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s -r '$.-Y WAYS OF HOLD-UP HEN. POINTS REGARDING AN INDUSTRY THAT THRIVES IN CHICAGO. A Dark Alley is an Essential Part of a Hold-Up ? The Highwayman Often as Frightened as His Victim Is ?A Pretty Sure and Safe Method of Protection. The Chicago Trubune recently contained the following article: Most persons who have never met a hold-up man while the later is plying his vocation have a wrong conception of him. To most men he represents an angry, hungry beast preying on society. The conventional highwayman must De ugly ana nave broad shoulders and curse horribly. He must have a trusty weapon and maybe two, one as trusty as the other. He says "Stop, throw up your hands!" as melodramatlcallly as any Jack Sheppard or Claude Duval, and under no circumstances must his demand for money be denied. That is the good old idea of him. It is romantic, and r: no highwayman of that class could work to advantage without a set of footlights and freshly painted scenery, and perhaps an orchestra to dole out slow and creepy music. But that is not the sort of hlgj^gffifea. other winter for that matter, is neither a chivalrous Robin Hood nor a heartless ruffian. More often he is the latter, but the general rule is that he is an experienced, thick-witted criminal, trying to make a living cheaply. Of -course, Red Sullivan, the short man of the famous team of the long and J short men, who terrorized the town f-. four witners ago; Harry Featherstone, Kid Murphy, and a few others of that sort, the hierarchy erf their profession, as it must not considered fair ~ examples of the hold-up man. They nad more daring and more strength than the men who will work this winter. The successors to those criminals are ordinary stock, and once they are understood successful highvjC way robberies will be less frequent Much of their strength is ficticious. The idea of an attack in the night : T carries freight with it to many men, and the appearance of the highwayman is exaggerated in ferocity by the previous impression of his kind. Those hold-up men who are known to tne police now are, with a few exceptions, the cheapest sort of cheap criminals. They are born usually in a neighborhood, where honesty is quoted at a considerably lower figure than the ability to get away from the police. Tley grow up on the streets, and then fall into the all night saloon habit. One saloon in the levee district is the harbor of most hold-up men who are, as the actors say, "at liberty." A night scene in this place is interesting. Boys just out of otnVw ot Pnntit/> nnrnlAil VI.U l^iviiuawvt; wv 4. v? 9 X"?.* . convict8 and some men freed from [ Joliet.. the amateurs who are going. into lives of crime because they imagine there is glory in them, and some men and boys who get into the place by mistake, are there to drink and talk crime and criminals. The police of the Harrison street station let the place run because they believe in the concentration of the habitues. -j. ney never have to go far to look for the men they may happen to wantx Tne police have "stool pigeons," who are hired spies, in the place and they watch it closely. Hold-up men in embryo are to be found there, and in a lew other places of the sort. But they are sadly lacking in the qualities that appeal to the seeker after the picturesque in criminals. They are not the exceptions to the rule that holdup men are cheap thugs. The excep ttohs are safe in jail. The common variety go armed, of course, but the armament is as oldfashioned, usually, as the custom of mounting Quaker guns of wood. As soon as one of them is arrested his revolver is confiscated and a needle is not found in a haystack'more seldom than is a good weapon found on a hold-up man. The guns are usually ' -cheap bull-dog revolvers that might ' have cost a dollar and a quarter. If the industrious hold-up man paid m6rc than" two dollars for his weapon he ^grossly swindled. Some of them sacks filled with lead, and with t^a^vjua niftuo m tuv uuiu w^vi the operator must be classed or bit of plugged leathHHuH^ more often than not connjpfflr^&t borne and to suit individual taste of the man who is' to wield it. Many times have hold-up men been arrested with revolvers wfeich have not^jg&r' joyed the completen^s^d goes with a weapon which is Jftt'Tor shooting purposes. Sometimes it is the cylinder* that is missing. Sometimes there is no hammer, and often the trigger, that constant companion of a wellequipped revolver, has