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VOL. IL
ROCKY BAR. IDAHO. SATURDAY. JULY 6. 1889.
NO. «.
EDISON'S FIRST CHECK.
n* wiMpi*« ui«.stif I« fMtiBR it
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"Wizard" Edison cams aver from
Menlo Park the other day on some bus
iness connected with some of his no
merous enterprises, and during the
afternoon spent several hours with one
•f the ofBuial* of the big electric-light
company
During lunch tne great electrician
became chatty and toid. la hia qnaini
way. the story of his ftrst acquaintance
with any large sum of money.
It was in the days when he was
atraggHng along with his earlier in
ventions. and didn't have big capital
ists to back him. In fact, he didn't
have any bank amount himself, and
hardly knew what one waa Bank
checks were thing* he had never had
occasion to use. and had about as much
idea of their value as the man in the
moon.
Edison had finally sold his patent
on the gold and stock indicator lo the
Western Union Telegraph Company
for #40.000. and waa reusing ovar to
New York to get hia money.
He had heard of Walt street and its
bulls and bears, and had been told that
It was full of "shark*." who would
fleece a man very quick- So be made
■p bis mind that Wail street was a
very dangerous place, and that If he
ever had occasion to go there he would
be lucky if he got away without losing
bis overcoat and umbrella.
At that time (ieneral I-effert* wa*
president of the Western Uniou. One
morplng Edison on mo into Die com
pany's general offices to close up the
sale of his patent. After a few pre
liminaries he sras given a cheek for
#40.000.
He looked at It curiously for a mo
ment or two. and appeared to b« puz
zled what to do with it- He knew
that he had so d a patent to the West
ern Union Company for #tO,MiM>, but he
didn't see any money. Observing hi*
perplexity, (ieneral l-effertfc told him
that if he would go down to the Hank
of America, In Wall street, he could
get the check cashed.
"Ho I started ouL" said Edison,
"after carefully folding up the check,
and went toward Wall street. Ho un ■
certain was I in regard to that way of
doing business that [ thought while on
the way that if any man should come
and offer me two crisp thon
tand-doliar blila tor that piece of paper
I should give him up the check very
quick."
On arriving at the Bank of America
be hesitated about entering, fearing
•Dll that something might be wrong.
up to
. ,
At iast, however, he mu.trrad up cour
age and determined to try lL He knew
Uiat Genera Lefferta hadtold htm he
7 * ^ *° *
ahead and half tremblingly shoved his ,
check out to the cashier. IT»« latter
scrutinized it oloraly, gave Edison a
pioretng (lanea and said aomethlng
which Edison could not understand, a.
he wa. hard of hewing
ThM w„ enough He wmi now more
than ever oonvinoad that hi. "chre-k
waan't worlh #40,000. and again 1
thought as he rushed out of the bank ,
with it that any man who would
give him #1.000 could walk away
with the check. He hurried
back to the Western Union
and said he couldn't get any raoucy.
General 1 .effort» then sent a man with
him to identify him. lie said that
"This man is Thomas A. Edison, to
whose order the check is drawn."
"W hy, certainly. Mr. Edison," said
y obsequiously, "how
would you like your #40.00i)f In what *
apar' I
••Oh. any way to suit the bank. It
doesn't make any difference to me so
long as I get my raouey,"
Edison was given #4O,U00 in large
blila After dividing the roll into two
wad. of #10.000 each, he .lulled one
Into each trousers pocket, buttoned up
his coat as tightly as possible, and
made a break to get out of Wail street
as quick as he could. The next day ,
Edison began to work on his first lab
oratory at Newark.— N. Y. Journal.
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General Schofield's salary is #18,000.
Although he I» the luocswor of Sher
idan, who followed a line of soldiers in
the office who were National heroes. J
.and although he is rightfully the in
eumbent by reason of his servli*ea to
the country, his career has not been
ouch as to make his name over familiar
to people generally. Hi* military life
bos been long and the duDes faithfully
performed, but in few events ho has
been very conspicuous, (ieneral Scho
field was born on the 1#th of Septem
ber, 1181. He graduated from the
United States Military Academy in
1168. in the same class with Sheridan,
M Pnerson and Hood. Before the war
he left the service to become a profea
sor of natural science in a university,
but *1 the breaking out of hosDlitles
he entered the army as a volunteer,
A Major's commission was tendered
to him at onoe and on November 11,
1161, he had reached the grade of
Bridadler-Geoeral. Ha served ail
through the war. notably in the At
1 an tic campaign, and for a time was
Secretary of War In Grant's first Cab
ioeL At preejnt his duties are proc
Dually nominal, (or there are plenty of
subordinate« to look after details. He
has an office in Die department build
log which is principally interesting for
the relics which it contains of bk)»«>t*v
lee. Sherldsn filled up hi. office In
a similar way, and it was a favorite
spot for sightseen». The remark is
frequently heard here that Sheridan
died as a result of idleness.
accustomed to a typical soldier's life
and a slnocure worried him more than
Th# Head of th# Army.
He was
a cainpoigu —lomlavUle Courlar-Jour*
CARE OF THE EYES.
El(ht Ua|4. Kill.. rrMWlb.il hr • N.U« rh.
Aut*ioritr M ta. Sutysrl.
