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ALBANY WEEKLY ffiRALDi SATURDAY, JULY 9, 189* 5- HOW IT FEELS TO BE HIT IN BATTLE. A Soldier of the Lnte War Give* an Ac count of HI* SenNMtlon*. When the lieutenant hod disap peared from view I turned my face to the front, bolstering my trembling hopes with the thought that this Inst victim was a shining mark, as I cer tainly was not. Besides, I believed that the sharpshooters could not get the range on our end of the line. Then followed a “thud" close to me, and my next sensation was that I was prostrate on the ground, pierced through my left arm, heart und spine with a rod and pinned to the earth. This was the physical sensation, but of course was not the fact. Then through my brain there flitted quickly a vision sueh as the thought of a battle most commonly brings to mind—masses of warring men strug gling individually for the mastery. I seemed to be in the midst of the melee, and with all the Indignation 1 could express was shouting to the men in gray, “There, you have hit me I” Next I was being lifted and sup ported by some one, and a voice said, “He isn't hit, but something is the matter." “Yes," said another voice sternly, “he-is hit and as good as dead. Take him to the rear.” I had so far recovered as to comprehend these remarks, and instantly con cluded that I was the subject of a practical joke. In another moment I was seized with the keenest pain I have ever experienced in my life, in the region where it had seemed in my swoon that I was run through with a rod. Now what had happened was thisi I had been in a sitting poBture, rest ing partly on the ground, partly upon my legs doubled beneath me, the left hand holding my weapon, the arm well braced Across my chest so that the middle of the upper bone pressed against the heart On my arm were two shirt sleeves, a jacket sleeve, an overcoat sleeve and the overcoat capo, and a musket ball moving in the direction of my heart and spine —that is, obliquely to the front of my person—had ticked-the limb of a bush a few feet away, keeled over and struck flatwise on the arm, im bedding itself in the flannel and the flesh.—George L. Kilmer in Popular Science Monthly. A True Story. In the upper reservoir at Moun tain View cemetery are planted a large number of German carp—the Ashes now ranging in size from four to seven inches in length. The res ervoir borders Blair park on the west, and the menagerie at the park consists of a big Tom cat Tom 1b an expert fisher cat. He creeps along the margin of the reservoir, and when a carp [Kikes up its nose into the grass at the edge of the lake to feed, Tom deftly pulls his carp- ship out and eats him. This is a true cat and fish story, and no dia gram is considered necessury to prove it—Oakland Times. V.nttliatlon of Xtooma. To offset the constant exhalation of organic matter from the skin, as well as from the lungs, occupied rooms should be so arranged ns to al low a constant change of the air con tained in them. To meet this con dition properly, an exit for air, as well as an inlet, should be provided. A fireplace is perhaps an ideal out let as it has a constant draft which assures an outgo of considerable power. As for a test of the quality of air —its purity or impurity—nature has provided us with a most useful one. and in all ordinary coses the only necessary one, in the senso of smell. If this sense is offended by character istic “stale" odor of an ill ventilated room, there is no appeal from its verdict, no matter how mnny venti lntors may bo in operation. This test, it should be stated, can be ap plied only by the olfactories of ono just entering a room from tho out side. We have heard from the lecture platform advice delivered to an in telligent body of students in a pre paratory school as to just how far tho windows of the sleeping apartment should be raised each [light to assure a wholesome air to tho occupant. The distance given was exact, no al lowance being mads for variations of temperature, wind or weather. A single window opened at both top and bottom, but at distances varying according to the temperature, the presence or absence of winds, etc., is a suitable provision for ventilation. It is safe to say that if the air in any room seems os pure to a person entering it from out of doors as the outdoor air itsplf, that air is well fit ted for breathing; such, at any rate, it should always be, and such should be the test applied by an intelligent observer. With such an ideal before us, no hard and fast' rule is called for. With this ideal in view, and with the homely quality of common sense in exercise, it is well also to remem ber the following facts: A room is best for most of us at a temperature ranging from -05 to 70 degs.; a guard, be it of the most primitive construction, should be be tween a draft and ourselves; the air is not necessarily impure .when warm nor pure when cold; tho smaller a room is, and the more oc cupants it has, the oftener should the air be renewed.