Evening Star Newspaper, June 3, 1893, Page 12

£440 BV ENENG Dist WW AMOEABINSIEUING DP ty SALURUDAT, JUNK 0. LOYS-KIGHTEKEN PAGES. ll VS WARDROBE | tossti“own 's Some of the Comfortable and Becom- ing Gowns It Should Contain. FOR INDOOR WEAR. Breakfast Sacks, Tea Gowns and Wrappers— How They Should Be Made — Materials, Colors and Trimmings—Eed Room Wrap- pers—Arrangement of the Hair. —— + ‘Written for The Evening Star. MONG THE MOST fascinating articles ins fashionable woman's are thedainty breakfast sacks, tea gowns and wrappers. These, when made in delicate colors, are ex- ceedingly pretty and becoming. ‘The tea gown in the first picture is of a dark plum color and the trimmings are lace and fignred silk. The wide, fall front of the body is of silk, and this con- tinues down under the gown in an underskirt that shows only at the bottom. This robe fs, of course, ent all in ono piece, bat the full belt put om im the front gives it the appearance of being separate. Tho edge of pope is bordered with deep lace, which is RE into the ar mholes in the back. This gown is high ander the the arms and is waist in front and atthe top and narrow near The sleeves have two puffs and a deep ouff, which is made of silk. French flannel or cashmere is about the most useful material for breakfast jackets, ne yellow of either of these materinis would be very pretty made up as the one in cut six ia, » The jacket has a close fitting back and vest, the front pieces being loose and without darts. ‘The vest, which is gathered crosswise to heading. is of white bengaline silk. The long cuffs or tight-fitting part of the sleeves are made of bengaline also. The jacket extends below the hips, but tho vest stops at the waist line and is finished off ins point. White satin ribbon ends are let in at the under-arm seams Wattean in the back, where itslightly touches | 8nd are tied in # loose bow in front. ‘the floor, though it without a train. A breakfast jacket ts next shown. It is made of cream white flannel and is daintily trimmed with lace and white satin ribbon. The jacket is cut surplice on one side, though without the usual fullness at thi few gathers at th borders the surp narrower at the and long ribbon ends are let into the under-arm seams and tied in « loose bow in front. The tack iw cut rather long, reaching well over the ps jr A charming bed room wrapper is the enbject of the third illustration. This ieeut from figured eballi and is quite easy to make. Pale pink is the color chose here, and the ribbons, which give the empire effect, are white, a3 is also the lace around neck and sleevos. The robe is full and ‘ight from neck to hem, being caught in only bya band of ribbon sewed at the under-arm seams and brought up high in front. Two Forettes aro fixed in the back and one in the front. The sleeves are full and loose and are unconfined at the wrist, where they are bor- dered with lace. Wide lace ruffles surround the neck, which is cut slightly low in front. For comfort and use this wrapper is indispensa- Die, as it can be put on with so liitle trouble. very convenient for use. g sack is sbown in eut number atthe neck and falls in the hips. A ribbon belt is hooked at the side and con- nent at the waist. Tho sleeves of bell and are bordered with lace. ‘The neck is finished off by a Ince ruffle. This ean be made, for summer wear, out of wash goods—a tigured lawn or mz if made from flannel or chalii it would be greatly im- proved by being faced around by silk. ‘The India siik tea gown in the fifth cut ia just rm afternoon when one ove about. This gown is figured silk. Pale apple color, and the trimming with a polka dot of white. » ina point in front, of the girdic cuffs, sir is and ruffies figured silk. ‘The body is gathered full to the yoke, and is also gathered at the waist, where « girdie aud rosette joins it to the skirt For a stylish tea gown, the illustration next shown is admirably adapted. It is made of old rose snmmer d has largo black satin tleeves. black satin ‘collar, or tather ruche, and a large bow at the ‘The back is made princess, and the front is draped and caught to one side bya large bow. A rounded jacket shape is put on in front, and is edged with black menterie. Above tho fuli ruche which orders the sleeves is another row of this, and the bottom of the skirt can also be trimmed in this manner if desirable. To avoid expense, this would look very well made up entirely of old rose without the trimmings of black. aaa tS Another tea gown, of lighter weight and color, is represented next. It is made of white French challie, trimmed in white and light blue figured silk. ‘This tea gown is made full at th neck, where it 1s gatherod and corded to form a dis caught down toa full gathered girdle at the waist. Tho jacket effect, sleoves, collar, girdle and skirt bands are made of the silk. “The back can be made either princess or Watteau, as fancy prescribes. bl eens eee It is so convenient to have a loose comforta- ble wrapper to knock about vour room in in the morning. A wrapper of ‘this description is own here (cut nine). It is of blue and is ered to a heart-shaped yoke of a durker shade. ‘This gown is gathered to the yoke and bangs straight to the hem, being slightly confined at the wuist by a knotted sacb, which passes under the Watteau pleat in the back and is tied in the front at the side. The neck is cut low and ® rolling ruffle of white lace borders it. Wide ruffles of Ince fall over the tops of the sleeves whichare edged at the bottom with it. ‘This iss thoroughly comfortablerobe, and is just the ting to take away to some quiet resort in order to be comfortable in your room in the morning. ‘The last picture here shows pretty break- fast sash of striped pongee silk. It is trimmed with ribbon of ‘whalever color the satin stripes Reppen to be. The front is full at the neck is confined at the waist bya ribbon belt with @ large rosette. A deep bertha of lace comes from the neck and hangs down ina t in the front and ts entered at the edge of Watteau fullness in the back. The belt also stops here and is finished off by two ro- settes. A tiny bow is placed at the throat and atthe