The Virginia enterprise. [volume], March 01, 1901, Image 3

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FIAWATHA.
On the windy plains of Kansas—
Land of .sunsets and the whisker,
Of the cyclone and the pension—
With her tomahawk uplifted
Came the smasher (Blu-dam-na-shun)
Sortied out toward the gin-mills,
Hewed the lattice screens to flre-wood
Hurled the brick-bats, light as lances,
At the bottles (Wls-quee-sou-rish),
Through the mirrors (ach-mein-lieber!)
And the sachems of the wigwams,
•Which her wrath had smashed and smath
ered,
All aghast, with faces ashen,
Took their aprons off and scooted—
Hid themselves in cyclone cellars,
Wondered what it was had struck them
Longed for Schnitzer (ca-na-lush-ee),
'Then she girded on her hatchet,
Kr.si ward turned her fiery eye-balls,
Ni.ught would turn her, nothing daunt her.
And the wet-goods men from Kansas,
Even to the far Manhattan,
Put the shutters up in rag-time,
Spiked the doors and windows quickly,
Hid the signs down in the'cellar,
Waited in suspense, a-wonder
Where the thing would break out nextly.
Where the stfftl'y rippling waters
Of Desmoines and Coon commingle
Lived a man with massive temples—
With a high and active forehead
Married many times he had been.
In the wild-cow's milk he trafficked—
Built the juiceful tizz and cock-tall.
When lie heard from stricken Kansas
Penned a message brief and wily,
Saying, "No, not so, my brothers
Do not nail the doors and windows,
Bring the signs up from the cellar."
Then revealed his scheme unto them.
Ere the smasher well had started
Oil her fearful eastward mission,
Came a messenger unto her
Dustv all and breathless was he.
From her friends he brought a missive
Saying, "Sister, dear, the foemeu
From the Kaw unto the Hudson,
Set their traps for horrid rodents
Rats and mice, and great big spiders,
Starve the- things in wire cages
Make them gaunt and fierce and awful
And they say they'll sick them on you
If you dare to come but near them.
We' all think it's mean and spiteful.
1*. S.—They have also weasels
And they're training snakes in Jersey."
With a shriek that rent the welkin,
And with fearful trepidation,
Flung she down her fateful hatchet,
Drew her battle-robes around her
Turned her face toward the sunset,
Hastened back to bleeding Kansas
Barred herself within her wigwam.
After doing stunts hysteric
After camphor and ammonia,
She'll resume the harmless wash-tub:
Tease the dough and fry the dodgers,
Furnish to the little Nations
Long accruing castigations,
While her husband, will resume the
Cultivation of the whisker
Odes he'll write unto the spider
To the rat and eke the mouselet.
—New York Evening Sun.
If NEW YORK.
Scenes and Incidents of Everyday
Life in the Paris of America.
James Gordon Bennett has left Paris
for Beauliou to await the arrival o£ his
new yacht, in'which, it is said, he in­
tends sailing for America for the com­
ing yach: races.
The Prince and Princess Cantacuzene
"will soon leave St. Petersburg for this
country, bringing with them their young
son, who "has yet to make the acquaint­
an of is re at an he TJ
S. Grant.
It is reported in Wall street that Ja­
cob Field had made a bet of $10,000
even with another Stock exchange mem­
ber at the Waldorf7Astoria on. Friday
night that Chicago, Burlington &
cy stock will sell above Chicago, Mil­
waukee & St. Paul within thirty days.
Mrs. Adolf Ladenburg sailed for Ire­
land to visit her sister, Mrs. Harrington
Swan, at Ferinoy, and to take part in
the hunting She will have her two
liuuters sent over from England. Mrs.
Swan, who resembles her sister, is the
wife of Maj. Swan, in the King's serv­
ice.
The persons who expect Harry Lehr to
arrange a "Moulin ltouge party," con­
cerning which a report has been circu­
lated, will "get weary in their waiting."
Mr. Lehr says. He declares it is the
"worst fake" that has yet been perpetrat­
ed against him. "I have no intention of
getting up a Moulin ltouge party or any­
thing like it," added Mr. Lehr.
Mrs. Mackay is at Ritz's hotel in Paris
anil as soon .is she is sufficiently recov­
ered from the nervous prostration from
which she has been suffering aiid is well
enough to travel she is going on to lloiue.
Her generous gift of .$4000 to relieve the
debt on St. Joseph's church, in the Ave­
nue iloche. has been highly appreciated
l.v the English-speaking Catholics in
Paris.
