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TINTAGEL. Jifw is laid Arthur's head. Unknown earth above him mounded Bv him sleeps h!a splendid knights, \Vith whoso names the world resounded. Ruined glories, flown delights 1 Sunk 'mid rumors of old wars 1 When they levelled, deep they sleep, By the wild Atlantic shores'. On Tintngel'Bfortressed walls, Proudly built, the loud sea scorning Pale the moving moonlight falls. Through their rents the wind goes mourning. See ye, knights, your ancient home, Cbafed, and spoiled, and fallen asunder Hear ye now, as then of old, Waters rollod and wrathful foam, Where the waves, bonoatli your graves, Snow them selvos abroad in thunder CIIASED BY AN ENGINE. 1 was riding on a night train of the Pennsylvania Central from New York to Washington on a mission as news paper correspondent. We had passed Baltimore, and within an hour's time would be at our destination. The conductor had finished collecting the fares, and seeing a vacant seat by my side had dropped into it, as .jf. for a little rest at the end of a tiresome day's work. He made an entry in his notebook, closcd it, placed it in his breastpockets, buttoned his coat, folded his arms, and then turned to me with a friendly remark, as.if now he felt at liberty to lay aside all offi cial dignity and be sociable. "You must have met with some interesting experiences, and perhaps some great dangers, in the course of your life," said I, the conductor's griz zly beard showing that he might have seen a long service. "Well, perhaps the most exciting time in my experience was the night I was chased by an engine—a night which this one reminds me of," said he looking out into the darkness. "Chased by an engine13" said I get ting interested. "How did that hap pen?" "Well," said the conductor, settling down in the cushion, and bracing his knees against the back of the seat in front, "Many years agolwas running the night express on Long Island from Brooklyn to Greenport, -a dis tance of ninety miles, the entire length of the road. The Long Island road was then a one-horse affair, hav ing only a single track, with switches at the different stations to allow trains to meet and pass. On the evening to which I now refer I started from Brooklyn at 10 o'clock with the old Constitution, long since broken up, but then the crack engine on the road, with a baggage or freight car and three passenger cars. The night was just as dark as a pocket or, if anything, perhaps a little darker," he added, as if he had accurately tested the internal obscurity of that useful portion of the dress. "It must have been very dark," said I. "We were the only regular train, upon the road that night, with the exception of the Greenport express to Brooklyn, which was to start at 10 o'clock and meet us at Lakeland Station, in the middle of the island, switching off there to allow us to pass. "Well, we were perhaps six or eight miles on our way when I stepped out on the back platform of the rear car to see if it was growing any lighter. We were then going over a part of the road which was as straight as an arrow for a distance of four or Ave miles. As I was looking back over this stretch I saw behind us, at the distance of three miles or so, what I know was the head-light of an engine, as it was too bright foranything else for of course I did not suppose the government had bee-n putting up any lighthouses'along the road." "l'robably not," said I. "You may be sure I was a little surprised," said the conductor, "for there wasn't an extra train once a week upon that road, and I knew that there was none going out from Brooklyn that night, anyhow. I waited for a few minutes, until I saw that it was really an engine coming, and, what was more, that it was gaining rapidly on us, although we were j»oing at our usual rate of speed. When I was satisfied of this fact, I hurried forward and said to the engi neer, 'Jake, there is a train close be hind us.' "Jake dropped his oil-can and his lower jaw at about the same moment, and looked to see whether I was crazy or joking. 'Well, let the fireman attend to matters here, and come back and see,' said I. "We hurried to the rear, and in a moment Jake saw as well as myself that if there was any joke in the mat ter we were the victims of it: and of rather a serious one, too, for the train in the rear had gained on us a full mile while I had been forward. The red cinders were pouring out of the smokestack as if from a blast-furnace the head-light threw a glare along the road, burnishing the iron rails to our very wheels. Close as he was upon us, the engineer of the advanc ing train had not given the slightest signal to warn us of his approach, and made no response to our repeated whistles of alarm. He was violating all railror-M rules, and if he had de termined '£o secretly run us down he would act just as he was then doing. 