—Youth's Com panion. SOAPING GEYSERS. PUjrlng Trick* ott Them to 2U»k*fl Spout Between Period Tourists in the Yellowy tionol park got into the ha years ago of soaping the t/i make them spout, and the thorities were compelled to the rule against throwing obji any kind into the springs, r some of them had been perm; injured by such treatment ' of Boaping geysers'was uccidi discovered by a Chinese lnunc in the Upper Geyser basin summer of 1888. One day he threw some sea; tho hot spring ftom which hi accustomed to draw water, laud, greatly to his surprise, he prdlueed an eruption resembling that it i true €*rrler Pigeon* for the Nnry. When the United States practice ship Constellation sailed on the cadets’ sum mer voyage Monday afternoon it had WHAT aboard a number of homing pigeons, to be ueed as means of communication between the ship and points ashore. The birds will be liberated at intervals, and are expected to bring official messages from the practice vessel to the naval academy, where a loft or oote has re cently been established, She who would always appear stylishly dressed must be constantly on I the alert. Dame Fashion’s fancies are I the c * paolty of as fickle as they are eagerly adopted., , . To keep up with her whims requires 1 . a««v» v wn uhi have If the experiment should prove sue- olo *« watohlng of the markets and devjj , had „ not for the cessful the government will probably (what Is more essential) a purse well I lnv | te(1 interference of the law. find it profitable to the navy to encour- filled with shekels. So many fads r UBf „|„ h , _ hnn , age the homing pigeon service with the sweep through the ranks of Fashion’s I I,U8t night " bont 12 0 olook ’ 0un(lm ’ geyser. Tourists who had comp long distnnees to see oruptions 1 ei small appropriation needed to carry out I devotees that a woman with a slender I tor iL*,''-“t’ J,'" ' the plane of the projector! of the enter- Dlirge OAn not keen tin with them who run8 n traln betw prise. At present the facilities for I ona very smaH I Albany and Thomasyllle, appronehed training birds at the naval academy are I Officers Kemp and Mooney ami rv limited, no government appropriation nmount ofmoney may appear always t d t , t at onoe to tho dc being available. At Fortress Monroe, well dressed. However, she must| M tho first stopping place of the ship, It is eschew novelties, possible several trained birds from Bal- g lysers 111 that Frogs »ml Snake*. The common snake is very fond of water. Its food consists exclusively of frogs or fishes. All suukes eat either living food, including eggs, or creatures they bave themselves killed. When pursued by a snake the frog seems to be half paralyzed with fear, leaping less and less pow erfully as the snake approaches it more nearly, and uttering feeble cries. If a stick be so pushed through the grass toward a frog os to imitate the movement of a snake the frog will exhibit the symptoms of terror just noted.—Quarterly Review. The Pain from * Corn. The exquisite pain caused by corns is generally due to the presence of a small abscess beneath the indurated skin which constitutes the com. The pressure of the shoe irritates the flesh beneath and causes soreness and a small accumulation of pus, which cannot escape, and so induces a pain that is often intense. To cut away the com is sure to relieve the trouble entirely, but piercing it with a needle will often accomplish the same result.—St. Louis Globe-Demo crat. Collecting Colored Politer*. The latest fad in tho line of collect ing is the collecting of colored post ers—the bills with which the enter prising poster adorns boards and fences and dead walls about town. In France and in several of the Ger man cities this new mania has taken a deep hold and is spreading rapidly. In England the fad is frowned upon ■by dealers who have other curios to sell and who fear that this new rage will harm the “lecitimnte.” A good thing has jnst leaked out con cerning a church fair held in Utica not very long ago. When the booths were being put in position two men had a dis agreement os to what position in the hall a certain booth should occupy. It was a small matter of ’bourse, but each disputant was sure he was right. There was a war of words, and one invited the other outside to settle tho difficulty. Those who witnessed tho settlement said that it was unique and amusing. Which party set the ball rolling will never be known. There was a swish of fists in the air, two angry grants, a sprinkling of blood from two damaged nasal ap pendages, a whirl of arms and legs, and the booth builders rolled over one an other in the mud. Two sorry looking pillars of the church they were when separated and sent home to recuperate. The booth went up. but whether its po sition was mutually satisfactory has not been learned.