Daniel G. Hatch's membership in the
New York Stock exchange has been sold
for $51,000, which equals the high record
price. Mr. Hatch was one of the veter­
an members of the exenange. which he
entered on January 1, 1870. He was the
board member of the firm of Hatch &
Foote. which failed last year as a re­
sult, it was alleged, of the private spec­
ulations of Partner Foote, whose death
soon followed.
All Julia Marlowe's out-of-town con­
tracts for the next ten months have been
canceled, and she will play out the sea
sonat the Criterion with her new drama.
"When Ivnightwood was in Flower."
After a few weeks' rest at Highmount,
in the Catskills, Miss Marlowe will re­
turn to the Criterion in the autumn with
the same play. In the course of the fol­
lowing winter she may appear in a few
of the larger cities of the country.
Col. John Jacob Astor, who has a
keen admiration for Lieut. Hobson, was
responsible for the $1000 fund started
during his recent illness, whereby five
pieces of heavy silver ornamented with
designs from Hobson's book on the sink­
ing of the Merrimac have been made for
presentation to the young naval officer.
The service has been on view for two
"weeks in a jeweler's window at Broad­
way and Eighteenth street, and will be
formally presented to Lieut. Hobson as
soon as he returns from the South. A
Southern woman solicited subscriptions
to the fund.
Mr. and Mrs. George J. Gould, their
four elder children, Kingdon, Jay. Mar
jorie and Vivian Gould. Mrs. William A.
Hamilton, Mrs. Gould's cousin, and O.
B. Huntsman, the tutor of Kingdon and
Jay Gould, are now on wheels enjoying a
long railroad trip planned by Mr. Gould.
The family travels in Mr. Gould's pri­
vate car and St. Louis will be the first
•stopping place. From there they will go
to Chicago and after that no one, not
even Mr. Gould himself, knows precisely
where he will go. He will travel over
every mile of the 12,000 or more miles
of railroad of which he is the head.
They are still talking at Daly's of the
charming dinner Daniel Frohman gave
in honor of Mary. Mannering on the stage
of that theater a week or so ago. He
called it the "Trelawney of the Wells"
banquet. It was in that comedy that
Miss Mannering made- her most delight­
ful impression under his management.
The feast was very nearly an Adamless
Eden, for Mr. Frohman was the only
mm
man present. The feminine bouquet for
which he was the busy bee comprised be­
sides Miss Mannering, Hilda Sptfng, Gis
sie Loftus. ^Beatrice Morgan and Mrs.
Charles Walcot.
Senator Piatt has changed his rooms at
the Fifth Avenue hotel for the firs,t time
in twenty years. The mecca of Piatt
Republicans since the early '80s has been
the apartment w-ith "No. 280" on the
door. Ever since Mr. Piatt resigned
from the United States Senate with Iio.s
coe Colliding the plans and policies of the
famous politicians have been outlined in
these rooms. Now Mrs. Piatt is dead
and the senator decided yesterday that
he did not care to remain in No. 280..
So lie was given another department,
which will be his home winter and sum­
mer. It will be hard, however, for his
followers to accustom themselves to this
change.
In a few short weeks the site of old
Volks garden, a landmark on the Bow­
ery that dates back to the days immedi­
ately following the Civil war, will be
occupied by a cracker factory. The
work of excavating the cellar was begun
a few days ago. Thirty years ago Volks
garden was in the zenith of its populari­
ty and occupied the place in the hearts
of the Bowery boys of that period that
was accorded to Niblo's garden by the
more fashionable element on Broadway.
It was built after the Civil war ended,
and was the first concert hall ever con­
ducted in this country. The perform­
ance consisted of a drama and olio, simi­
lar to the vaudeville performance of to­
day.
Steve Brodie. the King of the Bowery,
who died in Texas the other day, once
told how Senator Timothy D. Sullivan
got the nickname "Dry Dollar," which
has stuck to him for so many years.
"Don't you believe," he said, "that Tim
ever took a wet revenue stamp off a beer
keg and dried it and said it was a dry
dollar. Tim never was a fool, no matter
how small he was.
"Here's the way the thing really hap­
pened. There were a lot of us kids who
used to sell papers along the Bowery
after school. Tim was the greatest hus­
tler in the bunch. He wasn't like the
rest of us, always pitching pennies or
wasting our money. Tim was always
looking out for his mother.
"One day Tim had big luck in his busi­
ness. He had all the pennies and silver
he made changed into a dollar bill, and
showed it to the rest of us. Some of the
fellows asked him if he wasn't going to
wet his dollar by mowing us.