'What does that crazy fool mean?' 'The engineer must be either crazy or drunk,' said I. 'If he .keeps on in that way ten minutes longer he will surely be into us and I signalled the fireman to put on more steam. 'What business the train has to-night upon the road is what puzzles me.' 'I wonder if it isn't an engine the old man is sending down to Jamaica to the shops for repairs?' said Jake. 'I saw the Ben Franklin standing on the side track with steam up just as we started. l'Yoin the way she over hauls us, there can't be much oi a train behind her.' "I did not know but that Jiike might be right, for I had seen the Franklin standing in the depot when we left. That engine was just as fast as our own, and if it was with out a train attached, as .Take sup posed, might easily gain on us, as it seemed to be doing. 'At any rate we shall see when we pass Jamaica Station whether Jake's theory is cor rect,' I thought, and said so to him. "By this time the fireman, acting as engineer, had given our engine all the steam she would take, and were slashing along at a lively rate, I tell you. The good people along the,road who .were out of their beds must have thought that- a- railroad Gilpin was riding another race, according to the new style. I was angry enough to have sent a bullet at the crazy en gineer following us, and 1 determined that my first business the next day should be to complain to the superin tendent of his fool-hardiness. "Well, we tore through that Bleep ing village, without stopping for re freshments, I can assure you, and then Jake and I looked to see our comical friend in the reai pull up at thesta-tion- and take lodging for the nicht. But we were mistaken in our guess. Not a whistle was given by our pursuer as a signal that he in tended to stop not a sign of slacken ing was shown but, on tae contrary he was gaining upon us even when we were doing our very best. Some times a curve in the road, would shut him for a moment from our view, but he.would round it in an instant, and every new turn brought him more closely upon us. "Jamaica had been left far behind, and we were out on the wide Hamp stead plain. The old Constitution was on her mettle. Our train was actually swaying and rocking with speed like a yacht on the waves. The telegraph poles, upon which the light from our window would glint in the dense darkness, were flying be hind us at every second. The sound of our wheels as they struck the ends of the rails was a continuous hum. But, do the best that it might, our engine with its heavy train, was no match for the light weighted one behind that was gaining upon us. and was not the eighth of a mile off. The glare from its lantern shone brightly in our face I thought Jake's face looked a bit pale, and perhaps mine did, too. Now that our pursuer did not halt at Jamaica, we were en tirely off our reckoning, and we could make no guess as to the cause of our chase, nor when it would end. The prospect seemed that ws might be driven to the end of the road, if we were not over taken and smashed be fore it could be reached. 'That's the Franklin, sure,' broke out Jake once more. 'No other en gine on the road could overhaul us as we are going now. What can that fool of a Simpson mean by driving her at such a rate? He must be drunk. If the boss don't breakhim to-morrow, he won't get his deseits. He will be into us in two minutes.' "'You are right,'said I. 'Go for ward and see if you cannot get up a lit.tie more headway. Empty a few of those petroleum cans on the wood, and pitch in and see what can be done.' "'While Jake was forward on his errand I thought over our situation. Here I was with a hundred or two passengers under my care, all ignor ant of the danger which I knew they were in. If we should be overtaken and crushed In the rear, the disaster would be a serious one, and would probably cause the death or injury at least ot some of the passengers. If we were not smashed in this way there was another and perhaps a greater danger before us. The train of which I have spoken, which left Greenport when we left Brooklyn, was on its way to meet us on the same track. It should switch off at Lakeland in the middle of the island and allow us to pass, an hour after we started, or at 11 o'clock. It was now half past 10, and we were close