Evening Star Newspaper, December 14, 1893, Page 14

14 THE EVENING STAR, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1893-SIXTEEN PAGES. AT OLDNASSA Princeton Gets Four World’s Fair Awards for Her Exhibit. SENIOR CLASS ELECTIONS The Intercollege Debates Exciting Much Talk. SOME CURIOUS PAPERS. Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. PRINCETLON, N. J., December 11, 1893. Princeton University has been awarded four prizes for her exhibit at the world’s fair. The first and most coveted prize is for the general excellence of the exhibit, the s:cond is for her scientific apparatus, the third for her mechanical drawings and the Jast for her alumni library. The larger part of the exhibit has returned from Chicago; and a movement is now on foot to preserve the entire exhibit intact in one of the col- lege buildings, Prof. Libbey, who had charge of Princeton's display at the fair, is @t the head of this new movement, and the halls with the other clubs and societies Tepresented have been requested to donate their shares to this permanent end. It is Mkely, at any rate, that the collection of Scientific instruments and apparatus belong- ing to the late Prof. Henry, which called forth many comments of interest at Chica- &0, will be carefully preserved in ome of the college museums instead of being hidden away in one of the lecture halls, as their fate has been during recent years. At a recent meeting the trustees raised a sum of money for the proper care and keeping of the collection, At the same meeting the trustees gave to the library some old documents relative to the college's history. Some of these have been framed and hung in the library. One is a circular dated December 12, 1763, and entitled “Scheme of a Lottery for the Use of the College of New Jersey.” After a preamble the circular says: “The legisla- ture of the colony of New Jersey having been pleased to countenance this rising seat of learning so far as to pass an = ena- bi the trustees to erect and draw a lottery ja any sum not exceeding three thousand pounds, it is hoped that the gen- erous design in making a law will be car- Fied into execution by all those who wish ‘well to the institution, or who are desirous ; of promoting useful knowledge in these in- fant countries, and preparing our own youth to sustain the public offices of church and state.” Then follows a detail- ed scheme of the lottery. Elsewhere are seen itemized accounts of the lottery as it atterwards took place, signed by Samuel treasurer. One item is interesting; it reads: s : lottery was drawing. money given to boys when good prizes were drawn for Nassau Hail.” In another frame is the following bill: “The trustees of the College of New Jer- sey, Dr., to Wm. Hick. Sept. 27, 1771. zs. a 41226 510 16 0 90 8 double bowls of punch. vo 8 double bowls of toddy. - 60 Tea for 13 gentlemen.. 13 0 13 00 6 Under this is written: “The above amt. believe to be just. Jno. Witherspoon.” Reference to a history of the college shows that on this salubrious occasion the trustees performed the difficult feat of elect- ing a professor of mathematics. Another framed document is an affidavit testifying to the sale, by one John Living- Stone, of New York, merchant, to Rev. Mr. Aaron Burr, president of the College of New Jersey, of a “negro man named Caes- ar” for the sum of eight pounds. There is, at present, working on the seminary grounds, an aged darkey answering to that mame. He says he is considerably over a hundred years old, but has forgotten wheth- er he is the colored gentleman mentioned in the above affidavit or not. It is said that the Seminoles think it is scarcely probable, though it may be possible, Class Officers. The most important event tn senior year, mext to graduation, is the election of the senior class oilicers and! speakers for com- mencement, and there are usually a number of sore hearts and bruised feelings among the seniors after the election is over. This year is no exception. The faculty appoint their share of the speakers, on the basis of scholarship; but the class elect the rest &nd the voting is governed largely by popu- jJarity and wire-pulling. A few of the of- fices to be filled are perpetual, as, for in- stance, the presidency and the secretary- ship; while many of them are regarded as the it gifts the class can bestow, and are therefore secretly coveted long before senior year ever is reached. This accounts for the intense excitement while the balloting is in Progress, It is one of the two supreme mo- ments of senior year. ‘The elections usually take place in Examination Hall, the im- mense room at the top of Dickinson whence trembling freshmen get their first glimpse of college life, by way of entrance exams. ig the past few years the scene during the casting of oallots has come to resemble nium pure and simple, and the fac- ulty decided this year that the time-honored custom of holding the elections at night Should be abolished. Elections were to be held in the day time. This, naturally, would deprive the occasion of much of its charm. The seniors deciared they would not hold them by day; they would rather 0 without. Whereupon ‘the faculty smiled. Then the seniors met and resolved to omit the ob- Jectionable features, provided the faculty ‘Would allow them to hold elections at night, as customary. To this arrangement the authorities willingly assented, and the class of "04 accordingly held their elections last Wednesday evening in Examination Hail. I - M. Thompson, who is Ball Association, and ® member of Ivy; secretary, W. A. Sexton ef the Colonial Club; master of ceremonies, Cc 