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During the recent sea test of the new United States battleship Hear*
large, the purely American device of two-story turrets was first put to the
service firing test with remarkable success. Tho figures given of the tre¬
mendous shooting power of this magnificent engine of destruction are almost
inconceivable. The Kearsarge is now the most powerful warship in the
world. At a single broadside the guns of the ship threw a mass of chilled
eteel from the rifles of her main battery aggregating 5750 pounds, with a
muzzle energy of 83,276 foot tons. At each discharge of the four guns in the
double turrets 2700 pounds of projectiles were thrown out with a velocity of
iftOO feet a second. The two twin turrets, one fore and the other aft, each
contain a pair of 8-inch rifles superimposed upon a pair of 13-inch guns. In
casemate protection between these turrets are fourteen 5-inch rapid-fire
rifles, of which seven are in each broadsids.
York’s
Rapid Transit ggstem
Greatest of City Tunnels.
Three years from now New York’s
great underground rapid transit trunk
line will stand completed. From the
Postoffice at Broadway and Barclay
street a New Yorker will go home to
dinner under Broadway, under Elm
street, under tho Boulevard to Harlem
in fifteen minutes.
This will be the “main line” of the
new rapid system. But this is not all.
From the “main line” another tun-
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nel road will branch off at Ninety-
sixth street and run across to the East
Side and under the Harlem River to
Bronx Park.
Still another branch road will start
from the main line at the Postoffice,
run under the East River and out into
the far suburbs of Brooklyn, The
main trunk line and the Bronx
division will cost $35,009,000 and will
be built at once. The Brooklyn branch
roads will follow in time. It is the
greatest engineering feat of the be¬
ginning of the new century.
The method of building the new
line is interesting not only because of
These stations will be on either side
of the street, as in the ease of the
present elevated stations, only passen¬
gers will go downstairs instead of up
to take the trains. The passageways
leading down will be walled with white
enamel brick, and lighted by electricity
until it is almost as bright as day.
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TRANS-SECTION OF TUNNEL CYLINDERS UNDER THE RIVER.
the four-track system of express and
local tracks begins will be a commo¬
dious and well arranged station. To
board a local train uptown one will
take a car on the outer track. To take
tbe distance it traverses and the fact
that it runs beneath crowded city
streets, but because it will include in
one part or another of its course al¬
most every form of underground
work. Although popularly known as
a tunnel, it will be constructed as a
tunnel proper through only a small
portion of its extent, and for another
small distance it will be a viaduct or
elevated structure. Throughout the
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greater part of its course, however,
the new road will be built in an open
trench, which afterward will be covered
over aud will form a subway, Be-
tween City Hall Park and Kings-
bridge and Bronx Park—tho three
termini of the line—almost every form
of soil will be encountered. Sand
and silt, mud and water, coarse gravel
and solid rock must be removed.
Sewers, gas and electric mains
street car tracks must be moved into
new positions, and the work must go
on with as little interruption to street
traffic as possible. Thus, it will be
seen, the problem before the contract¬
or is a complex one and the various
portions of it must be met with vari¬
ous solutions.
The accompanying illustrations will
give a precise notion of the relative
position of the tunnels to the streets
and rivers when completed. From the
City Hall, where the “underground”
will have its southern terminus in a
great loop about the Postoffice, four
trades will bo laid directly under
Broadway, thus following the great
artery of business traffic north toward
the West Side suburb at Kings bridge,
while' a branob from Ninety-Bixth
street will extond under the Harlem
River to the Bronx Park region. These
sections will thus be brought within
twenty or twenty-five minutes’ ride to
the City Hall by express train. The
two central tracks are to be devoted
CROWN PRINCESS STEPHANIE WEDS.
She Formally lUnomei the Wife of Connt
Elemer Lonyny.
Crown Princess Stephanie ot Aus¬
tria, the prohibition
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TRANS-SECTION OF FOUR-TRACK TUNNEL UNDER BROADWAY.
to through express trains, the outer
ones to local traffic. Stations will
occur at about the same frequency as
those of the present elevated railroad.
The entrances will be at the level of
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JOHN B. M’DONALD.
the street, consisting of neat iron and
bronze framework, with glass roofs
covering the descending stairways,
an express train passengers will go
along an intermediate gallery, which
passes over the outer local track, de¬
scending to the express tracks, which
are in the middle.
Electricity is to be the motive force
on the now proved and practical
“third-rail” plan. At frequent inter¬
vals ventilating flues are to be con¬
structed with powerful electric fans
to preserve a circulation of air. Later
on ft branch tunnel is to go under
East River and ramify through the
gieat Borough of Brooklyn. One of
the most interesting aud peculiar
parts of the underground system will
be where the East Side section will
go under the Harlem River, The
tracks will divide here and each will
go under the water in a separate oast-
iron cylinder fifteen feet in diameter.
