Evening Star Newspaper, January 4, 1896, Page 23

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1896-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. 23 if you don’t use Pearline. your tired arms and aching back a rest, somehow, when you're scrubbing and cleaning. “An absurd idea?” But when a person has cleaned house with Pearline, year in and year out, and knows how much Better use them this way, Give Of course. work it saves, and time, and rubbing, nothing seems more absurd than to try to clean house without it. Pearline— no soap with it—just Pearline—makes house-cleaning easy, Millions sss Pearine MONEY IN FREAKS. Public Interest in Such Exhibitions is Lively and Exhaustless. ‘From the New York Tribune. “Any one who has remarked the grega- rious element in human nature, which makes every one eager to seo what the other has seen, will not marvel at the suc- cess which notoriety has attained in the show ousiness,” said the manager of a pop- ular museum. “Notoriety, no matter how and where ob- tained, is just sc much stock in trade, and people in our fine of work are willing to pay any price for {t. To make no account of the money value of the advertisement, they are delighted to know that they are being talked about and speculated about, ard to see their names in the newspapers. You see how high that dome is?” he con- tinued, pointing to the arched space far above the ropes and bars stretched across for acrobatic performances. “Well, a man came here, offered to jump from its high- est point down to the floor, so as to make @ name for himself. It would have been certain death, you know, to attempt it, but he said he practiced Jumping, knew how to manage, and would escape injury. He begged to be allowed to make the jump, and was much cast down at our refusal. “That man only expected to jump once. After having performed the feat he felt that he would be a curiosity worth money to see. That was thé motive that prompted the woman bridge jumper the other day, and now, whether she jumped or didn’t, she is equally notorious, and people would go much out of their way to see. her. “Anyway, we business people see that the people crave amusement of this kind, and we are delighted to gratify them. “At the time of the ‘whitecap’ agitation, when there was so much talk in the papers about their outrages, a man offered to ex- hibit himself as a tarred and feathered vic- tim just returned from the west, and we let kim do it. Moreover, the public en- couraged him to do it, for they caime in flocks to see him. The tattooed woman, who was paid $100 a day, was tattooed right here in New York, but the work was marvelously well done, and the ‘airy tale about her, as told by the showman, only heightened the crowd's interest and harmed nobody. She was represented in the story as having been stranded in one of the Sandwich islands, shipwrecked, with her husband, who was put to death. Her life was spared, but she was put to torture, having these extraordinary characters tattooed all over her body. There were trom 500 to 700 people at each one of the twenty-one performances at which that! tattooed woman was exhibited, and all were pleased at the show, for which they paid 10 cents.” “Do many of these freaks, remarkable for various reasons, get fine jes?" “Indeed they do. We paid a certain midget $700 a week. Her father and the family traveled with her and got rich out of it. Then that wonderful Oregon horse, with the trailing mane and tail, was paid $900 a week for several months. The two- headed negro girl, or girls, has made a for- tune, and I could mention any number of celebrated freaks who have profited finan- elally. “Each day we get letters from all over the country—and all over the world—offer- ing us freaks of nature. This one sends a photograph of a sheep having a fifth leg and hoofs growing out of its shoulder. This one sends a cow with a horn projecting from her back. Here is a letter from a andiess man in West Virginia. He writes ‘with his toes, and writes a very good let- ter. He is a gentleman, I judge, from the tone of the letter and the picture. He is undecided whether to exhibit or not, which, of course, means that he does not know whether we will pay him enough. Talent, even genius, doesn’t command the high prices which these fortunately unfortunate ks can secure.” “That was a clever scheme this fellow devised,” said the showman, adjusting his glasses so as to view a Mkeness. “He rep- resented himself as having a gunshot wound through and through the body, ané then he fixed up an optical illusion appa- ratus which made it appear that people could look straight through him. We dis- played a colored photograph at the back, and the people could see that picture on the other side of the man. You have no idea what a furore there was about it. That was down on the Bowery. Everybody wanted to look through the man with the gunshot wound. Then, finding that the Tan was such a howling success, a woman fixed herself as having been speared through the body with her husband’s bay- onet, the victim of cruelty and brutality. We fixed it for the crowd to look through her, and she was no end of a success. She stood there, surrounded by red curtains, with a pathetic, wrapt look on