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IS A MAN OF GENIUS. THE REMARKABLE CAREER OF PROF. PUPIN. Jnvpntor of On-an Telephone IVu a I’oor B'ar Emigrant Boy—Came to ThU Country from Austria in 1874 — A Iteiuarkahle Career. Prof. Ptipin, of Columbia university, v.’bo has recently gained international reputation as the inventor of the ocean telephone, is the hero of a remarkable career. Few men even in America have risen so quickly and in the face of so many obstacles as lie. The man who has an nounced the greatest invention since the telephone, came to New York in 1874, almost penniless and without a word of English. In 26 .years he has become an authority on electricity, a professor in Columbia university and disposes of a single one of his inven tions for half a million dollars. Of Slavonian I)e<rent. Prof. Michael 1 Pupin is a Slav, com ing from the military frontier of Aus tria. Lika all young men of his coun try, he was sent to a military school. He ran away in 1874 and came to this country. The appearance of New York struck the young Slav with terror. He was unable to ask for a direction, and every business seemed barred against him. He was without a single friend. Like most immigrants in his posi tion, he went to the country and began work on a farm as a day laborer. With in a month he had learned to speak enough English to warrant his return ing to New York His teacher was the daughter of the farmer who employed him. The lesaous followed the long day's wotk and lasted usually till past midnight. The neit five years saw’ a severe struggle. Pupin worked at anything ' \ PROF. MICHAEL I. PUPIN. and everything which would yielfl an honest living. Then he invented a hold er for newspapers, and this little ven ture netted him several thousands in profit. He immediately prepared him self for Columbia, entering the college in 1579. He graduated in 1883. Self Supporting Student, While still supporting himself, Pupin went to the’ University of Cambridge, Eng., and afterward to Berlin, where lie specialized under the famous Prof. Helmholtz. He took his degree of Ph. 1). with honor in Merlin, returned to New York and was appointed an in structor at Columbia in 1889. When the electrical engineering department was started at Columbia he was placed in charge. Prof. Pupin lias been favorably kuown for years as a practical elec trician. He has patented electrical in ventions which promise wide utility. The importance of his latest discovery can scarcely he overestimated. It en ables telephone circuits to be connected over ordinary telegraph wires, thus disposing of the necessity of using cop per wires, it will be possible to tele graph and telephone over the same wire at the same time. With the new system we will soon talk across the continent. Within five years, says Prof. Pupin. we will talk by telephone from New York to Ixmdon. Kgg# That Will Keep. It is said that a carload of evaporat ed eggs, valued at $14,000, was lately shipped from Springfield, Mass., for San Francisco, where it will be placed on a steamer hound for Cape Nome. The eggs were put in one-pound screwtop cans, sixty cans in a case, and will answer any purpose in the culinary line except boiling. The moisture be ing taken out of them when they are prepared leaves nothing to boil. The largest egg-evaporating establishment In the world is located at Springfield. The process of evaporating is done with hot air. and it takes eight hours to thoroughly evaporate an egg. About four dozen are equal to a pound of the preparation. The Springfield factory employs seventy-five people, and Its capacity for consuming eggs is about 400 cases a day. The goods are shipped to all foreign countries, and in Europe especially there is a big demand, as the English government has placed the preparation on the hospital supply list. The Klondike country is a heavy user of this brand of evaporated eggs, as no matter what the price of the fresh hen fruit may be or how scarce it is, tne evaporated egg retains its old price, and is always on hand and ready for business.—New England Grocer. Only MoaquitnuK tarry Yellow Fever. The commission consisting of Drs Reed, Cairoll and Agramonte, which has been investigating yellow fever near Havana, has arrived at two im portant conclusions, first, that the spe cific cause of the disease is unknown, and second, that it can be carried onlv by mosquitoes. Consequently the dis infection of clothing and houses is use less. it has been settled furthermore, that yellow fever is not due to dirt. •It may 00.