to Lakeland already, and would pass there long before the arrival of the Greenport train, which ordinarily got there first. The result would be that' we should meet that train beyond Lakeland without warning of our ap proach, and a collision in front as well as the rear would be the consequence. "We reached and flew through the Lakeland depot nearly half an hour ahead of time. Of course, the Green port train was not there yet, but was coming down the road. Our speed was now a little ahead of any ever be fore made upon the Long Island road. The telegraph poles fairly danced be hind us, and the bushes on eitherside of the track seemed a continuous wall of lire as they were lighted up by the flame which was pouring out ol' our smokestack. But dangerous as it was to keep on, it was just as dan gerous to slacken speed, and so on we went." The conductor rolled his quid from one cheek to the other, raised the window by his side and expectorated into the outer darkness, and became silent for several moments, as if bur dened by the recollection of his former perils. After waiting a rea sonable length of time for him to re sume his story, I said, "When the collision occurred, was It with the train in front or in the rear, or with both?" "Oh, the collision!" said the con ductor. "Well, now you come to the ridiculous part of the story. The collision did not take place at all," he said, in an apologetic tone, as if there ought to have been a serious accident after so much prep aration. "While I was standing on the platform, thinking whether I had better warn the passengers to hold themselves ready for a shock, Jake came forward dragging after him two large petroleum cans, each of which would hold a quarter of a barrel of oil. "'Now then,'said Jake t'j aie. 'if you will oil one side of the track, try the other.' "I saw at once what his plan was. We each brought the mouth of an oil can as near to the polished surface of the rail as possible and commenced pouring on it the kerosene. In less than a minute a half-mile of the iron rails on both sides was nicely oiled and slippery." "You have raised my expectations of a catastrophe so high that you have been obliged to grease the track so as to let them down again easily, said I, for I felt a little nettled at the unexpected turn the story had taken, and was inclined to believe that the conductor was drawing largely on his imagination for the facts. "Why, don't you know that an engine can no more make he ., way on a greased track than a tom-cat can climb a steep roof covered with ice?" said the conductor, with a pitying1, glance at one so profoundly ignorant of railroad matters as myself. I slapped Jake on the ba(5k, and said, 'Old fellow, your cuteness has brought us all out of a bad scrape.' "In a few seconds the lantern of the train behind us was getting dim in the distance. We slackened speed and backed down to see 'what- the' matter was with Simpson,' as Jake' said. There stood the old Ben1 Franklin, puffing and snorting and pawing like a mad bull, the driving wheels buzzing around on the greased track like all possessed, but not gaining an inch. We sanded the track and bore down upon the old machine. Jake was the first aboard, spoiling for a good chance at the engineer, Simp son. But no sign of an engineer, fireman, or any other living being was to be found. The engine had only a tender attached, and although there was still a full head of steam on, the tires were getting low. We made short work in pushing back to Lakeland. We reached the station, and got fairly upon the switch when the Greenport train which we should meet there, came in, and were waiting as if nothing had hap pened, and as if we had not been fif teen miles out on the road to meet it a few minutes before. "The telegraph operator at Lake land handed me a dispatch which read as follows: 'To Conductor C:—The Ben Franklin has broken loose, and is coming up the road. Turn a switch at Lakeland, and run her oil the track. BARTON, SuDerintendent, Brooklyn, 10:05 p. m.' Couldn't Place Hi in. Remarkable stories are told of the gnu winch many public characters have for remembering the names and faces of comparatively unimportant persons. It may be consoling to per sons who lack this pleasant faculty that they have distinguished com pany. Mr. Joseph Jefferson has diffi culty in remembering names. Ho told this story to a friend: "I was coming down in the elevator of the Stock Exchange Building, and at one of the intermediate floors a man whose face I knew as well as I know yours got in. He greeted me very warmly at once, said