Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 18, 1887, Page 12

| | | L —— c— 10 NEW ELECTRICAL INVENTIONS The Use of Electricity Extending in Every Direction. ELECTRIC LIGHTS IN ALL SHAPES Electric Automatic Grain Scales— The Peyrusson Storage Battery —~Electric Lighting in a Bea Kog. What Can Re Done With Electricity. New York Post: A year ago last spring Mr. E. H. Johnson, the president of the Edison Electric Light company, bought a tract of land about two miles back from the water at Greenwich,Conn., including aknoll, said to be the highest site so near the coast from Florida to Maine, Itis 340 feet above the water. From the old farmhouse which stood on the knoll when Mr. Johnson bought, could be seen Long Island sound from Fort Schuyler to Bridgeport, a distance of forty miles. The old house was torn down to make way for the present struc- ture, which is in colonial style, about fifty fect square, and three stories high. ‘The sides of the building are shingled with unpainted shingles left to obtain the silvery gray which only years can give. Within the last fow months Mr. Johuson's place has been the object of much curiosity to people who live on Tigh spots along the sound from New Rochelle to Norwalk, owing to the brill- iant appearance it presents at night. Electric ights put to every conceivable use and in wonderful profusion are of enurse the chief clectrical feature of the place, but by no means the only one. Electricity has been put at work in a dozen different ways. It pumps the water from six wells upon the place, it opens the gates, it sends signals of various kinds through the house and grounds, 1t ‘works an organ, it regulates the temper- ature of the house in winter and summer, it currycombs the horses, it runs an Lights up a fountain, it makes tea, etc. The lignting is, however, the wonder of the place. Five hundred incandescent lamps are used—about half in the house and half outside. The hall, which is fin- 1shed in dark oak, is chiefly lighted from the top by eight lights so conceaied by gtained glass that it is hard to say where the subdued glow really comes from. The dining room has six chandeliers, the parlor four and the library four. All the lights in these rooms are controlled from a small switch board in each room, which permits any number of lamps or all to be turned on at will. The tireplaces nre fitted up with stained glass imita- tionsof live coale lighted up by electri- city. In connection with the burglar alari is a swilch which lights one lamp in every room in the house and a few 1n the grounds. On the tennis ground the lights are placed in iron boxes sunk to the level of the ground so that the light 18 thrown upward and not in the eyes of the players. In the stable each stall is provided with an electric lamp. The electricity used is drawn at will from dynamite driven by a forty horse power engine, or from a secondary bat- tery of 120 cells giving ten-horse power of current forten hours. ‘Two No. 10 Edison dynamos are used. The switches are so arranged that whether one or all the lamps are in use the power is just suflicient. Next to the dynamo and bat- tery, which isa building connected with the barn, in the boiler rooms, which also contains a fan driven by a Sprague elec- tric motor and used to send cool air into the house whenever the thermostasts placed lhroufhout the rooms indicate by ringing a bell that the temperoture has risen above 70 degrees. Every apparatus an the building is fitted up with seclf-reg- fstering instruments, which show upon a switchboard in the house the exact work done by each, the amount of current used upon the different circuits, the steam-power work, dynamo work, bat- tery work, ete. Electricity Applied to the Arts. The Sedgwick Mainspring Co,, of Chicago, has now in o;wruunn a very in- teresting application of electricity to the arts. 1t consists of tempering watch &prhlgu by means of the electric current. d he current is obtained from a one-light lynamo, the conductors from which lead 20 an ordinary oil tempering bath. One of the conductors connects with a point within the oil bath, and the other to a point without. The piece of flat tecl wire that 15 to be tempered to the lue color is fed under the contact point on the outside of the bath first and then under the one on the inside. When it reaches the latter the circuit is complete, and the wire immediately and uniformly becomes heated. Several advantages are claimed for this process of tempering. “The chief one is that the steel does not have time to oxidize after it has been Lieated to the proper color before it is under cover of the oil, and consequently that the steel wire is of the same thick- ness when it is tempered as 1t was before it ontered the process. The heating is uniform throughout the length of the spring, and, and there is less liability of defective spots. The process is a rapid one, the springs being heated and passed fnto lko bath at the rate of four inches a second. Electric Automatic Grain Scales. St. Lows Globe Democrat: A has just been issued to Professor Ben R. Foster of this city, for automatic grain scales, moved by electricity. The object of the invention