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Novelties IN THE Realms OF SCIENCE
LITERATURE
AND ART.
NA.VIG ABLE balloons operated by
electrical motors are a success
iand in the time of emergency
would become vastly more so,
says a writer in the Fittsnurg
Dispatch. As far back as ISB4 two French
army officers showed what could be done
in this respect, steering a big balloon
around freely and making five and a half
miles in twenty-three minutes. Such bal
loons as this could be admirably operated
and could drop explosives or suffocating
icais at will upon any ship. Recent
trials in Austria have shown that it is well
nigh if not altogether Impossible to train
guns up into the air and hit a balloon,
even if it be "stationary." Balloons
steered around by electric motor can go
out boldly to sea and a* freely regain the
Bhore. Half a dozen of them would be
worth untold millions, but the very finest
could be had for $100,000 apiece, fully
ped.
Trolley fort? are a feature worthy of con
sideration to coast defense. It is not new
TIIF. TROLLEY FORT IN OPERATION.
to ironclad a locomotive and car, and run i
them over a track, but it would be new to
adapt the liirht a;:d simple trolk-y to a sys
tem of movable patrol forts, each covering '
miles of coast, and each equipped
with as heavy a gun as could be mounted
on a big trirk of broad gauge. Dynamite
shells can from such a trolley fort
at any point along twenty miles of i
the v i- j 1.-eing located midway.
Ail the machinery for tiring dirigible tor- .
es could also be handled comfortably
on such a trolley fort. The recoil even of
rtillery is easily provided for. If the
road were shorter very weighty pieces of
on I . nance could be rucvi-d tbus up and
li-'wn a mile or two of earthworks or ma-
Bonry.
KUHBKB OF WORDS IX USE.
Those in General Use Are Few, but Some
Men Command Many Thousands.
It is generally recognized that the num
ber of words which we commonly use in
our daily lives is comparatively small, per
haps not more than 2000 or 3000 words,
but instances of individuals who are ac
quainted with and can use larger vocabu
laries are not unusual. Some stenographers
have declared that they have memorized
and have instant use of as many as 5000 or
word signs, while others in special
work or research have acquired larger vo
cabularies.
Dr. Eugene Murray-Aaron, in his enter
taining "Butterfly Hunters," has brought
together an interesting collection of facts
in this regard. The volume is not one
that takes particular note of language,
but ia one of adventure in the Antilles.
The doctor, who has charge of a party of
boy naturalists, gives to them much infor
mation on a very wide range of topics, in
formation which will, much of it, be new
to the old as well as young.
"It has been estimated," says the doc
tor, in instructing the boys, "that Victor
Hugo remembered and used accurately
over 8000 worda in his ordinary work as a
writer; Cnvier, the French naturalist, and
Louis A.gassiz, the Swiss zoologist, could
promptly give the names, according to
careful estimates, of over 5000 animals, in
addition to the ordinary words they knew
perfectly. It has been said of Dr. Asa
(iray, the great botanist of Harvard, that
be knew quite 8000 plants by name and at
Bight.
"But by far the most remarkably trained
memory with which I have had acquaint
ance was that of Dr. Joseph Lefuy, for
many years, and until hi.s death, president
of the Academy of Natural Sciences of
Pniladelphia. Dr. Leidy was not only a
foremost geologist and mammalogist,
having hundreds upon hundreds of the
terms of these sciences upon his tongue's
end, but he was a very good student of
birds, reptiles, fishe3, insects and lesser
thing?, and remarkably ready in rernem
berintr where their different species be
longed in tb? great order of nature.
"Besides this he was an authority on
miscroscopic life, especially minute para
sites, was a fair botanist, one of the lead
ing physicians and anatomists of his time,
and a perfect encyclopedia of geography
and exploration. Add to this a" good
memory for names and faces, and a fa
miliarity with several forei: n languaees,
and you get some idea cf this man's pow
ers in that respect. After a long con
versation with him one day on this sub
ject. I estimated that his memory enabled
him to use 25,000 words at will."
Dr. Murray-Aaron gives the details of
this esiiruate, which allows for English,
geolopital and general science, 3000 words
each; three foreign languages and geo
graphical, U'ooo each; and technical and
n-edical, 5000 each. This estimate does not
peern to be an extravagant one.— Pittsburg
Dispatch.
