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E. A talking newspaper. -04 04 . ed Ol | in liuaapeeu . npst letter to the London Pall ! My» : A Btnall diamond j(«U screwed on to the wall ot my t d^P* 1 Provided with a couple of hooka, I roo® uJh bang two tiny, round tele- I fr° Bl connected by two wires— phone n--but my proprietor has been that 1* praises for the last 20 minutes, ring lo *confidentially assured me that «iay any part in my hotel bill it* lll tot n, y stay, there 18noearthl X «hj I should enter any protest rt»*>n hjaprofuse encomium*. Tgald he, “is the telephonic or talking newspaper—the m«*"r ’ o t its kind In the world. It uni? established in Budapest years. It differs from the or tatenhone in the fact that the latter j connected with the central of- we are able to connect from M ,00 subscribers In one circuit. The 8W ** B dJv jded into 80 oirouite. All day dty lß Jg S poken into a specially oon | W* D J. apparatus at the central office, entertainments, the opera and ?HiHn lessons. It Is not a telephone F sense of the word and there* tD am not infringe the telephone rights government. It combines the func of your tape machines and electro while it is ten times cheaper. hus« yo« hear J oß * now was *° P**' nt subscribers talking to each other on Lai. own account.” NTt strange that such an excel* t idea as this appears to be should not in other towns tban Buda ’ “L » J ventured. PTfflhg answer is very simple. Os course & newspaper feature would be Impossible i , nmdon, where time is everything, and | D man could not sit the whole day with - Jhascparatus to his ear, waiting for some < mrtlcular news or exchange prices. Then, in other towns are not so advantage ’s, situated in this respect as Budapest, “we the law empowers the company to Produce the apparatus Into any house in ! Aboß? in spite of the objections of the I tarflord. We have here 6,000 subscribers, *?L c h pays only 18 florins a year. With niiiis ln England with a certain soap Lur families don’t feel happy until they it It is so cheap that many of the * g in my hotel are fitted up with It. hjA» visitor finds it inconvenient to go | to the opera, all he has to do is to put this gnaaratus to his ear and he can be enter- Jtoed the whole evening. The general i S-Sfiir too, can have news in advance of | EJnewspapers. Why, a few weeks ago, t rfem the German kaiser gave that cole fl (Mted toast of bis to the Hungarian na fe tion, thousands of families were listening recital half an hour later. Without t ibis apparatus they would have bad to E wait until next day.” “Have you a regular daily programme?” “Yes. It is announced in the morning ‘ «rs (•hanges every half hour or so. The ■ greater part of the morning is taken up ’ with prices on ’change, a summary of the news In the dailies. At noon we begin to gel a report of the doings in parliament. Telegrams of Importance are communi cated at once, tho telephonic messenger being in direct connection with a leading Budapest newspaper. At about 2 o'clock the morning news is in part repeated, then come exchange prices, telegrams, law re ports, a short, entertaining story, theat rical items and sometimes a concert, and for an hour In the evening we get a lesson in English, Italian and French. You 1 have no idea what a benefit this is to the young generation and how popular these fawns are among them. A complete set of graduated exercises has been published in these languages. Each telephone sub scriber who cares to listen holds a copy of the book in question before him, and the teacher speaks into the double microphone transmitter at the central office,” r A Steady Timekeeper. Ole Hanson, the Swede who lives out north of Denver, has found out by acci dent how it is that a tin clock or watch painted and employed as a watchmaker’s dgn always gives the time of day 8:18 o’clock, or the hour and minute of Lin coln’s assassination. For the last year he has been regulating his Elgin by one of these silent sentinels on Sixteenth street, and when be arrived the other morning he looked at the sign and then at his watch. There was a discrepancy somewhere, so he called John Vaughan, the assistant city dork, who happened to be passing on the way to his office. “Say, master yentieman,” he accosted the clerk, “Aye want to ask yo* ’bout •wnet’ing.” “AU right,” was the reply. “What is ifr , A y° ta nk Aye skal bane cracker | Jerusalem. Aye leaf mae home tan miles out en t’e country bay twanty minutes ester 8, an Aye get en town al ken minutes ester 8. Ho yo’ maken out dcsout?” £oh. It’s pretty near 10 o'clock now. ” Bot das vatch oop ofer yewelry store “““e aiteen minutes ester 8.” Yes, but that’s a tin sign—there are works In it.” x “Es das trute?” ‘‘Of course. Can’t you see?” mae vatch bae dis Aye com to town for poorty nar Et u 4 know anything about that, but “a sign, and you will see all the watch “Sub point to 8:18, for that’sthe hour and t.» resi dent Lincoln was assassinated "it 8 4heater ln Washington.” he Swede was satisfied and wondered w many times he had eaten breakfast J Btsbout sunset just because his watch 00 • happen to be right.