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THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, MAY 320, 1896—-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES, WOMEN DRUNKS They Are Prominent in the London Police Courts. A GLIMPSE INTO SOME ENGLISH “PUBS” Cver Their Glasses Frowzy Females Discuss Their Troubles. SCENES OF DISTRESS + Special Correspondence of ‘The Evening Star. LONDON, May 1%, 1896. NDOUBTEDLY the women of Eng- Us are good, hard drinkers throughout, but it is among the lower middle classes of London that you must look for the sweet habit in its full pe Last ar women were taken into cus- tody on the one charge of “drunk anddisorderly.” s, missionaries and oth- daily duty obliges them to fre- strate s whose known coroner, ying on the subject. ul the of drunkenness I hold. My © deceased worse n in an un had a dro jon and the rep! ned to: ‘Oh, s were the proper thing to do. I b re are countless numbers of hard- n who could have good homes it had good wives: but the wo- at home to meet them or y for them after their 5 quietly to of doors Monday is es- g with the w aware that their and’s Sun cloth the pawn shop. money in drir out e clothe heets at most London pc always heaviest on Mondays, of women being hi ‘ously >mmon to see thirty women in one day. At | drinks of rum apie: Vi incorrigible she becomes the severer is the punishment, until the maximum of one month {s reached. Some of Them Are Rounders. It is here that the record breakers come in—astonishing females of the type of the unapproachable Jane Cakebread, the pets of the reporters and the joy of the reading public. Jane Cakebread, an old, old woman, has passed her 800th sentence for drunken- ness. And the others, ramarkable as they are, can but follow her afar off. One wo- man, Annie B—, has upward of 400 con- victions against her; but as her husband, One Hundred and Sixteen Times. a small landlord, has paid nearly $1,000 in the shape of fines on her behalf she must have been taken to the police court more than 6) times. Several women have spent nearly the whole of their lives going in and coming out of prison. Margaret M— was first ar- rested at the age of sixteen; when the last magistrate last saw her she was fifty-one. Annie R— has never been a month out jail since she was fifteen, and she was sixty-three when she made the remark. Margaret S— had only one week's liberty during twelve months, though all her sen- tences were short ones! Bridget M— ap- peared no fewer than thirty-six times be- fore the same bench of magistrates in two years, and one police court has seen Annie P—— ‘eighty-four times! Half the cases at Winchester police court are drunken women. One woman. said that she had been at a bar two hours drinking, and that when her money was gone some one else “stood her a drink.’ he blamed her trouble on that particular drink. Another woman said she went into a public house after she had drunk in sev- eral others, and when she got there she found a drunken woman buying drinks for loafers. She remonstrated with this wo- man, on which the loafers threw her into the et and she was arrested. , is another case. Four girls, the oldest of whom is sixteen, go into a public house and are served with ale, From there they adjourm to the street, and, in turn, buy three small bottles of rum, which they consume in the open air. After that they so to another public house and have two e! Then they take the air again and another small bottle of rum, and ten minutes afterward th are found help- ly intoxicated in the middle of the road. Selling Liquor to Girls. “Dancing clubs” are responsible for much of the drinking among young girls. “Some time ag,” says a missionary, “I was sta- tioned at a mission at Clerkenwell in the center of these dens, where children, sup- cs FROM GRAVE TO GAY. ropolitan police court the Church 1 Temperance Soclety maintains ary, whose duties concern the amation of women addicted to drink. ef its annual reports the London Court Mission, as the organization Js called, presented the following state- ments: At the North London police court, in twelve months, 343 women were charged with simple drunkenness, and 447 more with being drunk and disorderly. Of 2,554 Women appearing at Clerkenwell (a much poorer district), 95 per cent were the vic- tims of drink. One of the missionaries said: “One woman, aged eighty-nine, and twelve over eighty years of age were charged with drunkenness. The youngest drunken case was that of a girl of fifteen reci In oj Pottc years of age. There nave been as many as five girls in one day