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;c L ::. . S. Gov't Report. ASOLWTELY PURE 8WEETER THAN A BEST GIRL u-gar, Molasscs and IlHney Are Nowh.her In Coumparisl.n %% mi. -cha:,rine. An industry still y.ung, lbut uiallues tionably with a gr:"at n:ercantilc tit,1n. is that of saccharnis. a product of c.al tar. It is a substitute for sugar, has none of its bulk and is so powerful that it is 300 times sweet.tr. The history of its discovery is interesting. In 18It Dr. Constantine Fahlberg. a Russian by birth, but who had been ted neated in Germany, became connectt, with the Johns Hopkins university in Baltimore. There he conducted a series of experiments on the toluene sulpha mides, in order to investigate their oxi dation products. The outgrowth of this investigation was the discovery of saccharine. By oxidizing pure orthotoluene sulphamide it was found that it would yield a re markably sweet compound: The amount obtained, however, was too small to be of any practical valn, for manufactur ing purposes. The problem thence-forth was to find other reantions wl:itll w nhl give a better yield of the sweet boly. A long and exhaustivw series of laboratory experiments exteunia.g through several years were neces-ary for the satisfac tory development of the chemical proc ess of production Asnmight be , xpecte.I, a discovery of such practical utility had to run the gantlet of m r.h hostile criticism. It formed a frui:f .1 subject for -liscussion in various cci -utific societies and jour nals. Attem, .s were made to show that it was not o :-y ditelterious. bunt danger ous. It is ot iy fair to say, however, that these argne-,nts seem to have been suc cessfully controverted. An overwhelm ing mass of expert testimony is recorded in favor of saccharine. Eminent profess ors, like Sir II. E. Roscoe in London, Leyden in Berlin. Paul in Paris, Von Barth in Vienna, and a host of others. after thorough tests, have certified that the effects of saccharine upon the phys ical and psychical functions of the brute and human systems are entirely harm less. Saccharine in its pure condition is a white powder. Various exclusive ad vantages are claimed for its use in the arts, household and medicine. To enu merate a few: It is so small in bulk that the saving in storage and freight is of course very great; its valuable antiseptic qualities make it especially available in preserving a? well as sweetening articles of fo od, such as jellies, fruits, etc. In the distilling of brandies and liquors and in the brewing of beer saccharine has been used with signal success. Mixed with glucose, saccharine has a sweetness equal to the finest refined sugar. Further. saccharine serves a distinctly medical purpose. It is employed to disguise the unpleasant taste of medicine and in the preparation of medicated wines and oth er cordials. It has also been highly in dorsed as a substitute for sugar for those suffering from diabetes and from fat ness. Unlike sugar, it does not go to form surplus nourishment. Finally it may be added that this highly concen trated sweetening substance requires only a little intelligence to be successful ly used in the household.-Washington Star. Te Most Depible Man. The man whom I thoroughly and pot itively hate. and against whom as a typ I would warn young women. as th board of health officers warn the publi against infection with a scarlet feve card. is the domestic tyrant, the ma who is a bully in his own family, th man who is a hero at home and a cowar among bigger men than he. When h was a boy, he loved to torture kitten. trap rabbits and tease birds by braslakn up their nests and cracking their eggs But a yearlingcalf or a sitting hen weah always make him run. Now he is am= be swears at his wife and nags her hif away. He sends the cold chills dowi the children's spines whenever his step draw nigh and is as pompons and big feeling among the women folks and th helpless boys and girls as a fussy old turkey gobbler with his bens. Fun cqp no mpre thrive where he i than pansies can live in coal gas. He i civil to the black man who gives him hi dnner, to the boy--provided he is ful sie.d-who blacks his boots and to who ever is richer and stronger than he, bu politeness for his wife was laid awan with his weddinggarments, and he curse his daughters and his sons for every trimag