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The Weather.
The Indications for Georgia to-day
ere scattered showers and thunder
storms. not so warm, light variable
[winds; and for Eastern Florida, show
fers and thunderstorms in central and
north portions, fair in south, light to
fresh southeast winds.
Newspaper readers will recall that
Jess than a year ago Miss Emma King,
a young trained nurse of Brooklyn,
consented in the interest of science to
he inoculated with the virus of bovine
tuberculosis. Prof. Koch of Berlin had
Just announced that bovine tubercu
losis could not be transmitted to the
human system. A Brooklyn doctor as
serted Prof. Koch was wrong; that not
only could a human being take con
sumption from a cow, but that con
sumption was curable by a method
Which he had perfected. Miss King of
lered herself for the experiment. She
Was inoculated, and developed the dis
ease, as was certified by a number of
physicians who visited her. Then the
doctor went to work to effect the prom
ised cure. The public lost sight of Miss
King for several months. The matter
Was recalled a day or two ago by the
announcement that Miss King had died
near Dover, N. J., from the effects of
a dose of arsenic, which it seems she
took as a tonic. It is stated that she
iwas a mental and physical wreck at
the time of her arrival in Dover. It is
not believed she intended to commit
suicide.
I
The settlement of the Philippine
triars question is not going to be
brought about as easily and as quick
ly as was at one time thought possi
ble. The indications now are that the
negotiations will be long drawn out and
that many months will elapse before
a satisfactory understanding is arriv
ed at. The negotiations will be trans
ferred to Manila, where they will be in
the hands of an apostolic delegate and
the governor of the islands. There is
<- doubt that Manila is a better posi
tion from which to view the situation
than either Rome or Washington. It is
the interests of the Philippine people
that are to be conserved. In Manila it
will be possible to get into closer touch
With the wishes of the Filipinos. It
should be borne in mind that the Unit
ed States government has no feeling
in 'the matter whatever. It is not seek
ing the retirement of the friars be
cause they are Catholics; its position
would be precisely the same if they
were of any other religious order. The
government has determined that the
friars must go because the Filipinos
wish them to go, and because it would
not be possible to have peace and con
tentment in the islands if the friars
were to return to their lands and for
mer positions. As has been pointed but.
it was one of the purposes of the Fili
pino insurrection under Aguinaldo to
seize the lands of the friars, without
making any sort of compensation to
the church. The United States propose
that there shall be no such forcible
seizure, but that ,e lands shall be
paid for at a fair valuation. While the
negotiations may be lengthy, there can
be little doubt that the United States
will carry their point
THE ATLANTA DEPOT QUESTION.
In discussing the union depot ques
tion at Atlanta the Constitution of
that city says; “It is plain to every
body now that the railways must build
any union station In Atlanta that will
be built. Let them, then, at once
count the state out of the question,
since they know that it is out of it,
and go ahead with the work.”
This may be excellent advice, so far
as the interests of the people of At
lanta are concerned, but how about
the railroads? Is it for the railroads
to say that the state is at the end of
its rope,as it were, and connot perform
its part of the project to build a depot
on the state's property, or should they
wait until the state makes the an
nouncement that it canot furnish a
site before undertaking to build a de
pot elsewhere? It seems to us that
it is for the state to make the an
nouncement, and thus release the rail
roads from any obligation that may
rest upon them to utilize the state’s
property.
The Legislature proposed a union
depot on the state’s property and the
people of Atlanta approved the propo
sition, apparently. The railroads were
never anxious for a union depot on
the state's site—at least all of them
were not. They seemed to be willing,
however, to do what the state and the
people of Atlanta wanted done in the
matter. But it was understood that
the state should provide a depot that
would meet the requirements of the
railroads.
The state secured plans from an
architect. These plans called for cer
tain street concessions from the city.
It seems to be admitted by all parties
that without these concessions a satis
factory depot cannot be built on the
state’s property. The city has flatly
refused to make the concessions. As
a matter of fact therefore there is no
probability that a depot will be built
on the state’s property.