3. Kenzie, captain of next spring's base bail team, and one of the choice spir- its of Tiger Inn. The last ballot tor the Class day committee was cast at3 a. m., aa — quietest ae elections meeting inceton has held for many years = a a other election, of different nature, bu equal importance, was that held in tne eitices of the Daily Princetonian to choose mext year’s foot ball captain. Those who had played in any of the three ampion~ ship games were allowed to ote, and as a Result of the first ballot “Doggy” Tren- etard was re-elected. The vote was unani- mous. A dinner will be given to the foot bal team on Wednesday, the 13th, by the man- agement of the Inn. This is the new hotel @rected on the Stockton property, adjoining Morven, the old Stockton homestead. The menu used at the dinner will be a work of art, and its wording will be such as to ap- Beal strongly to each As a starter, Yale blue points will be served. The dining ‘hall is to be elaborately dec- erated, and speeches will be made by the eoachers and other alumni. The Glee Club Will assist digestion with its music. a the Christmas vacation Princeton n Eth aspen ce the Harvard School of New ork, an ttle for suprema ckess board. fat $500 19'to ne A cup valued at $500 fs to be given to the winning team, and a medal will be presented to each man on that team. and also a medal to the contestant Winning the largest number of games, pro- ¥iding he is not on the victorious team. Two men. with an escort of three substi. tutes, will represent each college. and it is hoped that Mr. Lloyd of the Mail and Ex. Becember 2 nnd continue every afternoon until January 4. 43 Although Harvard's foot ball men are not anxious to buck against a Princeton rush Mne, yet her debaters are ready to meet the orange and black on the rostrum. The date set for the wordy strife is April 20. Tt has been agreed to appoint jndges for this de. bate, as well as for the Princeton-Yale de- bai rs will be allowed the floor twice. as the case in the Princeton-Yale Aobate last year. fs still an open question. One of the chief advantages of Clio and Whig Halls. Princeton's great literary societies, is the practice of extempore s superiority of the Princeton debaters last year in their rebuttal speeches was woe- fully apparent to Yale enpporters. ‘The few Haven men were totally tmaceustome? fo speak off-hand. At a recent meeting of tes from Clio and Whig Halls with | da, meet Yale, Harvard and Columbia at | umpire. The playing will begin | on May 10. Whether or not the de-| aking. The | delegates from the Harvard and Yale de- bating societies Princeton, in view of the objection to second hes raised by Yale, suggested that it be left to a board of arbitrators to decide whether debaters be allowed the floor a second time or not. Yale, with customary diplomacy, refused to agree to this. Whereupon Princeton, as a last resource, suggested that each college be allowed fifteen minutes for rebuttal, to be used as a first or second speech, as each college may see fit. Yale, having in mind the judges, and therefore a verdict on the merits of the debate, was not prepared to give her answer, and requested time for consideration. Her reply is awaited with interest by Princeton. It seems but fair that the extempore speakers should have a show at some time during the debate’s pro- gress, V. LANSING COLLINS. ——— TO PHOTOGRAPH THE STARS. The Bruce Telescope Will Make Many Additio: to the Map of the Heavens. From the Boston Evening Transcript. The Bruce photographic telescope, which has so long been in process of construction at Alvan Clark & Sons, Cambridgeport, will soon be set up at the Cambridge Observa- tory, and will probably be in operation in the course of a month. Its completion will mark a new epoch in this branch of sci- ence, as it is the largest and it is thought to be the most powerful instrument of its kind which has yet been set up. The base and operating machinery are already in place at Cambridge, and the tube and lenses, although still at Clarks’ works, are practically completed. It is expected that with this Instrument stars can be photo- graphed which have never been seen through the most powerful visual tele- scopes. The instrument differs from the ordinary large telescope in the construction of its ob- !ject lens. The photographic telescopes com- monly in use diffef but little from an ordi- nary visual telescope with an arrangement for the reception of a photographic plate. This instrument, however, in place of the ordinary lens, composed of two pieces of glass, has a compound lens made of four pieces, which resembles the portrait lens used by photographers. The objective is of 24 inches aperture and the focal length of the tube is 11 feet. Two instruments constructed on this plan are already in the possession of the Cam- bridge Observatory, one at Cambridge and the other in Peru, and have given the greatest satisfaction. They are both of eight-irch objective, and with them it h: been found possible to photograph stars that were not visible through a 15-inch visual telescope. It will, therefore, be seen that if the instrument now being construct- ed should be powerful in the same ratio it will exceed in power a 45-inch telescope of the ordinary kind. As the largest one at present in use is the Lick telescope, which is of 36-inch objective, and the largest any- where near completion is the great instru- ment for the University of Chicago, with a 40-inch lens, it is fair to suppose that the Bruce instrument will photograph stars which can be seen through neither of these, The instrument is superior to the ordinary one, not only