adlmdesnor in a way that woul rouse a newsboy to thrash him i. h spod to the lad with equal insolence. A Westm Trags*. Mh Santerer. has a friend on the etal t s westera newspaper with whom I a asea - interesaing clippings ¶e latets bit saoveis at this odoe wa the Lelowing, cut from a small papes g od In North Dakota: "The marn; a Mrs. E-- will he pleased t aatbat she is not tn serious danger, a Sa k is not so severe as at Art sup pesed. The particalars at the unfortu asay air are Iteresting. It se a the r. )-- while going up stairs sw o rn bebiad a barrel. Her erie were beard by the hired man, who has t--ed to tes smo , armed with his gu ad folowed by his .I.M bulldol .s: 5--- thm took comIngs ad pok n based with her broom. Thmmou Ia at, the dog sartits i passet, th M l ea d Are, the dog dropped dal -- -fainated, ad the hired me heb killebd her. sad that h w ,i ",he arrt ,cr urii.r. 1, it his heel, and t hs aot lain hea trd ot since The mouse e-catpe. --ostonm Ihldgtt t. New .e IFor a .inen (Cir. "Losk ;trie'." ..1 .i well known oat the other day. "this is a letter frohr a friend who is now in Pittsburg." The speaker proshieLd a Soiled cuff on whicl: a message had bieen writtein. The icufl bore t 1'estalittf thel Pit t.burgltstoffict . as well as ;t enetl': 1 ]I potage stanp,. The miessage read: "I haInen't any lapet at hand, but lnhle, Sam will tranmnmi this cufft for which I have no further nse. Linen is of no use to a man who is dead fiat biusted. Send me $100." Philadelphia Itocord. the Captuaun' Sight. It is sotietimes a fault of young peo pie to rely too fully upou their own opin ions or impre-ssions. and there are grown people who are iquite too sure regarding matters to which they have given little attention. A l.assenuer on a French steamer tells this story: The wind was fresh. and we were run. ning at the rite of 12 knots an hour. Our marihlrs .- r:-e ,-eeived in their cal culati, ns. and as tl:: lead did not indi cate the pItrt:imity iof the coast they were expecteld i appro; It they Co'hludeil that the ct.r;:ets ha. carrin.l us ito, the channel. One morni:ng at break of day I heard the capla.n 1:etfltui: "I see br, kers throthttu the imist." M. de lA...:ille. an offeier of superior merit. who mlevrith less displayed S omnt, times too 1m.uch tof the ct.ntidtlntce of youth,. repilied with a smile, "Thot breakers, captain. are nt-whtere but in your glass." **Young man." said our old captain, with a tone of anger. "'you are major general to the squadron and may give it the orders you think proper, but I know what I have to do. It is I who answun for the safety of my ship. I shall there fore give orders to tack, for there is not a moment to be lost." He accordingly gave that order, and during its execution, the fog having sud denly cleared away, we perceived at about 200 yards fromt us the rocks against which our fleet would inevitably have perished. Fortunnately the whole squad ron imitated the movement of our ves sel. and all tdanger was over. The young t ,fluit-r lost no time in thank ing the c·ptain for his wise reproof, and for his adhteinnce to the duties of his po sition.-Youth's Companion. An Electric Elevated Road In England. No misgivings need apply to the case of the new railway at Liverpool. In size and power, as well as in the ingenuity of its details, it surpasses the best American models. It extends along the quays of the great line of docks on the Mersey for nearly seven miles. Its carriages are of full size, not arranged like a tram car, but like the ordinary passenger car of the United States, each being in two compartments and capaple of seating 57 persons. Beneath each car is an electric motor of from 100 to 70 horsepower, and the speed will be as high as 80 miles an hour. The power to work the trains, and with them the accessories of signals and light, is the same, and generated from a single point on the system. The whole runs upon an "-overhead railroad" or con tinuous bridge of iron. That is not, how ever, of the essence of an electric railway, though the lightness of electric rolling gear makes such an arrangement cheap and suitable for the purpose.