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inventor of lead PIPE,
rint BonNted by , R l ob 7L o Seyd ‘ n **
There was born in Milton, Pa., in
‘ * 1800 a man of wonderful B en »°®- ** *•
f said. His name was Robert Seydell, and
be died in 1847. Four children survive
two of whom reride here—-a ton. Jacob
SeydeU, and a da^hto *’d
Mr SeydeU was a coppersmith and
wa7 ‘almost continuously working out
June device connected with the ma
chinery in his factory. To him, it is re
lated by some of the oldest citizens of
this place, belongs the discovery of the
process of making lead pipe, and, like
many other inventors, the idea of mak
' ing the same was stolen from him and
farther developed to its present form of
manufacture.
It was in the latter part of the thir
ties that the idea suggested itself to
him, and the following is the way he
wrought it out: He first took a slug, or
casting of lead, placing it on a mandrel,
or rod of steel, about 16 feet long and
an inch in diameter. The mandrel was
highly polished, and upon this he drew
or rolled out the lead to the full length
of the rod, thus giving him an inch
bora, and the material was rolled, it Is
said, to a one-fburth Inch, making a to
tal diameter 1% inches for the pipe.
After completing several sections of the
length of the mandrel he soldered them
together, making the pipe of whatever
length he desired.
He put it to practical use by fasten
ing it to pump heads, and also running
it from springs to connect watering
troughs and springhouses in the coun
try round about here. Being greatly
pleased with his discovery and reoeiv
ing the most flattering of comments
from his friends and neighbors in this
section, he concluded to make his in
vention more widely kpown, and hence
made a visit to Philadelphia, taking
bis device with him.
At the Franklin institute in that city
he gave his first exhibition to quite a
number of inventors, artisans and me :
chanics. As it is now related, every one
who witnessed it was more than de
lighted, and so expressed himself in
his immedite presence. It was not long
that he was allowed to remain in a con
dition of supreme happiness over fils in
vention, for a short time after he made
a disclosure of his discovery, and while
yet in Philadelphia, he found out that
by the persons to whom he had given
an exhibition of the process of making
lead pipe his idea had been used and
improved upon.—Philadelphia Press.
SPEAKING PASSING SHIPS.
Mew Effort* to Revive Old Time Courte
sies »t Sea.
The fine old custom of speaking pass
ing ships is rapidly dying out among
the skippers of today, and the general
opinion seems to be that the modem
master is, as a rule, too easy going to
bother about anything of the sort.
Colonel Hozier, the secretary of
Lloyds, considers that a deal of trouble
and anxiety would often be avoided if
captains would but take the trouble to
speak ships within reading distance of
their signals. In many instances anxiety
with respect to overdue vessels would
be allayed, and, furthermore, there
would continually be news for the
friends of masters and for the hundreds
of thousands of others who are interest
ed in the great merchant marine of this
country.
Chatting the matter over, Captain
Frond, the secretary of the Shipmasters’
society, said: “The practice of speaking
each other at sea and reporting at every
opportunity is, I am sorry to say, dying
out among the captains of the present
day. I suppose they are indifferent, or
careless, and do not consider it worth
the trouble of hoisting the signals and
making out the other fellow’s. It is a
very great pity that an exceedingly use
ful custom should be neglected, and I
am glad to learn that Colonel Hozier is
doing his utmost to induce masters to
speak other ships and to report when
ever it is possible.
—“I am convinced that if captains can
be persuaded to take the trouble to do
this much good service will be rendered
to the public generally. This society is
doing its utmost to get masters to re
vive the practice.”
Captain Frond’s appeal was strength
ened by the picturesque evidence of an
old time skipper, who admitted that
speaking and signaling had been almost
entirely neglected of late years. “When
I first went to sea,” he said, “it was
the invariable custom to exchange names
and destinations and sometimes reckon
ings with passing ships, but nowadays
captains don’t bother. Sometimes a
skipper is short handed and he won’t
_ take even one man from his work, but
mostly he doesn’t bother himself about
the thing at alh That’s my experience,
and I’ve been at the game a week or
two.”—London Mail.
Hi* Resource*.
Judge Ermston tells a good story
about a man he was questioning as to
his being good to go on a S6OO bond.