it was a number of years since we had met, and was very gracious and friendly. "But I couldn't place him for the life of me. I asked him as a sort of a feeler how he happened to be in, New York, and he answered with a touch of surprise that he had lived there for several years. Finally I told him in an apologetic way that couldn't recall his name. "He looked at me for a moment, and then lie said very quietly that his name was U. S. Grant." "What did you do, Joe?" his friend asked. "Do?" he replied, with a character istic smile. "Why, I got out at the next floor for fear I should be fool enough to ask him if he had ever been in the war!" The Next Mine fears. Coming Prophetic Events, accord ing to Daniel and Revelation, during next 9 Years before End of this Age in Passover Week, April 11, 1901. The Greatest War ever known, in 1892—Change of 23 Kingdoms into Ten in 1893—Earthquakes, Famines, Pestilence—A Napoleon to be a Hellenic King in 1893, before his 7 Years' Covenant (as Syrian King) with the Jews on April 21, 1894— Their Sacrifices Restored, Nov. S, 1894 (Daniel vii.: 24 viii.: 14 ix. 27) —Ascension of 144,000 Living Chris tians to Heaven without Dying on March 5, 1S96—Napoleon's Massacre of Tens of Thousands of Christians during 1,260 Days from Aug. 14, 1897, to Jan. 26, 1901—Christ's Descent on Earth and Commencement of Millen nium in Passover Week, April, 1901. —Advertisement, in English Church Paper. Australia Wants Good Stenographers. A gentleman writes from Australia that there is a great chance for short hand writers in that country. A while ago an examination was held in Melbourne for shorthand writers in the courts. Out of thirteen only six passed the test of 120 words a minute and fewer still' the test of 150. Sir John Thurston, who had tried to en gage a stenographer for correspond ence, offering $l,000ayearand board, complained that most of the appli cants were unable to write rapidly or to read their notes afterward. Wise Forethought. Mr. Spotcash (making the rounds of his dry goods emporium)—Is this .your entire' supply of pocket handker chiefs, Mr. Higgins? I will, Head of the Handkerchief Depart ment—Yes, sir. Mr. Spotcash (with great severity) —Have you forgotten, sir, that Clara Morris is t,o play an engagement in town next week? Double the stock at once. A 31 an may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all bis life to the grindstone and die not worth a groat at last.—?rankliu. ALL BREAKERS PAST. Death of Jamcrt (iitutiip, Historic fliip Huilriur. James Goudie, Sr., a man than whom lew have juster claims to dis tinction, died at his very modest home in North Evanston, III, Satur day, May 7. With his death ends the career of the man who built the first boat to cross the Atlantic by steam power alone. She was the Royal William, the boat which made the trip to Pictou, N. S., to Grave send in 1833. His wife, still 1]vine, is nearly 80 years old, and they were married nearly sixty years. Mr. Goudie was nearly 83 years old at the time of his death. He has four sons and two daughters, all liv ing in or near Chicago. They are Mrs. John Pickett and Georgie Gou die of North Evanston Thomas Goudie of Ravenswood, the superin tendent under Adler & Sullivan, in the construction of the Auditorium: David Goudie, John Goudie, and Mrs. James Fitzgerald of Chicago. The deceased citizen enjoyed a re markable career, and a sketch of his life penned by himself and full of in terest, is given below. "Being anxious to give an account of my life from boyhood days until manhood, I shftll briefly relate some of the most, to me, interesting parts of my life. My|father being well-to do in worldly affairs, I, with the rest of the family ofj four boys and two girls, was raised in luxury, and was sent to first-class schools, as in those days there were no public schools as now. "I must mention that I was the third son, born in the year ISO!), Dec. 19. My father died in the year 1824, aged 49, being then in my sixteenth year. I made up my mind that I would learn the art of shipbuilding, the business my father follow. My fa ther having left no will the manage ment of his large estate was by law duly put into the hands of executors or trustees to manage for the widow and children. "Beinc still desirous to learn ship building, I was sent to London, Eng land, having a guardian appointed in the firm of Rogerson, Hunter & Co., merchants, London, England. Hav ing had an interview with ttie great ship-building firm, Wigram & Green, on learning that I was likely to have money to spend, it was decided it would be, best for my interest to send me to a small seaport town, North Yarmouth, England, on the coast of the German Ocean. 