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Importanta.factorju armamenta. The Issue will not be decided by the first shock of arms, but by the slow, wearing finan cial strain to follow. It will be a question of staying power, and that wiU be i a money even‘more than a military ques tion. In her costly ware of recent times Russia has not distinguished herself much financially. She was completely worn out by two ymro’ fighting in a small comer of the Crimea. Her short campaign against the Turks in 1877-8 so disorganized her finances that ‘it took them 15 years to re r S°°The Russians themselves are well aware I 11 of this vital defect in their military pow er, and they have of late years made stren uous efforts to remedy it. To that end both their foreign policy and their finan cial policy are being studiously directed. Assistance in strengthening Russian credit abroad and replenishing the treasury at % home has for the past tenlycars teen the price of Russian friendship. ■ Prince Bismarck, much as he coveted the prize, seems to have thought the terms demanded |oo high. He would riot throw open German savings to be exploited by the-loan mongers and mortgage brokers of St. Petersburg. So little did he like these gentry that he had Rqsslah securities ta booed in Berlin, and the Imperial Bank of Germany ceased to make advances on them.—National Review. nyi itiUilQ?* tin* hi i ?JI ( M y tsmmr Stringer a Botanist. ' At the commencement exercises of the Perkins Institution and School For the Blind Tommy Stringer—now promoted to Thomas on the printed programme— gave a fine little address on botany—a study for which he has developed a wonderful apti tude. Through the medium of his teacher and the deaf and dumb alphabet he told much that was Interesting and astonisbett the audience by his accurate knowledge of the science, speaking of oak and pine, chestnut and maple, like familiar friends. ' Behind him on a table lay the books which he has made during the past year, giving brief, comprehensive accounts of his re searches and containing numerofis speci mens of leaves, blossoms and bits of wood which he has collected and neatly mounted. His exercise created so much enthusi asm that Dr. Eliot camo forward and, tak ing up the books, showed and explained them to the audience. Nothing that this school has ever done has been more won s 11 derful—not even the development of Helen Keller —than the bringing of Tommy Stringer from "a helpless mass of inert matter —physically and mentally—out in to the light asp healthy, handsome, happy and studious boy of uncommon promise.— Boston Transcript. Fleas. We have been asked to give some advice as to the best methods of ridding dwell ings of fleas. As to the removal of the pest no better advice can bo given than the following: Every house where a pet dog or oat is kept may become seriously Infested with fleas if the proper conditions of moisture and freedom from disturbance exist. Infestation, however, Is not likely to occur if the (bare) floors can be fre quently and thoroughly swept. When an outbreak of fleas comes, however, the easi est remedy to apply is a free sprinkUpg of pyrethrum powder In the Infested rooms. This failing, benzine may be tried, a thor ough spraying of carpets and floors being undertaken with the exorcise of due pre cautionin seeing that no light or fires are in the house at the time of the application or for some hours afterward. Finally, if the plague i| not thus abated, all floor coverings must be removed and the floors washed with hot soapsuds. This is a use ful precaution to take in any house which it is proposed to close for the summer, since even a thorough sweeping may leave behind some few flea eggs, from which an all pervading swarm may develop before the house is reopened.—New York Ledger. The Making of Soldiers. It was a very earnest and enthusiastic company drilling in Cass park. There were not to exceed a dozen In the ranks, and the average age was about 0. Broom handles crossed their shoulders at various angles and elevations, a few had toy pis tols and a little chap with an eight Inch snare drum furnished music. “Get oft that grass!” shouted a big po , Hoeman just as a particularly difficult evo lution was being executed. “Halt!” screamed the little curly haired captain, just in time to avert a disgrace ful stampede. “Makeready! Take aim! Fire!” and the report'of three paper caps ‘‘rang out on the startled air.” ■ | Every little body was fairly rigid in Its determination to fall back In good order while loading, When the policeman joined . in the laughter of a score of other wit nesses. An old gentleman bent