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LOP=SIDED PEOPLE. The Philadelphia Gripmen Grow Askew. OUT HERE IT IS DIFFERENT. A Brilliant San Francisco Invention. Right - Eyed and Left- Eyed People. The greatness of San Francisco as the author and finisher of the cable-car method of urban transit bad not until yesterday been fully measured. The first cable-car In the world climbed the Clay-street hill as though the law of gravity had been found unconstitutional ; a flood of San Francisco inven tions buried every ob stacle to the success of the wire rope, and cable roads have multiplied until Bret Barte'i ward er of two continents be came as famous for cable roads as fur millionaires ond pretty girls. Eastern cities became Imitators and began to take prido in their cable roads, too. . The City of Brotherly Love adopted cable roads not so very long ago, and it was re ports from there, where they are yet novel ties, that brought out one of tho brightest glories of the San Francisco cable-car. The Philadelphia newspapers have dis covered that its cars are developing a strange cla«s of people. The gripmen there are becoming lop-sided. One half of a Philadelphia gripman weighs about twice as much as the other half. This sad Information is illustrated in the accompanying cuts. It appears that In the Quaker City a gripman grips and grips all day long with bis right hand, while bis left earns but a small portion of his wages. There the scion of an Illustrious family who goes broke while drifting about the world and luckily gets a crtpmaa'a jab— as many a high-born scion does— tackles the Iron lever with arms like those of a twit tering grammar-school girl. If the new gripman is an ex-dry-goods clerk the Illus tration is just as good. He loosens and tightens the bis lever at every block ns his car and the hours roll on, and when he brings it back he gives two or three hard extra tugs to grasp more firmly the speeding rope. The band brake is not worked by a lever, and the foot brake is mainly used anyway. So when the soreness works out of his neat right arm it begins to grow. It grows until it looks like a blacksmith's. The grip exercise, with its alternating rest and motion is tbe ideal muscle developer, and tlte arm grows until the physical possibilities of growth are exhausted. The foot-brake puts more meat on his right leg, end bis right side generally grows away from his spinal column, which ought to be in the middle. His left side remains prac tically as it was. Some gripmen thero have gone in trepidation to physicians tobe treat ed for some sort of ele phantiasis. Tho doctors there recognize the "gripmau's arm" as they do the "writer's cramp." it bas been discovered ttial the center of grav ity in a Philadelphia gripman Is in the upper right-hand corner of his liver, and as a conse nonce an insidious bil ii.usr.es3 Is slowly undermining their con stitutions, the Philadelphia cable-cars are distorting and killing -"cores of the strong, industrious young men that are the hope and pride of any land. But -an Francisco cab'.e-cars are built with special reference to the symmetrical development of gripn en. A San Francisco cable-car dummy is the best gymnasium on ti* Pacific Coast; and the cable-car com panies are constantly turning out into the world a rins-* of brawny men. which, taken pp one side and down the other, are as fine specimens of physical manhood as can be found any wliere. The beneficent arrangement by which this Is accomplished consists in having a lever for each arm. Here the brake lever must be worked as often and as hard as the grip lever. .-...*•; The San Francisco gripman. as a whole does about twice the work that a Philadel phia gripman dies, but he uses only one. haif of himself for l.af tbe work. One triumph of San Francisco cable-car invention is thus seen to be twe-sided, like the _: ipmi'ii. Not only Is the divine symmetry of its gripmen preserved, but It utilizes each half of a gripman and so gets more labor out of one man. This principle- of the fractional use of labor is easily seen to be economical and capable of ide development and appli cation. No. San Francisco eripnien grow strong and brawny, the scams in the shoulders of their uniforms have to be let out after six weeks of service; but they are not narrow nnd one-sided, and when they strike they can dn it to the right or the left. Tiik Cali, reporter who discovered yes terday the symmetry of the San Francisco gripman ran across a phase of one-sided physical development as interesting as that of the Philadelphia gripman. Did you ever notice that In squinting through a telescope you always use "dpi eye— that is, either the right or the left eye? It is probably the right one. Now if you have used a tele«cop9 or a microscope a good deal for a long time, what effect has it had on the eye you have l used? I