-nr in the cleanest localities. AN HEREDITARY MOLE. And the Influence It Exerted Over One Family ■ Fortune. They were in the Turkish bathhouse and a loosely-draped sheet exposed a mole on the left shoulder of the blonde one. That started the conversation. “Have it removed!" she echoed in j response to the suggestion of her dark j friend. “Well, not just now. It would I be somewhat of a trial, I’ll admit, if ! it was a little higher up, but my even ing gowns are not cut dowu to it yet. “Even if fashion decreed that they should be, I would hesitate about part ing with it. Have you one? No? Well, perhaps that has nothing to do with the case after all. I don’t know that ordinary moles have any effect on the fortunes of their possessors, but there is something about this one of mine that makes it very dear to me. Oh, there’s no secret about it and I don’t mind telling you. “You know I am quite superstitious about many things. Well, this mole is not the first to appear in our family. In fact, my great-grandfather, my grandfather and my father each had one, and as there were no sons of my parents the family mole seems to have descended to me. None of the other girls has one. “What happened to my great-grand father's mole does no: appear in the family records and he probably kept it to the end of his days. Not so with my grandfather. He yielded to per sonal vanity and got rid of it in the old-fashioned way by tying a silk thread around it. Luck promptly turned against him and he died poor. “My father started in life with little or nothing, but was successful in a central New York business, and while still a young man amassed a comfort able fortune. About this time some new electrical treatment for the cure of skin blemishes was widely adver tised and my father fell a victim to it and had his mole .aken off. Shortly afterward he decided to give up his business in New York to enter what looked like a more promising field in California. “We all moved out there and the country and climate were admirable, but business was not and complete failure followed. Of course, you may think that the removal of the mole had nothing to do with this fact, but 1 am firmly convinced that it had all to do with it. “Now, I have been fairly prosperous in my limited career, and I intend to avoid the errors of my ancestors and cling to the mole.*’ And the dark one nodded her head in silent approval. HAS NO USE FOR A LIAR. How Minister Wn KquelrlieU an Untruth ful Correspondent. One of the most commendable char acteristics of the Chinese minister at Washington is his franksess. He does not hesitate to express his opinion up on all matters that are brought to his attenion. One day he was visited by a Washington newspaper correspondent, who is perhaps not alone in his profes sion in regarding himself as a great man. Before he had learned anything whatever from Mr. Wu, Mr. Wu was plying him with his usual questions. When the query as to the amount of his weekly stipend was put the cor respondent heaved up his chest, stroked his mustache with pride and prepared to astonish the simple celes tial. “One hundred and fifty dollars a week!” he exclaimed. “It is foo much,” came quick as a shet from the minis ter’s lips; “It is altogether too much —you are not worth more than $25 a week.” Later on, by dint of cross-examina tion of other newspaper men, Mr. Wu learned that his $l5O-a-week visitor had prevaricated to the extent of about S9O per week. The next time this gen tleman called at the Chinese legation and sent his card to the minister he was accorded an audience, but the first thing the minister said to him was: “You 1. i to me about your salary. If you will lie about such a thing as that you will lie about anything. I do not trust you. 1 have nothing to tell you. I want to revise my former estimate of your value —instead of being worth $25 a week you are not worth anything, sir. Good day.” Mr*. Theodor® KooHpvelL As the wife of vice-president of the United States Mrs. Roosevelt will be obliged to assume a prominent position in the world, and it must be said for her that she has yielded to the inevi table with grace and dignity. The state of Mrs. McKinley’s health pre cludes the possibility of her taking active part in society, which relegates the responsibilities of “the first lady in the land” to Mrs. Roosevelt. There is much curiosity in Washington so ciety concerning the new leader. There will not be much seen of her until next year, however. The vice-president's family will not take up a permanent residence iu Washington until next fall. Mrs. Roosevelt was a Miss Edith Kerrnit Carow. She is now about 38 years old, and, while not a beautiful woman, possesses an unusual attract iveness of face and figure. She has an unmistakable appearance of racial dis tinction, and has also the simple,, gra cious manners of a truly aristocratic woman. She dresses extremely well. Value of Municipal Waterworks. Greater New York has $125,000,000 invested in water works, Chicago $30,- 000,000; Boston, $15,000,000; Baltimore, $18,000,000; Cincinnati. $10,000,000; St! I.ouis, $20,000,000; Philadelphia, $35,- 000,000; Pittsburg, $8,000,000; New ark, $10,000,000, Milwaukee, $5,000,- 000; San Francisco, $25,000,000; Cleve land, $10,000,000; New Orleans, $5,- 000,000, and Providence $6,000,000. THE WEEKLY NEWS. CARTERSVILLE. GA. “Precedence Is All There is a deal of formality and rpd tape in the business