Evening Star Newspaper, August 15, 1896, Page 20

20 THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, AUGUST -15, 1896—TWE NTY-FOUR PAGES. RECOGNIZED AT LAST Lady Millais Received at Court After Forty Years. ROMANTICSTORY OF A PAINTER’S WIFE Death of the President of the Royal Academy. a DIVORCE FROM RUS THE KIN (Cops 1896, by the Racheller Syndicate.) , August 4, 1896. OSSIBLY BY THE time this letter reaches print S$: John Millais, Bart., president R. A., will have paid the debt of mortality. He is now lying incurably {il of a disease—cancer of the throat—stmilar to that which slew Gen. U.S. Grant, contract- ed in the same way —by excessive smok- ing. He has been president of the Royal Academy only since the 20th of last February, when he was elected to succeed Lord Leighton. An operation for tracheotomy was performed May 10, and his mighty strength of physique has thus far kept him alive. Should the president of the academy die Lady Millats will have In her gnef the support of a unique consolation in the fact that after a period of bar’ ment lasting for some forty years she has just been pri received at court. The Court Gazei perhaps the only datly ts newspaper In the world which costs tw ty-four cents and contains no news, but copy the which contained the terse an- reception will at least one British house- rmerly Mrs. Ruskin. known that Lady Millais was wife of John Ruskin, from whom she 1 a divorce to marry her present that the rule of Queen Vic- It is w the ciple. Millais, a commercialist, ratiroads. Ruskin hates them. no scruples against the bicycle. “Ruskln’ old age is embittered it. Millais is a rsonal friend of Gladstone, who gave im bis title. Ruskin hates Gladstone de- voutly. And it need not be said that the philosopher who, despite his gray beard and failing mind, has kept close to the ideals of his youth, must have a sovereign contempt for the surrender to the com- monplace of the man who took away his wife. And does that wife ever regret that she left, for an artist sure of soon being for- gotten, a man sure to be long remgmber- ed, one of the greatest thinkers ang wrif- ers of his age, a man famed for his knowl- edge of art, architecture, political econ- omy, mineralogy, ornithology, meteorology, botany, theology, poetry, engineering, chess, dancing, crystallography and other most iverse subjects, a man who almost alone in our day seems to have the omniscience joined with the Hveliest nineteenth cen- tury conscience, and whose long life has een passed in unceasing thought and labor for his fellow men? Probably not. eg SOUNDS IN THE STILLY NIGHT. The Mysterious Noixes Which Inter- est Timid People. From the Chicago Record. What would not be revealed were a cen- sus to be taken of the men in Chicago who have been awakened by the sound of a thief of the night cutting the screen away from the kitchen door and then sawing a hole in the woodwork. so as to énable him to thrust his hand through, shoot the bolt and then break in to revel in a midnight debauch of crime? How many men of this lakeside city have held Joint debates with themselves on the wisdom of getting up and uttering a loud, protracted and resonant whoop, as compared with the more discreet plan of lying stil! and fearfully permitting the robber to rob? And the cats out in the back entry, battling at the Iron garbage cans for what feasting lies In fish-heads and 2 Ze. |MILLAIS® Gaaxnser we FROM The PAnouS SOAP ADULATISENENT, = ic BY SIX Jou ULIIS. & OO > figures In this Is posed for both roup, which was published as an Illustration “Lady Carey and Murgaiet” in Once a Week.) court has been to receive no di- no matter how innocent or Doubtiess the relaxation of er the last hours of Eng- lar painter will be heartily y all but the most censorious M.'s subjects. elreumstances surroundi romantic they were s0 of Euphemia Chalmers Gray of cas y weil, Perth. She married, while still e young, John Ruskin, then considera- her senior, and now a bent, gray and of seventy-seven, wai to go from his belove eaven that e beautiful. In 1551 Ruskin, already an art critic and writer of naid power, espoused the © pre-Raphaelite band of paint- the mystic seven headed by D. G. Ros- Holman Hunt and Millats—and be- cannot cause of eo excusing thelr doctrine and praising their work in his lectures and writings was at this time that the young discip! of Ruskin in and about Oxford distinguish- ed themselves by attempting to do some- thing useful and got good exercise building a very bad highway, known to fame by the unmelodious title of the Hincksey road. Millais a Prodigy. Millais at this time was only twenty-two years of age, but incredible as it may seem, had been a medaled artist for thir- teen years. He won his first medal at nine and exhibited his “Inca” in the Academy when only seventeen. Matured beyond hi years, Millais was “beautiful as an angel in Rossetti's phrase. He was six feet tall and powerfully built. His face, then un- bearded, was perfect in tint and outline, and his hair clustered qbout {t in a frame of close ringlets. Naturaliy he was a fa- vorite with the fair