Dr. Abrams uses a microscope a good deal and always uses, his left eye In peering through the instrument. He says that he can see through the microscope with that eye much more clearly tuau with the other one. He attributes It to the fact that throng!! the constant use of that eye the muscles of accommodation Which serve to focus the eye are more developed and ac commodate tie eye more readily. Professor George Davidson uses the tele scope constantly. He is in the habit of us ing his right eye and sees better with it. A few months ago he found it tiring mote easily with the constant use and began squinting at the stars with bis left one. J. L, Lawson Of the Coast and Geodetic Survey can see much more clearly through an Instrument with his right eye, which ha has always used, and gives the opinion that tbo use of one eye that way developes its power and the clearness al its 6lght, but too constant use impairs it. Others In the Coast Survey Office can see better through an Instrument with one eye than with the other. L. A. Berteling, the optician, says that the only effect on the eye by such use is on its muscles. It appears, then, that one may be right eyed or left-eyed as be is right-handed or left-handed. Most people are "right-eyed," hat some are left-eyed who are right handed. Can you. shut one eye alone as easily as you can the other one? Few people can. lt apparently depends on how one began to squint Most peoi le seem to simply ac quire the habit of shutting the left eye and looking nut of the right one, and so it is more easy to close the left eye. The eye» closing muscles are better developed. lf one can close the left eye more easily he will naturally close that oDe when he looks through a telescope. Almost any one will find in experiment that he can read at a distauce more clearly with one eye than with the other. In fact, what may appear distinct to the right eye may be indistinct to the left one. People are right-eyed and left-eyed; the muscle 8 of the eyes become unequnliy de veloped with unequal use, and microscopists and astronomers aro as one-sided in the matter of eyes as the Philadelphia gripmcii are in the matter of arms. BLACKBOARD'S TREASURE. Colored Men Are Looking for It in a Southern Swamp. ■Waycr-'ss (Ga.) Special to Savannah Kerr s. There is a sensation among somo of the •negroes of thlsclty. It has developed into an interesting story. A News correspond ent questioned a number of them to-day, and this is the story they tell: Some forty years ago vessels sailing near the coast of Georgia were frequently seized by & notori ous pirate named Blackboard. He became the terror not only of the seamen, but of tim people living near the Altamaha Kiver swamp. It was known to many of the settlers that Blackboard accumulated a vast fortune. On his last piratical raid he mado "a haul," arid his crew accompanied him to a spot in the Al'.amiha Kiver swamp, and in an old cave they buried the gold. Then. Blackbeard sent his men Into the cave with orders to guard tbo gold, But he did not 1 permit them to execute his orders, but shot and killed nil of them except one-man, whom he mortally -wounded. The dying man raised his gun and fired, killing Black beard instantly. A few hours afterward an old neero came along, aud hearing groaus In the cave peeped down, and to his horror saw the dead bodies oi six men and" toe dying form of the seventh. Blackbeard having fallen in the cave. The dying pirate pointed to a chain and told the "old negro that at the end of the chain was a chest filled with gold deep in the cave. Then the pirate breathed a curse on the gold and the cave and, calllug upon the demons of hell to haunt the spot, died. The negro seemed to be pinned to the spot by fright. As soon as he recovered from the shock he had re ceived be went home. Arriving there the full horror of his sll uation dawned upon his mind. To give any one information about bis horrible secret, he argued, would be to give himself up to die on the callows as the murderer of tie. «even men. For years he kept I is dreaded secret. Just before he died toe old man called his chil dren to him and told them about Blackbeard and the gold. Four weeks ago eleven youne negro men, upon hearing the above story from the old negroes, set out to explore this wonderful cave and secure the hidden treas ure. Arming themselves with picks, shovels and axes they journeyed to the Altamaha River swamp and found the cave. The ground near the cave was all turned up by other parties who had been there. They claim that they found the chain and the skulls of several men. All around the cave were picks, shovels, gun* and axes which had been thrown down rough fright. They attempted to dig in the cave, bat the air became thick, and they could hardly breathe. The rocks overhanging the cave would grate on each other, and the air sud denly