'Blow nobody,' says Tim. "That's a
dry dollar, and it's going straight home
to my mother.'
The White Mice met on Sunday to per­
fect their organization. They are the
women of the stage who do not draw big
enough salaries to enable them to pose
as head-liners. "Please remember," said
one of them, "that the Mice are not only
chorus girls. They are chorus girls and
lesser stars who are not head-liners. The
head-liners are all White Rats. They do
not suffer half as much as chorns girls,
who are dropped without notice and left
without railroad fare. Our aim is to pro­
vide girls with railroad fare and bring
them home when a manager fails and to
provide an employment agency so they
will not have to give up half a week's
salary for a position.
"And then we are going to make the
manager give them half pay for rehear­
sals as they do in'England in fact, help
them from getting cheated all the time by
the managers.
"Are we going to strike? Well, not
yet, but it is too early to talk about that.
We are going to strike for railroad fares
and incidentals, which sometimes we do
not get now."
The executive committee announced
that a ball "would be given at the Grand
Central palace on March 7. The meet­
ing passed a resolution providing' that all
SCENES PROMINENT IN THE THREATENED VENEZUELAN, WAR
wy
The elder sister of the bride-elect,
Miss Elsie Stillman, and the elder
brother of the bridegroom, William G.
Rockefeller, were married about throe
years ago.
Miss Stillman is very attractive per­
sonally and a general social favorite. She
is fond of outdoor sports and is the pos­
sessor of some blue ribbons, which she
prizes, as they were acquired at the New­
port horseshow. She is an expert whip.
A number of the members of the
Rockefeller family will attend the wed­
ding on Tuesday in Chicago of Miss
Mary Isham Prentice and Henry Porter,
Jr. The bride attended, as a bridesmaid.
Miss Alta Rockefeller at her recent wed­
ding with her brother Parmelee. The
nuptials will be celebrated at the home
of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Sartelle Prentice.
James Henry Smith, richest bachelor
in America, possessor of §50.000,000, and
known as "the silent broker," will quit
business for a time at least. So great a
success was his Valentine's dinner dance
on Thursday last that he has accepted
the advice of his friends and will go into
entertaining on a large scale the -world
over. He has planned to spend .$100,000
before next winter rolls around, chiefly
on the new acquaintances he has formed
in society. Mr. Smith will sail for Eu­
rope shortly taking passage in the hand­
somest suite on one of the Atlantic grey-'
hounds. Afjer a few days in London,
Paris and Vienna he will go to the Riv­
iera, where he has taken a villa. There
all New Yorkers of. social prominence
whom Mr. Smith knows will be invited
for a series of house parties. The win­
ter season over, he goes to London to
occupy the house he has rented there.
He will entertain Americans during the
festivities attending King Edward's coro­
nation. The coronation over, Mr. Smith
will return to the United States in a
yacht which he has charatered for the
summer at a cost of $25,000.
The Bowery is in mourning. To think
that one of the house of Sullivan should
fall a victim to a common Western "pan­
handler," and on the Bowery at that—
where the family of "Dry Dollar" has
held unquestioned sway fo^ twenty-five
years. The victim was, big Florrie Sulli­
van, superintendent of bureau of incum­
brances, 6 feet 2 inches in height and
weighing 300 pounds. The trick was
simple enough, a hard luck story, a re-,
fusal—a blow and 300 pounds of Sullivan
lay on the sidewalk. Sixty dollars in
his pockets vanished and with them a
horseshoe of diamonds from the states­
man's tie.
"The great majority of folks that come
to play the wheel," said Mr. Deaie to
a New York Evening 'Sun man, "come
with a fixed idea as to what numbers
they are going to play. They may be
regular numbers that they have been,
playing for years or they may be num­
bers that have fixed themselves in their
minds through some accidental circum~t
stances, such as the number of the caw
they have ridden.in, or the number of a!
building they have passed*, or even die1
day of the month of course they don't1
stick to them. If they did, they might win
sometimes. Now, yonknow these
vice-committees that's closed all«the?
glambling places? TEey caM 'em the Elf
teen and the Five. Well, it's an
—y* hC
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Here are pictures of persons and places prominent in the asphalt trouble now occurring in Venezuela, and likely to assume alarming proportions before
many jmoons if present iiulicationsare realized. The map shows the asphalt possessions of the $58,000,000 asphalt trust and the locality where-the trouble is brew-
a
Mice should'be. entitled to be beneticiarifes
of the order after April 1. ,.
