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THE UA.TEST.
Mrs. Hoyle^-She never speaks
of him a* her husband.
'Mr. Hoyle— What does she call
->Mrs. Hoyle— Her Catmate.
Snre He VWould -Whistle.
• She/with I an ; arm \u25a0 around ' his ; neck :"
"It s ! makes 't you j happy j to'kno w; that I
am" pleased^ doesn't! it,\ dear?"
"-tHe-^-''Why,'Cyes. I M ?:;:;.';\u25a0''-"" : ." r S "
sf-VAnd s you \u25a0 are 2% happy -• when , you
whistle.-iaren'tiyou, I dear?" . \u25a0': . ,
; v r
.•• "Well^ love, s ; l'< know you ; are ;"goirig
to'vwhist!e~/when you .see, this millinery
biH':"- ; - : -yonkers~Statesman;t : ; : -
-v The Journal lof Agricultural .^Topics
calls \u25a0: attention ' tb'a very, curious . fish,
occurring; in 'great : numbers along the
banks; of the Amazon;; which attack
cattle. Ss The animals frequent the shal
low : waters the, i heat ' of . the day,*
andtwhile 'thus ; exposed r are * attacked
upon" the; legs and udders by, the flsh.
The it bites are quite severe, frequently
totally.?' disabling the -'animals -.and
sometimes; producing: death. In one
instance a dairyman is ' reported to
have 'i lost >- over. ; 400 * cows from • this
cause in \u25a0 a single : season." ,
FISH ATTACKS COW.
r \u25a0 Library Hall here '; is "filled with- nude
statuary, mostly^" the : ; gift; of ; Edward.
.Wilder^ secretary }. and \u25a0 trfeasurer '". of i the.
; Atchison;^ Railway,:, says the y Topeka
'/Kan.) correspondent of the New.*: York
Sun.lr When ' some ; good .women went Uo
the hall to arrange a meeting they^were
shocked , atsthe|appearanc« of -so much
marble and plaster nakedness, and they
worked all the afternoon putting aprons
and : other Z draperies '\ on ; the I statues: - , ;
5 Before & the i \u25a0 meeting g took ?, place \ Mr. ;
happened alongr.'^Whenlhe; saw
what : the j women I had i done ?he > became
indignant 'and ,tore away, the- draperies. 4
-v "They \u25a0 made ithose^ statues T positively,
indecent,",! declared a ' Mr. '\u25a0-'\u25a0>^Wilder.^yi
never I saw anything so sugfres^ive ~ln
all ! my life." ;• ';\u25a0 '\u25a0":'\u25a0"'-\u25a0 '\u25a0 '
DRAPES NUDE STATUES;
%'-. Dr. William Osier of Johns Hopkins
and Oxford tells this story: An .old
darky quack, well \u25a0 known In a, certain
section s of > the ; South, -was passing the
house of a planter whose" wife was,re
ported to ; be dangerously ill. .Stopping
at V the i gate, ..' he called Jto one . of 1 the
hands: , . >\u25a0 \u25a0 . -, .-.:,
Vl'say, Rastus, how's -the missus?"
, . "\yell,"'; replied Rastus, "the doctah
done say , dis mawnin* dat . she : convel
escent." •'••'• """.-•; . ' iiwE£§ - 5 .
..., .'.'Humph! " "Dat ain't nothinV: chile,"
said \ the iOld quack lwith an ? air of su
perior, wisdom. : "Why,' I've : done \ cured
convalescence in twenty-foah; hours." — -
Cleveland" Leader.; \u25a0 "^
Teacher — If it took one man
seven days to do a piece of
work, how long would It take
seven men to do the same work?
Tommy — Seven weeks. '
Teacher — How so?
Tommy — The seven men would
go on a strike. j
HE HMW I.ABUntiU.r
• A HUN FOX HIS HO.NKY. .
He 'wrote some fugitive verse.
Pride tempted him to show it;
The natural result is that
He's now a fugitive poet..
EASILY CURED.
