Evening Star Newspaper, July 29, 1893, Page 11

CHILDREN NUMBERED Left Until Called For at a World’s Fair Building. A LITTLE ONE'S PARADISE. Gymnasium, Nursery and School Room All in Operation. PROVING HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL Correspondence of The Evening Star. Chicago, July 24, 1898. HE WAS FAT AND red in the face, and oh, how very tired and hot she looked as she went up ‘to the counter and asked for numbe: 210. It was evident that she had been toiling with heroic endur- ance over a goodly portion of the 683 acres of Jackson Park and the dust of the midway plaiss ance was plainly visi- ble on her skirts. umber 210 please,"* she sang out as she leaned against the counter. It might have been that she was in a hotel and was asking for the key to her room, for she looked that way. No chipper hotel clerk, with a flashing @iamond shirt stud, answered her call, however, but irstead a clean and pleasant looking girl came forward, took the check containing the number and in a few mo- ments handed across the counter a baby. ‘The mother looked at !t a second to assure herself that it was hers an¢ walked off con- tented. This was a practical illustration of the way babies are cared for in the chil- @ren’s building at the world’s fair. Children’s Building. ‘As you pass in by one of the gates and proceed about twenty yards you may, if you come at the right time of day, hear a rhythmical stamping and clapping of Ay pauses of this noise you be made aware of the fact that a baby Be'squealing. and above all the other sounds there will be heard the shrill laugh of ehildren at . You stop and look. There Is a plain white buildin: if ornamented with bove ‘The children’s building was one of the last completed, but it is now one of the chief attractions at the fair. It is designed not only to show what appliances and methods are used in educating and caring for chil- Gren, Dut, also, to educate and care for them in reality while their parents are see- ing the sights. course, :here are many displays that are t ta children, but there are so very ™meny others that afford them no delight, that it is a cruelty to make a child go the Feunds just as though he were grown up. But the building that every child will be sure to take an interest in is this of the children and here he can spend many hours of genuine pleasure. AS ‘ In the Gym. Immediately within the entrance of the building is a big gymnasium with all the modern apparatus necessary, and here a teacher takes the boys and girls who de- aire it and puts them through a drill and exercises which keep their muscles supple and afford them a great deal of pleasure besides. It is the tramping of one of these classes that the visitor hears when he ap- proaches the building. It is fun for the children, but it is also an instructive ex- hibit itself, for here you may see put Into practice “the most ved German gymnasium methods, ‘aenlgned to develo and stimulate the whole body of a child Father than the Swedish method, which has particular exercises for each particu- lar portion of the anatomy. If you come in toward the close of the lesson you will see it terminate in a series of evolutions ‘so rapid that they have practically become a romp. When it is over the children are happy and eager to go through their ex- perience again. - ‘Tagging the Children. Across the hall from the gymnasium is & glass inclosed room where the babies and very little children are kept. Upon being brought by their mothers in the morning they are received by the expert nurses and regularly ticketed and a dupli- cate number Is given the mother. She can get her child back when she presents the ticket holding the proper number and not before. The reason for all this precaution 1s obvious. It would be unreasonable for any one to expect the attendants to be able to remember the individual children ¢ babies and by whom they are ieft, end tt might easily happen that some peo- ple of evi children not their own. mind would go and carry away Hence, there is a ating resemblance to packages and trun st as some trunks and parcels are and not calle for at all, so does it m at institutions of this kind that re are generally in the course of time children left and never called for by ir rightful owners. It has not happened thus far at Jackson Park, but at the Paris exposition, where there was an Institution of this kind, babies were freq left behind by thetr mothers, and th asylums of Parts received < ts @ ward in the hospital in Jackson Pasc waiting to receive the ambitious child at first | | that may choose to first it | white city. Heaven help that fat he arrives! Of course, and will be named that eee when he will be a” boy her Columbus. However, don’t let us anticipate matters, for the world’s Columbian ‘exposition baby het the Senta OF afew ry Born outside the gates. Fenced Tn. To return to the children’s building, the gymnasium {is free to any child over six years of age and under six they go to the nursery. There they are provided with toys, blocks and games, and are amused by peo- ple who know how to do it, and the very young babies have cribs. All of them re- cetve the most solicitous and skillful care. The accommodations, large as they are, have proved insufficient, and it often hap- pens on crowded days that some of the ap- plicants have to be turned away. Wherever there are children there must be a school room, and upstairs in the building there is a large one under the auspices, of the Cook county, Til, normal school. Here there are a tt of charts, maps, models, &c., but the school room has not much ‘ofan air of task work about it, and can be approached by a child without dread. Above th school room is the roof garden, which is also a play ground. It ts carefully fenced in so that no mishap can happen to any one, and the fence is of smooth wire netting, so that a mischievous boy cannot very well climb it. For Extreme Youth. On all sides of the walls are pictures such as suit a child's taste, and there are children’s goods for sale—toys, books, &c. Near the doorway that opens ite the horticultural hall there is a fine je model which shows what a chil Christmas is like in Spain. Among the books for sal is a great new edition of Mother Which shows that no change has happen. = pee ey or ca his love for ace unt ue Soa Tem ont oe os oe seen it the ding is de- signed especially to please the Tittle folks. Its atmosphere is that of a nursery and tay eg = but that they must be forced ni ee to him. Whatever is a success with the little folks is pretty sure to be a success with pe] people, and the children’s building not onl: of children, but of older People, who carry away with them a Knowtatee of the latest and most approved is of pi jucation whic! Would find it difficult to optain Gsewhere” ee WEY SHE TOOK CHOCOLATE, Little Tommy, as Usual, Gave the Sweet- Looking Creature Away. From the Chicago News, “What flavor, please? suggested the young man in the white apron, as the two girls with Leghorn hats advanced on his “Oh, dear!" said the girl with the pink Simin Wrinkling her forehead. I never now wi want. It is so tiresome