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fi ELECTRICITY.'?
Some Things the Trolley Car Con
ductor Must Be and; Do.
The successful conductor joins to
the chivalry and impressiveness of a
policeman the savoir faire of the
gentleman behind the silk counter,
for persons’who go home from clubs
at 2 in the morning may have to be
persuaded in six different ways be
fore they offer anything to “ring
up,” says Charles M. Skinner in the
Atlantic. .
The conductor must keep fifty or
sixty streets in mind. He must be
sure to let the elderly lady off at
the one sh,> has been thinking of,
and when she foils him he must not
impeach her veracity if she “just
knew” she. told him. He must not
allow the man who. immerses him
self in a newspaper to forget an ob
ligation of 5 cents to the company.
He must curb a natural inclination
to embrace the wives of strangers
when he lifts them up the steps.
He must call the attention of for
getful persons to the fact that they
are chewing tobacco or are drunk.
He must arbitrate between the man
who opens the window and the wo
man who wants it shut and shut it.
He must insinuate himself up and
flown the aisle of his car without
tipping standees into the laps of
irascible bankers or treading on
the corns of such as wear them.
And while others clutch at straps
or dashboards or doorknobs or the
cord he rings his fares with, when
the motorman is seized with a sud
den frenzy for action he must never
lie down on the floor or lose his dig
nity. He can be philosophic after
he grows used to it and find advan
tages in his wild career. As a con
ductor remarked: “The worst of go-
in' by ’lectricity is it 'most shakes
your liver out. But you never get
dyspepsy.”
Gypsy Notions About Mountains.
In some of the gypsy tribes living
about central Europe the moun
tains are called bar, “rags,” or
muchlyis, which last term usually
means “clouds,” “mist,” the same
name being applied to the clouds as
the mountains, the latter being re
garded , as a kind of pathway to
heaven. According to gypsy ideas
the clouds are daughters of the
mist king, and the lightning flashes
the sons of the . fire • king, who
would soar up high into space, but
the wind king comes and drives
them down to the earth, their grand
mother. In .their flight before the
wind king the lightning and its
progeny very often lose the road to
their father, the fire king, who
dwells deep in the earth, and fall
prostrate in the wrong part of the
earth, where they are changed to
stones. Such lightning stones,
known in Germany as thunderbolts
and weather stones, are pushed out
of the ground after nine years, and
whoever finds such a stone on a
mountain will be rendered lucky if
Ee always carries a little bit of this
stone with him.
The Grave of St. Swithin.
St. Swithin, by his express re
quest, was buried in the open
churchyard, “thinking no vault was
so good to cover his grave as that
of heaven.” When he was canon
ized, however, the monks of Win
chester took it into their heads that
his body ought to have a more dig
nified resting place, and resolved to
remove it into the choir, fixing the
15th of July for its solemn trans
lation. It rained, however, so vi
olently on that day and for forty
days in succession that they aban
doned their design as contrary to
the divine will and instead. erected
a chapel over his grave,, at* which
many miracles are said to have been
wrought.
Summer complaint is unusually
prevalent among children this
season. A well developed case in
she writer’s family was cured last
veek by the timely use of Chain-
serlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diar-
'hoea Remedy—one of the best
latent medicines manufactured
md which is always kept on hand
it the home of ye scribe. This is
rot intended as a free puff for the
jompany, who do not advertise
ivith us, but to benefit little suf-
’erers who may not be within easy
iccess of a physician. No family
should be without a bottle of this
medicine in the house, especially
in summer-time.—Lansing, Iowa,
Journal. For sale by dll dealers
in Perry, Warren & Lowe, Byron.
A PET SHOEBILL STORK.
In the ground^ of the sirdar’s
palace at Khartum there is now a
gigantic pet bird, originally de
scribed as an abnormally large pel.
ican without a pouch. This is a
shoebill stork which was shot in the
wing by a sportsman last summer
about a hundred miles above Khar
tum. As the bird was unable to
fly, it was captured without difficul
ty and now stalks about the grounds
with the dignity befitting a bird
which when adult stands five feet
high and has a monstrous bill,
which has been compared to a
whale’s head, a boat turned upside
down and a shoe. Only two speci
mens have been brought alive to
England. These were sold to the
Zoological society in 1860 by Con
sul Petherick, who after several
failures to keep young birds taken
from the nest hatched out some
eggs under hens, though only two
reached London, and these did not
live long in confinement. — West
minster Gazette.
Wall Paper From Old Shoes.
Old shoes are not waste from the
standpoint of modern industry. Aft
er they have done their service and
are discarded by the first wearers a
secondhand dealer restores the worn
shoes to something like their for
mer appearance, and they are sold
again, to be worn a little by the
poorer classes.
When the shoes are finally dis
carded by them, they are still good
for various purposes. In France
such shoes are bought up in quanti
ties by rag dealers and sold to fac
tories, where the shoes are first tak
en apart and submitted to long
processes, which turn them into
paste, from which the material is
transformed into an imitation leath
er, appearing very much like the
finest morocco. Upon this material
stylish designs are stamped, and
wall papers, trunk coverings and
similar articles are manufactured
from it.—London Answers.