But is it not the state's duty to
notify the railroads that it cannot
comply with its part of the proposed
undertaking—that it cannot build a de
pot on its property—and thus release
the railroads from any obligation that
may rest upon them to do what they
can to promote the interests of the
state? It seems so to us, and it is
probable that the railroads look at the
matter In the same way. They don’t
want to be placed In the' position where
the Legislature can declare that they
conspired to injure the state’s prop
erty, by refusing to utilize It for
a union depot, and make that the
basis for hostile legislation. The state
took the initiative In the project for a
union depot on Its site; let it take the
initiative in declaring that the project
is not practicable.
THE PRESIDENT AND TRUSTS.
There is a great deal of speculation
as to how the President proposes to
get the anti-trust legislation of which
he spoke in his Pittsburg speech, and
to secure which he has, it is under
stood, Joined hands with Representa
tive Littlefield of Maine. There is no
reason to expect that he can get it
from the present Congress, and it is by
no means certain that the Republicans
will have control of the next House.
It is recalled that the Littlefield anti
trust bill was smpthered in committee
by Republican votes at the recent ses
sion of Congress. It Is not probable
therefore that the House, at the next
session of Congress, will look with fa
vor upon any legislation against trusts.
The Senate also put itself on record
on the trust question at the recent
session. Senator Dubois offered an
amendment to the anti-trust law em
bodying the President’s recommen
dations for anti-trust legislation—-the
recommendations contained in the
President's message, and which the
President repeated in his Pittsburg
speech—and it was defeated by Re
publican votes. It is asserted that
about every Republican senator voted
against the amendment.
The amendment provided for the
control of trusts and for making pub
lic their affairs. What reason has the
President for thinking that Congress
at the next session, will regard his
recommendations with greater favor
than It did at the last session? It is
doubtful If he has any. It is prob
able that he is sincere, but what can
he accomplish without he has the sup
port of his party? And that he hasn’t
Its support any more, than he had it
in his Cuban reciprocity policy is evi
dent. The leaders of his party seem to
be willing for him to talk all he wants
to in favor of Cuban reciprocity and
of making war on trusts, but if what
took place in the recent session of
Congress affords a basis for judging
what Congress is likely to do next
winter, it is evident that he has no
chance of accomplishing anything
along the line of his Pittsburg speech
—that is, so far as trusts are con
cerned.
Hugh McLaughlin, the Democratic
leader of Brooklyn, is a little caustic
In his comment on the loss of Mr.
Bryan's Tilden Club invitation by his
office boy. Mr. Laughlin says: “The
mislaying of that invitation shows
Very bad. discipline in Mr. Bryan’s of
fice. What if such a thing happened
in the White House? In other words,
what a fortunate thing it is that Mr.
Bryan was not elected President.” He
suggests that the office boy should be
fired. But didn’t the boy’s error make
the occasion for extra newspaper arti
cles?
Before the dilatory tactics of the Ca
nadian courts are condemned too se
verely, let it be remembered that our
American courts are not above criti
cism in the matter of the extradition
of indicted persons. It will be recall
ed that the Federal Court for the
Southern District of New York unreeled
a lot of red tape in the Greene and
Gaynor case.
The venerable George S. Boutwell of
Massachusetts, who has spent the bet
ter part of his long life as a member of
the Republican party, holding office a
great deal of the time, has declared
himself no longer a Republican and
that he will not again be a Republican
while that party adheres to an im
perialistic policy
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY. JULY 18, 1902.
TROUBLE EUR GEN. BRAGG.
Senor Zalda, the Cuban Secretary of
Btate, has asked Mr. Squiers, our min
ister to Cuba, if ft is true, as stated in
the newspapers, that Gen. Bragg, con
sul general at Havana, recently wrote
in a letter that when Uncle Sam got
through trying to make a whistle out
of a pig's tall he might try his hand at
making an Anglo-Saxon out of a Cuban.
