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COLBY, THOMAS COUNTY, KANSAS, THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1885.
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"CHESTNUTS."
Oh, there's nothing now under the sun,
Anil ei cry conceivable pun
Vou mlirht And ir joti liKik,
In Mjme cunfouiiflcd l)oo!.
Written j car itijo,
Ju the Greek.
Ftlll the world will Insist on Its inush,
It mii!.t hap its allowance of chair,
.Anil the funny man' col
, Umn or bright, mirhruljol
Llty's due, a j ou know,
Every week.
Tlicn a curse on thee humorists old
Who so long ajro told and rttold
Eery po-sible jest
That some one cries "Chest
Nut!" whenever j ou tay
A bright thing.
Meanwhile let the old Jokes be renewed
Onthe plumber, the Ice-man, the dude.
The j ouijrf wife's squash pie,
And that faithful Mand-by
Of the humorist gay
Gentle Spring.
Loubtitte Cmiricr-Julirnal.
MONEY FOR MILLIONS.
How Treasury Notes Are
graved at "Washington.
En-
Thlrtcen Hundred l'eople IVho Make
8350,000 a Day Eiery Finished
Sfoto Counted at Least
I'ifty-tno Times.
"A little boy who saw one of the heavy
Trea-ury wagons rolling down Pennsyl
vania avenue yesterday asked this ques
tion: "Papa, where does money come
from?" Most people- know where their
money goes, but the question asked b
the boy is perhaps not so easily an
swered. E cry Government or bank
note we handle tells us that it is print
ed at the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing, but there is something singu
Jarly vague and indistinct even in th's'
announcement. Ihe historv of tin
i History of the
-s to us clean and
iment pre-s is an
bank note which comr
crisp from the Go ernni
interesting one, and those who visit
Washington and fail to go to the place
where these notes are turned out mi-s
something which is well worth seeing.
The Hureau it.-e'.f is right under the
fchadow of the Washington monument
a large brick building, not unlike a
factory, except in elaborate ornamenta
tion, and gay with fluttering ilags and
tricolored streamer-. It is compara
tively new, haling been erected by Con
gress in 1880 in order to relieve the
overcrowded condition of the Treasury
Department, in which the work of pre
paring money had, up to that time,
been done.
When it is decided by the Treasury to
issue a new note, the Kiirraiinsr Hureau
is notified and the Superintendent di
rected to prepare a design, which he
executes in pen and ink, the drawing
oftentimes being as. fine and delicate as
till StlU'l iMKrivivifwr it-1f Tl.:.. .1.....
tin; Snerit:in nf Hm. 'IV..., ",..-. .,;,.. i.:.'
approial. and the drawing is" handed
over to the oiigraversplc:f-e note the
plural, for no one plate i- engraied bv
a single person. One man cut- out the
portrait, another the -croll work, while
yet a third attends to the ornamenta
tion, and so on, until at la-t a doen
persons have had something to do with
the preparation. All the-c men arc
experts, the Go eminent pitying hand
some salaries an 1 -paring no pains to
fcccure the best talent in the market. Jt
takes a long time to engraiea plate.
For over two mon h- the engraver- w ere
at work on the picture of the late Pres
ident Garfield, which is to be seen on
the new five dollar bill-, and 3 eta
fifty-cent piece would coier it
From priiate manufacturers the steel
plates upon which the notes are en
graved are bough, their linene-s of qnal
ltv ami dim fi'i't lii.i.Ii ,-... . 1. .;,..r i....
extremely co,tlv. Havino- en "rave 1 the
faces of a single note it ii casv to obtain
as many duplicate impre-sions
needed. The -te-1, soft when engraved
upon, i- hiudened in a firebrick fur
nace, an intense heat being obtained
from four ISunsen gas-burner- at a cost
of ten or fifteen cents for gas. In thirtv
minutes the plat-' is hardened iiiion !.
Upon this a roller of soft .-teel i- pre -ed
and the softer metal sinking into the
grooves of the hardened plate receives
a raising impression. This roller in turn
is hardened into a die, and in being
pressed upon a soft plate the latter bc
coma- a perfect fac simile of the origin
al. This is what is calied transferring.
AU of the dies, rolls and plates are han
dled with the greatest care, as wou'd
be seen in a few minutes spent in-ide
the grating which surrounds the engrav
er. The Superintendent of the engrav
ing division draws upon the custodian
for such articles as arc needed, each ore
being numbered, and giving a separate
receipt for each piece received. 'I he cn
graiers, in turn, give their receipts, and
thus there is not a moment when a
piece of steel, no matter how small, is
not accounted for, or is beyond the pale
of some one's care. When the day's
work is over, the engravers surrender
their plates to the Superintendent and
the latter deposits them with the custo
dian and obtains a receipt
The vault is nothiug more nor less than
nn immense room built of steel plates.
The door is of iron, and it lias three
Jocks, two of which are separate combi
nations and the other a time lock.
