A COUNTRY” SCHOO—LWW "
Pretty and pale and fired
She sits- in hergtfff backed chair,
While the blazing _ "f? 81111
Shines in on hex-86 t' ' hair;
And the little brook without,
That she hears through the open door,
Mocks with its murmur cool
Hard bench and dusty floor.
It. seems such an endless round,
Grammar and A B C.
The black board and the sums.
The stupid gmgruphyw
When from teacher to little Jem
N 3;, one of them wires ostraw
\‘i'lzr 'icr “John" is in any “c;=.sc,"
": Lens-.15 in Omaha
\‘~.":—.‘ bum. brown tee:
Are new; to nude in the stream.
Where the trout to his luring bait
Shelli leap with 2. quick, bright gleam:
Au 1 his tuchcr‘s blue eyes stray
To the flowers on the desk hard by.
Till her thoughts have followed her eyes
With a half unconscious sigh.
Her heart outruns the clock
As she smells their faint. sweet scent;
But when have time and heart
Their measure in lmiscn blent.‘
For time “‘1' ll haste or lag,
Like your shadow on the grass,
Thu: lingeis far behind,
Or flies when you faiu u‘fmld puss.
Have patience, restless Jem—
The stream and the fish will wait;
And patience, tired blue eyes,
Down the winding road by the gate,
Unfer the willow shade.
Sis-.nds some one with fresher flowers;
50 turn to your books again,
And keep love for the after hours.
—-St. Paul Pioneer Press.
A TRAGEDY 0F ERRORS.
It was after Mrs. Jeifries, still a young
and pretty woman, was dressed for dinner,
and sitting at. the window with her em-
broidery, that she saw a messenger boy
crawl up the street, stop to throw a. stone
at another boy, and finally rung her door
bell.
A moment after this, Bella, the "up
stairs girl," brought her a note. It was
from her friend, Edwina Jones, familiarly
Ned, who bud come from afar to pay her a
visit, and being timorous, had decided to
wait; at the depot until she came to meet
her. There was no time to lose. Mrs Jef-
fries gave a. few directions to her cook. and
hurried away.
Half an hour after she had gone Mr.
Jeffrics returned home and let himself in
with his latch key, wondering that his
afimg'i not come to meet him._
Mrr Inkrfifind been a very Jealous man
before 1112‘ fielder. lg; 2:"?iifisé'l in, g:
would not permit any” 5116 “fill i the leis‘
attention to his Emma. Jane. . ven cous—
ins of the first degme made him suffer
pangs of grief unknown when they called
pL‘Suncl'w' afternoons, and an uncle, who
was-.11; aiéglljé'lfli gékllgd 0 £133
ship} a .is ye. unknown, pg! river.
(Wm to the most serious thoughts or sui-
clae, m cmma JILUC had kissed him in
the frottt hull. .
“Do you really think, Jefferson .Jeiit‘ries,
that I can endure such conduct?” his Em~
ma. Jane had lemurked. “Is it possible
that any one can put up with being fol—
lowed around like that, and stared at like
that? Do you think I will?”‘und then she
had given him back his ring. and be had
ground it. under foot.
However, he bought her another in a.
mouth or so, and they made it; up and
married; and Mr. Jeffries, warned by the
past, burl behaved himself very well, in-
deed, and he had never yet been jealous of
his wife, when one afternoon in August he
came home early to dinner and found her
"gone out.”
“Bella, did she say where she was go
mg?” :1. “ed Mr. Jcfiricn.
“No, ’ said Bella. “She gave out the
things it: r dessert and went; out in a hurry
loike, in her best things, just after she got
u note lc-ike, brought by a boy dressed like
:1 tallygrcph.”
“Ali!” said Mr. Jefiries. “I trust her
mother is not ill. It. rcallyseemsaet-hougb
something must; have happened.”
He went upstairs when he had said this,
and locked about him for the message,
which, doubtless, she had left lying some—
where. He could see none. He opened the
drawer in which Emma Jane kept. her
trifles : f lace and ribbon and quilled musv
lin, and still saw not-hing. But, glancing
into the waste paper basket, he discovererl
a twisted pupcr, and, as if. was the last. of .
the little hcup. picked it out and un
folded it.
Spreading out the wrinkles, he put his
glasses on his nose and read. And as he
read his check grew pale. for these were
the wor:ls: .
ll'uAiLizsr {Inna .iiixnmlllcct me on the New
=(or: side of ’1“.veni:y-tbird street ferry. I long
to see you after our long parting. Yours very
very fondly, ' Nun.