The circular passageways will look
like gigantic water pipes and will keep
the water of the river out quite ns ef¬
fectually as genuine water pipes keep
water in.
John B. McDonald, who has under¬
taken this multi-million dollar con¬
tract and will be the directing head of
the great work, is a native of Ireland.
He was born in County Cork fifty-six
years ago and came to this country
when he was fifteen years old.
A Need Well Met.
German scientists are advocating
that physiciaus take practical lessons
ia oooking, in order that they shall
know the value of every kind of food
from a hygienic and medical stand¬
point.
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Charlestown was settled in 1629 and
was annexed to Boston in 1873.
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CROWN PRINCESS
STEPHANIE.
The Emperor, Stephanie’s father-
in-law, was not present, but his ma¬
jesty wired his congratulations. Im¬
mediately after the ceremony the im¬
perial flag of Austria-Hungary, which
has waved over the chateau, was
hauled town in token that the Crown
Princess had ceased to be a member
,of the house of Hapsburg.
The question of Stephanie’s reten¬
tion of the title of royal higli nesB, to
which she was
bore, is stillunan-
swered. Her
father endeavored
to stop the pay¬
ment of his daugh¬
ter’s 'appanage of
50,000 francs
($10,000), which
was settled on her
at the time of her
marriage with
Crown Prince Ru¬
of Austria,
bat in this his majesty was not suc¬
cessful, because the nuptial oontract
expressly provides that the annuity
shall continue during Stephanie’s life¬
time.
Tho tragic death of her first hus¬
band, who was slain by a disappointed
sweetheart of the beautiful Baroness
Vera, January 10, 1889, at an imperial
hunting lodge, near Vienna, caused
the retirement of Crown Princess Ste¬
phanie for a time, but not beyond the
period of mourning prescribed by the
house rules. When she appeai-ed in
publio again she evinced a great dis¬
position for amusement in and out of
court circles. In this way she became
acquainted with Count Lonyay, a
Hungarian nobleman of considerable
wealth. He is a Protestant, a circum¬
stance which increased the dislike of
the Emperor of Austria of a union
which meant the withdrawal of the
Crown Princess from court functions,
at which she has been the undisputed
ruler since the death of Empress
Elizabeth of Austria in September,
1898, under the poniard of the anar¬
chist Luchani,at Geneva,Switzerland.
Tua Tna: Will It Cure I.«p> osy?
Two dozeu specimens of tho Vene¬
zuelan plant known ns tna tua have
been sent from Washington to Hawaii
for the purpose of making a test of its
alleged wonderful power as a cure for
leprosy. Tho plant will be tested at
the leprosy hospital there, where the
1073 lepers will afford every facility
for a thorough trial. Surgeon D. A.
Carmichael, of the Marine Hospital,
has also seut half a dozen bottles of
the liquid preparation to Molokai, and
this will be used for immediate tests,
while the plants will bo set out and
cultivated, with the purpose of pro¬
viding unlimited fresh material for
further use.
Wonderful stories ai-o current in
Venezuela about the marvelous cura¬
tive properties of tua tua when applied
to leprosy, and the Government pby-
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THE TUA TUA PLANT OP VENEZUELA, SAID
TO POSSESS WONDERFUL CURATIVE
PROPERTIES IN CASES OP LEPROSY.
gicians attach considerable importance
to the evidence given them. It is
proposed also to test it in the island
of Guam, that tiny spec of Pacific laud
that came to us with our other Span¬
ish war acquisitions.
ComprelieniJ ve
On a tombstone in an old New Eng¬
land churchyard there is an epitaph
which never fails to bring a Bmile to
the face of the reader;
“To the memory of Ann Sophia and
Julia Hattie, his two wives, this stone
is erected by the grateful widower,
James B. Rollins. They made home
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of her
Leopold of Bel¬
gium, was married
recently at Miramar
Castle, near Trieste,
to Count Elemer
Lonyay. By com¬
mand of Emperor
Francis Joseph the
ceremony was strict¬
ly private. It was
performed by the
court chaplain, Bis-
hop Mayer, in pres¬
ence of six wit¬
nesses.
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COL’XT LONYAY.
THE HOMING INSTINCT.
Ability of Vitrlout JIJrris and Anlruila to
Find Their Way Home.
The homing instinot develops in
young animals almost as early as the
desire for food. In the wild state it
is a necessity, since without it the
young could never keep in touch with
herd or pack. Even after centuries
of domestication it is still acute.
