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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 - 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. —•- "V 1 11 aam 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. - AN OPEN LETTER To MOTHERS. IWB WE ARE ASSERTING Df THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD u CASTORIA* AND “ PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” AS OUR TRADE MARK. L DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, of Hyannis, Massachusetts, was the originator qf ‘‘PITCHER'S CASTORIA,” the same that has borne and does now on bear the facsimile signature of wrapper. This is the original * PITCHER'S CASTORIA,’’ which has been used in the homes of the Mothers of America for oner thirty years. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is the kind you have always bought on the and has the signature of wrap- per. No one has authority from me to use my name ex cept The Centaur Company of which Chas. H. Fletcher is 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. “The Kind You Have Always Bought” Insist on Having The Kind That Never Failed lon. 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