-London Spectator. An Zaglish y's .aewledge e Literatase. Every one who is not a schoolmaster is aware that a young Englishman knows almost nothing of the litersture t his own land, and what little he doen huow he dislikes, because he has had at sobool to tranlate it into Latin. It is most ha miliating to bear an American youth discoure upon this matter while our own sonsm a mum and glum. Eorts have been made of late to End out what our boys do read for their own pleasure. and the result of these inquiries seems to be that they read the accounts of pri ights. One headmaster tries to prove that this is derived from the indnece of Homer, but it is much more likely that it comes from a perusal of the sporting newspapers and the general devotion to athletics. From whatever cause it arises. it is certaily true that while there is no deaciency of good poetry and good o tion among us the rising emeratior cares for nither.-London llustrated News. ageamed*s sankiag cease,. Threadneedle street is a corruption of ThMidenl street, meaning the third street from " bepesyde" to the great toeeeughsh from London bridge to " mbshop Gate" (coniting of New Fyhe strete antd dBshop Gate streate, Anglo szom, thridda, third). Another etyml ogy is Thrig-needle (three needle street), from th three needles which the Nee die Makere company bore in their arms. It begins at the Mansion house, sad therefore the Bank of England stands if it. The directors of the Bank of t .P land were called "The Old Lady Ia Threadneedle Street" by William Cob. bast, because, like Mrs. Partington,they trieL with their broom to keep back a, Atlantic waves of national propss After giving the foregoing.Brewearotee ta following etract rom Dickens'Dr. dt.ld "A siver curl paper that I self took O the shming locks of the ewr be- tl old lady of Threadneedle steeat (ek ntae-Boo 1Ra sa. IEC WOULD ;NO LEAVE rHE COLONY. .57 'rb:soler ho oiii :. , i - , n'..l ut Tr.r, and In t .d :1 1': t;im lllntl. t t1"-la. n '.. ', e Ii 1 ' i.t l 'i r " t'ii,. -.'iili "t" i, 1.i rr: - '.-.it] Hfr. i o.t ctl'oliy to nupntir pri on't re v. i , hiLy t" ia. t':"il' il 'ir hindedn of r .pi'. I l i'it l. , i. " ii ' t: t it Ith I . le ,n.l s ent tof a it". I . i. m:i'+ ,r i litn W se luv ng the cl ain ,iition, wi ont " "' i ln .hi,."t r l L. Ir : , "; , f i t'.- r - in t, lie, ht i tis thief. 1 .1,at ut wio s hli L:ul escapedl se.riotls pn:ni'shnwnl.',rt. On,' kent into and the oiil riotle amout of mlmO).y stolh n. It ; sa c't11lu>ie ly prJonl that Johnson .. t..: thi. f. and lie was sent to jail. When the recgimnt was leaving the colony, Joilsten, with some other sold.ier prisoner.-, was to be ehaned over accordine to cstom. When, however, his cell was visited, it was empty, and there was not a sign of Johnson anywhere. A search was made in every direction. and at last a prisoner pointed to a cocoa nut tree which grew in the middle of the prison y..rdt and there comfortably seated among the tuft of leaves was Johnson. The warden at first tried to get the man down by quiet persuasion, then he threatened, then Tstormed and swore. Johnson laughed contentedly at every mood, but did not move. The fact wThe cas reporte again rd to the coretary, who recommended that hfore thengine be called out and the man washed down. The chief of the fire department hardly thought it was consonant withs hadig nity to wash a prisoner out of sucocoa nut tree and reported that there was not pressure of water enough to get a stream to the top of the tree. This was proba bly true, for the tree was a tall one. The case was again referred to the co lonial secretary, who took it before the goverThis or.ld His excel dolency was having luncheon with some of the departing oficers and their friend and was havineer. a good time. He was vexed that at such a time he should be troubled with official work, as hastilys was glancing over the docwas ent he adway Almost alled the following instru-oops tions: "Cut the fellow down. I mean the tree." This could only be done by the engscort which neering department, so orderlies were sent out to find the chief engineer. While all this was going on, time was slipping away. Almost all the troops were on board the troopship, and as thes vessels wait for no one the escort which had been sent to bring Johnson down to the ship had to hurry off, not to be late itself. Johnson bellowed a farewell, and despite the strong language of the ward en still laughed and did not move. Be fore the engineer department had come to a conclusion