.There's a little mental science trick
that ; will teach imaginative persons to
acquire a perfect, graceful poise,' says
the Pittsburg Dispatch. One says
aginative" with . reason, for : you I have
to have an imagination to do ; it. >.You
must" imagine; that, you:bear,a 6clntil- :
lating star on your, breast and a basket
of eggs en your head. ,v.. . "
I . The : first fancy will unconsciously in
fluence you to carry, your, shoulders like
a: military man bent. on; exhibiting. his
geld buttons. The. second^wili: teach
you to sink' into; your; chair gently ' and
gracefully instead of * bouncing ' intoV it.
AJso \u25a0- it will - train you to .. climb stairs
erect, c You \u25a0? can't^ twist ;=. or c'beridy over
as, women usually, do in going'up stairs
if '; you have a;• basket iof * eggs ; on' your,
head-^even -an.: lmaginary^ one— K;an
:you?-;: you?- ; \u25a0.-\u25a0;\u25a0-\u25a0\u25a0; .'y- : . \u25a0[':\u25a0. : : -;.:- "\u25a0; \u25a0:---\u25a0:-
So put on the flashing: gold star,
whieh is worn to be seen, - and ? set the
basket- of ieggs "\ oh !• your ; head ' and : see
what 5 . the combined it ancy^ will ?do for
your carriage. ' ".' /., '.V
TRICK OF IMAGINATION.
(The suggestion has been made that
the cruiser St. Louis be christened with
beer.) .
Vake me" early. If not earlier, mem lie
fa er mudder. dear, -
Pecausc our ship Saind Looie's to pc
grissened mit some beer. '_
Dey'ro going to rig der poop-masts und
: der pig two-shilling deck..
Dcr chib-sails und der taftrails mit i
. pink sausages und shpeck; . -V\'"-'»'
Und from der' stern righd: down to
." vhere der barkless bow • shticks
out '
Dere vill pe floating in der preeze long
• shtreams of sauerkraut: *
Und on der deck vhere heaps oft can
non balls dey alvays lays :
Dere vill pe • heaps off balls dot's sim
ply made of leberglaese:
Und from der port-holes vhere der
. great pig* guns shtuck oud dere
head
I hear, dot dey are goin' to put pig wie
' nerwursts instead. -
Dey're goin' to; put new emblems on
. :\u25a0 der flags dot; from it flew—- '
Designs of sauerbratten und some has
:, , senpfeffer.Uoo; •
Dey're goin' to fill her holts all oop mlt
fresh limburger cheese
To kill dot horrid salty smell dot floats
mit;each sea preeze. '
So don't forgot to vaka me awful early,
mudder dear. «• . .
I vant .to see' Saind Looie's ship get
grissened mit der beer. . ,
'? — F.P. Fixzer in New York Press.
HOCH SAiSD LOOIE.
THIS is an age of hustle. 1 Here at a
glance one may see how some of the
recent most remarkable feats in the
art of hustling compared one with another
in respect to j the j time occupied :in com
pleting them, the black column iv each
instance being drawn in length in pro
portion to the time taken. Some of the
feats recorded were "performed by a
single brain, others were the acts of
groups of men. . Some represent instances
o5 unpremeditated bustle, . while upon
others long and. earnest thought had pro
vided beforehand > for any— contingency
likely to occur. In the rush for the record,
Miys a writer in the Detroit Tribune.
•In the engineering world locomotive
building was once very popular ; among
hustlers, until the Great Eastern Railway
turned out an engine in nine hours forty
seven minutes in 1891 arid set up a seem
ingly unapproachable record. Now the
most popular phase of hustling has taken
the form of a Titanic game of . "bridge"
that culminated, in a structure, 906 feet
long, crossing, the Raritan River and the
Delaware and. Raritan Canal,. being moved
by, the Pennsylvania Railroad , Company
on to new abutments in me brief time
of eight and a half minutes. 1 The actual
time taken for the ; removal ' of . the struc
ture, weighing 2400 tonsr through fourteen
feet six inches, was. 193 seconds, the bal
ance of the time being occupied in re
moving the bolts and making the discon
nections'arid in making fresh connections
at the ends when the bridge was in its
new position. . .
REMOAING BRIDGES.
