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Refresh- BOULLION | ing and Stimulating.. can bemadein three minutes, thus: Take cup of boiling hot water, stir in a quarter tea- ‘spoon (not more) of Liebig Company’s Extract of Beef, | Then add an ege— | |and"some sherry. if } | Liked. 1 i fully. . . Ja2-t,th ¢ OPPO eer er reser erereeeeeety Corres ccceccccrcrcrcss soe WERE REEEEEE EEE A HOTEL ON FIRE, But There Was No Great Damage Done to the Building. An Italian Fruit Store Was Wrecked, However, and the Loss Fe Heav- ily Elias George is a son of sunny Italy, and with Mrs. George and his mother has, for some time past, kept a little fruit store under the Hotel Hannover, at the corner of Pennsylvania avenue and 3d street. He kept the store up to 9 o'clock this morning, but since then he has had only fond memories and sad regrets, for his store caught fire this morning and in a few minutes his fine stock of oranges, bananas, grapes and pea- nuts was reduced to a charred and ruined mass. Peanuts are improved by roasting, but the same cannot be said of fruit, and even his apples were burnt beyond the point where they could be served as baked apples with cream. Ap Explosion d Flames. Bright and early this morning Elias arose and polished up his apples, rubbed down his oranges, dressed up his window in a style to catch passing custom, and then was ready to begin his day’s work selling “de peanutta.” But he needed a fresh supply of them roasted and he forthwith proceeded to light the gasoline in his pea- nut roaster. But there was a screw loose somewhere, or he spilled some of the in- flammable liquid around, Elias doesn’t re- member just how it happened, but in a moment there was an explosion, and his little store was all ablaze. The flames rushed out of the window and the fruit- seller rushed out of the door, for a worse red Italian was never seen. His hair and whiskers were badly singed. As soon as he had reached the sidewalk he fainted from fright, and when he recovered the neighbors had to keep him by sheer force from rushing back into the flames to save what he could of the precious fruit. An Alarm Turned in. Officer Brennan has been on the police force for five years and never before had a chance to turn in an alarm, but this morn- ing he happened to be standing a short dis- | tance from the hotel corner and saw the | puff of smoke and flame, and he at once ran | to box 14 and rang up the fire department. The engines were on their way back to their houses from another fire, but lost no time in getting to the scene of the second disaster, and, as usual, they did wonderfully good work in getting the fire under control with as little loss as possible from fire or water. They confined their attentions to the one building and kept the flames from spreading. The store is next to the corner, the corner being occupied as a bar room by Henry Dismer, who keeps the hotel. ‘The building .is an old one and of a sort that would seem to furnish the best of fuel for flames. Guests All Escape. Upstairs there were a number of guests still in their rooms, but they were routed out and made their escape before there was really any danger, and there was no great excitement outside of the George family. Several people on the fourth floor of the | hotel were bothered a good deal by the smoke, but there were no mishaps of any sort and the damage done to the upper parts of ‘the building was comparatively slight. In the bar room the bottles were all | securely corked, so that the stock was net watered. Loss of the Italians, Outside on the wet sidewalk stood the members of the bereaved Italian family. Their grief at the loss of their beloved fruit was so evident that no one smiled at them, though their antics were of the most curious sort. Their store was burnt out completely. The peanut roaster was a wreck. There was not a piece of furniture or a single sample of fruit that was not burnt beyond redemption, and the bananas and grapes that the firemen swept out into the street were in such sad state that even the street urchins could not eat them. It was a sad day for the Italian colony. It was a fire that lasted only a few minutes and the en- tire loss probably did not go beyond $1,000 to the building and stock and all, but it meant a tremendous loss to the hard-work- ing and patient family of the Georges. presto aie ROBBED THE FAST TRAIN “ELI.” Masked Men Operate o e¢ Hannibal and St. “Jo” Five masked men stopped the Hannibal and