The Exeter Times, 1894-1-24, Page 2)0 0 4' BATOAR.
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tede a Steeple
Vou, Wan -thador"
Ahlottg reeey tlunoe abent electricity
PNIZZairtet te the Average mind is the proatnn
tion of motion and the Method by et bieh
elootrieity is aziede to propel etreet oars.
The priuMple by whieb eleotrteity procluceeIA
otion is a very simple one and Overy
PnerellY knoVrie end eleseeved. It is with -
nig more then megrietio attraetioe. Every
one has seen a metenet attract and Pielg Up
It needle. This Paine attraction is whet
propels a street oar. The simple fact that
inegnete attract end repel magnets is the
cue titer, eaplaine hew Meetrieity produeee
motign.
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NEGLECTED
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Ounerreer.
To see how this is we will first observe
how a current of electricity produces mag-
eettem. If we tahe a piece of iron, and coil
some wire around it, as shown in Fig. 1;
and then pass an electric' current through
thie wire, the iron piece becornes e. strong,
magnet. On the current ceasing, the 'nag.
neterm disappears, If we, reyorse the
direction of flow of the current, we reverse
the magnetism of the iron, and cause the
former north magnet -pale to <become the
eolith pole, and rice versa.
Now, elumly noting that similar magnet.
poles repel; and dissimilar maenetpoles
attract, we can proceed to an uthlerstands
ing of the ease. In Fig. 2 there is shown e
form of motor' generally used for toy -
motors. On each side are the poles of a
magnet marked N and S. In the centre is
the revolving part or armatere with the
projecting arms. Around each arm is wound
a coil of wire, thus making each a magnet
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"Night as well
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health when the
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the 11708t dan-
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"The above
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Pills are used."'
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_
JOIIELETS- j of the current around b and e is changed,
aJtit,
re,lesto
2.—SYMPLD ELECTRIC moron.
when an electric current flows through the
wire. The wire,it will be noticed,is connect.
ed at intervals to the little black sections (K)
representing metal segments which are
arranged in a circle and septirated from
one another by pieces of mioa, or insulating
material, represented by the white spaces.
This is called the commutator. Pieces of
metal called brushes are ahown on opposite
sides of this, rubbing on the, metal strips
and cen veying id this way an electric cur-
rent from the connecting wires ehown. Let
O current flow- in, as indicated by the ar-
rows, and observe what happens. The pro-
jecting ends, rub, c, etc., all becomemagnet
poles from the current flowing through the
wires around them. The poles a and b are
made aorth magnet -poles and are drawn
over toward the magnet S, while c becomes
s, south magnet pole and is repelled from
S. Similarly _on the other side, d and e
b e genie -en '''ht,egmeeteoplpeenademies-Zte.
LI toward N. While f becomes a north.
magnet pole and ii repelled frorra N.
The result, it is readily seen, gives a
revolving motion to the right in the direc-
tion that the hands of a clock move. As this
star piece revolves, the black Or metal
segments rib against the contact -pieces or
brushes shown on eaeh side. La the position
shown, these brushes are jest about to leave
the metal segments between b aed Mani e
and/and slide over on to the following
ones. As goon as this is clone, the direction
Ten Broke—" Why do you call that your
poker chair?" Miss Dashing --"Because it
luxe so often. held a pair,"
Youngwed.--"I suffer awfully from cold
feet at nights. Oldwed—" Why don't
you do as I do? Make your wife wear wool-
en slippers to bed."
"Footer—" Do you know enough about
football to umpire?" Cuteun—"I did once ;
'hut I know enough about the game now not
lb do so again,"
'Tour neighbor appears to have failed
good many times ?" " Just twenty-four
times. The nex-t one will be his silver bank,
ruptcy"
Teacher—" What was the signidcant fact
of Thomas Jefferson's death on the Fourth
of July ?" Bright Boy -• That he missed
the fi re- works. "
"it is not all sunsbinimmy boynne.rryiug
a brilliant woman." "Why not ?" "Because
you are alwayareferred to as Mee. Flaring'
Light's little husband."
Thespis—" A very absurd opinion pre-
vails about women who wear tights on the
stage .'' Ranter—".What is it? Thespie
,—" They are generally coneidered people
of loose habits."
Squildig—"I was sorry to hear that
your wife had run. away with a book agent,
evIcSwilligen." ItcSwilligen," Thank, you,
my friend. But, you see, I haven° grudge
against heck agents, as some people bave.'
