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PLUG. 'Can you make a mile a minute? Do vou want to tnnke it two? Plug! Are you good and up against it? Well, the only tiling to do Jk plug. Oh, you'll lind Konie marahy place* where the crust is uretty thin, And when you think you're gliding out you're only sliding in. But the only thing for you to do is think of this and grin And plus;!" ?Ldmund Vance Cooke. m &?js & The Judge's h\i By RICHARD S. GRAVES, ST. JOSEPH- VfMdltnr. BS & H'A.I AII BOLEAN hud ^ |j boon a justice of the pence O IV/j O many yours, and noboily 7[ -A-*-*- ^ bad over questioned bis XO>P right to hold tiio olllee tiie remainder of his lifo, for lie was a cripple. Year after year his name was on Hut ..? ??? "* 1 tu i ivi? i-iecnuu ami lie was not opposed after the tlrst y ea r. Another man hud made the race against him the iirst time he was a candidate for the office, and it was said that his opponent did not receive a single vote. No other candidate for the place could be found after that, atul nobody but Mieajah Bolean .wanted ihe office. "lie knows nothing but justice," the strangers used to be told Mio cm.t lii.s own boy (o jail once, nod the ungrateful little wretch ran away from koine and never came hack." Tlic oflice of the justice of the peace was over a grocery store and his homo "was on a quiet street where his wife, a sad faced woman with streaks of gray in her brown hair, busied hernolf all day with her household duties. It was plain that some great sorrow liad befallen her at some time i 11 her life. Thorn \V:i? n/-? fi*n/>n . ? 11 face of the justice of the peace, especially when he hail once turned it in the direction of his home. He had always said that he knew right froia (wrong, and when he stated that anything was right nothing on earth could change him. lie was as ilnn as a rock. IIo had been firm the day he sentenced his own win to jail, and that firmness was with him still. The boy had contended that he was ' ranocont of the eharge against him? that ho hail been lighting in solf-defonse?but the linn old magistrate believed tln> evidence of other witnesses and would not listen to him. He had made up his mind, and refused to change it. The boy threatened that if his father sent him to jail he would leave homo and never return, and the threat had some bearing on the ease. It was true that lie had been a good hoy ami gave promise of lining a good man. Even his stern father was forced to make that admission when lie argued jifitli himself and tried to justify, his action. In the office of the justice of the peace there was an old table littered with books and papers, and over all uu.-l ui yi'isrs naa settled. When ji law suit wns tried there, at. loner intervals, the dust was brushed away by the use that was made of the tables, but the books and papers were not disturbed. The odges of (ho papers weiv frayed ( and ragged, and they were all yellow , with age. Sometimes the pile was , moved a little by some one slipping , a snoot of foolscap out to nuiko a ( memorandum. On the table was a ( copy of tho revised stalutos witli one . of tho covers torn o?V and many of .the pages missing. In tho corner stood ( the stove, from which the ashes leaked the whole year through. In summer it was the receptacle for trash, and the lower section was always a spittoon. The bench was represented by the ( long table, behind which the justice ant. and in front of him had been cleared a small space among the aged. dust covered papers. In the pigeon holes of the (nil rase ti.at stood against the wall were papers that human eyes had not seen 1 for twenty years parts of the record 1 In forgotten law suits, and unpaid fee bills of eases in which the litigants .were long sinee dead. The window shades were frayed at the lower end and could not he moved up or down. ' When it was desired to keep the sunliirllt Ollt. I|I'H-Sli:l IM'I'S \V(TI> liilllK.I across (lie windows. 