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The Proposal of {a World’s Fair
Investigating Ctmmittee. '
..;_:.n_1s METHODS norm DEIEBZIOBD.
zll‘he Committee Believes That the Best
,. Interests of the Fair Demand His Dis-
missal— Mr. Walter Damrosch Men-
tioned asthe' Coming Musical Director.
‘ CHICAGO, May 12.4—‘Belgium’s exhibit in:
the Liberal Arts building, ‘of .the exposi
tion Was opened to the p‘ub’licfyesterdaj .
" afternoon.~--~Thej,commissioners spent over,
‘ $10,000 ‘ to fit up the section, which is en-
, tered through a great arch elaborately
’ decorated. Senor Astere Vercruysse.
president of the Belgian, commission, am
his colleagues Senors Simonis and Guer
ette Deliquer, received the guests who hat
been specially invited, and the whole com
pany was entertained in the commission’:
rooms with champagne at tables decorateo
with Belgian flowers in ‘bloom. The lil;
eral. arts exhibit from Belgium is thre
times as large as at the last Paris exposi-
tion.
The Duke of Veragua, his son an:
daughter, his brother, the Marquis Bar
holes, and the marquis’ son and Com
mander Dickins, .United States navy.
visited the exhibit of the Belgium king
' dom and were hospitably received by the.
commissioners from that country. The
duke’s daughter was presented with mag-
nificent bunches of roses until she could.
carry no more. The visit was entirely in-
formal and unexpected.
The committee investigating the mis-
understandings in the bureau of music
‘last evening made a report to the nationa'.
committee. The report stated that Mr.
Mr. Thomas’ usefulness as musical di-
rector Of the fair had ended, and that
harmony in that departnent required that
his services be dispensed with. The re-
port is a most- severe arraignment of Mr.
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MODEL OF THE SANTA MARIA.
Thomas and his methods of conducting
the bureau of music. It givss a fearful
rasping to Chief Harpist Schenecker, who
proposed to a local firm of musical instru—
ment manufacturers that he would play
their harps for a bonus of $1,000 a year.
Mr. Thomas denied being in any way
connected with any house engaged in sell-
ing or _manufacturing musical instru-
, ments. He also denied any. knowledge of
Schenecker’s proposition, but admitted
thatartists accepted bonuses or pay for
exhibiting instruments, but this was none
of his business. Mr. Thomas declared
L that the authority of the director general
over him was only nominal.
It Was shown that Director General
Davis had notified Thomas not to make
engagements with persons who were un-
der obligations to use instruments made
by non-exhibitors. Notwithstanding this
Mr. Thomas had placed in Music Hall and
had played at the concerts the pianos of
a non-exhibiting firm , and the programme
of future concerts is so arranged that it
practically excludes pianos of all exhibit-
ors. Nor was this favoritism confined to
the use of pianos. That it has been carried
to the use of organs and harps the evi-
dence con clusivcly shows. .
Mr. W’alter Damrosch, son-in-law of the
late'Secretary Blaine, is already spoken of
as the probable successor to Mr. Thomas
as musical director of the exposition, and
it is stated that Mr. Damrosch will accept
the position .. tendered him.
One of the greatest attractions in the
Government building is the model of the
caravel Santa Maria, which attracts large
crowds.
At the commissioners’ meeting a resolu-
tion was introduced by Commissioner
Buchar, of North Dakota, calling for an
increased Columbian guards from 2,000 to
$3,000 and that. the governors of the differ-
,‘ent states he called upon to furnish the
increase wanted from the national guards,
the states to pay their per diem and the
exposition their expenses.
The national commission, which had
hitherto taken no action on the death of
Mrs. Chauncey Depew, wife of the com-
missioner from New York, unanimously
adopted a resolution introduced by John
Boyd Thacher,of New York, offering the
' condolence of the commission to the mem
her from New York in the great loss he
had sustained. ‘
The open air concerts were carried out
under difliculties yesterday. The bands
were compelled to leave the stand several
,times on account of hard showers, and
stopped in the midst of one or two selec-
' tions to cover their instruments and seek
shelter from the rain. , ~. -
The number of tickets sold at the gates
was 12,682. It is estimated that 5,000
others bought tickets at the down town
ofiices.