St. Joseph railway’s fast train, the “Eli,” about 6:40 last evening, four miles east of St. Joseph, Mo., and robbed the ex- press and mail cars. The men placed tor- pedoes on the track and swung a red lan- tern to stop the train, and as it slowed up three of them climbed into the engine cab. Revolvers were thrust into the faces of the engineer and firemen, but they were not | told to throw up their hands. It was an old-fashioned robbery, but it | was successful in every detail. The engi- |neer and fireman were forced to walk back | in front of the robbers to the door of the | express car and ordered to tell the mes- | Senger to open the door. Express Messenger G. B. Wetzel did not | suspect that there were robbers outside, | and when he heard the engineer calling he opened the door. As he did so two of the | robbers leaped in. They secured the keys to the safe and went through it in a jiffy, but officials refuse to say how much was in the safe. They say, however, that the amount was not large. As it was a “through” safe, hound to Chicago, it is be- lieved that the robbers got a good deal of money, notwithstanding the denials of the officials. The mail car was entered in the same manner as the express car. The mail agents were unarmed and made no resistance. It is yeported that a registered pouch was carried off by the robbers. Other mail pouches were cut open and rifled and every- thing of value in sight was taken. The passengers were not disturbed. As soon as the train had been robbed, the masked men ordered the engineer to proceed. The rear brakeman,,John Ryan, had been sent back to flag approaching trains when the robbers stopped the train, and when they released it Ryan was left behind. He secured a horse and rode back to the city, where he reported the affair at once to the officials. The brakeman says two or three buggies were standing beside the track near the spot where the train was robbed. This leads to the belief that the robbers were from St. Joseph. Telegrams received an hour later from Conductor Frank Murray, who was in charge of the train, confirmed the report brought in by Brakeman Ryan. Only three shots were fired by the robbers, and they were fired in the air to intimidate passen- gers. Express Messenger Wetsel opened the safe, with two revolvers pointed at his head. He saw but two of the men. The robbers carried two revolvers each, and there were two rifles in their possession. Wetsel says one of the men was short, wore a black coat and overcoat, and black derby hat. The other one wore a double- breasted coat and no overcoat, and was tall and slender. The three other robbers stood out in the darkness, and could not be de- scribed. All wore masks. Four wagon roads reach this city from the place where the train was robbed. It is believed that the robbers came back at once and are now hiding at St. Joseph. The Hannibal and St. Joseph Company has offered rewards of $100 each for the cap- | ture of the robbers. An attempt was made to rob a Burlington train near the city on September 25, 1803, |and two of the robbers were killed. The railroad officials believe that the robbery last night was committed by some of the same gang which was concerned in the Burlington robbery. Lawyer Paine's Self-Poss jon. From the Chicago Post. It is told of Henry W. Paine, the Boston | lawyer, who recently died in that city and | who more than once refused a seat on the | Massachusetts supreme court bench, that while he was arguing a case one day be- fore Chief Justice Gray, the latter inter- rupted the course of the argument with the impatient remark: “Mr. Paine, you know that is not law.” The nature and manner of the interruption were of a kind to throw even the most self-possessed ad- vocate off his balance. Mr. Paine, how- ever, without any outward manifestation of annoyance or embarrassment, replied | with simple dignity: “It was law until your honor spoke,” and proceeded with his argu- ment. 7 WITH ANCHOR NURSE BARRED. Ives Defeated Schuefer by 600 to 38S. The star night of the great triangular billiard tournament brought out an immense throng of spectators at Chicago last even- ing. Central Music Hall was filled to over- flowing. Ladies in brilliant toilets and re- splendent with glistening jewels occupied the boxes and pre-empted the choice loca- tions in the amphitheater. It was a decidedly Schaefer house, al- though the friends and supporters of Ives were numerous. While the audience was assembling a report