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•Other '* countries may spend mort
•money for guns than the United States,
but they fall behind the America!
cation in the high prices paid for bat¬
teries of the base ball sort.
A calf was bom on the farm of
Michael Gibbons, Cambria County,
Penn., without the remotest sign of a
tail. This refutes the venerable saying
that the tail always goes with the hide.
Judge—The witness swears you stole
his coat, and have it on. I must, there¬
fore, find you guilty. Tramp—Oh, well,
your honor, if you’re going to judge
man by the clothes he wears I s’pose I’ll
have to give in.
“Willie,” said the teacher, “which is
the shortest day in tho year?’’ “Twenty
first of December,’’ replied Willie.
“Tommy may tell us which is the long
est day?” said the teacher, indulgently.
“Sunday,” sh uted Tommy.
Wo are willing to take a certain
amount of stock phrases in newspaper
accounts concerning blizzards, but
when a paper tells us about a zephyr
carrying a bed quilt sixty-one miles and
then going back for tho sheet wo aren’t
'■.here.
“I think,” said tho minister, who
was visiting a parishioner, ft » that it is
easier to coax children than to drive
them, Gentle words are more effective
than harsh ones.” “I think so too,”
said the lady, tenderly, Then she
raised her -window and suddenly
Bhouted to her boy: “Johnnie, if you
don’t come in out of that mudpuddle
I’ll break your back.”
A novel just published closes with
this sentence: 1 They stood beneath tho
elm treo under whose spreading
branches they had plighted their
troth. Sighing, ho pressed her to his
bosom and then went away from her
forever,” The author is not well ia
formed in botany. It is clear from tie
sentence quoted that tho tree was not
an elm, but a sigh-pres3.
“You mustn’t hail a man
When he’s foggy, I insist;
For melancholy reigns within;
When he’s gone he's never mist.”
Thus spoke the funny editor
To a man when traveling,
Who, feeling somewhat bored, replied:
“Dew drop this sort o’ thing."
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idled with merchandise, and knew noth¬
ing of his design. When we were at the
Rabbit Ears, about 100 miles from the
old Spanish city, we saw a man ap¬
proaching in a sweeping gallop, moun¬
ted on a yellow mare and leading an¬
other. As he came nearer, mistaking
us for Indians, ho whirled and retreated
50 or 60 yards, then turned to take a
seeond look. Our wagons coming
round a hill proved that we were
friends, and, putting spurs to his stee i,
he dashed past, merely nodding his
head as the dust flow into our faces. It
was a great surprise to mo for Aubrey
to treat a friend in that style, but when
I reached Santa Fo I understood it.
Every moment was precious. It was
the supreme effort of his life. Night
and day ho rushed on. Six horses
dropped dead as he rode them.
“His own beautiful mare, Nellie, the
one he was riding as he passed our par¬
ty, and one of the finest pieces of horse¬
flesh I ever saw, quivered and fell ia
the agonies of death at the end of the
first 150 miles. Several splendid horses
had been sent ahead, and stationed at
different points on tho trail. No man
could keep up with Aubrey. Ho would
have sacrificed every horse in the west
if necessary to the accomplishment of
his design. It was not money he was
after, but fame. He had made a wager
that the trip would bo made in six
days.
“At tho end of five days and thirteen
hour% exhausted and fainting, he was
taken from a horse that was trembling
from head to foot, and covered with
sweat and foam, at the southwest cor
ner of the present square of Indepen
dence. He sank into a stupor, from
which he was not aroused in forty-eight
hours.”—[Kausas City News.
Ice Made Him Hot.
Brown—What’s the matter, Dumley,
you look hot about something?
Dumley (angrily)—Hot! I should say
»o. I was around at the Eagle just now
and that fool Featherly dropped a
chunk of ice down my back. Enough
to make any man hot.—[New Y r ork
Sun.
“I passed some queer’ and here I am
in prison all on accounterfeit, ”he sighed.
wash-basin, the \>ath-tub an itctien
sink. This is caused by a gradual ac¬
cumulation of small bits of refuse ma¬
terial, paper, rags, meat bone, or grease,
which check and finjlly entirely stop
the out-flow of waste, and then the
plumber is called to remove the stop¬
page with his force pump, Sometimes
this is accomplished, but often the pipo
has to be cut, and there is greit incon¬
venience and expense.
“Just before retiring at night pour
into the clogged pipe enou 'h liquid
soda lye to fill the ‘trap,’ as it is called
—ortho bent part of the pipe just be"
low the outlet. Be sure that no water
runs into it until the next morning.
During the night the lye will convert
all the offal into soft soap, and the first
current of water in the morning will
wash it away and leave the pipe as clean
as new. See? This is practical chem¬
istry, yet few chemists would ever think
of it”
Eighteen Years Over the Century.
There is living six miles northwest
of Fiandreau County, Dakota, an Indian
woman by name Hannah Weston (Cet
anwinna). At preseat she is living with
her sixty-five-year-old grandson. She
claims to have been about six years old
when the Revolutionary war broke out,
which would make her about 118 years
of age. She tells that her father was a
chief, and fought with the English at
that time. She wears a silver medal,
which is three inches in diameter, and
nearly one-fourth of an inch in thick¬
ness; on one side of the medal i3 a por¬
trait of King George III. The medal
was presented to her father by the
King’s agents at that time, and she
prizes it very highly; money cannot buy
i . She is totally blind, and has been
so for a number of years, is considerably
emaciated, and the wrinkles on her
face are finger deep. O.herwise she en¬
joys good health, and is a hearty eater.