back of the neck, giving a hd dainty Snish, Es Written for The Evening Star. Farmer Jim. I ifke this Kind o’ weather, It makes a man feel good ‘When nature gets together Insueh a happy mood. ‘When risin’ in the mornin’, Abont the break o' day, ‘The sweet scent o’ the dawnin’ ‘Most takes my breath away. ‘The blooms o’ stately crocus An’ clover, white and red, ‘The sprays 0’ honey-iocus? ‘A’ noddin’ over head. Shrubs, honeysuckles, sweet peas, An’ buddin’ roses fair, The vi'lets, Ilacs—all these Add sweetness to the air. An’ fn the trees and bashes ‘The birds are warblin’ airs— ‘Wrens, robins, blucbirds, thrushes— ‘That rise like mornin’ pray'rs. An’ by ’n by the sun steals Above the distant trees, An’ glints on dew-wet wheat flel’s A quiver in the breeze. Thave to stop an’ ponder ‘On this sweet peaceful scene; ‘My heart keeps growin’ fonder Of birds an’ felds o’ green. An’ my lt’ of’ plantation, ‘The modest ol’ home place, Seems like an honored station For me to fill with grace. —Moxccne Burrs. soe OLD GOLD. Interesting Facts About Its Purchase and ‘Treatment. ‘From the Boston Herald. In the face of tho much-prohesied gold famine, old gold is in groat demand. it is bought by the refiners for mechanical pur- Poses and is paid for with spot cash of tho greenback variety. Old gold is very rich, not only in monetary value but in strangoand interesting suggestions. Most of it is in tho shape of dilapidated jew- elry. A worn band of gold comes in. It was once a wedding ring and must have been held as precious beyond all price by the bride who wore it during herhoneymvon. In after years, as it was worn and worn till it was almost worn away, it must have fluctuated many times in value, ‘The ring does not say whether its owner was happy or not. The link of gold may have bound together a loving husband and wife, or it ma} have connected widow with heaven, or wit! the coldness of a steel it may have held her like agalley slave chained to companion that she bated. The ring tells nono of these things, It is old-fashioned and worn, and that shows that it hasseen long service. Perhaps it was worn by s rangers, being superseded by another wed- ding ring, or, perhaps, it was a precious family heirloom ‘handed down from generation to generation. The purchaser rubs it on a smooth stone until it leaves a yellow mark. A drop of nitric or compound acid discolors this mark so that the expert assayor can tell the purity of the gold. Then itis carefully weighed and paid for at the rate, perhaps, of three or four cents a karat, All sorts of curious things are sold for the precious metal they contain. Old watches that are broken beyond repair, old seal rings and rings that were once set with gleaming gems. A broken locket once contained a miniature and robably holds the secret of a romance. A rooch is made of the light-colored gold of | over 100 years ago and #uil holds a lock of | somebody's dark hair. It was bought, hair and | all, and will go into the melting pot with its story untold. Some of the gold comes already melted into lumps, some of it is the gold filling of teeth and dentists’ scraps, and some of it is in the form of old plates, with artificial teeth still sticking to them. Hood & leynolds, tho assayers on Tremont street, say that old gold is very scarce and thoy Rave had hard work to collect the amount needed in their business. The old jewelry and scraps are melted down and refined, then rolled out into gold. The gold foil is bought by dentuts and put into the teeth of their cus- tomers, and in most cases goes back into the ground with the owner of the tecth when he dies. Some day, when Boston is a howling wilderness, an enterprising miner will wash out the earth of the comoteries and reap a rich harvest. But that isa matter of speculation. It isa matter of fact that one firm of reiiners here in Boston uses up $2,500 worth of old gold every Week, and ‘ately lus been compelled to, buy coin to eke out the supply needed for mechani- ul purposes. Acgreat deal of the jewelry is oldered to brass, lead and other metals. The quality of the gold is tested justas in tho case of solid jewelry, and the stuff is weighed in bulk and paid for at the rate established b: raging the results of different weighings. Even plated Jewelry is taken, but when pure brass comes in the purchasers are foreed to draw the line. A good deal of the old silver is sold in the same way, but instead of being in demand it ia a drug on the market. It is not so interesti either, as it usually comes in the spoons, knives and watches, When ti get more silver than they can use thi to the government mints as quickly as they can, Not a little platinum is sold as oid metal, and usually comes in the form of bits of wire and scraps from broken incandescent lamps. It is now largely used by dentists, but it is sent to New York for treatment, as it can only be melted by means of a compound blow pipe, and there is no place in Boston where that is donc. sacle ae Petroleum for Diphtheria. In the Normandie Medicale of Rouen there is an interesting account of anew, and so far wonderfully successful,treatment of diphtheria, Itappears that in the village of Neuvilic- Champ @°Oisel, about nine miles from Rouen, a maligrant type of the diveaso broke out last year. The country doctor, M. Frederic Fla- haut, treated the cases in the usual way, but the deaths were numerous. Remembering. as ho says, that the English use petroleum as an anti- spasinodic and an antiseptic, he determined to try itasanexporiment. His first trial was ia the ease of a little girl seven years old. He had already given her up and proposed tothe paronts to make the experiment, which consisted in awabbing the throat with common petroleum. He had little hope of the success of his new method. but to his astonichment he noticed an improvement after the very first application, He continued the treatment and the child re- covered. ‘Then he tried it successfully with his other patients. ‘This year he had forty cases of diphtheria to treat, and he was successful in every one. In order to be perfectly sure that the cases in uestion were genuine ones of malignant