Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 8, 1895, Page 24

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: QUNDAY". SEPTEMBER 8, 1895. New York Store Fair Week Bargains<«—ae WE ALLOW NO ONE TO MAKE AS LOW PRICES WE Do WE ARE STOCKED UP WITH ENTIRELY All this week and all next week—for ten days we've arranged a sale unparalled in in dry goods history—We make an carnest bid for every one to come to us—won't get them all of course—some will stray into high-priced places—but you'll know us when you see us—you can tell us by our bargains and by our new goods. Wash Goods 1 case of Black Sat regular 12te kind, for this fair week Men’s Notions Furnishings. Corsects 1,000 Corsets, worth 6dc, will be R Q 3 . ’ 49c . on sale just this week at.... g | R1bbOA, 2 spools Buttonhole Twist ! Parasols One whole Basting Thread. Dress Goods. The cut we are golng to make in our NCVCI' 1 bunch Corset Lag Aokl New things all 1 " D50 1,000 yards of Ribbons in better quality, 1 Inch wide, in this big tray of Ribbons, in colors, by the yard, worth 8c and 10c, will'go at... will floor devoted Dress Goods Department fair week will be fair, because for that week we Hooks'and Byes;iper cards are going to cut right in two. you the regular price Halirpins, per bunch.. Sl 8o brought L lot of $1.25 kind at. Hat Pins... 100 piece worth fair we Ribbon, 2 of fancy again a6 Kk price 50 pleces of fan Ribbon, worth $1.00 p Shoes 1 lot of men's satin calf con .30 gress and lace, worth $L.75. 81 A better Shoe, the $2.00 kind, &3 750 fair Week Price......ieesieoees 81 A fine line this is a vel big seller at 1 lot of € lico, good colors, was 8c and 10 5. 100 pleces of Cashmere, In all 5 b P colors, including black,’ worth 7 30¢, now.. Vi 15¢ to Fair visitors 1,000 ready-made Garters 1lot of $1.00 kind at. Belt Buckles Belt Buekles, Belting, Link Buttons, Shirt Walst Sets, Belt Pins—all these sterling silver—wlill be on one counter falr week at prices so much lower than ever offered before you will buy sight. out 100 pieces of Outings, worth ¢ gy o SE T and 7e per yard, will go fair week at.. . be able 1 lot of Henrietta, in all col- ors, worth 29¢, will go in this gale at.. 50 dozen Japanese Card Case: each 19c 1 case bleached Muslin, worth Good Sewing Thread. 8¢ and 10¢, will go fair week at to buy day. New goods 1 lot of very Belt Pins fine Henrietta, 6€) =~ Worth Patee; 25¢ ge, will go at. 2 cases of genulne Lonsdale bleached Muslin, full yard this fair week sale...... such Tapanese Dolls 1 lot of Henriett: wool, .in_all col will go at.. e e All patterns Finishing Braids., worth 09c, £ = good Fair Week Price. a 15c Dress Stays ERi At TN e 150 half silk Elastic.......... v dressy shoe and a 100 dozen fine Silk Ties, worth solid 5 pleces new Novelty Cheviots, §0c, to make a hit for our 1 lot of Turkey Red Damask, men's department they will go all wool, 40 inches wide, worthe 1 e per yard, fair week price. 2 C reception worth twice what we ask, wmq 'fO all week at. 19(,‘ % . 1 Tot of black Figured Mohalr 80 in this sale at.. 2 dozen Coat Buttons..... 0 All the S, The and $1 Ties 6 = Novelties, very desirable werth 6, ale r weel 2 s s vt S O & itl B on sate Talt week at S OO room. 2 10¢ fine Combs. 40 pleces all wool black Novel- 500 Unlaundered Shirts, the 40 inches wide, worth $1.00 . 49c Handkerchiefs patent facings, reinforced back and front, a regular 69 Shirt, per'yard, fair week pric 100 dozen hem fine Handk chiefs will go in the fair week will go in’ this sale at sale at 25¢c Belt Buckles go at. 6 dozen china Dress Buttons... bought 1 big lot of Men' the new razor an would be a barg fair week. Ladies’ Shoes A fine dongola Shoe, in lace and button, pointed and square toe, a special bargain for fal week . Shoes, in quare toes, Bargains A 5 g .00 c Belts go at expressly| dozen Pearl Buttons go at.... as these we c 50 s o 1 1ot of 5 Kinds In pretty and & = ¢y All silk Belts at. desirable patterns, will go at.. 100 Belts and heav buckles this week. for this great Fair Week’s Sale. 390¢c ular 8c 5 0) -y ncy bosom TLaun- worth $1. 200 Night Shirt kind, will go at. 50 dozen f dered Shirt this sale. L, bl lot or mae Shirts, worth 60c, 75c and $1.00, & this fair week sale. "38c 200 dozen workingmen's Shirts, worth Goc, fair week. Hosiery 100 dozen Bo at 1 big lot of fine French Serge in all_colors, worth 7c p yard, will go at. Fair Week Prices Free to rest in 9c¢c 3c I51¢] 8ic .. 