charged with being drunk who were only seventeen years of a In one day forty-seven women have passed the bar, charged with drunken- ness." On the Increase. “I have been dealing with a large number ! of drunken women in my district,” says another missionary. “One class is com- posed of low women; but there are many ef what may be called the lower order of working people. We often have the wives of respectable mechanics and of men em- ployed in the city. It is easiest to handle the younger men, of whom we have a num- ber, from seventeen to twenty years of age. I think drinking ic increasing among young married women from eighteen to twent four—some of them having very good lis- tancs. We have a number of young girls. One girl of fifteen was found one morning Grocery Trade. fm the street, senseless. She had been @rinking with organ grinders. The moth ‘was in court and was terribly put about. As to dealing with these girls and women, the London magistrates are puzzled what to do. They say there is no use sending them to prison or reformatory homes, be- gause it only hardens them. One magis- trate will impose a fine of half a crown (62%% cents) for a first offense, whilst another, sitting on the same bench, will let the lady go with a caution. Circumstances alter Cases, and on the second offense the fine may be made five shillings. A woman who has been arrested several times may be imprisoned for several days, and the more osed to be over sixteen, but really only Fourteen years of age, by paying the sum of two-pence, can spend the evening in an underground room, and every one can be supplied with Hquor. When they came from this heated room to the street, you can imagine the effect of the change of air on them.” He adds: “Will not the law step in and prevent the sale of intoxicants to The Divinity of the Beer Pump. these children in the dancing clubs?” The answer is, No, the British law is so tender of the personal liberty of the subject that nothing will be changed, and everything will continue to go on as in the past. At the northern end of Holloway road there is a lively highway branching to the right, with elght iarge and thriving taverns within the space of a short quarter of a mile. We thought we would go in and out of them to see the sights. It was not slumming. The neighborhood is respecta- ble, even “desirable” in the language of house agents. It was 9 o'clock in the even- ing when we called for the first lemon squash * * * and got a glass of “four ale.” They were too busy to mix drinks. In our compartment there were nine wo- men, or fifteen, if you count two beby girls in arms, and four little misses brought by their mammas. One was befng treated. The mother, quite a decent body with a silk mantle and Rid gloves, called for a half quartern of Irish warm, and, swallow- ing three parts of it, hande by jase to the child, with a “here you aré, Fart a,’ as though it were so much water. Three wo- men were talking about their husbands. “That's all he brought me home, as I'm a living woman! Fourteen bob and five of us to keep! Oh, lor! oh, dear! Well, drink up. I'll be the fourpence to your tuppence tl time, Mrs. Walters.” What is a “Pab?” A saloon is a “‘pub.,” so called because it is not public. Instead of a iong room with a long bar, the space is cut up into com- partments, resembling stalls in a stable. Where tho trough would be js the bar. The beer is pumped from various kegs under the bar, as wanted, by means of a system of levers, resembling the brakes of a loco- motive engire. By means of continually pulling on these, barmiids get a good muscle and a reliable thirst. The bar- maids ell drink. “My father begen life as a draper,” sald one of them, “and made a little money. Then he took a little public house and, un- fortunately, lost it threugh the cup. When I was fourteen I went te take a situation in a public house. I have been in the trade six or seven years. I hegan to drink be- cause I was so tired in the morning. I felt the need of spirits before breakfast. The hours were late and we had to get up ear- ly. We were allowed to have anything to drink at our lunch and dinner time and sometimes in the evening kefcre going to bed. As a rule, brandy is what we begin on. I never knew a barmaid who did not drink it.” The talk turned to the subject of women frequenting the bars. It was agreed they had as much right to do so as men. The presence of the barmaids makes it cozy and homclike fer the women drinkers. None cf them are rew women. Their lan- guage is proper end thelr views are con- servative. It is the busiress of a