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: CW TO QUIET T.;E BABY.
'The Best Way is to Gently Shut Off-.111 111-
fant' s Breath.
'An infallible method for quieting a
crying baby probably will never be
discovered.’
Some entirely new methods have re .
cently been introduced in some of the
New York hospitals which prove suc-
cessful in a larger percentage of cases
than the old~fashioned ways.
The new scientific method for quiet-
,ing crying babies proceeds, upon an
entirely new principle. It disregards
1 the cause or source of irritation, but on
the other hand tries to train the baby
to practise self— control.
The scientific method is based upon
the theory that the average baby is
strong enough to control itself in all
but cases. of very severe illness. It is,
incidentally, very much more dig-ni-
fied and entails far less effort than the
attempts most people make to quiet
their children.’ The old plans of try-
ing to catch the baby’s attention by
standing on one’s head and by similar
. violent methods are quite discarded.
Instead, as soon as the child cries
the nurse catches it up, and, holding
it gently, places her hand over its
mouth and nose so that it cannot
breathe. The crying will obviously
soon come to a stop. The hand need
not be held very tightly over the face,
since the object is merely to produce
a slight smothering. As soon as the
crying ceases the hand is removed. If
the crying recommences, as it is very
likely to do, the same operation is in-
.stantly repeated. This is continued
until the baby imagines that the more
or less painful stoppages of the breath
are caused by its own efforts to scream.
{As soon as it grasps this idea it is care-
ful to keep quiet. It is claimed that
‘the plan works like a charm, and that
wonderful self-control is exhibited by
infants treated in this way, even when
less than three months old—New York
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Strw‘ard Oil Trust is in pro-
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them and '. re-
ceive instead stock in the Standard
Oil Company, of New York. This
change—for it is little more than a
change—is due to the prejudice which
has been aroused in, many minds
against trusts'and to the crystaliza-
tion of that prejudice in the legislation
of many States. When the Standard
Oil Trust was formed it lost nothing
by the frankness of, its title. Times
have changed. The public 1:11 :-".~11s
what trusts mean to them, and lcgl:
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will surrender
‘ latures have declared them to be il-
legal conspiracies, in restraint of trade.
The Standard was a trust, an organi-
zation for the joint operation of 111171-
dreds of companies. In becoming :21:
Standard Oil Company of New York 1.
acquires all those privileges which ill.
corporation law of this state gives i1
and loses not one of its trust charac-
teristics. It is still the giant of its
class, and for the accommodation of
its Executive Committee, Board, chair-
men and general offices is enlarging
the great building in lower Broadway.
which, when completed will be sixteen
stories high, cover a ground space of
100 by 130 feet and be occupied exclu-
sively by the Standard. Of the total
number of barrels of oil run from all
the petroleum wells in the United
States in 1804-, the Standard controlled
78 per cent. That was its high water
mark on that line. In 1896 the Stand-
ard distributed in dividends to its
stockholders $36,000,000 the high wa-
ter mark on that line. It has fought
many battles, won many, and the sin.
gle aim of the men in control has al-
ways been profits. It has not mat-
tercd much what methods were used;
power has been coveted only because
it can be translated into profits.
In undertaking to exterminate the
tramp and the professional beggar
from New York the Police Department
is doing the public a signal service.
Consultation between the Police
Board and the Charity Organization
Society has resulted in the adoption. of
a comprehensive plan of canniaign.
Two picked policemen clothed in citi-
zen drcss have been detailed for each
of the six police-court districts of the
metropolis. They are devoting their
whole time to patrolling the city in
search of beggars.
The first time a man is caught beg-
ging he is questioned and warned. If
he is a married man he is directed to
the nearest office of the Charity 01'-
ganizaton Society, where, if found
worthy, the needs of his family will be
relieved. If unmarried, he is directed
to the Municipal Lodgng House, where
he 'will be helped to find work 01' to
communicate wth his out-of—town
fiiends.
Caught offending the second time,
the beggar receives more drastic treat-
ment. If the man is unknown to the
Charity Organization Society he will
be sent to the workho-use for three
months. If he has a record as a pro-
fessional beggar the period of his
forced retirement from the street will
be greatly lengthened. Women beg-
gars will be treated with the same se-
verity as men.