her face, and the people couldn’t get enough of look- ing through her at the bouquet of flowers displayed at her back.” —_—_—_—_§_-eo____ A Smoking Monkey. From the Westminster Budget. In May, 1869, when her majesty’s steam- er Octavia was on her way home from the East Indian station, where she had been flagship for three years, we met her in Stmon’s bay, and I went on board to dine with an old schoolfellow, one of her leuten- ants. After dinner we went up on the main deck to smoke, and I was introduced to Jenny, a pet monkey. An old nautical superstition is, or used to be, that monkeys could talk if they liked, but would not be- cause if they did they would be made to work. The Octavia’s monkey was an adept at smoking, and, I regret to say, a confirm- ed drinker of grog whenever she got the opportunity. No sooner was the pipe “grog” ded than Jenny was hovering near the In the course of conversation my frieni id: “Oh, I want to show you a photo in my cabin. Here, Jenny, keep my pipe go- ing!" Jenny took the pipe. We were below for quite five minutes, if not more, and when we returned to the main deck Jenny was squatted against the gun tackle calmly pufft- ing, «xhaling and inhaling the smoke from the plpe which had been intrusted to her care, and the pipe was fully alight and drawing beautffully when the owner retook it, and stroked Jenny's face. What became of it I can’t exactly remember, but I have an {dea that she was presented to the zoo- logical gardens, but fell a victim to our ¢limate shortly afterward. — Wenry of Self-Made Men’s Brag. From the St. Louls Mid-Continent. Mr. Moody has a popular and very tell- ing way of “hitting” the errors which are so rife in the theological thinking of many Persons today. Speaking of salvation by grace, he says: “It is weil that a man can’t save himseif, for if a man could only work his own way to heaven you never would hear the last of it. Why, down here in this world, if a man happens to get a little shead of his fellows and scrapes a few thousand dollars together you'll hear him bragsing about his being a ‘self-made ma: and telling how he began as a poor bey end worked his way up in the world. I've heard so much of this sort of thing that I'm sick and tired of the whole business, and I'm glad we shan’t have men bragging through all eternity how they worked their ‘way into heaven.” a The Wrong Word. From the Cincienatt Enquirer. Mrs. Querrel sat looking into Presently she chuckled a little bit. “What are you giggling at?” kindly in- @eired Mr. Querrel. “I was thinking of the time when you proposed. You teid me to say the one little a that would make you happy for life.” 1 remember id you went and wrong word. the fire. ANIMALS IN HOLES. Ingenuity of Country Boys in Getting Them Ont. From the Springfield Republican. “One thing which gives an interest in life to the boys on a farm,” said the man from the country, “is the attempts to capture the various wild animals hidden beneath its surface In any good-sized farm there are usually quite a number of these— mostly foxes and skunks and woodchucks, the rabbits confining their burrowing op- eratiors more to the woods. The problem of how to secure these creatures, so ag- gravatingly near, but so very completely out of reach, has from time immemorial perplexed the juvenile rustic understand- ing and brought out various solutions. The most common methods of operation are, of course, drowning and smoking the ani- mals out, but after one has carried to a woodchuck hole in buckets the small reser- voir of water necessary to fill it he loses his enthusiasm for the former method, while the latter can only be used when there are two holes, one above the other on a side hill, so that there is a draught to allow the passage of the smoke. “Fer this reason the commorest and sur- est way of getting the animals is simply to dig them out, having first, of course, made sure they are at home. While foxes and skunks appear a more tempting prize In the end, the prince of game in this kind of pursuit is the woodchuck. He is more thoroughly at home in the ground than either of the other animals and is extreme- ly shifty in his ways of avoiding pursuit. A woodchuck hole, in the first place, is quite a marvel of subterranean architec- ture, running along under the ground thir- ty or forty feet and often further, and be- ing divided into all sorts of mazy turns and blind alleys. “To get at the owner of the burrow you often have to dig out all these turns and may even then lose him, because all the time you are unearthing him he Is digging away himself in the opposite direction and filling his tunnel after him so completely that you may miss him entirely. He can dig at a rate of speed, too, which may tax you to keep up with him. His last trick just before you reach him ts to dig straight dewn and then cover up his body entirely. In this way many a woodchuck already won has been lost. “A trick worth knowing when dealing with animals in holes, when you have near- ly reached them, is a way of taking them out with a stick, which in the Jong run af- fords a large saving in human hands. A fair-sized stick is cut and a deep notch made in the end. This notched end ts then thrust into the animal’s fur and twisted