The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, February 09, 1894, Image 4
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
The first English shilling wm minted
In 1508.
Pythons and several species of boas
Lave real legs ard feet.
A locomotive requires fuel and labor
fco the value of $3WU in the course ol
? year.
' Switzerland Bonds to France everr
year 26,000 tons of milk and 13,000
of cheese.
The mean annual temperature of the
ArotiQ afgions is below thirty degrees
Fahrenneit.
The coal oargo of the Scotch ship
Ada Iredale, which was abandouod at
cea, burned for a year.
A man hAs been knowu to stay for
five minutes in an oven in which the
temperaturo was 380 degrees.
It is admittod by most divers that
twenty-flvo foot is about the limit at
which they can see under water.
Men attending the pans in salt
works are never known to have cholera,
smallpox, scarlet fever or influenza.
Australian salt bushes have been introduced
into South Africa, and aro
being largely cultivated there as forage
plants, to resit drouth.
The ostrich farmers of South Africa
? ? f ii.. - cr a... .. e ii
(tuner losses irom vuu euccva tn munn
iC wire-worms which infest the young
ostriches in such numbers as frequently
to produce fatal results.
An Australian paper spoaks highly
the attempt to cultivate nrrowroot
in tropical Queensland, and there is
every charter that thi> plnui will bo "s
Buccussful there as it is in the Bermudas.
Bock emery millstones are said to bo
rapidly comiug into use. It is claimed
that they are wonderful grinders, and
it seems quite natural that blocks of
rock emery should cut faster and lost
longer than anything else.
It is computed that the death rato
of the world is sixty-seven a minute,
and the birth rate seventy a minute,
and this seemingly light per centage
of gains is sufficient to give a net increase
of population each year ol almost
1,200,000 souls.
To get she oil out of a grindstone
make the stone as hot an safety will
permit, and then cover it with a paste
of whiting and water. The mixture
will soon become tilled with oil, when
it may bo scraped off and the process
-opening until ??1? the oil ?r> extracted.
Infection front foul drains and deposits
often cause sore throat, sore
throat often merges in croup and croup
in diphtheria?with various grades of
malignancy?and what is all this hut
? ladder of stages in the evolution of
a pathogenic microbe from a harmless
one by the interaction of variation
end heredity under a noxious regimen?
An apparatus to register the timo
taken by each person in using a telephone
has been invented in Germany.
It is called a "'telephouenieter," and it
is the design of the telephone companies
to use its figures as u basis for
their charges for the use of telephones.
When this 'meter" is attached
to telephones talk over a telephone,
it can bo predicted, will be us
concise aa a telegraph message.
^ny,^reucA,*\/?W't?iuv ?< .
"No less than fourteen million of the
inhabitants of France, that is threefourths
of the agricultural population,
are engaged in farming on farms of
twenty sores, or less, generally much
less. There are 4,802,697 of these
farms, which cover in all an area of
324,900,2M acres. .Butter, eggs, chickcus,
grain, vegetables, fruit, milk,
cheese, and in a way cattle, sheep and
swine are the usual products?American
Agriculturist.
A Curious ami Antique Key.
. An old and curious key and lock it
attached to the door of Temple Church,
in PIW .* i T 1 'n> ,
u A luct IVILX1, IJUUIIIIII. L1113 KCJ
weigh* seven pounds, ia eighteen inches
long, and, unlike other keys, it
was not made for the lock. On the
contrary; the lock was made for it.
Both key and lock have been in uw
since the CruoadeH, the church itself
having been built by the Knights
Templar in 1485. ?Hardware.
( rniM nntl Clover Srcd.
Thel truest grower of ttrass and Clover Seed
In the world is Sal/.or. La Cross\ Wis. Over
6" li'ini >' varieties, with lowest priced
Special low freight to New York, I'a. and the
Bust.