woman to be a wife, and it is the business of a rusband to bring home money Saturday night. The rub. is their exchange, where they :neet to compare takings and air their grievances. It is rot a place of debauch. It is an adjurct to the heme. Sweet land! Discussing Husbands. It was quite 1 dcmestic circle. Some were sitting down and eome were standing up. There were only four men of us, and the ladies’ tongues waxed eloquent. Some lubricated with four-ale, some with Scoten cold or Irish warm, and some with gin. ‘The theme was the villainy of husbands. rilby? Ag: “He comes home howsey every night, and I'm left without a brown to buy a bloater! I'm that worrit that my ‘art sinks and the spasm {is that bad I have to take a drop of something. Heaven knows, I've been a true wife to him, and he beat me last night for poppirg tis Sunday trovsers!” There ts not enough mency to go round. The husband drinks up toc much of his pay. The wife drinks up too much of the remainder. There ts a struggle between them, cacn blaming the other. Scarcity of money leads to the system of “clubbing.” By this plan of “chipping in” sociabl gether fa the hevse cf cne of them, women are able tc keep the drinks going through the week till Saturday night again. They will meet together mornings and after noo} When one is out of money anothe: have it. When cne has pawned her shawl, other will pawn the tubs. The woman who introduces this s m is ca- pable in a short time of corrupting a whole neighborhced, and once it is in operation there Is no escape for a poor respectable woman. Her neighbors persecute her if she does not join them. They annoy her, worry her and boycott her. They set their children to beat her children, They sere- her and throw dirt in her door; make life miserable for her until she joins the company. Simple Soaking. We went in and ont three other of these pubs. of the Holloway road district, and saw enough to come to the belief that the drinking habits of the London poor are pretty much of a muchness as far as the fair sex is concerned. It is not debauchery, but simple soaking. The next house was not so busy. In all told I could count but eleven women cus- tomers. One of them was drinking under peculiar circumstances. I noticed her as 1 entered, talking with a man, presumably her husband, who seemed to be crippled and in an invalid chair, which she had drawn up toa side door. I followed her in, and she ordered three penn’orth of warm rum for him, and while it was preparing she had half a quartern of gin for herseif and drank it. Having taken the rum to the invalid, she returned the empty glass and had another half quartern of gin, thus spending cight pence in less than five min- utes by the clock. ‘The last house was an exceptionally large lace, employing seven ‘maids and three I counted a hundred and twenty cus- tomers present. Among them there were thirty-six women, one a proud young mother with twin babies in long clothes. Carrying one in each arm, she would have found it difficult to raise her gin glass to her lips, had not a Kindly neighbor or two been present to assist her. We walked out. There 1s nothing of the pretty enticements of the Parisian cafe. STERLING HEILIG. Ill Luck at Cripple Creek. m the Chicago Times-Herald. “Yes,” said the reformed miner, “I am back from Cripple Creek, and that is the best of my luck. I got away. Here is a sample of the ill fate I had to contend with. I struck the camp without a cent, for I hadn't done anything but lose all along the line. I hunted up Johnny Cos- tello and the best he could do was to get a mea! ticket at the Blue Bell—one of those twenty-one-meals-for-$4 affairs—and every time you eat they punch a figure. 1 wasn't long using it, and stepped out on the side- walk, containing the first resemblance to a square feed I had held for some days. A gust of wind came down from between Tenderfoot and Mineral Hills, where all the puffs originate, and blew the meal ticket out of my hands. It landed face up on the sidewalk, ten feet or so away, and before I could recover it a big 200-pound Cornish miner stepped on it. He wore heavy boots, with hobnails in ‘em, and as sure as I'm a living man the nails in his heel punched out the remaining twenty squares.” soe, Bicycle Distinction. From the Chicazo Record. There is a new bicycle button, but it isn't every rider who is privileged to wear one of them. Only the class A men with records have any right to show these but- tons. One morning last week Police Magistrate W. T. Hall, or Judge “Biff” Hall, as he is more commonly known, inflicted the usual