went around that the three players had signed an agreement to bar the anchor shot, and play under the rules of Ives and Parker's new block scheme. This created something of a sensation and added zest to the appetite for the approach- ing game. A separate demonstration from the friends of the “Wizard” and the “Young Napoleon’”’ was avoided by the two players entering the stage together, under the chaperonage of, Capt. Anson. Hearty applause greeted their appearance, and it was renewed when Charley Parker made the announcement that Slosson, Schaefer Ives had signed the agreement, to bar the “anchor” shot. The men stepped forward to the table. Ives won the lead, choosing the black ball, but went out without a single mark to his credit. Schaefer scored 10, leaving the balls in good position; and Ives started in on what promised to be one of his phenomenal runs. There were hearty cheers when he reached the 50 mark, but with 6 more to his credit he retired on a somewhat reckless cross-table shot. The balls were left in poor shape, and Schaefer missed. Ives plucked 2, and the Wizard followed his example. The balls seemed to be inclined toward the Napoleon, and in the next inning he scored 31. Schaefer came up to the table with spirit, but his best efforts failed to add more than 14 to his string. Then the Napoleon started in to play bil- Mards. The balls responded to his cue as though they were things of life. Time and again he drove them about and they re- turned in perfect position, There was gen- eral applause when the marker announced an even 100, but on the 131st shot the player missed on a straight single cushion. Bad luck still seemed to follow the Wiz- ard, for he went out with but 19. Ives fol- lowed with a goose egg, and Schaefer re- turned the compliment. Ives plucked 1; Schaefer secured 16, and then, after a couple more ciphers, the Napoleon, by careful nursing, added 79, making his total 300. Schaefer started in with four extraordi- nary long table shots. The promising start was not, however, maintained, and Jake went out with a paltry dozen added to his score. Ives did not come within two of this, while Schaefer in return went out with 26. Ives went out with 10 in the tenth inning, and Schaefer tried the limited anchor, driv- ing the sphere alternately out and in. A two-cushion miss, however, brought the in- ning to an abrupt end, with 51 to its credit. ‘The score was now 316 to 142. Ives bunched 31 and left the balls in awkward shape. Jake coaxed them together and toyed with them for a space of 25 buttons. In the thirteenth round Ives made a couple of exquisite table shots, but went out on a hard four-cushion drive with 86 added to his score. The indicator now showed 433 for Ives to 167 for the Wizard, and the latter’s supporters began to look blue. Schaefer was looking a trifle the same way himself, but he went at the spheres with grit. Fifty shots were pulled off as fast as Charley Parker could announce the numbers, and when the score climbed up to 100 the friends of the Wizard shouted themselves hoarse. They were still shout- ing when a bad masse brought the run up short with a total of 103. Thirty-six points were counted for Ives in the fourteenth inning and he might have run out but for missing a masse. A claim of “no count” was made by Schaefer, and the referee, Capt. Anson, sustained him. Jake coddied the spheres for 61, fallin; short on an easy follow, and the score st 469 to 331. The fifteenth inning placed 42 the credit of Ives. Jake went out but points better off. He had another chance a moment later, however, when his compet- | itor scored a goose egg, and he availed him- self of it to the tune-of 55, secured by care- ful nursing. The score now stood 511 to 388. The Napoleon picked up 7 in the sev- enteenth inning, while the Wizard could not get even a little one. It was now nearly 11 o'clock, and Ives remarked, sotto voce, as = went to the table, “I'll settle it this time.” He kept his word. The balls responded readily to the magic of his wand and the necessary 82 points were rolled up with neatness and dispatch. Following is the score: Ives—0, 56, 2, 31, 131, 0, 0, 1, 79, 10, 6, 51, $6, 36, 42, 0, 82-00. Average, 33 1-3; highest run, 131. Schaefer—2, 0, 14, 19, 0, 16, 0, 12, 26, 31, 25, 103, 61, 2, 0-388. Average, 21 5-' highest run, 103. —-—---- eee ——— ARTIFICIAL WATERFALLS. Several Benutiful Cataracts Con- structed, From the Detroit Free Press. In the town of Nice, on the Mediterran- ean