The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 23, 1896, Page 25

HE recent remarkable discoveries of Professor Roentgen when en- gaged in experimental work with a Crookes tube have brought prominently before the world the name of William Crookes, a name that was already famous in the world of science. There are, indeed, few if any among the scientific leaders of the latter half of the nineteenth century who have had a more brilliant and varied career than the author of the vacuum tubes which have made possible the recent startling developments in photography. He was born in London in 1832, and at an early age turned his attention to pho- tography. After a course at the Royal N 42~ ‘William Crookes, Inventor of the Crookes Tube. College of Chemistry ynder Dr. Hoffman, during which, at the age of 17, he gained he Ashburton scholarship, he became in time senior assistanito his tutor. His e was rapid, and at the age of 22 he was inted superiniendent of the meteor- ent of the Radcliffe Ob- In 185y he founded , and five years later he of the Quarterly Journal of 1 research. In 1861, wkile examin- ues from a sulphuric acid iscovered the new metallic ele- 1 This was foliowed by his a Fellow of the Royal Society “‘delicate stereopticon investi- ion_with the newly ich led him to the ’ which has hands.” is deeply indebted to ion to the value of n of gold. led in the aid of the ores. In 1879 he was at work on his investiga- tions o “‘Repulsion Resulting From Radia- tion,” to which question his atteation had been drawn by his observing the action of heavy pieces of glass which he was weigh- a vacuum - balance, which, by the vay, was his own inve In 1877 he invented the otheoscope, and in the same year science signified its indebtedness to | him by electing him a member of the Royal Socie: In a paper before the society he stated that he had “‘succeeded in obtaining a vacuum so nearly approaching perfection that the pressure in it was only .4 mil- lionth of an atmosphere.” These experi- ments led to very important results; for it was found that in such an treme vacuum gases pass into an ultra-gaseous state, which Professor Crookes termed a state of “radiant matter,” and, further, these extreme vacua opened np the way for the incandescent lamp. In addition to his extensive works in the | laboratory Professor Crookes has been a voluminous contributor to the scientific literature of the age. Amongother works he has written ‘‘A Handbook of Dyeing and Calico Printing,” “Select Methods in Chemical Analysis,”’ a manual of “Dye- ing ana Tissue Printing,” a work on “*The Solution of the Sewage Question.”” He has translated and edited Reimann’s “An- iline and Its Derivatives,”” Wagner's great work on ‘Chemical Technology” and many other works of scientific prominence have emanated from his busy pen. The splendid results which have at- tended Professor Crookes’ labors are not to be attributed solely to his undoubted genius for experiment and obsetvation. They are largely the result of persistent Lard work carried out on logical lines and with strict attention to method. He pos- sesses that “‘infinite capacity for taking pains'’ which is indispensable to genius, if its powers are to produce valuable, lasting results. : A Convenient Shower-Bath., The convenient foldable attachment to an ordinary bathtub shown in the illus- tration consists of a casing, along the sidgs and ends of which 13 a perforated pipe ar- New Shower-Bath. ranged to be connected by & hose with one or both faucets of the bathtub. The sides )i the box or casing are connected by nges with the ends, and the laiter are ade in two_parts, connected by hinges, 2 3 e (that is her husband) is very kind to rermit tolding, as shown in the small | Pod¥. e (et 8 Lor b e speaks to or of her. “the box are lugs to support the per- forated pipe, and the bathtub is also referably supphed with lugs to support \“c box “in proper position, when the ter, by rasing and lowerin, lnim':elg box, can readily expose all parts of body to the jets of water.