1 It Wiis in I l:c 1)1.1 W;i II rase, anion# tin* papers tliilt liinl been touched and turned yellow I?y the hand of time, that Mienjah HnSean found, wliilo neat'eliin# ono day for :i losi document, the picture of a l)oy. 11 ? looked at it 1 curiously at lir>t. for Ins sit;ht was dim and In* did not reeoj?ni/e it. ! MM..... - I ?? " I A Hill II " MM II' II II I 11 M illH I III* I mil I and pit - li oil Iiis spectacles up on Itis lio.se. I'"or a moment lie stood there unmoved, sustained 1 ?y tlie firmness that hnd lie.>n Ids lifelong pride. Somebody opened tlie door he fell to the (loor, tittering a hoarse cry, like an animal that had hoen x.ven a (loath wound, nuil with the picture clasped in lii.s liuiul. I! was n picturc' of lite Imy lie had sont to jail a hoy with laughing 1mii<pyos anil hair that curlotl al?out hi- i forehead. f I Tlif? honT* in \\ hii*li Micajnh Holean ! livoil was a groat contrast to Ills , dinjry ofTlce, for it was clean ami :is I free from dust us tho willing Hands of Ills wife- could make it. Trees grew around it and vines covered (lie long *'porch. The street In front and the alley in tho rear ended abruptly a few yards away in a steep embankment, over which the lops of freight cars moving to and fro and the long freight tinins passing through the yards could he seen. Weeds grew in the street in front of the house and llio alloy in tho rear was overrun with thorn, for tlio two thoroughfares wore seldom traveled. The shrieks of tho engines at work in tho yards could ho heard all day and all night, and the rattio of tlio Jangling oars, as heavy 51? fliNtlilA^ of- Hi-tjf "'"I . Ill IUOI, MIIU jgl Mil (III I l,Y dying away clown tjie track*, was ? Xnuilliftr sound In the little house 011 ft iff '^Vl' Wl5 (the 1)111. The wife of the magistrate j s.lf thtirA liAii??a o * o fl???A x. uvuto UV a nuir, miiuuiu^ the tops of the cars and scanning the freight trains as they Canio In. The brnkemen ran along the tops of moving trains, twisting a brake here* and loosening one here, waving their arms and giving signals in vmtomliue. It was because sb once had heard (hat their son beonm<* n r?iirno?i ! brakeman that the wife of the justice of the pence snt and watched the trains nil day and listened to their noises at night. When Micajah Boloan was away from tlie house she wept silently many times and felt as though lie** old heart would break. It would have been a relief to have talked about the missing boy, but his father never permitted ms name to be mentioned. So she watclied the faces of the brakeman, hoping that the lost boy would some day come back ami steal into the house. She was a prim old lady, always neat and clean, but she I know that If ever he came home and | niiu iiiu uoii.se wmie jus rather was away, she would take him in her | arms aS she had when he Was a child, i even though lie were as black with j smoke and grime as any of the brakemen or firemen she could see from her window. If had been twenty years since lie went away, aud in all that time the stern old man had not once relented, i The white haired mother had often I tried to imagine how her son looked ! with those years added to his a ere. I She knew he would l?e large and strong, and she thought his eyes would still be bright ami his face us cheerful and smiling as ti. boy she remembered so well. One niglit a man whose face w' < i covered with a thick growth of beard, i in which there were streaks nf uri-nv I slouched through the streets. Ilis j clothes were rugged, his eyes downeast and his hair unkempt. lie was a vagrant, and as lie walked he cast furtive glances about to see that no otHcer was in sight. lie came from i the direction of the railroad yards j and crept through the weeds growing I rank and l;ill l?ift of : house. Ilis foot, of)vorod by rugged shoos, lmulo no sound :is it" stepped upon tin* porch, where lio stood looking in through tlio window. Tho vagrant uncovered liis head as ho stooil there. lie saw Mtcajnh I.olean and his wife, sitting with tlie weight of years upon theni. He waited for the sound of their voices, and when Micajnh I.oienn spoke lie noted the tirm. harsh tone?the same llill'w'll I'Aiiirt " * x ' * inn ou i v/ivi: uuu iiitiujk it \ Ugnilll 11 ?I 'I lioaI'd wlien lw was sontoncod to jail. It was wlion (ho aged woman spoke, in a sad, sweet voire, that the tears