in power, but in the expanse of sky which can be taken upon a single plate. The ordinary telescope will cover only about four degrees at a single ex- Posure, and as there are 40,000 degrees in the whole expanse of the heavens, 10,000 plates would be necessary for a complete record of their whole area. The new tele- scope will cover six times the area, and will take the whole heavens in 1,600 photo- graphs. These photographs, when taken, will not only show many hitherto unknown stars, but will be a valuable and indis- putable record of the state of the heavens at the time they were taken. The whole series could be completed in about a year’s time, but it will probably be longer than that before it is finished, as the telescope will be used for other purposes in the mean- time. The new telescope is the gift of Miss C W. Bruce of New York. It will remain at Cambridge until its capabilities have been thoroughly tested, which will probably be in two or three years, and then will be shipped to its ultimate destination in Peru. Here it will be set up on a hill near Are- quipa, where the South American branch of the Harvard Observatory is situated. —+e2—_____ FIRE WITHOUT SMOKE. A Berlin Inventor‘: heme for Burn- ing Powdered Coal is Successfal. Wherever there’s smoke there's fire is an adage based on observation of unvarying physical laws, but the reverse does not al- ways hold good, for there may be fire with- out smoke, or at all events without appar- ent smoke. In Berlin, according to the Newcastle Chronicle, an inventor has succeeded in de- vising a means for insuring complete com- bustion without the emission of smoke, and his method has, on repeated tests, proved so satisfactory that two of the most im- portant steamshipping companies in Ger- many have decided on adapting it to their steamers. In this system coal, reduced to powder in centrifugal disintegraters, is in- troduced into a pear-shaped combustion chamber lined with firebrick, and fitted witb an induction apparatus like those used in petroleum-fired furnaces, the coal dust | being drawn along by a jet of steam or compressed air. The combustion chamber, which takes the place of a furnace, is provided with two apertures, one in the center line of the boil- er, occupying the position of the usual fire- hole door, whiie the other, on the opposite side of the combustion chamber, serves for ir.troducing the coal dust through a pipe, so placed that the dust is evenly dispersed over the whole surface of the chamber. After the first ignition, which may be effected by any source of heat, the combustion con- tindes regularly and intensely under the ac- tien of the air current, which is regulated in accordance with the quantity of dust re- quired to produce the necessary heat. The air or steam and dust are intimately min- gled in the zone of combustion, while the speed of the current, which has served as a vehicle for the dust, ls much reduced. Each particle of fuel held in suspension is, by this Method, brought into such close contact with the oxygen necessary for its combus- tion that this method is so complete as to allow of practically no smoke being gen- erated. Eskimo Decadence. From the New York Tribune. It is the marvelous resourcefulness and in- ventive skill of these men of the far north which Dr. Nansen is never weary of prais- ing; and it is here he meets with almost an- gry contempt the assertion that civilization has made up for some of the injury it has done savage races by giving them better implements for gaining their livelihood. He deciares that tirearms have been a positive injury to the Greenlanders as hunters. They were, indeed, enabled.to slaughter the creatures upon which they subsisted more Tapidly. But the result was just such waste- ful butchery as caused the buffalo to vanish from the prairies of the United States. It went so far, says Dr. Nansen, “that on the narrow strip of naked,broken country which Stretches along the west coast, no fewer than 16.v00 reindeer were killed every year, only the skin, as a rule, being taken and | Solid to Europeans, while the fiesh was left behind to rot. Of course this led to the | almost total extermination of the animals, and hunting almost entirely ceased, be- cause, as it was explained, ‘the reindeer has left the coast.’ What happened in the | €ase of the reindeer is also about to happen | with the seal. ‘This wary animal is frighten- ed by the cfack of the rifle. On the other hand, use of the rifle has lessened the dex- | terity of hunters with the harpoon. The | final difficulty, worst of ali, is that while the | Slaughter of seals with the rifle is much | Jost, a thing that almost never happened in | old times. The shotgun has proved of the ; Same murderous eflicacy with birds as the | rifle has with larger game. Thus, tempted | by the appliances of civilization, the Eski- mo is wasting his means of life.’ As things | Were a few years ago, he was able to pro- cure the subsistence needed by himself and {those dependent upon him without dimin- ishing the supply of land and sea food Which forms his only dependence. In those | days he only drew the interest on his capi- | tal; now he is destroying the principal just | as fast as he can load and tire his gun. | Meanwhile the Greenlander is rapidly los- | Ing not only the game which he lived upon, but the skins of which he used to make his | clothes and his boats. The making of the | Women’s boats, so prominent in every story let arctic tra has almost ceased. With the disappearance of these end forever those | Periodical migrations which were and are :dispensable to the existence of the race. | Shivering in his European rags, the wretch. | ed native mu: starve ashore in places | where, with warm furs, bows and arro harpoons and lances, and buoyant kayaks his ancestors lived in comfort and abun- dance. Dr. Nansen looks forward gloomily | to the not far distant time when there wiil | be no Greenlanders in Greenland. ——+e-____ John Cessna of Pennsylvania Dead. | Ex-Congressman John Cessna died last | night at Bedford, Pa., of diabetes insipidus, | in his seventy-second year. Mr. Cesena | had been in bad health for the past three | months, The funeral will take place Satur- Ye CURIOSITIES OF THE CALENDAR. De You Know When the Ei Century Will Comet From the Boston Home Journal. The year 1900 will not be a leap year simply because, being a hundredth year, although it is divisible by four, it is not di- visible by 400 without a remainder. This is not the real reason, but a result of it; the real reason being the establishment of the Gregorian rule, made in 1582. The nineteenth century will not end till midnight of Monday, December 31, 1900, al- though the oid quarrel will probably again be renewed as to what constitutes a cen- tury and when it winds up, and thousands will insist on a premature burial of the old century at midnight of December 31, 1899. But as a century means 100 years, and as the first century could not end till a full luv years had passed, nor the second till 200 years had passed, etc., it is not logic- ally clear why the nineteenth century should be curtailed and broken off before we have had the full 1,900 years. , April 1 and July 1 in any year, and in leap year January 1, fall on the same day of the week, September 1 and December 1 in any year fall on the same week day. Janvary 1 and October 1 in any year fall on the same week day, except it be a leap year. February 1, March 1 and November 1. of any year fall on the same day of the week, unless it be a leap year, when January 1, April 1 and July 1 fall on the same week of the May 1, June 1 and August 1 in any year never fall on the same week day, nor does any one of the three ever fall on the same week day on which any other month in the Same year begins, except in leap year, when Pebruary 1 and August 1 fall on the same Week day. ‘To find out on what day of the week any day of this century fell: divide the year by four ana let the remainder go. Add the Quotient and year together, then add three more. Divide the result by seven, and it the remainder is 0 March 1 of that year was Sunday; if 1, Monday; if 2, Tuesday, and so on. ¥or the last century, do the same thing, but add four instead of three. For the next century, add 2 instead. it is neediess to go beyond the next cen- tury, because its survivors will probably have some shorter method, and find out by simply touching a knob or letting a knob touch them. Christmas of any year always falls on the same day of we Week as January 2 of that year, unless it be a leap year, wnen it — the same week day as January 3 of that ear. Easter is always the first Sunday after the full moon that happens on or next after h 21. it is not easy to see how it can | occur earlier than March 22 or later than April 26 in any year. New Year Wanuary 1) will happen on Sun- day but once more during this century; that will be in isyy, in the next century it will occur fourteen times only, as follows: 1905, 111, 1922, Luzs, 1953, 1939, 1950, 1056, 1961, 1967, 1978, 1984, 1989 and 1095. The in- | tervais are regular—6-5-6-11, 6-5-6-Ll—except the interval which includes the hundredth year that is not a century, when there is a break—as 1593, 1899, 1905, '191i—when three intervals of six years come together; after that plain sailing uil 2001, when the old in- tervals will occur in regular order. oe. BIG BRIDGES, There Are Many in Europe, but Ours Reat Them All. From the New York Commercial Advertiser. They are indulging in some big bridge talk in Europe. ‘he high-level bridge across the Mersey at Liverpool is to con- sist of the three spans on the arched sus- pension principle, each 1,150 feet, 15u feet above the river at high water. There is to be a double railway track, a roadway forty feet wide for vehicles and sidewalks or foot- paths. The railway bridge proposed across the Bosphorus at Constantinople would be 8,645 feet long, or nearly the length of the Forth bridge. The projected Channel bridge between England and France runs in @ straight line trom the South Foreland to Cape Blanz Nez. The structure, as now | Proposed, would consist of seventy-three } spans, alternately 1,300 feet and 1,625 feet long. It would give a clear headway of 119 feet at every point between the piers. ‘two bridges just completed across the new North sea and Buitic canal have spans of | 150 feet each, and, Lesides railways, carry also a common roadway and foot paths. The new East River (New York) oridge, as projected, is to take six or seven years to complete. The span will be 1,670 feet; the total length froin anchor to anchor, 3,200 feet. The towers will be 280 feet high, and the center of the bridge, above mean high water mark, will be 140 feet, five feet higher than the present bridge. ‘here will | be four railroad tracks. The North bridge, for which the House of Representa tives has just passed a Dill, is required to have a clear waterway of 2.0W0 feet and a clear headway above nigh water of spring tides of not less than 15y feet. New York | is unique among the world’s cities of the | first class in the greatness of its needs of river bridges and in the almost total lack of such accommodation. The ferry lines, although thirteen in number cn