been missing. A handkerchief makes the best mask, but most hold-up men do not mask at all. They often forget to put on their disguise when they hear their victim approaching. Sometimes if they want to mask, they would have to go all the way home for a handkerchief. A dark alley is an essential part of a hold-up. The pedestrian walks past the mouth of the alley, and then the hold-up man gets out of the shadow with his request for money, payable at sight. It follows that if pedestrians do not walk close to the wall or building line, if they seek the curbstone, or, better still, the middle of the road, they are comparatively A black, soft bat of tbe sombrero order is a means of hold-up prevention that is often effective. The police patrol sergeant, the lieutenant, the captain, and the plain clothes men wear soft hats when not in uniform. So, if a citizen who is not on the police force, can affect the regulation swagger, and can afford a soft hat, not many hold-up men will venture close enough to ask for his money without having to shout for it. William Buchanan, a colored holdup man, who, on account of the dexterity with which he used to operate, is now reposing in a penitentiary cell, made a favorite stamping ground of Washington park. Other lights that are lesser by many candle power also affect the parks, because at night they are provided with so many obscure paths. The trees and the shrubbery make good alleys to escape, and tt js never a safe plan to walk too close to the outlines of a park. Confessions of hold-up men show ^ that they are often as frightened as the men they are holding up. They nave their revolver under the nose of ( Ihe man from whom they are getting Mch quick, and with the other hand j Jhey are going through the pockets. j Pome of them, believe in tackling some j pockets, others believe in others. Not , / one of them has time to go into their victim's shoes for money, and the ribbon of a hat is another safe hiding place. Threats to shoot are often idle, Dut the question of the hold-up man's sincerity is such a delicate one that it is best to believe that he will i shoot if he says so, and then one is on the safe side. But if there is a j policeman in sight it is always safe, the police say, to resist. No hold-up j man win kill a policeman unless there is absolutely no other chance of escape. Everybody familiar with the police department knows that when an outlaw has killed an officer that i outlaw will fall dead just as soon as a j policeman gets his revolver in his hand and the hold-up man within range, it is a way the police have of proving that they possess that which | in other surroundings would be the ; "spirit of the corps." The best authorities agree that | while the energy and ability of the ! average hold-up man is greatly exag- ; gerated it is always befcer before be- j ginning a dark journey home at night j to leave the watch in some safe place j down town and to secrete money in : the shoe or an out of the way pocket. I Then if the hold-up man is met all that can pass between the honest citizen and him is a greeting. As long as Some of His Faculties Compared With Those of Other Animals. "Man is a vain sort of an animal j at all times," observed a thoughtful j citizen yesterday, "and in his process j of naming and classifying things around him he has attempted to leave j reminders of himself in every possible , place, and he has generally succeeded, for one's eyes may not escape falling on something named after some of his attributes. But when we come to i think of it, when we come to look na- j ture squarely in the face, man is not | in? omy ining m me ianci v?ui lay claim to highly developed senses. j "Take the human eye. Unquestionably the litile bundle of nerves in the eye which make visualization possible and which present the mind with photographic refinements which'no art has yet equalled, is one of the physiological marvels, and opens up an end- I less field for speculation in the realm of psychology, thai unsolved riddle of science in whose presence even the i giants have cowered and skulked in hopeless ignorance. Yet this eye, discerning with so much delicacy when the picture is no farther than the wall of one's room?this eye with its circumscribed limits would be looked upon with dignified scorn by yon soaring eagle if he only knew how much farther he could see than a human being. i "Take the human ear. We may not hear so well as the rats and mice that burrow under the palaces