with years walked over to the breve captain, patted him on the head and turned with beam ing face to those about him, “And yet othet nations wonder where our soldiers spring from when the country needs them to fight-ftp battles. ” —Detroit Free Press. I Sfufets On Passing Muster. Many us those engaged In recruiting, regiments believe that the strict physical examination required by the government for the first call for volunteers will be made more flexible for the 78,000 men In cluded In the second call. . However, if the medical examination is rigidly enforced It will be well for officers to remember the experience of a sergeant of the Eighth regiment, mustered in at Mount Gretna. With the line officers he took groat pride in the company and ex pected ft' would be mustered In entire. Every man volunteered, but two were thrown out in the medical examination. One was two pounds underweight and the other was one Inch too short. “If I had knpWn beforehand, ” said the sergeant, “I-would have filled;cue man up with two pounds of beef and had the other man measurdd tn the morning, because every map U taller In thte morning than at night. Philadelphia Record. A Startling Horseback Feat. - Berlin is wild over, the marvelous feat of Fedora Vona, a woman circus rider, who has performed repeatedly perhaps the most startling equestrian act ever seen. Her feat M to compel her spirited horse to leap over. a carriage containing four persons besides the driver. As none of these people had warning of her reckless intention it is needless to say that they were badly shocked—not to say somewhat frightened— by the lady’s sudden ap proach, the swift swish of her whip, the gleaming eyes of her wildly excited steed and finally the rustle of her long riding habit over their heads. After the performance was over, how ever, and they found themselves none the worse for their experience they were rather inclined to brag about it, and so the story got Out. . v ijr < Ffl A TALKING NEWSPAPER. The Cnkjee Journalbtic Enterprtre Car ried on In Budapest. A Budapest letter to the London Pall Mall Gazette says: A small diamond shaped board screwed on to the wall of my room and provided with a couple of hooka, from which hang two tiny, round tele phone earpieces connected by two wires— that is all—but my proprietor has been singing its praises for the last SO minutes, and as he confidentially assured me thit It will not play any part In my hotel bill at the end of my stay, there is no earthly reason why I should enter any protest against his profuse encomiums. “This,” said be, “is the telephonic messenger, or talking newspaper—the only thing of its. hind in the world. It has now been established in Budapest ■about three years. It differs from the or dinary telephone in the fact that the latter is directly connected with the central of fice, whereas we are able to connect from 800 or 800 subscribers in one circuit. The city is divided into 80 circuits. All day long news is spoken into a specially con structed apparatus at the central office, varied with entertainments, the opera and linguistic lessons. Itds not a telephone in the strict sense of the word and there fore does not infringe the telephone rights of the government. It combines the func tions of your tape machines and electro phones, while it is ten times cheaper. That you bear just now was to pre vent subscribers talking to each other on their own account.” • “It seems strange that such an excel lent idea as this appears to bo should not be introduced in other towns than Buda pest, ’’ 1 ventured, s fl&iL*uiD “ The answer is very simple. Os course the newspaper feature would be impossible In London, where Mme is everything, and a man could not sit day with the apparatus to bls ear, waiting for some particular news or exchange prices, Then, again, other towns are not' to advantage ously situated in tbhj respect as Budapest, where the law empowers the company tp" Introduce the apparatus into any house in the city in spite of the objections of the landlord. We have here 6,000 subscribers, and each pays only 18 florins a year. With us it is as in England with a certain soap —our families don’t feel happy until they get it. It is so cheap that many of the rooms in my hotel are fitted" up with it. If the visitor finds it inconvenient to go to the open, all he has to do is to put this apparatus to his ear and he can be enter tained the whole evening. The general public, too, can have news in advance of the newspapers. Why, a few weeks ago, when the German kaiser gave that cele brated toestof bis to the Hungarian na tion, thousands of families were listening to