N woNDERs.
The Great Inventor Still Adding to
His Scientific Achievements.
By the Aid of His Latest Invention He
Looks Through Two and a Half .
Feet of Solid Wood—An In-
defatigable Worker.
With his fluoroscope Thomas A. Edi-
son can now look through 21/2 feet of
solid wood. Nothing better illustrates
the tremendous progress he has made
in“ his X-ra-y experiments.
When the announcement was first
made that Mr. Edison had perfected
an apparatus that enabled him to look
through eight inches of wood the whole
world marveled. Many persons doubted
the possibility of it. NOW eight inches
of wood ofier only a slight impediment
to the eye under the X ray and there
have been times, when the conditions
were peculiarly favorable, that Mr. Edi-
son has penetrated a sheet of steel one:
. sixteenth of an inch in thickness.
Porous substances, like cork, for ex-
ample, practically offer no obstacle at
all to the fluoroscope. Through three
feet of cork objects may be seen as dis-
tinctly as though there was no obstruc-
tion at all, and there is reason to believe
that a cork wall of a sufficient thickness
to obscure the vision could not be set up.
“As matters are moving now,” de-
clared one enthusiast, who was watch-
ing Mr. Edison at work recently, “he
will soon be able to look clear through
the earth into- China.” And this idea
-must occur to everyone who sees the
wonders that are being perfected at
the Wizard’s laboratory in Orange. As
for Mr. Edison himself, he says that he
only wants to perfect his vacuum tubes,
so that they will stand “32 lamps”——that
is, the power used in 32 incandescent
lights—and then one may see through
anything except the earth.
Mr. Edison’s enthusiasm and energy
continue unimpaired. The things he
has already accomplished, marvelous as
they are, have only whetted his appetite
for more. He sticks at his experiments
day and night. He does not seem to
know what fatigue is. For 48 hours- at
a stretch he keeps going at times and
then he‘ stops only long enough to
snatch four or five hours’ sleep, when
he is up and at it again.
He never leaves the laboratory now.
Mrs. Edison has gone on a visit to out»
of-town friends, and this gives him per-
fect freedom to do as he likes. While
his wife was in Orange she compelled
him at times to come home, going to
the laboratory after him and refusing
to stir until he consented to go with
her to their house, across in Llewellyn
park. But he grudged the. few hours
he had to spend away from his experi-
menting-room, and though he is a most
affectionate husband it .is doubtful if
he did not hail his wife’s trip with en-
thusiasm.
Not. the least remarkable thing about
the wonder—work “ " 1b a manner in
which he manages to infuse his own
enthusiasm into the people all around
'him. His assistants are as earnestly
interested in the work on hand as he is
himself, and remain with him constant-
ly. “Quitting time” has been entirely
abolished at the big laboratory. From
the meanest laborer in the place to the
chief assistant, all hands stay with the
chief far into the night. .
The. reporter left the place at mid—
night, and there were then no more
signs of rest than there had. been at.
midday. Mr. Edison himself was as
lively as a cricket. Between times at
the "lamp,” as he calls his vacuum tube,
1e skipped and danced about the place,
cracking jokes, telling funny stories
and acting as frisky as a boy just out of
school. Yet he had not closed an eye
in 24 hours.
“Tired?” he said, in a surprised tone.
“Certainly not. This isn’t work- This]
is fun, and lots of it. What do we want
to get fired for? We 1] keep at it until
six or seven-o’clock in the morning and
then we’ll go to sleep fora little while.”
~—N. Y. Journal. '
ENGLISH ANDAMERlCAN OTTERS
Otter Bunting a Sport Very Much En-
joyed by Englishmen.
Otter hunting is a. sport very much on—
joyed by Englishmen. The otter is a
great fish eater and that is why the
fishermen feel themselves compelled to
kill it. Some angling clubs and societies
offer rewardsfor otter kills, and that
makes the hunters angry.
Otter hunting is done with dogs and
men. They go whooping up stream on
the otter’s trail, the hired men keeping
in the water in a line to prevent the ani-
mals turning down stream, as the. beast
cannot be trailed while going down.
The dogs come up with and tear the
‘ otter to death, if the'h‘unt is successful,
but Often the otter will whip any dog in
the water.