"What property have you to the
amount of $600?” asked the judge.
“I have S2OO in a building associa
tion,” replied the witness.
“Well, and what more?”
“I have stock in trade to the amount
of $800.”
“Goon. ”
“I have household furniture worth
$90.”
“Well, we still want $10."
“I have your note, judge, for that
amount, which you gave me seven years
Ago at College Corner. ”
Tableau!—Cincinnati Enquirer.
Statistics show that in Antwerp alone
nearly 4,000 horses were slaughtered
last year for human consumption, and
the number of shops dealing exclusively
inhoraeflesh in the Belgian portsex-
The thieves of Great Britain steal
about $40,000,000 worth of property
•very year.
A WONDERFUL CATALOGUE.
The Work Done on th* U*t of Boek* In
the British Museum.
A wonderful catalogue—in fact, the
most remarkable production of its kind in
the whole world—is the general catalogue
of the British mutuum readlug room. Nor
is this surprising, considering that this
reading room is itself the most wonderful
library in the world, and that its many
millions of volumes, if placed in a single
row, would extend to nearly 37 miles.
Every reader of the museum is familiar
with the great circular shelves in the cen
ter of the reading room, which have been
constructed to take the almost innumer
able volumes of this mammoth catalogue.
It might bo supposed that these volumes
would grow in number with the Increase
of the library until they came to occupy »
gigantic apartment all to themselves. The
contrary is the case. Whereas they origi
nally consisted of nearly 3,000 folio vol
umes, they are being stcadly reduced, so
that it is hoped that ultimately there will
only be about a third of this number. This
is due to the fact that formerly the cata
logue was written, but it is now printed.
It is supposed that by the time wo have en
tered the twentieth century the printing of
this enormous work—under the editorship
of Mr. A. W. K. Miller—will be complete.
Not that in reality such a compilation can
ever be really complete, for there will al
ways bo accessions to enter. The mere
entering up of accessions costs the museum
from £BOO to £I,OOO a year, while for the
printing of the catalogue itself for many
years past the government has made a
grant to the trustees of about £3,000 a
year.
It has no doubt surprised many persons
to observe that the catalogue volumes are
of different colors. Some arc blue, some
are green and others are red. The explana
tion of this curious arrangement is very
simple. There are three copies—the read
er’s copy, a reserve copy and a working
copy. When any alteration has to be madq
in the reader’B copy, a reserve copy is put
in its place while this is being done. The
working copy is for the use of the officials.
The system on which the catalogue is
compiled is a very interesting one. It is
based oh the famous 91 rules drawn up in
1839 by Panizzl, the first museum libra
rian.
When the present catalogue is entirely
completed, the authorities will enter upon
the publication of a great subject cata
logue. Provisionally installments of such
a work have already been issued by Mr.
Fortescue.—London Mail.
What the Greek Has.
“Whatdo you thin! of the Greeks now?”
is a question often asked me, and it is gen
erally accompanied by a smile, for the
Englishman in his heart always believes
that might is right and that a nation
which has been defeated by a race nearly
20 times its size must have committed
some enormous sin. But before I went
out I did not think much of the Greeks
one way or other. I only thought of their
cause, and it seems to me certain that the
historian who in a hundred years narrates
the dismemberment of the Turkish empire
and the deliverance of the peoples now
under its sway will speak of this quixotic
attempt of Greece with natural enthusi
asm. As to the Greeks themselves, their
failings, like our own, are obvious enough.
They are, it is true, rather strange failings
for so old a race, for they are the failings
of children.
I reinember a fifth form master in a
great public school once putting the em
barrassing question, “What, had the
Greeks?” and after passing it down the
form in vain he exclaimed, with a sigh:
“Oh, don’t you even know that? Why, a
lively imagination.” Well, the Greeks
have retained that quality in daily life,
though not in art. Like imaginative chil
dren, they romance with entire ease, and
the fertility of their invention is only
equaled by the- simple confidence with
which they credit the inventions of others.
By the time one fiction has been exposed
they are greedy for the next, and it is in
variably supplied. This peculiarity gives
an obvious advantage to journalism, and
I suppose there is no country in which
journalism is so dominant and so harmful.