is to weigh grain and record the number of bushels whilz it is continuously running through chutes, thus doing away with the assistance of a weigher, and rendering the weighing perfectly accurate. The machine is ent uite simple, although the inventor has been working on it [E\r over ten years. It consists of a box with inclined paruitions placed on an ordinary soale. Within this box is a revolver pan supported on a rocking lever. Attached to the lever is an upright upon which rosts a vibrating valve for the purpose of cutting off the main flow of the grain. There is another supplemental valve controlled by an electro magnet from the scale beam. Extending down from this yalve is a rod that disturbs the equili- brium of the grain when the rnn is full und causes it to discharge itself, There issaid to be a great need and demand for a machine of this kind in clevators, flour mills, spice mills, cte., where a fixed weight is desired, and it will undoubtedly prove valuable and in- dispensable 1n all such establishments, Heating by Electricity. Scientific American: Though it is claimed asone of the advantages of electricity that it does not raise the te perature of the atmo: or lighting, it is ne: La Nature, capable under certain conditions of evolving heat. This property is about to be turned to vrofitable account by the Bocietetdes Usines Electricques of Berlin, who have announced that in future, in addition to light, they will be prepared neless, s to furnish a mvp}y of electricity for heating purposes. The appliances which the society offer to their customers have been constructed in view of the use to which they are to be put. For instance, for boiling water they have contrived a yessol baving two cases, between which 18 placed g rosstance coil. Itis stated that with this appliance about one and half pints of water can be raised to Eo)llnz oint with four amperes 100 volts. n certain theaters elcotric stoves are em- ployed for heating the curling tongs, the THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1887.—~TWELVE PAGES use of gas and spirit Hgoroglly,mhmden. Cooking by Electricity. Electric Review: Resistance coils of glnunum or German silver wira have een used for experimental enoking. The currents used have been of constant direction and the coils traversed by the currents must needs be n or in close proximity to the substance to be cooked. Further, the surface exposed by a coil taking up considerable room is small and the amount of heat radiated and con- ducted from the wire if not nearly red hot will notbe large. Cooking by elec- tricity has not come into use as yet; use of the alternating currents oflers a solu- tion to the problem. A large electro- magnet of great self-induction is con- stantly in circuit. The loss of current through this coil as long as metal is not brought near 1t is too small to be meas- ured. 1t being desired to cook flapjacks, an iron spider is placed over the poles of the electro-magnet. Two rapid reversals of current in the coil induce currents on the iron spider, which is thereby heated. For heating liquids & copper vessel is vreferred when it can be used, on ace count of its greater conductivity. The metal in which or on which the cooking is done need not touch the magnet. In- deed, alessened heating effect is obtained by separating the dish from the electro- magnet, Canal for Electric Power, Detroit, Mich., Sept. 9.—The Edison Power and Light company to-day leta contract for the building of a water fi’w“ canal along the rapids of St, ary’s river at Sault Ste. Marie, and 1,000 men who have been working for for the Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic railway will be put on the job at once, and the work completed in sixty days. The canal will ke about 2,000 feet lon, and fifty feet wide, and will be situate between the ship canal and the rapids. Its object will be to furnish, by the use of immense water power, electric_power with which to run elevators, mills, and an endless variety of other machinery and an electric right plant. The Peyrusson Storage Battery. In a patent recently issued to M, An- toine Edouard Peyrusson, of Limoges, France, the latter describes a form of battery hlviufiln number of novel points, M. Peyrusson has found that the action of the battery, whatever may be its form or arrangement, 1s cousiderably in- creased if the electrolytic liquid contains cadmium or tinin eolution, owing to the fact that in charging the accumulator these metals are deposited upon the elec- trode at the negative pole, and during the discharge yield a better result than lead or other metals. Cobalt, nickel or bismuth may also be similarly employed, but with less advantage than cadmium or tin, which are more electro-positive than lead and deposit more readily than acid solutions. These metals may be em- pioved in different forms, but the best results have been obtained with the fol- lowing solutions, in which tnese metals are contained: Water, 900: sulphuric acid, 100; sulphate of tin, 800. Water,950; uulplmric acid, 60; sulphate of cad- mium, 800. With these _solutions the mental deposits readily. Itis bm‘el‘y attacked when the circuit is open, but it is