Mrs, S. to Applicant—"Arc you a good
cook?" The Applicant—"Well, ma'am, it's
thirty years I've ben a faithful mirnber of
he church ; share 1 orther be good."
eacher—."Cart any little boy hill me why
8t, r. is always at the gate ?" joheiny
Ferguse —" I reckon he's a layird fer dose
fellows w'm robbed him ter pay Paul,"
"Your daug iorehas a remarkably pretty
foot, hire. Streggs,d'oeid Mrs. Bloomfield to
her friend. " Indeedeshe hes," replied the
gratefulmother, "and I leave decided to let
sonle sculptor Make a buret of ie"
" There is one point," eafa Miss Nocash,
looking tip from the ladies' "Raper,. " in
whieh I am always strictly otashicotable."
" ViThat'S that 0' asked her mother. "1
abeolutely never wear diamonds inthe
morning,"
johnuy's Mamtrits--" When tner little boy
Went out with Jerry, did he remember to
be polite and make Jerry go before him ?"
Jehriny—" 'Yes, ma ; reurodl did, An' when
be wouldn't ego oue firet I terned around
Mad oluggett ate"
Father McNally (with righteous indig-
metier:)-e" For glum° an ye, O'llieery.
-Vera hall dhrunit." 0*B1eer3t (apologetis
oelly)—" 01 kriow IM, yee worship ; but lee
not my fault, Oitest gimlet all the money
.0i had,"
.Trames—" Plearre help Me, sir 1 .1 have
Just dome from the far West, Where ,1 was
tEtrred, and feathered." Bagley—" Ireip
You ? Indeed, I will 1 I can sympathies',
•,With yea." " Why, Sir, Were yon ever
tarre'd Ana feathered ?" " No, hub Pen
%Making in front° neW, Winter &tutelar'
bWing littla more abode thee
t Y had yea te all I briog you, Alenzo,'
litafmeretl, " adept. the dower of my
fitelti, riarti, !on are Standi4 on the
the minister. Ply second
tristako." Aloozo
and the
3—REMOLVING CYLINDER OR ARMATURE
OF MOTOR, .
and the magnetism of these poles is revers-
ed, end they are then repelled from S and
N, and so the motion is kept -up. Attraction
and repulsion act on each one of the projec-
tions a b, c, etc., so that they are drawn
over, down toward S and up toward N,and
then repelled up, away from .N, and down,
away from S.
If we wish the direction of the revolution
changed, we chango the direction of flow of
current, so that it flows in from the wire
to the top and right and out at tie° bottom
and left.
For good reasons the form of electric
motor generally used diffdrs somewhat
from the one just described. The revolving
part or armature, unlike that shown in Fig.
2, is made by wrapping layers of wire on a
cylinder, as shown in Fig. 3. Here only
two or three layers are shown, but when
completed the wires cover the surface of
the cylinder, the ends being connected, as
shown, to the separated mere] Segments or
commutator g.
To understand tho action here, we must
note the fact that a, wire carrying a current
becomes a magnet and is attracted and
'repelled by magnets just as magnets are by
each other. Consider then this cylinder,
covered with magnetic needles, as it were.
Magnet-polea placed on each side of the
cylinder, similerly to Fig 2, woald attract
the imedlee or wires and cause the cylinder
to turn until these wires reach the magnet -
poles, when the cylinder would stop, But
before these -wires reach tide point the our,
rent is mit off front them, and they cease to
be magnets, the current flowing, into other
wires heyond them, thus Shifting the point
of attraction and keepieg up the motion.
As soon as a wire passe* the point where
it would stop were the currertt corititmed
through lb and no other wires ueed, the
current is Sent through it in a reveres) di-
tection, and it is um repelled by the mag-
net -pole and thus driven around, and of
course attracted by the opposite magnet -
pole, where a Monier action of stopping
and rovereing the mirrent is coetinued.
The cycle of changes ie kept up with each
4.—.0nroX1SO OS" Etartrues &melee Oen,
ea of witno around all the surface of the
oyliticler and the r&stttbla tt steady magnetic
pell tfiet inelece tit ' dylinder rotate. The
tepplicatlon of sue motion to propelling
mire le, of'eta tati *tete, In Pig, 4 is'
electric strisert,ear.
Versed, ThiS is "lone by
eMeneetien. "
'T`he electric streeteear matter le lating
hetweett axle a the car eltd a eientre
sepporeiug.braee,The eav laving drum or
armatere Rives Motion te ebe earaexle
and Who()le, through a pair of gears),
which redeces the epeed of the ear-witeelo
below the high ereeature speed, Vrout this
short eoement of hew metore run, It is seen
the matter is 4 simple ouo to underetalifisme
Dixio Atlanta, eae, Deco
tuber.
fOritn,
A TOUORING STO.SX.,
now ti IPrelml* count's lare Was eave d ley
Ms Iterate Wire.