- In England a few days ago the Midland
Railway removed a bridge near Attercliffe
Road Station. Shefifleld, a,nd substituted a
steel structure, in five hours ten minutes;
while a/420-ton bridge on* the London,
Tilbury and Southend line. In the neigh
borhood of Bow, was lasl summer placed
in position between 12:40 on the Saturday,
night and 10:30 on the Sunday morning,
notwithstanding the fact that the old
bridge was not got out of the way before
4 a. m. and the new bridge had to travel
thirty feet. The West London Extension
Railway Company . succeeded in *, moving
a.v : old fifty-ton bridge in ;< the . neighbor
hood of Battersea Station In 1902 and sub
stituting a new structure of double the
weight ; in forty-two minutes.
Expeditious "as these feats, undoubtedly
were they can .. scarcely. ,- be said -to have
eclipsed those of - the - world's two cham
pion butchers. . In one instance a Ballarat
butcher backed himself jln 1900 for | to
place chops on -a gridiron in ten minutes
from the time he took; the sheep in hand
to shear,; kill and dress iL He .won.
American meat dressers hearing of this
.Englishman's fame, journeyed across the
Atlantic with the idea ' of, ' flgurately
speaking, wiping the floor with the Brit
ish champion. ' The English representa
tive in this line of hustling is Stanley
Warth, 'a' foreman butcher of Ipswich,
who in .' 1900 performed the , remarkable
feat of dressing \ a bullook and a sheep
and ' running a * mile," all iwithin 'l half \u25a0\u25a0 an
hour. \ Warth dressed : the bullock in thir
teen minutes,' the 1 sheep { in -: six , minutes
.and '_ theri; throwing aside' his. apron,' ran
the measured : mile in five minutes," there
by winning his wager with ! five minutes
'to spare, j : \u25a0 . - :\u25a0 .
; MAKING SHOES. ;
, There - has \u25a0 been r a ';- certain % ; amount of
competition In l rapid shoe l production 3of
fate years. ; ; In Lynn; Mass., . ' a; ppairr r of
lady's bQOts^ weremado'ln the presence
of a notary public,;; who timed the per
formance, in thirteen minutes ,by ; utilizing
the services of fifty-seven different oper
ators I and j forty-two \ machines that ; pro
ceeded ";to. convert , twenty-six ipieces v bf
leather, fourteen pieces of : cloth; .twenty
four buttons, ", twenty- four -buttonholes,
eighty tacks,' twenty "nails, two box ; toes, J
two steel shanks and \, twenty.; yards '.' of
thread" Into fa dainty, pair x>t lady's foot-;
gear; In - the * time ; mentioned; " :^V J / '-- :
The. genius jwho^ is;- assisted: by inspira
tion is '\u25a0 capable, of . some feats of 1 hustling
that the ordinary .' individual -ts j unable \u25a0to
perform,^ even j when : time is -no' object.'
Lord "^Tenriysori, . for": example," is : reported
to have told Dr." Butler of Cambridge' that
he knockedoff the Bar", in ten
minutes. < Sir > F. C. \ Burnand i is > believed
to,*bave : written '-. his' famous i burlesque ' of
>-/Dlplomacy?', ; in ' t five hoars."! Captain Basil
Hood, when Interviewed some few, months
ago, put on record the fact, that ;the play
let 5; Vlb 7 and *Llttle !-" Christina"!''- was S the
work of: three .hours.","' Solomon J.i Solomon
Is -credited ~ i with % having ~\ completed ;- his
famous f Academy] portrait 5 of . I.'t* Zangwill
in ' five * hours, V and % the ; late \u25a0'_ Sir
Sullivan,-; who? composed ? and ; j scored i the
elaborate Vbverturei to*; '?The"yYeomaij: i of
tho *Guard"~ in Itwelvei hours, i is^said %to
have perfoTmed a like feat for, the equally
ttinefulsl'lolantho**. -by- ten consecutive
hours -of \u25a0' strenuous j, toll-
"SHKEP ;TO COAT."
A lady coming across "the herring
pond,y'. r ;whose£ father 5, boarded:'; the *shlp
from ;the pilotboat lwhen's the il, vessel ' waa
still* two i hours j away,"- from* the i landing
place,-* with^' small Tarmy .! 'of I modistes ; and
dressmakers,^ aad ) the"? tidings fof I herihusf
band's death,' is said to have .walked 'down'
the , kaneway « with v the other \u25a0 passengers
*BAR TO 1.0AF."
clad in the dernier cri of fashionable
mourning. But- the most popular form of
hustling, so far as tailors are concerned,
is over the "sheep -to coat" course. This
feat in the art of hurrying received a
great impetus in 1811, when Sir John
Throgrmorton made a bet of $5000 that at
8 o'clock on a certain evening he would
sit down to dine in a suit, the wool of
Which had been shorn the same morning.