iphtheria, he had tho expectorated matter submitted to analysis of Prof. Francois Hue of the Rouen College of Medicine, and the professor reported that he had clearly dis. covered the presence in it of numerous bacilli of diphtheria, Moreover, his diagnosis waa confirmed by Drs. Desbayes, Lobclait and Bal- lny of Rouen, the last named being the physi- cian in chief of the hospital of that city. ‘The treatment presents little difficulty or dan- ger. The swabbing is done every hour or every two hours, according to the thickness of the membranes, which become, as it were, diluted under the action of the petroleum. Tho brush, after being dipped in the petroleum should ba shaken to prevent any drops falling into the respiratory channels. The patience experience relief from the very first application. Tho dis- agrecable taste of the petroleum remains for a few moments only. . Dr. Fiahaut has been interviewed by several reporters of Paris papers. ile is a modest man, and appears to be astonished at the noise that he is making in the French medical world. He ought to become famous and rich, for he has certainly struck otl. ——_—_+eo_ The Summer Girl. From the Detroit Free Press. He—*“Will you marry me?” She—(mtat 19)—“‘Ob, George, how can you ask that?" It's May now, and the whole sum- mer is before me. Come around again in November.” June loose portion of caple that hang ACROSS OCEAN'S FLOOR Lane Three Miles Deep by Which the Pacific Cable Will Run. CALIFORNIA TO HAWAII, Why Monterey Bay to Honolulu Has Been Decided On as the Most Practicable Route—The Bottom Favorable and No Sub- marine Mountains in the Way. HE SURVEY OF A lane 300 miles wide over the floor of the Pacific ocean between the coast of California and the Hawaiian Jelands has been one of the most interesting scientific tasks ever undertaken by the government. Up to date nothing has been allowed to be pub- lished respecting the results obtained. The Purpose of the work was to determine the best route for a submarine cable. Two lines of soundings were run by the United States fish commission's steamer Albattoss from Monterey bay to Honolulu, ‘This path has been decided on as preferable to a rond connecting Point Conception, Cal., and Hilo bay, Hawaii, which was laid out with soundings by the steamer Thetis, U.S. N. The way selected will require the smallest length of wire. It will pass over an even bottom of soil favorable for the tection and preservation of the cable, avi submarine mountains, The cable, following the, route choson, start from Salinas Landing in Monterey ‘bi At that point a deep gully leads out into t ocean, and throngh it tho wire will plunge to a depth of 2,000 feet within three iilos’ from shore. Ata distance of fifteen miles from the coast it will reach a depth of a mile anda half. From thero the sea bottom shelves very gradu- ally until at about 200 miles west of California the floor of the Pacific is arrived at, with a reg- ular depth of little less than three miles. From there on the cable will pass over a vast level plain so smooth and uninterrupted by ir- regularities of contour that one could traverse it comfortably in « carriage if tho wator were taken away. However. when 870 miles out from Monterey bay a hugo mountain is found rising toa height of two miles and a half. ‘The cable will avoid this elevation by running to the southward of it, DROWNED MOUNTAINS, The presence of this obstacle would never have been discovered save by soundings, inas- much as halfamile in depth of water flows over it. Such drowned mountains occur in all the oceans; but this one is particularly gigantic. Doubtless it is of voleanic orfgin. Beyond ite western slope the sounding line finds the floor of the sea again at its normal depth of some- what loss than three miles. At about 600 miles west of the great submarine elevation do- scribed the water begins to deepen gradually until the bottom of the ocean is nearly threo miles and a half beneath the w: on its surfuee. ‘Two hundred miles east of Honolulu another hill is discovered, the top of which is onlya mile anda half undor water. Beyond that three miles and over, found up to within Hawaiian Islands, which are simply gigantic extinct voleanoos uplifted precipitously from the bottom of the Pacific. For the purpose of discovering drowned mountains the soundings wero taken at alter- nate intervals of ten and two miles, experience having proved that such elevations are best re- vealed by this method. Incidentally specimens of the bottom were brought up and examined, The most common bottom deposits were of “globigerian ooze.” This is the material with which the floor of the deep sea is chiefly paved. Its consistency is that of thick mud, and it is composed of tine detritus brought by rivers from the land into the ocean, mixed with the almost microscopic shells of a kind of foraminifera, to which the namo glo- bigerina has been given. These foremim- fera are little animals that live in countless numbers near the surface of the ocean, from which in dying they descend in a continuous and gentle rain tothe bottom. Itisof their shells that all the chalk beds of the world are largely formed. Different species of them have various beautiful shapes, under the microscope rece bling ornamental plates with perforated dosigns, young mushrooms, pineapples, soap dishes, breakfast rolis, pretzels, firomen’s hats and all sorts of funtastic freaks of the glassmaker's art, THE OCEAN'S BED. Another sort of ooze brought to the surface by the sounding apparatus of the Albatross and Thetis was mainly composed of the shells of imals called “pteropods.” These are single- shelled mollusks and attain a length of as much asan inch. Yet another kind was un 00ze con- sisting chiefly of remains of diatoms -almost ‘oscopic plants which have glass-like shells, ‘The bodies of all of these creatures, falling con- tinually to the bottom, forma sort of organic slime. which was mistaken afew years ago by scientific dredgérs for an extremely low form of life—in fact, for so much protoplasm. ‘They dit “bathybius” or depth-lite, But this jon was exploded by the discovery that the stuff was simply a