It was thought that the Cuban gov
ernment would take no notice of this
matter, because Gen. Bragg does not
hold a strictly diplomatic position, and
therefore what he says about the Cu
ban people is not of so much conse
quence as if he were really in the dip
lomatic service. It seems, however,
that his opinion of the Cuban people,
written, it is asserted, in a letter to
his wife, has created a good deal of
feeling against him in Havana, and
perhaps throughout Cuba. The in
quiry made by the Cuban Secretary of
State probably means that an effort
Is to be made to have the place occu
pied by Gen. Bragg filled by someone
who has a better opinion of the Cu
bans.
Gen. Bragg is an Impulsive man and
has the reputation of speaking pretty
freely what i3 in his mind, but he did
not Intend that his criticism of the Cu
ban people, contained in his letter,
should be made public, and it is
strange that his wife made it public.
The probabilities are that she showed
the letter containing the objectionable
expression to some intimate friends,
and that One of them was Indiscreet
enough to give the expression such
publicity that it got into the newspa
pers.
Gen. Bragg is a man of ability, and
knows of course that the United States
government is not trying to make An
glo-Saxons out of the Cubans. It is
not trying to change them in any re
spect. It has given them their inde
pendence and left them to paddle their
own canoe. They are expected to do
that in thir own way. If they fail It
is their own fault.
The loss of his office would probably
be a great hardship for Gen. Bragg. He
Is an old man and doubtless is not
overburdened with this world’s goods.
He is a Democrat, and it is a pretty
safe assertion that the only reason the
President appointed him consul gen
eral at Havana was that he needed the
salary the office yields. If the Cuban
government does not press the charge
against him it is safe to say that in
future he will be more careful what
he writes to his wife. He would be
much better employed trying to in
crease the commerce between the
United States and Cuba than In ex
pressing the opinion In letters to rela
tives and friends that the Cubans are
Incapable of self-government.
THE FLORIDA PRIMARY.
Florida held its first general primary
under the new law last Tuesday, nomi
nating not only the state and county
officers to be voted for In November,
but also the members to fill vacancies
on the Railroad Commission, a United
Staites senator to succeed Hon. Stephen
R. Mallory, and a congressman for the
new Third district.
Owirig to the strict conditions at
tached to marking the ballot in Flor
ida the nominations in this primary
amount to certain election, although
the legal form of ratification at the
polls will take place in November.
In the new congressional district the
fight was, long and warm, with a num
ber of candidates before the people,
any one of whom would have perform
ed the duties of the office with indus
try, ability and patriotism. State At
torney General Lamar, who received
the nomination, has a lon£ record of
public service that must lend to the
people of his district a feeling of con
fidence and satisfied security in the
wisdom of their choice.
In Duval county (Jacksonville) the
richest and most populous In the state
a bitter and unique factional fight was
waged between the candidates for the
state Senate. Two brothers, both men
of prominence, were opponents for the
position. One was backed by the rail
road Interests and made the issue of
his campaign the indorsement of Unit
ed States Senator Taliaferro to succeed
himself two years hence. This candi
date suffered defeat by a small mar
gin and It would seem that a strong
possibility exists that Senator Talia
ferro will have opposition before the
Legislature of 1905 In the person of
Hon. John N. C. Stockton of Jackson
ville, whose candidacy before the joint
session of 1897 defeated Col. W. D.
Chipley and elected Mallory.
It remains to be seen if the working
of the general primary will prove as
satisfactory as was hoped and believed
by those who framed and enacted the
law.
Speaking of men of destiny, what Is
the matter with Leonard Wood? Only
three or four years ago he was an un
known army surgeon. But it is ad
mitted that he was a good one. Then
he became a colonel of Rough Riders,
and discharged his duties with marked
ability. Promoted to a brigadier gen
eralship and given charge of one of the
most difficult departments of Cuba, he
bi ought order out of chaos and made
Santiago a clean and well governed
city. Then, placed in the office of Gov
ernor of Cuba, he proved himself an
admirable civic administrator. And now
the President, so it is said, has Gen.