10c¢c ladies' black Hose 2 o 00 pleces of Jamestown Novel- p es, a very fine, ful ine, will 6> == 80 at (worth twice the px'lu-).duc offer in Toweling. . 6Gic 10c laundered 1 1ot will go at 1 lot Baby Shoes will go at.... 22c 1 1ot of ladies' black hose..... SFC 1 lot will go at for 10c Toweling, Some at. % pleces Jamestown Noveltics, B mixture, worth $1.00 per IS4 yard, fair week price. 450 any time 1 lot will go at.. All worth double this price, Ladies’ Waists Must week . 200 dozen ladles' scamless Hose 12" 130 Toweling Childs' Tan Oxfords.... ten days L’(K\lduz‘cn ;uspvnlhxrs, silk finish web, leather trimmed mohair, »10c and’a regular 2ic Suspend black ¢ 12 1, All the Tan Shoes will be closed out 2C cheap. Our shoes are all leather and all new goods. We warrant every of shoes that leaves our store. the New York Store Shoe Department Some double toe and heel at.. 1 you like. inches wide, novelties and thing desirable,worth $1.50 ard, falr week prlccus 980 18c Toweling Dlac There prices are for fair week only— pe 1 case of men's Hose, and tan, seamless, They are all pure linen and will be fast black, worth uaranteed worth double these prices. , this sale a —Worth 69, all go—Worth e, this @0 only in the fair week sale. and save money. NEW YORK STORE ms e DODGE and 15t ts Across From Old Post office HAMILTON'S LOFTY LOOKOUT Nightly Study of the Stars at 4,200 Feet Above Sea Level. LICK OBSERVATORY AND ITS DIRECTOR Important Result Achieved by the Beneficence of n California Argo- naut—The Heavens Viewed Through the Telescope. (Copyright, 1895, by . 8. McClure, Limited.) It one of those inhabitants of the planet Mars, about the possibllity of whose existence the public has been kept fully informed dur- ing the past three or four years—but con- cerning which I prefer to hazard no conjec- tures—if one of those supposititious personages should succeed in transporting himsclt to the earth, it 1= possible that he would discover nowhere on this planet an object of greater interest to him than a certain picturesque mountain In one of the coast ranges of Call- fornia, rising out of a landscape of gold into a sky of sapphire, and crowned with a white dome which, long after the Atlantic sea- board has been shrouded with night, shines resplendent in the parting rays of the sun about to sink behind the Pacific. Being, of necessity, by te nature of his mission, an astronomer, the imaginary tourist from across tho ether would not be long in ascertaining that the high-perched dome belongs to the Lick observatory, seated on Mount Hamilton, the Olympus of terrestrial star-worshipers. An adventurer in a strange world, what could more resistlessly attract him than tho work of men, like minded with himself, who had constructed and put into operation an fnstrument of magnificent power for the purpose of scrutinizing the other globes sur- tounding them in space? What a welcome would he receive in the spacious halls of that observatory, and how breathlessly would the astronomers up there listen to his words, as, with eye applied to the giant telescope, e explained the mystery of all those singu- r features of his planet which had so long stimulated thelr imagination and bafled their sclence. Ho might find the great glass superior or inferior to his own telescope at home, but in any event it would not lack interest in his eyes. And the attention he would inevitably bestow upon it might result in awakening among ourselves a keener in- terest in the most powerful instrument of our astronomy. I call It the most powerful becauso 1t has not yet besn demonstrated that the still larger glass about to be erected on the prairies of Lake Michigan will effec- tively excel its huge predecessor on the Call- fornia peak. And could our Martian visitor carry home a ‘more extraordinary traveler's tale than that of the eccentric beneficenco of James Lick, who bequeathed $700,000 for the purpose of constructing and putting up a telescope superior to and more powerful than any telescope yet made;” and whose body, by his own request, now lics in the base of the great pler, from which nightly swings the ormous tube, questioning the heavens? DIRECTOR OF THE OBSERVATORY. James Lick's own idea smacked of Quixot- fsm, but, fortunately, the execution of that fdes fell tnto hands ‘which moulded it fnto