choosing!” “Try pineapple,” suggested the girl with the red trimming; “it’s #0 soothing.” “I hate pineapple,” pettishly said the giri in pink. And strawberry is common and vanilla vulgar, and—I don't know what I want. What are you going to take?” “Chocolate,” said the girl in Vingerey® gasped Gee gl'ts of ns e clerk, who, ‘having bees born ana’ bred. a the Business, proceeded to fill two ylasses with chocolate flavor without any further grders. “A vow! Do tell’ me about it, “I've never told any one about ‘t fore, said the girl in red, remin-acenily es she tilted her hat a little more to one side. “I wouldn't care to have it get around, you know. It all_ started on ‘account of De Lancey Van Buren" & “Oh, that tall fellow with the Thelan- rf a3 a in red, with a little es,” sald she gut sigh, while the clerk put in an extra dab of ice cream as a sympathizer. “You see, that summer he was so—er--1 tentive to me he was always bringing flowers and fruit and candy and all that- “Yes, you lucky girl,” said the one in pink, enyiously, “he just loaded you with PRSWell resumed the girl in red, “Wel 1e “one culiar thing was that all the ‘candy he ae Ay ge beng rap filed with different things, of course, but cover ed with chocolate.” “And you always disliked it so,” said the bt in pink, interestedly, “What did you ? You couldn't eat it?’ "Went on the girl in red, regret- fully," “I couldn't. But 1 told ‘him it was m vorite, because he seemed to like it Rimself so much, and then T said {¢ was wonderful how he knew my tast in everything, and that it must be affinity of souls and all that.”” - “How clever of you.” “He said it was odd, and then he looked at me in that tender, protecting way, and Ifelt guilty; but then I wasn’t to blame be- cause @ love for chocolate was not born in me.” “Of course not,” said the girt in pink, in. dignantly. “But what did you do with’ the candy? “Ob, I always gave that to my little brother after De Lancey went—he liked it, and then I could bribe him to behave that way. But one day I toid De Lancey that I saved the bon-bon boxes and kept them for souvenirs, and—oh, I literally soared into, hyperhole to my. sorrow. “But I don’t see,” began the girl in pink, Periny rejoined the girl in hastily, “that little wretch of @ Tommy had used them to build @ fortress in the back yard, where he keeps his rabbits, and one after- noon before I came down he begged De Lancey to come out and look at his pets, and he went." “Well,” said the girl in pink, breathiess- ‘Of course he saw the boxes and was surprised, and questioned Tommy, and— well, he found out everything.” with a hys- rical choke. “He came back very grave, and looked at me in such a melancholy way that it scared me, and he went off without saying scarcely word, looking so hurt and grieved. And I know he meant to —to bring things to an understanding that afternoon, because the evening hefore he would hold my hand in spite of ail I could do aiid once started to say ‘darling,’ on!y were interrupted.’ woHow perfectly ‘@reagful!” sald the other |. with a little 2 Stknd so concluded the girl in red, “T vowed then that I'd always drink and eat chocolate for a penance, poor, jear De Lancey! I shall never get over it. I know. Besides, chocolate makes me think of his eyes.” 3 too romantic for anything!” de- clared the gitl in pink, setting down her glass. “And perfectly lovely in you to do it! I should never have the strenzth of mind. Come on, let's go to that bargain sale of silks.” and they floated out. ‘Then the soda clerk crawled wearily out from under the counter, where he had fallen, and feverishly drank some Vichy water, —_—____-e+—___—_ Dynamite and a Devil Fish. From the Brunswick (Ga) Times. : Monday morning while Col. Goodyear’s crew were on the bar and a big charge of dynamite was being raised from the briny depths on account of a faulty cap, which would not explode, the workers suddenly experienced a pulling of the lines which were attached to it. Almost instan‘ly a ter- rible commotion was heard in the waters, and the spray began to rise above the little | boat like immense waves. Sudddenly the | two workmen who were in a small boat | were amazed to see the tentacles of a mon- | ; soaring thirty feet in the air. ‘The foaming sea was about to engulf the little craft when the party in the large bos | cheervel the commotion, ‘The touch of an | electric button would have ended the mon- ster, but the cap had been tried, and the only way to save them was to cut the wire | connection and the ropes, which was soon done, and the terror of the seas, after 1ash- |ing ‘around a short while, disappeared | much to the relief of the party. The thrill- | ing experience. as related by several gen- tlemen who were in the party, is indeed | marvelous. No such fish was ever seen Fy | | them before, and they all wonder how the | two men ever escaped from its. awful | clutches. ———_+e-+____ She Was Mistaken. | From Truth. Wite—“John, haven't ypu found the | hatchet yet? I think I had tt last.” and—"No, didn't. Here it is in the tool chest.’ THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. ©. SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1893-SIXTEEN PAGES. ll MONEY IN PATENTS. Small Inventions That Have Won Fortunes for Men of Ideas. MORE VALUABLE THAN GOLD MINES. Millions in a Shoe Peg or a Heel Plate. TOYS THAT HAVECOINED CASH MALL IDEAS are sometimes worth fortunes. The pat- ent office records are full of trifling suggestions that have won riches for lucky thinkers. More than half of them have been hit upon by accident. Most thoughts are blanks in the lottery of the human mind, but now and then out pops a prize. Catch it on the fly, and you needn't do any more work. For example,take a little metal paper-fas- tener, used to keep the pages of documents or manuscripts together. Though but a trifle, it made wealth for J. W. McGill, who invented it in 1867, The rubber pencil tip was devised by a Philadelphia man, Hymen L. Lipman, in 188 It earned $100,000 for him. It was in the same year that George A. Mitchell got a patent for the metallic shoe tip. His application for exclusive rights covered shoe tips of silver and all other metals, but copper was preferred. From that time on every boot-maker who sold shoes with copper toes had to pay a _roy- alty, which enriched the originator of the idea. An immense amount of money was made by William D. Ewart out of an im- Prov ‘tachment for machine harvesters called a “driving chain.” An improved pattern of thumb-latch was produced by Philos EM and John A. Blake of New Haven. Thirty thousand were sold during (the first year, ‘and the brothers reaped a small fortune. It is reckoned that ‘$1,500,000 has been made out of the simple device of metal plates for protecting ti Reels and soles of shoes’ and. boots. io Jess than 143,000,000 of them were manufactured ‘in’ 1887. The no- tion of utilizing the feathers — of chickens, turkeys, geese and other domestic fowls as a substitute for whalebone in wo- men's corsets has been worth more than a fairly productive silver mine to its inventor. The quills are woven into strips of whi is calle “feather-bone.”” A man named Can- fleld first conceived the notion of making arm pit dress shields seamless, with a sheet of cloth-covered rubber. It brought him an income of many thousands a year. Heaton, who hit upon the notion of a metal fastening for buttons, doing away with sewing, got a fortune by it. A wooden screw proved a mint for Thomas J. Sloan in 166. “The man who invented wooden pegs for shoes was B. F. Sturtévant. The idea tht him miilions of dollars. He lived Rear Boston and went crazy later on. Ti barbwire fence was worth more than. 000,000 in royalties to its originator. Fi merly many eggs got broken on their w: to market by rail. A countryman concetv- ed the plan of packing them in trays of penteboars. with a separate compartment in which each might stand upright. ¢ happy thoug! was worth a fortune, \d such trays are now universally used. An > pages Chinaman of San Francisco nam Cheang Quan Wo made quite s pile of money out of for reinforcing the pockets of overalls; a miner was Fie lucky with an eyelet, to be sown at the mouth of the coat or trousers’ ‘ket, so as to resist the strain caused yy carrying heavy tools or pieces of ore. There was a fortune in the inverted Pans bell. hung over a gas fet, to prevent the ceiling from peng blackened. Big money has been made out of a pen for shading in different colors, and a “darning weaver,” for repairing stockings has lil i immensely profitable. The bal love-fastener was patented in this country fp's Frenchman named. Raymond, whose Mea has proved golden. Rogers got an in- dependence for life out of his screw-wire nail. A common oneedie-threader has brought an income of $10.000 a year to its inventor. Patents for gold, silver and cop- tinsel yarns, for upholstery, have fetched a profit of $375,000. Paul E.’ Wirt's fountain n has made him rich. A pecul- far crook in the wire of a recently patented hook-and-eye is producing hundreds of dol- lars a day. The roller skate earned @ cool million for the person who caught the idea as it floated in his brain and put it into tangible shape. Common Sense Necessary, A self-made millionaire was quoted awhile ago as saying that one of the best ways for @ young man to make money quickly was to rack his brains until he found something the public wanted, and to supply‘. Com= mon sense may be more useful to thi ventor than @ mechanical educe ‘ion, In using bath bricks for cleaning knives, housewives formerly found that the mont troublesome part of the job was scraping the powder from the brick. One day it oc- curred to somebody to seli the brick ready wdered in neat packages, and he got a fortune by it, Everybédy knows how troublesome it is to pick coins off a smooth counter. A way to get over this difficulty Suggested itself to a thoughtful person who promply devised a rubber mat, with rubber ristles standing up all over it. From this the coins can be picked up as easily as 'f in- they stood on ede. otienceforth | this thoughtful person will not be compelled to toil for his livelthood. Few inventions pay better than patented toys. The “return ball,"with a> rubber earned an income of $50,000 a year for the individual who struck the notion. Two playthings that go by. clockwork—the walking alligator and the “dancing negro” —zhave each won a large fortune. The “Pigs in Clover” was worth thousands of dollars a week while its popularity lasted. Those odd little fireworks, called “Phar- which excited attention as @ novelty some years ago, put $50,000 into the pocket of their originator. The {dea was suggested by certain chemical experi- ments. That ingenious plaything, known as the “Wheel of Life,” netted $100,000. ‘The familiar ‘Chameleon’ Top.” which’ gave such pretty play room lessons in the com- Position of colors, was another very profit- able toy. ‘Women and Children as Inventors. Thus far-ao woman's invention has been greatly profitable to its originator. The most successful patent granted to a person of the gentler sex up to date is the ice cream freezer, now universally in_use.. It was the idea of Mrs. Nancy M. Johnson, who died in Washington three years ago at the advanced age of ninety-five. She was the widow of a professor in the Smith- sonian Institution. Rights on the freezer were taken out in 183. Up to that time ice cream had always been made by stir- ring it with a spoon. Mrs. Johnson might have secured a t fortune for the dev- fee, but she sold it for $1,500. Another Washington woman, Mrs. A.’ H. Woodall, not long ago invented an attachment to thé type-wrlting machine, by which the “car- lage” is made to glide back automatically to the beginning of the line as quickly as the last line is finished, thus saving much time. She {s said to have sold it toa type- writer company, which thought it worth buying, but has not used it, hildren have taken out a number of profitable patents. The youngest inventor on record is Donald Murray Murphy of St. John, Canada, who at six years of age obtained’ from the United States exclusive rights in a sounding toy. Mabel Howard of Washington, at eleven yehrs, invented an ingenious game for her invalid brother and got a patent for It. Arthur G. Smith of Richwoods, Ill. at twelve years, Invent- ed and patented a rowing apparatus, When only seventeen years old Benjamin F, Ham- {iton of Boston took out patents on a num- ber of devices for electric and elevated rall- ways. A dispute over a contract, which he desired to escape from on the ‘ground of his minority, made an interesting case not long azo before the commissioner of pat- ents, Samuel Ker, eighteen years old, has atented a self-feeding pen. Other ‘boys Rave invented useful devices for electric signaling, telephoning and cigarette mak- ing. George C. Pyle of Wilmington, De at the age of eighteen. patented a machi: which turns out sixty horse shces a minute. He sold it for a sum sufficient to lift the In fact it to mortgage off his father’s home. was this purpose which inspired him undertake the task of invention. Inventing as @ Profession. Formerly inventions were nearly alway made haphazard. People hit upon them accidentally. Now the discovery of new {deas in mechanics {s a profession. ‘The in- ventor is a skilled man, employed by a firm of manufacturers with the understanding that all his inventions shall belong to them. The Westinghouse company, for example, picks up trained electricians all over the world, sets them to work, and gives them every’ convenience for producing new in- dustrial applications of electricity. These salaried inventors are excellently paid. Electricity 1s the great field for invention now. Twenty thousand electrical patents have been granted since 1880. ‘The patented devices utilized In shoe- making are more numerous and more val- uable than those employed in any other in- justry or art. Ginia country turns out 1,000,00 sewing machines every yeer, and ‘these do the ‘work of 12,000,000 women. Mr. Platt, apeak- ing, tn the United States Senate in 158, id that two-thirds of the wealth of the United States was due to patented inven- tions. Few known fortunes exceed that of Cyrus McCormick, inventor of the machine harvester, who died