But that was not the worst result of the
imaginative faculty in the war. It made
the men conscious-of danger and oversen
sitive to it. They rated the risk even higher
than it was. They realized to the full the
horror of death. Perhaps they exaggerated
it. Poor and bard as the life of the com
mon Greek is he loves it. He much prefers
it to death.—Contemporary Review.-
_ Edward Everett Hale.
Dr. Hale served tbfe ministry in Wash
ington for a year or two and from 1846 to
1856 in Worcester, where he is affectionate
ly remembered in many ways and partic
ularly as founder of its public library, and
he was commissioned pastor of the South
Congregation church 41 years ago, where
he is marrying and baptizing the children
and grandchildren of his early parishion
ers. But he does not belong to the South
Congregational church. He has always
maintained that to give oneself fully to
any particular work, and especially to
that of the ministry, to make the gift real
ly great, one must enlarge oneself by the
widest service which intensifies the man
and makes him able to offer a worthy
offering. So he has had a planetary influ
ence through his institution of “Ten
Times Ona Is Ten” and “Lend a Hand,”
of Wadsworth clubs and Lend a Hand,
clubs all over the world, in every sort of
philanthropic work, economic, social and
industrial.
His progress through the west a year or
two ago was a kind of peaceful triumph.
No name is more familiar on the Ups of
good men everywhere. His Hterary work
has been stupendous, reaching to 50 vol
umes and tenfold 50 volumes in uncollect
ed articles, studies and sermons. He has
caught the popular fancy as few purely
literary men have ever done with “My
Double and How He Undid Me” and “The
Man Without a Country.” But these are
only unconsidered trifles in the bibliog
raphy of the prolific author who is now
delighting everybody with the reminis
cences of his rich acquaintance with men
and things, the expression of a ripe mind,
full without prolixity, liberal without
garrulity and instructive without pedan
try.—Time and the Hour.
Emergen*, Doctor* la Pari*.
In Paris a list of doctors ready to attend
in case of emergencies occurring in the
night is published for the convenience of
the'publlc. Originally, we learn, a fee of
10 francs was the standard payment, but
more recently a pool has been instituted
and the result dirtded quarterly among
the doctors. This system has alienated the
better class practitioner, and now the em
ployment of the whole class has became
endangered by the death of a patient treat
ed by one of the members who lives on
£ls per annum, with a stock of instru
ments as scanty as his income.—London
Hospital.
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De ’Coproe* Sa*.e*eV
“It was Prof< «■ r Schroeder of Louis
ville, vol nut aic-u u surgeon to a re
porter, “wh3 first vent: red the opinion
that the negro never sat jzea. The state
ment was mad*) in reply to a question by
Professor Gross, the famous Philadel
phia surgeon. A smile passed urouud
the listeners, and Professor Schroeder,
observing that there was some doubt
about his statement, reiterated it with
some force.
“fie then explained that while then
were no structural arrangements about
the breathing apparatus of the colored
race that bus been discovered which pre
vented it from sneezing it was a fact
that the colored man did not sneeze,
though be could be made to sneeze by the
use of snuffs, pepper and other irritants.
He had, he said, never made any experi
ments iu that connection. He also said
his observation had been confined to
colored people in the southern states.
Atmospheric or other conditions might
exist elsewhere which might cause him
to sneeze, hut none existed naturally in
the south.
“The debate on the subject occupied
nearly an hour at a meeting of the In
ternational Surgical association, which
held a convention in the old Lincoln
hall some years ago. Since then I have
often spoken of it and asked my friends
to notice, and, though I have directed
the attention of hundreds to the subject,
I have yet to hear the first cue to say
that he ever heard a negro man or wom
an sneeze. By negro I mean a black
man or woman. I believe that mulat
toes sneeze occasionally, and the nearer
they are to white the more frequently
they sneeze, but eyen they are less sen
sitive to influences which produce sneez
ing than the people of the white race.
It has been observed also that Indians
sneeze very seldom, wffila Chinese
sneeze ten times as much even as the
white race. ’’—Washington Star,
Rough on Brahms-
Brahms was a hearty eater and par
ticularly fond of Italian cookery. One
day he and Dr. Billroth, the eminent
Austrian surgeon, visited Herr Wich
mann in Rome and were invited to a
breakfast alia romana. The host’s cook,
Mora, did her prettiest, and the wino
supplemented her efforts. “That’s tho
wine that Horace drank, ” said Dr. Bill
roth enthusiastically. Brahms’ thoughts
were on the viands he had just enjoyed.