the two rivers, can never serve the purpose of bridges for heavy city traftic. To the vis- itor from London or Paris it is an enigma how the people of Brooklyn and Jersey City manage to transfer themselves from one part to another of what is virtually one great town. The Brooklyn bridge, on Octo- ber 12, during the Columbus festival, tran: ferred 258,053 passengers. The plans now in progress are to double its capacity, ‘Ihe era is one of great bridge building. —_—__+e-- A Tactful Empre: From Harper's Bazar. The empress of Japan—being that sweet- est of all sweet creatures, a womanly wo- man—has upon many occasions openly evinced her deep interest in the wee ones of Japan, giving freely to all institutions that exist to benefit them in any way, even practicing all sorts of touching little econo- mies that she may be able to swell her con- tributions to certain charities that most in. terest her. The conduct of this ideal woman upon a certain sad occasion her devoted subjects are never weary of describing. Prince Lwa- kura, a feari~ss Japanese leader in the mo- | mentous days of the crisis—from which the lovely archipeiago is still trembling in its subsidence to what seems assured stability— Jay dying in his yashiki. The empress announced her intention of paying Iwakura a visit in person. The poor prince, weak, and as I have said, about to} die, was thrown into a dangerous state of | excitement upon receiving the news, but he | managed to bo-row from some hidden nerv- ous force sufficient strength to grasp his writing box and brushes and to paint her an urgent but most respectful request not to think of coming to him. He forced upon her an excuse fo: declining so great an honor the fact of his rapiciy approaching death, and his consequent inability to ac- knowledge her visit with even a sixteenth part of the homage it demanded. He beg- ged her to deign to kindly consider how ill he must be when it remained an impossibil- ity to throw off the malady even for her | entertainmert. In reply, winged with speed, came a dear ‘ittle missive whose import was as follows: “I come not as your empress, but as the daughter of your fond well wisher and co- | adjutor, and a: your own anxious friend.” | Shorn of all ustentation and display, the | empress arrived, and remained beside her | grateful subject until his final summons. Some years ago, when the imperial palace was burned, the unselfish empress, amid all | the excitement and discomfort she was for | the nonce called upon to endure in a hasty | flight to a comfortless old yashiki, thinking first of her subjects’ natural concern for he> comfort, sat down and wrote them a dainty little rhyme, which proclaimed as erroneous the report that she had changed her resi- dence. It coyly asserted that her home had always been in the hearts of her people, and that she sincerely hoped that neither by flame nor by cold could she be driven from that dear abode. ——_——_-e- —_____ Amounted to the Same Thing. From the New York Herald. ‘ A recent remark of Senator Calvin’ §. Brice shows him to be a man not only of humor, but also to have a keen appreciation of things in Brooklyn. “Are you going to the foot ball game, Sen- ator?” asked one who knows him the day before Thanksgiving. “No,” replied the Senator dryly. “I think kill a man on the trolley road, and that will | accomplish the same purpose as a foot ball game.” t]2 A Verdict for Mr. Labouchere. The Ziereberg libel case against Mr. Hen- ry Labouchere of London for exposing the {a quarter millions of letters; I shall go over to Brooklyn. I can see them i} THE WORK OF A MIGHTY BLAST. Nearly 200,000 Tona of Rock Loosened by a Single Eplosion. From the London Telegraph. For many years a huge mass of rock, technically known as a “dike,” a legacy from previous workers, has frowned over one of the Great Dinerwic quarries, the property of Mr. Assehton Smith, and has been a growing menace to the safety of the men employed in the galleries below, which in a series of terraces rise almost from the edge of the lake far up the steep breast of the mountain. The Hon. W. W. Vivian, who manages the quarries for Mr. Assehton Smith, decided to remove the dike, and during the last three months prepara- tons for its destruction have been in active progress. From three longitudinal tunnels in the solid rock ten chambers, each eleven feet by four feet, were made and charged with gela- tine dynamite. Each bag of this explosive was placed in position by Mr. Vivian him- self. Everything having been satisfactorily arranged, Mrs.Assehton Smith was request- ed to fire the twenty minutes’ time fuse leading to the mass of some two and a half tons of gelatine dynamite safely packed in the entrails of the rock, a request to which she readily acceded. The hour was fixed for 1 o'clock Saturday, and shortly before the time thousands of people from Lianberis and adjacent villages—Bangor, Carnarvon and other towns—took up advantageous po- sitions in the neighborhood. Punctually at the appointed time Mrs. Assehton Smith fixed the time fuse, and at 1:20 o'clock the earth for a mile round was shaken as if by an earthquake. At the next instant the face of the tremendous dike, which towered gloomily upward, and on either side of which the rain-covered rock glistened in a passing burst of sunshine, began to quiver ominously and the loose earth in its crevices clattered down its Smooth face like an avalanche. Next, from different parts of the rock came sputtering bursts of smoke and then enormous blocks detached themselves from the mountainous mass of rock, toppled slowly forward, and finally crashed into the