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/I 7 Dangers of the Passenger Elevator. The overcrowding of the elevators in some of the public buildinzs, which ire luently occurs during the busy parts of the day, is occasionally productive of embarrassing situa tions. The other day I happened to be in one in which there was also a very bashful young man-one who can scarcely be induced to speak to a lady, and yet one from whom any lady might feel complimented on re ceiving attention. 'When the eleva tor started on its upward trip, there was not even room for one more. The occupants were squeezed together in extremely close communion, and the elevatorjmoved extremely slow. Our iashful friend haa been imprisoned between three handsome girls who were just old enough to appreciate the situation and not so old as to have any compunctions about enjoy ing it. One stepped on his toes and the poor fellow dared not asic her to remove her dainty heel; another seized his arm in apparent fright when the elevator stopped suddenly, anl then forgot to let go, while the third kept her gaze seemingly un consciously riveted on his face, which was the color of a peony, and ailently challenged him with her eyes to re turn the compliment. But he looked everywhere but in her d:rection, though he could feel her gate, and his sigh of relief when at last the elevator stopped at his floor, was un. miviakably sinceie. Whea talking over the above in. cident with a friend a few minutes afterward, he told me that he him self had been caught in just such a tix on one occasion, but that he rather enjoyed it until he went home, and then, as his wife was helping him off with his overcoat, and camne across a couple of dark hairs twined around one of the buttons-her own being light-be suddenly realized that appearances were decidedly against him, and it was not without ditilculty that he squared himself. He now always avoids a crowded ele vator in which there are ladies.-SL Paul Dispatch. How the Offce Boy Collecte(d An insignificant, freckle-f aceO, but decidedly pugnacious youngster created quite a row in the Nucleus Building. He was employed by a medical and surgical institute, and couldn't get his wages. As a substi tute he took charge of the premises. 3ocking out the men who run the establishment and holding the tort against all comers. He was cajoled and threatened, but neither thireats nor blandishments could induce hin' to open the door. Whoever rapped for admittance his. reply was the same: "If you want to get in here just shove $5 under the aoor, "But," said one visitor, "I only* want to talk to you." "Then go and get a telephone," was the sententious reply. After a great deal of ditfculty the boy was dislodged, but it was not be. fore the fact became known that the "institute" was in financial straits, and that others beside its office boy wvere looking for money with no par. licular prospect of getting it. The institute is one of those con cerns which is organized for the laud able purpose of curing every ill to which man, or woman either, is heir. It is modest in its demands, and will give consultation, examination and advice for $1. That is possibly one of the reasons why the rent was unpaid recently, says the San Francisco Chronicle. About two months ago two doctors formed a partnership and organized the institute. One was to do the "rustling" and the other was to do the rest, Neither succeeded in doing much, and recently a1iairs reached a climax. 'When one of the firm arrived re cently he found the key and bills and then went out to breakfast. in his absence the ottice-boy, Ernest Martin, locked the doors and waited for re sults. When the doctor returned he could not get in. Hie threatened to go for the police, but changed his mind and went to the boy's mother instead. She Induced the young fel low to open the door, but he declined to leave until he was paid his wages. The money was given to him anid ho went home. TRIALS OF LOVE. Arthur- "And do you really love me, pet?" Mabel-"If I didn't, do you suppose I could possibly endure hearing you ask that silly question thirty times a day?"-Somerville Journal. HE WAS STARTLED. "How many stories has this b~uild ing?" asked the stranger. "Several thousand," was the reply. "What-where am I?" "Ia the fiction department of the pub3!Le library."-Washington Star. Nor ART, BUT Bt'Tss. "This photograph doesn't look a bit 4iire me," sid Jarley to the photog capher. "I know it," saiid the photographer. -Iwas afraid to make it exactly likt EHAWL. COUNTERFEIT COIN. Uncle Sam's Secret Service and What 1 Has to Guard Aga'nst. The Secretary of the Treasury has completed his report, which is ready for the public and deals ably-with financial questions. Uncle Sam, like other men, ne.,ds tilthy lucre, and the all-important quebtion of the day now seems to be how to raise the needf u, says the Philadelphia Times. While there is a scarcity of the genuine article, your uncle keeps his eyes open for those who counterfeit the coin of the realm, and there is al ways a force of detectives at work in that branch. The "Secret Service" is a bureau in the Treasury Department, whose head is an expert dectective, and whose subordinates are unknown to the out side world. But the ramifications of this service reach out to the different cities of the Union and explore the secluded haunts in quiet country 0 wns. UD in one of the