'•But whal, should I do for my eyesF'
•eked a reporter of a famous up-low»
oculist the other day. "I have always
taken good care of them.''
"You work in the night time?"
"Yes, {know; but thousands of other 1
men do the same and still hove strong i h
"That may be so. Probably your
eyes are natural ly ; weak. 1-et me give
you a few simple rules that it would be all
worth your while to make note of. All
may not apply to your oase. hut the
rules are worth remembering never
tbeiess.
••Never sleep opposite a window
which will throw a flood of strong
light on your eyes when you wake in I
the eyes under water, as this is apt to 1
be injurious lo the epithelial covering
©f the eye. j
* •Rhades on lumps or gas homers
should be of '•milk" or ground glass. ; |>
never of colored glass.
'•The •horl-slghUAi eye is essentially
ndiseased eye. and should be treated as
such. It affects, by preference. Ibom
who Use their eyes r<MMtautly for line
or neat work, and is almoX unknown (
1
children, where the eyes are required
to do tight work, the proportion of the
square surface of the wiudows to the
square surface of the floor should never I
"When children work by light
which fails in their fame they are apt
to bend the body forward so as to
shade the eyoe by the head, or else to
twist it around so that the light shall
fail on the page. Both of Diese posi
tions are pernicious; Uiere is great
danger of the chest becoming narrow
and contracted, and of the spine be
;
ayea
the morning.
"When bathing the face do not open
■
or
among uncivilized nations
"In all institutions, particolariy for ;
lall below one to lour.
coming curved.
"To bathe eyes properly lake a large
basin of cold water, bend Die head
cloae over it, and with both hands
throw the water with some foree on
the gently-closed lid*. Thle has some
thing of the same effect as a shower
bath, and has a toning up influence
which applied („ a,,,- other way
(, M no (.
pushing the same end is by mean* of a
spray-producer or atomizer, in whieh
CiUU1 tt Rule ploohol or bay rum added
to the water will somew hat hicrease
Another method of accom
the good effect.
"The two sources of trouble with the
ordinary artificial lights are, first, that
, they are not pure white, and. secondly.
^ y Hro uutoaUy . Tht .
defect found IlU li)fUu .
th „ Umo . eloclrio and
magnesium; the second, especially in
, &nd Tll) , vello w n c*s is in
. ^ Ji n%erM ' hy the
a of laBip- ^ cblra ney.ofa
Tiolclor b | ufi tlllt . all(1 the flickering of
, K . ohvUte d largely by em
^ A |d burnor A „ M
a (; ,. rmilll atudenl x
fur „ UhoH th „ lnuBt satisfactory light"
1
,
corpse on board is not remarkable, for
the majority of people ashore get
rather "creepy" if they have to sleep
to in a honst* where lies a dead body,
which led to the throwing overboard
of Jonah is in this case transferred
* from the living lo the dead. The o!>
I jection to whistling is also explainable
It py the old practice of "whistling for u
so wind," for an injudicious whistler
might easily bring down a blow from
t.H«s wrong quarter. There are some
animals und bird* which have a pecul
lar significance at sea The cat. for
up ilt generally disliked, and
m aU y sailors will not have one on board
at an y priue. and If there is one which
, b^on^» unusually frisky, they will
Bay the ,. Hl htu g ul a g a ,„ of wind r,
— N Ï. »Star.
JACK TAR'S JONAHS*
th» Superstition« rrevMÜiuK
Amon» H#»t»ring M#u.
That mariners do not like to have u
Moreover, the old idea of bad lurk
i her tall. On one part of the Yorkshire
! coast. It is said, sailors' wives were in
the habit of keeping black cats to in
sure the safety of their husbands at sea.
un Rl black cal* became so scarce and
in dear that few could afford to buy
J one . Although Juck does not like a
in- cat in the ship, he will not throw one
to overboard, for that would bring on a
storm. Misshmith, lu her book about
i "Music ol the Waters," slat«** that a
life dead hare on a ship is considered a
sign of an approaching hurricane, and
has Cornish fishermen declare that a white
' hare seen about the quays at ulght in
diente* thnt there will be rough weath
the
in 0 f other superstitions, some of which
we „ill mention as w«* go along. The
war pig i* an object of aversiou to Japan
w seamen, and also to Filey lisher
men. who will not go to *ea if they
ro eet one in the early morning. Hut,
indeed, the pig seem* to be generally
disliked hy all seafarers, except in the
11, form of salt pork and bacon. Rat*.
of however, are not objected to; ludeed.
ail it would be useleas to object, for Uiey
At- overrun ail ship*. And rat* are sup
was posed to only leave a vessel when it i,
* g«>| n g to sink. A Welsh skipper, how
ever, once cleared his ship of them
of without the risk of a watery grave by
He drawing her alongside a cheese-laden
j , h l p in harbor. He quietly lay along
for side, and having left the hatches open
all „igpt. drew off with . chuckle in
In the morning, leaving a lierai legacy
to hi* neighbor.- All Dm Year Round,
is
life
than soap*, purified oxgall with yelk ol
egg. lur|Hintine, chalk, fuller's earth,
soap*tonc und soup bark
Miss Smith also gives a n mu bei
er.