Wood’s name on his slate for the po
sition of chief constructor of the Pan
ama canal. So far as the public knows
Gen. Wood is not a great engineer, and
the man who superintends the con
struction of the canal must be one;
nevertheless it is possible that Gen.
Wood's abilities run even to the mas
tery of the greatest engineering pro
ject of the times.
A labor-saving appliance that is apt
to cause consternation among certain
artisans is reported from Canada. It
is a brick laying machine, and the
claim is that it will lay 400 to 800 bricks
per hour, and do the work better than
it is usually done by hand since each
brick laid is put in place under heavy
pressure. The machine is suited to all
plain work, and door and window
spaces cause only slight delay. The
apparatus can be readily operated aft
er two weeks' instruction, when it will
do the work of seven to eight men. Its
. operation reauires two man
The negro population of Philadelphia
is increasing rapidly. According to
an article in the Ylmes, there are now
approximately 70,000 blacks in that
city, with that element of the popula
tion increasing at the rate of about 5,-
000 a year. “If the rate continues,”
says the Times, “the next decade at
the latest will see Philadelphia the cen
ter of greatest density of negro popu
lation.” It is said that Richmond Is
now the center of greatest density, with
Washington a close second. In the
Seventh ward of Philadelphia it is esti
mated there are some 7,000 negroes, and
there are large colonies in other wards.
With so many negroes in the city it
seems that Philadelphia should “recog
nize” them politically by giving them
some of the public offices, but as far
as the information goes the offices are
monopolized by the white Republicans.
At all events, it is likely that Philadel
phia will shortly have a negro prob
lem “in her midst.” The problem Is
pretty certain to eventuate as soon sis
the negroes become numerous enough
to interfere in any manner with the
domination of the whites.
Senator Platt of New York celebrated
his sixty-ninth birthday a few days
ago. Speaking to a young man who
congratulated him, he gave this as the
golden rule of his gospel of politics;
“Let no man say that you have brok
en your word to him. Be careful about
making a promise, but once made ad
here to it, although it may be to your
detriment.” That is a pretty good rule,
not only for politics but for every-day
life.
A German nautical Journal, edited
anonymously in the Imperial navy de
partment, In a recent edition makes a
comparison of the latest German and
American naval artillery, and reaches
the conclusion that the advantage is
on the side of American battleships.
The opinion is expressed, however,
that the American shins carry too
many guns; so many, indeed, that they
are likely to hinder each other,
PERSONAL.
—lt is now known that some of Men
delssohn's “Songs Without Words,”
were composed by his sister, Fanny
Mendelssohn. She published them un
der her brother’s name because It was
considered discreditable for a woman
to compose music. This historical fact
suggests one possible explanation of the
scarcity of women composers.
—Capt. Aaron Lindberg, a Salvation
Army lassie, who was recently decor
ated with a gold medal by St. Louis
business men, distinguished her as the
champion War Cry peddler of the
world, selling 3,000 of the papers on
Christmas, has just helped to make an
other selling record in Kansas City.
Capt. Anna is from Sweden, and as
fair as all daughters of that Northern
country. She will soon visit her Swed
ish home and on her return to Amer
ica will marry Capt. Mullally of Deca
tur, 111.
—One of the oldest clergymen in
England Is an earl—the venerable Earl
of Devon. He is one of the few mem
bers of the House of Lords who were
bern before Waterloo became a name
in history and who have lived In four
reigns. The rector-earl still preaches
occasionally in the little Devonshire
village of Powderman. Lord Curzon, if
he lives, will succeed a clergyman in
the peerage. His father, Lord Scars
dale, has been for forty-six years rec
tor of Kedleston, the Derbyshire vil
lage from which Lord Curzon takes his
title.
BRIGHT BITS.