Once in the workhouse, the beggar
will be taught some useful industry.
Plenty of hard work will prove a
wholesome tonic. To increase the op-
portunities for healthful toil a mun-lei
pal farm wll soon be established on
Riker’s Island.
There is a small club of Bohemians
in New York the walls of whose quar-
tors are modestly covered with tinted
burlap. On these walls, all visitors of
note are expected to write their names
and a sentiment original to the oc-
casion. It is told that William Dean
Howells dropped in one day, looked
about, and wrote: “I can’t think of a
thing. William Dean Howells.” A
jester happened by, and scrawled be-
low: “Autobiography of William Dean .
Howells.”
New York Herald musical critics
have been handling the singers who
compose the chorus at the Metropoli-
tan Opera House with especial sever-
ity in their recent criticisms of per-
formances. Again and again it has
been stated that the chorus singing at
the Opera. House was discordant and
unworthy of a high class musical es-
tablishment. The discords really eman-
ate from behind the scenes at the op-
era and arenot to be attributed to the
singers who compose the chorus at all.
During the last performance of “Car—
men” an expert musician, who was
stationed behind the scenes at the
Opera House for the express purpose of
noting the exact source of the poor
chorus singing that has‘causcd so
much comment. was considerably as-
tonished to find that the Metropolitan
Opera House possesses two corps of
chorus singers. one of which is paid
to sing, while the other sings from pure
love of singing and because there is
nothing: else to do at the moment. The
extra chorus is composed of the stage
carpenters, call boys, maids whose
mistresses are on the stage, and the
numerous individuals who congregate
behind the scenes. “Carmen” proved
to be a very popular =opera with the
second chorus. Nearly all the stage
hands seemed to know the opera. by
heart, and to be able to sing the for-
eign words. \Vhen they were not con-
versant with the words the lack of
knowledge did not deter them from
singing. Carpenters, as they passed
about the stage 011 their various duties
son}: 1110: chorus as though they were
11:11-11 for that express purpose. and the
shrill voices of a trio of, (tall boys
could ‘3 0 it: a d ab we the singing even
'1.” the fr. red-2 1121.1. maids.
CYRUS T110111).
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MAN AS A MACHINE
NATURE CANNOT BE BEAT IN HER
LABOR SAVING DEVICES.
Human Frame—Adam's Apple is Sort 0!
Safety Valve, and the Liver Docs Police
Duty. ' '
Few people are aware of the won
derfhl engineering skill and ingenuity
with which their bodies are construct
ed. If patents were taken out fo1 all
the clever contrivances to be found
there, they would probably keep the
stud of the Patent Office going for
three months.
\Vho would think that in his eye
there is a block and pulley, or
“tackle,” as the sailors call it, as com.
l
plete and eflicient as that with which :
a ship hoists her mains-ail?
is, however; and whenever you look
at the tip of your nose the musde
that moves your eye-ball works in it.
There are several of these pulleys in , ,r 1» 1
; l. .1705.
the body.
Another clever dodge of Nature is;
shown in the bones of the face. Ae-
complished engineer that she is, she
always uses the smallest quantity of
material sufficient for Strength. In
making the bones of the face, she
wanted a large surface to which to at-
tach the muscles; but, as she didn’t
wish to encumber us with heads as
heavy as an elephant’s, she burrowed
hundreds of little holes in the bones,
called air cells, and thus secured
strength, large surface and lightness.
When you get a severe cold you are
apprised of the presence of another
cute devicchthe Eustachian tube.
This tube is two inches long, and
passes from the inside of the ear to
the back of the mouth. It was put
there to keep the air at the same pres-
sure inside the drum as outside. Oth-
erwise there would be no vibration of
the drum, and you would be almost
stone deaf. When you get a bad cold
this tube becomes inflamed and
blocked, and you are made quite deaf.
Adam’s apple, if it was once that
fruit that brought into the world all
our woe, is now a useful organ. It
serves as a sort of storage cistern of
the blood for the supply of the brain.
\Vhen the heart sends up too much
blood Adam’s apple intercepts it, or
part of it; and when the direct supply
from the heart tempororily runs short
Adam’s apple gives up its store.