In jovial humor he raised the question
whether it was not his duty to take
back with him to Germany a wife who
could provide so admirable a meal as
Mora. Finally Wichmann, with mock
seriousness, presented himself to Mora
as a suitor for her hand in behalf of a
great German artist “Moreover, he is
a musician,” he explained, "and yon
surely are fond of music, for you sing
about the house all day. What say you?’ ’
Mora’s answer was classic. She looked
at Wichmann, then at Brahms from top
to toe, and, with an energetic gesture,
replied, ‘ ‘Sono romana, nata al Ponte
Rotto, dove sta il tempio di Vesta, non
sposero mai un barbaro.” ("I am a
Roman, born near the Ponte Rotto,
where the temple of Vesta stands. I
never will marry a barbarian.”) —San
Francisco Argonaut
Account* on * Stick.
Two centuries ago it wasn't as easy a
matter to keep accounts as it is now.
Not only were many people ignorant of
writing and arithmetic, but paper and
account books were scarce and rare. For
this reason merchants, doctors, lawyers
and even the government of Great Brit
ain kept their accounts by making
notches on willow sticks, very much as
a bpy would tally runs in a game of
ball.
Small notches represented pence,
larger ones shillings and still larger
ones pounds sterling. When the account
was all notched out, the stick was split
down its length so that the notches
would show on both pieces. One half
was given to the buyer and one half was
retained by the seller. When the ac
count was paid, these tally sticks were
joined together and laid away. One can
imagine how much work and trouble
such a system would make in these days
of great business ep terprises.—Chicago
Record.
Gestures and Trait*.
Dr. Norman Moore r whose enormous
experience jn the post mortem room
gives weight to his words, expressed in
a recent address the general desire of
pathologists to find some law of correla
tion between defects of different parts
of the body, but he had abandoned the
hope, for it was only exceptionally that
abnormalities of one organ were associ
ated with those of others. Movements
of an unusual character, odd gestures
or antics may certainly be accompanied
■'fcy mental qualities of a very high order
—an example of which may be noted in
Dr. Johnson. So, again, large ears are
not necessarykigns of mental defect, for
they may be observed in individuals of
great mental capacity, and the repeated
series of movements on which such
stress has been laid should be regarded
merely as habits.—London Letter in
New York Medical Record.
Another Matter.
Strict devotion to the trufh is com
mendable, but it sometimes leads to
curious situations.
A young man who was paying court
to a young lady’was thus addressed by
her mother, who was perhaps not tho
most agreeable person in the world:
"And so you want me for a mother
in-law?”
"Ah-ah, it’s n-n-ot exactly that,”
stammered the young man, "but I don’t
see how I can marry your daughter
without your being my mother-in-law. ”
—Youth’s. Companion.
A Saver.
First Lady—There goes young Mrs.
Pedigree. I suppose she bores people to
death telling the bright things her lit
tle boy says.
Second Lady—Oh, no. Fortunately be
says such dreadful things they can’t re
peat them.—Pearson’s Weekly.
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Coart Prr—tMtjwifc
_ Here is one of tho posers which I oo>
casionally find in my letter box, sayi
London Troth:
"Sone young married ladies—quite
loyal to the queen—beg Troth to tell
them wbat is the good of being present
ed. Two of them have been teased to ge
through this ceremony.••
Personally I do not know what return
is to be gained by the process at all
‘ commensurate with the expense in
volved. As, however, a young married
lady’s point of view may possibly be
different from mine, I have sought fur
ther information among my feminine
acquaintances. As far aa I can make
out from the information I have ob
tained, the chief advantage of being pre
sented is that it enables a young lady,
married or otherwise, to make her hus
band or father, as the case may be, pay
for a magnificent frock, which she
would hardly be able to get out of him
under any other circumstances. It also
enables her to be photographed in this
frock and become an object of envy and
admiration to her less fortunate femals
acquaintances. Os course the frock, aft
er it has served its dHginal purpose,
will, in the hands of a judicious owner,
come in useful on many subsequent oc
casions. I must leave my correspondeato
to decide for themselves whether the
possession of such a frock is worth the
worry and anxiety incidental to being
presented or whether it is better to stay
away and submit to further tearing.
