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OLD TIME FLYCATCHING.
Primitive Matbod of Getting Bld of the
Troaklaeomo Peeta.
Newton M. Wilson, living one mile
east of town, says a Scottsburg (Ind.)
communication, has hanging in hie barn
an interesting keepsake in the shape of
a flycatchar. It is not so curious in it-
Sdf as it is in showing the primitive
methods resorted to by the farmers in
early days to rid themselves of flies. It
is simply two smooth walnut boards,
perhaps 80 by 12 inches, beveled at one
. end and fastened together by two whang
cords strung through matched holes.
In the antebellum days people never
thought of keeping .flies out of the
house; the problem was to dispose of
them as they swarmed through th®
rooms, making life miserable generally.
In fact, the use of netting to prevent
their ingress is of comparatively recent
origin, the invention of this much need*
ed article dating back only 15 or 20
years.
As everybody knows, flies are excep
tionally thick in farmhouses, even
where screens are used, and when they
are not they are almost intolerable. In
the olden days the method most com
monly employed in the country to de
stroy the troublesome fly was the use of
such instruments as the one described
above. The boards were beveled and
hung in such manner that by their
weight they separated at the bottom,
and thus hung in an inverted V shape.
To attract the flies they were smeared
with molasses on the inner surface.
Thus prepared, they were suspended
in oonvenient places about the house—
in kitchen, hallway, porch, which gen
erally served as the summer dining
place, and especially in passageways.
It was a common duty of every member
of the household when passing one of
those catchers toplap the boards togeth
er, thus mashing the flies which had
collected thereon. The cook clapped
them in the kitchen, the hands as they
passed to and from the house at meal
times did likewise, the whole household
clapp&l them together hundreds of times
a day, and thousands qf pestiferous flies
met their doom.—St. Louis Republic.
TIP MARKS ON TRUNKS.
The Luggage Signals Used by Hotel Em
ployees Abroad.
Travelers Whom every day brings
back from the continent say that this
season, more than ever, gives plentiful
• example of the Freemasonry which ex
ists among continental hotel employees.
Usually on board the boats from Calais,
Boulogne and Ostend notes are compared
by tourists who have covered the same
ground and followed the same itinerary.
The results are significant of “eye open
ing. ’* Some such colloquy as the fal
lowing is often overheard:
“My box and two portmanteaus were
smashed fearfully by that villain of a
porter at the Hotel des Bains, Villavilla,,
and my wife and I could get no attend
ance. ”
“That is curious, for wo were treated
by all the servants most beautifully.
May I ask you a question? Did you tip
the servants properly at the previous
place, Hotel de Luxe, Lucerne?”
“No; I confess it was an oversight,
but what has that to do with the Villa
villa hotel?”
• * Everything. Look at the hotel labels
on your luggage. All on lower right
hand corner. That implies that you are
mean and illiberal. Now look at mine.
All the labels in the upper left hand
corner. That signifies liberality—treat
this person well—encourage him—your
politeness will be rewarded. My friend’s
bag here has a label stuck right in the
middle, and that means, ‘A good fellow
—will tip, but very exacting—not easi
ly pleased.’ ” —London Mail.
Tired Locomotives.
Locomotives, like human beings, have
their ailments, many of which defy the
skill of those deputed to look after
them, says the Toronto Mail. We hear
of tired razors, a simple complaint
which vanishes after a brief period of
repose, but locomotives are apt to be
tray -indisposition even after a day’s
rest and much oiling of the various
parts.
Two good engines may be made on
the most approved principle. They may
each cost—as those of the London and
Northwestern railway d0—£2,200, and
yet one will exhibit from the first a
hardihood of constitution altogether
wanting in its companion. A first class
locomotive of 800 horsepower, costing
£2,000, is expected to travel during its
life 200,000 miles, or, say, 13,000 miles
per annum for 15 years, yet now and
then an engine is found ®o impervious
to the assaults of time as to be able in
its old age to do its daily work with all
the zest and vigor of a youngster.
An Ancient Prayer.
Old John Ward, who was pilloried
by Pope in the “Dunciad, ” and who
actually stood in, the pillory in the year
1727, when he was said to have been
worth £20(),000, was, nevertheless, a
pious man. He had large estates in
London and' Essex and did not omit to
pray for their welfare in the following
manner: “O Lord, I beseech thee to
preserve the two counties of Middlesex
and Essex from fire and earthquake,
and as I have a mortgage in Hertford
shire I beg of thee likewise to have an
eye of compassion on that county, and
for the rest of the counties deal with
them as thou pleasest!”—Household
Words. ",
Unworthy.