. '_An English Otter of ova-1‘30 pounds’ ..
weight is a big one, and few reach that
weight. The biggest one remembered
weighed 37 pounds, and was killed at
Bowthorp, near Warwich. A 36-pounder
was caught in Skeggles water, West-
moreland. Some Englishmen used to
eat the hearts of the animals, consider-
ing them to be fine.
The American otter is a sly animal,
which is not often killed by a gunshot
and as seldom taken with traps, since
nothing but the utmost care in setting
and baiting the trap will deceive it.
Once in awhile trout. fishermen see ot-
ters along an Adirondack stream, and
otter trails are common on the snow-
covered ice back in the woods, or on
streams opposite clearings. Sometimes
the animals are seen on the ice by rab-
bit hunters, and are shot at, but. few Of
the wounded or even killed creatures are
recovered, sincethey are usually on the
ice near air-holes, and if merely
wounded go under the water‘and drown
rather than let a man get them. Their
last kick is an endeavor to get out of
reach—N. Y. Sun.
-—Reve.ry, which is thought in its neb—
ulous state borders closely upon thc
land of sleep, by which it is bounded as
by a natural frontier.— Iugo.
THE WROW. 3;
What He Does for the Harmer Despite
Hie Reputation.
If farmers would make a study of
natural history; and its hearings on
their property—the relation of hawks
to their hen cobps, for instance—there
would be better paying crops.
The Year Book of the department of
agriculture tells about cow. black-
birds and what they eat. About 2,300
of their stomachs have been examined,
and of these 2,258 contained food. The
birds were killed in 26 states. Forty-
eight per cent. of the food was animal,
48 per cent. vegetable and four per cent.
was mineral. The blackbird has a
variety of‘things it eats.
“The animal food,” says the report,
“consisted of insects, spiders, myria—
pods (thousand legs), crawfish, earth
worms, sowbugs, hair snakes, snails,
fishes, tree toads, salamanders (newts),
lizards, snakes, birds’ eggs and mice.”
T 0 these might have been added young
birds, fish cast up by the tide, minnows
caught while swimming in shallow
water, and probably meat and carrion
of various kinds. Most of the animal
food is, of course, insects. These con»
st-itute 46 per cent. of the total, the
other two per cent. being the larger
things, like mice. The animal food is
taken mostly in the summer. In win-
ter the food is mostly vegetable matter.
The insects the bird kills more than
make up the damage he does, especially
as his nest robbing appears to be only
an accidental habit not Often indulged
in. A large flock of the birds would of
course destroy a lot of grain. Some
50,000 would eat about 3,000 pounds a
day, but they would consume as many
insects, which would more than de-
stroy the amount the birds do.
FIVE MAMMALS.
Wild Animals That Inhabited England in
Former Times.
The beaver is one of the five mam~
malian animals that have inhabited
England in former times, and have be-
come extinct within historic record,ac-
cording to Notes and Queries.
They are the true brown bear, (Ursus
arctos), the beaver, (Castor fiber), the
reindeer, (Tarandus rangifer), the Wild
boar, (Sus scrofa), and the wolf, (Canis
lupus). The hear was abundant in the
north of England and in Scotland when
this country was in the hands of the
Romans, and many Caledonian bears
were imported into Rome. They dis-
appeared altogether in about 750.
p The beaver was numerous in some
localities in the north of Wales in 940
and again in 1188. There are records of
them much later in Scotland.
Reindeer were abundant in Scotland,
and were hunted in Caithness in the
year 1159.
Wild boars were numerous when
large tracts of wood gave them harbor.
They Were hunted by the Tudors. They
certainly existed in the year 1617, and
probably much later.
The wolf in England disappeared
about 1490. '
In Scotland wolves were. numerous in
1577. According to Pennant, they be~
came extinct in 1680.
Fiji Islanders All Get Married.
An unmarried man or woman of mar-
ria-geable age is something that is rare-
ly seen in the Fiji islands.
of this is not far to seek. The natives
believe that if a. person dies while in an
unmarried state his or her. soul is
doomed to wander about through end-
less ages of eternity in. an intermediate
region between Heaven and ha des. At
the end of each moon they are allowed
to look into Heaven, but are never per-
mitted to enter.
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Ashantee Surnames.