Witness this tale of little pigs: They
were under a month old when their
owner decided to move. He wanted
to fatten and kill their mothers, so
offered the lot of forty at r bargain
price. A neighbor five miles away
bought the pigs, put them in a big
box, hoisted the box on a wagon and
hauled it home. There the pigs were
put in a closed pen, fed on milk ami
mush for two weeks, then allowed to
run in a small lot adjacent the pen.
Three mornings later every one rooted was
missing. A small hole carefully
under the gate was the sole explana¬
tion of their disappearance. Their
buyer searched high and low for them,
sending oven to adjacent farms, but
could not find them. That afternoon
tho original owner sent word lie had
found thirty-nine of the forty stand¬
ing squealing at his gate when ho
awoke. The buyer going to feclaim
the strays, found the missing fortieth
pig lying exhausted by the roadside,
still struggling to follow tho trail of
its mates.
Upon the samo middle Tennessee
plantation a four-year-old mare The was
bought from au Ohio drove,
drove had been brought down on
stock cars to the connty town, seveu
miles away. The mare seemed per¬
fectly content in her now surround¬
ings, so after a week or two she was
allowed to pasturo with other stock.
For a day she was happy, grazing anil
frolicking with the rest. Toward
noon of the second day a watcher saw
her suddenly fling up her head, cock
one ear forward, one back, as though
listening intently to a far off. call,
then start in a swinging gallop for the
pasturo fence, clear it with a flying
leap, cross a field of young corn, takf
the boundary fence, a much stiffer one,
and go away due north. Nothing more
was seen or heard of her for three
months. Then by a singular chance
she was discovered, impounded as au
estray, more than half way across the
State of Kentucky. She had swum a
considerable river to get so far, and
had been taken up, through breaking
into a pasture to graze. She was go¬
ing home straight as the crow flies,
making no account whatever of the
bends and turns in tbe route by which
she had been fetched.
Among fowls, domestic turkeys are
the most persistent homers, This
same plantation’s mistress fouud that
out in a way at once odd and provok¬
ing. Sie raised a brood of fourteen,
which turned out to contain thirteen
gobblers. They wore fine lusty bronze-
brown fellows, although this was in
the year when brdnze turkeys, so-
called, were unknown. fcfie gave
away seveu out of the thirteen to as
many neighbors, to put at the head of
their breeding flocks. As a conse¬
quence, almost every day for six woeks
she had to go out and help to sepa¬
rate her own turkeys from some other
flock. Each of tho gift gobbblers
came back home, not once but many
times, with his harem at his heels.
Oats are proverbial homers.
Paderewski's Feminine Critics.
“About a year ago,” said a North
Ride girl, “a gentleman moved into
the flat next to ours and brought his
piano with him. Now, I’m fond of
music, but that did not hinder me
from getting very tired sometimes of
hearing onr neighbor practicing, and
I would say to Molly, ‘Whata dullard
that fellow is! He will never become
a musician!’ Then agaib, he would
do so well that I would add repent-
ently, ‘Really his touch is quite
good.’
“The other night ho gave us a gor¬
geous surprise. Ho played ail even¬
ing long—and such music! Molly
aud I crept out on tho landing en¬
tranced. I vowed I was going to get
some one to introduce him to me, and
then I might implore him to play a
little every night. But Molly de¬
murred, Sho said she quite agreed
with me that this was excellent music,
hut, all tho same, the musician was
lacking in technique, and it was
clearly a ca3e of special inspiration
rather than the result of any great
training or ability.
“But we did enjoy it all tlm same,
and I prayed that our neighbor might
have Iub ‘inspirations’ early and often.
The next morning when I went down
in the elevator, the boy said; ‘D ’you
know that Paderewski was here last
night?’ I gasped, ‘Where?’ ‘Oh,
right in the flat next cq yours,’ he
said, ‘Paderev/ski is a great friend
of that fellow who lives there, and,
do you know, he just stayed aud played
all the evening!’ ”—Chicago Times-
Herald.
Why Cats drcli Their Hades.
It is not anger alone that makes
cats arch their backs; indeed, when
two cats are preparing to fightHhey
do not assume this attitude, bill
crouch low, just as they do when
about to spring on their prey, tbe
body being extended, and the hair
not in the least erect.
It is noticeable that a cat will also
arch its back wlion in an affectionate
frame of mind, rubbing itself agaiust
its master’s leg. At the same time it
slightly raises its fur and holds its
tail erect, Its whole attitude is just
the reverse of that which it assumes
when savage, Darwin accounts for
this in tho following words: “Certain
states of mind lead to certain habitual
actions which are of no service. Now,
when a directly opposite state of mind
is induced there is a strong and invol¬
untary Tendency to the performance
of a movement of a directly opposite
nature, though it may be of no ser¬
vice.”