—Bcientific The Court of George IV. eis not, the Westminster Gazette any very general demand for a “rrecord than those already available '“¢ court of England under the last and tof the Georges. The period has ha_d clers in plenty, and perhaps there is ug of any im'porunce to told ‘1t that has not been told already. ¢isnoend to the record of the k sor Crookes had a natural love for | urrent. This agent, ‘, of inordinate ambition and of little heart,” | r c with various mercurial | but it is admitted that the Queen was in a and particularly with mercury | great measure indebted to him for the de, has rendered possible the ex- | brilliant termination of her trial. Here is S, AN FRANCISCO CALL, NDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1896 9 5 | jealousies and junketings, the intrigues and gossip, which were so prevalent in fashionable society when the First Gentle- | man of Europe was Regent, and those who like to read about these things will find in a work just puolished under the title of ““The Court of England Under George IV. Founded on a Diarv Interspersed with Letters Written by Queen Caroline and | Various Other Distinguished Persons,” much to interest them. It consists toa large extent of extracts from the diary of one—a woman, clearly— Who was on_intimate terms with the | Princess of Wales, and of a number of letters written by that unhappy person- age, and by other lords and ladies who | were her contemporaries. Some well- known Diterary men—Sir Walter Scott and Byron eamong them—come in for occa- sional notice by the writers of the diary and the letters, and what is said about them affords a pleasant relief from the society chatter of which the text mainly consists. The work covers the period from 1810—when the Prince became Re- gent—to 1820, when he became King, and when Princess Caroline died, and an | air of mystery is given to the contents by the absence of an introduction or any | editorial comment whatever. Everybody knows the sad story of | Princess Caroline. The writer of the diary, while not blind to the Princess’ faults, | thought her an exccedingly ill-used | woman. She was often with the Prince and much of the first volume is a chro {cle of her Royal Highness' sayings and | doings. The Princess, of course, often spoke about her troubles to her intimate | friends. “I, you know, was the victim of Mammon; the Prince of Wales’ debts | must_be paid, and poor little I's person was the pretense.””’ She blamed the fact | that the Prince had been compelled to | marry her for all her subsequent trouble. ‘“‘Had I come over here as a Princess with | my father on a visit, as- Mr. Pitt once | | wanted my father io have done, things | might have been different.”” Byt from the | | very firstshe wastreated abominably. The | | story of the Prince Regent's conduct on the occasion of his marriage has often been told. Here itisin the Princess’ own words: | gladly assist me in so interesting a pur- collection of ballads. Some of them, if I—my- self a ballad-monger—may be permitted to judge, have a very uncommon shareof poet. icnl merit, and the autnor of these beautiful pieces, some of them which I used to re- peat to you at the delightful attic evenings 0f ——street, is now actually an hired servant, 1 have been exerting all the little influence I possess to fill up such a subscription as may enable him to stock a small farm from the profits; and I have been very successful here. This is the tender-hearted, generous Walter Scatt all over, and the ap&)eal. itis pleasant to note, did not fall on deaf ears. “Ishall do my utmost to get subscribers to the Shepherd’s work,”’ says the writer of the diary, to whom the letter was ad- dressed, “and I set forth immediately to Sir Humphry Davy, who [ knew would suit.” A Floating Ambulance. The Metropolitan Asylnum Board of Lon- don has just decided upon building an ambulance for use on the river Thames. The arrangement of the craft is shown in the accompanying cut. Her dimensions fested in the use of compressed air, but the builders of the finest engines have lately constructed several in which are embodiea improvements which largely increase their utility. Some of these later locomotives of the type showa in the accompanying illustrations are in use in | mines at Vivian, W. Va., and two_have ; been built for the New Orleans and West- -l ern Railroad for use in the cotton-sheds, | where the use of steam locomotives is not permissible on account of the danger of fire. The hew locomotives are approximately 10 feet 53¢ inches long, 5 feet 8 inches wide and 4 feet 5 inches high, and weigh 10,000 pounds. [t wil be scen from these figures\ and from the ill ation that they are adapted for running in very small open- ings. The cylindersare 5 feet 10 inches, and the driving-wheels, of which there are four, are 23 inches in diameter. The stor- age tank has a capacity of 47 cubic feet of air and a working Sressurg of 535 pounds per square inch, and there is also an auxil- lary reservoir.” The locomotive main tank is designed for 600 pounds, but the work- are as follows: Length between perpen- diculars, 60 feet; breadth, 12 feet 6 inches; depth, 4 feet; draught of water when fully equipped, 2 feet 8 inches. The hull is built of Siemens-Martin