penalty on some bicyclers who had been brought in by the police for “scorching” and cutting around at night without any lanterns. One of the riders as soon as he had been fined smiled and said: “Now I can wear a button.” ‘The magistrate overheard the remark. He noticed that as soon as the wheelman had paid his fine he fastened an enamel but- ton on his coat lapel. The court asked permission to look at the button. A Shameless Exhibition. From the New York Weekly. Great Journalist (in dime museum)— “What is that man remarkable for?” Manager—‘‘He is the editor who never claimed that the circulation of his paper was constantly increasing.” Great Journalist—“Poor fellow! It would be a mercy to confine him in an asylum at once, instead of standing him up there to be stared at.” Womanly Sympathy. From the New York Weekly, Mrs. Highup—“Such shocking stories as | the papers do tell! I read today of a mother around the corner who tried to kil] her children because she could not get them anything to eat.” Mrs. Higherup—‘Cruel creature! Well, I don’t know, thou I really believe I would rather etherize poor little Fido than see him hungry. Marle, go see !f you can coax Fido to eat a little more of that ten- derloin.” CONVENTION WIRES ————___ Those That Will Bo Used in Trans- mitting the News. NEARLY A MILLION WORDS DAILY Expert Operators “Collected From All Parts of the Country. EVERY MINUTE VALUABLE O NE OF THE BIG- gest features in con- nection with the two national political conventions at St. Louis and Chicago will be the telegraph service,” said a bright official of a telegraph company to ‘a Star reporter re- cently, “Ever since the dates were selected for both conventions the officials of both telegraph companies have been on a hustle, and it will continue until the presidential candidates have been selected,” he continued. “Very few news- paper readers realize the enormous work that is done at these conventions by the telegraph companies. Many miles of addi- wire have to be strung; new loops and instruments placed in position; th g talent in the telegraphic pro- ed and consolidated in the two convention cities, and, finally, every official must be on the alert to see that every subordinate under his eye does his work well and with great promptn! “In St. Louis a new hall is being con- structed in a part of the city where none of the lines run, This will necessit the building of an entire new line, not a one or two-wire line, but the placing of pole heavy enough to carry at least a di cables in which are a half-dozen wires. In Chicago we are better fixed, as the hall will be more located, or, should Auditorium Hall be used, we would be in clover, as aiready numerous wires are run- ning into that building. “Ten or fifteen t of twenty instruments was ry off the business, but this a hundre fifty sounder: ys have to mounted. Each instrument calls for a sep- arate apartment, besides separate wires from the switchboard. Rapid Operators, “Every city, from the Pacific coast the Atlantic, possésses one or more te graph operators who have the ability to manipulate the key at the rate of from forty-five to fifty words a minute, and if the code is used, as high as sixty words a min- ute can be sent. These men are kept track of, and<as.many Of tem=as-posstie are ser to the conyent?Q@n cit to he: ithe The art of “receiving 5h E Puagiaa ~ strume to ing in th Ps qhust come naturally An a eault there dane dozen tirst-c receivers to one tirst-clas ter how the mess: are men well enough up in, the business celve them. The néccsSary requirement h times is speed, @nd the man at t other end of the line dpes-the-rest™ 1 It is expected that from 500,600 to_7: words will be sent_ou St. Touts and ¢ cago daily during conven and from this can be task before ti rot be a qu much as the 4 telegraph Is. It will of Gnancial returns £0 dmmodation of a class of people who moid Publ’> opinion, and as a consequence must fhe l0oked after. Every paper ingthe*country of any con- sequence whateve® will have from one to five special Correspmdents on the «round, and they will begin avviving a week ahead of the day set for the opening of the cou vention. Each one of these gentlemen wi be expected to furnish dally umn of reading matter, or about a th and words, and in a majority of case matter sent will reach as high as half a Many of the larger pape: ve HH] 1 page. h from one to a half dozen special wires, « the shrewd ones have already secured their operators, 80 as to rush things est rate. . Associated Prens Servdeee... “The press associations are in almost the same boat