I v vou wti.i.irr TttisnrT anhskmi it with
lie post axe to the .tohn A. Sal/.et- Seed t'o.. L.'v
4 'rosso, W!s., yon will tve -iv i eleven packages
grass and clover sorts a:?<l It's m iinin >'h
eoed catalogue: fit I of good things for the far
iu?ir, the gardener ard Hie r'ti:? ?. A
r'A mm,to kill murdorora l>y olectrlolty bos
txjon Introduced Ipto tho Maryland Senate.
liistiBiiil
PURIFIES
THE^ BLOOD
| > Mis* Blanche Clark
i SALT RHEUM
ft Broke out on our little girl's face. Her bands
<Aw?lJvd and bli???r* formed and iaier broke
M^r rmo i Tbc itching ?Ti buiutuK sensation was
jHSMT terrible. Hood's Sarsaparilla cured her. It
K Hood's^Cures
I In like a miracle. Her blond lms bt'comn purlfled
and her flesh soft and smooth." Mrs.
Ann* L. Ob ARK, 401 K. 1th St., Duluth. Minn.
k Hood'* Pills euro liver Ills, biliousness, const IL
tl n. Jaundice, sick headache. -l > cents.
^^ ry Fine Transplanted capiiaof. i'l.aNTS ready
^ftietdiii |im by mnll ?<V bv express We., vn by
1,15; nasi f.arlv Jersey Wakefield and Hen
Eurly Summer. A T. IU.miii., Chariot 1-. N C
TKS COMING oi* NIOHTi.
TLv wiiw^B looked backward, smiling,
And slipped oat through the weet,
Where rosy, misty forms beguiling
Beeougbt ber for their guest t
"Olv, follow, follow through the weett
"Our goldcu portals Wide are swinging
For theealoue, for thee.
And wistful voices clear are ringing
Across the darkling sea,
In eager welcoming to thee."
Aion ner silver censor holding,
The star-oyed Night drew close,
Her mantle round the hushed earth folding.
More sweetly breathed the rose,
As Night with toudor tears drew close.
Her dusky sandals softly gleaming
With wandering threads of gold,
Broldered by vagrant fireflies, scorning
Beneath each wing to hold
A fairy spinning threads of gold.
With silent footfall, weaving slowly
A mystic, slumb rous spell,
She came; and something sweet and holy
The wearj* earth bofell
When woven in the slutnb'rous spell.
?(lelia A. Wayward, in IdppencnW,
ON Til"lililNK.
BY FRANCOIS C'OPFF.K.
} Is r gA HEN London tit
I I \ Kf Horn haw his lasl
yy piece of money
* . raked in l?y thf
/A bos-Tl hanker, and got up
Vw ill h-ont the roulette
\J table where ho had
4.rL v|'i>ih ei~i just lost- the reJ
"i inaiuder of his lit|V'
I i^TV8 tie fortune which
li ^ 1V V ^ ',e 'ul<^ brought
| _ ,/ j L-| Z there for his final
N I A ? * ?' !" ? ?' t. h e wn t
/ I jp seized with Vertigo
and narrowly
escaped fulling lo the (ioor.
With a weary brain and trembling
legs, he threw himself upon a long
leather safe which surrounded tht
gambling table.
For several minutes hi looUc I
vaguely about these private gambling
rooms where he had spoiled the most
beautiful years of his youth, recog
ruzeu trie worn features <?f t.lio different
gamblers, cruelly lighted by the
great shaded lamps, heard the soft
clinking of the gold upon the green
table, felt that he was ruined, lost,
and remembered that he had at home,
in tV>e ?-? ?.? tl.? commode, a pair ol
pistols which had once been the property
of his father, General de Hern,
when he was a captain; then, only,
worn out with fatigue, he fell into a
profound sleep.
When he awakened, his mouth dry
and parched, he ascertained by glancing
at the clock that lie lia I scarcely
slept a quarter of an hour, and he felt
an overwhelming desire to breathe the
fresli, cool, night air. The hands of
the clock pointed to a quarter of an
hour of midnight. As he arose and
stretched himself, he remembered thai
it'was Christmas eve, and with an
ironical play of the memory, he saw
himself a little child and putting, before
he went to bed, his shoes in frout
of the fireplace.
At this moment, old Dronski, a
pillar of the place, a typical Pole,
wearing a rusty, long coat, trimmed
with braid and large ornaments, an
words through his gray heard :
"Lend me five francs, sir. Tt is now
two days since I have not left the
club, and during these two days I
have not seen 'seventeen' win. You
may laugh at me, if you wish, but i
will cut oft' my right hand if hood, at
midnight, this number is not the
on-.