primordial pap spread out in a thin layer over the entire ocean floor, so that the living animals feeding there need only roll around to find all the sustenance they ro- quired. ing ‘ill jixture of minute shells and mud at the bottom of the sea is sometimes brownish gray and sometimes greenish in color. Other ia- rials with which portions of the ocean floor are paved are red, gray and chocolate clays. Of all bottoms the oozes described are best adapted for prolonging the existence of a cable, being most free from substances which are aleulated to injure the sheathing. In fact, they protect the cable, which quickly becomos imbedded in them. However, the globigerina ooze is not found at a greater dept than some- what under three miles, whilo the pteropod ooze does not oceur decper than a mile and three-quarters. The reason for this is that the dissolving action of the sea water, due to the presence of free carbonic acid, enunot be with- Stood by the deticate limy shells long enough to allow them to sink moro deeply. ENEMIES O¥ THE CABLE. Submarine cables suffer much more near shore than in the deptha of the sea. In tho shallows they are exposed to the chemical ac- tion engendered by decaying animal and vege- table matters. The iodine contained in sea- weeds destroys iron rapidly. Accordingly, lo- calitics which run quickly into deep water over bottoms of mud or sand are chosen for landing laces at the ends of the route. By selecting he gully at Salinas Landing for astarting point the minimum length of cable will be : to damage from such sources, aswell as from the anchors of vessely and from the wear und tear of waves nnd breakers. In shallow water great injury is done to cables by the biva! mollusk called the “teredo” or “ship worm, as well as by ashrimp-like crustacean named “limnoria."’ The latter is a very small creature, ouly about one-eighth of an inch long, and cov- eved wich minute hairs. But ite numbers are so great and the jaws with which it chews aro so powerful that it will demolish wooden piles at the rate of an inch of their thickness per an- num. Teak is the only wood it does not de- your. In 1859 a hemp-covered telegraphic cable on being raised after hardly a year's submersion was found covered with countless millions of the teredo and limnoria, The hemp had en- tirely disappeared under the operations of the mollusk, while the crustacean had pierced the gutta percha insulating core with ever so many small round holes. In the shallow waters close by Honolulu the temperature is about seventy- seven degrees in winter. ‘This warmth might interfere with the insulating properties of the gutta percha, and on that account it is recom- mended that india rubber shall be used for the core at that end of the line. Experience has roved that in isolated patches of the sea ottom wome agency very destructive to the sheathing wires of cables frequentiy occur. This is believed to be due to outerops of veins of mineral, and euch localitics are avoided whenever it is possible. ‘Tho action of the salt water would be likely to decompose the mineral substances, forming solutions which would at- tack the metal. At presenta plan commonly adopted is to envelop the gutta percha coro witha_bandage of cioth impregnated with stearin. This is de- signed to prevent galvanic action between the copper wires foriaing the conductor and the outer armor of iron.’ The lines of the Easteru Submarine Telegraph Company and the Eastern Extension Submarine Telegraph Company, both of which pass h regions badly infested by the teredo, are protected in this way and have resisted the onemy well. Instances are recorded in which cables have been bitten by sharks and cut by swordtishes. In one case a break was caused by a whalo which gotontangled down be- tween two steep slopes. It is important that a cable should lie on the bottom throughout its entire extent. FIERCE CREATURES. Incidentally to the soundings, observations were made of the bottom temperatares. Below half mile in depth the water of the ocean is intensely cold, remaining both winter and sum- mer ata point only slightly above freezing. The contents of atraw! hauled up from the floor of the sea at the equator will be found to inelude mud and ooze that is nearly freezing. All of the lifo in tho vast waste of waters called the Pacific ix either near the surface or at the’ bottom. The abyssal fishes cannot live except — the enorm ny miles down—to which they are subjected. In erder that they may be abie to endure this the tissues of their bodies and even their bones are very loose in texture. Though solid enough under the conditions to which they are accus- tomed. they are soft and pulpy when dragged up to the open air, Their eyes protrude and sometimes they actually burst open. Buch fierce carnivorous fishes as exist in the depths of the ocean are unknown at the sur- face. There isthe “black swallower.” which devours other finny creatures ten times as big a itself, literally climbing over its victim, first with one jaw and then with the other. Another species is nearly all mouth, and, having sknost no power of locomotion, it tives buried in the soft ooze at the bottom,’ its head alone Protrading, ready to engulf any prey that may wander into its cavernous 8. ‘here is a ferocious kind of shark rerombling a huge eol. All of these abyssal monsters are black as ink. Some of them are perfectly blind, while others havo enormous goggling eyes. No ray of sun- light ever plerces the dark, unfathomed caves in which they dwell. Ench species is gobbled by the species nex bigger, for there ia no vege table life to feed on. ‘A FLORAL DESERT. The surface of the grayish ooze over which the cable will run is an interminable desert where nothing grows. ‘There being no sun- -o- | light to support vegetable life, not a blade nor sprout of any sort of vegetation is to be dis- covered, not even a keaw Here and there are creatures called “crinoids,” which counter- felt plants in their appearance, with waving tems and what look like flowers, but are not such, Also there are sea worms, which live in tubes and resemble the most brilliant blossoms. Spiny sea urchins