with us. The amount of matter the Associated Préss will rush out of St. Louis and Chicago will be something tre- mendous. This organization has on its pay rolls the best telegraphic alent jp, the country,,amd the ver am of inteRarehe will be sent to the convention cltieme Or- ditarily the-Associated Press has two wires running out of St. Louis am Héago, but during the convention weeks severa ditional wires will be called into The daily report of this orga averages about 18,000 words, and with the extra wires the number of words sent will be more than doubled. This service, re- member, is all in addition to the special matter the newspapers will recelve from their individual representatives. “Through the great service furnished by the Associated Press and private corre- spondents the newspapers outside of the convention cities will have as much, if not more, than the papers printed on the spot. “Nobody except those who have gone through conventions as telegraph man- agers can conceive the strain under which they labor. It is even more difficult than taking care of election returns, when re- ports come in as fast as distance permits, the more remote localities giving ample time for the reception of news from nearby points. Promptness in News Sending. “It is so different in a national conven- tion, as the proceedings must be flashed across the continent constantly. Slates may be broken and combinations go awry in the twinkling of an eye, and the news- Papers must know this instantly. Fore- casts made in good faith may become mere rubbish before the ink is dry on the paper telling the supposed fact, ani one single ballot may change the entire aspect of the situation. “The Western Union will gather together fully seventy-five expert telegraphers from New York, Cincinnati, Philadelphia and Bos'on, and the Postal’ company will have almost the same number, obtained from the same cities, All these men are ‘code’ senders, which means they abbreviate words to such an extent that thirty addi- tional words can be sent a minute, and each one of thenr:cag handle fully’ 3,500 words an hour gn the wire. This extra operating force must Be provided with in- struments, typewgiter§ desks, chairs and at the high- The Policeman; n the Pictur Wife’s Uncle Home From Life, = . \ N om i First Boy—“Wot's the ole feller pinched he art ofecnd- | it gf seen the vastness of the | e Has Been to the Depot and is Bringing last, but not least, boarding and lodging facilities, and it keeps the managers of the telegraphic offices busy for weeks in advance preparing for the battle royal between time and electricity. “Another snug income that must be look- ed after is that derived from the hotels. Ordinarily, one operator can be placed in @ hotel and easily handle ihe business, but at such times the politicians want to keep their friends posted at home or keep in close tab with their political leaders, who may be located a mile away at an- other hotel. Then, again, the shrewd news- Paper correspondent wants <o be ‘Johnny on the spot,’ and if he learns a piece of news at the hotel a telegraph office cannot be too close to meet his desires. For these reasons the force will te trebled at all the hotels, and most likely be kept going throughout the entire twenty-four hours. Private Wires at Hotels. “At the hotels used as headquarters im- portant confabs and caucuses will be held, and it can be ¢ imagined the import- ance of the news likely to develop at any moment. A new feature of this hotel busi- ness will be several private wires working directly from the hotels int ewspaper offices in New York. The rivalry re- cently developed in that between two of the prominent papers has no doubt led up to this. With each private wire goes a Special correspondent, and from the out look at present, it appears as If the eastern Journals will be swamped with convention news. “Both the Western Union and Postal companies maintain a bulletin wire at the conventions, and over this string usually comes the first announcement of the name of the successful candidate. “To guard st a ja either in St. or Chica orps of the halls, it ts pro- le riders be to car legrams from in offices. In this ¥ d can be attained n could possibly at 50, Fs Lo pr er in working off busine be done if all the dispa {| Sent from the balls of th | at the main office j dreds of w and operator into service. sveral of ot very little 1 con noticed th 1 wiring done delegates. The bulk of the ess is newspaper und queries back and forth. Of how and then, a who has 4 sick wife or child at home, or perhaps an important