abyss below with deafening uproar, which, mingling with the thunders of the exploding dynamite, now freed from its rocky prison, reverberated grandly among the mountains that towered Tuggedly into the cloud-darkened sky. Again and again was the downfall of the huge masses of rock repeated till 180,000 tons lay like “tumbled fragments of the hills" far below. A dense white smoke, the deadly afterdamp, clung for a while around the scene of the explosion, and, when cleared away, in the place of the dike there was a great gap, in which glistened here and there pinnacles of splintered rocks. ————r0- AT HALF MAST. A Sentiment Drawn From the Story of ® Ship's Return From Sea, From Donahoe’s Magazine. Men on the wharf were looking through their long glasses at the vessel coming in ‘Two of them spoke almost at the same time. “It is the Jessie Roberts," they said. A little boy, who had been looking, too, started on a run up the wharf. He never stopped running till he broke, breathless. into a little house, low and weatherbeater and banked with seaweed, under the brow of the hill. “Mother! Mother!” he cried; “she’s coming! she’s coming! the Jessie's most in.” The young woman making bread threw a faded shawl over her head and shoulders She wiped her hands on her apron and started with the boy. A little crowd was already on the wharf, folk drawn together by the common bond of daily bread, won from the deep waters, and the dearer ties of husband, lovers,broth- ers and fathers on board. Two of the own- ers were there. They saw their vessel back from the crafty sea and the stealthy fog All her white sails were spread and draw- ing. The sun of the ciear winter morning shone on her clean decks. Ice in the rigging gleamed like diamonds. She was deep in the water, an earnest of hundreds — perhaps thousands—of barrels of fish in the hold. “T hope they've got a gi said a careworn woman. something on our mortgage next week. ain't had any new elo’es for a year.” The vessel fast grew bigger; and while those on the wharf watched she came about. ‘Then the light left every face. No one said a word—no one made a ery or a groan. The men pressed nearer the edge of the whart and the women, white faced and shuddering, shrank back and drew together. Every eye was iixed on the vessel's mainmast, where topsail had hidden the flag until the vessel) came about, 4 suctc tuvy stood, waiting till the Jessie had been made fast. The woman from the little house, pale and trembling, held her boy by the hand. To her came the captain wit uncovered head. His blue eyes were wet | with water that, though salt, was not of the sea. He tried to speak, but failed. ‘The woman hid her face in her hands. The cap: MAKING A COZY CORNER. An Endeavor to Make a Home More Comfortable and How It Ended. ‘From the New York Herald. “I'm down on any newspaper ‘Home De- partment,’ remarked a gentleman wearing off his look of settled melancholy in an up- town restaurant. “They're always telling what nice things can be made by everybody with a little taste and very little trouble, and springing some new thing on the un- wary and unsuspecting. I wonder who writes those things, eh? Not a married man, I'll bet a horse. Nor a woman with any husband or home of her own. My own opinion is that most of those wonderful household matters are written by folks who don’t know anything about it—just as most of the things about children are written by People who never had any children and know nothing about children. “But, you see, my wife believes every- thing she sees in the newspapers. She prides herself on being a great manager. She'll spend $2 to save fifty cents. The other day she saw a picture in the Sunday Herald about a prize flat or something of that sort; something that looked too sweet for any- thing ana ail that, and could be naa for al- most nothing. She threw out pretty strong hints about it, but I did not bite. One day when I was very tired and either had to stand the racket of the children on the sit- ting room sofa or go to bed, she casually remarked how nice it would be if we had one of those comfortable divans in the quiet parlor, where 1 could lie down and rest. “That is probably the way Eve did the business of Adam and the rest of us. She most likely said that those particular apples were very nice looking, and then dropped the subject right there. That is the way my wife would have done. I didn’t say anything just at that time, but the deadly poison of that idea had entered my mind. I dreamed about a divan, and in my sleep I saw myself reclining luxuriously upon a crimson couch, backed by pillows of softest down and canopied by silken hangings. “It wouldn't cost much,’ she said one day when she caught me unconsciously drawing a design of a cozy corner. Then she figured out how much could be done with $25. Finally I was committed to the scheme. I shopped, I struggled among the counters, I skirmished with upholsterers, I tain took the boy by the hand and put his arm about the woman's waist and led ther home. CAPAGITY OF THE BRAIN. As Doctors Cannot Agree, Amateur Makes Some Wonderful Calculations. From Cassell’s Magazine, Surely, minute portions of the brain may contain a great deal. he celis vary in size from one three-hundredth of an inch in diam- eter to one three-thousandth; and this being known, it is not difficult to estimate the en- tire number of them in the brain. Dr. Hooke, the Mathematician, sala 3,159, 780,000; but according to Maynert’s calculation the number of cerebral celis is only 60,000,000, Seeing that the doctors differ, let us use the slate and pencil ourselves. The think- ing power