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Yonr taste may perhaps lie b tha
direction of antiques. There Wee re.
Experiment That is Costing New York cently offered at auction in King
street, Covent Garden., a marvelous
cola:dime of mummies, most of them
a Million, Of Peruvian origin.. They went very
Cheap. A withered old gentleman Pan
(N. Y. San.) - Mbite that will lead to make lam, a use-
• Can lade pronounced iucorrigible ful member of soelety I' Dr. Maxwell and
an t habitual' truants from the public ale associates believe that will he the
schools be made obedieute stadioue result. That la why the expenditure a -
and law abiding by military disci- nore than $1,000,000 ha,s been planned.
pline, pleasant and healthful sur- •At the 'Resent time the administration '
to:endings aud emulation of their fel- building, three emuutunity houses Rua
lows? This is a question which the the eentral power aouee. are well: on to -
city of New York through the De, ward completion, Work has been partly
partment of Education is spending suspended At present owing to the fin -
more than a million dollars to answer. medal stringency, Comptroller Mete has
The experiment is to be made at been unable to certify contra -eta for the
the Parental School which is in course instellation of beatine; apparatus and
of creation hi the Borough of Queens nachinery and furniture. AS 40011 as he
Dying the last two years $450,000 et able tu do be work will again be
has been exPended in the purchase of pushed.
land and the erection a buildings. lt is expeeted these buildings will be
Sufficient has been accomplished to ready for occupancy by the coming fall,
give an idea of what the completed Perhaps prior to that time some of the
work win be like. ooys in the two schools now maintained
Among those who are habitual true will be transferred to Queeos borough,
ants or who attending school are so to get some of the fields prepared for
unruly that ordinary discipline fails erops foe the year.
to curb them are some of the brighteet ' The administration buildine aua the
boys the public teachers have to deal community houses are to facel:' a great
with. If a way can be found to turn central plaza. They are in th E 1 dah
their energies into proper' channels university style of architectureenaull'thi:y
gooe citizens will be the result. Thie eugeest anything but a semi -penal theta
is much the some problem that has, wren,.
led to the establishnient of children's ,A.11 the buildines are of brick with
courts in this city. • outside Well oelight brownish stucea
Since consolidation the instruction fted ired tile roofs. The exterior wood
of incorrigibles and truants has been trizise is dark brown. The iuterior finish
under the care of the -committee on is rilardwood,
compulsory education of the B.oard ot d te administration building will pro-
Edtcation and under the' direct sup- - •
e offices for the superintendent and
ervision of Supt. Maxwell. The city his &rice. On the first floor, in addition
has maintained two truant schools, to the executive offices there will be
on3 in East Twentieth street, Mazhate four classrooms and an assembly hell.
tan. and one at jamadea avenue and Ole second floor will provide seven
Eleert's lane, Brooklyn. classrooms and teachers' rooms, The
.The lads gathered up by- the tru- ibasement will provide the manual train -
ant officers and taken to the police ng shops and 0 gymnasium.
courts have been sent to these schools, The dormitories in. community houses
as far as accommodations were avail- • -
will be double buildings 129 feet in
able. But there has been room for length, divided on the central line by a
less than 200 in both institutions and fireproof wall ruuning through to the
the remainder have been sent to pro- roof, thus making two distinct ballaings.
tectories and other serhi-penal insti- Enca house will accommodate sixty boys
tutions under private control. divided into two communities a thirty
There has been a two -fold limitatiod
on the work thus far. In the first ma.
The boys on entering the dormitory
place the quarters provided by the
from the school, farm work or play will
eit; have been inadequate for carry-
ing' out any extended system of in- pass to the basement, where their out-
• door clothing. will be changed in a large
struction. Then in the second place
airy dressiug room. There are convem-
when the boys are admitted to the
e n t lavatories and shower baths. In ad•
private institutions the city author-
lition to their house elothieg the boys
ities in large lose control over them.
The study devoted to the subject of will put on moccasins for indoor wear,
these boys has evolved certain con- Each community will have a matron
elusions. One of the copelusions is., and master assigned to it. There will be
that mere punishment can accomplish ane large dining room in each commie
nothing, Men have learned that -It ity to accommodate the thirty boys and
is useless to whip- a balky horse. the matron and master.
Likewise it is useless to attempt to On the opposite side of a hall from the
drive a boy who doesn't like to go aining room is a living. room 28 by 32
to school. , feet. Here the boys will gather for
Squeers tried this method at Dottie- study and the playing of games. The
boys Hall along with molasses and wcond floor is the dormitory, wheer will
brimstone. Since his clay other meth- be managed thirty beds, each separated
oth -have been tried. Leaders in this from the others by an aisle and passage -
direction have arisen in far off Aus way. Besides his bed eath boy will have
tralia and in Boston in this country. his own locker.
In England also some advanced ideas Adjacent to the dormitory are the
haee been tried. tuttstera quarters which censist of two
In planning a solution of the ques rooms mid batl s. There will also be on
tion in this city Dr. Maxwell and tip floor .aasewitlig room and lockers ay
those -associated with him have select- t e extra clotbing for the boys. On the
top floor will be the servants' rooms,
the storage room and the solitary room.
This last room is for the thufinement
of unruly -boys. I» the master's room
there is a lever by which this solitary
room can be opened, in case of fire,
should any boy be confined there at that
time.
Strict military rules are to govern the
boys while In their community house.
From the superintendent down all those
in the supervisory capacity are. to have
titles indicating Command, and these Of
Beers are to be respectful as similar of-
ficers are respectea at West Point.
An hour each day is to be (riven to
military drill. Dr. 'Maxwell is a.firm be -
lever in tbe efficacy ef such drill. Here
alone will the boys of the home feel the
restraining hand of authority.
Tim great power house is to be one of
the most important places on the farm.
It will supply the heat and pewee and
light for thc whole place. In addition
it will be the. laundry, kitchen and bake
house.' Economy has- sugeested this
centralization. and besides itnis believed
it will tend to neater discipline to keep
the boys separatled from those who will
have to perform this labor.
A tuunel is to extend from this power
hotse to every building. Through this
tunnel will pass the conduits carryieg
steam for heat, wires for light and pow-
er and the water service. Tbrough this
tunnel_ also will be carried the food. from
the kitchen and bakery to the commun.
;ty houses.
Extensive plans for the beautifying of
the lawns surrounding the home have
been made. 'Macadam drives are to en-
circle the grounds. Some of this wade
will be completed by contract before the
sehool is opened, but a large part of the
work will be left fot the boys who will
be sent to the aehool. It is believed they
will take a pride in this work.