It is now a matter of history that the
various processes were. completed in thir
teen hours and "that Sir.. John , won the
wager with an hour to spare. 1 That mod
ern methods have improved upon those
of almost a hundred years ago was made
clear a few years ago when Americans
accomplished. the same feat in the mar
velous time of. six hours and four min
utes, of which period six tailors were
engaged for two | and a half hours in
completing the tailoring portion of the
work. ; ' " V ' : '\u25a0 :
The "ear to loaf" record is at present
held by Messrs. Taylor & Sons, of the
Sheaf . House Farm, . B Jpckley, England.
These gentlemen started "operations at 8:30
a.;m.; as '^ast ;as the. sheaves 'were cut
they ywere t carried to the granary , ; and
there thrashed 'and \u0084wlnnbwed—t ime, six
and a half minutes:: 1 The grain was then
conveyed to the mill and there . ground
and - dressed— time, _ five ana ;a : half Imin-.
utes. To the adjacent bakehouse the
floqr was then transported, and at 9 a: m.
seven small loaves .were, taken; from the
oven, and ; ten : minutes !: later four of
greater proportions, one 'of " which was
dispatched ,to", to" the- kins. Fronl "ear to
loaf" occupied thirty .) minutes on this oc
casion, or nearly two -hours short of the
time representing :" the "tree to • news
paper" record (two ;• hours _, twenty-five
minutes) held by a paper and wood pulp
manufactory at: Eisenthal. \u25a0; . \u25a0.
Some few weeks jj ago. in the course of
legal proceedings instituted at New York,
it transpired that a certain George Lehay
met a girl at the theater for the first
time during tho performance of : "The For
lorn Hope," and during the third act he
proposed to and actually married her .the
same evening. \u25a0 This ; was a : smart per
formance, and apparently the bride
groom duly smarted, for ho speedily ob
tained a divorce on the ground. that the
lady already possessed a husband who
was living, j Nowadays , those who marry"
in haste do .not even' repent at leisure;
this is an age . of '\u25a0_ hustle,' and repentance
is hurried through i afr express speed.'
? An Iron church, seating 200 persons, was
built near Philadelphia in three ' hours
fifty-eight minutes, r
\ TRANS-ATLANTIC steamship of
>V fers opportunities for. courtship with
.(. ky which lovers' lanes in shady wood-
lands cannot begin to compete." At
sea one lives from day to. day, from hour
to hour,- drifting along with the current
of circumstance.
The air is as full of romance as it is
of salt; a tonic to the nerves, likewise it
stimulates the imagination.
A bachelor, therefore, unless he is a
•woman-hater or devoted to bridge whist,
takes his life of freedom in his hanfls
when he sets out on a big ocean liner for
a voyage across "the pond*; he'is likely,
before he gets to the other side, to offer
it to some fair lady as a souvenir of the
trip.': .'...- ; \u25a0•\u25a0""•• i; -.. it- .
On the other hand, a pretty girl whose
chaperon does not exercise' due care may
put her peace. of mind in pawn ere port
is reached. ;
Flirtations at sea may mean much or
they may: mean nothing. Occasionally
they are entertaining first chapters to
good old-fashioned love stories, which
end in the marriage of' the lovers and
their living happily ever afterward.
Sometimes they preface real heart trage
dies. But usually, of course, they are
nothing more than "attention without
intention," a dainty - little game for
two.
The gossips with ready-made virtues
who line the deck with their steamer
chairs always have enough to occupy
their eyes and tongues.
Even the stupid but gorgeous peacock
squad, marching indefatigably two .by
two, may stir one's curiosity by their
sentimental air. \u25a0;:> ''\u25a0\u25a0'?
The girl who "does not care how \u25a0. she
looks," because she knows so well that
she is doubly charming when the sea
breeze tosses her' curly hair, and the
handsome and indifferent young man who
disturbs the feminine heart by his cool
disregard of its . proximity, are natural
magnets for romance.