—TTHna Observer. A Sjtnp.thetle Parrot. A friend of mine had a parrot that was forever getting into mischief whenever let out of his cage. If it wasn't flying around the room knocking down tlio ornaments, he was down in the kitchen annoying the cook (who, by the way, was red headed) by calling out, "Where’s the white horse?” One day when the cook was get ting dinner ready, Polly hopped into the kitchen just as she put a bowl of cream on the table. Flying at the edge of the bowl it was overturned. Cook became enraged at this, and seizing a dipperful of boiling hot water threw it over Polly, scalding him so badly that all his feathers dropped off. For a long time Polly went around lamenting the loss of his feathere, but he noifer bothered the coolc again. One day about throe weeks after ward a clergyman came to dine with my friend, and Polly, noticing that he was baldheaded, seemed to pon der over it, and just as they were sitting down to dinner, Polly, who had been sitting on tho back of a chair, hopped up on the table close to the clergyman and, gazing sorrow fully at his bald head, exclaimed: “Poor fellow, poor fellow; did the cook throw hot water on you?" After this Polly was kept covered up in his cage whenover there wore visitors.—New York Recorder. experiment on the larger with some success. They fc they could coax the unwill n gey sera to perforin, and if the p octice pt (balile ; before had been continued it that the geysers would loi _ now have lost much of theit Bbectac ular value. / • If Mr. Arnold Hague investigated the curious phenomenon. By a series of experiments on the action |of soap in stimulating the eruptions pf geysers, he found that some were Much more susceptible to the treatment than others. He found tftat nony of the hot springs and gey sort! were quiet even when the surfi ce tbmperature of the water was al ove jthe boiling point for that altitu e. Any disturb ance, therefore, wat likely to cause the ebullition to beg n, of the water was in a state of unst ible equilibrium. If soap or concentn »d lye was add ed, a viscous flui< was produced which seemed to ca 1 Be the retention of steam, and in th case of super heated waters, whin thu tempera ture stands above the natural boiling point, explosive liberation must fol low. Mr. Henry M. Cadell, tbo English geologist, who visited the Yellow stone park and gave some attention to the soaping of goykora, says that the famous Old Fair ' ' seems to be proof against I such un dignified treatment, but 80710 of its more fitful and fickle brethren, thnt have eruptions at uncertain inter vale, pay more attention to 1 the art ful dodge to set them in action. Among these is the Beehive, which has no fixed period, but is susceptible to the action of soap. In general, however, it seems doubtful whether much reliance can be placed on that method of producing eruptions. In a paper on soaping geysers, which Mr. Hague read before 1 scientific society a while ago, he said “Outside of a few exceptional in stances, which could not bo repeated, and in which action was probably anticipated by only a few minutes in time, geyser eruptions produced by soap or alkali appear to demand two essential requirements: First the surface caldron or reservoir should hold but a small amount of water, exposing only a limited area to' the atmosphere; second, the water should stand at or above the boiling point of wuter for the altitude of the geyser basin above sea level."—New York Bun. A TALK WITH THE LADIES. iaboemv fbom a *«l BEING WORN. ! A Nrgr«’« V*mel*ns Appciiir Into Trouble. L'rls Him It Is s fact that has been Mpeutcdly proven by actual test, that a Negro has, as s general rule, double nr treble a white man. Of oourse there are a few exceptions another in- Slie watches the market for goods pot and arrest Louis Edwards, one of his train hands, who had, Mr. Wbeat- timore, Philadelphia and New York will Juston the wane, that have Just turned !