When this work is opened the two tru-
; ant schools now owned by the city will
; be closed, for all work of this character
! the city is to be. centralized here, It
I will be the aim of those in chargo to
I create that spirit in the boys who at -
j tend the school Width will make them
in after years look back to the school
with the. same fondness with evhith the
average college graduate looks back to
his alma meter,
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IN OLD CURIOSITY SHOP.
hie gray-haired lafe, who had lead. a
highly civilized existence in days
when our ancestors pranced through
Britain's principal forests attired in
blue dye, fetched but a beggarly a
pounds. apiece, A boy went for 41
shillings only, and it lady, who bad
been fouud walled up, presumably
buried alive, was sold for 3 pounds,
At the same eale there was put up
the complete outfit of a certain Congo
medicine man, who admitted at his
trial at Boma that he had killed more
than 1,000 persons, This was sold for
8 guineas.
Another remerkable curiosity which
wee for sale at a similar auction wee
a Piece of the hide of a xnyodon or
giant sloth, an animal which was
rather larger Blau an elephant, and
which has been. extinct for a gooa
many tb.ousaads of years. The hide
was found in a cave in the Andes,
and fetched no less than 70 poands
per square inch.
Nature has armed the walrus with
bushy whiskers of amazing stiffness.
These, when dried, form the moat per
feet of natural toothpicks, and quite
an industry has grown up lu their
collect•ion and, sale. They are expeit-.
sive, costing wholesale, a penny
apiece. The chief market is in China,
where a walrus whisker set in silver
is the correct thing for a Chinese
sevolL
ed what they believe is the best en
each system. One of the first ideas
adopted was that the boys must be
got away from the crowded centres.
Out in the country the boy is likely
to forget the fellows on the corner
with whom he played hookey and also
to forget the more or less questionable
pastimes° that wore more alluring
than text books and study,
Getting close to nature is almost a
complete reversal. of the conditions
exiethig in the midst of rows of tene-
ment houses and asphalt streets. Such
a change was not possible in the pres-
ent Manhattan ancl Brooklyn schools,
where the biggest patches of garden
that could be allotted to each boy
were about a yard square. There 12
not much call of the wild to be dug
out of that restricted enclosure. For
a. lively, enischevious boy cultivating
• Beavers and vegetables in such a patch
has about the, same charm as carrying
ash•cans out to the curb or doing
chores about the house.
Out at the new Parental School over
100 acres of land has been purchased, at
a cost of $1,000 an acre. The land is on
•the ridge which forms the backbone of
Long Island, between Flushing and Jam-
aica. It ie the highest land on Long
Island witk the exception of the Harbor
Hill estate of Clarence Mackay.
About twenty-flve acres of this tract
-will be occupied- by buildings . The re-
mainder will be devoted to (aviculture
and forestry. Of the seventy-five acres
remaining a dozen are now woodland.
There are trees standing which saeltered
the Shinnecock Indians, who inhabited
the Flushing section before Henry Hud-
son diecovered Long Island.
On the sixty acres of cleared. ground
will be laid out a model arm. Here
everything needed for the Helmet will be
raised. There will be grain fields and
vegeteble gardens, stables, paddocks,
sheep folds and Itenneries.
There will be pasture lots for the live
stock. Besides there will be hothouses
and coneervatories. Not only will the
products needed for the home be raised.
but there will also be cultivated the boa
unical specimens needed for the biologi-
cal and botanical studies in all the city
high sehools.
Forestry will in StitAied from the trees
now standing and experiments in tree
growing will be made. Mune will be in-
troduced so as to familiarize the boys
with the habits of birds and animals.
There will be freedom, and thaa.accord-
ing to Dr. Maxwell and his associates, is
one of the strongest incentives to a
healthy boy. There will not be a bar nor
a fence for the purpose of confinement
artysvhere on the place, with the possible
exception of a solitary room.
An Important department is to be that
of athletics. There will be an athletic
field and track fitted up with every kind
of apapratus that the Public achoole
Athletic Aesoelation ripproves. The boye
will be urged to participate in every kind
of Sport.
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4"teenetttertte• esarettrrafettre
Oregon Pest Olfice
i NOW
,
Atbanas Ore. --For queer oamea of
towns, Oregon exeels any State 10 the
Union. Natural stAtisties and freaks
of fortune Made many names, aud the
pioneers Who settled in this Fer Western.
State often selected 0 Wane for their
new location from the very first chance
occurrence in conneetioe with it,
tt a classics appeer in °repass post oe, years ago only seven men lived, there, all . Assk the latteat Office people wlio ine ons. Frond, women are eaveatally
noticeable in Ode direetion, being cretin: -
Indian names aud some drawn from •
ulitisillisea,tbirredsofautidt e tiri of eo s a if u ,tvl lee stests,ouAtt me t' 011° "'ming t° Ch°°°° a //an" 19r
being miners or ltamesteitaers. They . antics next to Eiltson end. they will tell
their settlement, and it Was then due auto of the wizard. A good mauy men
yell that uobaxly is within bailing ore
patents as dlurninuni solder end 0 pro -
ed ai the41Jkiinastecit:htyndtherourisflti:nenit:t14: istit:ch
floe Net, but predominant ere the names
_ butea their names to settlemeuts. covered that the first nanle of ell seven can eount their patents ay tile score and cess of m
The part cbance hes played a, forming of the awn. eves William, That.settled a rule of theme are, much youeger than • 1 1
Oregode post office list is illustrated in the discussion of a name and Billsburg Edison, they Irina beat lune otit in time.