in which we ; live, or the squirrel that capers ^yonder in the forest, and countless other things cne might mention. We may differentiate with greater accuracy and trace refinements in sound which these lower creatures may not trace; but when it comes to the matter of catching the sound at long range, i their ears seem to have been more j perfectly constructed. "It is conceded that no human voice ; has ever been heard which could equal J in sweetness of tone the lays which one may near in tne orcnara. i\o uuman being ever sang more sweetly than Patti, but she never sang so sweetly as the meadowlark when he pours his gurgling love song out on the summer air, or oriole when he shades his silvered octave from the bending bough. "What device for measuring water pressure has man invented which will compare with the nerves which j string the sides of the fish? It is a sense which is not represented in the ! human category. Man must resort to | artiflcialties in order to learn the air i pressure and the degree of heat or cold. But it is different with the fish, for he can always tell just what the water pressure is, and he knows how much he can stand, and he acts accordingly. "Take the olfactory nerves. Man is all right when It comes to attar of roses, violet perfumeries, and this : and that sort, but you may pick out the measliest old hound in the swamps of Mississippi, and if he knew how much superior his sense of smell was to man's, well he wouldn't want to be caught in a man's company. "No, I am not running my own creed down. I am just relating a few thingswhich ought to make u?, aH"Natural lovers, for thejmaE^Piieserving beauties^j&al^werwot not of in these hurrying times, and among them may be coiinted the things mentioned. Prove it? Prove nothing. I am just telling "you."?New Orleans Times-Democrat. A Unique Advertiiin^ Docile. A candy shop in Nassau street that long enjoyed and nursed the distinction of being the only store in the world that made a practice of closing up every Tuesday in the year, as well as%every Sunday, has just abandoned its custom and taken in its "Closed every Tuesday in the year" sign. Asked why this was, the shopkeeper smiled a weary smile and said: "Well, you see, as an advertising dodge it had about performed its mission, and as it was costing me $5000 a year at least to make this voluntary sacrifice of one business day each week for the purpose of making people talk and wonder, I decided to take in the sign and remain open Tuesdays. "Every day a dozen or more persons would stop in just to ask for an explanation of this strange closing. I told them that as I made a practice of keeping open all day Saturday while other stores around me closed at noon, I thought it no more than right to give my clerks a full rest day besides Sunday. This seemed to satisfy them, and so I got the name of being quite a philanthropist in my way. I noticed, too, that about eight persons in ten who dropped in to make inquiry ap peared pleased at the answer, and stopped to buy some sweets."?NewYork Post A Dnck'a Suicide. Sportsmen who hunt ducks on inland streams and lakes have frequently known them to dive when wounded and fail to appear again. A professional guide who has shot ducks for many years along the upper Hudson says he has solved the mystery. He shot a wood duck that fell wounded and dived in still water. It did not reappear, and when he came to look for it under water he could see the bird hanging with its bill to a root It. was quite dead, and considerable force was necessary to loosen its hold. The hunter firmly believes that the duck committed suicide by drowning to keep from falling into the hands of its mortal enemy?man.?New York Times, SHE KNEW. "Seems to me that the rising generation is rising pretty fast," said the bachelor, who expects soon to become a benedict, after his friends had given him up as hopeless. "I was out walking with my intended the other day, and her small niece, a girl not ever seven years of age, accompauieu us. Naturally the conversation, owing to the near approach of our wedding day, took a turn that was interesting to two of us, but not to the third. "Finally I turned to the young li*'y who is soon to be my bride and said with a smile: " I suppose all this talk Is over the little one's head?' "Before she could reply the nose of the 'little one' went up several degrees, and she answered icily, her words falling like so many hailstones on a tin roof: "'Oh, don't ?nind me' I know