“Ned!” ejaculated Mr. Jefirics; “Ned!"
.l-lc ground his teeth and clenched his fists.
Ie could have howled with rage, but for
1the proprieties which we generally observe
in our greatest agonics. This was the end
of it all then; Emma Jane had gone to
meet her old been. Old or new, who could
tell? A lover, anyhow. He tried to be
calm; but he could not believe. himself
mistaken. lie knew her brothers and
cousins well. They were Peter, Paul, ‘Wil-
liar. , Elias, Samuel and James. Even her
father, who would not have signed his first
name, was Adon'irum. There was no way
out of it.
“NO end but one,” thought Mr. Jefirics,
as he sought for the pistol generally kept
on hand for possible burglars. “I must
follow them, find them, shoot him first.
her next and mys’elf lust. No one shall
know why: but the traitress will know as
she dies!”
He put thcpistol in his pockets, crowded
his but over his eyes and rushed out of the
door. A Twenty—third streetcar was pass-
ing; he jumped into it and retired into a
corner, folding his arms.
“Fare!” cried the driver. Mr. J effries
mechanically deposited something in the
box, and sank into his seat and a black
study again. A volley of shocking 're-
proaches from the driver aroused him. He
found the passengers glaring at him.
“I’ve had this trick played onane before,"
cried the driver through the door. ‘gYou’re
a nice one, ain’t you,‘ai; your age. to put a
coat button into the box?”
Mr. J cffries received the remark without
an answer, and repaired his error by ’putr
ting a. quarter into the sanie aperture into
which he had dropped the button.
“My belief is you are crazy,” remarked
“the driver. . ,
“Ach, ycsl’? rwponded an old Hebrew
lady. shaking herv‘hecd.
Mr. Jefirics only gro'aued. What was
silver to him? He rode on, the object of
much comment. ~
Shortly lifter-a8. friend entered the car.
He was a man of jovial dispositiop. and,
as he said, fond of his joke. After-qquing
and smiling'in vain, he bethought Jii'fiisilf
topokc Mr, Jeflries’in the, ribswvit will a
Immense knob of ti}; handle .of‘his tim-
bi'cllsl'. Taking ‘tle passe ere. intovhis
confidenze by a knowing nl-z, he stole
forward andpegibtretgdhis joke.
-..
, The “punch" was a hard one;_ the result
an explosion. If any one had triedtq fire
thefipistol in that manner” he would have
failed. Accidentally Mr. Joblings had
done it. ’ '
Mr. Jeffries gave a. groan, started up and
fell forward on his face, bloodtzickling
over his stocking. The car was stopped.
and policemen carried Mr..Jeifries into a
drug store. The penitent 'Joblings was in
custody, having voluntarily delivered him—
self over to justice. The wound. was not.
perhaps a. dangerous one, but Jedi-1m re-
mained unconscious. Joblings accompa-
nied him to his home in a. cab, and having
told the tale in a court of justice, was per-
mitted to go free on his own ball. And
just as Jefferson Jefiries opened his eyes
his Emma Jane arrived at her door inn
cab, with a trunk fastened on behind
marked “E. J.,” and a young Lady within
in a plum colored cloth traveling suit.
“My dear, (leer Jeify hurt-i” cried the
poor wife, as Bella told the tale. “Oh, let
me go to him!"
Away she rushed up the stairs totbc
bedroom above and bent over her hus-
band’s pillow.
“Jei'I‘y, dear!" she sobbed; but, to her
consternation, Jefferson opened his eyes,
looked at her, and said:
"Leave me, woman!”
“Ii; isn’t a woman. It is your own
Emmy,” sighed Mrs. J eifrles.
“Take her awayi” said Jefferson.
“Is he delirious, doctor?” asked poor
Emma. J ane, trembling.
“No, madam." replied that. gentleman
gravely.
“Then what does this mean .9” asked the
poor woman.
“Madam,” said the doctor, the most 501-
emn of his premier), which is saying
much, “madam, I have no desire to pry
into your domestic difficulties.”
“My domestic difllcultim? I never had
any. Oh, dear, dear Jeffy, speak to your
Emmy,” sobbcd M115. Jefl’ries.
But her Jefferson only replied by saying
in deep chest notes:
“Crocodile! Take her away. The sight
of her is madness. Will no one rid me of
her presence?”
“Oh, Mr. Joblings. tell me what he
means!" .
“Beg pardon, madam, I must request
you to retire," answered Mr. Joblings, all
his nature apparently turned to grill.
“You alone know the meaning of those
awful words.”