coast, there is a very fine artificial waterfall something over twenty feet in height. It is exceedingly beautiful, al- though there is not much water coming over it, and it hangs above the town like a silver bell. It tumbles over a rock in the public park. The waterfalls of ‘Tivoll, near Rome, are practically artificial, for although there existed a waterfall that was natural before the tunnels were made through the rocks, yet three or four of the present falls that form the attraction to that pretty little Italian town are arti- ficial. I have no data as to their height, but it seemed to me, looking at them from across the valley, that they are at least 300 feet from top to bottom. The prettiest artificial waterfall that 1 ever saw is the Engadine. The surround- ings are so natural and so beautiful that no one would ever suspect that it was arti- ficial were it not for the huge stone dikes at the foot of the Alps, down which it tumbles, built toward the lake into which it empties. It is situated about one hour's walk west from St. Moritz. No guide book I have ever seen makes any mention of it, and I do not know whether the cataract has a name or not. It tumbles down from a glacier on the Surlej Alps and empties into the Vivaplana lake, opposite the pretty little village of the same name,which stands at the bottom of the Julier pass. I estimate the height of this artificial cataract to be 1,000 fect, but it does not tumble down in one straight fall, but forms cascade after cascade until it reaches the lake. 1 tried to climb to the top of it, but the way was rough, there being no path, and by the time I had got half way up I realized that instead of being 1,000 feet high it was nearer that number of miles, so I gave up the climb in despair. I suppose it ought to be called the Surlej Falls, or the Surlej Cascades, for the Alp down which it comes bears that name, and the ruined village at the lower end of the lake is called Surlej, which means “above the lake.” An event in the year 1834 led to the information of this artificial water- fall; a tragic event such as is only too com- mon in Switzerland. The rivulet at that time ran through Suriej. One night the water stopped, being dammed up by a land- slide high up in the mountains. When the avalanche came down the village was swept away. On the principle of locking the door when the horse is stolen, the in- habitants then deflected the course of the stream, and thus formed the artificial waterfall. Although most of the village was car- ried away, some remnants are still there. The stout walls of the church are stand- ing, roofless, doorless and windowless. ‘The remains of the frescoes are still to be seen on the plaster inside. The place is just as the flood left it, the ground all around it being a wiiderness of stones, large and small, as if some great paving contractor had intended to macadamize the whole place and had left the material scattered around. A few inhabitants live in the vil- lage, and one house is built on a huge bowl- der that has come down from the moun- tains. If another flocd should happen along it, at least, would be safe. Even in the dryest weather there is a good volume of water coming over the Surlej waterfall, |and in spring it must be a cataract well worth seeing. Fulton, Arkansas, Mr. J C. Jones, of CLOSE TO SUBTERRANEAN FIRE. Are the Feet of Those Who Walk on the Burning Sand of Death Valley. From the San Francisco Call. Mr. Frederick Momson’s lecture on Death Valley, which was delivered at Metropolitan Temple on Friday, added something to our knowledge of one of the most curious spots in the state. It was a year or two after the discovery of gold that its existence was made known by the frightful destruction of an immigrant party by thirst within its limits. The immigrants were coming in through Nye county, Nevada; they crossed a pass in the Paramint mountains and struck into the valley, where their skeletons le to this day. Some tengyears afterward the United States boundary commission surveyed the valley and pronounced it to be the bed of a former lake, which had been drained in one of the last volcanic convulsions on this side of the mountains. Since then it has been visited by occasional explorers and gather- ers of borax; but, as it contains no water, as the air is impregnated with mephitic gases, and as the thermometer sometimes registers as much as 140 degrees in the shade in sum~ mer, visitors have been few and far