started to the vagrant's oyos. He made a stop toward the door, but drew back when li is ragged garments came within range of the shaft of dim light j through the window. Down in the railroad yards lie could | hoar the noise of the moving trains, J me ciang or oons and the shrieking j signals of the engines. In an interval | of silence in all that jargon of noise? ' an interval so brief that only a prac- > tired ear could detect it?lie hoard a ; clear note whistled as a signal to him- j self. It sounded far away, for at that j moment the vagrant was dreaming, and in the dream he was a hoy again. : lie looked once more through the i window at the two old people sitting uifiv, .urn it mi a sign i n;ir would have wruntx oven the? hard heart otr Mica jail Itolean. ho turned away. A few moments later tlie vagrant limbed upon a car loaded with coal 1 ind was followed by another man. rery like him in appearance. As he I stretched himself our on the hard boil J the speed of the train increased. His < ompanion crawled close to him and i iskod: | "What luck, Iti 11 ? Did you j^'t any- I thing?" The vagrant did not answer. Ho was looking np at the .stars, shining ilown on them from a clear, blue sky. He did not oven bear I bo words of hi.* companion.?National Magazine, Tim Swii'lcHt SNMiojcraplie. . The world's typewriting record on actual practical work lias been broken by Mr?. Margaret Cunningham. sten>>? urap-ier in the otlice of the Supreme L'ourt, Trenton. N. .1. Slu> wrote 21.0S!? words of a legal decision requiring t'ae utmost care in six and ouo-half hours' ictunl time, and not a correction had to be made on tlu* lit'ty seven pages [ overcd. The record discounts the one made recently in the Washington f'atimt UtHee l>y Miss olive It. Cameron, if Tennessee, who wrote .TJ.'XM) words in a working day of seven and onel>..ir liAilua ..-I.. ? >? ? - - 1 II.I.I i. Willi-.. ll-IHH "Hi> "III' ill ."I j time. Mrs. Cunnmnliniii was eotnpollotl j i<> iiuiko ?i^ht manifold copies., whioh | necessitated 111r- handling ol r?U5 shoots. i nf paper and H00 carhon shoots, nearly I ciuht times as many as used liy Miss <'ainoi'on. Mrs. Cunningham was hljch- I Iv ciiiiiplimenteil hy the justices of tho j eolirt. Origin of "IIilrlf Snm." A curious version of the origin of I nfle Sun" has neen discovered in an old iilniiitiiir published iu Lexington, Ky.. in isi |. The phrase is explained iu the following words. "M.'ncle Sam' is a > ,int plicate siunilloant of the United States, as .John li.ill is significant; ??f Knulaad. The origin of it seems to '/ wiim. im iiit i i! i phi uiiMi* n\;is authorized by law tlit* mining of a regiment, of liybt dragoons. When the company first appeared their caps bor?* the letters 'IT. S. L. signifying the United States Light Dragoons. A 1 countryman, seeing the company in dress parade, asked a bystander what the letters stood for. 'Why,* was the answer, 'that means Uncle Sam's I>azy I ' Sinf>n flint timo tho uso nf llic> term has become general." ? London Chronicle. A VjpcnrrlttAD Treaty. Probably the first treaty of peace to be typewritten ia tile South African nnrtfo ilofllioent. Tho t)irr>? nf tlie IJocr leaders form an interesting pnrl of if. Vliey nro all in different styles. Louis Botha's in deseribed as being In a line hand, and though tho others nro somewhat rougher, Delnrey's is the roughest of all. lie Jjuk spelled Ills nnme .'pill lutn three syllables, de la Itey. Christian do Wet 1? also spelled with a small d. Japs' Mother fiaoss Nursery Rhymes That Amuse the Little (to of the Mikado's Empire?Some Jingles Centuries Old?The Proud Jelly t-isn and the Palace Under the Sea?A Japanese Bug-a-Boo Kan.: : : : : HI' Japanese nro very injJ __ dnlgent to their children. O rn q >p|10 nttli! boys ami girls ^ have their playthings, WOW their games, and their nursery rhymes. The Japanese "Mother Gtose" is centuries older than our own, and some of (ho simple .jingles composing the collection were probably recited by Japanese mothers | to their offspring long before Columbus j discovered America, says an exchange. One of the heroes of the Japanese ' ' .Mother CJoose" is the man who rides