Poor Emma Jane. She rushed down
stairs when the door of her own room had
actually been clam upon her, and told
her incoherent story to her friend.
"I’ve seen him jealous before,” she said,
“but not like this. What can it mean?"
.2 _ “'32an oq do? Whom is be jealous
dike ' g Other woman.
“Oh, Ned, I don’t know," sobbcd Emma
J one.
And Edwina Jones concluded very not:
u rally that Emma. had been flirting terri-
bl y with several individuals.
Th us,wronged by all, even her girlhood’s
friend, Mrs. J eflries abandoned herself to
despair.
A bullet in the calf seldom kills, undue
it was extracted promptly, the wound
healed and Jefferson Jeflrles began to m-
cover, but he still refused to see his wife;
and on the first day of his oonvalwccnce
be summoned his lawyer and sent him to
Emma J nne empowered to eifecfro separa—
tion.
“This letter is my reason," he sold, with
a dreadful groan, thrusting the-cunnplcd
note into his hand. “I was'on my way to
shoot; the fellow when Jobling managed
to shootme. She shall keep thehouseif
she likes, but I never Wish to see her
again."
\Vith this messagcthe lawyer sought the
unhappy lady, and in the presence of Ed-
wina Jones interviewed her.
“One comfortat leasblshall get from
this,” said M13. Jenkins, with dignity. “I
shall know my crime.”
“Mr. Jeffries opium that this will ex-
plain,” said the lawyer, presenting her
with the crumpled letter, which Wichita
signature suggested very dreadful things
indeed.
Emma Jane took it in] her band, looked
at it, and then handed it to her friend.
“My letter!” cried Edwina, dumfounded.
The puzzled lawyer-elevated his eyebroivs.
“I am called ‘Ned’ at home,” said Mia
Jones. “Surely Mr. Jefi‘ries knew flint.
Oh, Emma. J emu. how I have wrougcd'you
in my heart. ”
Explanations followed.
The lawyer, choking down his laughter,
returned to Mr. Jefi’zles’ apartment, and
gave them to that gentlemen with dra-
matic effect. Never had. he more trouble
in preservmg the eve dignit properto
his position, when effersonJe ries,claep~
lug his hands together, ejamflafezl:
“ ‘Edw‘lna Jonesi' Of course I knew.
But. l forgot her very existmce How I
have wumged my‘ wifei Wietch that I
am, can she ever forgive me?"
“Neveri” Emma Jane decided. “You
have disgraced me before your friends, he-
fove strangers, casbsuspicion on me and
insulted me by word and deed. I deménd
a separation.’ ’
Then she went home to her parents, and
deersou Jcflries was left alone to reflect.
on his ridiculous conduct. He was obliged
to explain to the doctors, to Joblingn, to
everybody, and he suffered agonies of
shame. He longed for his Emma, whom
he loved more than evennnd he 'v‘vrlthed
under the rcproachcn of her mother and
father and the menaces of her bigbrothers.
When he was able he used to go alone at
midnight and stare up at his wife’s Win-
dow, and by day haunt her steps unseen
when she went. out walking. At last he
followed her to church one Sunday. She
was alone in her pew. He entered and sat
down beside her. \Vhen‘the hymn was
given out he offered her his hymn book.
Over it their heads met.
“Oh, Jefferson, how could you?" she
whispered; but that evening she went back
home again. She felt that Mr. J eflfries had
had hislesson, and would profit by it for
the mi; of his, existence. '
Ned says they are the happiest couple
she knows—Mary Kyle Dallas in New
York Ledger.
Heroines of the Hospital.
1 could mention scores of brave heroines
of the hospital, says a. man familiar with
the Work bf womenjn the late war. There
was Mrs. Barker, of Boston, sister 91'; Hen.
William Whiting, and Wife of a. clergy-
man; Emily EL Parsons, daughter of Pro-
fmsor Theophi‘lus Parsons, of Cambridge,
and granddaughter of Chief Justice Per-
sons; Mrs. Harvey, the wife of Governor
Harvey, of Wisconsin; Mrs. Mai-y Morris
Husband, granddaughtcrofRobei-b .. ,
thegreatfinancier of the Revolution; Kai; -
orine Prescott W'ormley, :3" rich Wo‘mn’n
and anal-five of England, who left a. New—
port'villa to go to thé front; Mary ‘J. Sci:-
ford. “he (3er ‘1," flab first we an
in thefwesi; to 9 up the work;'M_ns:H or-
pick Colfax,‘;the ydung Widow-gof'a‘b , q er
.01. Schuyler ,Colfax; the .qu kno‘ma. Miss.