sex, and anyone but a philosopher might have thought twice be- fcre proposing to the young Antinous to Paint a young wife's portrait. This was what Ruskin did. There !s no evidence that Mrs. Ruskin was in any way dissa fied with her match, except that she had children. en she fell In love with Ruskin saw it, and, as has always been supposed, alded his wife to obtain a divorce by collusion. Since that Gay, Ruskin has been something of a mis- anthrope and all of a recluse. Bince then, teo, Mill who was bern as far aw from Scotland as posstble, in Southampton, has become an ardent Scot. His summer home has been in Lady Millais’ birthplace, Perth, and his best pictures have been of in some of which, ed years azo, Lady Millais’ fresh, fair ars. This wes especially the case pot boiler.’ Millais did for maga- zine Miustrations early in his wedded life. Lady M as Model. In theee hasty sketches it was no rare thing for his wife to pose in succession for ell the female figures of a group. Millats has been fortunate in his other attters. Mrs. Henry M. Stanley, then Dorothy Ten- nant, sat for No,” his son for Raleigh, that grand old man, Capt. Trelawrey, for the sailor man tn “The Northwest Pas- sage,” while bis own grandson {s the chub- by tad with clustering curls whose face, azing aloft at the soap bubble he has lown, ts familiar in ene of the most wide- ly published advertisements ever prepared. Lady Milk life has been almost en- tirely domes Bhe has been blessed with eight children, the oldest of whom, Ev- erett, will succeed to the title, Return to Conservatis: After ais’ marriage there no mere nonsense aboul pre-Raphaclitism in hia case, The British public consents to forget and forgive the fact that he was for a short time in his youth an artist, he man and colorer of “popular —< The Royal Academy ts exactly like your own National Academy in New York, a close corporation of old fogies, some of whom can paint and all of whom hail con- | servatism as the only artistic virtue, Mil- lajs’ election es president was his reward | for never having kicked over the traces | wince hig election as an associate, foriy-| three years ago, Of late years he has been | in dr manner and appearances ihe typl-| eal burly Briton of #00 pounds weight, I Thg relations of Ruskia and Millaig sjree | the divorce would he interesting, !f thay: had any, Neither, of course, alluded to the | Other, but it is netised how opposed in almost everything are the opinions of the two men who were once master and dis- day-before-yesterday beef—do they wot a single wot as to the horror that they are generating in the parlor bed room just forty- five feet away? A cat at a garbage can does not in itself resemble red murder running riot, but It seems exactly that way. Every nolse which one such makes is the precise racket which goes with the commission of a fearful and hideous erfme. The dictionary definition of a window shade says nothing of concealed weapons, jimmies, dynamite or gags. And yet the 1 a.m. window blind {s a creature which goes about its business armed cap-a-ple for treason, stratagem and spolls, to say noth- Ing of offenses more common, and conse- + quently more to be dreaded. Given a win- dow blind which does not just fit the open- ing,and which in a sobbing way rubs against the vertical sides of the casement; given also the hour of Marco Bozzaris, and, in ad- dition to these gifts, given a plain, common, earnest civilian, embraced in the arms of slumber up to the time when the rubbing begins, and there is a combination which would drive Mme. Tussaud distracted, fill Chief Radenooh’s reception room with choice and distinguished slaughters, and make hair of the Circassian and tangential sort the proper and correct thing. A common yellow window blind which sells ordinarily for 43c., or for 26c. on “bargain” days, can bully the Spanish inquisition out of its Doots when it comes to terrifying mankind. The doorlock, which takes a notion to rattle back in its proper place after having been turned too far earlier in the evening, knows its business also, and its business is to people the mind of the man who is just roused from a sweet dream of peace with horrible pictures of sudder and extem- poraneous death. In the case of the lock, which, having been turned too far back, later releases itself with a sharp click, al- lowing the bolt to take its natural position, there can be no manner of doubt. The half- awake flat-dweller has good and ample rea- n to believe that the noise comes from the lock—because, in fact, it does come there- from. Then rises into rapid prominence this query: “What sort of a man is it who is out there with a skeleton key letting him- self into this holy and virtuous flat?” Of course, he ts a large,bulky man, with chloro- form in his possession, and bearing a great burden of deadly weapons. He has come to get everything in the flat, from the folding bed to the napkin rings, and he is going to perform with many strange firearms, if necessary to achieve his object. Perhaps, after all, the ill-fitting window-blind, which sways in the draught, {s the greatest