120 miles north of London. "Arriving in London in the month of August, 1825, after a sojourn of six weeks in London with Mr. Roger son. I sailed for Yarmouth and was bound apprentice to Mr. Thomas Douglas, ship-builder, serving three years there. I left to go to Greenock, Scotland, to finish my time. 1 then went into the ship yard of Mr. Will iam Simons. While in Yarmouth 1 was the means of saving four persons from drowning, endangered by the capsizing of a boat in the breakers. "In the year 1828 I left for Green ock, arriving there after a short pass age. I then went to work to qualify myself in the line of my chosen busi ness to return to Quebec and take up my late lather's ship yard, but to my surprise I received a letter that my father's estate, valued at over $200, 000, would not pay and I should have to look to myself for my living. "Discouraged by such news, I hardly knew what to do. However, I put my shoulder to the wheel with all the energy I was possessed of, and was soon at the head of my ambition, being fully competent in all branches of the art. In the year 1830 I was appointed by Mr. Simons with a strong recommendation to proceed to Quebec to superintend the steamship that crossed the Atlantic, the Royal William of Quebec. She was built to run between Halifax and Quebec in the summer and in winter to the West Indian Islands, but as it proved a non-paying business the stockhold ers made up their minds to send her across the ocean to London, England, for sale. "She left Quebec in August, 1833, and arrived in London's river in twenty-five days, and in due time was sold to the Spanish government to be made a transport. She was actually the first steamship to fire a cannon in war. "After the construction of this steamship, launched in the spring of 1-831, I commenced business on my own account, built quite a number of vessels, and was in the actual/ con struction of over 100 vessels and sev eral river passenger steamers. Among them the Jenny Lind, 180 feet the Crescent, 200 feet, and the Colurnia, of 260 feet, and one market-boat steamer. I built one ship of 1,000 tons in ten weeks. "In 1835 I went to Hawkesbury, on the Ottawa River, Canada. I finished and launched a small steamer here. I undertook to deliver her at Point Fortune, nine miles down the Long Sault rapids, which are very rapid and rough. I succeeded, as she bad no engine, by putting large raft oars on each side and two at each end —this was considered a risky affair— to guide her. Many eddies in those rapids would twist her from side to side of the rapids, until at last we would get to the main current, and away she would go. "I then laid down two barcres and one steamer for the Rideau Canal navigation. From this point I took my wife to New York and commenced work at my business. I entered the New York navy yard in 1836. I cut down the sloop of war Natchez and rebuilt her from water's edge up. At this period the United States of America were going to war with France, but France concluded to pay the flioney to America. This was in Louis Philippe's time and peace was proclaimed." il^fnre tho Tribunal. Probably few ardent royalists were so gently treated by the commune at the time of the French Revolution as was little Mademoiselle de Bon champs The Marquise de Bon champs and her young daughter were confined in prison, and the Marquise supposed that, like her fellow-prison ers, slvc might be sent to the guillo tine any day. Numbers of her companions met that terrible fate daily, and still no order came for her. Finally she was in formed that her friends had secured her pardon from the judges. The necessary documents or kttrcs de gracc, which would set her free, did not come, but she waited for them without anxiety She was startled one day to receive an emphatic warning from a friend that she must make every effort to get her letlrcs da grace at once and escape immediately, or she would never leave the prison except for the guillotine. She had no servant, no one to send to the tribunal except her little daughter. She consulted the jailor, a kind-hearted man and their warm friend. He offered to send his ser vant with the child, and as the trib unal would be in session two or three hours longer that day, the child was hurried off, after being told what she was to say. She did not know just what the tribunal was, and was rather afraid of it, but she understood that if she wanted to please her mamnia she must deliver her message correctly