Lueien do Hern shrugged his shoulders.
He had not even enough in his
pockets to give to that beggar, whom
the frequenters of the placo called
"ies cents sous du Polonais." He
passed into the anteroom, took his hat
ami coat and went down the staircase
with a feverish agility.
Siuco 4 o'clock, when Lucien went
into the club, the snow had been falling
steadily and the street?a narrow
one in the centre of Paris, with high
houses on eitlur side?was white with
snow. In the calm, black-blue sky
the cold stars scintillated.
The ruined gambler shivered in his
furs and began to walk rapidly, turning
over always in hi* mind those
hopeless thoughts and dreaming more
man t-vcr <>i rue uox 01 pisiois wniCD
awaited him in the <1 raw or of liia commode;
but after having taken several
steps, he stopped suddenly beforo a
heart-rending spectaele.
Upon a stone hvneh, placed according
to an old custom near the large
door i?f a private house, a little girl
scared \ s,\ or seven yean old, dressed
in a i t I black frock, was sitting in
tin- s11ou Slie had fallen asleep there
despite tiie cruel cold, in a pitiful attitude
of fatigue and dejection, and
her pour little head and tiny shoulder
had dropped into corner of the wall
and were resting upon the icy stone.
One id i lie old woolen shoes with
which the child was shod hail fallen
n... f . .< i ?
nwui iiii i?mm, " uk 11 ?
down, nnd lay dreaiily before her.
Mechanically Lucieu ?lo Horn put
his hand to his vest pocket, hut he re
lueiuhorod that a moment before he
did not find even a franc, and that he
could not give a foe t<> the club waiter ;
nevertheless, pushed l?v an instinctive
sentiment of pity, he approached the
little girl, and he started, perhaps, to
raise her in his arias and to give her a
place of shelter for the night, whon he
saw something glist 11 in tho shoo
which had fallen from her foot.
He bent over it ; it was a twontytive-franc
piece.
A charitable person -a woman, 110
tlnnlit lmil lifiUKiwt tlnit u'liv Knit unftii
oil that Christmas ev?- that shoes that
had fallen in front of the sleeping
child, an 1 recalling the touching
legend, she had carefully placed there
a great gift, so that the little abandoned
child could believe yet in Santa
Clans, aud should retain, in spite of
her uuhappiness and misery, some
confidence and some hope in the goodness
of Providence.
Twenty-five francs! There, was in
it several days' rest and wealth for the
beggar, andJLucieii was upon the point
of awakening her to tell her of it,
when lie heard near his ear, like an
hallucination, a voice- the voico of
tlii! Pole with his thick and drawing
accent that murmured low- these
words:
"It is now two days that I have not
left the dub, and during these two
day. 1 have not seen 'seventeen' win.
I will out off mv right hand if "ccr., it
midmgni, this number is not the one."
Then this young man, twenty-three
years old, who was descended from a
race of honorablo people) who bOrO a
feuperb military name, was possessed
with a mad, hysterical, monstrous desire
; with one look he assured himself
that he was really alone in that deserted
street, and bending his knee and pushing
his hand tremblingly into the
fallen shoe, ho stole the twenty-fivefranc
pieoo.
Then, running with nil his strength,
ho returned to the gambling house,
limbed the ataircases wit)* f few
strides, pushed open with his net th?
padded door of tho cursed room, nnd
reached it just as tho clock was strik*
ing twelvo placed Upon tho greoU cloth
the gold piece and cried \
*'I stake it all on 'seventeen!' "
Number seventeen was the winning
number.
With a turn of the hand Lucien
placed his double funds on "red."
Red was the winning color.
He tried all of his mouoy again on
the same color.
Red came tho second time.
Ho doubled his preceding staker
twice, three times, always with the
samo luck. Ho had before him now
n cup of gold and banknotes, and he
scattered them over the table frantically.
All the combinations brought him
success. It was a chance never heard
<.f before. Something supernatural:
One Would have said that the littic
ivory ball jumping ?" <> the pigoou
holes of the roulette table was fascinated
and magnetized by the gamblei
and obeyed him. He had recovered
in a score of plays the few miserable
notes of a thousand frriuCSj Ills last rc
source, which he had lost at the beginning
of the evening.