be- tween. Yet, it is an interesting spot. It is part of the belated world, to which the Great Salt Lake, the subterranean river of Mojave and the Colorado desert belong, and of which the geysers of Sonoma are an offshoot. As Greenland is a relic of the last glacial age, so this distressed region is a surviving relic of the latest igneous age; an era when noth- ing was finally settled, and fire and water were contending for supremacy over the soil. Similar regions exist in southern Cala- bria and in the vicinity of the Dead Sea in Palestine; the volcanic force has 0 far lost its primitive energy that earthquakes are light, and there are no eruptions; but the voleanic gases continue to in such quantity that travel is attended with dan- ger to life, and the water springs are pol- luted with salt, sulphur and poisonous in- gredients, In the California Solfatara ex- cessive heat is added to the other horrors of the place. The center of the valley is hot- ter than Sennaar, and the only animal life is a few specimens of tropical reptilés. Mr. Momson is reported to have said that the bottom of the valley is the lowest de- pression on the earth's surface. This is not strictly correct. The lowest levels obtained in Death Valley are about 430 feet below the sea, whereas the surface of the Dead Sea in Palestine is 1,300 feet below. But the hole which goes by the name of Death Valley is pretty deep. The crust of the earth through- out the valleys of San Bernardino and Inyo counties must be very thin. The traveler's feet are separated from the internal body of everlasting fire by a slim sheet of earth and rock, which would offer but a slight resist- ance to seismic force. A few miles distant from Death Valley there is a region which may be surveyed by the eye, and which contains a thousand active volca of their kind, to be sure, baby volcanoes, so to speak, but still actively engaged in throwing up mud and water. And not many miles away is the range of granite moun- tains, among which Mount Whitney rears its head through the clouds; solid masses of primeval rock which must have worn the shape in which we see them now when the plain at their feet was a seething, raging caldron in which fire and water contended for the mastery. To see such marvels of nature people cross oceans, spend fortunes and carry their lives in their hands. Neither Mauna Loa nor Hecla offers such wonders to the be- holder as Death Valley and the Colorado desert. In January and February the heat in the valley is bearable—not over 90 de- grees in the shade. Excursion parties might be fitted out with supplies of food and wa- ter, and, in a few days, the visitors might see enough to realize what the world was like in the Plutonic age. The contrast be- tween the pleasant valleys of the rivers, with their fruit trees bursting into blossom, and these dreadful deserts, with their awful chasms and their hideous inhabitants,would be a thing not easily forgotten. —— ——_____-+ UNDEVELOPED POETRY. Hard Knocks in the World Bring It to the Surface. From the Century. . The insecurity of our civilization has dis- gusted some persons so much that they have sought refuge in Indian wigwams and found refreshment in taking a scalp now and then. Nature insists above all things upon balance. She contrives to maintain a harmony between material and spiritual, nor allows the cerebrum an expansion at the cost of the cerebellum. If the charac- ter, for example, run on one side into re- ligious enthusiasm, it is not unlikely to develop on the other a counterpoise of wordly prudence. Thus the Shaker the Moravian are noted for thrift, and mystics are not always the worst managers. Through all changes of condition and ex- perience man continues to be a citizen of the world of fact, and the taxgatherers of both are punctual. There is as much poetry as ever in the world if we only knew how to find it out; and as much imagination, perhaps, only that it takes a more prosaic direction, Every man who meets with misfortune, who is stripped of material prosperity, finds that he has a little outlying mountain farm of imagination, which did not appear in the schedule of his effects, on which his spirit is able to keep itself alive, though he never thought of it while he was fortunate. Job turns out to be a great poet as soon as his flocks and herds are taken away from him. soe THE CIVIL WAR. Here Are Some More Statistics About It. It is manifestly impossible to secure ab- solutely corzect statistics