around until a wad cf hair and hide, catch- ing on the prongs, is wound up around the stick. The animal can then be hauled out. While not calculated to add to the happi- ness of the last hours of the game, this ts found to be a popular substitute for hands among hunters in securing animals which are blessed with any fair number of teeth. “An improvement on smoking out ant. mals in use in some parts of the country 1s to lay a loose train of gunpowder as far into the burrow as possible and touch it off. In this way the hole may be filled with a smudge which no lungs can resist, and tn a short time a sneezing, half-suffo- cated animal will come popping out into the hands of its persecutors. “The meanest method of getting out game, however, is an improvised method of ferreting, which is sometimes employed. Compared to this ferreting is an act of piety. A fair-sized mud turtle is secured and a piece of cloth or cotton waste is tied behind him close up to the base of his tail. This is saturated with kerosene, the turtle headed into the hole and a match applie@® Under these circumstances it is surprising what speed can be gotten out of a turtle. He starts out on a brisk gallop, and in a few moments has reached the private boudoir of the woodchuck. When the latter sees this impromptu torchlight procession in the way he moves on; the half-fried turtle comes hurrying after him, and, preferring the society of mankind to broiling, the unfortunate animal comes out to be murdered with a club. There isn’t any specific law on this sort of thing, but there ought to be.” + e+ —____ A POLITICAL POEM. Its Real Meaning Concealed by the Irish Auther. From the Westminster Gazette. What is spoken of as “‘one of the cleverest political poems ever composed” has recently come under notice. It was written by Arthur Connor (or O'Connor), the friend of Lord Edward Fitzgerald, and, like him, a prominent figure in the Irish rebellion of 1798. He was arrested at Margate that year when on his way to France on a secret mis- sion. After being detained in Kilmainham jail for some time he was at length removed with other political prisoners to Fort George, in Scotland. It was while on his way thither that he distributed copies of the following poem, which was regarded as a proof of his return to loyalty: ‘The pomp of Conrts and pride of Kings I prize above all earthly things: I love my country, but the King, Above all men his praise T sing: The Royal banners are displayed, ‘And may success the standaal ald. I fain would banish far from hence ‘The “Rights of Man" and common sense; Confuston to bis odour reign, ‘That foe to princes, Thomas Paine! Defeat and ruin selze the cause Of France, Its liberties, and laws! If the above lines be read continuously they seem to express very loyal sentiments. But if you read the first iine of the first verse and then the first line of the second verse you will find that they breathe the spirit of rampant rebellion: ‘The pomp of Courts and pride of Kings fain would banish far from hence; I prize above all earthly things e “Rights of Man" and common sense. I love my country, but the King— Confusion to his’ odious reign! Above all men his praise [ sing, ‘That foe to princes, Thomas Painel The Royal banners are d:splayed; Defeat and ruin selze the cause! may success the standard ald Of France, its liberties, and laws! Arthur O’Connor ultimately made his way to France, where, in 1807, he married the daughter of the Marquis de Condocet. He entered the French army, and rose to the rank of general. His death took place in April, 1852, when he was eighty-seven years of age. ee Sick Women Pleaded for Dolls. Margaret Bottome in the Ladies’ Home Journal. “Just before I left for Europe last sum- mer a great box came to me, filled with dolls, all dressed, and the request came with it that I should have them sent to a children’s hospital. There is a hospital in the city of New York for consumptive chil- dren, as well as for older people with the same disease, and I gave the dolls to a physician who is connected with that hos- pital. He said afterward he wished I could have seen the children trooping toward him, each carryin® a doll. But the most touching thing to me was what the nurse told the doctor, that after every child was furnished with a doll there were a number left, and the poor women dying with consumption asked if each migh: have a doll. They all wanted them. and the nurse said she could not have dreamed of their being such a comfort to those poor, sick women. There were just enougn dolls for each to have one. Ah, who can tell the thoughts they had of ear- lier days when they took a little wee one close to their heart, as they now took those little dolls, SECOND BAPTIST GHURCH The New Edifice That is Being Erected by 8 Colored Congregation. It Is Expected That the Dedication Exercises Will Take Place “Barly in the Spring. Recently a new church was opened for worship, though it has not been- formally dedicated, owing to the fact that the main auditorium ts not fully completed, but it is expected that the work will be pushed to completion. The church in question is the Second Baptist Church, colored, and when ready for use it will be one of the finest colored churches in the