its recital half an hour later. Without this apparatus they would have had to wait until next day.” “Have you a regular dally programme?” * “Yes. It is announced In the morning and changes every half an. The greater part of the morning i» taken up with prices on ’change, a summary of the news in the dallies. At noon w'e begin to get a report of the doings in parliament. Telegrams of Importance are communi cated at once, the 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 have no idea what a benefit this is to the young generation and how popular these lessons 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 ths double nUcrOphone transmitter at the centraloffice/’ ; 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 sign always gives the time of day 8:18 o’clock, or the hour and minute of Lin coln *e assassination. For the last year he has been regulating his Elgin fly one of these silent sentinels bn Sixteenth street, and when' he arrived the other morning he looked At the sign and then at his watch. There v, as a discrepancy somewhere, so he called John Vaughab, the assistant <jity clerk, who happened to be passing oil the way to bls office. “Say, master yentieman,” ho accosted the clerk, “Aye want to ask yo’ ’bout somet’ing.” “AU right,” was the reply. “What is it?” i “Vai, Aye tank Aye skal bane cracker jack bay Yerusalem. Aye leaf mae home tan miles out en t’e country bay twanty minutes after 8, an Aye get en town al teen minutes after 8. Ho yo’/maken out “Ob, it’s pretty near 10 o’clock now.” “Bot das vatoh oop ofer yewelry store saysekbane alteen minutes ester 8.” '•'Yen, but that’s a tin sign—there are no wacks in .lt.” “Es das trute?” “Os course. Can’t you see?” Aye skal set mae vatoh bae die efery tern Aye oom to town for poorty nar hull “I don’t know anything about that, but ft is a sign, and yon. Will see all the watch signs point to 8:18, for that’s the hour and m infite President Lincoln Was assassinated at Ford’s theater in Washington.” The Swede was satisfied and wondered bow many times he bad eaten breakfast just about sunset just because bis watch didn’t happen to be right.—Denver Times. The Making of Blate Glass. To cast a largo sheet of plate glass is in modern hands a very simple affair. A ta ble is prepared, with sides made of strips of iron, forming a shallow, level tank. Into this the molten glass, which is made from the whitest sand, glass fragments, lime, manganese soda, cobalt and other chemicals, is poured. Immediately the operator begins smoothing' and leveling the mass with a great iron roller, which brings it down exactly to the level of the Iron rim. It is then put through anneal ing and tempering processes, which occupy several days. After this it is ground to a perfectly uniform thickness, then polished until ft acquires the utmost brilliancy. The cost of glass is greatly increased in proportion to its size. This is due to the fact that a large sheet may turn out im perfect flaws and ripples, which utterly destroy its value as a strictly first class commodity. Small pieces are cut from the perfect places in the large plate, and in this way the most serious loss is avoided. 1 —New York Ledger. A Located. “Are you in pain, my little man?” asked the kind old gentleman. “No,”, answered the boy. “The pain’s tn me.”—Fannon’s Weekly. THE GAME WENT ON. • ■-I ■■■. ~ BIXBY TELLS AN INTERESTING BTORY WHILE PLAYING POKER. It Was AbcM a M IneMoat With a Wmcoro*. SMo aS the Battle off Antie tam How a Game off Draw Generally Takes AH a Bellow** Attention. Johnson wai dealing when Bixby be gan to tell his yarn. “I heard a first rate story today,” he said. “It may be old to you boys, Vat it waa new to me. Colonel Jim Wil liams of Kentucky was telling it, and be got all the points in, of course, much better than I can. No colonel in Ken tucky can teU a better story than Wil liams. I don’t claim to be much of a story teller myself, but”— “Yon in, Bixby?” asked Butler. Bixby picked up his hands and played a pair of aces through to his loss. When another player began shuffling the cards, Bixby resumed. ( i “The story toas something like this,” he said. “Ike Doolittle waa a private in the war. It was at the battle es An tietam. He had a grudge against Lieu tenant Forrest A shell came along, and”— r,. . -a-l(«*••• “Are we going to play for anything this time?” asked Johnson. “Your ante,” said Butler to Bixby. Bixby anted, “iphis shell came along,” he said, “and took off Forrest's foot. He saw Doolittle near him, and calledtohimtotake”— ~,‘Tm in,” said Walters. , , “Raise it a couple of reds,” said But- Bixby picked up three eights and stood the raise. He