The two combinations are known to
one man each, and should either die
suddenly, an envelope which is in pos
session of Secretary Manning, and in
xvhich the combination is contained,
would be opened. It is estimated that
there are 40,000 pieces of steel in the
vault, and that their combined weight
is fifty tons. Every piece is numbered,
and can be easily found, some plates
being preserved which haling nothing
more on them than a mark of the en
gravers tool. The capacity of the vault
is estimated at 60,000, and when it is
filled, a committee is appointed bv the
Secretary of the Treasury to select the
plates which are deemed worthless and
sea that they are destroyed.
The paper used at the Bureau does
oc&me-directly from the mill. Tor
Jrf "-""t-v mm v,vjufctvsu MOO tKJ ucuiauu
. the Treasury, where it is stored. It
R .j, ' a Tery fine and heavy quality of pa
tt jier, grayish in 'color, and irregularly
? - msrlcml wifTh 1hrkar!e f i;wl onrl Uiia
riflfc The rwraisitioii .states f or what
r Kijjff'-ioo uio vaner-u tu 00 uteu. uhh;
bills, 4.000 for $10 bills ami 2,000 for
?2U b'lls. JJufore these sheets are
turned over to the Superintendent of
the wetting di won they are counted
by a force of women specially employed
ior inat purpose. LMmpening tlie pa
pcr and making it mellow for theim
preasion is nn important part of the
uork. The -hecU are placed between
wet clothes in package-, of ten or fif
teen each, and permitted to remain ocr
night, requisitions being made in the
morning for the number of sheets re
quired by each plate printer, who has a
woman to assist him.
The printers .-tart work at eight
o'clock. They ink the plate-and revolve
them on the press, while the duty of the
woman is to rub the paper w th'a damp
cloth, place it on the pros-, and rcmoi e
it when it has recehed the impression.
Few of the printer work later than
three o'clock in the afternoon, and on
completing their labor, make a return
of the number of sheet, printed and the
number left o er. In order to prevent
delay at the elosi' of the work, the
printer .-ends liisaheeN in instalment? of
two-hundred to the ollice of the .Super
intendent of the printing divi-ion, and
he i credited with them on hi-. pa5
book. The-)P sheets are not counted in
the ollice, but are sent in locked caiej
to the Examining division on the lloor
below. Here au entry is made of the
number claimed, and a few moments
later the r.'port of the counter is
placed opposite Should a printer wish
to leave the building before four o'clock
he is furnished witli a pass upon
three persons having certified that upon
actual 'examination that he has ac
counted for eery sheet intrusted to him
and returned the plate. A coupon on
the pass is sent to the ladies' dressing
room for the printer'.- assistant; with
out these cards no printer or assistant
can pass the watchman at the door-.
should fouro clock arrive and no sound
of the gong be h"ard, it is then under-
st()od 7,,., sometll-n;r is wron,,. ic'r.
ilaps it j, only ollu sh,,ot ()f );l'1)er t,al
is mi-sing, but tint 1 satisfactorily c-
eounted for and receipted for. all of the
employes are kept in the building. The
supervision is icry -trict. It is not often
tnat mistakes of this kind occur, anil
when they do it is generally found to be
in the counting, wlreh fail- to make the
day's work balance. It is naturally
pretty hard when thirteen hundred peo
ple have to suffer for the mir.takc of one,
but it is only by a syst -m of such rigid
di-ciplinc that" the "woric can be satis
factorily performed.
And now where are we? In the dry
ing room, to which the -beets t"ill
moist from the pre e.-, are com eyed.
This room is perfectly air tight, and i
heated by steam to a temperature ol
iWO degrees Fahrenheit. Here the
sheets remain ocr night, and on the
following morning are counted by ex-pert-,
who al-o look for imperfections.
If there i- a Mot as big as a pin- head,
a fal-e regi-teror a. slight tear.the papei
i s thrown out and
tlie initials ou tin
I 'or!:Cr " ,lM',";'"y f
I f , imperfect sh-c's th
for the
rown
out by the l:r-t examiners are after
ward- gone over by experts who deter
min" whether the defects may be rem
edied or whether they are of sullicient
importanc to warrant the destruc
tion of the sheet. 1 he imi er
fect sheets are held for two or
three days, and are then sent
to the Loan division of the Secretary
ollice. where thev are destroyed by the
De-tniction Committee of the Trea-ury
Department. After tlie notes have gone
through the driing-room they art.
rough and corrugated. What they now
need is to be poli-hcd. Th's is done by
placing he rouijh sheets between the
mill bo.i'ds two sheets, back to back,
between each board. They are then
placed between hydraulic rain-, which
exert A pros-tire of five hundred pound-
I '? t,lu s'lu:lre Snch- AVhu taku
tIle, l,re"s '" ,are nooth and
out of
ei i.-i).
and resemble tho-e in circulation pv
eept for the fact that they lack the -cals
and numbers. 'J he .cal- are printed
from steel plates in red ink upon regu
lar Hoe pres-es. The notes are then
taken ujvsta rs again and numbered.