One of the rnoot touching storiee in the
history of these Freneleprieons from which
so many politicel offenders have been sent
to the guillotine is that of Couot Levallette
and bis heroic wife. The count was ink-
prisened in tele' in, a Peris prison—olio of
the many victims of 9, reaction in political
feeling, He was gondemned to the guilIce
the, Every oeort was made by his Wife
and friends to obtain his pardon, but in
vain. ' When he had but forty-eight hoers
to live hie wife came to him and, explained
a plan for les escape, Ile protested against
it, but she was firm, declaring, when he
spoke of the risk to herself, that she should
surely die if he perished by the guillotine.
At five o'clock on the day before he was to
be executed, the countess came to his cell,
accompanied by their little daughter
Josephine and by a friend, Madame Du -
telt. She wore a long cloak and brought
with her a black skirt. She glad to her
husbead
"Everything is ready, These things
will disguise you perfectly. At seven
o'elock lam must take Josephine's arm and
walk out. Step gently, and cover your
face with your handkerchief. Unfortun-
ately I have not been in the habit of wear-
ing a veil here,so I dared.not bring you one
lets it ,
snonen xxciro 0001..101mi.
Be sure when you go through the doors,
which are low, to bend yeur head so that
your hat will not be disarranged. You
will go a little, way in mei eedan chair, then
you will be mot by our friend, M. Baudus,
with a carriage, and he will take you to a
place of safety."
Theise.xt two hours were passed in great
anxiety. The family had to make a pre-
tence of eating dinner. Count Lavallette
had to take leave of the friends who came
to bid him farewell. It was decided that
when the gaoler came to the cell after the
count, disguised as the countese, had de-
parted, the countess should remain behind
a large piece of furniture so that the gaoler
could not see her distinctly enough to see
that he was not the count. Of course die-
covery must come SOOU, but a little time
gained would probably save the count.
Disguised* in his wife's clothes, and sup-
ported on one side by his daughter and on
the other by hladame Dutoit, the count
left the cell. He held his handkerchief to
hie face, and bent his head as if weeping.
He had to pass a number ef prison officials.
At one time he had to face five gaolers in
a brightly lighted room. .He was shorter
and of heavier build than his wife, and he
had but slight hope of being allowed to
pass, No suspicion was aroused, however,
even when one of the gaolers conducted
him to the sedan chair, and he stepped in.
A heavy stop, the slipping of his hat to
one side, a remark from the gaoler which,
would have
COMPELLED RIM TO SPEAK,
would have betrayed him, but nothing
elmemenecl and he was borne swiftly away.
ompeinted phme„ thee, elmie_ stooped.
Countravallette gee into a carriage wialear
was waiting.' In the coachman he recogniz-
ed his friend, Count Chassenon. In the
carriage he put onnnother disguise. In
this disguise he entered the house of a
friend, who belonged to the political party
whose leaders had condemned Lavallette,
and who was able to hide him for two or
three weeks unsuspected. There was greet
excitement over reawallette's escape, and
the police made diligent search for hirrebut
his triends were able to get hirn out of the
country. He lived in Bohemia six years.
Then he was pardoned by the king, and
returned to _Femme. The'sad part of the
story has to do with -the heroic couiatess.
When she was discovered in her husband's
cell, she had to undergo a terrible ordeal of
anger, imprecations, and oruel treatment
from the gaolers. She was kept in prison,
and endured fearful hardships for six weeks.
Then she was able to rejoin her husband.
Her health, previously delicate, was injur-
ed past recovery, and her reason was Shat-
tered, though she was never really insane.
' KNOCKED SENSELESS.
„
ACanadian contractor Sandbagged, lilac -
cd and nolibed at the Tails.
A Niagara Falls special says d—Auother
case of highwaii robbery developed last
night. Samuel Hecke.don, a Canadian con-
tractor, was returning home from the Am-
erican side late when he was waylaid and
robbed. tteckadoe had crossed the tipper
Suspension bridge and was climbing the
hill above the Clifton house when a man
sprang from behind a tree and struck him
on the head with a sandbag. lie *as knock-
ed insensible and his assailant kicked him 1
brutally In the side. Before he recovered
his senses fully the man robbed him and "'•
escaped. The assault occurred about 11.30 "
o'clock and it is thought the robber or rob-
bers followed Heckadon from the ArnerMan
side, When the man recovered conscious-
ness he crawled some 200 yards up the hill
to the Queen's Park hotel and told of the
seseault. Dr. McGarry wag called ancl at-
tended him. The thieves seeured $25, be.
sides some receipts andmontmets.