; And the contrast between the joyous
maidens; to whom cavaliers are declaring
by, j word . and j deed an eternal love—
which will last in all probability until
the ship reaches Havre— an* those sedate
married j ladies whose husbands love to
linger in the smoking-room brings to
mind that light cynicism of Honore de
Balzac, ' "It is easier to bf a lover than
a husband, for the same reason that it
is easier to be witty'every than now
and then." .. -..\u25a0', ;
In one week . on shipboard one can be
come better acquainted with, one's neigh
bors than in a year on shore. There is
so little to do and so little of general in
terest to talk about that one drifts in
evitably into companionship and person
alities. . :" : V V
Besides, there is poetry , to be had "for
the finding. . 'Tis. in. the deep, mysterious
voice of the loud-sounatng sea, in - the
rainbow .;. which the sunshine makes
across the spray at the prow, in the fine
ripples beyond, \u25a0 which spread out upon
the waters * exquisitely like a 'mermaid's
floating hair; in the sunset, in the twi
light and in strange i lack depths of
night, v ; . .
In every way, indeed, circumstances
play into the hand* of Cupid, .who is well
known to be in any case a sharper when
he plays the game' of hearts.
Dorothy Fenimore ,is now in
Paris, having gone abroad for The
Call to make a special study in
foreign lands of sentimental top
ics. She will give readers much
"expert \u25a0 testimony." Below is the
first of a series of studies in love
ori^ shipboard, i
BY DOROTHY FEHIHORE.
Flirtations at Sea:Ma7 Mean Mncli, but
Are Usnaily "Attention Witb
. out Intention."
CUPID ON AN OCEAN
LINER.
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MONDAY :J ... . . • .MAY '$2, 1905
WORLD WITNESSES REMARKABLE
FEATS IN THE-ART OF HUSTLING
TRADE STILL EXPANDING.
Some of the Wonderful Achievements of Recent Years.
The same wet and backward weather which has caused the
damage to the wheat crop in the Southwest and some sections of the
West has been interfering with the jobbing and retail trade and cut
ting down the regular movement of staple goods to the detriment of
general business.- But the diminution in the distributive movement
is not serious, if we may judge by the clearing-house returns, which
show a gain for the past week of 31.9 per cent over the correspond
ing week last year, with every one of the forty most important citifes
and towns on the list exhibiting an increase except Buffalo, whicli
shows a small loss of 8 per cent. The- aggregate clearings were
$2,671,700,000, a good showing.
These returns are confirmatory of the statement frequently made
of late that the general business of the country is not contracting but
steadily expanding, not only naturally in consequence of the normal
increase in population, but actually beyond it, snowing that large as
production is, it has not yet overtaken consumption. This current
era of trade activity is surprising; It has continued now some seven
years, and shows no signs of ceasing: It must of course come to an
end some time, and nobody thought that it would last as long as it
has, but it is still with us, as bright and lively as ever, and, what is
especially gratifying, without fever or undue speculative activity.
The staples as a rule are firm. Lumber,, hides and leather, wool
and woolen goods, cotton, the different cereals, most groceries, foot
wear and general clothing, dairy products, iron structural material,
car-building, land-purchasing, house construction, , farming imple
ments, railway freight and passenger traffic, foreign exports and im 1
ports, and, in fact, almost everything readily perceptible to the'in
quiring eye, are more than normally active, while prices are gener
ally higher than the normal of recent years. All this is simply the
exhibit of a prosperity which is apparently endless, though, as just
observed, it must end some- time or other. The volume of trade is
well illustrated by the recent statement in the woolen trade, which
says that all the mills of the American Woolen Company have their
entire product sold at prices which assure. the company, the largest
business and profits in its history. And this is only one of many
similar statements which are appearing every few days. ./-;;:
mJ~ The outlook on this coast continues bright, as usual. Our crop
prospects, while not as brilliant as two months ago, are still excellent,
our local and export trade are active, our banks report more funds
than they really care to have on hand, our building is on a large and
apparently unending scale, our labor is fully employed," with wages
far above the normal of recent years, a stream of home-seekers is
pouring into the State from the West, and our merchants, wholesale
and retail, are reporting business good and collections at least up
to the average, with no more than the usual run of failures. IWhat
better commercial conditions could we ask ? ...