“That man Davis is clearly not fit to
be a father. ”
“Why?” 7
“His child is a week and a half old,
and he hasn’t expressed the belief thM
it recognizes him. ” —Chicago News.
t .
Glass bricks are made extensively in
Germany. They are blown with a hol
low center, containing rarefied air, and
they are said to be as strong and dura
ble as clay bricks. They freely admit
light
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Marvv-luu* Musical Memory.
When Mendelssohn played on the piano
or the organ, the listener felt tbs great
musician and composer in every bar. The
man’s musical memory was marvelous.
Sir Charles Halle, who in 1842 spent sev
eral weeks with Mendelssohn at Frankfurt,
describes, in bls “Autobiography,” three
instances of tbo composer’s memory. Ha
writes:
The greatest treat was to sit with him
at the piano and listen to Innumerable
fragments from half forgotten, beautiful
works by Cherubini, Gluck, Bach, Pales
trina and Marcello. It was only necessary
to mention one of them to hear it played
to perfection, until I came to tho conclu
sion that he knew every bar of music ever
written, nnd what was more, could produce
it immediately.
One morning Hiller and I were playing
together one of Bach's organ pieces on the
piano—one of no particular interest, but
which wo wished to know better. When
we were in the middle of it—a part hardly
to be distinguished from many other simi
lar ones—the door opened, Mendelssohn
entered, and without interrupting us, rose
on tiptoes, and with his uplifted finger
pointed significantly at the next bar which
was coming and contained an unexpected
and striking modulation.
So, from hearing through the door a bar
or two of a—for Bach—somewhat com
monplace piece, he not only recognized it
at once, but knew the exact place we had
arrived at and what was taJeilow in the
next bar. His memory was
and his knowledge intimate.
It is well known that when he revived
Bach's “Passion' Music” and conducted
tho first performance he found, on stepping
to the conductor’s desk, that a score simi
lar in binding and thickness, but of an
other work, had been brought by mistake.
He conducted this amazingly complicated
work by heart, turning leaf after leaf of
the book ho had before him in order not to
create any feeling of uneasiness on tho part
of the musicians and singers.
Some Induction Problems.
In one of bis lectures on “Electricity and
Electrical Vibrations,’’given at the Royal
institution, London, Lord Rayleigh gave
one or two illustrations of the use of the
telephone and sensitive flame in induction
problems and performed an experiment
which was remarkable for the paradoxical
character of the conclusion to be drawn
from it A circuit carrying an induced
current was made to branch into two parts,
one of which passed through one wire of a
coll carrying three windings, while the
other passed through the other two wires
of the same coil. Owing to mutual induc
tion and self Induction the telephone
showed that the current in one of tho
branches was greater than that in the main
before it separated into two parts. So far
Lord Rayleigh in these telephone experi
ments had been dealing with vibrations
whose frequency was mainly determined
by the ear, and was in the neighborhood
of 1,000 a second. He now turned to the
currents of still higher frequency obtained
by tho discharge of a Leyden jar. The fre
quency depended on circumstances, but
1,000,000 a second was not out of the way,
and 10,000,000 might be reached.
For purposes of experimental investiga
tion it was desirable to have some means
of slowing down these vibrations, and this
might bo done by using a source of elec
tricity of large capacity and making the
discharge pass through a coil with great
self induction. This was equivalent to in
creasing the inertia of mechanical system.
The Interposition of the coil reduced the
frequency of the vibrations to perhaps 1,000
a second, and its effect was apparent by
the changed character of the spark, the
snapping noise of which was exchanged for
a sound possessing a more definite musical
character.
Napoleonic Feeling Xn Corsica.
Napoleon, “le grand empereur,” lives in
the hearts of the people as vividly as
though he bad died but yesterday. I was
present at a curious scene at the theater at
Ajaccio, where an intolerable drama en
titled “Napoleon” was performed by as
villainous a company as ever trod provin
cial boards. The bouse was crammed, and
the enthusiasm so great, with cries of
“Vive I’empereur!” that I thought it well
to retire before Sir Hudson Lowe camo on
the scene, to be followed possibly by “A
bas 1c; Anglais!” The audience seemed
really to be moved as one man by the
frenzy of imperialism. I was not sur
prised to hear after this that the Empress
Eugenie, who wished to revisit Corsica,
had decided, on advice, that it would be
unwise to do so.