attacked with great uniformity when the civcuit 18 closed. The addition of a bisulphate of mercury to the above men- tioned liquids renders the action still more regular. As the action of the elec- trodes at the negative pole is derived mainly from the tin or cadmium which is deposited in charginf, these electrodes may consist simply of conductive plates of carbon, lead, copper, tin or cadmium, either pure or alloyed with other and less oxidizable metals. To increase the duration of the elec- trodes at the positive pole, a part of - the conducting surface of the electrodes is vrotected by drawing with an insulating varnish vertical and horizoutal lines two or three millimetres wide and ahout two millimetres apart. These lines form a reticulated network, which is protected from oxidation during a cerlain time, and which is 8aid to increase the dura- bility of the electrodes. For this purpose a varnish made of bitumen; gutta percha or other insulating material is used, or a solution of platinum cholride i essence of lavender- In the latter case, the net- work having been traced as above de- scribed, the metal is dried and the plati- num reduced by submitting the electrode to the positive pole of a battery. The re- duced platinum preserves the metal be- neath from oxidation and increases the Life of the electrodes. Electrical Brevitiea Eleclrwi&y was used at Hartford to drop the distance flag. The distance ;uugs touched a button ana both flags ell simultaneously. With one exception the new plan worked satisfactorily. The electric motor gains ground so rapidly that it is hard to keep pace with all the mew applications. One of the motors of recent commercial introduc- tion is alrendy in use in over 120indus- tries. Prof. Thompson says that when the means of utilizing the power of creating quick heating b{ electrrcity shall be bet- ter understood it will be used in every workshop for welding, fcrging and other purposes. The prize of $10,000 offered by the French government for the most valuable discovery relating to the utilization of electricity, is to be awarded next De- cember, " It is for any use or application of electricity, namely: as a source of heat, of light, or of chemical action, as & means of transmission of mechanicat power, or of verbal communication in any form, or, finally, as a curative agent. The Mansfield, O., Electric Street Railway company writes that it has now had its Daft road in operation for two or three weeks, and that it is having ex- cellent success, mechanical and financial. B African Cannibals, Among recent discoveries in Africa none is more interesting than the new- found facts relating to the prevalence of cannibalism 1 regions where its existe ence has not hitherto been suspected, It was not known, for instance, until Mr, Last returned from his travels in Fast Africa & few weeks ago, says the New York Sun, that at least one of the tribes between Lake Nyassa and the Indian ocean are as great cannibals as many of the people of the Congo basin. Mr. y,a t is the explorer who was sent out by the Royal Geographical society of London to solve several geographical problems in the region east of Lake Nyassa. Just a little south of Livingstone's route to Lake Nyassa Mr, Last found that cannibalism 13 practiced among the prin- cipal tribes of the great Yao tribe. ‘T'his iy perhaps the largest tribe ecast of Nyassa. The practice of eating human flesh is earried on only in secret, and the leading men in the tribe alone partake of these banquets. Mr, Last was told, as an excellent “joke on the Mohammedans, that a tew of them from the. coast had been inveigled into taking part o one or two of these horrid feasts i the belief that they were partaking of goat's flesh, of which the coast people are fond. Farther east, on the banks of the Lukugu river, Mr. Last found the Maua tribe, who openly practice cannibalism. They kill slaves for food, and also eat the bodies of the enemies they slay in war. Oftentinies one of the villages privately determine to kill a certamn person. They invite the victim to a public beer drink- ing, and as soon as he is far gone with intoxication the chief gives the signal to the executioners and they at once seize the poor wretch and hurry him into the bush, where he is speared. Then the feast 1s prepared and the entire village partakes of it. A drunken chief of this tribe told Mr, Last he would like to have bis skull for & drizking cup, v bene | THE CHILDHOOD OF A DIVA, Early Yoars of Adelina Patti, the World's Greatest Singer. HERBABY TRILLSAND CADENZAS Remin Youth as Given by Herself—Albanl's Friendship For Mer— A Grand Woman. San_ Francisco Chronicle: The his- tory of Adelina Patti’s career, public and private, since first she uppearcd before the world in the year 1859 as a prima donna ot sixteen summers, in all her grace, freshness and bloom, is as well known to her admirers in the old coun- try as in the new, but it has beea given to very few to hear the reminisoences of her childhood’s days from the charming singer's own lips. Adelina is not always willing to talk about the dear old times when her much-beloved father and mother were still at her sido to counsel and