The liver is a most wonderful 01'-
gan, containing facilities of several
kinds. But perhaps the most wonder-
ful thing in it is that part set aside to
look out for and arrest poisons.
All the food that you eat, except the
fat, has to pass through the liver be-
fore going to the heart and body gen
orally; and in the liver there appear
torbe stationed something of the na-
ture of customs officers, who examine
every bit of food and remove from it
all substances dangerous to the body.
But they are only capable of dealing
with the small quantities in or-
dinary food, and when, you are so
foolish as to eat poisonous mushrooms
of mussels they are overpowered.
Another protection from danger is
afforded you by the supply of a small
quantity of hydrochloric acid to the
stomach. There are little machines in
the stomach specially designed'for the
manufacture of this acid from the salt
you eat, and they are so regulated that
they produce a quantity equal to one-
fifth of 1 per cent of the contents of
the stomach. Experiment shows that
this is exactly the percentage required
to destroy the microbe-s that weswal-
101v in thousands in our food. But
for this thoughtful provision of Na-
ture we would probably get a new
disease with every meal.
Most people know the use of the ep-
iglottis, which saves us from immi-
nent death every time we swallow a
bit of food. At the back of the mouth
the air passage and the food passage
cross each other, and, whenever we
swallow food, it would inevitably go
into the windpipe and choke us, only:
that this little body pops down and
covers the entrance. It is like the po-
liceman who regulates the traffic
where the streets cross.
The semi- circular canals, for centur-
ics a physiological puzzle, are an ex-
traordinaiy device for enabling us to
keep our balance. They are little
channels, hollowed ou-,t in connection
111th the ca 1, in the bones of the
head. and partly filled with fluid
lymph. As our head 01' body sways
the fluid moves, acting like a spirit
level, and informing the brain wheth-
er wo are standing in the perpendicu-
lar or at a dangerous angle.
So inventive was Nature when con-
structing our body that the difficulty
is to stop enumerating her clever
ideas. She saw that we 'would very
soon grow tired if we had to hold up
two heavy legs by means of muscu-
lar off-11"., so she made the hip-joint
ail-tight, and the pressure of the air
11.1111; keeps the leg in its place.
At the same time, although she had
not discovered ball bearings, she
made the ball of the leg bone and the‘
socket of the hip so smooth, and oiled
the joint so well, that the friction is
practically nothing.
When the spinal canal in the back-
bone was made, great pains had to be
taken, for, while it consists of many
pieces and is freely movable, it con-
tains the precious spinal cord, one nip
of which would be fatal. The meas-
urements are so accurate that there .is
no danger of such an event. Wher-
ever thcre is much and free motion, as
in the neck, the canal is large and
open, and a nip is impossible.
But the most remarkable of all de-
vices is that for splicing broken bones.
The moment a bone is broken, a sur-
gical genius is at once dispatched
fiom the biain to the spot. He pro-
ceeds to surround the broken ends
with a ferrule or cartilage. This is
large and strong
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..sa.1orossoras
'l or: years after the United States (11
America came into existence, the Con
twin/11.11 library had its beginning
agress was about to move from
lhiladclphia. The seat of govern
meat was to be transferred on twr
sleeps the District of Columbia
There was a fine collection of town lots
3.0
“but set much else in Washington. Sc
long as they remained in Philadelphia
the Senators and .Representative:
made use of the Loganian Library.
When they came to consider the needs
of the new location they appropriated
35.000 to buy books, and ordered a
1- 1 1111 :et apait for them in the Capitol
' Lilo giandfathcr of the presont Ambas
smlor 13:1,, aid 11 as one of the commit
tee which cairied out the piovision.
T1111 years later Congicss employed 2
li‘riurian at $2 a day to take cam 01
11112 heel is. but stipulated that the pay
11.1s f01 only such time as 11c was at.
wally at work. The early appropria-
tions for the library were $450 a year
fourteen years to get togethez
under 111.1111. Ross, entering
ton in 1514-. They burned the Capitol
and the library went up in flames. The
next year Congress made another start
by purchasing the 6,700 books oi
Thomas Jefferson for $23,950. In 185]
the Library of Congress, as it is official
ly known, had grown to about 50,00G
volumes. A fire on Christmas Day de-
stroyed 35,000 books and part of the
Capitol. From 20,000 volumes in 1855
the library has reached its present col.
lection of 800,000, and now takes pos
session of the finest library building ir
the world, which cost $6,000,000, and
was nine years in course of construe:
tion.