crim- inal of the age. More midnight alarms have been caused by it than by almost any other inanimate malefactor, although the pantry door, which. standing ajar, is pushed open or Is closed by the pug dog out on a mean- dering expedition, is a decent second. Paid No Attention to the Bell. From Blackwood's Magazine. Sheep, so I am told, are just as stupid about bicycles as they are about everything else that goes on whee! A young lady in Devonshire, riding down a grass slope,came across a sheep which was lying down ex- actly in her way. Much to the conterna- tion of her friends, who were watching the performance, she apparently attempted to jump the animal. Over rolled the trio, with the result that the bicycle was more or less damaged, the sheep's feelings were hurt and the lady got a black eye. “But why did you do it?” they asked her, “I do it!” was the indignant reply; “I rang thy bell as loud as I could, but the silly creature would not get out of the ——__+ e+ ____ Political Notes, Brom Harper's Bazar, “Taking the stump for protection,” proves PROBLOMS OF ELECTRIC TRACTION. What the ley Companies Have Learn by Pxpertenc: From the Electrical Eagincer. The transition from animal power to electric power on almost all the street rail- ways in this country has taken place s0 rapidly that railway engineers have found it difficult in the absence of any precedents to keep pace with the additional require- ments which are made necessary by the introduction of electric traction. In order to design and install a modern high-class electric raflway carriage system it is nec- essary to combine a considerable knowl- edge of electrical, mechanical and civil engineering, and in each of these branches the necessary knowledge has had to be ac- quired by experience growing out of early failures. In almost every detail of the sys- tem the size and strength of the various parts were greatly underestimated, owing, no doubt, to the much less rigorous re- quirements of horse roads, which were at first the only guide to street railway prac- tice. It is interesting to notice the addi- tions and changes which have gradually been brovght about with advancing expe- rience. Mr. Sprague started to equip his earliest motor cars with two, seven and one-half horse power motors each, and at first sight fifteen-horse power would seem amply to replace the power of two horses, even with allowance for the additional weight of machinery on the car, but it was soon found necessary to double the ca- pacity of the car motors, and later the Standard car equipment was increased to two twenty-five-horse power motors, which ig the capacity of most of the trolley cars in general use today. The line-wiring is another matter which has undergone a very great change. At the start tne return circult through the tracks and the ground was considered not to offer any resistanée, and the wiring was calculated as though the entire resistan ot the circuit was that of the overhead line. As a result of this, it was found that in a good many cases the station pressure of 500 volts was reduced to about 300 volts at the ends of long lines, and burn-outs of the machines were of almost daily occur- rence. The resistance of the return circuit soon became a very apparent evil, and ex- tra bonding and the addition of grounded wire to the tracks were increased grad- uatly until the standard practice now is to supply a metallic return circuit of carry- ing capacity equal to that of the overhead nes. The same change of practice has been noticeable in regard to the size and strength of rails employed in street rail- way service. In the days of old horse car rails weighing from thirty to forty pounds per yard were generally employed, and these were always laid on stringers. The tread of these flat rails was not more than from an inch to two inches deep, and the flange less than half an inch thick. With the grinding action of the trolley car wheels, and the greatly increased weight of the cars, the tread of these rails was s00n worn so thin that the wheel flanges came in contact with the rail flange and ed out all the rivets which held the so flat rails had to be entirely aban- Practice has been constantly in- creasing the weight of the rails, which now generally run from sixty to ninety pounds per yard, and are always of the T or the girder pattern. Another point is now being forced upon the attention of the owners of trolley roads, which fs of the greatest importance, and that ts, the subject of railway bridges. With the horse car almost any bridge that would carry ordinary wagon loads was sufficient for the purposes of a street rail- way, but with the advent of the electric car, with its greatly increased speed and weight, a great many of the bridges form- erly used became entirely inadequate for the new service. A writer in the Rallroad Gazette points out the fact that bridge ac- cidents on trolley roads are beginning to be reported, there being no less than four during the past six months. The most dis- astrous of these occurred on May 25 last at Victoria, B. C., by which forty-three lives were lost. Steam