r»; - dinner. vi omen WITH THE GOVERNOR. Mark Twain’s Story of the Old Salt Who Knew Gov. Russell; ‘ Mark Twain told a capital story capitally the other day, which‘he said had never been in print, but which 'deserves to be if for no other reason than to allow it to fall into the hands of the self-appointed managers of the embryo presidential boom of its hero. It was on the ship coming home from Europe at the entertainment given in aid of poor sailors that Mr. Clemens re- called the tale in response to the en- core demanded after he .read a selec1 tion from his own writings. Naturally he turned to the sea and seafolk for. inspiration. This was the story. robbed perforce of. all the inimitable features of the telling peculiar to Mark Twain in his happiest mood, when the words drawl their slow length along, fairly floating in their humor, which is frequently far more in the style of utterance than in the matter itself. He had the tale from an old salt he met once en route to Havana. The old salt, who was a Nantucket fisherman and for many years master of a craft of his own, was reminiscing about the queer characters and odd ex- periences he had encountered first and last in his day. Shortly before the ' Nantucketer and Mark Twain came across each other the old captain, just home from a long voyage, together with the mate of his vessel, had gone up to Boston to see the sights. Among them they concluded to take alun- cheon at a swell hotel just to see what a swell hotel was like. After many meanderings they fetched up at the Tremont house, now soon to be no more, and got fairly seated at one of the tables” in the main dining-room. While they were waiting for their best substitute for plum dufi they noticed that a great deal of attention was be- ing paid to a gentleman who had just come in, accompanied B'y two ladies. They were so impressed by this that the captain asked his waiter who the im- portant personage was, and he learned that he was the governor of Massachu- setts. When he named the governor the captain’s memory was stirred. and. with his seaman’s love of dramatic ef- fects, he turned to his mate and “bet afiver” that he’d go over and shake hands with the governor. The mate bet a fiver he “dassent.” But the captain wasn’t daunted; he added that he was ready to bet another fiver that the governor would not only shake hands with him but would ask him to dinner. The mate accepted this wager, too, and the captain “gave a hitch to ; his trousers,” which is a trick all sea- men “larn,” and got up. In telling the story he said he almost felt ready to lose his wager after he started, but he didn’t want to make a fool of himself, as he went over to the governor’s table. and made his best bow and said: “How do you do?” The gov- ernor said: “How do you do?” too, but went on to say that he wasn’t able to place the face, and so on. The captain 'had his pedigree all ready; it consisted of his own name and the name of his vessel. The mate, who was looking on, saw a change come over the face of the governor, and waiters and all were much surprised to see the stated digni- tary leave his chair at astep, grasp the hand of the queer-looking old codger and shake it vigorously. The captain was asked at once to sit down and have some luncheon, but he said he couldn’t, as he’d left his mate over aft there. “Well, go get your mate,” said his ex- cellency; “there’s room for all of us; if there isn’t we’ll have room made; here, waiter—” - The upshot of it was that the first lady in the Bay state and her sister. and his excellency, the governor, and the captain and his mate ate together in peace and harmony and a flood of old-time memories, and the mate lost his two fi'vers. The governor was Wil- liam E. Russell, Massachusetts’ “boy” governor, who filled the executive chair with his democratic presence so well that be filled it for three years in that proverbially republican state—N. Y. Commercial Advertiser. Honors Were Easy. Some say the Scotch people have no appreciation for humor. This is hard- ly true—at least there are exceptions. Many years ago Lord Harry Brougham and Rev. Dr. Thomas Chalmers. two warm friends, met on the street in Ed- inburgh and stopped for a chat. One of them dropped his cane and both stooped simultaneously to pick it up, with the result that their heads came together with a resounding whack. “Eh, but that made my head ring,” said Dr. Chalmers. “That’s a sign it’s empty,” respond- ed Lord Brougham. “Did’na yours ring?” asked the doc. tor. “No,” said the great advocate. “Weel,” responded Chalmers, “that‘s a sign it’s crackit.”—Chicago Chron- icle. How to Keep Plates Hot. One of the latest adaptations of electric heating is the electric “hot plate,” for keeping food hot during The metal plate is electrically heated befoge being brought to the table; but should it be necessary to renew the heat a plug is inserted at the side of the plate, connection is made with asocket on the table and the current is kept on as long as needed. A new form of hot plate for kitchen use has three disks fitted in a row into a stand, electrical connection being established by a socket under each plate. The stands are nickel- plated and the plates are each eight inches in diameter. —N . Y. Sun. R,” How He Judged Character. “So you want a situation?” said the business man. . “Yes, sir,” replied the applicant. “Hum—do you ever go fishing?” z “Occasionally.” . . “When were you fishing last?” “Day before yesterday.” 