IY.IAIMED FISH IN THE SEA.
was at once adopted. Up to the preeent, hoarever, be.de-
_ serves the title of the Greet ,American a -a.'"
for Thoudands of Them Cattght, Suinliered
Patentee, That means a geed dal;
it is undoubtedly a fact that an Artieri- . aid ilut back in British Channel,'
can will take out a patent on lee& pro- Catching fish, inarisneing and marking
vocation than aoy other man ca. woman them mid then returning them to the
As a consequence the Patent Office is sea with the chance of retaking them
later is part of the work carried on by
in the world,
piling up a swollen fortune which the Marine Biological Assaaiation of
But this yam was so similar to Mehama
which is only it few miles away, that
the Post Office Depertment rejeeted
Lawler reversea the lettere mid celled
the post office Auldetta
Corvallie, eounty alit of Benton tatua fir 44,olcio the. Record. Among American
ty. le Latin in meaniug the `heart mg
of the valley. It was ori Wally timed
Meryeville, About 1870 t xis town and
1,000 PATENTS TO EDISON
Selene the cepittel of Oregon, tual Al -
bony, the county seat of Linn CaalltY,
desired names which were not so com- Washingtarea-arlie greatest aatexitea - Culinary utensils come mad with 102,
mon. Marysville bethaue Corvallies Al- la this sountry—and thae graeably patente, ItI feet, the patent records seem
J,atanis tile greateit, t .iii iifICS world-eis to ehow .that the etetual feminine ill AO
bany changed to Teanoli. eltd Salem be: , „ . .., . a ,
came Chemeketa, The first total kept e . .. substantiel a verity a ever.
its new name, but Ole latter two Nood alionuts A. Edison. lie bas roiled tip It is tathet 'surprising to find that the
thanged back to the old names. the enormous totel of almost 1,000 vat- patents aeauted ace eoeman women aro ao
Billebur r got its name :thus: A few ents and allows no inclination to quit, a. rule of A more ecleatifie and unfetuin-
Inventor'.
Wealthy Men Nearly Always "Dead
Broke,"
The millionare is chronically "broke."
He never has more thaa S2 or SS in his
Peeket, and often hasn't cayetare for two
He comes down town in hth automobile at
noon and signs a check. He has this box of
cigars in his desk' and credit at every Amp
in town. What Is the use ot being bur-
dened by carrying moneY.
By being wlthout it protects himself
from the small borrower, who is a con-
stant nuisance, declares a writer in the
Chicago Tribune, It he earried money with
him ho weuld not know what to do with It
for he regards lt as a nuisance to pay cash
for his luncheon or tor any purchases he
may make. It is so roach easier to sign a
°heck ftor his luncheon and to tell the sales-
man to charge and send the goods ho buys.
The millionaires, mare 'than any other
class are addicted to the telephone nabit.
They telephone to their cigar man tor
• their cigars—to be more accurate, they have
their secretaries telephone tor them. They
send their secretaries over to their haber-
dasher to buy ties for them, and shirts and
collars or anything else that they 'iced in
a bursa.
Of course the private secretary always has
everything charged and the need of money
is dono away with. When cash must be
pato. which is seldom, a check is given.
Sometimes millionaires are greatly embar-
rassed by being- "broke." A millionaire
borrowed s2 from me one night last weak
because he was compelled to call a cab driven
by a strange cabby and he didn't have
enough small change in his trousers to pay
tho tare. He was at a downtown restaur-
ant and had ordered his machine to call at
midnight. On its way to the restaurant the
machine broke down. The millionaire could
not keep the young woman, with whom be
had dined, standing at the curb, so he es-
corted hir baek into the restaurant, and.
under the pretext of going to the 'phone
to call a cab slipped over to my table and
touched me far $2. Of course ho got It. I al-
ways carry more money about with me
than any 01 my millionaire friends.
Those who have nOt extensive credit have
to carry money with them. The less credit
they have the more money they are obliged
to have in their. pockets. There are only
one or two shops in town at which I have
an account. When buy elsewhere I pay
cash. Naturally. I am obliged to carry with
me a great deal more currency than the
man who can buy ond sell mo ten times
over. but who has accounts at every shop
in State Street or whose name is a guaran.,
tee ot payment at stores where he is entir-
ly urn..nows.
- r
Bakeoveu, In early deers a Frenchnutu
started from The Dailies, which by the
way, takes its name from the dailies or
falle in the Columbia River, with cargo
of flour for the mines a Canyon City,
another town maned from its geograpb-
ical location.
The first olgat he went into caum
band of Indians came along and drove
off all ais mules, 'Unable to move his
flour, he gathered ante rocks together,
built a big oven and then gradually bak-
ed his flour into bread.
The bread was sold:to passing miners
and travellers along the trail at a much
greeter profit than he would otherwise
have received, As a result of this oceur-
rence the• little town which now stands
on the site of the Frenchman's ea:up. is
namea Bakeoven, and residents yet plant
out the blackened rocks winch were a
part of the original bak,eoveu that gave
the place its name. '
Similar in origin to Bakeoven are Hay-
stack, Tanks, Echo, Box and Apiary.
Haystack Was named for the only thing
standing on the ground. when the post
office was established, aud Tanks is a
station on the O., R. & N. Railroad in
Umatilla County, where the watering
tanks of that division is situated.
Gooseberry, Looking Glass and Mule
all appear on Oreoon's map. When a
post office was esntablished at Goose-
berry the Department told I. Esteb,
who was appointed postmaster to select
a name different from any otlier in the
United States. His inspiration came
from an immense gooseberry bale There
is also a. post office in Oregon named
Strawberry,
The name "of Looking Glass comes
from. the clear stream which runs near
tbis post office. • Among other names
chosen on aceount of surroundings are
Juniper, which stands among the juniper
trees of eastern Oregon• Peak, located
-near the foot of Mary's 'Peak, the high..
est poinein the Coast Range; Fossil,
aunty aeat of Wheeler county, and /tear
fosil deposits, and Lime, Lava, Mineral
and Meadow all named because of the
chief charact'eristic of Omit tatural sur-
roundings.
The post office of Mule is in Harney
county, It draws its name from the fact
that its postmaster, la Mahon, in
whose residence the post office is locat-
ed, conducts one • of the largest mule
ramble in the West-
Tliere is no town at Mule, but the
ranchers wanted a post office. When Ma-
hon, whci headed the petition, was aked
to select a name he suggested Ander-
son, as his ranch is Anderson valley.
laut the Department replied. that there
were too many Andersons in the boun-
try already, and a shorter name would
be advisable. So Mahon suggested Mule,
end it was accepted.
Other anhnals or birds whose names
decorate Oregon's postal list are Cay -
use, Oreev,• Grizzly, Grouse, Antelope,
Fishhawk, Hare, Fox, Pelican and Salm-
on.
There are several tames width, while
they may seem strange for post offices
end towns were really natural selections.
Such are Reuben and. Rufus. Each was
nemed for the 1111111 on whose land the
town was established, the former for
Reuben R. Foster and the latter for
Rufus C. Wallis. -
• Shake is another post bffice of the
same class. The name implies nothing as
to cordiality or the lack of it as might
be supposed, but it stands in a southern
Oregon sugar pine belt and when the
office was named a great many sbakes,
a tad of shingle, were manufactured
there. -
Bridal Veil might hint of a romance.
