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VOL. I. NO. 6.
One of Chicago's speculative phil
osophers declares that there are 6,-
456 different kinds ol fear.
A few years ago Alfred F. Calvart,
the mining king of West Australia,
refused $5,030,000 for his mines. The
other day he sold the same mines for
8325.000.
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Among the greatest sufferers from
the Indian famine are the jewelers in
Delhi, whose business is ruined, as
hardly any marriages take place, and
everybody wants to sell ornaments in
stead of buying.
The penny-in-the-slot idea has been
applied in Loudon during the past
year on a large scale to gas meter'.
More than 31,000 families have adopted
the new arrangement, bv meaus of
which a penny or two will furnish gas
fur cooking a meal.
The South African republic em
braces some of the richest reefs of
gold and other mineral wealth now
known to the world, and ?is yet they
have been scarcely more than touched.
Every year the products of this new
Goiconda increase in quantity.
The Boston Congregatioualist says:
It is noteworthy that, white bequests
to the missionary societies in nearly
ail denominations have fallen much
below those of recent years, bequests
to colleges and other benevolent in
stitutions have been unusually large.
Constantinople has nboyit 879,000
inhabitants, of whom 155,000 are
Greeks and 153,000 Armenians, and
less than 400,000 Moslems. If the
Greeks and Armenians should revolt,
it would make matters lively for the
Porte, and might cause it to recall
some regiments from the Thessalian
frontier.
It is fast becoming conspicuous to
walk, maintains the New York Tri
bune, Everybody, or nearly every
body, rides a bicycle, from the small
boy or girl whoso wheel must be
made to order to the grandfathers and
grandmothers. The news that Glad
stone is teaming to ride, at the age
of eighty-seven, surprises no one.
'This ever-increasing popularity of the
wheel is by uo meaus a fad. The bicy
cle can never go out of fashion, be
cause it saves time, saves money and
givlt.s health —-three considerations
which will recommend it as a meaus
of locomotion. Moreover, it has al
ready worked radical reforms iu so
ciety. It has done more to bring
Americans out of'their indoor, seden
tary life than any other form of out
door exercise.
An address by Judge Thayer of
lowa, who has spent a great deal of
his time upon the improvement of
roads has been issued in a pamphlet
by the department of agriculture.
Judge Thayer says that the country
spends annually $250,000,000 on
muddy roads, which is practically a
total loss, and declares that while mud
may have a place in the natural organ
ization, that place is not on the roads.
Ha suggests that if $8,000,000 a
year were put into improving the
thoroughfares of a state, in ten years
there would not be a mile of highway
laid out iu the state that would not bo
a permanent stone road. He does not
recommend the spending of so much
money by the state, but would make
road improvement a township matter,
based upon local opinion. To illus
trate his position he says: “A town
ship whose assessed valuation is $300,-
000 wants to build twenty-five miles
of good roa.l at a cost of S2OOO per
mile. Including the per capita tax
and the usual levy, such a township
now pays seven mills on the dollar, or
S2IOO per year for road purposes. It
borrows the required $50,000, paying
for it SISOO a year, leaving S6OO a year
for road repairs. By the contract sys
tem those twenty-five miles of road
can be built in three years.” He says
that lowa is taxed, one way and an
other, $2,000,000 annually for road
purpose*,' This, he says, would take
care of $63,000,000 of 2 1-2 per cent,
bonds, and release them iu seventy
two years,besides leaving $500,000 each
year for keeping the roads ia repair.
On this plan at the end of seventy-two
years the staie would have a system of
hue roads, while under the present plan
it. would have no more than it has
cow, which is practically none.
The Frqstburg News.
LIKE A BIRD.
A NEW KEYING MACHINE IN
VENTED BV A GERMAN.
The Inventor Thinks He Has Solved
The Problem of Aerial Naviga
tion — Huso Wings Driven
By Carbonated Gas.
A BERLIN correspondent of the
Pittsbarg Dispatch says:
Herr Arthur Stentzel, of Al
toiiH.believeßuehassolvedthe
problem of aerial navigation. It has
long been the aim of the flying ma
chine enthusiast to construct some
thing that would practically be the
prototype of a bird. It is on this prm
cip'e that he has constructed his ma
chine. Its two grefrt sections resem
ble the wings of a gigantic bird more
than all else. With them the inventor
claims that he can move through the
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air for four or five minutes and alight
without injury.
Experiments that have been con
ducted with this newest of flying ma
chines have been undertaken very
privately. Experts say that the Al
tonn inventor bus shot far nearer the
mark in his effort to counterfeit the
bird than any of his predecessors in
the study of aerial problems.
