Evening Star Newspaper, August 7, 1897, Page 11

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 18 THE FINAL - MONTH During Which Doctor McCoy Extendsthe $3 Rate. One Week’s Treatment in the Mild August Weatlfer as Good as a Month of the Trying Weather of Fall, Winter and Spring. ‘There is Lut one mouth more of summer, but one Beoth more of the $3 rate. ‘The mild summer weather, the weather which so helps the Doctor in the cure of deafness and all diseases of Catarrhal nature, is at its best dur- ming mouth. So there are three great eeding Doctor McCoy's services Js to all the $3 rate unti! the Ist of September. After that date all must pay his regular fee. one week's treatment during August does good, ordizarfly, as a month's ent during the changeable and ce- vere weather of fall, winter and spring: at this season, when even the power of the skill of the Master is doubled through ure's aid, Doctor MeCoy can see and care for twice as many patients as he can during the severe months of the year, consequently he can now, better than at time, afford to extend the SECOND, THIRD, wishes to make {t perfectly plata to all that not for any reason extend this opportenity of the low rate beyond the Ist of September, and en earnest request that all desiring to teke advantage of this offer do so at once in oder that they may have the benefit of the mild August ay that there may be no erowding or confusion during the final days of the month, with quent disappointment of those who failed “tor; for on the Ist day of September Ml be Srally withdrawn, and, never mind what the plea, it will not be extended to any patient whose pame is not enrolled before that date. Charles Armstrong, 1937 1-2 11th st.n.w. Cured of deafness. MR. WILLIAM BARNES TELLS OF HIS DEAFNESS AND RESTORED HEARING. Wm. H. Barnes, 509 E st. n.e., Wash- Inston. Mr. Barres Is 55 years of age, and bas ‘een In the employ of the Adams Express Co., in als elty, for “Just what caused my fness, I do not know, but it began with a dis- eable rumbling noise in my head. Both ears treubled me alike. I was about as deaf in one car as the other. “I cowld hear very loud noises, but if spoken to on the streets could rot hear a word. I could not heaz when spoken to across a room. ‘To make ine understand, people would have to sit close to mie and speak very Ioud before I could hear them. “Today I went to chureb, and, sitting in a back word the priest sald, something yn able to do for months. I have been to theaters and sat through the whole play without hearing anything. Now I can hear ordinary con- Yersation. “I feel like another person since my hearing bas been restored. Before that. when I went home nights it was hard for my friends to get a word I avoided conversation, for I disliked asking people to repeat. “I had been reading of Doctor MeCoy’s cures some time, but what induced me to go to him s that , while sitting in a barber shop, @ man speaking of bis own case. He had f, be said, for a long time, and Doctor treatment bad cured him, improvement began two weeks ago. I no- been de thed that noises were growing less, and that I was hearing better. My hearing has improved steadily since; until now I cam hear conversation distinctly. HOW MR. ARMSTRONG’S HEARING WAS RESTORED. Charles Armstrong, 1937 1-2 11th st. mw.: Mr. Armstrong bas for years been engaged in the s business at the above address, and Is well known and ly respected in the northwest. My right ear stene deaf. * With it I could not hear one sound, never mind Low load, “My left car was quite deat. ‘After being under treatment some time, learing returned to me stddenly. “Last Sunday I beard with my right ear, the car that had been stone deaf, the ticking of my ateb, aud that ear is now more acute than the my y deafness began im my left ear tem years ago |. growing worse gradually, in time it exteaded to the right ear. My right ear became deaf very rapidly and in a short while stopped up entirely and lost all sence of sound. “To add to my discomfort there was a rumbling nolse in sy bead that at times almost drove mo wild. “Th: unnatural noise in my head has been stop- ped, aud I he ain distinetly.”* FATHER CURED OF CATARRH, SON OF DEAFNESS. Robert Ammann, 1001 F at. n.e. Mr. Ammavn for many years bad charge of the Gale Scheol, and Is very well known im the north- cast: “Doctors McCoy and Cowden have restored the hearing of my sux, whose right ear was totally deaf, and Iso cuted me of very severe Catarrh of the Threat.’ DR. McCOY'S BOOK FREE TO ALL CONSULTATION FREE. McCoy Systemof Medicine "20 pom eeaeaaa Ofice Hours to 12 a.m, 1 to 5 pm, 6 to 8 p.m. daily; Sonday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. EARLY WASHINGTON When This Was Really a City of Magniticont Di CONDITIONS THAT NO LONGER Streams and Creeks That Have Long Since Disappeared. OLD NEIGHBORHOOD NAMES Written Exclusively-for The Evening’Star. “A most elegant.plan indeed,-and a very animated description. It only wants forty thousand elegant “buijdings “and a corre- sponding population, to cangtitute the American capital one of the handsomest cities in the world?” > Me Wr Thus wrote Johp Melish of Scotland in the early part of the century, after bureaus. The Treasury Department of that day 1s included in the present building—that portion fronted by the colonnade on 15th street, with the wing extending to the new west = aS ee sy — the basement, on eac! Tr. ie o rey General was located in this office, as also the general land office. The Post Of- fice Department*was then but half of its present dimensions, three stories in height and 25 rooms on each floor, heated by fur- race, containing in addition to its own offices that of the sixth auditor of the treas- ury. The patent office building, now in- cluded in the Interior building, then fronted 270 feet by a depth of 70 feet on F street, and then contained the museum made up of the collections brought home by the Wilkes exploring expedition, and those of the National Institute, which became the nucleus of the National Museum. The city il was then unfinished—that is, only the front part of the building had been erected. The grourds south of the President’s house were inclosed by a circular wall, around which was a footway from Pennsylvania avenue to New York-avenue, and aside from the Capitol grounds, Lafayette Square and a few other public grounds, the reser- vations were not inclosed or improved. The municipal improvements, as stated above, were tardily made, and excepting in the lower (down town) portion of the city there wer: no cobble stones used other than for gutters, and little foot pavements of brick were laid. Three market build- ings, four school houses, a guard house and two small lock-ups, with six fire engine houses, were the buildings more or less city a visit to this country and a so- jourr: of a few weeks in this city, in 1906, during which he studied the plan of the city. At that period, he states, there were 700 huses here, with a population of 6,000, and the Capitcl was so far from completion that both Senate and House occupied the rorth wing. That the name “city of mag- nificent distances,” bestowed upon it by Thomas Moore, the Irish poet, some few years after, was an appropriate one, at the time it was given, cannot be denied, and for full half a century after the city had a right to such a name. Dickens quotes the phrase, and suggests that it should have been “the city of magnificent inten- tions.” Our first century has not been com- pleted, but that the “magnificent inten- tions” of the founders were not in vain is seen in the disappearance of the “magnifi- cent distances” not only from the city lim- its, but from three-fourths of the territory of the District; and the requirement “forty thousand elegant buildings and a corre- sponding population to constitute the Amer- | fean capital one of the handsomest cities in the world” has been met, and his in- dorsement of the plan as “mest elegant” is more than justified hy the results. The plan of L’Enfant was like our sys- tem of government, unique and untried, and while the population believed that the latter would prove a success, there was a large percentage of the people here who looked for a material alteration of the plan, for few could believe that it could be fully developed unless the rate of taxation should be so high as to be burdensome. The streets and avenues broad, and the topog- raphy such as to require much cutting and ! filling, over a hundred springs from which runs, traversed the city, and much of the ground marshy, there was good reason for Eroperty, and about thirty churches ac- commodated the church goers. Neighborhood Names. Outside of the more populous portion of the city the names of avenues and streets were seldom: used, at least by the old Wash- ington people, in their mutual intercourse. Every neighborhood had a name known throughout the city, and the newcomer, first learning that the larger divisions of the domain of Washington each had a name, and that there were residences, rows of buildings, runs, ponds and pumps to which some popular proper name was at- tached, would soon possess sufficient know!- edge for general intercourse withthe com- munity. The publication of a Washington élrectory had taken place every few years from early in the twenties, but it was not a popular book, and to nine-tenths of the population (business men included) was of but little use. The directory of those days was of less than 200 pages, not over half the present size, and contained, in addition to the names and addresses of citizens, a depart- mental register, congressional directory, almanac, advertisements and numerous tables. This work was, like the city, slow of growth. While according to the laws the municipality was divided into waras, they were mich less known as such, with the exception of the first ward, than t subcivi City,” “Northern Libertie; “Slash ‘apitol Hill,” “Navy Yard,’ “Island” and “Commons.” The central part of the municipality was known as the “City,” and in the popular mind lay between “Capitol Hill’ on the east, the canal on the south, the treasury on the west and the “Northern Liberties” on the north. The “first included all west ot 15th street. ‘Northern Liberties” was reckoned as extending from the patent of- the property owner to fear that the com- plete development of the plan would lead to