At present covering with severai
hundred francs at a time, and served '
always l?y his fantastic luck, he was in !
iv fair way to regain all, ntld more than
iv!n family fortune which lie hitd in 00
few ycafh siptuttdefed:
tii his haste and desire to play he
had not taken off his overcoat; already
he had filled the great pockets with
rolls of notes and gold pieces; and not I
knowing where to heap up his gain?
he thrust paper and gold >nto the
pockets of his inside coat, his Vest and
trousers pockets, his cigar Case, hie
liau (kerchief, every pi ice thnf cculu
serve as a receptacle. Aud he played
always, ami lie gained always, liko a
madman, like a drunken man ! and he
threw his hand fills of gold upon the
table at. hazard, with a gesture of certainty
and disdain!
Only there was something burning
?n his breast like r red-hot iron, and
he thought constantly of the little beggar
from whom he had stolen.
She is still iu the same placet She
must be there 1 Immediately*, yes,
wheu the clock strikes one, I swear to
myself that T will get away from this
place. I will take her, asleep, in my
arms. I will take her home with me;
she shall sleep in my bed to-night; I
will bring her up and I will settle a
large amount on her; I will lovo her
as my daughter, ami 1 will tako care
of her always, always!
I'ut the clock struck one, and a quarter
past and half past, nud a quarter to
two, and lmcien was still seated at that
iufenial tab^e^,^ u.t?
At last, one minute before t\vo7Tn5*"
head of the house got up abrubtly and
said in a loud voices: "The bank is
broken, gentlemen ; enough for today.
With one bound Lmcien was on his
feet an 1, pushing aside recklessly the
curious who surrounded and regarded
him with an envious admiration, he
went out quickly, rushing down the
stairs and running to the stone bench
th >re. From a distance, by the tight
of a gas jet, he could see the little
girl.
'Thank Oo 1!" he crio 1, "she is still
there."
fie approached her, and seized lior
tiny hand.
' Oli, how cold she is. Poor little
tiling!"
lie took her in his Arms, and raised
her to carry her. The head of the
child fell back without awakoning
her.
"flow one sleeps at her age!"
He pressed her against his breast to
warm her; and, seized with a vague
inquietude, lie trie.l, in order to draw
in r from this heavy sleep, to kiss her
on the eyelids, as one docs to awaken
gently a loved one.
Ami thcu ho perceived with horror
that the oyelids of the child were halfoocn*,
alid that the eyeball" were
glassy, set and sightless.
His brain whirled with a horrible
suspicion *, he put his mouth close to
thai. of flirt lifflrt r/irl nof n
en mo from it.
During the time Lmcien hail gained
a fortune with the money stolen from
the little beggar, the poor chihl without
a home ha<l ilieil, died from exposure
to the cold.
Feeling in his throat a horrible
ehol.iug sensation, Lucion tried to cry
oui, and in the effort that ho made he
woke up from this nightmare and
found himself on the elub-room sofa,
where he had fallen asleep a little hefore
midnight, and where the waiter
of the gambling room, in going ont
ni><>iit & o'clock, ha<l left him sleeping.
out of v>itv for the ruined man.
A misty December sunrise lighted
nj> the window panes.
Lucion went out, pawned hia watch,
took a hath, break fasted, and went to
n recruiting officer, where ho signed n
voluntary engagement in the First
African Infantry.
To-day Lucien de Hern is ft lieutenant,
he has only his pay to live on,
but he gets out of it very well, being
a steady officer and never touching a
card; it would seem also that he finds
it possible to save something out of it,
for t llO nflior rlatr at V loioei. of
his comrades walking a little beltin 1
in a hilly street of the Kaspa, saw him
give something to a little sleeping
Spanish girl in a doorway, and he had
the indiscreet curiosity to see what
I.ucica had given to the child.
The inquisitive one was much eur
prised at the generosity of the poor
lieutenant.
Ijucien do Hern had put in the han<l
of this indigent child a twenty-dyefranc
piece. -Translated for Itoitou
Transcript.
Burning alive was practiced among
tlio Hebrews, Itomnns and other Nations,
and was countenanced by several
Pan?l bulls.
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b&lu&i vi' 3m x il\ULLCi I,
THE ELECTRIC*"" \ FOB FBOPBLLING#?y
j GABS.