on a frog. Ever so long ago he was I a robber, ha vine been born nonr hut gifted with remarkable dexterity as a swordsman. One day he attacked a beautiful lady, who suddenly turned into an elderly gentlemen with a benevolent countenance. Breaking the robber's sword into half a dozen pieces, just as if it had been a dry twig, ihe old man announced that he was the Ancient of all Frogs, and counseled the youth to refrain in future fl'Oin sfivi litlfr from ?1><* mint* i and to confine his attentions exclusively to the wealthy. At the same time he placed himself at the services of the young man, who. mounted on the frog's hack, was able to leap across rivers and to travel at great speed on land, these superior facilities of transj- .ation making it practicable for him to rob usurers and other avaricious persons of their treasures, lo the joy of the indigent, who were protected. Eventually, as a reward for his virtues, the hero was made a Daimio, and lived to enjoy a peaceful old ago. Not less ir. forest in/? is a nursery jingle that tells the story of the Jelly Fish, who was a favorite courtier in the palace of the Queen of the Realm I'nder the Sea. lie was particularly vain of his beautiful shell, which was the envy of all rivals. But one day be in. II..1. --- ^ ....... w luuiigii us iu uetray mo confidence of his royal mistress, and. boing deprived of his shell as a punishment, he was expelled in disgrace. Since then his descendants have pos sessed uo shell, and have been the very typeof helplessness, boiugdofonsele.ss against attack and compelled to go whithersoever the wind and wave may tirive tnom. It was to tho palace of the Queen of llio Koalm Under the Sea that Tarn, another hero of Japanese nursery rhyme, journeyed. He was a poor fisher inn n. who. while out in his boat was attacked hy a huge cuttlefish. lie prayed f->r help to the oeean goddess, and she nppionehed, riding on the hack of a gigantic sea-turtle. The | cuttlefish Hod, and Turo, being invited m> to ilo, mounted upon tlio hack of the Initio and was conveyed to the bottom of tin* sftii. Tliet'o lie beheld a magnificent edifice built of motherof-pearl. and for seven days {here was nothing but feasting, music, and daneing. with multitudes of beautiful women, and unlimited quantities of Mowers and precious stones to delight I be eye. Then Taro bethought him of his parents, and asked permission to return. It was granted, and he made tlif? imiriiov !?? ln"? hnil ??at?*r* Hia back of the turtle, to the place where the cuttlefish lwiil assailed him. lie sought his hut. hul could not lind it. Nobody knew ftim, and he recognized none of the people. Finally, a very old fisherman fold him that persons of his name had lived there four cen turics previously. Their tombstones, overgrown with moss and lichens, were shown to him. and as he gazed upon them, his teeth fell out and iiis limbs became stiff. All :it once the ; weight of ItK) years came upon him. j and he died. The I>ug-;id>oo Man of Japanese children is a historical character. His name is Akochi, and he was a very haughty and powerful noble. , I.t so happened that one day when lie was entertaining the Kmperor Xohunaga at his castle, Nobunaga, being somewhat itk his maps, playfully grabbed the head of ids host and used it as a drum, nfiiuiik npon 11 wiin ins iaii. ku jiii'tto forbade Akoclii l<> resent the indignity nt ttrn moment, but lie nursed liis linger anil hiilcil his time for revenge. One night, with a party of swordsmen, lie surprised Xohuuaga in his palace ami cut olT his head. In Japanese art Akot-hi is frequently represented. and always with a sword lichl behind his hack. The little mothers of that country tell their children that if they .ire not good Akoclii will get them. The Japanese have seven gods of happiness, nil of whom are described in nursery rhymes. One of tbeui. and the favorite of tliein all. is llotei, who seems to correspond pretty nearly to our Santa (Maus. IIl* brings people ion# lilc and prosperity, and, as represented in the art of the country, lie is invariably accompanied by a siork a l?ird which is supposed to live for 10,1)00 years. Hotel has a ioli.v and aminnble expression of countenance. and for good little boys and ( j;irls he carries a big sack lull of gifts. The Japanese Uip Van Winkle is mini Iiitrn <?t' nni'w'itri- elu-mn If.