The wings of the Stentzel machine
have a spread of about seven yards,
and their surface is eight and two
tilths yards all told. They move
through au augle of seventy de
grees and are curved according to a
parabola ia a proportion of one to
twelve. Compressed caibonic acid
gas is employed as a motive agent, and
the machine is driven by an engine
also of Herr Stentzei’s invention. It
is stated that the speed of the engine
can bo readily controlled so that the
machine can fly at varying velocities.
The inventor believes that within a
year, if.he cau raise the necessary capi
tal to build a machine on a large
enough scale, he will be able to fly
above the Kaiser’s palace iu Berlin.
a unique" BANnek.
An American Flag Slade Entirely of
Butterflies.
Patriotic Americans have depicted
the National flag in ail manner of ways
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AMERICAN FLAG MADE OF BUTTERFLIES.
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with all manner of sub,stances, but,
1 says the New York World, it remained
for an Englishman, John HampaoSj cf
, Newark, N. J.. to make the Stars and
. Stripes iu butterflies.
Eor four years iir Fe-mpson has
1 labored with the delicate little beau
i ties in making bis flag, which is about
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!The butterflies and beetles are so er
ranged as to give the flag the appear
ance of waving against a background
of delicate pink wings.
Mr. Hampson has many cases filled
with collections of gaudy colored in
sects from almost every known land.
He hap been collecting thirty years,
QUEEREST OF BIRDS.
'An Ungainly Apteryx From New
Zealand and Its Curious Habits.
The Zoological Society of Ilegent's
Park, London, has recently secured a
fine specimen of the queer bird known
as the kiwi or apteryx.
This bird, which is a native of New
Zealand, has been interesting to scien
tists ever since the first specimen was
captured, nearly one hundred years
ago. The use of the long, snipe-like
beak was a puzzle for naturalists until
Sir W. J. Buller made a study of a
kiwi he captured and kept captive
while in New Zealand. He took one
of the large glow-worms found in New
Zealand and threw it to the captive
kiwi. By the light of its own lamp
the glow-worm was seen to quickly
THE APTERYX.
pass from head to tail iuside the portals
of the kiwi’s beak, and leave behind it
enough of its slime to set off the bird’s
beak in a phosphorescent glow so that
the head of the bird was visible in the
j darkness. The kiwi was torpid and
1 lazy in the daytime, but at night it
[was seen to dart about, thrusting its
| illuminated beak in every worm bar
; row it came across, gently feeling for
; the inhabitant of the burrow and
dragging it forth, little by little, tak
| ing the greatest care not to break its
! prey.
THE HALE OF A HOUSE.
An Attractive Feature of the Mod
ern Dwelling.
In the furnishing of a modern house
the hall constitutes one of the most
serious problems, but there is one
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consolation. If one solves it success
fully the hall becomes one of the most
attractive features of the entire house.
It then ceases to be a mere passage
way, and becomes a veritable room,
and one which, strangely enough, will
ibe more generally used than almost
any other iu the house. In the con
ventional city dwelling, when the hall
is long, narrow and dark, with a high
ceiling and a flight of stairs that
makes an unbroken sweep to the floor
above, very little can be done to give
a true artistic effect. If the front door
is of solid paneled wood a great im
provement will result from replacing
the upper panels with glass. This can
take the form of a sash of small leaded
j panes in fanciful design, or a single
sheet of pdate glass, protected by a
neat iron grill. The mistake should
never be made of using colored glass
unless one can afford a masterpiece oE
genuine stained glass, for the ordinary
FO-called “cathedral” glass is crude in
colors, and an abomination. The
hall stand or hat rack, which is of
ten found just within the front
door, should be banished to some rear
,corner, if'it is to be tolerated at all,
where it will not be so much in evi
dence. These racks become “catch
alls,” and old coats, hats, umbrellas
and canes are not at all ornamental.
In place of these conveniences a broad
bail chair, of formal design, or better
still a mahogany settee, will serve
every purpose. These should be re
served for the use of casual callers. If
1 there are no convenient closets that
can be made for the garments of the
' members of the household, a neat
idotbes tre3 such as are imitated from
the antique, will prove a great deal
• more sightly than the, hall racks that
are made nowadays. It takes up but
little room and can find a place in
Tome rear corner.
HALL AND STAIRCASE.
Under thebest of conditions the hall
will be none too light, and this fact
; should be borne m mind in choosing
wall paper and carpet. The furnish
-1 ings should be in light warm tones,
and only the most formal designs are.
1 permissible. Few people seem to
: realize the effectiveness of pictures in
> the hall. It is customary to hang one
or two large frames on the side walls,
and allow the long stretch above the
stairs to go uncovered. In the latter
place pictures are needed, if anywhere
in the house, for there is no other way
iu which the vast wa'i space can be
broken.