1)4i)1 fthRI)
MilliOttaire, fer 0000t4s
one OW lady oe Threaaneeella Streeree
Curtositiee Of the Mode or tosalax4—
Irate Bohlen iliorna —11111ttene luMelt
T& " Old Lady of Threedeeedle etreet"
kriewn in nvery nook and corner of the
earth. Rer repntation is of the very beet.
Her oorrespoudenta umnber thousaade.
Sho is coutiaually sending out notesaes well
as receiving them. Tent) of thOesancla of
PenPle heYe beenitlecle haPPY ba'' her notes:
end ae many unhappy by the loos a thou
The Baule of Englomd,fainiliar to millious
n.e the " Old Lady el Threadneedle street,
is one a the most interestieg platen! in 'Lou-
den to visit. Meet parts of the beak eau be
visited in a bush:tees veay, but a view a the
roost interesting departments can only be
obtained
by permission." The stranger
in the city in passing the bank would readie
ly guess that the building was a niece of
sonie importance, and more than likely he
week'connect it with having something to
do with durance " vile," for, the fortress-
like appearance the bulk has, generally
impressegstrongers with the idea
TEAT IT IS A reasoet,
rp and down in front of the main en-
trance paces a man, whode coat of red, cut
like a steel -pen, plug hat with vvide gold
lace band, shows that he is an official of the
bank, He is net only ornameetal, but use
ful as a cab -door opener, and receiver of
tips. Just inside there is a much more hn-
portent looking individual, whose uniform
is even more reeplendent thou the outside
man's. His cloak is heavily braided, with
gold lace, and his hat boasts three corners
to it. His duties are to diredt people in the
way they should go. The mention that I
was the poosessor of an order to view the
bank, immediately brought him to atten-
tion, and following the directions given mea
In a few minutes I Wee in charge of the offi-
cial who wail to pilot me through the laby-
rinth of offices, corridors and vaults.
THE 'BULLION OFFICE
is one of the meet interesting eights in the
bank. All the gold and- silver that enters
or leavqs the building must past through
the bullion office to be oheeked. theethe
left is the silver, on the'right is the gold.
Under an immense glue stands the ma-
chine mica for weighiug •gold. The machine,
ae my guide said, "is the mese deli-
cately constructed of its kind in the world.'
It is kept under glass, as the smallest par-
ticle of dust would make considerable dif-
ference in the scales. Aceess to the scales
is had ley means of a sliding panel. In or-
der to give an idea how delieately con-
structed the scales are my guide said that
a single hair could be accurately weighed.
The scales are fitted with weights amounting
to 400 oz. and in weighing the gold the die.
ference of one thousandth part of an ounce.
CAN' BE DETECTED. _
In another room tere several machines
for weighing sovereigns and half -sovereigns.
Each machine consisteof a cernplieated sys-
tem of cointee weights,and like the machine•
used for weighing bar gold, these are en-
tirely enclosed in glass oases. The feeder
consists of a longeiarrow trough into which
a sovereign will fit exactly. The trough is
filled with sovereigns and one by one they
drop down on a incrvable plate, a very:little
larger than the sovereign itself. If the coin
is O.K. it disappears down another tube on
the right of the plate,but if it is light the
machine throws it to the left. These Ma-
chinee can each weigh 1,500 sovereeigge, �r
or half sovereigns an hour.Oh*busy asps
there are sometimes 150;000 pieces weigh-
FRI.NVNG BANKNOTES.
A piece of bank paper is whisked through.
the rcillors of the press, passes over the en-
graved plate slides along the tapes and
comes trut inore valuable by £50. The, well-
knowi& hignatnre, F. May," whloh is not
too familiar to the unemployed,- will soon
give place to the signature of the taw chief
cashier. The "old lake" is"very partioilea
about the material she has her notes print-
ed on so she has le private paper mill where
all her bank note paper is 'manufactured.
The water mark is not really a water marks
the mark being made by a wire twisted into
the design,. so that when the pulp settles
down the paper is thinner on the wire than
any other part of the paper. The paper on
which the notes are printed ts Made from
new linenlor cotton,and a note will support
a weight.i5f thirty pouuds before it is used.
If the note proper is of the right size ; it
will also support a large fernilyfor. months.
Each machine is capable of turning out
20,000 notes per do.e. When a note is re.
etsived at the bank.