A Mother’s Tears..
"I Would Cry Every Time I Washed*
My Baby."
"When he
was 3 months ■yr ;i. d
old, first f«s- 6^.'
and ^ jr
ters thou
large bolls fej s
broke out on M
my b a b y • s I
n e o k. Tbe \ $
sores spread -i
down hi »
buck until - ‘
became T 1
mass ot raw ( /'T s ? r )
flesh. Wliei ‘1
I w a B h e <
and p o w! ik.«iit\Vw1
rfered him X would cry, realizing whul pain
lie was lu. His pitiful walling was heart¬
rending. I hint about given up hope off
saving him wlion I was ur■!od to give him
Hood's Sarsaparilla, nil other tro.atmont
having (ailed. I washed the sores with-
Hood’s Medicated Soap, applied Hood’s
Olive Ointment and gave him Hood’s Sar¬
saparilla. The ohild seemed to get better
every day, and very soon tbe obauge was
quite noticeable. The discharge grew less
inflammation wont down, the skin took on
a healthy color, and tho raw flesh began to
scale over and a thin skin formed as the
scales dropped off. Less than two bottles-
of Hood’s Sarsaparilla, aided by Hood’s-
Medicated Soap and Hood’s Olive Oint--
meat, accomplished this womlerful cure. I
cannot praise these medicines halt
enough." Mas. Gozbinot, 37 Myrtle St.,.
Rochester, N. Y.
The ubove testimonial Is very much con¬
densed from Mrs. Guerinot's letter. As-
many mothers will be interested In read¬
ing tlie full letter, we will send It to any¬
one who sends request ot us on a postal!
card. Mention this paper.
Man's Mighty Lever.
Taking all tbe manufactures of the-
United States In 1890, barring some-
omissions in reporting horse power, itr
is found that the total horse pow:;r was
in round numbers 6,000,000, equivalent
to the labor of 86.000,000 men, while-
only 4.476.SS4 persons were employed,
the supplemental labor having a ratio-
equivalent to 8 to 1.
Horse power used in manufactures
equivalent to 86,000,000 men repre¬
sents a population of 190,000,000; in
other words, if the products of the
manufacturing establishments alone of
the United States in 1890 had been se¬
cured by the old hand methods, with¬
out the aid of power machinery, it
would have required a population of
180,000,000. with none left for agricul¬
ture, trade, transportation, mining,
forestry, the professions or any other
occupation.—Gunton’s Magazine.
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load lota. More “ Good Luck ” sold in Sooth than all other brands
combined. Highest Leavening; Power; Wholesome and HealthfuL
Look for the “ Hopsb Shoe” on ev ery can
flMatacturcd by The Southern Manufacturing Co., Richmond, Va.
Wanted— 1 Tract of farming land. Send descrip¬
tion and lowest price. F. A. Hall, Savannah, Ga.
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r <l Culture”
is the name
m of a valu¬
able illustrat¬
ed pamphlet
in? H which should
be in the hands
of planter 1
every WHO
raises Cotton. The
book is sent Free.
Send name and address to
GERMAN KALI WORKS,
93 Nassau St.. New York.
W. L. DOUGLAS
S3 &3.B0 SHOES
Worth \ with $4 other to$6compared^ make;.
I Xlndortted hj over
yS 1,000,000 wearers.
| | Douglas’ The genuine name have and W. price L. j-3 FAb
q stamped on bottom. Take
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9 should keep them—if pair"
3 Si on not rece » we eipt will of price send and a 25 c. ^AWfiif/ >‘** r
WE extra for carriage. State kind ot leather,
U3S size, and width, plain or cap toe. Cat. free.
FAST W. L DOUGLAS SHOE GO., Brockton, Mass.
tCtCa EYELETS
MtoRiver DIAMOND
80 closely resembles the genuine ns to be be-
▼oud detection except by the closest scrutiny ot
nn expert. Only cost from 00 to $15.00 each.
Worn by leaders of society everywhere. Send
4c for illustrated catalogue. Agents wanted.
The Modder River Diamond Co.,
No. 919 Prudential Building, Atlanta, Ga..
A SwssiSo&sr
guid depression. Many swallows of
HIRES Rootbesr
are best for a spring tonic—and for a snmnoOT
beverage. 6 gallons for 25 cents. Writs for .
list of premium* nftend free lor «■ belli
Cluirles E. Hires Co.
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