Decorating a Room,
To make a room appear higher the plane
surface of the ceiling should be decreased
by the moldings of the cornice, by panels,
or, in the absence of these, by bands ol
color performing the .*arae office. A verti
cal system of lines should l>e adopted in
mural decoration, and the mantel hhould
be lover.
To make a room appear lower exactly
the opposite treatment should be adopted ;
that :s, to increase the plane ceiling, adopt
a horizontal system of mural decoration,
with v da io ai)d a bigb uiantd.
To make a room appear wider is accom
plished, to a certain extent, by making it
apt ear lower; but wbere tins is undesir
able, or wbere it is insufficient, the effect
can be reached by adopting a mural dec
oration on a graduated ±ci\e of form, de
creasing upward, so that two or mere pat
terns at tte top like those at the foot are
found to occupy the same space as one at
the foot, and this effect can be much in
creased by a gradation of color upward
from dark to lieht. To make a room ap
pear narrower is accomplished, to a certain
extent, by making it appear higher, but
where this is undesirable or insufficient,
it can be obtained by adopting a strongly
drawn large pattern in strong color for
mural decoration.
To m:ike a room appear longer is to an
extent accomplished by making it appear
lower and narrower, but where this is un
desirable or inefficient the effect may be
obtained by decreasing the scale and
strength of color of the mural decoration
adopted at the ends.
To make a room appear shorter is ac
complished to an extent by making it ap
pear wider and higher, but the effect can
be achieved by increasing the scale and
strength of color of the mural decoration
adopted at the en-is.
Any of those effects can be modified or
increased by the treatment of the floor sur
face, whether by the carpets, the rugs or
painted boards, or by parquetrie floorine ;
lines running across a room, or rugS laid
down at intervals, having the effect of
shortening, and consequently to an extent
of heightening and widening a room.
Lines running in the length increase this
dimension, and to an extent reduce the
height and width. A polished floor in
■s tne apparent height of an apart
ment by reflecting all vertical lines and
prolonging them. — English Mechanic.
GET A FREE RIDK.
A Car In Denver Especially for the Use of
Horses.
Here is a street-car for the accommoda
tion horses which is the very latest thing
in the West. Such a car is now in opera
tion in Denver, and it is pronounced a
great success by all able to give an opinion
on the subject. The iiorses themselves
are durub, but if their judgment could be
had it would no doubt be favorable.
The riding car for the horses consists of
a platform mounted on small wheels, pro
tected at the sides by a sufficiently high
railing, while the front and rear are pro
vided with gates. These permit the horses
to get on and off the car without backing.
"When the regular passenger car has been
drawn to the top of the long ascent, the
horse car is hooked to the forward end, the
horses, are driven aboard, and by a few deft
turns of the brake the descent is made
safely.
At first the horses showed some hesita
tion about embarking on what appeared
to be a perilous adventure. But they soon
became accustomed to it, and an? said to
even enjoy the experience, expressing their
pleasure by broad smiles and prolonged
whinnies. •
There is no reason why this plan should
not be adopted with protit elsewhere.
There are many car lines which run for
almost their entire length on more or less
steep inclines. The additional force re
quired to be exerted in drawing a car up
hill is turned into a propelling force when
the car begins the descent. This force
might well be employed in giving the
horses a ride, and thus saving wear and
tear on their feet.
It might be supposed that the addi- j
tional pull imparted to this human pas
senger-car, when on the down grade, might |
cause the brake to but this is not the j
case. It is only necessary to make the
brake a little more powerful than that on
the ordinary streetcar.
Having arrive; at the foot of the incline,
the gate of the horse passenger-car is un
fastened and the animals once more taKe
their places in the traces, drawing both i
cars behind them up the hill. The entire |
load is not much heavier than a single car |
on a level street, as the car in which the
horses ride is very light.
Story of a Bell.
The old bell of St. John's Episcopal
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Church, Ellicottville, N. V., has an inter
esting history. It hung originally in a
monastery in Malaga, Spain. The monast
ery was sacked in 1832, and this bell, with
others, was shipped to New York. Nicholas
Devereaux, agent of the Holland Land
Company at Ellicottville, bought it and
sold it to iSt. Jonn's Episcopal Church.
The inscription on it is as follows:
"Abe soi labos del angel qve en alto
svena Maria Gracip plena Bargas
Mefeci Malaga, 1708." The meanins of
tnis was a mystery for a long time, until
Bishop Coxe studied it, and saia it was in
corrupt Spanish, in which b was often
used for v, and which changed many other j
letters. "Thus," he said, "abe" should be
"aye" and "Jabos" should be "la vos."
