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»» 111 —^***** <l "" m **‘‘ l ‘*‘* \ 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. , "~* y 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. « -S I H ' ! 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. **■■■—— Plants growing near the sea have thicker leaves than those growing in land. 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