became filled with groans and curses of dying sailors. Dropping their tools and hats they left in great fright A second patty of necroesleft hero a week ago and returned to-day. They say they fouud everything as they first party claimed, but developed no further discoveries; but added a few more hats, picks, shovels and axes to the famous cave's museum. CRICKET IN AHERICA. ___t_tt__a_t_.nttiM^ B| v ' ■'"■ iM «anan__i____B_s_j The Game Has Advanced Decidedly in the Last Ten Years. Lippiiicutt's Magazine. In the last ten years cricket in the United States lias advanced decidedly, botti In the iucrease of public interest and in the higher character of "form" shown by cricketers. Interest in the game is becoming more wide-spread, and Boston and Chicago, at least on their own grounds, have proved themselves worthy foemen of Philadelphia. This last-named city has been the strong hold of cricket for over thirty years, from the days of the old Camden ground of the P. C. C. to the present reign of M inbeim. In this city Robert S. Newhall was the first American cricketer to show that it was pos sible to make runs against a foreign team, even if it did have among the eleven one of the best bowlers the world has ever seen, and the possibility of this was again demonstrated in the recent match ts of Lord Ilawke's team iv Philadelphia. The reason of Philadelphia* lead in the cricket world over its sister cities is not hard to discover; the clubs here are richer and in consequence the grouuds are better and more attractive; ami, again, in Phila del;. the development of native talent conies fir-t. while in other cities the impor tation of foreign talent would seem to ex clude any native development. Boston, New York aud Chicago all depend for their strength upon Englishmen, while a Phila delphia team is composed entirely of Ameri cans, and young ones at that. Of course the chief interest among the followers of the game in this country has been in the visits of foreign teams here and the two trips of tbe Geutlemeu of Philadelphia to Eugland. English teams have visaed us iv 1859 1868, 1872, 1879. 1832, 1885. 1866 and 1891. Tne Australians have played here iv 1878 and 1882; while the Irish geutlemen bave paid two visits to this counlry, the first in 1879 aud the second In 1888. Of th_ different matches played by these teams in Phila delphia, five have been victories for the gentlemen of Philadelphia — namely*, the three matches with the Gentlemen of Ire land, the first match against Parson Thorn ton's team in ISBS, and the first match against .Lord Ilawke's team in Ibid, while one match, the memorable one agaiust the Australian team in 1878, ended in a draw. Perhaps the most remarkable perform ances in these matches on the Philadelphia side have been the bowling of Charles A. New Hall and Spencer Meade against the English teams cf 1868 and 1872; the bowling of E. \V. Clark Jr. in is?'.' against the English professionals; B. & Newhali's in cings of eighty-four against the first Aus tralian team, and his thirty-odd in tbe English match of 1882; J. B. Thayer Jr. 'a forty against the pick ol the English pro fessional bowling in 1882. and ft D. Brown's i sixty-two not out on that memorable Sep temper afternoon last lall when b. M J. Woods took to "lobs" in desper&tioi. The in st sensatioual finishes in these matches were in the two matches against the Irish G.utlemen in ISBB, tbe rat match being won by seveu runs, mks to Brockie-'. wonderful fieldina at "silly point," and in the second match the last Irish wicket feli on the next to last ball of tbe last over of the match, as It was within half a minute ot the time when slumps were to be drawn. This match will also always be remem bered by cricketers in Philadelphia on ac count of Captain Cronln's generosity and i sportsman-ship in hurrying bis men to me wickets so as to finish the match before I time was called, he even going so lar as to send the last man in without any leg guards, In order to prevent the delay tesult- ! ing from putting them on. The Gentlemen of Philadelphia have twice visited England, once tn 1884 and the second time in 1889. nnd it was the unani mous opinion that the second team showed a great improvement in form over that dis played by the first team, although it was notes strongly representative of Philadel phia cricket; * A Proposal and the Answer. Irlstt Times. "Miss Gracie," he said, with an engaging smile, "did you ever try your band at one of these progressive conundrums?" "What is •> progressive conundrum, Mr. Spoonainore?" Inquired the youni: lady. "Haven't you be ird of them? Here* one: .Why Is abaii of yarn like the letter v . lie cause a ball yarn is circular, a circular is a sheet, a sheet is fiat, a Hat is •_ '"> a month, 845 a month is dear, a deer is swift, a swilt is a swallow, a swallow is a taste, a taste is an indication, an indication is an angle, an angle is a point, a joint is an object aimed at, an object aimed at is a target, a target is a mark, a mark ie an impression, an im pression is a stamp, ■ slump is a thing stuck on, a thing stuck on is a young man In love, and a young man in love is like the letter "t* because it stands beforo 'v,' Miss Grade." "I don't think you have answered quite right," said the young lady. "A ball of yarn is round, a round is a stake, a 6take is a wooden thing, a wooden thing is a young man in love, and a young man in love is like t li« letter 't' because. Mr. Spoonainore," and she spoke distinctly— "because he is often crossed." 