city. In the early spring, when the edifice will be ready, it is expected, for dedication, the occasion will be a notable one among the Baptists of the city. The structure is located on 8d street northwest between H and I streets, on the site of the old edifice, which was of brick, and considerably smaller than the present edifice. The rear and sides are of red brick, but the front is of Indiana lime- stone, and is. decorated in carvings of va- rious designs. This tracery is especially neticeable around the two entrances, which have lagge single columns on each side. Over both of these entrances are gabled porches, and above the porches are triple windows. The plans show a square- tower at each of the two corners, and two cen- tral towers, but smaller than the others. The southeast tower is the largest one of all, being carried up to a height of 112 feet, with an open belfry in the top, and surmounted by a short spire. Much of this work has not been completed, and will not be until the more important parts in the main auditorium are finished. The center of the front mentioned is in the form of a bay, with a large cathedral window occupying nearly all of it, and run- ning from the first floor nearly to the top of the second. Over the cathedral window is a large rose window, and over this is a gable. Entrance is through a doorway in each of the corner towers. The interior will be finished in light woods. In each of the vestibules two stairways begin, the one leading up to the main auditorium and the other to the lec- ture room. The latter is slightly below the level of the street, but it is on a grade with the surrounding ground, and, like the audi- torium above, is neticeable for the amount ef daylight which is available at all times. The ground plan of the first floor is about ninety feet deep and fifty-seven feet wide, corresponding to the dimensions of the en- tire building. This floor is intended for the Sunday school room, and also as a place in which to hold lectures and enter- tainments. It is divided in a large room for the main department of the school, and a smaller one for the infant class. If, however, it is desired to have a larger space, the two rooms can be thrown into one by means of movable partitions. There are also rooms for the Sunday school li- brary and for a parlor and a kitchen. In many of the Baptist churches it is deemed advisable to have the baptistry in the church proper, but in the Second Church it 4s located on the lower floor. The main auditorium will accommodate fully a thousand people, it is expected. Across the west end {s a large gallery, and facing this, in the west end, is the pulpit. On one side of the pulpit a space has been reserved for the organ and for a choir of thirty voices. A large pipe organ ts to be ordered for the church. The roof is to be of paneled wood. Those windows which are exposed to view from the street are to be filled with cathedral glass,and the others, for the present, with ribbed glass. The des! of the church is the work of Appleton P. Clark, jr., and the contractor, Nicholas Eckhardt. The cost of the struc- ture when fully ready for worship will be in the nelghborhood of $25,000. The most of this money has been raised under the direc- tion of a finance committee, composed of in- fluential members of the congregation, and under the immediate supervision of the pastor. During the summer and a portion of the fall tho congregation worshiped in the armory of the Capital City Guards, on O street. For the past month a fair has been held during the evenings of the week in the lecture room, and enough money has been raised to go on with the work. Nearly fifty years ago a company of be- lievers were dismissed by the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church for the purpose of organizing the present congregation. The new organization began its existence on K street and 7th with a licentiate as its pastor. He remained only a year, however, and in 1849 the church received its first regularly ordained pastor, in the person of Rev. Jere- miah Asher. The church was moved to Capitol Hill to suit the membership, then to another place, and finally to its present site on 3d street. The pastors at various times have been Revs. G. Brown, H. H. Butler, Alexander, Caleb Woodgard, Leonard, Jno. Gaines, Madison Gaskins, and, in 1884, the present pastor, Rev. William Bishop John- son. Rev. Mr. Johnson entered the ministry in 1875, and served as pastor of a Baptist church at Frederick, Md., and as one of the general secretaries of the Baptist. Home Mission Society. He has built up his present charge from a hundred to more than ten times that number, and, besides, has found time to engage in literary work, chiefly of a religious character. —— Victoria’s Descendants. From the Gentlewoman. A laborious genealogist announces, as the result of years of minute labor, that the queen has had nine children, of whom she has lost two; forty-one grandchildren, of whom eight have died; and twenty-three great-grandchildren, all of whom are liv- ing. She has, therefore, sixty-three de- scendants living—seven children, thirty- three grandchildren and twenty-three of the next generation. Her next eldest great- grandchild, the Princess