drew a fourth and Wen the pot Then it was his deal. He shuffled leisurely as he said: “The shell, it seems, took off Forrest’s foot, and he called to Doolittle to carry him back to the ambulance. Doolittle lifted him to his shoulder and”— “I had three kings to go,” said Wil liams, referring to his previous hand. “I had a straight four flush,” said Johnson sadly. “Doolittle lifted him up," continued Bixby, "and”— , 2 “Going to shuffle the spots off the cards?” asked Butler. Bixby started to dsal. ‘ ‘ Doolittle was carrying him back,” fa said, “with his head hanging over his shoujder, when along oome another shell, and”— “Give me another stack,” said Wil liams. He got It While the hand was being played Bixby turned to Butler, who had staid out like! himself. “Just then,” said Bixby, “another shell came along and took off Forrest’s bead. Doolittle didn’t see it ” - “Where iVas this?” asked Butler po litely. ‘.‘At Antietam,” answered Bixby. “During the war, you know. Doolittle was carrying Forrest back to the ambu lance. He said be had his foot shot off. fie was being taken back to the ambu lance. He”— Butler picked up three aces. “I’m in for a said. .Johnson raised him ten. He saw. it ah 4 xaised hack. Johnson add they drew. Butler bet ten and Johnson raised him SO. Butler hesitated and ran over his cards. Then he looked long and searchingly at Johnson. There was a curious tensity in the silence. .Bixby turned to Wil liams "Doolittle,” he said, “didn’t know that Forrest’s head had been shot off.” •‘Why didn’t he know ft?” Williams absently asked, watdhing the players. “He didn’t see it, ” explained Bixby. “He kept on carrying him back toward the ambulance. Private Canfield came along and said to Doolittle: “ ‘What you carrying that for?* “ ‘lt’s Lieutenant Forrest,’ said Doo little. ‘l’m taking him back to the am bulance.’ “ ‘What can they do with him in the ambulance with his head shot off?' asked Private Canfield.” “I call,” said Butler, shoving in his chips. Johnson won, and Bixby picked up the cards to deal again. “Private Canfield, ” he said, “wanted to know what they could do with him there with hia head shot off. ‘His head I’ shouted Doolittle, ‘the blamed fool told me ’twas his foot. ”* Bixby pounded the table and laughed heartily. Hia companions looked at him wonderingly. “Who was Doolittle?” asked John son. “Why, he was the fellow that was carrying Forrest”— “Bixby’s been telling a story,” said Williams. “What’s the point?” asked Butler. “The point is,” said Bixby, “that Doolittle thought his foot was shot off when it was his head. He-was carrying him back at the time, and”— “I’ve got six cards,” said Williams. “It’s a misdeal,” said Johnson. “Go on with your story,” said Wil liams to Bixby, "Yea," said two or three others, “fiive Us the story.” “But I’ve got through with it,” ex plained Bixby. “Oh, have you?” said Williams. “That's good.”—New York Sun. Spurious Mummies. Spurious mummies have from time to time been palmed off upon the pub lic, and a doubt arose in a Vienna mu seum as to the validity of one daughter of the pharaohs in their collection. It occurred to them, in view of the general hollowness of life, that the young lady might have been manufactured in Bir mingham. So they turned the Boentgen rays upon her and saw at once through the many folded wraps the amulets which the Egyptians placed upon the bosoms of their dead, thus proving the genuineness of their specimen. Switzerland is the land of universi ties. It has seven, or one to every 428,- 870 inhabitants, while Germany has 22, or oua to every 2,886,360. Russia has a university for every 10,000,600 only. LAW OF SELF DEFENSE. ! Thu Bogltok Tfcuory of V. ’ «ru ProteuStou Buda and Revungw IkfiM. The right of self defense is by some old writers declared to be inherent in all men by the law of nature. Now, these “natural rights” are all very well, but they are not recognized by the law of Great Britain. It is the law that a man may defend himself, his wife, child or servant from physical ag gression. He may also repel by force a forcible attack upon his property. When you, or your wife, child, or servant is attacked, or threatened with violence in such a manner as reasonably to lead you to believe that violence is about to be used, you may resist the aggressor. And as the best mode of resistance is , very often to attack, you may lawfully follow the advice givtu by an old prize fighter to a ptipil—l. e., “get in the flwt whack.” Bat self defense must be moderate. It must not be totally disproportioned to the attack. For instance, if a hulk ing ruffian runs at mo with a knife, I may shoot him- But if he runs at