The Mysteries of Vm Wohsalim Are
Below the Fm 7of the Car?
Generating the M -jtive Power;
J\ 8 that ?leotrJc system for pro/
\ polling street oars, known as
the trollfcy, has already su<?
poreoded horses on many
lines, it will dpnbtlesg ^nterest many
persons to l^arn just wow the mysteri*
ous lorce to wincli man has given the
name "electricity'1 operated in produc*
in1? a motion of the cars. Of course,
everybody knows that electricity iB
generated iu power houses situated in
various parts of the city, add is donducted
along the wire which runs iu
midair above the tracks, but that tho
ineclmuism is -below the tioor of the
motor car by which this wonderful
fluid is utilized in the way desired tho
majority of people do not know.
The fact that power sufficient td
move so large and heavy a mass finds
entrance through the slender trolloy
pole seems almost incredible. This is
not romarkablc, since nothiug is positively
known about this force, if it
may be called a force, except such
facts concerning its properties and aotioiiB
as have been gathered by experience
and observation.
To explain without tho use of obscure
technical expressioujincvt properties
and actions wTiicn nio>u an olectrid
ear is nr?? ca:;y. In order lo give an
idea of tho power required, however,
it will bo necessary to explain a few
terms in common use.
The weight of one pound falling
through one foot in a second docs one
foot pound of work?this is one thirtythree
thousandth of a horse power. A
horse power in somewhat more than
one horse can perform. It is said,
however, that certain draft horses in
England can accomplish this. An ampere
is a fixed, determined quantity of
electricity flowing through ft wire in
one second. A volt is the force ot
pressure required to push the ampere
through the wire. Ono ampere
pushed through a wiro by a forco of
one volt represents an amount of work
called ono watt. A watt is one seven
hundred ami forty-sixth of a horse
power, and it requires from three to
horse ?erc:r, or '??aits, to
move a car weighing '7500 pounds at
the rate of about eight miles an hour
upon a level track.
This power in the form of electricity
easily enters into a ear by means of a
cable front the overhead wire through
the trolley pole, and thence to a brush
of the motor, which is situated between
two of the car wheels and below
the floor of the car; then, going
through the motor, it either comes
out through another brush and back
to the station by another wire or
passes through the axle and wheels to
the track and back to the station
through a wire which is underground
down the centre of the trAck. Tho
brushes are two small pieces of carbon
or copper which make contact with a
part of the motor and allow the electricity
to enter aud leave.
The essential parts of the motor and
the forces which cause the car wheels
to turn may he explained as follows :
mi imn1 frariir^m^tTt^tte-a
two-legged stool with an oblong
seat. The legs are wound very
closely with a continuous piece of silk
on rubber covered wire, as u spool is
wound with cotton, leaving a short
space unwound on each log at the end
which rests upon the Hoor. This stool
is inverted and electricity allowed to
run through the wire. Now, while
the current is going around both legs
a force will exist between the ends
left unwound. This force, although
strong, is similar to the weak force
between the poles of an ordinary
horseshoe magnet. If a largo kuitebo
passed between the uncovered ends,
resistance is offered and the knife is
drawn through with some difficulty.
In tlio motor two such frames may
be east in one piece end to end, each
being connected to the adjoining leg
of the other-by a curved bar of iron,
forming a partly closed circular space
in the center. Place a wire, with the
electricity running through it, within
this space in a position parallel to the
direction an axle would take were this
spaoe a wheel. Then this wire will bo
forced in a direction, according to
which way the electricity flows through
it, sidewise toward either seat.
A number of coils of such wires arc
wound longitudinally upon a frame resembling
a fishiug float or bobber,
which is held within this spAce upon
holiho'N which ?>tiahl? it ,? r/.unlvn
Kaeli length of wire, extending lengthwise
upon the frame, takes the direction
of the wire mentioned above.
This wire is so wound that the electricity
going through it may take opposite
directions upon opposite sides
of the frame. Thus pressures in opposite
directions will be exerted upon
opposite sides of this frame, causing
it to spin like a top or like a coin spun
by opposite pressures of the lingers.
At the end of the bobbers is a small
cylindrical arrangement composed of a
number of copper plates arranged
radially around a centre and separated
from each other by some substance
which prevents the How of electricity.