Bow in the Behring Sea Court. .
PARis, May .12.—In the Behring sea
court an altercation which followed Sir
Charles Russell’s assertion that Mr. Bay-
ard had never tried to justify the Behring
sea seizures, on the ground that the United
States had property in the seals, was so
hot that it threatened to jeopardize the
whole arbitration. Finally the difficulty
was adjusted temporarily by the decision
that the discussion of the question of the
liability be postponed.
Badly Beaten by Union Men.
TONAWANDA, N. Y.—William Strongh, a
on-union man working at Fassett &
. lliuger’s docks, was attrcked last night
“by union lumber shavers. He was knocked
senseless and was taken to the hospital.
Four of his assailants have been arrested.
Serious trouble is expected.
' Went Down with the Columbia Bank.
1 SIOUX CITY, 1a., May 12. —The au-
nouncement ofuthe failure of the Colum-
bia National bank sent the Sioux City Eu-
vgine works to the wall. W. M. Thomp-
son has been appointed receiver of the
company. The liabilities are $900,000 and
acute 8265.000. - ,
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SOMETHING ABOUT THE UNIQUE sire.
TEM OF BROOKLYN. .
The Board of Education of the City Spends
Nearly 8100.000 Every Year In'Fitting
Out Pupils F51- Their Studies—How the
Requisitions Are Made Up.
The thanks of nearly 100,000 public
school pupils of Brooklyn and their par-
ents are due ”to the board of education
fOrat least one of the features of that
bOdy’s. 'admiuistratiOn—the' free _ book
system; It is a fact not commonly known
that the pupils of the public schools in
this city are furnished with all the outfit
of books, slates and paper, necessary
throughout their course at school free of
charge. To do this entails an expense of
about $100,000 every year and a vast deal
of work in procuring and distributing
the required supplies. Only one other
city in the state, that of New York,
treats its school children as munificent-
1y. The system has been in vogue in
Brooklyn for some years and is found to
he s satisfactory that no (fiange is ex-
pected or even considered at all.
The books used in this city’s schools
are selected by the board of education’s
committee 'on studies, who report their
selections to the full board for confirma-
tion before the books are finally listed.
There are now on the catalogue of text-
books and works of whatever sort for
which need is found to exist in the
schools upward of 1,000 different kinds
of books ranging from primers to ab-
struse works on philosophy. The list
includes a variety of algebras, arithme-
tics, books on astronomy, bookkeeping,
chemistry, civil government, composi-
tion and rhetoric, dictionaries in Eng-
lish and several other languages, books
on elocution, elwmology, geography, ge-
ometry, grammar, history, languages,
literature, methods of teaching, physiol-
ogy, readers, maps, charts, copy books,
drawing books, music books and charts,
science and natural philosophy and sup-
plementary readers.
The modus operandi of getting the
right books in the right quantities to the
several schools is this: The principal of
a school makes up from reports furnished
by'his subordinates a requisition which ‘
is written out on a blank form with the
titles of the books, grades for which they
are to be used, and the price of each book,
and the total for the whole requisition.
Demands for maps, globes, charts, dic-
tionaries, blackboards, janitors’ supplies,
etc., must be approved by the chairmen
of the local committees. The requisi-
tions after passing the committee on li-
braries are sent to the secretary of the
board of education, George G. Brown,
who controls the distribution of the sup-
plies for the schools.
The requisitions are tabulated once a
week, and upon the basis of the result
of the tabulation orders are made out
upon the publishers. Lack of room for
the storage of the supplies and scarcity
of money forbid any considerable quan-
tity of books being carried in stock. All
the books are delivered at the bookroom
in the ofice building of the board of ed-
ucation, where they are counted, and
each one is stamped “Property Board of
Education, City of Brooklyn,” and en-
tered on the receiving book. The clerks.
make up the orders for the several
schools, and the packages are sent to
their destinations by express.