and distinctly. The child had a beautiful voice and a sweet little manner of her own, and her mother hoped, not without reason, that they would plead in her favor. The little maiden approached the judges with much gravity and said, "Citizens. I have come to ask you for mamma's kttrcs de grace." The servant gave the Marquise de Bonchamps' name. The judges chat ted with the child a little, and said that they would give her the leltres de grace it she would sing them her pret tiest song. She wanted to please the judges, and she thought her prettiest song was a very animated one which she had always heard greatly applauded. So she sang it with all the grace and enthusiasm of her fresh little voice. The burden of it was Long live, long live the king Destruction to tho republic, Y-'V The judges listened in dismay. It this was heroism, they should have to send her to the guillotine. But the chttd was too young for that Asshe sang on with the greatest|cheerful ness, they saw that there were no fdeas of politics in her little head. So when she had finished they smiled. One of them said something that she did not understand about the "unpatriotic education of children of fanatical royalists." They gave her the leitres de grace, wished her good by. and sent her back happy and tri umphant to her mother.—Youth's Companion. Lawyers* eas. A correspondent of the Boston Herald writes as follows: "Being aware of your impartiality all matters—men and things especially —I concluded to submit a knotty question to you, which apparently no one can solve, viz.: If a lawyer col lects $21 for you, how much is he en titled to for his services? To make matters plain I wish to state that I had a bill of $31.85 against a party and gave it to an attorney at law for collection. The judge after trial de cided in my favor for $21, which was awarded to me, no doubt, only through the cleverness displayed by my lawyer in handling the case. My lawyer kept that money and only charged me $29 more, altogether $50, for professional services, declaring at the same time that he could have charged $100. As I do not wish to be under any obligation to anybody I am verv anxious to know if he is en titled to any more than I have paid him." Case Without a Parallel. At the close of the second, term of the late Willard Saulsbury "of Dela ware in the United States Senate the caucus which was called to nominate his successor was curiously divided in its preferences. There were thirty members present, yet no other names than those of the three Saulsbury brothers were mentioned. Fourteen were for Willard Saulsbury, fifteen were for Gove Saulsbury, and one was for Eli Saulsbury. Political history in this country shows no parallel to this remarkable circumstance. Will ard was the most brilliant, but physically wrecked. Gove had been Governor and had made enemies by his appointments. The chances of Eli were the best, and in the end he won, although the fight was a stub born one, and estranged the three brothers for a time.—Boston Herald. Fore* of L'gtitnlnfiw Lightning has been proved, in one instance, to have struck a church with a force equal to 12,220 horse power. A single horse power, in me chanical calculations, is equivalent to raising a weight of 33,000 pounds one foot hieh in a minute. The force of lightning, therefore, has been proved to be equal to the raising of 403,260,000 pounds one foot high in a minute. This is about equal to the united power of twelve steamships, having collectively twenty-four en gines of 500 horse power each. The velocity of lightning is so great that it wuuld travel round the world eight times in a minute. "You have a trouble!" women always say to the young girls. "Why, how can that be? You are not map ried." A WONDERFUL SYSTEM, The Standard Oil Company's Marvelou* Growth and Development. Few business enterprises show more astonishing growth than that of the Standard Oil Company. Al though a partnership of manufactur ers was formed soon after the dis covery of oil in 1859, it was not untl 1870 that a corporation was formed for carrying it on with a capital of $1,000,000. As Cleveland, where the company was formed, was too far dis tant from the oil field, gradually other companies, incorporated each under the laws of its own State, were formed in connection with that at Cleveland as the head to carry on the trade which soon became enormous. Jan. 2, 1882, forty persons, owning, the capital of fifteen corporations were engaged, in the Standard oil* business, and on that all entered intoi an agreement by which the stocksi were placed in