Against these copper plates the brushes
are pressed by springs. The ends of
the coils on the bobber frame are connected
eaeli to a separate copper plate,
each plate serving for two ends, one
from each of two coils, so that the
Coils are all connected. Rnvaiiil 1? ivt
arrangement a toothed wheel is ttxej
upon the ends of the bobbers. This
wheel gears with a second, which gears
with another wheel fixed upon tho
axle of the ear. The brushes are connected
by cables to the coils on the
stool frames and press also against the
copper plates.
The electricity enter- one of tho
brushes and, dividing, part goes
through the coil, on.Liae t wo stools an I
part through those on tho bobber,
which is tLu6 set revolving, and the
car moves. ? New York Advertiser.
An Ancient Schoolboy
At Hi i Itoston Schoolboys' Society's
recent reunion Jo -pli P. Jones gave
bis reminiscences as a schoolboy in
Huston ninety-two years ago. Ho is
ninety-seven years old. Nobody can
be a member of the society who has
not been out of school a fu'1 U'df-guu*
tury. I
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mtf/r Vh -vrA
WONyjSKKDL TIMEPIECE,
XABTXX* OF THB OLOOK XI.
- BTRASBBtJBO CATHBDBAJU
?8iT
Wound Up to Run From 1840 tjniif
89B9 ? Crowds Dully Watt Its
Noonday Hour.
"1 T^OR the third time the mnnicY=/
ipalityof Straesburg decided,
j " in 1836, that a new astroC,
nomical clock should be place J
in the framework of the old one. A
Strassburg watchmaker named Schwilgue
was entrusted with the undertaking,
and withiil four" years he finished
the unique mechanism which stiittdti
to-day the wonder nud amusement of
natives and visitors. Not only does
this clock keep the time from day to
day, but it runs front year to year
without the intervention of auy Clodkr
maker. Besides this, its face contains
a disk indicating all the variable
holidays of the year, Easier, and so
on. It regulates itself in the leap
years. It gives the phases of the
moon, the eclipses, the equinoxes, and
the revolutions of all the planets ofthe
solar system. The fineness of the
structure can bo understood when it
is known that of the seven golden
balls, of different s:so, representing
the planets, the nearest to the sun,
Mercury, takes eighty-eight days to
make the circuit of its orbit, while
Saturn only can complete its course in
1717 days, of nearly three years, says
th<* PlrlftdclpVi* 'l\?!cgi"i?pli.
The entire mechanism, its maker
calculated, would run until the year
9999, if the brass and other metal of
which it is built do not wear out in the
meantime. This wonderful contrivance
is unfortunately in a dark place,
where those who constantly wish to
view it well are scarcely able to do so.
Its site is a wing, which can be entered
through the Cathedral proper or
a portal, which directly leads thither
from outdoors. The time of greatest
interest is at uoou eaeh day, though
there are little performances at every
quarter hour. At noon is the time
the cock crows, and that is what every
one wants to hear. The interest never
seems to waue. For an hour before 12
o'clock, day after day, a crowd gathers
in this corner, waiting for the exhibition.
This early arrival is partly
in order get a ?ror? t p!;V.u, mid p?rt
Jy because the clock keeps solar time,
which now is a half hour behind ordinary
Strassburg time. Here are tour*
:..i .* ?l-i: 1.
IM/.-, nUHUflK, 11 11 lir?? uiiuni w.ijuvn,
peasant women with baskets, boys
with bundles, who have run in from
the street to get another look at the
tiling. Now, it is only a half hour
until the performance; will the room
hold any more?
The beadles, like the street-car conductors,
are sure there is plenty of
room "up front," or rather, in this
case, behind. They wave the wands
of their majesty, and back the people
surge. Still more are coming. The
natives, who never seem to tiro of the
sight, and who know better about the
variance in the times, are now dropping
in?mothers with babies, business
men from around the corner, and
everybody else. There is not space to
sneeze. Now ikcrc are only five minutes
until the rooster crows. Maybe
he will not crow to-day. Everybody
s looking at the clock. Ron t"wiuic'."