But there is no tradition to Wee up to
the name. The post office stands near a
beautiful water fall in eastern Multno-
mah county resembling a spreading
white veil.
Steamboat is also a misnomer, for it
stands on a creek not big enough to
float a canoe, But in early mining days
the cieek was named Steamboat -Creek
and the post office name came from
that of the creek.
• Hambutg is the great, matket for
wild eeittals, bttt there are natural
history slave in Landoll where you
may buy almost any bird, beast or
j insect alive or dead, The catalogues
of such firms are absolute euriosities.
I What, for instance, erne any one want
1 with live earwigs, quoted at 2 shillings
' a dozen; crickets at' the same priee,
and eat -lions at 5 pence apiece?
At these shops you may fill your
pockets with bumble bees at 3 pence
apiece; wasps—all alive and stinging,
oh i—are to be putehased a.t the same
, rate. but horse -flies, possibly beeause
The spirit of ennilation is to eome of extremely poisonous qualities,
from the prineiple of separate commun. ; ate quoted at 6 penee.
ities which wil dominate the school. The ' large bullfrogs, the same
boys sent to the sehol are not to be col- 1 whose lege form a dish beloved to out
leetecl into one mass, but are to lie di- I American ceneine' are 12 shilliags
aided into communities of about 30 each. ! and alligators very small but
'When the school is completed there will cxtremelY lively, mite be patchased
' for as little as 5 shillings apiece.
be about •twenty-five of these costume:-
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FAMOUS BANK,
Wo n de rf o I Ba I arIC0S for Weighing
Gold and Silver--Oefunet Circulation,
Weekly ehipmente of gold front this
money establishment to the United
States makes the famous Benk of Eng -
tend it place of deCidea interest during
our money hunger. One of the first ob-
jects. to Attract satention upea entering
the building is the office where
all the gold and silver that eaters the
bank or leaves it paeses through to be
checked. Ou the right is the vole; on the
left the silver.
The .prominent feature of the gold -
room is the "grand baleace,". or szales,
constructed by the Mes,sre. Neater, This
Marvelous instrument is a, eonderous
and peculiarly built eveighinia.maelane,
standing nearly seven feet aigh, tuel
weighing about two tons. The whole is,
under a huge glass case, access being
gained thereto by a elidmg panel. The
*nate is workea. by bydraulie power una
ie the most sensitive weighing braance
iu existence.
On, each side t,ho scalee are fitted With
weights mounting to 400 ounces. The
gold is made up in 400-otuice bars aria
the difference of mile one -thousandth
part of au ounce can lie detected. 13y
e manipulation of the madam, as tiny
taing ate a 'postage starap can be
iveighed, for, on the same being. placed
apon the seale, the index will jump a
distance of no lees than six inebes. It
is about the only balance of its kind in
the world, and cost about $10,000,
Balances Have Names.
The silver balance is not as accurate,
and the two are respectively christened
"The Lord Ohief ;instal), r and "The
Lord High Chaneellota." In another room
are several machines for weiglavg sov-
ereigns and half-eovereiens. Each Itte-
o,
thine consists of a complicated system
of counter-weighth and it is not unlike a
sewing machine as to its lower half, tho
wholabeing completely inclosed in gags.
A long feeder, likt. a tube cut in loll
down its length mid made ot brass, is.
set at an angle of 45 degrees, and is
filled with a lon,g roll of sovereigns.
These turn as 'they slip down onto a
circular movable plate, slightly larger
than a sovereign. If the coin is of the
right weight it slips down a metal tube
into a below. Should it, however,
prove to be lighter than the standard
the deiicate mathine turns th the left
and condenum it. These mathines weigh
coins at tbe rate •of 26 per minute, and
a day's weighing of the bank atriounts
to a,bout $500,000.
Defunct Circulation.
Another ineeresting feature is to be
found in the vaults containing the de-
filed paper circulation of the bank.
Some idea can be gained of the quantity
when we say that they. are over 77,000e
000 in number and that they fill 1400
boxce, width ff edema side by side
would reach two and a half miles. If
the notee were placed in a pile they
would reaeh a. height of five and a haif
miles, or, if joined end to end, would
form a ribbon 12,458 miles long. Their
original value was over 41,750,000,000,
and their weight exceeas 90 1-2 tons.
Among them is a note for 41,000,000;
also the first bank note ever issued (one
for 4500), and anote,er for 4250, left
at the bank for 111 years, whose neourn-
tilabing interest raised its value to zoo, -
000.
The prin•ting of the existing paper
currency is tin •interesting process.
The notes are struck off two at a time
on handmade paper, which 'upon being
cut, gives taree rough edigee and, one
smooth one to eaeh piece of paper, a
aistinguishing feature of a Bank of
England note. The paper is manufactur-
ed at the bank's Own mill, and the pro-
duction is intrusted entirely to one fam-
ily. The. ink used: in printing, the notes
is made from the 4:barred stem of the
Rhenish vine, width. is believed to pro-
duce the richest, black of any ink to be
world. Each etrip of paper has to be
strictljd Recounted for, the sehole pro -
case being• under effective supervision.
Wealthiest Roomein the World.
The bunk ean boast of possessing the
wealthiest room in tile world, in the
shepe of a kirna of vault, surrounded
from floor to ceiling by iron safes, con-
taining rows upon rows of gala coin in
bags of $10,000 eagle and pile upon pile
of bank notes. The amount of specie
contained in this room is not less than
480,000,000 (oyer $400,000,000.)
Not the %last interesting. feature in
con•nectien with the bank is the feet
that the whole system from beginning
to end is under constant police espion-
age, in edaition to milithry protection,
and the electric arrengements are a
complete that communication with all
parts of the buildIng ban he effected at
e moment's notiee.
KINGS AND QUEENS IN BUSINESS
makes it a, bloated bondholder aniong
the Government departments. It his
achieved a surplus of $6,000,000 and is
growing rieher every day. Yankee in,
gonuity is gorging the Patent Office
with records and piling up models by
the hundred thousand.
The first patent under this Glover*
ment was taken Mit lay Samuel Hopkins,
July 31st, 1790. It was on a process for
"making pot and pearl ashes." Two
other patents were taken out the same
1,1•100aftc.. One was for making candles, the
other for a process of neekieg flour and
Apparently we as a people took kindly
to the patent idea from the very start,
-for we jumped from three in 1700 to 33
in 1791. On Metall llth Samuel Mulli-
ken took out four all by himself. But
on August 26th James Rionsey Utterly
eclipsed Mulliken by taking out six.
