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PUMFIN6 OUT A SCOW.
Easiest Problim the River Man Has.
Pull the Piutj Out and Haul.
“Xobody who knows anything
about boats worries over a few feet
of water in a scow if the water isn’t
too deep,” said a riverman. “Gct
ting it out is the easiest job in the
world.
“Scows, as everybody knows, are
fiat bottomed, and up forward in
the bottom of every one is-a plug
as big around as a man's two lists.
Dozens of empty scows fill up with
water and lie at the piers with only
the deck afloat every year. It doesn’t
hurt them. The owner just lets
them lie so tul they io uanted i 1 k\i
lie sen do a tugboat along.-- 1 . .c.
sbe hitches on. A man goe- 'U-odn
the scow and pulls out the plug.
“Docs the scow sink? Nary a
foot. As the tug starts her up, you
see, she lifts the old scow up some,
and the result is that the water in
the scow pours out through the plug
Dole. It’s hard pulling at first, hut
the faster the tug hauls the higher
goes the scow bow and the quicker
the water goes out till the scow’s
almost dry. After a spin of a mile
or so the plug can be replaced and
Die little water that remains in her
pumped out by hand.
“Simple? I should think so.
Easiest thing in the world. That’s
why scows are so useful. You need
not be so particular about calking
them so long as your cargo won’t he
hurt by water, and age and submer¬
sion seem to improve them.”—New
York Sun.
Rudyard Kipling’s Check?.
It is related that when Kudyard
Kipling lived in America he tried a
system of paying all household ex¬
penses by checks. Naturally those
checks varied in amount, most of
them being small. The majority
were a dollar or so. Butcher’s bills,
grocery bills, were settled promptly Mr.
in this fashion, and of course
Kipling’s checkbook at home pro¬
vided him with an accurate account
of expend i ture. the bank¬
But when he sent in
book monthly to be examined the
result would never balance. lie in¬
variably found that the amount of
his credit was greater than it ought
to be, and he tried to persuade him¬
self that this was owing to his own
defective bookkeeping or his own
bad head for figures.
It was only by accident that he
discovered the secret. Many of the
email checks wore never presented
at, all. Their value as autographs
was greater than their bank value.
Tradesmen sold them to customers
at a profit. Instead of finding their
way to the bankers the checks were
carefully treasured. Visiting at a
gentleman’s bouse, Kipling of had seeing the
pleasure (or the reverse)
one of his checks hanging framed
on the wall. It was a check given
for a case of bottled beer.
No wonder the novelist’s books
would not balance. Indignant at
this discovery, ho is said to have
burned his checkbook and in future
paid all his accounts in hard cash.—
Golden Penny.
Self Satisfied.
philosopher, Schopenhauer, afforded the great German
one of the
most remarkable examples of self
complacency that have ever been
known. His naive eulogiums on bis
own productions are almost beyond
belief.
In writing to his publishers of his
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work he gays, “Its worth and impor¬
tance arc so great that I do not ven¬
ture to express it even toward you,
because you could not believe me,”
and he proceeds to quot a review
“which speaks of me with the high¬
est praise, as the greatest philoso¬
pher of the age, which is really say¬
ing. much less than the good man
thinks.”
“Sir,” he said to an unoffending
stranger who watched him across a
table d’hote, where he acted the part
of the local “lion” habitually—“sir,
you are evidently astonished at my
appetite. True, I eat three times as
much as you do; but, then, I have
three times as much mind!”
Couldn’t Pick a Quarrel.
General Fournier was an apostle
0 f the unique in dueling. The may
or Perigueux was bis bitter one
my, but as they moved in widely dif¬
ferent social circles the general
found some difficulty, in picking a
quarrel. His opportunity .came one
day as be was showing off before
some ladies his expertness with the
pistol. The mayor passed, consid¬ with a
rose in his mouth. It was a
erable distance from the general’s
balcony to the mayor on the other
side of the street, but the old fight¬
er knew his skill. “Just notice this,
ladies,” he said, “how I will pick the
mayor’s rose.” He raised the pis¬
tol. The women shrieked that he
should desist, but too late, The
hammer fell, and the rose and the
mayor dropped, the latter from
fright. The general’s expertness
defeated his purpose. The sureness
of his aim terrified the mayor out of
lending the desired challenge.