A separate account of books received
and returned is kept at the headquarters
of the board of education with each
school. The books are charged to the
principals, who in turn charge them to
the teachers, the latter keeping track of
the disposition of the volumes among
the pupils. When the books become un-
fit for use, they are turned in and re-
bound if expensive, and if cheap sold
for waste paper. All books when they
cannot be used any longer, whether fit
for rebinding or not, must be returned
to the board of education. If pupils
willfully destroy them, they are obliged
to pay for others to replace the books de-
stroyed. In the case of books lost by
pupils the teachers are vested with a cer-
tain , degree of discretionary ppwer
touching what measures if any shall be
taken to make good the loss.
How long the average schoolbook lasts
is a matter for speculation. The life of
the average book differs with the locality
of the school and the character of the
pupils. In some sections, for instance,
the books are converted into playthings
for the baby at hpme, while in others
the greatest pride is manifested in pre-
serving the books clean and unimpaired.
So, too, a geography of a good kind
will last frequently several years, while
one season of work is generally the limit
of endurance of a primer. Whatever
may be the total number of books used
up in a year, it is certain that the em-
ployees of the board who handle them
haven’t an overplus of leisure. From
the middle of J unuary till March 1 three
express wagons are kept constantly on
the move distributing the packages to.
the schools. ' .
The number of pupils on register is
about 96,000, so that the per capita cost
for books is only a little over$1 per year -.
In the primary grades, where a large
portion of the total registry is found
many of the youngsters require only
slates and primers. Higher up, however, '
in the grammar schools and high schools
the cost of books for each pupil, if it
were not home by the board, would
range from $3 or $4 to $7 or $8 per year,
so that the free book system is universally
regarded as a boon to the public school
children-Brooklyn Eagle. '
Cranks on flair-cutting. _ '
. The crank on the subject of haircut-
ting—you’ve all met him! The Worst
form of haircutting crankism is proba-
bly the man with. a poetical fancy, who
tries to stick a barber by asking to get
his hair cut'in some unheard of fashion.
I had a man came in once and ask for an
“inshoot;” sometimes it’s a “landscape
garden.” It was only last week that a
bi8.10113 legged youngster came in and
asked metocut his hair cattail style.—
' National Barber. ' .
Read the Gum]. =
ma SCHOOLBOOKS. "'
‘ . ' W EEK LYNoR '
- spoiling the Romance.
cast away into boat and come infer a
share of the enthusiasm created by the
great ‘scenic effects,’ but just consider
when the scene is called for again and
again, and you are kept rocking like mad
for a good 20 minutes. It isn’t so at-
tractive then, to say nothing of being
obliged to take a call absolutely green
with seasickness, and then run down
stairs to ‘change’ when you can’t even
see straight. It is like making a nightly
‘fall’ all through the country, on all sorts,
of rugs, chiefly fur ones, that are, full of '_
dust and the hair of which flies awfully.
It isn’t so pleasant to lie there while the
scene is being finished by the other act-
ors, and you in a ‘dead faint’ strangle
yourself'to keep from cOughing.
“Or take the scene in Nero where you
lie on the couch, and Nero pushes you off
on- the floor. 'To a certain extent you can
make yourself fall comfortably, but if
' you don’t, if your arms get twisted un-
der you, or your neck is bent, you have
to stand it and lie there ‘dead’ through a
long scene. An actress who played the
part told me that one night Nero forgot
to push her oif the couch, and there she
was in a frightfully uncomfortable posi-
tion, almost dead, and so far on the
couch that she couldn’t make herself fall
oif even if she would have dared to risk
interrupting the scene. The dear people
in the audience do not think of these
things that are part of the work of pleas-
ing them.”—Boston Transcript.