the hands of nine: trustees. This combination had aj wonderful effect on trade. In 1872| refined oil at wholesale averaged 23.5! cents per gallon. The output was! about 248,000,000 gallons, and the! value of the exports at that price'. $34,000,000. In 1890 the output was, 13,027,000,000 gallons, the average! price 7.3 cents per gallon, and thei value of exports at that low figure, $51,500,000. The reduction in price! between 1872 and 1891 was 16.2 cents: per gallon, which shows $215,000,000) per year saved to the public by re-' duction of price. Crude petroleum, averaged $4 per barrel of forty-two' gallons in 1872 and $0.87 per barrel1 in 1890 so that $99,000,000 of this annual saving is attributable solely: to the reduction in the crude product consequent upon its enor mous production. The remaining $116,000,000 per annum of saving is the result solely of cheapening the: price of the manufactured products., The most important work of the company and one which has gone far to cheapen oil is the erection of tanks and pipe lines. Prior to 1872 oil was carried to the seaboard in oarrels by wagons, slowly and at vast cost. Tanks were then erected at all sea: ports, which are capable of contain-' ing 1.500.000,000 gallons of oils. These, tanks are connected with lines of pipes leading directly from the flelas and forming a great network aver the whole country. Were the pipes laid out straight they would completely encircle the globe. The capital invested in these lines is more than $50,000,000. But the great im portance of this pipe line and tank system whereby transportation is so much cheapened lies in the fact, that thereby America can command the markets of Europe and the East, which Russia, with its splendid petro leum fields, has vainly striven to do. Almost everything used in the oil business, paint, glue, barrels, acid, etc., is now manufactured by some of the corporations created by the Standard Oil for the particular pur pose. For example, sulphuric acid is largely used in refining and formerly $1.25 per hundred pounds the Stand ard manufactures its own at a cost of eight cents per hundred pounds. In 1872 barrels cost the trade $2.35 each the Standard mauulactures them now at a cost of $1.25 each. As 3,500,000 barrels are used per an num, this item of saving amounts to $4,000,000 per year. Tin cans are now manufactured by the Standard at 15 cents less per can than they cost in 1874. Thirty-six million cans are used per year, and this saving amounts to $5,400,000 annually. Difficult Feats. Many things that seem impossible can easily be done. Thus, there are many men who can swallow swords, eat glass and devour live frogs. There are men who can walk upon their hands with as much ease as others walk on their feet. There are acro bats who can sit upon their own heads. Charles Blondin performed on a rope 175 feet from the ground, 249 yards in length, at that height at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham, England, in 1862, in the presence of enormous crowds, who flocked to see this veteran tight-rope performer accomplish the feat. Blondin walked for a distance of 1,200 feet across the river at the Niagara Falls at a height of 150 feet above the torrent. This performance was made in the presence ot 25,0.»J persons on June 30, 2 859, and on tho 4th of July following, ho crossed blindfolded trundling a wheelbarrow. He accepted a proposal that he sho-.rd walk on a cable from tho first plat form of the Eiffel Tower to the cen tral dome of the Exhibition for a wager of $20,000. This, however, was not permitted by the exhibition authorities. If it had, the height would have exceeded by about tv.vn feet the height of the rope at tho Crystal Palace performance. Tho suspension bridge at Clifton, the suburb of Bristol, England, 275 tcet above the Avon at low water, at has a span of 702 feet. Yet a short time since a man mounted the balus trade on a bicycle and rode over be fore the people who witnessed this daring action suspected or could pre vent his purpose. Coal i'tpe Linn The President of the New York Steam Company has taken out patents for a pipe line to convey coal from the Pennsylvania mines to the board. This sounds inipnictira.ie until you know how it is to be done: then it is as simple as ColuniUiV trick of making an etrg stand on end. The coal must be ground Hue. mi.\-d with water, and pumped through t! pipe before it has time settle. At the terminus it may be quickly e- a rated from the water by settling. WEAK character- never show :riy decision except when thev cmr-iit some r.ct ot sturiiditv.