what it Is! I've been in love myself!' "T+ n nm 1 ?r>inntA^ Knf r.rcv T cno it war> ti.u Aj^iiiiauo uciuic x ( ceded in catching my breath.?Detroit Free Press. * SILENTLY ASS into a Stolid Inriiv in.. The Stolid Individual ignored the Accusation. A Second Glance showed the Nervous Pedestrian that he wa3 Right.?Los Angeles (Cal.) Herald. Our t're-idonls' Danger. All of the presidents of the United States havo been in the habit of mingling freely with the people, but the clanger of this procedure was very emphatically pointed out in the tragedy of a few months ago. It is also dangerous to triile with unknown medicines for indigestion, dyspepsia, l'atulency, constipation, biiiousuess or malaria, fever and ague. The safest medicine to take is Hostetter'a Stomach Bitters. It will positively cure these disease.?. Try it and see. The hay harvested in the United States in 1501 amounted to 51,000,000 tons. Iting Worm Kouted. 'Send box of Tetterine. It's the on.y thing that makes any impression on a stubborn liiugWorm."?.Mrs. Katie Oldham, Montalba, Anderson County, Texas. 50o. by mail from J. T. ohuptrine, Sacannah, Ga., if your druggist don't keep it. The coming man often has a bill to colect. FITS permanently cured. No fits or nervousncseaftcr first day's use oT Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. $2 trial bottle and treatise free Dr. R. h. Kline, Ltd., SSI Arch St., Phila. Pa. The revolver may not be a sociable weapon, but it never goes off by itself. Mrs. Window's Soothing Syrup for children teething, soften the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c a bottle. The chap who built obelisks must have been paid by the column. I do not believe Piso's Cure for Consumption has an equal for coughs and colds.?Johs F. Botes, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15,1900. When a tramn asks for a meal he makes a sort of after-ainner speech. \Hair Falls J % "I tried Ayer's Hair Vigor to 1 I stop my hair from falling. One- | J half a bottle cured me." ? i J. C. Baxter, Braidwood, 111. ? IAyer's Hair Vigor is I certainly the most eco- S nomical preparation of its I kind nn the market. A I little of it goes a long way. ? It doesn't take much of | i | it to stop falling of the 3 j hair, make the hair grow, | g and restore color to gray B 5 hair. $1.00 a bottle. All dnjjlats. g g If your druggist cannot supply you, 8 I send us one douar and we will express g 6 you a bottlo. Ce suro and give the name 6 of your nearest express office. Address, g J. C. AYER CO., Lowell, Mass. 8 ^UNION MADE.^^' ? Notice increase of sales in tulle belcnu .* i 1338= 148,790 Pnlre. ! 1899 = 898,182 Pairs, ! Business More Than Doubled In Four Years. THE REASONS: \V. L. Douglas makes and sells more men's j 8.1.00 and ?3.50 shoes than an v other two manufacturers in the world. W. L. Douglas $3.00 and $3.50 shoes placed : side by side with $.">.00 and $G.C0 shoes of other makes, aro found to be just as good. They will outwear two pairs of ordinary $3.00 and $3.50 shoes. Made of the best leathers, Including Patent Corona Kid. Corona Colt, and National Kangaroo. KsU Color KjeltU and A!w?r* Rlark llooka t'ted. W. D. Douglas $4.00 "Gilt Edge Dine" cannot be ecualled at any price. Shoot by mall 25c.cxlra. Ciitnlotd e. L. lkouglat. Brockton. Matt. 1 ! - I- The life of a tire, ease of repair and its lasting qualities determine its worth. El G & J Tires arc made from the best B quality of rubber. They arc light enough to be resilient, strong enough to be durable, and easy riding, which insures com! fort and safety, j Catalogue at our Agent's or by mail. G & J TIRE COMPANY, Indianapolis, Ind. i III Hill I ~ JBL, _ , Ji, i ByS3BEE^3!I33CEEBB5 m CURES WHERt ALL ELSE FAILS. "[2 bra Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use ^ gg ia time. Sold by druggists. ___gi HDADCV NEW D1SCOVEKY; g?v0 ! L# lx W <?# I oaicls relief and oares wors; caseb- hooa ol testimonials r.nd 10 day*' treatment Fri e- Dr. H. H. GRKEH'SSONS. Eox B. Atlanta. Ob Gold Uledal at Buffalo Expoattlon. ! McILHENNY'S TABASCO I Mention this ; Themp?on'$EyeWat?r A Happy Hay. Two little girls, in gowns of blue; li Two little boys, with blouses new; c I Four little spades, to dig the sand ; One little pail, for each right hand. ! Now if you put all these together, c | And add blue skies and sunny weather, I The yellow sand and the rippling sea, j What do tbev make? Pray tell to me. | Ah,, you need not count. That's not the way ^ : To find out the sum of a happy day. t ?E. M. Norrls, in Youth's Companion. s A Fancy College Crow. 8 There is a gentleman who is beyond s his school days who is interested in r i chickens. Recently he learned that c there was an institution of learning "?j j where a cours*.?