-Greose »pots on woolen or silk
may be removed by application, of a
variety of substances, such a* nmraonla
was
OCEAN STEAMSHIPS.
rh. Rui.rtuou. i mI »« Thru Vassal* m I TA»
lies
lug
reft
ate
in
An order for a new ship of the claas
required to compete in the modern
passenger service of the Atlantic Is
1 Speed is eostiy. sud as you increase it
i h Is generally necessary to also in
crease the tonnage. This forces upon
your consideration tides, channels,
harbor bars and dook Accommodation •.
all of which impose limitations upon
you. And then the cost of the ship
herself Is not s matter which even the
wealthiest of corporations can provide
for al a moment's notlae It is mit
|j(s) ihm i nor #600.000 that the work
calls for. but about five times the lat
I ter sum. for It Is safe to say that a ves
sel superior to the City of New York
or the Ktruria eooUi not bo built for
1 !... than «l.&IO.OOOt
Sometimes the ship-builders are wlll
j ing to become part owners of the pro
jecled vessel; sometimes they take
; |> H rt payment for the work some older
vessels of the line, which they reflL
re-engine, modernize and sell again,
The ability of the builders to make an
arrangement of this kind, of cours«,
influences the ( lacing of the contract
( n H measure, but they must also be
1 able to give certain guarantees. They
into an engagement that
he projected ship shuli be able to
,-arry so many passengers and so many
ions of ciirgo. and to atmii, a specified
I „peed on a given oooonmption of ooal
lier day. Let us say. tor Instance,
thut the stipulations are these: Ae
commodation* for flou saloon passen -
TU.V Am Now Huilt.
mi
u
not by any mean* a matter to be deter
; mined on without grave consideration.
; must
gers, 150 intermediate pa*»engcrs. and
l.ôOO ste»r«ge passengers; registered'
.image. 6.000; speed, lit knots on «
consomption of 100 ton* per ds,v.
if the ship fails to fulfill thesa condi
tions the builders agree to forfeit s
part of the amount they would other
wise receive for her, or they may be
I-ompried to take tier back altogether.
I'll is wit* the ease vltli the (Tty of
Botme.—W. if. Rideing, in Scribner's,
a
m
DISCOUNT YOUR BILLS.
TA* Hast Wat sC »«csrlMg s Margls far
»■lane) Marram) » OprrsUuna.
On»** more- we call the attention of
our rende)-* lo the subject of discount
ing purchase bill*. Those who have
fried it Hftv it pays, which is undoubt
edly the ease, therefore merchants in
general should give the mutter more
serious consideration than they have
done. If the principle is correct, whirl)
we believe, il can lia followed witli
prolit by tioth large and small trader*,
dublier* always favor cash buyers, will
sell them on closer margins, give imi
ter bargain* and terms. Hills taken
up in advauce. even if it be at Die cost
of unusual exertion«, save money and
anxiety, and the merchants will feel
the beneficial effect* in Mie freer swing
given to business, quickened energies,
und lighter heurt resulting from fore
stalled obligations. This it seems to
us, 1* a better way of using money in
hand than that of putting capital into
outside schemes, which merchants are
often tempted iutodoing. No husines*
thrives so well as the one which re
ceives a man's undivided attention. A
man witb a keen, shrewd mercantile
spirit is not. necessarily, equally keen
.n matters foreign to merchandising,
ami Die larger part of those who go
into YV »1 1 stresit or venture into specula
tive schemes in their anxiety to get
rich fust, prove the most fallible of
lambs in the hands of unscrupulous
o|M>rutors. And the worst feature of
failure in these outside ventures is
their bad effect upon legitimate iuer
chaiidising. Let those merchant« who
have spare time amt money turn them
to the advantage of their own legiti
mate vocation- Make money by meet
ing Mil* in advaooe. thus oUnching
your credit and securing a margin for
ivnlarged o|>erations. -— Gcyer's Sta
tioner.
.
in
in
of
for
get
o!>
u
for
and
will
r,
u
j
J
i'he disuosston of the probuhl lily of
therw bain* a depu»it of oimi in the
I huu)«** valley mid uuctar the city of
IriMulou. of which there *eem* to be
oonttUlerable evidence, recall» some
OBJECTION TO OOAL.
in
in
sea.
and
buy
a
one
a
a
a
and
in
The
they
Hut, ;
the
Rat*.
Uiey
sup
i,
how
them
by j
that th ,. laiHmi were
open ^ bU er| a p p MMi u> the use of
in ^ fo( . 4unUMt(l . purpoHm . *,* boy oo,,.
<(derw| th<1 ,, no!( „ lo ruinous to
ol
Il tu s Capital IlfraM Is
Dur, I» *• Kurl.
»I On« Tli
interasting facts connected with ils (
earliest use in
m,al
that city. When
first Introduced iuto !