are plentiful, and over the bottom are crawling shrimp-like crustaceans of bright scarlet and vivid orange hues, some of them of great size. There are numerous species of mollusks as well. They and the crustaceans when hauled to the surface are so disorganized by the removal of the pressure to which they have been accustomed as to look as if they had been boiled. ‘Tho ocean floor across which the cable will be lnid is fairly well populated with ving species, most of which are unknown to science at present. This remark especislly applies to the larger fishes, which could not be fetched up with the trawl. Some day perhaps a more effective method will be devised. for capturin; them. Nobody can tell what monsters an chimeras dire may inhabit the abyseal regions of the Pacific. It was only a fow years ago that George Hope of H. M. S. Fly saw an extraordi- nosy creature in the Gulf of California. The sea’ being perfectly calm and of a glass-like transparency he beheld swimming over the bottom a few fathoms down an enormou: mal with the head and general figure of an alli- gator, except that its neck was vastly longer, and instead of legs it had four flappers likea turtle's. It appeared to be pursuing some prey and moved in a serpentine fashion. The description given in all respects fitted the ex- tinct plesiosaurus so exactly that some natur- alists were contident that it must have been a surviving specimen of that mighty reptile. SOUNDING APPARATUS. Tho total length of the lines surveyed by the Albatross and Thetis, betweon California and the Hawaiian Islands, was 6,785 miles. In the sounding operations, 179,142 feet of piano wire was lost, representing an expense of nearly 600. Such accidents are unavoidable. The sinker sometimes gets entangled at the bottom or the vessel gives a sudden lurch and snaps the wire off short. In theso wuys 469 sixty- pound siukers were lost also. Iu shoal water & rope and lead do well enough for sounding. By filling a small cavity im the base of the lead with tallow, a quantity of the sand or mud, on which the lead strikes, becomes imbedded’ in the tallow, showing the character of the bottom soil. For soundings m the depthe, however, special apparatas must be used. It is not vory complicated, consisting most importantly of « sinker and a suilicient length of No. 11 musio wire. The which stands a strain of 200 pounds, is wound on a wheel. Euch turn of the wheel registers a fathom, or six feet, while a dial keeps count of the number of turns paid out. Thus the depth at every sounding is registered automatically. A scale shows the tension on the wire and indicates the instant that the sinker reaches the bottom. The sinker isin part composed of «cylinder which hasa valve in its lower end. strikes bottom this valve is forced up and the interior of the cylinder is filled with soil from the bottom. At the saine moment an auto- matic thermometer attached to the contrivauce notes the temperature of the water. THE ROUTE AND BUILDING, The route to be followed by tho cuble is what is called a “thumb line" betweeu Monterey bay and Honolulu. Such a line appears perfectly straight on tho Mercator's projection, which ts used in nautical maps, though it is not so actually. It crosses every meridian at exactly the eame angle. ‘The hydrographic office of the navy has prepared a most beautiful protile de- lincation of the entire pathway, just like a panoramic view of a section of the Pacific ocean, from California to tho Hawaiian Islands. The done in blue and the bottom ina brownish tint, with all the soundings shown in figures and the nature of the bottom soil noted at ench point. Orie aim held in view was to choose a rond that would avoid voleanic regions where substances injurious chomically to the covering of the cable would be likely to exist, or where future convulsions might cause its destruction. ‘The government possibly will have nothing to do with the laying ofthe cable. The main object of its work was merely to discover how far sucha plan was practicable and what route was best for the wire to follow. Private enterprise could do the rest. At present an effort is being made to organize a syndicate in California, with a view tocarrying out the project. It is extremely dotbtful whether a line merely connecting Cali- fornia with Honolulu would have enough busi- ness to make a profit. But there would be big money in a cable running all the way acrous the Pacitle to Japan or Australia, A British cable would have joined Australia with Victoria, British Columbia, Jong ago, by way of the Hawatian Irlands, -but for the ndverse influence of the powerfal Eastern Submarine Telegraph Cot pany and the Eastern Submarine Exten- sion Telegraph Company. ‘I: lines of the former concern extend throw: the Mediter- ranean to India, while tho. of tho Iat- ter corporation ’ stretch under the seas to China, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. If there wero a cablo across the Pacific these companies could not longer dictate the price per word. It is certain that not many years will elapse before the circuit of the earth will be made complete with connecting wires, 80 that a message can be sent around the globe in the space of three seconds. Rexz Bacue. aes An Innuendo. latter, Vhen it From Vorus. Mrs. Henpeck.—“Seoms to me you buy « great many trousers, Alfred. I notice you have on another new pair today." Mr. Henpeck.