of the brain is believed to reside in the gray matter of the surface. This { a sheet of cellular nervé substance, which is crumpled into convolutions through being confined within the narrow limits of the skull. If it were spread out flat, it would be found equai to a layer one inch in thick- ness, and twelve inches long by eleven inches broad—or slightly more—giving a total of 131 cubic inches. If all the cell were one three-hundredth of an inch in diam eter, there would be room for 27,000,000 of hem in one cubic inch, and therefore for 618,000,000 in the whole; but since many of the cells are smaller, the total number must be greater. Let us, however, be con- tent with the 3,618,000,000, What is a mil- Mon? The Bible, Old and New Testament together, is said to contain about three and we should therefore have to pie up 1,11% copies of the Scriptures to get a heap containing as many letters as the brain contains cells. As cach cell may accommodate one idea or thought, probably even smaller storehouses would suffice for the wants of the average human creature. On the other hand, when great thinkers require more accommodation, they may perhaps be able to grow more ‘brain cells; and Webster did tell a great American scholar that he had to change the size of his hat every few years. —+-e+___ The Life Savers of Today. From the Providence Journal. The recent severe storms that have swept the British coast have called into promi- nence the courageous and efficient work of the life saving crews of England. This; too, gives a new interest to the record of the life savers in this country, whose fight against the deadly force of wind and water is a continuous story of heroism and en- deavor. The life saving service of the United States, which now has nearly 250 stations on ocean, lake and river within the limits of the United States, and which dur- ing the past year has saved nearly 4,000 lives and $7,000,000 worth of property, is the outgrowth of the efforts of the Massa- chusetts Humane Socie.y, which fifty years age estublished huts of refuge and volun- tver lite-boat service on the Massachusetts coast, Theoretically the institution may be said to have been formed by that doughty Puritan fighter, Miles Standish, the cap- tain of Plymouth, who, in 1ws4, built a hut oi retuge ior siranded sailors on Duxbury beach, put practically the elforts of the diassachusetis Jiumaue Society early m the Present century Were the foundation of tne present spiendid system of life saving. haunted paint shops, I gave up business temporarily and devoted my entire time to the domestic situation. “Well, the bills are just coming in,” sigh- ed the victim of art, “and have already passed the hundred-dollar mark. You_ see, the divan and the cozy corne> business Was such a decided success that my wife had to have some new hangings. Then the chairs looked a little too dingy for the new hangings, and she suggested that it would cost very little to have them done over in white and gold. A cheap screen or two seemed merely letting the horns and tail go with the hide, and away flew another tenner. In the meantime I never did so much hard work in my life. My hands are blistered,my thumb nail is in mourning from familiarity with the tack hammer, and I am dead broke. , “And after all this my wife says our divan is too nice for me to lounge on, and so far as comfort is concerned I’m just where I was at the start.” ——-——-+00. EXERCISE FOR THE EYES. Absolutely Necessary in Order That the Vision May Be Preserved. ‘When the eyes are treateg fairly they are strengthened, not weakened, by work, says the Philadelphia Times. Just as the arms of a blacksmith grow the stronger for his trade, so the eyes of watchmakers who work under healthy conditions are found tc improve, and not to deteriorate, in vigor and quickness. It is the abuse of the eyes, not their use, which is to be avoided. If a man is aware either that his eyes need no artificial correction or else have received their proper adjustment, and if his work, whether literary or mechanical, is done in a light both steady and sufficient and with a due regard as to ordinary sanitary rules, he may feel sure that he is strengthening his eyes, not weakening them, by hard work. Men of intellectual pursuits sometimes are afraid of losing their mental powers in old age, because they have drawn so much upon them when young. The reverse is nearer the truth, and if they have not overtaxed their brains the fear is absolutely ground- less. The man whose intellect goes first in old age is generally some farmer or labore? who has never strengthened and invigorated it by use, not the politician, the lawyer or the man of letters. So with the eyes. ‘Those Who have strengthened their eyes by using them properly keep keen sight longer than those who have never trained them. In the case of the man who has neglected to give his eyes their full development they will fail in power along with his other bodily func- tions. When, however, the man who, borr with good eyes, has kept them in constant hard work and yet never strained them reaches old age, he may find them capable of performing their functions better than any other organ of the body. see HE SANG IN COURT. How Little Davie Connelly Saved His Father From Jail. From the Portland Oregonian. Little Davie Connelly, the sweet-voiced lad, who is known all over the Pacific coast, sang his father out of jail in the Spokane police court Tuesday. David Con- nelly, sr., had been arrested for being drunk, and had been fined $1 and costs by Judge Miller. Then Davie appeared. Inspector Gough was an admirer of the Jad and so was Prosecutor Plattor. At their request the little fellow sang, in a voice of affecting sweetness, “Kiss and Let's Make Up.” Judge Miller listened and when he had concluded asked his name. “Davie Connelly,” said the lad. “Why—ahem—who's your father?” asked the judge, with a suspicion of tenderness in his voice, “Why, he's the man you just sent to ” said the little fellow. “I think we had better let the father go for the boy’s sake,” said Mr. Plattor. “Sing ‘My Mother's Picture’” suggested Inspector Gough, and the boy sang with tender emotion the appeal of the child not to sell his mother’s portrait. It was a sweet, pathetic refrain that brought emo- tions to the heart. ‘Does your father get drunk often?” asked the judge, as he looked sympatheti- cally at the little singer. 