Ixindon as a fuel, very serious objec
tion wa* taken to its use. It appears
wa*
that in the imginning of the four
teenth century brewer* and smiths of
Ihe city, finding the high price of wood
pressing hard upou their returns, re
solved to make some experiments with
coal, but immediately an outcry was
raised against them by |iersons living (
near the breweries and forges, the
King ws* peti<)ii<*d and a law wa* :
liasocd prohibiting Die burning of .
coal within the cltv. Thoae who u-ied !
it. however, found the new fuel to be
so much siqierioi' to winmI that Uiey
persisted in Its use. Bui so d«U*r
miiosi wss the Government to sup
pre** w liai was regarded a* «m intoler
i able nul»am*e that a law via passed
making the burning ol coal in l.uudoti
a lapilal offense, and It is retsirded
thnt one man at least wa* executed
bei
under that law.
their complexions and would not at
silk '««d parti*» »» *•> «he
a obje.-tl.maWe fuel was used. Some
| per«»"* »on? tlie length of «•efusuig Ui
eat haul of au y kind that had been
rooked on a «real firs
Hurdwure 'Trad«
Journal
•
A WAR-SHIP'S STORY.
I TA» Old Um^( Haltls-Shlp TtraMl sort *»»l
th* KurvlfMi KsMitursd by ti«r.
The oldest jack-tar can recoil many !
inleresting experience* upon her long »on
before and sine - she began her career to
a receiving «hip al the navy yard • have
twenty-live years ago. where she now
lies at the Cob 1» n*k. gird ed with that
great spars to keep tee and other float They
lug obstructions from her sides. He- : "
reft of spars and roofed over like a
house she looks any thing hut a frig- the
ate of the laird Nelson «dass, like the
famous Victory and the Tetneraire. The
She is the last of the old ships of the
line, and her triple tier of ports cun In*
seen in no modern built ship. Some
(ample have supposed that she servis!
in the war of 1111, anil there are many
more who look upon her as one of the
Hut
be
to
-
She wa* built at the Charleston did
Navy Yard, and was iutemled to la* the I
flagship of Commodore Perry's mem
orable ex|H*dition to Japan in lH.'ri.
But some thing happened and IVrry V
took the Mississippi. The Govern
menl then lost Interest In the Vermont j
and for nearly ten years she remained not
mi the stoek* iintinished. When the
civii war broke out and -«very thing j
that ooiild float wa* sought after. Utn 1 w
Vermont wa* piished forward Mid |>|lt
inUi commission Jsnunry a*» la«-.' 1 «>"
Her Hrnt nervier wan lo carry «lore« **
Miid supplie# lo tlie HiiiimliHiii off p»rl
Koval autl It «tu the U»i»ir**t vovaife
• Wl »'U* H n»« IWI| x * "*
ever made by any »hip from U» •
Port Koval. The Vermont »ailed from
u . i4 . . *
Bontoii on ¥ ebruary il. and when off,
('ajn*(^»d wan ea.ight. in a teinjKwt |
tffctch laitted tltree dava H«tr sail» I all*
' "
»rwr.- curried swny on* after an- |
Other until not so much a* u rihlMiu 1
wn» inft. On the second day her nid- I
der was wrenched off by the seas, and up
along with it went S.-VOU of the Imut*
and three annhor*. Wtth no sail* and !
rudder the Vermont went along 1
seuwnrd. rolling and pitching like a
great tub. until u drag ronld be got out
WMlcru mill cunvii» Im pul on the vfmwcI.
That wa» before the emeienoy of oil |
to calm troubled water* had received:
much Uioiiglti and *o badly did she
throw herself In the sea that the Chap
lait) hud lo be lashed to a gun while
readiug the brief burial servie over the
tmdies of thrsxt man who hud been (
le Died bv the plunging and lurebiug of
the vessel. !
The old vessel drifted in calms and !
defender* tv the Mexican war.
*he really *aw ito service ».util the
more rowel Civil war.
«
s
be
of
m ■
far
of
in
will
imi
feel
to
in
into
are
re
A
keen
go
get
of
of
is
iuer
who
them
meet
for
Sta
was swept along by gales until she wa*
pretty nearly over to tin- Azores, when !
the steamer Saxon, one of th » two
steam vessels sent bv the Government !
to search for her. picked her up ofl
these islands and furnished lier witb a \
new rudder and a suit of sails. Mu- I
soon lost her new rudder, und on April
8 wa* picked up by the frigate Sabine,
when a jury rudder was rigged for her
and she reached Port Royal ou April
18. having been forty-nine days at
thirty-eight of which she wa* without :
rudder or sails and twenty-three da>*
without sanshiae.
After that she served as Hag-ship.
store-ship, hospital-ship and prison
shlp in the North Atlantic Squadron,
••Blll" Perry, the king of tin-blockade
muner*, having even been a primmer
on her She began Iter present career
of Inactivity in iStil, and she now lie*
in a mud tied. A receiving ship i*
not the uoinprehoiwiv« »nml that
might be uamt, but it in the naval
term for such service. It I» a »ort of
nautical boanlinff^ktouae for newly
etili»ted men while waiting to I>e de
tailed for »ea-ifolns' and for
thoHC w ho have returned home at
the expiration of their enÜMtinoiit
and are waiting; to be paid
off. A visit Ui the vessel
will convince one that the country ha*
not an absolute American navy, at
least so far as Die mon ara UMceraed.
for on her drek» will be found men of I
pu.
various nsUonailties. many who can '
hardly interpret an order given to them
in English, or who can harTIv under
j stand each other when attempting to
J .peak English, and certainly not when
speaking in their own tongue. But
when the training-school system h»*
of been fully developed a decided change
the will \ms btxfujfht about Ii. till* rc»pcct.
of — N. V. lribit**.
be ——-
some RAT-PIE FOR EPICURES.