mild steel throughout to Board of Trade require- ments for passenger certificate. She is built in five compartments. In the fore part of the vessel isa cabin for the accom- modation of the staff and for visitors pro- ceeding to visit patients in the hospital ing pressure for the service intended is | about 535 pounds. A three-stage com- | pressor is used, pumping mnto a 3-inch | pive-line, which serves to. connect the compressor to the most convenient point | of charging the motors, and also acts as an air reservoir, the compressor and pipe- | line being competent to withstand a pres- sure of 800 pounds. : These locomotives, which take the place of mules, are to be used in side entries and in making up trains in the rooms of the mine and delivering the trains to the main THE RIVER AMBULAN shipsin Long Reach, Dartford, and is ca- pable of accommodating about twenty persons. 1In the after part there isa cabin “Judge,” said she, “what it was to have s | drunken’ husband on one’s wedding day, and one who passed the greatest part of his bridal night under the grate, where he fell, and where I left h ay 10 me 8t dis u ps ur life over agein or > killed? I would choose death; for you know. a little sooner or later we mustall die; but to live a life of wretchedness twice over— | | oh! mine God, no!"* No doubt after the separation the Princess did not always act wisely, and | as early as 1811 we learn that *the poor | Princess was losing ground every day in | the opinion of the public.”” But the writer | subscquentiy adds, “To those who knew | the Princess in the first days of her arrival in Britain, and the set by which she was surrounded, it must'ever be apparent that all her subsequent faults and follies ad- | mitted of great extenuation’’—a conclusion | with which most people will agree. | Lord Broucham, who championed the | cause of the Queen, appears several times in these pages. He is described as ‘‘a man ! | an extract in which is recorded the Queen’s | last joke: | Onthelastday of the trial, when requested | to retire and take some refreshments she per- | emptorily refused to doso, and on some persons | offering the Queen refreshments which they had brought for their own use she declined ac- cepting them, saying I can take a chop at the King’s Head if I am hungry,” alluding to the tavern bearing that sign near the House of | Lords. There was much ready wit in that re- ply, but it was, peraaps, ill-timea, and she was never afterward heard to make & joke or seen | to smile. | TItis more pleasant to turn from those | unhappy incidentsand note what the diary and letters bave to Say concerning some of the literary men.of the period. ere isan | interesting extract from an Oxford letter, | dated March, 1811: Talking of books, we have lately had a liter- ary Sun shine forth upon us here, before whom our former luminaries inust hide their di- minished heads—a Mr. Shelley of University College, who lives upon arsenic, aquafortis, half an hour's sleep in the night, and des rately in love with the memory of Margaret | Nicholson. He hath published what he terms | the Posthumous Poems, printed for the benefit of Peter Finnerty, which, Lam grieved to say, though stuffed full of treason, are extremely dull; but the author is a great genius, and if he be not ciapped up in Bedlam or hanged will certainly prove one of the sweetest swans on the tuneful margin of the Charwell. Later in the same year we are told by the same correspondent that “the atheist- ical Mr. Sheliey hath been expelled from the. university on account of his atheisti- cal pamphlet.” But the writer, it should | be noted, asks, ““Was ever such bad taste and barbarity shown?”’ There is a refer- ence to Campbell, whose conversation, it is said, “Always awakens thought and feeling; everything that is his own is ele- gant and enthusiastic’'—a sencence which hits off the author of the ‘‘Pleasures of Hope’’ very neatly. Of Byron we get in the letters some in- teresting glimpses. Here is one. The Princess of Wales, writing in 1810, says: Lord Byron did inquire for you also, I must not forgel to mention. He was ail couleur de rose last evening and very pleasant; he sat be- side me at supper, and we were very merry; he is quite anoder n when he is wid people he like and who like him, than he is when he is wid oders who do not please him so well. I al- when Iinvite him 1 say I ask the agreeable | lord, not the disagreeable one. He take my plaisanterie all in good part, and I flatter my- self I am rather s fayorité with this great bard. H. R. H. did not hesitate at times lol criticize the bard. “I am sorry to men- tion,” she writes on another