confiscation. It is not, therefore, difi- cult to account for much of the old-time, easy-going, plodding habits of the old; Washington people. Fifty years. ago un- improved real estate, save in the heart of the city, was held at surprisingly low fig- ures, much of it at a mill or two per foct (and some of this has since been sold at 50 many dollars per foot), ard was assessed at even less. The amount received from taxes, with the receipts from the sale of lots anid from other sources, by the municipal- ity would not justify any very speedy de- velopment of the plan—even the mere opening of the streets on the outskirts. Progress Was Slow. The progress of improvement was slow by the general gcvernment, the corporation and the citizen, and they were apparently band in hand, all improvements being be- hind the growth of population; for the rule of each appeared to be to follow the actual demand and necessity for making ai im- provement. Thus it was that the accom- modations for the employes of the govern- ment were only provided when it was found that the expenditures for rented quarters exceeded the interest on the. cost of buildings; the corporation ordered the opening of streets, the location of pumps, etc., when the public necessities required, and the citizen when he required a home for himself or when he saw an opportunity to rent a house to advan' 1 In the 40's the executive departments em- ployed less than $00 persons, and some of these were in rented bulldings. Department was where the north wing of the treasury now stands—a two-story prick building, with portico on the north, sup- ported by six columns, aah = contained we . i i fice to the “Slashes,” with the “Franklin Row” section and first ward on the west and “English Hill” on the east, between G and O, 4th and 15th streets. “Capitol Hill,” as popularly known, lay between ist street West and 4th ‘street east, and the two “Chicken Cock Hills” were between north and south D streets. The “Navy Yard” em- braced the southeastern section of the city east of the canal. The. “Island” had not then received the dignity conferred by \the title of “South Washington,” and was an apt illustration of the geographical term “a bay of land entirely surrounded by water.” Over the Tiber. The cenal, entirely cutting it off from the remainder of the city, made it necessary to throw bridges over the Tiber, to supply means of communication. These were at lith, 12th, 7th.and 4%-streets, Maryland, New Jersey and Virginia avenues, and N street, and were wooden structures, with the exception of that on New Jersey ave- nue, which was of brick. Formerly a stone arch” was at New Jersey avenue, but ~his had been replaced by a brick archway, which, built*on an angle and in a superh manner, attracted ntuch interest, and for @ long time was regarded as a master piece ee elo vhy the names were given these di of the city is easily explained, xecptigs as to the “Northern Liberties” and the “Slashes.” 30's, when was in It was in the latter part of the the erection of the patent oftice Progress, pe Ouse was quite a safe for one gaMg t6 attempt to explore the territcry of another unless on friendly terms. Ee ‘As stated -abeve, \there were numer- ous streams, scgne.xbaving their source beyond the corporate lines and oth- ers in some of the hundred springs within boundaries. These, with the exception of Rock creek, separating us from George- town, and the aldaJames Creek canal, emptying on thel.east side of the arsenal, are now covereddimany of them forming, today, part of the: sewerage system. The principal stream.4n ‘the northwest section, was Slash run, entering the city between 1ith and 18th streets, and emptying into Rock creek near :tie-kead of 23d street, in its course receiving a.small branch from a spring on pen SM a near 14th street, one which flow a spring in Rhode Island avenue neaf 17th, and a few runs. The largest stream was what was at the beginning of the centry Goose creek, and subsequently the Tiber, or Washington City canal, now covered and known as the B street sewer. As the canal it was cut in a straight line ®n B street frem 17th street to between Gth and 7th streets, thence south to a point on a line with the center of the Capitol, then east- ward to 3d street, southward to Maryland avenue, southeastward to South Capitol street near E, then south to. Virginia ave- nue, where it branched, one of them known as James Creek canal and the other south- eastward to 2d street east, and by that street reaching a basin as its outlet to the Eastern branch. A run having its sources in Franklin Square emptied in the canal pear 10th street. At 3d street and Missouri avenue the waters of the original Tiber and other streams were received. © Many Streams of Water. The Tiber proper was formed of Reedy branch, which had its source in Mt. Pleas- ant and entered the head of 8th street; a stream west of Glenwood, crossing Florida avenue between Ist and 2d streets north- West, and a third from near Montello, on the B. and O. railroad, entering the city east of Ist street northeast. Before reach- aller Place for bathing, known as the “Blue Cork.” Between I and K streets a small stream from 2d street west and