IT IS IMMEDIATELY CANCELLED,
even though it has been in circulation butt.
few hours. It requires a large staff of clerks
to attend to the checking and cancelling of
the notes received over the counters during
the day. The daily receipts will average
£50,000. Each not has to be entered
upon books, then tied up in bundles to be
placed in vaults where they are kept for five
years, after whieli they are consigned to the
flames. Once a week large numbers of bank
notes are destroyed by being burned in. a
furnace specially constructed for that pur-
pose.
A very interesting book was, shown to
me containing spemmens of forgeries past
nd up to date.- One in particular had been
-ery akilfully executed, the forger using
only pen and ink. - Forger e of Bank of
Engler:Id notes must be moreakilful ixt their
work then they- have been, as expert offi-
cials have never failed to detect falee notes .
when presented. „! ! • .
Many decades ago the Bank of _England
used to issue 41 notes, specimens of which
were shown to me, also -notes ofe£15 and
£25. A note for one million pound e cen
be seen amongst the interesting collection.
This note is printed like the others,' 'except-
ing the amount which was writteu in with
erannows N IT.
The Bank of England Cali easily claim to
being posseseed of the wealthiest roorn itt
the world. If my goide was not trying to
inflate my capree I wes in a room, or more
properly epeaking, vault, in which there
was more Money stored than all the banks
in Canada together possessed; £100,000,-
000 was_the figure my guide gave as the
amottne. "I am only spsaking of the
How a Bee Sees.
'Me are so used to regarding the world
round ue from the standpoint of our own
sight that it is hard to realize that to
other creatures, far outnumbering us and
perhaps as important in the economy of
nature, it must look quite different. , The
honey &e, for example, is supplied with
O pair of compound eyes with hundreds of
facets, each capable of sight by itself, sad
eeveral ocoelli or littie, eimple eyes more
cleeely allied to our own. How these eyes
are used, what are their eepagate awn!.
nut
tions what sort Ofmgee thy Can present ,
t� their owners all ternein questions as T
interesting arid Well-nigh unsolved as they n
Were before the days of our powerful it
microscopeS. Notwithstanding the , faet p
that hundreds o/ entomologistrehave been t
and are interested in this eubject we yet a
are only at the stage where we can dffirrn p
that the honey bee sems it very different v
floWer from the one in whieh we observe p
ner itt seareb of aweete, although ofwhat re
that difference is and how et is produced
we ean form but little idea1
mount of specie cotttined in this vault.,
here art also millions of pomade bank'
otes, added my guide. "]3anit notes,"
aid be, "take up very little room corn-
ered with specie. There for example," at
he same thee allowing me to hold it re-
pectable sized package for a second, "is a
ackage eontaining 2,000 banknates of the
alue Of 4100 eaeh." lib replaced the
aeliage in its place having ooly allowed
e to be it nollioriaire for a secorid. "You
motet require large Spaea to store the notes
received from day to day'?" 1 will show
you theme vaultiii next," f was next ehown
the oerote containing the defunct paper
eireutation �f the hank., and again my
guide put the figure away ny, in the mill -
lone. "There ere," he said, over 76,000,000
notes ill the 2,000 et' mare koxes you see
around the vault.
dasits er aeon -null'
has Slant for Teti Years,
A sleeping Worhan exiets in France, who
ho lain in a iitats o eatalepey for ten years.
She suffeted a severe nserttal shock when a
girl of twenty, and suddenly fell into this
strange cendition. Deoters from all parts
of Eranee have tried to aWaken here but
without success, amd all 'agree tlat tato will
only ragern conectensneee jest before deeth.
Thotigh redneed tci4 skeleton,as site is only
kept alive by aetilleial -tioutimit, the
wend& deer am/00k '01, hat 8inkply like"
anyone ittan nt
, ,
by which beak neees may have beeti veiledly
desbrsyed sr partithtbJie bank eelear leitenierlia* .40toriit
mtvrivlsel tabaelre.ne
accidenty torn erliaineents,
bbs
b-wiltt must be
e V ,0X.o.iotg,
d
ynten,
0 QQlGj' deo
• ltraldt Id Goan
Xt wa4 for *1;60(4 but it Vett p,444,
Abetter thne time •had the payaleut 'been
asked for le Stotee, for jut "asO a groeer
seguld eerns sugar o did the pareg tollei
Some
We "sugar" He jest dipped e brass
4°9°P 'jute drawer> duttpitis telae ieto
the scales, carefully inepeeted tWinelterstor,
added a few mere sovereigns, Wert quickly
dumped the heap of yellow boys on the
Counter, end the customer was left to count
the money if lie wished. Uniformed offi-
cers ere very muoli in evidence irt antl
alentria the bank of England, 'The whole
!system, from beeineing to end, is under
constant pollee espiomige. The electrie
arraegementa are so complete that at a
mornent'e notice communication earl be
had with any part of the building. There
has been no eeteropb in many years to rob
the bank, by burglave bet, as a hault °fa -
Mal told me, there are meaty mos, *Mph
the public do not probably see, where
cheques o,re preseuted for which there, ere
no tupelo, or
SOMETIMES FORGED CHEQUES
are presented, but those who attempt such
tricks even though they may get the paper
mailed, very rarely go as far as the benk
entranee with their booty before they are
nabbed.