Mary A. Evermore; of Chicaggmn ~25???"
bellw ' ' tb,’ who :11 ‘ '9?! ;,Gen. ,li‘ratlélé
Bylaw, the now famous New Yorklnw-
yer the‘day befom’hcstartefi for‘the frfin‘b.
an soon nftevward followedohim.
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NORWALK GAZETTE WEDNESDAY ‘SEPTEMBER 1‘7. 1590.
CITY FOP. BICYGLISTS."
IN ROCHESTER, N. v., THEY'HAVE
THiNGS THEIR OWN WAY.,
There Are Over 4,090 of cheese Vehicles
in the Place-Business Men Are the
Chief Elders—About: 4-00 “’omen and
Girls OWn ‘
What strikes the stranger in Rochester
most forcibly from the very moment of his
arrival there is the large number of bicycles
in the streets. His second surprise comes
when he notes the varied sorts of people
whquse the machines. Finally he is as-
tonished to see women of diversified ages
and conditions upon wheels—not half a
dozen or a. score of women, but literally
hundreds of them. Occasionally one will
meet in a block more men and women on
bicycles than on foot.
Even in the most crowded business streets
of that busy city three or four bicycles will
pass any given point inside of any quarter
hour of the day and not occasion the least
comment. A visitor in Rochester, who re—
cently stood in Main street, neatly oppo—
site the city hull—es crowded a. spot us’any
in the city—counted eleven bicycles inside
of twenty-five minutes. And this was be—
tween 2 and 3 o’clock in the afternoon,
when traffic was at its height.
The Rochester bicyclist exhibits a degree
of confidence. and nerve in the. middle of a
street full of cabs, carts, trucks and horse
carts that would paralyze New York wheel-
men. Ho glides along in the middle of the
street, turns out of the way of an approach.
ing horse car, ducks under the nose of a
cab horse and gets in the wake of a car-
ria-ge till he sees an opening, when he
skims around to one side, takes a long
chance with a truck which comes rattling
down a. side street. and so, dodging and
turning, sporting and slacking up, break-
ing over an open or hiding behind a cart,
he wiggles up or down the stmeb and out
of sight, beating the pedestrians an the
sidewall: and getting much the better of
passengers in the street cars.
Btrsrxnss MEN RIDE.
The men on most of the bicycles wear no
knickerbockcrs, flannel shirts or bicycle
caps, and sport no badges or colors. Their
sober business suits, their sedate ally-their
preoccupied faces, Fill show them to be
Machines.
business men on business bent. It iscfact
that hundreds of the most- promincul: busi—
ness men of Rochester—mill. owners, brok-
crs, bankers, lawyers and wholesale deal-
ers in many lines of trade—go to business
in the morning regularly upon bicycles,
and use their wheels constantly during the
day. A walk through any business street
in business hours shows dozens of wheels
upon the sidewalks resting against the
outside wells of offices.
.thentimee three or four bicyclm will be
scarab side. a single door, and it is not un~
vmmsa
common ‘0 count sdgcen or more wheels
awaiting their riders in :1 single block.
Their owners are either the proprietors of
the csmbhshnwnts or business men who
have called there to do business with the
house. They think no more of leaving
their wheels outside than they would of
hitching their horses to posts in the street.
Clerks also use bicycles extensively, and it.
is said that nearly- all the reporters own
machines and use them in doing their
daily assignments.
In the residence quarters of town, also,
it is common to see bicycles standing .' out—
side the doors of houses. Girls usethem
freely, and when they run into have a chat
with a friend they leave the steel steeds
outside. A reputable bicycle dealer in
Rochester told the reporter a few days ago
that there were at least 4,000 bicycles in
daily use in that city, and that a large pro
portion of them belonged to business men.
He also said that there were agood 4001ady
riders in town.
It is by no means an unusual sight to see
a few ladies riding ’cyclec in an eastern town
or suburb, but it makes an eastern man
rub his eyes to walk in any well paved reel-
deuce street in Rochester on {my pleamnt
afternoon. Most of the girls are young,
say from 10 to 16 years old, but there are
also many whose ages entitle them to be
called young ladies, and waslonally Wom~
en approaching middle age. Sometimes
half a dozen or more will glide rapidly
along the smooth mix-cement in a. merry
group.
GIRLS RIDE FREQUENTLY.
