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How e»y v.-e hive r.o elottast
One shirt our llir.be shall hid*,
let hut the tins. In raialr# cmjw
Halberd and Unit provtd**
We ll do It. dd< fc» iido.
Odbia' «e have ro dotheol
- ily t.irtlc thou *fc«:t wear.
a*t l ot the king, in railing men
Arrucr and cnr.s prepare;
The toil* ol war we'll than.
-Dock World.
VER BOATS IN RUSSIA.
ETerp Known Mean* of loco-
motion ta In tlae. "*
Etywhera up the Volga and It*
red tributaries ascend the Iron
a cf the Caspian sea oil fleet,
i through the canals to St. Peters-
alone pass annually daring the
ays of free navigation thousands
teamen and barges bearing m<l-
of tons cf freight. Every know a
is of locomotion Is used, from
who. like oxen, tramp the tow-
. hauling the smaller barges, to
jrful tugs that creep along by
is of ail endless chain laid In the
of the canals and minor rivers,
jlng after thrill ai suall pace great
rnus cf heavy bcrgvs.
nil the greater streams Immenso
nearly -WO fret long. 13 fret In
li. carrying ClOOO tons of freight,
down to the Caspian, where they
broken to pieces to he used as flre-
il on the steamers going up stream.
1 there are 8.000 miles of nnvlga-
vnterwiiya In the vnlley of the Vol-
r If the streams which float the
t rafts that form so large a part of
[ralrlc of the rivers are Included
Mileage is Increased to nearly 13,-
or as much as that of the valley of
ilisSiSKlppl.
’t.v thousand rafts are floated
;i the Volga ouuually. many of
i 100 feet long by 7 thick, and this
s but a fnlnt Idea of the real traffic
le river, for In addition there are
10.000 tons of produce passing up
dawn the river during the open
m. Much of this centers at Nijul
jorwl. To this famous market
mere and barges eouie from all
s of Russia, bringing goods to be
at the great annual fair, over
000.000 worth of merchandise
lg’.ug hands in a few weeks. Thlr-
lousittnl craft, including rafts, are
irod for this traffic, They come
,i as far north as Archangel, ns far
as the L'ruls, from Astrakhan In
south. St. Petersburg and Moscow
lie west, while groat caravans of
s cf the desert arrive dally from
mr:s of Asia.—Engineering Mnga-
RIDlNG ON AN AVALANCHE. J WHY THE BOILER BURSTS.
Dowa * Steen. Wtlhoot * Scientific kktlakatloli of Some Pkt*
M * ***** | akaaeaa of the Kiiehea.
Pwv tmmatalneera go far enough : Whet! you hear the kitchen boiler
Into the avnlnhcbo regions to Bee much ! cracking, there la no cause for alarm.
t>f them, and fewer still know the phera Is a prevailing Impression that
thrilling exhilaration of riding on the cracking Is produced by steam and
them, says John Muir lu The Atlantic, that there Is therefore to Increased
In all my wild mountaineering t have pressure on the boiler at such times,
enjoyed only one avalanche rUlc, and fcut this Is an error. If the boiler Is In
the start was so sudden .and the end BlXK l condition, with the water turned
came so soon I thought but little of cm M usual so that the boiler Is kept
the danger that goes with this sort of the only pressure that It Is sub-
travel, though one thinks fast at such Jected to Is the some as that In the
time*. I water pipes, from which of course
One calm. bright morning lu Yosemlte, there never Is the slightest danger,
after a hearty storm had given throe 1 And this Is true no matter bow hot the
or four, feet of fresh snow to the moun- 1 water In the boiler may lie.
tains, lielng eager to see ns many j The reason Is very simple. As long
nvalnncbes as iiosslble and gain wide 0 « the holler Is kept full of water there
views of the peaks and forests array- |g no room for steam. If you open the
ed in 1 tlielr new robes before the sun- hot water cock, the water pours out
shine had time to change or rearrange and steam rises from It, because It rhea
them, I set out early to climb by a side has a chance to escape Into the air. Id
enuyou to the top of a commanding other words, evaporation takes place,
ridge a little over 3.000 feet nliove tho But as the hot water pours out water
valley. But I was uot to get top views from the pipes rushes iu to take Its
of any sort that day, but Instead of place, and thus the boiler is kept full,
these something quite different, for j The cracking noise referred to, Is
deep trampling near t]ie canyon bead heard when the water Is unusually hot
whore the snow was strained started gud Is nothing but the expansion of the
an avalanche, and I was swished back holler under the Ipflueuoe of that heat,
down to the foot of the canyon pa If by | it Is hi no degree au llidlPIttltih of dan-
enchnutuient. The /plodding, wallow- ger unless Indeed the holier |k worn out
Ing ascent of about a mile bad taken 1 or defective, which Is a matter entirely
all day, the undoing descent perhaps 1 ev.tsldo of what we ftra now consider-
about’n minute. I lug.