Football In Japan.
Among the many things that Ja
pan. borrowed from China- was foot
ball, said to have been introduced,
as early as the middle of the sev
enth century. The-Emperor Toba
II. was an expert player and got up
a club at his palace. But as most
But as mos
oriental races are averse to hard
work and active games football
must have been played in a different
manner from that in which Ameri
can boys play .it. Nevertheless the
Japanese form, seems to have been
popular, and we may trace the be
ginning of professional guinea to an
emperor and his court.
The Sun Spots Coming Back.
Evidences of the gradual revival
of solar activity, as manifested by
the presence of dark spots on the
face of the sun, are becoming more
numerous and conclusive. It is con
sidered certain that the sun has
now passed the minimum of the
spot period, and during the preserft
year many spots may be seen. The
increase of a sun spot period is
more rapid than its subsequent de
cline. The minimum just passed
has been somewhat long drawn out,
and the return of the spots has been
awaited for a year. Ip. March the
first spots bearing all the traits of
'those that belong to a new period
were seen in the sun’s northern
hemisphere in latitude 25 degrees.
It is characteristic of a new period
that its first spots appear far north
or south of the equator, while at the
end of a period they are near the
equator.—Youth’s Companion.
Society For Society.
“I say, coachman, whip up your
horse a little faster.”
“Impossible. I am a member of
the Society For the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals.”
Ten minutes later at the jour
ney’s end: “Come now, passenger, a
little larger pour boire!”
“Impossible. I am a member of
the Temperance society.” — Paris
Figaro.
Leads Them All.
“One Minute Cough Cure beats
all other medicine I ever tried for
coughs, colds, croup and throat
and lung troubles,” says D. Scott
Children of the West Indies.
Hundreds of little men and wom
en, unfortunate little negro chil
dren, were destroyed' in the terrible
volcanic disasters that came to the
beautiful islands of Martinique and
St. Vincent a short time ago. They
were happy youngsters) and if their
liyes had not been snuffed out they
would have grown into happy negro
men and women, for happiness is a
trait of the natives of the West In
dies. The climate is so mild that
children never think of wearing
shoes and can play out of doors all
the year round except at intervals
in the short raipy season. A group
of six of these island youngsters is
shown in the accompanying illus
tration. They have been out m the
fields for wild flowers, which gfow
abundantly on most of the islands.
HAPPY YOUNGSTERS.
The rickety cart is serving the
younger girls as a carriage, and the
little brother of one of them has
been impressed into service as a
horse. These particular children
do not live in the belt where the
volcanoes have been active, and it is
probable that they do not know
that thousands of their neighbors
have been killed, for West Indian
children do not read papers, as do
American boys and,girls. In the
first place a great many of them
never learn to read, and then they
have no papers.—-New York Trib
une.
Currin of Loganton, Pa., One
‘ C< ’ ~ ’ ’
minute Cough Cure is the only ab
solutely safe cough remedy which
acts immediately. Mothers every
where testify t^ the good it has
done their little ones. Croup is
so sudden in its attacks that the
doctor often arrives too late. It
yields at once to One Minute
Cough Cure. Pleasant to take.
Children like it. Sure cure for
grip, bronchitis, coughs. Holtz-
claw’s drugstore.
The Georgia Soldiers’ Home in
Atlanta will be completed and ready
for occupation by the veterans by
August 15th. There has been twen
ty deaths of veterans who entered
the Home since it was first opened.
If You Suffer from Kidney Troubles
Use Smith’s Sure Kidney Cure. Noth
ing like it for diseased kidneys. 50
cents, at Cater’s Drugstore.
Beauty is born in the blood.
Beauty is more than “skin deep,”
it is blood deep. When the blood
is tainted by disease the flesh
will feel it and the skin will show
it. Sallow or muddy complex
ions, pimples* blotches, and erup
tions are only the surface signs of
impure blood. Face washes, lo
tions, complexion powders, may
palliate the evils but they cannot
cure the disease. The only cure
is to cleanse tfie blood of the
poisonous matter which is the
cause of the outbreak in the flesh
and skin. Impure blood can be
absolutely purified by the use of
Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Dis
covery. Its effect on flesh and
skin is marked. Sores heal and
disappear. The skin becomes
smooth, and regains its natural
color. The eyes brighten and
sparkle, the whole body, is radiant
with the brightness and beauty of
health. “Golden Medical Discov
ery” contains no alcohol, whisky
or other intoxicant, and is abso
lutely free from opium, cocaine
and other narcotics. The use of
Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets' - , as
sists the action of the “Discov
ery,” by cleansing the system of
clogging matter.
Col. ©liver Hazard Payne, the
Standard oil magnate, who owns
a palatial winter home near Thom-
asville, containing about 2,000
acres, has bought 1,576 acres to
add to his present estate. The
price paid wa’s $27,147.15.
Stops tlie Cough and Worlis of £
the Cold.
Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets
cures a cold in one day. No cure,
No pay. Price, 25 cents
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