&f instruction was givj cn in chickenology and duckology, or " in those branches designated by scien- E Kr '*yTWit' hp . ( Just as like as not we will ail wear i . goose quills in our hats and have a j ^ I college yell something like this: j j : 'Quack, quack, quack! Cock-a-doodle- j | do! Roasters, broilers, 1902!*"?Albaj ny Journal. , A Mother'* SHcrlflop. ^ Martha Russell, aged 40, died last j night from starvation. The woman i j was assisted by the township for ; more than two years, and six months t ! ago was threatened with being sep- j I j arated' from her four small children s I and sent to the poor farm if she called * ! for assistance again. 5 She never called and nothing was c heard from her until last night, when ? the county doctor was called. She * weis removed to the hospital, but was T beyond all medical aid. A post-mortem examination was made this morn- r i ing and it was revealed that starva- s tion was the cause of her death, 1 The children are all in good condi- s tion. One of the little ones said that c their mother would work all day and 1 then spend the money for something to eat, which she would give to them t and go without herself.?Anderson 1 (Tnd). Correspondence, Chicago Rec- ? ord-Herald. 4 Snake Swallowing Young. j Forest and Stream contains an article in which one of a c party of Missouri sports tells a snake story, in which he says he saw 99 j little cottonmouth snakes run from the mouth of an old one he had killed, j Now, I take it that this is meant for a joke, but I can tell a true snake story in which this kind of thing did actuary occur. During my boyhood days I attended school at the old Cranford schoolhouse, near my home, on the fnrlr'nf White rive- noftr where Brentwood now is on the St. Lcuis & * San Francisco railroad. One day I was * going down a hill to the creek, when some 30 feet from the water's edge 1 I 3aw lying in the sun on a ledge of ^ large rocks a snake, and around it * were quite a number of small or.es. I picked up a stone and threw it at the i large snake, when, to my utter aston- i ishment, the small snakes began to run into the mouth of the largo one, and soon were all gone. I called some other boys, and we killed the large t snake and cut it into two pieces, when c the small ones, 17 In number, rolled ^ out on the ground, and we killed them, t They were about six inches long, of a ] dark brown color, the same as the c large one, which was a rusty black or j brown, and between four and five feet j long. s My father once killed a rattlesnake j in a log near the same place, and c found it filled with small snakes, which c were as lively as they could be; but j he did not see them enter* the snake, c But I saw the- ones I killed craw 1 into c the mouth of the large snake and killed j them all. I have told this to a number j i of people, who looked at me in the ( most incredulous manner, and refused r to believe my snake story, but It is r -r ... i A true in every particular.?cuuk^uuu- ( ence in Forest and Stream. ^ t After the Children Left. Every one had gone to bed and the lights were out. A few dying coals, the remains of the cheerful sitting room fire still glowed in the grate and threw dark shadows of the furniture into cofners. Philip's little rocking chair lay where he had thrown it, face down, on the rug in front of the fire, for mamma had a fancy that Philip would pick it up in the morning. But presently the little rocking chair rolled over and regained its upright r position. ( "Hullo there!" it called to mam- < ma's sewing chair, which stood by the i table. "Don't you think it's a shame t for a little fellow to be treated so?" i The rocking chair gave a gentle i little rocking motion and said indul- < gently: "Oh, well, you have good fun with Philip sometimes and. he ran off in a hurry." < "We do have sport, that's a fact," chuckled the small chair. "Sometimes < I I'm a horse and I have to ge.llop just ] like this, he rocked furiously, and sometimes I'm a locomotive and I go ahead of a whole train of chairs. And sometimes I'm a cradle and Daisy rocks her doll to sleep in me. But she's a nice little girl so I don't mind itvery much. I prefer being a horse, though." "The children have funny fancies," said the sewing chair, rocking