sclentific practicabllity. The man to whom more than to any other except him whose name it bears the world s Indebted for the Lick observatory is Edward 8. Holden, L.L. D. In 1874, when D. O. Mills, one of the trustees under Mr. Lick's will, went to Wash ington to consult Prof. Stmon Newcomb re ding the plans for the proposed obs ry he met Mr. Holden, then an assistant to Prof. Newcomb, and In October of the same year Holden was appointed director of tho new enterprise, With the collaboration of Prof. Newcomb he immediately prepared plans covering the entire undertaking and it was essentlally in accordance with the plans then submitted that the observatory was con- structed and its work laid out and organized. Dr. Holden has, therefore, been personally at the head of the lusiitution from its be- beqd - 4 ginning and all of its achievements have been effcted along the lines indicated by him. So much of the life of an astronomer is passed far aside from the ordinary currents of human affairs and human interests that he 1s sometimes regarded as having little or no connection with them. It s true that there are men devoted to certain laborious branches of practical astronomy who do not seem to have cut themselyes off from the world, but the leaders in the science have as many points of contact and as much sympathy with the life of their time as are possessed by any men of similar intellectual endowments, and there s no one to whom this remark more fittingly applies than to Dr. Holden. Thirty odd years ago he had his first glimpse of a star through a telescope. The telescope was the large refracter of the Harvard collego observatory, then under the directlon of Holden's cousin, the celebrated George Bond, and the star was Alpha Lyrae, the delight of astronomers in al! ages, a marvel of beauty and a spur to scientifie inquiry. Ten years later he was lieutenant of engineers in the army of the United States and he resigned his commission to become an assistant to Prof. Newcomb In the naval observatory. He had been ' graduated from the military academy at West Point in 1870 and had served as_Instructor of astronomy there in 1872-73. b EDWARD 8. HOLD! 2CTOR LICK Born at St. Louis, Mo., November 5, 1846, of & Massachuseits family, he had been sent east for his youthful education, but, having to re- turn to St. Louls, had been graduated from the sclentific school of Washington university in 1866, He counts himself fortunate In his teach- ers. At Washington university almost all his work was done under the eye of Prof. William Chauvenet, whose *‘Practical Astronomy" is one of the few text-books of which the nu- tritive powers last from generation to genera- tion, while at West Point he experlenced the stimulus of personal contact with another great mathematical teacher, Prof. Bartlett. Prof. Mahan of West Point and Prof. Henry of the Smithsonian institution were also among his most influential teachers, Such men, while a delight to stroug minds, are like spirited horses to a poor rider when con- fronted with pupils of mediocre talents, but Holden stood the test and came refreshencd and strengthened from their presence. Notwithstanding the powerful mathema cal blas of his education up to his twenty- fourth year young Holden early exhibited literary talents, and his graduating thesis in 1860 was on “The Scientific Use of the Imagi- nation,” a subject suggested to him by Prof. Chauvenet some years before the publication of Tyndall's famous essay. During his army service he wrote several notable papers on_fortification. 4,200 FEET ABOVE SEA LEVEL. But his real life work began at the time previously mentioned, when he was sclected to organize and direct the Lick observatory. I the telescope, “superior and more powerful than any telescope yet made,” which James Lick's trust provided for, had been set up in San Francisco or Sacramento or some other place near sea level it is more than probable that its fatlure would have discouraged future efforts to construct giant telescopes. The peak of Mount Hamliton is almost a i essential a part of the world's greatest ob- servatory as is the huge glass itself. It rises about 4,200 feet above the sea level, an elevation sufficient to carry it above the denser and more impure air of the valleys and the seashore, but its elevation alone is not what gives it distinction. The great