caress her, the favorite child, as she scemsto have been from the first hour her great dark eyes saw the light of day. “I was born, you know a very few hours after my mamma (she pronounces the word with a soft, lingering ltalian accent) had performed in the opera of ‘Gemme de Luziano,’ and not in ‘Norma,’ 88 18 usually told, much to the surprise of everyone,” recounts the prima donna. ‘It scoms I was a droll little thing from the very outset. I didn't cry like other mortals, No; 1 cried 1n time in the most knowing manner. And when I was only a few weeks old,when [ saw my mamuwa taking her supper I absolutely refused to be pacified until she gave me a sip of her claret and a crumb or two of the little cakes which were always served with wine in those days. Long before I could speak plainly, I would hum in baby fash- ion all the airs [ had learned at her knee, and would try to imitate the song of every bird which chirped in our garden.” From her cradle the prima donna passed her life amid stage surroundings, and her parents,who were both singers of some reputation, would never go to ful- fil their evening's engagement without taking their little one with them, and among her very earliest recollections are of being wrapped up in a shawl and propped up behind a ‘“‘wing” peeping through a hole in the canvas scenery to watch the performance. ‘T'he artists made nfren vet of the little dark-eyed fairy and brought her avbples and sweet- meate, which she discussed meanwhile. Atthe theatre she felt in her element and was never quite so happy elsewhere. After returning home and having been put to bed, she would creep out again, and when no sound was to be heard in the house, by the faint flicker of a candle which she had secreted she would enact all the scenes she had been watching so intently, doubling the roles of actress and audience, dancing and singing and clapping her hands and orying *‘Brava!' the next, and showering bouquets and wreathes she had manufactured out of old newspapers at her miniature feet. Now sho was Norma, stern and terri- ble (Patti always declares she prefered tragio charaoters), now Amina, now Rosina, but whateyer role she assumed she always donned the same costume— an old red cloak of her mother’s and a hat of her father’s. Her innate musical talent was extra- ordinary,and never did she have to learn to execute any of the wonderful shakes, runs and stacatti which have so often electrified us all, for singing came as naturally to her as the birds of the air, Her sister Carlotta taught her to play on the piano an accomplishment 1n which she very soon became proficient, and the theory of music she studied assiduously from her earliest days; but her warbling, as I have said, was as spontaneous as the trillmg of a lark. As a child, she has been described to me as charmingly pretty and quaint looking,notwithstanding that the gamins of New York nicknamed her ““The Little Chinee,” because of her big black eyes and brunette skin. She was always very tiny for her age, but slight and straight, with thick black hair, when unbraided, falling in curls about her neck; her eyes brifh( and eager,whilst her broad brows, little pointed nose and full round chin each in turn emphasized the expressions which crossed her baby face. One of little Adelina's great accomplishments was the bowling of her hoop up und down Broadway, a tour de_force, which I am told she executed with surprising chio, handling her small stick with the same dexterity she now manipulates the billiard cue. She was also very clever with her needle, another art which she still cultivates with success, as visitors at Craig-y-Nos can well assert when thez remember the dulnt( ombroideries wit whichshe has embellished anti-macassars, table cloths, scrviettes and what not. Patti was sent to school when only five or six years old, and rapidly become a great favorite with her school-fellows, whom she much amused with her elfish ways and the ‘‘scenes” she was always ready to enact. One of her playmates, now the mother of alarge family, is ver; fond of relating how she once actei Edgardo to Adelina’s Lucia in the class- room when the teacher’s back was turned, and how the little heroine implored her *‘to be sure and die well."” When the child had just about passed her seventh birthday the opera company organized by her parents came to an un- timely end, and, to aid them out of their difficulties, it occurred to the gifted fairy herself to turn her talents to good ac- count, and one day, after having seen her niother with tears in her eyes, declaring that their last dollar was spent, she con- ceived what proved to be a very happy thought. Well she remembers (imufiy saying to her father: *“‘Papa, dear, your beautiful pin which you always wore has gone away. But I get it back, if you wiil only let me give a concert.” How her parcnts laughed at her temerity may be imagined, but finding her so persistent and confident thoy at last agreed on the venture. Her voice, though of course not strong, was strangely sweet and me- lodious, and although "she had often warbled songs out of the operas in which she had heard her mother “with marvel- lous imitation of her effect, many