Miss Isabel Goodrich Stillman will, bo
the first of, the bridesmaids who attend­
ed Miss Elsie French at her recent wed­
ding with Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt to
be married.. The wedding of Miss Sti!!
mau and Percy Avery Rockefeller on
Tuesday, April 23, will be a notably big
and handsome affair. St. Barthol­
omew's church, Madison avenue and
Forty-fourth street, where the ceremony
will be performed, is one of the largest
in town. The engagement of the young
couple was announced late in August in
Newport."
absotatel
Jjp
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possibility.
fact that since there's been so much talk
.about the Fifteen and the Five, those
ruitfibers have been played all over towii
about ten times as much as any other
numbers. These vice-committees- have
certainly accomplished something."
TWELVE THOUSAND HEROES.'
Why the Government Awarded No
Medals for San Juan Hill Charge.
Why the government awarded no med­
als of honor for the. charge up San Juan
hill.
"I was told at Washington that the rea­
son the regimental officers did not receive
the medal of honor, for which they were
recommended on account of their bravery
at the charge of San Juan hill," says
Richard Harding Davis in Everybody's
Magazine, "was because the government
argued that if it gave the medal to one
man there was no good reason why it
should not give it to 12,000. A virtue
which is shared in common by 12,000
men must be a common virtue. As a
matter of fact, the members of the
Knickerbocker club in the Rough Riders'
regiment and the negro regulars, who,
had they not been soldiers, would have
been barbers and servants, reached the
top of the hill at exactly the same time.
That is not said in belittement of cour­
age, certainly not of this particular ex­
hibition of it, which was to me one of
the most moving and magnificent spec­
tacles of a lifetime, but rather to suggest
that we have cause for congratulation in
the fact that the proportion of brave men
is so great. One might almost say that
all men are brave."
One Man's Idea of Bliss.
There was a commander of a. cruiser
who was concentrated energy personi­
fied. He was the man who never slept.
He was the bugbear of the crew, all and
sundry, hence the point of McAlister's
tale, relates, the Youth's Companion.
McAlister was a boatswain, who unex­
pectedly came into a small fortune,
whereupon, quitting the service, he
bought a snug, little cottage as many
miles away from salt water as it is pos­
sible for a man to get in England. When
he was comfortably settled he employed
a boy to come to his door every morning
at 5:30, knock and say:
"Please, sir, the commander wants
you."
Whereupon every morning the now
free boatswain had the joy. of singing
out in his grandest voice:
"Tell the commander to go to thun­
der!"
When the Sun is Down.
"The world is round, and it goes round.
Uncle 'Rastus," said the small grandson
of the old colored man's former owner.
"Don't you understand about it?"
"No, honey. I cyan't say I does," ad­
mitted Uncle 'Rastus, surveying the well
varnished apple with which his little
guest had illustrated his argument.
"W'at holds de world up, dat's w'at I'd
Ijke to know, chile?"
\"Why. it goes round the sun. Uncle
'Rastus." said the boy eagerly, "and the
sunlholds it up by the law of attraction.'*
'fUm. honey, I reckon you ain' gone
quite far 'nongh in yo' reasoning yet,
said the old man with a smile of patron­
izing good nature. "In dat case, -w'at
would keep de world up when de sun's
4one gone down? Answer me dat, chile
^Youth's Companion.
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An Intelligent.Horse. :L
At a stable in Fairmont, O.. a man
died of heart disease, falling dead in one
of thg stalls: A horse gave notice of
the- death by distressed whmneys. When
the proprietor entered the barn to -as­
certain the trouble thehorseacted as it in
trouble, and gave every indication of
knowing that something unusual had
happened.
a a
""llgSllif
roles in the serious complications which seem
Great Earthworms.
"The earthworms
2^'
of the Island of
Madagascar are specially remarkable.
Of the smaller species Pontoscolex' core
thaurus and Perichoeta biserialis occur
the most frequently. A' truly gigantic
species was discovered by hie in 1886,
(Kynotus darwinii.) I possess several
specimens of the thickness of the finger
and a yard and a half in lengthr- "In*the
formation of mold and preparation of
the soil they take a pre-eminent share,
for they make deep passages in the
ground and thus contribute to the airing
and breaking up. of the surface mold.
These gigantic annelida, 'after the- fash­
ion of our earthworms af home, pass a
mass of earth through their intestines to
cast it up afterward on the surface
masses of these lumps of excrement lie
about in many places. When dry they
weigh on an average from 4% to *5
ounces, and some specimens attain the
weight of from 6 to 0% ounces. The dis­
turbance of spil -must thus be very con­
siderable, and it is calculated that these
animals are able in the course of fifty
years to supply to the surface a stratum
three feet in thickness."