That was the greatest day the Patent
Office had. known, for within its limits
Bo less than fourteen patents were is-
sued. to aspirin;r, genius. Three of these
were on "improvements in Captain Sav-
ary's eteam engine," end one was taken
out by the fainous John Fitch for "pro-
pelling boats by steam." As eight out
of the fourteen patents of that day were
for the appaication of steam it almost
deserves to be immortalized as a steam
annnilyeerisieaxryt.
year there came a, decided
reaction, only eleven patents being is-
sued hi the entire twelve months, not
even as many as on the one day in Aug-
ust of the year before. In 1796 a word
which has become the commonest in the
itself conspicuous. It Was rimprove-
Pmeetnetn.,t, Office vocabulary began to make
Out of forty-four patents issued. that
year twenty-seven .were on improve-
ments of one thing or another. The next
year the improvements numbered forty
out of fifty-oue patents.
There is an astotishing frequency of
French names in. the early patent re-
cords. About 1802 they were especially
numerous, and they were generally at-
tached to soniethieg rather ambitious
in the way of an invention.
For instande, that year Jean Baptiste
Avetlho patented a "machine for raising
water, which is described in the patent
records, with profusion of- eaclamation
points and parenthesis, as: ( a per-
petual motion 11! !.) A few months lat-
er anotber Freneaman, named. Mazen-
tale invented. "an insubmersible boat."
Pills, pills; pills! Our patent medicine
appetite is one of long standing, for al-
most the commonest object of the early
• patentee was some form of pills; anti-
pillsecreaneof tartar pills and so
on. One of -the peculiar aescriptions is
of a patent isstied in 1799 for an "effem-
inate ropery for sprimitg rope yarn."
The preseut activity in producing mili-
tary balloons had a forerunner in 1790;
when a "Federall balloons' was patented.
In the same year a "cheek to detect
counterfents" was patented. And in
1880 deseription of a telegraph instru-
ment, the first appearing in the patent
records, wee filed by Jonathan Grout,
jun., of Massachusetts.
In the fifteen years between 1790 and
1805 only 600 patents were issued. That
was a big number considering the•times.
The word "only" is used because now,
a century later, we are issuing patents
et the rate of 1,000 m week!
It was not until Mey 5, 1809, that a
woman took out a patent. It is to Mary
Keyes that the boner must be givee.
Who she was or where she lived the
records fail to state. Her patent. is de-
scribed as "Straw weaving with silk or
thread." For six years Mary was alone
itt her glory, the' sole woman patentee
in this country. Then another woman
came forward with an idea. This time it
was a corset.
In 1819 a woman patented "cream of
tartar, carbonatea liquid"; in 1822 one
of them pinned. her faith and money to
her idea, of a foot stove; in 1823 it wa‘i
"weaving grass hats"; in 1828 a sheet
iron shovel; in 1833 a "calash balloon
for ladies"; in 1834, "extracting fur from
•skins and manufacturing it into yarn."
The first ice cream freezer was added
to the records by a, woman hi 1843, and
in 1845, if you plena, woma,n invented
a "submarine telescope and lamp." The
1849 feminine patent—the above list he
eludes all taken out by women dming
this period--suggeste a picture of truly
idyllic indolence. It was a "rocking chair
with fan attachment."
-The ladies proceeded to evolve corset
stays, skirts, butter workers and similar
appropriately femiuine devices until one
otefutslei.e”in werit far afield in 1858 and pat -
felted a method of "moueting a fluid
Just what struck Lavinia Foy, of Wor-
aster, Masa, a 1863 is not quite clear;
bot she broke out, with a whole bun& of
patente. Whether the war stirred the
femeie mind to unusual activity or not,
the 'women took out more and niore pat-
ents.
There was Clarissa Britain, of St. jo,
Mich., who took out seven in eighteen.
months by her own sweet Chteissan
self. Rosanna Carpenter wits also ex-
tremely active.
In 1888 there were seventy patents
taken out by women. The number grew
*to 301 in 1894, arid heavee knowe what it
is now. At any rate, the remit Office
doesn't know. If you wane to go over
the rowed of 50,000 patents grantea lost
year nobody wilt say you no. That's
the only Maly you ea» find ona
But after 1894 there was a record doiri-
Great Britain.
By means of a steam trawler the fish
are caught in the usual way. Each haul
is carefully recorded, the fish are count-
ed ana measured and all details of local-
ity, time, aontber, species, sex and size
are put down, together with accurate
observations on the water, the depth
and' bottom of the sea, the kinds and
quantity of food available; etc. These
data are enteequently tabula,teel lend
charted.
The method of marking the fish is in-
teresting 'and has been attended with
valuable results. The fish chiefly. used
during the few years the experimeul
has been in progress. have been plaice,
because the proposale -which have been
made to interfere with the catching of
them were based on inadequate know•
ledge. -
The fish are marked mi the dorsel sur-
face with a very thin convex metal disk
bearing a number, This is attacbed to
a fine silver wire which is passed througa
the thineer part of the fish near the
fin and secured on the under side by a
smelt bone button:The fish do not ap-
pear to euffer inconvenience and their
groWth is not interferred with in any
way.
The iboroughness with whith the
North Sea is swept by the nets of the
fishing. fleets is demonstrated, says Dis-
covery, by the fact that out of 5,039
marked plaice of AU sizes. 902 were re-
captured within a year. Thai represents
19.7 per dent., or nearly one-fifth; but
for the medium sized fish the figure's
are far higher, raruging from 28.4 tn
39 per eent. for the whole of the North
Sea end to 43 per cent. in the more
northern portions.
The men of the eegular fishing fleet
co-operate by forwarding to the Inborn -
tory of the association at Lowestoft all
the marked fish they catch. At the labor-
atory reference to the records ensily es-
tablishes how much the fish hes gained
in. size and eveight since the previews
catching. Moreover. the distance be-
tween the spot where it was released
'ltd. the place where it was again catiglit•
gives an idea as to its movements.
to France in 1856, was dining tehette
tete with the Emperor. A vervaet ea-
tered eta headed it letter to hie boat.
The altimeter read it Alia tesital It
aeroes the tsble:
"There, my alleluia 18 h0t114.4110% OA
Ottglito to interest ,you.''
Lord Clarendoa eeild it. 'rile Mar
was the trauelation of A deepatch frota
the Jeureign Office in lamming Street to
the Britialt eintmeliader at 0 diatant
court, latercepted on the wile% ita it
passed tbtoogil Paris,
And it bail been sent iu the secret
British cipher, Which the I!renell Off-
: eirils had. translated *imply lie part of
their daily routine.