Any evening about nix o'clock a detach-
ment of soldiers can be seen marching down
the embankment towards the city. They
are from the Horse Guards and are on their
way to the Bank of Erigland, where they
remain until the following morning at six
o'clock.,
.As I came out of the "Bank" a procession
of the unemplayed was assembling in front
of the Mansion Rouge. 13anners inscribed
"No Bread," "No Work," were conspicu-
ous and made me think of the unemployed
X100,000,900 in the Bank of England's
vault.
tate
Investigate its by Writing to tile
Postmasters any Minister or CI
Plartford Ci'ty, Indiana.
aereake
Speakin g of Snowballing.
"Speakin' of snotvballina" said old Peto
ea he put the remaining half of a plug of
blackstram bite his mouth, "reminds me of
the fun we had once when I WIEZ a boy:"
The loungers settled themselves 'more
comfortably on the barrels and bdxee, while
the grocery mare pulled down the blinds,
took a horn from the keg labeled "zweet
cider" that stood behind the counter, and
with a sly wink to himself moved nearer,
assuming an air of profound attention.
"Well," continued Pete, "it wuz roiled
aboutNew Year time, down in Slumville,
where I wuz Hybl' then. The snow lay
pretty deep, must have been nigh to three
feet, ell quite soft like. e
"A lot of is boys wuz up on Widder
Green's hill. • Now that wile a hill. 1 toll
you! You could bowl a stone from the top
en it wouldn't touch ground more en twice
'fore it reached the bottom. 'Well, we
rolled a snowball on started it downhill.
"Ez I said 'fore, the snow wuz moist, so
that that there ball growed to an 'normous
eize in a jiffy; en go—geewhitter, how it
dicl go I , •
"When it wuz 'but quarter way down it
struck Parson Snorter, who was olimbing
up to give us boys a lecture, I guess.
"It just hit him square in front, knocked
him over, picked hirn up en took him along.
"Tben it run into the Widder Green,who
wuz combne home from her <loin' washin' in
the village, en say, I felt real sorry when 1
veed her goin' over en over, but there wuz
no stoppiia' that ball. Next it struck old
how,legged Dan Fletoher, It took him
111°n' Tg.
'hon" it4-ttntree, to a team atin a load•of
wood—did it stop? Noteaugh It served
thein in the same way, en keption'olliii!eu
gottin' bigger en bigger, till, to nip the
story off short like, it dropped on the
viilagit—'Picked that up and took it'alOng,"
remarked Billy Shanks, from his perch on
the apple.bin.
'' No, it didn't, it stopped there ; en I
heard a feller say that he seed as much ez
four feet of the Methodist church spire
sticking up -through that there snowball,
but, d' you know, I always believed that
feller wuz lyine"
"Hemuethave been," said the crowd in
s. breath, as, with a sorrowful glance at old
Pete, they pulled -up their coat collars and
stole out into the cold, fresty' night,
[Toronto Saturday Night. .
Knive-s With Many Blades.
The meet remarkable knife in the world
is one in the curiosity room of the factory
of Joseph Rogers and Sons, cutlers, Shef-
field. It has 1,800 blades, and tea blades
are added to it every tenth year, so that
the addition about seven yeers hence will
bring the number of its blades UP to 1,90).
Another curiosity in their possession is
three pairs of sciesoro, all of which can be
covered by a thimble. One thousand eight
hundred and forty blades, all provided
with hinges and springs, and all closing
into one handle, were made in a single
pocket.knife by one of the oneletymanufac-
turers in Sheffield. Another specimen has
220 blades, highly ornamateted with lands-
capes, eto.; and a third, measuring, when
closed, only one inch in length, has eeventy
blades, illustrating all the various shapes
ever given to knife blades. A knife with
more than 100 lelades was presented by the
cutters of Sheffield to George IVO, and is
now amongst the Royal plate at Windser
Castle.
Etiolate 'Coortin'.