worth $20,000,000. The Westinghouse sir brake has earned mil- Hons of dollars, Bell, the telephone man, is a multi-milifonaire. Edison, like Bell and McCormick, began life poor. He is Worth at least $1,000,000 today, and probably much more. Sir Henry Bessemer’s Discoveries in steel making brought him great wealth and many honors. He came to London a poor boy from a country village. In two Years he was pursuing a method of his own Invention for taking copies of antique and modern bas-reliefs in a manner that en- abled him to stamp them on cardboard, thus turning out an infinite number of em= bossed copies of the highest works of art at small cost. This process, if made known to the unscrupulous, would have opened a Wide door to fraud; ‘for by its means there BEES WITH NOSTINGS. The Governor of Honduras Wants to Supply This Country With Them. BUSY LITTLE HONEY GETTERS. The Pigmies Among Bees~Why Stingless Bees Are in Demand. eee was not a government stamp nor paper seal of a corporate body which any’ common clerk could not forge in a few moments to absolute perfection. ‘The disclosure of it at that time would have shattered the whole system of the British stamp office. ‘The se- eret has been carefully guarded to this day. At the period referred to it was reckoned that the British government lost $600,000 an- nually by the transfer of old stamps to new leeds and other legal papers, the tax being thus evaded. Bessemer invented a new system, which was adopted by the govern- ment, but he never got even thanks for It. The Patent Office, Not so many cranks beslege the patent office now as formerly. The attorneys through whom they make their applications try to shut them off. No other inventors value thelr ideas so highly as they do. Com. monly they are afraid to reveal thelr plans, lest they be stolen. The perpetual-motion lunatic is always’ snooping around. the reat building at 9th and F streets, though ie is sat upon with steady determination. If the words “perpetual motion” are men- tioned in his papers his money is sent back to him and bis appeal is firmly declined. ‘To (ted around this eet 2 he usually calls is machine a “motor.” ‘The final resort for getting rid of him is to demand a working model as a condition necessary before Is claim ‘can be further considered. That stumps him every time. The flying-machine cranks likewise bloom perennial. Some of them would navigate the air after the manner of birds, with fold- ing wings and gigantic tail feathers. Others rely on balloons, with propellers. Others yet depend on revolving fans, both to lift them in the air and to give an impulse in any desired direction. A promising device is a kite of vast area, with a fish tail for Pape ae a Agee Ck ee a EAN nother is an tricycle, to paddled with the feet. Perhaps the meanest of all swindlers are those who prey on poor inventors. ‘They look over the Gazette, issued by the patent office every week, and get the names of those to whom patents have been newly ranted. Then they write to each one, say- na " see that you have got a’ good thi 30 ‘We know certain parties who will put {t on the market, supplying the neces- sary capital. Send $20 to cover the cost of negotiations.” ‘The inventor perhaps bor- rows the money and forwards {t by mail. Subsequently he is informed that $16 more will be required, and in this way he is worked until nothing more can be got out of him. A man will often write to the pat- ent office in good faith, saying that he has something great and asking the govern- ment to put up the cash required for plac- ing it on the market. But Uncle Sam does not do business that way. High Speed Electrical Locomotives, From the Boston Globe. A powerful high-speed electric locomo- tive has just been completed at the Lynn works of the General Electric Company and is to be shipped to the world’s fair for exhibition. It is a remarkable machine, and ts de- scribed by the company as the first elec- trie locomotive dev! for wol steam Fiera od and for maintaining a Speed of any consequence. ‘While it Is not calculated to do any- thing in the shape of lowering or even a) Proaching the records of fast time made every day by steam locomotives, still it is in advance in electrical development. It 1s only expected to make thirty miles an hour, which is considered a very good rate for an accommodation train. ‘The locomotive is fitted with safety ap- piiances such as are attached to steam railroad engines. It has air brakes, the air being obtained from a special electrical air compressor, which also furnishes the force to sound’ the whistles. The oscillat- ing cylinder of the compressor has a 6- inch ‘stroke, and 1s capable of providing 6,000 cubic inches of air a minute, with a ressure of 70 pounds. The motor x fre the air pump is controlled by e special rheostat, which is automatically regulated by the pressure of air. ‘The locomotive weighs 30 tons and com- etness of machinery 18 at once apparent ints build. "dt is 16 feet 6 inches long, il feet 6 inches high, and 8 feet 4 inches wide. ‘The drawbars ure set 2 feet 6 inches from the top of the rail, while the whole rests on four 44-inch wheels. Two electric motors, one at each axle, provide the power, the motors being m less and supported upon spiral springs hay- ing their base on the side frames of the truck. This arrangement gives the wheels a certain freedom of movement irrespect- ive of each other, which permits them to adjust themselves to any unevenness of the track, making the locomotive ride eas- jer and diminishing the wear and tear upon the tracks and the motors. ‘The motor fields are solid tron castings and the hollow field spools are bolted to them. The ironclad armatures have each separate windings, embedded in a mica- Ined slot in the’ curved surface of the laminated iron armature body. The locomotive axles pass through the hollow shafts upon which the armatures are mounted. They rest in bearings of the motor frame and are connected to the axles by universal couples, which allow of con- siderable freedom of’ motion. The commu- tators are of substantial construction, and each one has four sets of brushes. It is claimed that the series parallel con- troller, which takes the place of the throt- tle in’ the ordinary locomotive, makes It possible to start and stop the motor easier and with less straining than {s needed for the steam locomotive, while the speed, by this arrangement, can be more readily con- trolled. The truck, suspended from the journal boxes, is constructed of heavy I-beams and forms th foundation for the locomo- tive cab, of s .et iron, of symmetrical de- sign, end so curved off as to diminish the atmospheric resistance as far as possible. ‘The interlor is finished in hard wood. Two sliding doors are placed at each side of the cab, and the windows are so arrang- ed ae to permit, of an unobstructed view in all directions, There is ample space in the cab for the motorman’s movements, and it affords him considerably better protection than that usually vouchsafed the steam locomotive engineer. The use of these locomotives over very long distances {s at present limited only by the cost of