A public building covering a bio-ck oi
ground and without a dark corner is
something novel in architecture. Yet
that is what the new library is. Such
a result is made possible by 1,800 win.
dows and by an arrangement of courts
within the exterior rim of halls. The
reading room is in the very centre, but
a flood of light pours in on the cloud-
iest day. It is under the golden dome
It is an eight—sided room, with'the ele
vated desk of the librarian in the cen.
tre, and all of the apparatus for com-
municating with assistants around and
beneath. The desks for readers are in
circles facing the librarian. The dis-
tance across this octagonal room is
100 feet. Rotunda is a better descrip
tion than room, for the ceiling is the
vaulted interior of the dome.
Opening into the rotunda on the
eight sides are alcoves, where encyclo
paedias, books of reference, diction-
aries, and works for which there are alt
most continuous use will be kept
These alcoves are on the level of the
floor. Readers will be allowed to go
into them and consult such booksas
they may need. Sitting on his high
perch in the centre of the rotunda. the
librarian or his immediate rep-resenta
tive occupies a, position much like the
lookout’n in a modern penitentiary. He
not only has every occupant of the
reading room under his eyes, but he
can see in every one of the alcoves,
which are open to the public. These
reference alcoves will be the only parts
of the library containing books to
which readers will have direct access.
From the eight corners of the rotun-
da, between the pairs of alcoves. rise
the massive marble columns which
support the golden dome. They are of
deeper and richer colored marble than
that which forms the walls. Forty
feet above the floor a spacious gallery
encircles the rotunda. From this vis.
itors who come on sightseeing bent
will look down upon the practical op-
ration of the library. Only those per-
sons who wish to read 01' to consult
books will make use of the main floor
of the rotundr- . All others must go to
the gallery. In this way the librarian
expects to make the reading room a
place for study without interruption,
although he will have from 250 to 301‘.-
readers under his supervision when the
room is full. On the edge of the gai-
lery are perched sixteen bronze fig-
ures. On one side of the rotunda, al-
most on a'level with the gallery, is a
marble clock, six feet across the face.
From the vantage of the gallery the
visitor will gain a comprehensive idea
of the workings of the library. Look-
ing down, he will see the applicant for
a book come into the rotunda by way
of a curtained aisle, and make known
his request on a slip of pap-er at the
great central desk. He will follow the
Amovement of the attend-ant to a tele-
phone so nicely adjusted that a whis-
per will convey the order. Turning
about and looking through the heavy
plate glass into the book stack, he will
find the attendants on one of the nine
floors receiving the messages at the
other end of the telephone. He will
see the attendant go to one of the book
cells, take down the volume wanted.
and drop it in a little iron box on the
endless chain. Returning his attention
. to the Centre of the rotunda, the via
itor will presently have the satisfac-
tion of observing the box come up
from beneath the 11001 in the rear 01‘
the librarian’s desk, and deposit the
‘book there for the intending reader.
1 Between the utilities and the artistic.
magnificence of the scene the visitor
may well be lost in admiration. Br.-
low will be the busy scene of the ii:
Mary in use. Around above are the
richly tinted marble colulnnsand
walls extending upward to the inte-
rior of the dome. ‘
"‘The book capacity of the parts of
'the'library finished off,” said.‘Mr. Spof-
ford, “is about 1,800,000 volumes. If
all'of ‘the space of each floor not at
present used was to be fitted up for
the storage of books, the building
would hold 4,500,000 books. More-
over, postcrlty may build book stacks
in the spacious courts to contain 2,-
000,000 more withoxit any violence to
the uses or architectural symmetry of
the present edifice.” SENATOR.
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, A HAIRY ” MAN OF BUSINESS.” THAT PRETTY WIDOW.
Robert 1.. Stevens Relates a. Story of tin
Sagacity of :1 Shepherd Dog.