—Denver Times. Making of Plate Glaas. To cast a large sheet of plate glass is In blfti 6111 bands a very simple affair. A ta- I S£j!; P w P ni ' ed > with sides made of strips IntaH?/ f° rnx,n 8 a shallow, level tank. (J® ~* B molten glass, which is made the whitest sand, glass fragments, eb«mi m i anßanese soda » cobalt and other is poured. Immediately the Jr~J’ or begins smoothing and leveling i^ 188 ? with a great iron roller, which jyhS 8 it down exactly to the level of tho ine a ' 14 is 411011 pu4 hhrough anneal 4tmpering processes, which occupy days. After this it Is ground to a y uniform thickness, then polished it acquires the utmost brilliancy. ue cost of glass Is greatly increased in rjortion to its size. This is due to the largo sheet may turn out im "aws a *>d ripples, which utterly Zrf. 1 , 48 v alu« as a strictly first class MET* 14 ?- Small pieces are cut from the ‘ •ikta». p aoeß ln 4be large and k» > V 4h 2 raost **looß loss la avoided. !. York Ledger. few'. X<oeate<l. , ln pa,n ’ “x i u* 10 ® old gentleman. hteL o ;.’ “ Bw ew>d the boy. “Thepata’s -Pearson’s Weekly. • - XHE FIGHTING GURKHAS. Something About the Men Who Win Some of England’s Battlee. The Gurkhas, to whose valor we owe *> much on the Indian frontier, are not afraid ot death in any shape or form, have the instinct of instant and unques tioning obedience to orders from supe riors and take an actual and physical delight in fighting. It is a popular error to suppose that they.are without caste. There are about 18 different castes among them and several subdivisions in each caste, but when serving in British regiments and while on a campaign Gurkhas do not allow their caste sys tem to interfere with their comforts and will eat and drink freely with Euro peans and among themselves. They have no objection to taking a pull at a Brit ish soldier’s flask and will share a “ohapati” with the most menial camp follower. They will gladly take a cigar or tobacco from a European, but on no account must a man of one caste smoke in the company of another. All Gurkhas trace their descent from the Rajputs of central India, the Thap pas and Gurungs especially claiming to have the bluest Hindoo blood in India running in their veins. They have, however, intermarried for generations with Mongolian women. One would imagine therefore that in process of time a distinctly new type, combining the leading characteristics of both races, would have been evolved, but as a mat ter of fact the vast majority of Gurkhas are either Aryan or Chinese in their cast of countenance. Europeans general ly suppose that all Gurkhas are squat men, with broad nostrils, high cheek bones and deep set, narrow eyes. This is not the case. The Second Gurkhas regiment has large numbers of Gurungs and Thappas in its ranks who are of a slight build, with beautifully chiseled and sharp features, Aryans every inch. ■ Gurkhas have one physical peculiar ity—their stature is below the aver age. As they do not wear beards and their mustaches, in spite of much care, never attain a luxuriant growth, to a casual observer a Gurkha regiment appears to consist of boys, not men. It is on record that when Lord Roberts was marching through the Kurram the Pathan women and children came out to jeer at the striplings whom he was leading, as it seemed, to their certain death, and they only changed their opinion when, largely owing to the heroism of-these same Gurkhas, the Af ghan army was driven headlong from the Pei war KotaL The colonel of a distinguished regi ment used to tell a story of a Pathan who had traveled a long distance to get a glimpse of the terrible soldiers that had defeated his countrymen. When he saw the little boyish looking Gurkhas standing guard at the Bala Hissar, he committed suicide “for very shame,” at least—and this is the beet part of the story—so the guard declared when asked to explain the presence of the dead body.—London News. Sam Jotieg and Taimace. Sam Jones is the embodiment of an audacity that sometimes comes very near the border line of discourtesy. A clergyman who often assists him in his series of meetings told me the other day this story in the early history of Mr. Jones’ evangelistic work: He was in vited by Dr. Talmage to hold a series of meetings in the doctor’s Brooklyn church. Mr. Jones went to Dr. Tal mage’s home during the afternoon of the day on which his engagement began and introduced himself. Mr. Talmage looked him over and was evidently a lit tle taken aback at the rather shabby ap pearance of the evangelist. As it ap proached evening he said, “Brother Jokes, would you take it amiss if I pre sented you with a new suit of clothes?” “Certainly not,” said the accommodat ing Samuel. He was taken to a clothier and fitted from head to foot, topping all with a high hat. At church the doctor introduced him as the Rev. Samuel ,P. Jones from Georgia. Mr. Jones arose with hie new hat in hand and repeated, “Yes, the Rev. Samuel P. Jones from Georgia, ” and added: “And this is the new suit of clothes and this the new hat your pastor has presented to me. If your pas tor had as much of the grace of Godwin his heart as he has pride, he would con vert all Brooklyn and would not need me. ’’—Homiletic Review. 