To the same fear of arousing popular
feeling may be attributed the fact that the
directions left in bis will by tho late
prince, generally known as “Plon-Plon,”
that he should be buried at the “Isles San
gulnaires,” have never been carried out.
The tenacity to the “Napoleonic idea”
may be further illustrated by the fact that
the hostility of a great Corsican house to
the Bonapartes has never been forgiven.
Its present representative is regarded with
a hereditary resentment. An Ajaocian
gentleman who was calling on an English
lady rose and left the room on the entrance
of a fellow townsman whose greatunole
had been Napoleon I’s opponent.—Fort
nightly Review.
Explosives as Medicines.
Professor Alonel says that we often swal
low or apply substances which, if incau
tiously treated or used in any but the mi
nutest quantities, would blow us to atoms.
What is more, these substances, so destruc
tive in largo quantities, are of the most
beneficial nature when used in the form of
medicine. One of the best remedies for
heart trouble, neuralgia, asthma and head-,
ache is nitroglycerin, which is the only ex
plosive ingredient in dynamite. The dose
is only one two-hundredth of a grain, dis
solved in spirits of wine or combined in
gelatin tablets. Collodion, a sirupy look
ing liquid that is used to form a false skin
over abrasions of the cuticle, is nothing
but gun cotton dissolved in alcohol. In
its natural form it is one of the most dan
gerous of explosives, and yet, as a medi
cine, it has no equal for the purpose for
which it is used. Another explosive used
as a drug is picric acid. This is prepared
from carbolic acid, and is administered in
ternally in very small doses for ague and
headache. This acid is one of the explo
sives used-in the preparation of bombs.
Thesqand many other dangerous drugs are
perfectly safe when used as ordered by phy
sicians.r-London Standard.
A Windfall For Faure.
President Felix Faure was a greenly sur
prised the other day by a visit froimm old
lady to whom, after urgent solicitation, he
had granted an audience. Her motive,
which she bad concealed, was to inform
him that her admiration of his policy was
so great that she intended to leave him
1,000,000 francs. The president tried to
dissuade her, but seeing that she was re
solved he thanked and embraced her.
A NEW GYPSY QUEEN.
The Coming CoronaUon es Molly FrjW a*
Topeka.
A new queen will be crowned by the
Romany gypsy band on May 22 next at
Topeka. This will be tho second gypsy
coronation ever held in the United States.
On this occasion 800 gypsies of the Romany
tribe will assemble at Topeka and bold
elaborate ceremonies. Sixty of tho gypsies
have already arrived in Topeka and are
making arrangements far the coronation.
The qpeen ta be, Molly Fryer, who learn
ed only a week ago that she had fallen heir
to the gypsy, ithrone by the death of her
mother in Auktyia, 1s in Topeka now and
is at the gypsy camp north of thecity. Her
mother, Sophia Fryer, died several weeks
ago in Austria, having ruled the Romany
band for 02 years. Molly Fryer, being tbo
next in line of succession, was chosen to
be queen. As a queen must be 20 years of
age, the coronation will take place May
22, which is her birthday.
There are l,2oojnembera of the Romany
band in the United States, and between
800 and 1,000 will arrive in Topeka during
tho winter and take part in the coronation.
It will be an elaborate feast. The corona
tion ceremony will be performed by Father
Metrovitcb, who is the high priest of the
band. The crown which was worn by the
aged gypsy queen for so long is now being
remodeled for its new ponnoasor, and a
cousin, Minnie Youngs, will bear It from
Austria to Topeka and will formally place
“ft on the young queen’s head.
It is composed of Bohemian garnets and
solid gold and is said to be beautiful.
When remodeled, it will contain several
sparkling diamonds. Three months ago
Molly Fryer was married at Belvidere,
Ills., to Gustav Staokovltcb, a young Aus
tralian, who is a member of the band. The
English of his name is Stanley. He and„
his brother Louis and the latter’s wife"
travel together and camp some little dis
tance from the main body of the band.
They have better tents, wagons and fur
nishings and live in better style. The
Stanley brothers speak Englishfluently.
Molly Fryer is a typical gypsy. Her skin
is dark, her eyes a brilliant black, her fig
ure graceful and her manner easy. She
speaks 13 languages, but has not learned
English well.
Louis and Gustav Stanley are now mak
ing the arrangements for the coronation
of Mtfily Fryer. A large field wi|l be pro
cured, where the whole band will camp.