3% “Catch anything?” " “Not a thing.” 7 “You can come to work next Mon day if you like. If you keep on telling the truth like that you may be a. part- ner in the firm one cf these days. ”— Washington Star. "1'. Km...’ -" . cork so as to make a propeller. A SALT WATER WELL. Sunk for the Supply of, Pools and Tanks at the New York Aquarium. The salt water pools and tanks of the New York aquarium at Battery park are now supplied from a well sunk on the premises. The aquarium's salt wa- ter supply was originally drawn direct from the bay through an intake pipe carried out near the bottom from the Battery sea wall. The water thus taken was filtered in the usual manner before delivering it into the pools. This source of supply was continued until the completion of the salt water well. The Castle Garden structure, in which the aquarium is located, is built on made ground; the tide was known to rise and fall under some parts of the building. There is a. cellar under that part of the building which fronts on Battery park, and there an excavation was made with a view to the sinking of a salt water well. This excavation was carried down to a point below tide level, seven feet below the cellar and 13 feet below the floor of the aquarium, through made ground‘found to consist of a number of feet of stone and gravel, filled in on top of two tiers of logs laid crosswise and resting upon stone thrown in on the bottom. In this ex- cavation, which was about 250 feet in- land from the Battery sea wall, the tide rose and fell about one hour later than its rise and fall in the open waters ad- jacent to the Battery. The tests of this temporary well as to supply and char- acteristics being satisfactory, work ‘was begun upon the permanent plant now in use. - 5 - The well was carried down‘ to a. depth of 17 feet,,and a perforated iron tube was sunk in it, with whiCh was placed the suction pipe of the pump that is attached to it. The water is drawn through a wrought-iron gal- vanized pipe seven inches in diameter and 207 feet in length, which, with a ,number of easy bends, follows along in- side the wall of a section of the nearly circular building from the well to the pump, which is located near the boiler- room and the aquariums supply tanks. The capacity of the pump is 600 gallons a minute; it has been tested to the full capacity of the delivery pipe, with the result of showing ample supply in the well. The requirements oft-he aquari- um, however, are less than this. The water from the well is of the same density as that taken from the open buy. It is ten degrees warmer in winter and about ten degrees cooler in summer. is in effect a great natural filter, and it. is beautifully clear. sirable for the aquarium stock, and its economy is obvious, doing away, as it does, with the use of artificial filters and the need for the material required in operating them. There is, so far as Dr. Bean. of the aquarium is informed, no other aquari- um in the world with a. like source of salt water supply—N. Y. Sun. SAVED BY A COWBOY’S SHOT. Remarkable Adventure of an American with an African Gorilla. A resident of Cincinnati, recently re- turned from Delagoa bay, on the east coast of Africa, relates a story of acou- flict with a gorilla. that came near cost— ing him his life. “My permanent quar- ters,” he. said, in telling the story, “were at the Central, but dinner was served the night I arrived at the International. 1 was thoroughly fatigued, and after dinner I told the manager I wished to go to my room. He walked to the door and yelled for a servantin a voice that could be heard above a driving wind and dashing rain. Out of the black darkness came a negro as black as the night itself. He took my bag, and, with instructions from the manager to keep close to my guide, we started. “The way led through what I after- ward learned was a garden. We had not gone more than 30 or 40 paces when i heard a fierce cry and at the same mo- ment I received a. violent blow on the head. The force of the blow almost. stunned me, but I managed to whip out my revolver and shoot at my assailant. Instantly I was grasped in a grip that seemed to crush my very bones. One hand was free and I fired two shots from my revolver. Then came another crushing blow on the head and I lost consciousness. ,, “Three days later I came to myself. My head achcd and my body was sore, even. to the touch. I then learned that my unknown enemy had been a gorilla. It' seems that some hunters returning from the interior had brought a huge beast as a present to the hotel man. There were no accommodations for the newcomer, and until they could be pro- vided, he had ‘been chained to a big tree in the garden. By some means he had broken his chain, though it was an exceptionally strong one, and I was the first thing he found to pounce upon. “When I fired the second shot, an American in the hotel, ‘Texas Wilson’ by name, had heard it, and calling for a lantern, he seized his gun and ran out to see what the trouble was. After he. had gone about 200 yards the light from his lantern flashed full in the face of a giant gorilla, who was carrying me on his back. The beast s'cowled and ut- tered repeated angry cries. Wilson was a man who possessed courage of the highest order, and the coolness that long experience in the southwest as a cowboy had taught him. He was a dead shot and he waited until he could get a chance ‘at my captor without in- juring me. When it came he fired. The animal fell. He carried me to the hotel and here I am.—Cincinnati Enquirer. A Simple Flying Toy. One of the earliest flying models was made by putting four feathers into a Two of these propellers with feathers slop- ing in opposite ways were set on a stick, one propeller being fixed, the other revolving. A bow of whalebone was attached so that its cord could be twisted around the stick. Upon wind- ing up the cord, and then letting go, the model would be driven upward.— Tudor Jenks, in St. Nicholas. 7"" mu. '1. ....... _..1 — It. is drawn through what ' T his supply is de- , HFTFTY:YEARS,AGO. Transportation, in Penneylvania _ fi Before the Railway Era. ’. Canal Boats Were Then in Great De- s, mand—The Principal Arter of Traffic in the Early Times. we “1' And what primitive transportation they did have in those old days of ’46, to be sum! Railroads there were in the east, and had been for full 20 years, but not here. Pittsburgh was a far western town then, of but‘30,000 in- habitants. The patient, plodding, tow- path mule was good enough for the Pittsburgher of ’46, who peacefully and contentedly wendcd his way to J ohns— town in 30 hours and was well satis- fied if he landed in Philadelphia in something less than a week. To us of the post-helium generation this is hard to realize. The canal boat and the mule seem relics of the misty past almost as unreal as the Indian with his toma- hawk and birch canoe. And yet there is many a hale and hearty citizen, still. in his prime, to whom they are vivid and well-remembered realities. Practically all the commerce of Pitts- burgh 50 years ago was carried over the western branch of that famous waterv way- called the Pennsylvania canal. Its western terminus was Pittsburgh, its eastern J olinstown, the route between the two places being as follows: Cross— ing the Allegheny river by an aqueduct at the foot of what is now Eleventh street, then up the west bank of the Allegheny to Freeport, then across the river again by an aqueduct, up the Iiishkiminetas river to Salt-sburg, thence up the Conemaugh to Johns- town. The route of the canal in this city can'bc traced, though not a vestige of it now remains. The basin, where most of the loading was done, was practic- ally the end of the canal, though a fun- nel which passed under the city almost- in the line of the present Pan-Handle tunnel carried the canal through to the Monongahela. There were many small canal boats, which were used to bring in the product‘s of numerous market gardeners whose farms were scattered along the fertile lowlands beside the Allegheny river. These market boats were called “Funnies: ” just why, is not apparent. Possibly, in earlier times, when the first of these boats came into use, some charming, smiling Fan— ny used to sit at t-hc tiller and guide her father's load of pumpkins and pota- toes into the city on market day. The “Funnies” were hauled by one horse. But the pride of the old canal was its packet boats. The handsome craft would not cut much of a gurc beside the Virginia. of to-day, but they were looked upon as something elegant in 'thc ’lt‘s. This; was one of the two great highways to the east, this canal, and a much-traveled highway it was, too, con- sidering the scanty population west of the mountains in those days. People coming up the Ohio'from Cincinnati or elsewhere usually preferred to keep the river, and continued up the Mononga- hela to Brownville, and there took the famous 01d national pike to Cumber- land. Cumberland had a railroad then, and so the journey to the seaboard was easy from that point. But to return to the packet boats. They were 70 to 80 feet long and were drawn by four horses. They were not much unlike the canal boats we see to~ day,when we see them at all, but neuter and more pretentious, as was fitting for the finst-class patronage they en- joyed. Many, .a blushing bride and groom there was that took that jour- ney to the east. And what a journey it was! On, up through the hills, by and over many a stream, to the foot of the Allegheny mountains; then across that formi- dable barrier, down into pleasant east- ern valleys, and again by’the pictur- esque canal on to the brim of the mighty Susquehanna. Here one seemed to be getting into some