Education and Long Life.
It is a common belief that education
wears out the body and invigorates the
mind. .Also that nervous diseases are
more common among civilized nations
than among the savages, because the
latter without education are able to at-
tain and maintain physical perfection.
It is claimed by myself, as well as other
investigators, that the educated man, the
man who studies most, while not physic-
ally strong, is yet not weak and is much
more able to withstand a given period
of nervous tension than is the man with
the excellent physique and the moder-
ate comprehension. In fact the intel-
ligent mind may be physically sick all
through life and yet live on in this mis-
ery to a good old age, while the. strong
physique breaks down early, and having
no mental or nervous acumen dies very
quickly and only at a moderate age.
Among the lowest African tribes, cur-
rently supposed to be almost devoid of
nerves, nervous diseases are very com-
mon. In fact, entire tribes are mere
wrecks and only live a little time. It is
safe to say that with the advent of civ—
ilization these tribes would regain phys-
ical strength. My best study has been
given to the prominent educators of the ,
world, most of whom I find physically
weak, but living on and doing Work daily
that would kill the ordinary laborer in
less than three years—Interview in St.
Louis Globe-Democrat. ' ' '
A Disastrous Appearance.
Nat Goodwin says that hewas scared;
almost to death during his” first appear-
ance, and the story that he tells certain-
ly gives color to that assertion. ' -
“In 1873,” he said, “I signed for the
season to appear in juvenile roles at the
Providence Opera House. In a melo-
drama 'called ‘The Bottle’ I was cast
for the part of the horrid young villain
who is forcing his unwelcome attention
on the good young heroine. I‘ thought I
was right in it until I \made my first
speech, and then I discovered my mis-
take. In the first act I am supposed to
suddenly come upon the heroine alone,
and I deliver this line: ‘SO, I have you
again, my sweet beauty! Why do you
avoid me thus?’ I had not more than de-
livered that line when the girl turned on
me and let out an unearthly screech that
scared me to death. It shook every line
out of ’my head, and I stood as if I had
been suddenly attacked with lockjaw.
The heroine was quick to see my plight,
however, and .she went right on with the
play, repeating my lines and then her
own. As soon as I saw a chance I made
a bolt for the stage door, and with all
my makeup on took the next train back
to B0ston.”—New York World.
The Extinct Northern “‘Sea’Covr.” V ~1
In the year 1754 the Behring explor-
ers discovered gigantic species of ry-
tinae, or “northern sea cow.” These
enormous manatees were similar in gen-
eral habits to those of the South Ameri-
can coast and were from 20 to 30 feet in
length and from 10 to 20 feet in girth.
They were very stupid, harmless beasts,
and lived by browsing on seaweeds and
other marine growths near the land. The
sailors were not slow in finding out that
a sea cow steak beat seal meat “all hol-
low.” From 1754 until 1768 they were
the principle food of the sailors and ex-
plorers on our western’ coast. This be-
ing the case, it is not at all surprising
that the northern sea cow, never a very
numerous species, should become ex-
tinct in the short space of 14 years. The
last of the giant manatees was killed in
September, 1768, a few months less than
14 years after the discovery of thefirst
one.——St. Louis Republic.
Two Things That Scare a Negro.
Two seemingly harmless things excite
the fear of the southern negro. One ,-is
the cracking of the finger joints; the
otheris to he stepped over as he lies
prone upon the ground. The cracking
of the finger joints seems to suggest :to
the negro imagination the rattling of a
skeleton’s bones, while to he stepped
Over is regarded as likely to bring bad
luck to grown folks and to check the
growth of children. A half grown ne-
gro boy will sternly command a play-
fellow who has stepped Over his body‘to
step back, in order that the spell may .
be removed—New York Sun.
The Customer Ate Crackers.
“Will you please have these biscuits
Warmed for me?” asked a patron of a‘
Sixth street restaurant of a waiter one:
night last week. “Very sorry, sir, but;
the cook is taking a nap, and I’m net al-
lowed to open the oven doors,” replied
the knight of the tray. The. customer
ate mixers—Cincinnati Enquirer.