doubts were expressed as to whether so young a child would have full command of fl.cr powers when in presence of a large audi- ence. A concert was announced, how- ever, with Adelina as prima_donna, and as rumors of her talents had become widespread, the tickets, priced at a few cents sold well, and a full house as- sembled to do honor to the debut of the infant prodigy, The prima donna laugh- ingly recalls to this day the many inci- dents which attended her first appearance in public, how carefally her long black hair was braided for the occasion; how her wother powdered ber little brown face until she became ‘‘beautitul in pal- lor,” and how no gorgeous costume she has since worn hus seemed (o hLer as altogether perfect as the plaid skirt, Oarabaldi iacket aud bright red shoes procured for the greatday by her anxious parents. With her *“‘favorite doll," Henriette, ia her arms, she was lifted on a table, so that the audience might see her as well a3 hear her, and intent only on dmng her very best, she began her favorite “Casta Diva,” from *“Norma," So precocious were her emphasis and gestures that many among her audience could scarcely forebare smiling. Ithink that some of the wothers present who smiled must bave had tears, too, trembling on the brink; and when she reached the florid moyement and like a thrush, piped and trilled l'l{ as if in Dy irrepressible song, olutching her dear doll in her arms all ime, and, finaily, at the close of her aris, put her tiny hand on her tiny heart and courtesied with ineffablo Ini- voatance and gravity, a long burst of ap- plause and laughter greeted her, and, trinmphant, she flew into her not\nr'uueremhruom From that hour her name and fortune were made, and her concerts became the rage of the town. The songs sho gave were mostly those we are accustomed to hear from her lips now, in the year of grace 1887, such as *‘Una Vooe Poco Fu,'' Shubert’s serenade, ‘‘Home, Sweet Home," and “Comin’ Thro' the Rye."” Her musical instinct was 80 keen that she could not refrain from correcting any mistakes that she heard, and on one occasion when a certain great prima_donna_ap- eared at the Academy of Music, New ork, when Adelina was among the audience, and delivered her principa! cavatina, introducing & not quite im- maculate trill, the ehfld. on being taken to see her the following day, looked into her face very earnestly, and said: *‘You sing well—all except your trill, and that is bad. You rest too long on the first note. Now, listen to me and try to do 1t as Ido.” A tour was undertaken through the West Indies when she was accompanied by Ole Bull, the famous violinist, and Gottschalk, the pianist. Everywhere she was enthusiastically welcomed, pelted with flowers and laden with gim of toys and fewelry, not one of which' however, did she value as her faithful Henriette, who always squeaked ‘‘papa’’ and ‘“‘mamma’ so plaintively when she was pinched with authority.” An incident at one of her first concerts created a furor. In the midst ot one of her. long Italian areas, it was evidont that the thoughts of this prima donna of seven summers were wanderjog, and suddenly she exclaimed, on seeing a little school-fellow in the concert room, “Oh! Nellie! do come just right away. Trve got another new doll I want to show you!" Sonntag, the - good and charming Countess Rosso, was the first eminent singer whom Patti ever heard, and whose voice she describes *like that of angel,” Rurar and more lhnllmF than any she as since known. Adelina’s fame had reached Sonntag as Sonntag's had reached Adelina, and when the prima donna paid a visit to New York, she asked for the child to be brought to her. Without any timidity at her request, the baby cantratrice warbled through her best songs, one after another. Sonnt: kissed and thanked her, and as a reward. gave her the beautiful red fan she wore at her girdle. Nevertheless she expressed anopinion thatthe **Wunderkind’s" voice had been tried too early, and that there was no future before her. Albani, the never-to-be-forgotten queen of contralto- who heard her at the same time, prog* nostigated very differently, declaring that the bambina had all the making of a great artist, and would become the diva of her day. It is now twenty-six years since Adel- ina Patti made her first appearance in London, and Albani was among the many celebrities present at that wonder- ful debut when the young Italian girl re- ceived without & hand as she bounded on the stage, before the end of her first aria had won every heart and every ear, and was greeted with frantic applause when she came forward to know her final ver- dict. Albani’s delight at her success knew no bounds, and she never failed to treat hor protege with the utmost consid- eration and kindness thronghout her ca- reer. Her affection is full‘v’ returned by Patti, and if ever she has been 1n doubt how to interpret a passage in an opera,it has been to Albani and noother to whom she has applied for counsel. There is a passage 1n the air in ‘“‘Semiramide’’ which she warbled through many a time with her dear friend, e'er venturing to deliver it before a critical audience.” At Rossini'’s grave, the two greatest singers