numerous rooms of the Treasury Department we find a small chamber which is a museum, in which are collected the tools, pic tures, and work of the counterfeit ers. On one side is a case ot ugly pistols; on the other a frame full of photos, of famoas "shovers of the queer," while behind a glass are num berless speciments of counterfeit o! "bad" money in bills and coins. To those whose curiosity is excited by t-e queer exhibit the polite Chief Cerk is always ready to give Informa. tion. "The annual report of the Secre sary is just completed," he exclaimed, "but there are many little thingsof interest in the service outside of dry statistics. For instance, it is not generally known that it is against the law to print, photograph, engrave, or paint a facsimile of a United States note or coin, but such is the case. We have there," he continued, pointing to a large placard bearing an engraving representing a $2 bill, "a picture which was placed in a Win dow to advertise some $2 shoes. This drawing was seized by the officers. A photographer had as an advertise ment a representation of a 85 note and this also was confiscated. "This photograph of a man seated in a chair and held by two others Is the picture of a famous counterfeiter. le was determined we should not catch his face, so, you see, he has wrinkled it up so as to be almost un recognizable. . . "One of the easiest ways of coun terfeiting Is to change a bill from one denomination to another-say a $10 bill to a $100 note, or $100 to 200. But, as a rule, large bills are not those most often counterfeited, for the reason that it Is much easier to pass a $2 note undetected than it is one for $100. A small note passes unnoticed where a larger one could be challenged "Of course, the counterfeiters are fine engravers, and their work is sim ply wonderful; still, they neyer get off as good a specimen as that put out by the Government. The lines in the portraits are not near so fine. - 'W1.en a fellow has made false money his first object is to give it an old look, so it can more easily escape detection- Some do this by rubbing a new note in the sweat from an over-heated horse, as this gives a soiled, oily look, and others use coffee or tea, to effect a stain. "We have in the Department here a lady who is remarkably gifted with such a delicate sense of touch that It is simply impossible to pass a coun terfeit on~ her. One bad note, which had passed the sub-treasury In New York, was detected and thrown out while passing through her hands. "Mutilating coin is a foolish haDit with some people, and they do not eem to realle that they are prac tically withdrawing it from circula tion. ikor instance, the 10 cent pieces used by ladies for bangles, or on which initials are (ut, can only be redeemed as bullion-they arc money no longer, as they no longer represent the coin of the realm." Making Fiddles Out or Aluminum An aluminum violin, Invented and patented Dy a Cincinnati musician, is highly spoken of, both by players and critics, it is made in the same shape as the ordinary violin, but looks, of course, like silver, and is exceedingly light. Many advantages over wooder violins are claimed for it. One wa~t used in a concert in Indianapolis a rw days ago, and a newspaper critic comments that, while it seemed to hek in vibratory power, it had pecu r qualities, which added greatly o the brilliancy of tone.-New York wThy He Th~ught so. Forrester-Harduppe said, awhile back, that he was expecting some money soon. Did he get it?" Lan cane r-I snippose so. I see he is carrying his watch again. -Truth. Arlthmete and Urittis. Poet-I put all my best thoughts into that sonnet. Layman-indeed you did. Poet-I thought you hadn't read it.~ Layman-I haven't-only Row Capnor is Made. Camphor is the result of evaporating as essential oil found in two different trees, the cinnamomum camphora, which groww in China and Japan, and the dipterocarpus camphora, of Suma tra and Borneo; from these two trees it is obtained in very different man ners. In the cinnamomum it exists in root and branch, stems and leaves, which are chopped small and put into arthern vessels, which are heated; these vessels are covered with hoods and rice straw is placed in them; the camphor is volatilized and rises; it condenses on the straw, from which it is afterward cleared. In the dip terocarpus it is found in the trunk in a solid form, and it is obtained by cut ting the tree down and splitting it >pen; it is found in pieces from one to two feet long and about as thick as a an's arm. A moderate sized tree will yield about ten pounds of camphor, a arger one about twice that quantity. his kind is more highly esteemed than the other, so that in Japan two hun dred pounds of native camphor are valued at one pound oi the Bornean. - New York Telegram. WVeeoiidents Expected. He (excitedly)-Hang It! I'm sure heard one of those confounded ko. aks! She (quietly)-Possibly. My rothers all have them, you know. - 3. Botolph. Something New. Clara-Aren't you engaged to Jack? tunella-No. You see I wanted to e different in something from all ou other girls.