Feodore of Saxe- Meiningen, is now nearly seventeen, so that in all probability her majesty will live to see her grandchildren’s grandchildren. Few English sovereigns before Queen Victoria ) have seen grandchildren grow out of in- fancy; and none ever saw a great-grand- child. Hence, her majesty had to deter- mine the question of precedency in the case of the Duchess of Fife’s children, and she wisely decided that they should rank only as daughters of a duke. This decision was in accordance with a house law decreed earlier in the reign, by which the title of prince and royal high- ness is limited to the children of the sov- ereign, and the children of the sovereign’s sons, the children of the sovereign’s daugh- ters taking precedence only according to the rank of their fathers. Thus the Prin- cess Helena’s children rank as children of Prince Christian only, while the Duke of Connaught’s are royal highnesses; and Prince Arthur of Connaught’s son and suc- cessor, if he kas one, will be the Duke of Connaught as an ordinary duke, taking precedence merely by date of the creation of his dukedom. This is now the case of the Duke of Cumberland on the roll of the house of lords, though he is styled royal highness as son of a king of Hanover. se0_____ ‘Women Burglars in London. From the London Telegraph. Women burglars will exercise a soothing moral influence on the profession if their example of always including a family Bible in their plunder be adopted by their breth- ren, followed by agsiduous devotion to reading the volume. One burglarious dam- sel named Sarah Cummins broke into a house In Fortescue avenue, North London, and appropriated the family Bible, a clock and an album—the last either through curiosity or spite—and would, no doubt, have taken something else had her move- ments not been sufficiently noisy to awaken the sleepers and thus cause her own ar- rest. Sarah honestly admitted that she broke into the house for the purpose of stealing, and asked to be allowed to retain the Scriptures. This could not, of course, be done, but no doubt a copy will be pro- vided for her in her cell, although it might be advisable for the authorities to attach it to the wall with a chain. She has been committed for trial at the central criminal court. A Tumultuous Life. From Current Literature. Henry Rochefort says about his memoirs: “Every human being sees what concerns him threugh a telescopic glass. For thirty- five years the baker at whose shop my par- ents bought bread went to her counter at noon and never budged from it till eight. Yet she explained the presence of gray locks in her hair by the fact that her life had been tumultuous.” RAISING MEAL WORMS. see A Profitable Indestry That Perhaps Affords a Puzzle for Naturatists. From the Denver Repivitican, A worm farm is me of the features in the store of E. B. Achert. Mr. Achert and his wife have been in théworm raising industry in Denver for ovef tWenty years: neverthe- less.no account of their farm has yet ap- peared in state agricultural reports. Th.s happened, perhaps, because it is the only institution of its kind in the country, and was overlooked on aécount of its novelty. The worms are chiefly bred to furnish food for mocking birds, and about 300 Denver people who own feathered mimics of this variety are regular customers of the Achert farm. All soft-billed birds, nightingales, thrushes, black birds, ete., eat the kind of worm the Acherts raise, but there are not many of these birds in Denver,so the Achert farm provides delicacies almost solely and entirely for the mocking bird tribe. Although Mr. and Mrs. Achert call their worm plant a farm, there Is very little of the agricnitural about it. It looks more like a chiffonier than a ranch. Standing in the middle of the little shop is a large wooden contrivance, fitted out with four drawers. Each drawer ts filled to the brim with a moving, living mass. On the top of each wiggling heap is a heavy linen cloth, eaten through here and there into holes. Out of nearly every hole just now sticks the brown head of a wriggling meal worm. As explained by E. E. Achert, the process of raising meal worms for the feed of soft- billed birds is quite a complicated business. The history of the Denver farm {s also in- teresting. To begin with, the Acherts came to Denver twenty years ago, bringing with them a pair of mocking birds. In the old country feed for the pets was easily ob- tained in the flouring mills. They ate a yel- lowish worm, which seems to generate and breed in ground meal, flour and bran. After arriving In America the Acherts could ob- tain none of these worms. They did not seem to grow here, and they had a hard time keeping their hirds alive, ignorant as they were of what other food the mocking bird wauld eat. It happened that, after a couple of months’ stay In Denver, Mrs. Achert was called back to Germany, and before leaving she was instructed by her husband to bring back some meal worms for the pair of mocking birds. In Frankfort she purchased a sup- rly, and these formed the nucleus of the farm. From the worms brought here by Mrs. Achert numerous millions have since been raised. The staple diet of the béasts con- sists of beer, woolen blankets. and meal bran. Over the