In an Old Boston House.
Mr. Phiatterly (trying to make him¬
self solid)--What a remarkably strong,
manly face your grandfather had, Miss
Phillips.
Miss Phillips--Pardon me, Mr.
Phiatterly, but that’s grandma.—
[Judge.
have"bceYh^kled^'which^is“do^bv
drawing them repeatedly long^steel through a
machine filled with spikes,
‘^Jn^hinfthe" w“ down al’^vtg a
harsh fiber is first sent stairs to be
oiled. This relieves the machines through
which it afterward passes of much of the
work they would otherwise have to per
form. The first process is called prepara
tionand is performed by two machines,
the spreader and the drawer. The
spreading machine con-ists of two end
less chains fitted with gilt bars and steel
teeth, which comb out and even the
fibers and is only another method of
hackling on a finer scale. The workman
stands in front of this machine and feeds
it with the sisal, taking particular care to
regulate the supply so that the sliver, as
the sisal is called when the process is
completed, shall be of suitable size. If
fed too freely, the machine is apt to be
come clogged, if too scantily, the fibers
are liable to break. Some of these
machines are very large and will run
olf bale of , 2<0 pounds of hemp .
a m nine
minutes, or in ten working hours over
sixty bales. From this the sliver goes
through another spreading machine, only
finer and smaller, which still further
straightens and evens out the fibers.
This operation finished, the next m
order is drawing. The machine for this
is similar to the first except that it has
but one end.ess chain and its teeth are
considerably finer. By means of it the
work of straghtemng, evening, reducing
in volume and drawing suitable out the sliver still
goes on until it is of for preparation, spinning.
This ends the process
which, to sum up, is a method of mak
ing as fine and pliable as possible the
coarse fibers of the hemp plant.
_ We to the _ . . depart- .
next pass spinning
ment on the top f.ooi. of the wori\S,
where the sliver is spun into yarn. On
entering the room, the first thing that
strikes our attention is the curious ma
chine by which this process is done. It
is fitted with a speed self-feeding motion
which increases in when rapidly
supplied with sliver, and again dimin
ishes in speed when the supply is slowly
given. When the spinner ceases work,
the machine stops of its own accord. One
would think that it had the necessary in
teliigence to know what is required of it
and when to commence or discontinue
work. It certainly performs its task to
perfection, for the yarn which it is set
to spin is always of a uniform size.
After passing through this machine, the
yarn is wound on bobbins which are car
ted to the laying room. As some of the
larger kinds of cordage are still made in
the underground rope walk we shall
describe that interesting process:
The number of bobbins required for a
Strand are placed each holding on an iron rod in
frames capable of from two to
a'manae tpVorthTUn^d in the country probably is rarest onn
Society of Pennsylvania, and is valued
at
At the hacienda of Rio Florido, Mex.
ico, there lives a man 120 years old.
His wife is in her tilth year, They
have been married ninety-five years. The
owners of the hacienda and the people of
the neighboring plantations anticipate Indian
the pleasure of giving this aged the
couple a great many presents on day.
100th anniversary of their wedding
There was a very peculiar suicide othei in
Lancy park, Elmiia, N. Y., the
morning. A robin redbreast, deserted
by its mate, sought to drown its misery
in death. Taking a long string which
he had picked np to put into its nest, he
swung it around a bough, then wound
it around his neck, and expired. The
body hung in the tree all day, and many
pedestriaus gazed at it curiously,
R. Ccinpton, postmaster of Yolo, Ill.,
c | a i ms to have discovered a peculyii
phenomenon in the Woods of 1 ake
c oun ty. As described by him, it con
s i s ts of the natural ingrafting of a buri
oa ^ tree upon a white oak. The buri
oa ]- ] eang a g a inst the other from the
o-round up and dead. The dead
trunk, however, seems to go right
through that of the living white oak,
and the branches of both varieties of
tree, all green and vigorous, mingle to
g e ther in about equal proportions,
rp, The w ... Ul tc wld goose of the Pacific . r
dope f , ia lvers,d a remarkable bird ' An editor
..? >' ° j»Pg “ays ‘hat he once
£ 44-caliber lledone ' Sharps h to°k rifle four bullets to bring from the a
bird down at a range of seventy-fiva
y ar( j s> Each cartridge contains almost
[ w0 g ra j ns 0 f powder. All the bullets
p assec j through the heart of the goosa
an( j | 0( jg e( j [ n the skin on the opposite
s j f rom -where they went in. An at
tempt was made to boil this bird,
“Strange to say, the bullets were cooked
a j c py before any impression was
ma d e on the goose.”
A Baby Killed by a Cat.
The little three days’ old child of
Henry Krocker, living on the corner of
Martin and Market streets, was killed
the other night by the family cat creep
ing upon the baby and sucking its
breath. The mother and grandmother,
who had watched and cared for the
baby, fell asleep through sheer exhaus¬
tion, and when they awoke they found
the feline lying upon the child’s breast
with its mouth close to the baby’s, suck
its life breath away. A doctor wa§
for, but when he came he pro
the little one dead .—Milwaukee
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