3gggp The young man understood. He took bis hat and his progressive conundrums and vanished. • No Songs Like the Old Songs. Oid iiii. i -Mori; World-Herald. Life is full of surprises and disappoint ments. At an Omaha hotel on .Sunday a number of gentlemen, strangers to each oilier, drifted together by the force of cir cumstances, engaged In a discussion of music to while away tho time. One of them was a pale, ihouzhtfu! man, with the air of a Btuleut; another was a fat roan, with bristling whiskers, who might have been a veterinary surgeon. "1 tell you," said the fat man. "tiiere are no songs like the old songs. They are the sweetest and the noblest and the best They linger in one's memory like the scent of the roses about the broken vase, and tliey nre hal lowed by fond associations so that they give rise lo emotions that cannot be called Into life by any of the new songs. Take, for in stance. Annie— • "Itoouey?" bioke in the pale, thoughtful man, la a sweet, bird-like voice, and then a great bush fell upon the assemblage, and the fat man, with a long, lingering look of scorn i.t the interrupter, repaired to bis own room lo bury his sorrow. A flan's Kat. Men's Outfitter. There Is a point on every man's hoad where that particular man should wear his hat. Some men can wear their hats well down, close to the eyebrows, and look well in doing so. Other men's appearance would be fatally ruined by wearing their hats so low. Now and then a man can adopt an ir regular pose for his hat, sldewise, "down In front," or a little back, and not lose caste as a reputable member of society. All the same, whatever position of the hat is found to be becoming and comfortable should be adhered to, and no new hat accepted which does not reach and stop at that point. In determining the proper hat bearings it Is well to take a side view as well as the front view ot one's self with the hat on. The hat should come down low enough to take a firm grip on tho head when the wind blows. / . . Armor Plates of Lead. Rochester Herald. The extensive Bheffi-!d armor-plate firm of Campbell & Co., after experiments ex-, tending over eighteen months, has secured till, exclusive light to employ the French lend tempering process in Great Britain. It is -.an. that excellent results have been se cured by a French machinery company by the aid of this process, and. still greater ad vantages are claimed for it by the manu facturers of '.or plate. A veritable family ine-licinc bux, Ucecham'-i Fills. THE MORNING CALL, SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1892— TWELVE PAGES. PLANTING COFFEE. Its Cultivation in the United States CAN BE HADE AN INDUSTRY. H. Couperus, a Japan Planter, Says Coffee Can Be Successfully Raised in Southern California. A very interesting and Instructive lecture was delivered Monday evening before the members of the Academy of Sciences by 11. W. L. Couperus on tho possibility of coffee cultivation in the United States, Mr. Coup erus has spent ten years In the growing of the coffee-plant in Java end Japan, and has studied the climatic conditions ot the United States. After speaking of thelmanner and meth ods of cultivating coffee In different!. parts of the world, he said: "Having described thus far the cultiva tion of coffee, I come to the question of the possibility of growing the plant within the limits of the United States. 1 wish to call lhe atteution of the audience to the fact that also other plants of southern countries were gradually Introduced even in northern places, wneie snow and frost prevail during the winter. "Take.for Instance, grapes, originally from the only tropical climate in the Asiatic con tinent. The cultivation of grapes followed civiliiiMtiou steadily, which was moving in a northwestern direction. In every century of history we see that the limit of grape cultivation was more exteuded to the north till al present its northern limit in Europe is abont ßo degrees northern latitude. "Similar examples of migration from sub tropical climates to cold climates we see in our fruit trees, which are also indigenous to mild climates. They grow even success fully in Sweden, Norway nnd Bussia. Iv the same way as a plant brought