Unless some undecipberable cipaer la
_ tsele)vibsomasstheosetrehsalicoser gteolycogztlampllotilteterlialr:!
- poses as it promised to rtrove useful,
1 for triessagee which eau be picked. up
anywbere are even leee private than
are thoee that can be Unhooked only
from a line of wire then tbe oppoeitiou
inuSt get hold Of,
13ut 11 it can be devised, there is not
a power of the Bret class Whieh Would;
iiot give a fortune for exclusive vows -
aim' of it,
There fa in existence mate a Mesa,
tore of ciphers—enough, at least, to set
odneottioshed ritogItt wopartakt otlutet ertelaietivepitebniivitt
the world of human government has
sought, from the stratagem of Hes-
tiaeus of Miletus, in classic Greece, to
the reseerches of Lord Bacon who de-
fined the three essential,' of ithe Wee-
eive cipher.
"First," said Beam, 4% must be easy
to write and read; second, difficult of
detection, arta third, void of suspicion
that it tontains any secret message,"
To -day all governments tely upon thr-
thin ciphers, which, they declare, are
undecipherable, But every one of them,
sine' the time of Lord Clarendon, bas
endured under the uneasy sensation that
its own, peculiar, private, absolutely nne
decipherable cipher is, to ite astute ri-
vals, as easy to figure out as eome of
the puzzle aclvertisementh of preprie-
tary articles.
Now, svho can help Marconi and win
a fortune by doing so?—khiladelphia
North American.
The Worth of Men.
We have a great deal of mockhumility
floating in the strewn of time. Men use
the language of self -depreciation not site
cerely. The words of. under -value ate
fitting enough if we confine them to
their environment. Abraham called him.
self dust and ashes before the Lord, in
pleading for Sodom. But a a. saint he
was yoting, and we mey say in our
youth what would be mappropriath in
mature years. The publican stsid, "God,
be merciful to tale, a sinner." That was
initial. The prodigal seid, "I will arise
and go to my father." That was initial.
He composed a; nice little speeeh which
he did mit get a chance to utter. I have
read Mit the tombstone of the sainted
Carey, in India, contains this ena
more, after the name and date:
A guilty, weak and helplees worm,
On Thy kind arms I fall.
The humility here is very beautiful,
but it is untimely, inadequate, and only
half true. How is this? The Master
says: "Ye hafe not chosen me, but I
have chosen you." He is the embodiment
of infinite love. True love can never
choose the unworthy. If, then, He chose
me, He must heve seen high worth, and
not low breeding. The disciples could
not have chosen Him, They were sta-
ners; lie was holy. They were wealt;
He was almighty. They were igaorant;
He was; omniscient. They were mortal;
He was eternal. But He came past -
this worthlessness till He got to the
worth, the wealth, the true dignity, fhe
unspeakable preciousnee ef the bantin
soul, whose worth is beyond computa-
tion. He peal the price, He gave Him-
self. We ascertain the value of a thing
by the price pa:d for ie—e twopeuny
article is,worth twopence. I can ascertain
the value of ney own sour wheit I have
assayed the bulk of the peke,
Let us discriminate; the languege of
initiation is eot suitable to the saint,
who, like Abraham, died "full" of the
blessing of God, Paul said; I know how
to abound; I am ready to depart end
arrive."
The Englichnian says, "How ao you
do?", The Frenehman says, "How do yoo
carry yourseif?" Do you merely carry a
bag of money? If you fall overbosted
will sink you. If you carry name, stas
time success, reputatiou, if yea arty
what you "have," it Will not avail, but
if you carry what you "are," the dignity
of the Soh of God shall bring you glory,
honey, eternal life. The climax of eacri-
Bee ts here: For hive's Pike Ile died to
brihg you to share His throxiel"---11, T
Miller.
There was a village in Oregon named
Push. It was a misnomer, too, for if
any town ever lacked -push it was this
one. Appreciaeing that fact and believ-
ing that ,possibly the name was a hoo-
doaresidents have changed the name of
the town to Necanicum, aftet rivet on
which it is situated.
Asbestos is the name of a thriving
Oregon settlement and one ,might sup-
pose it to be the hottest town in the
State. But it stands well up in the
mountains of Josephine County and se-
cured its name ftom the asbestos mine
near by. Other (hope towns which
were 'named after nearby mines ate
Greenhorn, Greenbaek and -Lucky Boy.
There are also Mineral, Promise, Agate,
Nugget, Oretown and Prospect.
A historic name is Giant's Pass, coun-
ty sett of Josephine County.
'When U. S, Grant sae a ,young lieu-
tenant hi the regular army he led a de-
tachment of isoldiers from California
notthwerd through Oregon to Vancouver
aarraeks. _In erossing the southern Ore-
gon Mountains the soldiers wandered
ateay from the regular trail and foiled
their way down out of the mountains
through a new pass. In later years
whee Greet Ied the Unkni artnies to VIC-
tory and became famous his imme be-
anie associated Saith this pass, and the
city whieh grew up•ln the pass between
the hills took the name,
early (los the settlers in order to.
be neer wood eta water event well back
hito the hills to take donation land
. igitoring• the tich
whieh are uow the seenc of trade and
Carmen Sylva's Book Stores—Queen
of Portugal's Chernist Shop.
It is popularly simposed that all indUstrial
'kings" coin° from Anierthe, bUt Europe
can Still boats a ten! reCords, and among
them Is the production of real, genuine bUsi-
ness monartes. For instanee, the Kaiser is
the r)roprietor of a 'most impOrtant porce-
lain factory Cadimen, and, as might be
expected, he does not delegate the duties to
other's.
But the Kaiser is only ea of the many
monarchs who have gone into trade. Xing
Peter ot Servia is perhaps the most uncon-
ventional of thert all, for he runs a harbor
Things Worth Knowing. shim, owns a patent medidine and cOnducts
a Meter car agency in his capital,
The reigning Prince of Lipne-betmoid deals
If there is n, damp cupboard in the wealth. A pitrty thus seeking new homes in butter and eggs, while a prosperous beak
factory swells his Tants.
hoilfle, a box filled With lime ehould be rand a pleasant little valley in what is birioltio2ci2yeeg,oriabirdisoeirce:,311)leeficEtid.