the nineteenth century has known, sang the master’s inspired “Quis est Homo'' together. n Paris at about the same period Patti and Nilsson had some slight differences. It scems that Nilsson was jealous that her rival should have been chosen to sing the ‘‘Quis est Homo," and behaved not alto- gether amiably when ' the news reached her. “Never mind,” said ‘Adeline Patti, “‘what does it matter to you? You_have only to be heard to be admired. When ou sing Nilsson has to put on her Swedish nightcap.” As a child Pattihad always entertained a secret hero worship for Mario and Grisi, so that when she heard that the “king and queen of song” had besn en- fi ges for a series of representations in cw York her excitement knew mno bounds. For many weeks before their arrival she thought of nothing but the de- light of hearing them for the first time, and saved all her pocket money to buy a buuch of white camellias to present to Grisi on the grand occasion. On the night of their debut, after the perform- ance was over, shy almost for the first time in her life, clinging to her mother's skirts, she ran behind the scenes, and as she advanced toward the prima dona held out her pretty posy with a childish gesture of entreaty. But Grisi must have been vexed or weary, for, with a waive of the hand she motioned her away, saying, o ust now, little girl; "another time." ith tears welling in her eyes and wounded to the quick, the child turned away; but Mario, standing near, caught her 1n her arms, and Kkissing away the tears,promised ‘‘her to keep the camellias forever for her sweet sake,"” Adelina Patti’s admiration for Grisi's talents was very genuine, although she takes some exception to the nasal quality of her voice when comparing her to the incomparable Sonntag, Jenny Lind,too, she heard in New York, and appreciated her many gifts, natural and acquired. Mme. Bosio also won her regard, but as I have said, no voice she ever heard ap- pealed to her like that of Sonntag. Many of her cherished tr be found at Craig-y-Nos castle—among others, the friend and companion of her youth, the doll Henriette, dressed in snowy white muslin and laces and ready s ever to squeak “Mamma' and “Papa” l'Jv)u:n pressure is brought to bear upon er. ———— A Boomerang for Hilton. Spingfield Republican: The famous edict of Judge Hilton against the Jews, proclaimed a few years ago at Saratoga, as had the results so familiar to stu- dents of history, The Jews have multi- plied at Saratoga at an astonishing rate. Over half of the hotel population this summer at that resort are Jews, an increase certainly of 100 per cent since the edict. Several of the hotels are now owned by Jews, which is an innovation, and thtre is a rumor that a Jewish syn: dicate is waiting to buy in Hilton's own hotel, the Grand Union, when it goes under the hamwer next year with other property of the Stewurt estate. A battle in the auction room between Hil- ton and a son of Israel would be a frueti- fying epectacle, and if Hilton should re- ceive notice to quit the premises—but the subject is too painful to contemplate. e They Had Met in the W, New York Sun: First Stranger—Your face is strangely familiar to me, sir. Have you a strawberry mark on your Jeft arm? Second Stranger—No, sir; but I have a rope mark on my neck. First Stranger—-1 knew 1 had seen that face before! 1 met you n Dakota. i _Sick headache, wind on the stomach, bihousness, nausea, arc promptly and agreeably banished by Dr. J. H. Mc- Lean's Little Lives and Kidney Pillets. ¢, a vial. SERENE SMILES OF AUTUMN Solliven Salutamus— The Old Linen Duster—She. THE MEETING IN THE ARBOR, Boston—Tricks of All Trades—Hush Money — A Poetical Explana- tlon—The Risk Too Great —Bits of Fun. Sullivan Salutamus. Hynmn nreaned for tho recent John L. Sullivan testimonial in Boston Theatre, but rejected by the literary committee in favor of an original Greek ode: In Hindoo and Sanseript and Persian, In Latin and Homerle Greek, We salute thee, zreat monarch of slu:qen, (Great sultan of brawn and physique We exultantly wave our eye-zlasses, And applaud in Athenian Greek. Our nnrfl from Concord salute thee, Our Browning clubs hail thee with glee, And our theosophical pundits Address thee in Hindoostanee, In the tongues of Confucius and Buddha, 1n Hebrew and Hindoostanee! Go forth with the learning of Boston, Litke Prometheus bearing the light? In the name of our polyglot wisdom Defy the whele carth to a fizht; For, backed by the culture of Boston, You can lick the whole earth in & tw t! =S, Foss, The Meeting in the Grape Arbor. Merchant Traveler: The sun had set, and it was evening, when they stood be- neath the grape arbor. Itis a somewhat remarkable fact that evenings and sunsets and grape arbor meetings should occur with such unvarying simultaneousness. *‘Algernon,” she whlipered,nnd a piece of chewing gum turned the whisper into a sibilant sizzle, ‘‘you are here on sched- ule time."” “You bet,” he murmured in reply. “‘But hark, I hear a footstep.” She harked, as requested, and,suddenly grasping his wrist, she said, 1n a terrified whisper: ‘It is father! Fly! fly!” “Gertrude, I have a bunion, and I know, alas, too well, that were I to at- tempt to fly I would make a fizzle of it. I must stand my ground.” The old man strode into the grape arbor, straight to where Algernon stood. “‘Ha,” he said, ‘'80 1t's you young man, isit? Well how are you? Glad to see you. How’'s your folks?'’ “They’re well,” tm.s ped Algernon. “That's good. Well, I'll leave you,but 1f you and Gertie take my advice you'll {w right up into the parlor. You're likely 0 catch your death of cold out here.” The _vo\ln‘[( man fell to the ground motionless. He wrote funny sketches for the newspapers. The Old Linen Duster. How dear to my heart is the old linen duster ‘The old linen duster that covers my back, It never did fit me, ’twas made for a buster, _A buster much bigger than I am, alack! Yetstill in the sumimer, when than Hades tis hotter, ‘That old linen duster 1 never would swap, Fora new overcoat made of sealskin and otter, ‘With agraffes of pure gold set with dia- monds on toj ‘That voluminous duster, That old linen duster, That buster of a duster that covers my back. She. ‘The more we study She the more we don't understand how 1t is She is_able to twist us around her little finger whenever She feels like it. But she 1s. For whom 1s it that in childhood’s happy days we fight with a boy three sizes larger than ourselves, and get 8o severely pun that we can’t sit up for a week? She—and She only laughs at us for our pains. Who is it that devours all our spare change in the shape of caramels, and calls for more—and gets them, too? She. For whom do we linger at stage doors with $10 bouquets, to purchase which we have to_endure a fortnight's martyrdom at free-lunch counters? ~ She. Who 18 it that at the railroad restaurant deals out the soul-destroying sandwich and the death-dealing doughnut? 'Tis She every time. If it were He we would ‘ailay him on the spot and glory in the eed, Who accepts our hard-carned gold on the pretense of being u first-class cook, and then broils our steak in a frying-pan and boils our coffee an hour? She. Who is it that accepts our theater tick- ets, our $8 suppers, our bouquets and our devotion, and then goes off and mar- ries another follow? She and for this we ought to forgive her a good deal. ‘Who, we ask,is it that when we employ her as ti‘pewmm spells summer with one m and February with only one r, and yet escapes without censure? ItisShe. Ah, yes! It is She. Boston., Bufalo Commercial. Know ve the land where the eyeglasses glitter, The Browning Club grows and the faith cure is taught; ‘Where the barefooted small boys,the maidens who titter, Are at home In the foggy abysms of thought? s Know ye the land where the wildly loved pumpkin His rarest perfection and flavor attains; ‘Where the foreign born guest and the visit- ing bumpkin £ Can eat of the beans and enliven thelr rains ! ‘Wktere the fox hunter gallops, with hounds on the trail, And winds up the chase by reposine in jail; Where the love of the¢ turtle, the hunger for e Keog the restaurants busy, tho’ the prices are high, Where the sons of the Puritan richly ar- rayed, Take zn!mnnded delight in St. Patrick’s pa- rade! g "Tis the land of the northeast, where Ben Butler hides, And Kelley, the fielder, in splendor abides, Where the hearts of the virgins that ten- derly glow Are as big as the tracks that they leave in the snow ! Where spring is a season of unmelte And senators seem to be lowest in pi But sweet as the joys of which lovers par- take Are_the pies they cook and the clams they bake. Tricks of all Trades. Detroit Free Press. A citizen who sat in the offico of real estate dealer for an hour the other day heard him say to a into placea house and “I'll put it on my list at $3,000, but I frankly tell you that is $1,500 too high If you get $5,3500 you are selling to good advantage.” *'Well, do your best,” was the reply. In about & hour n?mrly came in and said he was looking for a house and lot worth about $4,000, and the dealer turned to the one he had last listed and 1: “I haven't any as cheap as that, but here is something for $6,000, which I think will suit you, and I give you my word it is one of the greatest bargains in Detroit. Owner is going to Kansas and must sell. 1'd like to see you make $2,000 as well as any one I know J1.” Hush Money. Texas Siftings: *I expect t men are very often blackmail “Indeed they are. Why, it was only last week that Juy Gould was obliged to pay bush mone “You don't 0. I'm surprised that it is not in the papers. So he had to pay hush money, e A T T **He ouly had to shell out 25 cents, 1t was for a bottle of paregoric or soothing sirup for that baby. It squalls so that it scares the cats otl the roof." »se rich Mathematically Correot. “How does it happen that there are so mav~ old maids among the school teach- ers?" asked & reporter of a teacher the other day. *‘Because school teachers are, as a rule women of sense; and no woman will giveup a ,fl position for a $10 man,” ‘was the reply. A Poctical Explanation. A young man having been twitted with the fact that his sweetheart squinted, re- rlll\d thus in verse: know there’s a crossabout Norah's blue eye, But that fact my love cannot smother; For her eyes are so protty ; no wonder they try To be gazing round into each other, Qertain On! whero did the And what did th Oh ! where did th And what did the “pastry cook?" aper welght?”