gradually ma higher latitude accommodates itself to the-. climate, we observe also in tropical countries that a plant grown originally In the torfid lowlands, near the seaboard, gradually becomes acclimated if planted at a higher altitude." Mr. Couierus spoke of his successful in troduction of the coffee plant in Southern Japan, having been appointed by the Jap anese Government fot thai purpose, lie contrasted the climatic conditions of Japan with those of Java, and said that the condi tions of portions of the former were very favorable to coffee cultivation. He then turned his attention to the United States, and said: "Taking into consideration the fact that a hardy frost-resisting coffee variety does exist in a cultivated stato in the highlands of Java, which was also introduced success fully iv Southern Japan at about 31 de grees north latitude, every chance is in favor of the proposition that the highland va riety of coffee, with somewhat small ber ries, can also be grown within tbo limits of tho United States. "The first place which would be suitable for the Purpose is San Diego, and that part of San Diego County which is under the influence of the ocean climate. According to the annual meteorological review of the State ot California the lowest temperature on record was 82 deg.. in December. 1879, and January, 18901 This contrasts favorable with the winter temperature of Obi, South Japan, where the thermometer falls each winter to freezing point, and even one or two decrees below. As th« rainfall of San Diego is on an averago no more than 10.77 inches it would be strictly necessary to ir rigate. This, however, would not be a drawback, as it Ls done in Mocha, where the bo-*t coffee is grown." 'ihe speaker also thought that Southern Florida was a good locality in which to in troduce coffee. cultivation. He concluded by saying that coffee can bo raised success fully over a large part of Southern Califor nia and Florida, where Irrigation is practi cable; that there is a certainty of this be ing accomplished by introducing a hardy variety of coffee and by the discovery of a method of cultivation adapted to the climate, as applied in Japan, and that the impor tance of the matter, in view of the immense imports of coffee of foreign growth, would justify any outlay to test the question sys tematically and thoroughly. He also '■.*.. lieved that machinery could be profitably used in this country, ami thus counteract the advantage of cheap labor In Japau and Java. On the conclusion of the lecture, which was heartily applauded. Secretary Scap ham called the attention of tha society to tbs fact that committees from the different universities had conferred with a similar committee from the Academy of Sciences with a view to having made a correct topo graphical map of the valleys of California. He said that the National Government would appropriate t'2-%1 00 toward the ob ject, and that Major Powell's corps would superintend the surveying "if a like sum would be appropriated by California. Ho moved that the society adopt a resolution asking the next latere to appropriate the sum of 52.1.000 for the work. Secretary Keyes of the Mining Bureau and other- objected to the adoption of any such resolution until the question had been thoroughly discussed. The whole matter wn-, on motion, post poned till the next meeting. HONORED BY AN EfIPEROR. The Winner of the Great Ride Between Vienna and Berlin. New VacS World. Count Starhemberg of the Austrian cavalry won the first prize of 69000 In the recent long-distance race betwen Vicuna and Iler- Count Surtieinber-***. Iln, during which eighteen horses lost their lives. He covered the distance in seventy one hours and twenty minutes. Ho also won a silver statue of an Hungarian hussar in full equipment, which had been offered Sliver Status Presented by the Emperor of Austria by the Emperor Franz Joseph. Out of the first twenty-eight horsemen to cover the distance sixteen were Austrian and twelve Germau. ' Sensible to the Last. A good story is told of a late Dublin doc tor, famous for his skill aud also his great love of money. lie had a constant and en riching patient In an old shopkeeper in Damn street. This old lady was terribly rheu matic and unable to leave her sofa. During the doctor's visits sho kept a £1 note in her liiinil, which duly went into Dr. C— '« pocket. One morning he found her lying dead on the sofa. Sighing deeply, the doc tor approached, and taking her haud in his be saw the fingers closed on his fee. "Poor thing," he said, as he pocketed It; "sensible to the last!" New Chemical Remedy. New York Trlhaue. A valuable- addition to the list of vul nenaries, among the synthetical remedies, is believed to be presented in the substance known M dermatol — chemically a sub eallate of bismuth, insoluble in water, alco hol and ether. It forms a yellow powder similar in. appearance to ndoform, but, in contrast to this, entirely odorless, -besides Slicing staple and unaffected . by exposure to light or air, and can be sterilized by steam eniter as substance or in the form of gauze, without decomposition, lt is anticipated that, in surgery, dermatol Is to prove valua ble as an antiseptic, astringent and as an eminently drying agent; by virtue of this hist property, it has proved an excellent vulnerary, especially where lhe wounds are character!