^ name was Lu Wen, and ho was a woodcutter. One day lie went tip a mountain to got wood, when lie was beguiled out of his pnth l?y a friendly /li'inrAM Tim flrn^nn i 1?<?f I n Wah mnl .... Fit II 111' t was a white one the kind whose breath turns to gold. The woodchopper was much in need of gold, and so ho went along with the dragon, hoping to got some. lfe found no gold, i.nL he saw two be.aitiful women sitting on the ground playing checkers. So interested did he become in the game that l.e did not notice the deparlure of the dragon. After a while he thought he had better go homo. but. having descended to the foot of the mountain, he found everything tin f.\miluir. The clifitlron mocked him, I and the dogs bni'ked. Then, for (lie lirnt time. h > noticed (bat bo bad ft ^oiiU while board which swept the. - i ' ? I it<1 i f t. t a>wuuu, m icugiu ue caiiiu across very old lady, who told him that slie bad heard of n nmii named Lu Wen, who had disappeared six geenratious earlier. So the woodcutter, making up his mind that he was a hopeless anachronism, went up the mountain again and was never seen thereafter. DANGEROUS ELECTRICITY. Occimlons Wlxn lllftli Vultures Do L.IUI* Harm, A groat sensation was produced ton or twelve years ago, when a prominent American electrician, Nikola Tesla, exposed himself to the effects of a current whose pressure was said to be a million volts. Well, there may have been some exaggeration in that statement, but there seems to be no question that the voltage was far beyond I uui vwi? men rcguruuu me limit OL safety. A trolley current lias a pressure of between 300 ami (500 volts, ami, while it cannot well prove fatal, it is a thing to be treated respectfully. For the execution of tbe death penalty, at Sing Klnj? and Auburn prisons, it is customary to employ only about 1000 or 1800 volts. Now, there are two things about Tcsla's experiment which, in combination, afforded comparative immunity. One was (hut lie did not use the continuous, or direct, current, but an alternating current. That is to say, the electricity first flowed in one direction and ' then in the opposite, the changes occurring with extraordinary frequency. if they had been produced at the rate of only one or two or twenty-five ' or thirty per second, serious harm would have resulted. The alternations \vllir?ll 'P^slu ?nnn??nil ^inrnUAim.l . thousands?perhaps a million per sec- | ond. What lie showed, therefore, was 1 that if the frequency was liigb enough I almost any voltage could bo handled I with impunity. The fent was spec- | tacular, but of little practical value, I been use for such things as lighting a low frenueucv is nrpfornhln. Nnvnr- I theless, the revelation sot scientific men to speculating over the cause of Mr. Testa's immunity. A favorite theory at Iliat time was that the action of the current was confined to the skin and did not get below the hitter. Professor Nernst, inventor of an electric lamp that has proved more I llnmilnr ill Klll-nnn tlum Amiwlna nmtt I questions that conclusion. In a communication to tho Uunsen Society, he expressed the opinion that high frequency currents do penetrate the soft cellular tissues beneath the skin, but j that they do not have time to work j any change in it because the reversal of direction comes so soon. Of course, ? ?* IIH-3J3 KPL LIUU'I l AIM.lll.UIWIl is of less importance than the main fact, but the human mind is so constituted that it always wants to know the reason for strange tilings. As yet other scientists have not publicly pronounced upon the accuracy of Professor Nernst's views, but will doubtless do so in time. With direct and low frequency al- i it-i iwiuiiK i ni ih ai'i'iui'llis some- | times happen which are not followed by the eonse<juenee? which might nat? nraljy be expected. One often read* an account of what seems to bo, and probably is. a narrow escape. A per* son is exposed to a current of high voltage and receives a