railroads have learned Ly long and often unfortunate ex- perlence that a bridge is the worst pos- sible place to skimp on material, and most roads of any considerable size now employ their own experts to not only design ail bridges on their lines, but to periodically examine them; but it Is doubtful if any trolley car companies have taken this pre- caution yet. Such accidents, however, should draw the importance of this sub- Ject to the attention of those who are in any way responsible for such bridges. In building bridges for the use of trolley cars the tendency is to underestimate the loads which they will have to carry. It should be remembered that the average load is not the ene which 1s Hable to prove dang- erous, but the adventitious loads which are Hable to occur at any time. It is also in- evitable that a car having a capacity of fifty passengers will at some time be loaded with one hundred and fifty passengers, and It fs for these exceptional cases that the bridges should be designed. If the fact is considered that there is very slight dif- ference in the ccst of a good bridge and that of a poor one there is little excuse to be found for the failure of a bridge. +o+— College Friendships. Brom Harper's Bazi. One of the enduring benefits conferred by a college on its graduates is not paid for in money, nor taken into aczount by most parents when selecting an educa- tional institution for their sons and daughters. The friendships formed at col- lege 4re not merely pleasant while college days last; they are influential upon char- acter, and oftea modify circumstances and mold purposes during mature years. A col- lege draws its students from many states, east. west, north, suuth, and the culture of this community, the breadth of that, the angularities of another, and the provincial- ism or the peculiarities of a fourth, meet, are fused, are stamped, as in a new combi- nation, with the die of the alma mater. A college course does far more for a man or for a girl than to give intellectual alert- ness and knowledge of books. It opens to some doors of opportunity which but for its aid had been always losked, and it marks the beginnings of friendships which ends only with life itself. As the years go on, the gatherings of the alumni at dinner and reception grow smaller by degrees. One or two familiar figures drop out. Names are starred on the college's muster roll—-starred with that lit- tle sign which means that those who bore them have gone over to tha majopity. But there is seldom much sadness; usually there is only a loving regret for these ab- gent ones, so strong grows the feeling that they will be found again when a higher roll is called. For the essence of the true college friendship, as of all friendships, is that it takes hold on the invisible, and has about it something of the eternities. ——_+ e+ ____ Saved by Her Bloomers. Chicago Dispatch to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Thousands of people crowding along the Chicago river in the vicigfty of the Rush street bridge, at 10:80 o'clock this evening, saw Louisa Olson, a bloomer girl, rescued from what seemed to be certain death. Miss Olscn, who !s about twenty-four years of age, had been taking a ride on her bi- cycle in Lincoln Park and was returning to the South Side. Just as the party started to cross the bridge it started to swing open to give passage to the Christopher Colum- bus, heavily crowded with excursionists re- turning from a day in Milwaukee. Warn- ing was given to pedestrians and bicyclists on the bridge by the officer stationed at its jouth end, but Miss Olson rode on at full speed. When she reached the bridge it was al- most entirely open. Her wheel struck the raised end used as a sidewalk and she went Into the air. Two men standing near grab- bed the wheel, but Miss Olson continued in her flight and lit in the murky waters of the Chicago river. Buoyed by her bloomers, she floated on top of the water until one of the boatmen on the Columbus reached over with a boathook, and, catching the young woman in the strong part of her bloomers, hauled her aboard. The rescue was gree with great cheeers from the people on the boat and along the shore. Then Miss Olson fainted. She was soon revived, however, and taken home by friends. ——_+e+—____ Rather Crowded. From Truth. Aunt Prue—“If you tell Hes, Dicky, you will go to the bad place.” Dicky—"Does everybody who tells lies?” feed Prue—Yes, Dicky, they all go there,” Dioky—“Then I guess I ain't afraid much. 1t must be overcrowded now." ————- + e+-____ He Had It Bad, From the Ruffalo Times, : “Does De Smash drink?” "Does he drink? Not much; he jugu- lates,” SNARING tak] _nfopmp. The Pluck of the Bird Leads Him Into Captivity. From the New Orleans Picayune, The redbird, when “ft has gotten down hard to home making,:develops a remark- able tendency to fight: at“all other times of the year he is as_docile.and gentle as any in the woods, indeed, rather inclined to take a great deal f¥om Gther birds; but as soon as the nest is*confpleted and Mrs. Redbird is installed queen thereof, he gets on his war paint and