gently. "Of course I often help to rock the baby to sleep. But that's a pleasure. He's a dear little chap." And 1 papa's big rocking chair shook his big ' arms and rocked solemnly back and forth as if he thought so, too. "But Philip is a careless boy," put in the little rocking chair, for he thought they had been sentimental long enough. "He leaves his toys 1 all over the floor. And he knocks me around the room until every joint I have cracks. I shall certainly break some day.' < "He is careless," sighed the little 1 sewing chair, "but he will be better i by and by. I The little chair perked himself up < and down in his efforts to see into the ( corners of the rooms. "I know those 1 wooden soldiers are all over the 1 floor. He ran out of tBe room before 1 h<5 picked them up." 1 "It would serve him right of some 1 ol' them were stepped on," said the < big chair, sternly. He rocked himself 1 severely back and forth, and knocked 1 over a little table which stood just be- * hind him. ] "There you go! It's done now!" ex- i claimed the little chair excitedly, as 1 a rattling and crumbling noice fol- J lowed. i 1 "What has happened?" asked the ewirig chair, trying to see into the ack of the room. Only that some of the soldiers ive Aanen oil the table, and ne's ocking all over them!" called out the ttle chair. "Now Philip will catch t for leaving them on the floor. The big chair still rocked sedately. ! "Well, it will serve Philip right," he j aid, presently. "But what about us," asked the ttle voice from under the rocking j hair. It came su suddenly that the big ' hair gave a jump which nearly | aused him to fall over. "What?what is it?" he gasped. At i rhich the little chair giggled and he sewing chair smiled a quiet liule mile to itself, while it kept up its entle rocking. Evidently the little ewing chair was so in the habit of j ocking the baby to sleep that it kept j m rocking even when there was no j iaby there. "You see," went on the little voice, you ve rocKea over me auu uiuiveu uu j ay legs, and you've rocked, over ray j irother. and broken off his head. How ! .re we going to get mended, I want to ;now? Philip didn't do it, you did!" >ersisted the little voice, indignantv. . The big chair was still so astounded hat he did not sneak at once. Then ie repeated monotonously, "Philip eft you on the floor. It serves him ight!" And he went on. rocking terly. "But my legs are broken and can't stand up to hold my gun!" mailed the little voice. "Never mind," put in the little sewng chair, anxious to make peace. The mother bought a bottle of glue oday. I saw her put it on the mantel>iece. When she rocks the baby to ,leep tomorrow I'll whisper to her hat it would be a good plan to glue rour legs on. And your brother's head an be stuck on, too. You will be as jood as ever. The little sewing chair >camed with kindness on the little vooden soldier. "That's so," called out the little ocking chair cheerfully; "Philip :hall make up tomorrow for all the nischief he caused tonight. He shall itand mc up straight and pick up his oys and mend the soldiers that were woken." "And I think we'll suggest to him o mend the babv's woollv doe that le dropped down stairs last week," ;aid the sewing chair. '."Yes, indeed," cried the small chair. 'Philip's a pretty good fellow after ill. A little careless sometimes?" "But he'll grow," put in the sewing :hair. "And he bangs me and makes me do ots of things I don't l.Ke." "He's a very lively boy certainly," nterrupted the big chair. "But he don't mean to do wrong,and vitil our advice?" "And a little glue," addea the big :hair. "He'll fix things all right tomorrow." "Certainy he will." said the gentle sewing chair. "He's a pretty good ellow, after all." The little soldier said nothing. He vas relieved to notice that his legs ay near enough so Philip could find hem easily. And just then the last coal died out ind that's all I know about it.?Maron Brower, in the Brooklyn Eagle. Abdul Bainid's Treiisury. Turkey may be poor and oppressed, >ut the sultan has in his treasury a lollection which even at a forced sale vould pay the entire debt o;' the coun ry. The treasury consists of three arge halls, full of all sorts of prelious articles, but, unfortunately, the ight. is so bad that a close inspection s almost Impossible. At the entrance l splendid throne, captured from the Persians, is the first object seen. It is >ne mass of pearls and studded all >ver with precious stone^The first iall is filled with a