between D and E streets the waters from the north- east section, rising at 12th and G streets, Maryland avenue and 7th street and 3d and K streets flowed. On Ist street south of C street northwest the Tiber received the Waters of Willow Tree spring (south of New York avenue between 4th and 5th), which coursed southward to Judiciary Square and in Indiana avenue to its con- fluence. Crossing Pennsylvania avenue in .2d street west the Tiber traversed the Bo- tanical Garden reservation, emptying into the canal at 3d street. Two smail runs in Pennsylvania avenue near 2d street flowed southwest to E and ist and joined by another from 2d and D strects south- east flowed into the canal at South Capitol below E street. Thus the Tiber drained more than half the territory within the boundary of the city. From the square on the east side of 6th street between G and I streets southeast a small run flowed down 6th strect to the inlet of the Eastern branch, west of the navy yard and the Branch market. On 12th street a run flowed from norta of L street into the branch. Through the reservation occupied now by the jail a small stream entered the branch the jail a smali stream entered the branch about on a line with C street southeast. A branch from Gibson's spring coursed southeastward, entering what was then wild waste, and coursing across the jail reservation to the branch. There were also other runs or streams, and some ravines could boast of stredms after the heavy rains. Some of thes¢ streams at the prin- cipal streets wert’ bridged, usually in the simplest manner,’ and not a fi staples 0 ew were During each decade, from 1900 the popu- lation had gaireq’ in’ round figures bout 5,000, but in thas, from 1840 to 1850 the increase was ovet’ three times that num- ber—from 23,000 ¥6 gver 40,000, and over 6,000 of this nuntbér “during ‘the last three years of the decade: This increase nat- urally caused the erection of buildings, and the larger numbet of houses were located in the second and third wards, between 1st and 16th streets ‘west, north of E street south, and over half of the total of some 6,000. The larger huntber of new buildings were of frame, and the “salt box” was the favorite style, for mést of them were erect- ed as back buildings’ With this addition to the permanent “Hopifation the letters and numbers of the streets weté more generally used than formerfy, but many learned the vernacular of this section, and the abstract names as well as the popular designations centinued to be used, some few of them to this day in many of the old families. —_._ THE MICROMOTOSCOPE, It is Used to Take Photographs of Microscopic Motion. From the Scientific American. The principles of the kinetoscope have been applied to the. microscope with som2 interesting results by Dr. Robert L. Wat- kins of New York city. The outcome of Dr. Watkins’ experiments is thus described by D. F. St. Clair: The principal difficulties in making a mutoscope out of so delicate an instrument as the microscope are the light and the les. Every electric lamp in the market, when its light has been concentrated suf- ficiently for photography, will, after a shcrt time, with Ys heat, kill, dry up or impair almost an¥ kind’ of life in’ the microscepic field. Whatever is to be photographed, once it is put in the field of the lens, is adjusted to a horizontal plane, Near one end of the micrescope is placed an electric lantern containing a small arc light concentrated on the object. Near the other end is the box that covers the apparatus for moving the long, sensitive gelatine film, The film runs like a belt on wheels and passes in front of a tiny window in the box and on a direct line with the Iens and light. This machinery is turned by a crank, and its ordinary capacity is about 1,600 pictures per mirute. It is possible to increase it to 2,000 or 2,500, but for most purposes 1,000 or even less per minute will record every motion taking place in most cell life. The advantages of mutoscopic photog- raphy to microscopy are quite evident, especially as regards:the action of bacteria and blood cells. Nearly all the numerous families of bacteria have motion, often motion that the eye cannot always follow clearly. It has al- ready been discovered that the same kind of bacteria wil! act very differently under different circumstances. For instance, a flash of bright light will suddenly drive some kinds to cover. Some kinds will read- ily seek the negative pole of the battery. They will also seek food with avidity and reject poiso: with true instinct. All such phenomena can, of course, be followed with the eye, but not with the same detail in the microscopic field as in a series of clear photographs. The fact is that, on account of the motion of some bacteria, {t has been well nigh impossible to photograph them. The books have had to depend upon the eye and hand of the draughtsman and vagie description. The capillary or circulatory motion of the blood cells, after thé bfbod has been drawn, are comparatively “slow at best. But the amochoid movement of the white cells and the changes takin; in the nuclei are ccmplicated and oft ard to intelligently ep. of these changes watchin the