will fight anything that comes along. It is by taking advan- tage of this bravery of the redbird in de- soang the home that the hunter is en- abled to ensnare it. The trap used is a small wire cage. Within this cago is a tame bird, one which has been in captivity for a year or two, and sings freely. The hunter wanders into the woods and slowly makes his way through the swamps until he reaches a dense portion, when he halts. Pretty soon the bird in the cage, delighted, doubtless, at being again in its native woods, even if bars stand between It aid liberty, begins singir.g with all its might. If there is a redbird within the sound of the caller's voice it hastens to investigate. One of the peculiar habits of the redbird, hunters say, is that there seems, by com- mon consent, to be a diviston of the woods among them, each bird having appropriat- ed to his especial jurisdiction a certain al- lotment of woods. Sometimes other birds, either by mistake or for the purpose of ac- quiring more territery, invade the domain of another, whereupon there is a fierce fight, which 4s called off only when one or the other of the birds conquers, in whicn case the victor becomes the possessor ot the territory of the two, together with the defeated bird’s mate, who, it scems, is no longer willing to share fortunes with her former lord after he has proven Kimself 2 poor fighter. ‘The hunter has on one side of his cage a light net, bound about by a light frame, and to the center of a light iron rod stretched perpendicularly across this frame is attached in swinging position a short rounded stick about six inches in length. This gate of netting is opened and kept in that position by the wooden trigger, which is braced against another similar trigger attached to the sides of the cage wherein is the call bird. This connection of the two triggers is very delicate, and the slightest touch will suffice to throw it, whereupon the hetting frame door js quickly closed by a@ spring against the sides of the cage. This Is what holds the redbird captive. As soon as the hunter has set the trigger of his cage he hangs it to a limb some- where or places it on the ground and goes away some distance to await results. The imprisoned redbird soon beglis to sing, and presently, if there is a redbird anywhere within hearing distance, there is a flutter of wings, a serles of sharp cries, and before the hunter can say scat! the wild redbird flies headlong at nis supposed enemy with- in the cage, throws the trigger and 1s eap- tured. It takes very little longer to capture @ redbird at this time of the year than it dces to catch a fish. If once the caged bird 1s placed in the right spot within the terti- tery of the other redbirds, and he Years its singing, the rest Is very easy, for, reg ird- less of all personal safety und. everything else, he rushes madly to the fight. e+ ' RO HE MAY#G SS’ MIELIOR... An Electffeinn Han Partialiy“Savced- ed in Restoring Eyesight. From the New York World. John F. Martin, the blind druggist’s clerk, who, since April 28, has served as a subject for alleged sight-restorers to ex- perlment on as‘’a substitute for- Charles: Broadway Rouas, who has offered a, million dollars to any one who will cure him of his blindness, {s undergoing another ex- periment. The man now treating Mr. Martin is Walter W. Felts, an inventor from Call- fornia. He uses a primary battery of his own invention. In treating Martin he uses four cells. The electrodes’ are placed in the outer corners of the eyes ahd the cur- rent, which must pass through the brain to reach the optic nerve, {s turned on. Mr. Felts claims that his'battery excels others in that It ts not subject to polarization and does not transmit impurities of any kind. The properties of the fluids in the cells he keeps a close secret, and’ will do so until he obtains his letters patent. A “very high voltage and amperage can be obtained and a steady current maintained. Mr. Felts says that if he could employ an extremely ‘strong current he might cure Martin in two weeks. But it would be unsafe, as a blood vessel might be broken and death ensue. Martin was able to distinguish flashes of Ught_on_the accasion of his first. visit to Mr. Felts. This satisfied the latter that the nerve wes not dead, and with each subse- quent treatment he found evidence that the Nerve was becoming more sensitive. In a week Mr. Felts added a cell and adminis- tered a current of nearly ten volts and fifteen amperes. This proved too strong and the added cell was removed. Mr. Felts explained how he was induced to come to New. York to: treat Martin. About a year ago he began work on a primary battery, from which he expected grand results. And he believes he will not be disappointed. Mrs. Felts about this time was a terrible sufferer from what was sup- posed to be chronic acute neuralgia, but which !n reality was the paralysis of sev- eral nerves in the jaws, the effects of which, in some, instances, closely, resemble tetanus. A surgical. operation had been ‘decided upon, when Mr. Felts happened to tell Dr. A, A. O'Neil of Chicago of the new siyle of