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ROBERT FULTON’S TOPPEDU. Tie Inventor of the Steamboat Also Con- structed Sabmarlne Explosives. Before he tamed his attention to nav igation by steam, Robert Pulton inven ted a marine torpedo which he endeav ored to dispose of to the United States Government. Succeeding in interesting James Madison, then Secretary of State, in the matter, he obtained a small appropriation from the govern ment for the purpose of conducting some public experiments, in tan sum mer of 1800 he invited the high digni taries and a number of prominent citi zens of New York to Governor’s Island to see the torpedoes and the machinery with which his experiments were to be made. While he was lecturing on his blank torpedoes, which were large, empty copper cylinders, his numerous audi tors crowded around him. After awhile he turned to a copper case of the same description which was placed under the gateway of old Castle William, and to which was attached a clockwork lock. Drawing out a peg Fulton set the clock in motion, and then he said in solemn tones to his attentive audience: “Gentlemen, this is a charged torpedo, whiih, precisely in its present state, I mean to blow up a vessel; it contains one hundred and seventy pounds of gunpowder, and if I were to suffer the clockwork to run fifteen minutes 1 have no doubt that it would Mow this fortification to atoms. The circle of humanity which had closed around the inventor began to spread out and grow thinner, and be fore five of the fifteen minutes had pass ed there were but two or three persons remaining under the gateway. Some, indeed, lost no time in getting at the greatest possible distance from the torpedo and they did not again ap pear on the ground until they were as sured that the engine of destruction was safely lodged in the magezine whence it had been taken. The local historian of that period remarks: “The conduct of Mr. Pulton’s audi tors was not very extraordinary or un natural; but his own composure indi cated the confidence with which he handled these terrible instruments of destruction and the reliance he had on the accuracy of the performance of his machinery. The apprehensions of his friends surprised and amused him, and he took occasion to remark how true it was that fear frequently arose from ignorance.” THE DUM-DUM BULLET There is hardly a Parliament in Eu rope whose members have not question ed their war offices concerning the fa mous Dum-Dum bullet, the new rifle projectile of the British army. Many alarming stories have been toid of its terrors, and Governments Lave been asked to object to its use by the arms of Great Britain. And the Pari£, Ber lin and St. Petersburg papers have given considerable space to describing the bullet, with diagrams showing its terrible effects upon, the body. The ■Othqr day Deputy Hubert, In the French Chamber gave notice to Mr. Hanotaux that France would insist upon raising •the question of the legality of the em ployment of the Dum-Dum bullet Of course, the question of legality has for basis the Convention of St. Petersburg, where the powers de-’idod, among other things, against the use of the explosive bullet in thqjr armies. The Dum- Dum is not an explosive but an ex pansive ballet, and, although small in calibre, inflicts a wound similar to that produced by the old time Minnie ball, while Us penetration is as great as the nickei and steel cased Millet. The modern bullet of small calibre and long range has a terrific striking force, and can pierce several ranks of ipen; but the wound, unless in a vital member *an be easily healed. 4 The Dum-Dum’s velocity is just as great, but the wound is large and lacerated. The effect is produced by a leaded cylinder of steei, capped by a wedge of soft metal, and a steel point. In the House of Commoc s the other day Mr. Powell-Williaras, the Under Secretary of StaAe for War. said that these bullets were made in India by the Indian Government and issued by it to the army. The effect was that when it struck soft tiissucs it ‘inflicted a wound suflicientfy serious to stop the enemy,” but that* * its use did not infringe the Convention of St. Petersburg. Some of these bullets had been made at Woolwich for one of the West African colonies at the request of the Crown agents. Miss Mugg—I don’t see how it is your sister failed to find me at the station. You said you would describe me to her. Infatuated Lover (who sees a good deal more in Miss Mugg than others can)— Yes, I told her to look for a beautiful girl, with the face of a Madonna and th-s form of a sylph. It’s queer sbs missed you.