—Face Value.—“ Her face Is her fort
une.” “Well, she wouldn't be very
rich if she were two-faced.”—Phil
adelphia Bulletin.
—Mistress (to newly engaged cook)
—‘‘And now, what shall we call you?”
Cook—“ Well, mum, me name is Ber
tha, but me friends call me Birdie
Tit-Bits.
—Friendship’s Tribute.—The Youth—
”l think Bessie Billus is as pretty as
she can be. Don’t you?” The Maiden
—“Oh. yes; if she could think of any
way to make herself prettier you can
bet she’d try it."—Chicago Tribune.
—To Have and to Hold.—Tess—“Jack
told me he was going to propose to a
girl I knew last night.” Jess—“ Yes,
and he'll never do it again.” Tess—
“ Why, who was the girl?” Jess—"l,
and I accepted him.”—Philadelphia
Press.
—Deserved No Sympathy.—Mrs.
Sympythize—“l am so sorry that your
dear uncle, whom you loved so much,
is dead.” Mrs. Cutowt—"Oh, you
needn't be; he didn’t leave us a cent
—after all the times we had him at our
house for dinner, too.”—Ohio State
Journal.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Baltimore Sun (Dem), says:
“No doubt the Cubans who desire an
nexation have been impressed by the
prosperity which free trade has
brought to Porto Rico. The Porto
Rican industries are in the main flour
ishing. Take the tobacco trade, for
instance. For the fiscal year ended
June 30, 1901, the imports to the United
States of Porto Rican cigars aggre
gated $300,000. For the year ended
June 30, 1902, Porto Rico cigars valued
at about $1,800,000 were exported to
the United States. The exports of
American products to Porto Rico show
a satisfactory increase. It Is not
strange that a certain element in
Cuba, seeing how greatly porto Rico
has profited by annexation to the
United States, should desire political
union with this country. But this ele
ment should not be too hopeful and
aggressive. The defeat of the reci
procity bill proved that the stalwart
American protectionists is still in the
saddle, ready to do battle for the idol
ized ’home market and domestic pro
ducer.’ ”
The Washington Post (Dem.), says:
“All Gen. Bragg did was to say. in the
course of a letter to his wife, that ‘you
might as well try to make a whistle
out of a pig’s tail as to try to make
anything of the Latin race.’ He had
a right to say a whole lot of things to
his wife. But it does not follow that
he is to be held accountable officially
for it. Certainly such is not the cus
tom in this country. We all remember
Capt. Chadwick’s letter to Mrs. Chad
wick in 1898. telling with tears in every
line how the New York didn’t get into
the fight, and bewailing the evil fate
that had taken the flagship so far
away upon that tragic morning. Was
that letter set against Capt. Chadwick
when he brought suit for several
thousand dollars of prize money? Not
much. The private letter was ignored
and the official statement accepted. He
got the money. And, with that illus
trous precedent staring us in the face,
shall we now arraign Gen. Bragg on
the score of a domestic confidence,
which, no doubt, relieved his mind
‘•nornaouslv’”
The Other Wouldn’t Care.
Maurice Barrymore, the actor, once
journeyed from a hunting camp where
he was a guest to a small Maine town
for the purpose of seeing “Hamlet’’
acted by a company of barnstormers,
says the Philadelphia Times. The per
formance was so bad as to be fasci
nating; and Barrymore and his friends
remained until the very end. As they
made their way to the village hotel,
one of the party asked the actor how
companies of the kind managed to
exist.
“Don’t know,” said Barrymore; "but
they serve an educational purpose.”
“They do? How?”
“Well, If I had the time and money,
I’m sure I could decide the Shakos
peare-Bacon controversy after seeing
to-night’s performance."
“Why, Barry, what was there to
night to make you thing so?”
“My dear fellow, if the bodies of
Shakespeare and Bacon were disin
terred, you’d find that the real author
of ‘Hamlet’ had turned in his grave.”
The Note Minsent.