-Kate Field's Wash nat.nm PARTY DRESS WITH RIPPLE TR GlowIng Clouds. Recent observations seem to have substantiated Dr. G. J. Stoney's funda mental doetrin-) that the glowing clouds of the pboto-sphere, from which the sun's radiation is mainly dis pensed, are formed of carbon. Accord ing to this view, advanced many years ago, those patches of brilliant light exhibited in solar photographs erga nate from sooty incandescent clouds, imndreds of miles in length and breadth. It is well known that the dame of an ordinary candle, or of an ordinary gas jet, derives its luminosity from the presence of minute particles f incandescent carbon. It is also to the same element that we are indebted for the electric light, whether in the form of the are lamp or the inean lescent filament. It would now seem is if the great luminary itself owed its surpassing lustre to the presence of mighty glowing clouds of -the identi sl substance to which our ordinary nethods of illumination are so much adebted.-New York Telegaam. Where l6 Will Come in. Marie Gold-Papa says that al though he is opposed to you be ex pects you to be a beneficiary of his will. Tom Gin-Did he say what his will would be? Marie Gold Yrs; he will leave every cent to found a ;ree inebriate asylum.-Pucr. From Jest to Earnest. Mugger (the m'nstrel)-I thought you told me that '.oe 'Miller's Jest Book' was a celebrated work. Book seller-And so it is. Mugger (con tenptuously)-W< 1, it ain't! There's nothing in it but chestnuts-some of 'em my own jokes.-Puck. MIGFREDRYWMN waMMING FOT1LDRL WOMETN. SCIENTmC AND INDUSTRIAL. Wien glow worms go courting the ferX.Aes sit on the grass while the males dance around them in a circle, flashing their lights. Heavy, shaggy, overhanging eve brows, with lower forehead prominent. show great powers of reasoning from Dremise to conclusion. Darwin hac such brows. 0. P. Anderson, the engineer, has Dy triangulation established the height of Glacier Peak, Snohomish County, Washington, as 11,500 feet; Mount Ranier is 15,000 feet high; Mount Baker, 11,000 feet. Mount Shuksan, Whatcom County, is said to be taller than Mount Baker. Deposits of a metallic lustre are found on the teeth of certain rumin ating animals in the Levant and other parts of southern Europe and the East. Herr Graebner has proved the yellow enamel to hav.e its seat in the mod erately thickened cell membranes of the tissues affected; hut the lustre comes from a thick deposit of wax on the epidermis. It is reported that a large industri is being built up at Barrow, England, in the production of steel barrels for the conveyance of petroleum. The barrels are made in halves by means of compression in a mold, when hot. Afterward they are wedded together by means of electricity. The barrels ara intended for use by the large oil carrying companies engaged in the oil trade in the East, where the tem perature has a great effect on wood casks, and results in so much leakage. The registration and sanitary com mittee of the board of health of Phila delphia has issued the following sig nificant notice: Physicians are re quested not to place on any certificate "heart failure" as the cause of death, but the disease of which the patient was suffering prior to the heart fail ure. This term has never been placed on the list of diseases adopted by this board, it being looked upon as a result of some other illness from which the patient was suffering. Furthermore, if furnishes an opportunity to conceal contagious diseases, and thus permits the ignoring of the rules of this board, either innocantly or designedly. The study of the hair upon humat species offers an extensive field for in quiry, and one which presents many unsolved problems of the first order of importance. Why man, as a species, should present the kind and the amount of hair which he does is vari ously explained, and the differences between the varieties of the human race are so great in this respect that one of. the most popular subdivisions of species is founded upon it. That the human family have the longest hair of any species of animal is a well known fact, but why they lost it over most of the body is a subject for much curious conjecture and speculation. The Revenge of 'Time. The rooster in the yard of a coun try 1 oarding house called an old hen aside. "You want to look out.." he said kindly, "the proprietor told his guests yesterday he would give them a spring chicken and he's laying for you." "Well," she sighed, resignedly, "I presume I have no right to object. I've been laying for him a good many years."-Detroit Free Press. A Foolish Question. Dora-Oh, 1-m In such distress of mind and I want your advice. .L am loved by three men and I don't know which to accept. Clara-Which one has the most money. Dora-If I knew that, do you suppose I'd waste precious time running around for ad. vice?-INew York~ Weekly. TT I' K 'imPTAWTOT =1 BLOUSE WITH SC. A TE OP SEEVANS. Some years ago the Russian Am. bassador at Constantinople entertained a distinguished party at dinner, and after the disappearance of the comestibles when the soothing cigar shed its benign influence around them, and helped or impeded digestion be neath their respective diaphragms, the conversation, which had been de sultory, turned upon the discipline maintainedoin the several forces repre sented. "I assure you, gentlemen," said a Ruseian General who was present, "that my servant Ivan, an old 'campaigner, can be dispatched upon an errand to any part of the town, and I will tell you to an instant the time of his return." As some appeared rather in credulous, Ivan was summon-d. "I want you to go," said his master, "to the tobacconist by the bridge and get me a box of cigars. Here is the