Ihe numbering machines, of course, are
automatic, and will go vi as iiirh as
100,000,000. Th" letter and characters
before and after tae number on the
not-, while serving to identify the
scries, are intended mainly to prevent
the unauthorized prefixing or aflixing
of other numbers. "
Now you have your money complete
except for the fact that there are four
note- to the sheet. These are trimmed
anil separated and recenc thejr last
count beforo being done up in packages
for transportation to the Trcasiuy De
partment. From the time t'-e blank
paper is receiied at ihe Hureau until it
leaves as a finished note it 's counted
fifty-two times. It is carried to the
Treasury Department in a w agon which
is litera, ly an it on sa'e on wheels and
which is guarded by -everal men. Tlie
amount of money completed every day
at the Pttreau averages alwitt -?2o0.000.
The employer, seem" to forget after a
while that it is money they are hand
ling. They know, of course, that they
must constantly exercise a great deal of
care, but ln-yond this are evidently not
very deeply impressed 11 ith the value of
the material winch pa-scs through their
f-ngcrs. And so you have some little
idea of how money is made an awful
lot of bother, isn't it? Washington
Cor. Brooklyn Eayle.
He Was Too Intelligent.
Judson N. Colt is one of the most
conceited men in Texas. Not long since
the sifter, while taking a ride out in the
suburbs came across "Jud" Colt, as he
is familiarly called, h'd'ng behind a tree.
"What are you doing out there?" he
asked.
"I am afraid the Sheriff will put me
on the jury in that big law case."
"But j-ou are exempt because you are
a fireman.''
"I know that I am legally exempt,
but I'm afiaid they'll take me anyhow.
I heard one of the lawyers in the case
say he was going toliave an intelligent
jury if it took the last man in Austin.
J-iic trouble. with me is that lam too in
telligent for this town." Texas Siflr
ings. , -
BERMUDA'S PECULIARITIES.
Neither Soil Nor Water, Animals Nor
Ulrd-i. Only Coral.
In no other part of the world, I think,
lid nature show such supreme niggard
iness as here. She gave the Bermudas
leither soil nor water, neither animal
ior bird, neither fruit, vegetable nor
lower. She simply conferred the most
delightful weather under the canopy,
md then stood oil' and said: "Such
iveathcr as that is a b nmtiful out'it, if
vou i"on't get another thing.'' So it
ias proved. To the prue weather all
itiier things have been added by vis
itors. The only wild animal known
here are the rat and the mouse, brought
by -.easels; tha casual and oleaginous
whale, and the bat, that has blown
icro-s the Atlantic by accident. There
is no game whatever, and never has
been. Ofbiids, the splendid c irdinal
of the tropics is here. The blue robin
of New England is here, piping as
bravely as ei er. The cat-bird has put
in an appearance, and so has that even
greater nuisance, the English sparrow,
the pirate of the winged world. Two
Spanish bird-, the 'chick of the vil
lage" and the pretty ground dove.
move quietly about And that is all.
Not a natiie bird among them.
I haic said that nature gaie Bermuda
no soil. Ignatius Donnelly think- that
the-c island ; and the Azores are the re
main- of Plato's fabled continent 'ho
last jot remaining above the .-e;i af.er
the frrc.1t cataclysm of one hundred
thousand years ago buried the rest of
the c( ntinent with its splendid civiliza
tions forever. In that case, I should
Mippo-e there would be -ome real soil,
-omeroek-, some drift, some sand, some
clay, some alluvium, -ome vegetable
mold. There is 1 ery little of the last
and not a bit of any of the others on
these i-land-. There is not clay enough
for a pipe, or sand enough for a sand
glass, or a stone big or little nearer than
the coast of Georgia. There is nothing
heie but groun 1 toral icef-, carbonate
of lime, digested and tlepo-ifd by that
mucilaginous and shapcle creature
called the coral "in-ect" This i-1 ind
is as white a- so much chalk, and about
as ban en. Water soak- into it like a
sponge, and five minutes after a sharp
sh 111 er one can go out walking and find
neither mill nor moisture a'lywliere.
On sirae lowlands this comminuted
coral, with the iiiture ot elements it
has taken up, is" not as hard lis el-e-wl.ere;
and here it is occasionally culti
vated by the adnfxture with the soil of
a large qirauity of fertilizer from Amer
ica. It can absorb unl'mitcd cargoes
of these stimulant-without haiingits
life much stiirel by them. Tickle
this coral re -f with a hoe ever -o xir-
oroii-Iy, it never laughs with a
ii.iricsl; and after you nave poured
into it oeea.iS of poudrcttc and do-ed
it w.tli foam and bound poultices
of warm ground upon its stomach, it
oily -miles a faint and gha-tly .-mile.