painful shock/ but is practically unhurt. For such incidents there are a variety of c-xnl.'imi t i<wis I f ji hiirA wirr? fAnnluul I with perfectly dry hands or with | greasy hands, the effect Is trilling. X good electrical contact between metal I and tlesh is obtained only when the hit- j ter is moist. Grease acts as an insn- j iator. Dry clothing does, too. More* \ over, there is no likelihood that dec : trieity will bother a person unless lit? makes two good contacts and the current can flow through him. It must be able to get out as well as to get In. A man might heml over and touch a | third rail, used to operate an electric | railway, but. he would not feel any effect unless some other part of his body simultaneously rested on a second metallic object, which formed part of the circuit. One contact is not. enough. New York Tribune. (ioixl HoUSH l)f>KA. Tlio best dog t?> keep. Lit the house; t*?>r n companion ami to .sonic extent n j guard. just tho sort that eighteen out ; of twenty peqple require, is to a great ; extent a matter of opinion. More actually depends upon the way in which ; tile animal lias been reared than to what variety it belongs, so long as it is comparatively short eoated and not dm; iij? i.v <111 (in* ii'KN. i\IIV IUI1K UflCI- i led terrier or one with a long coat will j take an nmonnt of mud into tho liail J and dining-room. much to tho annoyance of tlto careful housemaid, but it j SUye terrier with Its long, sof: coat I trailing almost to the ground, is an uc- | tual impossibility as a housedog. Af- I fectionato lie may lie, and his t*ycx I may sparkle with the brightness of j those of a gazelle. but a Skye terrier l home from a walk on a rainy, dirty j day is something terrible. Tip* l!?rr?tl ll?rn. The dual tipping observed in tho av- i erage barber ship about Manhattan has generated such general complaint j that a progressive tonsorial establish- ; ment, near Astor place, not only has , shut <?n flu* mvii'lici* /if fMiclnm. ' crs paying xratnltics to tho bootblack j and tin* man behind the razor, but lias warned the employes tlint to rooeive ' snme is tantamount to dismissal. This novel text is placarded in front of each ehuir: "NO TIPS ACfMCPTKI)." It is said that, when the above uo.'ice was posted, the male force tpiit work Instantcr. The proprietor declares lie employs female assistants Iwunse lie prefers to. An advertisement of tliis place reads: "Our specialty electric facial massage l?y expert lady nrtists." New York 1'ress. '1'rnl 11 I i Kliropo,' The Northeastern Hallway Company proposes to run next month from Leeds tlie quickest train in Europe. The 230 miles lo Edinburgh Aviil bo covered in four hours nineteen minutes, or tliirtoon minutes .faster than the midland trains. Tho speed between York and Dnrlington will exceed sixty-one miles an hour. Tho speed between Leeds and Edinburgh will average nearly a mile a minute. The ruining expresses to the Scottish > capital from the capital to the West j Uidltit,' promise tr? bent the world's fo,cord iif til" way of speed. .. ^ J y ^ . ' ' ' %-v, 'iV >! ') Harvesting Witt v Traction engines that nro now being West to drag the linge harvesters. TJi for plowing and sowing. A School For Divers, Men Taught in a Big Tank of Water. TRAINING CAISSON WORKERS N England (boy linvo res ? ulnt* sehoois ior divers. O T o The chief British naval school of this kind is at Portsmouth, and it is there that the tank shown in tlie illustration is used. As traininir in tho nnon son would l*r> dangerous, the would-be diver receives his tirst lessons in a largo circular steel tunic, tit ted with glazed portals through which ills movements can be watched \ by the instructor. The men, who have to undergo a strict medicnl cxnininn- I tioa before entering upon tlu> work, are all volunteers. The tank is about thirteen feet high, anil about eighteen feet in diameter. A.n American enterprise somewhat similar to the above is the school for caisson workers, which has been estab- | lifted by those projecting the boring J 1>IVERS LOOKING THROUGH THK U of the sub-metropolitan tunnel l?y the Pennsylvnnlu and l.ony Island HailWArtfl i I - I W(|M X WIII|'il llll'S, Few occupations are more hazardous than working in airlocks perhaps a hundred feet hcnoa.li tin' surface of the river or the level of Manhattan i Island. The dreaded "bends" and the | still more fatal paralysis soem to seize ' the workmen sooner or later, despite t!w? llOAt t 111 t mn/loi-M lk I'irlniin .