me merely with his fists clinched, and I shoot him dead with a revolver, I shall probably be hanged by the neck. Not that the law expects a man to be calm and cool and collected in all circum stances. By no means. For instance, if the said burly ruffian rushes at me with clinched fists, evidently meaning mis chief, and I hit him with a heavy stick on the back of the ear, I may kill him. But I shall not be hanged for that. I had a right to use the stick, and in the circumstances lAm not to be supposed to be cool enough to aim for a spot not likely to be fatal. Again, self defense must not develop into revenge. Thus, if I am threatened with a knife, and by the timely display of a pistol I frighten my assailant so that he runs away, I must not shoot after him. If I do, I am just as liable as though he had never threatened me, because I shoot at him not in self defense, but byway of pun ishment or revenge.—Family Lawyer. LAW OF THE UMBRELLA. An Important Opinion That Has Been Ascribed to Lord Coleridge* The law as to umbrellas was settled once for all by Lord Coleridge in a lead ing English case. His lordship held: “Umbrellas, properly considered, are a part of the atmospheric or meteorolog ical condition, and as such there can be no individual property right in them. In Sampson versus Thompson defendant was charged with standing on plaintiff’s front steps during a storm and thereby soaking up a large quantity of rain to which plaintiff was entitled. But the court held that the rain was any man’s* rain, no matter where it felt It fol lows, therefore, that the umbrella is any man’s umbrella. In all ages rain and umbrellas have gone together, and there is no reason why they should be separated la law. An umbrella may, under certain circumstances—the chief of which is possession—take on the at tributes of personal property, just as if a man set a tub and catch a quantity of rainwater, that rainwater will be considered as his personal belonging while it is in his tub. But if the sun evaporate the water and it is rained down again or if the tub is upset and the water spilled then tfle attribute of personal ownership instantly disap pears. So if a man hold his umbrella in hia hand it maybe considered gb per sonal belonging, butjthe moment it leaves his hand it returns to the great, general, indivieable, common stock of whither the law will not at tempt to pursue it.” So far as we know there has never been a successful appeal from this de cision.—Chicago News. A Disturbing Sermon. Many yean ago an English clergyman in a small town preached as his own a sermon, one that be had bought, and whfoh had been originally preached in London when the plague was raging in that city. After reproving the vice of the people, the sermon went on: this vice it Is that God has vis ited. you and your families with that cruel scourge, the plague, which is now spreading everywhere in this town.” At hia uttering these words the peo ple were all so thunderstruck that the chief magistrate was obliged to go to the pulpit and to ask him: “For God’s sake, sir, pardon the in terruption, and inform me where the plague 1b that I may instantly endeavor to prevent its further “The plague, sir?” replied the preach er. “I know nothing about the plague. Whether it is in the town or not, it is in my homily.” A Reluctant Complaint. The Denver Times tells of a school boy in that city who has written a let ter to the school board which shows that the average American youth can see a point before he site down on it, He says: “Mr. Director—My sister, who is the schoolteacher, whips me every day. Pa and ma tojd her to whip me oftener than she did the others so they wouldn’t think she was partial, write to let you know this is too thin. She is an old jnaid and gets mad be cause she can’t get married, and when ever she gets to feeling that way she larrups me. I hate to say such things about my sister, but it’s so.” SuoZhln* Sucreatton. Johnny had been playing around the piano and had had a fall ‘‘What are you bawling about?” ask ed Willie contemptuonelyi “It was the soft pedal your head hit.”—Chicago Tribune. The domesticated Malay cat has a tai that is only about one-half the usual length, and very often It Is tied by na ture in a kind of knot which cannot be straightened out. When Leyden was besieged by the Spanish army in 1574, the city govern ment issued credit notes on leather. m. O— MT AN OPEN LETTER WE ARE aXSngdJ TO THE EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD “CASTORIA,” AND “PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” as our trade mark. x DR. 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