bottom of each drawer Is scatterod a mess of bran, in which the meal werm bug lays Its eggs. Over the bran {s laid a section of thick woolen blanket, above this more meal bran, and over all a heavy Plece of linen. Between the linen and the bottom of the drawer an Interesting process of evolution is going on all the year round. Where the evolutionary movement com- Mences is a question for abstruse, hair- splitting scientists, but in Achert’s farm it | began with the worms. After a lapse of about three months his yellow, one-inch- long worms grew a hard shell of brownish hue upon them and appeared te be dead. Before coating themselves with this armor | thev crawled ont of the upper strata of the farm to the soft bran at the bottom of the drawer, and lay there, apparently without power of motion. A few weeks more, and each shell burst, giving birth to an ugly black bug of small dimensions, and pos- sessed of horns and feclers in plenty. These things swarmed in the meal bran unt!) they nested all over it, and laid eggs. As fast as a bur laid her due quantity of eggs she rolled over on her back and died. If there are male meal worm bugs the Acherts have not become cognizant of the fact; all their bugs lay eggs. irs During the hatching period, which lasts abcut a month, there is no evidence of life | apparent on the worm farm. At the end of @ month the lower stratum of bran crawls | and qnivers with the Ife of innumerable | small worms. These thrive upon the bran, | then eat their way through the blankets | into the second layer of bran, and finally appear In a wriggling mass, under the linen cover at the top of the drawer. When this ocours.their diet is varied with an allowance of heer. Meal worms fatten rapidly upon lager beer. It is sprinkled all over the linen cover until that becomes saturated. and the meal under it becomes soaked. Reer-fed yeorms are ready for the market after a fortmtght’s guzzling. They are sold by the Acherts at the rate of 100 for twenty-five cents, and 300 mocking birds are supplied with) daily food regularly throughout the yeaa, Hach bird eats from two to four wormsca day. So the feeding comes cheap. About three-fourths of the worms raised on the farm are sold, the remainder being kept for breeding purposes. When a worm grows pretty fat he crawls back to the bot- | tom of the drawer, and begins his meta- | morphosis to a larva, then-to a bug, then to an egg, and back to a worm again. E. EB. Achert and his wife assert that ‘helrs is the only meal worm ranch in Amer.ca. BITTEN BY A MAD DOG. The Horse Ate Nose Bags and Nails in Preference to Grain. A horse belonging to Patrick Flannigan that was bitten last fall by a mad dog in the streets of New Rochelle, N. Y., died recent- ly. Veterinarian J. P. Nestler says that it was a clear case of hydrophobia. Mr. Flannigan did not believe a horse could go mad, and one morning when he found that old Dan refused to eat hay, and snapped viciously at it and gnawed the manger, he attributed the horse's strange conduct to a fit of colic. Dan, after he had been hitched to the wagon, became quite un- manageable and went through the streets at an extraordinary pace, swaying his head and snapping his jaws together. The story went round that Flannigan’s horse was going mad, and after that every one but Flannigan gave Dan plenty of room. Mr, Flannigan was surprised to see Dan act so queerly, and was quite exhausted by noon time from his efforts to control him. Dan would not look at the oats given him at the noon rest. He seized the oat bag in his teeth, and after spilling the grain tried to bite Mr. Flannigan, who was incensed at seeing good grain wasted. Dan next lay down, breaking the wagon thills and his har- ress. Mr. Flannigan made up his mind then that Dan was sick. He managed, after much dodging about to avoid Dan's teeth, to get him back in his stall. Dan was no better here, and Veterinarian Nestler was summoned, Dr. Nestler declared that Dan was suffer- ing from hydrophobia, and instead of shoot- ing the animal, determined to watch the progress of the disease. Dan died hard. He tore down his manger, broke his teeth on the nails in his stall, kicked down the partitions and was mak- ing good progress toward demolishing the rickety barn in which he was tiled, when death overtook him soon after midnight. Dr. Nestler said the immediate cause of death was paralysis. Dan had been a faithful horse. He was bitter while at work nearly three months ago by a dog that jumped up and set his teeth into Dan’s nose. The wound was cauterized, and it was thought all danger from the disease was past. The dog that bit Dan bit many dogs in New Rochelle thatwere afterward found and shot. oo Oven Doors of Crystal. It has remained for a woman to invent and patent glass duors for ovens. The won- der is that the ide’ has not long ago been thought of by someWoman who cooks. All cooking instructor$ ‘lay the greatest stress on the care to be observed in opening an oven door to watch the progress of cakes or muffins. Marla Parloa, making sponge cake, touches the knob’ yith the most delicate care and lightness, dreading to jar the cake within, and peeks through the smallest crack that will afford the necessary glance. What a relief to walk