I ‘ Advertise in the Guam.
' "‘It is very well,” said aleading We“. .
"to have nice, sentimental parts, {pubs ’
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THE REPRODUCTIONOF" THE. OLD
oe-vglv'r CLINTON beam in
A Unique Bit of History Which Deals
With tho-Old Anti-Masonry Feeling In
New York State Over Sixty Years Ago.
A Clever Artist With Scissors. --
_ “The New York Central Railroad com-
pany’s reproduction of the first railroad
train and locomotive ever run in- New
York state, a most interesting and valu-
able exhibit at the Chicago fair,” said- an
old resident of Albany, “causes me to
wonder how many of the oficers of that
company know that if the disappearance
of Morgan from Batavia 65 years ago
had not been attributed . to. murderous
machinations of the Masonic fraternity,
which resulted in the great anti-Masonic
excitement that spread throughout the
country and became a sensational polit-
ical factor, they wOuld not have been
able to make the reproduction, and the
appearance of that curious railroad train
and engine would never have been known
in accurate and pictorial representation.
“It was years before the discovery and
practical introduction of that crude pred-
ecessor of photography, the daguerreo—
type, when the pioneer railroad train in
this state was run, and as the future im-
portance to history of the appearance of
that train never occurred to those inter-
ested in bringing it into existence the
‘ sldll of no artist with his pencil was
brought into use to perpetuate it on
paper. It happened that a young man
named Brown—William H. Brown of
Philadelphia—was in Albany on the day
the train was run, Aug. 9, 1831, and had
been in the place several days.
“He had a marvelous talent for cutting
with a pair of scissors out of black paper
lifelike profile portraits and accurate
representations of buildings, machinery
and even landscapes.
“The remarkable part of this talent of
his was his power to make a perfectly
exact portrait of persons days and even
weeks after having seen them but once,
and that only casually on the street.
“He had for some time made agood liv-
ing by the exercise of his peculiar art.
Thaddeus Stevens was at that time just
beginning to make a reputation in poli-
tics and had seized upon the anti-Masonic
idea for use in Pennsylvania, as it had
been so Successfully worked by Thurlow
'Weed and his lieutenants in New York
state. The feeling was growing in Penn-
sylvania, and young Brown thought it
would be a. good stroke of business for
him to go to Albany, have a look at
Thurlow Weed and others, snip their
likeness out in silhouette, and besides
getting a fee from them for the work
duplicate the pictures for sale among
the anti-Masonic enthusiasts in Pennsyl-
vania and eisewhere.
“He went to Albany early in August,
1831,.and did a great deal more than 'get
the portraits .of Thurlow Weed. His
wonderful work took the town by storm,
and he was kept busy from morning un-
til night cutting the silhouette likenesses
'of people of all kinds, sexes and ages
that flocked to his rooms.
» “His greatest artistic feat was the cut-
ting in one large picture of the famous
Burgess corps entire, with staff and band
in full parade, each member’s portrait
being of surprising accuracy. This pic.
ture is among the most precious relics in
the state library. ‘ .
“And so it happened that this unique
young artist was in Albany'on the day
the quaint locomotive De Witt Clinton,
with its equally quaint coaches, was to be
run on its first trip over the Mohawk and
Hudson railroad. °
“He was one of the passengers on the
train, and when it returned to'Albany
he cut with his scissors an exact picture
of the locomotive and two Of the coaches,
making the portrait of David Matthew,
the engineer, and John T. Clark, the con-
ductor, on his seat on the outside of the
front coach.
“In that picture appear the likenesses
of Thurlow Weed, ex—Governor Yates
and other distinguished Albanians of
that day, but neither Mr. Weed nor the
ex-governor was on the train. Without
a thought of the future of that picture
as a valuable contribution to history,
the artist out those pOrtraits merely as
an exercise of his skill in depicting a sub-
ject from memory. He told me so him-
self 40 years afterward.