primary battery. he had invented, and explained its main features. Dr. O'Neil ad- vised him to try its power on Mrs. Felts. He did so, and in a short time she was en- tirely cured. But he used a strohger cur- rent on her jaw than he dare use on Mar- tin's eyes. Mr. Felts came to the conclusion that if his battery would cure one nerve It would another. He.thought that a million dollars was worth striving for, and he is here to get it if he can. A reporter was present at one of the treatments, and the patient frequently ex- pressed gratitude at his improvement. He could readily distmguish marks the size of @ pea on a light background. He feels con- fident that Mr. Felts will succeed in restor- ing his sight, and will also be successful in the case of Mr. Rouss. Mr. Felts explained that voltage without amperage is not dangerous. It is the am- perage that kills when a person is shocked by electricity. Voltage is the pressure; am- perage is the energy. SESS As Old From London Answers. Mr. Reynolds is a bright and well-pre- served old gentleman, but to his little granddaughter, Mabel, he seems very old, indeed. She had been sitting on his knee and looking at him seriously for a long time one day, when she asked sudden! “Grandpa, were you in the ark? “Why, no, my dear!” gasped her aston- ished grandparent. Mabel’s eyes grew large and round with astonishment. “Then, grandpa,” she Weren't you drowned?” Bewilcerment of grandparent. +9 Filted forHis Place. From Truth. ; ; “This is the saddest case of all, and yet he achieved his ambition. The keeper paused, and with pitying eyes the visitors gazed on the hopeless, expres- sionless face of the patient, from which all traces of intelligence‘had ‘vanished. “How did he come fo this sad state?” “He was out of work and endeavored to make himself eHgible to gerve as a petit juror.” Noah, asked, “why —___—_+62—_ “Keep Your Exe on, the Ball.” From Harper's Weekl Young - man -who-piays-goif -with-a-flask (after the seventh put)—"Thay, Caddle, ies of those blamed balls is nearest the ole ?”” cap ee Ward Se Z CONSULTATION OOM Y yy = Ly OPERATING ROOM < THE INFERIOR OF THE HOSPITAL CAR. HOSPITAL ON WHEELS A Plan to Relieve Sufferers From Railroad Wrecks, = —— NECESSITY OF MODERN coxprnioxs! Car Equipped for Prompt Aid by Skilled Surgeons. eee SS OVERCOMING THE VIBRATION = (Copyright 1896, by the Bacheller Syndicate.) HOSPITAL CAR IS the latest develop- ment In the way of rolling stock for rail- roads. The first one has been put in op- eration under the di- rection of Frank H Caldwell, chicf sur- geon of the Plant system, and !s a min- lature hos; wheels. It is expect-/| ed that the idea will! . soon be adopted by | every railroad in the country. There have | already been relief cars, intended simply for the transfer of injured employes and | passengers, but the belief has always been strong that an actual hospital would be practicable. Now, whenever there is an <c- cident on a road this hospital car 1s at once hurried to the scene, and the victim may receive the same treatment as if he were in a city institution. With the coming of the new car there will be no delay in the relief of a sufferer, for even operations may be performed while in transit; and this, too, under the most favorable condli- tions. It is generally conceded in r: y circles that this is a humane, economic and up-to-date idea that will be the means of saving many lives. If such a car had been in operation in the vicinity of the late Atlantic City calamity the relief to the suffering would have been inestimable. Arrangement of the Car. There are two general divisions to the hospital car, what might be called the ward and the operating room, with a small room for consultation between them. oh | of these in the cer, which has already been built, and after which others are to be modeled, is an ideal of compactness and completeness. Because of the limited room | itis necessary that every possible space- | | | | saving device be used, as well as to have | every detail as perfect as art and science | can make it. The car itself outwardly has much the appearance of an ordinary bag- gage car. It is strongly built and decorat- ed in the simplest style. It is within that the wonders are to be seen. ‘The ward takes up something more than a third of the interior, and is a bare uphol- stered room. It is fitted with half,a dozen wrought iron beds with wire-woven springs. ‘The legs of the beds rest on heavy, broad, corrugated rubber tips on the floor of the car. These soften the jolt and jar of the train and prevent the beds from slipping. By a unique arrangement these beds are hinged so that when not in use they can be fastened against the wall and be entirely out of the way. These beds are taken down one at a time as needed for sufferers, or for the purpose of airing. Besides these there 1s an air bed of the most improved pattern. ‘This can be folded into a very small com- pass, and placed in a closet especially made for it which also answers for a chair. When needed, it takes but the work of a moment to drag the bed out and inflate it. Among the other things