,,sing `WaSel for ttille fat as natural conditions were conceal- stelae workmen.
taint on. in the werld, and employe over 1,000
fa tory in Vienna, Hitch is one of the most
Tho Emperor of Austria owns a ehinaware
The 'tine of saxony con -
pieced. in it. This will melte it perfectly now the existent part of Lina Coun
dry. Believing they laid found a Utopia, teYo.
Wes. I Parie now hos a shop for the sale decorntion, fill with aslant This makee ed, they netted their settleamot Swett ends a similar businesh, t <nig n t ade
if the sink gets arena a little ptiraffin is yet a foothill village. a inereasing, so.tas. Males Y.a.. . . .. „.
house, its own nereaee 't eontitinta hints' tied women were eoetin-
' 1°c1' ia gnatanteed germine' and n° liable to be knoeked over nxid brokee. dot the volleys far helow it Sweet Hoe
when he knows that the centibined wale ' ^---- .------ — - -1- 1 - - f rta.--- Bah Francisco capitalists founded : ia"orailiwrOnaiktte; ts°:0;a:etimilelloollitersgjs°webthiceeir.r,:noi;:4017
3 motel*, 3 horseshoes, 2a building
Europe but her Malesty has wit n ate
7'ltteitiirIV:ierkliti°11orsill wilts,
ilations. Will net each !mutter of (melt
a ' " ("VII 1)1.0171" r 10 9 il II fr tr mn d ' r 0% 1 0
1 n s is equ . tee f r tting to braittli out. boring that time
: it'smerl snanmet: from the heed of the
eommiteity be stirred til do Itli best i.. ormii, gittynItinit 111 n Istir 0 te in well rabbea ni will make it bextotlfully they pittented 15 agrieultural Maar-
(dean. Zine pens aud tins, if eleaned tOWn near the Meath of the Sit:slaw . .
piled of pitteats issma to women, in the
them stand firmly, stud tliey are far less Horne. nut though thriving cities now sitailier 'scale, but, actordinf to mienrkt fteo
lead; community wie have its own • of the hair of famous people. lavery previous twa and a half years, and thitt
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THE UNDECIPHERABLE CIPHER.
A Fortune Waiting for the Man Who
Will Fit One to Wireless.
THE NIGHT MAGNIFIES,
Semeildng Worth Knowing 'or Those
Who Lie Awake and Wore's,.
"You have lain awake at night," sod&
a physician, "and ward a mouse gnaw-
ing at the woodwork somewhere down
in kitchen cupboard,"
His listener nodded.
"How loud did it sound to aou—as
loud as a burglar splintering the door
jambs with a jimmy?"
Another nal.
Would you like to earn a fortune?
A nice, large, comfortable fortune—
not one of the ewollen kind, like those
Rockefeller or the beir of Monte
Carlo or a common copper king, so em-
barritsing in the way oi publicity, but
jest a fortune of the satisfactory
variety, such as one imagines ought
to be enough for him when the is build-
ing air castles at the age of 30, before
else eecond baby has arrived.
About $50,000 or $100t000.
Well, invent an undeesphertuble cipher
for the wirelese telegraph. Then collect
the money—from any government on
earth, but especially from France, Ger•
many, Great Britain, and the United
Stelae. •
No it isn't impossible.
Edgar Allan Poe said it was—saisl
after be 'rad the whole country and
some important fra,gments of Europe
guessing over his 'cryptograminatic
"Gold Bug," thee no human intern-
<sena could devise a cipher which hu-
e
mart intelligence could not decipher and
he hinted rather emphatically that the
human intelligence he was talking about
as the party of the second part belong-
ed. to a certain highly intelligent gan-
tleman of his acquaintance whose ini-
title were E. A. P.
Before bis time a good many people—
Rings and Dukes* and statesmen, as
well a.s common ordinary people —had
tried their bands at cipher making, and
bad made . pretty good fists at it. Bet
when the forerunner of Conan Doyle
and the creator of the prototype of
Sherlock Holmes declared the cipher
to be eternally deeityherable, all the
puzzle nuckers in the universe seemed
to quit and resign themselves to work:
ing for their living.
It was a mistalce not so muth be-
cause the prospeebive discoverers of
pirates' hoards and the general riff-
raff of loyalties and nobilities were
suddenly back on their joba, but be-
muse a. fundamental passion of human
nature was baffled, and when you baf-
fle a fundamental passion, it is liable
to strike in and do damage, like 1•110
measles or the mumps.
Puzzles, erytograms, cipliere all be-
long to what Wilkie Collins designated
the detective instinct that is bore iu
as. As it is, there must be some Mil-
lions of experts in the United States,
:their appetites whetted by prizes rang-
ing from 50 'cents to $5, who are pre-
pared ta pit themselves againet the sec-
ret, tortuous ways and means of the
chancelleries of Europe, for the pro-
tection the Marcomi wireless mes-
sages of diplomacy and war.
There is the great opportunity foe
the cipher devieer; there is the wait-
ing fortune.
Wfien Mamma demonstrated the
main fact that he could transmit mes-
sages through bare space industry saw
bis discovery One of the triumpits
of the age and ocienee- ono of the won-
ders of the ent.
But the government discerned the fu-
ture Aar:4'1es of war. Seienee proved
corteet, Ana inaustry was only pale
tinily disapp.ointed. But government
- —wen, here es what happened to gov-
ernment:
"Paris, November—The Email mie-
istry has received striking proof of the
poseibility of iiitereepting wireless mee-
sages. Yestereley copies of tall Ines -
ages exchanged :by the War Office and
Gen. larnile at Casa Blanca were re-
ceived from Verdun, a military 'dation
neer the Getman 'frontier.
comparison with that of all the other ; ws iqp 'arolailtbr 11;it8_1ofe tl; 80ceuarreor-
commimitiea? Thiele wlio have planned ' 1 i 'X ' al °t1 Pt. with paraffita wilt look ns geed as tee/. River and tainking they hail ani nleal
Some housekeepers when preparilig A loeation for a este:mill town, both in tini- yoptirlitirtisdtdaetde.aTtsholositinsellverb': Egg til.atnahtete.ehilijatarttteleirtys, itbpopxitittrintefles;
and 18 the leading hens° in the DiAll ennale.ess. ,ne eseales, Itt %,asa' "They hail All been retorded at the
'3.1 forms of heating appal -ides,
tnetudiog mak fOr 111110ading Uoverumeat
feet Hutt official messages ettri thus
elatiott at Verdtm. The
of hie community i + 1 1
e ,o ao arouelit Into ' 1)"e3 ru es 8 elu v ' )
, '. a leck but 't • . a lel t
the Parental e:ellool believe that he will. i t ie. laser or its little ne five frinice. - fowl to roast rub it inside lute out with lier supply 'aria shipping facilities •they holt iti Parte.