money. Now, gentlemen," said the General, pulling out his watch and consulting it, "he leaves the house. Now," after a pause, "he is at the end of the street; now he crosses the road; now he is being served; now he s returning," Then, after another pause, and replacing his watch, "Now, gentlemen, he is here." "Ivan !" As he uttered the word the servant antered the apartment with the cigars. All agreed that it was very cleverly done, with the exception of an obese snd guileless Pasha, who opined that it was nothing out of the way, and boastfully asserted that discipline among the Faithful was, if anything, superior to that of any other country, and to prove the veracity of his state nent announced his intention of per. forming a similar feat. His servant was summoned accord ingly. "Ali,"1 said the Pasha, "I wish you to go to the tobacconist by the bridge and get me a box of cigars. Here is the money. Now, gentlemen," said he, imitating the Russian, and con sulting his watch, "he leaves the house. Now." after a pause, "he is at the end of the street. Now he rosses the road; now he is being served; now he is returning." Then after another pause, and replacing his watch, "Now, gentlemen, he is here." "Ali !" "I am here, Effendi," answered the individual, entering with a profusion of salaams. "Well, where are the cigars?" "His Excellency's slave has not yet .iscovered his slippers." A roar of laughter greeted this re ply, amid which the humiliated Pasha retiredto order a dose of the bastinado for the unfortunate Ali. A East'EeSort. Rowne de Bout-You wouldn't marry Miss Roxy for her money, would you, Upson? Upson Downes -How else can 1 get it?-Puck. ILLOPED BLEATS. The Fat Contributor's Error. Mr. Louis Sells, the circus man, ased to live In Cleveland. He came up from Columbus the other day and called on some old friends In re lating reminiscences he told a story about how the late Edwin Cowles got so mad once that blue fire fairly shot out of his mouth. It was when Griswold, the "Fat Contributor," was-on Mr. Cowles' paper. A per. formance was to be given at Brain. ard's Hall one night and Mr. Cowles got all the complimentary ticketh sent to the odfice so be could go and take his family. The "fat contributor" was "do- - tug" the amusements for the paper then, and it was his business to go to the show and write it up. Griswold didn't feel like going to the show, so he got a program and wrote it without going. The notice was a good one and went into detail about the performance. Mr. Cowles and his family went to the hall and found it dark. The troupe had failed to reach the city. Mr. Cowles and his family went home again. Next morning a copy of the paper which Mr. Cowles owned war left as usual at his door. Almost the first thing Mr. Cowles saw was the notice of the show. He was rip-roaring, snorting mad and he rushed down to the office and gave that "fat contributor" the worst roasting he ever got. Mr. Sells hap pened to be in the office at the time. He thinks If any man was ever justi fled in "cussing," it was Edwin Cowles, when he had been fooled out of an entertainment and then read a glowing account of it in his own pa per.-Cleveland World. On f th 4otwneru icv Onehin the ost ero wodru dis efc that a beam of light produces sound. According to Miling, a beam of sun light is thrown through a lens on a glass vessel that contains lampblack, colored silk or worsted, or other sub stances. A disk, having slits or open ings cut in it, is made to revolve swiftly in this beam of light, so as to cut it up, thus making alternate flashes of light and shadow. On putting the ear to the glass vessel, strange sounda are heard so long as the flashing beam is falling on the vesseL Recently a more wonderful discov ary has been made. A beam of sun light is caused to ps througha prism so as to produce what is called solar spectrum or rainbow. The disk is turned and the colored 'light of the rainbow is made to break through it. Now place the ear to the vessel con taining the silk, wool or other mate rial. As the colored lights of the spec trum fall upon it sounds will be given by different parts of the spectrum, and Ithere will be silence in other parts. IFor instance, if the vessel contains red worsted, and the green light flashes upon it, loud sounds will be given. Only feeble sounds will be heard if the red and blue parts of the rainbow - fall upon the vessel, and other colors make no sound at all. Green silk gives sound best in red light. Every kind : of material gives more or less cound in different colors, and utters no sotund in othe's.-Boston Transcript. The New Substitute for Powder.I A week ago the new cruiser Spartan went out into Plymouth Sound, Eng land, to try her quick-firing six-inch guns with cordite cartridges. As this was the first time that cordite had been used wihguns of this description the greatest interest was manifested in the firing. Everything went very well, the cordite cartridges of thirteen and a half poundseasily performing the work of black powder ones of twenty-nine and three-quarter pounds. But only a few rounds were fired from cack gun. The opponents-and there arc many -of cordite say that nobody disputes its advantages for a short time; what they want to know is howth n will stand a long series of continuo'ns rounds. We were promised we should see this the other day at Okehampton, but ie dlid not.-New York Mail and4