"While Artist Brown was in Albany
he concluded to go to Boston and Hart-
ford to make some portraits and other
cuttings with his marvelous scissors.
While in Hartford he showed the picture
he had made of the railroad train and
locomotive to a member of the Connecti-
cut Historical society, who at once saw
what a treasure it must necessarily be-
come, and the artist presented it to the
sOciety. where it is today a relic beyond
rice. ,
p “Some 30 years after cutting that pic-
ture Brown became interested in the
railroad business himself, having long
ceased to exercise his artistic skill pro-
fessionally, and one day, having almost
forgotten the Albany picture, he read
in a newspaper an account of a litho-
graph that had just been published
from a photogrhph of the silhouette pic-
ture he had presented to the Connecticut
Historical society.
“He sent to the publisher of the lith’o- ,
graph and procured a copy of it and was
rejoiced to see an exact reproduction of
his scissors cutting of more than 30 years
before. But the joy he felt over .a sight
of the picture was scarcely as great as
the inscription beneath it gave him.
, “The date of the running of the. train
was given as some time in 1832,".the
name of the locOmotive being the John
Bull instead of the De Witt Clinton and
the name of the engineer John Hampson _
instead of David Matthew.
“Brown at once set‘ about the task of
correcting the lithograph publishers’ his-
tory. a taSk at which .he worked .--for
more than 30 years, for the lithograph
copy of his picture. with its incorrect
inscription. had been widely circulated.”
-—New York Sun.
A-woman’s mind is like the wind on
a winter's nigh ." repeats an old French
saying, and aBasque adageruns, “South
wind. woman's though " . .
_ Read thé’Gl'zm.
A RARE“ PHOTOGRAPH '
_ Highéstioffllii
ll. Leavemng‘Power—Lates’tus' de’
’ “‘” LOVE’S' seavrce.
Love called to a young man 'winningly,
“Come; join the ranks of my company
And take the field in my service.”
But the young man said: “There are other,
, things ' ’ 5
Then blushes and kisses and flowers and rings,
0f far more worth than your service.
“There’s by :iness and sport and pleasure and
art: .
Your war is mere folly, your weapon a dart;
I’ve no time to spare for your service.”
Love turned lightly away when he heard the
rebufl.
0f young volunteers there were more than
enough .
To fill up the ranks of his service.
But time, passing by, made clear to the man
That they are the wisest who join when they
can -
The worshipful ranks of Love’s service.
So he oflered to Love his jewels and coin;
Forgetting his age, he thought he would join
The throng who pressed to Love’s service.
But Love answered lightly: “The day has
gone by.
A sere autumn leaf is too old and too dry
For a garland worn in my service.
“You can buy if you like a friendly regard,
And perhaps it may seem if you try very
hard
As if you were in my service.
“But the raw recruits for my household guard
I take from the young; the old are debarred
From taking the oaths of my service.
“The countersign’s ‘Youth.’ Can you give
it?” “Ah, no."
“Then right about face. You’re too old and
too slow
To learn the details of my service.”
—C. F. Johnson in Temple Bar.
The Dcca y of Winter Sports In Canada.
The average inhabitant of the “States”
in going to Canada in \the winter time
expects, I have no doubt, to see the
streets and hillsides covered with snow-
shoes and toboggans. He may be sur-
prised to learn that there is but one
really good toboggan slide in Canada,
and that is at Montreal, while snow-
shccrs are numbered now by tens where
formerly they were counted by hun-
dreds. It is simple enough to under.
stand what has brought about this
change in what is usually accepted as
the typical Canadian winter sport.