Now conies the fateful minute. In
the very centre of the big monument
to the clockmaker's ingenuity is a
gallery. Here stands Father Time,
representing Death. He has about
him, on a rovolviugplane, four figures
?Childhood, a boy; Youth, a young
\f .ntli.iA/1 n fn 11 v-n rnwil
knight; OKI Ago, ft gray-haired miui,
clothed in the skin of ft beast. Childhood
had struck the lirst quarter-hour.
Youth the second, Manhood the third
and Old Age the other hours of the
day; but now at noon it is Death's
own chance. The four figures conic
out in view before hint, while, with a
grim hammer of bone, ha sounds with
t.velve strokes the death of another
day.
A little figure down near the face of
the cloek now has his turn, and, with
a little shake reverses his hour glass.
Above all this is another gallery. It
begins to squeak. The machinery ia
in motion. In the middle is a figure
of Christ, and around Him are to pass
the twelve Apostles. Out they coine,
ono by one. Each stops an instant
before the Saviour, turns his face,
bows, and receives the blessing from
His outstretched hand. But the
rooster; where is lie? There he Mill
is, high up on a pedestal, besides a
stained-glass window. Now lie clucks.
Now hisold metal-plated throat swelIs.
IIo flaps his wings and crows. Another
minute. Again he Haps his
wings and crows. And a third time.
Was there ever such a rooster as this?
It is all over. The beadles drive tlio
people out, shut up the cathedral, an I
go to dinner.
The time of gr >atosl in 1 'rest comes
but once a year, in the night from December
31 to New Year's Day. Then
an immense crowd always assembles to
watch the revolutions of the machinery
as it regulates itself ready for the labors
of the coming year.
Arrest before trial was not customary
in Athens, and a citi'/.rii would
generally escape a trial by going iuU
voluntary cxylo.
Ireland has 15(5,000 Iiouroh of one
room each, 357,(500 of two to fo'ir
rooms niitl 301.000 of livo i>r more.
To purify, enrich and vitalize the blood,
and tneroby invigorate tho liver and digestive
organs, brace up the nerves, nnd put
tho system in order generally, "Golden
Medical Discovery " has no equal.
DYSPEPSIA IH ITS WORST FORM.
Ervin Dictbiii.y, Esq.. of Gettu?hu>Qh, Pa.,
?writes: those
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what it rt oily can be.
What such n case needs
I have found In your
kindly encouragement,
and your ' Golden Medical
Discovery.'
Although I enn now
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stomach. I always keen
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- w to atiiurni inc.
I hr.irtily nwommen I Hies- medieinog to
eve? / '>n<- vrtioa BiilT'Tirix l< of I he naturo
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A Curious Fact About Porl rait Painters.
I have never seen mention mado of
the curious cirouuistauco that many
portrait paii.tert seem to have unconsciously
given to their bitters a shade
of rescuilduuce to their own features.
Van Hyek'B portraits nearly all hear a
truce of the master's own elegance if
face ami figure, the works of Holbein
ami Rubeus give conutenntieo to the
same theory, ami Rembrandt's mrtg*
. 'it l * i ..i. : ,1.
Ill ill 1*111 }M'rinuth, iiumi^u niunviu^nuuu
a wonderful variety, yet all bear a
more or lew* remote rosemblauco to
ltombrandt himself. The same is true
of Sir Joshua's. This may bo partly,
but not entirely, accounted for by tho
fact that not only do tho individuala
of any one Nation bear a certain rotemblance
to each other, and that tho
name is true of tho whole people of
any given epoch; but the main reason
seems to bo that the artist uneoiiLci;.;;:
ly his own face.?cicribuer's
Magazine.
A Toicp.Vrguiiienl ol Military Science.
The t r it J saying that a groat war
can no longer be afforded is given
greater significance than ever by the
descriptions of the new Hold piece of
the German army. This iH pronounced
the most terribly destructive engine of
war ever produced, and is a three
inch gu:t which cm lie loaded and hrcd
in onc-tiiir.l of the time required for
the old ?iin, nn I with almost double
the effect and precision. Explosive
shell is the only projectile. This is
charged with a new powder of secret
composition that scatters thousands of
splinters over iv circle of J)00 feet,
whereas during the Eranco-'Jermau
war the pieces of bursting shell fell
within a circle of forty or fiftv nn"'":
and not more than seven or eight were
woundc l. - Trenton (V. J.) American.