business deal to look af will use the wire, but the individua! convention man pays very litt compan E made the delegate wires to announce stituency, as he | dreds of ne all over the knows y er me cou | more money could pay vr the Candidates. “It someti rs th ielegate who causes a stam ¢ n unexpe ed vote that either brings defeat or v tory will wire the new to his friends, being proud of the has take: fore the country anc eat prominence wn, but that , 4s a rule, into which he has yout all the mone d for telegraphing In rs past ail the c vate wires to the cc foregone conclusion that affairs will prevail this vate wires are very essential, time a h_ periods worth thi of dollars. A candidate and his ants must keep ch other an in nt hove rec | the last conve will be re President Harrison a direct wire | Minneapolis conve: d that the few | privileged persons White Hous knew more about the proceedings taking | place in the far 5 than did tho: d in th peoy ple enge “ overlooking the h the conyen- will be | tion hails located uy nd pneumati 1 Chi speaker’ down fr under tube the KO Ato’ pond oft right arm. | Will be no time lost in counting wor: | that will be attended to afterwa | Cperators retaining the it to the main ¢ necking off, scene under the stage will be ines miles to see. A couple hund at work, the same number of keys chirping out ing and the n jon | the he: ‘As | yet to s: We have several | equal to best in t the Washington office furnish its quota of saying.” nen Who are nd that on to S$ without As Time Passes (Decoration Day). From the Army and Navy Jo ors mitre glanein rnal, rehin’—mareh down the 8 Dreamin’ dre: mouth, : 1 in’, Victory's dau the triumphal cur, Thev’ seen the sojers marchin’—marchin’—marchin’ Arms reva! " banners craped, toward the ret Over the An’ a grateful nation weepit y buds are peeptn’ war-worn vet mourns the heroes —WILL ~-see A Cyclists Easy Ride Uphill. From the Kansas City Star, A lazy man on a bicycle rode up the in- cline on Walnut street from Sth to 9th the other day in the easiest possible manner. It is hardly reasonable to suppose a lazy man on a bicycle, and there are easier ac- complishments than riding up a long in- cline on a bicycle. This iaan, however, was full of expedients. He loafed along until a cable car caught up with him, reached out and caught one of the sidebars of the car and then took it easy and com- fortable. The conductor was puzzled for a mo- ment and wondered whether he should tell the man to let go or collect his fare. Busi- ness instinct told him to collect the fare if he could, but he doubted, seeing that the man was not on the car, whether he had that right. At length he decided that, as the company’s good steam was causing the cable to move and the cable’s motion benefited the man, he would make the effort. The man looked exceedin goue. STOK y comfortable. One hand grasped the bar of the car, the other was free, so he took a cigarette out mopped his ad. of his pocket and lighted it, forehead and wheeled straight ah conductor approached him and sai re, please.” The man looked a trifle startled, but reached into his pocket and brought forth a nickel, which the conductor smil- ingly took. At 9th street the wheelman dropped the car and soon passed it going south. The for a Short Visit. \\ for?” Second Boy—“Reatin’ his wife, I guess. He looks like a woman hitter!” Another— a-carryin’.” Still Another—“Ah tools in de grip.”* ‘The Climax—‘‘He’s been a-murderin’ some ‘He's a green goods man, that’s wot he is. I kin tell it by the bag he’s ! Go ‘long wid yer, he’s bin a-breakin’ into a bank, an’ he’s got one, and when the contents o’ that ere carpit bag is seen I'll bet they'll find a bloody hammer and a hooman skull!” The work has bezun under direction of the bur of ethn and of Professor Otis Mason of th ional Museum. The progress in modeling each figure will be closely watched by an ethnologist’ who jhas made a study of the ticular tribe to which the subject belon with | re: BECOMING EXTINCT| Scientists Realize That the Savage Red Man is Disappearing. WHAT IS BEING DONE AT THE MUSEUM Figures to Be Made Representing - Indians in War Attire. NEW IN PHOTOGRAPHY INDFUL OF THE fact that the pictur- esque red man, ! adorned with his primitive paint and feathers and armed with his characteris- tic weapons of wood and stone, has—like the bison—become an almost extinct spe- cles, to be regarded by another genera- tion as a curios! Uncle Sam has vised a novel method for preserving forms of such uncivilized types for the view of poste But a few days ago was commenced in this