A few years ago, when tobogganing
and snow shoeingflourished purely for the
great sport furnished, the profeSsional
impresario, aided by the hotelproprietor,
conceived the idea of booming Montreal
and incidentally enriching themselves
by holding winter carnivals, the main
expenses of which were borne by Mon-'
treal merchants. FOr a time they drew
largely, and Canada was literally alive
with snowshoes and toboggans, but anon
they palled, and the last much advertised
‘ “carnival” was highly uninteresting from
a spectator’s point of view.—Harper’s
Weekly. 4
1131-. Gladstone as a Poet.
An “Ode” which Mr. Gladstone com-
posed when he was a younger man than
he now is has been printed in London.
It is full of truisms, a fair specimen of
which is the remark at the Opening of
the eleventh section:
We are amid the tumult and the stress
Of a fierce eddying fight,
And to our mortal sight
our fate is trembling in the balances.
This statement is truthful, Obviously
true. It is a standing truth, and when
properly regarded it is not discouraging
to a. man of the derring do kind- The"
last line of the stanza ought to prompt
and impel all men to do their best amid
the tumult,vas we must trust Mr. Glad-
stone himself is doing. As mere poetry
the “Ode” is open to criticismlupon four-
sides. Its-thought is feeble, its wOrding
poor, its figures incongruous and its
rhyme bad. Gladstone does not seem to
be much of a'poet.—New York Sun.
The Art of Working In Gold.
. The Romans copied the Greek and
Etruscan goldsmiths’ vark, though they
also often used the ornanmnts themselves
taken from the ancient tombs. Much of
the art of the ancients in working gold
was lost until early in the present cen-
tury, when Signor Castellani found some
of the Etruscan methods still being em-
ployed by workmen in a village in a
remote corner of the Apennines.—Lon-
don Times. »
Sailors as Astronomers.
It was a happy thought toenlist the
sea captains in the service of science.
While for obvious reasons the solid land
is better for the accurate observations'
there seems good cause to hope that‘here-
after large additions. to ~ astronomical
knowledge may be made. by the masters
of vessels happening to be in the path of
eclipses.-—Youth’s Companion.
. The First Women on the Stage.
It is now ascertained b¢yonddoubt
that women first appeared upon the
stage between November, 1660, and
January, 1661. On Jan; 3 Pepys, that
inveterate playgoer, tells .us that he saw
“The Beggar’s Bush,”1 “it being well
done, and here the first time that I ever
saw women come upon: the stage.”—
Comhill Magazine. ' '
She Did Not “chm" mm.
Young Woman (in car, to, Fogg, who
ofiers to sit beside hei-FThisseat is en-
gaged for a gentleman. sir.
Fogg (sitting down with'casy assur-
' ance)—Thanks; very kind-in you,and very .
flattering besides—Boston‘Transcript.
.For those in whom baldness has al-
ready begun, through inc: weakpess ' Of
the general system, thorOugh brushing
-of thehai'r several timesa day willbe
fromthesummitinalldimtlom. .'
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ProdiotiugfiEu-thqmu. 1 '. .
Professor Fall) Of {Vienna hasLat ed
some -,notoriety. from the fact‘tha' die
predicted the coming of both seriestI
earthquake shocks frpm which the island
of'Zantehas recently suffered. , . -
Earthquake prognosticutionshave been
recorded as coming true in note. f9, " -. .
stances, but' there is reason to be ‘cze
that the fulfillment of the prophecies was
urely accidental. Seismologists arctildt
' ely to give Professor Falb much credit
for prescience. They will say he merely
happened to foretell what~was‘coming.
We may, to be sure, predict earth-
quakes in some regions with a good deal
of confidence that the prognosticatio'n
will come true. If we predict; fer iii-
stance, that an earthquake or earth
tremors will be felt in Japan tomorrow,
the chances are that the prediction will
come true, for one or two-earth move" ~
ments on an average . are felt in thfét
country every day, but we' cannot ‘téll
exactly where they will occur or- whit
degree of violence they will‘exh'ibit.
The greatest boon which could be con-
ferred upon regions that are-subjectfto
violent earthquake shocks would benthe '
discovery of some means of foretelhig
the coming of these terrible calamities.