John Todd, a Scotch shepherd. had :1
good collie, for which he h..d refused
forty pounds, as the dog 1v..s wortl'
more than that to a “herd ” seeing 111
did the herdér’s work for him. Robert
L. Slt'VClléOll, in an essay on the “Pas-
toral,” tells how it happened that John
received such an exceedingly liberal
offer for the collie. John had bought
some'sheep in Edinburgh, and, when
leaving the town, theroad beingcrowd
ed, two were lost. The loss of the
sheep was a. reproach to John and a
slur on the dog, and both were alive tc
their misfortunes. W’ord came aftei
some days that a farmer about Braid-
- had found a pair of sheep; and thithei
went J ohn- and the dog to ask for resti
tution. But the farmer was a hard man
and stood upon his rights. “How wert
they marked?" he asked. As Join:
had bought right and left from many
sellers. he had no notion of the marks
“Very well,” said the farmer; “then it’i
only right that I should keep them.’
“Well ” said Jolm, after a moment’s
thought, “it’s a fact that I canna’ tel
the sheep; but, if my dog can, wii'
yo let me have them?” The farmei
was honest as well as hard, and, be
sides, he had little fear of the ordeal
So he had all the sheep upon his farn'
driven into one large park, and turned
John’s dog into their midst. Thai.
hairy “man of business” knew his or
rand well. He knew that John had
bought two sheep, and he had looked
on while the purchase was made, and
to their shame, had lost them about
Boroughmuirhead. Without pause 01
blunder he singled out, first one and
then another, the two waits. It was
that afteinoon the forty pounds wert
offered and refused.
She. Knew the General.
During the Ameiican Civil “'ar,
while in command of a division of
Confederates, the late General Ma-
hone was slightly wounded. An ac-
quaintance about to visit Richmond
was requested to call upon Mrs Ma-
hone, to relieve her anxiety by ex-
plaining the nature of her husband’s
injury. He found her in teats, having
already received the news- by tele-
gr.aph “Why, madam,” he expostu-
lated, “you ought not to give yourself
so much concern. Your husband re-
ceived only a flesh wound; no bones
were injured.” (General Mahone was
very small and very lean.) “Ah, Coi-
onel,” she sobbed, “you—don’t know
the—General as well as 1—1 do, 01
you wouldn’t tell me—me he could be
——be wounded without striking a
bone!” '
No Criterion for fien‘tucky-
The Gentleman from Kentucky—Is
this a geod article of writing papah,
blah?
The Salesman—You can judge by the
water mark.
The Kentuckian—‘Vater mark, sahl
No, sah! Show me something else.-
Cleveland PlainDealer.
‘" I see her almost. every day
As she goes by—
I can but mark her modest way
And drooping eye:
Her timid touenes of display —-
Her manner shy.
Sometimes she almost; lifts her eyes
To meet with mine, 1
And. then her startled face denies
Such mad design;
And in that look of sweet. surprise
She seems divine.
Sometimes I wonder if her lord
Was food and true,
And iftheir souls'in sweet. accord
Together grow—
And if I should be quite abhorred
As number two.
Got Rid of Lord Russell.
Lord Russell had occasion to call on '
Prince Bismarck a number of years
ago, and, in the course of conversation,
asked his host how he managed to rid
himself of ca ‘lers whom he could not
refuse to see, although they bored him.
" have a very simple method,” re-
plied the Chancellor. “My wife
knows them pretty well, and when
they are with me she generally con-
trives to come in and call me away on
some pietext. " v’
No sooncr had this explanation been
given than the Princess made her ap-
pearance. -
“Otto " she quietly remarked. “you
must come and take your n11 licine.
Y on ought to have taken it ten 1111.1 111:!
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Sleep Plenty and Live Long.
‘The proper way to economize I
says Tesla, the electrician, “is toxglé' .. ,.
evei y moment that it is not necessary
or desirable that you should be: _
awake.”
“A man in his lifetime has just. so
many hours to be a'wake, and the
fewer of these houses up each day,
the more days they will last—that is,
the longer be will live.
“I believe that a man might live 150.
years if he would sleep most of that
time. That is why negroes often “live
to advanced old, age, because they
sleep so 11111ch. It is said that Glad-
stone sleeps seventeen hours every
day:tlaa: is why his faculties are still
unimpaired, in spite of his-g.1'eat age.”
THE ORIGINAL
C! amped 65 Bags 3, 33
Always the Same
Norwalk Chronicler