long lines of electric feeders, and until the problem offered by this con- dition is solved restriction of its employ- ment must necessarily exist. But for places comparatively near each other and where traffic is dense, the denser the better, the electric locomotive is pecu- Harly adapted, for here all the advantages of electric, propulsion are available, un- am e extreme expense involved in long feeder lines. ie ———+e+—_____. ‘What the Little Girl Did, From the New York Times. ‘The horror of Boston maidens of slang is not @ new theme, though it constantly finds new fllustrations. Last week a Boston woman, with her nine-year-old daughter, visited a former schdolmate in this city. The hostess is possessed of a nine- year-old boy,and the two at once became fast friends WhenSaturday night came the boy was hus- tled off to the bath room to be scoured up for Sunday. The little girl missed him and in- stituted instant search. She described her experience to her mother as follows: “I went into the bath room. At first I vould not see him, but when I called he slowly raised his head to the leval of the e tub, looked at me, and said What “I did you do?” "t w exactly what he meant, ss Dental. From Life's Calendar. She—“What superb teeth she has.” He—"Yes, but they are false.”” She—“Why do you think so? He—She told my sister she inherited them from her mother. Farmer Ryesteaw (to tramp). willin’ to work?” Indolent Ij “Not much! canned frat 8'pose yor I ain't no ONDURAS’ GOV- ernor has written to the Department of THIS CLIMATE TOO COLD. Agriculture offering to send to this : country some of the stingless bees which are native to Cen- tral America. If it were possible to do- mesticate them here there would be great advantage in doing inasmuch as the the chief obstacle to bee culture in the United States. The idea of producing bees without stings by selection in breeding has often been suggested, but it is not con- sidered practicable by scientific apiarists. The tropical insects referred to are cou- sins to the true honey bees, being grouped zoologically between the latter and the bumble bees. They make excellent honey, which, though less sweet than that sold in northern markets, has an aromatic per- fume and a delicious flavor of its own. Some of it is said to be poisonous, but It is not so ordinarily. Of these bees, which are very smali, there are twenty spe- cies in ‘Central’ and South Ameri where they |have been kept in hives for cen- ‘They belong to the genus “ mae.” Though lucking stings “they, possess ober means of deience. “They not only. bite rather sharply with their jaws, like ants, but they do their best to crawl into the gars and nostrils of anybody who attacks them. Some species are very spiteful, but others are comparatively amiable—notably the “scutellaris,” which is the one Lost commonly domesticated in Brazil. ‘The hives employed are usually hung from ore earand Nerandas, Sometimes they are vare, made of hollow le ut more often they are 3 two or three feet long, closed at the ends with circular plugs of wood. When a hive is judged by its Welght to be full, the plugs are withdrawn and the honey "is removed. These bees have been kept since prehistoric times by raid elr honey is contained not in hexagon: cells, but in wax bags as big as pigeons’ eggs. These are hung around the interior Walls of the hive and are usually about half full, holding as much as the strength of the sacks will bear. On one side of the tree or log occupied by the bees is. a hole just big enough to admit the members of the colony one at a time. At this hole a single bee always stands sentinel, drawing back out of the way every sime that a house= mate enters or leaves the domicile. By marking the sentinel it has been ascertain- ed that the same individual does sentry duty for a whole day. The hole in the side hive is the entrance to a long wind- ing tube, which 1s built of the bee glue ob- tained from the buds of plants. ‘or any hostile insect or other foe to maice its wa: through this narrow and eagerly defend So perilous an undertaking that fren tite feree tropical ants never nto Birds and lizards are the greatest ene- mies of these bees, the reptilian robbers near relatives, the “Trigonae.” The latter are not peculiar to the New World, Feendeie, Cousins Just described, ‘but found also in the East Indies and in Aus- tralia. They are much smaller, being in fact the pigmies among bees. Their name, which means “‘three-cornered,”” comes from the circumstance that their abdomens are triangular in shape. They have no stings, but are strong and very active in gather- ing pollen and honey, carrying remarkably heavy loads. The workers are black, but the queen 1s dark yellow and has a huge abdomen, her wings being not strong gnough to lift her into the air when she 1s seam SEER The honey cells, which 3 si ped oe eas, are grou Tho First Record of Hiving. The stings of bees are formidable weap- ons. When they are hungry nobody can handle them, but they are never cross when swarming, because on such occa- sions every one of them has filled herself with honey as a provision for the con- templated journey ‘to another home. “Ac- cordingly, at such times they can be dealt with bare-handed. There is an instance on record of a small boy’s hiving a swarm of bees by securing the whole bunch in his pantaloons and running home with them. f a disposition to be good-natured after a hearty meal had not been given to these insects, they could never have been do- mesticated, and the supply of honey would still be obtained from clefts of rocks and hollows of trees. There is everything in knowing how to deal with bees. ‘Those who alarmed if a bee enters the house or approaches them in the fields are ignorant of the fact that no bee ever volunteers an attack when at a distance from her hive. The males, called drones, are stingless, All the fonts performed by the celebrated Wildman may be safely imitated by any- body who understands bees. He did what he pleased with them apparently, causin swarms of them to obey his orders an. even to hang in festoons from his chin. “Such was the spell which round a Wild- man’s arm Twined in dark wreaths the fascinating swarm; Bright o'er’ his breast the glittering le- gions led, living garland bound his Or with head. Wildman” managed all this by simply Knowing the instinct which bees have to follow their queen. They do this always, because the perpetuation of their species depends on the exgs which she lays for the colony. He hid the queen in his beard, thus causing the swarm to gather there, and likewise made them do whatever else he wished, meanwhile giving words of com mand which were merely’ intended to de- ceive the spectator. The Sting of a Bee is composed of two spears of polished horn held in a sheath. One gets a notion of the sharpness of the weapon by a very simple comparison. The edge of a very keen razor, when examined under a good microscope, appears as broad as the back of a thick’ knife, rough, uneven and full of notches. An exceedingly small and deli- cate needle similarly scrutinized resembles a rough bar froma smith’s forge. The sting of a bee, viewed through the same instrument, shows a flawless polish, with- out the least blemish or inequality, ‘ending in a point too fine to be discerned.’ In the act of stinging the spears, each of which has nine barbs and Is grooved with a chan- nel for the passage of the poison, emerge from the sheath. One of them ts’ plunged into the flesh of the victim, the other fol- lowing, and alternately they penetrate deeper and deeper. The venom is forced to the ends of the spears by much the same process as that which carries the olson from the tooth of a snake when it ites. ‘On ‘one historical occasion a small pirate vessel, having on board some bees in earthenware hives which had been cap- tured on an Island in the Mediterranean, was pursued by a Turkish galley. The corsair being finally overtaken her men climbed the mast, from which they threw down the hives upon the deck when the alley’s crew boarded the vessel. The fives’ broke into fragments and the bees attacked the assailants with such vizor that the latter retreated and permitted the pirates to take their own galley almost without resistance. It is related that Amurat, Sultan of ‘Turkey, when beste: ing Alba, found a breach In the walls a fended by swarms of bees. His. 4 sarles, the bravest militia of the Ottoman empire, refused to clear the obstacle. | ‘0 stick a wound made by a hee is not advisable. Whereas the most deadly si ison is harmiess when taken Inter Phat of the bee is quite otherwise. som times causing severe headaches and other distressing symptoms. The barbs with which the spears are armed prevent them being withdrawn after stinging, and 3 tress Bee ts usually obliged to . leaving behind her sting, together with a portion of her intestines attached to it. In such a case she dies. Wasps and hi nets, on the other hand, can sting repea ly without endangering thelr lives. The sting of a bee with potson sack attached is capable of stinging for days after it has been removed or torn from the body of the Insect. Persons have been badly stung in the mouth by stings of bees In broken hon- eycombs which have buried bees by falling upon them. Old bee keepers do not mind the poison, having heen inoculated lke Mithridates of old. Beginners are some- times advised to allow themselves to be frequently stung, in order that they may become proof against the toxic action of the venom, Tropical Bees Can't Stand the Climate. One thing which the governor of Hondu- ras desired to know was whether there was any duty on bees imported into the United States. There is none, because they come in under the head of “animals for breeding purposes.” But the fatal objection to these honey-making tropical insects is that they will not stand this climate. They cannot live in a temperature below 50 d Fah- renhelt. In 1873 Edward Drory of Bordeaux brought to France forty hives of “Meli- ponae” and “‘Trigonae.” He kept them oyer_one winter by housing them in & heat- ed room, but eventually they died. A few years ago T. F. Bingham shipped a hive of “Meliponae” to Michigan, but he could not winter them. In short, these little nec- tar-getters cannot be domesticated in this country. It has been suggested that they might be crossed with our own honey bees ‘advantageously, to get rid of the sting, but it is almost certain that they would not breed together, inasmuch as they belong to different gene On the other ‘hand, the true honey bees have been imported from Europe into Cen- tral and South America, where they flour- ish. ‘They are determined and indefatigable immigrants.As is well known,these valuable insects did not exist in the new world when Columbus landed. They were brought hither by the white man. Only 100 years ago their hum had never been heard west of the Alle- heny mountains. A violent hurricane hav- {ng carried several swarms over that lofty they found there a country singu- larly favorable to their propagation, where they have multiplied un e boundless forests and savannahs are well populated with them. It is worth mentioning that the combs which contain the brood cells of the stingless tropical bees described are not built perpendicularly, like those of the true honey bees, but horizontally. They are pro- tected, furthermore, by labyrinthine walls. through which any small foe would find difficulty in making its way. A Giant Bee Expedition. ‘The expedition which the Department of Agriculture contemplated sending out some time ago to India for the purpose of procur- ing certain giant bees, which are wild in that country, has not ‘as yet. been dis- patched. These are the biggest species known in the world, and they build combs in the forests six or seven feet in length, which are found hanging from the limbs o! lofty trees or from prajecting ledges of rock at a high altitude. The combs yield enor- mous quantities of wax, which is a valuable commercial article, so that many skilled men make a business of hunting for them. The hunters, being clad only in breech- clouts, and having a superstitious fear of the insects, attack them by strat . Having smoked them out with a bunch of ignited leaves on the end of a long stick, they cut away the combs, which, when re- duced to wax, find their way eventually to warehouses in the cities, where tons on tons of this material may be seen together. Sooner or later some of these great bees will be fetched to the United States, where it is thought that, they could be made to supply large crops of the finest and most ve Peabie wax. thn * org md “A Ered no r Pe ie males of ordinary Jee has ied enthusiasts to ‘belleve that they could be crossed with the females of stocks already acclimated here. Neverthe- less, the practicability of accomplishing this result must be regarded as very doubt- ful, inasmuch as they are probably distinct species. ‘These wonderful insects from India have longer tongues than are possessed by other bees, and the belief is entertained that they could secure from many kinds of flowers honey that Row goes to waste. No faith’ is placed in the remarkable stories told of their extraordinary ferocity and of attacks which they are alleged to have made upon whole villages of with direful results. Dr. Frank Benton, expert employed by the Department of Ag- riculture, Investigated them in their native forests not long ago and demonstrated that expert beekeepers could easily handle them. joc ces POETICAL DREAMS SHATTERED. Influence of # Gondola Ride Through the Lagoons of the Fain From the Chicago Tribune, The music came softly, sweetly out to the old man and his daughter as they sat, half reclining on the luxurious cushions of the gondola, gayly decorated with Japanese lanterns. The myriad of gay lights from the cor- nices, from the roofs, from the water's edge, reflected in silver and gold the ripples of the lagoon. High up along the balcony they could see the flaming torches, flicker- ing with Roman reminiscence, and the white, ghastly faces and dark forms of the people looking down on the beautiful scene, while all around the lagoon, sitting upon the wide rail of the fence, leaning against the statuary or moving about with eager, restless tread, they