Forlyears seismologists have given-thy}:
L most earnest attention to this ‘prOblem,
but it cannot be said that they have
made much progress. Professor John
Milne says that he and his assistants
have spent years in observing the earth-
quake phenomena of Japan, but th§y
have never yet succeeded in foretelliirg
the coming of an earthquake—New
YOrk Sun. ' ‘
The Humming of Telegraph Wires.
You have all heard the humming and
singing of telegraph and telephone wir'és
as you passed the poles along the streets.
No doubt you have concluded that it"is '
caused by the action of the windpnét "e
wires and given it' no further‘thOughh
But it is not true that the singinglis
caused by the wind, and if'you are at all
observing you will notice that often the
humming sound is to be heard cold win-
tér mornings when the smoke from chiinf
neys goes straight up until it is lost in the
clouds, and when the frost on the wires
is as fuzzy and thick as a roll of chenille
fringe.
The wind has' nothing to do with the
sound, and according to an Austrian
scientist the vibrations are due ‘to the
changes of, atmospheric temperature" ’
and especially through the action of
cold, as a lowering of temperature in-
duces a shortening of the wires extend-
ing over the whole of the conductor. A ‘
considerable amount of friction is pro-,
duced on the supporting bells, thus in-
ducing sounds both in the wires and the
poles.
When this humming has been going
on, birds have mistaken the sound for in-
sects 'inside the poles and have been
seen to peek with their ' bills on the out-
side as they do upon the apple and other
trees—Boston Journal of Commerce.
Electrolysis In Water Pipes.
A considerable amount of anxiety has
recently been caused, especially among
corporations controlling waterworks, by
the discovery that the passage of electric
cars has a tendency to seriously injure
the water pipes of a city by causing elec-
trolysis. At a meeting of a waterworks
association an electrical engineer stated
that in some cases under his Observation
lead pipe had entirely disappeared by the
action of the electric current,'and.'a like, _ . :
result had attended the use of iron, gal-
vanized iron, brass and “rustless” pipes.
The corrosive action takes place where
the current leaves the pipe and not .
where it enters it, and the phenomena
mentioned were undoubtedly owing to
the operation of electric cars.. It is sat-
isfactory to knOw that should the elw
trolysis of water pipes become so serious
a question as it is thought by some. it
may, a certain remedy, although; it'
would increase the cost of wa-;z' instal-
lations, would be the insulation of. the
conduitsJ—Chicago Herald.
Fasting Versquntlfat.
Miss Mollie N ealson set out to fast. 31 ‘
days. She had more pluck than strength,
but she, managed to complete the task. “
The only interesting thing in connection ,
with the feat is the fact that her weight ‘
fell from'202' to 164 pounds, a loss of 11-
pounds a day. This would. indicate that '
ordinary fasting, as it_is'called, would
not be a very emcient antifat remedy.
If Miss Nealson wishes to continue her
explorations in this line of science, 5116
may/yet become a public benefactor.
Certame a young woman who weighs
200 pounds has a strong personali'n-V
captive—New York World.
' The Sun M‘yths.
It was in Bayard Taylor’s day that the
sun myth had its vogue. One night at a
party Taylor was greatly bored'by’the '-
persistent efforts of a guest to discuss
sun myths. . . ..
the conversation might take this person
would ruthlessly drag it back again to _,
raised a .
very interesting question in regard to the .
"Did you. 9701‘
think,” he! asked, “thatthe name Smith.
his favorite topic.
‘ At last the distressed poet
threadbare subject.
so common all over the world is derived
from sun myth?”
drained of such thing.
8mm. Smith. and some at?“ even she.
m3. "i“ “£13.!“ W ‘
’.—Yout ’s m _, ‘.
I
No matter what direction '1
No one had" ever ‘
Max Muller -,
hadoverlooked the point completely. . , .- -
- “Quite possible, certainlymoet plans. '
ible,” said’Taylor. “Sun myth. Smyth. . '
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