occasion, “that his last poem upon ‘The Decadence of Bonaparte’ is worthy neither his pen nor his muse.” But the Princess’s compe- tence as a critic on such a subject is at least open to question. Among other literary men of the time that come in for mention are Southey, Mackenzie, ‘‘the. Man ‘of Feeling,” Pro- fessor Wilson and Sir Walter Scott. Little is ever said anywhere concerning the lady of Abbotsford, but here is a kindly refer- ence to her: Idined the other day at the “Man of Feel- ing’s,”” Mr. Mackenzie's, and had the honor and pleasure of sitting next Walter Scott. He talked a great deal of you. * * * Mrs. Seott was a)so present at that party, of whicn I made mention, and seems a merry, good-humored By 1812 “Rokeby”’ had been published, and this is how the poem struck an early reader: =1 recelved Walter Srgout's‘ “Bollx‘ee:};: ‘ln zbed t with & transport of impal e .:xiz r'edldlnlz it in bed. Iam already in the Srn canto—my soul has glowed with what he ustly terms ‘‘the art unteachable.” My veins ave thrilled; my heart has throbbed; my eyes have filled with tears—during its perusal. The poet who can thus master the passions to do hmmdlnl must be indeed a poet. i The diary also contains a letter from Sir Walter, in which he asks for assistance for a brother bard: I allude to my old friend and your acquaint- fitted up asa hospital, with four berths— two being fixed and two portable—and with all the necessary requirements for | carrying four recumbent patients. Both of these cabins are heated with steam, and are provided with suitable skylights and nlll the necessary fittings for a boat of its class. The machinery is fixed amidships and is | of the triple-expansion type with surface condenser and capable of driving the ves- sel at a speed of ten knots. A water-tight trimming tank is built at the fore end of the vessel of sufficient capacity that when filled with water it will bring the vessel to an even keel of 2 feet 8§ inches. Novelties for Bicyclists. Among late novelties for bicyclists is the mud guard which is arranged to follow 1 entry, where they are handled by steam | locomotives. The average length of each i side entry is 4500 feet, with grades of 137 | per cent in favor of the' loaded cars. The | zauge of the traci is 3 fcet§ inches, the | weight of the rails 16 pounds per yard and the ius of tne sharpest curve 24 feet. | The locomotives are designed to make the round trip of 9000 feet with six cars with rand to work on curyes ins. The weight of the loaded 8500 tons. | to be the first introduction | of any kind of mechgnical haulage any- | where for sole use in butt entries and rooms. The low costof installation and operation and the greater adaptation to the conditions of the service and require- wents caused the pneumatic system of | haulage to beadopted in preference to elec- tric baulage, although an electric plant had already been determined upon for working the mining machines.—Philadel- the movements of the front wheel, so that | Phia Record. splashing of mud upon the rider from the | front wheel is made impossible. Its weight | Mrs. Sarah Francis Dick, cashier of the is very small, and it can be attached with- i Tirst, National Bank of Hunungton, Ind., The Only Woman Bank Cashier. ways tell him there are two Lord Byrons; and |. Mud-Guard for the Front Wheel. out the use of tools in a few seconds. It | folds in very small space, and when not in use the entire guard can_ be strapped close to the frame without taking it off the | wheel. | A novelty for racers, which gives quite |a curious aspect to the bicycle, has also | been patented recently. It is ashoulder- | rest for the wheelman, which allows him to press bimself strongly with his chest | and shoulders against the front part of the mackine, permitting him to use con- siderable additional power upon , the pedals. The attachment consists of a Shouider-Rest. staff *“A,” which is pushed backward and upward at its lower end by meansof a spring “K”: the apparatus” is fastened with steel tubes, brazed to the steering- head as continuations of the cross-picces | of the frame, and is held in place by the setscrew “).” The shoulder-rests proper can be fitted to suit the individual rider. Locomotives Without Fire. Under certain conditions in mines or in enjoys the distinction of being the only Wwoman cashier of a national bank in the United States. She was appointed ‘as- sistant cashier in 1873, and in January, 1881, at the reorganization of the bank, she succeeded her father a8 cashier, and was also chosen as director, and has held these positions since that date. . Mrs. Dick isa daughter of the present president of