All of this has reference to the fit
ting and furnishing of the ordinary
city hail.
In the villa house the architect gen
erally plans a square hall that has all
the effects of an ordinary room. There
maybe windows on the side, an open
fireplace, and plenty of contrivances
that lend themselves to decorative
effect. Here the treatmeui should lie
the same as in any other room, with
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this restriction. The purpose of the
kali must never be forgotten. Easy
chairs and sofas Will not be out of
place if they do not detract from the
formal character, or do not obstruct
free passage. There should never be
1 a profusion of ornaments or bric-a
brac. In a general way the hints as to
the city lia'l apply equally well to oue
in the suburb?. A hall char, or settee
• should be placed in close proximity to
| the entrance door, and the titling? of
, the 'sails aud ceilings should be in the
. light, warm tones.
’ The design illustrating this article
lends itself readily to a most beauti
fully artistic treatment; the hall is a
host in itself. Its ceiling is paneled
to represent open timber work, and ’
the walls finished in hard white pias
ter, with wainscoatiug four feet high
from the floor, above which is tinned
with a formal design planted on in
stucco work, representing the fleur-de
lis of France.
The residence is sixty-two feet wide,
■ by seventy-eight feet in depth, the
first story being ten feet six inches in
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height. The arrangement au 1 size of
rooms is shown by the floor plans..
| The sum of SBIOS will build the
’ design, not including the cost of
. mantels ranges, aud heating apparatus.
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UNCLE SAJI’S ORIGINAL ATI IKE.
, Somewhat Different From the Mod
ern Figure.
The original Uncle Sam of song and
• cartoon was so different from the
i modern figure, with its long striped
pantaloons, that our readers will be
: interested to see the costume as some
; of the students of history say it should
! be. In the first place, say these
; authorities, he should wear a high haf,
i slightly bell crowned and of felted
l fur. His shirt should be portrayed
, with a frilled bosom projecting out,
t pouter fashion, an 1 generally'with a
i breastpin in it. His shirt collar should
be high aud connected with his shirt.
- j His cravat- should be wide and tied
1 j with a “puddiug,” as it was termed in
i tormer times. Tho waistcoat should
j be a buff, single breasted affair, with
gold or gilt buttons. The swallow
l tailed coat should be made with high
j rolling collar and high pointed lapels.
The greatest difference between
( Uncle Sam as he is and as he should bo
lies in the pantaloons. They should
be made with a “trap door” in front
I and fitted below the knee for the wear-
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ing of the boots outside. These booh,
should have tassels in front. Colored
shirts were unknown until about 1829.
Striped pantaloons are of a compara
tively late date, and straps under the
boots were not known until 1825.
They were a part of the pantaloons
and were fastened on the boot in front
j and buttoned under it. Goatees were
! not worn, until late in the 30’e.
j The accompanying picture shows
; the correct Uncle Sam of a century
j ago, but times change and our good
| uncle with them.
Governor Smith, the new Executive
| of Montana, advises the amending of
| the Stale constitution to provide that
I the million acres of kind owned by the
j State be not sold, but leased, and that
persons residing on these lauds be
; exempt from ail taxation on personal
! property and improvements.
The Eev. Somebody defines for a
j New' York paper “news” as “anything
| that !ko general public ought to
j know.” According to that the multi
‘ plication table is a highly important
| piece of new?, comments the Louis
| viife Courier-Journal.-
PJRICE 5 CENTS.
THE NEWS.
Idre destroyed the business portion of
Lindsey village, eight miles west of Fremont,
O. The postofllce, the drug store, grocery,
meat market and the new Produce Exchange
Building. Town Hall and the Grand Army of
the Bepublie Hall was burned.
Hon. J. Leonard Mueller, general manager
of the Synder Banana Company, Mobile, Ala.,
. shot and mortally wounded himself. He
was one of the best-known fruit importers in
the country. In letters to relatives and
friends nervous prostration was alleged as
having induced the attempt at self-destruc
tion.
The speakers who will represent Princeton
in the annual debate with Yale were chosen
as follows: 11. F. Stirling, Blairsville, Pa.; N.
S. Beeves, New West Brooklyn, N. Y.; H. H.
Yocum, Columbia, Pa., and Ivy Lee. Atlanta,
Ga.
In New York an attachment for $750 was
issued against the City of Tacoma, Wash.,
in favor of John F. Dillon for sepvloes
rendered it 1893 in connection with au issue
of water and light bonds.
The two-masted schooner Miranda, owned
by the East Kiver Terra-Cotta Company,
sank off Bath Beach, S. I. She was loaded
with fire brick. The captain and crew es
cape! in the schooner's boat.