could see the thousands of sight seers. In the distance they saw the shimmering, multi-colored waters and heard the gursiing murmur of the foun- tains. The stoical ndoliers dexterously swung the gondola here and there among the gay craft, Jaden to the water's edge with merry parties of lagoon tourists. Once, in a pause of the orchestral music, there came to them the twang of a banjo, then a happy French song came rippling across the dancing waves. For a long time they were silent. Then she clasped her fingers, sparkling with dia- mond’s, across the old man’s knee, and sal “Papa, I am so happ§. I feel so dreamy, so poetical, something Byron or Browning like. Ah, the Bridge of Sighs and Byron. ©, I could iove Byron tonight and Venice, too. mea Browning is buried there. ibly the old man thought Sy | was one of her old dude lovers; they al looked “consumptive; probably" he | had croaked in Venice. The old. man sympa- thetically sighed. “If Byron and Browning could have lived to see this, papa, what poetry we would have from them. They never saw anything to equal this.”* the old man complacently “How dreamily poetical Howells makes Venetian life,” ‘she mused. “It must be something like this. How I should love to live in Venice alway. “Do you mean to say you'd rather live in that perennial flood town, Venice, than Chi- cago?” he sharply interrogated. vor apa; my life would be a happy dream in ‘enice.”* “Now, look-a-here, Maria,” he savagely said, “I won't have that bow-legged dude feller of yours prowling ‘round the house any longer, He puts you up to all this moonshine business, and I won't stand any more of this comic opera gondolier business, ay’ hear? I ain't going to be paddied ‘round in a canoe by a pair of opera bouffe scullers. We'll land and take an electric or steam launch—something that can get a move on.” He prodded the nearest gondolier with his umbrella and ordered an jediate disem- barkation. Her face seems to' express satisfied and grim determination. The lines thet are there and on the thin little neck are those of age. Her hair is straight and short, ting- ed with gray and parted on the side. She wore an immaculate suit of black made with Prince Albert coat and of the finest ma- terial, standing collar with turnover points, a four-in-hand tie—black, with yellow spots. On one shoulder hung a military. made of the same material as the Prince Albert. On the table in front of her was a silk tile, in the latest Beau Brummel shape, that shone with the best Dunlap luster. She wore gold eyeglasses and a gold was on her left lapel. She is, certainly, a eri- terion on the subject of masculine attire. ——+ ee A More Profitable Branch of the Business, From Puck, Confidence Man—Can it be possible? Is this my old friend Deacon Greenberry? And you still running the dear old store down at the cross roads?” The Stranger (removing his disguise)—“No, Bill; it's your old friend Slippery Ike. I'm run: ning acountry boarding house this summer. It pays better than the handshaking line. I've Just run uptown to doa little marketing.” THE SENATE PAGES. The Well-Paid Boys Who Run Errands for the Members of the Millionaires’ lub, An Age Limit Which Will Cause the Re- moval of Several Boys at the Be- sinning of This Congress. With the beginning of the session of Con- gress several of the pages of the Senate will go out of office. There will be no re- movals on account of politics. Pages have political views—or they think they have— but these are never held against them by the Senate. Of all the 110 appointments under the sergeant-at-arms of the Senate, these are the only ones which can be said to be non-political. A number of republi- can employes will be kept in office by Ser- Seant-at-arms Bright in accordance with the invariable custom recognizing the mi- nority in the distribution of patronage. The pages will stay in office whatever their Political backing unless they have rea“hed the age limit. No boy can be appointed a Page of the Senate who ts not twelve years of age; and no boy can continue as a page Who ts sixteen years of age ut the begin- ning of @ session of Congress. It ven @ sorry day ‘for the page when he euters his seventeenth year. It may be a long {me before he finds employmeat so Jucra- tive again unless he is fortunaze enough of riding page. to be selected for thi Usually ‘four of the boys. air records rid- 50 8 @ lump sum of 0) day for the session and at the end of the them dar- session to Keo ‘This pay and allowance 18. “The page now te- celves nothing for the recess. He is sup- Posed to have laid by Snough out of hie lary to keep him going andl Congress meets again, Good Pay. him going, but usually the one dependent on him, at In fact the are’ ar pages most instances becaus? they of an- Bo it for a much smaller sum, siege Se Some tae : = uuld te to sa ee i i Hf i | . & j tikes gaz fs ment of the Capitol furnished i thelr Use. “They exercise thelt arty’ and their chests there every morning; their legs Ret plenty of exercise throuzh the day. when the Senate meets the pages rang: by the riding They are older and bet- ter capatie physically SL orrerins 4 wider territory. 's duty keeps t ~~ Caste 5 shore fume etter ‘the ‘Senate journ: evening. That 5 o'clock. i all night. And the little fellows over, Opportunities for Making Money. Although the riding pages recei: Pay for their work they do not rd very, per the welfare of the pages. One of the pages of a few years ago is a cadet at Annapolis. His name is George Mann. He attracted the favorable no- tice of Senator Quay and the Senator got him the appointment to the Naval Acad- He prepared himself to enter studying during the recess of C ‘The chief page, ‘who is known on the books of the sergeant-at-arms as “assistant a, ‘Alonzo Stewart—has studied law tn his leisure moments and has taken his degree. Stewart began as a page and he has been in the employ “of ‘the Senate for seventeen years. Capt. Isaac Bassett, . Was a page ago. One of the — the the gi E of George Boyd, eves a better example Shan any of these Senator “Gorman "of Maryland, who life as a page of the Senate and who Eaduated into” the Senate office and that into Mary- land politics. The late “Jim” Christie. for Of the Senate, worka Wiese ees of the 3 Gorman who were ls during President Sever land's first term and who gained fame marrying @ native princess. Autographs and Speeches. The congressional pages have a great many sources of income outside their sal- aries, One of the most fertile of these a few years ego was the collection of auto- gra he An ast graph, hunter will very ror Autographs of the members of the Sehate by about giving autographs to the boys. They Fecognize this, a Focognize ‘this as a legitimate. industry Storkraph albums, laying them before Sen- . In the House the pages do most of thelr autograph collecting »before noon. The practice fallen partly into disuse of late years because it came t. - thing of @ nuisance to Senators and men. The pages make quite a little mone; an election year by soliciting: subscriptions — Speech, it is fellow-members as a campaign doc Under the law, st can be printed wa eet part