of being a diplomat, and the family affairs of a diplomat also come into the tangle at times, for the woman who is the head of the household of one of the representatives of a foreign power of ten finds that her social plans are all upset because her position is not suffi ciently exalted to warrant her ad j vances. One of those who learned that le3- ! son is Countess Cassini, who is the head of the household of the Russian ambassador. Privileges of Matrons. When Mile. Cassini was in Wash ington last winter she learned that, under the rules which govern official society, only matrons are given the privileges and precedents of heads of the households of ambassadors. Asa maiden she must give way to all the married ladies of the Diplo matic Corps. This was very galling to the high-spirited young lady. Her august uncle, Count Cassini, the Rus sian ambassador, one of Russia’s strongest men, sympathized with her, since through his influence she was made a countess in her own right by the czar while in Russia last summer. She expected a good deal from this, although just why is hardly clear. When the first diplomatic event was announced at the White House she prepared to assert her rights as a countess. She received intimation that, so far as precedent was con cerned, she was only Mile. Cassini, and at the White House matrons were given precedence over maidens. This was a blow to the little lady, so she ran off to New York and imperi ously declared that she would never have anything to do with the unap preciative American capital. The count smiled. He Is used to the young Fierce Italian Soldiers. The Bersoglieri, quartered at Sau Remo, are the fleetest infantrymen in the world. La Marmora created the corps, asking his sovereign, Carlos Alberto for “the worst soldiers in your majesty’s army,” in order that the general might form them into a force after his own heart. He aimed at mak ing his men sharp and resourceful mentally and physically thoroughly active. One of his ideas to these ends, an Italian general tells me. was to have all the doors very quietly locked when the men were in quarter, and to have the first dinner bugle sounded; one moment afterward he had the sec ond dinner bugle blown. The men ,in obedience to the call, rushed.w’ith their pannikins in hand, to the doors —to find themselves locked in. The stand ing order were to present themselves immediately after the second call, get thei. rations, and return at once to quarters. So the men let themselves down from the windows by means of sheets and blankets, their pannikins held between their teeth. They re ceived their portion of the usual thick soup and bread. The bread they pock eted. but the soup was more difficult to deal with. Some spilled a few drops of it; others lost half their supply, but out of 700 men all but two hauled themselves up. hand over hand, into lady. She has lived in his house from the time she was three years old, and for ten years in China he bowed to her caprices. The count is an amiable gentleman, fond of kittens and child ren. Angered by “Yellow” Journals. In New York she was amazed to find her conduct set forth in the newspapers. She read this through carefully, and, acting with fine dip lomatic training, decided she would return to Washington to convince the people the articles were not so. She knew when she returned that she would have to take her place below married ladies of other embassies, and she was prepared to do so without a murmur. She went to the White House dinner and had a famous time that evening with Minister Wu, who is great company for dinner or any where else. In fact, he is the catch of the lot. Mrs. Wu was taken out by Count Cassini. She is also good com pany. In short, the Russians ware in luck. Next day there were society reports to the effect that the dashing little Countess had been sat down on again, when in reality she had been well treated and was delighted. She had got over her disappointment and was feeling that she was well out of it. The real objects of the reports was to try to “rub it in.” It must be confessed, however, that Countess Cassini has but little tact, and, with her uncertain temper, is sure to have social trouble before long. The ladies of the other embassies do not like her; they resent her being called the belle of the diplomatic corps. They are laying skillfully hid den traps for her. It is not even sup posed that she will avoid them; she probably will not try. COUNTESS CASSINI. the dormitories. The commander saic on that, and on many other occasions “I am proud of your agility.” Hying: Woman Tried Homemade Coffin. The coffin made for her by her hus band in the chamber where she lay dying, and in which she reclined foi the purpose of ascertaining whether it was a good fit, so well pleased Mrs. Mary Moore Humphrey, of New Ha ven, Conn., that she encouraged Mr Humphrey to make others for him self and his mother. He has accord ingly done so and says they give great satisfaction. The only