It was ji take train to the Bearcat frontier. grand, a terrible revelation!" Since tbe recent war reverses la "Only of middle height, if not shortthe east the Russian censorship baa was nncommonly broad both, in er, en somewhat relaxed, especially 1 shoulders and from chest to back, tbe regard to messages sent abroad; while bis thickly set arms, bands, legs, step forward was sign allied feet, seemed to have been made of cast iron. On this herculean body n big bead, with dark complexion, jet black hair, mustache and beard tbe two latter somewhat curling and deepeut, large, but manly, features rested. It might be taken for that of a Russian gypsy but for the openheartedness of Its expression, while unbounded energy flashed from Its beautiful, flaming dark eyes. Such la tbe description, given by hla prison friend, Volkhovsky, of Peter Alexeyev, tbe weaver, who, born aa Illiterate peasant In a 'village ot tbe Smolensk province, taught himself at tbe age of 1C or 17 to read and write. Becoming familiar with the revolutionary literature of Russia, he joined vycT?A propaganda movement, and at the SASSULtCM the age of 0 waa already working la it whoa the 8L Petersburg newspapers with nil the ardor of a novice. were permitted to publish long His plan was to travel from one of the assassination of Von wearing mill to another, spending Plehva. Yet in one respect the em- enough time la each to Inoculate hla bargo of the nutocratlo system upon n with the microbe ot news still remains. It continues to be political discontent He waa finally impossible in Russia to publish bio- captured In Moscow. At the trial be graphical sketches of revolutionists made n speech which la memorable In and their doings; as, therefore, the the revolutionary annals. retask of supplying such Information fused tbe assistance of a Haring on banister, tolls exclusively upon the under- tbe ground that tbe verdict bad been ground" press, clandestine literature arranged beforehand, be proceeded to obtains n circulation, even among the deliver a crashing Indictment against official classes, which the very prohi- tbe autocratic regime. bition of tt makea llterallyjinormous. While we ere only boys of fi years One of the classic Incidents of the of age," said be, "we are placed under revolutionary movement tu Russia la that associated with tbe name of Vyera Bassullch, for, though there lad been acta of revolutldnary violence before ber time, there was somethin! in her act and ita conditions that entltla ber to be called tha pioneer of tbe modem phase of terrorism in Russia. And when, la February, 1878, she took upon herself to punish Gen. Trepov, the chief of 8t. Petersburg pol'ce, for bis cruelty Jo a student a bora he bad H n t t r t ,1 of iefohaU ibiibiSi tiiO bCtr 'i. Otfk ha with applause, but also with delig&t. The Russia of the sevenths came within an ace of convincing (be subjects of tbe Cxar that they were born slaves and must remain so. u 1873 1 alone some 1,500 propagandise were arrested and subjected to the agony of "preliminary detention." Of the total number oaly 199 were brought for trial, while about seventy-thre- e died, went mad er committed suicide. As tbe years went on, administrative tyranny grew la severity; TOTCK protests were crashed with reALEXEYEV volting barbarity; oppression In tbe fACTOR- Y- WORKMAN prisons gave rise to hunger strikes. ANP For a while the Instigated of these DEVOLUTION IS T. abuses, Gen. Mesentsey, head of tbe atate or secret police, waa enabled to tbe supervision ot adults who, Parana bta plane for rooting oat the means of kicks and tbe rod, accustom widespread disaffection which pre- us to being overworked; spy food Is vailed. But In 1878 be was earned that If the government took the life good enough; we are choked by dust of Kovalsky, a revolutionist, then un- sod air polluted with all kinds of filth. der arrest at Odessa, hla own would Any place la suppose" to be good for us to sleep In; we have to pay the forfeit Kavalsky was ahot enough on the floor with no bedding lie down two and days liter the sentence of or covered with some rags and pillow, the revolutionists against Gen. y was "executed In the Kevsky attacked by myriads of swarming parts leap-yea- r ssa " Among the clandestine literature sow being circulated broadcast Is Russia are tbe leaflets end brochures ab-oth- A Useful Toaster, Every woman who ban to do tha cooking baa at different, times received burns by contact either with the fire or from the beat of the utensil she Is using. Very often these burns are serious and leave scars which esn never be effaced; but the pain caused Is the main consider atlon. 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