—New York Weekly. What You Get When You Buy Medicine is a Mat ter of Great Importance. Do you g«t that which has the power to eradicate from your blood all poisonous taints and thus remove the cause of dis ease? Do you buy HOOD’S Rarsaparilia and only Hood’s ? If you do, you may take It with the utmost confidence that it will do yon good. Remember Hood’s Sarsaparilla Is America’s Greatest Medicine, f 1; six for $1 Hood’s Pills cure biliousness, indigestion. YOU WILL confer an appreciat'-d fivor by mentioning ibis paper when v»» write to advertiser*. no. 23 JR E FOR , The Song of the Tub. Scrub! scrub! scrub! Hark to the Song of the Tub! Saturday uigbt is the time for me! Then is the time that you chuckle with glee. Fill up the tub with the water so hot! Never be eparing, but put iu a lot. Now for the soap and the flannel as well. Oh, how delightful! Its joys who can tell? Scrub! scrub! scrub! Hark to the Song of the Tub! Scrub! scrub! scrub! Hark to the Song of the Tub! How you look forwa-il to Saturday night, Down by the fire so cosy and bright; First you must dip in that jolly old tub. Then you must dry yourself -rub! rub! rub! Scrub! scrub! scrub! Hark to the Song of the Tub! DlUB The r.!g Wall. A story of tho Chinese wall was teail to a class iff- composition. After the reading they were expected to re produce the story in original style, and they did so. Here is a sample: “Once they was a man, and he was the greatest man of any one there, or in the United States. And he had to build a wall, so he built it. He bad a lot of Shanghais, and be built the wall around the Shanghais. These were all China people. Some of the other people who were not China people tried to climb the wall, but they didn’t, cause they were afraid of the Shanghais.” Trifles Make Perfection. When Michael Angelo, the great sculptor, was employed on one of his noblest works of art, a friend called to see him, and daring his visit ex pressed great surprise at finding his statue apparently no further advanced than when he had seen it a few weeks before. “Stay, my friend,” said the artist, “I can assure you that 1 have been hard at work on it since I saw yon last. I have deepened the furrow on the brow, and slightly depressed the eyelid,while I have added another line to the mouth.” “Yes,” said his friend; “I see all that, but these things are only trifles.” “That is true,” replied the sculptor, “still, it is these trifles which make perfection, and do you call perfection a trifle?” To Make a Combination Picture. Have you ever made a combination picture? It is a splendid way to pat in long,disagreeable evenings. “A Cluster of Babies,” makes a good sub ject for the girls, and “Football Favorites” will do for the boys. The pictures can be clipped from the news papers and the magazines. After the girls have a large collection of baby faces the pictnre must be neatly trimmed and pasted on a big sheet of paper so that the effect will be that of a hundred or more babies looking out of a window frame. H^rae are crying, some are smiling and some look pert and saucy. If you are fond of birds, make a combination pictnre of them, or you can have a flower garden if yon wish. Gathering pictures of public men is a good plan, too, for it famil iarizes one with celebrated faces. TION The Emotion of Grief in n Doir. Dutch was a brown retriever of ad vanced years. Curly was said to be a Scotch terrier, but his appearance suggested some uncertainty iu his descent. Dutch was chained to her kennel, and Curly, who enjoyed his liberty, evinced his friendship by fre quently taking bones and other canine delicacies to his less fortunate friend. One morning Curly presented himself at the house evincing unmistakable signs of grief by his demeanor and his whines. A visit to the kennel, where poor Dutch was found lying dead, showed the occasion of Curly’s un happiness. We buried Dutch de corously under a vine in the garden, and supposed that Curly would forget the incident, but we were touched to see him in the capacity of faithful mourner often revisit the spot where his old friend was laitT, taking by way of offering choice bones, which he carefully buried by the grave, This practice Curly maintaiued for two years, when we left the house. Two Ways-A Fable, Two little weeds grew on a bank by the roadside. All summer they had drunk dew and sunshine, and had been happy, but now autumn was come, with gray skies, and winds that nipped and pinched them. “We shall die soon,” said one little weed. “I should like to do some thing pleasant before I die, jnst to show what a happy time I have had. I think I will turn red, and then people will see how I feel. “You will be a great fool to waste youv strength in any such nonseuse!” said the other little weed. “I shall live as long as I can, and hug the brown bank here.” 8o the first little weed turned bright scarlet, and was so beautiful that every one who passed that way turned to look at it. By and by there came along a most lovely maiden with her lover; and, when the lover saw the scarlet leavre, he picked them, and ret them in his maiden’s hair, and they lent.her a new grace. This made the little weed so happy that he died for pure joy. The second little weed lived on,and turned slowly brown, like the bank. he said, speaking “He put all hi* red, and so he ... him,” said the ‘He did what he could, “He was a fool!” of his companion, strength into turning died.” “I was proud of brown bank _ n aud people observed him. ’ “Yes; but I am alive and stay witn von,” caid the weed. “Much I care!” said the brown bank.