vast collection of jold and silver cups and plates, anient stones, jewelled daggers, swords, cnives and suits of armor. From the op of a second throne hangs a huge ;merald, which looks too large to be eal. Cases round the room contain lecklaces, brooches and rings by hunl;reds. A dressing table covered with rearls is exceedingly beautiful. Among his mass of treasures it is rather surmising to find such articles as modern tilver mounted dressing bags, telcicopes, photographic cameras, and even * case of razors. The next hall is given up to gold and silver ornaments ind blue china, and lovely sets of ?offee cup holders worked in gold and silver and precious stones, with a maglificent collection of enamelled copier bowls. Among the ornaments were n.inv tovs made out of the most pre lious material. The body of one little loll was formed out a single pearl. The third ha.ll contains quantities of :oins. No attempt has been made to classify them, but 1hey are beautifully irranged in large cases. No one in :he treasury, not even the guardians, 3cems to know anything about the ilstory of the articles confided to their :are. No Chicken. Trust a messenger boy to be up on expressive slang. The particular one who had a message to deliver yesterday morning at the office of the general passenger agent of the Pennsylvania railroad was as tough a looking specimen as you could find in a day's journey. His cap was placed at a perilous angle on his frowsy head, tobacco stains lurked about the corners of his mouth, and he was puffing a cigarette stump. The dignified clerk who took the message scowled. "Sign dat," demanded the boy, holding out his slip, and expectorating copiously on the floor. "I'll have you put out of here if you don't know how to behave," said the clerk, severely. A look of scorn passed over the boy's grimy features. "Aw, don't git icy wid me, or I'll slide all over youse!" he exclaimed. Then he sauntered out whistling "Go Away Back and Sit Down."?Philadelphia Record. Itellc* of the Pnst. One of the most precious possessions jf the Reims library is an evangelis:ary in the Slav language. This work s in two volumes, the first dating sack to the 11th century and the secsnd to the end of the 14th. It has snly been the property of the Reims library since the revolution, having previously belonged to the cathedral :o which Cardinal de Lorraine had presented it. The first volume is writ:en in the Cyrillan character, the secsnd in the Glagolitic. According to :he legend, it was on this book that ;he kings of France took the oath at :heir coronation ceremony. The library also possesses a manuscript datng from the year 1049, describing the carriage of Henry I. of France with \nne of Russia, which was celebrated it Reims.?Notes and Queries. SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY". Incandescent alcohol lamps have been under investigation by the Prussian railway officials in competition with acetylene lamps. It is asserted that the unpleasant odor emitted by them is practically prohibitive of their use. The introduction of telephones in coal mines has been suggested. In cases of accidents the imprisoned miners could communicate at once with friends at the surface, state the nature of the peril, and perhaps suggest modes of immediate relief. Flywheel accidents can be provided for by insurance policies covering all damages to persons and property caused by the breaking of the flywheels. The wheels are inspected before the policy is issued and at regular intervals thereafter. A TT/NWTT fllmnU k.?4 IVt AO T> 3 xx vcij Dimpie, uut cucuiuai, wcftug of keeping telegraph poles frbm rotting has been devised and put into use in France. The bottom of the pole up to and a little above the surface of the ground, is encased in nr, earthenware pipe, and the space "between the pipe and the pole is filled with a mixture of sand and resin, which solidfles and becomes waterproof. offered for sharpening scissors is deScribed by one of the hardware journels, whose editorial department vouches for its efficiency. It consists of a small glass rod with bulb ends convenient for holding. To sharpen the scissors it is only necessary to draw the rod backward and forward a few times between the blades. When tested, says this journal, on the dullest pair of scissors in the office, it was found to act in quite a magical manner. The depth of the atmosphere is still a matter of great uncertainty. The Belgian Royal Meteorological Observ' atory has been seeking to throw light on the problem, ancl has collected these widely varying estimates by distinguished authorities: Biot, 40 miles; Bravais, 70; Mann, 81; Callandran, 100: SchiaDarelli. 