'
were
of
oo,,.
to
Is
ils ( th« ri«*li <>i the Kara K«,i«n» so,, a
When
iuto ! Not only is Die rat fastidious in its
choice of final, but it afford* a dainty i
food itself, lit connection with which
Utlldbus f'ant nr.
four- fact I hare had some umusiiig ex|«*ri
of once». Some year* ago I mentioned
wood incidentally in llie course of n lecture
re- that the Chine» * who eat the rut habit
with unliy and the Parisian*, who did so
was tinder compulsion. stiff.*r*Hi no real
living ( hardship, a* the flesli is not only nil
the tritlous. but really exeelent and del- I
wa* : icate ftaai. far aurp.issliig that of
of . lbs rabbit. Being pressed by the an
u-ied ! diene« for further explanation. 1 told
be timt I *|*ike from prsclieul e,\|«eri
Uiey once, and that «*oid rat-pie (of course
d«U*r- mad • from txirn rat*) was a delicacy
sup- worthy of any epicure's table
Reports of the lecture -mostly exag
passed geratetl were published iu the load
ing newspaper*, sud «'opied into nearly ,
every journal in the land An uva
lancbe of correapondenoe |*>ured on
me. and I was greatly amused with the
different "lew* of llie writ«*!**.
A few j
ltad summon«-«! up courage to try the I
experiment, and were unanimous lu i
llieir a|ipr»ltati«>n. Many asked for ;
del «its in the manufacture of the pie
at
«he
Some
Ui
been
wbicli would have taken tip a whole |
«reokery twaik if answered. Man» more
asked if I could kindiy send them a
reatiy made pie. so that they might
judge foi *J*em»elve».—Fall Mall Oa
'Trad«
zelte.
LONDON'S DISABLED HORSES. I
I
*»»l of Th.n. Kart*» h> lln"»rf *<r**» Ik.
Bamin« in RsHiiwich
! Mr W. Il Ko«, -«cretary lo Horri- 1
»on * Harber, homo slaughterers, told
to a reporter the other tiny that they rapid
• have »even slaughter-houses in the
metropolitan area, the largest being maze
that It» the York road. Camden Town,
They slaughtered lô.tNSi horse.a year, we
: " hen a horse broke a llmh or sus- shall
taim*d other irremediable Injury on in
the street the police at once com- groat
munieated with the n mwF kt depot,
The company hail frequently been v en
charged with cruelty in allowing that,
maimed horses to lie ntiout for hours
before sending men
tngs. The truth was they were very
particular in Ihis respect and if such |
delays occurred it w
fault of theirs. IV
tuend their suffer
through no that
horse-flesh much Iron
» considerable
Their charter .
did not allow of their selling horse- , to
I flesh for food purposes, hut there were
such establishments in the eity. II*
had himself eaten horse-meat in j
V ranee, and al the company's nuiiuul
dinner it w as served to the guests,
j some of w hom declared they would
not have known it from beef, had they
not beeu told Fine fat horse* were
j slaughtered every week, liorses Umt
1 w «« ! perfectly sound, except for some
aeeidental injury, and h« saw no nut- >
1 «>" not be eaten,
** ,i oftm\ **eeu »tr**et traruios *Hiy a
»Hon of dried hörne* flesh. p*«tie It iw- j to
tween two bit« of broad und eat it h* n ;
....... a .
• »itüWMm. Of eourar. muni u{ the pit- j
pared horee-fle»Ii pmmed under Ule
nnm,. «f , h,.* it u,...n,.ul
•
| emdlble that the cata roula oon»ume it j
I all*
V .. llf Itl „ ;
| *< v «0 putt of the horse we put to .
1 «»me urn»--flesh, hide, hslr, hoofs snd |
I l'on.**. Now that (and Mr. Ro»* held ;
up a smull vial of benuti fully trau
parent oil) was horse oil. One would
! scarcely think such oil a* that omtld he .
1 flot (rum the horso Those other ta»t- I
a lie« contained oil* of inferior quality
I'lie.v were used for lubricating pur- j
|h**om und for Houp-nmk iu^. ^fo»l»tmpH U
| nowaday» contained horm^^nm^.
Armed with a cigar and an order j
hsrnt the »eerehirv of Die company,
<»"' reporter made his way to the
premises in York road. Thu obliging
manugcr Hiiid that they lisd had only j
( o»ir iiorstjs in to-day. But about 7.-!
H»JU were slaiigliterml here unitnailjf. !
! Most of the animal* were cab. 'bus
! or tram horse*. T he establishment j
turned out alMuit twenty ton* of horse- !
used for food? Yes. to
extent, he should *uy.
! flesh every week. They lind forty-six j
dead and twenty-one live horses in
! now. They contractes with 1 lie vhiT
oil* cal), 'bus and tram companies for
a \ injured horses at thirty shilling* each,
I alive or dead. Most of the live liorses
they got in were injured internally by
overwork or falling. A few were gone
wltli congé» tion of the lung*. The
work of siaiighleriug went on day and
night, there* being two gangs of men
Horse* were killed ,
: for that purpose.
ul nighl by three -knackers." Fifteen
horse* were considered a gisMl night's
work. The sufferings of Uie |km.i
brute* were soon at an end. a* they
were* render.*«! Insensible hy a blow
from a heavy a <e. Pall Mall Case lie.