in the ward is a hammock made to hang from the roof of the car by strong straps. Connected with the ham- mock 1s a device of short spiral springs, so delicately constructed as to prevent any jolt or jar of the car being communicated to the occupant. The Stretcher. A new form of stretcher will be used to transport the sufferers to and in the car. It is of cypress, light, springy, yet strong and durable. It is made a few inches narrower than the car door, in order that two stand- ard car cushions may just fit it, which will give additional comfort and protection when desired. The covering of the stretcher is of heavy duck over wire netting. The netting and duck are fastened to the frame with strips of wood, screwed on, and easily re- moved and cleaned. The stretcher is much more elastic than that in genera! hospital use, being especially adapted to the motion of the train. In the center of the car, between the consulting room and the ward, is the op- erating room, which is the joy of all sur- geons who have in years past been com- Pelled to contend with the crude methods of attending to the injured in railroad ac- eldents. This in the majority of cases made the necessity of an operation a thing to be depiored, owing to the inadequate means at hand The operating table is of iron with a glass top, with all necessary appliances for the performance of perfectly aseptic operations and-the prevention of shock. There is a large tank filled with sterilized water, sterilizers and all neces- sary apparatus. Pedding is packed in a corner cupboard; while in another, in the center of the compartment, chloroform, ether, bandages and such essenials are kept. To Prevent Infection. Inside and out, the car is painted with @ specially prepared paint, which may be scalded without injury, and which will stand disinfection by means of super-heated steam or air. In this way all danger of disease germs lingering about the car is done away with. With all its perfection, the cost of this car is far less than that of an ordinary passenger coach. The latter, according to modern demand, must be finished in the finest and most expensive woods, of various and harmonizing varieties; while the. fur- nishings must be of the most luxuriant sort. There must be curtains of rare tex- tures, Brussels carpets and a hundred and one things that the public demand, yet rarely geem to notice unless they are ab- sent. All this adds to the cost. With the new hospital car, there is nothing but what is practically needed for the saving of life or for the comfort of the injured, 80 that its first cost is estimated at $4,000. In operating @ system of hospital cars the railroad will be divided into sections of 200 miles and a car assigned to each sec- tion. The permanent station will be in the middle of each section, and thus 100 miles in either direction will be controlled. It is estimated that when the system has become complete and far-reaching that at least one-half of the danger and suffering resulting from improper care and attend- ance in railroad wrecks and collisions wil! be done away with; and also the payment of thousands of dollars in the way of dara ages will be saved the railroad companies — TOWED BY A TARPON. An Exciting Half Day’ One Fish, A Texas sportsman, in the lust number of Forest and Stream, gives an accouut of a recent exciting experience while fis): ‘ng for tarpon in Galveston bay. He says “As I had made my arrangements to re- turn to Housten at 2 o'clock, I told the boatman that if he would give me one more fresh mullet I would bait the hook and when that was taken we would go tn He gave me the mullet, put his oars in the locks and was ready to start when I threw my balt overboard. It had not got thre« feet from the boat before there was a mighty splash. Water was thrown all over me, and my mullet was taken by a tarpon I was scarcely prepared for him, but at the same Ume I prevented his getting too much line, and the reel sang the prettiest Sport With Kind of a song, until he had gone about titty feet, that I ever heard. At this dis- tance he jumped at least ten feet out of the water, and, finding I had him safe. 1 gave him no more slack whatever. He turned immediately out the channel to sea against the tide and continued his rapid gait, jumping clear of the water every hundred feet or so until he had jumped nine times. He kept up the pace until he had gone three miles to sea and into very deep water. “I had no contro) of him whatever, and he had taken on several occasions during this outward sea movement nearly all my line, at least 650 feet. After this distance he turned to the left and went at least two miles, until he got back Into five or six feet of water. Then he turned back across the channel and went on the opposite side of it, probably a mile and a half. After two hours and a half he went back Into water three and a half or four feet deep, and I had some hope of getting him into water where I could gaff him. But, with- out warning. he turned to sea again and did not stop until he had gone a mile and a half. This fish took us around over the bay for five