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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