\Vheu the snow suddenly gave way, I When a kitchen boiler explodes. It is
l instinctively threw, myself on my generally because a lira has been kin-
back and spread my arms to try to died in the range while the boiler was
keep from sfnldng. Fortuuatcly, -.empty. It happens sometimes when
though the grade of the canyon was *peoplo come back to town after spend-
steep, It. was not Interrupted by step 1 lug the summer away. The lira heats
levels or precipices big enough to J the holler, of course, and when the wa-
enuse outboundlug or free plunging. | ter Is tnmed on It Is converted sudden-
On no part of the rush was I burled. ; ly and violently Into steam, and the
I was only moderately Imbedded on j boiler cannot stand the enormous pres-
the surface or a little below It and , sure. I'ortuuately few persons are
covered with n hissing back streaming thoughtless enough or silly enough to
veil, and as the whole mass beneath build a lire before opening the cocks
or nbont me Joined lu the flight l felt connecting the boiler with the water
n6 friction, though tossed here and , pipes.—Chicago Cliroulele.
there ami lurched from side to side.
and when the torrent wedged and
came to rest 1 found myself on the top
of the crumpled pile, without a single
bruise or scar.
Hawthorne says that steam has spir
itualised travel, notwithstanding the
Marconi Objected.
There was a little dinner once given
to yvilllam Marconi, of which one Inci
dent Is still remembered by some of the
guests. An oratorical member of the
company, growing euthuslnstlc over a
smoke, friction, smells and clatter of < t oas , , 0 (be Inventor of wireless teleg-
boat and rail riding. Tills flight In a ! ra piiy, made this climax to Uls perora-
mllky way of snow flowers was the
most spiritual of dll my travels, and
after many years the mere thought of
It Ib still an exhilaration.
CURIOUS PRIVILEGES.
Didn't Cnt (He Corners.
writer in the Boston Transcript
this reminiscence of the Rev. l)r.
ill Kellogg of Ilarpswell, Me.:
Sunday before bis sermon the
jor announced from his pulpit; 'The
.loins' grass Is getting pretty
I shall he there with my scythe,
and pitchfork at 4 o'clock tomer-
morning, and I hope every male
her of the congregation will be
too.'
he neat morning they were nil
nml among them Captain tlrlggs,
f it two iu Ids stockings, with a
lit of nearly 230 pounds. 'Par-
aid he as they were working up
Held mar each other, Tm goiu to
our corners tills mornln.’
ow. In-. K; Ilcgg was a little man,
hing scarcely more than 130
but lie knew bow to handle
and, as he told me, with a llt-
Lriig cf nis shoulders, ‘he didn’t
my corners that morning.' More
lhat, the man who had thought
ould heat the parson at mowing
1 tiuder a tree exhausted from
lug with such a pacemaker."
Bom* of the Preroaratlres Which tem-
bamalon May Exercise.
A curious privilege of an embassador
Is that he and be alone when dismiss
ed may turn his back to the sovereign
to whose court be, la accredited. The
mode of procedure Is ns follows:
j tlon: “Gentlemen, I give you Marcoul,
the Franklin, the Faraday aud the
Helmholtz of Italy." When the toast
had been drunk, tbe distinguished
guest thanked tbe party for tbe honor
and added. "But I must protest against
th.- action of the preceding speaker In
making me triplets.”—Leslie's Monthly.
tart)
In 1S81 the Isles of Ischia and Solo
suffered terribly from an earthquake,
losing about 4,000 to 5,000 people. Is
chia was again visited lu 1883, but did
I When the embassador’s audience Is ' not get off as easilv as before, coming
over, lie wait* to be dlsailszed by the J out of the wreck with 10,000 dead and
sovereign. When dismissed, tbe em- missing. The grant calamity of tho
bassador bows, retires three paces, nlneteentb century was the great con-
bows again, retires another three vulslon in Java lu 1883, which Is said
paces, hows a third time, turns on his to have killed not less than 120,000 per-
heels aud walks to the folding doors, bous.