1 Thete is an ohl eutiosity shop fa sugar, etuff it As usual, ahd when done heated it Aetna. It has never Itettanea 8114)4aTelastaciielriedetPo°tVeta . hat Et themistit TRI clOtelol of Other hatielee ehteeed un- be intercepted during a 'campaign Ints
They lalieye he will not have to be drier- London whielt makes a specialty of tho meet is mild te b much etveeetet and the dignity of a city, sites In Lbibon rometerea to her own tame. uer such aeaas as furniture, culinary given the militstry authorities" much un-
. seas, smAll Ana large, 'tandem/it, hid- When eggs are bigh-prieed, ini oval- usual witse When a post offiee With 1013- .
Aitidere seeared its mune in ten un- Unlike the various other butinesses ermine-,
18 tondlitted solely tit the teteteete tit ehttrttY,
P heathen deities. Ali ki d 4 .
n a 0, im. •tat'er titan if prepared in the sold way.
3 i 1 nteesile, trunks and bags, toys,, washing ensinese.a
en to his tasks, but will take them. u
voluttarny. rated iri this artiele, the Liebon establishment en e ta mg, games, baby tamers, nrt One heed
a b, i‘ • „ , .. go baok only half a eete
And if a boY that before preferred to , eoae real grotesque, are ou vim, you lent subetitute for them in pumpkin pies tat:11611Ni in the Quartzville mining dis- ala seesselasney *men aus Queen attends to aPPlisnees, selVing, 'Ott% tury to eee precisely the Saint thing
play heekey rata take Itir with bad cone ' eat. c1100aa a'a alltialla Ae-tee god ol . im to :tail soda erectors, rolled. fine, allow- triet ill Linn Conaty, Lawler, the Lou- the want., or mummers: pereonelly—she erten. Weittlitg nitinil'el eAllett forth the Inlet- happening, in the inatoey of regulAr
Acaico, calved in heftVy stone and ing two fer malt pie, They may be used don eapitalist wlio awned the Milleg, makes uls orescriations herself—she le work -
mg in a good tame end teed fear no .4 . I- -
pinhole is time led to do the eery best est exorcism of their ingemiltv 112 tat telegraphy,
work he is capable of, will he not form hideous enough to sante a hUrglarl Instead of VA evert when eggs aro plata voitta to tante it lot hie friend. Medina. criticism:a/at Mts. ents being tredittal to. that item gone. Lord 'Clareielon, 'British tuabassitcler
"You have been awakened at 1.30 a. m.
by the crying of a, teething infant next
door ?"
A shudder.
"And it sounded like the hoarse mur-
murs and mingled ululations of a iren-
zied mob assembled outside to demand
somebody's blood 1"
Partial collapse.
"Along toward morning you have
listened to the thin, email voice of a
mosquito circulating abeve your head?"
An involuntary slap.
"Did it sound like the scree+ Of a
Planing mill turning out clapboards 'for
Et barn 1" -
Two node.
"Would you have minded any of these
sounds ia the daytime's"
A shake of the head.
"Now, have no doube you tibia that
the seeming loudness of these sound; was
due to the contrasting silence of the
night. But take another test. You Mate
been in love?"
lem*-um (without utterance).
"And do you eemember how much
softer and warmer and More thrilling;
was- the touch of your best girl's hand
as you strolled wita her on the way
home from singing school at the witch-
ing hour of half past Co p. m. than it
was when you called in the forenoon to
ask if you might escort her to the afore-
said vocal exercises?"
An unspoken yum yum.
"Was it the night's silence then that
added the finiShing touch?"
"It was not," the physician replied ler
his own question, noting his listencee
look of uncertainty. "Take smother
instance: You think you know low to
write—a little?"
A smile of *ratification.
"Well, you nfind yourself awake at
night and thinking. A gem of an idea
suddenly sparkles in the darkness. You •
surround it with epigrams, and while
elaborating the setting you fall asleep.
What does this jewel amount to in the
morning?"
A sigh. •
'There you are. You recall the idea
and some of the epigrams and. a little
of the setting, and all of it is so cm-
•monplace that you wouldn't think of
trying to make aeything preeentabl- out
of it.
"The fact is," the physical.' went on,
"the night magnifies. At night our
pleasures are more keen, our pains more
distressing, our small successes are tri-
umphs, our little failures are disasters',
our faintly cherished hopes appear be-
fore us as things realized, our small
worries. -as overwhelming calamities.
"You find yourself awake M the night
and your thoughts wander` back to sonic
time in your youth when in the presence
of ahose older and wiser you—as you
now see it—were guilty of some slight
breach in deportment or of some little
offence to good taste in speech, and
you dwell upon the condemnation that
must have fallen upon you. In the
morning if what you were dwelling upon
so setimisly oecurs to lour nand at all
you smile and say to yourself that if
your fault was 'laical by anybody at
the time it was too trivial for any Ono
but you to remembeef
"The night magnifiee," the Physician
repeated. "Sueh nage as I have men-
tioned prove it. is partly due th the
silence, but more to ourselves. To ac-
count for the latter would keep me
talking.
"But take it for granted that what-
ever year tense for worry et night it
will look smeller hy day light, and refuso
to dwell on it. If your anticipations Aro
pleasant, tetra: them and you will fall
asleep. In the morning you wilt not be
downeAst because your =guinea 'hopes
of the night seem urtlikely to be 'real-
ized."
.'4.---eseees
Test of the dyroscope.•
A practical test of the use of the gyro=
scope for steadying veesels at sea was
made reeently it England on the
"Seebar," formerly a firsaelass Oman
torpedo boat, with a displaceineet of
50.2 tons. The epparAtus installed -eon-
sists of a. heavy fly -wheel reading Aboub
an exist and etteried by a frame \Warta
can 'oscillate About a horizontal AXIS,
010 oscillation motion of the frame being
eheeked by brakes, The wheel. ie 40 -
Moles in (Barnette., weighs 1,100 pounds,
makes 1,000 revolutions per minute, and
is 'stem driven. The periphety.18 pro,
viaed with blinks and works like a
• -turbine, the- being 'whaled like a
caeing. the test', with the aroseope
out of Action the roll Was 14 degree%
while the boat was kept steady With
the maeltine Acting.