city the manu- fecture of the first of a collection of plas- ter of Paris figures in which will be re- duced every detail of measurement, ex- sion, colcring, costume and armament of repr ve types of all the red na- tions now flourishing. The work will be the first of the kind to combine the ex- actness of science with the grace of art. Reproductions vf the human form ha heretofore had a ental rather than an educati de- the to be plaster head data several sculp- modelers in Was the figures in lite-like result, it pred 1 most rea the aphed and to be made From the is and werrior typ ured ‘om his mea bs and body. tors and r b: collection ef made in the world. Whe will be it din Unele at treasure the Nation: where, un- s fire cr the elema: oy. stand fo: real life ha ries a fallen into obliv Photographic Studiex. {the Here the ment part of tir directio’ Niam Dinwiddie, ethno-photog: Ind: > will nologi- masks inny will take f i limb ar molds oi such types as are selected. In addition to this h an inte esting departure in 4 whereb he will modeler widdie. ure artistic work sculpture, drawing, painting or trations are made from photo- he instrument is known as reen. It ts square frame of an ordinary mosqu do Inste ad is used. sponding graduatic simply a wood, “ s one-half In the other for the squares will measure side. The rtions of id the I sion in the . of cours difficult for ieler to rep n the curves and poses of the o A Senle of the Fa Gladness Comes Witha better understanding of the transient nature of the many phys- ical ills, which sh before properef- forts—gentle efforts—pleasant efforts— rightly directed. There is comfort in the knowledge, that so many forms of sickness are nofdue to any actual dis- ease, but simply to a constipated condi-+ tion of the system, which the pleasant family la: Syrup of Figs, prompt- ly removes. That is why it is the only remedy with millions of fami andis everywhere esteemed so highly by all who value good health. Its beneficial effects are due to the fact, that itis the one remedy which promotes internal cleanliness without debilitating the organs on which it acts. It is therefore all important, in order to get its bene- ficial effects, to note when you pur- chase, that you have the genuine arti- cle, which is manufactured by the Cali- fornia Fig Syrup Co. only aud sold by all reputable druggists. If in the enjoyment of good health, and the system is regular, laxatives or other remedies are then not needed. If afflicted with any actual disease, one may be commended to the m« ful physicians, but i tive, one well-informed everywhere, Syrup of Figs stands highest and is most 1: - used and gives most general satis JOHN PIsk STUDIE An Extraordinary Amount of Daily § od n the Christian Ky We wonder if ple over their acquir olarship will not have a sudden fail as pad this item concernin ven he was reading Cae Rollin, Josephus and Greece. Before he was cight the whole of Shake and of Milton, Bunyan and Pope. At s read are Greek at nine. By leven he had read Gib- bon, Robertson and Prescott and most of Froissart, and at © same age wro'e, from memor! a chronological table from B. C. 1000 to A. D. 1820, filling a quarto blank book of sixty t twelve he had read most of the Collectanea Graeca Majora, by the aid of a Greek-Latin dictionary,and the next year he had r Hor- ace, ; much of G u as he had gone nd spherical trig- and navigation and and was well on in the At fifteen he could jotus at sight and was year fifteen hours d working with persistent en 3 tained the most robust health, and entered with enthusiasm into out-of-door life. Roentgen Rays and Consul CI April 1s, 18% rnal Machines lor writes from Havre, I inclose herewith a state- ne y » of some interest and to the public of our own nent is as follows: cted application of the is found in their use for aining tents of suspected tn- nal machi E jel of the ris Muni La sted by has given an count of their researches in this dire tion at a recent sitting of the Academy of Sciences, and if their ments on the subject are to be accepted with eserv it would appear th t many of the extraor- The method by which the inventor says | diary precautions hitherto required in deal- e will apply these screens will be simply | 8. With bombs may now bé dispensed wit sy Web a sade reeset Pp, | ead the contents of an ordinary infernal € E achine decided without risk. The ex- front of the subject, and as close to him as @ machines experimented with were pofsible. For the plaster models three similar to those which were for- views will be taken—front, back and pro- oa