/. 'd 'by profuse secretion —In eczema, burns, ulcers— -and, for the same reason, is successfully applied in the treat ment of diseases of the eve and car. Ex perience shows that it diminishes symp toms of irritation, lessons secretion, fur thers the formation of granulations, and thus leads to a strikingly rapid healing-over of the wound. HOME-MADE DIVANS. They May Be Hade Both Useful and Beautiful. New York Herald. f ~f'f *?*fti small houses or flats, particularly city houses, every available space must be made useful, therefore a piece of furniture often must be made with cavernous recesses and secret springs which divulge no tales of its more commonplace family duties or of the domestic stcre it contains. Long boxes and chests are often made with the purpose of affording storage room, aud at the same time serving as a lounge when upholstered with some tasteful covering. Here, per chance, the winter's blankets may pass the Arrangement of diet. heated season in cool seclusion, to be re placed in autumn by the family's summer wardrobe; the hoard of linen may find a re ceptacle, here, or within its capacious depths the accumulating articles for the laundry may fiud lodging until the washerwoman makes her weekly laid upon the contents of the chest. In selecting a box for this purpose the width may bf. two feet or more, the height must be regulated by the amount of up holstery proposed for the top, and the length may be adapted to the space in the room which it is intended to occupy. A strong, neatly made box of well-seasoned pine lumber, with a lid hinged at the back. will answer. The covers should be strengthened by cleats on the under side, and if castors are not put under the box a cleat beneath each end will be needed. If the box is a long one it will be morn con venient to have it divided, leaving a middle partition and two covers, or one end may be fitted up with drawers to be drawn out at the end or side, while a plain board back and end may be put on if desirable. One very pretty wav of furnishing a divan with a decoration savoring i f the oriental style Is to take an old cashmere -shawl for its main drapery. Well fitted for this style of adornment Is a long chest, with a lone and a short cover, each fitted with a cushion of the brownish terra cottn color which the combined tone of the cashmere border present*. This should be of plush or rep furniture goods, the cud and front being covered with drap iDgs of surah, paneled off with stripes of Drape- With _, fc.ii._wl. the cushion material, quaintly embroidered in gold and red or gold and recti rope silk or chenille. The shawl used in Ibis case is a single- one, tM principal figures through out the design being brightened up with the same two colors of nils, introduced as the fancy may dictate. Then cut out the cen ter if the shawl for a sofa pillow-cover, uslne the surah for the lining. The largo piece of tbo hordes may oe made to serve for the font and greater part of the side, while the other corner finishes out the side and runs along the other end if exposed. Tiie cut edge i- bound and tacked to the edge of tho bos beneath the cover. A cord and tassels of the colors used in the em broidery mid to and finish] the drapery, while the other pillow may be of velvet, plush or the same material as the cushion. Another corner divas has a cushion or small mattress covered with, some plain, rich, dark colored good?, and lias a pillow roll made of the tame. A wide strip of Chinese silk, bunting, surah or other goods light in color and weight is draped from three fancy knoWs In tne wall or bans alone a plain padded bosrd back, which Is nailed to lbe chest. A narrow piece of this cloth is fastened around tbe base of the chest, over which hangs a strip of the darker goods witii an open ball fringe of tlm same color. A coarse net of macremo netting over this dark ground Improves it and har monizes the toue. A scarf end of light drapery finishes each corner. THE PHONOPHORE. The Sending "of Simultaneous Mes sages on One Wire. Cliifa-;o Dispatch. Td be told that a telegraph wire which is busily transmitting a iong message can at the same time bo made to convoy half a dozen other messages In opposite directions sounds like a fairy tale, but that tho thing has been done and is daily being done is at tested upon the most respectable scientific authority. The discovery which renders these astonishing results possible is. due to ('. I-aiigdou-Dftvie.