—Laura E. Richards, in the Church. Do Your Bolt. A gentleman once said to a physi cian, “I should think, doctor, that at night you would feel so worried the work of the day, that you would not be able to sleeu.” “My head hardly touches the pil low before I fall asleep,” replied the physician. “I made up my mind, > he continued, “at the commencement' of my professional career to do my best under all circumstances; aud SO doing, I am not troubled with any misgivings.” A good rule for us all to follow. Too many arc disposed to say: “No matter how I do this-work now; next time I’ll do it betteiv” Iho practice is as bad as the reasoning: “No matter bow I learn this lesson in tile primary class, when I get into a higher department then I’ll study.” As well might the mother in knitting stockings say: “No matter how the top is done, even if I drop a stitch now and then. I’ll do better when I get further along.” What kind of a stocking would that be? As well might the builder say: “I don’t care how I make the foundation of this Hon. Arthur Stur K rs Hardy, Whom Canadians Have Returned t,» Power, Hon. Augustus Sturgis Hardy, the man who has been returned to power by the people of Ontario as tlu> premier ef that province, has long liecn a polit- Tcal factor in the affairs of that part of 1 the Dominion of Canada iu which he has lived. He is the "successor of Sir Oliver Mowat. The new premier has attained to many honors in the domin ion. He is a queen's counsel, an M. !»., and he was the provincial secretary and registrar of the government of i'-i'S-? •'J'8‘8'5 S'S'J’i i-•'S'S'*?*-o'* ••••’£ g-g W-fciVS 3-S i V *t/— —b- ** / / -f m r M * t\ \. V ROKS UAnnY. is to-day a power in dominion politics, house; anything will do here; wait tilli k ;cd his friends look for higher and I get to the top, then I’ll do good^ work.” Haid Sir Joshua Reynolds once t Dr. Samuel Johnson: “Pray tell me, sir, by what means have you attain^ such extraordinary accuracy and flo 1 of language in the expression of your ideas?” “I laid it as a fixed rule,” replied the doctor, “to do my best on every occasion, aud in every company to impart wbat I know iu the most forcible language I can pat it.” Ontario. He is a native of the province aud his ancestors on both sides were Eanadian loyalist stock. Ths young man studied law. and as a matter of tourso got into politics. From the first It was seen that he was destined for higher otliees, and his success was jroat and immediate. Premier Hard) Pigeon’* Devotion. In the animal kingdom there ate many strong examples of mother love, and the birds are particularly noted for displaying it. A remarkable in stance of this maternal instinct was recently noticed near Elwood, Ind. A mother pigeon whose yoang one had mysteriously disappeared searched unceasingly for weeks for the little one, and one day was seen flying violently against the side of a frame building in the city. Each time she came in contact with the house she chipped of a small bit of wood with her bill. For nearly two days the old bird * kept this practice np, often, dm iiig tUaLAimfl falling greater honors for him than those to which he has alroafiy attained. *Tm troubled about that draft from lie West,” said the head of the firm, lie office boy hurriedly closed the tran- m and then looked us if he expected ,n immediate advance iu salary.—De- olt Free Press- How Relief Cam*. fJFrom Cole County Democrat, Jefferson City, Mo. When la grippe visited this section, about even years ago, Horman U. Bveler, of 811 fW. Main St., Jefferson, Mo., was one of the |victims, and has since boon troubled with ke after effects of the disease. He is a ill-known contractor and buftder, a bust- lew requiring much mental and physical fork. A year ago his health began to fail larmiugly, and that he lives to-day Is al- »09t a miracle. Ho says; "I was troubled with shortness of breath, palpitation of the heart and a general de Tlty. My back also pained mo severely. *T tried one doctor after another aud Numerous remedies suggested by my triends, but without apparent benefit, and ' began to give a Among people where the practice of economy is a necessity, the buying of soap is an important yearly item. The grocer who has an eye to larger profits, may not suggest Ivory Soap. He will recommend nothing else' if he is conscientious. Ivory Soap is a pure soap, all through. That makes it the most economical and best.’ A perfect soap for the toilet and laundry. IT FLOATS. « a A WORD OF WARNING.—There are many white soaps, each represented to be" jnst as good as the * Ivorythey ARE NOT, but like all counterfeits, lack the peculiar and remarkabi* qualities of the genuine Ask tor" Ivory "Soap and Insist upon cetane It C.,fright, UN. h» Th. * 0«hta e». cumuli \ IT up hope, Then I saw funs’ I tot pi* a Floors for Magaiines. Cement floors in powder magazim a are dangerous, because cracks and invatles may form in them, constitut ing receptacles for inflammable mat ter, besides which cement nearly al ways contains silielous particles which may cause ignition by shock or merely by rubbing. Such floors have been forbidden in France since ISM and m Belgium since 1S!M, the mine regule ^ lions requiring that powder magazines i be floored with asphalt or p’anks. A j circular from the Belgian minister of i Industry call* the attention of mine in- I spectors to the neccsshy, when author izing a powder magazine, of requirt ig that the regulations be strictly observ ed in this respect, and also (bat tVnbot floors be made of oak planks well joint ed, perfectly smooth and free trom cracks.—Si lent Me American. Sour Stomach •‘After I wi»* ludueed to try CASCA* KF.TN, 1 will never be without tbom tn the houta. My liver wan tn u very had *hape. aud my heafl ached and I had htomarh trouble. Now. alnre tak- Iok Caicarets. I feel flue. My wife tiahulho uned them with beneficial renult* for *our atotnacb." Jus. Kkeumnu, ItUl Cousreah St., St. Louis. Mo. CANDY CATHARTIC I GAiriAKTie TRADE MASK RIOlATTKtD Pleasant. Palatable. Potent, TaUe Oood. D* Good. Never Sicken. Weaken, or Grip*. Uk . .'.be.tOot ... CURE CONSTIPATION. ... •Lrllaf K.M*r VMNthay, Vktn**, Mwlntl, K»« Ym*. EM HO-TQ-BIC hausted from the repeated shocks aneb fatigue. In the afternoon of the second day she had pecked a hole in the wall, the wood of which was old and soft from the weather. This hole was large enough to admit a man’s hand, and through this the mother bird went and came. Every time she entered she carried grain or seeds or grass. Some cur tons people investigated the hole while she was absent, and there they found the little lost pigeon, jnst below the hole, wedged in between the weatherboards. For two days more the bird continued to bring the little one food, and would stay flattering near the hole, chirrup ing and trying to cheer the little prisoner up. Many, times it entered and seemed to be trying to extricate its young one, but it could not suc ceed in doing so, try as it wonld. The prisoner had flown into the building, which was empty, and managed to get between the weather boarding, near the top of the inside. Falling a con siderable distance, it lodged in the narrow space, which did not permit it to use it^ wings in rising again. Its plaints had reached the mother, and she, not being able to reach it from the inside, had cut through from the out. An admiring man thrust his hand throngh the hole and brought out the fluttering young thing, much to the great delight of the anxious mamma bird.—Indianapolis Santinel. The Language of Color*. There is a language of color as well as of flowers. White expresses power, wisdom, purity, candor, chastity. Red is symbolic of power, passion and riches. Kings and rulers on earth have always worn red mantles, and so have the executioners of old, so that this color also stands for crnelty and hardness. Blue denotes fidelity, sweetness, tenderness, loyalty,a spot less reputation. Aeriel divinities are invariably clad in bine. The ancients allowed yellow to stand for glory and fortune. Now it is called the color of infidelity and shame. Green is em blematic of hope and joy. It is the emblem of youth, because spring ver dure is green. Jealousy decs not have any showing in discussing this color. Block stands for sadness, for de ception, for disappointed hopes. In fernal deities are painted black. Le gend says that Apollo turned the raven black because it betrayed him. Hence the raven is called the bird of misfortune. Pink denotes health, love, yonth, pleasure. Violet is the tint allowed faith. Orange means divine inspiration and poetry. The muses are represented as draped in orange colored draperies. Orange was once the color of Hymen. Brides in olden times wore orange colored veils called flammeum, and they could not pronounce their vows nncless cov ered with flammenm. Even now brides wear orange blossoms on their wedding da/.—Philadelphia Timet. 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