But, under these circunis'ances, potato"-,
on'ons, tomat'.es and lily bulb
are planted, ami, if they can clasp root
lets around anything softer th in a cast
iion -toie lid, they grow. Some things
.row in a warm climate without much
encouragement. I nv this week a
tamar'nd tree as large as a good siz.ed
New England elm, fiat had been torn
up bi a hurricane long ago, and stood
on its veiy top, its root- pointing
toward the" sky. The branches that
stuck into the ground put forth root
and gaie the wreck a new anchorage,
while the upthrown roots reverted and
-et forth new l'mbs, and the dense
mass of foliage now -hades the ground,
and invites the stilL fruitful giant to
forget its disaster.
'lhere is no fiesh water on the island
except what conn's direct from the
clouds The -ky is the ci-tern of Ber
muda. The hou-es ate all built of the
coral that is quarried in beautiful wh te
cube- f:om the ground anywhere,
s cming lit for the sculptor's' chisel;
then every house is roofed with slant
roof of the same and furnished with
abundant tanks. In thus ' the rain is
gathered: and the tanks are i-o icry
clean, and tho roof is so very white and
the air so icry free from du-t that the
water is the purest in the world cold
aiid pellucid as if diawn from the
(lioice-l mountain spring. I neiersaw
stHi delicious water anywhere. Nature
knew what she was about when she
omitted the Burmudiaa springs. Cor.
Cincinnati Commercial Uazcllc.
WILLIAM PENN'S RAPACITY.
The Dr'aware Flsliiut; Our.tlon A Grant
tli it Has llecn Disputed Tor Two Hun
dred Years.
The Delaware fi-hery quc-tion is an
example of the cases which have made
even lawyer of prominence in New
Jersey an antiquarian, with all sorts of
curious facts at his lingers' ends. Ex-Attorney-General
Robeit Gilchrist en
gaged in the fishery case in 1878, and
he has been associated with Cortland
Parker, John P. Stocktoi, cx-S.'cretaiy
Frelinghuysen and other.- jn its dis
cussion, and Secretary Biyard has
championed the claim- of Delaware.
Mr. Gilchrist's connection with the ca;e
has made him curiously familiar with
the times of Charles II. and with the
peculiarities of the Duke of York and
that "ab'e politician" William Pcnu,
who seems to have been successful in
getting almost anytiing he wanted
from the Duke until the latter ran away
from Whitehall and threw his great seal
as James 1L into the River Thames.
One of the strange phases of the Dela
ware claim to exclusive privileges on
the River Delaware and Delaware Bay
is that its people, or some of them,
fought the claim a hundred j-ears ago
and up to near the beginning of the
present century repudiated the guileful
Quaker's claim;. Mr. Penn was a
grantee under the Duke of York as
Jerevman, and a claimant from the
same somes in Delaware and Pennsyl-H
vaaia. j.ne jersey grant, in .1003-04, re
newed after the Dutch defeat in
1674, was made to Penn among
other.--, and the claim for Delaware was
subsequent to anil fccon-istent with
tbiE New-Jersey's titles to landwere
eontirmcdial70iandIytheEevo ntion.
De!kwfe'sclIm tn-tlnlftafiircr nrivf.
rla5d:totLtafkJersey
'iH;irorthe. sattheTjiiverdsnC
tained the grant of Pennsylvania, but
when he arrived he found" ten Sivcdns
in Delaware occupying the fair water
front. He fixed lustful eyes upon the
place, and at length got a grant from
the Duke of York for the town of New
castle and all that lay within a twelic
mile circle thereof. The Duke, unfort
unately for Penn. had no rirrht to mnkn
j that grant, his brother, King Charles
Having never given it to him. Penn
evidently understood the deficiency in
the grant, for when the Duke became
King he got his dec I redrawn, and it
passed through the preliminary stages
and needed only the King's great seal.
Just at this juncture King James
thought London was getting too hot for
him and ran'away. It is recorded in
an ancient chronicle that "during an
unguarded moment that able politician,
Penn, confessed to the Board of Trade
that had King James remained two
days longer at Whitehall he would have
obtained a grant under the great seal
for the three counties of Delaware." In
1708 the Delaware Assembly knew that
t'enn had a claim on the counties, but
denied its legitimacy, anil before that
the King and council had repudiated it
There was a war over the possession in
17;7 between Lord Baltimore's men and
the Penn tenants, and again the council
decided that the province belonged to
the crown; and in 1794 the people of
Delaware theinselves formally, at a
popular election, decided that the crown
ha I pos-csscd the State until its claim
had been transferred by tho Revolut'on.
It has seemed strange, therefore, that
the Penn grant should be made the basis
for a claim in the rher, which had been,
in fact, always possessed by the crown,
or general government a fact the Dela
wareans had used violence to maintain.