and a half hours, and a dis- tence of not less than twelve or thirteen milez. I found I had no control over him, and I knew I had him foul in some way. because no pressure that I dared :o brire seemed to turn his head, and when I g: him broadside toward me and endeavorel to hold him I would draw him broadsite to me and not head foremost, whtch toid me I had him hooked somewhere in the side. “After I had worn out Capt. Frank Marsh, my boatman and myself, and we had on several occasions almost decided to cut the line and let the fish go, we began to have a little control over him, and worked him toward shallow water, and at 6:15 I got him into water about three and a half feet deep and the captain got out into the water himself and worked up to ; the fish and gaffed him, as he had a gaff with a handle about six feet long. After he got the gaff into the tarpon he drew him toward the boat and I killed him with a@n oar.” —— - +0 Hin Authority. From the San Francisco Wave. When President Lincoln first met Goy- ernor Tod of Ohio, he expressed some curl- ority about the governor's name. “I never could understand how you came to spell your name with only one 4,” he began. “Now, I married a Todd, and she spells her name with two d’s, and I belleve she knows how to spell. What is your author- ity fer using only one?” “Well,” drawled Goverrer Tcd, “my authority for it is in fart the fact that God spells His name with only one d, and it seems I should be eatisfied if He ts. THREW AWAY A FORTUNE. A Man Who Lost 856.000 Amberg: The ittle town of Digb: S., 1s very much excited at present over the finding of scme ambergris by Mr. Isaiah Ki ran fisherman who lives in Granville, a smell villaxe across the river from Digby. M Kinghorn was in conversation with a St 7 earaph reporter and told the stucy his find. He had been rowing along the re at Granville in his t y Worth of at one « st week, and noticed soi tall” floating en the water. It looked to him tike tallow. He wok it into his boat and rowed to his heme at Granville, wh iried to bot! it down to make soft se ng to do to he threw the remainder « Supposed tallow eway. He had pounds of the material in all, he and had nly kept six pounds of the rest re en destroyed. He was told that it ery valuable article, and in conse- he ht a sample to St. John, Was shown to a druggist, who of- ered for it a price which by no means ap- cached tts value Mr. Kinghorn went back to Digby by the steamer Prince Rupert and tock the amber- eris to a locel drucest, who, after close €xamination, tdertifed it and on kc up the price list found that it was w = per ou The fisherman's feelings can be imagined when he learned t he had Wasted about ninety-four pounds of the ambereris, which, had he kept it, would have brought him for the lot $56,000. As it is, he orly has left about six pounds, which will bring him when sold the sum of $3,69. Mr. Kinghorn left a small plece with the @rzegist. which weighs about Dy ounces and the latter will conduct the sale of the six pounds. The same which was shown to the Telegraph reporter at the drug store was broken from a lump weighing forty- two pounds. It resembles a piece of tallow very much. Ambergris is a solid fatty sub- stance, of a dull grey color, the shades be- ing variegated ke marble and possesses a pecullar sweet earthy odor. It is a morbid secretion formed in the intestines of the spermaceti whale, and is generally found fioating on the seashore and in lumps weighing from one-half an ounce to 100 pounds. ‘The sample is still in the hands of the Digby druggist and will probably be sent to the states, where a deal will be made for the whole. It is needless to say that Mr. Kinghorn, who was so lucky in making the find, is being atulated from all quarters upon his rapid rise op the road to wealth cong Early © From the Chicago News While there are no good roads in China nowadays, ther; are one or two interesting relics of what were in and for their day most excellent roads. The first emperor of the Mings, some time during his reign of jfrom 1368 to 13%, made a road from the bank of the Yangise. opposite Nanking, to his birthplace Ant The in levels e carefully graded anc road carried j across river valleva on well-built, arched Viaducts. It remains today simply a re- |markable specimen of early engineering. The road from Peking to Tungshow, built by the emperors of the nasty away back In the as ins as a vast | effort of It was paved with great blocks of granite, averaging fifty to eighty Teet square surface each, all closely 4 Today it is worn into ruts a foot deep, and is almost impassable. With the exception of these two roads, no at of any note has been made to fac! land communication throughout the pire. The stone bridges at Ful elsewhere, often instanced as remarkable are notable only as instances of the ability the Ch: display in moving huge masses of stone by manual! labor. se- Undecided. From the Rrffalo Times “What are you politics, my man?” askefl the portly visitor of the prisoner behind the bars at the penitentiary. replied the latter, hesitatingly, t come out for anybody yet.” =