The inscription put in pure Spanish fol
lows: "Aye (soi la voz del angel qve en
alto svena) Maria, plena gracia." The
English translation he made thus: "Hail
(lam the voice of the angel who on high
stands forth) Mary ! full of grace!" The
last words, of course, mean Bargas made
me, Malaga, 1708." — New York Tribune.
Victor and Vanquished.
I.
Through the crowded streets returning, at the end
of the day,
Hastened one whom all saluted as he sped along
his way;
In his eye a gieam of triumph, in his heart a joy
sincere,
And the voice of shouting thousands still resound
ing in his ear.
Passed he 'neath a stately archway toward the
goal of his desire.
Till he saw a woman's figure lolling idly by the
lire,
"I have won!" he cried, exultant; "I have saved a
cause irom wreck, ■. -
Crushed the rival that 1 dreaded, set my foot upon
his neck!
Now at las the way is open, now at last men call
rue great,
1 am leader of the leaders, I am master in the
State!"
Languidly she turned to listen, and decorous was
her pretense,
And her cold patrician features mirrored forth In
difference :
•■Men are always scheming, striving for some petty
end," said she:
Then, a little yawn suppressing, "What Is all of
this to me?"
11.
Through the shadows of the evening, as they
quenched the sunset glow,
Came the other, faring homeward, with dejected
step and slow,
Wistful, pec-ring through the darkness, till he saw,
a.- oft before,
Where a woman stood impatient at the threshold
of the door.
"I have lost!'! he faltered faintly. "All is over,"
with a groan;
Then he paused and gazed expectant at the face
beside hisown.
Two soft eyes were turned upon him with a
woman's tenderness.
Two white arms were flung about him with a pas
sionate caress.
i And a voice of thrilling music to his mutely ut
tered plea
Said "If only you are with me what is all the rest
to me?"
111.
' All night long the people's leader sat In silence
and alone,
Dull of eye, with brain unthinking, for his heart
was turned to stone;
While the hours passed all unheeded till the hush
of night had < eased
And the hazard light returning flecked the melan
choly east.
tout the other, the defeated, laughed a laugh of
merriment.
And he thrust bis cares behind him with an infinite
content:
Reckin? not of place and power and the smiles of
those above,
For his uarknisj was illumined by the radiance of
love.
Each 'had grasped the gift of fortune, each had
counted up the cost,
And the vanquished was the victor, and the winner
he that lost.
llenky Thdrstos Peck In the Bookman.
NEW SYSTK3I OF COUNTING.
Numerals Represented by a Series of
Motions "With the Arms.
Here is something new in the way of a
deaf-and-dumb mode of represent figures
THE QLEER NEW SYSTEM OF COUNTING.
and numbers, says the New York World.
It is a new system of numeration resem
bling in no respect the Arabic or the
Roman, being less simple than the first
and more simple than the second. The
children in the French calisthenic schools
have become so proficient in it that they
can strike an attitude that will represent
any familiar date in French history or in
any other History, as far as that goes.
>>"o. 1 is formed by extending the left
arm in a straight line from the shoulder
so as to form a right angle with the body.
; No. 2 is made by dropping the left arm half
way between its former position and the
i hips, so as to form an acute angle with the
J body. No. 3is made by raising the arm
j the same distance above the shoulder as it
has just been below the shoulder, thus
forming an obtuse angle. These are the
three fundamental rules, and all the fig
ures that follow are variations of these.
The series four, five and six are created
| by analogous movements of the forearm
v ilk V pper arm neld horizontally. In
iso. 4 the forearm makes a right angle with
the upper arm, in No. 5 an acute angle, in
JNo. ban obtuse angle. Then lowering the
upper arm, so that it will make an acute
angle with the body, and, repeating the
movements of the forearm, executes the
series of 7, 8 and 9.
Having thus regulated the units the tens
are next provided for, and the very simple
method of determining these is" by the
movement of the right arm exactly"simi
lar to that which we have just seen in the
lelt. *or the hundreds the same move
| rnent is gone through with the left leg and
for the thousands with the right leg.
■i W r the application of these indi
vidual figures to make up a complete num
bs r, say 1895 for example. It must be
understood that these numbers are sep
arated into units, tens, hundreds and
thousands, and we make them represent
a thousand and eight hundred, not 1800.
inus one thousand is indicated by the
right leg being elevated to a right angle
with the body; eight hundred by the left
leg being raised to an acute angle with the
body and the knee bent so that the foot
hangs down perpendicularly on a line with
it; and ninety by the right'arm held at an
acute angle with the body and the forearm
at an obtuse angle with the upper arm.