telescope might have been perched equally high or higher, and yet have proved a faii- ure. It was only after careful examination and a series of elaborate experiments that Mount Hamilton was selected, and the choice was made because that peak possesses an exceptional situation. Al summer, and in- deed from April to October, &€ afternoon fogs roll in from the Pacifie, and, from an elevation of 1,500 or 2,000 feet, cover the Santa Clara_valley at the western foot Mount Hamilton, thus from the radiation of the heated valley. consequence is that during six or seven months of the year the air enveloping the peak at night is wonderfully clear and steady and the most delicate astronomical observa- tions can be carried on hour after hour with- out interruption. But in the daytime, when there are no fogs over the land and when the valley is sending its warm air currents high above the mountain, the “seeing,” as the astronomers term it, is no better on Mount Hamilton than elsewhere; perhaps sometimes it Is worse. Then, too, in the winter months the air is not particularly steady there, so that the Lick observatary accomplishes its best work in the summer, and is not specially suited to daytime ob- servations at any season. But during more than half the nights of the year the sum- mit of Mount Hamilton is a favored spot of earth, seen from which the heavens ap- pear indeed an exquisite vision. DR. HOLDEN'S ASSOCIATES. The Lick observatory was completed in the summer of 1888, less than two years after the death of its founder, and Dr. Holden then set on foot the work of ‘actual observation, which has since made the name of the institution famous in every civilized land. No one sup- poses, of course, that the director of a great observatory himself performs all the labor. He has associates and assistants working in accordance with the general plan of the or- ganization. Mount Hamilton already counts several brilliant names in the list of its working astronomers, such as . ‘W. Burn- ham, the greatest observer and disco double stars that the world has yet known; E. E. Barnard, the discoverer of the Fifth Satellite of Jupiter, and of many comets, and whose planetary observations and photo- graphs of nebulae and stars, taken all in all; are of unrivaled excellence and impor- tence in astronomical spectroscopy; W. W. front in astronamical spectroscopy; W w. Campbell, another authority in the same branch of science, and J. M. Schaeberle, whose work in mathematical and physical astronomy ranks high. Two of these, Mr. Burnham and Mr. Keeler, have not, for several years past, been connected with the Lick observatory, and Mr. Barnard is also about to transfer his work elsewhere, SUPERIOR EQUIPMENT. Of course all of the observers cannot em- ploy the great telescope at the same time, and 0 it became necessary at the beginning to apportion Its use among them according to the nature and the pressure of the par- ticular work which each had in hand. From the start the Lick cbservatory had a twelve- inch refracting telescope, in addition to the great thirty-six-inch instrument, which is its chiet glory, and other smaller glasses, so that Dr. Holden was able to provide to some extent for the needs of his assoclates in the vals between their nights at the large Quite recently an immense addition has been made to the instrumental equip- ment of the observatory, through the gift of a thirty-six-inch reflecting telescope, by Mr. Edward Crossley of England. This telescope was made by Mr. A. A, Common, In 1579, and won a wide reputation for itself, even in the foggy atmosphere of the British Isles. In Dr. Holden's original plans a large reflect- ing telescope had played an important figure, but sufficlent money to procure it was not forthcoming from Mr. Lick’s endowment. Finally Dr. Holden entered into negotlations with Mr. Crossley, looking to the purchase of the instrument in question, and these negotiations ended last April in Mr. Crossley's free gift of the Instrument to the Lick observatory, provided that the observatory would pay the cost of transport- ing the telescope from England and setting it up ready for work a its new home. Dr. Holden was not long in raising the requisi sum in California, and within a few mouThs of | screening the mountain The | rer of | Mount Hamilton will have a glant reflector working shoulder to shoulder with