Some are evidently out on alt-ands, from
the businesslike way they steer a. straight
and rapid course, but most of the girls are
riding for pleasure. Now and then you
come across a. pretty group in the middle
of a whey, several bright faced girls in
ad ry bicycling costumes, standing and chat—
ting gnyl3 while they lean upon their
wheels. The girls seldom if ever venture
upon the lmsiness streets. They stick to
the residence avenues, where roads are fine
and smooth and traffic is light. But they
do not lock in skill, nevertheless, as is fre—
quently x'ioted when a. girl is seen to glide
nimbly out of the way of an approaching
vehicle, or circle in front of u trotting
horse. Rochester horses, by the way, ap-
pear to be thoroughly used to bicycles, and
seem to fear them no more than they fear
ordinary vehicles.
But the most peculiar feature of the
bicycle riding there to a man from on
eastern city is to see bicycles upon the side-
walks. Even country places of some size
in our neighborhood, as Orange, for in-
stance, have laws compelling bicyclists to
keep to the roadway. In Rochester there
is more bicycle riding upon the sidewalks
than in the roadways. Pedestrians seem
to.think. nothing of having a. big wheel
come gliding uolselessly up behind them,
and whisk pay. so close that. the wind it
makes fens their faces. There is no ordi-
nIuncc regulating the speed of bicycles upon
the sidewalks, buti’appareutly by co mo
understanding ’ the riders move leisurely.
“men they went to speed they turn in
the road. , -
- Polim officials .say that very few acci-
dents rcsult from the universal bicycle
riding. Nearly all riders use wheels of the
safety pattern, and all are skillful in their
management. There' are 81g (5 no ordi-
nances regulating their use,~a,n every street
in the entire city is open. to them. In small
portions of five- of the most crowded. streets
bicyclists are prohibited from using the
sidewalks. Otherwise they‘have things all
their own way—New Y_orkSun.
Very Uncertain Business.
There does not seem to be any safety for
any one nowadays. W'ithiu a week we
hear of flglrl who has been married with-
out knowing it, andof a man who has been
divorced and never found that. proceedings
had been begun until. after phedecree was
granted; The only safety seems t'o'bé' to'
take to the woods.—-DetroiizoFrec‘Press.
“fl
Advantages of Color.
Bipolar—Wat’s dc maitfirdere. 11.01195" 3.
_ niallpaughlbr (dressing lfor spiffy in
BlackvilleP—Dere’fi. so many-hummer
shoes dais mymew’ red an"'blue‘ Shocki‘fiigs
shows right free. 3 3
Dinah—Well, go wifout stockings, on?
de holes won’t show—Good News.
GEOLOGICAL siifivcv WORK.
Extremely Slow and Complicated Moth.
ods ofthe Surveyors.
For two seasons now the United States
geological survey has been at work in
Maine, having gone over most of York,
Cumberland and Sagadahoc counties.
Its task is the making of accurate topo—
graphic nmps of this region, which, when
completed, are to be used by the geologists.
As this bureau of the government has been
organized but. ten years the scope of the
work is not. understood by many people.
The chief feature of tlxse maps is their
accuracy—nothing is done by guesswork.
They also, boulders giving the exact lines of
roads, rivers and sea coast, Show the eleva-
tion of the land above the sea at all points.
The scale is a. trifle less than one and a
half inches to a mile, or in other words,
the area is really 45,000 times longer than
the map shows it. The government cures
little about state. county or town bound-
aries, and instead of these the lines used
are the meridians and parallels. Each
map is bounded on two sides by 15 min. of
latitude, and on the other two by 15 min.
of longitude.
At the latitude of Maine one of these 15
min. sheets is about seventeen miles long,
while the width of the area from east to
mt is about thirteen miles. This g'lvee
an am of 221 square miles, which de-
creases very slowly as we go northward.
Each sheet is named from the most prOIn-
inent. town or body of water falling within
its limits. Those already completed in
Maine are York, Berwick, Kenncbunk,
Biddefonl, Nevvfield, Buxton, Portland,
Caeco bay,fieeport and Bath sheets. The
Augusta sheet embraces parts 6f the towns
of Augusta. Sidney. Belgrade, Mt. Vernon,
Readfield, Manchester and Winthrop.
The contents of these maps are shown by
various colors. The roads and houses and
the may lettering are in black. Ev-
erything pertaining to water, such as
streams, coast lines and ponds, is shown
in blue. The contour lines are traced in
brown. The distribution of forests is noted
in exceuti the field work, and when this
featureisfiledwtbemap, asit is inspe-
cial editions, is represented in green. This
shows one where to look for the woods.