sort of permanent ci\*i1izat-ion; from here the iron horse made the rest of the route easy, and at last one was actually landed at the famous city of brotherly . love, far away at the other end of the state, a 400-milc journey—a journey, like matrimony, not to be entered into lightly or unadvisedly, but after ma- ture consideration. It was truly a great event, that voyage to the east—Pitts- burgh Dispatch. Not So Benighted. King Menelek, of Abyssinia, whose troops have recent-l y given the Italians a trouncing, is much more civilized than Americans suppose. Several years ago the king asked Massala, the Italian envoy, to secure him a semingmachiiie. of which he had heard. The machine arrived in. parts, and the envoy hadvit carried to the palace with much pomp. Then an, unexpected difficulty was en- countered. No one could put the parts together, and after a day’s work Massala. had to give it up. The king smiled good-naturedly, and ordered the parts taken to his room. He worked all night, and the next morning'sent for the queen and the Italian envoy, to show them the machine in complete running order.—Golden Days. w r ‘ Emperor William’s Rose. - A pretty story is told of the first meet- ing of the German imperial pair. The German emperor, then a young man of 20, was shooting at Prinkemuu. One day he lost his way in the park, and came upon a rustic, rose-covered sum- mer house, where a pretty girl of his own age was sleeping in a hammock. He did not disturb her, but Went on his way, thinking of the little German poem known as the “Brier Rose.” Later in the day he met the girl int-he castle, and, saying: “Here is mybrier rose again,” he introduced himself, and'feil in love off-hand. They were married on- his 22d birthday. Since that time she has set herself to realize the German pin-1 ideal of a devoted hausfrau.—-Dctroit , Free Press. ~-~ I-‘AJ'A ' .... W E E KV'L Y- N 0 :R. 'W ALK -/ , G l l l ~ - - ‘.»‘<,“.‘-’." ,l u ,_ . . . ‘V « ‘ V . \ AUTHORS AND _MARRIAGE. The Single State, It Is Said, Is the Best > for Literary Men. When, we compare the restrictions of married men with the Opportunities of the bachelor we see that the latter has well-nigh boundless possibilities for going into the secial world. He has scores of invitations which will never reach his married friends, and he is generally sought after in society until he is almost three score and ten. Even married women are more interested in him, whether they have a candidate for his hand or not. They talk with him' on a wider range of subjects, in which they know he is surer to be interested than those whose chief thoughts are wrapped up in their families. He may have no more invitations to the most notable gatherings than famous married men, but it is in the less pretentious places that most is learned of human life, and he can call where husbands cannot, and so easily study types denied to them. The world lies open in all directions to him. He is not tethered to a stake. He wishes to study the society of a certain city, to write a novel with a local flavor, and he removes there at his own sweet will. He stays abroad as long as he likes and if he wishes to study the lower classes there he can live in lodgings among them where he would never take his wife. _thn we come to investigate the lives of the greatest authors, we shall find that the majority either did not marry, or they were unhappily mated, and hence thrown on the world for con- solation and enlargement of knowl— edge, or they laid the foundations for greatness before marriage. Among those we may mention in the class of unmarried authors are Alexan- der Pope, Thomas Gray, Oliver Gold~ smith, Edward Gibbon, Charles Lamb, Lord Macaulay, Washington Irving, Wil'kie Collins, Charles Reade. ch ought also to add to this list the giant satirist, Dean Swift, for he never lived with his wife, and Lord Byron, who had only about a year’s experience with married life. ‘ We find some great names among the list of the unhappily married. The most enthusiastic advocates of matri- mony could scarcely have the assur- ance to say that it aided or was any- thing else but a clog to Chaucer, Shakespeare, Dickens or Thackeray.— Mid-Continent. New W'ord Gained by a Boy. It was a small boy belonging to the Beecher family who coined the word “girlsterous.” He was reproved for some noisy demonstration in which his little sister shared. “It isn’t fair,” he declared, "that every time a boy makes a noise he sh’d be told not to be boisterous unless a girl is told not to be girlsterous, especially when the girl is more girlsterous than the boy is boisterous.” The small Beecher had evidently observed that when a girl wishes to be noisy she finds no more difficulty in emulating and even eclipsing her young masculine con- temporaries than in certain other fields of rivalry. The shrieks and squeals of schoolgirls at play drown - the less shrill voices of the boys, and at promiscuous gatherings the women’s voices are invariably heard above those of the men. 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