The Penn grant, which was never
really granted, has therefore been a
.subject of dispute for just tn o hundred
and two years. Rejected at first by the
residents of thccolony, admitted to be
void, fought by Lord Baltimore "with
drawn sivords,'' fretfully alluded to as
a source of trouble by the Delaware
Assembly one hundred and fifty years
ago, formally repudiated by the "King
and Council, rejected again by the Del
awareans, further invalidated by the
Resolution, it might have been consid
ered as dead as the wily Penn himself if
it had not come forth as an argument
upon the question of who owned Pea
Patch Island in the Delaware River forty
icars ago, and had not then been mis
understood and mis'onstnied so that
Delaware was able to lay some claim to
its genuineness, and, a few icars ago,
set up that it was. as heir to Pcnn'-
priiileges tho sole po-scor of juris
d'et'on over the Delaware River within
twelve miles of Newcastle, and has the
right to make Jcrseymen pay a licen-e
for fishing therein. An infitnct:on of
tne United stales Courts has sustained
operation sinee, and is admitted to be
effective still. The end is not yet, for
the case is not fully ad ju-ted. It affords,
at least, a glimpse of carl' colonial his
tory which is not without interest
Trenton (A1 J.) Cor. X. . Tribune.
LACK OF CONFIDENCE.
ISrother Gardner DNcourtci I'pon the
Tendency of 1'enplo to Itenall Their
Unfortunate Condition.
"Dc ole man Peters war obcr to my
cabin, las' nite," said Brother Gardner,
as the lamps were turned up for busi
ness. "He sot and sot, an' his com
plaint was dat he had lost all confi
dence in human natur'. Some one
promised him a two-shillin' job o'
whitewashin', but before he got aroun'
to it de people had employed anoder
artist.
"Uncle Ben Johnson war in to see me
de o Ider Sunday, an' he had al-o lost
all co-ifidence in de world. Some ono
had gin him a twenty cent piecj fur a
quarter, an' he ain't gwine to look fur
hone-ty in any human bein' arter dis
"De Widder Cloiertop war wecpin'
when she entered my doah yesterday
afternoon. Somebo ly had started do
story dat she sold her coal stove to buy
herself a pa'r of silk stoekins, an' she
declared dat she would nebbcr no
nebber. expeck to If ar an' one speak
de truil" agin. She was ready an' w.llin'
to believe de world chuck full o' liars
an' slanderers.
"I has heard mo' dan one member of
dis club sot down wid a grunt of de
spair an' groan out agin dc world.
You hasn't had a fa'r show; luck has
bin agin you: you hcv bin robbed an"
deceived by your friends, an' so on to
de eand.
"Now. my frens, de fack am dat
human natur' was nebber any better,
an' probably not much wtiss, "dan you
liud it to-day. Fhe hundred y'ar.s B.
C. men told'lies an, indulged in false
pretenfes an' cheated each other in a
lioss-trade. Women gossiped an'
slandered an' plaicd hypocrite, an' if
ion bought a crock of butter from a
farmer it was jit as apt tc have a stone
in tie bottom as not. Dis drapnin
down on a cheer like a bag o' sand an'
groarnn' about de wickedness o' man
kind am time thrown away. You do
your full sheer of lyin' an'cheatin' an'
deceiviu', an' 3-011 shouldn't squeal
when some one gits de bulge on you.
Tai- yer debts, but don't pa)' until de
hills am sent in. Tell dc truf, but keep
'nuT back to hedge on in case you put
i-er foot in it Be candid in ye? speech,
but doan' tell all yer know fur at least
a week. Use ye'r naybnrs right, but
kc?p a club in reserve fur back-yard
nuisances. Let us now purceed to at
tack do bizness which has assembled
us togeder." Detroit Free I'res3.
The Cremation Society of England
have issued circulars to the effect that
they are now in a position to undertake
the cremat'on of bodies at Woking, in
Surrey. The chief practical object'on
to this new-old method of disposing of
the dead is that all traces of poison fe
loninusly administered would be de
stroyed. Th's is sought to be guarded
against by the rule of the Society, that
two medical certificates as to tfie cause
of death must be produced before they
can consent to act The cost of crema
tion is, as. stpreceat.fixed. under twelve
luuon amim. w J. a Vfll, f H
IKW- HUM . JMINt mtM M JWX- WMU-
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THE WIZARD EDISON.
Harnessing w KIcctrical Thoughts to
Practical Work.
I found Mr. Edison last week in his
laboratory on Avenue B, anda-ked him
what was the newest thought that he
had harnessed to matter. "This," he
answered, and called my attention to a
board hanging by ono edge to ropes
above our heads, its surface covered
with tinfoil. In further explanation he
aid: "That solves the question of tel
egraphing to running trains. As soon
as that little deiice is adopted every
moving train in tho country will be
come a telegraphic station, and anybody
aboard the train may be telegraphed to
as easily as if it was stinuing still.