-', who has for some years been engaged In rendering it practically workable an 1 in adapting it alike to tele phonic and telegraphic use. lt is difficult to convey to the lav mind an accurate comprehension of a process m ex ceedingly technical; but It may briefly be said that Mr. Langdon-Davies id the "phonophore" utlliz.?, not tlie electric current, but the noise caused by induction. The signals are transmitted by n series of induced electric impulses, nod the success of the system is found in the ability of the inductive force to pass through Insulations which electric currents canuot penetrate.' A wire may be blown down and id contact with the earth, yet so long as it is not broken it will carry a phonophoric message. Hy means of the phonophore messages can be transmitted with extraordinary rapidity, and there is practically no limit to the number of messages that can be sent simultaneously upon the same wire. And, as we have hinted, Mr. Langdon-Davies' system is as useful tclcphonically as it is telegraphically. A wire which iseonveying electric signals can at the same time be used for telephonic conversation without either the message or the conversation suffering in the least. For some considerable time past experi ments in both directions have been pro ceeding with most gratifying results, which are vouched for by such high authorities as Professor Sylvanus Thompson, Conrad Cooke and Latimer Clark. Three of the principal railway companies have already adopted the phonophore; and it must be obvious, even to the unscientific mind, that phonophoric telegraphy and telephony, which so vastly increases the electitclan's power over the wires, bus before it a very great future. The phonophore, indeed, increases almost ! to infinity the number of words that can be. transmitted iv a given time, It is obvious, therefore, that it open* Breat possibilities iv the way of cheapening the cost of telegrams. So lone as the number of words that could be carried by a wire in an hour was rigidly limited it was hopeless to look for any sub stantial reduction in the cost of telegraph ing, but the phonophore at once increases the capacity and speed of every wire to which it may be fitted. . _ - j The Hogshead. House turn. Itevlevr. It haa been suggested that as skins and hides formerly did duty as bottles and vessels for carrying wine and other liquors, the hogshead or hogshide was originally a barrel of the same capacity as a liquor containing vessel made of the skin or hide of a hog. Others think it may have been "oxhide" from which the word was derived. As the Dutch and Scandinavians called this kind of a cask by some equivalent of oxhide, there is some probability that this may-bo the true origin of the word. Did you ever ice perpetual motion No. nor anyone else, but you ait have seen thousands of people chew White's Yucatan Outs. __________ ---^^^^^^^w^^^^ MISCELLANEOUS. '"-".£: ' !Jtßß&> - %j^—^ _-^-^_mm___^_^_^_________^__^_^^j f!^,<gy The last year has been the year of largest growth in the Sixty-five years of The Companion's history. It has now reached a weekly^^ffii M . . circulation of 550,000 subscribers. This generous support enables its publishers to provide more lavishly than ever ■WflSwlk ■ gl • .ior the coming Volume, but only a partial list of Authors, Stories and Articles can be given in this space. >M- if?' Prize Serial Stories. / p® II ).! " The Prizes offered for the Serial Competition of 1892 were the Largest ever given by any periodical. ' vM?S \" A First Prize, $2,000. Larry; "Aunt Mat's" Investment and its Reward; by . Miss Amanda M. Douglas. WjM ■' ' IV Second Prize, $1,000. Armajo; How a very hard Lesson was bravely Learned; by Charles W. Clarke. <__t^iff V-\ Third Prize, $1,000. Cherrycroft; The Old House and its Tenant; by Miss Edith E. Stowe (Pauline Wesley). * \V\ Fourth Prize, $1,000. Sam; A charming Story of Brotherly Love and Self-Sacrifice; by Miss M. Q. McClelland. If \\ SEVEN OTHER SERIAL STORIES, during the year, by C. A. Stephens, Homer Greene and others. -? II \\ Great Men at Home. The Bravest Deed I Ever Saw, // J'A How Mr. Gladstone Works ;by his daughter, Mrs. Drew. will be described in graphic language by Officers of the United States Army // \}\\ Gen. Sherman in his Home; by Mrs. Minnie Sherman Fitch. and by famous War Correspondents. ft 1 Gen. McClellan; by his son, George B. McClellan. General John Gibbon. 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Tel ft maris is the Arab name for the ancient city of Khuenaten. situated about ISO miles south of Cairo. It was built about HOO B. C. by Khuenaten, son of Aincnhotep 111, who made it the center for his proposed great . revolution in religion, art and ethics. The collection comprises among other things a cast from the head of the famous Khuenaten, taken after his death for the use of the sculptors who were preparing tbe sarcophagus and granite usbabtis for his tomb; a statuette group of the ancient monarch, his Queen, Nefer-nnfern-aten, and a Princess __ also a striking relic of the craft of the sculptors of ancient Egypt. 