A young man, whose gallantry was
largely in excess of his pecuniary
means, sought to remedy this defect
and to save the money required for
the purchase of expensive flowers by
arranging with a gardener to let him
have a bouquet from time to time in
return for his cast-off clothes, says
the Chicago Tribune. So it happened
that one day he received a bunch of
the most beautiful roses, which he
at once dispatched to his lady love.
In sure anticipation of friendly wel
come, he called at the house of the
young woman the same evening, and
was not a little surprised at a frosty
reception.
After a pause the young woman re
marked in the most frigid tones; “You
sent me a note to-day.”
“A note —I?”
“Certainly, along with the flowers.”
“To be sure, I sent you flowers
but ”
"And this note was with the bou
quet. Do you mean to deny it?"
And the young man read: “Don't
forget the old trousers you promised
me the other day.”
Saw President In Style.
Although President Roosevelt
roughs it all day about Sagamore Hill
he and Secretary Cortelyou always
dress for dinner, and it is well under
stood that any one who is asked to
the house at night will attend in the
same formal dress as if the President
were in the White House. Hence the
embarrassment of a New Yorker who
went to OVster Bay on business laslt
week, says the Philadelphia Times. He
had no time to make preparations, and
his outfit when he got there consisted
of just the clothes he stood in.
He telegraphed to New York for
things to wear and was enjoying a loaf
on the hotel veranda when a telephone
message from Secretary Cortelyou in
firmed him that the President would
be pleased to see him at 8:30 o’clock
that evening.
There are no dress suits for rent In
Oyster Bay, and the New Yorker sat
cn the veranda and worried. It didn’t
cheer him any to learn that two poli
ticians who had been asked to the
house that night had brought evening
dress with them and were then climb
ing into it. His predicament having
come to the knowledge of the newspa
per correspondents, they put their
wardrobes at his disposal.
This New Yorker had never been
able to buy ready-to-wear clothing be
cause his legs are so long, his girth so
small and his shoulders so broad. But
he got all the contributed dress suits
together, collected all the dress shirts,
buttons and ties in the visiting dele
gation and from this roomful of many
sized and multi-shaped men's garments
built a composite whole, of which these
were the component parts;
The trousers of the New York Times.
The waistcoat of the Philadelphia
North American.
The coat of the Scripps-Mcßae
Lt ague.
The shirt of the New York Sun.
The collar of the Associated Press.
The hat of the Secret Service.
The tie of the Chicago Record-Her
ald.
In this attire he looked about as well
ss the ordinary citizen in his evening
clothes. After a pleasant evening with
the President he drove back to the vil
lage, where the real owners of the sev
eral articles stood in line in the street
demanding their property.
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Lines to a Skeleton.
About 50 years ago the London Morn
ing Chronicle published a poem entitled
“Lines to a Skeleton,” which excited
much attention. Every effort, even to
the offering of a reward of 50 guineas,
was vainly made to discover the author.
All that ever transpired was that the
poem, in a fair clerk's hand, was found
near a skeleton of remarkable beauty
of form and color in the museum of the
Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's
Inn, London, and that the curator of
the museum had it sent to Mr. Perrv.
editor and proprietor of the Morning
Chronicle:
Behold this ruin; ’twas a skull
Once of ethereal spirit full.
This narrow cell was life’s retreat.
This space was thought's mysterious
seat.
What beauteous visions filled this spot,
What dreams of pleasure long forgot.
Nor hope, nor love, nor joy, nor fear,
Have left one trace of record here.
Beneath this moldering canopy
Once shone the bright and busy eye,
But stars not at the dismal void—
If social love that eye employed.
If with no lawless fire it gleamed,
But through the dews of kindness
beamed,
That eye shall be forever bright
When stars and suns are sunk in night.
Within this hollow cavern hung
The ready, swift and tuneful tongue.
If falsehood’s honey it disdained.
And when it could not praise was
chained:
If bold in virtue's cause it spoke,
Yet gentle concord never broke,
This silent tongue shall plead for thee
When Time unveils eternity.