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THE markets of the country exhibited no pronounced changes
last week, except in Wall street stocks, which were very un
settled, with uncertain and irregular quotations. The general
tone of stocks was weak, owing to the crop damage reports from
the Southwestern wheat sections, the Chicago strike and the less
favorable reports from the iron and steel industry. This latter was
the prime factor in weakening prices, and during the middle and
latter part of the week a heavy selling movement, in steel shares ren
dered the whole stock list weak and carried both railroads and indus
trials down with it. This was in the face of good reports from the
textile mills and the continued increase in railroad earnings, those
thus far in May showing a gain of 8 per cent over May, 1904. . .
- It seems rather singular that one industrial line should affect all
the other industrials when the showing of the latter is excellent as
a rule, but such is the case at present, and it shows what an influence
the great steel corporation has upon the American people and the
American speculative markets. It was only about a week or ten
days ago that the president of the corporation went to Europe with
the smiling remark that the corporation was never in such fine condi
tion as at present, but before he had hardly arrived across the ocean
unfavorable reports regarding the outlook in this line sprang up and
caused general selling, not only of the steel shares, but of everything
else on the list. But, as has been the gratifying rule for some time,
the money market was not disturbed by this heavy liquidation, and
funds continued very plentiful, with the usual low rates of interest.
The current decline in stocks is thus aptly stated by* a well
known Wall-street brokerage house: "Crop damage reports and con
tinued heavy selling of steels, and new low records, caused heavy sell
ing. We are getting our first crop scares, and it is likely these fac
tory will be well discounted now and the usual May declines in the
securities market will be witnessed. Sensational reports about rain
in the West and stories of shutting down mills and plants of steel
corporations are coming thick and fast, but you can rest assured
they are not true. The steel trade is getting a* natural setback or
dullness from the recent rapid pace of six months, but orders on hand
will be forthcoming for a long period to keep all the mills busy, and a
week of cloudless weather will make crops finer than ever. . It seems
as if all these unfavorable features are.being crowded into this week."
SCHOOL GARDENS.
VACANT lot cultivation as a philanthropic scheme has branched
out into educational forms, and the school garden for children
is one of the lines in which the famous Pihgree plan .is making
practical development. The system as worked in Philadelphia has
achieved a notable success and may instill into many of the children
who get the advantage of it such a taste for the industry and keen
ness to acquire skill in gardening as will give them a~ profitable
trade in later years.
Seven gardens were cultivated and a thousand children had
instruction in the art of producing vegetables and flowers. To pro
mote this good work three institutions co-operated— the Vacant Lots
Cultivation Association; the Public Education Association and the
Board of Public Education. The Civic Club of Philadelphia also
conducted one of the gardens. The report of , the Vacant Lots Asso
ciation says that the children's gardens ; 'vvere successful in every
sense of the word, and were a joy and benefit to thousands of chil
dren and their parents." A remarkable feature of the happy success
of it all is that although at the beginning thqre, was much fear en
tertained for the plan because.it was thought th.c. children, mis
chievous and bad, might pluck, stealor injure the product growing
in the unguarded and openly exposed lots, not a flower or vegetable
was touched until the teachers said they were ready for use. There
were not nearly enough gardens to supply all~the children who
wanted them, but those who had none refrained from touching the
flowers of the fortunate ones who had little plots to tend.
The educational benefit that is_ coming to adults from the reg
ular philanthropic work of the Vacant Lots Association is; some
thing of which Philadelphia may be proud. Perhaps it may be deemed
more important than the direct supportit gives by supplying work
to the unemployed. A large percentage of those who get. the train
ing of self-help in these gardens develop into capable gardeners
who soon go out to operate places on their own account. Thus^the
system becomes a training school for workers in that greatest of all
industries, agriculture.
When a girl tells a young man that she doesn't eat any more than a bird
he should remember before inviting her to lunch that an ostrich is a bird.--
Chicago News. -
The uncomfortable fact about the demand of -the women school teachers
for equal pay with the men is that it is absolutely a just one.— New York
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A new island is to be built in New York bay. v . An island co near, to New
York will be harder to civilize. than one of the Philippines.— Denver -Republican.