As to the mntour lines, which to one who
knows how to read them tell at a glance
the elevation above thence of a given point,
the following explanation is given: Detach
a spider web carefully and lay it down flat
on a Show of paper. Disregarding the
webs waning radically from the center we
have in thé remaining concentric curved
Hum a very fair idea of how a hill is repre-
sented by contours. Supposing themap is
thnbof a small island running up to a con-
siderable height. The outside cobvreb nep-
mente the shoreline, which of course is
always at the same elevation.
Now start at this sea level and walk up
hill on the island till you reach at height of
twenty feet. Then walk mound theisland,
always keeping at the same elevsrtlon.
When you get back to the starting point
you have traced on the ground a. contour
line Twenty miles higher, another walk
would trrnceout a third one, and so on. By
counting the lines from the sea. level and
noticing their distance apart one can tell
at once whether the countryis flat or hilly,
and if the latter, how steep the hills are.
To make them maps is slow work, fifty
square miles u month being very good
pro ' for one man in hilly New Eng-
lan . The winters are spent in \Vashing-
ton, Where the maps are finally drawn in
ink. and then. handed over to the engruvh
crs.——W. H. Bremen in Portland Express.
A Nobel! Physician.
Sir MOI-ell McKenzie, Queen Victoria’s
physician, is one of the busiest- men lnLon-
don, and works on an average fourteen
hours a day. He lives in Harley street,
Cavendish square, 11 thoroughfare give-u
over to the medical profession, for out. of
one hundred and fifty houses on the street
two-thirds are occupied by doctors. He
calls on his [mutants during certain hours,
receives calls for consultation from 10 u. m.
in 2 p. m., and divides his time as me—
thodically as possible. During his boy-
hood Sir Moroll bed to work his own way,
and not till he was nearly 19 years old was
be able to leave his position as a clerk to
study medicine. After making throat dis-
cases a. singularity for twenty—eight years,
however, he stands at the head of his pro—
fession in that line, and his efforts to save
the life of Emperor Frederick of Germany
will not soon be forgotten—San Francisco
Annulment. _..'
The Patent Law.
It is the object of the patent law to give
the inventor recompense for his work.
Under the length of life granted a patent
by our laws, however, there are a great
number of untmpoflnnt patents which only
serve to hinder other workers in the some
field and give the inventor no benefit. To
meet ”(this difficulty it is pmpoeed thin, the
English system be adopted, so that the nor
mal life of a patent shall be five years,
which time might be extended on payment.
of additional fees. It. is the principle of the
patent law to remunembe the inventor for
his addition to the sum of national indus—
try and resources, hence if he does not avail
himself of the exclusive privilege ofi’ered
him to manufacture the patented article
and to put it upon the market, it should be
forfeiimi to the public by limitation—New
York Telegram.
Washington’s Tooth.
Isaac J. Greenwood. of New York, is ex~
hibiting a tooth in a glass case. The tooth
is mounted in gold. Above it hangs this
ext-tact from Mr. Greenwood’s father’s
willzlgagive and bequeath to my eldest
son, c John Greenwood. forever all : of
the curios, medallions, snuff box'es, Gen.
11’ \Vasbington’s tooth and the underafzdse
jaw of. teeth made 'for him by my late
father, John Greenwood.” The tooth, a
large sized molar, yellow from use and
age, was the last one removed from the
illustrious Washington’s under jaw, ac-
cordingto the diary of Mr. Greenwood’s
father. Inanpther glass case Mr.‘ Green-
wood exhibits a. letter from Gen. Wash‘
ington recording the remittance of $15 for
a “false jaw.” The letter was‘datcd from
Mount Vernon, Jdn. 6, 1799-80. Louis
Republic.
Human Body Incensitive to Magnetism.
The most careful experiments have
shown, says p medicalxauthority, that the
human body is as completely insensitive to
magnetism, and as wholly unaffected by it,
as alp'leoeof rubber or ofwood. Aperson
may aloud between the poles of the strong-
est magnet, one of which might hold up a
ton of iron,_w‘ltbout the slightestpercepzi-
ble efieciss upon any. of thebodily funcfions
being produced}; Hence, all so called mag
new: appliances, bruBhES for-combs. disks,
helix and mpgngts, bve absolutely. nocu'ra—
tiviifpo'wer Whatever. -
Accountod For.
Customer-Seems to me that razor is
ratheizdu'll. , -
Barber-Mought be, sah. It was at a.
pabty las’ nightpeahLZNew‘ XOIkTWéfililf
. O..-
SAW, THE NORTH POLE.-
PETER SMITH-TELLS THE ANANIAS
owe WHAT IT IS LIKE.
A Remarkable Voyage Made in 8. Still
More Remarkable Manner—He Says the
Long Sought For Pole is a Mile High.