Say! did these fingers delve the mine?
Or with its envied rubies shine?
To hew the rock or wear,the gem
Can little now avail to them;
But if the page of truth they sought,
Or comfort to the mourner brought.
These hands a richer meed shall claim
Than all that whit on wealth or fame.
Avails it. whether bare or shod.
These feet the paths of duty trod?
If from the bowers of ease they fled
To seek affliction's humble shed.
If grandeur's guilty bride was spurned
And home to virtue's cot returned—
These feet with angel wings shall vie,
And tread the palace of the sky.
—United States Minister H. N. Allen
of Seoul writes that the crop of Korean
ginseng for 1901 has been sold to a
Japanese firm for $625,239. It amount
ed to 68,120 pounds. After purchas
ing this ginseng the purchasers de
liberately burned 13,100 pounds, as the
supply was in excess of the demand.
It Is said that a considerable portion
of last year’s supply still remains un
sold in China and that this year's
crop in Korea was enough for nearly
three years' consumption. The market
is limited, as the Chinese are almost
the only consumers. Although gin
seng is regularly raised in various
parts of Korea, only that raised upon
the imperial farms at Songdo is said
to have the real virtues claimed for
, the root as a medicine
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—A law passed by the Austrian
parliament regulating the traffic in
butter, cheese, lard and their sub
stitutes recently took effect. The ob
ject of the law Is to protect the pro
ducer against unfair competition and
the consumer against fraud. The ar
tificial butter made from oils and suet
which has been sold by retail dealers
as genuine butter can no longer be
dealt in except specifically and dis
tinctly as margarine. All prepara
tions of or from margarine must be
labeled so as to show' exactly what
they are. The sale of mixtures of
margarine must be sesame oil, which
can be easily detected chemically. The
outer sign of the substitute must be
a broad red stripe and in addition to
this an exact designation of the con
tents must appear on all wrappings.
—Over 8,000,000 persons in Germany
are insured against illness, says the
New oYrk Press. In England just now
the leading insurance companies are
considering the of return
ing to what might be called the “legit
imate.” It has been said time and
again that if the King had died the
British companies would have lost
$100,000,000. ThOt is an enormous sum,
and the statement is undoubtedly a
gross exaggeration. But it is a fact
that the companies issuing policies on
his life to Tom, Dick and Harry, in
their own interest, have been scared
nearly out of their wits. There is no
such thing in the United States as in
suring a second person, and if such a
line of business ever \?as thought of
by out great leaders in insurance, the
exceedingly narrow escape of the Brit
ish companies has chilled the notion.
One of the ablest insurance men in
New York tells me that our companies
are too wise ever to enter such a field.
Possibly he is wrong. If there is mon
ey in it our companies will surely en
ter it, and on a scale so broad as will
cause British companies to gasp.
—One of the strangest and most un
expected of the uses to which we could
imagine a leg as being put is that of
an organ of hearing, says the London
Knowledge. Yet such seems to be one
at least of the functions of the fore
legs in the cricket and some other al
lied insects. On the outer side of the
tibia a small oval space may be seen
in which the strong armature which
covers the rest of the body is reduced
to a thin and membranous condition,
making thus a sort of window or drum
head. Communicating with this, in
side the leg, are the ends of a nerve,
and it can hardly be doubted, there
fore, that the whole apparatus consti
tutes an auditory organ, so that if
these legs were amputated the insect
would become deaf. When one remem
bers that crickets are among the nois
iest of insects, their Incessant chirrup
being a most shrill and penetrating
sound, it cannot be considered strange
that distinct organs of hearing should
also be present; the sound-producer
implies the sound-pereeiver, the two
functions are complementary; but still
It is remarkable that the foreleg should
have been selected as the most suitable
site for this important sense.