This will not be done by putting up a
new set 01 wires, unuer tne tram or at
its side, but by using the ordinary tele
graph now running by the side of the
track. It is a new, and hitherto un
known, process of induction, by which
I mike electricity jump thirty-five feet
tnrougn the air, carrying the message
without spilling it How's that for
Iiiely?"
The inventor's face glowed with
pleasure at the thought as he went on:
"By putting up this tinfoil-covered
board lengthwise on the top of each car
I can catch a message from the wire
strung on poles thirty-five feet off, and
can fling an answer back to the wire.
It requires no change in the wires of
any sort. The secret of it is in the
machine for transmitting. When I was
investigating what I called the 'etheric
force, a few years ago I accidentally dis
coiered certain curious properties of
static electricity. These I have now
applied. Tlie process is very inexpen-
sh c. as three iupd could equip a road
:500 miles long for 1,000 in three or
four days. It seems certaiu that its
adoption will be run from headquarters
and every passenger will be accessible
to his friends. What do I call it? I
haven't named the baby yet."
Mr. Edison looked exceedingly well,
although he was robed in a gown of
beil-th king reaching from collar to
ankles, which was not very picturesque.
At the Edison factory in Goerck street
a new pa-sengcr car of the elevated
road is be'ng equipped with the electric
motors which are to take the place of
the present steam locomotive in the
early summer. The car is turned bot
tom upward, and two dynamos weigh
ing about 1,000 pounds each are ad
jured to the under side in proximity to
the wheel.-. Ono dynamo driies the.
four" forward wheels and the other the
four rear wheels. Every ear is to be
similarly rigged so a- to bear its own
motive power. A train of four cars, in
stead of having one sixteen-ton locomo
tive, with two great driving-wheels, will
have no locomotive, but even- one of
fhe thirty-two wheels will be a driving
wheel. The eight dynamos will we'gh
about as much as a locomotive, and
thev will all respond to the touch of one
conductor. Mr. Bachellor. in charge
of the work, tells me that one car can
be run alone in the easy hours, while in
the crowded hours ten or a dozen can
lie run in a train, and that they can
reach a speed of twenty miles an hour
in the first 300 feet after starting. Mr.
Ru-soll Sage, whom 1 saw yesterday,
feels sure that the electric motors will
enable ti.e aerial roads to carry one
third to one-half more passengers than
they are now doing, and that the trains
will be much more safe and manage
able. IF. A. Crojfut, in X. Y. World.
FIVE NOTES OUT OF FOUR.
Nimv Dei Ire of Rascals to Cheat the Gov
ernment. Homer Lee, of the Homer Lee Bank
Note Company, talking with a Tribune
reporter recently, remarked that there
are no Government issues of paper cur
rency or money from which the red
numbers can not be removed by chem
icals except the postal notes This is
one of the reasons why it is possible,
under the law making any fragment of
a note over three-fifths redeemable at
its full value, for rascals to make five
notes out of four. That was reecntly
nccomplishcd here and the Treasury
cheated out of one hundred dollars,
though the process is not generally
known. The old way was to take five
notes and to cut each one in two pieces
straight across the face. The cuts on
the different notes would be represented
by these lines:
From each note a different piece was
taken aw.iy to make a new note, and
the remainder patched together. The
difficulty in this process was that it
shortened the length of the note. The
men who have been at work in this field
lately made a pattern of irregular shape,
something like th's. cc'i part repre
senting exactly one-tift'i:
The irregular tearing; by this pattern
is calculated completely to deceive the
Government officials especially if the
numbers on the patched notes are re
moved by chemicals and made to cor
respond. The attention of Congress
has been called to the danger to the
Government under the- present law as
to redemption, and it may be changed.
There is, however, a remedy .in the
present law which places a heavy pea
airy on the mutilation or alteratioa of.
Government.mofc;'-aa4,tJte kBewtoffs
or.thajfaetig likohr'to prerest many
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Tho barbers are almost alone
among the tradesmen in the United
States in having no union.
Citron raising is receii ing attention
in Florida. The fruit pickled in brine
is worth a hundred and fifty dollars a
ton in the London market.
A California Judge has decided
that a man can not recover damages
from the parents who ejected him from
their hou-e for frightening their baby
into spasms while attempting to
kiss it.
Josephine County, Oregon, pos
sesses a natural curiosity iii "ne
of a subterranean eai ern. It is a d
in the mountain.-, south of Grant's
Pass, and has never been thoroughly
explored.
At the annual sheep-shearing in
Vermont the heaviest ram's fleece
weighed twenty-eight pounds thirteen
ounces, and the heaviest ewe'.- fleece
weighed twenty-one pounds nine
ounces. This, it is claimed, exceeds
the record at any public shearing.
There are one hundred and eighty
two genuine collectors and dealers in
autographs ir. the United States who
prey upon the long-suffering states
man, actor, soldier, or man of letters,
exclusive of the thousands of youths
in training as album fiends. A". Y.
Sun.
