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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 0 □ N ADVERTISEMENT i *5 * J Placed in the Columns of this paper will HELP YOUR BUSINESS. Try an ad about the size of this one—make it interesting reading and the Weekly-Ban ner and its readers will do the rest. All business must be pushed and advertising is a great power for pushing. Try This Space. 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. WEEKLY - BANNEB- 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 Weekly. _ 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 ^J ,, . ® * 'should take ie jes ^ G iea 1 Ins bath two, three or four times a 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 V ' ^' Robert Walter m Laws °* 11 Health, yi Go PATENT Good rtiay be secured by our aid. Address, THE PUENT RECORD, --,--- Record Baltimore. A *ubscrlDtlons to The patent Sl.QO D?r nr .vx, Advertising will help a < mm rm a ■ : ' m-mummim;, ii11iii h i11•«1i m KIpP 3 mVH "7 .~ iniVii ; Ui"i ,i iii;: | 'iu 1 '' ’"i" 1 " ■. 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