—‘Well, my dear, when a man aud his wife and las mother-in-law rearing the sume gaimen: it can’t last very jong. Before taken, A CONVERSATIONAL SNAG, ‘The Dyspeptic, Bent on Relating His Own Case, Hears of Another, From the New York 8vn. ‘You are so burly and robust,” said the orgulous dyspeptic, with secret scorn, to his casual traveling sequaintance, “that I presume youare never troubled with dyspepsia. You have much to be thankfal for. I am often in such a state that—" Was the burly acquaintance to endure the garrulity of a chance dyspeptic? He was not. “On the contrary,” he replied, bite for, never having j from any physical ailment, ‘his mind was ac- it. (On the contrary, T have sufered.untald torture froes Gyopepa suffer unt a bad yeseeey interested in the subject 1 will wil ingly give you my experience. I began with the finest digestion in the world, but while en- in the milftarr service of the country, ing ten years scouting on the frontier, character of the rations, together with’ the quality of tho confections of cooks pre- viously e1 in driving hacks and slugging Petre soc, oan “Oh, my trouble was not with cooks,” inter- posed the dyspeptic loftily, but nevertheless ‘much chagrined to find the burly ecquaintanes prepared to talk on the subject, “AsI was About to tell you, I am often in such a state id the irregularity of the meals,” hurried on the burly acquaintance, “served, derstand, in camp, al fresco and a la fourchette sans coremonie, threw me into such disorder that [had indigestion, then dyspepsia, then non-assimilation, I submitted my case to the k in the their as to army surgeons, who, though of high ran! service, are not always of equal rank in profession, and followed their directi what to eat and what to avoid. They advised belmont “Doctors are of little use. I will tell you—’ “To confine myself to the simplest and most digestible edibles and esculents to be found in the military commissary. But I grew worse, and the surgeons ordered me back to civiliza- tioh, where I could obtain the delicate nutri- ment which my disordered and seriously im- paired system required. I went to and began a diet of chicken broth. fresh fruit, stale bread made from newly ground graham, steamed ostaaal “Oh, I tried all those. Five years ago—” “Tho result was that I grew worse, as be- fore, and the local doctors advised me to to—to go to New York, where I should be abl to find foods better suited to my parlous state. Accordingly I went to New York and laid out 4 diet of the finest and purest of the selected foods thet that metropolis affords ——" “Plain country food taken asthe system re- wy fnysicians advised xact regularity. I “4 ysicians advised e: ty. bad two ounces sea food, two ounces farina- ceour food, two ounces of the juice of fresh imported fruits, and two ounces coagulated al- buminoids every two hours, Growing steadily worse I consulted higher medical talent. One doctor kept me on clam broth, ae tan- gerines, another on roiled 's legs, another on distilled alfalfa—" “Five years ago——” “Growlng steadily worse, I consulted still higher authority. I was now told that my diet was at variance with nature. The doctor told me that nature was proportion, rhythm, music; foods must be taken in harmonious propor- tions, He prescribed the same sea foods, cereals, meats and fruits as the others, but = a chromatic scale of the decreasing seventh, throwing in occasionally a few vegetab! way of variation of the fugue, and tracts as overtones——" “Of course you recovered, your case being morely temporary—” ‘Growing steadily worse, I consulted a doc- tor who had had great success among the mil- lionaires—financial success. wasa man of biunt speech und plain common sense. He said Thad overworked my stomach and must give it entire rest. What was 1 to dofor a living in the mean time he did not say, but he a large fee with great scorn, riehtly despising me for the sual anoi.t cfmo ey that he le‘t me. My stomach was uvw worse than ever. It refused to be cajoled, and de- spised my offers ot Kouse me a mo- ment. | Ouce I had spent over forty-eight two me of hours. fastin 4 then soda mint with four ounces aque pura (every- thing was now drachms, mae ‘and ounces with me, aud the zigzag symbols of those dis- tressing quantities appeared in my nightly nightmares like a procession of Daniel Quilps and Humpbacks of Notre Dame) as I say, v. drachms of sterilized milk at 70 ti grade, with iv. wiggles of biemuth and ii. jiggle- Jaggies of sada, with a couple of glasses of wine and Peprin to aid in the mysterious pro- cossea of digestion. The large amount of tual food contained in the ounce of milk be- gan to distress me exceedingly, but the wine, to which I was not accustomed, gave me courage. I tookseveral more doses of it im- pest increasing the doses rythmically. I had not felt so well in months. "I said ‘Wine is undoubtedly a mocker, but it isa good rubi- facient, beside possessing valuable qualities as an anti-narcotic and morry-maker. Now, very well, Mf. Stomach,’ I said, ‘you are unamen- able to gentleness, unmoved by kindness ‘and irresponsive to the concord of sweet culi- Put on my hat, I walked lightly adown the street and, oa! “ be not a doctor's waiting room, but « restaurant, I instantly ordered and partook of a repast consisting in part of turtle soup, roast old goose, broiled fat lobsters, corned beef-and cabbage, sult pork, hot rolls, Italian cheese, ipe, mince pie, fee, chartreuse, and black and green cigar, ‘As you can imagine, when you consider the philorophy of it, that ended ii My stomach, which bad been trving to pick a fight with me for years, found all the fight it wanted. But let me give you one more point. Even now I gener- ally give my stomach a Welsh rabbit every ight, just to let it know who's who, That's my ion. I hope you will never be troubled as ‘ve been. Good-day.” nary symphonies. thing to 25 about.” High Prices for Old Armor. From the Spectator, ‘Much more interest was shown on Tuesday and Wednesday in the dispersal of Baron de Cosson’s find collection of armor. Bidding was sometimes quite brisk, and the impartial looker-on could not but wonder to see so many people watching, with every sign of kuowledge and judgment, what at some moments might have seemed ‘like a collection of scrap iron. On the first day the hauberk of mail, an object of the highest rarity, went ‘for £52 10s. It resembled the armor on an English monument at Little Casterton, in Rutland, where Sir Thomas Burton, who died in 1382, and whose figure dates very little later, is rop- resented wearing something of tho’ kind. It weighed no less twenty-one pounds, and the rings were all riveted, those "at the edges of the collar and sleeves being of brass. An embossed Milanese casque of classic form of the begin- ning of the sixteenth century, with mermaids, as Victory and Fame, Mars by his hair, similar to a supero helmet