the bank. She received a common school education in the schools of H igton. From her childhood sk :d_an inclination to pursue a life, and accordingly took a course of training in a business college at Dayton, Ohio, taking. a pose tion in the bank shortly alter graduating. She was married to Jalius Dick, a prom- inent merchant of the city, in 1878, but the marriage did not interfere wiih her | work in the bank, | Mrs. Dick is quick and accurate in trans- actions aud an expert in handling cur- rency and coin. She writes a very rapid, heavy, bold hand. The rapidity with which’' she dispatches business has been freely commented on. She has no assist- | ant, but with accurate deftness she keeps | the bank clear of a crowd during |a rush of business. She writes the notes, drafts and deposit certificates; computes the interest on collections, cashes checks and discounts papers, ete., with such swiftness that a gentleman was one day moved to keep a record of her work. At the close of that day’s business. it was found that she had handled over $54,000 in small amounts, making over 600 distinct transactions 1n 360 minutes, less lunch hour, an average of 35 seconds for each transaction, and the cash balanced to a cent, Mrs. Dick is a_blonde, tall and graceful. She enjoys her home, which is one of the most beautiful in the city, and ontside of business hours she may be found in her parlors. She is held in high regard socially and financially, and, from her first work in the bank, has enjoved the public confi- dence.—New York Ivening Telegram. The Efficiency of Arms. One of the noticeable things of the bar- tle of Krugersdorp was the shooting on both sides. The Boers’ shooting, if we may ljudge from the results, was extraordinary in its accaracy. Over eighty killed and thirty-five wounded is a proportion be- tween killed and wounded seldom, if ever, approached. It is not generally under- stood that the ordinary proportion of killed to wounded in European warfare is as one to four. The vital parts of the body, | extent as to one to four. The proportion | of killed to wounded naturally increases as the shooting improves. The shooting of the chartered men, as the Boers were lying down behind natural breastworks of | rock, produced but little result. Still, if too, are in COMPRESSED A warehouses where smoke or fire is un- desirable, locomotives propelled by com- pressed air have performed useful ser- vice. Nearly ten years ago H. K. Por- ter & Co. of Pittsburg built several locomotives of this kind for use in coal mines on the Monongahela River, above » Ettrick Shepherd—for 1 will not :‘::fi;:‘;llm by the unpoetical name of James | Hogg—who is now, as you will perceive by the inciosure, venturing -upon the public with & Pittsburg, and the engines did their work successfully. Until lately, however, com- paratively little interest has been mani- IR A LOCOMOTIVE, there were three killed to five wounded it would seem that there were two or three good shots present, while the remainder of Jameson’s force simply blazed away ll&eir ammunition wholesale and without effect. < { The fatal dearth of cartridges next day, when the Boers met the chartered men face to face, was probably, in part, caused by the use of the Lee-Metford rifle. The T their ammunition, and the use of tha‘the throat magazine rlffe is certainly against a steady aim, and in favor of wild and hasty shoot- ing. 3 The lesson for us should be that in mod- ern fighting everything depends upon the murksman:%ip. A very large army, if it shoots badly, cannot stand against a small force of really trustworthy shots. Our own army, if we are not mistaken, has no chance of attaining real marksmanship, for an altogether inadequate amount of cartridgesis allowed to each man. The soldier ought to use in a fortnight’s prac- tice what we allow him for a yeas's shoot- ing.—Baturday Review. Eloctric Dancing Puppets. Upon a piece of sheet iron forming the cover of a wooden box are placed small figures held erect' by means of four sup- ports made of horse hair. As soon as the handle, A, is placed upon the contact, B, there occurs a strong vibration of the plate, the figures move about in all direc- The Electro-Dancers. tions, seem to engage in conversation, turn around and leave each other only to find themselves together again an instant after- ward. From their costume mersly it might be thought that they were at an evening party, and from the often regular motions that they execute, that the party was a dancing one. A music-box concealed in the apparatus adds to the illusion and con- soles children for remaining alone at home while their parents are amusing them- | selves at a distance. The mystery is simple. The battery, P, | furnishes a current that passes through | the plate and the point, D, whose position for exciting the electric apparatus and giving the vibration the amplitude that the | child prefers for his puppets is determined 1 by the screw, C.