W hat the practical utility ol this method
is supposed to be is not disclosed, but as it
affords the children in the French schools
considerable amusement and at the same
time impresses the numerals upon their
mind, it has doubtless been found useful
in their training. Several efforts have
been made to formulate an alphabet in
somewhat the same way, but that has been
found thus far too difficult, because of the
large number of characters to be repre
sented.
An Ice Bicycle.
A bicycle has been invented for travel
ine on ice or snow, says a New Yore paper.
The long runner or skate, which replaces
the front wheel of the bicycle, in itself is
made for ice alone, but when the machine
is used on snow-clad roads a metal shoe is
The Ice Bicycle.
fitted over the skate, and it is claimed that
the machine will carry a rider over the
ground, or rather enow or ice, at a greatei
speed than the regulation wheel.
Miss Davidson, who is young and en
thusiastic, mounted the ice wheel at a rink
last evening with but little difficulty, and,
after a few "wobbles," started off around
the rink gracefully. The half dozen spec
tators were astonished at the perfect work
ing of the machine. After two or three
The Latest Thing in Bicycle Lamps.
turns about the rink Miss Davidson did a
few fancy moves and then dismounted.
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GROWTH OF BRITISH POLICY.
The Modern Carthage Was Founded by
William 111.
The unparalleled settlement accom
plished or at least organized by William
111, which dealt so successfully with ques
tions so fundamental, which at the same
time settled the succession of the crown,
waged war victoriously against France and
Spain and established the state of Great
Britain by the union of England and
Scotland, had created, as we have seen, a
commonwealth predominantly commer
cial.
The Britißh policy which, in spite of
some Hanoverian excursions, had ceased
to be dynastic, and had established itself
upon the national interests, recognized
those interests in trade. The eighte -nth
century was to show that in the notion of
trade was involved the empire of the seas
and a vast colonial dominion. But this
was not, as yt;t, distinctly comprehended.
Daring the early part bf the eighteenth
century, that is in the rei~nofAnne.it
was only visible that the Britannic state
showed* a military and diplomatic skill
which was wholly new, and interfered in
Continental affairs with more decision
than had been its wont under either the
Tudors or the Stuarts.
When the period of war was over the
house of Brunswick speedily succeeded to
an insular kingdom, possessing far more
consolidation at home than it had ever
known before. When, after a few years,
France recovered under the guidance of
Fleury from the serious blows she had re
ceived, and it seemed that the age of Louis
XIV was to be followed, as it had been pre
ceded, by the age of a great cardinal, the
total result of the remarkable transition
which ■ England had undergone became
measurable, and the Europe of the
eighteenth century displayed its chief in
ternational features.
Looking about Dim, Frederick the Great
expressed the conviction that all the
states of Europe were drawn in the train
either of England or of France, and that
the standing hostility between those two
states ruled everything. This grand riv
alry between Englishmen ami Frenchmen
reminded Frederick of the Punic wars.
The French, restored to their old influence
by Fleury, struck him as the modern
Romans. Great Britain, he admits, cher
ishes no designs of Continental conquests;
she desires only to push her trade. k
She is, he sees, the modern Carthage:
but to his mind it is a great evil that all
the states of Europe alike are forced to
take part in the grand rivalry which em
braces the globe. Frederick was thus the
very first to form the conception which in
the first years of the nineteenth century
possessed the mind of Napoleon and led to
a Punic war indeed, which had its Hanni
bal, and had also its battle of Zama.
The international situation which led to
this result was already visible before the
middle of the eighteenth century, and had
begun to exist earlier still. It is the con
sequence of that transition which is con
sidered in these volumes, and the outcome
of which was the establishment of a com
mercial state, including the whole Britan
nic world. The modern Carthage was
founded when the revolution of 1688, fol
lowed by the Hanoverian succession, had
established a secure Government with a na
tional and no longer a dynastic policy; and
when this had acquired Britain, instead of
England, for its territorial basis, and was
able also to draw in its train Ireland, not,
indeed, united or satisfied, but pacified
and withdrawn from the influences of re
action. When, as time passed on. this
great Britannic state defeated in the field
the combined powers of France and Spain
and began to be acknowledged as the
leading maritime power, while, at the
same time, with omnivorous energy, it
devoted itself to trade, a state appeared
which resembled the ancient Carthage as
much as the great states of the modern
world can resemble the small states of an
tiquity. — Review of Professor Seeley's
"Growth of British Policy" in New York
Sun.