/, ’ , . n. .Wni later ithmatohed 1. »n._ , it of a lot of watermelons, ley said, broken open a car and robbed The oflloers went at onee, and, foro- be taken aboard and later dispatched the norner 0 f the height of fashion and , with information from the oralsing t |,eyserveas her stock in trade always. . -, , grounds. The headquarters at Wash- * . . . ... ... ing their way into the cab, found Ed Ington will also be posted of the where- || ® , . . wards and eight very large melons, abouts of the vessel through winged feent trimmings and fnnoy vests The darkey dldn . t attempt to deny messengers from that city. A loft of serve her for three dresses. And her , , taken the melons, but did deny birds to acoompany the ship will no bonnots, always becoming, arc so quiet “ . . onon ..... doubt be sufficiently trained toward the and modest that they will last tor . .* — '..—.J? nni ,„ 1T ’| rt . „? close of the voyage to be useful in con-1 weaP , wlth various suits, a whole sea- < ttat lt WM slrel,Uy ° po "’ He ' 1 voying messages ashore. — Annapolis Cor. Baltimore Bun. the leauers U1 uu gviiunu uu nnmuin I turn ,iiny uu hb uaeilll Ml Her II,,ll places this summer a bit of fashionable 00 unts her pennies as she spends fn lull and Cnndun intelligence which I know will be star- them. a. well a. to her more fortunate . He was lodged In jail, and Oonduo- was Jos’ a little sharp set, an’ I thought I could niebbe eat a few melons." lie didn’t seem to think it Impossi- I am about’to give society here and I we have olipped a few Items of fashion I u' d t “ h J^ * t „* k ^Jay*n°a olosetoUho Mo "Reversing’’ In Faihlonnble Dnnelng. She Is the woman in whom dressing I I beoomes an art. From various souroes | intelligence whtoh X know will be star- then)i „„ woU t0 her more fortunate “"7““ “ ,nV’. w«rrnn tl,U tling in the extreme. The fiat has gone te»r Wheatley swore out a warrant this tbs* bumf. T.nnrlnvi «nil fVmflnanfAl I tnnrnlnir nhnririnif him with limuMiv out in the best London and Continental society that the “reverse" in the valae shall no longer be permitted. This re form seems to have been originated by | buckles, the Prince of Wales, and of course it was immediately taken up by the small er fashionables, in London. The ill na- tured say his royal highness never did dance well in his golden youth, and that since he has come to a liberal ro-1 able surah, tundity of belt, or, in other words, grown fat, his dancing is simply exeora- ble. He always had great difflcnlty in dresses, “doing the reverse” in the waits, and now that he cannot do it all he puts the WHAT 8TYI.ISK WOMKN WKAII. White kid bodice belts having silver morning oharging him with lim-i-ny from n car. • Tim residence of Mr. J. A. Romney, on Pine street, that was, partially -!- Large 10 tic id raw lmls trio l| ( r ,iy,-d by lire nllj. i* heing re- with wild flowers. built. Mr. and Mrs. Rumney are si op ing at the Mayo for the present, imi Removable blouse vests of ohango- they expeot to have their homo ready for oocupanoy In a few weeks. Fanoy silk mitts with evening •H- Black or lavender -lawn dresses ban of his disapproval on it. Hereafter trimmed with blaok I’otnt do denes there is to be.no “reversing” at the state and rosettes of baby ribbon. IA FEW QUESTIONS balls or at any dances which are hon ored by the royal presence. The fact is, the “reverse" was hardly ever seen on the other side of the water at any time, and now having the positive disapproval of “the first gentleman of England” it will disappear for good.—Lounger In Washington Herald. Short velvet jackets of every design | -Zouave, Eton, Figaro, Mikado, etc. FOR YOU. Short oapes of black laoe worn with | lace .toques. ++ . Bands of black velvet on the arm in-1 stead of bracelets, for evening. Did you ever see a board walk? a horse fly? or such Gold and silver removable slipper toe and heel naps. ++ Pink and blue ohambery petticoats Valth la Witchcraft, Belief in witchcraft is still fonnd among the people in many countries. The wife of a rich farmer in Styria, Austria, had been paralyzed for years, si"""”:*- a soothsayer, who looked into tho mat- 1 " ~ ter and pronounced the patient to be be witched. She pointed out another farmer who had also been sick for years as the wizard, and prescribed that an old pair of pants of the man and a few NECKWEAR as we are showing to-day for 35c? CAI.A DAY IN SVnifEB. . - . .. , . , Sumnxr, Ga, June 80, 1802. drops of his blood must be Placed over a H |a , to th , IUBtI , D . dull fire and slowly burned. The pa- 1 tient must be