eome * mae file—the subject remaining in the same pose ——_ Reigh in tea an ies aajeaton ener all the while. When the photographs are | immediately the boxes were « harded to the modelers they will have be- | plosion occurred. One of the : fore them a complete scale on the face of | 1n a zine case, the other in a wooden box. each. By setting up similar screens before the model the most complete comparisons may be made. The line-screen will als studying the actual changes in the sizes and positions of the muscles, when applied in serial snap shots of athletes in action. It would also correctly show the angles which the limbs me during any kind of action. By its means artists might learn much regarding the proportions and atti- tudes of forms, animate or inanimate. The ingenious ethno-photographer further says that he will carry with him into the field a revel device in the shape of a portable field studio, an adaptation of his own, It will not be a luxury on wheels, like the sub- urban tin-type gallery, but will be rolled up and carried under the arm. It will consist of a large canvas tent, having openings in the top and sides, con. trolled by curtains. It is his further pur- pose to take into the field a new invention— the phantascope—an improvement on the camera by which serial films are taken for the kinetoscope or vitascone. The phan- tascope contains a set of lenses, which, un- be useful in like those of the other instruments men- tioned, travel at the same rate of speed as the films. In this way is overcome the in- convenience of stopping the film between each exposure. It will prove of great value in studying Indians in action, showing every detail of their industries and re- ligious ceremonia With an Indian Warrior. The first of the new figures of actual warrior types was commenced several d ago. The subject who posal for this fa simile was Mate-wa-nak-ta-ka, alias Kicl ing Bear, the fighting chief of the Ogal- lalla Sioux. While in this city, attending to some business of his tribe, he was frequently met by Ethnologist Mooney, who persuad- ed him to have his form perpetuated in plaster. Before going to the modeler's studio he posed before Ethno-photographer Dinwiddie, who took his front, back and profile views. He assumed the ‘attitude of a hunter preparing to kill a large grizzl bear. He was given a picture of a grizzi to look upon, and the fierce expression which he put on was amusing to the artists. He was dressed in his proudest costume. His fighting paint was a solid | green, covering the face, with the ex | Yon of two broad, red lines, an inch in | diameter, dotted with large, white blotches, extending from the eyes and meeting un- der the chin. The part in his hair was painted a bright vermillion. About his neck he wore a necklace of fifty scalp} locks, all of which he had cut from the | heads of victims, both r¢ and white. Since th! chief cove body in gaudy arr: it was nec ry to make casts merely of his face and limbs. The portions of his anatomy to be hidden with attire will be built upon a wooden ske ton, filled out with excelsior and covere with burlap. This will be shaped, how ever, by careful measurement. In ‘taking his molds all went smoothly until the quills ‘were to be placed in his nostrils, and the plaster smeared over his physiognomy. At | this point Kicking Bear justifled his name. He suspected that he was being enticed into an execution place, rather than a studio. Not until the modeler had perform- ed the feat, of taking a face mask upon | a boy did’ the great chief exercise the | bravery indicated by his scalp locks. Whe: | the face mold was taken off it contained the greater part of his cosmetics. In the first case, the experiment w moderately successful, the tmpression on the photographic piate showing 0: distinguishable black mass. In th however, the contents of the bomb were clearly manifested, nails, screws, a revolver partridge and even the grains of powder showing plain! > For the Gigantic Telescope. From the European Edition of the Herald, The block of glass which is to be made into a vast mirror for the big telescope which is to be one of the features of the exhibition of 190) has just arrived in Paris from Belgium, where it has been cast. This immense telescope is to bring the moon to an apparent distance of fifty kilometers from the earth, and is being constructed under the direction of M. Francois De- loncle. The polishing of the glass for the mirror of the telescope will be done in Paris, see His Two Daughters. Atchison Giobe. 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