? d the “thunder elap?” Oh! where did the *'roller skate?” And where did the “ginger snap?’ ries. ’ tage stamp?” W‘wlwn hook?" ogar camp’ The Risk Was Too Great. New York Sun: Chinaman (in tele- phone pay station)—Can speake thlough telcflone to fliend on Mott sticet, alle samee I pay you? Man in Charge—No, John. [I've just got the machine fixed up in good shape, and I don't want to take any chances. More Vexatious Than Dangerous. New York Sun: The story is told that recently Mr. John Sherman was crossing Brooklyn bridge when the car in which he was seated lost its grip on the cable, An old lady opposite showed signs of alarm, “Don't be rfightened, the great Ohio financies simg)]y lost its grip.” “lsn't it aangerows?'* she inquired, *‘No, madam,” he reassured her, “‘there is nothing dangerous about losing a grip, but its exasperating.” adam,” said the car has The All-Important Question. Will the coming man do this or that? Will he wear a cap or a tall hat? Will he be brave or will he shrink? Will he abstain or will he drink? WIIl he prate of “*put” and *‘call?”’ Will he play at famed base ball? ‘These great questions fill the mind, And the talk of most mankind. But the malden, all forlorn, Looks on these with ;{(erlvct scorn. ‘As she hears his well known ring At the door go “ling-a-ting,” ‘This question iu her face full shows: “Will the coming man propose?"’ ——— HOME DECORATION, An Expert Gives Some Hints Worth Heeding in Renovations. Never hang a picture 8o that it will be necessary to monnt a stepladder to view it. Hang it so that the center will be about five feet and a half from the floor, a little below the line of vision of a per- son of average height. Never select furniture whose “‘means of support” do not appenr adequate. Chairs with spindle legs inclined too far mward or outward have an apparent tendency toward disruption and are con- stant terrors to callers. Straight, sub- stantial legs suggest strength and inspire contidence. Never treata hallway as though it were a dooryard,and no part of the house proper. A hall should be inviting, and lmh out to the visitor a promise of the beauty of the inner rooms. Never put a piece of furniture into a room merely because it is pretty and will fillup. Every article should have its real or apparent use; as a general thing the necessary pieces will occupy all the space that should be allotted to furniture Never permit a white marble mantle to disfigure an otherwise ~ tasteful room. Cover it with a draped mantel board. White marble has a suggestion of ceme- teries about it. It alwavs looks crude in a drawing room, even in the form of the finest sculpture. Never forget that an open fire and ju- diciously selected pictures will make any room cheerful. Never put paper on the walls of a nur- it is better to either paint or kalso- There is always danger of poison in the coloring of the vaver or of the paste becoming sour, Never have a drawing room so filled with frail and delicate bric-a-brac that the least movement is fraught witi danger of costly and wholesale breakage. T'his does not conduce to ease. Never have dark carpet and walls in a room that is deficient in light. Onl apartments open to the outer light wil stand gloomy tones in decoration. Never use an inordinately large mirror with a bulbous gilt frame, “plannea with the evident purpose of getting rid of as much gold leaf as possible. Small beveled glasses in sconces or framed in rich plush of color harmonizing with that of the wall paper ave in better taste. Never hang a picture from one nail. Aside from the mere question of safety, the use of two nails, the cord stretche across them 8o as to come down squarely to ths corners of the frame, has a sym- metrical effect and makes the walls ook very much more finished. Never have a carpet patterned with fiixnnllc roses or actual flowers. They armonize nothing. The colors in a car- pet should, 1n a great measure, complete the color scheme adopted for the room. Never place a picture or a bit of deco- ration where it does not serve some ar- tistic purpose. If a picture 18 intended to be seen in a strong light do not put it in an obscure corner, and, on the other hand, if it be painted in a high color key, do not bring it within the direct influenc of brilliant sunburst. Never imitate a rich material in a cheaper one. The use of glossy paper laid off like squares of marble for hall decoration has fortunately been done away with, but the use of bogus stained glass still continucs to charm the taste- ess. HEALTH. WEALTH. 2 'DR. OTTERBOURG, Cor, 18th and Dodge Sts,, Omaha, Neh. A Regular Graduate In Medicine and Special Pr 1t LT, Authorized to all Chronic, Nervou and (Whether caused by Iinprudence, Excess or Contagion) Seminal W eal Soxuul Debihty, (1038 of se ous Debility, Blood Disorde guaranteed or money refunde Chnrges Thousands of cas o und experien fmportant espociully pro- i for each No Injurious or ¥ pounds Used, Notime lost from business Patients ut a digtance treated by letter and express. 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