In the midst of the camp a large tent will
be erected, where the ceremonies will take
place. Father Metrovitcb, who lives in
Chicago, will come to Topeka early in
May and will have full charge of the cere
monies. The Romany band now has adopt
ed the Catholic faith, but they never at
tend services in regular Catholic churches.
When a gypsy couple is to be married and
the distance is too far for High Priest
Metrovitcb, he sends word to a Catholic
priest near to where the band is located
and the ceremony is performed in the
usual way.
The Romany band dates its lineage back
to the Pharaohs. For several hundred
years tho headquarters of the tribe have
been in Austria. Eight months age Molly
Fryer came to the United States and
joined the band with which she now trav
els.
When the news came to Louis Stanley
that Queen Sophia of the gypsy band had
died, he ret about notifying all the bands
in the United States. A conference was
held, and Topeka was selected as the place
at which the coronation should be held.
All the members of the Romany tribe of
gypsies have now been notified of the oor»
onation, and most of them are on their
way overland to Topeka. The coronation
of a queen among this people is the grand
est event known to them. The exercises
will extend through** week and the occa
sion will be a round of pleasure and joy.
At this- time also the gypsy band will for
mulate new rules. Queen Elect Molly Fryer
has already begun the making of her cor
onation dress. It will be a gaudy affair of
oriental style and made of rich material.
Also she will wear many beads and neck
laces which will be brought by the various
bands, and she will be a queen charming
to the Romany tribe.—Topeka Letter in
Kansas City Star.
A Washington Incident.
There was an interchange of courtesies
at a recent reception in which the wife of
a former congressman and the wife of a
bureau official were the principals. It was
a crowded afternoon affair, and the ex
congressman’s wife was assisting the host
ess in receiving the guests. When the wife
of the bureau official was presented, the
hostess said to the woman of the receiving
party, “You know Mrs. Blank, don’t
you?” “Certainly," said the ex-congress
man’s wife, “I would know her anywhere
by that pink dress.” The cheeks of the
bureau official’s wife were suffused with a
rosy glow, but she turned on her tormentor
and said, "Probably if my husband had
been ipixed up in as many questionable
transactions as yours, madam, it would
not be necessary for me to wear my pink
reception dress so often as to cause com
ment. ” Every word rang out clear and
sharp upon the ears of the astonished
guests. Inasmuch as there had been fre
quent criticism of the ex-congressman for
his connection with questionable transac
tions the force of the bureau official’s
wife’s retort can readily be imagined.—
San Francisco Argonaut.
Poe Wrote of Her.
Mrs. Cornelia Walter Richards, who re
cently died at the age of 85, was the sister
of tho founder of the Boston Transcript
and was the editor of that paper for a time
after tho death of her brother. It was con
cerning her that Edgar Allan Poe wrote
the following in The Broadway Journal in
the autumn of 1845: “Our excellent
friend, Major Noah, has suffered himself
to be cajoled by that most beguiling of all
beguiling little divinities, Miss Walter of
The Transcript We have been looking all
over her article with tho aid of a taper to
see if we could discover a single syllable of
truth in it— blush to acknowl
edge that we cannot The adorable crea
ture has been telling a parcel of fibs about
us byway of revenge for something that
we did to Mr. Longfellow (who admires
her very much) and for calling her ‘a pret
ty little witch’ into the bargain. ”
An Impartial Judgment.
“Which makes the better wife, a blond
or a brunette?” asked a Chicago young
man of one wijo had had some matrimoni
al experience. - ;
“It’Qbouttny fa one to half a dozen of
the otqjr,” repaid tho experienced one.
‘‘l’ve married both kinds.”—Pittsburg
Chronicle-Telegraph.
Strange Custom.
In the island of Guernsey it used to be
the practice of the children on the last day
of the year to dress up a figure in the
shape of a man and. after parading it
through the parish, to bury it on the sea
shore or in some retired spot.
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OF COURSE IT’S TRUE.
This Story of the Lamo Horne aad tbo
Yoaag Doctor.
“One reads so many stories about ani
mal intelligence that it would be hazard
ous for a doubter to express his disbe
lief in almost any gathering of men at
the present day,” remarked Dr. W. W.