There are seven surnames in Ashan-
tee, corresponding to the days of the
u-‘eck,’ as follows: Kwasle indicates a
man born on Sunday, Kudjoe on Mon-
day, Kwabina on Tuesday, Kwaku on
Wednesday, Yao on Thursday, Kofii on
Friday, and Kwamina on Saturday.
These are all accented on the first sylla-
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Overcome br_Grief at the News of th-
Deadly Stampede.
LONDON, June 2.—Special dispatches
from Moscow to the morning papers de-
scribe the horrors of the Kbcdljinskoje
plain as being worse than those of a bat-
tlefield. ~. . -
The Daily News’ dispatch says:
“The czar sobbed upon learning of the
disaster. The chief of police of Moscow
tried to commit suicide. It is probable
that but for the numerous foreign corre-
spondents here the whole afiair would
have been hushed up. The newspapers
were forbidden to publish a description of
the scenes.
“There were 140 booths on the plain,
and some of them were crushed together
like matchboxes. Astonishing as it seems,
the people returned in the afternoon and
enjoyed the amusements as if nothing had
happened. Many complained of their fail-
ure to get souvenirs. ” «.2 '
. The correspondent of The Daily Tele-
graph says: '
and children among the victims, though
no very young children 01: babies were
killed.”
The official report of the number of per-
sons trampled to death places the total at
1,138. A count of the victims placed in
rows for burial, however, exceeded this
number by about 150, and as some fam-
ilies privately removed the bodies of their
dead it is believed that the number of
fatalities is nearly 1,500. The czar‘has
ordered that each bereaved family shall be
paid 1,000 rubies. '
After Defaulter Wilson.
TROY, N. Y., June 2.—James Wilson
of Ottawa, Canada, representing J. A.
Seybold & 00., came here after Michael
Brown, an employee of the firm, who is a
defaultor to the extent of $2, 200. Brown
was the manager of one of the flrm’s
stores and sold out the stock, pocketing
the proceeds. He was recently seen in
Troy, but has probably sailed for Europe.
The Final Levi‘é‘O.
LONDON, J une 2.—The Prince of Wales,
in behalf of the queen, held the final levee
of the season at St. James’ palace. There
was the usual state procession from Marl-
borough House to the palace. The United
States embassador, Mr. Thomas F. Bay‘-
ard, most of the other ambassadors and
ministers and the Marquis of Salisbury
and the cabinet attended.
Cuthbert Cooper Goes Free.
LONDON, June 2.—At the Bow Street
police court Cuthbert Cooper, who was re-
cently arrested at Sheffield, charged with
embezzling funds belonging to the Pril.
dential Insurance company of Erie, Pa,
was discharged by the chief magistrate,
Sir John Bridge, the latter holding that
no jury would convict the prisoner on the
evidence produced.
Foul Play Is Feared.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass, ’ June 2.—At an
early hour thebody of Sophronia Beaure-
gard of Williams street, this city, Was
found in a room at Chandler’s hotel. She
had evidently been dead several hours.
The circumstances of her death are consid-
ered suspicious, and the police are follow-
ing several clews.
Getting Ready For Gray Gables.
WASHINGTON, J une 2.—-The White House
steward and underservants have gone to
Gray Gables, the president’s summer
home on Buzzards bay. and if the weather
continues pleasant Mrs. Cleveland, with
her children, will follow Thursday.
A Strike That Failed.
LAFAYETTE, 0010., June 2,—The s‘trike
in the northern Colorado mifies, ordered a
week ago by the Western Federation of
Miners, is at an and. The men have re-
turned to work without having gained a
settlement of their grievances.
Will \Vheel to San Francisco.
NEW YORK, June 2.—Norman do Vaux
and John Lachanse left the city hall for a.
long bicycle ride. The young menwill
ride from this city to San Francisco. They
are making the trip for pleasure.
An Old Resident Gone.
ONEIDA, N. Y., June 2.—Isaac_0. Sher-
man, the oldest resident of Incida and vi-
cinity, is dead, aged 81 yous. He leaves
an estate worth about $150,000.
The VVeather.
Fair and cooler.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
Closing Quotations of the New York Stock
Exchange.
NEW YORK, June 1.—Money on call‘nomi-
nally 1%@2 per cent. Prime mercantile pa-
per, 4@5lvé per cent. Sterling etchange steady,
@4.88% for demand and $4.87}§@4.87% for 60
days. Posted rates, [email protected] and $4.89%@4.90.