The sale of copies of the Vienna
AUgcmeine Zcitunrj, one of the best
conducted and widely known news
papers in Au-tria, has been for two
years interdicted throughout the Ger
man Empire. The decree has now ex
pired, and the sale of the paper in Ger
many is enormously large.
An Atlanta man claims to have
discovered a new principle in hydrau
lics which upseis tne oiu theory mat
water will not rise in a vacuum more
than thirty-three feet. He says he can
pump wafer any distance required, and
partially proves his assertion by pump
ing it 600 feet without a valve and on a
direct vertical rise.
The most easily photographed animal-
are cats. They arc easily kept
quie ami their cye-are nft so restless
as those of a dog. When their atten
tion is concentrated their gaze is more
direct and absolutely motionless than
that of a human befng. A lixed eye,
not a glassy stare, is the thing to bo
attained in a photograph. Chicago
Time.
Something new in leather is the
tanned and stamped buckskin for
men's riding suits. It is beautifully
marked, and will not fade. Over a
hundred styles of this article are shown
at the New Orleans Exposition. Thcy
are worn for riding pantaloons ami
jackets in some parts of Mexico, and
are worth two dollars and fifty cents
to three dollars each. Ar. O. Times.
Robert P. Clayton, United States
Consul at Para, Brazil, sends home a
twrg and leaves of the Brazilian gold
leaf tree, which are described as per
fect gems of beauty, unsurpassed by
anything in the vegetable kingdom.
They arc the color of old gold, and
present the appearance of the finest
quality of.satin, one side of the leaf be
ing a shade darker than the opposite
side. Boston Statesman.
A farmer loaned his dog to a man
to whom he had sold a flock of sheep
to drive home, a distance of thirty
miles. The drover found the dog so
Useful that, instead of sending him
home, he locked him up. The dojr es
caped, and, concluding the drover had
no more right to keep the sheep than
to lock him up, he collected all that had
belonged to his master and drove them
home again. Chicago Herald.
A resident of Statcsborougb, Ga.,
heard a noise out in his barn the other
night, and ho took his gun and slipped
out. He saw a man standing at the
door of the barn, and, as the moon
was shining, he took good aim and
fired, but the object never moved, so
he fired the other barrel and called for
his wife, and when she came they went
and found he had shot twice at his own
shadow. Louisville Courier-Journal.
A very profitable business in these
hard times might be done by leasing
ragged children to people seeking par
dons for penitentiary birds. One woman
in a Western State is said to have
"worked" a pardon out of a Governor
by going to him with eight children
whom she had temporarily "adopted"
from charitable institutions. After the
pardon was got, she returned them on
the ground that they "didn't quite
suit" Detroit Free Press.
It is said that the seas on the Aus
tralian coast are heavier than any
where else in the world. For hun
dreds of miles black, beetling cliffs,
from four hundred to six hundred feet
high extend without an opening of any
kind into which a distressed ship might
ran for safety. Round the baseof
these cliffs the crested hills of angry
waves surge and roar, swept along
with terrible force by winds born at
the Southern Pole, and which, career
ing over thousands of miles of sea,
have encountered lands here for the
first time.
A noteworthy incident is reported
to us in connection with the preva
lence of scarlet fever here. In a house
in which one child had died of this dis
ease the little one's clothes were put in
to a back shed to await farther atten
tion, and in the meantime they were
tumbled about and played with by a pet
dog. Soon afterward the dog was taken
crazy and had to be killed. A cat also
in the same .family was affected in a
similar way and had to be killed. The
animals undoubtedly contracted the
disease by coming ill contact with the
clothing. St. Albans (Vt.) Messenger.
On the Sandwich Islands an almost
exclusive substitute for wheat and pot,
toes is the taro, a bulbous root some
what larger than the potato, growing
in the mud and water. It is the princi
pal article of food of the natives. It ia
eaten baked and boiled, bat more gen--erallv
used in the form of bol which is
simply the roots boiled aad mashed
into a stiff paste. .It harjogbecome as
important article of diet: several maas-'
factories htvre beeaesmblMhed-for ka
prodaefioa. , ASmamiaelorrs''lal
frMMaai4pcw'M momr,
dried.aadcrouBd. It
PERSONAL AND LITEftARV. ' 4 -
Mark Twain says he set type ia the
Philadelphia -Ledger office more than
thirty yoars ago. . 3
Henry Berg's three sons are, all in-
tcrested in the philanthropic projects 'of '
their father. A. Y. Sum
An English newspaper says that r
Parnell is soon to marry' an American
girl, a friend of his juother.
Governor Lloyd, of Maryland, s
the third member of. bjsfamily to hold
that office, the first having attained it
in 1709 and the second in. 1809. Balti- .
more Sun.