Watkins. “A little instance came
Within my own observation ■ number
es years ago when I was studying med
icine and which convinced me that the
members of the horse family at least
ought to be credited with the possession
of a very considerable quantity of rea
soning power. It was the custom for
the students at the medical institution
at which I pursued my studies to wear
a small badge upon their coats to dis
tinguish them from others at the col
lege. A horse belonging to the estab
lishment was need a great deal about
the medical department, and the ani
mal seemed to have a special preference
for the embryo doctors more than for
any other people about the establish
ment
“One day, while a number of us were
gathered in a little knot upon a small
campus in the rear of the college, the
animal in question, which used to nip
the grass in the location, came toward
the group limping very badly. He came
to a stop a dozen or more feet from the
crowd and, carefully surveying the lot
of ns, finally made up his mind as to
what he wanted to do and without any
hesitation limped directly to my side,
whinnied, stuck his nose against my
body and held up his left foreleg. Look
«4ng down, I discovered a large nail im
bedded in the frog of his hoof. This
had evidently caused the lameness. I
then realized the interesting fact that
the animal desired attendance. I ex
tracted the nail with some difficulty,
and the horse whimpered with relief
and walked away. Bather curious as to
why the beast had picked me out to at
tend to his wound, I glanced at. the
boys and fopnd the solution to the prob
lem. Not one of the group had his med
ical badge upon his coat but myself.
The horse had recognized the insignia,
realized its significance and acted ac
cordingly. ” —New Orleans Times-Dem
ocrat. .•
AFRAID OF THE HOODOO.
Why the Street Car Conductor Would Not
Cut the Pageant In Twain.
A hearse crossed the track and the
motoneer put on the brakes so suddenly
that the car nearly stood on its nose.
Then he sat down on the front seat to
await the passing of the long string of
carriages following the black draped
vehicle.
A fat man who had nearly been
thrown over the front rail by the sud
den stopping of the car snorted angrily:
“Why don’t you out across? I've got
to catch a train. I can’t wait here all
day.”
“Can’t help it, boss. You’ll have to
wait and catch another train.”
“Well, I’ll report you to the com
pany. That procession will take five
minutes in passing us.”
“Report away. I can’t help it if the
procession takes 20 minutes. You
couldn’t hire me to run this car across
that funeral procession for the best job
on the line. That’s the worst hoodoo a
man could run up against.
“Bah!” said the fat man.
“All right, boss. I know what I’m
talking about. One of the best men on
this line crossed a funeral procession
soon after the trolley system was put
in. A live wire dropped on the back of
his neck and electrocuted him before
he’d gone a block. A little while later
another poor fellow cut across back of
a hearse. He ran over three children in
as many weeks. He quit the road as
crazy as a loon. Now the conductor on
that same car has lost every cent he
had in the world, and his wife and
child have died. Bah, yourself! I’d like
to see you get off this car and walk
across in front of one of those carriages.
I’ll bet you’d be catchin your last train
in this world pretty quick. Jest hop off
and try it now.”
But the fat man only shifted uneasily
about on the hard car seat and waited
silently until the last carriage had
passed.—New York Telegram.
How Bees Embalm.
Bees, says Horbis, can embalm as
successfully as could the ancient Egyp
tians. It often happens in damp weather
that a slug or snail will enter a bee
hive. This is, of course, to the unpro
tected slug a case of sudden death. The
bees fall upon him and sting him to
death at once. But what to do with the
carcass becomes a vital question. If left
where it is, it will breed a regular
pestilence. Now comes in the clever
ness of the insects. They set to work
and cover it with wax, and there you
may see it lying embalmed just as the
nations of old embalmed their dead.
When it is a snail that is the. intruder,
be is, of course, impenetrable to their
sting, so they calmly cement his shell
with wax to the bottom of the hive—
imprisonment for life* With no hope of
pardon.
'Both Wrong.
The Toronto Saturday Night tells of
a man who kept a ferret being obliged
to go into tho country, leaving the cage
with the ferret in charge of a neighbor
till he should return. ?
The neighbor incautiously opened the
cage door, and the ferret escaped,
whereupon the owner brought a claim
against him for damages.
The following was the decision of
the learned magistrate before whom tho
case was brought.
“No doubt, ” be said to the neighbor—
“no doubt you were wrong to open the
cage door, but”—turning to the owner,
“you were wrong too. Why did you not
’clip the brute’s wings?”
The Franks took their name from the
francisques, or battleaxes, which they
threw with deadly effect
Age is • matter of feeling, not of
years.—George William Curtis.
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Do Not Be Deceived.
Do not endanger the life of your child by accepting
a cheap substitute which some druggist may offer yo*‘
(because he makes a few more pennies on it), the in
gredients of which even he does not know.
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