held over this smoldering B« Fooled Ula Pother. While at the university Labou- chere used to boast that he “never allowed his studies to interfere with his pleasure.” He used to run up to London (fifty-eight miles) with re markable frequency simply to get his hair cut. On one occasion, it is said, young Labouchere met his father in the Strand at a time he was supposed to be deep in his studies of the classics. Much to the old gentleman’s astonishment his son blankly denied his identity. Jumping into a cab he dashed off to the railway station, caught a train in the act of leaving for Cambridge, and when his father arrived by the next was found almost buried in a mass of abstruse volumes, with a wet towel wrapped round his aching forehead. A dinner at the hotel and a ten pound note were tho reward of tho delighted parent to this promising son, but to his dying day Mr. John Labouchere was often heard relating this wonderful instanco of the re markable similarity of two persons. —London Cor. New York World. AllUtary Store*. Military stores are now made as far as possible to uniform patterns, and the components are interchange able, not only in each service, but also where practicable between the various services, so that, for exam ple, a ship might in the event of ne cessity be armed with fortress guns or might fill rip her ammunition from stores intended for the land service.—New York Times. WMtcb h Child'* Hunt. Let the parents watch the bent of the child’s inclinations and judge from them only what calling he seems most fitted for. In the vast majority of cases, where it is essen tial that the child should be a bread winner as soon as he attains years of discretion, it may be necessary for him to do much work that is irk some and for which he has no special adaptation before I10 run choose a calling of his own. Tho man who is compelled by pen ury to carve out a career for himself acquires a rugged strength by the means that often enables him to out- distnneo Ids rival who has molded his life from more plastic circum stances—New York Tribune. fire which she would recover. The pants 1 . , . were obtained and the old sick man one pie had gathered at the sohool house evening, when stepping into the door- building, where they were entertained way of his hnt to get a breath of fresh by the Knights and a short speeoh air, was attacked and thrown down on from Mr , w . A. Allen, editor of the hisface to make his nose and month Looa , The Knights of Honor at this The blood was carefully scraped ap P'“ 9 “ from the ground and the fumigation oure speakers for the occasion, but made, but of coarse without the prom- without avail, from the faot that tho ised effect of curing the woman. The Knights of Honor all over tho United old man was terribly shaken dnd has States celebrated the 19th anniversary died since, whether as a result of the 0 f the brotherhood, and speakers were outrage committed against him is not no t sufficient to supply all of their *nnn«to,1 At VnHUn flnaln a fnrinor I Why Soma “Fireproof" Building* Burn. Tlio heat units in the many cords of pine wood partition, sheathing, etc., in what purports to be a slow burning warehouse of heavy mill construction will often be found suf ficient to supply charcoal enough to melt a large charge of pig iron in a puddling furnace. It thus happens thnt one.ofton finds in the papers a record of tlio complete destruction by fire of what has been culled either a fireproof building, or a building of so called mill construction, or a slow burning building, freo from hollow spaces and free from many of the faults which infest the common ex amples of combustible architecture. —Engineering Magazine. Electric Locomotive* for Steam Bond*. There are signs that one of the most startling revolutions of the centnry is approaching. Steps are being taken in the northwest toward the laying of an experimental track on which many points bearing on the substitution of electrio locomotives for steam locomo tives on trank lines will be determined, and electrical engineers throughout the country aro on the qni -five for tho next developments. The three eighty ton electric locomotives to be used in the Belt line tunnel, Baltimore, will push a freight train of 1,200 tons, including lo comotive, through the tunnel, np an eight-tenths of 1 per cent, grade, for a distance of #,000 foet, at tho rate of fif teen miles an honr, or a 500 ton passen ger train, including locomotive, at the rate of thirty miles an hour.