Gi'e me a canny mor at e'en •
in yonder copse; where, Sever scen;
A lad rimy meet his lass at e'en,
To lo'c more dearly. ,•
We a' profess to seem the. SOX
Who, dirt atr. fawn, ani smile an' vex,
Thitne'er do keep in mind the text; '
' Beware otwotruin.
Gee me the lass that Wears the plaid
On city street or ort
An' dons a coat and short -gown wide,
An' won,rs a' s000man,
Then gees a kies. ray alo braev Meet°,
An dinna thaw an' mak' mb dizzy,
An' keep 7110 haltanioor sae buy
In mecklo fechtire.
We'll no be here till eee o' sun,
The etruggle'e o'cr, T'Ve a1M1At wen
I've smacked, her twice the deed, is don,
AM fa' back pechint
. —Millesgow
IlOW to Gat a "'Sunlight" Plotar,S.
Send 2,5 "Sunlight" Soap wrappers (the
large wrapper) to Lever -Grose Ltd., 43
Scott Si. Toronto, and you will reeeive by
post a pretty picture, free front advertising
and well worth frathing. This; is an easy
way to decorate your home. 'rhe soap is
the beat in the market, and it vvill only oost
le postage to send in, tho wrappers, if you
leave the ends epee. Write your address
carefully.
A. oudcrf'uj Lihthog.,
',A; wonderful lighthouse is to •bo erected
on Pentnarch Point, Brittany. It will don.
‘taiti a." lightning flasli" light. of 40,600,000
dandle poWer, saltinga beats Which den be
in blear Weather iiisty,three iIe
oitay '04 . ftiggy -weather twenty-nne
inlles, 'This Is by far the Must, ;tifeWerfixt,
Searching and 4etereteeting .fight lomivn to
.icience It *Will,edat aboutld1,0V9i n1 be
knOW,Initbbs Eckithhl lighthenSit.
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in.;.Orni,t !Wu
".411'd $611to**4ront;
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HARTFORD CITY, Blaeltford County,
Indiana, Jane Stb, 1898.
South American Medicine Co.
„gentlemen : I received a lettei
from you May 271h, stating that you
had heard of my wonderful recov-
-ery from a spell of sickness of six
years duration, through the use of
SOUTH AUERIOAN NEWVINE, and asking
for my testimonial. I was near
thirty-five years old when I took
down with nervous prostration. Our
family physician treated me, but with-
out benefitting me in the least. My
nervous system seemed to be entirely
shattered, 8,nd I constantly had very
severe shaking spells. In addition
to this I would have vomiting spells.
During the ye acs I lay sick, my folks
had au embient physician from Day-
ton, Ohio, and two from Columbus,
Ohio, to come and exaraine me.
They all said I could not live. I
got to having spells like spasms, and
would lie cold and stiff for a time
lifter each. At last I lost the use of
ttty body --could not rise from my bed
Itt
4031,00"4.:'
or walk a step, and hati to be lifted
like a child. Part of the time I
could read a little, and one day saw
an advertisement of your medicine
and concluded to try one bottle. By
the time I had taken one and one- „
half bottles I coulsi rise up and take
a step or two by bein
after I had taken five b
felt real well. The
helped, and
es in all
laaking went
away gradually, and I could eat and
sleep good, and my friends coula
scarcely believe it was L I am Sure
this medicine is the hest in the world.
doubts nay statement they an write
liki
I belive it saved nay life, give my
name and address, so th ' • anyone
me, or Our postmaster or any citizen,
as all are acquainted with,,,my case.
I am now forty-one years of age,
and expect to live' as long as the
Lord has use for me and do all the
good I can in helping the suffering.
MISS ELLEN STOLTZ.
Will a remedy -which can effect
Such a marvellous cure as the above,
cure you ?
C. LUTZ 'Sole Wholesale and Retail Agent for Exeter.
Dn. 1VIcDAtnitin Agent, HensaYt.
asifigurarnmagusrmeapau.r.,
TAKING AN OATH.
!armies Worms Usedein Binding
Ever- since*the:e"htanire
cOseoslirtsenartiel par.
ticular stress has bean placed 'upon the
matter of, adminietering the oath to the
witnesses. In order that it may be binding
and the loophole of informality may be, as
far as possible, reduced it has been the cus-
tom to swear. witnesses in the tnu.nner con-
sidered the most binding in' their native
lands. The march of civilization has, in this
instance, tended toward accepting the
methods for Protestants and Roman Catho-
lies employed truth's country as those beet
suited to impress upon a witness the solem-
nity and siguificance of the oath, though
there are odcasions when it became neces-
sary to resort to other methods.