ORIGINALITY ON THE BENCH.
How a Nebraska Judge Dispenses
Justice.
No more unique figure is to be found in
the American judiciary than Judge Gashn
of Nebraska, and many are the stories told
of this interesting personality. When first
elected to the office he was long on sense
of justice and a determination to bring
about a more orderly condition of affairs
in his district, but somewhat short on his
knowledge of law. The latter he remedied
in later years by persistent study, but the
former characteristic he still retains.
His methods of administering justice
were decidedly peculiar and original, but
seldom led him amiss. Criminals brought
before him were tried and bundled off to
the penitentiary with such celerity and
given such severe sentences that he made
short work of the lawless element.
Succeeding these came the shark who
sought to rob the honest settler by the
forms of law, and the Judge soon became
recognized by this class as no less an
enemy than he had proved himself to be
to the criminal element. Concerning his
methods of dealing with them the follow
ing story is told:
A 4-per-cent-a-month money-lender had,
through the instrumentality of a small
loan, secured about everything a home
steader possessed except his farm, but
with all the payments the loan refused to
prow less. Finally action was brought in
court to enforce payment of the alleged
balance by means of a judgment against
the man's farm. A jury had been secured
which understood -its business, and in
spite of the instrvictions of Judge Gaslin,
which favored the defendant, brought in a
verdict for tbe plaintiff.
The Judge looked surprised, but was
equal to the emergency.
''Mr. Clerk," he said, "that verdict is set
aside. It takes thirteen men to steal a
man's farm in this court."
On another occasion a man who had
drifted over into Nebraska from Colorado,
who was not familiar with the manner of
administering justice on the Nebraska side
of the border, appropriated a horse which
he found hitched to a post in front of a
country store. The horse happened to be
the property of Judge Gaslin.
The thief was captured and later bound
over to await trial in the District Court.
A few days after Judge Gaslin met a fellow
Judge from another district and requested
him as a favor to come into his district on
a day specified and sentence a horsethief,
as Gaslin said he felt a little delicacy in
sentencing a man for stealing his own
horse.
The fellow-jurist assented and incident
ally inquired when the offender was con
victed.
"Oh, he isn't convicted yet," replied
Gaslin, "but I'll 'tend to that part of it,"
and he did. — St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
A QtTAIXT NEW ENGLAND TOWN.
Where the Individualism of Early Days
Is Experienced.
The very name "Salem" is an index of
its character, as well in sound as in signifi
cation. How differently does its measured
cadence strike the ear, with how much
more of dignity, comfort, tranquillity than
that of its brisk neighbor, Lynn, whose
sharp monosyllable causes one an inadver
tent shock as the brakeman announces
these two contrasted sister cities to the
traveler upon the Eastern Kailroau. The
story is told of Phillips Brooks (with more
authenticity than belongs to most of the
stories attached to him) that coming into
Salem from Boston one evening he re
marked to a friend: "What do you sup
pose I saw coming up your quietstreet? —
a little dog going over to Lynn to bark."
The adjective which is oftenest used of
Salem is "conservative." It is well ap
plied. Her very appearance is expressive,
not of decay, but of conservatism. Her
old buildings and dwellings are not left
to disuse and ruin. Far from it. They
are tenanted with as much complacency
and pride (and at as high rentals) as if
there were no finer upon the continent —
and, indeed, there are not, if you accept
the criterion of those who say that the
best house is one that has been the longest
lived in.
In truth, many of the old houses are
BREASTPLATE OF AMENEMHAT 111. (TWO-THIRDS ACTUAL SIZE.) ABOUT
FORTY^FIVE ULNDUED YEARS OLD.
possessed of great charm and beauty. Old
and exquisite carvings, generous fire
places (too often walled in), wide hall
ways, handsome staircases, old-fashioned
plate and china, antique furniture and
bric-a-brac, brought home from distant
lands, combine to lend many of these old
residences a rare attractiveness. In others
are to be found tokens of age of a different
kind, such as low ceilings, narrow stair
ways, uneven floors, diminutive window
panes and other tokens of the inefficiency
of bygone days. One virtue they all pos
sess, the beautiful and the ugly alike,
and that is individuality. Nowhere,
certainly, can there be found clear
er expression of the individualism
of early New England than in the
diversities in appearance and construction
of the dwellings of this old Puritan city.