While three men were engaged in repairing
the bell tower of the St. Marie Salome
(Quebec) lloman Catholic Church the scaf
folding broke and they were thrown to the
ground, a distanco of some 70 feet. Trep
auier St. Benoit was dead when picked up,
and tho two others, named Yalliancourt and
Chenier, were fatally hurt.
The Illinois State Senate has adopted a
resolution providing for the appointment of
a special committee of five to investigate the
reported misappropriation of tho funds of
the University of Illinois by Ex-Treasurer
Spalding.
Adolph Kluge, of the firm of Kluge Bros.,
New York, was held in $2,500 ball by United
States Commissioner Alexander for exami
nation upon a charge of aiding in smuggling
from Canada several trunks containing
woven goods.
Secretary Alger has accepted the offer
made by the Stato of New. Jersey of the use
of the State camp and rifle range at Sengrit
for the United States troops in the vicinity
of New York.
Coblentz, Pike & Go'., wholesale liquor
dealers, uen Francisco, have failed with lia
bilities oi SIOO,OOO. Nominally tho assets
exceed tho liabilities, though their real
value can be established only after the ex
pert shall have submitted his statement.
A train of passonger ears ran into a car
in which several workmen were sitting in
tho Pennsylvania Railroad yards, Jersey
City, N. J. Three of the workmen were se
verely hurt.
In an interview published in tlio Snere
mento (Cala.) Bee, James. Collins, now in
jail, acknowledges that lie is “Cuckoo” Col
lins, wanted by the police of Denver for tho
robbery of a jewelry store on March 9, 1896,
A local institution has deposited $1,000,000
In gold in the New York clearing-house
vaults in settlement of balances, bringing
the aggregate amount of gold on deposit
there a p to $53,000,000.
Floating wreckage, believed to be part ol
the overdue ship Samaria, from Seattle foi
San Francisco, is reported by Captain Wal
lace, of tho steamer Walla Walla, from Pu
get Sound to San Francisco. The wreckag*
which was sighted off Crescent City resem
bled the roof of a deckhouse.
The property of Daniel McDonald, tho her
mit, who died at Chicago several days ago,
was found, it was estimated that it amount
ed to $70,000, but the total amount wan
$2,000.
Over (100 Chinese passed through Ottawa.
Canada, on their way from the Pacific
Coast to New York, en route to Cuba.
Two thousand and eighty immigrants ar
rived at Ellis Island.
The Berlin Iron Bridge Company, at East
Beilin. Conn., which for some time has been
running on a s died '.lie of eight hours a day,
will .start on 10 hours. The company employs
100 hands.
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE.
George D. M. Peixotto, of Cleveland, is
painting the portrait of Lyman J. Gage. He
will also paint three portraits of President
McKinley. They will be placed in the
Union League Club 3 in Chicago and New
York and the Union Club of Cleveland.
Since Lord Brassey became Governor of
Victoria he ha 3 had enough accidents to
thoroughly discourage any ordinary mortal.
He has been thrown from his bicycle, has
twice run his yacht on the rocks and lately
broke his collar bone after landing on his
head from a fall from his horse and having
the animal roll over him.
Whistler is said to have lately turned his
versatile genius to a branch of art which is a
novel one for him. It'is the designing of a
book cover for Caarles Whibley’s “Book of
Scoundrels.” The principal motive of the
design is a gallows with the letters of the
title around it aad the death’s head and
crossbones below 7 it. The drawing is said to
be a marvel of delicacy and refined line
work.
It is related of the late C, H. Spurgeon
that while at-school he spent almost all of
one cold winter on the “dunce bench.” The
teacher finally noticed that the bench was
next the stove and was therefore tho most
comfortable part of tho room. Beginning to
suspect that there was method in Spurgeon’s
madness, he had all the seats reversed, thus
bringing the “dunce bench” next the door.
Spurgeon immediately rose to the head of
his class and maintained that position
throughout the rest of the session.
Little Champ Clark, the son of the Con
gressman from Bowling Green, Mo., is said
to be a chip of tho old block. Though only
5 years of age he appears to be as ardent an
upholder of the principles of Democracy as
his noted father. “What ate you Democrats
going to do,now that McKinley is running
things to suit himself?” asked a clerk when
the little fellow entered the House recently.
You’ll have to put up with it whether you
like it or not.” “Wo Democrats,” answered
Champ haughtily, “will not be responsible
for auv of McKinley’s acts.”
The Greek National League, it is reported,
has 'ordered the Greek irregulars to retreat
into Greek territory, regarding further
bloodshed unless the Greek army supports
the irregulars.