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SPEED OF THOUGHT.
Hom K ra, a .A.
i* Hsa>aa lirai».
Some of th" reader* have, no doubt, 1
frequent! y mode u«e of the expr>Hwi<m j
of * quick hm thoii|fht» M but have any
them ever »topped to cou»id»r how
de- quick thought t»? A writer in the j
for Nineteenth i'entiiry ha* made nome in- !
at tergatinjf cuh'ulation» regard îu^ the
comparative length of time it takes to
call to mind various every-day facta.
It take* about two-flrtlis of a second
ha* to call to mind the country in which a
at well-knusu town is situated, or Die
language ill which a familiar autlior
of I wrote. We can think of the nain** of
can ' next month In bal f the time we need i
to think of the name of last mouth. It
take* on the average one-third of a
to second to add imriila*r« consisting of j
one digit, and hail a second to multiply j
But 'hem. Such ox|H*riiiiciils give us eon
h»* sideruhle insight into the mind.
Those used to reckoning eon add two !
to three in l««* time tlmn other»- Ilium
familiar with litemture can fwtnumber
mort* quickly than other» that Shako
Hpcarc w rotw "Ilam!ct." It tak«^» longer
», ». „» ,
' U> mention a month when a season ha*
beeu given than to sav to what month I
'
a
its a season belongs.
i Tlie lime taken n|i in choosing a mo
tion. the "will time," oan in* measured
a* well a* Die time taken up in |e*r
«solving. If I «lo not know which ol .
two «*olore«l lights is lo be pr seuU-d.
and must lift my right hand.if it be red
so and my MR W it be blue. I need about
real one-thirteenth of a second to initiate
nil- the oorreet motion. I hare also been
del- I able to register the sound waves made
of in the air by *|Hiakiiig, au«l Um» hav«
an- delariuined that iu order to call up the
told name belonging to a printed vot'd 1
no«d about one-ninth of a second. u> a
I* tier one-sixth of a second. u> a pict
ure one-quarter of a second, and to a
color one-third of a second.
A letter eau l e seen more quickly j
than a word, hut we are so used to
, reading aloud Dial the process has lie
uva- come quite automatic, and a word can ;
on >>e read with greater ease and In lose j
the time than a letter ran is* named,
Th. i
few j same experiments made on other itor
the I son* give time* differing but little
lu i from niv own Mental |>n*,--*e-. how
for ; ever. U»ke place more slowly iu ohil
pie dren. in llie aged and in the nocdii
funeral* In one day. and to do it drove
fifty utiles. Total receipts, live dollars,
| cated.
more — • - -
a —An Iowa eh-rgvinun recently mar
ri«*d thire»- -ouple* and «.rendacted twi
Oa
I ENGINES OF DESTRUCTION.
I
Ik. rmrt Taksa hr Am.rl.on. lo th. D**>
■ifnlni of W*r MhIptIsU.
-
1 The world move» so fast and ira
prorsnenU follow otto another in such
rapid succession that the work of
Original designers is often lost amid a
maze of moditieationx. ami the imitator
becomes famed above the artist. If
we torn to modern war machinery wo
shall tiud apt illustrations of this, and
in most of the effective material in the
groat Ktiro|tenn armaments behind the
running fashioning of the Yankee in
v en tor Admiral Porter has told us
that, the guns at Hamilton Roads -the
Monitor
| steam fleet -the lines! in the world at
lug.
poor
lican.
ily.
good
pied
and Merrimne light- -re- j have
sounded through the world and an- j Free
nounced to the British that their great |
that time -wa* obsolete. The great | That
Iron fleets of to-day have lieen (level- j
ojied from this Monitor germ. The '
. liquidooui|tass, that makes it possible
, to navlgatn iron and steui ships, is the the
invention of Mr. Ritchie, of Brookline, j
Mass. The world talks of tile Krupp
j gun. yet how few are aware of the „(I
(act that it was only through the in
vcntlon of the American. Colonel
Bradwell. that Herr Krupp wa* j ||(
enabled to make hi* guns effeetlve? ||„.
(louerai H. V. Honet. Chief of Ord
nance. C. S A., speaking on tbi* sills
j«it. »ay*:
> Ah ■»«ts m »uwl «uns »re ol nos or tw« sys
'^«3 uftiwuîîrâch Mrs 1 rs. |
a i>ur ««nu of the utter «fhuh «H-nu ; Wt
j to off«? »triiph advittii»*** UlM»Ufood .
n ; lî V ?f A ** r,e4n .? M J* 1 ; j
tor ttit nutter, u. the Krupp, or r»itn»r whui |
j ri4v . Krupp « invctiu.»n the practical rain*. »
Th* *r«»t iroob* with ihr Krupp «un w»« ih» j
of «MB »I M»« br**©». I'll • WM O»**#
come bf th« »ta «f th«*Br»4wrü pitW the
it j invootion of Coh»«l Br»*iw«u. »» American. ^
»ho «old Krupp ihr invention. Il cotiM»u of » !
; thin «»set piste, with «Issue «m tkst ntt
. ^ brrtwb; K||<1 lhB
pressure of the «*« «*
| (edges u lightly sgsmst »he tides sad pre
; venu tbs »msi«- or «...