9 Mafinn. Blackwood set a high value on Ma ginn’s contributions. “There is one pe culiar excellence, ” he writes, “in this writer which strikes us Scotsmen —his easy, idiomatic English. No Scotchman, however practiced as a writer, is mas ter of the English tongue so as to be able towrite in this way.” But he nev er ventured to impart this opinion to the voluble and irascible North. Maginn was a brilliant but unman ageable creature. He soon drifted away from Maga and devoted himself to its rival and imitator, Fraser's. When his habits had brought him to a premature grave, Lockhart wrote his epitaph in a score of jingling rhymes: gm Here, early to bed, Iles kind William Maginn. Light for long was his heart, though his • breeches were thin, But at last he was beat and Bought help from the bin. • • • • • • • Barring drink and the girls, I ne’er heard of a sin; Many worse, better tew, than bright, broken Maginn. —Longman’s Magazine. ' " Trying to Make It Out. Theodore—l declared myself, Alfred, but I don’t know whether she accepted sme or not. That’S what I’m trying to make out, you know. W Alfred—What did you say to her? Theodore—l said that I thought the world of her, abd she said, “It’s a queer world.” That was all, don’t you know, and deuced if I know whether it meant she is in love with me or not —Boston Transcript A LESSON FROM MEXICO. of tho Forests Wes Brouuht Drought and Derolatum. The early conquerors of this country and their followers of today have been very wasteful and careless in the dispo sition of their forests, with the result of accelerating the date when they will be compelled to face a problem of forest preservation at considerable cost to themselves. Denizens of the northwest are familiar with the rapidity with which the valuable timber areas have been denuded, until now there is scarce ly a merchantable tree between Ar kansas and the Canadian line. Many notes of warnings accompanied this de struction of the northern soft wood for ests, but they fell upon unwilling ears. Oniy after it was too late to stop the mischief did the country begin to recog nize the indirect value of forests to agri culture and that no high degree of civ ilization can exist permanently with out some systematic and adequate forest management In India the destruction of the forests commenced 1,000 years ago, and that country, having at last seen the folly of such waste, is now en gaged in the expensive undertaking of reforesting large areas. The effect upon rainfall and the pro ductiveness of the cultivated tracts has already been acknowledged by investi gators. When Cortes first saw the val ley of Mexico, it was covered with woods, not dense, but abundant, from the timber line on the volcanoes down to the water’s edge. The reckless cut ting down of the forests by the Span iards in the first century following the conquest in 1531 increased evaporation, caused the lakes to dry up, led to fre quant droughts, followed by occasional floods, and changed the climate of Anahuac. Any old rancher will tell stories of streams that flowed when he was a boy and will show the dry arroyo now. They all claim that the tablelands had timber in considerable quntities where now there are barren deserts. This government has taken some steps in the matter, but it is also necessary for the landowners to assist in this work by planting trees and irrigating them for a few years until they have taken good root. By using good judg ment in selecting the trees and in plant ing in a few years the complaints which are now so frequent of years of droughts will soon become fewer and fewer until they finally cease.