Lady Anne LJadsav, the author ofu,
Auld Robiu.Gray,"ljrrpteifte:WhKt "
when she was twenty-one years old. but
did not acknowledge the authorship un
til half a century later. ,
Twenty-two daughters at present
live with their father, George Riddle-
in Carroll County, Ma Also eight
widows of the nine deceased sons-of
the late Captain George Cook, of Hart
ford, Conn., still survive.
Rev. Dr. Cuyler, of Brooklyn, has-
been a busy man. In the last twenty
five years he has writtenjthree thou
sand articles for the newspapersT be
sides writing a cord of sennons,-?pub
lishing ten volumes, and doing a great
deal of other work. Brooklyn Eagle.
Mrs. Theodore Tilton is living
quietly with her mother in Brooklyn.
Bessie Tdrncr Is married to a Mr.
Schoonmaker. Since her marriage she
ha- lived very quietly, and Ia now a
middle-aged, fairly good-looking worn-
an. passed in the streets without recog
nition as a notable. N. Y. Sun.,
There are but few left of the ofB
eers most closely associated with Grant
during the war. All but three of tho
ten otliccrs composing General Grant's
Mississippi Valley staff are deaiL Tho
stirvii ors are Colonel John Riggin, of
St. Louis, Colonel Web?tcr and Gen
eral Ihrie, of San Francisco. Chicago
'Tribune.
Marguerite Cleveland's death re
moved from the Greeley circle its most
gifted feminine member. Possessing
rare musical talent, her society was
everywhere welcomo for this and other
entertaining qualities'. She was a nieco
of the famous editor, and is buried near
him, in Greenwood Cemetery. .tf. Y.
Herald.
Elias Howe, the sewing-machine
millionaire, was a private soldier dur
ing the war. It is said that once when
his regiment was suffering on account
of a delay in paying them ho gave his
personal check to the Quartermaster
and they were immediately paid- The
Goveinmen't subsequently paid him
back. Boston Journal.
In 1869, at thTLater de 1'Odcan,
in 1 arys, Ailehnr. Jlr"!'sfr
concert for tho beneurora young actre:
wno nan lost au ncr possessions oy j
nre. At tne close 01 the concert tno'
actress, wearing a black woolen dress
without the slightest ornament, went
timidly to the diva, and, giving her a
bouquet worth two sons, kissed her
hand. The actress was Sara Bernhardt.
Chicago Inter Ocean.'
HUMOROUS.
An ordinary woman's waist is
thirty inches around. An ordinary
man s arm is about thirty inches long.
How admirable are thy works, O,
nature! N. O. Star.
"My dear," asked Mrs. Wlgga of
Mrs. Digg, "can you tell me why they
call them tournures?" "Yes," was the
reply, "it is because you havg to
tournure head around to see Bow it
hangs." "Ol" Oil CUy Derrick. .
That was a clover boy who, when
he was given five shillings to dig up his
aunt's garden, hid a two-shilling 'piece
in it and told all the boys in the neigh
borhood. The next morning the ground
was pulverized two feet deep. AT. Y.
Sun. t
Through the telephone "Is that
you, doctor?" "Yes, who is it?" ."Mr8.fc
Mcrony. Oh, doctor! what shall I do
for baby? He has swallowed a dimo,','
"Well, yon surely don't want to spend
two dollars to get a dime, do yon?"
X. Y. Herald. '
A nurseryman says that the best
kind of dogwood is the red-flowering
Our experience is that a clothes-pole is
thc best, because it is light enough to
handle easily, and long enough to en
able you to hit the dog at almost any
range Puck. t
An exchange contains an article en .
titled "How to Breathe." We. didn't" .
suppose there was so much ignorance
in the world. When -a man "doesn't
know how'to breathe the best health
resort for him is a lot in a cemetery- .
He would spoil if kept many days above
ground. Norristown Herald. .
A book-agent went into a barber's
shop and asked the proprietor If he - -
could sell him an encyclopedia! "What
is it like?" asked the barber. "It fa a' ,
book that contains exhaustive informs- -tion
upon every subjectin the wprH-." 4
"No,' said the barber, with an injured
air, "I don't neefc.' J V.'Y. Tima. . .
He Loved Her l ' . Jt- -
Her voice was harsh and" fte Jawed alfdar.
Till tho man was crazy, as ono may tj, ., -
From morn till night It was chin, chin, eMtC
And people who couldn't help bearisr the
Knew well that the man had a cross to hear. -And
be cried In the depths of his wild despair:
"I've loved, Tve loved her taroagfc geoa aad ,
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This ancient but still perfect spec"- "
men of a "bun" has recently been led- ' 1
out: "As I was. gpia' over the'bridge,' -said
a native of Erin, "I met Pat Hyv- -
ins. Hewins, says L" 'how. are yon?," M
'Pretty well, thank yoo, Donaelly.Vsays V
he. 'Donnelly r says L that's not my g
name.' 'r aith, tnea, no mere je mute,
Hewins.' -So with that we ibokedat
aich other again, anl sure enough it
wasnaytherofus." Jf. Y. "fVrt...
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