125: Marie Davy. 187; Ritter, 216.- Early in the last century British physicists generally assume the depth of be 47 miles. Meteors, which become incandescent through friction with the air, afford a means of roughly testing these estiL mates, and Sir Robert Ball shows Ritter's figures to be nearest, by stating that meteors have been observed at a height of more than 200 miles. The use of acetylene for lighting railway cars has made considerable progress in the last year or two, and a. number of Continental lines are so illuminated. It is a good deal of an innovation, however, to extend this kind of lighting to street omnibuses. Such is the case, nevertheless, and according to a reliable London paper, it seems probable that before long all the omnibuses in the metropolis will be so lighted. One of the largest omnibus lines haxe been driven to system of lighting for six months, and so satisfactory has the illumination proved that it has been decided to apply it to the whole of the rolling stock. It is intimated that the various omnibus lines have been driven to adoDt radical innovations on account of the keen competition of the underground electric lines. l'uzzled by a Queer Fluli. Naturalists are at a loss to classify a strange fish recently caught near Chenier Island, La. In a way it resembles a dozen different species, but, on the whole, it is strongly unlike any of them. It is now in the collec. tion of Charles Schmidt. Mr. Schmidt has 'sent detailed descriptions and photographs of the fish to all of the prominent naturalists' societies, but no one has yet been able to Identify it. The fishermen who frequent the waters in which it was caught declare they never saw anything like it before. He was pulled in by a luggerman and brought to the city the next day. Mr. Schmidt says the fish probably belongs to the teteradon class, but states at the same time he can give no conclusive reasons for such a classification. The curious fish is about twenty inches in length and weighs about twenty-five pounds. It has the mouth j of a parrot and well-developed lips, j which are like unto those of the hui man being. The under part of his j body is covered with projections I oJi-nUof fr> tVinco r>f a nnrriirvnp fish OlUillUl VW V44V?/V V* % mmmrmmp with the difference that the quills are shorter. It has no gills, but breathed through its nostrils and spouted water like a porpoise.?New Orleans Times* ; Democrat. Venezuelan Fearl*. When the Spanish discovered Venezuela they found the natives wearing pearls for ornament and the fishery is still flourishing today. More than 400 boats are employed in the work, each one paying about $3 per year to the government. The pearls are of ; fine quality, usually white or yellow S and rarely black. Only recently a i white pearl valued at $2000 was found. | The shell of the pearl oyster of Venei zuela is small and of poor quality. The ! oysters themselves are short lived? ! eight years or so. A French company | has lately been formed to exploit the fisheries by means of divers, who take only the mature shells and leave the smaller sorts, so that the beds will not be exhausted. The annual output of j these fisheries is about $600,000 and it i is said that most of the pearls are sold j in Paris. A High RhIIoou Aacenslon. j MM. Siering and Person of the meI teorological institute of Berlin have lately ascended in a balloon of 8000 cubic metres capacity to the great | height of 10,300 metres (33.S00 feet). : Success was possible only because the aeronauts began to breathe pure oxyo* on olovatinn nf nhrmf ?00fl me gen u-u "V. V.N..?N : tres. The scientific results of this ascension are now in process of calculation and will shortly be published. Animal* in the United Stale* The department of agriculture has recently published an estimate of the ammal population of the country on | Jan. 1, 1900. It comprised 13,537,524 horses, about 2,000,000 mules, about 28,000,000 cattle, 16,292,360 milch cows, i 81,883,065 sheep. As automobile tracj tion is introduced the number of i horses and mules will gradually diminish, and the effect is already evident. The waves left in sand by tidal curj rent have been found by Dr. Vaughan j Cornish to measure 31-2 to 54 feet ; from ridge to ridge. 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