made for Charles V, now at Madrid, ran up to £425 5s. Ina very few minutes. Tue last lot in the sale was a complete suit of ca: mor, an object rare at in tl thisexample. It is entirely without restoration or reparation of any kind, having been for cen- tries in the family of Lord Stafford, whose ancestor may well havo had it from the maker in the Maximilian period at Nuremberg. The Gothic character of the pattern is exemplified by a little bit of open work on the breast, be- neath which isa heart on the central point of the cuirass. The bidding was brisk at first, a foreign agent being anxious to secure so fine a specimen; but he bid in vain, and the suit was knocked down to an English'buyer for £1,680. —<—__ + One for His Nobs, From Trath. “I saw you drinking with Jackson today.” “You'd drink with anybody, I believe.” ‘No; I wouldn't drink with you, unless by a miracle.” And what would the miracle be?” “Indeed? “Your inviting me.” >———_roo- From Life. The New York chamber of commerce hag pessod a resolution urging the re. eal of the Sherman silver law. -| Say.” So Mrs. Kimball brought them ia, aud |4 LANSINGBURG MIRACLE. The Astonishing Siery of a Prominent | Tam the most conservative reporter on the staff. I despise the chimerical, I court thereal. I burrow in facts. The world has treated me with rigor and handled me withoutgloyes. My character has thereby been moulded until I am as exacting of others as nature, my teacher, has been of me. | 1am from Lansingburg, We don’t often get ‘© good thing from there, but here is one. F.C. Kimball last night gave me the following: “Lam a plain, straightforward man, origi- nally from Lansingburg, where now reside my mother, brother and sister, several years agol moved to Rochester. There I was in the em-| ploy of the Erie Railroad as yard and freight superintendent. 1 know more now than I did then. After @ strain to my back, caused by heavy lifting, three years ago, 1 developed so- called rheumatism. It wasan increasing thing for two years,—at times worse, again better. I worked intermittently. If I would shut my eyes I would fall down. When trying to walk one leg would swing in behind the other and tripme. My fect and legs soon lost fecling— were numb. This extended to my stomach and at times tomy hands. Most thoroughly alarmed I had the best of aid to be had in Rochesterand kept my nerve as long as 1 could. But when | Doctors Lee and Spencer of that place finally | nerve and became gradually worse. Up to this | time I had been siek nearly two years. Before | this and for several months I was confined to Pins stuck into my limbs the full length gave | me no feeling whatever; my legs seemed Wooden. To pound them gave off a noise like wood, So say, as I lay there I was absolutely one-half dead—dead from the waist down. I can't describe to you how I suffered ; words are but poor vehicles; would that none of my friends may ever have my experiences. There was ‘one word written in large characters all over that sick room,—C-L-A-Y. Life departed from my limbs, that word best expressed what was left. Still 1 could read, and it was in a news- paper that I saw it,—the cure of John Marshall from a trouble like mine—locomotor ataxia. You, of course, have read ofhim. The reporter in deseribing him, described me exactly. I sent for the remedy which cured him,—for Dr. Wil- ams’ Pink Pills, to Schenectady, N. ¥.,and tried them. I took them frregularly for two months. They didn’t seem to help. All of a sudden one morning one of my legs began to Prickle—seemed as though rubbed with nettles. Soon the other started and on the horizon ap- peared a little cloud of hope. Then, perhaps, you think I did not investigate that medicine. 1 ate pills—I did not dose with them, I atethem. I began to mend fast; got some circulation, got control of my bowels and after a few weeks got out of bed and tried to stand, At last I fetched it Could walk—now can ron. Got some ambition, now have as much as anybody. And didn’t Pink Pills cure me? Well, nothing else did. The doctors said I couldn't be cured, and the public are cautioned against numerous imitations sold ti at 8 cents a box, and may bo had of all druggists or direct by mail from Dr. William address, The Price @t which these pills are sold makes @ course of treatment inexpensive as compared With other remedies or medical treatment. * FAKIRS. ‘These howling derviah: snarling at each other ne famished wolves LET THE FIGHT GOON Shocid ft terminate as did the battle between the KILKENNY KATS A GREAT SHOUT will go up trow the people, ‘Wil ad untte in ei the ba ta Rieti dst Weve bad something of a Srbt on our. supriy the rreat dematt for these insomparatie TEN DOLLAR Suits of Clothes for men, which w: soon aa the first lot was received, ud were é goUsied its red before. other shipineets ‘were “ fore . a were te pe tuereby aoe =. to work chelectae wires Sad expres: compeutes in ortor to keep faith with Dublic. All, or neariy ali. of cur a BANNER PURCHASE Are now tn siock, and yon may come tn com Fecuments, Urigaice of divisiois WE ARE. PRES FALTD or tuecuslaght, Lowever fast ood furious up" with, but when co ared to value receive Stier insignificance, tn. indeed, “ass sole ll to Mountain. You are in hee. of ane sty! Torepring and summer wear—in f MUST ‘of the present TEN DOLLARS great opportunity, Ip more than youcan afford to spend clctiies really Worth doubie that amount * ot OROP A point or two and buy a most excellent Gaasionere uit. or a mee, Tweed Swit Me an r-aane Pat Sut Bannockburn Cheviot Suit, st” o Wo havea great vacte:y of these nite ond are anitioue that OU ohiail have thes bs Gauted prove Ie CLNT CLOTTNG MOUSE, Wet AND Goo er TES COLNER MARS ACHUSET: RICTEY ONE PRICE, a CREDIT FOR ALL, pibere sent bit of mee tn depriving yoursett bousebold furniture. butIam. One ofthese daysIam going up to Rochester and see my old physician; if his eyes don't bulge when he sees me I shall be mistaken. And Isball tell him straight what cured me. I can’t say too much for Dr. Wik ams’ Pink Pills, and I don't care who knows at. sJust put it in your paper, that if anyone don't believe what Iam telling, for him tocome