boldly up to the oven and through fifese transparent doors, which the genius of a Michigan woman has discovered, study at leisure the progress of rising cake dough or crisping fowl. ses Ca i A Good Friend. From the Brooklyn Eagie. Zigeby—"I have put a friend of mine on his feet throe times in the last two years.” Perksby—“That’s nothing. I put a friend of mize on his feet fourteen times last night.” A cocoa with rich chocolate flavor, retaining all the nutritious and fat- producing properties yet not distress- ing to the most delicate, can be pro- duced. Proven in THE VITALITY OF SEEDS. One of the Tests They Will Stand is Cold 500 Degrees Below Zero. From the Literary Digest. Not long ago it was generally believed that grains of wheat from Egyptian tombs had been made to germinate, and there seemed, therefore, to be no limit to the dormant life of a seed. When these stories were proved to be without foundation there was a general tendency to disbelieve all of a similar kind. Now, however, it seems es- tablished that seeds may live, under proper conditions, a great many years, perhaps for centuries; and when we consider that under these circumstances the protoplasm within the seed actually maintains its vitality, this fact is very significant. On the question of how seeds accomplish thig, much light has been thrown by recent ex- periments of C. de Candolle, the French botanist, which he describes in the Revue Scientifique. Some parts of his article are as follows: “Seeds that have retained their germinat- ‘ng power are said to possess ‘latent life.’ This expression lacks precision, for we may ask whether the life of the seeds is com- pletely arrested or if it is only retarded, and the answers would not be the same in all cases. “We owe to Messrs. Van Tieghem and Bounier the following experiment, which proves that seeds can, in fact, live for a certain time this retarded life. Three lots of the same number of peas and beans were placed, the first in the open air, the second in a sealed glass tube containing ordinary air, the third in a sealed tube con- taining only pure carbonic acid gas. At the end of two years the seeds of the first lot had sensibly increased in weight, and near- ly all had retained their germinating power. Those preserved in the confined air had increased less in weight and germinated in less,rumber than the preceding. Moreover, the air contained in the tube with them had changed in composition; its proportion of oxygen had fallen to 11.4 per cent, and there was mixed with it 3.8 per cent of carbonic acid. As to the seeds kept in the carbonic acid, none of them could germi- rate, and their weight had not changed.” Experiments are then described by M. de Candolle that relate to the wonderful power of resistance to cold displayed by seeds. Experiments already made by others show that these seeds may germinate after hav- ing been exposed to a temperature of 1,008 below zero, centigrade. Now the researches of Pictet in his celebrated low-temperature laboratory in Beriin show that at such 9 point chemical action totally ceases; hence the active life of the seeds in question must have been really suspended, and neverthe- less they were able to germinate when planted. In M. de Cardolle’s own exper!- ments seeds were subjected once a day for 118 days to a temperature of 378 to 538 below zero, for eight to twenty hours at a time, and notwithstanding this harsh treat- ment, they sprouted when planted. If the life of the seeds, however, were really sus- pended, they must be able to live out of contact with air for a certain time. In or- der to see whether they could do this, M. de Candolle kept seeds under mercury from one t& three months without killing them. In this state of suspended life a seed is in a chemical condition, according to M. de Candolle, somewhat resembling that of an explosive mixture; that is, it is ready for chemical action (growth), but that action w'll not begin until the surrounding condi- tions are right. In the explosive these are conditions of dryness, temperature, &c., just as they are with the seed. A seed, then, is a little bomb, only waiting to be touched off to release Its store of energy and send out a discharge in the shape of a sprout. M. de Candolle remarks on this as follows: “This state of chemical and vital inertia may last for a long time, perhaps even in- definitely. It is, at hast, as it seems to me, the only way of explaining the preserva- tion of seeds during a great number of years. Cases are known where they have germinated after a period so long that It is impossible to believe that they have con- tinued in life, properly speaking, in the in- terval, no matter how slowly the processes of life may have gone on.” ———-+e-—___ Value of a College Trathing. From the New York Ledger. The oft-debated question as to the value of college training seems to us to be hardly an open question at all. The fact set over against the college training 1s usually the manifest one that a great many forceful men have managed to make thelr way and to accomplish great things without the cur- riculum of the college. These are persons of such great force that they could not be kept down even by great -disadvantages. But such persons are rare