Commercial bills, $4.86%@4.86% Silver certifi-
cates. 68%@68%c.; no sales. Bar silver, 68%c.
Mexican dollars, 53%0. Grove ment bonds
easier for the new 4.3; others teady. State
bonds dull. Railroad bonds firm.
Closing prices:
Atchison... ....... 15% New England.. ... 43
Bur.‘ & Quincy.. . . 7854 N. J. Central. . . . . .105}é
0.. 0.. C. & St. L. . 33%, North American. 554
Chesapeake& 0.. 16% Northern Pacific. 5%
Chicago Gas...... 68 Do.pref...........15%
Cordage. ....... 5% N. Y. Central ..... 95%
CottonOil........ 12 0maha............ M
Ontario & West .. 14%
Pacific Mail....... 26
Reading........... 10%,
Rock Island . ... .. 70
Silver Bullion..... 63
St. Paul......,.... 7 34
Sugar Refining. . .124
Toms Pacific- . . .. 8
Del. 6’5 Hudson . . 125%
Distillers’ Trust.. 17%
Erie..... ...... 14%‘
General Electric.. 34%
Hocking Valley. . . 16
Lackawanna. .. . . .160
Lake Shore ........ 150%.
Lead.... ..... ' . 24%
Louisville & Nash 50% Union Pacific.... 7%
Missouri Pacific. 24% Wabash pref...... 17%
Northwestern ....105}§ Western Union... 85%
General hiarkets.
NEW YORK, June 1.-—FLOUR—State and
western dull and heavy; city mills patents.
[email protected]; winter patents, [email protected]; city
mills clears, 843531415; winter straights, $3.35
@3.40. .
\‘JllEAT—Ko. 2 red opened stronger on bull-
ish European news. but. turned weak and de-
clined sharply under local unloading and large
Spring wheat receipts: June. 64%@65}éc.; July.
64%@05%c.
CORN—No. 2 dull and weaker: June, 33%@
33%: July. Sll/éfcaléc.
OATS—No. 2 slow; July,
white. State, 23}é@27}«éc.
PORK—Steady; old to new mess. $8.25@
9.25: family. 3410691035.
22%@22%c.; track.
nominal.
BU’ ”PER—Firm: state dairy. mane: state
creamery, 11@15‘7éc.
CHEESE—Steady:
small 4@Tl{;c.
EGGS—Steady: slate and Pennsylvania, 1243.
12%,c.: western, 11‘ ' 12c.
SUGAR—Raw nominal: fair refining, 3340.;
centrifugal, 96 test, 35%.: refined weak: crush-
ed. 5%c.: powdered. 5 7-16c.
TURPENTINE—Quict; fifio‘lfilém
MOLASSES—Dull: New Orleans. 29©37c.
state. large. 5%36}§c.:
til/w.
TALLOI‘.’-—Dull: city. 3;§c.: country, 334c.
HAY—Steady: - shipping. 70@75c.: good to
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3 +A¢ivcrtise in the Gamma. "
“There Were equal numbers of women.
with actual business in bankers" bill§,’at 84.88% ’
‘LARD—IVeak; prime western steam, $4.40; '
RICE—Quiet; domestic. ‘dléitficn Japan. 4?; 3
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Z - '3" .. . When a little one is
j I expected in the family how
Why» , lovingly the parents plan
- together for its future well-
fare. They sometimes even forecast its
education and career. Does this seem
tooxearly to anticipate while the child 15
yet unborn? It isn’t. The child’s des-
tiny has already been partly mapped out
by Nature according to, the d15p051t10n
and habits of the parents. The best plan
a mother can make for the future happy
ness of her unborn child is to mamtam
her own Cheerfulness and health while
her child’s undeveloped being is still a
part of hers. Her health at this critical
period is of tremendous consequence to
the little one’s whole future existence.
Every prosPective mother W111 find direct
nourishment, comfort ' and sustaining
strength, in Dr‘. Pierce’s Favonte Pre-
scri tion. It will maintain her Vitahty
bo bodily and mental; shorten the pen.
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almost painless. it imparts Strepgth and
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weakness and epression, and aids in the
secretion of healthy nourishment for the
child. It is the unfailing cure of all “ fe-
male weaknesses.”
Dear Doctor—Your “ Favorite Prescription,” is
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