criticism Mrs. Humphrey had to offer was that the coffin was “a trifle snug” at the shoulders. It caused no great incon vcnience, however, and as she ex pected less discomfort when she occu pied it for the last time, she called foi no alterations. Monday she was laid p way in a coffin built in her presence A Tail Mn'i Club. A I all Men’s Club has been organ ized in the University of Pennsylvania. It has twelve members, each of whom is six feet two inches or more in height. Six other men, termed “shor ties,” because they are only six feet one inch in height, are associate mem bers. Thai Prevents Countess Cassini's Triumph WILL HONOR A HERO. MONUMENT TO BE ERECTED TO GEN. MONTGOMERY. He Fell at Quebec Fighting for the Cause of the Young Ilepublle m l Its Constitution —-Almost Forgotten Keen in lIlsU The city of Quebec is to be embel lished by a monument to the memory of an American hero, the Massachu setts Society of Sons of the Revolution having decided to erect there a me morial shaft to Gen. Richard Mont gomery, who fell in the desperate at tack upon that city. Gen. Montgomery was one of the first eight brigadier generals of the revolution, and had not an untimely death cut short his brilliant career he would undoubtedly have been one of the most distinguished generals gar landed on the pages of American his tory. The spot where he fell, pierced by an English bullet, is very imperfectly marked by a wooden signboard high up on the cliff. This is far from wor thy of the gallant general whose fall it so crudely commemmorates. Walter Gillman Page in a visit to Quebec last yeaf visited this historic spot, and the result of this visit was the deter mination on his part to secure a more fitting memorial. Wal of Irish Origin. Gen. Montgomery was an Irishman by birth. During his youth lie served in the British army and took part in the old French and Indian wars. After the close cf this seven years’ struggle he went back to England. But so warmly had his sympathies turned to the new world that he returned before the outbreak of ths revolution and settled in a beautiful country place on the banks of the Hudson. He was chosen a member of the first provincial congress that met in ‘ji GEN. MONTGOMERY. New York in April 1775, and shortly after was appointed a brigadier gen eral in the Continental army. As he bade his wife good-bye he said: “Trust me, you shall never blush for your Montgomery.” Gen. Montgomery fell while leading his men in the attack of December 31, 1775. Through the courtesy of the British general, who greatly respected him, Gen. Montgomery was buried with all the honors of war within the city walls of Quebec. EVARTS GOT HIS FEE. Ills Unanswerable Armament When Re duction Was Intimated. From a story related by a New York lawyer it can be inferred that the late William M. Evarts held his services at a good round figure. It also seems that he was clever in avoiding any re duction in his charges when the time for payment came. The lawyer says, “I was employed once in a suit of con siderable importance in which my client was a lady. To insure success it was thought advisable to secure the services of distinguished counsel, and accordingly I was authorized to em ploy Mr. Evarts. After talking over the matter with him, on rising to go, I said to Mr. Evarts that it would be the proper thing to give him a retain er, and asked him for what amount I should make out a check in his favor. “ ‘Oh,’ said he, ‘I guess SI,OOO will suffice,’ and thereupon I tendered him the paper for that sum. “Not long afterward the suit was settled to our satisfaction, and again I called on Mr. Evarts, this time to pay him in full for his services, which had not been of an arduous nature. “‘How much do we owe you?’ I said. “ ‘Call it $5,000,’ he responded, with out a moment’s hesitation. I thought this a little steep in view of the cir cumstances. and I stalled in with a mild protest. “ ‘You know Mr. Evarts, that you’ve had $1,000.’ “ ’Yes,’ he said, with a dry smile, ‘but I’ve spent that.’ “This was an unanswerable argu ment, and all further effort at reduc tion ceased.” Tito Mounter Locomotiv?*. The two largest locomotives in the world have just been placed in opera tion on the Pittsburg, Bessemer & J-*ake Erie Railroad. They are now hauling the great Carnegie ore trains between Albion and Conneaut, O. Fol lowing are some interesting statistics of these steel monsters: Weight, each, 370,000 pounds, or ISB tons; diameter of the smallest ring in the boiler, 73 inches; w-ater supply, 7,500 gallons; length, 64 feet 8 inches; working steam pressure, 220 pounds to the square inch. The connecting rod alone weighs 1,700 pounds, and is made of armor steel. A man of average height can easily stand erect in the fire box. DIVINOJor pearls. Filipino# Show Gr* t Endur.no. , Exhaustng Labor,. As everyone kn> ws . pearls tained from the IC ean’s bed Th are found in the sLjlls that were the homes of deepwater clams and ether bivalves. F shiag for n precious stones is a )roatable lndu^ e and some of the riciest fields where they are found are on t he shores of the Philippine Islands. 