Fronts of a thousand different designs;
ells and lean-tos of the most peculiar pat
terns; roofs of all descriptions, hip-roofs,
curb-roofs, gable-roofs, shed-roofs; win
dows of all sizes and shapes; doorways of
diverse types, many of them quite artistic;
chimneys that often look as if they were
the original structures and the houses
built round them, and interiors of equal
diversity , amuse as well as interest those
who have not been accustomed to these
old dwellings from their youth up.
There is a deal of picturesqueness about
them as well as a deal of distortion and
homeliness, much as it was doubtless with
the humanity which built them.— Boston
Transcript.
;the oldest jewelry.
Specimens Made Before the Days of
Abraham.
It is to J. de Morgan, the antiquarian
explorer and historian of the Caucasus,
and now director of the important excava
tions at Dashour, near Memphis, in
Egypt, that we owe the discovery of what
must at present be accounted the oldest
specimens of the jeweler's art known to
exist. Until his first find of last year the
most ancient Wees of jewelry known were j
those discovered by M. Mariette, that had
once belonged to Queen Aahotep, mother
of the King Amosis of the eighteenth dy- j
nasty, who lived about 1700 B. C. *■
Mr. de Morgan has brought to light, 1
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among other things, so many specimens
of jewelry that we may now be said to
possess a complete knowledge of the art as
it was before the time of Abraham, which,
according to the most received chronology,
was about 2300 years before Christ, while
the dates to be assigned to these finds
range from tne reign of Amenemhat 11,
who began to rule 2714 B. C, to that of
Amenemhat ill. who died B. C. 2578.
The period v.as for Egypt one of expan
sion and conquest. The unruly tribes of
the Soudan and of Sinai were brought
into subjection, and were compelled to
pay a tribute of gold and gems. Much
later we learn from inscriptions that even
Assyria was obligea to forward to Egypt
quantities of lapis-lazuli and other stones.
In the Dashour jewels lapis-lazuli, tur
quoise, carnelian and the Egyptian
emerald are most frequently used, and ail
except the latter came most likely
from countries beyond the borders of
Egypt. They were used for engraved
beads, which were strung into necklaces,
bracelets and netted breastplates of the
richest effect; but were besides set in solid
gold, wrought into cloisonne-like com
partments to receive the stones, which
were cut to the shapes demanded by the
design. One of the most beautiful of these
iowels of gold and inlaid stones is the
breastplate bearing the cartouche of Ousir
tasen 11. The royal cartouche, with the
beetle (signifying immortality) and other
signs, is supported by two crowned hawks,
banded with turquoise and carnelian.
The sacred asp is coiled over the back of
each hawk, bearing on its neck the "tau,"
another emblem of immortality.
The whole is inclosed in a frame of an
architectural character. In addition to
this breastplate and that of Amenembat
111 were found the jeweled clasps of Queen
Noub-Hotep's necklace, in the form of
hawk's heads of solid gold, a hawk with
wings spread, and a clasp made of two
jeweled lotus buds of exquisite workman
ship.
The inscription on the breastplate reads:
"Amenemhat 111, the good god, the master
of the world and of the two countries (Upper
and Lower Egypt), subduer of the nations
and slaughtereitof the Mentis and Satis."
These two specially mentioned tribes were
inhabitants of Sinai and Arabia. The de
sign represents the King crushing with
his club these bitterest enemies of Egypt,
while the sacred hawk hovers over and
protects him. This is the oldest page of
history written in gold and gems. The
minutest details of the figures are engraved
/with the utmost skill in the gems which
compose the ornament.— Art Amateur.
Trains Delayed by the Wind.
Trainmen say it is not the "head-on"
winds that delay the cars, as the engine
presents a small portion of itself to it, and,
breaking through, the train can be ea?ilv
pulled along after it. But when the wind
strikes the train at an angle of 45 deg. the
trouble begins. The wind uses the whole
side surface as a leverage and gives the
engineer lots of trouble. The cars sway
over to one side and are dragged along
with difficulty. The engineers estimate
that in going 100 miles an extra ton of coal
is used in a strong wind at an angle, and
even then it is impossible to keep on
schedule time. The wind most disastrous
to travel on the Consolidated road is that
from the northeast. It strikes the trains
cornerwise and makes the engines strugele
and strain to counteract its force. This is
felt especially in crossing the Connecticut
River, where the wind has a full sweep,
and all the New York trains are a few
minutes late when the southeasters are in
force.— Springtield Republican.