up to 186 Second Ave., Lansingburg, and I will Proveittohim. What Iam now telling you is merely a reiteration of what I long ago wrote to the Dr Williams’ Medicine Company at Schenectady, and which, I think, expresses my gratitude pretty well. They returned my letter and asked me if1 would swear to it, which I did on April ath, 1883, before Jame’ A. Van Voast, Notary Public. My aMdavit is now in the hands of the Medicine Company. Why, I would do anything in my power for those peo- ple, Here also is a letter which my mother wrote to them and to which she has made afi- davit, as you see.” 186 Second Ave., LaxsinGBuna, N. Y. April 4, 1898. The Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co., Schenectady, New York. Dear Sirs :—My son Fred has just written you letter concerning himself to which I desire to add @ few words in entire corroboration of all he has said. He came home from Rochester despairing and almost dead. In his letter he has told you of his agony and his cure. The remembrance f the whole thing makes me shudder as I think of it. It is.all too wonderful forme. At tor the receipt of the letter from the Rochester physician saying that the disease was incur ableand progressive in its effect, which was some six months ago, I have been resigned to his fate. But now as I look at bim walking about and feeling well, with his old health and ambition it does seem that he has beon born again and rescued from death for a fact. Could I, therefore, say too much to you of thanks in the fullness of my gratitude? Can Iweil cease blessing you? Yet the intensity of my feelings make my words of thanksgiving to you seem but empty indeed; for the lost is found, and he that was dead is alive again. Yours most gratefully, Hannrer J. Kommaun SratE or New York, ‘County of Rennselacr. }S* On this Sth day of April, 1803, before me per- sonally appeared Hazriet J. Kimball who, being | duly sworn, did depose and say that the facts | stated in the foregoing letter aro true. M.L. Faxcurr, Notary Publie. At this point Mr. Kimball's mother entered the room, a sprightly lady of some sixty years, overflowing with her son's case, and delighted | LOUFe to talk of it, In answer to my question, she said: “While I believe in answers to’prayer and prayed earnestly for his recovery, for I am a Christian woman, and believe my prayers were | answered. 1 do think the medicine was the Means the Lord used to effect my son's cure. Oh 1 talk of this thing constantly. And I want you to meet my. daughter, Mrs. G. II. Morrison, with whom we are living here, and the Rev. Gcorge Fairlee, pastor of Wastminster Church, who lives with us, and hear what they have to | while the story as told Was most complete and could be added to by nothing they might say, yet your reporter heard from the lips of the sis. ter and thetr pastor, corroborative words of «ll that has been said, and as he loft and wandered down tho avenue toward the office he mused on the fact that the day of miracles is not yet past. | On my way Iran across the son-in-law, Mr. G.| HL. Morrison, the cashier of the National Bank | of Troy, and spoke to him of Mr. Kimball, He isa busy man and I detained him but a mom- ent in which he sald: “1 know nothing of the ease technieally. All I know is that my brotin | er-in-law came to my house from Rochester, a wreck, paralyzed, unable to walk, and suid to have locomotor ataxia, and now that be waiks all over, apparently cured and with renewed ambition. He says he was cured by Dr. Wile ams’ Pink Pills, and 1 think that is about the size of It.” | Mr. William H. Flandrean, the druggist at 814 River St., Troy, was seen and added a bit of testimony to the effect that he knew Mr. Fred | C. 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X. ee aD TT ae Do You Buuve Ie ‘That you can buy Furniture, Matting. Refrigere tors, China, Giass, Beby Carriages. &c.. aslow from installment firms as you can from cash houses? ‘You know you don't believe it and everybody khows you can'rdoit. Bouks charse for time, and do you think we.chants put out ell this money for nothing? We don’t want any credit Dusivess in ours, we anak everything at lowest cash price eng treat everybody alike. If you wii! buy op installments you can pay as you please and we Will Lold tue goods UU you pay the bili and save yeu big money. A good 18-spring 2.95. Bost Grade Carpe: Lounze, $6.45. Good Matting, L2We., U5c., 6B Dam- ask, 27sec. Very Fine Gotton We: 10835. Wekecp the Leonard, and whether you buy from us or not, don't takeauything but the Leonard. Baby Coaches from $4.05 to $2). Sis Cane-seat Oab Chairs, €5. Handsome Cluster Leg Table, six foot, 85. Spiece Oak Suite, $12.50. Much better one, 613, Be. Open Stock Dinner and Tea Ware, any piece you by prices advertised on simple trap often caches the wost binds. Wedow cash business, antwe do it right. Anything you buy not satisiactory eeturm it aud youfind ang beiter terms anywhere? Mead thised, Send your fr.euds to rE eauty Bal eauty Balm, TRE SOCIETY RAGE. Ase Complexion Beavtuser Cuequale& READ: anne pnt PAULINE GAL 3 ‘The Beautiful Song Bird, writes us: delphis, May 2, 1898 Tenno faboratory Assoc. Gentlemen: Tom nlessed to. te able to speak recovery walking about the streets. “It isthe) FAVOK dyonr Beauty Dose ¥ yt most wonderful cure from locomotor ataxta—a PTS") TALL. socalled incurable disease. Ie tells me he owes his recovery to Pink Pills entirely, and bave every reason to believe him.” In fact the sincerity and enthusiasm of all the felatives with whom your reporter talked left nothing to be desired in corroboration of this wonderful case. It will certainly be of interest to any of our readers who has any werve trou- bles. | Pink Pills restore pale people and sallow Plexions to the glow of health, and fic for all the troubles pocull: 80x, while tn the case of men th eal cure in all cases arising from 3 overwork or excesses of whatever These Pills are manufactured by tt Maus’ Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. ¥. and Brockville, Ont, and are sold in bow ever in loose form by the dozea or hundred | Bra leading ¢ Propet 1. Altertne: called for we Baidmore, Me