But It Is felt tbat more polite methods ] ■
should obtain when tbe reigning sov- a i.« y saturation,
erelgn Is a woman. To turn Ills hack ; On the last night of a series of “pro
Is to he discourteous, to walk back- traded meetings" In the Methodist
ward is to resign a privilege. The em- church cf a little southern California
bassador retires sideways, like a crab, village the visiting evangelist was
Tue Worst Paved City.
p-io.v Is probably the worst pav- '
f In the world. Oreat cobble- 1
driven by band Into a loose bed
find form a roadway which Is al- I
dusty lu summer and muddy la '
urn. and in many of the roads i
Is a<> attempt at a roadway of
klu I. The streets are badly wa- ,
|1 and denned. I
city U regarded by the Russians
holy city." probably because of
large number of monasteries it con-
!t was once the capital of the
’■ and still enjoys the distinction
considered the capital of the
lior, but there does uot seem to be
11’f.nicriar desire on the part of
•dl.’ifities to make it more worthy |
title. '
He keeps one eye on the sovereign and
with the other tries to see the door.
He thus shows politeness to the sov
ereign and at the same.time retains
one of his privileges. As the embassa
dor is usually tin old gentleman, often
Bhort sighted, he sometimes fails to
reach the door and comes in collision
with, the wall.
Another privilege of embassadors Is
the right of being ushered into the
royal presence through folding doors,
both of which must Ue flung wide
open. No one except au etnb’asrador
can claim this privilege. The most
any uonemhusandorla! person ran ex
pect Is that one of the leaves shall be
making a special effort to obtain
shewing of anxious souls Ur had
preached his best sermon nml reached
an emotional fervor that he had seldom
equaled But nobody respontletl to his
Invitation. They snug a hymn, and
then the evangelist rose again ami call
ad upon the congregation to "enlist for
the service of the Lord."
A battle scarred, wooden legged vet
eran who had dropped into the back
seat watched the proceedings with In
terest. For the third time the perspir
ing evangelist rose and asked, “la
(here no one willing to eullsl in tilt
liord's army 7"
Then response ca me from the back
opened to him. Tbe reason for this seat. "Draft ’em, parson; bang It, draff
privilege Is not known. Tliere are cer- 'em!"
tain Irreverent suggestions that have
been made, but we prefer to be silent
wilb regard to them.
Another privilege, capable of causing
great luconveufeace. Is tbe embassa
dor's right of nduilxsiou to the sov
ereign at any hour of the day or iiight.
Thus the minister representing some
little bankrupt state could go down t»
Windsor and deinaud au audience at
4 o'clock In the morning. The audience
would have to l>e granted, though It
could he delayed by the exercise of tu-
geuulty.—Chambers' Journal.
In' Ex ten nation.
i A little girl between 4 .*.ad 5 years of
age came running in from sliding one
| day and exclaimed Vo her mother: "Oh
mamma, did you see me go down? I
: went like thunder."
j To her mother's astonished question
ns to whom she had heard say that the
little one replied. “Well, mamma, you
A Dig On*.
J octopm, which had been In n fight
' 0: - K ' other monster once drifted
°a die Malay (tenlnsula. He had
:iI ''I'Ich were from 12 nttle 0D( . replieu. --wen. mamma. you
I.,., - - U "'w ni ' wel8hed “together kaow you snl(! oat ,i ay -as quick as
I it was calculated tbat lightning.* and It always thunders after
r-..- aiuI strong enough u ljKbrpD8 . doesn't UV-Boston Chris-
lur'nr. ™ ,0n . ' l8hlriK boat Under Ulan Register,
par.ate by main Btronelh
Ratarr i Ineralat Work.
As lor the woman, she found tbe
*hie* wonder* of creation no* in (be
culminating vertebrate, hut In the low
esi orders of life.
"The Jellyfish, for Instance!" exclaim
ed ihe woman. “How was It ever got
to JeJI so beautifully'/"'
Now. the others thought they could
UDderstnud her awe, although none of
them, us It transpired, hail ever put up
any preserves.-Detroit Journal,
■atlotnetlon.
Brown—Ro you lost your lawsuit
with Smith/
Jones- Yes: but It's a satisfaction to
know that Smith didn’t win anything.
“But didn’t you have to pay him
$1.0011 damages 7"
"Yes: but his lawyer gol that.”—
Philadelphia Record.
The Intense dryness of the South Af
rican air Is very destructive of leather.
Hence hoots soou wear out.
main strength,
i ‘:mts of Palmyra get all
qiplng buckets Into the
x It lake and allowing the
a borate.
When tho rainy day saved for fir-Ty
comes, a man finds that it Is a d>
whereas he only saved for a shown .—
i Atchison Globe.
The animal that first succumbs to ex
treme eniii I* the horse.
Exercise is a good thing for the stock
bn but (he unL-h cows need p -ace and
(a t.
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