as to how to cut down the tree and lower it gradually, the troopship had up anchor and was steam ing out of the harbor. Then Johnson climbed down the tree and finished his sentence on the island, to which he had taken a fancy. His con viction had carried with it his "discharge with ignominy." He settled in the island and was soon in easy circumstances. He had undoubtedly hidden his stolen prop. erty, and after his release dug it up and started in business. When Johnson was last seen, he was flourishing and had a large cocoanut grove around his cottage. -New York Tribune. BSasness Eterprise. "Talk abo;:t business enterprise," said Frank L. Perley, a circus man. "Away back in 1885 we had a young fellow with us who was getting $15 and his board The night Jumbo was killed in 8t. Thomas this boy developed himself. We were all sympathising with poor old Jumbo and wondering how we could re place him. The youngster was thinking of something else. You know the tail of an elephant has at the very tip a bunch of thick hair very much like a brush. This boy got under the fence and had pulled every hair out of Jumbo's tail. His business at the circus was to sell balloons to children. Well, there were 76 of those thick hairs, and at the show the next afternoon he was selling them for $l apiece as relics of the great giant. He sold T3 of them and practi cally found $1. The other one he kept for himself and still wears it as his mas eot."--t. Louis Globe-Democrat. Rath Mid Her Verse. Little Ruth can read very nicely, and her mother is anxious that at an early age she shall become familiar with the Bble. so that when she was obliged to leave home to be gone five months she told Ruth she would bring her homea muff If eshwould ay a Bible verse every night before she went to bed. Ruth promised that she would. Mamma came home at the end of the five months. '. fore presenting the mufn she sad: "How about the verses, Ruth?" "I said one every night, mamma." "That's mam ma's nice girl You must have learned a good many in five months, dear." "Why, I always said the very sameone." "The same one all the time! What was that?" "Jesus wept," said Ruth. It wasn't just what mother expected, but Ruth got the muf.-Boslton Globe sausrd Mesems na Nsesae. oosses wil soon be all top. Men will go up stair to play billiards when they will notgo down. Ulip stairs there is greater freedom of conversation. Fath ers have discovered thatif theres a well equipped bill:ard room near theroot.with good air, an unrestrioted outlook, ade gqate privacy and stisfactory means of refreshment, their sans, after business boors, are much more apt to come home and bring their frireds with them to play until dinner than to go to their clubs.-man ranc. o Argonaut. A New York business man says: '"Tb scystoae of the success of the busaness man lain making other men work for him. That is the im quality. It is no me aem t get -m who will earn auary." A Valuable Colluct iin. Thm .oih, (ion I lniam has it : victims al:..,- all coh :,f l,· ope, f; nl 1the .. . to ia " ' i. n vt'y oi'hltn I"::f . ,r:, ,' , ! ..... . 'I ,l':' :.. .11l r t, 1:'v , .- . I: t. ,,: l th '. : . t!u.it is 1 . 1 t.:, " ..' i ' .. ll ih " : .. 1 , i .ti ;. I ,e j:l ii-t t.- e , ,ari s ,,, l it .1 "; , 1 ,!_; i Aflter try Ii .' f : l, : whi . tI fin 1 ifs .li .", v<l " nh 'w l him a . i:I -hare he cI. lc r , "; . 1 ,a " ,: shares which w r, for .::1 ii a Insup. Htle icold not t'; t' n t) "l t' . o:s" i ,eq ":.; ly he boiiht the threet fr a trifle over .915. (I0. "I was lhd into nikinig cllections of bank stocikr," said this 1 gentleman the other day. "lbcause I could not think of anything else to collect. Among my friends were collectors of pictures, bronzes, marbles, lric-a-brae, flowers, books, postage stamps, coins, musical instruments, glassware and almost ev erything else. I wanted to collect some thing that would be out of the ordinary and at the same time he of permanent value. Therefore I settled on bank shares."