An Iinporiiiiu I)(Hero lire.
To make h nppirent to thousands,who Shlnk
tlirin-e'ves ill, Urn: they arc not affected with
nnydi case, l>nt that Iho system siinjdy needs
c'rans'ii", is (o bring com'ort home to their
bear's as a costive condition is easily cured by
Using Syrup of Kins. Manufactured by the '
California Kin Syrup Co.
Reform Is demanded In the Bank of England.
Tbo bad management of the concern
Is becoming notorious.
For Dyspop ia, Indigestion and Stomach dl^
orders, mo Brown's Iron Bittors?tho Best
Tonic. It rebuilds the Blood and strengthens
Die musol -u. A splendid medicine for weak
and deblJIiaUd persons.
Costa Rica will lcvynn export, tax of 91.50
per 100 pounds on coffee to raiso revenue to
pny her foreign debt.
as a Simim.k virr km:erivK Hkmedy for
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Htnnd lir.-l in public favor. The) are ulisolutely
unrivalled for the alleviation of all Throat ir-Stations
caused hy Colds or use or the voice.
In Alabama ail school and church property
Is exempt from taxation.
Malaria cured and eradicated from the system
by Brown's Iron Hitters, wh'ch enr'ches
the blood, tones the nerves, aids digest on.
Acts like a charm on persons in general ill
health, giving new energy and strength.
A nkw Krupptfun.recently tested nt Essen,
threw n projectile thirteen miles in seventy
seconds.
nccclirm's Pills with r drink of water morsliiK?.
llocchiiiii's- no others. lio cents a box.
Thin Children Grow Fat
on Scott's
fat fo o d s
thin, and remain thin just in
proportion to their inability to
assimilate food rich in fat.
Scott's Emulsion
of Cod Liver Oil is especially
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Astonishing how quickly a thin
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New Solution ol the Tramp Problem.
Salem linn originated a novel scheme..
With tho citizens of the capital city
tho train}) problem is oil a fair road!
toward being solved. A hugo rock
pilo lias been formed on tho vacant
ground just south of tho intersectioin
of Liberty and Ferry streets. A large
shed has also been built. Hummers;
are in abundance. Hereafter irheu
aid is asked for by tho tramps they
will be referrod to a certain well- ,
known firm, who will issuo to tho
tram}) or trumps a ticket admitting!
thorn to this rock pilo free of charge*
Kncli of these tickets will be sigued by
tho person issuing it. At tho pile is
stationed a man who is overseer and
who collects the tickets issued. Whenthe
tramp presents his ticket at tho
pile he is supplied with a hammer and
obliged to put in his best licks on tho
rocks. Aiter an hour's labor, the timo _
designated by tho tho
and the
Tclogmm.
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to to
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The reader of tills paper will bo nb'iwied
h-nrn 1 is at least nn? dreaded dIseand^H^^^^HHMI
that Kf.cnw has ho en able to euro In all
tap's, that is Catarrh. Utill'.i CaturrU
('lire im I e nn.y positive euro k.'own to I ho
medical fraternity. Catarrh being ? constitu
ttonal <1 inoii-Ho. r"<iuireH a ennstiintlona' treatmeat.
Itall'H catarrh (,'uro I* taken internally.
acting directly on tbO hlnoil an 1 mucous sur- ?
faces of the system* thoreby destroying tho wM Bl
fouu'latiou of t lie disease, and giving the patient
Htren ;t h by building up the constitution
and ass sting nature in doing its work, i ho
proprietors have so much faith in its curative H
powers, t hat thoy offer One Hundrod Do'lars
(or any ease that li fails to cure. Send .'or list
of test menials. Address
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Rchsia'h stnn Mn< army, which comprises'
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If I'liofetwi lino e eyesu>e Dr I?aic 'froinp
unVByo v*t%r D'ltr 'isissell at2>c per l Htle ^R
FoRF.ionr.BB iu Purls, for business p?' "
poses, tnuHt hereafter declare themselves to:
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fffe Ts a source of macts
BX II sufTcriiii;. Thesyttemi
U BM should.Ito thoroughly
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Tor three years I was ?o troubled with matarlaf
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