Probably there were microbes in our/ forefathers' » days, . only they didn't
keep them etirred up all the time.— Le wiston (Me.) JaurruaJ- .
MIRROR OF DAME FASHION I
•The long coat, built somewhat upon modified redingote lines. Is
what the fashionables are ordering for separate wraps for summer
wear, these to be worn as well for a costume coat when occasion re
quires. The garment is fashioned in two pieces, the upper body part
and the skirt; and the two are cleverly joined at the waist line by a
stunning belt. The upper part is slightly pouched in front and drawn
down snugly in the back. The sleeve Is a half-length glgot. lengthened
out with plisse frills of hemstitched linen, the upturned cuff decorated
with braiding in white wash soutache. This same braiding is used
down the front and for the flat collar as well. The skirts of this
smart coat are cut full and circular, shirred slightly over the hips, and
deeply pleated in double box pleats in the back. •
FASHIONABLE COAT. FOR SUMMER WEAR.
ANSWERS TO VARIOUS QUERIES.
PATENTED ARTICLE— L., City. If
you have patented an article which you
believe the United States Government
would use, consult the Congressman of
your district in which you live and he
will advise you how to bring the mat
ter to the attention of the proper of
ficials.
TEST FOB DlAMONDS— Subscriber,
Oakland, Cal. Massimo Levi, an Italian
chemist, gives 'the following as a test
for the purpose of ascertaining if a
stone purporting to be a diamond is
genuine or not: "If. you have a doubt
ful stone put it into a . leaden or
platinum cup, with some powdered
fluor-spar . and a little oil of vitriol;
warm the vessel over lighted charcoal,
in. a fireplace .or wherever there is a
strong draught to carry off the-noxious
vapors that will be copiously evolved.
When these vapors have ceased rising
let the whole cool and then stir the
mixture with a glass rod to fish out
the* stone. If you find It Intact it is a
genuine stone, but if it is false it will
be corroded by. the hydrofluoric acid
that has been generated around it. A
paste diamond will disappear under
the treatment."
platium-b earing sand always also
yields a certain amount of gold, cop
per -and In varying proportions a cer
tain class of other rare and valuable
metals — iridium, rhodium, palladium,
oaminium and ruthenium, most of which
are found only in the neighborhood of
platinum, j In rare Instances platinum
is found is masses, ranging from the
size of a pigeon's egg to lumps weigh
ing ten pounds or more. The metal
was first found in the gold mines of
Darlen, but its chief source of produc
tion Is in the mines of the Ural Moun
tains. Russia. It is also found In
Brazil and Colombia, South America:
in Santo Domingo, in Canada. In the gold
mines of the island ot Borneo, also in
California and Oregon. The metal ia
used in the manufacture of apparatus
for laboratory use, spatulas, crucibles,
etc., its remarkable power of resisting
the action of acids rendering It of pe
culiar value for these purposes. As it
is not acted jpon by the atmosphere
and Is of very high melting power it ia
in great demand. It is also used in
the photographic process of printing.
It is the most infusible of all metals,
melting only before the oxyhydrosren
blowpipe or in a very pow«yrfiil blast
furnace. Its. fusing point is 3200 de
grees Fahrenheit. Its specific gravity
is 721.5. A cubic inch of . hammered
platinum in 10-1000 of a pound is
.7356; of native platinum. .3737; of
rolled platinum, .7982. It is the heavi
est of all metals known.
PLATINUM— M., Auburn, Cal. Plati
num Is 'found only In its native state,
that Is, not chemically combined with
other elements, but always recognizable
as platinum. It is usually found in small,
glistening, steel-gray granules, and
THE SUNNY SIDE OF LIFE
THE. SAN --FRANGISGO CALL, MONDAY, MAY^22^:l9O5;
,Townsend's,'Cala.*, Glace : Fruits. In ar
tistic \fl re-etched * boxea.l Z 10 ; Kearny st
and new store now open; 767 Market st .*
A HI!*T.
Tom— at the "old maids*
party", they leave; every single
man, a little, flatiron/ ' • -..
Tess— They did that so ; you'd
press your suit." .-.\u25a0-" *
Special i. inrorraation j supplied ' dally » to
business I houses ? and \u25a0 public men by th»
Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's.). 30 Cali
fornia street. .Telephone Main 1042. • -
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