Cheese 1c.
"Cheese it" is in an-Epglish slang dic­
tionary of 1811, and the definition shows
that the phrase was then used in the
same sweet sense as that of today. And
the phrase came banging and bumping
down the last century. The 'ingenious
George Augustus Sala in his "Gaslight
and Daylight" (1859) wrote in the chap­
ter "Strollers at Dumbledowndeary"
about young Harry, who held earnest
parley with members of the upper gallery
who were pelting him and his friends
with nutshells and brosen piles. "Two
or three 'hallos!' and 'now, thens!' ac
companiied by a strong recommendation
to 'cheese it' (i. e., act of cessation), cause
these trifling annoyances to cease.". You
see that Mr. Sala thought it necessary
to explain the phrase to his genteel audi­
ence. The dictionaries all
Say
that
"cheese it" is thought to be a corruption
of "cease it!" Maybe they think so. We
are inclined to believe in a more remote
derivation. "Cease it!" is too easy.
Boston Journal.
English Yacht Sailors In Demand.
There has been a great depiand for
crews from the East coast for racing
yachts during the coming season. Sir
Thomas Lipton set the fashion when he
decided to have nothing but Colne men
for. Shamrock I. and Shamrock II., and
the Messrs. Connell have followed his
example in appointing Bast coast men
for the 65-footer Tutty, which they have
bought. The Distant Shores which was
built at Henderson's yard, at Glasgow,
for C. Dry Rose, and which has now
been bought by Kenneth M. Clark*
the owner of the 65-footer Rhama, wili,
however, have a Clyde skipper and crew,
and be one of the exceptions of the* sea­
son. She will next year be sailed under
the title of Kariad. There is at the pres­
ent time a brisk demand from America
for Bast coast skippers and men.—Lon
don Telegraph.
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Novel IiO&ri Association.
One of the most remarkable loan as­
sociations in the world Js that founded
by Mme. Jeanne" Robin. in -the suburbs
of Paris. Its object is to assist jaeedy
artiste and writers by small Ioajis of
from -5 to 20 francs. Neither security,
nor interest is required, nor is any? time
of payment specified. In this, paradise
of the impecunious author the' borrower
simply signs the following paper: "I
pledge my honor that I will pay back the
sum of' francs." 'It' is &!«T thaf
they who do not finally, pay back are
.•ery-fewi
and Talephoh* fApplf-
ancesf In-the United $tftte«
Cost Nearly Four Billions.
/It is a far cry from the $15,600 cash
capital of the Magnetic Telegraph com­
pany Jn J846 to the $3,975,000,000 which'
represented the cost of the electrical ap­
pliances in actual use in the UnitejjL
States at the end of the year 1900.
The Morse telegraph was the first at^v
tempt to use electricity for industrial pur4v* -f^':
poses. The Magnetic Telegraph company. %.
was organized mainly through the efforts'
of F. O. 'j. Smith, in 1846, and was the*
beginning of the present immense tele­
graph and telephone business and other
branches of business in which electricity
is used The company's capital stock
was $60,000, of which" one-half went to
the owners of various patents, and $30,
000 of which was allotted to subscribers,
who invested the comparatively insignifi
cant sum of $15,000 in cash. This $15,
000 was the working capital of the first
telegraph company. That sum today
would hardly pay for the furnishings in
the general office of any one of the big^'
telegraph or telephone companies.
In addition to these leading lines of
business, of which electricity is- the basis,
there are smaller enterprises representing
considerable capital. About $100,000,
000, it i9 asserted, is invested in 'electrical
apparatus used an connection with min­
ing. At Niagara Falls the electrical
plant represents an outlay of $10,000,000,
and other power plants represent an in­
vestment of« $150,000,000. Five hun­
dred electro-plating: establishments have
a capital q* $50,000,000. Then there are
the electrical manufacturing Companies,
and the storage-battery industries, which
are valued at $150,000,000. The Gen
eral Electric and Westinghouse com­
panies alone could not be purchased for
$50,000,000.'
600,000 Persons Km ployed.