A Graphic Account of the Cruise.
One of the greatest explorers and most
fearless navigators on the globe is a. mem-
ber of the Ananias club. He is writing an
interesting narrative of his wanderings, to
be printed in book form. At the club meet-
ing Patrolman Peter Smith entertained his
friends with an account of his trials and
hardships in 1822, when he discovered the
North Pole. '
“I sailed from Indianapolis in May of
1822, on the sidewheeler Dictator. She
had been fitted up especially for an arctic
voyage, and was the fastest boat on any
waters. She had double engines, and her
hull was pierced with axles towhich could
be attached wheels, so that she could run
over land in case of low water. From
Indianapolis we went to Toledo over the
strip of country now traversed by the
I., H. and D. and other railroads, and. I
must say the Dictator attracted a. great
deal of alttcntion from the natives as she
rolled along through the meadows and
over the hills. They had never witnessed
such a. sight before. We launched the
steamboat at Toledo and sailed down the
lake to Detroit, crossed to VViudsor, and
then overland again to New York via. Mon-
treal. We took the-roundabout way in or-
der to gather up our crew, it being much
cheaper to go after them than for them to
come to us. .
THE START FOR THE POLE.
“\thn the steamboat passed down Long
Island sound she carried 500 men, provi-
siOns for a ten years’ cruise, a battery of
fifty guns and 20,0(1) rifles, pistols, swords
and. shotguns, seventy tons of powder, and
the boat was bellasted with cannon balls
and bomb shells.
“In three weeks we had reached Iceland.
and a month later crossed the arctic circle.
While crossing the arctic line we were al-
most shipwrecked. A heavy wind had
brought the line near the surface of the
water, and it caught one of the steamboat’s
Wheels. Luckilywe were not running over
twenty knots an hour, and the engineer
was able to stop before the line-had been
pulled tight enough to tear oif the wheel.
We sailed eastward to the Viglen islands,
which are on the west coast? of Norway,
and laid by for a week. Then we ventured
out again and crossed the circle in safety.
In August we reached Spitzbergen, and
five months later were‘in the polar regions
proper. I saw there the first rolly bowl-
1,
“Aurora Borealis you mean, don’t you?”
asked Patrolman Slate. ‘
”W’ere you there, Mr. Slate?" asked
Smith stcmly. ”If you were perhaps you
will tell this story.”
“Well, no, but, then I’ve rced”-—~
“I don’t, care what you have read. I
wish you. would not interrupt me talking
of things you know nothing about. It’s a
very strange phenomenon. A belt seemed
torise across the sky from northeast to
northwest, and in the belt appeared golden
Whirlpools, silver eddies, and diamond
sparks seemed to be flying by millions.
APPEARANCE OF THE POLE.
“In the center of the arch appeared the
American flag, and beneath its folds, on a
snow white background. were the portraits
of Indianapolis’ mayor and city ofli’cmls.
They looked as if theybad been painted
there with a pencil of fire. Thunder rolled
and the wind howled all the time the rolly
was in sight, which was, if I remember
right, about eight weeks. With a Yankee
ship and a Yankee crew there is no such
word as fail, and one pleasant July day,
when the mercury was 120 degs. below
freezing, we pushed forward for the North
Pole! For months we made our way
across seas filled with floating icebergs.
some of them two miles thick and reach-
ing into the clouds out of sight. Three
years later we we to an open sea, and in
this we cruised for seven months. The
rater bccamc muddy, and birds flying
about told us that; we were near land, and
in a week's time we steamed into a harbor.
“\Ve had found the North Pole. Many
people who have never seen it. imagine
that the North Pole is made of wood. This
is u. mistaken idea. It is a solid iron col-
umn about a. mile high, and reaches en-
tirely through the earth—the other end of
it being called the South Pole. I should
judge it to be about wventy- ’9 miles in
diameter, and of worse of great strength,
in order to hold up the immense weight. of
the earth. It glistened like silver, and I
thought it was some precious metal until
I tested it with acids, and founditto be
just {is I stated—plain, every day iron.
You can imagine the kind of a jubilee We
had on 1mm the old steamboat. Dictator.
Our cannons were fired and our band
played.
CLIMBING THE POLE.
“W’e rested in the shadow of the pole for
a. week, and then determined to reach the
summit. This was no easy thing to do,
for, as I stated, the column is of iron and
as’smooth as glass. I ordered the steam
drills on shore and we commenced drill-
ing. The iron was unusually hard, and a.
number of drills were broken before holes
could be made, but we succeeded at last.