1 here is also a series of trial pieces from a sculptor's school. The fragment represent ing the young Princesses sitting on cushions is part of a fresco painted on a lintel, and in a marvelous state of preservation. Many designs drawn by the distinguished trav eler himself from carefully studied material are on view, aud shows excellently tho gro tesque fancy and skill of tha artists of tho ancient city and their early attempts to portray animals in motion, and draw inspira tion from the waving and graceful spread of plant". Thesa are, indeed, • among the earliest records of any attempt at such art. Other relics of special interest In the collec tion are the fragments of a tablet showing King Khuenaten and his Queen in their private apartments, and thero are also frag ments of the statues of the royal couple which once adorned the colonnade of tho ■ great temple. Mr.'Petrle's opinion Is that a custom prevailed of constructing composite statues, red jasper for tho flesh -(a foot so chiseled is in the present collection), ala baster for the drapery and black granite for the halr. The architectural relics include some finely carved columns' dec orated with the spiral, a form never before seen in Egyptian sculptures. Fragments of other columns show designs of trailing Ivy leaves so naturali«tlcally executed as to be unusual nt that period in Egypt or in Greece or -Italy. The faded tints on the carved tracery of the capitals of some of the pillars in the collection, in dicate Kbuenaten's house, must have been kaleidoscopic in its hues. Then are, be sides these, the relics of the gfasswork fac tories—pieces of crucibles and the t otS that supported them in the furnaces, the color ing-matter pot-*, the clear glass broken for using, ready to be reheated and rolled, at tened Into ribbon or drawn out into fino thread to decorate vases, make beads of, and so forth. There are also numerous tiles, designed with glazes of red and ureen and yellow, deep purple blue and turquoise pale blue, and the molds for. fashioning the tiles of the great city of thirty-three cen turies ago. THE TEMPLE OF BAAL. A Whole Village Now Inclosed Within the Ancient Walls. lilack wood's M.igazlne. There rises a huge wall, 75 feet high, In closing a square court, of which the side Is 470 feet long. Tart of the wall, having fallen into ruins, has MM rebuilt from the ancient materials, but the whole of the 2* « *7~ *>*i>i Lfsto* *TT£/viPrs ar* PiIP.IL north side, with its beautiful pilasters, re mains perfect. As the visitors enter the court they stand still la astonishment at the extraordinary sight which meets their eyes, for here, crowded within thosa four" walls, is the native village of Tadmar. It is natural enough for the Arabs to build their mud huts within these ready-made fortifications, but the impression produced by such a village in such a place is indescrib ably strange. The temple, so to sneak, is eaten outat the core, and little but the shell remains. Btat here and there ft fluted Cor inthian column or group of columns, with entablature still perfect, rises in stately grace far over the wretched lints, the rich, creamy color of tho limestone and the beaatilol moldings of the capitals contrast ing with the clear blue of the cloudless sky. The best view of the whole is to be obtained from the roof of the naos, which, once beautiful and adorned -with sculpture, is now all battered and defaced and has been metamorphosed into a squalid little mosque. To describe the view from that roof were indeed a hoi-loss task. High into the clear blue air and the golden sunshine rise the stately columns: crowded and Jumbled and heaped together. below, untouched by the gladdening sunbeams, unrefreshed by the pure, free air, lies all the squalor and -wretchedness of an r Arab mud-hut village. The little hamlet of X xcburg, S. C. is to the fore. with' a curiosity which is ahead of all others. Tills isa three-weeks-old baby whose right hand bears the rint of a human face. This face occupies; nearly the vinolp palm and is as clearly outlined as If drawn on porcelain. V L>| E sl^_ •TP TOU HAVE DEFKCTIVE EYES AND VAI.UiI J them, (to to the Optical Institata for your Sp_ctv tlesand Eye-RiiM---. it's theoniy eatahllshment oa .the Coast where they are measured on thoroajt. celt- ntific principles. Lenses uround if necessary to correct each particular case. .No Ylsu&l dereo: where glasses aro required too complicated for im. We guarantee our fittl.t)? to bo absolutely perfect. 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