—St. Lonis (vlnhft.Deiuocrut. KalgliM of Honor Celebrate the llllh Aanireraarr of the nelered Ilrotlmr- | heed. At 9 o’clock the people began corn- ^rtKgiar^^^i' D *! n, f 1 to : n , r om * u d,reot,on r nd ih she would recover. The pants by 11 o’olook, a large oonoourse of peo- A Model Shoe. reported. At Velilla, 8pain, a farmer wantB> You begin to find out what sort of a shoe you have bought when woman'in the* villagethat rajoyed'’"^^ I ' rhfl entertainment of the Knights I YOU ’ ve worn j t a little while. The reputation of being a witch and do-1 wa » ver y K“ od * n<1 interesting. _____ I test of a shoe is the wear it will manded of her to restore his father to During Mr. Alien s speech the large health. When a few days later his school house building was crowded to | stand, we can our father had not improved he went and | its utmost capacity. At about 12:80 dinner was an-1 nounoed, and after all had eaten their fill there was a sufficient quantity left j to have fed a good many more. A largo number of the Third Farty- Ites of Worth were In attendance;! dozen of these emissaries shot both the socalled witch and hur husband dead.—Chloago Herald. $3.00 Shoe a Model. Divine Snrvlco by Telephone, Tho mayor of Nottingham, accom panied by several members of tlio corpo ration und other loading men of-tho town, recently attended divine service in a I About a — . . novel fashion. Tho meeting honse^wos | tackled the writer, but he stood Ills hut it keeps its good look own ground, and will continue to do) If you’ve ever seen anythin It is a handsome looking shoe, hut that is by no means all that can be said about it. It is not only handsome looking, tlio local oxchango of the National Tele- %£ they'porticipated^as^onthioted 80 "J 0 "* “ , th n e I { °° M y ° U ’ Ve MK at Christ church, Birmingham, fifty-one has the P enslon and railroad P ,anks experience that we’ve never miles away, the communication being I in it. ' | joyed—the big in qu l i mid th of courso by telephone. Th* melon crop does not last long They sat on each side of the long k u t it brings in good receipts while It table on which thirty receivers were doe8 la8t . placed, while at the church end were eight transmitters—two in the belfry, Some of the waterworks pipes are two In the choir, two In the reading I , nr(fe enoU gh for a good sized boy to .1 A... n 1— it,/, mvlviil- n *1,1 t/il, A ,1 I ™ 1=7 little in price have never bee: more happily combined. This same happy combination also found in our desk, and two in the pulpit, switched on . throu „| l . and off as exigencies required—an or- ” rangomont which has been in operation Exoubsionb are being run less and for some weeks for the edification of I less by the railroads. Times are too| $4.00 Men's Birmingham subscribers. The Notting- i la rd for people to patronize them, ham congregation were able to hear the bells very distinctly, and the ro- They are the greatest vue ue..» very , Thk 8„ F. & W. road continues to spouses and other musical portions of run a freight train in connection with earm lor tne money, the service, while tlio preacher, having | the passenger between here and Thom-1 asville. a clear voico and deliberate utterance, was very audible, and his sermon was listened to with close attention.—Lon don Tit-Bits. Coin, of the Mogul Emperor., Mr. Stanley Lano-Poole has finished his “Catalogue of tho Coins of the The largest melon brought into the city up to date came from the Newsom plantation and tipped the soaies at the 50-pound mark. MDSE & COX The framework for the tower to be Mogul Emperors of Hindoostan in tho I erected on the union passenger depot SEE HERE, LADIES ... BS ■ 9 Preparatory to removing from o British Museum,” from tho invasion has been raised, and it improves, the present quarters to the store owned 1 looks of the building wonderfully. of Baber to the establishment of a British currency by the East India com- panv, in 1585. It contains descriptions Mrs. M. A. Randall, on Broad street, will sell our entire stock of Thk freight agents say that they ex- MILLINER' afitotfps'iSu’nitoiw" hti^ieas by this, time, butUj [VJ EW YORK C ... .. . _ . .. . .. , . flint rlwi olilnmunto cnnmnrl tn lira in. this anthor’s description of the entire I that the shipments seemed to be in- collection of Mohammedan coins in the creasing instead of decreasing. We have in stock all the latest s in Millinery and Fancy Goods. | Jilll JilUri lriUIl Id Keeping oil hllll LI AmtegglW" >«« u. <«> >»»'• •»" Bill Morrison is keeping so still that | y ?" lu,vc ' 1,1 8»3?«B»3S:a* CASSEt * SISTa • •• ’ — IJB ield in Chicago News-Record. > into it and were unable to escape, - * - ra