—Mon terey Globe. BEAUTIFUL MAGIC LAKE. The Present Which »n Earthquake to Tennessee. Reelfoot lake, which lies mostly in Obion county and partly in Lake, is the largest sheet of water in Tennessee, it being 40 miles in length and from 8 to 5 in width. This lake, which evokes rapturous comments from even the most indiffer ent observer, was formed in a few min utes by an earthquake, which, accord ing to the best authorities, occurred be tween 2 and 8 o’clock on Saturday morning, Nov. I’d, 1811. There were two terrific shocks about 80 minutes apart and many lighter ones between and after. The earth rooked violently, a deafening noise like thunder struck terror to the ear, the atmosphere was heavily laden with something like smoke and vivid and almost* constant flashes of lightning illuminated the sur rounding country, and in less time than it takes to write it thousands of acres of land had sunk far below the level of the mighty Mississippi. The Father of Waters rushed into the sunken country, and the suction was so great that for three hours the river ran up stream, and rafts and boats below the lake were torn from their moorings and went whirling into the seething, maddening vortex. As soon as the newly formed lake was filled the river went majestically on its usual course, leaving to Tennessee one of the finest fishing resorts in the country, which is annually the Mecca ot “thou sands of sportsmen.—Cincinnati Com mercial Tribune. Students’ Pranks. In The National Magazine W. H. Leavitt tells some amusing stories of the pranks of American art students in Paris. Onoff the students in one atelier hazed a newcomer by taking all his money, putting him into a cab and giv ing the driver instructions where to take him. When the cab halted, the penniless student alighted and stood on the curb. “Will you be so good as to light a match?” said the student. “I dropped a napoleon in the cab and can’t find it” Whereupon the driver whip ped up and was away in a hurry. A new student from Algiers amused the studio for awhile by imitating the sounds of various wild beasts and birds. Then the fickle fellows tired of it. So one day, having prepared a big box with breathing holes in it, they put the mimic in it and kept him there three days, at the end of which time he per formed only by request "—' A Touch Colored Man. A recent railroad wreck in North Carolina was caused fax a peculiar way. A colored man wanted to get a ride and tried to jump a train of empty flat cars. He missed the car and fell across the track, where the wheels of several cars passed directly over him. His body threw two of the cars off the track; and the strangest part of it is that after the cars had run over him the man was able to get up and walk away. As he looked around him he was heard to exclaim: “ Well, well! I never see de like sense I wus bo’n. I’ll bet my week’s wages dat railroad’ll sue me ferdamages.”—At lanta Constitution. • Very happy is Curran’s reply to his pompons antagonist in debate who had loftily asserted that he was the guardian of his own honor, “Iwish the honorable and learned gentleman joy of his sine cure.” \ ■■ 'ht~ 1 ito '*W wsuMaKMßsnaMnniaiasgeMaMMhMi p -■ ' '■ T”' I LIVING IN CITIES. 2 Tku Apartmeut Hous* Is Breuklag Vp 4 lie >!>••• I have no mind to barrow up the minds of my readers with any explica tion of the miseries and mysteries that confront the average housekeeper in tho daily maintenance of a simple but oom fOrtable existence for her family. As for herself, an existence at all 866 ms a I struggle which at times she would glad ly give over. One might define a hero ine as the average American woman who does her own housekeeping. But some hint of the unnatural and unhappy state of affairs existing at present may be deduced from the consideration of two economic facts. First, woman is by nature a home founder and a homemaker. This is not intended as an assertion of personal be lief, but as a statement of scientific fact It was woman—not man—who opened the industrial world. It was woman who made the first rude dwellings and dressed skins and wove textiles for clothing. It was woman and not man who made the first fire and the first utensils for cooking and the first rude tools for industrial ends. All her activi ties clustered about 1 the hearthand min istered to the home. If the woman and the work had not reacted upon each oth er so that today women should be by nature homemakers and home lovers, there are still depths for the scientists to sound in the working of heredity and of natural selection. And yet—here is my second fact—the enormous piles of stone and brick rapid ly filling the choice plots of ground In our large cities and shutting out the light of heaven with their gabled tops are mute if not magnificent witnesses to the fact that the investment of capital is all against the perpetuation of the separate home. The shrewd modern in vestor is willing to put hundreds of thousands against hundreds of dollars that (for his lifetime at least) women are going to pref er the ease of the apart ment hotel to the separate house with its privacy, its own table, and—alas— its own service. Helen Watterson Moody in Scribner’s. J THE CARE FREE VIENNESE. They Barely Take Use Seriously Unless at • Funeral. “The native Viennese is a jolly, good natured, shiftless creature,” writes Ed ward A. Steiner, discussing “Austria and Her Troubles” in The Woman’s Home Companion. “No people on the earth are so