its glant refractor in the conquest of the skies. It Is interesting to note that th: two tele- scopes are just the same diameter—three feet, although exact opposites in principle of construction. In a refiactor the n thing is the object glass; in a_reflector, it is the mirror. It s easy to see how this addi- tion to the cquipment of the observatory will economizo the time of the observers. OCCURRENCES OF A NIGHT. People often ask, “What goes on in an observatory, anyhow?"” It may interest the reader to answer that question, in part, by describing briefly the occurrences of a night —an actual working night—spent in ths Lick observatory, by the writer, in the au- tumn of 1893, It was Mr. Barnard's night at the great telescope and, with the con- sent of Dr. Holden, I was’ admitted under the vast dome, entering in the dying light of a faultless September day, The particu- lar work which Mr. Barnard had in hand tioned, for they reveal at a glimpse what the field is that he labors in. Is it any wonder that the astronomer finds a scientific use for the inspiration? MEASURING DOUBLE STARS. One special branch of Mr. Barnard’s work that night was, as I have said, the measure- ment of certain close double stars, or that class of double stars, called “binaries,” in which a motion or revolution of the two around their common center has been Hour after hour passed in this Magnified in the gloom to more gigantic proportions, the great tube was moving from star to star, now pointing overhead, now dropping far down the slope of the sky, while from time to time the 75-foot dome i by the easy application of powerful mechanism, was caused to revolve upon its base in order to keep the long, narrow opening in line with the axis of the telescope. The process for each star was: First, consultation of a cata- ent. THE 36-INCH REFRACTION TELESCOPE. was the measurement of certaln close and Qifficult doublo stars, and, later, the ob- servation of the new Sateliife of Jupiter, dis- covered by him abomt a year before. It was, of course, understood that I should in no way interrupt. his work, althougi he generously gave me every possible oppor- tunity to see for myself what the giant could do. I havemnot by me my notes of what was seen that night, and probably a general transcription of those notes would but little interest, but there were a pings which were branded upon my memory. One of these was a view of tht moon with the sunrise line glittering upon the towering ‘“Appennines,” and with ths “Valley of the Alps,' struggling out of the {mmense shadows of its enclosing precipices. Another menrorable spectacle was _ the great star cluster in the Constellition Hercules, @ ball of suns with pendant sun-tassels, No other telescope had ever shown me the heart of that wonder; perhaps no other in the world could have shown It. I remember a third marvel {n Andromeda, where two close-linked blue suns slowly circle around a golden-hued neighbor dubbed “Comufa,” In the star catalogues; and yet a fourth in Gemini, where a lone sun is mys- terlously girded about with a vast pale nebulae, whose circular disk 18 severed in the midst by a concentrlc ring, perfect in outline and a8 black as ink! To describa these things is not, I confess, to describe the work of an astronomer, yet they whould not go unmen- logue or note book, in order to locate the star in the sky by what one may call its latitude and longltude; then a turning of the telescope to the designated place, a quick, critical scrutiny of the object, a rapid ad- Justment of the microvetrical measuring ap- paratus attached to the eye-plece, a careful Gouble-reading of the graduated screws and circles determining the distance apart and direction from one another of the two stars constituting the “binary,” and lastly, pen- ciled notes jotted in a book—and everything was ready for the next couple of distant suns. Thus through the livelong night stores were gathered of that pure kind of knowledge which s cultivated for its own sake alone. The world would wag just the same if the periods of revolution of those circling brinary stars remained unknown, but no man who respects the human mind would dare to say that the work accomplished by night on Mount Hamilton is not, In the long run, at least, as important to humanity as s the work accomplished by day in Wall street. The east was flooded with