of the civil war, says the Blue and Gray Magazine. The ad- jutant general's office gives the following as the aumber of casualties in the volunteer and regular armies of the United States: Killed in battle, 67,058; died of wounds, 48,012; diéd of disease, 199,720; other causes, such as accidents, murder, confederate pris- ons, etc., 40,154; total, 349,944; total desert- ed, 199,105. _Number of soldiers ity the con- federate service who died of wounds or di- sease (partial statement), 133,821; deserted (partial statement), 104,428. Number of United States troops captured during the war, 212,608; confederate troops captured, 476,169. Number of United States troops paroled on the field, 16,431; confederate troops paroled on the field, 248,599. Number of United States troops who died while pris- oners, 30,156; confederate troops who died while prisoners, 30,152. It is a striking co- inciderce that the it statement shows a difference of only four men in a total of more than 60,000, Gettysburg was the greatest battle of the war; Antietam, the bloodiest. The largest MERCURIAL?::; “About ten years ago I con- tracted a severe case of blood poi- son. Leading physicians prescribed medicino after medicine, which I took without any relief. I also tried mercurial and potash remedies, with unsuccessful results, but which brought on an attack of mercurial rheumatism that siactaee; RHEUMATIS one of agony. After suffering four years I gave up all remedies and began using 8.8.8. After taking several bottles 1 was entirely cured and able to resume work. Is the greatest medicine for blood poisoning to-day on tho market.” Treatise on Blood Fre Swir7 SPeciric Co., AUanta, Ga. Skin Diseases mailed army was assembled by the confederates at the seven days’ fight; by the Unionists at the Wilderness. TWO KINDS OF WOMEN need Dr. _ Pierce's Favorite Prescrip- tion—those who want to be made strong, and those who want to be rat ven: It nul up, invigor. ates, regulates, and cures. Its for yout girls just eularton womanhood; for women who have reached the critical “change of life”; for women expect- ing to become mothers; for mothers wie are nursing and exhausted; for every woman who is run-down, delicate, or overworked. For all the disorders, diseases, and weaknesses of women, “‘Favorite Pre- scription” is the only remedy so unfail- ing that it can be guaranteed. If it doesn't benefit or cure, in every case, the money will be returned. ‘After-Dinner” Coffees Reduced. W y are overstocked in certain lines of Fancy Decorated China ‘After Dinner" Coffee Cups. Here they go at “quick prices,” not: ‘After Dianers” now 25c. * now ‘Bbc. ‘After Dinner 1 “After Dinners” now 75c. 1.50 ‘After Dinners"’ now $1. Small lot of Royal Worcester “After Sups and Saucers reduced from Din- $1.50 re food means also “pure water,’ and water is only “absolutely” pure after it has passed throng a Pasteur Filter. We control them—86.60 up. Wilmarth & Edmonston, Crockery, &c., 1205 Pa. ave. HIRAM MAXIM, THE INVENTOR. oPprosED TO ALL PROGRESS. Possessed of Industry, Energy and «| Chinese Aversion to Railroads Mani- Wo rful Knowledge of Mechanics. Among all the scientific men whose re- searches have contributed to the near solu- tion of the problem of aerial navigation Hiram 8. Maxim, the inventor of the air ship, stands foremost, says McClure's Mag- azire. As the inventor of the Maxim gun and many other ingenious machines of less importance he had won a world-wide fame before the navigation of the air became the thief object of his study and investigation. Beginning life fifty-three years ago with a common school education and jackknife, in Sangerville, Me., he is now the proud pos- sessor of a town house in London and is lord of the manor at Baldwyn’s Park, a stretching domain of hundreds of acres, which he leased five years ago as well adapted to his preliminary experiments, Mr. Maxim is a man of medium height and solid build, his weight being 210 His hair, mustache and beard are white, but his mental and physical energy are as- tonishing, and go far to explain the variety | nd extent of the results he has achieved. ‘he work of inventing and constructing a flying machine, nearly every part of which, from boiler to connecting rods, is a varia- tion from existing appliances, enforced by the necessities of the occasion, is one which could only be undertaken by a man of much ingenuity, equipped with an extraordinary practical knowledge of mechanics. Even with these