jolly or so easily and so much amused. Go to the Pfater, the largest public park in Europe, and from 100 different beer gardens comes the noise of tooting brass bands and stamping feet and beating drums. Merry go rounds swing old and young, and dime museums and music halls are as full of people as they are empty of decency. Go to the theaters on any night and you will find them crowded by an enthusiastic audience, the galleries filled by noisy students and working girls. The court theaters, which present only legitimate dramas and operas, have also their numerous devotees. Go to the coffee houses, of which there is one on every corner, and you will find them full, especially in the afternoon, with merchants with their noses in the newspapers and clerks sipping their Mocha and officers smok ing their cigars and cue pushing and card shuffling youths. At night these coffee houses become the rendezvous of the lower element I have never seen the Viennese serious, unless it be at a funeral, and I suppose that even out of that he manages to get some fun. Yet he is easily excited, and although loyal and law abiding his good nature may quickly turn into a fiery passion, and a Viennese riot is a serious matter for the police." , Balelgh Finger Marks. It is now 800 years since Sir Walter Raleigh lived in Ireland, but, aoooraing to Sir John Pope, of Hennessy many traces of his residence there oan still be seen. The richly perfumed yellow wall flowers that he brought to Ireland from the Azores and the Affane cherry are still found where be first planted them, by the Blackwater. Some cedars he brought to Cork are to this day growing at a place called Tiyio. The four venerable yew trees, the branches of which have twined and in termingled into a sort of rammer house thatch, are pointed out as having shel tered Raleigh when he first smoked to bacco in his Youghal garden. In that garden he also planted tobacco. A few steps farther on, where the town wall of the thirteenth century surrounds the garden of the warden’s bouse, is the fa mous spot where the first Irish potato was planted by him.—Chicago Record. ClngqlMn Children. The Cingalese children' are said to be more beautiful than those of any other race on the four continent and some of the little girls, even of the very lowest caste, are irresistibly pretty as they run before you in the streets so beg. They cry out in the sweetest and most plaintive of voiqe& touching the stomach to signify hunger in away that would be awkward and vulgar in any other being, but in them it issowi i some that before you know it you sacri fice a rupee to the bad cause of encour aging them in begging—knowing quite well that all they want is.a good oppor tunity to pick your pocket for more.— Outing. One «C the Blaastaga es WjVk. “Oh, I guess it’s a good thing I have to work eo hard!” said a brooding per son. “ Why?" said the other. “I don’t have so much time to think,” said the first.—New York Sun. Th* Herrins. A medioal authority on the virtues of various kinds of food declares that the herring gives the muscles elasticity, the body strength and the brain vigor and is not flesh forming.—Pittsburg Bulletin. ■ i —w/ wt— * AN OPEN LETTER To MOTHERS. WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD “CASTORIA” AND “PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” AS our trade mark. I, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, of Hyannis, Massachusetts, was the originator of "PITCHER’S CASTORIA.” the same that has borne and does now e bear the facsimile signature of wrapper. This is the original u PITCHER'S CASTORIA,'” which has been used in the homes of the Mothers of America for over thirty years. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is the kind you have always bought on 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 Prudent. /> j March 8,1897. 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 docs not know. “The Kind You Have Always Bought” BEARS THE FAC-SIMILE SIGNATURE CF • Insist on Having The Kind That Never Failed You. VMS CENTAWR WXIRARV. TV MURRAY tTIIMT, REW YRRF. UIFW. . :■ j ■^. i -i /i’ * —GET YOUH — JOB PRINTING DONE The Morning Call Office. We have JuaLrapplied our. Job Office with acm pitte but btetx>h;rv tea kinds and can get up, on short notice, anything wanted in the way tu LETTERHEADS, __ BILLHEADS, STATEMENTS, IRCULARB, • w ENVELOPES, NOTES, MORTGAGES, ‘ PROGRAMS, JARDB, POSTERS DODGERS, ETC., ETI We c*rry tne 'jest luenf FNVEIZ»FES to jTvxC : thistrada. Aa ailrac Jit POSTER cl axy size can be issued on short notice. Our prices for work oi all kinds will compare favorably with those obtained roi any office In the state. When you want job printing deecripticn eive • call Satisfaction guaranteed. • * ALL WORK DONE With Neatness and Dispatch. Out of town orders will receive prompt attention. J.P.&S B.SawtelL