*??.! leal skill cmii <l<> for them. It lias been found that the host thing to do for a workman who collapses from the Intense pressure of the compressed air in the caisson when lie is brought to the surface and the reaction takes place is to place him in another airlock with the pressure almost as greftt as it was in the chamber far be ui-iiiii me ohiurt, itiki very ^muiiauy reduce tho pressure. The modus operandi will be nhouf :is follows: The candidates, preferably veterans of other Jolts of I Ills character, will ho critically examined by surgeons and their histories taken. If acceptaliln thuu will hn nl-ioAil in n?? ??? /?!?/?.? .... ...... ..... . ' v ...... ... Ill III! <111 <l|illl|bor daily unci thh pressure Increased to 1 lilrty nnd then to forty pmin'ds tj llic square inch. Tlioy will ho kept i Steam Engines. ~1 .fil. used in (ho groat wheat fields of (he oso engines, in the spring, are used (hero for half an hour and (lion (ho pressure will bo reduced vers* slowly. The next day the process will be renewed .with a longer period in tlie chamber and the pressure increased considerably and the time of "decompression," as !t is called, extended. This will be kept up until the men show that they can probably withstand the pressure necessary to enable them to work at a depth of more thau a hundred feet. When tho work is really under way thoso men will descend In a tube l?y means of a ladder to an air chamber at tho baso ol tho caisson. Entering this, they will proceed to work the boring shield and to brace tho opening made by tho boring machinery that loosens the mud and sand by jots of water impelled by enormous pressure. Tho debris is wlii/,7.od up a standplpe to tho surface by the same power of compressed air. The men lay concrete as rapidly as the level desired is reached and the weight of the concrete sinks the caisson into tlie mud as tlie mud and sand from within the air chamber at the base is of the caisson are removed. The further down the caisson sinks the more air pressure is j needed to keep out the weight of water j around the great hollow box. \ UStUJL PlKtli W FURNITURE. A Novel Arrangement of Crib, Sofa ' and Lcunge in One Piece. 111 this day of labor-saving, spacesaving, money-saving devices it is gratifying to realize that the home has i ! I ' jfessil c.v THK COMBINATION KU liN ITU HE. boon particularly blessed l?y the inventions <?f man's fertile brain. A Massachusetts gentleman, who probably has a In rue famil.v ami knows the needs of a home, has con- ' windows or inn safety tank. ' trlved a combination plcoo of fujnf* | lure \vliifli combines in one ami ail tint advantages and comforts of no less than three separate articles. In tin- rarly liours of the day, when the tired head of the family or lii.s worthy consort desires a few minutes' repose, lie or she may throw himself j nr herself upon the lounge, as depicted I in the picture, and, perhaps, snatch a ( little cat nap. Jailer in the day, when the hell rings announcing the advent of Mary's iM'aii, .Mary rail pusli up tlio cuds of llm erstwhile lounge, when, presto change, she has a most inviting upon which sho ami her suitor may spoon until it is time for hint (o catch Ills car. Then appears the father with Itai?y lim in Ills arms. From beneath the seat of the sofa is drawn a side, which I hroutrhoill tlio 1I11V Im* lienn < <>!>. ccnled. The side is atvung into plnee, und .Jimmy is snugly lucked in his lit lie crib for a sound night's sleep. There art) nearly .100 Christian churches in Japan and over lout) mis alonnrlcs. 1 UNia UJN TMH TKAUHBR. Teacher (In spelling class)?Johnny spec! "fail." Johnny?I can't. Teacher?You oan't spell that simple word? Why not? Johnny?'Cause you told mo there was no Buch word as fall.?New Yorker. 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