the sun before the observations of Juplter began, the reason for the delay being that the newly discovered satellite did not attain its greatest elongation from the planet until just before sunrise, I was surprised at the ease with which I was able to see it, an excessively minute point of Iight, 8o close to the huge belted form of Jupiter, The observation was facilitated by @ plece of smoked mica in the eye plece, be- hind which the glaring disk of the great placet was placed while the little satellite, being uncovered, shone with all the strength of its feeble light. Mr. Barnard's observa- ticns had for their ultimate object the de- termination of the exact period of the satellite’s revolution around the planet. As its distance from Jupiter increased he meas- ured it again and again, jotting the result of each measurement in his notebook, and re- suming the work as quickly as possible. In this way the satellite could be followed out to the extremity of its orbit (which, from the earth, appears nearly as a short straight line running through Jupiter's center), and the moment when its greatest distance was attained and it began to approach the planet could be approximately determined. While these and other similar observa- tlons were going on in the great dome Mr. Campbell, to whom I paid a brief visit in the course of the night, was busy with a smaller telescope in another part of the observatory, photographing the spectra of nebulae. And this, of course, was not all of the work going on that night in the little colony of astronomers, perched so high above the busy world that ‘the electric lights of San Jese down in the valley resembled a swarm of distant fire files. It was only all that I saw. When we stepped out of the dome the sun was just lifting itself from behind the Sierra Nevada mountains, whose outline, printed against the eastern sky, 130 miles away, was a saw-edge of fire. THE WORK ALREADY DONE, It is Interesting to observe how many of the special researches Indlcated by Dr. Holden in his memorandum of 1874, as suit- able to be undertaken by the new observa- tory, have already been completed or brought abreast of the time. Among these are the de- termination of the position of certain funda- mental stars; the photographic record of sun spots; photographs of the brighter planets, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn and Mars and of the moon; photographing the spectra of stars; the observation and measurement of double stars; the photographing of nebulae; the observation of earthquake phenomena (which are not infrequent in California), not to speak of the prompt publication of the r sults obtained. This last named object h been achieved both through the popular p and in a more officlal and technical through the principal sclentific periodicals of the world, and particularly the “Publica- tions of the Lick Observatory” and the “Pub- lications of the Astronomical Soclety of the Pacific,” of which Dr. Holden was the founder. Dr. Holden's own writings on astronomical subjects are mainly contained in these publications, as well as in the pub- lications of the Naval observatory and of the Washburn observatory, at Madison, Wis., whose director and practicl organizer he was between 1881 and 1 while the work of constructing the Lick of atory was golng on in accordance with his plans. Ho Is also the author of a “Life of Sir William Herschel” and co-author with Prof. Newcomb of a valuable text book of astronomy for sehools and colleges. His ““Monograph of the Orfon Nebulae” represents the utmost that the telescope could ach in unraveling the mysteries of that chaotic corner of celestial space before the recent successful applica- tion of photography to such work. The ob- servations there recorded wero made with the 26-inch glass of the Naval observatory. Speaking of celestial photography, it should be sald that the great Lick telescope pos- sesses a photographic lens with which among other things photographs of the moon have been obtained so excellent that upon en- largiiig them Dr. Weinek of Prague has dls- covered the existence of lunar detalls which had escaped the scrutiny of the largest tele- scopes when used with the eye alone, The director of the Lick cbservatory Is, of course, a member of many sclentifid socleties in this country, and in addition Is a corre- sponding member of