--ew York Times. W.!a Tihre in tt of c('oplper? M. 3Berthelot, tile well known French teclmicist, in a communication to the Academie des Sciences, states his belief in the some time existence of an age of copper in addition to the three recog nized archasd. gical eons Of stone, brot::e (copper and tin) and iron. Hle bases his opinion chitfly lpon an analysis of a piece of coppelr which had been found by M. dle iarzec mn the cours," of antiqua rian investigations in M3 sopotalnia, or Al Jezira, as the Arabs designate the famous stretch of countrvy ltwe,'n the Euphrates aind the Tigris. The fragment thus chemically determinen proves to have neither tin nor Ziln. entering into itscomlposiion,. there being simply traces of lead and arsellnic. Water and the atmosplhere had made ravages into the sIpcillen, which was practically a suboxide tir a compound of protoxide and metallic copl.r. As tihe ruins from which the piece of inetal was taken are authoritatively considered to bemoreancint than even those of Baby 1on, 31. Berthelot does not hesitate to promulgate the theory tha.t an age of copper precede~l the bronze and iron periods, especially as the examlination of the component parts of a lortion of a metallic scepter which, it is alleged, be longed to a pharaoh who reigned in Egypt some 3.500 yelrs B. ('., showed :no sign of the presence of tin.-London Iron. Position of Wold and Its Durability. The probl t:1 has troubled many why two pieces of w. od. sawed from the same section of a tree, should possess very varied charact:ristics when used in dif ferent positions. For example, a gate post will be found to deccy much faster if the butt end of the tree is uppermost than would le the case if the top were placed in this position. The reason is that the moisture of the atmosphere will permeate the pores of the wood mltch more rapidly the way the tree grew than it would if in the opposite direction. Microscopical examination proves that the pores invite the ascent of moisture, while they relpl its descent. Take the familiar case of a wooden bucket. Many may have noticed that someof the staves appear to be entirely saturated, while others are apparently quite dry. This arises from the same cause-the dry staves are in the position in which the tree grew, while the saturated ones are reversed.-London Tit-Bits. Carrying the Ceolem Ina tlB e. At Gaines Mill, where Gregg's First South Carolina regiment bore the brunt of an assault upon a certain strong posi tion while moving forward at a run, young James Taylor, a lad of 16, was carrying the flag and was killed after being shot down three times, twice rs lag and struggling onward with the col ors. The third time he fell the lag was seied by George cotobatt, and when be o turn fell by Shubrtk Hayne. Hayne also was struck down almhnaost immed ately, and a fourth lad-for nome.otthes men was over 90 years old- the colors and fell mortally wounded across the body of his friend. The fifth, Gadsden Holmes, waspierced with no less than seven balls. The asith man, Dominick Spellman, more fortu nate, but not less brave, bore the .ag throughout the rest of the battle.-Cos mopolitan. Wore mate Are Pl asd seaveage· s A man just from New Orleans says there is one peculiarity about that city which is never talked about. "It is," he said, "a city of rata. New Orleansis be low the river bed, and it is at all times low and damp. The city is not clean, and large wharf rats multiply in the bulsness portion of the city in great nam bers, and the pests swarm about in droves. The people of New Orleans com tend that the rats are good scavenger and help to ,id the city of rfuses matter. I don't think there is a city in the world, not even New York or Paris, that has as many rats to the square mileasNew Or leane."-Atlvnta Journal. Chametseat s a ena 54s. lquibb -- Crasus. the miser, was drowned last evening. Hibls--How did it happen? Squibb--He fell from a steamboat. I reached down and asked him to give me his hand. Je said he had nothing to give and ank.--National Tribane. A Caress Term. The magician threw a teacp into the abr,anditcamedown in fragments. Then he threw the fragmnets in the air, a.d the cup came down whole. Now, wh shea . evry one all a s sesress a eer esar. A San Francisco Paper Would Form an Interesting Additi.a to Your Winter Reading. THERE ARE MANY REASON8 WHY "WEEKLY EXAMINER IS THE BEST PAPER IN THE WEST 9,080 SPEIIUS VALUE. 188 it bto mmt of ma . wm. an parts of the wer, s.d b LZsh t aryl eparmeat is pp. a by mnte wsilsme, bneda. Is madtis to as great ws sed literary kaores, * It GIVs to EVERY susIIcrtI is *Olog "rno 1 m. 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