This inakes- ir total of about $3,975,
UUU.tJUU, or nearly four billions invested
th^ use and manufacture of electrical
appliances^ Ti .C.. A^aiiin* an 'authority
On the subject,1 declares the figures are
as nearly correct as can be ascertained in
such a multiplicity of enterprises. He
estimates that some 600,000 people earn
their livings from these different lines of
electrical business. One hundred thou­
sand are employed in telegraphy, 26,000
by the Bell telephone exchanges, 150,000
electric lighting plants, 150,000 on
electrical street railways and 150,000 in
eiectrica! factories. Says Mr. Martin:
The arts of electricity have added $6
000,000,000 to the world's wealth For
the United States of America the pos­
session of the half of thi9 can be very
easily established."
Patrick B. Delany says that Morse in
.America, and Steinheil in Bavaria, began
almost simultaneously to put in operation
a practical method of telegraphy. In
183' Morse made his first demonstration
the University of New York over one
third of a mile of wire. One year later
messages were transmitted over ten
miles of wire at the rate of ten words
per minute.
The duplex System, which made one
wire equal to two for purposes of teleg­
raphy, was invented by B. Stearns of
Massachusetts in 1868, and a year or two
later Edison perfected the quadruples
system... Norvin Green, when president
of the Western Union, said that Edison's
mventioii alone had increased the value
property more than
$10,000,000. The Delany synchronous
system was invented in 1884. By it. six
Morse circuits are obtained over a singlo
wire.
Speed Now Attained.
Beginning with ten words a minute, in
1838, the art of electrical communication
y-
The value of the property owned and
used in. their business by telegraph com
panies alone in this country is estimated
by competent judges at $250,000,000, of
which the Western Union company hold-.
ings represent some $115,000,009. Every. V'~
railroad has its own telegraph system
800 cities have fire telegraph lines, and
every city of any consequence has its
police department telegraph system. In
addition to this, there are in all large -'S
cities systems of electric burglar alarms,
"thermostatic protection" and district
messenger »companies with telegraph
Origin of the Telephone.
The telephone business dates from the *1
intentions of Bell and Gray, .in 1877. lx
The Bell system today represents an in­
vested capital of about $200,000,000, and
the total value of telephone lines, public
and private, is placed at $400,000,000.
The number of subscribers to telephone
companies is said to be at least 1,500,000.
The. companies are earning about $20,
000,000 nnually, or 5 per cent, of the es­
timated capital invested.
The electric lighting plants of the
United States are worth about $1,200,
000,000. There are some 3000 compa­
nies, more than 500,000 arc lamps and
about 30,000,000 incandescent lamps.
Electrical appliances tor equipping
street railways are of the estimated value
of $1,800,000,000. The electric motor is
daily coming more and more into use,
and it is believed the value'of property
in this branch of the electrical business
is increasing at the rate of $150,000,000 a
year. Street railroads operated by elec­
tricity earn about $72,000,000 annually,
or about 4 per cent, on the capital in­
vested.'
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5
per.
Morse circuit, 15 words duplex Morse
circuit, 30 words quadruplex Morse cir­
cuit, 50 words multiplex (six, circuits),
80 words Wheatstone automatic, 125
words Wheatstone automatic duplex,
200 words wireless telegraphy, 10 words.
The total yearly earnings of telegraph
and telephone companies Combined are
estimated at less than one-half of the
.sum realized by the United States post
office from the sale of stamps for first
class matter.'. Investigation has estab­
lished the fact that the letters- mailed in
the United States annually average
about thirty for each inhabitant of the
country postal cards, seven for each in­
habitant, and telegrams, one and one-half
for each inhabitant.—New- York Mail
and Express.
Liaid the Corner-Stone.
Ephraim Knox's hens frequently an­
noyed his neighbors. When the town
was building a. library "next door to
him," he and his hens superintended op­
erations. One day his brother Sam was
passing with a, friend, and stopped to
view the progress of the library. He
looked at the hends in disgust. "What in
the world are those hens making such a
noise for, do you suppose? There ain't
any grain .in there,'f said the friend.
"Well," remarked Seth, dryly, "they've
had the oversight of 'most everything in
town. Yon know the cornerstone of the
building was laid yesterday, and I cal
c'late that speckled,hen over there thinks
she laid it. —Youth's Companion.
A New Fuel Found
Near Bio Grande City, Teat., an im
mense deposit 'of an unknown gaseops.
substance has Veen discovered. Pieces
.of it ignite quickly and give out a strong
flame, which lists for a remarkably long
period.
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vJt is. Said by scientists that thte
substance is either an unknown mineral
or ordinary day highly ,charged with nat- S's
ural gas.r In either ease the value of the
deposit as .fuel if immense, all it covers
many* thousand pf actes^ahd is. of im
mense
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