PROTESTANT WITNESSES
before a court-martial are sworn by laying
their right hand, ungloved, on the Ihble,
closed or open, while the oath iS recited.
Kissing the book is frequently required in
addition to the laying on of the hand.
Raising the right hand and keeping it rata -
ed duriog the recital of the oath is also a
form adopted by a number. There ere
meaty who prefer to affirm rather than to
Swear and those are accommodated by
saying: " You clo solemnly affirm," in-
stead of " solemnly swear," the right hand
being raised or placed on the Bible as be-
fore. Formerly it was required to place.
the right hand on the open evangelists.
IN sw.c.s.ntxo oi.ruomes
the Bible is closed and has marked on the
outer cover a cross, generally out out of
White peper and pasted on. Sometimes a
crucifix is placed upoh it, which the wit.
oath is recited,
there is any shspidion in the mind of the
ness, after tho kiegeo when i
president or the court martial or in that of
any of its members. The witness, if a Roman
Catholic, after kissing the arose, is frequent-
ly directed to otose himself, For con-
ventenee, the oat'ne to be adniiitistered by
the president of the court to the judge of
the court and the witnesses that are called
before it to give teetimbnee aro often yerit-
„ten out on patter and pasted on ono
of the coverts of the Bible, so ae to
be at hand to refresh the memory of him
whose duty it itt to administer the oeths.
TOE JEWS
their custom In England, at the old
Bailey prison, a Chinaman was present,
itS a witness In an important; case, and foe
some tirne the nature of an Oath arid all
that it implied could not be impressed
upon him. Neither could the authorities
quits. make aut juatmwhat the 1VIougolian
did consider binding. Finally, through the
aid of an interpreter, it was decided to
break a saucer over the head of the pro-
posed witness., When this was done the
Chinaman appealed to the supreme beteg
whom he worshiped, praying that his own
body might be broken into as many pieces
as the Saucer if the testimoner he was about
to give should not be the entire truth.
As a general thing in courts-martial held
in fereign waters where native witneeses are
required to give evidence, and perticularly
where such persous are not of the Chris-
tian faith, dare is taken to ascertain and •
adopt the ceremony of the religions
of the witnesses respectively. It is also
considered a wise plan, e:pecially in impor-
tant caeca, that a priest of the creel,/ of th *
wttnesses be present where the oath' is acl-
reinielined in order to give ,i7; great tore°,
and sanctity, , ,
• Scorpions Are Not Snick' es.
During many years of scorpion hunting I
never remember te have seen two individ-
uals living together in amity ; mad even
their more tender teletione are tsautecl alt
times with the unemieble habit of cannibal,
ism. The melee are decidedly smaller then
theie ms.tes, whom they approach aceord-
ingly with the 'utmost caution. If the fair
inamorata doeen't like the looks of her
advancing stlitor She settlee the (meatier -1
off hend by making it murderotio 'spring at
catehtng /din in her claws, stinging
! him to deeth, aud 'reeking a hearty meal Of
him. This is ecaroely loverlike. On the other
hand, if tt. dubious wife, the forrade scorpion
is a devoted mother. She hatches her eggs
in her own ovidiret, brings her young alive,
(uelike her relations, the spidero,) and oar-
riee them about on her bask, to the nutn.
her of fifty, during their innocent childhood
till they are of an age to shift for theinseldea
lit the etrugglo for existence.
Scorpions do not sting themsel yea to deitth
With their own tails when surrounded with
fire, That silly,ancl, On the Very face of it,
improbable fable lis been invented by Sal,
ageS, and repeated by people who Ought to
know better, !solely cm the strength oft‘the
carious way the oreaturee cock tip their
tails when a ttticks.1., he the proper ettitua
Lor stinging.
Some years ago, how even, a
” man of solonee," who appears
inherited his methods of inve
a red Indian ancestry,
hatidreads 01 these poor
-Unit notiodesSery
Pitetroeg eerie
oft, Is ttngat'
111
are customarily sworn by the five books
of Moses and the Great' God of Israel, that
ehe evidence they give shall .be the truth
the Whole troth and -teething hut the truth..
1Propiently, howeyee, there is no departure
in the Methods used with this race from
that Which ordinarily obtains, l'he etat
uteein the tithe a cleorge, FY., king of
Eng at 1, ooatttiri seeeral acotiond it relation
totthe keltAinistraddii.O the oath afeteinito
:derma, Ondbiteo thtim are 0130 01' tWei teter.
ffng to theta ftvasse'cto(I,a5,torthe,.t.,A4e,
ovbilr: .140r
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