The machine gun, that terrible woap- I
on now so Important a part of the groat
. European artnamenU both on land and I
I »ca, i* primarily an tuvonilon of the "
Amcricnn. Dr. (iatllng; the French '
j luit railleuse is n modlflOAliou of it, so
U the Norden felt In June. I8MÜ, Nor* j
den felt brought »nit agaiimt Gardner, fo
j Inventor of the Gardner machine gun. 1
(or infringement. (Gardner showed
that the prinelple. on which »h«
Nordenfelt gun wa* constructed |
j had long bism develofted ln
7.-! the American ' l tiatllng machine j
! gun and Winchester rifle, indeed long P
before 1*7.1. when Nordenfalt got ht*
j FlnglDh patent It may fairly be said
! that this principle ha* found it* highest
•
:h. I ,
j development in the automatic gun of
in the American. Hiram Maxim, a gun
which will Are 600 shots a minute; the
recoil being utilized to load and tire
and to keep a stream of water moving
about the barrels for cooling. The
by disappearing gun mechanism is also l
his invention. The screw profiler, i
an invention that makes it passible to
sink the motive power of a war ship,
wttliiu and without, out of range of '
, flyingshoL though first triad in British !
waters, found no favor till Captain
Ericsson earn« hither. The revolver.
now in universal use, is. as every body
know», the Invention of Colonel Colt,
of Connecticut. We may add to the
lie. list lie* dynamite gun. yet in the in
("»*-'> «f development, and the
dynamite eruiser. intended to make up
.A. fo / '*•. »»«»'^n.iug» t» M"« °<
of which an English authority recently
1 thei*e wan not, probably, a »hip
j »float that would be nafe bifora it.
torpedo, now holding »o impt»r
tanta place among war material, wa»
the j A™ 1 made priwticabie and effective
in- ! flurlnff our la*t war; it» coiniin. the j
the automobile Uirj>edo, of (M>mparatively ;
to doilgning, is a 1*0 American,
thouffh there are several foreign forms
of the same.—Scientific American. |
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Die VASE, NOT VAWZ
. ,.... . _ _ I
of tiou M»rh Hm Hmu writUH. j
;
i if three of our most celebrated poets
It i_Pope. Byron and Moore_may |
a cited us orlhteplsts. then are, or were. !
of j "ease," "fa«*«'' and •'grace" correct
j rhymes to ••vase," in proof of which I
eon- append u quotation from each poet:
Pope. -The Rape of the lawk," canto
two ! T<1 a j fi n , ;
Ther * WIU M ktpi la po»«,»#»»» v»»«
Am) m«ui to louff boip« mu] i«e«ur cm««.
Byron. "Don Juan,'* c. vlii. ». %:
, , . ;
A pare, trkmiMirrnl, ptU**, ftt radikal face,
ha* Ltk , , lt|[htBa T1-e .
I „ , , „ ,
Moore, "Odt«» of Anacreon." v. and
' lxxviil. :
;
mo
Or»v? m* » cup with bni liant inraca,
D««p u lit« rich »ad holy vm?, «ta
|e*r- ()du lsxvtii. has the some rhyme,
ol . The question is, was such prouuacl
a tion of "vase." the "pure well of En
red glUh undeftled." or was it only "po
„tj c license." or caprioe. fashion or
custom? Of course, many words alter j
been their pronunciation from age to age.
made and "vase" may be one of them, as at
hav« present. I think, the word is generally 1
the pronounced a* though it rhymed with,
1 ••»tars." Nutts!!, in the preface lo his I
a dictionary, says: **The standard of i
pict- pronunciation is not the authority of :
a »ny dictionary, or any orthcepist; but
it is the present usage of literary and
j well-bred society." If this be to. such
to UH agr sr**ms to be the "safest stand
lie ard * we iiave for our pronunciation
can ; Real», iu one of his miscellaneous po
lose j emH> makes "fares" rhyme with
Th. i ..
itor
little
how
ohil- When 1 was a boy, about 1848,
iiad a reading book, one story in
which was about "The Broken Vase."
My father taught us to read it to
rhyme with ••chase," but we after
ward «atme to think It ought to be
drove something between "Mars" and
"vonx."—-Notes and Queries
Fair dee; rotes brush against our fans*.
And flow*rmg laurel» spring from diamond
wo
mar
twi
PITH AND POINT.
- -Sutuuia*. In not like n brick build*
lug.
poor foundation. —Binghamton Repub
lican.
it never collapses because of a
Without the obligations of a fam
ily. man goes down the stream ol time
«drift, like a loose log. Harpers
Weekly.
—flood nature is the very nlr of a
good mind, tli » sign of a large and
generous son!, and the peculiar soil in
which virtue prosper*.
A pretty girl may in* so fully occu
pied with being beautiful as not to
j have lime to be agreeable. Detroit
j Free Prosa
| Every man loves to hear his own
experience told by some other man
| That is the reason Runyan's ••Pilgrim'«
j Progress' is so much road. Uictiiiiond
' Religious Herald.
—When a boy of sixteen looks hits
the future ll seems almost an eternity
j When a man of forty look» Into Che
future
„(I Texas Siftings.