How “Ground Ice” Forms.
The whole body of water is at the
same time cooled to below the freez¬
ing point, and the substances at the
bottom—the stones and gravel o —b
the river or lake bed—serve as a
point of congelation or crystalliza¬
tion for the water.
Ground ice may be the lowest
stratum of the once completely
frozen mass of water, retained at the
bottom by the natural cohesion to
the rough substances of the river
bed during the thawing and melting
of the ice on the surface, or it may
even be formed under favorable con¬
ditions beneath briskly flowing
water, probably by the action of
eddies, which draws the surface
water down through the warmer but
denser liquid, thus cooling the rocks
at the bottom, forming a base for its
formation.
This remarkable species of ice
usually gathers on a clear, cold
night, when the surface of the water
is not frozen.
Egyptian Embalming.
The Egyptians had no specifio
embalming fluid. Three methods,
varying mostly in degree of pains
taken and in the expense of the op¬
eration, were practiced among them.
The most expensive, used only for
great personages, cost in our money
about $1,500, the second about $300
and the third a comparatively essentially small
sum. The process was
the same in all, the softer portions
of the body being either removed or
filled with aromatic essences, while
the whole body was anointed with
oil of cedar and saturated with ni
ter, saltpeter or common salt. Many
of the bodies were boiled in bitu¬
men, and all were wrapped of in cloths
soaked in the essences various
gums. The process usually occu¬
pied about a month, and its success
was greatly facilitated by the ex¬
treme dryness of the climate.
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putting IT PLAINLY.
The Young Genttorr.ravs interview
With His Swectheart'3 Father.
The old gentleman didn't want
the young gentleman to marry the
3 'oung lady, the young lady being
the old gentleman's daughter.
So when the young gentleman
came on the all important mission
the old gentleman set his face
against ' the young gentleman.
“No, sjr,” said he, with angry em¬
phasis; “you cannot have my daugh¬
ter.”
“But I want her,” urged the
young gentleman, “and, what is of
some consideration in the count,
she wants me.”
“That makes no difference, sir.
You can’t have her.”
“That means, I presume, that you
want me to give her up ?”
“Exactly.” took
The young gentleman a
hitch in himself.
“Do you think I am going to do
it?” he asked in a tone which did
not strike the old gentleman as al¬
together submissive.
“I do.”
“Well, no wonder you don't want
me for a son-in-law if you think I’m
that kind of a fellow. I don’t blame
you at all., I wouldn’t have that
kind of a son-in-law myself even if
sous-in-law were going at a premi
urn. But, my dear sir, I’m not that
kind. I want your daughter for my
wife, and I’m going to have her.
She wants me for a husband. I have
no objections to you as a father-in
law, and she rather admires you as a
father. Therefore I am warranted
in joining the combination, and if
you want to act ugly, why, we will,
as dutiful children, humor your
whim and patch it up somehow with
the friends of the family, who will
be wanting to know what is the mat¬
ter with you anyhow. Sec ?”
And the old gentleman had wis¬
dom enough to see. — Pearson’s
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The Morning Gath.
Cold water is a narcotic, as alcohol
is. It deadens the sensibilities of
the skin and hcncc prevents the
sensation of cold. It relieves Hie
disposition to chilliness because of
this deadened sensibilit} r , and as
colds and catarrhs are due to hyper¬
sensitiveness of the skin we readily
see that the cold bath prevents the
cold by reducing the sensitiveness.
But the cold morning bath does
something more. It arouses nerv¬
ous activity by calling upon the vital
system for increased animal heat.
The contraction of the vessels due
to the cold is followed by a relaxa¬
tion of them, explained by the prin¬
ciple of reaction, and so through the
cold bath both action and reaction
are established, which frequently
give delusive excitements to the vic¬
tim.
The tepid or warm morning bath
is a great improvement over the cold
water bath, but even this is not
to be commended. Whoever would
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y^ek and retire to bed for a rest,
thereby ^ allowing, equilibrium nature of her to secure forces
an d promote the best conditions of
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