—A dispatch from Chicago, says: A
change in the method of street railway
propulsion is the passible result of a
trial which has been made here of the
invention of P. W. Leffler, a local me
chanic and electrician. Small electric
magnets, imbedded between the rails
of the track, are used to pull the cars.
The electro magnets form one-half of
the motor and are placed in the ground
in a line half way between the tracks.
The other part, the armature, is at
tached lengthwise to the bottom of the
car. It is a long iron bar, cut up into
feet, and so attached that the ends
ordinarily are within an inch of the
top magnet boxes. But the primary
difference between the new system and
the trolley car motor is that the new
car is not propelled by the friction of
the wheels with the track, but by the
invisible force of magnetism. Each
magnet is connected with main feed
wires, heavily insulated and bringing
electricity from the powerhouse. When
the car is not running over them, the
magnets are not in the circuit. An
arrangement of the magnets according
to polarity is the scheme for attracting
the car and making it run smoothly.
The great saving which the inventor
claims is in the amount of electricity
required. He says 75 amperes will suf
fice for 40 cars, while with the present
trolley system 75 amperes are required
for one car.
—Vans for moving household furni
ture from one city to another are com
mon in Germany and other parts of
Europe. These vans, which are owned
by companies with agents in different
cities, are loaded with furniture and
other household goods at residences,
hauled on trucks to the railroad and
loaded on flat cars for their destina
tion. Here they are received by the
company’s local agents and are unload
ed at the house where the furniture is
to go. When possible the van is re
loaded in the same vicinity and sent
back to the place of starting. Thus one
may see in Italy or France furniture
vans from Berlin or Dresden. They
saving in packing, the avoidance of
extra drayage and of the danger of
breakage have made the system pop
ular, especially in Germany. The
vans In use vary in size, many of them
being almost as large as an American
box car. Recently efforts have been
made to extend the system so as to
provide for the shipment of household
goods across the ocean. A New York
storage and van company has estab
lished connections in various parts of
Europe and proposes to send vans
abroad when satisfactory arrange
ments can be made. If a man living
in New York, for example, wishes to
remove to a city of Germany he will
be furnished with one or more vans, in
which his household goods are placed.
The van Is transferred to the ship and
on landing at the foreign port is again
transferred to the railway flat car or
river boat and carried to its destina
tion.
—A New York dispatch says: If a
moving platform is Installed on the
Brooklyn bridge, as has been proposed,
that famous structure will become of
increased interest to visitors to the
city. Everybody will want to take at
least one ride on a moving platform
two and a half miles long, for that
would be its length in crossing the
bridge and its approaches twice. The
platform as proposed would be in three
parts. The outer rim would move very
slowly. The traveler would step on this
first, and then to a middle section run
ning twice as fast. From this it would
be easy for him to step to the last
section, running ten miles an hour.
Seats and shelter would be provided,
and also posts, by w'hich the timid or
infirm might steady themselves in pass
ing from one moving section to another.
Those who visited the last Paris Fair
will know just what this moving plat
form would be. It would, it is be
lieved, double the capacity of the
bridge, but there is one difficulty to be
overcome. If the trolley cars are to
continue to cross the bridge after the
moving platform is installed, thousands
of people will continue to use them
rather than to pay the extra fare on
the platform, and transfer from that
to a trolley car on arrival in Brooklyn.
In that case, the congestion of traffic
on the bridge might not be materially
removed. But it is suggested to-day
that a proposition has been made to
the trolley companies that they with
draw from the bridge altogether, and
that a close connection he made in
Brooklyn between the cars and the
moving platform, with one fare of 5
cunts to cover the cost of transportation
.on both.
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The dainty conceits shown
by us last week met with
much favor.
Since then we have re
ceived a line of new gar
ments, making the assort
ment style larger and the
variety better.
Among them are garments
of dainty workmanship, in
the sheerest Nainsook, ex
quisitely embroidered by
hand and trimmed with real
lace, splendid values and ex
traordinary low prices pre
vail.
DANIEL HOGAN,
Corner Broughton and Barnard Sts.
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