outside colleges or within them. They might have been still more capable men by the aid of college training. It is well known that many such persons have lamented their disadvantages. It would be difficult to show what harm a college training could have done them. But colleges, like many other institutions, are for the average person, and we cannot conceive but that the average person is always better, for the help which the col- lege course gives. While we find some per- sons who ire conspicuous for their abilities and capacities who have not been regularly educated, the fact is, the majority of peo- ple in high places are college men. ONE ENJOYS Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys- tem effectually, dispels colds, head- aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever pro- duced, pleasing to the taste and ac- ceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50 cent bottles by all leading drug- gists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will pro- cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. Donot acceptany substitute. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. QQUISVILLE, KY. A “snap” —that’s what the washwoman has who uses Weaver, Kengla & Co.’s ‘Laundry & Borax’ S=0=4=p=s. These soaps make light work of the heaviest wash! Try them and be convinced of their super- iority over other brands. For sale by all grocers. Plant, 3244 K St.N. W. ja3-32d ‘TOMBSTONES OF GLASS. An Experimental* M ment With Lettering by Sand-Blast. From the Pittsburg Dispatch. A glass tombstone is certainly something urique. Such a grave marker stands in but one place in the United States, and that is in the cemetery overlooking the city of Kit- tanning. It has but recently been set up there over the grave of Mrs. Elizabeth Pep- per of Ford City by her son, Matthias Pep- per. s The Kittanning cemetery possesses many natural and artificial beauties. It has been handsomely laid out, With winding walks, stately trees and ornamental shrubbery, and in it are many pretentious monuments. Not one of the piles of marble and granite at- tracts so much attention as the piece of polished glass, with its ‘clear inscription, which stands on a gentle slope falling slow- ly from the hill top. Matthias Pepper, who had the glass set up, is assistant superintendent at the Ford City factory. The piece used as a grave memorial is a part of a large plate which was made of unusual thickness for the con- struction of circular panes to cover the Portholes of ocean steamships. The practi- cal indestructibility of glass was the quality which suggested to Mr. Pepper its use in the cemetery. Marble and granite seem to many to be almost eternal in their hardness, but they are far from it, and not at ali to be compared with glass. Wind and rain, heat and cold, have their effects on stone of any Kind, and finally wear away the hardest granite and cause it to crumble. Go into any old graveyard, where stones were erect- ed more than 100 years ago, and it will be found to be the exception where all the let- tering on the monuments can be made out. The stone has crumbled and the outlines have been obliterated. No effect is produced by the weather on glass. The Pepper monument is of plate glass one inch thick, a foot and a half wide, and four feet high. It stands in a mortise cut into a cube of sandstone. The top of the glass is arched. The lettering on it is made by the “sand blast” process, and is distinct. ‘The monument bears this !nscription: “In memory of Elizabeth Pepper of Ford City. Died February 4, 1892. Aged seventy- seven years. “Also, William Pepper, husband of the above. Died —. Age, —. From this inscription it may be infe! truly, that William Pepper is still living. The Peppers are of English birth, and came to Ford City years ago directly from the Great Biltingham glass works in London. You can carry the little vial of Dr. Pierce’s Pleas- ant Pellets right in the vest-pocket of your dress suit, and it will not make even a little lump. The ‘“‘ Pel- lets’’ are so small that 42 to 44 of them go in a vial scarcely more than an inch long, and as big round asa lead pencil. They cure con- stipation. One ‘* Pellet ’” is a laxative ; two a mild cathartic. One taken after dinner will stimu- late digestive action and palliate the effects of over-eating. They act with gentle efficiency on stom- ach, liver and bowels. They don’t do the work themselves. They simply stimulate the natural action of the organs themselves. That is where they differ from all other ills. That is what makes them tter than all other pills, You don’t become a slave to their use as with other pills, because their help fasts. Once used, they are always in favor. ¥v }ON.—Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets— easy name to remem Don’t let a de- ing druggist talk you into something just yood * He makes more money on the “just ” kind. at's why he would rather gell them. That's why you had better not take em. For a free sample (4 to 7 doses) of * Pleaseat Pellets," address World's Dispensary Medical Won NY Gay obtain valuable sufferers Catarrh rirstin of Seon stamp t0 Uo- lumbia Chemical Co., Washington, D. No cure, no pay. 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