advantages, success would be impossible without unfailing energy and in- dustry, All these qualities are, however, clearly visible in the manner and speech of the inventor, His voice and action show great physical strength, while his eyes, which are a deep brown, full and wide open, have continuously the semi-absorbed, pre- occupied look of the student concentrated upon a problem. A courteous host, a jolly, even boisterous, story teller, and a wond¢y- ful mechanician, Mr. Maxim is in his way as unusual as his machine. Withal he has a@ sturdy Americanism which personal in- terviews with half the reigning monarchs of Europe have not in the least affected, and he retains a pleasant conviction that of all the spots on the map of the worid not one is so important or so agreeable to contemplate as the good old “down east” state of Maine. The American flag hangs in his hall, and he the United States as the safest, in fact the only, place in which to invest his money, a conclusion whieh is not without its importance, con- sidering that his knowledge of European countries from the military, political and financial standpoints has been attained through the channels of the gun business, and is, therefore, both comprehensive and exact. ++ MAMMOTH ELECTRIC ENGINE. Designed to Do Shifting and Other Heavy ork. The 1,000 horse power electric locomotive row beirg constructed in this country is described in The Electrical Engineer as follows: The engine is invented for switching pur- poses and slow-speed freight traffic. It is carried on a steel frame supported by eight coupled wheels, each fifty-six inches in diameter. Each axle carries the armature of a 250-horse power motor, whilst the iield magnets are supported by the axle boxes. The armatures in question are thirty-one inches in diameter, and have 237 coils. They are compound wceund, and are de- signed to take a current of 250 amperes at 800 volts, their normal speed being 225 rev- olutions per minute. The four motors, when working at their maximum power, are expected to exert an effective pull of 30,000 pounds on the drawbar, and hence the engine will be able to start a very heavy train. The connections to the motors are made through a contact cylinder, which permits them to be arranged either all in parallel, all in series or partly in series and partly in parallel. In changing over from one arrangement of contacts to another, re- sistances are first thrown in, the change is then made, and the resistance finally switched out again. This contact cylinder, being of large dimensions, is operated by air pressure, though hand gear Is also fitted. The air is taken from the brake tanks, which are kept charged by an automatic electric pump. The reversing switch is separate from but interloeked with the con- tact cylinder, in such a way that it can only be operated when the current is cut off from the motors. Provision is made for two trol- leys above the car, to collect the current from the line. The total weight of the mo- tor will be 120,000 pounds, so that if a draw- bar pull of 30,000 pounds is expected, an ad- hesion of one-fourth will be required. To insure as high an adhesion as possible, the coupling rods between the wheels a>e dou- ble-jointed, and equalizing beams between the springs supporting the frame of the car. The total wheel base is fifteen feet only, leaving only four inches clearance between the wheels, The outer wheels only are flanged. Imitation is the Sincer- for every soap powder, or so-called washing compound, which is brought out? Everything is called “the same as” or “as good as” Pearline. None of them say “better” —they can- not. They should not say “as good as” —they are not. The simple fact that Pearline is largely imitated would be enough to prove it the best. - And when a poor washin compound can do so mu damage, do you want anything but the best ? 