the Itallan Spectroscopic soclety, etc., a forelgn assoclatw of the Royal Astronomical soclety, an honorary member of the Astronomical Boclety of F commander of the Order of th House of Saxony. “I am very g bas sald, “for many things in my life, two in particular—one, that it bas so far becn pos- sible for mo to do the work which is most congenlal, and second that it has happened that this work lay in countries which were beautiful and interesting of themsclves, West Point, Madison, Wis., Mount Ham are exceptionally beaut situatione—and Washington and San Franciseo are two of the most Interesting cities in America. And 50 to the eyes even of tho astronomer, 58 form on—all | the earth itself is not the least beaut the celestial bodies, sl of GARRETT P. SERVISS. —_—— Rey. James Boyd Brady, pastor of tha ople’s templo of Boston, fell from his bie le at Ocean Grove, N. J, breaking hif arm. Rev. Moses D. Hoge of Richmond, Va., has been pastor of the Second Presbyterlan church in that city for fifty yeers. His gregation includes grandchildren of formes members of his flock. Hul Kin {s the first Chinaman to be of dained as a Christain minister in the eastern part of the United States. He i a Presbyter fan and has lived in New yocXsince he cama to this country, twenty years ago. Rev. H. Loomis, at the last meeting of the American Bible soclety, in a letter from Japan, reported the total number of volumes distributed in the Japanese army and navy, up to June 17 to be 2,500 testaments and 120,0 000 gospel Rev, C, F'. Gates of Chicago, who has beer elected president of the Euphrates college at Harpoot, In Turkey, is about 45 years old. Ho 1s @ fine looking man, with regular features and wearing a moustache, He has been & missionary for fifteen years, Rev. Dr. P. F. Quigley, a noted priest of Toledo, O., Is dead. The doctor was a fighten in his day. He successfully resisted the age gressions of Bishop Gilmour, and fought the enforcement of the truant law in parochial schools through the courts of the state and was vanquished. Russia shows no slgns of a more liberal pot ley with regard to religious bellef under the sent reign than in that of Alexander T according to a_ukase recently issued ad St. Petersburg, no Hebrew will henceforth bo permitted to embrace the Christian faith uns ¢s his wife, children, brothers and parenty s well. This s destined to stop tha ico hitherto pursued by the Jews of ficing one of the family to the Russian church and thercby acquiring for all the other members the right of earning a livells hood on the plea that they are employes in & business conducted by the convert, By ane other special injunction the Jews are Proe hibited from joinipg the Catholic or Pros testant churclies, the Russian orthodox ese tablishment being alone considered the righl and proper form of P You ask me if I'm golng to the fair. You may bet your holy socks that I'll there. L. You may paste it In your hat, You may put it down at that, T'll be ther T'll hitch my old mule team to the cart, From the trall to the fair I'll never parly ot there by hook or crook, no With my pumpkins and my apples I'll arl And I'll take them to the falr to get rize. And"if they don't get “the I am afraid that I shall burst The Judge's eyes, % With my chickens and my old brindled cow, With my cross-eyed dog and barrcl-hoops EOW, ou_mi Tll be there to yell and For & row. bet your bottom dollar, : “holle / ¢ 2. 8. Cases ——— Very n hrend, A hank or cut of cotton always consists o} 840 yards, Messrs. Thomas Houldsworth & Co. of England produced by their machinery gotton yarn or cotton threads so fine that ouf of one pound welght of cotton were spun 10,000 hanks, or a thread of 4,770 miles Iy length, Of course, the thread was too fine tq be of any practical value. It demonstrated only the perfection of the machinery, Nq material Wdmita of such fine splnning as doeg cotton. Messrs, Houldsworth spun out of on pound of sea fsland cotton a thread 1,0 miles In length that was quite strong enough for use. With linen yarn a bank or cut copq | slsts of 300 yards vy A Grid d State. ™ There Is #aid to be only one settlement ft Massachusetts located more than a doze miles from a rallroad. Cummington I8 thirs teon miles from the nearest line, but is onl: a little further away from three other rai roads, belug near the center of a QuAr§ formed by four soads.