In each hole was placed a wooden bar that
projected about fifteen feet), and thus a
ladder was made. In two months’ time
we had the ladder completed, and it re-
sembled a large telegraph pole driyen full
of'spili’es. To ascend then was more child’s
~plny,_.and myself with 200 of the men were
30011.31: the top. I think it took us about
th {hours to climb up. '- . ,
‘ he cant the North Pole is a broad,
level plateau. Of course nothing grgvs
there, and the rotary motion made us
slightly dizzy until we got used to it. The
pic itself does not whirl as fast as the
earth does. If it had we would have fallen
off. .I released three carrier pigeons for
Indianapolis, with messages to the city of-
ficers, but as they never reached their des-
tination they were probably killed by the
Esquimaux. \Ve were at. the top for four
days. The view was 'magnificent, and
there is no scenery in this part of the ‘coun-
try like it. The city of Indianapolis looked
like a lot of pin heads in acork, and the
steamboat plying White river resembled
chips floating on a tiny brook. New 01'-
leanH: was simply a white patch, and a
small one at that. ' ‘
“W'lth ,glad, free hearts, proud that we
had 'hccom’ fished what no other living
manh’had dbne, wesaile’d away for our
.530qu homes. It was five years before
we got back, endowere given a receptiOn
that! I" have _n'éver,.fofgotten. The whole
town went wil .i’—Indi§napolis Journal.
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Ap‘Eneudc At Last.
, Ali-s.,l§ro'wn‘—"-Why (ices a, man alwycys
wz‘int-n sefi'firithedrbnbrbwflhen he gets,
bald? .
BrownjBecause if he sat.- under the gal—
lery everybody‘would be dropping things
0113113 Read; .
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i ‘ ‘ Alaskan Dollar: ‘ ‘V
i The .Alaskuu women al.‘ 'w‘ear trousers
and. boots, and Alaskan dolls all have
these garments on them. 'I saw one doll
Which represented an Alaskan mother
with 8' miniature baby on her back, and I
was much interested in the Zuni dolls.
Their: are painted the colors of a. stick of
candy. They are trimmed out with .rib-
say, used in. religious worship. .
There are also dolls made of basket work.
There are dolls with rings in their noses,
andIdoubt not that if you would go to
India. you would also find dolls with bells
on their toes. The collection of toys in
the national museum constantly increases,
and the lesson that; is ever before you in
going through its wonders is that the
world is very much alike after all, and
that the Indians and the Chinese, the Sia-
mese and the Egyptians, the African and
the South American, are much the same
as we arc—W’ashington Letter.
Sleeping Tibndcrs.
l There seems to be no limit to the won-
ders displayed by the human subject while
sleeping. Condorcet, the mathematician,
solved one of his most difficult problems
while aslecwl problem, too,which puzzled
him during his waking hours. A professor
of theology in the University of Basleoncc
wrote a sermon while asleep; he found it
on his desk next. morning. The preceding
night he could not grappleawith the sub-
ject as he desired, but the performance of
his sleeping hours was quite satisfactory.
Coleridge, the dreaming philosopher, com-
posed “Kublu Khan” while fast asleep.
Next morning he was sure that. there had
was too negligent to write the stanzas. A
few days afterward he uttcmfied to recall
the verses, but they had in most; part fled;
the poem as it now stands is but a. frag-
mcnt.-—St. Louis Republic.
Remarkable Rescue. '
Mrs. Michael Curtain, Plainfield; 111.,
makes the statement that she caught cold,
which settled on her lungs; she was
treated for a month by her family physi—
cian, but grew worse. He told her that
she was a hopeless victim of consumption
and that no medicine could cure her.
Her druggist suggested Dr. King’s New
Discovery for Consumption ; she bought a
bottle and to her delight found herself
benefited from first dose. She continued
its use and after taking ten bottles, found
herself sou-mi and well, now does her own
housework and is as well as she ever was.
«Free trial bottles of this great discovery
at H. R. Hale’s drug store. Large bottles
500. and s1. ‘
Brwui‘ ’l‘uuy.
In Philadelphia, not. forty years ago,
they still kept the old “braid tally." Did
you ever hear of it? I never did until this
young grandmother told me of it. The
customers had two- pieces of wood, two or
three feet long, fastened together by the
ends, so that they were about an inch
apart. When the baker came with the
bread he would put at third rod between
the other two rods, and with a. file make a
notch on the three. He kept the middle
rod, and both parties keep accurate ac-
wunts of their business. In Canada the
habitans still keep their accountsin this
way—Julian Ralph i-tr Chatter.
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