Little Indian* n* Piny.
What unconfined joy when the camera
came out to picture some one, or when
we played pa-tol, the game of the
bounding sticks, or the aboriginal hide
and seek) Wildest of all was the fun
when the fire fights were On, and one
party defended the pueblo and the oth
er, assuming to be Comanche, attacked
it at dusk. Then how we rolled adobe
mud pellets and stuck them on the tops
of our throwing sticks and jammed a
live coal into the ride of each and sent
them hurtling into the enemy’s camp
nntil all the sky seemed to rain shoot
ing stars. And what perfect spirits!
Now and then a fire ball would find
its billet, and there would be a howl of
pain, and in the next breath the wound
ed warriorling would be bombarding
again, with more spirit than ever, and
not a whit worse nature. That is an
other of the good things that generally
go with the brown skin—these Children
of the Sun, young and old, are fit play
ers at any game, for they do not lose
their tempers. They give and take like
the manly creatures nature meant us to
be, and not the peevish, selfish, inflam
mable things that civilization has made
us. I would like to see just how long
one of these happy fire fights could gc
on between an iequal number of Little
Lord Fauntleroys before there would be
several real fight* on hand.—C. F. Lum
mis in “Land of Sunshine." _
The Rata* Pound.
There is in the city of Paris a regular
pound, surrounded by a massive stone
wall, wherein tho services of rats are
utilized for clearing the bones of dead
animals from flesh. A horse thrown in
overnight is quite stripped by morning,
and it is the regular work of the man
in charge to remove the beautifully pol
ished skeleton. Os course the rats thus
pampered increase at a terrible rate and
invade the neighboring slaughter houses.
So it becomes necessary at times to have
a regular battue. This is rather clever
ly managed. All around the walls of
the pound hundreds of little holes have
been bored, the depth of each being just
that of a rat’s body. Early in the morn
ing, while the rats are still enjoying
their meal, a couple of men with lan
terns jump suddenly in with a great
noise and clatter. The terrified creatures
rush for the nearest refuge, and the
walls are soon ornamented with a regu
lar forest of tails whisking about like
animated black icicles. Then arrives the
rat collector, who with skillful hand
seizes each pendent tail and deposits the
astonished owner thereof in a bag Which
he carries slung over his shoulder. The
skins are largely used for making
gloves.—-New York World.
Mr. Gladstone a* • Sport.
While on a visit to Mr. Gladstone Sir
William Harcourt mentioned that the
boys at Eton take in a large number of
evening papers. “Dear me, how remark
able I” said Mr. Gladstone. “How
things have changed since I was at Eton I
But it shows what a remarkable inter
est the youth of the present generation
take in current events.” Sir William
ventured to suggest that it might be
that the youth of the present generation
took a remarkable interest in sport
“Indeed,” said Mr. Gladstone, "not
gambling, I hope. ” Then Mr. Gladstone
became reminiscent. “I think the only
thing I ever did in that direction was
to put an occasional shilling on a prize
fight. ” —Household Words.
Oa a Technicality.
“I see your friend Giltedge, the
banker, has had some hard luck lately. ”
“How was that?”
“He* was out fishing, and the shore
caved in with him, and he swallowed
about a gallon of water before they
could get him out”
“That was pretty rough.”
"Yes, butthat wasn’t aIL He was
arrested afterward for taking in a draft
when be knew the bank to be broken. ”
—Detroit Free Press.
Pari* Milk Sappl,.
Paris consumes 209,000,000 liters of
milk a year, which comes to about only
two-fifths of a pint daily for each in
habitant City cows yield 11,000,000
liters; suburban cows within a radius
of 12 miles, 68,000,000 liters; the re
maining 158,000,000 liters come by rail
from a greater distance.
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Plants growing near the sea have
thicker leaves than those growing in
land. Apparently the sen salt is the
cause of this phenomenon, as plants cul
tivated in artiflwjly salted soil yield
thta|Rr leaves. ‘ J
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