—La Nature. Cannot Sweep Off the Nickel. A lawyer was at a party the other night where the principal divertisement was tricks, one of which recalls to the lawyer's mind one he used to do when he wasa schoolboy back in Maine, says the Kansas City Star. He called for a whisk broom and then, laying a nickel in the center of his open palm, offered it to any one in the The Immovable Nickel. party who would sweep it off with the broom. One of the conditions was that the broom mustbe held straight up and the coin swept with the ends oi the broom straws. 2 *Ob, I can do that.” said a voung woman, and she took the broom and be- gan to sweep at the coin.. The harder she swept the tighter the coin stuck to the open palm of the lawyer's hand. One after an- other each person at.the party tried to sweep off the coin, and it was an astonish- ing thing that the broom would not budge it. Any kind of small coin and any kind of whisk broom are all that are neededa to show the trick. To Keep the Baby Safe. All kinds of schemes have been devised for the lightening the work of looking after the baby, but here is a prison pen with a mile sprinting track in it which may be contained within the confines of Running Track for the Baby. the smallest room. The device consists of a circular framework or fence, with a post in the middle. To this is attached a rotating arm with a loop, which fits under baby’s arms and holds the little one up. Thus supported the baby can walk a mile without running into the table or stove or falling downstairs. 1If there happen to be two babies in the same house another one can be put in the other extension of the arm. Where Our Presidents Are Buried. 1. George Washington died from a cold which brought on laryngitis; buried on his estate at Mount Vernon, Va. S 2. John Adamsdied from senile debility; buried at Quincy, Mass. 3. Thomas Jefferson died of chronic diar- rhea; buried on his estate at Monti- cello, Va. - . 4. James Madison died of old age; buried on his estate at Montpelier, Va. 4 5. James Monroe, died of general debil- ity; buried in Marble Cemetery, New York City. 6.yJohn Quincy Adams died of paralysis, the fatal attack overtaking him in the House of Representatives; buried at Quincy, Mass. : 7. Andrew Jackson died of consumption and dropsy; buried on his estate, the Her- mitage, near Nashville, Tenn. 8. Martin Van Buren died of catarrh of the throat and lungs; buried at Kinder- hook, N. Y. . 9. William Henry Harrison died of pleu- risy, induced by a cold taken on the day of his inauguration; baried near North Bend, Ohio. 10. John Tyler died from 2 mysterious disease like a bilious attack; buried at Richmond, Va. 11. James K. Polk died from weakness, caused by cholera; buried on his estate in Nashville, Tenn. - ¥ 12. Zachary Taylor died from cholera morbus, induced by improper diet; buried on his estate near Louisville, Ky. 3. Millard Fillmore died from paraly- buried in Forest Hill Cemetery, Buf- falo, N. Y. 14, Franklin Pierce died from inflamma- tion of the stomach; buried at Concord, 15. James Buchanan died of rheuma- tism and gout; buried near Lancaster, Pa. 16. Abraham Lincoln, assassinated by J. ‘Wilkes Booth; buried 'at Springfield, Iil. 17. Andrew Johnson died from paralysis; buried at Greenville, Tenn. temptation with ordinary toops is to waste | 18, Ulysses 5. Grant died from cancer of The Danghter of the Regiment! But never any by a picture in the possession of C. F. Barry who lives on Railroad avenue near Park street in Alameda. In fact the artist could haye had no pigment at all for the picture is made entirelv of small pieces of feathers cut in irregular shapes that are fitted together like mosaie work and pasted on a panei of wood. Taken altogether the effect is not unpleasing, although the picture cannot be considered a work of art. Mr. Barry came into possession of the picture while on a recent trip to Central America and prizes it very highly. The dealer from whom he bought it could give no idea of its origin further than to say that he obtained it at a sale of the effec(s of a wealthy man. The picture is about 20x26 inches in size and represents a tropical landscape. In the distance a mountain peak can be seen and in the fore- ground a palm tree rises close to the ruins of an adobe house. Grass and weeds come close down to the front of the picture. Seen’ from a distance it would be impos- sible to tell in what manner the picture was executed, but it bears some_resem- blance to what is known as ‘“Kensington” painting. A close examination, however, reveals innumerable bits of feathers of all the hues known to science and looking Ranen very much if the artist had exhauste { > & | the ornithological resources of the country There':oils:hglélrzr&?the captains and a welcome | % 0 O And cheer on cheer rings o'er the ranks. A lily The sky is made of whiteand gray feath- ; buried at Riverside Park, New York City. £ 19, Rue;:erford B. Hayes died from ;{nlysis of the heart; buried at Fremont, io. 20. James A. Garfield, assassinated by ghgrle: J. Guiteau; buried at Cleveland, hio. 21. Chester A. Arthur died from Bright's disease; buried in Ruoral Cemetery, Al- bany, N. Y. . . This leaves. Benjamin Harrison the only l{vilng ex-President.—Cincinnati Commer- cial. = - Daughter of the Reghnent. The Daughter of the Regiment ! ' Flash swords, ye capiains fine— The ?fi“%xmfl of the Regiment is glancing down e fine ! Blow, bugles, all your sweetest notes to answering skies of blue— The Daughter of the Reglment Is on parade with you! . The Daughter of the Reglment! March fair, ye patriot-sons! Her eyes are lovelier than the beams that glitter on your guns; The stars that twinkle from your flags stream o'er her rosy way— The Dauguter of the Regiment 1s on parade to- ay. The Daughter of the Reglment! All radiant she of the May, ers, with a touch of blue at the top, and all The 13;‘35;}, grot the Reglment blooms In the lines | reaily blend mgcm.‘»r beaumul’fy. The distant mountains, however, are nbdt a success, as they really look like cotton and are painfully violent in color. The housa is ‘made of brilliant yellow feathers; with small purple pieces pasted on for doors and windows. The leaves of the palm tree ap- pear to be feathers from a bird of paradise and the trunk is half of a large quiil. In the foreground the grasses are *laid on” with the most awful green imaginable and are apparently parrot feathers. Bits of very bright color are supposed to repre- sent flowers and weeds. The artist who did the work must have had some knowledge of the colors of na- ture and consumed w:e!f(s in the eflorg,ens ;| thousands of pieces of feathers have been PICTURE MADE OF FEATHERS. |used. Justwhat he intended to prodnce SE————— is hard to conceive, but he did produce a Curlous Work of a Central Amerlcan | curiosity. The work is far superior to any Artist. done by the Indians and half-breeds of Some artist in Central America must | Central America. e A Good Busivess Woman. Mrs. Eliza J. Nicholson, widow of George Nicholson of the New Orleans Picayune, who died recen tly, was for many yearsene of the most notable women in the South. It is said that she was the only woman who was at once the -controlling pro- prietor and editor-in-chief of a. great daily journai, as she wa3s the first woman connected with the press in the South. As ‘“Pearl Rivers' she be- came literary editor of the Sunday Pica- yune in the face of much adverse criticism. She subsequently married the proprietor, Colonel Holbrook, who died bequeathing her the paper burdened with a debt of $80,000. Her lawyers and relatives advised her to take the thousand dollars award- ‘ed her by law and abandon the paper. The business manager, George Nicholson, alone counseled ' her to keep it. She took his advice, and through exceli’ent management and the aid of a devoted staff Paid off the debt, built new offices, greatly improved the paper, and was soon at the head of a guccessful establishment. After two years, in 1873, she married Mr. Nicholson, who continued to manage the financial affairs of the paper, while she had sole control of the editorial columns, —New York Tribune. rose ‘Would crimson on a battlefield could 'she but tace our foes; No black wralths from the reckless guns the holy heavens revile; Forlove hath aureoled her brow and peacels In her smile. The Daughter of the Regiment! silver sweet: And kiss, ye winds, the friendly flags that ripple 1o her feet! For she cometh in her beanty from aland where love hath sway— The Daughter of the Reglment looks down the lines to-day. FRANK STANTON 1n Chicago Times-Herald. Blow, bugles, The Picture Made of Feathers- [Sketehed by a “Call” artist.] have been hard up for pigment, judging NEW TO-DAY. You Want a Cure The Most Modern, Simple and Effective Means of Getting Health is by Electricity. It is Given to the Body, in a Steady, Life-infusing Stream From This Wenderful Appliance. | oSy Rt I fl‘l '[‘I i Naant! 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