People You Have Heard Of.
The young man who cast his eye on a
young lady coming out of churc h has had
it replaced, and now sees as well as ever.
The man who could not trust his feel
ings is supposed to do business on a cash
principle.
The lady who went off in hysterics came
back on the L road.
The gentleman who went too far in
an argument was brought home on a
stretcher.
The man who wrestled with adversity
wore out the knees of his trousers and got
worsted.
The man who jumped on the spur of the
moment was soon glad to sit down again.
The girl who burst into tears has been
put together.
The young man who flew into a passion
has Dad his wings clipped.
The young man who was taken by sur
prise has returned.
The man who painted the signs of the
times is now out of a job.
It is rumored that distance lent enchant
ment to the view and now the view refuses
to return it.
The man who was moved to tears com*
plains of the dampness of the premises
and wishe3 to be moved back again. — Life.
A Toy Railroad.
There is in China one of the smallest
railroads in the world. The gauge is less
than two feet, the cylinders are sxlo
inches, the drivers 24 inches in diameter
and the water-tank Holds 90 gallons.
If this was the standard-sized engine in
this country hardware stores would keep
them, same as they do sausage-cutters.
Railroad rnanacers would order k them by
the gross, and locomotive engineers would
be thicker than flies in a dog-kennel. —
Locomotive Engineer.
Aluminum Coffins.
Coffini are now made of aluminum.
Like the modern square burial casket, the
aluminum coffin is made of uniform
width, with square ends and vertical side»
and ends. It is finished with a heavy
molding around the bottom and at the
upper edge, and with pilasters at the cor
ners, ana has a rounded molded top. It
is provided with extension bar handles.
The aluminum casket is not covered, but
finished with the metal burnished. It is
lined in the usual manner. The weight of
a six-foot aluminum coftin is 100 pounds.
A six-foot oak casket weighs about 100
pounds, and a cloth casket of the same
size with a metal lining about 175 pounds.
Other metallic caskets weigh from 450 to
500 pounds. The cost of aluminum coffins
| is from $750 to $1000.
NEW TO-DAY.
A TOBACCO HEART.
Thousands of Americans Can't Get
Life Insurance Because Tobacco
Has Destroyed the Heart Action
and Wrecked the Nervous Sys-
tem.
Engineer Bates Discovers a Never-Failing and
Easy Remedy.
Delanson, N. V., Jan. 18.— Engineer
O. H. Bates stepped off Engine No. 275 to-
day, with a long oiler in one hand and a
bunch of waste in the other. Not a by-
stander there could help remarking big
youthful, healthy look and active, vigor-
| ous movement, and contrasting his ap-
pearance with his condition of two months
ago.
"Say, Colonel, how well you look!"
"Yes, I am well; better than I have been
for years."
"What have you been doing?"
"Oh, not much; No-to-bac cured me of
the tobacco habit, after using it 43 years
and braced me mentally and physically)
in fact, made me a new man in more ways
than one. I had no appetite; couldn't
sleep; now I sleep like a baby and eat
three times a day with a relish, for the
first time in years. My heart action is
regular and no longer a bar to increased
life insurance. You know throttle-pulling
requires a pretty steady nerve, and my
nerves are O. K. now. One box and a
quarter of No-To-Bac cured me completely
in ten days, after using tobacco forty years.
No-To-Bac is sold by all druggists. I see
the No-To-Bac stander on nearly every
druggist's counter, and made by the Ster-
ling Remedy Co. of New York and Chi-
cago. You ought to get one of their little
books called 'Don't Tobacco Spit and
Smoke Your Life Away,' and post your-
self. They send them free to any one that
writes. It cost me $1 to get cured, and I
spent three or four dollars a week for to-
bacco. If I had failed to get cured I would
have gotten my money hack, as the
makers guarantee three boxes to cure any
case. I have recommended the use of No-
To-Bac to many of the boys on the line
and every one of them who got the genuine
article, so far as I know, has been cured
Look out, don't let some of the imitations
be palmed off on you for No-To-Bac."
The cab bell rang, the engineer ciimbed
up quickly on the footboard, stuck his
head out of the cab window, pulled the
throttle half an inch and the big train
rolled away.