field. occurring in the wiiite‘cells are cervain -to escape attention, but ‘all of them will be PET eee F asa se ow théirapidly moving sen- sitive im. oa With the microm¥etascope it need no longer be impossftiei%to photograph the bleod in actual pee. With a better Hight the cells maybe’ in the thin tis- sue of the ear or the web of the fingers. They have ones ~beem examined i Ld ritoncum duringyianspperation, an ir. ‘atkins himself h: Fade a close study of them in the web fe some birds and the tails of fishes. sa oe Se Selig He Was ‘a Linguist. From the ‘New York Ohristinn Advocate. It is related thata sophomore one com- mencement day was crossing the campus of Emory College, Oxford, Ga., with +his sweetheart, who stopped to read the in- scription —24 PAGES. DETTER 1 APR NDIKE: PROPE: a GREEN GOLD MINE. Capital Stock, $500,000. Par Value of Shares, $1 Each. A. P. MINEAR, TREASURER, NO. 2 WALL STREET, NEW YORK, E. R. GRANT, lumne county, California, in in character to the Confidence Mi mine, “It ts believed to be in California testify. mation on application in person or by mail. 8 dbtrict which has produced $215,000,000. ine, which has produced $1.250,000 gold, and s A portion of the capital stock of the Green Gold Mine i offered for sale for the purpose « It is mot a prospect, but a developed, proved mine, Transfer Agent, 57 Broadway, rh with great arther a as safe and profitable a proposition as was ever offered to Investors. 7 World, where work can be done every day in the yeffr, and in one of the New York. hing 30 tons of ore ages $40 per t 1 © day; good he works, he mine is situated in Tao It ts near and siniilar ‘asing the product of the v 1x lorated in the finest in the est gold-mining districts, ax hundreds of working tines nos in operation promise of profit. Prospectus, maps and full tnfor- t the list you want? Chamber Suites. Out of our burdred or more styles, made of every veriety of proper Wood, handsomely firished, you must be able to find just the suite you want. Our leader is a Solid Oak $10.00. Sideboards. When we show you 75 styles of Sldeboards—you see all that are worth seeing. When we show you @ quartered Oak Sideboard, with oval French plate for $26, ‘Others ranging in price up from $7.00. mirror, it’s a bargain. Porch Rockers. Made of Solid Oak, with cane seat and “comfort arms’—a big bar- gain, indeed, at— $1.49, Refrigerators and Chests. Our m:ke is lined with charcoal sheathing, ond that kecps the cold in and the air out. They're all fitted With airtight locks—patent drip cups and everything that is known to ex- perience as cortributing to perfect satisfaction. Large variety of sty! $3.75. Dining Chairs. Here you are—Solid Oak, wita cane seat, high back and in every way a better Chair than you ever saw be- fore for 98c. Baby Carriages. When you can get the choice of the style made by the three best makers in the country, no need to Jook aay further. We've the three—® and they fill a floor for us, New de-_ sign — strong, well-bailt for little money. Prices begin at $3.00. carriage— Your Attention, Please. We have inaugurated an August Clearance Sale of Complete House- furnishings. We quote below a few prices. Isn’t there something in styles—all well made. you know yon id Leaf Suite 1352 4 another bargain—S-picce Mabogany- finished Frame Suite for Lowest prices, an get a S-plece $14.00. ‘ Parlor Suites. You don’t buy one every day, and when you do iy you wart a onl one. See our floor full of Fran aud Overstuffed Suites, In the latest Straw Mattings. It's pret this time the tion in Mattings For size neatness $ generally understood by for the best satisfac- you must ° Ith of at Crockery-ware. As complete House Furnishers it lays with us to carry a complete stock of Cutlery, Glassware, Tinware, Enamel Ware und Kitchen Ware of i sorts—omd you'll find it here, To show yeu how we cell it—try to match these two offerings $3.27 | $7.75 For an English For an English Decorated Tea Decorated Din- Set of 56 ner Set of 142 pieces, Pieces, Both are Big Bargains. These values are extraordinary. In every price there’s a saving. They're but a few of the many opportunities that the Great Homefurnishing Establishment offers this week of current inter- est to housekeepers. All the credit you want. HOUSE&H ERRMAN A FISHY STORY. Although Fish Have Nothing to Do With the Tale. From the Boston Journal. One of the most remarkable escapes from death, and as exciting a tale of adventure as has been uttered for many years, is related by Peter Pipiere, a young farmer and hunter of the region just over the St. John river, in Canada, who has just come up the country after a peculiar tour. The journey covered thirty miles and was com- pleted in an hour. Friday forenoon Pipiere left home at the head of a party of young farmers for a day’s hunt. An eagies nest on the top of Wallyways mountain, eight miles away, was the objective point of the expedition. This expedition had in mind the capture of a pair of eagles that was known to be on the mountain, and the disposal of them to a circus. Every man wore heavy leather gloves and bore in his hand a bludgeon. Piviere carried the rope. The capture of eagles on mountain tops is not a\safe or an easy matter. The attacking /party then ad- vanced on the works ofthe enemy, which were sunning themselves in the front door of their rocky nest. It was a sharp fight and blood ran on both sides. But man won, and the birds were soon securely tied claw to claw. The rope was passed to Peter, who steered his team out to the level edge of the towering rock and sat on the cord to hold the birds still. Suddenly the birds screamed and spread their wings; Pipiere felt the power of the pinions pulling on the rope. He wasn't prepared to fly. He was in a dangerous position. From the edge of the rock where he stood the mountain ran off in a preci- pice to the valley, a quarter of a mile ti ht down. - cep, boys, quick!’ he called excitedly, les saw the crowd coming, and, with = deck of tiood-cutaling aconaamn, suabeuly rose into the air and sailed off into the valley, the rope taut between them and poor Pipiere hanging thereto for life. ‘Two eagles can easily carry a mai can make away -with a fat sheep. A it over the country, southward. “\Piniere. didn’t know what to do. He is athletic in the extreme and he had strength and sense enough to swing both legs over the rope and make a safe hold for himself thereon, The eagles seemed to be flying over town Piviere and s people in running endeavor to Sieg and ut aH E 28 so away, Peter was there to meet them, | having come up in a wagon, with the eagles tied in the rear. Pipicre has the eagles, still alive, and the rest of the party has voted them to him unanimously. From the Philadelphia Record. Several authors of the sixteenth century mentioned the existence of a man who, having lost his eyesight, could see through his nose. The story, much doubted at the time and pronounced fabulous by physi- cians, is nevertheless true if the researches of E. Douliot prove correct. It seems that the victim had lost his right eye early in life, and later on while climbing on a cherry tree fell upon a fence, the pickets horribly mutilating the left eye, the cheek and the nore. The surgecn calied in con- sidered the eye entirely destroyed, sewed up the wound and it healed in time, form- ing a large scar where the eye had been. A year later the man, then considered stoneblind, laid in the grass, when he suf- prised himself by discovering that he could perceive through the cavity of the nose the sky and the color of the flowers on the meadow around him. From that time on h. practiced for five cr six years to see with his nose, which to nim became prac- tically the organ of vision. He gradually became more proficient in seeing in this way and could sge everything beneath him while he remained quite insensible to the light from above. The condition of this man can be ex- plained scientifically. Although the lens of the eye had been torn from its socket by the fall. the optic membrane and the uerves at the rear of the cavity of the eye had retained some of the seeing power. Whea the eye had healed together a small hole in the bone over the nose must have formed which acted as a lens in the same way as a pinhole can be used to take a photographic picture. This also proves that the retina of the eye acts like a camera obscura where the objects from the outside become visible There ts a cherry stone at the Salem Qfass.) Museum which contains one dozen silver speons. The stone itself is of or- LIBERAL FURNISHERS, % 9 COR. SEVENTH & I STS. The Fly as From the Samuel Simon, sr, a well-known resident of Neshannock township, while strolling near his home one day recently, noticed a fly about half an irch tong and of a dark blue color, with a slim body, bearing a large dead spider. The fly crossed his path and laid his Icad down. It then went about eighteen inches in another direction and commenced digging a hole in the ground. His curiosity being excited, he stopped and watched the work. After the fly had the hole dug about half the length cf himself he went to where he had left the spider and took his dimensions. After going back to the hole he found it was not big enough and commenced digging again. After taking out a quantity of earth he again went to the spider and took his di- mensions. He did this eight times and as often enlarged the hole. When the busy little fellow had the hole too deep for him to throw the earth clear out he would go on the bank and force it back with his feet. After he had the excavation large enough for his purpose h> went for the spider and teok it to the grave, for such it proved to be, and dragged it to the mouth of the hole. After he had the body in he covered it with fine earth first and finished by placing a smail piece of cinder on top. When he had finished the work he flew eway. The whole time consimed was ex. ectly fifty-five minutes, as Mr. Simon says he sat and watched the whole perform- ance. ——_-.- Literal. From the Chicago ‘Tribune, Teacher (conducting review in geogra- phy): “How is the surface of the earth divided?” Smart boy—“Into one-fourth three-fourths water—‘cepting river, which is about half an’ land and the Chicago half.” —-2-—_—__ Power of the Heart. From the Philadelphia Record. The human heart is practically @ force pump about six inches in .ength and four