of the og conned Record,” at cost, and then sent through the mails under the Congressman’s frank. The pages solicit orders for these speeches, and the member after paying for the conies of the Speech, pays $1.50 commission to the for each 1,000. The page has the speeches wrapped and delivered. Sometimes the Conehues man gives him an order to see that the speeches sed and matled. For = wis ‘s merge gd extra. nother source of income t ove ts the contributions cae d the end of used by some of his & session to those who have been particularly active in serving them. None of the youngsters consider it undig- nified to accept these “tips.” Senator Stan ford a@ warm friend of the pages. He gave a fine dinner every year. a: om the day, the Senate Qiourned over for is one of the duties of a ete place a glass of water on the desk or one’ a h' Senators who may begin what prom be along speech. The late Senator B to heve a glass of whiskey on his desk. It was color- less, and looked as much Tater as anything else. One day the tor sent a new down for a gla whiskey while he was making a © and the boy brought back a glass of rich. Fed liquor whose identity was unmistak- ech made by the Senators ai | = able. Senator Beck went right on with his Among so many well-behaved gene tlemen ‘there may creep in one who is no f0 well-behaved. No community is insu! secep aback sheep.” There was « black ‘D among the te two years ago. A number of small “articles “wens missed from the desks of Senaters, and, complaints having been made, a watch was set. This boy ‘was discovered stamps and stationery from. the desks. Was tracked to a news stand, where he the stamps for one-half their fage value, ‘The next morning he was called into the office of Acting Sergeant-at-Arms Reade and dismissed from the service of the Sen= ate. He broke down and to ery hy terically. Mr. Reade turned away. A toe ment there were sounds a struggie behind him, and, turning, he saw Al Stewart holding ‘the boy's right arm tr¥ing to prevent him from using a knife which he held oven in his right hand. He would have stabbed Mr. Reade if had not seen him open the knife. He was disarmed and taken out of the buiding, This is the one instance on record where © Senate page has been recreant to 3 vhich Is the excuse for telling 4 at this time, ——_+—__ STUCK UPON EACH OTHER. AGirl Has Her Stylish Headgear Mixed Up Witha Man's Hat. From the Chicago News, The reign of the sailor hats is merciless and as enduring as the of Egypt. No sensible girl can resist them tm thetp smartness, style and general air of convens fence. But there is one girl who will think: twice before donning hers for a trip down town, for she has been tried in the furnace of fire and found wanting. That is, she hag been obliged to suffer humiliation and trou- ble for the beloved sailor, and she didn’t come out of the ordeal with # particularly, smiling countenance. She was going down town in a syburbam gar and sut-in a middle seat, which was back to back with another in which sat young man of the period, whose brow was surmounted by a broad font Ts, alto, was broad-brimmed, and therefore collisions ensued. First fently rasped his neck, and, as be quickly investigate, the brim of his caught her across the ear. At that she turned and there was 4 smash. ‘Then they both Sushed a erted to esti down again, but every time either straight- ened up the other was to obiiged duck, After a period of animated see-saw she 5: denly bethought herself that she Move along & trifle and remedy mati but as the same idea had communicat: itself to the young gentieman also, and as each acted upon it, the movement was exactly a success, Tiles spectators the girl frowned ~~ fy and hoses Gacd et the peared densely interested in the hoor, fps ihe Srapet reach a rea it in the face, Then Eould oo e him and he took off couldn't shriek out. Neither fround and she was in being decapitated when the rushed to the rescue and out of debris of raw; pins. strings and tum| hair exiricate two ae At each other and Tefused to srane”, naihd of such are the troubles of the sailoe ent colors in the spring. Yellow-hammers charm their mates by isplaying their tail feathers in the form of fan; starlings chatter in the sunshine Bright shells, flowers, thers and grasses are laid by the Dower bind the entrance of his partrer’s retreat: tiny bumming birds woo most assidueusly, ghowing off thelr lovely hues and eouaging fierce combat with a possil ival; even. bri nectar from ce flowers for the di their sex, and pretend to be the exertions of their admirers. Frogs have an original way of lovemake ing, and @s soon as evening shades fall commence to croak loudly to their mates, sometime great numbers of them combin= Jn one unmusical chorus. among insects is often a very glaborate affair. A male spider wil) ap- @ female and amuse her for some with his antics. It ts said thet he twirls around and around, crosses his ¢rects his body and executes a sort of ance to excite her otmiration, She is a very us lady and not pleased with, his lovemaking” ds himself obliged to ward her for she has a painful mode of showing her dis- ure, and if she entirely Bis atientoms will tall tpea ‘bint ned te One apecies of spider ts sald to have ie to . novel way of making love, the sexes com- municating by means of strands of stretching from one retreat to the other— a sort of telephone, so to speak. Giow worms, according to some natural- ists, use their juminaries as love signals. The females of one species seat themselves among the grass, while the males, attract ed by the light, dance attendance round Concerning fishes—the sticklebacks eeca- sionally resort to harsh treatment, attack- ing the females with open mouths erected spines. As husbands their behsvior has deposited her esas within the mest thet he has for her, her lord and ter drives away and proceeds to them himself. ‘To Keep Kid Gloves. + If you persist in wearing kid ing hot weather do not, every time y: then. off, make yourself look Mke a cature cherub or cupid by blowing them. The air thus admitted does, te sure, dry them and they are not a hopeless- ly shrunken mass of kid when you next et tempt to wear them. But there is a less objectionable way to obtain the same re- sult. Pull them off by the wrists, turning them inside out. Let them air a few mine utes then turn them and put them away— not folded in a wad, but stretched at full length in a long glove box. — Piscatortal Item. From Texas Sittings. Mr. Hudson Rivers is sn enthusiastic fisherman and he always manages to bring home fish. A few mornings ago, being fully equipped with rod, etc., he stopped on his way to the fishing boat at a Harlem fish market. “What ean I do for joday?” the urbane proprietor, "°" ‘oaay?” ested “Put aside that big striped bass until get back. 1am going to catch him while am out at the fishing banks today i ! Mr. West Monroe— awfully careless whe r. Fort Wi yne—“How ac roe—"-Just look at that easterm vs carclessly be throws his napkis jm. He doesn't appesr to care whether ie Lis vest all fuil of soup or not.” Ppceetatatasttetnectanal Yours fur a clear head —BromowGeltaes.