9 samzs Pyie, x. ¥. CORT Gem RTT Horse Blankets » And Lap Robes At Half Price. HIS cold snap quickened the buying of those Horse Blank- ets and Lap Robes which we closed out from a manufacturer at 50c. on a dollar, but at this writing there's several left. If you need them it's an opportunity indeed. $4 to $25 Lap Robes, $2 to $12.50. $2 to $18 Horse Blankets, $1 to $9. Comm A TT TT ATM CAT Is It Wrong To sell goods cheaper than other dealers when you sell them at a fair profit? Dealers who want to double their money say bad words at us for selling All-hair Mattress, $6.95 (they get $12.50); Folding Beds, $7.05; Rug Parlor Suites, $27.50 (wold elsewhere, $50), &c. The people who pay cash with one voice exclaim, “‘We want the lowest price we can get—and we know GRASTY sells everything for cash, and that makes the price.” All-wool Carpet, 60 and 65c.; All-wool 3-ply Car- pet, S5e.; Cottage Dinner Set, $5.95; a Solid Oak Bed, $2.95; Single, $3.50; Double, 18-spring Lounge, $3.50; Best Carpet Lounge, $4.50; Fine Turkish Couch, very large and soft, $14.85—regu- lar price, $25; six Tumblers, 15c.; Initial Tumblers, $1 doz.; all Vases half price. We can furnish every room in your house except stoves. Remem- ber, we have one way to do business—that is THE RIGHT WAY. Anything you buy not as repre- sented money will be refunded upon return of same. If there ever was a time to look after the price that time is upon you now. Make out your list and come and see. Grasty, DOUBLE STORES, 1510-12 7TH, BET. P AND Q N.W. JaG-eod, tt fested in Curious Ways. Engineering enterprise in China, particu- larly in so far as regards railroad building, has had, and is still having, a good deal to contend with in the way of native prejudice, cupliity and superstition, says Cassell’s Magazine, and the tales are many that have been told of the peculiar difficulties en-{ countered in that country by European en- course of thelr operations. ample, the first railroad was built, a num- ber of vears ago, the necessary land, it was stated, was bought ‘from several hundred different proprietors, all of whom wanted additional bounties for the disturpance of ancestral gtaves, which, as may be known, abound in what the “foreign devil” would be apt to consider rather unusual localities. One proprietor claimed to have buried on his strip of land no less than five nothers- in-law, for whom he had to be paid. Satis- fying him naturally resulted in a marvelous multiplication of dead mothers-in-law, who thus soon became the chief item in the cost of the land. Another curious example of the difficulties ot railroad cons*ruction in the celestial empire has more recently been mentioned, and has been afforded by the conduct of the Tartar general of Moukden, the capital of Manchuria, in connection with the surveying work of the railroad from Kirin, another large Manchurian town, to Newchwang, the seaport of the province. According to current report it was proposed to make a junction of this line for Moukden at a place a short distance outside the city, but the general got a number of ceomancers to investigate the effect of this selection up- on Moukden. ‘These sages reported that the vertebrae of the which encircles the holy city of Moukden would be broken by driving the long spikes of the railroad ties into them, and accordingly the general vetoed the decision of the engineers, and @irected them to carry the railroad in a straight line from Kirin to Newchwang, without approaching Moukden at all. This, while @ shorter route, would compel the crossing of a low and marshy tract of land, Mable to floods and only sparsely populated. ————+e-___ The Tennessee Melungeons. From the St. Louis’ Globe-Democrat. “There is a race of people in Hawkins county, Tenn., whose origin Is a mystery,” said G. L. Babbit. “They are called the Me- lungeons, and are found no place cise. They have been traced back to North Carolina, but further than that nothing is known. They are not Indians, they are not negroes, they are certainly not of any known race of white people. But few of them can speak the English language, although trey have lived here for over a century, and the lan- guage they do speak is an unknown one to the most accomplished linguist. They are dirty and degraded, but with a race pride about them that prevents their interming- ling with the lower order of Americans or with negroes. A Melungeon will work when he is hungry, but only under press of neces- sity. 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CHINA AND 1215 F AND 1214 G STS. po HOUSEFURNISHINGS, ++ +e oe iN orway : : —furnishes the best and purest cod oll Known to physicians, We have just : ; o ceived an importation of the genuine Norwegian Of, which we believe to be as pare, sweet and limpid as money can buy, A Japanese Store We are selling > at 5S0c. per plot—$10 a * Is no novelty tm this city. Bat a here +i pint buys no better—in fact, no better ofl is extracted anywhere. W. S. Thompson’s Pharmacy, 703 15th st. ‘10 * © moderate now. We're i “LITTLE JAPAN, ITO, MOTO, AKAZUKI & CO. 606 13th St. Ser, ae