Poverty is no disgraee. says Uriah
Well That depend*. Abstractly s|ieak
j ||( j mi ( u>ndiUou i* u dt*graee Only
||„. which have eetnhtlshod it de
| keen rat llxatlon of another's condition.
; Wt , urf , |„ MIUM mr ^ 0 ( »mpaltiy with
.
j . Ul „ , , , . ,,
| OpiMirttiiiUu** flv in a ntrnt-lit line
» . u» ,>t.*i*uitv n nd ii>hv
j * * * >
ÎOtJt il U» HIICI Ol) IU*U*r Kl W Ul II.
Hut in)u»lli*eH we jtrnctiee on others
^ in a circle and however they may
! } * /
they come bnek :tod stud«
«* with heavier wing lluei Hint which
ot h«r*
* .
I II I» »«»d p.»ii. jr b-hnnghty. re
^** < J**^ , „ „
I „ . . "f.,*". " "Z
" u *" '• • m. nn I. i t «
' ' a"..' 'H^l .oihTur^tH.iow 'tlm
* 1 1 ' ' . . lif
j " 1 * 1 '* ** *** 14 1 . .
fo ** a ,lfl ^ *he bu»ine»M rule of o-.lay.
1 »tue n W *ek
r»'l" , »*i'ig the »UUcmenU .if
»ne man lo another, we lake ii|Hm our
| »«Ives n rsM(Miiislbllit,v which is "vur
lookisl. Many of llie mlsiindersLuiil
j '»ff* * ,Kl dMUtmltBat b.itween the |'co
P 1 "- arising constantly in nil depiirl
ments of life, are lo be tin I to the
forgetting of this responsibility. B l*
the responsibility of wfe transmis» tor.
»f though!, without damage or break«
S. H.
it sec.
as brief as a rabbit's
serve the eritlclsra. Judge.
—it takes imagination to realize viv
n Con
• idly any thing outside of our
•ciousuess. but. dlrecU.v wo have tills
,
age, from one soul to another,
— 1 bat excry man should regulate
hi* action* by III* own
without any regard to llie opinion* of
l he re st of the world. I* ooe of the
i lir * 1 precept* or moral prudence ju»!i
to fled cot only bv the suffrage of reason,
which declare** Unit none of the gilts
of ' **( H even are* lo lie use'e*«, but by
! voi.*e, likewise, of experience,
which will soon inform us that if wu
eoHscieiu**,
leaoted by a boundless variety of irrre
*M»eilabln judgnmnta.be held in ptwpet
in- "* suspense between contrary im
puts**, nod consult.forever wtth ,it
up determination. N. Y. lenlg-r.
There 1« a «trikiiijr <*ontraMt in tin*
hknU* in which rail real ofl&eleia travel
nowaday* from the in<Nl<*»t way
j which their predectwaom went *"»r
; their line* thirty
Now th« prw«ld«llt and many of the
ither officiaU of every railroad I»* th«*
| country have their private palace cars,
and they never go out. even for short
rips, without them. Thirty you range
I I »a* employed as a brake man on a
j |>H»»eii|fer train on the I eumyl van ut
; railroad. As the traiu wa*« tilling up
make the praise or blame of other* the
rule of our conduct we »hull be di«
STRIKING CONTRAST.
An « T»IU Mow lU iroml
lldrulN rriurlr I Vr.»nt l(ti
111
forty year* ago.
or
| *t the Philadelphia depot one nuM-niog,
! * directing the passenger- u> tlictr
re*pe«*tive coaches, when a tali man.
I wearing a while hat. whom I did not
mow, stepped up to the train to go
'bdarel 1 directed him to the car and
he quietly tiwik his scut. There« was
un* wmrh » little more linely fltiUlimi
than the other* that wa* u>»nl
I*dl®** car. but I did not put the
; tmll man in it. A few minute* later
,
and
; the conductor came along and brusque
y inquired of me; "Where's Thoiup
•on?" "Thompson!" said I, "whut
Thompson?" "Why. Edgar Thomp
sin. president of the road," replied the
conductor. "I don't know,' l said. "I
have not seen him." "Wasn't tuera a
.all man with a white hat her-* a min
ute ago'" queried the conductor. "Ye*,
he is in this car " said I. "Why didn't
En
or
j - rou I*"* ^im in th# ladiiM car? the
age. •onducUir asked. "Because he had no
at with him. 1 answered. I he
1 l- u f, dm-lor went into the «*ar. bowed
with, P*llely to Mr. 1 honi|n»on. and made
his I Hn * or " ol »«'»ting him in the
of i * ,u *' e * *'" r - "No apology I» nec«*ssacy.
of : ' «"»ductor. replied the president,
but made the roles ra.vself. and I expect
and >' 011 u * follow them And Mr lhoiup
ho11 remained iu the car during hi*
journey. -St. Louis (»lobe Deintx-raL
po
with
Meek Felt Much Relieved.
in
to
be
and
Mrs. Society—Mercy on me! Don'
you kuow that man your daughter it
going to marry?
Mr. M«*«k No—o. I've bran afraid
to ask her.
Mr». Sotriety -• He's a prize-fighter, a
regular tough. He's fought a score ol
men. and half-killed a dozen women."
Mr. Meek (much »relieved) * Mi !
Then he's ali right. 1 was afraid he
was some |*oor lamb like inyeotL —flL
X- Weekly.
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