0 Early in the morni.g the Sulu or Viscayan, denuded of attire, r> v ° la his banca. or boat, tc the bed 7 n ! anchors it with a heav; stone. He provided with a smal but heavy cuchillo and a bag of noting D ron Ping overboard, he sink, rapidly b _ the aid of a lump of raw opper Th's is prevented from being lot by a rope and as the waters are traisparent the actions of the divers can be easily seen. They are experts a aquatic work and can remain beneati the clear waters for an incrediole kngth of time. The usual depth of tie opera tions is not more than 30 tc 40 feet though 80 feet has been att.ined at Palawan. Once at the bottom the diver tuicklj and deftly cuts the shells from the rocks in his immediate vicinitj and then draws himself to the su-face while filling his net he usually retrains under water for a period of 60 ti 90 seconds, though some of the most ex pert hold records that reach five end three-quarter minutes. While at work they are often attacked by ravenoas sharks. These they either frighten or fight off, but there is one thing far deadlier they all succcmb to. That is the exhausting nature o? their labor, accentuated by the contrasting tem peratures of the cold water and the tropica] sun above. Their lives are of short duration after once adopting pearl diving as a profession. OVERCAME GREAT OBSTACLES. An India Railway That Cost SIOO.OOO -and (>,OOO Lives. Probably the biggest triumph ever achieved by the Britons, wrought into a success after a fearful harvest of des pair and ruin, is the Sibbi railway, in India. It was a bigger job than any war that occurred in the country, and in the first year of its construction 200 lives were lost. The second year saw the whole trunk work ruined by storm, snow and a mob of natives, who de stroyed the line. Another three months brought the building to a standstill through disease and want of material, and all who were not en gaged in the work wanted it stopped for good. Nothing daunted the toilers, however, and the next year brought famine and plague—a combination which killed off 2,000 men, and left the management crippled for want of hands and officers. The odds were said to be 200 to 1 against success; but the band of workers went stubbornly on, and before long had all the native tribes in the neighborhood about their ears. A regiment had to be brought up to defend the half-made line, all the workers were armed, and they had equal spells of fighting and toiling every day. There were 30,000 men engaged on the business at once, apart from the military; when, during the third year, a second visitation of fever and draught threatened to effec tually finish off the last chance of suc cess. There was no beating them, however, and the line was finally com pleted and made into a brilliant suc cess, after six years of work at a cost of $100,000,000, 6,000 lives and 15,000 cases of sickness and wounds. SCARED THE WILD BEASTS. Travelers f avert from Lion* by Imitating the Howls of Wolyes. M. Foa, the French explorer, says that lions have a wholesome fear of African wolves, which hunt in packs and do not scruple to attack even the lion. There are terrible battles, in which the lion succumbs to numbers and dies fighting. In connection with the lion’s fear of wolves, Mr. Foa tells a story from his own experience. It was a very dark night, so dark that trees could not be distinguished until the travelers were close upon them. Lions prowled about the party, one of them roaring from a point so close as to have an alarming effect on the nerves. Reaching a tree the men found one of their comrades, with rifle cocked, peering into the darkness, try ing to discover the whereabouts of the animals, which could be plainly heard walking among the leaves. A second man was trying to relight a half-ex tinguished torch. Still the lions could be heard coming and going in darkness. At this point the native servant whispered the advice to imi tate the cry of wolves in the distance. The party at once began barking and crying “Hu! hu! hu!” in an undertone, as if the pack were still at a distance, while the man at the camp made the same well-imitated cry. The effect was instantaneous. There was the sound of a rapid stampede across the dry leaves. The lions decamped in a panic, driven off by the supposed approach of a pack of wolves. For the rest of the night the party was undisturbed. Complimentary Words. In a letter to the Globe, referring to a biography of himself, printed a few weeks ago, ex-Gov. Frederick Hol brook, of Vermont, says: “it was in strictly good taste, complimentary, without being too fulsome. The pic ture of me is an exceptionally well executed piece of newspaper work; in deed, one very seldom sees its equal in work of newspaper and printer’s ink. Complimentary words, the source of which adds to their value and makes them all tthe more appreciated.