0, sir; this is the first time in a year,” he replied. ‘And, judge, if you will let him go, [ll have work the Louvre next week and bring you the money for his fine.” ‘ou—why, what do you earn?” “Seventeen dollars and a half a week,” replied Davie, and in another minute it was arranged and the parent was allowed to go. ——_-2-—_____ A NEW FREAK Taken by the Dangerous Trolley Wire to Injure People. From the Cincinnati Enquirer. It was in a very strange way that Michael Glazer last night met with an accident that will in all likelihood have a most serious termination. He was crossing 4th and Broadway at § o'clock on his way from the St. James Ho- tel to his home, when he was felled to the ground by a blow on the head. It was a heavy copper wire that had de- scended upon him with terrific force. The wire was part of the network that is sus- pended at the corners as feeders for the j electric cars that converge at that point from north and south into 4th street, The sudden cold snap caused a contrac- tion of the wires, the effect being most pro- nounced on the iron supports, which spread out like the leaves of a fan. An East End car coming along in some way got its trol- ley poles tangled in the web, and, before a stop could be made, wrenched the feed wire | from its fastening. It was Glazer’s misfor- eve efforts were at first supported wholiy by voluntary subscription, but received aid of Congress in Js47, and each year since made until today there are maintained 182 life saving stations on the Atlantic coast, 49 on the great lakes, 12 on the Pacific coast and one on the falls of the Ohio at Louisville, Ky. The service is under the cupervision of the Treasury Department and the cost of maintenance during the last fiscal year amounted to a million and a quarter—a notable advance on the $5,000 first appropriated by Congress on the 3d of March, 1847, for this beneficent work of aiding and saving the lives of those who go down to the sea in ships. The life sav- ing service of England dates practically from the terrible wreck of the ship Ad- xenturer in 1789, which foundered within 300 yards of the shore, while thousands methods of an inebriate women’s home has resulted in a verdict for Mr. Labouchere, looked on, ‘helpless, and’ the doomed cred dropped one by one into the deadly wm ever-increasing appropriations have been | break- | tune to be on the crossing when the heavy | Wire came down. As stated, it struck him jon the head, felling him to the icy ground. | He was unconscious whea picked up by wit- {nesses of the accident. They carried him {into De Lang's pharmacy, at the corner, | Where his injuries were looked after. He | Was then taken to his home at No. 54 Baum street. Glazer is an employe of the | St. James, and had just finished his work \for the day. The break in the trolley wire Was soon repaired, although there was quite a blockade for the time being. ——_—_+e- Representative O’Ferrall Resigns. Representative O’Ferrall,governor-elect of Virginia, has tendered his resignation as a member of Congress to Gov. McKinney, to | take effect December 28, three days before (his inauguration as chief executive. Gov. McKinney has decided to call for a @lection on January 80 to Gil the special | TELEPHONE, 818, vacancy. GROCERIES. SPECIAL PRICES 2 DAYS REDUCED. JOLINS TONS, 729 7th St TOMORROW AND SATORDAY. Owing to the thousands of customers being turned away during our grand opening who were unable to get in we will make special prices tomorrow and Saturday. We still have a few thousand of those beau- tiful souvenir cards entitled “‘Winter.”” Come early tomorrow for these. First come, first served. Lilly Best Pat. Flour ----.. Electric Light, Best Family- - $3.75 Barrel. Sugar-Cured Shoulders ---.- hg Pound. Sugar-Cured Hamis - - - - - - m1-2c. Pound. Lard ----------------- &, Pound, Currants, 6 pounds ------...... 25¢. Star Soap, 7 COMER... 5 used 25¢. Best Granu lated Sugar, 21 pounds . . . $1.00 Citron, Choicest, i8c., 3 for.......... 50c. ° $4.50 Barrel. TEAS. Gunpowder... Fine Gunpowder. ao nae Gunpow: jolce Gunpowder. Ex. Choice Gunpor Ooionx Tea. . Fine Oolong Tea. Baby Br nd, 2for Eaxte Brand. Champion Ba_, 2 rand, $for EON COO! Sardines (+m ll), 5 for 2 Sardines (large), 3 for’ % on, ce Be URE soe 3 aes Al a veeate Pe et te 5 H Bt Py GOGO The Great Cocoa and Cocoa- theta Exposition conducted by H. O. Wilbur & Sons, will still continue to serve their cups of delicious COCOA and COCOA- Tle UA THETA FREE. Thousands of Packages are being sold. PHYSICIANS NVITED TOMORROW. Tomorrow the Exposition will be conducted in the interest of the Medical Fraternity, and COCOATHETA, The great drink for the Sick and Convalescent, will be served and a half-pound package will be given free to Members of the Profession. JOHNSTON'S, Great China and Japan Tea Co., 729 7th St. N.W